skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course! I mean, yeah, sure, taxes on unhealthy products may increase the average health of a population, which results in reduced healthcare costs, greater economic productivity by reducing worker sickness, and may save thousands of life-years across the population and increase their quality of life. But does that really justify the state taking a percentage of the price I pay for a pack of cigarettes?
Isn't aspartame used 99% of the time in sodas? Despite decade-long doubts, afaik studies have always failed to find convincing evidence of it being problematic.
> my original question was why the solution is a tax

Because it works. Source: TFA.
On the contrary, his whole point is that such an approach doesn't lead anywhere any more than memorizing the circle of fifths makes you a musician.
In the eastern block we used to call it eastern BMW - Bakelite Motor Vehicle (although bakelite wasn't exactly the composite used as it seems). Or that repair set for it comprised of just carpet tape. It didn't have that great reputation, at least not in 80s.
Yeah, I came here for the dimensionality reduction.
You never fix an unrelated typo or add something useful to the README that you couldn’t find but needed?
Great project which you can also use as your package manager on your system.
This works nice if your developers have a MacBook with an Arm processor and want to have the build process close to what you do in your ci server which might be a Linux amd64
No, but I had really good vision then and could see it by squinting and using the pinhole camera trick. In the end, the exhaustive preparation made the difference. It might as well have been open book because it was a damn hard test that relied on first principles and problem-solving rather than anything that was memorizable. It was relatively harder than the SAT-I but wasn't outdone by either an abstract mathematics or modern physics for physicists & engineers finals in college. I now wonder about the utility
of academic hazing rituals, if it wasn't just a formulaic cash-grab and elitism demand rather than a meaningful attempt at knowledge or process indoctrination.
it depends on how much tax you are paying really. if you pay billions in taxes annually, they might see past it. if the company you copied from pays billions in taxes anually. you will go to jail. if this isn't painfuly obvious by now...
Copyright was invented by a cartel of noblemen, the British Stationer's Company, who, due to liberal reform, were going to lose their publishing monopoly. The implementation of copyright law as they helped pen allowed them to mostly continue their position while portraying it as "protecting the little guy".

Funny how both the rhetoric and intentions are the same after three hundred years.
Yes, general misunderstanding of the cascade is definitely one of the reasons, sadly. I admit that sharing origin level is sometimes OK, but I think that having control over the level at which we enter the cascade would be even better.

Styles injected into "author" origin layer share context with "page", so are exposed to their scripts, and when we need to beat some author's !important rule, we must make sure we have equal or greater selector specificity, what leads to absurd selectors like `*:not(#a#b#c#d) { border-radius: 0 !important }` with hope that page author will not use matching selector with five IDs.

In regular User Stylesheet any important rule wins over all author rules, regardless their selector specificity and importance. I find this design decision as very elegant and effective distribution of power.
> That's a reason not to make fundamental changes to your flows (...)

You're somehow assuming the engineering teams involved in making these decisions don't think through these issues and just jumpstart changes to critical parts of their business without any thought or consideration.

In the meantime, engineers need to work in the real world, with real world requirements and constraints. Often enough, these include introduce breaking changes, such as changes to workflows.

It is entirely unhelpful to lay grand claims based on your ability to wish whole problems away. Don't like catching a flu? Well, that's a reason to not get sick. Insightful.
> Do people really dual boot a lot in 2024

Seems the answer is yes. https://linux-hardware.org/?view=os_dual_boot_win

> there is virtually zero overhead in using VM nowadays

It might be more accurate to say that if you have a fast computer with lots of resources the experience running a basic desktop experience feels perceptibly native. This means it is a great answer to running windows software that neither needs a discrete GPU nor direct access to hardware on the minority of machines that are capable enough for this to be comfortable.

In actuality laptops are more common than desktops and the majority of computers have 8GB of RAM or less. 60% all form factors 66% laptops. This just isn't enough to comfortably run both.

https://linux-hardware.org/?view=memory_size&formfactor=all

Furthermore while most Linux users are comfortable installing and running windows and Linux whereas they may or may not be familiar with virtualization.

Also probably the number one reason someone might dual boot is probably still gaming which although light years ahead of years prior still doesn't have 100% compatibility with Windows. In theory GPU passthrough is an option but in reality this is a complicated niche configuration unsuitable for the majority of use cases. Anyone who isn't happy with steam/proton/wine is probably more apt to dual boot rather than virtualize.
Energy Stocks to the Moon
From the article:

> The anonymous programmers have repeatedly insisted Copilot could, and would, generate code identical to what they had written themselves, which is a key pillar of their lawsuit since there is an identicality requirement for their DMCA claim. However, Judge Tigar earlier ruled the plaintiffs hadn't actually demonstrated instances of this happening, which prompted a dismissal of the claim with a chance to amend it.

So, the problem is really one of the lack of evidence, which seems... like a pretty basic mistake from the plaintiffs?

They could've taken a screencap video back when Copilot still produced code more verbatim, and used that as evidence, I assume.
> computational complexity characterizes the difficulty of mapping an input to an output

The question revolves around computability: can the input be mapped to an output; does the calculation terminate and the output emerge.
> a majority of adults all around the world are alcoholics

there's no way that can be true right?

And isn't alcohol already taxed a lot for the same reason?
It looks quite smaller in scope than devenv (https://devenv.sh/)
> The tax should be gradually decreased until people's habits change

I don't think people's habits will change irreversibly. If you remove the tax, a new cool drink (think Monster when it came out, but for kids) will sweep tiktok, and all the kids will want it.

> the money received from this tax should be directly spent on educating the public about why it's bad to consume too much sugar

Sadly I don't think taxes end up working this way for long. They might or might not start by doing this, but then they just stay forever.
I fail to see how this is relevant, if anything it's evidence of harm. Those people notoriously had rotting teeth [1] and probably a myriad of other health issues (many unrelated to sugar)

[1] https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/01/18/tudor-england-the-...
The best music is often discovered while a train, or a night bus at 2AM, with a sub-par quality headphone ;)
> Those two flight deck pilots had breathed-up all the oxygen in their breathing packs by the time they hit the sea, something confirmed by the empty breathing packs that were recovered. Which means they were alive when they hit the sea!

I don't understand how this follows. The best scenario is that they had their last drops of oxygen around hitting the sea; in other scenarios they died from lack of oxygen before hitting the sea.
Obviously the use is pejorative here and "cult" is the only word for "sect led by disingenuous person taking advantage of a bunch of people".

But "cult" is a very overloaded word. I'm a bit leery of using the first sentence of a wikipedia article as a dictionary definition with no alternatives.

I'm used to "cult" meaning "dangerous sect", but also just "new religion", "tiny religion", or "overly specific religion".

e.g. calling early Christianity a Jewish cult or talking about the Greek Cult of Athena
> If your intention is to remove features and fire the customers who are relying on them, that's a different matter.

No. That is not a different matter. That's basically the whole problem being discussed, and the topic of the blog post you're discussing.
My experience of Devbox on Linux has been highly disappointing. I gave it a good go, had it running on my main project from February to May.

In case you hadn't realised, the very concept of having two sets of binary distributions on one machine, vying for superiority and the correct version of glibc... is fraught.

Most of my use was with rails projects, and I can't recommend it.

Coupled with an abstraction that tries to save you from Nix, but almost entirely fails, you end up with a bloated hellscape where every time you load your project it will unnecessarily reinstall your packages and several times an hour it will have forgotten curl exists and so you have to manually reinstall curl (not-so-slowly increasing your /nix folder's size), every week or two a new version of devbox completely changes the workarounds you need to do, and don't try to garbage collect nix or it will delete vital files, and you end up scrubbing it all and starting again.

In python, it overrode the path so I couldn't get it to reliably use the binaries in the venv. Pip and Python were using packages in different places and I couldn't get them to converge for love nor money.

The devbox team were great and really tried to get things working, but in the end I couldn't get it to work with enough stability to properly recommend it to my team, and if I wanted it to half-work for any substantial length of time I had to lock to a version of devbox.

Obviously, ymmv, please do give it a try, it's an impressive project. But my view is that it's trying to do something that is very very hard, and for that you need a very clever solution. And this is a very clever solution, with very clever bugs, and so it's not something I'd recommend jumping into with both feet.
It's fine, but you're going to attract a lot of network costs bridging data between AWS accounts.

Generally I'd stick to accounts per environment, you'll be worrying about a lot more when you get to FAANG scale.
heremaps are another option, it has its own map data and map model
TripleByte changed my (professional) life. Around 2019, I was in a bit of a professional lull but knew just enough coding to be dangerous.

I got roped into the TripleByte funnel through a Reddit ad, which eventually culminated in moving out to SF for a YC startup. Several years later, I had a role at FAANG and reached a level of professional $ucce$$ that was orders of magnitude better than where I had been ~4 years prior.

I wish TripleByte was still around. I remember interviewing.io doing a study on whether there was any signal from LinkedIn profiles with “skill badges.” TripleByte was the only badge that had predictive value for ability-to-receive-an-offer, but the flip side was that recruiters negatively associate these badges with profiles of people in early-stage careers, which means that you’re better served by not having any badges on your profile.
Adobe Chooses a Print Partner for Express
Over the years there have been many implementations of the deflate/inflate compression standard. I have been prioritizing speed for most of my projects and over the last few years have also been focused on getting things working on constrained/embedded devices. I set about profiling zlib and found some clever ways to speed it up and reduce its memory footprint. I'm mostly interested in the inflate side of the equation for decompressing gzip and PNG files. By removing the "I can work a byte at a time" feature and optimizing repeated patterns and unaligned accesses. My version runs 50-100% faster than both zlib and miniz on embedded processors (e.g. ESP32). It's down to a single C file of around 700 lines; 6.5K of RAM + the output data size. No external dependencies (not even malloc/file systems). My version forces you to use it as memory-to-memory. This can be quite useful for decoding small blocks of data on small devices (e.g. http requests). What do you think?
Maybe this one's not new, but I want to hear about any new ones. Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%9...
There's a whole subfield of "jack detection" (where the final amp stage attempts to determine what's plugged in) and probably a "jack assignment" panel in your driver software that can configure whether the OS thinks of it as "speakers" or "headphones".
Virtually all artificially sweetened soft drinks in the Uk (that’s what the levy applies to) are sweetened with aspartame, which is fairly well-understood.
To be fair, gold the metal is significantly more interesting than gold the medal.
yes this is very basic economics. this is literally the "draw a supply and demand curve" example and intro 101 economics classes talking about elasticity and substitution. or you can model it using elementary game theory.
Having kids and seeing that made me cry.
I assumed (heard somewhere) that they only include open source repos in the training data.

Turns out I was wrong. They don't care.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210708165143/https://twitter.c...
Emailed Framework, they publish webcam connector specs at Github [0] and promised to do the same for the new modules. Sounds doable if you know your way around electronics.

[0] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13/tre...
It's a Ship of Theseus thing since JR continuously upgrade their stations / stock. I would argue that Tokyo Metro show it's age more. Despite the dirtiness of London's Tube, I think it shows a bit more character in this aspect.
> Am I the only one who is always tired in the plane no matter what and cannot anything but close my eyes and wait till the flight is over?

I suffer from adult ADHD. It is harder for me to focus when at work. But, on a plane or other busy places, I can achieve laser focus. Counterintuitive, but I am told that many ADHD brains work like this.

My time on the plane is the most productive.
When I was a kid, it dawned on me that to be among the best, you had to be the one willing to sacrifice the most. Because there are diminishing returns up there, and when everything is equal (talent, biology, etc), then what you cut of to dedicate to the craft is one of the last differentiators.

So really, did I want to be among the best that bad?

And I realized I didn't.

The price is too high.
It's always fun to read an article like this, spot the "this is a press release" tone, and then spot which company had it placed in the WSJ. Along with a quote from the CEO. It's basically free advertising.
it was a catch-all phrase, you muppet. we do know "old age" isn't a real disease, we do know about immortal jellyfish. we do know about strategies for engineered negligible senescence. it's not the gotcha you think you had.
DESCHALL Project
You should take a breath and make your complete argument somewhere all at once. Your reactive fragmented answers up and down the tree of comments are still terminally unintelligible, as of this comment.
Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight
This is the same reasoning the music and movie industries use when they go after people downloading music. And contrary to the popular opinion, I think it is wrong: if people want to pay, they will pay. Same for movies: if people would really want to pay for a movie, they would go to a cinema. Or stream it after a week or two. But there are also people who would jump through hoops than pay for music or movies. And that is not a lost sale because there was never an intention to buy something in the first place.
The largest forms of tax revenue in the UK are, in order:

* Income Tax

* National Insurance

* VAT

* Corporation Tax

In terms of amounts received, the first is by far the largest
and is overwhelmingly paid by 'higher earners'. The top 50
% pay over 90% of it. The top 1% pay ~30% of it.

National Insurance is less progressive. I would argue that should change but it is what it is.

I can't argue against VAT being regressive, but breakdown of 'amount of VAT paid by income' isn't available.
I think they do get designed specially for resisting the vacuum collapsing the walls, but you're right, it can probably be done!
2-clause BSD vs LGPL-2 can be an advantage, depending on your perspective
I think Policy Details card should have a scrollbar, but it is set to "overflow: hidden".
> He's not asking about a function f that outputs 1 if God exists or 0 if God doesn't exist.

Because that’s not a function in the mathematical sense. The output of a mathematical function can only depend on its inputs, and the function in question is not given any inputs, hence it’s necessarily a constant function, and constant functions are trivially computable.
I've never seen a soft drink sweetened with Xylitol. Is this a store brand thing? Most soft drinks I encounter seem to be sweetened by a combination of aspartame and acesulfame K.

Xylitol seems to be common in candy (especially chewing gum) and deserts, but I don't think that's relevant to a soda tax.

Perhaps you know of a commercial soft drink sweetened with xylitol that I don't?
The poor video quality makes it artificially difficult to see. I can barely see the faces of even the people in the front.
^^ this exactly. it doesn't matter which wing you like, all outcomes of chevron were bad. the over-turning is not.

you may or may not like the decisions of congress. you may or may not like the decisions of a court. i could live with either.

but an unaccountable bureaucracy's kangaroo court needs to be checked severely.
> In the real world if you insist on breaking your paying customers' processes and products over and over again, (...)

You do not break anyone's experience by releasing a new version that's voluntarily adopted by your paying customers.

You are also somehow inexplicably assuming that your paying customers didn't ended up being paying customers because you adapted to customer demands and added the value that was important enough to them that they decided to pay for it.

I can tell you for a fact that there are paying customers for APIs that pay to use both the latest API and older versions. More often than not, they still consume old versions because they cannot spare the manpower to update some clients/services.

On top of that,the problem grows a few orders of magnitude when you open your APIs to the public. Even when you control the only clients to your APIs, it's impossible to get some end users to upgrade their software. Some still run old OSes that have long been unsupported, and some are even physically unable to run updates.
You're missing the point. Those who pursue voluntary activities that "burden the health system" don't "pay their way".

Those who pay are everyone else. Healthcare t's a tragedy of the commons unlike other taxes where it's more difficult to abuse the common resource such as roads and other infrastructure.
I'd also expect that kids drink sugary soft drinks more than adults.
>The problem is that most of them haven’t been back.

It's super task dependent.

We got a shiny AI at work (big finance place) that is both good from a technical PoV and is officially blessed for confidential info. Above is true - little use even by myself. I just can't figure out a good use...the dots just don't connect to what I need.

...go home & do some hobby coding / homelab tinkering...loads of AI use with great effect.

I do think this is somewhat temporary though, better integration into office products & OS etc will presumably still come, but a chatbot accessible easily isn't enough. Really needs something closer to the much feared MS's recall thingie...I know privacy issues, but I mean that sort of omnipresence would be needed to be useful.
Funny you mention "trust in the government to handle this stuff" I was considering applying to this "canadian center for cyber security" but all the DEI upfront stuff and the fact that they are putting time and effort into "social media" turns me off real hard.

How do they expect tech nerds who want to work for some other reason than someone else's capitalism dream to settle for "monitoring social media" They need job postings mentioning "illegally hacking foreign hardware" or something
fat??
We’re adding fat to soft drinks now?
tuition-free for how long? current class? Forever?
I miss the old IndieHackers website, so I started an alternative
We had a similar experience with devenv. It didn't really prevent us from needing to learn nix, and then we had two things to deal with instead of one. We eventually switched back to just nix.
There used to be a transformer in phones for side tone, a small amount of what you say is piped back into the earpiece, they did this because they found people would shout if they couldn't here their own voice. I've often wished mobiles would do this.
They old Hanse-Aristocrats did Stop Franz Josef Strauss from acquiring nukes and now all of europe is secretly scrambling to buy the materials and techniques from every country willing to sell.

Somewhere in some swedish/finish/isaeli nuclear powerplant, some eastern european/ russian-chinese border countries delegations are sharing a waiting room, whistling tunelessly embarrassed by this generation of politicans ability to perceive and shape the world.

The peaceniks just don't get that in this game they do not make the rules. The one defector that starts the war does.
War by definition is societys end- and thus society has no say there, try as it might. It can allow its own version of the "devil" to put up bullwarks. Or it doesn't