skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take your point on proving causality, but there are interesting selections of populations such as 200K health professionals or SDAs living in LA alongside their neighbors, that go a long way to mitigating confounding variables.

Here is a recent (2018) starting point into large (200k, etc.) studies, with various pooled analysis, meta analysis, RCTs, etc.:

This review summarizes the current evidence base examining the associations of plant-based diets with cardiovascular endpoints, and discusses the potential biological mechanisms underlying their health effects, practical recommendations and applications of this research, and directions for future research.

Healthful plant-based diets should be recommended as an environmentally sustainable dietary option for improved cardiovascular health.

The potentially beneficial role of plant-based diets in cardiovascular health has been increasingly recognized, with a vast and accumulating evidence-base documenting their health effects ...

Most recently, based on a comprehensive review of these studies, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015–2020 included a healthy vegetarian-style dietary pattern in its recommendations of dietary patterns that can be adopted for improved health. In the present review, we will provide an overview of the cardiovascular benefits associated with plant-based diets, while discussing the biological pathways potentially involved, as well as clinical applications and public health implications of these findings.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089671/

See Table 1 for RCTs and Figure 3 for emerging ‘causality’:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089671/figure/...

Also read up on Blue Zones, and note the notion in this meta analysis of...

... the ”pro-vegetarian diet score”, defined by Martinez-Gonzalez et al. (6) as a diet which positively weighs plant foods while negatively weighing animal foods. They conceptualized such a diet as “a progressive and gentle approach to vegetarianism… that incorporates a range of progressively increasing proportions of plant-derived foods and concomitant reductions in animal-derived foods”...

... then think about the blue zones and balance/moderation and confounding variables in that light. It’s not a eating rice or olives or fishing and herding goats from a walkable village, versus sitting on couch watching TV and driving cars to the strip mall thing. Americans act American, so you can narrow down the causality to a kind of temperance.

https://www.bluezones.com/exploration/loma-linda-california/

Diet breakdown with “ancillary” meat: 10% dairy, 4% meat, 1% fish:

https://www.bluezones.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/303664_...
> Rot mathematics is where it goes wrong.

Not sure what you mean by "rot mathematics".

> Meta mathematics, abstract, detached from real life, as alot of the academy with its publish pr perish thinking ... that produces pain.

Some (including me) would say that the meta and abstract mathematics is most beautiful of all...

> saying weirdos hate logic is extremely dismissive to a lot of what I would call the human experience.

I think you misread the parent comment (although to be clear, I'm not defending it).
Good summary, 100% agree with all of this. And I'd add that the friction of switching to allowlist/denylist, at least for new projects, is very low, because the terms are obvious on their face. Once you've seen them once you know what they mean.
I think device distraction is dangerous in traffic. The whole point is that you as a driver or cyclist need to be aware of other traffic participants. If you are distracted with a device you are not paying attention. Thus agree with the court ruling.

It’s better with physical touch controls to control car functions.

Consider search depth, physical device control is direct access hash table. But touch button interfaces are like searching through a list/tree so slower.
> Do we have at least one larger example of what would happen if the general population was rich?

We have birth rate comparison between "first world" and "third world" countries plus migration experience studies (basically, even one generation after migration from a poor to a rich country, there is a massive drop in birth rate, and after something like 3 generations the birth rate is equal to the rest of the country).

Additionally, there is a noticeable drop in birth rates when a whole country gets richer.
An example of yet another service (Songza) that was great, acquired by google and then sent to the grave.
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We are hiring for several positions on our Government Practice Engineering Team. It's a small team building and supporting the infrastructure used by the analysts and data scientists for our several engagements with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). You'll help the team by enhancing the common tooling we use across projects and by working alongside the analysts and data scientists on specific projects. Our tech stack relies heavily on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Python.

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German court bans use of Tesla touchscreens while driving
With intelligence, the territory is not the map :-)
I worked on the computer system that determined what the spot FX rates were at the "fix". This was almost 20 years ago, I guess. (Crazy to think how many trillions of dollars were touched by my contribution).

I can confirm that not only was rigging the fix common, it was so common that there was (is?) a blacklist of institutions whose trades would be discounted when figuring out what the price of each currency should be.

That is, the people who were responsible for calculating the spot FX rates knew there were enough people trying to game the system that the software was designed to mitigate that as far as possible. To a large extent, they even knew who those people were (by no means all were UK-based).

And then the Libor scandal comes along, and everyone's like "oh noes... who knew there was manipulation and collusion!". Hmmm...
Because there are good points. Reproducible builds are not everything some people think, but they are still useful. Knowing what is wrong with them is important.
I've been reading the site regularly for a few years and seen them (often Swan) break a lot of Inside Baseball type stories on the White House, which I take to mean that they have some pretty high level sources.

They also do occasional stories that look like obvious beat-sweateners[0], likely to keep that access flowing.

Overall I'd say it's a pretty good source for non-partisan news.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beat%20sweet...
Why is this article from 3 years ago on the front page?
Spending on therapy advertisement would go up during a nation-wide transition to online therapy because far more people are switching therapists — people who previously chose a therapist based on convenience of the office location suddenly no longer have to. There’s also likely more consumption of therapy overall because of unemployment and other COVID-related hardships.
Microsoft also operates Bing, Linkedin and Github in China behind the firewall, so they're apparently trustworthy enough for China too.
Probably charge a lot more and be belligerent/pushy about it.
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
National security. Why would the EU let some foreign country have access to all their citizens' private and work email, social media profiles and e-commerce purchases? Especially when it has been proved that that country's intelligence agencies have access to all of FANNG's data on EU citizens through various intelligence programs.
How does a DVB-T Transmitter know about a receiver switching channels? A DVB-S signal is just forwarded by a space relay fed by an uplink site fed by a number of stations. These are not interactive duplex media like the internet or by possibly some forms of cable TV.
>What engineer would Elon Musk be?

Elon Musk would be engineer in Industrial Engineering (sometimes Industrial Engineering and Management). Industrial engineers do just the kind of jobs Elon Musk does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering

Elon Musk has no formal engineering degree, but he clearly is industrial engineer by profession. His approach to business and problem solving is typical industrial engineering approach.

His actual degrees (BS in both economics and physics) have good overlap with undergraduate curriculum in IE.
Then you don’t hold absolute non violence as a value. You hold non violent unless violence is necessary as a value.

If you did hold absolute non violence as a value, then yes, you would not respond to violence against you with violence even in defense.

Values are not binary.
Show HN: Papyrs – a team wiki that blends markdown and drag&drop editing
2020 has certainly introduced us to a more-than-usual quota of horribleness and stupidity, but this is right up there in the top N.

Yeah, I'm likely to love the notion of half-naked wet people traipsing through my house/garden to and from my swimming pool.

Someone with a health issue (gods-forbid, a virus) swims in my pool. Another person swimming there the next day gets ill...

Someone drown in my pool. The family sues me because "You didn't have a life-guard."

"I paid to use this pool but the water's green..."

Potential for liability is endless. I won't even start on the perennial peeing in the pool problems...
Against Time Inequality: A Political Economy Designed for Time Ownership
> What if it’s impossible to see due to the rain?

Then you turn on the wipers with the button on the stalk, like most cars.
This article is more than three years old, but the story hasn't changed much. VC Summer was abandoned, leaving utility customers with massive bills. Vogtle soldiers on, but seems to be unlikely to finish.

Nucleae's problems are not the politics, the problem is that basic competency in design and construction logistics have been lost. Plans get delivered to construction that are "unconstructable," but construction soldiers on and wings it. Then it al has to go through design review again. And maybe redone. Delays delays delays. Incompetence abounds.

All the partners are planning from the beginning for a massive lawsuit at the end, and work harder to limit their liability (or create liability for others?) than to make the project work.

Executives lie about the progress, there are guilty pleas to fraud:

https://www.postandcourier.com/business/former-scana-executi...

20 years ago, I though nuclear was essential to fighting climate change. Today, I don't see how nuclear can ever help. We can't build it before it's too late, and by the time we build anything other technology has completely leapfrogged it.

We started these two AP-1000 reactors in 2008! A dozen years later we have nothing to show for it except for bankruptcy, plea deals, billions of dollars that would have been more effectively spent on solar and storage.
What Is an Advanced Beginner?
I guess the "office hours" have to be for 1-on-1s only, and then large meetings with many participants can be scheduled whenever.
It depends whether you expect the split off EU interests to be as robust from a consumer perspective as the unified companies were. I’d expect privacy to get better but I suspect other things might fall behind (e.g. Amazon’s logistics or AWS/Google Cloud offerings).
How I think about spending millions to grow a SaaS business
So if I care about performance, I would use the JVM? I spent years as a performance engineer on HFT trading systems tuning JVMs. It’s possible to get very good performance on the JVM, but it is also hard and for the layman almost impossible. Yes, it has great throughput, but only because it has to. The design of hotspot / JVM and the languages that run on it encourages massive heap allocations of gigabytes a second. I can’t think of any other language or runtime that is comparable in terms of its memory bloat. Even if you control allocations, and have happy path GCs, hotspot GC still causes occasional pauses of 10-100s milliseconds. And this is considered good.

I know that lots of people have built careers on the JVM and defend it vigorously. Whenever I make a comment that is negative on the JVM, I always get downvoted without fail on HN. I used to be one of these people, after all, so I can relate.

If I truly cared about performance these days, I’d use C++ or Rust. Otherwise, I’d use a language like golang with reasonable default GC behavior and allocation patterns - where I know the daemon I write won’t use more than 100-200Mb, and probably even less, and will typically have sub-ms pauses. I think even most scripting languages, like Ruby/Python, have reasonable memory usage and GC patterns for web development, but I’m not as familiar with them.

I probably care more about energy consumption these days though. And again, the JVM is the worst offender. The average developer building a Java web app will create something which consumes gigabytes of memory usually. These apps tend to spend the majority of their CPU time allocating and GCing memory. I can only guess how much server time has been consumed to satiate the memory hungry needs of the JVM.
I run my site on Gatsby. It's easy for me to write some markdown, push it to github, and have netlify put it online automatically.

At one point I moved it all to custom software that ran on AWS, and it was 10x harder to write anything so I gave up and moved back to Gatsby.

I don't even like Gatsby, I think it's total overkill. That said, It makes it easy for me to run the site, and that's actually what I care about.
Identifying Misleading Type Hints
It happened in the United States before the first world war, and continued for a few decades after that. Pretty long time to be called "immediately". While it was unpleasant from our current POV, it was way better than anything else at that time, and didn't end because it dissolved, but because the world wars needed funding.
Do you mean trustworthiness?

APNews is only good for the fact that something happened, not for any degree of interpretation, and you have to be on your guard for what isn't being said and what facts haven't been mentioned.

The Economist is different because they talk about only a few things and usually add a whole lot of opinion, but when I do dig deeper I find that they generally take defensible stances even if there are problems with their arguments. And if Hacker News is any indication, you'll never be able to assert anything with confidence, however well researched, without someone else asserting the exact opposite with more confidence.

My experience with Axios is that they generally avoid taking editorial positions that are obviously partisan, though they are clearly left of center on the American political spectrum (then again, I think America's current political spectrum has moved so much that the bounds of reality are now mostly left of center). When I dig deeper, I usually find that they aren't guilty of selectively presenting information. Their business model is still ad driven, so they are not immune to the classic problems of money influencing news, so I still view Axios with default skepticism.
AWS support seems fine to me. You have to do a little setup, but nothing difficult.
Therapeutic... I mean really.
Launch HN: Warp 10 – The Most Advanced Time Series Platform
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==> Warp 10 Storage Engine
The Time Series Database provided by Warp 10 is called the Warp 10 Storage Engine.
Here are some of its features:
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There's a physical button to wipe once. It's definitely possible to operate this car safely with nothing but mechanical controls. The only thing I'd like to be able to assign to the wheel controls are fog lights. It's only when you start trying to use more complex features while driving that some other cars with mechanical controls might work better.
Awesome thank you for the note. Fortunately there was a "stop antenna" button which saved the day lol.

We've been down the path of stateful services before and actually reflect the proper state in our responder. Because we control the test that is being played against the system-under-test, we understand the sequence and order of calls that will be made to the downstream system as well.

In addition, the analysis actually captures all outbound services at once. We are able to identify each separate hostname that is invoked and mock them all out as a group. One of our first alphas was stunned that it auto mocked 7 backend systems on the first try.
Well the best in my opinion is Yubikey from Yubico. Though not the $20-$25 version which is only U2F, it is still good but not the best.

The Yubikeys do more than just U2F, they also support storing 32 TOTP codes, PGP keys, and other things.

I like the Nano versions as I can leave them connected to my PC at all times.

Recommend an NFC one that you can have on your keyring as it can then be used with your phone.

In reality though almost any U2F token is all you need, and they can be purchased for about $20.
Thought this was a really cool article I happened on to.

Was actually looking for an html editor for Asp.net MVC but thought that this article was way more interesting than the product.
i remember those. A friend of mine was a network engineer at a local datacenter ( UUNET then MCI pre-scandal ) and said companies were buying Suns for everything no matter how trivial.

He worked a night shift and i use to go hang out with him in the noc and download movies (residential bandwidth was not what it is today). Odd he nor i ever get in any trouble for that heh.
it's amazing to me that the same group of people that consistently whine about unfair treatment of businesses and also china are likely the same group of people applauding the administration's taking tiktok hostage, forcing a sale with the threat of ban and wildly making up claims of what's owed to the government while u.s. companies swoop in to release competing features and for a bargain buyout.
Not exactly. We are against the way unions are implemented and make work not a free market. I'm not against your union so longs as I can decide not to join and still have equal work with you.
I don't think you're making a fair comparison.

Russia bought ads on Facebook, a US owned platform.

China has actual state actors in leadership at Tiktok's parent company Bytedance, a Chinese owned company.

In Tiktok's case there is unlimited potential for the Chinese government to influence the platform.
If this involved 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate, does that mean it was the equivalent to 2700 tons of TNT? A 2.7 kiloton bomb? That would put it at the smaller end of nuclear weapon yields, but not at the bottom.
In my experience, this is a global phenomenon that's probably driven more by management philosophy than by geography. It's endemic to e.g. luxury retailers and trickles down from there.
Good point. But a counterpoint is, it's impossible to commit a burglary if you're in your own home or vehicle. You have a legal right to be there (by full ownership or a lease granting possession), so burglary isn't possible there.
crazy back then, people were still complaining about c and c++. c, easy language to get started, but a bazooka to your foot and head.
This fixation on "US moral failings" as a stopping point for the conversation is not especially useful.

Both countries have done and are doing great things.
Both countries have done and are doing reprehensible things, and they deny it as best they can.

One country codifies individual liberty as a guiding principle (however imperfectly fulfilled).

The other eschews liberty as a distraction from the national interest, indeed it views the spread of democratic government as a threat.

US values do not require the world to become less free. Can one say the same of China?
If economic protectionism is the concern here, the US could forbid Chinese companies from doing business in the US, but not censor their platforms, apps, websites in the US just because it has no influence over those platforms to do censorship, propaganda and spying on.

But of course they are not really concerned about Chinese protectionism, they do it too just as much, only a bit differently. Control over mass communications platforms popular in the country is what it's all about, just as it is for China, Russia and other openly authoritarian countries, because this is what they deem important to protect power.
Yes, but were you a target audience of someone who would be clicking ads? You are not. My bet is that they do indeed monitor "ad clickers" and only will worry when these people start leaving en mass. Me and you - not so much.
Disney++
Isn't Google Maps search free for users and providers?

Doesn't high ad pricing mean there is a glut of supply for the service in question?

The article subject seems upset that someone else gets the customers, but that's not a problem for anyone. If the subject got the customers, that wouldn't be "fair" to their competitors.