skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you think about what "obesity" actually means, 30% is a staggering number.

Remember that being overweight is not the same as true "obesity" and that no individual finds their way to obesity without first being overweight for a time.

Knowing population distribution curves for what they are, if 30% are obese, how many more are simply overweight?
> Reading from an uninitialized object field triggers a runtime error

Can we catch errors? If so, then this isn't so much an issue.
I don't use Scaleway or Online.net, as they're known for ignoring abuse reports. Other hosts like OVH tend to forward abuse reports and deal with repeat offenders, a good middle ground between AWS's draconian policies and Scaleway's.
Even trying to stream via LAN is unplayable. It's especially much worse streaming from a server that's thousands of miles away from your home.

I got 200mbs download and half the upload speed, I played plenty of PS Now titles, and the only problem I have with it is the input lag. There's no escape to it. You cannot play fast-paced games with such delay, especially multiplayer-FPS games, it's just terrible. It's better to have the hardware to play than to play remotely. Unless you don't mind 1-3 second (+ additional cause you're using the internet) input lags, then game streaming is just for you
> California had total Democrat control of the government from 1999-2003 and from 2011 until now.

No, it didn't, by any reasonable definition: Democrats, without Republican votes, couldn't pass the required annual budget, so they did not have complete control, from 1999-2003.

> And Gavin Newsome was the one that postponed everything except the Merced-Bakersfield line

Newsome didn't postpone a thing; he restated the status quo that the things for which funding had not been secured for construction would not be constructed until funding was secured as if it were a new development.

> If Republicans ran the state, taxpayers would be billions richer

No, they wouldn't, since the construction spending was largely federal and bond funding (so money not from current taxpayers), and much of it has gone to people who happen to be state taxpayers.

Taxpayers would be poorer, not richer.
I have lost dearly held content to the internet deciding to not host it anymore, including spotify.

At this point, I trust my backup 2x SSD mirror more than some cloud. So I guess we're two old guys yelling at clouds.

And this will just go even more fucked once the article 13 of the EU goes weaponized in 2 years.
You'd also probably get a (E)GPWS warning well before crashing.
VMware supports NFS as a storage backend so it ends up being used in a lot of storage arrays in Enterprise shops.

Gitlab.com was also using it as of last year, but I’m not sure if that’s still the case.
> mostly based on ZIP and school-level data, not individual circumstances, so it may not be trivially gameable

Once the ZIP code to score mapping is known, it's trivially gameble to get a mailing address in the best scoring ZIP code that won't get you kicked out of your school, if the ZIP code comes from school records. People do this all the time in reverse to get kids into desirable schools.

Actually getting your kid into an undesirable school to get the full score might be less likely, although that may depend on the specific time requirements to get the score and the magnitude of the score related to other factors.
> FB slurps in all of the data that users voluntarily post.

That seems likely to be a grand understatement. FB has the opportunity to collect a great deal of data about their users beyond what they explicitly post -- for example, data about when and how they use Facebook mobile apps, how they interact with the Facebook web site, and what external web sites they visit which contain Facebook Like widgets.
>>We can help people who are behind without sacrificing the people who are already ahead.

Again, the problem is you are viewing the world through a certain lens, where people are "ahead" or "behind".
> Imho middle class means you work for a living

I thought that's what working class meant.
Damn, tried to edit my post, and it locked me out in less than a minute. Can we maybe get at least 5 minutes to edit a post before they lock to editing?
Sleep researchers and doctors claim that your bed itself should be the bell. It will be easiest for you to fall asleep if you don't spend any time in your bed unless you are actively trying to fall asleep. No reading a book before you sleep, no checking your email in the morning, etc.

They prioritize it to the point that, if you are lying in bed trying to sleep at night for more than 20 minutes, you should get up and spend some time relaxing somewhere else.
Now rich parents can buy a house or rent an apartment in a poor area to game the system. The can live there on paper only.
Ah yes, the system of discrimination that nevertheless has white and asian men disproportionately over-represented in silicon valley, tech companies, and government.
College isn't supposed to be a theme park. It's supposed to be an institution of higher learning.
But weight by itself (and BMI) are fairly crude measures. You could be 6' tall, be a muscular 210 lbs with a body fat of 10% and be classed as obese. The next level of the "onion" is body composition (fancy scales do this, but not that well). Then you're getting dexa scans....and there are probably other levels after that. I think I'd rather know if my weight and body fat % are going up or down, rather than their absolute value.
Silicon Valley companies and residents care about it a lot more than the rest of the country.
Cloud gaming probably isn't targeted to people like you, then. When the choice is between not being able to play the game at all (due to lacking sufficient hardware) and cloud gaming, the potential downsides of cloud gaming are worth it.
Working understanding at this point for me is highly processed food results in chronically high insulin levels.

Insulin signals your cells to convert glucose to fat and store it. Insulin also inhibits leptin receptors which tell your brain to keep your pie hole closed.

Likely your gastro-intestinal nervous system also has a good idea of how much reserves it has stored. Processed food confuses it.
I'm not sure yet. However, this sounds way better than the subjective application process that most universities still have which are prone to racism.

https://priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-...
A bit hyperbolic don't you think? We've had Medicare since 1966 and despite the bad press the VA gets it has the highest rate of satisfaction of any system in the US.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/186527/americans-government-hea...
alias primetime='watch -t -n 1 "factor \$(date +%s)"'
In New Zealand, electric blankets are very common because (for the most part) we're too poor to live in insulated houses. It's hilarious that they've been re-discovered as a sleep hack for hyper-wealthy californians.
> Honestly things such as controller and display lag are probably bigger than the round trip latency.

The problem with latency is that it adds up, lag from the server, lag from the TV, lag from my brain, lag to my fingers, lag from the controller to the machine, lag back to the server, lag in processing and then start again.

Client-Server lag might be acceptable in isolation but not as part of a system.
I lean to the right and I'm opposed to school vouchers. We all pay for public schools on the theory that it's a public good. Why should only people with children get to decide where resources go? All taxpayers should get equal say.
It's frustrating that with all this talk of famine, collapse, etc. almost nobody will say "billions of people will die and it could be very very very horrible".

You think you're going to be able to do permaculture on your plot? You'll be fine, until someone with more guns than you takes it from you.

This is why, as a bleeding-heart lefty greeny hippie who moved to Europe for largely philosophical reasons, I desperately want the EU to get its act together and build a credible military defence.
I think funding amount could attract a specific type of talent.
> When you're more or less senior and have your basic needs met, then you can afford to be picky on what you work.

If you start from there, it follows that countries with poor social support systems will tend to generate less ethical workers and less ethical companies.

I grew up in Canada. When I came to California, I had zero debt. That made it relatively easy for me to choose ethical (even altruistic!) places to work starting from very early in my career.

Imagine how different the entire technology landscape would be if most American computer science grads had the same flexibility.
Looks like the visual style of the most brand materials were heavily inspired by https://css-tricks.com/
> The purpose of the SAT is supposed to be to predict if a person would succeed or not at college. I don't see how adding an adversity score will aid in making this prediction.

If adversity measures correlate with lower test scores more than they do with lower performance, then it would obviously help.

Of course, the adversity score—which is separate from the main test score—may serve a separate function for institutions using it, just because the existing score serves one purpose doesn't mean that everything the College Board packages with it must serve that purpose.
Paying off debt is always better than investing the money. Nothing beats being debt free.
Indeed, I doubt such a policy would withstand a FERPA challenge.
I don't think that HD space was the limiting factor. We'd still have gotten to the point of unlimited storage space like we have now.
The College Board has been quite transparent about what data will be used to calculate the scores if you read the relevant articles.

- Neighborhood environment
- Crime Rate
- Poverty Rate
- Housing Values
- Vacancy rate

- Family Environment
- Median income
- Single parent
- Education level
- ESL

- High school environment
- undermatching
- curricular rigor
- free lunch rate
- AP opportunity
Depending on where you live, the break-even point of doing this versus a private school can be under 2 kids (and is usually under 3 kids), so you save quite a bit of money.
Medicare and Medicaid work pretty damn well. Why wouldn't nationalized care for everyone work the same? Your argument is irrational and overlooks two major healthcare systems that the US government is handling fairly well. Either could be expanded to cover everyone.
>(I would definitely love to sleep with zero light/sound).

You might not actually like it. Try a sensory deprivation tank and see how that works for you.

To reduce the noise you can always reach for quality earplugs, a sleeping mask, and blackout curtains.
Chicago successfully taxes streaming services
Nearly all of those studies focus on short-term and test-specific interventions; i.e., "coaching", not "tutoring".

I worked with students throughout the school year with a focus on the underlying content, and only switched to "coaching" the last few weeks before the exam. For many students, I tutored them weekly or biweekly, for 1-3 hours per week, for multiple years!

NONE of the studies on the effect of coaching consider the effect of this sort of longer-term individualized instruction.

I'm willing to believe that short-term coaching only has small effects, but sustained individual instruction has a huge impact on mathematical ability. And as I explicitly said in my original post, SAT/ACT do a good job of measuring that ability.

But claiming that sustained access to individualized high-quality teaching doesn't effect performance on subject-specific tests that require nontrivial content knowledge and practice is, on face, absurd. At the very least, the studies you're citing say absolutely nothing about this sort of sustained intervention.

(Also, College Board loves amplifying those studies. I wonder why...)
There are lots of secret scores given by colleges during their admissions process. I think you're probably wrong here.
I agree, I wouldn't consider Glade a great tool or even a tool for creating apps. I only tinkered with some but it seems to be more like a visual designer for testing layouts. Qt Creator is pretty slick though. There's definitely not vis-a-vis alternatives for many business critical apps like VS in the Linux ecosystem yet but it's not, well at least in my opinion, because of some limitation with Linux itself. Breaking into the desktop market is incredibly difficult now. To the point that even major tech companies like Google struggle in the desktop market even though they dominate the mobile OS market with a Linux based OS. To me it just seems like the chicken before the egg problem. How do you attract the major app developers to an emerging platform with a smaller user base when lack of applications is limiting adoption?
As far as I'm aware, they already do disproportionately shoulder that burden - not just disproportionately to their proportion of the population, but also relative to their share of the country's income. What level of disproportionality is sufficient for you?
> My teenagers have pretty much moved on from those.

Out of curiosity what have they moved on to?
What would you do with that data, that you cannot do with a simple journal you'd fill out each morning?
Facebook's entire business model depends on being very intrusive into people's privacy. It's is extraordinarily rare for non-board members to be able to affect a company to the extent of actually altering its business model.
Why is it that labor is cheaper elsewhere?
This seems extremely hypocritical if they do not also account for personal adversity (with evidence). Both of my parents died while I was young. It certainly interfered with schooling as I questioned the point of existence as well as not growing up with consistent role models.
I think a lot of people don't expect games released on Stadia to ever be downloadable. It won't help linux at all.
And yet it is called zero cost. Not "zero cost along one particular dimension that we won't name and only sometimes matters."
A manager from fb reached out about a position, I told him to take a good look at what he is supporting with his work, and that I might reconsider if the leadership ever sees the light.
You're right, it's not for people like him. It's not for people that have been around the block and have learned a thing or two. They're hoping to take advantage of the young and naive.
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A particular subgroup with its Overton window in a certain range is using the power of cancel culture, naming-and-shaming, etc. to see their standards applied universally. Do not underestimate this. The next frontier is identifying and punishing those who are "at risk" of transgressing identity-politics norms. I saw a few of them on Twitter crafting plans to pressure open source conferences to ban people who gave talks of the form "Making X Great Again" where X = JavaScript, unit testing, etc. on the grounds that such a title constituted "normalizing hate speech" and such people were at particularly high risk of violating relevant Codes of Conduct.
Yeah, exactly. I like to have it relatively cold at night, so with forced air I set the heat to come on about 15-20 minutes before I want to get out of bed, and turn off 15 minutes after I leave for the day.

With radiant heat, if I want it to be 55 while I'm sleeping, and 70 when I leave my bed, my heat will come on 2 hours before I'm going to get up, and the temperature will slowly increase over that time, leading to it being far too warm about an hour before I intend to get up. The heater turns off as the house gets up to temp, but the radiators thermal mass is such that they are still quite hot when I leave for the day, in effect heating the house long after I've left.

Furthermore, it's basically impossible to have zone heat with one-pipe systems, and it's much more difficult with two pipe systems. (This is less of a problem with hot water though).

With forced air, you can install active vents fairly easily, and while you still can't cut off TOO many of the vents at once, lest you cause too much back-pressure in the system, it is fairly easy to heat one side of your house or one floor of your house.

On top of all that, steam doesn't handle short-cycling well, so you have to accept a wider swing in temp than you do with forced air.
(The way you formatted this, your answers get lost in the quoted questions)
Forced air was very briefly in in the UK. For a few - maybe as few as five - years around the early or mid 60s forced air was fairly commonly seen in new build houses and the type of small blocks that have 6 or 8 flats. By the seventies no one was putting them in new builds any more, and people were already ripping them out - or sealing up the vents - to go back to just a fire - though without a chimney it would have to be electric or gas, or to put in central heating or storage heat.

You will never find one of those houses still using it. Doesn't matter who built the house, where, when, what make of components or which fuel. Usually electric, but there were quite a few gas. Effectively all have been ripped out now. You might find evidence of ducting when rewiring.
> It's very easy to fall into despair that regardless of what you do today the collapse we are careening towards will erase all of it and more.

The demographic of boomers are to blame for the shift and the lack of response to said threats.

Forgive me if i'm not sympathetic to their depression.
All this new metric does is add opacity and plausible deniability

I would say that in addition to this just one organization has to do the research & math instead of the [large number] of colleges admitting students. It also provides for a degree f standardization.
Yep. Very true.
…on UK beaches.
"Modern computing is incredibly reliable"

I sort of agree with that, though I'd say there was a peak that passed by somewhere in the 90's. There was a time when the most important compute was on high end mainframes. They were more reliable than what we have now.
The ironic thing about your post is that the adversity score is just accounting for the ways in which children are denied "equality of opportunity." For example, it factors in: "the relative quality of the student’s high school and the crime rate and poverty level of the student’s neighborhood." Your post confirms it--why would your dad commute four hours a day to live in a particular neighborhood unless he believed it would confer some unequal, advantageous opportunity for his kids? What about kids whose parents didn't make those sacrifices--did they have equal opportunities to you?
Nice article, here's some feedback for you. The explanation for Branches could do with some re-wording. This sentence in particular is hard to digest: "Examples of these include -c, -m, -d, respectively standing for copy, move and delete with first two operating on first passed branch as the original one or (if only one has been passed) the one currently worked on."

I think the Checkouts example should be changed to:

git checkout my-branch

This will continues from the previous example to show that you're checking out the branch you just created.

In the Push & Pull section, this doesn't make sense to me: "...in the form of git pull command, which automatically fetches and merges your current branch with the main remote one." Perhaps better worded as: "...in the form of git pull command, which automatically fetches the remote branch and merges with your current local branch.
I have been told this before, though the person I heard it from said sleep and sex, not just sleep. :)
nvidia doesn't have the scale to endure years of losses while making enemies of half of the gaming industry in order to pursue this. AFAIK they have 0 exclusives lined up, meaning DOA.
> Let it all burn.

The rich westerner who never had to struggle to survive wants chaos. I wonder what a person raised in chaos has to say about that..?
I’m pretty tired of people linking any sort of complaint, worry, and defense of their rights to white supremacy or whatever hate group.

Plenty of people stand up for their rights because they legitimately care about freedom. It’s not all some conspiracy by hate groups to defend themselves.
Bitcoin back in bull market, holding price tops $8K
Even with zero packaging, their product is addictive poison. Buffett has spoken proudly of how, normally the human body would not be able to drink that much sugar without getting immediately sick, but the coke formula overcomes that sugar overload response. Disgusting.
A bit more than just 30% - for a short contract id want 3x my FTE rate.
Assuming USD 65K for a Tesla 3, that is 1,184,615 cars. Not quite enough, but the prices of self driving cars is going to go down, and the cost of the HSR is only going to go up.

Of course, you could just build a restricted access freeway, instrument the heck out of it to help the self driving cars, and put the self driving cars on it as a kind of track...

Edit: It is 1275 km from SF to LA om I-5. If we put these cars, evenly spaced on that road, both ways, they are about 2.2 m apart from back bumper to back bumper.
I can't say for sure, but I'd bet a decent amount of money that the variation in scores for zips in the same school district will be quite small compared to the variation in zips for different school districts. I doubt the kind of gaming you describe would have much of an impact.
Schools are already incredibly safe though.
It depends on where you live. In my case the decision was rational and not due to some desire for status signaling.
Thanks for the constructive feedback as always.
>>google is a bigger concern for privacy and personal liberty

>Big claim. Any proofs?

All this skepticism around Google's capacity to abuse their troves of data and invasive services is a clear indicator that this discussion has very little to do with real privacy. It is mostly a playground for various corporate, political and media shills.
It's nice and all that the military has such cool radars, but how much do those systems cost? How large are they? What sort of power requirements do they have? What sort of duty cycles do they have? And can they legally be exported?

Elon caving and adopting Lidar is probably more likely.
It's the same as any other soda, squash, juice etc.
>I didn't expect it to be the most accurate sleep tracker

I work for Fitbit. I don't speak for Fitbit, but in my opinion you should expect it to be the most accurate sleep tracker, and if it isn't you should contact customer service.
A long while ago. In Australia I'd say that 2009 was probably the end of FB being perceived as (at least somewhat) cool. 2008/2009 was when I remember being encouraged to join up by peers. My joke way of deflecting that (because I've never wanted to join) was to say that I'd applied but been rejected for not being cool enough. This reply would often leave people non-plussed - I was ironically mocking the idea of FB being cool (at the time) but I don't think most people got the joke.
Are you saying that unless one welcomes an infinity of people in their backyard, one cannot be inclusive?

I think you should explain and defend the policy you wish, instead of critizing an imaginary adversary by putting words in their mouth.

If you want more housing, hoping that prices will go down, say so. If you favor a SF Bay area looking progressively more like NY City, say so. Many people are very happy in NYC. And prices are also very high there.

Just expect some people to frankly disagree with that proposed evolution, and don't attack them by being non inclusive: this is not the question. Misrepresenting their arguments is not helping further your point of view.

(whose incumbent said "we will do anything to solve the housing crisis?" in your original point?)