skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really neat and well-researched paper.

If you're looking for the summary, the most likely contaminants contributing to the obesity epidemic as identified by the authors are: (1) antibiotics in livestock that accumulate in both food and water supplies, (2) Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) which are ubiquitous and hard to destroy and (3) Lithium in the water supply.

The authors paint a convincing picture of why the obesity epidemic almost certainly is a result of environmental contaminants. This includes, but is not limited to (weakest to strongest, IMO);

- The research on modern diets showing they're most ineffectual

- Animals are getting predictably fatter at the same rates as humans in urban areas, and this is increasing

- The concept of lipostasis: human bodies having a set point of fat storage and the research around it

- Historically population BMI grew very slowly, starting at around 23, to suddenly ramp up unabated around the 1970s-80s

- Areas further away from primary watersheds (where water can pick up more contaminants) tend to have higher population BMIs as a function of distance traveled from watershed

- Lithium production was basically nonexistent until the 50s and spiked in the 70s-80s

- Lithium is directly correlated with weight gain (primary research provided) and areas with water testing higher in Lithium have higher population BMIs

... and a lot more. It's worth a read. I think anybody that's overweight should still index heavily on diet and exercise (even if there's a contaminant, it seems unavoidable), but it's interesting.
Chris Budiselic of Clickspring and several co-authors also have a recent paper about some of their findings in The Horological Journal https://bhi.co.uk/antikytheramechanism/. Here’s a video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKgdq57uOo

I haven’t read the paper under current discussion yet. I wonder how it relates to Budiselic & al.’s work. For anyone curious, the new paper is https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84310-w (as far as I can tell, not linked by the posted article)
Same as entry level FAANG then :-) love Australia
"Consumption of >6 cups/day was associated with 53% higher odds of dementia compared to consumption of 1–2 cups/day"
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Late edit: never mind, that was Yahoo video.
Steve Jobs championed the abomination that was the hockey puck mouse, and did not think that mice, in general, needed more than one button.
Can you make an iPhone, just without Apple?

Nope

Their designs are protected at the point of a gun through patents and copyrights. Breaking those literally means the police will use force to stop you and to ruin and imprison you.

Take away these restrictions and you’d see an identical iPhone, but without Apple’s restrictions. I bet that phone would sell millions. That would actually allow voting with your wallet to be real.

Since the government enables these behaviors, it is also the only one who can actually reign them in. Unless these nearly perpetual lock-ins stop, voting with your wallet is impossible.
Thanks for this. I would steer clear from it since we will see the media hype train on this stock that tempts the retail trader to jump in very early.

I see it as a trap for the large early investors to dump their shares once it IPOs; Similarly, it happened with Coinbase ($COIN), even though that was a direct listing.

> Robinhood is also highly dependent on cryptocurrency trading, another area now getting a close review by the SEC.

This is the reason alone to stay away from it "for now".
What is interesting to me is that he shows that the craftsman that fabricated it were familiar with the techniques. This was not a one off wonder device. Numerous copies were probably made and they’re buried somewhere just waiting to be discovered. This is the level of skill that was lost during the dark ages and then rediscovered afterwards.
The most useful thing you'll probably ever be able to do in it will probably be using a web browser and software on a virtual computer in a virtual environment. Essentially just making certain interactions virtual but stay the same.
That's because Richard Sander from UCLA Law has demonstrated fairly well that there's a really good chance that affirmative action is a net negative for those it's trying to help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sander

They should oppose it because it likely harms black people.
The long shared history between Fijians and Turks is sadly not taught in US schools.
what will happen when someone finds something they don't like? because they will

The problem is not the lack of spotless characters. There is no such thing. The problem is the permanently outraged.
Study in 6 months: “More than 6 cups of coffee not associated with dementia or brain size changes.”
Top global university grads can move to the UK without a job offer
I was not aware that their crew were billionaires too
The comments on the video reassure me that I'm not alone in thinking that a 'safe space' in a virtual world is a totally schizophrenic idea.
This is an incredible and fascinating article. I can't recommend it enough.
I don’t feel that I was aggressive at all in my direct reply to you, maybe a little in my reply to the other commenter, but obviously you took it that way and I’m genuinely sorry. It’s not an excuse, but I just get so tired of people making arguments based on false statements of fact (whether from malice or ignorance) and it moved me to speak out when it seemed like that’s what you were doing. I see now that wasn’t your intention. You’re right, we all make mistakes and I made one too.
No it doesn't. Since the article mentions that Amazon is charging egress pricing for egress data that doesn't go though the public internet, which is much cheaper and isn't egress in the first place.

Except at Amazon/AWS ofc.
Title:

>Too much coffee can cause your brain to shrink

>cause

Conclusion from study:

>High coffee consumption was associated with smaller total brain volumes and increased odds of dementia.

>associated
Anecdotally, everything I've seen (hardware drivers) has been in (MISRA) C or a subset of C++. Ironically, many of the alternatives require too much discipline to keep devs happy. MISRA C at least lets them pretend they're in their happy place.
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Did someone confuse the date value for the year value?
How a non-profit startup used partnerships to grow
There are most certainly meaningful genetic clusters in human populations. You can call these races or something else but to assert that differences between human populations only extend to a few superficial traits like skin tone is just ignorant and silly. For example there is a meaninful genetic reason why some sub-saharan populations have a higher incidence of sickle cell anaemia than Irish people or why most of those with native American heritage are less able to tolerate alcohol than Europeans.
Just as sitting in a passenger's seat for couple fast laps does not make you a race driver.
Sleep hygiene is important, and it's critically important not to drink coffee late in... well, in the second half of the day really.

A lack of sleep is also a serious risk factor for dementia.

How much of this is just chronic sleep deprivation, I wonder?
99% of sailors don't contribute to public safety.
It’s not just about writing code though. If you want to properly read code you have to understand all the “advanced” features they have used.

I’m reasonably familiar with C++, but not so much with arcane template meta programs. I never write templates, but it still trips me up from time to time when I have to understand one.
I feel your comment is too soft on America.

The US's emissions per capita is more than 3 times the worldwide average. So we still need to cut our emissions by a factor of 3 just to be average. But considering we are the richest country in the world, I think it's reasonable we attempt to display some leadership by having below average emissions. And that's not even mentioning that the fact that of course current worldwide emissions per capita are far too high, so we really need to cut even more.

Meanwhile, China's emission per capita are roughly half that of the US.

Even considering the the meager progress made by the US in the past decades to reduce emissions, we are still the 4th most emitting nation per capita.
It is illegal to shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre. Why? Because it is common sense that it is dangerous, can cause lives to be lost.

Similarly shouting "Pandemic is a hoax" should be illegal. But then who determines whether shouting that really is dangerous or not? Is anybody's guess as good as anybody else's? Can we all make our own decision? No. The courts decide. And courts listen to experts and scientists.

You say "how true and false is decided is not an area for government legislation or administrative provision to be adjudicating"

That is right. It is a not the government who decides, it is the courts, applying laws set up by the democratically elected legislature, and listening to the opinion of credited respected experts.
I wanted to answer your question with a smug link to the study, but they use the same useless units:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1028415X.2021.19...

I'm going to assume "cup" means "vessel that contains hot liquid" and rate 1 cup as around 250mL of brewed coffee, with a range of 150mL to 600mL. Not sure what that means for the results, but yeah, not a good unit.
> Inside Immersive Space to Think, a 3D virtual workspace system, the students could face a display wall, walk its length, pull up documents, move them, and cluster them in space as they studied the contents.

It seems cool, but as a means of actually going over information, I suspect that a 4K 37 inch monitor on a Mac or Windows or Linux windowing system with a mouse would actually be more useable than this system, and involve far less eye strain and neck strain.
I only read the first chapter of LotR and I don't understand what the big deal is. Hobbiton is a pretty shitty place to stage an adventure novel, seems boring.
He was arrested under a related statue, 18 U.S.C. § 951, for which FARA provides an explicit exception for if you’re registered. An interesting legal technicality, but not something that changes the lay person’s understanding of the situation. He was charged with being an illegal foreign agent, and if he’d registered under FARA’s rules he wouldn’t be in trouble.
There is also the possibility that the causation happens in reverse: those with early symptoms of dementia could be self-medicating with excess caffeine.
tabula random weights is an interesting way to think about it
One of the best things you could do in a whiteboard interview is just start writing effective unit test cases without being prompted into it.

When I joined my current company, it was still tiny and sketchy and I got shanghaied into a surprise full day interview by the promise of an informal two hour tour. A two hour tour... At one point I was given 1.5 hours to write an implementation of a very core library that most software engineers take for granted every day. Trying to have fun with it, I spent about 20 minutes writing a design document, about 30 minutes coding the implementation, and then the last 40 minutes writing a dozen or so unit test cases (as well as a simple standalone unit test framework). When I ran out of time, only maybe 2/3rds of my test cases passed, and I had just narrowed the problem down to a flaw in one of the assumptions I had enumerated in my design document. All the interviewers seemed pretty impressed by the documentation and test coverage, and didn't really care about the implementation, mostly because it was relatively boring by design.
I didn't read the article, but I have yet to encounter anyone measuring coffee by the imperial cup. Also never heard of a "metric cup of coffee".
I don’t think the problem is that the game is a niche game, there are ways to break even with niche games and just copying what everyone else is doing is not exactly a receipt for success.

In my opinion these is what OP could have done differently:

- The game lacks (an obvious) unique hook. Just replacing coffee with mate is not enough of a hook for me, and I was raised in a family that drinks Chimarrão.

- $5 is too cheap for a niche game.

I think would help a lot if you check the Jeff Vogel advices on creating and marketing niche games. He has a lot insight on creating games that only a tiny amount of people want
They are smooth in that they are continuously differentiable.
> Math will be too complex. Literature will be difficult to comprehend.

Do you think they’re pulling random kids off the street and shoving them into Harvard? Even the lowest achieving students admitted to elite schools were at absolute minimum inside the nation’s top quartile.
Nothing about coffee is precise in most cases.
The ability for the people to make a revolution prevents a revolution. The limits to authoritarianism of what both the govt is willing to do and what the people allow it to do is dependent on the prevalence of firearms that would be useful in that fantasy revolution. The firearms actually prevent the need for the firearms.
If I read the abstract correctly they found an inverse correlation between coffee consumption and brain volume, but since it was not a longitudinal study it doesn't prove that coffee is correlated to brain shrinkage?
So you want the result of Apple's tens of billions of dollars of hardware R&D, but without paying them for it.
Embedded engineering seems to be a lost art in the America. The typical American programmer is certainly not an embedded engineer, and our industry and American universities focus mainly on the application layer of both practice and theory. My university's[a] computer architecture and operating systems courses are both taught entirely using simulation, either simulated hardware or virtual machines, and we would certainly never write our own bootloaders or really ever put code to the metal. It all seems more Shenzhen than Silicon Valley, like part of the stack is simply a bygone thing of the past for American software engineers.

Neither C nor C++ could be considered new languages, and this seems to contribute to this estimation of embedded engineering as a "lost art." C and C++ give a "here be dragons feeling," that only the best engineers can hope to avoid pointer pitfalls and memory leaks. I wonder if Rust's advances in programming language theory could alleviate this problem. The new generation of programmers I feel I belong to are comfortable with functional programming, advanced types, and facile tooling like NPM.

I have personally found embedded engineering underrated in American industry, both for fun and profit. If adopting modern practices leads to further embedded engineering adoption, that would be a worthwhile pursuit for individuals and our community. Perhaps this takes the form of Rust.

[a] Top 300 in global ranking, with a standard but not cutting edge computer science program unlike Stanford or CMU. Having gone to only one university I admit this confusion could simply be a failing of my own education.
If US cities could remove the collective "no mixed zoning" stick from their asses, that might be possible.

Small businesses are only convenient if they're close. Nobody (within reason) minds if food is 10% more when you can get it last minute just crossing the street. But if it needs to be a "trip" to get there, it's not a survivable approach.
What an utterly vile quote. I've never seen his comedy before. After reading that, I'll make sure I never do.
When you take risks like he does, you are gonna have a flop or two. I don't fault him for that. Besides every new idea for a product that doesn’t have an immediate need is stupid, until someone makes it work, someone else exploits it for something new, then all of a sudden it’s brilliant
The biggest evidence in the article against sugar and carbs being the cause is that US sugar and carb consumption (including hfcs) has gone down dramatically since 2000 but obesity has gone up dramatically.
TLDR: AstraZeneca's ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 may possibly prompt vaccine-induced thrombosis and thrombocytopenia (VITT) in recipients.

Those dang Spike Proteins.
> At the end of the day, tests like the ACT/SAT will always privilege people who can afford to spend more time on it. Lots of kids do better because their parents spend thousands on tutoring.

This i true, but the effect is small. The studies I've seen mentioned say 50-100 points.
> I am not sure why you are bringing up the state. It makes no sense in any context of what we are talking about.

Because this thread was about whether this creates a tort or not, that’s why mentioning the state is relevant. I’m genuinely confused why you’re confused by this.
I drink objectively too much coffee so "associated" is the best word I've heard all day.
This is where border adjustments come into play. We can, for example, implement a carbon tax in the US and impose a tariff on goods from other countries depending on their own environmental policies. This serves as a way to put pressure on all countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions together.

In fact, the EU is in the process of doing this right now, and China is definitely reacting to it (not happy, but it seems like the Chinese government is looking toward expanding their existing policies to cover more industries in an attempt to avoid the EU border adjustment).

Another way to look at it is that given how much the USA has already contributed to the accumulation of greenhouse gases, China would need to continue at their current levels for another 30 or so years before they catch up with us -- and that's with about 4x the population.

I understand that that argument may not be persuasive to some, though, because a lot of the manufacturing and technological development that took place in the USA over that time benefited many countries. And a lot of those emissions took place prior to the wide knowledge of how serious climate change is.

So I'd really say that we should aim for net zero emissions because it's the right thing to do. Everyone has to do it, and it's not going to happen if we all stand around waiting for someone else to go first. There is a pretty massive amount of emissions cutting we could do without much effort at all, and if the rest is spread out over a number of years, the cost will be very small, and will have a lot of benefits to people's health. (Climate change is not the only negative externality of burning fossil fuels by a long shot.)

The place to start is a carbon tax. I highly recommend that everyone who cares about climate change call congress (https://citizensclimatelobby.org/call-your-representative-ab...) and ask them to support a carbon tax.
Cloudflare doesn't do pricing for bandwidth, as far as I know.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-Cloudflare-not-charge-for-band...
Your suspicion is unfounded. There are plenty of people who discuss the issue on rational terms. However, their writing is less entertainingly alarmist, so it doesn’t get as much traction. Same as any political-economic issue.
Workable when you control the whole codebase, not so much when you have to deal with external dependencies or huge piles of legacy code that you're stuck with. I quite like writing C++ when it's just me or I have tight control, not so much when I have to deal with some of the large projects with code spanning 20-30 years of history and dozens of developers (some of which died before I even started my job) that I've worked on where it wasn't my call. Not that I have any specific traumatic experience in mind...

Admittedly such a situation is not entirely due to C++, but it didn't help. But again, I do quite like C++ especially nowadays.
As a kid, we’d bike 5. 10, 15 miles to other towns. We did not lack autonomy.
Good point, in addition Robinhood is highly leveraged, they raised 3.5b in 2021 at the face value of 5.0b, so the new shareholders would implicitly pay the price for that aggressive borrowing..
Getting a functional semi-ok, posix sorta vaguely compliant terminal is not a fun or easy task in windows.
The web runs linux, and unfortunately, windows doesn't really want to do linux (WSL is a tiny concession)
I'm going to completely disregard this study. "What would the world look like if this study were true?"

53% is such a large effect size that if the study were anywhere near accurate, I'd expect to have seen many other similar studies, and other knock-on effects (nothing in the body is isolated, even dementia). But we all know that studies routinely find no or only positive health benefits associated with drinking coffee.

I bet this study is junk.
One thing I have noticed is that studies that end up with conclusions that sound like BS end up being BS studies.

The effect size of a 50% increase of dementia risk sounds way to high for coffee. Seems like there is a good chance of some correlated variable they are missing or a faulty assumption.
There is a deontological perspective here in which you seem to be uninterested. Not everything is best viewed from the perspective of how various groups would be impacted by a given system.
Head: Too many web pages to fill may be associated with garbage research getting published.

Subhead: Journalist says "Not my fault! My editor told me 'fear sells' "
> Affirmative action doesn't require a lower bar

How else can it be done?
Agree, also podcasts in that genre are often more about "story telling" (which requires - dun duh dun - backstory), but articles do not.

I do not mind 5 minutes of backstory on a 60 minute podcast. I do mind 2 minutes of backstory on a 5 minute read.
I guess the messy ugly template headers could be hidden as compiler intrinsics, like in Go with its compiler blessed generics for standard containers. Or how C's printf is implemented as compiler magic instead of vardiac macros.

The complexity needs to be somewhere in the end. A charitable view would be that Cpp's approuch is more ... inclusive?
Ah, there is nothing like perjorative acronyms ... they seem to be designed to shut down thinking rather than invite more of it.

Let's not forget that:

1. new programming languages bring excitement, creative destruction, and yes, lots of hobby projects that don't turn into battle-tested products. I'm ok with that.

2. rewriting is not the same as re-envisioning. See the comment above. SQLite was a starting point for inspiration, not the destination.

Also, we should not conflate an underlying technology with the hype around that technology:

a. Just because there is a lot of hype around Rust does not mean the advantages of Rust should be overlooked

b. Some highly-praised technologies deserve the praise. Yes, sometimes even the cynics are wrong.
And these Mexican standoffs are why we have governments.

If nobody wants to move first, we have to all vote to move at the same time.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

> There’s a passage in the Principia Discordia where Malaclypse complains to the Goddess about the evils of human society. “Everyone is hurting each other, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war.”

> The Goddess answers: “What is the matter with that, if it’s what you want to do?”

> Malaclypse: “But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!”

> Goddess: “Oh. Well, then stop.”
Considering blatant GDPR breaches by Google and Facebook such as their non-compliant consent flow have gone unpunished I would not trust a legal document when there’s previous evidence that you can break the law and successfully get away with it.
I was thinking of that - I agree that's a problem. In my work, we have some basic dependencies and not much else - Boost libs and that's all.

May we should create a new subset of C++. It will be called C+.
Any study that concludes with ~50% is random noise.