skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obesity, for example, is a known risk factor for diabetes, and people who are obese also tend to have low Vitamin D levels, due mostly to the dilution of the fat-soluble vitamin in the larger mass of adipose tissue.

I didn't know this. I'm hoping that Part II addresses the long-term Vitamin D storage mechanism. Logically, since sun derived Vitamin D is accumulated during the summer and depleted during the winter, extra storage capacity might be beneficial. This is one area of research where the seasonal cycles are critical. Latitude and the date that samples are collected should be part of the dataset.

Since diet and lifestyle seems to be involved, I wonder how much the phytate [1] content of the starchy staples we consume contributes to Calcium/Magnesium imbalances:

> The (myo) phytate anion is a colorless species that has significant nutritional role as the principal storage form of phosphorus in many plant tissues, especially bran and seeds. It is also present in many legumes, cereals, and grains. Phytic acid and phytate have a strong binding affinity to the dietary minerals, calcium, iron, and zinc, inhibiting their absorption.

It would be ironic if white rice and white bread become recommended over high fiber options. I wonder if the detrimental effects of phytates only apply during digestion, suggesting that some foods shouldn't be mixed in the same meal, or whether the binding affinity is something that occurs in aggregate independent of ingestion time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytic_acid
As long as pod moves, there's a constant pressure build-up of air in front of it, to the point that the design includes a compressor to pump air from the front of the pods because passively preventing the buildup by letting it blow through the pod would be insufficient.

So a leak would be a piffling little annoyance in comparison - there'd not be enough volume of air inside the pods to cause a problem compared to the air the compressor on the pod will be actively pumping from the front of the pod to get it out of the way.
PostgreSQL stores it as UTC if the data type is "timestamp with time zone" --- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.ht...
> Would love more articles about probabilities...

Well, I wrote a few articles on the topic from a Bayesian perspective few years ago:

http://blog.moertel.com/tags/probability.html

(Only one of them is about the Monty Hall problem.)
That corruption index is an absolute joke.

The UK is massively corrupt. Guess what? They made it legal. Problem solved, let the money laundering and arms sales flow.

Using their measures is the opposite of individualism. This is the USA, a thin cloak of individualism that directs unthinking behaviour. Individuals seeking their own gain without really understanding the currents they swim in, which allows them to believe they are acting within a reasonable framework. Doubtless I'll be told there is no absolute truth and that it's not for me to say, which is also part of the same framework that allows clearly immoral behaviour to proceed.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/roberto-savi...
Looking it up yourself would have taken you a fraction of the time it took for you to complain that someone else didn't do it for you.
Just to be clear, your diagnosis may change, but you’re not any less ADHD (assuming you actually were in the first place). ADHD is a product of the brain developing in a different way. It’s not contextual, even if it’s most obvious symptoms might be.
floooh suggests handles not be plain ints, but also have some bits with a 'unique pattern' (eg. generation counter) for safety checks. This is one of the reasons given for handles being better than pointers.
A Tour of Seq's Storage Engine
Lyft Ridership, Revenue Drop Drastically Amid Rising Coronavirus Infections
Uber’s Next Idea: A New Labor Law
It's a shame you got downvoted, because we know that treating violent crime as a public health issue works.

Here's a UK link that talks about serious violent crime that happens in public spaces: https://www.local.gov.uk/taking-public-health-approach-tackl...

There's quite a lot in there and it's hard to pull out anything that feels powerful enough to describe the work. But there are lots of examples of people and organisations who are slowly, gently, making a difference.
I browsed the list on mozillalifeboat.com; there's a discussion on here about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24135032
I was thinking about something pretty similar -- rather than just try to overload the server, make it more difficult for phisherpeople to figure out which data is legitimate.

Realistically, I don't think I'd do it though -- who knows what 0 days you are putting on your box when you connect to those sites.
Sleepsource is definitely not the brainchild of a 15 year old. Yeah, it'd be nice to know why this app wasn't built as a stand alone page.
And there is a language that's pretty good at compiling to wasm.
Yes, and I’ve been fantasizing about sending my child to one since before he was born. Unfortunately I don’t live near any :-(
Not really in my experience, I've never come across the problem without being stated explicitly how the moderator acts - it would be a different problem.

What I think is true is that people underestimate the role of the host (i.e. the rules according to which he behaves to).
That's about $48 per month over seven years, which is not completely outrageous.
> A plain int carries no information about the validity of the object behind that handle because they are carried around as copies, not references.

The article suggests a handle containing a "plain int" plus a "unique bit pattern", the latter acting like a watermark which is compared to the one in the private array of the corresponding module, preventing dangling accesses.

Apart from rare occasional collisions in the bit pattern causing a false negative on a dangling access, what other issues can be found with this approach?
> The ceo of MSF, who imo does a great job, is paid 120k a year.

I know a few organizations that might fall under that abbreviation. Can you be more specific?
Since you seem well informed: does the research mention anything about use as an aerosol and why that might be considered before internal use?
I knew that name was familiar. Drogon scores nicely in Techempower's benchmarks:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=...
This is great, bash ftw. Nice presentation, too.

Regarding its legality, I will paraphrase Bishop Berkeley: if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

What I am getting at is until there is a complaint, there is no crime, and as at least another pointed out, criminals will usually not report crimes that reveal their own crimes. "They kidnapped my kidnap-victim!"
>you would declare a bunch of standard tech industry jobs to be "superfluous",

It looks like you're misquoting GP. Unless they edited it later and I didn't notice... the commenter said, "_seems_ superflous" not "_are_ superfluous". They said they were willing to be educated on what those roles did.
> Later I've learnt to love UUID's whenever performance allows.

This is essentially the same as what the article suggests, just with a lot more spare bits for creating unique handles.

"This is where the ‘free bits’ in a handle come in: Let’s say our handles are 16-bits, but we only ever need 1024 items alive at the same time. Only 10 index bits are needed to address 1024 items, which leaves 6 bits free for something else.

If those 6 bits contain some sort of ‘unique pattern’, it’s possible to detect dangling accesses: [...]"
PSA: Julia is not at that stage of development anymore
Rust's inline assembly used to be the exact same as clang's. We recently merged a slightly different version, in the hopes of stabilizing that feature. It ends up pretty similar. (I've been writing a bunch of inline assembly lately, and in fact, ported some C inline asm to Rust. It's not exactly identical, and I did in fact introduce a small bug when doing so...)
For algorithmic/numerical code, especially if you have to deal with numpy-related data, Numba has a much easier barrier for entry, plus you remain with cpython while speeding up computation-intensive code by a few orders of magnitude.
If you asked EU politicians a few years ago there was no way to take those down and we needed a great European firewall asap. Of course when their to secret list of illegal sites got leaked it turned out to be sites that could be taken down within a few hours by just contacting the hosting providers.
This is a good point. And I do want to get to more of the studies done in humans. Although I haven't discussed dosages yet, my advice on everything in life is pretty much: everything in moderation.
OVH Hardware, support and pricing is GREAT! Buuuuutttttt...

Their firewall situation is not. Guess what, if you use the supplied firewall, any server from any other customer in the local NOC that your server is in, can connect to your server. They seem to be all "safely" behind the OVH firewall product.

You have to protect each server individually with its own in-machine firewall.

I don't want to automatically trust all other OVH customers.

At first I thought I was doing something wrong (more than a decade of setting up firewalls). But I did put in a support ticket and they confirmed this.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe something I did not understand, but damn... If I'm not.... :-(
> People in HN are specially sensitive to some issues that others don't care much about. Past year we had a series of news about Firefox sending data of some "experiments" and similar. It was difficult to disable. Two or three things like that, you don't need more to lose trust here.

As someone who is annoyed now:

Partially true I'd say. I've also been surprised once or twice before by people who were oh so critical about Mozilla and then recommended using Chrome/Chromium or a derivative instead.

There's always been someone to hate on Firefox, at least since they introduced the awesomebar a long time ago.

And here I sit, wondering if

- it finally catched up with me what others had seen a long time

- if I changed

- if Mozilla changed

- or if I am the target of a successful smear campaign against Mozilla

I don't know. Right now however I want I want Google to work like in 2009 and my old Firefox extensions to work with the new supposedly (I think so, honestly, but I don't know) safer API, I want corona gone and I want my insanely powerful laptop to feel insanely powerful instead of sitting here waiting for a double digit GB more RAM to arrive :-/
Ye well then you'll need something fancy. The size saving is there though.
Well, you found the flaw in their logic and by focussing on that, you kind of missed their point. Replace "legal" with "morally allowed“. Would you then tolerate the legalization of killing jews?

I 100% agree that we as a mature society, should be there and be prepared to tell them why they are wrong. But I think you are overlooking the possibility that they shrug and start killing. We should be prepared for that too.
Decentralized Finance, the YAM fiasco and the road to DeFi sustainability
> By "free speech" I mean not being arrested or physically harmed for saying something.

Go out in public and read random passages from the bible. See how long you go before being assaulted and/or arrested.
Careful, if you only measure by popularity, you'll get to Java and Javascript as best choice. I'll make a guess and say that these two are not what you want :)
[2010]

Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277459
Show HN: MarkFlow – A Markdown Formattter
From where I sit, it looks like there has been a lot of technical effort going into Firefox in the last few years - like 'Electrolyis' and 'Quantum'. 'Quantum' in particular has been translating the more experimental work (Rust & Servo) into improvements in Firefox.

So it seems more like they've been losing marketshare despite investing in Firefox. Google has much more money to spend on development, and can potentially also make popular sites like Youtube or GMail work best in Chrome.

I use Firefox and I hope it will get more popular again. But I'm baffled how many people seem to think that if only Mozilla tried properly, the users would come flocking back. All the evidence suggests that most users go to Chrome no matter what they do.
Stripe Hires GM CFO Dhivya Suryadevara
What they describe sounds to me exactly like standard architecture for combining PoPs and peering with backbone providers. What am I missing?
Hi all,

This is a project that I have been working on for several months now. I figured y’all might like a bit more insight into the tool than what I felt was appropriate for the blog post.

I mentioned that this problem is already solved by prettier. [0] Why should you use it instead of prettier?
If you are working on a Python project, you don’t have to pull in a new toolchain to reformat your Markdown files.
MarkFlow is slightly less opinionated than prettier. Lists are just updated to ensure consistent markers, not formatted to a particular one. Headings can be underlined or use `#`, the tool just makes sure your underlining is long enough. (I’m not sure if prettier can be configured to do these things.)
If you like to understand what your tools are doing, the codebase for MarkFlow is quite a bit simpler. [1]
Otherwise, prettier is by far the more mature tool. MarkFlow has been used by far fewer people.

Despite the fact that I expect most used cases to prefer prettier, I will still be actively working on MarkFlow. Those of you who have installed it or poked around the repo likely noticed that this is a 0.1.0 release. The first major release (assuming I don’t decide to lock some version of the current code into a 1.0.0) will migrate the tool from a static setup to a plugin based setup.

You may have noticed that tables are supported by MarkFlow, but they aren’t part of the standard. This is the motivation behind such a refactor where instead MarkFlow by default only works on standard CommonMark files and plugins for extensions to the standard like tables would be installed separately. This also would give people the ability to make decisions about their formatting.

Many of the reformatting tools I’ve interacted with are very opinionated. This would give users more control over the style the tool outputs. For instance, an MarkFlow-black plugin could reformat all of your Python code blocks with black. You could make sure that all bullet points use that same bullet point (this is what prettier does already).

But, why not switch to the plugin architecture before a release? I think there is still some value in the tool as it is, as noted above. In addition, I want to settle on some good defaults for MarkFlow’s output style that aren’t just from my head and hopefully get some runtime on the existing code to hammer out corner cases.

Thanks for checking out my post and sorry for the wall of text. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

[0] https://prettier.io/
[1] https://github.com/duo-labs/markflow/blob/main/IMPLEMENTATIO...
They wrote that regular antibodies have to be given intravenuously. These nanobodies are smaller and more stable, so they argue that it is possible to use them as aerosol. The idea seems to be to use them as prevention, which would not be feasible if you have to inject them.

I can't really judge whether that approach makes sense, my experience is in the basic research area, not with clinical stuff.
Thanks. I did not edit it. I did indeed state that they "seemed superfluous" and that I am willing to be educated.
For those who weren't there and don't bear the scars, some keywords to Google:

first post
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Natalie Portman
in Soviet Russia...
CowboyNeal
Ergodicity and You: Adaptive Heuristics in an Uncertain World
Seems like further evidence that nature has developed an optimal algorithm for solving the multi-armed bandit problem as it manifests in the typical environment humans evolved in. Unlike the artificial games used by the researchers, there is no such thing as a fixed reward in nature—everything is subject to change unexpectedly. Children are wired with an algorithm that heavily favors exploration in light of the dynamic environment.
is any rust code some way immune to unsafe blocks?
>Just to be clear, your diagnosis may change, but you’re not any less ADHD (assuming you actually were in the first place). ADHD is a product of the brain developing in a different way. It’s not contextual, even if it’s most obvious symptoms might be.

My son had fairly extensive two day evaluation for ADHD. The test itself was not even close to finding out how things worked in everyday life. It was activities and exercises designed to understand how his brain worked. It was super-enlightening to me to get an idea of what challenges he was facing. Simply having the evaluation and having the results shown and explained did wonders for our ability to support him in school and beyond.

In any cases, this is a really long-winded way to agree with you. It's about how your brain works, not about functioning in life situations. That said, some situations will make it more or less apparent that your brain works in a certain way.
No I meant that I order to justify her salary she needs to either increase profits or reduce costs. Looks like she went with reducing costs ...
Re-Implementing Document.execCommand()
SOC2 Compliance Best Practices with Chef Habitat and ShuttleOps
Didn't world wars and modern oppression from various regimes kill many?
There are some interesting behavioural economics experiments on "the power of free". Here is a decent overview: https://thedecisionlab.com/insights/business/impact-free-con...

In essence, people overvalue free goods. This means it is very hard for a paid product to compete against free goods, even when the paid product is itself cheap and better quality. This explains a lot about the state of the Internet, where a large number of eyeballs go to free products maintained by a large companies with other revenue streams or to low quality junk. It also makes me, unfortunately, doubtful that any efforts to directly monetize Firefox will be successful.
We are in seriously weird times. I take your point and know you’re rooted in basic economics as correct. But I also know Fed policy is pushing RE prices through the roof and the stock market has had high volatility due in part to Fed policy. The stock market seems to have some tie to how well people think things are going which may be reflected in consumer confidence thus demand. But yeah not the direct point I wrote above.
Well, popularity (quantity) does have a quality all its own.

Rust will never be extremely popular, just because it is more low level. I'd say that for each low level concept you add (pointers/references being on of the big ones), your "market reach" for a programming language goes down by an order of magnitude :-)
You can still do it for a personal account and the prices are so low that you really have no excuse not to.

Conversations.im is 8€/year. I am offering now Communick with XMPP/Matrix/Mastodon hosting for 5€/10 users/3 months. It is almost as low as the average donation.
Yea no exceptions in C
Medical research director sees light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel
Nothing really, they were on worse designs for years and they came to a point that it couldn’t scale, so they had to come up with a new proper design
How could Uber possibly be exploiting them when it offers a better opportunity than literally everyone else?
Can't say I've ever had issues with any of the touch screen systems on Fords, Mazdas and Tesla's I've own/ed

When driving touch screen is maps, all interactions come from the steering wheel or a voice command except for heating and thats pretty quick, its not like you dont have to look at what the dial is on for physical controls.
Well at the same time proving to not have any side effects, such as passage into the bloodstream followed by formation of molecules that the liver cannot break down and the kidneys cannot flush.

It's promising early research, but it's not even in laboratory animal trials yet.
For a review of many vitamin D studies google "site:theincidentaleconomist.com vitamin d", a blog by a doctor who evaluates many studies. Many do not show extra vitamin D beneficial.

Blog quoute: " The IOM says that anything over 20 ng/mL is “Generally considered adequate for bone and overall health in healthy individuals” and when you get over 50 ng/mL “Emerging evidence links potential adverse effects to such high levels”.
I do not understand why we keep looking for Vitamin D to be some sort of wonder drug. It’s seriously baffling to me."

So we need some,>20ng/ml but keep it under 50 ng/ml.
I use Pages as my go-to word-processor and Numbers (on account of its table-in-sheet paradigm) is my favourite spreadsheet by far. I wish they’d beef the latter up a bit with ODBC access and support for iterated solution (very useful for balancing projected cashflow where interest-on-short-term-debt & amount-of-short-term-debt depend on each other) and something more akin to pivot tables.

Pity, it could really be a thermonuclear option, instead they just add useless stuff like collaboration features and smart annotations....

I’ve never really used Keynote because that simply isn’t in my line of work.

I really think Apple has a winner on their hands and are handicapping it deliberately either out of neglect or because they didn’t want to scare Microsoft off back in the day and have some kind of gentleman’s agreement going...
How to Set Up WireGuard Firewall Rules in Linux
Intel's discrete Xe GPU for gamers is coming in 2021
Alma sees most distant Milky Way look-alike
By MSF do you mean medicine sans frontiers(https://www.msf.org/) ??
> That doesn't make for a good comparison, and I think you know that.

That query is not my invention, it comes directly from MongoDB documentation

If it looks bad, it means it is bad by design

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/aggregati...
It just seems like there's an old guard of administrators that have grabbed onto this huge source of money and are lining their pockets, and nothing substantial will change until enough bodies swap out that the people who actually want to provide a good affordable education are in the right seats.

Not suggesting the administrations get culled.
Is this really a worry? Won't all the gear eventually be moved off Earth and into space making this argument pointless?

I'm guessing amateurs with a telescope in their backyard are the ones suffering?
That's a very interesting explanation for why most supporters of communism I see are artists, actors, or just generally unemployed.
...and in case you were wondering just how bad an idea this was, it's been conclusively linked to Parkinson's: https://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/2020/05/14/parkinsons-linked...
It's all bullshit. There's almost no measure by which particular CEOs are better than the average/random. Much like investors: almost no investors can be said to be consistently better than the average, i.e. the distribution follows what you would expect if everyone is doing decisions at random. Despite that, we still believe there are objectively good CEOs or investors (apart from a very small minority) who therefore deserve their outrageous compensation for their leadership and decision skills.

Just look at the amount of CEOs who got international industry awards or recognition, who some years later tanked their companies or were found to be engaged in criminal practices.
Right, but they do have the potential to also be used as treatment then? Considering they're easier to manufacture than synthetic antibodies.
That’s exactly what I was trying to get at.

And of course, it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try to stop smuggling. It’s just that we might find that it’s less effective and/or cost effective than treating the underlying causes.
Most people don't care about D&I. Neither for or against, just an annoyance.
The situation seems to create a paradox where any new CEO will expect that much or more to risk the career/reputation damage of not being able to save it if they take over.