skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is a huge leap to go from "there's less Vitamin C in this supermarket carrot" to "you will get fewer diseases and/or live longer or better if you eat carrots from soil 100 years ago".

If only there was some kind of study linking vitamin [1] and protein intake [2] to health [3]...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin#Deficient_intake

[2] https://www.nutrition.org.uk/nutritionscience/nutrients-food...

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/high-intake-of-vit...
What about documentation? The maintainer doesn't need to document the package in order to solve their own problem (at least, not to the same level.) Should that be chargeable too? In which case the project will likely never get off the ground, and there'll be no money coming in for other change requests either.

Don't get me wrong, I agree in principle. There are just too many grey areas to make a blanket rule.

But what this is leading me to, is that if we go down this path, it just becomes another business model - where you build some things, and give them away, because you need to do so to have a product. And then charge for others. Nothing wrong with that at all, but it isn't as simple as the article makes out.
Most of my thoughts are vague, no judgement ;)

You're touching on a reason I like paper too -- in a digital format, I end up thinking too much about how I'm going to organize the information as opposed to just getting my thoughts down.

Organizing the information is important too, but worrying about it before your thoughts are clarified is a quick way for me to get pulled away from my focus on the problem.

Each tool has it's place!
Sounds like providing that skill set would a good business opportunity.
It is amazing how wannabe public health experts, with zero expertise in virology, are failing to understand that difference just in handful of nucleotides may make the pathogen a completely different beast compared to its nearest relative. And we are not even talking about the nearest relatives, common cold coronaviruses diverged like many thousands years ago from the SARS1 and similar viruses.

Nonetheless, the original SARS-1 (which is way closer to SARS-2 than say OC43), is known to be causing long term, debilitating health complication among significant number of survivors.
This is very nuanced because, to me, there is a difference between a "missing" feature and a feature that's intentionally "withheld". Things like changing icons, in my mind, are missing features. Things like being able to install whatever apps or scripts are available outside of the walled garden are intentional decisions made for security, privacy, etc.
I'm not a musk supporter in the slightest. I really don't have much of an opinion of the dude other than the fact he mostly seems like a dude.

I don't exactly call this situation "controlling his image"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.inverse.com/article/46184-a...

Sorry for the amp link - but maybe slightly look into things before posting. I don't think hed've ever said a damn thing about it if somebody didn't go "well why don't you donate to them"
Wow, thanks for posting that; even more ridiculous than I thought!
Use design thinking to build a product that solves real problems
I didn't see any defending. Maybe these departments are understaffed.
I can understand (not approve of, but understand) DRM for like your OS, and anything that can install. It is easy to slip up and install malicious software, for non-tech, non-critical-thinking individuals.

But DRM on ink? What's the worst that could happen? I ruin the printer I paid for? I ruin the page I'm printing? What's the justification, outside of blind greed?
Instead, circumventing it is illegal.
> I look forward to a day when asking anyone to do unpaid labor is considered unethical by our industry. That goes for feature requests on open source projects ...

While I'm sure there are some open source developers who see feature requests as a burden, lots of us just want to make useful software. If someone lets me know about a way that icdiff or anything else I maintain could be better, I'm happy to hear it.

I'm not always up for implementing changes, in which case I'll typically say whether a PR implementing the feature would be welcome, but it is extremely far from unethical to file a feature request.
Its crazy because fruit and veg are so heterogeneous. If you look at apples there are dozens of different varieties, different sizes and different orchards but all one set of nutritional information. I'm pretty sure many modern varieties have more in common with candy than the small, sour apples of 50 years ago.
This is very strange. In Israel all citizens are required to issue a tourist visa before traveling to the US. The process is super quick. The embassy have a website that updates you on each step in the process and from applying until you get the actual visa it can take only 3 weeks. The only busy times are usually in summer months where many tourists want to issue visas, so waiting for the in person interview can be up to a month. But again, from the interview to getting the actual the visa is a matter of days.
I want to point out that diversity of opinion was celebrated in Federalist 10. The govenment was meant to constrain the power of factions and allow the diversity of people to flourish.
This reminds me of the articles I read about COVID-19 tests that took 19 days for results to come back. If it takes that long to get results back, the results are pretty much useless. Sure, in the end he got a visa, but his original travel plans are long gone.

If the backlog is so long, there should be a lottery system to ensure that at least some results are timely. Alas, government processes rarely have any logic applied.
TL;DR because the Constitution was written to protect us from the government, there is a lower bar to sue and win under both federal law and constitutional challenges.

For example, the Fourteenth Amendment protects against discrimination by States, not private actors: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-14/...

And note 1338 calls out that the federal laws prohibiting businesses from discriminating against individuals are instead rooted in Congress's broad latitude to regulate interstate commerce.

And here's another similar reference:

> As a general rule, the Constitution does not give power to the federal government to pass laws to protect people against private actions. For example, the Equal Protection Clause guarantees equal protection for all – it protects against discrimination. Under this protection, the federal government may pass laws to enforce this guarantee. However, while Congress may pass a law to regulate states or other public actors, it may not pass a law to regulate private citizens. Your police department cannot discriminate against you on account of your race. However, your neighbor in the house down the block can be as bigoted as he so desires.

https://constitutionallawreporter.com/amendment-14-01/the-qu...
Heh, I could have had similar experiences that I didn’t want to push (but in hindsight, the border should have taken it as a lesson to improve for COVID).

Back in the Ebola days (5 years ago?), the Canadian border entry terminals at airport would ask:

“Have you been in contact with anyone with Ebola?, Yes or No?” and I wanted some help from them, because how the hell do I know? Can barely spell the disease, let alone explain it.
Nah, you would just fall back to the Free Tier.

"Thank you for using Brakes. You have 0 free pumps available this month. Get 1 more by watching this 30 sec ad."
I haven’t met someone yet who would call Apple TV+ middle of the pack compared to the alternatives.
>> Law enforcement and judicial authorities must be able to access data in a lawful and targeted manner

As is the case everywhere, they claim to want lawful access. In reality that's a minor point, what they really want is access to information without the knowledge of its owner. They're OK with needing approval or getting a warrant to read your email just as long as it's some 3rd party granting access so you won't know. Otherwise just get a warrant for Alice and Bob's email and compel them to decrypt it. No new laws or systems are actually required for that.
What does a comment like this achieve. We're talking about something thats about as essential as other utilities particularly during Covid. Go lick boots elsewhere.
Seeking validation from strangers on the internet
He was denied the right to travel. As you wrote yourself, business stuff is a grey area and perhaps something got triggered.
Military instructor comments EVE online aiding in military training
You are detracting from the point. The point isn't that there is exactly one alternative, which is somewhat more customizable, the point is that Apple makes it willfully difficult to customize. This is not equal to cars.
I've been following his videos for some time now. He also built an 8-bit CPU from scratch on breadboards, as well as a 6502 based computer also on bread boards. He's recently started the process of using the video card he made to output video from the 6502 computer.

His videos are interesting and informative, and while he does offer kits to build all this stuff from his site, the part lists are there should you want to source your own (not always easy if you try to do it on the cheap and get your parts from the likes of Ali Express and Ebay).

Overall his projects are fascinating for anyone with interest in retro computing or learning how computers work at the lowest level, and the videos are easy to follow and more than just a "how to put this together" tutorial.
i have extremely good object permanence for a sighted person. i often say i can “see in the dark” when my partner asks me how i found something in our pitch black bedroom, but it is really that i remember where exactly in physical space the end of the qtip is on my nightstand because i can’t actually see anything.

my partner finds this incredibly perplexing and is not able to do this. the dark is impenetrable to her. if she cannot see it, it no longer exists, so she will not even attempt to reach out blindly for her glasses in the dark, for instance.

i think we are on extreme ends of this spectrum, but you seem closer to me than my partner or the author. humans are so weird and cool.
Actually, Bermudians can as well :)
This is true of almost any country. It's usually a loophole in the form of foreign direct investment (ie. "invest $1M+ and employ at least 5 Americans and you and your family can come here").
This is grim and might portend reciprocal issues.

I had missed that the ETIAS start date has been pushed back to end of 2022.

As an American citizen I've taken it for granted that I can book a flight to Germany when a $200 mistake fare comes up and fly, like, within 24 hours, with no immigration preapproval required. I'm not going understand how much I miss that until it's gone.

Hard to imagine there won't be bureaucratic snafus where Americans are inexplicably denied an ETIAS and will expect to apply for a paper tourist visa to visit Europe, weeks or months in advance of travel.
I think here in Canada we can ask MP (Member of Parlament) to do this. Not sure how effective is that though as I've never tried it personally.
Yay for binary thinking.
AI Detects Covid-19 by Listening to Coughs [video]
The AI system built by an MIT team can detect it with 97% accuracy. More interestingly, it's able to detect asymptomatic people 100% (sensitivity). The proposed model comprises 4 biomarkers (3 ResNet models and a Poisson mask). Each of them represents a hypothesis of the repository disease.

Caveat: More replication is needed. There are clinical trials ongoing in Mount Sinai and White Planes Hospitals in the US, Catalan Health Institute in Catalonia, Hospitales Civiles de Guadalajara in Mexico, and Ospedale Luigi Sacco in Italy.

Paper:
COVID-19 Artificial Intelligence Diagnosis using only Cough Recordings
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9208795
I have a lot of respect for his accomplishments, but I find his public persona quite obnoxious. That's not a particularly novel opinion of him, and there are a lot of famous people out there like that. After a little bit of reflection, I actually came to realize I'd probably be the same way, spouting unsolicited opinions and throwaway memes, if I had a massive internet following that considered me a genius. And it makes me a little glad I'm not famous. I much prefer my obnoxious opinions being tied to a random alias that nobody can be bothered to stalk.
Companies I've worked at make it fairly easy for me to expense a purchase, with just manager sign-off or similar. I just need some sort of up-front price for pre-approval, and a receipt afterward to send to accounting. As soon as you get any contracts involved, this becomes very difficult to get through the system. Are there open source projects out there which successfully make enhancement requests look like "purchases", rather than consulting?
People are imperfect, but people who truly delight themselves in their own imperfections have a problem and aren’t role models. Give _me_ a break, after thousands of years of forming groups humans are going to forget how to toss the assholes out? Nope.
LostInTangent on Building Codespaces, Live Share, and CodeTour (transcript)
Exactly the right amount of explaination for each step he does. I could perfectly follow along and learned alot.
Someone here on HN made this some time ago, but it still emails me weekly:
https://harvestsignal.com/
In an e-mail to BuzzFeed marked "off the record", urging the journalists to investigate Unsworth's past, which the journalists then published while excusing themselves by saying "OTR doesn't mean OTR unless we agree too!". Musk accused Unsworth of taking a child bride, based on information from a con-man who tricked Elon into hiring them as a private investigator.

I think the full context paints a bit less evil picture than your summary. Also an unexpectedly convoluted story in itself.
Get back in the office and save our investments in REITs, restaurants, office supply stores! Think of all those middle-managers that specialize doing their jobs by walking around. Won't you please help them by going back in the box?

Whatever you do, don't continue to raise your children at home, humanely. That would be bad for the teacher's unions...
Standard stuff:

1. “Cross-Nation employment laws and Regulations are hard. “ Yep. You end up not employing people from incompatible places.

2. “It’s hard to do projects that require access to unique equipment.” Yep, these people don’t have remote jobs. Just like a gas attendant or a barber doesn’t.

3. “Communication and Focus is harder.” Yep. I posit that this is you reflecting a desire to mimic the same patterns you enjoyed from the office. That stuff is hard when remote, and for some people it’s just impossible. Those people probably also don’t have remote friendly careers, and that’s ok.
The ssh server can't do a specter style attack against iOS, local turning complete compilers can be used for it.
You’re talking about a vaccine, which was never successfully created for SARS. I’m talking about immune response from those that contracted SARS and recovered. You can’t compare a failed vaccine to actual survivors.
They made me two proposals! On one of them, they would build the course themselves from my materials (30% cut for me, 70% cut for them). On the other I would have to build it and handle all the marketing myself. (70% for me, 30% for them).

I chose the first one..
Europe continues to pull in impressive levels of VC funding – report – Sifted
What's it like in the kind of places that don't have pool decks?
As if their life in small cages wouldn't be cruelty enough.
Is Syria considered its own conflict? Many reporters have considered it an extension of the Iraq War, due to the Iraq War's impact on ISIS/ISIL.
Because nowadays food is not able to provide you vitamins and minerals in the amount your body needs.
Facebook's network effect is way stronger than you appear to believe. It's a massive incentive to stay on their platform. All my friends are on it and they use it actively. And yes, a significant percentage of them are tech savvy.
I’m glad to see Slashdot is still around
He’s swedish, so he enters under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative which doesn’t require a visa, but usually requires an ESTA.

An ESTA is not a visa (otherwise the US could lose its reciprocal visa-free travel arrangements). The ESTA just walks, talks and quacks like a visa.
The "pedophile diver" remark was the culmination of a series of tweets and actions where Elon "designed" a vehicle highly unlikely to help rescue the kids trapped in the cave and tried to convince the rescuers to use it while ignoring their judgement on the matter. It's not a little mistake, it's the culmination of an extended narcissistic rampage. He seems completely incapable of admitting that he might wrong about something when faced with pushback.
You couldn’t be more out of touch with reality.
Apple puts iPhone supplier on probation for labour violations
Precisely. They have seen 94 infections total so far, based on the statistics that’s likely to be almost entirely in the control group. Those infections are reported as they come in, so for example, perhaps last week there were 87 infections. The study ends once they hit ~150 infections, based on their sample size that will give them the confidence intervals they need to finalize.

So the difference between announcing preliminary results last week versus this week was their own internal decision on timing.
I believe the mass cruelty was farming minks on a massive scale. Culling them is likely merciful in comparison. Never mind the fact that I'd happily trade 10 million minks to save a few human lives.
Chiplet-Based Systems
Remote Workers Introduce Observability Challenges to Network Teams
> And if you continue the colloquy you'll see the problem is the observers in the room were not allowed within several tens of feet of the ballots being counted, this making observation impossible.

So assuming the motion linked at the top of the Twitter thread is the one the hearing is about, what you say does not appear to be completely correct.

The complaint in the original motion is that the County Board of Elections is "intentionally refusing to allow any representatives and poll watchers for President Trump and the Republican Party," and that "It has been studying the Order [to allow representatives/poll watchers to observe canvassing] for over an hour and a half, while counting continues with no Republicans present."

Assuming the Twitter thread is correct, the bits of the conversation I quoted show that the problems in the original motion do not, in fact, exist (as of the time of the hearing, at least), and that observation distance was a separate issue brought up during the hearing.

> Hence why the judge ruled to allow observers closer.

This is actually a ruling from a different case (emphasis mine):

> Earlier on Thursday, a Pennsylvania state court judge ruled that observers could stand as close as 6 feet (2 meters) away while election officials counted mail-in and absentee ballots.

The case the article/Twitter thread I linked was in a US District Court.
> Creating a MVP should take not more than 1 month.

Depending on your domain, 1 month is not enough to even understand the problem.

> Reuse before Buy, Buy before Build

The accidental complexity to integrate w/ a 3rd party solution can sometimes surpass that of building your own solution.

I call BS on dogmatic rules like that. Good architecture is analysing the requirements at hand and explicitly articulating and weighting the trade-offs.
This is just a special case of option 3. Why would this get you licensing fees when it wouldn't?
Make it a SaaS!
Ask HN: What is a good side income for retirement?
45 now and it's hitting me I'm 10 years from a plausible retirement age. I have a cushion of stocks but would like something a bit more income generating. Doesn't have to be a unicorn, doesn't have to be software. Just something to generate a reasonable amount of moderately-passive income so I'm more comfortable retiring at 55.

My wife wants us to go into real estate, but for whatever reason it doesn't appeal to me. It seems debt-funded and one bad renter or contractor can blow through your earnings. Is there anything else anyone here has had positive experiences with?
Core Confidential with Angie Byron: On 15 Years of Drupal Contribution – Pt. 2
I would assume the "justification" is something along the lines of "you get poor print quality and then blame it on the printer hurting our brand".

You did mention the real reason though.
Apple doesn’t make it willfully different to customize.

They make it willfully difficult to compromise it.

It’s not equal to cars, because cars aren’t software and are not vulnerable to the many attacks that phones are.

It seems like you want a more customizable device and are happy to accept the risks.

Why buy an iPhone if it isn’t what you want?
Even though this hasn't been surmised yet from data, my impression is that vitamin D supplementation blunts the deadliness of the virus sufficiently enough to get back to normal, or near-normal (just wearing masks). If that's true it should be fast tracked way ahead of vaccination.
This part of the article caught my attention:

"A few years ago the optometrist who first spotted my serious eye condition told me she was unable to send my latest scan to my doctor because their IT systems were incompatible."

This sounds more like something we'd encounter here in the US. Are incompatibility issues like this so common in the UK?
Yeah, lol, how dare them to net give Swedish preferential treatment. I saw on twitch this weekend another case very similar with a girl from Australia. It blows my mind how white people from first world countries feel so entitled and with rights to come to the US anytime they want.
When I say "facts", I don't mean the politically charged "facts" that people argue with. I mean the ones about their life experiences that led them to the dark place they find themselves in. You don't exit the womb a neo-nazi, you get there over time, through (bad) experience, and (questionable) learning. If you can't answer the "why do they believe what they do?" with a genuine, i.e. not rhetoric, not othering, answer, you don't have the facts.

There are truly horrible people out there, but the vast majority of people that voted Trump are normal people with boring everyday lives. Treating every individual in that group like its extremists serves only to divide and polarize. It makes the problem worse. IF your goal is to effect positive change, you need to take a different approach. However, if you goal is to feel superior and good and like you're "on the right team", feel free to keep hating.
I see it got flagged.

I'm glad at least HN is cognizant of not giving into clickbait to get views.
I believe it's bad. It's making all of music more generic.

There's composers and producers with quite high production values, very complex and intricate music, the kind you want to pay attention to, in order to get the most out of it.

But I don't listen to that music all day. I got other music for background.

In my view the latter is not more valuable because I listen to it for more minutes.

When it was CDs I'd pay roughly the same for my Autechre as my Kruder & Dorfmeister.
What I’m getting at is that these distant voyages are only economically possible at a certain fuel cost. If the fuel cost goes too high, these distance voyages are no longer feasible.
Measles was eradicated in the Americas. Wasn't until an antivaxer brought it back from Europe we had an outbreak.
Audio-science time! (for a given amount of science in a field full of homeopathy): the headphones NOT touching the ears is important to preserve the feeling of sound coming from around your head (the outer ear shape is not compressed) instead of from withing your head.
Isn't running out of ink something that requires a "repair" of the printer... So it should be covered under right to repair.
An iPhone SE is $400 to $550.