skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ironic that now that a study comes out that supports your view, you accept it, but when the big studies said something opposite people were just "blindly trust the US public health authorities".
Google disables the Great Suspender Chrome Extension for containing malware
This might set the record as the Pinboard-iest post that didn't actually come from Pinboard.
Here's a little wayback machine request to see maybe what's changed over time, and whether or not 'things are bad' is maybe subjective, but there's an unequivocally different editorial focus.

Today [1]

2003 [2]

At this moment, on the front page more than 1/2 the headlines are sociopolitical commentaries and populist stuff:

"From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter"
"Amanda Gorman's Climate Poem, Act Now Now Now"
"Astronomer believes Aliens have already visited"
"The Shard Psychosis of Donald Trump and his Loyalists"
"The Science of Spiritual Narcissism"

In 2003:

"Nanotubes"
"The Holographic Universe"
"Delphic Oracle inhaling vapours" (A little populist)
"Asteroid Watchers"
"The ignoble savage: science reveals the heart of humanities darkness"

At least in terms of what they put on the cover, things have obviously evolved a bit.

As for How the Brain Responds to Beauty, well that's a legit age-old question, we're still lingering with viewpoints from Greek Antiquity on that one.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030804003306/http://scientific...
Is there anything other than performance and proc macro compatibility that RA has over IntelliJ-Rust? All of the alternatives to IntelliJ-Rust are just missing critical (to me) features like refactoring.
I'm glad someone brought this up, because I honestly find these sorts of aggressive sidewalk salespeople to be much worse than any panhandler. I've had them walk directly into my path, forcing me to walk around them or stop and I think that level of obstruction is asinine. I'm kind of an anxious person and someone moving that aggressively to block my path sets off my fight or flight very badly. Reminds me of the behaviour of the perpetrators of beatings I took in school.
I eat at least two a day, virtually everyday...

...prepared with zero oil or butter on a ceramic non-stick pan.

My cholesterol levels are great. My wife eats the same diet (except she doesn't order dinner at work like I do) and her cholesterol levels are ridiculously good.
Stadiums have signs though? Clearly lit pathways, signs, and directions to all the exits. I'm pretty sure it's the law to have those (at least for fire codes). I would be highly surprised if people followed their nearest neighbor instead of moving in a direction denoted by the signs and pathways prescribed.
Selection pressure for traits that affect not stopping reading after headlines?

The current climate of public opinion driven exclusively by twitter-sized soundbites won't resolve by itself...
Could you give an example or link? All I know is taking on more risk if you want the same amount (down payment), just sooner.
If you find this topic interesting, read "The Big Fat Surprise"
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying but I’m going to nitpick and say a breakfast of bacon and eggs is not healthier than a breakfast of grains depending on what those grains are. White bread vs bacon, debatable. But oatmeal/quinoa is obviously healthier than bacon. I don’t think there are any government agencies pushing the idea that bacon is part of a healthy diet
My plan is to befriend a couple of you horders in 10 years.
Nutrition research is incredibly difficult to conduct, too. It often relies on participant reporting and is immensely complicated in terms of identifying and weeding out potential confounders. With how little we know about things that could play significant roles (e.g. gut microbiome), doing good science on this is super difficult.
"order Twitter to reveal the true reason behind its decision on Monday to treat him just like some common failed one-term president" lol
Sidenote: I wish I could find good, or even any, low-fat options these days. They all seemed to have been left in the 90's. I had to even quit the seed-filled breads I loved because of my troubled pancreas (non-diabetic). I miss whole eggs so much...

Also sidenote: this is the picture regarding cardiovascular health, but with extremely high-fat foods and diets being the mode right now I'll bet we see a bit of an uptick on chronic pancreatitis cases in time. Moderation, as always, is the best course for most... "everything in moderation, especially moderation"
Wow! I got depressed when I was speccing out a UPS a few years ago because they all suck (use Lead Acid batteries) but there are many practical reasons that they don't use better tech.
Ozar: What's the Future of Microsoft SQL Server?
I actually find configuration really nice with json auto completion. My config is here: https://github.com/ibraheemdev/dotfiles/tree/master/.vim.
The mistake is when one assumes that the things they read on media outlets and on TV are anywhere close to a 'scientific consensus' in an area such as nutrition.
Oh hey, Tint (up) was the first thing that came to my mind as well!

Now I’m curious too.
Wait... are you telling me the clickbait ads in my feed might be .. public health alerts?
The food pyramid is an enduring icon of institutional incompetence.

What they should have done instead is mandate the use of the term "lipids" instead of "fat" on nutrition labels. Vocabulary could do so much to solve our problems. We are a nation of fat people who think that eating fat makes you fat. Then we also think that eating cholesterol gives us high cholesterol.

We use a different word for a cow when it's on our dinner plate but we can't do the same for fat? I guess this idea doesn't give the graphic designer anything to do.
Yes, but when you're in a packed crowd even these may become difficult to see for any individual. Think no real room to move freely, maybe not even 1' in any direction other than "forward", the direction in which the crowd is clearing.
Does anyone know or has experience in how a „Direct Connect“ line reduced the latency?

Instead of having your users go through the public internet, they connect to some proxy which is closeby and sends the traffic through the „privat“ line.
This sounds a lot like downtown Minneapolis. In the 70's they went all in on the skyway system - a series of enclosed walkways over streets that went through the second floor of many buildings. The result is that all of the retail and amenities got pushed to the interiors of these buildings, and the facades were reduced to featureless stretches, save for a few particular streets (Hennepin and Nicollet). I admit when I worked downtown that I enjoyed not having to go outside in the winter, but much of downtown lacks charm and utility.
Everything old is new again. They tried this with FB-DIMMs in the early 2000s and it didn't go well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Buffered_DIMM

That SERDES chip unavoidably increases latency, roughly doubling it. This isn't likely to catch on as the only kind of DRAM in the system; latency is too important.

Maybe we'll see successful systems with two levels of DRAM: small low-latency parallel DRAM and a large heap of higher-latency serial DRAMs. That's plausible.
The association is that there is no association. So it's an accurate title.
Considering that there's plenty of people also sharing these on Twitter I've decided to openly share mine as a canary..:

https://signal.tube/#instafax.nl
This would be so much cooler if it wasn't designed around the mousewheel.
Correct. The ocean bottom is relatively flat once away from the continents. Also, the submarine cable actually has a very slight advantage over a surface cable as at several thousand feet below it is following a slightly smaller radius curve. I'm waiting for the HFT firm to bore a literally strait hole between London and New York. Then we know that HFT has gone too far.
They never controlled for preparation method or associated ingredients (read: butter) so it's basically useless data
Go to the Chrome's history and search for "klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg". Middle click each one, and then look at the URL. The original URL should be at the end.
This is such a silly but entertaining project. I love that it's the server for the website as well.
It seems like the best strategy because you figure other people know something you don't know. But since they always pick just one exit, that's not a valid conclusion.

Since the crowd behaves the same way whether they picked the best exit or a random one, you have no idea whether it's the best way out, but you do know it has added risk of delay and trampling.
At this point, what can't Apple Watch do? “Breaking News: Hiring Apple to Stare at your Arm 24/7 Tells Them All Your Diseases”
It ultimately comes down to what type of housing people have a "right" to. If I can't afford the house I bought, I'll need to sell it and downsize or rent a smaller/cheaper place. That's not because the bank is being a shitbag about my debt.
'Suggests' isn't strong enough to make the association conclusive.
this is a meta-analysis, not a singular study.
Losing Yourself and Reconnecting to Your Life
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Read More : https://yesorok.blogspot.com/2020/10/losing-yourself-and-rec...
As I mentioned elsewhere, that study doesn't control for preparation methods and associated ingredients (like butter) so it's virtually useless
Now this might be the final push for me to move away from Chrome!
I completely agree - that's exactly my point. A lot of these studies are not done with the necessary level of rigor needed to draw a definitive conclusion. So we're left with a bunch of half baked "contradictory" studies in many cases.
As a not-currently-webdev, it seems to me like making a good website, on a technical level, is closer to an engineering trade-space (as opposed to "just do it better") than I had thought.

Splitting static content into smaller files allows for better cache utilization, but increases page load times due to higher latency when those items aren't cached. Bundling content reduces roundtrip penalties (latency, various per-request processing overheads) at the cost of greater bandwidth usage.

Wealthier users usually are latency-limited, as opposed to bandwidth-limited. Mobile users and poorer users in wealthier countries are usually limited on both. Users in poorer countries have it even worse.

The only way that you can "win" appears to be by making your content as static and as simple as possible.
Not to get into an irrelevant debate but I fail to see how having children equates to lack of upward mobility in the slightest. If anything children teach us about how fast things can change! I have two toddlers and their development changes our lifestyle on a week by week basis. Additionally, I doubt owning long-term investment leads to this feeling of entrapment, more the opposite. Having children is one of the most intangible investments anyone can make, both risk and reward maximized to the extreme not through capital but purpose and relationship. I see the article as pointing to a lack of overall guiding purpose more than anything else, something that can't really be said for having children.
We have a coming of age passage where 18 year olds already spend absurd amounts of money on consumption goods, frequently with loans they cannot discharge in the event the passage fails (university).

In principle, just giving new adults the money directly to light on fire as they see fit shouldn't be inflationary.
CEO-for-Hire Frank Slootman Turned Snowflake into Softwares Biggest-Ever IPO
~~D'oh - yes, that formula is true only if the triangle is right-angled, which is true for only a single base length.~~

Edit: Actually, this is always true: we are considering a right-angled triangle where the base is the horizontal distance from the ground station to point under the satellite, the vertical part is the 550 miles between the point under the satellite and the satellite, and the hypotenuse is the line joining the satellite and ground station.

> if a sat is 500 miles up directly overhead that's the closest it ever will be, as it flies off the hypotenuse gets longer

Yes: as the horizontal distance d increases, then the length of the hypotenuse (sqrt(d^2 + 550^2)) increases.

However, the difference between this and the horizontal distance (sqrt(d^2 + 550^2) - d) decreases.

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If the angle from the horizontal to the line between the satellite and base-station is theta, then:

sin(theta) = 550/hypotenuse => hypotenuse = 550/sin(theta)

tan(theta) = 550/base-length => base-length = 550/tan(theta)

difference in length = 550/sin(theta) - 550/tan(theta)

[which simplifies to 550 tan(theta/2)]

We are interested in angles between 0 degrees (horizontal - corresponding to the limiting case of infinite horizontal distance between the satellite and base station) and 90 degrees or pi/2 radians (straight up): https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+550%2Fsin%28x%29+...

This is always between 0 and 550.
The triangle inequality holds: for a single hop from base-station to satellite, the increase in length is never more than 550.

But as you point out, there may also be multiple hops.

> So ideally you bounce off a sat overhead, (distance of 1100),

This is the shortest total ground-satellite-ground distance, but as you cover 0 horizontal distance it is the worst case: the difference between the ground-satellite-ground distance and the length of the direct ground-ground line is maximised.
Name a big company or C-level executive that has faced any meaningful consequences for their misdeeds in the last 15 years. I can think of Bernie Madoff, but he was punished because he swindled rich people. If he swindled poor people he'd be on the cover of Fortune magazine.
Yes I’d say it’s definitely helped us. The “no code” movement has enabled more people who’ve never contemplated being able to create software start to realise it’s readily possible for them.
Slightly tangential, but your mom might have reduced your height. I recall reading a study a few years ago that found a strong correlation between high protein for breakfast and the length of the femur.
Not that internal combustion engines are the model to aspire to... but they're just a metal contraption full of explosions. Being terrifying isn't necessarily a disqualifier, haha.
I’m pretty agnostic in my opinion on this personally because I don’t know their profit margin, default rate etc. I also think these lenders fulfill a worthwhile service in some cases. Note that I didn’t actually define what reasonable should be.

People do get a say in the policies of their society in a democracy, whether educated or not. People also think NASAs budget is 50x what it is, but it doesn’t mean we should strip away their right to vote, it means they need to be educated (or their representatives, by proxy). Otherwise it’s just advocating for a technocracy
This sounds too optimistic and almost 180 degrees opposite of what we've heard from health authorities until today. Can anyone who's an expert on the subject chime in, what's the catch?
Twitter Expands Strategic Partnership with Google Cloud to Improve Data Insights
Works in VSCode too, not sure what specifically their problem is.
To clarify: all the apps include 500 users as standard so most customers only pay a flat rate per app.
If you're interested in recent developments in array languages, I recommend checking out:

BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/

ngn/k https://git.sr.ht/~ngn/k/tree/master/item/readme.txt (Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22009241)

aplette, which is a modernization of Ken Thompson's APL (with a LOT of projects in between them; Ken's APL interpreter -> ? -> OpenAPL -> aplette) https://github.com/gregfjohnson/aplette (Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740536)

I'd also recommend checking out J, which isn't a recent development, but has the best syntax out of all array languages, has the best development environments, is the easiest to learn (it has a way to learn it built into the language itself!), and is the only one that treats making GUIs as a first-class feature (and, also, critically, is not proprietary, unlike Dyalog):

https://jsoftware.com (Has so many previous discussions I just recommend using HN search to find them.)

The chat is biased in favor of Dyalog APL, but a lot of the modern additions Dyalog has made to the language make it (in my opinion) worse as a notation, so ideally don't let it turn you off of the concept of array languages entirely if Dyalog doesn't "click" with you.

If you haven't already, you should also check out Notation as a Tool of Thought, a paper so good it won Iverson the Turing Award:

https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p...
Ah yes, the average citizen will definitely trust that "homomorphic encryption" isn't just some nonsense made up so the election can be rigged.
Well spotted! I have corrected issue #1 you noticed, a very silly mistake, thank you!

#2 is great background! But these cosine losses are I suppose not a theoretical limit but a limitation of fibre optics so I won't include that (but I will link to your comment!).
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Does you pancreas actually hurt when you eat an egg, or did your doctor just tell you to stop eating them?
It's been known for a long time that consumption of cholesterol doesn't directly raise blood cholesterol. The dangers of high cholesterol were first raised to the public consciousness in the 90s which is around when the "eggs may be bad for you" hit it's peak. It wasn't until years later that the causes of high cholesterol were better understood and the advice was refined. That's around the time that trans fat became the real villain and that advice has mostly stood up to scrutiny for a while now.
That was precisely what I was going to say. I don't recognize any of that.
Welcome, older fart!

Cello lost to Mosaic, Mosaic lost to Navigator, humanity lost to IE, then IE lost to Firefox, Firefox lost to webkit, and now on HN we hand-wring about whether humanity is losing to Google or not.

I have had many, many conversations about the "Browser Wars" over the years and it's like talking about cross-border rivalries in the Midwest. Nobody can quite agree on who is the best or worst. Most people can't even agree about who was actually involved (is Ohio in the Midwest? People in Ohio say yes. People in the Mississippi River Valley say no).

Everybody who is anybody agrees that they all hate IE/Iowa.

I was trying to put together some timelines at one point and was reading biographies about Spyglass. Do you remember Spyglass? According to the founder, the Browser Wars were Spyglass versus IE (or was it Navigator?), and Spyglass won.

Why? Because he was only thinking about corporate computers. That was the universe to him. Places that we all know were barely on the Internet, he felt was "The Browser War".

I thought the first browser war was Mosaic vs Netscape, but as many think the IMG tag is the first real salvo in the war, Cello vs Mosaic is probably the first war, IE vs Netscape being #3.
Scientific studies aren't gospel. They can be affected by the sensibilities of grant agencies, funding from industry, flawed experiment design, and p-hacking, among others.

Peter Norvig's essay on experiment design comes to mind:

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
> There must be repercussions for lies

Nah that's cancel culture. /s
If big companies face no consequences, then our society will fall apart. They have ruined millions of lives and are responsible for a large portion of the 450k overdose deaths from 1999 to 2018.

It amounts to literal gambling with people's lives and the individuals responsible face almost no risk. The worst thing that happens is that their company has to pay a big fine. Someone who steals a car will face a multi year federal sentence. Who had the biggest negative impact on society, the dude that stole a car or the people responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths?
> Two investigators independently reviewed data. Conflicts were resolved through consensus

They're literally telling you that they cherry-picked existing research for whatever serves their narrative.

Occam's razor applies here. They're trying to convince you that consuming cholesterol and saturated fat is not going to clog your arteries. If eggs won't, please tell me what will.

Eggs taste good, and they're in literally everything. Be careful when people tell you what you want to hear.
> No good; people working for the Iranian state will DM.

They'll probably try, but it's not very scalable. It's tough to build and maintain a Twitter account with a history that looks like a real regular person, much less create a bunch of them fast with history that dates back before the day you started. If most of them make a modest effort to verify users, most of them should remain unblocked. It's all pretty decentralized, so it's not that big as deal if a few of them do get discovered and blocked.
At any point you could link to any scientific study that established the rigor of your arguments. The fact that you do not indicates you are unable to, or you are aware of the latest scientific evidence that shows contradictory evidence to your claims.

Anything that can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/free-will
> For example, if instead of piracy we were talking about stealing from a brick and mortar store

But we are not. That's shifting goalposts fallacy.

What about buying used DVD is that piracy? After all two parties watch a movie but movie maker made one sale?

> I think just saying it's okay because you don't care about corporate profit actually weakens the ability to persuade people with the underlying arguments which I think are good and I don't think it's an ethical position that really holds up. Thoughtful people that see only those arguments (or worse 'information wants to be free') come away with a stronger defense of existing copyright law.

That is why the very first line I am admitting that my position is out of pure lazyness calculation.

> I do think that companies should take it into account for pragmatic reasons and recognize that it's the real competition to not delivering high quality convenient service, but that's largely because it's not possible to enforce actual copyright law with the internet at scale - which is somewhat of a different issue.

I am of belief that piracy is great equalizer. A force that curbs infinite appetite of corporate overlord that would bleed us dry if they could. It makes particularly movie industry more customer friendly and more competitive.

> I don't think it's really hi-jacking the thread because I think the issue is so tightly coupled. I just didn't want to copy/paste my comment because that seemed like bad etiquette?

Actually it was hi-jacking. Imagine two people talk and you overhead them you cut in. Completely disregarding the actual discussion and drop your opinion in without addressing what was previously said.

Sure you could have dropped in that, but at least address why you think that is better argument and why you disagree with previous post. That is called a discussion and not stating your opinion. Hope that it make sense.
What do you do about unambitious people who live beyond their UBI means and end up being unable to pay the rent?