skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> everyone I know from switzerland goes (usually) to germany to shop there

This is common in border cities such as Basel, but seems relatively unusual in my experience for people living in Zurich, Bern, etc. It's often not worth the extra few hours of travel from these cities on top of potential customs formalities.
> 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.

How could ionizing radiation be beneficial? Unless the argument is exposure to ultraviolet in order to get Vitamin D, I can’t imagine ionizing radiation to be beneficial in any way.

Edit:

> The good includes abundant evidence showing increased 1) physiologic performance, 2) immune competence, 3) health, and 4) mean lifespan.

From the article in the comment below. Apparently in very low doses it stimulates the immune system and healthy cell reconstruction.
Generate unique drum samples using artificial intelligence
If life wasn’t so miserable alcohol wouldn’t be so popular.
Ir doesn’t seem to have any real understanding of reality and it will just hallucinate answers. I literally don’t understand what the hype is about. I got lukewarm on it when it couldn’t give the right responses about Christmas traditions in Portugal and Belarus.
of course, this "expert" has no self-interest for pushing this kind of stuff?
“life is not just about going on for years avoiding any risk at all cost.”

Very well said. Every choice we make has pros and cons. If someone wants to optimize for maximum longevity and avoid all risk factors, that’s a personal decision.

If you don’t want to follow that path, that’s fine too.

The equation is different for everyone. I have completely avoided alcohol for extended periods, and frankly, I just missed having a beer with a friend, so I decided to adjust my behavior.

Does that make me a bad person that’s going to die early?

If everything is a risk equation, we should be talking about our career choices (sitting at a desk), the risk of driving to the grocery store, living in cities is dangerous (pollution), etc.

I think it’s great for people to be informed, but the morality police squad is nauseating.
So in a contrived environment where the AI is given the ability to train on its attributes (aka same simulation framework, different layout). It can effectively explore the layout and complete tasks at the human level.

Perhaps there’s only a few search algorithms and humans (and now this AI) are optimized to do it as well.

One of my shower thoughts are that we’re effectively recreating the wheel with AI. Yes it can be immensely powerful and outperform humans for specific tasks. However, humans are generalized and evolved to interact with the real world independently. I imagine an AI would effectively match a human in this regard someday, but it’s worse as it can’t generate energy from eating some plants or animals (ie naturally occurring solar generated food). The interconnected nature will let AI have an advantage for many tasks, no doubt, but humans are pretty well optimized for the real world. Imo it’ll be hard to beat.
Why not? I don't think skipping one week and a half of school when you're 8 will have any real effect in your life neither in the short or long term future. Meanwhile, if they get in contact with someone with some sort of immunodeficiency along the way it could cause irreparable damage.
Seems like a decent project, which has come up before. The sibling commenter ramraj07 would likely be interested in what seems like a new feature listed to automatically save pages once loaded, which according to that link works on Firefox for Android (mobile).

Back when Firefox supported the UnMHT addon it would also work on Firefox for Android and had the nice feature of being able to customize which replacement Unicode was used for illegal filename characters (instead of just using underscores like Chromium does and SingleFile says it does).

Btw the comparison table of SingleFile mentions MHTML can't be 'unzipped' to extract the resources but there is an open source program on Windows which can extract the resources called ExtractMHT[1], which later became bundled with Universal Extractor.

[1] https://www.legroom.net/software/extractmht
Totally off-topic, but does anyone know what model of camera / lens I should buy to get this quality of image and bokeh effect at the background?
I used Gentoo for my desktop around 15 years ago. It was a bit dumb in retrospect, but I learned a lot. Now I think that Gentoo works best as a base to create your own distribution (duh!). It is a meta-distribution after all.

If you build on the same machine you use it and there are no other machines it is mostly pointless. It should not come as a surprise that Yocto's bitbake was inspired by Portage. Other fun fact: ChromeOS is built on top of Portage.
Helpful project if you want to know more about anything in game https://nornagon.github.io/cdda-guide/ saw it presented at the last Roguelike Celebration.
A bottle is 0.33 (or 330ml)
> Linode, Scaleway, or DigitalOcean

Is there anything like this for Azure?

Instead of how we manage AKS now, less hands on K8s with a GUI would be great for our org.

And would lower the learning curve.
> How could ionizing radiation be beneficial?

I'm not going to pretend that I understand the reasons. But there have been a lot of studies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477686/
Interesting, are you seeing an explosion of counter tip prompts there?
You have a super interesting use case. Can you reach out on the github issues so that we can track it? From what I can tell you are trying to generate GCode directly from the software is that the case?
> HBO, for example, was Twitter’s top advertiser in September, spending nearly $12 million on ads that month, but for the month of January (as of January 25), it spent just over $54,000.

I wonder how that business case for HBO looked like that it was worth 12M per month?

And if was, then cutting it back to 54k does not make sense.

Seems to me like a case of "We need those ads"-spend that rose over time, and nobody cared to look into to evaluate it again.
Driving may be a necessity while drinking is rarely an obligation. Also driving may cause instant harm while, drinking may cause a very much delayed harm. So, by knowing that not driving or not drinking are the safest choice I can choose to skip having a single drink and avoid driving if I don’t have to, thus completely minimizing the risk.

It’s not worthless at all.
There's also combinations to consider - for example, GP saves $0.5 mil, yielding $20k/yr, generates additional $20k through work.

Firmwarrior, you need a different manager.
"not gonna get cancer" is in no way contradicting the headline. There's plenty of non-cancerous dangers in the world.
My theory is that huge code bases are always more error prone then small code bases. And if a language is controlled by a committee they will destroy it.
Isn't getting energy from food incredibly inefficient when you look at the entire system though?

And while the plants themselves may be 'solar powered', the tractor used to plant them isn't. Neither is the factory where they made the fertilizer etc.
If you drink the average every day, you will spend a large part of your days inebriated. And if you don't drink the average every day, you will be deeply drunk every few days.

It's completely unreasonable to call that level of consumption "light".
> without referencing a manual.

Or even worse - the source code itself
Where is the moral outrage about Britain’s grooming gangs?
Was David Nutt the UK scientific advisor who came out and said weed, lsd, ecstasy are all far less harmful than tobacco and alcohol and was then publicly shamed and abused by the uk Media for daring to suggest such a thing?
> 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

the point is that non-drinkers live less.

Which totally contraddict the point that non drinking is good for you.

a recent Lancet study confirms that at 2 standard units per day there is non-drinking equivalence for health risks

2 units per day it's about a pint of beer per day.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
> The challenge with socialized medicine is that we should now push to ban alcohol, logically.

That has not worked in the past. Do you think it would work any better nowadays?
HN consists of multiple people who can each have different opinions. It's not a single person that simultaneously holds anti-closed-source and pro-Apple mindsets. A small number of people here might seem to, but I bet if you asked them to explain their position, it would make sense according to their worldview.
I'm quite late to the thread, but has anyone found out a way to use QGIS programmatically?

For research you often want to write routines that you can re-run in the future (replicability, reproductibility, etc.) and it's very easy to do so with statistical software (Stata, R, even Py) but with QGIS I just have a README saying "click here, click there, etc.". Tried to wrap everything in a QGIS Python script once, but it was impossible as there was not a one-to-one translation between clicks and code.
>Beer in the EU is often ~4% alcohol.

Where would that be? German beer is usually 5-5.5%, same for Austria. In Norway it's 4.5-4.7%
hell, too much exercise can mess you up!

"everything in moderation including moderation" is a good adage to go by, imho.
Consul + Vault!
Is it just twitter or in other places too?

Here in slovenia, the "real world" ad space (public ad displays, posters, jumbo posters,...), which was once full of ads for random commercial stuff (supermarkets, cars, fashion brands...) is now getting filled with ads for blood donations (nationalized healthcare, so not a private clinic), theatre and drama stuff (again, state financed) and even some leftover anti-firecracker 'ads' still left on since the time before the new year. There are still a lot of purely commercial ads, but the ratio is visibly shifting, as if companies are running out of marketing budgets, or don't want to advertise during the "depressive" months (people spent money for presents in december and are not spending so much now).

Could be anecdotal and just something happening locally though.
Ah, you reminded me of thing c) that I encounter with Poetteringware: "Provide me with detailed examples of what went wrong... not because I'm interested in actually fixing your problem, but because I believe your complaints are fictional and you're actually engaging in character/project assassination."

The specifics of the systemd breakage were subtle, complex, undocumented, and came out as part of working on proprietary software at my day job... so even if I could remember enough about the particulars to satisfy you, I'm not sure if my NDAs would permit me to talk about it.

I do remember the NetworkManager breakage that caused me to notice that just using wpa_supplicant and friends was more than good enough, and the PulseAudio breakage that made me realize how much easier setting up jackd was than attempting to understand what was going wrong with PulseAudio.

NetworkManager: For some damn reason, the software wouldn't stop attempting to assign an MTU of zero to my interfaces that had IPv6 enabled. This caused them to get the smallest-permitted MTU (IIRC, something like 1260), and -IIRC- some rather loud complaining in the logs. I found the relevant bug report, noticed the quality of developer conversation surrounding it, and decided to find alternatives. I did... wpa_supplicant + wpa_gui/wpa_cli for my wireless interfaces and the built-in Gentoo networking config files for my wired interface (which -in practice- means "use dhcpcd to get an IPv4 address, and SLAAC to get an IPv6 address").

PulseAudio: For some reason, after a PA upgrade, it started adding in an unpredictable and variable > 100ms of latency to my audio. This required manual adjustment to mplayer playback. Burned a long time (a week? more?) verifying that the problem was just in PA, and attempting to find out what might be causing it and how to fix it. PulseAudio users were utterly unhelpful. Decided to try using jackd, which -though initially difficult to understand- I found to be far, far easier to learn to configure and troubleshoot than PulseAudio.

I've found that with Poetteringware, you're a fan... right up until the point at which it breaks and leaves you with effectively-zero information on what is going wrong and how to fix it, and/or you have a "use case" that the devs don't want to go to the trouble of handling. (This latter thing is often accompanied by assertions that the thing you want to do is a totally invalid thing that noone in their right mind would ever do, so do go away now.)
I dunno, is it a solid article? They say "Risks start from the first drop" and I am having a a hard time imagining how they could prove that, regardless of how likely it is. Looks like fearmongering.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that everyone should stop drinking. I'm not a fan of mind-altering drugs and it makes for boring conversation. But we need to get used to the idea that literally nothing is safe. Living kills us all eventually. The argument against alcohol needs to be that an alcohol-free life is of higher quality.

If we're going to discourage people from doing unsafe things, are we planning to disband the army? There is no safe amount of time to spend in a moving vehicle either, those things are dangerous. Working a day job is no good for people's health. Safe doesn't mean no harm; that is impossible. And the question is always whether the benefit outweighs the cost.
In Firefox you can add tags to bookmarks and then search in bookmarks by typing '*' as the first symbol in the address bar. In this way I always can find anything I saw and tagged appropriately.

Though now I'm switching to saving bookmarks locally as folders (sometimes with cached content) named with tags and use custom scripts for searching them (fzf tool is amazing).
> You do not offer any reason for Russia to blow up three of four pipelines just to leave around one.

Forces the certification and use of Nord stream 2.
Curious. I find these strangely phrased and synthetic sounding videos and figure they might be low quality click-bait.

But this piece seems so banal, and then I imagined the same technology could be used by foreign English speakers to share their research.

Obviously we have to judge the piece by its content, but there was a time when I heard that freakish voice and would disregard the content out of hand.

Anyway, carryon…
Well, pets eat their weight in gold those days.

Your pet, your problem. one operator, world's problem.
It’s not the first or last time someone will say this, but I continue to be fascinated by the sheer scale of Twitter’s self-ablation: I’m not aware of any other company or company leadership that has worked so directly to erode its market position and latent value in so little time.

Generations of insufferable MBAs will no doubt study Twitter’s acquisition looking for the method in the madness.
There is no logical banning of alcohol, we've learned that lesson.
Goodbye, passwords (1Password Passkey support)
ah snap! I was wrong. Driving is not safe at idle as well! So I should rephrase: A running car is never safe.
All valid points. Then the title gets generalized as to "DeepMind AI as fast as humans in tasks not seen before..." missing the point of the constrained environment. This is the type of article that will do wonders for Google stock price, but nothing towards measuring if there is a leap forward on AI.
Alcohol is so culturally embedded in West the replies here are so sad. Alcohol is poison and it fucks up kidney, liver and brain. Sets cortisol base levels higher and perpetuates a habit in such a way that, you HAVE to drink to feel normal and relaxed. This cycle perpetuates and you associate alcohol with relaxation all the while alcohol is imposing higher and higher tax on you.

It is like a robber - robbing $100 when you are sleeping and giving $50 when you visit them. Its the unawareness that you are being robbed of hundred makes him look like a good guy.

note: I do not mind your downvote.. but if you are downvoting - please schedule a bloodwork and take a look at your numbers.
Quantum weirdness forces scientists to debate philosophy
Most of my programming peers want to focus on solving product-related problems rather than authe, authn, tls config, failover, throttling, discovery…

We want to automate everything not related to the code we want to write. Service meshes sound like a good way to do that.
i've drunk a fair amount of zero-alcohol beer, and the answer to your question is "yes", for reasons of flavour (alcohol changes this) and effect
("beer. it makes you drunk" - advertising slogan thought up by kingsley amis, i believe)
Haha yeah nailed it. Plenty of good reasons to drink.
Where is that? 330ml bottles definitely exist, but 0.5l is the default in Austria.
Nix can do that too.
And people wonder why young people get lost in hard drugs when all science has to bring to the table is this kind of puritanical view.
at least for me, depends. i don't like the way alcohol-free beer tastes -- it's just not the same.

sometimes i drink a nice whiskey because i love the taste (specially when paired with a nice cigar), but sometimes i drink to get tipsy because... well, it's fun for me.

it's like the difference between normal cake and cake infused with thc: i will eat cake for dessert, but sometimes, ingesting infused cake is more fun.
I think the absence of an Ireland situation for Switzerland is meaningful, here. There isn't a preexisting open border agreement that Switzerland is obligated to uphold by both the EU and the US, which the Good Friday Agreement is for the UK. That open border agreement also seems to go further than the Schengen agreement in practice considering Switzerland already has regular (but not universal) customs checks due to its ex-EEA status, not to mention other Schengen member nations such as Denmark which have at times maintained consistent immigration checks.
As I’m getting older I’ve basically had to swear off alchohol and marijuana completely. Even if I don’t get intoxicated (or stoned), I nearly always just feel like absolute garbage the next day (not hangover, just feel gross and groggy). Sometimes it’s lasted for days, even when I only have one drink or smoke barely enough weed to get a little buzzed. Fortunately I’ve also reached a point where I just don’t really feel good from being intoxicated either so I don’t really have a recreational incentive to do it anymore either.

I don’t know how these things affect other people’s “sober lives” but if it’s anything like that I don’t see how people can function when getting intoxicated semi-regularly. The cost-benefit just seems completely lobsided.
As someone currently suffering from a migraine after only drinking 2 cans of beer last night, I can attest to this.
Except that a) the WHO says that amount knowably increases cancer risk (and so the author would disagree with the parent's comment), and b) if you just say "it won't have harm X" while not endorsing harms you think it has, you're implying there are no harms. As long as the parent wasn't endorsing the WHO's claim of harm from that level, he's disagreeing with the thesis.
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The rate is a constant one second per second though, whereas with alcohol it's variable.
It’s crazy how we all live in easy Germany now. Governments keep files on everybody and when they decide to go after someone try to find a crime in one of those files.
There are plenty of such 0% and drinks and they aren’t nearly as popular. People are after the effects, the taste is secondary.
From that quote, I'd say it's the upper limit of what's considered "moderate".
https://twitter.com/LouPas/status/1588599808587345921
It's behind a paywall, any way to go past it?
Also would be great if there was an actual paper or more serious article about it. I see a lot of this type of articles recently and most of them are wrong/hype/etc. and the only valuable part are the links to the sources.

EDIT: Found these with Google:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07608

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U93bUQ1roiw
I remember trying Ubuntu when it was new. I did a default desktop install and after about an hour I tried to compile something and got "gcc: command not found". I could not fathom why anyone would not install a compiler on linux by default.

That was the last time I used Ubuntu.
I half agree, the keyword being “need”.

There’s no reason you can’t have a joyful life without alcohol. The biggest joys in life don’t directly correlate with it.

But, a good glass of wine with a nice meal adds something beautiful. The dinner parties where everyone is 3 glasses in produce some of the most memorable, happy, joyful conversations of my life.

There’s a reason that throughout history people always mention “moderation” with respect to alcohol. In moderation, it adds a unique pleasure to being alive. You don’t need it, but it’s nice to have.
What's Going Wrong in Particle Physics? (This is why I lost faith in science.)
Sure but you can basically play this game forever and arrive at a very bad, but safe quality of life.

Funny enough though driving is by far worse for your health than moderate or light drinking, and it’s even more insidious than drinking because not only do that negative effects take a long time to manifest, but they’re couched inside of a “necessity”.
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Maybe I'm giving your brain too much credit but generating your post demonstrated more real intelligence than AI ever has.

And yet at the same time, you have "faith" that what your brain does can be duplicated by a box of sand. And "faith" is the proper description since just like an alchemist, you have no evidence or functioning example to justify your belief.
But you literally said

> ...most veteran gentoo users will suggest you use...

That's doesn't really agree with the claim that

> ...[I didn't claim that] most gentoo users actually maintain their systems like that.
bread has alcohol in it. is it unsafe to eat bread?
you need to take better care of your body
Conversations like this require people to define what they mean by "real" intelligence. What do you mean?

Also, while almost anything can be viewed reductively, doing so is not necessarily a practical way to operate in / understand this world. Brains do a lot more than you mention.
Which ones are like that?
and that quote stems from his philosophy:

Paracelsus believed that true anatomy could only be understood once the nourishment for each part of the body was discovered. He believed that one must therefore know the influence of the stars on these particular body parts.[59] Diseases were caused by poisons brought from the stars. However, 'poisons' were not necessarily something negative, in part because related substances interacted, but also because only the dose determined if a substance was poisonous or not.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus
Non-alcoholic beer exists, is sold at bars, and is niche-popular. Obviously, most people go for the alcohol version.

It doesn't taste exactly the same though - but similar.