skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1200 people is a fairly huge study,

1200 people is a huge, convincing study for a well-executed prospective, interventional study, like a clinical trial. This is a cross-sectional retrospective study, using merged data from several different sources. Retrospective, epidemiological studies are notoriously subject to bias, particularly ones like this one.

Such retrospective studies are good for forming hypotheses about diseases in study populations (and often, intervention studies are not feasible), but they are often inadequate for testing these hypotheses. As the study authors say themselves, longitudinal studies are required to really draw strong inferences.

I'd have to read the study to be sure, and it's been a long time since I formally studied or worked in epidemiology/biostatistics, but some of the numbers mentioned in this article look fairly unconvincing. For example, this study found very little association between tobacco use and metabolic syndome, which goes against most available evidence. Also, things like having insurance and being married are associated with a significant increase in metabolic syndrome (not sure if this is in line with existing research, but it sounds kind of counterintuitive).
lots of people have used it to buy drugs
Don't forget coffee. I need the government to protect me from my cups, every day. What to do???
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> Would you rather snap your acai bowl and show your four best friends? Or take an Instagram Story and show the restaurant, your followers, and the people scrolling through the Discover page?

Easy pick. The former! I don’t give a shit about the restaurant, my followers or people browsing the Discover page. I care about my close friends.
Totally. I observed a support chatbot project that didn't quite meet up with the vision.

Even based on the technical marketing claims the consultants were coming in with, it was a product less capable than the IBM Prolog-based expert systems that I built out 15-20 years ago to triage and correlate network events in a large WAN infrastructure.... and that was a product with a whole slew of major implementation and operational problems!
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This company is not a tech company, so it shouldn't be valued as one. It's on par with a local restaurant.

Second, the company produces enormous amounts of plastic pollution from packaging. Why should we pollute our planet so the CEO can make $1 more on the stock market?
I am under the impression that as the size of a turbine reduces, to maintain the same efficiency, you'd have to increase the running speed.

So for small turbines and with safe speeds, I guess the efficiency is compromised.

Having said that, I have come across efficient micro-turbines.
Yeah, that seems a bit ridiculous to me as well and I wrote the thing :) Without tech being much better, that is, and even then it doesn't seem proficient.

But I can see it being sold. We put fake blowers, oversized spoilers, and other such things on cars now.
This is awesome! Do you have any resources to dive into reverse image search? I am not familiar with the standard methods and I am looking for more than the pyimagesearch's tutorial of using histogram matching, I am interested in learning what the standard is and any tutorials/implementations
Adding soda, bike riding, swimming, TV/internet/gaming addiction...

Sometime freedom means the freedom to make what others think are bad decisions.
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Why not use the URL syntax? Then you can do

git clone ssh://git@gitlab.example.com:2222/path/torepo.git

which shouldn't be mangled by the shell. (In fact, this is the syntax that GitLab gives you by default.)

Alternatively, each user could put into their ~/.ssh/config:

Host gitlab
Hostname gitlab.example.com
Port 2222
User git

and then use "gitlab:path/torepo.git" instead.

(In this particular scenario a bastion host probably isn't useful, since you'd have to copy the SSH keys out of gitlab into the bastion and make sure you get the management/security right. A web search for "ssh forward git user" turns up a number of people struggling with your problem; none of them seem to have entirely satisfactory answers.)
You forget charging at home. There are currently around 100M home charging stations in the US, most of them completely underused :-)

So every home is a charging station and if the range for EVs keep increasing 10 percent per year we will reach 400 miles in 2 years, 500 miles in less than 5 years. By then, road side charging stations will be for people driving more than 7 hours in a day and for the very forgetful.

I drove more than 300 miles in one day once this year, and I still haven't driven more than 400 miles in a single day this year.

Even if you commute 30 miles to work and 30 miles back, you would only have to charge your Tesla model 3 in the weekends. In 5 years you could drive 100 miles a day and still only charge your EV every weekend.
Alas, there is no muscle in the robot kingdom! A lot of interesting work has been done recently on direct drive or minimally geared legged robots, however - check out Ghost Robotics for an example. [https://www.ghostrobotics.io/]
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And this is how confirmation bias works. 'Something about this study feels fishy... what about these anecdotes?' You did call yourself out for being anecdotal, so I'm sure you see it. As a fellow daily smoker I very much want to pick holes in this as well.
The difference between how you're treated for consuming alcohol (which as far as I'm aware is objectively more dangerous - and more immediately so to other people - than marijuana) and for consuming marijuana in most places is pretty ridiculous, to the point of almost seeming like satire. Alcohol also has a pretty significant (don't think it's quite this significant, granted) effect on coronary health, not to mention liver damager, etc. And yet the reason for the difference is that we just accepted alcohol prohibition doesn't work. But guess how easily you can get marijuana, even where it's illegal at the state and local level too...

To be clear, I think this is good research to be done. Better to know about this than not, obviously, and I hope it leads people to make some better life decisions. But I'm also anticipating that this is going to get held up as, "You see? It's the devil's grass!" in a very illogical and inconsistent way.
True. It is such an absurd jump of logic. Either the writer of the piece is trying to make bank (views) off of the polarizing subject matter (legal marijuana use) or someone who stands to lose bank ($$$) upset about the possibility someone can grow a remedy to their symptoms for a fraction of the price they charge over the counter.
I guess they prefer selling shovels in a gold rush.
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Huh? I've lived in Oregon and Colorado and work in an industry with the higher amount of cannabis use, and there's no trend of anything like what you're saying in any of the hundreds of people that I know. I know many people who feel like cannabis has benefited their lives a great deal.

Saying that cannabis use makes people unable to eat is funny, since one of the uses it's been known for and approved for for a long time, with heavy use, is helping cancer and AIDS patients eat due to appetite stimulating properties.

I think you may mean a condition called hyperemesis that people think is related to heavy cannabis use, but apparently is that it's related to ingestion of a pesticide. The groups who spread anti-cannabis propaganda for decades are still quite active and are glad to seize on things Like that, and say hey, this nontoxic products that is far safer than almost any prescription drug turns out to actually be really bad for you! Right.
Making concentrates can concentrate not only active ingredients but also harmful contaminants. So, that's a good reason for better regulation - especially testing of finished products for contaminants. In most areas, one still can't easily take a product to a lab or store and get it tested for contaminants due to legalities.
The thing I hate most about Blue Apron is the fact that their recipes are written like a novel. No one needs paragraphs of text to cook a chicken. Recipes have always been step-by-step numbered. Instead, Blue Apron crams 20 different steps into 3 sentences and calls it “Step 1.” When you’re moving back and forth between the stove, fridge, and where you have the recipe, it’s impossible to figure out where you left off without re-reading.
Yeah, but the Kepler observatory has looked for exoplanet transits for many years now and found over 1000.

You have to assume it has examined this close neighbor thoroughly.
Just because consuming something regularly for 12 years raises your blood pressure doesn't mean it's a danger to the public that needs to be illegal. You might as well criminalize junk food. In a context of overblown fear and stigma around marijuana, the article should have at least put some perspective on the health risks, rather than having the message of, "Some people say marijuana has no health risks, but according to a study, there are. Be worried."
Google has a lot of this information publicly available and broken down in further categories than the ones you mention; worth taking a look at

https://www.google.com/diversity/

Apple as well:

https://www.apple.com/diversity/

Microsoft:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity

The numbers in a lot of these situations are only, unfortunately, at a level that we can't really get a lot more than raw count from. This tells us nothing about the pay gap problem and in general causal effects for exodus. If there is substantial evidence that pay is widely different between groups for the same exact job role (and there is a great deal of evidence that is the case); then it would be far better to have that data on hand.

Glassdoor appears to have some good metrics on this and I came across this article that at least describes these discrepancies across a few high profile companies.

https://www.geekwire.com/2014/stats-gender-pay-gap-microsoft...

It is notable that Microsoft appears to be far better than everyone else at ensuring equal pay between genders.

Also you can take a look at Glassdoor's overall research on the gender pay gap data:

https://research-content.glassdoor.com/app/uploads/sites/2/2...

This seems about right here:

"The single biggest cause of the gender pay gap is occupation and industry sorting of
men and women into jobs that pay differently throughout the economy. In the U.S.,
occupation and industry sorting explains 54 percent of the overall pay gap—by far the
largest factor. For example, Census figures show women make up only 26 percent
of highly paid chief executives but 71 percent of low-paid cashiers. Past research
suggests this is due partly to social pressures that divert men and women into
different college majors and career tracks, or to other gender norms such as women
bearing disproportionate responsibility for child and elderly care, which pressures
women into more flexible jobs with lower pay."

Indeed, just from the above study, it's easy to conclude that the numbers alone are more reflective of the state of public policy issues and a lack of salary transparency across firms.
I live in a city which has a central district unavailable for most of the cars(aside from residents, but parking spaces are very limited).

I would never want to live in that district. Reasons:

- Buildings are very close to each other which makes the place dark and noisy(sound bounces off the walls).

- Rent is high, because apartments are so close to everything that landlords can get away with high prices.

- Trash day is once a week, because you can't have a garbage truck roaming the streets every morning waking everybody up.

- Summer is hell, because air can't travel through all this tight space.

Once you get rid of the roads you create a perverse incentive to place something there instead, e.g. buildings. And this is what ultimately happens.

Also: assuming you're walking at a brisk pace of 6km/h. In 30 minutes you're going to travel 3km, which means that in order to be able to walk from one end to another you'll need a city with an area of at most 7km^2.
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I'm amazed at how simple this is! Making the triangles equilateral is one of those things which seems so simple in hindsight but I doubt it was easy to think of, were you inspired by anything in particular?
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Lighting is such a big issue for me. Our office, luckily has a bunch of large windows in it. But, I've worked places with no windows and too much florescent lights. It's an awful environment.
I mean, why is there a need to chat while working? Why not go to the kitchen to chat?

Code review seems pointless at a company with a defined code conventions.
Actually, stoners are probably consuming a lot of processed food. Hmmm....
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Hold on now, picking individual celebrity examples has some serious survivorship bias on its own. We don't hear from the ones who did experience early mortality.

Cannabis is a hard topic for Americans to talk about, because it's been so often unfairly demonized in the past, there's a pro-cannabis camp that sometimes won't admit any downside to it, fearing "Reefer Madness" style FUD which has been very common for decades.

But is it really all that surprising that smoking could be bad for your health, irrespective of what it is? My take would be that people shouldn't be persecuted for this, but that it's straightforwardly obvious that any smoking (and doubly so an unregulated plant that would reasonably be expected to vary tremendously in quality depending on supplier) -- would be harmful.
Magical piece. I have a related question, what are my fellow HNers doing for the eclipse?

My original accommodations fell through (over-booked), and now I'm driving the family 12 hours west to camp in a friend's backyard in Nashville the night before the event (much lower chance of cloud-coverage west of the appalachians). At this point, everything along the path of the totality, hotels and camping, is completely booked.

The day of the eclipse, my biggest fear is cloud-coverage. So I'll be checking the weather and planning to hit the road at a moment's notice. I worked landscaping in college, and it's not hard to drive one town over to avoid clouds, but with so many people attending this thing, I anticipate a high-probability of traffic congestion.
This is the reason I finally added SSL to my academic webpage.
I'm in "advanced" R&D, playing with technologies that will be in future products. For my group, we often need something on a temporary basis. So it doesn't make sense to invest in a brand spanking new machine. Plus, we might be intending to modify it.
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How in the bloody hell does Coinbase not fund its own operations with profit??? I figured they made over a $100m every quarter.
And this is a bad thing.
I don't butcher my own animals, but I do purchase half a cow in the fall from a local farmer here in Idaho. In the end it comes out to roughly $6 a pound for grass fed beef. Much cheaper than the grocery store since grass fed ground beef is $6 a pound. I also do that with a pig (whole, $750 total after butchering fees) and chickens (not economical, but tastes better). I also get to see the animals as they grow and are fed when I visit. More time consuming but I know exactly how the animals are treated and fed.
Platejoy[1] does this. I did their trial a while back and they've got some great meal ideas. One thing I like about this, is that there's no potential waste compared to Blue Apron and the like. Also being able to specify dietary restrictions and stuff while getting a nice grocery list was pretty great (:

While yes, I can spend time researching things, picking things out, etc. all for free, sometimes I do just want the experience to be catered. Add on top of that an automated, weekly/bi-weekly grocery list was pretty damn cool. Otherwise, I typically end up making the same boring meals I already know.

I didn't continue with them because my boyfriend is a pretty amazing cook, so I just leave cooking to him instead haha

[1] https://www.platejoy.com/
Can you provide sources for this? As an ex-bridgewater employee from everything I've seen, read, and heard this is an incredibly false statement.
Or sodas? Or sugar in general?
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I don't think it changes the possibility for life at all.

It does make colonizing it seem less possible, but that's hardly a practical concern anytime soon.
Kepler has only focused on two tiny patches of the sky in its lifetime IIRC.
> Like how the policy makers protect the public from Alcohol, tobacco, and over-the-counter meds?

... Yes? Those are all heavily regulated and/or massively taxed.
I had a look, I'm not an expert in the area by any means, but at a reasonable glance it looks like a good study to me. Of course, it could be a giant fiddle (almost any experiment can be), but I try hard not to automatically assume studies which say what I like are good, and ones that say what I don't like are bad.

I'm sure there will be more research in this area, now that there is not the threat of jail if people report on their usage.
Well, it is bleeding edge and you probably know that linux needs some time to support that properly. The integrated graphics is a non-issue here: Neither X299 nor X399 processors have any. You have to combine them with a gpu, and then are free to chose one that is properly supported. For what it's worth, the RX line was the first gpu ever that had proper working free Linux drivers on release (but the stronger versions like the RX 570 or 580 are not in stock or overpriced, thus not a reasonable option right now).

I'd expect the RX 550 or any of the older AMD gpus with the mesa driver to be a good choice, but it depends on what you want to do.
In a way that's even more damning, because he's not just an SEO or marketing guy, he's actually built a couple true tech startups. Presumably he wasn't involved in the security, but it's still extremely alarming that someone with that background would spread such blatant disinformation. Some of his misunderstandings are initially forgivable, but then to delete comments pointing out his mistakes, not issue any correction, and continue blasting out patently false information to a large following is the sort of willful ignorance that deserves to be called out very publicly, hopefully with severe damage to his reputation (although I'm not holding my breath). If he's silencing feedback from actual security experts then what is he whitewashing in other domains?
My statistics is weak, so I apologize if this is a silly question. This study is about mortality, so the key outcome would be whether the subjects died or not. How do they know how long any dead person used marijuana (since they couldn't ask them now obviously)?
There are no muscles on mars either though. NASA has a different set of constraints than nature (one of them being human lifespans of time to make a workable solution).
Powerline: https://fedoramagazine.org/add-power-terminal-powerline/
I just installed tilix-bin from AUR. It has a blinking cursor that cannot be unblunk in the preferences? In that case, tilix is not for me…
Also, not sure what their position is on ringfencing deposits, but could also be an in-house credit line for immediate liquidity?

Yep - I'd say they need to push into tech to allow mainstream adoption. Being the backend layer to convert crypto to real funds for businesses or payment processors. Talent, partnerships, probably regulatory issues etc...
The headline could have been...

> Marriage greater risk to heart than cannabis: report

But that wouldn't sell as well.
Something like https://staff.aist.go.jp/y.oiwa/FailSafeC/index-en.html or GCC/Clang with the sanitisers.
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Is there a biological analog of gear ratios? A nice thing about mechanical gearing is the ability to trade off speed and torque on the fly.
They are noting who they would rather not work with.

That means when they can pick new people for their team(s), they try to pick from those who are not on their shit list.

But if their supervisor tells them to work with X, who happens to be on a no-no list, they won't start a hissy fit. (They might try to influence their higher up to reconsider.)

And in big corps like google it's not too surprising that people with very different worldviews try to stay away from each other.
I have never had to use the brakets like that when referring to a remote path in shell (bash or zsh). Is it because of the port number? Perhaps I never used a port number in the string, but im pretty sure I've needed it at some point (jenkins ran on :8080).
> Central Park is a desirable place to spend time, unlike the artificial, pseudopublic spaces that separate highrise complexes.

Have you ever lived in a high-rise surrounded by open space? A lot of people, myself included, really like it.

You're stating your own personal preference as if it were some universal fact.

You also seem to have a limited understanding of housing design. For example, lots of Corbusier-inspired high-rise developments have shops and restaurants mixed in among the parks and buildings.

I suspect the bulk of the complaints people have with high-rise housing projects for low-income residents in the US are driven more by the policies and operations of low-income housing - lack of maintenance, poor security, etc. The design model has worked out quite well for higher income residents in plenty of places - even in the US, for example, near south Florida beaches.
Muscles/limbs are only 'vastly' more efficient if you consider they have large numbers of nano scale support systems constantly rebuilding them. Since we don't have nanobots, gears will be better for machines. Also, nature didn't naturally develop a axle.
You see more explicit sharing these days than then. The Mini Countryman and BMW X1 both share the same platform. (And it's front wheel drive, at that, which is a big shift for BMW.)
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy study
But how many of those self-taught developers managed to do so with the aid of a love of mathematics/detail/technicality that survived an encounter with high school peer pressures?
The only case I've ever heard of someone dying from using marijuana was my grandfather. He was diabetic and ate too many sweets after getting the munchies. Honestly, probably how he would have wanted to go out anyways.
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There's really good conversation at Lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/oqlrr4/coder_frozen_2009_awakens_find_fr... and Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Frontend/comments/6smeff/coder_froz...
Weird, I've found a situation where my insane pain tolerance could help me. (From migraines)
Not wanting to steal roadbeats' lunch, but as the source isn't available, if anyone wants a self-hosted solution, Wallabag 2.0 is pretty awesome[1].

[1] - https://wallabag.org/en
You're working in an area that has tremendous room for improvement. The giant in this space is Castlight Health.

How do you guys differentiate?

Are you targeting a specific market? (Geographic, specific health plans, procedures, etc.)

Who do you need? (Payor partners, employer types to test with, ...?)