skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. There's no decent replacement for ZFS. I use ZFS + KVM + Sanoid + Borg(matic) + Borgbase. With the native encryption and TRIM support added to ZFS in 0.8 there isn't anything close in terms of ease of use.

Linus seems out of touch on this one IMHO.
The referenced article there explicitly does not give a mechanism:

Changes in the brain chemistry or composition are likely more plausible channels between air pollution and cognition. It is beyond the scope of this paper to test the exact mechanism, so we leave it as agenda for future research.
Life insurance should pay after a couple years in the US even for suicide:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/insurance/life/does-life-ins...
You might leave DNA everywhere but that does not tie it back to your identity. The secret is who's DNA it is, not the DNA itself. And that's the secret you pay to give to 23andMe when you sign up. Anywhere you leave your DNA can now be tied back to you. Even if you sign up with a fake identity (which is hard since you have to give them a credit card) 23andMe can find the DNA's relatives that are in their database and that can easily lead back to you.
NASA and JPL do similar things with Mars surface images to bring out details and color differences. The orange dusty sky normally washes everything in an orange tint and softens shading.
Thanks, and glad to hear! Yeah... having it connected to IntelliJ was something that seemed always 'around the corner' for years. I think I will forever be annoyed working on projects without having something like this around—so hopefully someone will get to it eventually.

It seems like there is more interest in this 'direction' these days though: I saw something new from the Firefox dev tools the other day whose time-navigation felt very similar (I'll see if I can find it), and the Clojure REBL project feels philosophically aligned. And I've seen a few others.

Using it in VR would be awesome :D

Edit: I think this was the Firefox devtools thing I was thinking of: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
None of these are good reasons to purposely hinder the optional use of ZFS as a third party module by users, which is what Linux is doing.
Fwiw about a year ago I got the Peanut, a professional plug-in trimmer that costs $45. It works way better than any battery-powered trimmer I've tried.

Only drawback is that you change the length by replacing the guard instead of just sliding it to a different position; one day I didn't notice the guard was off and with one swipe it was too late to salvage my beard. I removed the rest and started over; luckily I keep it short anyway.
SQL Server Reporting Services (It is free but big)?
MS Access Pass Trough Querys + Reports?
Power BI Desktop in DirectQuery mode?
Jupyter Notebooks?
Ask HN: How do you organize and pick a week long retreat for small group?
We're looking to do some bi-monthly trips where our remote team of 7 can fly to another country or city and work for a week together. But it seems like all the flight schedulers are built for individuals -- kayak or google flight. And then of course we are looking to find an AirBnB that we can all stay in.

I've done some searching, but have have found a small agency that can plan and organize all of this for us. In my ideal world, we could pay someone like $50 a head to search and organize several options for us to choose from. No reselling or anything. Basically just a person/company to do all the discovery work.

Any ideas on where to go? Feels like there should be a company out there to do this.
Andrew Gelman: "No, I don’t think that this study offers good evidence that installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits."

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/01/09/no-i-dont-...
I started https://roadmap.sh with the hopes of doing something similar. It currently only has a few items that I have expertise in plus in the form of a visual representation, however I am going to change it and will soon be reaching out to other people for contributions. It is one of my goals this year to focus fully on it.

If you or anyone else would like to contribute, feel free to reach out, the codebase is opensource at https://github.com/kamranahmedse/roadmap.sh
>(now I know where it comes from)

Both Julia and Ruby got this from Scheme and it might be even older than that.
Article says

> It's not clear precisely how pollution impacts cognitive decline, though Chen suggests that pollution may have a negative effect on the brain's white matter, which could vary between men and women. As NPR has reported, "the brain's white matter coordinates communication among brain regions."

> James Hendrix, the director of Global Science Initiatives at the Alzheimer's Association, was skeptical of the claim that pollution impacts white matter. "I think that's speculation. I think we don't have a direct cause and effect that can be proven," he said.
Half of the reason I enjoy working from home, is that my office has horrible stagnant air. I think far better anywhere (home, coffee shops, the park) that isn't my office.
I mean the data by race suggests it’s not economic, right? Black, Hispanic, and Asian people have half the suicide rate of non-Hispanic white people.

Another anomaly: Hispanic people have the second highest life expectancies in the United States (after Asians), significantly higher than non-Hispanic whites, despite on average having lower incomes and health insurance coeverage.
New Zealand has a high minimum wage https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=RMW

New Zealand also has a terrible youth suicide rate.
http://socialreport.msd.govt.nz/health/suicide.html
"New Zealand’s youth (15–24 years) suicide rate was the highest among the 34 OECD countries, ahead of Finland for males and Korea for females."
- Nine counties

- 7,000m^2

- 7.75 million people

- 101 municipal governments

Shocking that we only have 31+ transit agencies. The place is dense!
Marsupials are proof that Australia's climate has been hostile for a long time.

Eucalyptus trees are evolved to make oil that volatizes in heat, and makes the atmosphere of entire valleys combustible in the dry season.

Australia being on fire is just Australia.
after a quick look through thru, this is a very low quality almost self-helpish kind of site

doesnt seem to be anything really worhtwhile on this site

- https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fs.blog

- https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fs.blog&next=20809135

just basic things, most of it not actually accurate

but it may be better than a lot of the sites out there, def better than reddit, nothing could be worst than reddit for sure
Good observation. My personal POV is that the best way to optimize your Python code is to use native code (whether as libraries or through pure Python code that is essentially a thin wrapper over C) rather than living in the interpreter. I want to see the parts of the program that are spending that time in the interpreter.

In short, a profiler that tells me that a program is spending a lot of time in C is not generally providing me particularly actionable information.

(In any event, the top-line report is that the Python part of the program only accounts for 33.66% of the execution time, which looks just about right.)
We can have get accidental death up to second place by banning railings, air bags, helmets, and tire tread patterns.

In other words, was there really a spike in youth suicide or did it just climb in rank because we reduced other causes of death? Something must be first, something must be second, and so on.
Nothing to be sorry about, and even though its anxiety inducing, I've bookmarked it ;)

It isn't the app that causes it, I think. It is the ability to see how much is left until the end and how much has already passed.
Have been reading Rutger Bregman’s book and UBI seems to be an incredible money saver and immense benefit. It would take however a big jump in consciousness to do something like this because who would take the shorty jobs paying 1/3 living wage if no one is afraid Of homelessness?
Your first link says the mechanism is unknown right in the beginning. Third link doesn't mention mechanisms at all. Only the second link attempts some guesses. But it still concludes that "It is beyond the scope of this paper to test the exact mechanism, so we leave it as agenda for future research."
Are you familiar with a paper called Synergy of Monotonic Rules?

http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume17/16-137/16-137.pdf

The math there is above my paygrade, but it describes a way to structurally combine a certain class of ML models for very significant performance gains. More importantly, it describes why it works.
When everybody raises prices at the same time, business survive.
So I guess at that point "wait time" just becomes a vanity metric? Or to show their clients "we only make callers wait X amount of time compared to our competitors"?
Here are some more that I've used or seen:

* lsd - https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd

* sk - https://github.com/lotabout/skim

* hx - https://github.com/sitkevij/hex
I looked into getting a tattoo as a DNR (in case I couldn't communicate), and there's a lot of problems with the idea. Firstly, emergency room staff aren't looking for tattoos - they're trying to ensure breathing, stopping bloodloss, and so on. And if they do happen to look for a tattoo, there's no standard location or design of them, so if they see one, they may just assume it's artistic and not a legally-enforceable DNR (or even a hint to look for DNR paperwork).
> it was literally _FREE_ for carriers to implement, and per message data rates were like 6000 times that of a normal 2G packet

Similar story to mobile data roaming. It's crazy expensive... until the EU says that's a joke and they must stop. Now you get free data roaming across EU without higher plan prices and somehow operators can still compete on those prices.
This is because people frequently try to scam stores by swapping labels and such.
I think it can be in some places. For example Lisbon, Portugal has decent weather all-year (not too cold, not snowy nor very rainy), lots of tourists, low labour costs; plus a fairly clean electricity supply. The only drawback is the lack of separated lanes, but most cities are working on improving that.

It's probably more niche than these companies hoped for, but I think a profitable business can be made from it.
My comment is definitely an oversimplification that takes into account the rest of the context of the article which outlines all the differences which makes the author's work transformative enough to count. You're right that derivative works aren't a straight up protected use as my comment stated. However, "Not at all" is wrong, because derivative works are protected within the doctrine of Fair Use provided the work satisfies enough of the four-rule doctrine to qualify [1]. Transformative works are a subset of derivative works which are protected [2].

EDIT:

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html
[2] https://foundrylawgroup.com/copyright-copywrong-what-are-der...
The apa article seems to have the best info. This is from a study of genetically identical mice:

To find out more about the underlying cause of those behavioral changes, Nelson compared the brains of mice that had been exposed to dirty air with brains of mice that hadn't. He found a number of striking differences. For starters, mice exposed to particulate matter had increased levels of cytokines in the brain. (Cytokines are cell-signaling molecules that regulate the body's inflammatory response.) That wasn't entirely surprising, since previous studies investigating the cardiovascular effects of air pollution on mice had found widespread bodily inflammation in mice exposed to the pollution.

More surprisingly, Nelson also discovered physical changes to the nerve cells in the mouse hippocampus, a region known to play a role in spatial memory. Exposed mice had fewer spines on the tips of the neurons in this brain region. "Those [spines] form the connections to other cells," Nelson says. "So you have less dendritic complexity, and that's usually correlated with a poorer memory."

The changes are alarming and surprising, he says. "I never thought we'd actually see changes in brain structure."
Doesn’t it make more sense to prosecute the companies rather than just bypassing them by making it yourself?

Also, CA wouldn’t be making the drug, but rather contracting with a generic company.
How much research has been done into the positive effects of global warming? More rainfall, warmer waters, more tropical climate. It's hard to believe these things might be bad.

Has no one done this kind of research before?
I've actually purchased a couple of indoor plants, a snake plant and a peace lily, to help generate oxygen indoors. I noticed the air "tasted" better about a week after I put them in the room. And I also noticed the air in my office feels better than the air in my apartment which has no plants. Whether that's something measurable I don't know, but while having these plants here I feel like I perform better.
Assuming the filters do what the article supposes they do, what would be the cheapest and easiest way to test the air quality in my home and workplace?
You assume any of those nations will still be around in 100K years. On those sorts of timescales, people aren't migrating; old civilizations are disappearing in those places and new civilizations are forming from scratch in the newly-livable places.
You said that you are of the camp that ‘ideas of worthless’. That strikes me as predatory.

People who are technical and don’t have creativity to come up with new ideas should be employees, not creators. People who can come up with ideas but cannot manage need managers. All those who cannot come up with any of the above should be investors.

It is a cunning trick that I observed in the past decade in the start up scene. Instinctively I don’t trust anyone who says that ‘ideas are worthless’.

Perhaps this is the reason why many start ups fail. There is no creator or domain expert. I see that in Agtech. The best Agtech companies are those who have some connection to farming. A handful of them are technical.

Even those who are technical do not work in the field. It is the uneducated non technical Joses and Marias who are immigrant labour that do all the work that needs to be automated.

They are not technical. They barely know English. But by not including those who Agtech is seeking to replace with tech and robots at the table, they set themselves up for failure.

I have a small farm and a little technical, but Ag robotics is multiple platforms. As a small farm owner who also has to keep the farm financially solvent and someone who also does manual work that needs to be replaced, I can spot right away how many of the Agtech companies will fail. And most of them will fail. The ones that will make it are those who have someone in the team with in-field experience.

It’s this non technical team that will come up with the best ideas because they know where they need help desperately. This is also why Europe will likely succeed first in Agtech than America. Because they have technical expertise as well as the idea team.

I hope those who dismiss ideas will reconsider. An idea is like a possibility. There are many ways it can fail and a narrower path to succeed. Only the person who came up with the idea will know the limitations and by excluding them, the chances of failures are multiplied.

As an aside: YC is also guilty of this dismissive attitude. This is also why most start ups will fail. Failure is not necessarily a bad thing but failed start ups are graveyard of what may have succeeded. It’s an enormous waste of space and resources. The only upside is redistribution of capital and creation of jobs. Hence even failed start ups and bad ideas that get funding is not necessary a bad thing. If we don’t have jobs, I guess there won’t be a way to employ the hordes of STEM educated young people pouring out into the world as they come of age.
> But even thought I have good insurance ... there just isn't availability at all.

Were you only asking therapists who would accept your insurance, or did the lack of availability also apply to "out of network" providers?
GoDaddy at least is very customer support focused AFAIK.
I sure hope so. Telling people I build multidimensional data structures for a living has only yielded glazed-over eyes thus far.
I'm doubtful the discussion will go anywhere productive but I think part of your argument is an assumption, "And now you want to imprison doctors for treating pain and taking care of patients?" because filling a role of a job to just prescribe medication isn't really trying and when we don't actually know what the outcome will be. Following a protocol isn't really trying is all.

Research from the past few years has been questioning if the brain will just adapt overtime while on medication to the point of becoming oversensitive when off the medication and where the normal state of the person gets worse. I've only read this about antipsychotics more so than antidepressants.

In any case much if not all research in the topic of mind altering medication is still in the infant years and should be read while being skeptic. Multiple unique life factors can make research very difficult to get right in this topic.
Great article.

It would be interesting if we could monitor productivity in the major Australian CBDs these days. A lot of the big office buildings don't have the capability to filter the unhealthy / toxic bushfire smoke, and the workers get to suffer.

And on that, good luck trying to find any purifiers, anywhere in Australian stores.
More SKUs cost more in manufacturing, QA; choice paralysis may drive away customers. All for a relatively niche offering that might piss off their big product. Little upside. It's even a bit surprising Dell sells Linux laptops, considering.
It's not a question about whether climate science is wrong.

There are plenty of observations that are pretty well established. The problem is that the media only portraits the most catastrophic of the claims. But a lot of climate science is speculation not a demonstration and we have to be much better at calming down and looking at different things with different certainties rather than just claiming the sky is falling.

Even the IPCC report is scaling back on some of the more alarmist rethoric.

There isn't to my knowledge any scientifically demonstrated consequences of climate change we don't know how to deal with.

That should be a good thing yet somehow we've end up in trench wars.
Btrfs is the only FS I used that resulted in complete FS corruption losing nearly all data on disk, not once, but 3 times.

After that, none of the features like compression, snapshots, COW or checksums meant anything to me. I'm much happier with ext4 and xfs on lvm.
Yes, I agree. The big difference is I think: all of these seven startups needed a huuuge amount of capital to start in various cities.
I don't know if it's true or not, but I've long blamed Microsoft for killing SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc).

MS worked with SGI on a project known as Fahrenheit - to unify Direct3D and OpenGL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(graphics_API)

...well, we all know what happened - but I've often thought that Microsoft hastened their demise.

Somewhere in there, of course, was also the whole SGI moving away from IRIX (SGI's unix variant) to Windows NT (IIRC, this was on the Octane platform) - there being some upset over it by the SGI community. Maybe that was part of the "last gasp"? I'm sure some here have better info about those times; I merely watched from the sidelines, because I certainly didn't have any access to SGI hardware, nor any means to purchase some myself - waaaaay out of my price range then and now.

Of course - had SGI not gone belly up, I'm not sure we'd have NVidia today...? So maybe there's a silver lining there at least?
That's kinda non-sensical IMO. If Oracle, the parent company is trigger happy, there are no guarantees they won't go deeper to protect their children companies IP if they feel they're being infringed.
> you really need ECC RAM to run ZFS without fear of existential data corruption due to bit flips

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=...

http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/User:Mahrens
How about dignity and care instead?
You might want to update your thinking on dementia. http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1930278,0...

My grandmother died, as far as we can tell, directly from dementia.
Where are you getting your facts from? The UK has a higher than global average, with some demographics tragically high.

UK – 11.2 per 100,000 people – in 2018 (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/03/suicides-rat... & https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...). I think the UK's Office of National Statistics is a better source of information that Wikipedia.

UBI is a great idea. Unfortunately, minimum wage now usually means "in work" poverty, that's not a good thing.

edit: @0000011111, I think income inequality could certainly be a driver.
It’s not just about expectations of yourself. It might even be more about others’ expectations of you.

When society says your white privilege means you have no excuse for failure, that is a hard dead end.
There is a big difference between a company distributing a proprietary Linux driver, and the linux project merging software of a gpl incompatible license. In the first case it is the linux developers who can raise the issue of copyright infringement, and it is the company that has to defend their right to distribute. In the later the roles are reversed with the linux developers who has to argue that they are within compliance of the copyright license.

A shim layer is a poor legal bet. It assumes that a judge who might not have much technical knowledge will agree that by putting this little technical trickery between the two incompatible works then somehow that turn it from being a single combined work into two cleanly separated works. It could work, but it could also very easily be seen as meaningless obfuscation.

> Why are all drivers expected to use the GPL

Because a driver is tightly depended on the kernel. It is this relationship that distinguish two works from a single work. A easy way to see this is how a music video work. If a create a file with a video part and a audio part, and distribute it, legally this will be seen as me distributing a single work. I also need to have additional copyright permission in order to create such derivative work, rights that goes beyond just distributing the different parts. If I would argue in court that I just am distributing two different works then the relationship between the video and the music would be put into question.

A userspace software is generally seen as independent work. One reason is that such software can run on multiple platforms, but the primary reason is that people simply don't see them as an extension of the kernel.
> Even a new treaty in 1898, which granted Hong Kong, Kowloon, and further territories in Canton to Britain for 99 years, kept the Walled City under Chinese control. A year later, in May 1899, rumors circulated that Chinese soldiers were massing again in the Walled City, so the British sent troops across the water. They expected battle—perhaps another war—but found only the Mandarin. The irate official left too, and the British took the city, though the Chinese never renounced their claim. Missionaries moved in and built churches and schools, pig farmers from the surrounding hills took plots of land within the walls. There was almost no administrative control, and the city became a slum. Yet whenever the Hong Kong government tried to clear it to turn it into a park—evicting the residents in the process—the Chinese government always stepped in. After all, this tiny rectangle of land was still officially their territory.

Answers a question I'd had for a while: what was special about this piece of land that made it effectively lawless?