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> A 2015 study from UCLA linked higher walnut consumption to improved cognitive test scores.

Never trust "a study", especially without a specific citation. Here's the study in question[0].

FWIW, the study was partially funded by the California Walnut Commission[0]. This doesn't mean the science is bad, but probably worth double-checking the methodology. I have no evidence that it's bad. I just don't trust any single study.

Did they just examine NES2 outcomes, or did they try dozens and publish the ones with significant effects? Did they control for income? Is this the only study of walnuts and cognitive outcomes, or have we done dozens--published or otherwise--and are just picking the one with an interesting/desirable outcome?

This isn't just the walnut study. The "Berries" section talks about "a study" (still no citaiton, but Google knows[1]). Was this a study of berries, or a study of hundreds of foods and they published the one that had interesting outcomes?

We do this stuff wrong all the time. Here's a nice video about one Very Bad study that made the news lately[3]. TL;DR: They looked at numerous outcomes from thousands of variables and published one that was statistically significant.

Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/882/

[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-ucla-research-s...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25732213
-- Sci-hub is timing out for me when I try, but this is the URL: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/s12603-014-0569-2

[2] This one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22535616

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQrBblRuQFo
> a lot of the protests and their leaders are directly sponsored by some specific powers from the outside

The American revolution would have failed without French support [1]. That doesn’t mean the French controlled us. The liberation of France from Nazi Germany would have failed without American support. We don’t control Paris. These are stories if mutually-aligned interests being commonly pursued. Not necessarily manipulation.

International coöperation doesn’t have to be a conspiracy. If we’ve learned one thing from the last century of American interventionism, it’s that prematurely prompting revolution produces inchoate governments.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revol...
I clicked through several links and can't find that document.
What if the glass had some small heating applied to it constantly?
Makes sense:
when a country has an industrial revolution it just wants to grow fast.

Then when the extreme growth part passes it starts to stabilize: this is when the country & the people start doing well enough so that they can look at other issues (environmental impact) without having to sacrifice their livelihoods.

The human will always prioritize his own and his families livelihood. Only once that is stable can one afford to look at the impact.

If you're poor and can hardly afford basic stuff for your children you obviously won't care about the environment, it's last thing on your mind.

And if anyone writes "yeah but even poor people should care": no, that is not how human nature works. First you & your family, only then everything else.
We need something to encrypt and authenticate DNS, but that exists in DNSCurve. The problem with it is that it doesn't try to hide what it is, so an adversarial middlebox can detect and block it to try to force you to use their own DNS.

DoH is an evolutionary response to that, because it looks like HTTPS to Cloudflare, which is difficult to reject. And that's terrible for a lot of reasons (inefficiency, complexity, centralization), but it solves the local interference problem. Which means that's what we're unfortunately going to end up with unless we can solve the interference problem another way, i.e. make intermediaries understand that they're going to lose anyway and it's better to allow unmolested UDP DNS/DNSCurve to the endpoint's choice of recursive resolvers than to have everything using DoH to Cloudflare.
Ahh I was hoping for something more specific. That reads like the brochure for OR. Well known industries, mostly with relatively high startup costs for the opportunities.
Europeans speaking perfect English may be a threat to native speakers
For the life of me I can't understand why touch screens built in to a car are considered "different" than phones. Cities and states are finally waking up and making it a crime to use your phone while driving, how in the world are car touch screens any different?
Can these help you? Yeah, probably. However, what's doing more harm - than these might do go - is sugar, soda, processed food, and other assorted dietary garbage that so many people are fond of.

That is, it's bad food that doing the harm. Eating good food might help, but the better question is: how much kale must you eat to break even from that can of soda?
Is the state's army economically funded by a contract established voluntarily?

Can you start a private army to compete (not meaning fight it, but to provide the same services) with the state's army ?

If you have to pay for it (you actually pay for the army to force you to pay for it...), and you can't compete with it for the services it provides, it's not only a monopoly, it's also a tyranny.
> coffee shops

Central Europe is losing the vibrant cafe culture it used to have, where people could sit together for hours and chat. Cafes today often blast loud pop music and send staff around more frequently to pester clients who seem to have finished their drinks, as owners believe this will prevent people from loitering. Instead, customers will quickly drink what they ordered and then get out, freeing the table for other customers.

Perhaps in the USA the situation is different, but I live in a city with a tradition of quiet, intellectual cafes that goes back centuries, and was still like that a decade ago, but now I am hard pressed to find a single place that would be pleasant to socialize even with my friends in, let alone mingle with other regulars and strike up conversations with strangers.
This is incoherent FUD.
For what it's worth, Mazda recently decided that it doesn't want touchscreens in its cars anymore because they're a safety hazard.

"Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200335
I think you need to dial back the vitriol. Yes Ive seen these firms screw projects up royally (Accenture Hertz for example). Ive also seen them consistently deliver valuable insights and outcomes for their clients. Ive worked with utterly incompetent client staff (i.e. people not so dissimilar from you, maybe) and some very very good ones (also you maybe). At no point do I advocate nuking anything or anyone out of existence. Neither should you.

Signed,

A Consultant
In This City, Residents Can Search and Apply for Affordable Housing Online
Evil thought: you should use this thing as an exam question :-)
Bork et al (Federalist Society, Cato Institute) believe that consumer prices is the only criteria for determining anti-trust. They utterly exclude anti-competitive behaviors.

How a fare price can be determined without healthy competition is left unanswered.
> it is because everyone thinks capitalism is ruining the planet

- Most people's experience with capitalism is more accurately described as retail.

- Most of the time, people are describing how retail is ruining the planet, which it most definitely is.

You'd have to be a real blowhard to not see how capitalism and retail are related, and on top of that, to broadly reject a popular emotional consensus that must have some truth to it. For most people that truth is not elusive.
A nontrivial part of my career has been smacking people with sticks when they do this, so yeah, I agree with you here. I don't view that as the other side of any coin, however--rather, it's the same thing, where there is a lack of a holistic understanding of what goes into any given piece of technology and what the (inescapable) knock-on effects of it are.

Cleaning up the results is sometimes due to a soberly considered "we have to move fast now to not die" decision, but often is just because it looked good in a five-minute demo.
I’ve noticed talking in the third person in my head in an intentionally benevolent, compassionate and grateful tone makes the inner voice ‘default setting’ way more benevolent. But it takes an effort of intentional compassion, and that’s not always easy.
The difference is so minute that I don't see what the point could be.
Cocoa should be on the list. There's evidence that it enhances cognitive ability through multiple mechanisms. It even appears to reverse some of the effects of sleep deprivation. See https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2017.00019....
Are you saying that our international elite are bound by the law just as much as everyone else? That was the question topic. Epstein was offered merely as a case-in-point.
I've been working full-time remotely for past 5 years and tried many cities to live in. I feel like it might come down to personal preferences but I noticed a pattern in where I felt the best.
London, Berlin, Chicago, Frankfurt, Bologna and Neapol would definitely take the bottom of my list. They are crowded, expensive and people are absolutely tired of tourists. Not to mention that all of them have some nasty places you wouldn't want to end up in by mistake and get mugged.

The top ones however would be in the order from least to most recommended: Ann Arbour (MI), Bari (IT) and my absolute Italian gem: Macerata. It's a 4k people historic city filled mostly with students. People rarely speak English and it doesn't make it any harder to make friends. Everyone welcomes you with his arms wide open and the city is lively. The food is absolutely amazing but that's Italy for you in general.

As a side note I'm Polish and in my mid twenties, I was born in Kraków so I skipped this city as it'd be hard for me to be objective about it.
This seems like an authoritarian argument rather than cybersecurity. It’s hard to say what’s a valid or not valid argument, but I think if a university is trying to limit malware, then blocking DNS won’t do too much.
Chevron starts burying CO2 underground
That’s sort of a reason to like it, even if the general everything-is-http approach to these problems annoys me.
P.S. I will be checking out Faenza (IT) this year as well
What non-propaganda news sources do you trust and rely on for news?
Awesome... they can replace the mechanical controls with oars the next there's an accident!
> None of these are third places, though; they're more expensive commercial activities

Many meditation and Buddhist activities are free or donation only. It's a common attribute that Buddhist retreats are completely free before and during the event, and only after you receive a piece of mail soliciting a donation.

There _are_ more commercial meditation based activities but those are more lifestyle than spiritual.
The C128 had a z80 and could run CP/M.
Beware of financial incentives crowding out other motivation
Lots of info here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.0191...

(does not directly answer your Q2)
In my 40 years designing and building signal processing equipment for the US government, during design reviews, there is absolutely nothing as contentious as when the UI is presented. Literally, everyone has an opinion about how it should work, what kind of widgets should be used, how menus should be organized down to the type of font and background color selection. It is no wonder the UIs are horrendous given their many parents. As the old joke goes, an elephant is a mouse designed by committee.
Algorithmic Information Theory
Oh, I see what you mean. No, I've seen perfectly normal problems ("my girlfriend has different preferences in bed") elicit those same responses.

Basically, instead of "communicate with your partner", everyone defaults to "get a new one".
Since history goes back for a very long time, maybe the future of the simulation too. So why would you think we are the evolutionary "end state", and nothing comes after us?

Maybe cats are running a simulation of their ancestors?
Interesting. I only talked to myself when I was depressed or when I was a child.
Best car I had for window defrosting/demisting was a Ford Mondeo which had a fine-mesh heating element embedded. Super fast clearing. More expensive than regular glass but not $5000 by a long shot.
Good thoughts, but no need to wait, Nature Conservancy:

https://www.nature.org/en-us/

As others have pointed out it's not enough to let the land alone, it needs at least minimal stewardship.
Not sure why that would be useful to anyone. One of the benefits of vscode is how well it is architected, enabling users to customize the experience with nearly zero effort. This is primarily enabled via a rich extensions API.

It’s pretty obvious but to be clear, included support by default for all languages would degrade performance with little value to most users, since most users work only with a handful of languages.

Personally, I love that I can setup my default extensions that run across all projects/repos, then when I want to work in a language or use a tool not in my typical workflow, I can configure this with a few clicks or by updating a JSON file.
Judging by the downvotes, you aren't the only one :(
Indeed, final assembly is an issue with bikes, and a better shop will hopefully do a better job. Bikes are never fully assembled or tested before being shipped to the dealer or consumer. As a result, assembly and adjustment are beyond the control of the factory. This is true of virtually all bikes. My $500 bike was adjusted by the shop before I rode it home.

In my view, the practicality and enjoyment of cycling is vastly improved by having some basic maintenance skills, to the point where I consider it to be a pre-requisite.
Rear fog lights: something more cars should have in the US for this exact situation.
This voice is the reason I can not longer enjoy marijuana or mushrooms anymore. It almost never bothers me in normal life, but when I partake, suddenly it gets loud and mean and refuses to shut up for hours. I used to really enjoy both drugs, but not if it's going to become a self-hating nightmare.
Society is only one Android release away from most consumer traffic metadata being tunnelled by default through a new instrument of political policy, thanks to a company who not so long ago wouldn't even let you select which _search engine_ you used. Do you really suppose the same company will start adding URL input boxes to their initial setup screen? If they even put such a text box in the settings, what percentage of users would actually customize it?

So the effect is not just the local mobile telco's DNS would be subverted, but every mobile telco's DNS, and if you tried to explain what's happening to the typical person it impacted, they'd give you a puzzled look before promptly switching the topic to last night's football game. Thankfully this is a completely fabricated scenario and there is no possibility whatsoever it could even remotely play out.

Given this one scenario, what value or weight does a single bearded guy's raspberry pi stashed in a closet have when it comes to worldwide DNS policy? I wonder how resilient a site like The Pirate Bay would be given an environment where DNS filtering is suddenly under the majority control of a tiny handful of companies all under American or western ownership. But DoH of course is about freedom, not about censorship. It's about preventing censorship, right!

(Apologies for the style of reply -- these are obviously not genuine questions)

edit: these unexplained downvotes are fascinating
Nice article!
I also do consultancy in that field and your article describes my work situation by 90%
> GP: And I do believe that if beer prices were 1/3 of the usual, you'll see way more customers.

I agree, but I don't think you'd see 3x the number of customers.

> Back in the day around 10 years ago I could go out and spend less than or right around $20 for a night out (a few hours at my local haunt)... now I am unable to do that for less than $70.

This makes me wonder where you live and what kind of bars you go to. I'm in a large American city that will appear on any list of most expensive cities to live in. Thinking about the places I've been to more than once, $20 would buy me about three beers - and even that price is vastly more expensive than the $12 price of a sixpack where I live. $70 would buy me enough beer to be passed out on the floor.

Now granted, I know there are fancy quiet bars for the wealthy. I was at one for someone's birthday once and mixed drinks started at about $15. And even $20 for a night out is high enough that I (not quite middle class in this city) can't do it often. But I wonder if you live in the most expensive part of your city, or if your tastes have become more expensive in recent years. To be sure, one isn't up for the atmosphere of a college dive every night, but I think in most cities there are still cheaper ways to go out with people.
They already do disable keys. The official client collects a ton of hardware information and posts it back to Discord and a third party repeatedly.
Given that doing any of these successfully is not the default outcome, I always find it amazing when people would rather throw away a viable business they stumbled onto because it wasn't the kind of viable business they were looking for. If it's a game, why not play them all at once and maximize your chances of winning?
The canonical link on this web page is:

https://harvard.rarebirdinc.com/mind-and-mood/foods-linked-t...

Rarebirdinc.com "specializes in internet marketing, website design, e- commerce development, strategic marketing..."
Because rich countries brings their products from somewhere else, they don't have to produce them, they don't have to deal with the environmental impact of producing them.
Run Through the Finish Line
Ask HN: Windows Laptops with Good Keyboards?
My 2018 Macbook's butterfly keyboard started causing issues 4 months after I bought it. Apple will replace it but it's clear this problem will happen again.

So I've decided to move back to Windows. Linux isn't an option because some tools I use are Windows/Mac only

What are some good Windows laptops currently on the market with good keyboards? Writing is a big part of my work so a solid keyboard is a must.

I see some Thinkpads on Amazon for $600 right now, which is honestly too cheap for a Thinkpad. I've also been burned by Lenovo in the past. Is a Thinkpad still a good option then?
I think what they are saying is that the land isn't really in your name if you can't sell it later.
I always did this, without someone recommending me to do it. I don't know how it started, maybe a weird way of having imaginary friends.The problem is that I have 2 voices in my head that speak with each other, one explains the positive points about a decision the other the negative ones, and they discuss until they both agree
The main site links to the following project:

https://galacticfamily.net/

Galactic Fundamentals

Want to find out more about the Extraterrestrial Species who populate this Galaxy, learn how to make Contact, and explore the depth of your own personal relationship with the Stars?

We're still populating all the areas of this site with amazing content, but get on our list to be notified about our upcoming deep dives and contact experiences.

I mean, this doesn't quite say "come and talk to aliens" but "learn how to make Contact" does sound like promising something currently impossible.
That's quite arbitrary and you likely defined it as this to fit your current business or occupation. Or even just your current main competencies.

I could say a real-full-stack should actually include EE, chip design, compiler design, kernel hacking, model checking, machine learning, virtual reality, power supply design, and 20 years of experience in Rust.

Or anything, really.
A Magazine Written by AI
That’s a myth, the US (and Canada, Germany, etc) still does tons of manufacturing and mining locally.
Military equipment has a tendency to be used under stressful conditions by people of average intelligence. Even conditions where operators suffer under cognitive and physical impairment.

One might want to take this into account when designing user interfaces.
Let’s just get it so my health care isn’t tied to my job anymore ok. Same for the whole 401k setup.
sci: a small Clojure interpreter
The times I've been stuck doing "DevOps", I mostly rue the loss of the quality assurance culture (values) we once had.

Best I can tell, like Agile Methodology, Skype, and open offices, "DevOps" is edgy jargon the financial people came up with to screw us knowledge workers.

I imagine myself trailing a parade, wearing oversized shoes, a rainbow fro, painted on happy face, and red nose, pushing a wheel barrow, scooping up the messes left by horses and elephants.

Some orgs seem to have figured out how to turn lemons into lemonade. That dude from Gilt has a "Test Into Prod" thesis that seems to square the circle. (I can't say from personal experience, but someday hope to work somewhere willing to try it.)
It brings this up in the article, but I have a very difficult time believing this isn't just because rich countries have shifted manufacturing and mining to poor countries. Look at recycling. We all thought we were so environmentally aware by recycling, but turns out so much "recycling" was just "ship to poor countries to deal with the fallout".
Agreed. I thought this was how it is for everyone, not just myself.
I recently finished Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker and this exact point was made in that book. I'll paraphrase a salient quote from the book: poverty is the greatest polluter.

Intuitively this makes great sense: when you're eking out a subsistence living you're not going to care about the environment, but when resources are plenty you can afford to consider other living things too.
That to data science is like McDonald's to food.
COBRA allows for 18 months of coverage under your previous employer's plan. Cal-COBRA allows for 36 months of coverage. All you have to do is pay the full premiums (<$1k/month for a single person). That should be enough time to get a startup to a point where it can apply for it's own health insurance. If you have a spouse (or domestic partner in some states) then you can also go under their plan although that may have increased premiums for them. There's also the individual health plans out there which may be reasonably priced if you don't have any pre-existing conditions.

When I left my job for a year of relaxing health insurance was nowhere near a concern since I just paid the COBRA premiums.

edit: And if you're under 26 you can be on your parent's health plan.

edit2: Also, talking about couch surfing pretty much highlights my point about dependents. I'm guessing neither you nor the people you talked to are old enough to have kids.
I'm going to double down on this.

Early America was so hyphenated that people only occupied regions with people of the same original nationality. We still see places with lots of French street names, or a place with lots of German street names. To some degree this might have been self-selecting, but there are documented cases of people being denied mortgages in particular areas based on their ethnicity into the twentieth century.

We are in a place in American history where ethnicity has the least amount of impact on someone's life. It's illegal to discriminate on job applications, mortgage applications, or school applications based on ethnicity.

We have a lot further to go, and sometimes we take a step backwards. I think we'll continue to see an increase in diversity in all public spaces.