skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The odds become uncomfortably high for the elderly. In the U.S., falls are the leading cause of both injuries (at 7 million/yr) and death from injuries (at 27 thousand/yr) for the elderly[1]. It is a significant risk even if you aren't older. Worldwide, falls are the leading cause of accidental or unintentional injury deaths overall[2]. Given the incidence rate, I would say the odds of a serious fall injury while alone are significant enough to warrant precautions such as a smart watch with fall detection.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/p0922-older-adult-fa...
[2] https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/falls
I would imagine at this scale, It's not so much counting particles, but weighing them. So you need to separate them out to do that.

Elements of different mass can be separated using centrifuges. Not 100% sure for this case, but I know that's how it's done for certain kinds of refinement.
> Figure out how to do this is a task

this is the crux of the issue.

on average you can estimate six month of work if you spend two weeks chopping it into tiny bits. rarely management allow that to happen and developers are rushed in with aggressive randomness.

these "developers are bad at estimating" pieces are mostly people that try to estimate effort from complexity which is the wrong approach a priory because complexity hides the project unknowns, and this methodology, along all other comparative methods, is just a Gaussian curve built out off gut feelings: sometimes converges to a realistic estimate for large enough values, but more often than not the center just shows the developer team bias.
Intel Eagle Stream Will Arrive in Early 2021, Aspeed Roadmap Reveals
Gotcha. Thanks for the info.

Some people are saying that the PM work experience is more valuable. Currently I have neither of those so I'm trying to figure out which one will be first. :)
He has several talks and interviews on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=never+split+the...
I often feel hopeless as well and feel that there is a chance that things well even be worse than the IPCC projections due to unforseen tipping points, to the point where large parts of the world will be uninhabitable to humans (which brings war over land, resources, etc.). It seems that the (short-term focused) political and (growth focused) economical systems are not capable with deal dealing with climate change. Moreover, most people do not fully grasp the potential catastrophic effects yet. Even a lot of people that I know who believe human-induced climate change is a major problem step in an airplane for holiday twice a year.

However, we should oppose the mindset of giving up. I have a 5/yo daughter and it is simply unfair to her and her generation if we didn't at least try to dampen the effects of climate change as much as we can.
FCC loses in court, judges say agency would fail “intro statistics class”
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Which is good. It has been discussed here in Sweden as well and it feels pretty odd that we would subsidize packages so they pay less sending something all the way from China than I would pay sending something to the next town.

I get the history behind it but the world has changed since then.
Some unions requires all employees to become members and charge a fee.

Some unions abuse their power to negotiate with the employer to make union leaders wealthy instead of granting benefits to the employees.

Some unions work alongside gangs to rake in illegal profit.

Some unions force all employees to take the same position of the union on certain issues meaning that people who oppose the measure may be blacklisted and pretty much terminated if the union uses its muscle.

Again these are just some unions and YMMV, the history of unions has many pros and cons with some being notorious and others being very much necessary in this day and age.
If they (somehow) won or GNOME foundation settled, could they use that precedent to go after juicier targets? Maybe their strategy was to pick a "poor target" to set that precedent? Disclaimer: I don't know anything in this space.
A Love Letter to Canned Food
> this lawyer's family sends invites to family events to me now.

Just show up to the party?
Uhm the first sentence is accurate. The second is not
"what models predicting catastrophic temperature increases have been had predictive power for more than 10 years (climate timespan)?"

or

"what peer reviewed study shows the earth climate have a net positive feedback loop for warming with xxxx ppm C02?" (show hard science on the runaway heating scenario)
Because Netflix is not a Cloudflare client, so CF can't pass the source (client) IP. The same should happen with Google, Facebook (or anyone not behind CF infrastructure).

At least, that's the way I'm currently understanding it.
Trump’e arguments weren’t wrong: it didn’t make sense for China to keep its below-average and below-cost fees for sending packages to the US.

I just wish he could get the USPS to stop seeing outbound international mail as a profit centre.

Plenty of Americans could be exporting a lot more internationally, but the USPS has chosen high prices and low volumes.

As a Canadian that sometimes talks Americans into selling to me on Ebay, they find it a painful and costly experience compared to US sales.
I can usually find Twinings anywhere where I am in the US. How would you rate them?
I agree, was in the US recently and so many foods are much sweeter than in other countries.
USA is really good at sugar.
Even the ice cream was much sweeter - looking at you Ben and Jerry's.
I bought some organic almond butter, and it had sugar in it! Why?!
The Model Y is an understated Trojan Horse for Tesla’s manufacturing ambitions
The title says that a phenomenon was observed for the first time, not that this is the first non-Abelian phenomenon we've observed. The article is specifically about a non-Abelian version of the Aharonov-Bohm effect.
I found it incomprehensible from the start.

EDIT: The first five sentences invoke Uber, the author's previous article, the Wall Street Journal, Gurley, Damodaran, and two different dubious valuations.
In what world do you lose weight by eating 4000 calories a day?
Do you think that reflect poorly or well on ProtonMail's trustworthiness?
If the time does not exist, such measure as speed wouldn’t make any sense, would it?
Everyone on my team knows i can guess when they are going to finish usually to the day. They don't know how but it's pretty easy, measure biases
Wondering the same thing here. I do like cheap gizmos off of ali express however I'm willing to pay fair shipping (We all pay in one way or another).
Show HN: Magno – free international money transfers (try demo)
VPN providers also mysteriously tend to be mostly China owned.
What happens if people start ordering taxis from within Google Maps? And what if Google Maps adds more taxi services? What if Android starts integrating the function of ordering taxis that way? What would happen to Uber's value then?

You can't "own" a market unless you also entirely own the way people access that market.
Alright, I left out OK as far as mass market bulk supermarket tea bag brands go.

Yorkshire Gold is distinctly better, Tetley and supermarket own brands are mostly about the same: OK depending on your taste, a couple of supermarket and Twinings that are a bit crap. There are cheaper brands that are awful. PG loose leaf is a refreshing blend, far better than bags, but it's not a premium tea.

The tea bag problem is mostly not enough tea and 1-2 minute brewing dust can't give the flavours that take 4-5 mins to come out. That and they all reduced the weight of the packs for the same number of tea bags. 20 or 25 years ago they all increased the number of tea bags for the same weight of tea.

Even slightly premium loose leaf is vastly better. e.g. Tesco's cheapest Finest - the non-estate specific one, or Booth's quality loose leaf is leagues ahead of PG loose leaf, let alone bags (and cheaper!) etc.

Locally I have a bloody marvellous specialist tea shop with far, far too many excellent own blends. :)
I've noticed a major cognitive bias most people have regarding vaping. Basically along the lines of "smoking's very bad for health, therefore vaping (or nicotine consumption) is probably pretty bad too".

Here's the facts. Smoking is bad because smoldering organic compounds are very damaging. It doesn't matter what is being burned, all smoke is bad in roughly equal proportion to the volume of smoke being inhaled. It's why sitting by a wood-burning fireplace does as much damage as a pack of cigarettes.

(As an aside, we generally don't see the same health problems with cannabis smokers as we do with tobacco smokers. That's primarily because cannabis smokers consume significantly less volume than tobacco smokers. A pack-a-day smoker is smoldering 140 grams of dried organic material. A very heavy cannabis user might go through 7 grams of high-THC weed per week.)

So the fact is we don't really know much about the long-term health consequences of vaping. It simply hasn't been widespread for long enough for us to gather any large-scale epidemiological data. It's possible it may be very harmful. It's also possible that it may be basically harmless.

But the fact that smoking is unhealthy tells us nothing about vaping. There are no smoldering organic compounds involved in vaping. Therefore if it is unhealthy it would be because of a totally separate mechanism. In general there are very very few human activities that are as unhealthy as smoking. Heavy smoking literally quadruples all cause mortality.

There are many many activities that push humans' physiological baseline. High-altitude living, exotic or restricted diets, mega-doses of vitamins, scuba diving, high salt consumption, high-dose hallucinogens, keeping a nocturnal schedule, heavy caffeine consumption, drinking too much or too little water, being a radiation worker, artificial sweeteners, heavy manual labor, tons and tons of synthesized dyes and chemicals. Most of them are basically harmless, and none of them have anywhere near the health impact of smoking.

It would quite unexpected if vaping just coincidentally happened to be one of the few human activities that had a smoking-magnitude effect. Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? Not at all.

As for nicotine consumption, the balance of the evidence is that it's very slightly unhealthy at worse, and potentially beneficial for neurological health.[1]

[1]https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
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A list of themes and starters for JAMstack sites
I don’t think that’s what the parent was saying. I think they were referring to the cost of transportation for the consumer, not for the product itself.

The carbon emissions of burning a gallon of gasoline is about 11 kg - that’s an estimate, from a random website, so I don’t attest to its accuracy. It’s just a starting point for the following:

I drive a 2000 Jeep Wrangler that gets 14 MPG. I drive about 20k miles per year, which works out to 1,430 gallons of gas or ~15,500 kg of carbon emissions.

Based on this estimate, my vehicle’s fuel alone is equivalent to 75 10” MBPs per year.
Facebook announces Oculus Link (brings PC games to the standalone Quest headset)
Sometimes the manager just doesn't believe you at all.

Learned that the hard way on my first lead role.

Him: How long will this work take? Me: A year with this team. Him: A year? How is that possible? I was thinking six months. <starts going down the entire list line item by line item dickering on every little thing> Me: <after 15 minutes completely checked out of this conversation.>

When you don't have time to do something right you have time to do it over. It ended up taking us 18 months. To this day I firmly believe that because we tried to do it in half the time, it ended up taking us 50% longer. Accounting for our tendency to procrastinate, I believe if we'd gone in saying 12 it would have taken 14 at the outside.
Blacklisting it would require them blacklisting all of cloudflare.
> tags (metadata) for items aren't available in either word documents or plain text documents. a couple keystrokes filters down on tags in org mode. this is a huge value add - think searching photos or bookmarks with/without tags - this can't be done easily in word/plaintext

Sure it can. If I embed images in a document file along with the text, then Ctrl+F lets me search for that text, which makes it easy to find adjacent images. I tend not to put a lot of images in there, but in practice this works fairly well for the images I do include.

You're also only looking at the benefits of your strategy, without looking at the costs. The cost is, you have to tag things. My strategy works without me tagging anything. I wouldn't be surprised if you can find things slightly faster, but I would be very surprised if this time savings outweighed the time spent tagging.

If it's fun for you to tag things then it's not a cost, so I'm certainly not criticizing anyone using Org mode. Do what you enjoy. I'm just saying it's more of an aesthetic choice than a productivity choice.

This is similar to the various "blog like a hacker" tools out there such as Jekyll or Haunt. People cite all these supposed benefits like version controlling your posts and whatnot, but ultimately the vast majority of successful blogs, including the "hacker" ones, use Wordpress, Blogspot, or something similar.

The underlying point I'm making is that the temptation with highly flexible tools is to spend all your time tinkering with configuration for the tool, rather than doing the thing the tool is intended to do. Some people can avoid that temptation, but I'm not really one of those people.

(Random aside: my file is actually an Open Document Format file (.odt) not a Word Document. It originally was a Word Document, but hasn't been for years, so I'm not sure why I wrote that.)
I'm also not forced to consume caffeine merely by standing next to you.
Anger is more harmful to the health of older adults than sadness
"What proof do you have that humans are _causing_ the climate to change, a climate which has been changing ever since the formation of the Earth 4.5 billion years ago? And what proof do you have that homo sapiens - who have only been on this planet for roughly 200 thousand years, of which have only been embarking in Industry for around 200 of those - can have any effect whatsoever in somehow stopping the climate from changing? Lastly, what definitive proof is there that the trace gas CO2, comprising of 0.04% of the Earth's atmosphere - of which humans are respnsible for a mere 0.01% of that - is the primary temperature control knob of this planet?"

The CO2/CAGW/Climate Change alarmism Emperor has no clothes!
Ask HN: Incentivizing open source with VCG mechanism?
As we all know, there's is a an incentivazation problem with open source software. People who build OOS can generate enormous value for companies and products but often fail to capture any of that value for themselves. If they do get a compensation for their work, its indirect in the form of: freemium model, payed support, etc.

Let's take Python as an example of such a project. Python is widely used and is a very valuable project to many people though its contributors are volunteers that do not get direct compensation for their work. Python has a PIP (Python Improvement Proposal) mechanism used to decide which direction to take with the project.

What if people who use python could input their opinion to choose which PIPs got accepted in the form of a dollar valuation for each option (how much is it worth to you if it got accepted and how much if it got rejected)? Then we could implement VGC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey%E2%80%93Clarke%E2%80%93Groves_mechanism) to choose the optimal outcome, collecting prices from each participant for his bid. Those collected prices could then be used to incentivize the contributors.
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1. Keep your baseline tasks you're comparing against consistent for as long as you can (as long as the team remembers them and agrees on the effort they required). Don't use a task from week 2 to estimate week 3, etc.

2. Don't use a short time interval or moving average to determine your points->time mapping. You're looking for the long-run average mapping, not a specific estimate for this developer today.
Parent sounds trivial and should be busted as having prior art.
Yes but risky as stock price can go down.
I hope this works out! Using fiddler us such a frustrating experience. The documentation is practically non existent and the ux is atrocious, and as far as I can tell the closest thing to a manual is a paid ebook by the developer (I was so pissed when I discovered this). I would be very happy to have an open source alternative!
Empty Post - A social network where nothing is posted
I don't know how to say this without it coming across the wrong way, but if we look back up the thread the topic was about victims having difficult social circumstances, or even just unsolvable, abusive ones.

I always see this pattern when talking about tyranny and its victims. When it is talked about in an abstracted sense (meaning you are distanced from the situation by time or place), it is almost always in the above context of toxic environments. But when it is addressed directly, the focus turns to the victim and trying to identify what is wrong with them, not with the group.

I know it is a long shot but I am really eager to document the extreme abusiveness and kind of life-ruining tyranny I've experienced. I want to raise awareness and stop this from happening to anyone else.
First look up the definition of a lock and mutual exclusion. There are two types of basic locks: mutexes and semaphores. Both keep two threads or coroutines from executing a block of code/instructions at the same time, and both work in a similar way I already described.

> There simply is no concurrency in JS though,

There is no parallelism in JS (well there is with workers now), concurrency is not parallelism.
Histogram – shifting focus from programs to programming
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That's because the climate changes _despite_ humans, not _because_ of humans.
Netflix's fast.com speed test on my iPhone:

* Comcast without WARP: 460 Mbps
* Comcast with WARP: 30 Mbps
* T-Mobile without WARP: 500 Kbps
* T-Mobile with WARP: 600 Kbps

Regular WARP doesn't claim any performance speedups, so I'm curious to see how WARP+ compares. In the meantime, I will disable WARP for my home Wi-Fi.
Can we enumerate the places that have this level of management buy-in? Is that a long list? Because they sound like unicorns to me. In saying that, I think that I may have even seen it once but it didn't last very long.
I don't think there is any way to "convert" a denier. This isn't a case where logic or well-reasoned arguments will make a difference. People have varied and deep-seated reasons for denying climate change, and I think it will take a generational change-over to finally make a difference.
One backdoor to rule them all. They just have to be a target for NSA, the SVR, and the Third Department. How would you audit Cloudflare to find that?
Which is really odd in my case, as I usually have to pee within a few minutes after drinking milk. No bloating or anything like that so I don't think it's any degree of lactose intolerance. I love milk but if I'm not going to have access to a bathroom for a while I have to avoid it.
Pets Can Take a Big Bite Out of Your Home’s Resale Value
It's not just calories, if you mostly ultraprocessed foods you're also probably lacking in vitamins, minerals, healthy fats, fiber, phytochemicals, get too much sodium, etc.
13.1 released today
Maybe. Maybe China will start subsidizing their mail instead of having the US do it.
> But it seems like the patent office is (was?) poorly calibrated for obviousness.

My guess is that it's not necessarily that people at the patent office have a hard time telling if something is obvious, so much as that the incentive structures at play are all wrong.

I imagine that, if a patent reviewer denies a patent application, they potentially have a fight on their hands when their decision gets challenged. Whereas, if they approve it, any argument ensuing from that decision will be the court's problem. It's a classic "keep your head down and don't cause any trouble for yourself" situation.

Assuming I'm right on that guess, I'd further guess that it's also a classic "I'm not paid enough for this shit" situation. I don't have any friends at USPTO, but I have friends who work in other government offices, and, from what they've said, I would assume that that is a deciding factor in a large percentage of decisions that are being made by rank-and-file government employees across all branches. And I doubt patent clerks are any more likely than any other kind of clerk to be getting paid "dealing with this shit" money.
Volume.

Lose on every sale but make up for it with volume.

:-)
> “This is a big topic in business school - never compete on price for that exact reason.”

no. business school teaches you that you can compete on price (cost strategy), or on value (differentiation strategy).

if you compete on price, you’re betting that you are, or will be, the most efficient provider in the market (e.g., walmart and its supply chain dominance). it’s completely viable/acceptable to compete on price. what you don’t ever want to do is price on cost, rather than on value provided.

you can also compete on being better in many other dimensions, which is lumped into the broad differentiation strategy category. you are then betting that you are better on your dimension and that customers really value that dimension (more than price).
>a Newegg approach

Any more info about this? Never heard of it admittedly.
There are multiple links in the article referencing what you seek.

> There seems to be a vauge grey line between being properly assertive and being selfish or being a jerk.

Do you know someone who is assertive yet polite? If so, mimic them for a while. Like many behaviors, it can simply be a matter of practicing.
Should meat be banned to save the planet?
Church of GNU / Emacs video..."a virgin girl who hasn't used Emacs before". If that isn't alienating then I don't know what is.
At some stores (Rite Aid comes to mind) that number is disabled. 281-330-8004, from a song by rapper Mike Jones, works nearly as well as Jenny's.
The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet (2019)
> Dietitians scrupulously matched the ultraprocessed and processed meals for calories, energy density, fat, carbohydrate, protein, sugars, sodium and fiber.

Hopefully they accounted for bioavailability of nutrients. The way I've seen this framed is you'll get more energy from powdered rice than an equivalent amount of whole rice.
It will be interesting to see how statements like this are viewed in another 30 or 40 years. I suppose most deniers will deny ever having denied, but hopefully there will be clear historical records to set things straight.
Hand Tracking on Oculus Quest
> Edit: Not sure why that's controversial...

> (and normies in general)

I don't think it would be controversial had you not condescendingly referred to "normies".
Blast from the past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965145

So can we get HN chicken littles that were predicting all this gloom and doom to admit that they don't actually understand how negotiations work?

Edit: Embarrassing, isn't it?