skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sister is the same way. She can't sleep if the room is colder than 75F/23.8C. My brother and I can't sleep if the room is warmer than 60F/15.5C. My personal theory is that my brother and I have more brown fat due to being active outside in the winter, even when it's -40F/-40C.
they are gone because the company decided to dump their pension obligations via bankruptcy. they are magically coming back and the dumb and stupid thinks it is due to some efficiency improvements.

this scam of people taking over a company and selling profitable assets to hide the elimination of pension obligations needs to stop. the government should control pension just like healthcare.
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But people dragged the diagram out of the paper to create the idea that waterfall was a good thing. Boyce actually made fun of the idea.
Agreed. My wife and I used baby boxes for the first 4-5 days with our twins. We've since gone on to recommend them at least a dozen times through various twins support groups. They really are a godsend in those first few days of chaos.
You have to keep in mind that there's quite extensive screening on eligibility and low barrier to refer to a hospital, as well as medical care will be available (experienced and well-trained midwifes are present during birth, GP will usually be on stand-by). If there is any major risk of complication, it will be a hospital birth. Living too far from a hospital? You better go there to give birth. Midwife and/or GP doesn't trust it anymore during birth? An ambulance is called and hospital it is (and you'll be there in time, as you live close enough). The distances in The Netherlands are extremely small compared to the USA, it's not like you're giving birth in the middle of nowhere.

A more recent trend is that of the 'geboortehuizen' (birth houses), which are literally what the name says: special places just for giving birth. Instead of the clinical atmosphere, it is more like a home but advanced medical care is close-by, as most of them are affiliated with the hospitals. It's seen as a good balance/compromise between the risks of giving birth at home, while still having a more quiet, 'gezellige' atmosphere.
It made me stop and think about it for a while.

It feels like I learned on a deeper level than if s/he had just explained it.

. . .

But the takeaway here is, I think, not to make us better C programmers. I think the takeaway is that C sucks because it just smiles at esoteric bugs like this. We need to replace it, or forever suffer from crashes and RCEs, et.c.
Maybe all GlaDOS' subtle (and not so subtle) digs at humanity encourages humans to do their best.

Or maybe the humorous absurdity of a testing-obsessed "abusive mom" computer makes people relax more in actual testing situations. I suspect these sorts of aptitude tests get a lot of their power from the intimidation factor.
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And where do your sigma shifts go? 1.75?
You can't just post a random paper and call the case closed. Some points from the paper:

- The populations studied were preselected to be low risk, because "Dutch guidelines prescribe a hospital delivery with their midwife-led delivery (no choice of planned home birth)" to women with medium risk levels. So we're not talking home vs. hospital for any women, just for those where the doctors say everything is double-plus super fine with the mother and the baby. The study did adjust for the fact that "either due to self-selection or due to the midwife’s proposal, the healthiest and most affluent women are more likely to undertake a home birth".

- From the conclusion, "the benefit of substantially fewer interventions in the planned home group seems to be counterbalanced by substantially increased mortality if intervention occurs".

Etc.

So what the study says is generally, if you and your doctors are double-plus sure you're low-risk, then you can go for either home or hospital birth; but if an intervention turns out to be needed, you're in big trouble.
I believe the spacemacs ocaml layer pulls in tuareg automatically, but that's a good point for other setups.
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Correct, with everything from speed limits, to smoke free areas, to dumping out toxic chemicals on your own land.

I'll never understand how a significant amount of the population can entertain the idea that "gun rights" are central to liberty, or that unlimited liberty above long term survival of the species is somehow desirable.
A similar lesson was learned for cattle. Compressing them en route to slaughter makes them significantly calmer.
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Sure, there's a solid argument that red flag laws have a 1) a lot more due process than no fly lists and 2) enough due process to make them constitutional. As I said, I don't know the details of the different red flag laws, and haven't formed an opinion on that.

But the comment I was replying to made a very different and I think highly indefensible argument: That the difference between red flag laws and no fly lists was the former was more effective.
I've been switching back and forth between two providers for the last 5 years, and I've always wondered now that I'm back to my first provider if calls/texts to me go directly to A, or go A->B->A->B->A.
There's a consensus in Bitcoin that the main next step towards better privacy is using Schnorr signature, but in the last few years there were multiple security issues found in the Schnorr signature based multisig protocol (MuSig).

After each improvement the devs prove the security of the protocol and present it in a cryptography conference, asking for peer reviews, that's why it's moving so slowly (which is great).
Related question: how do you manage payroll in all the different countries? I noticed Gitlab hires as contractors but curious if anyone is using international PEO or other solutions

Edit: Looks like Gitlab uses CXC and Safeguard Global as employers of record
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Does anyone know the name of this judge? He should be publicly shamed.
Yes I know - but the point is it did exist. What were they naming and making fun of if it didn't even exist?
And you likely paid more overall for this "service" as well!
If you want something a little nicer than a trash bag. I've got these[0] in every bedroom in my house. Keeps the heating and cooling bill down as well as blocks out light really well.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Best-Home-Fashion-Insulated-Blackout/...
That almost sounds like what happens when you look at a text message while driving. Your eyes are off the road for only a second. We already know the dangers of texting while driving.
“Not for long. At the turn of the century, the cloth nappies were back in and the disposable variety were out, having fallen out of favour on environmental grounds”

im guessing this is a non-starter for most Americans?
i remember seeing an editorial [1] about how in American Prisons ..they are charging the family of prisoners a huge fee to send their $ to the inmate..and how one mom had to choose between buying diapers or supporting her husband with prison toiletries. She said it was a very hard decision to make.

1- https://youtu.be/AjqaNQ018zU
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This is by no means an in-depth research on the topic - just a remarkably well-written chronicle related to remote work.

https://williamkowalski.com/brief-life-happiness-engineer-au...
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I second this. It's an interesting and good read but it is more a sell on the philosophy of remote work and its benefits than a practical guide that goes into specifics.

No remote work literature review would be complete without it, but it might potentially be less interesting for a reader who has already been working remotely for 4 years, other than to mostly validate what they probably already know.
Culture is not universal. Although many people in the world aspire to an American style life, each culture has it's own roots. Appealing to those roots is probably important in guiding people to a different, but not worse, way of living.

For example, in many parts of South East Asia people avoid heating and air conditioning. It's considered unhealthy to over manage your environment in that way. Where I live, in Japan, I've always thought it was really unfortunate that western clothes became popular -- for most of the south western portions of the country it really is a under performing choice. If, when Japan was transitioning from a poor country to a rich country, an emphasis was made to prefer native clothes which are better suited to the climate, it would have made a significant difference in how people acted.

There will always be a subset of the population that are going to want the American utopia of a detached, climate controlled bungallo full the the brim with furniture and gadgets, but it doesn't need to be the goal of the entire population -- even if they want a comfortable and rich lifestyle. Appealing to the existing culture is a good way to get people to appreciate a different way of living.
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Recent piece on the human costs of Prime’s next day delivery promise:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/amazon...
The American Revolution was won by leveraging Iroquois-style confederacy [1] as effective propaganda [2], and by employing guerilla warfare tactics learned fighting the Algonquin. This enabled securing enough victory (i.e. Saratoga) to get the French involved as the focus shifted to the Southern theater.

It was the first successful war of independence [3], lead to establishing the modern elected head of state, outlawed explicit nobility, and inspired fanatical devotion to an earthly cause.

For the previous hundred years, Jacobite rebellions in Europe had been crushed, seemingly due mainly to tactical failure (e.g. Culloden, the last pitched battle in Britain).

But then, a few years after the American Revolution, the French: guerilla warfare, beheaded head of state, banished nobility, fanatical devotion to an earthly cause.

(Interestingly, the French Revolution occurred right around the time they hit 50% literacy [4], increasing the viability of written propaganda.)

Then Haiti launched the second successful independence war in 1791, kicking off centuries of decolonization.

The American Revolution was a break from history.

We haven't cycled back to pitched battles, if anything guerilla warfare is still under active development and experiencing significant growth. Propaganda, as an instrument of war, is only becoming more important. And colonial aggressors continue to lose when on someone else's home field.

1. https://archive.org/details/indiantreatiespr00vand/page/78

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_of_independence

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy#/media/File:Illiterac...
I bought a weighted quilt inset and use a breathable quilt cover specifically for summer sleeping because they're much cooler than a regular doona and I like some weight on me. I got a 10kg version at the recommendation of the store but I'd probably go for a 5kg if I was buying one again.

This is the one I got: https://www.calmingmoments.com.au/shop/weighted-blankets/wei...
Reminds me of the achievement for carrying a gnome through Half Life 2 Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_qF3onDNCo
Not easy... our company is based in the US and we had to open a subsidiary in Israel in order to grant option plans. There are some companies that can serve as an intermediary but they are limited in aspects such as this one.

https://papayaglobal.com/ is one option for example.
It's good to see tax money spent on such a comforting program. I think it lends to a sense of national pride when policies like this lead to good feelings in the citizenry.

That said, I think articles like this contribute to science illiteracy and innumeracy.

A layman could easily come to the conclusion that the baby box caused the drop in infant mortality after reading this article, but infant mortality has been dropping everywhere over the the same time period, regardless of policy.[0]

While the article does briefly mention the Finnish government's broader support for new families, like the free health checks early in pregnancy that is actually incentivized by the box, it doesn't include the overarching worldwide, postwar technological and economic trends that have been driving infant mortality down everywhere.

The whole piece reads like a very literal endorsement of the nanny state, rather than a celebration of human flourishing that it could have been if written in the proper context of broader trends.

Edit: Almost all the replies (and I suspect the downvotes) to my comment are making my point. I wasn't disparaging the box or Finnland's broader policies to combat infant mortality. I'm disparaging the article's failure to paint Finnland's progress in the context of a wider trend of lowering infant mortality AND Finnland's broader efforts to do so. That failure leads to overly simplistic conclusions that contribute to scientific illiteracy and innumeracy, exactly like the conclusions below.

Does anyone believe Finnland could provide these services without the broader technological and economic progress?

[0]https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality
Really? I've got Privacy Badger working in my browser (chrome) and everything is fine. Wonder what the specific difference is.
> Part of the reason is why lean and agile are the only successful methodologies in software...

I would highly disagree with a blanket assumption like this:

An discussion on HN [0] discussed the article Waterfall (
Everybody likes to laugh about the Waterfall methodology) [1] and I highly recommend both the article and a discussion as a deeper reflection of assumption of 'Agile vs Waterfall (or anything else)'.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18662668

[1] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/waterfall.html

BTW, I keep a small personal wiki of articles from around the web that I find interesting, just in case I might come across as personally invested in any topic; I find the discussion enlightening.
From the article:

“Judge Rachel Rancilio saw the posts, many of which are publicly targeted at her. She apparently felt uncomfortable and possibly threatened.”
A simple light sensor would also get the job done. However, this would increase the price and complexity of the project. There’s a risk the electronics might be damaged by the cool moist environment, so starting out with as little stuff as possible.
It's only part of the premise, not its entirety. A large part is a sense of justice, or ideology, that tempers the pragmatism, and acts as an instictual signal that a law might be harmful in the long term.

Compare it to the 'do no harm' in medicine: say a doctor kills a healthy patient, so that his organs can save five others. At first, many lives are saved, but when this becomes widespread, how long until no-one dares come near a hospital? Or how likely is a patient to admit to having suicidal thoughts, if it results in police going through their private home, confiscating guns, or even committing them for their own good?

Absolutist, 'ideological' positions such as do no harm, and doctor/lawyer-patient/client confidentiality, are important guards against unwanted second-order effects.
Kids may not care about product value. But the people who buy the stuff for them do. I know I prefer to buy LEGO over competitor products for my children because I know they won't ever have difficulties building due to parts not fitting well.
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Every time I travel to New York, though I am not American and lost nobody in the attack, I take a morning to visit the site and mourn. The atrocity committed against the whole of humanity that day was stunning, and I still haven’t come to terms with it (personally).
It looks like Zipcar should have a separate smartphone-like battery to power GSM and GPS.
I wouldn't put much stock in amiunique right now. It might be great, but needs a bigger sample size.

I am unique purely based on my content language: "en-AU,en,en-US"

While we like to think we're special in Australia, I'm not THAT special.
I think this is likely it. In my opinion, it reminds me of autoencoders. Having to compress the information means understanding the content enough to discard unnecessary bits.

I can roughly keep up in real time with speaking on the keyboard. Even though speaking is a bit faster than my max rate around 90 wpm, by dropping filler words and gaps I can mostly avoid summarizing and quote verbatim. When transposing at full speed like that, I feel like a conduit at times, very little sticks deeply in memory.

Contrast with writing notes, where I'll only write down things I find particularly important. Most of the time I'm just trying to actively listen.

Purely anecdotally, I feel like when I am typing and summarizing to the same compression ratio as writing, my retention with typing is better, because I can do it without looking, it's faster, and I can tune back in to the speaker.

On the other other hand, with a laptop open, I'm much more likely to get distracted with emails/tasks.

Bottom line, I think we need to study more axes of this problem, if only because it gives neat insights into cognition.
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In order for the government to restrict a right under the Constitution they must have a compelling government interest, and they must write the law in a way that is narrowily tailored in a way that accomplishes the government goal in the least restrictive way over that person Constitutional right.
We got one of these kits when my first was born. Having an easily mobile sleep space is the best thing ever. ( Canada)
100% agreed - this makes a big difference.

It’s also worth getting a nice eye mask (one that’s comfortable on your face) for when you’re on the road. Hotels, Airbnbs, etc. are full of super bright LEDs now, and many of them (e.g. smoke detectors) can’t be easily covered or turned off.
The performance numbers would be most interesting if he benchmarked against std::vector, std::list, std::multiset and std::deque just to see how it compares to all the major collections. Using different items, say std::string, int64_t and a big POD struct might fill in a few things too.
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400 ampere??
It's unclear why lawyers still consider fax signatures to be valid. There are no security features in fax to support that claim.
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Those would be great for blocking the main bulk of the light but I suspect would leak all around the sides and edges. They look identical to the curtains I currently own. I personally like aluminum foil to block out my windows. I apply it with a spray bottle just the bit of mist the foil will stick to the glass and quickly dry away leaving the foil stuck to the glass. It also works very well to reflect the heat where when I had blackout curtains they would radiate heat. I did have the numbers at one point but the difference between black and aluminum foil was massive.
Talking to hiring engineers and job-hunting developers, I've come across a huge range of opinions about take home coding tests. In many cases, companies will still issue coding challenges without much thought about what they're wanting to get out of it. It's also common for poorly designed challenges to cause candidates to feel their time isn't being respected.

It's hard to design a good challenge, and there doesn't appear to be much best-practice guidance for time-pressured recruiting engineers. I made this checklist as a resource for people trying to make their hiring process efficient and pain free.

While this list is constructed from my own experience and the conversations I've had with other hiring engineers, I'd love to have more input (either here or on GitHub)
Given a syscall that does nothing, a full round-trip under BSD would require about 40μs, whereas on a user-space Mach system it would take just under 500μs

This is still true, but to a lesser extent, on MacOSX (or at least was, a decade ago). I was writing HPC drivers for a cluster interconnect. So performance was critical. We had been using the BSD ioctl system to communicate with our drivers because we used ioctls in all our other drivers (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows). I did some microbenchmarks and noticed that it was far slower than FreeBSD or Linux ioctls & complained. Apple suggested that I re-write the app/driver communication using IOKit, which is Mach based. The result was something that was twice as slow.
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according to that site, Finland's infant mortality has dropped a lot more than US (as control where there is no nannystate)
Disagree. Aging is a disease as much as cancer is a disease - you'll eventually die of it if nothing else gets you before.

The difference between pregnancy and aging is that the former is desirable, the latter is something to get rid of.
And all subject to high rates of false positives. Also see OFAC, where a simple first/last name match makes it impossible to bank in the US: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/...
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I would be surprised if that was the case. Low-power micro-controllers, such as ARM's Cortex-M series usually do not have support for virtual memory, which is required for running XNU.
It could be not just an arithmetical progression, like A(260, m). If this one gets 523, we better not discuss it fourth time ever.
It also was intended to have its name pronounced like "JIF", but you know what happens to intentions.
In what capacity did you do this? A trading firm?
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Makes sense, the usage is colloquially different in the Midwest.