skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that depends. All the foods I have seen that are "high fat" are not high fat at all. If anything, we were sold the idea that foods should be "low fat" to be healthy but from the studying I have done in nutrition that was actually a mistake and possibly influenced heavily by the sugar industry. Another mistake we as a society have made was to allow meat snacks to be preserved with sugar rather than salt. Glycated meats or Advanced Glycation End Products a.k.a. AGEs or meats exposed to sugars are thought to play a causative role in the vascular complications of diabetes mellitus. AGEs can induce crosslinking of collagen, which can cause vascular stiffening and entrapment of low-density lipoprotein particles (LDL) in the artery walls.

In summary, I would not be so quick to ban "high fat" until we really understand what types of fats we are talking about, what amounts and what proteins they are accompanied with and if they are bound to sugars. I believe we want the easy path out of problems and over-generalize. I don't know if this is to satisfy various food lobbyists. Either way, fat is not the enemy. Glycated proteins and sugars can safely be kicked to the curb.
So yea, hopefully she doesn't buy a plane ticket for the first flight of her life tomorrow.
New York Times is listed as center-left and high factual though. Orbiting the center and factual is really about as good as you’re going to get for less biased reporting. (Ignoring how even that is reductive, and that the NYT definitely has its own set of biases that don’t neatly fit on the left-right spectrum.)
Thanks this is what I was looking for. Don't know why i was down-voted for asking
the difference between a cohort that listens to a football podcast and lives in a metro doesn’t seem obvious to me.
Recap: October 4th (why Facebook going down is important)
Because it's such an improbable edge case, it seems like it's not relevant to the more general discussion of "does refterm's speed and features actually show that the rendering problem is far easier than the Microsoft developers made it out to be".

The Microsoft terminal doesn't render monospaced fonts, the overwhelmingly common case, nearly as fast as refterm. If rendering variable-width fonts is somehow intrinsically insanely expensive for some reason (which I haven't seen anyone provide good evidence for), then a good implementation would still just take refterm's fast monospaced rendering implementation and use it for monospaced fonts, and a slower implementation for variable-width fonts.

That is - refterm's non-existent variable-width font rendering capabilities do not excuse the Windows terminal's abysmal fixed-width font rendering capabilities.
good luck trying to instill that in the mind of people in crypto

a lot of them are naively thinking "crypto will become the new world, i believe in it, it's obvious, we have to do it, we have to free the people from <bad past>"
Her testimony seem designed to provide cover for increased viewpoint censorship on the facebook platform. Her explicit examples are "hate speech" by conservative dissenters that cause people to disagree with narratives she agrees with.

Facebook has applied some of the most heavy-handed and widespread politically motivated censorship that the west has ever seen. If anything, increasing this censorship is likely to increase cronyism and division more than anything.

And their censorship has often not been correct in the past, when being wrong caused real damage. E.g. the now mainstream lab leak hypothesis was censored in a way that may have delayed a more effective response.
Visited that site expecting to see Google Reader, Talk and some more. Turns out its pages upon pages of services, most of which I never heard off.

Is Google really just throwing stuff at the wall without even a thought about "what if it will stick"?
Why is that a benefit?
Are there really any such examples? Steve Jobs wanted excellent products and they didn't always work out. That was often because the tech wasn't quite there so either the functionality didn't quite work or the effort required to make it work resulted in a product which was just a bit too expensive. Reliability is really tricky to get right and most Apple products even now get rushed to market and then not iterated on in a big way, or at least nothing like the honing that goes into a Toyota product by contrast. There isn't really a balance of features that puts aesthetics in competition with other aspects.
> What disappoints me is a "generation of folks" who can't tell that openness is a spectrum

And Apple is very far on the closed end of that spectrum relative to their competitors, and always has been.

There is simply no arguing this point.

> every bit of openness they enjoy was hard-fought for by pushing the boundaries of the platforms that existed beyond their original intentions, and now treat an effort to do the same on new platforms as some kind of windmill tilting.

Let's be real: Asahi isn't gonna change Apple's corporate culture. It's a super cool technical project and I absolutely applaud these sorts of efforts simply because they're cool.

But you're not the Jedi fighting the empire here. You're not gonna blow open the M1 and suddenly change Apple hearts and minds.

The PC industry became more open for one reason and one reason only: Money.

The IBM monopoly was destroyed because clones were cheap, not because of ragtag freedom fighters.

Linux won over in the embedded space because it doesn't cost anything, not because folks suddenly got stars in their eyes over the GPL.

Apple will only change their practices when economics force them to. But it's very clear that they view a walled garden of hardware and software as key to their financial success, and everything they're doing is intended to build those walls just a little bit higher.

So until you can change that financial equation, nothing in the Apple ecosystem will change.

But, honestly, keep plugging away! Have fun! I personally love repurposing hardware to make it do cool things for which it was never intended. When I see projects like this, I think of Everest: We do it because it's there.

But let's not pretend that you're somehow going to change Apple just because you get the Linux kernel booting on the M1.
There are people who have done precisely that (to quite excruciating detail I might add :-) with the informed legal and civics background that I could only dream of: Check [0] and her bible. It is calm, meticulous deconstruction of what is happening, why, and why it is wrong.

Forming a consensus (imho this can easily span the traditional political spectrum as it affects literally everybody - its not frequently you get to see the two extremes agree on something) and moving towards a new framework that will sketch "what good looks like" is entirely possible and would come not a moment too early.

The stakes are really high. This is a struggle for democracy, but also for the shape of the future economy. There are many sectors: medical, insurance, finance, education that are looking with disbelief at what is going on. if the political signal is that the Faustian pact of surveillance capitalism is irreversible the ensuing race to the bottom will be the end...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff
Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage
Reminds me of the remarkably little-known AlgoRythmics sorting dances [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgoRythmics/videos
The carbon footprint is the bottleneck for crypto. How can it scale without accelerating further ecological collapse?

New coins will come along with greenwash in their rhetoric but ultimately you have to trust the science.

It's funny how everyone trusts the science when it supports their worldview and ignore it when it doesn't.
> And if some of the allegations and concerns are correct, the current trajectory companies like Facebook are taking us on are poised to cause far worse. We've already seen Facebook used to facilitate genocide, and there are very concerning trends that indicate it's impacting how entire societies engage each other. It's forcing increased polarization in politics and resulting in extremist candidates.

The Rohingya genocide? While I agree that Facebook does not do enough to moderate content in non English communities, what percentage of the blame do you think Facebook actually deserves here? Recall this genocide was funded and executed by the military of a sovereign state.

It's _forcing_ increased polarization in politics? Be fair. We all have a choice whether or not to engage with content on Facebook, and whether we accept what we see there as truth. Facebook is available in every democracy in the world. In my home country of Canada, we just had a safe and fair election between a reasonable number of moderate parties. We had no insurrection. Many countries are able to do the same. There are a few exceptions.

You're using the term "facilitated" constantly in this post because really all Facebook has done in these cases was serve as a communication medium for blameworthy people with bad ideas. You seem to have no interested in the people who actually _did the things_.

Do you think anything you pointed out here would be difficult to do given any other existing communication medium?
Facebook is both awful and essential: Recap: October 4, 2021
It's great that there's a lot of activism.

But leftists vote Democratic (to the extent they vote for one of the two major parties), and I don't see the Democratic party doing anything whatever to rein in either big government or big business. In fact, these days the Democratic party is the party of big government and the Fortune 500, as is surely obvious.

Lots of activity, but little action forthcoming, I'm afraid.
For example, Keynsian economics requires everyone to be forced to save through a central banking system. Otherwise the whole thing collapses. Keynsian economics has dominated the last 100 years of politics. Crypto gives you an escape which puts a check politicians who would be forced to be less spendy. The only other way of enforcing this would attack the ways in which politicians trade favor which seems impossible.

I can't see a single reason to stop spending as a politician if you can print money. Your political time horizon is shorter than the detrimental effects of your spending so the voting population is unable to de-obfuscate the cause of their purchasing power falling rapidly. I usually hear people blame the rich as a knee-jerk reaction instead.
I think you're misunderstanding. The DNS servers (at Facebook peering points) had zero access to Facebook datacenters because the backbone was down. That is as unhealthy as the network connection can get, so they (correctly) stopped advertising the routes to the outside world.

By that point, the Facebook backbone was already gone. The DNS servers stopping BGP advertisements to the outside world did not cause that.
So what? It's not Facebook's responsibility to do anything about that. There isn't strong evidence that Facebook is uniquely addictive and harmful to the extent that it requires state intervention. Beyond that, this is just you judging the choices of others.

We don't ask profit-driven porn studios/websites to regulate what porn they produce/show because some people get "addicted" to porn in the sense that they won't live without it. We don't ask Pizza Hut to regulate who they sell and advertise pizza to because they know some people won't live without unhealthy pizza. We don't even ask alcohol stores to avoid selling to alcoholics. Any recreational or enjoyable activity will have people who won't live without it even if it makes them feel bad or has some other costs. In a free society, people still choose for themselves and are responsible for the results of their own choices.

If you have strong evidence that Facebook is uniquely addictive and harmful, present it. Otherwise, stop trying to control my ability to engage in ad-driven social media. I don't care what you think is good or bad speech or whether companies profit from it.
Lotto Probability Database Repository Hack Challenge
Founder of new lotto probability database repository predicts a semi-hack is most likely possible for major world lotteries, with absolute correct predictions down to the sub-draw pattern level on a consistent bases.

There are 92 different draw patterns (Over 850 Sub-draw Patterns) for both the Mega Millions and Powerball Lotteries, each one designated with its own Alpha code name in the database repository.

It has been believed for some time that random winning number combinations do follow a semi-predictable pattern, but finding the programmer to take on the monumental programming difficulty and challenge is a challenge in an of itself.
Depends on your perspective, no?

If you're the unwilling vassal of the centralized superpower that controls all the money and financial flows, then the malignant entity is the state that keeps you under boot.

We might hope in theory that the democratic state that controls things has the people's best interest at heart, but an honest study of history shows that's never really been true. The state only cares about the well being on the people (and the environment) in so far as it feeds back into their own power on the global stage.

And it almost necessarily has to be this way. Any democratic state that honestly cared about it's people at the expense of it's power would eventually be destroyed or overpowered by an external (or internal) organization that was more ruthless.
> Use the debugger sparingly if at all. See if you can use more exotic ways like printfs, dump out data via files, assertions etc just for the sake of getting a wider range of troubleshooting techniques should you find yourself without a debugger someday

Often it's the reverse: printfs, data file dumping, etc. are impossible, but the debugger is always there. If you find yourself chasing a bug into glibc or Rust stdlib, printf debugging won't be sufficient. Using a debugger is an underrated skill.
Are telecoms not privately run? Or are you defining anything that's regulated as "not privately run"?
You're talking about the grid, the OP was talking about datacenter infrastructure -- which one is the weak link?

If a datacenter can't go from idle (but powered on) servers to fully utilized servers without taking down the power grid, then it seems that they'd have software controls in place to prevent this, since there are other failure modes that could cause this behavior other than a global Facebook outage.
Python 3.10: the new error messages are what's up
I'd much rather reverse engineer proprietary hardware; I get to have fun doing that and I get to play the upstreaming game better than any of those companies that "support open source" that you love so much (have you seen the mess AMD made? They have hundreds of megabytes of autogenerated headers in the Linux tree now!), while working with a team of motivated and experienced developers and working to make everyone's life as pleasant as possible, minimizing churn, red tape, and inefficiency.

Seriously, there's no way I'd be half as happy working at Intel on Linux drivers as I am working on the M1. And it's not like they support external developers either - most of the chip documentation for Intel/AMD stuff is not public. You can't actually build working graphics drivers from their public docs, not even remotely close. Heck, I had to reverse engineer AMD's GPU microcode to get the variant in the PS4 to work. Totally undocumented stuff.
> People running Linux on “windows branded PCs” of the not so distant past could have easily said the same thing because Say Dell and Microsoft would be commercially motivated to only keep Windows running on their hardware.

I don't think this needs qualification. It's still true today.
Maps, Mail, Drive, Scholar, and Search are all the best or near the best available. That doesn’t mean I like every one of them or I wouldn’t prefer others, but as far as I can tell the competition doesn’t exist that works better.

GCP and Pixel phones are a toss-up between them and competitors.

It isn’t market dominance, nobody has made anything better.
Not all projects have the resources to self host GitLab CE. Actually compute resources may not be much, but keeping it up to date with security patches can be burdensome.
> Some will say that this and this and that happened just so, and they wouldn't begin to know how someone else could replicate it. Others will say it's just a matter of perseverance and not making stupid mistakes and anyone can do it if they just bothered to, despite ample evidence to the contrary.

May be they are both right, since surely there's both a repeatable process [0] and a non-repeatable process [1] to get rich?

[0] acquire skill that's highly paid (doctors?); acquire skill needed by rapidly-growing sectors (crypto? biotech?)

[1] right place at the right time
"If the best Facebook can come up with is this disgusting attempt at character assassination, Haugen is telling God’s own truth. We should listen to her."

A pretty powerful closing statement IMHO.
Because for many leaders, keeping their workers in the office comes down to asserting control.
Let's throw in a ransomware tax, while we're at it.
By "no way around it" I mean you're going to need to create a circular dependency at some point, whether it's a maintenance network that's used to manage itself, or the prod network for managing the maintenance network.

I absolutely agree that installing a maintenance network is a good idea. One of the big challenges, though, is making sure that all your tooling can and will run exclusively on the maintenance network if needed.

(Also, while the marginal cost of laying an extra pair of fiber during physical installation may be low, making sure that you have fully independent failure domains is much higher, whether that's leased fiber, power, etc.)
This is quite interesting. Some of the features and upcoming features look really nice. One-click database forks would be really handy. VPC peering is nice, not just for security, but also so AWS doesn't fleece you with bandwidth charges ($0.01/GB on your side and timescale side in the same AZ, and worse if not. For big data systems that can be a lot.)

I wonder how the storage works: https://docs.timescale.com/cloud/latest/scaling-a-service/#p...

Seems like to scale it separately it would need to be EBS not local instance storage? I wonder if magnetic or SSD? That does constrain the performance, especially for queries.
I've added a sarcasm indicator to my post to clear up any confusion. The point is that there are lots of valid reasons to use an unbounded amount of memory, and it's reasonable to expect unbounded-memory-using applications to have mechanisms which free that memory over time without direct user intervention (eg, manually closing a tab).
Honestly I don't see this. I realize it's a simple narrative, and it's one that plays well with the heroic arc, but businesses are not Aesop's Fables, sat on this earth to give us a morality tale to use to guide our children. The facts on the ground are far more complicated than "Apple was creative under Steve and isn't under Cook." Apple had MORE products when in the market when Steve came back as CEO, and he ruthlessly pared them down to the core. If Tim Cook killed half of Apple's lineup, would you say "wow, what a Steve-like move?" or would you say the company is simply resting on its laurels?

Apple has been managed by Tim Cook for more years now than it was by Steve Jobs. By business measures it is significantly more successful. They haven't released the next iPhone-class product, but one does not simply walk into Mordor, nor does one make an iPhone of products every year, or even every decade.

I think Apple is doing fine, warts and all. N of 1, but I've spent more money on their stuff in the last 4 years than I did in the 12 before that.
Sorry y'all. I am prone to thinking technological determinism's more right than not, and to seeing the stable outcome of "games" as inevitable unless the terms of the games themselves can be altered, and there's usually not much interest in doing that. Maybe that makes me part of the problem, but I'm pretty sure nothing in the actual world would change if I flipped around to a "we can, actually, realistically, fix this" attitude. Realistically, I'm not going to throw the significant resources behind anything that'd be required to have slightly-better-than-winning-the-Powerball odds of making an actual difference, which makes me the same as 99.999% of people, at least. I ain't rich enough to pay others to care about and work toward the causes I'd support in my place, to a degree that it'd actually affect anything, so that'd mostly be lots and lots of actual hours of my life, for a ticket at a slim chance of anything getting better.

Nah. Donate a little to charity while knowing it's not enough to do much. Vote when I manage to forget that the world in which I did vote and the one in which I didn't are identical aside from that I "get to" complain about non-voters and tell them they don't get to have opinions, in one of them. That's it.
On the other hand, did you know the CIA has a venture capital arm?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
Yes! I absolutely use UDP!

I once built a prototype network stack on top of a udp library that simulated a physical network layer..

Doesn’t change the fact that tcp/ip was the network stack that enabled the internet.

But I was trying to sidestep that tangent by mentioning link layer protocols in my second paragraph.
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is:

1. You are writing a DSL that works with wrapped values.

2. In this DSL you can use arbitrary pure functions from your base language.

3. The value proposition is: those pure functions should not be aware of the fact that they are working with wrapped values, they are written as if they are computing regular non-wrapped values. Bind takes care of this.

4. Indeed the simplest way to implement this is some kind of interpreter. But you don't have to re-implement the entire language inside this interpreter, because of #3
"...for a certain privileged sub-group of society. All crypto does is to level the field, and that's a big net win in my book."

Is the thinking of some people that problem today is that some very wealthy/powerful have a vast, unfair, advantage over ... other very wealthy people? Or something.

The concept is bizarre. Have you not thought that a process that facilitates unlimited, unbridled competition tends to produce a few winners, the wealthy and powerful, and those winners, having more power, squash the competition following the rules of this unbridled competition, which isn't going to prevent them from using their wealth and power for competition.
He was an oligarch, and then was democratically elected. His supreme court appointees will continue to enforce his policies for the rest of their lives.

> no system of government can prevent bad actors

Everything's the same! So crypto's no worse then?
If that was what the OP had said, I would agree, but I don't interpret that as being what they actually said (although I may have misinterpreted):

"However, those actions were later decided to be made illegal" (emphasis added)

I interpret this as saying that they believe retroactively applying enforcement would be moral, just, and legal.
"The Genealogy of Morals" by Nietzsche with the reminder that I am using "violence" in the way he uses "power." Power is just the civilized word for violence.

And this is what I consider to be a cipher from his "Thus Spoke Zarathustra:"

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.”

Also "The Golden Bough" by Frazer if you can read between the lines.
Now, it is no place to compare fathers like that. You can both be blessed to have your respective fathers. :)