skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did you calculate that? If it’s got 2.5x as much and Bioavailability of iron in beef is ~20% and non beef ranges from 6% to 18% then…

Worse case 2.5x * 0.06 / 0.20 = 75% as much per unit weight so you need 1/3 of a pound of Spinach. Best case was 2.5x * 0.18 / 0.2 = 225% so you need 1/9th of a pound.

I am not saying your wrong, I just don’t get how you did that calculation.
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I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about “plastic roads”.

Many countries, desperate to make use of the gargantuan flow of waste plastic, and desperate to avoid it going into landfill, are putting the waste plastic into roads.

This is called “recycling”.

Sounds like a great idea until you realize that cars and trucks drive on the roads and grind them into dust - dust containing microplastics.

The microplastic dust will go into air, waterways, rivers, oceans, food, plants animals and people.

All this is because the environmentalists have decided that “keeping plastics out of landfill” is more important than anything.

Plastic roads are an environmental disaster in an epic scale being created in the name of “recycling”.

The worst thing is that for some reason it’s not obvious that this is a disastrous idea, and all around the world people are breathlessly talking up plastic roads like its a solution to the plastic waste problem.

“In 2015, the Indian government made it mandatory for plastic waste to be used in constructing roads near large cities of more than 500,000 people”

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210302-could-plastic-ro...

Mandated madness. The safest place for the fire hydrant of waste plastic is in landfill, not “recycled” into microplastic dust.

Would you like a plastic road outside your house, or outside your kids school?
What's the most painful thing about building invoicing for your business?
I think their point is sometimes their left pinky is a bit lazy and won't get off the fucking shift key
https://storage.googleapis.com/x-prod.appspot.com/files/The%...
European innovation is doing quite well. As usual it's the part where we actually make money off the innovations where we suck. Good trolling effort though! ;)
> turning electricity into fuel comes with a lot of losses.

This is true, but when generating fuel, the end goal is usually to move a vehicle X miles. Now that electric cars are nominally competitive with ICE vehicles, the metric should be something more like “land required to drive a truck X miles/year” - and assume the best of either electric vehicle efficiency or ICE efficiency, not force an arbitrary electrical->chemical conversion for the metric’s sake. Biofuels probably wouldn’t look like as much of an outlier as they do here, but I would still wager that they’re among the least efficient options.
You're describing sterilizing immunity, which is a property that only some vaccines provide.

More generally, vaccines are just a mechanism for acquiring immunity. Immunity doesn't mean "you don't feel sick," it means "your immune systems responds better and faster to the real thing."
I think the reality with LSD in particular is the normal way of making it is fast & cheap anyways. I'm sure you _could_ cut some corners. But why? We're talking about a drug used in microgram doses. Synthesis several kilograms and you have basically created an annual supply for an entire continent.
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Leaving for posterity. What would you do?

https://github.com/VivumLab/VivumLab/issues/526
First of all, these are surprisingly good. It strikes me that this is an area where Stable Diffusion-like art shines particularly well. (Other examples [1] [2].)

But second -- does anyone else get the feeling that logos matter much less than they used to? Obviously you still something for marketing, but it feels like more and more it's just the name of the company in a particular typeface and in a particular color, maybe a tiny flourish. Think Casper, Warby Parker, Uber.

And even when there's an "icon" logo to the left of the name... it's so generic/geometric/forgettable. Think Microsoft, Airbnb, Slack, Instacart.

There are still "real" logos out there meant to be establish a stronger visual identity with more personality or recognition, whether Lyft or Twitter or Netflix or Snap.

If there really is a "decline" of strong logos with personality, that doesn't even necessarily strike me as a bad thing. Do companies really need to bother? Thirty years ago, it felt like when you started a company, figuring out the logo was a huge deal, as if it would actually make a difference in your sales. Nowadays it feels like just a checkbox on a todo list, not particularly impactful.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/wg65n6/colorful_3d_...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/w8ei7g/3d_low_polyg...
Why is Apple, the worlds richest and most valuable company, so bad at A.I? Everything, from awful keyboard predictions/autocorrect to poor computational photography. Is it because Tim Cook doesn’t provide enough funding to empower the A.I. divisions?
"In 1942, German submarines sunk a British passenger ship. They surfaced to collect survivors, announced their presence to the allies and sailed under a Red Cross flag. The U-Boats were attacked by allied planes, forcing the submarine to throw all the survivors back into the sea and crash dive."

British movie made about this event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7esQ9S46EJY
The British Inflation Crisis
They have L3 on the easiest road environment possible and even that’s limited in speed and requires good weather and nothing like tunnels or construction zones. That is a far cry from saying that their cars no longer need good controls for drivers — L3 is predicated on the driver being available to take over at any time.

My position is that cars should be optimized for safe driving until they hit L5 and we’re comfortable saying they don’t need a human driver. It’s one of the most dangerous things we do and should be treated that way.
The article quotes Leo Koguan extensively. But a lot of what he is quoted saying does not make a lot of sense. Hard to say if that's spotty English or if he really is all over the map about what "proves" Musk tanked the Tesla price.

Way back before $TSLA really started to suck, I predicted Elon's attitude toward Twitter (even if he was trash talking to try getting out of the deal he signed) risked collapsing his reality distortion field.
Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
You're being overly proscriptive about vaccines. Vaccines have multiple layers of effect because our immune systems have multiple layers of effect. You don't neglect the seatbelts just because the car is more likely to crash in the first place.
In 'Eating Lab,' a Psychologist Spills Secrets on Why Diets Fail
> there is a good faith discussion though to be had about whether or not this could select for more deadly traits, no

In the history of vaccination, has this ever happened?

What has happened is resistance to medicine. Vaccines reduce the opportunity for pathogens to be exposed to drugs by reducing the incidence and severity of illness.

It’s fine to take time to make informed medical decisions. But if your concern is resistance, vaccines are a friend.
and loads tracking/analytics from 100 different places, and sends an XHR every time you move the mouse.
Why does this article focus primarily on the land cost of biofuels and ignore other costs?

I am not a fan of biofuels, but the article would be much more persuasive if biofuels were 25x more expensive than the alternatives, rather than just 25x worse in land usage
That's true. But no one is criticising their business abilities.
Maybe you've never used a binary tree on the job to store information. If you've ever written a recursive function with two recursive calls, the call graph is a binary tree. The interview problem "invert a binary tree", is more of a litmus test for understanding recursion, which is a fairly basic knowledge item for an SE.
https://guitarix.org/ is a software amp & f/x.
It's been a savior for headphone only guitar playing.
Working with Gab & Truth Social is kinda the indicator of alt-right-ness I'd say no? :)

I agree that he got some _correct_ views- mostly anyone does; but I read the guy posts over the years, it's widely known on the fediverse that he's pushing alt-right stuff.

He's also loves to use many of the slang they use.

It's his behaviour on the Fediverse & related spaces that made me (and many others) think/know he is alt-right.
> this is true about language more generally. There is no true meaning of any given string of words. Language is a communication tool (and a lossy one at that). History of use gives words and phrases additional contextual meaning beyond any dictionary definition. Feedback is often necessary to avoid misunderstanding.

Very insightful. It would be great if we all were a bit more aware of this.
Wow, so no even vegetarian diet is safe from micro plastics anymore. Anyone know if organic food soil is treated with this nasty 'sewage sludge' ?
It's fascinating. Some random content creator writes a banal article and it offends someone and kicks off a thread of discussion. Accidental short virality at its best.

When I was in college, I made some bucks writing stuff like the OP article. Mostly content-free, just words for the sake of words that were not particularly complex (That job is probably AI automated by now).

I wonder how many people went to war in comment threads over the stuff I wrote with no particular knowledge or interest, with my only interest being able to take my girlfriend on a date. Amusing.
The struct tag is an idea that's survived into approximately zero other languages. It's largely visual clutter.
> Inevitably there will be a new variant it cannot handle.

Current flu vaccines target a whole strain (of which there are only a dozen or so and it's very rare for more to show up), not individual variants like the covid vaccines (just enough mutations to be called different).
Chicken protein is quite cheap. Divided by the protein content, the price of chicken breast is only 2 to 2.5 times higher than that of beans or lentils.

To have any chance on the market, the price per protein content of the insect larvae must be at least twice lower than that of chicken meat. Therefore it must be about the same as for legumes like beans or lentils.

To be able to judge whether investing in such a thing is worthwhile, you need a very accurate prediction of the production costs, to determine whether it is possible to match the legumes in price per protein content.

I would be very wary about the risk that the estimation of the future production costs might be exceedingly optimistic.

Currently some cereals are the cheapest source of proteins suitable for human consumption, but they cannot provide much more than a half of the daily protein intake of a human, because they lack lysine, so they must be combined with a more expensive source of proteins, like meat, legumes, or perhaps insect larvae.
But... San Franciscans don't want to live in a city like Tokyo or Taipei. Who would benefit from this changing city with taller buildings? Not many San Franciscans want that, so newcomers? I am not convinced either. People love the Bay and move here because of what it is, not because of what it is not. The complaints that I am hearing most often are about public transport, crime, street cleaning, social services. Not about having small buildings in SF.
As biomass is the only source of fuel for us biological machines, I don’t think anyone is questioning it in regards to food.

But biomass being converted into electricity is horribly inefficient.
Check out the story:
https://mayankvikash.in/posts/The-developer-who-stole-300K-f...
> The study you link then only talks about vit C degradation in cooking.

Are you suggesting people eat uncooked meat? Because that’s got an entirely different set of risks.

As to your study, only “37% denied vitamin supplement use.” You can get Vitamin C from vitamins that’s what they are designed to do. Similarly these people where only on an 85% meat diet, you don’t actually need many fresh sources of vitamin C and you don’t even need to eat it every week.

It’s really easy to cover your basic dietary needs. 85% cooked meat and a multivitamin is fine. 100% cooked beef + water isn’t going to cut it.
congrats on shipping!

I know why you sorry'ed php but I and many here learned programming purely from 90's web tutorials. No sorry's!

Keep going, looks good
"Or the opposite - when the Left seeks social justice it is to satisfy the self-interests of the relatively poor"

It also suits the interests of the rich if everybody is constantly arguing about issues that cost them nothing (gender norms etc) but at the same time ensures the spotlight is always on something other than them.
I remember earlier it was limited to ocean and fish were seem to be polluted with micro plastics but contaminated soil in large parts of the world is very scary news.
What recourse do you have against someone who takes one of these logos, redraws it or something to remove the watermark, and then uses it without paying you? Copyright won't help, since even if these aren't too simple to copyright (as most logos are), AI-generated works aren't copyrightable. And trademark won't help either, since it only covers what you use to identify your own business.
I'm not advocating for either position in this thread, but surely you watched the CDC switch from one policy position to another dramatically different position multiple times during 2021.

They made decisions and rewrote those decisions within 24 hours due to political blowback not just once, but multiple times. They might do good science, but they lost any trust I had in their ability to set and execute a coherent national policy.
Are you certain you're getting the flu every year? Do you get tested for it?

A lot of people assume they have the flu when it's really a bad cold
I have a theory that it’s also related to heat. Try drinking a pot of coffee in a hot tub if you can find one, set to a high temp. It’s quite the creative experience.
Dedicated biomass is indeed a terrible idea, but the usage of what would otherwise be waste products to produce biofuels still benefits from this research
Then take actual downtime. You can't relax when you have a fever.
> If every other country has state guaranteed affordable healthcare, why can’t we?

Because government meddling has already made healthcare unaffordable?
Some vendors base their compilers on GCC or Clang. But if you're not using their provided compilers, you either need to 1) be willing to shoulder the expense of making changes to GCC or Clang for whatever you're adding to the silicon in terms of instructions, and 2) be willing to get your combination of RTOS and compiler re-validated for the safety or operational standard on which you need to deliver.

But even if you do use GCC or Clang, it doesn't change the mechanics of C++ as a poor language for embedded or operating system work. It just means you have the same choices (e.g. limited support for containers and strings, no exceptions, limited smart pointers, etc.) and you're making that choice based on GCC or Clang's limits.
This is good. If unsophisticated investors won't push for due diligence during times of mania that very much sounds like a market failure.
This is a part of many company's culture I hate. Where the "official stance" is work-life balance but the reality is everyone is putting in overtime all the time with emails and chats on their phones.

When I start a new job nowadays I don't install teams or slack or connect my work email to my phone. If I have messages waiting in the morning I just address them then. If anyone complains, oh well.
Small sample sizes can make it very difficult to determine effectiveness. Fortunately there is a ton of data out though if you are curious. The effectiveness does vary widely from year to year.
I've used two paragraphs from the middle of the article.
I am a proud car enthusiast and I daily drive one of the latest Volkswagen models with the latest infotainment, they have removed all the physical buttons from the car.

VW's have always had reliability issues with their radio buttons for some reason. It was common for Mk6 or Mk7 GTIs radio power buttons to suddenly not work after a year or two. I am sure this is what caused the edict from on high to transition to their new disastrous infotainment. The thing is, nearly every company who went all in on touch, always had to backtrack at some point. (Like Honda in 2015)

Friend of mine who used to work as a SWE in an automotive company mentioned that one of the pesky issues when it came to developing a new car was the long pole of waiting on your vendor to give you test units of your interior hardware. I assume the push there is primarily coming from that issue as well as the cost savings they get.

The touch issues don't bother me insofar as how slow nearly all the units and interactions are within the car. Delays of 500ms after interaction are frankly unacceptable when it comes to operating anything at high speeds.

I would hate for the automotive industry to just completely focusing on iPadifing your commute rather than focusing on driver/passenger experience, but I assume thats the direction where we are headed regardless.
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There’s a population factor and an individual factor. Let’s say it’s half effective. By vaccinating the population, the virus spreads more slowly, since half of people are dead ends. So you wind up with less cases in aggregate — and potentially exponentially less.
The series is "across realtime" - and there's a short story that happens between the two books that you'll find in a collection titled The Ungoverned. That happens 30 years after The Peace War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ungoverned

From the publisher: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/1416520724/1416520724___4.htm
The only downside is theres multiple ways to reach the same outcome, and unless you program it exactly what you're looking for it gives a false negative that the solution isn't correct
This paper is a meta-analysis of studies looking solely at iron stores among vegetarians vs omnivores. It doesn’t broadly address the claim about nutritional deficiencies among those who consume a meat-free diet more broadly. Moreover, among the studies they examined there was significant variability among cutoffs for serum ferritin as indicative of storage iron. About all I can conclude is that premenopausal vegetarian women should supplement with iron.
"perpetual" and "irrevocable" have two different meanings in licencing law.
Yes, all the autoencoders you see used in practice have adversarial loss + MSE + perceptual loss, the VAE used with Stable Diffusion also uses KL regularization, while VQGAN uses all other losses to make use of the codebook.
Every action has a consequences, these are what we call 'unintended consequences'. It's good that this is making news on BBC, hopefully Governments around the world will take heed and correct this policy.
When a company creates a new HQ, it's displacement. When a company leaves a town (especially a small one) it leaves people jobless and they are evil for it. On the surface it seems some people think cities should stay entirely static forever, frozen at the particular time when they remembered they enjoyed it most.

The people moving in will have their own experiences. Places change. If you don't like your place, work to make it better or find one you like more. Maybe not everyone in your city is into the arts and "scene" as much as you are, and the changes are a net benefit to them.
It is fun. A game-changer, and relatively/subjectively affordable.
> Facebook's use of Cassandra and CI lint-checks and blue-green deployments is just like military cargo planes' use of radio towers — they didn't build those first; they scaled the thing they were doing to the point that these things became necessary support structures, and then they built them.

This is so true. In fact, a lot of the technology choices companies at the scale of Facebook use are only necessary because they're so large/popular, and were added later to stop everything falling over.

Because it's so unlikely your project will ever need to contend with a billion users or whatever, you really shouldn't be designing under the assumption that's likely to happen.
I use :x cus it's one less keystroke. And yes, I still use :q to make sure I don't save in case I changed something by mistake.
> This is exhausting. You are being obtuse for the sake of it and missing the main point.

Disagreeing is not missing the point.

I'm not serious when I suggest an 8.59 bit byte, but I am serious when I say you shouldn't care so much about the "mega" part of "megabyte" being precise when "byte" isn't precise.

> But assuming 8-bit bytes, at least they're honest when they use the metric prefixes.

They're not. Technical correctness is not honesty, and they're giving people an unrealistic expectation of drive size. It doesn't matter if those expectations are based on "wrong" information.

> It doesn't really matter which they use to measure, as long as they're consistent.

They are consistent. They're so consistent that they've been using "GB" since long before the term "gibibyte" even existed.

Gibibyte is not truly a separate unit, because until fairly recently it was spelled gigabyte whenever anyone talked about it.

> It's stupid to have our own make believe fairytale version of the metric prefixes. It serves no purpose. We have GiB, KiB, MiB now and should use them if that's what is meant.

The split is dumb but all words are made up and the ibi prefixes don't solve a real problem. If someone wants to be metric-accurate they should just use metric.
> No one is toss out their iPhone because it has a lighting cable, and most are not even tossing the chargers as for less than $5 you can get any adapter to any other port...

You must have forgotten the days where all chargers had a molded cable instead of the USB-A socket that is standard these days, and the plug was different for each and every brand. So each phone came with both a custom cable and a custom charger.
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These are really sharp.

What's the download format (png, gif, etc.)?