skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not what monopsony means. Monopsony means there is only one buyer. Apple is one of many buyers. However, they are able to secure the resources since they can pay the most.
Do Vitamin D headlines make it to the front page more than average or does it just seem that way?
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This is because of the lag time of Vitamin D. It takes six weeks to change your levels. Since the course of Covid is lower than that, it's generally not helpful if you start supplementing after getting it.

There are enough "long hauler" cases where you still should, though.
Nope. Dijkstra was and still is right.

The newfangled ways of teaching how to code managed to produce a generation of really poor-quality software "engineers" producing atrocious slow and buggy bloatware.

You cannot be a good engineer if you reason with analogies and metaphors instead of understanding how things actually work, at multiple levels, and knowing what and when can be abstracted and which lower-level details are important and should not be ignored.

So... if you want to become a decent software engineer, start with learning digital electronics and assembly. This way you won't need "metaphors" for arrays and such - because you will know that a static array is just multiplication by constant followed by addition to a constant and dereferencing of the resulting address.
Okay so I just signed up for the beta of their web browser, why not give it a shot, right?

It turns out that its just a reskin of mobile Firefox, with an extremely, and I mean extremely, limited if-then "extensions" feature. Doing a great job at "showcasing the web's infinite extensibility and customizability".

They also tout the (Firefox's) adblocker, even going as far as to say it will "Block every ad..." on their marketing page (technically impossible).

Just because a company has an orange Y on their homepage doesn't mean their product is good. I'm not saying that it won't be good in the future, but steer clear for now.

Money got us into the mess we are in[1], it is up to the real[2] community to get us out.

[1] Standardized DRM, the impossibility of building a browser engine, etc

[2] By "real" I don't mean corporations that symbolically showcase their "<3 of open source", while profiting off of it
This sounds like a nightmare. Just use all this time we have to give 1:1 verbal exams to test knowledge and gaps.
> Of course, the usual warnings about consulting your medical provider and more of a good thing is not always 'better' apply, so be careful not to over do it.

For anyone who is curious, the NIH's daily upper limit for adults of Vitamin D is 4000IU https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-Consumer/ . (I assume that mrandish already knows this, this is for others' benefit).
Relatively small sample and, considering almost half of US citizens are vitamin D deficient, you can't rule out boring correlation (and not causation).

EDIT: Why does HN have these downvote trolls? I was a bio major and was trained to critically analyze studies just like this. Skepticism is part of science. Why would you downvote my comment?!
I don't think that's necessary the case.

Instead, you approach the megaproject as a series of prototypes, spending large sum of money in the hope of quick advancement and iteration cycle.
Seems like that could easily work places with universal healthcare. Very little incentive to donate for free lab work when any medically necessary lab work would be done for free anyway.

And second that, would happily donate in exchange for curiousity-fulfilling bloodwork.
The modern tracks (I guess they're mostly Tilke tracks?) vary in quality more than they should, but I am not opposed to building new tracks on principle. You named two boring, bad ones, but Circuit of the Americas is as good as anyone had any right to expect, given how high-profile and political the effort was. Marina Bay is so objectively awful that it has a certain charm. Baku is the greatest street circuit to come along in a long time (and I'm willing to argue about it :) ).

Some of the classic American tracks would bring unique challenges to F1, and that would be interesting to see. I have to admit that some of my thinking in this area is a little sadistic... it would be entertaining to see F1 teams try to survive driving at Sebring. The Indycar teams practice there, and their cars can barely do it.

In any case, another race in NA on the first half of the calendar, around the time of Montreal, would make a lot of sense. Last year the teams literally shipped everything from France to Quebec and, immediately after the race, shipped everything back from Quebec to France. Driving south a few hours to race in New York would make sense.
WSJ, pull your head out. No one is going to call it brahmin. Who the Eff in american knows what that is? We don't really pay any attention to India. It exists sure and the break out stick fight with china over a border a few months ago was entertaining, but that's about it.
The LoongArch instruction set from Loongson (Chinese)
ah! all good. might i ask what region you may be in? Wondering if I may be too US centric :sweats:
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Sex slaves exist in all parts of the world because of sex trafficking, and are not the same as servants.

More importantly, the author seemed to be suggesting that having a servant class is not a good thing for western countries to adopt, so I’m not sure why you think he’s trying to make it seem like a ‘norm’.
I still have my now-ancient Transmeta powered Fujitsu Lifebook P, running FreeBSD.

It has an inexplicably weird quirk: if the laptop was in sleep mode when getting scanned at the airport, it would power up just fine, but the battery would drain within a few minutes. If it was OFF when getting scanned, it was just fine, and the battery behaved as normal.

I am guessing it was some kind of protective sensor doing its thing, but I've never seen it documented anywhere.
I have the Azul JDK working but I haven't really done much with it. Been side-tracked by ffmpeg, QEmu and SimpleVM. But I plan to do some testing soon.
You can overdose on vitamin D and it can have significant side effects.

More or less anything that can have a positive effect on your health can have a negative effect if done wrong. If something has no possible negative effects it probably doesn’t do anything at all.
> Lack of deniability is strictly a downside in a messaging protocol. Applications built on top of messaging protocols that want non-repudiability can provide it directly, using signatures. You almost never want non-repudiable messages between ordinary people.

A protocol where messages are both authenticated and repudiable is pretty confusing to ordinary people; in real life most forms of identity authentication (e.g. wet-ink signatures, government ID cards) are non-repuidable. In any case for ordinary people the whole question is moot, because actual in-practice repuidability relies on regularly publishing old session keys etc. in a way that ordinary people don't, because the UX is nowhere near good enough (and may never be).

> I also dispute that subkeys are reasonably looked at as a forward secrecy feature. Most uses of subkeys, and virtually all of the tooling, are about having a hardware root of trust tied to shorter-term software keys.

I don't see that there's any contradiction between that and the forward secrecy use case? A root of trust tied to shorter-term keys (that are destroyed in due course) is exactly what you need for forward secrecy.
It is correct, but: https://github.com/kissgyorgy/simple-podcast-dl/issues/17
Where I work I have a cloud instance with more than 256GB of RAM.

But I don't need that on my laptop.
> I am honestly completely shocked that we haven't seen governments and the media increasing people's awareness of this issue.

The fact that it hasn't been picked up by journalists and public health officials should rather be reason for you to be skeptical of early research cherry-picked by random programmers on the internet... the same people that were blowing up HN with hydroxychloroquine stories just a few months ago.
The obstacle isn’t the cost of labs, it’s the gatekeeping. Having to go to the doctor for basic bloodwork is still inconvenient even if it’s free.
It's probably related to their policy of preferring secondary sources[1]. (Without a link to the article in question though I can only guess.) You could argue this is a bad policy, but it's certainly not a new one.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research...
You can get M1 native Java JDK from Azul.

https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?package=jdk
The article states that one strong characteristic of the open web is:

"Ease of publishing: anyone can publish to it freely or at least very cheaply, and is on the same footing with a globally accessible URL"

I'm working on a web-based OS (KaiOS), and let me tell you that many app authors actually see the need to setup hosting as a hurdle. Being able to just upload a package to a store is seen as the ultimate "easy publishing". Yes they lose some control, but they don't feel they need it in the first place.
Native ZFS encryption make pool management easier. Less bookkeeping to import/export a pool. And the file system can make better decisions about performance and recovery.
Does it matter if other studies have done better? If no study to date has met standards, do we lower the standards until a published study rises to the occasion? I hope not. After all, the point of standards includes defense against confounding---your "other variables", known and unknown---especially in combo with motivated reasoning. During a pandemic, reason doesn't lack for motivation!

As for studies that do meet standards, they are hard, not easy, to dismiss. That work tends to get meta-analyzed and synthesized, not brushed off, at least by the reader community at large. I wish more of it got replicated, too, but that's a different thread.

Meanwhile, we still have to make decisions. But not entirely without scientific guidance. We can reason from studies of how the disease spreads and how potential countermeasures work. We can argue by analogy to what science has revealed about apparently similar phenomenon, like flu. Those aren't scientific arguments so much as other kinds of arguments hopefully informed by science. Pending better science as such, that's what we've got.
It could be that there's tonnes of people doing hand things with lots of different materials. Then, because of the composition of that red ochre material, only the drawings that were made with that stuff stick around for long enough for us to see them.
This was a good joke; good work must be recognized.
> Tech people are not working class?

In traditional class terminology, rooted largely in the Marxist analysis of relations in capitalism, “Tech people” are mostly part of the distinct knowledge-worker subgroup of the working class (“proletarian intelligentsia”) though, because of the high pay and other aspects of the field, many have escaped to the middle class (as part of the “petit bourgeois intelligentsia”), and a very few (typically tech founders turned unicorn CxO) have entered into the upper class (“haut bourgeoisie”).

Modern American terminology has little consistent theoretical or empirical grounding, but typically reserves “working class” for the below-median-income segment of classic working class, calls most of the rest of the classic working class “middle class”, and calls approximately the classic middle class “upper middle class” or part of the “upper class”.
Downloading by URL could be implemented, but I did not have the need for it.
I don’t think that’s really the blocker here. Vitamin D supplementation is very low risk and the risks are well known. I’ve seen at least one study that I can recall saying exactly that—the correlation is there and vitamin D is safe and basically risk free so we should be supplementing it in at least the at-risk population immediately.
You can get blood tests without a prescription - or at least
without a nurse friend, by just paying a fairly small fee and going to a local labcorp/quest diagnostics.

e.g. privatemdlabs.com (I'm not recommending this site - just giving it as an example. Though I have used it before without issue, there may be other companies providing better/more competitive services in this field)
You missed this from late August. Rct, calcifediol administered to hospitalized patients. Absolutely massive effect on ICU admission.

There have been three RCT I know of. Another calcifediol study showed a big impact. An oral supplement study on hospitalized patients did not. Presumably because oral supplements take a while to change levels whereas calcifediol does not.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/
This sounds like it's true, but I haven't seen convincing evidence that "western culture" is particularly concerned with "diversity" at all (outside of PR culture), or that other such "homogenous" cultures have significantly less tolerance for "diversity".

If someone is arguing for diversity in good faith they can explain exactly what kind of diversity they're arguing for and why. Japan, for instance, appears culturally homogenous only until you compare culture across economic classes; only a very shallow definition of diversity would fail to capture this.

In fact, that's true for many societies. The quirk of america is that we've internalized the diversity of the working class as uniquely american, class be damned, even if that's trivially a false characterization of the upper class. American media is not careful about how they use the word, and does not call out substance-less uses of it, so it's become an easy target for mocking lack of substance in political and cultural discussions.
There is a strong signal to noise radio when it comes to the positive effectiveness of vitamin D. It has the benefits of being a common deficiency and having substantial weight behind positive effectiveness, low negative consequences, and being easy to acquire.

People like the cure-all narrative, especially when even reasonable folk believe it has merit.
> University systems have the major problem that a significant portion of students are only there for a degree, and their participation is playing the game in order to get that piece of paper, and the GPA number rating them.

In defense of the students, they're just following the incentive gradient in front of them.

For all the romantic notions about how college should be optimized for exploration and "real learning", only a small percentage of people actually want that. And that's fine! Not everyone needs to be that sort of person; you should be able to have a reasonably comfortable career even if you aren't.

But the world is set up right now such that, without a university degree, you fall through the cracks and it's game over. In lots of high-earning jobs, a degree is either de jure required (law, medicine), or de facto required as most major employers won't look at you without one (finance, most tech stuff). So universities become degree mills because that's what the market demands, and students are only there so they can get a job afterward.

To fix the universities, you have to fix the incentives.
Not to mention MSDOS wasn't case specific so the name was probably GUYBRUSH.LBM.

I dont remember there being lowercase filenames until Windows.
Distribution of applications is only a subset of publishing. Mobile app developers often willing live in the walled garden because it is easier and more profitable, at least initially.
For those Westerners dating Asians born in Asia, it's important to be aware of this difference in independence.

For Mainland China children, it is expected (ie. mandatory) that their parents will move in with them sometime after marriage. The inlaw is not thought of as a person, but as the parents' pension plan. So if you marry into a family like that, it's important you know the story beforehand.

(There's an old Chinese riddle about "Who would you save if your mother and wife fell in the river?" The only acceptable answer is "mother.")

For Filipinos, basically the same thing, except there was no "one child" policy as in China. However, their family is much more important than some outsider like you, so again, it's something you want to discuss and think about before getting involved.
I’ve had a similar thought but the opposite conclusion on sick people.
I usually use Ultalabtests.com to order my own blood work, but it pays to comparison shop even at an individual test level.

Being familiar with what tests I need to run and what the acceptable ranges are, there is literally no reason for me to go through the doctor appointment firewall anymore.

Around/after Thanksgiving, many of the online test mongers discount tests heavily, so it's not a bad idea to stock up for the year on lab work orders, as they don't expire.

Most online providers give you the choice of labs to use.
I wonder if the business model could be a free or nearly free blood / genetic test for people. Each time you donate, you select either one genetic test panel or one blood test panel. The organization uses the money saved / earned from the blood donation to pay for the test. Possibly it also requires signing off on providing information to a research study as an additional revenue stream to pay for the testing / subsidize the creation of new panels.

I'm guessing this may not be economically feasible though. Additionally, you have the issue that people who can't afford health insurance would be literally selling their body for healthcare. Strictly speaking, it might be better than the alternative, but it's still not good that it's even necessary to consider something like this.
I don’t think this should be downvoted just because it’s crass. In a way its crassness illustrates an important point. We have a vocabulary for abortion which very deliberately avoids confronting the simple fact that it involves killing an unborn child. That is the choice in pro-choice. Anyway, yeah, we make valuable things out of dead unborn babies. It’s a hell of a silver lining.
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Yes, this works as you expect. What it lacks are three big things; making it easy to see what your direct dependencies are, separating dev dependencies from prod dependencies, and an easy way to update a dependency while resolving all transitive dependencies.

There are other shortcomings, but those are the big ones.
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Also, Tesla didn't start by using any fancy battery chemistries, they started by packaging cheap "shitty" commercial cells alongside enough monitoring and management hardware to keep them from catching fire or damaging themselves.
Ask HN: How did you find what you were good at?
I am inspired by specialized and talented people who are masters of their craft.

My problem is that I am equally attracted to 3 somewhat unrelated fields that I would like to master and I have become static in the sense of not being able to choose one as my path. I've bounced between mechanical engineering, physics and computer science and have made meaningless progress in all of them.

If you were in the same boat, how did you find that one thing that you're good at?
Listen, I am about as left as they come. But do you want to try to respond to my actual comment?

What I heard in the clip was Shaw claiming it is expensive to put computers in the classroom, but that it is a worthwhile investment. And that not funding that effort would make (most) US Americans competitive on the order of textile workers in developing countries.

I'm sure the dude's politics suck. But can you try to stop trying to convince me of that?
Thanks for the feedback! As the site mentions, we're still in beta, so feedback is super helpful.

1. Yes, it's forked from Firefox, this is a fairly common starting codebase and compatible license for making a browser, Brave does the same thing. Also, I used to work at Mozilla so I trust their codebase a lot as a starting point.

There's a lot more that Insight can do that Firefox doesn't but that isn't apparent, then I think the onus is on us for communicating that to new users better.

2. The AdBlocking ruleset is actually a superset of Firefox, but it is still limited by Safari's 50k rule limit — https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-neutered-ad-blockers-in-... The main thing we can do to get in addition to this is the ability to inject JS (this is a class of extension) to block anything else you see fit.

3. Apple enforces OS and API level restrictions on a browser, (e.g. must use WKWebView). There's some things you just can't do that you could if you say forked Chromium or Firefox on desktop.

In general, we're trying to make a browser within the UI and technical constraints of iOS that is

1. very easy to build extensions for (usually no code)
2. has an easy to use interface without the complexity of desktop extensions

In order to achieve that, we did have to simplify compared to WebExtensions. Even though the basic interface is IF-THEN (we adopted this so the easiest level of making extensions can be no-code), you should be able to do a lot with it via JS.

Let me know if there's important use cases you have that you have for a mobile browser that you feel is impossible within our framework — that'd be really helpful feedback as well.

Thanks for trying it out!

> Money got us into the mess we are in[1], it is up to the real[2] community to get us out.

I would state this as - enabling businesses to be as extractive as they currently are got us into a difficult place. People I know hold views on what can get us out on the full range from:

a)the solutions having to be structurally decentralized to
b) only heavy centralization can wield enough distribution power to mount a strong opposition.

The position we're taking as a startup with this product is that we have to walk the walk of making the web actually more user-centric than the app alternatives because there's really no reason to adopt us unless we deliver on these promises.
Web Application Security on a Budget
Yes, for those old enough to remember a time when research for a school project required hitting the library stacks, encyclopedias were never acceptable sources after about grade 6.
They’re both overloaded terms, but with today’s common usage, path tracing is built on top of ray tracing, so path tracing in a sense is ray tracing (but not the other way around). So while it’s true that they’re not exactly the same, if that’s what you meant, your sentence as written can be easily misinterpreted.

Is there a reason to make this distinction here? The site & book are doing ray tracing, so the title is accurate. It mentions path tracing once at the very beginning, because the end goal is a path tracer. I think the goal is achieved, so in this case the book is both ray tracing and path tracing.
It's mind boggling to me that such a popular, mature, and beloved language has such a terrible package manager. Pip is seemingly broken more times than not. Deploying anything is a nightmare unless you use a virtual environment, and even when you do you still gotta cross your fingers and hope pip doesn't decide to break at some point in the future.
> SpaceX overturned that paradigm with a fraction of the competition’s cash.

How can we say anything about SpaceX's efficiency with cash if there are no public statements available and even investors have trouble getting any financial data at all?
I’m a bit disappointed it isn’t shaped like a monolith.
> There's no way 90% of people dying from Covid would be saved by vitamin D supplements.

Why?

I’m not saying the opposite is true, but there is evidence for a inverse relationship between respiratory infections and vitamin D levels. We should all believe things for reasons, what reason do you have for discounting the possibility?
The author of Cosmic Serpent asked this question.

They replied “the plants told us”