skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also someone that fell in love with the concept of issue databases as source control artifacts.

I think the biggest problem is always going to be the "Stakeholder" issue, and just about everyone else is touching on this too. Issue databases solve a number of different problems for a number of disparate roles of people. As much time as developers spend embedded in an issue tracker, you also have PMs, Managers, Executives, Clients, Customers, Testers, and sometimes a panoply (or even panopticon) of all sorts of other "stakeholders" with one reason or several to be in and out of an issue database scattered across a wide variety of technical acumen.

For anything more than a small team of only technical people, one or more systems of reporting (in either direction) becomes generally required. Can Clients or Customers submit new issues easily? Can PMs (or Managers or Executives) get the reports they need? Can Testers accept issues as completed or file new bugs on them?

There's so much more workflow than just the Developer side of things, for better and sometimes for a lot worse. (The "Jira Effect" where nearly every issue tracker eventually seems to succumb to becoming a super-configurable business workflow engine with a built-in CRM and a support desk ticketing system and a hideous kitchen sink with terrible load times.)

There's probably still a chance to find a really good sweet spot for distributed issue tracking that has just the right amount of bidirectional reporting to fill an average development team and their stakeholders' needs, but it's probably going to take a smart UX team to do it. A CLI-only approach seems unlikely to work, again just given the huge swath of technical acumen to be found with fingers in an issue tracking pie.
I do not think the results for Coumadin/Warfarin are at all clear: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21449627
Do you think that news is important? Then he is referring to news.

Do you think academic publications are important? Then he is referring to academic publications.

Of course most news and most academic publications are not important so are not covered, please monetize them as much as you want. But the important stuff should be open. I think that is his argument.

Example: Someone writes a very good article on climate change which could sway many ignorant persons. If it was behind a paywall then you ensure that only those who already believes in climate change will bother to pay for it and read it making the entire article mostly worthless to the world.
I was replying especially to the "easily query fact databases " and less about the general post about ACE. I could imagine though that you could take ACE syntax and transform it into Datalog/Datomic queries quite easily.
I don't think that's necessarily true. It's true for the Big 5 "Power" conferences because they negotiate enormous media contracts, but if you're a mid-major school in a 2nd or 3rd tier city, and especially if you're not a consistent winner, I think profitability is a very high bar.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidching/2018/04/17/big-tens-...

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/espn-reaches...

On that latter deal with ESPN, note that the $470m/yr ESPN pays for the CFP games is relatively in the same ballpark as the NFL rights for Monday Night Football games ($600m/yr).
Agreed, but that is a lot of overhead to get to the insight.
Ask HN: Are YC or anyone else funding generic drug disrupters?
Seems like an obvious choice for VC would be a generic drug company. To take a single example, even “generic” epipens costing $300 or so in the US, a new take on generic drugs feels like a strong candidate for VC funding. What am I missing?
Faustmann's Formula
> There is no panacea for weight loss - everyone is different.

You described the panacea: Eat less. If you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. This effect is so predictable and reliable that taken to its logical conclusion it results in death. We call this starvation.

And everyone really isn’t different. The only thing different for most people is what sort of diet they find more tolerable. The fundamentals don’t change though.
You can actually eat more and still lose weight. You just have to eat foods that are low in calories, like cruciferous vegetables, water-based oatmeal, brown rice. You can eat a few apples and still be eating fewer calories than if you ate a single bran muffin. The whole carbohydrates in the apple also mean that you're less likely to spike your blood sugar and experience glycation, than if you were to eat the processed carbs in the muffin.
Bad ergonomics can destroy you body. Sitting all day doesn't guarantee that you won't be a broken physically.
What's the reasoning for tying my account to a phone number? Personally it's a huge turn-off for me.
> The actual context that the quote you highlighted was said to point out something different:

And I addressed the point the blog post made.

Privacy is a different concern compared to confidentiality. The HN title is "Gmail's confidential mode is not confidential", while the blog post only lightly focuses on actual confidentiality (something other email encryption services don't fix either since there are screenshots) and is largely about privacy. Sorry for mistaking what the blog post was going to primarily address based on the HN title.

But, there is a problem with the actual article in terms of what it's saying:

> Gmail as one of the major email services worldwide has realized that privacy concerns are rising constantly - and this is happening at a global scale. To meet this new demand for private and secure emails, Gmail has introduced a new feature: Confidential mode.

Um... no, it was neither created for the purpose of privacy nor security. Nowhere on the support article does it mention the words "private" or "secure", save the actual Privacy Policy footer. Privacy (in terms of Google knowing x and y about me or what's in this email) is not the same as confidentiality (preventing someone from quickly and easily forwarding the email to their friend).

Your privacy concerns are valid in every sense, but attacking confidential mode is effectively clickbait intended to get readers to buy into the encrypted email product and drop Gmail.
I've never seen an overweight person who exercised regularly and ate decently well. I'm not talking about hitting the gym 6 days a week but a healthy amount of daily activity be it walking, running, surfing, hiking. It is not and never has been complicated to lead a healthy lifestyle.
> I'd argue that people who read 4 or 5 books on programming don't know much about anything either when they first start out.

I would say that's a function of a lot of complex items, including their prior educational experience, general intelligence, and just how closely they read the book. There exist many books I've "read" once and mostly forgotten, and precious few I've read a half-dozen or more times and know intimately.

If the former, I agree with you. If the latter, not so much.

> In fact, I'd argue that a graduate knows much more than most people think.

In my experience there are two kinds of graduates, those who spent years memorizing material to get a piece of paper, and those who learned how to learn and applied it to get their piece of paper.

When folks talk about shit graduates they have the former in mind, when folks extol the virtues of a university education they are thinking of the latter.

Unfortunately universities spit out both and it's very hard to distinguish on-the-fly.
That is solid advice, especially as things have become hyper-competitive.
No. It's rare for players to transfer up. In fact, the ones that do transfer are usually the ones who do have professional prospects but aren't currently projected as lottery pics (and some who are, like Jalen Hurts transferring from Alabama to Oklahoma).
Sidebar: does anyone else get the feeling that infrastructure as code is just cloud vendor lock-in by another name? Especially since the output of the code ends up being wild unstructured JSON/YAML files with no spec or discernible schema.

My favorite is how in the Microsoft toolchain you can build a CI pipeline in a visual UI on the right that automatically updates the YAML file on the left. “We know you don’t want YAML, but we also know your boss says you need infra-as-code...”
My understanding is that only the "active ingredient" is the same. Everything else is subject to cost-cutting, as there are many fillers and binders to choose from, and they're priced differently.
Obverse and Under
Thanks for a smart and rational comment. I didn't know Saban was that much of a hardcore artist type.
See overeating studies led by Ethan Sims in the 1960s.

How does the existence of a TV show that put subjects under calorie restriction prove that this doesn't work?

P.S. from skimming the wikipedia page I'd expect that the participants were subject to further calorie restriction beyond the first one
For sake of the discussion here, bio-equivalence is the more helpful way for meaningfully comparing generic to brand names. The filler might be different, but if the biological effect is identical at half the cost, one would be prudent to chose the generic option.
I've seen another article like this, and it just seems like nonsense.

I mean great, if you can hire an engineer who is both incredibly competent at his job and can do product's job too, then great.

By the same token, if you hire an engineer who wants to do his/her job and then sweep your floors at the end of the day, that's cool too. But don't go writing blog posts about it like it's some special thing.

There's a very natural division of labor between coding and product. Good product work takes tons of research, meeting users, watching users use the product, awareness and coordination with the larger product plan. I can't imagine many engineers really have time to do their job well and do product well.
Here is an overview. There are many news articles and even documentaries on its origins. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3218104/what-is-stuxnet-wh...
Well, most of us are Irish and German, so it does stand to reason that we would enjoy those things.
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It's a nonsensical number, comparing to measurements of Tour de France cyclists or ultramarathoners running 100kms per day, who can expect to hit that kind of figure.

The highest recorded expenditure is around 11,000kcals / day. Under truly absurd conditions: manhauling sleds weighing hundreds of kilos across ice so cold that it doesn't create a lubricating layer, from 60M above sea level to 3,000M above sea level, over 10 days[0].

Show me an isotape-labelled water measurement or a CO2 measurement and maybe I'll believe it.

Edit: found it.

The chess study does use a CO2 measurement[1]. The maximum figure given was 2.2kcals/minute. I don't know how you get from that to 6,000-7,000kcals, however, unless people are playing 40-50 hour matches.

[0] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f842/ecabb86a55a1a8577fcee7...

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23455094_The_stress...
Byrne's has had an interesting life to say the least. I followed him years back when he was on a mission to fight naked short selling & steven cohen. What a trip. That said, if you've not read his speech about his fight with cancer, you owe it to yourself to do so. Probably one of the most inspiring things I've read to date. Tried to post in it's entirety but too long for the bots here so will just start with the intro (link follows).

Good evening, Heavy Hitters of the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge. I am deeply honored to speak to you this evening.

There is a Zen saying that happiness is planting a tree knowing that you will not be there to enjoy its shade. Tonight, I am thinking about the meaning of that saying in the context of cancer and cancer research that is supported by men and women such as yourselves.

Mr. Starr has asked me to speak to you about my own experience, my own struggle with cancer, a struggle which occupied the three years of my life immediately after college, as well as the three transcontinental bicycle rides which helped me to recover physically and mentally from my cancer ordeal. I do have a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford, which he mentioned, and he asked me to share with you all the philosophical and inspirational lessons I learned from these ordeals. I told him if I share all of the lessons, this is going to be a very short speech.

I should tell you that I've never spoken publicly about cancer, and only rarely privately, to a handful of friends. And to borrow a line from Oscar Wilde, I warn you that you would have to have a heart of stone to listen to the story of my struggle with cancer without laughing. I'll be laughing and you're welcome to join in at any occasion. Also, I should tell you that I've always declined requests to speak about cancer because I feel as though I’m boasting, “Hey look at me, I cheated death.” And in general that’s just a bad idea, because I think in the end, he will take the last round.

So with such caveats in place, per Billy's request, I will tell you my story of cancer, pausing to note such meager philosophical and inspirational lessons as I may.

Read more: http://cmkxunitedforum.proboards.com/thread/13175/patrick-by...
Generating Electric Power at Night Using Radiative Cooling
You can safely ignore that: Relativity and classical mechanics make different predictions, and we've done the experiments.

But if you travel into the weeds, a constant speed of light is not the only way to arrive at those predictions: In the extreme case, you could make the speed of light infinite in one direction if you slow it down to c/2 in the opposite direction. We don't do that because we like symmetries, and having light jump instantly from the surface of the sun to hit your head, then 'crawl' towards a mirror only to make an instantaneous jump into your eye seems rather weird...
What bunk.

In the real world "DevOps" simply means "sysadmin that can write scripts".
But do they have a two-chambered heart? Birds have a 4 chambered one and crocodiles have a 3 chambered one, which IIRC, is in some ways more complex that's very well suited to their current style of ambush hunting.
Lots of things people think of as crucial today didn't exist when I started. And the overall ratio of successful work to unsuccessful work was just as high then as it is now.
Only if you make meaningful iterations. I see a lot of demand for iteration coming from above and suddenly you are in this cycle of fixed length “sprints” where you worry more about releasing on time instead of meaningful releases.
The plight of the typical grad isn't just that they have overly general knowledge for any one task, but that they have just emerged from a system that filtered their thoughts for possibly several decades into completing assignments and taking tests for a grade.

And once you get into industry you have to unlearn that because the clear objective goals and grades disappear, and you are left with an array of subtle values and more pernicuous consequences to any action. And that stuff is absolutely vital to being good at intellectual jobs - it's mostly crushed out by the system, fostering the "narrow STEMlord" mindset that is constantly surprised by things blowing up when they followed the book exactly.
Wow, to formulate a generic drug and export it to the U.S. requires the FDA stamp, but if you generate components used in manufacture of US-made drugs get literally no FDA oversight. How can this be?.
> Then, body adjusts its metabolism (lower body temperature, making you feel more lethargic to keep you from exercising, etc) and your weight begins to slowly climb back up, sans any further calorie restriction.

We're also learning more about genetics:

> Schmidt’s latest study found an enormous difference in weight gain between two test groups: conventional mice and mice whose RAGE ["receptor for advanced glycation end"] pathway had been deleted. The latter group gained 70 percent less weight than conventional mice, had lower glucose levels, and expended more energy while eating the same high-fat diet and doing the same amount of physical activity.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/weight-lo...
FYI, you seem to be listing results from a regular Google web search, not a Google News search.
It always seems like incumbents have it all (resources, distribution, talent, etc) until they don't. For ex, the "iPhone" theoretically should have come from Nokia by that logic. AR particularly requires truly novel innovations for it to work in mass-market. There might be niche-cases that work for AR (studio/arcade games, sports tech) before the mass market use-cases.
Everyone really is different. Vastly different gut flora, vastly different neural connections in the brain, vastly different neural connections in the gut. In fact, the only things that are similar across bodies are their macroscopic qualities and those are arguably the least important.
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You can over-complicate anything, that doesn't mean you should, or that it's useful.
Google patents generation of output sequence from input using Neural Net
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This video always comes to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
They didn’t gain 600 pounds plus by overeating up to six months. They have spent years overeating and gaining weight.
Its interesting to walk in them and read the headstones. The older headstones where I live are for very young children, then there seems to be a gap then it’s young men and women. The males seem to have died in workplace accidents and the women in childbirth.
Why is CDC research being downvoted?
Is that true? Do you mean all football players including walk ons?
I absolutely agree with that sentiment. And if that only affected individuals, I would agree and accept that point.

The problem is that it affects the entire society. If a society needs to get information to form an opinion on something (say, breaking US Politics), and goes to Liberal or Centrist publications (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal), the articles are behind a paywall. If they go check a Right publication (Fox News, Infowars), it's free and readily available.

When one of our biggest issues is a lack of public knowledge, it's counterproductive to make that knowledge inaccessible, when the misinformation is not.
> This is absolutely false.

I'm not saying it's impossible to keep losing weight by calorie restriction beyond 6 months, I'm saying that _sans further calorie restriction_ you don't lose weight.

> Yes, it gets harder to continuously lose weight

This is your body adjusting its basal metabolic rate and you having to implement further calorie restriction to achieve the same benefit.
As described in Clark's book, ClF3 was discovered first (before WWII actually). But sometime later someone managed to synthesize ClF5 as well, which had slightly better performance as a rocket fuel oxidizer. Although it retained all the other fun properties of ClF3.
We're a backend registry operator. ICANN requires it for the new generic TLDs and all the ccTLDs we support expect the same "best practice".

ICANN that wonderful organization that requires us to have TLSA records for our RDAP servers even though browser support out the box is zero.
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I don't disagree, but the problem with the paid model is that people need a sense of the value of the item before they buy it. It is hard to sell someone a news product with the promise that it will be worth what they spend.

This approach does work with how-to books (how to program X language), but not with news.
What's wrong with honest feedback against clearly outrageous marketing? Serious question. Not trying to troll.
No, this doesn't push it back because this isn't DNA, it's genetic information but the information is recovered by decoding the proteins found in the enamel to generate the DNA/RNA string that produced them. It's kind of like making a mold from an existing widget when the original mold is gone.
Apple is (or used to be) very good at waiting for the right time when all necessary components for a good product are ready or close to ready. There is a lot of value in watching other companies fail and learn from them.
Five bucks says it's an Israeli company. The IDF's Unit 8200 is basically a Y Combinator for spyware start-ups at this point.
I’ve always assumed high level Russian elections are rigged. Is that true? Are low level elections more fair?
You might want to look into Terraform [1], which works across multiple cloud vendors, with pluggable open-source "providers" facilitating the communication with the backend cloud platform.

[1]: https://www.terraform.io/
package mypackage

import shapeless._
import anorm._
import mything.MyObject._
import com.seriouscompany.Foo

object MyThing {
val a = new A()
}

What does A refer to? Where does it come from?

One of the 15 files in the anorm package? Does it come from one of the 40 files in the shapeless package? What about mything.MyObject and the dozen mixin traits that it has?

Alright, let me clone the repo, startup my 4GB IDE, wait 15 minutes for it to download JARs and index eveything and then I can get an answer to where `A` is defined.

Scala wildcard imports are very common in practice, but even if I eschew them, there still another 50 files in the mypackage package that could contain its definition.

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The same thing can happen in TS with globals, but those are rather few.