skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definately agree that caloric intake is the ultimate issue wrt obesity and it's co-morbidities in western countries. But just know that until WW2 lard or butter was used in almost everything from cooking to baking. At that point in time obesity was nowhere near the level it is now where it is rightfuly considered an epidemic by most scientists. This said, caloric intake was lower and more importantly people were more active. It's difficult to pull these variables apart but I think it's fair to say that more research should be done.

In regard to your specific argument that "consuming equivalent amounts of vegetable oils or lard are equally unhealthy" it's hard to know as when people used lard they were healthier but also consumed less and exercised more. We can also speculate that vegetable oils might lend itself better to be used in baking than lard was and by some process increases total consumption; perhaps it tastes better or lasts longer, for example. It seems from the study linked in the OP, however, that lard is better than at least rapeseed/canola oil. But like I said more research should be done: our speculation today should not preclude investigation and ultimately conclusive understanding. That said we do need to "pick a side" for the time being, if not as a colective then as individuals because we can't stop eating until conclusive results are found.

>Diet is not all that simplistic and we shouldn't jump to conclusions and paint things with broad brush strokes

Agreed. I don't think Iv'e made that mistake, even if my comments perhaps read that way.
It doesn't purport to be a HUGE PONZI either, but... Just another normal day in crypto land.
Great article. Long read.

The author doesn't mention the Phoenix Memo; they should have. Otherwise, solid rundown.
rqlite[1] author here, happy to answer any questions about it if it helps.

rqlite will give you HA, but won't help with load (rqlite replicates for reliability, not for write performance). But I like to think the it'll give you solid -- and simple to use -- HA. Replicated just replaced their use of Postgres with rqlite for this reason[2].

[1] https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

[2] https://www.replicated.com/blog/app-manager-with-rqlite/
Can there be any doubt that it was that?
Since this thread already has a negative response, I'll share my $0.02: this info is readily available in virtually any format you'd desire, and it just comes across tacky to post a question this inconsequential.

I'm going to guess without even looking there are about 100,000 YouTube videos alone on the topic firebase. Medium and substack will have a heap of articles. Firebase has a website.

You're going to be ignored or worse get hate on hn posting long winded questions that could have been a single-term search on Google. It's quite literally a waste of everyone's time, yours included.

If you're looking for a hn flavored description, that's understandable, but again... Single term search would have taken you less time and effort than your post, and you'd already have the answer.

I pose this rhetorical question with love and respect, but why would anyone want to do (extremely trivial) research for you?
Hopefully they elevate themselves to the point where they can get some geopolitical retribution for the euro colonialism that destroyed the country
I think the title is incorrect (someone else noted too!). It should be "Binance sends non-binding Letter of Intent [to buy] to FTX."

Less sexy, more accurate.

Also, extremely likely they are trying to consolidate power and they orchestrated this situation I'd say. This "smells" hostile takeover, but in a currency setting. a) They sold FTT in a "dumpy"/reevaluate its price way b) they were asked for a loan or partial buy to add influx c) they sent a "we will just buy you."d) They sent messages that would erode the trust to the eyes of the world.

Rings a bell? (Spoiler: see Twitter.)
Threaded: <https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589700721121058817.html>
Death by neutrinos!
https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
What do you do though? Just stand there quietly nodding? When I try to do this I end up basically saying "that sucks", "hmm hmm", "yeah", etc which is very frustrating to me as I'd hate someone doing that to me. Or worse, sometimes I get the feeling that those "that need a listener" actually want mindless agreement with whatever the situation was or I feel like I'll be reinforcing insecurities.

Let's say someone is telling you they are fearful for their job, they think they will get fired soon, even though they have nothing specific to point to. As a listener, are you agreeing with this or are you neutral nodding your head? Because my default would be to reply that they should do the best they can and if it comes to that they will surely find better pastures, but then I'm giving advice already.

I hear this advice but I have little clue how to put it into practice, moreover because of what I mentioned above, if I'm telling someone something, I definitely want them to think about it and try and help me with advice, otherwise I feel like they don't even care and would not share again with the same person.
Death Stranding. Considering you traverse the world mostly on foot and packed up they nailed the terrain and how movement with heavy package works (imagine sherpas and mountaineers).
Maybe you should get your friends on Signal, and use their (E2EE!) Stories instead, if that's the only feature that matters to you?
So you're in charge of making decisions. Hypothetically. Your epidemiologists believe that if no action is taken, 10 people will die in the next two weeks, 100 people will die in the next 4 weeks, and 1,000,000 will die in the next 6 months.

Which forecasts would you prefer they keep to themselves?
Your last line can stand very well on its own, and the judgmental fabrication before it was totally unnecessary.
For external storage, I find it best to throw some cheap drives in an old desktop and run SAMBA. This allows me to use zfs on the drives, and SAMBA easily interfaces with Mac,Linux, and Windows.
> I mostly left them because my friends and family didn't post.

Yeah this is exactly the problem, and Facebook understands it. They want people posting more so that their friends will see their posts and stick around. Facebook cares about this more than scrolling because people stick around more in the long term if their friends and family are posting.

> Seems pretty nasty to me.

Yeah maybe, I've never tried. What I meant is that Facebook could do many things to get people to spend more time scrolling, but they don't do most because it would harm the user experience. For example Facebook was reluctant to add unconnected content on Feed, but eventually did. If they only cared about "keeping you scrolling" they would have done it 10 years ago instead of ~1 year ago.
Perhaps it depends on who you're labeling as "entrepreneur"
> These narratives are connected via a film, Infinite Jest, also called "the Entertainment" or "the samizdat". The film is so entertaining that its viewers lose all interest in anything other than repeatedly viewing it, and thus eventually die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest
I have a hard time believing serveless will be cost effective as a full replacement for a high traffic webapp. Higher ups do care about costs, so you should encourage some due diligence on pricing.
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Three Billion Dollars Found in a Popcorn Tin
I already had, and my point still stands. It makes no effort to control for said confounding variables. It's heavily reliant on family members' subjective evaluations of health deterioration (i.e. it makes no effort to differentiate between "the patient's health started to decline immediately after the second dose" v. "the patient's health had already started declining but family members only noticed it after the second dose"). Hell, it doesn't even specify whether the cardiac events actually happened after or before the first dose; it just says it was on the "same day", which would be a pretty quick onset of symptoms.

And that's just on the timeline of events. The autopsy itself only demonstrates the presence of spike proteins in the affected tissue; it does not demonstrate said presence to have caused the tissue to be affected, and it's just as likely that something else caused the inflammation (like, you know, the myriad health issues typical of elderly men) and kept the spike proteins around.

Glaringly, the immunohistochemical portion of the autopsy seems to focus solely on SARS-CoV-2, and from that combined with ANE not normally being associated with PD concludes that the ANE has some relation to the presence of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins. Such an analysis entirely ignores that ANE's causes are already known to include many other viruses, not just SARS-CoV-2. Did he test for influenza A? Influenza B? Herpes virus 6? What about genetic factors?

Similar deal for myocarditis. Other viruses can cause it, like influenza (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7793451/). That the article is silent on that possibility is a rather glaring flaw in its analysis.

Variable after variable after variable after variable after variable, all entirely uncontrolled for, and I'm supposed to be convinced that this demonstrates a causal relationship?
Would love to see Sorkin's version of the negotiation between SBF and Binance.
Did you read it?

> Musk is engaged in a war against “the cathedral”—that is, against the dominance of professionals who have sought to make the internet more restrictive

> Musk has now supposedly poked the first hole in the digital Berlin Wall erected over the past half decade.

> the revolt against his leadership is the last stand of a cohort of activist hangers-on

> So he proceeded to do what most executives would do in this situation: He laid off some of his workers.

> solicited a new wave of outrage from Musk’s haters. But even if you remove him from the equation, Twitter couldn’t have gone much longer without massive layoffs.

And this is just the first three paragraphs.

If you read the whole thing and came away with "this is neutral and objective" then I don't know what to say.
Ah, that freeing feeling. I had that once.

I was a new security champion for a team. The product had schema owner SQL injection vulnerabilities on every page we developed. I had a meeting with the department head and explained the whole situation and two remediation options. He chose the third option - do nothing. According to him we have a realtime DB backup. Has it ever been tested? No. Do you have procedures for it? No. How long will it take (15 minutes is the end of the world for this system to be down)? No idea.

I walked out with a clear answer in my head and that free feeling. I left for another team. Not my problem.
> should be regulated as hard as banks

Can you provide some general examples of types of regulations that you'd like to see?
Managers gets promoted by getting credit for accomplishments, any manager who got promoted a few times will be good at getting credit for what you do in some way or another. Some deserve the credit, others don't.
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Show HN: Open Native – vendor-unlock React Native
Exchanges big wallet are public info on the blockchain IIRC. The huge problem is that you'll never know if they add up because you'd need confirmation from every user of the exchange who'd have to self-declare their crypto-wealth in some sort of Slack or Telegram group so that you then can compare the 2 totals and see if x=y.

Will never happen. They are black boxes. Only them know if 1:1
Binance continues to amaze.

Does anyone even know where it operates out of these days?
Like you I was suprised by the amount of negative reception but I can sympathize with most of these people. The company failed at properly communicating their vision and USP regarding the experiences, hopes and fears of their target audience and animated checkbox diversity pictures on the website don't cut it.

I can't (and honestly don't want to) calculate the amount of late fees and forgotten continuing subscriptions I had to pay for over my lifetime. The advertised service seems comparatively expensive and not exactly scalable without the company cutting corners (3rd world call centers) or raising prices soon.

As the founder of iFocus Health you should take notes what went wrong here.
Well on one hand, moving further north creates a pretty strong pressure for early humans to evolve lighter skin, so naturally the first early humans to move northward to a place would on average have darker skin than their descendants down the line.

Though presumably some of that would have happened before those early descendants got all the way to the northern shores of France and Spain to move to Britain, so even granting them some benefit of the doubt, this does seem a bit much.
I've got a lot of classical SACD and DSD recordings from many moons ago that were mastered very well.

You are right that you need to pay attention to the entire signal chain. A bad DSP or DAC somewhere in the middle will make your quarter ton of LFE completely worthless.
Two day shipping expected and several hours away from a fulfillment center! Wow.

I agree not to pay prime if they can't deliver. That said, I get 0/1/2 day delivery most of the time, but I live in a city.
I've never met anyone who literally says "I only drink socially" that isn't somewhere on the alcoholism spectrum. I have met people who really do only drink socially, but they don't feel the need to say so.
Surely for these multi-thousand-dollar lenses Sony can afford to laser etch the serial number?
Most people, not just VC's, would define a startup as a business which is geared for growth. How is a business that just pays the bills a startup? Isn't that just a small business?
Since you'd be receiving vouches from all group members, you'd get some data about who trusts who's message. To the user, you'd probably highlight the message with the "something's fucky" notifier (red background? a caution symbol?) and then have the further "of X vouches you've recieved, these Y disputed the message's (content/existence)" type deal.

Which lets you know that Alice and Bob are in contention, which is probably good enough for most situations. "One of these three (or more if you have multiple groups of bad faith actors) sets of users are operating in bad faith" should be plenty of information for a user to make an informed decision. Even if that decision is "wow, how did I end up in a group containing multiple groups of bad actors, I should be elsewhere".
These comments are super confusing in light of reading the article which is quite mundane if an interesting write up of a comparison between finds on two sites and much less politically charged than they make out.
Ok. That's kind of a hand waving non answer. Not that I'm invested.

Yea, it sucks to put up with BS to get to your goals.

Did she actually break a contract to perform with that reasoning? I doubt it would hold up in court.

But what specifically happened between when she agreed to do the gig and bowing out? Or did someone promise something they didn't actually have?
I don't work there anymore, and as you can probably tell from the stock ticker, Facebook is much closer to myspace than a universal paperclip machine.

It's just been a fad to be concerned about it. That's basically passed now, and the next few fads are already pretty mature.
not sure why "phone" is in the title of this post, but it appears to work well.... I would rather use a E2EE messenger for things like this though (chatting with myself)
> Needless to say working with this client is challenging on an interpersonal level.

I've had a few people accuse me of being difficult. Usually they were quite difficult themselves to work with; yet were totally unaware of how unreasonable they were.

(Queue the scene from Beauty and the Beast where the Beast accuses Belle of being difficult.)

I noticed later in the thread that you were considering walking away from the customer. If you do this, I think it's best to walk away completely. Don't find a replacement, don't try to keep the business. Just cut the cord as quickly and completely as legally possible.
Lets assume for a second that Facebook's only goal is to maximise global scrolling, (measured in metres, say). They obviously need content for people to scroll through. If I post something compelling, potentially all my friends will scroll an extra 20cm. If I have 300 friends, that's a total of 60 metres extra scrolling in the world. More than I alone am likely to scroll in a day.
Also octobasse and subcontrabass saxophone…although most people won’t get a chance to actually hear those in person.
This can make the wire at the connection point brittle and prone to more failure. Classic reason why you don't tin wires too deep.
Back in the 1990s I'm sure this was so. Since then there has been a proliferation of alternative junk food which is vegan, gluten free, etc.
It is interesting to think about the actual number, because it wouldn't be zero
This take is so interesting; Douyin is the way it is because of government regulation. If the US tried to regulate what you can see on Instagram, many people would cry bloody murder.

Bytedance doesn't make Chinese TikTok "educational" from the goodness of their heart. Chinese companies were happy to let teenagers play video games from dusk till dawn until the CCP got involved, not because Tencent wants American teens hooked on league and Chinese teens studying.

TikTok is always painted as some masterclass psychological Chinese weapon instead of it just being a failure of our own American government to do anything but stalemate and worry about bathrooms. There is no reason to believe that if TikTok is banned that Instagram wont supplant it in serving up the same garbage to users (except no one would complain because the gripe about TikTok is xenophobia for most people, not any principled stance on entertainment).
Breathe. I agree that stalking people without their permission (can one be stalked with permission?) should not be an option and is a bad necessity of a business. The goal of the customer is to use the product to its fullest potential. Re: advertising, customer will hyper target as much as possible.

The blame is squarely on Facebook for allowing invasive targeting. That said, I really enjoyed the fine grained hyper targeting when I was running some local election campaigns. I could literally send messages to specific friends via the ads!
I mean...

> Nov 18, 2020

Looks at deaths per capita, from Jan 2020 to today. The position of peaks is barely relevant compared to their cumulative impact.
If "you do your own research" to confirm your own pre-existing ideas, then yes, you're going to get where you wanted to go.

I read "do your own research" differently. I think it can go two different directions.

In the positive direction, it can mean "Ignore all the loudmouths, all the liars, all the self-anointed experts. Even ignore me, the speaker. Find out who really knows what they're talking about, and listen to them." This assumes, though, that the listener can do that. Am I actually capable to discern truth from lies, or even real expertise from incompetence, in virology? Maybe, if I devote enough time to it. Do I have that kind of time for every topic on which someone tells me "do your own research"? Probably not. So what it really turns into is finding someone who at least sounds like they are doing their own research (and doing it well), and listening to them.

More negatively, I suspect that "do your own research" at least sometimes is a veiled way of saying "If you really knew, then you would agree with me" in a much less in-your-face way than just saying it. The person saying this may have done their research as you say, finding a loud voice that said what they wanted to hear, and now be totally convinced that they are right, and that if you did your research, you would wind up agreeing with them.
Note, this is not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros_(protocol).
<<If the customer is not engaged enough to make clear what they want

Tbh, I sometimes wonder if it is a question of engagement. I just finished a project. Major clusterfuck. And it is a part of a much bigger overhaul. Tons of people are involved and there is maybe one person hidden somewhere that understands how it all fits together ( but my real fear is that the project is so big that no one really knows what this monstrosity is supposed to do, how it is supposed to behave or even how it actually behaves ).

People are engaged ( the ones doing the work anyway ), but there is just too many cooks and too many layers to information to be translated from English to English and from English to w/e contractors are from.

<<Someone's career probably _should_ be limited.

Probably, but based on my experience, there is near zero accountability in manager's circle. It is usually the sacrificial scape goat that gets all the blame and limited career opportunities.
Microsoft used this TLA as well.
You're so right, you're smarter than every scientist in the world who has studied this problem in detail for decades. Thank god you're here to set us all straight.
I'm not a business masquerading as a bank, lol.
Not only did they mostly stop posting, but Facebook doesn't show the posts they make, giving me the sense that there's nobody to look at such a post
https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2022/ftx-harrison-l...

Well…
But it costs to support those old versions. At just 10%, it may well not be worth it.
I think what needs to happen is that the FBI needs to have its policing powers taken away. It’s supposed to be an investigation and scientific organization, not an arresting organization. The FBI is to provide scientific and technical assistance to police departments.
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If I gave this much thought to my weekly poker game, I might fare better.
I mean we are wishing here for an economic catastrophe. What am I missing?