skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a friend 10 years ago, diagnosed with lupus (living in the NYC/Tri-state area). Her doctor told her, "Don't take supplements. Just eat a balance diet and you will be alright. Supplements interfere with your body's chemical balance." So patients have to read up on and talk with others to avoid quacks like that one.
After having an amazon delivery driver aggressively harass me for the door key code to my apartment rather than just use the intercom I lost all faith in their delivery service.
If this is verified to actually be doing what it says I'll be intentionally jumping the gun on updating my haswell system and moving to AMD.
Yes it completely changed my entire well being. Muscle twitching stopped, major back aches and leg cramps went away, headaches went away, brain fog went away, concentration went up, sleep improved, skin improved. To be fair, I made other lifestyle changes too in addition to the regimen of supplements.
Alchemy, Rigour and Engineering
I can see people mistaking a bear for something else. They don't look much like bears once their hair style is altered.

https://thewholegardenwillbow.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/im...
>> How do people even know how much bitcoin activity is real and not essentially faked?

Define fake
What It Looks Like When You Fry Your Eye in an Eclipse
Certainly, but you are increasing your risk by entering the property. Internet is entirely remote and can be somewhat anonymous through proxies. Perhaps you could even hire some kid to go ring the doorbell for you, but then that kid has seen your face. I mean, we could keep going down the PR rabbit hole, but I think some people will be able to see the differences in risk here.
Sure but that's a general statement not applicable to the current situation. There are already known technical solutions to the scaling problem. The issue is social, i.e. getting everyone to agree to a protocol upgrade, not technical.
It is dead, last time I checked they were still trying to reach parity with Panther.
What you may be missing is that not everyone shares your assumption that taxation is a sine qua non of the benefits they want from modern society. They might be wrong, but that doesn't make them hypocrites.

Also, the claim that it's all hypocrisy reminds me of this bit from the TAL episode "What Kind of Country":

Jan Martin: And a gentleman came up to me and actually thanked me for the adopt a street light program. He had just written a check to the city for $300 to turn all the street lights back on in his neighborhood. And I did remind him that for $200 if he had supported the tax initiative, we could have had not only streetlights, but parks and firemen and swimming pools and community centers. That by combining our resources, we as a community can actually accomplish more than we as individuals.

Robert Smith: And he said?

Jan Martin: He said he would never support a tax increase.
Nah, you're thinking about it the wrong way. Government regulation is pointless overhead!
I recently attended a talk by one of the Qt developers, and he briefly mentioned that 'cute' is not an intentional cute name, instead it just comes from the way the letters in 'Qt' are said in norwegian language. As simple as that.

Him not being norwegian, I cannot know if that is correct or just something that is said in their office in Oslo...
BTC is currently being used by a number of (rich) investors and a very, very large horde of excited people that see a lot of other people that got very rich this year. Tax avoidance in that last group is probably more out of ignorance than anything - I mean for a lot of people it's their first dip into something like the stock market.
I went to public school in the early 2000s and 'computer class' meant 'learn to use MS Office' when we weren't playing Oregon Trail of course. I was lucky enough to have parents that could afford to support my interest in programming at home from a young age because it certainly was not happening at school.
Is that based on the live buy orders? If the price dropped below 10k then I think you would see a ton of new buyers (including me)
Oh wait... WaPo, Bezos... right

It states that right near the beginning of the article.

I'm cynical in a different way, though. I see this article as the sort of turgid content that dominates tech media: Take some product or behavior that's new, act like it's scary and milk some content out of it. The title itself is simply ridiculous -- the regrets seem to be that the product is exactly what it is held as.

It isn't for me. For some people heavily invested in the Amazon ecosystem it might be a fine compromise.
There's an article on the frontpage of HN from NYTimes that mentions Coinbase has struggled with the massive spike in traffic recently.

It's funny how quickly people jump to overly-complex or borderline conspiratorial explanations when the obvious is staring us in the face...

Coinbase might be a large well funded organization but it's still run by developers with giant backlogs of tickets and conflicting priorities to build new stuff vs maintain old stuff.
5 cents and 5% is ridiculous if it is cost-plus, but if it is indeed a flat rate, considering how small some of these microtransactions can be, and the overhead involved for a transaction of any size, it starts to make sense.
In the US, they are all individual "contractors". They call them Flex Drivers. They are similar to Uber drivers. Individually hired but are technically contractors. So Amazon does background checks on them but technically they are not Amazon employees, they are "self employed". Which is why many of them drive things like Uhaul vans for deliveries. They try to cram as many orders as they can into a van, and rush them through, to get the biggest possible payout.
Haha Sam you fucker. God you're an idiot.

Look around everything you do and see how you contribute to this mess.
I'm being a cheeky detractor of NYT here. I think "candid, engineering-style blogposts" are the future of news, and ancient vehicles like New York Times are long dead. I think the "general NYT audience" is participating in #FakeNews, and they should radically reconsider their information diet.

As vivid example of this, compare James Birdle breaking the "Youtube exploitative kid videos" story way before, and in greater depth, than in any major publication. This is actually the future of news, and pretending like aging institutions like the New York Times are remotely relevant anymore is longshot wishful thinking.

Editorialization, fact-checking, and cultural leadership have important roles to play, and I'm excited to see these features unbundled into separate services. I'm long on services like Verrit and Snopes, and wish that I, as an independent publisher, could pay an intern to get official statements, cross-check narratives with history, and perform some of these functions. As is, I think people are operating under the delusion that ONLY NYT-style institutions can perform these functions, which baffles me.

(Actually, the future is probably more like James posting on jamesbridle.com, and then aggregating it through sites like Hacker News. But what do I know, I'm just a millennial who doesn't understand all these big partisan topics like modern journalism)

https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
Wait...you can do that?
THE LIBYANS ARE Not ISRAELITES, THEY ARE HAMITES
That's meddling with the person, not the transaction. The protocol is unassailable. Anyway, if you really want there are mechanisms for anonymous transactions over BTC.
I agree, they _should_ be able to, but lots of times performance is a 2nd priority behind getting shit out the door - for better or or for worse.

I'm sure as they grow they'll harden their systems and/or do a total rewrite. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing it already since the big boys are starting to show interest with futures.
I am surprised he is not running for President of the United States.
Can you explain what Limited Tort meant in this case?
I get my packages sent to my grandmother because my place is way too open for me to trust deliveries... my grandmother's at least has a wall in front of the front door so packages just dropped off aren't visible from the street.

I'd seriously consider this product.
The AGIs won't take over the world. Humans and corporations will use narrow AIs to do much worse (better) before that happens. The intelligence explosion that I would like to see centers around widely distributing tools that make formal methods easier to use. Humans so far have a lock on constructive creativity, AI and computation could augment that creativity by effortlessly checking our work. It could make the cognitive work of all humans more rigorous.
Scientists ‘Inject’ Information into Monkeys’ Brains
Uprooting FDR’s “Great Wall of Trees”
> people on the street, who innocently don't know how the Internet works

"people on the street who ... don't know" have a tendency to accept the statements of "officials" as correct and accurate. So "people on the street" are very likely to state agreement with these statements on the FCC's part.
eat bacon.
Especially the early ones where he just seems to be making shit up on the fly and taking really long pauses to think about a good answer. Then again, maybe that makes him more relatable to the average person?
Biggest Enterprise Software Will Soon Be SaaS-Only and It’s Time to Worry
It's not. In one motherboard's BIOS/UEFI interface the option is phrased as "BIOS PSP Support" and on ASRock AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac description for this flag is Enable Disable BIOS PSP driver execution (including all C2P/P2C mailbox. Secure S3. fTPM Support)
Interesting admission. There's been recognition of subclinical vitamin D deficiencies for years in the professional athlete community, a segment of the population at higher risk of bone and tissue disorders:

http://journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/Abstract/2010/09000/High...
http://journals.humankinetics.com/doi/abs/10.1123/ijsnem.18....

There is no reason not to get tested given how easy it is to order online:
https://www.accesalabs.com/Vitamin-D-Test

I've tried out a handful of supplements for Vitamin D but haven't landed on a good one. Has anyone tested, tried specific supplements, and then retested and documented results?
Find the Best Product Development Frameworks
OK, I don't think I agree. In the area I work in, writing good code isn't so much about coming up with a clever sequence of moves; a large part of it is being adept at modeling real life situations with abstractions in software, and being adept at manipulating and combining those abstractions, and seeing when and to what extent they can be used more broadly, and knowing how to assess whether the end product is correct to the required degree.
Yes, the sea water absorbing more sunlight due to lack of reflecting ice could cause it to warm significantly. But this is indirectly caused by sea ice melting, and a more speculative connection between ice melt and water levels rising. Furthermore, I'd like to see hard numbers, since most of sea ice is under water and does not reflect sunlight.
Compared to national currencies bitcoin is now top 20 in terms of market cap.
Note that this article was published in January of 2013, and it's now been 35 years since the Machine of the Year.
>...Just take half a pound of spinach and boil it, when you eat it, it'll be about the size of a medium bowl. That will be about 50 calories and contain 1200% of your daily vitamin K needed!

It really isn't that simple. One issue is that it doesn't matter how much is in spinach if you don't absorb it.

>...Circulating phylloquinone levels after spinach with and without butter were substantially lower (7.5- and 24.3-fold respectively) than those after taking the pharmaceutical concentrate. Moreover, the absorption of phylloquinone from the vegetables was 1.5 times slower than from Konakion.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8813897

And while those vegetables will get you some K1, they won't get you K2 which is important for how calcium is handled in the body.

>...We examined whether dietary intake of phylloquinone (vitamin K-1) and menaquinone (vitamin K-2) were related to aortic calcification and coronary heart disease (CHD) in the population-based Rotterdam Study.

>...The relative risk (RR) of CHD mortality was reduced in the mid and upper tertiles of dietary menaquinone compared to the lower tertile [RR = 0.73 (95% CI: 0.45, 1.17) and 0.43 (0.24, 0.77), respectively]. Intake of menaquinone was also inversely related to all-cause mortality [RR = 0.91 (0.75, 1.09) and 0.74 (0.59, 0.92), respectively] and severe aortic calcification [odds ratio of 0.71 (0.50, 1.00) and 0.48 (0.32, 0.71), respectively]. Phylloquinone intake was not related to any of the outcomes.
These findings suggest that an adequate intake of menaquinone could be important for CHD prevention.

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/134/11/3100.long
I don't quite get why this is written as if the author is a neutral observer of this phenomenon, when in reality he works extremely hard every day to make sure it happens.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-130...

Note that some of the assumptions are a bit comical, like an economics major who works in finance or a biology major who becomes a physician are considered STEM majors who work in non-STEM fields.

Still, the overall picture isn't great even if you look past those weird classifications.
Uber employee said
"Uber hack - What a fucked up way to handle such a problem."

https://us.teamblind.com/article/uber-hack-OYUM6OPh
Do you have time to link the one you recommend?
This beautiful watermelon story makes an odd-turn midway through. It starts with a tale of watermelon seeds found in Southwestern US cave, and then smoothly segues into a prison interview with Cliven Bundy, who turns out have been instrumental in preserving the variety:

"Bundy is better known for his involvement in a nationally publicized dispute over paying to graze cattle on public land. He had passed these seeds along with his other precious heirloom melon varieties to our Southwest gardener friend, just a few hours before Bundy’s fellow protester Levoy Finicum was shot at the infamous Oregon wildlife refuge occupation. Shortly after the shooting, he was taken into custody and has been held without bail since. The last known steward of the ancient watermelon, Bundy, is federally incarcerated at a prison outside of Las Vegas, Nevada."

This is a side of Bundy that I haven't seen covered elsewhere, although Bundy's son Ryan touched on some similar topics in his recent opening statement: https://thewashingtonstandard.com/ryan-bundys-opening-statem....
Show HN: Operos – hyperscaler-grade infrastructure for everyone
Operos is a Linux-based operating system that brings hyperscaler-grade infrastructure automation to organizations of all sizes: scheduled containers, software defined networking, and converged storage automatically provisioned on commodity x86 servers.

Today, at Pax Automa, we are excited to announce the first preview release of Operos.

Please check it out and let us know what do you think.
https://www.paxautoma.com/operos/
You can easily cash out on localbitcoins at least in Europe using SEPA.
> Like, how does AlphaZero optimize for “how to slow Climate Change”?

I think that's a bit ambitious. GAI is not obliged to solve all the world's problems. But I would ask a more modest question: how could AlphaZero approach problems like web service integration? These problems are definitely solvable, but converting them to optimization problems is the really difficult part that requires genuine intelligence.
This is interesting, but how accurate is it?
Glad it's here, so I no longer have to Airplay from an iOS device. But can we talk about the UI? It seems Amazon's dumped an entire web renderer into the app (https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/93857361817446400...), and loading their "smart" TV UI.

It ignores the tvOS human interface guidelines (https://developer.apple.com/tvos/human-interface-guidelines/...), discarding all the accessibility features and the focus model.

I get that, to Amazon, the Prime Video app on Apple TV is probably not worth spending any time and effort on. But it's unfortunate for those of us that are paying the strategy tax and getting a "smart" tv app designed for low-powered CPUs.
There are several issues with this analysis. Perhaps a more modern example would serve to illustrate this. Gregg Popovich is probably one of the greatest NBA coaches ever. However, if you look at the talent on his team compared to his opponents, maybe his wins with that talent isn't so impressive. However, an NBA coach's responsibilities include acquiring and developing talent. So the fact that he had more talent than his opponent in a game is a plus not a minus.

A general is also responsible for the logistics of maintaining his army and also of choosing battles where they have the most advantage. Thus, if a general over the course of a campaign is always engaging in battles with enemies where he is at a terrain or numerical advantage, that is positive for the general, not a negative. If a general is constantly fighting at a disadvantage in numbers or terrain, than can be a sign of weakness, not of strength - especially if they lose.

Thus, wins above replacement isn't a very good measure of generalship.

In addition, the data is incomplete. Napoleon fought 43 battles losing five. His biggest disaster, the Russian invasion was also his longest distance campaign. In contrast, here is the map of Alexander's empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#/media/Fil.... Believing that the 9 listed battles of Alexander represent every battle his army fought while conquering an area this vast is very naive. The truth is that over the 2000 years since Alexander, the accounts of battles got distilled and what we have is a greatest hits version of his battles. In contrast, Napoleon was in an era when it is more likely that we have a more complete list of his battles.

Finally, in comparing Napolean with some of the other generals, it is important to remember that ultimately Napoleon lost on the field of battle. When it really mattered, he failed. Alexander and Julius Caesar, Subatai, Genghis Khan, etc all won their battles - especially the ones that counted.

Napoleon may have been a great tactician on the field of battle, but being a great general is more than that.
Yeah this is just the thing - you cannot stop the bitcoin blockchain because it's decentralized, and due to competition, individual exchanges can't call for a stop on trading. They can but people will revoke trust in that exchange and move to another one. If Coinbase is down more often in times like this, they will start losing trust too and people will move to the next best competitor. Then again I think by now Coinbase has built up such a good reputation and whatnot that it'd take a lot for that to happen.
That is what a Market Maker is.
I get the feeling that Amazon is indifferent to "missing out". The approach is to throw stuff on the wall and see what sticks.

Think of Amazon Key as your average tech startup that has Amazon branding.
Likely not very well vetted in advance. I ordered a few computer parts last month that never arrived. Amazon used a "shipping partner" instead of one of the mainstream delivery services. Amazon claims to have no idea what happened to my package but it sounds like the contractor just took off with their vehicle full of goods.

It wouldn't surprise me if they do very little vetting, especially this time of year, and just suck up the cost of packages that contractors fail to deliver. Perhaps for large shipments they go after the contractor legally if they can find them but for smaller shipments they probably just blacklist the person and move on. Taking an extra ten days to get my order via replacement shipped by a reputable delivery service was mildly annoying but I certainly never would allow Amazon's random hodgepodge of contractors enter my home.
Yeah, a 210K+ backlog in unconfirmed transactions and soaring fees: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
I think even with unlimited APM, humans can still beat AI using cheese strategies, like an undetected cannon rush, since you can't really micro your workers against cannons (the projectile isn't dodge-able like the one from siege tanks).

Otherwise, you make a fair point and that video is amazing. AI vs AI strategy with unlimited APM would be very exciting to watch.
True, it's up to the people involved. My point was more that it's possible
Then...does it means they will shut down Chromebook as well? I can't understand. Chrome apps supported the environment of not only Chrome browser but Chrome OS as well so far. Do they have other plan for Chromebook? Weird decision...weird.
"But Amazon is barely hiding its goal: It wants to be the operating system for your home."

Why engineer a delivery solution when you can convince some people to give up even more control and access?
> Were creators asking for this change?

Nope. And the absolutely universal response, from tiny artists all the way up to Chapo Trap House (the largest Patreon creator by far) has been firmly against this change.

But investors put in money expecting to get more money out. That's the only credible explanation I can see. They're lucky that Drip isn't up and running yet so there can't be an immediate reaction.
It goes back to the C vs C++ war, and to the old issues with Qt license.

So not only there was the license issue, usually C devs would side with Gtk+/GNOME and C++ with Qt/KDE.

I remember a few language flame wars when Gtk--/Gnome-- were started, nowadays Gtkmm/Gnomemm.

Back in the day SuSE and Mandrake were the best KDE distributions for desktop users.

As they kind of faded way, KDE lost a bit of momentum.

Then there was the whole mis-understanding with their reboot, which was supposed to be dev only and distributions took it as if it was ready.
It helps the funds that gave $60M to patreon. Pretty simply imho. You know, follow the money.
Ignore exchanges where there is 0 trading fees like the big one in Korea.
Google. Facebook. Amazon. Big Tech in general.

Everyone called it a bubble until they started making shit loads of money.
The Becoming SuperHuman Podcast https://becomingasuperhuman.com/podcast/
> measures pigments into mussel shells

It is worth commenting that we aren't talking about the mussel appreciated in kitchens that everybody knows today. Those are shells from a different and freshwater species called 'painter's palette'. A dull brown, medium sized shell with a glossy and pure white inner face. Being common and easily available in most european rivers was a cheap and perfect solution for mixing oil colors in the, plastics-free, XVII siecle.

It is decreasing currently and even critically endangered in some european countries, but still remains relatively common in Holland. Can be found from Iberia to Russia and also in UK.
I agree with the need for more analysis.

This site seems to take a MadLibs style of 'product that exists' for 'company type that exists'.
Surely there are legitimate results from that, but not without a lot more work.
Catch a falling knife
> Of course the one time I attempted to write something with Gtk+, it very much felt like a "We hate C++, so we're going to implement everything C++ does as conventions and macros on top of C" project.

As I replied in a sibling comment, yep that was part of the issue.
In car insurance it means you give up your right to sue for pain and suffering unless you suffer serious injuries. The PA definition of a serious injury is "a personal injury resulting in death, serious impairment of body function or permanent serious disfigurement."

So even if you're injured badly enough to need a year of physical therapy for full recovery, you would likely get no money for your pain and suffering under Limited Tort. Without Limited Tort you'd probably get anywhere from $30,000 - $100,000 for that amount of pain/suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, etc.