skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how many languages you know, and how many revisions of languages, you might be forgiven for having mixed up one detail on one revision...
If I had a guess why Facebook has stayed around as long as it has.

It started with college students. That quickly became adults that continued to use it into their careers. Skipping the myspace teen generation fad cycle.
The idea has been around for a while[1]. I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a major supplement market. It exists, but I don't see a major brand of lithium-added bottled water.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-we-...
What level of supplementation? I see huge ranges of vitamin D, by mouth or intramuscular, mentioned in this thread. As someone taking vitamin D (1k IU) with K2 I wonder what levels affect calcium.
How to appeal to Gen Z; name the thing after a form of video playback that was totally obsolete before any of them were born.
It doesn't help that the critical theorists taking over American universities are openely hostile to critical thinking and the scientific method.
Actually, many chain restaurants in the US (Chili's, TGIFridays, etc.) now have a tablet at the table. You can do things like order drinks, dessert, etc. without flagging someone down. You can pay with credit cards. There are games for bored kids to play (for a fee, usually, though). I found it rather annoying because of course it has to advertise throughout your whole meal. Luckily there's no sound, but it displays other things you could be ordering. But it is really convenient for getting service more quickly and checking out without hassle.
> In my opinion however, an engineer is someone who has gone through years of training and has obtained a master’s degree in engineering.

So first, we assume Musk isn't an engineer in order to prove he isn't an engineer? Who cares, the question is meaningless, much like this blog post.
HN is very tone-sensitive; I pretty frequently see comments that are correct (sometimes even by people who are extremely expert in the topic) that get downvoted because they're stated in a blunt or impolite way.
Unselfie Turns Arm-Extended Selfies into Neutral-Pose Portraits
I read that as "for sale," and was genuinely concerned for a moment that spam was being posted on HN. :D
yeah this is fair
You're semantically right, but also missing the point. The expense of getting to deterministic builds is large - You have to take great care in your build infrastructure and scripts. The benefits are also large, and worth it.

Once you've gotten to deterministic builds, the expense of getting to reproducible builds is small; Typically days worth of work as opposed to months. The benefits are very different, but far from insignificant, and almost invaluable from a security perspective.

If you're going to do deterministic builds, go for broke - Do reproducible builds.
78% of internet users aged 18-24 use Snapchat

Roughly eight-in-ten Snapchat users ages 18 to 29 (77%) say they use the app every day, including 68% who say they do so multiple times day.

https://www.omnicoreagency.com/snapchat-statistics/
I suspect the submitter is an alt of the OP, given that the submitter of the original article appears to have been shadowbanned. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adolos

EDIT: Confirmed by the OP (wporr) in a dead reply to this comment (which he just deleted), who is indeed shadowbanned from HN. Which makes this submission blatant ban evasion.
If you're looking for an actual spicy take, you could say that reproducible builds are impossible once the durability of hardware/state of the universe is accounted for, but that the concept provides yet another black hole of cash and effort with which devsec can build a cottage industry around.
> If you write simple tests for those it is a type checker on it's own and the type checker is just overhead.

This is not true. Unit tests cannot replace a type system, just like a type system cannot replace unit tests.

You need a unit tests because a type system cannot check for all possible types of correctness.

However, unit tests can only check for the presence of bugs; they cannot prove their absence. On the other hand, a type system can prove that certain classes of errors cannot exist in the program.
The US pharmacopeia has all the drugs listed [1].

I actually like Canada's compromise, where drug advertisers are allowed to tell you that a drug exists to treat a condition (without telling you what that drug is), or reminding you that a certain drug of a certain name exists, without telling you what it does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pharmacopeia
Right now, I'd rather have a calcium problem than a Covid-19 problem. Also, some of the studies being thrown around in this discussion have mentioned that safe levels of Vitamin D are much higher than a lot of medical professionals actually think.

> there is virtually no risk of toxicity in supplementing up to 10,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily

https://sci-hub.se/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
Because patients ARE the customer. Drug companies constantly work to make drugs easier to take (long acting forms, or even once a month injections) and have fewer side effects.

ADHD meds are a great example. In America long lasting ADHD meds with fewer side effects were available for literal decades before they were available in certain EU countries.

Modern drug delivery systems that can slowly dose a medicine over 12 hours (!!!) are the direct result of pharmaceutical companies working to improve QoL for the patient.

The doctor, and especially the healthcare system, don't consider the patient's UX to be of that much importance.

This is analogous to having the CTO make a software purchase VS giving user's input.

Should the IT directors and CTO have a majority of the say? Of course. But the end users must be considered or you end up with painful to use software.
I wonder if Zuck included the Suppress Biden Tags feature?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/instagram-relat...
The entire article is filled with things that are flat-out wrong, I'm not sure how this made it past an editor.

> Reels' video distribution algorithm will resemble TikTok's: users will see the most popular videos at the moment, rather than a selection tailored to their individual profile

TikTok is all about showing you content tailored to you. Compare your TikTok feed to any of your friends' and it'll be super different.

> Reels differs from TikTok thanks to Instagram's augmented reality effects, which let users overlay images and filters onto their videos

TikTok's had this forever.
To be fair, it's pretty easy to get top-10 on HN. Heck, I "gamed" the system myself a few times. In other words, yeah, I think a lot of Hacker News is bullshit.

Clever "retro" hacks will always gain traction (building a widget out of old vacuum cleaners), anything socio-psychological will usually get traction (dating apps, blog posts about loneliness), anything on advanced math/physics/logic will usually get traction (probably because it makes people feel smart, even though it's not accessible to like 99%), anything tangential to philosophy will get traction (again, makes people feel smart).

I really do miss when HN was a bunch of scrappy entrepreneurs that tried to build stuff. With all that said, it's still the best community left on the internet. At least it tries to abide by the principle of charity, and flame wars/trolling is highly frowned upon. Dang and everyone else does a very admirable job of keeping everyone in line.
Values, Mindset and Motivation for Your Engineering Team
You may be right, I honestly don't know how this particular algorithm works. We may be closer to true AI intelligence than I think, but I am not sure anyone should wish for that. I am certain that we are still decades away from true human intelligence (Einstein level), and maybe a few years to a decade away from fully replacing the cognitive abilities of an average human. But it will come. And I am not sure the human race will be able to survive it.
Can a quantum strategy help bring down the house?
I've seen it said on this forum before and it also aligns with my experience: Most fixes that are 'just for now' are actually 'forever'
Perhaps there is a better voting model for content/comments than the purely democratic method (one account, one vote). It would be interesting to see an expert weighted HN homepage/comment stream.

(punting on how "expertise" is measured or assigned)
Firefox Voice
> For example, the same package can have a public interface for in-house consume that is wider than the official public interface for third parties.

Isn’t this similar to package private in Java or internal in C#?
Very cool, I like how you click on the dots context menu and view each data directly in the editor. Also, the table of contents makes me extremely uncomfortable, it feels like I'm being followed!
I have seen security minded IT to go so far as requiring laptops with PS2 mouses and epoxying all the USB ports.
typical HN, more toxic than Reddit if you go against local hivemind
The HN title is better though.
Just checked, and my Chrome is on version 84. Version 80 is out of date.

You need to update Chrome.
I'm finding it hard to distinguish the article from the normal self-help word salad. It doesn't seem out of place to me.

Articles are also upvoted because of the discussions in the threads so I'm not that surprised a lot of "warm body" type threads make it to the top.
>If a binary is lost, it can be rebuilt exactly as it was. You only need to ensure the source is preserved.

Wouldn't this depend upon the environment as well? Unless the build starts off by creating a build environment, but then we are half way to "To first make bread from scratch, create a universe...".
That is a concern, and the salons pitch expensive machines using high pressure bulbs with basically no UVA which will make your skin brown with little worry about sunburn and has little vitamin d effect. Since you wouldn’t be going for aesthetics, the best is to use one of the cheap beds that makes UVA and don’t go for very long. Your skin will take a month before it gets even subtly darker.

The salons call the cheap machines “sun burning” machines to up sell the more expensive “browning beds”, but just use that cheap machine and only use it for say 5 minutes instead of the max 20.

I also cover my face. I am in no way noticeably tan after years of doing this, and the low dose protocol I use makes my body similar to the color my forearms are from normal sun exposure.

I hope that is helpful, and it was years ago that I was evaluating the risks and I don’t have the exact figures anymore, but you can lookup the UV profile of the bulbs that are in the machine. Just google search the numbers on the bulb.
Social policy is inherently hard to get objective evidence for. Social experiments mostly don't work because the fact that it's an experiment alters the behavior of participants.

This is part of why I don't think there is any value in UBI experiments.

Our mental models influence the kinds of results we get. This is always true, but it's a bigger problem for some things than for others.
Yeah, it would be nice to be able to replicate a warmer and sunnier climate indoors during the winter.

Another thing you can try is to use red to near infrared light which has been shown to affect the mitochondrial electron transport chain. I read "Brain Photobiomodulation Therapy: A Narrative Review" a couple of days ago which is pretty interesting.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6041198/
1988 IMO Question Six
Agree, it is a theory and one I believe. Also how/why white skin evolved is another data point to consider. Lighter skin means more Vitamin D in the summer months which is vital for humans in northern latitudes.

Clothes sure, but still were outside in the sunlight during most of the day without sunblock. Take a look at hunter gather tribes still alive today. Not a whole lot of clothes! But sure, some.
Science is important. Science is great. I love science. Let's just be extremely careful when trying to apply the latest scientific achievements in our day to day lives.

Phlogiston theory of 17th century was wrong.

Race theory of 18th century was wrong.

Semmelweis was laughed at in 19th century.

And lobotomies were perfectly scientific for treating depressed patients for most of 20th century.

I doubt 21st century's science is any special here...
Quite on the contrary, scientific research is still severely lacking. There's even no sound scientific consensus on vitamin d's rda.
How should we acquire it, by sunbathing or by supplementing, in a high dosis bolus or a daily small amount, there are endless unanswered questions and endless unposed questions.

You rightfully mention a high correlation with other metrics that make, in my opinion, vitamin d health benefits and health disadvantages scientifically impenetrable.

As a tiny datapoint, I refer to the research of the (on hn at least) highly acclaimed Dr. Rhonda Patrick, who states that 70% of Americans are currently deficient on vitD.
She also states that vitD has effects on 5% of gene expression, and is very important in the brain formation of foetuses since it assists the production of serotonin.

If anything, and despite of admittedly huge efforts already, vitD is heavily underresearched and many of its mechanisms unexplored.
Just curious, but what are you replacing diesel with?
You could launch an SEO content farm and see how well Google does vs GPT-3.
> Because patients ARE the customer. Drug companies constantly work to make drugs easier to take (long acting forms, or even once a month injections) and have fewer side effects.

Patients aren't the customer in Europe because they're not buying the drugs. They're consumers, end-users even, but they're not buying them so they're not the customers. Frankly the same is true at any US HMO. The reduction in side-effects is considered by the health system when making purchasing decisions (as side-effects cost the health system money and reduce its ability to provide care on a fixed budget).

And yeah, at a company, the CIO is the decision maker, and the company is the customer. The employees are the end-users. That's why at a big company, employees may not always get to use the tools they want; they're not customers, and they're not making the purchasing decisions.

In both cases, the end-users and their needs are considered, but ultimately, it's not their names on the invoice and they're not the customers.
She was thinking about writing a blog post on Vitamin D already and she says she will it in the next few days and I'll post it here when she does. She is not talking about patients with pre-existing hyperparathyroidism - they often think they have it because the calcium is high, but it is only high because of the vitamin D!
"Instagram Reels" in this headline reads like present simple tense. But then you realize that Instagram isn't a competitor to Facebook, and well...
I have several reasons for not using Firefox:

Font rendering looks non-native on most platforms.

Scrolling behavior seems non-native on most platforms.

The combined location/search bar seems slower, and gives less useful results, than the same feature in other browsers.

Inferior developer tools.

Mozilla's marketing portraying itself as the white knight of the open web is tiresome and contradicted by past behavior. Pocket is still installed by default, and remember the Mr. Robot scandal?

Tracking is easily defeated in other browsers. Besides, if you use Gmail and Google search, and watch videos on Youtube, you've already decided to give your data to Google and you might as well use Chrome too.
This is the issue that made Facebook to big to fail now.

They got everybody and their mom on it and now even with all the security, tracking and countless competitors, its nearly impossible to get people off it because of this simple fact - its where everybody they know are now.
It's difficult, tiring, and demoralizing to keep on and on trying to maintain sincere and reasoned argument with seemingly unreasonable and ignorant people.

But we really can't give in to that cynicism. These conversations almost always have an audience, and the point isn't just to convince this person in front of you and win, but to keep your side of the argument alive and in front of as many people as possible.

And to practice your own patience, sharpen your argument, and maintain bridges and relationships.

I'm sure most people can't do it, but if you can please don't throw up your hands and walk away, depriving perhaps many other people from hearing a point of view they might not otherwise ever hear.

[Edit: Of course I'm speaking generally here about climate denialism, etc., not specifically about the crazy conspiracy theory mentioned above.]
IMO it's more nuanced. If you're endorsing something the majority here likes you don't really have to care about tone as long as you're not being totally crazy. If you're trying to go against the grain then you need to chose your words very carefully.

Edit: Of course the real world is like this too but I think there's a meaningful difference in the degree.
This is the it's always been done in Sweden. With space for two different customers to bag per cashier. A metal divider is put diagonally on the conveyor belt to feed items either left or right.
How about using a different toolchain? (eg: gcc vs clang). Or even different versions of a toolchain? Or a dependency that has to be downloaded? Being able to build consistently requires way more effort than just following professional practices. One method I know is to pin everything that goes into a build - source, dependencies, toolchains, configurations and environment.

Results of non-consistent build can be as simple as a difference in performance. But it could also be a malware injected through the compiler.
>"retro" hacks, socio-psychological, advanced math/physics/logic, anything tangential to philosophy

These are all examples of bullshit?
I was thinking primarily of other states or foreign entities who have an interest in undermining competitivity, stealing or suppressing emerging technologies. Mentioning elite families was as an illustrative contrast, since at least domestic entities (who may want to maintain a monopoly on certain technologies) would be less directly incentivised to undermine the institutions that serve them.
Face Swapping App Doublicat / Reface Is Hot – But Is It Safe?
I think this is the point of the article. Besides some coding a long time ago, nobody has presented evidence that he's ever done actual engineering.

Do you think PMs should be able to call themselves engineers? They know the work pretty well, many (at least in SV) have undergrad degrees in STEM, they can talk the lingo. They've just never actually written code. Some people would even protest PMs who used to be engineers still calling themselves that.

I think Musk knows things at the level of a technically-strong PM. But I think if you asked him to some basic tasks in structural engineering, for instance, he would have no idea what to do.
The Uniformity and Exclusion Movement
> typical HN, more toxic than Reddit

This is factually untrue. Hacker News is orders of magnitude more diverse than reddit. Discussion about Trump or US politics in general, for example, tends to be fairly level-headed on HN. Need I even link you to /r/politics?
This chart seems relevant in this case.

https://images.app.goo.gl/db84Dmv3sqyVEwfz5
I'd tend to agree with you. There's a lot of pharmaceutical money to be made on this crisis, especially if Covid-19 becomes seasonal. Don't want to waste that opportunity by treating it with something cheap like Vitamin D.

In line with how Monsanto covered up studies showing the dangers of Roundup (and faked other studies that indicated no danger, and did a fair bit of astroturfing, iirc), I'd expect to see a lot of misinformation in the future about the ineffectiveness - maybe even the danger? - of Vitamin D supplements.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that we have a very solid idea of our nutritional requirements. Every few years milk is bad, then good again, then bed again. Some can be said about eggs or meat or coffee or many other foods.

We do know on a very, very granular level that we need some nutrients in some quantities to function at all. But we have almost zero clue on how to actually optimize our nutrition. And the biggest reason is that there are no studies actually trying to find this out.
> Truly intelligent AI on the other hand, might as well lead to our immediate extinction, since it renders the entirety of the human race irrelevant.

Are we really extinct if we are outlived by AI that we created that emulates our thought patterns, speech and minds, that is a continuation of our art, science, history and culture? I'm not personally that attached to my DNA, if my mind can exist in a form free of DNA, I could care less.
His point was that the software itself is insecure and installing it on your machine is a security issue, regardless of the content you're hosting using it.
Being America, I’d be stunned if Walmart didn’t grease the road bureaucracy in their favour.
Hiring smart engineers, does not mean Elon Musk is an engineer. Unless, Elon himself did actual engineering work. He did some software dev at Zip2 but then it has been mostly investments. I think it is fair to say he is a businessman instead of an engineer.
Are there any online archives with high res scans of book covers? The few photos in this article are very beautiful.
Will love to self host something like this. Would you be willing to open source it?
Certainly analog. The collaborative video/audio features would not have been practical in 1968. But all of the interactive computing concepts were indeed happening in real time.
If this sort of thing interests you, you might want to look at

https://github.com/teal-language/tl

It implements types on top of Lua. In a single (middle-sized) Lua file. And it is open source.
if anything this validates all the shitty feedback i get when i post something that goes against the hackernews norm. It also proves that this social community is not immune to all the shitty things that happen in much less moderated spaces like reddit. Social media is broken (or working as intended depending on your metrics) across the board.
I mean, it's not going to win any philosophical debates, but these kinds of results are WORLDS better than they would have been just a couple of years ago. I have to wonder what would it take to impress you.
We Hire Software Engineers at Glowforge
Good luck at the USPTO. I worked with some former examiners (patent attorneys now). The early years are a grind to say the least.
Data Structure Synthesizer for Rails
I wonder if there was any legit reason to require no downtime. Otherwise the owner doesn't understand what downtime means for his business.
No, but I think they're examples of things that automatically pass through the "HN filter" -- a lot of times they aren't BS, but it's certainly fishy (and, incidentally, that's how the GPT-3 blog made it through).
That's the problem with the FAT filesystem, it grows over time.