skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for cvd risk mortality if you exclude the largest single study that also had a long duration (WHI 2006) it made CVD risk mortality significant, so one of those long duration studies is dragging the results the opposite way.

Right, and the proposed pathway by which SFA increases CVD risk is via increases in ApoB/LDL-c. What LDL-c differences did they achieve in WHI 2006?

Additionally, the substitution is important. DGs recommend replacing SFA with PUFA, whereas in WHI the intervention group largely replaced SFA with CHO. Interestingly, the control group had higher levels of PUFA and MUFA, which may also explain the paltry change in serum cholesterol.

If you want to claim that 15 more incidents per 1000 of a disease that is one of the top killers in the western world is a rounding error, then go for it. I don’t think that’s a reasonable position, personally.

As for the speculation about higher levels being healthy - speculate away, but I don’t see why anyone should believe it’s the case when
a) it runs contrary to the body of evidence on the subject
b) there’s no actual evidence backing up that speculation.
> That said long form text may be different but those who write novels and the like were always a minority.

I think this is the article’s point - that this minority is going to shrink even more.
This is absolutely a smoking gun, but I still don't understand exactly how it works.

So TLDR the sugar industry paid for (1?) literature review paper that said that existing papers reporting risks of sugar were flawed.

But what I hear is that _until recently_ sugar research has been put on the backburner, and only recently are people starting to re-examine the links between sugar and heart health.

How are these two related? Did the one paper really put people off researching it for 50 years?
Outdated, but still useful in ways.
I have no idea where you came up with this, but it is completely false. While there are clear aspects of Christian morals in Lord of the Rings, it would have been extremely clearly heretical if it had been ever claimed to be a real account (as it has a completely different God, Eru Iluvatar, as the creator, for example).

Not to mention, Tolkien has written quite a bit about the three ages preceding The Third Age (the Dawn Age and the two numbered ages), and there is no mention of Adam, Eve, God, King Solomon, Moses, Noah, the Flood, or any other parts of the Christian mythos of the first few ages. And there are a great many more evil lords, giant spiders, winged eagles, and magical rings then you'll find in any Bible.
The severity of the problem seems exotic.

> However, this new digitally induced amnesia is not merely a matter of forgetting a few strokes in a rare character. Highly literate people are forgetting how to write the characters in words like ‘kitchen’ (厨房), ‘lips’ (嘴唇), ‘cough’ (咳嗽), and ‘broom’ (扫帚). Victor Mair (2014) provides a striking example of the severity of the character amnesia problem. The following image is of a shopping list hastily written by a social science researcher from the PRC. The writer of the list struggled to remember the characters in ‘egg’ (鸡蛋), ‘shrimp’ (虾仁), and ‘chives’ (韭菜), and simply resorted to Pinyin.
Some of the early ones let you yell "Alexa, open the door!" from outside the house, heh.
I was able get the story to load after pasting the url in another tab. Odd
Miami has a particularly poor placement for its Amtrak station
Of course. They aren't poison- eating one added sugar or saturated fat won't kill you. It's if you make it a habit.
The specific type of conversion is one I don't see as a big issue. The programmer deliberately decided to use an imprecise data type for the calculation.

But more importantly, I'm saying that the problematic rounding can occur even if your tower does not have both bigint and float. It can happen even if every layer can completely represent every value of the layer above it. Do you have any complaints that are unique to a tower that has both bigint and float, and don't apply to towers that only have float?

To elaborate on that, an implicit cast directly from a single bigint to a single float won't happen with the rules in the wikipedia article. You'd have to do something like bigint+float, which can have horrible rounding errors, but those horrible rounding errors are also present in float+float.

And you can even have these problems without a tower. So I don't see how the bigint and float scenario is an argument against towers.
Well, it's an analogy and that's where it breaks down, as all analogies do.

A hardware store lock might protect a single shed, locker, or house.

A software "lock" on a critical system is more equivalent in importance to the full physical security system surrounding a bank vault.
The EU should be trying to move away from greater liability burden, as the US has also realized it is a mistake with its current litigation nightmare.

It saddens me how poorly the bloc seems to be governed right now. It should basically be all hands on deck for capital markets formation.

Tort reform is one of the major ways economists/prominent policymakers believe we could improve in the US, but of course the EU goes the exact opposite direction.
> some weird tweets

Sounds like some of the 15% or some of the 28%. :)
10x doesn't look enormous?
I just always assume polling is propaganda. There are clearly other countries involved in manipulating this election.
The honest troubleshooting code of conduct
I feel Tesla is a US bubble. Despite all the disproportionate media this brand and it’s CEO gets, in my country I haven’t even seen one in the street yet, but I see EV Volvo, Renault, Fiat, BYD, GWM and others daily.
> We need a new economics

It could be argued that capitalism has played a significant part in the improvement in our living conditions and the technogical development of our species. Then again, it could also rather easily be argued that capitalism is a plague on society that will inevitably result in total domination by a handful of billionaires.

But what realistic alternatives are there? And even if such an alternative exists, why would those in control - who benefit the most from capitalism - relinquish their power?
Maybe we will now see companies that will absorb the liability, e.g. reselling a FOSS package with a different license slapped on.
I agree that not all advocates are "cultist" but I did not even know this existed as a real disease, https://www.perception.foundation/faq. Wow , not sure if the site is accurate but either way it seems both sides of the issue need to be very honest and smart about psychedelics because info about Marijuana is just starting to be better known and that info was never in the conversation before, just like psychedelics now.
It’s complex enough that I don’t think your answer really covers it. For example glass is not very efficient to recycle. It needs to be transported to be used and often the cost of transporting it is not worth it.
All polls have numerous corrections, as simple random sampling is basically impossible.

The way polls actually work is that they build up the "typical voter" (a graph of race, ethnicity, age, past behaviors, etc. etc.), and then sample those groups, and then add up the numbers at the end. This is the dirty truth about polling, its impossible to get clean data so these "cleanup" steps have substantial room for errors.

Worse: pollsters talk to each other, meaning a lot of them share methodologies. So we're likely to see every pollster make the same mistake in the same direction. Its just the nature of how communication works.

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This blogpost has numerous claims:

1. Senate Race predicts the Presidential race -- It looks like everyone's senate race numbers match up. But the typical media have

2. Independent voters -- I dunno about this one. I can believe its true, but I'm not seeing how they picked out (or the methodology) behind independent voters. I've also witnessed a lot of behavior where my friends tell me they're independent but then suddenly spout off extreme political viewpoints. I don't understand why people like to pretend they're independent, but... if they do that kind of make-believe or pretend to a pollster, the independent vote number will be wrong.

So the argument almost entirely lies on the Senate vs Presidential race numbers. So there-in lies the question. Are we about to see unprescedented levels of split ticket votes, and are they all going to be for Trump for President / Democrat for Senate?

That.... seems unlikely to me. The Senate Race correlation with the Presidential race is a very strong argument to me. At least within my social circle, I cannot imagine anyone voting for a Democrat in the Senate but Trump for President.

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So the blogpost's argument is that we use this new metric (ie: Senate polls) and try to calculate out the correlation to the Presidential race. Its... a new theory but one that I can largely get behind.

I have to imagine that the people are reasonably consistent between Senate Races and Presidential Races with regards to party affiliation.
I was about to post a link about the fact that our retinas themselves can't sense colors in our peripheral vision.

But apparently that's been debunked!

https://www.aop.org.uk/ot/science-and-vision/research/2015/1...
Depending on how you count the fediverse / activitystream/pub concepts are now more than a decade old. There have been indeed many AP services around, but practically none - except Mastodon - has seen any significant adoption. That exception is almost certainly because of the Twitter "situation" (incidentally currently boosting also the traction of the unrelated Bluesky/ATProto project) which has created a small window of opportunity. No such window exists for the other centralized social media / adtech platforms and adoption of all other services (video, audio, pictures, forums, events, professional profiles etc.) is therefore minimal.

> Couldn't that be considered a success?

It is actually enormous success given the resources. But when you consider the vast and rapidly growing number of people trapped in the handful of adtech platforms then you must either concede that the status-quo is unchangeable or change strategy.
Re your reason 4: the hardest part of political polling is working out who will actually vote. If your polls are going to get judged on their similarity to the final result, you want to filter out the people who won’t vote.
Pirelli's 'Cyber Tire' uses a sensor to transmit big data
In the context of brain zero is much older than 7th century. Buddhist philosophy revolves around "Shunyaataa" (Zeroness - Shunya means zero in Sanskrit). Shunya itself comes from the root Svi - empty/hollow.

In the context of brain, Buddhism and various branches of Hinduism spent a lot of time pondering. Several meditative techniques involve meditating over this hollowness or the ultimate absence.

I do know that Zero the numerical placeholder is different from Buddhist idea of "Zeroness" but in the context of brain it should be similar I feel. Absence of something means cardinality of zero but Buddhists literally asked this question about reality itself.
Someone unilaterally declared some existing behavior as non-inclusive and then now suddenly everyone apparently is a dick for not immediately agreeing to it? Not sure who’s actually the problem here.
[2016]

Yeah, sugar isn’t good for you. It’s a lot of concentrated calories. And possibly has some other issues as well. Probably stay well below the guidelines. An occasional sweet treat isn’t gonna kill you but don’t go guzzling down coke instead of water.

Lots of fats aren’t good for you either. Especially the saturated kind.

PS: Is there a concerted pro fat effort going on HN right now? We’ve had 1 opinion piece by a non scientist journalist paid by industry to pretend saturated fat is good for you against all evidence so far, and now we have a 2016 article being pushed up to the top defending fats without being marked as such, within hours.
Someone’s been reading a bit too much Ayn Rand
> Except the human studies we have suggest that seed oils are probably not inflammatory. A few examples are listed in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTaAHSFHUU

which part of that do you consider bullying? is it any opinion that goes against the underdog?
> Maybe I’m bad at searching for these things, but these changes to C# seem to have gone completely under the radar in places where you read about memory safety and performance. Maybe it’s just because the language additions have happened super slowly, or maybe the C# and Rust communities have so little overlap that there aren’t enough people who program in both languages to notice the similarities.

If you are looking at this through the lens of HN, I think much of this can be attributed to a certain ideological cargo cult that actively seeks to banish any positive sentiment around effective tools. You see this exact same thing with SQL providers, web frameworks, etc. If the tool is useful but doesn't have some ultra-progressive ecosystem around it (i.e., costs money or was invented before the average HN user's DOB), you can make a winning bet that talking about it will result in negative karma outcomes.

Everyone working in enterprise software development has known about the power of this language for well over a decade. But, you won't find a single YC startup that would admit to using it.
I find it so difficult to believe that invitations arrive for an event without a date and/or place specified, so that there will be no ambiguity - making the denomination "Summer event" just a convenient label for something that does not happen more than four times per year.
We know by the number of real kings who claimed descent from Gilgamesh that there were enough people who believed this that it was worth it politically. Same as we know enough people in medieval Europe believed in the literal truth of Christianity to make it worth for kings to claim to be chosen by God for their purpose. Contrast this to the lack of modern day leaders claiming descent from Batman, or claiming the legitimacy of the Ministry of Magic.

Of course, there would have certainly been people who did not believe in the literal truth of these stories - either as some form of early naturalism, or simply because they believed in other stories (like how devout Christians view the Bible as literal truth, but think the Veddas are just stories, and vice versa).
Are intellectual property rights neoliberal? Yes and No (2021)
That sounds like most bugs wouldn't be able to avoid liability? Most bugs are stuff like memory corruption or sql injection, and could be discovered if you looked hard enough
> there's no discussion here about the inflammatory role of vegetable oils (aka seed oils)

that's because it's literally a 4chan /pol/ schizo theory
BMW is a good example. They started putting in that horrendous double wide screen/touch screen removing all buttons (the radio 1-8 shortcuts), temperature, heated seats, fan speed etc onto the screen.

This of course has made their dash design a lot cheaper. The only things remaining are:

Volume (which can be pressed for on/off/play/pause), previous, next, park-anywhere-button, front and rear windshield defroster.

One thing that is amazing about BMW's volume control:

It clicks, but the clicks don't corelate directly with volume change. It depends on how fast you turn the knob. Turn it 5 positions slow = volume += 10. Turn it 5 positions fast = volume += 5. To prevent you from accidently turning it too fast and blowing up your eardrums.
Unlike in the US, I do not expect European courts to be neutral between domestic vs foreign tech companies. They need to fix their system to encourage fair play before adding more rules.
Lockmakers don't generally claim that their locks are completely resistant to bad actors, but good lockmakers will sometimes claim they are resistant to specific kinds of attack.

On the legal side, "almost effortless to break" is not the same as non-functioning. In many cases the legal purpose of a lock is to establish intent and culpability: you can't aimlessly wander into a locked room, even if it has the world's shittiest Master lock on it. You gotta break the lock to do that. It serves as a semiotic indicator that an area or item was supposed to be off-limits; as a member of society the onus is on you to respect that.

Locks are likely a poor analogy for software engineering.
What does the personal thing has to do with work place?

Also, nasr has been fired for being antisemitic - which is a subject to definition - but being publicly calling against Israel caught attention of Israel supporters, who, by the way, are in the government and elected representatives, and of other people + the majority +

So what is left for Microsoft? There's only one way to solve this and to keep politics out of business.
The present is already non-written communication with Emojis. This supports TFA's thesis, as these forms of communication are about emotions, not thinking. Maybe it is a bit unfair to pick a media that focuses on video/image, though.
What would it cost to add high-resolution Lidar to the current Google Earth?
The point is: Apple Intelligence works on your device. Nothing is sent to some remote server. That's also why Siri appears to be dumb compared to Google's, Samsung's and other assistants that work via a huge cloud where all your requests are sent to.
Well, most of their extensions to VSCode are proprietary. When their dominance in software development becomes irreversible, it's obvious that they will close things down and create new sources of income. The incentives are clear.
I went through this with my Model 3 back in 2018, when they were still rare in my area. Random people would approach me in super market parking lots, everyone at my gym wanted a ride in it. Now it's like driving a Toyota or a BMW, there are tons on the road and nobody bats an eyelid.
My gut says southern hemisphere researchers would much prefer increased funding and visibility than language policing.
That’s why the lock analogy is good, though — not everything protected by software is like a bank vault. Door locks cost a lot less than vault locks, and as the customer I get to choose the appropriate level of security and pay accordingly. Right now as a software customer you don’t pay based on how secure you want the software to be, and the vendor isn’t liable for not meeting your expectations. In the end the customers are going to have to finance all this improved security, it won’t come for free.
What kind of energy?
Any prospect of getting this into an ePub reader?

They are ripe for any sort of typographic improvement --- the only things which keep me reading on my Kindle are the convenience and the ability to report errors.
I had a similar thought when I did my yearly checkup at Kaiser some years ago. The doctor what interviewed me looked like hell. I thought for them any health advice they are giving is just a theoretical concept that they clearly don’t live by.
Serverspec does the same: https://github.com/mizzy/serverspec?tab=readme-ov-file#maint...
The Surprising Link Between VO₂ Max and Increased Brain Myelination
Thanks. It seems to beg the question for how long should there be some implied requirement to fix things, if you were just paid to work on a FOSS project (and what was paid for is available under a liberal license).

IOW if I got paid for some work on an existing project under a liberal license, what would I be getting myself into? (I assume the answer is 'nothing' if it happened before this directive, but if it happened after?)
> Innovations in money are the lubricant that drives the economy

Drives the economy toward what? Economic agents don't necessarily share interests, often one succeeds at the expense of another. When the risk is spread too widely, it becomes difficult to determine whether you're helping somebody help you, or whether you're helping somebody harm you. It's not clear where to participate and where to interfere. This leads to an unfortunate situation where the the simplest conclusion for many is that the entire system is their enemy.

There's a balance to be struck re: how widely you spread risk, and we've overshot it. The net risk of being insensitive to the agents' needs is higher overall, even if it's spread evenly. We've removed the steering wheel in favor of an additional engine, and the road won't remain a straightaway forever. If we keep this up, sooner or later we're going to be unable to avoid a fatal obstacle.
I've learned a lot from people who make Youtube videos for a living.
Problem with AST is that it still kind of forces JS semantics which we should be working away from if we're doing this big leap.
Combined with the EU Cyber Resilliance Act they would be required to report security issues back to the original project.
At its core, ADHD's main mechanistic difference is undeniably an executive function deficit -- the frontal lobe not being activated enough to properly regulate functions of the rest of the brain or exert executive planning and follow-through.

The "paradoxical" effects of ADHD stimulant-type medications is the most direct indicator that this is indeed the case: taking a CNS stimulant normally causes more arousal, agitation, and activity in NT individuals.

But in ADHD individuals, CNS stimulants up-regulate frontal lobe activity, which manifests as a relaxant, since the frontal lobe is doing a better job of regulating and stabilizing the rest of the brain. Executive function also improves considerably.

So the most objectively measurable symptom of ADHD is whether this paradoxical behavioral alteration occurs from taking a CNS stimulant.

You can argue all you like about whether ADHD is within this or that percentile threshold -- but you can't argue with a proven, consistent, clinical result that points strongly to under-functioning of the frontal lobe in individuals with ADHD.

I've experienced this myself. My quality of life is profoundly different after taking Ritalin. I feel more relaxed; the buzzing and noise in my head is significantly reduced. I stop feeling the profound urge to get distracted like Doug the dog from the movie Up: ... "squirrel!"
I'd accept that interpretation. To be more precise, I view it as a demonstration of information loss from replacing classical characters entirely with romanization, as opposed to a forceful argument against any form of adoption of romanization.
Diving by zero is not impossible because it is not defined, but because it grows ad infinitum.

Take out a scientific calculator and start doing division by smaller and smaller units:

1/0.9

1/0.09

1/0.009

...

1/0.000000000000000000009

So we can then ask what happens if we do this more and more with incremental steps? It seems that we go toward infinity.

thus the more you do this the higher the returned number and I think we just discovered (I think I have to refresh my memory and hope not say something very wrong) the concept of calculus. Then we can use a new concept: limits - what happens when that 0.000000000............N is as close to zero as possible.
Big tech and advertising industry.
This is obviously a completely useless carve out. The EU will define something as commercial based on even having paid support or enterprise features, so if there’s any company behind the open source code at all, you can be sued by your free users picking it up and misusing it.

So this seems like a really great way to stop any software from being released into Europe.
Previous discussion from yesterday (34 comments) -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955307
I found the bolt to be very cramped.
News industry?
I am no fan of Ayn Rand at all. We have an obligation to help those worse off than us.

Germany is now poorer on a per-capita basis than Mississippi, one of our most underinvested in regions. I am no libertarian at all. The EU has such great potential it saddens me to see the level of mismanagement currently ongoing. Of course, they are also facing larger exogenous problems right now.