skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has been previous observational studies for erythritol, but this was not was not an observational study.

It was straight forward experiment.

They gave small group of people drink with erythritol and observed (P<0.0001) in everyone really big increase in markers for TRAP6 that activates thrombin receptors responsible for the coagulation.

erythritol -> coagulation link was direct. When you combine it with observational studies in larger populations. It harder to explain them away with other habits and conditions.

>The present studies suggest that following ingestion of an artificially sweetened food harboring typical levels of erythritol as artificial sweetener, plasma levels of erythritol remain elevated for many days, well above the thresholds necessary to enhance stimulus-dependent platelet reactivity, even among healthy volunteers. . .This is of concern given that the very subjects for whom artificial sweeteners are marketed (patients with diabetes, obesity, history of CVD and impaired kidney function) are those typically at higher risk for future CVD events https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/trouble-erythritol
There is a table that shows the cities with biggest population loss, which is what I am referencing.
This study really annoys me. I'm doing keto and its helped tremendously including consuming a TON of erythitol. The amount of bad press low carb diets and artificial sugars get don't account for the simple fact that - if they didn't exist people like myself would be WAY worse off. I'll keep taking my chances with these sweeteners vs going back to my old eating ways which would 100% send me to the ER from a heart attack or similar.
It already happened once, remember this? https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...

(Aka CloudBleed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed)
> My grocery store doesn't hand every shopper a wheelchair instead of a shopping cart just because some percentage of the population requires them.

Strange choice of example. Electric wheelchairs are available at most stores of a certain size. Wheelchair reserved parking is available at all almost all stores.

(in California)
A while back I wrote a simple tool to remove or symlink duplicate files (exact matches). It's faster than fully hashing each file, maybe it's useful to some folks: https://github.com/abspoel/dedup
>but not for other fab customers

there aren't that many, that's the point. Apple is responsible for most of its suppliers revenue as the article points out, otherwise it wouldn't have price setting power to begin with.

We aren't in a supply shortage, with the exception of a bunch of AI related chips (the only thing the media talks about, hence the skewed perception) we've bin in a supply glut. Semiconductor revenue declined by 11% last year. AI chips aren't the only chips in the world, DRAM makers like Micron, an American manufacturer are the kinds of companies that are effectively at the mercy of Apple because of how outsized of a portion of the market they are.
> Isn't there some body aggrieved parties could report this too for sanctions?

Sorry, but what are they going to do if China refuses to pay those sanctions? And who will want to escalate those into tariffs etc?

Once you are a super power rules don't apply to you.
While there are rare situations where locking differentials are meaningful, having been in many hair raising off-road situations, including a real life or death one, I'd much rather have AWD and clearance, than 4WD and no clearance.

That is to say, I'm not convinced by the article's hypothesis about locking diffs. It's extremely rare to need to deploy those: beached, or slow starts up vertical surfaces like boulders. An AWD vehicle with good tires and good clearance is really quite good. Bonus points if you don't care about wrecking it.
Ask HN: How to deploy a batch job that depends on MySQL?
I need to deploy a slightly odd file converter that needs a temporary MySQL database for the duration of each run. This is unmaintained open source software so I want to pin all the versions and then never upgrade anything. That means I don't want to just install it directly on my server.

I like running things in Docker but it isn't designed for multiple independent processes.

Is there something obvious I'm missing? I'm relatively new to software development.
When you say provider, I assume you don't own the IP and that you'd be starting from scratch. At my work we owned the IP from software developed by a third-party which we then brought in-house and hired on software developers (myself included). The biggest challenge has been the loss of tribal knowledge of the codebase and the use cases that brought the system to its current state over a decade.

The boring answer is that you'd likely need to put together a business case. What's the benefit you'd get from developing it in-house? Is it worth the projected cost & time-frame (which is likely going to be inaccurate since estimating software is inherently difficult) to fix the painpoints? Would you look to offer the new solution to other potential customers (which may even be competitors to your main business)?

As for attracting talent, I've worked in the tech sector of pharmacy (Australia) for nearly a decade and while the tech sector there is small, the hiring pool is just like any other industry since we don't hire for pharmacy experience.
Also on Firefox you can hold CTRL+T / CTRL+W to open / close multiple tabs, CTRL+Click or SHIFT+Click to select multiple tabs at once and then e.g. move them to another window or close them, etc.

I always assumed Chrome also had all of these features, including scrolling, etc.
Kids need bedrooms of their own. Young couples take this into account when managing contraception.
Thanks for the comment. The Roman water system is indeed a marvel and did vastly facilitate access to water for the masses. Specifically though, I was referring to having easy access to tap water within one’s home. That, to my knowledge, was not common, whereas today nearly everyone in the first and second world has that [1].

[1] “It was very rare for a pipe to supply water directly to the home of a private citizen, since Romans would have to acquire an official authorization to validate the direct tap. Water mostly serviced the ground floor in buildings, rarely supplying the upper floors due to the difficulty this would provide in the gravity-powered system. Residents of apartment buildings who lived in the upper floors would have to carry water upstairs and store it in their rooms for sanitary uses” from https://engineeringrome.org/the-water-system-of-ancient-rome....

And yes, there is still many parts of the world still in poverty, but that is changing rapidly and doesn’t change the larger point that technology, by and large, democratizes and filters to the poor.
Here is the states, it's pretty common to search the public court records for civil suits. Be careful.
I’ll order a new screen. I’ve read it’s relatively easy to replace.

But turning it into a totally different modern PalmOS beast is tempting.

Someone could make a screen/digitiser replacement with a built in camera.
Yeah, all you need is a rollout system that supports blue-green! Very easy to homeroll ;)
Product management is really important and must not be delegated too far down. As main sponsor you need to be involved as well. A lot of key decisions must be made and ability and power to say no is vital as is the ability to move the other parties around your system at least a little once in a while.
Do you mean ECS Fargate? Because you can use AWS Fargate with EKS, with some limitations.
An Intoxicating 500-Year-Old Mystery
These days, I ask Claude/ChatGPT to create the regex and usually I know enough to be able to verify it. To double check, I'll start a new conversation and ask it what the regex does and verify it that way.

You can also ask it to create unit tests with edge cases. It might not catch every edge case, but usually it will create edge cases that you might not think of when writing unit tests yourself.
Benchmark it, it won't be any faster.

Using the if statement: Execution time: 0.00648 seconds

Using the min function directly: Execution time: 0.02298 seconds

Using the min function with an intermediate variable: Execution time: 0.02959 seconds
> sole supplier
> free market

I'm sensing some contradiction in that.

Pricing and packaging parts in a way that ensures its cheaper to buy a different phone is the opposite of a free market.
Breaking your screen or wearing out your battery shouldn't mean you have to replace both, but it does if you own a Samsung and want genuine Samsung parts.

Did this approach get disclosed when consumers bought the phones, or only when something happened?
The Outrageous Rise of Neotoddlerism
Oh wow, me too! I thought I was the only one. I can't drink a diet coke without getting a mild headache.
Not only in performance, but also in profits, as shown by the Intel vs. AMD financial results. Especially in the server CPU market segment, where Intel has a diminishing market share and losses of billions, while AMD has an increasing market share and profits.

The new Zen 5 has much better single-thread performance than any Intel CPU (e.g. the slower 5.5 GHz Zen 5 launched this week matches a 6.0 GHz Raptor Lake), so for a couple of months, until Intel launches Arrow Lake S, AMD will have much better single-thread performance. After that, Intel and AMD will be again at parity, with negligible differences in ST speed.
Restoration is a completely valid motivation
afaik that is a whole different rodeo on the silicon level
> iPhone which was an iPod touch with a modem.

I mean, that's not totally wrong, but by the release dates completely backwards. The iPod Touch is an iPhone without the modem.
It helps if you make a drinking game out of it!
Not just engines:

https://craftsmanshipmuseum.com/exhibit/
Malaysian ISPs Hijack Cloudflare/Google DNS Requests
Mapped: How Many Hours Europeans Work Each Week
Do you have any people in your company who could build what you need if given the time? Sometimes there are people who are pretty handy with coding who aren't called "programmers". They may be analysts or engineers or something like that. And is there anyone who understands the domain, has solid leadership skills, and at least a bit of tech skill, enabling them to serve as a project lead?

If you have both of these, you could conceivably use your existing staff to build at least a limited-functionality version 1, and backfill the jobs they used to do with new people. If not, you have the harder problem of needing to hire people to do something you don't know how to do at all.
Good freelancers are expensive and don't stick around long-term.
The paper ones I've been served drinks with have certainly been bad.

OTOH I have used a couple of types of "biodegradable" straws, from mango peel or sugarcane or something, and they were 100% fine.
I have seen more Terraform than anything else.
> The Linux kernel already uses a ton of GCC extensions

You'll be happy to know that GCC happily compiles C++ then! No need to switch to MSVC.

I'm fact GCC itself successfully switched to C++ from C a few years ago.
> " Somebody should be tarred and feathered for introducing the idea that features should be fused off for all but the highest paying customers. If the customer is not paying for the fused off functionality, the shareholders are."

This is very well put.

While I've always understood the economic motivation for margin optimization and the technical reality that CPU wafers aren't very granular, fundamentally, it's a long-term losing idea to intentionally fab gates that don't add end-user value. While it may work in the shorter-term, when it becomes the plan of record (as opposed to fixing a one-gen design or product mix error) it signals a shift to prioritizing value extraction over value creation.
If you give one person rare substance X and that person dies 40 minutes later, it's enough. P < 0.000001 or at least, because people dying in 40 min time period for unrelated reason is really rare.

This study was an experiment (P<0.0001) that directly observed blood coagulation markers. Drink -> coagulation.
I wonder how would simply doing a `return min(heights)` compare to any of the options given?

(It sure doesn't demonstrate the improvements between interpreter versions, but that's the classic, Python way of optimizing: let builtins do all the looping)
AI Startup Glean Nears Fundraise Valuing It at $4.5B
It clearly seems not to be the case that this treatment "might as well not exist" for people who can't afford it, in that it has been administered to many people in Sub-Saharan Africa, and likely will continue to be.

Further: omit things like your last sentence from your comments; they hurt your case.
The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum
> I've found that the best programmers (and the ones you'd want) are more interested in the technical aspects of the problem and business and customer impact, rather than the sexiness of the business domain.

Just want to heartily agree with this point here. Certainly many of us do get excited about particular business domains from time to time, but in my own experience, I get more excited about technical challenges, and -- critically -- solving real problems for real customers that I can see first- or nearly-first-hand. The customers for this "product" would be internal to OP's org, so the people who end up building this would have front-row seats to how it's being used, what's good, what's bad, etc.
Hm, I've used mine as a USB host with an adapter? Not sure of the details, I suppose OTG is the online/runtime switching and I was just running as fixed host?
Yeah, sorry for not expressing this clearly: I believe software also ages with literal time. Because the real world changes, and software ultimately runs in the real world. Being old and being unfit for its purpose are pretty much linked when it comes to software.
> I'm not sure what the author is suggesting here. They licensed technology from Imagine Technologies, so therefore they must continue licensing their technology?

I think you're overreading it. I don't think the author is arguing that Apple must stay a customer. Rather they are making a point about how much power Apple has a company. They clearly have the power to make or break other companies. That of course doesn't make the rest of the article correct, but the point about Apple being very powerful does make sense to me.
When you ctrl+S to save a page, by default the first attempt fails, as evidenced by the warning icon in the Downloads button. You click it again to save it, and naturally it redownloads and reexecutes the page and all its resources again. Likewise if you save an already open image, more often than not even when it was just loaded, it will need to be downloaded again.
The author must be pretty young if they believe disruptive activism just started in 2009.

Disruptive activism has been going on for <human history timeline> in one form or another.
Off––line: a functional retro Facebook clone
> We’re already in a place where one side is using the court as a tool to realize political outcomes

> But if things get extreme and the Court does begin to cross political lines and override electoral decisions

This is now the information bubble that was also discussed in this thread.

No, "one side" is not using the court to realize political outcomes. Both sides are - and one side had a few decade head start if we really must sling mud. Some people don't like the outcomes recently, so they attack the courts as being stacked/abused/etc. forgetting all about the past few decades where they championed nearly every outcome...

In politics, you don't always get what you want. Some people find that concept inconceivable. When they don't get what they want, it must be because of cheating/abuse/criminality/whatever.
Of what relevance is that question? Was the US supposed to determine that the use was necessary before it was used? How is that even supposed to be determined, especially in wartime when the inner workings of the enemy are opaque?
Having a third competitor in the GPU is great, for both Intel and the consumer. If one starts blaming newcomers for their shortcomings then we are failing to see the bigger picture.

When you talk about web browsers failing to display content because of the iGPUs I fail to even have heard of such a case. Maybe the performance is bad but that's it. Either way, that's more of a failure of the OS and not Intel. Windows is particularly biased to not use your dGPU on a laptop, but I blame the kernel for making badly calculated assumptions based on nothing but !={game, 3D modelling tool} then iGPU, and not the hardware.
Using vim to edit large dictionary files.
I forked a steno dictionary for Plover, and edited its 300k entries in vim. I've ben using regex daily since then.
Clerk has quite a few dark patterns in their free tier, eg: if your app is on Clerk free tier, all your users will be forced to log out and re-login every 7 days (and they try to obfuscate this fact until you're locked in). For this reason, I've recently had to migrate away from them - I'm really glad there are alternatives.
> "But you can't prove this rock isn't conscious"

My favourite one in this line is “you can’t prove there isn’t an invisible pink unicorn in the middle of your living room and we can still agree it’s very unlikely to be there”.
Our state department of education is one of the biggest networks in the world with about half a million devices. They would occasionally publicly announce a migration to Linux.

This was just a Microsoft licensing negotiation tactic. Before he was CEO, Ballmer flew here to negotiate one of the contracts. The discounts were epic.
> or pick a real challenge like bit-banging low speed USB in Rust on a dirt cheap RISC-V micro

A USB so slow it can't even handle a keyboard smoothly?
That's fine; this would be an experiment, after all. If it goes well, those freelancers can be tasked to help hire a more permanent team, and/or be offered permanent positions, if they're interested.
Over 2.7K users according to the developer’s Spacehey: https://spacehey.com/drhelado

Mobile version: https://m.off---line.com/
Greenland Megatsunami Led to Week-Long Oscillating Fjord Wave
Great in theory but in practice when you do K8s on AWS, the AWS stuff leaks through and you still have lock-in.
Mixed in with this may also be architectural decisions based from a "let's just spin something up quickly" mentality. Those foundational architectural decisions have a way of becoming set in stone, long after the freelancers have left, dooming the project to scalability and latency problems which seem to linger forever.
You're Wrong about PETA
It’s maybe less so in the digital era, but certainly before 2000-or-so so you needed to republish books and songs.
I don't understand why this "you shouldn't be vendor-locked" rationalization is taken at face value at all?

1. The time it will take to move to another cloud is proportional to the complexity of your app. For example, if you're a Go shop using managed persistence are you more vendor locked in any meaningful way than k8s? What's the delta here?

2. Do you really think you can haggle with the fuel-producers like you're MAERKS? No, you're more likely just a car driving around for a gas station with increasingly diminishing returns.
> If nobody needs money, then surely everyone has a personal service robot

Or, at least, they clean their own toilets.
The Terrifying Efficiency of Drone Warfare [video]
Loops should be avoided in python. Only constant time operations should be performed.
MTB is pretty fun to get the shiny gear too... But yes, particularly cycling, $3500 for just a groupset. Gross

https://www.bike-components.de/de/Shimano/Dura-Ace-Di2-R9250...
> guy posted something he thought was real, then deleted it when it turns out it wasn't

Difference between memory holing and retracting.

> Why does he need to apologize?

Because he fucked up in a stupid way with material consequences. And because he's facing impending Ofcom regulations that makes it stupid to needlessly piss off Westminster right now.
They never had the launch codes anyway.
The Japanese economy is significantly more consolidated than Germany's.

Vertical and Horizontal Integration (like what the 3 groups above do) is heavily regulated and litigated against in the EU [0][1], especially under Vestager.

Japan on the other hand doesn't actually regulate against either forms of market dominance. All three of those groups (called zaibatsu/keiretsu) have had market dominance in Japan since the 16th century.

That's why I recommended reading that book above - Antitrust in the Western sense doesn't actually exist in Asian countries, all of whom modeled their economies on Japan and with Japanese advice (METI) and aid (eg. ADB).

[0] - https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust-and-cartel...

[1] - https://www.cliffordchance.com/content/dam/cliffordchance/br...
Is it common to build a prototype to throw away, and then actually throw it away and build the "real" thing? I've never seen that, ever, in 20+ years of software work. The prototype ends up being the long-term production version, for all its faults and weaknesses.
The Underwater Battle for Fiber-Optic Supremacy [video]
DupeGuru has been pretty effective solution for this. I don’t know if creating a hash for every file and then checking for collision is any better way? Sounds like it requires more labor.
I think referring to bankruptcy is excessive. Intel bulls might be going bankrupt, but the share price doesn't affect most companies unless their only reasonable way to raise money is through the stock market. The Intel bond yields are not too high yet.

The question then becomes, is this a low (trading around book value) with recovery in the future, or is it the beginning of a long, dark time, leading to an inability to raise money down the line?
Same meaning in french. Oh well…
I assume that ECS Fargate would solve this, because one misbehaving ECS task would not affect others, and stopping it should still respect the shutdown routines.
Plenty of kernels have been written in other languages, naturally UNIX/POSIX folks can hardly think of something else.

Even Linus accepting Rust is kind of interesting, because his C++ rants also apply to plenty of Rust code bases.
Even more!

Have you seen this video - https://www.nber.org/lecture/2024-methods-lecture-susan-athe...

Might be interesting to you.
Thanks nilslice! Appreciate you giving this a look.
Considering the high number of Olympic medalists that come out of Texas the same is likely true here as well, despite the number of unicorn founders in Texas. In all other respects I suspect the average person has a greater chance of becoming an Olympic medalist than unicorn founder in all US states other than California and New York.

So then there is nothing unusual about Europe compared to every other location on the planet.
Earliest expected release for an Under Display Camera (UDC) iPhone right now is iPhone 18 in 2026:

>According to The Elec, LG Innotek has entered the preliminary development of the UDC, which sits under the display and does not result in a visible hole in the panel when the camera is not in use...

>Apple will then adopt the UDC in 2027's "Pro" iPhone models, according to respected analyst Ross Young of research firm Display Supply Chain Consultant

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/iphone-under-display-ca...
The Case for Choosing Death, Not Immortality
How about using the `min` builtin directly over the entire list?
You've been breaking the guidelines badly and on many topics - here are just a few clear examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41186081

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183748

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166359

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123755

Not cool.

I tried at length to persuade you to stop doing this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40749821) but appear to have failed with that.