skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't speak for OP, but my appetite and then weight have steadily decreased for six years since beginning CPAP. As a person with apnea I had no idea that my constant fatigue was causing me to eat so much, or making sustained exercise so impossible, and I really didn't even understand how tired I was. Once I was getting something approximating a good night's sleep, I had more energy, which made me less hungry and more able to sustain exercise. So it was a virtuous cycle and involved the habits you're describing, but those were made possible by alleviating the underlying problem.
A counter point, it seems that wealth and the power it provides already provide such a huge advantage that the effects of genetic editing may end up being a negligible.

I wonder about the preservation of wealth though. As other posts have pointed out, most wealth is lost within a generation or two. Genetic engineering could end up being used to modulate risk taking behavior and decision making, in an effort to mitigate this. That could have a big effect on the structure of society if successful...
cynic in me thinks that there's no golden rule and that yeah .. unless they enjoy profits by selling it to you, you won't see a shadow of therapy until 200 years when they settled their advantage so much their only remaining game is making you hope for a little better life.
Or environmental lead exposure? Or a tradition of reading to children at a young age?
I remember 25 years ago grumbling that RISK processors couldn't be fed instructions fast enough to keep the pipelines full.

I also remember a friend that worked at a failed processor company in the 1990's. Said the real reason the company went under was the academic designers thought programs 'do integer math' when modern programs 'do string manipulation'.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16292254
Some things are better many important things are worse. Consumer goods are doing well, and are high quality where regulations are intact, the good can be trivially inspected on purchase, or reputation provides enough of a backstop to prevent quality decreases. That's the upside of capitalism.

On the downside, many people are underemployed even in a so-called tight labor market, fewer and fewer people own anything like a house or car and are highly indebted. Few people have any savings whatsoever and the administration in conjunction with the monied classes seeks to strip whatever protections remain while scapegoating immigrants. Additionally, the US and the west appear to be better off than they are because we use the power of our military, monetary system, and relationships to make sure items are produced cheaply overseas with negligible labor protections resulting in abusive labor conditions.

Also, the planet is dying due to unlimited resource extraction.
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I am a bit confused. The scanFile reads from a file. But the readLines inside the for loop is reading from a StringReader - and not from a file?
Soul destroying? Learning to write a bare metal RTOS that controls a model railway sounds hella fun.
This is way over the top. Boeing will be fine on account of being too important to fail (and we can debate endlessly whether that’s a good thing or bad thing but that doesn’t change the veracity of the statement). Boeing’s customers wanted the Max to be built on the 737 platform. You’re vastly underestimating the impact of a new airframe on carrier operations if you think it’s as simple as simulator training.
More information on "Hack_Right" in Dutch: https://magazines.openbaarministerie.nl/opportuun/2018/02/ha...

Google Translate seems to do a reasonable job: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&...
I bet there's already a MEMS accelerometer in there somewhere.
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Self-driving car security is going to need a lot more than just following the latest buzzword in the security community and thinking that's enough.

But if the Cruise team is keen on buzzwords that they can then brag to the media about then maybe they should start using the "disconnected self-driving car" buzzword instead, and then implement about a dozen more of Brad Templeton's security recommendations for self-driving cars:

https://ideas.4brad.com/disconnected-car-right-security-plan...

Then I might just start believing that GM (or any other self-driving) cars may end up with reasonable but still not bulletproof security in about a decade.
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> A major problem is that regulatory capture leads to less competition, yet the common solution proposed is "more regulation/government"

Neither "regulation" nor "government" are single dimensional quantities that can be compared with a simple "more" or "less".

Having regulatory agencies act in the public interest is probably going to require constant oversight and guidance. It's a hell of a lot harder to have conversations like that when more than half of the political influence in the US is able to dismiss any suggestions with reflexive "more regulation = bad" arguments.

Some regulations decrease competition. Some regulations increase competition. Some regulations provide incentives aligned with the public interest. Some regulations don't. They need to be evaluated on a case by case basis.
> Voting behavior and soft shilling of the poster in the thread is also pretty odd

I'm not sure if you're talking about the HN thread, but such insinuations break the site guidelines here. Experience has shown that the vast majority are imaginary.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I've written about this a great deal for anyone who wants more explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
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I think Flutter is helping to keep Dart alive - https://flutter.dev/
>git...LaTeX, Python, and Vim

To be fair, LaTeX, git, and Vim, beyond shallow use, have fairly steep learning curves and can initially seem like a huge inconvenient mess before one learns, through trial and error, enough of the basics to really unlock enough utility to justify their use.

In a perfect world we'd all first sit down with manuals/tutorials, absorb everything from the getgo, and hack away with bliss; but most people, myself included, do not have enough intrinsic interest to muster the will to sit through documentation while paying enough attention to absorb a bunch of seemingly irrelevant details about some involved tech tool, when we have one simple goal to accomplish now, so instead we piece everything together with a combination of Google searches and keyboard mashing until things work and then optimize on top of that later.

In my experience this can be one of the factors that define a so called 10x dev - the willingness and ability to plod through docs with a genuine interest before using a powerful tool. I imagine such crowd is overrepresented on HN but quite rare in the general population.
Except the bombardier issue had literally nothing to do with regulation and to claim it did is misleading. That was 100% Trump with his tarriff BS. The FAA and safety regulations played 0 part in it. We could have literally an unregulated airline industry and it wouldn't have changed the bombardier situation.
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You have a disdain for conservation because "it doesn't matter" in the face of industrial use. While I agree we need to look at the industrial use, these things are inherently different.

Reducing usage in the city preserves the city reservoir. Unless you're talking about industrial use from that same reservoir, it might not be immediately relevant.
To add my strictly anecdotal experience:

I recently started to diet for the first time ever. Never really needed it, but getting older, I noticed my weight steadily increasing despite regular exercise and finally decided to change.

I always skipped breakfast, but I became a bit more strict about timing and snacking at night in order to align with IF. Switched my diet to a lazy keto (basically adkins) diet - still don't track calories, just intentionally reduced carb intake to below ~25g net per day and increased fat intake. Occasionally I have a cheat meal.

Down 35lbs in ~2.5 months.

Side effects: I feel like my energy levels are much more consistent throughout the day, but also very discernable. Which is to say, if I'm working out, I can really feel it when I run out of gas. Related, I can't lift as much weight as I could, but that is expected while I'm actively trying to lose weight. I feel like there's a bit more mental clarity, but that could be related to energy levels.
What a terrible headline. It completely misses the point, which is stated in the first sentence of the article:

"Inspired by the superfast wound closing process in human embryos, a new, Jell-O–like wound dressing can contract in response to the skin’s heat, drawing the edges of wounds together for quicker, safer healing."

It's not the stickiness, is the contracting action in response to heat that matters. If stickiness were what mattered you could solve that with super glue. And in fact super glue can be and often is used to close wounds:

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/health/04real.html
Good regulation is good, and necessary. Bad regulation is bad, and should be adjusted or removed. Deregulation as a policy only addresses 1/3 of the above insights. Basically, it's lazy.
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"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The last thing we need is for a thread about food production to get sucked into the nearest black hole, which is precisely what comments like this one invoke.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
regarding 51nb I remember this: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/50924.html

Don't own such a machine so I can't comment.
Uplevel yourself to solve a business problem. Maybe growth marketing, maybe robotics (think of all menial tasks, they are being roboticized now). Coding by itself feels boring when it’s isolated from the actual need you’re solving
I do want to block ads. I hate advertising in all its forms. I despise the psychological games that advertisers play with our minds.

If I could wear a pair of contact lenses that blocked out billboards and other kinds of non-digital advertising, I would do so in a heartbeat.
Your comment starts off with "Probably true but not nefarious/corrupt", in an article that alleges the safety regulatory process has been corrupted. Yes, I agree that feeling safe can lead to tragic complacency. I disagree with the notion that we should think of corporate culture problem like we do when someone gets into a fender-bender in boredom-inducing bumper-to-bumper traffic.
It's quite interesting to see the evolution of discourse over time on HN. I had been assuming that HN hit its peak in 2007 and it was all downhill after that, but actually the quality of comments seems to increase year by year.
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>5 standard deviations is enormously huge.

And also hyperbolic. There is no current science that suggests the ability to create such a difference in individuals by genetic engineering.
I like the fact that these devices were well attested in history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#Similar_...) but still such a surprise when they appeared in archeology.
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> By that logic we should all be using punch cards.

There are zero limitations in punching cards to express any modern program. And that is my point. Keyboards are faster, I use a fancy mechanical keyboard to write my code in a fancy IDE with autocomplete. The nature of the problems is the same, thou.

> I tend to gravitate towards higher level systems design and mentoring the younger folks.

I do the same. At work, I make sure that teams communicate between them, that they take into account the big picture and help them to push back agains deadlines when quality is at risk.

It is when I get home that I do not feel that urge of coding anymore. I still code at home, but I prefer to spend more time doing something that feels new and more challenging.

Machine learning is another area that I am interested in. But, not as a developer, that is the same thing that coding for anything else. I am improving my math skills, there I see a challenge. But, first I want to become better at drawing. One thing at a time.
Wageslaving is better than prison, I guess.
I like this example of explaining a scientific term to the lay people:

"a respiratory chamber -- a room-like device --"
6 to 12 weeks? I used to have 6 to 12 months and a team that delivered software and designs. Change of job, my customers ask me to deliver features in the next 6 or 12 days now, and I work less than 50% of the time for any them. Design is made on paper or only in my mind, documented in markdown (when I have plenty of time) or comments on YouTrack or kanbanize (customer choice), software written in Elixir, Python, Ruby, some JS. Sometimes I complain that they want to rush sw into production without letting it settle down in staging, then lose time fixing unexpected cases.
But the individual is never the focus on these arguments. You refer to countries having higher intelligence. We have many towns where I live where education and smarts are mocked. The countries with higher intelligence revere education and ensure children are cared for. And the genetic component of the principal factor of taking intelligence tests as children could easily be weird traits like a slower rate of neuronal death during adolescence or not having a fear. Also most of the tests can't actually get a good number for individual variance due to the many subgroups with many related environmental factors. So you have a mathematical artifact of tests with poor experimental conditions getting .6 to .8 hereditabilty. And then you claim we can make a population that is multipme standard deviations away from the biological norms? It seems like a cool sci-fi stretch more not public policy ready.

How do you explain the rise in IQ scores over time ? Better genetics?
The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

(Property includes intellectual property, such as computer code.)

(Due Process includes (but is not limited to) Trial by a Jury of one's peers...)
I don't think you understand the problem.

Almost every climate scientist will tell you that we'll need negative emission technologies in addition to reducing emissions. They're not a replacement.

(Which is actually the main problem with all these technologies... even reporting about them makes people think they can skip the hard part...)
> Subscriptions can be easily forgotten or aren't annoying enough to bother to cancel them even if the provided content isn't worth it anymore.

Which is precisely why companies prefer the subscription model. See gyms, cable TV, and insurance companies.
Tax avoidance, not tax fraud.

The article was about the ease of setting up series of shell companies, which can easily move money around the world in a hard-to-detect way in order to conceal profits made by people, with no way to determine who those people are or what their tax obligations are.
Thank you, this is amazing!
It may be a human trait, but it really isn’t arrogance. Even without fully understanding the consequences, the fact we have a purpose in mind a massive improvement on evolution.
a) "Rating" does not describe that service

b) If they only reported what "everyone" knows nobody would pay the insane amounts of money they charge.
FYI the word 'complex' in mathematics is often used similar to it's usage as an English noun - "a whole made up of interrelated parts", e.g. a building complex, apartment complex, military-industrial complex. A 'simplicial complex' is then, informally, "a whole made up of interrelated simplexes".
The west is not just its right thinking. I find your generalizations quite hand wavy themselves
The web has long-ago graduated beyond just serving up documents, and having a capable language and platform was key in enabling it.

There are downsides to everything, but we cant dismiss that positives that came from it.
Add a few examples?
But probably not that much harder to comply with the spirit of the law in addition to the letter, in most cases.
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> Imagine if they posted video of you on their FB

For crackers? I think people would be more upset with the store than the shopper.
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11 adults in the experiment. No control group (other than against themselves). Experiment ran 8 days.

I mean, I'm interested, but I want to see further research before I call this a real result.
> By that logic we should all be using punch cards.

That's a bit hyperbolic. High level languages have been around for literal decades and modern languages and modern programming feel mostly like they're just re-discovering or remixing old ideas. There's no reason to go all the way back to punch cards.
How did you go about testing and treating? Is this a thing a regular doctor can have tested? I have friends that swear by naturopaths and they usually say they start with lots of tests for vitamin levels.
I haven’t read Gould, but from what you describe- the people running the studies aren’t dumb, they’re aware of these difficulties! That’s why they use all sorts of means (statistical control, twin studies, etc etc) to get around them, in addition to using compilations of studies from different populations and methods to drive conclusions.
I listen to maybe a dozen podcasts. None have ads; most of them I support on Patreon.
Sure, I think major federal elections should be a federal holiday to ensure time availability. I don't see how that's the same as requiring identification though.
Security researchers should be much more skeptical of claims that a system is safe than they should about claims that a system is unsafe. The default posture of accepting that all reputable claims about a system being unsafe are true is probably not too bad of a one to have.
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Yes, people thinking there might be a regression in airline safety is the entire basis of the article. The main factors for that regression, particularly with respect to Boeing's record, is what's being debated.
Fair. "Understandbly and implicitly magical". Is there a lang doing it better?
But isn't it? Google Chrome is trying to reduce ad blocking by changing webRequest API, but others that use the same engine can simply undo that change.
Is it Ava?
not understanding the consequences and/or performing changes at a fast pace without giving either the species or the environment time to adapt is what gets you extinct
This is not what "economic theory" predicts... which also doesn't mean much. Which school of economic theory are you referencing?
umatrix does that, but third party is the problem. so many domains put their js on a separate domain. even if they own it.
It's not a question of how much money they make, but how they make it. An advertisement should be a one-way channel from the publisher to the audience. If information is flowing in the other direction (particularly if without the audience member's express permission) then it's become something more than an advertisement and that's a good place to draw the line.
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The people will likely rally around the poor shopper being oppressed by the soulless corporate entity.
No. Some comments get killed by software filters that are based on past activity by trolls. Moderators review those and restore the obviously legit ones. Users also rescue a lot of them by vouching for them.

All: if you see a [dead] comment that shouldn't be [dead], you can click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch' at the top. (There's a small karma threshold before those links appear.) You can also email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
In your example, how do I embed a Foo in my FooAndBar object?
> completely ignorant to the fact that commute distance is one of the largest factors in one's happiness and well-being.

Only to a point. Usually somewhere around 30-40 square meters (10x square feet) per person. It is always easy to call out others for ignorance. The downsides with living in small apartments are apparent for anyone who has done it for a long periods of time. The human body is a certain size making most human activities take a certain amount of space. Being able to perform less activities negatively affects your quality of life.
Trying to convert these abstract $ per ton numbers into something more concrete... 1 gallon of gasoline produces 20lbs of CO2. 1 Ton of CO2 sequestration costs $150 (there’s a range in the article but that’s a good target). If we had to pay a tax on each gallon of gas for this sequestration, it would be $1.50/gallon. That’s a little steep, and would have a serious impact to the short term economy. $0.50/gallon is likely more palatable.
Honest question, as I'm not well read on the subject, but why?

If, say, enough of these were deployed to have a total negative balance, is that not enough?
Not the default hence not well tested. AND you still have a Docker daemon running. Furthermore, last time I checked, Docker does not support user namespacing in a released version yet.

I maintain the "duh fix your script dummy" is not the right attitude. The author clearly states it's used for a build farm. That is bound to fail ...

I read "Docker daemon was using 100% CPU" to be the recurring incident; not a given script. And when that happens, it ends up cascading and stuff get OOM-killed before you know it.
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To be honest, I'm not sure. I don't recall making any conscious changes, though I don't have the sugar jones I used to have.
What's his name? I'd like to hear his songs.
If you wanted to avoid the clock thing, you could probably do something like this.

Have two rows of sensors set up like this:

* * * * * * * *

* *

When both of the second row of sensors are high, read an 8 bit binary number from the first row of sensors. This allows you to have up to 255 different IDs with 10 magnets per train. First row is data, second row is alignment. Fast moving trains might have issues with this kind of setup though.
Yeah for sanity. Sad I'm having to post this and vote.
I was looking for the source of that image and came across what appears to be the source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkCuPrsPn_I

Edit: I previously linked to their website (it's linked in the video) but it seems to have been hacked, or somehow containing some unrelated/unexpected content.
Stonington!