skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotta do it on your end. The uBlackList extension works for several search engines in Firefox and Chrome.
My hypothesis is that a functional zinc deficiency is the cause of most cases of diabetes, and by taking metformin, it will at least, not correct a zinc deficiency, and probably make it worse.

To begin I would like to share that I was born with an undecended testicle (cryptorchidism) that had to be removed surgically when I was 3. My brother was born with hypospadia. I have been studying the genetics and environmental issues around these for the last 15 years.

I carry several high risk genes for diabetes but probably the most relevant is that I carry the homozygous risk alleles for rs2466293 in SLC30A8 which is a zinc transporters gene. So I absorb zinc more slowly than most people.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5428214/

"Conclusion ZnT8A detection increases T1D diagnosis rate even in mixed populations. SLC30A8 rs2466293 was associated with T1D predisposition in non-European descents."

I had my serum zinc tested and it was low. So now I need to take 240mg of Zinc Sulphate and eat a lot of oysters to keep my zinc levels up.

I was diagnosed with Lupus and now I no longer present constant symptoms.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7544280/

"Ikaros family zinc finger 1(IKZF1) encodes a lymphoid-restricted zinc finger transcription factor named Ikaros that regulates lymphocyte differentiation and proliferation as well as self-tolerance. Increasing evidence indicates that IKZF1 could contribute to the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases."

So also understand that my mother had diabetes, an immune disorder, and a mood disorder, all of them linked to zinc deficiency.

So, in studies zinc deficiency has been linked to diabetes:

https://www.mdpi.com/260782

"Zinc deficiency is a risk factor for obesity and diabetes."

And genital abnormalities: (This is just one study, but there are hundreds like it.)

https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/441988

"WT1 is a transcriptional regulator with various functions including signalling in both the embryonic kidneys and gonads. Mutations in this zinc finger transcription factor are associated with Denys-Drash or Frasier syndromes, which result in a broad range of malformations including hypospadias."

So I do not think the problem is metformin. I think the problem is doctors not providing patients with diabetes a full nutritional workup and ignoring the role of nutrition in human health.
Everybody here seems to only talk about the most upscale urban apartments ever.

I lived in an apartment for several years and only moved into a house within the past couple.

The single-bedroom apartment we were in had a handful of fast food places and maybe a couple dozen other restaurants within a 20 mile radius (i.e. far from being able to bike there -- not that we had anywhere to store bicycles, anyway).

We had 0 museums, maybe 2 coffee shops (half of which were Starbucks), one library (which we also have by the house), same number of parks, and only a few entertainment options. Most of which were either a movie theater or shopping, which doesn't really help fight the mass consumerism problem.

This was not in some dump area, either. In fact, that area was growing rapidly. Mostly by building more concrete bunker apartments. I can't even count the number of trees that were cut down to support this with 0 replanting (not even for decoration).

Yeah, really sounds like it's saving the planet.

So I get it: well-planned urban apartments and higher density areas can be more ecologically sustainable, but it's more nuanced than that. Apartments aren't just magically/categorically better. A lot of apartment developers aren't really considering environmental impact when building.

EDIT: oh and our internet is about double the speed of what it was in the apartment, even though the apartment complex was in an area with Google Fiber. It just wasn't available to us.
Except the default seccomp policy is not used for Kubernetes containers.

I didn't really think about this vector where you CLONE_NEWUSER in a container... definitely on systems that allow unprivileged users to do this it is a problem.
The US has, on average, slightly more than one mass shooting a day[1] (where mass shooting is 4 or more victims). Training to be able to deal with that seems prudent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...
Who pays for that food and water?

It's all about money. More people have more money.
Yeah, March 11. Not 21.
The problem isn't the SMS "protocol", but that operators still haven't been able to find an amicable solution to regulating sender names/numbers that doesn't interfer with legitimate usage, e.g. commercial businesses doing EBR texting to their customers. The problem isn't entirely comparable to that of caller ID spoofing for phone calls, and is legally and technically more complicated than you imagine.
> However it seems that when density occurs I have no recourse but move.

Sure, and what's wrong with that? If your goal is to live in a rural area without many people, then many countries today have plenty of depopulated areas on the outskirts of rural towns. Why not live there?

It's like the parent commenter said; expecting desirable land near a city not to densify is like expecting a puppy to never grow into a dog.
> I don't have any way to preserve something which is singularly important to me.

Well, have you thought about buying a larger plot of land? Seems like the obvious solution if you are intent on controlling wide swaths of land surrounding your house.
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The first shot through the window is going to blow away the cardboard. If it doesn't, the person can push it out with their hands.

Most of this is security theater. Consultants get paid millions of dollars to come up with this nonsense that doesn't hold up to an ounce of scrutiny.
You don't. The assumption is that the shooter will run out of time figuring that all out before the cops arrive. But it certainly is a risk.
Get the police department phone number from the town's government and not google maps.
I thought about not responding to avert judgement, but how is this not ok for 99% of all websites? Where an "undefined variable" is very much a "small thing"?

I mean, we have ways to catch those errors, its just that when they do appear in prod its usually because the project is so low impact (99%) that the budget for testing and whatnot is nonexistant (and the reasons for that vary from project to project, of course).

My experience suggests that, were this error to appear in a more complex component (say a shopping cart or notification system) these "non-entirely static-content-based" parts usually are either separate projects or have their own adequately-sized test code.

"But this is not a website, its a complex web app" - then PHP was probably not the most sound technical choice from the start.

"But this teaches bad practices" - practices are always evolving, new languages appear from time to time. I'd rather work on fixing real world problems.

"But PHP is old!" - so is Java... besides, another name for "old technology" is "stable tecnology".

In short, it is best if there are no errors in your code (haha yeah right..). If there are any, and its a website written in PHP acessing an undefined variable, it is probably a small thing. And if its critical that it does not happen, its usually an engineering blunder. Not the language's fault.
Passing any sort of gun control is impossible for political reasons. Republican legislators and judges block gun control whenever they can. It's about one third moneymaking for manufacturers and two thirds culture war at this point. The hardline opposition mainly dates to the Obama administration, when the Republican legislative strategy became blocking anything that Obama wanted to do.

Many Republicans will tell you that there is an absolutely vital constitutional right to own, carry, and stockpile all kinds of firearms. Some of them believe it. But this doctrine was only popularized in the 1970s and still does not have majority support today [1].

[1] https://www.pollingreport.com/guns.htm
While I do understand this reasoning somewhat I don't know why its only limited to hospitals and doctors. I can imagine thousands of situations where this abusive partner would have a problem with an incoming number hospital or not. I'm not sure its a great idea to structure our communications around hypothetical abusive people, a call directly to the number that is provided from the organization you provided it to is private enough.
Public Material is the material the Company chose to make Public.

Many legal terms are different from their definition in OED.
> That's fine, but cities like New York are not sustainable either

CO2 emissions for households living in cities are noticeably lower (just goggle it).

> I'll take all of this more seriously when I start seeing environmentalists swear off things like commercial flight or eating food and wine that's been shipped halfway around the world

This is pure whataboutism and you know it. Just look at the co2 emissions of your lifestyle versus those of wine shipped from across the world.
Yes, the call back mechanism is a pretty good one but it has limitations too. It requires the switchboard operator at the police station to be trustable. Indeed, that human needs to actually pick up the phone. In many cases, the 911 line is the only one that's routinely answered.
I'm curious, can you tell me why Windows Defender is inadequate? I also gather that Microsoft sells an enhanced version for businesses with needs beyond local machine antivirus.
It gets worse than that actually. There was a case where a cadaver dog was well regarded for always being able to find something. This was because the owner kept shards of bone and said the dog found this bone shard at the search. In your record keeping this dog would have 100% success rate and “prove” cadaver dogs really work.
You just glossed over the fact that most of the populated areas in the world are not like Scotland.

And disregard the tone and listen to the words.

We're supposed to be geeks here, do facts or feelings matter more?
Including fully
blocking them if desired!
I've been amused by the number of technical people that prefer Signal vs just not shutting up about the messaging app they use and not pretending like they're some sort of authority on the topic instead of someone who deals with SOC2 compliance daily.

(This is actually independent of you or Signal, I just find it amusing that people throw their security brand™ behind some app and it's just them picking the one they like most of the time.)
Gym class is an excellent example of something where not grading, especially not based on absolute performance, would probably be quite useful, yes.
Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/882/
That's definitely not the right way to assign blame. There's absolutely room to blame all the stuff you've mentioned here and also acknowledge that doing active shooter training is a massive over-response that does a lot more harm than good.
My take after five minutes of playing with this is that it's big and I'll remember the day I saw it here. Congratulations, this is a remarkable offering right now.

I hit a user wall fast because the URL doesn't change to become something shareable. Think of it as the search engine contract: a search engine returns a tuple of (search-url, results) and while results may differ in detail because of personalization, the search-url is sharable and does the same operation everywhere.

I fed three queries and the results are dramatically, noticeably, better than the Google top page. I'm sharing screenshots with people, not your site.

This will spread like brushfire when your URLs work that way. I like where this is going, keep it up.
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Unify mobile and desktop. Mobile hardware can run loads that required actual desktops 5-10 years in the past. For everyday use, especially office and productivity work, mobile hardware goes beyond capable.

But it's limited by the handicapped mobile platforms, who are nothing more than ad clients.

All it takes is to create an open (as in user has full access, no limits), responsive platform and current status quo will disappear overnight, nobody will look back. Same code running on your high-powered desktop and you "phone" or tablet, making no distinction between them other than to adapt to screen size. What programs you use on either device will solely depend on the actual program's resource requirements, nothing else.

Your AAA game will make no sense to be run on your phone (which can be attached to a screen), unless the game is engineered to scale to such low extremes. Your code editor, on the other hand, can be run wherever.
FWIW, I have a close relation that matches the pattern you’re identifying, and they have had very positive results from Internal Family Systems Therapy.
True. I was just stating the minimum level.
The link is probably not causal but it is still important. Meaning there is probably an underlying issue that causes both diabetes and genital abnormalities.

See my other comment where I link it to a functional zinc deficiency.
Having a family is the best "life hack" ever. Finding meaning in life comes much much more easier when you have your family and loved ones surrounding you.

If I had to do the same choice (i.e. early retirement vs having a family) I would choose having a family every single time.
Also you can completely block domains, and pin to the top of the results.

I just started using Kagi, and they definitely seem to be doing a lot of stuff right.
Kagi will be paid when it exits beta and has this feature!
It’s a thing in big orgs, where macros are enabled in excel and employees can be tricked into opening mail attachments. Windows defender should suffice, but like you said, from a compliance/insurance perspective it may me valuable to say “look, we scanned for signatures according to the latest knowledge of [insert vendor]”.

Personally I think that it’s ridiculous that these huge orgs fail to address the actual underlying issue, excel macros. But hey, it’s easier to fight the Symptome than to deal with the root cause, especially if the latter would impact established work flows god knows how far down the line.
And how do you identify the real government for some small town? There are many that don’t even have websites.

Contact the state government to ask? There’s a good chance nobody will be able to provide the answers you seek on short notice.
>However, changing principles is a double-edged sword. When you throw out decades of real-world experience, you start over at the bottom of the learning curve.

I experienced this with the battery lawn mower I bought. Because it was electric, they could do two smaller motors and have twin blades. Sounds fancy. But I don't love it. It can't accommodate a side-chute, leaving me only with mulching and bagging. Those are fine until I leave the lawn long and then things get real slow. The twin blades also sometimes leave a little bit of uncut grass down the middle, which wouldn't happen with a single blade. This might be a product of only being 40V rather than the blade design, but it also seems to have less "suction" to pull up the grass to be cut than I've noticed in traditional gas mowers.
"And yeah we have a relatively high amount of shootings, but they are still rare in an absolute sense."

To be clear on what that means: In a country of 350-400 million people, these are rare enough that each one can afford to be a media feeding frenzy. The media are constantly on lookout for anything that can cast as a school shooting because it's big ratings for them.

And they still happen only rarely. Months & years between them.

The only reason anyone thinks they happen at all is 100% that the media is constantly vigilant for any trace of a school shooting to bring to you. If the stories were ignored instead, or put out only locally and treated as any other item, it wouldn't even enter your mind to consider them a big threat.

Now, let's contrast that with the number of people helped each year by someone with First Aid training. Let's even discard the ones who are emergency responders. Heck, let's discard the ones done by people who have any other medical training at all, and just look at the people helped by people whose only medical training is their First Aid training. That happens so often it's not news at all. Probably happening right now somewhere in this country even as I type this.

So, naturally, it's important to pour All The Money into active shooter training. Even though for about the same amount of money and time you could train all those people in First Aid instead, which, by the way, is also useful in shooter situations.

This is part of why I have such loathing for the news media. This is an example of where they make Big Bucks pushing a particular gripping story, at the cost of distorting the entire society's views of what is going on and pushing out a merely "mundane" problem that affects hundreds or thousands of people a day. But, precisely because it happens so many orders of magnitude more often, it's not news, so the perception of society is that it's not worth dealing with.
Win98SE was the high water mark of a fast, stable, small MS Windows environment.
Here it is in under 5 megs of hd space : https://web.archive.org/web/20080306134751/http://www.eteak....
That urban technology is made by 10x the number of people rural food is made by.
Looking at my required annual list of "generic" corporate training now: Active Shooter Training, Security Awareness, Diversity, Emergency Awareness, Violence Prevention, Fraud Awareness, Sexual Harassment Prevention. All are 1/2 hour to hour video based trainings.
IMO the choice frame here is a little too narrow. They're just different environments--I wouldn't necessarily say you get more choice in one or the other. Sure in low-density areas you can crank out the jams without anyone else hearing. You might also have a well, septic system, propane tank, spotty internet, an hour drive to the nearest hospital, limited DoorDash options, no good dive bars, etc.

As a counterexample, my partner and I require wherever we live to support life without a car. There's a handful of places in the US we can do that, all super urban. We'd be open to a lot of other places in the US were that possible, but it's singularly important to us.

I wouldn't say you're making the following point exactly but, there is definitely a contingent of people who argue for rural or single-family housing by saying "it's just objectively better". But I really think that's incredibly hard to substantiate. Probably the best we can do here is that people have strong preferences for one or the other (though they can change over time) and we should try to get people what they want without destroying the planet/creating infested hell pits.
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The main issue is OTHER people getting spam calls or texts from your personal number.

I got one of the Android stock text messages last week for when you auto-respond to a missed call. 'sorry can't speak right now' from a phone number I never called.

So a spam caller used my phone # to call, the person auto hung up with a response, and the real text message went back to my phone... It's absurd.
Sure, but the parent comment said “explicitly public” which means information that satisfies both these criteria:

- you can get to it as the public

- the owner of the information considers it to be public (this is the “explicitly” part)
Let's say we agree to cooperate because it's win-win. Then I go into the voting booth, do I have any incentive _at all_ to not vote for my preferences as opposed to yours? No. Why would I not defect and gain more votes for my preferred causes?
Plenty of apartment buildings from 1970 are still around. And they are indeed cramped and noisy.

I've had to listen to my neighbours arguments and sex and whatever else in every apartment I've ever lived in.

I couldn't get out of that lifestyle fast enough.
Some of the "anti-training" sentiment comes from concern that the drills themselves can be very traumatic for children who are already trying to understand the real shootings that they hear about.

It's very hard to measure/analyze the risk from drills vs. the risk from no drills, especially if the rate of shootings is changing over time.
Yeah, I don't get the hate. I don't need art to be realistic or complex, I just want it to look pretty.
Is this a sustainability argument?
Are "bleed kits" worth the cost?

You'll likely never need one and it will be lost/defunct after a few years (due to heat & moisture). Kit or no, you need a first aid class and a first aid kit. Rather than another expenditure and one more gadget to keep track of, stay with the basics.

Otherwise people will buy a "bleed kit" on Amazon and toss it in the trunk, thinking that they're fully prepared for an automobile accident or such. When an accident does occur, they may or may not remember the kit, take it out and read the instructions manual. Meanwhile someone will die b/c the kit owner wasn't educated enough to "apply pressure to the wound."

[Cue spammers citing questionable personal anecdotes where a "bleed kit" in a car trunk saved them from amputation/death.]
I’m deeply sorry that you didn’t have the necessary support network to navigate your empathy when you were young. Now that you’re older, have you had any success in developing navigational skills and regaining your levels of empathy?
We are discussing this on a social site with one of the highest rate of moderation… It’s a decision of trust and nothing else.
Totally agreed. I've long believed that first aid should be taught in school at every level and that every graduating high school student should come out first aid and CPR certified. IMO it just makes sense to create a better society all around.

Personal Finance + First Aid/CPR should be an expectation of everybody that graduates high school in the US but for some reason, neither are.
> This is a non sequitur. the idea that you expect brain inflammation when you get a mild cold is just dishonest.

I don't know what one "expects", but that's quite literally what the allergic rhinitis paper implies. It's also not the only paper that associates CCL11 with innocuous things.

The non sequitur is taking something like this and leaping to the conclusion that CCL11 is indicative of a severe problem.
Same here, lock-down drills started after Columbine in elementary through high school.

My employer does offer an Active Shooter optional training course. It also includes a first aid part to it, but its basically how to control someone from bleeding out before paramedics arrive. So it's still coming from a pretty dark place.

I thought my employer did offer a general first aid training separately from this and apparently I was wrong. So yeah, it turns out I'm in the same position as the author of the article...that's depressing.

And also seems dumb, because I understand the fear and low probability/high risk that motivates the active shooter training. But the far more common scenario is something like carrying some old equipment around and it slips out of your hands and a metal edge cuts your arm. Or someone starts choking on a piece of popcorn and you have to help get it out. Both of which have happened at my job and where general first aid training is very helpful.

Edit: It turns out we have specific CPR/AED classes because we also have AED machines. But it costs money and you can't charge company training time for it, so its not really any different than going and getting a certification somewhere else.
This was from 2020: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/12/01/sat-math-...

Finding data from 1998 online is much harder.