skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that’s quite a straw man. In order to say we don’t require meat, we have to know what the correct diet for humans are, which we unfortunately don’t. Nutrition literature is littered with contradictions, debates, and mostly recommendations based off of correlation (epidemiology) studies.

Not throwing everything that’s been studied in nutrition by any means, but research areas like the gut micro biome are in their infancy, and we’ve yet to really study the effects food has on this complex system. We’ve had instances of saturated fats being painted as causing heart disease, red meat causing cancer, or sugar not being that bad for you. Each either having a perverse financial incentive to get specific results, or they used poor methodologies.

This also assumes a plant based diet is the most optimal diet for humans, which I’d disagree with, especially on the account that most plant-based diets lack nutrients that are only derived from meat based products. Yes you can supplement, but now the bioavailability is changed, and typically supplements target a single or few nutrients, and rarely has the full spectrum of what the particular food has for nutrient ratios.

For instance, what’s the effect on the gut microbiome when we use a supplement vs the nutrient “from the source”? We know there exists a difference in how our bodies react, just not the full picture of effects.

If your ethics supersedes what could (emphasis) be a more optimal life, or if plant based diet works better than meat based anecdotally, then have at it. But we shouldn’t be dictating policy or pushing for cultural changes on things we don’t have a full understanding on, especially when we don’t know the full implications of any one human diet.

Comparing meat eating to, if I’m reading between the lines correctly, hedonic pleasures of Netflix and alcohol, is fallacious, perverse, and dogmatic. I would go so far as to say restricting meat consumption on a policy level is unethical.
I can't recall when I found it about it, and OSX already has it - one of Windows' neatest tricks is being able to do some regular file operations in the standard open/save dialogs. It saved me countless clicks over the years at $WORK.

Was Windows the first to allow this, or was there some antecedent? There are 'modern' Linux GUI toolkits which still do not allow this, like GTK's GtkFileChooser which apparently lives in the dark ages (no thumbnail support there either).
Maybe watching Comcast employees use a microscope when fusing individual fibers together when installing their service has made me feel like sticking my own connectors on fiber is a bad idea.

The thin diameter is a nice feature, but the ease of breaking them would keep me from installing them anywhere copper wiring provides adequate performance.
Definitely agreed - for anyone that thinks they might be getting too pulled into negative news, reddit upvotes, endless scrolling, video games, etc., https://defetter.com is nice guide - stumbled on it about a month ago.
And don't forget trademark and copyright bullies. There's a whole bunch of brands that try to restrict distribution of their authentic products using trademark law - see e.g. https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/11/17661254/bethesda-sell-use..., or my previous comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22079904.

As I've mentioned several times on HN, I'm currently suing TP-Link for asserting false IP claims against me. We actually just amended to add new antitrust claims, which might work, being that TP-link is the largest manufacturer in the WiFi router market by far.
There isn't the "universal scientist" like a Leonardo da Vinci anymore as there are too much knowledge, but scientists who have broader impact do exist, while most science is in specialisation these days - we are so deep in many fields, that going deeper can't be done equally well in multiple fields.
What if you routinely want to look at multiple windows? Can you easily choose which windows are not dimmed of the many on your desktop?
That struck me as odd too. I never pick up my phone when I have my computer in front of me. Everything my phone does, my computer can do better, including taking and making calls and texts via google voice.
Where does the motivation come from to learn a n-th new tool that you know will turn to useless knowledge in 2-3 years time? If one can be assures that what they learn will be useful and the utility will compound in the future, as in the musician’s exercises then I see no problem.
Learn something new from someone old.

The way I have found mentors is by starting with taking lessons in a skill from people, which establishes the necessary boundaries in the relationship. If they are the best at what they do, mentoring becomes the effect of the relationship itself, since mastery above the skill is what you are learning.

Mentoring someone means sharing the right experience at the right time, which means you have to be around to do it, so it's less of a transaction than a way of relating, but it can start with the lessons/transaction based relationship.
Yes we should not have taken masks that would go to the NHS but don't forget those masks should have been in government stockpiles well out of reach. How can we blame and punish the publics self control (or lack of it) when it's a government failure that caused the issue. Had we all bought masks and the state made them instead of redundant hospitals perhaps we would be in a much better place (less NHS casualties and physical/mental suffering).

All in all it just doesn't sit right with me to justify the government's decision without mentioning they were the ones that put us in the position where it had to be made.
wow i had no idea, where can i learn more?
That's a really long article to say what we already know: That "expert" means to know in detail a narrow thing.

It hasn't been possible to be a true polymath in like 500 years. Surely this isn't news to the author?

There's no such thing as "an expert on everything"? Yeah, no shit. It's almost tautology, due to the limitations on human brains and the advancement of science since the renaissance.

Another way I think this article misses the point is that they're not dragging Sundar in front of congress because he knows everything about Google (he can't), nor for the congresspeople to learn it (they can't, even if Sundar knew, and could convey, and had infinite time).

They do not start from "let's understand everything first", because they can't. They are dragging them in to answer a question.

You don't need to know the lunch schedule of the San Bruno office, or how many registers the x86 processor has, to answer the question of how political ads should look in today's world (or whatever the question is).

So the article doubly misses the point.
>not sure why anyone thought Python's syntactically relevant whitespace was ideal for a config file.

Because it reduces syntactic noise and increases informational density.

Most other serialization formats end up putting in indentation anyway to make them readable (JSON, TOML).
The writeup is not so much about the semantics of the words, but more about the fact that there are so many moving parts designed by diverse teams that no one individual (or even team) has a complete enough understanding of the whole that's sufficient to predict it's consequences on society in relation to its values.
Nginx Location Match Tester
Game Dev Excited by Two Games Coming to Epic Games Store
This is an open dataset. There's no point selling a dataset that's already free.

As far as recording things I didn't consent to, the likes of Google way more likely to do that[1].

1 - https://mashable.com/article/google-assistant-microphone-smo...
Too much padding.

Blurry text (there is still no sub pixel antialiasing).
One in Three Americans Would Not Get Covid-19 Vaccine
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/14/youll-never-guess-what-app...
Microsoft Launches Open Service Mesh
Copying isn't stealing. Without Linux support I wouldn't buy the product anyway.
> detox

What does that even mean? If your body contained toxins that you needed to « detox », you’d be having a pretty bad day and kidney failure.

Detox is meaningless. It’s not like your body is « polluted » and and you can only clean it by « detoxing ».
The difference with CodeGuru is that, AWS didn't sue them, its Google which decided to bury it in the search results in favour of something relatively new and the context of the article seems to be why AWS named their product like that.

So, this doesn't seem like a good advise to me for that context -

>Major lesson here, if you run a major site in the US and did not deposit the name (maybe it grew organically over the years?), now is a good time to do it.

Can AWS trademark CodeGuru now? I don't think it will be able to do so with basic prior art rules as actual MS CodeGuru has supposedly existed for over 20 years dealing with programming but different core purpose than AWS CodeGuru.

So, I don't think the suggestion to trademark our existing product name in fear of a monolith taking it over seems absurd. Trademark/Patents doesn't automatically provide justice, like any other legal affair it's the 'power' to enforce that TM/Patent via a court that counts and the monolith always has more power[1].

What needs to be done here is changes to trademark/patent laws and justice system which doesn't automatically put those without money at disadvantage like the 5 member meal planner company having pear logo just because I think Apple wants to put in their own meal planner app.

[1]https://hitstartup.com/myths-about-patents-and-trademarks-in...
Unity 2020
Tell me you mean EU, or enlighten me which country is no longer part of Europe?
I had the same thought. They say memory, but it’s unlikely they mean RAM here.

512gb of SSD should fit 5 days x 2 HD cameras @ 30fps, so I’m pretty sure that’s what they mean.
Aren't digital signatures the best solution we have for this problem?

Commercial entities want to have the priviledge of being able to modify the content submitted by content creators, but the culture of trusting i.e. Twitter over client verification needs to change.
A video being taken down just corroborates their belief that there is some deep conspiracy behind X event
> winning so far

Given PayTM’s losses[1,2], I find “winning” an odd choice of words.

The reality is that digital payments in India experienced an artificial “bump” following India’s ill-thought demonetisation experiment, which has evaporated since. And what growth there is, is on vendor-neutral UPI (which Facebook, Google, Jio et al can all use) rather than proprietary e-wallets like PayTM.

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...

[2] https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/paytm-sees-its-losse...
totally agree, on all counts. I'm getting back into typescript dev and tried lerna... I couldnt get it working after a week of trying. It probably does work, just lack of tutorials makes it a really steep learning curve. Then I found an out-of-passing mention to Rush and !!! Heft is great. PNPM is great (hadn't known about that either)
Yes this is what I understand to be the case also.
I'd go farther and say that I specifically don't want the million Alexa skills out there. A system that let me write my own intents with access to the top-level namespace would be ideal, but it would absolutely need to come with good hardware. That's where Alexa/Google have the upper hand currently, I think.
"In most of the experiments, the beetles reappeared within six hours, slipping out of a frog's anus, or vent. Though muscles typically hold the vent tightly shut, those muscles loosen up when the frog poops; the beetles could be stimulating the frogs' defecation reflex in order to temporarily open this unusual emergency exit, according to the new study."
Are you implying that Intel's microchip architecture engineers were doing a job qualitatively different from software engineers of today? That they were mainly consumers of technology, and not creating it? Genuinely having trouble understanding your response.
It's actually rather difficult to break cladded G.657 fiber, and it's much cheaper than copper. Now, at the splice point where you must strip the cladding you are correct it is very fragile. At that point you heat shrink on a splint with a steel rod in it which protects it (and typically place that in a splice case).
That number may be different because of a lower survival chance of women combined with a lower incidence rate. I read several articles that suggested much higher rates for men, as do the heart disease deaths, I suppose. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30354377/ lists 63% male.

As for AED: It's the guideline in Germany, but we've also had a push for public availability, with most schools, banks, malls, larger offices etc having a portable one on site. I got to train with it during a first aid refresher recently, and it definitely taught me that I might need treatment as well if I'm to do CPR for 12-15 minutes.
Watch challenging clips or lectures. I had feedback on my thesis on nonparametric Bayesian methods and started two days ago watching lectures on topology and convergence. It somehow unlocked concepts that made it much easier to grog the feedback, even though it was not directly related.
I get your points but wheat is $200/ ton[0] (US, 2019) so it transportation is potentially a significant part of the total cost.

As you said, simply finding ways to reduce the cost (in $ and CO2) of transporting field grown wheat is probably better than co-locating a vertical farm.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/675822/average-prices-us...
> You're missing a sarcasm mark.

I don’t see any sarcasm there.
People have to be careful when splicing fiber when every dB of loss is important, but modern fusion splicers make it pretty easy.

For just running between houses, I've seen links working over fiber that was cleaved with linesmens pliers before a crimp on connector was added.
There’s one app that’s available in some European countries and a separate one for others.

I don’t remember the exact breakdown, but I believe one covers some of the Asian countries (where Google Play is available)
For sure, if copper works, it’s more practical and slightly cheaper for most situations :)

Regarding the connectors, check out https://www.fs.com/de-en/products/35165.html for details. In particular, they come with a pre-installed and polished fiber, that then only needs to be matched to your fiber using an already-installed matching gel.

It seems like a pretty well thought-out system to me thus far.
Well it took me 35 years but I escaped religion despite being indoctrinated from a young age. And leaving was a difficult choice but education and evidence were the keys that freed me.

Piercing cognitive biases is hard, maybe harder if those most in need feel forced.
> Config-lint is a promising framework that lets you write custom checks for Kubernetes YAML manifests using a YAML DSL. But what if you want to express more complex logic and checks? Isn't YAML too limiting for that? What if you could express those checks with a real programming language?

Having recently worked a little bit with YAML for Kubernetes and HCL for Terraform, I really wish they had both just used "a real programming language" right from the start. I'll choose Racket because I know it best, but there are probably many languages that would work well. You could expose very nearly the same configuration language, but backed by a real programming language. I bet this would make some of the tools the author lists at the end (eg copper, config-lint) much easier to write, or perhaps not necessary at all.

And the author didn't mention Helm, but I will. The part of Helm I saw seemed to be a lot of work just to add "functions with parameters" to Kubernetes YAML, something we could have had for free using "a real programming language" from the start: https://helm.sh/docs/chart_template_guide/functions_and_pipe...

Why are so few configuration languages not backed by a real language?
Twitter and reddit, if you tune what you follow correctly, are invaluable for keeping up with the things that are important to you professionally. Especially if you are responsible for security, following the right people on Twitter is the best way to make sure you know about new vulnerabilities quickly.

Twitter and Reddit are flexible enough that you can use them strictly professionally and be better for it.
This is my problem too
Show HN: Monitor the internet attack surface of various cloud accounts
The average sedentary individual is way more likely to be dehydrated. Physical exertion is going to deplete both hydration and salts, via sweat.

I am a runner and a weight lifter and a former Sergeant in the army. Dehydration is overwhelmingly more frequent than electrolyte depletion. Even when there's no physical exertion involved.
This either works out of the box or it is something that PowerToys added (which I have installed, so I do not know for sure).

Also very useful: the windows-key shortcut overview that the PowerToys added (keep the windows-keypressed for a second or two to bring it up).
Amour was so brutal to me but it really touched me. I highly recommend this movie.
Have you tried The Economist?
This is on point, but we need to be clear on the direction of causality, which I believe you have correct, though I'll try to state it more clearly:

The human mind and body is predisposed for social cohesion through shared narrative, and this exposed a weakness in our psychology: we are, as groups, extraordinarily gullible.

As a result we have religion, conspiracy theories, politics, and crime.

It remains to be seen whether this is an evolutionarily fit strategy.
Soviet tank crew wore padded helmets inside their tanks to protect their heads from impacts with the sides and equipment, e.g. while crossing rough terrain or from ill-considered sudden movement
To reply to both of your respondents at once,

> Of course, each language extension changes the syntax and/or semantics of the language, so in order to "learn Haskell" I'd have to learn one or more flavors/styles of it – and there doesn't seem to be one standard set of language extensions that are commonly used

> It seems like every Haskell project makes use of a different subset of 10 to 20 language extensions, each of which requires some deep knowledge of type theory to understand how it affects the language.

These comments are both pretty off the mark. It's unhelpful to think of language extensions (the most commonly-used ones at least) as extending the language. It's more that there is one overall Haskell language and the absence of a particular language extension disables a particular feature. The language is, by and large, more coherent with language extensions turned on, not less coherent.
My big concern is modifying the electrostatic properties of the fibers which is how much larger fibers stop much smaller particles (order of 10x-100x). It looks like moderate heat and no humidity in this study didn't have those effects. Hoping this can be peer reviewed soon!
People can be coerced (fooled, cheated, etc) into believing that they are 'willingly' abandon their rights. This hypothetical example isn't similar to the case we're discussing here in this thread.
Trump vs. TikTok: Understanding the U.S. President's Arm Wrestling with TikTok
Any CRM app.
Are they really NIOSH approved? NIOSH doesn’t approve KN95 masks[1]. Also, I thought elastic straps have to go around the head instead of the ears to obtain approval.

Can we see the approval certificate?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/usernotices/counterfeitResp....
On this site you can fly Microsoft Flight Simulator 1-4 directly in the browser. Have fun.

https://github.com/s-macke/FSHistory
Bill Gates on Covid-19: Most US tests are “completely garbage”
It took me a second to grasp that a type of parrot is responsible for attacking and eating sheep. Even if it's a large parrot, the fact that a 1kg bird can tear and eat the living flesh off a 100kg ruminant is remarkable.
With Nearly a Billion Users Worldwide, Should We Be Afraid of TikTok?
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If the technology is too hard to understand for the masses it's unlikely to provide much resistance to desinformation campaigns.
Be kind to yourself and know that a fair swathe of the early years of life are necessarily of low agency.
Sure, that's the time we learned why feature branches and not releasing often sucks :) And yes, you sometimes had "staging" track your trunk, when you would be missing a staging environment for production where you'd want to test critical fixes, so ultimately, you needed both then.
We are. I want to say we're using UV but I'm not 100% on that.
Everybody hates typing meeting notes into predefined fields. Can you peel the onion a bit?
I personally think one aspect that doesn't get much attention is the matter of public education. At the arrival of the pandemic here in Germany the initial advice was to seriously implement hygiene rules: 1.) Wash hands thoroughly and often, 30 sec long, plenty of regular household brand hand soap, 2.) When coughing or sneezing, turn away from others and put your elbow in front of your face and 3.) Keep distance of minimum 1.5 meters and 4.) Limit contact with people outside your home environment wherever possible.

Assuming everyone followed this advice, at that particular moment we didn't need masks so much (most people were in lockdown anyway) and besides the fact that there were not enough medical masks to go around, there was more danger in using generic face coverings than not because the average Joe didn't know how to do so safely and the virus was not yet under any sort of control.

Around Mid-May, we had a different circumstance. The general public had taken the hygiene rules to heart and been in lockdown quite awhile and the sun came out - Spring sprang, the numbers went down (thanks to lots of cooperation from the general public) and that was when the public education effort went in to the next phase: To give official advice and instruction on how to properly handle face coverings in a way that they help instead of hinder.

Meanwhile everyone, even Grandparents, my mother, and some people's recalcitrant Uncles know how to use Skype and Zoom. We wash hands like surgeons, we can and do handle face coverings without making ourselves sick and I think, for a public education effort that started 5 months ago and was directed at 90 million people, that is simply huge. I try to remain wary of the impulse to judge what we did yesterday with what we know today.
Not exactly the same thing, but I have 3 physical monitors in Windows and when I need to go into focus-mode I sometimes use an application called MultiScreenBlank[1] to dim or blank out the screens I do not want to bother me.

[1]: http://multiscreenblank.nookkin.com/
A Curious Tale of Rust TLS and Postgres in the Cloud
Yunolone: A crowd-sourced platform for availability of items in stores
> I’ve made my living breaking all the “rules” and by doing everything wrong.

I'd like to hear more about this.
Haha very funny, classic xkcd
Yesterday I walked through a cloud of gnats with my mask on. I breathed in. No gnats got through. That's something!
*almost all social media. We're still here on HN, after all
I think Kong* does this rather well. They have a usable open source product that has a lot of the core functionality and it more than enough for small businesses and hobbyists. They also provide enterprise support and a enterprise products which includes functions that are typically used by enterprises (like fine grained auth).

* https://konghq.com/
> compiling those into executables

Ha, never knew you could do that. Pretty cool.
Assigning programs/roles to certain screens helped me there. For example the left monitor is the browser, the center the editor and the right for consoles.

Though when a task only needs one screen for more than a couple of minutes to stay focused shutting off the other screens does help.