skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I do, too.

I'm not a big believer in making detailed notes during a 1:1

When necessary, I capture key points and action items in my phone while walking.
> Ultimately I think fancy coffee is the same as fancy beer - it's not about the quality of taste of the thing, but rather it's about tribal membership and signaling.

I really really disagree, and I don't think it's an issue of being stuck inside the tribe, because I use all the same equipment, don't really give a shit (though think I should) about adjusting grind size or anything, have never timed a pour, and buying emergency supermarket/Illy coffee vs. my 'hipster' subscription is scrunch-my-face-up vs. mm-coffee.

I can drink Illy, I don't enjoy it but I can drink it.

I was recently subjected to parent-company-corporate-meeting-room push-a-button-to-pump-it-out-don't-even-know-how-they-made-it-probably-filter coffee, that I could not drink.

But who am I performing to by (not) doing so? When I do drink the coffee I like I'm remote working from home alone.

A former colleague's favourite 'coffee' is instant decaf. I believe him. I really disagree. I don't even really agree it counts as coffee. But that's his preference, people are different. Some are only happy with nice/fresh beans (my own suspicion is that it's more the freshness that counts than anything else, that supermarkets should just sell it like fruit & veg, and then they're laughing, no need to buy 'hipster'), others with anything.

Relatedly, there are days where I don't drink it at all, that I just get too distracted and I decide by that point what's the point, I'm awake, it's mid-afternoon, why drink coffee now. So it's not a case of needing a certain fix, and really I should just stop ever buying 'emergency' coffee that I don't actually like, and intentionally go without.
I build for Firefox and then bugfix chrome and safari. Safari usually requires a touch of tomfoolery after the fact. But otherwise it's dev butter.
I will argue that M1 Pro 14 is not necessary for development. M2 MacBook Air is enough though if you're using docker I recommend upgrading ram to at least 16gb for the qemu VM alone.
> it's often better/easier to read the docs in-situ in the code

Could you elaborate on this? It's really surprising to me. Some reasons why I'm surprised to hear you say it:

* The actual public API isn't necessarily always obviously clear from the source code. For example, if you see 'pub struct Foo;', that doesn't mean it's actually in the public API of the library. rustdoc takes care of figuring out what exactly is exported.

* Viewing it in a web browser has the benefit of it being nicely formatted.

* The web browser also has hyperlinks you can follow. Your editor environment probably handles a fair bit of these with 'goto definition', but the prose itself might have hyperlinks that aren't easily followed in the context of your editor.

I think the first reason is the most compelling. rustdoc gives you a simple overview at a glance of what's actually in the public API. Discerning this from the source as a human isn't terribly difficult, but not as easy as a glance.

> but it seems to lack any and all facilities for non-refence docs, which most Rust projects basically don't have at all, some put in the top-level module docs (which usually limits the size)

Do you think every single Rust library should have non-reference docs? Some examples using my own crates: https://docs.rs/suffix https://docs.rs/tabwriter https://docs.rs/termcolor

I don't really think any of those are deserving of non-reference docs.

I do think I have some crates that would be deserving of non-reference docs but haven't been able to find the time to write them. It isn't for lack of tooling.

> a few have completely separated docs for anything non-reference

Do you see this as a problem? If so, why? Aren't non-reference docs, by definition, totally separate from reference docs?

> (Or one of the creative hacks to get around it, like creating empty public modules or useless macros to have additional pages).

I've used the empty public module approach before. Other than it being not quite an intended workflow, it has worked well. What specifically do you see wrong with it?
In that vein, this is a great one for a library: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of...

The second edition is coming out soon.
Quite a lot of windshield wipers have metal inserts with the same properties & dimensions. Perfect to open your older car when you forgot the keys inside.
I did this often for some meetings, mostly just to discuss problems where we didn't need to take notes. Double purpose was taking the dog for a walk as well as myself.
>It’s beneficial for everyone including manufacturers for their products to be proven safe

Yes, and to many on here, "they were"...and the company benefited from that. Make sense?

It would also benefit the company to cut corners, do as much as they can but not stop the rollout for more, which would take years to be "proven" beyond some threshold as safe.

Much of this proof would require long term testing, impossible to do up front so they would benefit from just releasing them anyways.

>what prevents them

Perhaps there is some optimal range, within which they benefit from best-effort (in a given period of time) attempt at producing what they think does something, what they think doesn't do bad things, and then releasing in full volume to cash in. Everything I'm saying doesn't require them to be nefarious either, even just a little negligence can result in "not actually safe".

If they have cover from government, media, and a willing populace ready to assume safety and efficacy, then what do they have to lose?
> because of the potential unknown side effects

Without trying to inflame the rhetoric in this discussion (I feel like HN is one of the few places that this is possible) – will this be your stance on new vaccines and medicines going forward?

"Potential unknown side effects" is a critique that can be levied against almost any medical approval process, but the FDA has had an excellent track record with vaccine safety over the last ~70 years.
Or American beer. "American beer is like making love in a canoe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbxfFOdp-bY
Is it ethical to consume without giving anything back?

Nobody is entitled to free services over the internet. If you aren't paying with money then expect to be paying with something else. The solution to invasive encroachment of personal data is GDPR-like regulation, not attacking the entities spending money to run servers and pay for development. If they are able to operate in a permissive environment that won't implement regulations then the blame rests with lazy regulators.
>Generally speaking, the perception that an article is fancruft can be a contributing factor in its nomination and deletion, but it is not the actual reason for deletion. Rather, the term fancruft is a shorthand for content which one or more editors consider unencyclopedic, possibly to the extent of violating policies on verifiability, neutrality, or original research.

I think wiki clones have more to do with people wanting to run their own advertising.
What I don't see anyone discussing is the value that the subscriptions are providing. Isn't that the real justification we should be looking for? Rather than just saying "life-time fee vs subscription"?

For a time I was subscribed to Nuraphones (headphones). I had no problem with the subscription because I was getting value from the headphones. Sure, I looked at the cost of paying outright vs monthly, and the monthly made sense to me.
wasm does not have a solid interop layer, especially compared to past attempts such as CLR. What you get at the moment is more or less the C FFI, but more awkward to use because of the sandbox.
It's not really the cost, it's the cost/benefit ratio. I think most people would be on board with their sleek smartphones reverting to brickphones if it meant climate change was solved once and for all, but making the same sacrifice to reduce climate change by 0.1% would be a tough sell.
I felt the first series definitely had some pretty good moments; the episode where Edwin becomes Archbishop of Canterbury in particular is pretty good. I don't think it's as bad as its sometimes made out to be, but it certainly different than the other three series (and specials) they did.
This model seems to work well enough to have spawned many clones - Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer etc.
No actual professional would do something like what you’re doing here. Very hard to believe this is anything but pure bullshit.

Edit: it’s pretty sad that there are people who have such an ingrained agenda that they have convinced themselves that, yes, this IS how a professional involved in a scientific public health study behaves.
Completely agree. You can very quickly reach diminishing returns, and now I get great coffee for about 70 cents per cup when I make it at home (including milk).

I can't help not notice bad beans, and most places serve almost undrinkable coffee by what I think are minimal standards.

If I were to drop bellow this level of quality, I'd rather give up on coffee entirely.
Calling them on the phone doesn't let them share their photos with me. I can't see the new plant in their retirement village, or see the painting they just did, or check out how they've personalised their room.

Visiting in person would require a 70 to 80 hour round trip. And once in the same country, getting to see all of them is also a further multi-day journey.

I've worked on this, I've thought about it, I've considered all the alternatives I can find, and I've come to the conclusion that the only effective way to stay in touch with my relatives is to use FB. Really, I've thought about it. A lot. Really. I have.

You've read my comments, and if I haven't explained well enough for you to understand now then I guess I'm just not able to make myself understood, so I'll give up.
You may not consider yourself a big subscriber, but you are paying $1700 a year in subscriptions. That is pretty substantial.

Also YouTube music is pretty decent and replaced Spotify for me. Since you're already paying for it, it may be a good replacement for Apple music.
> There was a huge segment of society angrily screaming at everyone that everything was perfectly safe, if you didn't take it you were anti-vax and wanted to kill grandma. It was absolutely insanity on every social media channel. I'm sure some nuanced bits were lost in the noise, but it was virtually impossible to openly discuss even hesitation to vaccinate, much less complications.

Except when it came to people who were pregnant or hoping to get pregnant. There was relatively open discussion of the potential health impacts in those situations because those were not well understood due to the previously mentioned bias.

The general consensus at the time was to get the vaccine, because the thought was that any side effects would be less severe than potentially getting Covid without that extra protection. But those recommendations usually came with a lot more “discuss it with your doctor” disclaimers than the overall “just get it” recommendations for the rest of the population who wasn’t thinking about pregnancies.

That slight reservation shows that it wasn’t just a huge coverup to get people vaxxed. It was a genuine lack of knowledge because of how these medicines are almost always tested.
Yeah my SO had a very regular cycle before getting the vaccine (Pfizer). After the first shot it got totally out of whack. The doctors say they don't know why that is yet immediately follow up by saying "but the vaccine is completely safe".

I'm no anti-vaxxer, but that trips my BS alert bigtime. All I hear is "duck and cover".
One reason that progress is slow is that new language that comes along often have to start over. The article points out how some new languages have benefited from this, but it also means that getting to parity with the best of existing mainstream languages is quite difficult.

An exception is languages that piggyback on an existing ecosystem (for example, Kotlin on Java's ecosystem). But they're not advancing the tooling state of the art.
What this argument ignores is context.

The ethical landscape shifts when you consider that Facebook is in a monopoly position of power over a major aspect of modern life and culture.

The user's decision is not about using or not using Facebook. It's a decision about whether they can participate with their social groups, or interact with certain businesses (who are also hostage to this monopoly), or help out their local charity organizers. In some regions, it's a decision about whether to gain access to the Internet at all.

Reducing the decision to a reading of the TOS, imposed by this monopoly power, ignores this glaring context, and fails to ask another important question: is the business model itself ethical?

And as others have pointed out, one need not even be a Facebook user to be subjected to their tracking, which is the tip of the iceberg in terms of their less than ethical behavior.
I once stupidity signed up to I think Obama's newsletter and since then no matter how many times I unsubscribe or mark email as spam I still get bombarded.

The DNC and probably also the RNC just ignore it even though it is probably illegal. I get spam from random new candidates I never heard off. I believe the DNC just keep sending out some master list they have to new and exciting DNC members without cleaning the list.
Or Steve Mann. Seems like Meta reality labs wants us all to live in that future.
It's not just a bunch of fluff. It's hard to be certain, but I think there may be an actual cat under all that fluff.
Is there a TL;DR on what happened?
I work in healthcare and life sciences, I am vaxed, and I can say I fully believe you are correct.

I have to attest and show my vax cards to keep my job or get a new one and - of all things - we had to show vax cards to go to a behind the scene animal encounter at a zoo. Does the vaccinne stop us from catching it or from giving it to others? There is no evidence, yet, that it does.

Am I having to weasel word my post here in the concern that my account will be banned from hacker news even though this is literally what I do for a living? Yes. Yes I am.
Effect of fruit rich diet on liver biomarkers, insulin resistance, lipid profile
I enjoy cold brew for the reason that it is extremely little work.

Really, it’s all about timing, but if you prepare it at the end of the workday you’ll have concentrate ready in the morning, and it generates so much concentrate. The “work” is just grinding the coffee, letting it soak, and then filtering.
“Placebo Effect Accounts for More Than Two-Thirds of COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events, Researchers Find”

https://www.bidmc.org/about-bidmc/news/2022/01/placebo-effec...

It seems very unintuitive but when you have these studies without a control they are shockingly biased… not due to anybody’s fault, just human nature.
Comically - I work with people that like to virtue signal around humility/thriftiness which is fine (even laudable) but I definitely find myself sneaking off early from the hotel to whatever the local coffee roasters to have my $6 gourmet cup (and not telling my colleagues about it!).
> Comcast and AT&T will both shake down people over torrenting media

Same with every single ISP in Germany. Law firms representing rights holders basically scrape peer swarms on content they "protect", and use the ISP to arrange to send letters demanding a fee be paid or else they take you to court.

If you torrent in Germany, a seedbox or VPN is essential.

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/pirating-streaming-movies-...
Don't underestimate the risk of courts in some jurisdictions 'discovering' that previously legal-seeming things were illegal and applying that reason retroactively.
It is possible to take a finite duration and look at the unvaccinated+covid, unvaccinated+no-covid, vaccinated+covid, vaccinated+no-covid and see differences. And the signals a so large between unvaccinated and vaccinated you don't need much in the way of fancy stats.

Also consider that it wasn't until the late 90's that the flu vaccine was approved for pregnant women and they were still worried about it. So we have the original adverse event studies post flu vaccine and compare them to post covid vaccine.

You are right, there are lots of confounds and interactions, we are careful to handle that properly. We're a bunch of nerds who don't have a dog in the political fight, we just want to show the data.
Two companies ago I had a wonderful koi pond outside the office around which my 1:1 and I would walk around and enjoy the tranquility. It was great and I very much miss it.
goto or lack thereof has nothing to do with wasm's security. It could have added goto tomorrow without breaking the sandbox. Indeed, there are a couple proposals (funclets, multiloop) that are basically dressed up goto.
Do you have children?

If they trust a stranger they just met on the internet more than a parent, that's the problem.

No amount of technological redress is going to fix that.
It can be subverted: make Firefox touch the “encrypted” URL to see what it links to, then serve the cleartext URL.
I just try to listen to my body. Are there times when I'm focused and productive for a couple hours, sure, but if not and there are opportunities to get up then I take them. I don't try and make it a hard and fast rule. I'll also try to go for a walk at lunch if I didn't ride my bike to the office that day.
> A society is not going to backstop the lack of a virtuous government by regressing its technological resources.

Prioritizing privacy would not be a regression.

The regression was the constant erosion of privacy and ownership in pursuit of consolidating power and wealth.

> The right solution is to insist on a virtuous government and wield all power necessary to cause that to exist.

Virtuous government is a lot harder to achieve when we’ve made it easy to be anything but.
>the Ukrainians whom had been initially invaded lest we forget in 2014 not 2022

Yes, do you remember why they were invaded? The US fomented and funded the 2014 coup, which immediately triggered the invasion - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957. This was orchestrated by US intelligence.

So of course US intelligence wasn't very fond of anybody disrupting their play in Ukraine. No surprise then that they went after Trump as hard as they did for as long as they did, until he was gone.

Trump is more of a broken clock than a foreign policy genius, but on this one (and on the dangers of offshoring too much to China) he was right. We were neck deep in shenanigans in Ukraine for a long time, and he came in and fucked the game up for 4 years. Once he was gone, the game was restarted and here we are. Delayed, but back on the playbook.

Also, thinking it was a bad idea to install a puppet government in Ukraine (and not wanting to continue playing along) isn't "Russian collusion" either. All of our fuckery in Ukraine is why we're staring down the barrel of WWIII and a very, very cold winter too. So on this one, Trump was right.
Definitely. My dad sells ebike batteries and there was recent electrical fire in my parents garage due to one of the "dead" batteries exploding. Beyond just the initial fire from the battery, it also resulted in molten metal shrapnel ricocheting off the ceiling and started other fires simultaneously.

Thankfully we all awake and our garden hose was enough to put it out, but it was pretty clear to us that safe/proper battery storage is needed asap.
Is it that hard to just collect data on economic status instead?
The reasons I heard about us developing alcohol tolerance was that it allowed our ancestors to eat ripe fruit that had fallen from the tree and begun fermenting, with the evolutionary advantages that

- they have higher calorie intake, especially if you can metabolize the alcohol into energy

- the alcohol kills pathogens that might have infected the fruit otherwise

- it probably also acted as a kind of mouthwash

- plus, in a hunter gatherer lifestyle where resources (including food and alcohol) are scarce, the possibility addiction is probably not at all as much of a problem
Small-parcel courier services (read: USPS, UPS, FedEx) are far, far more expensive than the freight shipping that moves most things around. It costs about $1/kg to ship things all the way from China to the US by ocean container (much more expensive than it used to be because supply chain issues).
I find the best line ever was Mr Bean's girlfriend's "Do you have the turkey on?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0m_o2gxbsU

His sneezing in church, visiting his former school at open day and making a sandwich on a park bench are other priceless additions to the visual comedy hall of fame.
Considering that there is nothing better out there I would definitely say yes. The M2 is incredibly thermally constrained so I wouldn't advice it for developers.
Google is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_register which is the way around privacy law.

> Twelve years [after Katz v. United States] the Supreme Court held that a pen register is not a search because the "petitioner voluntarily conveyed numerical information to the telephone company." Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735, 744 (1979). Since the defendant had disclosed the dialed numbers to the telephone company so they could connect his call, he did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the numbers he dialed. The court did not distinguish between disclosing the numbers to a human operator or just the automatic equipment used by the telephone company.
Seems like a lawsuit magnet.
It seems strange to compare an open source engine to the IE era. IE sucked because it stagnated technically, the engine isn't the issue with Chrome, it's the business incentives of Google that are at odds with some of the things users want in the browser as a product or service.
This isn’t directed at you/OP, but the anti dark roast thing seems to me to be a distinctively American coffee snob hipster thing. Many places in the world have wonderful dark roast coffee. Honestly, are these people just wandering around Austria, Italy, Vietnam, Cuba, or Turkey complaining about bad the coffee is? Give me a break.
I'm over 60 and I hate talking to people on the phone. My mother likes it, and that's why I call her three times a week. But most of my aunts and uncles prefer to show their photos on FB and talk about what they're doing there. I call them for birthdays and special anniversaries, and having kept up-to-speed via FB means I can talk about things that really matter, or get clarification on things that weren't obvious.

But they like using FB, and it's the only effective way I know to stay in touch and remain a part of their lives.
growing fruits is a wildly complex process, fermentations are an Astoundingly complex process, barrel aging is a surprisingly complex process. myriad things in each step can and do go very wrong. experts are absolutely able to taste fruit defects and fermentation defects.

just because you can't doesn't mean the differences aren't there and throws away a massive tradition of expertise and artistic direction, and is wildly arrogant. obviously, drink what you enjoy. most folks enjoy barefoot and folgers alike. though they are both commodity wine/coffee that are meant to appeal to "mass market".
Is it better if it’s your shady VPN provider that knows all this? It’s a ridiculous argument.
wasm is only as secure as the runtime that you're using, and I would be extremely surprised if none of them have sandbox-breaking bugs in the long term.
Where do you live that has unharvested coffee bushes in the middle of the city?
It's time to get companies to stop using new virgin materials for disposable packaging. If there is no demand for recycled products then recycling is just a sham that makes people feel good but does no good.

Else, companies must change their packaging and make sure all of it can degrade safely in the environment over a relative short time.

Making the consumer responsible for recycling has been a huge disaster for the environment. It needs to change.