skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
overabumdmace of protein could certainly be at play.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6611156/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91dVi6W6N4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg6tvKxS9FE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RMUFOvcUB8

People think they're healthy bc they're doing what fitness gurus or "smart sounding" pro-PUFA types like you see a round here on HackerNews all the time, say.

Want to prevent cancer?

Fast on a regular basis.

Eat Nrf-2 activators (cruciferous veggies) , drink green tea, make tumeric a staple, a diet heavy in fruits and veggies should be the staple of your diet.

And keep inflmattory omega6s low in your diet.

But the biggest thing is fasting to keep mtor/igf-1 unactivated
The effect sizes of carcinogenic (or potentially carcinogenic) environmental risk factors are small compared to the very high baseline risk of getting cancer over the long lifetimes we are blessed with. Some cancers, like prostate cancer, don't have any proven environmental or lifestyle risk factors.

Consider smoking - the exposure of the lungs to cigarette smoke is very high and very consistent compared to almost all other environmental exposures which are also generally less carcinogenic.

The key question is - are cancers getting more common without a good explanation [1], and if so which ones? The answer is that upper gastrointestinal cancers do some to be getting more common. These are plausibly due to dietary changes and/or obesity. Personally, I think ingesting huge amounts of added sugar, particularly fructose, is the potential unifying culprit.

[1] Many cancers are increasing in incidence because of better screening and detection. Breast cancer is a good example. Other cancers like leukaemia or pancreatic cancer couldn't even be reliably diagnosed 100 years ago, so obviously they are more common today.
As far as I can tell, none of these changes are in code that is specific to Chrome, so yes, I would expect these improvements to also apply to Chromium-based browsers.
No expert either, but I can speak as a non-traditional student (didn't go to college right out of high school join the Navy and started a family first) about to graduate with a degree in engineering. I was decent in math in grade school but did not like it. I didn't learn to actually enjoy math until my college calculus classes. And it goes back to the real math you are referring to. Looking back, Algebra in highschool just felt like, "memorize this type of problem and the steps," but didn't do anything to build intuition in actually understanding the why. Then calculus comes and I felt like that gave me the 'why.'
The entire UK uses 40GW at peak, or 2/3 of a kilowatt per person.

The US divides 1084.37GW among its 330 million people, which comes out at 3.2kw each.

There has to be significant room for efficiency savings there.
Didn't they always (well, since WW2) consider southern Kurils their territory occupied by Russia? Has anything changed in their messaging?
Don't forget Shane Warne, he was on a healthy juice diet but still died of heart attack.
“The world” doesn’t learn lessons. People might. Almost no one alive remembers WWII. “The world” can’t always stop war or dictators

Human history is non-stop war, aggression, conflict, invasion. War is the not exceptional, nor are dictators, hatred, brutality.
Reading the title I definitely didn't expect it to look THIS good! Well done!
Nietzche said it best:

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is
a lack of integrity.

Or maybe (I think Sidgwick):

The English system is "No system", Which is also a system, only
better.

Robin Hanson has perhaps not read much of Max Weber or Franz Kafka to
understand why, in science fiction, bureaucracy is seen as something a
successful technological society has overcome.

The article starts with a value neutral account of "futurists"
(whatever that may be) engaged in harmless prediction. Without
skipping a beat he then proposes a value active role in maximising a
set of qualities not all of which are desirable or mutually
compatible.

This is why I don't like "futurists" of this persuasion. They have
agendas. They sell these agendas based on flimsy and philosophically
unsound extrapolation dressed up as "inevitability". "the arc of
history" or "determinism".

I'm not buying it. Human intelleigence is the art of outsmarting
"futurists" (Like Malthus and Fukuyama) who would have us believe
"history is at an end and all we must do is keep dranking the handle
on the machine". If anything proves that history is not finished, or
that the future is not merely tracing a line on a graph, I would say
that wars and pandemics might be clues.

Systemetisation and bureaucracy are not engines of wealth creation.
Far from it, they are unfortunate side effects of industry that most
wise industrialists and engineers attempt to eliminate. On the
contrary, complexity is now a significant threat to a gamut of other
desirable human values, like stability, security, freedom, and
innovation.

And yet the author seems to celebrate bureaucracy. I cannot fathom
this.
Building "settlements" on land that is not part of your country has a name. It's called "occupation".

And the Palestinian government like <<any>> sovereign state on this planet, is allowed to decide who builds what where.

Again, salami tactics. Brilliant strategy, but awful from a humanitarian point of view. How to strangle another country, kill it by a thousand paper cuts.
Looks great and is certainly useful for a quick check. For finer discrimination a real graphical display will still be required though, e.g. for checking bonds, and geometries.
What are the regrets of the newborn?

Who gets a place in an Australian palliative station?

What are the regrets of a dying San or Yanomami?

Did those excptionally lucky people that died in that Australian palliative station all regret something?
What were they proud of?
Who were they?
What did they wished for and when?
What do they wish for after they're gone?

Did they wished to do back then, what they regretted not to have done before they died?

Where is the data and statistics, beside book sales?
And I would also love to know who bought them.
You do know the difference between United Nations and NATO?
China isn't going to side with Russia in case of direct conflict with the west. A weak Russia absolutely serves China, because Russia has plenty of natural resources China needs, and vital space... China would love Russia being partitioned. Right now Russia is about to become China's client state and China will exploit that hard.

China cares only... about China.
so the saying goes "food is medicine"
Count not knowing what it is, as a blessing.
Run if you can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_vault_modeling

Edit: As the Wikipedia article has no Criticism section
I will add some references:

http://kejser.org/the-data-vault-vs-kimball-round-2/

https://timi.eu/blog/data-vaulting-from-a-bad-idea-to-ineffi...
>show how weak he is and let his own people give him Gaddafi ending

Never gonna happen because:

1) The majority of the Russian population is still supportive of him, thinking they're fighting to liberate Ukraine from nazis and that the western sanctions are in place because the west hates them, rather than consequences for their leaders' war crimes

2) Like the former head of Mi6 said, Putin is so mad that if threatened, he's more likely to be ok with seeing the whole world get nuked, instead of going down like Gaddafi did, which is why the west is going so soft on him.
Hosting providers such as OVH, Hetzner, etc still have old-school sysadmin work.

ISPs are hit & miss. If you can get into an early-stage (W?)ISP you will get interesting work, but avoid the big established ones like the plague - there it's all about outsourcing to the lowest bidder and providing the lowest level of service they can legally get away with.
I've known a bunch of hippies/anarchists/free spirits or whatever who took acid. I've also know a lot of squares/lawyer types/bank tellers who never took any acid (most never even smoked pot). Thirty years later, there's a percentage of the hippies who seem to be happy, have a pretty good outlook on life, respect and care for other humans and the environment, are people who seem to have most of it figured out. There's also a pretty big percentage of them who now just guzzle beer at bars and watch football, and are assholes to their wives and kids. When I look at the other group of people I've known, the squares, the percentages are pretty much the same.
and vice versa but requiring energy inputs
And this could change within a very short period of time if need be.

The current skyrocketing prices may very well be that need.
Most of the stuff that is well known to some group of people isn't well known to everybody, so maybe don't just be that dismissive? Also, the article is ~10 years old. I wouldn't be surprised if it actually contributed to how well known these facts are today.
OK, I agree I'm not that informed about ER, probably I've only heard of some of their more misguided actions, maybe even overemphasized by their enemies.

...but their name and their most used description doesn't help either: first words you read are "climate change" and "biodiversity loss". No organization can focus on everything, and if they've chosen to focus on that, then from my pov. they're not focusing on what I care about most: engineering and sustaining environments (natural or artificial or hybrid...) that maximize HUMAN health & lifespan in economically sustainable ways.
please factor in the damage done by emitting CO2 into the atmosphere
The first thing that stuck me was distinguishing the `SSO' part of the union from the rest. It requires the `ssolen' field to align to the later `type' field which isn't guaranteed.

There might also be issues with the `data' field if padding gets introduced.

Having the `type' field (as a uint8_t or char) first would solve this but loses some bits of storage. The other option would be making the type an array of char and bit bashing everything (and memcpy(2) multibyte fields since unaligned accesses aren't universal).
Oh that was a good deflection and a decent try at shifting the goalposts!

Sheikh Jarrah is only one of many cases.

> Just building settlements

That's a very weird way of putting it. Illegal settlements, in lands that don't belong to Israel, so it's not up to Israel to decide what to do with it. It's obviously a population displacement tactic - then there'd be Jews there, Israel can claim the lands, and if Palestine does decide to remove them, Israel will cry genocide and step in.
Memory is like $3-4/GB (decently fast DDR4). And you've been fine with 16GB for a decade without upgrading.

If you're stuck on some un-upgradable old budget device, it's unlikely the memory holding you back either.
If you told me 4.6% of Americans answered a poll that they thought humans were created in roughly present form within the last 10K years, I’d have thought that figure was high and barely believable.

The poll that put that figure at 46%: https://news.gallup.com/poll/155003/Hold-Creationist-View-Hu...
My own house is reportedly destroyed by Russian Forces. The R&D lab is gone.
People are mixing up multiple different numbers and statistics, one being capacity vs generation, and the other being nuclear missing from both posts.

Nuclear stands for 10% capacity, but 20% generation. It do this because nuclear is expensive to build, but once built the operational costs is fairly fixed with low fuel costs. Fossil fuels plats are generally cheap to build but has high fuel costs, and renewables is dependent on weather. As such they both have higher capacity than generation. Coal is slightly the odd one in the mix in that their capacity and generation is about the same.

In term of energy generated, about 60% is fossil fuel, 20% nuclear, 20% renewables (using 2021 numbers).

In terms of capacity, we have 66% fossil fuel, 9% nuclear, 25% renewables.

The prognosis is that in terms of generated power, fossil fuel will decrease, renewables increase, and nuclear stay about the same with a tiny decrease that is related to the overall increase in energy usage.

The prognosis for capacity is an increase in both fossil fuel and renewables. Coal is and has mostly already been replaced with gas. The total capacity is steadily increasing for fossil fuels, while the renewables are increasing also at a slightly faster speed.

40% increase in fossil fuel capacity is still a very bad thing. If the market is investing in increasing the capacity to burn fossil fuel then there is a reason for it. They are intending to burn fossil fuel, and that for several decades into the future. At the same time we will see a higher portion of the generated energy coming from renewables since it is more economical to generate energy from renewables during optimal weather conditions. Any gas being burned during a windy/sunny day is an unnecessary expensive source of energy, unless the initial construction costs of renewables is greater than the profits of the total periods of optimal weather conditions.
The CANZUK and EU economies put together are 60% or more. It's about economies, not population.

And if sanctions truly kick in, Mexico and Brazil especially won't be trading long with Russia...
TW is a controversial inclusion in your list.
>Some cancers, like prostate cancer, don't have any proven environmental or lifestyle risk factors.

Prostate cancer is associated with contracting STD's:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15988645/

Conclusions: This meta-analysis provides evidence of a higher rate of prostate cancer in men with a history of an exposure to gonorrhea, HPV, or any STD.
You shouldn't fly at all because of the increased exposure to the solar radiation at high altitude, better taxi on the ground.
> 2) Like the former head of Mi6 said, Putin is so mad that if threatened, he's more likely to be ok with seeing the whole world get nuked, instead of going down like Gaddafi did, which is why the west is going so soft on him.

That's ok. Putin doesn't have a big red button, he actually needs a lot of people to be ok with committing a suicide, and it is likely they won't.

And nuked world might be better than world in which Russian can do what it wants.
Not everyone is writing C software to run only on their own laptop.
> For a while, I do not believe the USB transaction translator[1] was not totally commonplace: I remember articles specifically highlighting which usb2 hubs had this feature.

You are misremembering. All 2.0 hubs have TTs. The question is whether they have one (same problem as USB3, all ports share a single 12Mbps pipe in 1.0 mode) or multiple (can aggregate multiple 12Mbps devices without bottlenecks). What USB3/4 have done is doom us to a world equivalent to multi-TT hubs not existing. Except it's worse because with single TT hubs, at least you can still chain multiple to a parent hub and aggregate without bottlenecks at that level.

> Once we start adding isosynchronous profiles & perhaps various other usb2 gimmicks, I imagine the transaction translation problem becoming much more thorny

Thorny, perhaps. Impossible, no. This is trivial to prove: sticking a PCI USB2 host controller behind a Thunderbolt/USB4 bridge works fine, and that is for all intents and purposes a USB2 to TB/PCIe "transaction translator", and PCIe itself is more like Ethernet and can be tunnelled over almost anything. The USB host transaction layer (which is a pretty 1:1 map to xHCI) is tunnelable just fine (this is how USB over the network protocols work too, with host support). It's the wire layer that isn't, because once you drop to that layer you can't reconstruct or control the original transaction states properly. What USB2 did for TTs is extend the protocol in such away that the missing information/cases could be handled properly, with cooperation from the host. There's no reason why they couldn't have done this for USB2 to 3 too.

> Making a hub that passes through usb4, but which also exposes a variety of simple peripherals is much easier without mandating the transaction translator.

As I said, they could still keep the USB 2 lines. Having TT support in the standard doesn't mean hubs have to implement it. We'd still have the differentiation between TT-ful and TT-less hubs if you want. The problem is, right now, TT-ful USB3 hubs aren't possible. I agree that having the 2.0 lane in Type C makes a ton of sense. Just let me tunnel it over the SS lanes too!

Source: I've written USB support for projects way too often, including a bare-bones OHCI driver once. I also authored the virtual xHCI implementation in qemu.
Exactly, who cares who's wife she is. Steve Jobs was one of the richest in the world but still died of cancer fairly young unfortunately. It's a deadly disease that affects millions every year and unfortunate thing is that we still don't have a guaranteed cure.
Ask HN: Is Linus Torvalds GitHub page a scam?
I have stumbled upon a weird thing today and don't know what to think about it:
if you navigate on Linus Torvald's github page (https://github.com/torvalds) you see he is a member of one organization. I was curious about that organization and went to check it out (https://github.com/DROPCitizenShip) and the link on their profile is pointing to a very weird scam site...? you will only see the scam once, when you visit the first time, every other visit so far produced a simple looking landing page. Did I drink too much tea today or why does this seem so off to me?
Like I have said before¹²: Neither your registrar nor your chosen TLD registry should be in the habit of suspending domains at the drop of a hat, or be at risk of going out of business suddenly. If you mostly trust your local government, your national ccTLD should suffice. In fact, it should be your default choice unless you have strong indications it does not fulfill the above criteria.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29108933

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614298
"Spotify in my eyes, rather than trying to stop music piracy, just started to compete with it." - I would extrapolate that Spotify (streaming services) went a step further than Piracy, by absolving the consumers of any guilt or wish to buy music directly from the artists. A far better model in every front.. unless you're the artist (not signed to a major label).
Time to keep an eye on the hypothesis that the Chinese Communist Party is playing Putin in a similar way Stalin played Hitler [1]

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/articl...
Google Cloud to acquire Mandiant for $5.4B
Using nuclear for the last 20% makes no sense. Against wind/solar, you either use nuclear for everything, or you use it for nothing. There is no middle ground (well, except maybe in a tightly tuned scenario where solar could just be cheaper for daytime peak reduction, but even that is a bit iffy.)
First of all, I'm sorry to learn the author got cancer; I wish her all the best and continued strength.

Many contributors have already made good suggestions how to reduce the risk of getting cancer, or how to deal with it; but I found most posts quite _technical_.

Speaking in general terms, cancer is not a disease like a common cold. The human body sooner or later is bound to decay, which pretty much starts once one is fully grown, and mutations get less often corrected by the wonderful repair processes our bodies are equipped with. Occasionally, mutations lead to uncontrolled growth of malign tissue, some incidents of which are bound to lead to death, others not.

And while it is absolutely a good idea to life healthily and to take care of one's physical and emotional well-being, one should also never deny that we are all mortals, and cancer as well as traditional diseases can and eventually will wipe any individual out. I am at peace with that, for we need to make space for the next generation (only adding people to planet earth would not be sustainable, as resources are scarce - imagine nobody would ever die). Being on this planet for a limited time period makes it more important to make the right choices, because we have only one life.

Because it is a statistical process, we can forecast how many are affected, but not which individual, and everyone can try to minimize one's chances to be affected, but this does not mean they will live forever. And it's not just cancer, there are many ways one may pick the unlucky straw: it is not widely known, but the number of people who die from a heath attack in their 20s is significant. Make the best of every minute you have, and live it as if it were your last.
One of the times it doesn't pay to be a 'non-member of a union house'.
The humour in those threads are something else :-)
I learned the the theoretical workings of jpeg in school in the early 2000. I personally think it is easier to comprehend the different stages coming from an original picture (Bitmap). But this article illustrates again what we all just take for granted. I had the luck to learn about all the then major image types (jpeg, gif, tiff, bmp and png) in school plus the compression algorithms behind them. But I only learned about image types (Media Design school for nonprint media) I try to learn and understand as much as possible but it gets harder and harder. To fully understand the complexity of todays computers is nearly impossible. So kudos for the post but I still think the other way of explaining it makes more sense :)
I think the malware is very easy to detect. Malware is usually small and binary gpu drivers are a couple of hundreds megabytes in size.
You have 2 chroma channels [1] at half resolution (4:2:0) or full resolution (4:4:4):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YCbCr#/media/File:CCD.png

It's almost always 4:2:0. Then you compress the chroma channels the same way as the luma.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling#Sampling_sy...
It is not the same as genocide, which is what I was asking about. Will you say all NATO bombings that resulted in civilian deaths were instances of genocide?
This is like the classic Dropbox hackernews comment:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

Sure, you can stitch several services together and it will work for your needs, but for most users there is a benefit to a centrally managed and complete solution.
> Neither you, me or Google are “benevolent actors”.

This is nihilism. Google is definitely not a benevolent actor, as we can determine by examining the actions of the company over the past many years.

I assume you also are malevolent, by your own admission.

But your insinuation, that no-one is a benevolent actor, is so far off the mark I struggle to imagine how you hold that opinion. Have you considered therapy?
Replying to @elonmusk
Is there anything to stop it on starlink?

Musk replies "game on".

The russians have recently demonstrated their ability to physically take out satelites, and willingness to use it. If Putin did that, creating a lot of debris, US would loose the space advantage and we would push human advancement in to space back by perhaps 1000 years while we wait for the skys to clear.

US MUST stop provoking Russia.

"game on" is hard to interpret as anything but a flippant challenge to a dangerous man with military resources in space.

Is diplomacy that hard to grok?
The problem isn't Rust, or whatever else that is trying to replace C, rather the amount of devs that keep ignoring C best practices how to write secure software from day one.

Already making use of static analysers (lint exists since 1979), warnings as errors on the CI/CD pipeline, turning on all compiler defenses on debug builds, would make a huge difference.
> How does putting money in a drawer cause prices to go up

If I know lots of drawers stacked with cash exist, I'll value it less. At some point those dollars will chase the goods and buying and render the dollars I'm holding less valuable.
Address of the Russian Union of Rectors