skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Coke is cheaper than bottled water because of the aggressive subsidies they've pursued.

Source? Last time I looked into it[1], the claim didn't hold up to scrutiny.

>Speaking of guns and forcing people though, are we going to talk about how the company funds paramilitary forces in countries such as Columbia where they kill union activists? I guess those people are foreigners so they don't really enter the calculus. There's nothing more quintessentially American than funding death squads in Latin America I suppose. https://prospect.org/features/coca-cola-killings/

I skimmed the article and couldn't find anything that supports the claim that "the company funds paramilitary forces". It mentions there's a lawsuit that claims coca-cola was "complicit" (which by the way, ended up being dismissed[2]), and outlines violence against labor organizers by the paramilitaries, but stops short of claiming they were funded by the company.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36841407

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co.
That exactly right, high dose vitamin C that doesn't go through the GI tract (given IV) is pro-oxidant rather than anti-oxidant.

Intravenous High-Dose Vitamin C in Cancer Therapy
https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras/ras-cent...

High-dose vitamin C enhances cancer immunotherapy
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aay8707
That's not what renewable means. Renewable energy means that the source is naturally replenished within a human lifetime. In other words, the source isn't permanently depleted by tapping into it.

This is the case with solar energy: the Sun's energy output doesn't change depending on whether we use it or not. Renewable doesn't mean perpetual - that'd be physically impossible for all we know.
Would probably make it liable to DMCA, but I wish they could have the rotating 'N cube' passing through two orthogonal portals on boot up.

Looks like a great project. I'm going to have to give it a go on the emulator.
I would assert so, oddly enough different metals kill different bacteria, let's see.

I shall now search ncbi and see:
Bismuth apparently has action, especially highlighted against E. Coli: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8236042/

One study found few significant changes on normal fecal microflora before and after during a 1-2 day treatment period (I'm assuming this is a 'normal use' case :')))): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2305174/
Yes. Of course not meaning actually mental illness, but their values feel so out of wack it doesn’t make sense
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle and ignoring our requests to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You have some sources for “Sweden and France are failed countries”? Something tells me that’s not quite an objective take. “Inequality exists now so it will always” is also not the objective scientific take I think you’re implying it to be
Insurance isn’t run “at cost” it’s run for profit. Insurers are leaving because there isn’t enough profit, and State insurance cuts out the profit part. It’s also more trustworthy, there are many low cost insurers in Florida that just completely screwed their customers. A disaster hit and they just refuse to pay:

https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/florida-insurers-close-n...
"I had been making this thing that I was going to share with the world in X, now I'll have to choose Y or Z".

The dangle is this sharing of X with the world. If whatever they were writing was private, nobody would have cared, and they'd have known that enough not to bother dangling it.
If you have a Pro license and you specify you intend to domain join the PC, Windows 11 drops you out to a local account, but there's no escape for Home licenses. It's pretty much impossible to remove that from Windows unless they decide to let you domain join from the OOBE, but that would be too convenient for sysadmins so it'll never happen.
Leave it to HN to be unaware of the physical or social mechanics of reproduction
No, any copyleft license is a better open source license. In fact, proprietary licenses are better as well; with MIT or BSD licenses you are writing code that a corporation will make proprietary, effectively writing proprietary code for them, except you don't get paid for it. It would be better to use a proprietary license and get paid than to use the BSD/MIT license, have your code turned into that same proprietary product, and not even get paid for it.

Even giving your code to the public domain is better than an MIT or BSD license; corporations will still be able to make it proprietary but at least it clears the air around the 'interesting question' of mixing MIT/BSD code into a copyleft project and distributing the whole lot under a copyleft license.
From the article: “To get a TRULY random number sequence, you'd need to rely upon some truly random phenomenon, like the decay of a radioactive isotope.”

How is the true randomness of a physical phenomenon proved? Perhaps naively, I imagine that as an arithmetic-based software RNG is deterministic, so is a physical RNG, as otherwise the underlying physical process would be governed by no physical principals, no? Does random in this case not necessarily mean non-deterministic, but rather no statistically visible correlations?
They never liked it. Now, acting in collusion, they can have the perfect excuse to do so without looking like a cartel.
While online sources are blocking GPTBot, the real GPTBot is walking to the nearest library for the next training session.
Yes, I manually installed KDE (via `kubuntu-desktop`)
Not only that. The paper is only even remotely plausible if the author assumes 100% efficiency. Otherwise waste heat alone would turn Earth into Venus long before any tidal locking could take effect.
I've just wanted right click menus and second screens on Wayland for ages.

My herd of yaks is only getting higher over time...
> that serious and powerful desktop interfaces

This is what people like me have been getting at for ages when we talk about decoupling interfaces from application logic. It's also incidentally a really strong argument for decoupling state presentation from visual presentation. I should be able to build a mobile interface for Audacity without rebuilding Audacity both because the audio processing logic should be separate from the interface and because the interface should be separate from the visuals -- I should be able to consume Audacity's interface as an XML tree and pipe it into a separate renderer.

Because if that was the case it wouldn't be that hard to make Audacity mobile friendly (or at least more mobile friendly than it currently is).

As a bonus, if your interface is consumable as an XML tree without rendering anything, it's very likely going to be much easier to make the interface accessible. From what I can see in the documentation, Audacity as a native app on desktop doesn't work with screen readers on Linux.

This is not necessarily anyone's fault beyond GUI toolkit designers, it's not particular to Audacity, but it's a paradigm shift. Some visual controls wouldn't work well on mobile, but for most apps including Audacity there's really no reason (other than lack of existing infrastructure and toolkit support) why people shouldn't be able to just swap out those visual controls with ones that do work on mobile and use Audacity normally otherwise.
This is interesting. I have only used k8s and k3s at the larger scales.

For small scale hosting who do you recommend? I have a few projects I want to get going and thinking it might help to be able to leverage my existing kubernetes knowledge. I always figured it would be too expensive to go with kubernetes for a small project.
Maybe some percent of them are just testing out the Cornish solidarity thing.
I admit, I didn't think about it under that angle.

But I do wonder how much VS Code being "kinda open source" mattered. I may be in an MS-centric bubble, but most people I interact with couldn't care less about that. They're using closed-source software all over. Their main reasons for switching to VS Code seem to be the free-as-in-beer part, and that it's more practical than the OG VisualStudio. They're 99% Windows devs.
This is fascinating, wow. Thank you for sharing that.

If it was not clear from my earlier oligodynamic post, I'm autistic and the fewer day-disrupting routines I have (washing cup with soap, I'm allergic to almost any detergent so it's a ....very long and stressful process to make it 'drinkable' and safe-feeling [unfortunately only detergent seems to get the biofilm]) the better.

I've heard of farmers putting copper pennies in their rain barrels (yes, it actually works, apparently increases the amount of copper ions in the water a decent bit though IIRC? There's some downside), I hadn't thought of the silver contact bit.

I struggle with cups building biofilm quickly, I'll have to electroplate some with silver or just put a piece of silver in there in the meantime to keep it clean for longer-term storage.
I wish I had 100Gbps interconnects! My network is only 10Gbps.
A time-honored approach!

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/win-usa-04/bh-win-04-...

(minus directly emitting opcodes, and fitting into 500 lines, of course.)
Wow. Hadn't realised Amiga had clung on that long!
Shape-Changing Biofeedback-Based Ball May Help Improve Mental Health
You can't just accuse someone of going scorched earth on others for technical criticism, without backing that up. Talk about a specific instance where he has done that, ideally with links.

Just throwing accusations at people the way you're doing is actually a really shitty thing to do. Even if he was 100% guilty of all the things you claim, your conduct is not acceptable.
Incidentally, this also causes the tidal effects to weaken to a point where calculations show that tidal locking will actually never happen.
Ideally the system isn’t propped up by tax dollars. Previously lucrative regions becoming financially uninhabitable is probably the one thing nobody can ignore.

It’s what I like about the insurance industry: it cares not for opinions and moods and politics because it is betting with cash. No amount of climate denial changes the math on a bad deal.
I love the graphic - would go see the worlds largest chomsky
Command + arrow keys. Play around with them in your text editor of choice and you’ll never move your cursor another way
It is true that there are "twins" but they are not the commonly foraged ones. Common ones are quite easily distinguished from the poisonous ones, and those that have bad twins, the twins also taste pretty bad (extremely bitter, etc.) If you don't try to eat every possible edible mushroom as a sport but stick to the most easily recognized ones you'll be fine.
Yes, using imported equipment, tools, labour, QA, know how and management staff. They just rubber stamp the made in China seal. And data supports that claim since it's Taiwan the world producer of 7nm chips.
Valid criticism, ish, but that wasn't in what was previously asked for so well done on being like my day-job clients and failing to specify the problem completely :)

You can specify multiple URLs on the same command in curl so using xargs in this way would do what you ask to an extent (the connection would be dropped and renegotiated at least between each batch) as long as you don't use any options that imply --max-lines=1.

With the --max-procs option you could be requesting multiple files at once which may improve performance over wget -i – though obviously take care doing this against a single site (with wget -i too for that matter) as this can be rather unfriendly (if requesting from multiple hosts this is moot, as is the multiple files-from-one-connection point).
>And while Coca-Cola does use leaf extract that has had the cocaine removed from it, this is less a "seedless watermelon" situation and more of a "decaffeinated coffee" situation.

>So basically, Coca-Cola is kind of orthogonal to Colombian drug cartels.

This comment is baffling. The first paragraph implies that coca-cola is somehow acting like a drug cartel because their products contain coca extract, but the second paragraph does a 180 and claims that it's "orthogonal" (ie. independent or irrelevant) to drug cartels.
Burning the CO2 to watch the movie is probably more unethical than paying the $5.99. That CO2 isn’t coming down for 100 years.
He's a nice guy but yeah I agree. He screwed up big time.

His wife is an illustrator (books). If she expanded into something they could probably get their total income above 300k.

Regardless, I wouldn't live in SV unless both myself and my wife were making $300k for a $600k combined.
The US or EU should pick up the tab. The UK is not really a wealthy country anymore and things critical to STEM should slowly be transferred out as it doesn’t have the economic power to sustain them any longer.
Humanity needing that amount of energy seems obviously absurd, but then I suppose a CPU with 100 billion transistors seemed clearly impossible in 1960.

Maybe a few hundred years from now, Internet archaeologists will find your comment as one of the first harbingers of the coming World Energy Crisis, much as we see the 1912 Rodney & Otamatea Times "Coal Consumption Affecting Climate" snippet today.[0]

Then they'll find this comment...

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[0] https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/rodney-and-otam...
Same here ;) But now there's "8 GB and constantly swapping": Eclipse! I logged once on a dev server to test something, it was slow and I checked what was going on. On this 64 GB machine, 8 Eclipse users, each Eclipse using a tad over 8 GB, led to significant swapping. What a world!
> I'm reasonably sure that I'm not going to need to learn a new front-end framework before 2040 unless I want to

Maybe not, but there is a good chance that Vue in 2040 is nothing like Vue today.
The average user can barely hit the space bar with their forehead. Creating programming tools designed for the average user will always be a study in mediocrity.
Which is why RSI averse people recommend having multiple different input devices.

I do not suffer from RSI, but I have different keyboards for different things.
I fear the end result of this is going to be federal bailouts of state insurance programs, which means that money will get politicized and used to further someones agenda as a means to passing.

I often wonder how far away we are from funding being withheld from states with bad public policy as perceived by the party in power. It sets dangerous precedents of coupling human suffering to policy maneuvers (which I realize, happens even today, but in broader strokes NY gets hurricane assistance same as Florida. Imagine a scenario where Florida's general public is punished because of laws on their books, or New York public is punished because of policies it has etc.)
This site provides a concise description of many review types: https://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/sysreview/types
> They are predominantly not catholic, still eastern orthodox.

I don't know what the grandparent meant, but the official name of the Eastern Orthodox Church is "Orthodox Catholic Church", so the phrase "Russian Orthodox Catholics" is technically correct, if prone to confuse the uninitiated. It is possible their native language isn't English, and in their native language, (the equivalent of) "Orthodox Catholic" is a common phrase, as opposed to the confusing obscurity it is in English.

While in popular (English) parlance the Roman Catholic Church has somewhat of a monopoly on the word "Catholic", theologically speaking all Christian groups which accept the Nicene Creed claim to be (or to be part of) the "One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church" in which that creed proclaims belief, and hence Orthodox and (creedal) Protestants officially believe they are Catholics too. (Some less ecumenically-minded Orthodox and Protestants will even go so far as to believe that they are the only real Catholics, and Roman Catholics are fake Catholics.)

> But I think the eastern orthodox church had some reforms that they did not agree with.

The Russian Orthodox Church decided to abandon some of its own liturgical traditions and replace them with imported Greek ones instead. This upset the Old Believers, and the Church refused to compromise, so they left. Later, it decided to become more tolerant, and allow individual congregations to keep the old practices, so some of them (the Edinoverie) returned. But other groups of Old Believers insisted the reforms were heretical, and hence the Russian Orthodox Church were a bunch of heretics and it was a sin to rejoin them, even if they were now willing to allow the old practices to be retained.
You took the words out of my mouth. ATA/133 is ~2001 for the drives of 20/40/80Gb. It's a bit too late for a 9Gb drive to show the merits.
> taxes in NYC for instance can exceed 50%

Is that a marginal rate or total tax burden?
Brazil's Pre-Salt Oil Gains Unprecedented Global Popularity
Yeah— even as a non-musician who has to deal with music in a media production/directing capacity, I immediately knew what you meant. Someone who doesn't interrogate musical aesthetic deliberately might assume it encapsulated instrumentation, composition, and maybe artists or something definable like that, but it encompasses so much more than that— then-current trends in recording and production, cultural context, how it was intended to make people feel and then maybe how it really did make people feel, etc etc etc. WAY more things than you'd want to enumerate individually. Like I said, I'm not a musician, but as an art director, if I asked for a "twee ding dong ukulele whistle" song that builds energy into a "2012 bank-commercial stomp clap hey" bridge, which then turns into a weird al version of itself for comedic impact, you'd know what I was looking for enough to bring to an initial meeting.
What if the initial training already contains all necessary data for a particular specialization? What would be the benefit of continuing the training process?
It looks like you've been using HN primarily, if not exclusively, to post about basically one topic. Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed because pre-existing agendas are the opposite of curiosity, which is what we're trying to optimize for. I appreciate that you know a lot about this topic and have good reason to feel strongly about it, but I need to ask you to stop using HN this way because in the end it degrades what the site is supposed to be for. Pre-existing agendas are repetitive and predictable, and that's the essence of what we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Yes but they’re slow enough on normal hardware for that 5-10x to be painful…
Yeah a mistake like working for an insane dictator known for murdering people who crossed him. Common thing, could happen to anyone.
the rest of the world still has to catch up to these levels. Granted, they won't get to the absurd wastage levels of north america but they will continue to consume more energy. Just looking at the energy levels in one country doesn't tell you much.
You’re describing government. People cooperate through government to insure stability.

I will never understand the endless linguistic indirection when in the end it’s all Soylent Green; just people.
Just tried to install it from AUR, and it didn’t run on my Arch Linux system.

`$ freeoffice-textmaker`

Critical System Error: Unable to open X Window display. <:0>

I assume it doesn’t support Wayland. And I don’t support X, I don’t use it and if an app doesn’t work on Wayland, I won’t use it. May be useful for someone else, who doesn’t tolerate Wayland being unsupported.
Yeah, good luck with that losers :)
Many contemporary computing platforms have some kind of HW RNG built into them, these are often regarded with some kind of skepticism as they are not really auditable.

The larger issue is that these are not really needed, any device that does something useful (ie. interacts with the outside world) and retains some kind of non-volatile internal state is perfectly capable of generating cryptographic randomness purely in software.
I didn’t say genocide, I said violence over scarce resources. They are distinct motivators. I also didn’t say to start it, I said to win.

> To answer your question: i think it’s more likely that we build an egalitarian global society, or at least continue on the path.

Good luck with that. Hope is not a strategy, but hopefully the future is not as bleak as the current data predicts. Show me a voter cohort that will willingly give up substantial go forward energy or resource quality of life for people on the other side of the world who they have not nor will never meet. Do you know how many people are dying right now at this moment because their basic needs are not being met? One every 4 seconds per Oxfam. This is before more frequent heat events, crop failures, aquifers reaching terminal depletion, etc.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/humanitarian-organiz...

Agreed it’s (extremely!) depressing, but facts are different than a reality based on feelings. Finding truth is following the facts to the (sometimes) unpleasant places it takes us.
Serious question - no snark just genuine ignorance, what products have Google and Apple done this with?
I hope I’m allowed to self promote here.

But i have a blog where I write technical content mostly about things I find interesting

Here’s the link: https://muhammadraza.me/

I would love to hear the feedback from the community about it
Nationwide recently said they will no longer provide plans in coastal regions, excluding many of the population centers of the US. They should be required to either cover everyone or no one, just like health insurers supposedly do.
A union's priorities reflect those of its constituent members.
That would certainly be interesting.

Having left law to once again be a software engineer, I almost never find myself curious about the development of caselaw, but I think I'd follow that case lol
The future is hard to predict.

I'm willing to bet our descendants will be approximately as irrational and lucky as humans have always been.

There's a good chance that at least one of those ten billion are going to have some radically good ideas, and an even better chance than a few more will have some really good ideas.
Despite all the scoffing in this thread, they’ve gone on at about that rate for 200+ years now.

Expecting a deviation from this is kinda “climate change will slow down in the 2000s and 2010s from green energy” level magical thinking.
Is Classics’ empire in terminal decline? (2021)
I really enjoy blog posts from matt

I really like his content
There's always the CINT interpreter for C and C++.

https://root.cern.ch/root/html534/guides/users-guide/CINT.ht...
This was a very good book. Together with the code on the cob series by Chris Hargrove of 3DRealms, it gave a great insight into 3d engine programming, account, memory management etc
I don’t think this is taking the OP in good faith. People in jail are arguably “returning” the most important thing anyone can have— their time on earth.
Cymatics is very interesting.
>Are you going to apologize for criminals because people have free will?

Typically victims of crime didn't choose to be harmed out of their own free will. A murder victim didn't consent to be killed. In that case I'm not sure how "free will" applies. People suffering from the negative effects of coke however, did consume it out of their free will.
Or for something more flexible: ^ *--foo. But unfortunately this kind of pattern will be defeated by -f, --foo indexes.