skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People do switch to healthier or perceiver-to-be-healthier alternatives once they get sick

I always forget this part, and you're right – it's critical, and often used by industry interests to help indicate healthier options are in fact less healthy. It can be hard to catch sometimes, and before I knew how to read these studies, I was tricked by it very, very often.

We also know in the case of the disease they're concerned about here, that without radical dietary changes (i.e. eating plant fats OR animal fats won't save you here) then the damages you've likely been exposing yourself to for decades are probably going to kill you soon, anyway. Arterial plaque doesn't vanish when you start frying eggs in canola instead of pork fat.

Another thing to consider here is: what do elderly Chinese consider to be healthy? Are the ones switching to animal fats doing that because it's culturally perceived as healthier? Or are they more like North Americans, thinking canola is the heart-healthy oil? It's hard to tell, not being around the age of 65 and living in China.

I do appreciate that they accounted for diet composition to a degree, though it's self-reported and again, not reliable particularly among people trying to change old habits.
Do Telegram, Whatsapp, FB Messenger, etc support SMS?
Because it requires that library with that API be maintained forever. Guaranteeing it eventually becoming unused because the language is evolving and better APIs can be made. For instance mpsc and mutex libs are commonly not used because crossbeam-channels and parking_lot libraries are better than what Rust ships with.
Posted my anecdote elsewhere in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33510940
Nice try, Kremlin.
Removed SMS support and then added stories. Worried about signal's recent direction.

Being able to interact with my remaining non-signal contacts was huge. Really going to miss it. In contrast they are now adding a feature I do not care about at all.
Every IRC server or Discord server I ever joined, I joined because there was something there to which I wanted access, or an existing community I discovered another way, and was directed there to fill things out.

If either of those things exist for mastodon, I'm not seeing them, and half the people on here are saying, "this isn't twitter go away" while the other half is raving about how exciting it is to be the recipient of "#twittermigration"

Which is all very cute, but it does tend to give commenters whiplash, not knowing whether the responses they're going to get are going to be from one side or the other, or both!
> Did Lula also have more support in the polling in those places that used those older models?

If I understood correctly, they were compared to other machines in the same electoral zone. Each zone can have 2020 models and pre-2020 models. The older models had more votes compared to 2020 models even in the same geographical locations.

> I think you’re looking at correlations in data and fantasizing a causation that isn’t there.

Look I honestly don't know anymore. Can you help me make sense of it? It was published here:

https://brazilwasstolen.com/en/

Attempting to discuss this anywhere else, I was met with censorship and heavily biased political discourse. I know the electoral court has not made any statements regarding it, they're just censoring everything. I've never seen anything like this in my country before.

The argentinian man made a video presentation but I don't have access to it anymore due to censorship.
Federated Signal servers!!!
Positive change requires much more time, effort and leadership. Changing in negative ways just rely on fear and stoking strong emotions, it's much faster and effective.

I think it's possible to fight back with positive changes but those take decades to generations to actually take hold while requiring political support throughout so plans set in motion can actually reap benefits by then. Any political thwarting from adversarial forces and those long-term plans just grind to a halt or are reversed.

It's an uphill battle, for years and years to come.
I just have an issue with the CCP and their apologists. That is primarily who people refer to when they say China. It is pretty common speech. Same when talking about America doing something, we refer to the US government primarily, not its people.
I think you're right, in that open displays of emotion are rarer in men. I'm not sure you're correct in the assertion that men can't appeal to people for help based on being sad. At least, that hasn't been my experience. I think men don't display/communicate their emotions in the same way, but I think its somewhat normal (at least it is today) for men to seek out help for something because they are experiencing conflict and it bothers them.
Or an accusation of one.
It doesn’t matter how much you like light rail or how little you care about the estimates being wrong, the project was significantly over budget, delayed several years, and was reduced in scope from what was originally promised to the voters. These are objective facts.

The Ulink extension was part of the original proposal, so it should be counted against the original budget and timeline as well. The U-district station didn’t open until 2016, 20 years after being voted on and 10 years behind schedule. The extension also cost $1.8 billion on its own.

From the same wiki page I cited earlier:

> The ballot measure failed to pass on March 14, 1995, and the light rail line was shortened to 25 miles (40 km), between the University District and Sea-Tac Airport. Voters approved the $3.9 billion package on November 5, 1996

> The initial segment identified and approved by Sound Transit later that year shortened the line to 14 miles (23 km), between Downtown Seattle and a southern Tukwila station near Sea-Tac Airport. The remaining routes to the airport and University District were sent back to the planning stage, and re-organized into separate light rail projects.

> Planning of the Portage Bay tunnel between Capitol Hill and the University District was suspended due to higher than expected contractor bids, attributed to difficult soil conditions.

> The line was extended north to University of Washington station, via Capitol Hill station, on March 19, 2016, via a $1.8 billion, 3.15-mile (5.07 km) tunnel.
"Give the people what they want" feels like a slap in the face after the decision to remove SMS
There are actually people working on various causes of that - attempts to lower incarceration rates, initiatives for safety practices in work help men more then women. Initiatives against smoking and alcoholism make male lifespan larger. Less guns in society would actually lead to less men dead.

One problem is that tackling easy causes of male deaths is met with complains about making men softer or feminizing them.
Have you got a link or book or something on this?
As in, mom is a hero for giving morphine to her kids.
Hasn't there been recent news about toxic pollution in the region?

What good is lifting people out of poverty, if they are lifted out of poverty and placed in a toxic urban environment?
I've poked around with -fsanitize=kernel-address in embedded environments--and I think there's real potential there.

However, in this case, I wonder how well -fsanitize=leak might work. Override free() to show when it is called & print a stack trace, and you get a good look at your system's actual allocation pattern.

As an aside, there's nothing wrong with malloc in these embedded environments, it's the freeing that causes memory fragmentation. If you can also avoid running out of memory, you're good to go, since you essentially have a fancy form of static allocation!
> After all, these people were perfectly happy to keep using and promoting Twitter when it was ideologically captured by their in group. Now that Elon owns it, well, now it sucks and is bad.

Conservatives weren't satisfied with Parler, Truth Social, Gab or Gettr and now also own Twitter. It seems fairly obvious that people would seek alternatives because they're not interested in participating in a right-wing platform with no moderation.
This list recommends the tracing package over the slog package. I've only ever used slog, so I'd be interested to hear why some people prefer tracing to slog.
What's hilarious is they are mad *their* walled garden collapsed.
Fleeing to a federated service isn't going to help them build a new walled garden - watching them figure that out has been very entertaining, to say the least.
On the contrary - for succinct day-by-day, "play-by-play" commentary on the conflict, they are quite professional (and extremely guarded in their statements).

OTOH, I'm old & well-read enough to know that they are working from limited information sources, within a narrow analysis framework, and even the best-resourced and -intentioned military-style war reporting has a pretty iffy record.
I don't get this at all. If all you're using Signal for is SMS, why not just switch to a good SMS app?
Why do you trust Little Snitch? It's closed source and in the perfect position to steal information.
The train blew up a while ago and we’re now watching the ruins smoldering until they eventually go out and we can go in and clean up.
This. What a powerful tool - try to get people to believe what you want, but if you fail, steer the landing so it just further adds to the confusion, rather than being evidence of dishonesty.
I think the idea is that the people who write the compiler might be good at writing compilers but less good at designing HTTP or crypto libraries. So they leave that work to others.

Designing Cargo was outsourced for a similar reason AFAIK.
Blue checkmarks were never neither interesting nor part of any culture.
same. unless Signal has public metrics to suggest its reached a real critical mass, the lack of basic SMS functionality kills the app for me.
Who would put deep red lights at 5:30? Now I am even more confused.
> According to Verified Voting (https://verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#mode/navigate/map/ppEqu...), ~5% of votes are made with un-auditable "direct recording electronic" voting machines, where the votes are held in memory rather than printed to paper. When you actually do pentests, it turns out that these machines are sometimes connected to the internet (even though best-practices are to not do so), and they have been demonstrated to be hackable by someone with a USB drive even when air-gapped. Any such tampering is undetectable if done well. It's simply unacceptable to use such technology for voting IMO, and we should pass laws mandating paper-trails and banning DRE voting.

This is quite contrary to the ~~propaganda~~ trustworthy journalism take on the matter:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/13/us-election-...

> One problem is that much of the worry about election fraud is motivated reasoning ("my preferred candidate didn't win therefore there must have been fraud; let me find evidence of fraud to support my theory")

Another problem is that much of the lack of concern about election fraud is based on bad epistemology ("my preferred candidate won fair and square [in an epistemically sound, absolute sense] because some people said it was the most secure in history).

> ...rather than actual concern based on an objective analysis starting with the facts.

In my experience, this (utilizing actual objective analysis) is a good way to collect downvotes and insults.

> I do wonder if we can still make some changes to the system that strictly improve security and require zero trust of the opposition party, without destroying trust in the underlying institutions.

I wonder if we will ever try, as opposed to simply repeating the same claim enough times so that people believe it to be true. The latter is certainly cheaper, and certainly gets the job done (where the job is persuading the public that their election system is secure in fact, regardless of whether it is actually true).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
The mathematical definition of function also rejects all side-effects, so probably not the best thing to use around programming.

Call it a routine instead?
I’ve heard garbled words over a bad connection that I didn’t understand, only to have my brain parse them seconds later without intentional effort. It makes me wonder, is the language center processing the memorized version of sound here or is it reprocessing at the lower level?
They don't need to move much. The issue I noticed is that when my breasts grew, some safety belts went through throat (previously did not).

They push the belt to the side.
Same applies to every other messaging app that's not federated which is almost all of them.
While many contributions do require significant tools & investment, there are still plenty of sectors where individuals can make massive contributions. For example Ben Choi leveraged mostly public knowledge and a few thousand $ to develop a low-cost neural prosthetic in high school. Having been to enough hackathons, this caliber of project, though uncommon is also not rare. The surface area for innovation is so huge, and the flexibility afforded by individuals/small groups is so significant that major breakthroughs continue to be made without backing.

Many of these inventions could be readily transformed into significant business ventures but, without patent protection, would be easily beat out by companies with the resources to build out manufacturing nearly instantly.
Surely cold and wet is to some degree contradictory.

Warm air holds more moisture.
I use SMS from time to time too - especially random people that call me, but I don't see much added value of having it unified in Signal. I just use the default SMS app on my phone (iMessage app in my case, which also works for SMS). For me Signal is about E2E encrypted messages with more features, SMS is a different much more limited platform.
Couldnt it be the case that one packet was reviewed and they updated your status, then they just chucked the duplicate?
>Use Telegram! It's unencrypted by default!

You mean the messaging service with no SMS support and an assumption that criminals are the main users?

Signal was great because it gave encrypted messaging to people who didn't know they needed it. When you take away SMS support, the only people who use it are people who know they need it.
Neat! It's actually a really interesting word list and I love creating art in a restricted space.

It appears your Share link is broken though, or at least I'm having trouble following them. Probably because I wrote such a long poem

My poem preview:https://css-magnetic-poetry.tone-row.com/api/og?data=%257B%2...

My poem:
https://css-magnetic-poetry.tone-row.com/gqR1c2Vk3AA3g6R3b3J...

imgur link: https://imgur.com/a/XEo6z9n
Don't worry, even though he wasn't convicted of them, his sentencing included the alleged activity and punished him for it anyway!
I like the _MINIDUMP_HANDLE_DESCRIPTOR example. I write like that. And I don't think keeping compatibility in APIs and ABIs is a language thing. It's more what a programmer as an architect of his program does.
Late last month some owners of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards reported that their power adapters with four 8-pin connectors on one side and 12+4 pin 12VHPRW connector on the other side burnt out.
> “the US is doing the same to other countries”

> Source?

Not even hiding it: https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.htm...
In most places where I took kids, street parking was what I got.
I saw Zach Tellman's excellent talk at Papers We Love / Strange Loop this year[1]. In it, he talks about the Ship of Theseus [2] thought experiment as it applies to software.

His very insightful observation is that you can replace every plank in the ship one at a time and the resulting ship still looks the same. That's because each time you replace one plank, it must fit with the surrounding existing ones. So while the components are replaced, the interface between them is unchanging. If you believe the result of the thought experience is that it is the same boat, then it's because the set of interfaces define the boat.

This applies very much to C as the universal ABI. It's common to see programs written in a combination of languages who interface with each other using a C ABI even though none of those languages is itself C. And, for better worse, it's really hard to change this because while components are easily swapped out, moving an interface is hard because you have to simultaneously fix every component that uses that interface.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHThXQr7wwA

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
> Signal is not social media.

I mean, it is now since they just added a stories feature. Sorry that your view of the product doesn't align with Signal's.

You're also using the word bikeshedding in a way unfamiliar to me. I use that word to mean intense debate about inconsequential changes that don't matter, like the right color for a bicycle shed. Which ofc is ludacris because there is no right or wrong color for a bicycle shed. In contrast to that, there are absolutely product decisions about the app that are material to its desired and undesired functionality. If signal decided to change the functionality of their product and stop encrypting texts, would discussion about that be bikeshedding? Why then, is this change in functionality not of similar concern?
> Have you got figures to back up your assertions that the entire supply chain is price gouging?

This a false dichotomy. It's been in the news here pretty much constantly, especially in the financial press, to the point it's common knowledge. I'm neither digging up those articles nor translating them for you though. You'll just have to take my word on it (or not.)
Notes on removing ligatures from Fira Code
Citation required?

I’m no proponent of ‘agile for agile’s sake’ but I question whether a statement like ‘most planning is done by managers/PMs with very limited technical knowledge’ is anything other than hyperbole.

I’d love to see some facts to back that statement up, since it would really help to clarify the air around this frequently contentious topic. Otherwise it’s just noise. Not to mention very out of step with best practices around ‘agile’.
You have a point, they're balking on implementing JPEG-XL, probably due to NIH syndrome
I assume those LNG tankers are just hanging around as "storage" waiting for the winter payoff?
No, but security can provide privacy and privacy may provide security.
Troy has a strong tendency to confuse “these two powerful people are expressing similar goals” with “these two powerful people are conspiring.” He’s doing the same thing here with Putin and Musk. Extraordinary claims require stronger evidence.

What if Musk’s Twitter purchase was a somewhat frivolous whim that he failed to back out of? That’d also explain the current situation, but Troy doesn’t even examine it. Note that if Musk’s purchase was part of a sinister plan it makes absolutely no sense to risk it for the possibility of saving a few billion. Troy keeps papering over that whole flaw.
The heros in the story of Chinas amazing numbers of people lifted out of poverty is Deng Xiaoping and his successors. They've been basically thrown out with Xi. So modern China is unfortunately on the totally wrong trajectory.

It's ok to say "China was going the right direction between years X and Y" without being an "apologist".
Because, as the article states, the OS interface is C. In order to do anything useful at all in your code, you need to call through the C API of your operating system.

To replace this, you would need another compiled language. It can't be "any other lang" - it needs to be something compiled down to machine code that can be directly executed on your CPU. So you could write a new OS that presents an interface in Rust, or Zig, but never WASM.
It's not exactly ignored in C itself. That's what things like the sizeof() operator are for and standard macros like INT_MAX and INT_MIN.

The problem here is once compiled this information is not readily accessible without being able to read a C Header. That's why the author here mentions parsing a C header and says most people just end up letting a compiler do that.

If your writing C and ignoring things like INT_MAX or the minimum range requirements specified by the standard or not using sizeof() when your worried the memory size of these base types. Your code is not going to be portable.

C definitely let's you handle and know the domain of your variables.
The United Nations Development Programme announced it 20 days ago on their official WeChat account and the post is still up: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JAY6_fef5htRqbnOQwnoFg

Also, re: "without forced-sterilization" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30040790
I’ve been using CyanRip and it’s been working nicely. Has excellent defaults Eg just run cyanrip from cli with a CD in and it rips to flac in the current dir with the most sensible/reasonable defaults (at least it’s opinions have worked for me).

https://github.com/cyanreg/cyanrip
That sounds great, but many people (especially those living in cities) don't have that many rooms in their home, so other solutions are needed.
We had Ford fiesta with one kid and slightly bigger car when two kids. No issue with buckling nor car seat.
It may be "clear", but whether it is true is a very different matter.
Aka ‘not doing agile’?
> I did C/C++ for years 10+ years ago, but since learning Ruby and then Elixir I've loved the functional approach.

Not Elixir but I spend 10 years in Erlang before moving to Rust and prefer to never go back.

A statically typed language is just better. No matter how easy Erlang/Elixir makes some things. I do not at all miss needing to refactor my code and being scared of all the crashes that inevitably result. I do not at all miss seeing crashes that only show up under production load.
Remarkable does not have any lighting. Its use case seems to be annotating in a well-lit room.

Kindle does not support epub without conversion.

I have a Kobo Forma. Waterproof, light, great physical buttons, an 8-inch screen, 4:3 aspect (literally same as original iPad mini). Most PDFs I can read in portrait, but the rest are fine in landscape.

Kobo's native PDF support is garbage (as is Kindle's), but the koreader app makes it a joy (multiplatform, for Kobo, Kindle, Remarkable, others). It can strip the margins on the fly, is very fast, and has every config option you can think of.

Multiple ways to sideload, wired or wireless. Bonus: integrated support for syncing Pocket articles.
Not quite, I've got a good few close friends working with them in Menlo Park, and they're all terribly worried about what's coming down the line. The climate and general vibe has been getting steadily worse, Zuck has been getting combative and people are leaving where they can.
> Let's not conflate "normalized" with "standard".

Good point - I agree, should have phrased better.

> We already have a discovery feature in Signal

Another point I should have been more clear. I agree that contact discovery is ... well, discovery! I think what I meant is that right now you can only discover folks you already know (i.e.: have the number for) but you don't get recommendations.

So yeah... I'd say that one of the major points distinguishing Signal from a Social Media (at least one of the definitions of) is the lack of recommendations of new people to follow or things to discover. Signal in that sense is a communication platform.

[note I mean Signal the app not the company]

> bikeshedding

You mean if Signal is or isn't a Social media? Or it's run by the feds?

I mean I replied to the above company with a serious comment but I thought the original one was not particularly useful to any discussion around Stories per se.