skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article is just a load of snark. It starts off my claiming that Vitamin D is suggested as a cure for all kinds of things, but the science shows that low Vitamin D levels are correlated with various diseases. There is a huge difference between saying low levels should be avoided in order to reduce disease and claiming that there is a cure. Not being able to tell the difference shows a lack of interest or understanding in the basic science involved. Railing against purported false claims is a rhetorical tactic and it is worth noting there are no citations for any of the claimed cure claims.

And the science involved is quite complex as recent studies have suggested that people can become resistant to Vitamin D in a way that mirrors insulin sensitivity. This means that serum levels vary in ways that are very much not directly related to supplementation, especially dietary supplementation.

In any case getting distracted by the "Regression SUGGESTED a THEORETICAL zero point of mortality ..." remark doesn't make sense because even Vitamin D enthusiasts rarely sustain levels much above 40.
oof (from the link). Debugging nightmare to have a fairly inexperienced team trying to diagnose stuff in these incredibly complex systems.

> 4 SREs managing Nomad, Consul, and Vault for 11,000+ nodes across 22 clusters, serving 420+ internal developers

> "We have people who are first-time system administrators deploying applications, building containers, maintaining Nomad. There is a guy on our team who worked in the IT help desk for eight years — just today he upgraded an entire cluster himself."
No. More repetition is always better. Proper spacing comes in only when you want to maximise retention with a fixed amount of repetition. (Source: Hoffman, Ward, Feltovich, et al. 2013. Recommended read if you're into that sort of stuff!)
> How would you build a content heavy site in a way that gives a user confidence when searching for something?

Use Good information architecture:

1. Have breadcrumb links at the top of the page so the user can find their bearings quickly.

2. Use categories and tags carefully. Don't add irrelevant or imprecise tags to articles.

3. If your site has over 100 pages of content across multiple categories, consider doing user research to better understand how site users navigate your site and think about categories. This can be done using an exercise called card sorting, where users look at a list of pages (shown as individual index cards), and then organize the cards into categories that make sense to them. This can be done with pens and a handful of index cards, but large sites would probably use an electronic solution like Optimal Workshop to generate tests that can be done online, and crunch the numbers.
Seriously impressive
s/Oracle OpenJDK/Oracle JDK/

They can't sue you for using OpenJDK.
Sorry but I have no idea what that is supposed to mean, can you please be more specific?
But Monzo isn’t a thing that 99% of the country has access too. Tikkie and iDeal are. Every mainstream bank here supports them and are part of the organisations that manage them. Well technically tikkie is ABN AMRO but it is built on the same underlying infra so it works for all the mainstream banks.
Zillow has listed 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss
VirtualBox is GPL2, but the 'extension pack' is under a personal use and evaluation license that doesn't cover commercial use. You're supposed to buy an Enterprise license for that.

The extension pack covers "Support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP, disk encryption, NVMe and PXE boot for Intel cards." according to the website.
It would still be a copy, and not you. The copy could fool other people into thinking it was you, as twins have done to one another. Its motivations would, necessarily, instantly diverge from yours, e.g. preferring to spend your money on feeding and housing itself, over feeding you.
Discoverability goes out the window the instant someone uses something like automake unfortunately. Then the makefile becomes an absolute mess of dummy targets and near gibberish.
Probably the CSAM scanning which was paused IIRC
Tikkie, iDeal, and IBAN transfers (within the country) are essentially instant. Additionally they are universally supported by all mainstream banks.
Niger has the highest fertility rate in the world[1]. As far as I know, they don't live in palatial affordable mansions there. How are they managing to afford all those children?

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/total-fer...
> If there are zero people in the world who want to work with you, maybe consider that the problem is yourself?

What point did you intend to make here? Who are these zero people? Who is the person who should consider if the problem is themselves?
The funny thing is that this professor doesn't even seem to be conservative. He might as well be a left-wing guy who doesn't believe in DEI.
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29051078
This article from 2019 suggests they use a mix of cloud and a dedicated data center.

https://portworx.com/blog/architects-corner-roblox-runs-plat...
I don't disagree you had these problems. I'm just saying the market of developers in your pool is not very big. Most people are happy just learning a single platform, chip, etc and getting a job writing code against it. I get the allure of "if only every target spoke the language I Know.. then I could target all the things.." but in practice it's not really a problem
But it is so full of landmines that even those quick dirty hacks will fail.

Also, don’t even start me up on self-modifying code, we have one at a work project and it sometimes just fails and results in inserting the same echo statement at each run, resulting in every bootstrap displaying 2^n messages, depending on when have I last cleaned it up…
The Candy Shortage Is but a Sign of Much Worse
> This justification for bash has always been perplexing to me. If I’m operating in an environment where my ONLY reliable infra invariant is “bash will probably work”, cleaning up the org’s infrastructure clusterfuck is probably my #1 priority.

That is not your job. Your job is to get that machine working using whatever is already installed. Adding a new package means going to the production committee with your proposal and justification and analysis of the increased threat surface.

The defaults are everything.
The reason multimedia CD-type sites aren't made anymore is because of copyright and licensing costs. You can't store a video on your site that you don't own, but you can embed a Youtube link. Same goes with songs; embed a Spotify link.

It was a much more fluid experience on things like Encarta 97, where MS shelled out the money to license a lot of audio and video. It was completely offline, so there was no possibility of filling the article pages with iframes of content served by third party sites.
Yes! Also, plug for my Hegel blog: http://hegelsbagels.net/
As I recollect, Chuck Moore seemed to be unable to write a usb driver in Colorforth.
Simple. You (a company) do one thing. You do not absorb other companies and extinguish them. Somebody else does the same thing you do, but a bit different? Want to merge? Bend over, cuz here comes the part where you have to painstakingly prove why you merging with them is good, and won't subject the market to crippling hyperoptimization forces.

Walmart took control of pricing in the dairy sector causing small operations to no longer be able to compete, propped up by income from other revenue streams. Google has basically set up a value desert around itself as far as advertising goes. As a knock on, it's extinguished potential competitor/disruptor after disruptor. Facebook has absorbed and integrated personal info on a gargantuan scale with the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions.

Action items off the top of my head: Alphabet gets dissolved. Facebook calves off Instagram/WhatsApp. Bare minimum.

Start an investigation into how vertical integration of brick and mortar grocers and packaging Industries effects actors in that space.

Murdoch I'd have to do more research on, as he's a relatively recent arrival on my list.

Amazon gets to decide if it's going to be a logistics company, or a platform for the sellers, or it's own "brick and mortar"-like. If marketplace, no using third-party seller for order flow analysis and front running. AWS gets calved, period.

The bigger you get, the more regulators take a stake in shaping your growth, to the breaking point. Thems the breaks. Stay small if you want to do it your way. Risk becoming national infrastructure/utility as the numbers of M&A's increase.

It's not all stick though. A company can do a strategic "merge-and-release" whereby for a short period of time, a company can acquire another, help it scale, then calve off after a period. After a certain size point, this is the only arrangement by which consolidation can happen. Calving off of industrial verticals is required for further permanent merger activity to continue.

The end goal of this doctrine is to keep network effects at bay. Once you start getting snowball effect, your shareholder's needs take second place to stakeholder's needs. Period. It is insane how effective a one way wealth funnel our system can become once we stop trustbusting.

Oh, every telecom merger in the past 10 years gets audited, and gets subjected to a public review. Any found to have not significantly increased in the benefit delivered to the end user gets an asset auction, loses eligibility for bidding on municipal projects, all last mile municipal ISP bans are nulled.

I'd throw in a day in the stocks as a target of rotten vegetation in the town square for lobbyists that have been intentionally obtuse, but I really don't think that's within the realm of possibility.

All of this is liable to change if someone would be interested in hiring me for a reasonable sum to map it all out full-time complete with authority to engage in legal discovery to get what info I don't have access to that'd actually make anything in this post more than frustrated pontificating.
Acquiring a major asset with a 501c3's funds and then selling it to a director or officer below market value is very clearly private inurement and absolutely should result in their "charity" getting its status revoked.

If you have evidence otherwise, present it.
robox or roblox?
If you are in US, one thing to consider is the massive over-prescription of medical tests in this country, due to legal reasons - avoid being sued for missing a problem.

You might want to consult with a UK doctor for example to see if they also recommend a CT scan in your situation.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-...
Absolutely, but with stricter regulation than cannabis.

Having authorized vendors where you can give advice to the buyer is much better than the current state of affairs.

For Europe the outlook is quite gloomy without any regulation:

https://insightcrime.org/investigations/colombian-cocaine-sh...
Drugs like heroin take away all your liberty whether you want it or not. Once you become slave of drugs there are no options or preferences only ever increasing desire for more.
Wacom is the best, in general. Huion gets 90% there for half or less of the price. They favor a different pressure curve that likely works well enough for most people while, I'm sure, saving on nibs and/or whatever's in the pen. The digitizer itself is equally or more accurate in positioning.

While some people take an understandable but cynical view due to the close ties between most Chinese companies and the government, that's exactly why I don't worry. Any whiff of spying would be a diplomatic hazard.

Think of the ruckus when Bloomberg accused Supermicro of installing spy chips for the Chinese government.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/12/super-micro-spy-chip-story/

Now imagine actual, confirmable spying. This would be the end to a huge part of Huion's business in markets it's worked hard to build a good reputation in for access to people who likely don't deal much in the kind of information a government wants to steal.
> “Built up antibodies naturally” is a coy way of saying kill the maximum number of people possible before reaching herd immunity.

This is absurd in the extreme. The proposition was that those that are the least impacted by covid--specifically, those like me who are healthy, young, getting adequate sunlight--should not have to bear the responsibility for those who are vulnerable.

Covid risk for people like me, and us healthy folk are a great large chunk of the population, is less than a typical flu.

Since we don't have as extreme policy responses to the flu, do you characterize that as well as "kill the maximum number of people possible"?

And saying that New Zealand came through unscathed I guess just shows how differently we think. The society has come to accept being forced into isolation, accept quarantines and curfews like their unruly teenagers, accept all manner of tyranny--to you, they're unscathed because they have fewer covid-related deaths. To me, covid-related deaths--which are dwarfed still in the USA by heart disease and cancer and other ailments, don't even rise to the level of general concern.

Then again, I live in Montana. Everyone doesn't care. Only on the internet and talking to Canadian or coastal friends does it come up. Around here, you say covid, and a lot of folks probably think it's a migratory bird--then again, hunting season just opened up.

And with all us ignoring this crazy pandemic, you know what? The world's not ending. No vaccine mandates. No mask mandates. Everyone's "unscathed".
I was referring to the people you referred to into your last sentence when you said "no one will give him another job". You didn't provide any context so I'm just going with whatever you had in mind. That's what I mean when I said it makes it very difficult to respond, you could help out here by explaining who these people are. If you meant the person in the article then how about let's talk about that?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to directly compensate such customers rather than keeping the whole website down for 3 days?
Windows boxes with public IPs were amazing (eg: CodeRed/NIMDA) until XP's firewall came along.
Maybe. Debian says[1] that their OpenJDK package will get "security updates on a best effort basis, but users should not expect to see updates for every quarterly upstream security update."

I'm not sure what that means, exactly. Will the Debian package have unpatched security vulnerabilities for several months at a time?

[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes...
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Aye, turns out the whales are close friends with Koko and agree with everything she, um... said.
Came here to say something similar. This is the best option, and I would like this in every other language. Totally avoids any ambiguity at all.
Most of a terawatt of green energy projects are stuck in a regulatory backlog.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/report-renewabl...
> Error establishing a database connection

That's an older challenge.
Yeah, the silver lining is that the amount of effort folks have gone to in order to ensure some level of interoperability has been amazing. Khronos developers working on SPIRV-Cross, wgpu-rs folks like kvark, MoltenVK people, Wine devs, etc. are unsung heroes of the graphics industry and deserve tons of support.
The problem I have with Google isn't that their products deliver value or not, it's that their products are obviously not free, and the cost is opaque to the consumer. But I do know the cost must be extremely high because they are extremely profitable and that profit must be coming from some place.

The business model of most Google products rely on their costs to be completely detached from the consumer. And this is extremely insidious and anti-competitive because a consumer has no idea what businesses are paying Google, the business has no idea what the consumer is getting in exchange, and the information balance is totally lop-sided (Google has it all).

The cost I'm talking about isn't just privacy (which is not the focal point here at all). The cost is that they exploit our data to create a one-sided marketplace where they can extract the highest value from merchants and consumers. This creates maximum value for Google and screws over competitors, consumers, and businesses. Even if you don't click on any Google ads, you are still paying for them because many business are forced to use them to survive given that Google has a massive share of the advertising business. The businesses you interact with simply mark up all costs, and you ultimately end up paying for them. It's anti-competitive because this detachment of the cost-benefit feedback loop means consumers are no longer making any conscious choice of Google product vs competitor product, because they think the Google product is free!

FB business model happens to be much the same way, except rather than free product to get your attention they just outright manipulate you for your attention which is more obviously anti-consumer.
$25 for 20GB/month & 100GB/month for $40. More than enough for mobile and considering the salaries, it's pretty cheap.
does this do the same as https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ ?
They claimed it was an attack (an "attempt to interfere with our systems") but haven't given any details.
The big cloud providers destroy old drives.
The Metaverse Is Bullshit
This analogy is moot.

As if someone tried to justify that "it's hard to make a milshake" by saying "yeah but you couldn't make one exactly the same, at the molecule level, as this one I made earlier".

Furthermore, I presume, not even the original creator could make another track with the same sound as one of its own, if it were to start again from scratch. Akin to how it'd be almost impossible for someone to draw the exact same sketch twice.
True. It’s not really new and not really free: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/09/16/oracle_jdk_free_l...
Interesting. Could you give an example of education policy that can be traced to Hegel's views?
Wait. You can sign your own. They are just not trusted by the wider world. Your devices have an OS provided set of trusted root-CA.
I would have naiively thought that you would just send a 1 with a probability equal to the number you want to send.

Is this compared in the post? Some of it went over my head.
Let the death of that poor chap mentioned in the article be a warning. Just like Chris McCandless.
I'd rather always check my code locally if the alternative is pasting it into a random web from.

On the other hand, I wonder if the web page keeps track and could offer "best of bash mistakes".
Hi Matt!

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Could you reference some of the "real studies" you mention - this would help update and amend MacKay's work.
Also it's not that rare that the other party forgets what their original stance on something is and in turn argue against you on that issue. Reminding them that hey this was your idea too can help you resolve that debate if it's unnecessary.
That regulation be limited to those with proven proficiency.
ruby in some cases feel just like shell scripting, even more than perl.. you can even do piping to chain two commands together https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4234119/ruby-pipes-how-d... (edit: using the shell library https://github.com/ruby/shell so, not out of box in ruby, unfortunately, which is a mortal sin for replacing bash in scripts =/)

Here are the ways to run a program in ruby https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7212573/when-to-use-each...
Isaac Asimov on the David Letterman Show (1980) [video]
Surprised not to see Realm included (www.realm.io)
anyone moving back? .. me , No..
No, of course not. If you consider all other possible opinions on social matters to be morally equivalent to a random person's stance on same-sex marriage then I don't know what to tell you, that seems to be a very difficult way to have a conversation about anything.
'Continental' philosophy never went anywhere, it was only sidelined among certain parts of the Anglophone academy. The analytic-continental distinction is nonsensical to begin with, given that one is a style, the other a geography.
This is a part of a type of inquiry called Clean Language Questions and it is indeed useful.
Or encode the number using timing.
urbit is anything but the early internet. The early internet was of tinkering, of interest, and of collaboration - the very purpose of www is collaboration.

urbit is a megalomaniac deluge of madness with it's idea to start from scratch only to end up with the exact same things but now named differently.
Video games are for incels
Forget it. No more Internet for anybody. Far too dangerous.
Yeah, isn't AMD on TSMC 7nm vs. Nvidia with Samsung 8nm? Samsung has much higher power usage than TSMC from what I've heard.
Interesting idea, how about the case when quantity varies for different ingredient? For example 2 tbsp of raw organic cane sugar or 3 honey.
I found that book by Chris Voss only interesting because of his stories as a hostage negotiator. But I wasn't able to put any of his advice into practice, not anything whatsoever. Am I overlooking something?
You can run i3 with MATE, see https://mattgreer.dev/blog/mate-and-i3/
How could you possibly distinguish that from your own misunderstanding of their position?
Ask HN: Any ideas for a painting / drawing / sculpture?
No surprise, anyone who uses crypto is by definition an absolute moron
The linked article cites ~770 tons of pumpkins. But the source the article cites 13,751 thousands of cwt. A cwt is 100 pounds, so the total production is ~1.37 billion pounds or 687,500 tons. How can we trust the rest of the calculations in this article if the data is so far off?

See https://www.statista.com/statistics/192975/us-pumpkin-produc...
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Signal is just another centralized service; email is a standard. You can self-host it, a company can make internal-only servers, etc. Signal disallows even custom clients, let alone real self-hosting.
Well I certainly don’t owe them an upvote, or my approval in general. Not sure where you’re going with that argument.
DDoS attacks are oftentimes a cover for other cyberattacks. While IT teams are dealing with the DDoS attack, the main hack is going on silently in the background hidden by the "noise".
Certainly, adding units to roadmap soon as well.
But I would expect older people taking D3 for (pre)osteoporosis would generally be high risk for COVID. I know this thread is overflowing with anecdotal information but two family members in their sixties had completely asymptotic covid infections. Neither was generally healthy (obesity in one, asthma in the other) but both supplemented with Vitamin D3.
Your meme pertains to exponential /growth/, not exponential /decline/. Exponential growth in a population hits a limit as a population saturates, causing the sigmoid shape. Exponential decline hits a constant asymptote and bottoms out. For populations, that asymptote tends to be zero. For cost curves, as in the solar panel case, it will be something more like capital cost of production divided by panel lifetime, which can be a very small number indeed.