skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bad title. Other trends since 1910 (the last 110 years)

- Electromagnetic wave use increase via radio, television, cell and internet, and microwaves

- Maximum altitude humans have reached

- Number of bodies on Everest

- Increase in pounds of enriched uranium and available thorium

- Increase in the number of people who have read work by Ursula K. Le Guin and Isaac Asimov

None of these have causal implications. But the article does connect a qualitative theory and show correlation -- suggesting the hypothesis could be a thread to chase down.

This is the key thesis:

> According to the cold chain hypothesis, the development of industrial and domestic refrigeration has led to frequent exposure of human populations to bacteria capable of growing in the cold. These bacteria, at low levels of exposure, particularly those of the genus Yersinia, are believed to be capable of inducing exacerbated inflammation of the intestine in genetically predisposed subjects.

EDIT:

Title: Crohn’s Disease: Is the Cold Chain Hypothesis Still Hot?

Abstract:

> Crohn’s disease [CD] is an inflammatory bowel disease of unknown aetiology. During recent decades, significant technological advances led to development of -omic datasets allowing a detailed description of the disease. Unfortunately these have not, to date, resolved the question of the aetiology of CD. Thus, it may be necessary to [re]consider hypothesis-driven approaches to resolve the aetiology of CD. According to the cold chain hypothesis, the development of industrial and domestic refrigeration has led to frequent exposure of human populations to bacteria capable of growing in the cold. These bacteria, at low levels of exposure, particularly those of the genus Yersinia, are believed to be capable of inducing exacerbated inflammation of the intestine in genetically predisposed subjects. We discuss the consistency of this working hypothesis in light of recent data from epidemiological, clinical, pathological, microbiological, and molecular studies.
Right, this is what the authors demand:

"as no single experiment can definitively confirm the theory, we must continue to test it with additional works. Among them [and even if insufficient to definitively validate the hypothesis], a randomised clinical trial comparing patients with low versus high exposure to Yersinia would be an important step."
If you're operating at the AST level, you don't need range deletes to make the merge result work. In my head I'm imagining a document (at the top level) being a list of functions. Deleting two functions is expressed as deleting the AST node for the function definitions from that list. You don't need a range delete operator to do that - you just delete both function subtrees explicitly.
Personally I don't use the comp laptop for my own stuff. I remote into my machine/network at home from my personal phone. DP over usb-c works wonders with a BT keyboard.

As a side note: I don't publish anything. My wife on the other hand does. It's been like that for over 10 years now.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I ended up doing this after a previous employer wanted to grab a load of VBA modules. Big pain the back side. My luck was that my wife actually did work with me on them. Saved my back side big time.
> IMO the far left challenging free speech is a bit of a trojan horse. Yes, you can use censorship to suppress distasteful ideas,

Yeah, and rightwing is a bunch of saints that never deplatformed anyone?
The value proposition is different. Blender is (afaik) free for your render farm.

In general modeling is a huge team.

Audio/composing is largely a solo activity. What good is “an alternative” if you can get Logic Pro for a few hundred
Also not to be forgotten is the inverse bus factor:

The number of people who, if hit by a bus and incapacitated, would allow an initiative to move forward.
Just a heads up to anyone thinking of doing this in prod.

We had a USB connected 3G dongle as SMS modem for years, every other month someone had to head over to the DC and re-seat the thing. Because it just stopped working. I don't think they're designed to be connected 24/7.

We eventually switched to an Ethernet connected SMS modem. Much more reliable, and it was actually made for production, had a longer antenna you could fix on top of a rack cabinet.
have you seen the pedalboard project? Might get you the outcome you're after if you want to dabble in python.

https://github.com/spotify/pedalboard
Ethereum already has more transactions than bitcoin and consistently moves more value around than BTC.

If you think that "Ethereum isn't popular", please explain why so many people are complaining about network congestion and network fees.

The "extra smart contracts" do not take processing power. The problem for scaling blockchains is on blockspace and network synchonization. It is I/O bound, not CPU bound.

Ethereum validators will not consume a lot more power based on its usage, and currently the energy consumption of eth validators is 10000x smaller than of the energy of consoles playing videogames.

You really don't know what you are talking about, but you will be too proud to admit it.
What's the status of the license on this? The author made it Apache, but Bumble is making claims on it because of the employee's contract. It wasn't the employee's to release in the first place (as per the contract), but once it's out there, did the employee essentially open source it as an rogue agent of the company? At the same time, a Microsoft employee can't open source Windows and just say "oops."

As a developer using open source code, how can you ever have enough certainty that an open source project won't run into issues like this?
when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. i can see rudimentary attempts at trying to get some data on a system you might not have full control over and are just needing something. i'm sure we've all been logged into a remote system maintained by someone else. cavemen throwing rocks at the spaceship type scenarios.
Mathematica uses a functional language at its core. As a functional language enthusiast (including Clojure, although I haven't used it for anything professionally) I find discussions about any functional language interesting.

In other words, I doubt the only thing Clojure folks care about is Clojure.
AI Code Analysis
> If we decide that we shouldn't celebrate an individual

That's precisely what's at issue. Who decides who should be celebrated and who should not? What are the criteria for deciding? And what story are we telling about our history with those decisions.
Essentially they found that tube fed diets do help, and they are effectively refrigeration free.

> "Furthermore, no specific foodstuff has been incriminated in CD, and combining enteral nutrition with a highly controlled oral diet was recently shown to be effective" ... "It should be noted, however, that enteral nutrition effectively excludes refrigerated foods."

They go on to say that enteral nutrition differ from regular diets so that the mechanism that make them work may not to the fact that they are unrefrigerated.

A refrigeration free diet would not be impossible today, but hard. Given he prevalence of this bacteria today, non-electric cold stores would probably also need to be removed from the supply chain, making even a pre-industrial Western diet problematic.

A sufficiently cooked vegan diet, minus everything that causes problems with people that suffer from Crohn's Disease, maybe would work? Ideally with vegetables that have not been refrigerated. Winter would be pretty bleak.
GPG doesn’t work well generally, and long lived keys are one of the many major flaws.
Maybe we will see seaports as a service in a few years.
I'd guess you can make some stipulations in the contract. Could be wrong tho.
Davis failed the "no *sshole" rule, and so, morale and retention suffered.

If you want people to stay, don't be a dick and don't treat them like serfs.
The sound engineer on the loveline show had Dr Drew Pinsky trying to sing this song as an evergreen.
What's the point of Twitter then? Isn't the character limit (whether 140, or 280, or whatever) part of what makes it "it"?
Existence of Time Crystals Confirmed in Epic Quantum Computer Simulation
Absolutely not. Large Tron issuances started well before Ethereum gas fees soared. We are talking a couple of years ago.

Also, market makers moving Tether around do not give two shits about $60 in gas fees or whatever. Additionally, a huge amount of Tether has gone into DeFi on Ethereum and L2s (or bridged to newer L1s, which typically don't have a Tron bridge).
While you are of course right, and much terminology is endlessly challengeable, we can also drift too far in this direction and end up denying that words mean anything. I do find words useful when there is consensus on their meaning, and I think it is still valid to attempt to define classifications even where they must inevitably be imperfect.
It’s one of the best pieces of software in the world, with things like Microsoft Excel and Google Maps. It is run by an absolutely insufferable guy but he does a good job with it.
It was in interests of the oil companies as well, and by extension the interests of the leaders of the country who are effectively on their payroll.

But yes, "our" in this case was perhaps a poor choice of words to refer to the interests of, for lack of a better term, the ruling class, whose interests do not align with the vast majority of the country.
A microblogging service should cost micro crypto to post, and have a rate gently exponential with # of characters.
> ..."evil" bankers are held accountable by the judiciary and regulators

...by the judiciary and regulators only so far as the (imperfect) legislation of the day allows.

You are forgetting the unelected central bankers who knowing refer to inflation as "transitory" when they know, and we know, it isn't.

You are forgetting the guys who decide to print 40% more US Dollars in 18 months without giving the electorate an opportunity to weigh in on this drastic decision.

These central bankers are the so-called "evil bankers" -- the Wall St types just want to make money and while that might be greedy, at least they're honest about it.
It wouldn't surprise me if refrigeration contributes to the development of Crohn's disease.

The causes can be multi-variate and anecdotally, from my own research, microbes (yeast, bacteria, fungi) all seem to play a key role. Anything that disturbs the balance in pathogenic ways can lead to dysfunction, especially antibiotics, but also a lack of plant cell walls in our diets.

Everybody is slightly different, not just genetically, but in terms of the diversity of bacteria.

There have been a few people who have managed to put Crohn's disease into remissions with raw kefir produced at home (the ones at store are not comparable) as well as with Visbiome, a probiotic produced in the lab with many studies behind it. And I've also heard the carnivore diet for short durations may help.

There doesn't seem to be a consistent way to treat Crohn's disease and obviously, medicine to control flares is a must if the situation demands it.

It does seem like a great many gut and autoimmune issues are somehow related to the diversity of microbes though and I look forward to more clinical research like this.

We need all the help we can get.
>it’s just the most efficient / progressive wealth tax!

no, it's not a wealth tax. it's a cash tax. if you printed money and caused 100% inflation, that'll just cause every scarce asset (eg. houses, stocks, gold) to double in price. Since the rich hold most of their wealth in assets, not cash, I doubt it will be fair or progressive.
Alternatively, a decentralized and anarchist based social media without the states tendrils :)

You know, like mastodon. Or literally anything else that develops. The State should just interface with anything and everything it can out there, rather than dictate a standard.
I'm not sure why the discussion always jumps to this extreme. The entire thread for this article is full of people jumping to a similar conclusion, which I also think exaggerates the situation. It makes the window or the statue or whatever far more important than it really is. It's like bikeshedding, but for outrage.

Firstly, the real world isn't immutable. Just because a college made a stained-glass window for someone doesn't mean they have to preserve it for all eternity. Doesn't matter who it is, it's just a piece that was commissioned once and now the owner of it doesn't value it the same way any more.

Secondly, we're in an age where information is so abundant that an internet search or a trip to a library will allow you to learn as much as you care to learn about a notable person. Lecturers and professors may choose to disclaim this person's work when teaching it, such that the value of the science remains but the history of the scientist is laid bare.

If we're talking about erasing people or memory-holing them, the thing to worry about isn't a commemorative decoration, but the education system itself.

In that sense, a far more egregious crime is to, for example, balance out an atrocity like the Holocaust by giving equal credence to Holocaust denial. Or to attempt to ban the teaching of slavery and other unpleasant aspects of a country's history by blocking the literature in schools. In these cases, unsavoury history very much is being erased, and replaced with a version that is more 'family friendly'.
The memes are going to be epic.
Lol Tether's own attestations make mention of the numerous open investigations.

There's no good faith argument to be had. It's just a matter of fact.
> 'poached' (I don't like that term but don't have a better one)

How about just saying that they left? 'Poached' puts the agency in the hands of their new employer, as if the person was cattle and their job change was due to cattle rustlin'. (Not that some management doesn't look at it that way.)
Every utterance from Wolfram is Mathematica marketing, even when he writes (amazing) eulogies for his late friends.
It depends on the exact wording of your employment contract.

If it only covers work you did with company property, you're lucky.

As far as the law goes, in California (per Labor Code section 2870), employment agreements are allowed to assign the employer IP rights (including copyrights and patent rights) to inventions that satisfy any of the following:

- "[Use] the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information"

- "Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer"

- "Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer"

For my part, the employment contract I signed is maximalist: it basically paraphrases the above language and says that anything satisfying any of those conditions is assigned to my employer.

The third condition is really the kicker. If you want to use your code at work, then the code probably "relates to" your employer's "business" or "actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development". If your employment contract is as maximalist as mine (and there's a good chance it is), then that's enough to make it not yours, regardless of who (if anyone) forked it.

In my case, my employer is large enough that it's hard to imagine software that doesn't somehow relate to its business…
Apple will make fewer iPhones in response to weakening demand and supply
You’re confused on one point — she staunchly opposed abortion except to preserve the mother’s life (her support of birth control was to avoid needing one) — and Planned Parenthood isn’t shying away from acknowledging the bad parts of her legacy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/opinion/planned-parenthoo...

That seems to be the right way to handle this: the history is still there for anyone curious but nobody is saying she’s a role-model for the future.
Can I ask you how old are you? Or who do you work?

Most of people in tech do not use Mathematica but I would put a lot of chips on a bet that most heard of it. That's why I'm courious
State-funded content won't be pushed into a standard or interoperable ecosystem, it will either be published as it is today (into freely available private platforms with huge public usage) or into proprietary state systems built by the lowest bidder.

Regardless of your feelings on "the interoperable open web," one of the above two options is objectively better than the other.
You definitely get different shipping times for different products based on your location - so presumably they are cross referencing what is in your local distribution center to get you that shipping time.
I believe someone once characterized AWS success as stemming from hacking around procurement and IT policies in sclerotic organizations. One approval, one admin => all services.
You can't print bitcoin, but you can mine more gold.
Why are certain examples "locked"? Nothing discourages me from using a tool more than an arbitrary popup telling me that I need to spend more money to get an idea of what your product is...
Your example is foolproof, but there's always a bigger fool? How do you prove that your commits weren't made on company time? How do you prove that they weren't made on company laptops? How do you prove that you didn't include trade-secrets in your implementation of these libraries?

You can show that your commits were made at hours outside of office hours, you can show that the commits were made with your personal e-mail address, but lawyers can dispute it - Git commits are cryptographic proof only that someone (or if you signed them, someone with access to that private key) attested to those statements, and you do both those things on the company computers. You can show that all of the code is obvious, but lawyers can dispute it. A sufficiently foolish lawyer can dispute literally anything.

Don't work for places where you'd have a problem with this - Get explicit approval for you to spend company time working on open source libraries that are the proprietary interest of the company, but that you as an individual have a copyleft license to (Iff you don't care that you can't take them private later). Or work for a company that doesn't have such onerous terms in their employment contract.
Flailmen
I'm implicitly referring to Mastodon.

However, It does not need to be Mastodon per se. You could just shoehorn whatever open protocol that exists into your content management system and then push those updates out to the broader network. This is an existing system.
This will work well for some domestic transportation and land locked rural areas, but for everybody else... I don't think this will do anything. It just sounds like a massive expense.

I live right next to perhaps the largest inland port in the US and cargo here doesn't sit for very long because the only options are air, trucks, and trains and there is anywhere for excess cargo to sit. This is called the inter-modal system of logistics, the ability to rapidly move shipping contains between air and train via short truck routes or immediately onto trucks for long haul truck distribution. In this case the Amazon plan can skip sea ports and directly reach inland ports that don't have congestion. But, that will only work efficient for domestic transport.

The solution ignores the cause of the problem for sea ports, the point of congestion to which they are likely a massive contributor.

The problem for the congestion is that ports have run out of space, mostly from empty containers taking space needed by filled containers on ships. This problem is not a labor shortage, tracking inefficiency, or distribution failure.

This problem is intentional and created by the vendors most severely impacted from the result. Empty shipping containers take up space and have to be stored somewhere. If not at a port then at a vendor's warehouse clogging operations closer to the business. Parking contains costs money. Whether you are going to park them at a port or your own warehouse there is an expense to that lost space.

Parking at the port was, until about a month ago, tremendously cheaper. It takes fuel to drive that empty box around and it takes money to pay for a filled warehouse of your empty containers that is needed for actual operations. So just leave it at the port for a massive discount.

Parking at the ports worked well... until there was a massive pandemic and everybody starting shopping online, even from places like WalMart.

The Port of Los Angeles is solving this problem on their end with rate increases that increase per day (or week, I don't remember). I suspect their neighbor at the Port of Long Beach is following on that plan as well. Only time will tell if this actually solves the problem at those ports. Even the mere announcement of this price hike resulted in one vendor removing 5000 empty containers. That is a mind boggling amount of space, and from just one company.
Wolfram's ego has always been the most off putting thing about him and his project. I was quite disappointed by the lack of Clojure relevant material in this Keynote and the unabashed emphasis on himself and his product.
Great take on why learning is hard, especially for domains like investing or management where nobody is right all the time. The information is out there, but good and bad information are mixed together, and it's hard to order it based on your immediate needs.

Great short review of the 'reality is surprisingly detailed' essay, too.

The linked lia dibello profile is very very good.
Yes, you can find some seriously messed up stuff in the military. I was looking at some criminal data and seeing a huge number of attempted murder charges related to one case I thought the data might have been in error. But no, throwing a live grenade into a tent is quite serious.

That said, it’s easy to underestimate just how large the US military is and how many people cycle in and out every year. Just unemployment benefits alone get quite expensive during any economic downturn. Recruit millions over time and even if you reject the most obvious problem cases you will eventually get some seriously unstable people.
You seem to misunderstand what selective pressure is.

Selective pressure is anything that disrupts replication. If people take measures to prevent spread of a disease that’s literally selective pressure. I don’t understand what is confusing about that concept.
>Everyone who leaves the military has a very high opinion of their peers' professionalism, dedication, and so forth.

This sounds very biased. The VA is constantly complained about as is their benefits payments. The MRAs suck, they can’t speak about some secret stuff, none of this information is unusual or buried, it sounds like you have a very biased viewpoint, maybe from not getting to know any military.

>From an outside observer's perspective, the results are not as strong - the budgetary, humanitarian, environmental, collateral, and political costs of most of the military engagements of the past 50 years have been quite bad.

Vietnam, the fuck up in Iraq, and suicides are well known to be bad to everyone including the military, the default response to anyone who served is “thank you for your service”. Many see it as a job. I know a very friendly female marine (they complained about her kindness and said it wasn’t militant -and reflected badly on their perceptions), she was well decorated, and complained about sexism even though she was a superior to these men. Get to know some military people, your biased opinion will change.
So something like this?

0. Mint dollars backed by nukes and military and in anticipation of GDP growth
1. Create new cryptos out of thin air to suck in dollars
2. Mint USDT in *anticipation* of swaps from non-stable cryptos. No dollars have actually been deposited yet!
3. USDTs actually come in? maybe, maybe not, maybe fuck yourself.
4. Loan out USDT to hedge funds for crypto futures trading.
5. Give back portion of interest to people who stashed the USDT.

2-4 is where it gets sketchy.