skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My question to add to yours is: do those metrics really signal you are healthier beyond a certain threshold?

I have no trouble believing that vegans have on average fairly lower BMI and bodyfat than omnivores. I eat a fairly well-balanced omnivore diet, I lift heavy, and I hover anywhere between 13-18% BF. My BMI is quite high because of lifting, and sometimes I'll allow my BF to rise to a certain point if I want to meet particular strength goals. But I'm not fat by any stretch of the imagination.

I don't feel any healthier at 13% than at 15% BF, and I am not aware of any science that supports that. So what if a vegan is two points of BF leaner?

An outcome-based perspective is much more useful. Do they live longer, and by how much?

Also, I'm always wary about definitions and confounding factors in these analyses. One could eat very poorly as a vegan (lots of processed vegetable oils, etc.) but on average they probably eat in a much more health-conscious manner. "Omnivores" as a category will tend to lump in people on bologna sandwich and pepsi diets with people who eat mostly unprocessed foods, watch their energy balance and macros, etc.

Are there any studies that compare vegans with health-focused omnivores?
Also - we are currently launching another Hubble, called WFIRST. This was provided by a 3 letter US agency and required a mirror redesign. Launch costs are not a factor now, and weren’t then either.
It's pretty clearly not bad, given how many successful languages use it. Java, C#, C++, Kotlin. Windows, macOS, KDE, GNOME. They're all mainstream OO and for good reasons.

Fragile ABI is basically a C++ problem. Java has had a stable OO ABI for 25 years now. The .NET ABI has gone through a few iterations, but is stable now. Of course Microsoft also had COM, which is/was a stable OO ABI accessible to many languages including C++ and was arguably just a subset of the C++ ABI without templates.

In the AOT compiled work Swift now has a stable OO ABI (sort of). Rust is interested in getting one. Lack of a stable ABI is not an OO problem but more a problem of languages that are designed to compile ahead of time to native code and use native formats as their primary artifact format.

Most features OO has reduce complexity and bugs, that's why people use them. There's no comparison between a clean OO API and the de-facto standard state before that, e.g. POSIX, Win32, Carbon.
>> phone books and ... contacts?

> messages ... calls ... location

The response ignores the question.
> it always struck me as a self-indulgent intellectual exercise with little practical relevance.

It largely is. But you could say that of most work in pure mathematics or physics, or of pure research in any number of other disciplines.

Generative grammar led to an enormous leap in our understanding of the grammatical structure of human languages. For example, we now know with a high degree of confidence that all natural languages have mildly context-sensitive string languages. There wasn’t even the glimmer of that result in the 1950s.

It’s also worth noting that any rule-based NLP system makes use of a wealth of syntactic, semantic and phonological knowledge gained from Chomsky’s research program and its outshoots.
I was like this when I was a vegan :)
> I prefer my own bugs

In which case, you might wanna double check these return values https://github.com/tomszilagyi/upsc-snmp-agent/blob/8f35379d...
You can ask the website to take it down and you can sue the person who posted it why isn't that sufficient?
There's already an entire industry growing up around enabling cryptocurrencies to be spent using traditional payment rails too, though, for those who don't want to see their governments print away the value of their money.

Coinbase itself has a debit card that deducts directly from your crypto balance and allows you to swipe the card anywhere that normally takes Visa. They're even a card issuer for Visa in their own right, so they don't have to do it through partner banks.[0]

Spending crypto is easy, whether the vendor opts into using it or not, so if you do get paid in it, it's easy to use.

[0] https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-becomes-direct-visa-...
Nobody who has ever been on a high-fat diet will corroborate this. You can't just compare calories like that.

As for fibre, I disagree that it is satiating. It may make you feel "full", but that is not the same as being satiated. Your body doesn't tell you to "stop eating" just because your stomach is full of matter that it doesn't actually process. Blood sugar plays a role, as do many other things.

If it were any different, diets based around eating lots of high-volume/low-calorie food should "just work", but they just don't.
like what? can you elaborate?
That is some pretty amazing stuff, an presented in an very digestible form, which is unusual in this field.
AI has not made it feasible to censor at scale, that is not correct.

And as the article makes clear, the idea that Facebook is not responsible for the content its users create has nothing to do with the problem of misinformation. To solve one would not even touch the other.

The suggestions I replied to seem focused on holding Twitter and Facebook accountable for what is displayed on their own website, regardless of provenance. It's not clear to me how that would enable anyone to safely create content that Facebook doesn't believe should be published on its platform.

Without the separation of the creator of the content and the organization displaying that content, Facebook would grow more strict, not less.

Fundamentally, you're trying to involve the government in deciding what "truth" is. That seems much worse than misinformation, yes?
It’s my understanding that the main selling feature of AirTable is the hard coded views that they offer; calendars, kanban style planners, things like that. The slightly more structured nature of relational tables over spreadsheets lets you implement those fairly reliably.
> Rationality as a tool to serve yourself. A lot of SSC and AC10 is around this idea that rational intelligent thinking with self awareness of bias allows you to model the world accurately.

That sounds like an extraordinary claim that would require extraordinary evidence. No doubt physics and engineering have made great advances, but that doesn't mean that every social science that dresses itself up in the language of rationalism will be able to make similar advances, or really any advance at all. In fact, there is a case it will lead to regression rather than advancement:

Societies are very complex things made of people who respond to changing incentives. I don't believe anyone understands them very well, nor has any field in the social sciences established a track record of making highly accurate out of sample predictions, especially for the efficacy of interventions 10, 100, 1000 generations on. Even the simple question of "what keeps a society together?" is still a puzzling one, especially now that post-modern Western societies are disintegrating before our eyes and are failing to even biologically reproduce at replacement levels.

And so we turn to values. At least with values, it is possible to gain experimental knowledge in the laboratory of history. Societies reproduce values and compete with each other as well as with a hostile environment, so long lived societies should have acquired value systems more conducive to social survival.

And I don't think we can make much stronger claims than that.

Certainly someone just imagining stuff or doing some small experiments is unlikely to come up with robust rules for organizing society that will stand the test of time better than what comes from the long lived traditions of successful societies.
If it was licensed as copyleft it probably wouldn’t get used by Intel in the first place.
For one of those -- homelessness -- the costs to society for not housing everyone exceed what it'd take to simply give everyone some fixed shelter. We still give medical care to homeless people, we jail them (at costs far greater than housing would be), we offer a variety of social programs that aren't housing, and it all adds up to much more than they had a stable place to live. We'd be jailing fewer of them, and their health care needs would be less if they weren't exposed to the elements through rough sleeping night after night.

Why don't we? Because of so many people who point out the unfairness of someone who's not working at all getting housing for free from the government, when so many working people are struggling to house themselves.

So there's perhaps other unfairness at work there that people are unwilling to look at how solve (why is housing so expensive, relative to wages? why do we expect people to work 2-3 jobs and have no leisure time, no time to relax, just to satisfy the basic needs of survival?), and that alone seems to have boxed people into a system where we're jailing people and leaving them out in the elements, even though it costs us all more in the long run.

Where health care is concerned, what bothers me most is how outrageously expensive US care is for its outcomes, compared to every other western nation. That doesn't seem right, and doesn't seem like a good use of our society's money or human effort, expending so much money on systems that could easily be made unnecessary -- like medical billing and the mass of health care insurers.

(And then I had an ex whose father is a doctor, a GP, who lived a very nice life, and insisted that he deserved that...when I asked him what he thought about how doctors in other countries aren't so richly compensated, he only responded, "hey I went to med school, I deserve this," and he too couldn't conceive of a different ordering of things, because...I'm guessing here...his mind went to the couple of new cars in the driveway of his massive house in a tony suburb of an expensive east coast city, and how, had he had less, he might have just one new car instead of two...but that's a speculation on my part. I wasn't inside his head.)
HAProxy Wild Discovery at Gitlab
I currently use i3status-rust. with a lot of custom blocks, with X. I'm thinking of switching to Sway. Did you have any config problems?
> the US vaccination system is about the worst when it comes to preventing spread

You have to take a few factors into account when deciding if preventing the spread is your objective. Given the staggering number of cases already out there, the time it takes to vaccinate so many people, and the number of people not willing to be vaccinated, your preferred strategy would be slow (if it worked at all, due to some people refusing to be vaccinated).

In addition, people in the high-risk groups are not fully isolated. Some work, some walk around without masks, some travel. People tend to cluster in age groups, so if one person in the 65+ group gets it, they're going to interact with others in that age group. If a college student gets it, the probability of sustained interaction with someone over 65 is much lower.
Nice to meet you :-)

You're right that Addamark wasn't open source and wasn't a storage option, but it was indeed built with a Postgres base.

Here's the paper (2002):

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa2002/tech/full_pape...

There were non-Postgres SQL columnar stores as well, most notably Sybase IQ, which dates to the 1990s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_IQ
If we have a health care system that's effectively only available to the very well-off, that's not a good health-care system -- it doesn't even deserve to be called one.
Yes, of course the correlation/causation issue is true as always. I am sorry if I gave the impression of presenting a study or meta analysis. Not sure I understand what I did wrong (English is my second language), it was meant to be perceived as an anecdote.

I think any change you make will feed into changing other things about you.

In my case I changed only diet. This in turn changed me so that I could move more. Both of those things changed how I sleep. Which again feeds back into new changes about my mood and goals. I do not think I could have started with one of the other changes and end up here. Especially in my own circumstance.
"Are they really improving the chances of Covid not spreading by putting their knees in the middle of the back of young women and putting their hands in handcuffs?"
idk, expensive cars?
I use Waybar.
The long-term capital gains rate is 0% for single people whose income and short-term capital gains are under $40k per year, or married people under $80k.[0]

"People who pay no income tax" absolutely can apply to people using cryptocurrencies.

[0] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/capital-gains-tax-r...
There are both Vitamin D and B12 supplements, but in both cases it is better to get them from natural sources. D from the sun and B12 with some kind of food where it occurs naturally.
Have you evaluated something like Fréchet distance or one of its simplified variations?
Zircon... Another Google-product... No thanks!

What's your opinion on Genode (on seL4)?

(redox-os seems to be heading the way of the dodo as well...)
Self hosted and open source alternative is https://directus.io/

They switch from PHP to Node recently
> It’s nice to have the option to be completely decentralised (…)

I think "nice" downplays the importance of the possibility of self-custody. Despite the majority of people perhaps not opting to control their own keys, the mere possibility has interesting game theoretical implications that will keep neobanks like Coinbase in check.
As another (ex but not disillusioned) linguist, can I ask what’s the alternative? Say I’m puzzled by the acquisition of Antecedent Contained Deletion structures. I know how to tell a broadly Chomskian story about it. What other options are on the table?

I hear lots of broad brush criticism of generative linguistics, but in almost all cases it turns out that the proposed alternative approaches are just working on different problems, and aren’t really alternatives at all.
You still have the right to sue the originator of the content, Section 230 just recognises the reality that platform owners (from Facebook down to little guy with a comment section on his blog) are not the originator of the content just because they filter spam and/or [occasionally] delete something manually. Without that, they would of course have deleted a lot more users and a lot more content a lot earlier, because who wants to pay the legal bills for defending some random citizen's claim about a person or company?

How would a "due process" proposal even work? Do we have the US government step in and set global rules determining what is and isn't legitimate speech and who should have posting rights on your website? And if so, how is this making the Internet more free?
I don't want deplorables to be able to spread poison easier. A dumb pipe with user side filtering wouldn't allow major platforms to deny neo nazis, anti vaxxers, and cults a platform.
> It does not and never has obligated any private persons or business to listen, rebroadcast, or not *react" to what you say. You have never been protected from the consequences of your speech within your community, nor has anyone been required to enable it.

So there might be an example of the supreme court requiring just that: in a case called Marsh vs. Alabama, a private community (a company town) was forced to allow some mormons to keep door-knocking on private property because of First Amendment rights.

Something to the effect of 'if you have enough control over private space, you start to take on an increasing blend of public square obligations'. At least, that is the conclusion I drew from the below article. Unfamiliar domain name but I got it from memeorandum so it's not afaik some completely off the rails screed.

https://lpeproject.org/blog/after-the-great-deplatforming-re...
The one thing I used to really enjoy about developing for Nintendo platforms once they've aged a bit is being able to have fast test-play cycles without hardware; for Gameboy Advance or Nintendo DS the emulators were very good and fully-featured (debuggers, memory inspection, etc.)

Unfortunately with Switch we're not there, and I don't think we ever will be. These emulators target, in order of priority, Cracked/Dumped Retail Games, then Homebrew games. I can't use them as part of my game development stack because they won't run binaries if they haven't been submitted to Nintendo to be signed (and subsequently cracked).
There is a "Coinbase Wallet," though, which is somewhat confusingly a separate app where you actually do hold your own private keys.[0]

You can seamlessly link your exchange account and your Wallet account so you can move the money right into your own Coinbase Wallet with your own private keys as soon as you're done with the exchange.

I'm not sure the parent comment meant that wallet, but Coinbase does "give you a wallet" if you want, complete with your own private keys.

[0] https://wallet.coinbase.com/faq/
It's not a Wayland problem, ibus does not work in KDE even on X11.
This takes me back to the time when I wanted to determine which of my two cats is the one who makes the first move in their daily game of shess (it's like chess, but both the colours are black/brown and you don't move pieces - you just place them) in the bathroom.

I hooked a webcam to an old netbook and downloaded an app which would take a picture whenever it detected motion.

What I didn't take into account was the mirror in the hallway which during sunset would reflect sunlight at just the right angle to hit the toilet bowl.

In the end my results were a time-lapse of the sun shining on porcelain, because the mirror was far away enough to make the sun's movement trigger the motion detection sensing done by the app.
> Fundamentally, you're trying to involve the government in deciding what "truth" is. That seems much worse than misinformation, yes?

We already have the courts involved in deciding what "truth" is. Has worked out pretty well in general, and certainly better than having private companies do it.
From Unix v6 to Advanced Programming in a Unix Environment it's a tiny step to do, and knowing C+Unix/Posix it's a huge advantage today.
Counterpoint to your counterpoint, there are also whole civilizations in the Western world, for ex, the peoples of Southern Europe (France, Spain, Italy, Greece) who are total omnivores and boast some of the highest life expectancy rates in the whole world. They don't eat a magical "Mediterranean" diet or other such nonsense: most people will eat a wide variety of things, from vegetables, to fatty processed foods like cheese and sausage.

My point is I don't think there is a single "Western" diet with distinct health outcomes (just like the "Mediterranean" diet is also a myth).
Plug: Just wrote a piece on this topic that you might enjoy reading: https://www.heinrichhartmann.com/posts/2021-03-08-rank-decom...
These are all technical and business considerations that make clear that the change in terms of service are not bad. I don't think the controvery is about the change in terms, but more about what is and was already happening.

If WhatsApp is doing things that are just on the border of legal, or let's say unpleasant for a lot of people, every time the terms of service get updated, people will be confronted with them. That is a risk, looking at what WhatsApp is doing. If I were CEO of WhatsApp I would want to be as quiet as possible about what kind of things that are happening outside of view. Every change to these terms of service, every time you point them out, you run the risk of people complaining about all the unpleasant things that are happening.
> It allows the NYT to hide behind pawns they would love to sacrifice in the name of spreading convenient lies.

And when it comes to Twitter or other sites, how do you sue one of its users who posts libel and defamation about your character, when said user is hiding behind a VPN anyway?

Twitter is hosting the content, and chooses not to take it down, so if that content breaks actual laws (libel, cyberstalking, etc), they should be held responsible for it.

Whereas if it falls within the purview of free speech, then they should have nothing to worry about.

I realize it's not a popular sentiment here because we want to build platforms and not worry about the legality, but giving websites blanket immunity to host law-breaking content because "it was posted by someone else" means that all of our laws become unenforcable on the internet.
> Protein spikes your insulin just as much as carbs do. A steak will raise your insulin levels more than a plate of spaghetti.

Maybe on paper, but it's not the same effect. If I eat a steak, my blood sugar doesn't go up and then way down, it stays constant. I'm not going to be hungry soon afterwards.

> Most of the problems people attribute to carbs really only pertain to refined carbs.

I did explicitly refer to "simple carbs" and "excess consumption".
Don't forget your health capital (meat and milk) at early age...
I don't think we can recommend a vegan diet for toddlers and babies...
As a 41 y/o guy without kids I very much agree. I have my bad days when I can't focus well even if I am surrounded by complete silence but I am very grateful for no persistent distractions like kids when I can.

Plus many acquaintances of mine reported that they had to resort to making a small room in their apartment a dedicated home office which they had to lock in order to prevent distractions from their kids.
Is there an algorithm for the perfect biryani?
This is a very good example of how difficult can be the biology sometimes.

Different social strata.

Parents working in different jobs, maybe more prone to go in contact with dangerous substances or living in more contaminated areas.

Different diets, maybe relying more in very cheap food choices.

Different country, with different resources and laws that could lead this women to not be fully aware of the local opportunities available in their pregnancy, or how to ask for their rights.

Recent campaigns of hate against immigrants in Swedden, that could lead to a worse treatment in hospitals by one or a few racist members of the staff.

Not able to pay for a premium healthcare while giving birth.

And immigrants live in countries with poor environmental laws and endure a dangerous travel that can damage their health. Dangerous levels of heavy metals were found in workers that had to burn hardware and recycle computers in a third world country to pay for their travel to Europe, for example. Somali people also eat a lot of migrant fish (aka: mercury with fins).

Vitamin D is just one in a thousand of possible explanations
Thanks for asking, here’s some context: https://sonnet.io/posts/ulysses/
What compiler does plan9 use?
Not to this extent, we do not. This would be a whole additional level, multiple levels even, more subjective.

Honestly, it feels like a moot point anyway. The 1st Amendment makes all of this pointless to discuss. It will never happen, short of a literal collapse of the US Government and a reformation under a new Constitution that doesn't include the 1st Amendment.

The government will never be involved in deciding what people can and can't say to the extent that this would require. It's antithetical to our current legal system (not to mention our cultural mores).

Of course Twitter gets to decide what to publish on Twitter. There's literally no other way to operate, regardless of Section 230.
I think you're underestimating the number of people that run their git server. given the fact that running a "git server" can be as easy as running "git init --bare" on an empty directory on a server for which your team has ssh access
Just use SIMH and learn to do it, dammit.
Yes, indeed; sorry for not spelling it out. I picked up some 24 books from it. Definitely worth a careful reading.
Tanzanians have no idea if their President is alive or dead