skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(They are quoting the article they are citing)

Smoking cessation is clearly an advancement in public health. We've definitely gotten better at getting people to quit smoking (and helping them to do so).

In this context, I read "medical advancement" as "increased effectiveness of medical intervention". Under that interpretation, it's dubious to claim it is an advancement. I mention this as the definition since it constitutes how helpful it is to visit a physician.

Another interpretation would be that the advancement of "knowing smoking cessation is a good idea" is fairly old at this point, and most have agreed on it for decades.
I am the dev behind the project. Happy to share some technical details and answer any question you may have!

The project is written in Python/Flask, with Celery tasks that run every day to create newsletters. We have also an admin to do light editing of the issues and add intros.

Emails are sent with the excellent Mailtrain (https://mailtrain.org/), an open source alternative to MailChimp, that we self-host on DigitalOcean. Mailtrain is plugged with Amazon SES, that allows as to send a ton of emails for as little as 0.1 USD per 1000 emails sent.

Our hope is to completely automate this product and maybe sells ads some day if we reach a good number of users.
Texas is the same or worse. Much of the postWW2 US is the same actually.
It's probably relevant to mention https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv. It uses a state machine (which seems to be the author's expertise) to parse CSVs really fast. Based on some other work, you can do better if you use some of the new SIMD instructions.
Chinese peasant tourists. Living in Shanghai the number of non peasants who litter is on par with Western Europe. In the countryside or cities where foreigners occasionally comment you’ll see way more litter.
This just reminds me of the black mirror episode, it just feels weird to see it in action here. I still can't think of a replacement tho, given what they are trying to achieve here
What a shocking series of events that nobody could have predicted.
According to that article, HoHo is only 75 percent wood and has a concrete core for the elevators. Still, pretty good.

Wikipedia has a list of tallest wooden buildings, very few of which are actually complete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_wooden_buildin...

I recently read about the one in Tokyo which is supposed to be 350 meters tall for a forestry company's 350-year (!) anniversary. The article claims it will be 90% wood, 10% steel: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/tokyo-plans-to-build-1-150-foot...
There was no ad-hom. My point was that you're denying the judgements of grown adults about what is effective for them, and you haven't provided any insights with any expert backing but rather are just contemptuously arguing for adherence to what you consider to be mainstream orthodoxy.

Recall that this whole subthread began with your mockery of a method developed by a mainstream-qualified doctor that has helped thousands of people over many years.

The thing is, what you're arguing for is not even part of mainstream medical orthodoxy.

Mainstream medical literature linking chronic muscle-tension and pain to mental health is plentiful, along with the effectiveness of mainstream psychiatric treatments like CBT, and less-mainstream-accepted practices like mindfulness and meditation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526658/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237294/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914381/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3200134/

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/meditat...

And here's a specific study on Sarno's technique:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955480/

I'm the first to concede that none of these studies are a home run. Human physiology is vastly complex and the factors leading to chronic illness and pain will inevitably be hard to isolate and different from one person to another.

But the plentiful supply of both anecdotal and clinical evidence warrants far more open-minded consideration than you're allowing for with your contemptuous dismissals.
You can get most of this by analyzing server logs with IP addresses. No cookies required. You might need some JavaScript tracking for more detailed analytics, but there is absolutely no need for external tracking by Google or the likes.

Examples for self-hosted analytics include GoAccess (server log analyzer) [0] or Matomo (JavaScript tracking, formerly Piwik) , although I think it uses tracking cookies by default [1]

0: https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess

1: https://matomo.org
Agree about data. Do you really think theory hasadvanced?
A well designed official API would go a long way toward letting a thousand flowers bloom. I know there's web and mobile apps already out there, but IMO the average quality is not great. Which is not surprising, given the awkwardness of the existing firebase API, which probably keeps many developers away and eats too much of the efforts of those devs that do try their hand.
You might look at this for running rust on heroku:

https://elements.heroku.com/buildpacks/rhelmer/heroku-buildp...

Note I haven't done this, but it turned up in a search.
Someone I knew was diagnosed with lung cancer, spent a year in hospitals getting chemo, radiation, scans, etc and had lots of pills, against the side effects of the treatment, against pain, against the side effects of the pills. Then he died.

At the end he wished he had never been diagnosed, then he probably would have had a decent half year or so.
If you have an open browser you can easily get HTTP cookies: https://github.com/samyk/poisontap
> Counter acting that cultural common sense is like a personal attack to many people.

Perhaps people need all of this to keep their sanity. You just can not live in a complex world without these automatic cultural behaviours. For same people it seems to be quite hard to be concious about these in a way arbitary behaviours, without literally loosing their minds.

So unfortunately there might be a limit for quite a few people how much they can take in this regard, because it certainly would help quite a lot for increasing the tolerance and the understanding of different cultures.
Probably not directly tied to its similarity to OAuth, but I'm sure the name Oath came from thousands of man hours of brand psychology assessment and audience testing. Oath is the stapled together corpses of the adtech of Verizon and AOL and was/is ridiculed for being a poor name choice, but branding decisions at corporations of that size go through so many committees and data points and marketing schlubs, who knows how it came out as Oath.
I am unhappy if the civil servants and the machinery of EU keeps preparing bad proposals, even if they are torpedoed by MEPs. This seems to be a constant case of pressure to which organisations then yield at some point.

Yes, both elected and unelected officials should be better at resisting lobbying.
Twitter Thread of Recent Fake Hate Crimes in US
Gol Stave Church is an ~800 years old wooden structure [1]. Most of the exterior paneling have been replaced, but the interior structure is original. And there are plenty of wooden exteriors in Norwegian houses that are 100-200+ years despite the climate.

I grew up in one that was about 100 years old and where the exterior was all timber covered with plank. Originally there was sawdust added as insulation, but that was replaced at some point in the 1980's due to the fire hazard.

Of course this building is all specially treated wood, and the structure is under a lot more strain, so it's not guaranteed that it translates well, but wood that's treated properly can last a long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Stave_Church
The article is not saying chlorine doesn't work... It's saying don't poo in the pool.

The shock is not primarily to kill bacteria, but to deal with the amines. It is designed to disperse, because the concentration of chlorine would be far too high for people -- usually 10x the normal level of free chlorine. If you went into a pool with so much contamination (ammonia products or slime) that pool shock wouldn't work, you'd be getting very sick.

UV does not remove chlorine (chlorine ions are elemental), but it does break down amines and kill pathogens. How it works is complicated: 259983997_Effects_of_Combined_UV_and_Chlorine_Treatment_on_the_Formation_of_Trichloronitromethane_from_Amine_Precursors

Many areas with water restrictions ban dumping and refilling pools, which would in many cases would incur a cost of thousands of dollars, vs $30 for a bucket of shock.
> thousands of device drivers that were written over 10 years ago which work perfectly well on current versions of Windows

Is that really true? A couple months ago I bought a USB to serial adapter that advertised Windows Vista support on the packaging. It did not work with Windows 10 at all, and I ended up returning it.

I have plenty of hazy memories of printers that worked fine under Windows 9x not playing nice with Windows XP.
And I assume that all the problems stemming from the increasing life expectancy are also positive sum? And planning to do so based upon no established scientific grounds by making the younger population contribute by submitting to a non-zero risk procedure.

You can look at it every way you want, maintaining the elderly population is certainly not a logically positive thing in a ressource-constrained environment. And by ressource, I don't mean blood. That we have morals (which is good) does not make it good from a general logical point of view disregarding social ties.
That's mostly because we were billions of people when the 20th century utopian projects started, something we've only been for the past 200 years or so.

The population of Ancient Egypt was about 1 million at the start of recorded history and about 5 million during the Roman conquest. Yet, even though the number of Egyptians in slavery were only in the millions at its highest it was crime that was very widespread in relation to the population.
That seems the exact opposite of my experience. Most hardware drivers break after one or two Windows versions once the vendor stops updating the driver, eg. audio hardware, printers. On Linux things generally keep working. As an end user, having drivers in-tree is one of Linux's best features.
Facebook Should Decentralize the Entire Product
Not that I downvoted, but the attitude annoys me. As a developer you have two options:

1) Do nothing and support all valid addresses (that your mail system can handle)

2) Spend development time to make your system not support all valid addresses.

Why do you spend development effort to make your software worse?
I haven't really looked into it, but how does Sparta compare to Ikos (https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/opensource/ikos/)?
Firebird 4.0 Beta 1 Release Is Available for Testing
I believe that the Linux folks don't want a stable ABI because they want to be able to smoothly redesign the internal architecture of their kernel whenever they want. Once you have a stable ABI, you have to worry about continuing to support the model of that ABI for a long time (or, if something akin to the "don't break userspace" policy were adopted, forever), which ossifies your design & blocks you from adding certain features. Additionally, by applying technical and political pressure to move drivers in-tree, the kernel devs gain the power to self-maintain over time (even Windows breaks its ABIs every once in a while and causes havoc: see Vista)
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This is generally pretty great.

I was taken aback by the 'work shall set you free' quote at the top of Section 2. That seemed in very poor taste.
the bear for anyone curious: https://imgur.com/r/nostalgia/qi8Is1q :)

And to add a bit to how physicists simulate stuff. They build a model. Make it as simple as possible, while still approximating the natural phenomena under investigation. So the mean free path model would have a lot of parameters as the parent commenter noted (collisional cross-section, tree density, trunk diameter, etc.).

And it's also important to keep in mind that there are theory builders in physics (theorists), "applied physicists" (phenomenologists, who try to use the fancy theories, match it with real data) and derive future predictions (like climatologists, cosmologists doing large scale universe evolution simulation from the big bang, and so on), the experiment designers, who basically try to weed out the useless models/theories through very targeted experiments.

All of these are about the same natural world, but different aspects, different levels of details, different concerns. (Eg. experimental physicists place enormous care on quantifying the systemic and particular uncertainties of the experiment, whereas theoretical physicists instead focus on the fundamental workings of the theory - they test it through computation. All of those are math, math, math, just different.)
Ask HN: How Do I Get Started in the Field of Cyber Security?
I am a 21 year old currently living in the UK. I really want to get into cyber security mainly pen testing, but i am unsure where to start. I have limited coding knowledge - i know the basics. Recently i have been looking to go down the compTIA route. If anyone could give me any advice or guidance it would be greatly appreciated
I've used shared hosting for about 15 years for hosting WordPress and Piwigo sites. It's a good midway point between maintaining a server and using a hosted platform like WordPress.com or Flickr.com.
win + lin makes me happy! :)

I use a win10 Lenovo desktop and a laptop running Zorin Lite, which is basically Ubuntu 16.04 + xfce.

zorin lite is FAST, booting win10 feels like driving an old minivan.

Pretty much just use the win desktop for Adobe suite, Linux for everything else!

I don't like using git on windows but that's purely emotional.
The dialogs are really confusing.

1st popup page: Some text about Oath with big "OK" button and same size "Manage Options" link. By clicking OK you agree to everything.

2nd popup page when clicking "Manage Options" link: Some more text about Oath with big "OK" button and tiny "Manage Options" link next to a headline. I have no idea what happens when I click OK here. Is the same as the "OK" button on the first page? I didn't manage anything here yet so I guess it could mean agree to everything again. On the other hand there are some settings you can change on the next screen (you don't know that at this point though), so maybe "OK" now means continue and use these settings? You have to trust that they are opt-in rather than opt-out, otherwise you need to check the settings.

3rd popup page when clicking manage "Manage Options" link: Some text about Oath partners with links within the text. The big button is called "Done" now but at this point it is not clear what exactly that means because there was nothing to manage yet. Clicking the link to show partners displays a list of 10 essential partners (Amazon, Google, ebay etc.) with links to 10 data privacy policies that you apparently automatically have to agree with. A bit hard to notice but there's another tab for IAB partner with 224 more partners. At least they aren't enabled by default.

I guess "Done" means use these options and it brings you back to the 2nd popup. I actually have no idea at which point I disagreed or disabled something, I just got trained to click a bunch of "OK" buttons with unclear meaning.
Upstart is older then systemd and it was mainly developed by Ubuntu who dropped it. After that is continued to exist as a project but its basically not used anywhere and id didn't continue to develop all that much.
Because the idea of Xi is that it can support different frontends for different platforms, and that probably wouldn't work out to well if they all had to be in C.
Cancer really gives me shivers.

I can be hit by a car this evening and get killed. I can get a stroke in sleep and not wake up tomorrow morning. I could even be electrocuted by some stupid accident I make while tinkering with electronic components.

Somehow all those "types of death" are fine for me. They are accidents, bad luck, whatever. But they all come sudden.

Knowing that you are ill and will not get well again and can just "sit around" and wait till you die. That really hits me whenver I think about it.

Nevertheless I don't see a doctor regularly to do a checkup. I'm in my 30s, maybe I should start doing that.
Maybe a good place to start:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Infosys Launches a New App for Indian Engineering Students
The biggest widely believed programmer falsehood I run into in practice: that they are ten digits and always start with +1. It’s right up there with “all users have a US ZIP code”.
With a bit of work you've got the beginnings of a nice lyric there :)
Pax Americana (NATO) is what is keeping Europe peaceful at the moment and not the EU. Europe had long periods of peace as well long periods of wars throughout its history.
note that my observation is not that the information contained is not "zero usefull information" but "not much usefull informmation". I certainly think a local clock would be usefull, and contains very little information.

But any large amount of information density is simply not supported by these observations due to simple wave aspects. A low information signal (for example highly predictable clock, or some other low frequency, high brain volume signal say perhaps a breathing rate not actually the breathing frequency) can still be important.

I was only replying to the information processing comment
Troy Hunt wrote about this a few years ago, with the pithy headline '“We take security seriously”, otherwise known as “We didn’t take it seriously enough”'

https://www.troyhunt.com/we-take-security-seriously-otherwis...
> Linux made the political decision not to allow this, at the expense of end users.

There are many pros and cons of having a stable API, and it can be technical and political and more. Saying it's just a "political decision" is plain wrong.
Why Did We Choose React and TypeScript for QueryPie?
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Google Failed to Notify Customers It Put Microphones in Nest Security Systems
This is full of gems ; and a great compendium I wish I had 10 years ago.

However, honest advise: if you actually really want to trade in this way, start with a solid course in mathematical finance. It’ll teach you how to model the space, think about arbitrage, portfolios, risk, factors and the sheer important of theory and hypothesis in real strategy.

Building a backtester is exceptionally hard to do if you include scenario analysis, slippage, event risk, lag, multi hypothesis testing, data snooping, etc. Testing is a huge source of competitive advantage.

In summary, if you’re starting out, go learn the basics like the back of your hand, and he basics are mathematical finance.
On mice only
Related: email validation that doesn’t allow for + in usernames or any of the newfangled hipster fad TLDs.
Also stop saying "We understand players concerns with [AAA greed mechanic here]"
Oh wow...
> They were the first to provide actually usable GPU drivers on Linux.

Indeed. They raised the bar for Linux graphics. Maybe 10-20 years ago?

And then later ATI/AMD came along. And now their driver, the only driver, is open-source.

That is, they publish not only a driver, but more importantly the driver source. As is now true for pretty much all drivers for all HW Linux supports.

The bar has clearly been raised again. And now Nvidia is the only one lagging.

I don’t see anything unreasonable about asking them to contribute at the same level as everyone else.

Imagine how Linux would look today if all vendors got a free pass with doing things “their way” like Nvidia does. I doubt it would be functional at all.

I’m not going to cut Nvidia any slack today over what they did back in the days where everyone agreed M$ was evil and Google could do no wrong. It was a loooong time ago.
Are there any actual, proven benefits to these blood transfusions, or are they just something rich people like to do for the sake of it?
Ironically you get Youtube videos on TV now, credited "YouTube".
Seems like the project was ultimately not completed: http://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/diary.shtml
“Our AWS Bill Is Through the Roof, We Need to Do Something about It ”
Sweet hack. :)
Hey, how are you?
> Wouldn't another version be better for English learners that just used the normal terms for everything? (That would be awesome!)

That is just a visual dictionary, and there are plenty of those around. https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?field-keywords=visual+dictionary
The weak form of the Efficient Market Hypothesis is true but the strong form, which you’re expounding, is a crock. Warren Buffet has beaten the market for longer than I have been alive at what the stock market is optimised to do. George Soros made multiple fortunes as a trader and Julian Simons’ Renaissance hedge fund mints money and has for decades. The only one of those you can invest in is Buffett because it pleases him to run Berkshire Hathaway his way instead of maximising his personal returns like the founders of the best hedge funds. After fees the investors in them don’t beat the market but the principles make giant piles of money for long periods of time.

Investing skill exists, is rare and often captures all of the gains accruing to it because wannabe investors bid for access to it and due to the winner’s curse often overpay.

George Soros is like Steve Jobs. Making a giant fortune once could be luck but if you can repeat it again and again the chances it was ever luck just go down and down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham-a...

> The speech and article challenged the idea that equity markets are efficient through a study of nine successful investment funds generating long-term returns above the market index. All these funds were managed by Benjamin Graham's alumni, pursuing different investment tactics but following the same "Graham-and-Doddsville" value investing strategy.

All that said. The weak form of the EMH is true. You personally are very unlikely to beat the market over the long run.
Reminds me when people say "It's not a pyramid scheme, its an honest multi level marketing career"
The matter is more simple, Facebook users are not Facebook customers, hence no customer support. Same story with free Google accounts.
they are actual non-problems.

If you own your body, you own your blood. You should be able to sell or do whatever you please with it.

If some people think they can become younger by bathing in young blood, let them. It's their money and time, and blood too, as long as they buy the blood legitimately.