skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently in the process of reducing animal product intake. I'm going about it methodically to make it into an actual habit rather than a fad where I give up a month or two later.

What really got me to accept that maybe animal products might be detrimental is Dr. Gregor talking about the exogenous endotoxin theory. Dead bacteria in your food, no matter how or how long you cook it, will produce an inflammatory response. Animal fat may assist these endotoxins due to the structure of the gut wall.[0]

When it was put into these terms, it makes it way more apparent. The plan is to reduce consumption of animal products and when I do want to eat meat, get it from a high quality source with a lower endotoxin load.

[0]: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dead-meat-bacteria-endotoxe...
Where is that quote from? I don't see it in the linked article
I’m in awe of something like Debian where entire mirrors have been served on ancient computers with reasonable performance. Perhaps there is a configuration issue, but at my work it is one of the slowest services aside from jira. I actually try to avoid opening jira and next cloud because it’s frustratingly slow to browse.

Edit: I was eager to see the link with the 10x performance number. I do hope it improves because we are in need of a service like that.
What? You know "far more" than 3 people who died indirectly from COVID? Like, from suicide or avoiding going to the hospital when they were sick with something else? You must "know" a huge number of people.
That's a really good point, this settlement is extremely favorable to Tether and Bitfinex. It's odd to see people persist in pinning Bitcoin's market performance on Tether issuance after reading this settlement from NYAG. Chunks of Tether collateral weren't fully liquid but my takeaway is that they operated on a genuine best-effort basis. As another comment put it, Tether definitely operated in a grey area legally - they hacked the system, but they're not the fraudsters some media, comments, or rumors made them out to be.
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In many American locales, especially in areas with access to large clean aquifers, tap water will be cleaner than bottled water. Don't go assuming bottled is better. If you can afford to put a filter on your tap (this is expensive), I would on tap water being much cleaner.
This article doesn't make that much sense IMHO. You can read the settlement agreement for yourself here: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...

Page 4 of the agreement:

> 20. Because of Tether’s inability to conduct significant banking activity during this time, it could not itself hold dollars sufficient to back the hundreds of millions of new tethers that had entered the market. Until September 15, 2017, the only U.S. dollars held by Tether ostensibly backing the approximately 442 million tethers in circulation was the approximately $61 million on deposit at the Bank of Montreal.

That's 14% of the cash required to back the issued Tether at the time.
Normally it's birds causing these blade destructions. All those incidents point to birds. The question should be, why suddenly so many birds near airports?
“But other apps are fairly easy to get people to pay for where privacy could be a key differentiator”

Yeah apps that collect super personal information (i.e security solutions, baby monitors) I can imagine privacy being key. But what about everyday apps like fitness trackers, journals, habit trackers and personal finance? From what I gather people complain about privacy of those apps but would rather go a manual route instead of paying for a private version of it.
He has gotten both doses of the vaccine too. I think in all the testing he's had he never had any evidence of the antibodies. Not that he couldn't have had it.
> makes cryptocurrency proponents so insufferable

Tether is not a cryptocurrency.

It's a cargo cult: A plain old centralized system which got the word "cryptocurrency" slapped onto it to attract dumb money.
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Do you think equating Africans with animals is the best way to promote veganism?
Just turning chaos into order takes thermodynamic work, but I was wildly off with my percentages. Thinking in terms of an idealized computer that doesn't create heat, but didn't realize how far we were from that.
Could all the porn consumption and masturbation be a factor? Also I have heard contraceptive use in the past can affect female fertility. There is also potential leakage of contraceptives into our water supply.
The market doesn't care. Hasn't cared for years now, just look at the Kraken USDT/USD market which is freely tradable. Tethers are mostly backed by USD - no 100% but that's because some funds were seized due to regulatory scrutiny, not because they disappeared.
Same, I even bought some back in... 2014 I think?

I'm yet ambivalent on if it's a factor on why it hasn't been able to attract serious attention, but I've heard the argument that doing calculations that have external value outside of PoW breaks the incentive mechanisms.

To me, merge mining on Bitcoin[0] and MEV on Ethereum[1] are evidence against that argument, since we already have those forces in play today. So Gridcoins concept should work.

[0]: https://blog.bitmex.com/the-growth-of-bitcoin-merge-mining/

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05234
Sorry to disappoint you, but the population is still going to rise, since this is not a global phenomenon. The areas with the already highest birth rates are not significantly affected.
3. The next day, November 2, 2018, Tether made the first of five transfers ultimately
totaling $475 million from its bank account at Deltec Bank to Bitfinex’s account at Deltec Bank.
At the same time, a corresponding transfer was made from Bitfinex’s account at Crypto Capital
to Tether’s account at Crypto Capital via ledger entry Bitfinex also “purchased” 150 million
tethers by transferring $150 million in funds held at Bitfinex’s Crypto Capital account to
Tether’s account at Crypto Capital. These transfers were not disclosed.

44. And so, as of November 2, 2018, tethers were again no longer backed 1-to-1 by
U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account, because a substantial portion of the backing in the Deltec
account had been transferred to Bitfinex to make up for the funds taken by Crypto Capital, while
the corresponding funds transferred from Bitfinex’s Crypto Capital account to Tether’s Crypto
Capital account were impaired by Crypto Capital’s actions.

45. Tether’s misrepresentation would continue until late February 2019, at which time
Tether updated its website to note that “[e]very tether is always 100% backed by our reserves,
which include traditional currency and cash equivalents and, from time to time, may include
other assets and receivables from loans made by Tether to third parties, which may include
affiliated entities (collectively, ‘reserves’).” Tether did not announce that it had changed its
disclosure, and indeed there were no media reports about the change until several weeks later on
March 14, 2019

Read the settlement...

https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...
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No one cares, because no one has assigned any value to it. Now that someone has, I would bet more people are going to start caring.
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Yea that's what I was thinking, but people tend to have not so great reactions from the first dose if you have the antibodies.
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Heh. I just made another comment saying that Tether is not like Madoff, so of course I now need to make one comparing Tether to Madoff.

Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities was also registered and regulated, and also had to wire people their money when asked. Even though they didn't actually have all the assets they said they did. He was able to keep it up for 3 or 4 decades.

It will only collapse if outflows exceed inflows for long enough to deplete their supply of assets. Which is something that is unlikely to happen for as long as this Bitcoin rocket keeps racing toward the moon.
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> Tether detractors see this... while crypto currency fans

Be reminded that the overlap in this venn diagram is enormous.
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That’s usually the way these things work. That’s why the AG is making statements like “stop the illegal activity” and stuff, it degrades trust. However, if you read the statement it’s a win for the crypto exchange. Only an $18m fine for supposedly “billions in fraud” (course if you read deeper, they found no fraud).
> In my experience, they're always wrong. These systems can be run locally during development with a relatively small investment of effort. Typically, these systems are just ultimately not as complicated as people think they are; once the system's dependencies are actually known and understood rather than being cargo-culted or assumed, running the system, and all its dependencies, is straightforward.

Whenever I hear these statements, it always sounds like "I need to have an identical copy of this skyscraper in order for me to be able to replace one tap on floor 42."

Also good luck running a system that operates on few hundred of terabytes of for instance YouTube data locally.

Also running the whole system locally is usually a pretty good way of creating a "distributed monolith" -- yea, there might be microservices, but also a dozen of assumptions here and there that different parts of system are being deployed simultaneously (usually they are not), or that certain distant parts of a whole system share some behavior that can be changed simultaneously.

So no, you don't need to run the whole system locally. On the contrary, you need to be able to run smallest part of it (hello, microservice) locally, and that part should be responsible for one thing. APIs and frontends can easily share JSON schema to make sure they send and receive valid data, and each service can have tests against that schema, the ultimate source of truth for them.

Boom, suddenly I can develop "big system" piece by piece in isolation on my 7-year old macbook with no problems against tests / storybook / debugger.
Most of those cheap Alibaba vehicles look like what we would call golf carts in the US.
I think you're very wrong. Yes, there's hype around ML etichs. Trends in ML come and go. Do you see any VC investing in etichs in ML startups? As I said, it's an esoteric academic field.

How do you even compare between the two? MSR closed an entire lab out of the blue of some great researchers who didn't do anything wrong. Here you have two employees going against their company and shitting on it publicly. The only researchers who will not want to work at Google after this saga are the ones Google better off without.
Reminds me of the Ray Tracing fpga for SNES that was making headlines a couple months ago.

https://www.shironekolabs.com/posts/superrt/
> "Run most services in a mostly-isolated development environment, calling out to a few hard-to-run external services" doesn't count.

That's pretty harsh, as it seems to rule out any system that integrates 3rd party features, such as payments.
Sounds like what Nerdalize tried to do in the Netherlands, but IIRC they went bankrupt not long ago.
Now do other causes of death
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Crypto is an abbreviation of cryptography, by trying to force the abbreviation to mean a specific subset of cryptography you limit all future uses of the word crypto to mean crypto currencies which seems excessive. We might have other words that follow crypto in future.
That was impressive! One of the proudest moments for humans as species -- channeling the curiosity in the best possible manner.

However, I kind of feel like the two continuous saffron patterns are conveniently left out while decoding. Maybe they had some hidden meanings too? Figure!
I know a few people who've gotten it and recovered. I know one person who got it and died. He was a healthy 48 year old mountain climber. A statistical anomaly, though that is of no comfort to his family. They went through hell, he was in the hospital for a couple months before passing.
Do you really think that people who own nonstick pans are only using them a low and medium settings as the article recommends? Or that most apartments have a vent hood for the stove? Something they don't mention is that the FDA also recommends throwing out nonstick pans made before 2013 (I think that was the year) because the older pans emit more fumes and at lower temperatures.

Sure, if you're extremely careful about using it, it's possible. That's why my previous comment wasn't absolute. But the majority of people I've known who use them seem to treat the pans poorly and cook with them at all temperatures. Many times they only own nonstick pans (who has space for multiple sets in an appartment?), and use them at all temperatures.
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What is keeping you at this company?
1 in 3 Americans know someone who died of old age in the last year

Correlation is not causation
Both are true: there are supernaturally talented people and also an incredibly wide world.

If you take an intellect so impressive that they are one in ten million, there will be still be almost eight hundred of those people in the world.

We are also reasoning from the POV of our own reality. We see the people we did get, but it could be the case that we missed some brilliant minds that do exist in some alternative universe, but came ahead anyway. There are so many factors in play.
https://friendi.ca is a serious competitor doing mostly the same things as Facebook. (Except it's a social media site first, instead of an ad network first.)

But you probably don't need social media.
So? Yes, ports can be very intricate, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still a port, not a rewrite, which would run on the same target hardware but with a different runtime behaviour.

The first games with an SA1 chip were released two years after Race Drivin' hit the shelves, so my point still stands and is factually correct. The original Race Drivin' cartridge doesn't contain any enhancement chips and the game runs entirely on the SNES' internal hardware.

"Rewriting" usually doesn't mean making it run on different hardware - that'd be porting. So a game using hardware acceleration runs way faster than its software rendered equivalent? What a shocker! :D

That's not to diminish the guy's efforts by any means - I specifically criticised the headline, not the work of the guy.
I had two dead colleagues (both older but neither elderly, out of a ~50 person company) to COVID by the end of April.

I think a lot of this depends on when COVID hit your area in force. The areas that got hit early in the pandemic knew quite a lot less about treating it effectively.
More than 1 in 3 Americans are obese themselves.
Polls are designed to sway public opinion, not measure it.
Canary deployments. Don't replace a production version, but install the new version next to it. Switch between versions via loadbalancer or use queues to decouple different implementations from storage. Adjust your development process to favor small incremental backwards compatible changes and feature flags (make deploying your code separate from enabling/disabling a feature). Lots and lots of monitoring and alerting.
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It wouldn’t be uncommon for a hundred people to be counting the very same COVID victim.
Even if we accept that claim, at least Uber has to compete with other VTC apps, which limits its rent-extracting capacity.
More than 40% of Americans are obese.
I'd rather have your help because you are eager to help and probably the patience to understand my problem, than having an expert who doesn't care and just want to get over with it.
They are focusing on entreprise features, because that's where money is.

I also wish they had a separate "light" offer with just the storage and a few basic apps. As it is, I think they are stretching their resources and some part of their offering is going to suffer as a result (we already saw quite a few severe bugs in the past year and some basic functionalities, like file locking or caching, is still not right). Personally I'm only staying with Nextcloud because there's unfortunately no good alternative for now.
This might well be true, and there may be a measurable correlation if someone is willing to investigate it.

However i m not sure what s the way forward: policies to reverse this health crisis, or adapt politics to this new reality?
How is it verified? I thought the problem with doing useful work instead of normal PoW was that producing and verifying are equally hard, while Bitcoin's PoW scheme is hard to produce but easy to verify (so other miners can easily see that you've actually found the hash without doing any computations themselves).
You left out the two I’ve been considering, hard anodized and high carbon steel. Any reason why?
LOL, just had exactly the same thought.
Interesting. I still don’t see why one causes inflammation and one lessens it.
Are you saying plant suffering and human suffering are comparable? Or did I miss something about the argument?
No bridges need to be built, only people saved from losses and fraud.
> How do economics professors get hired? By impressing other economics professors.

This claim is true.

> Who are the people that tend to fit those criteria? Mostly, those who already agree with the existing establishment

This claim is false. If you can empirically support a result which shows that something most other economists believe is likely false and can do so convincingly, you can write your ticket to any department in the country. Some of the most successful graduate students every year do things like this (not all, because it's very hard to do). But the profession is 100% open to this kind of work.

> And by having the power to win funding for the department.

This demonstrates a misunderstanding of how economics departments are funded. Grant funding is a very small part of the departmental budget everywhere. We are not (to take an example where department funding does depend on grants) health policy departments.
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No, not since I was a teenage employee at McDonalds, and doing the arithmetic with a pencil. The next summer I saw my first computerized cash registers. But then I was a stockboy and had nothing to do with the point of sale. (Summers of 1972 and 1973.)
The answer to that ought to be `apt-get install nextcloud-server` and let the distro maintainers step in, really. Unfortunately because you can't skip versions on upgrade, it's not clear how to cleanly do that.
PG's article is also from 6 years ago. User's views of domains has changed over time as more and more non-.com TLDs become common and simultaneously browser UIs continue to deemphasize the URL.
What would the implied causality be here?
I'm not convinced your argument works. Bubbles exist until they suddenly don't.

This isn't a strong argument that it's a bubble, but the burden of proof is solidly on the tether folks to show that they're 100% backed, not the other way around.
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Absolutely! I’m part of that venn diagram and I am disappointed that there wasn’t more light shone on the whole thing.
Bring the sysadmin a box of donuts (or scotch, if it’s that kind of place) and ask again.

Barring that, if you have admin rights and your laptop is running Windows you can enable Hyper-V[0] and get a great hypervisor that comes in the box. (If you’re already using WSL2, you’re already doing virtualization). If you’re on macOS, try to find something that uses Hypervisor.framework (multipass[1] is good if you can get along with Ubuntu) so you don’t need to install any kexts.

But this is really something you should bring up with your manager, it sounds like it’d be difficult to get any good work done without being able to run tests in a not-production environment.

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-w...

1: https://multipass.run/
Don't get me wrong, its not about the money itself necessarily but how you earn it.

He sells himself and in my opinion he does use marketing tools and mechanisms i don't like.

Nonetheless, the only reason why i care about him as he gets mentioned on HN every year or so. I care enough to write a comment but not to do anything else.

How he does it and what he does feels for me like mental esotherism.
How would the New York attorney general shut down the company globally? That doesn't make sense. But feel free to contact dang or other moderators and ask for a change of the title if you think that can be improved.
I think you might be underestimating the amount of work required to achieve real consensus among humans.
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No one's asserting 1/3 of Americans have died, correct.
First things first: don't get me wrong, I do understand your point.

The thing is: you have a system administration problem, whether you want or not (that is a big part of what you're actually paying for when you buy Dropbox or when you let Google feed on your data).

Now, as an hobbyist, when you start depending on services you set up and manage yourself, it would be a good idea to take some time to learn additional tools to enjoy your hobbies more.

Think about this as in "leveling up" your hobby.

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Now on a lighter tone, there are simpler ways to have a backup strategy, as long as you are okay with lower guarantees.

You might not use zfs, and use simple LVM snapshots. You might want to use no snapshotting at all and just do a nightly backup via a cronjob: at 3AM you just switch everything down (docker-compose down if you're using it), do a rsync to another host, start it back up. It's way simpler but you'd only get a yesterday's copy in case of problem.

But then again, that would safeguard you when doing upgrades: disable backup, perform upgrade, test everything, re-enable backup, resume operations. Worst case scenario you rsync back the yesterday's data and you resume normal operation.
it's what you do when you are physically and/or mentally exhausted each day after toiling for 8+ hours to make someone else richer
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Electricity doesn't have to be a bad option for heating. Norway gets 88% of it's electricity through hydropower, another 10% through wind, and the rest of it is geothermal, as an example. That doesn't mean that electricity is necessarily the most efficient option, or the cheapest, but it is clean.
It seems like a near impossible problem to solve. Who is to say what any random company/manager is looking for in an engineer? I don't see how that could be abstracted. I think the best hope in this area would be an organization that had certifications. If you need an iOS developer, they provide whether they are class I, II, III, IV or V and you go from there. It is the only way to get rid of managers wanting live red/black tree implementations on a whiteboard for a CRUD website for insurance.
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An good hobbyist should challenge themselves from time to time ;)
(It’s too late to edit my comment, but to be clear, food is a contaminant - it’s a myth that any amount of contaminant will ruin a batch...)
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DC diesel electrics are commutated for quite low starting voltage- wheelspin is immensely expensive to repair. Then they can tweak throttle to hit voltage, but they'd have to be balancing that with frequency unless they were very lucky.