skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is unclear why the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency found in this study was higher compared with the general population.

There are relatively large number of studies linking vitamin D deficiency and mental illness. This is not the best study to use as point of discussion.

I'm sure there are review articles.

edit: like this: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...

and this: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/99/10/3863/2836573

TL;DR: There is a link but randomized trials are needed to find the causal link.
Don't forget about:

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What percentage of those students aren't even nationals. I bet it's super high. Canada needs to incentivize not only its students to stay, but foreign students as well. The country has the potential for a large influx of highly technical immigrants.
I would argue that this is a poor trade-off. Servers are generally cheap for most projects while labor is expensive.

When using percentages you always have to ask 70% of what?
They had to rush to publish their paper?
It's a holdover from the "good ol' days", see http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html#cat
3... 89... 92... very occasionally 118... or 184...

TalkTalk UK, jumps around a lot; YMMV.
You should look into Nexus 5X. The camera is fantastic, if you care about that.
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The US dollar is a very sought after commodity in 3rd world countries. 12k might be a crapshoot to you but 10 years of wages for a smart kid in another country
OK, I'll do it, although this one requires that you have a live Kubernetes cluster to run your functions on,

I haven't heard much about it other than that it is more friendly open code from the lovely people that brought us Deis and Helm:

https://github.com/Azure/brigade

Hey, I bet you've heard of this, it sounds like Riff is absolutely in the same space :D

I think for most small enterprises today it's not too much to ask that you have a Kubernetes cluster with autoscaling provisioned somewhere. I think in 2018 you're not serious if you don't have at least that (or something comparable, although I've heard "the war is over" and agree that people should just get comfortable already with the idea of K8S if they haven't yet)

There are enough managed offerings today that don't charge anything for masters, where you can simply push a button and get a cluster that is properly configured, and push another button to tear it down when you're done, or call an API and get the same effect.

I know that's not really "serverless" now, and it's all about the cost of running computers in the cloud on a 24/7 basis, so tell me if you've heard this one before...

I've never succeeded in standing up a Kubernetes cluster with ASG for workers that will scale all the way down to zero when demand for worker nodes evaporates for a long enough period of time (10-30 mins?). Admittedly I've never spent that much time trying at it either... I am privileged to have some real physical computers plugged into the wall that I don't have to turn off, so I guess I just don't have to think that way.

There's just not any technical reason that won't work though, is there? You'll need the master(s) to hang around, so it's possible to notice Pending pods and scale back up when the demand returns, right?

(So why am I not seeing this capability advertised or demo from any managed Kubernetes provider offerings, is it really just simple economic answer that given the pricing model of no-cost masters, they don't make any money off you during a period of time that you aren't running any worker nodes?)
mentally ill > stays inside more often

not really a hard conclusion to reach
I have one, and a 2012 Mac. The thinkpad is OK, but I much prefer the Mac. The trackpad alone makes using the thinkpad miserable.
But is that what we really aspire to as human beings? Things being simple? Isn't that just a cop out? The uncomfortable nature of a low IQ individual? Things being all black and white are historically very unpleasant. And war is destructive and stupid, especially in the 21st century.

So while I understand our brutal nature, I also realize we have to rise above it, be smarter, find better outlets, and realize that everything in the universe is nuanced and be okay with that.
You would need to be careful about comparing areas that are otherwise similar or do something more sophisticated than merely comparing rates of psychiatric hospitalization between two areas. Average incomes and other factors are probably important too.
> I vaguely recall there was a movie that exploited this in a backstory, mentioning that the epidemic somewhere died down because Zombies starved to death

28 days later
How to build analytic products in an age when data privacy has become critical
Largely, I think, moving to an alternate port cut SSH crack attempts to near zero; but I use fail2ban too.
Well, potentially.

But then, there is no fundamental difference between a service rejecting unauthorized connections and a firewall rejecting unauthorized connections. If your service is already rejecting unauthorized connections, you don't gain anything by also rejecting the same connections at the firewall, and that is why "No open port = no hacking attempts" is ultimately nonsense: It doesn't change anything about the attempts, and chances are it doesn't fundamentally change anything about the rejections either.

Also, adding a VPN exposes the VPN service to the internet, which thus adds attack surface in a different place. Which might be worth it if you need remote access to otherwise vulnerable services. But the simplistic view of "rejecting connections at the firewall" == "no more hacking attempts!11" is just that: simplistic.
This Tiny Gadget Creates an Uncensored Mini Internet
> Hybrid/PWA apps are not in the interest of Apple nor Google

Not in the interest of Apple, of course, because bye tax on apps, but promoted by Google. Surely in its interest.
Except while I am putting things on the conveyer belt I can’t exactly be bagging at the same time. In France, checkout lines are slower because you have to run from one side of the checkout belt, to load, then to the other side, to bag and then you have to pay; meanwhile people are waiting. That “useless” job increased efficiency since bags can be filled while I am attending to the transaction. Unless you buy just a few things at a time, it’s a huge timesaver.
What's left is to test this hypothesis.
You’re vastly misunderstanding what exactly Hacker News is. It has multiple(?, two?) full time employees working on it, funded by Y Combinator, one of the most ‘important’ venture capital firms in Silicon Valley/US.

Hacker News is a marketing expense for this investment institution.
it isnt. cat + grep feels a lot more 'natural' to many users and makes 0 performance difference in 99.99% of usecases.
It's a safe assumption that everything is under government control in China. If not today, maybe tomorrow.
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HOW?

How would it actually solve it in a way that previous attempts at pay-per-read microtransactions haven’t?

What the fuck does Bitcoin have to do with it?

Keep in mind that the majority of browsers (Safari and Chrome) have built in payment mechanisms already.
Yeah from my experience I've never cared about 3. If I did I wouldnt be a troll on hn
Hyperlocal media supports smaller coverage areas where it's not practical to have a publicly funded organization. Even then, you're going to have debates regarding the agenda of the organization.

At a local level advertising generally does not corrupt the journalism. At the local level, it's community oriented where the journalists are genuinely interested in giving a voice to advertisers as well as informing citizens. It's a more positive ecosystem than what you see on the national level.
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...

20% of NPR's funding comes from corporations. Useful yes, required no.

It feels like advertising, but in practice it's virtue signaling. Much like giving to Habitat for humanity corporations want recognition for their donations, but as pure advertising it's not worth it. So, if they where not mentioned on air corporations would likely cut back, but not to zero.
I would say that even better than ublock origin is nano adblock with nano defender that it is an anti anti-adblock
The New Science of Psychedelics
Microsoft was there in ~2011-2014. Check these out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x4_dozWkq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSIlUXOH2iA

From Scroogled to "telemetry" collecting user keyboard input in 4 years.
Correct, $5/month is the upper bound of what I've seen the more successful hyperlocals pull off (most recently bklynr in Brooklyn)
Public bathrooms don't clean themselves like private bathrooms. Particularly in high-volume places (large restaurants, pubs) it can get nasty very quickly. Think sex, drugs, throwing up, people passing out or going to sleep or just acting stupid with feces. Definitely not a useless job.

But it is one of those weird things that survives long past the point of sense, they should just be paid a wage and be employed rather than work on this weird charity-basis. It's a bit akin to waiters in the US working on tips, whereas the rest of the world just pays them a normal wage. The clubs bank on guys with 10 beers in em to both be drunk enough and close to bursting enough to pay for the service.
Computational Foundations of Natural Intelligence (2017)
That also breaks down when they need to fully stop traffic from both sides so a equipment can be moved. How do you tell the automated lights to stop everything automatically when those instances are irregular.
It's not just combat veterans, a novice photographer wrote a book about covering/surviving the messy civil war in former Yugoslavia.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4360.My_War_Gone_By_I_Mi...
I was a bagger for a while. For me, it was an entry level thing at the grocer. You would be responsible for organizing (not stocking) the shelves and sometimes cleaning. The highest paid people except managers and the owner were the cashiers. This was 20 years ago.
The manned Dragon was supposed to fly in the 2nd quarter 2017, then delayed to 2018, now delayed to 2019+.

https://newatlas.com/crew-dragon-delayed/46913/
Taking a long time to learn is, in my experience, becoming less common. Library authors are more aware of ergonomics than they were, say, 10 years ago. For every huge ORM, there's an intentionally small alternative built out of frustration.

Having a variety of high-quality, widely-used libraries to choose from is vital, though. That's why I don't use brand new stacks at work, even if they are "better" in some way.
Blockchains? Views ledgers?
The innovation turning desert sand into farmland
Deductive Biocomputing (2007)
Cute and in http://archive.li/GRxiT
Walmart to buy 73% of Flipkart for up to $16 bn; Alphabet might put in $3 bn
We could bring back Workd War II and create even more jobs — assuming that’s what we are trying to do in an America with 3.9% unemployment.
What about other deficiencies? Other vitamins and nutrients? You'd expect people that are admitted to psychiatric hospitals to have more than one deficiency since they might not be able to take good care of themselves.
Yeah look at Alepo.
But the average Syrian didn't really have all that much anyway.

The west will never fight a war like WW2 ever again.
I’m not a developer, but I work in tech. Interruptions are still quite costly for me. It’s less about “holding a lot in my head at once” and more about getting into a “flow”-ish state. Once I get going, I get momentum and am able to continue to get things done. Once I stop, I lose momentum and my pace of work slows.

It’s harder to quantify but when I get uninterrupted work done, I “feel” better while I’m working. I’m happier and more productive while working. I have a pretty one track mind, so focusing on one thing at a time and doing that one thing really well is important for me.
They still are.
Good old EDI. I last worked with it more than 15 years ago. I used to have several thick, bound EDI specs for each message my team was working with on our desks. After a while you get really good at counting the number of separators...

For small messages and loads, it's entirely reasonable to work towards near real-time processing. A possible reason why some EDI folks you talk to might be reluctant to think in that direction is because EDI payloads can go upwards to 10s or 100s MB. Yes, text. Instead of trucks, think ship cargo manifests. That could blind-side them.
Decomposing real estate prices into land, improvement, and zoning effects [pdf]
If you are going to supplement your vitamin D, just make sure to monitor your calcium too. My wife sees patients taking high doses of vitamin D, because their doctor puts them on it, or they do it themselves, and they do not realize that they are doing massive damage to their bodies because their low vitamin D levels are caused by a parathyroid tumor.

http://www.parathyroid.com/low-vitamin-d.htm
Basic job might have a better cost/benefit tradeoff.

For example, https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/basic_income_vs_basi...
> If anything, Visual Studio is trying to catch up with Visual Studio + Resharper made by the same people who make Rider.

I never needed to use Resharper.

Resharper might offer better refactoring tooling, but it doesn't offer anything else over what it means a full Visual Studio experience.

> Which first party IDE do users of Python, Java, Go, Node, etc. use?

I though we were speaking about .NET here, and other languages offered by OS vendors.

From your list only Java fits this description.

So to answer it, Java main IDE, the one pushed by Sun and used as basis for Solaris development was Netbeans, which incidentally still has features not offered by InteliJ and Eclipse regarding GUI designers, visual editing for Web development and mixed debugging between managed and native code, including directly visualization of native code generated by the JIT.

Visual Studio has quite good support for Python and Node as well.
As someone who has probed the depths of his own "malevolence" in very anti-social ways (and with nothing to do with socially acceptable state-sanctioned acts) I understand what you are saying. However, "primates that talk" is not what we aspire to being, at least not me.

The enthusiasm that soldiers have for carrying out the policies of their leaders is what bothers me about them. It's really nothing to do with the basic mechanics of killing other than the outright cowardice that technology brings into it all.
Pounding a Nail: Old Shoe or Glass Bottle? (2005)
The study you linked was based on a threshold of 50 nmol/L, while the originally posted study used two thresholds, 30 nmol/L and 50 nmol/L. At the 50 nmol/L cutoff, the study you linked indicates a deficiency rate of 41.6% for the general population, compared to a rate of 91.3% among psychiatric patients according to the posted study.

I’d still take the posted study with a grain of salt. Vitamin D deficiency between individuals is likely to be highly correlated within a particular region and time period due to its dependence on weather, and the authors didn’t control for that. But they did say that this was just a pilot, and given the effect size it’s probably worth investigating further.

Edit: fixed units
Baggage handlers at airports pull bags off the belts and put them in a line nearby (and sometimes give them to passengers) when there's a need to clear the belt, or when they don't have other work to do (at some airports). This is mainly to keep the belt from filling up.

They also sometimes do this when looking for a bag for transfer (which failed to get interlined correctly or something, or when an elite has a connection but there's no interline agreement.)
As already pointed out, detector efficiency is determined through extremely detailed simulations of the entire system. Those measurements are done in a completely orthogonal manner so the complexity of the model has nothing to do with the systematic uncertainties that arise from the selection efficiency.
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The Woodstock of Capitalism (aka Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual General Meeting aka Berkshire’s AGM) is right around the corner. Is it time for a new re-branding for this legendary event?
The Overton window is not purely defined by what the audience thinks. Consider the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany or the US during WW2 when freedom of speech was at best a farce. In quasi democratic societies you’re constrained to stay within some distance of the median voter or have any attempt to influence the discourse break down. That’s plenty to influence politics. There’s a lot of difference between +1 and -1 standard deviations from the mean in politics, plenty to sustain the tribalism that’s the driver of most politics. Maybe you need to go up to + or - 2 s.d. to dampen dissent but I doubt you need to go further.

Imagine if the internet didn’t exist. Do you think anyone would have payed attention to the German New Year’s Eve rapes? It’s not like anyone in the media class was going to do it before the cover up was a story in itself.
Yes, but the article doesn't claim that you're more likely to succeed as a solo founder. It just states that success is possible.
I did that gig at a county fair one season. You’re there to deter people from pissing on the floor and plundering the place. People behave bizarrely in certain situations.

The highlight of that experience was the drunk lady who stole a toilet lid in the men’s room.
I use the keyboard a lot more than moving the pointer. I use a tiling window manager under Linux and lots of keyboard shortcuts, which helps. For moving the pointer, I prefer the ThinkPad trackpoint, as I do not have to take my hands off the keyboard.
Any value of UBI higher than 0 creates positive feedback loop:

1. government announces UBI

2. retailers, in anticipation of higher demand raise prices.

3. UBI beneficiaries see that they cannot buy as many goods as they want/need so they start demanding more money.

4. government see that they have more tax revenue due to higher retail sales (and the price raise from step 2) so it easily agrees to increase UBI amount.

5. go to step 2.
I love sweeping generalizations presented without evidence to back them up.
I don't think that's really the point being made here. Opportunity cost is a useful thought exercise for all kinds of decisions, not just "Should I follow my passion to become an underwater basket weaver?" type questions. I've found it very helpful to consider what opportunities I'm giving up whenever I'm deciding on a course of action, even if it's simple like: "If I go out drinking with friends tonight, I'm giving up rising early tomorrow and feeling good."
No, we’re huge babies about it and think everyone else’s job is less difficult and important than ours.
I have to imagine this will get voted down.

Home solar is a kludge that is basically only workable because of subsidies. The installation and maintenance costs alone are ridiculous compared to grid renewables.
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Active vs. Passive Investment management
You haven't tested

Mentally ill > lives on the streets in the sun all day
> If your equivalency were correct, we'd expect the issuance of new currencies to reduce the value of old ones, and so far we're not seeing much evidence of that.

I'm not sure what evidence we should even be looking for here, but certainly the share of Bitcoin in the cryptocurrency markets has dropped alongside its value[1]. Anecdotally, most people I've talked to holding, say, ETH, would be holding more BTC otherwise, so it's hard to argue that the competition doesn't depress the price.

As for the Hayek reference, I have some thoughts on that: https://paulbutler.org/archives/stop-dragging-hayek-into-bit...

1: https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#dominance-percentage
But why isn’t it used by professionals? It seemed clean enough, punctual and conveniently located as well as being reasonably priced. Is there an alternative (besides owning a car) that I’m missing for travelling around the conurbation of Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose et al.
They might not have the correct data for comparison -- you'd need to control for climate, so national or international rate of deficiency wouldn't be a good comparison.
Chris Lattner's take on the “I am leaving llvm” email
More specifically I think it's the story of 28 Weeks Later which is based on that.
Another, perhaps more depressing, way to think about opportunity costs: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/potential-2
Don't leave! :D

It finally feels to me like things are on the cusp of getting interesting in Regina. Saskatoon's recent acquisitions (Solido bought by Mentor/Siemens, SkipTheDishes) seems to have raised a lot of eyebrows in Regina and there's at least some momentum building to get investors/business folks/tech folks together to start building things. Co-Labs in Saskatoon seems to have been a huge inspiration/wake-up call for parts of the Regina business community.

That being said... I've always had a bit of a longing for Atlantic Canada, and if the jobs are out there... that's pretty interesting!
</etc/ssh/sshd_config grep PasswordAuthentication
Throughput limitations. This won’t (at least in current iterations) scale well.
I'm pretty fanatical about efficiency, but it's kind of annoying to have to remember where in the argument sequence for a whole bunch of commands the input file goes.

Of course once you use the 'cat' trick you then have to remember which comments require '-', '-f -' or something to that effect because whoever programmed them didn't think the primary use case was to work as a filter.

Pipes are one of Unix's most useful features and cat somefile | asequenceofusefulcommands is a shorthand that anybody should be able to use.
Shut up, Wesley!
I'm a college student in North America and I don't use Messenger.

Coincidentally, my social circle is approximately 0. It has never previously occured to me that this may not actually be a coincidence.
Long peace? The US is in the longest war in our history.

Edit: second longest, but still > 16 years. We'll break the record soon enough.
I grew up in Oak Ridge (ORHS class of '82). It's an interesting little town. It's in the deep south, but at the time, it had the highest concentration of Ph.D.'s anywhere in the country (or so we were told growing up, I never actually verified this. But it seems plausible.)

If you ever visit there, be sure to go to the graphite reactor. It's the closest you will ever come to the business end of a real (though now decommissioned) nuclear reactor. The Museum of Science and Energy (originally called the Museum of Nuclear Energy, but that was changed because political correctness) is also worth visiting. (I got my very first programming job there in 1980, writing code in BASIC for exhibits running on Commodore PETs. One of my duties was to go around the museum and re-load the software on all the exhibits from cassette tapes. Ah, those were the days!)