skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some validity to what you've written, but some of it is patronising and seems to attribute positions to me that I didn't convey, or indeed conveyed an opposing position.

Note that I specifically wrote "Of course one should work with a health professional when considering taking dietary supplements".

That's what I do - I have multiple practitioners, and have my levels tested periodically (blood testing is of limited value with magnesium, whilst hair testing can give a better indication, though it has its own pitfalls regarding the testing procedure and the interpretation of the data, which need to be well understood by the practitioner).

You've also focused on the risk of "megadosing", which I don't practice or advocate for any nutrient.

Indeed, the real point of my comment is that supplementing any single nutrient by itself is likely to have consequences that you'll be unaware of without really doing your research. This article focuses on the risks of "megadosing" vitamin D. I'm not sure how you interpreted my pointing out that vitamin D supplementation can lead to magnesium deficiency as a recommendation to "megadose" magnesium. I've certainly never taken magnesium in any quantity that gets close to toxicity and I'd never advocate anyone else do that.

(Incidentally, I've felt before that Gwern's approach of experimenting with supplementation of a single nutrient and looking for a single change is of limited value, as it doesn't take into account the complexity effects of that supplementation. His list of self-experiments includes a magnesium/sleep trial and a vitamin D/sleep trial, with negative results in both cases. But for the reasons discussed above, a trial involving both magnesium and vit D, and perhaps other nutrients as well would likely yield very different results, and probably ones that are far more useful).

Your comments about the efficacy/cost of higher bioavailability supplements are worthy of consideration. Though it seems contradictory to warn against "megadosing" in one paragraph but then recommending increasing the dose in another.

The particular benefit I'm interested in is passing the blood brain barrier, as the biggest issues for me are mental - e.g., anxiety and memory, for which magnesium l-threonate is said to be particularly beneficial. I would expect that increasing the dosage of a different form, which doesn't cross the BBB so effectively, would potentially lead to an excess elsewhere in the body.

To be clear, I'm not primarily focusing on magnesium; the main target of my approach to healing is currently the thyroid, and I'm cautiously taking tyrosine and iodine for that, as well as working on gut/microbiome health to improve uptake so that ultimately all nutrients can be attained from the diet so and no supplementation is needed, which is ideal as you point out. But I'm not there yet; several years of testing and work has confirmed that.
The debt is real.

> US$300 billion was estimated to have been financed via public and publicly guaranteed debt.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3093218/b...
The path forward
https://github.com/speakeasy-engine/speakeasy/issues/26
So we must sacrifice one person to save many?
From 2022, all new top-end Arm Cortex-A CPU cores will be 64-bit-only
In today's India the problem is only the retrogade and dictatorial mentality of PM Narendra Modi. Umpteen examples exist for it.
Your example of Tesla vs Teslan makes sense. But if you do this comparison of similarity, be truthful with the initial argument here.

"Orpheus" is longer than "droid" and is certainly longer than "an".

What's next? Forbidding streichholzschachtelfabrikdroid? Due to similarity? C'mon, that's nonsense.

And no, you cannot have rights on the word "droid". Otherwise, lukasarts and the star trek film makers would have sued the shit out of google by now.
Not made up. You just don't care to know.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/afghan-leaks-expose-the-i...
Nice, I didn't know that "Git scraping" was actually a term, but I used this technique to build an API which allows fetching HMRC exchange rates in JSON format.

https://github.com/matchilling/hmrc-exchange-rates
You don't expect an essay to quote Principia Mathematica when it uses F=ma, right?

Google Scholar says there are over 2,000 results in 2020 so far for "classism in america" - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2020&q=classism+in... .

Now, some are about Latin America, and some historical, so I refined the search by adding "redneck" - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2020&q=classism+in... . Still has 41 results.

The first (and most relevant of the ones linking to the papers) was https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00377317.2020.17... , "Classless: Classism in Social Work Practice and the Example of White Rural Proverty". Some quotes:

> It is not unusual to hear the pejorative phrases, “whitetrash,” “redneck” and “hick” uttered with surprising ease by self-described progressives and academics alike (Wray,2006). ...

> White rural poverty provides an example of classism, uncolored by racism and racial oppression. To expressly highlight white poverty challenges the myth of universal white privilege and demonstrates the potency of class standing as a defining social factor allowing for either belonging or disenfranchisement (Winders,2003). However, the culturally sanctioned disdain toward “white trash” signals both loathsome attitudes toward the poor and reveals implicit racial biases toward the assumed and expected superiority of whiteness (Wray,2006). ...

Your comment about "results to be replicated" must surely add the qualifier "many" or even "most". It's certainly not true that all of social science research is unable to be replicated.
I read the core argument as:

Don't write a shell CLI prematurely - a script in whatever language you're using can often be just as good a interface. Maintaining a shell CLI is work.

If you write a shell CLI don't aim for full flexibility - a script already fulfill that role.

I'm a big fan of shell CLIs (command --option=1), but I think this way of thinking has merit. I would consider a script a subset of CLIs though, using a python REPL with preloaded modules is certainly a type of CLI, no? Code is a sequence of commands.

That being said, as the author mentions, new libaries make it really easy to expose some functions to a shell CLI. If the task mesh well with piping, exposing some primitive to the shell is probably worth it.
Yes that's true, and it's the reason that K2 pops up every time D/D3 is discussed. K2 regulates the calcium flows in the body, so that it ends up where it should be (e.g. bones) and not where it should not be (e.g. soft tissue).
I take ~40mcg of K2 M7 all-trans per 1000IU of D3.
So it was fine when Apple banned Infowars but now it’s different?

This is exactly what those free speech advocates meant when talking about slippery slopes: you either support free speech or censure. There is no middle ground.

Disclaimer: I think Infowars is pure, evil sh*t.
The SuperMemo algorithms [1] have been re-implemented in more modern software such as Anki [2]. These systems are popular for goal oriented learning like studying for a test or learning a new language.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperMemo#Algorithms

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki_(software)
Only x% of users active on day 7, but is it true that the rest have left us
Speakeasy, Lightouch, Jazz is a fifth-generation programming language. I find only small hurdlesv when showing it to programmers. My challenge now is mainly getting stable shelter so I can compile these notes and hand them off to people.
Note that F# has the `[<NoEquality>]` attribute for exactly that sort of case.
One more Lisp formalization (1979)
What else do people use to write scientific papers? A word processor?
Btw this thing is based on country of birth and not country of citizenship. So basically even a person who is a European citizen and born in India cant get a green card before 20 years. Does that change your view?
I don't understand how you concluded that Example 2 implies that the author thinks that `a.Equals(b)` should work on InputStream objects.
Headers not including headers is still good advice, it's not so much about fast compiles (at first at least while a project is small), but about not letting header inclusions grow out of control (see almost every C++ project with more than a few hundred source files, it's almost impossible to clean up unused headers, and even when that happens - after a few weeks it's back to the old mess).

See here for a relatively recent take on this:

https://ourmachinery.com/post/physical-design/
Using this the next time an objectivist capitalist starts getting angry about how government regulations are all worthless.
So, perhaps we should cover ears, necks, and lips too? Backs too, can't forget that. No sandals. Don't forget men, too: They really need to cover up more. Especially their nipples. Beaches are going to be a real bummer and more uncomfortable. Perhaps we should require loose swimwear and increase risk of drowning while we are at it.

Nudity isn't going to take away any of these zones. You children are going to experience things differently than you, and nudity isn't going to encourage or prevent it.
People aren’t able to “trademark single everyday words”. In fact, if a name becomes a simple everyday word the trademark can actually be lost.

Thats the reason Google used to discourage people from saying Google it because they were worried they would lose the trademark to the name.

What one can do is apply for a trademark to a common word to be used in a specific well defined context where it’s clear it’s applying to your company.

And once you get a trademark you don’t automatically own it forever. You have to actively use it and defend its use.

Of course, much like anything else in the world, there will be edge cases where the situation is murky and other cases where the outcomes appear outright wrong to most impartial observers. But that’s an artifact of the inherent complexity in trying to balance the various needs as opposed to a problem intrinsic to trademarks themselves.
It's still a matter of statistics. If only 1 in a million photos is classified incorrectly, then most researchers as well as most "normal" people would consider the algorithm ok for the purpose (regardless of whether the purpose is justified). Yet on the scale of Facebook, errors are very likely to happen on a daily basis.
same! also slightly relieved it didn't involve self-driving cars
Seriously use librem 5 or pinephones
> In general, prices don't need a legal justification. That's a big part of free enterprise.

Well it would need a legal justification if the alternative is that Apple would be penalized under anti-trust regulation for using its market share to hurt consumers for its own benefit. Even "free enterprise" operates within a legal framework.

> In practice, complicated laws with lots of reach usually work in favour of the party that can afford more and better lawyers.

I mean this is an incredibly defeatist and cynical view. Don't get me wrong, I'm not overly optimistic that things will change based on the way laws have been applied in the last few decades, but the fact that people see laws as primarily a tool for the powerful - and don't even have an expectation for legal enforcement to operate on behalf of the consumer - seems to me to be a large part of the reason the US is looking more and more like a failed state.
I've probably read this 100 times by now. It's still good the 101st time. Sentient meat, indeed.
Dear Google, Android and Droid exist much longer than your crappy OS:

>The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use (as "Androides") to Ephraim Chambers' 1728

>The term "droid", popularized by George Lucas in the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction

Maybe Disney should sue you too right?

And maybe the State of Greece because it's derived work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(robot)
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Sure, and it will also be a carrier suicide to state that at your work place in front of all your coworkers.

My point was any PR =/= good PR.
Exactly. I don’t care if it’s Infowars, if it’s Gab, or if it’s HK protests, or if it’s Belarus protests.

App stores must not be political, even if the politics agree with you.
Public perception about the average intelligence of any type of criminal is likely influenced by survivorship bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
I think it's a pure evil move. Seeing Cook indeed hobnobs with the likes of MBS I won't be surprised if there's more to what's visible, especially beneath this veneer of being privacy champions. Esp. considering their entire platform is closed source.
Sacrifice? Former elite terrorists probably get bad boy points. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl in possession of a beautiful visage, must be in want of a boy ... of whom she may confidently boast "I'll alter him."

(not, as I must mistakenly have misheard at my marriage, as "aisle, altar, hymn")
Previous discussion (2015):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8998117
Fractal Learning
What's the objective in pointing that out?

That if you're an innocent, mis-identified person and get killed it's ok because you live in a regime where worse things could happen to you?

That identification videos identify the correct person, or often enough that a few killed innocents is "worth it"?

That it's ok to kill police in general in a bad regime?

That it's ok to kill police who are beating up protestors?

(These points combine: The statistical bias is such that if the wrong person is identified, it will tend to pick a police person who wasn't involved in the scene, rather than a non-police person who wasn't involved.)

(Btw, I think it's up to each person to decide for themselves, if at all possible, if being killed is worse than an alternative. It's a very personal decision.)
You cannot reasonably believe that Orpheusdroid and Android are the same thing.

Tesla and teslan are a bad equivalent. Tesla and Orpheusla is closer. Just because they end the same way it’s not the same thing.
If you don’t like Apple... don’t buy their stuff? It’s that easy.

Just go buy a phone running the market leading OS, Android.
Please, people like PH belong in Hyde Park as a tourist attraction. He would be friends with Nixon and Anslinger. Makes me want to vomit.
It’s likely requested by the Russian government.

Telegram not complying means it gets banned from the App Store.
In a battle of AI versus AI, researchers prepare for wave of deepfake propaganda
That's funny, considering many municipal budgets had started including line items for paying of ransoms. It's cheaper for them to just pay, than to buy some product and probably still get infected and pay anyway. I guess the budget will now expand to include giving the feds their cut.
Class action lawsuits are dead since binding arbitration agreements.
The Consolation of Philosophy – Why Read Boethius Today?
I agree. I normally recommend multiplying the number of cores by a 2-5x factor, and then dividing all that by a subjective "% utilization of the connection", which is obviously a value lower than 1 and results in an increased value for max_connections.

This % of utilization accounts for factors like the session not sending back-to-back queries, the io_wait on the server, which is turn potentially derived by the speed of your I/O subsystem, etc.

However, I'd also advise to only look at the TPS peak as the optimal point. That is indeed typically achieved at high connection numbers. Postgres is reasonably good at managing large number of connections, in terms of throughput. However, latency may go to the roof.

So to find the peak more latency than tps needs to be considered IMO (or, obviously, both).
Interesting. I have always found NDA stuff some of the grosses legal concepts emerging, and in this case it's not even an agreement, it's pure blackmail.
Twitter Expands Warning Labels to Slow Spread of Election Misinformation
That would be true if every company didn’t have nearly the same benefit. We are comparing time periods not two companies. Companies from say 1950 are not competing for workers with people from 2020.
Not sure if databases really meet #3.
It may be hard for a database to beat the simplicity of Git when all you want is add file revisions and look at diffs.
rid-iCoulous..

(Hope I don't get sued too)
I know that * is the wildcard in many expressions, such as some query languages and (as you say) file name globs. However, I don't actually think a wildcard glob is a regular expression. Wikipedia, always a risky source :-), makes that point, with a reference to further reading.

The article is about the asterisk character, and the connection to the wild-card seems legit. But the sentence "I find regular expressions can induce swearing, occasionally" (which I agree fully with!) hints towards the idea that the * is used as a wildcard in regular expressions, which I think isn't quite true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)#Compared_to...
Why substack? Wouldn’t Wordpress / namecheap do the trick? Why would he need a discovery platform?
Facebook gets special treatment because if iPhones don’t have Fb, Instagram and WhatsApp, people stop buying iPhones.

Case in point: digital fundraisers on Facebook are not subject to Apple’s 30% tax, via a special COVID exemption until the end of the year.
Hacking Covid-19: Amateur inventors and app developers may be key
> I had forgotten that escape sequences needed to also be changed. Unescaping in place does make it non-trivial.

Assuming escapes are rare, backshift unescaping is totally an option, though it scales poorly (interpreting escapes is linear, backshifting is quadratic) and is thus susceptible to slowdowns with malicious inputs. It does need very little code and no extra memory at all, though.
Diversity in app stores are good, but keep in mind F-droid chose to censor Gab.
I think that's (a big part) of the whole point: splitting a project into too many small headers which depend on each other is bad. Including headers into headers just hides the problem, but it's still there under the hood and grows worse the bigger the project becomes until it's too late to do anything about it. That how you get hours-long compile times in large C++ projects.

Instead use few big headers, for instance one public-interface header per system/module which only contains declarations (no inline or template code), and at most one private header for each module (or better none at all). Then keep the dependency tree between modules/systems as flat as possible.

This is especially important for large projects.
One difference is that that was an app they banned, while I think that was still bad, it's still an order or two of magnitude better.

In this case, they're policing user generated content on a platform.

The equivalent would be if they asked telegram to block infowars channels, or asked VPN providers to block the infowars website.

I had literally just started to defend/advocate-for apple after trash talking it for a while, but clearly I was extremely wrong.
More than half of all whale and dolphin species are of conservation concern
Because whatever they do, Apple's actions or inactions will have an effect on people in the real world.

In the case of videos which might get people beaten or killed or other things, you can argue that Apple shouldn't act to take those down due to anti-censorship principles, or you can argue that Apple should act due to anti-beating-and-killing-or-other principles.

What you can't correctly argue is that Apple should avoid getting involved.

It's literally impossible for them to not be involved. Whatever they do or don't do has the effect of supporting one outcome or the other.
It’s just that there was a time when it actually seemed to be true. We cannot let it go because something so promising was extinguished.

I can see how it’s a bit annoying, but I can also see how people cannot keep but bring it up.
Imagine every failed startup would open-source their stuff so others could stand on their shoulders if they want to give that idea another shot.
You could perhaps better use a lazy-loading strategy instead of a static analysis. (But this would change the semantics in case of an existing language that allows side-effects while loading modules, unless you have a lazy strategy for them too ...; and then there are the errors you'd have to deal with)
The privileged extension does not require root.

You _can_ install it with Magisk (which also provides root) but it can also be flashed as a regular flashable ZIP (which just requires an unlocked device).

Last (and best) of all, it can be added to an unrooted ROM. RattlesnakeOS[0] for example includes it.

[0]: https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack
No, it implies that there must be a generic two-valued datatype to wrap every state:

Just t | None

You can have your null case, and avoid the null-pointer exception, default keyword, chained ? null-check hellscape in which we currently reside.
The Chinese communist party does censor that kind of thing though (in addition to politically inconvenient facts and opinions) to enforce what they believe are good morals for the public good.
No pressure is buildilng because no one cares. Other than an extreme fringe of the chattering class subset of the digerati, nobody cares about the fate of Julian Assange. As soon as he ran to the embassy he was guilty in the eyes of the mass public and became nothing more than a sideshow for two column inches on page 6 of the Sunday paper. Your vague references to some coming revolution are probably the most laughable part of all of this.
Not so easy, there are arguments that the company behind the other OS is not a force of good either.
I want what this guy is smoking because I want to believe the government is using chemicals to turn people and frogs gay.
This. Knew there's more to it than what the title implies.
Apple’s T2 security chip has an unfixable flaw
Oh, I'm just defeatist and cynical when it comes to complicated laws.

I have higher hopes for simple laws. And also for efforts to lower barriers to entry.

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_deregulation and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air for a legislative efforts that did much good.

Some interesting thoughts on rail freight transport at https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/SurfaceFreightTransporta... If all you did was follow casual online discussions about the state of American rail transport, you'd think it's in shambles. What's interesting is that the deregulated freight part of the industry is actually doing great. It's the transportation of people part that's not so hot.

I have no ready answer for Apple's walled garden. But as I stated earlier, I'm afraid heavy handed interference might do more harm than good, since Apple has so much money to through at lobbyists and lawyers.

For what it's worth, the default historical case people always cite in favour of trust busting, Standard Oil, actually shows the opposite. See eg https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-standard-oil-was-a-pr...
As the author of xsv, I was surprised to see this comparison missing too.

The other bit to mention is `xsv index`. If you can afford to make one single threaded pass over the CSV data, then future operations truly do become embarrassingly parallel. It's a simple low-tech solution, although the UX is worse because you need to take a manual step.

As for zero copy, could you say where you saw that? I don't think it makes sense to describe xsv that way. The csv parser does have a lower level zero allocation API, but there is no zero copy API.
Destroy All Monsters (2006)
Somewhat related Twitter thread from a few days ago: https://twitter.com/Programazing/status/1313479031069835266