skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Healthcare" is such a house of cards! When you use a false premise and then make conclusions that try to bring you closer to that premise, you create a bigger health crisis than the one you're trying to fight.

First, a Mediterranean diet includes olive oil, which is monounsaturated fats, not simply unsaturated fats (PUFAs are a poison in any amount)! And why ignore the fact that lard, for example, is half monounsaturated? Oh, well, because it's animal fat and vegans don't like giving credit to anything animal-based.
Can the theory of dark matter fail? If we never find evidence of such particles, that only means we haven't found them. But we can never rule out their existence.
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Why make that assumption? Many AI companies are using conversations as part of the training, so even if the documents aren’t used directly that’s doesn’t mean the summaries are safe.
> Also, if devs "want!" native components for React, Vue, etc., that does not mean Web components are bad, that only means devs want native components for their FW :).

You are right. For transparency, I also work for Corbado and was part of the discussion. I think most of the developers prefer a native component if they have a framework in use. In this case, because of the SSR trend, it's just a bit more difficult to use web components as a base for all of them. Would you not agree? Of course, you could offer native implementation in all variants, but that's very difficult.
We live in exciting times :-)
What if my legal name is 500 trillion characters long? Should every project design their storage system to accommodate this?

If you look at the 666-character name, it's no more or less ridiculous than 500 trillion characters.
Thanks. That's certainly very interesting. Albeit it seems to me that the number of jobs doing geometric and topological ML/AI work in the drug or protein design space would be quite limited, because any discovery ultimately has to be validated through a wet lab process (or perhaps phase 1-3 clinical trials for drugs) which is expensive and time-consuming. However, I'm very uninformed and perhaps there is indeed a sizable job market here.
I doubt it'll work this time though though, since we are beginning to make big strides in automating violence too. The people who own the boxes will own the murderbots too.
Do you want a serif or sans serif for the body text?

For a serif, I think Crimson Pro is very nice.

You can see it, and many others, on this site: https://beautifulwebtype.com/crimson-pro/

For sans serif, I like Helvetica, but the original Helvetica might not be easily available outside of Apple’s operating systems.
The primitives that shell scripts operate on are files, file names, executables (subset of files and file names) and starting and stopping processes. In any sane OS, shell scripts do process input, output management, and maybe link processes together via some IPC.

The need for some string handling falls out of this. I think most of these "let's replace bash with something BETTER!" articles miss these big points. Bash does the process management, and I/O management very well. That's the bar a replacement would have to clear.
Congrats Nico and Fruss!
As someone who did an applied math PhD before drifting towards ML, it's worth pointing out that these applied math groups typically talk about applications, but the real question is whether they are actually used for the stated application in practice due to outperforming methods that use less pretty math. Typically (in every case i have seen) the answer is "no", and the mathematicians don't even really care about solving the applied problems nor fully understand what it would mean to do so. It's just a source of grant-justifiable abstract problems.

I would love to be proven wrong though!
What? No they're not, e.g. no rational numbers are normal, and they are real.
If you never felt any difference between 5 euro and 50 euro red wine, you are buying wrong wines and probably at wrong place. I only once had wine over 100 euros, but that was something else altogether. I put prices in euros as they are in France, where we often shop although not coming from there (and having no idea about prices across the pond), nor having kind of 'wine tradition' in family/region/country I come from.

I can't judge price from taste, but for sure I can appreciate massive variations and types of taste experience in good red wines, bigger than any other drink I've experienced including whiskeys (again, never tried expensive ones but say up to 100 euro per bottle). Initial hit, body, aftertaste, how it changes when in your mouth. The higher ones are (near) flawless experience every sip, rich, smooth tastes I couldn't previously imagine a simple wine can hold.

Not saying every wine deserves its price, most probably not, but there are gems even in mid tier category, at least for me (+ my wife who feels the same).

Also, one of best red wine experiences was a random buy for 12 euros from some local bodega in Puglia, south Italy. Explosion of fruits and nuts, very very long and varied aftertaste that felt like a small symphony. I tried desperately after vacation there to buy it online, and its simply not out there... one of those local, (still) highly under-appreciated gems.
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That's how they talk in the USA.
Everything is bigger there and if it isn't you better make it sound like it is.
When Korean Legislative Elections were around the corner in early 2024, the incumbent govenenent announced an increase in the number of seats at medical programs in SK as a populist Hail Mary.

Yet they did NOT increase the number of resident positions and left reimbursement rates at the same level as almost a decade ago. Also, the average doctor in SK works 100 hours a week instead of 60 like in the US.

This meant that both junior and senior doctors ended up having to work more (they'd need to increase the number of medical students per training doctor post-degree) while still earning their existing salary and needing to pay off college loans (which in Korea are state school level despite incomes being a fraction of the US).

Instead of negotiating with doctors, the government decided to instead revoke striking doctor's medical licenses.

There is now a significant brain drain as Korean doctors look to immigrate to Japan or the US.

And this is how a strike was resolved against white collar workers.

Blue collar unskilled workers have even less leverage, because you can always import a "Trainee" from Vietnam, Phillipines, Indonesia, Nepal, etc for a pittance.
Ok, we seem to be moving the goalposts a bit.

My point is that you need to read up on it to ensure the implementation of memory handling for your password manager is really safe. As you demonstrate yourself, KeePass has different clients with different memory protection profiles which also depends on the system.
"The market" didn't decide. There are maybe five major camera companies (Nikon, Canon, Sony, Olympus, and Panasonic), and a few minor ones (Fuji, Pentax, Casio, Sigma).

No one tried.

Everyone wants proprietary lock-in. No one wants to open up.

It's very much like the pre-iPhone phone market. It's not that no one wanted an iPhone, but that before Apple, no one was willing to try making one.

As a result, the camera market is all but dead:

https://www.canonwatch.com/here-is-what-happened-to-the-came...

My phone works better for most purposes (holistically) than my full-frame camera. At this point, no one has money to make the kind of investment needed to revive it, and an open model is unlikely to see the light of day. 2024 models aren't much better than 2014 models. My main camera is from 2012, and not worth upgrading.

Curiously, lenses keep progressing at a slow but steady clip. Sigma just announced an f/1.8 full frame 28-45mm zoom lens.
Devil's advocate, if Tesla camps on eBay listings for used Teslas for sale and places bids they have no intention of following through on for the sole purpose of driving others to bid higher and keeping the brand value high, this would be seen as manipulative by the end-buyers (though at the end of the day, they did ultimately bid and agree to the price they won at)
i hope this isn't to be taken literally

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6764071/

> Looking to Young Blood to Treat the Diseases of Aging

https://www.wired.com/story/startups-flock-to-turn-young-blo...

> Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood Into an Elixir of Youth
I think the middle class feels safer with the notion that the economy will not survive without them, thus whatever system results must maintain some sort of middle class. I don’t think this is true at all, while not ideal many places continue to operate just fine with a few very rich and everyone else very poor.

The consumption machine has a wealth effect which is an artifact of a ponzie economy. This mathematically cannot last forever, even if it has lasted for a long time and will continue to last for a long time. What matters to wealth is production. Traditionally highly technical production needed a decent middle class, but efficiencies mean fewer such people are needed to maintain the same proficiency. Coupled with globalization where a smart person anywhere can design technical things that can then be used everywhere. This decouples the wealth of the rich from the health of the middle class and the rich would be happily sacrifice the middle class in the alter of cheaper labor and will whisper sweet nothings in your ear while doing so. Not them personally but the people they pay to operate on their behalf. To me it makes perfect sense to promise UBI to undermine resistance and then not deliver on that promise to again undermine resistance. I think the middle class would be fools to believe that UBI will come and save them.
Sorry, my point was to (almost facetiously) interject the topological concept of "boundary/bulk" correspondence (as also exists with holograms & AdS/CFT) rather than suggesting the correctness of AdS/CFT.

The idea that "outside" becomes available via a change in perspective from boundary to bulk.
> bids they have no intention of following through on

That is fraud.

This “group expected that, if it was the winning bidder, it would pay about $12,000 for the lease (based on its $18 per acre bid) out of its own budget.”
Unlike a car battery though, these batteries provide a not-insignificant part of the energy that is generated by the engine. Each Rutherford engine generates around 37 mega-watts of power at sea-level (24900 N and 3.05 km/s exhaust velocity, Power = 1/2 * Thrust * v_e) and there are nine in the first stage. The first stage battery provides around one megawatt [1].

That's about 0.3% of all energy generated by the engines, which is significantly more than what a spark plug does in an ICE.

[1] https://theaeroblog.com/the-rutherford-rocket-engine-the-fir...

This is the closest we have to electric power directly powering the ascent of a rocket from Earth.

Something like a HyperCurie engine (which is also electric pump-fed), could probably lift off from a planetary body like the moon. When they used it in orbit, they actually had to wait for the batteries to charge up from solar panels between each engine burn.
I mean, talk about being blatantly open:

> Rep. Cyrus Western (R-Big Horn) brought the bill on behalf of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming.
Also didn't show for me with disabled JS
petabyt I'm interested in this capability, is this available out of the box? What's the client API/contract? Or is Fujihack [0] required? (I just found it on your website.)

[0] https://fujihack.org/
Transformer Layers as Painters
The script command in Linux and Unix (macOS)
Show HN: DomainHeist – an expired domain notification tool
Searching through expired domain names is a great way to find a professional yet affordable domain for a new project or business, but the best ones are usually snagged quickly.

I built this free tool out of necessity for my own side projects, to help me catch a relevant, recently expired domain at TLD base price. Domain Heist sends a daily summary of expired domains that match your search criteria. It's perfect for when you have an idea of what you're building but haven't decided on the exact name.
> I personally don't see any one pictorial representation that maps to a general programming language.

I agree. What I've had in mind for a while now is very different from this.

What I envision is "text" in the sense that it's not a diagram, but more advanced textual representation. Over hundreds of years mathematicians have evolved a concise, unambiguous, symbolic notation for formulae, yet programmers are still using tools that are backward compatible with dot matrix terminals from the 60's: simple characters used to write lines in files.

Blocks, conditions, iteration, exits (return, exception, etc.,) pipelines, assignment, type and other common concepts could be represented symbolically. The interface would still be text-like, but the textual representation would be similar to mathematical notation, where the basic constructs of code are depicted as common, well understood, dynamically drawn symbols that programmers deeply inculcate.

Key properties include extreme concision and clarity of the "instruction pointer." Concision is crucial to reduce the cognitive cost of large amounts of logic. The latter is a thing that is entirely obscured in most visual programming schemes and also absent from conventional mathematical notation: the location of the current instruction is absolutely crucial to understanding logic.

I wish I had more time to elaborate what I have in mind, much less actually work on it.
The conservation groups had every intention of following through and purchasing the land, they just didn't intend to exploit its resources.
oh noes! I viewed source and saw the answers
No, because it would create a contradiction. If a "perfect, endless repeat of pi" were eventually found (say, starting at the nth digit), then you can construct a rational number (a fraction with an integer numerator and denominator) that precisely matches it. However, pi is provably irrational, meaning no such pair of integers exists. That produces a contradiction, so the initial assumption that a "perfect, endless repeat of pi" exists cannot be true.
Story points were only ever an approximate unit of time. To fit them into a clear unit of time such as a sprint is a clear indicator of this. To call them complexity or anything else is misleading- transcribing a dictionary by hand into a CSV file is super simple (1 pt) and takes a long time (how many points is 3 FTE-months in your calibration?).

Eatimating effort-time vs completion time are quite different, serving different stakeholders. A story that takes 1 point of effort by anyone's pointing system could still take a week due to any number of factors (crucial collaborator gets sick, laptop crunched by a car, ransomware attack, whatever). The only really estimable aspect is how long the developer will spend on the work, not when it will be done. Air speed, not ground speed.

That said, it's not clear how queue analysis helps when you haven't spent any time saying how long you might expect each task in the queue to be, or what the dependencies are between tasks within and across teams. Given engaged team members, I've gotten very good results on predicting the pace of progress for sprints, and it all never mattered because everything needed to be shipped. About 4-6 weeks before each X was to be completed we could say with confidence that X would be ready in 4-6 weeks. Not terribly useful.
Having the right to privacy on paper doesn't mean you get it in practice.
Exclusion through technological adherence.
I guess we'll need to develop climbing equipment for astronauts. It's a 120m wall with a 25m cave under it.

I'm also betting the cave has a sizeable ice trap in it.
He can't arrest them himself, no. He can't order their arrest. The point is that the normal judicial process can work on them. So can impeachment. Neither was available for Awlaki.

So, back to the main point: The ruling did not grant absolute immunity for acts outside the scope of his office. (Really! Read it! Take what it says about itself, not Sotomayor's hyperventilating dissent[1]. The ruling says the scope of what it does and does not cover.)

And, second point: Ordering the execution of 6 sitting Supreme Court justices is not within the scope of the president's office. For all you keep raising Awlaki, it's not at all the same - not unless 1) a bunch of SC judges became Al-Qaeda organizers, and 2) the Justice Department, the FBI, the Marshalls Service, and the local police were completely unable to arrest them.

[1] "Hyperventilating" because it had lots of rhetoric but very little actual legal analysis.
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Unless you're doing rigorous double-blind studies, "I swear I can!" isn't all that meaningful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_wine_tasting

> In the course of their routine duties, he would sometimes present the judges with samples from the same bottle three times without their knowledge. The judges were among the top experts in the American wine industry: winemakers, sommeliers, critics and buyers as well as wine consultants and academics. The results were "disturbing"... "Over the years he has shown again and again that even trained, professional palates are terrible at judging wine."
Could you imagine being the first person to ever explore an underground cave system on another planet?

On Mars, maybe stromatolites or other bacteria live in these caves!
I was hoping to be yelled at for entering <ISINDEX>, but instead my entry was politely rejected.
There is no proverbial Devil. But there are people who are willing to "do Devils work".

So we should not "blame the Devil". We should blame the people who do the Devil's work or let it continue.

For instance slavery. Was it Devil that enslaved all the kidnapped people? No, it was Devil's co-conspirators, the slave-owners.

"Devil" is a social concept and construct, and a very important one. It's not much different from asking "What would Jesus Do?"
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Just legalize it.. There's so much to say..

Yeah, you can buy thc-a hemp legally in most places, as it's federally legal, and few states restrict it specifically.

But.. just a couple notes to keep in mind:

This is indeed a grey area, even if it seems explicitly legal. Thc-a, through time, heat, oxygen, etc, WILL degrade into federal illegal THC. So if you buy a jar of thca hemp, the thca will turn into THC over time, and potentially rise above the legal limit of THC percentage.

This could mean, in the worse case scenario, that if they confiscate your legally purchased hemp, and test it, then they could charge you for illegal cannabis possession because it has more than the allowed thc, and therefore is not legal hemp.

Also, I've asked at hemp stores, and was told no.. But indeed, some growers spray thca liquid crystal and even non-cannabis derived terpenes on their bud. Pretty shady imo..

This market, although a legal victory, is actually a detriment to the industry and legalization as a whole, IMHO.
They need to keep going. I heard there's a surprise about 10^20 digits in.
Could be interesting if there was an alternative industry which could profit from the land and then the funds could be used for counter lobbying and offer an alternative source of tax revenue for the state.

I wonder if ecotourism would work. Like some sort of American safari to see these Pronghorn migrations.
This is true, you can just return the method without invoking it.

I don't tend to use that convention though, because most of the time when I use this pattern, I'm returning a function that uses a parameter I pass in. You can see this in the predicate example. I prefer keeping my call sites consistent and always using functions that return a function when invoked, rather than sometimes invoking them and sometimes just passing the func reference. YMMV.
> But consider the average person, not me or you or the hackers.

Forget the average person - even as a technically adept person who has tried to "mindfully engage" with technology and minimize his use of it as much as is reasonably possible, the way our societies in the west are structured are making it increasingly difficult to participate in the world without plugging yourself into the surveillance borg. Examples abound even in this thread - QR codes to order food; needing to ask concierge to call you a Lyft because taxis are nonexistent in the neighbourhood and you aren't carrying a smartphone.

There is so much friction involved in living life with minimal technology that you are placing yourself at a significant disadvantage and living your life less efficiently than others by needing to make compromises or forego certain amenities entirely. While it is possible to live life like this and eschew such creature comforts, it becomes exhausting after several years of doing so, and there is no indication that the tides will turn or the winds will begin blowing in the other direction. You can continue swimming upstream for naught and at great disadvantage to yourself, but it will not change the direction of the current. If anything, the pandemic and work-from-home has only accelerated the trend, with the invasion of Internet-connected surveillance devices into one's private quarters now made mandatory in order to participate in the workforce.
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Dog farts taste terrible.
I went over this in other comments, but basically the language appeals to me since:

- it's close to Python in syntax (less noise, more readable)

- has no garbage collector by default (it uses ARC)

- has great C interop

- can be optimized through the C backend compiler

- can target bare-metal with minimal effort

- supports inline assembly

- has great template/macro system (I do use templates, but I haven't had the need for macros yet)

There's probably other reasons, but those are the ones I could think of now. As for why not other languages, I think the only other languages suitable for this kind of work are: C, C++, Rust, and Zig. Here's my take on each:

- C: The mother of all system languages, but outdated with lots of UB gotchas

- C++: I don't like/need OOP, so why pay the prices of C++ complexity and manual memory management

- Rust: I find the language too complicated for my taste. I know it's subjective, but it just doesn't feel right for me. Also writing a kernel involves a lot of unsafe code anyway.

- Zig: I tried Zig and also found its syntax to be a bit too noisy. Also having to worry about allocators in most of the code distracts from the core logic I'm trying to focus on.
I have the formatting issue on mobile sometimes as well. Reinstalling the app fixes it. Annoying but it works.
I worry that people don’t understand how much violence it took to obtain enlightenment values and that such values may only be a quirk of history. We are very fortunate to live in such a time that is not the natural and default norm for humanity. I worry that attempts to further the gains will fail and we will not only not make additional gains but lose what we had with no possible way or regain even enlightenment values in our lifetimes or any number of lifetimes.
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So we're now saying the specific type of cheese that the moon is made from is Swiss?