skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s still necessary. It is crucial when kids teeth are forming, and brushing does not achieve the same effect.

I find the lack of science in this thread disturbing.
I always say I'm only here because i'm "smarter than a monkey and cheaper than a robot" and boy has that value proposition changed recently.
Will the oil industry's tax breaks skate by in the search for trillions in cuts?
Well I found out the hard way that company culture or values can mean nothing if you don't CYA. Granted, the shop was small enough that our team was in charge of both the security policies and ops, but still, on one unfortunate occasion I've stepped outside my area of responsibility to "do what's right" and got punished. The next time I've been in a similar situation - well, I've walked away from the fire and grabbed the popcorn.

By the way, I'm still burnt out. This work is stressful. Don't let it take away what's already scarce for you.
Could call it "transparent bottles".
Anecdotally, the two times in my career I have had a project like that, apple was the customer.
> Folks don’t appreciate how much energy it actually takes to “fall” into the Earth or even the Sun.

It's not that bad from the Lagrange points thanks to multi-body gravitational dynamics. The Lagrange points form part of the so-called 'interplanetary transit network' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Netwo...) that supports extremely low-energy transfers in the solar system, provided you're willing to wait a very long time.

That being said, there's no reason to send a deep-space probe back to Earth for reentry when it's even easier to send it into a deep-space graveyard orbit of some description with no risk of any potential debris-related problems.
It's because these devices are the only ones being sold.
https://effective-shell.com/
Completely agree and the recent news about financial fraud perpetrated via video conferencing (as a component of the attack) validates your point.

On the other hand, if tools like these don’t get out into the wild and show the dark arts potential, then it remains a straw man argument against unchecked distribution and use cases.

Things are going to get ugly and it remains to be seen how much weight a check-box legal liability waiver will hold up.
Because randomness does not introduce agency.

Bringing up 'Quantum' effects to somehow free us from determinism and somehow introduce free will, is completely false. Somehow using the word "Quantum" explains human consciousness is wrong.

A coin flip is still determined. You don't know which way it will flip, but also, you aren't deciding which way it will flip. The future is determined either way, determined one way, or determined the other way.
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What I find though when taking notes from a non-academic conference presentation is that I often don’t know what the most salient points or compressed takeaways are in real-time. I don’t end up with a transcript but I do end up with a lot of discard and I’ll take pics of some slides.
> all the time niche language features are being added which either take forever to implement, or end up getting banned in real codebases.

you work likely in a very specific niche as no language feature has ever been entirely banned in the places I've been to. There are hundreds of thousands of codebases happily using exceptions in C++. https://github.com/search?q=%22throw+std%3A%3Aruntime_error%... as well as any other feature you can imagine.
Yep I use orchestration (Nomad) but still you would need hardware redundancy. For example, the database server is currently a single point of failure. In the cloud, if there's a hardware failure, it will simply go down and come back up with a new instance. In coloc, you'd need to have the data center debug and replace hardware which means extended downtime.
USAID has had a very limited presence in Myanmar for years after the junta took control and Biden sanctioned the junta.

Most other nations across ASEAN (such as Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and even Thailand) also began reducing USAID's presence because aid was increasingly being tied with democratization [0].

Why deal with aid with strings attached when China, Japan, India, Russia, and South Korea provide similar aid with no democratization requirements.

I've written in depth about this with regards to Cambodia, but the same dynamics played out in Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam as well [1], though Thailand and Vietnam were important enough that "consensus building" took lower priority.

[0] - https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2023/12/examining-us-...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43339290
thank you for the suggestion i will try that out. Yeah for me i have so many resources i want to look at before doing my trade but then i have to have multiple windows open to do that so was on a lookout to see if there is a tool out there that can help me solve that.
I think the principle about a "Single Primary Action" per screen heavily depends on the type of app you're building, and which use case you're optimizing for.

Sometimes, especially for power users of an app, it's useful to have multiple actions at their fingertips, even at the cost of introducing a learning curve.

I think the one primary action per page thing works well for most things, but as soon as you're building anything like creativity tools where people want multiple editing options, or a control panel that you expect will be used by a professional several times a day, I think that principle becomes less useful.
I work in HE so there's obviously much more turnover in senior management than the rest of the hierarchy but that's individual turnover, there's no need for Jim†, who arrived last week, to task HPC with gathering a quote that six of his subordinates and colleagues already know from last time shows this is a waste of time.

† Name changed to protect individuals but also because frankly I don't care very much who is currently doing these roles, there'll be others.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8264257/

2023 Study:

"Despite Public Health Initiatives across Europe recommending that women take 0.4 mg folic acid before becoming pregnant and during the first trimester, the prevalence of NTD pregnancies has not materially decreased in the EU since 1998, in contrast to the dramatic fall observed in the USA. This study aimed to estimate the number of NTD pregnancies that would have been prevented if flour had been fortified with folic acid in Europe from 1998 as it had been in the USA."

"Conclusions: This study suggests that failure to implement mandatory folic acid fortification in the 28 European countries has caused, and continues to cause, neural tube defects to occur in almost 1,000 pregnancies every year."

The most famous NTD is Spina Bifida, and most of them aren't really fixable by modern health care. So this is 1000 babies a year who are either born with severe birth defects, or, in what I'm guessing is many cases, terminated when they could have been born healthy with a flour enrichment mandate.
That's not been tested much in the courts. Recent rulings suggest OSS at least has consideration and thus can't be blanket terminated without some justification, but the USC provides that justification (with some onerous requirements -- 2-10 years of notice, has to happen in a certain time window, ...), even for licenses stating irrevocability.
Xata.io looks very interesting!!! I was thinking about building an intelligent agent for pg-mcp as my net project but it looks like you did a lot of the hard work already. When thinking about the "AI Stack" I usually separate concerns like this:

UI <--> Agent(s) <--> MCP Server(s) <--> Tools/Resources
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LLM(s)
well not everyone can run 4+ monitors plus their a cost also involved in that. I do have a big screen but even opening all those in different windows take alot of time and to look at, would be really great if i can have one browser with different frames to look at things.
Exactly, I never use LLMs for looking up the specific CFN properties for that exact reason. Populating a resource in a template sure, but the code-spelunking is always done to find the arcane property/value for said property.
It was also a LAN party game more or less.
An open source AI and semantic technology Web Application Firewall – UUSEC WAF
If you've ever had to fly with (cordless) power tools the rules allow this but the batteries must be in carry on and not be in the checked baggage (the tool itself must be checked!) and there's a limit on the max battery size (160 Wh), although I don't think there's a limit on how many you can carry-on.

For example, with DeWalt 20V batteries, 160Wh is an 8Ah (which is one of the larger sized batteries), but if you have 60V FlexVolt tools (circular saw) you are probably out of luck as they start around 6Ah (and @60V, 160Wh is only 2.6Ah), going up to 15Ah (which would be 900Wh).
" digital computers either".

Most of the time someone brings up the word 'Digital' they are talking about 1's and 0's, and how everything is known and determined, and thus looses the ineffable human quality.

"they're special in a way digital computers can't simulate"

I might be making a straw man, but you are literally just saying "something magical that exists outside physics must be going on"
So anyone willing to tell me how this constitutes a low quality comment that warrants this reception?
> If I have a type Foo with a field that is a pointer to a mutable value, instantiating a Const Foo just means I’m always pointing at the same mutable value, not that I have an unchangeable Foo.

yes and that's fine ? for instance how would you encode a graph operation where you want the graph structure to be immutable and the content of the nodes to be variable?
Part of the reason is that this is the most difficult part to define, and part is that this is very much an area of active research and improvement.

For example, what would a language specification say about the behavior and consequences of calling an unsafe function? It can only point to the function documentation, as the function could do anything. It might be reasonably well-behaved, for example `Vec::get_unchecked(index)` returns the item at `index` if index is a valid index, and does whatever your platform, chosen allocator and overzealous LLVM optimizations do on invalid pointer access. A different function might be complete chaos, since the unsafe function could contain any code.

"Dereferencing a value of a raw pointer type" would be easier to define, but then you get down the whole pointer provenance rabbit hole. Saying "well, that might do anything" isn't that unreasonable of a stance for a specification, as long as you properly specify the pointer-provenance-aware route once it has been stabilized. Documentation on the other hand should be more helpful than that (and sadly often isn't), telling you when dereferencing a pointer does what you expect, when it doesn't, and what the pitfalls are.
interactive broker is good but it doesnt help with different source of information. also if i want to do crypto i cannot do that easily with them.
To the author: "Download the PDF eBook" link

https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/releases/download/v0....

is broken
This is cool-- but I rarely write sql in .sql files. I tend to use things like lib/pq in Golang or sqlx in Rust for writing raw sql in .go or .rs files.

Any plans on supporting such workflows?
At my university, every teacher published a PDF with the material on their website. In other to pass the exam, I was expected to familiarize myself with the PDF. Obviously, the PDF could be very long and complicated, but that's beside the point. I don't understand why this system is so controversial.
This is interesting let me look at this and try it out. thank you
If it's so easy, go do it. You can publish the result in any math journal you like with just a title and a number, because this is one of the hardest problems in mathematics.

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
> Poor people in the US are capable of using fluoride toothpaste and flossing. At least at homeless shelters at outreach things I’ve been to, toothpaste and toothbrushes are freely available. Your argument hinges on them being incapable on the whole and needing a Benevolent But Superior Intelligence to provide an alternative for them.

This is so incurious. Obviously most people, poor or not, have access to fluoridated toothpaste and toothbrushes, and can brush.

Yet OP cites data (not explicitly, but you can start here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6974062/, there are many like it).

Fluoridated water makes the most impact on poor and undeserved communities: Why?

Is it because poor people are less capable of brushing or have less access to fluoridated toothpaste?

Is it because poor people are poor because they have poor self control, which prevents them from regular brushing?

Does it matter? Nothing hinges on them being incapable at all - your conjecture can be as uncharitable - poor people are dirty and incapable - or charitable - poor people have less money and time to seek dental care, have higher rates of untreated mental and physical illness i.e. ADHD, disabilities that interrupt daily tooth-brushing routine - as you want.

But the result is still that if we want children from poor families to have less cavities by the time they reach adulthood - we should fluoridate the water! If you trust the western medical establishment, it's broadly safe. If you don't, then none of the evidence above matters to you anyways.
They're referring to (I hope), the .NET Framework which is Windows-only and the last/latest version being 4.8. It should live a very long life, as Microsoft server infrastructure is built on it (SharePoint/Exchange).
S3 is beyond impressive, but how many workloads truly need that? I’ve never had a single instance of data loss on a NetApp or Pure array.
Good collection. One rule I found missing is the Rule of Three: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_prog...
Sure, go ahead, no taxes! But along with OP's rules against using public roads, or public infrastructure: You also can't use the public's air, because regulation keeps it clean. You can't eat at any restaurants, because the government regulates them and make sure they are serving safe food. No access to medicine, either, for the same reason. No airline travel, which is heavily regulated and safe, No working for any company subject to OSHA and other workplace safety regulations. No calling the police or fire department if you need help. Just you in your homestead in the woods--oh, and if someone robs your homestead, you don't have access to the courts to get your money back, either, money that you can't use anyway because it's issued by the government.

No taxes in exchange for you not benefiting from anything taxpayer-funded. How does that libertarian paradise sound?
Local governments are prohibited from adding fluoride to their drinking water, even if their community wants it.
Completely agree. It's entirely about eliminating unnecessary distinctions, not about relative simplicity (which would need to be defined in context—we do not have a universal notion or measure of "simplicity" or complexity—any such notions we do have are domain dependent and usually observer dependent).
I guess I (and probably the GGP) understood the response to be more general, picking out the IQ point as easily refutable therefore a short-circuit way to dismiss the broader narrative.
Welcome to the USA, where using the stare to help with dental care would be communism, or socialism, or big government, or violations of freedoms.
Launch video with timestamp,

https://youtu.be/bykfQ3J4NNc?t=2049

edit: And different camera angles here,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlAgenP2RxM

https://tv.vg.no/nyheter/se-den-historiske-rakettoppskytning...
> Rust only avoids UB in so far as it relies on default clang behavior on modern hardware.

That's not true.

Rust behaviour avoids UB by not compiling with invalid reference deref because it checks life time.

Clang's behaviour is likely a crash but anything can still happen. It is literally undefined.
I don't think the parent comment is saying that this passenger is at fault, just that there is a lot of potential for abuse.
themgt quoted the 2% figure to show that the europoors reject fluoride in water, but neglects to mention that tap water often naturally contains significant levels of fluoride already, nevermind other fluoride-fortified foodstuffs.
Atomics are very expensive operations. Lock/unlock is two atomics. Many concurrent data structures will end up doing many more atomic operations than you expect.

The general wins of concurrent data structures come when you really are accessing them truly concurrently - as in when many threads on many cores are heavily contending for access and you need to make global progress.
rat?,bat!, splat, how bout that
Rust Is Indeed Woke
For what it's worth, very few locations and processing styles result in significant doses of fluoride in tea. Within the United States, these types of tea are not typically consumed. For example, Tibetan brick tea is consistently high in fluoride, to the extent that fluorosis is actually somewhat common in certain regions. But it's a bit tricky to even buy a brick (meant for consumption) within the US. Bagged tea, more commonly available, has to be drunk regularly in very significant volumes to have a deleterious effect.

Put another way, for issues to rise to the level of public policy, they have to affect a meaningful number of people in a region. In the US, tea-induced fluorisis is extremely rare.
The only thing America is best in the world is number of incarcerated people per capita :)
I was thinking the same thought- maybe we should fluoridate Brawndo :-)
Link to the related blog post by the author: https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/food-deserts-are-not-real

The paper referenced in the x-tweet is "Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality", which can be found eg here[1].

[1]: https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/FoodDeserts.pdf
You're getting downvoted because you're retreating into philosophical nihilism rather than actually addressing the points. If you disagree with how people interpret the studies, the studies themselves, or how science measures reality - just say that.

I also love SMBC's explanation of this: https://smbc-wiki.com/index.php/2010-09-23
I assume producing the batteries is cheaper due to more lax environmental / labor laws.
I looked into Rhai but was disappointed that it doesn't have first class functions.
I disagree with you that this is a recent idea. It goes back to Locke, Hobbes, and the social contract theorists. The "collective freedoms" idea is more recent, if anything, coming from the subsequent generation of philosophers.
I thought that even the cabin crew did not know what's burning. There's also the feeling of helplessness -- you know something is wrong but you are not told that something is wrong. The hysteria at the back of the plane could have been alleviated by telling that the situation is under control. When the plane was landing, I could see fire trucks, an ambulance, and police of some sort driving in parallel to the plane to rush in. I only found out about the reason from the news later.
Huh, pretty cool. Would you mind submitting your scores to Geekbench? Can you also test idle power? Genuinely interested.
There is some work on an OS-agnostic feature detection C API: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-c-api-doc/blob/main/s.... Still quite new though, and potentially might change (as it did a month ago).
Why is a one-size-fits-all state intervention that assumes or targets the least responsible people appropriate?

Why is it appropriate especially in light of many people actively opposing the intervention?

These are questions about what is the proper relationship between the state and the citizen.

And they are a litmus test for current political belief bifurcation in the US.
Can you explain why it’s the responsibility of the U.S. taxpayer to be on the hook for the cost of responding to every single natural disaster on the face of the planet?

It seems as if for the last few years every nation on earth wants to have one hand taking money out of American citizens wallets while the other hand holds a phone posting online about how irredeemably stupid they are.
I saw a post on Bluesky recently that addressed this criticism, where it looks like nobody's doing anything. Protesting in the capital isn't feasible for most of the country, living thousanda of kilometers from the capital. The protests at Tesla dealerships are an example of a feasible form of protest for many. Representatives' voicemail boxes are full from all the calling. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez & Bernie are drawing enormous crowds on their tour, galvanizing people into smaller action in greater quantity.

I agree we as a country aren't doing enough to right it, but we're definitely ramping up. This summer is going to get ugly, both with shit the administration will try & the responses they'll get as the weather warms up & physical protesting will draw in more people.

I just hope the pushback is intense & undeniable. I hope enough people are pushed out of their comfort zone & into taking action.
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What Anthropic Researchers Found After Reading Claude's 'Mind' Surprised Them
> It is IMO both very reasonable to fund more research into this to know conclusively if 0.7mg/L is indeed safe

How exactly do you propose we do this? It's tough to prove absence of harm.

The meta-analysis put together tons of research under different situations, and found a weak and relatively small dose-response relationship above 1.0 mg/L and failed to find a relationship below. The evidence between 1.0mg/L and 1.5mg/L is particularly weak. And, of course, most dose-response curves are sigmoidal, so the failure to find a response under 1.0 mg/L is most easily explained by the inflection point being above that level.

If you're not satisfied when combining 74 studies fails to find a relationship, will you be happy with 75? 76? 100?

(Sure, a big proportion of the studies and study power focused on higher levels of fluorination-- and I always support filling gaps in research; but it's not like we have an absence of research below 1.5 mg/L).
Yes, of course. Many Americans are. Almost none of them are doing so from a position of power, so my hopes for success are not high.

Did you think that countries of hundreds of millions of people are just a homogeneous hivemind? That because the orange man won the election every single citizen was replaced with a red-hat wearing clone?

I nearly wrote out a long list of local and state (WA) efforts to push back against the current administration, but frankly this isn't the forum for that. If you are actually interested in finding out what Americans are doing to try and reclaim sanity there are innumerable news sources at your disposal.
> Garbage collection, common in many OOP languages

I would argue this is correlation, not causation. And of the many flaws one can raise with OOP, that GC is pretty low on that list.
Fixed Point Tutorial #2
If you've ever wrestled with fixed-point math, scaling, and rounding, this blog post is for you!

I go deeper into binary arithmetic, division tricks, rounding, and what it really takes to build fixed-point systems that actually works.

As always, I appreciate all of your feedbacks and corrections.
The biggest click bait is the “It” which can clearly be seamlessly replaced with BYD, providing vastly increased utility at basically no increased complexity; no hard value determination needed. Intentionally removing useful information in an attempt to abuse the curiosity of readers and drive numbers is a type of enshittification in the news and information sphere.
That was me. I'm the idiot who originally added it to the published headline before I realized it and removed it.