skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of people that cannot easily obtain and do not already have a state-issued photo ID is very small, practically negligible - to our great misfortune, modern life has made it very difficult to leave your house without papers. Your own link goes into great detail about all the different photo ids the state offers and the different ways to obtain them and the initiatives to make it even easier.

This is another one of those bizarre mismatches between American and European politics, I suppose. In much of Europe (and most of the world, really), photo ID is expected and it often isn't even free, like it is in much of the US if you qualify. It certainly isn't easier to get! Your own Wisconsin-based link provides information about an IDPP process that allows you to get a state ID without any identifying paperwork for free! [1] The argument is simply that some people might find it inconvenient to get to a DMV within a couple years! (Actually, the argument in your link is also that it's 'offensive' to require a photo ID to resemble its bearer - not an exaggeration, an exact quote.)

This is definitely an example of an American issue that is very, very weird from the outside looking in. There's a lot of political and mental energy spent on a very microscopic issue.

[1] https://bringit.wi.gov/free-id-and-identification-card-petit...
That's not really true. If you sell your Tesla with FSD beta directly to me, I'll keep the FSD beta. If you trade it in to Tesla, then they might decide to remove the package and resell the car without it but I don't see how that would be your concern.
It's garbage normally switching tenancies; but, what really kills it is the fact you can't even access your other tenancies when you are in a meeting.
I was more referring to the fact that my grandma who has never played a video game in her life, has still heard of Mario. Zelda has been around almost as long, and is almost as culturally relevant to non-gamers. Or Pokemon. Or Donkey King. This is culturally significant IP we're talking about, gamer or not.
Dion Systems
https://vimeo.com/485177664
In every case of GMO food I have encountered, the compounds are not novel. Rather, they're an adaptation or resistance found in one species and transferred to another.
The core assumption of stacks like htmx is that you don't need fine-grained client-side interactions implemented in custom Javascript; that when you need the UI to change, it's ok to go through the server.

An example edge case where this fails completely is a canvas-based interactive game, where you (a) cannot "ask the server for html" in order to update your game UI and (b) going through the server for every UI update is unacceptable for performance.

That said, people are realizing that in a very large percentage of practical cases (i.e., CRUD apps), you do not need the high fidelity of javascript and you can skip a lot of the related complexity by using simplified stacks.

The big fail would be if you use htmx at first but over time you end up grafting a bunch of custom JS on top anyway, and your backend is a complicated Jinja mess, which is what made old school Rails/Django projects total messes and caused people turn to SPAs + JSON pumps. It probably takes some discipline to stick with pure htmx and push back on requests to graft random crap on top.
As someone else with immune system reactions to food, it doesn't seem a great idea to modify food even more than we have done already.
Reversing the link between gut microbiome and autism
Are faxes really still a thing?
The first bit would ultimately be a bit irresponsible, and the second bit is blatant ant-vaxx.

'Exercise' might marginally improve your chances of defeating COVID, but in order for it to have a material effect for most Americans it would take literally years of complete transformation of habits.

Furthermore, even that would not be remotely as beneficial as vaccines or social distancing, maybe not even masks.

Vaccines >>> Doing Cardio.

The reason the government probably does not talk heavily about 'eating well' as some type of 'response behaviour' to COVID, is because people will get the 'Joe Rogan' mentality, and believe that 'Good Nutrition, Hitting the Gym Hard, and Positive Mindset' will just 'Alpha' their way past COVID, when that's definitely not the case, i.e. people would get a vastly over inflated sense of what their likely trivial lifestyle changes will do.

And of course:

"yet they insist that relatively new novel vaccines have absolutely none" (side effects) - which is blatantly and offensively false. Literally every article about vaccines talks about their numerous direct side-effects that almost 80% of people exhibit. And literally 100% of vaccine recipients are warned directly of these, including symptoms of myocarditis, signs to look for and when to call a doctor.
Thanks for suggesting the topic. I was interested in these numbers from more reliable sources. Apparently, a very detailed statistics is available in the BarthHaas Report (https://www.barthhaas.com/downloads/berichte-broschueren)

Here is a approximate bier production per year for comparison:

World's total: 200.000.000.000 liter = 200 Gl

Germany: 9.000.000.000 liter = 9 Gl (5th place; try to guess the leaders. We are talking about quantity, not quality)

Radeberger Group: 1.000.000.000 liter = 1 Gl

Bavaria: 2.300.000.000 ~ 2 Gl (terribly sorry, I didn't find Frankonia separately :) But for the region's defense I should say that excellent report comes from Nürnberg.

Data for years 2019-2020.
There is even Top 40 breweries in the world in there.
Absolutely.

This also makes it completely broken if these dependencies are inaccessible or go missing.
The Common Tongue of Twenty-First-Century London
Note that they're talking about a hormone that gives the feeling of hunger, rather than hunger as a result of malnutrition
That data doesn't look to be adjusted for inflation, no? 1990 dollars are worth essentially half of today's dollars, so those charts don't say very much, even if they only go to 2005.

Edit: it's also the case that the population has grown by 50 million people since 1990, which would bring an expected increase of 15-20% in expenditure. Accounting for both, I'm surprised we don't spend more.
Modern work just expands to fill all available space.

There's no sense of limit to it, in the way e.g. a baker would make 500 loaves of bread every night, sell it, and that's it.

A modern enterprise can always find some more things to do -- and label everything a priority too.

(Of course the baker could too, they could to bake breads to exhaustion - but the modern enterprise understands no limits, whereas the baker did. Also the baker had to do the baking - so he felt the pain when he expanded the scope of work endlessly, whereas the modern analyst or dev or employee is just a cog, and the managers can always blah blah more stuff for other people to perform).
Funny, I'm the opposite. I don't think the price increase for 4k is worth the PPI gain. I 'upgraded' to [0] and I would have stuck with 2k but my laptop was 4k (also not worth it IMO) and having a thunderbolt connection in the monitor is quite useful.

[0] https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/high-resolution/tu87f-32...
Amazon will increase the annual price of Prime in the US
The way "serious" gamers find balanced dice is to float them in salt water. Even more serious gamers same the unbalanced ones for "reasons"
What if depression was causing the gut microbe changes? Like it was recently found with autism and gut changes.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/health/body-and-mind/autism-gut-m...
I'm not powersnail but I'm the OP - I tried going the DAWless route and bought myself a synth and a drum machine/sequencer Digitakt. Generally I enjoyed the process but I still feel it's too much of a programming approach to creating music which made me feel fatigued too fast (after a workday). I'm genuinely happy playing an 'analaog' instrument like a guitar without an aim to creating something, just fiddling around.
> why not just ask Queen Elizabeth whether they should stay or leave?

There is an alternative, of course. The country could be mapped out as a few hundred distinct contiguous regions, and the people who live in each region could vote for one of their fellow inhabitants to represent them.

So, rather than each individual having to weigh the complex arguments for and against Brexit, they could make a much more "human" decision of deciding whether a candidate seems honest and competent. To aid them in that decision, they can look at the candidate's past record, and the potential endorsement they may have from a political party (which itself will have a record of good or bad policies).

Then the winning candidates (hopefully under some sensible voting system) can all get together and debate the issue, and commission reports from experts, then vote on the big question themselves. Of course there's still no guarantee that the right decision would be made, but, for the record, in the 2019 general election, 52% of the popular vote went to parties that were in favour of a second referendum (which could have had a better set of options on it).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/election-resu...
My 'day job' is being an engineering student so I'm kinda short on time and energy as well.

Currently my main hobbies consist of riding bicycles (fixed-gear, singlespeed), analog large format photography, bouldering, and hardware synthesizers making mostly hard techno/industrial tunes.

I am saying 'currently' because these do tend to vary over time, sometimes some of them fade out, others take their place or maybe the others take over their spot. Hobbies are somewhat fluid for me and I think this is beneficial for me as it prevents hobby burnout somewhat, I found.
> Finally! The free market at work! Cryptocurrency has liberated us from the evils of government controlling money!

Isn't this more of a kin to a 21 century's take on piracy and privateering?
You're not overthinking it.

You're correct.
As a kid, I would find red vax seal sticks in the drawers, because my mom worked for a bank where they sealed the cash into envelopes for some reason.
If that's what you thought my argument was then my argument isnt the argument you think it is.
What supplements do you take based on your scientific background?
There’s a fair amount of confusion around that term, however: for example, Bitcoin proponents spent most of a decade saying that only proof-of-waste systems were true blockchains because they knew that anyone picking a different mechanism would have much better performance and cost numbers.
This is a strange way of titling that article, I think. Not very responsible journalism, but I get that this is the kind of title that generates clicks. Vitamin D doesn't "fight" COVID directly. Vitamin D plays a critical role in the body's immune system. So the immune system is what is important, and vitamin D in theory is a kind of loose proxy for how well your immune system might mount a response.

The study itself is a correlation study with a relatively small number of patients... (not that I'm dismissing these types of studies, they have value), and it is in line with what I described above. If you have low vit D levels (for various reasons), your risk of severe covid increases.

That's kind of where the study ends. The study is basic and observational-- it does not show that supplementing with vit D (or consuming foods high in vit D) prevents COVID or improves health outcomes. You'd need a different kind of study for that-- a far more rigorous one. It's probably ok to speculate that normal/healthy vit D levels might indicate better immune resiliance vs covid, given that moderate amounts of supplementation are shown to safely increase serum levels (to a point). But this particular study isn't medical evidence that vit D supplements "fight" covid like a medicine (e.g., Remdesivir) or that vit D is an effective covid strategy worthy of higher prioritization versus other recommendations.

Certainly far and away Step #1 is to get vaccinated and boosted. Period. Step #2 is to practice appropriate social distancing/masking, avoiding infected people and crowds.

In parallel, over the medium and long term it would be beneficial to improve your health lifestyle factors - diet/weight (including getting all essential nutrients such as vit D), sleep, stress, exercise, avoid smoking/excess alcohol etc. These things take quite a bit of time to reap benefits, a few months at minimum. It's not something you'll achieve rapidly and certainly not once you're infected with covid.

But getting these under control will improve your health almost across-the-board. You'll help lower the risk/impact of chronic diseases, improve aging/longevity, improve your immune system, and even lower the risk of serious COVID.
But these are things which should be pursued in parallel to and in addition to Steps 1 and 2. Independently it is not likely to save you from covid if you're in a higher risk category (e.g., over 40 years old especially).

And coming back to the misleading title of the article, certainly consuming vitamin D is no covid prophylactic on its own. If you think popping vitamin D or fish oil pills is going to save your ass once you get covid... well you'll likely get about as much benefit from that as you would from thoughts and prayers.

Bottom line: For now, embracing vitamins or common-sense lifestyle/wellness tips as a primary covid prevention strategy is at best foolhardy and at worst dangerous and delusional.
These new locomotives are from Progress Rail, division of Caterpillar, and from Wabtec, which is Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies, 150 years old. They're just Diesel-electric platforms with batteries replacing the Diesel.

"Replacing" may be just that. Few locomotives are built for yard work today. Most US switchers are old road locomotives, often half a century old. Sometimes they have a new power package. Progress Rail started as a locomotive rebuilder, changing out power packages for new ones, usually Caterpillar Diesels. Their electric seems to be a repower job of a classic General Motors Electro-Motive Division GT. Here's a video of their standard new Diesel repower job.[1]

Lithium iron phosphate batteries, at least in the Progress Rail version. The heavier weight of lithium iron phosphate is a feature, not a bug, in a locomotive. Locomotives are built heavy to improve traction.

The end result is not just a yard locomotive. Some of these are in test elsewhere for short-haul lines. Range maybe 300 miles.

Another boring, but useful, technology, from old-line industrial companies. This is what makes the world go.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kth3i2PGE0
Here is my criticism of GMO foods; or at least, the reason I'm wary of them. I don't believe in any "woo" at all.

Why would the massive corporations that have driven the food in our supermarkets ever cheaper, ever thinner in nutrients, ever higher in fat and sweeteners and fillers, ever more laden with pesticides and antibiotics, ever more processed—why would they use a technology like GMO crops for good? Why wouldn't they just splice pesticide and sugar genes into them directly and juice the yield even harder so that the soil is stripped and ruined even faster? I think they will be used to boost profits, not make our food more nutritious, or even cheaper in any way except per calorie.

I understand there are potentially benefits, e.g. growing crops resistant to pests so that spray pesticides can be reduced. I just have no faith whatsoever that these kinds of considered actions will be taken, based on the last 100 years of technology. It's just going to be wheat and corn, wheat and corn, wheat and corn until caloric yields approach insolation and the soil is as gray and lifeless as the moon.
>NFTs can be used for so many different things that you're inviting history to make a fool of you if you dismiss them. Even if I were sure that most current uses of NFTs were bogus, I'd never dare to say that all possible uses were.

Doesn't matter, can we condemn all current uses and be done with them?

Then we can applaud those future legit uses once they arrive...
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/fat-people-have-less-b...

Considering how obese the West is, is it any wonder why the West is losing its edge, especially the US?

Now malnutrition is different to being hungry, you can be obese and suffering from malnutrition. A purified diet is malnutrition.

Its why if you are in the US army and you get slammed in the can for punishment, you only get bottled water and a multi vitamin pill as your nutrition for the time you spend in there. Thats all you need to know to get your fighting spirit back!
There are so many answers here to the effect of “Stop right now, find an acceptable partner, get married, have kids, everything else is meaningless.”

From all the long-term (7+ years) couples I know well enough to know if they are actually happy or not, it’s the minority that are happy. Stats don’t suggest I’ve got an unusual sample.

And I’ve heard time and again from parents of older children (when they leave home, or even they become teenagers) that much of the feelings of uselessness or directionlessness return.

This isn’t to discount any of the joy or happiness anyone here is experiencing. The opposite, really. I’m jealous of you. I want to have what you have and I’m pursuing it the best I can. But I pursue it knowing that marriage is just a shot at happiness, not a guarantee or probably even a likelihood. And I’m pursuing it knowing that raising children is a beautiful source of meaning, but it is a season.

It’s a worthy goal. But I’m having trouble squaring the black and white portrayal here with what I’ve seen and experienced.
I drilled a hole in a fridge and put temperature and humidity sensors inside, plus a fan, and a dehumidifier. Now I have a miniature "basement" that I can inoculate with good mold, fill with different types of meat, and make my own charcuterie.

Been doing this for a year now, had a few successful produce as a result, and many many failures.
Why not do it? I have a gallery of three unused displays. They’re my backup now if anything goes wrong. I recently had to use one of them too, until I could repair my (also old now) 27″ display.
There used to be more options in that market segment but lack of interest kinda made them extinct.
Help me make synchronised sessions between PCs a reality: https://consistos.com
If Tesla eventually solves FSD (which is not a given) they might stop selling the ad-on package altogether and just charge a per mile subscription instead.

Then all of these old Teslas with FSD for life will become rare, similar to the Teslas witch unlimited free supercharging.
Probably should drive some drain holes at the bottom of that railing?
No, they're calling the bluff on the hypocrisy of the laws to the extent they are singling out Facebook.

If EU pursued everyone to the same extent, it would be seriously damaging.

They're going to have to figure something else out, especially given the there's nothing inherently wrong with hosting and processing data offshore. If 'feels' like things could be improved if data were processed locally but the real consumer damage is not hugely material. I wonder if there is just a better way to deal with the issue, for example, by requiring that Facebook adhere to some minimum set of rules and that's that.
As I understand, braking occurs across the entire train, not just via the drive axles, so the hybrid regeneration method would be a considerable departure from normal operations.
Open indie game marketplace itch.io statement on NFTs: “NFTs are a scam”
Because we all love hearing announcers blabbing over some weird dance/video/art presentation.
Two main things:

1. Genetically modified (GMO) foods can cause non-food compounds to get synthesized in the food that our bodies have never seen before, which can trigger autoimmune issues. I consider this the lower risk.

2. GMO foods are designed specifically to allow more use of pesticides and herbicides. These get incorporated into the food and can stay around after washing, especially in processed food. Pesticides are low-level neurotoxin and disrupt gut nerves, while herbicides disrupt gut flora. Loosely, what happens is that the body is sensitive to most plant husks, since they are designed to keep bugs out that feed on them. GMO copies that defense mechanism, often amplifying it hugely, resulting in amplified food sensitivities. I consider this the higher risk, so high in fact that the consequences of it can be life-altering.

Edit: These effects combined turn ordinary food into inflammatory food
Wouldn't that be the Furanocoumarin not the vitamin c?
Dune 2 for Pico-8 (UnDune II)
I watch the summer Olympics every time they happen. While there are some minor annoyances that the IOC introduces some years, the games are largely just as good as they ever were (except 2021). Culturally in America, I expect people care less because they have been indoctrinated against any form of nationalism. There is also a recent trend in the West of disparaging achievement in general. Where people used to admire and aspire toward greatness, now it seems like an inferiority complex has taken root in them.
Benzoic Acid and its derivatives (Sodium/Potassium/Calcium) Benzoate affect Leptin, another hunger/satiety hormone.
> So you don’t use a web browser then? I guess your posts here must appear by magic.

Of course i use a web browser. What i do not have is a generic store like the one you describe - my web browser does not provide an API for other applications in my desktop to access whatever is stored in it.

> Hence why I’ve repeatedly used the term “secrets” and not “passwords”.

And yet you used them explicitly for storing passwords.

> The password manager example was just an illustration because this entire concept seemed weirdly alien to you.

Clearly in your message here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220104

...you only refer to storing credentials (ie. passwords) and here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220390

you explicitly refer to "password stores".

Meanwhile from the very beginning, like in here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220062

i refer to "copying data" and even if it is in the context of passwords, i make explicit in the very first reply i made to you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220227

...that i do not refer to just passwords but anything that can be copied to the clipboard and passwords was just an example.

That you think that "concept seemed weirdly alien" to me can only be seen as an indication that you do not read what i write.

> You mean like your pedantry about Linux being a kernel when you knew full well the context that term was used in?

As i already wrote previously, that part was to make it clear that this isn't something you can depend to be there "on Linux" because not everyone's setup has one - like mine.

> Your ego here is getting in the way

Does it really? From my perspective you entered the discussion with a polemic tone and when i tried to explain my position you doubled down, ignoring what i wrote and even started writing that i do not even know what i have installed on my own computer.
These types of Genetically Recoded Organisms can reproduce, but they are required to be grown on a special media containing the extra nucleic acids or the amino acids. This is actually a neat type of way to prevent modified organisms from escaping the research environment and growing in the wild.
If Everything Is ‘Trauma,’ Is Anything?