skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vitamin D3 also promotes osteoclastgenesis which can weaken the bones and release calcium into the blood stream.

Needs to be balanced with calcium. I wouldn't recommend supplements until you have blood work done.
I'm still not sure I understand it correctly.

So we have Libreboot (pronounce 'LibreBoot'), and we have an unofficial GNU Boot (pronounce 'NewBoot') both by Leah Rowe (from UK, good coder, also a drama magnet). With the unofficial GNU Boot being more up to par with Libreboot, and being 'completely FOSS' whereas the other one made concessions.

Then we have Coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) on which Libreboot is based, and we have an unofficial Libreboot, and an official GNU Boot. What is the purpose of the unofficial Libreboot and official GNU Boot? They're both lagging behind the other versions by Leah Rowe. I'm all for forks but why do we have these people who seemingly unable to collaborate with each other, and then create all this drama?

I used LinuxBIOS once. On an old ThinkPad T61. I replaced the proprietary BIOS with LinuxBIOS, and my goodness it was fast compared to the slow, proprietary BIOS. But it was also risky to replace the BIOS if I didn't want to physically touch the device, fiddling with soldering and the like. So for too long, I did not dare to.

Which is why Leah offers this service to other people: second hand, physically clean and proprietary firmware stripped devices. Old devices. Which require various microcode fixes but once these are active (and an up-to-date Linux distribution takes care of that) they should be secure.

In the end I brought my ThinkPad T61 to the dump. The battery and backup battery were both dead, the SSD was dying, the case was a bit damaged and some screws were missing, and I couldn't bother to update the slow machine. That I could've sold it or have someone patch it up and resell it didn't tilt in my mind. I was relocating and needed to get rid of a lot of stuff so it is hindsight 20/20 that would've been the best option.
I've also noticed a problem understanding speech when watching a big flat-screen TV that is using its built-in speakers. I don't have any problem when watching the same content on my old CRT sets with their better audio range.
I see a lot of propaganda expended on convincing the voting public of this "public incompentence", almost as if someone is paying to maintain this status quo.
> Jerome Callais, president of the Paris booksellers association, told the news agency: "People come to see us like they come to see the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, [but] they want to hide us during a ceremony that is supposed to represent Paris."

Ok, I've never heard of 1 of those 3 things, I'll let you guess which it is.

> But the city has invited them to move to a specially created "bookseller village" in a "literary neighbourhood near to the Seine" for the duration of the 33rd Olympiad between 26 July and 11 August.

> However, Callais said the proposed location of Bastille square was not a realistic solution and no other compensation had been proposed.

> "No one is going to go to that market," he said

Hold up now, do people come to Paris to see booksellers or not? Cause if they do they will go where you are.

It's hard for me to see this as anything but the equivalent of the kiosks in the mall that I abhor but someone please tell me if I'm wrong. If these booksellers are actually a net positive and if the Olympic committee are being jerks about it.
Anyone who's worked in a hospital knows this. Medical staff looks down on the IT people, with a vengeance.
> go-git aims to be fully compatible with git, all the porcelain operations are implemented to work exactly as git does.

It literally says this on the tin, yes. But it's not. I'm simply providing my own experience and a disclaimer.

Sure, they "happily accept helpful PRs" but the code is so very complex and many paths have horrible performance that it's an incredible uphill battle. To be clear I'm not simply shitting on this library, I'm saying it's not a reasonable choice over just using git directly, and is unlikely to ever be.

I haven't made any comment on TFA so while I'm not cheering it on, I do think the spirit is correct: just do the thing you need to do, don't try to be feature complete, just solve the task at hand.
Moved on to dark patterns and dumbed down interfaces. Personally, I really miss mnemonics. Alt+underlined letter for_everything_. But having an underlined letter for everything died out and keyboard nav means a lot more memorization.
I'm a big fan of this aesthetic. If you appreciate the usability of W95 without needing a pixel perfect copy, it's very easy to theme KDE to strike a really good balance.

As your global theme, use 'Reactionary'. Set your application style to 'MS Windows 9x'. For your icons, use 'Memphis98'. For cursors, 'Hackneyed (scaleable)'. Your Plasma style, colours, and window decorations should all follow your global theme (Reactionary). I keep the default Noto fonts because I find them quite easy on the eyes, but this is easy to change if you yearn for classic fonts.

My task bar (bottom bar) is set to use full names and not combine apps; I also use the application menu that looks like W95, and I've got it set to use a little W95 Start icon for that touch of nostalgia. Otherwise it's all very minimalist.

I've used this set-up for years and it works really well for me. I find it very conducive to being productive - it's stable, unchanging, and respectful of my attention and focus. I also don't need to hack away at anything or worry about updates - KDE officially supports theming and handles all of this really seamlessly.
A shuttle launch to repair or retrieve an end-of-life satellite seems like it would prove rather worse for the environment with the thousand-plus tonnes of fuel, including solid fuel boosters and the 30 tonnes of burned-up fuel tank that also falls in the sea than dropping what remains of a compact car's (the Aeolus dry mass is 1200kg) worth of metal after an unshielded reentry.
That's not how I remember it. Windows 9x was slow and constantly crashing. Booting and launching programs took ages. To be fair, the performance problems had more to do with the available hardware back then, but still.
People wrote 3 days ago that i will take a day for it to be reproduced. Where are the results?
For something to be a basis each element needs to be the finite linear combination. Of course there are notions for different kinds of choices of basis, where you have countable linear combinations.

The article (maybe for good reason) completely ignores the (usually quite hard) choice in functional analysis which vectorspace to use.

And the one outlined here, where functions are defined pointwise, is amost always the most useless one to consider. Although I get that it was done to teach the general outline of the subject, which is quite valuable on its own.

>Clearly there is no Fourier transformation possible on all functions?

You don't even get a useful metric for such a space.
> Well, it's right for the leading edge.

No, the point was that the leading edge will stop advancing when it can no longer compete economically with companies that sell mature nodes. Which is obvious, but I was just being similarly reductive.

> The point is that they will stop scaling chips before technical limits are reached.

Sure, like most commercial ventures, cost becomes prohibitive at some point and overtakes benefits. As it always has been.
I am truly finding it hard to explain it. I have tried along a dozen angles. I actually think it is a completely new concept - and that might be the problem. But there is actual value here, because it "merges" the amazingness of using messaging, with the simplicity of "linear thought" that synchronous, blocking code gives (i.e. ISC using e.g. REST or gRPC). #)

There is an illustration on the front-page: https://mats3.io/

This page tries to directly explain the idea - but I guess it assumes that the reader is already extremely familiar with message queuing? https://mats3.io/docs/message-oriented-rpc/

Here's a set of small answers, from different angles, to "What is Mats?": https://github.com/centiservice/mats3/blob/main/README.md#wh...

Here's a way to code up Mats3 endpoints using JBang and a small toolkit which makes it extremely simple to explore the ideas - the article should also be skimmable even without a command line available: https://mats3.io/explore/jbang-mats/

If you read these and then get it, I would be extremely happy if you gave me a sentence or paragraph that would have led you to understanding faster!

The concept of messaging with queues and topics are essential to Mats3 - but the use of JMS is really just a transport. I could really have used anything, incl. any MQ over any protocol, or ZeroMQ, or plain TCP - or just a shared table in a database (but would then have had to implement the queue and topic semantics). As a developer, you code Mats3 Endpoints by using the Mats3 API, and you initiate Mats3 Flows using the API. You need an implementation of the MatsFactory to do this, and the sole existing is the JmsMatsFactory - which works on top of ActiveMQ and Artemis's JMS clients.

Wrt. WebSockets, that is a transport typically between a server, and a end-user client, e.g. an iOS App. Actually, there's also a "sister project", MatsSockets, that bring the utter async-ness of Mats3 all the way out to the client, e.g. a webpage or an app. https://matssocket.io/

NATS is, AFAIU, just a message broker, with some ability to orchestrate. Fundamentally, I do not like this concept of orchestration as an external service - this is one of the founding ideas of Mats3: Do the orchestration within each service, as you would do if you employed REST as the ISC mechanism. I do however assume that one could make a Mats3 implementation on top of NATS client libs.

#) Java's Project Loom is extremely interesting to me, as its argument for using threads as the basis of concurrency instead of asynchronous styles of programming, is exactly the same rationale for which I made Mats3: It is much simpler for the brain to grok a linear, sequential, "straight-down" code, than lots of pieces of code that are strung together in a callback-hell. Async/await is a way to make such callback-hell more readable, "linearaize it" (but you still have the "colored methods" problem which Loom just obliterates in a perfect explosion). One could argue that this is what I have achieved with Mats3 when using messaging.
You could scale it without interpolation, giving you a crisper image at larger resolutions without blurring or smoothing.
Attestation is an issue in incentives, particularly on the part of website owners who lose incentive to offer a decent UX to non-attested users when most users are attested.

Apple PATs in isolation cannot achieve this, while google is making a new web standard that will almost certainly achieve this if it is successfully pushed.

That is, apple-only PATs are compatible with an open web. WEI as a standard is incompatible with an open web.

That said, PATs become dangerous in a world where WEI is being pushed - to that end I’ve recently disabled PATs on my iDevice.
That’s not by any reasonable definition a “monopoly” any more than saying I have a “monopoly” on my posts.

And either way, monopoly or not is irrelevant. If the writers weren’t able to get a fair deal because their was only one studio or distributor it would be a monopsony
X-windowing system is also MIT-licensed, were they every avoiding that license?
Sex-specific differences in myocardial injury after Covid-19 Vaccination
So I have two immediate options, buy a car or fix SF or NYC's mental illness or drug problems, which should I chose to protect my family?
Personally Windows 8 UI and after is the reason I'm never going to touch this specific OS again. In fact, I find it an even bigger hindrance than the monstrosity Windows Updates is.
Reminds me of the CRISPR "war" between groups of scientists who tried to patent is llt as their own.

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-battle-lines-ove...
One more time: The number of people killed by each does not matter to me.

What matters is the chance of getting hit at all. I still have not seen a credible study about causes of accidents involving an injured pedestrian.
> GNU Emacs is now dependent on TreeSitter which is a MIT-licensed project and LSP which is a Microsoft project

Not really dependent (you can build and use Emacs without either).
I love how your arguments against anything you dislike but should be legal because of personal freedom (gambling, crypto) is simply a teenager ranting.
Diagnostic medical errors are a problem. Will A.I. come to the rescue?
It felt like I had had too much sugar (inflammation).
Why Farmland Exists in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
https://archive.is/0itCr
> Cautious Mouthwash Use:

My dental hygienist explicitly advises against mouthwash use.

IIRC the argument given to me was that the bacteria in the mouth eventually build up a resistance to the mouthwash, i.e. similar concept to antibiotic misuse.

Good diet, correct brushing twice a day, and correct flossing once a day is all that is required. Along with an annual visit to the dentist.
A communication app with quantum resistant encryption is easy. Just use Kyber in a hybrid mode with ECC for key exchange.

ECC is just defense in depth against Kyber having weaknesses because it’s new.
Socialism is when workers own and control the means of production. Capitalism is the opposite. There is no such thing as a "mixed economy." Social programs are not exclusive to socialism.
I was comparing various ways of boosting my nitric oxide at the time. I could see it visibly (increased red complexion) and my cognition also improved. Subjective, yes, but that was good enough.
I worked on circuit boards mostly. One day I noticed a kind of buzzing in my guts, like an overloaded inductor. A couple of weeks later I noticed it again.

The buzzing got louder and louder. I needed to stay in my job long enough to fulfill electrical registration requirements, so I left the same day my ticket came through.

It might be something about the electricity that f's me up with computers. I do know I keep much better health away from them.

I'm writing this on a phone - for some reason that doesn't hurt so badly.

I can design algorithms, write stories, investigate questions in Physics or Chemistry etc quite well - for as long as I don't try to do it with a computer.

As for now, I find I'm better off, in myself, doing quieter work.
You can both be right if you assume a shift away from taxing wealth to taxing income (or unearned to earned income).
They did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_food_an...

(PDOs granted pre-Brexit continue to be in force, though new ones can't be granted for UK stuff)
Fructose is not just in fruit. Table sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose.

In extreme moderation nothing is unhealthy. One drink a week, one cigarette a weak, a teaspoon of sugar a day or one fruit a day are all perfectly fine.

Overconsumption is unhealthy.

Fructose is more unhealthy than glucose because glucose is absorbed by your whole body and fructose by your liver.

Liver is small so it's easier to over tax it. Just like a car engine will fail faster if you drive at max speed all the time, your liver will stop working well if you constantly overload it with processing fructose.

Fructose turns into fat which is deposited in your belly (you get fat / overweight) and in your liver, which is worse.

It leads to fatty liver disease i.e. the fat prevents optimal liver functions which leads to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and other metabolism / autoimmune issues. You're more likely to catch a flu or die from covid.

https://www.vegetariantimes.com/health-nutrition/nutritionis...
So you are saying that landlords should have to pay the original architects of the buildings part of their rental income?

Are you okay with paying residuals to every library author when you use an npm package?
Similarly, the leverage or “reusability” equals complexity of the implementation divided by size of the interface
China Launches First 700 TEU Electric Containership for Yangtze Service
> interdental toothbrushes. If you’re not using them already, you may want to start. Very helpful. Much better than flossing

Interdental brushes are IN ADDITION to, not instead of flossing.

Interdental brushes, by definition, cannot get down to the gumline gap between tooth and gum. Something which ONLY correct flossing can do.

Ask your hygienist next time you see them.
It is somewhat likely that effective free electron laser is locked up behind the invention secrecy act of 1951 as a critical DOD tech.
You believe that an effective way to discuss things is to manufacture views that your interlocutors never expressed, and then consider it dishonest that they never expressed those views you manufactured for them?

I, for one, consider it very dishonest that you have yet to say a single word in this thread about your belief in leprechauns with pots of gold at the ends of rainbows. Why are you hiding your views? Just be honest!
That reminds me of cauliflowers squeaking as they grow with their florets squeezing against themselves.
Someone should immediately make a cloud to butt like extension out of this.
I keep the cynicism inside me in check usually, but these days finding it harder to do. So people contribute to this and then what? Google/MS/OpenAI etc train models on the data and try to sell it back to us?
https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/05876...
The problem nobody seems to want to tackle is: how do we get more and better trained doctors to go through the expensive and soul crushing years of med school and into the workforce? All the while the west experiences a population decrease and more need than ever for care (especially the elder variety).

Because if this cannot be answered pray to god we find a way to automate most stuff with AI and robots
Or China.

>This trick has been played dozens of times but somehow people still fall for it...

and will keep falling for it. They can keep doing it because it keeps working, and people won't bother thinking a little bit deeper about the issue.

A whole lot of issues could be solved or on a good path to being solved if more people did that.
It sounds like you're saying that it's impossible for a parent to support their child to 'accelerate' in math whilst simultaneously supporting their attainment of beyond-grade-level-expectation reading and written/oral communication skills.

Have I understood that correctly?
IO was slow. Once stuff was in RAM, it was quite fast.
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is the main issue with healthcare services on the cloud is auditing physical access to the machines. If any questions come up then the service provider "should" be able to tell a court exactly where a healthcare company's data is and what technicians had access at different times. Microsoft, Google, etc are still totally happy to sell that service, but there is a separate legal agreement that has to signed to say "we care about healthcare privacy".
If we're using anecdotes, cars are the reason my kids don't walk independently, and the reason we're moving to the Netherlands next month. Drivers are the leading cause of dead children in the US.

Aside from directly killing children in impacts, car dependent design is usually hostile to walking anyway, for adults as well as kids. Walking to school is nice, but challenging when hundreds of parents late for work in tall, poor front visibility SUV's are running stop signs on the same streets where your child is walking.
I haven't used his method (or tools) for finding locations. On his video though he does mention Austria/Vienna for museums, etc (on his screenshare), so I assume (assumption1) that if it shares data with OsmAnd (and others) it would be very useful for (anywhere) where internet is prevalent (Americas, Europe, Oceania, most of Asia).
It’s a complex event. Those were the high level options, which remove the political factors.

In the context of being in the middle of bombing campaigns of cities, the moral turpitude of mass killing of people was long pushed aside. Total war meant everyone was part of the war effort.

So you’re left with a couple of factors. The prospect of invasion, the likelihood of getting a peaceful settlement, and the prospect of Soviet involvement.

Bombing and starvation wasn’t working fast enough to cause the intransigent military junta to bend. I think the idea was that the shock of atomic bombing would empower the collapse of the government, and cow the Soviets.

At the end, they came to the table, and the US accepted a conditional surrender.

Personally, I think if folks are going to be intellectually honest about the atomic bombings, you have to have the same position and advocacy for scaled destruction of cities in general. The firestorms, created by napalm and phosphorus and inflicted on Tokyo, Dresden and Hamburg among others were no less a horror. Decrying the tool allows people to explain away from the context. A more efficient killing machine doesn’t make the killing any more or less righteous. I think the Japanese perspective of this has been around embracing the pursuit of peace. A worthy goal that we’ve abandoned.
> It's not "both sidesing" in the same sense as debate, but [emphasis mine]

Ha! Seeing you use a literal non-sequitur to as a counter is a perfect illustration of why rhetoric exercises aren't an automatic pathway to sound logical reasoning.

(Explicitly the argument by edanm goes: "I hold the proposition 'A does not do B' is not true, because A does C")
For a 50 year old project, they have been quick to adopt new technologies like Tree Sitter lately. It definitely feels there is a lot of activity behind the scenes to remain as relevant as ever in face of editor fads such as VSCode and (ducks) NeoVIM.
That's not even a nudge, you're not attempting to change anyone's behaviour (which is: do nothing) you're trying to take advantage of their default behaviour. Basically just putting the bin where people dump trash anyway isn't a "nudge".
Posting this because I often see a lot of comments disparaging the Ribbon UI, but I think it has its merits, and its worthwhile to see how it came into existence. It was developed because the traditional dropdown menus they were using in 2003 weren't able to keep up with the sheer volume of features they were adding. I wonder how long it can continue into the future. Will Word eventually be so packed with stuff that even the Ribbon UI isn't enough? Maybe you'll just get a command palette where you search for what you want, as in VSCode. Or an embedded LLM ...

Also the initial title I submitted this under was "The Story of the MS Ribbon", I like that HN seems to automatically strip out filler phrases.
It's in progress https://nitter.net/skdh/status/1684917544103116800 There will be a live stream once the material is ready apparently.

Related Twitter space recording available https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1685465431317114880

(That's the only one I'm aware of. There may be more)
So wait --- have right wing politicians in Texas finally accepted that global warming is for real? No longer just a hoax created by lefty scientists?

Or are some still clinging to their fallback theory --- that increasing CO2 levels have nothing to do with it? Pulling billions of tons of carbon out of the ground every year and burning it in the atmosphere is totally irrelevant?

Right wing politics is rooted in magic and magical thinking. But realty is nothing if not persistent.
Emacs: Scan this QR/bar code
The dose makes the poison. The amount of fructose in an Apple is tiny compared to the amount in a Coke.
I'm out of the loop, can someone please provide ELI5ed context for this?
...candy is money and perks.
> I think there is not enough believers in the ideology anymore

I don't know what ideology you're talking about, but the only one I've ever had is the Emacs ideology: use the best program ever made and be happy.