skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of these metrics take that into account, for example Life expectancy at age 60 in years is still lower in the USA then most other comparable countries. This metric eliminates the potential bias you described by not counting anyone who died before the age of 60.

But the point of having a variety of metrics is that other potential biases might be present in some of them, but across all of them, the most likely explanation is a health care system (or health care norms) that work worse compared to health care system in other countries.

To summarize, there may be a cultural reason for some of the metrics (say higher drug usage among pregnant people causes higher infant mortality rate), but if you have higher number of preventable deaths, higher treatable mortality rate, uniquely a negative trend in maternal mortality, higher deaths from suicide, etc. etc. than the evidence that this is the fault of health care system instead of culture starts to become overwhelming.
I took my wife to be on a week long tarkovsky crawl of Tuscany. The locations used in nostalgia are something else.
As a person not from america, the fact that this is the main view is worrying to me. Over here in the UK it's 100% normal to just use the rule of thumb that as long as you try not to get burnt, it's healthy to get some sun. No sunblock needed unless you know you'll be out in it for many hours without shade like if you go to the beach or a long walk.
Thresholds of complexity are much, much lower than is usually believed.

The original sin of C was to release an informal [under]specification. Kernighan and Ritchie failed, catastrophically, to foresee the phenomenon of management pressure to release/productionize software written by people who only half-knew the language. K&R C (or each of its de facto, platform-bound reference implementations) was at least simple enough to learn. None of its successors have been. Verifiable or maintainable software cannot be written in any language that is too complex to understand (or that is in any way underspecified). Verifiable or maintainable software cannot be written in any language that its developer has only half learned. And software that is not both verifiable and maintainable is worse than no software at all.
I copied this from a climatologist's twitter last year but can no longer find the source, I suspect they've deleted their account:

> All other things being identical, if an EV made from metals that were processed with green electricity only has one (1) order of magnitude less emissions than a petrol engined vehicle of the same size over the vehicle's lifetime, the equivalent EV where the metals were smelted with coal is one order of magnitude worse.

I don't know if the claim is correct but I hope the industry can do better than that.
It doesn't matter how representative the data is of the wider userbase as long as as it accurately represents the opinions of the people who use the extension, since those are the only people who see the result. The sample size is only an issue insofar as most videos won't get any votes.
Having to grapple with existential questions, with meaningfulness has it's downsides but being a meaningless creature seems unideal. To me.

Becoming sentient on an already developed industrialized world seems like it would be awful, though . I like to think there are many paths where a species could be welcomed & supported well, but it's hard to imagine that happening on our present earth.
ASRock Rack ALTRAD8U-1L2T Is a MATX Motherboard for Up to 128 Cores
Your “to be clear” bears no resemblance at all to what was written.
Years ago I read a well-reasoned comparison of a handful of markup languages and the author made a strong case for Creole (which I had never heard of before or since. I use markdown just like everybody else. ;)

Unfortunately, I can't remember the arguments and I've never been able to find that article again.

So I can't tell you why it's better. But try it and see what you think?
> optimized for the wrong kind of "computational hardness", i.e. cache/memory hard

You got that backwards. Alternatives like Argon2 are way more expensive for attackers because they can be configured to be memory hard
If someone resigns over this, then I would say that the right people are resigning. Very sad to see competence go but rage quit over this? Come on.

Come back tomorrow. Nothing has happened. Please!
No matter how much you don't like it, the use of that weapon was neither revenge or murder.

I personally don't see the world in terms of revenge and murder, so it's hard for me to understand how such specifically personal behaviors factor into the first Atomic attack.
What kind of workload favors the cloud over a powerful laptop, let alone a desktop machine? Surely the security is the only real advantage.
Wait what have Go and Swift done?
True. But I found stacks that are simple (and micro service) enough to run on my laptop to be much faster to develop on.
Human civilization is pretty horrible for the environment in it's current form. Trying to break it down vertically and pinpointing personal choices on it is an exercise in diversion. We need deep structural changes to how we source energy, how we solve logistics and how we manage labor. Arguing about diet choices or duration of showers is just a way to keep us from tackling what really matters.
True only for people who "learn" by watching twitch. There are tons of articles on the intricacies of rust by people involved with rust development only they used words and are not so entertaining.
CCS 1 and 2 don’t exist anywhere in the same area, right? I know we have 1 in the US and Europe users 2.

I assume it’s based on if electricity is 120v or 240v at normal wall outlets, but that’s a total guess.

So I’m not sure if CCS having two connectors matters much.

I generally agree with the rest of what you said. I’ve considered buying a Tesla Tap to be able to use those destination chargers, and there is a supercharger station far closer to me than the nearest EA station.

I understand Ford’s motivations and the CCS experience (I’ve had it). But it seemed like this was largely settled. Tesla missed their chance at being the standard, their connector is better, and I don’t like the confusion this will cause popping up just as non-Tesla EVs are really hitting it big.
Axiomatics. Take some common features of concrete objects as axioms and study abstract objects which satisfy those axioms.
> avoid the saturated fat, hormones, pus, and sugar found im cow's milk

Add blood, antibiotics, pesticides/herbicides and endotoxins.

> Cow's milk is also implicated in type 1 diabetes and Parkinson's disease

Yes, and note that cheeses are concentrated milk, so much much worse.
Vit D in milk has an interesting history. Govt added it to combat rickets in kids. Military needed strong bodies and bones for the fight.
Came here to comment about this book. Great read and focuses almost entirely on a somewhat uncommon theme within SF: challenges in communication between two differently-abled sentient species. I quite liked the book both for the core SF bits and the tone/pacing.
That's nonsense. That *might* be a good reason to block users from using the dislike button but that's no reason to make it invisible.

The reason to make it invisible is so more users waist their time on clickbait garbage.
In France generics are compulsory (there are some exceptions), otherwise you have some problems with the reimbursement. This is not strong enough but at least this is something.

The pharmaceutics have to provide a generic if it exists, even if the prescription is for another drug (except if the MD explicitly states that the specific drug must be used, with an explanation and they have to report this)
Slack Blocks OpenDNS
When I use OpenDNS in Chrome, slack.com doesn't resolve. None of the other DNS services block Slack.
i used c, and latterly c++, throught the 1980s - i don't remember any particular interest in interpreters for either.
these things keep happening and it shows a deeper problem with rust leadership and unaccountability.

Just like with the trademark policy fiasco just a month ago (which was also not the first Rust Drama), every community member - from speakers to organizers and regular language users - is confused, frustrated, feeling unappreciated with very slow official response and clarification.

I don't want witch hunting, I understand some of the people involved are volunteers, but if there is a drama every month, someone is doing something wrong and all we see from the outside is that someone acts shady and there is no consequences.

I'm not saying they are evil people, I don't hate anyone, I just think that they should do something else with their precious volunteer time.

It's not a witch hunt to show someone the door.
Names would be named if that were really the problem. I don’t think it is. The common thread between this and the Foundation trademark drama is that the Project sucks at coordinating and communicating - they have been bigfooters late in the process and not servants earlier on.
I don’t wish crippling anxiety on every other species
Wow, this is worth watching if you're a guitar player. There are so many variables in the sound of an electric, and he certainly provides a strong argument as to which ones matter the most (his "air" guitar at the end is great).

I have played classical, acoustic and electric guitars for most of my life. Over time my collection grew and finally settled to just a handful of guitars. The most expensive was the acoustic. Next was the classical. The electric I have now was easily the cheapest of the lot (I paid 18x it's cost for the acoustic, fwiw).

It always seemed like with electric there were just too many things that could change the sound--like information overload. Yes, you have the guitar and the string choices, but also amps and effects. With acoustic I hardly ever use an amp and I never do with classical. To me, the difference in sound from those guitars is much more inherent in the guitar itself.

Seems like even cheap electrics, if you set the intonation and action correctly (and pickup height, etc) are a better deal than similarly cheap acoustics. Just test out the pickups first, as they vary greatly in quality.
How about kefir? It has much lower lactose and the benefit is all the probiotics. I drink a little every day and my gut is liking it. I don’t drink any milk at all
There are a lot of interesting stuffs outside of work. All the fundamentals are pretty interesting; Reverse engineering is interesting and can absorb a whole life; Hardware hacking...just too many.

However, work is boring. I'm not good enough to work in those interesting fields so I just do the plumbing work. It pays the bill but I tend to stay away from it as soon as the ticket is marked as done. None of the surrounding tools or techs is interesting enough too, after all those are just plumbing tools.

I guess you can try to switch to a career that deals with the more interesting stuffs. But TBH all of them require a ton of experience and intelligence so good luck if you want to switch from some easy but boring stuffs to the harder but more interesting ones. Maybe ask around and one of your buddies can help.
> Sure, there are individual creators that are probably fine, but I’d have to already recognize them to trust them.

There is also an unfortunatly inverse correlation with subscribers/views/production quality and trustworthiness.

A channel can't succeed unless it optimizes for entertainment value and click bait after all.

So the videos with very high informational value generally have no discernable differences to completely insane conspiracy theory rants... Well, aside from the words they're saying.
Okay, that's an exaggeration. The conspiracy theorists will likely have lots of videos, while the person with the good educational content will likely have uploaded <10 videos over several years
I have different feelings.
Ask HN: Have you used a 3D printer?
Do you own a 3D printer personally, or is one available at your work/school?

What was the experience like for you?

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the experience?
Yep, high power RF can cook you, it's why radio engineers try not to expose their crotch or head to focused microwave transmitters when climbing a tower. But these are signal sources of a far higher power output than a cellphone.
You can learn Lua in a weekend, easy. The language is ridiculously small, but also ridiculously powerful. You can learn how to use C libraries in Lua in another weekend, easy. Using Lua from C is also easy, one weekend or less.
I think this Rust drama is way over-exaggerated. One community member made one decision for one conference which they probably thought wouldn't be a big deal (I understand now that it is, but to an outsider "keynote downgraded to regular presentation" don't seem like much). And now multiple people are leaving the Rust team, and some random commentators are "disgraced" by the Rust Project, and "threatening" to stop using Rust?

The best solution would be to just reverse the downgrade, and have ThePHD deliver the keynote. Send a strong message that there would be a major fallout had the Rust Project committed to their internally-made decision, but give them a chance to actually do the right thing. But that's presumably not happening, because ThePHD already left the presentation without giving them a chance to respond.

I also think the "Rust logo" controversy was over-exaggerated, since they didn't actually implement the copyright but only proposed to. And the entire mod team resigning made the mod team look bad, at least initially, because they didn't even really explain why.

The bright side of this over-reaction is that it's going to get some response from the Rust Project. Because apparently strong words are the only way to get a closed-door organization to respond appropriately. They'll post some sort of apology, and maybe it won't just be words, but they will actually become more transparent in a way that guarantees this will never happen again. Like how they all but walked back the copyright proposal and re-structured the core team following mod team resignation (or did they?).

But that's not an excuse. This sort of drama is toxic, I honestly think more toxic than the original action. Like, I feel bad for whoever made the anonymous decision to downgrade ThePHD's keynote, because even though it was wrong and hurtful, it doesn't deserve this level of vitriol. There needs to be better a way to get change than over-reacting to every mistake.

I really do hope the Rust project becomes more transparent, not only to prevent the situation from happening in the future, but the response. If everything has community input, when bad decisions happen the community can only blame themselves.
The piece mentioning "rental films" leads me to believe they're referring to the paid content available on YouTube. Much like Amazon Video or other sites, YouTube allows movies to be rented or purchased. These are unable to be downloaded via programs like yt-dlp.

This is not in reference to copyright. It's in reference to DRM, which isn't present on public videos (but seems to be present on purchased and rented videos).
Yeah, this whole drama feels so unnecessary and stupid. If you feel a burning need to create a huge drama clusterfuck, have it about some controversial change to the language, not about a single talk at a conference. This is just a fucking waste of time.

As a casual Rust user, the message that I get from this is that I should not spend time with the Rust community.
This question was asked previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33214786

I found the responses so fascinating that I wanted to ask again, and get a few more perspectives.
PCU warned us about this in the early 90s...
Time for a fork? "Rust without identity politics?" Require anonymity and disclaimers of any human presence (virtues or failings) in regards to the Project in order to become a contributor.

Call it "Dust". Mascot could be a crab louse.
There is obviously a lot of criticism justly being leveled at the poor quality of governance on Rust thus far, but I think a fair point I haven't seen raised is, what other languages lacking a corporate sponsor as the primary driver of governance have done better? (and why)

Python is the main example I can think of after graduating from governance via BDFL, but is there any other new language which has achieved the same level of popularity as Rust?

So far, most of the drama seems to have been tangential to actual language features, so they at least deserve some credit for keeping technical aspects of development mostly on track.
With EVs, you must make your margin at sale of each unit. There is no profit to be made elsewhere (service, fast charging, etc). In 100k miles of driving my Model S, besides a small amount of warranty work, it has only had tires, wiper blades, and washer fluid, no other service. Lots of Supercharging as well, but Tesla isn’t making a material margin on that.

Hence, why the dealership model dies (typically sustained by service revenue) and the fast charger network runs on razor thin margins or at cost as a quasi utility coop across automakers (with Tesla being the steward).
>in summary, a man had a conversation with people at his mosque where he claimed that whatever position that they were taking on some issue was anti-Islamic and punishable by death (according to his interpretation of Islam.)

I suppose that's one way to summarize "we're going to kill all of you".
>Global proportions...
So you agree its a pandemic?

It fit the logistics curve to <0.1%, except for super spreader events, which afterwards, it still was very close.

All the policies, were designed around herd immunity which maximizes deaths, except for the WHO which fallowed Fauchi.

An acquaintance of mine, M, lost 19 family members to the pandemic. My family, mostly very well educated, went super paranoid, and we only had two late Omichron infections.

I am sorry it was hard for everyone, I wish we followed proticalls.

You are a commenter, for whom I read ever post.
The dermatologist cartel in the US advices zero unprotected sun exposure. There’s evidence this is a contributor to high cholesterol levels in the US.
The would-have-been speaker's blog post addresses this question specifically. He apparently pushed back many times on the idea of giving the keynote on his work and was assured that the Rust organization was aware of the topic and wanted him to go ahead [0]. Then they walked back on that.

That's what I think most people find terrible about Rust leadership's handling of the situation. It's not that this specific keynote was super important, it's that the team let the speaker spend a few weeks preparing a keynote and then pulled the rug on him.

[0] https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023
Yes of course C++ isn't any better. C is a weird one since it's the "original language", the base layer of abstraction so-to-speak so C89 is going to be the standard forever. The standards committee around that one has zero power (as far as I can tell).

What I'm comparing Rust/Swift/Go to are languages like MoonScript/Objective-C/Lua, where there is a single BDFL (Leafo/Steve Jobs/Roberto). I feel like for programming languages there should only be 1 or 2 developers, that way there is no conflict of interest or "creative differences"
I miss doing fun little projects with atmel MCUs. They were easy to get started with using either arduino or C. I often found myself blogging or documenting my projects just like this, which is funny since it wasn’t “work.”

Then at some point I got too busy with work (and a kid) so I stopped messing around with them.

I didn’t realize how helpful learning low level I/O design and implementation was to my current job (control systems) until much later on. I’m pretty confident my hobbying helped me understand design decisions for the software that we worked in for my day job. Types, and more importantly type casting, was relatively ubiquitous in MCU programming. The software we used in my day job casted all types implicitly. So many times when we found a bug in that software it was due to some casting issue. Granted I was implementing “code” in that platform, but not a software engineer, so it was funny having relatively deep technical conversations with the software engineers when we had to engage them.
He also like just read the original blog post on stream, said a couple of things about it, mentioned that it's not good that this stuff is happening and moved on. Honestly I don't really see much milking there.
If you wanted to use any of these languages, you can do so without ever knowing that these kinds of behind-the-scenes drama is taking place.

I haven't heard anyone suggest that actual development of the named languages has suffered due to drama.
I love Go. I don't see any controversies surrounding Go. Or did I miss something?
Really? Because IIRC, the relationship was more poverty related than actual EMF related. Living under powerlines is unattractive, so houses under powerlines attract people who can't afford to live elsewhere.

But, if you've got citations on that one, I'll happily read them.
What video games? Are they video games you played with friends and family? Do you associate meaningful life events with the games or the songs?

I want to write a song about video game music and I’d like to, erhm, “borrow” parts of your life story. :D
We hired one of the guys who worked on Apple's hobbit/crisp or the newton, he'd git his cpu back from the fab, worked first time, but politics suddenly went ARM - he quit
Hi, author here, Baremaps aims to create an open and easily extensible vector map, inspired by OpenStreetMap Carto. The goal is to provide a high-quality base map for the planet. Since we use PostGIS as a storage backend, you can extend it with your own layers and data.
I own one, I've used a few.

It's not very easy to get started but I imagine once you have it set up it's easier
Ask HN: Is Rust worth investing in as a reliable C-alt given its recent saga?
I've been programming in high-level languages for a while and recently I was thinking about learning something more bare metal. Rust stood out as one of the popular C/C++ alternatives. But for me, the investment in a language is driven by not just the beauty of the language itself, but the community around it.

As an outsider who's keeping an eye on Rust, am I better off sticking to vanilla C/C++?
For Go I presume the telemetry situation?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/return-youtube-dis...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtub...

4,000,000+ users on chrome with 14k reviews. Maybe you are mistaking the review count for the user count?

Even if it were just 0.0003% that's still the same sampling rate as the average Gallup poll using 1000 people to represent the USA's 300,000,000+ population.
MS and Alzheimer's, but in total:

Breast cancer, colorectal cancer, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, asthma, type 1 diabetes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7400257/