skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title of the report is:

No evidence that vitamin D is able to prevent or affect the severity of COVID-19 in individuals with European ancestry: a Mendelian randomisation study of open data

The title of this submission is editorialized.
Agree completely with everything you said and your observations regarding job market. I’ve been doing Scala for several years and I also would not recommend it to anyone unless they have a deep desire to do pure FP(functional programming) on the JVM. The ecosystem/libraries are unnecessarily complex IMHO.

If you want FP-Lite, I recommend Kotlin, it’s very pragmatic, reasonably functional, and mid way between Java and Scala. I actually converted all my personal projects from Scala to Kotlin, including my framework https://github.com/slatekit/slatekit which took about a 4-6 weeks from the original code base.
Engineering sample always have slow clocks...
I have a love-hate relationship with f-strings.

They are nice to use. But they are also the single feature that I'm most likely to use that means I can't use pypy to run my code many times faster.

I wish that pypy supported them.
> Yes, "Apple Silicon" is the marketing name for macOS/ARM64.

Source?
Avi Loeb's work was "validated" by his school's chair of astronomy, so we have to remember that to do science is to mitigate against being human. We all have different standards as to what is science as the anti-vax'ers demonstrate. What is interesting to me is that Loeb's chair notes that the object's trajectory differs from the expected by a statistical difference. While such difference implies a great deal of energy we can't account for, it's a hurdle to overcome in the search for understanding of this event/object.

Here's the chair of Harvard's astro dept.: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/6-strange-...
> If you don't want density, move to the country or to the suburbs of a medium-sized city

If you don't like the existing density of a city, then move somewhere else. You don't have a right to live wherever you want at whatever price point you want, just like I don't have a right to demand a beachfront villa in Hawaii.

> If you decide to move to a top-tier city or a rapidly growing boom-town, you do not get to complain about density

If you choose to move to a city that incumbent residents have built up and love, you do not get to complain that they don't want to increase their density to accommodate you. You can move to some other city instead of taking away from others who have built something you now covet and find desirable.
Don't give up don't give up. It's just that if you think about it your original comment is written in a way that it could be injected into most any discussion-thread on social media as is, and therefore I found it quite amazing in its construction :-)
Does anyone remember what the "You Have Been Warned" sign was all about? The full text of the warning itself must have been an impressive sight, if that was just the reminder.
Unless decentralized networks are vigorously policed by users and nodes alike, for, what has been called here, stuff with an unacceptably high ick factor (child porn and worse), then it will continue be a magnet for such material.

And if it is policed vigorously can it still be considered 'decentralized'?
https://invst.ly/tj4ss

This is the graph for the stock price of Intel over the last 25 years. Doesn't look like it's bottoming out just yet...
It's typical Chinese politics to the point of status quo. Kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. This development is what anyone with understanding of the Chinese system has repeated in past posts on the subject matter, but people dismiss in preference for rampant conspiracy theories. General commentary: if HN audience insists on flamewarring over Chinese topics, there should be some effort to learn about how Chinese system operates instead of insipid shallow commentaries or predilection for shill accusations despite many Chinese HNers engaging in good faith.

To elaborate more broadly on the subject: these incidents are relatively formulaic to the point where it's reasonably straight forward to guess outcomes based on political status of individual and nature of infraction. Prominent individuals severely contradicting official line = CCP send you on temporary contrition vacation, repeat infractions = corruption charges -> jail. If individual is public official or nature of infraction affects political structure i.e. actual massive corruption or negligence that undermines public safety -> up to death, though more life sentences or death with reprieves in recent times. Less significant individuals (like activists) get invited to drink tea at police stations, sign and various warnings before escalating to boilerplate disturbing social order sentences and successively longer sentences. Ma's more business class than political, he overstepped at a time and on a topic he was precisely not suppose to over step, so he got sent to vacation. I'm sure he got talks by relevant cadres, maybe self-criticism letter is in the works, but he was always going to be let out of the dog house. Like many systems in China, rule by law is not capricious, but customary.
Show HN: I built Neo, software that attends work meetings for you when you can't
That is a very good example of a sail produced by a non human 'city'. Yep. Same shape and function.
"Ridiculing scientists for plausible hypothesis" => chopping the legs out from under a competitor because they stepped in something taboo.

Happens all the time. Academia is a snake pit and this is low hanging fruit.
Parts of youtube use widevine (I think mainly for movie / TV rentals and the like)
I didn't know what that did so I googled "marquee html", they have a nice little easter egg for it. It's been a while since I've seen anything like that from google
San Francisco is the world capital of NIMBYs. In terms of the record large discrepancy of supply and demand, in terms of how much economic damage it does to the whole country, even to the whole planet, and in terms of how much worldwide visibility SF NIMBYism gets, as SF NIMBYs also are those who cause the most hurt to foreigners who aspire to move to the area in search of better economic opportunities.

As a worldwide flagship of the damage NIMBYs can do, San Francisco definitely associates NIMBYism to the political left/progressives.
The third party Matrix ecosystem is exactly as coherent as the XMPP ecosystem. Sure, some implementations might not have implemented all the XEPs, but the XEPs they do implement (assuming they're not buggy) will work reliably with any other client or server out there.

I'll like Matrix when it can replace XMPP. Dendrite sounds like a step in that direction when it's mature.

Please stop spreading FUD about XMPP.
I don't think this is true. Imagine a low-rent neighborhood that's close to a desirable location (for offices, or nightlife, or parks, or whatever). As the city grows, people will prefer to live in a renovated version of that neighborhood to living in newly-planted housing farther away.
FYI, I'm using Google Cloud Run for this at the moment. Scales to zero, issues the SSL cert and provides the HTTPS endpoint. That's what I'd be benchmarking your service against. Let me know if you actually do something in this space.
>The Culture tries to raise up every lesser species of aliens to their own level of hedonist, post-scarcity wealth and technology.

That's not strictly true throughout the series (I'll avoid any spoilers here), in many situations, civilizations are denied certain technologies by the Culture in the novels.

I just finished reading the entire series and there's always quite a bit of skepticism from both members of the "Culture" and members of other civilizations as to the value and positive impact of The Culture's intervention/meddling.

I'd say that Banks is pretty even handed with that, although he usually seems to fall on the side of "Special Circumstances."

All that said, it's definitely worth the read.
But can the boolean input come from some other component to which I send data?
Standards Are Boring
Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (2019)
> I will grant you that Solaris has contracted under Oracle.

Not to defend Oracle, but I am pretty sure all proprietary unix have contracted over the last 10 years. AIX, HP-UX and whatever other flavors don't seem to be doing well regardless of who is controlling it. If Sun remained in control I am not sure how much better Solaris would actually be doing.
On one hand, this is because it's such a safe thing to cause damage to the image of another fellow scientist that happens to dare looking at something new or in a new way. (Crab mentality, perhaps?) If this effect would be as costly to the individual attacker as it is for the collective, we would probably "move fast and break things" more. On the other hand, we already have way too many non peer-reviewed papers as it is, and those papers get cited by other papers, and so on. Not enough action to ensure quality. In such case, what the critiques with good intentions for the world but with limited time and attention are to do but go after the most audacious claims in their field?
I feel like this is a dead end. Every year, haptic force-feedback gloves are getting better and better. I don't think tactile feedback without force feedback is the future.
This was also the case while prepping for GRE. I realized that reading comprehension questions were hard because the passages were referring to completely alien concepts which I had no intuitive comprehension of. I used to totally screw up when passages were referring to art, finance, culture etc. Realized that I should develop comfort in understanding remote fields, not necessarily just the vocabulary. I spent a lot of time reading articles from very diverse areas which I thought ultimately helped handling them better.

I immediately realized that is the case even here when I read that quoted line. In my case, when I read such things, I just skim past them. It takes some effort to slow down and actually dig a bit more to form the understanding.
I read somewhere that scaling semiconductor fabs is incredibly difficult affair, as every minute detail have to be faithfully replicated - down to using the same color of lighting. All that is required to get consistent output quality.
I understand someone always has to do this when something new comes out, but God what a waste.
If you're patient and if the project is not too complex I don't think it's a problem.

I launched https://travelmap.net 7 years ago while working full time and stopped my job 3 years later to work on it full time
Have you read any of his arguments? They are sound and nobody has come up with anything substantive to dispute them. Can you offer an actual rebuttal?
I'm sure they would have warmed up a bit if they'd realised you were Canadian. They probably assumed you were English, or, worse still, from a different part of Wales.
PinePhones are due to ship next month for $200. Is a Librem 5 worth waiting for and paying 4x the price?
You would lose the cross pollination effect then
Uh, did you perhaps reply to the wrong thread? I'm talking about art, philosophy, aesthetics, etc... nothing about research output or p-hacking :)
According to https://acoup.blog/2020/12/11/collections-that-dothraki-hord..., the author's previous book argues the horse and buffalo nomadic society was already unsustainable in the long term. I wonder if what the new book says.
I don’t think reliability theory, particularly in aerospace, supports this claim unless the quality control is lacking. To be fair, SpaceX has had quality issues in the past but they seem to learn quickly from it.

To reiterate, the hazard rate tends to increase with service life. So as components age, there is an increased risk of failure.
This exactly describes the progressive left of my city in the US (Seattle) too.
My last Mac running Linux was a 2011 MacBook Air 13". My Linux (work) laptop is an XPS15. Now that optimus on Linux is completely transparent (merged into Xorg in April '20). Sleep doesn't seem to work well though. Fans keep spinning and it drains about 10% of the battery per hour. If anyone knows how to get around that "active sleep" mode I'd appreciate it.

My personal laptop is an HP Envy X360 with a Ryzen 5 2500U. That was rough when it came out. Windows update updated the bios on the laptop which installed a new GPU firmware that wasn't supported by the Linux driver for a few months. It's been solid since kernel 5.0 came out.

IMHO, the Linux experience on the AMD APUs is better than the Windows experience due to how rough the AMD windows drivers can be for the APUs. The fans are always shrieking at me under Windows but at idle they are off in Linux and the battery lasts significantly longer.
Not every business environment is captured by grand sweeping general statements. Reality is a lot more nuanced than that.
I'm flattered, and I concur with your formulation being more accurate. I'd edit the title if I could, but at this point it looks like I'm not allowed to anymore. Would love to see the title updated if the mods see this!
Talk about missing the forest for the trees. Turning off ones camera will make business leaders less willing to permanently virtualize some meetings. Getting on a plane, riding a taxi, and using a hotel & convention center is a lot more emissions than video chat.
It's perhaps worth considering these as forces to be balanced, rather than one extreme or the other being maximally desirable.

Market rate neighborhoods with ever-increasing rent bring dynamism and are often an entry point into a city for professionals. They're liquid, and enable people to upsize or downsize their living situations with relative ease. Businesses and people come and go and there's an irrepressable energy to it.

(There's a strong argument that the kind of risk, stress, and precariousness you rightly and richly describe are an effect of a NIMBY-induced housing crisis. The "market rate" and "rent control" dichotomy suggests that something is seriously hinky in the housing market at hand.)

Rent controlled areas are calmer, slower, more stable. They are better for people who are able to find a place exactly to their liking and whose lives are improved by their ability to hold the world at bay. Which obviously never lasts forever. Things always change.

As you say, both have long-term consequences. It's perhaps worth considering that perhaps neither set is inherently better than the other. And, above all, it's possible that the divide between the two could be underappreciated long-term consequences of policy.
Would you write out more about that? I would assume Windows is the standard for workstations.
Vim removes mental load while typing. It won’t make you significantly faster, or even really a better programmer in any measurable way. What it does is make the experience of writing text, and especially writing code, far more pleasant.

If I ever have to write something nowadays without vim, everything feels clumsy and imprecise. If I want to go back a couple of words and change something, I feel like I’m playing a timing minigame. I have to hold the left arrow key exactly the right amount of time. Most of the time I overshoot a couple of characters, and have to tap the right arrow key to get to the right spot. Now repeat the same timing minigame holding backspace. Ah crap I deleted too much better undo a couple of times. Now I can finally make my change.

All of this is just unnecessary friction between your brain and the computer that anyone who hasn’t learned vim accepts as a fact of life, but it becomes completely intolerable after spending the time to learn.
Definition of Karma .. which im sure you may already know...

"Karma means action, work, or deed. The term also refers to the spiritual principle of cause and effect, often descriptively called the principle of karma, wherein intent and actions of an individual influence the future of that individual: good intent and good deeds contribute to good karma and happier rebirths, while bad intent and bad deeds contribute to bad karma and bad rebirths."

You can choose to always do good actions or do bad actions against others for the sake of greed/power/etc. Everyone has a choice of how to live and it's pretty clear what's the right way to live especially karma will be bat down your door soon, next year or years from now.

I guess you are here defending Google's actions and this engineer's actions that both actions are good?
I think leafy greens tend to work best in vertical farming, but wouldn't call them 'luxury vegetables'. Most diets should include some leafy greens for the non-caloric-nutrients and fiber.
Stuff like what the parent described tend to be "on top" of your day job, rather than your actual day job.

Parent likely established a working relationship with individual(s) in engineering organically over time, and at some point leveraged that relationship to ping them about a customer issue that crossed their path and seemed to be an engineering concern vs user-error. That didn't cause waves and went well, and got repeated enough to become an established but unofficial "thing" parent was capable of, and they became known by a few sales/account folks as the go-to person when they felt a situation may warrant that unofficial route.

You can make a career off of doing this sort of thing, but I'd caution against it. If a company is hiring for specific scenario of "fast lane between client and engineering", the actual job is "support with special escalation privileges, servicing clients splurged for the premium package". You get all the soul-crushing hell of working a normal support role, but with the added benefit of solely servicing clients that expect you to hand them the world because they paid extra for it. Which is far closer to a nightmare than a dream; particularly considering someone working one of these official roles likely has the skills to pivot out of the support org and into the engineering org in some capacity, and drastically increase their salary potential while simultaneously improving their quality of (work) life.

In a more general sense though, pretty much any career benefits from doing what the parent described. It's effectively just flexing your soft skills and establishing relationships with people outside of your immediate sphere/department. Which has a tendency to make it easier for you to get things done, and garnering a reputation to that effect.
I've been wondering for a while how hard it would be to adapt Ejabberd into being a Matrix server implementation. Only a small part of Ejabberd is actually all that XMPP-specific.
OP does say _deficiency_, so it doesn't sound like they're claiming Vitamin D causes COVID?
Upon reading the title, I was not enthusiastic. Yet another way to format strings? What's wrong with String.format()? Get off my lawn!

However upon reading the article, it does feel more ergonomic to prepend your string literal with an 'f', and have it automagically reach out into the surrounding scope for the variables to format into the string.

I do worry a bit however about formatting not just expressions, but being able to call other code. Yes, that could be quite convenient for keeping the code concise and avoiding the kind of verbosity that confuses. However, I could also see someone forgetting to sanitize user-input data, and combined with the f-string, creating a remote arbitrary code-execution vulnerability. Sure, an attacker can't immediately start scribbling on memory in Python, there's more work he has to do first. But, he possibly could hijack the Python process to run whatever Python code he wanted.
1.5K installs so far, versus 1.5M on Chrome and 90K on Firefox. Hard to say what the percentage will be.
What I Saw at the White House on Trump’s Last Day
So what? Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

You can't be taken seriously as an advocate for a tolerant and accessible non-profit when you spend your salary denying people the right to get married.
Yup, this is similar-yet-different to what I'm used to. Thanks for the detailed description!
You're trivializing one person's values as a "feel" and elevating others' entitlement as "baseline viability". There are all kinds of cities and viable jobs all over the country. People don't HAVE to live and work in the most desirable places on the planet, and they don't have any right to expect that. And yet, they repeatedly complain about SF, Seattle, or whatever not accommodating them the way they want. Guess what - you're not owed anything.

People have the freedom to move to a smaller city or a "second tier" city. They have opportunity to thrive in those locations as well, and can help turn those cities into equally desirable places. Likewise, people don't have to live and work in the same neighborhood. They can commute, or they can decide the commute is not worth it, and get a different job elsewhere. People also don't have a right to attend whichever school they want. If they can't make it work, there are other options in life.

Sure people may not have the exact job they want, or environment they want, or lifestyle they want, or whatever. But life is not perfect and you don't get to have everything you want. You have to trade off between these different things.

> That's selfish as fuck and worthy of scorn.

Everyone is selfish. You're just arbitrary placing one person's desires above others. People living in a city owe nothing to newcomers who want to come there and change they very things that made the location desirable in the first place.
I think you may have misread the parent comment, which reads “vitamin D deficiency”.
Aside from being illegal, defeating the various layers of obfuscation and extracting the private keys requires a very particular set of skills, beyond the reach of most programmers. And then they'll just rotate the key and add more obfuscation, once they're done suing you out of existence.
I'm not bothered by it. I've thought about making a SaaS where I basically just host pre-compiled FOSS packages for esoteric cpu architectures. So that way if you have a <insert random CPU> embedded linux system, you can quickly grab a precompiled `tshark` for example without figuring out how to build it yourself. Sure, it would be better as a free service, but I'm not super motivated to do that in my highly limited spare time. I would be super motivated if I were compensated for my effort with cash, however.

Making something paid vs. free can be the difference between it existing and not existing. I'd rather have this exist and be a paid app than not exist and be free.
Right -- but all of those languages are compilable to bytecode without a performance hit from lack of dynamic invocation at call sites.

That means the DLR is effectively dead, I think -- along with all languages for which the CLR's static call sites mean slowed performance.
You even need identical seismic environments it’s that delicate.
This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. It’s like a Monty Python skit.

‘a trip down mammary lane’

Lol
I would say because neighborhoods are always changing and what people really want is what they "remember" about what they liked about a neighborhood. And for old people memory is kind.

I live in California where almost by definition everyone came here from somewhere else. In a very nice neighborhood I lived a former strip mall was getting developed. Keep in mind, it wasn't that nice when it was created in the '40 and '50s --hence strip malls-- but now it is nose bleed expensive. What did these neighbors want? Not housing, god forbid they build multiple unit housing! But a Whole Foods or a Trader Joe's would be nice. Yes the traffic was getting worse and density was increasing. Things were changing. But did these people want there houses to be worth 1/5th of what they were worth twenty years ago? Did they want to get paid what they got paid in those days? No, they just didn't want new neighbors.