skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is a recent study but surely there’s prior ones as well? How many people actually go and check studies like these for validation? I know there’s reproducibility issues with certain social sciences but how wide spread is this? Is anything being done to address such a glaring dependability issue?
ps. meta analysis of 60 years of Vitamin C studies with placebo controls showed the opposite of what you are remembering, C did not prevent or reduce the common cold symptoms/severity - and the electron donor principle can be googled or it's right on that LPI link above.

But ha I have the same size complaint. I have to sit there with a safety blade and cut 500mg tablets into four and then of course it's so imprecise.

They market what sells. People don't want to buy 100mg if 500mg is next to it for the same price. Everyone think more is better, super-size it.

BTW you can buy high quality Vitamin C gummies (ie. Vitafusion Power C) which because of their limited capacity per gummy are around only 100mg and the bottle says to take 4-6 but of course you can just take one. Studies show gummies have the same absorption quality of pills, downside is only the added sugar, which is tiny.
It's funny. There where 101 articles when he had "anti-vax" people on. 0 articles when he had "pro-vax" people on. He can make 15 three hour episodes that none gives a fuck about, but then 1 episode that everybody loses their shit! :D

It seems that there is some kind of disparity between how Joe Rogan is being portrayed.
Wow, this thread is a shitshow. The single non-commercial browser option, one of essentially just three remaining players in the market, and they get nothing but scorn for trying to survive.

Google created Chrome, in part, to become less dependent on browser defaults. That worked, and Mozilla's main source of revenue was/is almost certain to dry up.

So they bundled a service or two at some point. You clicked 'no' and were never bothered again.

That's too much of an ask? You are free to donate, instead. You, and everyone else, was always free to do so, of course. It didn't work, it doesn't work, and it will never work, but that doesn't stop anyone from suggesting it, in this case and every other (music, journalism).

People mouth off about privacy and security but will not follow through with $5/yr if they aren't forced to. They'll get their fix from Google or Microsoft, use the same pretentious arguments about security to also screw the people that write what they like reading and act surprised when they wake up in a paywalled garden. I bet it's the same people that litter whenever nobody is watching.
I live in Australia. State run media (abc and sbs) have a left-leaning (as in, more aligned with Obama than trump) bias. I’m certainly left leaning but Open to reasonable conservative/right wing perspectives.

The problem is that I perceive all right wing media to have a huge bias and don’t believe my view is unreasonable. there was a call for a royal commission into Murdoch and other media superpowers which reached 500k signatures on change.org, but barely mentioned in mainstream media. in contrast, a homo/transphobic conservative school ‘contract’ hit barely 20k signatures before being blown up by virtually all media for days (I’m not saying the topic/issue was unimportant, fwiw).

Think about that on a broader scale, locally there have been a fair few pushes into privacy / freedom erosion over the past decade. I’m not trying to sway people into my way of thinking, but I don’t think currently the media really gives people a reasonable discussion of real issues.
> I just realized that isn't the context of the OP's statement. Heh.

I just waned to reassure you that you weren’t alone in the confusion. :-)
I'll give it a try. The study is two small populations that are assumed to be similar. If this were the case, then knowing the study ID (1 or 2) would sometimes wrongly look predictive for different conditions. However none of the measurements have this flaw, and that it self is very very unlikely. The claim is the data looks like it was designed to not have any imbalance from between sets 1 and 2, to an extend that is itself unlikely due to sampling.
Privately held company shares can be traded too. I mean the whole idea of a Unicorn is based on private valuations.
> You're gonna have to explain to me how that TV station in central Kyiv was killing Russian soldiers. Explain to me nice and slow. Or are Russian troops so incompetent that they mistake a TV tower for another target?

It was a ... a ... a Nazi transformer mecha in stealth mode! /s
Perhaps on a staging server?
It's pretty common in outsourcing companies.

Even in a lot of product based companies tbh. I had to push quite a bit to get people to stop referring to SWEs as "resources"..
I am not aware of any OS which will stand up to the internet without management for months at a time. Until that problem is solved, self hosting remains a dream.

Ideally you should be able to set up a machine, and just have it work for at least a year, on average, with no need to intervein, do updates, patches, etc.

Like the old Novell systems we keep hearing about, serving files from rooms since closed off to humans for years.
“ Lets start with the M1 Mac mini. It’s a nice baseline as it’s the Mac i was developing on up untill recently. The Mac mini completed the tests in 45.13 seconds across 8 cores.

…………

The AWS Graviton instance (c6g.metal to be specific) delivered a score of 14.63 seconds across its 64 cores. Around 68% faster than the Mac mini.”

“Faster” would be a matter of rate.

So if we have times and we know D = R*T, we’d have:

(D/T2)/(D/T1) as the speed up of R2, which is just (T1/T2), or 3.08. If we were to say how much “faster” c6g.metal is than a Mac Mini, wouldn’t we say 208% rather than 68% if the speed of the Mac Mini is our baseline? Am I missing something?
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090-class GPU with 600W TGP has reportedly been confirmed
That is being worked on too:

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-2.html
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-3.html
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-4.html
Agree with both of you.

Animals are like us, just simpler.
There's a strong resistance to paywalls on Hacker News and many subreddits (due to many newspapers historically having no paywalls in the earlier days of the internet), but in other communities, there is actually a broad acceptance for paying for news.

For example, the Financial Times, despite being comparatively pricey (I think about $400 USD per year), is doing well and has over 1 million subscribers despite its paywall since 2002 [0]. In 2021, The New York Times reached over 7.5 million subscribers, and is doing quite well financially (in contrast to most other news outlets in the US) [1]. Financial outlets (like the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal) do well because their readership tends to have more money, or work for companies willing to pay for subscriptions (as avoiding the news could put their businesses, especially if in the financial sector, at a competitive disadvantage).

The New York Times is an exception rather than the rule, because it offers readers the idea that they can become more well-informed and smarter by reading the newspaper (one can argue whether this is warranted, though it's an effective marketing argument). However, a lot of their revenue also comes from their Games section (crosswords and now Wordle, though Wordle doesn't have a paywall in its current form) and their recipes section.

In short, I think people are willing to pay for the news when it can perform a function that can't be accessed elsewhere. Free social media can't give the in-depth coverage that quality newspapers provide, especially when it comes to analysis from a business perspective. Separately, The New York Times has an unparalleled crosswords section and a very strong recipe collection.

[0] https://www.axios.com/financial-times-million-digital-only-s...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/business/media/new-york-t...
> when you very well know the value of a bottom tier law school. I mean, today is not the lack of information age. You can pretty much find out all the data points needed about a school. For instance, bottom tier schools typically don't advertise the graduating salaries or employment data. Just this one data point is an indicator of future earnings potential.

You're thinking about this from a very different set of life experiences. Not everyone knows to look for things like that. Not everyone even realises that there are different tiers of law schools. If no-one in your neighbourhood has ever met a lawyer socially, why would you?
Here's why this matters: some systems require you to edit text files in order to work at all. But at the same time, they are extremely sensitive to the content of the text file.

Editing text file to make advanced configuration may be acceptable if the casual end user never needs to do it. When I say never, I mean never ever ever. If you need to edit it once every few months, you better have really really good "linting" facilities to tell the user right away whether their edits are going to be accepted or going to cause the system to break.

Now granted, systemd is a system utility, not an end user application.

If the system overall is built such that the end user never ever ever needs to know about systemd, then it's sort of ok.

Now, when it comes to self-hosted, the line between "system utility" vs "end user application" may be blurred.

If you think a web server is a system utility, then by all means, go ahead and make it fragile and complicated. That's how everyone is doing it.

But if you think - and at least I do - that it's important for casual users to be able to self-host their own websites with ease and reliability and without having any system level expertise, then the points I mentioned about the system not imploding due to the content of text files is extremely important.
Well, the talk is good. I'd like to see Mozilla do the walk and not just talk.

I still use firefox, and I still think it's a good browser. I hope Mozilla's recent forays into VPNs and such helps stabilize their ship and lets them focus back on their mission and not forcing pocket on me.
I bought the Air as I had a bit of a deadline for getting a new machine and could not wait for the 14 or 16 inch models to be released.

The Air is silent, it's powerful enough for fairly serious dev workloads, it has a battery that lasts longer than I've ever seen before and it can run multiple displays if you get a compatible displaylink dock.

If you like it, there's little reason not to get one AFAICT. Make sure to grab the 16GB of RAM though!
Yes yes yes. I think Apple is scared to cannibalize the 16" Pro, although it's already quite differentiated. Pro is quite focused on media workloads rather than pure performance/dev workloads. I can see some dev workloads needing the pro, but most would be great on the base chip.

With the level of performance on the M1, I'll take the battery life and less weight on the Air over more cores. I hope the next gen base chip (M2?) will have more display output and more RAM, and the MBAir line up will have a 15/16" size (with the Pro speakers).
Look I really don't want to be a hater, but please look at the way your words are perceived publicly. This doesn't read as open comments about trademark law, it reads as defensive and oppositional.

This wasn't a huge PR challenge, all the statement needed to say was "Sorry, some lawyers we contracted applied for the trademarks in error, we have not progressed the applications and aren't claiming any ownership of the terms WASM or Webassembly".

Wasmer only has controversy because basic PR like this statement has been mishandled over and over again. You need to come off as good-faith actors participating in the WASM ecosystem. Defensiveness when you have obviously done the wrong thing, arguing with commenters under what is supposed to be an apology, employees posting supportive comments of their employer on said apology without disclosure... surely it is obvious how these actions are bad PR?

I know this reads really negatively but please understand that it's intended as sincere feedback. It's really important that Wasmer can reform it's image problem. There isn't any reason you guys should be perceived so negatively, if you can stop screwing up PR at every opportunity.
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I sometimes think in that direction as well... but in the case of degraded query performance it could be simple a DOS attack, where they found some combination of operations that brings the db down... and they exploit it because they don't expect it to do anything more than this.

If you want your enemy to fear the repercussions of attacking you, you need him to understand the strength you have to fight back. And in the case of cyberwarfare the only way to show strength is by hacking stuff... so I imagine there's some value in smaller not-so-destructive attacks.
But the corollary is definitely true, if 30% of the revenue goes to Google there is no chance of that money going to the artists.
Graviton 2 instances are really amazing in my experience. I can't believe every other major cloud player (Google, Azure) still don't have any ARM instances available. Get with the times folks.
Video editors and music producers are using far more ram and storage than virtually any programmer out there, and loads of them are traveling with their work and draining batteries faster than anyone else.

Asking them whether a laptop’s hardware is good is like asking a power lifter whether a gym has good equipment.
I'm with you on this.

Challenging your own anxiety - and breaking out of your shell - should not be part of some group exercise. The article implies that a group of people were let loose with instructions to bother people:

> Once we got downtown and the exercise officially began, I achieved slightly above my own expectations, which were fairly low. I approached maybe 12-15 people total, in an hour and a half. (Some of the others reported approaching two or three times that number.)

:/
Anecdata but I haven't seen any display lag from the Air M1. 4k + internal display on the 8GB works fine. 4k + internal + iPad Sidecar works fine on the 16GB.

I'm also doing FE workloads, 8GB is nearly there but the swap is still fast. I still have some swap usage on the 16GB but mostly because of Chrome tabs rather than workloads.
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Scientists Create Ideal Pizza Dough That Rises Perfectly Without Yeast
This looks very interesting. I see that Facebook is one of the data sources. Would you know if it’s possible to get posts and comments from Facebook groups (even if it’s just the ones by the user)?
Hey Adam! This is the weekly check-ins during your job hunt we did. I guess your job hunt duration was too short, so maybe you didn't do too much of this :)
The entire second group was picked after the first one, and there were imbalances on almost half of the diagnoses. So if I understand this right, the problem is not the 1.0s since if they were selecting the same number of patients with the same primary diagnoses for the second group then those would be expected, but that there should be some 0.2s in there as well.
AFAICT, The Pinebook Pro can run "normal" distros. Fedora and Manjaro are supported directly, and Armbian has Ubuntu images. It also looks like Arch is somewhat supported.

Now, reliably on the other hand... that's another story. I still have hardware issues surrounding booting, but getting an OS installed isn't an issue anymore.
Just never use percentages to show ratio. Graviton instance is approximately 3 times faster.
You're welcome!

(And that should have read "later sequels", not "player sequels". Smartphones.)
Big effect sizes tend to be fabricated. It's really disturbing. I do lots of biostatistics in academia and professors openly acknowledge many trials cherrypick data.

The outcome is that if you are honest it's hard to get funded because your results look bad.

Then, if we talk about honest results only, crappy statistics also leads to crazy optimistic effect estimates. Regularizing priors and pooling should be the norm. Andrew Gelman posts a lot about this: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
Yup, though realistically, probably not too many people on minimum wage are living alone in a 1br. There probably aren't that many people on minimum wage, period, especially 7.25.

The biggest problem here isn't the income, though, it's the rising cost of housing due to anti-housing policies. Some of them explicit (e.g. zoning), some of them unfortunate side effects (e.g. extensive environmental reviews making all large construction projects take a really long time).
I am surprised by this shortcoming of Calibre image. I guess the trade is learning how to install calibre vs. learning how to deal with docker. I'd also agree that even if you use docker and installation is easy - for any self hosted apps you are using for a long enough time you end up learning enough about them to be able to install without docker (and avoid managing docker in addition to everything else).
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I think you all proved the point that this system is too complicated for anyone outside of a small group of professional IT people.
That’s why there’s the “swap” rule.
> Great to see fellow robotics starters on HN!

Yes! We are excited every time we see a robotics company show up on HN :)

> How are you connecting the solar modules, electrically?

Right now we are focused on nailing mechanical installation, and are leaving electrical installation to a separate team of subcontractors. That said, we do want to tackle this problem in the future, and have some ideas on how to make the make the electrical connectors on solar modules more suitable for robotic manipulation. The standard PV connectors today are comically bad for handling by robots, dangling loosely from wires on the back of the module.

> Also, I didn't see on your page anything about remote work. I understand why that might not be in the cards for robotics work, but is that the case for Charge?

There's enough hands-on work involving the robot that we aren't quite ready to bring on full-time remote workers yet. As we grow, this is something we will become more open to.
It was undetectable at the time of the surgery to remove the ovaries and Fallopian tubes.

At the time of the surgery, the embryo was young enough to not be detected but old enough to be out of the Fallopian tubes and not depend on the ovaries’ hormones anymore.

Older than one week, but younger than three. A two-week window.

And after that surgery, I could understand not suspecting pregnancy for abdominal swelling.
Your site itself makes it seem that the judging criteria is very biased towards positive stories. I'm not sure if that's really your intent, but that was the impression it gave me. If that's wrong, and you want to try to fix it, I can spend a little bit of time trying to identify why I got that impression.
"..since the unconscious understands language perfectly well or it would not understand the problem in the first place, why doesnt it simply answer Kekulé’s question with something like: “Kekulé, it’s a bloody ring.”

Perhaps because the unconscious doesn't understand language? Perhaps it just accesses data structures compiled down from language?
Maybe, but over the last few years I've taken to checking Best Buy's web site in preference to Amazon's for things that seem like they're in the general category of "things Best Buy probably sells." They're usually competitively priced, and occasionally have even undercut Amazon. (This is especially true if you're looking for brands you've even remotely heard of, as opposed to ICEDIO, ORNARTO, JASBON, COOLQO, WTYOO, SINIANL and the like. All of those names are real "companies" on Amazon at the moment, by the way.) And, Best Buy offers something else Amazon doesn't: local stores. I can order something and go pick it up.

I think Best Buy survives in no small part because (a) despite all the jokes about the way they used to upsell overpriced printer cables, they've often had a pretty good selection and decent salespeople, and (b) they managed to adapt to the online world in time to save themselves, which Radio Shack -- and, somewhat incredibly, Silicon Valley megastore darling Fry's -- manifestly did not.
A challenge to affirmative action that isn’t really about affirmative action
This is an interesting thought to entertain, but it sounds like sampling bias [0]. It's less remarkable if a doctor tells a patient that she can't get pregnant, and she doesn't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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Seemingly there isn't, which is a shame because a lot of people would benefit from it. Practically everyone has a smartphone and people's photo libraries keep growing and growing. When I was young and still naïve about the big G, Google photos was awesome but now it doesn't make sense to hand over all of my photos for them to mine and have to pay for storage too.

Right now my setup involves using Syncthing to get photos from my phone to my RPi-based NAS, where I'm running a Photoprism instance. On paper it looked great but Photoprism lacks polish and some important features. On the app side I planned to use PhotoSync to sync with Photoprism but didn't bother downloading it when I found out it wasn't open source and the Android version was ad-supported. A solid Android app that uses Photoprism as a backend and is as smooth and fast as Google Photos would be great to have.
> offtopic argument which should have been pursued only in the original context

I would have gladly had that discussion in the original context! but he did not reply to me there, nor to any of the other 6 people who replied to that horrendously incorrect comment of his

i would have let it go, but yet here he calls me out saying my own comment is grossly oversimplified, but he offered little explanation of his perspective. if i am understanding his brief argument it is:

1) github is old.

2) sharding is hard.

ok so here is my response: it was a lot less old when he started working there in 2013. many other companies have sharded several years after launch. yes it is hard. i have directly worked on teams sharding larger DB's than github's, sharding legacy apps. and so forth. it can be done.

it is really hard to justify github to be down this many times from the same root cause. year after year
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For one thing, no matching was done (as the email explains).
I specifically want to use a browser released by a non-market leader because it encourages the web to be a more open standard.
I also find it sad how good Heroku still is when compared to Render or other similar services. Sad because Heroku has built such an incredible experience that others still haven’t caught up to after all these years.

Render is close, but they’re still missing a lot of important details that makes deploying Rails apps as easy as Heroku. Instead they kind of throw the manual at you and expect you to read a tutorial.
Same this was going rough then so much better.
Same, I'm on a de-googled version of Android with MicroG and basically have stopped using apps that require google payment systems to function.
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Great suggestion! Done, and thanks. :-)
It doesn’t really matter the processor architecture, Apple has never been a good choice for Linux.

Sure you can get it to work sometimes but it’s just not ideal.