skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are markets where a B2B sales representative who does not drink would be utterly ineffective as many potential customers won't even listen to their pitches without an alcohol-filled setting, and would not take them seriously if they would organize such a setting but don't participate themselves. The same applies for existing customers, they would refuse meetings/pitches/deals if they don't "have contact" with the assigned representative, so being a non-drinker makes someone unemployable in such roles.
Is Glycemic Index important for healthy people or is it mainly of concern to people with diabetes?

The NHS suggests the latter, but it doesn't seem to have a very strong position - unlike the article, which seems very sure that high GI is bad for you.

However, using the glycaemic index to decide whether foods or combinations of foods are healthy can be misleading.

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/wha...
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Yes, they are extremely miserable (look up "factory farming").
I think most people (who have tried psychedelics) will have a story like this, but will never share it publicly because of the obvious stigma attached with these "drugs".

Most people on HN will try to reduce these experiences and theory-craft over why/how, instead of giving in (and accepting the fact) that these things and experiences are something which have puzzled the human civilisation for ages, so instead just try it once and make your opinion then.

Now obviously some of the psychedelic purists will claim to do a higher dose to see the full potential, but I would recommend to do just a very very light dose, such that effects are noticeable but not overpowering at all.

My reasoning for a lower dose is that, our mind quickly starts craving the experiences of a higher dose (if the experience was good). Craving not in the sense of doing the psychedelics again, but craving in the sense that if-only-I-was-in-that-state-of-mind-all-my-problems-will-be-solved sense. Contrary, any bad experience(trip) can cause severe PTSD symptoms. If you see, both positive and bad trips have the same effect in some sense (just in opposite directions).

Now, with a lower dose, the chances of bad trip happening is quite lower. A bad trip happens when you feel you are losing control, chances of that happening on lower dose is very very small. From a purist perspective the lower dose does not "unlock" the full potential of the psychedelic. Of course, there is always set-and-setting which also effect what you feel and how you integrate the experience later on.

The effects of a lower dose are similar to just feeling "good" about yourself, like waking up after a good nights sleep and looking at a valley of colourful flowers without any sort of mental burden. You could be just looking at your room and feel the same way. The experience of lower doses, can also give you a window into how the affects of a good meditation session feels like.

This is not the entire picture, but I suppose I should just stop writing.
My 2c is that goodfellow is probably working on their self-driving project.
There is a fast food chain in Singapore which used the left over fibres in granola bars. At least that's what they said in a documercial: https://www.mrbean.com.sg/product-category/granola
One thing to think about with any oat based product is whether or not the oats are organic or not.

In North America, it is common practice to spray roundup on the oats just before harvest. This prepares the oats for harvest at a pre-determined time, and so is less risky to the farmer. However, the amount of roundup in the resulting product is quite high.

The organic oats are traditionally farmed and do not have this problem.

EDIT:

The Oatly FAQ has a lot of interesting info related to this discussion.

https://us.oatly.com/pages/faqs
It's an accessible scripting language designed for non-technical users.

Which is obvious. What's less obvious is that a good accessible scripting language for non-technical users renders plenty of inaccessible programming redundant. So in the bigger picture it's much less tiring than the alternative we have today, which locks users out of all but the most trivial and useless DIY web publishing.

Hypercard could easily have become the foundation for a different vision of the web. If it had, the current shitpile of competing frameworks, languages, levels of concern, and so on would have been hugely lessened.
The pictures of glowing things need something for scale.
Hi everyone,

I've been making music with synthesizers for a long time, and I always saw great ideas in DAW tools and in hardware, but never all of those ideas in one place. I wanted more music theory awareness in my compositional tools, like the ability to access easy scale changes. I wanted patterns to be symlinks, and to make it easy to have multiple patterns in a single clip.

I wrote Warp to make it happen. Today there's a Python API that can make full songs, and the work on the UI is getting started, which will be available this Fall.

The Python API doesn't technically even require using a loop, so it should be accessible to programmers who aren't Python experts.

Let me know if there are questions, and if you'd like updates, you can also follow @warpseq on twitter.
Is it true that we (not HN, but US as a geopolitical entity) have ever believed in a global internet? Seems naive. We’ve believed in the American internet purveyed by America to the world. Countries like China deployed their firewalls precisely because it is largely an American internet out there. Banning TikTok as delivered by a frenemy that sees us as its key rival for the next two hundred years makes more sense with that context.
I’m ideologically positive to vegetarianism and veganism but I’m so sick of this argument. Something being “made for humans” is in no way a positive — so is cocaine.
You almost have it. It’s not fundamentally Facebook that is broken. It’s the “curated feed”... by becoming responsible for what users see they become responsible for the effects of this curation. In the old-old days when the “feed” was just stuff from the people you deliberately added yourself. Yes there was garbage but it wasn’t spread around algorithmically in order to help increase Facebook engagement and therefore their revenues.

This was why I was so disappointed when Twitter switched the default page to the global algorithmically curated feed. The change from deliberate control by users saying “I want more of this” over to automatic and algorithmically driven control where the platform begins saying “we think you’ll like this, that, and a bunch of this extra thing because other people also like it” is the crossing of the rubicon. Once on the other side they are now undeniably responsible for the results.
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> With x, packaging in Python is a solved problem

This is the claim that has been made about every "advancement" in python packaging for the last 20 years. Some of us have been kicking around long enough to remember the great saviour being distutils, setuptools, easy_install, eggs, wheels, pip, pipfiles/pip-tools... The truth being that all people have managed to do is produce a horrific mess with an ever growing tower of components each of which never really solves the problem (and now people want me to add "tox" to the mix too!). I have to say that packaging is really the worst part of the python world.

I do my best these days to avoid every component of the python packaging ecosystem I possibly can and use Nix as much as possible, which really Just Solves The Problem.
Did you ever try to reproduce this experience and experiment with writing under the of psychedelics?
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Even if they're not in SSO, satellites are hard to hide. The timetables might be more complicated for a rank and file soldier to use, but you can time your actions to be missed by any specific low-orbiting satellite.
From my understanding, the microcode is the firmware of the CPU.

It's usually upgraded by a BIOS update or by Windows update. Windows update send driver/firmware updates, security patches or general updates if the vendor wants to support that way of distribution.

I think it's quite device specific and method specific whether the microcode can be upgraded and downgraded the same way.
Ya, let's not lump in all of the US as anti-global-internet with the orange man in the oval office's mission vs China.

The US should continue to be part of the global group of countries with the idea of an open internet vs copying China's great firewall practice.

I realize this is hard externally with Trump and perhaps internally with Pai but they do not represent the majority
When you're number crunching you usually borrow a full machine ("exclusive VM").
Vegans actually tend to have higher testosterone: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2374537/pdf/83-...

“Vegans had 13% higher T [testosterone] concentration than meat-eaters and 8% higher than vegetarians.” Not only did vegan men have as much testosterone as meat eaters, they actually have 13% MORE of this manly hormone. On the flip side, too much testosterone can be a bad thing because it leads to higher levels of IGF-I – a risk factor for certain cancers. Surprisingly, the report also found this: “Vegan men had on average 9% lower IGF-I levels than meat-eaters.”
Almond Breeze almond milk, original flavor (don't get the unsweetened version).
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Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
Doesn't China ban a bunch of US services?
That's carbs for ya
This discussion is absurd even on a linguistic level.

If you have a glass of water in your hand, you are drinking. Maybe you're not drinking alcohol, but calling it "pretending to drink" is just silly.
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I'm curious of your actual hunch, are you actually skeptical that canola (and other industrial seed oils) are not harmful?), or just pointing something out about the evidence?
I hosted a meetup on “dairy tech”. Before the presentation, I think I had an implicit assumption that cattle raised for beef were treated poorly. I came away realizing that cattle used for milk production suffer more. In the most efficient dairies, they never leave their enclosure, are kept pregnant continuously via artificial insemination, and are injected with hormones.
Not sure if we should extrapolate from one White House administration as to what the US believes.
I think all undergrad STEM programs should put A LOT MORE emphasis on mathematics and other fundamentals before bothering with heavy specializations.

The Arnold book is great, but it presumes a level of mathematical sophistication that isn't practical to achieve (at least in the US) until well into graduate school, and realistically?, only for Physics theory students or some Math students that are motivated to dive into Physics.
Agreed. My general health tip is to stop contorting ingredients to reproduce other foods -- cookies made out of cheese, milk made out of nuts, cake without gluten, etc. Most healthy ingredients are tasty on their own terms, so lean into that.

Also, read up on other traditions for breakfast foods and drinks. Many are not nearly as high in carbs and dairy as the traditional American breakfast options.
I was specifically talking about dairy farming. Pork, chicken and beef all have their own issues.
The average USA farm size is about 220 cows vs. about 70 cows in France, and the practices used in Europe as a whole are more humane (my numbers are from closed market studies published by IFCN).
These animals are very well monitored and cared for. I wouldn't want to change place with them, but then I also wouldn't trade places with many other humans around the world.
I think you also have to signal iMessages when it got it right by sending the message. I tried a lot of times teaching it how to write Hong Kong and when it got it right, I sent the message. From that point onwards it always writes Hong Kong correctly.
Dang, not looking good for the convertible lifestyle.
The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman

was a waste of money and time. It was one of the worse books I've ever read.
Going to school is unlikely to be fatal either. The benefit of going to school is greater than the risk of covid.

If you are really really that paranoid, you can home school your kids.
Well, yes. For example, the more of it you have, the likelier you are to develop prostate cancer in later life, and to have worse outcomes from that cancer. That definitely seems important. And eating lots of red meat also lowers your sperm count and quality, apparently (1) - which seems important too, at least if you're interested in siring lots of strong and healthy sons to carry on your line. Which I assume would be important, but who knows? For all I can tell based on what you've said so far, you could just have a taste for really butch tops. Which, fair! Same here. But I don't really feel the need to inquire as to their diet.

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4180710/
Column orientation is very different to object orientation.

My computer runs just fine. Do you really think pwsh is fast?
> And you can't operate free-trade style in a world where you have bad actors like China reaping all the benefits while being protectionist and therefore preventing their trade partners from seeing the same benefits.

China was pretty poor country when it opened up. When it opened, all the western companies that agreed to their terms weren't doing it just to help out but they wanted a piece of that huge marked to get rich.

China managed to get a better deal than a lot of other countries who were basically plundered. Saying China is "reaping all the benefits" is just absurd. Western countries made countless of billions in China.
Nice.

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> You can't change how trade works. That is international.

I'm arguing in favor of exactly this. I believe nations should give up on trade deals in their present form, and change to a simpler model whereby the tariffs imposed on other countries are purely a function of the ethics of that other country. And as I said, a dream at best.

But maybe with the rise in fascists who believe in protectionism, there is an opportunity soon for such a system to be put in place. It appears existing trade deals are going to be ignored or broken at the whim of the POTUS without warning anyway.

> Trade changes won't change a country behavior.

Then why does the US bother with sanctions? If they won't influence change in a country's behaviour, what's the point? By that logic, we might as well all open up trade with North Korea, right?
xargs is quite powerful and, most importantly, simple.
It's got nothing to do with "global internet", it's about a totalitarian surveillance dragnet capturing every bit of data imaginable about American children.

Tik Tok is unique in the granularity and sheer scope of what it captures, and it is stored on Chinese servers that are legally compelled to make any and all data available to the CCP with no oversight or warrants or anything of the sort.
FWIW, this technique has been known in the C++ community as "hoisting", too (often applied to templates, particularly container class templates, but also smart pointers); cf. "Designing and Coding Reusable C++" by Carroll and Ellis, 1995 (http://cpptips.com/hoisting).

"Given this, what techniques can be used to reduce template instantiation time? One technique is called "hoisting." This is a generalization of the "wrappers for pointer containers" technique that showed up as a tip within the past week or so.
The idea is quite simple: when writing a template class, consider each method in turn. If the method does not depend upon the template parameters, split the template class into a non-template base and a template derived class. Move (hoist) these parameter independent methods up into the base class.
Note that with experience, you will begin to recognize opportunities for "hoisting" even in cases where methods initially appear to depend upon template parameters."

See also "thin template" (demonstrating the technique for containers, together with a Symbian OS adoption example, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/More_C%2B%2B_Idioms/Thin_Templ...) as well as "Minimizing Dependencies within Generic Classes for Faster and Smaller Programs", Dan Tsafrir, Robert W. Wisniewski, David F. Bacon, and Bjarne Stroustrup (ACM OOPSLA 2009). https://www.stroustrup.com/SCARY.pdf

"Reducing bloat by replacing inner classes with aliases can be further generalized to also apply to member methods of generic classes, which, like nested types, might uselessly depend on certain type parameters simply because they reside within a generic class’s scope. (Again, causing the compiler to uselessly generate many identical or nearly-identical instantiations of the same method.) To solve this problem we propose a “generalized hoisting” design paradigm, which decomposes a generic class into a hierarchy that eliminates unneeded dependencies."
> But fails to mention the the moral reasons to choose oat milk over cow's milk.

This is kind a red herring. Cow's milk should be irrelevant because you don't have to choose between the two. You can leave both out if you have moral reasons to avoid cow's milk and health reasons to avoid oat milk.
Belief has nothing to do with it. This is a response to geopolitical realities. There is no virtue in believing in a fiction, even if it sounds nice.

Edit: this post was originally titled “Banning TikTok suggests that the US no longer believes in a global internet” and that is still the main idea of the article
Found a bug! Searched for my name and found a bunch of unrelated BoingBoing links.

https://hndex.org/?q=Terence+Eden

Why? Because those old posts have a "what's new" set of links. One of which contains my name. I'd suggest only searching the `<main>` element, perhaps?
Health claims surround milk substitutes, without the necessary evidence.

Dr Jason Fung writes about an over emphasis on data gathered from experiments with mice that guide public health recommendations. I think that's an important point. A lot of effects in animal studies haven't been observable in humans.
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The paper "A Retrospective on the VAX VMM Security Kernel" (1991) presents a summary of analysing timing sidechannels in things like hard drive arm movements as prior art from 1977 in section VI.E, while explicitly addressing more usual timing side channels with various references to 1991 papers. One of their solutions to address timing side channels was fuzzy time (seem familiar?).
So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit
I’m not so sure your example is the best at “bad common sense” - I can see a ton of use cases where this is useful for a lot of users. For example, you live in the suburbs next to a highway, and your route home is usually 15 min. You get the notification and see today it’s 30 min because there is an accident. Instead you take the back roads or wait at work a little longer for it to clear. The directions aren’t the value, the time estimates are because in your mind you can’t know current traffic conditions of the highway. It’s a replacement for the 4:30 PM traffic updates on the radio station.

Also it works well with the “share ETA” feature where you can automatically share your ETA with family when you start directions home.

And anecdotally, my google home does the same thing at 5pm every day...but it gives me directions “home” from “work” when it is actually routing me to my old house which I moved from 6 months ago. My home address is updated and the old one removed, so
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They easily could (I think it would take the average HN user no more than a couple of hours to implement this functionality), but they won't, because they're very reluctant to make changes.

This is also why HN still looks like a site from the 90s, instead of New Reddit (thank God).
It's a running joke. A lot of stereotype of Japanese people simply doesn't apply to Osaka.

Eating while walking? Check. Jaywalk? Check. Cross road on pedestrian red? We do it all the time.
I haven’t seen this in the comments but its one reason I wonder why convertibles sell so well in the UK. I have a sun roof and i hardly ever use it because i hate the smell of exhaust. I may use the sunroof on a coastal road once in a while but not for long periods. I chose the car i drive because it has a hepa filtration system built into the climate control. I agree with comments about pollution but i must add that as a motorcyclist for a decade in London i blamed most pollution on short journeys like school runs. During school breaks the roads were much cleaner. So getting everyone to commute to work by bike won’t fix the problem when from experience most of the pollution is parents taking kids to school!
Ok, I understand that. It does suck in these situations. But the higher granularity also has situations in which it is beneficial.

It probably just depends on your particular workflows whether the good outweighs the bad or the other way around.
I once worked in an office with fake windows---just some blinds hung over a small recess in the wall.

When our team first arrived in the office, a colleague walked over to them and said something along the lines of `let's get some sunlight in here' before opening them to reveal the deception.
Regenerative braking helps with pollution, since you're not wearing a brake pad, just running the motor in reverse.
I guess it was not only unknown for the public. Processors had been so slow nobody most often you did use one server for one application, those machines did not have enough compute power for multiple workloads simultaneously.
It should be clear to all but the most biased that:

1. Chinese companies are extensions of the state. This is not true to the same degree for US or European companies; and

2. China deliberately restricts access to the Chinese market so no foreign company will "win" there. It will always be a Chinese company. This is why companies kowtowing the China is so pointless.

Trade is about reciprocity. Separation from the state is a national security issue. China is not playing by the same rules as everyone else is. The only shocking thing about this is that it's taken what is otherwise the worst president in America's history (and someone who, with his family, should probably all be in jail for various reasons) to demand reciprocity and to point out the obvious.

Yet the carrot of the Chinese market remains for Western companies and those companies have pressured (if not outright bought) their governments to play along in a completely rigged game they cannot win.
Not providing value anymore?
1. Nobody beat Covid-19, it’s a virus and New Zealand hasn’t become immune yet

2. New Zealand has no crowded cities

3. New Zealand has extremely conservative immigration laws

4. Importing the virus to NZ is geographically far more difficult than for Australia, the US, Europe or the UK where London alone has the world’s busiest airport I believe?

5. New Zealand has more sheep than humans

6. People in New Zealand are spread. I was n both islands and sometimes I could drive for half an hour from one house to the next one

Maybe New Zealand is fortunate due to the hard facts or maybe only people in New Zealand have some miraculous way of beating the virus. Hmm which one is it?
Try applesauce for cereals, works for me. But all these foods are used in sweet meals that I feel I'd rather stay away from. Bacon & eggs is a better breakfast, salty nuts a better snack etc. ...
You can criticize the health of anything like this. There isn't a comparison; how healthy is it compared to cow milk? The comparison to coke is ridiculous.

Some sugar and canola oil doesn't even seem bad to me, seems perfectly fine. Especially given that I think it tastes way way better than other alternatives, without making me feel sick and having ethical/moral issues.