skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0.8% of a 4000+ sample size had PED with the regular dosage for baldness treatment. That's absurdly low and pretty much confirms that though the risk is there, it's highly unlikely. Its even more ridiculous that 1.4% of the ENTIRE sample size (over 11,000 people) taking less than or equal to 1.25mg of fin, greater than 1.25mg of fin, and dutasteride reported persistent ED.

As a fin user I actually find this data to be re-assuring.
Is your username a reference to Stephenson's Anathem?

If so, and given your assessment of Requiem for a Dream, I probably have very similar tastes as you and might have to actually watch Welcome to the NHK in the near future.
Your comment is underrated. When rich people are not tipping, and only poor people who are in a position to understand what living off of tips means does such, something is wrong. The process of tipping is practically equivalent to playing the lottery - a huge majority of people who buy lottery tickets are poor or part of the lowest segment of the middle class.

Frankly, I just don't understand tipping. I still tip better than most people (20-30%) because I can afford it and know that their employer is fucking them over big time. Were I a millionaire, I'd probably stop tipping altogether as a sign of protest. It's strange how we justify either side of the coin.
Buy a PS4, use Wine in Linux or keep Windows 7 around. There is no single game that doesn't run on Win7, except FH3 with its WinStore shit - anyway it seems so arcady to me I wouldn't want to touch it.
I don't think a "last_refreshed" date would be that helpful, though. Netblocks aren't being shuffled around very often. I just looked at a previous employer's assignments and it was almost a decade ago that it was last updated. It's still 100% accurate, however.

Regardless, if you want it, that data is available from the RIRs. Go crazy.
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Very useful when dealing with raid (make the blocks stripe sized) or tape (512 byte) or esoteric devices.

An essential tool for low level repair, like when you can guess the partition table values but there is no partition table anymore.
Scroll down to "updates" to get the founders letter.
You can run it in an emulator in-browser from Archive.org for free: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Sid_Meiers_Colonization_19...

Although it's a 300MB download, so I haven't tried. Not all of their emulations work perfectly.
I've never played RT2, but my understanding was that RT3 was rather difficult because they added the ability for goods to move independent of the railroad. So a lot of goods that you would have been able to make money on in the past moved down rivers, and away from rail lines, rather than sitting around waiting to be collected.

That being said, I had a lot of fun playing RT3.
It doesn't need to hunt for the directory entry, just needs to call `fstat()` on the stdin file descriptor.
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GPL, dude. It solves all the problems.
That shouldn't be an issue if you don't run it as root.

By running it as root, I'd argue that you did give explicit consent for the script to do anything it wants.
Even if we built a Dyson sphere, we would not be creating wealth, we would just be making available to ourselves more of the wealth that's already out there.
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Worked without any configuration changes for me (Chromium 59 on Stretch).
The goal was to make a course that "looked hard but played easy."

I can't help but wonder if that was a hint at their larger philosophy of game development too...
I would think cultures where technology is not all-pervasive + those which have strong social ties - would do well. E.g. West Asia.

Edit: typo
The Planet Money discussion was a good teaser:

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/02/309040279/in-4-000-years-one-t...
Hahaha, that's our sense of humour. Just a joke that started on this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/2nem47/can_you_...
It is!

I mean, sort of. The word "analemma" predates the book ;) but that's where I got it.
Very interesting, thanks.

As I'm sure you've been thinking, it seems important because of the looming threat of human labor becoming an obsolete means for the satisfactory distribution of wealth and necessities throughout society.

Do you have any other thoughts about how to address this problem?
> constant state of improvement

I understand how this would work in theory, but it seems more like they're trying to burn customer goodwill by breaking or removing old tools in favor of migrating everyone to {Modern UI,a walled garden}.

> That sounds like a hardware specific issue. If I hover over my battery indicator I get both a percentage and time estimate. If I click on the indicator I get the same information and the option to change power mode.

Not particularly - when I said capacity, I meant {design,current maximum, current remaining} capacity in mAh, which I couldn't convince it to tell me. (Admittedly, I did not go looking for the specific WMI calls that probably have this information, because I don't expect to have to resort to WMI to find out my battery's capacity.)

> Your explorer issue sounds like it could either be a hardware issue with a storage device or a problem with network discovery.

I had another bug with network {share,host} discovery which resulted in explorer crashing and me disabling that particular feature, but no, that wasn't my only issue with explorer.

If it's a hardware issue with the storage device, I'd be rather impressed, as said SSD runs other OSes perfectly fine, and SFC comes back without any complaints.

I can certainly believe it's something about my platform or usage, but after trying a clean reinstall of 10 without OEM drivers to confirm it wasn't some OEM-provided driver causing this fun and games, it stops being something I want to spend all my time debugging.

> Sleep and hibernate

Tried with the OEM-drivers install and without, no visible difference, much to my chagrin.

> Start Menu

Sorry, I meant All Apps.

I just tried it with Firefox, and after letting it sit for ~15 seconds offering a random json file with Firefox in the name as the best match, it did come up with Mozilla Firefox, and then immediately came back with every other thing I thought to try.

I don't know whether this has changed in the interim, or I'm just associating the initial delay with never trusting it, or something entirely distinct. (I don't think I'm conflating it with Windows 7, though, as I don't think I've ever seen it do that on one of my machines.)
The criterion of PED is also vague. It's basically asking people do they think their dicks are broken. There's enough guys going on Noporn/Nofap routines because they couldn't get it up one night with a girl because they're so used to watching porn and jerking off that real sex is too weird, and one bad experience and now they're convinced they have ED.

If you tell a guy suffering from baldness that there's "a good chance you're gonna break your dick if you drink this pill" you've already biased your study. Blind study is the only way.

I'm not suggesting there is no risk, at this point the numbers are just a joke. This study is another example of how to NOT to do it.
Ignorance on the blocksize arg.

Also, I only need to remember one progress command for my entire operating system: control+t. I also get a kernel wait channel from that which is phenomenally pertinent to rapidly understanding and diagnosing what the heck a command is doing or why it is stuck.

I hate what Linux has done to systems software culture.
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It's a different game than RT, but if you play OpenTTD there's a community on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/openttd/ with a couple of dedicated servers.

Server 1 is a vanilla multiplayer, games last ~2 real days.

Server 2 is a custom client with a lot of community patches, games last ~5 real days (IIRC):

- https://www.reddit.com/r/openttd/wiki/server2#wiki_joining_i...

It has transport load overlays, a city building challenge mode, way more types of transport and types of trains, much lower margins on routes meaning compound routes are more necessary, easier UI tools for laying and routing track, heaps more trains and buildings.

And the in-game chat from both servers merges with their IRC channel.
There was an article shared on HN a couple years ago arguing these that sorts of cost spikes and overruns are pretty much endemic to countries with common-law legal systems, and almost non-existent outside them.

I'm having a hard time digging it up, though. Sorry.
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This could be be very useful for me.

Long term, I would love to see a Lua to WASM compiler/transpiler with additional Lua runtime functionality efficiently implemented in WASM as well. Since WASM already has its own stack-based VM, why not skipthe additional Lua VM bytecode execution layer?

I would love to work on this myself, but right now the time investment isn't practical for me.
And the attack on Pearl Harbor was shorter than the movie version.
To make these transactional too, they are actually stored in a different B tree. Cycles are avoided by not storing reference counts less than or equal to 1.

How does that work? If you don't store a refcount when it equals 1, how do you know not to delete the thing? And if you never delete anything, why keep refcounts?
Additionally to RT2, I have found memories of Industry Giant 2. Does anyone remember this 2002 game?

What are Bruce Shelley (RT, Age of Empire), Rick Goodman (Age of Empire, Empire Earth), Chris Sawyer (Transport Tycoon, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc) and Geoff Crammond (Sentinel, Grand Prix 1-4) doing lately?
One of those "VMs" gets escaped from all the time. The other is made by VMware.
It isn't the same though, because not all files are non-seekable streams of bytes. In fact, most are seekable and possibly sparse.

What happens when you did a sparse file? And cp?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sparse_file

C.f. fallocate(1,2)
The AI is poor, but OpenTTD is online multiplayer, so you can play against real people instead.

There are a lot of custom patches adding more types of cargo, more vehicles, and more intricate economic routes.

But I haven't played RT2, so that might not be enough to make any difference to you.
MirBSD and BitRig (which looks very dead?) are OpenBSD forks.
If there was ever a game that encouraged me to become a developer during my youth it was definitely Railroad Tycoon. I remember being so curious how everything might have worked within the game with out knowing a thing about programming and it was definitely an inspiration to me in so many aspects. Games were my avenue for learning DOS and later my learning to write Software. I can't imagine what my life would have been like with out so many great early game developers.
Railroad Tycoon and SimCity had a huge influence on Factorio, the vast scope of which I can't begin to describe, but its trailer does it justice. [1]

About the game:
Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.

You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it working and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

[1] https://www.factorio.com/

"This game is like crack for programmers." -kentonv [2]

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266471
Not so sure about that. It's done at the municipal level in most places in the world and they seem to be doing just fine.

Well run municipalities can manage water pipes.
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So why isn't it also a replacement for ansible? I dont understand this artificially limited scope. You set machines up, why not also set up their software and repos?
The skepticism seems well-founded: [0]

Though:

> However, the CBC has not released the methods and calculations it used to analyze the raw DNA data

It's a totally odd approach, and isn't backed by other testing.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/food-scientists-weig...
"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Such discussions are tedious, and tedium is an enemy here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896887 and marked it off-topic.
With a strong ownership model like Rust’s, the type system can essentially be used to handle the case of a ref count of zero or one.

(I haven’t actually looked at the Sanakirja code.)
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We haven't really used gold for the past 100 years or so, except that we pretended the US Dollar was backed by it from ~1950-1971.

By which process will bringing back large amounts of gold "decimate economies"? And which economies, specifically?
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A minor point to correct though - the complainants at no point sought to take down the videos, nor was the order from the DoJ to take down the videos. Never did the case order that Berkley had to stop distributing them - it was Berkley's response which allowed them to avoid the damages they would owe under Title II and to avoid having to implement the system to help ensure compliance going forward.

It's why their decision is really so strange, as per the order from the DoJ, the Department looked like it was being fairly reasonable (there wasn't an immediate timeline produced, there wasn't a mandate to change structure that didn't already exist).

Again, I think everyone agrees that the world is better with the videos online - even the complainants. What the complainants wanted was for Berkley to start enforcing their compliance, not to take down the video.

My gripe with the LBRY guys and most opposition to the DoJ/Complainants that brought the issue to a head is that everyone seems to think it's two blind people demanding that Berkley take the videos down when that was never the case. It was two blind people pointing out that Berkley was not doing what they committed to and promised to, and wanting that to change going forward. The 20000 videos were evidence, not property that anyone was going after.

Truthfully, the LBRY guys blew this out of proportion and I feel like they either misunderstood or misrepresented the facts in their post. I'm glad they mirrored it all, but the hype built around it is not appropriate given the actual story.

So all in all, it's this concept that I think needs to be corrected:

> Some people on the disabilities rights side seem to think that public access to this innocently-produced material should be taken away, despite their full awareness that the world will be strictly worse off after doing so.

Since no one proposed or wanted that. The removal was just a legal solution, not a legal demand from the complainants.
Oops you're right, has size in the inode.
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Gwern discusses this in his essay at https://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20S...

He makes an interesting point that by withdrawing from larger society into sub cultures, people can return to dealing with groups of a size our minds are more comfortable with. It's the same reason small towns are (I hear) less socially stressful. I am not convinced though. In larger society I end up dealing with relatively small groups anyway - friends, family, and co-workers.

It seems pretty straight-forward that people would want focus on their interests and spend their time communicating with people that share those interests. It's definitely unfair and unfortunate that other people end up supporting them financially. With that said, we'll eventually have to come to terms with vast numbers of people not being economically productive anyway. People will have to do something. Withdrawing from society at large in favor of the parts of it that interest them seems like a fine choice.
Erm - why yes, that is exactly what I am talking about. :|

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5MP4DFcYg
They're also just doing analysis on a static data set.

> PED was determined by manual review of medical narratives for all subjects with ED. Risk of an adverse effect was expressed as number needed to harm (NNH).

So this doesn't rule out the possibility of the subjects' mental state affecting their ED.
> How does someone learn this skill?

Broadly, the basis for this is an understanding of how computers actually work - if you learned about it in school, the class would have started with Von Neumann vs Harvard architecture graduating to building a CPU from scratch (well, logic gates, anyway, possibly with Verilog), and followed by another class about writing an operating system; kernel, drivers, then a (rudimentary) user land - basic implementation of syscalls, a glibc-type library to make syscalls, basic shell on top of that. That knowledge and a perseverant attitude (getting exploits to work can involve trying to debug code with zero feedback).

As far as this hack goes, broken down into three separate pieces, the exploits should be understandable as being sandbox escapes, but for three different sandboxes (Browser, OS, VM). Sandboxes are implemented in code, the code is going to have bugs, and exploits are "merely" a case of figuring out how to use the bugs to your advantage. No one's made a totally hack-proof sandbox. Not Apple (this year's contest featured a touchbar takeover), not Google (Chrome's fallen in years past), apparently not Microsoft or VMware (nor Linux/Canonical/Ubuntu, either).

If you're interested in learning about this stuff, microcorruption is an online security CTF "game" that starts off fairly easily. https://microcorruption.com/login

The contest part of SANS' holiday hack challenge is over, but the game itself is still up. https://holidayhackchallenge.com/2016/

Rootme is another one.
https://www.root-me.org/

(I'm sure there are many more out there, those are just the 3 that came to mind.)
Wine again? There are so many great games with native linux builds. It is perfectly reasonable to build a great and powerful gaming rig without wine. Rather than compromise we should hold devs to account: no linux build, no my money.

Some games are radically better ob linux. Most all of KSP's linux builds have been rock stable, far more so than contemporary windows builds.
Don't know much about this project but interesting to see the name they chosen. "Sanakirja" means dictionary in Finnish, literally "a word book". Finns often name tech something English sounding, since they are worried if others will find it too strange sounding.
Yeah, I grew up in New Zealand, and I kept hearing how we had the "most beautiful country in the world", so somehow I got the impression that no other country had beautiful nature like ours. That's completely untrue. There are countless places in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia where the nature is absolutely pristine and stunning. Canada actually feels very similar to New Zealand in some places.
Another important example is Lilypond [1], a music engraving program. It requires the user to write scores in text files, which are then compiled to PDF/PS files. The core is implemented in C++, and Guile is used as an extension language [2].

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[1] http://lilypond.org/
[2] http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/extending/index
Headline is missing a definite article. It says 'Silk Road', but means 'The Silk Road'.
Another way to look at it is that she had an entire large tech company at her disposal and managed to do pretty much nothing with it, then pawned it off and jumped out with a golden parachute.
It also took a while for me to start assuming they mean "quintillion".
So what does

> Meh. I'm a legal immigrant

mean in context, in response to talking about illegal immigrants being needlessly mistreated, to mention that random legal immigrant doesn't understand the "glorification" of people? What does "glorification" mean here? The idea that you shouldn't trample on someone just because you can? Just how much do you have to contort and squint to not get a slight... whiff here?

https://warprayer.org/

Is that putting words into one's mouth, or explaining their own words to them, because they're too lazy or dishonest to do it themselves. You can't pussyfoot around this stuff on the one hand and then sit on the moral high horse: (likely not even) putting words into someone's mouth is a complete joke to looking the other way when brownshirts do their job. Not minding what the parent poster said, not following up on it with these questions, that's the real WTF here. Please learn from your betters rather than pointlessly berating them. One poster responded correctly, the rest fucking has to live with themselves, how's that for a different view point.
[Serious] if I'm already happy using CloudFormation for AWS, and I don't plan on supporting AWS + another cloud, is Terraform for me? Or is it for other use-cases?
Yeah, I have to say while Texas is a pretty nice state, the politics and some of the people I met are not my cup of tea. When it comes to people its better than Cali, but politics are worse than the west coast.

Hopefully the city council here in Seattle can get out of its own way and dezone the city so that it may densify. Height caps and parking minimums are forcing suburban hellscape style infill in Seattle, which is very destructive and guts the neighborhood of its classic charm. Large buildings clustered around transit would be much more productive for our city versus tearing down 100 old homes to replace them with 200 odd 2800sqft boxes on postage stamp size parcels.
Like I said, any more is beyond my level of understanding of these things. All I can say for sure is that the GABA system is incredibly important, and kinda delicate.

Read up on delirium tremens, for example: long-term alcoholics, and benzodiazepine and barbiturate addicts need to be really careful in stopping their use of those drugs — they could die if they aren't. Those drugs also affect the GABA system.

Maybe the long-term down-regulation of some aspect of GABA-A metabolism by finasteride's preventing the formation of an agonist for those receptors becomes permanent or semi-permanent after a while? I really don't know.
Sorry that was a typo. Meant to say ROE, rules of engagement
>one bad experience and now they're convinced they have ED

Those nofap guys...I don't understand the logic.

It's totally normal for this kind of thing to happen occasionally.

If drugs or alcohol are involved it can happen as well.

It happens, young, middle-aged or old. You can't fix it by giving up masturbation for a month.