skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study appears to focus on aspartame, sucrolose, and acesulfame-k, which to my mind (which is admittedly uneducated in this domain) seem heavily artificial, and the findings are not surprising.

What about plant-based sweeteners such as stevia, monkfruit etc, or sugar alcohols?
When I saw that I could fill up my friends list on Xbox live by changing a few variables on the auto aim configuration I learned early on that computers are magic to most people, And if you know how they work that makes you a wizard
The author explicitly states that it should never be used due to readability. I'm interested in your point about performance, though - as a layman in this area, I would have thought that the additional operations were cheaper than whatever the overhead of a variable is, even for a primitive value type. Is that definitely not the case?
Putin's army stumbling in Ukraine. Did the West get Russia's war machine wrong?
What is supper weird to me is how billie eilish songs very often don't start playing. I can click on anything in my library and it is fine. Trying to play billie and the app just sits there waiting.
Steve rants against Agile - classic.

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I waited a respectful moment or two before asking him why he was adding canned chili to his chili. They both said it tasted terrible, but, as my dad now-famously observed: "You can start with dog shit, and if you add enough chili, you get chili."

Similarly, if you start with an Agile Methodology, and you add enough hard work, you get a bunch of work done. Go figure.

But that's a tautology; you can substitute anything you like for "Agile Methodology" and it's still true. It's probably not difficult to find people who believe that Feng Shui has brought them success in their projects for years. Or throwing pennies in fountains. Heck, there are probably some people who practice witchcraft to help their projects out, and a great many of those projects — probably the majority — wind up being successful.

If you do a rain dance for enough days in a row, it will eventually work. Guaranteed.

So I'm not saying Agile doesn't work. It does work! But it's plain, unadulterated superstition.
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Off topic, but thanks for the link.
What do you say to small children to teach them to ride?
Button change for KPI is a Company problem not a Technical problem. That BS happens on all the platforms
You can get thallium on Amazon? I can't think of a common consumer application of thallium is it in some product?
Quoting:

"Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives."

and

"One of the officials of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (Mikael Tofvesson, Head of the Information Protection Unit, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) even said that truth can be disinformation if it affects public trust in the authorities."

Perhaps Sweden isn't the paradise many believe it is?
It's still better than ads, though.
Sailing is a long-time dream that I probably won't be able to realize in my lifetime. But, if I did ever go sailing, I would need something like parts of MDN downloaded. Doing computer work is what I love and I'm sure it's what I would use my spare time for. Clearly this has usefulness far beyond that niche case, but I love the idea that Mozilla has found a really useful thing to charge for. I hope that they can be successful with it.
Sure, I understand that. But that's not what the parent was saying. The parent was saying there have been a number of good Electron apps recently. The only Electron app I ever see anyone hold up as good is VSCode, an app that makes a herculean effort to mitigate the latency and performance problems that Electron apps usually have.

If the choice is between an Electron app and no app at all? I would rather the Electron app not lie to my face that it's a real application. No one expects a website in your browser to follow system conventions perfectly or behave like any other app on your system would. That expectation instantly and reasonably changes the moment it has its own application icon and windows, and Electron apps don't give a shit. I would rather not need to have Teams and Slack both installed and chewing up my CPU and GPU at work just because they both decided they're special enough to try and claim all of my resources.
People are confusing their psychological mind with their physical reality. You don’t just get to decide you’re a bird and be able to fly. Why do we debate this stuff? Instead of getting so offended stop Defineing yourself by something so insignificant
Is an iOS to macOS Catalyst convered app a Desktop app?

I've litterally done this I'm puzzled myself as to whether I consider it hybrid or native.
>Again, I find this sort of comment confusing.

Noted.
Active? Has looked like a patient with lots of hoses and sensor wires in every orifice -- i.e, on terminal life support -- for the last decade or so to me.
>> How on earth can x ray cost $69,210.32? Here in Finland it costs something like 20 € (well, I know that's not the true cost, but still).

How can an x-ray cost more than a pair of shoes? They used to use x-rays at the shoe store to check fit - for free. Say this to any doctor in the US and watch the silence on their face.
Thanks for writing this. You motivated me to go digging for any studies that have evaluated the outcomes of these voucher programs. Looks like there are dozens of studies that showcase just how bad these programs can be.

This study by American Progress supports your thesis.

American Progress is a left-of-center alternative to the right-leaning Heritage Foundation. I haven't finished looking for the right wing think tank's studies, but I'll share anything of particular interest when I do.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/highly-negative-imp...

"This analysis builds on a large body of voucher program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools—especially in math"
You can look at old movies.

George Costanza is thirty in season one of Seinfeld. He could easily go for mid 40s.
There are many reasons web applications are more attractive. Web applications can't be pirated as the user does not receive the program. Users don't want desktop applications, as it's more convenient to login to a web application with a Google or Facebook account than it is to install a native application. A web application works on any device and most people only have a smartphone.
Oh I’m sure it will, for violating some “community guidelines”.
We certainly are. But I think global healthcare spend would still decrease if the US were to adopt strict price controls a la Europe. Of course, Europe will need to pay a bit more towards healthcare but the burden on the states would be much decreased.

I don't imagine it would come anywhere close to the cost we currently pay for services here though.

It's the same as university here in the states. If colleges know that students are walking in with a minimum of $45k, guaranteed from the federal government, why wouldn't a university charge anything less than that for a degree?
Yes, and it's quite obvious that businesses are rife with negative consequences, especially in the way they create externalities.

> we all need to be prepared to accept tradeoffs

Do we "need" to be? This is why we have laws. We don't "need" to accept that murder will happen, for example. We can legislate that no, you can't just kill someone because you feel like it. Similarly no, you can't just not answer the phone because you just don't feel like it.
I find it very discomfiting that anyone suspicious of the COVID-19 vaccine (by that I mean the COVID vaccine/spike protein in particular) is branded as anti-vax. I say this as a vaccinated person who caught a heavy bout of COVID. I suppose I'm grateful for the vaccine, but mandates scare me.
Yeah, automatic subscriptions are terrible. What if you stop using it for a few months or years? Do you un and re subscribe each time? You'll need a spreadsheet to keep track of all these things.

A lifetime subscription for a few hundred bucks seems like it would make more sense. Or paying per use, like a cent per page. Easier for accounting and for peace of mind.
Gating features allows them to wait for a future model to release them there and drive sales. There's not much blood left to wring from the digital camera stone.
I already replied to this kind of logic elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30793257), but I don't see the logic of looking at Mozilla cutting support for a program then introducing a way to fund that program, and responding to that by saying, "why should I fund something that's seeing cuts?"

Hopefully it goes to MDN. Nothing about the scenario you describe would be improved by funneling money from MDN to Firefox, that would make the problem worse. What I'd like is for Mozilla to introduce ways to fund Firefox directly, not for the money to come from a different critical web resource.
If you're blocked because you can't get an answer from a teammate within the next few hours, you're doing it wrong.
For the same reason a Michelin chef wouldn’t enjoy being a fry cook at McDonalds. It’s all the tedious parts of the job without the challenge and creativity parts.
PM: "Let's not rush into any hasty answers!"

(Under no circumstances should you show them this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg)
What makes the first three "more artificial", in your view?
If you try to read those comments here every day and try to recall what you've read ahead of reading it again, how far into the comment go?
For me the biggest aspect of the shift is simply that web and mobile apps became the larger standard to follow, with a higher effective install base.

In the 80s and 90s there was definitely interest in consumer software, but the applications often struggled to be useful precisely because information was bottled up on the local machine, and so you had to think in terms of publishing to analog, which in turn made everything consolidate around the few apps that did those things at a professional level.

Once you got into web based experiences the possibilities for consumers skyrocketed since the information transmission could go "all-digital" - you could post on forums, write a blog, buy and sell goods, publish video and so forth. And by doing it web-first you were writing to a standard with broad implementation.

After the rise of the smartphone the picture has shifted again towards experiences that are consumer internet focused, but using the device that most people have, versus the one that has the most power. There are video editing apps on mobile now, and they're actually reasonably powerful, if not quite appropriate for pro work. Drawing and writing is likewise very accessible on mobile with the small investments of a capacitive pen or keyboard. There's a definite sense of never having to leave mobile if you stay completely in the zone of working with standardized apps to publish online.

The desktop itself has been increasingly ceded to open source projects, for better or for worse. The biggest applications of yesteryear have competition, albeit often still far behind in certain categories. The smaller niche ones often get absorbed into a library and therefore are something you can script to taste if you have a little bit of programming knowledge - much like how microcomputer BASICs worked back in the day, just with more package management cruft.

And if you go in this latter direction for your work, then you aren't writing to a standard, you're writing for a user of one and wholly defining your "information life" on your own terms - and therefore you don't need too much in the way of cross-platform compatibility goop or integration polish, and can probably build off of a terminal, browser window or game engine to provide the UI.
> and then plug a filter & your ADSL modem directly into that socket

You probably don't want to use a filter here.
This is why I host my own personal streaming service. I'll buy music, copy the files to my server, and use Airsonic to stream it to my laptop, phone, etc. It's a lot more work, but I'd rather have full control than use something like YouTube Music, where I can only hope that the songs I like don't get pulled or the service itself doesn't get shut down.
I’m not being a jerk, but are you aware of XXY syndrome? How does that fit into your statement?
What are some examples of great-looking QT applications?
Also Nato doesn't want that.

Even now, Nato desperately want the kind of sane Russia back instead of going all in to topple it :-|

For me it is pretty obvious Putin knew. He also knew the west would let it go if he took it in three days or so.

Luckily he got his calculations wrong, Ukrainian resistance has been amazing and the public support for Ukraine has led to some of the strictest sanctions ever applied + voluntary boycotts + roadblocks etc.
For what it's worth, qemu-user-static is more general, e.g. for a foreign container image that won't find the shared library. (Wheeled out when it was said people needed to build ppc64le images on x86 boxes and it was impossible, rather than trivial.)
Do you have any examples of that being the case where the pronunciation favors that of an internal word over the natural pronunciation.
"In my experience, long hours may actually be predictive of poor future results."

Reminds me of the WWII story about discussions to add more armor to planes that came back from battle where the holes in plans were, when someone pointed out there was no need to armor *those* places, those planes came back. Where armor obviously needed to be added was to the places where the surviving planes *didn't* have holes.
To a point that's understandable, based just on trials it's reasonable to be skeptical of the results. However once the vaccines have been in mass distribution and there is copious evidence of their efficacy and the extreme rarity of adverse affects, I don't think it's reasonable anymore.

The mandates only came in once enough of the population had been inoculated to make a requirement possible. At that point the initial trials are a footnote compared to the results from mass vaccinations. IMHO it's just not reasonable for that objection to carry any weight. There may be other reasons, of course.
I've written apps with GTK, Qt and Electron in the past. Of the three frameworks, Qt is easily the hardest (albeit "the best" for cross-platform native development). I'm not sure what your experience is with it, but I never once felt like it was easier than writing an Electron app.
Thanks for the detailed reply, I didn't know about the unofficial changes to GIF89a itself. So, yes, in that case, my point is refuted.

But the examples you gave ("an older format still works today") weren't my point. My point was that GIF89a didn't get any updates to its spec since 1989, yet it remained extremely popular as it is. That's different than a format getting occasional updates to its spec and that stays backwards compatible. If that were the case, even BMP/ICO would predate GIF.
Interesting, I had thought of that as just another hosting service. Thanks, I will look into it further. I see that it is written in Go. Not my preference, but Gitea also is, so it is ok.

I wonder whether bug tracking can or should simply be folded into Git, so the tracker would be distributed just as the source control is.
Was kind of hoping this would answer the question "when". It doesn't...
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/forms/report

Maybe upload a recording of your call demonstrating what you've described to Soundcloud and include that link in a report to the above form.
the second half my comment is wrong. As someone comment points out there is xor swap
This isn't quite as impossible as you make it sound. You can certainly make it feel like you have this behaviour by triggering A on release if the button is held for < ~300ms, or whatever feels right as a short press.

Of course now you have to accept the button doing nothing if it's held for longer than 300ms but shorter than 3s, but making it slowly fill up with another colour or something is probably enough to communicate the long press behaviour.
Art is best when it's unpaid. I don't want you paying me for my music and I won't pay for yours. I am tired of corporate rent seeking in the art space. Yes this is historical for art of all kinds, but I think that was to the detriment of art rather than its benefit. The talent of artists has been used to ingratiate and inflate the perception of some truly awful people and ideas.
Children don't even need to root around in a parent's wallet. They can just ask Alexa.
Nuclear War Simulator
I first read this as "Cows" and was reminded of "Cow Tools"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Tools
It should not cost more than a pair of shoes. They used to use x-rays to check fit at the shoe stores - for free.
I tried, it didn't affect me the same way. A bit like trying to warm yourself up by rubbing your skin vs sitting under a bit of sun.
For some reason I thought this was a known or suspected thing from over a decade ago. I may be thinking of something else
They have a Y chromosome. They are a male. It’s the lack of the Y not the presence of two Xs that make a woman a woman
The worst here is that there is no single person on this Earth - except you - that cares about this outcome and would do something to fix it. Support does not care - their job is to copy-paste answers from script. Finance does not care - they have millions of clients, it's much easier to let one go than to start making exceptions. Software devs don't care - they have hundreds of bugs, what's one more? They are paid the same anyway. It's big enough that the value of single subscriber - even with the most expensive plan - is indistinguishable from zero. So you get your worth of service - zero.
I was wondering the same. Sure, I get the fact that people can hike the prices but I thought that the insurance companies would not allow a hospital to charge whatever they like, at least if you want to claim it from insurance.

XRay machines are pretty basic afaik compared to say, an MRI and at that price you could get 2 nights in the New York Hilton penthouse!
The original clinical trials are essentially irrelevant now for the vaccines, we have a lot more data from using the vaccines in the real world now. Of course that data is not randomized and double-blind, but because of the sheer numbers you can still do very good science on this. The original trials are also simply outdated because the virus changed, we're several big variants later now.

There are also more agencies than just the FDA that approved these vaccines, if you don't trust them specifically.

Publication bias is a real issue, and I'm annoyed that all efforts to reduce it seem to be rather ineffective. The ideas behind requiring registration of trials is good, but it doesn't do much if you don't actually police the rules. But the COVID vaccines got such enormous amounts of attention that it really doesn't matter in this specific case.
Agreed. That falls under the darknet commerce umbrella I alluded to in my OP.
You can use youtube-dl-gui to grab mp3's from many different platforms.

I also grab mp3's using ymusic and a hacked pandora app on my phone. I miss the days of what, waffle, and oink though. Still haven't gotten into orpheus yet.

Also op above is right, bandcamp is awesome.
According to the gitlogs this conversation happened about a year before those were added. We talked about this pretty point blank. It was made clear that while they might use rust in the future and they had rust fans internally, it was a go position.
Even in iOS which keeps apps in a fairly restrictive sandbox + goes through some kind of review process I wouldn't trust an app like Facebook's or Reddit's to not be gathering some kind of other information to use somehow.

There is a reason Reddit insists on you downloading their app.
I think the more accepted way for a long time has been to use xor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm

Its better in a number of ways, and since each bit is independent, it could actually be faster on really low end/old processors.

Although these days just about any modern OoO processor will just detect swaps (even if there isn't an actual instruction) and the renamer makes it zero cost.
Do you know you don't have a Y chromosome? Did you check?
They link directly to the study

>Compared to non-consumers, higher consumers of total artificial sweeteners (i.e., above the median exposure in consumers) had higher risk of overall cancer (n = 3,358 cases, hazard ratio [HR] = 1.13 [95% CI 1.03 to 1.25], P-trend = 0.002). In particular, aspartame (HR = 1.15 [95% CI 1.03 to 1.28], P = 0.002) and acesulfame-K (HR = 1.13 [95% CI 1.01 to 1.26], P = 0.007) were associated with increased cancer risk. Higher risks were also observed for breast cancer (n = 979 cases, HR = 1.22 [95% CI 1.01 to 1.48], P = 0.036, for aspartame) and obesity-related cancers (n = 2,023 cases, HR = 1.13 [95% CI 1.00 to 1.28], P = 0.036, for total artificial sweeteners, and HR = 1.15 [95% CI 1.01 to 1.32], P = 0.026, for aspartame)

A HR of 1.15 means it increases your risk of cancer by 15%.
What is micro-startup

- Solo or < 5 people team

- Bootstrapped

- Niche target market

- Focus on profit and sustainability