skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aspartame has been a boogeyman for literally decades, and yet no solid experimental study has shown evidence of carcinogenic activity nor of any negative health effects at realistic quantities.

Any risk posed by aspartame is completely overshadowed by the risks posed by the sugary alterative.

Sugar in general is one of those topics where otherwise intelligent people will suddenly lose the capacity for critical thought-- espousing the use of fructose-based sweeteners (agave) in lieu of HFCS over some concern over fructose, or opting for "natural sucrose" over a non-caloric, zero GI option like erithrytol.

Asking questions about who is funding the research is valid but anytime someone starts coming for the non-sugar option it should raise red flags about the motive for doing so; I would argue that the sugar lobby is far more concerning than the sweetener lobby. Diabetes, not aspartame overdose, is the real killer today.
It's more that every substance has a specific heat capacity. That is, how much energy it takes to raise 1 g of that substance one degree Celsius.

Water happens to have some of the highest specific heat capacities. Therefore, the south can "store" more energy in the hot months, and release that same energy in the cool months better than the north can
I actually got an e-mail from my apartment manager telling us not to do that because supposedly the A/C uses more power to cool down the room by a few degrees every evening than it would've spent to keep it at that temperature all day.

although personally i disregarded that because eight years of living in overpriced CA apartments that were built during the kennedy administration has conditioned (no pun intended) me to feel more comfortable with the AC off.
Do you have some alternative in mind? If you don't communicate an idea, you don't even have the chance to agree on it because many people may not even consider it.

I really fail to imagine how a society can arrive at a universal ethical standard without writing a couple ideas down here and there. You're asking for a utopian society of mind readers, which hits me as just a touch unreasonable.
Don't forget centi-, deci-, deka-, and hecto-.
'Serendipitous innovation!'

More like boomer bosses taking full volume phone calls in cube farms, people eating stinky lunches, zero privacy, and high anxiety as a function of feeling the need to 'look busy'
If you really want it, use it. Hardware vendors optimise stuff they see being done, they don't optimise stuff that somebody mentioned on a forum they'd kinda like but have never used because it was expensive. Maybe if you have Apple money and can buy ARM or something then you could just express such whims, but for mere mortals that's not an option.

Newer CPUs in several lines clearly optimise to do Acquire-Release because while it's not the only possible concurrency ordering model, it's the one the programmers learned, so if you make that one go faster your benchmark numbers improve.

Modern CPUs often have onboard AES. That's not because it won a competition, not directly, it's because everybody uses it - without hardware support they use the same encryption in software.

The Intel 486DX and then the Pentium happened because it turns out that people like FPUs, and eventually enough people were buying an FPU for their x86 computer that you know, why not sell them a $100 CPU and a $100 FPU as a single device for $190, they save $10 and you keep the $80+ you saved because duh, that's the same device as the FPU nobody is making an actual separate FPU you fools.

Even the zero-terminated string, which I think is a terrible idea, is sped up on "modern" hardware because the CPU vendors know C programs will use that after the 1970s.
You would probably enjoy the Coyote trilogy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(novel)#:~:text=Coyot....
There is actually an energy cost to evaporation which takes some of that energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization

So, this, as well as ocean mixing is how the surface temperature is "moderated", in addition to the heat capacity that others have brought up.
Yeah the title here really overstates the strength of the conclusions.

Didn't read every table in the paper but they clearly state that a linear fit was parsimonious with the data, and adding quadratic and exponential terms only modestly improved the performance but neither even had a p-value of less than 0.05 (I am aware that overreliance on p-values is a bit of an issue, but nonetheless).

Its also easy to see from the graph in the paper that the linear fit goes through all the error bars.

* edit / Disclaimer: only skim-read the article, I should be working right now
> the part of the world that is ideologically predisposed to disbelieve in climate change

There is more nonsense in this statement than in the headline. Parts of the world don't have ideology and these highly judgmental and superficial analysis certainly don't help.

> other places are disinclined to do the hard work of fixing the climate while the US prominently denies that the problem even exists.

So, China's inability to manage pollution is somehow down to the imputed attitudes of a few areas of the US?

> It's as if the earth wanted to keep warming.

It's as if human beings exist and continue to multiply. It's as if third world countries don't care about our ideology if it means they never get a chance to develop themselves the way every other country had an opportunity to. It's as if a few rich people half way around the world expect the difference to be made up elsewhere.

> But it still strikes me as weird.

It's purely anecdotal.

> How different would the situation be if the US midwest and south were on the hotter side of the scale, rather than the cooler one?

Texas had the hottest summer in recent history. California had one of the mildest. Minnesota had one of the hottest and they're getting Canadian wildfire smoke.

Perhaps we shouldn't view this through the lens of "how miserable do we have to make people to get change to happen" and instead through the lens of "how incompetent are our politicians that they can't find an honest solution to this problem?"

This _desire_ for self-inflicted austerity is what is _weird_.
I think we've seen how the government handles its loans, especially if they're spelled like PPP.
The price of keeping public schools the way they are is trashing the future of many bright but poor kids who have no choice but to waste their time in what seems to be a mix of a kindergarten and a corrections facility.
I saw $220/night for that place plus fees on the listing, but the moment I selected any non weekday it jumped to $402/night + fees. Fees which amount to an additional $507 for a 3 night stay ($295 cleaning, $212 for AirBnB).

All in, my stay is $1,900 for 3 night. $633/night. Might not be $1,000 a night, but definitely not as bargain-ish as you make it out to be.

https://imgur.com/3dJOGNn
You can catch more flies with honey than with ORBIT® Gum
Aspartame's potential risks, as compared with sucroses?

Because I don't recall hearing about any aspartame-linked deaths ever, while I know that diabetes is a killer.
Nice, love it. What's the technical explanation for this? I assume it's because HTML5 renders all UTF-8 characters?
Please correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm not trying to insult anyone or start a war. But this is a scheme working group, right? Is scheme really that important today to so many people? I haven't touched lisp since I stopped using EMACS about 10 years ago. I haven't heard about anything interesting involving lisp (except I've heard of clojure) since even before then.
And every office-based company I've ever worked for has had regular travel to shuttle people between offices or send teams to offsites. I'm not sure there are massive differences in travel in remote companies - although maybe there should be.
"Permissible" and "possible" are not synonyms.
When blue checks got sorted to the top of threads, I would block almost all of them. Elon created the problem. Of course his "solution" is even worse. I use Xitter as a write-only medium now.
That's what I've also noticed. What helped me a lot, was that during university I wasn't particularly social, so I was able to stop eating sweets (by not buying them, and not being in a place where they were offered freely – think parties and such).

This worked to the point that I stopped identifying those as food, and would actually not want to eat any when encountering them, although two years prior I'd buy Snickers bars by the truckload.

Of course, later I more or less relapsed, by trying just this piece of cake when eating out. Which became more and more regular. Of course, eating out is terrible for this, as I'm pretty sure they put tonnes of sugar in their sauces. Otherwise, I can't explain why eating a steak in a restaurant will make me hungry two hours later, whereas eating the same-sized steak at home, but without the sauce, will have me satiated until evening.
> In the 1970s, C may have been considered a general-purpose programming langauge. Today, given the landscape of languages currently available, C and C++ have a much more niche role. They are appropriate for the "power users" described above, who need every last bit of performance, at the cost of more development effort.

I really don't think this is true. I've worked in CAD and video games and embedded software, and in all those you're likely using C++ (not to mention a lot of desktop software that can't afford to embed a chromium instance for electron.) For some reason people here just assume that anything that isn't web development or backend server CRUD stuff is a niche.

As much attention as something like Rust or whatnot gets on hacker news, the reality is that if you can't afford garbage collector pauses, and you need performance, you're using C/C++ most of the time.
You can't. Several people have shared stories about trying to get it in writing from Comcast (and it is always Comcast) that service is available at a particular address before they move there, specifically to avoid this issue, and the CSRs will not do it. They're very careful not to make a paper trail with discoverable evidence.
I mean, their stock has tanked by >50% since IPO, so not sure about "just fine".
Walmart? McDonald's? Amazon? I'm not even sure what we're doing whistling about but I guess that's the point?
I used to love the interview process - I'm well suited to it as well.
Expanding this for those not familiar with Go's history: Ken Thompson, formerly of Bell Labs and co-creator of B and Unix, was deeply involved in Go's early days. Rob Pike, also ex-Bell Labs, was also one of Go's principal designers.

I can't find a source now, but I believe Rob described Russ Cox as "the only programmer I've met as gifted as Ken." High praise indeed.
Ask HN: How much are baby boomers retiring having an effect on the economy
Are you sure about those nano commands? Since a few years I've always found nano system defaults to be:

^s: Save

^o: Save as (type out filename, save and return to editing)

In other words, to save and quit:

^s,^x
Question? How many teachers do you have per class?
No apologies needed. I am thankfull for your detailed, interesting post.
Love this askHN post.

I'm currently working on "JobMailer".

When I was looking for a job and applying to 100-200 positions, I got really good at the process. To me it seemed like a somewhat wasted skill set, because I was just looking for one job (unlike, for example, trying to acquire customers).

"JobMailer" rebundles paid subscription features that a job seeker might use only a handful of times over their search period and automates manual application tasks:

- Find good fit companies and jobs

- Reword resume/CV to mirror or match job description and keywords

- Find recruiter and hiring manager email addresses

- Write cover letter and send email to recruiter/hiring manager to get noticed

- Track email opens

- Single page hub for all application statuses (think Mint but for all different company application login pages)

The goal would be to semi-automate and submit ~50 high-quality and tailored applications in the first 30 days for a user.
You can, but you shouldn't, because at some point you should patch the vulnerabilities you inevitably find on any non-trivial piece of code after a while.
Organ transplants have the DNA of the donor, not the DNA of the recipient.
as written they meet the constitutional requirements. But what procedures are written down doesn't matter if the FBI simply ignores them.
> A self taught person doesn't even know that these things exist unless they also have an excellent mentor at the beginning of their career in the industry.

I was perfectly aware of them as a 15-year-old teenager decades ago.

Think of your own situation -- did you learn what you know about JITs by taking formal classes?
i see, thanks

maybe we should develop a nonmalicious compiler
I've been hoping to see alternative targets to JS for TS as well.
WASM makes a lot of sense but TypeScriptToLua¹ also looks interesting.

1: https://typescripttolua.github.io
We are more into unified API with the right tooling needed for LLMs to talk to these SAAS tools whereas Gorilla is a model which has knowledge about APIs.

More than a similarity we thought we could use the gorilla LLM knowledge to get to a more generic Unified API from different SAAS tools.

We built an in-house tool (https://www.loom.com/share/ff88f482765d43e49aebcefd3f00df27) which has all REST APIs trained. We will use this for both discoverability of APIs and also to get to a perfect Unified API personal to the companies.
It had nothing to do with artificially low prices?
If you’re ultimately going to be reading actual env vars, the nice things that toml gives you won’t be there, and having used it as a crutch may leave you with bugs. If you’re reading env as input, eat the pain early or eat it later.

If you’re not ultimately going to be reading actual env vars, then yeah—why even consider .env in the first place? Of course don’t use it.
> commenting on the topic on Mastodon

https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/109899372183448386
A friend of mine retired recently at 59 and seems like that's a lot of investment money out of the system(stocks). If he's the norm. He's using CDs to get enough interest to stay afloat.
My real question is that when looking at the map most of the large deviations are in extreme places. How long do we have temperature records for places like the middle of the ocean near Antarctica?

There was a recent article about record breaking temperatures in South America but it turns out the sensors they were monitoring had only been in place from 2008.
He probably hated children even more after that.
I didn't do the math, but on an array this big, the 'near field' might be outside of the atmosphere anyways.
https://gembared.com/blogs/musings/the-best-daytime-white-li...

> Do white LEDs really exist that are low in blue light, balanced with red, low flicker, and low EMF? ... especially for LEDs, we want lower Kelvin which helps minimize the blue light that many people have had issues with LEDs in the past. For this review we mostly selected 2700K LEDs as it usually has a natural feeling balanced spectrum that is lower in Blue light. But for office areas during the daytime the 3000K versions might be better.
In practice, students don't cost the same. eg a special ed student will cost 10x more than a student in a general ed or gifted program.

So I think in practice they end up subsidizing the cheap-to-educate kid's private school education, while expensive students stay in public schools (which makes the private school voucher amount go up while decreasing the quality of public school instruction for the majority of students). Kind of a vicious cycle.
You don’t need to write generic and reusable data structures in C. You write a data structure suited for the problem at hand, which often means that it’s going to be simpler and more performant because of the known constraints around it.
> It's always been a bit disturbing that there is no accounting for your tissue or organs after they're removed.

The hospital definitely has an accounting for them. Typically tissue or organs removed are sent to pathology, where they may be further tested and/or sold for research, data or other purposes. It's a dirty secret that hospitals make a ton of money off of parts of your body that they cut out.
Calling them ‘investors’ is a bit of a stretch…
I would be interested to see what an LLM could make out of this archive. How it might categorize the threads or how it might help make sense of it. Vikram's manual curation is the useful part. In the podcast, he mentions he would like to see what could be done with an AI and the archive.
They could clone you, force the clone to perform a crime, then arrest you for the crime based on dna evidence.
There's a reason that students are taught on day 1 of Statistics 101 that observational studies can only establish correlation, NOT causation. Otherwise we might as well just admit that cancer causes smoking.

It's one of the most pervasive and blatant errors seen in the news and social media.
They're supposed to ask
The technical arguments should be obvious, e.g. spending ones complexity budget on manual memory management and avoiding footguns. But one amusing anecdote is that the open source GNOME project founders were so traumatized by their experience building complex GUI apps in C (already a dubious idea 20 years ago), that they started building a C# compiler and the Mono project was born.
Short session lengths are often demanded as a thing to do (or provide as an option users can opt into) to remediate “issues” found from security audits.

It’s an easy enough box to check and so it’s often checked.

That’s why you’ll see them banks and other regulated environments, or on apps that provide soc2 or otherwise have been through security audits (google makes you do an audit of you use certain APIs).
The sheer amount of software that you're likely using right now that's written in C would seem to contradict your claim.
I wish people would think as much about the poor when it came time to fund job programs, healthcare, childcare, food stamps, universal pre-school, raising the minimum wage, increasing public transportation, and improving working conditions.
I think this is super cool and I hope it’s the start of a time when laptops look nicer and more distinctive. There’s really no reason for every computer to either be a macbook or look like one.

The idea of fashion designers making cool/new/different laptops makes a lot of sense. I want one & I hope this sticks!

Edit: hahahh the space bar has the word “VOID” on it in a sleazy serif font. Love it
Imagine if campbells could pull soup out of the cans in your cupboard while talking about "licensing issues"
Ask HN: 4g slower and less prevalent since the roll-out of 5G in the UK?
Until 5g was rolled out a few years ago, I got strong 4g connection almost everywhere in cities, with high speeds. Then since 5g came out, 4g has felt much less widespread and on occasion a lot slower. For example, I used to consistently get full bars in my house and now I rarely do. This is all anecdata of course, but it's a very clear difference

But then almost everything I can find on the internet denies that this is possible. No 4g towers have been taken down, no throttling, nothing.

What could be going on?
That’s a pretty big leap in logic. Can you walk me through how you got from “I rent out my basement occasionally” to what you said?
I've always been told it was cheaper to maintain than to cycle on/off within a day as long as the insulation is decent and you aren't trying to get to 60F during 100F weather. My guess is that comes from a belief that the units work inefficiently to get the temp down as fast as possible when turned on, but work more efficiently to maintain a temp, but I have no idea if that's true.
Lots of people seem to make it to old age, still being almost as healthy and active as an average young person, sans any broken bones, without lifting much of anything heavy or playing any sports, they seem to just do causal swimming or hiking or tai chi or something.

And there are gym rats who have a life of all kinds of random aches and pains despite being very strong, then have heart attacks, so I'm super confused on what you're actually supposed to do, but it definitely seems like there's a limit to how much people really need for close to optimal health.

The science seems pretty clear that having muscle is better for your health, but it seems really hard to figure out how much is actually needed, and whether someone who's already reasonably in shape from walking and doing projects actually needs any lifting outside the "near zero injury chance and you probably won't be sore tomorrow" range for maximum health issues prevention.
The vacuum gets power from an electrical network that is also fully capable of transferring structured digital information as well. My point is that your own code will also break if you don't keep it maintained for all practical purposes.
To my knowledge, pgAgent isn't an extension, it's just a client.
Once in a while HN provides absolute gems. Would never have known about this anti procrastination feature otherwise!
Thanks. It sounds like subclassing built-ins is where transpilers hit a hard wall. Other syntactic features of es6 can be transpiled.
Yeah, that was my point. You couldn't get to non https sites in a lot of situations
Read your article (and cloudfare's) and as someone who uses musttail heavily I don't understand the hype, as you mentioned in your blog: you can get tail call optimizations with (-O2), musttail just gives you that guarantee which is nice, but the article makes it sound as if it unlocks something that was not possible before and interpreters will greatly benefit from it, but it's more reasonable to ask your user to compile with optimizations on than it is to ask them to use a compiler that supports musttail (gcc doesn't). Moreover, musstail has a lot of limitations it would be hard to use in more complex interpreter loops
> Should I convert all H.264 into H.265 for disk space?

Not all of them but, geez, the space saving... I recently did just that: not every single one of them because I didn't want quality loss on a few specific ones but I had so many files with extensions I don't even the format behind (like .MVI, .MOV) that were just huge. When I mean huge: stuff re-encoded to H.265 and still looking perfectly fine at 1/15th the size! (I think the original files came from some portable video "camcorder", but already digital).

So I wrote a little Bash shell script doing conversion to H.265 (using the x265 codec).

I mean, seriously: family vids / videos filmed with phones aren't going to be used as source material for the next Barbie blockbusters in 8K (or whatever).

I'm not a pro and it's really OK if I take a tiny quality loss on most of these files.

And it doesn't have to be on all the files: I tag a few family videos as "favorites" and these I didn't convert to H.265.

Now even on a 7700X and all cores working at full speed, it takes quite a while: depending on the source format some re-encode super fast (like 12x the speed) while other only re-encode at 2x the speed.

So I just let the script work overnight.
You Suck at Coding
A Game of Snake Life
> Is there something from a CS program that can't be learned from studying half a dozen books (or maybe a couple more)?

Yes ;) -- you can't teach "Stanford", "MIT", or "Harvard".
Looks like the wireless charging assembly is serialized, not the literal glass. Very frustrating and anti-repair.
It still blows my mind that a RAV4 is considered a "compact SUV". To me it is quite large. It is just that what is considered a "large SUV" is what I think of as "schoolbus size"...