skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proper large scale, long term RCTs have almost never been done in the human nutrition field. In order to really get the "controlled" part of an RCT the researchers have to confine people somewhere that all of their food and beverage intake can be accurately counted. Obviously this is very expensive and researchers can't ethically confine people in controlled environments for years. At most those studies have been done with very small subject counts for a few months at a time: hardly sufficient to obtain reliable results.

So as a practical matter most studies tend to rely on subject reported data, which is notoriously inaccurate. People forget to record little snacks, or don't weigh their portions, or lie about their behavior because they're ashamed.
Can you please not post shallow dismissals and put other people's work down like this? Putdowns tend to get upvoted, and then they sit at the top of threads, letting off toxic fumes and making this a nasty place. We're trying to avoid that here. (I've downweighted this subthread now.)

I'm not sure why name-calling and meanness attract upvotes the way they do—it seems to be an unfortunate bug in how upvoting systems interact with the brain—but HN members need to realize that posts like this exert a strong conditioning effect on the community.

It's always possible to rephrase a comment like this as, for example, a curious question—you just have to remember that maybe you're not 100% aware of every consideration that went into someone's work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
CentOS replacement distro AlmaLinux gets commercial support options
Those usually connect over serial-esque busses, and they connect via a security chip. (Akin to the t2 chip but much lighter)

A far cry from the kind of tolerances and sustained high throughput of PCIe.
This warning is present, albeit in much smaller print, on all devices with a screen that you buy. The unofficial apple policy appears to be "repair starting from 1 dead pixel on iphone, 3 on ipad". Samsung has a policy which depends on the screen type: 1 for normal LCD, 3 for Super AMOLED, 4 for WVGA-resolution LCD. Every single manufacturer has this kind of clause, you cannot fault pine64 for this.

Though of course as it is a much smaller venture, you can’t hound a sales rep until they accept to repair it nonetheless.
“ Another difference related to the timing of our hobby's development is that the global economy today is a lot more dominated by a rentier class of millionaire ass holes than it was when the baseball card and comic book collecting hobbies were taking off in the 70s and 80s.”

It’s so wonderful when out of the blue someone who doesn’t know me reaches out and calls me an asshole. This sentiment is super ignorant, shortsighted and mean. I worked extremely hard to get what I have, and I had to put in the extra effort to pull myself free from the other crabs in the pot. And, surprise, the people who discouraged me from pursuing success, the people who’s thick skulls deflect inspiration and innovation like a force-field are the same people who say stupid shit like this.

Take all the “assholes” out of the equation and let’s see how the economy does. Good luck letting the government allocate capital. They tried it before and it didn’t work out.
Is there a good way of discovering other books/pamphlets like this that the government makes available (e.g. a curated list)? They're usually super interesting and have lots of good info, but I'm not sure how to find them other than picking a federal/state/county department and poking around their site to see what PDFs they have available. I've found trail guides, local plant guides, walking maps, etc. via that approach, but it's time-intensive and I wouldn't have stumbled across this guide unless I had already heard about it.
DoNotPay asks for my bank account information (routing, checking) before even letting me set a password.

That's a bit too quick for me, DoNotPay. Let's have dinner first.
CPU power on $5 offerings from others is likely not as great. Also AWS did a free tier for everyone, and the spot market is fun…
Numerical modelling and optimization of vertical axis wind turbine pairs
My 16” had two speeds.

Quiet and cool with about 11 hours of battery life when writing, reading or some simple productivity stuff.

Fast but loud and hot when doing anything else with about 3 hours of battery life. Even the Touch Bar (which I don’t hate, but I also don’t love) is uncomfortable to the touch.

It seems there is no in between. I’m generally happy with the machine, but I’m very interested in what’s next for the big MBP.
Looks neat, and similar to ddg's bang searches. I set ddg as my default search engine, and use it similarly, `!tw Joe Biden` in my Firefox search bar to search for tweets about Joe Biden and the like.
Glad you liked it! Definitely will be providing the best support!
That doesn't seem to be a problem in this case? Telling spammers they are blocked due to copyrighted images trains them not to upload copyrighted images. Win-win.
I'm not trying to start an Off-topic religious debate here. Sorry for coming over condescending. If you read "all Muslims" you read far too much in it: the fundamentialist part is important. Nor did I say, nor imply that this goes for anyone who identifies as Muslim. If you read that: I'm truly sorry.

I know from experience that the statement holds true for several Christian fundamentalists and Jewish fundamentalist (not all!)communities. I have only read (but not from experience) about how women (especially those of other sects) were treated in the Chalifate from ISIS and how their "work" was deemed slave-worthy.
The 4D Chess Move Elon Musk and Tesla Just Made
But guys Bitcoin is worthless!

/s

In time it will be obvious why an alternative to USD is needed.

(And hopefully one of the shitcoins can find a low cost, decentralized, secure, fast way to transfer money so Bitcoin can copy it)
An A.I. Finally Won an Elite Crossword Tournament
You say that, but I've seen plenty of modern war videos where US soldiers are pointing/shooting weapons manually and locating enemies only by seeing them with their eyes.
Typically unikernels have a single application in them because then you can fully specialize the entire image to the needs of that single application. Having said that, it is entirely possible to place multiple applications in one unikernel, each in its own thread; we have done a few of these in the past.
Tokio async runtime for Rust has a tutorial in its user guide https://tokio.rs/tokio/tutorial on writing a mini-redis (https://github.com/tokio-rs/mini-redis).
It's only hard to get because IATA doesn't easily provide it. IATA isn't "a" provider of the data, they are the data. It would be like if you had to purchase a list of the bus stops and schedule in your city from your transportation department.
> I only wish someone would have shown me this way earlier so I wouldn't have wasted so much time

I'm in a similar place in my life where I have acknowledged the barrel and started to work on addressing the things in it. I too regret not doing this earlier, but I realize that the younger me would not have been receptive as I am right now to such wisdom and experience, and the younger me certainly would not work as hard as I am working right now.
> Instead, platforms are now firmly in the business of balancing societal interests.

the problem here of course is that it is not so easy to define what "societal interest" are at any moment, plus what makes Twitter qualified to pass judgment?
Nope. Lets say IRB made the correct decision and demanded informed consent. Then informed consent must be requested from ALL participants, maintainers, and reviewers of the study. Higher up maintainers don't make that decision for others in this scenario, sorry. Novel or not, lets be completely honest with ourselves, it's not an easy experiment to frame properly.
> V8 is incredibly fast, but front-end developers have somehow found a way to slow it down

You're not wrong with your commentary which is basically surmised by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

> Chrome uses a ton of memory. Is this necessary?

Correct me if I am wrong, but to an extent, isn't the memory bloat inherent to Chrome's sandboxing model? Having worked on a similar project, I firmly believe remote rendering is not only better speed wise but also efficiency wise. In some cases, might be better security wise, too.

Browsers are probably what I need keep open all the time along with other IDEs; and of the two, I'd prefer to teleport the Browser away to free up RAM (speak nothing of the battery). Right now, I see Firefox take up 75% of the available RAM starving other applications. Enabling swap only makes matters worse; and slows the PC to a crawl whenever page swaps to/from disk, which is usually the case when navigating between different IDE windows and the browser.

Given the amount of SaaS apps and the pace of its adoption across enterprises, Mighty, if it solves the problem it set out to, is likely to laugh all the way to the bank.

Edit: The launch blog post is worth a read: https://blog.mightyapp.com/mightys-secret-plan-to-invent-the...
You can do the banking (from most banks) and food ordering from a web browser on your smartphone. No apps required. Grubhub, Uber Eats, Doordash, all those sorts of things. Most of them have a web version, and you can use that instead of an app most of the time. Just shake loose the Apple-induced app mentality that keeps you locked in.
> The country needs a one child policy

That's going to be a disaster, its dawning on China that this was a mistake. You end up with a demographics that skewed towards the old, and that brings its own problems.

India is not a problem that can be solved in an HN comment
The causes of the Great Irish famine were those imposed by capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Causes_...

The market decided that the starving people who harvested crops didn't need to eat them, because people would pay more for those crops elsewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Food_ex...

10 million people starved in the Bengal famine: https://www.mensxp.com/special-features/today/27992-the-forg...
In theory, no. The Federal Reserve has a mandate from congress to achieve full employment and stable prices, but can do so how they see fit. Their actions need not be ratified by the executive branch. The board of governors are also appointed for 14 year terms.
Chrome.exe has been breaking the internet for years. There is no bigger malware producer than Google itself.
Yes, that's right. If you do not include a module that could potentially be used, you'd be missing that symbol and it would not compile.
> I actually suspect they’ll be launching a free SSD replacement program in the next couple years.

Not even the most alarmist estimates suggest that the SSDs on the 8GB machines will start dying after two years!

At the moment the SSD lifetime concerns are little more than FUD. Everything we know is perfectly consistent with these machines having SSD lifetimes of a decade, even with heavy usage.
Mazda was rumored to be working on a Volt like EV, but with a Rotary (Wankel) engine as the range extender. Wankels are ideal for this since they are incredibly small and light compared to the power they produce. And a range extender would be their ideal use case. Most issues with their seals happen from too low or too high of RPMs - when running a charger the engine can stay in its ideal RPM zone.

EDIT: It is no longer a rumor - thanks to another commenter I lost who linked to this: https://www.thedrive.com/news/40168/2022-mazda-mx-30-ev-the-...

While others may be content waiting around for sufficient charging infrastructure or blaming the customer I'm not. If I go EV it will be one with a range extender. Or I'll just keep my gassers until the infrastructure catches up.

It took 50 years for the highway network and gas station infrastructure to build out for gas powered cars - we have just begun to start with EVs and range extenders are the perfect transitional key that will generate the need for the charging networks while still providing practical ways for people to as effortlessly get around as they do with their gas car today.

You can't make the users experience worse than moan and complain people aren't flocking to your bright, shiny new thing. And that's the big problem with electric only cars right now - there is no good solution for longer trips where you need more energy quickly. I don't care if the majority of peoples trips fit well within an all electric car's operating parameters - the outliers must be addressed too.
I feel you are bit confused what print stylesheets are? They are exactly the opposite of having special version of the page for printing, and instead just restyling the same page for different media. That is why the printable=yes page is "no longer supported" in wikipedia, because it doesn't need a special printable page anymore, it can use just print stylesheet on the normal page instead.

This is what the print style looks on screen on Firefox on my computer: https://ibb.co/QN6Gsjk

Pretty decent if you ask me. Sure, technically its not separate stylesheet in Wikipedias case, but media queries, but the effect is the same.
These tunings will only be used if you compile stuff yourself with -march=native (or specifying one particular model). Most software out there would be compiled with generic non-tuned optimizations. The tuning is rarely a huge deal though.
I have an M1 MacBook Air, and I’m blown away.
I cannot wait for a 16 inch MacBook Pro with whatever madness they have planned.

I love the direction Apple is headed with their hardware.
I have worked on teams where we rushed to deploy things that we knew should be faster or more resource efficient. The incentives are simply not aligned right now — it usually pays to get stuff out even if it’s a bit slow, and the cost of browser resources are not yours to bear. This results in webpages with janky rendering (the Mighty home page itself may be guilty of this) or web apps with performance issues.

Implementing the browser as a VNC client is a clever approach but seems to be a band-aid for browser performance instead of attacking root cause. Shifting the incentives for product development teams could be a more permanent solution. Perhaps by imposing stricter resource restrictions in the browser or by adding performance metrics to search engine algorithms that go beyond initial load time.

EDIT: Reading other comments, it sounds like the founders have ideas for the cloud browser that go beyond performance. I’ll be curious to see how this plays out.
I know, right? I tried Venmo, PayPal, my own bank...none of them offer it. Even though my bank is one of the biggest banks in the country that has a great online banking portal and my boyfriend and I bank at the same place.

Not everybody is going to be comfortable providing credentials to a third party, I totally understand...but that is what's generally required in the US banking system for API access to bank accounts at multiple institutions, for better or for worse. If it makes you feel any better, we do have info on our security practices (https://plaid.com/safety/) on our site as well as a portal (my.plaid.com) to manage preferences and delete information. We're also committed to moving 75% of our traffic to bank APIs by the end of 2021 and launching OAuth-based authentication for a few big banks in the US soon (so that you don't have to give us access to your credentials at all) -- maybe yours will be one of them! :-)
Well explained article. Good job OP!
Though I think the comment is more about https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer
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iPad Camera Multitasking Entitlement
>Maybe the commenter has a very interesting use for it, but why would you buy a 256 GB RAM machine (which isn't a lot of memory for this arena either) to develop the model, instead of using something smaller to work on it and leasing a big cluster for the minutes to hours of the day that you'll need to train it on the actual dataset?

A 128GB of a ram in a consumer PC is about $750 dollars (desktop anyway, laptop may be more?). That's less than a single high end consumer gaming GPU. Or a fraction of a Quadro GPU.

So to the extent that developers ever run things on their local hardware (CPU, GPU, whatever) 128GB of RAM is not much of a leap. Or 256GB for Threadripper. It's in the ballpark of having a high-end consumer GPU.
Ampere basically started as a re-labeled XGene from Applied Micro which started back in 40nm days. And they came with quite some cash to start with: their backer is Carlyle Group, the biggest LBO shop in the world.

Nuvia basically never intended to really compete Intel, or AMD heads on. Their $30m stash would've been just enough for a single "leap of faith" tapeout on a generation old node, and a year of life support after.

They were aiming for a quick sell from the start too.
I know this is not a new idea, and this is precisely why I think we should know better.

If our computers are not fast enough to run thin clients (what a web browser is) to display documents then I think we should do something about it instead of trying to offload the bloat somewhere in the cloud.
Germany is trying to do the mercantilism thing as well.

I think the fundamental differentiation is the degree of state involvement, Han nationalism etc..

I don't want to use this word because it's a trigger and possibly misleading but 'Fascist' might actually be the best word to describe what China is right now. The economy is not centrally planned, but managed in coordination with major actors who often seem to want to participate in 'nation building'. There's a strong Han-nationalism among the people, very strong sense of national identity, mass propaganda, ethnocentrism. All of those later qualities are an important part of what is happening, but we in the West tend to think of them as 'cultural' issues. But really it's part of the overall picture. I think a lot of workers wouldn't be working quite as hard if there weren't some kind of national/cultural glory in it.
I worked at car shopping related site. We had just done the yearly replatforming to Angular, then the rereplatforming to make it server side rendered, and then the complaints started. It wasn't many, but I read our feedback report every single day and it was a few a day which is actually pretty notable. I knew from user testing and interviews that when shopping for used cars people would print out a few of the details pages and look at them side by side on paper. They were typically older but isn't like it was only old people who did this. Younger people who were more price conscious did as well since they really took their time. But after all the fancy new frameworks the page printed out on something like 10 sheets of paper when it would have fit on one. Most of them were blank. I managed to get a week of a dev's time to hack something barely usable together, but even getting that took some pleading.

Next time you design a site that gets any use by a wide, tech illiterate audience, print it out and see how it looks. I guarantee you someone is printing it out and then cursing you.
Around $100k in 2018 and around $400k now if mtgprice.com is reliable.
I suppose that’s a fair comment. The whole build system and IDE slow down when working with Swift. It’s possible Swift wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for faster processors.

One nice thing is Swift is slow to build but quick at runtime.
My workflow is hugely reliant on entr. I use it to rerun a command whenever I save a file.

1. Configure vim to touch a well-known file on save.
2. Create a command `w` which reruns it's arguments whenever that file is touched.

I must run hundreds of reruns under this setup every day. Basically every language, every too, everything runs on this. Changing my NixOS config? `w sudo nixos-rebuild test` Writing rust? `w cargo ltest` running terraform? `terraform init && w terraform plan`.
Like what? Modern maintenance intervals are way longer than in the past, and vehicles today are way more reliable and last longer in general.
Ethics don't need to be taught -- people willing to put ethics before other interests don't need to be taught how to think about things, and people who don't put ethics before their other interests aren't going to be persuaded by a 3 credit elective.
Yep, see the success of the Nova editor.
Vaccine makers say IP waiver could hand technology to China and Russia
LOL. I am sorry but I need to print this one out and frame it somewhere. For one, the current environment is entirely fueled by government money. It’s quite literally a wealth transfer. Second, I’ve yet to meet an asshole who’s actually good at anything. But they’re great at exploitation.
AArch64 is load-store + fixed-instruction-length, which is basically what "RISC" has come to mean in the modern day. X86 in 2001 was already… not that :)
Lyft/Uber: robotaxi tap-out
I find this stuff fascinating not to mention helpful.

Here is similar book regarding axe care.

An Axe to Grind https://www.fs.fed.us/t-d//pubs/pdfpubs/pdf99232823/pdf99232...
From my own anecdotal evidence I think a lot of people absolutely underestimate the impact of home charging (even at "trickle" Level 1 in the US) versus "range anxiety". In the nearly a decade I've had my PHEV, two of my three daily commutes I could and did entirely every day on the range I can Level 1 trickle charge entirely at home overnight.

People massively over-estimate the range they think they need because they don't take things like home charging into account.
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This is so creative!

I never would've thought making a Latex for diagrams! I can't think of an immediate use case but this is really cool!
> Mighty streams your browser from a powerful computer in the cloud.

So Mainframes and dumb AS400 terminals are back in vogue again. Computer technology is truly cyclical in nature.
The main issue I have with C++ is that you basically have to relearn it from scratch every time a standard comes out. C++11 threw away decades of best practices, and C++17 again changed so many things it's hard to keep track of them (for instance, stuff like `string_view` has had a _huge_ impact on how I write code and how I reason about strings, making `const char *` almost disappear from some of my codebases).

C++20 with concepts and ranges will revolutionise everything, again, because those features are so big and pervasive they make lots of patterns and "older" parts f the language suddenly feel like "legacy". For instance, I see concepts vastly reducing the need for inheritance in lots of cases, massively simplifying what lots of folks like me were already doing with SFINAE and templates.
Really enjoyed Dragon's Egg about life on a neutron star.

> The adults of the star's most intelligent species, called cheela (no flexion for gender or number), have about the same mass as an adult human. However, the extreme gravity of Dragon's Egg compresses the cheela to the volume of a sesame seed,[2] but with a flattened shape about 0.5 millimeters (0.020 inches) high and about 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) in diameter. Their eyes are 0.1 millimeters (0.0039 inches) wide. Such minute eyes can see clearly only in ultraviolet and, in good light, the longest wavelengths of the X-ray band

> By humans' standards, a "day" on Dragon's Egg is about 0.2 seconds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg