skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally I know a lot of really old people who still drink. Maybe I'd know more if they didn't drink.

I know one guy who is ~90, survived cancer 3 times and attributes his survival to daily doses of Japanese Shochu.

You might be able to argue that alcohol was the cause of the cancer but I guess we'll never know.

Disclaimer: Currently not drinking even a drop.

Edit: Maybe I'd know more if they didn't drink....is a reference to the fact I read the article and I understand that statistically, there might be more old people alive because it seems like it's "statistically safer" not to drink so please, try to stay calm and stop telling me I can't understand anything about statistics...I know it's exciting to do this lately though.
> However, latest available data indicate that half of all alcohol-attributable cancers in the WHO European Region are caused by “light” and “moderate” alcohol consumption – less than 1.5 litres of wine or less than 3.5 litres of beer or less than 450 millilitres of spirits per week

Half a litre of beer a day is considered "light"?
Sneaking shots is alcoholic behavior.
no need to debunk the truth.

It's like drugs.

Take too many pills, you die.

Take them when you need them and their benefit will surpass the risks.

Alcohol works the same way.

We know for a fact that moderate drinkers live longer than non-drinkers and heavy drinkers.

We still don't know why.

edit: most people don't want to hear the truth.

Moderate drinker live longer than non-drinkers.

It's a well known fact

For example, one study following more than 333,000 adults for about eight years found light-to-moderate drinkers were more than 20 percent less likely to die prematurely from all causes and from cardiovascular disease in particular than people who never drank at all.

When they tried to "debunk" it the only explanation they could find is that non-drinkers die prematurely because of the risks they took earlier in life.

Confirming that moderation is key, abstinence due to guilt for past behaviour and a sudden fear of death, won't solve anything.

I'm sorry if the alcoholics that took the 12 steps here are triggered by the truth, but your problems are not everyone's problems.

We have been drinking alcohol for longer than we were able to write, we still do it, because it's a social rite, it keeps people together, like a good meal, you can't simply delete it because you used to drink scotch straight from the bottle since the moment you woke up and the only solution you've found is getting a different addiction: staying clean at all costs.
Sure, but the experience tells us that the best way to achieve these goals is through a rigorous type system.
There was a list of Thiel fellows published the other day* and it struck me that the companies listed are mostly all pretty mainstream sounding startups and founders that wouldn't stand out on a list from YC or another VC. Maybe it's always been that way, I had in my mind that a program like that was trying to be a little more outside the box, but it feels pretty mainstream. I dont know what "next" looks like but the whole scene feels a bit like a copy of a copy of a copy now. (I'm not criticizing any individuals, just the relative uniformity of a scene that presents itself as high risk bets on genuinely new stuff)

* https://finance.yahoo.com/news/thiel-foundation-announces-ne...
Human liver has enzymes to metabolize alcohol for energy, which implicitly makes this claim questionable. If we have it, why not be putting it to work?
When it works yeah, sometimes good luck figuring out what it wants
And they make zero comment about genetic risk. That’s what matters, genetic risk, as well as the total amount of exposure to carcinogenic’s. It’s just a worthless dumb thing to say.
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Not MHTML I guess and not native to the browser, but in Firefox you can use the popular SingleFile addon to save any web page into a single HTML file.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/single-file/
> Apprentices need to be paired with journeymen to learn the craft. I have not met a single successful team that has not had at least as many journeymen as apprentices -- ideally even more.

This! I couldn't agree more. We inflate people's alleged experience too quickly and don't have enough real journeyman mentoring and guiding in many orgs in my experience. Too many unguided teams. Self-teaching will only take you so far, or it's a very inefficient, error-prone route to experience imho without guidance.
Visualize your customer. Where are they? How can I reach them? What types of content will trigger "Take my money!"?
If you need to judge people for what they enjoy to have a joyful life I’m sorry for you.
I’ve replaced the screen and battery on 2 different iDevices, the scary amount of heat generated by both have completely turned me off to even trying. They absolutely would have exploded at some point.
One is an imperative gradual opt-in superset of JavaScript, the other is a strictly typed functional programming language with a fairly opinionated runtime.
There has been some suggestions that 1-2 drinks is the optimal (extends health etc..). So, this clears up any confusion on that topic. There are many things that are risky but make life worth living, the previous guidance made it appear you could enjoy life (1-2 drinks) with actual upsides which unfortunately turns out not to be the case of drinking.
Do you think he would have lived longer without Alcohol?
I agree with you for capital-A Art, but it turns out that most of content produced doesn't need to meet that bar - book covers, adverts, filler paintings, and so on. Those are the ways that a lot of people make their living. Is it OK that they'll become outdated? Maybe yes for the production of capital-A-Art, but it sure will suck for a lot of people who enjoy making their living from creative production.
This is something I'm trying to get a better understanding. What some have called the AI hallucination problem.

Has anyone done a good deep dive and explained whether this is something likely overcome relatively soon or is it more problematic as part of the design/architecture ?
The link [0] literally says:

> #pov2mesh A Set of Macros in POV-Ray Language to Convert a POV-Ray to a Triangle Mesh

I never said it was a mesh editor or CAD tool or anything else except that it would need an internal representation of volumes and surfaces in a scene, and that the OP linked to a tool that generated a triangle mesh from this info.

[0] https://github.com/cyborg5/pov2mesh
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It forces you to make that decision explicitly. Yes sometimes you just put "Gets the height" and move on. But at least you thought about it and those functions that do need clarification get it because you are reminded of it and the codebase is better for it.
if you think that enjoying stuff is bad, I'm sorry for you.

I also don't need carbonara, pizza, gelato, the beach, snowboarding, my friends, my family to survive...
It gets worse where people get issues and they start looking for some diet supplements or pills for "better liver" ,"concentration problems" or whatever else.

When first thing they should do is stop drinking alcohol.

In the reddit thread about article there was someone who could not connect the dots that after drinking alcohol they would have hangover the next day.
The dose makes the poison

- Paracelsus
Cryptocurrencies? Maybe for a few 100k

Real Estate provides a much easier method to move millions.
I was gonna ask if match case wasn't a really recent thing, but it seems to be from 3.10 released in October 2021.
Many of the use cases described in the post are solved by service meshes.

So, in my opinion, the questions are introspective:

- “Do I have enough context to know what problem those solutions are solving, and to at least appreciate the problem space to understand why someone may solve it like this?”

- “Do I have or perceive those problem to impact my infrastructure/applications?”

- “Does the solution offered by the use cases described appeal to me?”

If yes at the end, then one potential implementation is a service mesh.

A lot of these are solved out-of-the-box with Hashicorp’s Nomad/Consul/Vault pairing, for example!
It seems to be too slow for our amount of updates, updates would need to rewrite the whole column.
My personal disillusionment is with those promoting this bullshit.

We are all subject to flights of fantasy but they are supposed to be smarter than this. Instead, they are proving themselves to be equally untrustworthy.
I love these. Someone posts a scathing critique of a company. Company representative responds with a mea culpa that misses the mark, and includes plans to fix. Top reply nails the actual problem, why the fix won’t work, and gets massive agreement. Company rep doesn’t respond.

You know it hits hard though. Hopefully they take it to heart. I like using medium as an author but HATE the “4 articles remaining” crap. I’ve been planning to move elsewhere but have been lazy. I’ve noticed from my readership numbers that I’m not alone.
Not even a homeopathic quantity?
Driving isn't hazardous to your health. Crashing is. That's like saying eating is unhealthy to your health because you might choke.
> Anecdotally I know a lot of really old people who still drink.

I know someone who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day who is almost 100 years old. Smoking is good or you!
Disagree, today I learned what Shōchū is
Or it's "keep the peace" behavior. A real alcoholic would have it in a water bottle.

(inb4 no true scotsman)
Very interesting, according to the authors it’s “like velcro”.

> [Covid] primarily uses a protein called the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor to enter human cells. Lung cells have high levels of ACE2 receptors, which is why the COVID-19 virus often causes severe problems in this organ of infected people.

> Like ACE2, LRRC15 is a receptor for coronavirus, meaning the virus can bind to it. But unlike ACE2, LRRC15 does not support infection. It can, however, stick to the virus and immobilise it. In the process, it prevents other vulnerable cells from becoming infected.

> “We think it acts a bit like Velcro, molecular Velcro, in that it sticks to the spike of the virus and then pulls it away from the target cell types,” Dr Loo said.

> “Basically, the virus is coated in the other part of the Velcro, and while it's trying to get to the main receptor, it can get caught up in this mesh of LRRC15,” Mr Waller said.

Given then that this protein is synthesized by our body, and in people with less severe COVId more of this protein was found, and less in more severe cases, could mRNA injections be used to stimulate/ramp up production?

The approach mentioned in the article is a nasal spray which I suppose is easier to manufacture.

This then begs the question, could mRNA injections be used in place of traditional medication?

Probably no if the medication needs to be targeted at a specific region, yes?

Could it be that the complexity of the protein affects our capacity to produce medication for it?

Or is it that the means of administration is the main factor on how we select our approach?

With mRNA vaccines we get the cells to produce the protein. Does this imply that synthesis of the spike protein is difficult, or is it that administration is?
To quote Matthew Mercer - You can certainly try. But in all seriousness, run a test. As far as tests go this one is about as low cost as they get. In general, I don't expect purely ai written content to do all that well - and that's probably a good thing for now. That said, nothing beats a practical test for this sort of thing.
I wonder how the data is treated statistically. If 99% of millionaires have consumed alcohol, does consuming alcohol increase the chance of becoming a millionaire!?
Interestingly, archive.today seems to be having trouble archiving this Bloomberg link, as the job never finishes:

https://archive.is/wip/wT88K
One of the early uses of machine learning back in the ‘80s was Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Even that had character confidence levels to indicate how confident the engine was in recognizing the character from the image.

When end user tools started wrapping the OCR libraries for use, they simply drop this information and just use the text output. Due to this, the end user loses the context of what is a possibly correct recognition versus an erroneous one. Granted, there were false positive. But, if one used the confidence information, smarter UIs could be built.

The same story repeats with ChatGpt and Bard.

Some hinting to the end user on how confident the AI is with the generated output will help the user build successive prompts that converge on the right output, eventually.
For every of those is several people who died at 60 from liver disease
what’s preferred a happy alcoholic or a sober know it all
Give me a break. Do you know my grandfather? When I said sneaking shot, it wasn’t that he was hiding it from anyone. Don’t misinterpret what I say.

How do you feel if he wasn’t alcoholic so what? That’s not relevant here the relevance is how it affected his health. He was healthy till he was 99. As well as his marriage and family life. He was a barber till was 82.

Tired of you people turning everything into a pathology.
I think the semi-obsession we have with "correctness" in style is actually something programmers do a lot better than most other disciplines.

Arguing over indentation is functionally the same as arguing over unix principles, or frameworks or languages. The fact that we're always looking not just for the solution, but the right solution, on every level of the process, is part of what makes programming so beautiful and enjoyable.

Law is actually a perfect example of the opposite; without that obsessive concern for correctness, the systems created are hopelessly confounding and difficult to navigate.
I bet sugar is even more harmful, yet I doubt there will be any raising of awareness on that front (from the health industry). I think removing sugar from most foods in the grocery store would have much more impact than banning all alcohol. It just seems the priorities on harmful substances are not in order, from a perspective of a healthy society.
What do you think solves those better than a type system?
Not quite a quine or fixed point, but something akin to it in the context of neural nets? A version of the AI "singularity" that is completely useless. :)

That's something many humans already suffer from, due to social media platforms creating large echo chambers.

I think there's enough human-generated content that LLMs won't suffer from that. If they did, you could always manually filter what they train from... only data from websites with trustworthy timestamps pre-2020, for instance, or content after that which might be partially AI generated but still has strong human filtering, like wikipedia and arxiv and scientific papers in general.
Even though they have no obligation to, usually a dish that contains alcohol will say it's cooked in beer or it has a wine sauce. Being prepared with an alcoholic drink is usually considered classier. I think it's more likely for the restaurant to say they used wine or beer and, in fact, there is no alcohol but just flavourings, than it is for them to omit that part of the recipe.
it is where i come from - uk.

also they don't say how many of those cancers can actually be attributed directly to alcohol consumption. my guess would be few.
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That’s one bottle of beer. I’d call that light.
> They state there is no scientific safe drinking level. They even compare it to radiation. The goal is to establish an unsafe level. it's like saying there is no safe speed to drive a car - sure that's technically true, but worthless to say.

Which is ironic, because, while most people use the "Linear no-threshold" model for radiation, we know that small amounts of radiation are actually beneficial.

The most charitable reason I can think of for why people still use the LNT model is because it's simple and robust. But that doesn't mean that it's the most accurate understanding that we have.
I really like statically-typed languages where you can let the compiler fill in the blanks. Like Rust or Haskell at the farther extreme.
The vast majority of people enjoy drinking and do so responsibly.

I absolutely respect people who drink in a measured way to enrich their life, instead of trying to maximize their lifespan by some minuscule amount.
Do you need sugar, red meat, fat to have a joyful life? You do, don't you. Having a glass of wine or two should be treated the same.

If you have religious reservations, please use your energy to fight off islamists who deal drugs, take bribes and marry with young children. Those sin more than people who indulge in a glass of wine or two.
You nailed it.

Nobody does everything they do because they think "this is good for my health".

We usually avoid stuff that is very bad for our health, but life is not just about going on for years avoiding any risk at all cost.

Unless you are American, you pretend to like the monk life and then eat garbage directly from the garbage can

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/opinion/food-nutrition-he...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/opinion/sway-kara-swisher...
These models are very good at taking an analytic prompt and translating into a correct response.

The problems of “hallucinations” are already being solved with a good number of analytic augmentation methods like pre-computing document embedding and augmenting the prompt with text from related documents, making the task more of a translation than a synthesis.

More details: https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/chatgpt-and-the-analy...
No, it was a AMD. I didn't found any way of solving it through the BIOS.
Joy and need are not necessarily related things. Get over yourself.
I think true profits are starting to matter again for VCs.
I've had very similar experience. After seeing all the hype of people claiming they have written all kinds of interesting things in code with ChatGPT I gave it a try.

Was never able to get it do what I wanted. It often seemed to make calls to non existent browser functions. I would tell it that function didn't exist, it would then rewrite it again, but still wouldn't be exactly correct.

Sometimes it was useful for doing something I've never explored, as I could get hints for how I might do it, but the accuracy was terrible.
That’s basically 1 pint a day, or 16 oz as the ceiling for “light”. That seems reasonable? Not the amount necessarily just the classification.
Driving is hazardous to other people's health in the form of crashes AND pollution in the form of noise, dust, and exhaust.
Interesting! I contribute to django-sql-explorer which is very similar. I'll take a look at how django-sql-dashboard is implemented. Thanks.
"because moderate drinkers tend to be very socially advantaged," Naimi says. Moderate drinkers tend to be healthier on average because they're well-educated and more affluent, not because they're drinking a bottle of wine a week on average. "[Their] alcohol consumption ends up looking good from a health perspective because they're already healthy to begin with."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/22/4714163...
Neither does yours, neither does mine.
I think although the tools and context have definitely changed, the foundational principles in his essays remain true:

Ideas for startups often come from solving your own problems.

A good startup idea should have at least one of three things: it's something you're passionate about, it solves a problem you have, or it's something you're good at.

The best way to predict the future is to build it.

Move fast and break things.

A startup is a company designed to grow fast.

A startup is a company that is confused about what its product is.

The key to growing a startup is to learn as fast as possible.

The ideal size for a startup team is around three to five people.

The best startups are often started by people who are still in school or in their early 20s.

Don't worry about competition. Worry about creating something that people love.

Make something people want.

A startup is a company that is trying to answer a question nobody knows the answer to.

The most important quality for a startup CEO is determination.

A startup is a company that is being run by a small group of people who are trying to discover how to build a scalable business.

To be a successful startup founder, you need to be an expert in something.

A startup is a company that is trying to create something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build—the thing customers want and will pay for—as quickly as possible.

If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Don't let your ideas be dragged down by the standard of what already exists.

Don't scale too soon.

Your job is to do what you do best and delegate the rest.

Don't take VC money until you have to.

If you want to start a startup, don't think too much. Just do it.

To be successful, a startup has to be run like a cult.

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.

The biggest mistake startups make is not making something people want.

Your first 10 users are more important than your next 10,000.

If you're going to start a startup, you should know from the beginning that it's going to be hard.

The best way to raise money for a startup is to not need it.
Deforestation in Iceland predates industrialization.

“Deforestation is a major issue that is highly prevalent throughout the world. The country of Iceland has been hit especially hard by this catastrophe. A nation that once had forests covering 40 percent of its countryside began to lose its tree cover, when the Vikings arrived in the 9th century. By the early 20th century, however, this tree cover was reduced to just 0.5 percent. To this day, the government of Iceland is working towards reviving the lost forests and restoring the land, in order to work towards a more sustainable future. This problem relates to the course of Sustainability for the Common Good because it covers the environmental issue of deforestation as well as the solutions that are being put into play to make the land more sustainable”

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a4e20c53ee77427cb587cb7...
Beer in the EU is often ~4% alcohol. Half a liter is barely more than a can of Coors light in terms of alcohol volume.
We've been drinking fermented drinks for millenia and yet here we are: 8 billion strong. Shut up WHO ;)
For anyone else wondering about this DIY ethanol production, it is aptly named "Auto-brewery Syndrome".

The production of endogenous ethanol occurs in minute quantities as part of normal digestion, but when fermenting yeast or bacteria become pathogenic, extreme blood alcohol levels may result. Auto-brewery syndrome is more prevalent in patients with co-morbidities such as diabetes, obesity, and Crohn disease [2][3] but can occur in otherwise healthy individuals.[4] [...] While auto-brewery syndrome is rarely diagnosed, it is probably underdiagnosed.

Reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513346/

Imagine your physician snitching on you to the state for illegal alcohol brewing and you might pay taxes on it.
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Everybody needs things to have an enjoyable life. Alcohol can be one of those things. It can also destroy your life, of course. As can too much sugar, too much sun exposure, etc etc
Would writing out text files be an option?

I've been trying to do this from OpenSCAD (now using RapCAD) and while I sort of have it working:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

I'm not so far along that I wouldn't try something else.
Ah, ok, that makes more sense then. The "implemented in. Not a clone" made it sound like the actual, core language implementation had been switched over to Go... and clearly that didn't sound right.