skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am lazy and did not read the study, sorry. But nowhere in the comments I see discussion related to whether it somehow accounts for dietary variance in vitamin D intake via fortified products. In Sweden, for example, because we are so far north, milk is routinely fortified with vitamin D. So even if a person has a genetic variance for low vitamin D, they will still be supplemented without actively doing anything, as long as they drink milk.
On the other hand it stands to reason that if foodstuff fortification had a significant effect on vitD levels in population AND vitD had significant effect on immunity / severity of covid-19 then Sweden would have statistically significantly lower covid-19 infection and mortality rates than countries where food fortification with vitD is not practiced. Afaik that is not the case, otoh there is an insane amount of confounding variables so it might not be possible to assess such an effect in any scientifically valid manner.
RT @bradneuberg: Moore’s Law giveth, JavaScript taketh away.
They aren't slaves they have a choice if they want to starve or do exactly as their master tells them to.
It's an honorific and a sign of respect that is be paid between generations, within social circles where respect is due. It is used in particular by children and young people to refer to those of an older generation within the "circle of respect" of their parents.

A child will simply not be introduced in a familiar way to someone you don't trust or respect - they will be kept away. If the person is referred to for some reason, they'll be referred to as "that person" or somesuch.

When I ask my son to refer to someone as uncle or auntie, it means I'm signalling to him that they have some degree of standing in my life: they are a colleague, or friend, or acquaintance to whom I am asking him to show respect on my behalf.

An uncle or auntie is someone who "is known". By bestowing that title, and instructing your child to use it with them, you are granting them status in the eyes of your child, and segregating them explicitly from the general set of all older people.

When the term is used by adults, it naturally refers to the _even older_ generation of the elderly. So in this case, where the perspective of the writer is an adult perspective, it refers to the elderly.

Lastly, there's a subtle detail that should be made explicit. When it's used "in general" like it is in this title, it does not imply that I, or any reader, considers all of those people uncles and aunties personally. It's implicit in the usage that we are referring to "people who are uncle and aunties for those whom they are the uncles and aunties of".

I hope I've done a half-decent job, because the entire set of cultural associations around that word are hard to get across.
“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.” — Seymour Cray
... And I (a non-native English speaker living in the US) always have trouble remembering what 12 AM and 12 PM means, even after all these years I have to look it up every time, and sometimes it drives me nuts.

(For a moment I hoped your explanation would at least serve as a heuristics... but alas, it does not make sense to me. Well, at least at the moment I remember the notation).

Regardless of it, "12:00 AM of Jan 1, 2000" is not a particular second. It's a point in time, it has no duration.

It does not belong to any particular calendar hour or day or year, it's a _boundary_ between two.

Of course it belongs to XX century since XXI century starts at 12:00 AM of Jan 1, 2001.

The first second of Jan 1 lasts from 12:00::00 AM to 12:00:01 AM.

First minute of that day lasts from 12:00 AM to 12:01 AM.
Etc.

At least this is how I parse it.
I'm not sure what to make of the article but, since it includes BLAS, it might be worth pointing out that scientific subroutine libraries are one of the most successful examples of reuse, particularly compared with more trendy things aiming at that.

I can't remember if I ever actually linked ESSL (Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library) on OS\370 but I remember it in the mid(?) 80s, when I don't think it was very new. These days I have it on POWER9 (if doubtless rather different). I don't know if it's older than the NAG library.
My argument is that people should have more reasonable expectations from a free project. That it is unreasonable for a free project that is shutting down to continue to operate until all EOL's are reached, especially til 2029. It's quite nice of them to keep things going for a full year in order that people can make other arrangements.

Once the unfortunate decision was made to shut down CentOS, it would be very nice if the public outrage was tempered with a little appreciation for the 6 years of support that Red Hat gave to it, and also an appreciation for the new options for free access to RHEL they are providing.

People seem awfully entitled in their outrage.
Maybe. But consider that a non-touchbar 2016 MacBook Pro, which is turning 5 years old this year, still doesn't flawlessly run Linux. And that doesn't even have the custom Apple T1/T2 chip. The ARM hardware will be much harder to deal with.
I used to participate in a chat room that allowed a limited subset of HTML, and one of the tags was <marquee>. I played around with this a lot and discovered that you could nest marquees and make (very) limited ASCIImations. This culminated in someone making a ASCIImation parody of Finding Nemo. Good times.
> a structured setting for me to use them

is provided by vimtutor. I wish people would take a couple hundred milliseconds to research things like this before posting about them — most [GNU’s Not] Unix commands take less time to run than a webpage takes to load, and installing their packages takes no more typing than a web search.
Oh, transistors haven't shrunk that much. I don't know the exact process details, but integration density has been going up( putting gates vertical with FinFET), together with better electrostatic control (GAAFET, kind of a step uf from FDSOI), while gate length remains the same.

Think about it this way: you're doping semiconductors by adding a few other atoms. On the order of 1 dopant atom per 1M intrinsic (undopped) semiconductor. How thin can you make it before there's only a dozen dopant atoms? And then, how do you make sure they are evenly distributed? And in the same way across multiple transistors, to guarantee a consistent performance? Yield is key, at this scale.

Technically, they can still improve density by embracing 3D. A friend of mine works on multi-gate vertical nanowire transistors, for instance, but that's still a few years (or a decade?) away from the fab.
People move to a neighbourhood because of the way it is. Outside forces want to change the way the neighbourhood is. People in the neighbourhood resist the change.

Why does this situation invite pejorative terms and scorn from people who have no skin in the game?
My childhood holidays were to Blackpool, Morecambe and Southport. Basically the north-west coast. Rhyl and Anglesey were occasional choices too. I loved Anglesey and crossing the Menai bridge, driving through all the tunnels on the way. The joy of having parents split between Lancashire and Cheshire.

That was in the 90s and early 2000s. Morecambe is famous for a load of underpaid cockle pickers drowning when the tide came in, if I remember right. Southport and Blackpool were great when the tide was out, you could literally cross the estuary separating them if you were stupid enough. The beaches weren't always so fun unless you liked strolling through a mass grave of washed up jellyfish. And the tide was a force to be reckoned with when the sea wall along the prom was as tall as a house.

But that was then. All I've heard about Blackpool, for a long time, is that it became a stag/hen party hotspot and otherwise a dump. Southport was more or less a retirement community like Lytham St Anne's.

Shame really, just a part of the country that's been neglected since Thatcher. And you've got the lake district barely an hour's drive away. Such beautiful nature.
I suggest you like at our case curves (https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_VIC.html) where these strict rules were in place and enforced. Then look at our relative freedom, lives saved and economic prosperity in the months since.
Intel would probably be keen.
First of all, a large portion of that graph refers to methane not carbon dioxide. Methane has a half life of 10 years, as compared to carbon dioxide's thousands or tens of thousands.

Also take care to inspect, carefully, what these figures represent. This graph only counts transportation of final food product to stores under the "transportation" category: "Emissions from energy use in the transport of food items". In other words, the emissions from taking the packets of meat from a slaughterhouse to grocery store shelves. Not shipping loads of grain to ranches. The actual article [1] this image comes from explains this more clearly, "Food transport accounted for only 5% of this. This means that if we were to take the case where we assume a household sources all of their food locally, the maximum reduction in their footprint would be 5%". Transportation of feed to ranches is categorized under feed, not transportation.

This is why estimates for the amount of carbon emissions meat is responsible often vary by a large margin. Some place meat, alone, as responsible for 14-19% of emissions. Others place all food production (not just meat) as under 5%. It largely depends on whether you include things like transportation, nitrogen fixing via the haber process, and land conversion under the umbrella of food production or in their own separate categories.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
Does this keep my queries private?
I'm somewhat skeptical of the analysis when it revised the share of criminal activity in 2019 from 1.1% to 2.1%--in other words, more than doubling that value. That revision is on the basis of "the identification of more addresses associated with criminal activity that were active in 2019."

Your citation that it's "only 0.34%" is a somewhat dishonest distillation, because the report itself advises that the number is only for known criminal activity, and that the number is expected to rise over time as well.

What I would instead like to see, and that this report does not illuminate at all, is a breakdown of how all transactions looks. How many transactions are related to cryptocurrency-specific transactions, such as mixing coins or moving between hot wallets and cold wallets? How many transactions are related to speculation (e.g., trading one cryptocurrency for another)? How many transactions are associated with known entities, e.g. the Bitcoin address of an online (non-darknet) marketplace? How many transactions are unclassified?
Houston is not deep red.
I'm going to guess a shock image like goatse?
Also if the hardware DRM ever gets broken, you've got to choose between breaking the device or getting content ripped.

By contrast with DRM in software and automatic browser updates, you can switch DRM schemes fairly easily. Which is not hypothetical - Google has had to fix Wideview multiple times.

But this needs both streaming and automatic updates. Without automatic updates, you can't depend on devices having the update. Without streaming, something like https://www.redfox.bz/en/anydvdhd.html will eventually emerge and people buying existing content will be able to bypass your control.
There's a pretty big difference. While I'm very much not an expert on the RHEL QE process, my understanding is that Fedora is pretty much its own thing that is used to rebase RHEL on major revs. Whereas Stream is RHEL builds that have passed CI testing in the RHEL dev/test process.
thanks for such a lucid explanation.

is it fair to say that tech leadership at the fab layer turns over once every few years?

or do potential moats exist that could protect TSMC, samsung, or another player as the leading fab?
Isn't your point of view quite arrogant though?

By arrogant I mean that your POV assumes that we basically know everything (or almost everything) there is to know about space-time.

Sure there is nothing practical that we know of today, but when it took our ancestors 6 months and 50% chance of dying to cross an ocean, going to the moon or sending a probe in outer space probably seemed similarily absolutly impossible to them.

As time passes thinking that we know everything is necessarily less and less wrong, but it's hard to know how wrong we still are today.
For every 10% increase in the housing stock, rents decrease 1% and sales prices also decrease within 500 feet.

This seems weird to me. So if an area has nothing but single story homes, and we raze every single one and replace it with two story homes that have twice the occupancy, it would only reduce rents by 10%?

I'm also somewhat annoyed that NIMBYs everywhere, regardless of political preference, seem to ignore the elephant in the room of giant employee/education campuses. High home values need demand to support them, and that comes from lotsa people. Controlling campus size to me seems like the most straightforward way to control home prices, but then you lose out on that juicy, juicy revenue/spending.
Seems like vining fruits would do well this way? Raspberries, grapes, kiwi, tomatoes, ...

What would it do to the capital expense vs. productivity to use solar + battery storage for 24 hour growing? Or do plants need a 'rest' and a night? Maybe solar on the roof and a basement farm to minimize heating?

I love the idea and had not considered the aspect of breeding seeds for taste & nutrients (thx scsilver). Or the fact that they can provide year-round fresh fruits. Though don't underestimate the cost of maintaining the temperature in the Rockies in the winter (per deedub)...
As usual, context is everything.

> They demand the preservation of architecture at all costs.

I assume this is a reference to the Wellington Spatial Plan and efforts by Wellington land owners to prevent old homes being converted into apartments or larger dwellings.

I agree this is a very harmful position for them to take. It's people acting in concert to drive up their land value. Whether this somehow ties into the Left-NIMBY Canon argued above though, I'm not sure. Are the land owners progressive lefties? Do they even live there?

> They demand the preservation of a single decades-old tree over housing.

This is a reference to the Macrocarpa tree in Avondale. What you fail to add is that this listed tree (i.e. with legal protections) on public land is blocking the development of 1 out of 6 large adjacent apartment buildings. Are people blocking the development of the other 5? No. Could the developer have planned their development to accommodate the listed tree, but choose not to? Yes. And this is an urban area with some of the lowest greenspace covereage in the city, with a long history of under-investment.

Meanwhile, the right leaning inner suburbs effectively implemented a town belt through leveraging power during the development of the Auckland unitary plan. If densification is being objected to in left-leaning areas, it's partly because right-leaning areas already ensured that they wouldn't have to at all! Case in point: Kelmarna Ave in Herne bay is getting a small supermarket because the community, via applying soft influence, made the planned development of apartments at the location politically infeasible.

Oh, and did I mention successive right-wing city councillors of the 80s and 90s running infrastructure into the ground so that good urban development was just that much harder for everyone?

> They demand more deference be given to traditional tribespeople over and above the progression of cities and housing the homeless.

Well, the extremely very obvious context here is contention over stolen land in sensitive areas. If you're talking about Ihuamatoa - "deference" was only granted after a long occupation of the land by extremely dedicated group of individuals. Of course, we wouldn't need to develop culturally significant land in remote parts of our city if we could intensify the places where prodominantly white, wealthy residents lived, without outcries from the politically powerful!
Carl Sagan's questions for aliens. (1996)
"The Demon Haunted World" (1996) Chapter six has this passage "Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in 'contact' with extraterrestrials. I am invited to 'ask them anything.' And so over the years I've prepared a little list of questions. The extraterrestrials are very advanced, remember. So I ask things like, 'Please provide a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.' Or the Goldbach Conjecture. And then I have to explain what those are, because extraterrestrials will not call it Fermat's Last Theorem. So I write the simple equation with the exponents. I never get an answer.

So, what question would you ask, mathematical or other, to determine if the aliens are more advanced than humans?

Or, what question would be most useful to know the answer to?
examine.com
That's a surprise, I thought we were firmely against that. :)
I'm thinking they were trying to avoid downvotes from people who think conceiving of a way someone might have a particular point of view is essentially an endorsement of that point of view.
But that's not really accurate either, right? Netflix didn't specifically block this app.

If I was writing this headline, I think I'd go with something like:

> "I tried building a better way to watch videos, but DRM stopped me."

Which is still pretty attention grabbing.
Imperial, because of it's vagueness people use other measurements as well.
Something is x stories high.
Something is a "stones throw away".

Though i do appreciate Fahrenheit for how it scales with humans. 0 is really damn cold, 100 is really damn hot, while in Celcius 0 is kinda chilly and 100 is instant death.
If yes, where does their dna (or the equivalent of it) comes from?
You are just kicking the can a bit further.
Yep. I've used the same basic technique to write a S3 VFS wrapper for APSW. It's not quick, by any means, but it's dang useful in cases where I have very large SQLite database son S3 and only need to get a small bit of information out of them.
Another fact: Preventing vitamin D deficiency is easy, cheap and almost risk free.
What outside force - the people who want to move in?
Otoh the seeds you got for your small garden were already heavily filtered... so maybe still applies?
Not anything can be a means of exchange. For that it has to have some physical properties (transportability, fungibility for example) and social properties (value !) or else you are relying on third party procedures to keep count ... or a public unfalsifiable record like a blockchain.
DAI is the most trustworthy stablecoin you can buy today but Bitcoin is nowhere close to free fall.
Inertial confinement or magnetic confinement? Which is a dead end? Which is the more promising path forward in 2021? Why?
I sort of did it, trained as a lawyer, got into e discovery, then became a product manager (that’s now doing some data privacy related product management, so there is some crossover). Most of my law school friends have had a pretty rough go of it, tbh, and are not enjoying life as much as people in tech do. Billable hours, high stress, no autonomy, and practicing in fields that can be kind of a drag. Things are much much better in tech generally speaking.
The rough calculation is 1MP = 10 square inches at 300dpi if you are printing. 6MP won't quite get you an 8x10 image (particularly due to aspect ration differences) at 300dpi.

Not that you need 300dpi. Most people don't print.
Related "Ask HN: Alternatives to HN for non-Hacker News?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25318880

In general, the more, the better. https://lobste.rs/ and https://www.designernews.co/ are still active after several years, their community is just smaller.
I don't know if it's technically feasible, but a DeCSS type release would be fun to watch from the outside as everyone scrambles to close the barn door.
Mullvad VPN published the results of an independent pentest audit today
Most multi protocol clients used the same libraries. The hard part was reverse engineering the protocol changes.
Hypercore protocol has a distributed btree as well called Hyperbee

https://hypercore-protocol.org/guides/modules/hyperbee/
Twitch’s Trump ban sustained after leaving office
My cynical take for a while has been that NIMBYism is how superficial leftists and liberals implement red-lining on the basis of class with plausible deniability. They don't want to say they don't want poor people in their neighborhood, but they can block all construction for other reasons and get that result.

I've become fond of using this quote to illustrate the hypocrisy: "Texas is more liberal than California because in Texas a working class person can afford a place to live."

It's really hypocritical to claim to be "woke" while supporting policies that create massive divides between rich and poor and lock vast numbers of people out of housing.
Doing this within a mobile app is not practical for several reasons.

First off, the official mobile apps often use the platform's push notification service for asynchronous notifications of new messages. A third-party app can't pretend to be another app for push notification purposes (unless you jailbreak?).

Second, so if you can't access push notifications for async, then you need to poll or keep a websocket open. That'll nuke your battery life.

Third, the mobile platforms are quite hostile to this. There's been plenty of third-party YouTube clients that have been removed, and even more stupid things like controlling smart lights on your local network through their official, deliberately unauthenticated LAN API needs an approval from the manufacturer of said lights.
Google's production servers run a customised version of Debian https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/technical-sessions/...
I think you just thought up a new experiment. Should be tried in an area with high demand and nothing but single story homes.
See the Gemini project, https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.txt

Somewhat related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23161922
We desperately need term and age limits for office. We cannot have ancient people that don’t understand technology regulating it. They simply drag down future generations.

Is it ageist? Sure. If anyone has a better solution in mind, they should propose it.
My neighborhood did not stop changing when I moved in. I don't see why it should stop because someone else moved in. A neighborhood is not a fixed, static thing. I understand that this is an unusual, uncommon, and perhaps even uniquely privileged perspective.

When my neighbors resist change in a way that forces change elsewhere or affects our entire city, those effects are real. These outcomes affect other people's real lives in real ways. It's very much their skin in the game.

Or maybe the people downwind of a coal-burning plant have no skin in the game.
> What I really want is for more people to make good faith efforts to make substantive arguments against their own opinions

Agree! A big cause of the divide is that people don't understand each other's arguments.

When you are in a debate club, the side you have to debate for is decided by a coin flip. And there is no better way to truly understand the other point of view than when you try your hardest to win a debate arguing for something you disagree with.

> and learn to recognize the usage of fallacies

Yep, this is exactly the driver behind the idea.

> dispassionate impartial curation

Could you please explain this?
We are a smallish company with six CentOS 8 servers. Seems we fit into the profile of this new Developer program. To be honest, I can see us paying for full RHEL subscriptions before we would change distributions.
It's widely used on the right side of the Atlantic too, at least in technical circles. What's unfortunate is that -- especially in the wider world -- now everyone just talks about "coding", the relatively trivial part of programming.