skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of punishing the middle class by slapping ulez on them, it would be far more effective and fair for the london mayor to offer free school buses like they do in some parts of America.
What. The EU’s food institution has published similar articles too saying aspartame is relatively safe and the cancer risk only becomes rlevant at siginifcant intake of it (liters of coke zero per day)
One of my favourite language-related sites is the online etymology dictionary, which has the following entry for 'correlation' for anyone interested: https://www.etymonline.com/word/correlation#etymonline_v_191...
I think the implication is government putting pressure (or working with) businesses to censor speech. Smaller government would mean less attack surface in that case.

Market forces and competition should help keep speech free because if a private company doesn't allow x group to use their platform, it is likely a competitor will spring up to capture the orphaned market. We see this play out in reality.
I think the best theory we have up to date for mental irregularities is metabolic dysfunction and damage at the cellular level through environmental stress, inheritance preconditions and super-processed foods. Psychology does and can have an impact but it's only a small fraction of the picture. Healing does not take community, you cannot find coherent and healthy community in a fully-antagonistic capitalistic society.
"One residential property per person"? Or the more reasonable one owned + max one let out?

(Some holiday lets are entirely legit and necessary for some local economies, but the politics of that is very complicated and site-specific.)
A big reason this drama still exists on HN is your style of evangelism. You are not a good ambassador for this language, and if you care about it you should stop.

You’re not going to change my mind that the initial promises were outlandish unless you implement them (you haven’t yet in 4 years), and claiming today they weren’t (as Alex is) is literally the worst approach you could take to build trust in your language. People weren’t mad about V they were mad about the exaggerations, prevarications, shifting explanations, aggressive tone, and now gaslighting from the V author. And if you turn it back around on me yet again you’re proving my point.
And across history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty

Too bad most people forgot about this book. It was a bestseller and all the famous economists knew about it and praised it. Even Leo Tolstoy 3000 miles away.
I don't believe that it is the end. Because small cars make more sense than big ass SUVs from a whole lot of angles: safety on the roads, energy efficiency, parking, traffic in cities, cost for the consumer.

It is a policy failure that we ended up in this situation, a hard one to fix, but I still think that it is inevitable that we will revert to smaller vehicles, eventually.
> increasing taxes on imports and subsidizing some exports

One of those things that sounds great until other countries apply it symmetrically and tax US exports.
What type of apps do you code for your day-job? (I program for fun and curiosity, so that is why I ask that lame question.)

Do you use node.js? Deno is brought in part by the Node.js creator, Ryan Dahl, who wanted to fix/improve a lot of things he didn't like in node.js.

They also have "Deno Deploy" (with a free tier) to run your code on different servers scattered throughout the globe: https://deno.com/deploy

One of the reasons I love the `deno` executable is you can use `import` statements in your code and then tell `deno` to merge everything into a single .js file. I would then take that and publish it to Cloudflare Workers. I know you can do this with node.js and a bunch of tools, but it is so much simpler with `deno`.
Could you elaborate more about what you mean and how this would work?

Where do young adults live? Where do new residents in a city live?
> What I'd like to figure out is how there are still so many Nazis despite readily-available facts that Naziism is racist delusions?

You're equivocating between two different meanings of "Nazi" in this sentence.

> And how are countries like Germany still doing kinda okay despite making it illegal to do Nazi stuff?

They aren't, they moved the Overton window so far via a ratchet effect that they're unable to calmly discuss immigration policy.
Any asshole can publish a book and a lot of them have.

Aspartame has been studied avidly, if not obsessively, for decades. It has never shown a serious carcinogenic risk. That's what we're talking about here.
While we could have more housing, construction is a problem, as, and especially in the US lately, it takes the form of faceless suburbs with an extensive sprawl destroying natural and agricultural lands.

It also promotes a car-centric and consumerist lifestyle, where shopping happens in malls, taking even more space. A better use of the current space would be much better than throwing more supply at the problem.
How does caste work in America? Can't you just say you were from a different caste?
What Grayscale's Court Victory Means for Crypto and a US Spot-Bitcoin ETF
Like the other commenter said, you’re falling prey to the “appeal to nature” fallacy.

There are plenty of natural things that are bad for you and plenty of synthetic things that are good for you.

And there absolutely are reasons to feed yourself artificial sweeteners.

Sugar-free soda is awesome for people trying to lose weight. The carbonated drink keeps you satiated and you don’t ingest any of the calories in regular soda.
Right. To make it explicit: Moderation is when you take down material because the recipient doesn't want to see it.

Censorship is when you take down content because you don't want the recipient to see it, regardless of how the recipient feels about it.

If people think censorship is sometimes justified, they should argue that, and not muddle the picture with moderation.
End-to-end encryption with Proton Mail
What? Have you looked at the science on this? Those in the RF/EMF science field opining that RF is perfectly safe, are a minority fringe. Example: ICNIRP, the private club that sets the limits most countries choose to follow, is a tiny, self-selected group, many with ties to telecoms business interests [1,2].

On the other hand, there are hundreds of independent research scientists in the RF/EMF field that agree [3] that the current limits are far outdated and based on assumptions of safety, not proof.

References:

[1] https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/posts/how-much-is-safe

[2] https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ICNIRP-re...

[3] https://emfscientist.org/
Does anyone make a.travel adapter that plugs into a us 240volt socket? Such a thing is easy to imagine, but most houses don't even have an outlet you could plug it into, so the demand would be small.
Why McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken and How to Fix Them
We have a simple version of this in many states of Australia.

I wonder if it has helped? We are also having similar rent vs wage issues here.
> perhaps it is also healthier for our brains to not constantly be tricked that they found a nice high calorie food item?

No need to speculate or ask rhetorical questions. This is a scientific question with presumably lots of research already.
> you're an idiot helping to accelerate the problem as this now becomes a weapons race on the road

This is a very harsh take for something that is legal and widespread everywhere across the world (at least Western world).

You have to try really hard to pretend you don't understand why this is happening. It's a race to the top of the safety spectrum, and for good reason. Traffic accidents are among the single biggest sources of preventable deaths and grave injuries, and getting a bigger car is one of the single most important aspects you can control in this equation. It's actually super simple.

If this is truly a problem, and I guess it is, then there should be some form of legislative intervention against it. The people buying them are not the problem, the environment which encourages this is.
https://archive.is/qHArl
I'm sure everyone will tell you about Goodhart's law (anything you set as a target ceases to be a good measure because people will game it).

The question is: what is productivity and why do you want to measure it. Because the crux of the issue is whether what you're measuring really is productivity. The things that you are capable of measuring are often easy to measure, but poor indicators of productivity. And even then, is productivity what you want? The productivity needs to be aligned to the business goals. If you set engineers productivity targets they'll find the easiest way to meet those targets but they might not align to the business.

But I think it's more important to look at how you actually manage people. The best way to get good work out of people is to make sure they have the information and resources they need to do the job, they're free from distractions, they have autonomy and authority to do what they need to get the job done, they're working in a high trust environment, and their achievement is recognised. None of those things are improved by measuring productivity, and trust, autonomy and recognition are actively hurt.

By defining productivity for an engineer what you're saying is "You no longer decide how to best serve the company, I decide that, and you just follow what I say". Good luck, suddenly all the responsibility is on you - and you don't even control the outcome.
And this is an example of "where is the evidence" logical fallacy. In complex systems, such as the human body, the only evidence of safety is time -- a very long time. The Stevia plant (though not the same as extract) has been used for centuries. Aspartame was (accidentally) created in the lab in 1965.

If you are going to mess with complex systems, such as feed yourself aspartame, vape, give pregnant women a synthetic sedative and medication for morning sickness etc., you do it for a high potential gain that offsets potentially huge downsides. Benefits of aspartame are close to nil; if anything it probably makes things worse because people think they can consume more ultra processed foods sweetened with it because such foods have "fewer calories".
Often these big cars even have a quite small trunk, e.g. compared to a station wagon.

Soon though, a few car makers will release electric station wagons (e.g. Peugeot e-308). Many danes already drives station wagons, so I hope people will start buying those kind of cars instead of SUV's.
> That’s why EFF has long argued that we must “protect the stack” by saying no to infrastructure providers policing internet content.

I agree with this, but you need to understand what you agree to. It's not just the content you want to see - it's also the content you don't want to see. It's the freedom of the most extreme content imaginable - CP, snuff, murder, doxxing, drugs, etc, etc.

People will experience severe issues as a result, but there are other things that can be done:

1. Individuals can do more to protect themselves. We have AI now that can quite accurately detect what is in an image or video, it's entirely feasible to do live content filtering.

2. We need to protect the most vulnerable in our societies. We don't give whiskey to a 5 year old, and we shouldn't give unfiltered internet to a 5 year old. This also extends to vulnerable adults. If you receive government assistance (money/drugs) for a mental disability, a filtered version of the internet should be available to you.

3. The punishment for filtering without permission should be severe enough that it's not just a tax. People really need to be held accountable, otherwise they will just pay the toll and be done with it.
Why are people constantly using examples with number comparisons and calculations? That's the one use-case I'd never use an LLM for.
Just thinking loud here, would it be an option to load the task to marshal the memory access and cooperative multitasking to something equivalent to llvm?
Then multiple different compiler and languages could dock to that.

As long as all of them have to use an authorised llvm equivalent and that one can enforce memory access and cooperation that could look from the outside like a quite normal user experience with many programming languages available?
>Why is it so cheap? Well, unemployment is really high:

The thing is nobody (with a stable job) wants to live in areas with high unemployment because of all the social issues those areas have.
I don't think you will find the relevant stats for the us either, as transformers explode so rarely.
Great question, and one I've pondered a bit myself. Both Python and Ruby are cool languages, no doubt. But here's my two cents on why Python took off like a rocket while Ruby stayed more niche.

Versatility: Python can do anything—web dev, data analysis, machine learning, you name it. That made it a Swiss Army knife for devs and businesses alike.

Academia and Data Science: Python got super lucky with the boom in data science and AI. Libraries like NumPy, pandas, and TensorFlow sealed the deal for it in the scientific and research communities.

Readability: Python's clean syntax is a godsend for newcomers and seasoned devs alike. This led to quick adoption and a growing community.
Community and Ecosystem: The Python community is massive. A bigger community usually means better support and more libraries, which feeds back into its growth.

Enterprise Adoption: Big names like Google, Instagram, and Dropbox using Python also adds credibility and draws even more people into the ecosystem.
Ruby = Rails: Ruby got strongly tied to Rails. While Rails is fantastic for web dev, it kinda pigeonholed Ruby a bit.

First-mover advantages: Python's been around a bit longer, and early adoption in academic circles helped it get a head start.

Teaching Language: Python has become the go-to language for introductory computer science courses. That means a whole new generation is coming up already familiar with Python.

Ruby's awesome and it’s got its own strengths (and die-hard fans!). But Python managed to position itself as a jack-of-all-trades, and that’s helped it become the titan it is today.
Baofengs have two "problems"...

First, and the reason for hate by the licencing authorities is, that they have emissions on other bands (higher harmonics), sometimes way above the allowed levels.

And second, the more problematic here, is that they're cheap. Every airsofter, milsimer, prepper and mall ninja will buy one or two, in "tactical" camo colors with "tactical" antenna, usually one of those huge ones, painted camo, with some kind of "tactical" camo holster, to look "tactical"... while at the same time, they have no idea about frequencies, legalities and just use the preprogrammed channels or input a random frequency in the VFO mode. Before baofeng, this wasn't an issue... cheapest radios were in $150++ range, and paying $600 (or more) for four airsofters was a lot of money... now they can get a set for $100. And in camo and "tactical" designs.

Doing what the person in the article did requires not just $30 of equipment but also at least some knowledge (which frequency, what tones, what timing, how to use audacity or whatever to generate those tones, etc.), and most of the "normal" abusers of baofeng can't do that... just look at the questions on /r/baofeng on reddit... most of them are "we can't hear eachoter", because they're looking at channel numbers instead of frequencies and/or have tones enabled, and "can i listen to <some service not on uhf>?".
You can't just randomize the comparison operation, since that'd violate the requirements of a comparison function. MS made that mistake in their browser download dialog, which led to significant biases. You'd need to assign a random number to each item. But then you'd need to figure out a way to store this random number.

Also, for in-memory data comparison-based sorting is much slower than shuffling. Both asymptotically (O(n log n) vs O(n)) and in practice. I did not investigate if sorting algorithms not based on comparisons (e.g. radix sort) have competitive performance.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2762287/microsoft-s-eu...
Don't think that's the case. Deno is older and more mature than Bun in many respects. For example, Bun does not support Windows yet.
I've played with this concept a while back when I noticed the E2E tests I was writing closely matched the monitoring scripts I would write afterwards. At one point I just took the E2E test suite, pointed it at production and added some provisions for test accounts. Then I just needed to output the E2E test results into the metrics database and we had some additional monitoring. It's a kind of monitoring-driven-developent and as with TDD it's great for validating your tests as well.
The Iosevka font family has quasi-proportional variants that might fit your needs.
There’s a major benefit you’re missing, no calories.

If you drink seven cans of Coke a day you’re likely going to end up gaining weight and could end up obese with all the additional health issues that brings.

If you drink seven cans of Diet Coke per day you’re not going to end up obese (through that method anyway).

What seems to be missing in this HN debate is that sugar itself (yes the natural substance) is not good for us either! Aspartame may be “bad” (debatable) but sugar is bad but in different ways.
At a granular level, I don’t think it’s meaningfully possible. Think about it, how often do you do the same thing twice?

The old programmer joke about writing a script instead of doing the same thing twice, hides a truth that the value of our work is doing stuff we haven’t done before.

But, if you have never done a task before how do you measure it? And if you have done a task before, why are you doing it again, can’t you reuse what you did last time?

There’s factors out of most devs control that influence their productivity—a mark of a senior dev (IMHO) is someone who understands this and actively unblocks themselves and others.

So no, I don’t think you can directly measure a devs productivity.

Measuring a team’s productivity is equally challenging, as the team is affected by things out of their control too, and the team is also doing work that hasn’t been done before.

Instead, I think looking towards the health and quality metrics of the team’s output (say a service they created/maintain), the health of the team, and actually speaking to engineers is the best chance we have of understanding the how well the team is working.
Tl;Dr: if you want to help poor people, quit it with your paternalistic bullshit and just give them cash.
I see no mention of water proofness . To me, using a non-waterproof phone would be more wasteful even if it is a fairphone, because of the inevitable risk that it will be destroyed by moist too early. I must be able to cycle and run in the rain without risk to the phone.

So, I'm afraid I'm sticking with my Sony for now :/
Something I don't like:

> The argument that a cooperative scheduling is doomed to fail is overblown. Apps are already very much cooperative. For proof, run a version of that on your nice preemptive system: [...] Might fill your swap and crash unsaved work on other apps.

The difference is that in a preemptive system, a `while (true)` might slow down the system, but in a cooperative system, the machine effectively halts. Like for good. If you're caught in a loop and don't yield control back, you're done.

In terms of security, this would make denial of service attacks against such systems trivial. You could exploit any bug in any application and it would bubble up to the entire system.

Or maybe I'm all wrong. I'm not an OS dev, so please someone correct me.
Buried lines are invisible until you hit them with a shovel. The reason to bury power lines is mostly so you don't have to look at them.
The fact you embrace and accept metabolic damaging substances (all psychiatric substances are) and lack some very critical understanding in mitochondrial DNA damage and ATP production bottlenecks down on the cellular level is fascinating (which were the reason you had manic episodes to begin with if we were to make an educated guess). You are basically digesting and taking substances that further damage you and in the long-term are going to make you even worse. "Meaningful advice" like that is what keeps people enslaved to big-pharma and the largest human enslaved era the human history has ever witnessed.
It's not only about climate change, most of the effects are to be seen on the biodiversity, the beauty of the countryside (yes, it's important), agricultural production and water supply, as concrete reduces a lot water absorbtion.

Lyme disease outbreaks can be attributed in part to the increase in rodents population, which is due to the urban sprawl and the increased difficulty for predators to hunt in suburban areas.
Python got a reputation for being good for quick prototyping.

Python had an easy to use CLI and supportive docs that made it easy to throw things together.

Case-in-point, the language literally includes functions like:

dir

That facilitate treating library objects as simple directories of functionality.

Default arithmetic library supports APA.

There's just a lot of stuff that's frictionless in Python, where Ruby has sprawling and unintuitive syntax, and mandatory programming constructs.
Does the author mean Applying Site Reliability Engineering Principles to Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery?
This appears to be the possible only other tool left in this vein- though at the moment, they have their security off for a short while.

"Element Call is temporarily not end-to-end encrypted while we test scalability."