skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just the taste something sweet spikes insulin levels[1], and as you said at least some artificial sweeteners don't cause fullness[2] (I am amused that is not the major finding there, heh).

It makes sense, the body releases insulin in expectation of nutrition coming in, but no nutrition comes in, so the end result is feeling hungrier than before.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17510492
[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21255472
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I only recently learned of wasabi (I think it was Leo Laporte's Twit podcast)...and beyond the nicer price points, seems to be compatible with AWS...so, if i read things right, one could somewhat/more easily switch between aws and wasabi - avoiding the dreaded vendor lock. If that's true, that's pretty neat.

Disclaimer: i have no direct experience with wasabi, nor am i affiliated with them at all.
Education doesn't have as much effect as you might think. It seems that nutrition has a very significant effect on IQ: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0191886990...
The measure is not pseudo-science, but the attempts to draw sweeping conclusions from it at the individual or societal level are pure nonsense.

Ethical psychologists don't consider IQ in isolation the way that pop culture and many in forums like HN do.
50 paid weeks per year. If you're lucky, you have paid holidays and paid vacation time.
Personally I buy Apple because they are more private than android. I would look at alternatives if Apple was caught lying here.
> My IQ, perhaps, helped me see things most did not but it's the enthusiasm that keeps me going

You need a sufficiently high IQ to seek out and achieve the higher things, such as productive sources of enthusiasm. Those with lower IQ will be less inclined to figure out how to become self-actualized.
Pointing out the more egregious examples can help take the wind out of their sails.
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I can think of a trillion reasons...
They got better at hiding and his company couldn't detect it. Problem solved.
Regressive taxes are problematic, sure. But never mind any decision on moral grounds. Smoking, for example, has a high cost to society. We seek to reduce it to lower that cost.
What if some enhancement gets applied to (virtually) everybody and side effects are learned only when it's too late? Naturally there's a big, uncontrolled variety of possible changes and natural selection comes into play. Meanwhile gene editing is prone to become a monoculture.
This can also be a strong dis-advantage because they incentivize abuse.

Look, for example, at civil seizure in the US. Police agencies are highly incentivized to do it since they get to keep the money, even when doing so is unjust.

In practice, tax-based solutions have pros and cons and you need to think about the incentives and unintended consequences that they lead to on both the enforcement and citizen sides. Law-based solutions do too, of course.
I have yet to see someone with a proven record of reading into the future.
> entirely ignoring Intel ME problems

That's a big stretch. Purism does a lot of work, openly, to try to disable ME.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=intel+me+site%3Apuri.sm
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Using Github student pack I got $50 free credit on Digital Ocean. After 10 months I deleted my droplet. Even though it was billed $5 monthly, at the end I saw that I owe $0.04. I forgot about it for a while, logged in today and saw that I owe $0.15. Minimal transfer from PayPal is $5. How to solve this?
But do they? Or does their platinum-level insurance pay for the new lungs, which really comes out of the working-persons' pocket?
To the extent that any of those sites have RSS feeds, you can do something like that with our project Neddick[1]. You can define a "channel" which is fed by n RSS Feeds (and also Twitter accounts and/or IMAP email accounts) to build an aggregate view. Then you can define a "filter" for the channel based on various criteria. We also have real-time notifications using the same kind of criteria, where you can receive an email, an XMPP message, post to a webhook, etc.

It's still somewhat beta'ish, but most everything I just described is working today.

We're working on turning this into a SaaS offering, but that's not quite ready yet... if you wanted to use it, you'd have to self-host. I hope to have a Docker image ready soon, which would simplify deployment.

Sadly the documentation on deployment is a little out of date. If you wanted to give it a try, basically create a postgres database named neddick_dev, clone the repo, install Grails 3.3.6, and then run the runneddick.sh script from in the repo directory. You'd also want to tweak the neddick.home property defined in runneddick.sh to point somewhere meaningful.

We don't currently have any built-in support for leveraging a site's built in search mechanism, but I could see it being a useful addition. If somebody wanted to contribute that kind of functionality, I'd be happy to include it. When we would get around to building it ourself is hard to say.

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick
Accidentally shipping species around is such an inevitable result of global trade that it doesn’t seem very useful to try to hang it on malice.

Also, as the article points out, you can’t just import the pest’s predator because you may find out that predator much prefers your other species to the one you want to eradicate.
I think the "senior software engineer" title maps to an E5.
All employee actions are company actions. You partnered with a company that can’t control what it’s employees do? No internal audits to make sure their reputation wasn’t being tarnished by a few employees?! Your loss.
Technology doesn't have wide variance too. Thus it hinders natural selection.
AKA diminishing returns. Unsurprising.
Moreover, our industry has a questionable habit of describing all kinds of human accomplishments as "brilliant" "innovations" done by "geniuses".

Being a competent professional engineer requires some raw intelligence, true, but also determination, interpersonal communication skills, organizational skills, time, training, resources, access to the infrastructure you want to work with, and no small amount of luck. Those all interact in complicated ways, and most can be used to buttress the others depending on where one's personal talents lie.

There's probably some minimum necessary raw intelligence necessary to become a hacker, but I suspect that bar is much lower than HN would like to admit. And I am very sure that there's no maximum past which the rest of the list ceases to matter.
I've never heard that a qualifier for the simulation hypothesis is that it must be finite. For example, there could be infinitely many simulations recursively, or there could be a sufficiently advanced extra-dimensional lifeform that has generated an unbounded simulation that we live in.
How does that actually work? How far down the chain of related facts to the national security incident are parties allowed/required to lie? If facts can be used to triangulate the secret, that can't be disclosed, right? Are incidents like this like a little fact-bomb which can be used to legally hide other institutional facts under its cover?
> do I think my software will succeed?

With hobby projects for the vast majority of people, the answer is somewhere in the territory of "you can worry about that after it succeeds."
The main lesson I learned from my Dad’s employer (twice) was always have two vendors. You can play them off of each other. When I did contract work I saw how powerful getting out or putting for away the checkbook can be. Large vendors ignore you if the checkbook isn’t moving.

I say “twice” because they were also the biggest employer in town. I got out of there. Slim pickins for career opportunities that didn’t revolve around BigCo.
Uh. I have a feeling I'll just not read it properly and learn worse, if anything.
The problem for me is the fidelity of the simulation. It’s like running a simulation of the hardware of a computer on the computer itself. eeven if you devote all of the computer’s resources, the simulation will run incredibly slowly. If you run the simulation in a fraction of the real hardware’s resources, the simulation will either have to be extremely crude and unrealistic, or equally extremely slowly. At which point, why would anyone do this?

A simulation like GTA is only useful because it is staggeringly crude, but the goals of the simulation are commensurately staggeringly modest. I just don’t see how running a simulation of our universe, in our universe, at high enough fidelity to appear real even under detailed scientific analysis, could be useful or worthwhile.

I’d like to see a more credible and compelling proposal than hand waved ‘history simulation’. What’s the point of a history simulation that runs many times slower than real time? If it’s low fidelity, it will also be low accuracy, so why simulating at the physics level at all? I don’t see how it would give useful results.
Scmutils enables both symbolic and numerical computation, though as I recall much of the symbolic stuff (e.g., automatic differentiation) is done via generic functions rather than manipulating symbolic expressions.
150 IQ is extremely high ~1/1,125 relative to the general population and that score may or may not be that accurate. Which seems to disagree with your suggestion.

Winning a Nobel prize is a highly random process as someone needs to be in an 'open' field ripe for major discovery.
Even if you're not designing your own, dropping a little Microblaze or NIOS down can simplify your design considerably.
Oh man, that is a tough order.

Sugar has the convenient trait of being essentially a flavor, so all that's needed is to trick chemical receptors on the tongue with something that's nontoxic and either not bioavailable or very high intensity relative to sucrose. Fat ends up affecting flavor, mouthfeel, and food traits (e.g. water retention, bulk) - and a lot of those roles are inherently tied to fat volume.

Safe, bio-unavailable fats already exist, more or less, in the form of fatty alcohols. They can cause minor irritation to the liver, but nonlinear long-chain fatty acids are safe enough that we already use them in food as emulsifiers. Wax esters, which bind fatty alcohols to fatty acids (i.e. normal fats), are also poorly digested and extremely fat-like. Escolar and oilfish are notable as fatty fish with wax esters making up almost all of the fat.

Unfortunately, that 'volume' issue now comes home to roost. Wax esters in low doses (e.g. orange roughy) are fine, but in high doses (e.g. escolar), they tend to cause stomach pain and bowel issues - not because they're toxic, but because they simply aren't digested. Other replacement fats like Olestra (once FDA approved as a fat substitute) have the same problem: they simply come out in the same form they went in.

To replace a significant portion of our "fat experience" with artificial fat means we need something which is similar in the mouth, low calorie and cholesterol, but also digestible. The best options we've found are either variant fats with lower absorption and calorie density, or other-macronutrient substances which serve only some of the same roles, like pectin or whey. Those, again, can lower cholesterol but can't do much better than half the calorie density of fat.

I'm not sure what artificial fat on the level of artificial sugar would mean. It would, I suppose, have to be something which is digested sufficiently to excrete without deriving energy or other components like cholesterol. And in an Algernon Argument sort of way, we probably shouldn't expect to find the body digesting very many compounds it derives no benefit from, so "somewhat better" is probably all we can hope for.
The article is actually rather vague about whether the op-ed was written by Hagar. It says:

> To try to understand his viewpoint, Ars attempted to reach Hagar by phone and email in September. In the course of this process, we learned that he did not actually submit many of these op-eds.

Since the article claims to be about one op-ed piece submitted to many places, it seems reasonable to assume he wrote it, but that the mentioned PR firm then submitted it far and wide.

It's also not clear from that wording if they actually spoke with Hagar (they "attempted to reach" him), or if this information comes from another source.

In any case, it's still an obvious smear campaign.
Courts shouldn't be wasting their time on this. If courts spent time on every single thing people complained about, nothing important would get done.
You're conflating a few things there. Whilst companies like to make noises occasionally about saving the planet, doing the right thing, making (your country goes here) great etc, it's just horseshit. They exist to make money. That's it.
Says who? I particularly enjoy it and find it extremely entertaining and a great opportunity to brush up my skills, while making some money in the process.
As a nation, we need to unite against the external threat of China.
Russia and Israel are fine.
China is the number one problem sowing discord in this country.
To avoid crystals, maximize the variety of sugars. For example, if you had 20 different molecules, they wouldn't pack into crystals very well. If you are being a perfectionist, I think you'd want to do this by molar proportion rather than mass or volume.

For those paying less attention, by "different" I don't mean white sugar and raw sugar. Those are the same molecule.
>Feynman is a notable exception to the trend. Using a single exceptional result as evidence for decrying a trend is foolish.

You missed my question. I am concerned with how many smart people with disabilities IQ exams misclassifies. I am not using Feynman to say he had a disability or anything, I was using him as an example of a case where his IQ score doesn't match his actual intelligence, and I am in no way claiming why that may be. I am merely stating IQ exams aren't perfect. If you are interested in replying, then reply to the question I posed. I think IQ test potentially misclassifies people with high functioning autism and other highly intelligent people with mental disabilities, showing they have lower intelligence than they actually have.
Wow, that surprises me that still happens. Thanks for sharing that experience. Being perfectly honest, I suspect the reason the n-bomb didnt get thrown around by white people in my world was half because of respect, and half because if anyone did, they would get their ass beat. I never witnessed that first hand, but people got their ass handed to them for much smaller insults than that.

But typically the type of guys who would start fights were all part of the same group (chronic skippers, people into drugs, hard partiers) so the white ones had no incentive to ruin their whole social life and get excluded from the fun over stupid racism.

And maybe that just goes back to having integrated neighborhoods and a pretty good black middle class, so that while most poor people were black or Hispanic, it wasn't something you where you could assume class by race. The white kids who grew up in the poorest neighborhoods (ie, public housing) usually adopted mostly black friend groups, and their style and mannerisms were more like their black peers, while upper class black people typically did the opposite (took on styles and had friend groups that were mostly white). I will say that the poor white people with black friend groups had some a tough time, other white people would frequently bully them openly for not conforming. I don't know if they also faced that from some black peers, but probably so.
You're starting to realize that not all cultures are that great.

>I think it’s more that you’ve valued the low per unit price over having a healthy contract.

Well, when the choice is to either play ball or go out of business, it's not a tough decision.
It took you multiple days the first time; how long would it have taken you the tenth? Optimizing for the first time is rarely a good approach if you're working with those tools regularly, in my opinion.
How do I use this in Anki? Could be a really great help!
Oh man... if this is real, and if the price is anything approaching reasonable, this could be HUGE for advancing POWER. I've wanted to see the day when I could order up an ATX POWER motherboard, slap it in a standard case, add CPU and RAM, and have a working system for, well... pretty much forever.
That seems plausible, given what we know about Amazon employees with ties to China disclosing private sales info or changing reviews in exchange for cash bribes. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/amazon-probes-report-workers...
The difference between 99th and 99.99th percentile is 1.4 standard deviations, a common IQ test ought to be able to be accurate to that. Otherwise it couldn't measure the difference between 100 and 120 IQ (0 to 1.4z) which it clearly can.
Are people in the Microsoft ecosystem still not able to leverage containers as a unit of deployment on Windows?

No idea, haven’t done .NET since 2012.
>Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore tested the toxicity of aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame, and acesulfame potassium-k.
The only method I’ve seen work semi-reliably for archiving console game source is to grab the physical machine that made the final build, spray paint “Do Not Dispose! Build archive!” on its side and stick it in a back room. Even that has a 2% chance/year to end up in a dump.

Otherwise, console game build systems were far to finicky to repro later (at least up to the 360/PS3 generation). You would need a huge collection of confidential tools from the manufacturer and those tools sometimes had OS/driver/hardware dependencies that can be reproed reliably with a VM. Think USB driver for the GameCube debugging connection. IIRC, the PS1 and N64 required add-in cards to connect a PC to them. Then there was the propriety test disc/cartridge burners.
> no good reason

It's a trade-off. You can compute everything in C, or some things in python. In the former scenario you're trading off software engineering cost with computational efficiency. Since software engineering is insaaaaaanely expensive (I code stupid stuff all day and am paid $150k/y) and processors are dirt cheap compared to them, it makes a lot of sense to do some computing in python/ruby/javascript.
That is true I think because of what happened to ZTE earlier this year.
Also national security related investigations are highly segmented in corporations -- in the company the size of apple for instance there may be a handful of people with knowledge that the investigation is ongoing or even exists. Its not like the PR department (or even the full board) may be aware of its existence.
Go hits the concurrency nail on the head
Infinite 2-state, 3-color Turing machine.
I fixed the title.
It's possible, but it's much, much, much easier for an American company to hold another American company accountable when something like this happens. Instead of having to go through all those hoops, you sue the pants off the manufacturer.
Reading this while enjoying my diet coke was a bad idea.
The lack of a support network is absolutely a killer. I've been trying to help a friend who's a recovering drug addict with a felony record and with very little family support, and it's brutally hard.
It doesn't seem that hard to do it yourself :-)
That's why I never use computers, everything can be done with pencil and paper, it just takes a bit longer.
Stuff from Guiness World Records?
Kubernetes is an operating system. Using it to run your software is as overkill today as running your own Linux server was overkill before that. Maybe you just need to run on Heroku and don't need the complexity of writing systemd service files?

In the end, the steps you take to deploy with rsync and run your systemd service are the same (conceptually) you'd take to run on K8S, but translated to some YAML and a docker push. In one case you need to learn a new paradigm, in the other case you deal with something you already know. Not having to learn something new is an argument, but it doesn't mean your bare-Linux approach is simpler than the K8S approach. You just know it more.
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I just don't think you can equate internet access with the relationship people have today with technology. Addressing several comments here, but frequency matters – it's a lot different to have a computer in every home that family members use to varying degrees, vs a smartphone in the hands of billions of people who are glued to them on a daily basis at levels that rival Television at its peak.
If you were said puddle, however, what’s the difference?
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Thanks for finding some stats. Based on the cars I see driving in the UK, I'm sure plenty of people buy cars that claim to do 55mpg, and many of those cars will actually do 55mpg. But as an average? - I'm just a bit unconvinced.

(Perhaps the mpgs were added up and divided by N? That doesn't always provide the answer you're looking for.)
How common are the issues you mention? I hear a lot more complaints from drivers having to pay legitimate sounding speeding tickets than I do bogus tickets. In fact, I can't think of a single instance of anyone I know who got a speeding ticket that wasn't legitimate. Corruption in the process of enforcing the law is not inevitable too.

I also am not comfortable calling the "85th percentile" rule a best practice. Seems like a moving target that has more to do with perceived safety than actual safety. Here's someone else's take: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/25/speed-kills-so...
Those formulas seem highly unlikely to me. Power consumption is generally proportional to clock speed. And I don't know what m^n even means in this context.
My prediction: if you apply moores law to this new brain-computer interface, we will eventually enter the matrix!
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Dextrose is sugar just like cellulose is sugar.
I'm not really happy to hear about this. To me, it demonstrates that the JS Foundation continues to focus on the wrong priorities. They've thoroughly neglected their stewardship responsibilities for a number of different open source projects. They've seen a reduction in sponsorship/funding for maintaining projects and they've pulled back from GSoC and other events that were essential in drawing in new open source contributors.

On top of all that, they've piled on bureaucracy and alienated many important long-time contributors: https://github.com/globalizejs/globalize/pull/703

Despite their slogan "The Center of Gravity in the Javascript Ecosystem", these days, the JS Foundation is largely an irrelevant organization. I see this merge as a last ditch effort to retain some sort of relevancy. They've abandoned their roots as a center of innovation. I see no effort to pivot their existing dying projects to compete in today's JS ecosystem dominated by component-based SPA frameworks.
It's free. It's easy to install. There's no hidden catch like giving up your privacy. Skepticism aside, I don't see the harm in trying it.

What would be cool is if they conducted a larger study via the Chrome plugin.
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> "As a huge bonus, Campbell claims the experiment could also explain the weird way that events in quantum physics seem to be influenced by the observer: It may be a quirk of the simulation we live in, not a fundamental aspect of reality."

I'm not a quantum physicist, but my spidey senses are tingling. Isn't this a common misrepresentation of a relatively well-known behavior in quantum mechanics, analogous to the Fourier transform trade-offs where a narrow window yields a poor resolution?
Ok why not all of them?