skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least the title, "Endemic Pathogens Are Making You Crazy And Then Killing You", can be accepted as a default prior, rather than an extraordinary claim. Many diseases are both prevalent and not under heavy study. Funding and interest in studying a disease is partially caused by individuals being able to link the disease to a symptom, and this is hard without data. (You rolled a 4, but is the die biased toward 4? It's impossible to tell from a single roll.) When these diseases are occasionally looked into, such as with hookworm and toxoplasmosis, the track record finds harms at an alarming rate, so we should expect the remaining diseases, which are not yet looked into, to have similar rates of danger.

Thus, without making assertions on the article's individual claims, the general thrust is broadly true. The reason people hold the "these diseases are generally harmless" prior is likely from another prior, "if X disease were so harmful, doctors would be studying it", and that unfortunately does not match current practice.

Covid-19 provides an example of how hard it is to link symptoms. We know now that anosmia is solidly connected to Covid-19, but this was not known for a while. The CDC only listed three official symptoms six months after the outbreak [0], reflecting the understanding at the time. Doctors talked about their patients and found commonalities; this bubbled anecdotes into attention. So even with intense and joint attention by the world, with a clear and reliable symptom, the symptom can evade notice for a while. When nobody's attention is on a disease, and the symptoms are chronic, the symptoms become invisible.

Caveat: this is not my field, and I do not study it. An epidemiologist could likely present a more accurate picture.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200415000910/https://www.cdc.g...
Yosef Lerner and Rose Sacktor made a very funny video taking advantage of that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9jIsxQNz0M
"Someone came into this room. I don't know them, but they took it upon themselves to take everything."

What would be the correct pronouns here in your view?
Fortnite is back on iOS in the browser using Xbox Cloud Gaming
This is awesome! I was looking to set up auth on a tailnet-exposed Nginx server and now I know how I'll handle it :) Saves me a ton of efforts!

Now all I want from them is a way to bind an auth key to a specific IP address (for containers when they restart they keep the same DNS record). I only mention this because I know the devs read HN and I'm hoping they'll see this :)
> Compose at least makes it only a library bump away.

this to me is the most annoying thing with regard to swiftui and apple development in general... especially considering swiftui views are mostly wrapping uiviews....
To be clear, even liberal scholars have recognized the infirmity of Roe as a legal decision for decades: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-defense-of-abo...

> "One of the most curious things about Roe," wrote liberal Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe "is that, behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be found."

> Alan Dershowitz, another legendary liberal Harvard Law professor, called Roe "judicial activism" lacking "clear governing constitutional principles."

> There are plenty more like this. Pro-choice Yale and Harvard Law professor John Hart Ely wrote that Roe "is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be."

> Why did they wait 50 years to correct this obvious outlier?

Because once a precedent has been set, the Supreme Court isn't obliged to revisit it, even if everyone comes to believe the decision is wrong. Whereas the merits of the original decision are quite technical, whether to overrule precedent or not is highly discretionary. It considers factors like whether the original decision failed to settle the underlying controversy, whether it creates a rule that is hard to apply in practice, etc. See: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/stare_decisis

It's this discretionary aspect that made Roe a sitting duck. Liberals obviously had no reason to overrule Roe even if they, like Justice Ginsburg, believed the decision was flawed. And for a long time, Republicans appointed social liberals to the Court who were happy to kick the can down the road because they were worried about the political ramifications.

Note that the politics doesn't matter for whether the decision is correct or not in the first place, but it's an entirely reasonable basis for deciding whether or not to go to the trouble of overruling an incorrect precedent.

> And why did several of the judges lie to Congress when they said they would not change Roe?

They didn't say they "would not change Roe" they said they recognized "Roe is precedent." As explained above, precedent can be overturned.
Lerna dead?

I never even learned Lerna was alive!
I don't know of a single competent service that allows you to just guess passwords more than a few times.
We do have brain editing tech, it is called synaptic plasticity.

We are not a computer. Or we are one that can in fact change its own hardware.
> Life is full of decisions, and unfortunately attaining excellence requires commitment, dedication, and focus. You can do alright otherwise, but if you really want this and have the aptitude to reach the top, it will consume you.

I think you've decided that you don't want a family/etc. any time soon. No problem with that. But the other side of life that isn't about work requires lots of commitment, dedication, and focus. It doesn't work well if you don't put in the time and the effort.

So, I'll add one word to your list of excellence-attaining requirements: balance. You'll need it if you ever want more than just work. And you also might realize that a singular focus on one thing is not worth as much as you thought. I don't think you made the better decision among the potential universe, you just made a different decision.

Curious to hear more from you about what you want beyond work.
Anyone cannot see the picture in dark mode?
it's pretty common to use 'they' when gender is unknown or irrelevant
A signal I've stumbled upon recently:

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the-single-gre...

https://financial-charts.effingapp.com/
This is an unfortunate headline.
Indicating sarcasm is not necessarily ruining it though. Look at IRL sarcasm, it will generally be accompanied with the right tone of voice and expression / body language that make its presence unequivocal. That doesn’t necessarily ruin it
Is it really a duopoly, considering that for Google the real users are advertisers not smartphone owners?
That was my initial reaction too. Then I realized that every web UI re-write I've seen was lead by developer evangelism, never by management. Developers update their resumes and HR updates hiring reqs accordingly.

This makes it harder to see this as something other than a developer-inflicted problem but for the fact that there are probably three groups of developers affected by this:

a) true-believer evangelists

b) resume-builders

c) innocent bystanders

There's no way to tell from the presence of "Framework X" on a resume where the developer falls between bystander and evangelist. Probably the CTO's point is that they do not like "Framework X", and cases of c) lack judgement and decisiveness for putting up with it?!

Anyway, funny to think about, especially in comparison to the playbook for changing the back-end frameworks.
Honestly I think a label, 1 textbox, and 2 buttons- 1 "convert to F" and 1 "convert to C" is just so much simpler.

Or even 2 completely separate pages, 1 for C and 1 for F.
Rube Waddell
I don't understand how that image (And this simulation[1]) is caused by curvature.

23 miles is ~0.001 of the Earth's circumference. How can that cause a visible difference in tower height? Even more so, the visible difference is in the last few miles, even smaller fraction.

cos(0.001*2pi) = 0.999980

[1] http://walter.bislins.ch/bloge/index.asp?page=Finding+the+Cu...
At the cost of constraining the rendering environment, do I get that right?

So the desire "Turn this generated graph into a diagram for inclusion in this PDF report" would be deemed a category error: my desire is wrong.

It clearly makes some folks happy, but to me it's the antithesis of a "tool"; it's more a "website feature". Different strokes.
If your garden is in the front yard of a house located close to a busy street in an old neighborhood, maybe so (not sure of the risk). But in the U.S., cars manufactured after 1975 used unleaded gas, and leaded gas was no longer sold after 1995. So I would think that in any subdivision built after 1975, the risk of lead in the soil caused by car emissions is very low. If any kind of industrial facility was previously on your land, you should test for more than lead.
To be fair: Most of them are documented in Apples manual. If you open the macOS help on "Manage app windows" you will find all the tricks about moving and resizing discussed here. Or your WiFi trick is mentioned in the help article about debugging your WiFi connection.

The builtin help and documentation on macOS is surprisingly good. Especially if you compare it to Windows. Today was the first day I looked at it. The last 10 years on Windows taught me that the help outside of technet and Office is useless and I assumed this is also true for macOS. I guess I was wrong and I should have read the manual.
I agree! Here's a related point: Rust seems ideal for web servers, since it's fast, and is almost as ergonomic as Python for things you listed as cumbersome in C. So, why do I use Python for web servers instead of Rust? Because of the robust set of tools of tools Django provides. When evaluating a language, fundamentals like syntax and performance are one part. Given web server bottlenecks are I/O limited (mitigating Python's slowness for many web server uses), and that I'd have to reinvent several wheels in Rust, I use Python for current and future web projects.

Another example, with a different take: MicroPython, on embedded. The only good reason I can think for this is to appeal to people who've learned Python, and don't want to learn another language.
Would that site's analysis be able to detect if they did something beyond just metadata type stuff?

Like, does it just profile and track you, or could they actually steal passwords and trade secrets and the like?
Are you from the US? The whole jocks/nerds thing is a bit alien to me.

In my school, the top athletes were also good students. The dux was the linchpin of the football team and also wrote poetry.
This is practically the Lex Column of Web3. Awesome!
Yeah Feynman wrote them down sometimes, way before being able to demonstrate. Von Neumann too. Einstein. Wrote down theories before they were laws.
1. This can lead to programming errors if, e.g., a write is buffered in Golang and Close() flushes the buffer. Then you might not correctly write the file. (I know that if you really cared, you should use fsync, but lost writes could happen in e.g. logging where you don't want the overhead of fsync but you would also like to see all log output, especially on program crash.)

2. I think this is a bigger deal than you are making it out to be. If open fails, how would you handle it without just exiting? I can't see a way of forcing finalizers to run. If you're distributing your Go binary to users, you may not have permissions to increase the allowed number of file descriptors. So your program no longer functions correctly.

Example: A program that processes files in parallel. At any given time it might have 2 * num_cores files open, well below the default descriptor limit on most systems. If I rely on finalizers running, then I might have to exit if the time to process each file is sufficiently short. There is no way to fix this without instructing the user to increase their fd limit. This is bad. Alternatively, if I explicitly closed files, I would never exit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_Scouts%27_Associa...

vs.

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

Baden-Powell scouting is co-ed, non-religious, and founded in the 70s. Boy Scouts of America is the 'original' version, and, as recently as 15 years ago (I think some of this has changed since) explicitly excluded atheists, girls, and gay kids. BSA leadership is (or was, I think this has changed) heavily influenced by conservative Mormons.

Also, they culturally appropriate the fuck out of Native American culture. Think white suburban dads dancing around with costume jewelry and plastic headdresses dancing 'native style' dances to 'commune with the Great Spirit of the land'.

I'm glad of my time spent in BSA, but I wish I'd had the opportunity for BP instead.
> Twitter has plenty of problems, but "only my crazy uncle uses it" isn't one of them.

The crazy uncle vibes are off the charts on Twitter. Considered that the two personalities most entwined with the platform are Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
> But visually, audibly and olfactor-ily, those places can be really overwhelming for me.

I have crippling ADHD and never experienced anything like this. So I'd say that ADHD and autism are definitely very different things, you can have problems with one and not the other.
why is it impossible?
> Most people are not deep or interesting, and are easy to plot on a database

This strikes me as only very superficially true. In my own experience as a human, I've found that every person I meet is unique and interesting in meaningful ways. I didn't use the term "deep" because it seems ill-defined in this context. If one of the main ways you think about "most people" is "not deep", then it seems to me that you're letting arrogance blind you to reality.

What I mean by that is that there's an infinite number of ways for depth to emerge in our complex reality. Thinking deeply with the most linear and rational parts of our brains on a specific category of topics is just one of those many ways. Many times, the illusion of shallowness emerges when the "others" understand something intuitively that the judgmental person only knows how to think about logically.

Fancy clothes and toys are a status symbol. Within interpersonal hierarchies, status is incredibly important and many parents believe that it is important for their child to grow up with a sufficiently high feeling of status within their peer groups. That helps the child learn interpersonal interactions in a certain way, and it helps them develop their self-esteem and self-image in certain ways and it also reflects back on the parents. You might choose to dismiss status and social hierarchy and social development as irrelevant to the life you want to live, but it doesn't make the topic any less complex or interesting for the people who do value those things.

Reading to the end of your comment again, I'm hoping you're just a troll, because a worldview that groups people into categories like "better than you" and "worse than you" without context is a dangerous worldview. I hope for your own sake that you take the time to revisit that opinion.
Just to clarify, this is not how I created the original document in 2004 :-) There were certainly no paragraph styles involved, and the edit actions had to include an undo, or it wouldn't happen. There was also no style inspector yet.
I one had a database-backed website serving 50k unique visitors/day written in Django and hosted on a low-budget vps. Worked like a charm with very few hiccups.
In addition, I believe it is not stored on the device. So it can't be exhilarated.
If orbital lifts are built wouldn’t they tap into the potential difference between the Earth and the sky?

I guess if so wires can be stuck out at great length they could increase the of.

I guess that could have effects in the electric field in the upper parts of the atmosphere too.
> and unless you look at the source, nothing tells you that they are a Shopify merchant

Unless they are doing a headless integration, the Shopify UI is very easy to spot. For me this has started to become a signal of shops to take great caution and best to avoid.

If not during shopping, then once you add the product to the cart, it is very obvious.
Sounds like your adblockers work!

Meanwhile, in my household, Instagram and Youtube continue to show me ads for some product or restaurant I was just talking about, or for a store I just visited. I think my home needs a pi-hole.
Large teams develop, small teams disrupt
Completely agree with the sentiment here that property declaration order matters (and automation is not ideal). That said, none of the examples ring true for me personally. The author correctly debunks the vendor prefixes (tooling) and duplicate declarations (debugging) non-issues, however they appear to hold firm on the short / long hand natural sort order conclusion. At least in sublime text, hitting f5 to alpha-sort CSS results in the longhand properties correctly appearing after their shorthand versions. Needless to say, unless I'm being lazy (often), alpha sort is not just a pedantic feature in my stylesheets but a practical one too.
microwave radiation doesn't put out photons.

Stopped reading right there. That's exactly what it does.
I read this more as a “let’s be precise about what’s actually guaranteed” and not an exhortation to avoid Rust.

Rust is my favorite compiled language, and that’s why I’d like conversations about Rust to be grounded in formal guarantees and not in incidental properties.
If I was Cloudflare, I'd have bought Tailscale long ago!
As I recall, the WGS84 meridian is registered to the center of the Earth from space, whereas the classic Greenwich meridian is essentially registered to the local direction of gravity at a point on the surface. If the local direction of gravity passed through the center of the Earth then the meridians would be the same. However, the Earth's gravity is non-uniform which causes the local direction to be slightly deflected away from a path that would pass through the center of the Earth as is the case in Greenwich.

The WGS84 prime meridian is parallel to the Greenwich meridian but slightly shifted so that it actually passes through the center of the Earth. Because WGS84 meridian is not registered to a point on the surface (for good reason), it was always going to drift away from the Greenwich meridian over time regardless.
This is why I can’t fathom why fractional inches didn’t become the dominant system once engineers switched to CAD. Or not necessarily inches, but at least a fractional representation.
Yeah it’s been tough. I went to a bestbuy in the states and they happened to have several 3080 and 3080ti available… while in the store I checked to see if they listed the inventory online and they did not…
Reminds me of the principles brought up in this talk by Sean Parent:

https://youtu.be/0WlJEz2wb8Y

The temperature converter is a good example of an “implies” relationship, which Sean argues is difficult to model in UIs.
> "Themselves" is still a pronoun, and a plural one, at that.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/themselves, see "Can they, their, them, and themselves be used as singular pronouns?"
Fleek
I was a couple years out of school, and felt a lot of responsibility. It wasn't really a big deal, but it didn't feel like it at the time.
I actually recommend binding it to something other than Alt (I usually do winkey), since several programs (and in particular browsers) use Alt+drag to allow you to select text that is otherwise unselectable. For example if you drag a link it "drags" the URL allowing you to paste it into other windows, but if you Alt+drag you can select the link text (or parts of it) for copying.
I bet the mirror will heat up during the day and your night calibration will be off.
They can! Numpy exposes a C API to other Python programs [0]. It's not hard to write a Cython library that uses the Numpy C API directly and does not cross into Python [1].

[0]: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/c-api/index.html

[1]: https://github.com/kylebarron/pymartini/blob/4774549ffa2051c...
Why on earth would you link to a reddit post instead of the actual article?

https://kerkour.com/rust-crate-backdoor#/
> Google Docs uses a "Markov Chain" to predict the next word for autocompletion purposes. In this case, of course, since we've already written "And" 5 times, the only logical next word would be "And", as showed in Djikstra's 1989 paper on the subject. Therefore, the Markov Chain never terminates and hence the memory chain overflows with infinite ands.

Does anyone know why this bug doesn’t repro for some words other than And if this is the case?
I mean those are two separate things. Depending on how you code, Rust can be similarly high level as Python, make it much easier to design with types than C++ and has great package management with cargo.

You can find plenty of reasons to love Rust, without even getting to the technical details.
I'm suddenly very interested in the distinction here - as yea themself also works in both of these contexts but themselves feels like a very distinct connotation and not incorrect. I can't point to a specific grammatical rule or learning to base this feeling off though - I don't know why it feels correct it just does.
I left Reddit after ten years because of unnecessary censorship.

I happened to comment on a photo of an 'iron lung' on the front page saying that I hadn't seen one of those in over 50 years. The next day I saw that I had been banned from some obscure subreddit that I had never even heard of. Seems the subreddit with the photo on the front page was one of the pro-Trump subreddits.

When I complained about that, my complaint post was 'disappeared'.

If Reddit are going to be so up themselves, I can do without them. So I do.

The land of 'free speech' isn't, as far as social media is concerned.
Oh, that's a good point – I personally never use my security key at untrusted computers, but I guess this could be a somewhat common use case.

> If you assume there is never any malware on the host then you don't need the key at all—the host can store the secrets and handle the authentication on its own.

True, a permanently plugged in authenticator is largely equivalent to just using a password manager (which also prevents against skimming, if used exclusively via autofill, never via copy/paste), but unlike a password mananger, it makes unsafe actions explicitly impossible for non-sophisticated users. I'd consider this a strong advantage.

It also survives OS reinstalls, ransomware etc.
Yes, but SSO makes writing those policies (across all apps) much simpler. I think it's too bad that SSO is so heavily taxed, because it's quite an elegant way to solve account provisioning.

Interesting site: https://sso.tax/
>Suppressing information to prevent someone with an opposing view from using it doesn't seem honest at all. It does not inspire confidence. Nor does it present an image of impartial research.

Obviously I'm nobody and not the one doing anything. Or am I Al Gore? You'll never know, muhahaha.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...

Obviously climate change is real. 50 million years ago during the dinosaurs, temperatures in the eocene were 14c or 25f warmer. In the last 20,000 years the earth has gotten 6c or 10f warmer. We switched from a too-cold climate, an ice age, to much nicer and freeing up much land. The climate obviously changed. 100% we will see the climate change more unless we proactively try to control the climate.

Now we don't have a good track record on trying to control nature.

The indigenous of north america regularly used forest fires: https://www.history.com/news/native-american-wildfires

We in our wisdom banned that decades ago: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/decades-mismanagement-l...

Dont even talk to the aussies on mismanaged ecosystems... they are sore. But I'm sure we'll get it right this time. Our new disinformation governance board won't allow anyone to post anything negative about it.