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>> In other words, nearly half of parents who try vegetarian weaning report that their pediatricians stop helping them or are unable to give them adequate/informed nutritional advice, and unsurprisingly, parents who no longer have adequate access to health resources and information struggle to raise healthy kids.

I think your "other words" are deviating very significantly from the letter of the article and you're adding your own interpretation to what's actually written. As actually written, the article says that "the family pediatrician was not perceived as an appropriate guide" by the families Note the "perceived". This may be because the families have different ideas about a healthy diet than the pediatrician, for example "77.4% of parents reported the pediatrician's resistance towards alterantive weaning methods". Since those "alternative weaning methods" may include anything from a vegan weaning to feeding one's child beneficial moon rays (while simultaneously protecting her from the evil dark rays of death), I am inclined to believe that the problem is not that pediatricians are not adequately informed, but that parents are adhering to information from inadequate sources.

There are plenty of articles in the mainstream press by doctors who lament the fact that their patients will trust charlatans who sell them energy therapies and other such snake oil treatments, instead of the doctors themselves. Those doctors are usually specialists (for example, oncologists) but their patients still think the charlatans know best.
That's the point I was making. Since favicons have their own cache that isn't cleared when the user clears the main cache, ETags would work well there. And would be less complex than the file scheme in the post.
I admit I only looked into very quickly but it seems that UK business might need fiscal representatives in each EU country they do business with

https://www.avalara.com/vatlive/en/vat-services/fiscal-repre...
The EU cannot make it any easier. Not because it wouldn't be possible at all, just that it would be suicidal for the EU or its politicians for several reasons.

There are tendencies in several members to leave the EU or at least get rid of a few of the treaties. That means that leaving the EU in any really beneficial way for the UK would be strengthening the "leave" position in other members. And while the UK alone leaving is bad, more members leaving would be far worse.

Then there is the topic of the UK rebate and the UK's special role in several treaties. The EU has always had to pamper the UK and the UK gave nothing but grief in return. It would have been political suicide for the EU leadership to give any impression of continuing to pamper the Brits in the Brexit treaties. Also, beneficial status for a non-member would weaken the EU position in treaties with other non-members such as Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, etc.

And then there is the problem of the UK being not really one country but a haphazard agglomeration of several territories. While Great Britain is somewhat uniform, Northern Ireland is special. There are several reasons for treating it in a special way in the Brexit treaty, like a looming civil war, a possible Irish veto, a possible smuggling route into the EU market. But it was clear from the start that this would hugely complicate matters. Same for Gibraltar and the channel Islands, French and Spanish vetoes looming, etc.

I won't be surprised if the Brexit treaties don't hold forever. If the UK feels the squeeze of non-forthcoming trade with the rest of the world and diminishing trade with the EU, a more aligned status like the Norway/Switzerland model is possible. And I guess there will be a realignment of Northern Ireland and Gibraltar in some way, either towards a more unified UK or towards a weakened UK and Spanish/Irish unity, depending on what kind of hit the respective nations will take during COVID and the next few years.

But from an internal EU point of view, the current Brexit treaty is the farthest the EU could have gone.
Use this instead: https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2021/02/why-most-programming...
Of course. Nobody says it aloud but there were multiple members with anti-EU, pro-exit governments before brexit. Not anymore precisely because UK didn’t get any favors to put it mildly.
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The UK had literally the best deal in Europe. They had a rebate, they weren't a member of the schengen area, they refused the Euro, etc. They then went and got more concessions and then decided to leave. And now the hardcore Brexit people think all the negative effects they were warned about for 5+ years is the EU punishing them.
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There is indeed, which is why it was so surprising that the UK gov. turned down the offer to extend the transition period, which could have stopped these two economic events overlapping.
Yup. It's not clear even we know what point we're at, so I think authors can be forgiven for a) not imagining this particular scenario, and b) not thinking "people get overly excited about one more small step in computer skills" was much of a realm for stories.

Science fiction isn't about technology. It just uses technology as a way of telling stories about characters that provide entertainment and insight to the author's contemporaries. Given that the current generation of ML is in practice mainly allowing modest increases in automation, I don't think it's generating many interesting stories in the real world, and it's not clear it ever will.

If I were to look at current stories that science fiction perhaps missed, top of my list would be how the rise of the computers and the internet, meant to create a utopia of understanding, instead enabled a) the creation of low-cost, low-standards "reality" TV, b) allowed previously distributed groups of white supremacists and other violent reactionaries to link up and propagandize in unprecedented ways, and c) let a former game show host from group A whip up people from group B into sacking the US Capitol, ending the US's 200+ year history of peaceful transfers of power. That's a story!

But that would be asking too much of science fiction. Its job isn't to predict the future. Its job, if it has one beyond entertainment, is to get us to think about the present. Classics like Frankenstein and Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 have been doing that for generations. That's not because they correctly predicted particular technological and social futures.
>> There absolutely isn't a scientific consensus. If anything, several cases have come up recently to counter the wild acceptance that anyone can live vegan just fine, and further investigation is still necessary.

Please note I didn't comment that "anyone can live vegan just fine".
Warning, if you read comradesmith's comment even more literally and type "~." (tilde and period) in an SSH session, that will close the connection and exit the client. It is useful when a remote application hangs and does not let you exit gracefully: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/35524/what-can-i-d...
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I don't think the majority of the nation even wanted to leave the EU 3 years after the vote.

The UK has had two general elections since the 2016 vote. If the electorate thought it was the single most important issue and that we should remain, the UK wouldn't have left.
Good for UK elites, especially those like Farage with EU passports.
> - These tasks generally speaking are of a more cognitive nature to the ones they replace.

And that's the 'problem' if you ask me. Some of the following may seem to be elitist, which is not what it's meant to be but we have to recognize that not everyone has the same mental capacity.

As a software developer, we like the above. We live for it. We are so "lazy" that we'd rather spend 8 hours automating something than do the same 5 minute task once every day. Heck I'd wager some software developers have spent way more than 8 hours on automating a 5 minute repetitive task.

Thing is, these new tasks that are left over, are now 'beyond' some of the people in the labour force. They just don't have the cognitive ability to perform them any longer.

Take computing and software development or hardware development itself as an example. Almost anyone could be trained to work in a car factory. Sure for some tasks you might be better suited if you're very skilled in certain manual labour functions than someone else. Some of these are taken up by automation now. The people being replaced with this generally would not be able to design and build the robots or design and write the software running these robots though. They're a different set of people. Of course there will be some overlap, because you will have had some really bright people doing some of those jobs that were also bored out of their mind but hey that's the job they could get in 1951... They're probably the guys you will have sticking around to do some of the more mundane but still rather skilled in comparison tasks like 're-parameterizing of the robots' and the like. The other tasks that are left over are now even dumber and repetitive than the ones before.

Or take burger flipping. Literally anyone can do that with minimal instruction. How many of the burger flippers (yes I get that there are some really bright university students flipping burgers for tuition money, let's remove those) could program the drive through wait time counter or design the hardware if given some sensors, an Arduino/rpi and some LEDs?
I think Hydrogen fuel cell tech doesn't belong in passenger vehicles; there batteries can do a fine enough job. I believe the future of H2 is in intermodal transport, that is, trucking and (previously diesel) trains.

Why?

Do the math on weight, and you'll quickly see that you can't fit enough batteries in a Semi to give them the range that they need for long haul, while still being able to carry any appreciable amount of goods (There's a 40T limit on the roads in Europe, YMMV).

Together with Green Kerosine for Airplanes, and you've got Carbon-neutral transport: Electric Cars, Hydrogen Trucks and Trains, and (Green) Kerosine Airplanes.
I'm an EU citizen. I don't know that I'm paying taxes for e.g. the e-waste produced by electronic devices. Can you point to relevant information please?
I didn’t know how to search for this...

I’m wondering if anyone has used GPT3 to power a bot that is a HN account?
I use this feature all the time. Maybe you're getting A/B tested?
Could also be the case that I don’t want to be a walking marketing campaign.
The reality is that humans consume a fixed amount of resources and have a variety of jobs that produce value.

That is not the reality at all. People in industrialized economies today have, on average, vastly higher standards of living and thus consume vastly more resources than in centuries past.

While a typical person 100 years ago may have been happy with 2 or 3 pairs of shoes, a half dozen changes of cloths, a bicycle and a radio. A person of similar socio-economic status today has a dozen pairs of shoes, a hundred articles of clothing, a car, a tv, multiple radios, a mobile phone, etc, etc. This massive increase in physical possessions for the same (or less) labor output is due in large part to automation increasing the overall efficiency of dozens of industries.

What the "automation will take all our jobs" and "UBI for everyone" proponents seem to fail to realize --just as people who espoused similar views in 1910 failed to realize -- is that there is no limit to human desires. People can never have enough. People will always want more and better. Because people don't measure their wealth in absolute terms, but rather terms relative to those around them.

Thus, even with increased automation, the increased demand will help to provide more employment (if in somewhat different jobs). This has all happened before and will happen again.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26020117
Maybe it's a bit of a generational thing? I'm not a fan. Shit loud music, £5+ to get in, the drinks are expensive and bouncers are arbitrary so you have to deal with that.
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> My perception of machine learning as a mere dabbler myself is that "machine learning" is just a sci-fi name for what's essentially applied statistics

As a physicist I used to say that ML is simply non-linear tensor calculus. (I’m not sure if I’m right though)
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>> more like we're going to pay for it over the next X generations

I think we need to move away from that construct. If we today are burdening future generations, the proper description is that they will pay, not us. The people saddled with these debts are not alive today. They did not ask for this. They did not consent to owe anything. It is little wonder that revolutions are generally run by young people. It would be very interesting to see how many of these multi-generational debt structures result in profound instability, but sadly nobody alive today will be around to see these decisions. In short: imho no country should take on debts that have no hope of repayment within a single lifetime.

Germany paid the last of its WWI reparations in 2010... roughly a century after the war. Even that was within a theoretical single lifetime.
Oh?

Is there a GPT3 bot?
I was going to downvote this but after skimming the article I'm inclined to agree. There's no intro/conclusion summarizing what the post is about, and without them the body is just a stream of consciousness that's hard to follow and unengaging.
What is that, macros? Hygienic macros? Higher order functions? Recursion? I find that having such a simple syntax everything is grokkable much easier than in other languages. Having said that, I prefer scheme and racket which are much more simplified than common lisp and don’t contain so many warts.
Yeah, late last year I was set to order from a famous UK maker of bespoke bicycles, but I had to cancel. Now the EU imposes duties based on the origin of all components that are sourced from outside the UK. Most high-quality steel bike frames are from Taiwan, the parts might be from Malaysia or the USA, etc. There is very little on a bicycle that was actually made in the UK, it was just assembled there.

So, I too went with a German company.
Was gonna say the same. As an outsider looking in, I too was rationalizing it as a fluke vote. But nope, the nation doubled down on the pro-Brexit Tories in subsequent elections, thus confirming the desire to really go through with it all. It's all so sad.
They also likely need a lot of training data and compute resources
Awesome. Hope these little guys survive.
That's not about docx.
https://twitter.com/Islabikes/status/1350049775329177600

Seems most of their bikes components aren't UK sourced (so there is a tariff), which isn't surprising let's be honest.

That being said any bike I've bought in the UK in the past 20 years has also been subject to similar tariffs, owing to Japanese/Taiwanese components.
What about copyright filters? Are you ready to install them?
I don't think this merits the /s. Keeping immigrants out literally was a rationale for many Brexit voters, like it was in our 2016 US elections.
As I said, there was no major party with an Anti Brexit policy. Labour and Tories were both pro brexit. The SNP were anti Brexit and dominated and will dominate again. The libdems are still suffering the mistrust from dealing with the tories and they weren't even fully anti Brexit and labour managed to shoot themselves in the foot. Literally to win the last election the Tories policy was to not talk, since whenever they talked they suffered and all they talked about was pro-Brexit. This lead to Johnson hiding in a fridge. The UK was that anti-Brexit that for the main pro-Brexit party to win they had to hide in a fridge on live TV to avoid talking about Brexit.

TL;DR, there was no real anti-Brexit party other than the dominating SNP.
Everything was predicted a long time ago. All the friction at the border is the inevitable consequence of the choices the successive British governments made. I like to show this as a demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agZ0xISi40E .
I don't want to inject needless cynicism, but why did you think that Apple was doing "the right thing" before and what exactly did that entail according to you? It just seems like strange to attribute those goals to a company specializing in Veblen goods.
Mega-clubs in Ibiza know that and charge much higher entry fees compared to clubs with similar lineup in Europe. On top performing nights of the week the entry fee is at least 40-50€. Then you pay 15€ for a bottle of water. On top of that most mega-clubs have bottled service as well.
I'm running FreeBSD on T480 and after I configured the audio backend in Firefox (one variable in about:config) and the webcamd driver (2 lines in rc.conf) I can do video calls just fine. Both Jitsi and Zoom work as expected.
I see this is mostly about the editor MCedit, not the dual-pane filemanager itself.

Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc? Since the fork of mc about 10 years ago, there has come a lot of new features and bugfixes into mc the filemanager. I would assume they are open for contributions.

Anyone, I really love this Midnight Commander, It is maybe my most important and most used piece of software :)
> I would love to be proven wrong and learn something new about the sector that increases my confidence.

That's great. Having an open mind is a good thing. What areas are you specifically interested in? The industry is vast with deep niches and history - mining, exchanges (online/offline/p2p), scripting ("programmable money"), private key security (software/hardware/multi-sig), BIPs/forks/governance, ATMs, end-user apps, scams and shills, cypherpunk history and lore, and so on.
The polls on Brexit did suggest a creeping increase in the popularity of Brexit. But that was backed by a slew of propaganda about how great it will be.

I still think it will end in either a disaster or some kind of rejoining of EU, possibly under a different name. But of course we’ll see.
i think focusing entirely on one type of evidence is a little unimaginative. if these guys have data on doctors performing some task with and without their tool, they're in a good place to measure the difference. they can take that all the way to the bank, and to me that would contribute to what id call evidence.
> Text flow... are you talking about inter-word spacing and rivers? My take on that is: full text justification was always a bad idea, only promoted for aesthetic reasons and to show off fancy layout engines that reduced rivers and other bad artifacts. It seems some publishers are doing away with it in new books.

I would say that mathematicians are extremely picky about the quality of their displayed formulas. Most of what can be produced by mathjax is not of acceptable quality. I speak about fine-tuning of kerning, alignement, etc. Having "reflowable" text is a nightmare for typography-inclined people: the flow is an essential part of the content and you do not want to lose it!
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You could argue the opposite, that a time of significantly reduced economic activity and particularly cross-border trade was the ideal time to end the transition period and implement new trade protocols.
!00% nailed it. ML/AI are tools. As in any other exercise, tools can make it easier for beginners/amateurs to engage with a project, but they don't replace 10,000 hours of experience and deep domain experience and understanding. It's the master craftsmen and domain experts who will create the most value with these tools, but that may not be in obvious or clearly visible ways.
> The VAT rules alone make it really difficult for small business to export to EU

But how would you do otherwise if one of the parties does not want any regulatory alignment and is barely cooperative? There was an easy way of solving this, which the British chose to ignore because they were not Norway.
I both program as well as play guitar.

When learning these, I felt my brain physically change for the better. First for coding, then again later for the guitar.

Why choose one, when you can have both?
UK had a big hand in crafting trade rules with third party countries while in the EU. They then refused the Switzerland arrangement, the Norway arrangement etc. and wanted to become a third party country. And now surprise pikachu face at the consequences of that.
Good maintenance approach is innovation. There is no innovation to a 22-year-old coming and rebuilding 90% of the product (the easy part) in <insert your new buzzword here>.
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It’s not sci-fi but Neil Postman anticipates a world like 2020 in Technopoly.
The bottle as the cylinder where the aluminum is probably not hard enough. It would be nice to repeat the experiment with a solid cylinder of metal.

When recording, doesn't the needle need additional weight no make a deeper impression?
I think that it is a target. And apparently so does the original article's author.
Indeed - there is certainly nothing inherently risky about T-tails, as the many T-tailed sailplanes with relatively docile stall/spin characteristics attest.
Certainly!

My cholesterol was extraordinarily high when I was in the hospital so lowering that was a major priority. Consequently, I started going more plant based. At this point, my diet is primarily plant based.

This has worked very well for me, but I've had to seriously up my knowledge of nutrition, particularly around the concept of whole proteins. A whole protein contains nine essential amino acids. My body performs and recovers best if I plan my daily nutrition around between .75 and 1.0 g of whole protein per pound of body weight (120 t0 160 g at my current weight).

As I get deeper into training, I'm starting to see some data about how timing of proteins impacts my performance. I used to use raw oats by themselves as a meal before short (up to 12k) runs and speed training. Raw oats are amazing but they don't have enough lysine to be considered a whole protein. Adding dried mangos to my raw oats or carrying some in my run bag completes that protein. I don't see immediate results from completing the protein, but I do see long term results from consistently not completing it. I don't have to complete a protein every single meal - in general, as long as I complete it within that day's nutrition, I'll be okay. But my body seems to recover faster if I complete proteins between pre-run and the end of my run.

Now, let's talk about branch chain amino acids. If I want to go longer than 12k or make significant gains in my weekly base, I perform and recover better if I add sources of leucine, isoleucine and valine before and after I exercise. Meals like brown rice, beans and tomatoes are excellent before/after a workout.

As I train my gut for longer races, I keep learning more about what works and what doesn't. With some luck, by this summer, my gut will be trained enough that I have more personal bests and no more personal bursts. To put it euphemistically, bad bad bad things happen if I'm running a long (90+ plus minute) hilly course, pre-load with rice and beans and then add glycogen via gels.
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I know this is the most pedantic of all comments but unless something has changed in the last few weeks, the cafeteria is on the 14th of the building. I believe 2 is bottom floor of the newsroom, which is an open mezzanine of 3 floors.

Having said that, the elevators at the NYT are a nightmare with exceptionally long wait times and very little throughput.
The blog post the article refers to (couldn't find it in the article itself):
http://www.markscherz.com/archives/4800
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