skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes a far broader point (or, points) than that.

> If your browser is a privacy gamekeeper and those trackers are data poachers, then you probably don’t want them all sporting the same logos.

> Chrome is one of Google’s primary platforms for user data profiling

> “If you use Chrome, you give up your privacy,” my STC colleague Kate O’Flaherty warns this week.

> Chrome is an excellent browser—technically. But as with all platforms, apps and services, you always need to follow the money. Once you ask yourself is this a product I have paid for or am I the product, are others paying to access me, then you can start to make clearer choices.

> The FLoC origin trial enrolled millions of you without an opt-in or opt-out into a secretive trial that Google now admits added additional fingerprinting surfaces. That means you were more easily identified and profiled. That’s not okay. Similarly, having promised to ditch tracking cookies, Google changed its mind—again, not okay.
Given many here have shown it’s not hard to “stumble” onto a correct answer, your comment is a great example of how Occam’s Razor shows the probable, but there are many cases where the simplest explanation isn't correct.
This is indeed done for heating some greenhouses. You put the compost boxes next to the greenhouse and the greenhouse wall has a wire mesh and a sliding panel to control the heat exchange. Contact temperature can be 90+ degrees Fahrenheit / 32+ degrees Celsius. You can take it a step further and run large diameter pipes under ground 150+ feet or 45+ meters to bring the circulating ambient temperature to around 50 degrees Fahrenheit or 10 degrees Celsius as an easier starting point to heat up, then recirculate some of the air with solar/battery powered fans.

Directly heating a home in this method would not be ideal due to the gasses emitted from the compost. You would need an inductive method such as water or coolant shedding some of the heat from the compost using coils in glass to protect the coils. Between geothermal piping and inductive heating, you could probably raise the home temperature enough to bring the cost of the supplementary heating down significantly, assuming a small home.
> As always, it's a matter of using the right tool for the job.

Nice in theory. In practice a manager will ask you to build A, then later they will ask you to add B and C, and these components should interact seamlessly of course. If you chose your language based on A, then you might get stuck on B and C.
Yeah this is a non story. Delete Chrome because its not getting rid of this (admittedly anti-user prone) feature it's had since 1.0 is not very sudden.

Even as a Firefox user I don't see why that means you suddenly should get rid of Chrome.

I do hope Google keeps cracking at something to replace third party cookies with.
Fantastic book. The way it explains the history of nuclear science is better than anything else I've read.

The "sequel", "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb", is also great, though there's a bit less science innit; much of it is about what happened to Oppenheimer after the Manhattan Project.

As a companion book, "American Prometheus", by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, is a superb biograph of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
I was honestly was looking for the same thing. Mostly skimmed the article as there wasn't something new in most of it but really not sure that the new shocking tracking admission is either.
which is why globe-earth took over as the dominant view at least by 0 AD?
Sirum (YC W15) needs engineers to automate a pharmacy
That concept is indeed meaningless in special relativity. So much so that mathematically there is no way to write down an absolute point in time, you can only write down time relative to another point in space time. Ergo saying something like 'that place at [same time as my absolute time]' is not even possible.
I meant to say general relativity.
Also there's ABCL. Yet, I have never personally been in a company or heard of a colleague where they were allowed to deviate from Java or C#. Many times it was a struggle to even get IntelliJ licenses.
I'm sure there are many very intelligent people who want to become police officers. But there are police departments that have no interest in hiring officers who are "too" intelligent and will systematically exclude applicants with high IQs:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
I find that my normal model for reading comments on videos across platforms is to not read them much of the time, but if it's a really interesting video go look at the comments and it's ok if the video is for example, fully minimized or off screen etc while I read them.

I don't know how normal my use is though or if that's at all helpful.
We shouldn't have laws prohibiting drugs in the first place, that's part of the problem.

Prohibition didn't work for alcohol and it doesn't work for any of the other drugs. It only leads to corruption and organized crime.
At least we can agree, that it is a typical hacker new-ish discussion ;-)
The average user has no idea how to use most UIs these days. I have to explain basics of her phone to my mum every time I try to video call her.

The difference between tech people and people like her is that it's easier for us to notice these issues and talk about them, while - if something doesn't work for her - she'll just shrug and go tend to the garden.
Safety is not the be all and end all.

We can all be locked in our homes - nice and safe - but at that point there is no value to life.

Life comes with risks, and it is managing those risks that determines if a life is well-lived or not.
I saw a presentation on The New York Times' photo "morgue" a while back. They've been digitizing it inclusing putting lots of effort into metadata because it's pretty much useless otherwise. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/reader-center/past-tense-...

There are also a lot of issues with making it generally accessible because the NYT doesn't own the rights to simply opening up the photos to the world.
Didn’t even have to scroll before I found the lynchpin.

When you reach the size and “market penetration” that Facebook in social networking , Google in search, or Microsoft’s Windows operating system have attained, you can’t go around demanding everyone sign agreements containing clauses that do things like this…

> requiring third-party app developers to agree not to create products that could compete with Facebook.

That’s textbook anticompetitive behaviour, once you pass that fuzzy threshold that defines market dominance in a legal capacity for the sake of antitrust/anti-competition legislation.

Before anyone mentions Twitter. Facebook is dominant in social networking not because Twitter isn’t, but because Twitter and Facebook are different enough it’s unfair to compare them directly and qualitatively, by extension Discord represents a social network platform of a sort, yet it would be hard to say Discord is completing with Twitter… yet they definitely are competing with Facebook because of their internally developed Facebook Messenger and ownership of WhatsApp. Facebook has built or acquired its way into almost all “forms” of social networking and continues to do so any time anything new crops up (see their clubhouse clone) which they are effective at by leveraging their existing position in the rest of social networking, a cycle of behaviour which is synonymous with being dominant in a market. You’re big enough to keep all of it under your control as best you can control it.
> most people making these arguments are doing so subjectively while framing them as objective

On subjects like that, I don't believe objective arguments are even possible. UX is similar to art or politics, it's inherently subjective because it's about people and culture. Ask a caveman to compare UX of Windows 7 and 10, and they gonna tell both are equally useless.

Despite no objective arguments is possible, it might exist a consensus.
I wouldn't say it's limiting in the sense you can't create certain things with it. You just need to be very prepared to maybe make more choices and also write a lot more libraries that you could potentially find in Python or Ruby.

It also depends on the app you're building. For me I was building a very large app (a video course platform with multiple payment gateways). One limitation I came across with Elixir is there's no official SDKs for Stripe, PayPal, Braintree or Paddle but there are SDKs for most other popular languages. So if you plan to interface with a number of APIs, chances are you're not going to find an official client for Elixir unless the company happens to be using Elixir or are happy to support it (such as Mux).

It could be challenging and time consuming to have to write both your app level features and the underlying libraries. If your goal is to get a web app launched quickly to test it out and you already have experience with Python, Ruby, Node or PHP it's kind of a hard sell to use Elixir. It's mainly because other languages have way more community libraries and frameworks available that cover common web feature use cases. Plus there's a lot more community resources around blog posts, videos, books, courses, etc..

There's also an interesting divide right now in Phoenix around using Live View or not and if you go down the LV route there's very few resources beyond the docs, especially now with LV 0.16 coming out which completely changed the templating system and how components work. It still feels like it's in a pre-1.0 (because it is :D) semi-experimental state. As far as I know there's also no really big success stories with LV. I don't know of any big sites who are using it all-in to drive the entire navigation of their site and all routes.

The above continues to fall in line with my overall feeling of having choice fatigue with Elixir.

With that said if you're interested in it, maybe try to put together a proof concept that focuses on the hardest part of your app and if it works, make a judgment call based on your personal experience. It's possible you'll have better luck than I did. Programming language selection is a very personal choice, especially when you get past libraries choices and start writing code. If Elixir clicks enough for you at a fundamental level maybe it'll be a better choice even if it means having to write more libraries.
This is heartbreakingly tragic because I too have a certain bias regarding death and age like most people do.

In my opinion, dying young should be reserved for the best.
At leas in most cases.

Everyone else should live to tell their grandchildren about their lives.
But not much longer.

In the long run, we are all dead, and being alive means making decisions based on personal preference or necessity Under given circumstances and awareness of information.

To give perspective to this article: I am much older than they are, having 'survived' two Moderna vaccinations, among a lot of much riskier things in my life.

And I did the vaccination not because of me.
I don't care.

I did it, because I can't stand the thought of possibly being responsible for the death of some 11 year old in Misssipi, some 17 year old in Norfolk, some 15 year old in Great Junction or some 30-something in NY.

By infecting them.

You may look up those cases yourself, there are more.

I didn't think about it, but I probably did the vaccination, because I don't like to see myself as a slob scared from the laughably small chance of dying, protecting others by my vaccination.

Must be some strange kind of protective primate father thing.

And by the way it is still more risky to die from Covid-19 than from vaccination, also in your 30s.
There's no date on this post. I think a far more concerning issue for behavioural economics is that its public champion and most active researcher Dan Ariely is facing serious allegations of academic fraud [1]. If these allegations are proven true then it throws much of the findings of the field into question due to Ariely's prominence.

[1] https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2021/08/duke-universit...
That's a clear example of the sunk cost fallacy. What explains it? Why do people persist in investing more to make themselves suffer more?

In the athlete and entrepreneur examples, the outcomes are not as clear or predictable as your one start restaurant example. Things might work out, or they might not. It's impossible to tell.

Almost every athlete, artist, entrepreneur and warrior has dark moments in which they feel doomed to failure. Some of them quit, and we never hear about them. Others keep going regardless. For a few of them that make it through to the other side, the reward is a success that could never have happened without blind faith.

The blind faith is like a flywheel that powers the venture through uncertainty. It's a powerful asset that not everybody has enough of. But it's also a double-edged sword that can result in the sunken costs fallacy.

In the case of many ventures, the only people who can tell the difference between a sunken cost fallacy and a heroic tale of persistence are the historians.
*is the current implementation of zoom illegal in the EU because it doesn't follow data privacy laws? yes
While I agree that getting the opinions of a few individuals is not particularly good journalism, this opinion seems to be the consensus among almost everyone I've spoken to about this. Colleagues, ex-colleagues, friends, family, everyone. The few who I have talked to that still want an office, have been in leadership positions, and usually this is from those who are higher up in the ranks.

Fact of the matter is, an office is an outdated method of working with today's technology. It just took a pandemic for the general public to realise this. You pay for a commute that's not necessary, you pay with your time (that you're not paid for) to get there (time that you could be spending on family, or something else), and depending on where you work, you're probably smelling 100s of people's sweat every day, and taking in, and contributing to, a whole lot pollution.
I generally agree. However, sodium imbalance can potentially lead to higher blood pressure. Basically, if one's diet sucks and they aren't getting enough other electrolytes and water, then it could cause a temporary rise.
Making everyone completely responsible for what a company does will simply further concentrate power in the hands of the biggest existing corporations. Limited liability companies make it possible to launch a new company without the existential risk of losing everything that you own at the same time.

Removing limited liability across the board would eliminate that benefit for the smaller companies rather than the larger ones that could afford to tie up everyone in litigation.
High blood pressure, hypertension, obesity, and insulin resistance often come together. This hallmark combination is caused by the underlying metabolic dysfunction when the body is unable to consume the glucose in full despite it's more than adequate presence in the blood stream.

Keyword: acquired mitochondrial disease. Moderate fasting, moderate physical activities, minerals (magnesium), and vitamins (especially B1, B3) help. The exception is a genetic form of mitochondrial disease which is generally incurable.
I went to a college that taught CS in ADA, and I never took CS because I tested out of 101, but I ended up fixing attempts at the problem sets for about half my dorm section (this was okay as long as and they documented it).

Well anyway, I found it to be very easy to pick up just by reading, hard to make semantic errors, and easy to modify without breaking things. The pace of learning for the entire cohort, mostly non-CS students, was, I think, much faster than e.g. C++ and possibly more complete than e.g. Python. It’s pedantic and exact, but it uses real english language keywords and modifiers.

I went to a different school later where I did the same thing but it was taught in C++. It seemed like many students would get by purely by repeating patterns that they didn’t understand. And I started to catch myself in that trap as well, realizing that I had a lot to learn.

But I wasn’t going to be a programmer; I was going to be a theoretical physicist cogitating on the deep mysteries of the universe. Fast forward…. D’ohhhh.
I think it’s referring to Google saying FLoC is another fingerprinting vector.

> Not so, Google has suddenly now admitted, telling IETF that “today’s fingerprinting surface, even without FLoC, is easily enough to uniquely identify users,” but that “FLoC adds new fingerprinting surfaces.”

I agree the article takes a long time to get there. Maybe the author didn’t want to assume the Forbes general audience already knew the high-level details of FLoC.
Off the top of my head there are two ways:

- Lexically scoped access types have storage pools that are destroyed when the type goes out of scope. This is similar to region-based memory management as in Cyclone[0].

- Limited controlled types are a lot like linear types and prevent unwanted aliasing and ensure deallocation happens correctly, as described in this paper[1].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(programming_languag...

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/165354.165362
> There is something vaguely totalitarian about these big idea languages. The Rust or Haskell compilers, for example, insist on policing whatever private understanding you might have about the meaning of your code. They are like the neighbor's kids in a totalitarian regime

This statement doesn’t even slightly ring true for me. These compilers are more like infallible personal assistants who keep track of all the crap that I don’t want to. The Haskell compiler in particular has never suggested I stop doing something that didn’t turn out to be a bad idea under more careful consideration.

The rust compiler is more restrictive (mostly due to lack of ability to express some types, like quantified or higher kinded types), but still is fundamentally working on my behalf.
Yeah working kidneys should remove salt efficiently the think is HBP often damages kidneys. So people with long term HBP may be less efficient at removing salt than others.
Obesity is a viral disease that should have been tackled with worse repression of 'personal freedom' than Wuhan Lung Grease, but for reasons nobody did it.
The military has phased array radar on airplanes that can wipe out communications over a gigantic swath of spectrum.
> Reduced deaths on roads could simply be due to less driving. If everybody moves to a less-safe transit option, that’s not a good thing. (Other transit likely is safer, but we shouldn’t just [assume] it is)

What is this less-safe transit option? I imagine that "road deaths" includes bus/tram riders, cyclists and pedestrians that died on the road. The number of people who died on trains/train tracks (excluding suicides) and planes is certainly at least an order of magnitude smaller.
There's plenty of competition from smaller mom-and-pop black holes in your Local Group.
If potassium levels are low, then potassium chloride can be used (at least partially) as sodium alternative. Potassium works well for lowering blood pressure, according to studies:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41371-020-00396-1

> We believe current guidelines recommending increasing K+ intake for the prevention and treatment of hypertension are justified

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21403995/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32500831/

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article%3Fid%3D10.1371/jou...

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Potassium-HealthProfession...

Updated to add a caveat in the first sentence.
Fantastic and touching read, thank you for sharing.
I watched a great Nature of Things episode called "Pass the Salt" [0] recently which disproved the myth that salt causes high blood pressure.

(It's highly correlated to alcohol intake, smoking, and poor diet in general.)

The data that inferred that salt was the culprit (there was none) almost makes it look like the tobacco/alcohol industries might have cherry picked it to inject doubt on what they probably knew to be true about their products.

Highly recommended watch!

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/pass-the-salt
This is actually a good observation, unreasonably downvoted. Obesity appears to be a viral disease, looking at its growth. Now the question to answer is, is the viral spread of obesity explained by social contagion or by bacteria.
And many nurses don't know how to take it. Half the time they turn the automated machine up to 200. It takes so long to pump up and then vent down that my arm will get tingley and I can feel my blood pulse get stronger.
Amazing! Didn’t think I’d ever see the day where Linux ran on a T2 chip MacBook
The time article you linked to says:

All of which is surprising given the fact that Americans are bombarded with warnings that we eat far too much: just yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a report finding that 90% of U.S. children eat more sodium than guidelines recommend. Almost half of that comes from 10 processed foods that kids tend to eat a lot of: pizza, bread, processed meats, savory snacks, sandwiches, cheese, processed chicken, pasta dishes, Mexican dishes, and soup.

The CDC firmly believes that salt directly influences blood pressure. “We consider the totality of the evidence,” said Janelle Gunn of the CDC’s Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at a press conference. “A vast majority of scientific research confirms that as sodium is reduced, so is blood pressure.”
If anyone is interested, here is "an experience report" (slides) about the use of Ada in Eurocontrol' s CFMU : https://slideplayer.com/slide/11313411/
You're lucky it isn't just images of their tweets tied together with an 'emerging trend' narrative.
While I agree completely that "human work and relationships building" in organizations is a more practical way to work with people than the author's strategy, if I were to call any of the people in the story "awful [...] to work with", it would have to be the people from the dashboards team, who apparently wanted to own the dashboard page but not have any of the responsibilities of actually building it. To be clear, it wasn't the author's preference to have another team build the page their team needed. The dashboard team insisted on doing things their way, then deprioritized the task, bungled the implementation, and finally delivered a trivial amount of work, six months after promising to do it.

And sure, everyone has different priorities, and may not understand the urgency of tasks in the same way. And it's only human to want to promise to do things for other people, and therefore make them happy. But promises by themselves aren't enough to get work done: when I'm in the workplace, I don't want wishes and happy thoughts, I want people to deliver. If someone tells me to hold off on doing a one-day project, because they're going to do it for me, and rest assured, it's on the roadmap, even though we won't tell you when we're going to do it, because quite probably, the answer will be something like "never, as long as we have more fun things to do" --- well then, at the very least I expect to be told as much, so I can avoid throwing my project into that particular black hole. If they can't, or won't, communicate realistic priorities and deadlines, then they might be great to eat lunch with, but I definitely don't want to work with them on a project.

Office jobs, in my opinion, tend to play host to microcultures which value politeness, sympathy, and relationship building so highly that these virtues start to displace and eclipse the honesty that is the cornerstone of serious, professional work. I come across this theme over and over in these kind of "story-rants", a theme that in the telling can come off as rudeness or abrasiveness on the author's behalf. Those who are keen to interpret it as such, should keep in mind that this says as much about them, and their own opinionated view of how the workplace should operate, as it does the authors of those stories.