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What is "scientific reality" in this case?

Look at this paragraph. It jumped right out at me, why is nobody else commenting on this?

The next day all those patients were gone and the only thing coming in to the hospital was covid. Practically everyone who was tested had covid, regardless of what the presenting symtom was. People came in with a nose bleed and they had covid. They came in with stomach pain and they had covid.

What sort of disease has no specific symptoms at all? I thought COVID patients were presenting with an unusual form of dry pneumonia?

If you look at the history of epidemiology and virology, it is unfortunately filled with stories of misinterpreted data leading to incorrect belief that a virus was the underlying cause. For a long time diseases caused by vitamin deficiencies were blamed on viruses although none actually existed.

When you read that some doctors experience of COVID was "people turned up as normal but suddenly they were all testing positive", you do have to wonder what is going on. I thought COVID patients in hospitals were clearly COVID patients by symptoms, but the list of associated symptoms seems to keep widening. That's confusing and worrying indeed.
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It’s fun to do this across a variety of basic states.

Drunk vs. Sober
Tired vs. Awake
Hungry vs. Satiated

Amazing how dramatically each changes your perspective.
Thanks for sharing, very interesting paper!
> AFAIU, discovery of Meltdown slightly predates Spectre, or at least the point at which the implications began to blow up. The Meltdown and Spectre papers were published the same month Foreshadow was discovered and privately reported. It seems two researchers were involved with both Foreshadow and the earlier Spectre work, but that doesn't mean they would have or should have fully grasped the deeper relationships. And all of this happened over 2 1/2 years ago. Since then researchers' understanding of the underlying issues has improved greatly.

I'm under the impression that the side channels created by caches and speculative execution have been known publicly (but with limited reach/impact) as far back as the 90s. E.g. the 1991 paper "A Retrospective on the VAX VMM Security Kernel" mentions data security problems and the creation of side channels when processor caches are used.
I think the point was that they were allowed to destroy the evidence or at least did not get punished for it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20672436
Not GP but if you mean that

> A Nobel prize doesn't automatically make somebody a good teacher.

is mistaken by pointing to Weiman, could you elaborate on that, please?
That is possible, also viruses can make bacteria deadly, check this
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417195827.h...
You say that like it's a bad thing! Async work is a solvable problem. I want a fairer world.
TLDR; the sugars in Oatly have an extremely high GI and it contains Canola oil which has been linked to a variety of health issues. Their marketing cleverly dismisses or minimises these concerns in a similar way to the fizzy drinks or tobacco industry.

I was surprised that the article didn't mention the comparative lack of protein in Oatly when compared to milk, and as others have mentioned, it also ignores the ethical considerations.
Are you saying this is an unsolvable conundrum? You can't have good autocorrection with massive privacy violations?

I'm not sure I believe that.
To be fair traffic is not the only factor in Delhi's pollution. Another thing is crop burning in Punjab and Haryana, which some people even claim is the biggest cause for the pollution.

You can see it has an effect as Delhi's pollution drastically differs between different times of year, which generally correlate with the time of crop burning.
Make your own oat milk. There are many recipes available online and the process is simple.
Not to appear petty, or to give the impression that I care about internet points (full disclosure: I am and I do), but I posted this on HN with the exact same title and link 3 hours ago. Wondering how this didn't get flagged as a dupe?
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So what you're saying is, vegan men are more likely to die with a healthy prostate and a full head of hair.
Same with hot chocolate drink made with water instead of milk. I had that served once and couldn't believe my eyes.
Would you rather they drive 20 miles first to jog?

The reality for most people in a city is that to exercise they inevitably first need to escape 5 miles worth if clogged up car arteries.
I mean yes I agree that Oatly is a crap company.

But cow milk in general (and especially in Whole Milk form) is well proven to be unhealthy in the quantities usually recommended.

There’s a good reason why nobody else drinks milk like Americans do. (Who were advertised to insanely aggressively and back room dealings brought about things like making Milk a standard in US schools.) Oatly is still really bad but the root problem is that in the US we drink more milk than anyone else...and we really don’t need it.
I don't have the mathematical maturity to comment on the rigour of the bras and kets, but as to heat and work I was referring to thermodynamics in the sense of Carnot and co.

I picked Zemansky and Dittman off the shelf in the library and it's honestly really nice little book - the aim here is for intuition (particularly for experiment) while also making connections to the more theoretical perspective found in L&L (in my case this is because I can't be bothered to read 300 pages of formalism to get to the applications although YMMV). It is quite handwavey in the ways that you describe but I think that is the jazz that the great physicists played in order to get the result in the first place.
To do that requires a deeper knowledge of how the language makes use of the stack than the OS can do.
I often hear that argument but isn't the reverse argument also true?
While the JVM has access to information and language semantics useful for threading, that the kernel doesn't have access to.
Doesn't the kernel have access to useful information for threading that the JVM green threads doesn't have access to?
The one information that come to my mind is being aware of all threads from all programs and not only the ones from the JVM.
So could next generation green threads have some access to some of this information? Could this enable greater performance?
If so, how? Could Google futex wait help there?

they have their uses, too, and the expectation is that when they arrive, Java will support them, too, as a third implementation of threads.
Great to hear that but I hope that their use cases will be well defined and not overlap too much with loom.
wild idea : could the JVM loom scheduler at runtime convert a green thread into google thread & vice versa?
That could help performance, especially on pathological cases?

Finally, I believe that say 1000 green threads actually reduce to a thread pool of kernel threads encapsulated by the JVM, if this belief is correct, then the real kernel threads underlying the green threads could benefit from being futex wait kernel threads?
This is going to be the issue those in groups or made relationships with those often in person are at present fine with.
But those who haven't or as new teams and personnel come on board they will possibly not make that same real bond.

I think in 6, 12 or 24 months possibly longer for some. Many will regret when they look back they didn't realise what was really going on with the company. They just heard from their contacts and also heard what people wanted them to. They got stuck in a silio.

The new section of the office where a team was parachuted in which somehow has an impact.

How do people expect to form casual but often extremely useful contacts with the people who really know what's going on in other teams, department, divisions or other locations?

You won't hear the gossip from your workmate who works early or late, the postroom, the security guard or receptionist about that out of hours meeting the management team had or whatever.

How will you really know of you haven't been offered a poisoned promotion?

To a degree your rely on being told the full picture by those with the overview. Which is likely to be the management. Which no doubt may happen in many places the majority of times until the one time it really affected you or your team.

For example a group of us headed in to the Riverside sub office on the outskirts of London by the Thames yesterday. For aircon offices and a r oriverside pint at lunchtime as the UK had its hottest August day in 17 years.

Straight away those who caught on a group of us had met up in the office started to wonder why? With a number of messages and calls wondering what we were up to.

While we bonded and had a change of scenery. Some of those at home, for no reason got paranoid.
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The question is who is the actor with good faith though. The US is arguably the player with the most foreign aggressive interventions (often economic) since WW2. The US is all about free trade when it benefits them but the second that is no longer the case, it's over with fair free trade.
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Surely you’re not implying devs in Europe are somehow inferior to devs in the US?
I earned my PhD in physics at Penn and Columbia, helping build a satellite still taking data (XMM-Newton). I love physics. I loved learning physics.

Physics is not math. It is an experimental field. Ctrl-f experiment yields no results on that page. Ctrl-f lab shows only results in the comments. I love that that page exists, but it's missing the physical component of physics. Learning only theory may serve many people, but it doesn't serve the field.

Now that I teach project-based learning, albeit in leadership not physics, I see huge gaps in my physics education about experiment, curiosity, doing things with our hands, realizing we can test things ourselves. Most lab classes I took walked us through known results so we could write the data we were supposed to find if we measured wrong -- the opposite of science.

If you want to be a theorist, great, but distancing physics from what anyone can do seems to make it less accessible.

For example, I work on sustainability. People routinely seem shocked that their turning on a light switch or air conditioner necessarily today means somewhere some power plant had to convert that energy from something else, polluting in the process.
Its also quite possible were just looking at the past through rose coloured lenses.

When reading about how past civilizations live you only read the condensed version, the highlights. Whereas when loving modern times every little flaw and problem is visible, you spend 24 hours a day living it, not just 10 minute on highlights.
Probably because OP posted it twice, the first time was 19 hrs ago.
I guess in few months the question will be "What tech companies does not allow fully remote ?
Completely agree, I'd probably say my favourite latte is with almond milk, but I wouldn't call it a dairy latte alternative since it has a radically different flavour.

I found the same thing with yoghurt. Instead of trying to chase after a dairy alternative (like Alpro - which is a close flavour but wrong texture), I switched to coconut yoghurt. It's not going to fool anyone into thinking it is dairy, but none-the-less I think it is a superior switch in.
Couldn't agree more. I really don't get the "fad" behind oat milk. I think it's just a lot of good marketing.

Personally, I prefer no added sugar almond, coconut, and hazelnut milk.
He is actually hated fervently by a large crowd that believes in various Covid conspiracy theories. Most any recent video of Gates on Youtube will have top comments that are along these lines.
what about just drinking water and eating berries? I kid you not, you will feel so much better.
I've tried pretty much all variants of milk substitutes and found that they all disappoint me. The best way to enjoy porridge without milk is adding other flavors: mashed banana, raisins, cinnamon, grated apple, prunes, blueberries, cranberries, dried apricots... This goes for overnight oats as well.
It's hard to disentangle cause and effect though. Countries that were very hard hit also had the most extreme government reactions to it. This can compromise the efficiency of the healthcare system, for example, I've read that in Spain at the peak of the epidemic many nurses and doctors were self-isolating because they'd tested positive, so there was a huge loss of healthcare capacity. Then later on it was discovered that a lot of positive tests are asymptomatic and asymptomatic people don't transmit the disease, so this just hurt healthcare capacity for no reason.

Many countries had problems with care home workers abandoning their jobs, for example to return to their home countries before borders closed. There are some quite horrific stories of the terrible conditions created in care homes in some of the places with excess death spikes.

The imagery of ice-rink morgues etc had a similar effect. There was no real demand surge for morgue space, but undertakers were refusing to work until they were supplied with ample PPE because they thought they would be infected by the bodies with a killer virus. Same story in Bergamo. So then a sudden shortfall in PPE was converted into a shortfall in funeral capacity, even though at that point there was no sudden tsunami of bodies. This then led to more panic especially amongst health system workers.

It's very hard to disentangle what really went on here.
I guess that kind of makes sense, thanks :)

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Well actually, after you say that, I realize there is a more basic concept here.

The basic concept is that when alcohol causes problems for people, the culture blames the person and assumes they are an outlier and have something wrong with them (they are addicted, or "can't handle their alcohol"). This is false, because alcohol has detrimental effects for everyone.

Because acknowledging that alcohol can be generally problematic or sometimes dangerous for the population overall might lead to people's fun being curtailed. So anytime things get out of hand, which is every single weekend, that person who had the problem with alcohol is labelled an alcoholic, rather than acknowledging that the alcohol actually caused everyone some problem (for example, a hangover) and that particular person just had it worse than other people.

Personally, I think that there are simple ways to apply technology to help limit excessive intoxication, especially in places like bars. Count the number of drinks with an app or something. Its too easy and too common for individuals and groups to become excessively intoxicated which is damaging to their health and dangerous in terms of vehicle operation etc. So the level of alcohol consumption needs to be monitored and taken much more seriously, rather than just blaming the victim in any case where an impaired person or group makes the wrong decision to have another drink.

I think this BS about people being broken if they can't "handle their liquor" actually helps perpetuate alcohol problems because people actually try to "prove" that they can "handle it". And it goes along with a culture that over-emphasizes how much enjoyment people have from alcohol.
I could see that being true. I think there are reasons for it.

I would argue that in many cases, American foreign (incl trade) and domestic (incl fiscal) policy have a greater impact on other countries' economies than do their own respective heads of state/government. Whether you like it or not, the strength of the relationship with the US is a major factor for the prosperity of many nations.

I think this is a big part of why people like Bolsonaro and Netanyahu use Trump's imagery when they campaign. Externally, it signals receptiveness to US interests. Domestically, it signals prosperity and security.

Also, the USA exports its culture to the rest of the world via TV, film, music, and the internet. Politics is a natural offshoot of that.

Some countries circulate US currency. Others peg their currency to the dollar. Petrostates do business in the dollar because that's the base currency for crude oil trading.
Atlassian has the Google problem: buying and half-ass integrating a competitor, shipping new features, that gives promotions to the people involved, but "menial maintenance" is not seen as necessary anywhere...
Reminds me of this story: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a29373/tobacco-an...
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> The article does not mention cow milk's health implications, and only focuses on debunking Oatly's alleged health benefits

The article links to an entire other article discussing cow milk's health implications.

> If both options are equally unhealthy (which is at the minimum the biased impression the article gives by not discussing cow milk), at the minimum the moral one should be chosen.

Cow's milk and oat milk aren't the only two alternatives, though. Milk substitutes abound, some of them having much better health and moral implications (and as discussed in this thread, milk substitutes can be made at home).
So does eating meat.
The article is pretty obfuscated. They don't say what the SDK does or is called or how to learn more about it. Location data however is only available to the app if the user gives permission to collect it, which I presume happens because of some other reason and the app developers fail to mention that its more than just the primary use of location.
Would compare them to Mountain Dew, but the headline wouldn’t look as good.
A native elder once told me, "You can't trust a drinker, the're already lying to themselves that drinking poison is OK."
I asked my vegan friends if they’d rather these animals would not exist at all rather than be used for milk production (because they are only bred into existence for that).

I wonder how that logic applies to humans born into living in rough countries, would vegans rather they would not exist at all?

It’s not like a dairy cow has a life of eternal suffering after all. It eats, grazes, rests and socializes. It does cow things.
Moral and environmental. Milk is one level up from eating vegetables. Some milk consumption is probably sustainable, but we can't feed the entire world on quark cheese.
So break 37 years of consistency because Microsoft decided to basically replicate it (9 years after the fact, btw) using a key-chord that was already in use for SIGINT and that Gnome and KDE copied, shortsightedly given their target base OS?
No, that is not what I am saying. I am saying that being vegan most likely results in lower testosterone, which is a basic hormone that is very important for males.

It is important for all aspects of mens health and well being, especially when you get older.
> It doesn't say that the US asks the UK for data on people it is prohibited by law from spying on.

From the quote of the third link:

> The Five Eyes countries agree to exchange by default all signals intelligence they gather, as well as methods and techniques related to signals intelligence operations.

This seems like a pretty clear implication that a Five Eyes country gets information about its own citizens via automatic sharing of information gathered by the other countries. Whether they technically "asked" for the information or not is not relevant.
How engine braking wastes fuel?
As incredible as it is, the problems extend way beyond just syncing on Windows.

Sync works completely randomly on mac between the iPhone and and OSX, - you often have to wait "a long time", and since Apple also has the completely idiotic concept of "everything has to be magic" you never get an estimate, or an error message, or a progress bar, so like everything on a mac, you have to just fiddle, disconnect, reconnect, wait, and just hope and pray that things will work out.

And then we haven't even touched on the their productivity apps like Numbers and Pages which for a long time had features in the templates which weren't available in new documents, so you had to start from a template, completely insane.

Still use Mac and like it for the most part compared at least to Windows which can't even get search right without showing randoms ads and internet results to you - another pretty crazy thing to push to production for a billion people.
Why doesn't soy milk work? There's soy milk and there's soy milk; the various brands taste quite different.
Globally, yeah, but not in the areas where people actually drink milk. Being able to digest cow milk is basically a regional mutation.
I don't think that's quite what it says.

> Oatly compares their sugar to the sugar in cow’s milk, but they’re not the same sugar. Lactose, the sugar in cow’s milk, has a GI of 46. Since the GI is a measure of how much of a negative response your body has to certain sugars, the 7g of sugar in Oatly with its 100+ GI is actually potentially worse than the 12g of sugar in whole milk with a 46 GI. We can use something called the “glycemic load” to measure this, which gives us a GL for the sugar in 8oz of Oatly of 7.35, and a GL for the sugar in 8oz of whole milk of 5.52. Oatly’s glycemic load is about 33% higher than milk’s is!

The article says the glycemic load is higher than of milk, but not anywhere near the glycemic load of 14 of Coke (or 16, depending on where you are in the world http://www.glycemicindex.com/foodSearch.php?num=516&ak=detai...)

This makes me think the title is at best referring the the over-the-top marketing, and at worst being pretty misleading.
When I feel good my body and heart has a slight euphoric feeling and alcohol moves me further away from that. I used to drink but sort of just gradually reduced it over time after meeting friends who didn't drink, it wasn't really a conscious decision though, just going by what makes me feel good
Yes, but the trade-off is they spend most of their adult life being called "SOYBOY" by "real men" with inferiority complexes. No sane person would want that.