skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sounds like you've never been in love.

Sounds like you've never been married. ;)

Of course I'm not talking about hormonal attraction/desire. But that's the whole point. If you base a marriage on hormones, it's going to be very starting when you wake up one day and the hormones are gone. What happens then? You break up and move on to the next temporary hormonal ride? Or you realize that hormones come and go, and the only thing that you can you truly promise is a commitment. True love, a love that lasts, the only love that really matters, is a choice.
Carl Icahn Scores $1.3B Windfall on Bet Against Shopping Malls
I've never heard of such a thing. Surely the UV would burn you first.
Even outside of the fact that this isn't an option for a huge portion of the population, for those that it is possible for, is it better? Aren't there all sorts of harmful associations with sunlight exposure?
Doesn’t the flu usually resolve within a few days without a vitamin D hammer? Did they do a controlled blinded study to determine whether it made a difference?
> Where's the line though? When is gumroad or squarespace not the answer?

Gumroad is going to handle payments for you.

You mentioned a course. If you plan to offer video streaming, you'd have to come up with something to provide that platform.

There's places like Teachable and Thinkific for that. That's what I did initially and now years later I want to build my own platform because there's a massive laundry list of things that I don't like about those existing platforms.

But now it's difficult to move an audience from platform A to B because they expect a working and fairly feature rich solution since that's what they are used to. It means the custom solution needs to be shipped as something more than an MVP, which makes it take longer to develop. At the same time, like you said, building the platform takes away from creating the content.

If I could go back in the time I would have built my own platform first while testing the demand with free videos on Youtube.
> Also memory speed (both Hz and cache structure) is much

> more of a bottleneck than CPU clock. Specially with 16

> cores!

Very good point! Packing more cores onto a die is not enough... Again it would be good to see if those benchmarks were single or multi-core performance.

> They will need many years of improving the software stack

> though, so they have a long uphill battle waiting.

Yeah... Getting kernel support, etc, takes some time. They'll also probably want to build out some dev board platform if they haven't already.

> Finally the chips will probably be manufactured for peak

> performance and longevity but they wont be sold, only

> rented!

I see it going either way, either cost per chip will become so low that they become an expendable product with a short life span, or the cost of perfecting them rises so high they are rented. Somehow the rented market for CPUs seems less likely, a release from your competitor could see your entire stock become un-rentable.

> About cooling, the right heatsink is the solution

Maybe, but you're not putting a passive cooler on solutions that go much higher than 10 watts at full chap. Assuming these cores match the ARM cores (power consumption and computation), they have double the number of them, therefore probably double the heat output. In reality it's probably even worse as the cores act as insulators to one another.

In 2+ years, let's see how they perform in the market. I guess irrespective of how good they are, the Chinese market is stuck with them unless tensions improve.
What’s your opinion on K2? K2/D3 ratio and how would age affect the ratio?
I agree with your overall point, but I just want to point out that many (most?) journals don't employ copy-editors, or if they do, then they overlook many errors, especially in the methods section of papers.
Journal is huge.

I also keep a log of every medication and supplement and notes on how it affects me.
Doctors like being handed a 2
Page document with everything listed and the results.

I also got diagnosed with a rare condition from this. Doctor saw more to the reactions then I had.
This is really interesting. I usually do not use anecdotes, but chose this to make one simple point. The point was not what you got from it, though, which means I failed in my messaging. The point was not to shift a definition (Vitamin D is a steroid hormone, and by definition Vitamin D is NOT in fact a vitamin). The point was that I would like people to think of Vitamin D as a medication, not a dietary supplement. I think when you frame it as a medication, people treat it differently. That was the whole point of the post. In the next post, I will go back to being completely scientific, which is my normal state.
> low Vitamin D levels are endemic in temperate and northern latitudes

When this last came up, jusssi commented about the actual counter-intuitive distribution of D deficiency:

> under 20% in Northern Europe, 30-60% in rest of Europe, up to 80% in Middle East.

https://eje.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/eje/180/4/EJE-1...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255533
Indeed it's not, but there is a strong alignment between Ubuntu as a philosophy and the GPL as a social contract where you acknowledge we are all better off sharing our knowledge and labor.
Ask HN: What to focus on next (open source project)
Hi all,

Myself and my 2 co-founders are working on this open source project (405 stars in ~3 weeks; 19 watchers; 19 forks):
https://github.com/aliscott/infracost

what's the next feature you'd focus on? And how do you make that decision?
- Add more AWS resources
- Add more clouds (GCP, Azure)
- Add more features (alerts for managers, reports for teams etc)
- Something else?
I hope they make it out all right. I got the chance to visit a few years ago and was one of my favourite museum experiences.

Everything is set up similar to how it was during the war and you can basically just walk up the desk Turing sat at. Like, I could probably have touched it if I wanted to.

I also didn't realize how many famous names in graph theory came from there.
Well, it's code for "keep density low" and "keep traffic out of my property while I go generate traffic on other people's property". The results are the same though.
An alternative is changing requirements to recommendations allowing businesses to compete on equal ground. The recommendations become a guide to making a consumer friendly business. Let the business decide if they want to implement recommendations to reach a broader market.

Some requirements, that protect the commons, are necessary. Things like "you can't dump gasoline in a river".

Requirements necessitate enforcement which costs the citizens money and compliance which costs businesses money. Money that could be put back into the economy instead of evaporating in the government machine.
These articles are fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to educate us with your knowledge and experience!
FYI, Crema moved a few blocks away and is still open.
It's noteworthy that Deliveroo is already doing the kind of vertical integration you describe, it's called "Deliveroo Editions"
After a full workup, the doctors had no explanation, so they resorted to what doctors often reach for when confronted with mystery ailments: psychiatric illness.

Yeah. This is a big problem for people with serious and complicated health issues. They are all too often told "It must be in your head" the subtext being "If it were real, I, a super smart doctor type, would be able to figure it out already." It's ugly stuff and it ruins lives.

Also, the lady was prescribed vitamin D and then took it without adjusting the dosage or having a follow-up about it for 5 years. This is a big problem as well. Doctors all too often don't follow up with patients and this is probably in part because of our issues in the US with how we pay for stuff and so on. But it was also a problem for some things when I was a military wife and could see a doctor for free.

I am a writer by trade and I have a serious medical condition. I'm glad to see this piece and I'm glad to see Deva Boone posting on HN, but I will suggest that statements like "Vitamin D is a medication" don't constitute good communication.

The latter part of the piece makes it clear what is intended by that, but it's not currently classified as a medication and I think it is generally more helpful to try to educate people that "life is chemistry" and there is no clear cut demarcation between "drugs" and "not drugs." Sometimes the difference boils down to dosage.

There are lots of things available in small quantities in food items that are "drugs" if you take a large enough amount in one shot and are "drugs" if prescribed in pill form that are "food" when part of your diet. And we need to get a lot savvier about things like that.

Hopefully, this is taken as helpful feedback and not an ugly attack. It is intended as the former and not the latter.
Also note that you're usually limited to a certain video quality when watching on a PC. Unless thing have changed since I last checked, you can't go past 1080p on a computer; you have to be on a streaming device (Roku, AppleTV, etc.) This is why I usually watch streaming services through my Playstation even though I have the PC hooked up to my big TV.
Oh gosh yes, the amount of `just works` Fortran in science is one of those things akin to COBOL in business. I just know some people are thinking 10 years - ha, be some instances of 40 and possible 50 years for some. Heck, the sad part is many will have computer systems older than 10 years just as it links to this bit of kit and the RS232 just works with the DOS software fine as and the updated version had issues when they last tried. That's a common theme with specialist kit attached to a computer for control - medical as well has that.
Mixing light industrial with commercial restaurant in a single building / space sounds like a nightmare to get approved.

You can't be doing welding, metalworking, spray painting, and dealing with gasoline, oil, and other industrial solvents in the same space as food preparation.
Race conditions and certain forms of non-determinism could invalidate the results of a given study. Code is essentially a better-specified methods section, it just says what they did. Scientists are expected to include a methods section for exactly this reason, and any scientist worried about including a methods section in their paper would be rightly rejected.

However, a methods section is always under-specified. Code provides the unique opportunity to actually see the full methods on display and properly review their work. It should be mandated by all reputable journals and worked into the peer review process.
I've not seen PGO before, are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization
will the spread operator really evaluate the generator lazily?
Talking Resilience with Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta
That’s quite a cynical view of human nature.
What’s your opinion on K2 + D3? Bone density against osteoporosis, particularly on the elderly?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471136/
What a short article...

When they mention the large drop in ventilator usage - isn't that because after a month or two, medical experts said it probably does nothing or even could harm the patient if you put them on ventilators?
Future mental health care may include diagnosis by brain scan,computer algorithm
I don't know about all of that, but I do know I want to use twitter for tech and not politics.
If free software jesus issues a fatwa against Ubuntu then I'm going to avoid it regardless.
This reminds me of the recent Phase 2 failure of UBX's UBX0101 senolytic drug. The highly experienced team's entire strategy was built around eliminating as much risk as possible prior to Phase 2 and yet they still failed miserably. Biotech just seems brutal, from the outside at least.

For a very interesting but pre-failure interview of UBX:
https://peterattiamd.com/neddavid/
US agency takes part in simulated cyberattack on critical systems
Python is an extremely bad example.

Try twenty years old Common Lisp code. Or Fortran.
No doubt people are leaving, but if you go to any of the neighborhoods on a weekend there are still a lot of people eating/drinking. What the city doesn't have at the moment is tourism and that might explain why times square is emptier.
Just a note to say Tribblix is a fantastic Illumos distribution that works well on AWS. Peter Tribble deserves much applause for maintaining this. If you are curious re: Illumos and need a place to start - Tribblix is a good one. Have fun.
> At the end of the day Uber/Lyft will be just another taxi company, albeit with a less professional set of drivers.

I haven't been to a country yet where "professional taxi driver" was a benefit. What made Uber great was that the drivers were nice people, doing it as a temporary / side job in a car that they were taking care of personally, and not a professional cheater in a smelly 20 old, rarely washed car.
Alright. I never claimed it was the default shell... That was obviously csh, everyone knows that. It's a bsdism. FreeBSD's default was tcsh essentially until I stopped using it maybe 15 years ago.

Zsh was placed onto the hard drive of the computer by the operating system installation cd and was an available executable program that could be invoked from the terminal.

There, is that better?
Newspapers could solicit writing from the drivers and let them speak for themselves.
Simple blood tests.
Low Vit D is associated with migraines, so it’s an easy thing to check for.

Source: me. at one point had horrific daily migraines. Now I don’t.
First, this is not an argument against posting this post...

This is an excellent post (I've shared it on). It'd be a great service to the HN community to do these as an AMA-type-thing. Deva is on here and is very generous with her time but it'd certainly embiggen the impactyness to have a "Deva will be on from 10AM-12PM PT on 2020-08-24 to answer questions. Not medical advice, etc." and "Deva's out." sticky notes at the top.

[In which I suggest someone else undertake an obligation for the community... Aware of that. It's just lovely to have such a person/resource in the community and it'd be good to set expectations (none/some) around her involvement since people are dropping in questions and (I assume) hoping for (free) advice/counsel.]
Yes, many of my apps and libs were more than ten years old when I pushed them to github. Some projects started before git was invented.
I suppose you can make any at rest encryption scheme negotiate (even PGP) if you create such a negotiation system that uses the scheme as a primitive. I was only referring to the way such things are normally used. You make an encrypted file. After that the only way to decrypt it is the way it was encrypted.
I wish that public health was more highly valued, at least in the US. This is such a great opportunity for research and public education efforts by the government
Which is absolutely a big issue with our policing system. Most of the time they just arrest easy targets like sex workers or people who could be charged with 'public misconduct' or something like that.
I'm bull Epic too, but honestly, I don't care about the quality differences. The main thing Epic has going for them that Unity does not is it's diverse marketing channels. They are becoming huge in the cinematic, and broadcast markets, huge markets Unity doesn't even have a presence in.
I'm simply interested in continuing to find useful and inspring stuff on Github or some similar open, shared resource. I can see how it might be less than ideal for large projects and the purchase of Plastic SCM might be a great benefit to studio workflows - but I hope all the strange, quirky, experimental stuff on Github that's a real boon to learning doesn't disappear in it's wake
The Impostor's Advantage
Well, where do you download the hardware ? ;-)
I would argue collaboratively editing documents is by far the most common and interesting use case, followed by presentations.

You seem to have an odd, complex workflow which is representative of 0.001% of the population. I'm glad Excel works for you. Microsoft does well with a number of complex oddball legacy workflows, full of VBA macros and what-not.

Your style of working collaboratively isn't very collaborative. Google Docs does allow that (you can share with suggesting changes), but for the most part, there's a gap between getting feedback on a document, and working together on one. I find version control to be super-helpful too; it's not like I don't see the changes after someone makes them.
Writing a Test Case Generator for a Programming Language
You can buy tests from various labs in the us and mail them back. They have pinprick needles.

Never checked accuracy but never heard anything to suggest they’re inaccurate, and they’re widely used.
According to Bloomberg[0], non-gaming clients make up 10% of Unity's business.

> [Unity] helps Volkswagen AG train employees, was used by filmmakers to shoot the recent “Lion King” movie and by the Hong Kong International Airport to simulate changes in passenger volume.

I don't know enough about these domains to say whether it's a good (or bad) idea, but I've also heard of Unity being used for other kinds of modeling and simulations too (climatology, traffic, etc).

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-07/unity-tec...
Please stop creating accounts to break HN's guidelines. Doing that will eventually get your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sunlight generation declines with age and skin color.
In GIS, there's a saying "the map is not the terrain". It seems like HN is in a little SWE bubble, and needs to understand "the code is not the science".

In science, code is not an end in-and-of-itself. It is a tool for simulation, data reduction, calculation, etc. It is a way to test scientific ideas.

> how do you expect anyone with the right expertise to assess your findings

I would expect other experts in the field to write their own implementation of the scientific ideas expressed in a paper. If the idea has any merit, their implementations should produce similar results. Which is exactly what they would do if it were a physical experiment.
Browlock Malvertisers Abuse Denial-of-Service Bugs That Sit Dormant for Years
That question comes up often, but it's answered in the first section of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

"Being a hacker" in the sense that HN uses that word has to do with intellectual curiosity, and we take a broad and generous view of what that means. That's the original spirit of the site, because the hacker who founded HN has always been curious about many things.

It's true that not every story gratifies everyone's curiosity, but that's to be expected. If you don't find this one interesting, there are others to read, and if you run out, click 'past' in the top bar and you'll likely find lots that you missed.
Twitter and Facebook’s contrasting approaches
As if humans have never misidentified people or arrested the wrong person?

I find these articles very silly.

Maybe the photo on the drivers license was not good enough, so only in the real world could the police see that it was not the same person.

In any case, why not scan the database automatically (the evil, evil facial recognition), and then double check by humans?

Even when humans police, I think it is always just about probabilities. Then they follow up (ideally) and try to drive the probability of being correct higher.

Obviously nobody should be tried automatically without any recourse.
Oh great, with all that money maybe they can get symlinks to work in Windows.
Is it the requirement that is asinine, or the fact that the ADA allows grandfathered exceptions for parts of buildings that are unrenovated?

I'm not sure what possibly could make more sense and be more fair than "if you change it, the changes you meet have to be up to current law" Would it make more sense if we made people raze their entire pre-ADA buildings to renovate anything at all?

> He backed out of that when the city told him he needed to install a grease trap to meet code. This despite the fact that nothing he sold contained any sort of grease or oil that would make it down the drain.

Also, building codes aren't necessarily for the way you plan to use a building, but for the way a building can be used.
Google found it in the first couple results: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=actually%20portable%20...
Maybe part of that feeling is due to the perfect grids cities are laid out as in America (North and South)? In Europe, roads look like they've been drawn by throwing a game of Mikado on a map. It definitely gives them some character. :-D
Crypto Compliance and Taxation Outlook of the EU
This should be the top comment. Not even a truism, cliché or a platitude, the entire article is actually based on a misrepresentation of the facts.

Why has this become so common? I remember the first time I read something similar thinking “Interesting, but that’s weird, it doesn’t match up with my life experience. I must live in a perfect little butterfly bubble of some kind.” Then I read an article which explained the statistics in more detail. Ahh.

So, why did this author write this article? Do they not know the statistics? Maybe they read some of the many earlier articles which make the same bad assumption and decided to build on that bad assumption - but without looking at the actual data?

Statistics don't lie but liars use statistics. Is that what happened here? Maybe. Maybe the author was just lazy. Who knows. But it does seem like a huge number of stories begin with a title and brief introduction, then 3 or 4 conservative or liberal platitudes sprinkled in, each of which are so general they misrepresent reality and hide useful and actionable facts.

Maybe its more a house of cards.
People don't realize it, but journaling doesn't have to be hard. If you are talking to yourself, really brief notes can help jog your memory about "That was the day I had two eggs instead of one and otherwise did everything the same" and you don't necessary need to write down every single morsel of food to let yourself know next week "That was the day I had an extra egg with that meal." You know what your "usual" is. "My usual, but with an extra egg" is something that will mean something to future you next week, even if it means nothing ten years from now.

Journaling as a health management tool doesn't have to be complicated and burdensome. Write down what you feel you will need help remembering in a few days when you are wondering "What truck ran me over this time???" and as you get value out of it, you may feel like writing more because you can see it isn't a waste of time.

Just start, no matter how pathetically.
I get that, and I wouldn't want a higher level (interpreted) language like Python anywhere near safety-critical systems that require a real time OS and software. Given this project targets infotainment only, well let's just say I've seen terrible systems from the major automotive manufacturers (Ford, Chrysler, etc) in that space, not to mention the hilariously bad aftermarket infotainment products flooding the market right now, and I'd like to see an open source project come out swinging and not be encumbered by last decade's language choice.

But again, I'm not a developer and I'm just getting my feet wet so my opinion is likely wrong.