skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state telling people they have to be blind or move to a different country is unquestionably controlling their bodies. The FDA kills thousands of people by not letting them access drugs and medical devices. I cannot understand wanting more of that. Even if we ignore the consequences, it's simply wrong for anyone to override a consenting adult's choices over their body. It doesn't matter if it's about implants, drugs, abortions, carcinogens, etc.
Cannabis wasn't banned initially because of any public health crisis (but various health and crime crises were created by banning it). The British studied cannabis use in India in the 1890s and found that it was fairly benign when used in moderation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Hemp_Drugs_Commission
If it's not a shift+<something> key on a popular keyboard layout, it's not going to gain widespread adoption in programming.
> I don't think anyone gets to say that Rust isn't popular anymore. Especially considering it's now in the Linux kernel.

Popular amongst Rust fans, certainly. Popular amongst employers, no. It's still barely a rounding error for employers.
What do you mean, doesn't every IDE need its own Infocom-esque text adventure, psychoanalyst, IRC client, web browser, Morse code translator, ASCII art drawing tools, and Tetris implementation? Of course all that bloat is an acceptable price to pay for the best editor available.
Study section rosters are published information. Membership is set for a period of years. Interfering with members is expressly forbidden, though no doubt it happens.
> There is lots of room for improvement.
Like what?

I feel for the majority of transplant cases the answer is going to be along the lines of "you shouldn't have gotten (into an accident|leukemia)" which is technically true yet at the same time very unhelpful.
Why was the video of cavitation played backwards?
I think what they're really asking is; why tech hasn't disrupted higher education economically, with VCs, startups posing as universities etc.

because in every other aspect tech disrupts culture and higher education continuously...
CAs that you choose to trust are more trustworthy than those you are compelled to trust. See RobotToaster's comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33967192
Can't find any privacy policy or information about where is the data going to be stored, if it's stored at all.
Nicotine is associated with considerable adverse effects on cardiovascular health. Caffeine has not been found to have any long-term effects on cardiovascular health.
Repo author here, let me promote jq a bit – it's much more than a simple command-line JSON processor you know it for:

* It is a generator-based language which means you operate streams of values rather than single values. Takes some time to get used to, but you'd never want to go back to traditional model, at least for data processing. See 'Generators and iterators' section of the man page: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/blob/cff5336ec71b6fee396a95bb...

* Designed for CLI, it makes it easy and even pushes you to express your program as a single pipeline. You rarely need variables, functions or any control structure. And pipelines are great to build iteratively, debug and compose (see https://jqplay.org, https://jqterm.com)

* Core language is small but powerful with features like slicing, destructuring, complex assignments and error handling. And you are already an expert in it's (immutable) data structures – it is just JSON

* Batteries included in the stdlib – regex, path operations, C math/dates, algorithms. Modules are supported, but I did not need any dependencies for solving Advent of Code.

* jq is ubiquitous. Often pre-installed, tiny binary, no dependencies, basically single version (ok, awk is better – anything else?)

Being a go-to tool for JSON is sort of a double-edged sword – people just don't look past that. But nowadays JSON is the format for data, everything is convertible to it. And you can feed plain text into jq using --raw-input flag. i.e.:

jq -nR '[inputs]' /etc/hosts

The main limitation is there is no I/O whatsoever – you can't read from file/network/pipe/system from the program. You need to provide all inputs upfront.

Hope that explains why I prefer jq. For any programming really, not just AOC
Oh this feels like spacemacs
I already use evil mode spacemacs I think the most important feature is org mode but maybe I’ll play with spacevim over the holidays!
I remember trying the Guayaki brand canned version that was lightly sweetened and really liking that, but they don’t seem to offer it any longer. Odd. Definitely try various levels and types of sweetener, as others have suggested, and I’ll add: try it iced.
What was the plan? AFAICT they were in a tight spot strategically at the time, and still are. You have AWS as the behemoth, GCP as the pretender, and a whole bunch of other vendors like DO and Hetzner, making things competitive to put it mildly.
> And yet when I suggest we might try harder to help people keep their own organs more functional in that case, I'm generally given all kinds of flak.

I don't think that deserve any flak. That is a very sensible approach.

It is so sensible that it is basically the minimum acceptable standard of care. Can you show us any story where any doctor did otherwise?
Rumors say that under Trump governance, the US administration did already pressure ASML (netherlands/germany) not to sell advanced litography tools to China.

I don't know what's going on here, but it seems China has to do its own R&D and has to build its own leading-edge chip manufacturing tools. Very probably, it is going to be very hard in an authoritative regime, because to setup such industry, everybody's brain has to be comfortely and positively motivated (greed/material comfort/stability/security/etc).
Ocaml is a nice language to work with. I briefly worked on Frama-C as a student and have only fond memories of it. I think it's the same for most people who had to use it in the past which is why it get upvotes.

It has always seemed both very modern in the semantic tools it gave (inference, pattern matching, variant types, the module system) but not too in your face. You could very much code in Ocaml as you would in any imperative language and it would be fine and you would still benefit from the nice type system. Generally you don't want to because the other tools the language gives you feel nicer but sometimes it's simpler and that's fine. Plus, the community tends to be very pragramatic and non judgemental about how you achieve things.
The U.S. reaches a fusion power milestone. Will it be enough to save the planet?
> ... and I think it's important to share this in non French-speaking spaces.

Is there a french version of this article?
What on earth is this? I saw another spam post like this just yesterday.

> Disclaimer: This website is not associated with the TigerIsHome

"TigerIsHome" looks like a gambling site, but these guys are not trying to capture login details even though it looks a lot like a phishing site, with auto-generated text. What's the deal?
Interesting. I seem to recall that for some healthcare systems and tobacco tax regimes, smokers were cheaper for society because they tended not to require such long retirement and palliative care, and they contributed quite a bit more tax, but I don't remember the details or the country now, I might be mistaken. What do New Zealand's numbers look like there?

It's an interesting idea though. Would you think all recreational activities should be regulated under the lens of collectivism? Let's say recreational driving -- to the beach or to the ski slopes or to visit friends in another city, or just a good old fashioned road trip -- is there a case that be prohibited because automobile infrastructure and accidents are an enormous financial cost to society and are also one of the leading causes of death in young people?
Program in breaks and wear blue-light glasses.
Carlos Ghosn’s Escape Planner Describes His Prison Time in Japan as ‘Torture’
I’m having trouble parsing this. Are you arguing doing this for the health reasons is bad versus just a dislike of nicotine itself?
Exactly my first thought too.
> for whom the cost doesn't justify any performance benefit.

These are boat owners, remember.
Maybe I misremembered something and cannot find a source now, but I think there was some way to avoid paying tax on short sales when company goes bankrupt and gets delisted.

EDIT: See sibling comment.

EDIT 2: Am I reading this right? almost 1,800,000 shares failed to deliver just in one day of Sep 22nd? [0]

[0] https://fintel.io/ss/us/rxt
The standard argument against this is "the state should enforce truth in labelling", but any company that will knowingly sell you cancer will also lie to you and the state.
Usually a combination of the following:

- Delivering on business goals

- Hiring and retention

- Growing and promoting engineers

- Feedback from engineers

One big difference in determining performance for a manager versus an engineer is the length of the feedback cycle. A software developer can start getting feedback after a few code commits. A manager needs a few months at a minimum at most companies to assess progress towards goals, hiring, etc. Unfortunately this means a bad manager can wreak havoc and jump ship before upper management notices.
How so? What has Canada done to race New Zealand to a dystopia? There's probably a lot, but I'm curious as to what you think specifically
Commercial nicotine vaping is perhaps 95% less dangerous than smoking (maybe more)[0].

There has been a bizarre crusade against vaping from public health and medical authorities for the last decade. This campaign relies mostly on misleading stats and fear tactics (for example, conflating bootleg THC cartridges using vitamin E acetate with much safer commercially-available nicotine cartridges). Looks like New Zealand saw through that at least.

[0]: https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-withou...
I think they mainly exist because `if' otherwise requires a `progn' if you want more than one expression in the true branch.
The phrase for what's going on in that Rolling Stones lyric is "Negative concord" and yes, it's normal in many languages and that includes a lot of non-prestige English variants.

"Ain't nobody got time for that" is clear, likewise "I didn't go nowhere" and "He ain't take nothing from nobody" and when something is not clear ("That ain't nothing" could mean it is, or it is not, something) context usually suffices.
I still prefer smoking ban over locking my bank account.
May refer to the demeaning origins of the name. Wikipedia:

In Brazil, traditionally prepared mate is known as chimarrão, although the word mate and the expression "mate amargo" (bitter mate) are also used in Argentina and Uruguay. The Spanish cimarrón means "rough", "brute", or "barbarian", but is most widely understood to mean "feral", and is used in almost all of Latin America for domesticated animals that have become wild. The word was then used by the people who colonized the region of the Río de la Plata to describe the natives' rough and sour drink, drunk with no other ingredient to sweeten the taste.
It's funny. The issue described (inability to replicate the conditions to build and/or run the original program using NPM) is something that gets brought up a lot, but people will appear who are downright adamant that it's not a problem. Not just that it's not prevalent enough to be concerned about, but that they've literally never seen it happen ever. We're living in completely separate worlds.

And let's be clear: this is an *NPMJS* problem, not a *JS* problem. For folks who have read and written lots of JS before and during NPM's reign over programmers' attention and will continue to do so afterward (when NPM as the dominant culture evaporates) and have kept NPM- and NodeJS-inspired "best practices" at arms length precisely for these reasons and more, it's irksome to see people full-on equate JS with what-the-NPMers-are-doing.
What are these magical factors?

“They found that those who were female, married, physically active and not obese and those who had never smoked, had higher incomes, and who did not have insomnia, heart disease or arthritis, were more likely to maintain excellent health across the study period and less likely to develop disabling cognitive, physical, or emotional problems.”

So, basically, be a woman, get married, be rich, eat well, exercise, don’t smoke, and, oh yeah, don’t be sick to begin with:

“As a baseline, the researchers selected participants who were in excellent health at the start of the approximately three-year period of study. This included the absence of memory problems or chronic disabling pain, freedom from any serious mental illness and absence of physical disabilities that limit daily activities—as well as the presence of adequate social support and high levels of happiness and life satisfaction.”

But wait, is that even the actual journal article’s focus? Umm, it seems to focus on immigrant Canadians, with the conclusion: “Immigrant older adults had a lower prevalence of successful aging than their Canadian-born peers.”

So, my cynical take is:

1. Big study funded
2. Needs to produce some kind of compelling results for the public
3. Actual conclusions aren’t particularly insightful
4. PR produced in attempt to spin the results
For something so critical that it's literally in your body I think things like security updates are a necessity.

Arguably, working incorrectly is worse than not working.
You're not likely to get 300% efficiency when it really matters, in colder climates. The temperature outside my house is around -10C now, and closer to -20C at night this week. Keeping my house warm requires around 6-10KW constantly atm, which I could perhaps reduce to 5-8KW with a heat pump (some heating will come from other appliances, like computers, fridges, etc).

Or I have used the oil boiler in the basement, if Norway didn't ban that in 2020. That would have freed up enough electricity for several homes in the UK or Germany.

Electrical heating is fine if all electricity produced is from hydro, nuclear or wind/solar, but it makes less sense if the grid relies too much on fossil fuels.
How Amazon Robotics is working to eliminate the need for barcodes
I didn't grow up as a unix user by random chance I worked at windows companies, so I neglected vi and vim. recently I took the vim tutorial and have been Ising neovim and it has changed my life.
Banning them in favour of vaping seems smart.

Doing so with an arbitrary cut off seems irrational.
This is it. I hated it too the first time I tried it. Then I watched a couple of videos and the experience was totally different.
"there hasn't been a significant effort to re-ban it wholesale at a state or federal level"?

At least in the context of the original parent comment ("doing perfectly fine since prohibition")
That's a great reference. Thank you.
I'm not doing so good, and I couldn't finish that site. as pretty as it was.
meh i just need to get more sleep.
I think one of the problems is that eSports games can change rapidly. For me it's easy to not watch soccer for 5 years and then watch a match and still know what's going on. But i don't have the mental capacity or even time to do the same for a valorant match. It's great for the niche, not simple enough for the masses (viewers).
I found this hit and miss, the concept is nice and original and the execution is well done.
And I suppose it made me define my emotional state in a more granular manner than I naturally do, but at the end of the day I found no actionable insights.
The long term side effects of vaping are still very much in the air. The technology is too new to understand how the chemicals will affect lungs over decades. Don't get me wrong, probably still "healthier" than tobacco, but we just don't know yet.
Sorry, this is just FUD.

Provide links? Also, 25000 times might be ok, if the amount of gas released in the atmosphere is 1/10^6, say, of the amount of co2
Hmmmm, it makes sense to me that someone (the designer) more familiar with such a soft science would be less inclined to be sensitive to privacy functionality.
I personally like the idea of fully legalized drugs, but I don't necessarily think they should be allowed to be imported and sold, at least not directly. There's a "middle way" that frames drug use in term of health, but it shouldn't be legal to profit from people's addictions.
In some parts of Europe (especially Germany/Austria in my experience) you can find soda drinks such as "Club Mate". I like the taste as it's sweteened but not excessively.
No. I believe every profession needs to do some PR for their services such that everyone wanting to work in that profession actually gets to find a job. So the more therapists there are, the more "propaganda" you need such that they actually can find customers.

And listening to casual conversations in US soaps, it is rather obvious from a bystander perspective that therapy-is-something-you-want is an agenda that is being pushed since at least 20 years.
Could you provide a list of liberal democracies then please?

"Liberal Democracy" is not the same as "Libertarian Paradise"
In addition to the other suggestions, consider alternating the source of the mate. Argentinian and Brazilian ones are quite distinct in flavor. Lowering water temperature may lighten it a bit as well.
All the code I work on is hosted on a separate development server, so I used to use Sublime to edit these files over the network, using NFS.

But now I use code-server, which is hosted on the same development server. So everything got a lot faster for me.
In one of my previous companies we used Rackspace to manage our AWS account. In the early years support was quite brilliant, however, in later years we only kept paying them to keep external investors happy. We could claim that a skilled company was keeping our AWS accounts secure. However, in reality they were useless, and just offered us AWS Well Architected reviews that we could have done in house for a fraction of the costs. In the end it was cheaper to build up an SRE team and pay for AWS Premium Support.
Cigarettes are bad for your lung health over and above the presence of nicotine.
it’s very clearly not irrational from a practical political perspective
I also dislike when mate is too bitter, but that doesn't generally depend on the yerba itself, but rather on how you prepare mate.

Try:
- removing dust from yerba, by covering the top of your cup with a slightly humid cloth and shaking it for a few seconds (the dust should stick to it, but the leaves should not)
- heating using water a tiny bit under 70 degrees hot (above this temperature the first mates will be too bitter, and the last too washy)
- pouring water always in the same place, so that the leaves slowly get wet from bottom to top
Yes, in Canada engineers have been found liable for the projects they were on, after failing.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1300878
I’m from the UK and IMO the gun ban is very effective. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone that wasn’t a special armed policeman or a soldier with a gun. It’s very rare for someone to be shot here, and most criminals don’t carry guns because they know the penalties if caught are so much higher that it’s not worth it. Even if you were to held up with a gun (which isn’t common at all), you’d be much less likely to be shot as they wouldn’t have to worry about you shooting them.
Bash scripts don’t break, when left unattended for months/years. Python scripts do.
Only partially true. The ecosystem has some really awesome plugins:
- GitSavvy
- Sublime-LSP (plus LSP-Copilot)
- Sublime_Debugger
- Terminus

All these together and you have a keyboard driven ultrafast IDElike experience.
I remember in the 80s and 90s lots of people wanted to become stand up comedians. It's harder than it looks (in fact your job is making it look easy).
I guess there must have a been a rickroll in the training data :D. On a more serious note though, this does prove that ChatGTP is still in its early stages and lot more work is required to truly build a fully communicating bot. Imagine having this in schools. There have been incidents where the bot responded with inaccurate answers...
I love Ruby for this kind of stuff. You don't have to have arguments about which syntax you prefer, you can just use the one you prefer and let your coworkers use theirs.

However, a lot of developers love very strict style guidelines. I've never understood why, but it's a discussion I get into very very often.
Why are people so fucking excited about therapy? I was recently at a party where someone announced to the whole group they were depressed and had just started therapy. Everyone was clapping like they won the lottery. Utterly bizarre and upsetting.

"Hey everyone, you all thought I was fine but I've actually been deeply unhappy and struggling! I'm now going to pay a stranger with a dubious educational background $300/hr as part of a long and arduous process that sometimes takes years and has mixed results. Isn't that great?"

If she had announced she was starting chemo people would be weeping. Instead she announced she has another chronic, difficult, expensive, and occasionally fatal health issue and everyone is super jazzed about it??? I'm amazed more people don't have strong negative reactions to therapy
Show HN: Monitor a Twitter handle and get notified when it becomes available
I absolutely love Kotlin (and I do like the folks behind Jetbrains), so I'm kinda de facto locked onto IntelliJ but damn that post is right in the feels.

Yesterday, I had to let go of my 4K screen and go back to working on the laptop screen of my 1 year old M1 because of some issue that is open for 7 years (https://twitter.com/jlengrand/status/1601246555066859520).

Back then, I upgraded my laptop because the indexing of semi-large projects was making me go bonkers.

Sometimes, it does feel like my DevEx is getting worse over time. Not better
We still have many Thinkpad T490 with Intel Core i7 and 40GB Ram. They overheat and throttle gpu and cpu to the point you can't work anymore. Even the mouse comes to a halt. The fan barely spins up. Absolutely rubbish.

Then we have Thinkpad P15v2 Gen2, also with Core i7, the moment you fire up your compiler, the fans spin up immediately (also very loud). No throttling, you can compile all day.

At home I have a Thinkpad Ryzen laptop, no fan noise, no throttling, full power. It's just a different kind.
Emacs people: How well does Emacs manage many files being open in disparate directories? I've often got two dozen files open as I navigate source code of a new codebase, and my current IDE (Jetbrains) does not have a good way of organizing the tabs so that I can quickly find them by module (not filename).

For instance, consider the following open files:

projectRoot/beatles/foo/bar/alice/bob/charlie/a.c
projectRoot/beatles/foo/bar/alice/bob/charlie/b.c
projectRoot/beatles/foo/somethingElse/UI/keyboard/usbSupport.c
projectRoot/stones/mick.c
projectRoot/stones/bass/dick.c
projectRoot/stones/bass/ricky.c

I'd like a single "view" (whatever that may be. In Jetbrains it's a tab bar, in VIM it's an ASCII list) to see all the files, but collected into "groups". So the files in the `projectRoot/beatles/foo/bar/alice/` group are all together, the files in the `projectRoot/beatles/foo/somethingElse/` group are all together, and the files in the `projectRoot/stones/` group are all together. All other files would be in a separate "group" visually.

Notice that each "group" is _not_ a child of a single parent directory. I would define these groups manually - each project only has a handful of groups that I need. This is the feature request for Jetbrains, with each group defined as a Jetbrains "scope":

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-61955/Tab-bar-row-pe...

Any ideas for how to handle this situation in Emacs would be much appreciated. I've begun using Emacs for org-mode (with Evil) and I'd love to actually develop in Emacs if it has really good groupings of files.