skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greger does tell people to eat plant based. But, he does it by showing what the scientific research has to say. Is there someone who shows what the science has to say where the science says to eat differently?

I've recently looked at some details from the US NIH, looked at some details out of the CDC, and spoken with someone on their type 2 diabetes program their doctor put them on (to get rid of it). The gist from each of these places is to eat unprocessed mostly plant based. The WHO even classifies some processed meats as carcinogens.

Is someone showing the science of a healthy diet is in a different direction? I'm genuinely looking for a pointer.
> Open source would be ruined if everyone believed that copying smart code without recognizing the authors is ethical.

Open source would be ruined if it were easier to build upon past works with lower barriers to research and licensing?

> Would this kind of copying be fine in software and not in other scientific papers or other industrial processes?

Scientific papers are more about collecting and experimenting with novel data- and referencing an explicit paper trail of past results. It's not really comparable. Fiction is a better match.

> Would it be fine if I train copilot on a patent database and start creating new patents (at a rate in which is would be unpractical to determine that it is regurgitating prior art)?

This is a problem with the patent system, not copilot, and is also isn't a capability that copilot actually has. You're describing a different system entirely.
You'll probably get higher quality responses if you explain what your company does, and how these positions will make a difference. The more details the better!
Law School Loses Luster as Debts Mount and Salaries Stagnate
The rotation of the earth is predictable enough in the short term that it is forecast a year into the future: see IERS Bulletin A https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Publications/Bulletins/bulletin...
https://tracxn.com/explore/NewSpace-Startups-in-China
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28034815 (90 points/80 comments)
Very likely, but with universally bad healthcare. Shouldering the burden of healthcare is a good idea for any society, you don't even need to embrace Stalinism. That was the talking point of conservatives, which liberals somehow adopted "unironically".
(Kind of related)

I was the lead developer for Syncplicity's desktop client. It was a file synchronization product very similar to Dropbox.

When I joined, the desktop client was 100% event-driven. The problem is that some kinds of operations need to be performed synchronously, so "event-driven" tended to obfuscate what needed to happen when. Translation: For your primary use cases, it's much easier to follow code that calls functions in a well-defined order, instead of figuring out who's subscribed to what. Events are great for secondary use cases.

To translate to microservices, for primary use cases, I'd have the service that generates a result call directly into the next service. For secondary use cases, I'd rely on events. Of course, there's tradeoffs everywhere, but you'll find that newcomers are able to more easily navigate your codebase when it's unambiguous what happens next.
From a different article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

> In March health workers administered the vaccine in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Abbottabad called Nawa Sher. The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given in three doses, the second a month after the first. But in April, instead of administering the second dose in Nawa Sher, the doctor returned to Abbottabad and moved the nurses on to Bilal Town, the suburb where Bin Laden lived.

I don't know if this changes anything. It feels closer to fake from where I'm standing.

I'm pro vax. Playing fast and loose with public health makes me feel fairly odd.
Conventional wisdom is that grid storage product was offered because battery production was outstripping what they could ship in cars at the time.

Remember that heavy industry isn't like software, you don't get to Just Decide to match the product to the market and switch when it makes sense. You make a bet years in advance on resource contracts and factory capacity, and if the needles don't match you need to find some way to generate revenue from what you actually have, not what you want to produce.

But yes: LiFePO4 has a high internal resistance (which is bad for applications with high current loads) and somewhat poor energy density (bad for mobile applications), but is significantly cheaper at scale due to the elimination of Cobalt and has an absolutely massive cell durability advantage (GREAT for grid storage).

But you won't see phosphate batteries in anything but budget/commuter EVs. They aren't something Tesla is going to bet on for their main production choices, but absolutely something you'd expect to see them optimize as they scale.
> At a bare minimum, human thought patterns have to be rare.

I'm not so sure. We can't even be sure if cetaceans, in particular orcas, have thought patterns similar to ours. Of course, they lack the physicality and environment to develop written history and knowledge and also technology, but we currently have no way of knowing what their thoughts are.
This is why our build systems don’t use public repositories directly, and why we always pin to an exact version. Any third party dependencies (js/python/java/c/you-name-it) are manually uploaded to our Artifactory server- which itself has no internet access. All third party libraries are periodically checked for new versions, any security announcements etc, and only if we are happy do we update the internal repo.

It has been a bit of a challenge, especially with js & node and quite literally thousands of dependencies for a single library we want to use. In such cases we try avoid the library or look for a static/prepackaged version, but even then I don’t feel particularly comfortable.

I should really start specifying checksums too.
Would it not be categorically intended as infringement regardless of the copyright status of the material?

It seems to me that the licensing part is the part you can't throw into a big markov chain, legally. Even if they aimed only at open-source licensed material without exception, the point where they discard all the licenses and export a 'generic' slurry is the point where they infringe by definition. If they trained on more restrictive licenses that's just doubling down: what's needed is annotation and maintenance of what bits of code came from what licensing pool. You could well have a giant pool of GPL, a giant pool of MIT (which I would be in, all the more since I maintain a very automatable code style that's easy to import from). You could accumulate a list of sources for anything you did, at whatever level of granularity is desired.

The purpose of throwing away this attribution is intent to infringe. It's constructing a machine for the explicit purpose of grinding code into sludge of intentionally small enough pieces that, if you reconstruct copyrighted code in your markov-chainy way, you've got grounds for pretending you didn't build your machine to do exactly that.
Tesla had an effective 0 free cash flow in 2018, 1.1B USD in 2019, and 2.8B USD FCF in 2020. In terms of net income they have been positive since Q2 2020; 15 months.

They have been more than "start(ing to) break even now". It would be more accurate to say they have been more than breaking even since some time between 2018 and Q1 2020 depending on your measure; capex, opex, financials (interest, depreciation, etc), unexpected charges, etc
The opening session of the house committee investigating the attack contains first-hand accounts from officers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HutK2vVFqLM
Facebook’s Kustomer Takeover to Face In-Depth EU Probe
This is the first time I see it, very sad to see it closed now. It would be awesome to have an invite link!
Useful Python F-String Tricks You Probably Don’t Know
I know a very cheap material that can also be used to convert heat differentials to electricity , called wind
I've had to endure dirty tricks, even threats and fabricated accusations from Microsoft. It's not a whole lot of fun.

Thankfully no black vans or ominous packages in the mail (yet).
Yawn, any reason you did not link to the M2 graph at FRED? Maybe, because the bump is also a change in methodology? The money printer has been running for decades, but all of a sudden there is a problem? All that money is stuffed into equities and has no impact on inflation. But who gives a shit if one can talk about Bitcoin instead.
> The union specifically alleged that employees were pressured to drop ballots into a mailbox that was in view of Amazon cameras.

So having a United States Postal Service mailbox in an easy access location is grounds for revote? How would Amazon know how people voted? Were the ballots like postcards?
Credit cards are insecure by design and worrying about having them stolen from your browser or vault is not worth it in my opinion. You're far more likely to have it compromised from the retailer side no matter how careful you are. Also, it's easy to set up a notification on your phone for every time a card is used, so you can report fraud before any harm is done.
>However, having checked out this guys website https://beaubeauchamp.com/ I now understand basically what this person does is create static landing-page-style websites.

Since I thought the theme looked familiar, I checked with builtwith and it shows the site is using Wordpress.

I think it's quite interesting that they're not a fan of UI frameworks, but are using wordpress for their personal site.
Not true.

For example you could convert the heat into photons (infrared radiation) and beam that out of the room without needing a pipe. You would probably need an infrared transparent patch on the window to aim at.

https://spie.org/news/5129-a-metamaterial-to-convert-heat-to...
This is a big reason why ZeroTier is moving to AES for its symmetric crypto. It's not only a lot faster but much more power efficient. The blazing speeds with ARX ciphers are only achievable using vector or other parallel constructions that light up the whole ALU, using many times more power than AES hardware.

Using AES with GMAC I can clock from 2-4GiB/sec/core on typical laptops and over 1GiB/sec on phones. The Apple M1 does almost 5GiB/sec/core. Gen10 and newer Intel CPUs with VAES have produced benchmarks in excess of 10GiB/sec/core, which means a single core could theoretically saturate 100gig fiber if it were just doing crypto.

Of course nothing stops CPU makers from adding ARX accelerator instructions, but I have yet to see any proposed. If constructions like ChaCha and BLAKE2/BLAKE3 get popular enough I could see this happening.
Diversity of thought is a problem. Diversity as commonly defined only by race is being promoted everywhere.
I don't think that's quite how it works. This device (or any thermoelectric generator) converts a fraction of the heat energy flowing through it into electrical energy. That means energy has to flow through it for it to work - essentially the opposite of insulating. Using this device, by definition, will result in the original hot thing being cooler, and the "cold end" (normally the outside world) being ever so slightly warmer.

The place this would be useful is in capturing otherwise unusable energy from low grade heat waste. For example, the output water of a steam turbine might still be "hot", but there's very little you can do with it - it's in the wrong place for heating houses, it's too cold for steam turbines. Generally that energy is lost to the air.
It's hard to feel sorry for these companies when they have neglected security for so long.

This outcome was inevitable, and hitting the bean counters where it hurts (financial bottom line) is the only way to effect change.
Tesamorelin for Sale Here
ACM revokes membership to professor from ISCA'19 incident
As the owner of a second-hand Rift that I've refused to update to avoid any Facebook account requirement, I have to agree. The hardware is pretty good, albeit a bit out of date now, but the Oculus software is garbage.

I have to manually use task manager to kill all its processes and the service when I'm done with it or it will constantly wake up, cause 2 of my monitors to momentarily blank while it does something, and prevent my computer from sleeping.

On start it always asks me to confirm the storage location, and then complains that it isn't available anyway.

The library keeps forgetting that I have Beat Saber and I'm forced to launch it through Steam instead.

The only game I actually "purchased" in the Oculus store, Sensor Bounds ($0 tool), is considered to be uninstalled and can't be downloaded due to above mentioned "storage location" issue.

Again, I have intentionally avoided updating this since Facebook instituted the account requirement so it might be better now.
Am I naive if I expect these systems to be crammed full of sensors logged on-site and remotely?
Hi Jithin. Thank you for sharing!

My mom loves Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. I've been looking for a "watch party" solution. Of any kind. And reruns are fine (dementia, she won't notice).

I just tried Volcano. Hot damn I love funny cat shorts. I'd definitely watch Daily Dose of Internet type content with my mom.

Sorry, but I don't get it. It seems like I'm watching by myself? Because video started at beginning. And there's no indication that others are watching too?

Also, I need a way to share links with my mom. Sorry, I haven't really thought thru what I'm asking for.

My mom is no longer teachable. She currently has an iPhone. I'd buy and setup whatever stack she needs for "watch party" to work with her TV. Both Apple TV and Chromecast have an app ecosystem, right?

Sorry again, I don't know anything about this stuff. But I really want ad hoc "watch party" features. Cute YouTube videos would be awesome. Live (or recorded live, a la Tivo) content would be amazing. Even a multiuser TikTok client could be cool. (Which might entice my nieces and nephews to join in.)

Please (re)post any and all updates to your product.

Thanks.
I still don't have a dishwasher or a garbage disposal (and I've never even used / seen any), diswasher seems really marginal upgrade as a childless couple - I guess it is a timesaver for a family of 4+?

I'm really wondering about the garbage disposal thing and I'll go Google about them.
Compensation that can't be traded for cash should be valued quite close to zero, regardless of the length of the exercise window.
We already have universal world-wide time: UTC and TAI. You can use these today, and nobody can stop you.
Rust Love – 51 lines of code to build end-to-end encrypted messaging
Free as in beer. Their built-in tracking to the editor from Microsoft isn't freedom. There's VS Codium that compiles the MIT project without telemetry, but at that rate, I'd use a different editor.
I linked this in another parent:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

> In March health workers administered the vaccine in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Abbottabad called Nawa Sher. The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given in three doses, the second a month after the first. But in April, instead of administering the second dose in Nawa Sher, the doctor returned to Abbottabad and moved the nurses on to Bilal Town, the suburb where Bin Laden lived.

I don't know if that changes anything. It does appear that they didn't "effectively" vaccinate people when it was convenient.
Texas Instruments' new calculator will run programs written in Python
Windows 95. Old style gui programming meant sitting in a loop, waiting for the next event, then handling it.

The GUI worked in a single thread, but your whole program didn't need to do that.

Being able to copy a file and type at the same time was a big deal.

That's not correct. You just needed to create a separate thread for the file operation. For some programmers that was a big deal indeed, the same could be said for some programming tools. But that wasn't a general case at all.

There were some ugly things, like the way file operations were treated down the OS level, but it wasn't impossible to make your application responsive. It wasn't even difficult... if you knew how to do it.
I am and always will be skeptical about software estimation.

I am even more skeptical about the promises of software evaluation methods.

But what I am the most skeptical about is teams avoiding software estimation altogether because they share the two skepticisms above.
> it was seeking to recruit partners and claiming that it combined the features of notorious groups like REvil and DarkSide

I wonder if they have leetcode style interviews :)
I _love_ my Mockulus Qwest no. 9. I’ve taken to wearing it to bed so I get to earn Zuckbucks whilst I sleep!
[P.S. Palmer Eldritch is a genie, Suckerberg’s man boobs are the digital reincarnation of those of Augustus Caesar, and Peter Teak is a modern Medici (and all-round handsome rake)!]
>Static modules would mean static classes with no possibility of changing a class. That would be another pretty nice optimization you could do, making class lookups a lot faster.

I think the whole point of python is to make everything dynamic. It seems like this trade-off is voluntary, i.e. it is a feature, not a bug.
That was meant as a response to tsss apparently overvaluing his type checks.

The pattern matching example is one that often comes up talking about typing. Yes it's great that the type checker finds all the places you didn't deal with your new sum type varient...except here's the rub. All that code was working just fine before. Your static type checker is forcing a bunch of code that never needed to know or care about certain values onto all places where you used pattern matching. I don't think this speaks to the value of static typing, I think it suggests that pattern matching is a bad idea that leads to overly coupled code where parts of the system that really shouldn't need to know about each other are now forced to deal with situations they don't care about.
The vast majority of cryptocurrency advocates are speculators that don't want to legitimize blockchain payments, they only want the number to go up. Criminal activity has been shown over and over to be the only "legitimate" use case of cryptocurrency, so if you eliminate that the number might go down.
If I wasn’t laughing I’d be crying.
>> I fully agree with this, also that's still quite common in the embedded world.

Is this why so many gas pumps and ATMs have such horrible delays in their UI?
I’d be willing to bet $20 of reputation that teaching the high-level end results will leave more students with a strong theoretical foundation than starting by teaching the strong foundations. Show the students _why_ the foundation is important, don’t just save the fun bits for a valedictory lap after standardized test week.
Yup. It's called demographic transition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition

This is a great video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348
I agree that ambiguous laws are a bad idea in general. I still don't see how all citizens lose out when most are explicitly unaffected though.
So, nothing more than ambiguous conjecture? Got it.

Well, I'm pretty happy using it and I certainly don't lose any sleep over Facebook having built it. Quite the opposite - I thank them for it! Nobody can take away my rights to freely available MIT licensed code.
> Engineered life can bypass evolution and natural selection

Is there any example that backs this up?
Blizzard president J. Allen Brack stepping down amid scandal
Urban advertising? More like visual pollution.
Anything that falls in line with mainstream narrative gets boosted.

If you follow the links of doctors who're seeing first hand difference between Ivermectin use and not, including to meta-analysis and more recent A/B testing of Ivermectin, the conclusion is opposite to these articles cherrypicking which studies to include.

E.g.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/A...
Note: I am the author of this article.

I’m really unsure how you would come to this conclusion. Even if you only read the summary at the beginning or only the conclusions section at the end, you should notice that Keepa is doing both. It will extract data from your Amazon visits (personal information) and do its own scraping (merely wasting your bandwidth if implemented correctly which I am unconvinced of).
Implications of Outlawing Bitcoin
Another Supply-Chain Vulnerability: RCE in Python's PyPI Repo
When I left a job managing a deep learning team, I gave about six months notice.
Yeah, that's excessive. It is just as effective to craft a polite but firm snail-mail letter instead and it's a lot less Karen.
That's good. I wonder if they'd extort the company that manages the building I live in. If they did the most likely negative outcomes are that I'll receive worse service and pay more for my service charge. That's not too bad for me, but I have vulnerable neighbours for whom that may be a significant problem.

There is so much collateral damaged created by this sort of attack against any company of sufficient size. It's easy to wave your hand and say they're a rich company they can afford it, but no company exists in isolation, they're all part of economies, and ultimately it's real people somewhere who take the damage.
> The advantage of rootless though, over user namespaces with a rootful Docker daemon is that in rootless all the components run as standard user, so a compromise of the Docker daemon should just allow for escape to a standard user.

Yep. I just was answering the question, which is what the tradeoff is.

> Not sure about most distros gating that sysctl. Ubuntu works fine with rootless Docker with no changes and looking at their install instructions, there's only mention of setting that sysctl on debian and arch.

Interesting. I haven't checked in a while. I'm also not on the latest debian though.
The fact that the government routinely threatens to "throw the book" at people, using various "vaguely worded" laws, to get them to plead guilty to crimes they may or may not have committed (without their time in court) is a prime reason why those laws are bad.

> We believe you had drugs on you, even though we couldn't find them. We also see you play World of Warcraft and that you're used the in game auction house to sell your items for in game money to other players. If you don't please guilty to the drug charge, we're going to hit you with 1,000+ counts of of violations of the IBCSP (or whatever this law is called); you'd be looking at 1,000 years in prison and a 1,000,0000$ fine, minimum.

The US government _does_ things like that. And, as such (because they have shown they cannot be trusted to act in the spirit of the law), we need to limit what powers we give them. I find it astonishing that anyone doesn't realize this.
Dezeen pledges to become a net-zero business by 2025
Nitpick on nitpick -- you absolutely can convert heat energy into electric energy. A dynamo on a heat engine does exactly that. What suffices is temperature differential.

It is a terrible analogy, a modern physicist would prefer being caught dead rather than using it, but one can think of heat as a liquid (traditionally called caloric ) stored in a vessel. Temperature is the level of the liquid. For flow you need another vessel where the level is low, that would allow flow of heat from a vessel with higher level to a lower one and one can then convert that flow into power of a form one desires. Its possible to go in the opposite direction also, that's called a heat pump. Charge and voltage would be another (incorrect) way of thinking about heat and temperature.