skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no studies that show that a diet where one consumes animal products occasionally like 2-3 times per months is worse for health then pure plant diet. This is even when one does eat meat, one eats it a lot. Apparently body is able to recover from any negative effects of animal products within 10-14 days. And one avoids a potential for deficiencies like B12, iron, K2 that one may run on a pure plant diet unless one is careful. And even for environment it can be better if the animal products on those days come from slaughtered caws that are grass-feed on land where growing grains etc. is impractical.

So the problem is really not the meat, but it’s amount.
Dunning-Krueger is a hell of a drug...
The article mentions that just giving a malnourished child an IV can cause a heart attack. In fact doing nothing, in absence of expertise, is recommended.
Here's a directed graph showing all of the language's versions of the idiom.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/graph2.png

from https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1024
Not to be a killjoy but how is this relevant to HackerNews? HN isn't reddit.
Uhm... She took medical actions instead of bringing them into the hospital and broke the law and therefore also denied many children the help they needed, quintessence is, she couldve saved many more lives.

"[...] the problem with Bach's center went beyond Bach's hands-on approach to medical procedures. Under both international health guidelines and Ugandan law, if a severely malnourished child has the kind of extra complications Bach's center was taking on — serious respiratory infections, dehydration, swelling — this child must be treated in an advanced medical facility."
An electric motor is drastically more efficient than an internal combustion engine and so produces much less heat, but it's more difficult to get the heat out of the motor. You don't need a big radiator with lots of airflow to cool an electric motor, but you do need an intelligently designed heat exchanger in the motor unit.
That would be high for London for a middle-tier engineer! Although London is just as expensive as SF in terms of living expenses, we tend to be significantly underpayed by comparison IMO. "Market forces" etc.
I have very little knowledge about conditions in Uganda, so if you could back up that claim it would be helpful.
Since we are talking about “useful approximations”, one I have always found useful in robotics is doubling m/s to get miles per hour. While a bit “rough” usually “good enough” for when thinking about normal driving speeds. Here are some examples:

1 m/s ~ 2 mph (2.2 mph)
5 m/s ~ 10 mph (11.2 mph)
10 m/s ~ 20 mph (22.4 mph)
20 m/s ~ 40 mph (44.7 mph)
30 m/s ~ 60 mph (67.1 mph)

You could argue that it is a very rough estimation, but I find that most times you are just trying to get a “rough speed” when doing this conversion anyway.
Pi is sqrt of 10 for all practical purposes.
If it makes it to the front page, people find it interesting. HackerNews is self-regulating enough with the voting system, so clearly it is of interest.

Does not seem off-topic to me.
Nearly 140M user data leaked in Canva hack
My favourite use of units is still the „2mm Scale Association“, a British model railroad club that builds their trains at a scale or two millimeteres to the foot (which is slightly larger than the standard N-track). It always blows my mind when I try to think how people come up with a scale like that.
So n * (1-0.5) * (1-0.1)... This could also work for miles to km conversion in a similar way: n * (1+0.5) * (1+0.1). Not as accurate as golden ratio but still acceptable. :D
Your length estimation accuracy is dependent on what you used more.
I only had to learn tables up to 10, 11 and 12 were useful to know, but not mandatory.
2.5 is closer and easier.
Meh. Every 10F difference is a bit under 5C difference (since the ratio is 9:5). So you can estimate that 40F~5C, 50F=10C, 60F~15C, etc. All I remember is 2:1 and 32F=0C.
Only if it is double digits does this work.
Try changing the UA string and you'll see that Google is explicitly downgrading the search experience on Firefox for Android
I agree that the headline is silly, not least because '105 died' is meaningless without knowing how many were admitted.

It would have been better focussed on the extent of the untrained 'treatment's.
I assume that 12 inches to a foot is the reason that, at least when I was growing up, we were taught multiplication tables up to 12x12 rather than 10x10.
Yes.

The Democrat’s policy of de-policing for crimes committed by blacks has made some areas in the USA significantly less safe.

The vast majority of those shootings are incidents between or involving gang members, predominantly black.

Notice how often Chicago, IL makes that list?

Chicago alone is twenty incidents — which isn’t surprising, considering its reputation for gang crime. But a single city accounting for nearly 10% of mass shootings is a culture problem in that city — not a general problem with firearms or nationwide violence.
Maybe Asia (I actually meant CJK) is an overgeneralization. I have worked with Korean companies and I have friends who are employed by Japanese companies.
I find it helpful to do similar, but mine is fuzzier and tied to day-to-day activities. I am a gross farenheit user, so this is my mental table for cross reference

-42|-42: 9th layer of hell
0|32: freezing point
10-15: maybe think about a jacket
20-25: room temp
37|98: body temp
50: death valley
100|212: boiling

It's not precise, except for some intersection points, but it sticks well for me and allows me to be conversational enough to impress metric-folks when I convert my temps to rough Celsius for them. It's rare to need precise temp in conversation.
Some practical purposes, maybe. Even 3.14 is a lot more accurate.
But that is not the mathematicians way...
On the UK railways, I think I'm right in saying that the only place imperial units are used is in measuring the curvature of track, which involves chains.
Perhaps a cover-their-ass rule to fulfill legal requirement to offer a minimum number of hours/days of sick leave.
I have never used inches outside screen diagonals. Yet I still feel inches better match my accuracy. My actual accuracy in inches is horrible though, because I never get into contact with them.
I believe he’s talking about “the right to privacy”
My 2 cent manifesto:

Manufactured insecurities mutually-reinforced by peer pressure ("Keeping up with the Jones") is often why. Don't do what you don't want to do; don't be pressured into lemmingification. Everyone else can buy absurdly-overpriced conveniences like tiny bottles of water in disposable plastics. Pack your own lunch, take up freeganing and stay away from "luxuries" like recent MacBook Pro's that are overpriced and designed for unrepairability. Opt-out of the new widget competitive upgrading bandwagon and only acquire just what you need, just when you need it and not before. Also, share services that rent things that bleed you but convey no ownership.
JFYI, "memento mori" is the motto and also a form of salute between trappist monks, to be picky it is not "remember death" but rather "remember that you will die" which is slighlty different.

The origin is to tone down the (eventual) arrogance and pride of the man, it is very similar to "Memento homo quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris " ("Remember, man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return."):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday#Ashes
well two different answers depending on who you ask. Someone who leans towards free market ideology will say that China's state assisted capitalism is sclerotic and that picking winners and losers is ultimately bad for China and will turn out to be a drag, or alternatively by doing the same thing, which already seems to happen with the realignment on trade on both sides of the American political spectrum with Trump on the one hand and Warren's 'economic patriotism' on the other.

The next question would then be whether anything like this can be pulled off in the US at all, which entirely lacks the sort of corporate social structures you find in Asia but also say Scandinavia or Germany.
Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang
Kelvin IS Celsius, only starts at absolute zero. 0 C is 273 Kelvin, and 0 Kelvin is -273 Celsius. You add 273 to any Celsius measurement, and voila, it's Kelvin.
Losing physical work won't be detrimental, it's something no one likes and no one is particularly good at, losing creative work would be but it doesn't look like we are particularly close to creating ai, and when we create it we'll find some way to stay at the center of it by either creating devices that augment our brains, changing our brains to be as good as the ai, or simply uploading into computer and becoming part of ai.

In any case there is so much work in science, that we should be happy for every human that is freed from physical work.
Thank you, I got a similar answer over on IRC. I know jeopardy but just the main idea so I could not deduce that :p
How many vietnamese did he kill ?

Did he bomb them with napalm ?

"One cannot fathom what it must be like to wait half a century for closure, or what this moment must have been like for his family. "
If you read the article it shows that the murdering babies part of the story is merely incidental to a woman running an internet blog, which is old school Hacker News. I think its relevant as an examination of what could happen to us if we crank the narcissism and acquire brain damage simultaneously.
I find lists like those very disingenuous. For example look at source 25 "During an attempted home invasion, shots were fired and four people were wounded". In other words, four criminals tried to rob a home but the resident of the house shot 4 of them and three of them are in the hospital and one has been released to jail.

I wouldn't categories that incident along with the two recent "actual" mass shootings.
It goes both ways. A favor, now you owe me.
Nobody is going to complain or lose money if LinkedIn doesn’t work for a couple days, I wouldn’t lump it in with other tech companies.
While I agree in principle, this is a nice way to quickly become unemployed.

We live in a hype oriented industry, where momentum and programmer enthusiasm (free man hours or work) and not technical merits predict whether a given technology will thrive or not.
> it wasn't asked for.

Well, it was kind of "public" to begin with, so you have to expect that people will tell you what they think about it. I don't see anything wrong in that.
It's a lot easier to do things when you don't have to go "okay, what's the conversion between these two units again?". The problem isn't base 10 vs base 12, it's the fact that in SI, every unit scales in the same way (the prefixes). With imperial units, every unit scales differently. How many fl.oz to a tablespoon? No idea. How many teaspoons to a tablespoon? No idea.
Xbyak works in both Clang and GCC though. And presumably in other compilers as well. As far as I can tell, Clang-based JIT only works with Clang. Clang, unfortunately, usually produces measurably slower non-jit code.
For some reason alot of people talk like they have the right to have one 10$ subscription that provides every movie and series in the world, with the reasoning that it's possible with music. That is a utopia. All the movies/series are more expensive than all the songs. Especially production-wise.

It wouldbbe bice
By socialism I mean "social ownership of the means of production".
I use "double and add 30" (or "minus 30 and halve" for F->C). The accuracy isn't that great, but it's within single digits between freezing and boiling. More than good enough to parse "oh my god it was like 40 degrees outside" as being a meaningful statement about the weather.
As a black mirror fan I’d object to it being boring. If anything the way things are these days is boring and BM adds a bit of edge to it to bring more attention to “what if”.
No. That's actually not quite correct. You add 273.15... The size of the degree is the same of course.

My point is that if you want to use a "correct" scientific measurement on a day to day basis you'd use Kelvin. As soon as you're converting, you're converting whether from Celsius or Fahrenheit.

ADDED: There's an argument for Celsius vs. Fahrenheit of course in so far as the size of the degree is baked into some other SI measurements. But there's no particular other reason that Celsius is superior on a day to day basis other than familiarity for some. There's some logic to basing easy to remember numerical points around water properties but it's not clear that actually has a lot of advantages for day-to-day questions about how hot or how cold it is.
I would find a better (defensible) business model that's better than a restaurant that anyone can open. ER's have zero intellectual property and anyone can start such a business for little investment. Do something else (hard/er/expensive/tedious for most people) that lends itself to greater monopolization by you, and that's profitable. (Build something defensible and profitable that customers love.)
No. “Random white woman” is not a medical qualification. If you are googling allergic reactions - and not even knowledgeable enough to do That (in transfusion reactions you are not looking for a rash) - you are absolutely not equipped to be giving IVs (and looking out for electrolyte problems, or water load problems), nor even to feed kids (because if you can’t handle IVs, you certainly can’t handle refeeding syndrome.)

Malnutrition isn’t that acute a condition. If a big pile of your patients are dropping dead in the first 24 hours, it’s a good hint that you’re precipitating an acute decline.
Ask HN: What are some product intelligence startups out there?
As deep learning and machine learning growing over these years, is there any startups focusing on product intelligence, or in other word, using analysing big data, integrating predictive algorithm for brand sellers or dropshippers out there?
>> "Never let a good crisis go to waste" -- Winston Churchill, probably

Possibly, but Rahm Emanuel said it about 11 years ago [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzcbXi1Tkk
Jesus Christ... The part that makes me the most angry is that this seem to be one of those hipster adventures and all about "making the world a better place". How much narcissism can a single person have? /s
She didn’t even google the right symptoms. She googled “allergic reaction” rather than “transfusion reaction,” which is why she found herself looking for a rash.
Damn!

Thanks for this info.
To decompress a little, I feel strongly about this particular careless pattern of thought because it can have real negative consequences.

In particular, when you apply it to a doctor or a clinic it gives them strong incentive to reject those who need help the most. They'll have great stats if they only accept people who are fine anyway. But the people who needed a boost will be left to die on their own.

This then becomes an argument for avoiding applying metrics to doctors or at all, which is dangerous in and of itself. In order to improve, any person or institution needs feedback. In order to make informed decisions, people need useful data. Sloppy statistics block that. Charging those statistics emotionally only makes it worse.
It is closer to a century USS Langley in 1919: https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/01.htm
Can you please elaborate on why guns are so sacred in the US? Is it for cultural/historical reasons?
> The Chinese, by contrast, have yet to deploy anything like the full range of tools at their disposal to offset Trump’s actions and hurt his political base.

A technically correct but very misleading sentence, given China's unapologetic protectionism: https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/prote...

But then it's par for the course to ignore that when talking of US trade policy (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-worldbank-china/china...)
It’s upsetting to see how prevalent it is even in this thread. More than a few people are jumping in without having read the article to simply support that same narrative - better a random white lady than nothing!

For what it’s worth, for every ridiculous naive fool out to pat themselves on the back, there are people out there actually working -with- local communities to try and build up sustainable improvements to local infrastructure so people can help themselves. Project Alianza is one of my favorite programs in this space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccJfzS13ZtA
I still think this simple explanation is more intriguing than any exotic fever dream particle.

http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/hydrogen/index.html
Chess Variants: Gravity, Clone, Quantum
Electric motors full torque regardless of RPM, unlike an ICE which has the usable torque in a limited RPM range.
as a German user I sometimes feel like I'm being lumped in with the generally very 'American' attitude of the website, funnily enough you don't even need to go as far as Korea.

In particular in tech circles it feels like people adopt very universalist attitudes instead of keeping in mind that different cultures are anything but.
In physics class we used 3,6*m/s to get km/h all the time. It's not superclean but it 3,6 is still pretty easy to multiply or divide with.
The article does a poor job of describing the actual situation that these parents face. What would have been the alternative when the local hospitals regularly refuse treatment? If these malnourished children could just get proper care at a real medical facility, why would they be malnourished in the first place? It's much cheaper to just feed a child instead of giving intensive care.

Ironically, in that one instance where this woman put a child in a critical condition, she might have saved it, because now the hospital would take it in, where it would have been refused before.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure this woman could've done more good by just working an ordinary job in the US and donating a fraction of her income to trustworthy charities. Still, I'm not convinced she did more harm than good by performing this job.
They give the denominator in the article, as well as context around what mortality rates are normal for comparable programs.

A headline isn’t a replacement for reading the article.
Many Americans don’t possess the critical thinking skills to realize the fetishization of US military is part of propaganda for a variety of reasons such as supporting military industrial complex, recruitment and cheaper labor for military, and creating an us vs them mentality that can be exploited if someone crosses over the “patriotism” line.

Real patriotism would be participating in local government organizations and voting. I’m also in favor of mandatory conscription for every citizen to get them to start caring about their country, instead of hanging a flag and holding their hand on their chest while someone sings a song.
No need to get out the pitchfork for this title, anyway. This appears to be a Canadian website, and every reputable American source I could find seems to use "veteran" or similar.

The BBC actually does use "hero" albeit slightly differently.

BBC: "Hero's welcome for deceased Vietnam War veteran"

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New York Times: "Colonel Killed in Vietnam War Finally Came Home. His Son Flew the Plane."

CBS Dallas: "Navy Veteran Travels Cross Country Sharing Fallen Service Member's Stories"

ABC News: "Airport in Dallas pays tribute as pilot flies home the remains of Vietnam veteran father"
> Judging a paper by the background of the authors is a sure sign that you were not able to read the paper and understand it.

Reading a paper requires some effort. The more familiar you are with the topic, the less effort you invest, but the effort is there.

It's valuable then to apply some heuristics to decide if a paper is worth reading or even skimming. One such heuristic is if the paper makes it to the front page of HN, or, say, if it's published in Nature. Based on this, a lot of people could waste some time they better spend doing something else.

If someone comes and points out some red flags, that's a service to the community. That service comes at a risk to one's own karma, as it's threading the boundary of what the HN community thinks is good discourse (for example the charity principle). Pointing out red flags without pointing out actual errors in the papers can be easily equated with ad-hominem attacks (believe me, I thought ten times before deciding about quoting the second author's thoughts on God).

I still decided that this is a good case to put my karma at risk: the claim that some new information-entropy force can explain the missing mass in the Universe is too important to ignore.

That said, your more informed analysis obviously adds much more value than my superficial one, so thank you for that.
The new Zwi Migdal...

Eastern European Jews, sex slavery and human trafficking. One of the taboos subjects in Israel (not mentioned even in Zionism 101 classes in some universities AFAIK).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwi_Migdal

It is by now a very well documented history of the wave of criminality spread out of Eastern Europe and Russia since the middle of the 19th century due to growing violence and antisemitism.

Only a very small percent of Eastern European Jews chose to come to Israel, most arrived in North America.
Is there a long held tradition as well as laws requiring 7 years of specialized education before treating RO filters? Does your RO filter have central nervous system?
Not sure yet, the machines should arrive next week. To be honest we might switch back and forth between own and cloud hardware as we scale up. Right now we process one dataset per week or so, but by
December that should become multiple per day. The 3 machines we bought should put us at around 1 per 2 days, but it's more so we can do worry free experimentation. It's really annoying to be constantly worried about wasting money when experimenting. We 'wasted' thousands just experimenting with flags and rendering bad datasets, of course it might still come out as cost effective but it discourages experimentation.

The big question for us is if we're going to be able to afford to do it locally, there's both the upfront cost and the cost of system administration. These 3 I could still do with my dev team amateur style, but when that becomes 30, we'll probably need some technician that has experience managing compute clusters.
One picture clearly shows a cooling jacket, and the renders look like liquid could flow into the stator the same way the wires do.

Having an outrunner configuration for this motor makes very little sense. It's hard to cool and power, and magnets are generally powerful enough to produce excess flux in the iron. Their field weakening would also work better with an inrunner since you could do it entirely electronically, and it would be easier to manufacture.
Having an official branch of the Communist Party inside a company stems from the days when they were a workers' party and needed to keep contact with the base. Huawei being unable to explain the formal decision-making powers of those representatives is unsurprising, considering that there are almost no formal rules to the arrangement. What matters is the informal function as a go-between. If the company wants government assistance for a project, they know who to ask. If the government wants the company to do something for them, they know whom to tell about it.

And yes, that applies to any company incorporated under Chinese law, even subsidiaries of Western companies (say Microsoft Research Asia, or Google China). How much power those representatives have depends on whether the company is willing to listen to them or not.