skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that gets me with arguments such as this is that it talks right over the heads of the Ukrainians like they don't matter. "Oh, the U.S. should moderate it's policy." "NATO shouldn't be pushing East." "The West didn't listen." I hear the same sentiment around the Baltic states: "NATO shouldn't have pushed in, and that angered Putin."

Give it up for those repeating those misconceptions and making the argument into one where NATO is pushing, or the U.S. isn't being "moderate" enough with regards to Ukrainian sovereignty.

Talk to the Ukrainians, the Lithuanians and Estonians, the Poles, and the Finns. And they'll all tell you the same: It's been Russian imperialism for centuries, be it under the guise of the USSR or Tzar or the current president for life. They don't want to give up their land and populations to become part of Russia's empire. And just a very cursory glance at history will pull examples of this. Finland lost it's second largest city in the 40s, and is still without it. The Baltics and Ukraine only became free in the 90s. The Poles went through multiple stretches of time where they were divide up and didn't exist.

Your country gets invaded one day, the occupied lands vacated of their residents, the children re-homed in families elsewhere, but you'd tell them to "moderate" their policy? That further more, they shouldn't be allowed to seek alliances? If someone invaded the U.S., I seriously doubt that line of opinion would obtain support anywhere.

It's not about U.S. policy. It's about Ukraine wanting to be independent and Russia wanting it as part of theirs. Simple as that. Don't ask the U.S. about Ukrainian policy like the Ukrainians aren't there. Have some respect, and ask the Ukrainians what they want.

Then I dare you to tell them to moderate it.
They're politically captured and lacking sovereignty more than they are naive. It's awkward and nobody wants to admit it but fundamentally they have a relationship with the US that is similar to the one Belarus has with Russia.

That's why when the pipeline was blown up and they became dependent instead on more expensive American LNG they accepted their fate with a minimum of protest. It's why they've not demonstrated much interest in finding the culprit, despite the incredible economic damage it incurred.
Thankfully we have another Walgreens executive quote for that:

> “Maybe we cried too much last year” about merchandise losses, Walgreens finance chief James Kehoe acknowledged Thursday on an earnings call.

There's a lot of circumstantial evidence that points to retailers using shoplifting as an excuse to close underperforming stores without drawing scrutiny about poor management or strategy:

> For example, data released by the San Francisco Police Department does not support the explanation Walgreens gave that it was closing five stores because of organized retail theft, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2021.

> One of the shuttered stores that closed had only seven reported shoplifting incidents in 2021 and a total of 23 since 2018, according to the newspaper. Overall, the five stores that closed had fewer than two recorded shoplifting incidents a month on average since 2018.

But hey, you might say "how come a lot of different retailers all complained at the same time?"

There was a huge push by the National Retail Federation, a group that lobbies on behalf of these huge chain retailers: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-ret...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopliftin...

https://popular.info/p/lies-damn-lies-and-shoplifting-statis...
Agree, there are plenty of kids who go to government schools and have enormous gaps in their knowledge, in the west as well.

I'm saying that, all things being equal, I'd rather my kids be homeschooled with a few gaps, than go to a government school (and be traumatized) and have no gaps.
A broken clock is right once a day. RFK Jr. is not the nutcase we're told he is, he's a very slight different kind of nutcase that's just as bad because he mixes legitimate concerns with his absolutely insane point of view, and uses the same spurious arguments for both, muddying the water for everyone.
So simple you solved it before you finished writing
What if you serve it to me from behind the paywall without me paying?

My client: "Hey, I didn't pay, but can I have that data?"

Your server: "Sure! Here it is!"
Pretty much this. My farther was strict on on the kind of behavior he did not tolerate (and made them explicit early). No compromises. We were aware of the lines and the closer we tread to them, the more he took on the role of authority. But after we became adult and there was no need for that authority role, we became quite good friends with each other. My mother rarely had to take up on that role, but there was still clear separation between children and parents.
Excellent article - thank you for posting.
The proof here seems to be an interview with someone (owner of the LA Times) who talked with RFK for a few hours came away believing he knows more than doctors. Is that right?
The comment they are replying to suggests taking down all the major social media networks by government force ("Just get rid of all of them").

Arguably, even if you are not prohibiting the content itself, if you take away the means for your content to spread far & wide, that's the same as censorship.

I find this quite disturbing.
Hey, I was born in 1971!
Interestingly both seem to have had no benefit to the German economy?

Stability AI is not a German company and Biontech's market cap is where it was before Covid.
None of them were commercialized in Germany though.
There’s nothing worse than listening to the audio of someone else scrolling TikTok

Hearing the same 10 second clip of a song 20 times
Thanks for the feedback!
We already use AI in the PR to explain whats happening and the best practices to adopt. As for the code remediation part: most LLMs fail to generate the right IaC code thats adapted to your infra because they miss its general context (config, dependencies..). We are building first the deterministic part (the context) and once we have the context our plan is to add the fix/recommendation in the change.
I was exposed to a lot of biology in college, so I understood.
So literally all the same things the US does, but because China's doing it, now it's wrong. Got it.

I am being glib but I do want it understood that I appreciate the nuance and documentation you put the work into to show. It's just that, literally every one of these I already know about the United States doing so the outrage on it's part feels incredibly, hilariously hypocritical.
are you claiming that the US disadvantages non-American traffic? like Chinese vessels are less safe, or not free to travel, or prone to piracy?

I think that's not the case. you can make a case that Russia's "shadow fleet" is being treated with some bias, but then again...
I wouldn't consider Froot Loops a health food, but the Canadian version have all natural flavour and colour-

"Concentrated carrot juice (for colour), Anthocyanin, Annatto, Turmeric, Natural flavour, Concentrated watermelon juice (for colour), Concentrated blueberry juice (for colour), Concentrated huito juice (for colour)" etc

From their ingredients.
To be honest, I just saw a really phenomenal dark comedy routine about somebody who was adept at socializing with adults at 6 or 7 and I've been thinking a lot about that dynamic and the dark side of being a precocious kid. I wasn't that extreme, but I related to some of it, and then I ended up projecting that onto your description of home school kids. And yet, this guy wasn't home schooled. I think those are totally separate issues. Would be an interesting separate topic, though.
Meta takes us a step closer to Star Trek's universal translator
I thought this would never happen. I was wrong.
Sure the US is ahead of the EU. The EU allows 11 [1] synthetic food dyes while the US only allows 9 [2]

[1] https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/food-colours

[2] https://www.fda.gov/food/color-additives-information-consume...
We're obviously not the target audience here.
ALL CHINESE BRANDS ARE WORKING WITH THE CCP. It is literally required by Chinese law!

You can be pointed towards the novel research work that explains how to self-modify the die in the field using opcode sequences that, by the way, came out literally at the dawn of the design timeframe for the latest generation of unnecessary ESP32 chips that flooded the market at the peak of the global chip shortage. The trigger mechanism is not novel. What's more, such n-th level stealth is not even really necessary to conceal backdoors because so many Chinese SoCs ship with reprogrammable microcode and heavily modified Linux distributions that are missing key components despite being marketed with open source trademarks like "OpenWRT". All of this Chinese-fabricated trash is going to be banned for import to US.

Again, half of China, plus their industry and national proxies are out there downvoting away. When will the US learn?
Keeping the spirit of Schopenhaurer v Hegel alive. /s

More seriously, why would journalists spend any time at all giving billionaires gold stars? The core of journalism is to speak truth to power and tech is one of the major powers.
Cheap is absolutely true if you look at the older assets cost of baseload power providing the core stability of a lot of electrical systems. The only two things that aren't factored into the cheap component (sub 5 cents/kwh produced of baseload) is that you don't properly factor in the externalities -- $/ton of GHG avoided and waste removal properly. I would argue that if we had pollution pricing it would be even cheaper.

The new power plants are more expensive since you have all the upfront costs of development but those are long lived assets that as they get to the end of their lives are producing very stable cheap power.

And yes Germany absolutely turned off their Nuclear power - your comment agrees 100% with that. It was made by Merkels party and is absolutely tarnishing her legacy.
So which boogey man controlled their uranium access and made them shut down all their plants?
Haha there's no shot. Apples and oranges - completely different platforms and features.
One thing that would make social media much better, is forcing providers by law to ensure everybody sees the same content.

Example:
I can be on Reddit in subreddit A.
You can be on Reddit in subreddit B.

We would obviously still see different content.

But ALL members of subreddit A MUST see the exact same topics in the exact same order with the exact same comments and likes/dislikes.

This would help build up a more shared “worldview” like mediums such as radio and TV did; you chose the channel, but everybody on the same channel gets the same information.

This would then allow the service provider and potentially government agencies, as well as users themselves, to moderate harmful content or false information more reliably.
In our Pull Request bot, we provide more information with a clear sumup of whats gonna be impacted. One of our next feature is to configure what type of information is more critical to you: by type of resources, owner (git blame) and tags. Do you have one that you would prefer in particular ?
Show HN: Miruni SnapIt, a no-account, no-install screen capture tool
We built a simple, no-account, no-install screen recording tool for web admins and teams (or anybody really) to quickly capture and share screen recordings for edit requests or issue tracking. Obviously, things like Loom exist. But we needed a tool that was simple and captures only the last 30 seconds of your screen/tab/window, so you can keep it running and clip just the 'interesting' moments. Currently this tech only works on desktop, no mobile support yet.
Yet another thread where people go "Dependency number too big! Rust bad!" with the level of nuance of my dogs discussing dinner.

The full list is linked in the article https://gist.github.com/tisonkun/06550d2dcd9cf6551887ee6305e...

There isn't a single thing there that seems iffy to me. Rust projects split themselves into as small of a crate as possible to 1) ease their own development, 2) improve compile times to make their compilation trivially parallelizable, and 3) allow for reuse. Because of this, you can easily end up with a dozen crates all written by the same group of people, meant to be used together. If a project is a single big crate, or a dozen small crates, you're on the exact same situation. If you wouldn't audit the small crates because they are a lot, you wouldn't audit the big crate thoroughly either.

But what about transitive dependencies? Similar thing: if you have a crate to check for the terminal width, I prefer to take the existing small crate than copy paste its code. I can do the latter, but then you end up with effectively a vendored library in your code that no tool can know about to warn you when a security vulnerability has happened.
Just do some research on what seed oils where used for just some decades ago, and the extreme processes they go through to make them somewhat edible and not too unpalatable. It's just a byproduct of corporations trying to reduce costs at the expense of our health. They'd do it with literal shit if they could find the way.
"There's no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective."

RFK on Lex Fridman's podcast.

We do have long-term studies on vaccines. Vaccines are some of the best-studied medical intervention. There is plenty of data about their efficacy and side-effects. Implying that we "need more studies" before we can be sure about vaccines is, in my opinion, dishonest and misleading.
Uber got 33%+ market share.

From your article:

> If Uber had become a commercial success in China, Chinese authorities ultimately would have clamped down to protect their domestic competitors.

> firms that do occasionally find success often face headwinds from Chinese regulators who limit their access to the domestic market.

> Didi naturally had state-backed funding, receiving a significant cash infusion from China's large sovereign-wealth fund.

> "Uber China" sought local investors. The hope was that, with local investors, the Chinese operation would be spared some of the hamstringing restrictions typically imposed on foreign businesses.

China is well-known to have intense domestic favoritism. Not sure where the profit is in denying that, given your own sources seem to clearly state it and even name a number of channels through which the state puts their thumb on the scale, not just regulatory but also through financing.
Yes, I’d add that not merely “raw html” but a file on disk can be served directly by Linux without context switches (I forget the syscall), and transferred faster than generation.
I can't admit this and have no idea what you're talking about. You're right that Taiwan isn't more important to the US than China or any other major trading partner; the key difference is that China is not threatening to invade and conquer any of the other trading partners. Demanding that belligerent countries should not invade their neighbors is not a "WW2 power projection strategy", as China understood perfectly well when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Farming isn't an industry. It's just how you have a civilization when population density is higher than a hunter-gatherer lifestyle can support. People have been farming in Arizona for several thousand years.
> Their bring-to-market strategy for products is basically "Spend billions a year on developing random things" and then "OK, it's been a year, cancel 1/2 of them".

This evidently doesn't apply to their chatbot efforts.
> This kind of breaks my mental model of major version bumps.

If you want, you can reset the revisions in a major version, as you could rename all modules and change the behavior of all functions, but that's hardly a good idea. Revisions are not any different. If you give a revision a new meaning in a major version, it is going to be as confusing as giving a new implementation to a function: users upgrading will have to figure out why something has subtly changed, instead of a clear error that something has gone away.

> The expectation here would be that a struct revision would be a minor version bump, correct?

We could make either minor and major versions (as described by semver) work. For example, if we want to allow new revisions to be minor versions, we could make it so every time you install a dependency, we automatically lock all structs it provides. This way, if a new version is out, you have to explicitly upgrade any new revision too.

Of course, you could also release a new major version of the library once you introduce a new revision and _that's fine_. The goal is not to avoid major versions of the library that defines a struct, the goal is to avoid forcing its dependents to release major versions, which has a cascading effect in the ecosystem. Putting in Elixir terms, I want to be able to release Phoenix v2 without forcing LiveView to immediately become v2. LiveView should be able to stay on v1.x and say it supports both Phoenix v1 and v2 at once. But in most typed languages, if you change a field definition, it is game over.

The guarantees you need to provide are not that many: as long as two revisions overlap at one point in time, you can offer a better upgrading experience to everyone, instead of assuming *all code must be updated at once*.

Thanks for the convo!
> I just can't go back to PHP at this point

Same.

During 2024 I evaluated multiple backend platforms/frameworks to get away from Node. Laravel is great and modern PHP (the language) is also surprisingly good but betting on PHP feels like betting on coal and the steam engine. The runtime and execution model are extremely outdated and resource hungry.

There are some efforts like FrankenPHP and Swole that package a PHP app to have a persistent execution model. But IMO unless PHP officially adopts this model this will always feel like a hack to me.
Great, now ban Red 40 and the other synthetic dyes. You can't avoid them in anything marketed toward children. I have children and I know others who also have children that are highly sensitive to these dyes, causing major behavioral issues that last for 5-7 days after ingesting food/medicine/drinks that contain these dyes.
But that's a "be careful what you wish for" observation. I mean, obviously it prompts the question of why executive compensation grew so fast.

Well, executives are paid a ton because they need to compete in an environment where other executives of successful companies are already filthy rich. And why is that? Well, it's actually not because of compensation policy at all.

Those other executives are rich because they were founders who hit an exit. That is, it's all HN's fault (and the fault of the VC-based startup money engine more generally).

We created an environment where to staff a successful C suite you need to hire away senior people from FAANGs. And you can't do that unless you pay them crazy numbers. And that means the rest of your executive staff, and your board, need to see the same numbers. And so on, across the rest of the economy.

You can't have an economy producing huge numbers in the stock market without handing those dollars out, in proportion, to the senior staff, basically. The same analysis does not hold to the regular employees, who don't compete against people getting that exit money.
I play Roblox with my kids age 11 and 6. I grew up with the original Nintendo when I was seven. The older child is allowed to use YouTube to look up learning videos and cat videos. Screen time is strictly limited to 15-30 minutes a day.
I think the article hints at coal's ability to capture those heavy metals and not release them since biochar has that ability. Basically, since you aren't burning it it won't accumulate. At least that is what I get from the article.
It's sunny for a lot of the year. Ex. you can get an extra harvest of alfalfa per year compared to other climates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owieQnPYfT8
Ever thought it might be the other way round?

I'd send my kids private, but no way would I isolate them with home schooling. You're meant to do that on evenings and weekends anyway.
Yeah, B12 AND B1 in alchohol alike. There are lots of people around age 50 who get admitted to social home and have irreversible B1 deficiency, labeled as "alcohol-induced B1 deficiency".
Rust's problems are not necessarily dependency management, cargo is actually great at it, but that they rely on third party dependencies for critical components (like regex and async). Which makes it very difficult to build anything without 300 dependencies.

I understand why they do it. It's lead to some amazing crates like serde. But I think I fall more in the camp of Python, Go or Odin with a comprehensive standard lib. You can make a whole game with Odin with standard library only. Or an entire web app in Go.
Humans do not eat plastic, this argument doesn't make sense.
if people are worrying about importing their digital lives into fastmail from google workspace: you don't need to worry

I had been bitten by bad import tools in the past (e.g. Google's)

but fastmail's importer worked flawlessly

for each user transferred, after fastmail's import completed, I dumped out their old gmail (using gmail API) and their new fastmail (using jmap)

and diffed before/after

result: zero differences

perfect
yeah, that makes sense. Everything has a cost, TANSTAFL.

This is the second philopsiphical point of economics. Everything is a choice between costs.

Im curious how else you would put it?
> This has implications for Alzheimer's and dementia.

Long term use of drugs that interact with the GABA-A receptor have been known to be associated with dementia risk for a very long time.

Zolpidem (Ambien) isn't indicated for long-term use, but there are some doctors who ignore this and prescribe long-term. It's rare, though.

I think some people are drawing narrow conclusions from the use of Zolpidem in this study. They're not saying Zolpidem uniquely causes this problem, they're just showing that Zolpidem was one way to trigger this. It's like a property of many sedative hypnotics and quite possibly other types of sleep aids, too. Demonizing Zolpidem isn't the point of this study.
The European approach is: if it doesn't look on your plate the way it looked on the hoof or on the plant, it's probably not good to consume. This is a much better heuristic than "we haven't found any adverse effects yet, so call it GRAS". Science is great at determining the presence of specific effects. It's not so good at finding an absence of effect.
Nope, eating nothing but potatoes for the rest of your life is a fantastic way to ensure that you end up with severe macro/micronutrient deficiencies, which will be a very effective way of generating disease, including cancer.
I disagree (I don't know what "military power projection over China's coastline" even means - do you think the U.S. has military bases in Taiwan?), but the point is that these issues need to be debated by Americans without the other side surreptitiously trying to sway public opinion.
> You can take as much time as you need to finish crossing.

Well, up to a certain extent at least. Behind the scenes, German traffic lights for example usually assume you continue walking at 1.2 m/s – if you start crossing at the last possible moment and are slower than that, you will still run into the case where crossing traffic will potentially get a green signal with you still on the road.
I'm not from the US but I looked up the presidents from that era and found that there's a period from 1969 to 1993, starting with Nixon, where the only Democratic term was Jimmy Carter. Twenty years of Republicanism and 4 years of Democraticism! The best us Brits could muster is 18 years of Conservatism between 1979 and 1997. Don't get me wrong though, we've managed to destroy our economy just as badly.