skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad you agree with the gist of my points. I also absolutely understand that you would cringe at my comments. Whatever, I may say though, is no reflection on you.

If you were to meet me in person I don't think you would cringe if we were to talk. But on a forum, you only have a short amount of time to make an impression, catch people's attention, and try to get them to consider what I think is truth. People are so indoctrinated, they can barely recognise it.

Here, on HN, there are many people who love science - it is their religion. They don't think its a religion, but it is - they believe in it, they don't know it. They don't even know what knowing is. The accept the pronouncements from the priest-scientists, as if they were gospel. A cursory review of some science study is all it takes. But the point of science is that it should be verifiable, not based on belief. No one is verifying anything, and when studies are peer reviewed 70% cannot be replicated. 70%!!

In fact, I love science done properly too, but that is nowhere to be found. I hold to application of the scientific method personally. In all areas of my life.

If I have any ambitions in my interactions on HN, it is that I wish for others to engage their rational thinking, not just when tackling a gnarly coding issue, but also in other parts of their lives. I wish that people would think more individually, rather than just going along with the herd, what they have been taught, etc.

Questions people should be asking include: Why is it so medicine so expensive? Has the 'health' system been captured? When was it captured? Why don't we know what the right food for humans is? Why were we taught the food pyramid? Is food medicine? Is pregnancy an issue that requires medical intervention? Etc. If you really start to find answers to those questions, the reality of this existence takes on an entirely different perspective.

I appreciate that you are looking into this stuff for yourself. I appreciate that you are sharing your understanding and anecdotal results. I'm glad that you clarified that it is not n=1 but n=2 or 3. Given what I understand about science, I genuinely value the anecdotal points you raise highly. I have gained much more useful information anecdotally than from 'science'.

Finally, I would say, that along with fasting, I understand that the Gerson method is excellent more providing you with nutrition and along your body the space to repair itself. And in repairing itself, I understand there will be a healing crisis, where the build up of toxins etc may be expelled and that that can mean that one feels worse than ever. But that this is an essential step on the path to wellness.

All the best.
BBC Calls Election for Biden
It is quite embarrassing for them; Flash write endurance is something that most new graduates are aware of.

There's an NHTSA investigation into the incident, but on the bright side, Tesla did remediate it in newer models...by using chips with twice as much eMMC memory to push the failures farther out.
Mercedes Benz infotainment soon will be able to control Bosch Smart Home devices
The real distinction here is mechanism of action. Psilocybin helps fix psychoemotional problems in an enduring sense. You take one, or three, doses and your personality and self-understanding are permanently altered.

Alcohol works acutely. So I totally agree the term therapeutic is an arbitrary label; all drugs have effects and thus can be therapeutic for condition X and deleterious for condition Y. But worth noting that psilocybin and MDMA produce enduring benefits whereas alcohol appears not to.
Like when the second plane hit the world trade center…
I agree.

When I vote I make sure I pick the candidate that other countries would be happy with.
You can only export albums and if you put all your images into one album and export that it will break
Hard to edit from a text editor and requires using something specialised
Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump
Sure, but where those the advanced environments that were cancelled by people hopping on the Linux/C/etc bandwagon? I don't think that the argument goes with more funding Little Smalltalk would've been our software savior.

There sure was a lot of abandoned programming environments, but it was usually the enterprised that fathered them that killed it. NeWs was more interesting than pretty much all of its successors. And I'm sure the Lisp Machine or Oberon grognards are willing to chime in, too.

Everything being boring AF, both on the hardware and software side, certainly enabled Linux to succeed. It's a lot easier to compete if the state of the art is libc and X11.
Thank you for that link:

A post hoc analysis of subjects from both FMD arms showed that body mass index, blood pressure, fasting glucose, IGF-1, triglycerides, total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and C-reactive protein were more beneficially affected in participants at risk for disease than in subjects who were not at risk.
This has never been a problem for me. But when I'm running Debian I mostly run testing anyway. Also rarely a problem there.

On Arch I run sudo pacman -Syu almost every day.

You could run something like this to get a warning if there is anything that requires manual intervention: https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant

I also run my laptop with Snapper: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/snapper

I use a btrfs root volume with btrfs subvolumes instead of separate partitions. I have snapper setup with a pacman hook to take a snapshot before and after every pacman run. So worst case, if something goes horribly wrong, I can boot from an Arch install image into a previous snapshot and unbreak things.
SpaceX is going to finally bring some sorely needed competition to the broadband landscape.
And this is how TextEdit does it:

abc
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CSV files are also editable and readable with basic GUI tools like TextEdit/Notepad. Users of CSV files are not just people who can use Vim or a hex editor, it’s a general-purpose format. I can’t read nor edit the file with TextEdit, Notepad might also make it hard. Software that assumes C-style strings (where NULL terminates a string) can’t process your file without a complete rewrite. And even with Vim, I had to type ^Vu0000 to get the NULL in there, which is much less comfortable than comma or tab. (No, I’m not adding a key sequence for NULL to my .vimrc.)
The legacy definition of spam is any unwanted email, or "unsolicited commercial email"

But in the context of social media, what does spam mean? It isn't email. And an awful lot of it is simply self-promotion or commercial promotion.

And many FB groups and the like are permissive when it comes to posts that are really advertisements, or are just one person's definition of "off topic." And there are mechanisms for reporting content as "spam", but what does that even mean when it isn't an email?

I've found that many people have redefined the term "spam" as repetitive content, not unwanted/unsolicited content. I guess this comes from gamer/chat culture where there is talk of "spamming the jump button" or "spamming the chat" where it isn't the content that is remarkable, it is the repetition. You can kind of see where it comes from as most email spammers are quite repetitive and indiscriminate. But a spam email can be just one, and that definition doesn't seem to fly in the inherently noisy social media context.

I was just struck by this evolution of the term spam when I tried reporting some (unwanted by me) commercial self-promotion on social media, only to be told that it wasn't spam at all because the poster only posted it once. I guess a lot of it comes down to how territorial and defensive people are about their email inbox vs. social media feed.
Joe Biden Elected President
It's unlikely that the USSR would have been able to defeat Germany on its own. In addition to opening a second front in Italy and a third front in France, and sharing military designs to improve Soviet tanks - direct US aid included:

"more than 400,000 vehicles, 14,000 aircraft, 13,000 battle tanks, gasoline and explosives, and thousands of radio sets and motorcycles, as well as food, blankets, machine tools, factory equipment, and boots. The U.S. had provided 55% of the aluminum and 80% of the copper used by the Soviets."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/lendlease_h...
Did the crying doll program in the Commodore 64 manual work for anyone? Think my friends and I tried it on about a half dozen different C64s (it's what most of my friends had) and never got anything other than perhaps a bit of static out of the tv speaker.
So were all the other states they called, what's your point?
S3 deep archive will run you 1 usd/month for 1000 GB of baby photos.

You would pay way more than that to get them back, if they were lost.
Can you write more about Singapore? My view is that when drug laws are very harsh, then people will less likely admit to use and dealers will use more precautions. Since drug use is mostly estimated based on surveys and police report you may see the policy effective on paper, but the reality may be far different. It is a natural instinct to use drugs akin to listening to music or having sex for pleasure. If you ban music people will still listen to it, just you wouldn't know.
You might enjoy this companion piece! https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/go-vs-python
Headline is not true
very bad news for small and medium business and the ultimate win for the transnational monopolies. Bad news for BTC in the medium term.
All drugs except schedule I are approved for some therapy, so have the same list of disclaimers and side effect notations (with a smaller sample size than normal). Amphetamine, cocaine, and ketamine are schedule II and III; Cannabis is schedule I.
That's not specific.
As the author of the original comment, I feel this is the most accurate comprehension. Other comments seem to have taken a more literal read, but that would be incorrect, as clearly the patients are neither dead nor snakes.

I would debate that slither isn’t a negative connotation when used in reference to senses, for instance: electrical impulses slither through the synapses of the human nervous system, allowing us to perceive a reality.
The fact that I'm an ios developer
I'm using Arch Linux on a VM since 2015. On that VM I host some services for personal projects, gitolite, Grafana, InfluxDB, wireguard and some self baked daemons (they are also deployed as Arch Linux package, it's not too hard and much cleaner and easier to deal with in the long run).

I update weekly to daily, but sometimes also a month goes by (e.g., if I'm on vacation or the like), never had an issue, never had any breakage. I reboot on kernel updates, downtime is a few seconds which I can deal with.

The VM is only single core, 4GB memory, 40 GB disk space - chugging along just fine.

Personally, I'd always feel safe and good with choosing either Arch Linux, Debian or Alpine Linux as VM/CT distribution (my underlying hypervisor would be Proxmox VE, which derives from Debian).
Headline is accurate
To me that sounds like wilfully ignoring all the caching and concurrency opportunities you could have in addition to forcing all data through a single point of congestion.

At least caching can be solved somewhat, but not on the protocol level.

I think GraphQL is great for applications where there are no apparent caching or concurrency options.
Which News Outlets Have Called the Presidential Race:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/upshot/networ...
I'll stop calling myself an Engineer when The Atlantic stops calling themselves news or journalism.
> but other networks didn't feel it was safe.

And might have been right, Biden's lead in AZ keeps shrinking, 3 days ago his lead was 25% of the ballots left to count, now it's 15.

> And then Nevada has obviously been won for days, but nobody was calling it because that would have put Fox and AP over 270.

Although Biden's lead has only grown there saying that it's "obviously won" is a touch optimistic.
With commas one uses "CSV" as the file extension, and with tabs presumably TSV.

Is there a file extension and MIME type for ASCII-delimited files? ASV?
I agree! One thing to consider is that it depends a lot on the way you decide to use it. On one "extreme", you only have predefined queries, meaning it could almost be implemented the same way you implement REST API (however you decide to that).

On the other extreme of the spectrum, you allow the client to query the data with much freedom. This means that you have more of a generic resolver which maps GraphQL queries into an ORM or something else that generates your DB queries.

In this mode, you have challenges regarding speed and optimisations. At a previous assignment we for example hand crafted the resolution of some especially nasty queries to increase performance, and left most for some ORM to figure out. We kept the database index structure up to date to match queries we saw from the frontend using metrics tools.

Another thing is security. If you use this model, you are basically allowing the client to query around your graph of data in whatever way they want. This means you need to have some way to answer the question "Should User 37 be able to read field X on Object Y with ID 42", and implement that in your resolver. This is quite tricky, compared to REST or static graph QL queries where you just decide which objects / fields should be returned.

(There is also some interesting DoS attack scenarios when going this route, where a malicious query can just explode in complexity, so you'll have to make sure to solve that some way as well...)
Hey thanks for considering me! I do intend to write a few blog posts about how I use Clickhouse, but I'll get in touch if anything.
Alcohol is serotonergic. Yeah, it has other negative side effects, but actual FDA approved antidepressants are also convincingly shown to increase suicide ideation in some cases, and it's actively monitored by psychiatrists. The point I think is that the therapy rebranding is not a license for recreational excess, and shouldn't be invoked as a trojan horse to that end.
Just because the USA uses the war on drugs to harass people by skin color doesn't mean you need to assume that is the only reason possible. The USA tends to think of all white people at the same, but europeans don't.

In europe, remember that the "lower class" could still be visually "white", but just from a different ethnic background. (Turks, for example).
That seems like a fair trade-off to the oft-seen alternative of the front-end remaining more static because of slow iteration of the back-end, in the sense that I think that there are many situations in which that would be the least bad option.
Who is the target audience of this conference? Of course, any maintainer or people who run arch in production but I’d assume these groups are very small.

One day I’d like to be more of a Linux hobbyist. I already use Arch but now that I have a working install my interest has died down a lot. What else am I supposed to do besides endlessly customize my window manager? I feel like I’m missing the plot here.

My next plan was either to do LFS or install another interesting distro (leaning towards Void) but I don’t really understand the mindset of the typical hobbyist here.
The point being made is that alcohol is legal, and massively harmful, and the public health measures around alcohol aren't great, and so maybe we need to be cautious when decriminalising and legalising other drugs to ensure that we have some health protections in place.

At the moment we don't have those.

We have strong denial in lots of people that cannabis might cause harm in some people.

All the stuff currently being said about LSD, MDMA, ketamine, etc was also said when prozac was introduced. We need to watch out for pharma companies who'll take something that's probably effective in some people (ketamine infusion for people with severe and treatment resistant depression) and rejig it to make it patentable (eskatamine) and repackage it so it can be used much more widely (nasal spray instead of infusion) and marketed much more widely.
very bad news for small and medium business and the ultimate win for the transnational monopolies. Bad news for BTC in the medium term
Linux Security Hardening for Beginners
- https://www.linuxnix.com/linux-security-hardening-for-beginners/

- https://www.linuxnix.com/linux-security-hardening-for-beginners-part-02-iptables/

- https://www.linuxnix.com/linux-security-hardening-for-beginners-part-02-ssh-hardening/
Author never heard of Electrical Engineers? I have graduated at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, the Computer Science department, and got a title of a Master of Electrical Engineering. Pretty sure I can call myself an engineer...
Or 6 years, if you also count the 2016 primaries.
Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed
Oh man, can cannot emphasize enough how much i don't care about this.

"The traditional disciplines of engineering—civil, mechanical, aerospace, chemical, electrical, environmental—are civic professions as much as technical ones. Engineers orchestrate the erection of bridges and buildings; they design vehicles and heavy machinery;"

so what? Traditions change, names change, everything changes, software engineers will be called engineers and no one cares if they build bridges or not.
I can tell you if i connect a xmpp service to some twitter account i also built a bridge. so software engineers do build bridges! And talking about "tradition" in a digital revolution is also weird, because right now everything is changing and nothing will be like before. This wolrd will never be the same as 1960, so why stick to old naming convetions anyway. This article is nothing but time-wasting, sorry if i offend someone with that but it is my honest opinion.
Pipes don't auto-format your data in nice columns.
Depends where you’re coming from. You are potentially late if the company is beyond Series A. If the company is big and ready to IPO you will get a better idea of the valuation for your RSU grant (I recommend against options at this stage as it can be a monetary burden for you at this stage, and you can get stuck with them if the IPO doesn’t perform per expectations).

Do your research on potential market cap with comparables. You should compare your Total comp. with a public company. Look at levels.fyi as an example.
Anyone at risk of diabetes or dealing with diabetes should also look at research into the relationship between diabetes and inflammation, which suggests that there may be other factors to consider beyond just diet for how to best prevent and mitigate the condition.

There is also interesting research into how protein (muscle health) impacts insulin resistance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8748147
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Gary Yourofsky – The Most Important Speech You Will Ever Hear
Like the second plane hitting the world trade center
CSVs are ascii-delimited. Do you mean files using US as field separator?
Problems associated with heroin mostly come from the fact that users cannot have steady supply of medical grade heroin. They suffer from contaminants and need to scramble to pay which is not easy when you are not feeling well. Clean heroin is relatively safe, it won't damage your health like alcohol would.
The following three organizations use separate methods to call elections. They have all now called the election for Biden.

AP
https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-us-election-2020-resu...

NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/biden-electio...

Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results
> Free markets are people voluntarily interacting and have driven almost all technological development

Free markets drive the scale and lower the price of technologies discovered by speculative public investment.

> At the frontier, sometimes the government spends money on things where the risk is too high or the payoff too small in short term.

And that is where most technological development takes place: at the frontier. And well behind the frontier, the government must also spend on the education of its populace so that they can actually implement the ideas revealed by the frontier, whether that means primary through education or technician type skills, which feeds into the free market pipeline to drive scale and lower costs.

Broad access to educational opportunity is something that European countries do very well: assuring that their population (AKA pool of labor) is skilled enough to implement technologies like solar and wind.
How does it encourage this, and how does graphQL discourage this?

I've always held a strict rule where The R in REST stands for Resource (which isn't true). There's a user, an Invitation (and not an invite action on user, nor a state:invited or invited_at on user). there's a Session. There's links that clients follow, and everything is as small as possible. I really don't see how REST encourages God objects.
While the pi gets better and better this is still meant for the classroom rather than the enterprise user. Apple moving to arm will help with docker image availability however you’d need faster clock speeds and a lot more ram to be use for local development.
Haven't tried myself, but a friend of mine was talking up Amazon's offering. Apparently one of the big benefits is that they store your photos 100% raw as you took them so no reduction in quality to save space. Apparently with your prime membership you get unlimited storage of full resolution included ie free. Guess Caveat for this option is having a prime membership with Amazon.
#OneTermChump is too good not to trend...
This is why I prefer legalization instead of just decriminalization

Consumer protection and ability to address the supply chain only comes with legalization

Decriminalization is just 1800s snake oil’s salesmen at the World Fair
This reminds me of an article maybe ten years back on how to a static email can change its appearance when it’s forwarded so as to hide the unsubscribe button so forwardees can’t unsubscribe (accidentally or otherwise) the forwarder. As I recall, there were a few different solutions that were each specific to the mail client doing the forwarding (using css that matches the DOM structure of the forwarded content).

I think it’s still an open question because federal regulations still require either a one-click unsubscribe or at most an unsubscribe link leading directly to a form with at most a single required input being the email address to unsubscribe, i.e. no chance to verify the clicker.
Voter suppression. Voting in a working day. Need to register for voting. Legal battles. Inconsistent rules. A refusing to leave president.

Is this the model of government that the USA bomb other countries for?
What's more surprising is how close this was given the past four years.
> Easily guessable/crackable by modern tools, very quickly.

Spot the person who doesn't hash passwords correctly.

A keyspace of 4.7 x 10^21, even with a typical modern 8 gpu cracking rig running 24/7 would take millennia to crack. If you were talking about sha2 then yeah, but pbkdf or argon2, no way.

You'd be lucky to get 7000 h/s out of a modern gpu against argon with standard parameters.
Depends if your data is mostly text or numbers. I'd say that commas are still more common, though one issue with tabs is that they are 'invisible'.
I hope the runoffs in Georgia swing blue. A Republican controlled Senate will stall our recovery from trump for at least a couple more years.
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