skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this actually evidence backed? I adore fruit. When I wanted to lose weight I had to go off fruit and substitute with diet cola. It worked really well.

Ultimately, all the evidence I see points to the fact that most people can’t eat large amounts of fruit. I can, though. I’m like 170 lbs (77 kg) and I can easily devour pounds of apples or strawberries or mangoes in a sitting and eat more tomorrow. So the pro fruit argument usually ends up on CICO which I am willing to accept.

So I stay away from fruit when I know I need to control weight.
The change applies to all Amazon employees.
A lot of people you know seem lazy or extremely unimaginative. There are just so many ways to still socialize and keep up with friends. If your friends stop talking to you cuz they can’t do it through fb…maybe re-evaluate said friends.
for maybe ~6 weeks, i noticed dramatically reduced tofu supply in stores near me (Vancouver BC), including from local brands. There was usually something... the soft/dessert tofu being most common.
Seems to be back to normal the last couple weeks.
I wrote a custom DNS nameserver and a resolver for an upcoming project. I implemented it IPv6 first. I think as more we support and use IPv6, as more it’ll be adopted.
maybe. but i think this process really helps develop a deeper understanding of the evolution of the project and doesn't take that much time.

and I bet your AI isn't going to be able to say 'oh yeah, thats just that thing we fixed in 2.1'

seems useful in a second-order capacity though - process introspection
I've been saying stuff like this for years. "News" is always bad news and they almost never follow up with similar levels of celebration for resolving a problem. The Kuwaiti oil fires were supposed to burns for years and be a global environmental catastrophe. They were put out in six months.

We did not dance in the streets about this miracle. We were on to wringing our hands about something else.

Disaster response is generally better than it used to be. We aren't grateful or amazed. We take it for granted and complain about it failing to live up to our expectations.

That doesn't mean we don't have real problems. That's not me being in denial or uninformed.
You're right: the big carriers don't have much incentive to deploy this -- yet. We think deployment will come through three paths: 1) virtual operators (MVNOs) can differentiate themselves by offering PGPP-based privacy-enhanced service, 2) big carriers (MNOs) will want to (eventually) claim that they are doing the right thing on privacy and jump on board, and 3) new regulations (in various U.S. states and post-GDPR rules that are being drafted) are stipulating that location data is private so it's better to not have it rather than have to prove that it's being handled properly.
I also believe anyone can learn anything, exactly as you said!

But I don't find the study about grade distributions a convincing argument for that, unfortunately. Grades are a measure of student's ability to apply consistent effort on assignments and effectively study for an exam, often collaborating with a network of other students to find the correct solutions.

A determined student can earn a good grade. A determined student can master the material. There is overlap, but not enough to use a premise that Grades<=>Ability

A more convincing study would find a way of evaluating their individual ability to solve problems related to what they are supposed to have learned, not their grade in the course.
How can you read an article filled with emojis without being interrupted in the reading flow?
> I've never heard about such an attribute existing on APFS, which is why I said I'm not sure whether APFS "supports" this.

Ah, yeah, I've never heard of anything like that. I didn't realize NTFS had this. I have no idea how APFS handles the VM volume, though.
I for one ain't bothered: It's clear to me that Apple needs tools to engineer these spectacular devices and there would be little or no sense to them designing away the power of MacOS and landing on a product range limited to simple consumption. Does anyone foresee a time where Apple migrates to something like Lenovo Laptops or Windows or some scraggly Linux desktop environment? Apple won't be losing these tools any time soon. At worst we might see dual mode macbooks that can be switched between MacOS and iOS paradigms.

Above and beyond that fairly self-evident conclusion, there is plenty of room for more sophisticated interaction with iOS devices that maintain the basic interface but also provide extremely sophisticated data manipulation capabilities. Perhaps even more powerfully than our beloved UNIX shells - think something like AI assisted voice interaction where you can easily state a pipeline verbally: "take results from A that contain N and modify them by X and then sort them by I and make a graph and paste it to my document". (e.g., grep | sed | sort | gnuplot | paste >> example.doc)

That sort of thing is potentially just a few iterations away and simultaneously more powerful and more useful than text mode pipes, if only for the fact that the user wouldn't be required to memorize thousands of cryptic flags/switches. The same interface could be used to string these directives together to form scripts and set jobs, etc.

This isn't meant to be a specific prediction, by the way, just one glimpse into the idea space. There are so many good ideas that people haven't had yet... it just staggers the mind to consider the potential. I'm just skimming the surface but surely there are so many ways to marry the insanely intuitive discoverability of something like iOS with the equally awesome power of the UNIX philosophy.

But it's up to us to find them, rather than get inflexible and grumbly and say it can't be done, or Apple is stupid, or whatever nonsense take you might jerk your knee towards ;)
> some of the molecules you proposed have pretty large functional groups adjacent to rings

And many more do not.

> if you took those molecules and gave massive doses to rats, some may comeback as carcinogenic.

Luckily we don't have to guess. For example, look at the hundreds of terpenoids that saturate traditional diets, many of which and are widely believed to prevent cancer. If you have any actual evidence, put it up.

> The multi ring structure to me suggests...

All this is interesting, but it has exactly nothing to do with in vivo carcinogenicity. You don't have to look far to see this is true. Healthy diets are chock full of polyphenols that exhibit significant DNA binding affinity, but lack evidence of carcinogenicity. And it's not for lack of looking.

You appear to have some specialized knowledge, but when you try to extrapolate it to a wider field where you're out of your depth, these hand-waving guesses can easily turn into fearmongering.
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Most Americans have absolutely no idea what it is like to endure that sort of hardship. I mean, in the most extreme examples I know adults who act like they're going to starve because their peas were touching their potatoes.
care to share it, I would love to look at that site?
I’ve implemented hypermedia APIs before. It was a lot of work for exactly zero benefit because none of the client developers wanted what they were given in those APIs, and we were forced to develop _additional_ APIs that gave the client developers something they felt comfortable working with.
The "fix" is carriers simply choosing not to track you, which they could always do but don't want to.
My ISP (My Republic; a Singaporean company operating in New Zealand) does not provide IPv6, and I’ve emailed with a request for IPv6.

There’s no need for it, apparently.
The comment you're replying to didn't imply that disasters are the sole reason for the current situation.
Assuming the article showed exactly what GPT-3 filled in, it's an impressive accomplishment. It almost feels like auto-tune for writers.

I've also been quite impressed with the quality of work that comes out of Google Translate over the last few years. I use Russian to English and English to German regularly. They are both good for rough cut translations that you can quickly polish. Translate uses AI extensively to improve the translation outcome. [1]

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/03/how-googleis-using-emergi...
So you use IG. Honestly, you are being irrational. So two friends are forcing to use fb messenger. How? They refuse to communicate outside of it? They don’t sound like good friends and insta is just as bad as fb so…you have literally done nothing to mitigate.
Uber vs. DoorDash Q2 2021
No it just has to be pressurized in order to stay in liquid state. The pressures involved at normal ambient temperatures are less than 300 psi, which is not extreme. Scuba tanks, for example, handle pressures of 3000 psi or sometimes more.
The regs are typically not enforced against kids. The adults should know better but Rangers let things slide for kids
GraphQL is extremely badly designed - try to do nested pagination, that's basically unsolvable in a single server roundtrip. The hack of keeping an n-dimensional array of pointers to cover each level of pagination falls apart with any concurrent changes. And nested pagination pops up often when doing advanced UI on mobile on web.
- You pay less money for a single public IP. A single IPv4 costs $40 nowadays [0]. A whole /64 of IPv6 addresses usually comes free when you buy your internet access.

- You get extra bits to play with for addressing. Fly.io has done some cool stuff with their "6PN" addresses, built on top of IPv6 and Wireguard. They encode information in the address itself and use eBPF to route on it.

- As a result of everyone essentially having infinite public addresses to assign for themselves, we can get rid of NAT, which would enable peer-to-peer apps. See Tailscale's "How NAT Traversal Works" post for a great survey of the techniques used to connect devices behind NATs. (Note that getting rid of NATs does not mean getting rid of private networks or block-all-inbound firewalls. IPv6 allows both of these security measures.)

- Some more points here [2] I hadn't seen, particularly around better routing efficiency by getting rid of IP checksums and allowing for smaller routing tables.

[0] https://ipv4marketgroup.com/ipv4-pricing/

[1] https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

[2] https://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/six-benefits-ipv...
Feature phones are pretty much limited embedded OS phones. Rarely with app installation. And almost always camera and text messaging. Maybe web access.

Blackberry devices were more like a proper PDA with phone support.
> The "walled garden app ecosystem" is exceptionally bad for this, and the UNIX shell is exceptionally good, but both are extremes.

Very true.

> It's hard to imagine how a UNIX-like flexibility can be achieved inside an ecosystem that's optimized for passive media consumption and online shopping though.

Unix-like flexibility is also extremely insecure and easy to screw up.

It’s fairly obvious that the App Store ecosystem can and is becoming increasingly flexible. Things like shortcuts and safari extensions are obvious examples.

Unix-like flexibility will likely never come to iOS, nor should it, but it’s easy to imagine a steady drumbeat of easy to use managed points of flexibility that ultimately provide 80% of what people use Unix-flexibility for but without the insecurity or brittleness.

It’s not so easy to imagine how ease of use, security and robustness can be retrofitted to unix any other way.

Remember iOS is Unix. It’s just a matter of what they build for end users.
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> another way of looking at the cancellation of OpenDoc is that its success would have completely upended the software industry.

Ironically, that was the main interest of Brad Cox who, with Tom Love, created Objective-C, which was acquired by NeXT, and became the way forward for Apple.

In my experience, it is very hard to build a business around software objects. I spent a couple years trying to build an App around the Apple Watch. But, Apple only allows 3rd party complications. It is essentially a component. Apple recommends focusing on doing only one thing.

Moreover, as a component, you the developer often have less control over the UX. On the Apple Watch, when a user opens -say- Spotify on the iPhone, your app is kicked out.

So, a couple weeks ago, I decided to put the Apple Watch development on hold and do something else on the iPad.
A lot of dogs will be sad.
It’s hard to sus an absolute percent but my best guess from some figures is 5% but I could be way way off.
We _are_ running out of public IPv4 addresses. I routinely see articles shared on HN about companies buying or selling blocks of IPv4 addresses for increasingly insane prices. I think the market rate is now $40 for a single IP address?
"Americans use sunblock" seems like quite a generalisation. Is that universally true? Spending less time in the sun could easily lead to less natural protection from melanin leading the more extreme exposure when it does occur.
Zoophobia Is the Fear of Animals
Or they gave up checking and moved on, but the bug is still affecting others (who do not know how or don't bother to report) - some of whom may also just move on.
>Also it does not describe what these people are doing. Typical trolls do not really believe in what they write, they are just trying to start a flame-war.

An excellent point. IIUC from TFA, the person spotlighted is trying to piss off the fossil fuel company folks, but that's not really trolling.

The person who brought this article to my attention used a reference to Duty Calls[0] when she sent it to me. That seems a better description IMHO.

[0] https://xkcd.com/386/
This is probably because it is relatively easy to add more elisp flourishes, another seven major modes for editing JavaScript, much harder to actually improve the core.
I mean it’s true that nothing really matters unless you assign an arbitrary baseline that you as an individual are trying to optimize for.

What’s there to write about. It’s categorically true.
Why should they be punished? All you do is press X and it goes away. This is hardly onerous, especially given that they are providing interesting content for free. It's far more trouble to get a book from the public library.
I can only speak for myself. For background, I was a very long time vim user, only lately switching to mostly VSCode with vim mode.

That said, I largely agree with most of what you are saying. I spent most of my time trying to get vim to be more like an IDE, and others do something similar to varying degrees (fuzzy open file, file trees, etc are among the most popular plugins for vim).

The reason I used vim all these years, and the reason I insist on using vim mode, is actually kind of related to something you said. Programming isn't text editing. Rather, doing anything on your computer is text editing! Me typing text into this comment box is text editing.

It's true that programming is a lot more about reading code and thinking than about writing code. That said, you're still writing code! And documentation, and many other things.

And vim, purely viewed as an alternative way of working with any text, is simply just superior. In the sense that the amount of time that passes between me thinking "I want to change this text here" to me being able to do it, is almost zero. I can instantly jump to a specific part of the code and make "surgical" edits to exactly what I want to change. This is common with all text editing, but especially programming - how often have you wanted to change the inside of certain parentheses combination nested inside a bigger paren (e.g. for an if statement or a function call?). Instead of spending any mental effort or time on executing this, this just flows automatically.

It's kind of like learning to use the shortcuts for copy and paste. Does this change something fundamentally about programming? No. Does it improve a little on taking an action you take many times a day? Yes. It "adds up" in terms of less things to think about.
My text editor, KeenWrite[0], integrates YAML using a GUI, which hides the underlying data format[1]. This makes the format irrelevant from the end user's perspective. Hardly anybody edits .odf files or .png files directly, yet configuration files are often updated in a plain text editor rather than a GUI. Structured data formats are amenable to autogenerating GUIs (see [2] and [3]).

[0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...

[1]: https://youtu.be/u_dFd6UhdV8?t=160

[2]: https://www.jeremydorn.com/json-editor

[3]: http://mb21.github.io/JSONedit/
It really depends on your needs - I use nano sized SPOT instances for NAT gateways which only cost a penny a month. They in no way compete with the 40gbs capacity and high availability of the hardware NAT devices but if the majority of your traffic is internal, going to a peered VPC, or over IPV6 and you just need a means to make an occasional API call to one of the AWS endpoints that don’t yet support IPV6 (which is the majority of them), then it’s a perfectly viable solution - better then sharing a hardware NAT IMO because you can take advantage of network traffic within the same availability zone being free.
Re: finding time.
I think this is true for all of life, as we get older our risk and reward profiles change. As we are encumbered by more responsibility, family, mortgage, etc, we stop taking the same risks and start playing life more “safely” or “securely”.
Of course it doesn't have to be that way and I personally advocate for a debt free lifestyle for this reason. Too many times have we heard the story of the midlife crisis: the false deity of security and comfort that robs the well paid executive the majority of his or her life.
Its a sad story. So my advice is to people is to work less for others and work more for your own projects and passions, life is simply too short to give your years to someone else, even if it pays well.
In my area of the US, standard form factor lithium batteries are readily available such as in the grocery store, including the rectangular 9V, AA, and AAA types.
No, high but unmet expectations are the opposite of happiness.
That's true. I suppose my only skepticism surrounds the 70% polling in favor of passports. That seems very high. But my skepticism rests on anecdotal experiences so that doesn't mean much -- and admittedly I haven't looked closely into the polling data. But I am frustrated with the smoothing over the nuances of the issue by lumping people into a certain crowd. I think there's merit in an anti-passport position without falling into lunacy.
AMD and recently Intel both moving to LLVM is a good step in that direction IMO. LLVM also already comes with a dispatcher, so hopefully they aren’t going to… do it again. Personally I’m more excited about being able to port __attribute__ rich code more easily.

(IIRC Intel has tuned down the Cripple AMD thing in MKL around late 2020 by providing a specialized Zen code path. It was slower than what you get with the detection backdoor, but only slightly.)
Probably the most actionable advice I can give is don't apply to jobs that take 3 hours to apply to. I forget what sites it is, but some just have you upload your resume once. Don't do the ones that force you to fill out all experiences manually, unless you really want the job.
If you like depressed mood then have a look at Schopenhauer?
Health wise you'd probably be better off drinking a caffienated drink that wasn't coke. Perhaps kombucha or similar.
I keep looking at battery powered equipment like lawn mowers and every single one uses a proprietary battery.

Is that the case in the EU?
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Yeah, but have it power all the peripherals of a full desktop. It could hot swap by dropping it into a magnetic dock/cradle whenever you need to "do some work", and then pick it up and walk away and all the desktop peripherals go back into hibernation.
> We all must work together in order to make our software more accessible to all.

No, I don't need to spend time and money rewriting or changing my code because some crappy TV company decided to freely use linux or other open source software and they didn't like the terms used in it.
Having gone through that on the supply side it was a manufactured crisis. When news organizations were still waiting for the first COVID19 cases to happen in their country they would run fluff stories from other places. A very common one was the toilet paper shortage. They probably got some intern to write it sloppily so in some it wasn't even clear that the photos and examples were from a different country. That drove people to rush to stores and hoard creating a self-fulfilling phrophecy as no grocery store will keep too many days of stock of toilet paper as it has too much volume. That this then happened in more places made it even more of a story and it sort of snowballed.

The fact that people were now at home and using different types of paper than what offices use was as far as I can tell a very small factor, it was mostly panic hoarding.
How to stop people from contradicting The Party apparatus online?
Right off the bat, humans are social creatures and cutting off social activity is the cruelest form of punishment, as evidenced by prisons.

An unobstructed face communicates a rich set of subtle queues and non-verbal emotions, and it’s indispensable to socializing. If you need evidence, I don’t know what to say to you other than this is self-evident to any human experiencing life among other people.

If you think I’m just making this up: https://theconversation.com/face-time-heres-how-infants-lear...

But further: why is the null hypothesis here that prolonged, universal masks wouldn’t disrupt child development?

Is it unreasonable to assume that a multiple-year long regime of obscuring the primary mode of human identity and emotion would upset such a complex system like the development and socialization of a human being?

Since when has it become normal to fiddle with major components of a complex system like society and make the burden of evidence: prove there’s harm. Humans generally screw things up in completely unexpected ways, overconfident in their own agency and supposed knowledge. This is hubris.
> I am really not sure how you reached this conclusion from the 44 page paper you linked.

The data is on page 18/19. In the vaccinated group 13 out of 25,536 infections resulted in death (0.051%). In the unvaccinated group, it's 48 out of 147,612 (0.032%).

> That paper explicitly says that being vaccinated reduces risk of becoming infected.

Perhaps, but then even if you are infected, your risk of death (under 50) is still effectively the same. It's also not clear how big that risk reduction of infection is. It started out at 95% during the trials, Israel last reported 39%:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta-variant-pfizer-covid-v...

> similar Ct values does not imply similar disease trajectories or outcomes

We still use Ct values as a proxy for infectiousness.
In the US, we can look back at 1975-2000 as a period when nothing really bad happened. 1900-1950 was far worse.

"There’s a big tradition on the left ... insisting that building a zero-carbon future requires the adoption of radical anti-capitalist politics. But it’s completely absurd." Yes. We're in a good position on energy. As the fossil fuel sources are running out, we now have good alternatives. That wasn't true 20 years ago. 20 years ago, solar panels cost too much, and wind turbines were not big enough.

2022 will probably be the year that perception of this turns around in the US. That's when all the good electric work vehicles ship. The electric Ford F-150, the electric Ford Transit, and the big electric Freightliner trucks are all starting volume production. A year from now, most American blue-collar workers will have ridden in an electric vehicle at least once.