skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either of these theories [not enough good protein/too much bad protein] could contribute to disease, yes.

The correct function of the disease-causing 'major prion protein' in humans is not known, so I think the answer is "we don't quite know which of these factors is more important".

We observe that diseased brains have 'plaques' where they have been turned into sponge, so-called "spongiform encephalopathy". The brain's neurons have simply died, one way or another.
How to find an old introduced bug using Git – Git bisect introduction?
All washing machines I bought in the last decade had delayed start mechanism.
This also feels like inflation.
Thanks for the tip. All my experience is based on the use of an analog oscilloscope. Analog Discovery 2 looks interesting though. I will definitely take a look on it.
I think "RPG" means "you control a character whose stats and/or gear you can (significantly) improve". That's what almost all of these games have in common. It's also what the term LitRPG is about in fiction - statboxes, xp, and levels.

Maybe the game also needs to have combat of some kind.
OpnSense has long been the better option. It forked from pfsense years ago and has been better for a long time. Netgate engaged in some shameful behavior after the fork, their mistreatment of Jason isn't their first instance.
I don’t think I know anyone who frequently pirates music anymore…

Mostly due to superior products coming out (Rdio, Spotify) but given that a founder of Spotify was involved in the torrent community, don’t think it’s a crazy theory to say the legal pressure created product pressure.
What do you use them for that is really helpful? I’m considering getting some Hue lightbulbs, but it seems like a bit of a waste.
The feeling you have of force is due to resting on something that's holding you up. If you take that away, you would be in the same gravitational field but feel no forces on you and your accelerometer would measure 0m/s/s.

If you jump off a bridge, during your brief flight you could look at your accelerometer and see zero. The gravitational influence on you hasn't changed at all by jumping off a bridge- the only change was removing the upward force that stopped you from falling.
One thing I've heard a lot is "We know we can always fix it in Varnish".

By this people mean things like printing the wrong URL in a full-page sunday newspaper add or splitting traffic based on first digit of customer-number and stuff like that.

Some of the screwups Varnish-ops have fixed are truly the stuff of legends, but telling them belongs to their heros :-)
I won’t argue that many won’t need 16GB of RAM, because I don’t know what people use their laptop for. I will argue that if you need 16GB because a chat application and a browser already pushes the system above 8GB, then something in the software is broken.

Some wrote on their blog, sorry don’t remember who, if Electron apps (which I assume the Telegram client is) uses to many resources, then don’t argue that it should be a native application, instead ask if we can make Electron more efficient. That’s a smart idea.
He's a hack who was going to leave and cover Israel, but was called back to cover Trump because he has a lot of Republican sources… aka he just publishes whatever they tell him and claims it's true because they said it was true.

This is one of the reasons so many people think Trump-Russia was a hoax even though he obviously actually did it and both the Mueller report and the Republican Senate investigation said he did it.

He's also part of the NYT's gang of terminal both-sides/horse race political reporters, I believe to the point of not voting because he doesn't want to take a side.
I think the panels and digitizer used in automotive applications are pretty specialized and relatively expensive. They have environmental requirements that far surpass that of typical consumer products.
pretty sure that extra path was carved for/by bicycles
One does not need to watch TV. I haven't watched any TV program for more than 20 years. I might purchase a radio in the near future though.
Genuine question: how is the lack of digital chips going to make a toaster more robust?
Which is why need broader dialogue on these problems. So people who are not already deeply invested in those problems (or underlying technologies) can start thinking about how to manage them effectively.
Such a generalization cannot possibly be taken seriously. The amount of RAM one requires varies with how the machine is used and even how often; a slow machine once in a while is less annoying than a machine that's slow all day every day.

I can't use an 8gb laptop because 1 vm or too many open browser tabs along with an app or two based in electron and after some time the thrashing commences.

My daughter is perfectly happy with the 8gb laptop I gave here. Kind of wish I could put half of that in my laptop. <g>
It's not really about sales.

First, sales numbers can only really ever tell you part of the story. If every fridge has a screen, sales numbers won't tell you about the demand for screenless fridges. If, at that point, some manufacturer tests a screenless fridge, the sales numbers might tell you about a lack of demand or might tell you about a failure in marketing. Additionally, if fridges with screens can be used to advertise to customers, get them to sign up for subscription services, steal their data, avoid the expense of bifurcating the line of fridges, or otherwise increase profit or decrease costs, they will be manufactured anyway.
are we talking about assemble in the USA? any low labors cost country can assemble the phone. it doesn't have to be China. Foxconn already have a factory in India and Samsung in Vietnam.

design can be done in the USA like Apple. component like corning gorilla glass is made in the USA. chips can be produce in the USA with Intel IDM 2.0 or TSMC in Taiwan.

it will cost the same since you can outsource assembly
EFF's blog post on it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/proctoring-tools-and-d...
I think that might be unprovable.

A concurrent could always buy your product and send itself a fake mail promising a discount for a good review, then report the fake mail to amazon.

I don't know if that actually happens in practice.
We are in the iPod Video stage of individual car ownership.
Yea I find it hard to believe that science fiction has been predicting little rectangular computers used for nearly any purpose imaginable for several decades but it was completely lost on Steve Jobs that putting a computer in a person's pocket might result in them using it as much as much as people use other computers.
Chef transplants are bringing new flavor to suburbs and smaller cities and towns
You say that, but this article is going to be a shot in the fin for Big Sardine.
Even Donenfeld has said the Userspace implementation in Go isn’t very good.
Agreed, I hate that. I don't want to hear about test failures, syntax errors, compile errors, or anything like that until I ask for it.
This only captures half the equation.

The skills of creation and the skills of promotion seldom occur in the same person. Most great promoters are con artists; most creators and inventors can’t sell.

Elon Musk is a person with the promotional skills of a con artist but who actually knows how to do things. He can sell a vision and then also is a good enough engineer to make the right high level design choices and hire the right talent to have some chance of realizing it.

He also seems to have the intent of shipping. A good percentage of master promoters are conscious con artists with no desire to actually create value. (Most of the rest are delusional unconscious con artists.)

SpaceX has built the first economically reusable booster and is rapidly iterating on the first economically and fully reusable (including the second stage) heavy lift launch system. Tesla validated the market for EVs and is in many ways still the best EV maker. I strongly doubt the EV revolution would be happening so fast without Tesla.

The competence part is not even mentioned here. The world is full of master promoters. The vast majority of them sell snake oil.
Monero is just a digital currency anyway, similar to Bitcoin if Bitcoin had cheap transactions. You can hardly run anything on the network. Something like Ethereum might be an option once it scales properly and when transaction costs come down. I do agree there needs to be a financial incentive to run nodes. A blockchain which does not discriminate in terms of applications running on it could be very valuable in the future. Privacy is important, not just from a civil rights point of view but for businesses too. There's a reason corporations care about IT security and encryption.
It is exactly analogous to piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries including that pirates operate out of states that are too strong to just outright destroy. When the states were no longer too strong to destroy, they were destroyed as in the 1816 destruction of Algiers by naval bombardment.

It's not just Russia but anywhere that is outside the reach of US court orders and extradition treaties.
Static Gravity (instantaneously, when nothing is moving) is the curvy shape of the Universe, created by massive objects. In that sense gravity not really there, it's just a description of the shape. But when the universe changes shape (due to particles moving or being created or destroyed), those changes happen in gravitational waves that travel no faster than the speed of light.
Thanks!

I wonder how many features like this exist that I could use if I knew about them.

Does anyone know if Netflix/Hulu/etc. have an accessible database of their content? Most of my search results reference a Netflix API that seems to no longer be accessible.
It’ll be a few years before we move off petrol.
Spies Like Us - Doctor, Doctor...

https://youtu.be/9UZWfMgjqAs
My government spent the better part of two decades bombing children in the Middle East. Why should I support that if I can choose not to?

Also, can you say I'm not being swindled if I'm spending nearly half my income on taxes?
Can a Nature Reserve Save Mexico's Sea Cucumbers?
It’s exciting that the EFF is getting a new sense of relevancy due to digitization of all the things through 2020.

They seem to be in a strong place to launch clear counterpoints to admin teams who signed up for whatever tech without really understanding it but are now trying to make admin findings with the tech.
The important feature of traditional accounts is that they’re all individually tied to some real-world entity. It’s hard to understand what money ultimately went where in a chain of 10,000 purposely convoluted transactions even if you can see the entire transaction record. Good luck creating 10k bank accounts to shuffle money around.
Nobody was working on self landing rockets. Nobody was working on electric cars.

We'd be waiting another 10 years for what we have today.
Yeah, so there are a lot of things we could optimize for on different kernels, but we prefer to not do so, until we have a really good reason.

As I said above, it is not obvious to me that we would gain much over what we already do, but I am keeping an eye on it.
As someone who reboots periodically just to clear dozens of windows with a hundred tabs or more, can affirm that this is the modern bane of my work existence.

+1 to making this better. Please.
People who do that are supposed to lose their flagging privileges.
I think the idea is that you accrue the interest yourself instead of paying it to someone else.
Ask HN: Allowing sign up from only work emails?
Why do some companies only allow signup with work email ids. When should a B2B SaaS company choose this strategy?
Money laundering online is quite seamless. Just launch an online store or something.
They’re talking about chips, which is the topic of the article. Not complete consumer electronics devices.
I believe Orchid [1] was one of the first decentralised VPNs to have multi-hop, but I'm not sure if it uses onion routing.

[1] https://www.orchid.com/
Exactly.

>It's not just Russia but anywhere that is outside the reach of US court orders and extradition treaties.

Indeed. It just so happens that the vast majority of these ransomware gangs operate out of Russia and neighboring states. Probably in part due to the confluence of good technical education options, a huge population, and a government that permits the activity. (Not trying to say anything about Russia or Russians but just its government's policy. If it were the US that had this policy, I'm sure the biggest ransomware gangs would operate in the US, instead.)

Another thing that reminds me of piracy (and also EVE Online piracy, for anyone who's played that game) is the strict adherence to the basic pirate code of honoring ransoms so that future victims will be willing to pay. They're as ruthless as they can be before payment, but if the victim cooperates and pays, then they'll keep their word - they provide the decryption key, don't release any of their data, and mark them to not be targeted in future ransomware campaigns. It's solely about making as much money as possible.
How many Firefox tabs do you have open? Any other apps at all? 2GB is way too low.
There were plenty of crackberry users who saw no reason to switch to an iphone until the app store became inevitable.
Well, there's Feynman diagrams. The problem is that there's a combinatorial explosion that severely limits certain simulations. Apparently this double-copy procedure can be used to cut down on the combinatorics, which is why physicists are excited about it.
Others have answered your question rather well. Let me offer a perspective.

I believe it was Feynman who said that theoretical physicists have a very simple goal: they just wants to predict the future. Now this might be impossible in full generality, but in controlled circumstances (which we usually call "experiments") they can often do a pretty good job of predicting the outcome.

As far as we know, predicting the future requires mathematics which is therefore the physicists' main tool. In doing so it is practical to give a name, like 'force' or 'geodesic motion' or 'particle' or 'wave', to certain mathematical concepts. But in my view one should not get too hung up on the precise meaning of any of those words, simply because it is not productive if the mathematics is already clear enough.

In fact, I think this is the most common misconception for people with a passing interest in physics. (See also discussions elsewhere on this page...) So allow me to stress this: these words really mean very little without the equations.

Of course, mine is just a physicist's perspective. I imagine your question would be the bread and butter for a philosopher.
>The amount of condescension and misplaced confidence displayed in that thread is impressive.

I would say that assuming condescension is assuming bad faith. If there is a comment that is truly rude and dismissive, it should be reported as a code of conduct violation. Otherwise, please don't assume the response is trying to put you down because it's disagreeing on technical grounds. Any bug report has to go through technical review, and the developers will almost always have more information about the code than the reporter.

>I hate hate hate the new search behavior, and would go back to the old ("type-ahead") behavior in a second if there was a setting I could toggle.

To give another opinion, I personally don't feel the same way about this, and I don't think it would be much benefit for there to be a setting.

>If you (or anyone reading this) is affiliated with the Gnome project, please reconsider how you handle and incorporate user feedback into your products.

I'm not affiliated, I'm just expressing my personal opinion on this, as you are. Not all user feedback is created equal. Sometimes, the developer must firmly say no because something isn't technically viable. Users don't decide what is technically viable or not, only the developer tasked with writing the code can make that decision. Sometimes, the developer is faced with a choice between competing requirements, and it's not possible to fulfill both technically. Once the decision has been firmly made, there's little purpose to accepting further feedback after that. Committing to a solution means the developer has to accept the effects of it, losing users is always a possible effect, but so is users changing their mind.
Pre-internet, I got my food science from Cook’s Illustrated magazine (paper). If you can score some bound annuals at a thrift store or on eBay, it’s a worthy dive.
Elon Musk, masterbater.
Depends on the interest rate of the loan, inflation rate of money between now and the time the loan is paid off, and any gains/losses you could make now investing that money.
Are you saying that the next step will be the best version of individual car ownership?
Could you provide an example? Because I did so, and you repeating exactly what you said earlier doesn't really invalidate mine. As far as I can tell, my example is valid and invalidates your theory that you need a theory to falsify another theory.
> The trouble is, this is a temporary shortage, so it makes no sense to spend serious cash (you're talking hundreds of millions) to make a new fab when the demand won't be there in a year or two.

While true, one could say it’s a bet on inflation to borrow dollars now for productive assets.
Maybe the thought is that there is no additional security is gained by using the VPN in this use case unless your threat model includes your ISP knowing you are using Tor. You're moving the trusted partner from your ISP to the VPN provider. Again, it comes down to an assessment of risk based on your threats.
True. However each alternative comes with a lot of baggage, and there is no easy way out:
1) it could be that locality doesn't hold (as in Bohmian mechanics), but then causality takes a big hit because we must accept that it can also work backward in time.
2) it could be that realism doesn't hold (which is the more commonly accepted evil) i.e. that there is no cause for the particular value emerging from the measurement of an entangled property. True randomness. (And yet, it satisfies the required correlations).

After years of losing sleep over it, I like to think that entangled properties are somehow 'part of the same whole', which is independent of space-time, and that space-time is a construct that emerges from the particular way decoherence seems to choose position and momentum as preferred bases.
I think it’s political tribalism more than anything else? It’s become more clear after this SNL thing.

On Twitter people on the left claim vaguely that Elon is bad and why is SNL doing this etc.

People on the right say Elon is great and SNL is normally unfunny.

In the former case I think it’s just because people associate Elon with the right for some reason.

The latter is easier to understand since a lot of SNL’s humor is explicitly political (not in a bad way imo).

Part of me wonders if the irreverent tweets were an intentional way to broaden his appeal. He needed EVs to go from “liberal” Prius symbols about the environment to cool.

That’s a Herculean task when you think about it. Even now there are still coal rolling truck drivers yelling at EVs, but the sentiment has definitely changed in a positive way.

He did this without having to embrace trump (unlike Thiel for instance).

I think his biggest miss was on covid, but he seems to agree that he was wrong.

I suspect a part of the left dislike is also around the progressive anti-billionaire/anti-capitalist sentiment, it makes Elon an easy “enemy”.

Putting all this aside and looking at what he’s building - it’s an exciting time to be alive. Most companies are fairly dull doing fairly dull things. Elon takes huge risks to try to pull the future down earlier. For the most part, he succeeds.
You can flip through the evolution of the NYT article[1] and see that when the story was first published there were hardly any details available. Even the earliest archived version of the story was from 5:30pm and it had already been updated once. Since most headlines are written by an editor (and not the reporter) it’s exceedingly unlikely this was a malicious attempt to downplay what had happened and instead was a matter of a delay between the reporting on the ground and an editor getting a chance to review and change the headline in light of the new reporting. I can’t find the original story that was filed but I would be willing to bet the reporting on the decapitation wasn’t yet solidly confirmed when the original headline was written.

Most people would consider that a good thing - showing restraint and avoiding the temptation to sensationalize headlines before having all of the facts.

[1]http://web.archive.org/web/20201016193107/https://www.nytime...
The gravitational force is zero, but it balances out with a real force which is not zero?
Overfishing of sardines happen because most of it is ground up and used as feed in aquaculture (which is very inefficient). Instead, if you consume sardines directly, it will be a more sustainable enterprise.
Does this machine both wash and dry clothes?
The way out of p2p music sharing was record companies agreeing to provide their content through iTunes music store, Amazon MP3 store, and eventually streaming services. P2P sharing is still around but not like it was because record companies found a new way to make money by giving people mostly what they want.

Maybe it’ll be something similar where government or bank backed crypto becomes the only legal crypto, pushing what’s left even more to the margins.
Thanks for pointing that out, I totally missed that fact actually! The linked page was not much to look at, but of course, all respect for it since it's good to have original websites like this, just didn't realize it through the way there was hardly any focus on the content on this page.
So what do you use instead of regular expressions for such tasks?
Who do you want to compare with? I don't know that many famous people that make completely unbelievable predictions that don't pan out, do you have any examples?
I think the idea was to reward all exit nodes, to provide an incentive for doing so that doesn't involve malicious behavior. Hopefully that would drown the malicious nodes in a sea of non-malicious operators who are here for the cryptocurrency rewards.

Of course a way to prove you are not malicious would be great but I don't see how you can prove that using technology.
Woot! Finnish here!

I agree with you on the Saami diet, I was generalizing for the Sake of brevity in the comments. I am in no way any kind of carnivore or Paleo freak. I only have general guidelines and loose interpretations about what I should eat.

You’re right though, I have no scientific Evidence for synergy. But it is our arrogance to think we know everything that is in food And how it affects our bodies. This could never be tested scientifically.

But you’ve mistaken my argument as well. The genetic changes of the Inuit make them more susceptible to disease only when they are on a western diet. when they are on their ancestral diet they have no problems. Eating that much seafood makes them dependent on eating seafood. Do you understand that better?

Just like living in Africa change the color of people skin it actually makes them more dependent on getting sunlight. Does a sunlamp replace the sun? Hard to say.
It's a matter of UX. If the errors are displayed in a subtle way it's not an issue.
I was using a very loose definition of entropy there, more like organization, but for instance if the atmosphere starts displaying large amounts of oxygen or the surface is suddenly covered in metal then something is happening there.