skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free Software doesn't have to compete on marketshare. It may well benefit in terms of mindshare by favouring advanced users. Taking as an example Linux, with still single-digit usershare among operating systems, there is sufficient user-share among potential contributors to support the several thousand kernal contributors, as well as contributions to a wide range of system, userland, and GUI tools.

Given the focus drift that's accumulated from even modest popularity among some Linux distros, and meant not as a critical note, just a set of observations over my own several decades' experience, more technical Linux and BSD variants tend toward more technical users, whilst the more user-friendly distros (Mandrake, back in the day, Ubuntu, Mint, Cinnamon, etc.) tend to show a greater aversion to CLI and system tools, in favour of GUIs and the like.

Because commercial software does see massive network effects and attraction to mass markets, it tends to fall far lower on the user-capability curve.

This can also hit mass-market free software, with Chromium and Android (dismissing status as truly Free Software / Open Source) being cases that readily come to mind. The mechanism here is that these are aimed at advertising-promotion platforms, and hence, mass markets (Android devices number in the billions). Which is to say the polar opposite of intellectually-rewarding power-user tools.

It's not that the users' skills depend on the software licence, it's that licencing determines business interests and user-focus of the software developer.
> Using units of measure will only serve to confuse, because it adds additional complexity in interpreting the advice.

Units are an unit of measure. It's literally a different name for a centilitre.

> "Units" reduce the complexity to a single number. For most drinks it will be 1, 2 or 3 units. Simple numbers, single digits.

Centilitres reduce the complexity to a single number. For most drinks it would be 1, 2, or 3 centilitres. Simple numbers, single digits.

> General health advice will state that n units are the maximum recommended per week or day for men or for women. It's a single number to remember. Make sure the drinks you have total less than that maximum number, and you'll be following the recommendations.

General health advice will state that n centilitres are the maximum recommended per week or day for men or for women. It's a single number to remember. Make sure the drinks you have total less than that maximum number, and you'll be following the recommendations.
It's true that in a complex world, there isn't going to be a single cause for anything significant; there will be multiple causes and there can be complex relationships between them. The article recognizes that very point:

"The issue with root cause analysis is that it can lead to oversimplification and it is rare for there to be one single root cause."

But that is not at all the same as the notion of cause itself being suspect. Taleb on that point is simply wrong.
Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline in Just Two Months
OK. So you take plastic garbage and make more plastic garbage out of it ? It's now proven that all synthetic fabrics when washed, or even when worn in water, shed thousands of microfibers of plastic that last hundreds if not thousands of years in the environment. Why not just use natural fabrics like cotton, hemp, etc ?

Additionally, research at UT proves that almost all plastics leach varying degrees of estrogen mimicking compounds into the environment.
On that distinction i'm not sure I agree, if in both cases all parts of the ship have been replaced, the difference between doing it all at once and gradually is a semantic one, with rejection of the "new" ship as the same thing as the old ship being more of an emotional reaction. In either case, it's somewhat separate from what I mentioned about the cells in the brain and how they do stay the same over decades even if others in the body change just like the parts of the ship. Like I said though, that needs a bit of further confirmation because the science seems a bit ambiguous on the details.
> I've tried explaining in the past, but she's completely uninterested and so never listens to me.

All it takes is one of her friends or influencers to explain it, and viola, no longer allergic to technology.
What specialist does the labor get offloaded to, if someone doesn't know how to keep track of their data, doesn't know how to do simple research on the Internet, or doesn't understand how to secure their computer? Instead, people just lose their data, believe false things, and get pwned.
I moved from Austin Downtown to Minneapolis for almost this reason. I didn't want to buy a car either and many if not most of the jobs are up in Round Rock or too far to bike or walk.

I now live downtown Minneapolis and it's been great, I even bought a condo and rent out my parking space for extra money ($200/month). My mortgage is less than my rent was in Austin (after my downpayment of course).
The Hippocratic License
Does anyone here know what exactly is NFM’s moat? Price, Selection, Customer Service? All the above?
Wow, I regard all of those to be interesting subjects, and consider that an adult should have at least a cursory knowledge of all of them. However, you are right, plenty of people just don't want to know anything about any of the above.
The Internet of Things Is Still a Privacy Dumpster Fire, Study Finds
If it's in .NET core, does this mean that WinForms will become cross platform (without having to use Mono)?
Anyone willing to lie on the form can be an "accredited investor". I know people who have done that in order to invest in private placements. Some firms do very little to verify income and assets.
I remember a Douglas Crockford (the "JS: the good parts" author) talk where he had added a similar clause to the license for jslint. It said it couldn't be used for evil. And then IBM asked for an exemption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not...
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> UIs with lots of hidden functionality and confusing hieroglyphics

A simple example would be the keybase android app which actually has a hamburger icon rather than 3 lines that we devs call 'a humburger', which in itself is supposed to represent a 'menu' of some sort. Classic.

As a dev, I loved it. As a UI for the masses...probably not the best idea.
The point is who cares if the company goes bankrupt if you were able to extract enough money out of it. He extracted $700mil, that's like a 20% of regus's (their main competitor) valuation. And he did it faster and without the need for profitability.
I think you misunderstand what "percentile" means here, though it is indeed worded obtusely. When you say you're in the "tenth percentile", that means you're in the top 10%, not the top 0.1%. As such, when the author states "one-tenth of one-tenth of one-tenth percentile of the world" he's referencing the top 0.1%, not the top 0.001%.

By your reckoning, he's admittedly still off by a factor of 10, but not by a factor of 1000.

(note: the phrasing is made needlessly confusing by his use of "one-tenth percentile" instead of just "tenth percentile" - I suspect this is merely a transcription error, as there seem to be a number of these)
Mind sharing what you learned, technology-wise, from reading this Wikipedia entry?
This definitely helps!

I think my biggest blind-spots have to do with system design / tooling. At least in terms of grappling with what changes are / are not reasonable (basically knowing what tasks to stretch myself on - but somehow gauging when I think the scope of a task is wonky and avoiding those to not screw myself)

Do you have any tips for finding companies that might be as open to "moderate juniors" like you've described?
Personally, all of the above. Most of my furnishings and appliances have been purchased there, the sheer volume of choice coupled with reasonable pricing and ease of purchase/delivery sets them apart from niche stores and/or difficult purchasing processes. It's much easier spending an afternoon walking around dozens of couches than traveling store to store (knowing evaluation must be in person for such an item).
Journal Reference:

A Clinical Trial of Transcranial Electromagnetic Treatment in Alzheimer’s Disease: Cognitive Enhancement and Associated Changes in Cerebrospinal Fluid, Blood, and Brain Imaging.

Gary Arendash, et al.

Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

Link: https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...

doi:10.3233/JAD-190367.

Abstract

A Clinical Trial of Transcranial Electromagnetic Treatment in Alzheimer’s Disease: Cognitive Enhancement and Associated Changes in Cerebrospinal Fluid, Blood, and Brain Imaging

Background:

Small aggregates (oligomers) of the toxic proteins amyloid-β (Aβ) and phospho-tau (p-tau) are essential contributors to Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In mouse models for AD or human AD brain extracts, Transcranial Electromagnetic Treatment (TEMT) disaggregates both Aβ and p-tau oligomers, and induces brain mitochondrial enhancement. These apparent “disease-modifying” actions of TEMT both prevent and reverse memory impairment in AD transgenic mice.

Objective:

To evaluate the safety and initial clinical efficacy of TEMT against AD, a comprehensive open-label clinical trial was performed.

Methods:

Eight mild/moderate AD patients were treated with TEMT in-home by their caregivers for 2 months utilizing a unique head device. TEMT was given for two 1-hour periods each day, with subjects primarily evaluated at baseline, end-of-treatment, and 2 weeks following treatment completion.

Results:

No deleterious behavioral effects, discomfort, or physiologic changes resulted from 2 months of TEMT, as well as no evidence of tumor or microhemorrhage induction. TEMT induced clinically important and statistically significant improvements in ADAS-cog, as well as in the Rey AVLT. TEMT also produced increases in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of soluble Aβ1-40 and Aβ1-42, cognition-related changes in CSF oligomeric Aβ, a decreased CSF p-tau/Aβ1-42 ratio, and reduced levels of oligomeric Aβ in plasma. Pre- versus post-treatment FDG-PET brain scans revealed stable cerebral glucose utilization, with several subjects exhibiting enhanced glucose utilization. Evaluation of diffusion tensor imaging (fractional anisotropy) scans in individual subjects provided support for TEMT-induced increases in functional connectivity within the cognitively-important cingulate cortex/cingulum.

Conclusion:

TEMT administration to AD subjects appears to be safe, while providing cognitive enhancement, changes to CSF/blood AD markers, and evidence of stable/enhanced brain connectivity.
It's a good guess. The first sentence of Lennart answer to this question is :

> Well. Homed is intended primarily for client machines, i.e. laptops and thus machines you typically ssh from a lot more than ssh to if you follow what i mean.

andrerm left it out of his quote. He also left this part out. It's about openssh and pam :

> Maybe they solve this eventually but lets see. In the meantime you at least get a friendly msg explaining the situation briefly and what to do.
Thanks for sharing this thread.

(Fwiw: I got curious about openag’s efforts/papers last week and made a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20937105 )
Is there a repository of Gooeys people have made?
Could we see much longer album-esque songs in the future?
I'm a Zen student and we offer 1 week retreats for around $50 a day for non members. However we have very limited space, we prioritize members or past participants so we are not in general able to offer it to people we don't know. But rather than looking for a retreat, I would suggest looking for a local meditation center that offers retreats at a reasonable rate, and then go check out there weekly sitting. Also they way we can do that rate is we do our own cooking, cleaning, organizing etc. We do offer limited housing, but its generally like a sleeping mat in the meditation hall. Actually to be honest I think your better off not not even worrying about the the retreat, and just find a group to meditate with at first. I don't think it will be to hard to find a reasonably priced retreat if you are sitting with a meditation group. Probably somebody will be able to recommend somewhere they have actually gone themselves.
raises hand

I use Windows on my primary computer to run Cubase, on my slave PC's to run Vienna Ensemble Pro, and a Mac to run Pro Tools for hosting picture. Many composers -- Hans Zimmer, for example -- run a very similar setup. Windows is quite common, especially in the film/game/TV scoring world.

macOS is an absolutely wonderful OS for audio work, and in a vacuum is my favorite OS (due in no small part to Core Audio/MIDI), but given the amount of power that we need and the lack of replaceable hard drives, PC's are pretty much always the better way to go nowadays if you're using a desktop. For laptops, though, I'd still nearly always recommend a MBP.
Looks line no, unfortunately

> To be clear, the Windows Desktop component is only supported and included on Windows.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotne...
You just perfectly described the problem with many universities nowadays. The way to advance your career in academia is to build a shiny new building and kick off an initiative or institute or something real you can put on your resume.

We have a lot of shiny new half empty buildings in all the colleges, and a lot of very well paid "administrators" trying to get their name on some project. Tuition and fundraising demands are skyrocketing decade after decade and there is very little to show in real benefits for students or researchers.
You pay someone to do it. My uncle has owned a car repair shop for 30+ years and he pays someone to do all of the office work.

Your expertise is someone else’s “undifferentiated heavy lifting” no matter what field you’re in.
> That's how it works for me

The Humpty-Dumpty prerogative ? I can respect that.

> "When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'. 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'. 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all."

i'm not really complaining, you communicate well enough.

I tend to be literal-minded and the mid-stream "marker" to "start reading here" threw me off.

My pet peeve in re: "TL;DR:" is when people put it at the end, it's like, what's the point? I already read the thing. You're too late. Put it at the start. (Also, it's called "summary" or "abstract" people, sheesh!)

Then along comes kls, just slighting it in after a few paragraphs, completely repurposed, and, well, I couldn't help myself. Sorry dude.
Unfortunately no, though I believe there are other attempts at cross platform GUIs whose names I can't remember at the moment...
The developer's tweet from 2 hours ago:

"Tech collaboration with ICE is over.

ANTIFA IN TECH: YOU ARE ACTIVATED NOW. GET READY TO GO FOR THE LONG HAUL. STAY RESTED, STAY SAFE, AND GET READY TO TAKE IT ALL DOWN."

Yeah, he won't be trusted again.
Some small blame has to be on the people funding this, doesn’t sound like an elaborate fraud but a seeming utter lack of due diligence.
Not true at all in my experience. Producers/managers have very tough jobs as well.
Sorry you got down-voted your comment was very valid to the discussion. I agree, it was unfair but the value of the lesson was worth far more than the slight loss of opportunity for me. That is the thing, because I had built a name for myself, it was of little consequence that I lost this opportunity, but it was a life changer for the CTO that was selected because he had never been afforded the opportunities that I had.
Well he is 'reinventing' home directories as an independent concept. This storage artifact could be updated frequently and over the network. The concern may be insignifcant until this homed feature has its limits stretched.
> though far more than that number tried and finally gave up.

I think people either should try to maintain their own distro, be a maintainer for their distro of choice or stop complaining about the decisions maintainers from their distro take for them.

I mean, at least in Arch systemd seemed to be the obvious choice: it reduced the complexity for the maintainers. Arch used to be a combination of multiple shells scripts maintained by Arch package maintainers. Since systemd they can use the .service file that multiple programs already have upstream, or they can write themselves one that is much easier and less error prone than the shell script approach used before.

I am sure that the maintainers from Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Madriva, etc. all analyzed the advantages/disadvantages of migrating to systemd vs. maintaining their in-house solution (that they all had before, one way or another). If you still discord from them, why are you using one specific distro? You can pick any other one that is not using systemd, like Devuan, Void Linux, Alpine, etc.
Well, nobody believe black people achieved whatever they achieved fairly even today. We all know that many of them are admitted into universities and work places to increase diversity and not because of their skills or capabilities. So even if someone is skilled and capable most people will suspect he is there because of affirmative action
1. This has nothing to do with whether demos where rigged or not.

2. OLPC is an education program, not a hardware program. netbooks don't have the educational software, the user-editable OS, etc. that netbooks had.

2.5 The netbooks came out after the OLPC's XO-1. They were a response to it. [0]

3. If you want to talk about hardware power, the Asus EEE had the 630 MHz Intel Celeron processor [1] where the XO-1 had the Geode LX700 [2] running at 667 MHz [3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO

4. The original Asus EEE netbook retailed for around $300, costlier than XO-1's $200. [4][2]

[0][1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode_(processor)

[4] https://gigaom.com/2008/09/01/choosing-a-netbook-a-guide/

So maybe there was hype and maybe it was deserved because it was cheaper, faster, and earlier than the netbook and because it included an educational curriculum?

And your claim of rigged demos beyond this Caleb Harper dingbat remains standing on nothing but a piece of dirt.
Ask HN: What’s the article about eating half a cookie?
There was an article earlier today about trying to eat half a cookie, and the agonizing decision making process.

Does anyone have a link to it? It seems to have disappeared from the front page but it was a really great blog post and I’d like to read the rest of the blog.
Some trams go further than the distance that anyone I know would call "inner suburbs".

Bundoora, Preston, and Box Hill to the north, Surrey Hills to the East, Carnegie to the South. (I don't think anything goes West further than Maribyrnong?)

All suburbs, more than 10km from the city, full of people who work 9 to 5 in unglamorous jobs.

Sure, it's cheaper further out, in places that will take over 45 minutes to commute from... but that's the case everywhere in the world, as far as I know. And it's not like Melbourne doesn't have a bus system to rival Sydney's.
The Displaced: The African country that wants refugees
When you say you're in the "tenth percentile", that means you're in the top 10%

The tenth percentile is actually the bottom 10%. The top 10% is the ninetieth percentile.
Do you also dismiss the assertion that women make 75% of the wage men do solely because men put in more effort? By your own words, this should also not be significant but many people would argue the opposite.
Unfortunately, it will probably take ten years to see the real effects of these decisions on the ecosystem. I hope you're right that this is the way to go, but I fear I'll be right that Linux will be at least as opaque as Windows to anyone who wants an entry point into learning about operating systems and systems administration without having to pay to take classes.
I do not think it would be notably magical. Please contact via https://cameronnemo.gitlab.io if you do take up the effort.
Software Security Field Guide for the Bewildered
All those dashboards use the APIs underneath. The cost explorer dashboard certainly does incur API calls on my account.
Yep, but it doesn’t help any arguments about a minority being as technically capable when they are literally cheating to get in.
I just saw the ISS with my kids (3 and 6). They were so excited.

Thank you!
Does Google collects more data than we know using Invisible CAPTCHA?
It's to avoid paying last mile ISPs who have turned their monopolies into a mafia-like shakedown scheme.
I started the project in 2004, and the commit history goes back to 2005, but it's only been on GitHub for a couple of weeks.
>count your breath from 1 to 10; once you reach 10, start over from 1

Thank you for this. I have been trying to count to 10 without any other thoughts entering my mind. Some reflections:

1. I can't get to 10. I always start thinking of something and my minf wanders on about that.

2. How desperate, addicted my mind, body has become for constant stimulation and gratification. It always wants to make the pain insidd myself go away

3. How extremely tired and burned out my mind is.

Unfortunately I have particularly hard traumas and hate in my life to deal with, which might make my experience unique. But after just 20 minutes of trying this it has helped me. I have tried meditation before but this method made it a new experience for me.

Maybe this last part sounds unusual, but I just focus on letting the oxygen absorb into my brain without using it back up. And also trying to get outside of my mind -- to kind of transcend it and get into third person. I know I am explaining nothing more than feelings and psychological phenomena, but in there is some kind of truths that I dont know how better to describe at the momdent.
A lot of the cities build subway or tram stations in underdeveloped areas as a precursor of future expansion. And it works - after subway stop starts to work more developers start to build high-rises, shops, people start to move there from other underdeveloped areas without prospects of having a subway station. I see this article as an excuse against proper city and public transportation planning. It works everywhere but US, so maybe it's time to stop arguing and follow the example of other countries?
Sorry I confused it with “stoa”
>I'm Asian, worked at FANG, have never discriminated against someone based on their ethnicity and frankly find your actions shortsided and regressive. You're fighting perceived racism with actual racism.

No one think they have ever discriminated against someone based on ethnicity. Even Donald Trump sincerely believes in his heart of hearts that he is the least racist person who has ever walked this good earth. But actions speak louder than words, and my real life experiences are not 'perceived', nor are the results. If a black candidate has two Asian interviewers in a loop, chances of hire are nil, no matter the skill of the candidate. This is based on a sample of ~15-20. I really wish tech companies collected data about the ethnic background of both the interviewers, candidates and the results to clearly illuminate this glaring problem, otherwise everything I say is anecdotal/heresay.

Even speaking for myself, when I've interviewed the only places I've received offers were during loops where there was a max of one asian interviewer.

As for your first question, I'm getting into murky waters but I'll admit that it is difficult to put aside the fact that every Asian you hire, makes it harder for another black candidate to get hired. But it's definitely not as simple as rejecting every asian candidate, definitely don't want to leave a pattern behind :)