skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statement "20% doesn't seem extremely unusual" is a total write off of those 20% of people. You see, he is looking for a single case of disorder and there is not one. This is frustrating and ignores the huge genetic diversity in humanity.

As someone with Inuit heritage this is harmful to me. For 80% of people a vegetarian diet will be helpful. But for 20% it is probably not helpful. But all you will read in the news is how a vegetarian diet is the only diet to cure heart disease, etc...

Inulin is in every food now because it is "healthy". Do you know what inulin does to my gut? But this is one of those "healthy" foods.
This is really not up to standards.
The hardest part is digitizing those notes. Once digitized, the best approach is to make copies every few years. Copying of digital data is easy and lossless, and the cost of
digital storage is constantly going down.
Exactly right. After messing around with this sort of thing for a while, the revelation I've had is: The human brain is much better than the computer at the whole nodes+connections thing, and the process of having/creating/reviewing large well-thought out things as "notes" is superior to a bunch of little scraps everywhere.
> it seems irrelevant to predict the results of hypothetical ones.

It's probably not difficult to understand, by analogy to things that you might be passionate about. I have zero interest in professional sports, but it's clear to me that hypotheticals like this are a way to motivate deeper structural thinking about your perception of the quality and strategy of given teams. You already have an intimate understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of your team in the context of their modern competitors. The thought experiment of pitting them against the challenge of historical teams can easily deepen your understanding of them.

Hell, you don't even need the idea of "fun" to explain this. The concept of a thought experiment is widely, almost universally useful. I might have a blindspot due to working in research, but it's my impression that modeling hypotheticals that are impossible is a fundamental skill for creative work.
A few points after reading:

- "The four diets [1] also allowed for a dose–response test of carbohydrate intake that ranged from 35 to 65% of energy."

A keto diet is "5-10%" carbs, so that's a very significant difference. I doubt you could get into ketosis with a 35% carb diet and they didnt even bother measuring ketosis since there wasn't actually a specific low-carb group.

- "Carbohydrate-rich foods with a low glycemic index were recommended in each diet."

Always good but a recommendation is super difficult to do in practice unless you rigidly sequester carbs youre going to fail. Other keto studies provided the actual food, these people were just given percentages.

Finally the low fat vs high fat not making a difference is actually still in line with Keto diets. The idea is you shouldn't overly worry about fat content. So even if high fat did nothing for weight loss that's not a problem.

[1] The diet groups (note how none are low carb):

- Low-Fat, Average- Protein Group (N = 204) = 65% carbs

- Low-Fat, High-Protein Group (N = 202) = 55% carbs

- High-Fat, Average- Protein Group (N = 204) = 45% carbs

- High-Fat, High-Protein Group (N = 201) = 35% carbs
Lens transmission of blue (say <450 or <500 nm) declines with age - looks vaguely like 2% per year ages 20 to 60.[1] Thus reduced blue-yellow contrast perception in elderly. I don't know of any age-related change in red perception... perhaps those colors were off?

[1] "Fundamental Chromaticity Diagram with Physiological Axes - Part 1" (I'm unclear on CIE copyright, so no link, sorry), section 5.6.
VAT + Income Tax + Socials?
How cheap kids are is irrelevant. Population grew much faster when people lived in abject poverty. People empirically don't want kids, full stop. Raising them could be free and tfr would still be below 2.

"I can't afford kids" is an excuse used by people who don't want kids but are unable to admit that. You can't actually afford kids if they would be under a real risk of starvation - which is a real risk in North Korea, not any Western country.

Don't read me wrong, I'm not saying here having kids is an obligation.
I've read lots of Irish people currently complaining about the housing situation there. Perhaps it's not as bad as Berlin, though of course it depends on one's wages. However, I live in Munich where prices for buying accommodation are absolutely ludicrous compared to wages.

One suggestion is the Isle of Man. It has very mild winters. It has very low tax. There are some tech jobs. If you don't mind living on a quiet small island without much to do, with a lot of grey skies, it could be an interesting possibility. The one disadvantage is that housing is relatively expensive.
A lot of the companies selling LED streetlights to municipalities will claim improvements in light pollution, because you can, in fact, get many more photons per watt with LEDs than with high pressure sodium (or whatever your local incandescent street light is using).

But it turns out in most cases the town/city just decide to keep spending nearly the same amount on electricity, and put in brighter LED lights. So now they have a little less electricity being used, and much more light.

Some cities will do trial runs, and ask for feedback from the community. And, people being people, in nearly all cases they will say they prefer the brighter streetlights. So again, we end up with brighter lights.
If new and different phenomena means new kinds of corruption and downright weird behavior I'll end up having no hair left!

Even printing the same page to PDF with Chrome and Firefox delivers quite different results. Firefox was often combining "f" and "i" into ﬁ ligature [0] which totally changed the meaning of "finished" for example.

Downloading a lot of random PDFs from arxiv would be great for making something battle-hardened and robust (and I'd love to get the chance to do it sometime) but I didn't have the time (or the remaining hair) to do it this time round.

[0] https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FB01
The decision to leave is a decision to leave. It is not a ‘discussion’, black and white or not. What is your point exactly? Could you spell what you are insinuating here?
Kindle is one of the worst reading platforms and it looks like this kind of difficulty is one more reason why. If you're on your phone, try using almost any other ereading app and download our epub files instead.

Amazon expressly forbids any more free public domain ebooks on their platform. But our ebooks are available at the Google Play store and in the Apple store, for free.
Completely agree. Energy consumption is what enables human flourishing. Quite frankly, "Energy consumption = bad" is pro-human suffering. The lack of nuance in that argument is tiresome.
> Why were lockdowns so unquestionably pushed?

If memory serves me right, early on in the pandemic, the health care systems of a number of countries and cities (e.g. Italy, NYC) were completely overwhelmed by infected individuals with severe respiratory illnesses, many of whom needed several days of ventilator treatment to survive. Many aspects of society in these areas ceased to function because of the effects of the virus itself (and the effective collapse of the health care system). Support for government mandates grew out of a desire to mitigate the effects of the virus.

In the US, after a pretty devastating March 2020, government mandates were largely left to the states, meaning that states/cities more strongly affected by COVID were able to choose stronger mitigation strategies and vice-versa.

After we learned more about the virus, after a vaccine was developed & released, and after the virus mercifully mutated into a less lethal version of itself, the likelihood repeating the same sort of shock on the healthcare system dropped. Many states had already lifted their restrictions in 2020, and states that were hit harder early (e.g. NY, CA) gradually lifted their restrictions throughout 2021.

I interpret Dr. Birx's quote to suggest that she believed that "fifteen days" time was not enough time to slow the spread, and that this was the largest span of time for which she was able to obtain authorization. The later expansion to "thirty days to slow the spread" suggests that Dr. Birx was correct.

I'll also note that, the following month, the President of the United States suggested that citizens should "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" of their mask mandates and business restrictions. From this, your claim that mask mandates were "unquestionably pushed" seems inaccurate to me. On the contrary -- the first year of the pandemic was a perpetual deliberation on the effectiveness of mitigation strategies. Lockdown strategies continue to be debated despite lockdowns being basically nonexistent in most of the US now.
> Currently large luxury EVs are in favor in the American market, but that'll probably change once smaller affordable EVs hit the market and fill out demand amongst the more common vehicle price points

Even among those lower price points, the trend seems to be towards heavy SUVs/CUVs. Also, it's pretty clear that an equivalent car will be heavier as EV compared to it's ICE variant - the added weight of the batteries is a lot more than the weight saved by the electric engines. This is especially true for lighter engines with smaller displacement.

Now, of course there are some really small one or two seater EVs, but those also existed as ICEs and I don't think anything indicates that the majority of people will suddenly prefer smaller cars just because they buy an EV.
That's roughly what I thought about the Facebook IPO price, many ears ago. "Horribly overpriced for a company that's never made a profit." But Facebook had someone who was able to charge enough types of paying customers high-enough prices to justify that IPO price.

AFAICT Facebook's products aren't typically very nice, or good for the world. But that aside. It seems shortsighted to assume that Elon Musk can't possibly understand enough about Twitter to justify a similarly high price.
Friedman often strikes me as a smart guy, so I'm glad he totally demolished his own point:

> In a free‐enterprise, private‐property system, a corporate executive is an employe of the owners of the business. He has direct responsibility to his employers. That responsibility is to conduct the business in accordance with their desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom.
you aren't paying attention
Yes, same here, that's probably when I would cancel Netflix
While independent verification and reproduction is hard, I wonder if there is any requirement for researchers to at least publish their data set for statistical analysis and further research.

Also, I found it interesting that even though computer science research are usually easier to reproduce, a lot of journals and conferences do not mandate artifact evaluation, this is just considered nice to have for submission. If we can have mandatory artifact evaluation, even something not reusable and can just repeat the experiment in the paper, it will be much easier to verify the claims in the papers and compare different approaches.
Like everything from Google I'm too worried that it will be deprecated or evolution to be incompatible with previous versions to touch it. Google might have the human power to rewrite their codebase every 6 months... But I don't. I need something stable.
> without an assessment of complexity

The point of ML is that that can happen without human intervention.

And yes, I agree that if devs are held accountable to such timelines that would be terrible.

But if they are used for business planning with the understanding that they will not be accurate in the specific, but hopefully in the aggregate, then that's fine. (This is how engineer's estimates should be used as well for that matter.)
As written, the compiler can implement the "if"s with conditional move instructions and that would be faster than with conditional branches, as those would be hard to predict in this case.

Using "else if" is a valid optimization in general, but not necessarily when your target is a branchless program. Using "else if" may help in some cases, but you must have in mind exactly which CMOV instructions will be generated by the compiler, to be sure that there is any improvement, i.e. any reduction in the total number of CMOV instructions, and that you are not increasing the length of some chains of dependent instructions (leading to a greater latency).
Anyone know how much of a difference are due to post processing of images when comparing webb and hubble? For example in the image of NGC7496 galaxy, Webb has more resolution right, but did they make the colours more intense/shifted, or are these pictures a sort of representative of what we could see with our eyes

https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2022/07/NGC749...
Loved this, thanks.
To give some adjacent channels:

- Adam Something (https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamSomething) - urban planning and eviscerations of transportation grifts with a leftist bent

- Oh The Urbanity! (https://www.youtube.com/c/OhTheUrbanity) - urban planning with a focus on biking in Ottawa, CA

- Alan Fisher (https://www.youtube.com/c/AlanFisher1337) - urban planning with a focus on trains and Philadelphia

- Eco Gecko (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJZV6sai-juDs4zAbAMVhfA) - particularly his "The Suburban Wasteland" series - video essays about the negative impacts of suburbanization (video "essay" as in it's much closer to academic essays read aloud)

- RMTransit (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf4iKXL_SJQ5d0qsKkboRRQ) - Public transportation - primarily Canadian rail

- WorldwideRailfan (https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldwideRailfan) - An incredible repository of information about primarily American trains
Something like Ree [1] drives will probably be the future, minimizing unsprung while moving the drivetrain out to the wheels. I could see a top mounted motor driving a splined shaft that is also the kingpin with a sliding pinion driving wheel and you would have full 360 ability just have to keep friction down on the sliding pinion. Basically sliding pillar suspension with the pillar also being the driveshaft.

Or just rotate the whole drive with suspension unit, just needs a much larger wheel well.

1. https://ree.auto/technology/
The plans are to view things in space. Is that not publicly known?

But in seriousness, if the observation schedule is going to be listed publicly, I'd imagine it would be on the Space Telescope Science Institute's website as they are in charge of the telescope's usage.

https://www.stsci.edu/jwst
Yup. I taught a basic HTML course for grade school age kids this winter.

I had to start with how to make a file and folder and what the desktop was, etc. Basically, the issue was that their computing experience was all platform based. Everything for them was click a link, use the browser, walled google-classroom gardens, etc.
But were you accusing others in public of intentional fraudulent activities? Because it's a different thing than "you have bad statistics here" or "wrong assumptions here".
Anthony Hopkins’s Breaking Bad Fan Letter to Bryan Cranston (2013)
How can having more technologically sophisticated options discourage adoption?

There’s nothing stopping people from doing it on Notepad, or cards like old Luhmann himself.
Isn't the 'kitchen sink' approach what ended up causing Perl to fade from relevance? I am only casually aware of this, and I may be totally misremembering things, but Perl used to be seen as a swiss army chainsaw but people eventually came to realize that maintenance was a nightmare.
There's something deliciously ironic about this; opening with his landlord raising his rent so many years ago.
I only run one team, but this is not my experience at Google whatsoever. Some stuff gets rewritten but this is not planned and is largely due to catastrophic changes in requirements or very bad initial designs.
You can still IP protect delivery mechanisms and branding. Insulin and tums are examples, respectively. I don't see what the potential for issues here is unless it's an ultra-rare disease where the total market isn't worth the certification costs. That doesn't describe Alzheimer's.
I wonder how the active user count has increased in that time frame... Of course that gets into the debate of "who is an active user?"

Politics has become more prominent because of people insisting that it has to be. "silence is violence" and even open software projects must take a stand on the issue of the day: the correct stance mind you; attempting to be neutral is the same as joining the Philistines.
And +1 to spaCy. I typically use it over Transformers because it's SO much faster. I just used Transformers in this example for a change. My Stack Overflow search notebook [0] uses spaCy.

[0] https://colab.research.google.com/github/jina-ai/workshops/b...
I'm not quite sure what you mean by your question. Craphound is Cory Doctorow's website but he has long been a contributor to Boing Boing. Are you asking which website it appeared on first? I don't know, it is at least possible it was nearly simultaneous.
One thing I recommend is to browse on HN Classic, I find it tends to weed out some of the lower value topics which helps the discourse you find in the comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
Speak for yourself there buddy. :-)

More seriously, I wonder if we should look at the raw numbers. Before, perhaps all the people who use a mobile as a general purpose computer did not even have a computer. And likewise maybe more people have a PC-type device than before, but still represent a smaller fraction. I take heart in this.

Edit: see e.g. the rise of the home lab movement
It's insane, really. Many of my friends have no idea what to do when I send them an .mp3 or an .mp4 file if it doesn't instantly embed as a media player in their chat application of choice. For them, the only way to share images or videos is by uploading it to a commercial, ad-infested, sharing site.

By catering to the lowest common denominator we are creating a tech-illiterate society. This is on all of us who dumb down our features to make sure the users can understand.
For any gardeners reading:

The most recent wisdom on lead and other urban contaminants is that white vinegar removes as much and in some cases more surface contamination than so-called vegetable soap. Particularly in the case of lead which is soluble in acids. Additionally most lead in leafy greens are surface contamination, not bioaccumulation as widely reported.

White vinegar is excessively cheap, even in food grade forms, and is good for laundry as well (especially hard water, or in the PNW where mildew on clothes is a struggle). You can find half gallons for under $4.
> > I thought Linux was C only

> It won't be for long (Rust)

To be pedantic, it already isn't; a small but very important part of Linux is written in assembly (it used to be more, but most of it was ported to C; what's left is a small core which simply cannot be expressed correctly in C).
I suspect it's because people aren't reading the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Ple...
okay but what if my PDF is non parseable? Not sure if Python's any good for that
2007 West Norway had an exceptional autumn, but that year I don’t remember seeing the sun between approximately September 15th and December 15th.

It might have broken through at some point when I was inside, but it was raining every single day.
This is a very good collection. Especially The Cranes Are Flying.
I like the very last scene in Seven Samurai where they're looking at the funeral mounds of the 4 dead samurai. Shichiroji says to Kambei - once again, we both survive! Its quite amazing how the four talented young samurai are killed in battle and finally the two geezers who survived the previous battle by keeping their wits about, manage to survive yet again.
I've been here for several years, and I have stated previously recently that I think that Hacker News is indeed slowly turning into Reddit or Twitter, just slowly over time, and with perhaps longer comments than Reddit or Twitter would have, but no less misinformed or poorly thought through.

I know that Hacker News has that stupid FAQ post saying that "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills," but (as I've said before), just saying it is not does not mean it is not. The Argument from Authority is philosophically considered the weakest argument. Also I've been here for nearly four years and think this, so I don't need to be insulted by being called a "semi-noob" for voicing similar concerns.

I don't necessarily blame Hacker News - I wouldn't say there are many places that aren't also in decline. Hacker News was a superior system, well-designed, but increasingly obviously fallible as all systems are.
Can you be more specific about what status quo political position you are against?
I do not want to render any value judgements.

I am just thinking, because I grew up in Southern Europe, I have the opposite opinion to you regarding this. I think Germany is much more open to "skepticism" than you believe. Where I grew up people differentiating from the mainstream view are labeled as idiots and are in a very tiny minority, whereas in Germany, they go parading in the streets every other month and make up 25% of the population...
Are you kidding? There's tons of other words that start with C. And why would it need to anyway?

This trend of not putting any thought into what you name your language/framework/application is fairly new and shows serious laziness. Google's team should have done better. Naming things is hard but if you're going to make something worth people's time, it's worth spending a little more effort than they did.
Not sure if the risk/benefits analysis is that simple, because the risk/benefits evolve over time. At the beginning of a pandemic it is definitely beneficial, but it changes when either spread is too high, or other measures (vaccines, therapeutics) become available. This is evidenced by the fact that contract tracing continues e.g. for monkey pox.
Different opinion. I've been here since 2008. The levels of commentary and submissions is as high now as it ever has been.
This type of data is 'old school' molecular biology.

Creating those blots is a grind. It takes hundreds of hours to set up those experiments and they often don't work, or go wrong, and you have to do it all over again. The people who are good at making these are usually the people who aren't really up to date with the whole 'computers' thing.

Yes, there would a hundred ways to easily verify the provenance of data from an image of a blot all the way to publication. However, this area of research is very slow to incorporate the latest computer tech.
Swift isn't bad, and I actually enjoyed using it. What I didn't enjoy was XCode, which is a shame because they're basically inseparable.
I defs agree that there's a lot of overcomplexity added to the zettelkasten discussion. That's part of what I'm trying to undo. And yet, as someone who teaches a course on zettelkasten, I don't think there's anything wrong (or unreasonable) about getting a group of people together to learn something that's relatively new to them, and who are interested in being in a community situation with others who also want to learn, and for whom it is also new. Also seems not unreasonable to make some money while doing so. It is labor after all, and often quite bit of it. As far as learning "someone else's workflow," A. who else's workflow would one learn in a group class environment?? And B. classes can be taught in such a way so that the principles and practices empower people to create something truly their own and not ape that of someone else. At least good teachers can do that ;)