skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my knowledge most rigorously performed studies say no.
For example, here's from my first pubmed result:

> Most MAs as well as the individual RCTs reported null-findings on risk of cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, weight-loss, and malignant diseases.

Rejnmark L, Bislev LS, Cashman KD, et al. Non-skeletal health effects of vitamin D supplementation: A systematic review on findings from meta-analyses summarizing trial data. PLoS One. 2017;12(7):e0180512. Accessed January 5, 2024. https://www.qxmd.com/r/28686645

EDIT(S):

> Although additional studies in unsupplemented individuals are needed to confirm these findings, our results support the view that the association between obesity and lower serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D may be due to reversed causation with increased adiposity leading to suboptimal concentrations of circulating vitamin D.

Mallard SR, Howe AS, Houghton LA. Vitamin D status and weight loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized and nonrandomized controlled weight-loss trials. Am J Clin Nutr. 2016;104(4):1151-1159. Accessed January 5, 2024. https://www.qxmd.com/r/27604772

> Vitamin D3 supplementation during weight loss did not increase weight loss or associated factors compared with placebo

Mason C, Xiao L, Imayama I, et al. Vitamin D3 supplementation during weight loss: a double-blind randomized controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2014;99(5):1015-25. Accessed January 5, 2024. https://www.qxmd.com/r/24622804

> Body weight in both groups decreased significantly (-7.5% in the vitamin D group and -10% in the placebo group; P < 0.05 for both), with no between-group differences.

Cefalo CM, Conte C, Sorice GP, et al. Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2018;26(4):651-657. Accessed January 5, 2024. https://www.qxmd.com/r/29504254

> There was no effect of vitamin D on weight loss.

Bassatne A, Chakhtoura M, Saad R, Fuleihan GE. Vitamin D supplementation in obesity and during weight loss: A review of randomized controlled trials. Metabolism. 2019;92:193-205. Accessed January 5, 2024. https://www.qxmd.com/r/30615949
It's criminal that the US is spending money on SLS when it is so incredibly inefficient and will very likely be completely outclassed in cost and operational ability by Starship.
It's rude to new customers when restaurant is already full of paying customers.

It's unrelated to the new customers and in that sense unfair to them. But it's related to how successful is the restaurant at the moment.

Fairness is not the goal. Success of the restaurant is.

Objects near the tail are the people who occupy the table but keep ordering new dishes. Objects near the head are people who ordered just one thing and now they are politely asked to leave so new, potentially more generous customers can be accomodated.

If restaurant is more full, new customers have less time to justify their continued occupation of the table by ordering again, but it's fine because it allowes more of the older customers with repeated orders to be served again and again.

There is potential problem with the algorithm if there's very little space left for new items so they are never retained so hand never moves to head. Probaby you could refine the algorithm by moving hand to tail when it gets closer to head than some fixed value, finetuned to the production load. Or just occasionally move hand to tail every n inputs on average (also finetuned).
It's used as an indicator not an input.
As an aside:

This principle (always shutdown uncleanly) was a significant point of design discussion in Kubernetes, another one of the projects that adapted lessons learned inside Google on the outside (and had to change as a result).

All of the core services (kubelet, apiserver, etc) mostly expect to shutdown uncleanly, because as a project we needed to handle unclean shutdowns anyway (and could fix bugs when they happened).

But quite a bit of the software run by Kubernetes (both early and today) doesn’t always necessarily behave that way - most notably Postgres in containers in the early days of Docker behaved badly when KILLed (where Linux terminates the process without it having a chance to react).

So faced with the expectation that Kubernetes would run a wide range of software where a Google-specific principle didn’t hold and couldn’t be enforced, Kubernetes always (modulo bugs or helpful contributors regressing under tested code paths) sends TERM, waits a few seconds, then KILLs.

And the lack of graceful Go http server shutdown (as well as it being hard to do correctly in big complex servers) for many years also made Kube apiservers harder to run in a highly available fashion for most deployers. If you don’t fully control the load balancing infrastructure in front of every server like Google does (because every large company already has a general load balancer approach built from Apache or nginx or haproxy for F5 or Cisco or …), or enforce that all clients handle all errors gracefully, you tend to prefer draining servers via code vs letting those errors escape to users. We ended up having to retrofit graceful shutdown to most of Kube’s server software after the fact, which was more effort than doing it from the beginning.

In a very real sense, Google’s economy of software scale is that it can enforce and drive consistent tradeoffs and principles across multiple projects where making a tradeoff saves effort in multiple domains. That is similar to the design principles in a programming language ecosystem like Go or orchestrator like Kubernetes, but is more extensive.

But those principles are inevitably under communicated to users (because who reads the docs before picking a programming language to implement a new project in?) and under enforced by projects (“you must be this tall to operate your own Kubernetes cluster”).
On Google Chapultepec Castle looks very European. If I grew up in Europe and have seen many of its castles and palaces, is it still worth going?
You realize this isn’t the first EV hype cycle yes? They’ve been tried before and as the article states the early adopter market is saturated worldwide.

There are some very real problems that can’t be solved by battery tech, and only by removing the battery and switching to an alternative fuel source.

The only reason EVs are succeeding now given all their shortcomings is because we’re being forced into them. Remove that force and I don’t see EVs seeing mass adoption.
That's great, but the question of the decade is still what finger to use on the spacebar.

P.S. Looks like it's also a working memory trainer, since you have to remember which letter chain appeared on the screen first. Still kind of cool.
It took time to access the information. You had to turn on your modem and connect to the internet (took a while). Then you had to load up the information (took a while). Then there was the lack of good search engines, so you were worried you'd never find the information again. And most importantly, you couldn't pull up this information while out and about (there was no 3g/4g/5g).
Maybe the custom "blocked" 403/404 error page only shows up if your IP is blocked?
From the article that we are all reading:

“
The hiring boost came from a gain of 52,000 in government jobs

and another 38,000 in health care-related fields such as ambulatory health-care services and hospitals.

Leisure and hospitality contributed 40,000 to the total,

while social assistance increased by 21,000 and

construction added 17,000.

Retail trade grew by 17,000 as the industry has been mostly flat since early 2022, the Labor Department said.”
Looks like rates will stay high for the time being, if you're at a cash starved startup, it may be a good time to look around as that's not gonna fix itself any time soon.

On the bright side, if you don't have a house yet, this may mean that rates stay high long enough to have some impact on median home prices. The Q4 2023 home sale numbers will be interesting in that regard.

OTOH, if you're buying a house or bought one recently, I admire your optimism, might I also interest you in a bridge?
Where do you see people talking about how good their sous vide cakes are and how they’d never work at a bakery that didn’t exclusively use a sous vide? Who here "touted [it] as the only thing necessary"? In fact, what cakes have you seen that are cooked via sous vide?

Are you sure you understood the analogy? The components of it were:

1. Person says they built a basic website without React, doesn't know why people use React (it's because the use case for React typically isn't "build a basic website given unlimited time and effort")

2. Person says they made a cake without sous vide, doesn't know why people use sous vide (it's because the use case for sous vide typically isn't "bake a cake")
> Having been raised catholic, culturally and personally, seeing that was a weird liberating feeling.

We should do the same for Greek/Roman deities. They were similarly wiped out by rabid abrahamic cults with a series of leninist moves.
See it like a cache, no need to recompute. Or like these nice archive links people post for paywalled articles, I could do it myself but it's simply helpful.
The point is to go in circles indefinitely, actually. This is good for superconducting.
Interestingly, the maps never stuck with me, but I also use pokemon a lot for memory techniques - namely for letter pairs.
Except you (or whoever you took it from) had to make a script to accomplish it in the first place. Something an average user on old hardware won’t be willing to do on Windows. Not sure what’s wrong with the Linux desktop experience that you’d go to such great lengths. My DE has been stable and feature full for 6+ years now.

And considering most people just run a browser most of the time now, Linux looks even better than the restricted non-user friendly marketing platform that Windows evolved into.
Great, now I'll wait for the pill that removes that color, will be handy next time I travel thru the desert.
As sad as this is, it might actually work when the user base is large enough and consists of mainly non-tech people who think bigger version number means better. At some point versioning stops being about backwards compatibility and the system itself, and becomes yet another aspect of marketing.
How hard is it to implement a WebRTC peer from scratch (from socket calls)? If I don't want to support all profiles, let's say just unrelayed unencrypted data streams?

Is it "weekend project" or is it "reading the RFCs alone will take weeks -project"?
Kuberentes has nothing to do with Ruby / Python from your example it's far more complex and needs performance, what you described are not what k8s is doing.

Kubernetes is the equivalent of Borg /Omega at Google which is written in C++.
This tool creates the diagrams from the EBNF, which is exactly why I like it. IBM used this technique heavily in mainframe language documentation.
Indeed, for whatever reason I appear to be blocked as well. Never even heard of this site, and I am not a bot. Just caught in the crossfire I guess.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A little harsh, no? Damn dude.
How to make your DevSecOps strategy developer-friendly
I don’t think any of them have done something unethical to earn their billion, but artist billionaires are certainly outliers.

They’re such outliers that it’s still a safe assumption someone has done something exploitative if they’re a billionaire.
Hackers don't understand something that regular people more readily do: It works, it's cheap, and I'm paying for the convenience. We can all have our ideals about how tech should be, but these choices are driven by practicality.
Direct link to article. https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the...

> We found [phthalates] in all but one food (Polar raspberry lime seltzer).

A very grim lol.
ChatGPT has a very easily identified authorial voice that is like nails on a chalkboard if you aren't specifically looking for it.
Seaweed: Should we be eating more of it?
> That's a bit of a fallacy, because "a location" will probably be "the place where I parked my car"

Maybe. The closest public charging station to our house is in the parking lot of a semi-abandoned office complex a mile away. It has the best rate but my partner refuses to use it, both for the boredom factor and the isolated location factor.

The second closest is 5 miles away at a Whole Food which yes, the car would be parked there sometimes anyway. But having to spend an extra hour sipping coffee at WF waiting for the car gets old pretty fast.
Housing economist expects the 'lock-in effect' to ease up in 2024
Honestly, ZSA are bloody wonderful. I bought a Moonlander this year and the whole vibe is so cosy
I quoted you, if you didn't mean it, don't say it.
Google has two options here:

1) Accept all take down notices at face value and let the courts handle disputes

2) Become a mediator and open themselves up for liability

It's no surprise Google chooses option 1 given the scale they must operate at. It's a consequence of the legal system which makes Google liable for not taking action immediately on valid claims, but also making it such validity not determined until after claims have been reviewed by the courts.
"Closed. This question is seeking recommendations for books, tools, software libraries, and more."

I have to say I really detest SO for making this a generic rule. These questions are often top Google results and perhaps all the answers were good 3 year ago but it's missing up to date info because it's locked.
> they’ve ignored requests to address it with eg canvas lock for years

Shouldn't that be pretty easy to implement, too? Just a button that prevents rotation...
Not known, because not looked for

But heard, half-heard, in the stillness

Between two waves of the sea.

Quick now, here, now, always--

A condition of complete simplicity

(Costing not less than everything)

And all shall be well and

All manner of thing shall be well

When the tongues of flames are in-folded

Into the crowned knot of fire

And the fire and the rose are one.

-- ts eliot, following julian of norwich
It is not possible to use the scroll on that website (working well on Firefox though).
Show HN: LoopGenius – Create landing pages, ads, and offers to sell online
Hey HN, I'm launching LoopGenius, a tool for fast-tracking email list building and converting them into sales. It's takes in a business description and a core offering to build out facebook/instagram video ads that are fully managed. Built from real startup struggles. Keen to hear what you think!
Yeah okay. I hadn’t ever thought that they wouldn’t be.
CR only tested processed food so that's not really a conclusion you can make.
That’s a problem with the square footage, not the number of stories. It is well within the realm of possibility to have a reasonably sized 3 or 4 story townhouse. It can even have Georgian design elements while being reasonably sized.
There were obviously other factors at play, but the US was at its most equal just after WW2, which was also a very prosperous time.

Source: Capital by Piketty
Italian man undergoes nerve transfer from amputated leg to hand
They're just listing numbers from the report, though. It's boring "here's the breakdown" journalism. It's clearly not saying these are growing faster. Those are just the biggest categories. I repeat, if you want data, look at data. FRED is free and great.
I read WolfStreet.com daily. The author delves into these topics and provides plain-language analysis. If you're interested in economics and markets in the US, you'll likely enjoy his content.
Documenting has not only tremendously helped others in their work, but also myself. Furthermore, I do not want to remember from memory how I debugged a particular problem, instead I check the documentation, and get it over with.
From the article:

The report showed that inflationary pressures, despite receding elsewhere, are still prevalent in the labor market. Average hourly earnings rose 0.4% on the month and were up 4.1% from a year ago, both higher than the respective estimates for 0.3% and 3.9%. The average workweek edged lower to 34.3 hours.
Why Only Earth Has Fire [video]
> If you forgot you had an entire body and thought you were just a foot, stubbing your toe would hurt a lot more.

Oh, man, that's a good one. Thank you for this insightful nugget to start my morning.
Fantastic writeup (read all the way to the end!), and especially impressed the author is brave enough to include a chat support tool. I'd be worried that somebody would lean on the Z key for 20GB and constantly spam my chat.

I have a copy of IA Writer that I've somehow never used, so maybe I'll buy this to add to the pile.
Ok, but why print it out instead of saving it locally? (Other than to read it on the go? Did people do that?)
XRISM Mission Reveals Its First Look at X-ray Cosmos
> but nobody says more than 2 hours between breaks for health reasons

DOT regulations for truck drivers is something like every 8 hours stop for 30 mins. This is the first I’ve heard stop every 2 hours which would drive me nuts if we were road tripping together.
Sure, that's now (the closest EV charging spot is pretty far away for me too). The convenience factor for "when everyone has EVs" is much larger than the one for "when everyone has gas cars", as in the former, the refuelling station is going to be much closer, on average, than in the latter.
Mastering Fraud Detection: How ML Transforms Payment Security
Mine got a hairline crack in the chassis next to the charging port, but the magnetic charger didn't have the same issue (obviously). There were plenty of issues with the Pre and immediate followups didn't do enough to solve them. That said, it was probably the last really "interesting" phone design I owned.
How many cycles do we have to go through of "oh, recklessly dumping this substance into the ecosystem probably doesn't have any ill effects, and you should prove it does before being such a negative nelly"?

Just once, I'd like to sacrifice consumerism at the altar of my and my family's internal organs, versus the other way around. We're a few decades late to finally be putting full product lifecycle accountability in the laps of manufacturers everywhere.
Even if it's an order of magnitude less it's still a lot of compute ;)

What the author of the article forgets is those microprocessors will use a lot more power if used 100% of the time, so there's no 'free' compute in that sense.
Little tip if anyone is serious about learning to touch type: what worked for me was buying a keyboard with blank caps. Struggle for two weeks and boom! You know how to touch type.
Why not "once upon a time a beautiful but poor dude married a rich girl and everything was great"?
Oh. Right.
Hi, I'm a Software Developer with a passion for cutting-edge technology, I have experience in working with Kubernetes, NextJS, and JavaScript to build and deploy scalable and reliable applications. Currently, I am involved in the migration of legacy mainframe applications from Cobol to cloud-native Java. I'd be interested in switching to a more coding focused role. Feel free to reach out!

At the moment I'm looking for fully remote positions because of personal reason that are forcing me to relocate.

Location: Europe, Germany

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Willing to relocate: No

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Not anymore, most work software is web-based and collaborative/multi-user by default. Sketch didn't do that and was quickly overshadowed by Figma. I doubt future software in this area will be desktop app-based.
Isn't this the goal? Put all your assets in a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust so you own nothing and the Government pays for your long term care?
Perfect for 1-D pacman!
Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China
Twitter's algorithm optimizes for advertising. I want my algorithm to optimize for my value.

Use case: I want to log into Mastodon once or twice a week. I want to follow lots of interesting people and topics, but I don't have time to read it all. So, I want to have an algorithm that allows me to see all things from a subset of accounts I consider friends and, after that, see the most shared and starred from the larger group I follow, then the most shared and starred from the topics I follow.

But if I happen to be browsing more frequently, I can see the chronological feed again in that order: close friends, acquaintances, topics. This isn't what Twitter does: their algorithm does not serve me.
First, this comment is emotionally manipulative, so I'm flagging it. Comments such as " Isn't putting this onto the consumer a little bit of a cop out?" and "Feels sort of tone deaf" do not intellectually contribute to the discussion in any way whatsoever and serve purely to emotionally manipulate the reader.

Second, no, it's absolutely not a cop-out. You mentioned yourself that nation states crafted this system. You're a member of one of those nation states, and there's a very strong chance that it's a democratic one, in which case you still bear the responsibility to elect responsible leaders!

The consumer absolutely bears all of the responsibility, because the consumer is, at least in the US and many other parts of the world, also the voter.

Your apathy in responsible company research and product purchase is extremely likely also coupled with an apathy in representative research and activism. No, merely voting for your preferred political party does not automatically install good regulators - you actually have to invest effort into research and activism.
No, they should be paid proportional to their listeners. As it is, it's the popular artists being subsidized by the niche music fans. Niche music should get the niche music fan revenue. Very simple concept. If there are 1M niche genre music fans and they're spending 100% of their time listening to that genre, their money should go to that genre, not siphon it off to popular artists.

Otherwise we get no new genres, no innovation, aand fewer up and coming artists.
- Show the timezone name/descriptor if I select a city (yes, it already says 'GMT+X', but it would be helpful to have the local timezone name of that city as well)
- Somehow select a time for a different day. E.g. if I want to compare the times for the 22nd of October 2024 instead of today (Countries/Cities/Regions swap timezones x-times a year, on different days)
This is really good, simple and effective! Though once it gets harder I feel overwhelmed when I can't keep up anymore. Weird because I know where keys are without looking, but when I know I'm doing a speed typing thing, I like panic and look down sometimes or make more mistakes than normal.
> shorter charging stops more often

But this is what makes it so painful. You need to map out available working charging station at short intervals which adds a lot of extra driving and stopping.

On a road trip I drive the full range of the gas tank (~450 miles) nonstop and then stop for 5 minutes at the next exit which invariably has a working gas station.
I guess their old "Windows 10 will be the last Windows" tagline is coming to fruition...
Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn't Make It Easy
While MBE is the best method for many kinds of materials, in this special case a completely different method has been used.

Half of silicon carbide is carbon, and by heating silicon carbide at very high temperatures and low pressures the silicon atoms that are close to the surface evaporate, leaving a superficial layer made of carbon.

By applying a certain thermal treatment, the carbon layer crystallizes into a layer of monocrystalline graphene.

Like for many other great ideas, after someone succeeds to do it it seems weird that nobody has tried to do such a thing before. However it is likely that the parameters of the process are very critical for obtaining a layer with good characteristics, so a large number of experiments have been necessary to determine them.