RobAley

Their reasoning for not having 2 keyholder is that 2 people are more likley to colude to change the results (in this case announce false results) than 3. Of course 3 people could still colude to do so, so it's a matter of reducing not eliminating the risk. My understanding is that in 2 out of 3, the third can also decrypt/view the results, so (assuming number 3 doesn't lose their key) then 2 can't colude to cheat (unless they also colude to somehow "deprive" number 3 of their key (e.g. with a heavy wrench)). If number 3 does lose their key, then the risk of colusion is higher than "requires all 3", but conversly the risk of "accidental or deliberate failed election" is lower. It's (always) about a balance of risks.

Parse_url isn't standards compliant, often fails with relative url's and most importantly only parses urls, not uris (with the exception of file://). I also find it's syntax clunkier than the new uri(), but that's just personal preference.

The pipe operator is indeed just syntactical sugar (and the article links to another article specifically about it which does cover the case of temporary variables), but with the coming partial function application feature it (in my opinion) will make easier to read/reason chains of code than temporary variables or nested function calls.

The hallucination issue can be worked around by providing that demonstrates the agent's working (i.e. what tools they called with what parameters).

And this is (in my opinion) an intractable problem - You can get the AI to list the tools/parameters it used, but then you can't be sure that it hasn't just hallucinated parts of that list as well, unless you both understand that they were the right tools and right parameters to use, and run them yourself to verify the output. And at that point you might as well just have done it yourself in the first place.

I.e. if you can't trust the AI, you can't trust the AI to tell you why you should trust the AI.

It says "nhs.uk" is an invalid domain. Is it restricted to just certain TLDs?

No, you'll max pay the same. May pay less.

(Source : I work in vaccine research, including challenge studies, in the UK, but only in IT/Digital, I'm not clinical).

In the UK at least (and as I understand it in most countries that subscribe to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki), all of our studies have to have insurance to cover such eventualities (which are exceedingly rare these days). In addition, we provide clinical contacts for the participants throughout the trial and follow-up, and ensure that participant NHS medical records (and central NHS databases such as for the COVID vaccines) are updated with the necessary details for any future related care.

Money/Payment is always a careful balance. You don't want people taking part in the trials purely for the money (i.e. doing something they wouldn't otherwise be comfortable doing), but you need to ensure they aren't disadvantaged by taking part in the trial.

Technically, that's not true either! That's the current format, previous formats (still legal and transferable/usable) have included XN, XNNXXX, XXXNX, and others!

The revolution WILL be televised, as it turns out.

I'd call it users_facts. But that's just me.

Yes, but they're only allowed to use the data for the (legitimate) purpose it was retained. If you ask them not to retain/use it for marketing purposes, they can still retain it for statutory purposes but they can then only use it for that (not for sending you advertising emails etc.)

Looks like I may be in the minority, but I've had nothing but good experience in the month or so I've had a 5G phone (Samsung S22, Three network, mostly in and around Oxford, UK). There is a 5G mast visible in the distance, and I consistently get 500-800Mbs down and 20-50Mbs up at home. Similar story when out and about if there is a 5G signal (occasionally download goes down to ~5Mbs). It's better than the ~400Mbs my Virginmedia home line maxes out at.

"Does the covid vaccine cause cancer?"

The answer is apparently :

"The Covid vaccine is linked to cancer."

Hmmmm.

Indeed, but even centralised coal fired electric generation produces less carbon per mile travelled than petrol/diesel engines. We're not there yet, but proper grid management and diverse renewable sources mean that an increasing number of countries are heading towards large parts of base load being renewable. In all scenarios (apart from not travelling at all) electric cars are a carbon win, and it looks like it will only increase.

Will you (are you) contributing any of the rules back to TL? Or are they to specific to your org?

I think you've proved your second point by getting your first wrong. The benchmarks posted are for a stack including PHP, not PHP itself (and not the fastest stack with e.g. pgsql). Also, I don't think thosd benchmarks use php 8, which is the first version with the jit that the post above referred to.

But everybody needs it, so who is left to deny it too?

Implementation takes time. Keep it simple and move on.

Be the change you want to see. Your personal website linked to from your HN profile consists solely of a Javascript game ... :)

Why don’t we

Because we don't need to and we have much more interesting problems to take up our time.

"For whatever reason"

For exactly this reason. "Girls - these are your toys, you play with them. Boys, you seem to prefer these, you will play with these". Continual use of unnecessarily gendered language is a major factor in perpetuating these differences.

The article you cite more or less backs my post :

"But the decision matrix that ultimately influences widespread views on which toys are for which children includes inputs from parents, kids, and toy makers—adding up to a system that produces something of a feedback loop."

I'm not at all criticizing Lego for making sets with female characters, pink colors, themes that revolve around friendship, leisure, domestic and emotional topics (for instance). These are good things, it is good to have ranges of toys in this vein to add variety and balance to the "normal" Lego ranges ("normal" was perhaps a bad choice of word in my first reply, "previous" or "non-Friends TM" might have been better).

The comment was to point out that :

"There are attractive boxes for girls, it's called Lego Friends"

is unnecessarily gendered and such language purpetuates this feedback loop which is a major influence on how girls and boys play. You have identified the outcome, not the cause.

One small piece of feedback : My (UK) keyboard doesn't have accented characters on it, and I don't know how to type them (well, I do, but many/most users won't), so typing "leon" instead of "león" for Lion wouldn't let me continue as there was a spelling mistake. Ideally, have an on-screen keyboard for accented characters, or instructions on how to type them, or less ideally allow spelling mistakes on such characters.

You keep it until x days/weeks after the servers are deactivated. Where the emails are going unnoticed, the servers getting cut off usually is noticed straight away. The story here appears to be that the backups were deleted at the same time as the servers. For the relatively small cost of those who don't subsequently pay up, you get a lot of goodwill from the majority who just messed up.

Like disabled users with screen-readers?

Not a direct answerto your question, but we can be sure that 100% of trees not planted won't be there in the future.

"aggressive approach" - their sales reps dressed as nurses and went into hospitals. It goes a bit beyond "aggressive".

"probably directly harmed children" - report after report from (respected) NGOs and the WHO concluded babies died. No "probably", beyond "harmed".

They're baby killers. That's not hyperbolic language.

See the Controversy section on their wikipedia, which touches on just a few of their issues (note that it's the largest section on the page, and is by no means exhaustive).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Controversy_and_cr...

At 2.15pm today, the UK was importing ~11% via it's euro interconnects (biggest 3.8% from the Netherlands). It of course varies depending on demand and weather, and sometimes we export back to the continent.

According to [1], the UK imported ~6% in total in 2018 :

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-electricity-generati...

You don't need to speculate, the data is available online. For instance, for quarterly data Ofgem publish here :

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/data-portal/electricity-generation-...

For "live" hourly data : http://gridwatch.co.uk/

For what it's worth, wind tends to be heavily concentrated in (windy!) areas (or off-shore), so if you don't frequent them you may not notice.

Don't block access to the docs. I always go through the docs first before purchasing software, it cuts through the marketing messages and helps me understand if the software does exactly what I need. No available docs = no purchase.