skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd just like to say, before the mods change the thread link, that the original article is important to understand the context of why air filters were installed.

Even if the Vox article is potentially flawed you need to read both to grasp the full picture.
Since at least Rust depends on the system C library, it gets ASLR whether it needs it or not.
Well your finding is wrong. Well designed cities, which are dense and encourage walking, have lots of small businesses along the sidewalk etc., lead to lower occurrence of loneliness and depression (vs. suburban areas).
> So any discussion about the ethics involved here should also ask: "what are the ethics of coercing people to calm down with drugs?"

My mother currently has dementia and my father had it before he died.

The confusion and unhappiness these people suffer from due to their illness should not be ignored. If they're in a nursing home, its even worse. In many cases it's quite humane to numb them up. Especially if they don't have loved ones to help them. There is no cure, there is no getting better. There is only getting worse and certain death. And they instinctively know something is wrong.

My mother is currently on two anti-depressant/anti-anxiety meds to help, and its made things much much better for her. No more worrying and confusion over everything, no more phone calls crying. She just goes about doing normal things without being upset.
I'm not going to negate you here, because you have a lifetime of lived experience and I don't doubt your pain is and has been real. Yet people suffer in many ways and there are some deeply twisted realities that many people have lived. In our darkest moments we all feel we are the tortured one, but that is not the whole truth either. It is tempting to believe that we are at war with an implacable, all-powerful enemy. But truthfully, we are only at war with our own minds.

The mind is ultimately a digging machine. It matters a lot where you point it, more even the lens through which you interpret all that you see. Some very disadvantaged people have put forth some incredible feats of overcoming. They refused to be defined by their disabilities, their pain, their hardship--and refused to rue their existence. This engine grinds us all, but this world is no hell. And that damn octopus, maybe he reaches the height of ecstasy in that moment, an orgasm beyond belief. Wicked is a judgment.
You might know this but be aware that lab testing companies have lowered the acceptable range of testosterone from 348-1197 ng/dL to 264-916 ng/dL, a ~25% decrease. Source: https://www.labcorp.com/assets/11476
At home it matters too. I recover faster from chest colds when I remember to keep the HEPA filter running. (instead of a simple speed knob, it boots up to a multilingual color display that I can't even dim, and of course the filter defaults to "off")

Here is a common air quality problem. Anybody have ideas?

My house is in a hot and humid area, so I run the air conditioning most of the year. The duct work appears to be made of bare fiberglass pressed into sheets, with foil on the outside. This is cheap, quiet, and thermally insulating. It does however have a soft highly porous surface that collects black mold.

It doesn't appear possible to do anything about the mold. Thanks to the soft porous surface, scrubbing would tear up the ducts and be ineffective.

Ideally the ducts would have a polished bare silver surface, sturdy enough to scrub. Well, nobody has that, it would be expensive, and I'd have to rip out the drywall of nearly every room in order to install something like that.

What do I do?
Video puzzle game (hard but cool)
> Looks like they've taken Too Much Crypto to heart

Not surprising considering that one of they is the author of Too Much Crypto
Partially because their min wage is 0
https://www.gardenmyths.com/houseplants-increase-oxygen-leve... did some looking into this possibility.

The TL;DR is that you're not likely to have enough plants to make a significant difference in terms of CO2/oxygen.

Doesn't mean there's no positive effect, but it's probably not due to oxygen levels.
Oracle doesn't own all the rights to OpenZFS, people are intentionally adding their own copyright to ensure it stays under a copyleft license, and Oracle can't make it closed source by owning the rights (which they did with the old version).
You are going to need to provide further explanation why, because your view does not at all fit with consensus.
Some cross section is nicely illustrated at

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/11/an-illustrated-cross-...
You're effectively solving the problem of small work items by making them larger. Alas, doing so in the workers introduces new failure modes.

If the work items are atomically enqueued one at a time while there are free workers, then they will also be dequeued one at a time. This can be mitigated by enqueuing work in batches.

Workers also hold the lock for much longer, adding more contention on the FIFO.

If you're going to do that, you're usually better off just making the work items bigger on the producer side.
Same data center is a single failure zone if simply because of:

1. Power delivery systems that bring power to the buildings - see issues at 111 8th Ave failures during Sandy.

2. Power systems inside the data center. Blast radius there is rather nasty. See the infamous Internap blow up around 2015(?).

3. Fire suppression/firefighting protocols.
Housing is artificially constrained due to zoning regulation, and in any given area there is a small number of major landlords, who all know each other and who all are politically well connected. UBI will be a conduit to funnel money from the taxpayers to large landowners.
Why AlphaStar Had Superhuman Mechanics and the Limits of Imitation Learning
I'm pretty sure there are exactly zero SWEs weighing a 200k rest-and-vest offer from google and an 80k slave labor contract from Blizzard and struggling to decide where to go.

I'd be interested to be proven wrong though
it's all the same photon
Why are some things not darker when wet?
My photo app was featured under Apps We Love
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21945829&goto=threads%...

>My big prediction is in physics:
Thanks to Einstein we live in a 4D reality, 3 spatial dimensions and the dimension of time.

In the next 10 years I predict our understanding of physics will evolve (with a confirmation through observation) from us being 3D beings living in a 4D reality to...something more.
ZFS performs quite well if you give it boatloads of RAM. It uses its own cache layer, and eats RAM like hotcakes. XFS OTOH is as fast as the hardware can go with any amount of RAM.
I'm not sure I'd agree with the men's clinics that will probably more easily sell you appointments for test. prescriptions, but on the other hand LabCorp recently lowered their average range because of the declining measures in the population: https://www.labcorp.com/assets/11476

I think assuming this is the new norm for humans is a mistake, and should instead be treated as a widespread health issue.
64 bytes happens to be the typical cache line size so it makes sense to use it as a block size.
Because of the ridiculous handling of spectrum auctions. In Finland all auction profits are invested in a single shared network from which every telecom operator provides services from.

The rest of Europe has made the decision to leave the network up to the Telcos while using the funds of the auction as a tax income stream for government. This means a significant increased operating costs for every operator for which the end consumer pays the price. Both in higher subscription costs and less competition.
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I asked what you wanted to know, but reading this response, it doesn't seem like you want to know things so much as to fulminate against HN and how it is moderated.

and instead of reflecting on that for a minute you will continue on in exactly the same manner.

I was able to contribute to this site for years without issue before you came along. I find the moderation here now arbitrary, heavy handed, and pretty extremely biased.

> You, on the other hand, have been posting obviously flamebaity and ideological battle comments as well as fuming about "groupthink" and "wrongthink" and downvoting and how awful everything here is

Having and expressing any sort of ideology is against the rules. Great thanks.

Higher karma users have the ability to downvote. They use that to enforce their ideology. Anything that goes against the grain too much immediately gets downvoted and flagged. You personally described the my comment on wage slavery being bad as an "empty cliche". That's not condescending low effort flamebait?

You are so entrenched in your own ideology you can't even tell how deep you've gone. Just completely impossible to reason with.
What are the most popular tools used for ediscovery?
easyDNS for domains

Keeping registrar and hosting separated seems like a good idea.
There's a slider to move yourself in the extra dimension.
Nope, I just didn't realize linking to the post wasn't enough to find my comment.

Figured once there it would be pretty trivial to search for my name.

anyway linked above you, so know you have something else to lol about
>"Really good advice to get a Will + DNR"

I'm curious about two things:

1) are you advocating getting a flat out DNR order in your advanced directives / living will (do not ressus, period)? or just having advanced medical directives which say when you should be a DNR case?

If the former then I think that is a more nuanced discussion than just "good advice", considering you might be facing a reversible drug overdose for instance [2].

2) Do these the law firms typically walk through all the hypothetical scenarios to say under which one you should be DNR? The reversible overdose etc. case is one which I would be interested in vs. long-term vegetative state, etc. - I would understandably want to clarify there.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_resuscitate#Risks

2 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986316/
Can you expand? I'm no expert - use linux daily but have always just used distro default file system. Linus' reasons for not integrating seems pretty sensible to me. Oracle certainly has form on the litigation front.
I would really much prefer reading this on a webpage where the text size, color palette, and pagination are scaled to my viewport and preferences.
This book has some good info:
Norwegian Secrets for Bringing Natural Air and Light into Your Home and Office to Dramatically Improve Health and Happiness

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062896223/skogluft/
> It has been known within public health for decades

If public health officials were running the planet, we'd all be better off.
Interesting article that goes into some of the details of China’s energy price regulation and planning. Apparently they had been fixing both input and output prices. I can see how this could easily produce this “weird” situation: mismatches between perceived and actual demand could easily develop and expected coal generation project risk and profitability could be an illusion.

Even these modest reforms could drastically change things. Perhaps they will realize that the projects don’t make sense either financially or environmentally. More likely overbuilding will continue and this will just become yet another unbalanced sector of the Chinese economy.
NASA Animates World Path of Smoke and Aerosols from Australian Fires
> Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors

Whatever the inventors were thinking of doing with this technology will probably never be realized, now that LCD monitors have almost universally replaced CRT monitors.
more likely to be religious

That's not necessarily a contradiction, since churches double as social clubs and Christian charity means supporting your neighbour who is in trouble. So if you are active in a church you belong to a circle that is a little less dog-eat-dog. Same thing with immigrant communities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcEpmm1vLiU
> Namecheap, Cloudflare, GoDaddy and Name.com

Avoid GoDaddy at all costs!
> I stopped thinking of my DNA as a secret when I realized how impossible it is to keep other people from having access to it.

The idea isn't 100% security or nothing, but to make it harder for the data to be exploited.

Lots of our personal data isn't a well kept secret, but I also don't give it to any company that asks for it, unlike my shoe size.
Given that the statistical economic value of human life is around $7m, maybe he should start picking up his phone.
agree, I actually expect there to be all sorts of positive correlations with clean air - but they all start with caring about it enough to do something like change a filter
Thanks! I have an unused Pi lying around so it's a great suggestion for me.
As an advocate for more indoor plants, I’m glad they’re making your environments feel better! The “taste” you’re describing is probably just the normal byproducts of the bacteria in the plant soil. Most folks plants collections don’t actually produce the amount of oxygen and filtration that the Internet would have you believe. Unless you’ve created a near greenhouse. Which I’d be a fan of. But I feel that they do make out living spaces feel cozier and smell better :)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/indoor-p...
> Photosynthesis converts CO2 to O2, but plants also respire. During respiration they convert sugar and oxygen into CO2 and water. This is the reverse of photosynthesis, and it happens in all cells, all of the time, day and night.

Interesting, I wonder how that'll contribute to the snowball effect of global warming since as it gets hotter I'm sure they'll perspire more.
>I don't assume intentional dishonesty here because the risk of being completely discredited is way too high.

We're talking about the prediction "These glaciers will be gone by 2020".

And I'm not going to subject myself to a bunch of science denier sites to come back with a list of other failed predictions, but there are quite a few of them. Ones that are far more dire and breathless than a tourist trap going away.

If there's a risk of being discredited, it doesn't appear to apply to this topic. Intentional dishonesty? Nah, this is more like depraved indifference. There are no consequences for speaking out one's ass, and most attempts to enforce those consequences socially gets one branded as a "denier".
Absolutely. They will pass the bill and stop there. Very important to hold the line on this.
Launching satellites is far from trivial.

May be I am a sucker for all things space related, but that made the article interesting.
> I wonder how confident we are in those measurements?

Very.

Thermometer calibration occurs around known values. Like the melting point of ice and boiling point of water at STP. It’s possible for individual measurements to be off significantly, but long term trends like this cover a huge range of manufacturers so the calibration points would need to be shifting around.
I'm baffled by such arguments.

> It doesn't seem to be well-maintained.

The last commit is from 3 hours ago: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commits/master. They have dozens of commits per month. The last minor release, 0.8, brought significant improvements (my favorite: FS-level encryption).

Or maybe this is referred to the 5.0 kernel (initial) incompatibility? That wasn't the ZFS dev team's fault.

> Performance is not that great compared to the alternatives.

There are no (stable) alternatives. BTRFS certainly not, as it's "under heavy development"¹ (since... forever).

> The kernel team may break it at any time, and won't care if they do.

That's true, however, the amount is breakage is no different from any other out-of-tree module, and it unlikely to happen with a patch version of a working kernel (in fact, it happen with the 5.0 release).

> Using it opens you up to the threat of lawsuits from Oracle. Given history, this is a real threat. (This is one that should be high for Linus but not for me - there is no conceivable reason that Oracle would want to threaten me with a lawsuit.)

"Using" it won't open to lawsuits; ZFS has a CDDL license, which is a free and open-source software license.

The problem is (taking Ubuntu as representative) shipping the compiled module along with the kernel, which is an entirely different matter.

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[¹] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page#Stability_...
> downvotes were from other users.

Well of course they were. High karma users get to decide what is allowed on HN.

It's a pretty bad system.
I really wish this was a continuing series on research that gets picked up in the popular media. There's so much questionable coverage out there.
If you don't word it right, it seems to me you could also be facing a short-term reversible condition - someone elses mistake even - and they would be legally bound to let you go. Which would be equally devastating to my family:

>"...Upon transfer to the ward, the patient was inadvertently given hydromorphone instead of morphine. Shortly thereafter she was found not breathing. Resuscitation was not performed because of a do-not-resuscitate order on her medical record." [1]

... A narcan dose would reverse the above in about 20 seconds, but instead the patient died.

... this is why I asked GP about how these things are drawn up - I have to imagine it is scenario based?

1- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986316/
Hmm, I guess it depends on how letter vs. spirit you'd like to interpret that in. It is still a project I spent years working on that I'd like to share with the community and get feedback on, so that I can potentially make it available.

Unfortunately at the moment there isn't really a reasonable way for me to make binaries available that would be useful for much. I'm going to go make a sandwich and then think a bit more about whether there's something I can do, though.

I assume the mods are fine wit it since they've already revised the title once.
What is chuckle worthy about the government running healthcare? Plenty of countries have good government run healthcare system. Several studies have found that patients on Medicare are generally more satisfied with their healthcare than patients with private insurance. Government can run health care.
> Now all they have to do is bring back Microsoft Money!

They call it Excel.

Which is sadly not as facetious as it sounds. Microsoft's smaller finance tools had to compete not just externally with Intuit's and Peachtree/Sage's products but internally with Excel, and Excel has long held steady somewhere in the second or third most commonly used personal and small business finance tool.

(Source/disclaimer: I was a college intern for what for most of my time there was called Microsoft Small Business Accounting, briefly in my experience there was called Microsoft Office Accounting, and sadly didn't survive as a product during the time it took me to finish my degrees. IMNSHO it was a really good product, and I'm sad it never had the chance it deserved, because it sadly wasn't possible to beat Excel for market penetration, even bundled right next to Excel.)
Are you being facetious? I don't think the candidate's favorite music genre is being explicitly used as a job qualification. They're not filtering on it because it's relevant to the job.
Necessary but not sufficient and all that... In how Asia works, Studwell argued quite convincingly how land reforms in Japan, South Korea, etc. was a prelude to successful industrialization because it allowed creating financial surplus thanks to increase agricultural output across a significant part of the population.

And in China, it is well acknowledged that the reform from 1978 were a significant step toward China economic growth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_Rural_Reform
It’s a bargaining device.
There are also data structures such as zippers which are immutable but minimize the amount of data you need to copy, at the cost of potentially using more space overall. Zippers are cool because they can be generalized to many different types of data structures as long as they can be expressed as algebraic data types.
NYC is a shit hole, what do you expect?
Google it
Raising minimum wage will push automation even further, making currently productive people switch to be welfare-dependent. Financed by taxes on the tech industry. This is a recipe for dystopia.
To live, you need ~400L of O2/day.

If you want your plants to provide even 10% of that number - 40L, your houseplants will need to take CO2 out of the air, store the carbon, and release the oxygen.

This means that they will need to grow by ~300g - nearly a pound, a day, in order to produce 40L of oxygen.

Unless your home is a wild, gymnasium-sized jungle, your houseplants aren't producing any measurable amounts of oxygen. And, as a bonus point, they aren't even cleaning your air. (Although they do provide a lot of new surfaces for dust to settle, that you have to clean.)

If you want to breathe better, open your windows. If your outside air has too much crap in it, buy a HEPA filter. If you breathe fine, and there's too much crap in the air, buy a fan with a HEPA filter attached to it (Also known as an air purifier.)

If you want plants near you, buy plants.
Much to be made about Zizek's observation that there are false characterizations of the problems of a situation emerging from those same situations. Proposals are made to solve the problems that society faces, which are broadly in agreement with the systems that produce the perceived problems, so rather than retarding societies progress toward a certain predicted endpoint, it actually gets society to where it was already going, quicker.
I continue to be amazed by how much of the life/world is captured on mobile phone cameras and satellites nowadays. Someone pointing their camera towards the plane just when the missile hits it is astounding!
A couple more god journalistic explorations of it from Wall St. Journal and the South China Morning Post:

http://projects.wsj.com/kwc/

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1191748/kowloon-...
> Now I can see VueJS is moving towards TypeScript and forced bundling.

Vue.js using TypeScript doesn't mean that you'll have to. You can continue to ignore it and enjoy using plain old JavaScript (albeit with more informative feedback in your IDE).

Also, you'll continue to be able to include Vue.js with a <SCRIPT> tag, as easily as you did jQuery.

This is helpful if you want to get some reassurance right from the source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLpLYhnGqPA
I know Microsoft was really big back then, but why BeOS and OS/2 Warp never get into and GNU/Linux did?
bellingcat (belling the cat, get it?) does open-source intelligence. Here's their thread regarding the coming NYT piece today: https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1215354416951365632

Here's another good article from NYT today focusing on more than just the video: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/world/middleeast/iran-pla...
Is that kind of thing a concern in other thread-pool implementations too?
Might there soon be a supernova near Earth?
Is that literally what the doctor said, or is it possible there was a misunderstanding?
Shopping Mall Vacancies Hit 8-Year High
Sounds like you turned on dedupe, or had an absurdly wide stripe size. You do need to match your array structure to your needs as well as tune ZFS.

On our backup servers (45 disks, 6-wide Z2 stripes) easily handle wire-speed 10G with 32G ARC.

And you're just wrong about snapshots and filesystem counts.

ZFS is no speed demon, but it performs just fine if you set it up correctly and tune it.
Corded products are underrated. It's a hassle to deal with the cord, but it's worth it when not needing to worry about if the battery is charged when you start, the battery running out mid-task, or plugging in the battery to charge after and remembering to unplug it later.

The issue with the cord can be greatly improved by having a nice retractible extension cord. Easy to take out, easy to put back, easy to move, easy to store.