skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, when the evidence linking saturated fat to heart disease was later found to be weak, many people made the mistake of arguing that saturated fat had no links to heart disease,

Because of the limitations of nutrition science and the incentives of academia, weak evidence is basically equivalent to no evidence.

If "X causes Y" is the dominant paradigm, and a review of the studies shows:

- 20 studies showing "no statistically significant results"

- 10 studies showing "low effect size, but statistically significant" correlations that "X causes Y"

- 0 studies show "X reduces Y"

Does that mean that "X" weakly causes "Y"? No. Because what probably happened is that any time a study got an "X reduces Y" result the academic said, "This looks wrong, let me play with the control variables a bit" until the result became "no significant association." Or possibly they just through the study in the rubbish.

The proper conclusion from the above studies is: "We have not established any link between X and Y. If any link does exist, it is below the threshold of our ability to measure it using our limited tool-set in nutrition science."

Or in other words: any study result that cannot be distinguished from p-hacking should not be admissible as evidence.

AFAICT, this is the case with saturated fat -- there is no set of studies with a sound, convincing methodology that shows a clear and undeniable causal link with heart disease. If you disagree, I'd like to see what studies you find convincing.

the initial exaggeration of the role of LDL cholesterol has led to a small but vocal minority of people who claim that LDL has no connection to heart disease, which doesn't agree with the science

What is the best evidence that dietary cholesterol causes heart disease? What is the best evidence that reducing LDL through either reducing saturated fat or cholesterol intake, or through pharmaceutical intervention reduces all cause mortality?
In an average year there are about 350,000 deaths in the UK. This year we've had 415,000 - 18% more deaths.

The promises from the covid-skeptics were that covid "just killed off people a few months earlier". That hasn't borne out -- in the North West where we suffered from a second wave in October, which led to 40% increase on expected deaths each week for the entire of November (people catching in October) and hospitals reached the peaks they were at in April. The partial tiered restrictions stopped the growth, but it took the full blown lockdown to bring those deaths down to "just" 10% above normal.

The figures for this latest wave, starting from the South East, are far more concerning than the mini wave we had in the north in October - not just cases, but hospitilations too.

Now I'm under 45, I don't have much to worry about from actually contracting covid and dying (about 1 in 4,000, normal risk of death is about 1 in 1,000)

The potential longer term effects are a little more concerning, but what worries the hell out of me is hospital overload.

In the last year there have been 260,000 people going into hospital with a positive covid test. Now not all people who died while having covid died because of covid, but the number with covid on the death certificate is actually higher than the excess deaths.

Even if I don't care at all about the over 50s, given the number of people who have had covid and the percentage going into hospital, if it ran rampant throughout the UK over the next 3 months, we'd be looking at another 600,000 excess deaths and 2 million+ extra hospitalisations, in for an average 10 days.

There are about 100,000 hospital beds in total in the UK, and staffing to just about meet that number.

What will we do with the millions who won't be able to get a bed (including under 45s who get run over?). Should the law be changed so that anyone over the age of 60 forfeits their right to hospital care?
Fat and protein. Humans have several metabolic pathways to convert these into energy, including the production of ketone bodies and gluconeogensis. These are the same metabolic pathways that allow humans to survive off of body fat during a fast. Without these pathways we would literally die within a day or two of not eating[0], since we’re incapable of storing large amounts of glucose from carbohydrates[1].

One can argue that you might be healthier in the long run with carbohydrates, I’m inclined to disagree, but to argue that you can’t get energy without them is just objectively incorrect.

0 - There is a tiny percentage (10 cases) of the population with the inability to build up body fat thanks to the Mardanoid-progeroid-lipodystrophy syndrome. Those with the syndrome can’t store excess calories in the form of body fat, and must eat continuous small meals to meet their metabolic needs. Curiously it seems like the lack of body fat makes their metabolism incredibly inefficient, as they are reported to average 5,000 to 8,000 calories a day. I presume this is because every calorie they eat is “use it or lose it”, resulting in a lot of waste.

1 - Humans can store some glucose in their liver and muscles for immediate use. But strenuous activity can easily exhaust this supply, so it’s not a reasonable source of energy for even moderate fasts.
Microsoft’s Nudge service leverages AI to speed up completion of pull requests
Hacker News users aren't smart, we just type good
Four Difficulty Levels of Life
YouTube doesn't profit from demonetized channels. Why are these channels entitled to money from people that don't want to give it to them?
Thanks, I was entertaining the idea of giving nixOS a try for managing my dotfiles but your post confirms my suspicions!
As someone who worked in robotics at CMU in the mid 80s with Whittaker, & Raibert, and Crowley this was definitely super exciting to watch. You've come a long way baby. I remember watching you great, great grandfather hopping around in Raibert's lab in 1984. Yeah, and sort of scary.
https://toc.cryptobook.us/
A comprehensive introduction to provable cryptography that is comparatively modern.
Explaining the Math of How Neural Networks Learn – Implementation from Scratch
Waymo hasn't generally launched any "full-self driving beta" though.
> How many thousands of miles of snow driving data does Tesla possess, compared to the #2 player?

It depends. If they're not recording the right things, they have the same 0 bytes of data as everyone else.

There's a not insignificant chance that their sensor data is insufficient to perform the tasks, and the recorded data won't be usable for training a system with whatever sensor is needed; in which case, no advantage for logging customer movements for N years.
I think it is clear the regulatory framework wasn't ideal.

The last stage of the trial (which took three months) was not about if they were safe - but simply if they worked. Meaning, they were cleared to have minimal side effects, just unclear if it worked.

If you had approved people to choose to take the vaccine in August we could have had 50M people with shots already.

A lot of people have my skepticism that the main reason that the FDA didn't want to do that since it might be a bit of a media heartache for them, but so what. Even if you thought it would only work 20% of the time that 20% of the time it saves 100,000+ lives.
Original text being collection of decades of individual collective works is key here. If we update this part to modern standards, why wouldn't we update all of the others too? And how long that process might take...
I don't really want robot weapons but I would love to see a firing range demonstration with one, just to see what's possible when you get super-human aiming.

I don't see a future for humanoid bots in war. Missiles and drones seems to render anything else redundant. Policing in a few more generations seems possible, at least at a technical level.
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I maintain a list of content that various members have archived, such that if anything is removed, people can direct inquiries to people who have archived that content.

It's a small way to keep track of what things have been successfully archived, and direct efforts toward at-risk channels.

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Does it really though? I mean the medieval warming period was ballpark the same temperature as we have now.
Do we know it because of 50 years of studies funded by the sugar industry that tried to pin the blame on saturated fats?

https://promarket.org/2016/09/19/sugar-industry-buys-academi...
And heating in a shock is not the same as heating by isentropic compression.
China forbids crowdsourced or foreign-corporate mapping. It is considered a national security risk. There are local approved sources of cartographic data. Apple presumably could buy them, but Google either could not or chose not to.
It's not impossible, it's just expensive to import and difficult to store. Higher end sushi places would usually have it. Now there are at least two farms in the US producing it that I know of, one in Washington state, and another in Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco, and there's even some retail distribution now in SF.
More than 1.5B face masks will pollute oceans this year, report says
What is it with the display behind the steering wheel? There also seems to be some other smaller display on the right side of it.

I thought Teslas only have one giant screen one the right side of the steering wheel?
They have forced every iOS/iPadOS user to use their engine, and therefore force all web developers to adapt to them.

They aren't interested in keeping up because they don't gain anything from it and they don't loose a lot by lagging behind.

Apple is more than capable to implement stuff like push notifications but that would compete with the app store where they make money and by disallowing others from bringing a browser to iOS they don't need to.
It was all fun and games at first.

Then the second robot came into the picture. I went LOL.

Then Spot came into the picture, and my heart skipped a beat.

Then the velociraptor on wheels came into the picture, and I just lost it. I think my brain just melted down.

Next stop: Guns. Lots of guns.

Time to be afraid. Very afraid.
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Alberta is about the middle of the pack in North America for per-capita rates. Not as bad as the worst US states, but nowhere close to the good ones.

Ontario, meanwhile is better than any US state other than Hawaii, last time I looked.

However, if you look at per-capita death rates, Ontario does not look so good.
Kind of unrelated, I am wondering does anyone know a good CS lecture note websites? There was a one I saw here few months ago but I forgot the URL.
Is there an actual serious claim that the first dose would be wasted?

This claim is being made despite CLEAR CDC guidance on how to handle delayed vaccination doses?

I'm serious - where is the citation for the claim you are making that the first dose is wasted if the second dose is not perfectly on schedule.

The reason this claim is likely a lie is that millions / billions of vaccines are given out. Every school child in America is getting vaccines. With very narrow exceptions, if you are off the exact timing (ie, you get a 12 month vaccine a bit later, you get the second shot 14 days later) which by the way happens ALL THE TIME because doctors and parents are busy etc - there is no evidence that the first shot is wasted or that you need to restart vaccination.

So please provide a citation for the "first shot wasted" claim.
"It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money" - W.C. Fields.
Probably has something to do with house prices. You can get a tent in SF for $3000 a month or a mega house in any of the top 5 in the article.

I'm considering leaving Colorado because of housing, and we're much more reasonable than California.
> solid fuel blocks with that excess energy.

The best solid fuel you can dig out of the earth has a "plug efficiency" of few percents.

It took evolution billions of years to get to capture carbon this efficiently.

Now, think of how feasible it is to contend with nature when it comes to thermodynamic processes.
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Alberta's numbers over the holiday are nonsense. Hinshaw even said so herself.
I would assume no. I actually don't even know of another company that is putting self driving software directly into consumer hands.
Start here:

https://github.com/Xel/Blockchain-stuff
They appear to have just added a facility in Ohio. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymo-self-driving-cars-s...
Apple M1 isn't just a shot across Intel's bow. It is giant crater in the middle of their product portfolio. AWS, Azure and Google Compute are absolutely going to pursue their own equivalents.

Microsoft x86s deep enterprise legacy is going to take time to be replaced. But product replacement cycles are pretty short. Microsoft could easily move a lot of their customers to ARM if they wanted to.

If I were Andy Grove, I would have bought a controlling interest in Microsoft years ago. But that is water under the bridge.
I'm excited to see where this goes, but I must admit I'm conflicted on the idea of seeing async Ruby code. Async is great technically but one of the things I love about Ruby is the elegance and clarity. That tends to go out the window when async is introduced in many languages. async/await has helped a ton though, so hopefully Ruby will get something like that as we go.

I would just suggest that sometimes performance isn't worth sacrificing clarity. Obviously sometimes you have to (Big O can be an unforgiving beast) but not always.
Your argument is about why users moved to gmail. jeffbee is saying Google created GMail to have users signed in so that they could give better search results through personalization.
No, they still use following cars and remote assistance
Something similar has already been done years ago, see the infamous GTO scanlation (exmaple: https://www.reddit.comhttps://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comment...). Decent manga (and comics in general) translation requires a "redraw" step where original text is completely removed. Some titles keep text strictly in bubbles, but most have text over the artwork to a varying degree, from simple (minutes per page) to highly non-trivial (hours). An image inpainting algorithm that removes text from manga would be really impressive and save a lot of effort.
Just knowing where to point the car when you're going to smash into something is half the battle with bad winter conditions. I've hit a handful of ditches and snowy fields in my time that could have been much worse if I had veered right instead of left.
An expensive favor they will do as often as they find loopholes in whatever security practices their victims adopt. They're very generous this way.
Indeed, what I'm guessing is that we're not talking about people who are destined to become software developers at all, since those folks tend to learn something other than Matlab. In my own case, I'm at a "principal" level for reasons other than programming, at least I hope. ;-)

The use of Python in my work group is largely as a problem solving and prototyping tool. The product development teams that we serve have their own software departments, with their own choices of languages and so forth.
Do Teslas have something like a black box so that if there's a catastrophic accident at least the precious data will survive?
Up until recently with the sale of Spot robots, YouTube videos were Boston Dynamics' main product.
At 5m59s the narrator comments that signalling right on a left-turn has been a bug for a few beta versions.

This does not give me any trust that there's decent QA done on this software.
More glaringly, a piece with a title like that in a major media outlet lays bare an obvious conflict of interest. "No, not the future you want."
What is this supposed to mean? If Apple even tries touching them again, the courts will probably toss out their hearing for fear of double jeopardy. Apple will do the same thing it's always done, which is wince and smile for the camera. Apple might hate emulation of iOS, but they hate controversy even more.
Are we sure these dietary guidelines aren't being pushed by the toilet paper conglomerates?
I'm a Bitcoin maximalist, but at this point I'm not trying to convience anybody, except my friends. There's a lot of great material on the internet at this point to make a decision for anybody who invests his/her time in the topic.
Slightly frustrated by the final couple of paragraphs. Learning is a zero sum game? If you’re doing it on your own perhaps, but where’s the collaborative thinking?
I don't know her personally, so I went to the guiding principles of who is funding her research.
This is a great commercial for basic income.
Would you the same about foreigners who use American services? Does it warrant losing their jobs and criminal charges in their respective countries?
This is such a garbage take, and you know it. Stop trying to bait others with takes that are entirely nonsensical to the article at hand.

Linking to flawed critiques of the 1619 project and proclaiming "BLM" both authoritarian (it's not, and decentralized) and calling it a religious cult (not a religion, nor a cult, nor a formalized central power structure) is just totally irrelevant and implicit subversive racism. Your comment stands out for nothing substantive but bigotry.
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Older homes do tend to be more sturdy. Still, are the interior doors more durable than the external doors? Are the ceilings secure? Could be easy enough to go into the attic (either with access or by force) and come down in the room in under 5 minutes. Of course if the motive is to kill the occupant then the aggressor could bring tools to defeat the construction.
Not extensive Autopilot data, but basic vehicle state attributes (speed, throttle, seatbelts engaged, etc). All vehicles have this black box (event data recorder) in their airbag subsystem.

There have only been a handful of Tesla accidents while autopilot was engaged where the vehicle was catastrophically damaged, so it’s a bit of an edge case.

https://www.edmunds.com/car-technology/car-black-box-recorde...
It's a mashup of clips taken at different times (engineer in the background, no engineer, engineer in the same apot again, etc).

The balancing of the first bipedal robot doesn't seem right to my human eyes, but I think it's conceivable that computers controling a robot could manage it. Also, the dual bipedal robots aren't perfectly in-sync which is either very good cgi, or it's real.
That exact link is already included.
Times when virtual meetings didn't go as planned this year [video]
> the vision processing aspect still worked quite well, wrt. drivable area

The moment in the video just after 7m0s seems to contradict this.
Indeed, the title should be more like the article’s conclusion that it’s more of a reverse of the tragedy of the commons.
"They are kept in camps, monitored constantly, have no privacy, are searched constantly and on top of that, they are forced to work or go to detention..."
An Amazon warehouse is already 90% there then.
A lot of services written with Sinatra, some developer tooling, scripts to maintain our systems.
You can certainly contrive a counter-example---even in 1986, you could say much the same thing about assembly and something like C or BASIC. But once that leap of abstraction was made, we seem to have hit a plateau of expressive power. Is the jump from C to Rust as empowering as the jump from assembly to C? I don't think it is.
Maybe? It depends on how you look at it. I've heard of a guy inspired by playing Prison Architect to become a corrections officer. Or I wouldn't be surprised if many people joined the military because of being inspired to by COD.
That’s one of the arguments for multi vendor sourcing. The same price negotiation tactic occurs in other industries.

It’s why google buys non intel chips. Come negotiation time there’s a serious threat they can leave. And there’s a serious rfp out to other vendors for pricing. Bringing their intel chip costs down.
This happens sometimes. 2 reasons I know of: If the powers that be think you’re submission is good they show it again and it can gather upvotes. Or others post it after independent discovery. This counts as an upvote and might update the submission time.
More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
The commute to a city job from those places was 30 minutes. People that live in places like the Bay Area often spend more time commuting within the city to a job than people that live in one of these outlying areas and smaller cities. A forgettable "small city" in the US often has the same population as a second-tier city in Europe.

These places are not that desirable if you are looking for a cosmopolitan life, but we're talking about Homer Simpson here. Most people are much closer to Homer Simpson than a mega-city globetrotter.
Intel’s CEO made a mistake saying no to Jobs.

TSMC has proven that the fab model works well, and Apple has proven a design model works well.

Intel could sell their design group to MS and open fabs to all. The u.s govt can require second source (eg spacex and ULA, envelope though the latter is more expensive) to help fund intels EUV transition.
It’s hard to shake of the feeling that those aren’t rendered. However, it’s also kind of sad that this amazing technology goes from one owner to another without a clear push into the real world.
You're right, my comment was partly wrong (and it's too late to edit it). They don't say that Ethics outweighs Science as a subject matter. They say that Science predicts all three proposals are equally good, and therefore Ethics gets the deciding vote.

(I disagree with the claim that the choice of which group to vaccinate first won't strongly affect the total number of infections and deaths. But that's a different argument.)

And then, within the Ethics group, they say that the deciding ethical factor in favor of vaccinating essential workers is that they have a higher proportion of minorities and low-income families than the other groups (of high-risk and of old people).

They don't give any reasoning, so it's hard to argue with this. Unlike the Science section, which links a study that models deaths prevented by targeted vaccination. The Ethics section lists some unsupported and unquantified claims (table on slide 31) and at the same time judges which outcomes are better.

Crucially, the first line of this table says that ethically it's equally good to either "Preserve services essential to the COVID-19 response and overall functioning of society", or to "Reduce morbidity and mortality in persons with highest burden of COVID-19 hospitalization and death". Why? Based on what refutable data or model or ethical theory? Who knows.

Of course, this is a summary presentation; there may have been something behind it that they didn't refer or link to.
Model S/X have a center display and a instrument cluster display. You’re thinking of Model 3/Y.
The Model S and X both have two screens -- one behind the steering wheel, and one in a portrait orientation to the right of the driver. The Model 3 and Y are the ones that have only a single screen to the right of the driver in a landscape orientation.
I don't know much about chip architecture but could they buy a an existing RISC architecture like PowerPC and use that as a competitor to ARM? Allow licensing of PowerPC for SOC and provide the fab as well.
Intestinal tract infections can kill you within days after a single gulp of polluted water.

Heavy metals take months, to years to debilitate, or kill.
This is just a district court ruling. The case is almost certain to be appealed. (Also, the DMCA claims aren't settled yet.)