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As mentioned in the Wikipedia article about the Ig Nobel Prize,

> “the Ig Nobel Awards are veiled criticism of trivial research”

It’s not raising awareness. It’s making light of the underlying concerns and trivializing them.

Misophonia isn’t trivial to me. It’s a significant disorder that makes my life challenging.

It’s deeply upsetting that the Ig Nobel committee would view it as within the purview of their award designations.
Originally posted by OrdaGarb on April 26th, 2015...

I have a slight fascination with sweeteners. About five years ago I imported a kilo of "Neotame" sweetener from a chem factory in Shanghai. It was claimed to be 10,000-12,000 times sweeter than sugar. It's a white powder and came in a metal can with a crimped lid and typically plain chemical labeling. Supposedly it is FDA-approved and a distant derivative of aspartame.

US customs held it for two weeks before sending it on to Colorado with no explanation. When received, the box was covered in "inspected" tape and they had put the canister in a clear plastic bag. The crimped lid looked like a rottweiler chewed it open and white powder was all over the inside of the bag. I unwisely opened this in my kitchen with no respirator as advised by the MSDS which I read after the fact (I am not a smart man).

Despite careful handling of the bag, it is so fine in composition that a small cloud of powder erupted in front of me and a hazy layer of the stuff settled over the kitchen. Eyes burning and some mild choking from inhaling the cloud, I instantly marveled at how unbelievably sweet the air tasted, and it was delicious. For several hours I could still taste it on my lips. The poor customs inspector will have had a lasting memory of that container I'm pretty sure.

Even after a thorough wipe-down, to this day I encounter items in my kitchen with visually imperceptible amounts of residue. After touching it and getting even microscopic quantities of the stuff on a utensil or cup, bowl, plate, whatever, it adds an intense element of sweetness to the food being prepared, sometimes to our delight. I still have more than 900g even after giving away multiple baggies to friends and family (with proper safety precautions).

We have been hooked on it since that first encounter. I keep a 100mL bottle of solution in the fridge which is used to fill smaller dropper bottles. I've prepared that 100mL bottle three times over five years, and that works out to about 12g of personal (somewhat heavy) usage for two people in that time. Probably nowhere near the LD50.

I carry a tiny 30mL dropper bottle of the solution for sweetening the nasty office coffee and anything else as appropriate. Four drops to a normal cup of coffee. We sweeten home-carbonated beverages, oatmeal, baked goods (it is heat stable), use it in marinades, and countless other applications.

I don't know if it's safe. The actual quantity used is so incredibly tiny that it seems irrelevant. I'd sweeten my coffee with polonium-210 if it could be done in Neotame-like quantities. Between this, a salt shaker loaded with MSG and a Darwin fish on my car, I'm doomed anyway.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440566
So you are lucky I guess? That’s the great thing about anecdata, everyone will have a somewhat different experience.
I guess the gigworker / food bev style jobs? Either way, monthly short term loans seems more predatory than beneficial. What's the rates they're charging? Any interest is bound to be impactful in these circumstances.

Generally, being in a situation where this would make sense, would generally fall in line with Pay day loans, which we know aren't the best idea in the long run.
Well, today that is what it is. Before that it was just a "donate to the developers" that was basically a money grab for the person running it.
Are you saying Rust didn't fix the grammar problem?
When we watch ads it's pretty clear that the advertiser is trying to manipulate us. With social media it's different. They are manipulating us to keep us engaged so thay we see more ads. With TV, the network is trying to create a great show that engages people so that they can get more advertising money. I get that, most people get that, it's a win win. We get entertaining shows and they get more eyeballs for afs. With social media, they are doing it in a different way. They use algorithms that create silos of information meant to keep us scrolling. This leads to all kinds of negative effects on society. I would argue that cable news and social media are more alike than different in this respect.
The quote says “the world”, not “the United States”.
9/20, the Holiday for Psychedelic Mushrooms
It is very easy to leak Java objects, simply by failing to remove them from containers when their usefulness has ended.

And all the memory not yet collected has effectively leaked until the next reclaim cycle, which might never happen.

So, memory leaks are as easy under GC as in C.
Build Personal Moats
Read a different way I suppose it's actually a compliment. It's not everyday I see people voicing frustration that someone chose not to solve P vs. NP.
> The Future is Decentralized

tHE fUTURE IS qUANTIZED
And I'm responding again to note that I think I interpreted "kit" wrong. I was thinking "kit" as in § 15.23, which gives an exemption for stuff you build yourself but not stuff you build from kits.

But 47 CFR § 2.803 gives an exemption for "evaluation kits". I don't think that clearly covers boards used primarily as single-board computers (and not genuinely for evaluation), and I'd guess that's why the Pi developers got certs for their boards. I believe it's the best argument that this board wouldn't need certification (or verification), though.
USAF Has Flown a Demonstrator for Its Next-Generation Fighter
Seems trivial, right? Like checking in every 30 seconds or so. I imagine there's a guy at Microsoft that keeps trying to check in the simple fix but keeps being thwarted.
Where is the evidence for this hypothesis that it’s easier than ever before ? Communists, Nazis had absolutely no trouble destroying truth. History is full of this.
I think you have it backwards. Safari is IE 6 (in that things don't work as you'd expect them to). https://caniuse.com/ shows Safari as missing many standard features.

(unless you meant IE 6, in that Chrome ships with "ActiveX"-like features no one else is implementing).
It does seem like a US-centric thing. I've faced several interviews here in Australia and the teams care more about how the candidate will fit into the team. Most them sort of assume that what's written in the resume is correct. So the interview process is basically just trying to validate those claims. Also, it's really important to get your references right. But it depends a lot on the companies. Some of them have take home projects and white board problem solving sessions. We don't have anything like the H1B here. Either you're a permanent resident or an Aussie citizen. The only difference being the ability to vote and jury duty. Sure, some of the govt jobs are out of reach for permanent residents. The work visa holders are generally transferred by a company from another country.
I’m just wondering when he has time for family. I’m making breakfast and dinner for my family, cleaning up after, giving them baths, reading to them putting them to bed. Some of this could be outsourced but a lot of it is quality time with your kids.
Bad choice or no, the language is appropriate... Constants should remain constant at runtime. Variables should be allowed to vary.
I don't see why people think immutable strings is a good idea, for example. How do you ever build a text editor, if the strings can't be edited?
All the aerogel I've ever seen has been super fragile and flaky. It didn't even last as a desk ornament, let alone sewn into clothes.
> "Are you sure you aren't conflating "it's obvious" with hindsight bias?"

no, i avoided facebook at the start because it was obvious what it was going to be. with google, it was 2005 or so (about a year after the gmail launch) that i started weaning myself off of google.

that folks wore blinders willingly doesn't mean it wasn't easy to connect the dots.
I’ve never heard about this Electron precursor. What was it called? Could you link to anything about it?
> I work 9-6 every day ... then sleep for a couple of hours then stay up to 3am doing self study in math and programming.

Could you elaborate? You take two naps at night in lieu of 7+ solid hours? Is this sufficient? Why?
Ward Christensen, who was working for IBM in Technical Sales support at the time, heard it at work.
Audio is the earliest form of communication. Long before creatures evolved eyes to see, the ability to hear things had already arrived.

It’s also the first form of communication that we can understand as humans, before we are even born. We hear the heartbeat of our mother, and there are other ambient sounds that can also be heard inside the womb.

I think it’s the most primal form of communication that we humans would easily recognize.

I think these are all reasons why audio will always beat video and text.
China's still not regained sovereignty that was lost during that time. Eg: Hong kong
Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Still Resonates Today
Dynamic Code Optimization and the Nvidia Denver Processor [2015]
“They asked rhetorical questions designed to create confusion, to create doubt.”

The same complaint made against every scientist and every intellectual who significantly challenged the Church or the State in a public forum. When this becomes your complaint, you’ve moved from reasoned discourse into the area of theology known as apologetics, talking chicken or no. Let me know how the auto-da-fe works out for you, Naomi.

Every eyeball-minute spent trying to sell or refute “climate change” is an opportunity wasted on addressing today’s concrete issues in global water quality, water supply, fire management, air quality, soil quality and the like. It’s a perverse sort of global irresponsibility.

I guess so many folks are salivating over a multi trillion dollar global slush fund, with no practicable short or middle term accountability, that they don’t care about the hundreds of thousands of excess deaths, young and old, occurring over the next few years by not focusing on fundamental issues today. (They are probably the wrong color of victims for those folks to care about anyway.)

And if “climate change” proves to be an unsound waste of global talent and resources that could have been better spent on direct near-term water, air, soil projects...well, they got their pot of gold or egoboo, didn’t they? Imagine, trillions of dollars going to any despotic global regime smart enough to preload GPT-3 with global warming essays, and with no practical means of holding them accountable, since any impacts will be decades into the future and a tiny interconnected impact at that. What could possibly go wrong?

Meanwhile another child died of lung disease in Delhi. Are you aware the near-term impacts of bad air quality on health and quality of life? Now consider no clean water, or no water at all, for major global cities. These are hard enough problems on their own but any climate effect is a compounding one, not a core one. Too many people, not enough land, too few trees, too much polluting economic activity, poor agricultural practices, not enough clean water, over urbanization...a few Trillion on these core elements might get the world somewhere. Again, maybe for the slush fund people this may affect the wrong color people.

There is the international political benefit of blaming decades of political mismanagement on some mysterious outside element with deep pockets, instead of taking responsibility for local actions. But local action is the most critical element in addressing the issues. Of course, once the slush fund money is doled out, I don’t think they would care if kids’ lives were ever spared. Just a guess.

BTW...this is not a classic Red-Blue issue.
Dual Circulation and China’s New Hedged Integration Strategy
As a person who has to file with FinCEN most years, I beg you all not to jump to the conclusion that you should make foreign bank accounts more onerous than they already are. I think the reporting is about as good as you could hope. My U.S. bank accounts don't oblige me to report to the Canadian government, it is already quite a bit file with FinCEN, I have to get all of my momentary balances and the corresponding exchange rates and tell them the peak.

If you are interested in catching these things more often, it is likely possible to do so with the existing records and reporting requirements.
Downvoting to express disagreement is ok with 'pg. More information would likely to lead to more turmoil.
The language enables a kind of calculus on types, that libraries routinely use to get better performance, better compile-time error detection, and to direct control to the best code path.

C++20 just got "concepts", which make this capability vastly easier to use when creating a library, and enable some new capabilities along the same lines, while greatly improving compile-time error reports.
Documentaries are the worst way to put forth a legitimate argument (in this case, the argument is that social media is bad). The Social Dilemma, like other docs meant to persuade, is shallow and one sided. Entertainment in the guise of information.
If your workload is lots of singular INSERT or UPDATE’s.
>The drug dealer was selling meth. Meth destroys people.

You could replace meth with any sort of legal substitute and the statement would still be correct.

'The bar was selling liquor. Liquor destroys people.'
'The pharmacy was selling opiates. Opiates destroy people.'

So, when faced with a dilemma of hypocrisy like that, let's punish the wrong do-ers when they do wrong, as is traditional with substance abusers, rather than the 30 'criminals' involved in the supply chain that haven't actually done first-party harm to the peace at large.

One could say that they could be done in parallel, and I agree, but the resource spent to fight both sides of the crime in parallel should still be spent on keeping the peace, not preventing the imaginary destruction of future peace.
How Algorithms Discern Our Mood from What We Write Online
> Unfortunately interviews are easy for him as an IIT and Stanford elite, so this advice is mostly just obvious.

The other aspect of this is that this person probably enjoys this to some extent. The likelihood someone goes through all those hoops, lands on their feet, and absolutely hates it all the while is probably a bit uncommon. I'd imagine the OP enjoys trying to solve some of these problems.
Damn son whattt!>!>!>!
You missed the part where the US wanted Canada
Damn son whattt
This is interesting. I wonder what it's like also to kind of... Not really make it about that at all. Say you're hanging out with your friends IRL, and you're not paying them to hang out with you, or didn't pay the grass to hang out with them among it. Are you still being a "product"? I think in that case we don't dig into it because it all seems part of some natural order of things. I guess we just need to keep living till we get there.

I feel like it seems worthwhile to have an angle that doesn't dichotomize your actions into product/non-product ones; maybe you just act in a space orthogonal to it and/or use your understanding of it to inform yourself but aren't driven by needing to be product or non-product. Capitalizing on that last desire is I think how the language ends up becoming too much ends and not means.
This was a great message, why delete?
Huh? It's only been shipping for a year or so.
The Kivaloo Data Store
Basic training doesn't disqualify you for some of those risks.
With the earlier discussion on VLIW archs[0], I was reminded of a great, frank talk about Denver's internal architecture.

I don't agree with everything he says (particularly that it wouldn't make any sense to expose the underlying VLIW ISA, when JITs are so prevalent these days for code that gets run on Android phones), but it was really great to see a lot more on both the design of the processors, and the thought processes that led to that design.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24525372
They have the machines to cut keys to code spec but don't bother using them?
FIPS 186-5 and SP 800-186 (currently in final draft) will have new curves:

> NIST is proposing updates to its standards on digital signatures and elliptic curve cryptography to align with existing and emerging industry standards. As part of these updates, NIST is proposing to adopt two new elliptic curves, Ed25519 and Ed448, for use with EdDSA. EdDSA is a deterministic elliptic curve signature scheme currently specified in the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) RFC 8032, Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm. NIST further proposes adopting a deterministic variant of ECDSA, which is currently specified in RFC 6979, Deterministic Usage of the Digital Signature Algorithm and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm. Finally, based on feedback received on the adoption of the current elliptic curve standards, the draft standards deprecate curves over binary fields due to their limited use by industry.

* https://csrc.nist.gov/news/2019/comment-on-draft-fips-186-5-...

I'd be curious to see if the NSA will allow them for their 'Suite B' equivalent for classified stuff.
Care to share? Other minorities experiencing discrimination do not report similarly high levels of suicidal ideation, so I'm extremely doubtful of this claim.
Everything you said there agrees with my understanding. The difference is that in aggregate the bank doesn't borrow deposits from its customers, it creates deposits for its customers. It's a subtle distinction. Maybe a more direct way of putting it is that the loanable funds model is observably incorrect.

As you note, creating a deposit is just a balance sheet expansion, limited only by reserve requirements and capitalization and not at all by the presence of any depositors. And currently in the USA there are no reserve requirements and as far as I can tell capitalization is largely a shell game of packaging loans into various financial instruments that satisfy the legal requirements and trading them with other banks.

I didn't know that about SPDIs, thanks. It certainly does diminish the value of the banking license if they can't create USD deposits like a normal bank.
That’s what Blinkist is, isn’t it?
FFmpeg for Node and Browser, Powered by WebAssembly
Restore it?
Sounds like the governments fault. I don't believe in allowing choices that go against the grain of common sense and utilitarian consequence.
Well, it does require a Google account to register for origin trials. Google could conceivably block access for a domain to use origin trials, if they wanted. It may be fully open right now, but perhaps not in the future. These are hypothetical scenarios but very possible.
> Documentaries are made a clear statement of narrative intent. You can disagree with the positioning, but a documentary never pretends to be something other than a documentary.

But you could describe this as propaganda with anti social media agenda. I don't necessarily disagree with your point, but this argument can easily be flipped and feels a bit like going no true Scotsman [0] since there very much are documentations (as listed) with doubtful or undefined intent.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Why does it move us to a more radical position? Is it because the more radical you are the more time you spend on the platform?

I haven't seen it, but I'm somewhat confused. FB and Instagram just show me posts from friends and family? Most youth sports, social events (weddings, dinners), babies, etc... FB does have some political posting, but IG very little.

And YouTube has virtually nothing political. I never go to the News channel. Its just all sports highlights recommended to me.
Why JavaScript is called JavaScript
You only have deposits if someone puts the deposits in.
To add to the other comment (albeit with different DB’s because I haven’t used DuckDB yet) comparing MSSQL and Clickhouse: similar hardware and same dataset, CH responds in ~30-60ms, MSSQL 300-400+ ms for simpler queries. 90-180ms vs several seconds, up to about 30s for more complex queries.

I could add more indices to MSSQL and do all sorts of query optimisations, but out of the box the OLAP wins hands down for that workload.
I mean, who is consuming the products built with these resources? The corporations aren't building them for fun, or each other.
Just use tarsnap.
Android's Java is like half of Java 8 :/
In this story:

> heroin would be diluted with more than five tons of marble dust from a quarry on nearby Mount Pentelikon

heroin diluted with marble? it this real?
The number one problem with climate science is that it’s not falsifiable in the same way that physics or biology is falsifiable.
Hope the default settings are better than the MyShake app for iOS, which IIRC helpfully defaulted to notifying one of all quakes near 0 latitude, 0 longitude. It would be nice to
have a settable low threshold so one could become familiar
with the notifications at 2.5..3.5 Richter, and then set
to a higher threshold.
Sugar is not "lighter" than, for example, cocaine.

Sugar related health issues such as diabetes and obesity have far higher costs to society than cocaine abuse does.
Java already runs on the new ARM machines ;) Someone has OpenJDK building for the server variant, and it works quite well already: https://github.com/gonzalolarralde/jdk/tree/gonzalolarralde/.... Apple had the C0 interpreter up on the day of the announcement because they needed it for various Xcode tools.
Is there any specific optimizations done in minio code for arrow or it’s just that in general reading from arrow format gives high performance in analytics?
Why not just unbreak your unsubscribe process and let them unsubscribe normally in a way that will work for more than the one person complaining loudly in public?
This article in The Atlantic from early 2013 was insightful (and freightening). Its headline is slightly misleading as the loop holes and concepts in the US system are not limited to Russians.

"Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-kle...
I don't believe in irreplaceable geniuses that will solve every problem if given the time.

Let's take the most archetypal genius: Einstein.
First, he was here at the right time. Relativity was begging to be discovered, at the time we had observations good enough to invalidate the previous theories and fit the new ones. The mathematical groundwork was here, all that was needed was a spark of genius, which Einstein had, but I'm quite many others had it too. But maybe the others chose a topic other than physics, had a different education, or were born too early or too late...

Furthermore, Einstein essentially took 10 years to revolutionize physics. And then, not much. By not much, I mean he was still a top class physicist, but he couldn't restart the spark of genius, or he simply didn't have fuel for it.

So what if after finishing his work on general relativity, he just died, or pursued a career in management, or something like that. Many people would have probably said he would have discovered all the secrets of the universe, when in reality, it wouldn't have made much of a dent in history.

So don't worry and live your life as you want to, and don't expect too much of others. Things will get discovered eventually, and just because someone did great things in the past doesn't mean they will in the future, and vice versa.
Thats a show worth a watch - Aussies can get it for free with SBS OnDemand.
The Das Boot series on SBS is also excellent.
Derek Sivers has good summaries on some of these: https://sive.rs/book
Ask HN: Is there any way to copy HN saved stories?
I actually did copy over 100 saved articles from on smartphone to another (by searching the title..) but I have another 100 or more, how could I do it faster or something? (I'll change this phone sooner also so..)
I think there's a proposed pattern matching implementation for javascript in the works.