jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While this is always something to consider, generally, 6-fold increase in risk due to exposure is likely not just a population demographic artifact.

TCE and its relation to Parkinson's has been studied for at least the last 15 years. Though I haven't come across anything definitive on the mechanism of action, there seems to be indication that a combination of TCE or its analogues combined with other risk factors (assumed to be genetic) generates substantial progressive dopaminergic neuron loss, a hallmark of Parkinson's disease progression.
So much of Google's HR policies are so clearly illegal I still boggled by it. We saw this in spades with Damore but also with numerous other situations since.

When I started working at HP, within 1 week we had "Neophytes Training" and that including half a day of a lawyer from corporate legal explaining all the things that needed to be common knowledge about rights, obligations and duties as an employee. That include HR rules, CA and US law, like the ones in this situation.

Who the hell gets into management without knowing the general territory of NLRB and DoL rules and laws?? WHO?? Apparently Google and every one of their contractors!

So how exactly has Google et al. either lost knowledge that was once very common in Silicon Valley in most corporations or never bothered with it? Wouldn't this be part of what "Adults in the Room" from VCs or hired senior managers bring to the table?

The hubris daily demonstrated by "Googlers" seems a likely part of it - they naturally "know better what is what and what is right than anyone else on the planet". That's their modus operandi most of the time. There are SO MANY STORIES about this in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. But their egoes ignore a little thing called the law.
Interesting. My experience -- such it be -- is meticulously constructed to exactly how I need it. My current system has been the result of 18 months of a slow but steady process of phaselocking the desktop with how I work with it.
But an indicator is not a control.

Remember the school district that was spying on the kids using apple laptops? Only one or two kids noticed "hey, the light blinked for a second".
Am I the only one who finds these kind of "what's changed" messages extremely annoying? They literally tell you nothing. They might as well put an empty space as what has changed.

The same goes for other companies that put useless messages:

- Netflix and the weekly updates (what are they possibly updating about choosing and streaming video and seeking to a point in time that requires WEEKLY updates????)

- Slack and their smarmy update reasons.

- All Google apps.

Nobody would accept if they released cars with the same lack of highlighting of new features. "It's better!"
A lot of these storage technologies have been around for a long time (I have a "Nature" magazine from the 60s that discusses storing excess energy as wind in salt mines and in lakes. This was the 60!).

What people underestimate is just how much energy we need to store. Lakes won't do it and neither will salt mines. Gravity certainly won't do it. We need to think much BIGGER.
Indeed, if you're a foreigner the conditions are far worse: higher interest rate, higher downpayment e lower loan amount.
Peer review is supposed to filter out the crassest nonsense (it usually does). What a journal does is grading. When you are reading stuff where you don't know the relevant names personally a good heuristic is the journal. You don't bother with Hindawi and MDPI and just read stuff from the better-known publishers.
Not entirely, no, I don't hope I implied that. I listen to human-created music every day. I just mean to say that I've also listened to AI-created music that I've enjoyed, so it's gone from being 0% of what I listen to to 5%, and presumably may increase much more later.
What is the 'punishment' for not getting to a call on time?
I suggest you look at Berkanan, something of a successor as it also uses Bluetooth mesh networking. https://berkanan.chat
I think Lilypond <https://lilypond.org/> is the TeX for music engraving.

For typesetting short snippets of music notation within TeX, you can use the MusixTeX package <https://ctan.org/pkg/musixtex>.
That's like saying construction N95 masks can't be used in the medical setting just because they lack appropriate certification. That old shibboleth has been defenestrated weeks ago.

I bet it can, if FDA is beat over the head with a shovel, which it will be if the need arises. It's a real ECG verifiably capable of detecting irregular hearth rhythm, and it costs a tiny fraction of what a big-ass ECG machine would, and therefore can be deployed at a much larger scale. Just because it could only get approval to detect atrial fibrillation duing "peacetime" doesn't mean it can't be pressed into service for other things.
"The suggestion on the table is to give this drug to extremely ill patients"

No. Likely needs to be given closer to onset of symptoms.

"The suggestion was to massively prescribe it."

No. The suggestion is to generate more evidence as fast as possible since it looks promising.

Cannot wait for full clinical trials. 1500+ deaths per day in the mean time.

Why are you fighting it so hard? If this is a useful treatment, don't you want us to find out? Let the doctors do their thing.
People combine plant products to get all the needed amino acids.

Cats need taurine which is not available from plants which is one reason why you shouldn't turn your cat vegetarian.
I forked the repo and am still single
A significant point of wasm is runtime-independence. If a runtime implements the right apis, any wasm module that uses them should be able to run (performance aside).
Interesting idea - but I have never worked out what the two ideas of biology are.
Wow timing is bad. I'm the developer and would love to answer questions if anyone has any...

But I'm just about to get on a plane!

Still, will check back when I land :)
http://caps.fool.com is scrapeable, but I don't know if it's got quite what you need.
> Find a service that provides this for you

Sure, Twitter and Wechat do mostly what I want in terms of not censoring content between friends.
One thing that works for me is the beer test. If the task is something that you could do after having one beer, then it won't present a problem if you do it while getting constantly interrupted. Multitasking debilitates focused concentration at least as much as intoxication, which is why most people can't text while driving etc.

If you find that the entirety of your to-do list is made up of things that couldn’t be done after a beer, then you are going to be unproductive in your work environment. Focus on eliminating the interruption. You may have to hack together a solution that people who don’t spend long periods deep in thought will understand.

For example, wearing earbuds even if no music is playing, randomly shutting your door, making an emergency script that opens MS Excel when someone walks in so it looks like you were working rather than wandering Wikipedia so your subconscious mind could solve a problem, writing a description of something you are working on at the same time every day on your office calendar so that people will subconsciously not bother you during that time, and speaking at half speed when people ask you a question so that they jump to conclusions about what you might be thinking and reprimand themselves for not being more prepared before they come to you.

Basically it comes down to the liberal use of improvisation of your work environment isn’t structured in a rational or logical way. I faced the same problem at a tech support job I had that demanded 3-8 computer repairs a day but didn’t delegate phone or front desk support to employees on a rotating schedule. The level of stress was at least 3 times higher than it needed to be, which is why I inevitably burned out and quit.
This 2189 word essay can be replaced with a rock that says "ALARM FATIGUE" on it and a QR code pointing to this Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
Influential and educational. The paper is worth reading and understanding. Bootstrapping a system is within the abilities of beginning programmers. The wikipedia article provide a brief introduction to the world of Meta II.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" --Albert Einstein (b. 1879)

Excel is an good example;
> The commentator does not present additional information

The commentator pointed out that the video is literally sped up which changes the entire meaning.

Have you considered this has nothing to do with hating animals and entirely to do with hating articles written to create drama and/or crisis where there is none?
The take away is some people like downloading apps so if you can it might be a good idea to be effective with your time a design a code base that can be appified using tools such as electron. It's best to have as little code as is possible. This isn't to say don't write code, don't create anything because there will be some problems with it. Instead create as small a code base as you can while delivering the best possible experience.
My friend just started a job at LBNL and is loving it. LLNL is considered a great place to work as well. I can't speak to every single lab but I hear good things about working at both of them.
> Why does he need to "deserve" anonymity? If you have something already and someone wants to take it away, don't you need to justify why you're taking that thing away?

That still doesn't answer my question. Sounds very abstract like you are trying to evade answering the question.

He didn't have anonymity. He already published his name. Someone that publishes their name doesn't deserve anonymity, correct?

> and that enabling his present and previous patients (he's a psychiatrist, so they're not always the most stable people) to discover his online persona would jeopardise his career.

He already admitted he was overreacting on this point.
What’s wrong with its copy paste? It’s missing a few things but what’s there is great. The type situation is terrible I agree. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve screwed up a currency conversion or not known what currency a cell was. Why can’t it know that dollars are dollars and when I multiple my euros per dollar I get euros?
I'm hoping someone can succinctly explain the hate for the NYT. Didn't get it before, don't get it now. It seems perfectly adequate. Same goes for WSJ, FT, the Economist, WaPo, etc.

>I see it now. I see that information and truth and freedom have been oppressed. I had been silenced. We had all been bound and gagged and silenced, not directly, but indirectly, by a strange, complex, invisible, sinister force. But I see it now. I see it so clearly. There was a "guild of truth" telling us that there was a central narrative of mankind. Truth was branded. We are all being controlled and oppressed and enslaved by the evil octopus of the New York Times.

This I especially don't get. No one has declared themselves the "guild of truth", and there's no paper or institution I can think of that the people have declared to be the "guild of truth". And if someone has, saying so doesn't make it true. But people not liking you, or your writing, isn't a crime.
Chicken and egg.

His identity was only relevant because NYT was going to reveal it, so he had to quit his job and temporarily shut down his blog.
George likes his chicken spicy.
It's great functional language to learn pattern matching, type inference, polymorphism, etc in an academic setting. Great language to compare and contrast to other languages ( dynamic, OOP, imperative, etc ), but I'm not sure how useful it is as I've never seen it used in the business world. When all you knew was C/C++/Java, standard ml throws you for a loop - in a good way.
And here's an unclassified road with a 60mph limit: https://goo.gl/maps/LNmtw44z8BQXatXu9
COVID coin!
Pierre Spray is also a luddite who vehemently rejects the concept of a multirole fighter. The F-16 he advocated for is not anywhere close to the actual F-16. If it were up to him the USAF fighter force would consist of low tech pure dogfighters that didn't have radars or long range missiles. To him the F-5 is the pinnacle of fighter technology.

His and the rest of the fighter mafia's extreme views are not popular within the defense community.
this is one of the "selling points" of most cryptos isn't it? that the # of assets in circulation is fixed and not susceptible to manipulation by a central entity
Short sellers told reddit to halt?
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26254997
You're not wrong. But at the same time... it's a very effective method with some babies. One thing often missing from these discussions is the practicality. Yes, responding to your child like that would be ideal. But it just can't be done if they literally just cry constantly when put to bed. And some babies do that! Sleep-deprived parents who come to actively resent their child's crying is a very real thing. And probably far worse for development and attachment.
I just took Bernie Sander's estimate, which looks like it comes from Yale. His website says $4.7 Trillion per year. But you can really take any estimate out there, and it wouldn't change my point.

https://berniesanders.com/issues/how-does-bernie-pay-his-maj...
> Solar, sure. Put some snow on it and it doesn't work.

I'm late reading this tab, but solar power works better in the cold and slightly better in snow once you clean the panels off - snow can be very bright, that's why you need snow goggles.
Assuming there are only “if” and no “else”, then there would be 51 code paths (Presuming other preconditions like: the condition is code or there is some code within each if; the code cannot throw exceptions; there is no return statement; etcetera).

You could perhaps have only two code paths: the 50 ifs are true and something happens, or any one of the ifs are false and something doesn’t happen... although that could be written as a single if statement with “and”s.

The 2^50 case would be more code than we can store (unless using techniques that reduce the complexity i.e. not 2^50).
Certainly seems like it...
New apps on the rise!
Former biochemist here. There may be flaws in the study (i haven't read it), but none of what you're gesturing to strikes me as evidence of "jumping to conclusions". A couple thousand basepairs is a row (a fair assumed length for encoding proteins) is plenty enough to draw conclusions about evolutionary provenance, and this is totally common.

For lots of ho-hum reasons that don't require any spectacular justification, you are full of virus DNA -- it's just mostly never mentioned in popsci articles that come under your skeptical lens :)
That probably is included as part of "given the choice."

Like, given the choice, she'd probably go to a library or something to get study materials for her profession. But since that's (probably) impossible she makes due with the internet.

Personal curiosity can still be fulfilled offline.
This is the most "object-oriented" programming language I've seen.
I remember the government's plea for COBOL programmers last year and was surprised we haven't seen that many more posts about it since then.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/what-is-cobol-what-d...

https://onezero.medium.com/our-government-runs-on-a-60-year-...

Just this one yesterday:

https://www.govtech.com/opinion/An-Apology-to-COBOL-Maybe-Ol...
I have found that the more a company talks about culture, probably the worse it is... :)
The point was writing a library specially to be called from Python via the C ABI.

By the way, clang and Visual C runtime libraries are actually implemented in C++ with extern "C".
I've done some travel for work in my life. I did an extended stay in the UK (I'm American) when I was young and it was pretty amazing. Many years later I had a gig that needed me to spend time in spots around the US and also some stays in East Asia. All business class and expense accounts in first-rate cities and I hated it. I'm older now and I have kids at home that I didn't get to see. Taking a business trip to Tokyo always seemed like the ultimate Business Guy thing to do but I spent 80% of my waking hours in conference rooms with salary men.

You value different things at different times in your life, but looking back I'm glad I got to experience those things because most people don't get the chance.
Can you imagine what kind of advances in treatment and support could be available if all the money spent on the "war on drugs" was actually spent on helping people?
Nice, I'm going to line the rooftops with Tyvek now.
I actually just read Show Stopper recently. The author is very non-technical and can't really explain the engineering details behind what he's writing about, but if you know something about basic OS design and concepts, that's ok. And the human stories - the stories behind the developers working on the project - are fascinating.

Reading the book and learning the story behind NT's development, it's just amazing that such a good OS came out of that process - they released years after their initial projections and were rushed the whole time. But of course the really good parts of NT - the kernel, the object manager, the pager, async IO, the threading model - were things Cutler and his cohorts had been working on for years, first with VMS, then with PRISM, and then finally in NT. They had YEARS to ruminate about those things before they ever arrived at Microsoft.

The bits of NT that aren't so well-regarded - the registry, NTFS, the graphical shell, csrss.exe and the 'microkernel' design - were completely new and developed in much less time and with less practical experience behind them than they really deserved.
Why is it that some people dread parentheses so badly

Two tendencies combine to make "parentheses" the Lisp topic that in sheer quantity dwarfs all other Lisp topics added together: 1. the human brain craves familiarity; 2. people love bike sheds.

(Bike shed = something anybody can have an opinion and argue about irrespective of knowledge or effort. Since their purpose is to jump into the argument, these opinions tend to be strong ones, diminishing the likelihood of any resolution. Indeed, a feature of such discussions is that they are argument for argument's sake, and thus no resolution is possible or even desirable.)
Wes, what features are you looking for?
Perhaps you could let us in on the joke?
My favorite units conversion is smoots per furlong...
Actually, the original implementation was using PHP. But the overall architecture of Express made it pretty easy to build on top.
I've fasted for 2-3 day periods where I was generally as active as I'd normally be, including doing a few demanding 60 and 90 minute yoga classes during that time. The only thing I really noticed was that if I exerted myself above a certain level, such as walking at too fast of a pace, then I'd very quickly feel tired - all it took was reducing my walking pace and I felt fine again; I presume this is related to the different rates of energy being made available.
Hey guys, Stan here, co-founder of Epiclist! Thanks for the comments! @detaro, we have been running a be-weekly newsletter and integrated with social services. While it has increased retention, it was still hard to maintain it as you mention as well. Focusing on several cities to curate weekend getaways was really helpful to boost engagement in this cities, since people could discover experiences to do a trip within a day or two! I hope that someone can nail the "weekend getaways", which is a growing market in itself! Let me know if you have any other questions!
>Does nature create perfect humans? If your answer is anything but yes, then it's a fact that corruption is a part of nature, much like thunderstorms or a sun rise.

This is complete bullshit and you should know better. Nature also created smallpox, if you'll recall. But we killed that just fine. You're a part of nature, and you'll die too.

> Trying to eliminate something that humans have been doing since our existence isn't something that can be solved with naive optimism.

Like flight? I'm not advocating naive optimism. I'm advocating a rational exposition of possible solutions, and you are stubbornly obedient to your own expectations of preferred attitude in a way that has nothing to do with solving problems.

And don't try to use meaningless examples like 'perfect human' and 'love' to argue about corruption. Until you've got some firm grasp on what corruption is in a way that can be consistently communicated, you are doing nothing but trying to define yourself to be correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
anecdotal evidence that people who fast simply are more healthier.

If they are healthier, are they healthier because of fasting or simply from reduced caloric intake? Would someone who ate less (smaller meals, etc) be healthier than someone who fasts?
It seems that if you open them in a new window and they will be their true (larger) size.
That reasoning is completely false. Yes, the content industry insists that DRM must be in place to make a streaming solution work.

On the other hand, Hulu works just fine. Clearly subscription media services work fine without DRM. The requirements for DRM are just a symptom of an industry that doesn't understand digital media, and believes that DRM is effective at stopping piracy.
Agreed again.
> I like startups, but you definitely have to go in with your eyes open, and most new grads don't know anything about business or negotiation. There are a ton of douchebags in this world who are only too happy to exploit cheap labor to line their own pockets. If you've got the means, starting a company is nearly always a better risk/reward trade-off than working for someone who is starting a company.

Well yes, of course. But there is a sweet spot for this for people that want to learn a lot, and do not have the means or motivation for running their own business. So many great technical people are of this persuasion at some point in their lives.

Working at a startup that you care about is a great way to fill in the gaps: figuring out what you do not know yet but would like to understand.

Working at a large company has its advantages too. You learn how those orgs work, and how to navigate different situations than what you see at startups.

Other folks on HN have said it before and better than I, but ultimately if you want to go into business for yourself, until you understand both, you may not understand the full potential of your business.
yock, I was happy to see your comment the first one in this thread.

The deceptive approach seems awful in every way.

Not only is this person asking for honest feedback from a stranger, he cannot even be honest with that person at their first meeting.

How does this business approach scale to when you have to talk to potential customers? What clever-ass story will you trick them with then?

"how's that working out for you? being clever?"
There's nothing impossible about a DRM-free media subscription. Just that the content creators likely will never go for it.

But if you compare a DRM-free to DRM-enabled services, DRM is of no benefit to the consumer. It's only a 'benefit' to the content creator/owner.
Anything that discourages them. For instance, immediately reverting their edits for whatever reason[0] rather than fixing them or suggesting a fix; nasty messages posted to their talk pages criticising their edits; drive-by tagging pages they created with lots of boxes indicating that their article is bad and/or inappropriate. I was a Wikipedia regular for several years, but these days it seems like if I do anything more than basic spelling fixes it becomes an unpleasant experience.

[0]Lack of notability and lack of source information are the two big ones there.