skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Planning (specifically urban planning around cars over the last century) is a giant failure. Hopefully you can understand why people like myself would be skeptical.
A revolution in safe abortion care
The scientists said it was causation.

"We found that flu vaccination in older adults reduces the risk of
developing Alzheimer’s disease for several years. The strength of
this protective effect increased with the number of years that a
person received an annual flu vaccine – in other words, the rate
of developing Alzheimer’s was lowest among those who consistently
received the flu vaccine every year"

Yes, that's in an interview for the article. That's the reason (1) the general public misunderstands (2) people scream about it. Scientists get points for "high-impact research," and there is strong incentive to be dishonest.

(As a footnote, personally, I do believe it is causation; I believe that as with COVID and EB, we've dramatically underestimated the long-term impact of many viral infections. But that's just a personal belief.)
Highways certainly boost ROI, but there's devil in the details.

The interstates that linked up major cities certainly boosted investment. But Europe also built a network of such highways; the major difference is that they built their system to go mostly around cities, whereas the US just plowed them straight through cities. (The reasoning being that you don't really want to subject traffic passing through to high levels of commuter congestion, you want to minimize impacts to high concentrations of people and businesses, land acquisition is cheaper outside cities than inside, etc.) Because they did not impact nearly as many people to the same degree, Europe didn't experience the same overcorrection in terms of public process. (There is NIMBY-ism in Europe, to be sure, but they are definitely more successful at actually building things and keeping costs low compared to the US.)

There is also the subject of diminishing returns. Cutting travel time between the coasts from weeks to days is certainly a huge return on investment. Today most expansion projects look like "let's cut 30 seconds of waiting at this traffic light" at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars at times. The report you linked is from ASCE, which is not exactly a neutral party for infrastructure development. Here's a critique of an earlier report from the same organization:

> Consider the following from the report:

> ASCE estimated the "costs to households and businesses" from transportation deficiencies in 2010 to be $130 billion. (page 3)

> ASCE estimated the cumulative losses to businesses will be $430 billion by 2020. (page 5)

> ASCE estimated the cumulative losses to households will be $482 billion by 2020. (page 5)

> If you add these together, the total cost to households and businesses is $1.042 trillion. Well, ASCE states that to reach "minimum tolerable conditions" (a pretty sad standard) would take an investment of $220 billion annually. Over 10 years, that's $2.2 trillion. Yeah, you read that right. The American Society of Civil Engineers wrote a report suggesting that over the next decade we spend $2.2 trillion so we can save $1.0 trillion.
Regarding item 1, any recommendations for a good book? Manning has a couple titles that look good, but I’m curious to hear what others would suggest.
what are the advantages of using angular right now? in terms of documentation, it doesn't look like an atomic reactor compared to the past. more like simplified
There's nothing more silent about it than any other bug that arises in a similarly dynamic language. People use Python over C++ in large part because it saves X amount of coding hours, and comes with different kinds of bugs that can "silently return wrong results".
Besides those, learning proper slicing technique is required

A bread slicing wood board to manage crumb waste also helps

Can’t beat crunchy toasts on thin sliced bread. Slicing machines are no match for really thin slices
>Ice cream sales don’t cause drowning.

Imagine thinking this study and those datasets are remotely the same.
The title made me think this was about a hand-made wind instrument which illustrated all the knowledge accumulated by a professional luthier in 13 years.
I guess, but on the flip side there are potentially transformative positive applications that we already know about and have yet to discover. Fundamentally some people are more optimistic and risk-loving when it comes to new technology. I believe the "good" will overwhelmingly outweigh the "bad" that you're pointing out. I think it mostly comes down to personality.
A Typical WEIRD (western, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic) finding. For much of human history children have been raised in multi-generational homes. Just being raised by parents is relatively new. I recall reading in a book [0] that proposes this as one of the reasons we have such an issue with mental health etc. with our children. This also seriously hampers learning as wisdom is not passed down.

[0] free to play
That's what the article is about, but I'm asking about the specific phrase, as it's used in the article.
part of it is probably that some things that US unions have to fight for are protected by law in europe. as far as i know at will employment doesn't exist in europe for example. i hear in france it is almost impossible to fire anyone at all.

in germany every company with more than 50 employees has to form a workers council that gets a say in how certain things are done in the company. they deal with things like work conditions, safety, office benefits (do we want a rec-room or better food in the cantine?) without any union needed to step in. that reduces unions to negotiating collective pay and related questions like reducing work-hours or other topics that are relevant for a whole industry, not just one company.

i also believe a german union would have a hard time to force a company to hire people that are not needed for a project or even influence who the company can hire.

but apart from that, even in europe not all projects go well. politicians that try to profile themselves by attracting large projects, missmanagement, are not uncommon either.

as the article says, for example germany has similar problems. like the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link between germany and denmark. denmark ratified the plans in 2015. germany took 5 years longer. local communities, a few shipping companies and individuals sued to stop the project. one documentary made the joke that a project that gets done in denmark in a year, takes a decade in germany.
Tools are easy. You add it to the CI/CD pipeline, it fails if it doesn’t meet the guideline, people have to run the tool to get the merge in. On first run it’s painful, so if you’re not starting a project, use an autoformatter so it’s not all manual work. If you really want, you can even make your CI pipeline push commits with autofixes

Of course if you don’t have a CI pipeline that’s easy to integrate steps like this, you’ve got major issues to deal with elsewhere…
I feel forebodings about the SCOTUS, Trump may have succeeded in turning the country into a theocracy using the law via the Supreme Court. Civil war is a distinct possibility if there are enough angry people out there with their guns. Thoughts, anyone ?
Epic doesn't expect that you will finish every question on the exam. That's actually the point of giving harder questions: the ability to calibrate against the entire candidate pool. If the test is so easy everyone aces it, how is that calibration going to go?
I wouldn't go around saying others don't understand http. Puts you in a very awkward position when you are wrong. Which, you are. Idempotency and safety are separate concepts related to http. But, you do you. Take the advice however you want.
Their own platform I guess would be a better way of putting it. No one is going to say that Nintendo, Microsoft (XBox), Sony, smart TV manufacturers etc what they can and can’t bundle with the operating system they ship with the hardware.
Why is this comment downvoted? It's literally what goes through the minds of parents of newly weds and weds-to-be. Let's not beat around the bush and be upfront about it.
Yes, but the physics is that the amount time saved over a fixed distance is actually more for the 15mph cyclist than the 20mph cyclist.

However the percent of time saved for the slower cyclist is less, but only a little.

Basically at cycling speeds the aerodynamic curve is pretty flat so it doesn't really matter if you are fast or slow.
That’s not true. There’s lots of ways that things are rigged in favor of NIMBYs. For example, environmental review laws enable a NIMBY minority to file bogus lawsuits that add years of delays (during which time developers still have to pay mortgages on property that aren’t allowed to start developing).
Is it based in the US? Then you can trust that encryption as far as you (or your favourite government agency) can throw it.
The words "linked to" or "associated with" are tells that no real causality has been established – no matter how casually, or sloppily, causality is implied by the paper or breezy PR summaries.

Maybe, early pre-diagnosis aspects of eventual Alzheimer's (such as undiagnosed mild cognitive impairments) makes people less interested in, and diligent in pursuing, flu vaccinations. (In other words: the causality goes the other way.)

But also, people with active family/social lives are both more likely to be reminded to get a flu vaccine, and less likely to develop Alzheimer's.

And further: more conscientious people seek out vaccines. More conscientious people get Alzheimer's at a much lower rate. For example, this study - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/... – suggests those in the 90th percentile of conscientiousness have 89% lower rates of Alzheimer's diagnoses than those in the 10th percentile of conscientiousness.

While a mechanism from vax-induced immunity, and/or fewer actual infections, to less dementia is plausible, these other well-known correlates/confounders seem a likely explanation for these results, until/unless controlled-for.
> If this were the 1900s, government would have told the NIMBYs to get bent, we're building Thing X because it's good for society and if you don't like it, tough. That's what living in city means sometimes!

Unfortunately, much of the history of that era was exploiting racial minorities in order to build.

I'm currently sitting in a neighborhood (PNW USA) that at the turn of the century was established mostly by german immigrants. They built their houses here because the more anglo population in the city proper, slightly to the south, and mostly across the river, redlined them away from those areas.

Fast forward to just after WW2, and a substantial black population moved here to work building ships for the war effort. These folks were largely setting in a racially integrated town just a bit further north from me. In the post war years, this flooded, creating a local refugee crisis. The powers that were in the city at the time did not want black families in their areas, so they decided to redline them into the germanic neighborhood and make it their problem.

Fast forward a couple decades, and my neighborhood has become the cultural and economic center for the black community in my city. City proper leadership is still openly and malignantly racists, so they go along with a scheme to use a free way expansion and building a hospital campus to snap up the land for a fraction of what it was worth under eminent domain. Culturally the neighborhood has not recovered from this. Several multi block scale plots of land remain unbuilt but owned by the hospital.

That's just my neighborhood. Robert Moses and his peers played out this story nation wide.

So, there's obviously a lot going on with the US's current failure to build civic infrastructure in a sensible and affordable way. But before we lionize what was going on in the past, we should remember a lot of what got built was at the cost of someone who's rights and economic interests were legit thwarted. It doesn't excuse modern NIMBYism from a position of privilege, but I do worry about reforms that give planning boards sharper knives.
> "ethicists"

> It's a political and emotional stance masquerading as a technical or scientific process.

I don't think you understand what ethics is.
A - for juniors

1 - This / should / could etc etc make sense only if the code is duplicated. If it's long, better to make a sub-function and use those in main body of the function for better readability / maintenance.

2 - As for tones, you are the senior. Don't sugarcoat juniors, tell them the truth green in their faces. You'll be appreciated more in the future by them because you're helping them grow, not running for mayor office and you need to be PC. Also, don't be rude / asshole, they still need your help though.

3 - I found out, the best is to talk to them like you talk to your friends.

B - for seniors

No sub-points here, seniors who make blatant mistakes gets treated like juniors (see section A). Those who make honest mistakes, well I found out they only need you for rubberducking because mid-review they'll realize and correct / change course on the spot.
Does it matter that you prefer one definition over another? If you want to talk to other people, you have to use their definition.

Every time organic food is mentioned on HN, someone is quick to point out "haha does that mean food that contains carbon haha", and the word simply doesn't mean that in this context. It's tiring.
>force the building of refineries to process domestic crude.

Who would want to build a refinery when the current President has stated he wants to shut down the fossil fuel industry?
Have you ever visited an urban area that has been cut up by a highway? I've never seen one that wasn't a dodgy neglected hellhole, even in traditionally denser east coast cities. The affected communities end up disconnected rather than connected to elsewhere, and the outlying areas that do end up being connected could just as well have been connected by a highway routed around the urban area.

There's an argument to be made for cut and cover construction and then putting in a park or newer homes or something, but surface highways through cities are not a goal to strive for.
These features were actually recently added. See https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16-preview/features/

Web push notifications

Adds support for opt‑in notifications on iOS. Coming in 2023.
Frequently people forget what happens when they do that. People love refactoring... but forget how that spaghetti got there in the first place.

Spoiler alert: it's because life is messy and doesn't fit neatly into buckets & code. You throw out so much testing bug fixing & corner case fixes.

For every reg that is abused by bad actors, there's a dozen that are written in blood.
It's kind of hilarious that that's your takeaway from this. Where I live in Dallas, all of downtown is walled off by elevated and sunken highways with only one or two bridges across them, all but guaranteeing adjacent neighborhoods are completely cut off for pedestrians, to prevent them from ever becoming larger communities. There was no reason for this whatsoever except the east, south, and west side neighborhoods were all predominantly black and planners wanted to keep them out.

We're still suffering from these decisions today, with all manner of proposal to make the area walkable dead in the water due to the expense that would be entailed by rerouting or rebuilding highways.

There is no return on investment anyone got from this that couldn't have been gotten from highways moved another mile or two away into the purely industrial districts where they wouldn't have disrupted anybody.
> what is different now?

Um. Is this a serious question?
> except non-NIMBYs dont care enough to do the same! Show up to council meetings and vote!

The zoning meeting for my city is the same night as my kid has scouts. This is why I don't show up: I have other things going on in my life. Even if they did pick a night where there is nothing else, I really want to get into my shop and build something and this meeting is taking that time away from me.

There is another problem: the people showing up for school board and causing problems are not the same as showing up for zoning and causing problems. And there is also the library and parks board, each either their own meetings I could show up for. Different groups show up for each, and I cannot counter them all.
Source? That would imply total factor productivity didn't grow at all "over the last 100+ years", which seems doubtful given all the innovations brought about during that time period.
And it happens and it works, I've seen YIMBY groups "win" but it has taken them years of continually working on the same thing to finally get it through.

Sometimes it ends up going all the way to Congress: http://www.startribune.com/obama-gives-his-approval-to-bridg...

You can't YIMBY generic things like "more bike paths" or "better roads" you have to identify particular projects and build a group that will support it, and work on it for years sometimes. For lots of things, there are groups that can help out there, you just have to find them. And part of that "working" at it is listening to the NIMBYs so you can understand their concerns (even if the leadership of a NIMBY group is batshit, the people "on their side" at least resonate with some of them) and work to mitigate/solve them.

And be prepared to take advantage of disasters to push your side forward.
Here is my local hill climb course. I used to love going to watch this. Hillclimbs are almost always thin courses lined with solid walls in sections.

https://youtu.be/9kufacVXlSc

Not sped up (he launches at about 1m37, cuts beam at top about 2m12 for a 35 sec run.

Crashes can be pretty serious.
Be aware that very little you donate to the library ends up on the shelves. Most of the time they sell whatever you donate (e.g. "Friends of Library sales")
New Zealand has birds that don't fly due to the lack of predators and they don't get enormous and live very long life, IIRC.

Although the ones that were big got extinct so maybe you have a point...
It would be more honest, but the spreads would be a lot wider. Also you'd be structurally denying those evil horrible people the ability to save money in the asset class with the highest returns over a normal working lifetime, which is probably a disproportionate level of punishment for gambling.
Perceptions of Neural Nets over the Decades
Because Chrome will instantly start to out compete it. And once Safari is pushed down below 25% share on iOS then sites will feel more and more free to avoid testing on Safari and push users towards just using Chrome. Not having two different engines to have to test against means that even more the web becomes something that works on Chromium by default and is totally broken on Gecko. That makes FF even worse, and Google will totally control Chromium and the engine that browsers like Edge and Brave work on top of and will be able to dictate (in the "dictator" sense of that word) what the engine does (and while they might be somewhat responsive to Microsoft, they won't be to Brave). And we already won the battle to keep Windows from tying the browser to the O/S on windows and watched while we lost the war and Google completely took the engine over. Cracking open iOS is going to let Google take over that platform as well, it isn't going to make life any better for Gecko or any other alternative engine.
I think it would be far worse if we stopped developing new hardware.

The focus on mobile devices, and battery life in particular, has done a tremendous amount to reduce power consumption.

A typical desktop computer from the 2000s could easily use 1000w. Some of the pentium 4 variants burn through more than 100w alone - not including any of the rest of the hardware in the machine, or the monitor.

A modern laptop will usually come in under 50w - and can usually idle down under 10w.

Servers 20 years ago were mostly big power hungry machines running in closets somewhere - now they're heavily power optimized machines running in AWS/Azure/GCP/Other's data centers.

CPU cycles have gotten ridiculously cheap (both monetarily and in terms of power usage). Single-threaded performance hasn't gotten all that much better.

The market is already optimizing for reducing power usage, because power isn't free and because batteries are a constraining factor in mobile devices.
Just being that guy: isn’t “low-code devops” just “good old ops”?
Office 365 is online as well. If you want no MAGMA, then look into Zoho Sheets. They have fantastic customer support.
> Why did you do it this way instead of X?

Argh, yes, that's one line that might make me just walk away from a PR as a new/junior/casual contributor.

You, the reviewer, are an expert in the system. Likely you are the or one of the most expert people in the entire world on this exact thing. You know X exists and why to use it. As you should, because you put it there. You also should know that people who aren't experts (like me) don't know about it, simply because they didn't use it, in this PR, when they should have. Why don't they know it? Probably because you haven't used it consistently in your own code, or it's not documented. This newbie has cobbled this PR together from what sense I can make of this project. Probably 90% is guessed from code I found in there already.

What wouldn't wind me up?

"I think a better way to do this is X. It's better because Y. Or have I missed a specific reason for X?"

Note two things: 1) explanation to a noob of reason Y, which may well be valuable, not only to the noob, but also in the record of the project in general. 2) The indication that the noob might at least have had a logical approach, and they're not an idiot, just a noob.

Afterwards, if this seems like something the noob should have known from the codebase, consider that you, the maintainer, have failed to make it clear.

Of course, if I'm also supposed to be an expert, e.g. a co-maintainer, then it's different. I should know X. Which means either it's a brain fart, or I actually do have a reason. In which case I should have commented on the code, because if another contributor can't tell the intention in the PR, then they can't tell in a year when no one can remember why it went that way.
If this becomes a full-fledge DQL that can be used in a proc or function in a running Postgres instance, I would use it in production.
>given me a take-home coding assignment of at least 30hrs of work

It's absolutely astounding to me that people must entertain these at a sufficient rate that companies still try to pull this free labor nonsense.
One company I interviewed with provided a take-home assignment and said to bill them for the hours; I found that to be a fair offer, although due to other circumstances limiting my available time, I declined to continue the interview at that point.

If the take-home assignment is expected to take a few hours, maybe it's worth considering. Any longer, and they can look elsewhere for free labor. That time is much better spent sending out more applications, networking, leetcoding for FANG interviews, working on personal projects, or simply taking a walk outside.