skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Diabetes is almost never the direct cause of death, but it’s damn hard in the body. Hurts circulation, hurts your nerves, hurts your organs… and it can flare badly in reaction to some medications. So, the cause of death won’t be “diabetes”, it’ll be heart attack, stroke, chronic infection, something like that.

It's not like the CDC doesn't know this. They understand how diabetes works; that's reflected in the tabulation of data. It's still incorrect to say that the drop in cancer deaths is explainable by the increase in diabetes deaths, not the least because age-adjusted diabetes deaths decreased during most of that interval.
What about it? It's not open source, so shouldn't even be considered.
Banning Gas Stoves Is a Terrible Idea
https://web.archive.org/web/20221231201517/https://www.nytim...
Oil and coal have lifted more out of poverty than possibly any other invention/discovery in the modern era.

The key is not to villainize fossil fuels, but to recognize their benefits and costs and decide collectively via policy what tradeoffs we’re willing to make.

Think about how privileged you are in life that you can even consider not depending on fossil fuels. Hysterical takes like yours come across completely naive and uninformed.
Your link doesn't mention the show "Law and Order" (only uses the works to describe the concept) - which episodes normalize torture?
Yep. It's nobody's fault that, surprise surprise, countries look out for their own best interests.
There have been plenty of aircraft carriers sunk, not sure what your point is.
With the invention of fracking, the EU could have essentially unlimited natural gas for the next century, but they can’t because it was banned and due to the nature of property rights.

The fracking revolution could only have happened in the US due to how property rights are managed interestingly…
I don't see the problem. A lot of tech writing will probably be done by AI soon. It's about the content of the paper.
Cost of a camera is a tiny piece of good production. There's still good videographers, lights and people to aim them, sound equipment and people to hold them, actors, editors, and so much more. Saving even $100k on a camera is nothing.
Being super smart isn't always a plus in business. People like to hire the smartest guy in the room simply because he's the smartest guy in the room and not because he'll do the best job. One of the issues of having a super genius is that they will often find the work boring or beneath their skills so they do things that are interesting to them, like implement a complex caching system from scratch -they probably thought it would be interesting to do and since it save a few bytes they could justify the work, a good manager needs to keep this kind of worker on track or they wander off to do things that interest them more. A slightly above average engineer would simply take the requirements, look at the constraints and come up with a solution that works -it would be boring but it would work. So that's the price you pay your average employee will get the job done but they likely won't do anything that makes you step back and go wow, I would have never have thought of doing it that way that's so much better. In the end you have to ask yourself is it worth the extra effort of keeping that too smart engineer engaged and on target because every now and then his brilliance creates a huge pay off or do you want a work horse that will get the job done with little fan fair.
In a sense: because all it does is move money from one place to another.

That's very different to wasting money in a way that actually uses up physical resources or people's time.
“I’m not sure where you got that from.”

proceeds to show exactly where they got it from
Maybe, but Gawker is as well.
One of the things I find fascinating is that in the days where it was Liquid templates, and Vercel etc. were barely a twinkle in people's eyes, Shopify had a huge value add - that you or an app development consultancy could iterate on customizing interfaces here and there, and deploy changes from the CLI or directly on the Shopify platform, without needing to worry about deployment, payment processing, etc.

But so much has changed now. Deploying a customized frontend has a negligible cost, and the API surface that Shopify powers could be powered by a myriad of tools, with Stripe etc. doing large amounts of heavy lifting on the administrative side.

Were contractual obligations, and not wanting to bite the hand that feeds, the only thing preventing longstanding Shopify app developers from joining together and creating an industry-standard alternative API surface that could be deployed in different ways?
The distinction between actors and those being acted upon was used in anti-Caesar propaganda ("Bithynica regina"); no doubt its subtext was ancient even then.

(I understand your main point: murderers are obviously more guilty than inciters, who tend to be termed complicit. However, The Grauniad's circulation is brit, so I can understand a parochial focus on british guilt; if this article had been published by Kompas I might have read it with far less charity on the subtext.)
It seems to be news to a fair number of commentators here. It's a useful comment for every one of these discussions I think.
Data validation is a basic expectation in many technology stacks. I don't understand why blockchain would be uniquely positioned to resolve this problem.
Ductless mini splits are perfect for your use case.
Why do you ignore is point about the rainforest's being destroyed to raise cows? Show a resource that proves different. You can't.
Doppio Zero on Hayes by Davis Symphony was quite good, although a bit fancier. Amici's East Coast Pizzeria on Lombard in Marina was also very tasty. Also, it's not as fun, but Mountain Mikes is also great, inexpensive pizza, like in your Papa Johns range but better overall.
One of the cons for Signal, sending unencrypted SMS messages is being removed soon: https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
Is strip mining the only way? Can mining be done responsibly?
Apples are a lot healthier than the same amount of fructose in isolation. they have a huge amount of fiber, which is both filling and good for your microbiome. And I'd bet on some good vitamin content though I'm not sure which off the top of my head.

Some fruits may be not much better than candy in that the sugar can metabolize quickly, but apples aren't one of those despite their fructose content.
Honest question: Why is it a bad pattern? And what are some better alternatives from other ecosystems?
That's worse. If companies are unable to adjust salaries to match increases in overall costs without fulfilling their primary purpose, then it suggests that the entire economic system is dysfunctional.
The introduction implies some level of security analysis based on the list of "criteria" (e.g., "does not expose personal information" and "does not leak data") and the "testing setup" link.
800 seems cheap for an elitebook. Is that the 8x0 model?

I have the older g8. It worked perfectly out of the box on linux since new. Recently, windows started being able to use the webcam, too.

But beware the screen. It's absurdly bad. I'd say it's okish for $800. For 2000, it's a bad joke. Some models only have 6-bit screens (at least those have an excuse for being horrible).

The fan is sometimes noisy, too. It seems like it's somewhat off-balance, ever since it was new.
Oh great, we're at the "pretend we didn't know and blame the people who sold us the gun" stage of refusing to admit we don't actually care.

Let's all comment about how bad OTHER people are for letting us be so shitty to show how moral we are in theory while continuing inexcusable and intentional behaviour in practice.
The concept of a derivation on types could be interesting... but the notation is a bit much for me.

Differential fields are (as I understand it) a hot topic at the moment. Maybe there is some interesting crossovers.
Mining lots of various minerals is necessary to transition the world to a net-neutral climate gas economy that has similar standard of living as today. Huge increases in production of batteries, wind turbines, solar panels, synthetic fuel production and so on.

And this is necessary because the people of the world are not willing to reduce their standard of living to a level where net neutral climate gas emissions are possible without a similarly huge economic development. Some dream that this is possible, but it's plainly politically impossible. (Or in so many words, the people of less developed nations will kill their leaders if they try to force it on them, democracies will vote their politicians out).

So essentially, the choice is between some local environmental damage due to mining and new industry, or indefinitely continuing climate gas emissions and the corresponding climate change, which will hit poorer people disproportionately and continue causing war and mass extinction.

I'll vote for the local environmental damage.
It depends on the type of natural gas plant. Some of them are designed for efficiency which takes longer to spin up and down while some are peaker plants which can spin up in a matter of seconds/minutes.
Webb confirms its first exoplanet
Yep, 15 minutes to full load is not uncommon with gas plants.
The same reason A engineers can put out B work: resource/time/reward tradeoffs and the inevitable unknowns.
I have a tangential question (and I truly do not mean to be provocative with it, just curious): Has anyone put any effort into figuring out how much impact we have on air movement in general with windmills? Like, is there a scenario where we could negatively impact the environment by capturing "too much wind"?
> Not everyone has the privilege of living in safe places like Mountain View.

I don't live, nor have I ever, in Mountain View.

> Please don’t diminish others concern for public safety as a “panic fetish tool”, especially for those of us who’ve been the victims of violent crimes.

My implication here is that Citizen as a 'panic fetish tool' does not improve public safety outcomes. I am very pro improving public safety. I don't doubt that Citizen can be comforting. In fact, that's fundamental to its pitch.
Are you saying Exxon is justified because people get to use oil?

It's not about burning fossil fuels, it's about misinforming the public about the long-term dangers of your product. If I sell you a delicious candy while secretly knowing it will give you cancer in 10 years, I don't get to say "well you enjoyed the candy didn't you?" once I'm caught out.
Worst... "They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
The library was made public in 2018, which is before the somewhat more recent rust fad had taken hold.
What I realised in my journey to pick up web development was, the long way is the short way. YouTube, blogs, forums etc. look like they might make things easier. They don't. The only thing that I found has made a difference is to fully surrender to the process.

I bought a webcamp course on Udemy. And I sat through each and every class. And I did each and every exercise. I took notes. I aimed wherever possible to try things first before seeing a solution, even if it was during class and not officially an "exercise". The course was a bit old, so some things didn't work. When something didn't work, I sifted through the Q&A to look for a solution, because that in itself is a skill you have to use as a developer. I'd wake up early in the morning to cram a couple of hours before the day began. Some weeks, I was able to devote more time. Some weeks, I took a break. All told, it had taken me about six months.

By the end of which, I still didn't have enough knowledge to build a full webapp. So I bought an intermediary Udemy course covering the MERN stack. I was just as diligent with it. And by the middle of it, I could confidently build a demo version of the app I wanted to build. It looked ugly.

My intent was to improve my HTML and CSS skills, so you can guess what I did next. Yes, bought another Udemy course. I ended up not doing it, because it was better value-for-money to get a professional developer to rebuild it, but now I had my knowledge, my demo and I could manage this effort.

My point is, it took several months of humbling work just to get to the point where I say - gee, if I want to improve I need to do all this other humbling work. I deliberately say humbling and not hard because, frankly, the coding wasn't hard. The hard part was decisively letting go of the ego and accepting the no-shortcuts, heads-down, do-the-work way was the only way through.
> I call them complexifiers

Aka big brain developers

https://grugbrain.dev/
It looks like there's just one HVDC interaliand link capable of sending 1.2GW, and dating back to 1964.

Why not install 7 more? That would allow the entire current demand for the entire of NZ to come from the south island.

10M USD per km, average 800km from centre of south island to Auckland, $8b in total. 43,000 GWh generation per years, that's just 2.5c per kWh over 10 years on your bill.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Indicative-capital-cost-...
Want a Viking funeral? Only state that allows it is Colorado
I don't want to wish someone the worst. But I wouldn't loose one second of sleep if all those people involved in delaying climate action got some karmic justice.
I got the impression they are peers, not a manager.
This is a better formulation of what I was getting at.

If you have someone who can do the work, there is a lot to be gained from trying to fix the incentives because capable developers don't grow on trees.
Curious if Vitamin Water Zero drinks also effect blood sugar similarly.

I've done some web searching but haven't found any results inspiring confidence.
Yes. And if I can use ChatGPT to write an abstract for me from my paper, let's go!
And who would have thought that any dictator/ political party (either lefty or righty, it doesn't really matter) couldn't come up with a decent solution ["vote for us, we will solve your problems"] like they always seem to promise? After 10+ years....
Ask HN: How do you review your posts?
Hey there!

Over the past year, I've been actively blogging on my website, amolas.dev. My goal is to publish one or two posts each month. However, when I finish writing a post, I don't have a great way to get feedback on it before publishing. As a result, I sometimes end up publishing posts with errors that could have been caught if someone else had read it. This can negatively impact the amount of engagement my posts receive.

So my question is, how do you review your posts before publishing them or sharing them with a broader audience? Do you ask to your friends to read it? Are there any platforms that can help with this? For example, is there a service where you can trade reviews with other writers?

Thanks for your help :)
Because those aren't unrelated: it'd be one thing if they just sold oil, but they're behind campaigns deceiving the public about the true cost of using it and encouraging additional consumption. People today are buying new trucks and SUVs which get worse mileage than the 1980s did in part because there's been this well-funded anti-science propaganda campaign and many efforts to hide the true costs.

Put more succinctly, they deserve blame because they chose lies when confronted with an inconvenient truth.
At the time when this research happened, so in the 1970 - 80s? Yes, they were the only viable form of energy for almost everything. Suggesting that we should've ditched fossil fuels in the 70s and 80s is a bit asinine and would've resulted in immense loss of lives, especially in less developed areas of the world. There weren't really any other alternatives. Electrification is only possible due to recent advancement in (battery, PV, electronics) technology. Your analogy does not make sense because abandoning fossil fuels back then was closer to the "house burning" move.

(Yes, nuclear existed. But only in some countries, and it could only cover some parts of energy usage).
rr Chaos Mode (2016)
I really meant for large 4K (4096x2160) arrays of LED pixels like in this [1].

[1]: https://displaysolutions.samsung.com/led-signage/onyx
It depends on the food item. Ready to eat things like premade sandwiches or frozen food may have some taxes. Raw ingredients - produce, meat, eggs, bread, rice, oils, milk, cheese, etc- tend not to.
I have spent the last week working on an off screen rendering tool using Vulkan and Rust.

I’d highly recommend using vulkano

https://vulkano.rs/

It’s not stable but it’s useable. It’s actively developed. It’s quite a joy to use actually, feels like a rust library rather than a bunch of foreign function calls.
Rust is amazing for CLIs (Go potentially as well, too little experience with that personally!), but if you're already quite comfortable with JS & have existing investment in it for CLI or related code, then ´npx <tool> ...` while asking the user to install Node (or Bun) is an acceptable tradeoff in most cases. Updating via npm is also easy enough for users, though it's not self-updating of course, but basically no CLI will do that fully automatically for you. Not even Cloud SDK CLIs. And for good reason.
> I want to skip over the static typing benefits argument, because I think it is well understood that static typing is a good thing and if we could bless JavaScript with a built-in and robust typing system then I don't think many people would be against that. My issue is with the amount of extra work it places on developers, much of it the "dumb" kind of work which can eat up hours and doesn't deliver all that much value.

If I take your question prima facie, then yes it's still worth it, since you seem to be dismissing the main reasons people use TypeScript, the static type benefits, and the bulk of your arguments seem to actually be about how TS can improve, not why one should throw out TS wholesale, which I personally would never do.

In other words, you're focusing on the 20% BS out of the 80% benefits. Can the 20% be improved? Of course, but I'll take 80% benefits over 0% with JS any day.
Weight matters. They are all electric. They have electric motors made with permanent magnets.
I'm not vilifying fossil fuels. I'm vilifying fossil fuel companies.

> recognize their benefits and costs and decide collectively via policy what tradeoffs we’re willing to make

How can we do that when fossil fuel companies lie about the benefits and costs? How can we do that when they bribe politicians for favorable legislation? You are the naive one, and not particularly well-informed given you did not even read the article.
Great writeup! I didn't see it mentioned, but I assume the fast motor with reduction gears is helpful for a damping effect. To slow any twitching and show a sort of short term average speed.
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I'm not sure this is the right way to look at it.

If you take it to an extreme the flaw is apparent. Let's say "bogomips" is the name of a real world accurate benchmark.

If a CPU at full performance gives 100 bogomips at 2 watts and idles at 1 watt by your metric the score is 50.

On the other hand, if a CPU at full performance gives 200 bogomips at 2 watts and idles at a small fraction under 2 watts, your metric also gives a score of ~50.

It's obvious the 200 bogomips processor is way more efficient than the 100 bogomips processor. Something is missing.

I think both idle watts and TDP are somewhat irrelevant. Maybe it should be bogomips / actual watt draw (different from nominal TDP) at full speed. Assuming you can keep the processor busy. Not being able to keep the processor busy doesn't really reflect on processing efficiency. Except that it is better for the wasted watts to be as low as possible.

A true efficiency, like a true benchmark is elusive, because what is "normal use"? Somewhere between "no work, all waste" and "full use, maximum efficiency".
Not an emacs person myself (yet!) - Carl Thuringer created tla-mode that apparently uses the grammar: https://github.com/carlthuringer/tla-mode

Haven't tested it out myself. Happy to take any PRs if emacs needs its own set of query files; they would live in https://github.com/tlaplus-community/tree-sitter-tlaplus/tre... and they can be added to CI runs to ensure they stay in sync with changes to the parser.
I've never seen tip #4 (Rewrite negative conditions) or anything like it before. I can't see how that improves readability at all. If I saw it in a code review I'd ask the developer if they forgot to fill in the body of the if statement.
TIL!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
The solution is to upgrade the national grid.

This is needed anyway because it is already maxed out and demand will dramatically increase with the transition to EVs.
I'm saying when we point a finger at the oil companies who sell us the oil that we demand and consume, we should recognize that there are three fingers pointing back at us.

Are they blameless? Nope. Are they solely (or even primarily) to blame? Also nope.
Investments in ports foretell the future of global commerce
Except for the ~40k employees of the coal industry[1], who are used as a scapegoat by the politicians (ahem, Manchin) who take the most ardent stands against modernization of our electrical infrastructure. And I'd bet that most of those employees' skills would transfer pretty directly to any other sort of mining. But it's just not that many people. We could cut them each a $1M check for the trouble, which is about 10 years worth of coal subsidies[2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/215790/coal-miningemploy...

[2] https://en.as.com/en/2022/03/29/latest_news/1648510535_73079...
Imperial units of electricity has never existed in the first place. And time is really traditional units, adopted by the metric system. Megaseconds could have been a good measure to be honest.
> An interesting paper would have to have novel claims that were plausible and supported by a web of interacting data.

And if AI can manage that, well: https://xkcd.com/810/
If you want to sell more hw actually sell software or more specifically allow software to be local to the device. We have plenty of space and we need to utilize that hw.
NZ already generates most of electricity from hydropower and geothermal, so wind isn't really necessary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_New_Zeal...
Not to be pedantic, but the roaring 40s are by definition not the trade winds. The trade winds are easterlies- they originate from the east and blow towards the west. The "roaring 40s" are westerlies, flowing in the opposite direction and categorically not the trades. Incidentally, NZ is an amazing place to take up wind sports, so I'm with you on the larger point.
I'd probably be more wary of logs in the water than freak waves
Indigenous tech group asks Apache Foundation to change its name
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How does something like this happen? Shopify should be absolutely on top of its game here, seeing as user experience seems to be one of their main priorities?

Nowadays it's not that hard to get UX/DX right if you are actually committed to it.