skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a great demonstration of the granola-to-libertarian pipeline. Jumping the gap in the horseshoe, so to speak.
Likes long walks on the beach, candlelit dinners and clean OPSEC.
Sure, but we need to look at this from the other side, too. Does fluoridating water provide benefits? I think it's safe to say it did way back when we started doing it. But we didn't have fluoride toothpaste back then. Putting fluoride in the water is presumably more costly than not doing it. If it's actually providing benefits, and the risk of harm is below some very low threshold, then sure, let's keep doing it. But is it actually providing benefits?
Radical left are no different from radical right. They are just as unhinged and crazy.

A sane person now probably should stay away from politics and avoid holding any kind of views on it, taking sides in this charade of insanity is a just a shame.
When Trump first placed tariffs on China, he claimed it was for fentanyl and precursor imports. Just two or three days after pardoning the largest heroin and drug precursor by mail operator in US history (Ross Ulbricht).

We know from John Kiriakou's experience with Giuliani that Trump is selling pardons. In his last term he pardoned the judges that were getting kickbacks from a private prison for falsly convicting children to send them there.
Printable subscription would be nice. It often times just helps financing the venture, as well as for sponsors to have something on hand.

I'd still keep in mind that this format severily limits reach in times where short (kudos for one page thing!) and accessible form is an expectation.

Nevertheless - I will keep reading and spreading the word.

Tangenatially. How would audio reading work for posts with code samples and diagrams in it? Do you have an example of that?
> IIRC even ZFS and NFS did(?) have caveats with swap

ZFS still does. If you run VMs off zvols you want to avoid putting swap there. Learned this the hard way.
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Most of the water still has fluoride in it naturally.
Keep calm and panic: performance of errors in Golang
Discussion (72 points, 2 days ago, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43500788
"the one that blue tick twitter accounts living in certain pin codes of Bengaluru passionately discuss amongst themselves for a week every year"

To someone embarrassingly unfamiliar with Indian culture, what does it mean?
Most apps for mobile suck too. A lot of them are worse because they are not in a web browser, eg YouTube or Reddit or similar apps that work via urls.

Browsers are some of the very few apps that work well on a phone. Most of the other ones feel like a mess (except games I guess).
Same as humans, drive slow enough that you can stop when you see something ahead. As demonstrated Lidar doesn't work in rain either.

HW4 Tesla stopped before the painting of a road https://futurism.com/someone-else-tested-tesla-crash-wall-pa...
Is Boulderdash a copy of Dig Dug?
With how these articles are immediately flagged, HN is failing us too.
That wouldn’t require a ban. The state banned it because some towns wanted to add it to their water supply. It’s literally big government stopping the will of the people.
When I worked at the university, this used to be my go-to reference about matrix identities (including matrix calculus).
Yeah, glibc is extremely stable and you can be sure that an app compiled against it now will work well into the future. People just completely ignore that fact based on hearsay, and that the removal of a unused symbol hashing table from the glibc binary broke a few anticheat systems that were attempting to parse it.

Other libraries are the problem, usually. People are generally really good about changing the .so version of a library when the ABI changes in a backwards-incompatible way. Usually distributions ship both versions until everything they ship either has upgraded or been removed. Solutions like appimage can allow you to ship these libraries in your app.
>There are many highly opinionated ways to do simple things, and that is how Linux should be

I still believe we would be in a better place had BSD was ready for adoption before Linux. Linux is a kernel and a wide family of operating systems assembled from the kernel and different bits and pieces while BSD tried to be a very coherent operating system from the start.
Very cool. It’s difficult to praise rr too much, and it just keeps getting better. If you’re not using it, you’re missing out on a superpower.
It keeps classes for backward compatibility, not assemblies. Some code still didn't migrate from them to not cause gratuitous churn. Also it's web scale, because untyped collections can hold values of different types just like javascript.
> The US has had water fluoridation for 65 years, affecting 346 million people. That's a pretty big god damn sample size and long amount of time in which to observe effects. If we still have no proof of significant negative health effects, it's probably not bad for you.

The problem is there will have been a lot of confounders.

E.g. despite huge sample sizes, isolating the cause of the obesity crisis is too hard because so many different things changed at once.
Wouldn't this eventually slow down Earth's rotation? The rotational kinetic energy of our planet is 1/5 M * R^2 * w^2 with (approximately) M = 6e34 kg, R = 6.3e6m, w = 7.4e-5 rad/s, which gives approximately 5e36 joules. Yearly we need roughly 3e16 Wh. Yeah ok there's plenty. Woah! (also, I may be off by some orders of magnitude)
The PowerPoint he talks about and is displayed the line below it
Except that’s not included in this calculation.

Who is responsible for an early stage statue startup without customers? The people investing money, thus investment is a category of emissions.
Ah didn't see this comment and I asked the same. Yes, right? The energy has to come from somewhere...
What do you mean by "break open the app sandbox"?
Seems to cause problems at lower levels than that:

> The NTP monograph concluded, with moderate confidence, that higher levels of fluoride exposure, such as drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter, are associated with lower IQ in children.

https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/noncancer/...
Let's go... thanks for including my article, asn-check.

Just a couple pages later there's a rust in python article, gotta try this to speed up the program further.
0.44 picowatts = 4.4e-13 watts so not in a detectable fashion before the sun consumes the earth billions of years from now.
Godot is picking up Steam (ha!) with more and more releases.
This is a whole ̶l̶o̶n̶g̶ blog post about someone who was surprised that he could use a crate to parse SQL queries in Rust. A bit of an underwhelming read to me personally.
Legally there may be no entity called "England" but it exists as a defined area for many legal purposes and the law isn't the only thing that matters anyway. England absolutely exists!

>right, so under your logic, it's perfectly reasonable to refer to Donald Trump as:

People don't say those though. They do say Queen of England.
You're assuming there will be more elections. These need co-operation of Trump to get organized, and need him to respect the law. He fought tooth and nail against the result the last time he was president. And that was a more rational Trump than you see now.

Afaik, he either invents a national emergency reason to not hold elections, or does a gerrymandering++ to make sure he wins.
It bugs me that article never qualifies the sql in parser.

Postgre sql parser, mysql sql parser, …

(Solid advise though)
Thanks @GICodeWarrior for taking time commenting on the article. Shamefully, I can already imagine a scenario on how the attack could be carried out.
Fortunately, the vulnerability can be corrected by introducing escapejs template filter. Big thanks to @gynvael.
I'm also not convinced that a dentist is credibly an expert here. Sure, I would absolutely expect my dentist to understand what benefits fluoridated water might provide to my teeth. I would not, for example, expect my dentist to be an expert in whether or not fluoridated water could cause damage to other parts of my body.

My previous dentist pushed these $80 (not covered by insurance) fluoride treatments on every cleaning visit. There's no research that shows much of anything about their effectiveness (good or bad). Yet they push them anyway, because it (their words) might help and probably won't harm. That doesn't give me a good feeling about their competence to have an expert opinion on this sort of thing.

I would, however, trust the opinion of someone who is doing medical/dental research, and holds a doctorate in a relevant field.
> a PCIe 3.0 GPU

Note that that CPU only has PCIe 2.0 according to Intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/52210/i...
Apple was bribing the police with ipads. Surely they could bribe the fire marshall too.
yes, whisky

https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky
How free a country is can be determined by this question.

Would you choose to be a randomly chosen citizen? You could be anyone in that country with all the rights, privileges - or lack thereof - that that random person has.

I think I'd rather be a random Canadian with healthcare and education than a random American.

It's an interesting thought experiment.
Online though?
That's true, my experience was the same!
Which is the more advanced life form? C. Elegans or LLM? I vote LLM.
Browsers have camera and local file access if the user grants permissions, what do you mean isn't possible with the browser?
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft does something to that effect in the future. Have Win 32 as a layer on top of Linux.

They seem to not be interested in locking the hardware and they don't make much money from selling Windows and it shows. There aren't many strong improvements in Windows and it feels like Windows is a platform they use to sell other stuff they make money with - they are with Windows in a similar position Google is with Android.
You have to wonder about the motivations of the company making the browser that makes it impossible to disable some of these things, and therefore makes real apps so much superior (like swipe to go back on safari - I have never ever swiped back intentionally in over 100000 swipe backs).
Well behaved programs rarely need user namespaces, you can still, in userspace, drop capabilities and otherwise sandbox yourself without user namespaces.

Poorly behaved programs on the other hand... Ones that expect to use root for something, or expect to write into arbitrary folders, or etc, usually a lot more useful for constraining that.
Yup, which is why a project that is serious about compilation time splits off type-independent parts into .cpp files that can be compiled separately, improving the speed of compilation for users of that template.

I consider being a header-only "library" a code smell. It's purely for convenience, at the cost of compilation speed.
If it's a security issue fix, they should release it in one of the monthly security patch.

I also think that private space do not fix the underlying issue. If you have four apps and you don't want them to know about each other you can put one of them in main profile, work profile, app locker and you run out of profile for the last one. The way app locker work doesn't scale to tens of sandbox.
> you’d think someone would have figured out that

Maybe that’s why they haven’t?

But being serious if it’s relatively low and the negative effects only occur during pregnancy it’s not that easy to measure it.

Obviously there is no conclusive evidence (even if the studies from China seem somewhat credible) but IMHO even if the likelihood of this being true is e.g. only 5-10%, risk of a population wide loss of 1-2 IQ points seems like a massively too high price to pay just to slightly reduce cavity rates.

Also dismissing all credible (albeit weak) scientific evidence out of hand just because crazy people hold similar beliefs is a about as stupid as what they are doing..
This stance is a bit confusing...

When it comes to things like radioactivity we assume a linear no threshhold model (e.g. that lower concentrations still have effects, just our measuring tools aren't good enough to detect it) and spend billions as a result. Why wouldn't we do the same for flouride?
Right exactly. And I do that, twice a day, when I brush my teeth with fluoride toothpaste.
Sure, I use ATracker (https://atracker.pro/)

They have phone apps for both iOS and Android which work offline. Their iOS app has a "companion" on the Watch too, so you can quickly switch activities on your wrist. I think without this I wouldnt have the patience to even track bathroom time (another thing that I vastly overestimated before I saw the numbers).

I´m still hovering between writing my own tracking system, for more control, and the convenience of a pre-made system. I would most miss the watch app, I think, as I have no idea how to make that.

Possible compromise would be to use this app but automate the data export and analysis in my own custom environment.

But yea, long story short, Atracker, and offline works well.
I've read the article and the comments with interest. I just have a question: if Windows ABI is so stable that 20-year-old programs are guaranteed to run, why are there computers with Win95 or NT that nobody dares touching lest some specific software stops working? I see plenty of these in industrial environments, but also in public libraries, corporate databases, etc.
I think that's exactly what the GP meant when they said "perfect white teeth culture".

Perfect white teeth doesn't mean they're healthy.
What was the derivative?
> I live in France and it's just so obvious that people grew up without fluoride

And yet France does not have a dental health crisis so it's just for cosmetic reasons we don't need fluoride
Roughly would have loved to translate some of this "understanding" to "action", without further intervening steps of "unlocking [deeper whatever]" (contingent on his intentions), perhaps aka "waiting for the right moment". Lol
No, it took far more electricity to make than it produces over any conceivable lifetime.
Germany and France don't fluoridate water, but they add fluorine compounds to table salt.

Meanwhile growing up in Poland in the 90s as kids we had these fluoridation sessions in school, for which everyone had to bring their toothbrush and brush their teeth with some kind of sour tasting fluid that contained fluorine.
TVs should have brightness controls the same way they have volume controls on remotes. It’s great having a >1000 nits display, just like it’s great having a 500W subwoofer, but it doesn’t mean I want to blast it full power all the time and changing it shouldn’t require digging into slow menus.

What’s the PC app please?
Not all are naive on some kind of layer. That would imply sticking your neck out and proposing solutions. There are also the fatalists. They are immune to being wrong because they think it is hopeless. That means never being able to be called an idiot, a very important protection for some.[1] They also literally don’t care so there’s that too.

[1] There’s so much surveillance that it is very easy to fall into the trap of being a naive idiot. Not to worry. We can be fatalist and not have to worry about that charge.
Which part? That I hate Nazis or that when he did a Nazi salute, twice, that categories him as a Nazi?

Since you seem to champion him a lot, I'd really like to hear your take on his Nazi salute.
My comment made zero moral judgements. History has consequences. Spreading the English language to over a billion people while enriching Britain means a lot of people will want to live in a rich place where they can speak the language, for generations to come. Whether immigration is good or bad is kind of irrelevant to the argument.
Serfdom was fundamental to the Russian economy, but was abolished nonetheless. Alexander II forced the serfs to pay for their own freedom.

The idea that no compromise was possible sounds somewhat absurd since America did end the civil war with a compromise. "You can free the slaves, but then we oppress them for 100 or so years." Not that it was a good compromise or anything, but it does show that the civil war was fundamentally pointless.
It's interesting how the MAGA crowd keep looking for reasons why they dumb.

One time it was the covid vaccine, now it's the drinking water.

You just dumb, guys.
webapp UIs suck because nobody cares about them. They could be a lot better.
didn't Tableau (and some other BI solutions) have this feature out of the box?
So in other words, 0.7mg/L fluoridated water is also not associated with lower IQ in children. That study did not prove it safe, but it did prove it unsafe, either.
You hit the nail on the had with your question – this is the most problematic part of it.

Most illustrations are a bit simpler to handle than code and the way is pretty much paved by HTML img alt texts (the well written ones, that actually can substitute for the illustration by conveying the same information). Ideally we should receive the ALT texts from article authors, but effectively (for now) it would be up to the person reading to come up with a solid substitution text.

Code is a different can of worms. My favorite idea so far is to basically explain what the code does as close as possible, without actually reading it, and then having a separate audio track with the code being read (likely just by a text-to-speech algorithm, though possibly augmented a bit to include things like "next line" or "this line has a 2-level indent" for Python code).

I don't have an example yet, but let me get back to you on that next week, since I was thinking of doing recordings for my two articles in this issue.
They also keep passing laws to specifically support burning coal, which is (slightly more credibly) shown to reduce IQ in children exposed to its pollution.
The restaurant pays them tipped wage which is a lot lower, but the employee more than makes up for it from all the tips
The US is occupying two for profit right now:

- occupying Syrian oil fields

- strong arming Ukraine for mineral rights, after overthrowing a democratically elected government a decade ago

> applying the same policies you have towards countries that are your enemies or even neutral to you, to countries that are your allies?

My exact point is that after publicly shaming Americans (eg, mocking our lack of social spending while being deadbeats to NATO) and collaborating with their perceived enemies (eg, the US internationalist elites) for my entire lifetime, there’s a significant fraction of the US who sees the EU and Canada as adversarial.

If they were allies, why have they spent generations mocking us for our contributions and working against our interests?

> in all those other cases the U.S. responded because of attacks by those countries on America

Syria, Libya, and Ukraine are counter examples.

> In the current situation there’s no such excuse.

Annexing Canada is the US equivalent of Russia retaining control of Ukraine or China slowly invading the ASEAN sea.

That’s what the world looks like in an era of great powers engaging in realpolitik.
apple is the worst product for privacy. The entire ecosystem is closed source. You know nothing about what apple is doing.
> we had these fluoridation sessions in school

We had the same in Sweden up until the early 90s, and it's apparently doing sort of a revival in some schools.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluortant
Exactly, wine is all that's needed here for windows stuff. And we have snap, flatpak, docker, and a few other things for Linux stuff.

We'll probably get a bit of irony in a few years when somebody at MS realizes that they can just use wine on top of their Linux emulation layer to run any old MS legacy software from the past three decades+ and then cleans up the rest of windows to not have any support for legacy APIs. Because having that is redundant. Emulators are great. There's no need to run ancient software natively.
By the way, LaTeX and TeX existed long before PDFs were ubiquitous. A common workflow in the 1990s and prior was

TeX/LaTeX -> DVI -> PostScript -> printer

And DVI stands for "device independent", so the idea was you can take a DVI and convert it to any format. PDFs just eventually became the dominate format.
It's also restricting the freedom of communities if you ban them from adding fluoride to their water if they like to.

This ban is anti-freedom. (Just like forcing them could be argued to be, even though that's what you argued against.)

So, this ban is arguably reducing freedoms on multiple levels.
Related

https://github.com/sbdchd/squawk

"linter for PostgreSQL, focused on migrations"

It covers this class of problem I think
The Finals destruction is not prebaked. The reason it works and is consistent is because everything is done server side and communicated to all clients. The game is very CPU heavy for this reason.
These American experts who are “disheartened” — do they not pay attention to Europe? Or do they only get upset when Republicans do something?

Europe (and many parts of Asia,) is objectively healthier than most of the residents of the USA; so maybe rather than knee-jerking against anything RFK Jr., perhaps the so-called experts should start doing their jobs and looking at what healthier places in the rest of the world are doing. The status quo in the USA is default fat and unhealthy. Why aren’t the fluoride cheerleaders not using their “expert” status to shout against high fructose corn syrup, artificial coloring, or the fact that most American food tastes like sugar?
nobody is negging the us for supporting their defence.
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Sadly that's not doable for us. LaTeX, for all its benefits, has terrible user experience and would drive away a lot of authors. One of the benefits of using PDFs is that anyone can use almost any tool they feel comfortable with to make the article (except for Photoshop - we banned Photoshop PDFs because they are ridiculously constructed). For example, I use Google Slides for my articles (which seems like a weird choice, but it's so easy to do complex one-of formatting in it).
That's funny, I use Amazon on mobile web, my wife insists on the app.

Guess which one of us has way more problems, due to both functionality and a constantly changing layout?
The only way for me to find these stories is to use HN Algolia and sort by most popular in the last 24 hours. I guess lot of people do the same
I cancelled a business trip to the US and did virtual meeting instead. No way I'm going to a country that detains people on the border for no reason.
As a European who has lived in both countries I can only laugh at this. From our perspective, US and Canada are 99% identical, culturally.
You can add fluoride in your own water if you want to. Nobody is preventing your own freedom to drink fluoride.
It's a very basic conman trick, to make the victim think they're in on the scam, as opposed to being its target.