skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagreement was not just mistaken but evil.

Isn't that always the case though, particularly with politics and operating systems?
How are they overtaking us again?
I think a lot of people who would have played IF now play visual novels.
I like the idea of the Vitamin D link, and it seems well established. But the idea of this paper I find too crude. There can easily big cofactor if you look at the average vitamin D levels per state. Like when the is less Vitamin D might be more people have office jobs leading to higher obesity (for the mortality rate). For infection rate could also be meeting people in offices/indors. Also areas with less sunlight have people indoors more often.
The keyword here is "tried". Pretty much every other multilateral trade agreement is entirely undemocratic. Parties to the agreement negotiate on a condition of unanimity. This isn't just minority rule (Council/Commission), it's minority-of-the-minority rule.

The solution to the EU being "undemocratic" is to make it democratic: move decision-making power to the European Parliament and away from member states. You can have democracy or soverignity but not both.
A bottle of 360 5,000 IU Vitamin D pills is $16 on Amazon. Each pill is 4.5 cents, so you’re looking at 45 cents a week for 50k IU. I don’t think you can get better insurance for $2/month.
I don't think Zig is production-ready, if someone is using it there must be a special case where they think it makes sense.

Anyway, I don't think production readiness of a language that hasn't reached 1.0 really matters.
Didn’t know this existed because I rely heavily on Caffeine when I am presenting or doing something that requires no interaction with the mac for long periods of time. And the caffeine app(also a shell command) has been since like forever!
and now they're just over testing, especially with PCR with 40+ amplification cycles. The false positives combined with positives from minor infections are blowing up case numbers out of proportion.
In reality you can't. The upfront cost of defending a patent is huge, like hundreds of thousands.

Patents are fundamentally broken and really don't work like most think or want them to.
I did mention that he was in a country that had been at war in my post. Hence my question.
Pull requests introduce a human delay into a team's integration workfllow
Sure they did, just not to the extent we do. Copyright should be fairly short, maximum of 25 years. It was 75ish years for your parents
You do you.

We've all got different drives and inner monologues, heterogenous backgrounds, unique perspectives, goals.

It's what makes the human experiment wildly successful. We're all living life as we see it.
I'm a big guy. 300 lbs. Was at 2,500 IU, now at 5,000 IU.
I think it’s pretty clear that what was being discussed was a freedom of expression issue (as a value not a law). Doesn’t matter now though cause Apple backed down and the dev noted this in his response: “We may not all agree, but I am happy we all still have the freedom to express ourselves today”

I think that sums things up well

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/02/amphetamine-app-store-r...
Other things in that category are not as prevalent here.
They should fortify commonly consumed food products with Vitamin D. Like milk.
I wonder why you’d do this over 7,000 IU daily.
Age demographics as well.
> Would take 10000 Tesla’s to wear the road the same as one truck.

Did you consider the weight for the full vehicle, or per-axle? The per-axle figure is the relevant one and would probably flatten that figure out quite a bit.

They are also much more stringently enforced on commercial transportation vehicles, which require annual inspections and serious preventative maintenance to pass which does already add to the cost of operating these vehicles.

Their per-mile consumption is higher as well, which aside from being bad for the environment, already means they are consuming much more fuel and paying a higher tax as it is.

> tax all gas burning cars for the lung cancer and other negative externalities they cause.

Transportation, on the whole, accounts for 28% of greenhouse gasses... but it also enables the society that we live in and our own personal mobility within it. Electricity is nearly the same at 27%. You can shift the source, but you cant eliminate greenhouse gas from our way of life.
There are some very clever concepts in Zig (I like the fact that types are compile time values), but the language doesn't seem to be as carefully designed as some others. For example, for-loops only work on a few, blessed types.
There was (bad) CGI of an X-35B in that movie.

Real F-35Bs don't have an internal gun, and if they did, the guns wouldn't fire from the intakes, and if the aircraft took a large chunk of concrete directly into the LiftFan it wouldn't shudder and slowly fall out of the sky, it would be a catastrophic and near instantaneous loss of aircraft and likely aircrew life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)
That's kind of what I was getting at. We all have the same standard and can reach the same level of stress no matter where we started based on a plus or minus from where we started..... or is that false and we just think our life is hard and have no idea the magnitude of difficulty that others live in.
Personally, I just use BTRFS on top of LUKS. On my remote backup server there's a little bit of weirdness, but it works out so that only my personal laptop has the key, which is of course itself password protected.
System Preferences -> Battery

Select either Battery or Power Adapter to make changes to how the system will go to sleep/turn the display off after a certain amount of time.
On any Substack, you can add /feed at the end of the URL to get the RSS feed. https://if50.substack.com/feed
This is probably true, especially given the state of the surveys (for example, it required less than 10 minutes perusal to uncover obvious bias against distracted-type ADHD diagnostic surveys and by extension, females with ADHD).

Although online history may provide superior illumination of a patient’s condition, crucially, it can’t be standardized. As such, it will never support the following cases:

1. Allow health insurers to predict and thus price the cost of psychiatric care.

2. Serve as an “impartial” basis for insurers to approve / deny claims in accordance with their pricing model and profit goals.

3. Create a defensible, scientific-seeming rationale for allowing some population monitored access to schedule III controlled substances while denying it to the wider public.

4. Allow wealthy, educated and self-directed individuals to learn the responses needed to obtain access to medically beneficial controlled substances without resorting to the black market.

Cynics, marxists and progressives would likely enumerate several additional cases, but the pattern remains the same. Survey-based psychological tools correlate weakly with patient outcomes and diagnostic accuracy and strongly with the politics and economics of private health care.
This is very nice! I think it would be more useful if it talked about the memory model, heap allocations and pointers which I'm guessing is pretty important for anything non trivial.
That's just a number, each project has their own criteria. Elm is very stable, production ready for more than 4 years and still 0.19
I am always interested in zig, but these mini tutorials don't give you anything beyond what simple C does (apart from the exceptions). The full docs do not have enough examples (last time I checked). I would really like something like K&R for zig.
I suppose if you're buying it online instead of locally, that's an option. If I were to buy it from a local store, though, it's a lot more expensive than that--$16 will get you 14-30 doses, even with a cheap brand. And that's assuming you can find the cheap brands in stock, which is often difficult.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect that people in financially difficult situations are able to order online. These are often people who can only pay with cash, food stamps, or other methods that Amazon won't accept. If you're shopping on Amazon, you're probably in a position whereby you have a bit more flexibility in your life.

I know that in Massachusetts (United States), you can see a PCP, get blood work, and get a Vitamin D prescription for free if you don't have sufficient income or insurance. I have friends and neighbors who don't have jobs right now; that's how they get their healthcare. Of course, they're lucky: from what I hear, it's certainly not like that in most of the US, let alone the rest of the world.

Regardless, I don't think it's constructive to insist that self-medicating with Vitamin D should be a priority for people in such a financial position. There are other priorities. If your life is comfortable enough that you can worry about supplements, you probably have enough money to get better insurance or get proper blood tests.

Edit: I don't understand the downvotes. There are an awful lot of people for whom buying medications on Amazon just isn't an option. They don't have and can't get credit cards or bank accounts. They don't have a stable place to live or a way to receive packages. "I don't understand why these people can't afford X; I can order it online for just Y cents" is entitled and dismissive: that's not the reality for many people, especially in the US.

Meanwhile, a not-insignificant percentage of these people live in places where they can, in fact, see a doctor, get blood tests, and get basic prescriptions for free (money). They often can't take advantage of these benefits--not because of the costs, but because of the time (taking a day off from work? Not an option.), bureaucratic red tape (paperwork, call random people and wait on hold for hours), and lack of awareness (how do you know these services exist, especially if you don't speak English or even know to look for them?).
Traditional Baby Jackfruit Recipe in village style
I was thinking more on the lighter side - huge fan of Civilization, the game! Cultures are cool.
A complete C++ implementation of hessian2 spec
Can you provide an example? I haven't seen anything as easy/cheap to address? Most of what I've seen is related to comorbidities and general health factors (weight). Nothing as easy as "Go sit in the sun for an hour and/or take this supplement".
>Learning things

Ha ha! That is a VERY generous way to describe it.

I think of it as licking my balls. I think that's more realistic.
that's fair! I also didn't go into async/stuff. I'll put a note at the bottom.
To add to the anecdata, I take 5000 IU daily during the winter and about every other day in the summer and my blood tests in the winter showed I had 54 ng/ml, the healthy range is 30-100. I'm not super diligent about it though and take it more often during times I feel tired since I think it helps. Depending on if I go outside in the summer sometimes I don't take it for weeks. However when I got the blood tests I had been taking it regularly, which is why I requested it since I think vitamin D is not measured in the default blood test
Out of curiosity, what did the US CDC fail to learn from SARS/MERS/Swine Flu/Ebola?

What were the actions that Taiwan took that could be replicated in a much larger scale liberal democracy on a large continent with a diverse globally engaged population?
Mercury Arc Rectifiers (Kempton Steam Museum)
I used to use a deterministic password manager, but switched to bitwarden because I wanted to be able to rotate (some) passwords sometimes and never found a great solution using a DPM.
> This seems to be a reply to something, but it nos not clear to what? I saw no efficiency claims of trinary on the Tunguska page, so this seems unrelated to it

Sorry if it seems like it's just a floating comment, indeed the article made claims of the kind, and I really think the project (and others like it) is nice. My comment is directed towards the practical concerns and real-world feasibility of a ternary computer, especially with regards to comments that threads like this inevitably attract (as seen on this comment section) that "ternary computers would revolutionize X", and is partly fueled by me having had non-fuitful conversations with coworkers that insisted on this point in the past. Hopefully this helps contextualize my comment a bit better.

> That said, I don't understand how you arrived at [point 3b]. One can definitely create a circuit which will perform a ternary operation in a (some) constant time. The real question is: can you make a ternary computer which is somehow better than a binary one?

I think you and I are in agreement here, so let me try to clarify what I meant:

My point is precisely regarding the arbitrariness with which "constant time" is defined. Asymptotic analysis of algorithms always treats complexity in the "time" dimension as a measurement of discrete "ticks" on computational state, meaning: you can pick any encoding of data you want, and any set of operations you want, and have any "operation" execute instantly as a tick. When analysing "ticks", an algorithm might seem extremely efficient, however that might be a non-reifiable performance gain when you translate from ticks to milliseconds.

For example: assume a binary NAND gate takes 1ms to propagate a stable output signal. All other conditions being equal with respect to manufacturing technology, voltage, and other things you mentioned, I don't see how you could perform "more" computation at the same cost. Sure you can implement a ternary gate that runs in "constant time", but would that constant time still be 1ms? If yes, would it take up the same amount of die space? If yes, would it consume the same amount of power and dissipate the same amount of heat? etc

You'll eventually be tickling the Landauer limit [0] for whatever your manufacturing technology is at some point, no matter if you're doing binary or whatevernary logic, but getting "more compute" for free would be cheating thermodynamics. Improving manufacturing technology is, of course, a viable strategy for squeezing "more computation" into the same physical space, but switching bases will not immediately make Moore's law wither away.

A more succinct way of putting what I'm trying to say into words I guess would be that "all other things being equal, the choice of base is arbitrary with regards to computational and representational power"

Hopefully this helps clear things up :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
Related, Apple marks any use of MD5 with a warning if you use their SDKs. Good luck getting rid of it if you’re using Swift, because the community has not yet decided whether silencing warnings is something they would like in the language or not. I’m getting kind of sick of using dlsym to fish out the function pointer :(
Also, a country of the size of New Zealand is easier to control like a speed boat vs. US like a huge tanker. Ofcourse, if you put an authoritarian boosters on the tanker (China), its possible.

Just to put things in perspective, New Zealand's population is half of Silicon Valley / SF Bay Area.
Really should be "90% of userbase employed by megacorps" News.
Do you have a link to the list of functions?

It sounds like it would make for a Forth replacement for an ultra-minimal first boot up language for hardware bring up for custom ISAs.
Move there? It's not that hard to do.
A fascinating visual introduction to Mercury Arc Rectifiers (AKA, "High Amperage Gas Tube Diodes"), what they were, how they were used, and various pieces of their history, etc., etc.
How do you do modules in zig? Like when you have your code in 5 C files and link the obj? How to do that?
This is exactly the attitude we’re talking about. Ok, if you do a bunch of things maybe it could make the service throw a disk usage warning email your way. But a service that is actually crashing now is obviously quite a bit more important.
It is an interesting question. I did an estimate:

1x Windmill, 3.6MW for 500 m3 concrete [0, 1]

1x Hinkley Point C base, nameplate 3.2GW for 18,000 m3 [2]

I don't know how much Hinkley Point overall might use, because a lot might go into the shell, so say the overall build is an order of magnitude more than the base. That is 180k m3 of concrete or about 360 windmill foundations in Hinkley with some rather unfavourable assumptions. So a 3.2 GW nuclear reactor might match up to ~1.3 GW of Windfarm.

Depending on how much goes into the base vs the shell it is probably somewhere between 3x to an order of magnitude favouring nuclear. Not considering relative lifetime, although I expect a nuclear concrete pour has better long-term prospects (how would they replace the windmill without re-pouring the base?).

[0] https://www.wagner.com.au/main/our-projects/sapphire-wind-fa...

[1] https://www.sapphirewindfarm.com.au/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
Wish this existed for Brave in particular. I believe Activity Monitor does this for Safari.
Related to whether he was a Californian or Midwestern writer, I’ve always felt that wherever you went to high school was where you grew up/was home. I moved all over when I was a kid but because I went to high school in Seattle, even though I was only really there for those 4 years, when anyone asked me where I’m from that’s where I will always say.
Hmm sounds like real estate in Siberia predicting global warming to warm it up would be a nice multi generational investment
>> "If flights from China were halted, Matt asked, could America have more time to prepare?

Paul was hesitant. Like most public-health practitioners, he held that travel bans often have unintended consequences. They stigmatize countries contending with contagion. Doctors and medical equipment must be able to move around. And, by the time restrictions are put in place, the disease has usually infiltrated the border anyway, making the whole exercise pointless"

Except Australia and New Zealand have shown that is not really true. If you shut the border early enough and police it well enough, you can suppress the virus.

The idea that doctors can't travel doesn't have to be true. Put them in hotel quarantine for 14 days on arrival and then get them to work. 14 days on the way back too. All too often I hear problems(excuses truly) as to why something can't be done. But with additional planning and willpower (and not just rolling over) it can be.
Envelope Budgeting with Prudent (and Ledger)
@import can take a path. I guess i should put that in there. The details are pretty cool, the imported file becomes a struct!
I’m guessing that doing command-line contortions is a hassle for some people, and this app removes that.
It's a nice idea but there are practical problems. The first is that it supposes the scientific publication is a rational and concerted process. It is not, here is an example:

I am interested in Amyotrophic Lateral Disease and I blog about research done on ALS [0].

However there are 15,000 scientific papers published each year on this topic, on average only 20 to 30 articles per year are worth spending the time to read them (one every 500) and a milestone appears only every 3/4 years (TDP-43 in 2006, C9orf72 in 2011, etc).

After 100 years there is still no clue about ALS etiology. Scientists have strong but widely different opinions such as for some it starts in the brain motor area, for other it starts at the peripheral nerve junction with muscles, for other (new trend) it starts in the gut.

And scientists happily pursue hypothesis that their colleagues are supposed to have disproved. Sometimes the same lab (I have one in mind which is perhaps the best known in ALS research) publishes articles contradicting its previous research without discussing the issue.

How to rationally blog about this domain, how to make collections that are worth reading?

[0] https://padiracinnovation.org/News/tag/als
I’m sad to see this outcome, but it’s kind of you to ensure that I see it again for a fourth time today. Thanks and be well.
Every project has it's own versioning system, Zig follows semver I think. See https://semver.org/
For seeing an overall mortality benefit in normal times, maybe.

But it's the D-related-compound levels in your body right now (or seasonally) that have a noticeable effect on fighting current viral infections.

It takes about 7 days for ingested Vitamin D to be fully converted into calcifediol, an important active form measured in the blood, and with good results as a treatment preventing ICU admission in serious COVID cases.

So if you'd like a better chance of fighting off a COVID infection over the next few months with only mild effects, ensure you're on a daily regimen of Vitamin D now.
I know you're joking, because they do, but the amount they fortify it with is very small. If they would 10x it, then maybe it would make a difference.
This is also annoying because if you ask for a CVE you can get placed in the bucket with people who are just looking for a thing they can talk about, when in fact you’d like to make the bug searchable to other people.
Solution: grow your hair back
Suntimes on Android is very nice: https://github.com/forrestguice/SuntimesWidget and shows "sunrise and sunset, twilights (civil / nautical / astronomical), blue and golden hour, solstices and equinoxes, moonrise and moonset, moon phases and illumination."
You’re missing GP’s point. The idea isn’t that you can’t live without phones - it’s that going cold turkey abstinence isn’t a good way to kick a compulsion.
Is that Steve Jobs letter on App Store policy still on their site?

They should really remove that bit since its so obviously false and weakens all of the other guidelines they have.
1) Fully remote

2) HQ is an hour domestic flight but my job has been remote from the start 3.5 years ago

3) Although I'm an introvert among large crowds, I've found myself to become an extrovert among small groups of people. That latter aspect has disappeared since having started this new remote job. I form more genuine relationships with clients than coworkers in my customer-facing role. This period in my life has coincided with the birth of my child so I see myself focusing more towards my family than my social circle.

4) It sometimes feels like an illusion on whether I control my life, time, and actions with this remote arrangement. Whatever flexibility I have in taking care of errands or spending time with loved ones is counterbalanced by the erratic nature of work, childcare, and my exhausted discipline to take care of body/mind/soul.

5) I've been fortunate to move in to a multiple bedroom residence in HCOL just months before the pandemic which has afforded me the ability to physically separate from work when needed. That extra square footage is nice but space does not mitigate loneliness or the ability to truly separate and unwind.

6) Remote work feels inevitable not as a utopia but rather as a post-apocalyptic reality. It really blurs the lines between work, self-worth, and our purpose. I cautiously recommend remote work but you'll need a totem a la Inception to stay grounded in the dream.
Oh god yes, I know this pain!
I know a woman who managed to sell cocaine out of a taxi (in the US) for 8 years without being caught.

It's a great way to sell drugs because you can always claim that whatever is stashed in the backseat was left by one of your passengers.
> The daily smokers rate amongst COVID-19 patients was at 5.3%, whilst amongst the general population, the daily smokers rate was at 25.4%.

Not to be macabre, but could it potentially be that more smokers die before reaching the older age range of most COVID hospitalizations?
What? The u.s. has tested more people than most of the world combined. What do you mean?