skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone I would have associated more easily with faster tempi is Trevor Pinnock. However, there are some rather fast interpretations by Harnoncourt (maybe more likely of Händel than Bach)
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The largest dosage of D3 I can find on Amazon is 5000 IU in a 240 capsule bottle. To take 60000 IU, you'd have to take a dozen capsules daily, getting a new bottle every 20 days, probably multiple times.

While possible, it does seem unlikely.
AB5 IR35 Killing freelancer market
Governments don't like freelancers, they like businesses. Let's give them a Corporation instead.

IR35 has killed the IT freelancer market in the UK and AB5 may be about to do that in the USA. The problem is genuine entrepreneurs and business owners, who rely on freelance work, are affected by the legislation and it removes their ability to innovate and grow.

But freelance and project work isn't going away. Businesses can't employ full-time staff for part-time work. The best freelancers won't become employees, they have too much aspiration. So, after YC SUS 2020, I launched https://ownerscaler.com, a community of freelancers, where the highly skilled and smartest collaborate, learn and create an offshore corporation, which benefits from the economy of scale, to grow further assets.

The first asset is https://fixedterm.work, a FREE service for businesses who need to fulfil flexible and project work. Using lightweight Statement of Works (SoWs), not employment contracts, we mitigating AB5/IR35 risk. We also help freelancers collaborate, create larger supplier companies and adhere to legislation. Proper tax is paid, freelancers become SMEs, access higher value contracts, employ their own staff, pay more tax and help kickstart the economy.

Who loses? The recruitment industry does. They've been taking a slice out of freelancer daily rates for too long, for little benefit. We're taking some of the $200bln annual employment market back and passing it on as savings to businesses who fulfil their project work using our SMEs and lightweight SoWs.

By working together we can fix AB5/IR35 for genuine businesses and get the benefits of scale, own offshore assets and mitigate geo-political risk. All freelancers are invited, but it is invite only, so we build a trust network. I'd love to hook up with a business development co-founder in the USA too. What do you think? Is it time we removed recruitment agencies from (B2B) transactions and mitigated AB5/IR35 ourselves?
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I am not sure how a different system would have changed things. Look at russia, half the middle east, etc. Not exactly the common definition of capitolist. Producing energy is about the most productive thing a country can do for its people, no matter its politics of distribution. The fact is that petroleum is/was the most efficient way to do that. Science first, then you can drag out your personal politics.
When you loot a store in your area, you aren't hurting "rich people", because they aren't a unified blob. You're just hurting a few people, like this guy and his wife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uqOM94RJVc Eventually they will bounce back and restart somewhere else, where they are more welcome. But your area will have fewer businesses and jobs for a long time, because you've showed everyone the return on investment.

Edit: it seems exactly this happened after the Ferguson riots https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ferguson-anniversary-fina...
Firstly, this is n=1, but many previous times something like this happened, the victim was black, too.

Also, “the officer didn’t have a history of racism” is debatable. https://apnews.com/69beaad97dcea2dce6c2184e0f5b5e4e: “What she is certain of is how aggressive Officer Derek Chauvin became when the club hosted events that drew a mainly black clientele, responding to fights by taking out his mace and spraying the crowd, a tactic she told him was unjustified “overkill.””*

That the police doesn’t have a record about this can be explained by institutional racism in the USA police force. People believing that there is can easily take yet another n=1 case as a trigger for protest.

I can’t blame them in a country where nobody who sees the Amy Cooper video thinks it is satire (again n=1, but part of a pattern), but many would if the skin colors were reversed.
How to write a toy JVM
The original owners of the Australian continent were a 60,000 year old human culture. The current owners are occupied by these industries.

It is factually a human rights violation to destroy the cultural artefacts of other cultures. Remember when ISIS bombed the Buddhas of Bamyan?

If China were to, say, demolish the opera house to get at the fish underneath, would you be so happy about it?
I'm just slightly surprised that the study wasn't made randomized. I can't see any ethical reason why that couldn't have been done but maybe there were logistical reasons.

Larger randomized trials are in progress [1][2] but the results won't be published until July.

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04344041
[2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04351490.
I understand that about the Rocinante, but what about larger Martian warships? The Donnager, the huge warship that carried the Roci (when it was called the Tachi) has its hull punched through by a weapon and someone gets his head blown off. Though it may have been a railgun in that case, not that I'm sure what that is in The Expanse.. an energy weapon?

The warship that carries Gunny and her Marines gets attacked by kinetic projectiles on Ganymede and someone is similarly killed by projectiles punching through it.

My impression is that they may have anti-spalling measures, but close combat in The Expanse means spraying the enemy ship with your PDCs until something breaks down and the defenses get overrun. I get that impression from the (very cool) fight with the stealth ship protecting the station with the Protogen scientists. They rake the enemy ship with bullets until it simply stops working and drifts away, its crew dead.
Where I grew up in Southern Scotland (some years get no snow) is at the same latitude as places Polar Bears live in Canada.
In Russia people don't switch to English to discuss CS, but the whole CS jargon is stuffed with loanwords from English. It normally goes well, Russian is quite flexible with adapting foreign words to its own grammar.

What was painful for me is writing about CS in the university (master thesis, some papers to local journals etc). In Russia you are not allowed to write your university contributions in English, apparently because some of your older supervisors will be uncomfortable with reading it. Also you can't use jargon, because university is a serious business, everything should sound very scientific. So I had to invent my own translations of all the terms of interest, and then put the English word in parentheses, so that reader has at least a slightest chance to understand what I'm writing about.
Meanwhile in Zelenograd, seat of the russian Mikron Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikron_Group and http://www.angstrem.ru/ru/english in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Research_University_o...

the following happened a few years ago:

http://www.nanoindustry.su/journal/article/en/6133

https://eng.miet.ru/news/91920

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DIHXh7RlhA

edit: while the "west" seems to ignore the potential for disruption (of the megafabs) mostly, it seems.

2nd edit: From a cyberwar point of view i couldn't help to burst out in laughter when i saw the coat of arms of Zelenograd, like shown here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelenograd#/media/File:Zelenog...

Remember squirrels are one of the main sources of destroyed lines :-)
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I love listening to Bach on period music. I especially enjoy the sound of the harpsichord.
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What's this "you" business? I'm not American. Vitamins absolutely contribute to this, and many/most you take will be excreted again.
I'm typing this on a Surface Laptop 2 (and have a 2016 MacBook Pro), and the cover is nowhere as thick as a phone.

It's not sharp enough to cut bread, but those 2-3mm of thickness have zero impact on perceived laptop thinness while affording enough room for a spectacular webcam (by current Apple standards) and its companion Windows Hello counterpart.
Another benchmark comparison: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
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I'd be pretty surprised if that's true. I've recently switched to windows 10 pro and I don't have candy crush or anything installed.
For some nutrients it’s easy to test for, for others the tests are controversial with regards to accuracy.
You've honed in on why I love listening to Bach on period instruments; it's kind of a musical analogue to folks who are really into some niche of CS, propelled purely by love and obsession. That passion comes through in the music.
So like usernames, except very awkward and Google-only.
My guess is under the assumption that the solution will never come under the leadership who was the source of the problem.
The study is not suggesting the administration of toxic amounts of vitamin D
VSpaceCode: Spacemacs-like keybindings for Visual Studio Code
Understanding Data
Macs and OSX were only interesting because they "just worked", and now they don't and are simply not that interesting.
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Never Have Seconds, Charlie Munger, and the 6 Month Question
I think a better question is how did "property" become "the pursuit of happiness"?

I believe that property rights are a core principal of American freedoms. Otherwise there would not be 'just compensation' for it in the constitution.
There were big studies in 2016/2017 that demonstrated the connection between Vitamin D and lowering the incidence of colds and other respiratory infections. This led to some governments (like the UK) recommending universal daily supplements for all citizens during the winter months.

See https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170216110002.h...
If this is true and every office on the scene was that misinformed, it's still a systemic problem that requires a complete overhaul of the way police are trained and hired. This won't be fixed by punishing a few bad apples and then pretending the problem is solved.

What's the chances that of a sample of officers who responded, those 4 are the only ones who would have let this happen?
Well, you are free to not start the app, unpin it from the start menu and even uninstall it, so what's the problem?
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I can't speak for all nutrients, but it's nearly impossible to detect magnesium deficiency in blood tests. Presumably, other nutrients might be difficult to check as well. Which makes the tests misleading or downright wrong.
I totally agree. I think the far right and far left groups that act in this manner are both despicable. These groups are each possessed by an ideology and their primitive nature makes them try to force their will on one another. I personally wish we can someday go back to diversity of thought without worrying about getting your head bashed in.
Very interesting. I suppose when you use this every day, you actually won't get "lost" within it. Also, this kind of links to the One Big Text File idea (discussed here and there quite often in around 2005-2006, see e.g. http://www.matthewcornell.org/blog/2005/8/21/my-big-arse-tex...).
You're not going to overdose vitamin D at 1000 IU. Do your own research, but the RDA is too low for people living in the northern hemisphere. I'm a computer programmer living in Canada, I take 3000 IU a day. A good sun exposure can produce 50,000 IU, not all of which gets absorbed.

If you have too much over a long period of time it can cause calcification. You're probably not going to experience that under 10000 IU a day. Again, do your own research. I'm not an expert in this field.
Thanks! Haha... your right. I got my frame up and running with a Raspberry Pi 2 and it is temp throttling after about 5 min. The page could definitely use some optimization.

I’ll work on that next. Maybe there should be a setting to reduce background video quality?
SARS-CoV-2 looks like a hybrid of viruses from two different species
The CVE is from mid last year: https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2019-10149.txt

So I guess this is an attempt to get exim users to update.
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I don't think that's accurate for the biggest gap (black Americans vs. white Americans.) Here's a study local to Boston, but it's not unique to Boston. [0] Relevant highlight from a summary: [1]

>The household median net worth was $247,500 for whites; $8 for US blacks (the lowest of all five cities); $12,000 for Caribbean blacks;

Note that Caribbean blacks (immigrants) have a much higher net worth than US blacks.

[0] https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/one-time-pubs/color-o...

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/12/11/that-was-typo-t...
I read this as “I was lucky enough to see HIM live a few times” and this had me legit thinking how that could be possible
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Are you a GPT-2 bot or something?
> I doubt many people would call it home at all without the help of fossil fuels.

Is uninhabited land inherently a bad thing?
Professional period-performance singer here:

Definitely not true that "there have been little changes over the past 30 years"; both the scholarly understanding of performance practice, and the performances themselves, have radically advanced and matured since 1990.
I'm curious - how do you use pdb when debugging, say, controllers on web functions? I guess you can try and debug underlying functions using pdb, but i'm not sure how it happens (short of logging) once you're means of interaction is an HTTP call, or a response (e.g., to a trigger/message)
> I searched for hours for a viable Zettelkasten method: org-mode, vim-org, TiddlyWiki, Roam, Notion, Joplin, Notable, Obsidian, Zettlr.

Org mode works well, but honestly what works the absolute best in my experience are actual slips of paper in a slipcase — or 'index cards,' to use the colloquial term. I find that physically writing words with a pen aids memory, and the little notebooks that I form over time (I punch a hole in each slip, and bind them together with a metal ring, and split bundles by topic when they get too unwieldy) seem to help too.

Maybe it's a variant on the method of loci?
Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
We just had an interesting data loss at work, that was due to data being encrypted at rest. We somehow managed to delete the encryption keys (still figuring out how), which became an obvious problem once our main database instance was rebooted.

Luckily we were able to restore the data, but now I (we) really want to learn what a proper setup would look like.

If you have any clear overview reading on the topic I'd be very interested to to know about it.

In particular I'm wondering: how do you back up your encryption keys, or even put them in escrow somewhere? Assuming we don't rotate the keys constantly I would love to just save them in somewhing like a passsword manager that's secured with 2FA/FIDO.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
this review nails it. 2015 mbp in my case. all it needs is a faster cpu and a couple of usb3 ports to replace the thunderbolt and it would be money. well at least we had a golden age
How tall can a tree grow?
> I'm very interested (slowly building up a library) in cold war espionage

If anyone hasn’t read the below account of Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky’s life and defection, it’s well worth the time.
Ben Macintyre (2018), The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Oh, I thought this was about the Penrose graphical notation for tensors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_graphical_notation
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Funny how one bad protester labels the whole movement, but a few bad cops are never supposed to represent all cops." -@aStatesman (Twitter)

I have literally, a few months ago, responded to comments on this site where people claimed all police were bad because of the bad actions of some.

Tribalism is a real thing, and it results in dehumanization of the other "side", and opportunistic labelling.

In 2019, 259 black people were killed by police. In the same year, 189 Hispanic people were killed by police. 406 white people were killed as well. 17 Asians. Obviously, blacks are overrepresented.

Data here: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends

When was the last time you saw a national news media report on a non-black person being unjustly killed by police? It happens, and the cops get let off, routinely. Daniel Shaver is a particularly egregious example, and the lack of national media coverage helps ensure that the cops aren't held accountable. The cop who murdered him was acquitted, and temporarily rehired to let him collect a 2400 a month pension.

The national media wants this framed as PURELY a racial issue, when the reality is that it's a mix of race, police militarization, and lack of police accountability due to cozy relationship with prosecutors.

This racial framing is unnecessarily tribal, and undermines the effectiveness of achieving a meaningful goal that helps reduce this behavior by police.
Hmm, but a water molecule 100 km from an Arctic ice sheet is also experiencing the pull of an "equal" weight of water 100km the other direction, albeit ever so slightly offset angularly.

The lunar system is seemingly much less symmetrical but we still get some amphidromic points (points of zero tidal range) and neep tides (lowest "high" tide) can be very small.
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Ahh you are right, thanks for the correction.

D looks like upper tolerable dosage is around 4000IU/day for 9+ years old. Some studies apparently see overt toxicity after several months of 50000IU/day dosages.
Depends on what you're interested in and your level of mathematical maturity. I assume you're interested in real-world, actually applied decision making rather than philosophical debates, right? Then you have to look for multicriteria decision making (MCDM) and multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT).

Eisenführ/Weber/Langer: Rational Decision Making. Springer 2010. This is a good practical introduction in the standard methodology.

Keeney/Raiffa: Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs. Wiley & Sons 1976. This is an older work, but very good. It's mathematically more rigorous and important if you want to understand additive and multiplicative models.

Both of them are practical and give good examples. The first one is easier to read. If you're not afraid of more complicated mathematics, I can also give you some more other references. I guess you wouldn't be asking me then, however, because there is plenty of sources. I generally recommend Peter C. Fishburn's work, insofar as I can understand it -- some of it is too hard for me.
It makes sense. If you're not looking for super high-end tech talent, there is no magical advantage to paying California salaries so that people can spend every dime on housing.

I skeptical of most of the tech stuff too -- fewer tech roles require the skillsets/social connections only found a big tech hub than in the past. For many years, IBM was able to run successful tech operations in places like Minneapolis, Austin, Binghamton NY, Hudson Valley NY, North Carolina, Tampa, etc.

The median home price is Pittsburgh is literally 90% less than many California locales. Even with a 40% pay cut, in many professions moving to one of these places will be a neutral in terms of money and probably a positive impact on the employee's quality of life.
Well, if it's what China wants then I guess it's fine.