skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The claim that eating red meat is not as harmful as smoking is hedging and a fallacy of relative privation. Just because eating plutonium is more deadly than eating red meat doesn't make eating red meat any less harmful.

The World Health Organisation has classified cured and processed meats as Group I carcinogens because there is a causal link between consuming these meats and bowel cancer. Group I carcinogens also includes tobacco, alcohol, arsenic and asbestos, all known to cause certain cancers. WHO classified red meat as Group 2A carcinogens, indicating it most likely causes cancer.[1] Group 2A carcinogens includes alcohol, benzine, diesel exhaust, and formaldehyde.

And having that many cows around hurts everyone on the planet, vegans included. There's 94M cows in the US, or 1 for every 3 people. But it would take 4 people eating 55 pounds of beef a year to consume one 1400lb. dressed cow. On the face of it, there are, at the very least, 25.5M superfluous cows producing more than 5B pounds of methane every year while consuming 46.5B pounds of alfalfa requiring ~7.2B gallons of water to grow.

Say what you will about smoking, but no one ever tried to grow tobacco in a desert during a drought.

And I'm not sure soda consumption is a significant contributor to Global Warming. The health concern is the meat eaters' incentive to quit, while I'd like it to stop being so damn hot and killing everything for the sake of meat gluttons indulging themselves. Eating meat is not any kind of virtue, and it is certainly not more important than the biosphere. For the sake of life on Earth, I can live without people eating so much damn meat all the time.

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/11/03/repo...
> increased intelligence

Is there a source for that? Because I think you mean knowledge there and not intelligence. I'm not aware of anything that says modern humans are any more intelligent than the oldest archaic humans (homo sapiens). Modern humans just have more accumulated technology and knowledge, something very distinct from intelligence.
Yeah, even for a 1200W kettle heating a liter of water can be faster in the kettle than an average gas stove and pot.
Student loans make tuition-payers cost-insensitive.
Remote work exacerbates this eh
Your gas stove will likely dramatically outperform an 1800W electric heater if you use a proper pot:

https://turbopot.com/

I would still rather use a nice induction range, but it is possible to get decent efficiency out of gas.
I think this relationship might be a bit backwards.

Easy credit made it so demand for degrees outstripped capacity. Schools raised prices to meter demand. At these increased prices, schools felt compelled to invest in programs and administration.

Also, as I understand it, the accreditation process is pretty broken in the country. Whatever the top programs are doing becomes the benchmark for everyone else to match. So it's a never ending treadmill to keep up.
Yes, if Go is a 'successor' then obviously it has to offer something over C, like a standard library. However it is still very much a low abstraction, get out of my way language 'in the spirit of C'.

It's obviously not a true successor as it has a GC for one, but one way I like to think about it is that if Java is in some ways a more convenient C++ for application development, if you will, then Go would be that but a more convenient C, not C++

The 'C successor' comes more from the philosophical approach of Go's core team to the language design being similar to that of C, not it being a practical successor to C as such.
> Did people not socialize in the days before worker protections demanded worker protections?

Socialization was a luxury that certain segments afford before worker protections. Most families worked, children and all, and after doing what daily chore needed to be done at home, they slept. Socialization happened during dinner etc, which is why a lot of working class families used to give a lot of importance to dinner.
TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
Well, then you have moved the goal post, because initially you didn't ask for performance measurements, you asked for proof that compilers can optimize code better if they can assume signed arithmetic won't overflow.

And the blog post lists dozens of optimizations which can indeed be performed due to that decision.

The benefits of these optimizations will vary depending on the actual code and on the architecture/CPU, of course.

It will be greater for hot and tight loops that benefit from these optimizations and less important for cold parts of the code.

It will also be greater for more limited CPUs and less important for more sophisticated ones.
I hate the 50-60hz flicker, but most people don't seem to notice it or care. Manufacturers don't want to spend the extra 10 cents per unit on a decoupling capacitor.
I haven't followed this guy. Or Tesla. But the covid stock market seems like a govt/fed creation. Not to mention gas prices benefiting Tesla like that. I don't blame anyone for not predicting the appearance of giant and unprecedented interventions and their effects.

You're talking contrarian investing when it comes to buying at the time of "peak fear". Yet you don't respect contrarians doing the opposite when there's peak exuberance.
Nobody else is cutting 50%, and the twitter severance isn't particularly generous either relative to other layoffs.
> it would be nearly impossible to ever get rid of it. Without infringing on free speech of course.

Most State election laws have major/minor party designations which hinder the minor parties. Removing those State law designations would not affect free speech.
Maybe you can search your State election law and let us know what you find about things such as donation limits to minor parties.
Yep, this person nails the primary issue. Distributed or federated social networking won’t take off until we have a worthwhile self-sovereign identity solution, aka BYOID (Bring Your Own Identity), where the sole controller of the identity is the individual with the private key.

It’s a very difficult problem to solve and to turn into something easy to use for the masses… but it’s required for such applications as Mastodon to truly be enticing.

As-is, we should not expect Mastodon (or similar systems) to gain much traction outside of a few niches.
I love the ambience of cafes. People, aromas, usually well-lit (and not by moody halogens). Very energizing.

It's basically the only place I can muster the energy learning new programming-related things (not an IC anymore).
I always found myself immensely more productive when pairing for similar reasons.
What? This much, really? TIL, thanks! I never use ours (too large), but will try to adapt using it.
insert another top HN post where Twitter already begs fired engineers to come back
They have all kinds of weird tax stuff going on from 2018-2020. Just ignoring taxes, they had a loss in 2020 and 2021 (2021 was mainly due to a class action lawsuit they lost for $800 million). 2022 YTD income was just barely positive in Q2 with them showing a 970 million gain from selling a company. So not really failing, but had a very uncertain future.

https://investor.twitterinc.com/financial-information/quarte...
You're complaining that you can't migrate your account to a Nazi server.

This sounds like a feature, not a bug.
I hope there’s stock for when I head back to the states to buy one in February.
+1 for pressure cooker. I use mine twice a week or so. For just about anything since there are so many recipes online. And less clean up!
The same could be said of any post-natal surgery for congenital birth defects, such as club foot or cleft lip. Many can go without surgery and live their entire lives without developing early-onset arthritis or feeding issues. These days, and in the vast majority of cases, a person can live a relatively healthy and long life without surgery for congenital arrhythmia. But I have never heard or read wholesale condemnations of preventive infant surgery to mitigate, if not prevent, the outcomes of the aforementioned defects. In fact, the opposite is true; Someone (usually a parent or doctor) is expected to do something at the earliest possible moment, even if the issue left untreated would only have a negligible chance of getting "worse" in terms of health or otherwise.

I agree that there's no medical reason for indiscriminate circumcision at birth, or, for that matter, indiscriminate surgery of any kind at any time. After all, that's what circumcision is: surgery. However, the poster I responded to did not make that distinction. Another poster simply posted the word "propaganda". Given what I've read, I'm convinced that many of these anti-circumcision posts are motivated by animus — whether of genital surgery in its entirety or the religious elements associated with it — rather than a well-thought critique of the practice in secular and instrumental terms.

A wholesale dismissal of circumcision is as unthinking as a blind acceptance of it. Instead, each case must be assessed on its own merits. Unfortunately, I rarely see my particular position shared by anyone else.
>what videos

The videos of him smoking crack and negotiating with prostitutes in Ukraine.

>when did Hunter Biden deny the laptop

Joe Biden went on stage to debate Donald Trump where he publicly said that the laptop was “Russian disinformation”. Hunter Biden didn’t really deny it though he said he “wasn’t sure if it was his”.

Twitter refused to post the NY post story as well as banned users mentioning the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

Obviously, this was a cover up. The laptop was his.
Apparently, I seem to be grossly out of touch with all this twitter-related drama. Can someone please explain why the events surrounding twitter acquisition are such a newsmaker?

What does it matter who owns the company and who the company fires? You can still (re)post the messages, you can still read the messages. All the favorite 'content-generators' are still there. Not much has changed from the users' perspective, everything works just fine.

I mean. A few memes - why not? A casual discussion - maybe. Rage and daily news titles about some internal decisions - what is this, '16 and pregnant'?

And what about this 'looking for twitter alternatives' crap? What for?

I feel like these low-effort topics pull the worst out of the community.
Yes. He knew exactly where to invest, had the vision, and execute on it successfully. So Tesla is his baby.
Linking is often the slow part for large projects. Switching to the Mold linker can help some, but it can still be relatively slow on a lot of hardware.

Overall I agree with you though, it isn't slow enough on my hardware to interrupt my dev-flow.
I understand the fallible/infallible distinction. My point was that the concept of fallibility/infallibility is not encoded into Rust's semantics: any function, even an "infallible" one, can panic (e.g. on stack overflow or an underlying memory allocation error).

(I think we're in agreement about fallible APIs being confusing and a footgun.)
Yes, much better to blindly believe an anecdote that contradicts known food science.
This has come up occasionally on HN, but is worthy of acknowledgment and genuine discussion. Fabulous to see someone talking about our world with optimism and hope, instead of falling back onto the primitive marketplace ideology that has seeped into our subconscious.

"The magic of software is that there is virtually no marginal cost!"

"But isn’t it ironic that same reality of zero-marginal costs – the foundation of these incredibly profitable commercial software empires – is the same one that allows us to reject the market-based framing of collaboration altogether!"

"Again, I’m not saying this is a universal truth, but I am saying that it’s a possible truth. An experienced and enduring truth for the work and the community that has been happening around Rails."
I think OP's point was that clearly there is a disconnect between what people at Twitter are/were saying/thinking, and reality. Unfortunately, when your words or ideas come into conflict with reality, it is rarely reality that is wrong

For example, if someone were cut from a sports team and the coach went and talked about how good that person was, and how hard they worked. Well it raises the obvious question, if they were so good and did work so hard, why did they get cut? And why does everyone get so upset when people ask the obvious question?
That “not-updated in years” confluence page that lists more incorrect things now than correct ones is frankly, useless.
Better toots than the shamefully embarrassing “truths” label.
Corporations bootstrapping their own community spaces, branded journalism, etc is historically common; the reason for not doing that comes down to cost and convenience. It saps away attention from the primary line of business to invest in a genuine, highly-engaged space like that, and it's much easier to look for platforms with a generic ad slot to insert messaging into.

But the past decades of outsource-and-automate, attaching the brand to new tech companies as they appear, has largely passed; if all the existing spaces have become unproductive sources of eyeballs, you have to change course and come up with a way to make "mcdonalds.social" an attractive hangout instead. The only reason centralized social media got as far as it did before was because the capital markets footed that bill.
While I come from a culture where that is indeed rude, aside from sunflower seeds, pistachios, watermelon, and other similar activities in certain environments, there are many cultures where it is not considered rude.
And here I was imagining that the Barilla passive cooker would be a thermal cooker -- a vacuum-insulated sleeve for a pot that can hold cooking temperature for hours. Several companies make these.
He poorly handled his insistence on Tesla (and other?) staff return to working in the office.

It seems like he has screwed up being a parent to his many children, most publicly the one that transitioned and cut off ties with him.
It’s a win-win for Putin. Gets rid of people he doesn’t want, and their meatbags deplete Western ammunition. The man is straight-up evil.
Is there no way to manufacture more persistent phosphor for white LEDs?
pretty sure mastodon is a bog standard Rails app
Wow, don’t think I’ve seen Apple issue a PR like this before. No doubt Apple’s considering now more than ever to continue to diversify their supply chain. China seems to have no issue continuing with their Zero-Covid approach.
Protect Vault unseal keys using Nitro Enclaves and a cryptographic attestation
Thankfully I can unhinge my jaw for each mango encounter.
> where the sole controller of the identity is the individual with the private key

Counterpoint: People at large don't care about managing credentials the same way IT geeks do. The federated approach with admins and "lost password" flow helps adoption more than something like Scuttlebutt does. Private key as identity means "lose this and your identity is irrecoverable".

We've seen this play out many times with people losing significant amounts of money in crypto. We'd see many more mistakes with low stakes social networks.
The email fallback is of rather dubious value if your email is hosted in AWS or uses Route53.
Verified status is kinda weird in the first place.

First of all, I am not on twitter, so I don't actually know what I am talking about.

The problem is they don't say what is being verified, just that it is verified.

As I understand it. the verified tag means(or used to mean) that a twitter account claiming to be a person of certain infamy is actually that person. however there is no additional information as to exactly what the verified cv for this person is.

I would have expected, at minimum, something like certificate authority verification. and twitter could make a claim like(all examples are fake). @cmarc239 is verified to be the youtube channel "couriusmarc", @will_i_am is verified to be sony_music/blackeyedpeas, @joebiden is verified to be jbidon@whitehouse.gov or @rprwins is verified to be the twitch account m_rpr_actual
This would be so good if it had building.
He is directly the reason they are losing $4 million a day. They weren't losing anywhere near that before he took control.
I'm very new to the project. Do you happened to know if the software architecture is inherently coupled to that physical tech choice (one big postgresql)? I have seen some well architected RoR apps sidestep that limitation, but they seem to be the exception.
> But less than at lower prices.

That’s just assumption, and history has sometimes proven this assumption wrong. Higher prices do not automatically yield lower demand. It may take a threshold price increase before consumption changes at all, especially for scarce resources.

It’s true that alternatives change the equation, that I agree with. But the problem with allowing the market to sort it out is that Saudi Arabia might always be able to afford more than small town, Arizona. If you raise prices, you might only price out the locals and surrender your water to foreign interests. Charging money is in no way certain to fix this problem, it might make everything even worse.

> Pricing an externality means assigning a cost to use of some scarce resource, and letting the market decide if and when the resource is worth the cost.

What you just described is cost benefit analysis followed by free market thinking, definitionally speaking.
It’s implied she sought the payout because of the current complaints
> Few developers know how to code software that is nice to install and maintain anymore.

NetBSD is refreshing for precisely this reason. I'm not sure why it doesn't get more love tbh, it's not glitzy but goddamn that's how you code.
It's also notable how many journalists (and even news outlets; the Irish paper of record just created an account, say) are suddenly using Mastodon. Realistically, the target audience of EU twitter feeds is mostly journalists; very few normal people will follow any sort of government twitter feed, but journalists will. Government bodies tend to use Twitter as a sort of low latency press release mechanism, and Mastodon will do fine for that, should there be problems with Twitter.
Like an overnight success 30 years in the making
If I think abortion is fine but spiraling deficits are not am I left wing or right wing?

I suggest an alternative stratagem: partner up with a righty/lefty on orthogonal issues, split both votes, and then collaborate honorably once one of you is in power. As if you are in cahoots but openly. Like a coalition of some sort.
I would go further still: No one should be able to purchase a house unless they agree to live in it for at least a year. And, one at a time.
Shameless plug of my own explanation on how binary fields work:

https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/05/12/fft.html

Ctrl+F for "binary fields".
> which means the prices go up.

Yeah, but you're ignoring the mechanics of that happening.

> completely misses the reason schools are able to charge so much more these days.

I don't think it misses it. I think it just ignores it as a matter of practicality. It would take an act of god to get money removed from the system, but there is a very real chance he could cut some cost and bloat from single, incredibly influential, school.
This proves there must be a god.
I almost put "simply" in italics for you. Getting this through the lobbyists would be challenging. Letting us vote is just for show because the lobbyists have the access.
It's crazy phenomenon going on.. hiring people a lot and laying off them later..

Irony is these companies developing AI algorithms to analyse humans and their behaviours.. but failed to predict their workforce requirements..
Go? If a GC language would be acceptable as a replacement for C, then the strongest candidate has been around since 1984. It's called "Common Lisp".
A long time ago, a Web pioneer told me, "The risk on the Internet is not that you'll be ripped off. It's that you'll be ignored."

These stories of blogs going viral and the authors becoming celebrities are like Lana Turner being discovered at Schwab's soda fountain (which turns out not to be true, http://www.playgroundtothestars.com/2013/06/schwabs-drug-sto...).
I don’t recall a similar announcement even at the height of COVID.

Do we know what’s now changed?
Depending on what part I touch, a recompile is 20 to 60 seconds. This is a project at work — an HTTP server that runs some stuff on an interpreted language we’ve developed in-house.

Not the end of the world, but a bit annoying nonetheless.
I yearn for a world where hard disk partitions are a memory of primitive times past confined to the minds of retrocomputing enthusiasts. I want my system board to have a firmware that can detect common variants of volume management including LVM and zpools, perhaps that thing Windows has that's kinda like software RAID for people into that kind of thing, perhaps even stuff like OpenBSD's softraid stuff.

1. Find physical disks that may be a part of a managed volume group/pool
2. Find logical volumes and file systems on the volume pools
3. Mount a filesystem by some configurable logic
4. Load and execute a kernel from the filesystem

Having to allocate the first "blocks" on the imaginary "sectors" of my SSD (or even worse, a virtual disk drive) for some arbitrary amount of space formatted in possibly the most barebones filesystem still in mainstream use feels quaint and irritating and limits my ability to use that disk in a larger storage pool.

UEFI is an overcomplicated specification with lots of wintel baggage, but most of it doesn't personally offend me. What does is that UEFI had the chance to abolish disk partitioning, but instead enshrined it. And added mandatory FAT32 to add insult to injury.

My main laptop and desktop each have a separate disk for the EFI system partition. The former uses systemd-boot and the latter ZFSBootMenu. This way I have a maximum of one partition per disk. It's not ideal, but I like it better than the usual solution.

The disks in my zpool show up as having partitions 1 and 9, but I consider that an implementation detail since I never need to treat the disks as anything other than entire disks in a pool
Is Apple going to really start moving out of China? So for only 2% of iPhones are assembled out of China and only one factory in Vietnam is being build.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/09/30/apple-will-take-a...
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_...

It’s public, as it should be. I haven’t search hard enough for this specific project, but if you email the right channel they should provide more details.
Secure enclaves like AWS Nitro Enclaves have some really cool properties that are used here:

- memory protection and isolation for Vault while it's running

- unsealing without the parent host getting the key (can't be observed)

- having an unseal key that can't be used unless inside the enclave via cryptographic attestation
The context for this (which Apple of course wants to avoid shining too much light on) is this: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-cities-brace-wav...

A combination of isolation of the manufacturing site, lockdown of the surrounding region, and some number of workers gone.
No it's not.

The most efficient (and fastest) way is an induction hob with copper disc pan.
Something that Technology Connections didn't include in his video.

See some test here:
https://youtu.be/EBlyuahlplI
It’s not that slow. 1. They sell plenty of kettles in the US (touch grass and go to Target sometime or something) - a large portion of those sales are probably to Asian households. It is simply that if you have a drip coffee maker and don’t drink much tea why do you need a kettle.

No idea where this dumb myth comes from - kettles are not hard to find in the US, they work fine - there is a ton of demand it is just relatively miniscule.