skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, the EPA is required to reanalyze the current florudation recommendations.

> 121. Plaintiffs have proven, by a preponderance of the evidence, that water fluoridation at the level of 0.7 mg/L – the prescribed optimal level of fluoridation in the United States – presents an “unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, without consideration of costs or other non-risk factors, including an unreasonable risk to a potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulation under the conditions of use.” 15 U.S.C. § 2620(b)(4)(B)(ii).

Full ruling: https://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Court-R...

The law mentioned: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/2620
Back in the 1800’s people linearly extrapolated farmland usage, and concluded we’d run out in the early 1900’s.

It was about as ridiculous as the degrowth movement is today. Improving efficiency and decreasing environmental impact is almost always a better bet than embracing artificial scarcity.
> why even go looking at the book of kells ... etc
You can do it yourself: http://openwireless.org/
Replication studies can't fix science
Effective Ground and Pound Techniques
That's so difficult, man. I'm sorry. It shouldn't be this way.
It's obviously not a muscle. Wasn't the metaphor obvious?
I don't think the logic follows.

> For example, if I had a 15 year-old, unremarkable used car but insured it for $1m, then I'd have an incentive to leave it parked (but locked!) in sketchy areas of town in the hopes that it would be stolen.

No, you wouldn't if the premium is high enough (i.e. your net gain from doing so is small enough).
I think it highly depends on the technique.

The image recognition of google at 2018 most certainly was trained on a database of labelled images, and I would bet that the labels should have been short and distinct, not "a cloud with a vague representation of Bruce Willis' face" !
China steers wayward elephant herd back home with drones, bananas (2021)
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Fiction: Independent People by Halldór Laxness or Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Non-Fiction: The Feynman lectures on Physics.
It's not about implementing a graph or a trie. It's about knowing when and why these data structures matter.

Sure, you (or an LLM) can probably find a package that can quickly search for a file in an extremely large filesystem.

I'm guessing that the authors of S3 didn't have that luxury when they were building out this service years ago, though. There are very few people on Earth that deal with exabytes of data, and prior art only gets you so far in this scenario.

The only way something like that can be built is by truly understanding CS fundamentals. Most people study CS to become a SWE. If programming gets reduced to maintaining prompts and optimizing here and there, then there is a real risk of this discipline eroding over time.
I have a similar story about my sister, except that her online life wasn't a surprise after her death. For the last decade or so of her life she was confined to her bed, with first 12-hour and later 24-hour nursing care (after my mom became unable to sit up all night with her). Through Facebook and other social media she was able to communicate with literally hundreds of people with chronic illnesses and make them feel seen and loved. After we announced her death on her Facebook page it just blew up with hundreds of tributes. Her life was so physically limited compared to mine, but I can't help but feel it was far more meaningful. And I can't be shallowly dismissive of the good that Facebook and similar platforms have done for people like her, as much as I loathe their corrosive effects on our political discourse.
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Perhaps you are assuming that your conditions, plans, and access are exactly the same across all ~500 million people in the EU.
That's not really the issue though (and for the record, I agree that a person found guilty of what they were arrested for 15 times should be incarcerated).

The problem is: why is this person doing this, because there are at least two outcomes:

1. we lock them up, and a part of the problem is gone

2. we lock them up, and someone else steps in to do the same thing

From my perspective, there's ample evidence to suggest that #2 is more likely, and thus even if locking them up has some moral weight behind it, it isn't likely to be a solution to crime in general.
Women in Tech
I sold three companies. I’m a woman and it has been hard to be a woman in tech. My previous business partners have made many remarks about my appearance. One of them insinuating that I was ugly. I was vetting a potential business partner and he asked me if I was a virgin. He also made several references to my appearance. Also he kept looking at my body after we talked. How do other women handle this?
I can’t begin to imagine the weight of your story, and I know there are no perfect words to ease the pain of living this life. Please know that my thoughts are with you during this.

I can only imagine the depth of your concern for your daughter’s future, and I wish there were more I could offer. For now, please accept my deepest sympathy and a warm, virtual embrace.
Agree. Around here bike theft is a huge problem and none of the pawn shops will deal with bicycles at all, it’s too risky for them.
How does a finite speed of causality help simulation performance? You still end up computing the interaction of every event with every particle in the Universe. Despite being amortized, you still need to compute the same number of interactions per unit time.
There are some ideas that if seriously considered can leave many people with radical doubts about the nature of reality, which is dangerous to ones functioning as a normally conditioned human in society. You can acquire ideas by reading, thus, writings can be dangerous.

Of course, social conformity as the criteria for mental health means that existential texts and socially activist texts are both rightly categorized as hazards to the status quo, meaning that repression of ideas will repress both good and bad writings. Liberation theology is in this way as dangerous an idea as brain in a vat radical skepticism or whatever the hell wittgenstein was on about.
Terrible agenda-driven title, implying that the interviewee's main message was about the dangers of relying on AI, where in fact it was the opposite, how AI can be a great tool to elevate human capacity if used well.
Sounds like trains in your area need to have better security and ticket checkers.
Can the pharmaceutical industry police itselt?
Easy to say "never use a storage unit" when you have a long-term home.
> Many of King’s criticisms of the film largely arise from the fundamental differences in the intentions behind the book and the movie.

As with "Heart of Darkness" / "Apocalypse Now", this gets at one point I always bring up in these contexts: a book and movie can be related, but they are distinct works of art. (HoD/AN being an extreme example of distance.)

"The book was better" always strikes me as unhelpful. What is communicated visually is radically different than what is communicated in prose. Plus, an actor is an artist, too. "Here's Johnny!" cannot be achieved in text the way Nicholson delivered it on the screen.

King himself is standing too close to the prose work to assess whether the film is any good. Of course Kubric couldn't match a vision that exists in King's head.
> There are some neat videos out there where people make their own

The "glitter bomb" series is pretty funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo&list=PLgeXOVaJo_...
>The US already incarcerates vastly more people than most comparable nations

because it has vastly more crime than comparable nations. you have to look at what happens to crime in the US over time, when you are more or less stringent about jailing criminals; predictably as you fill the jails, crime goes down, and when you empty them, crimes goes up.

>It seems that you imagine that the crime is somehow intrinsic to the current group of people committing it, and that by removing them from society, their behavior would not recur.

people try to smuggle this false premise into discussions about law and order all the time. the primary purpose of jail is not rehabilitation, it is to protect the public from criminals. you put them in jail so that they can't commit crimes. if they commit crimes when they leave, put them in jail again. jails mostly don't rehabilitate criminals, but that's a failure of the idea of mass rehabilitation, not a failure of mass incarceration. crime is a choice.
The incorrect capitalization made me think that, perhaps, there's a scarcely known escape sequence \N that is different from \n. Maybe it matches any character that isn't a newline? Nope, just small caps in the original article.
That is the literal pillar; physically and figuratively the foundation, of my knowledge corpus; aptly the bottom book in my corner-turned-library.

I spent hours as a kid, slowly parsing, contextualizing, researching every iota and minutiae of that book.

I had an encyclopedia just to help supplement that book.
To counter the avalanche of retries on different layers, I have also seen a custom header being added to all requests that are retries. Upon receiving a request with this header, the microservice would turn off its own retry logic for this request.
american style incarceration breeds criminals. it isnt a form of punishment for the vast majority of people who end up in prison or jail. its details like these that bleeding heart people gloss over.
Yes, because people only drink a certain amount of tap water so you know they're getting the recommended dosage of fluoride.
> Your average software engineer would probably fail to code up a python solution to this problem

[citation needed]. I say that, if you can't write a program that solves this problem, you don't have any business calling yourself a "software engineer".
People drink a cup or two of tea a day while they drink more than 2 liters of water a day. It's a magnitude difference.

Plus, drinking tea or eating California rice are completely optional. While you have to go through a filtering process to get ride of fluoride.
Data caps are still a thing for mobile data, coverage is often shit (as a result the speed is hit and miss), and basically only smartphones can use it so you have to faf around with making a hotspot. P2P stuff like webrtc is also blocked because we can't have nice things.
Politicians who claim to be tough on crime are usually just tough on black people and drug users, which helps nobody.
Why is this getting down-voted without comment? Comparative analysis is taboo, now? I don't think Arthur Whitney would feel the least bit threatened by some Python code.
RasgueaDB
Well this is pretty much the goal of the BQN website so my best attempts are there. I might point to the quick start page https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/quick.html as a way to feel more comfortable with the syntax right away. And the community page https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/community/index.html collects links by others; Sylvia's blog in particular focuses on the sorts of flat array techniques that are useful for a compiler.
If you’re treating an otherwise-fatal cancer, sure, although it would still great to further improve the treatment. If you’re treating a much less lethal autoimmune condition, then the calculation is a bit different.
No shit. Just like people who "create AI art" aren't actually creating anything.

We've let these tech companies distill learning and creating down to a mouse click.
You can work and achieve goals. No one said you can't.

In terms of prestige, I would float this thought: Can you name the CFO of Home Depot (or, another major company of your choice)?

I can't and I loved Home Depot. That CFO has C-suite privileges and prestige beyond what most will achieve, but they still aren't known even to people who like their product.

Also, stop worrying about prestige because no one else really cares. We don't. We don't care if you drive a Mercedes-Benz or live in a tawny neighborhood. We have our own stuff to deal with, just like you.

In fact, you'll probably get the worst side of people of your looking for clout. That's when folks will try to take it away by any means necessary. Be nice to yourself face while screwing you in the rear.

Worry more about what you love, not what everyone thinks.
That is a massive over simplification and you're pointing the fingers at the wrong culprits.

I've talked a lot recently about the problems with env vars for terminal detection and the problems with developers not understanding how to correctly query terminal capabilities. Heck, some don't even correctly support non-TTY outputs (ie pipes). And then there's the issue that terminfo is a C library so a lot of languages with average to no-C FFI support cannot use it without fork()ing -- which is slow. Plus terminfo is POSIX only which eliminates platforms like Windows -- which is increasingly a target now that Windows Terminal supports ANSI escape sequences.

It's a mess and blaming that on history and terminfo really misunderstands that the real problem is modern tools not respecting or having compatibility with that history, rather than the history breaking things.

> If we are supposed to go with the lowest common denominator without terminfo capabilities, we would even lose 4bit colors. Then only the basic 8 colors are safe because there a lot of terminals now that don't support the workaround of "bold plus basic color gives bright color" anymore.

You're missing the point. It's not about supporting the lowest common denominator -- though I'd love you to give some example of terminal emulators in common use that don't support 4-bit colours ;)

It's about supporting user defaults. Themes based on 8-bit and 24-bit colour pallets are defined by the developer. Whereas themes based on 3 and 4-bit colour pallets are defined by the terminal user.

Hence why I say applications should default to the terminal defaults (defined by the user)

There's times when applications should support 24-bit regardless of the user preferences. Such as image rendering in the terminal. But those are exceptions rather than the norm. And precisely why things like `256-color` and $COlORTERM need to be defining terminal support not user preference.
It would be illegal to live in a tent.
There is actually.

Many systems use \N in CSVs or similar as NULL, to distinguish from an empty string.

I figured this is what the article was about?
ChatGPT does this too by default right?
Thanks, but I saw that much, I should have been clearer. I'm hoping for something on the scale of a survey if not a paper.

Honestly, my first curiosity regards whether Chuck Moore and Forth get any mention or whether this is a true parallel development, possibly necessitated by the hardware at hand. My perception, based on zero evidence, was that Forth had some influence on the design of Postscript.
If you pay for icloud, there’s a button in iOS that tunnels everything over a tor-wannabe vpn.

There’s no real reason to trust wifi access points at this point, or demand they be trustworthy.
EM can be used to impute data, but that would be single imputation. Multiple imputation as described here would not use EM since the goal is to get samples from a distribution of possible values for the missing data.
John McPhee's "The Curve of Binding Energy".
Nobody has unlimited data in reality, it's just a marketing term. All providers will throttle you down to nothing at some point sooner or later.
It's a completely different thing. You are talking about civilisation constructs, parent is talking about things like mental fitness, abilities to perform tasks in real-time by yourself.

For example, card payments are a crutch. If you pay by card / phone everywhere and then out of the sudden you are to pay in cash, it becomes mildly challenging vs. if you are used to pay in cash you don't think about it. The brain is capable of a great deal of automation, performing learned actions is effortless. Unlike a calculator or a spreadsheet, the buyer is not doing anything, just buying. It's not a bicycle, it's a crutch. It simply atrophies the mental bandwidth. The mind becomes more lax, less sharp, when it does not engage.

Now imagine what it will do to people's brains when instead of thinking about solutions themselves, they will ask the AI for everything. Those neurons will atrophy and the person will be even less skilled to ask the AI the right questions than if they did not use the AI in the first place. I think the key will be a balance between doing the work yourself and delegating the stuff to AI, but it will be difficult to find that balance. Just like smartphones can be very useful but in the end are a net negative to society.
> I think not. And in particular, I find the the position that "hypocrisy, or rather weakly supported insinuations of hypocrisy, in regard to a certain evil is a vastly more vital and pressing topic than the actual evil happening on the ground itself" (to sum up these discussions in a nutshell) to be especially non-worthy of protracted discussion and "nuanced" debate.

I can’t keep up with your trains of interpretation.

Whatever the actual evil happening on the ground is, it can’t be about the submission since that’s just about lounging in a lecture hall and talking about philosophy. So I’m at a loss as regards the thing we’re being distracted from.

> God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, such as debates and counter-debates about whataboutism on HN.

God, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, such as people responding to me on a topic that I myself started.

Doesn’t sound as reasonable in that formulation.
Why does “I contend” feel awkward to you? It is more specific than “I differ” because that could also mean that the author physically differs, which is awkward, while “contend” is specifically used for disagreement on some topic? Does “I contend”
maybe has a ring to it of being scholastic/pretentious? (Also non-native English, just curious)
The core of this article is uncontroversial: water fluoridation is effective, but less effective than it was half a century ago because fluoridated toothpaste is now nearly universal.

With that said, the author commits the two cardinal sins of public health journalism: they allow dangerous levels of a substance to be conflated with recognized safe levels, and they confuse value for a sub-sample of the population (those who can/do use fluoride toothpaste and go to the dentist regularly) with value for the entire population.

The latter in particular is why water fluoridation in areas with low natural fluoride levels is sound public health policy: it helps the population as a whole, even when not all segments can or will obtain appropriate dental care.
Even if it was legal, most people wouldn't like that.
Since we're doing anecdotes, my kids grew up on well water and have never had cavities or tooth problems. They (most of the time) brush their teeth daily, eat sugary crap, and get fluoride treatments applied yearly from the dentist (they "paint" a gel on the kids teeth, I believe this is standard in the US for all children regardless of water fluoridation).
Not really that hard to find:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-...
>and for the record, I agree that a person found guilty of what they were arrested for 15 times should be incarcerated

but you know damned well that most of the time it doesn't even go to trial. they're arrested, released, arrested, released, charges pressed, charges dropped; an endless merry-go-round. eventually people stop even reporting crime, why should they bother when the criminals don't get put away?

>From my perspective, there's ample evidence to suggest that #2 is more likely

why? this is like the "lump of labour" fallacy but for crime.

and yes, getting rid of just a few career criminals does disproportionately reduce crime. here's a funny natural experiment from ireland:

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/number-of-burgla...
You don't have to commit a crime to be arrested. You just have to do something the police don't like - like holding up certain signs in a public space.
Italian prosecutors accuse 7 people, 2 firms over flawed Boeing plane parts
There's only so many people that are criminally predisposed. The org doing bike thefts will stop if the penalty is high enough. Singapore has low crime because they prosecute aggressively. No one seemed to fill in for arrested gang members in El Salvador (extreme example)

Then there are the crazy person punching an Asian lady on the subway crimes and these fall squarely in 1
Information density is studied in linguistics. It could likely apply to programming languages similarly.
Dietary fluoride has a minimal impact, you need fluoride on the surface of the tooth. A fluoride rinse is much more effective that tablets or in the water.
Don't look for cold sense in mr musk's adventures, just look at whole twitter saga. He is a overgrown child with brilliant mind but very little control of his emotions (on top or other real mental issues under variable control). My almost-5 year old son has in some aspects more emotional maturity than him.

Doesn't mean that stuff ain't truth of course, but his recent conservative alignment has deeply personal reasons too.
That actually does not refute GP, rather, it changes the conversation to "do we want to preserve civilization". The cynic would note that many have demonstrated in the past year that they are willing to sacrifice civilization.
Thankfully they always ran away.
I Don't Write Exploits
By using a USB 2.0 port.
There have been projects like this in the past. At least in some parts of Europe, they worked just for the minimum mandated period at the minimum mandated speeds. And the equipment bought was marked up heavily.

And looking at the prices for enterprise grade WiFi these days... 15K EUR goes very little.
I agree with your premise, but golf is a bad example.

Golf is heavily subsidized. It's the poster child of a sport that wouldn't exist if it had to pay fair taxes or abide by free market pressures.

There are a handful of activities that cater to the elite like an 'artist subsidy'. Golf makes the list.
I believe other people are using any such storage as a cache, trading space for time, since even if you instantly found the exact replacements, you'd still pay not only monetarily for shipping but wall-clock for both shipping and the drudgery of searching for said items

Interestingly, I read a blog post where someone was using "fulfilled by amazon" as off-site storage, but I think it was a pseudo thought experiment more than an actual storage solution, similar to those folks who use data-as-video on YouTube as infinite backup storage
For most of human evolution, wouldn’t 50 be incredibly old to become a grandparent?
The real "meta" of Meta.
Unfortunate name/acronym (GPL will conflict with at least one well-established thing). Also - it’s a programming language to tell AIs what to do? I thought most of the point was that you can tell them what to do in natural language?
The K-mafia is in control. Just kidding, I don’t really care either way…
Read the study

> 73% of the prior offenses are violent and 80% are property related (obviously non-exclusive)
Tablets that the kids ingest?? After so much evidence of the neurotoxic effects of ingested fluoride, it's worse than criminal if these dentists are giving fluoride for kids to eat.
In struggled with this trend even before the AI hype. I love learning and focused my work towards always learning. But it takes energy and lots of work; some days are better than others. My love of learning keeps me motivated over time. However, I’ve noticed a downward trend of juniors who are focused on being spoon fed the answers and avoiding any learning. It drives me nuts and I don’t know how to reconcile this kind of mental model.