skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cholesterol is a very low if not irrelevant marker for heart disease now. It's been a myth for 40+ years that food high in cholesterol will clog your arteries. Dietary cholesterol has very little impact on total blood LDL cholesterol levels.

https://www.biznews.com/health/2015/02/16/science-says-tim-n...

There is NO evidence that:

- too much saturated fat raises cholesterol

- saturated fat causes heart disease

- high cholesterol causes heart disease

- lowering cholesterol reduces heart disease

- there is a correlation between obesity rates and the
amount of fat consumption

- there is a correlation between obesity rates and the amount of protein consumption

And there IS evidence that:

- there is a correlation between obesity rates and the amount of carbohydrate consumption

- the obesity and diabetes epidemics are a direct result of the misleading cholesterol campaign.

Studies also show that the advice of replacing fats with carbs increases your risk of heart disease.
I used to worked at Wells Fargo and my friend in sales said the mortgage underwriters typically didn't blink at medical debt.

I wonder what would happen if it was widespread knowledge that the smart money was in never paying it.
Wow, there's some fantastic mapping of this effect from a few years ago: https://calepa.ca.gov/2015/09/16/urbanheat/. Links to a study and lots of data produced from it.

Southern California: "urban heat archipelago".
Here in HN, we all know what happened whenever a large actor took on the liability. The answers here are almost insulting given the category of the service provided; dismissive even.
Yes I agree that he has a full semester+ of undergraduate/early graduate "course work" in his books... but the first chapter of his particle physics book has almost zero math -- it's just a great story.
Wow this is super cool. I wish I knew about this when I was still in school. It would probably pair really well with the PCs with built in wacom-style stylus.
I'd say they are on FilmStruck with the Criterion Channel. I subscribe to it in addition to Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Now precisely because the other services don't have much in the way of older films.

You can see what they have here: https://www.filmstruck.com/us/watch/browse-all/
Static return types would violated OOP as well if they exposed implementation details unrelated to the result of the operation.

If you have a method called GetPrice() that uses a database, you know it, because you have to expose all the possible exceptions. If you change that to use a file or a network service, you have to change every caller and every caller of that. Is that abstraction? No. Is it polymorphism, also no.

You can't have two different implementations of GetPrice() that are compatible unless they have exactly the same exception result. What's the value of that?
The sweetest deal, at least for capital gains, seems to be in Puerto Rico. They're exempt from US federal taxes and there's no tax on capital gains there.

Peter Schiff talked about it on Joe Rogan's podcast recently.
What? Where? Your only option is the West Coast and literally the coast. If you go 50+ miles inland you'll burn up in the summer.
I would sure hope so, since the idea is that they're in order of best-to-worst for the environment.

Reduce: don't buy water bottles in the first place, as they're one of the biggest pollutants.

Reuse: If you're gonna buy water bottles, reuse them for other liquids when you're done instead of buying a separate vessel for them.

Recycle: When that fails (i.e., when you've got water bottles that you can't really reuse, or whatever…) have that plastic recycled to make, well, more water bottles.

--

If "repair" is the "fourth R" in "reduce, reuse, and recycle" that would imply it's less environmentally efficient to repair something than to simply toss it into the recycling bin.
As a Texan who's had bbq all over the state.. I agree. Sauceless is NOT ubiquitous with central Texas. In fact very much the opposite.
Hmm that's a good point. Maybe in portions of the America's you could have better access to certain of the raw ingredients, for example, high quality dried peppers from the south
The question of the parent boils down to "what put it on the menu".

So, yeah, it was always "on the table" in some hazy, we'll see later, way, but not like that.
I think so, as mentioned Netflix has definitely changed the game but when it comes to awards success and cultural impact I think they've been lacking. Netflix doesn't release viewing numbers so it's hard to tell but traditionally every big network provider has had a generational hit now and then (Grey's Anatomy, Big Bang Theory, Family Guy, etc.). As other streaming services catch up (and I think they will) services will need to differentiate with original content that you just can't miss.
I'm no theorist, so this is perhaps my jaded view, but right now my impression is that the phase space of theories is too large for someone to have a single prediction. The situation seems more like the LHC experiments are looking for ANY potential discrepancies with the standard model and then theorists will happily write up some reason for why it has to be that way. I went to a conference a few years ago where the LHC experiments announced that previous hints of a discrepancy with the SM evaporated with more statistics, which resulted in a whole session of theorists having to cancel / completely redo their talks.
as autonomously as possible

I don't know what you mean by this phrase. Do you mean DIY? Or do you mean off-grid? Or both?

A conventional house with a lot of sweat equity is a very different plan from a futuristic, self-sufficient, self-contained home/mini-biome that is off-grid. The advice you will need to achieve each of these different scenarios is vastly different.
Scraping members from my competition's FB group and connecting on Linkedin
I don't know, I just have a vague memory of it. All I know is he used Yahoo in some form to help host his game. Whether it was the code itself or just some services, they were awful.
As long as our online conversations and social interactions are mediated by third parties that are incentivized to manipulate them, those third parties should face the kind of scrutiny that Pao is suggesting. In my view, the long term solution is (ideally market-driven) disintermediation of these third parties. The same is true for banking. As long as our financial transactions are mediated by third parties with an incentive to manipulate them, those third parties should face intense scrutiny. But ideally, they will be disintermediated rather than refereed in the long term.
Magic Leap raised boatloads of money, which game me the impression that they are really building something mass market that can be useful for most people in this world. I am not into gaming and have kids, so cannot wear AR glasses in my home and walk around. Are there use cases for Magic Leap that support non gamers ? Or is it mostly a niche product like an Oculus ?
shrug IDK, it seems like I have tons of ways to do that already if I'm so inclined and have never wanted it as part of my financial transactions. I've never understood the appeal personally, but I also don't understand the appeal of high-heeled shoes or cliff diving.
But good reverse engineering (as has been done to the iPhone or Keurig) is consumable by the masses in a way that can be communicated back to the manufacturer.

Too often, it's miscommunicated as "criminals keep breaking our monetization scheme" but it's a lot more effective than shaking your fist at the sky.
the biggest pros of VGS:
1) tokenization/detokenization through their proxies does not require any code changes, you don't need to change your architecture ( which happens if you decided to add some secret storage like HashiCorp etc)
2) Compliances, VGS provides you: PCI, EI3PA, SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR
Fuzzing the .NET JIT Compiler
The only reason behind that difference is because it's not generating heat, but moving heat. The difference to users is unimportant. As long as BTUs are pumped into / out of their closed environment, their needs are being met.

And the bottom line is that for the same unit of energy used to generate 1 BTU from resistance heating, we can move several BTUs.

EDIT: I'd also like to note that heat pump systems which include resistance heating systems will typically mark them as "emergency heating". Because they are less efficient, unless it's so brutally cold outside that the heat pump has dropped below 1 EER or can't even operate properly.

EDIT2: I forgot that the units in SEER are not the same on both sides of the ratio. (That is, it's not actually a ratio, since those are supposed to be unitless.) So my original "13+ BTUs" was high. Changed it to a non-descript weasel-word instead.
J.P. Morgan just hired a top Google executive in a big bet on AI
A great read.
I am interested to see to what degree the Ray tracing improves realism and is adopted by major game engines and how difficult it is to use.
One thing that is not discussed is that one can participate in U.S. Treasury auctions at brokerages (as well as TreasuryDirect but I sympathize with those who would want to avoid that site). Fidelity and Schwab both promise retail investors the so-called "high rate", with no bid/ask spread on new treasury auctions. There are no markups or fees. Furthermore, at Fidelity one can manually roll over treasuries into new auctions and at Schwab it is not much harder but is done manually a day or two before the auction.

Bid/ask spreads are an annoying feature of OTC bond markets since bonds are not currently traded on exchanges (hello SEC! Please fix this) for retail customers since they don't have the volume to obtain the tightest spreads. So, one can just avoid spreads entirely by only participating in auctions, at least while building/maintaining a ladder.
That makes sense. So it is better to have freezers running in a store you are trying to heat up than one you are trying to cool. I had it completely backward.
I had a single pill of levofloxin about three years ago (for pneumonia). I woke up the next day, barely able to walk, with mass tendonopathy (tendon loss) in my arms and legs. I did the research and found out the dangers immediately, but one pill was enough to cause massive damage for me. My recovery took about ~2 years and was slow and challenging, but I'm now part of a facebook group where I see I'm one of the lucky ones. Many people have horrible symptoms and aren't recovering years out. New people join daily.
> As others have pointed out, I think the biggest weakness is the seams. It looks like it would be impossible to write on. I would suggest that you include some sort of optional desk pad as an add-on.

I wonder why didn't did use flush cut tongue and groove? You would loss some of the hot swappablity of it current 10cm plywood strips, but it would be even, & more table overall.
I built room on the side of the house, I worked with a journey man and everything he taught me as he gave orders, wrote blueprints I could confirm with sources online.

It's a wonderful idea to build something using modern techniques. There is a joke in engineering about the architect that doesn't know how to use a hammer.

I would be happy to generate a plethora of links to resources if you like? What is the climate for the structure? What is the ground like, rock or sand? Concrete molds are available at any mainstream hardware store or supply store. Are you sure you would use concrete above the basement and ground floor? That is heavy and it takes a while to warm and cool it which can be a benefit or a problem.
Does anyone really care about the environment? It's in front of our eyes every day. Supermarkets have superfluous packaging. They have fridges without any doors on pumping out cold air constantly. We have advertisements sucking energy constantly. Bitcoin uses a significant chunk of the world electricity? It's "innovative"! Massive commutes to completely pointless jobs where companies compete to deliver the pointless service before employees travel 90 minutes back to their inadequately insulated home.

If someone came down from space to visit us and we said we are trying to fix the environment they'd laugh.

We are in this mess because our system inexorably leads to it. We've been in this mess since we adopted this system. We have to ditch it.
How to Decode the Shells You Find Washed Up on the Beach
But it really is not a very great start on measuring deliciousness.

Like said elsewhere in this thread, if after a few batches the algorithm optimizes into a local maximum gully that some people don't like, but others really love, then the ones that dislike it will stop taking the cookies and thus stop rating them.

But does that mean they're less delicious? Nobody knows! Because certainly the first and foremost great start on measuring deliciousness, is doing research on what is deliciousness, and are there any good methods to measure deliciousness that can be compared with other literature and research, and if that fails, either measure something else or defend why you chose a target metric that can't be measured properly. The latter being valuable if your way of measuring is novel and you think it's better than what has been used so far in the field. But you gotta provide a good argument for that, and the method used in this experiment wasn't particularly novel, simply flawed.

I mean you can be all giggly-googly about it, but food science is a thing.
This is tragedy. We'll no longer be able to say "lol, no generics" :(
You might be better moving to a country with a nationalised health system and avoiding this mess entirely.
> When prescribed, I was given no warnings. Not even a pamphlet with tiny print.

That's malpractice by your pharmacist. In my state they are required to give you the "label" (that handout) and discuss the drug with you if you haven't been prescribed it before.

> When I returned to the pharmacists with my complaints and research, they were literally Googling it--they had no idea about the FDA warnings.

This is even more shocking. If you're not exaggerating, you really should call the pharmaceutical licensing agency and the attorney general's office (who will send to the right agency for your state). Your pharmacy has unqualified people who are putting lives at risk. If they don't even know these basics who knows what other errors they are making?

I am not kidding about calling the authorities. I don't like the "self-righteous complainers" but this is a genuine public health risk.

FWIW I studied for a pharmaceutical license (but thankfully didn't have to take it as it became obvious to all of us that we shouldn't cut that corner and instead should hire an in-house pharmacist experienced with drug development)
Measuring Node Centrality and Partition Risk in Lightning Network
I wouldn't pay them a single cent more. The 782.29 is just as bogus as the initial charges. There is pretty solid pricing data suggesting the insurance company already over paid.
Nicely written. Thank you for the link.
> At the same time it is reccomended to run a STUN server to increase the reach of the files seeded by your webtorrent application.

Or just start using IPv6 already.
I am genuinely frightened by how little respect a coalition statement from 14 human rights organizations is being given. Please at least read their arguments.
Huh? Tax rates are not 20% higher in Canada than in the US, and we somehow muddle through.
You mean, like Medicare? OK, it's not with every provider, just anyone who wants to be a provider.
Notebooks are a fantastic teaching tool despite some valid criticisms in the slides.

I teach Python to adult beginners including those with heavy Excel background.

Beginners catch on quickly that you need to run all the cells once to get reproducible results.

Worst comes to worse you just restart the kernel.

With Anaconda I can start teaching immediately over all 3 platforms(Win,MacOS and there are even Linux Python beginners) without worrying about differing versions or troubleshooting installations.

My students just git clone/pull my projects and start following around and experimenting themselves.

What would be the alternative, give them black on white REPL?

That said for personal projects that I do not intend to share I reach for my trusty text editor(VS Code is pretty good these days).
If you go to google.de or google.jp you get a diff selection to the same query “anerican scientists” (in local language).
My country (Uruguay) has strong, very often out-of-control unions. I don't think they're a solution.

I've seen good union leaders, but most of them were corrupt and actively harmed the workers they purported to defend (when they weren't embezzling - and Argentina is even worse).
I've worked 5 years in construction industry when I was younger, building houses from scratch among other things. Before that I've spent a lot of time in my father's workshop since I was like 5 years old, building things always came naturally to me.

Even though it's not impossible, I would not advise you to build "a massive, concrete house" all by yourself. In fact it wouldn't even be possible. Details may vary from country to country, but you will need surveys, architect drawings, all kinds of permissions, material estimates and million other things and that's before you even start building anything.

The building phase. Unlike in software there are a lot fewer "undos" in construction. If you end up screwing up the foundation the building might be condemned before you even put the roof on. So many things that can go wrong, I'd need a few days to make a list. You would need to think in advance about so many things it would make your head spin. Plumbing, electricity, insulation, etc. I could go on.
Heat loss through a surface is proportional to the difference in temperatures from one side to the other.

So if you are cooling a house to 70 degrees in 90 degree weather, you are fighting a 20 degree difference.

If you are heating a house to 70 degrees in 30 degree weather, you are fighting a 40 degree difference.

In a severe heatwave, you might spend weeks with much of the day at 100 degrees; during a cold snap last winter, there was a span where I live where the temperature was usually around 0, and never higher than 10 degrees.

Meanwhile, a furnace works by directly converting energy to heat; for simplicity, let's assume a heater generates 1 unit of heat for 1 unit of energy (it's 100% efficient).

An air-conditioner, however, moves heat, moving heat from inside to outside. An air conditioner doesn't use 1 unit of energy to move 1 unit of heat; an air conditioner might move 3 units of heat using 1 unit of energy.

So putting the two together, it takes roughly 6 times as much energy to heat my house on the coldest days as it does to cool my house on the hottest days.

The full answer is a lot more complicated than that, because other things in houses are generating waste heat and you need to look at the deviations above and below your target temperature range over the full year and across many different places. Someone else has already posted a link to US energy usage showing that total energy spent on air conditioning is a fraction of that spent on heating, but from the above you should be able to get an intuitive feel for why that's so.
The Kernel Boot Process
The truth about Waymo
I am very excited to see the draft designs. They point to some good progress with some open design aspects with Go.

The error handling concept looks to me as if it is ready for implementation in one of the next Go revisions. The fundamental of Go error handling vs. an exception mechanism always was, that Go errors are returned as part of function results. The calling function gets the result and the error and then can decide how to deal with it - handle the error, or return from itself. Exceptions not only mean automatic returns, but also automatic stack unwinding across all functions that do not implement an exception handler. I have always preferred principle of the Go error handling to exceptions.

What is great about the error handling proposal is, that it is fully contained inside each function. It does not change the signature of functions, they still return an error amongst the return values or not. You cannot see when looking at a function, whether they use the proposal or not. But like the defer statement, they offer an elegant way to schedule effects to happen, when a function returns. A plain return will trigger all deferred function calls, a check "catching" and error will trigger all handlers and then all deferred functions. Furthermore check works as a filter, so chaining functions which return values and errors becomes much easier. I also like the choice of "check" vs. "try" or "?". A short word reads better than an operator character and try is too familiar with an exception mechanism, what check/handler is not.

On the first glance, the handlers looked a little bit confusing about the logic flow. But if one considers check/handler the twins to return/defer, they become very obvious and fit very well into the existing framework. Handler can be considered a deferred function for the return in the error case, and check as triggering that error case return.

On the generics, the concept is not finished yet, but what is there so far looks like to be on a good path to adding generic types to Go without making it a much more complex language or too many sacrifices like the type erasure in Java. On the syntax side, I like that they managed to find a syntax, which uses the normal parens used for function and method syntax before, as this makes the code a bit nicer to read. I am very curious how they develop.
See also: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/354493...

Although I hadn't heard of Stefan Brands before, I wasn't surprised he'd worked with David Chaum, who is the person I first think of regarding zero-knowledge proofs: http://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurity...

Then I get depressed because we had anonymous digital cash 20 YEARS AGO and fucked it up.

Software patents are bad, crypto patents are worse. It's (almost) literally patenting math.
I don't think House of Cards comes close really, especially now that Spacey is out. Game of Thrones is a movement: cosplay, crazy fan forums, ultra wide appeal, the filming location of King's Landing in Croatia is constantly flooded by tourists because of GoT. House of Cards is a solid show, especially season 1, but I'd say GoT is the biggest show in the world culturally right now.

Good point regarding HBO's brand and their "good" shows; and I think it helps to illustrate my point: Netflix has a lot of good shows, maybe even some great ones, what I think they need, and what I think the other streaming providers will need is really big generational hits that come out every five years or so.
This sounds weird.

What kind of software engineer in their sane mind would want to stay in the US illegally (I don't think one can get any long-term tourist visa?) _and_ get paid peanuts? Even if they really want to live in the US, being poor sounds like a very strange sacrifice.

Unless one's a junior developer (where I heard it's hard to compete those days), as far as I know there are a lot of realistic options to find a legal immigration venue to a first-world country (probably not to the US, though) - so, why do stupid things like that?
There's a bit of survivorship bias there. There was a very real chance that Python would get replaced by another language in the same way that Ruby and Python replaced Perl.

If that had happened, you'd probably still be in the "what a horrible rollout" frame of mind.
> Not to short-change his effort, but actually trying to understand the thing on which you are working, does

You're aware he does more than just "trying to understand"?
Rep. Meadows There's Evidence the FBI Leaked to Press to Justify FISA Warrants
afaik comma requires modern hondas/toyotas with radar package