skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vitamin D supplements do help your immune system, reducing respiratory tract infections, and seem to help with some autoimmune diseases. There have also been some positive findings regarding clinical depression, and improved bone health.

Currently there is no evidence that they help with cancer or cardiovascular disease, but that doesn't mean that someone who is deficient should not try to solve that deficiency with supplements.

Dosing the supplements is the difficult part, ingested Vitamin D absorption is different from person to person, and it's further complicated by variable sun exposure and skin production. 4000 IU per day should be a safe dose, but it's probably not enough with zero sun exposure during winter...
What do you think of how it has turned out so far?
Well that’s a big use case that ES is meant for. There’s also the fact that ES is easy to shard. At my previous gig we easily had over terabyte of data written into ES indices every day, with hundreds of TBs worth of documents searchable in various indices, and none of this is even counting the logging use case. Used it extensively for calculating various aggregations (for reporting/analytics) of events.
I'm not sure I'd classify modern passenger jets as "unsafe".
there is a very interesting feature that is devoid on ALL onboard webcams i have ever seen ! a lens cover !
there is also a lack of a hardware mute switch for the microphone.
The "grievance studies" papers were sponsored by the federal government?
I just listened Sean Carrol's podcast interview wit Penrose and I think they are different. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/01/07/epis...

In the loop quantum gravity there is a bounce because at the lowest level spacetime is discrete and can't be compressed. The big bounce theory of relating to big bang in the loop quantum theory might be similar to the black hole/white hole theory.

In Penrose's theory it's the gravity/mass that is creating time and clumping things together between the big bang and the heat death of the universe (you need mass to create clock and time).

At the beginning of the universe temperature was so high that masses did not matter, at the end of the universe there is no mass, just massless particles (after googol or so when the biggest black holes have evaporated). Massless particles (photon, gluon, graviton) don't experience time so they in a sense fly into the the end of the eternity instantly.

Then there is something geometrical I don't understand and the ends meet and the new universe matches the end of the previous across timeless eon.

Penrose thinks you could perceive the ripples caused by the massive black holes from the last universe in the background radiation of our universe.
You'd be surprised to think that the IBM AS/400 still keeps the lights on for a number of large business.

Working in professional services a number of our clients still use AS/400 mainframe environments, with data migrations to other environments becoming more and more common.

I worked on a data migration from an AS/400 environment to an SQL DB. I kid you not, the database schema for the AS/400 environment was printed on old A3 scrolls that looked tea stained.
I don't really buy the sympathy for this guy.

Imagine if authors of the SCIgen papers conclusion was that all of computer science was fake.

This is even more intellectually dishonest

It's a performative criticism that contains an implicit political argument.

The talking point of the Jordan Peterson types, that the whole field of 'humanities' is a political arm of leftist politics.

How dare you complain about the lynchings of gays or blacks, you have no right to complain about conversion therapy or the bathroom bill. Go make your bed.
For scripts, you're not compiling an executable that you'll run later, you're having Swift execute the code "now" so "available at runtime" becomes "immadiately after you parse the code."
If they're in the journalism department of a university, they'll be required to get consent for all studies on human subjects they do.

For a student project, I once did a user study with a purely informational app. I needed to get approval and have each participant sign a form that I had adequately informed them about the possible dangers of the experiment (none) and that their data would remain confidential and so on.

The effort seems ridiculous when it's obvious that there's no danger, but the whole point of having a review process is to make sure that someone checks.
Let me get this straight, you think caring about human rights is a partisan thing? I guess it is in the United States currently...
And Joe Rogan interviewing Michael Shermer of The Skeptics Society published 3 days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p5D-pN8tQw#t=1h02m48s
> The graduates from these areas tend to infect the university administration and wear down the other areas with guerrilla tactics of increasing wokeness.

So you believe that while these departments have shrinking budgets, are the subject of continual staff cuts, and its not possible to use the degrees they give to make any money, that they still have influence over university administrations? Why aren't their tenures and salaries going up, if that's the case?
Interesting question. If it did come from Vega's area 600,000 years ago, the author argues that the civilization sent out billions of these devices to every star using solar sail technology. Kind of like if we sent out billions of Voyager 1s deliberately to every star for them to be discovered upon arrival.

They have our understanding of physics but seemingly way more ability to mass produce and launch these items into interstellar space in specific ways for stars to collide with them.

Or it's a 2 billion year old sandblasted rock that caught some weird gravity assists :)
> The system has clearly been setup to fraud the majority who needs welfare and is a political virtue signaling.

It has this effect, but I'd blame the need to simplify over malevolence.

SF's below market rate housing is a great example of a huge welfare cliff. Make under $60k? You can get a 1 bedroom for $1600/month. Don't? Join everyone else fighting at $3k/month or what not.

So yah, it's a bit ridiculous that we have a system where someone making $59k does better than $70k.

But it's really hard to administer everything as a phase-out system, especially with non-cash benefits. (currently the apartments are required to charge X rent.. so what should happen to the person making $70k/year?)

Hence, these blunt-edge qualifications.
The process described is not an inquiry, it's a show trial.
If the article is accurate and complete, by what standard is this institution not considered irrevocably compromised?

If the powers of an institution can be wielded in such a petty political way, they are courting popular revolt. The broader risk is that in a stack of applicants, if the only thing someone knows about Portland State University is its hyperpoliticized environment, one could see how a CV might not make the first cut of phone screens. These show trial people are disadvantaging their students.
> Not a research journal where you're making an attempt to further the understanding of an area.

What if the journal in question is not actually attempting to do that? Might it be moral to try to expose that fact?
Ask HN: What to ask during interview for CTO position?
I am having an interview next week for a CTO position in a company founded in 2009 and acquired in 2016 for about $100M. The company still operates independently.

I have an engineering / tech management background and already have a decent understanding of their tech situation and challenges. I would like to learn more about their finance and strategy.

What questions should I ask? Any ideas are welcome!
You might be looking for this: https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck/blob/master/README.md
Hi, do you have any openings for Junior developers?
Enough Is Enough:The Political Weaponisation of Antisemitism
> If not, what made this part of their university life?

The fact that he likely included his academic affiliation on any papers he wrote, likely used university resources to conduct or discuss some part of the research (e.g. meeting rooms, his office, his office phone), is an employee of the university, etc.

I mean, come on - no IRB is going to let you claim a technicality like that. If you could skirt around research regulations by just claiming you were doing it "on your own" with no affiliation to the university, the IRB would be effectively pointless.
Personally, I still have ember apps from 2015 that are now on v3.6 and have had pretty much painless updates. I have used react professionally, but used Ember when starting a new app this past fall. I just trust them to keep things stable over time and I don't have the ability or desire to spend a lot of time bikeshedding my setup. It's not glamorous, but I do get a lot done and can keep things working for years.
A few years back, I once mused to friends: What happened to the hackers and revolutionaries, the teenage determination to liberate technology at all cost, writing cool text-philes along the way? A friend's answer has stuck with me ever since: "I think that says more about you than the disappearing hackers." I knew he was right: My attitude has a lot to do with how I handle the present and future. Indeed, at the smallest conferences (small-town B-Sides, 2600 meetings, even Apple II KansasFest and so forth, definitely not Defcon), I can still catch a glimpse of that gritty excitement to which I was literally addicted, night and day. To stay up all night discovering, hacking, and plotting to use the new knowledge to build a more democratic knowledge-centered world.

I mention this because so far, the future seems to involve more DRM and paywalls, less neutrality, more megabytes of poorly-written crappy Javascript. And if you let that line of thinking get to you, you just feel like tossing your iPad in the trash and going hiking. At least then, you don't have to read all those dumb Alex Jones forwards from your crazy aunt.

But it doesn't have to be that way. The re-decentralization movement is slowly gaining mindshare. What happens in 2040 depends 100% on how we act now. The great utopian sharing mindspace that we wrote about endlessly in Mondo 2000 (or Computer Lib / Machine Dreams) can still happen if we want.
I'm a big fan of Tree Line and Miyoko's nut cheeses, and Chao fermented tofu cheese slices.
Mea culpa. Apparently it depends a lot on the jurisdiction with more densely populated countries offering shorter leases than sparsely populated ones. In Europe, one to two decades seem common with options for relatives to extend the lease. http://www.talkdeath.com/cemetery-overcrowding-leading-europ...
Noone thinks about Renaissance use of Latin when seeing a headline about quantum satellites.
I've written a few Reddit posts on the subject:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ROCm/comments/adyu5k/amd_rocm_hcc_p...

https://www.reddit.com/r/gpgpu/comments/adyxpi/musings_on_ve...

There's a 3rd story here: GCC's style is OpenMP 4.5. The big news is that the following kind of code is now possible:

#pragma omp target map(a,b,c,d)
{
#pragma parallel for
for(int i=0; i<1000000; i++){
a[i] = b[i] * c + d ;
}
}

The above code will run on the GPU. GCC, CLang, and other languages are trying to support OpenMP 4.5's ability to offload code to GPUs.

That's what this GCC9 news is about: AMD GPUs are gaining the ability to execute the above code, integrated into OpenMP Tasks and all that good stuff.
I've learned a similar lesson, and incorporate a high-quality mechanical pencil and quad-ruled notepad in my personal workflow / productivity system. Thanks for sharing your insight, and good luck w/ ProjectPoll!
It's going to take some time to break it down line by line because it's minified and reads like garbage.

But look at line #230. You're basically seeing a list of information it gathers, and everything above helps populate that information.

Then everything below posts it off to their server.
But if you call it "bogosort" and make the algorithm blatantly terrible, then any journal that takes it seriously is showing its lack of expertise.
The blog post may benefit from an editor, but those three points are supported by the footnotes, whose very references – but not content – you included in your quotation. The footnotes themselves constitute more than half the post and include citations of published studies.
There's a good critical overview of the various papers here[0].

[0] https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/on-sokal-squa...
In a service industry driven by on demand scheduling, a "standard 40 hour work week" is quaint nostalgia. Regardless of hourly compensation, total wages for semi-skilled proles are forever in the sweet spot of not-quite-enough-to-get-by.
I bought a Linenspa mattress off Amazon on a whim for $125. It shipped rolled well enough to be transported in my sedan.

It is so comfortable, cheap, and convenient that I legitimately am stumped why anyone would ever spend more than $125 on a king mattress as a result. It's incredible.

Anyone spending hundreds or thousands on a mattress has been thoroughly duped and that's why there is such a war between mattress companies.
Yasha Levine covers the commercialisation of the Internet very well in "Surveillance Valley".
Sounds like a setting for a novel.
You can’t put people who are paying nothing in the same table because they aren’t receiving any work in compensation. If they were, that would be slavery and obviously more morally wrong.
Indirectly? Yes.

Boghossian is an employee of Portland State, an institution which almost certainly receives grant funding from the federal government for research. Some minute portion of his salary/office/supplies/etc. are paid for by said federal research grant money.

Regardless, the regulations apply to the entire institution and therefore any faculty members of said institution.
That's been proposed. What's the point of this question?
Eurozone labour productivity growth grinds to a halt
Can you name four?
You mean “cleanse the village”?
> > Other countries have better health outcomes, so that pretty much kills your “worse service” claim.

> No it doesn't. Not every US citizen actually receives the service, because they want to (or have to) save money

So by “better” service you mean no service for the poor. That’s better? This is how you spin a system with worse health outcomes into something “better” — again, without citing a shred of evidence.
If it is relevant data, why shouldn't it be legitimate research? Because you personally think the topic is ridiculous, absurd or not worth consideration? Many ideas seem that way (including very important ones, such as the study of language) so that shouldn't be a reason to dismiss them outright.
Clustered filesystems like Ceph or GlusterFS might help with the reliability part, but latency and bandwidth still remain a problem.

The other thing I was quite interested in at one point was flocker, a volume manager which is responsible for replicating/migrating data along with the container it is connected to. The company shut down quite a while ago but code is still available: https://github.com/ClusterHQ/flocker
Neither does the X or any of the “plus” model face slabs.
50 people is way too few to fill an airplane that can fly that route. And flying a half-full plane isn’t economical, even considering margins on business class seats (which, I expect, will be quite a bit lower if you buy them in bulk)

Also, United likely has multiple flights a day on that route. You can’t service that with one plane.
It's better making cards yourself - not just better, using someone else's pack seems utterly pointless to me. Why would you want to miss this step?

It reminds me of the situation with books of transcribed jazz solos, which at first seem like gold. But they're actually worse than useless, as you miss out on everything you learn from transcribing solos yourself.
I think the premise of this article is misleading. It's true that creating a storage subsystem in Kubernetes is exceedingly difficult, however using Kubernetes for stateful applications isn't any more difficult than using instances with persistent disk in any cloud provider.

For applications deployed in cloud infrastructure, most folks are using persistent disk simply for the ease of management. Some folks end up going to local disk for scale and performance reasons, at which point they end up having exactly the same problem one would have trying to do the same with Kubernetes.
Hi, do you have any openings that might not be listed for intern or Junior/mid developers using python?
CPU Wars and Exascale Clarity: HPC in 2019
I personally believe that Tor is compromised. I have been saying this for several years. The amount of bandwidth it consumes, and the reliance on honest entrance and exit nodes, means it is assured that three-letter agencies run the whole network. I’m confident the government can demask users on demand as needed.

I would love a counterpoint to my opinion but given that public honest nodes have trivial donations I don’t understand who can afford to support this network other than incentivized agencies.
Huawei Jumps into the Arm Server Chip Fray
Not always but I am having days like this. Instead of working I am fiddling with my .vimrc or .zshrc or .otherrc or creating some single-use script, chrome extension etc..

It feels like waste of time but occasionally it pays off after some time. And it gives myself some easily achievable satisfaction.

But on the other hand going for a walk would sometimes feel like better use of this time.
I work on a number of Go projects. This is one that lasted me for close to a decade now:

function workspace_cd() {
cd $@ && [ -f ".bashworkspace" ] && source .bashworkspace
}
alias wscd="workspace_cd"

Each .bashworkspace file contains something like this:

export GOPATH={PATH HERE}
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$PATH
export GHC_PACKAGE_PATH={PATH HERE}
Police officers stop criminals... they also have major issues with brutality/etc...and have a bad track record...something like 4000 people were shot by police last year...

I wouldn't say we should get rid of police or that they don't provide a service because of those issues...just that they need to reform/change/fix those issues. Not sure, how they do that...

My point is the TSA, while it often does some shitty/shady stuff in the name of 'security'... I don't think you could say they have never thwarted terrorist attacks, or that we as a nation could flourish without them at all.

I don't really have statistics on TSA/etc... but I think making sure people don't have guns on planes is a bit more important than building a wall that can be scaled via ladder, or tunneled under. But it's just ironic to me that by not getting his wall, the TSA is now basically on strike.
I think many ember users use it because it's what they know. And for most projects, any of these choices, including ember, will do the job just fine.

There's value in using tools you're already proficient in. And that's the thing that rubs me about framework debates: it's like we're all debating what screw head is best (Robertson, btw).
Please link and explain this.

When has the Tor Project ever excluded anyone based on ideology?
Grievance scholars isn't a real label.

Judea Pearl thinks that DL is nothing more than curve fitting. Is he a greivence scholar?

In the humanities criticism plays a similar role.

A researcher criticizing slavery or modern social structures isn't completely now free of any standards.

The journal they tricked has an impact factor of 1.1, so im not impressed.

Using 'greivence scholars' is stupid, and contributes to the STEM superiority complex.
The Gateway: An Investigative Podcast About an Internet Spiritual Guru
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> An invocation of sed with a simple regex becomes a monstrosity when translated to Swift.

This is because Swift’s regex support is overly verbose, being lifted straight from Objective-C. It’s not an inherent problem when the language.
Does whatsapp work in China? I had to switch to telegram to talk to a friend that lives over there because it stopped working a few months ago.
Hey guys this is my weekend hobby project - a simple app that uses Google Cloud Speech-to-Text to do algo transcript on any podcast you like, or your own audio file. I simply wanted a simple, cheap and quick tool to transcribe the podcast i liked so i can save it. I've tried best to keep the price as low as possible and I think transcript of good podcast should help promote itself.

Cheers & hope you enjoy this
Say hello to Stephanie Kowalski, spammer-generated bot with a homepage entirely dedicated to the joys of essential oils.
OpenMP 4.5 provides the #pragma target data, target enter data, target exit data, and target update constructs to provide for the memory-management to-and-from the GPU.

omp_target_alloc, omp_target_memcpy, omp_target-associate_ptr provide some other utility functions that you'd expect for these use cases. omp_target_memcpy can copy from host-to-device, device-to-host, or even device-to-device.
Bash has this as well

set autocd
I have a similar command, except it keeps the existing addons from my main profile. Which is useful as I need a proxy for different environments for work.
I'm not convinced changing millenial habits are the true threat to this idea--there's still space for longer serialized works. "Todd in the Shadows" is not really in meaningful competition with "Game of Thrones" except in the broadest sense of people only having so much time in the day for entertainment. Also, once you have this infrastructure in place, it's not difficult to pivot to shorter works by smaller producers if it seems that's where the money is.

The real problem may just be saturation. The dream of having all streaming entertainment through one service for $12 a month was never realistic (and arguably not really desirable), and I think we may all have to get used to the idea of paying for several services to get everything we want. But there's "paying for several," and then there's "paying for a dozen or more"; the latter just isn't sustainable.
Agreed, along with basic familiarity with vi/vim this is almost required knowledge if you're deploying to or working on a system other than Windows or MacOS.
A bit of a tangent, but I suspect I'm missing the meat of the Pearl DL debate - any good links? I ask this because I also think of DL as "just" curve fitting that works extremely well for some families of input. Is that far off from the view of most DL people?
Dawn of Life in a $5 Toaster Oven
The average consumer doesn't hold updates in the same high regard that the tech elite do. To many consumers, updates = high probability of shit breaking. I bought a phone last year and got Pie on it recently. I was apprehensive. Most are even more so.
Have a talk to any marine biologist about how effective landfill is as a means of disposal. Single use plastics are a hair behind AGW when it comes to existential threats to humanity as a whole.

We’ll poison the oceans long before landfill becomes an issue.
Ahh, well like I said I'm not much of an Apple fan, I haven't had to do a return/repair there for a while.
Not important, but I think you intend en masse when you write on mass (almost the same pronunciation when spoken).
Excellent! Exciting times ahead. This is similar to what I envision with Jellicles small acreage farm bots without the animals(I have no experience with that).

My design is for 5 acres, serving 100-150 people and one working person and a suite of small light weight bots and one heavy duty farm bot. Can be fully automated. Combination of hydroponics and field grown.

So far, everything is technically “possible” except harvesting and soft fruits(like berries). I can automate(theoretically) everything from greenhouse operations to field prep to planting to fertilizing to limited harvesting and packing.

We can do so far: greens, fruits(nightshade), foot crops, brassicas, squashes, pumpkins and orchard operations. Even some kinds of grains like millets and barley. With floriculture..so far I have only figured out sunflowers..

Now..Gots to figure out prototyping...