skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this has been known for a while. A French demographer, Sully Ledermann, observed in the late 40s that there was a connection between total alcohol consumption and certain illnesses and accidents - in other words, that it appeared total consumption and harmful consumption were tightly connected. A lot of research has been done on it over the years, basically confirming it and uncovering how it works socially in practice.

It has also been the basis for much successful alcohol policy, especially in Scandinavia where public health statistics has a long history (much due to the Lutheran state churches, but that's another story). They have focused on reducing total consumption, rather than, say, targeted interventions aimed at heavy drinkers, and it has worked well (except politically, arguably. There's a price to be paid for trying to nudge everyone including moderate drinkers to drink less!)
Agreed on both points, but I haven't seen those policies put forward. I don't have a horse in this race but it will be interesting to see what happens.
They still definitely need to track usage in order to know which services to schedule.
That was the point. Google wanted to hold itself to a higher standard, because by being held to a higher standard, the product and the organization improved more than if they didn't have that standard. And the Internet environment of the 00s was such that consumers would make their own judgment about products, so if a PR kerfuffle happened, it was basically free advertising because people would go check out the product to see what all the fuss was about, and then find the product actually improved their lives, and then stick around as repeat users.

It started to change around 2011, for a few reasons: a.) Google ran out of headroom to improve their core products, so increasingly changes were met with "Eh, whatever" rather than "This is really cool!" and b.) perception started to dominate reality, so what the press said about a product became more important than people's actual experience using the product. Those are related: when a product is unquestionably good, you ignore what everyone else says about it, but when it's questionably good other peoples' opinions matters a lot more. But the combined effect was that it became more effective to pursue short-term wins that generate a positive press cycle (and to avoid negative press cycles) than to pursue risky new product cycles that speak for themselves. When perception dominates reality, managing that perception becomes more important than improving reality.
I don't think this will happen in the near future. The app doesn't even support pages properly.
Yes, except for the car industry, which has a massive lobbying arm.
Shave them and sell the wool. They’ll be buzz cut mammoths.
I am kinda struggling with the thermodynamics of that mechanism. Can someone explain where the energy saving comes from using Thermodynamic Integration or comparing the (almost) cyclic processes of this one with a conventional air conditioners cycle?
The german system is ok. Germans have reasons to complain but isn't terrible.

What germany does horribly is ISP infra. It just sucks ass.

Also, some gas and electricity pipes running south wouldn't hurt, but it's too late...
Not the parent comment, but my personal use case is for rendering a selectable list. The server side would render a static list with fragment links (ex. `#item-10`) and include elements with corresponding IDs, and a `:target` css rule to unhide the element. This would hopefully be paired with lazy loading the include elements.

edit:

My goal is to avoid reloading the page for each selection and rendering all items eagerly. JS frameworks are the only ones that really allow this behavior.
I don't want to invalidate your experience, but as a frequent public transport user here in CZ and an avid tourist who uses public transport abroad, I notice that the tourist experience tends to be a lot better for many reasons.

First, tourists frequent certain routes that aren't the same as routes for daily commuters. They tend to be much shorter.

Second, tourists rarely travel around in the rush hour and delays are not as crucial for them. You aren't under such a tight time budget when on holiday, unless you need to catch a plane or so. (And most people take a taxi to the airport, given that they travel with baggage.) On the other hand, even a 15 minute delay experienced four days out of five during an average work week gets old fast.

Third, tourists tend to visit cities in periods of good weather, when long waiting etc. isn't very arduous.

The real resiliency or fragility of any system tends to show under stress, and the most stress that a public transport system can be in is in the rush hour under inclement weather conditions (heavy snow, wind causing trees to fall on the track, freezing temperatures etc.), 30 km from the city centre.

So those are precisely the conditions that tourists tend not to encounter during their holidays, and form an inadequately rosy overall picture as a result.
It's not, but from that link:

> Even though it is not considered a sexually transmitted infection, monkeypox can spread during intimate physical contact between people. This contact can happen when you have sex[..]

I think it's important to not let monkeypox be viewed as another "gay disease", both so people don't use that as an excuse to let their guard down, and also so that homophobia doesn't lead to violence, but we should also recognize that promiscuous sexual activity is a big risk factor.
That link doesn't address the opinion at all, because you claimed that SponsorBlock is not designed to simply block sponsorship ads. You began our conversation with:

> Sponsorships encourage deception (tricking the user into not skipping) and building up parasocial relationships with the audience to abuse their trust, the worst of the influencer world

SponsorBlock doesn't address either of these points.

If the creator is truly deceiving the user to try to get them to watch an ad or building a parasocial relationship in order to increase the chances of conversion (which is your claim), then I don't see how continuing to watch their content minus the ads is any better for the user. Of course, that doesn't really matter because SponsorBlock has a different true purpose, to remove the inconvenience of watching ads.

Once again, I don't have a problem with SponsorBlock or using SponsorBlock to avoid ads. I think you're trying to rationalise your decision to build SponsorBlock by trying to claim it serves some moral good or higher purpose. Whether that's conscious hypocrisy or internalised self-deception is another matter.
You strongly disagree that other intelligent, social, creative animals are built along similar lines to Homo sapiens?

You really think that we’re a special case, that a difference in degree has become a difference in kind?

I personally experience a feeling that I’m conscious subjectively, but I have no evidence that I’m any more or less motivated by pleasure or pain or community than a dolphin is.

Where do we draw the line? What’s the acid test for “yup now we’re dealing with consciousness”?
Honestly with that many different ways it notes that almost feels like those "rare but serious side effects" I see at the end of drug commercials.

It feels like they don't have a for sure good idea so they are covering all their bases just to be safe.
That I agree with. A lot of bad assumptions were revealed, but not the ones I think you are alluding to.

- If the market and the government disagree on the value of human lives, the market wins. (Basically the government should just consign more people to die, especially vulnerable populations to avoid drama)

- A nontrivial portion of the population reacts to government intervention with spiteful noncompliance (we need to be using a softer and more coercive hand than 'authority says X is the best plan')

- If we have to fall back on socialized medicine whenever there is a crisis, maybe we should just do it all the time.

- There will be more pandemics, more often, until the forces permitting them change.

As somebody who immunocompromised, this pandemic taught me exactly how little my life is valued by my civilization and government.
“Appears mild” when we don’t know a damn thing about Long COVID yet is quite the stretch.
That's literally admitting to a crime. Even if the crime didn't actually happen, the tweet is gone, so now he's left with having admitted to a crime and no evidence to show that he didn't actually commit it.
Frost resistance genes make for more arable land and greater crop yields. It's a desirable trait.
Care to shed more light on your intuitions?

I get that the engineering challenges are hard (or we'd have figured it out by now). And everyone seems pretty bad at predicting how long it will take for us to build something fundamentally new.

But from the physical impossibility side, what would have to be true/what would we learn if we discovered that physical reality _doesn't_ support quantum computation with a large number of qubits and sufficient accuracy?

I did do a course which included some quantum computation material and the professor highlighted that it wasn't actually demonstrated whether nature would be so "extravagant" ... but I haven't heard anyone describe what the universe would need to be like to both support the quantum phenomena that we've already studied and demonstrated, but to disallow some larger/more complex arrangements of what seem to be the same principles.
Hear, hear!

Society is just fine with people killing themselves with drugs as long as they are alcohol and tobacco.

The problem is too much money is made off the current situation and most the population has been brainwashed into thinking that making drugs illegal will protect us from them.
I’m saying both. I agree that not every call is an ROI decision, but execs need some data beyond feel for most capital allocation decisions.
It's all relative, I think. I've met Americans living in Ireland who were amazed by how good Dublin's public transport was. "Good" is not a description that anyone in Dublin, or anyone in Europe, would use for Dublin's public transport.

I've always thought that German transport was generally excellent when I'm over there, but then I'm from Dublin :)
This is against the rules on HN.
Twitter's auto moderation screwing up on your cat game video is not being 'falsely accused of posting revenge porn, a criminal act'.
This is what I'm trying to do as well now (move from full stack web dev to something more in the lines of what you're describing). Any tips you can remember on how to make the move?
I think the main issue is to the more common person that paragraph read like as bunch of complete business nonsense. I have no idea what the vast majority of those abbreviations mean.
Quickly=?
I didn't say that. I said that this law will change nothing. I said that this law will have no effect. I said that this law will not reduce abuse.

And the cost of this big heap of nothing? Weakened encryption and mass surveillance, which will enable other, different kinds of abuse (mostly not on children so of course it's not the same).

Are you sure this is an appropriate price to pay?
This reads to me like “GE made the EV1 in the 90s and it sucked, you’re so silly for thinking you can make electric cars work now”.
If you want to go into charity work, don't expect to be paid like a brain surgeon. If you can't afford the education required to go into charity work, start a GoFundMe or choose something more attainable. Stop spending other's money because of vague handwavey "we need it and it doesn't pay well"
>We don't expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?

Because it's on demand, and a significant part of it is recreational, if every means of transportation was free, even just in a state or country, people would move a lot more and the cost would be astronomical
Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess
Yeah. I suspect that putting across a message of “sexual distancing” would be incredibly difficult for public health authorities, because of the offence it would cause the LGBT community. Even if that is objectively what needs to be done. I suspect the LGBT community would be so offended by it that the advice would completely backfire.
>But you wont.

I already have, and this demonstrates how much you understand about the situation.
Great info. But this best belongs in a man page (or some other relevant document) in sysutils/sshfs-fuse, considering OpenBSD’s reputation for high quality documentation.
It's becoming increasingly apparent that the fabric of American society--specifically the meta-rules governing how rules are made and adjudicated--is going to be rapidly rewritten. This has needed to happen for a long time, but unfortunately the right wing seems to be the first mover (arguably with the refusal to accept Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court), and will likely retain the advantage that confers for a while.

Rather than the chaotic blow-by-blow of legislative victories and supreme court cases, I wish we'd hold a full Constitutional Convention.
C23 and C26 are basically heading into C++ without classes.
You mean, trading using the API of the various centralized brokers and exchanges. At which point it's just a thin API wrapper of sorts.

How about a bridge towards geth for Uniswap trading? "Should be easy".
sure, but if it's a string that requires it to be null terminated, there's no reason the compiler can't solve that problem
What’s the r0
Everything is about context. The context in this case it that the WHO declaring an emergency might sound ominous, but I don't see the panic you are decrying. And I'll hazard a guess, you will not see panic from this declaration. I think this will be proof the WHO was historically scared of acting too quickly, particularly with COVID, and should not have. A declaration of an emergency by the WHO is not a source of panic, it's the start of a muscled response by health organizations around the world.

I feel safer that the WHO has declared an emergency, and so does the rest of the world.
Looks great. I've been writing cmake hacks to include assets in executables for too long.
The base MacBook costs 1k and is pretty good.

Why are companies often do hesitant to buy their employees good tools? It's what multiplies their performance and the cost is often a fraction of the monthly employee cost ...
> at least electric ones

Diesel trains are better than diesel cars. Carrying a 1000 kg shell for an average of 1.something persons with its own engine and air resistance, and needing to be able to stop in a few hundred meters even at top speed, is less efficient than having one engine and one front side to push air out of the way and low rolling resistance for transporting many people, if you compare equal fuel sources.

But then cars are more flexible because you can take your portable shell anywhere at any time, not like the train. Then again, I like train rides (especially the Arriva trains between Sittard and Roermond are super comfy). There's a future for both, I'd say as someone who takes the bus and train at every opportunity (including for daily commute) but still finds himself in a car regularly.
>“Our goal is in the successful de-extinction of inter-breedable herds of mammoths that we can leverage in the rewilding of the Arctic. And then we want to leverage those technologies for what we’re calling thoughtful, disruptive conservation,” Lamm told CNBC.

What ecological benefits would de-extincting mammoths and re-introducing them to the Arctic bring? Genuinely curious.
The only way to deal with such systems is to accept that you're in an adversarial relationship and act accordingly. If you're an employee, organize to get some power on your side of the table.

IMHO the best way to work in tech is as a partially committed, outside contractor. Your counterparty has little leverage over you because you don't have all your eggs in one basket
It's not literally admitting to a crime. If I said that if you reply to this comment, you stole my wallet and you reply, you're not admitting you stole my wallet.
> vaccine trials didn't measure hospitalization

You’re partially right. Symptomatic illness was measured [1]. (Not PCR positivity.) Hospitalisation wasn’t.

That said, neither was transmission. Broader point holds.

> Do you people really think this will work?

Your comment is strong without dipping into bizarre conspiracy theory.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2035389
> Fair warning, it’s a bit rough around the edges.

Gave it a try - imported my hugo blog but then won't show me any of the content, just says "add content to a new site!" Hopefully this is an easy thing for fixing (I suspect the antiquity of my hugo blog might be confusing the issue.)
I found that Google will even rank a quote from an issue tracker on one of those "clones with advert/malwar overlays" higher than the original.
It is something that I had wanted in C too, for a while, so I am glad that they added this #embed command.
Gosh, how very odd: not one of the cities mentioned lies outside the USA. In reality you could probably do very much better by finding a place outside the US that offer much better quality of life, and where currency arbitrage makes that quality cheap.
In Windows both NTFS and ReFS keep backpointers to all their names. They store the file ID of the directory, and the name of the file in the directory. In NTFS these are stored as a special attribute, and in ReFS they reside as rows in the file table.

It's required for a few reasons. Historically NTFS has had an API to query all of a files names and this needs to be done efficiently. And when a file is opened by ID, the file system needs to construct a canonical path for it in the name space.

Source: I am the Microsoft developer that added hardlink support to ReFS. All opinions are my own.
I missed SDM = software development manager and PIP = performance improvement plan. The rest I think are explicated above.
> A relevant example would be Andrew Scheer, the former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, who opposes even the carbon tax. [2]

I think it has more to do with being a controlled opposition than party affiliation. Here in the UK, Conservative government is dead set on implementing the agenda and they even defenestrated the current PM because he was not competent at delivering it and now the contest for a new PM is run by two WEF members.
It's interesting that the most popular candidate among the Conservative members - Kemi Badenoch was eliminated - the fact that she wasn't a WEF member was of course a coincidence.
Kind of like a Roko's basilisk situation
Even ignoring the gaffe (though he was ultimately correct) with "masks don't work" from the surgeon general, it was only really politicized (this time, to the opposite political party) as an Other-ing moral choice once the unknowns had died down considerably.

People forget this 180 back and forth whiplash.
> “For all of these reasons I have decided

Interesting that he chose "I" over "we". I wonder if there was internal dissent during the forming of the resolution.
He's talking about Britain, compared to Spain.
> You cannot possible be this dense.

This is your idea of verbal abuse? Obviously this is subjective, but I would laugh at you if you said this to me - like literally laugh in your face.

No, at some point you have to say the problem is being overly sensitive towards anyone complaining about your fuckup. The guy is right, and they fucked up - he shouldn't have to bend over backwards because they're fucking babies. Maybe they should try to have some accountability and integrity and try to fix the problem rather than get all pissy about someone who's being civil (the problem is nobody can agree on what's civil, and I understand this is not an easy problem). From my perspective, you are the problem here. And that's the thing, everybody sees it differently.
> they couldn't ignore Serbian laws if their websites were available to be viewed in Serbia.

With no presence in Serbia, they absolutely can. Serbia has got virtually no recourse in such a situation.

What are they going to do? Sue then in Serbia? They’ll never show up. Then trying to enforce the jugdement overseas will be a monumental (and also completely pointless) exercise.

Try suing someone in, say, the United States for violating Serbian law. Your case will get dismissed because the said US court would have no jurisdiction over the matter even if the company was based in the US.
College isn't an opportunity for social mobility anymore. The cost of tuition shoots up as the curriculum relaxes. It's an investment trap for people who can't do the math and listen too closely to what their midwit school teachers believe about the world.
Of course they will. That’s why any company with a brain’s been looking to transition to EU data centers, with the UK told not to bother running.
The problem is that learning a niche language like Clojure should demand a higher salary but it doesn't. Companies realize they can get an existing experienced developer to learn it. It's also not wise to jump ship to a niche language like this unless you really have the funding for it and even then, the talent pool is much smaller and you find yourself its not an employers market in that niche.

So as a business owner by choosing clojure:

- I can't afford to lose experienced clojure devs but my budget is fixed

- I am going to be constantly requiring onboarding, training existing non-clojure devs

- I simply cannot reverse this decision.

To me the third point is the biggest risk but back to your point, it can become unmanageable unless you have the best and the brightest.

In any other language, you could still operate the business with middle of the pack but with these niche languages the risks are just much higher. It would require a Product Manager or even a CTO with extensive clojure background and those would be even harder to find and keep.

Like the SO survey shows, not everybody is willing to pay top dollars for a clojure dev and this should make anyone pause before jumping into it.

I personally liked clojure but the tooling was still painful like working with Java. Readability wise its a nightmare and if your entire team quits, there is a very good chance your business will fail, as it is that much harder to scale up your team or find experienced talent who now feel they are owed a much higher wages (which they should).

Nim on the other hand is more promising. It doesn't have any radical shifts, it still reads like Python and its very fast. But it doesn't even show up in the SO survey which makes me think its far too early.
It's always been possible:

<script>document.write(`<p>foo</p>`)</script>
I mean, it's not really that out there. Michael Crichton wrote a book about the idea in 1990.
> I can imagine a lot of Democrats feeling that there's no point playing by the rules

I think one of the major imbalances in American politics today, is that Republicans are far more inclined to break the rules when they feel they've been wronged.
In practice I've reduced the time spent in planning sessions and gotten more reliable throughput quarter over quarter like this, but feel free to do whatever works for your team.
Huge Publii fan here, glad to see it on the front page.

I feel like the only thing holding Publii back is the lack of theme diversity, and definitely could use some third-party designer love to push it forward.
That was a very interesting, thank you for sharing.
> If monkeypox becomes a pandemic that spreads as widely as COVID, will people look back and say the same things about people who engaged in promiscuous sexual behavior?

If they do, it will be flagged as anti-LGBTQ hate and become a bannable offense on Twitter and Reddit.
>Do you guys ever delete your text? I can't remember ever doing so. It's annoying, why bother? It doesn't get in the way or bother you.

Many millions of people communicate with apps which delete texts as one of its key features (i.e. Snapchat, Signal etc.). So yes.