skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-159-12-201312170-00011

Three articles in this issue address the role of vitamin and mineral supplements for preventing the occurrence or progression of chronic diseases. First, Fortmann and colleagues systematically reviewed trial evidence to update the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation on the efficacy of vitamin supplements for primary prevention in community-dwelling adults with no nutritional deficiencies. After reviewing 3 trials of multivitamin supplements and 24 trials of single or paired vitamins that randomly assigned more than 400 000 participants, the authors concluded that there was no clear evidence of a beneficial effect of supplements on all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, or cancer.

Second, Grodstein and coworkers evaluated the efficacy of a daily multivitamin to prevent cognitive decline among 5947 men aged 65 years or older participating in the Physicians’ Health Study II. After 12 years of follow-up, there were no differences between the multivitamin and placebo groups in overall cognitive performance or verbal memory. Adherence to the intervention was high, and the large sample size resulted in precise estimates showing that use of a multivitamin supplement in a well-nourished elderly population did not prevent cognitive decline. Grodstein and coworkers’ findings are compatible with a recent review (3) of 12 fair- to good-quality trials that evaluated dietary supplements, including multivitamins, B vitamins, vitamins E and C, and omega-3 fatty acids, in persons with mild cognitive impairment or mild to moderate dementia. None of the supplements improved cognitive function.

Third, Lamas and associates assessed the potential benefits of a high-dose, 28-component multivitamin supplement in 1708 men and women with a previous myocardial infarction participating in TACT (Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy). After a median follow-up of 4.6 years, there was no significant difference in recurrent cardiovascular events with multivitamins compared with placebo (hazard ratio, 0.89 [95% CI, 0.75 to 1.07]). The trial was limited by high rates of nonadherence and dropouts.

The large body of accumulated evidence has important public health and clinical implications. Evidence is sufficient to advise against routine supplementation, and we should translate null and negative findings into action. The message is simple: Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is not justified, and they should be avoided. This message is especially true for the general population with no clear evidence of micronutrient deficiencies, who represent most supplement users in the United States and in other countries.
"Cal Poly " - as a Cal Poly alum this wasn't really my experience. Of course, with thousands of people in the incoming class, experiences will vary. Most of my social connections were through choir.
> Stallman's rhetoric is filled with this problematic logic on all layers: from trying to correct other people's terminology

Yes, this is my main obstacle accepting RMS. In my opinion, he took the word "free", made a term "free software", and described it in accordance with his agenda, while what he advocated only partially conforms to the meaning of the word "free" or "freedom". There are certainly licenses offering more freedom than GPL v3.

Therefore I myself do not even recognize this term "free software". I am more than willing to discuss RMS ideas, I agree with many of them, but let's stop messing the language first.
I donno if this is a serious question or not, but x86-64 is very much an extension of regular 32-bit x86, just more complicated. For something like this there's little reason to attempt 64-bit when 32-bit is much easier and will essentially result in learning the same concepts.
Interpreters and Compilers (Bits and Bytes, Episode 6) [video]
I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a man or a woman.
There's no such things as "real rights." Rights are granted to people by the entities willing to defend those people in the exercise of those rights. There's no "real" right to a pursuit of happiness, there's no "real" right to freedom of thought, and there's no "real" right to freedom of speech.

> Real rights are to defend yourself, stand your ground and use your body how you want.

A right that you grant to yourself is called an "ability."
Where is the false equivalence? You talk about common sense and majority knows best. What am I missing, are there some specific things upon which the majority cannot decide upon?
Great work, just finished a course in DSP too!
It made me pretty happy to see coffee so high up there in a strong position (mostly for cardiovascular health).
30 minutes a day causes cancer? What did we ever do before long sleeves? Must have been an evolutionary miracle!
I took it to the only Apple Store around (where I had bought it) in person. They said upfront that checking it would take seven days.

They ended up giving me a new one after checking that it was, indeed, faulty.

> [...] if the phone was in your budget

The phone was in my budget. Extra cables were not. Why would you assume that because I can afford a smartphone, I just have money lying around?
All the more reason to emphasize security over the latest in features and upgradability.

Why doesn't Microsoft get held accountable when a 0-day in Windows is exploited that results in loss of user funds? Without that, there's no incentive to build secure software in the first place.

How do we get society to have more of a security-first approach when it comes to things connected to the internet? A lot of these vulnerabilities are scary in a systemic way. Cyber warfare would likely be as damaging as dropping napalm on cities, and it's all preventable by having more security oriented infrastructure.
Damn, it's a shame I was unaware of this at the time.
> ...since the amount of vitamin D we produce on a sunny day is orders of magnitudes more than the maximum amounts advised the boxes.

In general I agree with your attitude but in the case of D, some of us don't make as much where we live as we would if we lived where our parents or grandparents are from. I.e. my skin is darker than the people who have historically lived at the latitude where I live; my Indian grandparents got a lot more sun than I do. My measured D levels are "low"

The reason I put the quotes around "low" is: my levels are low for the stated levels in the USA. But who were the study group? How wide a variation is reasonable? Nobody has determined that. It's like the height and growth charts we were shown for our baby -- they were determined in the mid 1900s by doctors who looked at WASPy New England kids. Hmm..

To be fair, these longitudinal studies are almost impossible to do.
I worked as a programmer working with one of biggest home automation hardware companies in the world. Unfortunately, based on my experience, I don't think the products are yet at a point where anyone who doesn't full understand the hardware and software that's going into their homes should have a "smart home".

People who spent millions on their systems were consistently disappointed and upset due to a combination of hardware and software failures with no fallbacks.
It seems like a far more plausible explanation that this is real malware that picked well-known software that people are likely to be downloading from sources that they're not super sure about.
> Why does free speech mean that we get to insult and demean each other

This doesn't pertain to Imzy as all, but asking this question seriously is a very strong indicator that you're completely missing the point of absolute legal free speech protection.

"Oh, you're saying bad things about the current government? That's pretty insulting and demeaning towards all these nice politicians and government employees! To the jail with you!"

Does it really seem reasonable to you that that saying something "insulting" should be met with force at the hands of the government? That's as anti-liberal as any Sharia law-based Islamic nation that kills people for blashpheming Mohammad.

I agree that it is within any website's authority to determine precisely what its users are allowed to say. I just disagree with your weakening of the concept of free speech. Germany does not have a tradition of free speech in any meaningful sense, so their law is not a great example.
Key extract:

The researchers classified human relationships into four types: in-roles
(who include colleagues, classmates, and others who we are acquainted with
and see on a regular basis), friends (those who we are acquainted with, but
do not see regularly), strangers (those who we are neither acquainted
with nor see regularly), and familiar strangers (those who we see regularly
but are not acquainted with). The new study finds that familiar strangers
may play a significant role in processes such as information sharing
and disease spreading.
I'm not exceptionally bright but I have an excellent memory and an endless fascination with..well everything.

So I've read books on dozens of random topics, I've learnt to keep my mouth shut, people don't like that I know all that stuff they see it as threatening to their own self-worth.

My previous GF was a physio and mentioned she was writing a training course on compartment syndrome, she was astounded that I knew what that was and responded with "Why would you need to know about that you just program computers?" as though there was something intrinsically wrong with been interested in things, we broke up soon after because "We are too different in outlook" which was fine.

Current GF is a Hungarian (I mention this because she has commented several times that there is a fundamental cultural difference in how my culture (England) and hers approach education) with two degrees and working on her third in shipping, she has pretty much exactly the same outlook on life as me and her pile of books next to the bed is as varied as mine, She also knows way more about lots of things than me which is frigging awesome.
> Here in a major city in the US

That's my point. If you're a global company targeting major US cities, you're missing out about 80% (might be more, might be less) of the world.

Of course there are people for whom this is useful, but that doesn't mean it's useful for most (or even a large percentage!) of the people out there.
Is Sugar Killing Us?
By going to a doctor and taking a blood test? Insert Theranos beehive poking here.
If it didn't, then on what basis do you determine that the first article is wrong?

That brings us back to where we came in: the "right to be forgotten" measures provide a way for someone who is suffering harm as a result of information being spread about them to notify the likes of search engines that that information should not be spread about them.

Having been so notified, if the search engine continues to propagate the information anyway, it can't say it wasn't warned and it's on the hook for any harm it causes. It's a similar principle to various other "safe harbour" style laws that have been written in recent years, trying to balance the benefits that derive from having these powerful, automated services available online with the dangers that they inherently bring if they act unfairly or get something wrong. The consensus so far seems to be that such services shouldn't necessarily be on the hook for automatically generated or user-supplied content by default, but making them provide a clear notification mechanism and accept responsibility once they have actual knowledge of something going wrong is a fair trade for that safety net.
Are there? I would believe that there are many who don't care, or many who are dismissive at a rather shallow level. But I'm not aware of having seen a good, intellectual critique of "free" software.
I credit this book with bringing me out if a major depressive episode about 5 years ago. I've incorporated running into my schedule ever since and I've yet to have another depression. I had a conversation about it today. I'm glad to see it mentioned. I gift it to people often.
Except if you make an exception for bytes, what about other types that might get passed into a CSV writer, whose __str__ is something "wrong" for CSV purposes? Do they also get auto-detected? Do we add a new __csv__() method just for when outputting to CSV (since it might not be "wrong" for other output formats)? Or do we ditch str()-ifying altogether, but then add back in a bunch of special cases for numeric types and other things where str() is "the right thing"?

Or do we say "CSV outputs strings, whatever is the string representation of what you passed in is what gets written out", and trust people to figure out when they're working with something that has a "wrong" string representation for their use case?

Because remember: the whole underlying cause of this was treating a dangerously non-string value as a string. Those bytes objects should have been decoded to strings long before reaching the CSV writer. Python 3 does raise more and louder exceptions when you pass bytes to things that expect strings, but the CSV writer isn't a thing that expects strings; it expects things that have a string representation, and several common use cases get much more difficult if you change that to force every user to explicitly do throwaway casts to string in the name of protecting people who keep insisting on writing dangerous "I'll treat bytes as string until it breaks, and then complain that the language did the wrong thing, not me" code.
Indeed, the fibre content makes a big deal too. The more biochemistry and medicine you learn, the more you realize most of it hasn't even finished exploring "stamp collecting" mode. But what can you do? You have to keep pedaling and steering since you only get one life to work on.
Link to first book is dead.
That is false, or maybe just semantics. Imagine an enslaved man. I believe he has the right to attempt to free himself from slavery. By your definition he doesn't because those around him haven't granted him that right. In my definition he may or may not have the ability to actually free himself or attempt to.
Whoopsie. Thanks for pointing that out.
And even lembas gets tiring after a while!
> rampant fraud

To be clear, you are accusing the Republican campaign of this?
>If people start getting smart with backups, the response could be to switch blackmailing (pay or we'll distribute your files).

how does that work when most home connections have terrible upload? to make matters worse, if you upload at full speed, people will notice that their internet is getting sluggish and notice something is up.
Another angle to this: Why does Apple get away with something like 2 year support windows for their OS? We now have a bunch of people on OS 10.6.8 who will stop getting updates, but even 10.9 will fall out of support before Win7

Though I suppose the best solution would be to get everyone on the upgrade treadmill
Well, it's a good thing that Imzy is not that. Have a look at their community policy.

https://www.imzy.com/community-policy

Most of those things are also ostensibly prohibited on Reddit. It's just that Reddit's admins don't care to enforce those rules until there's significant controversy.
Possibly influential on your doctor's recommendation for specific, limited conditions [1].

I would not generalize this to the average person, however, due to evidence of harm (such as hemorrhagic stroke [2] and increased mortality [3] )

1 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2928471/

2 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2586922/

3 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15537682
In the timeless words of the great Bruce Tognazzini [1]:

MEVSGP MPIZ JBKQSI DBAPH TLUM XFEA HRBH CNUDNT PZIZDK VZOPZW DX. TO BE OR NOT TO BE THAT IS THE GZINCLE FLORTEN GLOFFLE.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

SO CLOSE.... SO VERY CLOSE....

PERHAPS WITH JUST A FEW MORE MONKEYS........

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfMDWhc_ohU
> Note, once again, that Imzy does allow this. They just ask you to remain polite while you do so. (Which appears to me to be a reasonable request.)

It's an extremely reasonable request, but its enforcement is unlikely to be even-handed. In general people are very likely to allow their personal biases to influence the application of the politeness rule.

It's fairly easy to think of examples where "different points of view" may be perceived as personal attacks. Eg. I've seen a few commenters here suggesting that reddit is a terrible place inhabited by terrible people. I don't think it should be forbidden for people to express that opinion, even though it's not really possible to do so without risking offence.
My grandfather was an internal medicine doctor and said the same thing since the 50's, "all vitamins do is make your pee more expensive."
It's the opposite of why some people are leaving Reddit.

But judging by the number of people who have come to the site from Reddit, it's clear that it is the reason a lot of people are leaving Reddit.
Polybit makes mistake. Owns up.
Update:
I rage posted this as I thought it was widely inappropriate and tone deaf to the community they are counting. As always to sides to every coin and I appreciate the response from Keith.

/Update

Hey Amir,

I noticed that you’re a stargazer on the apex/apex repo, which made me think you’d be interested in the serverless space, so I thought I’d reach out.!

I'm Keith Horwood - I'm the lead author of the API framework, Nodal, and I created stdlib, which aims to make building serverless microservices as easy as possible - without ever having to worry about scale.

You can build your own services or integrate with existing ones from our thousands of users. Here's an example of a markdown service we use to generate documentation on our website: http://stdlib.com/services/stdlib/markdown

Here's another one from someone in our community to find the name of a city based in the USA based on GPS coordinates: http://stdlib.com/services/thisdavej/gps

Anyway - I'd really appreciate it if you tried out our Developer Preview for a project of your own: http://stdlib.com/

Or you can check it out on GitHub here: https://github.com/poly/stdlib

I'm confident that you'll find it as the fastest, easiest way to build and manage microservices.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Best,
Keith
--
Keith Horwood
Founder and CEO,
Polybit
polybit.com
The Tabata protocol is much more specific than HIIT and rarely followed even by those claiming to do it.

It's more complicated than doing 20 seconds of >100% effort followed by 10 seconds of rest 8 times over, which is itself more specific than the range of ways in which you can do HIIT.
IIRC, turning on 64bit mode brings more complexity? I only briefly looked at this stuff last year. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

But for someone learning this stuff, limiting the complexity you have to deal with is a good idea.
> You don't even need a phone to use iMessage

You need an iPhone and specific carriers for iMessage activation.

> I don't know what the carriers in your country are doing to the phone to break it [..]

They're not doing anything.

iMessages activation requires carrier intervention. It's clearly documented in Apple's website. Apple simply has no deal with them.

There are also known issues with reactivation when you change your phone AND your carrier, but not your number.

There's also a list of "supported carriers" (where my country, Argentina, isn't even in the list, even though some carrier do work).

> blocking it to preserve SMS revenues?

Seriously? Do you think a carrier would charge me for an SMS, and then discard it silently?

I actually do get the SMSs. The problem is that there's no carrier support for the activation.
I was surprised too, especially considering how hard it is to discern ASD symptoms caused by high IQ from high IQ caused by ASD. I fall in the middle of that Venn diagram, and unless there's some sort of miraculous scientific breakthrough in that area, I doubt I'll ever know for sure.
Message me if you find one :D
What does SMTP/IMAP have to do with this? We're talking about early adopters of an unused technology. In my 2016, getting into email is far form being an early adopter.
If you're capable of setting up open hab and know how networking works and can setup remote access it's a great option for the hacker news crowd. I'm all about self hosted, self contained solutions that dont leak data, but the vast majority of people dont want to bother or dont know how to set something like that up.

The price disparity between the control 4 stuff and the Iris, SmartThings, Revolv (RIP), wink hubs, and the like is such that you could afford to replace your controller every year for two decades and still not come close to the same cost.
Dell Enterprise support is still highly variable, depending on the tech you land with. I've had to involve my sales contacts several times when techs wanted to do absolutely crazy things to hardware that was obviously dead.

You can self-certify and manage your own component replacements, which works from small to mid scale. We do this for about 1,000 servers and it works pretty well; no phone calls where you roll the dice for quality of the tech, and I like frobbing hardware from time to time, it's a nice change from hacking C++ or PHP . . .
Wouldn’t mind reading in more detail about your setup.
There exists doctrine in constitutional law where its guarantees are deemed to apply even when the actor infringing the right is a private party. This can occur in cases where a private party is deemed to be a "state actor". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_actor

I would suggest that even large social media organizations are not "state actors", so federal constitutional protections don't apply. Of course, states are free to enact laws on their own to guarantee free speech in social media, if they want. It's just not protected by U.S. Constitution, not a constitutional right. [As an editorial aside, I'm dismayed at the general low level of understanding of constitutional rights in the U.S., even among "well-educated" people.]
Great question. I don't know the answer, but you can imagine what some of the considerations might be...

Population growth in the US is slightly declining and generally remaining flat, although life expectancy is increasing.

So it seems likely the older people will need their homes longer than previous generations. When they die they might pass them along, but that certainly doesn't happen to everyone, and in many cases they might be sold, increasing supply.

That said, home value distributions are interesting. Jobs are stagnant or disappearing throughout much of the country, and it is primarily the cities where people are increasingly moving due to availability of jobs. This means those cities are much more desirable, and there is still too little supply, even with people turning things over to children.

Realistically though, the vast majority of the population has near non-existent savings. Many of these Baby Boomer retirees will need to downsize, reverse mortgage, or do something to tap their home for cash as that is still by far and away most families biggest investment. This might point more to the house being sold.

Still won't be enough to meet demand though in big cities since that is increasing, not decreasing. And if fewer are living in places without jobs, those homes may not be options for many families.
Not necessarily; see radiation hormesis [1]. Small amounts can be beneficial even if large amounts are harmful.

We also know there's a link between more sunlight and less incidence of other types of cancer. It's still unknown whether this is mediated by Vitamin D or other mechanisms.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis