skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, don't just read the headline and think that keto is going to be enough to cure or even prevent cancer. This study is a single patient that went on a ketogenic diet AFTER chemo/radiation therapy and saw a .1 CM reduction. Nothing happened even after they stopped the keto diet.

Always take extraordinary claims about cancer treatments with an asteroid sized grain of salt.
I've always wanted some kind of throwable sticker that says "Watch out, I don't know how to drive!" That's close to what I yell when people playing with their phones almost hit me when I am bike commuting, "learn to drive!"
Does this mean you are rejecting it because it has syntax highlighting? It has theme support so you can absolutely turn that off if you’d like.
> People try diets (I prefer extended water fasting)

One of the ideas of the epilepsy-keto-diet is to mimic fasting (children would stop seizures when fasting).
I vote for abstract geometric concepts.
The best way I've found to get people to visit is to put your blog posts out on platforms where potential readers might be.

Hacker News is great for any kind of tech related post, and any similar-ish type content.

LinkedIn if you have a large following is a great place to post as well, make sure to add the relevant hashtags to your post's topics so that others who paruse those interests might see them.

Subreddits relevant to the post content are always a good way to go, and there really is a subreddit for anything, so that can be a driver of traffic.

Also, make sure once you have people on a given post to _ask them to subscribe_ you need to have a call to action at the end of your post in order to remind people that you exist, that your writing is interesting, and that they might want to see more. It feels a little weird, but a single sentence at the end can help people take that leap.

That said, its a giant crapshoot. I posted a blog post[1] around the same time that you did for this AskHN post, and sometimes you get engagement, and sometimes you dont. This time I wasnt so lucky, but if you're consistent, I'd say about half the time you get decent enough engagement.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38267389
No, it's not. A reasonable cryptanalytical model of a modern stream cipher (AED in a stream mode, or Salsa20, or whatever) is that --- within the birthday bounds of the underlying cipher (exabytes? you'd look it up, whatever you're using), and, in the case of something like an AEAD (or maybe just in the idiosyncratic case of GCM), the bounds of your nonce width --- they're not leaking _anything_. "Comical" really is the right word to use with respect to what RC4 did. It is kind of amazing that a cipher that broken remained in common use for as long as it did.
did an suv write this
I draw the line at "mega-processed" foods.
+ civil penalties from the family of the slaughtered.
Someone get this kid a job.

Way at the bottom: Think this was cool? Hiring software engineering interns for Summer 2024? Check out my resume here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EN2k5ZUOLTvMs_NZtUq8tKVK...
IDK, I read about it in an issue of Mother Earth News I think?
They're also more dangerous to their occupants than mid-sized sedans.

There should also be an SUV tax.
Give conference talks on what you write about. Each one will drive a long tail of viewers and some will stick around. Especially if the conference records and publishes the talk.

Get popular blogs to allow you to write as a guest. They'll own that content, but usually they will let you link back to your own homepage.

I don't maintain my blog anymore, but when I did, those things worked.
I'm sure this works in some places, but if you try this somewhere like Philadelphia or New York (or indeed most of the USA) you'd be "asserting yourself" from the hospital.
It’s so cool that an artist took the extra time to precisely paint the score on a wall.
No idea if we have the same health condition(s) but I know exactly the phenomenon you're talking about. It's interesting/funny how different communities display this at different levels, though: way too many people in the autoimmune arthritis groups try to brute force their way through with sketchy diets (spoiler alert, they don't prevent permanent skeletal damage the way medications do), but most (not all) people in the inflammatory bowel disease groups are like "for the love of god please give me every drug you've got." Doubly interesting that the conditions themselves are often comorbid and the medications that treat one frequently treat both.

For cancer specifically, I've heard some pretty wild anecdotes about the Steve Jobs-esque diet truthers... and none that ended well.

One guy told me that his dad had cancer, and the "shill doctors" were trying to push chemo, but his dad opted for some pressed juice(?) regimen instead, with apparent success.

So I'm like "that's great, man, glad your dad is doing better" and he told me no, his dad did pass away... from getting chemo. Or so he claims. But it sounds to me like he really did just die of cancer.
There's a giant swimming pool in Galveston which has a full underwater replica of the ISS for astronaut training. There are other scuba divers that work with the astronauts when they practice maintenance. One of their jobs (like the invisible waiter at a high end restaurant that makes dirty utensils go away) is to "retrieve" anything that the astronauts "put down". Often the maintenance jobs are multi-hour "space walks".

Apparently, it basically happens every training and the divers take great joy in putting the items on the Lost Wall for everyone to see.
How do we define "working" here?

Does "working" mean it prevents people from using drugs? In that case, throwing millions of people into prison must be a great idea! I call bullshit.

We need to be explicit about our goals! The goal I support is treatment.

Yes, decriminalization is failing to provide treatment. Of course it is! That wasn't its intended purpose in the first place. The purpose was to stop punishing victims with incarceration and felony conviction.

We still need to replace the broken system with a useful one. That means regulated production and distribution of drugs instead of turning a blind eye to the black market. That means programs that heavily encourage treatment, not just "I gave them a ticket to go if they feel like it".

Just imagine if our society put half the effort we put into getting people to drink Coca-Cola into getting people healthcare.
On The Beach. So much doom I literally can’t finish it. Ok it’s post-apocalyptic but reads like it’s pre-apocalyptic.
> GraphCast makes forecasts at the high resolution of 0.25 degrees longitude/latitude (28km x 28km at the equator).

Any way to run this at even higher resolution, like 1 km? Could this resolve terrain forced effects like lenticular clouds on mountain tops?
No, the hard part of taking care of this planet is that we keep chasing after a lifestyle that is farther and farther away from nature. It's a choice we've made, not something intrinsic to the world.
I have the book, I love it!
Ulcers, bleeding, hemorrhagic stroke, kidney or liver failure, other allergic reactions and interactions with other drugs.
As I mentioned in another comment, perhaps you could invite current users to a private repo, and then make it public at the business EOL.
Hi is the benchmarking code available anywhere? I could not see it.
Works 100% of the time! If anyone counters anything you wrap in "Think of the children ®", ask them whether they support child abuse/tax evasion/terrorism. Beautiful way to shut down all debate.
I think you're underestimating the value of lofty research. I'm not a scientist, but I can imagine a few positive scenarios:

- this method or a similar one being used on earth to produce oxygen (if we ever need to)

- these AI method being applied in other fields - solving earth-problems here and now

> Cars, fossil fuel use, massive cities, most people wasting away as drones for global corporations.

These are some grim examples, but we are also using technology for good. We have a lot of work ahead of us in medicine and mental health, and AI has the potential to liberate people from chronic pain, mental decline, genetic diseases and generally just living happier and healthier. Maybe your quarrel is more with capitalism than technology, we would be drones for global corporations in some way or another even with pen and paper.
I own the C1, and while I’m no big fan of the software - the quality is significantly better and makes it worth it in my opinion. I have occasional connection issues when I plug it in, but it usually settles after a few seconds.

Most importantly, the new camera does not need any software - it’s just a high quality webcam.
Why outsource that cost to the private sector? Make a point-system for external-risk value on the road to other vehicles, pedestrians, etc. Figure in mass (yes, Teslas are risky too with their mass), bumper compatibility (SUV bumpers don't hit car bumpers), thick a-pillar blind-spots, pedestrian-hood-impact-behavior, frontover risk, stopping distance, etc.

Then assign vehicles with high external-risk-score a stricter regimen for infractions like speeding and higher registration fees.

You drive a Yaris like an absolute maniac? You can get busted a lot more times than the guy in the Rivian before they take your license away.
the opportunity cost of these people's entire working lives? How is that not a waste to society? Its not like Google is stashing its funds under a matress unless it doles out extra payroll
I agree that is outrageous.

But I'd imagine most people don't consider the survivability of pedestrians in a collision when they buy a car, since people generally overestimate their driving ability and underestimate their likelihood of ending up in an accident.

So harsher penalties might not improve car designs much.
Never gonna happen. $$$$.
I was correct in pointing out that it looks like Ukraine may have coordinated the attack, as substantiated by the WaPo article. I also believe that WaPo may be making Ukraine look like they've coordinated the attack in order to keep blame away from any US involvement. The most unlikely guilty party would of course be Russia, who has the most to lose in Nord Stream's sabotage.
Apparently it worked well for awhile, but WaPo now reports that people aren't as happy with it anymore:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru...
I've never been hit by offshoring but I have been on the other end of it. When I lived in a relatively affordable-workforce central European country we once had to do a knowledge transfer from our Canadian office which all got laid off.

We took all their work, the whole experience was bittersweet, some of the folks there took it well others less so. But I can say that the project itself was reaching a stagnating phase where not much new work needed to be done, and we were mostly doing maintenance/bug fixing. The company itself wasn't doing anything innovative either and there wasn't leadership to put the Canadian guys skills to good use.

Eventually most of those guys were hired by Intel and all got to work on exciting new technology that none of us were qualified to do.

I think this is more or less okay when it happens, if a company does massive layoffs I take it more as a sign that they are not producing much anymore. And when many companies fire tens of thousands of people all at once I basically take it as a sign that the tech sector as a whole is taking a big downturn. Maybe things will improve when we finally stumble upon some tech that needs developing that has a great potential to be profitable and takes a lot of people to develop.
As far as I can tell marijuana ticks all those marks but junkies still go for harder drugs anyway.
Two of the times I’ve come closest to getting hit were in crosswalks when the driver appeared to look at me, the car slowed down, seeming to yield and then hit the gas.

In the second case the driver stopped after, and told me she’d slowed because she was blinded by glare and then decided to just keep driving.

I don’t even know how you teach that one to a kid — never cross the street?
I used to have the VHS tapes of Connections 2 and Connections 3. They got more gaudy as the series progressed. They were less about the progression of technology and more about being shiny and spectacular.
Waiting for eye contact is also becoming more difficult as more people are blacking out their front windows, effectively obscuring everything in the car even through the windshield.
The way an LLM can teach and explain is so much better than having to chase down information manually. This is an amazing time to learn how to code.

An LLM can actually spot and fix mediocrity just fine. All you have to do is ask. Drop in some finished code and add "This code does X. What can I do to improve it?"

See what happens. If you did well, you'll even get a compliment.

It's also a massive boon in language mobility. I never really used Python, complex batch files or Unity C# before. Now I just dive right in, safe in the knowledge that I will have an answer to any basic question in seconds.
Pedestrians can conceal-carry.
Sounds kinda like the standard american diet.
It’s already currently true that many mid-tier shops employ an army of low-knowledge practitioners who will always “solve” whatever problem you give them in record time by abusing the tools you give them, reinventing wheels, punching semi-truck-sized holes in otherwise functional abstractions, barely testing anything. All is well until scaling problems or distributing desyncronization bugs or severe data-loss/replication happens in production.

Once you’ve seen this happen, and especially when you see it cause outages that costs thousands of dollars, you understand why it’s worth it to “pay more than you need”. When the rubber hits the road, having an army of automata who “get things done” is functionally not the same as having skilled developers who own their craft in the long term.

If I were starting a company today I’d probably be fine taking on some tech debt to get v1 out the door and then worry about investing in a dev team who can scale/rewrite it into the version that can scale to whatever level I need. But in no way would I want to ever again watch a junior dev who doesn’t understand how to read logs trying to implement a caching + crontask solution to reduce app load times from 30s to 15s on a backend query against a table that holds 10k records, because their code retries 500 times because they don’t understand timeouts, indices, or ORM induced n+1 issues.

In the long term, automaton armies will always curse you to the problems of local min/maxima problems unless they are backed up by someone with enough global vision to get them out of that hole.
To add to the sibling comment: rent optimization software that facilitates collusion between ostensibly competing landlords:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/14-big-landlords...
A book recommendation [for programming in C]
The model used here is very small, 41M, I wonder how well it would scale at a bigger size.
This the argument that the failure here is not the decriminalization as a concept, but the lack of a replacement for removing users of the "bad drugs" off the streets.
I previously lived and worked in Uptown in Dallas TX. I had a 1 mile walk to work which I thought would be awesome (barring summer).

What it actually was was a game of leap frog.

At 5pm thousands of middle aged men in button ups driving GMC Suburbans, Tahoes and F250s would be released into up/downtown with the sole goal of getting onto the highway as fast as possible so they could get to their suburb 30 minutes away.

Pedestrians were just interruptions. Right on red? GUN IT! Red light? HA! Scooter crossing the road? Run it over!

I wound up almost never walking to work those few years because of how ridiculously mad max walking through Uptown at 5pm was. I saw probably 10+ people on scooters get hit by cars.

That part of the city would've been really cool if there were pedestrian bridges at every major intersection. But that's not much of a Texas thing.
I mean, I trust more what she herself had to say on the matter. https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/china/story20211219-12247...

But I guess that's a controlled interview and she was forced to say that by her handlers.

At this point, these accusations are just sad. But I guess I can't convince you that I'm just a random German software engineer living and working in Germany that cares about Sino/US relations and propaganda.
Yes! POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
> Once they get with the times and record the movies in 120 fps, we can get rid of it.

SuperHighDef (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-definition_televisi...) is absolutely brilliant. I saw it live at a broadcast show in 2012.

However motion smoothing is an aberration, as is the stupid saturation and "artifact removal AI" that basically applies a box blur to everything, then applies sharpening to make up for the slow LCD response.

The thing that fucks me off about motion smoothing is that its so unreliable, its smooth for 8 frames, then breaks and comes back.

However, I think the reason why most people hate high framerate video is that is associated with cheap TV. If you're young and have never seen crappy low budget TV, I could see that you don't have that association.

The reason why 24FPS feel "expensive" is because its associated with high budget movies(so does high colour kodak feel).
It won't tell you about malware. It just means when my customers have questions about well publicised vulnerabilities in open source dependencies, they can audit themselves for the presence of that dependency with a set of standard tooling.

That said, my company is moving towards having SBOMs, but seems to be making them available on request only. Which in my mind defeats the point of having them.
Yeah, they're ahead of competition.

But that doesn't mean it's a viable replacement for space stations.

Those are 2 totally different topics and it boggles my mind how people can write whole science fiction story around and argue that it's basically a fact.
Someone smoking next to you is doing a violent act.
He does seem like he’s a little lost and coasting on what he built before now that I think about it.
I think the comment you are responding to was a joke
I don't really follow the misunderstandings here, but on the off chance this re-level-sets the thread: you don't continuously inject new "entropy" (ie: rekey) a random bit generator out of concern that the underlying primitive is "leaking" (if it leaks, you fix the leak). Rather, you do so for post-compromise security, because there is basically no reason not to have some measure of post-compromise security such that if the state of your DRBG is compromised (by some systems vulnerability, not by cryptanalysis), in some relatively short interval security will be "restored" by rekeying.

I think that's pretty much it, the whole reason sophisticated CSPRNGs have entropy pools and stuff.
Is This the Most Dominant Athlete?
I really like Arch, but my main issue is the problem with performing updates. I've been caught out a couple of times by updates where the issues were documented, but I hadn't bothered to read it. I've also managed to mangle a PinePhone installation where it couldn't update the pacman sources. I don't think it's very suitable for business servers though, due to the hands-on nature of it and the occasional surprise.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, mind restating?
It is not a traditional uniform random walk because the next movement is based on the previous movement, but it is a random walk. It is a pseudo-random number generator of sorts, and has properties very close to a uniform pseudo-random number generator because PI is likely normal.
I remember seeing a prankster passing in front of a car and miming stepping over a big obstacle. The driver looks concerned and steps out to check. Laughs.

Until I realized: they genuinely had to. The driver was not checking because they saw the guy jumping over nothing and were confused: they literally could not see what was below that guy’s belt. It’s one of those things (like “ads for tax prep software” or “kindergarten-appropriate shooter drill”) that feels quaint where you don’t connect the dots because you don’t know the country, but when you do…
Other suggestions people have made ring true. My stats tell me the most-viewed posts I've made were from (a) niche content I blogged about with very clear keywords that I (b) shared to Reddit and another forum for people very focused on that topic.

Adding one thought that may be relevant: I don't generally recommend people care deeply about how many other people read their blog. I know, you can't always choose what you care about... But I found my life was happier when I stopped thinking about my blog as something I'm writing for other people and started thinking about it as something I'm writing because I'm going to need to search for this information later when I inevitably forget how I did something. The long tail of blog posts in my blog are myself re-searching it to remember how I configured some thisorthat three years ago. For that reason alone, the blog (in its old notion of 'web log,' i.e. "a log of things you have done, searchable from the web") is worth keeping, and if it's useful to others too, bonus.
The rise in SUV and “modern truck” sales doesn’t help either. USA transportation infrastructure is fundamentally broken. We spend trillions of dollars (highway infra, street infra, parking infra, new builds and subsequent maintenance) on this inefficient transportation system and it’s slowly starving us to death.

We need to end this car centric transportation hell hole we are in. Make our infra as difficult as possible for these modern SUVs and trucks and suddenly the office workers commuting from age Styx will decrease (ie, make commute times soar, parking fines increased, decreasing available parking, narrowing roads, get rid of archaic “parking minimums” for buildings)

The suburban experiment is a tremendous failure supported by endless subsidies (federal, state, local). We need to be more efficient in urban planning. Give back the land stolen for highways, redirect them so they do not run through urban cores.

So much we can do. Yet this country continues to throw their hands up in the air and do nothing.
It amuses me to no end that there are places legalizing hard drugs at the same time that they make cigarettes illegal.
Answer: To clarify, more that a company should stick to their core competencies unless there's a drastic need or opening in the market that could be filled (and to build a new competency).

In this particular case, there's nothing particularly unique that Rivian is doing with their Infotainment system that couldn't already be handled by an incumbent in the space, (Android Automotive, QNX, etc.) especially given how modular the systems themselves are.

As State Farm says, "We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two".
That doesn't refute the parent's claim. Fentanyl is not prescribed very often, the primary use is for inpatient care.

In fact, maybe a reluctance to prescribe the stuff is exactly why the guy resorted to bribing people.

According to the CDC, 4% of fentanyl deaths come from prescription fentanyl.
> atmosphere can be made from the rocks themselves. There is an effectively endless supply.

Do Martian rocks have significant amounts of nitrogen?
Gene-editing medicine infusion may control inherited high LDL cholesterol
Off the top of my head, I can only think of three: Geocities (as much as I appreciate NeoCities, it's not quite the same), AltaVista, and Bert is Evil.
The DMCA does not give service providers leeway to check DMCA claims. Ignoring a correctly filed notification, even if it is garbage, prevents a service provider getting the relief from liability.

Source: 17 USC 512(c)