skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet they were muscular

We should be careful not to talk past each other. In your previous comment you talked about muscle growth and muscle building. I took it to mean strength building, the one people do in the gym. Hence my comment on untrained individuals and the amount of protein required to build muscle. Anyone who would like to improve their strength and hypertrophy should better be careful to eat enough proteins.

No activity in the nature demands as much strength as the weight training activities in the gym. A small amount of protein may suffice for natives of Papua New Guinea.

As a side note, muscularity might mean different things. A lean individual showing muscular definition might be considered muscular, yet it doesn't mean that they have big muscles or that they are strong. In a similar manner, someone who looks big might look big because they have favorable fat distribution in their body. They may not be strong.

> athletes at the top level can still improve their performance eating 60-65 gram of protein on average per day for over a year.

Yes they can. They are probably mid-distance runners, not strength lifters. Not all types of sports demand high protein intake.
China has been going through something similar. The river is drying up due to no rain. Electricity black outs has forced factories to shut down by government decree.
> The fault is not with the doctors, but the nutritional scientists

Not all NutScis work for the national boards. But those that do are bombarded with lobby.

> The problem is nutritional science is highly unreliable. And the main reason is, that it's incredibly difficult.

Science is --if the proper protocol if followed-- never unreliable, at best the scientific conclusions change often. Science is ALWAYS difficult, or it would not be science but mere common sense.

> national boards [...] are heavenly reliant on statistics & research.

So how come there's soooo much difference between countries? Canada recently started to advice against milk, but the US still promotes it. To me this shows the power of lobby is very stronger in these boards.
> "Allows more operations" seems like a straightforward meaning for "different semantics" to me. In Safe Rust, you can't access union members. In Unsafe Rust you can

The semantics are the same. The meaning of the operation is same. In both safe and unsafe accessing union members is the same operation with the same meaning. The only difference is that in unsafe Rust you are allowed do this. This is a difference in permission, not meaning
https://www.scientificamerican.com/store/archive/?page=400

From August 30, 1856. Goes back even further but point mmade. Needs a payment to read but it's there.
I had a recurring dream for a few years after I'd graduated that I still had to sit my final year! The dream was so real one time that I woke in a panic and check my certificates to make sure! I studied in my thirtees as it was something I'd always wanted to do, so although I didn't have any career aspiration pressure the finals were stressful enough and I wonder if this was some sort of sub-consious shedding. Interesting to read the comments about similar experiences.
most of the salty food in asian countries contain some sugar especially in restaurants
> I think by the late 2000’s, though, their discreet gpus on laptops were problematic because they got so hot they detached from the motherboards or fried themselves.

That was indeed around ~2008-2010 - the issue was not that the chips fried themselves or got too hot. The issue was the switch to lead-free solder [1]... thermal cycling led to the BGA balls cracking apart as the lead-free solder formulation could not keep up with the mechanical stress. It hit the entire NVIDIA lineup at the time, it was just orders of magnitude more apparent in laptops, as these typically underwent a lot more and a lot more rapid thermal cycles than desktop GPUs.

> Iirc this snafu was what soured relations between apple and nvidia.

There have been multiple issues [2]. The above-mentioned "bumpgate", patent fights regarding the iPhone, and then finally that Apple likes to do a lot of the driver and firmware development for their stuff themselves - without that deep, holistic understanding on everything Apple would stand no chance at having the kind of power efficiency and freedom from nasty bugs that they have compared to most of the Windows laptops.

[1] https://semiaccurate.com/2009/08/21/nvidia-finally-understan...

[2] https://www.pcbuildersclub.com/2019/01/zwischen-apple-und-nv...
Genius

How quickly can I set up a data connection from Plaid into my data warehouse?

Also, how quickly can I set up a connection from a not out of the box API such as Argyle?
Haha, for me moving the other direction was shocking. What do you mean the desert is red bean paste? Beans are not sweet! Where's chocolate?!

Over time though I got used to it and started enjoying it, now that I live again in Europe I actually miss Asian deserts
During the last few years I've observed that many organizations are in the middle of a three steps process, that typically takes years. This process is the Data Journey.
I have the same dream, except it's a marching band competition instead of final exams.
Using Pulumi to deal with growing pains
While I'm sure Florida's motivation was entirely reactionary, the fact that disney has self proclaimed "leftists" defending a literal company town shows how great their propaganda is.
Monocle is such an interesting concept, not least because they managed to build a niche global media and lifestyle brand out of what was basically a side hustle for Tyler‘s agency[1].

1. https://www.winkreative.com/
> And behind Ada.

https://lwn.net/Articles/908057/

> The biggest problem of Ada IMO is that it was always supposed to be about safety, but it never addressed the most common source of bugs: pointer safety. Not even with SPARK. It's like discussing about how can you fortify the door in a house with three walls. I suspect they planned to solve it like everyone else (with tracing GC), but that never materialised (because most Ads users don't want tracing GC) thus was always kinda weird “safe” language which doesn't tackle the most common source of bugs.

> Finally, in year 2020, it solved that problem. By picking ideas from Rust, of course.

> But by that time momentum was lost and it would be very hard to overcome that “safe language without safety” stigma.
You don't need tricks to solve the limit of (x^2)sin(2x)/sqrt(x) as x->0, only to know equivalent infinitesimals, so that sin(2x) can be replaced by 2x in this limit and 2x^3/sqrt(x) can be simplified to
2x^(3-1/2) so the limit is zero. Moreover, you should know that x^2 and sin(2x) are really smaller compared to sqrt(x) so that the limit is zero. Knowing how to compare two infinitesimals can help you to replace a difficult process for an easier one, just like in differential equations sin(x) is replaced by x for small vibrations. That kind of knowledge allows you obtain an approximate solution in many real processes. So I don't consider that knowledge a bag of tricks. Furthermore, replacing sin(2x) for 2x is just the process of taking the linear approximation (the tangent line near x=0 for y=sin(2x)), so this is just an example of the power of calculus to replace a difficult question with an easier one. Also you learn to explore the world near a point (like a miscroscope) by the process of taking the linear approximation or taylor expansion of a function near a point, then you iterate this procedure to nearby points just like what happens when you solve a differential equation by Euler method. So I should say that there is a framework to solve problems via approximate solutions and computing limits is just a good first step to enter the realm of Calculus.
such as governments, bent scientists, pharma.....
The title of this post is annoying: Typically we say "faster broadband", when we talk about bandwidth, not about "speed" (which would be latency). So obviously, as long as your website is not larger than your bandwidth capacity, nothing is gonna get "faster", when you upgrade your broadband bandwidth.

This is the same as saying "Despite larger pipes every year, water still doesn't reach your house any faster".
This nonsense and a lazy argument that used to be popular before Putin finally made a really convincing argument that coal and gas are stupidly expensive. It's not a hard argument to make these days. Just look at your monthly energy bills. The few coal plants still operating were rapidly reducing in numbers even before the Ukrainian crisis.

A lot of EV chargers of course use solar panels and other renewable energy sources for the simple reason that that's just the cheapest way to charge an EV. And even if somehow you do charge using coal produced energy because you live in a place that forces you to buy from your local coal burning energy monopolists, you are using fossil fuels at much more efficient rate than an ICE car. So, it's dirty and expensive but a lot less dirty and expensive than an ICE car.

If you think about it coal energy is expensive. That's why lots of coal plants are being shut down. They are no longer cost effective and there are cheaper ways of generating energy. If you are in the business of using lots of energy (e.g. because you charge electrical cars), you are going to buy the cheapest energy you can get. Hint: coal/gas/nuclear energy are an absolute last resort in this market.

In fact people that own EVs tend to also invest in solar + batteries in their home. Those people are using 100% clean energy and save a lot of money. Many companies with EVs in their fleet do the same thing.
I would love to see someone making a video of this and put it in stable diffusion to generate a even more synthwave experience.
If I'm reading this chart correctly on 2-07-22 solar production reached a peak of ~11MW and stayed their for about 6 hours.

On 9-7-22 solar production reached a peak just under ~13MW and was at that level for about 7/8 hours.

To me the average seasonal difference actually seems insignificant in the big picture. If its feasible for solar to power most energy on the summer days then it would be doable to get there for winter days especially since demand on 2-7-22 peaked at about 60% of the peak on 9-7-22.

The larger issues seem to be unpredictable off days due to off-season weather (cloud cover or wilfire ash or whatever) and of course storing power at night. But it seems like batteries will improve and running off solar on the day reduces need for natural gas until night.
All I've seen is a few posts that have continued to come in to HN:

Meta is restricting Iranian phone numbers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32944717 - Sept 2022 (1 comment)

WhatsApp got blocked in Iran but stopped working for Iranians traveling abroad - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32943646 - Sept 2022 (0 comments)

Meta is helping the Islamic Republic in its war against Iranians - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32940404 - Sept 2022 (3 comments)

It's not clear if these have more recent information or not - it looks to me like some are from the same time yesterday but just got posted later.

It's also not clear what's actually happening. Perhaps there's more reliable info somewhere on the web. I agree with you that it would be interesting to know either way, but I guess we have to wait for significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) before having another big thread about this; otherwise we'd just get a repeat of the current thread.
DevOps in the Cloud Breaks Down
> Also, almost every k12 teacher I had would prepare a slideshow about themselves to present on the first day of class along with the syllabus

This is pretty different from coming to school and telling 7yos about the sex party you went to this weekend and which gender you were identifying as when you went. This is the reality some parents are trying to prevent when they say some American teachers are taking their freedom to share their personal lives a bit far.

Let's be real, obviously there's nothing wrong with having a teacher who's LGBT. What people have a problem with are the folks who derive their entire identity out of that, and then greatly encourage the kids they teach to do the same. It's not dissimilar from a teacher being a veteran and insisting on sharing that part of their life with their students, to a point where parents find it crosses boundaries. We actually had a teacher at my high school who used to be a sniper in the Canadian Armed Forces. He was eventually told by the principal no more Afghan war stories, as it was making the students feel uncomfortable hearing that sort of thing from teacher.

The very obvious comparison here is a teacher coming to school and telling their kids, in detail, about their sex life or multiple gender transition surgeries. While they're topics which I'm comfortable with, I can't speak for every parent and I think it's wrong for the state to say "these topics MUST be socially acceptable to you, bigot."

Just teach the class! You don't need to get them excited about queer culture or gun culture or joining the military. Everyone would be better so much better off if teachers could just largely leave their personal lives at home and stick to the syllabus.
Technologists have long pushed a vision of some kind of totalitarian digital convergence, where all your needs are satisfied by a device, and no other non-device solutions need exist. Some of this was good - it's a genuine benefit to have phone, camera, notepad, calendar, calculator, music, weather forecast, etc. all condensed into one handheld device. But the vision isn't content to stop at sensible integrations. It pushes for things like all human interaction to be tech-mediated (social media). It pushes for blocking out the real world entirely (VR).

We shouldn't be throwing out tech where it's beneficial. But we should know where to stop.
Just to add on to what you are saying

> The Reference Daily Intake (RDI) used in nutrition labeling on food and dietary supplement products in the U.S. and Canada is the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States.

Due to individual variations you may need less. So falling short of the RDI isn't necessarily a problem.

Edit: Consider what the RDI for calories would be. If it meets the requirements for 97% of people, then it must be a quantity sufficient for some people with very high metabolism. So eating RDI-calories would likely make a significant amount of people obese.
I am doing that with kdeconnect/gsconnect on linux. The kdeconnect app on android is at least available on f-droid repo and allows you once on the same wifi network, to share clipboard, do mounts, transfer files, get notifications, use the phone as a remote to control the video plan of netflix/hbo/prime, etc.
At what point does the accumulation of solar deployed start to threaten the economics of power plant creation?

That is... power plants are such significant investments that they are only viable with a government guarantee on future price and demand. But with renewables being deployed at large scale, those guarantees would start being something a gov would pick up the tab on rather than long-term by consumers.

Which is to hypothesis that the gov won't want to pick up the tab, prices of grid energy will rise fast, and there's a long-term incentive to getting off-grid that will accelerate whenever this tipping point occurs.
>When it was more difficult to access and publish information, that imposed a much higher bar on what was being consumed.

And yet fringe theories, from quack medicine to religions, weren’t any less widespread than now. They were just fewer of them.

EDIT: Now I think about it, they were more prevalent than now. Look at homophobia - it got global, affected everyone, even non-Christian cultures like China, for centuries.
ho yeah and we saw how effective the measures were, every person I know has got Covid !
I bet they also pulled out the "but the code will change and then the comments become invalid, or even gasp misleading"?
> at which point we do not have a business model for living

You know we could make it so that living does not require "business model".
"permanent" redirects are practically never treated as permanent, though... They are just treated as more permanent
Absolutely! I should have mentioned the fact that you can get all of these as free ebooks easily (because they are old and in the public domain) at e.g. Standard Ebooks[0] with a quick search.

[0] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks
>Do you have any references for further information about how the government supported Facebook? If Facebook received some support from the government, does that make their platform a public square? What would that threshold be?

Some of what I mentioned is covered in a very roundabout way in this Vice article [1] while the Palantir/Thiel connections (as well as info on early FB executives being “former” CIA employees/contractors) is on FB’s Wikipedia page. There’s a decent NYT write up from ~2010 on some of the DARPA connections but I’m having a hell of a time finding it right now.

As far as I know, there’s less of a smoking gun so much as there’s a series of very big dots that are hard NOT to connect to the intelligence agencies. You can search up some of the stuff below and draw your own conclusions. Much like with PRISM etc, where security researchers weren’t exactly surprised at the content of the Snowden leaks, the alphabet agency connections to SV are pretty apparent but we’ll never see documented proof without another Ed Snowden.

Eg: DARPA’s Total Information Awareness program was established post-9/11 with the stated goal of creating a total digital panopticon. It was officially canceled due to public outcry. That said, several of its programs have popped back up over the years and many analysts believe it was just broken up into classified chunks - SAFE HOME [2] being one of the more recent and obvious examples of an old TIA project resurfacing.

Lifelog was another TIA project that was essentially “Facebook’s social graph but with satellite tracking and bio surveillance for added creepiness”. It was shutdown one day before Facebook launched [3].

Basically there’s a whole lot of very odd circumstantial evidence (usually the only kind of evidence you can get regarding active intelligence programs) that heavily suggests a link between early FB and DARPA/CIA. It’s very similar to Palantir and suggests that the main outcome of the negative public response to TIA was to push it underground and into “private” hands. It absolutely glows in the dark (RIP Terry) and should be subject to the same rules and Constitutional restrictions as the agencies that aided its birth and certainly still play a huge internal role to this very day.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbqdb8/15-years-ago-the-mili...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/22/white-hou...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog
I still sometimes have dreams I’m sitting in either middle school and/or high school math class working complex math problems. Usually these are algebra problems. Sometimes I do the problems by hand in my dream and sometimes I have a calculator. I’m not bad at algebra in real life. I can pass algebra. Calculus is a little more difficult. I’ve chalked these dreams up to having some types of problem(s) in my real life with only one logical solution. As it makes sense in algebra there is usually one numerical solution for an equation, unless you are working with inequalities or something.
Can two images be identical if both are generated using the same prompt and model combination?

If all images generated are unique, I fail to see how copyright can ever be enforced.
> horizontal desktop design

That's be a pretty clever solution. I wonder if any case designers are brave enough to try to pitch that solution. Somewhat fits in the rising popularity of putting your tower on your desk.

> I don't understand why some extra slots have to raise the cost up 10 times

Part is market differentiation, but the other part is that you quickly run out of PCIe lanes to the CPU (especially with Intel, thanks to their market differentiation). If the mainboard manages to use no more PCIe lanes than the CPU supports, everything is simple. Once you add more or bigger PCIe slots, more M2 slots or more USB3 ports, the mainboard has to include a fairly expensive PCIe switch to turn few lanes into more.
California is trying. It was only yesterday that they eliminated minimum parking requirements, which stand in direct opposition to improvements to public transportation.

You may not realize it, but California's GDP is many times "most European countries." They have a way to go to catch up.
This person is really incredible. Just check out their work: https://www.rezmason.net/projects.html
Were I live there is a dire need for planners in city offices that do the paper work for opening bike lanes and improving public transport. I think there are only a dozen or two for the whole city. 150 people doing that absolutely would make a difference.
Russia: IT workers not to be mobilized to fight in Ukraine
>The entire scene is created purely by drawing circles on a HTML5 canvas. It actually works a lot better than I expected. The biggest flaw is that the cars are totally transparent, so you can see lights from distant cars even where they should be occluded by closer cars.

Hmm, why not just draw a black rectange around any pair of car lights? It should work for givimg the impression of a solid car within the context of the video...

Edit: hmm, he does say this "This would be slightly harder than street light occlusion. Probably a first pass would be to render a black cuboid behind each car's lights, so that the cuboid blocks out anything that would be blocked by the car."
I am personally still doubtful of Rust's adoption. I consider the 2008-2014 period the peak hype cycle for Haskell and don't see that it changed professional programming much. I predict it will be similar for Rust.
Agreed. You really have to have the ideological blinkers on not to see that this proposition applies equally to whoever has the power.
I read the Fantastic manual
I think, it looks a bit much like Retool. Otherwise collab and notifications is useful in a tool like this. And I liked the organization of multiple apps in the sidebar.
4chan is as or more heavily moderated than most of reddit, I'm not sure where you get the idea it's not. 4chan culture is the way it is largely because of the demographic of its users, it doesn't really much to do with its moderation policies.
Fascinating. Thanks for the informative reply. I extend my wonderings to "where is consumer lithium"? My surface-level dive makes it seem like an individual might have a maximum of 500 grams of lithium outside of their EV. Seems like EVs will be above and beyond the highest concentration of lithium to the point that we need not worry too much about other sources (at least not until the EV recycling system is thoroughly settled.)
Nice but I usually turn my lights on when I drive at night :-)
Anyone know what tool is used for creating the architecture diagram? Its style is similar to alibaba cloud's architecture diagrams
I can see the reason the tobacco industry would lie about the effect of tobacco. What would be the reason an expert would show bad faith going against the narrative we saw for Covid ? (Vaccine are effective, masks are effective, lock-downs are effective).