jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Japan's obesity rate is only 3.6% while the US's is 32%, and Italy's 42%.

https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/14321?ln=en

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

This suggests many consequent differences, like far fewer seniors taking all of the drugs that accompany obesity, like ACE and ARB inhibitors for hypertension, and the myriad drugs that combat diabetes.

But ignoring the contribution of specific drugs, it's much more likely that fitness and the absence of comorbidity diseases are the principal factors that favor countries with significantly better basic fitness like Japan (and Taiwan and South Korea) and their reporting fewer cases.

What's more, since most positive cases will never be counted unless they need hospitalization, we may simply be seeing healthier immune systems reduce case severity, so more cases in these countries are flying below the radar.
> Commit to using, breaking and fixing a Linux desktop to learn quickly. I learned a lot running Debian Unstable back back when men were men and unstable was really unstable; so the 2010s.

Disagree. There's nothing worse than needing to use a machine, but you can't since it's broken because some package maintainer pushed a bad release upstream.

There will be plenty to fix and tweak on any standard desktop or laptop when you install Linux, especially Macs. Might as well use a distro and release channel that let's you get your work done.

IMO, the hours that I wasted learning how to fix XFree86 went to waste.
There was actually a poll on Friday that showed 55% of respondents approved of his handling of the crisis.
Hey guys, John Biggs here. I made PodHound to help us find better podcasts. It's currently transcribing about 3000 individual podcasts and will match podcasts based on semantic analysis. Any advice on the best services to use is welcome. I'm currently just using AWS.
Press release (.pdf): https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2516/7914/files/HDC_Surfac...
In western countries, a pack a day used to be considered moderate. Some people still smoke a ton more than that, chainsmoking every hour they're awake, but it's not as common as it used to be.
The backpack isn't important it's about changing human behavior.
It's about retaliation and legal issues. The guy could easily retaliate with a smear campaign or even take legal action saying he was "hacking" or doing "espionage".

Whistleblowing often has negative consequences for the whistleblower.
Because Google isn't in the business you think they're in.
That's about what banks offer people in foreclosure to quietly leave the house and not destroy anything. Same thinking.
You want to know how I did it?
This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back.
-- Vincent (Gattaca)
The DOM.
And that's even worse. I'm working on a Ruby compiler. While it is far from being at a stage where this is a real problem, currently there's no sane way of knowing whether or not I'm "close enough" to MRI other than extensive testing of every single piece of Ruby code I want to work.

"Diverging from a formal spec" is one thing. As it is, many versions of MRI has diverged from how the core team thinks it works. If MRI is "the spec", then Ruby changes from revision to revision as the test coverage is nowhere good enough to prevent regressions or changes in behaviour.

Basically: Nobody knows Ruby.

Frankly, I very much hope that another Ruby implementations overtake MRI sufficiently in quality to out compete it enough to shift the initiative of definining the language to a more responsible team.
This. 100%. The best I could do before switching to Simple was putting about half my paycheck in a savings account in another bank that I had no other accounts with and using that to pay my rent and maybe a few other bills. I was still always overdrawing my checking account at my main bank. I would occasionally have to go to the other bank, withdraw cash and drive over to the main bank to deposit it. Luckily, that bank didn't have any branches near where I worked, so I either had to wait 3 days for an online transfer or do my "shame banking" as my SO called it on my work from home day or Saturday morning. Simple's "Safe-to-Spend" is really a game changer for people like me.
Is it? There are videos of this happening. If you have evidence to the contrary please add that to your comment.
Regarding NAT: does it do anything to attempt to solve this problem, or is that entirely left to the app developer?
Regarding not wanting to learn Ruby, I wonder how much of the inertia is installation. I mean, some people seem to have visceral reactions to the syntax (I've even seen people say they dislike Elixir because it's like Ruby ). But the lesson I took away from using Ruby DSLs is users don't want to deal with figuring out how to safely install a new version without borking the system version, segregate workspaces, install packages, etc. Python suffers from that too but for some reason we all ignore it, maybe because a lot of people consider it a newbie or "easy" language and complaining about it would make them seem like "not a real programmer".
Solvespace is incredible for those with a more programmer-y mind and workflow, however it lacks more "advanced" features that sadly don't seem to have any momentum for implementation (at least last I checked) like chamfers/radiusses, helixes, and some other navigational and organizational features.

It's a fantastic platform though and I encourage all engineering/CAD nerds to try it out. It bridges the gap between writing OpenSCAD and using a full fledged CAD software perfectly.
There's a pretty good argument to be made that jailers should not be performing sterilizations given that it's optional, risky, and historically abused, regardless of patient consent. That's ignoring the fact that the penal system is inherently in a position of power over inmates and that many of those people will not be able to fully consent due to mental or emotional issues.
Fun fact: you can get an LFP battery for your house, https://enphase.com/sites/default/files/downloads/support/En...
the French Chef's cake analogy.. viola! hysterical.
i tried this platform a few months ago just out of curiosity.. i was aghast at their UX/UI approach, it reminded me of a throwback to the 90's. But hey who am I to judge success. Not sure what their secret sauce is though except having a sexy french accent ;-)
"Google. Chrome is a separate product"

So basically:
"Your honour, I can prove I didn't rob John, I had my brother do it for me!"
It seems like your argument is that TLS is better than DNSSEC, so use that instead. But how is that better than using both?

I'll give you that DNSSEC is imperfectly designed, but given that it hasn't been widely deployed, why not just make DNSSECv2 which addresses the concerns (like have the end user device verify the signature)?
I think Google Analytics is misleading on purpose.

I worked with one small business owner who thought that all Google Analytics website traffic = all Adwords traffic, causing him to overspend on AdWords. Multiply by 1M+ clueless small businesses advertising on Google, and that's Google's profit.
You've mischaracterized that article.

(well, if you mean this one: http://www.itinthed.com/16328/what-taking-my-daughter-to-a-c... )

The author isn't outraged at all. He wants something different for his daughter than is available at the store, and he tells the tale as if he gained new perspective, but there is nothing resembling protesting, petitioning, and colluding to censor art in the article I link.
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Has my Grandpa's hammer been significantly improved in recent memory? Nope, still in my toolbox and still my favorite hammer. Ok, ok, not a good analogy but my point is that not everything actually needs constant improvement. There is a cultural bias towards newness and improvement in technology, naturally, but frankly using ViM is one way I manage to escape that on a daily basis and be thankful for stuff that works as well for me today as it did 15 years ago.
I also find that weird.

Could someone elaborate more on this?
Thanks for the encouragement! I have a few friends in web development and they're huge inspirations and great mentors. I feels incredibly lucky to be entering the field when I am because the communities and tools are absolutely amazing.
You know what structures also have ACE2 receptors that SARS-CoV-2 attacks?

The endothelial cells.

Guess how SARS-CoV-2 causes the formation of emboli that fundamentally result in blocking the lung vasculature? By attacking the endothelium.
>The curious thing about the demand for bytecode in browsers is that there doesn't seem to be a practical reason to do it.

Really? Javascript is an opinionated high level language. I wonder how many people using Javascript these days actually write it. Personally I haven't bothered to learn Javascript, I just use libraries in my preferred languages to generate it. This works fine for me so long as I don't have to debug it...
So much hate on the web these days. Mobile is great, so are APIs, but the web still has some life left. Don't count it out just yet.

Match your platform to your problem and expand as necessary.
I always heard it as "a cat will steal the baby's breath", which is a bit more supernatural than mere physical smothering.

That might have originated in seeing a cat sniffing a baby's exhaled breath. Much like a cat will sometimes sniff around your own mouth or nose, if its face is near yours.
Really?? Well that's the last time I make a playful quip on HN. Here's to being really serious all the time.
> If you haven't learned what something can do, then you have every right to be confused, but pretty much no right to be annoyed.

Pretty much every legal system in the world exists because such a position is more idealistic rather than realistic. No human being has the capacity to fully understand every interaction and agreement they participate in as a routine part of daily life. If people actually stopped to read and understand all the small print, taking expert advice where they needed it to fully appreciate the implications, then society would literally collapse in days. Likewise, if everyone refused to use any device where they had not received full technical training in every aspect of the functionality, society would fall apart.

We counter this problem using legal techniques, such as requiring that any term in a contract must be reasonable and understood by both parties for it to be enforceable. The law in most jurisdictions also explicitly recognises that not all contractual agreements are made between parties of equal bargaining power and resources, and therefore tends to give the benefit of the doubt to the little guy. In this case, if it isn't illegal for a company to exert this kind of control over an employee's personal property without the involvement of flashing neon signs and professional legal advice, perhaps it should be.
Categorizing emails is inherently simpler than categorizing your friends. It's so simple that you can automate a lot of it (though you could suggest friend lists by analyzing a user's relationships and existing lists). Beyond "family" and "work", friend lists are complicated.
Plumbers' riches is an urban myth. When I started out in web development, my billing rate was $325/hour, which a journalist could easily calculate into a $600,000+ year job. In reality, I made around $70k. I suspect the plumbers meme is based on similarly ill-informed calculations. The reality is more humble: $20/hour for hired hands, lots of expenses and unbilled downtime for independents, etc. The average for highest-earning states (NY/CA) is around $60k.
If you never go swimming, or to the sea (or above), you have a 0% chance of being killed by a shark.

If you don't work with pigs (a pigfarm ?) or visit any farms, you probably have a 0% chance of getting killed by pigs as well (unless you count over-eating ;-) ..
It bothers me that their control screen looks like Windows XP.
No, as the article explicitly points out.
“The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value,” said Jay Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter. “Water is free. Music is $6 but no one wants to pay for music. You should drink free water from the tap — it’s a beautiful thing. And if you want to hear the most beautiful song, then support the artist.”

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Water is metered here in Slovenia, more like on-demand streaming.
Thanks Garry.

My goal is to give people 1 interview at a time and see if they listen to more interviews than if I give them 10 at once.

I went with email because it was easier than the other options.
Quanta had a decent write-up of challenges faced by some researchers about a month ago: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hard-lessons-of-modeling-...

Of course there are many ways that things went wrong, and not everyone made the same mistakes.
This might be a framing issue? Bitcoin itself might not be beholden to any government. But I don't really care about Bitcoin itself. It's just a protocol. It doesn't have feelings or financial interests.

Individuals who use Bitcoin, though, are, in some absolute sense, no less beholden to their government simply by using Bitcoin. An economy can always be built on top of exchange of physical goods, including but not necessarily limited to banknotes, without the government's consent. But any transaction that needs to go over the Internet can more-or-less only happen at the pleasure of whoever controls the Internet in your area. Which, if you're living somewhere where authoritarianism is a serious concern, is probably the government.
This, thank you. I feel like people are making big assumptions about what "analytics" are that don't even begin to cover the whole spectrum of analytics.
> But Apple trackpads are not hugely popular, they have a fraction (~10%, likely less) of the global market.

The person you're replying to said "trackpads are popular" with no mention of Apple. Your entire argument so far has been against trackpads in general. Why shift goalposts?
Old outdated technology (not sure about the stance the unions had back then on productivity improvements that would lower headcount) plus outsized pay demands for the given the productivity.
Skroutz[1], a Greek price comparison website, uses a bare metal infrastructure[2] and has a strong engineering culture[3]. Skroutz is a success story in Greece and looks pretty solid.

[1]: https://www.skroutz.gr/

[2]: https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/skroutz-infrastructure-2...

[3]: https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/uncovering-a-24-year-old...
Yes, re-entry can survive for the lower velocity orbits all the way to ground depending on debris material and orientation. Air density is 20% at 40k ft, so much more likely to make it that far.
only if what you want to see is just people who agree with you, in which case you'll live in a sad bubble in any case ..
love the idea, but will this be open to people outside the US?
You could do it in a weekend.
My teacher for the ASP.NET class said he used to make the link to the 'final test' live/unprotected early in the term, as if by mistake (the tests were online and performed at workstations), but uploading a paper which wasn't the actual test and only changing it on test day. I don't know if he was joking but it cracked me up. I remember when the Turnitin.com plagiarism detection system was introduced to us in a lecture, some audibly worried students at the front had the gall to ask if they could submit their essays in handwritten form.
This made me think of an article in the NYT the other day. Here's a short excerpt:

Symbols, metaphors, analogies, parables, synecdoche, figures of speech: we understand them. We understand that a captain wants more than just hands when he orders all of them on deck. We understand that Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” isn’t really about a cockroach. If we are of a certain theological ilk, we see bread and wine intertwined with body and blood. We grasp that the right piece of cloth can represent a nation and its values, and that setting fire to such a flag is a highly charged act. We can learn that a certain combination of sounds put together by Tchaikovsky represents Napoleon getting his butt kicked just outside Moscow. And that the name “Napoleon,” in this case, represents thousands and thousands of soldiers dying cold and hungry, far from home.

Brilliant design seems to works in a similar way. A product that reveals something masterful about its creator evokes a human response on a level most marketing departments will never understand.
Well obviously you just need to backport it to 1.6, update all the custom user interfaces that each of the device makers have made, hack into several different OTA update systems, and force an update for millions of devices. Piece of cake right?
Thanks for the candid thoughts, Udo.

Some brief comments on your response:

- Unfortunately, we have some business-critical costs we incur, so can't do a full slashing. However, we're confident that a couple key vendors that our business relies on will defer payment for a couple months, representing a 50% reduction to burn. We could probably also reduce general costs by 10-20% as well with some real belt-tightening.

- You're probably right about the revenue projections, but we do have our reasons to be optimistic. At minimum, some quick revenues will help make us that much more compelling to other investors if we chose to walk from this deal and throw a hail mary trying to land another investor in the 2 months we'd have to put a deal together.

- We're placing a lot of resources in quickly brokering a distribution deal with a marquee brand in our space. We're extremely confident that we will have something in place in the next two months if our progress thus far is any indication. Landing any of these deals would likely solve our immediate-term money woes, at least enough to stop the hemorrhage.

The question basically comes down to:

Do we take a deal on the table knowing that it will give us 10 months of certain life even though it doesn't feel right in the gut and doesn't even look that good on paper by most measures? Or do we roll the dice, go into bleed mode, and try and land something in the 60 days we'd have to do it (starting Monday), knowing that it's a horrible time of year to get anybody's attention?

Thanks again for the thoughtful response, Udo.
Those are actually rather interesting questions. The completely honest answer is I don't really know. The man in the street will typically say "of course you need a work permit" but I am not so sure.

The practical answer is no, you don't need any kind of special visa or permit.

Generally the notion of a remote worker (a foreigner who is employed in their home country while physically being in other countries) fits very poorly with immigration/visa rules. Those things move at a glacial pace and have in no way kept up with technology (generally speaking).

The assumption underpinning pretty much everyone's work permit/visa rules is that a foreigner wanting to physically work in the local environment will be employed by locals ie they will participate in the local labor market, will take money from a local employer and be competing with locals for jobs. Alternatively you might be a visiting business person wanting to do business with a local company.

However I am Australian, I am legally an Australian resident, my employer is Australian, 100% of the financials (bank accounts, all paperwork) is in Australia and I pay tax in Australia. I have never taken a cent from a local business or individual, I am not participating in the local labor market in any way and I have no interest in doing business with local companies. I don't even have a local bank account or a local permanent address. Even if I registered to pay income tax in another country the amount would be $0 because I am not earning any money here. My work doesn't touch the local environment anymore than someone on holiday checking their email or taking a phone call from home.

So in practice, as far as the host country is concerned, I am simply a tourist. If anyone asks about my plans (which they very very rarely ever do) I am simply taking an extended trip (which is the truth) and I can show sufficient means of support (ie money in the bank).

As for the legality of this I am uncertain. I certainly don't have any ethical concerns. Were I to not do any work while visiting a country the local labor market would not be affected in any way, some locals would be deprived of additional income on which they presumably pay tax and a company back home would be deprived of an experienced worker if I was forced to not do my work while visiting other countries. No one is harmed by what I do and a lot of people derive some benefit from it.
i read that github contains content that the Chinese do not like and that is why this is happening - what is the content they are so pissed about ?
I consider ZODB as more like a framework for quickly building databases. ZODB developers (we've talked to many of them) consider upgrading objects as no-problem (because they have very well understood patterns for that) etc.

While that's ok for Zope/ZODB developers, it's not for an average user. We need to wrap it up to make easily usable, without requiring developers to read tons of documentation and "Design patterns" in advance!

And, obviously, some universal json query language is needed
At the risk of preempting another great reply from Patrick here, let me link a prior related comment he made, on demonstrating value to "real clients" as you put it, and some approaches to finding them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6391277

Here is an example. A local lawyer in my community is always holding seminars at local libraries on things like taxes, writing a will, estate planning, etc. These are free informational seminars, so the libraries and village halls basically do the advertising for him. During the seminars, he gives an overview of the topic, and why you might want a lawyer to help with the trickier bits. Now, when some self-selected interested people decide they want a lawyer to help write their will, who is the first person you think they'll call? Maybe the nice helpful clearly-well-informed and capable guy who gives all that free advice at the library?

When you see a free online webinar for a technology topic, this is often what is going on. It's just formalized networking: meeting people interested in X, demonstrating you can provide services Y related to X, and making it known that you do Y for X all the time, and boy is it effective.
Knowledgeable medical scientists should be able to explain the effects of vaping as a physiological process, axiomatically. Are we saying our medical scientists do not want to attempt that?
if it's useful for secretaries it doesn't mean that it should be used by someone else who doesn't need that information. This behaviour is dodgy and I wouldn't want to work with a colleague who does this.
The signals from the current US administration is pretty clear. It is a government that puts American interest ahead of any other concern. Naturally universities in other western countries are going to have their doubts about cooperating on crucial technology if it is under control by a government which only cares about national interests.

Same reason I favor exiting NATO and building a European alliance only. The US cannot be trusted. Look at what was done at a whim in Turkey.

Look at how the current US administration screwed us in the Iran deal.

Trump did not commit to defending other NATO allies, when asked. Hence what is the point of NATO? There is no point in being member of a defense alliance which the US uses when it suits them but which they are not committed to when it is inconvenient for them. That isn't an alliance at all.
In the framework of this theory that makes pretty good sense.
How is C# modern? It is extremely verbose and rooted in Java style 'OO' with lots of memory hopping.
Then just write plaintext. Markdown is not supposed to render exactly as written.