skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Big Vitamin D Mistake: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28768407/

> A statistical error in the estimation of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin D was recently discovered; in a correct analysis of the data used by the Institute of Medicine, it was found that 8895 IU/d was needed for 97.5% of individuals to achieve values ≥50 nmol/L.

> This could lead to a recommendation of 1000 IU for children <1 year on enriched formula and 1500 IU for breastfed children older than 6 months, 3000 IU for children >1 year of age, and around 8000 IU for young adults and thereafter.
> Hi dang, i don't know where else to contact you.

Scroll down to the bottom, and hover/click "Contact" to get the email address.
Also FWIW, you can run the Synology OS itself (DSM) on general x86 hardware or VMs via the Xpenology [1] bootloader which is pretty awesome. The DSM is a fairly single-admin friendly network applicance OS anyway with a decent GUI and support. Of course, their NAS hardware offerings make the whole thing more appliance-like and with official support, but if the matrix doesn't fit your needs or desires (I wanted my data on ZFS for example) DSM on your own hardware may still be worth giving a look.

I actually like Synology's software in some ways more than their hardware for many use cases, kind of wish I could just officially buy a license for that (though I guess it works for them in that familiarity means I have recommended them to some small businesses).

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1: https://xpenology.org/
SLS is the last major gasp of a military industrial complex that has completely taken over congress. The fact that we're paying $146M for each engine on the SLS (takes 4 to launch) and SpaceX is promising an entire launch for Starship at <100M is obscene. (Oh, and SLS ends up at the bottom of the ocean...Starship you can just refuel).

While I don't agree with all thing Musk, he's revolutionized the global spacelaunch industry by reducing costs 10x. Now, totally dominant in an industry, he's making that rocket obsolete in favor of a better one (Spaceship).
Many don't have the luxury of changing their line of work or company. Organizing the workers and potentially unionizing is an option for those people.
Is this not flat out illegal under GDPR?
I have always used their on-site service. Tech always comes out the next day and fixes the issue.
My experience being born in 1992 is that as a kid I could toy with QBasic for instance (and then with Dev-C++ a bit later) ; as well as go peek & change stuff in random files (hello red alert save files :D) - can't really do that with an iPad.
Either way, two weeks or two hours, it's a problem.

Firmware updates should be done by the election officials, not the company. If my mom can update her router firmware, then I think an election official can do it.

The fact that remote updates are even possible point to a much, much bigger problem. Do we really believe the devs working for Dominion (or whatever company) can outsmart the elite teams working for nation-state intelligence services?

Also, this software should be open source and auditable by any concerned citizen.
That's fair, I think most people will stick with whatever easiest.
How to be a better Engineering Manager
If there were any real accusations I'd like to hear them. No reason for prominent GOP politicians to be shoveling these bullshit lies then.

NYT talked to every states election officials and not a single one could report large scale voting fraud, certainly not enough to affect this year's presidential election.
Assuming you were going for a Macbook Pro "15 for 2399$

Recommendations for linux laptops (or checkout https://linuxpreloaded.com/ ):

* Tuxedo https://www.tuxedocomputers.com

~1000$ 1.5kg, Their "15, 1080p flagship is configurable with AMD Ryzen 7 4700U, 32GB RAM, 500GB M.2

They also have more expensive versions with 4k OLED displays if that's what you're into.
Also "13.

* KDE Slimbook https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-kde/kde-slimbook-15-co...

~1200$ 1.5kg, "15, 1080p, AMD Ryzen 4800 H, 32GB RAM, 500GB NVMe

* System76 https://system76.com/laptops/gaze15/configure

~1350$ 2.2kg, 15", 1080p, i7-10750H, 32GB DDR4, 500GB NVMe

* Purism http://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-15

They're trying to become and opensource Apple --> high prices, own linux distro, trying to make their own ecosystem, etc.

~2000$ 1.8kg, "15, 4K, Core i7 7500U (Kabylake), 32GB RAM, 500GB NVMe
> Can you point out where he made such a claim? Because I don't see it.

Please see again the phrasing I used. Specifically, the clause using the word “could“.
I think many of us are also aware that saving a bookmark, whether in the browser or to something like pinboard.in, is an invitation to lose it in a back hole. Whereas if it's at least theoretically in "working memory" we want to keep it as a tab. But AFAIK there isn't a really good tool--and certainly not native to a browser as far as I can tell--that lets me quickly and easily rationalize all my tabs into coherent working sets. e.g. Project X, Project Y, email/calendar/etc., to read, and so forth.
Because it is not yet illegal to operate a computing machine that is not centrally monitored. New Normal, get used to it. Soon, this corner case will go away.

"Why were you offline when using your computer?"
Not (going) to. -read-
Scott Manley's video today talks about the political machines behind SLS:

https://youtu.be/WVKC54H3v78
> Lets try not to choose the most uncharitable interpretation.

I agreee! I think my argument is the most charitable. 'It costs money to store things. They're asking you to pay for it'. Seems most charitable, reasonable, and simplest explanation.

Your interpretation is 'each byte costs nothing so a hundred million dollar data centre also costs nothing' which is an uncharitable interpretation of what they're doing.

At the end of the day 'storing a billion photos is free' - your argument - is simply a provably false statement, as everyone in these threads keeps trying to explain to you.
>So if I had to choose an alternate path, what would such a path look like that could eventually approach the build quality of an Apple Macbook Pro? That product doesn't have to exist yet, it just has to be on the path.

Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 2 is what I use and I'm very happy with it. My requirements were a moderately high-performance laptop, hybrid/discrete graphics, not excessively bulky and good Linux support. I can't fault my choice. The only issue I had with hardware compatibility under Linux was due to me receiving it a couple days after launch and the drivers for the wifi card not yet being in the kernel used by Debian or Ubuntu (no longer an issue iirc). Happy to answer any specific questions you have.
I like this piece to summarize situation:

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
It seems to me, markets have short term memory because markets are composed of people who also have short term memory. Bait and switch seems to be a quite effective market capture mechanism. Bait with something alluring at a loss, build momentum, then pull away once little could stop that momentum. Along the way, build in hurdles that make it difficult to transition away from the service through technical and other commitment hurdles.

Rinse repeat and as long as you have a decent product and enough capital to front-load the model and take initial loses, you seem to win everytime going forward. At this point, people even shun phrases like "vendor lock-in" like an external business dependency isn't a potential liability.
> Assuming it was a legitimate update I wonder what that dude felt like when he realized it was needed.

Yes. It's very wrong, and possibly fraudulent, but I suspect more likely someone screwed up (or possibly a vuln was found). Likely someone had a cold chill down their spine when they realized what was needed.
>It might also be using the opportunity to do some discovery as to what people are using the platform for and who are those people

The way we do that is giving people access to the platform, letting some time go by, then engaging the users and asking questions. We also have Slack channels in case they have problems.

Why we leave them alone: because I don't like it when someone immediately engages us asking us a bunch of questions when we start using something, or try and up-sell right when I'm discovering the product. I also don't like energetic chatbots popping up on different tabs of the same website, making all kinds of sounds wanting to get my attention to help me. Back off, I'll close that site and will not visit it again.

We give people time so we could at least observe what's broken. Did the person not start using the product immediately? Why? Was the user unsuccessful accomplishing a key task with a key feature of the product? Why? Is it a problem of discoverability, or is it just that it is not our target user? How can we improve that either way?
Yikes. This heavily slanted article is tailor made to suit the worldview of the "smug Young Republican" set.
Alternative spin, same facts: "voters undo unpopular overreach by state government".
The problem with this line of thinking is that a state is not a person is not a company is not an x. (Let's put aside any tangential Citizens United rebuttal.)

Or more simply, why is California one of the wealthiest economies? Is it because a typical California resident is one of the wealthiest people (on certain scales I wouldn't be surprised if this were actually true)? Or are there several subsets of people who are very wealthy due to California's unusually successful industries with global reach (I can think of two obvious giants.)? And how large are these subsets? If we answer all of these questions, we should answer your original question or at least come close.

Edit: Changed "every California resident" to "a typical"
> It's absolutely nuts that we trust anything other than ink and paper with a fingerprint and signature.

This is the only way for secure elections.
Eh. You have to assess whether the list is sorted before you destroy the universe, thus increasing the total algorithm runtime complexity.
Bollocks. I've installed Linux for non-technical people any number of times and, provided I make sure everything (network, printers) is working for them, generally never hear from them again. At least not for computer help.

Most people are using their (personal) computers for browsing, maybe an email client if they're not using one of those web-email abominations, the odd bit of word-processing and watching movies/listening to music. Linux works just fine out of the box and the install is substantially simpler than anything I've ever seen over in the MS world.
We need to get used to paying for online services from the start. It would change the dynamic of dumping hundreds of millions of dollars in VC money into startups that only focus on user growth.

If smaller startups were profitable, we would have more alternatives for all the basic online needs we now have like storage, and search products for digital content we cherish. Offering free products at a loss for years to steal users from competitors would not be as good a strategy as it now is.
The P51S is "slim" and has poorer thermals than the P51. Why would it be a better choice?
As I understood it, it is only free for previous Pixel owners until they buy a new Pixel. So it is free for the lifetime of the device, not the users lifetime.
Yeah, and Google Photos you can easily access no-nonsense from your phone, your friend’s house, multiple laptops, etc.
What is a "social justice minister"?
Sometimes software development is just cranking out a widget that you need for some line-of-business app, that isn't going to need to scale, and will never see the cloud, and will just sit there used and unchanged until the tech underneath it changes. There is a lot of software that fits into this category, done by a lot of people. Not everything gets an "Artisanally crafted with <3 by $NAME" footer on it, or is solving some novel problem of mathematics or CS.

> Striping developers of their autonomy is the primary cause of poor performance, not an inability to execute so-called "best practices"

Citation needed for this one, I've worked with more than a couple mid-level and "senior" developers who I would have sworn had never read a single article about best practices for stuff they did every day.

> In software, production is negligible. Which promotes the misconception that developers are producing software. In actuality they are designing software. The difference may seem subtle, but it is crucial.

This I agree with entirely but only for probably the top 20-25% or so of software. (Top as in most creative or most novel, not best).
> The computers are not just getting cheaper, educative material is easier than ever to find. [...]

Being accessible and being accessed are two different things.

I'll make a more general parallel.

Never in history was such an enormous amount of audiovisual media about the decades preceding the birth of their generation ever produced, during those decades of later. And this astonishing amount of written documents, audio, films, both fiction and non-fiction, live takes, documentaries, is readily available: often immediately, often gratis.

And yet this generation is disconnected from the previous ones in an unprecedented manner. And yet this generation seems to be the most ignorant about how stuff was just a couple decades before them. I've never seen such a break in the flow. The material is present but not reached or understood.
With Jellyfin (more geared towards movies than music) you can use your clients as a remote for another currently playing client
Cert validation unencrypted (not confirmed personally but rumoured)
Google Photos could track a persons travel and dining and things we are fond of. Google Pay could track which friends we pay money to and where we hang out. An tourism council could target drinking buddies of somebody who visited there.
Fortunately Apple has like 3% market share in the desktop market globally[1] , so it doesn't really matter what they do.

[1] browsing data shows around 10% market share but it is based mostly on English websites which are minority (and English-speaking countries have significantly higher apple users percentage than the rest of the world).
I think dang would agree.

1) there is a more link at the bottom of the page, Dan started making these comments because the UI is too subtle and a lot of people miss the link

2) I believe that he’s said they are working on performance improvements so that all the comments can be shown on a single page to solve the problem completely.
Never thought I’d see this here. I started studying Calculus I from here before I started university. It’s really amazing how well structured and written these notes are. No video lectures needed to understand.

I didn’t attend a single lecture for Calc I and II in school and still did okay all thanks to this professor.
Has that Cinavia nonsense been cracked though? It's the reason I haven't knowingly bought anything Sony in the last decade.
One of the issues of making all the services together is the discount. Implement a discount system across multiple SaaS has to do with sales strategy.

Standardize everything, including the costs, seems like the end of creativity. However, creating a massive checklist that makes the user choose between services and, step by step, simulate final costs (which will include computation, task management, monitoring, customer support, etc.) is a titanic job that could change within the next generation.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying for my slow self.

Edit: Also

> rejecting passwords found in HIBP's stolen passwords list had me receive death threats and long rants about how password security isn't my responsibility

That is amazing in a horrifying sort of way. I'm sorry you went through that.
One element of Prop 22 which seems extreme to me are the voting requirements to one-day overturn the law:

"A change to the law would require a seven-eighths majority in the California legislature."

I realize that we don't want laws on the books that are continually changed, but that's an extremely steep climb, should the majority of the legislature feel that this law is problematic. They need virtual total agreement.
Got injured awhile back. Disability decided to play hardball.

Gig jobs are all that kept family off the street while I recovered.

Starting and stopping anytime as my body could tolerate.
Or renting out rooms on Airbnb. Sometimes it took me 4 hours to change sheets and tidy up, but it made the difference.

Not saying their good companies. But gigs was crazy valuable to me.
Is anyone else having issues in Asia-southeast1-b region on GCP?
Yeah, in 2020, we actually might want to add the month to the submission title. ;)
Haha. Cost savings from management at Google.
Electron's got so much built in. A comparison that hits me a bit harder is that a 96k demo is about half the size of enwiki's landing page. Just the html.
That operation is also left as an exercise to the reader
>The Green New Deal's rejection of nuclear power is by far its most disappointing stance, but don't pretend its absence is some cause for celebration in our steps towards a carbon-neutral future. We're worse off without it.

I do realize that AOC's green new deal was unanimously voted against; not a single democrat voted in favour of AOC's legislation.

I'm surprised by your statement. That the rejection of nuclear power is the most disappointing point. Nuclear power has been shut down by Environmentalists. To me this is consistent with AOC's stance as well as most environmentalists.

Personally the more disappointing things in the green new deal were banning heavy machinery in farming and banning of airplanes and all boats. Which is a reasonable position as an environmentalist as those emit very large quantities of carbon. Which was interesting because the Democrat Senators for Hawaii asked her about this exile. AOC responded that Hawaii would have to make short term sacrifices for climate change. Afterall without fossil fuels, how do people get to Hawaii.

Other's inquired why the green new deal had so many provisions for universal health care, universal basic income, and housing. They weren't exactly to do with anything about climate change. However, that's the point. This has nothing to do with climate change.
This is a really interesting explanation. Is it not somehow possible in to disable retranmission requests in the upper layer, perhaps by using a firewall to block them if the OS doesn't allow it to be configured on the interface.
Yes! If the virus were running rampant through the young population in Vietnam it would be kill huge swathes of their older population regardless of their exact proportion of the population!

The bank shot demographic explanations are just more distracting BS, the obvious lesson is suppress the virus!
>the fact is they can incredibly helpful and save you a boat load of time and effort trying to understand the product in many cases.

I take having to explain what our product does to users as a failure on our part. We have the same mentality when we have to personally explain what code does to our colleagues. We take the necessary measures of using better abstractions, writing documentation and Wikis, simplifying code, and making efforts so that "failure demand" does not arise.

In terms of product, it's either our documentation sucks, or a problem of "affordances and signifiers", or a problem of targeting the "wrong" users.

See also: https://vanguard-method.net/failure-demand/
i tried a simple search - what is a tiered storage -

https://www.qwant.com/?q=what%20is%20storage%20tiering&t=web

top 5 are ads, nothing relevant :(
Can’t Sleep During Election Night? You’re Not Alone
>Sweden is doing worse economically than any other Nordic country, which all had bigger lockdowns

Yes worse than before pandemic thats because other doing countries lockdown but life pretty much still normal there. Business open as usual, kids go to school in person as usual, bar open as usual. I would happily choose to live there if I can choose.

USA is not bad at all, number of case is high but most of it are asymptomatic or only have mild symptom. What bad is the government reaction in some state that put so many covid related restriction. how are u thinking of locking people is beyond me, it makes people suffer, its harmful.

Death from car accident can be reduced by banning car altogether but we did didn't ban car because banning is more harmful.
That's the point of a government. Every law is an overreach by the government.
I read somewhere that the iOS division has a culture of secrecy from the beginning, and this now permeates the whole software org, meaning that teams are more siloed, and crucial coordination and integration doesn't happen until far too close to release.
Is unlabeled data even useful for that purpose?
The 15" is ~700g heavier. The 13" has 2 fewer cores (as you noted), and a slower GPU. 330ppi does sound amazing, though.

Apple's way out in front here, and they know it. That's why I wrote this article: because the choice is private xor fast.

There's perhaps some good news, though: it may be possible to disable the signed system volume checks on the Apple Silicon macs, which would allow editing of the OS startup scripts/settings.
Weather. Much of California has such awesome weather.

I don’t want want to go back for many reasons, but man I miss the mild temperatures.
It's a C++ library for drawing - I know it has 'Canvas' in the description but it's not a browser or layout thing - the Acid tests aren't applicable.
Long duration projects face the risk of looking silly when something radically changes the landscape. SLS took the safe route back to mostly expendable launchers from a "reusable" system that was the result of extensive feature creep and left the agency with some psychological scars (and some extremely cool and inspiring museum pieces).

As the author says, some things are impossible until they aren't. Starship may still hit a development wall, but, at this point, it's doubtful. If it works, it changes the landscape completely.
This is a technique many companies employ when the product is inferior, they do not want the competition to evaluate their products/offerings without signing contracts.
I feel like the main problem here is an overly bureaucratic and suffocating organization. Say what you want about change being slow, but more nimble competitors will eventually eat their lunch.

So don't be the the subject of this story.
which is still a pain in the butt because you have to own, find, backup, and completely wipe a thumb drive to do it. Or you have go to the store because who uses thumb drives anymore?
I failed to note that I wanted to buy an iPhone SE this year, which is why I looked for bundles.

The last time I bought a phone (2016) there was no bundle that was cheaper than buying the phone and a sim-only plan.

This time around, the inverse is true.

The only thing I’m locked into is my plan for 2 years. I can do whatever I like with the handset, and intend to offload it in a year assuming Face ID is seamlessly usable in public again by then.
Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use
My 2018 MPB on Mojave had some serious issues launching apps for a little while yesterday (3PM central) afternoon. It seemed to resolve within an hour though. Not sure how that lines up with the outage described here.
There is very little explanation in this article, don't understand what this is about.

Seems to be hinting toward something coming up in German law, that would not be applicable in other EU countries. The EU is very fragmented, every country mostly applies its own laws.