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I just realized how much SO's role has changed for me as a dev. Like most devs, I used to use it as a common reference. However, I realized just now that it's been months since I've looked as SO.

That's not because I was intentionally avoiding it, but a natural side-effect of it becoming much less useful, largely because of the thing you're citing here. The quality of answers has fallen quite a lot, and SO seems to actively avoid hard questions (and if I'm searching a site like SO, it's because I have a hard question.)
Although my understanding of economics supports taxation as a mechanism of changing behavior (marginal changes in the economic jargon not meaning "minimal"), my understanding is that cigarette taxes haven't had much effect changing behavior, possibly because of addiction, possibly because the taxes aren't high enough.

There's also the complication that the excise taxes become a recurring source of revenue, causing a new addiction.
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On the other hand, it may filter less dedicated people from showing up at your door.
> Employment relationships and tradeoffs are negotiated at the time of hiring. Abruptly changing the terms in the middle with no re-negotiation is unfair.

Concur that the employer has to behave within the confines of the contract. If not, that's a contract violation and they should pay dearly. Is it the case that they are violating contractual terms? Or are they operating within the flexibility offered by the contract signed by both parties?
Sorry for the nitpick, but that isn't the analog hole. The analog hole occurs when your monitor displays the video. At that point, you can point a camera at it and record the video, albeit with a loss in quality. Removing the analog hole would require pushing the attestation and encryption one layer further, into your brain or eyes.
I use to be pretty libertarian in my views on sugary drink and fast food taxes ... but at this point, its a major blight on society and people truly can't help themselves. My spouse works in healthcare and often is involved in caring for diabetes patients - they literally pick soda and sweets over limbs. They'd rather consume mountain dew and ice cream vs keeping their arms and legs. Even when doctors prevent food/drink orders with sugary crap, their friends/family bring in more garbage. The number of obese people walking around and density of fast food places in urban areas is utterly disgusting. Explore around google maps in big urban areas, or even small ones - you can easily find 20-30 fast food places in towns of less than 30k people. Easy property tax revenue I guess?
The single most expensive resource in development is the developer. I could write everything in optimized assembly, using minimal machine resources to either write my software or run it. Of course that would mean I have to run my desk lamp for like 100 hours instead of the 1 hour it would take to write it in Lisp or Python. And don't forget the megajoules of food my brain would burn.

I really have no idea what would be most effective energy-wise overall, in the end. It's a curious question.
Yeah, I get the point, it's just a terrible framing because, as you said, this threat model is nonsensical.

It's just that this description is describing an "attack" that is just how attestation works. If you have a problem with attestation, talk about that problem, calling it "an attack" does nothing.

I'm actually against the proposal, too - although I see the merits. The ability to have servers authenticate clients based on the context of that client is amazing - it would seriously improve security if done right. But I personally believe that this should be done through the Device Policy extension exclusively, as it is already done there today, and that the extension should be opened and standardized.

In fact, I believe Google should be forced to do so.
Dunno. I've got three browsers on the laptop. I usually use Chrome but if it's annoying I'd switch to one of the others. Likewise search and I don't use their OS.

I remember Google+ when they ignored feedback on users hating aspects of it and tried to force it on us using their dominant position and it didn't go very well for them.
There are only a few companies that can produce state of the art chips and those companies are easily regulated by the government.

These open devices would be running slow hot CPUs compared to the newer faster chips that the non-open devices would be running.
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The intervention is Metformin during Covid onset?
Have they added proper bookmarks yet? That was a deal breaker when I used it last. You could pin/favorite tabs and such, but I could never find a way to store the bookmarks that are not regularly used, but I may need to bring up from time to time. I assume this is just a philosophical disagreement between myself and the Arc devs about how one should use a web browser
no cumin mentioned though. that seems to be the highest volume spice in most Indian curry recipes I've seen.
COVID was feared to mutate into something dangerous and that's why we took it so seriously. The Spanish Flu started out similarly innocuously and then turned into something terrible. That's what we were trying to (and succeeded at being able to) avoid.
Also there is no guarantee that "attestation" won't require your software to run on the physical hardware and not on a vm.
I've seen them listed anywhere between one and several thousand depending on condition, spec, accessories, etc.
"We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."
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Who said it was the new bubonic plague? Even the most pessimistic people didn't claim it had that high of a mortality rate.

No one is asking you to "comply" with anything, this is just an article about a study.
Maybe something similar to microfluidic devices but using acoustical vibration to transition sand in and out of a non-newtonian fluid state.

To the degree that different colors of sand have different physical properties I wonder if it would be possible to use differences in vibration and/or electrostatic properties to sort as a whole rather than evaluating each grain.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/479163/what-kind...
It provides me with a sense of community that I lack in my life. I am driven by technology but not a lot of other people in my life are interested in these things.

It's often providing me with "restore faith in humanity" experiences when I see exchanges in the comments where the worst impulses of humanity are expressed, and someone will respond with an eloquent and well articulated rebuttal to the insanity that society has normalized.

There are also lots of smart people saying really dumb shit on here as other comments have alluded to.

But overall, this is one place that consistently restores my hope that there are other people out there who think like I do and share even a few of my values.
After 2000+ years of practice, it's no wonder that SE Asian curries are so good!
Ask HN: How often (or little) do you use Hacker News' search feature?
As a recent user, I've been exploring what shows up and seems interesting vs. actively looking up topics.

Assumption: One of the reasons could be the not-so-prominent placement of the search box.

Which is also uncommon and unlike most social media platforms.
Ah yes, increasing ‘health equity’ by levying a tax that disproportionately hits poorer people.

Sin taxes are a tricky thing!
All this makes sense, thank you. Filtering on the partner level is a great idea, since there can be a lot of variance in partners among firms in terms of what they invest in.

I have heard basically the process is do research on competitors, use Crunchbase or Pitchbook. Is that about right?
This also can be articulated as a sort of incremental TDD.

- Write the scaffolding test to call the new "thing"

- Add basic assert to check your thing was called with right input

- Add more logic to "thing"

- Incrementally add more asserts to check for output, side-effects etc.
No idea what you're talking about.
Look at Amtrak if you want to see a nationalized rail service. Outside of a few northeast lines, it's a complete disaster. It's hard to imagine how a national passenger network could be worse.
It could share a root cause with something that was evolutionarily adaptive or simply not have been sufficiently maladaptive to be strongly selected against.
That's a shame, it's a bit weird seeing someone having to limit what software they can use, and looking to offload things onto external machines, over something you can get 4 times the amount of (32 GB) for under $50 (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sodimm+ddr4+32gb)
Mass US-Made Gun Exports Are Fueling Violence, Shootings Globally
https://archive.ph/w9vBb
In the actual sense, as in people discussing without being suspended left and right for ideological offenses. Not as in "people tracking other people's private jet flights".

He not allowing his own ass or companies to be criticized on his own platform, I can take as still an improvement free-speech-wise other the previous situation.
How would that even be remotely feasible when the "corpweb" owns the lines actually connecting the internet?
Yes! Though if I could follow along for more than a few pages I would probably get more out of it.

I’m going to actually restart with just Ch15 and see if that is a better approach
>Thus we can observe that LLMs do not abstractly reason about the question and it's model.

Your conclusion makes no sense.
Humans provide increasingly wrong answers as questions get more complex too. Jumping from that to "incapable of abstract reasoning" is silly. You have not "trivially proven" anything at all

>The LLM has (is) a model about language and performs some (limited) reasoning on that model to get an output.

LLMs generalize to non linguistic patterns.

https://general-pattern-machines.github.io/
> He has spent the following years watching with satisfaction as the beavers spread across Belgium, transforming its waterways. Frogs and fish came to lay their spawn in the slowed, dammed-up water, while bugs and beetles thrived in the rotting wood of the felled trees ...

This is amazing. I'm all for breaking the law if it means a better tomorrow for all of us. The article interviews someone who mentions that behaviours like this can damage valuable trees, I can see that -- I certainly don't have the ecological experience to just "start dumpin' beavers" -- but it'd be cool to collaborate with an ecologist who could "map out" some regions that would benefit from beaverification. Embeavering. Beaveritude.
It comes up when studying ancient greek, if I remember right it is used to describe which syllable gets the accent (ultimate, penultimate, or antepenultimate).

I also recall a shareware Ultima clone for the Amiga back in late 80's or early 90's called "penultima", but I think it's been lost to the sands of time.
A lot of these discussions devolve because of a lack of shared context. I live out in farm country. No trains are coming out here for a plethora of reasons.

Using public transportation - for me - and a lot of America where population density is LOW in such a case is a waste of time for all of the reasons I listed.
Again, I know a lot of these tools. And I'm willing to get my kid a unity account. I'm not seeing a solid guide for them, at the moment. Which is a little surprising, as I do agree all of the parts are there.

They are already making scratch games. Would be amazingly fun for them to run a game on the deck just like any other game. Not in a browser, which is how most of those games are executed.
Also, in that link you posted, the Homepage button is at the bottom and opens in a new tab.

Terrible design decision.
I think there are a couple of things going on:

Long COVID is real, but I bet most people that think they have it don’t.

On the other hand, I doubt long COVID is all that novel compared to what happens with other viruses as well. I think there’s some pushback because the media acts like long COVID is some terribly novel and huge thing, when neither are probably true.

All that said I’m glad more research is happening on this front. We might all get hit by some long term virus consequences over the course of our lives, or perhaps we all live with some constantly.
> Internet anarchists getting excited about the prospect of forking the Internet feels a lot like when a lot of preppies got excited about the potential breakdown of society when Covid hit.
> “Finally I can put all my skills to the test, which people have been teasing me about for so long.”

Veering offtopic a little, but your comment reminded me, hilariously, that after Stay-At-Home was mandated, my older, "prepper" friends and acquaintances were generally the first to crack and start complaining on Facebook about unfair it was that they were expected to just stay home in their bunkers and not go to bars and shop for their khakis. So much for the rugged self-reliance they loved to crow about!

I can imagine the Internet Anarchists behaving the same way. They'll be, in reality, the first to sign up for the AmazoGoogoMetaAppleInternet so they can keep posting to Social Media and doing their online shopping.
There's very little barrier to changing to Firefox etc.
Off topic, but clicking that link and seeing the "X" logo is really jarring to me. I heard it happened, but actually clicking a link in the wild and seeing that big dumb as-is Special Alphabets 4 "X" as a "logo" still shocked me.
HN introduced me to meteorjs, which is still the only js framework that makes it easy to bind database, app state, and UI ("3-way data binding") without a lot of mental gymnastics.
I love the language we choose to communicate ideas. "Increase health equity" is such an interesting phrase. I'd like to propose others:

- Sugary drinks tax could reduce diversity in health outcomes: study.

- Sugary drinks tax could boost diversity in healthier lifestyles: study.

Or perhaps a more stodgy, economical way of thinking:

- Sugary drinks tax could incentivize participation in health initiatives: study.

Or perhaps an article shared on facebook:

- BOOM! SUGARY DRINKS TAX PUTS COUNTRY BACK ON TRACK!
yeh sure! how'd you like to do so?
Could you point towards a paper that does precise and minimal regular expression (or finite state automaton) inference?
Their website still doesn't tell me anything useful enough about the browser to let me know if it's something that would interest me. It's all just marketing-speak.
It reminds me of the "cozy web" concept, which is defined as walled gardens with community gatekeepers, such as group chats. Small bubbles where you feel safe and not exposed to outside trolls, corporate or advertisers.

https://maggieappleton.com/cozy-web
See: https://gist.github.com/zachallaun/88aed2a0cef0aed6d68dcc7c1... and work underway here: https://github.com/wojtekmach/req/issues/82#issuecomment-154...
There is absolutely nothing to prevent troll farms from buying dozens of cheap trusted PC systems & using screen share to automate the heck out of these devices. Or plugging in fake mice/keyboards that directly feed input.

Secure hardware feels like it has no upside. It will not even be a speed bump for anyone spreading disinformation at any level of scale. It mildly inconveniences only extremrly unsophisticated/casual bad actors. And it greatly constrains who can make a browser and those with non-Trusted devices, such as Linux users or people who turn off Trusted Boot.
I hope this trend is here to stay, I cannot even imagine of going to an office in a daily basis anymore
Getting the "Hello World" to compile and run is often the most difficult part of a project. After that it's only easy incremental improvements.
On the topic of usability, I wonder if perhaps it's a matter of familiarity.

I missed the heyday of Usenet by several years and instead landed right in the middle of the phpBB/InvisionBB/vBulletin era, but also made heavy use of RSS/Atom and was curious about other protocols, and so at one point played around with Usenet by way of the Panic client Unison[0].

It might've just been the client (though that'd be surprising, given Panic's knack for UI design) but I didn't find it any more intuitive than web forums. The ability to search numerous groups at once was nice though.

That's not to say that web forums were or are good however. They're a step above something like Discord at least because they're open, but forum search is notoriously bad and I've never come across forum software where navigation isn't somewhat clunky.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison_(Usenet_client)
> The best way to not get long Covid is to not get Covid, and the best way to not get Covid is to be well vaccinated and boosted and have a good level of antibodies to stop the virus getting in.

I know people who got multiple jabs and have had Covid-19 several times already. These suggestions are useless.

> in those breakthrough cases in the vaccinated people, your chance of long Covid is further reduced perhaps by another 50 percent.

If it's reduced by only 50%, with Long Covid being so rare I'd rather take my chances and remain unvaccinated!
Appears to be macOS only?
It's not one specific piece of information but how to deal with people.

In case you reply to somebody to explain why they are wrong, start a reply with a positive (nobody is 100% wrong) then tell them what you think they got wrong. It's much more effective.

Similarly, don't be snarky.

Source: observation of a zillion of threads and how they evolved in the two cases, and which ones were downvoted.
I could be wrong, but if the business is using ERPs (to the extent of hiring implementation specialists), they're likely already too big for this type of software. In it's current form anyways, this feels like something small business uses to appear professional, big and/or well polished. The bigger company would use the ERP solution because it integrates with their general ledger, etc. and at that scale putting any focus on 'pretty invoices' is probably just a waste of time. It's really better to focus on getting them paid quickly.
16gb? The average consumer shouldn’t need anywhere near that much ram for general web browsing, email and document editing. Ram isn’t like money. It doesn’t get worse over time. My computer in college in 2004 did all the things the average user needs - I could watch videos online and browse the web just fine. Why should consumers today need to pay for faster hardware to do the same set of tasks?
Ask HN: Any platform similar to pingdom.com that runs Playwright scripts?
I was looking for a platform that runs Playwright test scripts in an automated way to check if the web application is working as expected (similar to Pingdom checks), but also to be able to run a load test (similar to flood.io, which actually does use Playwright under it's Element scripting engine). Anyone aware of such tool?
The last 2 reasons are why I stopped to post on SO 10 years ago ... I tried to explain something and some mode was kicking my english and for being "off topic"

SO burried itself
ahmm, I did the robot arm already in a previous project where you can control all the fingers remotely over the the internet, we just need to figure out the streaming part and we got ourselves a startup :)

>https://tamim.io/random_shares/robot_arm_over_internet_tamim...
Firefox, kagi, and protonmail here.

F google.
I can no longer edit parent post so to further elaborate on tooling: even if Elixir was comparable to Python (let's assume it's true as of today), there is a lot going on in AI, so that won't necessarily be true tomorrow. There is no doubt Elixir will always be slower to catch up to recent development because of smaller community. This also applies to how quickly issues will be resolved as they appear. It's likely OK if you're toying with a hobby ML project on your own, but not something you'd want in a startup with stakeholders who have expectations in regards to timeline, and so on...

I like Elixir for web development otherwise, it is a much more stable domain so above doesn't apply (although I've seen some claim otherwise, which is telling how much more of an issue it would be for niche ML use case).

I'd be very happy to be proven wrong by some case studies of how companies leveraged Elixir in real ML projects and concluded it is superior to Python.
sure thing! I'll try to make points related to what I observed and experienced in my org, starting with one huge huge huge preamble which is: I work in an average org with average joe devs. an average joe dev to me is someone who "just wants a job" and is not very interested in furthering its own professional development or learning new things unless trained & forced by the job. it's perfectly fine to be an average dev, I understand I'm sounding like a snub but the difference is real, exists, it's tangible as I touch it every day.

having said that, designing a proper elixir module (which basically is a bunch of functions that operates on a certain data structure usually represented by map of a certain shape) carries a certain level of fundamental understanding of the operation you're doing, which in my experience is one of the hardest things to get correctly.

It also requires a different way of exploring code as you can't do the familiar `.` and see what happens, you can't just do `price.toCentsValue` but need to do `price |> Price.toCentsValue` and so you need to know the existence of the `Price` module, which might not exist and be buried in `Cart` or as an helper in some controller because you did not understand clearly the domain and the modules responsibilities. Attaching behaviour to data is powerful, explorable, and most people are used to it, even if it's the wrong place in principle, with modules this is flipped, it's now data that must thread through operations, and it's not super easy to grasp.

Also, tooling is not that good (dialyzer sucks, intellij plugin not that good, vscode lsp good but still not a proper experience from people coming from c#/java, type annotations are not that readable...), pattern matching and destructuring on fn arguments confuses people and it's not super easy to read, and a million other papercuts related to tooling and syntax.

We don't have many elixir codebases (let's say around 15-25%) and I've seen incessant whining about "we don't want to maintain elixir" simply because the majority of people cannot be bothered to learn another mountain of quirks and papercuts (every lang has them) plus also losing the familiar way of working they already have, and having to remember that for the spot ticket that appears once in a blue moon on jira for elixir. That's why I think elixir needs extra support from the organization, basically in mandating it to be the primary language, teaching people proper design + proper code navigation and structure techniques, etc.

I hope I've been clear in my long winded ramblings; and I still wish a great future for elixir, so it becomes more approachable in average places like mine
Yes? If unhealthy foods are inexpensive and healthy foods are expensive, taxing unhealthy foods removes some economic pressure to consume unhealthy foods.
Which websites would be interested in this? For online shopping, not so much, if it decreases sales, it is bad for them. Social media? Perhaps, but I can go without that if it comes to that. What I fear most is access to banks, tax office and similar. I need to access that and I currently use Linux. I am not keen on switching.