skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling it a "food toxicology journal" is significantly downplaying its scope. Even just the name of it is "food and chemical", and this is what it says about itself:

> Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT), an internationally renowned journal, that publishes original research articles and reviews on toxic effects, in animals and humans, of natural or synthetic chemicals occurring in the human environment with particular emphasis on food, drugs, and chemicals, including agricultural and industrial safety, and consumer product safety. Areas such as safety evaluation of novel foods and ingredients, biotechnologically-derived products, and nanomaterials are included in the scope of the journal. FCT also encourages submission of papers on inter-relationships between nutrition and toxicology and on in vitro techniques, particularly those fostering the 3 Rs.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/food-and-chemical-toxi...
The Zettelkasten Method for Fiction Writing
U.S. GDP fell at a 1.4% pace to start the year as pandemic recovery takes a hit
No. These are annual rates. The actual change in the fourth quarter was approximately 6.9/4 = 1.725% and the actual change in the first quarter was approximately -1.4/4 = -0.35%, for a total change of approximately 1.725-0.35=1.375% in the two quarters. That's an annual rate of approximately 1.375*2 = 2.75%.

(All calculations approximate, but close given that the percentages are all fairly small.)
You live in one of the states where there is no squatter law and where you can legally shoot and kill someone for trying to steal your car. There is no maximum rifle magazine size. Castle doctrine for the win. Michigan has some interesting demographics. About half of the population in Michigan is concentrated in about 4-5 cities, the other half of the population are spread across much more area and more spread apart. This explains why Michigan can be either a republican or democrat state, most of the votes for state are fairly tied.
There is a fundamental difference between building codes that enforce critical safety needs in order to clearly define negligence...

... and building codes that express someone's preference or taste for how something should be done.

For example, a building code that says all houses must be pink, or all houses must be made from wood, or all houses must use electric stoves, are only tangentially related to someone's opinion on safety at best.
I used them, but only because they have a relationship with my brokerage that allowed me to get preferential terms.

If not for that I'd have preferred someone local, you could tell you were just a number over there, and there were a bunch of communication issues around
scheduling the appraisal that were annoying to sort out.
> are there any cases where it would it be impossible to empirically demonstrate that at least the proponent of the lower figure was wrong?

Isn't it more interesting to examine a situation where it would be possible to empirically demonstrate that the proponent of the lower figure was wrong?
I like the idea of a fediverse, but I can't help but feel like the solution to an open social network will look less like Mastodon and more like RSS.
> From my perspective, Disney should not have had special corporate privileges in the first place, so it's fair game that those special privileges are targeted for any reason since they are not rights...

Disney's "special rights" are not all that special or uncommon in Florida. There are 1844 active special districts in Florida, 76 of which have ad valorem taxation rights. Other theme parks in Florida, such as Sea World and Universal, also have special districts to manage their properties.

The definition of a special district enshrines into law specific rights for the owner(s) of the special district, meaning that those are, in fact, rights, not just privileges to be withdrawn at a whim. And Florida specifically pledged to honor those rights both by writing the law that established the RCID, and further committing to not dissolve the district unless all bond debts were paid--the separate law that is referenced in the original article.

I would encourage you to read through the Florida Special District web page: https://floridajobs.org/community-planning-and-development/s...

If you want to argue against special districts existing at all, that's fair. But to argue that Disney shouldn't have one, but the rest of the special districts, including those of Disney's competitors, are acceptable is not a good-faith argument.
This in the home improvements space. I’m also using Ezoic which in my experience and from what I’ve heard from others pays a lot better than Adsense.

Once you get over 50k or 100k uniques per month, you can qualify for Mediavine and AdThrive respectively, and they pay more than Ezoic.
Take the commentary on Reddit with a grain of skepticism and an understanding that people are speaking from a personal point of view, not an expert point of view. I treat the information I find via Reddit as a strong data point, but not the end of the search.
My solution to this is to use music in languages I do not know. Ukrainian techno music, k-pop, italian operas, german speed metal, etc.

This used to be how I experienced American music from the radio as a kid before being able to understand the lyrics.

This is a great way to do it: http://radio.garden/ (a map where you can listen to radios from around the world)
I was thinking Tom Clancy novel.
It trickles down. If the banks knew the interest rates are going to rise at the next fed meeting, they're not going to wait until the announcement to raise their rates. That means the effect of a rate increase is felt way ahead of it being announced.
The unfortunate story of Windows is that it tried to do UTF before UTF8 was invented. Java has the same issue. UTF16 existed before UTF8 and now UTF8 has become the norm. That's why you have to deal with wchar_t and other such nonsense in low level languages.

As for C++, the standard library has create_directory (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/create_director...) in the std::filesystem namespace, taking a std::filesystem::path.

C++17 may not be as widespread as its older companions, but if you're using the language in a modern context there's a perfectly usable set of standard APIs for this stuff that works with a whole bunch of char types (or the std::u8string if you're on modern C++ and want to forego the whole UTF issue as much as possible).

The problem is that you have to deal with edge cases. File system corruption happens and iterating over JSON files in a directory can show random character sequences at any point in time. You can choose to ignore it, or fail on error, or let the language decide what to do in the case of Go, but you always need to be mindful of the failures that can happen. Ignoring the problem won't make it go away and eventually it'll bite you in the ass of you keep doing it.
Why was latency such a killer on throughput? Was it TCP window sizing?
> Depends if you do classical statistical physics or quantum. If you do classical they all have the same energy.

That's just completely wrong. With all due respect, you should (re?)learn the classical statistical physics :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_distribution
> "Keep doing what you're doing but half the hours and double the salary" is something I would be tempted by

It would be tempting, even given the stake I just placed in the ground:[1] But 1. astronomically few companies will offer to double my comp at this late point in my career and 2. Nobody in tech offers part time work but with full benefits…I’d have to be a contractor and find clients and fund my own healthcare and retirement (yuck). It’s at best an theoretical exercise.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31193644
I am interested in this topic. What is it that needs to be distributed: the compiler, the runtime environment, the attached debugger, the package manager client, the UI availability, the discoverability, the (relatively) safe execution? JavaScript had a lot of things going for it, but I wonder what was the thing that got distributed that won.
I'm pretty sure that's how it works in ZFS too? The `zfs snapshot` command takes a filesystem as an argument, which is analogous to a BTRFS subvolume AIUI. And while I personally think every home directory being a filesystem/subvolume makes sense, I don't think you need that actually, it just affects where you splice the path; for example (using ZFS because I know that), if you just stuck everything on the root filesystem you would just browse to /.zfs/snapshot/mysnap/home/myuser instead of /home/myuser/.zfs/snapshot/mysnap and for read-only stuff there would be no difference. I grant that it does affect rw stuff - you may or may not want to let arbitrary users create and destroy snapshots of the root FS or /home.
yes, it is very easy for many of us to compartmentalize these things

the original state and its allies blanket the globe, the original state operates in a system of flawed checks and balances while simultaneously promoting the public interest

the "enemy state" is competition that allows for things to reach the public interest of the original state but only from within enemy state. it operates under a different system which was not being compared at all and cannot be compared while relying on its border, these are the limitations on this globe.
This is hilariously on point.

Frank Slootman (snowflake CEO) has some quote that is ~ "give people the opportunity of a lifetime if you want to hire amazing people". There are obviously downsides, but anecdotally smart + hyper engaged is hard to beat, even if that person hasn't done X.
The analyses I've seen indicate that a single top-line figure like GDP belies a lot of underlying complexity and fails to tell the whole story.

Feel free to provide specific critiques of these analyses. I'm certainly interested to hear your perspective, as the data is complex and COVID has made the world more than a little bit weird.

But snark and scare quotes do little to enlighten.
Wow, this is big!!!
Project Aardvark
January, from another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31193320
Yes, all assets are priced relative to the risk free rate. As the assets all compete with each other and they all compete with cash rates. So that rate can be thought of as being baked into other assets already (including equities).

Having said that, if you wanted a return strictly on base-rate production, then you'd invest then in risk free assets (vs equities).
> Going in debt for 30-40 years has zero appeal for me, it just seems like a terrible move.

That's not the best way to look at it.

Unless you plan on being homeless, you're already inevitably committed to a monthly housing payment for most of your life.

So the decision becomes, do you pay someone else to enrich them and commmit to having to pay for the rest of your life? Or do you invest in something where you partly pay yourself and there is an end (even if far) to the payments, so when you're old you no longer have those monthly payments?
Yup, I realised my error after commenting and inadvertently ninja edited from under you.
I was a Reactor Operator (RO) on SSN-687, the last boat before the LA class. Back when dinosaurs still lived and all. Our EOs were super smart too, but the ROs had an astounding amount of ability to troubleshoot and fix things. In those days you had to be able to repair at the component level - underway. But our MMs were amazing including being able to weld while hanging upside down in a bilge - Dave Blackshear I'm talking about you. Since then I've done startups, co-founded startups, done development and management, including VP Eng at both startups and large companies. I've never found the camaraderie and level of trust I had on the boat. It's come close a few times. Submariners are a special breed, and most of the joking stereotyping in the article are true (enough). Flat out, if you earned your dolphins (qualified in submarines) then you are my brother or sister.
> A/C definitely requires far more power—you have to deal a high peak load for motor start. Absolutely not happening with this setup.

It depends on what size A/C we're talking about. After all, window units run off a regular 15A wall plug.

I've also run an RV A/C unit manufactured around 2006 at about 13 amps continuous draw during duty cycle, insignificant surge at startup, with a 3 kW inverter (plenty of capacity left over) and LiFePO4 batteries.

Make that A/C 10+ years newer and it would draw a a few amps less, too.

And if the surge is too much, there's an extra gadget you can install in the A/C that's essentially a capacitor for smoothing the surge.
"Fog Creek" seems to be all gone.

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CoPilot -> shutdown (intern project)

Fog Creek -> Glitch

FogBugz -> sold off

Trello -> sold off (Atlassian)

StackExchange -> sold off (intern project to create job board with was later moved over to StackExchange and became it's business model)

CityDesk -> shutdown

Kiln -> ???

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Joel has been working on https://hash.ai but haven't heard much about what they are doing.

I wonder if any Wasabi transpiler code is still out in the wild. For those not aware, Wasabi generated PHP from ASP code.
Fun history fact: Rust had conditions, a very very very long time ago, but folks didn't use them and found them vaguely confusing, so they were removed.
How does this compare to Erlang / Elixir?
Sure, just a "miscalculation". They would never want to mislead people into thinking they have more users.
That's why you use GDP per capita for that.
I feel like you're using that equation in a bit backwards way. If suddenly, everyone between the ages of 0 and 5 vanished, it would have a huge effect on the population, but at first take, zero effect on the GDP since presumably that age group is not involved in production. With a second approximation, you might say that GDP would increase since parental childcare is not part of the GDP and those parents could instead be adding to the GDP.

Similarly, the current flatlining (ignoring the decrease due to excess deaths) of the population won't effect actual production until a couple of decades on, unless you count possibly increased production described above.
Is that really a killer market, though?

People have tried changeable photo displays before, with LCD or whatever. Of course, these require more power, but they are plugged in devices and I'm not convinced non-technical people think about the power consumption of their devices outside of really niche situation where everyone knows they supposed to care (large appliances like washing machines). And, even the best e-ink screen looks kind of washed out when displaying color, right?

Like I'm all in for an E-ink terminal, latency be damned, if someone make a no-fuss one for less than a couple hundred dollars. But I can't imagine wanting an E-ink picture frame over (say) an OLED one (although I guess burn in would be a problem there).
Insomnium, Before The Dawn, Cult of Luna - and similar Nordic Melodeath bands. I used to hate the harsh vocal trend, but then discovered the vocals become something I don't focus on and get distracted by.

Daylight Dies and similar - Spotify has some good "Instrumetal" playlists.

Raised Fist - although the vocals are "In your face" contrary to the above, I'm finding that similar hardcore gets the synapses firing.
> Scrolling IMO is a lot easier than squinting to parse dense code.

This is a false dichotomy - there's a third option, which is not squinting (because, presumably, you're doing so because you decreased your font size), and being able to see more on the screen at the same time.

Moreover, scrolling is bad for cognition. It's pretty well-known that the human brain likes to use spatial maps - that's the reason why memory palaces are so effective. Scrolling decreases the ability of the brain to make spatial maps compared to, well, not scrolling.

> The point is that context matters, and the more frequently you have to scroll to find it is more cognitive burden.

This is not something you can "disagree" on - divorcing information from context always leads to more cognitive burden.
Did you actually look at both? The article is about a remote support app and my link is to a spending and investment tracker. I'm pretty sure those are not the same thing.
It's possible they don't see much elasticity in the market, e.g. that a 50% decrease in cost would net them >= 50% increase in sales.

In the very short term they're probably right, but I think they'd be wrong in the long term: once the price drops it might take time but I think people would come up with a variety of novel products and use cases. Amazon for example has made a big bet on digital comics w/comixology. I'm sure they'd love to offer an affordable color comic reader. Or cheap 8.5x11 tablets could become the default note taking devices for a lot of students, especially for many STEM classes.
I strongly think an advertising spot is going to be worth more in the long run.

So you want to send people advertisements? You want to become a spammer?

Your response does not encourage me to provide my address.
I just can't stand taking three lines to unpack a value from a map or to return if error.

Why can't I just say `return if err := somefunc(); err != nil`

It's mega frustrating on top of the lack of generics and other abstractions.

And now that generics are coming about, I'm sure it will take forever until my current project can use them. My current project is in the k8s ecosystem which due to the lack of generics, implemented its own clever but awful type system.
> Every programming language needs to confront the fact that it's distribution, not syntax, that matters, and nothing else.

Every programmer needs to confront that the fact that their opinion about what really matters, isn't the same thing for them as it is for others. And even more so, what really matters changes based on what context you're using the language in, and what you're building.

There is not a single metric that decides if a programming language "wins" or not. What does that even mean?

For me, Clojure won a long time ago, because what does matter is simplicity. But I also realize that this is a personal opinion, not something that I spread as "fact" for others to finally realize.
Sometimes the experts have a really deep discussion, and that's cool. Sometimes people just want to spitball because a post sparked their imagination.

The great thing is, we can do both. If you don't like the question that was asked, find another or ask one yourself. I fundamentally disagree with feeling people should be silenced because they are not asking the right questions.

How much research should be necessary? How much baseline knowledge is "enough" to participate? Who gets to draw that line? Thank Zeus it's not you, and instead people get to draw their own lines by engaging, or not, with other commenters on this social network.
I don't know if you can really separate the two. The question may literally have meant something different 20 years ago.

If you ask a Democrat whether they trust in science, they can't help but take into account the perception that Republicans are anti-science. That was a thing 20 years ago: the book *The Republican War on Science" was published in 2005. But since then climate change has become a more prominent issue, and COVID denial has more recently become a huge issue. Republicans have loudly denounced some scientific communities -- climate change, evolution, covid, research into gender and sexuality -- and Democrats perceive that as an objection to science in general.

The expression "science is real" has started to appear on liberal-leaning posters and yard signs and such. They wouldn't say that if they didn't think that there was somebody who denied that science was real.

So I'd argue that the big change is less about their perception of science and scientists, and more about their perception of Republicans.
Our bank sold our loan before the first payment even came due.

That said, they were phenomenal during the whole origination process, and they gave us a rock bottom rate (2.375%).

My only fear is servicing being transferred multiple times, rapidly, then having to decipher who to pay now.
True but also highly context dependent, logged in/out, incognito, vpn, timezone, geography, os, recent searches of others on your network, neigherborhood etc all seem to influence what you see.
Pfizer's trial showed higher all-cause mortality in the vaccine group, so probably not the best example.

(IIRC it was like 15 vs 18 or 21; not high, but it is enough to question the actual safety IMO)
Shannon called the function "entropy" and used it as a measure of "uncertainty," interchanging the two words in his writings without discrimination
> The Nintendo 64. Enough Said.

My dad has been playing Majora's Mask recently and talking to me about it and I'm constantly amazed what they could do on that hardware. That game requires the N64 expansion RAM I believe, which doubled the RAM from 4 to 8 megabytes. I'd struggle to find anything I can do with 8 megabytes today...

Sometimes I feel like they were just more impressive programmers back then. I also believe that some of our extra resource usage is worth it for creating applications faster and easier with better structure.

It's still incredible that games like Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask all were made with C and assembly on limited hardware, and have very few game breaking bugs that occur during regular gameplay.
> Actors are like objects, but the only way to interact with them is sending a message - you can’t access their properties, call their methods, etc.

While the implementation in many popular, e.g. C++ and family descended from it, languages muddies the waters, basically methods in OO are a convenient way to define handlers for messages sent to objects, and in pure OO you also can't interact with objects except by sending messages to them. The difference between the basic OO model and the actor model is that OO message sends are synchronous request/response and actor model message sends are asynchronous fire-and-forget.
> Obviously Biden threatened to nuke insurrectionists.

That is an insane takeaway from the clip you shared. No reasonable person would listen to those words and take it as a direct threat to bomb insurrectionists.
I think you are a troll.
I don't know if anything's changed since you've last looked into it, but you might find the documentation on this helpful: https://calva.io/vim/.
My main issue with the current Fediverse (i.e. ActivityPub universe) is that no one actually use the client-to-server protocol. Only applications federate with each other, exchanging a basic level of their internal representation over the server-to-server protocol, and you need accounts in each of them to go past the basic functions (text comment & retweet).

I feel like it would be much better if I could use a single identity and a single "ActivityPub server" for all my applications.

In the current situation, being able to retweet my PeerTube video from my Mastodon account has little advantage about just tweeting a link to it. Likewise, commenting on a Lemmy thread from my Mastodon account is ok but I can't really see the thread as a thread without logging into Lemmy. Watching a PeerTube video, I can post a comment using my Mastodon account but that requires 5+ click and a change of application.

I am not sure why the ecosystem went this way. The client-to-server protocol was readily available when the Fediverse was kickstarted.
Copilot is closing (copilot.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31192812

Older posts are linked on the Sticky Note (for all the skeuomorphism nostalgics)

eg. https://www.projectaardvark.com/archive/may.html
that's why I put it into quotes - I can't think of a better word for it