skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, there is some theories fat protects people from allergies of some food, that's why people losing weight sometimes become allergic to many foods. They never had a gluten allergy or nut allergy but now they do after weight loss.

So when heard about the fat/allergy connection it clicked with me too.

I had the same thing happen to me, working with cement, lost major weight due to job, became allergic to all kinds of chemicals. Doc blamed the Lime, but after looking back, I'm suspecting the weight loss, as the tests reported I was allergic to everything, but it went away after 1-2 years, this was over 20+ years ago.
Your premise is a civilization with values that are some extension my own, which considers the environmental recklessness that preceded it as either amusing or necessary. That doesn't sound plausible. I really believe that, but I don't feel emotional about every specific tragedy in recorded history.
Why wouldn't it have good coordination? A bot has access to a perfect model of how the other bot would act - itself.

Also, computer engines didn't seal the doom of human players in chess and in go, so I don't get why it would do so in dota.
One thing I've wanted from a blogging platform is the ability to include iframes for webgl content. I took a look at the github and don't see any iframe refs.

Does anybody know of a good blogging service with this capability?
Is moderate drinking healthy or is alcohol bad for you?
Talk to your local state representatives. They're often far more accessible than your congressperson or senator.
Depending on the function. The query optimizer is smart enough to recognize many starts-with scenarios, as one example.
Because (1) China subsidizes power production but (2) enforces currency controls. Bitcoin conveniently allows you to arbitrage the power subsidies and circumvent the currency controls in a single scheme.
That's surprising that publicly broadcasted calls to assassinate the president didn't result in arrest.
> I have no reason whatsoever to trust [any ISP], at all.

You also have no reason to trust cloudflare, at all.
Amber lights are conducive to sleep since blue wavelength light messes with circadian rhythms so they might be useful on stretches of roadway that feature long-haul driving and late-night traffic like larger thorough fares but I think they have a very deleterious effect on animals and plants.

One of the things I love about the suburban neighborhood I live in is how dark it is at night (relatively speaking, not like being in a true night-time darkness in the wilderness).
Congress doesn't even let DC run itself as it sees fit.
I have a hard time believing that People that are serious about opsec/etc. even care about the warrant canary to begin with.

People with real concerns aren't going to rely on an untested legal gizmo.
The Gondola Fantasy That Nearly Broke Us Up
I would agree with you, but after spending the last two years using an Android phone after almost a decade using iOS, I feel that Google has made some fundamentally bad decisions below the UI layer as well. Despite using a phone that is newer and more powerful, my Android phone is slower, less responsive and runs out of battery much faster than any of my iPhones.

The only reason I stay with Android is Google Fi.
There are companies making non flat non white LED lamps these days. They try to emulate the feel and color of filament bulbs but with LED films for power savings. I don't know if they improve things though.
My cynical side says that this is a feature, not a bug - a litmus test to see whether or not the selected city will be politically pliable under Amazon's significant financial leverage.

Any city that can't pass (or force through) favorable legislation isn't one that Amazon would want to choose long-term anyway, especially viewed in the context of their relationships with local governments in Seattle [0]. The key point here is that this is a descriptive feature that's hard to ask about, but easy to test for.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogervaldez/2018/07/31/good-new...
>It was a epoch defining change. It does feel like a ton of time ago, and everyone in the industry (most notably ULA, Arianespace and the Chinese) are trying to figure out what they do now that the SpaceX steamroller is in full force.

Nitpicking on the language: why would SpaceX be a steamroller? Steamrollers are slow. Also, what does it mean for a steamroller to be in full force? Steamrollers push downward at a constant force, don't they?

I understand that SpaceX is crushing its competition, so you want to bring the steamroller metaphor, but perhaps for what you are saying other metaphors would be a better fit.

Further reading: Orwell, Politics and the English language[1]

[1]https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79p/
Can’t read paywall.

Does the article discuss the bank account owner’s permission? I don’t see how this could be done without explicit permission.
> Cloudflare has at least promised not to be evil

lol
The Scheme Machine (1994) [pdf]
A non-trivial amount of the game is still on the CPU. All game logic is on the CPU. AI, physics, networking, audio, etc... are all CPU as well (GPU physics never really happened beyond particle effects).

Even for rendering it's still the CPU preparing the commands and doing a first-pass curation to minimize rendering load.

That said, in this case it's not so much running the games better, as yes the GPU is usually the bottleneck. It's more for gamers that also stream or similar, which is an increasingly popular thing. You can GPU offload it, but that hurts your game performance and GPU encoding quality tends to be relatively fixed and relatively poor. CPU encoding is more flexible and higher quality, and if you've got an extra 8 cores sitting around idle anyway might as well use those instead of eating into the GPU power budget.

Also you've got the PCI-E lanes to run things like SLI or multi-GPU along with RAID NVME drives. Threadripper has 60 lanes. Something like an i7-8700k only has 16 PCI-E lanes - you can't even run a single GPU and an NVME drive without multiplexing your PCI-E lanes.
> Under such circumstances, you might expect people to revolt, but that didn't (and doesn't) happen. People wouldn't revolt, not even the Jews being deported.

Not true, there are multiple instances of Jewish uprisings - most famously the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the Sobibor uprising and multiple others. They just lost.

By the way, why do you use the euphemism "deported"? They were murdered.
I use Mint. I willingly and will full consent give them my data so they can provide me with a service. I'm ~okay with them having and using the data to market to me because the service is valuable enough to me.

I have no reason to give FB my data. I've never consented to give them the data. There is no product they could offer that would encourage me to give them more data.

It's two entirely different things.
And you have explicit control and granular control, even if 99% of the people won't ever use it. Before, if you didn't want Facebook accessing your Microphone, the only option was to not use the app at all. Now, I can specifically disable that option.
However it can outlaw a company allowing an employee to use a racial slur in the workplace.

Nope, you're still not understanding. The government can't do that either, because that law would target the content of a communication. However, the law can prohibit companies from allowing employees to create hostile environments, however such environments arise, such as by making racial slurs or by trying to lynch their coworkers. The content isn't what matters--the behavior of creating the hostile workplace is what matters and what the government can regulate.

As I said--speech can be both speech and an action. Government can't regulate speech, but it can regulate the action part of the speech. This is, simply put, the concept of whether you can ban people from yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theater. (There are no laws against yelling fire in a crowded theater because that is of course illegal. There are laws against causing public panic, which is content-neutral, so it doesn't matter whether you yell FIRE, BOMB, or CARROTTOP.)
> You can keep the deployment simple by running Postgres on the web app server until you need to scale up.

This doesn't affect deployment. Deployment includes setting up and upgrading and potentially backing up Postgres. All of these are easier with Sqlite. While in general I agree with you, the benefits of putting one file on a server and running it has value over installing an entirely separate software product.
Why is a credit card a pain in the ass you just type in your pin or use contactless and in many paces credit cards have greater protection than cash or debit card.

Why trust PayPal which has nugatory regulation and is prone to freezing account's on a whim
Yes spherical emission wouldn't work. Like almost all long distance communication, they use parabolic reflectors.
No doubt the mostly defense spending you describe provided fiscal stimulus to the economy and led to the benefits you list, but that's not the same as a subsidy, which would mean something like Section 8 vouchers.

The real driving force was that wage growth massively outpaced costs. After the war ended it was routine to pay off a 15 year mortgage a decade early, because real wages rose so much. Similarly, our current lousy situation is the result of median real wages staying flat for decades.
I was mentioning this in another thread and came across the new info I hadn't heard about yet. Here are some previous articles about this:

March 2012: https://www.nature.com/articles/483531a

June 2015: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1411

Dec 2015: https://www.nature.com/news/cancer-reproducibility-project-s...

Jan 2017: https://www.nature.com/news/cancer-reproducibility-project-r...
There are some that rely very heavily on software engineers but most don't, although that is starting to change I think. The biotech startups that the tech press covers represent a tiny fraction (under 10%) of biotech startup activity. The separation between the biotech and tech startup worlds is almost at a global maximum. It used to be that major tech VCs were also major biotech VCs. Starting about 5-10 years ago tech VCs gave up on biotech. Coincidentally that's about when all the exciting stuff started happening

Pretty much all of the big biotech exits are mostly not even covered in the tech press (with the exception of stemcentrx, unity and maybe a few others)
After realizing the effect that blue light had on my sleep I went on a crusade to eliminate it from my life after sundown.

I used red LED bike lights for room illumination until I found a series of alternatives. The cheap, remote-controllable 5 meter multicolor LED strips are an amazing solution to evening lighting. It is also possible to get "warmer" LED bulbs. These are often marketed as looking like antiquated filament bulbs. But the best solution is pure red light.

I also removed every single blue-LED backlit computing device from my life. I've made sure to use OLED phones since they were first available. I finally have an OLED laptop, and thankfully, as they are no longer being made! The change in laptop screen really is the most transformative thing for me, as I often need to work in the evenings. I set all the backgrounds in the OS to black, and use browser plugins to set the background of the web to black as well. I have never slept better since blue LEDs came into my life.

People really need to take this issue seriously. There is evidence that blue light's disruption of circadian rhythms and suppression of melatonin production is related to cancer and other health risks. Blue should be reserved for the color of the sky, which is where our bodies evolved to recognize it directly as the input to our circadian rhythms.

I am pleased by the wave of "night light" filters for phones. This is a sign that people are catching on. They use the filters and feel able to get to sleep. We need to go further. OLED everywhere and deep night mode for all.
Are there cities trying to have zero lights at night ?

Sometimes I wonder how it feels to have no light at all. There's a calming aspect to this, my mind really feels that 'no sun = no activity'. But also a little bit of fear too, unless everybody is already home.
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Of course it will. Hartford is the insurance capital of the world, and insurance is one of the biggest use cases for blockchain. Think of how many startups are going to get funded and then bought out by those companies and completely transform them.
Thanks to the person who linked to the original data. In the table S2, it lists the standard deviations for a lot of the measures, including survival. Lots of other interesting stuff there in that table. I totally believe that there are good reasons to have more women doctors, and I'd advise looking at the article itself rather than Scientific American's summary, which is not the greatest.
We're not giving Facebook a free pass. We're discussing it, in detail, and 99% of people are okay with it after examining the particular context of the situation, namely, that a private company is exercising its own free speech rights to exclude hate speech from its platform.

Jones is free to create his own Facebook clone or jump to Twitter.
Ha I didn't know it talked about meta-interpretations.. I've read the name many times but never the TOC D:
Good to know I'm not the only one.
It's strange how the switch to LED lights feels rushed and often not thought through all the way.

Last winter, several intersections around my city had problems with snow accumulating and blocking the stop lights, because the new LED bulbs don't generate enough heat to melt the snow that accumulates. I guess hindsight is always 20/20, but it's surprising the people paid to make those decisions didn't think of it beforehand.
The same thing you do for other types of development. Place separate units of logic into well modularized functions / classes / units of organization; factor out any aspects of config; add a makefile or other build scripts.

An experiment would most often be the creation or modification of a config file followed by just invoking a build command.

No cell-by-cell evaluation, no commenting things out to run differently, no magic constants or big sequences of plotting code sprinkled all over.

The program itself to explore data or fit a model might be an imperative program, but that doesn’t mean it should exist in a single large functional unit that receives modification through commenting things out, re-running a notebook cell to change parameters, etc.

While obviously there is a trade off regarding how much design effort to put in for an experiment, most often people are not putting any design into it, nowhere close to the boundary where the trade off matters at all. Basic things like organizing separate functions, putting constants into a simple config file, etc., cost almost nothing but drastically improve usability and clarity, so you should pretty much always believe those efforts are worth it from the beginning of starting a project.
One thing to keep in mind is that Moleskine notebooks are designed for use with pencil. They are also pretty poor quality, especially considering their price. Leuchtturm notebooks are around the same price point and have much, much higher quality paper that can stand up well to even very wet pens.
For those reading headlines, at first I thought this was a $300 million mining operation, and was wondering how Hartford CT was a competitive power supply.

Actually this idea is crypto-focused college campus, research park, and coworking spaces.
Catching Cheating Servers in Decentralized Storage Networks
If you look at the This Week in Public Comment videos on YouTube, it's pretty representative of what they're actually like:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=this+week+in+pu...
If you're using AWS anyway, I think using their managed Postgres / RDS could make this a lot easier operationally. No need for custom syncing/backup scripts, easier to scale the storage up.

To the larger point, while I totally agree with the premise -- most apps will never need to scale beyond one large instance, I'm not exactly sure what's the actual tradeoff is. If you're writing a simple CRUD app, it is not really controversial that it shouldn't need any complex distributed stuff anyway, it is just a simple python/Go app and a data store.

Most "fancy" things outside that single process paradigm, such as avoiding using local disk and using S3/RDS/document stores, using containers for deployment, etc. usually have more to do with making the app operationally simpler and easy to recover from instance failures than scaling per se.
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The random way the back button works -- moving to iOS I didn't miss it. There are plenty of ways to switch apps, or go back within an app.

I thought I'd miss it. I didn't. Now I wouldn't need it on Android.
Exactly. A couple of years ago at my yearly eye checkup found a small hole in my retina. Pretty common with near-sighted people. The eyeball is elongated and this stretches the retina a little bit. It's also a fast track to complete blindness in that eye. You might see the hole as distortion in your vision, depending on where in your eye it is, or you may not be able to see it at all. If untreated the whole retina will detach and you are permanently blind in that eye, and there's no treatment. If I hadn't gone to that yearly checkup, there's a good chance I would have been blind in that eye before the next one.

The treatment for the hole in the retina was one of the most awesome procedures I've ever had. The doctor puts on this big headset that completely covers his face, with multiple microscope-type lenses and a visible green laser shooting out the front. Looks like the borg. He holds your eye open and using the visible laser to aim, points at the edge of the hole and activates the IR laser, blap, blap, blap (it actually makes that sound) as it stitches the edge of the hole down. It feels like you're getting poked in the eye hard each time so he has to stop after a few cause your eye freaks out and moves. Wait a few seconds till it settles down and continue. My eye felt like it had been punched hard, but that faded by the end of the day. Repair is still holding coming up on 3 years.

Go to to your annual medical checkups.
From experience, before you just spinkle big ass string literals throughout your Go code that communicate with Sqlite, just toss all of your persistence in a separate package if you can. I'm not saying some crazy abstraction, just put it some place common if you don't have a lot of advanced SQL needs, and put in the minor extra work serializing to and from structs. You'll be happy when you want to add query logging, find certain usages, need code reuse, and if you ever want to change your persistence approach.

Also, devs should be aware of some of the concurrency limitations of Sqlite. Devs need to essentially share a single connection across the app, and serialize the writes.

Also, side note, I've found one really neat use case for Sqlite over other DBs: simple disk encryption. I wrote a Go wrapper for one of the popular ones [0], but in general if you distribute your app in other ways you may want to offer your users encryption that you can't easily with other DBs. Sure you lose some performance, but sometimes it's worth it (again, less in the server case where you control it and/or can do fs-level encryption, but definitely in the distributed app case).

0 - https://github.com/cretz/go-sqleet
I am not sure that there is one. It hasn't been that long that people started sitting at their desks for 10+ hours a day so I'd imagine it would be a few more years until research starts going anywhere. Personally, I've been trying a few different things and letting my body tell me what feels right.
Agreed. It can really be anything. People don't look at things, they scan and store/recognize optimized patterns.
And its not like FB arn't in trouble all around the world. Mark doesn't need some idiot manager in the company pinning please kick me sign on his back.

I where him id start firing one or two board members
> Putting legs on the head or the back section would create so many unnecessary complications.

I mean, so would attaching a bicycle chain to the front wheel.

After all, why shouldn't an ant have one pair attached to its tail segment? 6 is a lot of legs to cram into the tiny middle segment.

I first partook in this exercise in a small group of STEM graduate students preparing for a youth teaching program. Maybe 2/3 of us got it wrong (myself included).
The AI did show lots of areas of weakness, which still need better training. Their warding was very awkward, they never used smoke ganks, and they didn't play optimally against invisibility. The human team got a lot of mileage out of rushing a Shadow Blade, which is a cheesy strategy that a coordinated team should be able to easily counter.

That said, the AI still won despite these limitations, which shows that it is very strong in other areas of the game.
>Yeah, high-ish salaries

Judging from the conditions in their warehouses, I doubt this would be true for all the other labor needed to run the city...
Software developers also often forget that UX is a thing. "Just add feature X, Y & Z". This is why you never let a programmer design UIs, you end up with a mess with dozens of buttons, menus and submenus everywhere.

Every new feature comes at a UX cost, and in this case, the cost of the UX outweighs the benefits of you micromanaging your memory footprint.
Oh geez I forgot to post the link myself so you don't have to find it in another thread: http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2018/07/31/1800097115...
Conspiracy theories are usually bad explanations and leave unexplained stuff like how new conspirators are recruited without exposing the conspiracy. Yet a small fraction of conspiracy theories are true, e.g. Guy Fawkes. A more sophisticated treatment acknowledges this and understands that these are frequently labelled 'conspiracy theories' in attempts to discredit them.
Right, which is why some experienced doctors can be overly conservative. The ones that take up the hard cases are therefore penalized even more.

You see the same thing with lawyers. The ones with a 100% trial success rate are very choosy about which cases they accept or are more inclined to pressure clients to settle.

The phenomenon is real. Whether it exists at the heart of this study or is simply being used to excuse underperforming doctors....
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