skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this "scientific evidence based nutritionist" by the name of Michael Greger. He pushes out a lot of content, going through the paper to draw actionable conclusions.

Here's what he has to say about some of the topics of the article:

Salt (6 videos) — https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=greger+salt

Bacon (now a class I carcinogen, like smoking and asbestos): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7zTJ5LnO1E

MSG (no scientific evidence it hurts): https://nutritionfacts.org/video/update-on-msg

GMOs: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-gmos-safe-the-case-of-r...

The Monsanto Round-up pesticide often found on "Round-up Ready" (TM) GMOs: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-monsantos-roundup-pestic...

The article also mentioned people ove-rdiagnozing gluten intolerance. So what?! And is says:

> We demonized fats. Then cholesterol. Then meat.

Yes, well some of us did, because when I look around I see still loads of fat and high-cholesterol animal product consumed. Cutting out (most) animal products —the only dietary source of cholesterol— is great way to improve your health, same with cutting out processed fat (oils/butter).

> If people want to avoid foods, even if there’s no reason to, is that really a problem?

There's plenty reason! That's the problem, you cannot let big corps be in charge of their own regulations (and thats what the hollow-democracies allow big corps to do). Since we cannot fix those democracies, we simply: buy organic, and eat plant-based, and/or "clean", and what not.

> The answer is: yes. Because it makes food scary. And being afraid of food with no real reason is unscientific — part of the dangerous trend of anti-intellectualism that we confront in many places today.

Therefor I quote Dr Greger. He does loads of research, and find plenty of evidence for not choosing a go-with-the-flow standard american diet, if you want to live a healthy life.

Here a good talk of Greger at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNY7xKyGCQ

> If there’s one thing you should cut from your diet, it’s fear.

Sure, I'd love to. Just gimme clean food and I have nothing to fear. Given the stack of evidence I should clearly steer clear of much of what my supermarket offers: much of it is straight up poison. The people that do so, and base their diet on whole plant foods are in much better health, this is what Dr Greger shows with an undeniable amount of scientific evidence.

TL;DR: Very weak article, zero science behind their "fear not your food, because it's unscientific fear", and it calls those eating "clean" to be anti-intellectual.
Win for AWS and win for customers who can easily access that huge amount of data just via s3 buckets.
Brutalism and Antidesign
Do you think Amazon, Facebook or Google won’t buy out their would-be destroyers, regulators willing? And I don’t see any signs of unwilling regulators lately.
Thanks! The original source is custom js rendering to svg. The html version of the article contains png files based on that output; the pdf version contains vectorized versions. I got some solid design input from Mike Sall on the images for this article.

Edit: example: https://github.com/tylerneylon/math/blob/master/self_repl_fn...
I believe the main reason for this is to prevent people from getting cheaper tickets for short trips by making two separate reservations.

Some airlines charge higher prices if you spend only night or two in destination (probably because these are usually business trips and business people have money). So back in the days you actually booked separate return trips to the destination and only used one part of each trip.

The trouble is that airlines want to sell the same product with many prices. Get maximum price from business traveler, while still competing also for the price conscious holiday traveler.
I miss them, they were a great example of how creative everyone can be, now doing "awesome" things on the internet is so cookie cuttered.
He’s pretty honest about that in the article, anyone can do it; he wants them to; and he’s spending his personal time trying to convince others to.

The reinvestment is for something better than a juiced up valuation. He’s likely parlaying his profit into more inventory or scaling the team that he will profit from. Reinvestment isn’t always about selling the company.
For those who, like me, didn't know what the Kelly criterion was: In probability theory and intertemporal portfolio choice, the Kelly criterion is a formula used to determine the optimal size of a series of bets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
I remember the NCSA Web Site of the Day, circa 1993. It was a page that listed new web sites that had appeared on the web, with a brief summary and link to each one.

Many days there wasn't a new web site. Some days there were two.
Basically it is the same as clicking the auto buttons in Lightroom or any photo software.

Raised the exposure when needed, fixed white balance, etc...photoshop has been doing this since like 1990.
IANAC but my research suggests the odour is due to the presence of amine salts of boric acid in the electrolyte. Any chemists on hand to confirm or correct this?
Uh, you can just do two things. Prohibit mixing of character blocks. That is sane and would prevent many incidents.

Edit: As for homoglyph bundles, you just have to do it like EURid and create tables.

But the main protective layer would be the user interface, similar to how HTTPS is handled, either descriptively, with warning colors or both.
No because they're a nation state. Terrorism is when a non state actor attacks civilian targets for political reasons.

A nation state attacking civilians in another country is either war or a police action depending on context.
>> Try to find more detailed information on very specific topics, however, and you'll discover that search engines like Google have been optimising more and more for the former content, making it harder to find the latter. I don't think that's a good thing at all.

This. A thousand times, this.

I really feel is the unfortunate consequences of our short attention span and everyone marketing towards an insanely short attention span is you get the firehose of information, but zero depth to any of it.

If I want to dig; really dig into a subject, 99% of what Google pukes at me is not helpful at all. A few times lately, I've ran into something I've found through Google, but trying to dig any deeper is futile. I've had to go down to the local library and start digging through news clippings, books and magazines. Actual, real old fashioned leg work.

I've come to feel like the internet has no depth anymore, everything is just enough to satisfy a .001 second attention span. Sad when you really stop and think about it.
Village my mother in law lived in until very recently still has no broadband. 768k would be a dream.
Agreed, the only way this has been achieved in the past has been taxes on corporations and high net worth individuals as well as anti-trust laws (which target both large companies and high net worth individuals). At this point you have to wonder how long this Gilded Age will last.
Follow a link, lose your place and have to start over.
> I tried to compensate by upvoting.

Thanks..

> It is just a tease with a smiley at the end. Relax, people.

Indeed, what's wrong with these people! :-P

(I was a dynamic typer myself, but changed sides when learning about strong typing, especially in FP langugaes)
How did you find these Gopher sites? Is there a Gopher search engine, or is it just a hand-updated list?
In Northern Ireland, they literally put posters of Catholic politicians on the bonfires.
I built an app for this exact reason. I like working on a couple things at a time including usually at least one online course.

https://getbalanceapp.com
The Ottery St Mary tar barrelling is well worth watching. I'll never forget the sight of a bunch of people generally dressed in leather, beards and hair nearly ablaze but generally charred rolling the barrel. Sometimes you'd get a complete nutter fuelled on beer or cider and sheer adrenaline pick the thing up, put in on their shoulders and run down the street until they had quite severe burns or ran out of steam and thrown it on.

The neighbours are a bit odd (er than me) around here ...
Except it is always people who have never even tried it who claims it wont work elsewhere. Why not try proven ideas than some wacky idea you feel good about but which has never proven itself anywhere?

The nordic model is not based on companies being angeles who do good by their own accord. You need government, press, unions etc holding them accountable.

You can’t have frer for all capitalism and wait for private enterprise to start being nice and take social responsibility.
Hey, you probably know that but just in case: charging a swollen battery is a fire hazard.
I suspect parts of Northern Ireland and Glasgow
In Bill Clinton's run for the presidency they used 'instant feedback' monitors to register audience likes and dislikes.

Bill was almost always liked-- he got high marks, no matter the subject. When the camera happened to include Hillary, the audience 'like factor' instantly plummeted. This is well documented in a book, I think it was George Stephanapolis's.

Some people can project likeability, some can't. It's not clear if it can be learned or not.
But Why Projects-finding out the why
Thanks for being interested. We don’t have a set date. The issues that are linked from the presentation give an indication. You can follow them.
That's nice but it needs better support for indexing JavaScript single page apps. Right now only Google seems to be doing it properly.
No fees for changes either, other than the fare difference.
I understand the sarcasm, but really, there are a lot of "real" websites, directly controlled by individuals who post what they want. I point you to my own website, https://www.dwheeler.com .... it's not the latest in CSS, no Megabytes of JavaScript, and no cross-site tracking either.
you're right - the kookery and legitimacy is no longer side by side, it's now stacked and you scroll through it on social media ;)
Los Altos Hills, actually.
I think your questions revolve around the rest of us having separate brains and these brains having developed in ways unique to each of us. Theirs is intertwined to the point that it's one big brain. Perhaps each girl's own part has individuality, but their development would overlap or inform the other in such a way that they can share thoughts.

My point: I don't believe you can extrapolate from "these girls can share thoughts" to "all human thought share the same protocol/mechanism." That said, we all have human brains, and maybe human brains share the same protocol/mechanism for thought.
Do a lot of people actually use it? It seems like you could just as easily replace that site by simple tweets when you actually stumble upon something worthy. Which is what most people do IMO.
Lol, good luck is all I have to say to you. Invest well=)

If you honestly think this is sustainable, you are mistaken.

You are lucky to have done well all these years, but as more people get smarter, bye bye margins.( Same thing in every business.)

More and more people will get into this space.

Sure, you may be able to survive because you geta volume discount on shipping, but that's all dependent on you sourcing the product that these new people will be doing because all it takes is a smartphone and dream....
Quite normal on a night shift to replace hundreds of surface mount capacitors from a calrec sound desk. Well normal for my colleagues - my soldering is terrible, I spent the time writing perl instead.
Basic web site functionality should work in any browser.
Yahoo didn't when they had the chance. I mean I'm sure they'd love to if they can but will they see it coming early enough?
please submit more projects to find out the why.
Have you tried lite.qwant.com? It's pretty usable for me in w3m, although still not as nice as DDG.
The definition of an exactly self replicating function seems to be any function 'f' such that there are continuous bijections a,b,c such that f∘a + f∘b = c∘f, and a does not equal b.

Edit: I think this includes all strictly quasi-concave functions, but I'm not entirely sure.
move to a country/region with no taxes.

If you want the benefits of a country that has decided to charge people to live there, then you have to pay - same if you want the benefits of membership of a club.
Hmmmm. But yet she moved to America.

I wonder why?
Some of them do. At least some of the gambling type.

I have twice, neither time particularly successfully - in fact one time quite spectacularly unsuccessfully if measured purely by how much money I put in my bank account for that 18 months of full time work. And I'm seriously considering an offer to ride that ride again right now...

The downside is the consequences of failure usually include losing money - either real invested money, or in opportunity cost of the gap between market-rate-salary and what you're able to pay yourself for the time you spend working on your own business. This is often not a problem for early twenties tech dudes, it's not a realistic gamble for someone with a family or other responsibilities for which foregoing a reliable regular income isn't really a sensible/ethical option.
Google is not great for finding stuff. I’ve complained at length about how bad it is for doing research, but recently I’ve also found it’s totally useless for finding things like reviews of products (unless it’s something like the new iPhone). It’s like legitimate reviews are a casualty in the war between Google and clickbait SEO crap.
That sounds like a feature, punishing poorly made "apps" that require javascript.
Hire them into your business. Teach them the ropes. Then turn them loose with some seed money.
Not only are the figures simple and beautiful but the typesetting and simple layout/lack of cruft is wonderful and refreshing. A+ on site design and also a very interesing article to boot! I work in game programming and would be interested in exploring self replicating functions for a variety of things...
This is my favorite rooftop airplane:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7042005,-74.0081902,115m/dat...
I think there's evidence that it _can_ be learned, with Steve Jobs as example #1.

On the other hand, it may not be _easily_ learned. Jobs went through a lot of changes in his life; perhaps this was one of the happier (or at least more useful) outcomes.
Another speaker withdrew because of what he felt to be the organizers' unprofessionalism.

It seems that the organizers were well-intentioned, but lack experience.

https://medium.com/@jevakallio/why-i-will-not-be-speaking-at...
It's illegal to set off fireworks after 11pm except on 4 dates, Bonfire Night being one of them (the others are Chinese New Year, New Year's Eve and Diwali).
The Bully's Pulpit
Looks like many of the datasets were obtained from federal organizations in which case it should actually be under public domain.
It is slightly questionable whether this episode is really the cause for the switch. Around the same time frame significantly faster switching transistors became available which allowed DC-DC converters to reach higher efficiency by increasing switching frequency, which has the nice side effect of requiring smaller filtering capacitors at the expense of requiring lower ESL/ESR.

Also over past 5 years or so small chip low-voltage MLCCs became available in previously unheard of capacities that are perfectly usable for many bulk filtering applications with prices that are competitive with aluminium electrolytics.
It's starting but to truly take that stand generally requires major life changes, and those changes take time to come into fruition if they happen at all. I'm trying to save enough money to escape the rat race and build technology and organizations that at least I think could help level the political playing field, but unexpected expenses come up and savings seem to move less than they should.
I have to agree with you that I generally don't see those kinds of pages as well.

Sure, they exist, and I do stumble on them from time to time, but most of the time I will find what I'm looking for, often with a wealth of user comments as well.
When Facebook was growing there was a fear on Google that Facebook would lead to Google's irrelevance. Google+ was a very clear response to that. Still, Google couldn't buy Facebook and couldn't kill it.

Microsoft couldn't kill/buy Google, Walmart can't kill/buy Amazon. Microsoft and Walmart are still big, but not that powerful anymore.

So while i think they can buy their would be destroyers, that is actually very hard, because they mostly only realize that too late, or are stopped by something else (Microsoft did buy shares of Facebook before Google).
I'm taking a learning psych course this semester, honestly
you barely need to design them at all. Any random positive outcome will cause (on average) a non-interrupted repetition of the preceding behavior.

Most mobile games nowadays are "designed" (read: made crappier) with such a feature. Just try and find a "free to play" game where the outcome isn't random... It's just not as profitable.
The site I remember feeling that way about was the Robot Wisdom Homepage, now preserved only on the WayBack Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20130409045156/http://www.robotw...
Yes, but patent portfolios are a sought after asset in liquidations or acquisitions of failing giants.
That's all the solid work I have so far. Tons of ideas for what could be next. For example, consider convolutions on sets generated by L-systems (eg the Cantor set). I suspect those might offer continuous, finitely-supported, linearly-shifted self-replicating fns (the current article is mainly about non-linear shifts; t_1 is only piecewise linear). Maybe L-systems even completely characterize that category of self-replicating fns.

Other ideas:
* Higher dimensions (eg f1 + f2 + f3 = g with domain R^2)
* Shifted fns f1, f2 whose sum has surprisingly small diff from their sum: ie small |C(f1+f2)-shift(f1)|; the normal fn appears to fall into this category
When I saw Figure 3 I was reminded of the New Zealand kidney fern, where the veining is a very close approximation to that type of L-system, at least for the first seven or so divisions. http://www.terrain.net.nz/friends-of-te-henui-group/nz-ferns...
> I used to enjoy picking a subject and then clicking all the DMOZ or Yahoo! links. I'd dig through webrings and and link aggregators with wild abandon.

I sometimes still do that with Wikipedia articles and their sources, it's a fun way to kill a couple of hours and can lead down some really interesting rabbit-holes.
Ask HN: What can I do with .0016 Bitcoin?
I have a little over $12 worth of Bitcoin (at the current market value) from 21.co. I'm not a speculator, investor, etc but am interested in the blockchain.

What do I do with such a small amount of Bitcoin?
If you're interesting in electronics and software in general, and can read German (or can stand the surprisingly good Google Translate), another site I recommend: https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/
Rather, nowadays, the search engine has a basic understanding of you and obliges you with what you think you want.
A step-by-step guide to making pure-CSS tooltips
It's amazing how between reviews, sellers, features, and availability, when I make a google (or DDG) search of some product none of the links are of the kind that I want.

I've gave up googling for products I intend to buy (what has probably the largest revenue potential).
> Instead I would appeal to very basic concepts, like symmetry. For instance, if the defense team had carried out similar surveillance, would they be facing the same (lack of) consequences?

Well, to be clear, that's a big part of what I find morally repugnant and against (professed) American values, the hypocrisy and inequality present in this situation.
60 requests, Loaded in 6.49s. Cripes, if you don't have some marketing department shoving tracking scripts all over the place against your will what's your excuse?
Command and Conquer Zero Hour 1 VS 2 Hard Enemy Lost Twice
I think you're right. Your version of the definition is more elegantly stated, and I may want to use it going forward, as long as a, b, and c still make intuitive sense (thinking about that part).
Microservices, Blockchain, biology and evolution
most of them were "Under construction" GIFs over ugly tiled backgrounds

Oh you remind me of the beautiful paean to those GIFs in Olia Lialina's "A Vernacular Web", which is a pretty cool discussion of early internet aesthetics.

http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/uc/
Google is excellent at giving the appearance of finding everything. The fact that there is an enormous world of which Google remains completely ignorant is a fact of which we seem increasingly unapprised.
Well, I may have oversimplified when I wrote that rights were what you can't be prosecuted for. I'm no constitutionalist. But you can't just shrug on the idea that there is a difference between rights and entitlements. I suppose you can though, since it fits your political view. Still a quick search for "rights vs entitlements" returns ample documentation, including quotes from Law professors, like this one:

"America was founded on the idea that human beings are born with natural rights, such as the rights to life, liberty and property. A person who holds this view of rights makes no demands on others except that they respect those rights. Today, however, many Americans talk about rights to a college education, state of the art medical care and even birth control pills. These are rights understood as entitlements and a person who holds this view of rights, far from making no demands on other people, is making claims on other people’s money and resources. This understanding of rights not only sets citizens against each other, but it undermines the whole idea of natural rights."

http://blog.hillsdale.edu/online-courses/natural-rights-vs.-...

I like especially the "it undermines the whole idea of natural rights". Clearly people like me are the result of this undermining.
So where is the bloody product? The silly little link on the about site is easy to miss.

Quite like it on first use. I've been meaning to ditch Google (can't be arsed with "do do no evil" anymore) for a while now and this looks like a good start.
http://www.myth-and-fantasy.com/misc/webrings.html

These webrings with graphical designs most accurately capture my memories of them (possibly at their height) from the late 90s.
as in elf similarity across projection, a R^n composition that ends up a as a function on R^N-1 ?
Hold it and remember this years later.
Oh cool. I've not yet read through the series, but I've been wanting to read exactly this kind of thing for a while. One of the big reasons I've not touched JS much is simply that the depth of the abstraction stack scares me. When I hack in C, I like to have a pretty good idea of the assembly that's generated; but with JS it feels like there are so many more moving pieces involved in reasoning about program flow and performance.

Thanks to Alexander Zlatkov for doing this series! I look forward to giving it an honest read!!
“By inadvertently privileging the relationships between personal computing and networked forms of sociality...”

What a bunch of gibberish.
The challenge is that your talk has to be _really_ good to get viewed, because most people will want to skim the slide deck before deciding whether or not to watch it.

I quite like Ed Kmett's talks that often consist of him typing into his editor at an incredible rate while talking about everything. It works because he's an uncommonly swift typist and can write it all off the top of his head.
I'm just asking, I'm not taking sides or anything, cause it kind of is what it comes down to.
It does for me in Firefox, but I have the opposite opinion. It shouldn't start running compute intensive operations and downloading datasets untill I say go.