skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a different point.

I claimed that Teicholz was a joke because she makes misleading and often false claims about nutrition science evidence. The response was that the critique I linked to was more of a joke, not because of its content but because of its tone.

So sure, tone matters in certain contexts. If it matters more to someone than the content of what is being said to someone in the context of assessing scientific research, then I think that person has a wild way of interpreting evidence.
I can get this, but I aggressively report accounts and issues. I'm not sure how GitHub handles them but they seem to not come back.

Though what I'm unsure how to deal with is legitimate users being idiotic. For example, recently one issue was opened that asked where the source code was. Not only was there a directory named "src" but there were some links in the readme to specific parts. While I do appreciate GitHub and places like hugging face [0], there are a lot of very aggressive and demanding noobs.

I'd like ways to handle them better.... I'm tired of people yelling at me because 5 year old research code no longer works out of the box or because you've never touched code before.

[0] check any hugging face issue and you'll see far more spam. Same accounts will open multiple issues that just barate owners and hugging face makes it difficult to report these accounts.
Terraform and Helm alternative based on CUE: Mantis
Three days. 72 sleepless hours. A corrupted MongoDB instance with a simple configuration error. Millions of dollars at stake. That’s what broke me.

My team was responsible for deployment of over 30 microservices across multiple clouds, directly in our enterprise on-prem customers’ environments. We thought we had it under control. We were SO wrong!.

The reality hit hard: Hour-long deployments stretched into months. Security reviews became endless loops. Integration issues multiplied exponentially. Key stakeholders vanished when we needed them most.

But that production incident with our important fintech client? That was different. As I watched my team burn out during those three days of firefighting, due to a misconfigured database, I realized something had to change.

Here’s the hard truth: The cloud was supposed to simplify things. Kubernetes was meant to make microservice management easier. Instead, we got more complexity, more toil, and more sleepless nights.

I’ve seen this pattern destroy teams across companies. I’ve watched brilliant engineers, engineering leaders and CISOs crumble under the weight of infrastructure chaos. — That’s why I built Mantis.

It’s not just another tool — it’s a complete reimagining of infrastructure configuration. One unified AI-powered engine replacing both Terraform and Helm. Modular configurations that actually work. Built-in validations that prevent disasters before they happen.

https://github.com/pranil-augur/mantis
Most people use the "suite of related products" definition of monorepo, but some companies like Google and Meta have a single company-wide repository. It's unfortunate that the two distinct strategies have the same name.
I've noticed that I get very distracted by motion in my peripheral vision, but not by static images. So I can use a second monitor for things like documentation, but not something like Slack that shows new messages, animated gifs/emojis, etc.

I've also configured my text editor to be very "static": when I type, the only things that can happen are the cursor moves, or text is inserted. I have to manually trigger things like the autocompletion popup, LSP checks, or highlighting the symbol under the cursor.
Interesting read - but how cool is Mess with DNS! What a nice live learning tool.
Downloading Perl takes 7+ steps
Yeah, last time I experimented with it `hyphens: auto;` and `word-break: auto-phrase;` were simply not ready to try even in beta/nightly browsers.

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/word-break
> In Germany only about 30% of high-school kids qualify academic high-school (merit-based) and are eligible to apply for university

Overall 50% of the population are eligible to apply for university since completing higher tier education at a vocational school or completing specialized courses at "lesser" schools can also fullfill the acceptance requirements for related fields of study.
And those that can't teach?
I agree: a well-designed educational course can feel like a video game in some ways, in that you're learning at a high, consistent rate.
The claim isn't that everyone in nutrition etc is bought off. You simply don't need to do that.

If you're in the sugar industry, you give funding to people investigating how saturated fat causes heart disease. You support organizations that back up your preferred theory. These orgs run media campaigns, slap a "heart-healthy" label on food products, and sometimes fund research. Forming popular consensus on "fats = bad" leads to additional funding from government or other charitable causes.

Increased funding leads to an increased density of scientists working on the problem, which in turn increases the legitimacy of the field, especially among people just getting into their careers. If it's common wisdom in the cardio field that saturated fats are the worst cause of heart disease, that's where they're going to focus their efforts.

It's one of those things where you simply don't need to buy anyone off. You just put your thumb on the scale early enough, and consistently push popular opinion toward a direction that's beneficial for you.
I once had a few drinks with an Oracle salesperson many moons ago, and he did a pretty good job of convincing me that they sold risk minimisation over personnel changes to my uber boss, which honestly makes more and more sense to me as I continue in my career.
> So let’s look back; all the way back. The first comic printed in America is The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck, which appeared as a newspaper supplement in 1841 and a book in 1849. At eighty pages of continuous picaresque story,2 it’s certainly a novel. But it is immediately disqualified for not being American. It’s an unlicensed ripoff of an unlicensed British ripoff of a Swiss comic by Rodolphe Töpffer! You can’t just make your Eurocomics American through translation and crime!

No argument re: translation, but crime? Was there international copyright at the time? Not at all an expert but it looks to me like there wasn't before this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
Ah, so you admit it does indeed include accessibility but now what you're complaining about is performance. Not that you've actually tried it of course.

But good. That's a kind of progress.
The relative was also taking statins, so it is hard to say.

following the normal course of events leads to subsequent surgical interventions based on the people I've seen...
Depends on how pedantic you want to be about "speciation". Humans have tons of adaptation just across ethnicities that likely originate in random mutations, sickle-cell anemia being an obvious one. If you're asking for full species change in a laboratory environment (ignoring the fact that what constitutes a "species" is somewhat arbitrary), there have been many studies on that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_experiments_of_sp...

Claiming that the science is bad because the time scales are large is to discount any hypotheses on large time scales. That blows away nearly all of astronomy and huge potions of geology. That's ridiculous. We can clearly learn about things that have happened in the past by piecing together the mountains of evidence that are available.
In a typical X-ray tube (which is also a cathode-ray tube), electrons (negative) are accelerated from the cathode (also negative) towards the anode (positive). A medical imaging X-ray operates at 150 kV, while a radiotherapy linear accelerator (LINAC) usually goes up to 22 MV. However, in these applications, the electrons are "pulled" by the anode as well as "pushed" by the cathode and RF cavities (RF only used in LINAC). In CRT televisions, the X-rays generated by the tube are shielded by a special glass screen containing strontium and barium.

In this case, what is interesting is not the voltage per se, but the fact that the electron beam is polarized. A typical electron beam does not have aligned spins. In the Brookhaven setup, the electrons are spin-aligned. The full article subtitle is:

>Scientists and engineers develop world's highest-voltage, highest-intensity polarized photocathode electron gun, a crucial component for the future Electron-Ion Collider

COTS X-ray systems use mostly thermal emission tungsten filament cathodes or, rarely, field-emission carbon nanotube cathodes. The carbon nanotubes sound fancy but are mostly known for fancy sales pitches and frequent repair tickets. Photocathodes are a specialized technique.
I don't know if you're familiar with Ray Pete, but he writes about seed oils and the affect they have on our health.

https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml

You said that you suspect it is the heating of the oils, but even the oil found in ice creme has been heated somewhere in the process unless it is cold pressed. Can she eat sun flower seeds, olives or avocado without a reaction? Have you tried coconut oil as an alternative?
There was someone else who linked to a longer talk from Sannikov where he directly addresses specular GI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrHHTQqmAaM&t=2275s
Which helps make my point, i.e. your Parmenidian view on this problem.
Evaporate into what? Nothingness?
>Moving from the conflict between capitalism and democracy to complaining about neo-pronouns is quite a jump.

Democracy does not conflict with capitalism. It's capitalism vs. communism. For democracy it's democracy vs. autocracy. Communism can still be a democracy.

Also I never said anything about neopronouns. What is even a neopronoun?

>It's pretty wild to put the "extremist agendas" of what pronouns people use anywhere near the significance of our economic and governmental systems.

It's associated. I use to be a liberal, but the definition changed and now I'm more moderate. I agree with distribution of wealth but I don't agree with pronouns which are also a liberal thing. These two things nowadays go hand in hand with the term "liberal".
Prediction – USDT (Tether) Worth $112B Will Die Within 10 Years
Before refrigeration sodium consumption was 10x
There are zero horses in my room. The absence of something is a default condition.
I also fell for this online bashing of the cybertruck. And since I had a model S but skipped the model 3 for a taycan and was aware of the poor quality of the model 3, I thought it made sense.

However if people are buying the cybertruck despite all its faults, then I'm glad to be proven wrong.
Inside the Transport for London cyberattack
"lost a weekend" - it's called having fun. You loose a week if you work for someone else.
For a while I had expensive internet and low bandwidth, but I loved listening to music and lectures on YouTube. At some point I realized that getting only the audio stream would save me 90% in bandwidth costs. [0]

youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) has a flag, I believe -G, which gives you the URL(s) for the requested format/quality. I used the command line on my computer and put the link in VLC. On my phone I had this elaborate workaround involving downloading the file to my VPS first over SSH, then downloading it to my phone, until I realized my phone browser can consume the URL directly, so I set up a PHP frontend for `youtube-dl -G -f bestaudio {url}`

It's no longer online and I lost the code, but it was like one line of code.

I mention this because you-get seems to support the same usecase (via --url / -u), so I wanted to let people know how useful this is!

(While it was online I shared it on some forums and got very positive feedback, people used it for audiobooks etc.)

[0] Also playing with screen off saves 80% battery life! YouTube knows these facts and that's why they made background playback (which fetches only audio stream) a paid feature...
A large part of this is that ~no Americans would ever consider a 45-minute walk "natural".
“The French paradox” is preposterous. Rather than re-assessing the “low fat” model, the approach was to call French nutrition a “paradox”. Resolving the paradox itself should have been done before presenting the low fat model as a fact.
Here's another resource: https://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/PPP.php

Part of an overall really nice resource: https://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/
I have been building https://github.com/claceio/clace, a project which makes it easier to manage web apps for internal use (locally and across a team). SQLite is used to store static files. This post talks about the reasoning behind that.
Ain't nothing but a hound dog.
This serioualy reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer gets to design a car. I don't understand how anyone can drive this thing unironically.
In case like me, you're hearing aboutMidnight Blizzard for the first time:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider/mi...

TL;DR: Russian Nation State Threat Actor that attacked Microsoft in April 2024.
Based on my several decades of life experience, I would say the point is there’s hardly anything useful that you can learn without doing. And there are many things that you can’t do without leaving the traditional classroom environment. That’s why schools have chem labs, wood shops, kitchens, orchestras…oh wait, do they have those anymore?

Another point is that you can’t really learn a skill unless there are stakes - a real goal you need to accomplish, real customers, real coworkers. Grades aren’t real stakes; at least I didn’t regard them as such.

I’ve seen this over and over through the years as new college grads arrive who know a lot about things but have no idea how to do those things. Unless they went to a school with a good co-op program.
yea I prett much agree
..or things that are trivial to find on pypi. Which is going to be 90+% of cases.
Appreciate you answering my Qs. Thank you very much (:
As a European everything felt like being in a movie. Especially going through desert it felt like I travelled back in time. Literally Wild West. I got see forests, mountains, canyons, and desert all in the same ride. That's definately not possible where I come from.
Do they have a per capita version?
Yes. Don’t you? Why not?
The Macintosh had come out but I don't remember hearing about Jobs visiting. I read later that he met with Sottsass but he when was at Studio Olivetti. (Think meeting Jony Ive at LoveFrom rather than Apple). I remember Gates visited Ivrea. There was a printed list of restaurants with reviews by the expats. One was annotated that Gates had eaten there. It was pretty good.

Gates saw Olivetti as a customer for his MSDOS. Jobs saw Sottsass+Olivetti as a design inspiration.
My hat goes off to you.

And yes, I similarly 'nope out' when I see Matrix. The clients are just terrible.
Democracy is the means to freedom. Not giving the vote to "dumb" people is taking away their sovereignty. Why do you think you'd be in the ruling class in your authoritarian fantasy?

"Democracy is the worst political system, other than all the rest."

Anything short of universal adult suffrage is an attempt to oppress classes of people. Even things like reading tests or logic exams, which I would love in an ideal world, would quickly be used (and have been in the past) to oppress people.

So: Democracy is necessary in a free society, and permitting everyone to vote is necessary in a free society. If we're going to require all people to vote, they should be as educated as possible. Hence free public education.
538 is now owned by ABC news.

To the point of the article, nobody is polling and reporting on polls out of the goodness of their hearts.

"Everybody loves a horse race" is the maxim which news sites adhere to - news sites are never going to predict a blowout or landslide, because people will feel secure in the outcome and stop reading the news. Every single news site has an incentive to skew more towards calling the race as evenly matched, because that drives page views.

It's a similar talking point to the one about Democratic pollsters not wanting to release their more accurate numbers, because they could lose voter momentum. (Democratic voters love being able to stay home, it seems)
Why does the effect seem to be reversed when out in nature? When I walk in the woods, the visual complexity is arguably much higher than it ever gets in cities, even on a busy highway. But the mental effect seems to be rejuvenating.
You "ran updates every single morning" but somehow did not see the popups Windows puts up warning about required patching and did not take the "pause updates for up to 7 days" option that Windows provides? Sorry but that doesn't sound very believable.
I agree that this reflects poorly on trust. But voting to give more authority to the federal government would make it even worse. Look at how poorly voting works.

Just get rid of the agency altogether.
There definitely are contexts in which it makes sense to define 0/0 = 0. Example: given a vector x and an approximation y to it, you wish to compute the "componentwise error" delta, i.e., the minimum positive number delta such that each entry of y is within relative error at most delta from the corresponding entry of x:

(1) abs(y_i - x_i) <= delta * abs(x_i) for each i.

This number can be computed as

(2) delta = max (abs(y_i - x_i) / abs(x_i)) over each i.

If you wish to allow zero entries in your vectors while keeping the equivalence between (1) and (2), you have to define 0 / 0 = 0.
I cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription 2 years ago and couldn't be happier. Good riddance.
The hard part is that the food industry in the US has seen fit to add sugar to everything. Sometimes it seems like the only way to avoid overeating sugar is to make everything from scratch, which is both time and (often times) financially inefficient.
The author: A requires B

You: what nonsense. Clearly, B does not necessarily require A, and yet he says it does, how poorly argued.
The unreleased Commodore HHC-4's identity
Spending your (now short) life hungry and homeless on the streets is not enjoyable either.
Note that of the two states currently splitting electors, neither do it in proportion of votes. They award an elector to the winner of the vote in each of the state's congressional districts, and then the overall statewide winner receives the remaining two electors. In that sense, it's identical to how representatives are sent to Congress.
I’m not saying talent is enough.

I’m just speaking from my experience. I put a lot of practice into things that I am also talented at and life is good. shrug

I put practice into other things like cooking and music too but I’m not going to become a chef or play music for anything but fun.
I imagine most Europeans would be happy with a rule such as "no individual to own €1B in assets" as a start. But even if rules for a fairer, more equitable form of capitalism can be devised, I fear the entrenched position and loose morals of the top capitalists would be difficult or impossible to overcome.
Version 7 Unix cmd/sh/blok.c
Zero was not a "counting number." It wasn't used in early calculations.

To an ancient Roman, tomorrow is 2 (ok, II) days from now. Today . . . one . . . tomorrow . . . two . . . two days!

> Because the first few numbers, especially 0, 1 and 2

Considering zero one of "the first few numbers," or even considering zero being a number, or for that matter considering zero at all are very recent concepts for humans.

A millennium ago, asking someone to count all the sheep in a field that had no sheep would be like today asking the sound of one hand clapping.
Is that necessarily true in the earliest moments of the universe? Probably there are good reasons for it to be so that I don't understand, but then most of what cosmologists understand about the period that JWST looks back to is from extrapolating backwards, and it seems like the new observations it has enabled keep disagreeing with previous assumptions. Anyway, I really look forward to finding out what improvements to theory can be made to better explain anomalies like these lonely quasars or the apparently overdeveloped young galaxies.
Who cares about "Alabama"? Or "Texas"? Or "California"? The point being made is that the presidency shouldn't be weighted by states. It should be a selection by the people.

To your assumption that Alabama will always be lopsided conservative while the country will always be lopsided Republican: Why should the Democrats in Alabama never have their voice heard?

I support electoral reform for the legislature... but the EC is trash.
> In the story of three PhD students who couldn't write the characters for "sneeze" it's entirely unclear if they were completely stuck, or if they just made small mistakes.

The article says "all three simply shrugged in sheepish embarrassment", which in context, reads clearly to me that they were embarrassed for not knowing where to start, not that they wrote them down with minor errors that they were embarrassed about after checking a dictionary. The rest of the article strongly reinforces this interpretation. For example: "‘lift the pen, forget the character’... this new digitally induced amnesia is not merely a matter of forgetting a few strokes in a rare character..."
A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Does The Pentagon
I think that's the point. Amazon doesn't want to share.
Yeah, I've never used Postscript except as a document format created by LaTeX :-)

There was a language called "V" a while back, different than a more recent language called V. It was basically a Forth where quoting was done with square brackets. This replaced the colon-semi notation for defining words, and it was also nice for nested data structures. This language seems to have fallen off the web though.

You mentioned FExprs. I never looked at Mock Lisp, and it sounds like Gosling doesn't think I should! However, I'm sure you're aware of Kernel. I think of Scheme as the "prettiest programming language I don't want to use", and I think the vau stuff in Kernel makes it even prettier. (But I still don't want to use it.)

For homoiconicity, I've also considered something like Tcl or Rebol/Red. The latter two blur the lines between lexer and parser in a way that I'd like to learn more about.

But really, I always come back to wanting static typing. Both for compile time error checking, and to give the compiler a leg up in runtime performance. Instead of using separate declarations like you see in Typed Racket and some others, I wonder if a Lisp with the addition of one "colon operator" to build typed-pairs would do it. Just one step down the slippery slope of infix syntax sugar. In the context of WebAssembly, something like this:

(import (foo a:i32 b:f64):())
(export (bar x:i64 y:f32):(i32 i32)
(code goes here)
)

Using colons to specify the types of the parameters and return result(s). It'd also be nice to have colon pairs like this for key:value in hash tables, or as cond:code in switch/conditional constructs.
Retirement benefits are the last thing the CCP touches because tens of millions of Chinese heavily rely on it already.

China is authoritarian, but the CCP absolutely does take public sentiment into account, and policies that have the chance of causing mass protests and discontent do get rolled back.

Zero Covid is a perfect example of this, as it was hastily rolled back after the wave of protests following the apartment fire in Urumqi due to Xinjiang CCP's hard Zero Covid enforcement.

And this is why China had not raised the retirement age until in the past few weeks despite trying for decades, and anyhow kicked that can down the line to 15 years.
Yes, and it can be quite a stretch when playing. Similar to Rachmaninoff in terms of "reach" (but absolutely not in style).

(Am pianist, too.)
Encore.ts: A New Type of Framework
Thad exactly the problem. At least tooling can solve mono repo problems.
But commits , which should span multiple repos, have no tooling at all. Except pain. Lots of pain.