skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a link to the study [1]. It is a randomized trial so there's clear evidence that there is a causational link. Specifically, Vitamin D reduces the risk of needing ICU treatment.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...
Look at Bay Area price-to-rent ratios - some of the highest in the nation. California property prices are heavily driven by speculation. We have laws like Prop 13 that incentivize buyers to take out the biggest loans possible and put NIMBYs on steroids.

If SV workers move to a state that welcomes newcomers instead of punishing them don't expect the same meteoric property increases.
Oddly enough this was the most exciting thing for me today.

I use a Google Home in my kitchen almost exclusively for hands-free timers and music control when cooking/cleaning. My Home got bricked by an update last month and was going to just forgo replacing it because I am getting tired of Google's diminishing support of their products and the privacy concerns.

My only concern is Siri is easily the worst assistant when compared to Google or Amazon. I just hope it is good enough to handle my music and timer requests.
You think programming is to write ifs.Selecting a program is to execute ifs.
Also remember: What do you call a person who graduated in the bottom half of their medical class? Doctor.
Pretty disappointing that some users here flagged this post, apparently just for spite. Some of us are interested in this discussion.
It's Time to Buy a Bidet
I think we agree on the point, but disagree in the definitions.

Money supply inflation might not directly influence price inflation, though we see price inflation in asset prices, such as stocks and properties.

My point is more on the government saying it needs inflation, when even without price increases inflation might be happening.

We have increasing productivity, cost has been falling, so if prices stay fixed, therefore no price inflation, the people are still paying more than they should.

The value of things have been falling, but prices haven't.
> The largest meta-analysis ever conducted of studies published between 1966 and 2013 showed that 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels <75 nmol/L may be too low for safety and associated with higher all-cause mortality, demolishing the previously presumed U-shape curve of mortality associated with vitamin D levels.

I am very suspicious of scientific papers who make basic mistakes in the abstract, like citing a lower limit to argue against existence of a U-shaped curve, for that it would be more interesting to know "safe" (in the context of this paper) upper limits. I am also very suspicious of papers that use the word "demolish" in the abstract and aren't about civil engineering.
Legacy systems aren't just old. Old systems that are maintained aren't the legacy systems that create problems, and really aren't legacy systems at all (just old).

It's the old systems that "just work" until they don't. Where they run on old hardware, and the compiler is possibly on something even older. You can't port them to a new system because you may not have a compiler or even the source code. Or the source code is heavily dependent on the original physical hardware. Maybe it runs in a VM, if it was on an IBM mainframe it probably does. But that doesn't fix the problem of old code that can't be easily altered at this point in time.

I like Michael Feathers' definition of legacy code being code without tests. But it's not just tests, it's comprehensibility and (to a lesser extent) portability. Tests help to make a system comprehensible and portable. Since architecting for testing requires better modularity which makes things both more portable and more comprehensible in most cases. Portability means proper abstraction over the hardware or other things so that the core logic is separable. Imagine if the IRS's tax system were written in this way, where the hard-to-port part would be the interface with databases and networks, but the core part would be easily portable (or more easily portable) to another OS because it'd be properly separated. We could port that core to another system and change how it gets called more easily. But if you tied your software to a specific DB or a specific storage medium (like it has to be a tape drive, or something that behaves like one) you've reduced portability, and created the start of a legacy system.
We can deal with this issue by running a randomized trial. Here's a link to a randomized trial [1] that establishes a clear causational relationship between Vitamin D and reduced admittance into the ICU.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...
No, it's not normal. I really doubt Norway ever made a cyberattack on a Russian (or any other) government institution.
I came across that article yesterday but only found the time to read it today and thought it was worth submitting to Hacker News (I figured I should search first to avoid creating a duplicate).

I’ve been washing and/or quarantining (for 3 days plus) supermarket goods with non-porous surfaces for the past 6 months had been wondering if the science still showed that this was a worthwhile use of my time. The research described in this article seem to vindicate this practice. In any case, I’ve changed the quarantine corner to one next to the window to maximise ultra-violet light and warming from sun-light.
I emailed a report including sources for correct information and received a reply thanking me for the report.
> The actual measurements work differently. It's been experimentally proven many times that at the moment you look at your marble, the other marble's 50/50 probability of being red and blue shifts substantially to, for example 75/25. And that's without it having any way of knowing that you've seen your marble. So there are hidden variables that we don't understand, but they're not local. They somehow affect both marbles.

This is completely incorrect, to the point where what you were trying to correct was actually more accurate, though incomplete.

The usual setup is that for any given axis, each person always measures 50:50. Measuring your own doesn't change the odds of the other.

Knowing the _results_ of your own does. For the same axis, the correlation is exact. For axes with an angle theta between them, we get a correlation of R ~ cos(theta/2).

The upshot is that there is no underlying (classical) probability distribution that can give rise to this that can explain things for all measurement axes. This is sometimes glossed as "correlation without correlata".
It's still an interesting paper, but I was disappointed they were "just" concatenating an imagine generator with a language model. I'm really excited for when someone figures out concurrently trained models, say, alternating between training passes of GPT-3 and iGPT, such that the very same attention layers deal with both language and and visual/spatial conceptualization. I expect common sense reasoning capabilities to take a huge leap, at that point.
They’ll likely have to change that if for no other reason than someone will use their plan to run some servers using many TB/mo of data or something crazy. Like how MS needed to cap “unlimited” OneDrive because a few people were storing 100TB of system images.
I definitely agree with you that Siri is (currently) the worst assistant, but if it helps, it has consistently been just fine for me with music and timers.
“Too many meetings” a dev’s cry for help
Personally, I would use an explicit non-commercial license in this case. WTFPL isn't a real license (and isn't considered open-source by OSI).

Things like the AGPL and CC-BY-NC-* are actually written by lawyers and make it clear what you actually want.
FWIW, they said nothing about shared drives, so all of the businesses that were/are going to need unlimited storage will be able to use shared drives for sharing files with their team.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/7212025?hl=en
joe i take 5000 ius of vitamin d every day rogan
I think it’s pretty naive to assume people having a problem with drug deals happening in their neighborhood are primarily concerned with the drugs themselves — although some may have moralist reasons to feel uncomfortable with illicit drug trading, most regular people probably feel that way due to the inescapable consequences of it, which are many. Some examples include violent crime, burglaries, robberies, and the general discomfort of being around people on a daily basis who are chemically dependent on a drug they need to take on an interval and usually because of it desperate for money, sometimes with psychological issues on top of it.

Having a serious problem with drugs in your area does not mean some people buying weed every now and then. It infects and ruins entire communities due to the effects of extremely addictive narcotics.
thanks, good point! we'll make that change just to avoid any possible confusion in the future.
On my last phone (Galaxy S8+) I was able to break both the back glass and front glass while it was in a Spigen case (two separate incidents). First time I broke the glass on any phone I've owned. I've moved up to an Otterbox now on my S20+ as I'm not going to let that happen again.
The original SE actually had fantastic battery life. If I recall correctly, better than the larger flagship 6s at the time.
because they nearly always might have two dimensions.

Good question. Think of a price button (to choose yearly payment, instead of monthly).

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$299/year upfront *

Less than $25 a month

cancel anytime

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* The symbol would be smaller, the number bigger, lined up in a horizontal row.
Why? Human nutrition is largely confused science. Industry takes advantage to make billions in profit with snake oils.

I am this close before calling it pseudo-science but I think it's just the biological complexity that gets lost among nutritionists. We know so little that we shouldn't hand out advice at all apart from 'don't drink battery fluid'. It's hyper confusing:

Salt bad, salt good [1]. Coconut oil holy, coconut oil devil [2]. Fat is evil, fat is saviour from the grandmaster of hell 'sugar' so it's good again. Take your vitamins but actually don't because compound vitamins increase mortality [2] but it actually doesn't matter since uptake is shit anyway. Eat Goji berries because that's what George Washington did to become POTUS (according to that companies marketing). Just kidding, he merely ate bread which is bad for you and just like stopping oat from taking over we need to sell you actual milk for your bone health that also kills you because antibiotics and cholesterol which, newsflash, has no links to heart disease [4]. Etc etc etc............

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/09/salt-not-as-...

[2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/coconut-oil

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23255568/

[4] https://www.nhs.uk/news/heart-and-lungs/study-says-theres-no...
I’ve read that if you go to FaceID settings you can “set up an alternative appearance” and rescan your face with a mask. I’ve not tried it though.
Using dogs to detect Covid-19
Typo: Jaynes, not James
If you did include houses and cars, how would you account for their general improvement over the years? My grandpa used to get rid of his vehicles as the approached $50k miles. They were just too unreliable and costly repairs were right around the corner. Today even junky cars can make it to $150k. They use less fuel, they have better comfort, and they can just do more in general with tech inside them. So if the value the car provides goes up 4x but it's price goes up 2x, what is its contribution to inflation?
Are you suggesting that shared drives are exempt from the storage limit? If they said nothing about them I would expect the opposite.

This storage limit for workspace business/enterprise is a single pool across an entire organization.
I have a feeling that the concept of TV will be phased out.

There will be iPhone, iPad, iOS-based computer, iDesk, iWall, and finally, an iHouse.

You wake up to a big ceiling made out of ceramic-enhanced scratch-resistent glass screen, which artificially has emulated sunrise, so your experience of waking up is natural and absolutely amazing. Siri greets you, plays you a song, and while you brush your teeth, calmly tells you about your day, which is of course planned by an intelligent algorithm powered by the latest A42 neural chip.

Bacon is crispy, and eggs are tender. What a breakfast prepared by iChef! Not to mention the special sauce that is part of your weekly gourmet discovery program. Just savory.

The wall is playing you your morning news.

"What day is it today?" asked Siri, cheerfully. "It's Apple Event's day!"

Phew, for a second there, you thought Siri has asked you a real question. Turns out it's just rhetoric.

The new A43 chip is going to blow A42 out of the water. The trade-in program is amazing.

You look around the house, and the iWall looked bleak. The screen contrast-ratio on iChef is lacking. Your iToothbrush doesn't have a speaker as booming as the one in the advertisement.

"Hey, Siri. I'd like pre-order the new iHouse package!"

"Of course. Do you want to enroll in the trade-in program to exchange your current iHouse with a discount."

"Yes, please."

"Done."

A month later, the trade-in team has taken away the iHouse, yet the new iHouse isn't there. There has been a delay; the iHouse was supposed to be transported by the Pixel automatic railway, but Google just cut the project last week, so everything is stuck in warehouse for now.

"Damn it!"

You cursed, reflected, and walked into a Samsung shop.
Yeah, using Plan 9 for the graphics rendering stuff Hollywood was using Irix and NeXTSTEP for, wasn't never on the team's roadmap, specially when on Inferno the UI was based on Tk.
As per Wikipedia the overdose threshold for adults
can be up to 50k/day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Excess

As an anecdote, about half a year ago my sister-in-law's 4 year old found some vitamin D pills and ingested what was left in the pack, in total around 60k IU, hours before anyone noticed.

The doctor said to just avoid giving him any other Vitamin D for the next few months and it should have no consequences.

Luckily it was just Vitamin D, pretty much any other pills she had would have probably been deadly at such a high dose.
Apple's NFC antenna is usually along the top edge of the phone
we'll keep the script itself on MIT just to avoid any possible confusion in the future.
I heard iCloud Login on 2FA incompatible devices is possible by entering the otp code directly after the password into the password field. Seems to be some undocumented backwards compatibility feature.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28768407/ in the link above. Thanks!
>It's just, why would you want to edit the proof term manually?

Because you want to produce a particular proof term, because you are programming, not proving. Even with the CHC, there is a distinction between the two.

>Not only do you lose out on information about the generation (Why/How was it generated?), if you change the code it was generated from, you'll have to either manually edit the generated code (especially troublesome because the information of how it was generated was thrown away!)

This is a standard part of programming. Very rarely does editing code come with the complement of how/why the code itself was written - and even it does (like through doc comments) editing the code can then invalidate that information because the motivation can become outdated.

>Tactics aren't 'opaque', it's just a pain to manually look at the generated code and I don't see how the same doesn't apply here.

Because you want to look at the code, because the generated code is the objective of writing the tactics. You are not programming with tactics, you are writing code with tactics.

The point is this: if you wanted to prove `a -> a -> a`, then `intros; assumption` is a fine proof. But if you want to define `min :: (Ord a) => a -> a -> a`, then `intros; assumption` would typecheck without doing what you want. Tactics are not a good fit for programming, in general, because they fit the very different purpose of finding inhabitants rather than specifying them.

By contrast, actually writing code does seem like a good fit for tactics, because the steps you might take to iteratively program the particular term you want fit nicely with individual tactics.
Remember that there is no particular expectation of good design in something that wasn't designed in the first place and that a pre civilized human would have encountered only a small number of other humans and would have been primarily considered a success or failure as far as fitness depending on ability to breed in your 20s not living to 85.

What is optimal for us may differ substantially from what might have been optimal for our ancestors.

Also consider that vitamin D from sunlight would likely have been a bigger component and that is naturally slackened by tanning reducing vitamin d production/need to stay out of the sun to avoid getting burned/overheated. Basically it would be harder to get too much.
Wow, taco Bell literally raised their dollar menu prices 19 cents and 29 cents depending on location.

Mcdonald's removed their dollar menu.

That and stock prices has me pointing to inflation.
It seems like a good first step would be to set the minimum age to compete at world championships or the olympics at 16 or 17 or maybe even 20. Then delaying puberty wouldn't be a thing because everyone will have passed it.
I did the same. I heard about the changes, saw the life boat that is the $20 upgrade and figured I would jump on that since it was an available upgrade.

I have 41TB of "Linux ISOs" that I need to keep stored ;)
Doesn’t decoherence just spread entanglement out to the rest of the world such that you end up in a situation analogous to Many Worlds?
I used a case briefly but stopped (after it was damaged when I had precariously balanced it about 2m above the ground to use it as a torch and then knocked it to the tiles below). I don’t really suffer from the prevalence of broken screens. Am I just careful or is if from people with loose pockets running around or moving some other way (eg skateboarding)?

I occasionally drop it from my pocket onto not-too-hard ground without damage and I bent the corner a bit dropping it on tarmac when I was drunk once but otherwise it’s unscathed. Maybe I’m just super lucky.
Invariance under velocity changes boosts the whole apparatus. And speeds less than C are observable, and do change w.r.t. an unboosted observer.

Rotational invariance would rotate both the source and the detector, and there would be no surprise that the possible results and statistics over them are unchanged.

The quantum surprise is that rotating the source relative to the detector leaves the possible results unchanged (though the statistics do change).
But what do you do now that conspiracy theories are generated and popularized faster than you can possibly debunk? You kind of have to accept that you can't look at them all, and in that case do you live in a state of not knowing, even when there's an obvious assumption about a lot of them?
I have an iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard. The magnetic attachment is fantastic. I can hold the palmrest on the keyboard, turn the whole thing upside down, and shake it without the iPad falling off.

From my first day of using them together all I could think was "I want this connection method on every tablet and phone"

Also, btw, the iPhone 12 MagSafe doesn't prevent you from using a case.
My understanding is that, that's how most science works. Experts come to a consensus.
There is a really great book called "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" that shows in detail (and with a lot of very good photographs/technical illustrations) how extremely precise measuring tools can be built up from a simple flat plate. One of the most interesting things I've read recently.
Do not use CPI as it doesn't take into account technology improvement and outsourcing.

I'd take the big mac index over CPI.
> if he is not an expert in this area then I don't know who is

Someone with a degree in a relevant subject (biology or physics) who has performed research on the topic. Dr. Moskowitz has neither; his degrees are in mathematics and social psychology, and the article he published was a meta-analysis (i.e, a summary of other research in the field), not primary research.
I take 5 of the 'normal' dosage Vitamin D after watching reading heavily into the topic when it was making the rounds when COVID came about.

One that got me into it was Rogan's interview on the subject (whom as an individual I don't generally looking to a source for health advice, but the person being interviewed seems legit and my after-the-fact research seems to back this up): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBSfIckPV44

So I'm assuming the dosages are too low. But so are most 'natural' supplements.

Edit: this is the HN comment link for OP's mentioned "Shannon's Story" article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24261948
> I have noticed the significant uptick in vitamin D articles.

Over here in Canada, this happens every October and every February. In other words, when the sun starts to fade from our days and when the winter is the coldest. This probably happen in most nordic countries.

You are however right, it seems like the spike started earlier this year. Probably because of Covid.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=CA&q=v...
"Please be aware there is no guarantee that the samples would be bug-free. Remember to act with caution and make sure to avoid targeting important files. Regardless, we strongly encourage you to have a valid backup of your critical data."

this is a great idea... tell everyone that its a simulation while really being ransonware :)
While I understand the problem, sadly that has never been something that I was involved with more than 30 years coding. I really never saw it as part of any acceptance criteria, other than a couple of government sites.

On the positive note, eventually such frameworks might offer the necessary support.
I'm having a hard time finding out which node it's on and the die area. The S5 is essentially a re-badged S4 which as far as I can tell is made on standard TSMC 7nm. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say the BOM is dominated by the casing and speaker hardware. That chip has been in production for about 2 years now.
Really cute :). I have a pair of Homepods which pretty much has replaced my stereo for me, as together they sound really impressive. And are very convenient to use. Most of the time, I use my iPhone to control them. Certainly will get one or two minis for the rooms I am not constantly in, but would like to have some music support.

One thing I don't get, why Apple doesn't push them more as computer speakers. Mojave still doesn't support them as a pair, and the latency is too big for normal speaker usage. Should be a relative easy sell with a new Mac, if macOS supported them as a proper pair with low latency.
I'm just going to leave this here for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH1rB-Ya2UQ
It seems I've missed the window to edit my comment, so to address all the negative sibling comments: I am not moralising - I don't care what they do.

Grandparent complained the good content is paywalled. Parent suggested that's because they can't monetise any other way. I provided examples of how they are monetising already.
The FULL benefit of unlimited storage is probably the whole world having free access to any form of media in one enormous shared archive, like an unlimited library of all things. Or maybe I'm not thinking big enough.
I was just checking to see if anyone had posted this. I really am going to miss Citation Needed.

I've found it really interesting that, along with all of the other fin and interesting things he does, he seems to me a very competent game show designer and host!