skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also a photo book by her about it called Crack in the Wall. Don't think it's currently in print but worth tracking down a secondhand copy.
Is free conference call really free?

Don't they collect fees from the incoming call network? What's the real story?
Canada's suicide rate is also greatly impacted by the unfortunate prevalence of it among the native population. It's really quite sad to see. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Canada#Among_Indige...
Yea, it seems like it would be some special breakthrough as the systolic (distyolic? i get left ventricle open closed confused too) number in mmHg is how much pressure it takes to cut the circulation off at your arm.

Good enough accurate? Maybe. As good as cuff, pretty much flat out no.
This reminds me of the adaptation of a Churchill quote that "ZFS is the worst of the file systems, except for all others."
Is it freeconference.com or freeconferencecall.com? The title says freeconference.com but the link has freeconferencecall.com

Are they the same? The sites don't look the same.
When we started living longer, and in greater numbers, so did they. Only fair that this trend continues...
That is not over-provisioning, it's just that 'df' doesn't have the concept of pooled storage. With pools it's possible for different file systems to share their "available" space. BTRFS also has its own problems with ouput when using df and getting strange results.

If I have a 10GB pool and I create 10 empty file systems, the sizes reported in df will be 100GB. It's not quite a lie either, because each of those 10 file systems does in fact have 10GB of space available I could write 10GB to any one of them. If I write 1GB to one of those file systems, the "size" and "available" spaces for the other nine will all shrink despite not having a single byte of data written to them.

With ZFS and df the "size" column is really only measuring the maximum possible size (at this point in time, assuming nothing else is written) so it isn't very meaningful, but the "used" and "available" columns do measure something useful.
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Not as big as you are thinking the MMR is normally given after one year. This is because there are some know potential negative side effects when babies get it earlier.

The point is that society already evaluates these hazards/risks very effectively so that individual parents don't need to. Indeed any individual parent's risk analysis about vaccines is likely to put their children at greater risk.
You spent so long typing out this reply without providing the citation, when you agree with the request for citations?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/business/media/teen-vogue... for those that are curious.
No, because HAL isn’t a person. The people who programmed HAL likely committed manslaughter, though it depends on which state they did the programming.
Also, Valve will release Half-Life: Alyx [1] in March 2020. It's the first game in the much-loved HL series released since Portal 2 in 2011.

I don't own a VR headset and I don't intend to any time soon - it's too expensive and nothing looks enjoyable enough to justify the cost. But once enough big-name games like Alyx get released, gamers previously on the fence (like me) will start to purchase VR headsets, and VR will eventually become the new gaming platform that publishers wants to release on.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/546560/HalfLife_Alyx/
Why would you put musical interests on your resume if you didn’t want it to be used as a filter? As a resume screener I’m going to assume anything in the resume is fair game, and there’s objective reasons to select a candidate who’s self aware enough to know that country music isn’t sending a good signal.

The fact that they like country music isn’t the problem, it’s that they thought it was a good interest to put on a resume.
If it's being logged, it's subject to the discovery process, regardless of what protocol you're using.
Go straight to the source: libgen.lc + https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Having a truly informed opinion is difficult. In the realm of biology, it requires knowing a lot of vocabulary and fundamental systems. However, once that foundation is built, it becomes very easy to educate oneself on any topic within that sphere.

Textbooks are the gold standard -- if you have the time and inclination.

Papers are good for understanding the mechanisms behind why something happens -- but should be taken with a grain of salt.
Got my neither analyst or enthusiast sister the quest this christmas, she and the kids were constantly playing beat saber and pistol whip without stopping.

The quest 100% is less bulky and sweaty, and it includes cameras if people are in your field of control or need to do setup.
It really is much better than the last generation in terms of UX and I have the vive and the entire setup.
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There's no way wrist BPs, taken automatically, will have any useful degree of accuracy. They're pretty useless under ideal conditions as it is.
I'm more worried that he didn't even mention the word "privacy".
The first part of the comment is true, but then unfortunately used to prop up a false claim:

>All the while we've learned that they have utterly sold the company to international electioneers.

This is disinformation, laundered with the trust of the first comment.
Neumorphism will not be a huge [UI] trend in 2020
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You don't need VR for that, only motion controls. Some people have exercise streaks that go on for years on Nintendo's Wii Fit, and Ring Fit Adventure is on the same path.
Thanks for this, I totally missed this nugget. If it's on the front-page it should be made more obvious. Whether it's code or some sort of video, every language should showcase something that tells you what development is like. Code you can interactively compile from a front page is always a plus too.
Yes.

For example, this report from the EU parliament from 2001: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP/...

This details a lot of what we knew about ECHELON from the mid 1990s to 2002: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/EPRS/EPRS_STUDY_538877_Affair...
I tried something like that in 2016 with Javascript. I parsed the source code and put every AST node on IPFS and linked it to the other node using the hashes. The problem was that this is a _lot_ of overhead...
This is much more entertaining when you have family who are PEs and their eye twitches every time.
There are some rust core team members who work at Mozilla (https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/core) but I imagine they don't work exclusively on Rust.
I'd say like anything health related you want to see changes over time. If something suddenly changes for the worse you know something new is going on.

That's why I like have access to consistent health care in my country. Something like an overall rise in blood pressure isn't necessarily something a person will notice. High blood pressure is described as the "silent killer".
We can cross that bridge when we get there. At the moment, getting there seems to be the problem because if you hide problems and you ignore the people complaining about them, then you get the situation we are in.
Syntax is easy to show, but ultimately rather unimportant. If the big idea of a language is something substantial, starting by showing the syntax arguably just creates a distraction.
Brutal basic frictionless simplicity is a good way to put it haha.

That's basically what this script does except it uses separate files. You run `notes something really cool and important` and it creates a YYYY-MM-DD.txt file for you in a configured directory and appends the arguments to the file on a new line. So every day you get a new file.

Or, if you just run `notes` it opens your configured $EDITOR for that specific day so you can go free form.
When I'm bored, I occasionally find myself here: https://unawaz.github.io/stochastic-hill-climbing/tasks/

Unfortunately there isn't a way to submit anything.
It's how I picked my favorite Python web framework, I compared all the hello world samples they all had, and wound up with CherryPy. The rest had too many decorators and it just looked silly to me.

You can also figure out if it's C-like or Lisp-like, and so on from looking at syntax.
I mean, that would probably be true if DNS wasn't distributed and highly cacheable. But seeing that it is I would be surprised if you'd see anything other than statistical anomalies on a domain with even a limited traffic and poorly configured TTLs.
Friendly reminder for people on HN reading this:
I know this is actually quite interesting, but before you start worrying about the latency of the name servers of your TLD, you might want to do something about the metric ton of JavaScript on your site and the 25 different 3rd party servers from which you side load most of it. Also those 6 additional servers from which you load a bunch of TTF fonts. Especially if all your site does is just display some text and two or three pictures.
infinite scrolling is very bad! especially on mobile because on mobile you can accidentally tap on a link or whatever while swipping. happens to me all the time with the youtube app!! infinite scroll needs to go away!
I would have loved if you could trade the 3-week battery life for a 1-day battery life if you could just keep the screen on all the time. I have the same issue with my Galaxy Fit - great band, but I would gladly trade battery life to keep the screen on permanently.
(I work for but don't speak for Fitbit).

If your Versa is still under warranty, get it replaced. Even when the first Versa came out almost 2 years ago, battery life was 4+ days. If you're seeing a 2 day battery life either you're running something unusually battery-hungry on it or you have a defective unit.
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Unions are for the lazy.

Drivers should not be classified as employees.
I expect it to be non-existent for a huge chunk of the economy. Well paid programmer types can FIRE, but honestly they can keep working until they can't sit upright or think clearly. Folks like welders have their eyes and knees go in their 40s.
That's the ideal amount of information.

A reasonable example of a good page that is informative and provides lots of examples (enough at least!) is the one for D:

https://dlang.org/
At $107,000 + 15% taxes I wouldn't want to like it because I wouldn't be able to afford it, or even if it was $50,000.

edit: Canadian dollars and taxes. No we don't have EV rebates in my province.
it evens transmits telemetry to facebook 24x7 when you are not using the headset itself. I have no idea what it is saying, but since I got an oculus, I can see traffic to graph.oculus.com more or less constantly.
Maybe America needs to reinvent generational housing. It makes no sense to put everyone's family in nursing homes. Instead reserve those for people with high needs that cannot be accommodated by traveling nurses. Give tax breaks for retirement aged parents, even if they're working. It won't work for everyone but it's a better solution than massive jail like senior centres for the destitute.
I get nauseous watching handheld video footage for just a few minutes, if the screen is big enough. Obviously VR is going to be a problem (I've tried it, Project Cars in a dedicated VR cabinet setup at a mall, was sick as a dog within minutes).
We've landed in remote job aggregator hell where remote jobs are being aggregated from remote job aggregators.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
From what I understand, the decision to change it from using 2 sensors to 1 sensor was specifically because if the system used 2 sensors it was considered a safety system requiring simulator training for the failure scenarios.

IMO Boeing should be required to separate the military and civilian parts of the company and allow the military side to build civilian aircraft based on existing civilian models. I honestly think it's the only way to save the company, because right now airlines, regulators, pilots and passengers do not trust the current incarnation of Boeing. With their shady culture, we don't know what else is hiding in the airplane. Culture issues aren't solved overnight.

I fly a lot of miles and am the type of person who keeps the airlines in business, and I will not fly on a 737 MAX for the foreseeable future. My coworkers are in the same boat. I don't see the American carriers being able to return these planes to service before 2022. This is absolutely an existential threat to the US aviation industry, and I think the only solution is to split Boeing up.
Which is funny because there's also backlash against Computer Science that it is not in fact a science, which is why they added math courses to some degrees, at least here in Florida. I think Computer Programming is just probably best described as Computer Programming but I do like saying Software Engineer every time someone asks just because it sounds good enough to me. Until they standardize our title into one single thing, I'll just go by SE.
The real question is HAL Sentient at this point
Such styles of living space and architecture are only popular until there's a fire or earthquake. Then everybody dies.
Very impressed how the author was able to bootstrap your way into a good job.
I agree with providing citations if the situation warrants it. This comment is an aside with a recent, topical, well covered and easily verifiable anecdote, a citation is not needed or warranted.

This is NOT the hill for citation fanatics to die on.

[edit] also another comment had already provided a citation, in fact the citation you provided, so you or I providing the citation was unnecessary so I don't understand your point
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Not at all really. Danese Cooper says that Cantrill is not a reliable witness and one can say he also has an agenda to distort the facts in this way [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22008921
This is a "carbon fascist" POV - to borrow a line from Ian M Banks.

Q is, is HAL a person
you can infer a lot; is it LISPy, is it C-ish, or one of the Haskell family, etc. I think you can tell a lot from just which family of syntax.
Hell yea, we can finally move forward with editors now. No more saving files with syntax errors. I imagine you could move a lot of paredit functionality into an editor like this, or have excellent voice editing.
I assume it may not be a popular opinion here, but it would be so much easier if projects like Rust could have a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) instead of a foundation, and a blockchain account managed by this DAO instead of a bank account.

The main issues I see with this idea are volatility of cryptocurrencies prices, inability of paying with cryptocurrencies in most cases atm, environmental issues regarding the blockchain and the infantry of DAO governing models.

But as an abstract idea I believe DAOs will replace foundations at some point in the future, making such discussions much easier.
I wasn't agreeing with the original claim, though it's probably somewhat accurate, nor that this news item supports that claim. Just disputing that a citation was required for that claim in this forum.
My suggestion is to just stop doing it, especially if you start sleeping worse (the first symptom if you're affected). My life was ruined by not caring about living near a highway even though I easily had the money to get into a better apartment.

Now for the past 5 years (I'm 38 now) my life is about trying to find places with clean enough air, which is much harder and more expensive in winter time.

I'm always looking at experiments that reverse methylation damage, and hoping that those experiments succeed before I get cancer, but there's only 1 successful experiment so far, and I have no idea if it would help me.
Why do you claim there is no known method to increase IQ? I can definitely tell a difference in my cognitive performance based on certain practices. For instance, the better I can hold a concept entirely in my head, the better and more rapidly I can reason about it. During a period I was memorizing and solving Soduku entirely in my head, and that produced a noticeable improvement in my memory capability.

On the other hand, the less sleep I get, if I am out of shape, feeling depressed, etc. all have a negative impact on my cognitive performance.

So, while there may be individualized hard limits on cognitive performance, it also seems clearly the case that an individual's cognitive performance can be greatly improved through various habits. Think of it akin to athletic training. Some people are born with an athletic predisposition, but everyone still benefits from working out, training and diet. Hard to see why the same cannot be true for cognitive performance.

Now, taking the topic of reading vs more sensory media such as TV, the former require more internal cognitive processing to understand, whereas the latter minimize the amount of focus needed to consume the media. Based on my previous analysis, it would make sense that a reading habit would produce a higher cognitive performing individual than just consuming sensory media.
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To add to this, one thing people tend to forget is that html has a dns prefetch option for offsite js you absolutely must have. (rel=dns-prefetch)

Of course I agree with goliath, which is why I try very hard to write pure html5+css3 with no JS unless absolutely necessary. It is very rarely necessary. When it is, very rarely do I need one of the crazy frameworks, pure js works pretty well.

Beyond that, this is why adblocker plus and umatrix are two must have addons to firefox. Once you build your asset rule list up with only the couple of js needed to run a site, the same site that takes forever for the average visitor can actually be fairly speedy when none of it's js loads.

Now, for original topic, if you are on windows check out GRC's DNS Benchmark, and if on nix, check out namebench.
> elevated diastolic (lower) pressure

Somewhat tangential, but what is this usually an indicator of?

My pressure will sometimes be 115/85, and the 85 seems kind of high. Just curious what causes this and how to fix it.
But it is compensated for by the sites that actually work better when you strip their non-local JS from them. I've lost track of the number of times I've come to the HN comments and read about how unreadable the page was due to all the popups and ads and modal dialogs when I just read the text. You're absolutely not wrong that some sites get worse, but it's not one-sided in that direction.
> should the Foundation be a 501(c)(3) (a non-profit, in other words) or not?

If you go the independent foundation route, choosing 501(c)(3) would be in keeping with the stated priority to have Rust's governance be independent. This makes it more difficult for corporations to control the foundation's direction through insisting that their donations be used for specific purposes, because donations to a 501(c)(3) cannot unduly advantage any commercial entity.

ETA: There are different types of "non-profit" organizations under IRS code 501. 501(c)(3) is a "Charitable Organization", and donations are tax deductible. (Tax-deductible donations cannot be used to unduly advantage a commercial entity because if they were, the business could avoid paying taxes on funds they use to further their own initiatives.) 501(c)(6) is a "Business League", where donations are not tax deductible, so donors have much more leverage.
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Cool. In other news: storage on Linux is still kindergarten shit.
My first thought. I'm a licensed Professional Engineer. If I build something and "stamp" it for approval I am legally held responsible for negligence of work.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/ethics/code-ethics

This is something I've been wondering about the Software Engineering profession. As software becomes more "blackbox" or AI if you will should this profession be required for licensure as well. Especially if the software design is used in public service.
I did. I created a simple html form to input/edit/enter queries, and I had an html index holding common database queries. It worked extremely well as far as that goes, and it only took 90 minutes or so to get it working, so really a trivial setup cost.

There were two things I didn't like about it. I realized that browsability is really important - an SQL database works well if you know what to query, but it's just easier to have an old Yahoo-style index. I went with a wiki approach instead. The other thing is that it's easy to use version control with a pile of text files, but not so much with a database.

These days I do have some things in a "database" but that is a big text file that I query using Linux tools like grep and sed. Does everything I need and plays well with version control.
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It's really hard to believe that arson didn't cause at least part of the fires:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/australia/australia-fires-pol...

While it may not be 200, likes some sites have exaggerated, it's a nonzero number.
Looking at their GitHub [1], it's been actively developed and open source since 2013.

[1] https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
I just got laid off because management overspent on engineering in FY19 and the sales numbers missed the forecast by a country mile.

They're tightening the belts so my entire team got jettisoned. And we were a pretty efficient team.
Yeah, the evidence they cite for VR declining seems to be entirely within the space of 3DoF VR, like Google's Daydream and VR video:

> Many big name adopters have abandoned their VR projects. Google recently halted sales of Daydream, its VR headset, admitting that "there just hasn't been the broad consumer or developer adoption we had hoped".

> Meanwhile, the BBC has announced it is ending the funding for its VR hub, less than two years after it was founded.

6DoF VR with tracked controllers (Quest, Valve Index) is a whole different beast, and actually seems to be gaining momentum lately.
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stop with conspiracy theories.
For many programming languages the line count of "hello, world!" program is exactly one.

So you can deduce something just from a line count of simple program alone - for one such deduction is an answer to a question "are there at least some attempts to provide useful defaults?"
I looked up what "clinical validation" meant for blood pressure monitors -- apparently it's a real term with a (somewhat) specific meaning! Omron lists all their devices, and what they passed [1]. Interestingly, out of dozens of devices, this is the only one they make which isn't validated by ESH-IP. I wonder why.

[1]: https://omronhealthcare.com/service-and-support/clinical-val...
Sold 1.6 million in 2019. Compare that with the switch, that sold 12 million in 2019.
By simply compensating engineers more, do you think it would be possible for Britain to have a bigger tech scene? In other words, as an American company, would it be beneficial to post jobs in Britain that are above market rate but still less than the US? As many companies are backtracking from India this could be an opportunity
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