skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You and Manjoo are presenting a straw man. No one is accusing him of lying about being disconnected from the Internet. The criticism is that he explicitly used the word “unplugged” in relation to Twitter. Furthermore, there’s a paragraph in which he describes what he didn’t give up — which included podcasts and email newsletters. It takes an act of willful obfuscation to not have added something about him checking Twitter throughout the day. It doesn’t help his case that he tweeted news-related Twitter things, such as telling people to read some thread about Sean Hannity.
There are a bunch of results for "light at night" on Google Scholar and Pubmed, but I'm not sure of specific references. This particular study (a manuscript is available on sci-hub[0]) does not have a discussion of this topic (other stuff that could come with the light) at all and two reviews I searched for "noise" and "sound" did not seem to have a discussion either. I'm sure some of the many studies over the years have at least actively changed the lighting and measured melatonin, but it is sloppy to not even discuss the topic.

In the case of this study, a figure at the end of the manuscript shows that most of the light exposure (averaged) happens in the hour after bed and hour before getting up, so that seems like a big clue that it isn't just a case of light at night (ideally they would divide light exposure into three segments and look at each). Also, the study started with people not showing depressive symptoms but it didn't consider if light exposure had changed and the study seems on the small (863 people) and short (median 2 year follow up) side if light (and whatever else) exposure had not changed. For that matter, it sounds like they only measured light exposure and sleep for two days and assume that is representative of the whole period.

It sounds like the depression scale[1] was given at the beginning and end of the study and looking at number or duration of episodes could have a different result. Also, it isn't clear that depressive symptoms here necessarily correspond with depression or if they are signs of a sleep disorder.

All in all, this isn't a good study to look at individually.

[0] https://twin.sci-hub.tw/ef19202b216d8e1af61a7ced2510e060/oba...

[1] https://consultgeri.org/try-this/general-assessment/issue-4....
We need to get back to the time when it was possible to run software (apps) without needing to create an account. It just blows my mind that companies want to take on the liability of managing so much personal information.
(to continue straying for a moment..) perhaps though it best depends on the variable specifics: like how often it appears, how far apart multiple uses are, etc.

Some natural limits might be: (1) single letters for extremely local terms whose structural meaning is more salient than denotation (canonical example: loop counter); (2) fully spelled-out terms for globally-significant terms (not necessarily in global scope) whose denotation is crucial (canonical example: an app configuration value).

Even two short camel-cased words often seem unnecessarily verbose for a loop counter to me. Whereas an important global config variable might justify the full THIS_IS_WHAT_I_AM_FOR treatment.
I like minimal players for music. On Linux/BSD, I like mpg123 or mpc. On Windows, I am a big fan of Foobar2000.
Depends on what kind of math you enjoy doing. If you're interested in practical applications, start by becoming an algebra ninja ... so good that just looking at a problem makes it fall apart.

If you find something that's 'beautiful' (I never did :-( ), then scratch that itch.
The story behind finding the Game of Life knightship Sir Robin
any source for that claim?
Street Dealer: 40

Doctor: 4

Executive: .4
Crikey! If I'd been caught with everything that went through my hands as a small scale dealer I'd be screwed. Over ten years it certainly adds up! Kilograms of methamphetamine, thousands of ecstasy tables, tens of thousands of LSD tabs, a few hundred grams of pharmaceutical grade heroin.

Yeah, they don't look favourable upon those sorts of quantities.

Fortunately I only got caught with about five days worth of merchandise.
> It's not a complicated argument.

I love it when people end complicated arguments like this. "It's easy you dolt! Just eat your soylent and be happy!"
Elon Musk: Mars ship test flights 'next year'
The example of fixed wing bomb drones from the article just didn't seem well thought out.

A higher quality yet still single use drone that could start from a high altitude and dive would be much more efficient (opinion). Imagine many high speed bombers with slim bodies diving down on a location from all angles. This would be extremely hard to defend against because disabling them would still cause them to fall into their intended targets.
> they are responsible for the death of others

Are they? Those others knowingly and voluntarily took those drugs.
I've had good luck with De Atramentis Document Ink. Dries very quickly, won't smear when I set my beer can^W^W coffee cup down on it. I have been using it for years, and it hasn't screwed up my pen.

I don't know if it is as safe on fine pens as the article would want, but since I use it in a $30 Lamy, I'm not too concerned.
It should be noted that a desktop is not a single user machine, even though there may only be one human user operating the machine. A single user machine is a machine running in runlevel 1 -- in other words every process on the machine is running as one user and you cannot switch users.

Modern desktops do not run at runlevel 1. All sorts of services and daemons run under different users, so having an unauthenticated service listening on localhost is less secure even on a desktop machine. If you have network services running on a desktop machine (common) then a simple RCE in an unprivileged user (with respect to the human user) can result in wallet compromise. If the API was authenticated that would not be possible.

Unix DAC protects users from one another, so any service which exposes personal information outside of the currently running user has objectively inferior security to a security model invented in the 1960s.
I wonder how much nurture vs. nature plays apart of how much exercise you enjoy/do?

I go to the gym twice a week and have done so for years. My mom in her 70s still exercises weekly as she has done since as far as i can remember. I have other active friends whose parents were the same while my inactive friends parents were and are inactive.

personally sitting around vs. hiking or climbing a mountain or swimming laps would drive me crazy. Theres so much to experience and enjoy.
I don’t like that they added “embiggen” but left out “cromulent”, given the shared origin.
Unrelated to the subject matter, but I really miss websites like this.
Doesn't matter what the cost of the weapon is. It's the cost of the potential damage that matters.
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It's now pointing at http://richardspens.com/?page=ref/care/inks.htm. "That page" is http://richardspens.com/ref/care/inks.htm with no ?page= in it. The current one is just a bunch of frame cruft around the original nag page.
"Ad hominem" means "to the person". The way we use it on message boards, referring to the "ad hominem fallacy", we mean "an argument improperly addressed to the person who made it, rather than to the argument itself". That's clearly not what's happened here; the argument is intrinsically about Farhad Manjoo. Articles criticizing the actions of people aren't intrinsically fallacious.

There's a good blog post somewhere about this phenomenon, which it dubs "the ad hominem fallacy fallacy".
How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive (2015)
On your computers, yes. On your network, not so much. You have no right to intercept data just because you are moving it from one side to the other.

And that's the thing. There is nothing stopping those companies from analyzing the data once it reached a managed computer. It is just that they want the capacity to do that on computers they don't manage.
> [Doctor], who lost his medical license and was ousted from his post as a Brown University professor, pleaded guilty to taking more than $188,000 in kickbacks disguised as speaker fees and creating false patient records to dupe insurers into covering Insys’s Subsys pain medication...

> ... [his] son was an Insys sales representative for a year and made “substantial commissions” from his father’s willingness to prescribe the drug, according to prosecutors. The son wasn’t charged in the case.

Oh, gee, it's Purdue Pharma again, i.e. the Sackler family. How am I not surprised, and how are they not fined?
The inner world is really our final frontier. Appreciate your feedback.
This line shocked me: “We made it—we made it specifically for this [drug trafficking] too,” Ramos told undercover agents, according to a transcript included in the complaint.

Rule #1 for managing products with grey-market applications: never acknowledge the existence of the illegal market (or any activity that opens you to up to material civil suits).

That instantly exposes you to all kinds of criminal and civil liability; the fact an individual said it vs. "the company" likely makes you personally liable as well, the corporate veil won't help you much here.

You're not making cheap guns for gang members to kill people with, you're developing affordable security options for lower income citizens who are exercising their 2nd amendment rights.

You're not creating tools that help criminals hide their past, you're helping good people clear their record from legitimate mistakes and errors... or evade privacy invading snoops... etc.

Always talk about the white hat applications, never the sinister ones...
Ask HN: How much do you save in Hong Kong with 100 HKD monthly salary?
I've found it depends on how soon you want it to be waterproof: I've had ink run when it's got wet within a few weeks of being written, but the exact same ink on the exact same paper (Watermans in a Moleskine) has not smudged a bit when getting damp two years after being written.

Not that there aren't inks that are liable to be much better than that, sooner. But really, if an ink is to flow through the pen, and not have it clog things, I reckon it's unlikely to ever be able to be completely waterproof right after being put on the paper. Unlike a 10¢ ballpoint pen with oil-based ink! :(
I am a fountain pen enthusiast, or I should rather say "used to be". If any effect Internet has had on my fountain-penmanship or any penmanship it has resulted in drastically decreased usage. Isn't it a general phenomenon? (I've no data on it, just what I have observed around me)

So if you meant just buying, selling, collecting, swapping pens, and talking about fountain pens then it makes sense (which is what it seems you have focussed on in your comment), but if that also involved actually using them then, I would say, overall the Internet has instead done great harm to it.
Bitcoin as the New Petroleum (2014)
This is a great point, but recent large leaks (thinking of Equifax and Anthem, but there are probably other comparable leaks) show that the liability involved isn't meaningful.
It's not like it's a desirable occupation. It's unskilled work. What you see is people using it as a temporary way to make money between other jobs. Not sure why that's damning.
Is there any similar library that is still under development?
This is the main reason I use one, keeps my RSI from acting up when I have to write a lot.

Best $25 I've ever spent ($5 on a pen, jinhao x750, the rest on ink).
Thank you.

I am not going to be able to dig into the bibliography mentioned. I have been skimming titles and I am not swayed.

I used to be on a health list where abstracts were frequently posted. I stopped bothering to read the abstracts after speaking with a man with a PhD in chemistry who told me the abstracts frequently claim the opposite of the study.

A relative of mine works at the CDC and has had cancer multiple times. They used to bitch at me about the lack of good cancer studies. The detail I recall them lamenting was that basically you got dozens of variations on whatever the latest funding craze was because researchers could get money for that and maybe one out of a hundred studies was actually proposing a new idea, if that much.

I have read bad studies. I have participated in bad studies. I have been on health lists where people were asking for tips on how to qualify for studies as a means to get free treatment. It looked to me like a form of gaming the system in a way that would skew research results. I don't think they were up to anything nefarious. They just had serious health problems and we're desperate for help. But if you are getting tips for how to get into the study that you don't currently qualify for, I cannot help but think that will skew the study results.

I am generally a skeptical person anyway. But I am very leery of this kind of research.
...what is a reasonable price for a decent fountain pen?
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Looks like there's a known effect where quinine alters the binding capabilities of antibodies, giving the antibodies affinities to substrates that they would not otherwise bind to [1].

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t...

Curious. Wonder what about quinine makes it a relatively common component of a synthetic paratope.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26282540

[edit] It looks like quinine binds heme to some extent [2] (as do most anti-malarial drugs). And that this binding somehow prevents parasites from properly digesting the hemoglobin protein. So if quinine binds heme molecules, and an antibody in your body has an accidental affinity for the quinine-bound-heme structure, the chances for an immune response seem high.

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104403050...
It's all so sad... The ECB could solve these problems by a snap of their fingers at not cost. Almost everyone would profit. I'm stumped as to how to solve the problem of central bank incompetence.
Ah the paragon of american assembly line manufacturing, Henry Ford. As a millennial its taken me a while to get the real dirt on the guy, as in america highschools extol only his virtue.

Did you know Ford had his own secret police after he doubled the salary of his workforce?

To qualify for his doubled salary, the worker had to be thrifty and continent. He had to keep his home neat and his children healthy, and, if he were below the age of twenty-two, to be married. he created a division within the Ford Motor Company to keep everyone in line. It was known as the Ford Sociological Department

Henry Ford’s paternalism even extended the point where you needed the company’s permission if you wanted to buy a car, which included a requirement to be married and have children.

https://jalopnik.com/when-henry-fords-benevolent-secret-poli...
TLS interception is predicated on whitelisting your own CA on the endpoint. Can't really do that if you don't manage it. And in any case, you need to be resilient to a rogue or compromised device.
One thing is the smudging thing (avoided by putting the paper at an angle), another aspect is that left-to-right movements push the pen instead of pulling it, and that might be the difference to Hebrew? Do you do mostly right-to-left strokes inside Hebrew characters, or left-to-right?
Hey, I would be interested in knowing about pens that do not need regular service and caring especially when not used for longer periods. Could you please suggest some good resources on it (preferably not very costly, if at all) or suggest such fountain pens?
Do their clocks take into account time dilation?
Open source is great, but using source code is an awful way to figure out what something is transmitting, compared to actually looking at what it transmits.
Simple tutorial on ANOVA and degrees of freedom
This is a good question. I will simplify this to two rules:

* internal traffic goes through VPC, AWS backone, and Direct Connect / VPN (company and AWS accessing each other). Worth noting that, all S3 requests used to go through the Internet, but now we can enable S3 endpoint so requests originated from VPC is now made within AWS backbones).

* incoming public traffic comes through AWS public infrastructure (e.g. load balancer) before handing off to some EC2 instances (the instance could either be in "public" subnet, or "private subnet")

There is a whole lot of architecture approaches highly dependent on the requirements, and I don't think we can discuss them here.

For one microservice to talk to the other one, if all within the same VPC, you just use security group (Network ACL "defends" subnet, but you are better off just using route table). If not within the same VPC, you can peer. If not within the same account, you can peer. I believe now you can peer region too. In some cases, you have to route traffic from VPC1 to VPC2 through your corporate routing...
A long time ago blackberry had this is in spades with its red flashing LED. Pavlov’s dogs response to it.. well before the red dot was invented.
But then you lose the benefit from the apps that don't abuse them, defeating the purpose of the above post's suggestion.
I have a big bottle of Heart of Darkness that I'm working through (the 4.5oz one) and an X-Feather sample that I think is done.

The only gripes I have about Noodler's is that it isn't as vivid in EF or F, they beg to be in M nibs. Also the Charlie eyedropper pen burped A LOT.
Trying writing from right to left.
That way, you leave the ink behind and don't smotch it with your hand.
https://youtu.be/9ZX_XCYokQo
Glenn Gould and Leonard Bernstein: Bach's Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor (BWV 1052)
A while ago I went from default allowing new apps to do notifications and badges to default not allowing them (with fewer apps being allowed to display badges than notifications) and now looking at my home screen is a much less stressful experience.

Actually, this is a great reminder to go audit my current settings again...
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'd rather make the active decision that I want notifications from an app than passively deciding an app is allowed to until it annoys me.
I think they actually have a separate time called OBT (maybe it stands for Orbit).

I was at the Johnson Space Center in Houston recently, where we got a tour of the live Mission Control room for the International Space Station. I noticed two clocks at the top of one of the screens. One was GMT, the other was "OBT", and the OBT clock was around 17 seconds ahead of GMT. I think it has to do with relativity, and the fact that the space station is moving relatively faster than the earth. Maybe someone can confirm.

I got a photo of this mission control monitor if anyone is interested.
What is wrong with that, exactly? If the city is substantially larger than the state, it seems reasonable to me that its votes would matter more.
I use Rohrer & Klingner Verdigris Ink and am quite happy with it.

Prompted by this article I looked up its pH value, which is close to neutral with 7.98, while many other colors are more off-center.
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That makes me think of motorcycle foot levers, where the back of your foot is supported by and pivots around a peg, allowing you to comfortable and quickly push the lever down.
A totally different direction from the Kinesis, but this has kept me happy for the past 5 years: http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/96U1114

There are trackball buttons on the top of the keyboard. When using it, my right hand curls around the corner and my thumb is over the trackball. I have the 2nd mouse button set to scroll-lock, and scrolling up and down web pages and through terminal histories never felt better.
The major reason is that smaller states wouldn't have joined any proposed Union that made them irrelevant, so the founders had to have things like the Senate to get them to join at all.

This is, of course, no longer relevant.
Most countries count from zero, in my experience. The exceptions are countries that have British heritage.

Living in such a country now, it still somewhat annoys me when people talk about the "second floor" as being the one you reach after going up one level.
I'm not sure how anyone can stand these pens. :) There are just so many better ones without having to go all the way down to the fountain pen route. Microns, for example, or decent jet pens, or...
Yes, the later amendment would win. That is the reason for the ammendments in the first place, is to repeal, modify, or add to the constitution. So if it were to get ratified than it would trump (no pun intended) the earlier amendments or constitutional elements that it contradicts. Of course before you lose too much sleep over this thought, remember that we could then pass another amendment to repeal that amendment which repealed the other one. Life will find a way.
> is ban further amendments

I'm not sure it even does that. Reading the passage you quoted, it seems like it only bars amendments that give Congress the power to interfere with state slavery laws. But the amendment that freed the slaves didn't give Congress that power, it just freed the slaves itself. It sounds like The Corwin Amendment only covers attempts to abolish slavery that wouldn't go through the process of ratification by the states.
I’ve been interested in NEO but not sure where to begin. Do you have any links you could recommend? Also tell a bit more about your company and what you are building if you’d like.
I've tried playing around with Pharo but I never could figure out how to practice that development model of using tests and depending on the debugger. Is there a tutorial you would recommend that focused on that tactic?
To the degree that such studies exist, the weight they typically carry is more or less consistent with the proposed use here: to rationalize a decision already made. An evidence based approach to architectural decisions is expensive because each organization a unique combination of staff, facilities, mission, and culture...and hence requires project specific identification of stakeholders, analysis of processes, and clear definition of desired outcome. More typical is fitting N staff in M square meters for Y dollars in Z months based on the opinions of the executive team with consideration of input from others from whom it is solicited...if anyone.

Good luck.
Airbag helmets are interesting for bicycles and low speed vehicles! They probably don't cover the face because of suffocation risk.
The answer for almost anyone who is not an executive or at least senior management is "almost certainly," the disclosures described in the article notwithstanding.

Even software developers are generally not paid as well as they could or should be in many cases, especially at some large and well known firms.
Perhaps if you were, say, Indian, you'd feel less favorably disposed to Churchill, even if you did not live a life of opulence. You don't have to agree with someone else's perspective to be able to understand it.
I think the open-endedness of Minecraft isn't for everyone. When I started I just enjoyed exploring and trying to make fun little houses/buildings/etc. Every world gave way to a new landscapes and designs. The cave systems in particular were a lot of fun.

Then when redstone came out you had the ability to create some seriously cool contraptions (though I was never particularly good at that).

Playing with friends is much more fun, and there are a lot of cool adventure maps around if you're into those.

I guess playing on PC has a lot more perks when it comes to custom worlds and mods. Certain Modpacks introduced oil, gass, and engines and all kind of cool stuff.
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The guy uses a lot of vintage pens. Most modern pens are very low maintenance.

I can refill a pen in less than 30 secs if using a converter, 5 secs if I'm popping in a new cartridge. For those that want to go the disposable route, there are several options.

The guy is making it sound more involved than it is for 99% of the FP using community.