skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is sad, but understandable, that only the mass quantity, low quality, sweeteners are being considered. Rarely are the alternative sweeteners used by health conscious consumers at home examined.

You mentioned erythritol, which is undergoing an explosion in popularity due to Swerve. Xylitol is available in Whole Foods, and even some regular grocers on occasion, and is a bit more work to good with but works very well for some uses. And of course Stevia, when used appropriately, is all over the place. Monk Fruit is also used on occasion, but its flavor profile has to be carefully considered.

As an aside, for those complaining about Stevia, the $6 bottle from Whole Foods has more than 10x as much Stevia in it as the $6 bottle from your local grocery store. Stevia is also not appropriate in all places, but as a replacement for simple syrup in gin drinks it is great, and it is also great to use in Lemonade and Limeade.

(In ice cream, or anyplace with dairy? Use something else, and maybe add a couple drops at the end for a bit extra of a kick.)

It looks like lactulose is prescription only in the US, so that makes it a no go for home chefs!

My ultimate advice for people though, it just get used to things not being sweet. After a couple weeks, the taste isn't missed, and food tastes a lot more subtle when everything isn't accompanied by a sweet aftertaste.
None of this is correct. NASA had the most deaths from the Space Shuttle, nothing to do with ICBMs. Nothing they did was to prevent WW3; their current goals are the same as the were four decades ago. SpaceX is still moving at a rapid and successful pace, as is evidenced by reading the news about them.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138716.
"There were other considerations like the fact we were actually buing it from large reputable company and what happened was that some employees were doing it with no involvement of the company."

I fail to see how that has anything to do with it. The company is responsible for the product, full stop. If they can't stop their employees from tampering with the product, that's entirely their fault.
Whenever this debate comes up, I find it interesting that it's rarely discussed the theological ramifications of this.

God is generally described as a being who is outside the plane of our existence, and created our existence.

It's intriguing to me that those who argue we're in a simulation have much less trouble having faith in that premise despite the difficulty in proving it being exactly the same as proving the existence of God.

If you think about it, the vast majority of the world which believes in a God essentially believes we're in a simulation.
If you were a puddle, you would be prone to think “gee, this hole is the perfect shape for me.” When it turns out you’d fit any shape hole we put you in given sufficient quantity of water. Because the hole determines your shape, not an intrinsic property of you.
> some employees were doing it with no involvement of the company

Again, I don't see why that matters. I understand the latter part, but if this is one employee without the knowledge of the company, then pushing it on them forces them to add checks, not you.
Works pretty well for me in FF mobile on Android, some sliders for visual size make the font grow as you decrease the size though.

Hadn't heard of this - I like the bevel and shadow example ... reminds me of titles in Flash ...
I've wondered this same thing. Also, 4chan doesnt use HTTPS either.
My two main annoyances with the mobile web app are:

1. The annoying popup that comes up every other click asking you to install the iOS app

2. If you are not logged in and accidentally click the comment button it brings up the login modal. After dismissing the modal, if you close the comment box, it brings up the login modal again. I'm gonna assume this one is a bug.

Other than those two issues, I think it's a great mobile web app, especially when you consider just how terrible most web apps are.
This still sounds nuts to me.

Two thoughts:

> they typically will not be thinking they are doing anything wrong. They are just testing if you notice and if you do not they will say it makes no difference for you but saves them costs.

This is how children behave. Still feels like you’re rewarding bad behavior. You’re enabling them.

I think it’s more that you’ve valued the low per unit price over having a healthy contract. Your vendor is incentivized to make all of their money off of externalities and your company think it’s cheaper to outwit them than to demand QC on their end. Whose brand will be sullied if you miss some of these units and a customer finds the spyware? Not theirs.

And second thought, shouldn’t serial numbers be coming off the line in ascending order? The kind of work they are doing would require taking parts off the line and putting them back later so odd lots of SNs are the ones you need to verify.

You could also be mandating how many boards are allowed or that the SNs go on early in the build process.
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Ask HN: A tool that tracks various websites for keywords and give you updates?
I'm looking for a tool that would search a number of websites for certain keywords and show me the aggregated results on a page.

For instance, something that would use Hacker News, Lobsters or Reddit own search engine and return the aggregated results. You can then check the results from time to time and see if there's any update.

Any idea if something like this exists?
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
The cheapest FPGAs are under $10 and many can fit a small softcore - usually not a full pipelined, cached + MMU RISCV core at 100+ mhz but enough to drastically simplify high level logic in FPGA projects. The Zynq series with onboard CPUs start at $40-50 in low volumes and have 1-4 cores at 600 mhz which is complete overkill for many FPGA projects.
Can't it? Reddit has somehow become a parody of itself where most posts in most subs follow the exact same karma-chasing pattern.

Which leaves a few gems and the draconianly moderated subs like /r/science etc.

Frankly it got to be far to much work to get some signal in with the noise. The new UI and needing to stick with old.reddit.com is just icing on the cake.
I’ve a great shortcut to download YouTube videos.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c2997c4bcd0a4a01a470ac7f6c1...
Raptor Announces “Blackbird” Micro-ATX, Low-Cost POWER9 Motherboard
It's almost always more efficient to use an existing CPU if it fits your use case than to design your own. Even if it doesn't, it is often more efficient (time wise) to adapt your use case to the hardware you have available, or write software to resolve the feature you want in hardware but don't have. Only the especially nutty build their own CPUs (I'm especially nutty too)
You can certainly come to that conclusion if you'd like. Arxiv exists. But "peer review isn't especially usrful" and "these entire fields are nonsense" are very different conclusions.
Every major major nation can do this stuff one way or the other. But somehow I am used to software hacks by now. That someone is basically managing aphysical supply chain (with suppliers, production and all of that) within an existing one is a first for me. The only thing similar are stories of the Italian mafia getting stuff by customs by duplicating shipping containers, still what the Chinese did is different level. But the, being a supply chain guy, I have an easier time understanding this as compared to what NSA and GCHQ are doing.
That's because the simulation argument is the finitary version of the ontological argument.
What does gaming have to do with AI?
So you are denying that endothelial dysfunction and it's triggers exist? Interesting.
I wrote this in a different discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18124411

Super small CPU cores are fantastic for complex FSM replacement, especially on an FPGA which has unused block RAMs (so using them is essentially free.)
I’ve seen cases with relatively complex pure HW FSM being replace by a small CPU and 1KB of RAM where the logic used by the CPU ends up smaller than the FSM.

But now the CPU is programmable, so you can iterate much quicker in case of bugs, without the need to reaunthesize.

A good example are SDRAM controllers: almost all of them have a small CPU inside the controller that is used for calibration training.
One of the more practical challenges as an EMS provider nearby is that it is relatively "isolated", requiring ferry or boat transport for sick patients as there is no hospital on the island. This requires staffing challenges for escorting etc, and the logistics of transport.

On more than one occasion, delays in getting to definitive emergency care have resulted in liability for the State, including heart attack victims who took to long to get to the hospital.
They are compared to the amount of work they can do per watt when compared to the original IBM PC.

Old school mainframe power suplies are probably even less efficient per what.
If you think you're living in a simulation, maybe you're projecting something about about your cushioned (alienated) consumer lifestyle onto life itself. Your been absolved (robbed) of contact with the roots of your life. You sit in comfort zones, nibbling and sipping on life's material fruits, discarding packaging to the netherworld, wondering if the roots ever even ever existed in the first place. You're starting to doubt it. Maybe you're just living in a simulation.

I'm more interested in this idea as a product of contemporary materialism than as a testable physical theory.

Study semiotics, then ask yourself again if you're living in a "simulation".
You were a lot more polite to Stripe than you were to Y Combinator:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/pro-trump-ceo-gets-booted-...

>While Torba paints this as a free speech issue, YC told BuzzFeed that he was kicked out for “for speaking in a threatening, harassing way toward other YC founders” — particularly in this Facebook comment:

>“All of you: fuck off. Take your morally superior, elitist, virtue signaling bullshit and shove it. I call it like I see it, and I helped meme a President into office, cucks.”

>Torba had also tweeted a screenshot of another founder’s Facebook comment (the founder’s name was removed) that “being a black, Muslim or woman in the USA is going to be very scary” with his own comment: “Build the wall.” Then, in another thread, a YC alum alluded to Torba’s behavior without mentioning him by name, prompting him to jump in: “Say my name when you talk about me, coward. Build the wall.”
If your eyes work.
Clockless CPUs with RF transceiver and signal manipulation logic, however, do not exist.
My first reaction was "why is this news, isn't elliptic curve crypto widely deployed and quantum resistant?"

It looks like the story is more complicated (and most ECC algorithms are not quantum resistant): https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/35482/which-ellip...
It reminds me of that scene on Armageddon. "Russian parts, American parts, they all come from Taiwan." Now it's China. It is easier to spy when basically everything runs on hardware made in your country I guess.
When it comes to Swedish soccer players, it looks like the top players are valued 5x more than the average.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/867492/leading-swedish-n...

I worked with a software team once where the manager let the team divide up the raise pool. And they didn't divide it evenly. There was consensus about who deserved more each year. Of course that could still be a cultural value of working long hours or working when sick.
To me it looks like that bloomberg intentionally photoshoped chip labels to avoid risk of upsetting their manufacturers.
I don't think it's true that all fonts eventually approach the same level of easy readability.

Yes, you will get better at reading this font than you were at reading this font initially, but probably you still won't be able to read it as fast as you can read some other font.
> NASA was the pioneer, and pushed hard during the cold war to develop ICBM tech

NASA did not develop ICBM technology; the USAF did. NASA used ICBMs in their early days, particularly Atlas missiles. There may well have been some cross-pollination of basic rocket design technology. But NASA was not in the business of making ICBMs and had nothing to do with MAD or the nuclear triad.
Man, my learning process had very little to do with reading the notes that I wrote down. I can maybe remember one or two tests where I actually read over my notes, but most of the time it was just the original writing down that seemed to help with learning.

Maybe if the textbook was printed in this font...
IQ significantly predicts real world performance in a bunch of areas.
Ask HN: Is it common for programmers to use code without license or attribution?
My understanding is there are open source or otherwise free code to use, and there is also code that is not licensed for use. Is it common to see the latter used without permission?
Making Big Business Out of Social Philanthropy
Technology does not answer to questions about ethics. Technology dispenses with any value propositions.

Capitalism doesn't either. Capitalism answers to profits and not necessarily to _everybody_'s profits.
200W still seems really high. A +10yo MacBook Pro used an 85W charger, and it rarely if ever reached that max. I find it hard to believe that even an old gaming laptop would require over twice that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
That's certainly a fair viewpoint (and reflected together in the spec version 802.11-1999), but the interesting thing about this rebrand is the Wi-Fi Alliance taking a step back, realizing that the individual specs don't matter to consumers and as a consumer brand trying to break away from just using the spec names/versions.

From that perspective A, B, and G were all sold as three separate things to consumers, so it makes sense to count all three.
I've heard very similar stories from people in the card industry before. I don't think it's made up, unfortunately. Card readers from China are systematically untrustworthy.
Most of a modern processor is cache. You could likely fit the actual core on a relatively large FPGA. The cache would be harder.
exactly. after about 10 seconds, I had no difficulty reading it at all, just as if it was a regular font. I'm extremely skeptical of this
I never said a nation state couldn't attempt this but just that if you try really hard to lock down your hardware, it becomes very expensive and risky. You may be better off attacking the system in another way other than cracking it open and soldering your payload in there.
:( This was intended to be a talk on a pretty specific topic for the Startup School course. Day-to-day operations for pre-product market fit CEOs. Hopefully, it was useful and interesting in this context! Happy to take suggestions on how I could have done the interview better.
You can set it as the default and it should save.
Simple greed? As in: "play ball, and you get access to the gigantic Chinese market"
The event was probably classified as a national security incident which would compel the affected parties to not disclose the event.
It's well understood that IQ is linked to academic achievement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G_factor_(psychom...
> The article is not written by the person it is attributed to

To be pedantic, he -did- write the article, but not for a newspaper. It was submitted to multiple large newspapers in space-heavy cities around the country as an Op Ed without his awareness (or at least, "ostensibly on his behalf") by the PR firm.
Exaclty. This is a big concern for me. The server is really telling the browser what to do. But the browser can ignore it. It is quite a hacky an inellegant model. Very broken.
The picorv32 is a nice little processor, but it's surprisingly inefficient in its use of FPGA resources compared to the performance it offers (which is very low.) For small FPGAs, it's far from being the best solution.

That said: there are a bunch of SOC construction tools for it, so that's definitely a redeeming factor.
High IQ Low Focus is going to be better than Low IQ Low Focus. Where it is going to be unclear is High IQ Low Focus vs Low IQ High Focus. Unfortunately, focus and IQ generally correlate, so the genetic winners get even more inherent advantage.
Not all societies are equally corrupt.
Synchronous languages
But still, that complicates the whole operation immensely in comparison to "just go next city block"
And what of safety of people on the ground, in areas where a device may crash land? And so on and so forth?

Should we disregard safety on their account, too?
Me too. Taking write-only notes was one of my best study weapons in college.

Though, just think of your memory retention if you take notes by hand-drawing this font. Sure, it's time consuming, but you're never going to forget those two sentences that you got through.
Their denials are very, very specific. Meaning those words can be true, and a blanket denial would be false.
To me, the whole point of humanity is to leave your children better off than you were. If we can do this at a genetic level that would be a boon, but I expect we are just going to be removing genes that lead to higher probability of illness.
> These are non-trivial things to learn

Right, but again I think the point being made is that, if those are skills you do want to learn, or plan on using later down the road, it's worth knowing that you can use K8s even at a small scale.

Obviously, in most cases it could be premature optimization, but for some people (including you), it can be fun to learn.
If we're in a simulation, it's almost certainly not a computer simulation, but some technology that we can't even imagine, any more than cavemen could imagine computers.
This is a good moral question. My impression is that some people today, especially here on HN, feel very uncomfortable taking any moral stance and instead have a worldview that says what is right is determined entirely by what the market produces. Basically capitalism is God.

I like capitalism, but I view it as a means to an end, not an end in itself. Instead of evaluating our moral against what capitalism produces, we should evaluate capitalism by how well it supports our morals.

From that perspective, yeah, I think it is kind of bad. If we are placing a high tax on cigarettes because our society has made a moral choice that cigarettes are bad and people who smoke are bad, then I think that moral choice should apply equally to all people regardless of wealth. My moral code states that power does not excuse sins.

On the other hand, if the tax is a pragmatic one to, say, help pay for universal healthcare and offset the higher medical costs incurred by smokers, then the tax is a reasonable approach.

In reality, the tax/law is probably a combination of the two goals, which is why I think a tax is kind of bad but kind of OK.
Using the technically incorrect term "angular momentum" rather than the more correct term "moment of inertia" made me think the same thing. I would think a person tasked with building such a device would know their physics well enough to use the right term, but I may be wrong.
Now I’m picturing a 300lbs photocopier being spun on three axes. How much tape would it take to keep doors and parts from flying off?
I LOL'ed when I read that line too
If a pointed pole is a "lightning rod" then, keeping in mind that a lightning rod mitigates lightning strikes, a field of pointed poles is a lightning field - regardless of whether lightning is striking.
Maybe, maybe not. The problem is (as parent posits) that a hyper intelligence with the means of simulating an entire universe could just be so utterly alien to us that we can't make any predictions about it's reasoning. Perhaps they would turn off our world/simulation with no more of a thought than what a human would give about autoclaving a petri dish with some bacterial growth.

It's only human to try to ascribe human feelings and morals to such beings - but the difference in scale is just too big. Comprehending why such a being does or doesn't do something would be almost certainly beyond us.
If you want to hear some stories like this, take a Greyhound bus out of a prison town. On release day, the prisoners get/acquire a bus ticket back to wherever they need to be. So you'll see a group of people wearing the same drab, ill-fitting clothing, carrying their only life possessions in a shoebox. You get talking to these people and it's pretty clear that while many would like to escape the system, they don't know how. The stories are nearly universal - terrible home life as children, lack of support network, poverty, drugs, limited education or training. And, with a record, you are spot on that it is hard for them to find meaningful work.
More like "mandatory medical testing at the airport because some people don't vaccinate" from my perspective.

It's a "subsidy" because we all have to spend time on it, even though lots of people don't receive any benefit from it. It's not intolerable, the Web is based on community standards and responds to community needs, and I'm fine with that. But I'm always on the losing end of this one so I'm going to say so.
Add a Clause in your contract that covers 2 scenarios:

1. If YOU go out of business or cannot support the customer for any reason, they get access to the source code with a non-exclusive license.

2. If THEY want to leave (as some others are pointing out in the thread, then they have to buyout the IP for a price. You can either negotiate the price upfront (make it worthwhile for you and high enough that it is not worth for them to do the buyout easily) or leave it open depending on how far along you went with that customer.
I wonder if their delisting is related to this hack, or if it's a sign that they have poor internal controls and the company is just poorly controlled every where from accounting to engineering.
My simple go-to example is tuples. They are on the third attempt to introduce that feature. First was generic Tuple.Create. Did not support naming individual fields. Then came anonymous classes. Those could only be used where type is inferred. The latest are using braces... most powerful, but also syntactically quite different from what came before.

I like C# adding new features, and understand some try-and-see-what-sticks is unavoidable. But I don't understand them not deprecating the old versions. And still wonder if improving an earlier version would have been possible/better.
The cost of manufacture is a very small part of the cost of assembling computers. For the iPhone, for instance, it represents less than $10 out of the $240 or so total cost. Thus shifting production to other another locale with higher costs would not significantly increase the price of the product, and in any case labor costs are going up in China as well.

Thus you wonder why more production isn't being shifted from China to, say, Thailand, Indonesia or India. Steve Jobs once said the industrial capacity to do the work simply isn't available outside of China, in terms of skilled people and supply chains, and that may be a big reason why.
McAfee warns of US govt 'spying' through presidential alert texts
Replace COBOL with Visual Basic, Java, Javascript and you have your answer. It's what was used when those finance applications were written and became part of the technical debt of the institutions that wrote them. Your shiny new language/framework today may one day be fondly remember by future generations as 'why are we still using this crap?'