skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's just take a pause and consider some key information:

-This is an association study

-If we CTLR+F "cause", "causing", "causal", etc, the only mention of causation is with extremely high levels of flouride and another mention with extremely high levels of glyphosate and zebrafish

Now let's zoom way out, and consider the use of glyphosate in general. If you plot grain yields over time compared to herbicide use over time and fertilizer use over time, you can see one thing quite clearly. The use of synthetic inputs, along with plant breeding and genetic engineering, has saved humanity from starvation and allowed unhindered growth.

Any experienced agriculturalist knows this. Any experienced commodity trader knows this. All this talk about commercial farming needing to be eradicated is fantasy talk. There are trade-offs to everything.

When you consider cost/acre and calories/acre, it is also abundantly clear that for all its flaws, modern industrial farming is a technological marvel.

When you look back into the history of herbicides, you can consider glyphosate to be way better than many of the past options. So things are definitely getting better.

As for the demonization of glyphosate, I would say that most of this literature is just provocative headlines for the sake of grant funding. It's very trendy to claim that glyphosate is causing X,Y, and Z. We saw the same thing with MSG as a food additive, and are still dealing with the proliferation of bad science, bad messaging, and a sticky belief system within genpop.
Yeah for real. Saw a post on HN yesterday I think with the title something like "Development we call it machine learning, in advertisements it's called AI" or something to that end
See glommio and tokio-uring. Unfortunately not stable, not polished at all, and receiving a fraction of the attention the main Tokio API is getting.

The biggest pain coming up is how io_uring changes the shape of the read/write APIs everywhere :-/

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-glomm...
https://itnext.io/modern-storage-is-plenty-fast-it-is-the-ap...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25220892
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/k16j6x/modern_storage...
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/k0yyk7/modern_...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgTyCSDPrs

https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio-uring/
the real debate is on whether the toxicity of fluoride outweighs the benefits of using it to prevent tooth decay.

we know that it can cause issues. there are also issues that have not been measured.

a lot of folks forget that unless the outcome of X is death or cancer etc ... it is often not studied. your quality of life can be greatly reduced by something but if it doesn't kill you then no one is looking at it.
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Do people really do that? I mean use their credit card as an actual bank loan, paying off their credit cards in installments, with interests?

I've been using credit cards for the past 15 years, and never paid a single cent of interests. In fact, in my Central European country it is quite common to own a credit card simply for added convenience and safety, but I do not know anyone who does not pay their debt on time. In fact banks here even offer you the "autopay" option, so at the end of the month the balance gets paid off automatically, so you can avoid any charges easily.
I highly respect your idealism. I really do. I used to think like that around 15 years ago. I'm still some kind of social democrat by heart (not the party but rather the concept).

But what I learned in recent couple of years is that German leadership (rich people, old industries, bureaucrats, managers, politicians et al) set up a system that is actively squeezing out the middle-class. Doesn't really matter which subystem you're looking at (healthcare, public transport, education, taxation, civil services, childcare, housing, pensions, energy, and more) you'll see that all things have been set up to make rich people richer and let the other 99% struggle with pretty much everything.

I'm not avoiding any taxes and strongly believe in social systems with solidarity and help for the weaker people, but I learned that (a) change is not welcome (rather actively prohibited) in Germany and (b) fighting windmills just lets you burn out.
I noticed a lot of YouTube transcripts do not contain punctuations, which makes them hard to read.
Fortunately, HuggingFace has several DistilBert token classifiers trained specifically on adding punctuations, so I converted a small enough model to ONNX so it can run in our browser (Using the fantastic Xenova Transformers JS library).

I would like to also add summaries and chapters using ONNX.
Any idea welcome!
But it's aimed at business, not tourism.
I'm just messing around, I use Python and Rust all the time and I love them. But the larger point is that these are not representative of the average tech job. Most of them are C#, Java, C++, JavaScript, etc. You pretty much only see Rust postings for startups. Python is more common these days, but it was also a HN meme at one point:

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
Hacker news is already the hacker news type site for jobs IMO.
however fundamental this might seem, consider how the technologies that structure our society are actively producing certain kinds of people. Nobody comes into this world seeking out low effort parasocial relationships to overdetermine their personalities. there’s something oppressive about suburban life and full time work that, for heaps of people, makes that feel like the best way to spend your downtime
I need a ground cover my kids can play on. Clover is a really nice option. The tragedy is that it spreads like a weed, which means my neighbours must accept my choice or install some ridiculous barriers, harming the existing characteristic of us all using each other’s lawn as a common play area.

It would be nice if clover was just kind of the de facto standard.
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Exactly two paragraphs in Cory’s mind-numbingly long rant is regarding NPR. It links to an op-ed in NiemanReports, which itself goes on at length about topics unrelated to the headline, and in fact only has this single sentence regarding it:

> A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of traffic before the posting stopped.

So it had almost no effect because it was driving a minuscule amount of traffic in the first place. Although I suspect that 2% represents the nadir, and earlier changes to Twitter drove the number down to that.

But overall this topic is mostly just two people using a single line in a memo (a memo not confirmed by NPR but I suspect it’s true and exists) to go on at tiresome length about things they wanted an excuse to complain about. And Cory desperately needs an editor, good lord. I even agree with most of his points but that is a screed in need of a point besides “I’m angry about a lot of things”.
> But when glyphosate encounters certain trace metal ions that make water hard—like magnesium and calcium—glyphosate-metal ion complexes can form. Those complexes can persist up to seven years in water and 22 years in soil.

Isn't basically all water outside hard water? How did public health agencies miss this?
Me too, I listened a couple of shows when I saw tweets from them.
"Consultant"
Another possibility is that it doesn't matter, and we're only talking about it because someone thinks they can get a few more clicks out of the story.
In my experience low wings were much easier to land for inexperienced pilots (as the wings get solidly into ground effect - high wing planes are often basically at the top of ground effect).
Of course, people in USSR were starving while free markets were making Westerners fatter and fatter.
Democrats passed a substantial health care bill in 2008.

In 2010, Democrats got massacred. The bill didn't even really do all that much. It was a "big f**ing deal" because it got done at all. And they paid for getting something done.

People can complain about health care all they want, but they don't agree on what should be done. They certainly can't be bothered to pay attention to esoteric and marginal improvements. Nobody is going to re-elect Biden to try to reduce the price of Imbruvica.

They might as well talk about health care, but not because it's an exciting development that will attract voters. They're going to present themselves as the dull, mature party who cares about boring things like "not dying of easily preventable diseases" and "actually keeping the government open". Then they can hope that people would prefer that to government by the party who says that the government is the enemy and should be destroyed.

It's a coin toss. Yglesias's suggestion isn't going to weight that coin.
This is why I came here and was sorely disappointed.
Following the right accounts you could actually get nuanced background on an issue popping up, with a carefully tended feed it was like putting rocket boots on the truth so it could stay within sight of the lies.
I just searched for "remove weeds from lawn" and while they do admirably suggest manual removal methods first, the last resort measures are indeed chemical herbicides, including specifically glyphosate
Are you actually defending posting that trash on LinkedIn?
X under Musk's management wants to be the American version of WeChat, so I've taken to using the Chinese pronunciation of 'x' in their modern latin letter orthography. (It's basically English "sh" as in "shoe" but the tongue is raised to block more of the flow of air, to make it sound a bit more like a "hush" sound.) If for some reason, such as in a podcast that sounds too much like white noise to the audience saying things like "x ceo" pronounced that way, I've found "Xitter" to be a useful intermediate form.
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This is not a big surprise. Twitter's algos tend to penalize tweets which contain links
Do you measure concerning levels of glyphosate in the pre-filtration water? I've always been curious about this for the sake of my friends who live in rural areas near pesticide dependent farmers.
As I understand, what exactly constitutes linking under GPL/AGPL hasn't been thoroughly tested in court in a way that is not up for some degree of interpretation.
Almost everyone can drive a car. Almost no one can fly a plane.
> It feels like that's the obvious goal of collaboration in general... People of differing views coming together to make a more complete view. Is that wrong?

This is how I see it and how I've always seen those "diversity improves success" works. I mean no one (serious) is suggesting it is a genetic difference but rather cultural, and thus different points of view.

But per your quote, the way I see to implement this is rather to have lower stakes. Competition happens no matter what. You get competitive with your friends when playing videogames, sports, or even stupid shit like a literal pissing contest. That's all fun and you can see people get creative and explore strategies in those situations. But there's one thing notable, there isn't any real cheating and when it does happen it's more done jokingly and not hidden. Often a jab at some exploitation of the rules (which helps update rule sets). On the other hand, when the stakes are high (say in situations like grades, job applications/leet code, money, etc) then you're actively incentivized to cheat. But people are not going to be open here about that cheating. (It also seems to lead to a lot of fighting and bad outcomes like the squeaky wheel getting the grease -- complaining loudly gets action while doing work quiet doesn't, unfortunately)

Idk if we can really get away from these high stakes games until we reach a post scarce society, but certainly there are frameworks we have now where this can be done. In academics, jobs, and such. We just need to reframe our thinking, which is far easier said than done.
Also used for dessication (…is that a word…?): https://cropscience.bayer.co.uk/roundup-hub/roundup-use-pre-...
Nice idea, will try when I am on a desktop.

But the name might be somewhat unfortunate because of
https://textsynth.com/

which has been around for quite a while (longer than ChatGPT)
You think meteors burn because of air friction, and your clothes were made by slaves. Future will judge you.

(disclaimer: these are just educated guesses, I don't actually know you)
Although many here have surely seen this before, for those who haven't -- the famous "Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling" by (supposedly) Mark Twain. It made me wonder if I really would want reform after all! Here you go:

----

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet.

The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
They're not. Roundabouts with any significant volume of traffic are, for the most part, terrible for pedestrians. Some rare but progressive roundabouts have zebra crossings on every arm which make them much better, but the continuous flow nature of roundabouts make them pretty hazardous.
Not surprised, MS is big capitalistic mega machinery that will always look at the money first people are on 10th place or even further...
>They didn't even test water sources in regions without the CKDu epidemic to falsify the hypothesis

They did... "the researchers found significantly higher levels of the herbicide in 44% of wells within the affected areas versus just 8% of those outside it."
My point is that if the government wants to, it will - regardless of UBI. There’s no reason to believe that it will be used more if there is a UBI (it doesn’t seem anything stopped them other than their own restraint in the past).

But UBI helps a large portion of the population and streamlines a number of social payment programs to reduce overhead.

So I see obvious benefits, but no reason to believe from your comment that this potential drawback would be increased if UBI existed.
The first month is free to try and may be rather enough to find a permanent job. But indeed the pricing is high bar especially for an ocassional freelancing.
I think the takeaway isn't that Twitter doesn't cause traffic to webpages, just businesses and journalists having their own accounts not affected said traffic.
I think it’s an intrinsic byproduct of any site/community that puts an algorithmic feed optimized for “engagement” front and center. By our nature, we engage with things that ping our extreme senses, which is the core reason Facebook and Twitter have gone to complete crap. Clickbait is truly bait and we are just angry raging fish if baited sufficiently.

I think it’s absolutely possible to have a community that doesn’t suck if sucky behavior is punished instead of rewarded.
Tom Brady really sold out
>My point was that that does not scale.

Thanks for the clarification.

>Also, I didn't have a scheduler. The point of interrupts is that you don't need a scheduler.

I think where we digress in position is that I do not think you have a good justification for the statement "be scared of signals" because, after all, you are clearly not scared of them and have decided to bend them to your own thoughts on how best to optimize your application, so its sort of ingenuous to hold the position having completely wiped "the standard way to do high-performance signal-handling" from your slate, to put your own special case forward by example. You're clearly not scared of them.

I'm calling you out on it because signals are absolutely not scary, but maybe talking about them with other experts can be.

Your case is more an example of how unscary signals are - but you've opted for longjmp()'s (which are, imho as a systems programmer, a far more cromulant fear) in your code as a solution to a problem which I don't think is really typical.

Thus, not really scary at all.

Well, it was a fun read of some code, and thanks for bc anyway.
The term more often used is "seater" but with small planes the pilot is often a passenger (as in, he's flying himself to get somewhere).
Which exact model do you have and when did you buy it? I would advise against trusting an entire company.
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There's nothing wrong with growing grass mixed with clover. Clover on its own tho won't form a complete groundcover.

There's nothing wrong with having a lawn if you don't live in a drought-prone area. It's a lot less work than anything else people suggest. Just run a mower over it every couple weeks. And just plant with grass seeds adapted for your area, mix with clover, and ignore your stupid neighbours.
This is so cool! Hope the project catches on

> Self-contained toolchain: No emscripten, binaryen, wabt, etc.

Tangent: I am sincerely surprised by how few languages seem to do this. I know of Walt and... that's it (although I am sure there are more). I'd expect there to be more experimental small languages targeting WASM directly at least.

[0] https://github.com/ballercat/walt
> You’re completely missing my point: we already have firms who do what the BLS claims to be doing that have greater predictive power and determinative impact on what people play for housing.

I agree that what the BLS is doing is not predictive. Because that's not the point of the CPI: it's measuring what happened in the past.

That's why the numbers that were released on October 12, 2023 were for what happened in September 2023, not November 2023.
They no longer sell Atlassian “Server edition” licenses. Just Data Center and Cloud now.
Two choices: adjust traffic signal timings or rebuild intersections into roundabouts. Supposedly the former is an over-engineered solution and the latter is the elegant one. Beggars belief.
Getting tired of the RTO argument. It's not about productivity.

Bottom line is that some companies/management aren't comfortable with remote work, even if it comes with an efficiency gains/cost savings. Maybe it sounds stupid, but it's their decision to make.
I listen to music a lot, but never got algorithmic recommendation systems. It just seems too soulless.

Personally i still listen to the radio (streamed online obviously), in the UK NTS Radio (nts.live) and Rinse FM (rinse.fm) are good. Very few adverts, NTS is pretty much listener funded, not sure what Rinse do as I rarely hear ads.

The shows get archived on SoundCloud so you can ID tracks and find them on Spotify later if they were that good.
Bandcamp doesn't really have any say in pricing, that's all up to the artists/labels.
It loses the ready access to the relatively deep history available due to spelling being nearly frozen since the rise of early modern English. Shakespeare, from circa 1600 is readable with only slight difficulty. In contrast, Chaucer, circa 1400 while recognizable, is a puzzle to decipher. This deep history also shows in etymological roots.

It's also completely impractical given the wide variety of very differently pronounced English dialects and accents. In other words, it requires massive pronunciation reform too. If that's on the table, why not alter everyone's pronunciation to fit the orthography...
FWIW I have a pristine play lawn without any herbicides. The trick I found was to foster growth of really dense, healthy grass. Theres nowhere for weeds to establish so I have to hand-pick a few dozen in a year.

My favourite is this creeping Charlie vine. It’s so satisfying to get an end up and just gently pull like eight feet of it off mine and my neighbour’s lawn.
> at its core it's about rewarding everyone equally, despite the fact some people choose to work more

I hear this frequently, but I do not believe it is axiomatic. I believe we should provide a sense of equal minimum reward, a baseline level of food, shelter, amenities that everyone gets access to. Even if they cannot work or choose to work the minimum amount.

Again, it's important to recall that "Socialism" includes everything from Soviets to Anarchists to Democratic Socialists and many (many) flavors in between.

But it's not fundamentally antithetical to Socialism to recognize the people who choose to work more. The rewards structure might look different, depending on what flavor of Socialism you prefer, but I would expect that someone who goes above and beyond also tends to attract rewards (whether those are luxuries, time, recognition, or other things).

Even my anarchist/socialist friends would recognize that many luxuries are limited -- we cannot all have infinite bottles of aged whiskey -- but if you put in the extra time to really help out at the distillery, or really devote a lot of time to making their barrels, it stands to reason you'd be recognized for that.

I also genuinely believe that when you remove the necessity of "I need to work an excess to ensure I can afford to support my family's basic needs", the desire to work more comes from a passion for the work or for securing 'nice to haves'. There's nothing saying a worker's co-op couldn't decide to, for instance, nominate 10% of their peers each month for extra rewards or something.
I was with you until the 25k food expenses. 2k a month on food?
Not in this article, but Don Norman also frequently rails against complex conceptual models.

The other day, my mom was complaining that her phone was not ringing and it took me forever to figure it out. I had to go to Google to find a troubleshooting guide.

The problem is that there are multiple ways to prevent a phone call from ringing. You can switch the hardware button (silent mode), you can set focus mode on (or have it set automatically), and you can mute individual people in the address book. Or you can add people to a group so that they ring even if the phone is in focus mode (but not in silent mode). There are probably other ways I've forgotten.

Already we've introduced a bunch of concepts: silent mode, focus mode, muting individual people, exceptions to focus mode, etc. And the user has to figure out these concepts just from looking at the UI. But if you don't understand the entire conceptual model, you may not know why something is not working.

This problem can't be solved with better affordances or more text labels, unfortunately. Maybe LLMs will eventually save us. Instead of the user having to figure out the capabilities and UI of the device, the device tries to figure out the intent of the user.
Windows has an ssh service you can enable now, so you can get sftp going easily enough for file sharing.