skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I understand that it's difficult to control for various factors when doing large scale studies of health and behavior, but my perception as a layman is that there is some willful ignorance or absence of rigor.

I perhaps understand the sentiment behind this, but if this is really what you think then probably you don't really 'understand' how difficult it is to do large scale studies of health and behavior. As a thought experiment, pretend you are the researcher studying a glass of wine a night and write the script you would pitch to potential research subjects. You have to try to convince them to be randomized to either completely abstain from alcohol for a period of 10-20 years OR to drink 1 glass of wine a night for that same period. Do you think you could get 10,000-50,000 people to participate and that those people would reliably stick to their randomized groups? How would you monitor compliance? How will you keep track of those people for 30-50 years to see differences in mortality or other outcomes?
There is (almost) nothing to get. They're just lists. The lists can contain anything you want, including other lists.
Nobody ever raises this concern when they increase the military budget a couple tens of billions of dollars.

It's not some big secret how you'd pay for it. You'd use taxes.
How long before the employees get a headache?
That's what the platform.coop movement is all about. C.f. Arcade City for an example of a company doing this in rideshare.

The new legislation that Joseph Blasi and Gillibrand just got passed as part of the tax bill makes it even easier for startups to be organized as co-ops. Of course you won't see TechCrunch writing about this even though it's one of the biggest startup-related bills to pass in decades, but regardless:

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/26/news/economy/employee-stock...
Sure, but back then the standard was not relevant. You had your x86 computer, your compiler (MSVC, DJGPP, CodeWarrior, Borland...) and maybe a "how to write C/C++" book. You did have weird things like segmented addressing, but for most purposes, pointers were just memory addresses, and you could use casts to reinterpret data as you wished. In fact, using bit-cast-magic and doing pointer arithmetics were the preferred way of doing things.

It's strange that we put so much effort into learning all this arcane knowledge and now we're supposed to unlearn it...
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I used to need 9.5 hours of sleep as a teenager and probably had diagnosable delayed sleep phase disorder.

Rules made by 55 year old early risers that only need 6 hours of sleep a night who have become school officials are just cruel and unusual punishment to a chunk of teenagers out there. In a better world there could be a class action lawsuit to make this stop--but its still considered okay to promote "early to bed, early to rise" and flat-out discriminate against people with sleep disorders.

If you are an early riser, you should know that as someone with a sleep disorder I view "helpful" suggestions like "get some exercise" to be roughly equivalent to suggesting that gay people just need to pray the gay away. I'm never going to become an early riser. I've gotten in somewhat under control with melatonin, tweaks to diet and consistent scheduling, but I'm never going to hop out of bed at 6:30am and its always going to take me 2-3 hours to wake up.
I'm curious what laws specifically or areas of law? Especially when compared to Malaysia, Indonesia or other neighboring countries.
Because there isn’t sufficient funding to pay for non biased scientists who have the understanding of statistics and probability to perform the correct experiments and analysis. And there isn’t sufficient funding for the types of large scale control groups needed for studying health effects on a complex organism such as humans, especially when mechanisms of actions can’t directly be observed.
Not an online course, but Linear Algebra by Serge Lang is nice little book that is in this spirit (good to look at if you’re familiar with LA basics).
You're the Lena of brains...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
Looking at the notice of retraction[1], "immortal time bias" seems to be a particular subset survivorship bias, in which there is a distinct delay between two events, and by definition one facet of the study only looked at those who survived that time period. In this case, the time period between diagnosis and the actual surgery.

[1] - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullartic...
searx.me - I like, but no URL's for SERP's and browser navigation (back-button) doesn't work.
My anecdotal evidence is that when I do sleep at night, eat less and have a regular sex, my body works very well in my 30s. Things change instantly once you lower some grips. Something in me is not just adaptation, but finely tuned core mechanisms. In fact, our current live is very different from what serves well to us. And this is even exploited to large extents – see ads, politics, social irrationality. If it were mere adaptation, then we could be rational and adaptive af.
Edit: disregard, seeing the updated link you posted.

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If I'm reading correctly, that 2015 MR paper establishes that LDL and triglycerides play a role in heart disease by filtering populations used in prior studies for genetic blood lipid factors. But it doesn't make any claims about alcohol. Is there already a well established link between alcohol and LDL / triglycerides?

My impression is that the relationship between LDL, HDL, and triglycerides and what we eat/drink is not well understood. But I'm not involved in biology or medicine, so maybe you can help me understand this better?
Nice writeup, thanks. I'd been thinking of playing with Go/WASM for http://8bitworkshop.com someday. For now, JS is plenty fast enough for 1-3 MHz 8-bit emulators.

BTW, I've never had performance problems with HTML Canvas, and I use setTimeout(), not requestAnimationFrame. The only thing I do every frame is putImageData() on a retained Uint32Array buffer. Maybe you could use the Chrome Performance devtools to figure out what is going on.
Normally, when I really a comment, I just upvote. But in this case, I want to take the extra step of telling you directly that this is a truly brilliant comment - great writing and thinking here.

I encourage you to expand this into a full blog post if you haven't already.
There actually have been studies of primitive tribes and cultures where it was showed that they just didn't realize pregnancy happens from a single man's sperm, so children were considered the entire tribe's or to have multiple fathers (with actual language terms for the various fathers). There's also some cultures where men first slept with men while growing up before settling down with women due to thinking sperm was a guy giving up his power and younger ones needing it to grow into warriors. So it wasn't really as clear cut as we know it to be today.
the Juan Atkins album from that piece is still sounding super fresh - https://randsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-sunset
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Read it through rss: "https://damng.github.io/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content/...
Me as well (well, it was 1000 shares for a promo, but close enough). I left shortly thereafter.
I think Kuala Lumpur - including PJ & Cyberjaya areas - is one completely under-rated area in the region. It's easy to get a foreign visa, infrastructure is good, culture is relatively open, most people speak English, and it's a very affordable city (for people on Western-level, say Spain's level, income).

Plus, with AirAsia flights its easy to hop over to Vietnam, Thailand, or elsewhere for weekend vacation.
Would it still be free trade if all your design and IP you give up to not the Chinese JV but "Chinese" in general, and they then uses all all those learning into something of their own?

And no, you cant sue them.
Ownership, property, and autonomy are important dimensions in policies that affect privacy, and the concern many people feel comes out of the tension between an individual's interest in restricting what structured data is created regarding themselves and US Customs and Border Patrol interest in generating such structured data.

The Fourth Amendment does not restrict the generation of such structured data which, to my mind, is evidence that a Constitutional Amendment to protect US citizens from governmental surveillance should be written and ratified.

EDIT: add missing direct object at end of 1st paragraph.
Aside from the privacy concerns, what happens when it doesn’t work — when it doesn’t identify my face due to problems in the sw or my face is too similar to someone else. What happens?
From what I understand, now you cannot install unsigned extensions. You might have some “grandfathered” if they were already installed, but anything new (on new machines etc) won’t get in. So, effectively, if the developer was unable or unwilling to pay the Apple tax, the extension was killed.
If you have a watch that can track your sleep cycle, you will see that your deep sleep doesn't start until much later if you consuming alcohol before going to sleep.

Maybe that's good.
Ah, now I understand.

I am guessing here, but my guess is that they're using C but actually want to do something very low level. As in they believe (correctly?) that they know the exact memory layout relative to something.
Obviously I can't say anything about my own longevity, but over the past few years my alcohol consumption has decreased to virtually zero and I've never felt better. I was never a big drinker, but I would semi-regularly go out and drink a few pints of beer or have wine with dinner. I never intended to cut down on alcohol, but my lifestyle changed, I stopped going out so much, and the drinking went with it. I would still drink maybe once a month, but I've realised that it makes me feel bad every time, so I now completely abstain.

The interesting thing is how people react to it. For some reason you are expected to provide a reason for why you don't drink. I don't smoke either but nobody asks me why. I've noticed also that it makes people uncomfortable if you're not drinking. When I do go out now I drink diet soft drinks so that I don't get constantly asked why I don't have a drink.

I foresee a shift in cultural views towards alcohol much like the shift with respect to tobacco of last century. I wonder if the USA and UK will again lead the way with this leaving much of continental Europe behind.
Can you clarify point #2? Removing an accepted paper from a journal is a very serious and relatively uncommon step. I don't know why you'd think Wilkinson suggested it, unless someone had read the email and said "it sounds like she's recommending the paper be pulled." Based on my reading, no one who has seen the email has described it as such.
That’s precisely the point. You might have launched that project two years ago thinking it wouldn’t take too long and would be a nice little earner for your (then) last generation product. Well instead of six months it took two years and now that legacy product is two generations old and most customers have migrated...but it’s finally almost done and you do still have some customers using it, and gosh, look we’ve already spent $60M; what a shame to throw it all away when for only a little more.... people make decisions this way all the time.

These decisions also consume labor. Despite all the work put in, is it really worth finishing that refactoring or should you just abandon it all?
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If I recall correctly, the division between prokaryotes and eukaryotes took billions of years. Multicellular life was another big step.

Everything after that is easy. I remind myself that every morning. :-)
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This study[1] purports that alcoholism doubled during the decade after the turn of the millenium. It also has a concrete criteria for what they consider alcoholism.

> Now this just seems like toxic thinking to me. Plenty of thoughtful, responsible people continually ask themselves whether they are experiencing various problems in life, and sometimes the answer really is "no."

To you it may seem like "toxic thinking", but to anyone with a problem who had the insight to ask themselves such a question, it can be a life changing moment.

If someone is at a point in their alcohol consumption career where they step back and have to ask, "Do I have a problem?", that insight usually stems from encountering a problem most people don't face.

The nature of alcoholism is to tell yourself everything is fine and normal, that there is no problem even though your life is falling apart.

To wish to portray as truly pivotal insight that an alcoholic would be lucky to have as "toxic thinking" is, IMO, minimizing the issues of drug abuse in our culture.

> Really? It doesn't matter?

When you're at the point where a substance controls your life, there's no saying when you might overdose or drink too much and plow your car into innocent people.

Finding someone who can direct you to help now is paramount.

> Your links at the end of your comment are only to AA and NA. Can you explain what aspects of these programs are preferable to you?

There are no months-long waitlists for AA or NA like there are for rehabs, detox clinics, therapists, psychiatrists and addiction specialists.

There is no pretense of requiring an in-network insurance provider that will cover the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars worth of treatment you might require.

As much as I disagree with some aspects of those programs, their existence is infinitely better than the alternative. Which, for most people with that problem, is the destruction of what is left of their life.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...
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> but you don’t have to stay up late to have sex.

That doesn't mean that having a 'late night' trait wasn't advantageous to mating. For example, when humans started pair bonding, infidelity may have been more common among those who could sneak out under the cover a darkness while their partner was asleep, spreading that trait further than those who remained monogamous. It is easy to think of many possible reasons why a late night trait could have been advantageous in spreading that trait further than those who naturally followed a more daytime rhythm during teenage years.

Or it could just be random chance. Either way, it's fun to discuss. We don't have to dismiss all fun discussion because it may be conjecture. It is only the comments section of HN, not a respected scientific publication. Time and place.
If your subject benefits from a 3d representation at all. I dare to say: most do not, just as most do not benefit from video.

I think the real revolution in teaching will be when we have enough well educated, well paid teachers. Imagine the level of immersion that could be accomplished with real-time individualized lessons!
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>>> Is it bad if a fresh undergraduate doesn't know C, C++, Java or C# ?

Well, it's a disaster. He's basically unemployable as a developer.

Industry and outsourced work is almost exclusively in Java or C#. All embedded or older desktop applications are fully C or C++. Web requires JavaScript nodejs or ruby or PHP or sometimes python.
First of all, I didn't read your previous comment and you are not the parent post of the comment I replied to.

I am sorry you are 'disturbed' by my skepticism of random people on the internet, but I don't have friends working at FAANG so all I have to go off is my own experience and publicly available info. Based on those, I find it hard to believe how many people here post that they make 500k+.
And how the heck can they determine a 1000 year old skeleton is a murder victim?
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I disagree. I think that landing on Mars for the first time will be more awe-inspiring and impressive than landing on the Moon for the first time was. In a lot of ways the Moon is just a dead end, equivalent to first making landfall on a barren island devoid of fresh water in the middle of the sea. Landing on Mars will be like making it to the Americas for the first time.
Does google have the opposite of a sunk cost fallacy?
Congressional hearings seem to almost always be a farce. How can you hold hearings on a new law and not involve the public? Isn't that what's supposed to happen in a democratic country?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/game-rigged-congress-i...

> In a surveillance economy where companies track, analyze and capitalize on our clicks, the issue at hand isn’t privacy. The problem is unfettered data exploitation and its potential deleterious consequences — among them, unequal consumer treatment, financial fraud, identity theft, manipulative marketing and discrimination.

This is why the EU generally refers to privacy as "data protection." I think it would be good for the U.S. to adopt this mindset, too, because too often major data breaches are so damaging because the companies were careless with how much data they stored on users and how they protected it. Storing personal user data for moderate to long periods of time should almost always be seen as a liability for companies.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...
Some more (sometimes incompletely): GPS devices, scanners, portable video players, E-readers, paper books, magazines, and newspapers, credit cards, voice recorders, business cards, portable video game systems.

Of course, a brand new flagship isn't necessary to perform all these functions. The 2016 model Sony I bought used for $200 in 2017 is capable of doing all these things. It even has removable storage, a headphone jack, and a dedicated camera button (all lacking on most flagships). Flagships are luxury items or fashion accessories, and they're still a good value relative to other luxury items.
Agreed. Singapore is at a very critical point in their history. They are at a moment where they have to rethink and reinvent themselves to compete mid/long term, but at the same time, locals are so weary of gov't spending and foreigners. I love Singapore but it's a shame.
What you said is true in many cases, and it should be stopped. However it does not apply to Qualcomm. Firstly yunnan is an underdeveloped region in China, its provincial governement doesn’t really have the power to harass Qualcomm at a meaningful level. Also Qualcomm has strong leverage against Chinese government because its products are hard to replace. Recall what happened when Qualcomm stopped selling its products to ZTE.
Well it would not be a coop then its one member one vote
So I looked at the CDC paper that seems to have influenced this article[1], the average start time for middle school is 8:04, and for high school 7:59. Elementary schools weren't sampled in it.

A later journal article just sampling Kentucky[2] shows elementary starting at 8:05, middle at 8:00, and high school at 8:0:1. Elementary is also the most likely to start before 8, but their average was raised by ten percent starting after 9.

There doesn't seem to be any forced order currently, and you'd likely see younger students get later starts as well.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6430a1.htm

[2]https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/06/school-start....
My high school started at 7:45am, unless I had zero period, in which case it was 7am. Throughout the entire four years I was there, I was never able to get my sleep schedule to match up. I would wake up at 6am groggy, irritable, and stupid. This would not change throughout the day, and I'm sure many people thought I was just an idiotic asshole all the time. Sometimes I could catch a nap at lunch.

After school, I would immediately pass out for 2-3 hours, and wake with tons of energy. I wouldn't be able to fall asleep until around 2am because of this, and then the cycle continued.

Now as an engineer with a much more flexible schedule that lets me sleep in, I'm a more attentive, happier, and smarter. I'm convinced that if I had gone to a school with a schedule that matched mine, I would have achieved much more.
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If the net stops thinking that unicyclists are objects when it rains that could present a challenge for unicyclists.
For coop's you just cease to be a member
Wow, Orson Welles is the host! I was not expecting that. I had no idea a Future Shock documentary existed. Thanks for sharing.
Wikipedia’s number for the BFR is payload other than the BFS itself. BFR puts up a gigantic spaceship, and a huge payload inside it. Saturn V did not do this. Apollo (or Skylab) was the payload.
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>You couldn't do much of anything at night with stone-age lighting technology

I grew up in upstate New York and could actually run 5 miles around the nearby lake in the woods any night, even moonless ones. You can see the silhouette of the trees against the stars and it isn't even really needed once you memorize the trail anyway. And that was just for exercise. I imagine horny teenagers would be even more hard working.
The trouble is how do the members (coperators) obtain capital and remain ownership.
> "The trust our users place in us is our greatest asset and we must always protect it. If any Googler ever undermines that trust, we will hold them accountable."

I'd always assume the server farm to handle my search request would be stateless. Whom in Google should Sundar hold accountable if that's not the case?
Not sure if you are asking in earnest, but bone damage from a knife would suggest the skeleton was from a murder victim.

They can tell skeletons significantly older than 1000 years were from someone, for example, killed by a tiger, due to teeth marks on bones.
Yes, you can update the device. My comment was more about how Numworks can practically integrate Micropython updates. It seems like maybe it could be a Git submodule so that changes were easier to merge. Tracking Micropython bug fixes and enhancements is going to be very labor intensive unless I am missing something here.

(Admittedly, I didn’t spend a lot of time nosing around Numwork’s source repo. I have spent a lot of time nosing around the Micropython repo to do my own tweaked builds.)
No it wasn't worth it. I'd rather work on actual projects instead of fixing undocumented nuances related to poorly implemented systems. Yes I got paid for it, I'd rather not deal with a never ending set of database queries in a legacy system. Specifically one problem was consistently being given incorrect info from a vendor, then incorrect specs and data that would not match with the first. How do you compare a day with 25 vs 24 hours.

Tldr: fuck dst, it has no purpose and should go away.
Most likely bone fractures and similar signs should still be visible.
No, I was on an iPhone and didn’t have the ability to that I know of.
Wikipedia.

Today I Learned on Reddit.

Also old people. It's an analog resource. :)
Indeed. What's new is what sort of information is conveyed from the gut to the brain via the vagus nerve. Note: information is also conveyed in the other direction from the brain to the gut.

This study shows that your gut is equipped with environmental sensors (enteroendocrine cells) that can convey nutritional information from the gut to the brain on short time scales (~seconds or faster). It's like your gut's "eye" in that it can "see" what's going on, like sugars are present, and convey this to your brain.

I'm not an expert on the gut-brain field but I've always wondered where food cravings come from, especially specific ones that pregnant women often exhibit. E.g. craving dirt. My conclusion is that your body must have a way of sensing what nutrients you're ingesting and missing.
This is an important, and worrying, problem, but I'd be more impressed if the elephant wasn't added as a bad photoshop. That kind of manipulation is going to screw up a lot of the processing.