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We have had industrial shift hours for nearly two centuries, and before that in the Army and Navy. Yet large organizations are still implementing new shift/watch schedules to (or sometimes purportedly to) improve health and alertness based on scientific results. https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2016/10/28/this-lif...

What is the problem with science here? Without being an expert it seems like there are three possibilities:

1) Sleep studies are too difficult to discern results and control.

2) We have culturally been focused on the wrong results, organizational efficiencies rather than individual health.

3) Humans actually adapt to new conditions faster than expected.

Everyone is at least mildly interested in this topic and mildly an expert. Its easier to see problems than remedies and there are conspiracy theories too: http://rotateshift.blogspot.com/
Mars does not have a microgravity.

Everything you say is argument for not going to Mars but develop industry in the Moon, close Earth asteroids or in the Earth orbit. Mars is in the bottom of big and expensive delta-v well just like Earth.

If asteroid mining becomes profitable, Mars can never compete. It has no microgravity, no enough sunlight, corrosive soil and dust everywhere. It's just a lifeless desert in deep delta-v.

Having small economic settlement inside near earth asteroid could be economically sound idea. Most of the work would be done by semi-automatic robots and people on Earth but maybe there is need for on-site crews as well.
An $8 sleeping mask is another good option.
More like US 4% and China 7%.
Until kids!
You don’t need to consider that what you see in the sky is “in the past”. The light that’s reaching us has been travelling at c, the universal speed limit. Since we cannot possibly have known about that information sooner, what we see in the sky is for all intents and purposes, “the present”.

Additionally, the hidden variables of the change are exactly what they’re talking about when people ask the question “what is time?”.
For what it’s worth, my 15” MacBook Pro touchbar has had bad keyboard problems, and Apple Genius Bar has been very helpful in resolving, aside from the annoyance of my having made 3 trips to the Apple store for keyboard issues. At my last visit, Apple decided to replace my top case for free to fix the keyboard (which they should have done from the start, but whatev) AND the genius decided to go ahead and have them replace my display because it was marred up pretty bad. All out of warranty and all for free. Prior to this last visit, I (like you) was thinking “no way am I spending $2400 on another Apple laptop” if the quality isn’t there, without a beefier warranty. Gladly, Apple stepped up. Everything else about the laptop is excellent, I even like the new keyboard feel, but a Pro computer must be a workhorse and stand up to vigorous typing 6+ hrs a day. I know other people have been burned where maybe I was fortunate, but at least my experience has been relatively rosy. (I’ll be honest though, The touch bar is dumb and Apple should have given it more thought and functionality before rolling it out. I would do without it if it didn’t otherwise require me to buy a nerfed laptop)
Exactly. We support Windows runners for several tools and they work fine. Our developers delight in adopting obscure build tools and we have been able to support them all. On a humorous note, when I told my management that we had updated our process to support "yarn" and "gulp" they wondered if I was just making stuff up.
Right, it was just a random example that popped into my head. You would probably also want to think twice about using -R (at least with GNU grep), about hard-coding the search directory, &c.

All of PHP's process-execution methods (except one, which is unusable on many systems) go through the shell, so by virtue of that it also searches the PATH.
According to the experts, #NorthKorea is behind SWIFT attacks in Latin America
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I'm not a sleep scientist but it sounds pretty logical to me. If I'm chopping vegetables for dinner and I cut myself with the knife, it takes time to heal. But chances are it's never going to be completely healed. There will be a scar. If I cut myself with a knife then for the next few days I don't cut myself with a knife, the wound will heal but the scar will remain. I can't cut myself one day and then go several days without cutting myself and expect that it somehow cancels out the day I got cut, and I certainly can't say "eh I'll only cut myself on the weekdays and make up for it by not getting cut on the weekends". I'll still have that scar.

Brain injuries are too often discounted because you can't see them. If someone was purposefully cutting themselves with a knife we wouldn't think they were cool, we wouldn't celebrate them as heroes in our society, we would try to help them stop injuring themselves. So why do we celebrate people who actively injure their brains? Because we can't see the damage.
> They know it, of course. They live it. They breathe bad code, they exist as extensions of a philosophy that has failed it's way to the top

I think this is a dangerous line of thinking. This crosses the line of being productively critical of a language or a framework into actually attacking people.

By promoting this line of thinking, you increase the tolerance of this kind of attack.

People arrive at their personal choice of language and framework as a function of their environment, their education, their first job, what's popular at the time, and myriad of other factors.

I am sure you have preferences for languages and frameworks, and I'm sure there are other people who don't agree with them. Do you want those people giving you reasoned arguments about why you should change your preferences or, do what you did, make allusions that you are so irredeemably stupid that you physically exhale shoddy code?
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You said, “People who want to control others for any purpose aside from improving the well-being and respecting the autonomy of others are aware of this.“

But this is precisely the most nefarious type of control. Nothing is more insidious than the conviction that you are controlling others for their own benefit.
Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
> The greatest sinners are methods that both mutate and return their result.

Go's `append` builtin is guilty of exactly that sin. And worse, it does not always mutate its parameter in-place, so things get hellish if you start aliasing/shallow-copying slices because depending on the size of the underlying array, appends could overwrite the other slice's data or make the two slices diverge entirely.
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So to a first order approximation, 1% of people are involved in the drug business. Not a huge number.
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Every single day is a unique and precious moment in time; spending that day sleep deprived has many disadvantages from a human's perspective. You might have caught a cold you otherwise wouldn't have, or been slightly less emotionally stable during an argument with loved ones and been overly harsh, or any other number of things where if you'd been well-rested, you would have been Better. Oversleeping the next night and undoing causal effects of that short sleep day can never be reversed, both external and internal to the body.

The benefits and effects of sleep are many and I highly recommend reading his book, after which you too will probably agree, you can truly never get it all back, not even close. One fine example that blew my mind was that getting your flu vaccination the same day as getting short sleep will effectively short circuit your immune system's ability to integrate the vaccination, making it much less effective that you're vaccinated for that strain(s)!

His book represents to me a paradigm shift in understanding of what sleep even is. We sleep so that we may live, not the other way around.
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Guess what, if you give people some high purpose, lock them away from society and force them to stick together, they start acting like cultists.

It may still be useful to see what kind of cults develop there. If I had to guess, I'd say the experiment planners want to discover how to manipulate people into the right kind of cult.
It's easy to say that now that everything has gone to hell, but in business, we usually have to make decisions with imperfect knowledge.

I don't agree that it's irresponsible to forward sensitive data to third parties. Rather, I believe that intelligent companies have intelligent policies around sharing data with third parties. Some third parties provide an amazing service that would be extremely expensive for companies to mimic in-house. And, you cannot convince me that the probability of a well vetted service shutting down as fast as Smyte did is high enough to justify bringing this in-house when you have other things to work on.
This is unrelated to the article but I love that npr.org allows opting out of tracking and in exchange for a plain text version of the site.

I’ll happily give up eye candy for privacy and I’m sure it’s much cheaper for them to serve bandwidth wise.
If you‘re feeling tired over the day, maybe in the afternoon or early evening when you get home from work, go to a doctor and have your sleep monitored. You get a portable machine that reads your breathing, your oxygen level in the bloodstream and your sleeping position.

There is a chance you have sleep apnoea, and you stop breathing a few times over the course of your sleep at night, lowering your oxygen levels until your body has a suffocation reaction, over and over again. That can happen dozens of times every night and you won‘t remember any of it.
Yes, those are the userspace drivers I was using. r1300 and r1400 are older than either the gru or mainstream kernels. It's a moving target, and rock chip hasn't been keeping up.
The constitution provides an amendment process. If it is irrelevant or outdated, it should be amended and not changed by usurpation or fiat.
You're absolutely right, our body most definitely reacts in different ways to different wavelengths of light.

A specific green has been shown to help reduce pain. [1] 525 nm seems to be the magic wavelength in this particular case.

I'm a chronic acute pain sufferer. I'd love for something as simple as an array of green LEDs to help with my pain. I keep meaning to get a large breadboard, a bunch of LEDs, and make such a device.

I wonder what effects other wavelengths might have? Would lights help sleep if they matched sunset darkening to night time through purple and indigo? It's fascinating stuff.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28092651
Do you get to the article you were linked to? Because I‘m always redirected to their front page, with no way to get to the article that was linked.
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Yeah it's sometimes hard to understand that evolution is not a perfection machine, it's not survival of the fittest, and it does not select the "best" outcome and discard the second best. It's survival of the least unfit, and it selects any option that doesn't cause the individual to die before reproducing. Just because our ancestors did something and nature didn't punish them with death because of it does not mean it's the optimal way to go about life. It merely means that doing that thing didn't cause our ancestor to die before their kids were born. Evolution doesn't select for perfection, just reproduction.

Same argument when someone says "when I was a kid we did X and we lived". Doesn't mean sleeping on the back dashboard of the car on the freeway is a good idea, just that you in particular did not die from doing so.
I wasn't talking about "readability", since that's subjective and can change based on background, familiarity, what someone's used most recently, etc.

I was giving an objective, measurable example where the `f(a, ...)` syntax is "harder": namely that it causes a proliferation of (curried) function application forms, all of which are equivalent, compared to just one in the `f a ...` form. As it stands, such parenthesised function calls don't even have a normal form! We could add one, by adding a new rule to the language, but even then there's ambiguity about what that rule might be: should we rewrite expressions of the form `f(a)(b)` into `f(a, b)`, thus making `f(a, b, c, d)` the normal form; or should we rewrite expressions of the form `f(a, b)` into `f(a)(b)`, thus making `f(a)(b)(c)(d)` the normal form?

Issues like this would plague anyone trying to manipulate programs programatically, e.g. writing interpreters, compilers, formatters, linters, documentation generators, HTML/LaTeX renderers, static analysers, (structured) macro expanders, minifiers, obfuscaters, deobfuscaters, (structured) diff/patch/VCS/etc., auto-completers, template/skeleton code generators, etc.
Just deployed a s3 bucket virus scanner for my main SaaS

Customized this for my needs: https://github.com/upsidetravel/bucket-antivirus-function
If the law is what five lawyers say it is, why have a written constitution at all?
https://github.com/rockchip-linux/libmali/issues/20 was my ticket
I like a lot of PBS's content. Like physics girl, and what the physics. Engineer Guy also produces good content. MinutePhysics is also a good choice. As for math related topics, I love 3Blue1Brown.

In general I find science journalism lacking.

My biggest problem with SciShow is that it's a bunch of people who lack a true science background commenting on topics. I really don't think that they do their due diligence in reporting, there's been cases where they present incorrect findings, and hype up the physically impossible.
This guy was the Joe Rogan Experience. Very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
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Compare apples to apples, at least. The paid GutLab plans are as expensive or more than GitHub. And they keep raising their prices too cuz they aren’t making enough money to survive. The big difference for us (Apple) is performance and reliability. GitLab isn’t reliable and GitHub Enterprise is rock solid with whatever we throw at it. That’s better than a bunch of features (to my team, at least).
> It's not up to you.

It's as much up to me as anybody else. I won't be discounted because you think I don't have the right skin color to have a valid opinion.

> There is something resembling a consensus among black people

I doubt you have any reliable way of knowing whether your claim is true, but it wouldn't matter if it was. I simply don't respect your, or anyone else's, racist notions about what skin colors entitle the wearer to say certain words, any more than I would respect racist notions about who gets to use which drinking fountain.

I have no desire to say that word, but if I want to use it, I will, as is my right as a human, and if someone wants to persecute me because they think my skin color does not authorize me to that word, that is their own racist, neo tribalist, re-segregationist thing, and nothing I've done wrong.
Story: I just bought a new house and the space for the kitchen range was too small by just a hair for the new induction range my wife insisted on. The construction manager came out and proceeded to take apart a utility knife to get the blade out to use it as a substitute scraper to shave the wood cabinet down a bit. I told the guy I have a good small Lie-Nielsen block plane already unpacked in the garage that'll do a much better job, but he insisted on the knife blade. And you know what? It turned out just fine.

I think a lot of folks nowadays have never used a really good high-quality tool and have no idea what they're missing.
>The coins could have been moved around for other reasons than to sell them.

In general yes, but for those coins in particular no. All of the coins were swept into the trustee's wallet. At that point the trustee could not do anything with those funds other than to sell off some of them. If all of the funds were moved then sure, maybe it's some other reason or the trustee was handing control over to another party or something, but only moving a portion of the funds after they had all been secured without touching the rest can only mean one thing.
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Cool feature. Makes total sense. Pinged the relevant people.
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Have you tried IOpipe? [0]

[0]: https://iopipe.com

Disclosure: Work on the Python and Go agents.
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Are they going to date during work hours?
Every time an article like this pops up, someone asks this question. The answer is always that hacker news isn't only about tech, it's just whatever the community finds interesting.
I wonder if you could grow vanilla hydroponically here in Nevada, where.. ya know, we probably have a lot of hydroponics experienced growers.
Thanks, we've updated the title. We don't always need to call out such things, but when a headline has broader enticement than what it actually delivers then we're into misleading or clickbait territory.
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If cryptocurrency actually enables greater economic efficiency etc. then nations that outlaw it will be left behind, like nations that outlawed the free market in the previous century.
The Master and Margarita.
Most people confuse age with aging, because aging is still unavoidable, and as it's always been the case, it looks like it will remain so forever.

But that's wrong. The outlook is different now. Yet, unfortunately, most still see it as unavoidable.

Everybody should watch The Fable of The Dragon Tyrant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY
Same here. Everyone was fleeing from BTC like rats from a ship. Luckily I managed to sell everything I had when it was close to $1000 and buy all the BTC I could when the price dropped to two hundred something.
One could also buy a usb keyboard for $10. I know it’s less ideal but it’s not like the computer is worthless if the keyboard is busted.
Most languages do not have that feature.

Even the C-like languages usually have some comment by their designers claiming that C made mistake there and they are not adding it to their language.
I think providing assistance with no strings attached is a good thing. I just don't think its sufficient and a more holistic approach would work better.

I also don't think this kind of program can scale though. It needs to be local and involve the community, not a faceless bureaucracy. To your point, you may feel indebted to a friend who helps you with some cash. But no one feels indebted to the federal government.
> how did you pay for college without incurring debt

Another option for keeping college costs down is to start out at a community college and then transfer. With teachers there interested in teaching the material, the education can sometimes be better than entry level classes at a 4-year school.
I hadn't. It's a great peice though. The rust programmer who adds and removes `&` and `ref` blindly is in phase 1, the part I'm claiming to like is more or less phase 2, where some real thought goes into it, "here I have a &Option, so here it must be &Some(...)" and so on. Phase three is practical, much like how I might tell someone in casual conversation that something took orders of magnitude more time, without worrying too much about what magnitude I'm really talking about. This can give you the head space to tackle "real problems". As rust matures (and its users with it) I can understand the desire for these conveniences. I do feel the language loses some of its educational prowess. I'm always arguing in favor of more Racket like ideas, but the whole family of languages thing helps in this regard, but makes for quickly divergent communities. </ramble>
The author mentions in the book, it is as rare as being hit by a lightning to find a person who needs less than 8 hours of sleep.

I used to feel the same way before reading this book that I need only 6 hours of sleep. I was wrong. I started eating healthy and getting exercise (cardio) regularly - Bam, now I need more than 8 hours of sleep and my sleep quality improved tremendously.
The audit logging capability offered by GitHub Enterprise are very comprehensive. Useful for compliance scenarios like this.
Or Haskell, or a lot of other languages.

It's so empowering to be able to answer this question with an instantaneous "no, of course not, it can't be". People that never experienced it have no idea.
Sigh. Whether coke or Pepsi is better have “arguments on both sides”. What is the credible, data-backed argument against human-caused warming?
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I think you're overthinking it. It's not really "recreational" when it can help your quality of life significantly.
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The light coming from the car in that image would be concentrated around 450-500 nm, not 625-740 nm. Viewed in isolation, that's blue, but in the context of the rest of the image, it is red. The "redness" of the car exists only in the brain of the viewer, which has evolved to produce stablility of color in a variety of lighting conditions.

That's also why RGB monitors display more than three distinct colors. The colors are synthesized in the brain. If we were orbiting a brown dwarf, we might talk about colors within the infrared part of the spectrum as if they were intrinsic properties of light.
"Adobe's Flash plugin is distributed in binary form only, and they do not provide a native OpenBSD version. Considering their security record, we thank them for this neglect."

- https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#plugins
Serious, but small :)

Open source A/B testing backend using AWS Lambda and Redis HyperLogLog[0]

Have been using it in production for last couple of years with great success. Replaced our (potential) ~$2000/mo Optimizely bill with somewhere in the region of $10/mo.

[0] https://github.com/Alephbet/gimel
It feels like maybe you stopped reading 1-2 sentences in.
Outside the filehash thing there isn't anything wrong with his responses. The project chose to get third party products from sources outside their control. There is nothing "technically" wrong with it. The thread is littered with poor security practices, but I see TightW's response as more painful. The admin is already clearly aware of the concern and is stating why it is setup that way. I would much rather see somebody state the practices are wrong rather than just calling this guy out since it is really counter-productive.
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There's a strictly adhered to rule across Reddit/HN that every D article must consist primarily of people asking why the author did not use Rust/Go instead.
4) No one gives a shit about the long term health effects.

There are lots of pieces of knowledge that have obvious practical implications that aren’t acted upon because it’s inconvenient and the function of a system is different from what people say it’s for. School is more childcare than education and using the same buses for elementary and high school is cheaper so all high school students are sleep deprived and learn less than they would if they could get up at a natural hour. Psychological research on learning like the forgetting curve that works is ignored while crap like learning styles comes and goes in fads. Direct instruction works wonderfully but is boring to teach so it isn’t adopted anywhere.

School isn’t about learning. Politics isn’t about policy. Healthcare isn’t about health.

The purpose of a thing is what it does, not what someone says it’s for.
Not just that, but "serverless" typically involves integrating a muddle of AWS/GCP/Azure services, locking you in. Portable software is the analog to "wireless" here, as it gives you the freedom to... move.