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There is too much contradictory evidence from the medical community on the efficacy of vitamin supplements. However, enough circumstantial evidence exists to prove two things: 1) Diet studies are hard 2) Pharmaceuticals are not going to fund a study for a cheap supplement 3) If this is true then the FDA should fund a "good, big diet/supplement study" but they dont. For this, I would say the FDA can't be trusted with "doing a good job" when a possible cheap solution exists.
Nothing. Burn all the evidence (literally or figuratively as appropriate, use common sense) and walk away. If you're expecting gratitude, if you expect the company to say "my goodness, thank you for finding our security hole", you are setting yourself up for bitter disappointment. Better if you were never here and knew nothing.
I teach various classes of CS in college. Have been trying to get this into the curriculum for a few years. It seems to be happening after the summer.

Software engineers are way more productive if they know their tools.
If there’s anything ancient philosophers are known for, it’s accepting the underlying premise of a question at face value.
I mean I use FDroid, and I used Cydia when I had an iPhone, but they will never provide any competitive pressure needed to light a fire under Google/Apple.
> If it’s free, you’re the product.

Be careful when using this phrase around here, it's a sure-fire way to get grayed out to obscurity. There seems to be a subset of HNers who take offense every time they encounter it, because it's a "platitude".

That doesn't make it any less true, though :)
AI (automated intelligence) writing is coming for sports and press releases first. Then fiverr copywriters.
Interesting take on the neurology of forgetting in relation to things like PTSD, cultural amnesia, and the function of networks.

The high value of forgetting was heralded by Nietzsche in his works. I was surprised to see his unique insights on the topic missed here.

Who else before Nietzsche?
> threaten to quit if they dont hike your pay
We always fire on the spot when this situation comes around, and it does depressingly often. It doesn’t matter how transparent and up front you are about pay, routes to increases, etc. there is always some fool that thinks they have made themselves indispensable and will demand money (or power) or else…
That’s blackmail and bullying and we don’t do that sort of thing. Nobody is indispensable.
Can you share a few? I am clueless of this culture.
Happy to help. Good luck to you! It's a fun hobby, potentially a rabbit hole, but also a fun rabbit hole... and also it doesn't need to be a rabbit hole at all.

If you decide to look into the DIY route, PartsExpress and DIYSoundGroup are two of the most popular sources for affordable flat-pack kits.
Divergent series have no finite sum, by definition. It's self-contradictory to proceed as though they have a sum anyway, even if it gives "meaningful" results. I think that's different from zero, negative numbers, real numbers, etc., which aren't self-contradictory.

I mean, do you really think the sum of the positive integers is -1/12? It's very easy to prove that it isn't. (The sum of any two positive integers is guaranteed to be greater than either one of them. Therefore, no sum of positive integers can be negative.)
>> But the cooler part is that these rocks were likely exposed to water.

Water is everywhere in space. Only amongst the inner planets is it baked away by the heat of the sun. Out past Jupiter, most every rock seems to have substantial water content. Most of that is ice, but any source of heat turns that into water for a time. Two asteroids colliding would produce some liquid water in their interiors, long enough for some organic chemistry to happen.
If Signal was not centralized, it could not be forced to comply with anything, and also could not be withdrawn from any country.

Centralization remains incompatible with privacy and censorship resistance.
There are a lot of "bullshit jobs". Not needing people to do those jobs anymore will be a benefit to anyone paying for them, less so for those previously getting paid.
The inability to move existing posts or DMs from one instance to another discourages Twitter blue-check types. What if your instance is blocked by others? What if your instance shuts down?[1] What if you change jobs? (I think the last is why we haven't seen CNN or BBC or Yale create an instance and its people start using it.)

[1] Such as the recent spectacular implosion of mastodon.lol after its owner got horribly abused by members over Hogwarts Legacy. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34748195>
"Python has some functional capabilities, but in my experiences with Python devs, those are little used and even shunned. Imperative, mutating loops are the Python way; and to suggest otherwise is to hear "But why would I need that? This (long functions with mutations everywhere and loops) is fine.""

Thank God I'm not stuck with low talent clowns like that.

Writing highly functional python isn't hard anymore, especially making use of mypy strong types, data classes, generator expressions/etc.

Using dict unpacking combined with things like list comps is a really simple way to get trad Python devs getting more functional. My team is a bunch of experienced Python devs who happen to live Haskell/Clojure/etc so I guess that makes things easier.
I'm absolutely worried about hurting myself with AI. I don't think you or I or anyone else is smart enough to avoid falling for AI-generated misinformation at scale.
I don’t disagree - the usual cohort here is people looking for that extra “capitalist help” with the whole “bootstraps” marketing angle popular these days.

And you’re right: doesn’t make it less true. I suppose in the gpt space it may be “if it’s free, you’re the QC phase.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-tunnel-shows-particle...

I'm having difficulty parsing your "in a real sense". Are you refering to Relativity here or something deeper like 'subjective reality'?
I passed frat houses most days during four years of college, and do not remember ever seeing anyone passed out on the lawn outside. I don't doubt that many of them drank too much, but they must have been able to make it in the door while still semi-vertical.

A lot of American universities were built out in the countryside or in small towns rather than in major cities, following I guess the Oxbridge tradition rather than the continental. In many cases they dominate a town that grew up around them, which doesn't always have much of a city center to it. I'm curious to know which city center they weren't found in.
Assuming the author is in the comments, the paragraph about data immutability is wrong. Integers are immutable in Python, when you created the lambda the name x is in its closure. When you assign to it it changes where the name is pointing to. Elixir does something wild and completely different. When you assign x that second time at that moment is creates a new variable behind the scenes and you transparently start using that one when you now refer to x in that scope. So lambda has a reference to x@0 and your outer scope has a reference to x@1.
I kind of don't like this interpretation of events.

The speed of causality varies depending on the speed of the causal particles and waves which propagate from an event. I was just reading an article on surviving nuclear detonations, and from those you have a few causal events propagating at different rates: the radiation, the shockwaves, the fallout.

And if a tree falls in a forest with no one around, it does still make a sound.
The article gives an answer to "louder" question but not "better" one.

As far as I have understood the screen after the text, Mac speakers are not 1-way but at least 2-way (every channel contains a speaker for bass and a speaker for higher frequences).
That is the answer about quality of sound, there are no speakers which can play both highs and lows in nice quality.
Then I probably don't understand your first response.
You only get to say that when there are no other studies. If other good studies exist (which they do) then your study should add something. That means that your study should either replicate an existing study with similar or greater statistical power, or investigate something that the existing studies are not testing. This study does neither. It re-asks questions that have been answered with such low statistical power that the answers are meaningless.
I'm confused why it shows detail like holding position markings, but not taxiways or hot spots. And it conflates locations using different hold short markings (ILS and runway).
Oh cmon that’s just human nature. We care a lot more about one of events like natural disasters than say automotive deaths - this isn’t a special insight.
Also, the victims of mass shootings (children at schools, attendees at festivals, etc) are the definition of innocent. That’s part of the reason.
Eh, at least you get a kiss with it.
No one has compared them except you. Using a word doesn't automatically mean someone is equating everything under the umbrella. You would do better to focus on the definition of the word if you're so inclined on arguing - "cruel and oppressive government or rule.". I think this holds with the original point that Google can be seen as oppressive rule since they decide the rules, which don't necessarily align with what the people think is right.
If you need to know where we are in the hype cycle, check out this curated list of every AI project currently active:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hwBf_TnSxwhkfnJTVpUNAJWS...

It's mind blowing that we have something blossoming out of nowhere that has real-world use-cases and is genuinely improving people's lives.

I have tools to write the perfect e-mail, remove the background from photos, write copy for my clients' websites, and tools to help me code faster. It's all very brilliant stuff.
I have begun appreciating not having an espresso setup at home. Cortado is my drink of choice, and it is mighty-hard to make it for cheap at home. Aero press is a good backup for lazy days.

But, there is something about the ritual out going to a streetside cafe in the morning. It pushes you to step out if you work exclusively from home; gets you that essential morning sun and serves as a social third-place for those lonely days. It also serves as a great lubricant to do secondary chores on your way back. It costs money ofc, but as far as activities that facilitate those specific things, a semi-regular cafe visit is a fairly cheap 'indulgence' to have.

I feel bad for Americans who live in neighborhoods where everything is a drive away, and chain cafes like Starbucks are the only type of establishment that can survive. As much as I crib about Seattle, it pulls off prison-cell-sized espresso-cafe-on-the-corner pretty well.
I'd wait for Genzel to comment, some of us remember the disruption disappointment of G2 which they don't seem to comment on in the article: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acb344
There is no inconsistency with advocating for changing the rules of the game for all players, while also playing according to the existing rules until that happens.
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FAANG-controlled “open source” projects aren’t really Open Source - they release the code licensed under Open Source license, but without most of its fundamental advantages.
"A Long Digression Into How Standards are Made"[1] from "Dive into HTML5" talks about this: http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html#history-of-the-img-eleme...
I don't see why that's persuasive. I can't explain how my brain works either!
I agree with your overall sentiment, though this definitely isn't limited to large businesses. Plenty of small businesses are plagued with hero culture as well.

What's really needed are leaders who recognize hero culture for what it is and are willing to move away from it. That's hard to do, in large part because managers benefit from it in the short-term and many will move on before the long-term costs become apparent. Given your previous example: Every manager wants to be the "winner" who gets the job done with 10 people, but what's unfortunate is that many of them will move up to the next level and claim that they would have success even with just 4 "good" people (re: heroes). So their replacement will get 4 people and the cycle will continue.
But you don't move existing posts or DMs from one instance to another, which discourages Twitter blue-check types. What if your instance is blocked by others? What if your instance shuts down?[1] What if you change jobs? I think the last is why we haven't seen CNN or BBC or Yale create an instance and its people start using it.

[1] Such as the recent spectacular implosion of mastodon.lol after its owner got horribly abused by members over Hogwarts Legacy. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34748195>
ossf/criticality_score: Gives criticality score for an open source project
My position is remote since the company I work for spans over almost every time zone. My team on different coast. And this is a company that became remote permanently during the pandemic. Nothing would be gained by removing my remote status since there would be no one to meet in my local office anyway.
As a support person I see this happen often when a new feature is implemented to an existing product, typically something a customer requests.

The feature works, it passes all test we throw at it, and then when out in the field the product breaks down in unexpected ways because the developers/product managers/big thinkers use the product doesn't match how the customer uses the product. Functionally sound by itself but fails as a system.

The issues are generally obvious from a systematic view, but when each person is face first at a different part of the elephant they'll all say their piece is working.
Whether Gnome has horrible coding practices is not evident at all from this post.

The only thing evident is that 1 developer is acting in an inappropriate way, although considering the OP’s aggressive attitude right from the beginning, it’s not unlikely that the developer’s inappropriate behavior is a response to the OPs aggression.
In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide
A Long Digression into How Standards Are Made
An important takeaway is that the phone combined with the passcode allows access to all the factors required to breach the system.

IMO the password reset procedure should start a waiting period during which you can’t remove the activation lock.
A Video-Gaming School Stumbles on a Way to Get Dropouts Back in Class
How is Microsoft giving openai 10 billion dollars "socializing the research"?
Nah, debuggers are useful but hardly necessary to do your job well. People have been productive at programming long before they had many useful tools at all, the most important thing will always be how well you understand the program you are writing and not how you use your tools.
Because of the class difference between working/labor and capital owning classes. One has a hedge against bad decisions based on the backs and labor of the other.
This is hacker news though. The average audience member is almost certainly gainfully employed. Spending $1k on a lifelong hobby/daily routine is incredibly cheap in almost all regards except one upfront cost.
Every symbol with a completely novel meaning must be meaningless. That's the definition of something new...
Deno has already monetized. Their tech powers many of the "serverless" platforms offered by other hosts. Just because they don't have a public pricing page for B2C doesn't mean they don't make money.
I am puzzled by all the hot takes stating that ChatGPT (and other similar tools) outputs garbage and is being "discredited" when I have personally found it to be an incredibly useful tool that I have been using daily pretty much since it was first released. The only thing being discredited, in my mind, are the people who rush to be contrarian about something they don't actually seem to understand or have taken any time to use.
I don’t remember that one.

People love to reach for the dystopian future point of view.

I do remember 20 years ago the ad nauseam complaints about tracking cell phones.

Then 7-8 years ago we had the complaints about Amazon Alexa.

I’m simply talking about millions of people essentially crowdsourcing a solution.

It’s more valuable than wasting all that time complaining about AI
An AI-generated press release? I cannot wrap my head around that one. Would a corporation or politician have an AI just sitting there occasionally releasing random statements? Press releases are carefully controlled announcements with legal implications. They are normally authorized by all sorts of departments before release, a process that takes far more effort than actually penning the language. And people have to decide when and where a press release is appropriate long before actually writing it. I cannot see how AI would insert itself. Would President Biden "hire" an AI to sit in the corner listening to chatter in the office and occasionally just release generated statements after interesting events?
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I have a problem as well, just stalls out.
Exactly. That's the eigenrhythm of present day capitalism. Throw money to likely candidates, see what sticks. Speculators always capture headlines. Crytpo is chugging quietly along.
I'm not sure that's relevant, since the expected behavior with Google would be to click and go to sites that are confidently asserting untruths. In a number of cases those are the top results.
Unless its covered by some draconian TOS, right?

I expect to have 0 ownership over anything I create in, say, Halo Forge. Microsoft owns my soul within the platform.

I figured Steam would be similar. Probably Discord too? If its not, I think Valve needs to make some changes to specifically avoid incidents like this.
Yeah, I remember taking this machine architecture course with a friend who was getting a journalism degree and had never written any code or done anything more technical than playing StarCraft brood war before college.

One of the later assignments they gave us this "bomb" executable and we had to use gdb to pick it apart and modify the instructions or find ROP gadgets or something to make the code not "explode". He was my partner in the assignment and I spent most of the time trying to teach him what I was doing in gdb. And trying to express that, sincerely, he wasn't stupid GDB is just really hard and he didn't have the background knowledge to make learning it easier.
Alright, 26673 LY within 0.3% accuracy:

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/05/aa35656-19/aa3...

(So "24650BC" for... context.)
The "length" of a string in extended grapheme clusters is not stable across Unicode versions, which seems like a recipe for confusion.

The length in code units is unambiguous and constant across versions.
Everything you see "has happened already"!
I mean the obvious counterexample is someone who eats 1500 calories of real food and 2500 calories of junk food a day. If you scale that down by half you start getting all sorts of nutrient deficiencies well before hitting your target weight.

But there are subtler versions of this. People who live in food deserts, only have access to iceberg lettuce and freezer-burned tomatoes as produce are gonna have a tough time getting all the nutrients they need in 2000 calories or less. There’s also others who have very specific dietary needs that they’re not yet aware of.
Funny, I was literally just looking at this issue today. I switched to wayland a few weeks ago, just because it seems to save a lot of battery power. But so much basic functionality is still broken it's infuriating. And then so many things seem to follow the "unix functionality" and as a result they're half baked tools that aren't really working properly IMHO.

A lot of these issues have fixes or workarounds directly in KDE.

For reference I'm using sway. swayidle is an idle daemon, where the maintainer doesn't think that it matters whether its connected to power or not. You're supposed to create your own scripts around it that handles ac connect and disconnects.

There's a tool to do flux like color warmth setting. One of them doesn't allow you to toggle, so you have create your own toggle script that kills or restarts it. The other one is controllable, but doesn't actually account for time or timezone.

XWayland has had 2 or 3 patches to handle hidpi when the main wayland screen has fractional scaling, none of them are merged and they seem hardly active. KDE works around that by allowing you to turn it off for xwayland clients. Sway just passes it down and blurs everything.

When I exit a wayland session and then restart it the screen locks up. This doesn't happen with normal X.

And then there is electron. Slack is not the only app that ignores electron settings and doesn't run with wayland support. In chrome and electron it's supposedly supported but you have to toggle it yourself? What is this madness?

These things seem like basic functionality for me. I don't really get it. Sure, maybe I shouldn't expect a proper experience for random sway tools, so that makes the first two points irrelevant. But the fact that years in they still haven't found a proper solution on passing down hidpi for xwayland? That's incomprehensible for me.
Machine learning has a decade-long track record of adding value to consumers and companies in various sectors. Crypto does not. There's probably too much hype, but it's not completely unfounded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/business/japan-esports-sc...
yes, been broken and just stalles out atm. I'm not too impressed with the outcome either... I much rather do my own audio engineering through fairlight in davinci resolve, their ai is UNBELIEVABLE!!
Most of the fun old speakers from the 1980s and earlier had paper speaker cones, which actually sound(ed) really nice.

However, the paper from the speaker cones and the rubber surrounds have nearly all rotted away at this point. If there are capacitors in the crossovers, those may need replacing too.

So unfortunately resurrecting old vintage speakers (a noble and worthwhile thing!) from thrift stores is often more involved than refinishing the box.

However if you're willing to put in some legwork, scroll through lots of crap, and deal with safety concerns, you can get some nice higher end gear on Craigslist. (A decent seller will understand you need to demo the speakers to make sure they work)
Or just an advanced civilization harvesting exotic matter to power their spacecraft.
I can't make any sense of this. It has happened over there - so it's happened. How does it make a difference where I am standing. I'm not talking about my reality. I'm talking about reality. Things which have taken place and nothing can change that.
Causality is definitely not simultaneity.

And yes, the speed of light is defined by the speed of causality, but c is still, among other things, the speed of light.
U.S. inflation stays high as housing costs bite
So enlighten us with some examples of useful things you found.
They might not be the CEO of that profitable massive corporation for much longer if the board and shareholders do not hold the same sentiment.