skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be strictly criminal, but the influence that these multinationals have to subvert and corrupt governments is monumental and that is highly unethical. Nobody should be defending multinationals in this situation, their profits are for them alone. E.g. a mining company moves in, sucks the land dry, doesnt pay any substantial tax and then leaves, often with the people of that country worse off than before. This sort of unethical behavior is cancerous and enables modern day economic slavery.
The more I think about it, the more I feel "Information Asymmetry" is the root cause of such problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
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Our metabolism is very complex. But if it's not backed up by studies and science, it doesn't count.

Type 2 diabetes is defined by insulin resistance. The only way to "beat" type 2 diabetes is to lower your insulin resistance and thus to lower your insulin response. At the moment you can only lower your insulin with lifestyle changes that implies fasting + eating a diet that triggers a low insulin response.

The vegan lifestyle is high in carbs. What many people don't understand is that there are only 3 macro-nutrients: proteins, fats and carbs. You cannot do a low carbs diet without at least eggs and diary. And carbs stimulate insulin.

Note that there are clinics that have successfully treated people of diabetes via fasting. Here's one: https://idmprogram.com/

N.B. carbohydrates are not the enemy, but _refined carbohydrates_ are and unfortunately for a type 2 diabetic it's too late to switch to healthy carbs.

Yes, a potato is healthy, however for a diabetic it is basically poison.
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Are you really looking for quick ways weight loss?
+1

This looks to me as the best use of having a public git wit info out there.
Note that protein also provokes an insulin response. This is why a steak will actually result in more insulin release than a plate of spaghetti.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_index
>Lots of Chinese companies don't steal IP

Are you seriously going with the "what about all the Chinese who didn't steal IP" defense?
I suspect that this is influenced by rates of under-diagnosis in third-world countries, rather than a factor of diets itself.[1]

1. http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2010/iaea_forum_20100921/en/
> there can be far stronger ties to a place that prevent someone leaving

That seems to be something that a lot of the HN crowd seem to forget. I guess it doesn't surprise me too much, as a lot of people on this forum have relocated to SF and other tech centers for work.

I myself am an economic migrant, I left everything behind and moved to a new country where I knew nobody. However, it was fortunately easy for me, because I had managed to fuck up most of my relationships back at home, so for me to pack my life into a suitcase and move was pretty trivial. I think that a lot of people here on HN are in the same boat, they just don't realise it, or don't realise that other people aren't in the same boat.
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>For example why 95%? Why not 5%? Or why not 80%?

I'm probably going to assume too much, but I guess @baybal2 comes from a Russian background, and 95% is a meme/figure of speech there, meaning "the overwhelming majority", and doesn't refer to a specific number. It's (possibly) just a case of English as a second language or misunderstanding.
Yeah bicycle routes don't seem to work. It's sad I was really curious to see how far an hour route could take me!
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>That sounds amazing, do you have any more information on the subject?

No, I don't,

But it is not hard to imagine. This has something to do with preventing the surface of ceramics interfering with monocrystal growth.

1. They keep the mesh temperature higher than that of melt. Knowing that both Boron and SiC fibres are grown on top of Tungsten wire, it is not that hard to imagine that you can heat them by electricity. Coreless varieties of ceramic and boron fibres are very uncommon. Very likely they used tungsten cored fibres.

2. As with anything involved with growing crystal on a crystal, one has to make sure that crystalline lattices of materials are compatible. A challenge is to marry the somewhat amorphous, and rough surface of ceramic fibres with some coating with more ordered lattice that will not disturb the monocrystal growth. Growing of crystals on top of amorphous materials is know to be doable, growing of crystals on top of another with dissimilar lattice is also known to be possible. I believe no "sci-fi" is involved there.

I believe that you can even the surface of the fibre and the coating on it with repeated acid dips and recurring grow-overs of the fibre or coating material. Once you have a fine surface on the fibre, you can use something like ALD process to produce a "dissimilar lattice interface" in a very controlled, defect free fashion.

3. You have to make sure that fibres and melt do not chemically react, or react adversely to the process. The challenge there is that at temperatures of the monocrystaline alloy melt, pretty much any material will react to some extend with it. But I think the chemistry challenge is the easiest here.
If you know your software will increase emissions to illegal levels, and still write it, you are culpable.

If you write software for autonomous cars that is not foolproof at detecting pedestrians, you are culpable. In aviation, catastrophic failure means at least one death and the system should have an overall probability of failure at 10^-9. Critical software is frequently written at one or two orders below. That means 95%, 99%, 99.9%, are not enough.
Hmm, I don't think so: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-origi...

Also, AD / BC wasn't devised until 525 AD, and zero was common at that point, so that can't be the reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini

EDIT: Apparently I'm wrong :)

Neither the concept nor a symbol for zero existed in the system of Roman numerals. The Babylonian system of the BC era had used the idea of "nothingness" without considering it a number, and the Romans enumerated in much the same way. Wherever a modern zero would have been used, Bede and Dionysius Exiguus did use Latin number words, or the word nulla (meaning "nothing") alongside Roman numerals.[1][3][4] Zero was invented in India in the sixth century, and was either transferred or reinvented by the Arabs by about the eighth century. The Arabic numeral for zero (0) did not enter Europe until the thirteenth century. Even then, it was known only to very few, and only entered widespread use in Europe by the seventeenth century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
So how was Damiano supposed to pay the other guy when the earth got destroyed?
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
I first heard that in the 80s from SF writer James Hogan, who substituted "Brits" for "Europeans". I've been quoting it ever since.
"Oh god no...please don't make me do it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPfci3bmcDE
A month long total fast (no food or water) would kill you. Islamic fasting during Ramadan is only from sunrise to sunset.
There are lots of different carbs with many different metabolic profiles. And there are plenty of people out there living very healthy lives and even reversing heart disease and diabetes on high carb diets provided they are unprocessed whole carbs. Okinawans used to get the vast majority of their calories from sweet potatoes, for example, and were the longest living people in the world.
No, because wifi bandwidth is finite
and shared.
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I have met many hard working, extremely well educated Romanian programmers. They don't get mentioned in the Daily Mail though, despite their work life balance, contribution to society and polite ways.
We’re into territory of ‘why should companies pay tax’ here. This is a longer conversation than I care to have, I believe it is self evident that they should, and that large ones shouldn’t be able to get away with paying none simply because they are so large.
Thank you for sharing this. Is there a name for this condition? Did you receive a diagnosis?
You can call R functions from Python. You can then write a Python wrapper around R packages that you need.
Path tracing doesn't exist without ray tracing. Tracing a ray is one part of tracing a path, because a path is a connected chain of ray segments.

"Whitted ray tracing" or "recursive ray tracing" are sometimes used to refer to a complete renderer or complete shading technique used in the 80s that is not global illumination. That sounds like what you're thinking of. But that's not today's meaning of ray tracing. "Ray tracing" can (and these days normally does) refer to a visibility primitive that is used in many different kinds of renderers, and that's what NVIDIA is promoting, that's what graphics people mean by "ray tracing" these days.

> ray tracing is largely an obsolete method

Recursive ray tracing as a rendering technique might be out of fashion, but tracing rays is far from obsolete. Exactly the opposite, it's about to challenge rasterization.

> In fact ray tracing cannot do global illuminuation and any ray tracing engine that does that is essentially including a hack on top of its core ray tracer.

Not true at all. Path tracing is done using a ray tracing engine. There are several other popular techniques for GI on top of ray tracing engines as well, e.g., photon mapping. There aren't many GI renderers that don't use ray tracing these days. It's possible to avoid ray tracing, but not at all common in practice.

> I just realized, nVidia is promoting ray-tracing as the future of CG, and everything they're describing are actually qualities/features of path tracing and have nothing to do with ray tracing (except for this historical article). I'm seriously perplexed.

I think you're perplexed because you don't quite understand what "ray tracing" means. NVIDIA is promoting ray tracing as a visibility primitive that can replace rasterization. The implications of this are that 1) path tracing and other forms of global illumination using the GPU are now possible, 2) visibility queries & acceleration structures will have GPU support and can be done very fast. 3) We get things like instancing at a much lower cost than with rasterization. 4) Lots of ad-hoc special effects can be done in a simpler and more principled and complete way. I'm referring to, for example, screen space effects that games are using. AO, reflections, bounce lighting, shadows, etc. All these techniques are tricky and separate from each other. With ray tracing they can be unified. 5) Ray tracing queries can be used in games for all kinds of other things including collision detection, path planning, and audio.
Should be interesting to see how well this works - the primary issue with these APU designs is matching the amount of available memory bandwidth to the CPU and GPU cores.

Assuming they adapt the conventional Ryzen DDR4 controller to be a 128 bit wide GDDR5 controller with a reasonable 7Gbit/s speed, this would have ~120GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is 3x that of the 2400G (which is regarded as bandwidth starved), but slightly more than half what the Intel + Radeon RX Vega i7-8809G has (which is regarded as not having enough GPU cores to use the provided bandwidth).

Probably a reasonably balanced system. Would be interesting to see if this makes it over to their other embedded lines as a high end option: https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-ryzen-v1000-series
Bicycle mode is only supported in France for the moment.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make. Could you please elaborate, what exactly is the link between digital industrial espionage and the fate of the indigenous people of the Americas besides a very broad use of the generic term 'theft'?
Sometimes you catch a spy, fire them, and have them arrested.

Sometimes you identify, feed them false information, and watch who they talk to...

Sometimes you screw up.

There can be good reasons for GE/FBI/CIA to let a spy keep their job.
I block AMP and its related domains in my aggressive blocking hosts list[1]. I've found many AMP related sites are purely for marketing, or 'news' articles that are thinly veiled ads. I haven't missed it at all. I also don't use Google, so perhaps that it part of it, but I applaud your decision to remove AMP. The web isn't meant to be centralized in this way.

[1] https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts/blob/master/tracking-...
I do think we could benefit from having a unique terms to differentiate the taking of something that doesn't belong to you which deprives another person of their copy and the making a copy of something that doesn't belong to you which does not deprive you of a copy.

If I take your car, you biggest concern is that you don't have a car now. If I somehow copied your car, you probably wouldn't care too much.

If I take your banking info, your concern is that I have a copy. That you didn't lose your copy is a lesser concern than that I have a copy and the damage I can do with that copy.

While these two things seem related, they do seem different enough that having a different word to differentiate them.
And yet that is not even close to the hand-wringing being discussed in the article:

"In my first ever AI class, we learned about how a system had been developed to automate something that had previously been a person’s job. Everyone said, “Isn’t this amazing?” — but I was concerned about who did these jobs. It stuck with me that no one else’s ears perked up at the significant downside to this very cool invention."

"Then, the gatekeepers are the press, and it’s up to them to ask what the negative impacts of the technology are."

Building an entire society of victims and allowing the hysterical press, who are in the business of feeding a hysterical public sounds like a formula for paralysis.
"Inferior copy"? You're delusional. PowerShell is better in almost every possible way. It's more discoverable, more consistent, easier to script with, easier to read, and doesn't require error-prone text parsing in its pipeline.

It's what you'd expect from 30 years of hindsight.
> E.g. many have started to blame insulin resistance for many cancers, which is also the leading cause for type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Curious, is insulin resistance the leading cause of type 2? I thought insulin resistance was the definition of type 2.
I seriously seriously thank you. I have a family history of this specific cancer and wanted to read about it.
Service is down if you switch to French. Just so you know :-)

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Sure, it is shared at: https://oalley.net/map/b4e

If it helps, the 3 points going east are probably due to 2 canyons that do go east of town, one of which splits into 2 roads after a mile or so. And many of the others are similar in that, yes, there is a road that would extend your reach in those directions... but not quite where the map is drawing it. There are two areas that are complete anomalies: the path going NE through Springville and the one going SSW towards Levan have zero correlation with any reasonable roads - those both are flying straight over mountain ranges.
Yeah but that’s a different argument to what you’re replying to.

If that civil engineer sold or allowed (for any reason from negligence, insufficient security protocols, malice, ignorance etc) blueprints for his design to end up in enemy hands, he most certainly would be held liable.

The thrust of that point is the very idea that software engineers on projects involving user data, regardless of how and what they think they are building, are not simply building “bridges”. They are building systems that have the potential to be misused as mass-surveillance apparatuses. And they need to build their systems accordingly, with appropriate data-security and with acknowledgement that their work could leave them personally liable to action should their work be found to be used as a threat-vector towards their users.

The current attitude of “well people know what they’re signing up for and since they signed the User Agreement, we don’t have any liability here” towards users in the industry is sick.
Do I get back the 3,000 HN Karma points I lost to downvotes after years of suggesting fasting as a viable treatment for a whole host of "diseases"? One day people will see it as obvious as "smoking is bad for you". One day.
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Two things define the western diet:

1. high in refined carbohydrates

2. snacks between meals

Yes, there are Asian cultures with diets high in carbs that don't suffer from our epidemic. But those diets aren't high in refined carbohydrates or other crap we've been told to eat to lower the fat intake (e.g. margarine).
Calorie restrictions in general are healthy. You can accomplish the same things with high carb diets provided you eat unprocessed complex carbs and reduce total calories.
There are obviously other reasons. IP laws were invented before information technology, and used the fact that information travel costs both in term of space and money were higher than today, and therefore controllable on an human scale.

It is reasonable to question the whole IP system in the light of today's communications.
In the cases I can think of the whole country is rich, but they have a large number of slave-workers. Not sure if the slave-workers are counted in their health statistics or just seen as property anyway.
this isn't how chemotherapy works. traditional chemo targets rapidly dividing cells in the body: cancer, hair/skin, intestinal lining cells. That's why you get those side-effects.
Espada was the first of the Spanish Missions in the region, established in 1690.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_la_Es...
the prospect of youtube videos of golfers getting shot by the wildlife paintball turret alone justifies this idea!
Yes, bad phrasing on my part.
It's actually true. I know of people who did have the money and asked for a quote to lay about 2km of line, no matter how high. Quote refused.
Yes it is and if you look at something like routers, most people will never look at the web interface (or know it exists). You are overestimating the general publics technical savvy and accessing a web interface counts as technical savvy.
I'm fairly good with a soldering iron, but there's several SMD parts there, that would probably test me a bit. If this was really to appeal to low-end hobbyists, it'd all be through-hole parts.

High end hobbyists are already building their own single board computers based on their own designs.
The point is that they could be paying zero corporation tax, and yet Amazon would be responsible for a stupid amount of tax being paid in the UK. But of course the corporation tax seems very low in comparison to their earnings, so it's an easy target to complain about.
Do you understand the difference between a first order effect and a second order effect?
For those interested in intermittent fasting, Valter Longo, the co-author of this paper, has done a few good interviews with Rhonda Patrick on her podcast and youtube:

https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/valter-longo

https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/valter-longo-2

I've quite enjoyed Rhonda's work.

Another good medical/biology/health podcast that recently appeared and that I'd enjoying a lot is Peter Attia's podcast. His interview with Dom D'Agostino is particularly good and includes discussion of the metabolic theory of cancer, but they're all good (he has one with Rhonda Patrick). He covers intermittent fasting among other things (also the health impacts/use of ketones, etc):

https://peterattiamd.com/domdagostino/

https://peterattiamd.com/rhondapatrick/
I'm confused. Do you mean you fast for 12 hours on each of Monday, Wednesday and Friday, totalling 36 hours? Or you fast for 36 hours starting on Monday, Wednesday and Friday... which would be all of Monday and half of Tuesday etc?
reminds me of these maps from the 1800s showing how long it takes to get places from NYC by horse. http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/geography.html
Let's not forget about "Sandwich" :-)
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Channels are Actors
I highly recommend Simon Fowler's ECOOP 2017 lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpbkIjjoMRk

However, channels are best understood as Actors with put and get messages so that aChannel.put[x] puts x in aChannel and aChannel.get[ ] gets from aChannel. A channel of type T has the following interface:
Interface Channel<T>
put[T] -> Void,
get[ ] -> T

Actors can be categorically automatized, which means that up to a unique isomorphism, there is just one model that satisfies the axioms. In this way, Actors can be much more precisely defined in a general way than can be done using an extended lambda calculus as in Fowler's lecture.

Furthermore, a common misunderstanding is that an an Actor must have a mailbox, message queue, or event queue. There would be an infinite regress if any of these were required because since everything is an Actor, each of these would itself need a mailbox, message queue, or event queue. Instead, an Actor (e.g. a ReadersWriters scheduler) performs internal queuing when required. See https://www.amazon.com/Inconsistency-Robustness-Studies-Logi...

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I am not contradicting you, however:

1. the diet of Okinawans is irrelevant because they are not eating the refined carbohydrates that we do and

2. that fasting is easier if you eat high fat, low carbs meals just before is a fact known for thousands of years, because fasting isn't new ... all major religions that practice water fasting allow meat just before a water fast
Neither taskwarrior nor org-mode seems to be capable of scheduling tasks based on duration and available time.
Thank you for guessing it! My French friends don't always guess it.
The solution to social problems are not going to come from nerds sitting in ivory towers, who so far have been happy to take credit for unintended positive consequences and look the other way or get defensive when negative consequences show up.

The is the wrong class of people to be guilt-tripping. As dumb as trying to guilt trip someone on Wall Street. Not that guilt tripping works at all any class of people. It just produces short term fixes under pressure with costs down the line.

Techies need to be guided by social scientists, psycologists, anthropologists, politicians local to different cultures. These are the people on front lines dealing with the consequences. That is the only route to a better place.
I highly doubt this hypothesis.

Muslim people do not fast at night time. On average, they tend to eat much more during Ramadan what with the vast array of seasonal sweets.

The true difficulty of fasting during Ramadan is not being allowed to drink water during the day.
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