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The implication that a "good" farmer should not be able to afford a car makes your statement about being pro-small farmers seem disingenuous. While I've read similar comments a few times recently, the "but" is always ridiculous. If a farmer manages to carve out enough free time to drive to the city to protest for a few days, surely he or she is a mega-rich, evil factory farmer, etc. - same story as the Canadian truckers a couple years ago. Not to be provocative, but I find it interesting that city-slicker posh leftist ecofascists somehow managed to convince themselves that working-class people such as farmers and truck drivers are part of the "privileged oppressor" category by virtue of protesting against policies that hurt them.

Poor amino-acid composition is a major problem with non-animal protein sources. Every time we think we can "cheat" nutrition by reducing nutritional value to a small set of cherry-picked nutrients, we find that it leads to deficiencies elsewhere. It's like fad diets for technocrats.

The <30 category is a whopping 30% and more relevant to the subject.

The difference in "LGB" categories can be explained by the fact that women are an order of magnitude more likely to self-report as bisexual than men.

I don't know how accurate this is, but recent statistics show that far more men self-report as single compared to women in the US, by as much as tens of percentage points if I recall.

The amount of people I know in their mid-20s who are (relatively) well-adjusted and successful and can't find a partner is astounding. Being very introverted and with a low sex drive, the current dating landscape seems insurmountable.

Yeah, it's mostly wishful thinking. The primary audience for records is not audiophiles, it's collectors who often don't even own a record player putting them up on display. Unless an artist/mastering engineer has a particular fondness for the medium they're not going to put much effort into the "analog" master.

Visual Studio 5-10 years ago with C#/.NET Intellisense was a great experience and high performance. I have yet to replicate that in the bloated Electron IDEs these days, there are still constant issues with autocompletion and navigation being slow or not working randomly for some reason even on my $3000 desktop PC from last year, I haven't found debugging (properly with breakpoints and variable tracking) to be viable compared to "printf debugging" since my Visual Studio days, and the UX of VSCode has not caught up to Visual Studio for bigger projects, file navigation is particularly awful and between the floating toolbars that disappear on a whim and ridiculously narrow scrollbars you'd think they're making it difficult on purpose.

It's an improvement from a certain baseline, but Visual Studio set a higher bar for me personally.

I don't know how these myths keep getting regurgitated to this day, but plenty of people lived to old age back when life expectancy was low due to high infant mortality. People in blue zones also ate meat regularly despite some claims to the contrary.

This was in the news for a bit: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230927/dq230... (+2.9%).

These immigration statistics make it clear: https://www.statista.com/statistics/443063/number-of-immigra...

This started after Trudeau was re-elected for the second time, but he has been consistent in calling for increased immigration. I guess he expected it to be his last term and decided to go all out. Of course, considering the timing (housing crisis and stagflation) that's a bad look.

The 8080 instruction set opcodes have logical bit patterns, so you can identify the operation and operands through bit masking instead of requiring a huge LUT. Beyond that you can simplify a lot by sacrificing timing accuracy.

Look, accessibility* is great and important to many people, and if you can afford to prioritize it early on in your product development, that's great - but it is not productive to treat commercial products like critical infrastructure, ignore the costs of implementing accessibility features (common tooling and standardization make it much easier, thankfully), and exaggerate the benefits.

The article starts off with the over-cited and misunderstood 1/6 figure, which comes from the WHO's claim that 1/6 of the world suffers from a "significant disability". I couldn't find a breakdown of what the WHO considers a significant disability in the first place, but the CDC in the US lists the following six disability categories in one of its studies: hearing, vision, cognitive, mobility, self-care, and independent living. How many of these are actually relevant in software? I have never once heard calls to make software more accessible to people with cognitive disabilities, and mobility/self-care/independent living categories are simply irrelevant to the overwhelming majority of software use cases. So no, you're not growing your audience by 1/6 by implementing screen-reader support for your website. If your product is growing, you're better off focusing on internationalization (which, technically, is a form of accessibility, but obviously not the subject of the article).

* Do we really need to abbreviate "accessibility" everywhere? It's just nine more characters than "a11y" and - speaking of accessibility - is more readable!

Metformin has been under scrutiny in recent years, several big studies failed to reproduce, and I'm pretty sure the consensus right now is that it's ineffective. NAD precursors are going through the same thing right now as far as I know.

I recall him saying he wouldn't recommend people younger than about 40 take mTOR inhibitors too, worth noting for young longevity enthusiasts. As I understand mTOR activation/inhibition is a tradeoff between promoting and inhibiting "growth" and the latter is counterproductive for young people. IIRC high meat/protein diets also activate mTOR, which might partially explain why primarily plant-based diets are associated with longer lifespans. Fasting also suppresses mTOR, so mTOR inhibitors are sometimes promoted as an easier way to achieve (some of) the same benefits more easily. On the other hand fasting elevates cortisol which inhibits testosterone. I don't know if mTOR inhibitors like rapamycin have the same effect, but it's also a health concern.

Not very interesting. These are all very popular, Americanocentric, and "mass appeal" shows, nothing that indicates specificity in recommendations. Which is in line with expectations for GPT-3.5/4.

> People have been making jokes about node_modules for a decade now, but this problem is just as bad in Rust codebases I've seen

I agree... but I think this is more indicative of a cultural problem than a language design/standard library scoping problem. A compact standard library is more resistant to scope creep. I don't want every language to end up like C++, and I think keeping the scope of the standard library small helps avoid that. On the other hand, popular third-party libraries that provide common functions have too many third-(fourth-?)party dependencies. Keeping dependency trees small should be a priority for such tools, but convenience trumps all right now so it isn't valued as it should be.

I'm not saying you shouldn't view mainstream media with suspicion anymore, but coverage is definitely more balanced than it used to be (not everywhere, but in some of the traditionally trustworthy publications like the New York Times). Conversely, social media networks are increasingly divisive and radical, so if that's your alternative I don't recommend it.

If I have to make a recommendation, the Wall Street Journal has been consistently high-quality in my experience.

This article is really not helping by labeling something like half of the US as bigots.

I actually believe that mainstream media is more balanced nowadays compared to a few years ago. I think that they've caught on to the fact that trust has eroded in recent years and are adjusting. However critics have not yet realized that.

Funny to get flagged by people who don't have anything to say in response by the way. Whenever politics are involved I take it as validation.

One might say he is committing psychological violence upon his readers!

If I were attempting to create a less "captured" Wikipedia alternative that's what I would do - start from there and try to keep it synchronized while hacking at it slowly, instead of taking a from-scratch approach.

It will be interesting to see if this project ends up being seen as a success or a failure as things evolve, hopefully it inspires zoning reforms if it works out. I expected the article to be race-baity because of the gross comments here but no, it's pretty fair overall and apparently HN isn't above bringing up anti-white rhetoric unprompted.

I see what you mean and how that ties into Barbie, although this worldview is definitely rooted in neomarxist revisionism. But I don't have the time and energy to derail this any further so I'll leave it at that.

Nah, I don't think so. Every time I've seen something criticized or praised for its "entertainment value" it's been code for less challenging, simpler, easier to watch. It's fine if you like that, but you can't call a tropey, confused toy advertisement better because it has dancing instead of court scenes, come on. I guess it's unfair to expect much artistic sophistication in tech circles. In tech terms it's like dogpiling about Firefox having telemetry on by default and recommending Chrome as a better alternative without any justification.

Now America was fascist and authoritarian in the mid-post WWII era?? Are you guys competing for biggest contrarian or did I accidentally step into a neomarxist forum?

Calling Barbie a better movie because it's easier to watch is something I didn't expect to witness on HN.

Like the current one? It is definitely the most authoritarian (Canadian) government I've witnessed in my lifetime and this article is completely in line with what they've been working towards (the CBC is known to be in bed with the government) but apparently accusing conservatives of what they're doing fools a good amount of people.

You sound like a manager. As an IC I'd much rather work with someone who's a little difficult but actually contributes, and the fake positivity that I often see from people in HR-adjacent roles/glorified paper pushers who don't have much actual work to do is really annoying.

I hope you're not one of those people who get angry when they're stuck behind me on a 35mph road without a shoulder or a bike lane.

I doubt that's true unless the degree is extreme. Humans evolved with "disordered eating" and fasting is well-researched.

Poor people's parents don't have the money to bring them to vacations, enlist a violin teacher or drive them to baseball on the weekends, so clearly they have more time to allocate to studying and thus are advantaged. Conclusion: do away with meritocracy and just exclude poor people altogether. Did I get the "logic" right? Of course put this way it can't be valid because that wouldn't support the American Neomarxist delusion, sorry I meant worldview.

More like "Soviet-style propaganda ads".

The use of terms like mis/dis/mal-information is simply the contemporary mechanism through which propaganda is peddled.