skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure how well known it is, but I already have known this. Immunostimulants are not necessary a healthy thing either, especially not for people with an autoimmune disorder. It can cause flare-ups for example. There is a case of a woman whose condition deteriorated rapidly after having consumed some common herbs and died within a day or two. I think she had MS.

Another example: it has been known that many substances do prevent, but if you already have cancer, than your condition will worsen.

Back to NAC: it is healthy for you in the typical doses which is about 200-1000 mg I would say. If you take acetaminophen on the daily, then it is especially recommended.

In any case, I do not recommend taking it long-term, or not without breaks in-between. Take it for 2 months, stop for a month, take it for another 2 months, then stop for a month and so forth. You can do 1 month on then off, and so on. Up to you.
I don’t usually post here, especially on such personal topics, but feel I should. I’ve been on SSRIs and SNRIs for some time now (Pristiq, and now Zolof), and can definitely attest to the some of the changes described in the article. I clearly remember reading the documentation in full that came with both drugs before starting each, and the mentioned side effects were only mentioned in passing, along with possibly every other side effect imaginable, so it was very easy to dismiss - especially when you are in a place you know you need help out of. There was also no real warning of long term side effects from both doctors that have prescribed me.
I guess I don’t have any real point, other than if you are considering anti-depressants do more research than I did before taking what you’ve been prescribed - and if in doubt get answers from your doctor, and failing that find a better doctor (if you can).
Even better candidate: Earth. Geoengineering gets a bad rap, but we're much close to accomplishing it than terraforming a hostile planet.
Totally agree. Some time ago I also ran Blender headless with a script to render 'product shots' of a product that is available in over hundred different combinations. What is also very nice is that you can turn on API hints when you navigate over an element in the GUI. So you can quickly learn how to access or manipulate data.
Neither poster cited anything though, so they both could be making shit up. Why not accuse both of propaganda techniques?
They are better explained here: https://www.oreilly.com/content/software-architecture-patter...
Scalpers must be busy.
I was surprised that such a definition actually existed.
It's "a person having origins in any of the peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". The obvious problem with it is that it pretends children were never produced across its boundaries, but make of it what you will.
might be a bit off topic than what's discussed, but actually I never cease to be amazed by how easy it is to do image processing in browser. want some pixels? pass an img element. moving pixels? pass a video element. dynamic pixels? pass a canvas element. it just works.

now try the same in any other runtime... go mess with different compressions, encodings, color spaces, list goes on and on...
I'm trying to find a charitable way of interpreting this comment but I'm not able to. If I break the law and an officer shoots me in cold blood, it was my actions, not my beliefs which led to my death. Does that mean I deserved it?
This is simply unsubstantiated — there's absolutely no reason to believe Cloudflare won't play ball with authorities.

If anything, ISP DNS being a distributed system with independent ISPs all across the world, it would be much more difficult for the major agencies to control all the individual ISPs than it would be to simply control a single global entity with a US HQ and offices and POPs worldwide — Cloudflare.
Some years ago Microsoft was spreading FUD about Linux. Now Linux users do the same about Microsoft.
There is no such thing as alternative medicine. If the drug is tested and found to be effective then it is medicine. But you must expect rigorous analysis and provide significant evidence to support you claims. This is how it works. If you can't handle it then you are in 'alternative' medicine, which is not real.
Wristband that turns body heat into electricity can power an LED
Trust me, people are really religious about jobs.
>drivers

Network drivers are always useful.
Diseases, wars, pollution, hunger, crime, mental illnesses, racism, mobility/passports that suck or give you access to practically nothing, terrorism, poverty. The list goes one.
It says on the official Raspberry Pi website:

Are you discontinuing Zero and Zero W?

No. We seldom discontinue products, even where they have been superseded by more modern product at the same price point. Zero 2 W is $5 more expensive than Zero W, and joins the Zero family as a third member.

Note that Zero and Zero W are currently experiencing supply constraints in the context of the global semiconductor shortage. We hope that this will be resolved in 2022.
More or less the quality you'd expect from the New Yorker. You'll learn nothing from this piece if you're even vaguely familiar with Thiel's life.
I'm skeptical.

Not only because M1 is at TSMC "5nm" (which is probably equivalent to Intel 7nm) but also because this happens every time intel gets kicked to the curb.

"Guys, don't go AMD, the new Intel CPU will be faster"

When the product arrives it usually comes with a huge trade-off such as thermals and power consumption and doesn't do the performance originally claimed anyway.

This has happened after every Ryzen launch, suspiciously only a day or so after each event. It's so obvious and I don't think I'm going to fall for that again.

No more promises: Goodbye Intel, I'll see you when your product can be in my hands and do what you claim.
ArgoCD: What, Why, How?
The incompatiblity of U.S. and German copyright law is not so much in the momentary duration, which in both jursidictions is 70 years after the author's death (exceptions apply to anonymous publications). The major incompatiblities arise from the regulations which were in place before the durations were harmonized (for the U.S., prior to 1978).

On an international scale, the situation is more complicated. Rougly speaking, the range for the duration of copyright is from "life + 50 yrs" up to "life + 100 yrs". Wikipedia has a list of these.[1] There are many countries where works from up to the early 1970s are already in the public domain that are still under copyright protection in the U.S. for up to the next 20 years. In principle, problems may arise if the country in which a work is published in the Internet sets a shorter term of protection than the maximum term in this list.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright...
They mean pub key / certificate fingerprints. Gosh... :)
If there was a single feature I could see added to Blender, it would be to share more functionality between objects and collections. Blender has an organizational concept called objects, which are containers with position, scale, rotation, and they contain within them the mesh data. These can be warped, arrayed, cast, decimated, etc, through the use of non destructive modifiers.

Now, these objects can be combined into a higher level organizational container called a collection. These, too, have a position, scale, rotation, etc, and behave much the same way as objects. They can even be combined into parent collections.

Now, what I would love would be to have them gain much of the functionality of objects that they don't currently have, most importantly modifiers.

Say I was building a well. I make a single brick, an object. I can array this brick object to create a wall, and I can add a corner to the wall, and add it all to a collection. Now I have this wall "object," and maybe I want to array it 8x around a center point in order to create an octagonal well. I can't, because I can't place modifiers on collections. For all intents and purposes, it is just another object, and would love to see any push towards allowing it to behave as such.
Well some things are already done. For example Cycles X will be released at the end of this year.
It wouldn't make a difference in the comparison against M1 Max, but the benchmark was also done on Windows 11, which introduced bugs for AMD scheduling. Fixed now, but maybe the AMD results have been skewed because of this. Overall, this is the least scientific and realistic benchmark article ever - until people get their hands on the chips and test them properly everything is speculation. Also - competing for absolute benchmark rankings, when you still need to put a discrete GPU in an intel laptop to even connect a 4k screen is meaningless - people should stop making purchasing decisions just based on benchmarks.
That reads like a laundry list of problems that money alone can't solve. (I guess you left off education.)
If Linux kernel devs had just written v5.14 first they wouldn't have needed to bother with any of the previous 90 or so releases. The fools!
Why do people assume civilization needs to endlessly grow. There's no reason not to reach a stable equilibrium here on earth. Only reason I see to leave to other stars is to survive the end of the sun, but that's going to be billion of years from now.
In my case (Pristiq), it was a net positive. My libido decreased (but never desapeared) and I've never had erectile disfuncion so far. Totally worth it for me, with my specific metabolism.
Unless you hate web apps, then you are f**d.
Youtube is free vs others which are paid. And youtube is the most known video hosting service while I have barely heard of others. Are they really competitors?
I think we're saying the same thing. I described the dice outcome comparison as a nonlinearity.
And by law, you're not obligated. The contention was that such questions have no "scientific" value, when they do, insofar as employment data is useful to researchers and policymakers.
>Of course it is! It’s explicitly defined as an interchange format.

So an INI file is code too?

Generally people think of code as being executed and doing some task. Can you use JSON to compute prime numbers?
The Creator Economy in Africa; Opportunities and Trends
I'm not close enough to silicon valley to know, what I do know is the early internet felt very libertarian. I'd say it broadly changed in the past decade and especially so post 2015 say.

If I had to guess, I'd say all the libertarian types are increasingly moving to crypto stuff where they can build and do what they want in a way that's increasingly difficult on the modern web.
Huh? Is building a database of actual finger fingerprints not worthwhile?
I can see where this would work well in the scenario described: "in environments with a lot of predictability and structure".

Waterways don't generally have vehicles doing high speeds and do have wider lanes to travel within than roadways.

I live near two big lakes with a lot of boats on one of them (Table Rock Lake in Missouri) zooming all over the place. You could easily plot a course to get most anywhere on that lake without worrying about hitting anything or even coming close to any fixed structures or shallow spots, but you'd have to "see" or communicate with other boats to avoid those traveling or drifting or anchored most anywhere out there.

This article pretty clearly states this tech is not there yet and my experience is that there would be dumbasses that would run into it on our lakes if it were out there. Probably not very often, but for sure it would because it does now.
Dude, I was agreeing with you.

I linked that article, because I recall it in the news, and it got fairly widely covered at the time with the blame firmly placed at IKEAs feet - "They should have known" apparently.

People believe what they are told these days, without any desire to fact-check or cross-reference. I think this was my point.
Geoengineering doesn't solve the single planet problem.
This depends on the basic goodwill to listen and a desire to reconcile, which usually exists between couples but does not exist in this case. In my experience the antivaxxers are utterly entrenched and view the other side as "the enemy," and even more so since Trump made it a part of the hyper-partisan divide.
There are Indo-European speakers living in Xinjiang right now (Tajiks), and there were Indo-European speakers there 3000 years ago. It's not far-fetched to imagine a Western Eurasian connection.

The Eurasian steppe goes practically uninterrupted from Hungary to Manchuria, and it's a great big horse highway.
I don't know. It does not feel impressive to me that the absolute leader in CPU for the past decades latest unreleased cpu beats what I can buy in a store today by a sliver on one benchmark (with all the doubts about power consumption).

The big elephant in the room for Intel is the x86 instruction set. It's a technical debt that is not addressed in anyway as far as I can see.
Until then, we'll have to choose between the Apple way or the inefficient way.
have you tested lz4? it's probably a little worse ratio, but it is ridiculously fast to decompress.
The rings are printed in wax and then a plaster mould is made using the wax. The gold or silver is cast using the plaster mould.

I don’t do any of it myself, I have a casting partner who can do it for me. You can also find online services like shapeways to do it as well but they charge a lot mire than the real casting houses. Some casting houses I’ve worked with were the back ends to shapeways themselves.
A different anecdotal experience from my own use (10mg Lexapro) - I've always had a problem with premature ejaculation. Was trying all kinds of tricks like doing math problems in my head during sex or trying different breathing techniques - all of that was useless, once I started taking Lexapro it's like it flipped some switch in my head and I can basically go as long as I like now, and finish almost on command. Absolute game changer, it's a fantastic improvement to my quality of life. I also take 5mg of Cialis daily, which definitely helps with erections.
Definitely not a 5min read though
The starship delivery drones can be described as a bin. And if you obstruct their path they ask you politely with their voice to please let them go.
I don't read regards as fundamentally rude but I do read it as very cold and formal, which can come off in as rude or passive aggressive depending on the context.

I wouldn't bat an eye if a letter from my bank or a formal HR communication signed off with "Regards". But if a colleague from another team or a senior leader ended an email with "Regards" I would find that rude.

That said I've spent the last two years working in the public sector and have come to learn that the standards for communication and presentation are very different here. I'd still consider it rude from a colleague who worked in my directorate (it's a tech directorate) but if it was from someone outside my directorate I'd give them the benefit of the doubt. Though in those cases I also tend to be aggressively informal/casual in my responses.
Twitch is free and quite popular.

Everyone hangs out on Daily Motion, Vimeo, Cinnamon, D.Tube, and PeerTube all the time. Right?
Hello Cyberfear,

Encryption is OK but I'm more interested in simple privacy.

Privacy as in only approved addresses are allowed to send me email. If an address is not approved, it gets rejected at the server. This would solve the single biggest issue with email without requiring much in the way of added operational complexity.

Discuss amongst yourselves.
I’ll happily engrave your public key on a ring!
> Max Read, a former editor-in-chief of Gawker, would note that Thiel’s politics were informed by “an apocalyptic fear of stasis.”
Retail Consulting Services – Retail Consulting Firm
Retail Consulting firms predominantly involve many rounds of meetings which lead to discovering extortionately high daily rates and a partnership that mostly benefits the consultant (not the client)! I've seen first hand how retail consulting works and it angers me to have seen impressive lip service; stating obvious factors that people inside the business could have identified!
All providers are in on this "free" public DNS scam for the same reason, and it makes me wonder why anyone would voluntarily donate their entire home's click analytics to a super-aggregator free of charge. Did I miss the link to the payment page?

Cisco at least release some low frequency summaries of the data they are able to collect: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.htm...
My understanding is it's complicated in the US, but between most other western countries there are treaties allowing foreign judgements to be enforced domestically.

>If so, does it mean that, as a hypothetical website owner, I need to understand and be compliant with every law in every possible country, or risk fines / imprisonment?

By the letter of the law, yes. The idea of a borderless internet never had specific legal standing, it's just largely a convention on non-enforcement.
I turned down a 100k+ role at Facebook. I don’t regret the decision.
Because race was an explicit and continues to be an implicit factor in separating the haves from the have-nots.

>Probably from BlackRock in this case, not from WhiteRock.

That's cultural appropriation.
Yeah you can also have it print the python command called for every action you take in the GUI
It is not worth $5.7B, don't multiply huge amounts of shares, stocks, or coins by their market value, as it is impossible to cash out at that price. If he tries to do large sell orders it will sink to 1-10% of its current price.
This is interesting. I'm a founder of an app[1] that deals with this ballpark of issue, by providing (among other things) couples with sensate focus therapy, which is a form of sex therapy that has an extremely strong evidence base, and is a pretty standard go-to for libido issues.

We definitely have users that have experienced PSSD and have found our app helpful, and the underlying therapy techniques are proven.

[1] https://www.blueheart.io
> It's not very helpful to just describe a study you simply recall based on memory.

Actually it is. The whole point of that was to illustrate the importance of actually looking into what these papers actually said, if they exist at all, instead of pulling the appeal to authority card with numbers pulled out of thin air.

The OP asserted that ivermectin worked. He proceeded to state that 60 papers report it. Well... Where are they? Can anyone like me actually take a look at one of these supposedly decisive papers? I'd be happy if I could just check the best one out of the hypothetical 60.
> The average JavaScript library for handling video resolutions and full-screen mode switching is about 600 KB

Wow, really? You can write a full HTTP 1.0 server in a 15th-20th of that.
Excellent work! But I’m biased having worked at DRL and senseable.
it's a big "if"; it's not possible for objects with mass to accelerate to light speed.

If you were able to do so, yes you could "get" anywhere in zero subjective time - as mentioned earlier, since no time passes for you, there would be no way for you to decide that you wanted to stop travelling at light speed - you would end your existence by impacting something.

> that certainly makes no sense to me

Humans, as a species, aren't experienced with relavitistic effects; we have no useful inherent intuition as to how things behave at these sorts of speeds. Most of us have to accept the maths and the experiements that demonstrate that our understanding of this behaviour is accurate.
> The Apple M1 Max is a fantastic chip and is going to push both AMD and Intel to perform at their very best. And while I doubt x86 architecture will ever beat ARM on power efficiency, absolute power (within roughly comparable battery life) is another matter altogether.

I'm not sure I can follow this line of reasoning. If ARM chips will always be more efficient, then how can you continue stating comparable battery life.

Moreover, there is no mention of TDP. Past flagship Intel processors have been fighting thermal throttling on mobile devices, and it's already been demonstrated that the M1 Max chips don't run into throttling even under load.

It's interesting to see first benchmarks of the new Alder Lakes chips, but we will see how well they work in real products, i.e. with thermal and other constraints.
I took SSRIs for a year in my late twenties. They had no effect on my depression, but resulted in permanent sexual dysfunction. My own fault for not properly researching the potential long-term side effects, I suppose, but it certainly wasn't raised as an issue by the prescribing doctor either. I hope someday there will be cure of some kind.
"is worth" is up for interpretation.

Tesla sold something like $100M to test the liquidity of Bitcoin. Nobody tested to sell $5B of a cryptocurrency, let a lone a meme coin.

Next month, $8B of Bitcoin that have been locked in Mt. Gox are expected to be released to their owners. That could become the biggest liquidity test in the history of crypto.
Have you read Working Effectively with Legacy Code?

It's transformative in situations like this, it has a bunch of recipes for solving these kinds of problems.

While I don't use Java or C++, this book has probably been the most useful to me in working with larger bodies of code.
Doing Technical Phone Screens
And Thiel says what his beliefs are, across the vast number of interviews he has done (most of which seem to be available on YouTube). If the New Yorker were interested, it's trivial to learn what he thinks by watching them. He opines on a lot of topics, from religion to economics to politics to China to technology to innovation to privacy and so on. He has done challenge interviews, where he faces off against people; he has done frenemy interviews, eg with Reid Hoffman.
<insert long winded rant about the uselessness of recruiters and headhunters>
If there's any job that doesn't require any skills at all its in HR
Tangent: If you've ever watched Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel was the inspiration for the Peter Gregory character.
twitch isn't a video hosting service. it's a streaming service
> you still need to put a discrete GPU in an intel laptop to even connect a 4k screen

What do you mean by this? I have an 8th gen i5u in an HP laptop at work, and it's been driving an external 4k@60Hz screen for years. It has no dedicated GPU at all, just the integrated UHD 620 or something like that.

It can even daisy chain two external displays, in addition to the integrated panel. Not sure if it can drive two external 4k like this, I only have FHD + 4K to test.
Needs a (2020)
Ask HN: Any way to reliably figure out which holiday items sell out the fastest?
I am trying to figure out which retail products are most likely to sell out as a result of increased holiday demand.

Also please do share your thoughts about how you would approach this.
Does it need a license?
I'm looking at him right now — https://github.com/kovidgoyal. You can sponsor him at https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal.

It seems like he's spending a lot of time developing Calibre and has only 9 sponsors. Do you know of any other way he can make money out of Calibre?

GitHub contributions graph shows that he has consistently worked on Calibre for the past 12 years. That's amazing!
Add to the list, users can also be shitlisted instead of shadowbanned. If dang doesn't like your account, you will start getting rate limited with extreme prejudice with the message "You are posting too much".
Why is this here? It was launched last year?

Also, people should really be using Dnscrypt-proxy/DoH/DoT. Otherwise it's really easy for your ISP just to read/capture your DNS requests.
Trouble in that department is also heavily impacted by men just generally being more sedentary, having poorer diets, and due to those reasons and more, having lower testosterone. Also, consuming pornography in much greater amounts than previously available to people is known to cause serious problems here.