skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context: Metformin is a simple, very safe, and very common diabetic drug that appears to improve all-cause mortality and have some positive health effects in the average person, even if minor (such as improving blood glucose levels and insulin resistance), thereby slightly lengthening human lifespan and improving the process of aging. For this reason it has been touted as an anti-aging drug by many, and is taken by many non-diabetics for this purpose.

However, there have been more studies surfacing recently that show that it can make exercise less beneficial, of which the link in OP is a piece of evidence in favor of this.

For those interested in other interesting substances in this area, I suggest looking into Acarbose and Rapamycin, but there's many others that seem pretty cool, even if highly speculative. Also adding after reading a child comment to this, Peter Attia is one of the many great people worth following in this area, with a very high-quality information-dense podcast.
Good. Facebook is evil.
Why would they agree to be paid under when they are in tech where companies until at least a year ago were fighting for employees? They could literally cross the street in SF and land a better job at a better price. I mean, for a country that prides itself on free markets, it’s remarkable that you believe that free markets simply stop working.

And here’s the kicker. An H1B employee costs a company a lot more than a resident because of government fees and lawyer costs.

So if you have a citizen and an H1B holder drawing the same salary, it actually means the company values the H1B holder far more than they do the citizen.
Here are the top 10 employers of H1-B.

With the exception of MSFT, all of these are "consulting firms" or "service" providers.

So while everyone is having "ideological, values" based discussions, here is what is really happening

Employer Name Employees Hired (All Years)

Infosys Limited 182,945

Tata Consultancy Services Limited 102,722

Deloitte Consulting Llp 65,976

Wipro Limited 63,354

Accenture Llp 51,360

Ibm India Private Limited 47,839

Capgemini America Inc 40,954

Microsoft Corporation 40,828

Ernst Young Us Llp 38,631

Cognizant Technology Solutions Us Corp 34,138
Could any designers here explain why they use Figma instead of Invision?

I used Invision before and loved it (as a developer) for collaborating on creating mockups and putting them into reality.

Now working with a team that uses Figma and helping them create prototypes is...painful. It seems great for creating the design itself but prototyping has been way harder with it than in Invision. I'm wondering if maybe we're just unfamiliar with the right way to use that part of the tool.
The data I saw for the Northern Provinces (Lombardy?) showed that they had 3x the normal mortality. 1x of that is the baseline that includes workplace accidents, sports, auto accidents many of which are not happening now. The rest 2x can be reasonably attributed to Covid. But only half of the 2x (1x) was being attributed to Covid. There was similar data from rest of Europe. I believe the FT had a very good piece on it [?].

I am not factoring in reduced life expectancy of the Covid recovery cohort. Someone who recovers from Covid after a few weeks/months on a ventilator will have residual effects which will lower expectancy for that cohort. They are now finding long term lung damage among Covid recoveries.

Please, please wear a mask especially in indoor spaces and take precautions till we have a vaccine.
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Thanks for this! I completely forgotten about the site.i remember those CDs with all the text files such as this, excellent.
You username is a hack, wow!
Endless. Eat well, cut carbs, fast now and then, exercise AF. The rest is a prayer.
Perhaps it will come to RPi4 as well?
How to Learn Data science from scratch
As with all good advice, this reads well and makes sense but the devil is in the details.

> Eric Barone, who went on to sell millions of copies of his game, overcame his struggles at creating art by making and remaking the art assets for his game dozens of times.

To someone else, frigging around with their art assets and remaking then over and over again could be the very definition of not doing "the real thing".
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Not 10 years, but yeah, German was completely reformed some 24 years ago. It is still pretty major as several countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland and others with german-speaking minorities) had to coordinate and consent.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1...

I as a child started learning the old orthography in school, was taught the "new" one later on and had to use it and even the "new new" one (there was basically a version 2.1 minor update). To this day I am confused about how to correctly spell and write words, and I always end up mixing old/new orthography. The fact that almost all major newspapers refuse to fully adhere to the new orthography and use custom deviations every here and there does not exactly help.

Lessons learned: It is a mess, don't do it.
Ask HN: Can there exist a function whose computability is uncomputable?
We can mathematically prove that certain mathematical functions and constants are computable or incomputable. For example, we know that the Busy Beaver function is uncomputable, but that arithmetic is computable.

Are there any functions for which their computability has been proven uncomputable, and if so, what are some examples and is there any term for such a function?
Building a simple IoT system in Elixir
I almost got married in Boston City Hall, until my now-spouse and I actually went there in person, whereupon we immediately cancelled our date there and rescheduled in Cambridge.

To me, the message of that building is vividly clear: all the concrete enclosed windows are perfect places to put machine guns to mow down protestors in the plaza when america finally goes dictator.
Yes, but my point is that 40 years ago the intelligence capabilities of an aerial vehicle were orders of magnitude less useful.

A jet ranger carrying a passenger with binoculars is vastly different than that same jet ranger with modern optics and RF packages. The only real commonality between the two is that they are both deployed on aerial platforms.
Thanks for all your answers! I think a lot of us have just ignored social media and missed out on all the interesting hacks that have happened along the way. You've cleared up years of stuff in just a few posts, and it's much appreciated :)
That's regular but not phonetic. (I'm not fully convinced that Spanish has quite as much variation as English, but I'll admit I'm not expert on Spanish.) But what do you do when certain segments are not just pronounced differently, but completely absent in some varieties? (E.g. my example about /kɑ:/ vs /kɑ:r/)
>I likely break dozens of laws/ordinances every day and I'm very positive you do as well, without even knowing it.

Okay but then isn't that the real problem? Of not regularly weeding out laws against things that people don't really feel need to be banned? It's kind of clumsy to take the approach of, "We're going to keep dubious laws on the books, and also have ultra-random, haphazard enforcement of all laws regardless of how merited."
>How does preventing a legal employee from visiting home and returning to the US help anyone who happened to be born in the US

From a pure economics view: it does because it constrains the supply of labor. Sure, many (most?) people would probably stay and not not go back, but there's always going to be a few who do go back. That constrains the labor supply, which in theory will raise the price of labor for everyone still here, mostly natives.
Reiterating what the diabetics in these threads will tell you:

Type 1 isn't about insulin resistance in your cells, it's about not producing insulin in your pancreas. Of course type 1 diabetics with rigorous diets will have less glucose swings, but a stable A1c or daily tests doesn't mean your eyelet cells grew back. It's a bit like saying a hemophiliac is asymptotic because they haven't had any cuts lately.

These kinds of articles can come off as callus to diabetics. They're getting diet advice from their GPs and their endocrinologists. They don't need muggles telling them to eat better.
I've been sketching, prototyping and designing UI for years and I just don't get Figma. It's just baffles me that people would work on this level of granularity (let's draw everything from scratch) instead of working with UI elements like buttons, text fields, etc. I feel like I'm missing something very fundamentally about Figma because every time I've used it I leave confused and frustrated.
Yeah I’m a programmer, so I think you could be right. I’d like to work with our designer using figma and get her thoughts / opinions to get a better understanding.

Also, because I’m a programmer, I’ve lived through many tech hype cycles (with mostly open source and developer tools). So over time I’ve become sensitive to this kind of rhetoric. That’s why my initial reaction was skepticism.
You can actually get RSS feeds for YouTube: emacs users like myself who consume YouTube via elfeed have been doing it like so:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<THE_ID...

Or

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<THE_ID>

More info here: https://joshrollinswrites.com/help-desk-head-desk/20200611/

It really helps to break away from the addictive properties of YouTube's "Up Next" algorithm
This has been my experience, as well. Take this type of echo chamber to its extreme, and you get this[1] kind of reaction from an entire community, where they end up chasing a Hispanic family out of town because someone said they were antifa on Facebook[2].

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/06/fa...

[2] https://twitter.com/RandazzoTweets/status/126860852649191014...
>Then I got my cholesterol checked during a routine blood work and it was through the roof. WTF? Anyone know better than me about this?

Your LDL(bad), HDL (good) or both? And did your doctor do a coronary scan (checking for plaque build up)?

What you don't want is LDL Cholesterol building up as plaque in the arteries, there is some connection to plaque build up and LDL levels.

High HDL cholesterol is associated with low risk of heart disease.

Typically a LCHF diet raises HDL (i.e. lower risk of plaque build up and heart disease). In some people LCHF diets raise both LDL and HDL, but the ratios are typically and overall improvement (meaning less plaque build up). The goal with health isn't low cholesterol necessarily, its low plaque buildup.
Yep. This is already happening. As US becomes a less inviting destination for the best talent, the talent will find home elsewhere. This might be beginning of the end of US tech dominance.
You gotta do both. Research, analyze, digest, and then execute. With time, you can reduce the duration of the cycle. Taking the first step often requires a lot of research and thinking, and then a lot of execution to go from zero to one. Then, iterate, with shorter cycles. Failing to think is as much a problem as failing to execute, you have to balance it.
Small correction. The money was $475,000.

The important thing to note in the article is this:

> "The RCMP Operations Manual, a copy of which was obtained by Maclean’s, authorizes the force to mislead all but the courts in order to conceal the identity of confidential informants and agent sources.
> “The identity of a source must be protected at all times except when the administration of justice requires otherwise, i.e. a member cannot mislead a court in any proceeding in order to protect a source.”

So RCMP isn't even telling the truth to the public quite possibly.
> So if there are too many H-1B holders competing with Americans, why not make it harder for companies to hire them over an equally qualified America

This is literally what the H-1B visa program does, it makes companies jump through hoops to hire someone from overseas. The path of least resistance is definitely hiring a citizen where they don’t need to worry about getting a visa.
Yeah, it wasn't meant to be exhaustive. One might add Jamaican 'cyaa' as well.
It won't happen, but it would nice to see a comprehensive plan to address the talent shortage that the H-1B is designed to address. Disadvantages faced by people of color is front of the mind right now; it's the perfect time to announce a detailed plan of training and education that would accomplish 2 purposes.
It's really interesting that they chose to use rust
This is amazingly sad thing about the English language.
Me too. I've been keeping my eyes out for an e-ink based Android smartphone for a couple years now. There are a couple options out there - largely Asia-based manufacturers - but none of them have proper support for the frequencies my cell carrier uses.
Simple: you don’t have to offer Apple Pay in countries where it’s not available. That still covers the richest countries.
I'm surprised it was available as recently as 2019.
Trying New Ideas from Nothing, Outside the Comfort Zone
There's more to exercise than just mitochondrial adaptation... Presumably by inhibiting that, yet still demanding some adaptation from your body (by taxing it with strenuous exercise), you're promoting other adaptations? It might be beneficial somehow. Also, AFAIK more active mitochondria might not be a good thing (more reactive oxygen species damaging your cells, more chances of mitochondria mutating maybe causing cancer).

Anyways, I'm not a professional, just a hobbyist follower of anti-aging community. For what it's worth, Peter Attia, an anti-aging doctor whom I follow, recently said he stopped taking metformin after having taken it for years.
I believe there was/is some agreement in the EU regarding such items between EU members however with the brexit these things are again up for debate.

The UK should also return the entire Egyptian collection they looted.
Literally everyone who is for "legal immigration" belongs to 2 camps.

One means they want to limit immigration of brown people to as close to zero as possible while allowing white people from Europe with money to move here. Where they can't outright forbid anyone except white Europeans they want to increase the difficulty and bureaucracy to the point where virtually nobody gets through. If it takes 10 years to become a citizen great. If it takes 30 better. Let em die waiting.

Two lives in a fantasy land of law and order where the non criminal types could just queue up and prove that they are the right type of people and follow the law. In this fantasy land type one doesn't exist and the people sneaking in are proven to be bad people by the act of breaking the law. These people live in a world where the law exists to protect and privilege them and anyone not following it is clearly transgressing.

Virtually nobody whom we citizens are descended from waited 10 years, hired a lawyer, and filled out paperwork in triplicate and both types are hypocrites who are themselves a disease on the body politic. If you hear someone talking about how they are for "legal immigration" unfriend them, block them, don't hire them, don't associate. You can't fix them so contain the cancer.
I definitely see this as a trend, but I genuinely hope it doesn't become one. Cloud gaming is yet another step in the slow erosion of our ability to actually own stuff, and would be bad for everything from selling games to making mods to video game preservation.

It's disheartening how many people don't see the dangers in only being able to access media/software at the whim of a large corporation who can shut said access off at any time for any reason.
Definitely agree with the article, and would like to offer a useful supplement to "doing the real thing": "watch someone very skilled do the real thing".

Watching a pro can really accelerate skill acquisition because it will expose you to high quality ideas that would have been difficult to develop on your own.

Want to get better at Backgammon/Chess/Go? Play a lot of games (at various time controls). Yes. But also watch professional players and read their analyses of games.

Want to get better at programming? Write a lot of programs. Yes. But also read a lot of high quality code written by others.

Want to become a better mathematician? Spend your time mastering mathematical knowledge and techniques. Yes. But also spend some time trying to get in the heads of the masters - learning their patterns of thought at the mathematical and meta-mathematical levels.

The increased accessibility of this kind of content is one of the greatest achievements of the internet.
This spelling reform was pioneered by Mark Twain[1].

[1] http://www.i18nguy.com/twain.html
totally. looking at LDL-P is a better indicator that looking at “cholesterol”. There are cases where LDL-C looks okay but you have a large number of particles or cases with elevated LDL-C but with normal number of particles.
Ah yep of course, I’m just pointing out that those kinds of back-and-forths, Figma derived or not, are a sign of a healthy org. A lack of grumbling around miscommunication often means that no communication is happening, not that it’s going swimmingly.
Social Security contributions are not forfeited, they're your for life.
H1B can't simply cross the street and change companies. If they find themselves between jobs they will shortly find themselves between countries and many companies have been found to have made agreements not to hire each others people.
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Operator chaining is probably the most exciting new feature: https://metacpan.org/pod/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.32.0/pod/pe...
Yup, I’m afraid so.
To directly turn labor costs into a profit center, you need a business model that allows you to bill per unit of work.

Perhaps this is where H1-B restrictions need to be focused. No third-party employment.
Good to see Dunelm House in Durham listed there - one of my favourite buildings in any style, that has been threatened with demolition for a few years now.
Then the caller must know they are receiving a generator dependent on the files lifetime. Pretty brittle IMO. Receiving a list wouldn’t depend on the files lifetime. This causes client code to be pretty error prone as you can very easily think you’re saving off a list built from a file, but in reality you hold a generator. Client code closes the file, the generator is used much later, and blammo, crash! NOT doing a context manager forces clients to work harder at guessing lifetimes.

So you can’t just replace lists with generators.

This break the uniform access principal. Client code IMO shouldn’t need to think about whether they got a generator or an interable container.
Android shows some scary-ish warnings the first time you try to install an apk, and has you go into system settings and allow yourself sideloading apps from that particular source (browser, self-updating beta of something and so on). With this and all the permissions and sandboxing, it would take some serious dedication to scam yourself this way.
This analogy is a fallacy that holds us back. MMT states that our nation is not a house.
The trouble with any of these efforts is that pronunciation drifts over time. So eventually you end up in the same place again.
Denmark [0] and Sweden [1].

[0]: https://um.dk/da/nyheder-fra-udenrigsministeriet/newsdisplay...

[1]: https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2020/06/ud-avrada...
As a non-English speaker, I find the English spoken by non-native speakers far easier to understand and deal with than the English spoken by Americans/British.

I work with Germans, Italians, Spaniards, French, Dutch and I understand them 99% of the time. We use "normal" words (we are not fancy regarding vocabulary) and pronounce them in a non-native way (the way all Europeans that speak English understand)... But the moment our British colleagues join the conversation, then our understanding decreases to around 70%: either because of the usage of "fancy" words or because of pronunciation.

Besides, since we all make the same mistakes when speaking English, we understand each other without asking "sorry, what do you mean?"
I wasn't being sarcastic. I was saying that if you are actually sincere, and I was hopeful you were, I said to to take the time to read the blog post (knowing it was long); they go through great lengths to explain to people not in the field what the issues with work like Hsu's. It wasn't meant to be mean. You dismissed it, failed to try to understand it, and were incredibly inconsiderate calling it long and rambling. This is when my tone changed, and in my opinion deservedly so. It indicated to me you were being insincere about spending the time to learn more. Considering how many racist trolls I deal with that do this kind of thing often, your dismissiveness made me think you weren't actually interested in learning more. I gave my information, pointed to the things that you were misunderstanding in that blog, and offered if you have scientific questions, I am happy to take more time to try to answer them. That offer still stands.
I didn't say "humans should never cause animals to suffer."
I said that humans shouldn't oppress animals,
meaning that we shouldn't treat them as commodities
and we should respect their rights.

Obviously it's impossible to never cause any animal suffer,
just as it's impossible to never cause any human to suffer.
For instance, if you don't donate all of your available organs,
you're causing another human to suffer and die.
We accept that, because we'd rather live in a society where people
have rights over their own bodies, even if it hurts others.
However, just because you can't avoid hurting other humans sometimes,
that doesn't mean that you're justified in enslaving, murdering, and eating humans.
Likewise, it's wrong to do any of those things to animals,
even if human civilization inevitably hurts animals sometimes.

If you want to go from a pure act-utilitarian perspective
(which is psychologically impossible, hence rule-utilitarianism),
then indeed, you would not technically be a vegan,
because you wouldn't hold any special principal regarding the use of animal products.
However, if you were maximizing utility, you still wouldn't eat meat or dairy products,
because those things cause massive suffering to animals,
and cause environmental damage,
with no benefit (except taste and slightly easier access to B12) to humans living in developed economies.
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Lots of place names in US that reveal not just non-native speakers but also native speakers that aren’t locals. Some that come to mind: Worcester, MA; Wilkes-Barre, PA; Versailles, KY; New Berlin, PA; and many others.
Google is okay with apps having their own payment processing, regardless of whether it's for physical or digital goods.
I don't know how this order affects your current process, definitely talk to you immigration lawyer about that. But we're talking about immigrants who have not yet applied for renewal, they could be in a situation where they have no chance for renewal.
Thats just for my patreon subscribers.

No I'm kidding, I don't have a patreon, but I don't want to give my favorite markets up.

Ebay has accounts and some rudimentary price discovery there.

You can also just message existing pages on IG. My primary procurement accounts are just anonymous blank accounts that just send out a direct message with an offer. Money talks.

Emailing is usually possible too.

The main thing you want is price discovery, understanding how things are priced or understanding value. Its some formula between followers and engagement. If I were to guess I'd say

(Followers/100) x (Engagement x 100 x 1.75)

Engagement is a percentage so it has to be by 100. Eh and the multiplier for engagement is probably nlogn. after 1, 2, and 3% engagement would have a large delta in prices between them, but 3+ wouldn't.