skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I just throw a big dose of caution here? This is a review study, looking at the available literature of this technique on cancer. They found a total of FIVE studies with 88 total human participants across all 5 studies. We, the medical community, still has no idea whether this is effective or not. The only thing we can say is that initial trials don't show it to be particularly harmful. That could change with more data.

They review a lot of mice studies and theory, which is great.

But all this adds together to indicate that we should study this more before drawing any conclusions. With limited funding for cancer research, its not even clear to me from this what priority it should take
I am not a doctor so I don't have the skills to evaluate this paper.

But it strikes me that this area must be very hard to scientifically evaluate. There are number of 'big' ideas out there on health and each person seem to have their own preference. Cold showers, hot baths, meditation, that food should be vegetarian, organic, mostly meat and high on protein, vitamin c, extreme exercise and so on. These are very cultural and some times even religious.

This "culturalness" affects the authors too. We want certain things to be true because it agrees with our values. For example that organic farmed food is healthier than non-organic.

This is a meta study that cites a lot of other studies. Some of them have very small sample size; in particular the ones dealing with humans. And I wonder how was the control done? People cannot help noticing that they do not get food. What was the effect size? Were subjects excluded from the experiment because they were too weak not to eat (or just didn't want to)? Would the study be published had it not shown an effect? And so on ...

Just because you sum up accross multiple studies; it does not necessary give better a signal because the noise may not be random.
Glad this is continuing to get attention here on HN. There's an automated paid service called the same thing - https://www.abine.com/deleteme/ - but it has blogs with additional info on how to do it yourself, too.
Thanks! That was interesting to hear about your experience with Clojure. I've heard good things about the language, reading here and there about its features and strengths - so I was curious to know if there were any critiques/cons (pun intended :).
Unfortunately large portions of the US government operate outside of civilian oversight. (TSA, CBP, NSA) etc. At this point foreign governments should probably be advising their citizens to take a burner phone to the US.
They still are. But the US is getting a bit tired of doing all the work for the rest of the West.
Your priors are wrong. You should assume CBP is lying until definitively proven otherwise.
Might want to clean your phone if you have photos of dead children on it.
> Actually bus drivers can’t move the bus until all passengers have tapped in.

I have observed that this is false in London at least 30 times.
>Who know, maybe we’ll start flash mobs to dance for rain in 10 years.

I don't know the feasibility of it, but if we could predict with enough accuracy some local weather patterns, it would be a total awesome app. Get a notification to gather round to summon a tornado. Or chanting together for an unusual fall of evening tropical rain.
Okay, but why was this ever put into a standards track in the first place? This isn't an obscure error, it's the kind of glaring error that shows that a security standard is being designed by people who know next-to-nothing about security. Recently, when I implemented authentication to a site that used Resource Owner Password Credentials, my client's CTO reported it as a bug because he (correctly) noticed the security flaw. If you're making this sort of error, you have no business writing production authentication code, let alone standards for production authentication code.

And this is only the most glaring error. Another example: there's no specification for how to generate tokens, and I've implemented OAuth for platforms that return tokens which look suspiciously like UUIDs. Not only are UUIDs explicitly recommended against as credentials by RFC4122[1] because people could reverse engineer your UUID generation, but collisions have occurred in practice[2] without any reverse engineering, meaning that a user could authenticate as another user without even hacking.

And to clear, I'm not a security auditor and I've never done a security audit of any OAuth implementations except my own. These are problems I discovered by treating other people's OAuth implementations as black boxes, all of them compliant to the so-called "standard". Security is hard, and with so little specified, I imagine the majority of OAuth implementations in the wild are actually not secure.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122#page-16

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...
Thank you. Anyone who says otherwise is a fanboy-zealot. Maybe AMD is find for gamers, but if you're depending on ECC you want a Xeon.
It is comments like this that make liberals look incredibly stupid. The Netherlands... in 2007.
You do not control what is on your phone.

Any app/website can put whatever it wants on your phone and you would have no idea.
The argument that the government wouldn't be able to cover something like that up is kind of weak imo. They had just spent years keeping the Manhattan project under wraps and they were starting to ramp up all sorts of spying and secrets surrounding the Cold War. And for info that does get out(like numerous eye witnesses), we've seen real life examples of how effective the strategy of treating believers like they're nuts is when it comes to other government programs like PRISM. People talked about NSA spying for years but got dismissed until we got some big document dumps.
Too hard to determine which questions expire or not. Most do.
I’ve been favoring fish, protein, and veggies for some time, and trying to prefer lean meat, and I’m surprised at how flabby just one greasy meal or large soft drink will make me feel. I can’t really explain it, but it’s like once my body became accustomed to the current diet, I can now feel when I deviate from it. Still haven’t found any evidence for what I’m feeling though.
Nix only runs on Unix operating systems. Conan runs on windows also.
> [radiocarbon dating is] the most accurate dating method for archeologists, so the team is confident in their accuracy.

That seems like a logical jump. (Not familiar with the accuracy of radiocarbon dating, please educate me.)
Did you read the article? It's literally a great example of how the US (and Israel) needed to collaborate with 3 other countries to successfully pull off this mission. Not "doing all the work"
No, we do not "raise one eyebrow" because someone was born on the wrong patch of dirt. That is a shameful and disgusting approach for the "shining city on a hill" to take.
I personally would love to be the property of most of the women I've dated in my life.

I help watch my nieces and nephews when needed already anyway, I'm very stubborn about keeping my living space organized and sanitized(in fact i cleaned my grandparent's entire house of mold(they are hoarders too so it involved tons of lifting/reoganizing)), and I've been into fitness/athletics my whole life, which entails learning to cook healthy meals.

If a women were to ask me to come do any of those things for her I would head right over enthusiastically and I don't expect anything in return either as long as she kept me company. This applies regardless of whether I'm romantically interested in her.
> Conspiracy theories are about alternative and under-substantiated explanations of already-explained events.

I don't believe Kennedy's assassination with Oswald acting alone has been explained, so it sounds like that's a conspiracy.
> avocado/cucumber/kale/spinach smoothie

This sounds interesting! Would you mind posting the specifics of how you make this? what else goes in it? Protein powder? Ice cubes? etc? I have been enjoying smoothies but noticed I was inadvertently making them calorie-bombs by adding a lot of random stuff (chia, flax, avocados, honey) without thinking and wasn't losing any weight. So now I am a lot more conscientious about what I dump in there and portion everything out. Yours sounds interesting!
That's the theory, but it's amazing how often I click on a search result leading to SO and find an accepted answer that's either wrong or doesn't even answer the question.
They'd also have fallen to the center of the galaxy, probably following roughly the same mass distribution as visible matter.

What I'm suggesting is just that there might be multiple dark matter particles, some of which might have structure. At present that is basically untestable, of course.
Why would someone want to shoot a particle accelerator into the sky? (The article mentions plasma balls, but as a non physicist I wonder still "Why?")

The US military probably does not want plasma balls because they look pretty.
> Lazar believed these were the components of a nuclear reactor powered by an element then unknown on earth: element 115, which, once dismissed as fantastical, was synthesized into existence in a Moscow lab in 2003

The element isn't fantastical, and anyone with a basic understanding of chemistry would expect it to exist (albeit, not for very long); Lazar's attributed properties to it were (and are). As a side note, since 2010, the entire bottom row of the Periodic Table has now been filled out with synthetic elements (and names since 2016).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscovium
So you just litter your desk with about a dozen emoji-ized keyboards like Tom Scott did (as a stunt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtBE9BOvvk
I mean, it's pretty much par for the course with US and global media these days. Stir up outrage for the clicks...
Folks upset at the sibling comment weren't here at the time. The reaction was swiftly negative, and there are few charitable reasons to be found for that.
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> A lot of people say they know hundreds of foreign workers who come over here and speak Malay in two or three months and they don't turn into a celebrity

Can you really speak a language sufficiently well in 3 months, especially when you are there to work on something potentially unrelated to language ?
Then look at the code. You may be surprised.

Looking at the escaping function, it will allow $(execute whatever you want), because it doesn't handle $.

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/misc...

Anyway, this depends on being able to specify any username, which while possible, requires you to pass the check that user exists in the system, which will be harder.

But it may still be possible if some weird PAM module is used.
I've been programming for 20-ish years, working for 13, and I google first, so when I have questions, they tend to be at boundaries of things where they don't fit neatly into one of their sites or near-duplicate questions with a subtle, but meaningful difference (that still gets tagged as a duplicate).

Then I see someone asking a homework question who clearly has tried anything themselves, or a question that should have been googled first.
'Calories in, calories out' has been pretty widely debunked - at best it's part of the story. More important is meal timing (i.e. fasting), resting insulin levels, the source of those calories, etc.
Why do you believe the calorie in calorie out hypothesis is correct? Do people digest all food equally? If I eat 4,000 calories of olive oil, will I metabolize every last bit of it without waste? Obviously not. But what about different ratios of fats and carbs. After to failing to lose much weight on a low fat diet I had resounding success on a low carb diet, and I can say without a doubt I consumed far more calories on the low carb diet.
Sometimes I think that downvoting, including on websites like Hacker News, is a bad idea. It's easy to see the symmetry with upvotes and think that if you have one, you should probably have the other but psychologically speaking it's a very different type of interaction.

In particular, and even on HN, the good old mantra "don't downvote if you disagree, downvote if the comment doesn't contribute to the discussion" is, from personal experience, not really followed by a significant chunk of the userbase. I try not to care about karma but it's always frustrating when you spend a few minutes of your time carefully composing a comment only to see it grayed out because people didn't like it. It's really toxic too because you don't feel welcome to express your point of view, even if it's in a completely respectful manner. When unchecked this tendency ends up with what you see on most of Reddit: dumb, content-free comments that go with the popular opinion raise to the top while insightful but controversial positions are buried under downvotes. Then you end up with echo chambers.

I wonder how different HN wouldn't be if there were no downvotes at all and only the "flag" button to tag non-constructive comments. Basically the way it works for submissions.

Personally I very rarely downvote comments on HN, if I find a comment that I don't find very insightful but is still technically contributing to the discussion I prefer to find a sibling comment that I deem more interesting and upvote that instead. I turn a negative interaction into a positive one. Instead of focusing on pushing people down you help those you find more interesting.
I don't ask many questions, well almost never any more, partly because very often when I search I find almost exactly the question I want answered only to find closed as off topic yet it has a half a dozen well reasoned answers and three dozen well reasoned comments.

I think SO and Wikipedia have both suffered the same fate: they started with everyone on the same footing but now there is a core of 'professional' or at least habitual editors who enforce their own narrow view of what is right. I gave up editing Wikibooks after one too many deletes of perfectly valid graphics for nit picking reasons.
Not so long ago the same agency warned the US about the Russian hackers that were active during the presidential campaign. Does that count?

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/hackers-aivd-le...

I think especially on the digital front, we've been more 'united' than ever. For better or for worse
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The 8180M is a "money is no object" processor so people who buy it won't really care about price/performance. It would be more interesting to compare Rome against something like a 6212U or 2x6252.
I don’t see how the anarchic and deeply selfish world of international relations would shed any insight on that.

I think you’re trying to make a point with all these questions, but damned if I know what it is. Maybe you could just say it?
I’ve always assumed people were seeing vehicles like this one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
I think the comment's referring to the very large global backlash the US is receiving right now regarding being more strict with Iran from a nuclear perspective.

I think people are more obsessed with hating all of Trump's policies rather than actually understanding the situation with Iran. I would highly doubt that if the same situation occurred today, that the US would have the same sort of support against Iran, for better or worse.
The code blocks sometimes also cause horizontal scrollbars on desktop. And all they have to do is add one CSS rule (white-space:pre-wrap).

But apparently there's people who dislike wrapping code so much, that it's worth messing up the layout of a whole discussion even if only one comment has code in it (or by accident, even). Personally, I dislike horizontal scrolling much stronger (and I actually mildly prefer wrapping code, but that's taste, the horizontal scrolling is a big annoyance).
AITA subreddit 60-minute contest. I'd love to see this idea implemented on HN
Especially as there are creators like 3blue1brown on that list. The videos 3blue1brown does should certainly be considered transcendent in the classical sense, those are easily the highest quality math education videos I've ever seen. The linear algebra series definitely expanded my appreciation for the subject in a way no textbook has ever done.

Sure, there is crap like MxR Mods on the list, but there is also stuff like crash course & clickspring. I don't know if I'd call clickspring's videos themselves art, but what he is producing in his shop is certainly art and the opportunity to view the process is just magnificent; this is certainly a channel that shows how great online video can be.

And Contrapoints; while very much political, does an excellent job of engaging with topics much more deeply than what one normally reads in publications like Bloomberg. I honestly found reading this list encouraging; most of the top 50 creators definitely deserve that place and I'm glad that the people benefiting most from Patreon deserve it. Aside from MxR, he's a cancer on the Bethesda modding scene.
It would be ridiculous to make something like that illegal. Contact information shared with an individual DOES give that individual the freedom to use the information how they'd like. Hopefully whoever shared their contact information in the first place is okay with their information being stored with Apple or Google since that is the default way many people back up their contacts. If the contact sharer is not okay with it the onus is on them to vet who it is they're sharing their information with.
I keep trying to come up with one of these, usually in the form of an absurdly correct answer.
Radar spoofing, it's mentioned in the second link. But the author admits it's only a guess.
What will be next?
It just lacks plausibility. Ismail Ajjawi doesn't come across as illiterate, and certainly would have been aware of seeking work on a student visa being grounds for denial of entry. Besides being general knowledge, it would have come up several times during his visa application process.
I sometimes come across badly formatted or unclear questions when reviewing new posts. I usually flag those, but not all flags are accepted possibly because they aren't bad enough. That's why I use the down vote button as well. Note that I never down vote because some question is not interesting or not up my league. So, in some sense I find this button useful.

Maybe a reason could be attached to the down vote button, such as [Unclear, Off-topic, Spam, Whatever, ...] as some form of lightweight flagging system. Lobste.rs uses this on comments. Users that can't select a 'Not interesting' option are probably less likely to vote down.
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Changing this to use ' instead of " may fix this issue.

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/misc...

Because then you'll end up with '$(some)' instead of "$(some)"
> The GP was quite careful to speak from the standpoint of a reader from a general audience. A work of writing does in fact revolve around its audience.

So was I, otherwise I wouldn't have said:

> I agree that perhaps not enough context was provided, but to say that the words itself do not have a certain meaning because you misunderstood the context in which it's used is ludicrous.

Regardless,

> The definition of a word derives from the mutually understood definition of the word between the author and the reader.

Of course, and the word is defined in the article. So if the reader had actually read the article given, rather than just commenting on the title, then they wouldn't have been confused.
Exploit of the day Bluekeep CVE-2019-0708
Yeah I did clarify it's not the worst, it's a smooth vehicle but it's got pretty bad turbulence at the rear due to that flat back, so it's no aerodynamic masterpiece. I only use that comparison because it's a bog-standard car and can't get anywhere near 300mph, so it might surprise people to know it has better aerodynamics.
"liberal democracies"?!
Remote Shared Cache and also Remote Build Execution
Sure, there's also a fair number of people with allergies to soy. It's not the only complete protein from the plant world though. There's also:

* Quinoa
* Buckwheat
* Hemp & Chia seed
* Spirulina
* Mycoprotein
Runnable code snippets are helpful in this regard, but even better would be runnable test cases.

Example: How to check for Invalid Date in JS?

```js

function invalidDate (date){return isNaN(date.valueOf())}

console.assert(invalidDate(new Date("foo")) === true)

console.assert(invalidDate(new Date()) === false)

```

But I'd expect if someone noticed an out-of-date answer they'd just comment and it'd get fixed that way.
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/assessment-s...
> I flagged it for the reason that the headline purports to know something tech crunch can’t possibly know:

That's a reason to suggest modifying the HN headline from the source headline to something more accurate for the factual content; flagging is for a story that is out-of-bounds for the site, not for suboptimal (including clickbait, editorializing, or outright misleading) headline on an otherwise appropriate story.
First thing I thought of is this:
https://xkcd.com/1235/

I haven’t ever heard of a corresponding increase in UFO videos. It’s awfully convenient none of these suspected aliens buzz crowds full of people with 4k60Hz/40MP phone cameras.
> But you can know what's doing. Just have it output the .s/.asm file

That's still black box testing. There ~may be~ almost certainly is hidden state that could mean that the optimization you expect to be applied is not (or an optimization is misapplied) under certain circumstances, and you can't/won't discover this in advance due to those conditions.

> A compiler that can compile a whole operating system probably has most of its issues ironed out.

History has shown this to be mostly wrong, given how many critical bugs have been discovered in GCC since it was capable of compiling linux
Penrose tilings have been shown to be 2 dimensional projections of simple lattice structures in 4 or more dimensions. Which is awesome. Here is a java applet that will draw as many as you'd like. https://www.gregegan.net/APPLETS/12/12.html
The "'weaker substitute' perception" aspect might happen in consumer goods but unlikely to happen when Google, Amazon and Microsoft consider provisioning a new data center.
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You forgot one minor detail, the tyrannical theocratic authoritarian regime they created.

Update: Before you downvote please read the history of Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état
Conservation of energy still applies.

Weight management has a strong mental component, but only because of the current abundance of calories.

PS: And yes we are included poop calories. That’s how olestra and artificial sweeteners work.
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We have never been "united" against autocracies. There's no such point in history.

On the contrary, we've cheerfully supported autocracies, as long as they mostly play ball with our commercial and political priorities.

That's not to excuse the US's current batshit Iran policy, in which we've managed to successfully isolate ourselves diplomatically and gained more or less nothing in exchange.
Considering how much sway Google has over the WASM spec group I would say that Google still has considerable influence upon this project.
I started measuring results 27/05/2019 when my weight was 104kg, BMI 29.43 (I think I started a day or two earlier).
03/06/2019 102kg.
25/06/2019 97kg.
28/06/2019 96kg.
08/07/2019 94kg.
26/08/2019 82kg.

I didn't measure myself at the same hour, and obviously, the measurement dates aren't spaced out equally. When I saw that this approach was working I stopped measuring all together.

Granted it might have taken slightly longer than 2 months to lose the 22kg, I don't really know, but I remember my weight stabilised so I wasn't worried about losing too much weight.