skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Let's measure. Is that rate higher than seen by median cars in the environment? I'd argue no, given how distressingly common that kind of incident is (certainly it's happened to me a bunch of times). But I'm willing to see data.

I think where you're going here is toward an assertion that "any failure at all is unacceptable". And that seems innumerate to me. Cars fail. We're trying to replace a system here that is already fatally (literally!) flawed. The bar is very low.
I have a 13 (not pro), coming from a Pixel 2. I used it almost exclusively while tramping around NZ for a month. It's definitely good enough to replace a larger camera for day-to-day adventures and the ultra-wide is very useful. I put my mirrorless in a storage unit for the trip because it wasn't worth the weight, and the only thing I missed was the telephoto.

I do find the HDR to be a bit in-your-face, even on "neutral" settings. Sunsets are very saturated when you want to take a picture of pastel shades. Cloudy or sunny skies are a bit hit or miss, often there are blown highlights. The lens also seems much more susceptible to flare at night than other phones I've used with the dreaded green dot - not something I ever noticed with the Pixel. Motion photos are pretty great, really handy for low-effort blur on moving water, although you have to use Photos. Google Photos will play the clip, but it won't do the long exposure/bounce modes. Also a pain if you subscribe to G Cloud (which can sync photos fine), because iCloud is incessant about not having enough backup space. I tried Halide, but I didn't see a significant advantage over Slow Shutter Cam which costs a couple of bucks - if you're going to shoot raw, you're going to edit it somewhere else anyway. Maybe aperture and focus control is worth it? The risk with shooting in RAW and post-processing, is that the camera isn't really that good compared to a larger sensor and you're relying on a huge amount of computational photography to fix those limitations. I did try some astrophotography resting the phone on the car roof, but it never really worked.
Interesting side fact. Proof of work was used before in 2004 to prevent spam but it failed. Nakamoto put that concept in a merkle tree.

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/8/238347-the-history-o...
Just generate these ids on the server. For example, when I render a new field for which I need a delete button, I send numbers of other fields along with them, and server renders a new field for me with a new id.
Here's an interesting article on this topic that you might enjoy: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Ah, fair. I was going with what I saw as an implication that removing it would help. My apologies.

Clearly, I had not made it through the article to the underlying studies. My reading was that they were looking for lactose related bacteria, but landed on this other one. And that they did not find a way to control it's presence.
Many languages are like that. I learned recently that indices also start at 1 in PostgreSQL / PLpgSQL.
A simple one from Oggi, nothing too fancy. disk breaks, 29" wheels, front suspension. but it doesn't matter. The single most important thing is having an adequate bike seat for your anatomy and an aluminum frame which is not too heavy.
The expensive stuff gets important if you're a competitive person.
> I've yet to be convinced we are anywhere close to meeting the bar on that if.

What would convince you? Data from 60k cars isn't sufficient?
I'm not the person you asked, but I switched from Kindle to Kobo when I realised I could get ebooks from my library on a Kobo. Now pretty much everything I read is from the library and I've not turned on my Kindle in well over a year.
How does the Post remain private, since the Government runs that too?
On mine there's a single button for both parentheses, which you have to hope knows which one you want. 99% of the time it works right.
> My personal favorite: "An unexpected error has occurred." (Apple!). Or the more casual phrasing "This should never happen." (open source!).

This is a pet peeve of mine. I've been known to write plenty of "This should never happen." error messages, but I pretty much always include a description of what assumption was violated. EX: "User token is null, this should never happen!" (in a part of the program that should be impossible to reach without a token). Even if it's useless to the end user, it's so much more informative to the programmer than a generic NPE and a stack trace, and most likely it at least provides a hint to the end user roughly what's broken.
There's now a keyboard that is shown to the side. I hope this satisfies your needs
I agree with you on this. People can also choose not to be spoon-fed fearporn from the media though...
Really interesting indeed! I just found this paper on B. subtilis from November: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34630666/

Reducing intestinal permeability is a highly desirable effect.
As someone who is at least reasonably productive and competent, who suffers from a medical condition that forces me to live in the reality you say is trivial, let me assure you that if you could switch places with me for one year, you wouldn’t write this. The inaccuracies are so overwhelming that it’s hard to correct it, and there’s also no point in having that conversation with someone who believes these things so strongly.

By the way, sign up at http://www.hnreplies.com/ and you never have to worry about missing replies, or use karma as a reply indicator.
I don't see it that way. When I have had trouble managing complexity, I have been happy for advice on how to reduce it going forward.

Step one to solving a problem is often to find a technique by which time is no longer stacked against you. Then you can attack the other thing in peace.
How did they identify the butt?
Punishment is not per se problematic, beating as punishment definitely is. Physical violence is too far. Send them to detention or wherever.
Yes. Yes. 1000x yes. Pie charts are bad and there is almost no justification for using them. Humans are bad at estimating area - and donut charts help fix this. I actually pretend donut charts are "curved line charts".

Also, engineers are notoriously bad at making visualizations. Sorry if this offends you. I would recommend everyone here spend some time looking at pretty visualizations and maybe reading about it
I have mixed feelings about htmx. It's wonderful, but it's going to take years for companies in my area to know it exists. I will totally pick it for some personal project though.
It's hyperbole referring to how much US dollars stored in a mattress 50 years ago would be worth now. If, instead, you earned money from wages and/or invested in stocks/bonds/real estate/comic books, nothing of the sort happened.
Isn't the Cambridge analytica stuff the smartest tech to have come out of the 2016 election?
It is three step backwards. And one step to the side. Which is what I needed, and many others too.
That's my thinking as well. Depression leads to lifestyle changes which includes dietary changes which can cause certain bacteria to grow faster, as your gut bacterial makeup changes constantly based on what kind of food you consume and which microorganisms are specialized for it.

I think there will be some breakthroughs by studying the human microbiome, for example there could be reasons that a moderately harmful microorganism or strain becomes dominant in your gut for whatever reason and causes problems, but from my personal anecdotal experience with gut health and diet, I believe most issues will still be solved with dietary changes and perhaps some targeted antibiotics or antimicrobial treatments in general.

I'm also willing to bet we'll discover a lot of immune involvement in the regulation of various bacterial population in the gut. There must be an adaptive system that minimizes or eliminates most harmful organisms in the gut, otherwise we'd all be dead.
> Thus, the newest study seems to be “further proof” that inflammation caused by gut microbes can influence mood

Of course it bloody can - if you have IBS or any number of other gut-related problems, believe me you are very likely to be depressed, because the symptoms of these are very nasty and humiliating. This does not mean that the bacteria are directly affecting the CNS.

Also:

> Kiebdiella

It's Klebsiella
True, although people need to make green NFTs more mainstream if they want NFTs to be more supported.
Facebook threat is unsurprisingly grotesque.

I'm more concerned by the naivety shown by anyone who might seriously imagine that this move from the EU is about protecting their privacy.

Sweet dreams.
>> Update: A colleague of mine points out that one million, the number of
candidate programs that AlphaCode needs to generate, could be seen as roughly
exponential in the number of lines of the generated programs.

To clarify, "one million" is the number of programs generated by AlphaCode on
the CodeContests dataset, not the CodeForces one (although the former is a
superset of the latter). The results on CodeContests are reported in table 5
(page 15 of the pdf) of the DeepMind preprint [1]. The results on CodeForces are
reported in table 4 of the preprint (page 14 of the pdf).

I can't find where the paper lists the number of samples drawn for the
CodeForces results, but on Section 4.4 the preprint says:

Sampling from transformer models can be easily parallelized, which allowed us
to scale to millions of samples per problem (...).

Note the plural. "Millions" can mean one million, or a hundred million, but, as
far as I can tell, the preprint never makes it clear which it is. Note that the
results on CodeForces (table 4) are averaged over 3 evaluations in each of which
AlphaCode generated "millions" of samples and finally submitted 10. So it's 3
times "millions" of samples for the actual results in table 4 (CodeForces). I
assume those were the top 3 of all evaluations.

The idea that the lines of code in a target program are related to the
cardinality of the program space that must be searched before a target program
can be found is not completely unfounded. For sure, the cardinality of the
search space for programs is some function of the number of tokens that must be
combined to form each program in that space. An _exponential_ function because
we're talking about combinations of tokens (assuming only grammatical strings
are generated it gets a bit better, but not by much). We can take lines-of-code
as a rough proxy of number of tokens, and in any case it's clear that the
cardinality of the set of one-line programs is less than the cardinality of the
set of two-line programs, and so on.

I'm not sure if the "Update" bit above is claiming, that AlphaCode must generate
the _entire_ program space of _all_ k-line programs before it can find a
solution to that problem. To be honest, even I don't think that AlphaCode is
_that_ bad. Having to go through the entire program space to find one program is
the worst case. On the other hand, AlphaCode does perform very poorly so who
knows?

Regarding talking dogs, I have never met any, but I have heard of a horse that
can do arithmetic [2].

__________

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode/comp...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
> What would convince you? Data from 60k cars isn't sufficient?

It would be if the data showed they were safer than human drivers, and was independently obtained. I have yet to see any data that suggests this or anything close to this.
I actually think both will be stacking sats. Hamilton was a practical libertarian, Jefferson was “we must have a revolution every now and then to show the government who is boss” libertarian.
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.

You can say that about anything, it begs the question of what to prioritize.
Thank you, appreciate the breakdown. With so much focus on the gut research recently I feel like we are on the cusp of bringing together lots of things and new understandings and that hopefully happens soon
Another successful patient of the low FODMAP diet here. As soon as I stray from the restrictions I will suffer the next day. IBS can be crippling.

Honestly the scientist(s) who developed the low FODMAP diet needs to be awarded a Nobel prize.
it would never have occured to me not to bring kimchi to work. Durian? Stinky Tofu? ok but Kimchee? I'll bet most company cafeterias have blue cheese around
It needs to be balanced - if something is documented then you can just point them at it.

But people you've done favours for are more likely to do them for you too. And that's a major force multiplier when it comes to your own goals.
an army runs on their stomach and not anything else
Greetings from Poland Warsaw city to be specific:)
https://twitter.com/controlflow/status/1469253842109968385?t...
Finally managed to find source
Best way is practice. The photo per day challenge makes you accountable. Plus it is a reason to go places you otherwise wouldn't.
Create REST and GraphQL APIs, scaffold Jamstack webapps, stream real-time
There's no question that family is what is missing from your life. A grown man needs a family to take care of. And yes, it's a direct contradiction to what has been discussed on this very forum re:divorce. And no, I cannot suggest any magic solution to the question of finding a sane woman who you'd be madly in love with.

The good new is that 35 is far from the end for a man. I'd say you have five to ten years while you are still at the peak. Make sure to look for a woman a few years younger though.
Its in the code. If many people thought like you our species would be extinct. The people that have this software version is the majority and any argument you make will not alter the code. Their code includes convincing others to make kids.
The browser simply displays the local php source for me. Do I need to run a local PHP server to get this to run?
Fascinating question - and not one whose answer is known.

Fiber is good for microbes merely by the virtue that humans lack the glycan-degrading enzymes that are necessary to break it down, so it reaches the colon intact where the microbes can eat it. Humans can digest starch (though it can be physically and chemically modified to be harder to digest) but not the hundreds of other types of fibers that are found in a traditional diet.

I think there is good research that shows that higher fiber diets are associated with lower risk of developing a range of metabolic and immune pathologies, but the particular mechanistic linkages are so subtle that it will require absolutely massive studies to identify them. In general, we know that humans used to eat a much higher fiber diet (e.g. the Hadza people eat 70-150 grams of fiber a day), and we believe that produces a much healthier microbial composition.

The paper you cited is really interesting! I haven't read it - but the overall idea that the mucus lining of the gut can be degraded by microbes who are sourcing carbon, energy, and nitrogen from it is well established.

I think there is consensus that some amount of gut barrier integrity is due to microbial signals. This occurs in two ways - 1) our epithelial cells sense microbial products (proteins, carbohydrates, etc.) and respond by tightening the junctions between them. The overall idea being that you want to keep the bacteria in the colon, but you must balance some level of nutrient flow. 2) The goblet cells which produce mucus in the gut, respond to microbial signals to increase or decrease their mucus production.

There is a lot of research going on trying to understand how certain diets cause defective mucus production and in turn how that can allow microbes to get to close to the epithelial lining (usually the mucus is ~100 microns thick) which results in inflammation.

Recent evidence of another function of microbial activity in the gut of hibernating animals. In short, it appears that they help the host supply enough nitrogen for maintaining muscle mass during hibernation: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh2950
In response to the dead poster:

An ordinary generating function converges only when the coefficients of the sequence grow no faster than polynomial growth. On the other hand, exponential generating functions converge for sequences that grow faster than polynomials, including some exponential growth. Therefore, calculus of exponential generating functions is wider in scope than that of ordinary generating functions but still not large enough to represent superexponential sequences.
Most shareware was nagware
Is this really an accurate description of big tech? That doesn’t match my impression of Amazon for instance. I suppose FB has been machine learningized, but there wasn’t a market there to begin with nor is particularly clear to me that FB is exploitative in a labor sense (10$ profit per year per user in the US) regardless of any other ethical considerations. The algorithm does rule social media, but it always has and we’ve seen monopolies in all forms of media in the past. Social media’s influence has grown, but it only partially overlaps with big tech. Apple does have a closed garden (kingdom), but they are mostly in the business of making really good phones. Does this theory have any unique predictive power? Like, big tech has some problems, social media has some problems, and the fed has some problems - they sometimes intersect in interesting ways but not in the sense of a grand narrative.
Does anyone know why manufactures don't make 34,36 inch 4k monitors? There are plenty of 32 inch 4k monitors but next 4k resolution is 42-43 inch. Nothing in-between. The whole segment of 32-40 inch monitor is dominated by ultra wide monitors.
Poor people have more 45% more leisure time than wealthy.

Society as a whole has more leisure time than any time of history before. We still bitch day after day, minute after minute.

source... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JLaF_4Tz8
Will this basically mean the federal government would have a record of all our transactions?
Is there any more details somewhere on how this worked? I assume they required electricity but where did the electricity come from? Was it using same exact phone they had in cities at the time? Not even sure what connections were required for regular phones at that time either. Any info would be helpful for my curiosity.
Multilayer neural networks weren’t really a viable tool until the backpropagation algorithm for determining internal parameters was developed in 1985 (cf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA164453.pdf )
They never open the package, and technically, they are quasi-public.

Public enough that they can't play fast and loose like everyone else, but private where it matters in terms of not having literal Federally administered databases all just eafer for the reaping.
> Pure talc is also a carcinogen

[citation needed]
> One of the potential benefits of FSD is that it will save lives

Continuing this line of logic, the most advanced FSD would save the most lives. Thus the argument could be made that Tesla should abandon their research and license Waymo FSD.
Playing devil's advocate, do we have any reason to believe that people who are genetically more succeptible to depression aren't also more likely to have this sort of gut via genetics? That would result in this correlation.

Perhaps improving your gut biome wouldn't actually help with depression?
I could see it being a thing. There are lots of different shapes of die and they can easily be tampered with. Could even make them required in casinos and such to prove the casino isn't cheating.
The best treatment for my own ADHD, depression and anxiety is living a healthy lifestyle, across the board, full stop.

It means regular exercise, 6 hours of cardio a week, eating healthy, meditating, spending time in the sun, etc. etc. (And anti-depressants/therapy, which play an important role too.)

Of course, it's too much to tell someone struggling to do all those things, but if you can work towards that, I strongly recommend it. I've had to declare war on my depression and ADHD because I can't afford to have it in my life anymore.

At some point perhaps the science will catch up and explain precisely how these things help, but until then, I feel like you have to take the ancient approach of observing people who have things figured out and emulating them. (And I say this as someone who is very much pro-science.)
But can it reproduce?
Voter ID laws are perfectly reasonable, so long as people can easily obtain ID. That is not the case.

https://225egw40g2k99t0ud3pbf2ct-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
> "This will make fonts and porn…I mean professional Photoshop graphics that you design look really sharp."

Author about retina displays.
From reading Facebook's comments on their "QAnon" policies, "militarized deranged conspiracy theorists" seems more accurate.

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/08/addressing-movements-and-o...
Keeping a Triumph Spitfire 1500 from 1978 in good shape and driving it (best tour ever were 18 passes in the alps in 3.5 days). When I did not have kids I went on sea kayaking tours. A bit of guitar (I'm really bad, but it's fun and relaxing).
What about CGM?
It has been attempted before: https://www.american-rails.com/pce.html
That's assuming that your bank cares about keeping your transactions private enough not to voluntarily submit to anything asked of it.

If you hate the idea, you'd still be free to park your cash with some rando that promises to keep it safe, just without subsidy. Hell, the existence of a gov digital currency might ironically stabilize bitcoin or a bitcoin-like.
Maybe we could add some string, say, "HN Volunteer" to our HN or LinkedIn profiles? These profiles are easily searchable, so there would be no need for building a new app.
I've always been prescribed them by doctors after taking antibiotics... As you guessed it the guy microbes are killed off by the medication.

Well that's the theory anyway...
Mask studies reach a new scientific low point
There has been scientific recognition of the gut affecting brain function for well over 100 years. This might help it make more sense: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772764/
> Is there an example of any dataset that is well maintained by a community?

rateyourmusic.com
I agree.

However, consumers putting down $10,000 for a promised feature with no firm deadline and severe restrictions on the said feature's portability are in a league of their own when it comes to stupidity.

Or, perhaps they are more akin to an Investor ..
And guidance on how to fix it.
Show HN: EBNF Specification of the BBC Shipping Forecast
I mean this sincerely: can you demonstrate how using React et al for 95% of web apps (not talking about highly interactive stuff, offline-first or other special cases) was at all a step forward for web apps, OTHER than eliminating full page refreshes and thereby improving UX? Nevermind developer experience, although that is more subjective of course. The "decoupling" and "single JSON-based REST API for all clients", etc. arguments are nice in theory but impractical in reality. By all means have a JSON-based API for exactly that - application programming interfaces, not human-consumable interfaces.
I would argue the development, deployment & maintainability complexity of those SPAs can not be justified for most web apps, if you are able to offer the essentially the same UX benefits with an HDA approach.
You can always write: Rscript --vanilla your_r_script.r
(and #!/usr/bin/env Rscript --vanilla )

Command line arguments are available as:

args <- commandArgs(trailingOnly=TRUE)

And there are three getopt()-like packages: getopt, optparse, and argparse.