skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ketogenic diets were originally proposed as an epilepsy treatment because it was known to be effective against certain types of seizures.

To be clear, a ketogenic diet is not as effective as modern anti-seizure medications. It can come close in about 1/3 of patients (~90% reduction in seizure frequency) but it's not effective for all patients and shouldn't be viewed as an alternative to medication for everyone.

A secondary problem is that the modern definition of a ketogenic diet has become muddied as it has entered mainstream dieting culture. Many people who claim to be on ketogenic diets aren't actually consuming enough fat, or are consuming too much protein, to technically pass the thresholds required to reach the ketone levels used in these studies.

The most common mistake is consuming too much protein. Contrary to popular belief, even fatty foods like bacon are not strictly ketogenic. In fact, it's difficult to reach classic ketogenic thresholds without augmenting with MCT oil, heavy whipping cream, or very large amounts of nuts. Most "keto" recipes online barely meet Atkins criteria, let alone full ketogenic diet ratios. Once people realize they have to literally drink heavy whipping cream or oils to stay in the levels of ketosis required for therapeutic effect, the medications don't sound so bad.
Spike protein moving around free has been proposed as a potential source of the problems with the adenovirus vector vaccines.

(errors in the transcription process end up preventing it from properly attaching to the cell)
I can afford good doctors. They are 90% waste of time. 10% life saving.

Good Support groups are far better for your health. Although it often boils down to cut carbs.
In 2018, I was one barraged by about 200 comments in the span of less than an hour in reply to my reply to a story on r/news about someone hitting a protestor with their car. For reference, I objected to violence against protestors.

The hundreds of replies were a variation of about three talking points: that people should be afraid of protestors, that the protestors will kill you, and that killing them first is justified. They were posting things like "What if the protestors drag you out of your car?", "If protestors bang on my windows trying to kill me I'm going to run them over" and or "If you stop your car, the protestors will kill you" etc. They also replied to other posts about the same topic on Reddit with the same talking points.

The posts used the same few phrases and the same punctuation and style. They would delete their comments if a comment's karma went negative and then reply to me again. Many of the accounts had similar naming patterns, and no other comments in their history, as well. r/news requires a certain amount of karma in order to comment, so they had to have deleted their old comments before replying in that subreddit.

I revisited the post and accounts a few days later and saw that some of the account owners had deleted their accounts entirely, and a majority of them had deleted (and not removed by a moderator) their violence-instigating replies to my comment, too. I figure some of them did this to keep the karma and recycle the accounts, and deleted the comments so they can be used in the future without it looking weird or getting banned.

I suspect it was coordinated in some way, even if it was just a bunch of people in a Discord chat.

But what stuck with me was that there is a somewhat large group of people who want (other) Americans to die. They want people to respond to free speech and dissent with murder. They want people to be afraid of what other people will do to them if they speak up and organize. They want people to fear each other so much that they can justify murder with that fear.
> It is but compliance is generally lower in a world of Coke and donuts.

It's not just Coke and donuts. Even bacon and eggs don't reach the threshold of ketosis used in these studies. The pop-culture definition of a ketogenic diet is really more like Atkins or low-card than the ketogenic diets used in these studies.

Ketosis at this level requires not only restricting carbohydrates, but restricting protein intake as well. This usually means drinking heavy whipping cream and oils.
Growing my own tomatoes this year has made grocery store made those grocery tomatoes seem like fake tomatoes that have no flavor. The small cherry ones in the plastic boxes are at least sweeter a lot of the time.
> Gibbon is a pretty famous example which most readers would be familiar with. His Catholic counterparts were less famous but not better...

But when people criticize bad psychology research, they don't mention Freud or Jung (even though they're famous) because obviously their methods have little to do with how psychology is conducted today. The same goes for the history of late antiquity; I think it's better to point out more recent (and better regarded) research before making the bold claim that a long line of scholars impute today's hot-button issues as the cause of the fall of Rome.

> The issue isn't so much evidence but ignoring the obvious counterpoints possibly due to the prevailing trends of the time, and in case of Rome's history this keeps happening over the centuries.

I just don't think Gibbon (and late 18th century history scholarship in general) is remotely comparable to modern history scholarship.

> When people talk about 'failures of multiculturalism' they usually either blame the 'locales' for being too discriminatory or the 'foreigners' for 'not really wanting to assimilate'. 'It didn't work out because rulers kept being assassinated and overthrown' usually points to an entirely different kind of failure.

I would love to read some of this research. Most of the scholarship that I've encountered speaks of these so-called "failures of multiculturalism" as an effect of the empire's decline, not a cause. For example, take the Visigothic kingdom (generally considered the earliest of the successor states): the reason why the Visigoths were to some degree able to maintain their own identity was the weak negotiating position of the Western empire, which allowed them to operate with more independence than previous settlements of barbarians.
Eh. Every client already renders all the HTML into visual format. I don't see what's wrong with rendering the LaTeX too.

Sure it would be nice of browsers could render the LaTeX natively instead of using JS.
Difference Between Transistor and Thyristor
Here is something else neat

https://github.com/jeremija/unipicker

Can be run with --command="rofi -dmenu" to filter via rofi and piped to xdotool type to insert immediately
I did read on the BBC that Russia claims bombs were dropped, but I guess they deferred to the MoD after they denied it.
Blame 🇨🇦 Canada!
> You would be extremely hard-pressed to tell "authentic" Feta cheese apart from "Feta-like" cheese produced in any number of places around the world.

That's not true, because most feta produced outside Greece is made with cow's milk, rather than sheep and goat's milk. In Greece it's made with sheep and goat's milk.

Why does that make any difference? First, because cow's milk is relatively tasteless compared to sheep and goat's milk. Goat's milk in particular has a strong "gamey" flavour and sheep's milk is also "heavier" than cow's milk.

Sheep's milk also has a different composition than cow's milk. Depending on breeds and season, sheep's milk has almost double the amount of fats and proteins (caseins and whey proteins) than cow's milk (and also goat's milk, which is about the same as cow's milk in composition).

More importantly, feta made with sheep and goat's milk has a piquant taste imparted by the lipolysis that is the result of lipases found particularly in goat's milk. Although to be fair, lipases are nowadays added to cheese milk as an additive, because they are destroyed by pasteurisation (and most Greek cheeses are not made with raw milk). However in practice lipases are never added to cow's milk "feta" possibly because consumers used to cow's milk "feta" don't expect it to be spicy-hot, as real feta should be.

There's also various other organoleptic characteristics that distinguish sheep and goat's milk cheeses from cow's milk, for example the firmness of the paste - more elastic in cow's milk cheeses, more crumbly in sheep and goat's cheeses. etc. etc.

tl;dr, yes, you can absolutely tell the difference between Greek feta and "feta" from outside Greece, provided you know what Greek feta tastes like. Which I think you probably don't. I think you're just assuming that it must all be a big bunch of lies to sell cheese that's just the same as any cheese.

Well, it's not.
The mRNA vaccines are sliced out of plasmids grown in bacteria (as DNA which is then transcribed into RNA).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/pfizer-coron...
the worse, the better
Be interesting to see what they would say in this new law about someone wearing black face like our prime minister has more times than he can remember.
One of the response comments to my original comments seems totally on point. This seems like a totally insane DRM scheme. [0] [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27655320

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27656144

Can someone on the inside confirm that my using a new chip won't make me unable to boot into my Windows 11 install "Sorry you need your double secret trusted components to use them with our TPM modules, and thus your* software install."

* "Your" meaning ours, licensed to you until we decide to change the license.
The language is just assignment to simple variables (like `=` in C), sequencing (like `;` in C), if-then-else statements, and while loops.

The simple version uses algebraic data types (present in Rust, Haskell, OCaml to name a few) to describe the abstract syntax tree of the language.

The inference rules [0] (the bits that have lots of dashes in them) are standard notation for describing logic and type systems.

The rest of the post uses more advanced types, particularly generalised algebraic data types [1] which allow you to have interesting types that reveal information to the typechecker when you pattern match on them.

If you really want to get into type systems and programming language theory, Types and Programming Languages [2] is a classic.

If you just want to understand the privacy ideas, I describe what the rules are supposed to do in detail, so you can gloss over the actual syntax. The only thing that part adds is that I can make Haskell's typechecker prevent construction of privacy violating programs.

If anything is still unclear, feel free to reach out. I'm happy to explain and elaborate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_inference

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_algebraic_data_typ...

[2] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
I took metformin for about two weeks after being incorrectly diagnosed with T2 diabetes (I actually have T1, but some doctors seem to think it's impossible for adults to be diagnosed with it) and stomach / digestion / diarrhea issues only lasted about 2 days for me.
Yeah-- I think it'll be like UWP. I just hope it fails the same way. Pretty much 100% agreement with everything in your comment. The "new Microsoft" is really, really suspicious to me.
I actually got a blood test this week checking various nutrients and vitamins (due to some tingling in my toes and fingers). Turns out that, while I wasn't deficient, I was on the extremely low end of B-12. Hoping it'll make me feel better in other ways since I've been given a supplement to help fix that.
ISDN was super fast - I remember playing Warcraft 2 on an ISDN connect with a friend down the street :)
Glove for a heavy duty electric related works
How 165 Words Could Make Mass Environmental Destruction an International Crime
It still absolutely terrible.
I don't disagree with anything you wrote except to say that in Canada & USA the medical system (insurance, etc.) presumes everyone is vitamin D deficient, and so usually testing is not covered unless there is some other pressing concern. So, most people don't get tested.
Here's a very telling quote regarding the choice of programming language from a software team manager from the JSF project:

"Ada was seen as the technically superior and more robust language, but concern over the ability to successfully staff the software engineers required to develop the massive amounts of safety critical software caused the F-35 team to carefully look and finally to choose C and C++ for the implementation of safety critical software." - John H. Robb, Senior Manager of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Air Vehicle Software team at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Fort Worth[1]

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20111219004314/http://journal.th...
No, you misunderstand. The TPM verifies the bootloader and the operating system kernel, etc: that those components haven't been altered.
Windows 8 will never be considered "the last good windows"...
"[Hate speech] threatens the safety and well-being of its targets."

The UK is in the throes of trying to define what sort of speech warrants protection in a free society. The problem seems to stem from the parameters of 'harm' being defined almost entirely by the victim. There are claims that arguments against certain idiologies "deny the existence" of groups, and further that expressing these idea seems to lead directly to self harm and suicides. So, "speech that causes harm" and makes people feel hated. Bingo: 'hate speech'. But what happens when there isn't any hate or targeted 'detesting' going on? (Or good data on suicides for that matter.) It's open for abuse by a mob. Not a good path to head down in a pluralist, liberal society IMHO.

It's strange to me that at least within nations, the previously war-starting disagreements about the finer details of the Abrahamic religions seem to have chosen different orbits within society, politely nod to each other and know no good will come from trying to lock horns. The kids on Twitter now have apparently equally strongly held beliefs about other stuff but are utterly gob-smacked that other people won't agree with them even though they KNOW THEY'RE RIGHT.
Narrative OODA Loops
How do you distinguish between creating and honing a skill? Some of the best engineers I know were top-level video game players in their youth. Video games taught them how to get really good at something.
> Are you seriously claiming that processes ignoring or handling signals rather than dying is an ill defined hack?

Yes. Just because it is 50-years-old doesn’t make it suddenly a valid approach. There are 4 states here - process running with usual semantics for closing, process running that would like to linger in the background, and the frozen version of this two. How should a service manager/resource handle — that is very much in-scope for systemd differentiate between a frozen process that should very much be cleaned up in the no-linger case, and any process wanting to linger? And there are well-established ways to determine whether a process is frozen — pinging it expecting a specific answer.

Systemd differentiates between no-linger/linger by introducing user services - one should only write a trivial alias/wrapper script for tmux and can continue to use it to their liking. Also, it has a compile time flag, as well as a runtime config one - it is up to the distro or the user to revert back to the old way.
KaTeX supports server-side Node rendering pretty easily. https://katex.org/docs/node.html
Maybe MathJax does too, but I haven't checked.

I use this on https://vcvrack.com/manual/DSP to parse $inline$ and $$block$$ TeX into MathML with a couple lines of server-side code (simplified for readability):

html = require('markdown-it')({html: true, linkify: true, typographer: true})
.use(require('markdown-it-texmath'), {engine: 'katex', delimiters: 'dollars'})
.render(body)
Typical gloves for high voltage work are leather protectors over rubber. There's various thicknesses and lengths and so on depending on the requirements.
MacOS Monterey is dropping support for the 2013 Macbook Pros...

Windows 10 will be supported until 2025 so that is a hell of a run tho!
Heavy whipping cream or butter in coffee isn’t bad on a keto diet.
> but have in fact existed in the so called 'West' for literally centuries

Yes, and that is backwards, uncivilized, and philosophically unsophisticated. It is quite literally beneath where we should be as a modern human civilization.

We defeat people saying things we disagree
with with reason and not with fines.

There are many reasons why people fled many countries in the West to America in 1800s-1900s. One of them was to escape crony and corrupt authoritarianism in Europe and elsewhere at the time.
This NIH info may be useful for people looking for RDAs:

"Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Fact Sheets" [https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/list-VitaminsMinerals/]

For example, the Mg page lists RDA's by sex and age:
[https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-Consumer/]

It recommends 400-420mg/d for adult males, 310-320 for women (matches the # on my MVM container)

(I found this quickly by starting at the MedlinePlus front page, recommended to me by an Info specialist at a major medical center. Well laid-out readable access to a lot of vetted info from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.)

[https://medlineplus.gov/]
YouTube crypto scam videos at it again, making huge money
The YouTube scam videos at it again

The channels are hacked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddudoDQZguQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8_aoO2Fc

These people making an absolute killing, and nothing can be done about it.

5 btc taken so far, in addition to earlier profits. This is way more lucrative than ransomware in terms of profits and and not having to worry about law enforcement or tainted crypto. I don't think chain analytics companies or law enforcement are even keeping track of this.

The BTC giveaway scam, either on twitter or youtube, is probably the greatest scam I have ever seen in 15 years . I have never seen anything that even comes close in terms of consistency, proftiabltiy, and impunity. A hedge fund should copy this scam and run it offshore or something given that it is so lucrative and nothing can be done about it .

7 btc/day times 365 days times $30k/btc = $76 million/year

Other ones too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-O5KydETKs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7_wR9gyaI
...yet.

Remember all the talk about "Windows as a service"?

Given what's happened so far, I fully expect them to try something like that at some point. "We only offer subscriptions of the latest version, and your current hardware doesn't meet our minimum requirements, so you'll have to replace it to continue using Windows." Maybe it'll trigger a mass exodus to Linux --- or perhaps more likely, back to older and cracked pre-subscription versions of Windows.
New Programming Languages to Learn, even if you never use them
Yep on games if you have a discrete GPU.
I don't think your comment was so bad in itself but as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27653980 it was rude and undeserved. Probably that's mostly why it was downvoted and flagged. I've detached it from that subthread now.
Shodan the Search Engine for the Internet of Things
Plants in the wild are in a continuous battle against insects, molds and fungi and herbivores. They excrete assorted defensive chemical and build others into their tissues.
A 'pet' plant is protected against a large number of these attacks = it makes less of them. A number of these affect taste and flavor as the herbivore defences are turned off. Caterpillars are herbivore BTW.
So these pet plants become more pure pulp.
These are my speculations. but I think they are worth studying. Loss of Magnesium is a known decline caused by over use of magnesium by the plants grown and there has not been selective magnesium fertilisation. They should study some of the common rocks to see which ones are suitable to be ground up and added to the soil.
Today’s dissent is tomorrow’s hate speech. We are sliding down the slippery slope.
Is setsid() also a hack?
People say this all the time, but it certainly isn't true.

I for one, I am excited about Windows 11 because its finally things coming together. 64bit only, dropping old cruft, making the UI consistent/cleaner..

If you like tech/gaming - there is a lot to be excited about. PC and Console gaming with Game pass ultimate is a hell of a deal... Plus WSLg, Android apps ... i mean come on, its pretty f'n cool.
So we shouldn't have invented the database?
Well this has gotten old.

You stated that the current form of measurement was not very good. I pointed out that we care about transmission and mutation for long term eradication of the disease - hence the measurement that is used. It's obviously not negligible or the entire professional world would not use it as a measuring stick for vaccine effectiveness.
Not with the inflation since 100 years ago.
I have a feeling moderating online speech is a losing game. There will always be platforms such as 4chan and KF willing to provide a space to any kind of speech. Maybe I've become too cynical, but I've come to accept that the only way to not be bullied or harassed online is to not expose yourself too much online, such as through compartmentalizing different aspects of your online social life through different social media accounts.

I know this sounds like victim-blaming, but this is not my intention. It's just that maybe we humans were not built to be judged by everyone everywhere. For those that watched the anime Evangelion, there was a nice, forward-thinking discussion about this idea there.
I implemented a TeX engine in WebAssembly so you really can run TeX in the browser. You can see a demo of this at https://tex.rossprogram.org/ and at https://github.com/kisonecat/web2js you can find a Pascal compiler that targets WebAssembly which can compile Knuth's TeX. Interesting primitives like \directjs are also implemented, so you can execute javascript from inside TeX. The rendering is handled with https://github.com/kisonecat/dvi2html for which I finally fixed some font problems.

To make it relatively fast, the TeX engine gets snapshotted and shipped to the browser with much of TeXlive already loaded. So even things like TikZ work reasonably well. There is of course a lot more to do! The plan is to convert ximera.osu.edu to this new backend by the fall.
To strengthen it further, the 2700k is just a refresh of the more popular 2600k, which came out in Q1 2011 (same as the even more popular 2500k).

If you want to go back further, the Q6600 came out in Q1 2007 and still offers a great W10 experience when paired with an SSD.
> A friendly programming language from the future.

It looks like a programming language from the present at best. A programming language from the future would have finally broken free from the prison of plain text.
Killing processes that explicitly called setsid() seems wrong to me, yes. It works for every other Unix like system.

And it leaves enough info (process is it's own separate session group) for logind to know it should leave it alone.
> English is the only language where I hear such illogical statements.

Fear not, the exact same thing happens in other languages. Must be that you just don't hear much, for instance, Swedish: "Allt som glittrar är inte guld." (Should logically be "Inte allt som glittrar är guld", just like in English.)

> Same goes for the inverted usage of "all but", which imo _should_ mean "everything except for" but seems to mean "almost". I wonder what causes this.

That doesn't feel "inverted" at all to me. You just need to interpret the "all" as it must have been intended: "the whole"; "all the way there" -- then "all but" quite logically becomes "not quite the whole way there".

Like, if a piece of software was almost, but not quite completely, finished ==> "the software was all (the way to) but (not quite arrived at) finished."

Maybe it helps to see the similarity with this related form: Almost all the bugs were fixed, but one was left ==> "All but one of the bugs were fixed." (The bug-collective was all but vanquished. :-)