skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, if you were exaggerating the numbers to explain the concept, I can see how a more subtle screwing would be nonactionable. I thought you were saying they were that blatant
I would love a cross platform native toolkit like this for a typed language like Kotlin or Rust
The Talmud explains Jewish legal concepts, how they were used and applied in practice. It's not an attempt to drag religion in, rather to point out that 1500 years ago the Jewish Sages recognized that folks who enable each other are both guilty and need to be judged together. The plausible denability and diffusion of responsibility that you see so often nowadays is pernicious to society.
> Electrifying US rail outside of switchyards won’t ever be practical

Why is that? Russia, a considerably poorer country beset by endemic corruption and other major issues, has managed to electrify the 9000+ km (considerably longer than any coast to coast US railway route) Trans-Siberian railway. With overhead lines, obviously.
> If you're under 30 years old, even with Wuhan/Alpha/Delta variants, you were at lower risk than with the yearly flu.

This is objectively false; the IFR of all Covid variants is one order of magnitude greater than the flu, with the possible exception of a few years in the century with particularly virulent seasonal flus.
Sure you can. You would just have to be careful not to accidentally feed it the same problem as in the competition.

That would be cheating.
The thing about Google photos that explodes my brain is that if I use albums to share with family members, Google prioritizes the use case of the recipients _joining_ the album and _adding_ my photos to their own albums. Google is trying to use me as a way to get my family members signed up for Google photos.

Then my family is confused about where photos live, etc.
There are a variety of strategies being pursued to make pharmaceutical products out of microbiome research. Broadly those are:
1: "bugs as drugs" - genetically engineered microbes that perform some function. The idea here is that having the microbe in situ performing some function will be a much better way to administer a particular compound (or set of compounds), or remove a compound, than a traditional pharmaceutical. Large pharma companies have studied phenylketonuria as a metabolic disease for which the bugs as drugs approach would be great. Find a microbe that consumes phenlyalanine at a high rate and administer it at high levels (or get it to stably engraft in the host) and you have a treatment that would be vastly better than current dietary regimes.
2: "community engineering" - this takes many forms from fecal transplant, to trying to engraft a certain small cocktail of strains, to altering what the in situ community is doing by feeding a probiotic. The idea here is that there are tens of thousands of metabolites that microbes are producing in the gut, and by balancing or tailoring the set of metabolites that are made, you can improve health. Fecal transplants have good data for clearing recurrent C. diff in phase III clinical trials - this is the best developed of the microbial therapeutic strategies currently. Everything else is phase I or before.
3: "microbial natural products" - this is the world I work in (shameless self-promotion - if you want to come work at a very early stage microbiome startup email me at will@interface.bio). The idea here is to find the particular chemicals/metabolites that microbes make that have positive influences on our physiology. Most research here is focused on immune conditions, metabolic syndrome/dietary stuff, though there is increasing interest in depression and other conditions.

At a broad scale, I would say it will be 1-2 years before fecal transplants receive approval as a therapy for recurrent C. diff infection, at least 5 years before a bug-as-drug will be available, and at least 7 years before a microbe-derived natural product is on the market as a pharmaceutical. It takes an incredible amount of work to get from these associational studies to a pharma-grade product.

In the interim, I think there will continue to be a bunch of diagnostics and probiotics companies that (IMO) are bordering on absolute nonsense. There is very little predictive value to the tests supplied by most of these companies, and the data on probiotic efficacy is bad in humans. There is good evidence of probiotic and prebiotic effectiveness in animal husbandry (e.g. fish and livestock) but the data just aren't there in humans.
Wow, sorry to hear that. Can definitely introduce significant mistrust in the system and for good reason. Hope things have worked out better in the long term for you though!
Do you need cities to proof settlement? What about nomads?
Hundreds of good comments on here already, but I'll add another anyway, fwiw. I'm in a similar situation. 36 years old, haven't achieved much, no family, don't even have much savings.

For me, though, what keeps me feeling excited about the future is problem-solving, especially in the machine learning field. There are tons of problems that still exist and need to be tackled, tons of products that I want to exist that don't. If I stay focused on "This solution does not exist yet and I want it to exist", worries about achievement and mortality get out of the way more easily. It's not about me, it's about the problem.
You're making the point that the linked article is trying to argue against.
Rather than using these processed foods, one should provide the gut microbiome with “food” in the form of fiber from whole plant foods, i.e. not ‘fiber’ supplements like Metamucil.

Lots of accessible information can be found at https://nutritionfacts.org.
> better language

Sarcasm?
If you have no business relationship with the sender, this is fixed by not sending email to unconfirmed addresses, as we discussed above.
By the way, the idea about science I expressed here triggered another one in me - perhaps we should start giving grants to scientists for exploring the theories/papers currently supposed to be true and working on disproving them. This seems an important work to improve overall quality of the entirety of scientific knowledge.
how do you know it's 'you' that requested it? if I requested a password reset to your email... is it spam?
On the topic of drying rack: I bought this ceiling-mounted drying rack[1] and it's been fantastic.

I live in an apartment with high ceilings (upwards 3 meters), so it worked out really well. It saves up the space a standard drying rack would otherwise occupy (both when used and unused/folded), and I installed it right above my washing machine so I don't need to carry the wet laundry around!

The one from the polish store[1] was the only cheap one I could find, all the others were upwards 200€[2]

[1]: https://www.suszarki-lazienkowe.pl/pol_m_Suszarki-sufitowe-1...

[2]: https://hangbird.net/
I'm from Europe (Ukraine). Yes, I'm totally aware about risk of death in a road incident. After each incident, our bicyclist association does protest near to city administration, demanding more and safer bike lanes.

Our plan to fix it is to make the city safer for cyclist. We are heavily inspired by success of Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boi0XEm9-4E . Situation is improved in recent years. Currently, half of my path to work is safe, while the other half is not.

Helmet is a good idea (I recommend to wear helmet after all), but it has some downsides. We can discuss upsides and downsides of helmet a lot, but I recommend using my OKR instead, when you recommend biking to newbies: «use helmet until you will fall 10 times at least». It's simple, easy to understand, easy to remember, actionable, and leaves no room for doubt.
I did finish it. Felt that I shouldn’t give out too much information about the episode though :)
design manager in the day job, I consider playing with tech to be a hobby.

otherwise - reading, drawing, gaming (almost exclusively on nintendo consoles).
The language is the main reason to choose this. It's for people who like Python and want to write a GUI in it.
I think your brand manager might have been fudging the numbers a little bit.

as of 2019, there were ~1550 breweries in Germany. for Germany to account for 50% of the breweries in the world, there would need to be a maximum of ~3100 breweries in the world.

as of 2017, there were ~7450 breweries in the United States.

the link that I posted of ~10k breweries in the United States (elsewhere in thread) includes every location for those breweries, which accounts for an additional ~2500 entries.

those numbers definitely don't jive with Germany having 50% of the breweries in the world, especially given that a very large number of them in Germany are actually client brewers (like a virtual brewery that is just a "brand" that has real breweries brewing their beer).
AFAIK there isn't really another reasonable way of rendering other than having render meshes attached to everything (due to GPU architecture), but they shouldn't be getting used for any calculations so it also shouldn't matter very much.
Using a microblogging platform such as Mastodon as your commenting system is an option.

I'd still plan on curating those comments, probably through a mix of filters, allowlists/blocklists, and manual processing.
Also have an IBS diagnosis.

Had a great doctor that helped me get started, after many that did a shoddy job, and this has been my experience as well.

Very much a 'seems like IBS, try low FODMAP, see what works and doesn't via experience,' which was pretty amazing/alarming how little is understood about our guts.

I'd love to know when the science is going to start catching up. Especially since I think it'll be interesting to find out if something has been added to our diets that's causing an increase in intolerance over the last decade+.
Only takes a few generations to forget this.
> The first example I see is expanded access to voting rights. Since when did this become a partisan issue?

It has always been an issue of deep division in the USA.
Baldness and hair loss!

Honestly , I'm surprised that there hasn't been any breakthroughs on a problem that affects half of the world population.

We are even tackling aging but no one has bothered to massively invest in researching this and coming up with a potential cure? One could argue that it's not as important as deadly diseases but I would say the ROI could be phenomenal..

Admittingly I have no medical or scientific background so perhaps there is a good reason for this that I am not aware of.
Half joking. I do wonder about how the bacteria influences cravings, and if sometimes a craving means I'm missing some kind of vitamin/mineral.
It would not be a fun game if your goal is to make even somewhat realistic simulations. Unless maybe if you are betting it all on self replicating autonomous machinery then you can come up with somethibg close to factorio.
No that would be blind.
Would also eliminate an incredible last grain of financial privacy people have.

When every transaction goes through FED, the government won't need to call or subpoena anyone to know where your money come and go.
I keep being tempted to replace my knackered old Android and the current crop of iPhones just seem to reliably produce great looking photos, especially of people. That fact that the photos come out looking great with almost no effort other than basic framing makes me very jelous.

I've been looking at the Pixel 6 too, but the combination of much shorter OS support, and what sounds like an endless stream of bugs has really put me off. But I'm also wary of moving to iOS, I like the way Android works. I think Google do a better job with security, while being much worse on their own privacy practices. Neither look perfect at the moment.
Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists?
Not for any vaccines. In case of covid ones the waiver was to get the vaccine fast. But it didn't mean anything goes, no oversight.

It makes sense in a pandemic to have a fast rollout with continuous monitoring instead of the usual wait for the courts, usually wait for enough cases to have a class action, wait for the certification of that, etc.

Not to mention the anti vax nutjobs screaming about experimential vaccines being experimential. (Which is meaningless, because even if it is it might be a lot more safe than something that's old, boring but did not get this much scrutiny.)

Oh and baby bottom redness is not infectious and as far as we know did not kill anyone.
Yes, there is a lot of R-bashing by people used to imperative languages designed for efficiency in repetitive tasks, not a functional language designed for numerical analysis. The complaints fall into these categories:

1. It's not zero-indexed (even though most numerical languages aren't)

2. Loops are slow (though if you're looping in R you're probably doing it wrong)

3. It's inconsistent

4. The syntax is weird.

But people don't talk about the somewhat beautiful functional ability of the language to wrangle data almost magically. Its basis in lisp allows for the tidyverse and data.table to exist[1], and ggplot is a formidable analysis/plotting platform that Python doesn't come close to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15869039
Fitness:

- Trampoline wall

- Aerial Straps

- Handbalance / Handstands

- Calisthenics

- Breakdancing (though not as much since Covid)

Reading way too many books

Creativity:

- Making chocolate truffles

- Making ice cream

- Slowly introducing myself to Kintsugi

- Watercolor

I also like to work on side projects and I wanted to get into Pixel art and making music, but I agree with OP about it being hard to sit in front of the computer after being in front all day for work.
Interestingly at the beginning of the video the route planning seems to work overtime to avoid making a specific turn. See about 25s in: https://youtu.be/sbSDsbDQjSU?t=25

That's kind of like what you're describing, but more dumb where the car tries to avoid the trouble spot entirely.
I just didn’t think it was necessary to spoil all of the episode. You definitely get what you pay for.
Joseph Wood Krutch: "There's nothing like a good bad dirt road to screen out the faintly interested and to invite in the genuinely interested."

Often recast as "bad roads make good filters".
As I said, how big the number is, is the problem. I dont say they should ban telegram or sth. The problem is how easy it is to misuse this platforms for malintent. Thats has nothing to do what someone is saying. It has somethig to do how the message is distributet and if the intent ist the articulating of ones free mind or manipulating the others for benefit….
Even the most perfect internal combustion engine only manages to turn 20% of burned energy into motion. You can understand this intuitively by realizing every gas car has a big radiator whose sole job is to dump energy into the atmosphere quickly.
Job: Programmer

My biggest source of happiness comes from playing the violin and listening to music. I tried getting into making electronic music, but I too hit the wall of not wanting to sit in front of a computer anymore after workday. That's why I like the violin's pure analog-ness: absolutely raw and crude, no abstraction, no interface, fret-less, zero-config, no knobs to be _fiddled_ with. You sound as good as you can control your muscle.

Cooking is both a necessity and an absolute joy.

I also read books for entertainment (and for learning English). I especially like reading good prose aloud, and feel the rhythm of the language. And I sometimes write short stories.

At times, I hike with my SO and friends.

I also jog, but only for the health benefit. It's a torture, but the lesser evil compared with my nascent obesity.
1) I am not saying it is proof or a valid argument. I am saying we should not assume the poster is lying just because they’re uncomfortable providing details about something that is likely personal or legal in nature.

2) That there are HN commenters who don’t follow the guidelines doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

3) I did not “conveniently” leave out that sentence, which implies malice on my part. I left it out because I deemed it irrelevant to the point I was trying to make. The strongest plausible interpretation of the GP’s comment is that they are telling the truth but can’t or are uncomfortable sharing details due to legal or personal matters, especially given that it was posted with a throwaway account, which the guidelines also specify is OK for sensitive information, implying that the GP was posting… sensitive information. As before: please try to assume good faith.
The paper is titled “ Combined effects of host genetics *and diet* on human gut microbiota and incident disease…” (emphasis mine). Dairy (and the way some people process it, because of genetics) was shown to influence levels of certain bacteria.

The study also does not show that removing Morganella resolved depression; the study did not attempt to remove it, and a researcher is quoted as saying it’s not clear how one would do so (last line of the article):

> But it’s less clear how Morganella could be eliminated from the gut to relieve symptoms. “That’s a bit more challenging.”
Image editors or offline stuff - sure. But even Chats and music players - there is not much going on in the browser.

I’m using this approach (other library, though, which is called twinspark.js) for year and a half.
> And you have no right to force me or bully me or call me names.

Sure we do. The word "quarantine" comes from the fact that during large stretches of human history we'd isolate people before entering new cities for the objectively true concern that they're bring in new pests. My grandparents traveled to the Americas from Europe and had the vaccination cards, had thorough medical examinations, and had to quarantine after coming from a ship full of sick people.

The entire history of human civilization is one big narrative of hygiene management. Sewage, water management, waste management, disease control.

I like my civilization more than I care for the whining of people ignorant of the unthinkable amounts of pain that diseases have caused. So, yeah, no problem calling you names, some people need to be reminded of their own ignorance every now and then.
It's easy if you have access to a big list of users from somewhere else.

I used to run a stack of private torrent trackers. The first one I made came from the fact that the admin of another site ran off with all the funds and abandoned the users. I moved them all to my site. Then every time I set up a new site I had thousands of users I could message to let them know. On the final one I had 100K+ active users - a message to them was like having your own private army to do your bidding for you.
> I remember having a heated discussion with someone about this at work, and it came down to where you were charging that Tesla

This sounds like a faulty analysis.

Generally even if 100% of your electricity is something moderately bad, like natural gas, end-to-end power use is better than an ICE with gasoline.

Figure an electric car is 150 watt-hours per mile, and charging is 94% efficient (pessimistic, but makes the numbers round). Natural gas is 0.4 kilograms/(KWhr), so about 65 grams of CO2 emitted for that mile. Compare to 8.5 kilograms of CO2 emitted from burning a gallon of gas, so you'd need to get 130 miles to the gallon to be equivalent.

Considering lifecycle costs makes things closer, but not super close.

> and if you had rooftop solar

Most people charge at night, so your own rooftop doesn't help. (Also, most places the renewable mix is worse at night, but not in all: in some places wind and hydroelectric "win").

> And at the end of the day, moving around a 5000# Tesla or 6500# F150 Lightning takes a lot more power in any form than a 3400# Civic / Camry.

More mass means slightly more tire friction and means more kinetic energy-- a big fraction of which you get back in regen.
This video shows a lot of other ,,interesting" issues with the current FSD implementation. The collision with the pylon is in fact the least interesting thing.

- 2.20: Taking a left turn with a trajectory into the opposite lane. The youtuber's camera clearly was adjusting exposure from underneath the overpass and I wonder if the car's cameras had the same issues.

- 2.40: Right on red without stopping. I wonder if this is related to the stop sign rolling stop issues

- 3.30: Collision with pylon. It seems like the perception system didn't pick up the pylon at all (or if it did, its not rendering on the screen)

- 5.10: Some weird funky trajectory and then pulling into the sunken curb/sidewalk on the right turn

- 6.28: Trying to drive down the railroad tracks

I gave up after the above.

Despite Tesla's (Elon) insistence that FSD will be safer than human drivers soon enough (1 year), there is very little evidence to support that. At the very least if we are going to allow beta testing on roads then Tesla should be forced to submit their FSD incident data to the CA DMV like the rest of car manufacturers that are testing AVs.
This ought to give you some good pointers:

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/10/marc_marons_mid-life...
I've come across plenty of evidence in the literature but there are lot of variables that can prevent any positive effects from taking place. If you're taking probiotic supplements in isolation and the rest of your diet is suboptimal in terms of bacteria-friendly nutrients, it's unlikely that you'll get results. It could be the case that many people are throwing money away if they're taking probiotic supplements without addressing their diet and lifestyle.

There's so much variety between people, one formulation for one person might work well for one person but have negative effects on another even if they have a supportive diet and lifestyle. People might simply have to trial multiple formulas that have the right mix of strains before they find one that works for them.

Prebiotic foods seem to have more consistent results on gut health, according to some studies.

(not medical/health advice disclaimer)
Purely anecdotal, but from discussion with my military friends there is widespread belief more than half of enlisted soldiers would've supported the Jan 6th coup attempt militarily. That percentage is far smaller along officers. With two exceptions though the people telling me this are officers and that will slant their view.
Having someone who is dependent on you definitely makes you important, whether that's kids or your dying grandmother or something else. But creating that dependency explicitly as a means to feel important is just weird.

"I have a hard time to see any relevance in a life without children anymore."

Consider the fact that Chinese slaves made everything you own, and are wearing. Isn't that worth caring about? Wouldn't it be "relevant" to try improve that situation?

In this person's mind, a person without kids who is trying to solve the problem of human slavery, is living an "irrelevant life". It goes to show you how stupid the average person is, including the average parent.
We already have all of this. The government can tell your bank to do something, and your bank will do it.

But can the government do that at scale ? I thought they needed at least a subpoena to get your bank records.

It's different from the mass surveillance that a CBDC enables.
The story of Perceptrons---both the idea and the book of that title---is instructive about how science proceeds in practice. The folklore is that this book killed neural net research, but if you read it you'll find it's not as damning as you might expect. Apparently it circulated widely as a manuscript before publication, and the circulating manuscript was much more negative in tone, and this is what shaped people's perceptions.
I took up reading during the quarantine and it changed my life
What are your favorite Nintendo consoles and games? I'm thinking of buying a Switch for the exclusives but I'm wondering if Steam Deck will provide good enough emulation for the Switch.
To be consistent, you should pad the other numbers you use too. Like money amounts. And I think you should pad dates out to eight digits, just to be safe.
Does the National Debt Matter?