skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one week and a half of school when you're 8

I think you're vastly underestimating how often kids exhibit symptoms potentially consistent with Covid during a school year.
Only if you're in a group where everyone is going to drink. If you go to a restaurant or a bar and everyone around you is drinking, I don't feel that really affects much my decision of whether or not I'll order an alcoholic drink. Whereas I got to believe that, if you're a smoker and other people around you are smoking, it's going to be difficult not to light one up yourself. It's the thing about nicotine addiction being much more common than alcoholism.
Hate the padded block rule with a passion.

Maybe I'm weird but one of the greatest things about gofmt is that it doesn't murder "padded blocks", like so many formatters out there.

For example, given this

func main() {

fmt.Println("a")
fmt.Println("b")

fmt.Println("c")
fmt.Println("d")

}

gofmt will simply collapse the double line in the middle.

However, this tool will do this

func main() {
fmt.Println("a")
fmt.Println("b")

fmt.Println("c")
fmt.Println("d")
}

How is having chunks of code smashed into the tops and bottoms of a blocks good for improving readability? Why should the visual relationship between and main() and "a" be stronger than between "b" and "c" if the author doesn't want it?
What a strange phrasing - "protected" from whom? From all of us, of course; so why should that be a good thing? "Librarians are finding thousands of books liberated from copyright law" would make a better headline.
You could say the same thing about coffee.

There is a reason nicotine is addictive and popular. It's mildly enjoyable.

UK's old drug czar, David Nutt, got in trouble for calling alcohol Britain's most dangerous drug.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210
1) The word 'health' should not be used because that's just a buzzword. The right word in this context could tentatively be 'lifespan', meaning that they are tentatively projecting that in the big sample of humans they surveyed those who drink 0mL of alcohol will stick around for longer compared to those who drink even 1mL. Meaning that in their model there is a correlation between the 2 data of sticking around for longer and alcohol intake.

2) Not even lifespan could be the right word because there are all sorts of stuff that alcohol facilitates which prolong lifespan by decreasing stress and anxiety, which in turn lower cortisol which is just as bad for lifespan when considered vis-a-vis alcohol.

As always the so called authorities spend too much time in the lab and are essentially monodimensional individuals who (no pun intended) fail to see the bigger picture.
I see HBO ads for their two most buzzed about series on Snap daily
> To identify a “safe” level of alcohol consumption, valid scientific evidence would need to demonstrate that at and below a certain level, there is no risk of illness or injury associated with alcohol consumption.

The premise of this “no level of consumption is safe” is this requirement to prove 0 risk.

If for instance drinking one glass everyday increases your cancer chances by 0.0000000001%, bringing it to 0. 0000300001%, it would still be considered unsafe, as your chances of cancer increased.

I see the logic, but that isn’t layman‘s categorization of safe or unsafe. And what are the actual base risk of cancer for a healthy individual ?

Taking a base of 60 million death per year, who’s numbers on cancer are of 10 million [0], where death by liver cancer are 830 000, roughly 1%. Given that those don’t all come from alcohol, and to reach that stage requires way more than standard consumption, the base risk feels already pretty low.

All in all, while this article is factual, it turns this facts in such a biased way it feels dogmatic at times. If we’re going to have serious discussions around alcohol, we shouldn’t start them like this.

[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cancer
On the subject of decompressing from daily stress.. I would humbly submit that a small (just above psychoactive threshold) puff of vaporized (not combusted) THC extract or other legal cannabinoid, is a good harm reduction measure, compared to alcohol. Especially if it eliminates the urge to drink or seek other more risky hedonic outlets.
I guess I would hope that some thought or review takes place prior to merging to the trunk, such that the work merged there is suitable to build on, not just everybody's unfiltered shower thoughts.

That, to me, is the difference between committing on a branch and merging back to trunk/main. A branch is just a way to record and share an idea. Merging back is saying with some confidence "this is something we should build on". Feature flags allow you to disentangle that social signal of "we should build on this" from "this works in production".

I'm not sure (and curious) about other ways of working that can fulfill the same collaborative social signaling function.
It actually has worked in the past. But a more pragmatic approach is to tax alcohol heavily so that it costs you more to willingly destroy your body.
Google pumping out PR to get some damage control on chatgpt. No evidence in the public of any of these claims. Show us the models google
It depends on the formatter you're using. If it's strict about line width you'll end up with a lot of noise in the diffs. Prettier will re-format single-line lists that goes one character over the threshold and then re-condense them once it's able to fit under that threshold. It's not uncommon for a change that adds three classes to three different elements to become a 20 line diff.
The reason its effectively impossible to ban alcohol is because the precursors are sugar, water, and yeast. It's trivial to make alcohol even in small apartments.
Plutonium is a good one to start with. Poison and radioactive.
Just because something does not work in theory does not mean that it does not work in practice.
Dell’s Developer line turns 10 - A decade of Project Sputnik
publish another paper in two years fully financed.

or find another job.

what would you chose?
Why is alcohol only dangerous in alcoholic beverages? Fruit juice (they real stuff) also contains small amounts of alcohol, for example.
ChatGPT Managed to Grow Faster Than TikTok or Instagram
maybe "not get you drunk"?
I really hope at some point he releases CAD files for all the mechanisms he animated. He likely has the largest database of mechanisms in a computer understandable format.

DMGlib another mechanisms database only has 1905 mechanisms with CAx data[0]
[0]https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/main/portal.jsp?mainNaviState...
Probably brand safety
I do not agree with your analogy or theirs. First most people have to drive at some point in their lives. Driving is not a choice we get to make so the associated risks are not something we can deal with. While it is debatable if you can avoid drinking socially many people do for a variety of reasons. The article is fairly clear. Drinking alcohol will increase cancer risks. And like someone eloquently said above you the real critique is not it is stupid to point out drinking is an avoidable carcinogen but it is our free choice as people to make that trade off knowing you might enjoy it. I think the point about radiation is a better comparison but again like driving it is unavoidable to a degree. We will all go outside more in our lives then is recommended. Once again drinking is not unavoidable. I don't think the article makes a worthless argument and I believe your analogies are false comparisons but I still take your point. I agree drinking is not something people want to avoid so it is certainly up to each person to choose their own acceptable risk but honestly that is more a personal choice that science can advise then a magic number we can all follow.

Edit, I can't read
I'm guessing your last comment is a joke, but honestly, that's sort of the consequence for at least some of my projects. I like Go, and I have a prototype of something written in Go. Now that I understand the domain better, I want to rewrite it; the initial plan was to do the rewrite in Go as well, but honestly, I don't want to endorse Google's telemetry and push it onto my users. So the rewrite is going to be Rust instead.
My background on this comes from a neuroscience course in gradschool. The idea is that molecules and proteins “bind” to receptors which cause a cascade of reactions. The binding depends on the shape of the proteins and receptors.

A bridge like protein is created by removing parts of the spike protein through the cascade. The bridge connects the virus and the cell, and folds into itself to cause the two cells to merge.

https://youtu.be/Xuc9D4LVJdg

I am not sure why it is called spike but I’d guess it’s because it looks like tiny spikes on the virus.

So when what we do with mRNA vaccines is produce the mRNA that encodes this protein, and wrap it in lipids which allow it to enter the cells and the cells manufacture it.

Now, our cells don’t naturally produce the spike protein, so this triggers our immune system to build antibodies which bind onto the proteins and render them useless, or flags for certain parts of our immune system. This results in increased production of certain cells and proteins for this specific protein.

Our immune system has the capacity to create antibodies for and bind onto all sorts of different proteins. This is because it the immune system is allowed to recombine and order its DNA. In order to avoid wrecking havoc at our own body, the immune system passes through filters which filter out proteins that would bind to the naturally occurring proteins in our body.
Sure, but why, specifically?
The higher abv is because it allows the beer to obtain more hop flavor (not just bitterness) along with malt flavor. A classic American session IPA[1] will always (of course with few exceptions) be more bitter than a standard IPA and a double will be less bitter than a standard. However as you go up in abv you are able to get a lot more hop flavor in to bitterness. Only so much hop oil can isomerize without enough abv backbone.

[1] not hazys, bruts, east coast, cold or and other sub style. Just talking classic American IPA as made popular in the early 2000'
I was so excited until I read that. I’m working on an IoT device that I hope to sell and was going to build it around an RPi; I would love to switch from nano to pico but need better Bluetooth.
Many of the questions they hope to answer are here

https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-uses
The Joy of Abstraction: An introduction to category theory
I was happy to see “Nested local functions or classes are fine”

Being a mostly Lisp developer, I like to nest local functions in order to close over locally defined variables. Glad that is considered OK in Python.
No, coronavirus and many other viruses have spike proteins, that look a bit like spikes[0].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_protein
Yup. All those sick quitters severely fucked up the studies.
Sure, the definition of a meter may be a little bit arbitrary. But the advantage of metric for measuring distances is that the units are all factors of 10.

10 mm = 1 cm

10 cm = 1 dm

10 dm = 1 m

1000 m = 1 km

Makes math and scaling up and down a lot easier than having to remember that

12 in = 1 ft

3 ft = 1 yd

5280 ft = 1 mi

1760 yd = 1 mi
We don't expect it, we know it can do it

Without ever having seen it done?

One couldn't ask for a more clear expression of religious zeal.
This article publicly available provides a summary:
https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/01/24/a-new-transformer-ba...
Do you think researchers are idiots?
Can’t read the whole paper but from the abstract, this sounds like an obvious case of correlation != causation. It’s possible whatever caused those regions to have access to western TV also helped foster businesses later, such as easy access to west German hubs or train lines or similar. In fact, their claim that the effects last through generations further weakens their argument since other East German regions would’ve gotten the same TV after the 90’s and should have caught up by now. Instead it sounds like something else is helping the original regions maintain their dominance.
Really anything with a fast (low) aperture will give you the ability to do it in most environments. Something under 3 is usually a safe bet.
My exact question.

Surely, Coca-Cola did not cancel Musk because of woke.

The article only suggests one possible cause, being risk of ads being associated with controversial content, since Musk has relaxed moderation.

I am tempted to believe it's a self-reinforcing effect: Because there was an exodus, the platform becomes less attractive to advertise on, which makes the platform less attractive to advertise on.

Maybe another contributing cause was the whole blue checkmark controversy where a bunch of people copied known brands, paid a few bucks for a blue icon, and subsequently trolled the internet as if a blue checkmark on twitter means you really are that company.
I think kids are likely to catch asymptomatic or extremely mild Covid annually. That’ll potentially be 4-5% of their educational time.

Kids of wealthy families with parents with flexible jobs will be fine. Not every kid is in a home situation like that.
This is probably the working paper version: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/168336/1/896597164.p...

It's pretty unusual in economics to not circulate your article publicly. The published version is usually just a more boring version of the working paper. (I didn't compare to the published version here, so I don't know if it's the case.)
80 chars line width is too small imho. This isn’t the 90s anymore.
Why can't TorToiSe be fine-tuned?
I fear for a world where alcohol is banned. I feel modern society is built on it.

A human is the only animal that is aware they will die. Also unique to humans is that we think about what others think. This makes us very anxious.

Alcohol is a known way to relax. It helps calm our minds down. No it's not good for our bodies. But it's very healthy to relax.
Poll: live lockscreen impacts iPhone Performance and Battery Life
Today I noticed my iphone (XS and iOS 16.3) performance changed dramatically after disabling live lockscreen. I also noticed battery life feels much better.

Did you notice the same?
Yes, performance improved
Yes, battery improved
Yes, both performance and battery improved
No, no improvement noticed
No, i don’t have an iphone
<< So anything that requires compromise cannot be undone? I’m not tracking your logic here.

I am convinced, just about anything can be done given enough effort, time and money. That said, how much of those would have to be expended to undo current compromise status quo? I personally would venture a lot more than most people would be willing to give in exchange.

<< See 1930s Germany as example[..]

Um.. yes, because US just happened to fund that recovery ( and of entire western Europe ) via Marshall Plan. Who, exactly will fund US recovery? I am not sure if you noticed, but central banks have been looking around for an alternative to USD[1] so further debt binge may not be an actual option soon.

This brings me to the original point. Drastic measures will eventually need to be taken. If those are taken now, they will be much less painful.

<< inb4 muh nazis and Holocaust Doesn’t disprove the economic turnaround that transpired.

I am not sure this adds much to the conversation. I will ignore it for unless you think it is relevant. If so, please elaborate.

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/22/countries-may-want-to-divers...
Life is 100% fatal.
The thing is that you’d be selling to a certain crowd that’s now left at Twitter, that’s not entirely desirable ad-wise.
Unfortunately, the history of an inflationary economy not backed by any scarce asset is extremely short. Given our technological level and the amount of poverty, I would say it has been an abject failure. Society moves forward in spite of it, not because of it.

I can only share my opinions with you. If you need more, I’d recommend taking a walk through the poorest neighborhoods of your nearest big city and report back on how well an inflationary economy is working for those people. In an age of lightspeed comms, automated industry, a machine economy, etc., it is an embarrassment and gross negligence that any poverty exists anywhere on Earth, let alone at the mass scale it currently exists. At this technology level it is very difficult to have the level of poverty we have, but our inflationary economy somehow manages to make it happen.

If you can’t see it with how obvious it is, not much I can say to you. I’d recommend psychedelics to get started on the path towards having basic eyesight.
Scientists: Living is harmful.
Yep, purely malicious, no plausible reasons at all to reduce peak power drain on old batteries, in fact - batteries only get better with age!

If we repeat this lie long enough we might believe it ourselves!
This is not adding telemetry to your code, it is very minimal telemetry within the go toolchain. They expect a user will send a week's worth of counters to the server once a year on average. It does not push telemetry on your users
I had to google the meaning of "socialized medicine" (no I don't live in the US). My first thought was that maybe it meant "getting better thanks to emotional support from other people", but Wikipedia had this to say about "socialized medicine":

>> More recently, American conservative critics of health care reform have attempted to broaden the term by applying it to any publicly funded system.

Fascinating how different political groups literally do not speak the same language. I now assume you mean that all people should pay 100 % for their own health care needs since people only have themselves to blame if they need health care?
Complete bunk: https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour...
(edited, did a bit of research after complaining)

"It will be licensed by us for more permissive use on RP2040 (like cyw43-driver)"

Seen on https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk/issues/1164
OpenAI and Microsoft will be hit by a big bus called GDPR.

"Unveiling the Crucial 5 GDPR Obstacles of ChatGPT That Can’t Be Ignored" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34709482
Sure: when a large amount of gas is released to bubble up, the average density of the gas/water mix can be too low for the maximum displacement of a ship passing above to carry it's weight. Ship drops beneath the surface until it hits pure water or a mix close enough, and most ships aren't built to recover from that.
mmmm yes the entire R ecosystem…

Others also mention pandas

Data science workflows in general love to do this
Here’s the thing — even if the advertisers leaving twitter isn’t Elon’s fault (I think it is). The threat to the company that it poses is. He chose to buy it with leverage in an inflationary economy, and he now has to deal of the billion to two billion in interest that the company has to pay annually. The company simply doesn’t have the cushion to survive a single downturn unless Elon decides to drain his wealth to keep this project alive.
They don't give a safe number of cigarettes, do they? There probably is a number that's minimally harmful, that lowers with age.

Alcohol has numerically similar numbers of cancer cases, and cancer is just one aspect. Now it is less, and we can argue about how widespread the use is ect. However, it cases 1/3 of the cases, heart disease, mental health problems.

Are you a drinker? Especially since quitting, I've noticed a lot of drinkers get incredibly defensive against something that seems very rational and well supported by evidence.
No level of precaution can make crossing a street safe.
Two pints doesn't even put you over the drink driving limit in the UK.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/how-long-should-...
I scrolled almost through the entire conversation. This is the first sane comment. Thank you.
> You’re saying we should judge things on their substance as a whole, and not by superficial details?

This is literally the goal of the study. Judge programmers based on the superficial details of competitive programming results.
How often do they exhibit symptoms AND trigger a PCR test?
Related:

Python Style Guide from Google - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839332 - June 2016 (27 comments)

Google's Python style guide - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3861617 - April 2012 (86 comments)

Google Python Style Guide - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1311126 - May 2010 (23 comments)
Thanks, I'll give it a look when I have time. There's certainly a lot of embeddable lisps due to their simplicity, but I've never really given any serious consideration.
Yet, I've never had an issue using that function!
Delegaid – package your favourite prompts in simple UI
Fair enough, ~5% would be more accurate I guess. 16 oz at 5% is still a relatively small amount of alcohol in most cultures that historically consume it.
You have to avoid way more than just alcoholic beverages etc. to avoid alcohol completely. Definitely fruits and fruit juice will be problematic.
Their reasons are centered on the low returns of opt-in (due to people regularly not changing defaults). They obviously fail to see that people might check their settings and do not want to opt in. And the reason for that is given right after that observation: people have been burned too often by companies and systems that slurp up ever more data way beyond what is necessary for the alleged purpose.

Opt-Out is simply not acceptable.
If mort96 is writing libraries it does
It’s happening to a lot of younger adults in their 30s now too.
Recent and related:

Transparent telemetry for open-source projects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707583 - Feb 2023 (297 comments)

also:

Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744948 - Feb 2023 (37 comments)
We have compilers.
The thing they have in common is that they still have social connections, including with you. People who are alone for stretches of time have a lot more risk from falls, etc
In Europe, not in the US, as far as I can tell. Looks like the lowest Apple got to go was 2.2ish in the US.
It isn't entirely understood, but the actual shapes of the molecules matter, so there is at least some mechanical analogy.
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S1470-2045(21)00279-5/full...

> Globally, an estimated 741 300 (95% UI 558 500–951 200), or 4·1% (3·1–5·3), of all new cases of cancer in 2020 were attributable to alcohol consumption
I don't think it's as much a question of age as it is of personality.

I read a lot of code and learn from the mistakes of others.

I think before I write, I write code slow, and it has fewer sharp edges.

And I always did that.

Somehow it just fits the narrative of an old person better.
Maybe read the well documented history of self-righteous teetotalers? It's not too hard to understand what the goal of this type of rhetoric is.
No hate, just a preference.
> the devil is evil by necessity

That's the first time I read this one. Isn't the devil "fallen" in some way, or rejecting/splitting from heaven in most cultures?
Not just play it, but even to serve as Dungeon Master. There have been a bunch of HN submissions about it.
For a moment I hoped you were offering these prompts on HN, and would run a game of Zork via a comment thread.
Should we be establishing safe amounts of cigarette smoking? Safe amounts of gasoline to drink?

Alcohol users really don't like people pointing out that their habit isn't safe.
So go ahead and use Bluetooth on the Pico? Selling your IoT device is explicitly supported, you just have to get a license.
The operator is open source, but the operator deploys images that need to be licensed for production environments.

Contact crunchys email with your specific usecase and ask if it's within their free license if you don't believe this. expect a gigantic bill however as you're definitely in violation. (The bill will be their normal licensing fee, not because of the previous violation)