skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My son is a software engineer by day, a pro-am Texas Hold 'em Poker player on some nights at "legal" card houses. Some criticize his "outlaw" endeavors, but he has over a year of serious winning statistics.

Compared to online ad scams - - his pursuit is a solid cake walk.
No. of clicks as a metric should be outlawed.
Send me mail (my hn username is my real name, google it) and let's chat.
Probably be much more informative to talk to non-c-level employees who do not have an incentive to modify the story.
We should be more nuanced than that. There are also many standard libraries where the HTTP implementation is the standard. Why?

> There's just not a lot of advantage to being in the standard library, and numerous downsides.

Look at those huge lists of dependencies and the complaints of Cargo dependency hell. That's the downside. Every node in your dependency graph has overhead for everyone involved, and it's even worse when it's something as fundamental as HTTP.
Yes, this is very close to my area of expertise, my previous job title was director of chemical process development but I've got my degrees in materials science and physics so I think I mostly understand what they're doing in a broad sense if not the details at small scale. But yes, a 5% energy efficiency gain would be an enormous deal for some chemicals like ammonia. A 1% efficiency gain there is last I checked 2 power plants per year that could be taken offline in response to the lost demand.

But for most chemicals the energy efficiency is important while material efficiency is more important. Usually there are tradeoffs. For instance I have made a chemical to 99.8% purity without a ton of purification. If it were to 99% then I'd have to spend a lot more energy to reach 99.8% purity (which happened to be required to be useful as a product). But the process to reach 99% is simpler and uses less energy than the process to reach 99.8%. So really it's just an optimization problem where you definitely cannot assume that improving the yield or efficiency of one part of the system will result in an overall efficiency improvement unless you model it all.

The problem is that it is premature to talk about energy efficiency in any remotely meaningful way here because the "big box" you need to draw around your system is vastly bigger when you're talking about a complicated plant doing by my count at least a dozen (including heating, cooling, separations, etc) processes simultaneously.

I'm not saying that their idea wouldn't work in that context, I am simply saying that at TRL 2-3, if this were me doing the work, we would have noted the amine issue and deferred it until a later TRL level because it's theoretically a non-core technology to remove it. It doesn't tell you much about your throughput of your membrane or what salt gradients it works with or how to power it -- that's what I would expect them to be focusing on.

Removing the amine would be like TRL 3-4 maybe, if they're on the ball, but they have to attack the problems most likely to result in failure first. Amine contamination is way lower on a priority list than, say, the membrane rupturing every seventeen days. That's literally just more where I would guess they are at development-wise, regardless of whatever claims they make.

I just cannot trust claims made at that TRL level, at best they're extremely optimistic guesses extrapolated from a 1L benchtop apparatus they are trying to model a whole plant using data from. It's a good thing to do. It won't give a correct answer, but it will give you an idea of what's important at least.
It's the BBC, they knew to have an appropriately British sounding response. Queen is still on their money right?
>A female exposing her nipples in public is considered an act of public indecency in states like Illinois, which is a misdemeanor

This is a very bad comparison. That's like saying "drinking on the street in public is illegal in many states, so showing any visual references to people drinking on Facebook is potentially illegal and should be removed".
I think 130 times recommended. Or perhaps only 30 times what should be recommend.

It's thought the old recommended dose is to low for some people or some situations. Which is why they really want to push it up as much as possible for all because it will save lives.

Hence these studies. I'm doing 1000UI daily given current data and covid-19.
"The patient had been assuming very high dose of cholecalciferol since 20 months (cumulative 78,000,000UI, mean daily 130,000UI), as indicated by a non-conventional protocol for multiple sclerosis."

"This case confirms that vitamin D intoxication is possible albeit with a really high dose."

This is a truly insane dosage but all this case says is that however created this protocol is dangerously incompetent.
I am disappointed at the lack of pictures of these sexy onions in the article.
Non-relational Data Modeling Techniques (2012)
> Mendel [...] had already demonstrated it.

No. For 3 reasons:

1) Mendel's work "appeared" after Darwin's. The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Mendel presented his work on 1865. True, Mendel did send a letter to Darwin explaining his work but it seems very unlikely Darwin ever read or understood it. Mendel had a very obscure and hard to understand writing style.

2) By "appeared" above I refer to the fact that Mendel's work remained completely ignored for decades. All of his scientific papers were burned by the abbot that succeeded him in the monastery. It was Hugo DeVries that rediscovered his work at the beginning of 20th century. Again, Mendel's hard writing style played against him.

3) Mendel never cared about random mutation and natural selection, the fundamental elements of evolution. He only recorded the combinatorial patterns on pea's traits deducing the recessive/dominant traits. Truth be told, today these are a small part of gene expression. The metabolic pathways of gene expression are much more complex than just the recessive/dominant pattern.
Ask HN: Is secure code more important for security software?
As someone who currently dabbles in pcb design as a hobbyist, oh yes indeed. It sucks so much - every tiny little thing has extensive datasheets: from extremely detailed specs over test and application circuit examples that actually work to bitfield docs for i2c registers.

But the more intelligence a Thing has, the inversely worse the situation becomes: good luck finding, for example, datasheets for a USB controller for Intel HDA codecs (if anyone has a hint on these, email is in profile)... and it's outright impossible to find anything for more complex stuff like Thunderbolt controllers, much less CPU / GPU / SoC chips. The closest a hobbyist comes across to real performance beyond RPi is COMexpress, which is not an as open standard as many would like plus the connectors cost a fortune...

And to top it off: even for components that have datasheets... these lack licensing information, which means it's technically illegal to put a pcb design based on them as open source.

Seriously I'd appreciate it if our governments could do something about that situation. The creativity decent rules about datasheets could unleash...
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Don’t mistake the remission of serious, life-threatening anomalies in this one patient as evidence that no long-term damage was done.

In these cases, the doctors aren’t giving the patient a clean bill of health across all parameters. They’re just confirming that the immediately life threatening issues are no longer an imminent danger to the patient. It’s entirely likely that the patient suffered more insidious, long-term health consequences that aren’t immediately obvious.

It should also go without saying that the excessive vitamin D doses didn’t do her any favors. The “more is better” approach to vitamins in the alternative medicine community really needs to stop.
I am not sure how much I agree with this. I have spent most of my professional career in Python and have watched the trajectory of type hinting in the Python ecosystem somewhat closely.

Python is not a statically typed language and yet type hinting sentiment seems to have gone from: "Why do you want it? Python isn't statically typed?" to "Well, mypy is a useful optional package" to "Let's just support type hinting in the language itself". Which is to say I think there is value to type checking by development tools even in dynamically typed languages.

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On a slightly unrelated note, Julia seems to be similar to Python when it comes to types; that is to say both appear to be dynamically and strongly typed. But take that with a grain of salt as I don't have any first-hand knowledge of Julia.
What's the endgame for those ads? How is your click meant to convert to revenue? Plain old scams?
You’re using a definition of “naked” that depends on your particular societal views, so that’s a circular question. Most people don’t where clothing over their hands in public, but you probably don’t call that “naked.” What reason is there to cover one’s nipples unless it’s for comfort, protection, or warmth?
I am sure Nevada's lack of income tax and the tax breaks the state gives, plus Reno's proximity to California is the reason logistics is centered there. Reno sells itself as the West Coast shipping hub.

Pretty much everything I order from Amazon these days comes from Nevada even though I am in Silicon Valley. I know Amazon has several warehouses in California, but I have never seen any order originate from California. The company probably uses them as local distribution points for its own shipping service.
I worry that /r/wallstreetbets has probably saturated those addreses.
For non-credit card banking I’ve been with them 25 years and have never had a problem.
Yeah, 130K IU / day is ~20x what's typically regarded as safe.
I enjoyed a first-read of "The Psychology of Human Misjudgement" by Charles "charlie" Munger recently
Why are you so sure that shorthand will provide the same engagement as handwriting, and not closer to that of typing? It seems plausible to me that the difference could mostly be explained by all the superfluous effort of handwriting.
They should implement something using straight functions, extremely spartan with no special syntax at all, and let everyone build their own favoured DSL over the top.

One of my major complaints about SQL is the syntax is so finicky that it is really hard to replace it with a [something -> sql] layer, because the something layer can't generate all the silly syntactic forms that SQL uses.

Eg, personal favourite, it is easy to have a dsl that translates

select(y = fn(x)) -> select fn(x) as y

that then breaks down because it can't construct

??? -> select extract(month from x) as y

and that is the only syntax the SQL database decided to understand. There are too many cases like that that need special handling, especially once SQL dialect-specific stuff comes into play.
> What is your plan to deal with the disinformation here?

It is disinformation how much disinformation there is. You'd like to believe that people believe everything they read on Facebook, while the truth is people don't care. People don't care about a lot of things and will repeat memes and jokes. We all "believe" things that are more or less false just because we don't care about them. Your relatives believe in things you may think are false but to them is just rubbish tidbits of information that do not affect them. Obama being Muslim or not has no effect on her life, why must we enforce that people now must be informed of the "right beliefs to have"? Who picks what things are important as well?

Just stop. The sad thing is you as a human will not recognize in yourself how much your "knowledge" is faulty as well.
The only US brokerage that offers real 2fa is vanguard (last I checked), and even they mess it up by allowing sms fallback.

It still will allow you to avoid phishing if you never use the sms fallback, but it does make you vulnerable to sim attacks of the variety "convince phone store rep to replace 'your' lost sim card"
Yeah, 35-50% is just appallingly low; does anyone have ideas on how to improve this number?

Advertising delenda est.
go to indiehackers, it is for doers.
Twilio Set to Acquire Cloud Customer Data Startup Segment for $3.2B
Yet, you claim this is obviously happening. Can you point at some proof that there's heavy Gates -> MS PR campaign happening?
> It is disinformation how much disinformation there is. You'd like to believe that people believe everything they read on Facebook, while the truth is people don't care.

I don't have Facebook. I discussed things with my mother and sister personally. Our relationship is closer than just online crap. We actually talk together on a regular basis.

> Obama being Muslim or not has no effect on her life

This belief of my mother has an effect on our political discussion. In particular, she doesn't want to vote for a Muslim. It sets the stage for the rest of the discussion to come.

Where do I start? Do I start with Muslims aren't bad people? Do I attempt to prove Obama is a Christian? Etc. etc. These facts and beliefs lay the groundwork to the very discussion. And I have to take it seriously if I so wish to have an intelligent discussion with my family.

> Just stop. The sad thing is you as a human will not recognize in yourself how much your "knowledge" is faulty as well.

I know that Obama is a Christian, and that Breonna Taylor was innocent. I don't expect to know the truth to everything, but I'll start with the facts I know about and work my way up.

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I don't believe myself to be the "defender of truth" or whatever. I can point out to my mom and my sister that I disagree with their "alternative facts", but I'm not so arrogant to believe that I can change their opinion on just discussion alone.

But when I see such obvious untruths seep into their talking points, it does make me weep inside on behalf of the truth.
What’s fascinating about your comment, to me (a leftist, with very minimal social media exposure to right wingers except in comment sections, i.e. I’m a perfect example of the “echo chamber”/“bubble”), is that leftists are notorious (and historically infamous) for internal disagreement, internal conflict, infighting, even comically[1] pathological division. The idea that the things you describe are representative of “lefties” is almost as silly as the notion that “left” is any kind of unifying umbrella at all.

That said, yes a political persuasion so large it uses a hemispheric metaphor is likely to have some common threads.

Absolutely, there were some people “on the left” who took obviously dishonest photos of beach gatherings and mindlessly regurgitated them. And certainly there are people “on the left” who on principal oppose residential development that would alleviate some housing pressures because the development is overwhelmingly upmarket and contributes to the affordability crisis even as vacancy eases affordability pressure in other ways.

But what I see in my “bubble” is that these are both examples of the deep culture of debate on the left; that challenging groupthink is built in; that “reality” isn’t some amorphous thing but actually an area of exploratory interest, where the left internally dissents and people in it gradually reconsider their ideas and assumptions without outside/“other” pressure. Because yes, we get shit wrong, but we actually care about correcting ourselves more than correcting the “other”.

Both of the examples you chose are subjects that “the left” has aggressively self policed, because when the actual reality hasn’t matched the instinct, we don’t mind admitting we’re wrong and absorbing that new knowledge.

[1]: Edit to explicitly state the Monty Python reference, which I’m sure some will pick up on... “People's Front of Judea”, etc and so on.
It's in the original article too, just not as the top image. Scroll down a bit. :)

Edit: Oh, but it's a Facebook social media embed! You may have something blocking it.
I've noticed this specific case being brought up on HN 3 times in the past 3 weeks (from different sources). I think it's a dead horse.

Beyond that, I would wholeheartedly recommend people take 3000 UI per day while COVID is floating around. (3 drops from your typical Vitamin D in drop form)
You might want to think about a smart pen. I had one that wrote in standard Moleskine-style notebooks, and then the notes could be exported from the pen as PDFs.

It was also supposed to do some kind of OCR and make the PDFs searchable, but I never tried that.
You got that backwards. Elites are the ones that benefit from letting people "vote" with money – since they have more of it. That is the opposite of democracy.

I'm not saying we shouldn't try to make ethical choices and just wait to regulation. But it is rarely sufficient. Boycotting a company as an individual has very little effect on the company but does inconvenience the individual. Doing that can feel good but it's actually pretty irrational. Organized boycotts are much more effective. And regulation is the ultimate (threat to) boycott.

If technology turned people into enlightened, selfless beings things would be different. I don't see that happening, to the contrary.

Furthermore, people have limited time and energy. They can't investigate in detail every product they consume.
>What reason is there to cover one’s nipples unless it’s for comfort, protection, or warmth?

Several thousand years of Judeo-Christian cultural indoctrination teaching that because Eve tempted Adam into original sin, women and their bodies are inherently unclean and can lead men astray, and thus are to be treated as taboo.
What if those of bad faith get to decide what is true? The word "disputed" at least acknowledges that objectivity is very difficult.
I seriously doubt this was a scientific study to test the upper tolerance limits of vit D. I mean, no ethics committee on the planet would approve the dosage.
This is not true. Indexing works very differently in julia than it does in Matlab. There is some overlap in function names, but less than you're implying, mostly in the names that everyone uses anyway (sin, cos, etc) and even where the names are the same, the API details often aren't. Ironically the number of overlapping method names has increased because Matlab has been copying method names from Julia in recent years. That said, Julia and Matlab are completely different languages, so I'd encourage you to look in one step further.
Well Thousands of years before both Islamic scholars and Darwin, Evolution was beautiful described in Hinduism called "Dashavatharam".

It's even more important to note that many things in astronomy, science of many things, time period of planet Earth, eras of the Planet and how things will be, are described as well in the Vedas.
Christopher Strachey’s Nineteen-Fifties Love Machine (2017)
> Arbitrary chaos tends to benefit the powerful

It depends where they're positioned. If they're on solid footing, agreed. But if they're 100 feet up on a highwire with no safety net, not so secure.

> From what I can tell, Trump has not stopped the sabre rattling and foreign military interventions.

It's a subjective call, but the only sabre rattling I've heard much from is Trump. It's when the media starts acting in unison (like when Trump suggested pulling troops from the middle east), that's when my ears perk up.

> How are things better by not even paying lip service?

I believe Trump in all he does demonstrates how illusory our political system is, and how closely it is joined at the hip with the media. He's managed to get plenty of serious people to say very silly things, intentional or not, and I think a lot of people are starting to catch on that there is a curtain on the stage, and that there are in fact things going on behind that curtain. This is a stark contrast to Obama, who was an absolutely brilliant performer, like the David Blaine of politicians.

> He may call them for what they are, but his own reality distortion field prevents him from gaining any high ground....

Here I completely agree. Very often I cannot help wondering if he truly is as incompetent as people say, because sometimes it sure seems like it (covid, particularly opposing masks!!!??, the debates...all sorts of examples). At the very least, he is highly inconsistent. I imagine he is hyped up on amphetamines most of the time as well, which likely takes its toll some days, so perhaps that helps explain his truly incompetent days.

> But IMO Trump looks like yet another conspiracy red herring rather than a productive path forward.

Sometimes for a new forest to grow, you have to burn the old one down. Mother nature operates in mysterious ways.

But even if Trump can successfully derail the system, he is in no way a man with a vision for a new one that serves everyone's interests - "Make America Great Again" minus the bad stuff would be a huge improvement over now, but it is still fundamentally flawed, and I don't see a lot of people lined up with better stories.
These "laws and regulations" still apply to the agency that hires those workers. You're simply paying for them to carry the risk.

You can argue that such agencies are more likely to disregard laws and regulations, but how would you fix that? With laws and regulations?
I’d suggest reading Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan.
As a consumer, I really like(d) my US bank accounts besides some technological limitations. If you can afford to pay your bill every month (worth emphasizing), credit cards have far better benefits and are more consumer-friendly than in seemingly any other country I've been to or looked into, and are even more advantageous abroad than any domestic credit card where I live.

This applies to checking accounts as well. I pay no fees on my account with no minimum balance or usage restrictions and still have free unlimited ATM use worldwide (i.e. my bank doesn't charge a fee for the use or currency conversion and they actually refund me the foreign ATM's fees) and fee-free overdrafting on my account (paying a very nominal margin trading interest rate). I actually still use it even though I don't live in the US because it's cheaper to use here than my domestic bank account...
On its own, there's nothing inherently wrong with it, aside from it being a very awkward user experience.

But here's where it can go wrong, using ETrade as a specific example. ETrade appends the 2FA token to your password, but also enforces a password character limit. Yep, that means turning on 2FA reduces your password character limit. From what I hear, it has some surprising behavior if your password is already at the character limit and you turn on 2FA.

(Aside: ETrade has some very sketchy security practices, like apparently letting you use the 2FA token on its own to reset your password (according to a coworker), but that's another discussion.)
Magicimport.py: Python code that fetches its dependencies without complaining