skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Important context (see esp the tweet at the bottom)

https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1333563577324761091

(Mirror: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1333563577324761091.html)
Wonder if there is also a connection with the declining popularity of cow's milk, which is typically fortified with vitamins A & D. In primary school, cow's milk have become less common due to increased awareness that different ethnic groups have different tolerances for lactose. Unfortunately, it appears the groups that would benefit the most from more vitamin D are also the ones most likely to be lactose intolerant, and thus not drinking the milk fortified with vitamin D.
> The main problem is that receiving a credential and receiving an education are very different things that we do at the same time out of tradition and convenience

Unfortunately I think most of the world sees them as one thing :/.
That is unrealistic. Domestic violence and drug abuse have been problems since the dawn of time. We should take steps to minimize them but they will never be fixed.
It may fall from the sky, but if you use it to grow wheat you're reducing what's going to be available downstream. There's a lot of water-politics about this in the American west, and you might not even be entitled to use the rainwater that falls on your own land.
Saving history doesn't have to mean saving every message.
pip freeze > requirements.txt

Lists every python module that's been loaded into the virtualenvironment. So, from my (admittedly new) understanding, that means we guarantee that in the production/devel/docker environment - every python module will be identical to whatever was installed in the virtual env.

Dependencies and transitive dependencies are guaranteed to be resolved/ensured because we list everyone one of them out in the requirements.txt file.
Unfortunately by this logic I don’t think Italy and the UK would’ve had the same affect
I've been trying to write a bunch of Forth, and I've gotta say stack comments (essentially type signatures, though typically not checked) are invaluable; that, and making definitions small enough that you can verify that they're obviously correct within a few seconds. (Typically, most definitions are one-liners.)
It's not always just public benefit. You have two choices:

1. Leave a video up published by a non-scientific person which has possibly harmful claims.

2. Take the video down, get decried for censorship, avoid spreading what we know is a problem right now: misinformation.

I leave option 3, policing content out of the picture. People mistake what is happening now as policing but really it's avoiding policing what they are doing now.

I am absolutely not on the side of just anyone with credentials being able to soapbox on platforms that don't want to spread misinformation whether it is or it isn't officially designated misinformation - better safe than sorry. I feel like I know the difference between band of fringe persons with Doctor in their name who have a controversial underdog belief and the official scientific sources for information.
Hi, and thanks for the feedback! I'm the original author of that post.

> Insight, as an aggregated platform for comparison. It seems pretty obvious that the endgame of this product would be just another Amazon. Why would it turn out any differently for the "curators" on the Insight "platform"?

Perhaps some of the writing was unclear, but I just wanted to clarify that Insight the is not a centralized service. It's an extensible mobile browser where you can choose as the user what the alternative services will be.

We suggest a few out of the box because we think that's important to making extensions lower friction and easier to discover, but ultimately you can override them with your own choice.

I think this is important to give the user that power in client app, and our schema for extensions is expressible in JSON for interoperability.

Thanks for the comment and for pointing this out!
Thomas Wright's an Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)
> over dilutions of the privacy guarantees,

Has anyone found sources for this?
The Data Center ID has been in Snowflake IDs for a while. It's present in the original version of Snowflake that Twitter open sourced back in 2010 [0]. Looks like it was added in this commit [1] from August 2010.

[0] https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake/blob/snowflake-...

[1] https://github.com/twitter-archive/snowflake/commit/ba2e67ea...
I think he completely missed the point of the film. It wasn’t an attempt to predict what the world would look like in a hundred years. It was a fable. When the interior of a scene was larger than the exterior, it wasn’t a mistake but an intended effect.

Lang wasn’t saying, “This is the future,” but rather, “we need to beware of a future that bends this way.” And he was right. The mechanizations that were meant, as Wells says, to liberate us didn’t entirely. We’re no longer marching shoulder to shoulder to the caves to work mechanically, but half of us go to low paid jobs that are not somehow more human than what he depicted. An Amazon or Uber driver may not look like a fleshy cog in an oversized machine but he or she might certainly feel that way.

Lang was sitting us down as children and telling us a fable and the fable had a moral: in the future we need to take care lest we the humans are reduced to machinery and the machinery sublimated to human. And Lang was prescient because, 100 years later, that is what we’ve found.
When I was in college, just starting out, I knew that making money after college is important and that certain fields that may be interesting, such as literature and psychology, don't provide a clear path to making a living. This didn't seem a secret, but many of my colleague students explicitly waved off such concerns. They "didn't care about money". So I chose computer science and many of them went with anthropology and whatnot. The results were predictable and it was indeed their own fault to not care. Now that there's talk of cancelling student debt, it infuriates me that they might get off paying the justly earned debt doing fun things in college while I was coding memory management, and pulling my hair out, into the night.
Microsoft’s Phil Spencer on Launching the New Xbox and the Future of Games
You say that now, but when you're part of a vast planet-wide meat computer transformed by the "vaccine" that aliens developed to turn us into their next-gen CPUs (5*10^11 neurons per sq. Kilometer!) ... Well, I'm guessing if that happened you'd feel a bit silly.
Hacker News posters have been a long-time fan of Macs, especially since OS-X (which predates hacker news). Paul Graham's article [5], "Return of the Mac" (2005) has been an influence, or at least explained the popularity amongst hackers.

[5]http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html
Show HN: Billgist – Do not get surprised by your AWS bill
I didn’t say they never failed. Just that they fail less frequently.

In any case, solder ball cracking results from process issues and is a solved problem: https://www.pcbcart.com/article/content/reasons-for-cracks-i...

Certain not something that would be improved with sockets.
That wouldn't account for places like Spain and Italy that are both sunny and more pedestrian friendly that were hit harder than the US though.

The theory that makes the most sense to me is that East Asia has had exposure to past viruses that were similar in nature but less lethal.

> Tatsuhiko Kodama of the University of Tokyo said preliminary studies show that Japanese people’s immune systems tend to react to the novel coronavirus as though they had previous exposure, and notes that there are centuries of history of coronaviruses emerging from East Asia.[1]

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/researchers-ponder-why-...
I’m pretty into the remarkable and run a Twitter account retweeting content. (@rehackable - inspired by the GitHub repo of the same name)

The RM1 was pretty well modded, but the RM2 is currently somewhat stuck due to a missing frame buffer driver. Some good people are working hard on it though and it seems like it’ll be solved fairly soon. [0]

[0] https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer/
I'm not sure you read my comment, and if you did, you certainly didn't understand it.
Might consider as the first social media wall
Which CPUs were benched?
> I also think there's some astroturfing going on sometimes

Marketing companies figured this out a long time ago. Even HN had a headline recently that was something like "use subreddits to drive app adoption".
There's only one, and it's a human-animal hybrid with a bird head

https://archeologie.culture.fr/lascaux/en/themes-0
I wasn't aware they were doing this. Is this true? I couldn't find any info on this.
The Seattle area had a big earthquake about 20 years ago[0], which was most certainly felt in Olympia. But that's the only time I've felt the earth tremble in the 20 years I've lived in the Seattle area. But WA does get them once in a while. [1] Personally, it's low on my list of things I worry about.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Washing...
Nope. Anandtech measured 27W peak on M1 CPU workloads with the average closer to 20W+[1].

The Ryzen 4800U and i7-1165G7 also have comparable GPUs (and TPU+ISP for the i7) within the same ~15-25W TDP. The Intel i7-1165G7 average TDP might be closer to ~30W because of it's 4.7Ghz boost clock, but it's still comparable to the M1.

The i7-1165G7 and 4800U have a few laptop designs with soldered RAM. You can get 17hrs+ of video out of a 4800U laptop with a 60Wh battery[2]. Also comparable with i7-1065G7/i7-1165G7 at 15hrs+/50Wh.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

[2] https://www.pcworld.com/article/3531989/battery-life-amd-ryz...
The amount of UV exposure you get will differ significantly based on your latitude and time of year (and your skin type and weather of course). If anyone is serious enough to look into optimizing their sunlight exposure, I'd recommend playing around with these calculators to get an idea of what exposure is effective for you: https://fastrt.nilu.no/README_VitD_quartMEDandMED_v2.html
Fantastic idea. On the image format part, PPM is indeed a great way to get off the ground.

If you really want something more portable like PNG then it happens to be quite a fun library to implement. I encourage you to write your own. It’s basically:

- some magic number bytes

- a static header to announce the image is 8bit RGB zlib-compressed unfiltered non-interlaced

- a final set of magic bytes to say “here’s the actual image”

- zlib compressed rows of RGB bytes, with a 0 at the start of each row

So really just a fancy image.ppm.gz. What’s cool is that with 10 more lines of code you can implement animated PNG.
I remember that there also was the result that supplementing does not help if you have covid. So to me it looks just like correlation and not causation (old sick people do not go out often and have less vitamin D. Probably same reason while you can find health benifits for alcohol: sick people stop drinking )
Ok, so then someone should start a company that iterates on fission (proven tech like Merlin) and gets the cost of that way down and safety way up, then uses that momentum to work on fusion, which (like the Raptor engine) is a whole 'nother ball game, but you can still use some of the expertise from fission for fusion.

The analogy holds!
Even beyond that in almost every state you can order your own labs via websites like OwnYourLabs, PrivateMDLabs, RequestATest, etc. OmegaQuant also offers an at home vitamin D test.
Those old CGA colors. Wakes up all kind of memories.
The big question is whether taking vitamin D supplements would address this, or whether having low vitamin D just happens to correlate with the real risk factors (sedentary, indoor lifestyle; unhealthy diet; obesity; etc.).
Facebook News will pay UK outlets for content in 2021
Thanks very much - your description of our workflow is really good (and is pretty close to exactly what we have!)

I don't understand what dependencies everyone keeps talking about (which seems to be a big deal with Poetry) - when you run:
pip freeze

It captures every single python module, dependencies as well. Because everything in the dependencies file is listed as:
aaaaaaa==xy.z

You are guaranteed to have the exact same version.

We have all sorts of turf wars when someone wants to roll forward the version of a module, and, in the case of the big ones (Pandas) we sometimes hold off for 6-9 months before rolling it forward.

But there is something that Poetry is doing that is better than "pip freeze" - I think once I figure that out, I'll have an "aha" moment and start evangelizing it. I just haven't got there yet.
What is the correct angle?
Mysterious monolith found in Romania – days after a similar one vanished in Utah
I don’t understand why people use signal over wickr. Signal accounts are tied to an actual phone number, which is a public identifier.

Wickr accounts are tied to nothing. And if you loose your phone you can just login again on any other phone to continue communicating.
Vaccines have a shelf life in your body. It's good to get a titer every once in a while to make sure you don't need a booster. A year would be short though, unless you mean variants/mutations, which would really be reinfection, not with the same thing.
>I never use the Amazon app on my iPhone. I much prefer using the information dense webpage, even though I have to hold it in landscape and zoom around.

Yes, but that's a usability choice. What if the app was better and faster, usability wise, than the web page?
I don't think that landing on the moon with lunar gravity and no atmosphere is at all comparable to surviving hypersonic reentry speeds and landing on such a tiny target. And reading the Wikipedia article, it doesn't sound like the DC-X ever demonstrated a landing from orbit, which is most of the challenge.
It is, in the civilised world with functioning healthcare infrastrucure.
“Surely a baby will save this marriage.”
Hadn't heard of the product before, I was in the market for a belt anyway and for reasons these look like they might be a better option.

So, I hit up your site - and get a "Promotional Code Activated!" banner.
I add the default (two) to my cart, and get hit on the next page with a "Would you like (more) fries with that" page next asking me to add two more.

You don't allow determining shipping costs up front, instead requiring me to fill out all my details OR use Paypal checkout first.

Only after going through the Paypal Checkout process do I discover that shipping is going to cost me USD$29 (I'm in Australia), so yeah - No, I bail on that.

Then I get a cart abandonment email - apparently scraped from Paypal Checkout - telling me the promotion code is going to expire, which is clearly not true since it's not personalised and apparently all I have to do even if it were going to expire based on some kind of cookie/whatever, would be to fire up a new browser session.

While I'm sympathetic to the problems with Amazon, the whole experience feels like a mixture of Daytime TV Home Shopping combined with door-to-door sales tactics.
I'm just waiting for the followup email 24 hours later telling me if I order now I'll get a free set of steak knives.
If you get paid in stock options or RSU's, by definition, you are not working-class. You are receiving an ownership stake in the enterprise.
Lockheed Martin's approach does what you're talking about. Small, fast to iterate design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlYClniDFkM
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion...
CSS Transform in just 15 minutes
Why ZFS encryption vs unencrypted ZFS atop LUKS?
Micron makes 32MB LPDDR4 memory chips if I'm reading https://www.micron.com/products/dram/lpdram
correctly
Above that they plan upon using LPDDR5
D.C. Metro budget cuts weekend service, half of bus routes, closes 19 stations
thanks for the medical advise, random tech guy.
The link to the arxiv paper is at bottom of that article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.05552.pdf
Sunlight exposure stimulates nitric oxide production, which lowers blood pressure. High blood pressure is a significant risk factor for COVID-19. I suspect there might be a causative relationship.
It's not a false equivalency because I'm not saying the two diseases are equivalent.

I'm asking where we draw the line. Yes the flu is less severe than COVID-19. The question is not which is worse. It is how many lives do we need to save with these measures in order to make it "worth it"? Who determines that? How do we determine that?

We apparently decided it is worth it for COVID-19. Ok, but then why not for the flu. It kills people too, just not as many. What about something in between the flu in COVID in terms of lethality?
Study adjusted for age, sex. So no.
When I'm feeling ill or need a test I call a friend of mine who is a nurse practitioner in another state. She has a ballpark idea of my current health, enough info to fit on an index card. Then she files a script with the pharmacy or writes me a prescription for a blood test. The whole thing is done in 5 minutes. In fact, the whole thing is done over iMessage.

Firewall is the perfect term. Everyone knows the industry is ripe to be turned upside down in the absense of a public option. What surprises me is that Walmart and Amazon still haven't attacked it head-on.
Looking forward to the numberphile video about it.

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdiL-ADRTxQ
Basically what Spivak said. I was interested in adapting an existing interface (a filesystem) to do the set intersections because it means more software could benefit from it without additional work.
I'm waiting for one of the big tech companies to end up getting sued for their self appointed role as arbiters of truth on all of human knowledge. Everyone hates politicians, even if not everyone hates the same politicians, so there's some appetite for tech companies favoring speech from one group or another. But now that they're wading into the territory of health, they're putting themselves into a precarious position, especially if some of their choices on what information they allow the public to see or not to see turns out to be incorrect.

Potential legal issues aside, the PR nightmare that would come from this if it turns out they've tried to suppress information that would have saved lives is going to be very ugly. Right now they're a spoiled kid eating whatever cookies they want because no one has ever told them no. Whether the stomach ache, rotting teeth, or parental wrath comes first remains to be seen but there will at some point be consequences for this overreach into areas they have no domain knowledge. They of course will act shocked that there is blowback and that their ever expanding intrusion into everyone's lives through information control ends up causing them harm.
I think only really the SNES/N64 years embodied the cutting-edge solutions associated with novel games. Their whole ethos to entertainment (especially the handheld line becoming the core product in a way) still feels embodied in Yokoi's "lateral thinking with seasoned technology" philosophy.
Post-acute Covid-19 Syndrome "Long Haulers" - 60 minutes
It's still a big pain if you like to keep your kernel relatively up to date. I switched to btrfs; it just working is worth the few extra warts over ZFS.
FWIW, I've seen the NHS mention it quite a few times. Example:

> People with dark skin, such as those of African, African-Caribbean or south Asian origin, will need to spend longer in the sun to produce the same amount of vitamin D as someone with lighter skin.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/how-to-get-vitamin...
We have the following:

$ wc -l requirements.txt
118 requirements.txt

And every module in it is locked to a particular version:

alembic==0.8.8
amqp==2.2.2
anyjson==0.3.3
azure-storage==0.36.0
backports.shutil-get-terminal-size==1.0.0
billiard==3.5.0.2

etc...

I don't really understand the "Dependencies" thing (Or the difference between dev dependencies/transitive dependencies)- we literally list every single module in our environment, and its version - It's not clear to me what other dependencies there could be in a python development environment.

I do note we have three requirements.txt files, a requirements.txt, requirements-test.txt, and a requirements-dev.txt. So, presumably there is a need for different requirements that you've identified that I don't understand. So there's that.
?- E = "pop dup dup * swap abs rollup dup * swap - +", joy(E, Si, So).
E = "pop dup dup * swap abs ro...p - +",
Si = [_56410, int(_56422), int(_56432)|_56428],
So = [int(_56454)|_56428],
_56422 in 0..sup,
_56500+_56422#=_56496,
_56422+1#=_56520,
_56422^2#=_56544,
_56500+_56544#=_56454,
_56544 in 0..sup,
_56496 in 0..sup,
_56432^2#=_56496,
_56520 in 1..sup ;
E = "pop dup dup * swap abs ro...p - +",
Si = [_57392, int(_57404), int(_57414)|_57410],
So = [int(_57436)|_57410],
_57404 in inf.. -1,
_57482+_57404#=0,
_57404+1#=_57502,
_57404^2#=_57526,
_57482 in 1..sup,
_57578+_57482#=_57574,
_57578+_57526#=_57436,
_57526 in 1..sup,
_57574 in 0..sup,
_57414^2#=_57574,
_57502 in inf..0 ;
false.

It's a Prolog query with two solutions (because the input to abs could be positive or negative) showing the input and output stack effects (the type signature) and the CLP(FD) constraints between the input and output integers.

It's a little hard to read, I know, but the code that performs the type inference and constraint generation/recording is very brief and elegant.

( It's a work-in-progress: https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Thun/tree/master/source/thun.pl )

- - - -

FWIW I messed about with a Python implementation of Joy (another concatinative language) and I have some notebooks that might be interesting: https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/index.html
Apple security chief (and Apple) maintain innocence after bribery charges
"From GM's perspective they stood to lose nothing and potentially gain. "

No, investing 2 Billion in a scam essentially ruins the credibility of many people and puts the CEO in jeopardy.

Being stupid has consequences, even if you can back out.

"The big banks, the suppliers, the big corporate entities GM has to deal with don't care "

Of course they care - you think that the suppliers of GM who give GM massive credit want to know that the company is doing something this dumb and could end up in Chapter 11 - again - where they lose their money?

There is no positive spin on this for GM it makes them look like idiots - to the point wherein the CEO should definitely be fired because this is not just 'some deal' it's an existential issue concerning their future.
Murder rates (per 100k people):
Detroit: 38.8 (2018);
Cheyenne: 3.1 (2018);
London: 1.84 (2019);
China: 1.0 (2011);

Not sure where you are going with this, but I'd say the answer is Detroit??
Yes stories like this pop up all the time for lots of different diseases. There has never been a statistically significant large result observed. There's no way 90% of people dying from Covid would be saved by vitamin D supplements.
Ranger Buildings in Path of Exile
The study compares how many people in the experimental group and control group develop symptomatic COVID-19. In this case 11 people in the experimental group developed COVID-19 versus 185 in the control group. Thus the vaccine is approximately 185 / (185 + 11) = 94% effective, assuming both groups behaved similarly.

If the control group intentionally avoided exposure more than the experimental group, then the vaccine is even more effective than the study result. This is a blinded study though, so participants don't know which group they're in unless they go out of their way to find out (eg. taking an antibody test).
Didn't see another post for this. It's interesting that Apple is now coming out and defending the security chief.

> “We expect all of our employees to conduct themselves with integrity," an Apple spokesperson said in a statement. "After learning of the allegations, we conducted a thorough internal investigation and found no wrongdoing."