skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> America's Test Kitchen is wrong. End grain is way better.

ATK is basically a commercial kitchen that does a lot of volume with dozens of chefs/cooks. They've been recommending edge grain for at least a decade:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiCNB0fId0U

I'm going to lean towards trusting their review process—that probably wails on these boards more than I ever will—more than anecdata.

> They wear better as you aren't cross cutting the fibers of the wood.

They did wear-testing with the help of Autodesk and a robotic arm (see 3m14s) that went at the boards thousands of times. This is in addition to the daily use they probably get at ATK.

If there is a wearing difference is, I doubt I'll hit volumes high enough for it to matter as a home cook.
Studies have shown that less that 400mg of caffeine a day is fine for a healthy adult. Just watch drinks it after 4 or so unless you like it affecting your sleeping pattern.
I take this view, a correct one as "Thank goodness". I don't think humanity is ready for a 'correct intelligence' yet, especially one that if existed at the level of human intelligence would likely rapidly go into the realm of superintelligence. Even if it didn't get out of human control, the humans that controlled said AI would gain an immense amount of power which would present a great destabilization risk.
I was thinking more that it would cause companies to have no choice but to chill out about copyright… but you’re kinda selling me on this vision instead.
Most pharmacies used to sell tobacco products (they only started to do so after a couple of states started banning the practice.) Walgreens still does (in states where it isn't banned from doing so).

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/walgreens-tes...

> "The safety of our patients is very important, but we also have to do what our customers are requiring us to do," Walgreens CEO Stefano Pessina told the WSJ. "We see that when we don’t sell tobacco, we have a lot of [negative] reactions."
I've now known two people quite well, who either had cancer or their spouses did. Both of them went all-in for the woo-woo. One went to Mexico for it. Both are dead now.

If you make it illegal in the US, they'll just get it from another country. Because some people are just susceptible to this stuff.
My dentist texts me. My doctor uses MyChart, so I get notifications. Neither one calls me on the phone.

Even if they do want to call, they all have to support deaf people using TTYs, and phones all support RTT (TTY to cell). There's no need to take voice calls from legitimate businesses in the US.
I agree with that. At work, we are about to implement a decent LLM and ditch Dialogflow for our chatbot. But not to talk directly to the client (it's asking for a disaster), just to recognize intentions, pretty much like Dialogflow but better.

Right now there are many small but decent models available for free, and cheap to use. If it wasn't for the hype, it would never have reached that level of optimization. Now we can make decent home assistants, text parsers and a bunch of other stuff you already mentioned.

But someone paid for that. The companies who believed this would be revolutionary will eventually have a really hard reality check. Not that they won't try and use it for critical stuff, but once they do and it fails spectacularly they will realize a lot of money went down the drain.
No, not easy. You want to change ao social convention? That is not easy.

Even changing all the places it got encoded into software probably wouldn't be easy.
Appreciated.

(As is the intellectual honesty :)
more like "regulatory capture, baby!"
It's all "cult-ure". The problem is that cultures tend to think their way is the right way and there is too much trying to force it on others

Some terms are more pejorative than others, also depending on who is using a word and in what context
Reading the linked report: https://exposetobacco.org/wp-content/uploads/STOP_Report_Add... it seems that the foundation was used specifically to fund think-tank-like outputs obliquely advocating for PMI's line of "heated tobacco products"—an e-cigarette-like product that has been shown by regulatory agencies to be identical to human health as smoking a real cigarette (since it not only contains addictive nicotine, like a normal nicotine ecig, but also the entire tobacco leaf itself, leading to similar rates of smoker cancer, secondhand smoke symptoms, etc, even though the different combustion processes means they don't create as much visible smoke or odor).

These HTPs have become very successful in Japan, and although PMI publishes most of the research they use to argue for them directly (for example, showing they have 3x less particulates than cigarettes, ignoring that they have similar health outcomes), the FSFW seems to play more of a "think tank" advocacy role in commenting on government policies and initiatives that would stand in the way of the rollout of these HTPs (from the report):

There is overwhelming evidence that tobacco tax increases
are effective in reducing tobacco use (232), including evidence
that it is the only intervention proven to reduce inequalities in
smoking (233, 234). Despite this, on World No Tobacco Day in
2019, Marewa Glover, head of the [FSFW]’s “Centre of Research Excellence” in New Zealand, spoke out against increases
in tobacco excise. In line with the tobacco industry argument
that higher tobacco taxation is regressive (235), she claimed
that such measures would disproportionately affect Māori
populations (236). In August 2019, Glover also argued against
the proposed ban on smoking in cars in New Zealand, saying (to
much derision)(237) that “scientific studies have not proven that
exposure to cigarette smoke in the car causes disease” (238).

Luckily, seems like they've already been rejected by most governmental orgs:

In September 2017, the month of the Foundation’s inception, WHO released a statement saying that “WHO will not
partner with the Foundation. Governments should not partner with the Foundation and the public health community
should follow this lead” (267).
In 2019, hundreds of global public health experts also called for governments and the public health community to
reject collaboration with the Foundation (268).
I think people get tired of being harassed about drinking water like you’re constantly in danger of falling over from dehydration. It’s not bad per se to drink more water than you need as it does help the kidneys flush the garbage out of your system. I think drinking when you’re thirsty and having meals is fine. Most food has a ton of water in it as well.
I like your summary. I also like Alan Watts' comment, that the mind is like a diamond, totally transparent but also the hardest, durable aspect of our existence.
Yes, shallow, wide, and composable. That's how our abstractions should be.

But the larger problem is not GUIs. GUIs are a problem, but they are necessarily at the top of the abstraction stack, so the problem doesn't compose any further. (What interestingly means they are so much of a problem that they aren't anymore.)

The elephant in the room nowadays are distributed systems.
This study found that the microbiome composition varies based on the time of sampling. How do you think this variability might affect the reproducibility of microbiome research? What are some practical ways researchers could standardize sampling times to improve consistency across different studies?
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This is essentially how Earworm[1] started

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ
If the homeopathic remedies don't harm anyone (I know that some have, this comment only references the remedies that don't), what is the problem with them being sold and used?

Many cold medicines have side effects, some are even abused recreationaly. Given that human bodies tend to recover with or without cold medicine (and given the shaky legs that Phenylephrine stands on), what is the issue with people using "fake medicine"?

Homeopathic remedies cannot be abused recreationaly. They aren't precursors to meth. They are better in every way (except the don't work better than a placebo). But, if all a patient needs is a placebo (people recover from the common cold just fine without medicine), homeopathic remedies are perfect.

Remember the hippocrattic oath: First of all, do no harm. Safe, well prepared homeopathic remedies shouldn't do harm. Many cold medicines do.
What do you think are the biggest challenges and potential breakthroughs in using CRISPR for epigenetic editing? Could this approach revolutionize treatment for other genetic disorders as well?
Similar to early/mid 90s Linux or BSD
I like the German doctors who offer acupuncture and aromatherapy and such. It's just as nonsensical, but at least it's probably relaxing.
Everything is conscious and nothing is conscious - we are all part of the universe but what we call conscious is, IMO, nothing more than a tool for trying to optimize food acquisition getting way out of control.

Considering how many things are a portion of our body and simultaneously considered separate living organisms it's pretty bizarre to have such an explicitly defined view of consciousness in our existence that can let you point at a cat or human and say "That is a conscious being".
Answering now to your edit, with the example.

The politician said that "[the Welsh government is] dishing out £1,600 to anyone who wants to rock up and claim they are crossing the Channel illegally".

As your article states, on the 635 persons who received this money, only 67 were migrant, the 568 others were not migrant at all.

So, no, it's not a blurry line: they had a grant that was targeting children, with 90% of the beneficiaries being good ol' locals, and this politician invented that they are giving 1600 to all illegal migrants that claim they crossed the Channel illegally, which is totally incorrect any ways you turn it around.

You are incorrect when you say "the only incorrect thing is 'illegal'" (you probably just read the last sentence without realizing that they just say that _some_ migrants got the grant): not only this grant is not going to illegal migrant, it is also not going to all migrants (only a small fraction qualifies), and it's not even FOR the migrants, it is for the children, including, in big majority, the local ones. Additionally, the politician said that you can just "rock up and claim you are crossing the Channel illegally" to get this money, which is obviously not true.

On top of that, this politician was contacted to explain to him that this grant was not for migrant and certainly not given by just rocking up, so he was totally aware that it was misleading. But he continued to insist on his fantasy. So, it is also a good example that this law does not target honest mistake, but people who don't care if what they say is misleading or not.

If what you say is just a "blurred line with the truth open to debate", then the following sentence is also "just a blurred line":
"the Tories are cutting taxes for people who wants to rock up and claim they are crossing the Channel illegally"
just because they indeed proposed to reduce tax in UK. After all, legal migrant will also benefit from this tax cut, and in fact you will not have this cut by "rocking up and claiming you are crossing the Channel illegally", so, by your own standard, this sentence is perfectly fine.

In fact, thank you for bringing this example: this is a good example of how some politicians are stirring fear and hatred based on total fabrications, and it is a good example showing that these politicians should paid the consequences of their actions and be punished.
yep i did check all that; i however did not check Owky and only now realize it is an apple app; i was implying dont giveup on simple-apps just because another has similar features - sometimes simple things can have huge benifits (all subjective though)
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Our machinist at work just bought an iPad and was having some troubles getting it setup, so he asked me for help. He was attempting to verify his phone number to create an account for the device, but kept getting a "cannot communicate with apple servers" error. I tried to start the account creation procedure from scratch but got the same error message - at that point, I (apparently) made a serious mistake and restarted the device.

Now he can't log into the device. The password he has doesn't work and it won't accept his finger print for the initial login. He purchased the device at Best Buy, and they won't take it back because its locked. He has called Apple and they couldn't help him. I can get the device into it's recovery mode as per https://support.apple.com/en-us/118430 but I can't get my PCs to recognize it through iTunes or the Apple Devices app. I assume this is because I'm not logged in to the correct Apple account, but the device itself doesn't have _any_ account associated with it.

Do I have any other options? Feel like I just bricked a brand new iPad by restarting it.
I don't really think there's any effort to be made.
It's the other way around, the 'FDA has not evaluated' text is indicating that these products are different and part of a special loophole created just for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...

The reason that these get to make health claims and stuff without regulation, and get special treatment, is lobbying resulting in that act. Otherwise they would have been regulated.
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Id agree with you on the creative industry, but disagree that that the generative AI's aren't going to do the same to just about every other industry. We were at a point where we had extremely specialized models that were useful, and now we have general models that are EXTREMELY useful in almost all contexts. Text, Audio, Video, Data Processing, etc. At least in my eyes we are at the same point with LLMs as we were with computing when you had a large part of the population that was just "not into them". As if it was like choosing any other hobby. I'm sure tons of people aren't getting much utility out of the space now, but it's not because the utility isn't there.
> Size matters.

Citation needed
How do you think this technique could change our understanding of neurological disorders and personalized medicine? What ethical considerations should we keep in mind as this research progresses?
I think it's likely that consciousness only occurs in a population which undergoes evolution / natural selection. I think it offers a competitive advantage over other let's say processes which you're competing for resources with. It's unlikely for something like the sun to be conscious, there's no evolutionary pressure exerted on it.
Oh you're right, I tripped up. "The last quarter of the second millennium BC" means about minus 1250 to minus 1001.

I often get excited by some discovery sounding a lot older than it actually is, for reasons like this.
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As we all know, “gas station sushi” enjoys a special place of trust in American culture.
> If you have "mild problems, which would normally heal on their own", buying no medication at all would be even cheaper.

But placebos actually outperform no intervention.
I agree with you. I think I wasn't clear in my comment.

If you like computers, the skill floor for comp sci is lower for you. And if you like talking and cracking jokes, the skill floor for stand-up comedy is lower for you. These are subjective.

So the difference in the skill level required between them in reality might not be vastly different. (Only with regards to the skill floor)
The ruling certainly sets the stage for something. It's almost like they didn't want to actually rule, but rather set up a framework for making future rulings. I can't say I disagree with the approach.
> what is the issue with people using "fake medicine"?

Because people are being tricked into thinking they’re taking medicine, preventing them from seeking out medical care.
I was trying to justify why people have a negative response to it.
>That'd be one hell of a paper

Until 'they' restore the checkpoint and arrange your teams plane to fall out of the sky.
> There’s nothing going on in a living thing that you can’t explain in terms of unliving things.

There are myriads of things you can't explain about life in any terms. Just that you did not go deep enough to experience them.
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At first the LED replacements were shit, some didn’t turn on immediately, didn’t dim and so on. It’s not that I wanted to go back, but they weren’t a good replacement. I don’t see as many issues now though.
Personally I would say people should not be able to make money off someone else's copyrighted content without permission, but someone putting a lot of work into making a good video and having someone else claim all the money over 10 seconds of audio doesn't seem right either.
Everyone always says it was empty :)

If it contained $100,000 in cash, the smart thing to do is say it was empty.
I’ve seen a few locked iPads go through my office (MSP). In every case that the client could produce the original purchase receipt, Apple was fine working with us to remove an activation lock. Get the BestBuy receipt, tell Apple you’re locked out but can prove it’s yours, and you should be fine.
Except we do, as soon as we need the next digit.

In "figure of speech", or conventual use, people start drinking in their 21st year, not their 22nd. In common parlance, they can vote in their 18th year, not their 19th.

We talk of a child in their 10th year as being age 10. Might even be younger. Try asking a people if advice about a child in their "5th year of development" means you're dealing with a 5 year old. Most will say yes.

So perhaps it's logical to count from zero when there's no digit in the magnitude place, because you haven't achieved a full unit till you reach the need for the unit. Arguably a baby at 9 months isn't in their first year as they've experienced zero years yet!

Similarly "centuries" don't have a century digit until the 100s, which would make that the 1st century and just call time spans less than that "in the first hundred years" (same syllables anyway).

It's unsatisfying, but solves the off by one errors, one of the two hardest problems in computer science along with caching and naming things.
You mean, where native Docker support is completely absent, and the whole thing has to rum in a VM?
There is a brewery near me that plays only Grateful Dead and anything before 19-whatever-it-is to avoid needing a license to “perform” it.
7-11 and convenience stores in general in Japan (the other big ones are Lawson and Family Mart) are vastly superior to American offerings. Almost every American who goes to Japan seems to comment on this.
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I agree. Another good point to get rid of counting centuries would be that in some languages (Russian) centuries are written in Roman numerals. It's annoying having to pause and think of conversion.
Unless the purpose and value of the video is solely distribution of the copyrighted music it should be protected fair use. If copyright holders don't like it they are free to not license their music to be played in public ever.
Reconfiguring tables to use a different kind of unique ID (primary key in this context) can be a much bigger pain than an ordinary column rename if it is in use by foreign key constraints.
Please bring the salmon jerky.
More accurately, for 50% it's \sqrt(\ln(4))\sqrt(N) which is \sqrt( ln(4) N ).

That's about 1.17741 times \sqrt(N).

The reasons are explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40886363
It's not illegal and its not in violation of FDA rules. That disclaimer text is from a specific law that gives them exemption from those rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...

It's not a manpower issue, it's not a legal issue. It's not against the law because they wrote the law. There is no line they try to avoid crossing because that line was erased by lobbyists in 1994.
People average 100x the annual CO2 from all volcanoes combined. Large eruptions release a great deal of matter but not that much CO2 as a percentage and not very quickly.

Even if by large you’re talking about once in 50 year events like the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo that lasted days during which it released 10 cubic kilometers of material. But it still only added 0.05 GT of CO2, roughly what people currently release every 12 hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_eruption_of_Mount_Pinatub...

There’s been larger eruptions, but I think we’re looking past what people consider ‘Large’ into apocalyptic events.
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Defaulting to 64-bit integers internally is to me a matter of mechanical sympathy, it has little to do with row capacity. It’s just a word size that current CPUs and memory architectures like working with.
from that same link:

> There are no FDA-approved products labeled as homeopathic; this means that any product labeled as homeopathic is being marketed in the U.S. without FDA evaluation for safety or effectiveness.
>What if everything is conscious?

Then we're really screwed.
> It simply means the developer wants to understand how their query is being understood and, hopefully, optimized.

Or, in other words, the developer wants to break the abstraction.

If your definition of "perfect abstraction" doesn't include the developer never needing to look beneath the surface, I'd say it's a pretty bad one.