skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone wants a 'fuller' treatment on the topic I would recommend the book Beyond Soap by Dr. Sandy Skotnicki; bona fides:

> Dr. SANDY SKOTNICKI is the founder of Toronto’s Bay Dermatology Centre and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, divisions of Dermatology and Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Toronto. She is a consultant dermatologist at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital. […]

* https://drsandyskotnicki.com

Interview with her on TVO, the province of Ontario's public broadcast network:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGl19JJnaK0

It's not that soap is "bad", it's just that we're overemphasizing cleanliness to the point that a lot of the cleaning chemicals we (over-)use are damaging our skin.

Also, one certainly wants some cleanliness, but many products are excessively harsh for what they accomplish, and so she recommends certain products that she's found helped her patients:

* https://www.producteliminationdiet.com
Wow you met your wife at a pool party for a porn website? Was she a porn star or just a fellow employee?
I really don't need a lot of fancy stuff in order for GitHub to be valuable to me or my organization. Honestly, I did not find much of the roadmap to be compelling.

For me, the core features that comprise my GH user story are:

- Code

- Pull Requests

- Issues & Labels

We also have limited use of Actions (for check builds) and heavy use of the API/Webhooks for integration with our own custom CI/CD tooling.

In my opinion, the biggest place where value should be added is in these 3 areas above. Some of the simplest ideas are the most powerful. We get an incredible amount of mileage out of basics like issues & labels. If there were additional aspects to issues similar to labels that could further enhance this experience, I would be very interested. Our entire development process revolves around issues to track tasks.

One of the things I've had in mind would be a way to build a markdown-defined webform template that can be used for populating highly-structured issues without requiring the user to edit a complex document each time.

For example, you could have CustomerTroubleTicketTemplate.md in a .github/issue_templates/ path, and then when you go to click New Issue, a down arrow could be provided that pops a list of all defined issue templates. Selecting one would present the user with a webform (as defined in the template markdown) that collects all required fields to create that issue. The issue could be created with labels/assignments/etc as defined in the markdown document. This would likely require enhancements to GFM.

Bonus points if there is some way to expose specific issue templates through public GH pages so that your customers can submit tickets against your private repositories even though they don't have direct access to your issue buckets. I think a very small step in this direction could obviate a lot of use cases people find with products like Zendesk (it would for us, anyways - we just funnel ZD tickets back into GH issues).
I keep a bag of raw carrots in the fridge to help with this for myself.

The other aspect I've found is with periodic fasting, these urges tend to go away for me. I remember being extremely lethargic before dinner when I had a worse diet (lots of carbs). These days I can easily got 16 hours without any loss of energy.

Not sure if that's just changing my diet to be less sugar/carbs or if it is because I exercise more. Either way, I don't struggle with extreme hunger very frequently anymore.

Hope that anecdote helps!
People use email because it’s the best communication system existing. If someone doesn’t want to change his address he creates his own self-hosted mail server. Or just use his own domain name when using email service with thord party email providers. Email system is amazing, the issues with ux are in fact minimal, almost non-existent.
Regarding the second tweet,

If you plot the word frequency of "coronavirus" it will show a quantum jump on 2020. So what? Journalists report on what's happening around them, so if people keep talking about "male privilege" then of course NYT will pick it up, whether you (or NYT) are for or against the concept.

If you want to argue that NYT or the larger journalism caused the rise of terms like "male privilege", you need a better argument than cute pictures. Using a 10x10 grid of cute pictures cherry-picked to maximize outrage is precisely what people are complaining about modern journalism, or so I have thought?
This is why I'm particularly upset about SSC's[0] failure to be built. There are many advantages to housing the smartest scientists in the world within the borders of your country, and those benefits aren't limited to scientific output. After all, a big part of these multi-national projects is the culture war.

And let's be real, which is worth more? A super collider that runs for decades or the F35 (which cost more, but we'll pretend they are the same and that America would be the only one funding a multi-national facility)?

Fun (perspective) fact: any of the top 30 billionaires in the world could personally pay for one of these colliders.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
Sure.

There are soap alternatives that don't cut the oils the same way.

My favourite is rolled oats in the end of a stocking cut and tied off. The stocking is a mild abrasive and the oats exude a milky substance when wet and it feels quite pleasant.

Worth nothing I didn't say *"don't shower or bathe".
Twelve Caesars (De vita Caesarum) by Suetonius is a fun read!
Even mild coronavirus cases can cause lasting cardiovascular damage, study shows
Are you saying you haven't showered for four years and don't smell?

I am sorry, but I do not believe you. What the author is saying is not to use soap, not to avoid showering.
Even tradespeople (like union electricians) have this same dispute. In the US, one of the favored brands in the trade is Milwaukee Fuel 18v. Many electrical pros swear by these tools, even to the point of mildly judging people who use consumer gear on paid jobs.

But: other electrical pros will in turn mildly judge the Milwaukee-loving contingent as paying way too much for the logo. Tales will be told of Makita or Ridgid (the latter, a Home Depot house brand) 18v rigs that have outperformed more expensive gear in real conditions.

So, it's fun to talk about, but it seems fundamentally undecidable, at this level of granularity.

At lower levels of granularity -- specific tools -- there are a few legendary products that have been made consistently high-quality for so long that they're almost universally acknowledged to be worth the money, and also that there's little point in paying more. One example that comes to mind is Klein linesman's pliers.
problem is, this roadmap doesn't contain any specifics in contrast whats required from startups. It's just a fancy way of saying "we gonna do more source code versioning stuff".
Regarding shampoo, I think it's different for everyone, but I have been on the lookout for shampoos that don't use such harsh chemicals. Baby shampoo has been the best! Clean feeling, not too harsh. Green tea shampoo and other natural alternatives seem to block the pores on my head, leading to some nasty pimples. Baby shampoo does not seem to do that.
Haha, good one. Yeah, I live with a cat, they're extremely clean creatures in that sense.

He does have somewhat less of a collection of personal hygiene products than the average westerner, though ;)
One could also argue that it would be developed faster if they had more money. It wouldn't be a linear relationship, but there is a definite relationship between the two. But fundamentally I agree. It is hard to stay excited about something to come for decades.
I'm pro 2nd Amendment, but anti-gun. With the equipment a modern military has at it's disposal, I fail to see how the right to own small arms is going to help keep our government in check.
Stuff like this annoys the hell out of me. They should offer the same things at the same prices to all people. Same in Us healthcare. A procedure will has a several hundred percent price variation depending on insurance and other factors of the patient.
New 'Sex Simulator' Ransomware Pops Up on Android
While I applaud the author's efforts to bring to light the NYT's policy of doxing, as well as their asymmetric coverage in the 2016 US election, I think this word frequency figure fails to illustrate (and somewhat undermines) the intended message (i.e.: sensationalist news media).

That the NYT writes more stories in 2018 about e.g. gay rights or sexism or oppressed classes than they did in 1970 more likely represents progress. While these problems always existed, they were often dismissed by journos, politicos, academics, and society by-and-large. Acknowledging that these issues exists is progress, and if anything I think that these graphs show that progress is slow, but steady.

Again, sympathetic to the overall message @arram is expressing, but this graph is an exceptionally poor way to show it imho.
So are "one-off calorie indulgences" okay because they're smaller in scale than long term over eating, or because they're not frequent? In other words, is eating 3000 more calories for one meal, once per month worse/better/equal for you than eating 100 more calories every day?
I still have some CDs from the early/mid 1980's that play, and I think this is because of two reasons: 1) Not many people owned players back then, so pressing plants weren't under much pressure from high demand, so pressing quality was higher. 2) I stored them in their jewel cases oriented vertically on the shelf, supported by the plastic fingers of the case - so no sagging from being stored horizontally. And this was indoors, away from sunlight.

So far as home-burned CDs, they haven't lasted as well. Mostly because I didn't take as good care of them - I didn't have $18 or more invested in them (typical new music CD price in the 80's & 90's) so they were just tossed in a drawer.
My notes. Many yaks were shaved due to Windows hating my graphics card. https://github.com/chadbrewbaker/CompilingOnAWSLambda/blob/m...
Larabelles: A community for women Laravel developers
From memory here, GNU ddrescue is what you're looking for:
https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/
Looks like their word frequency has increased /s

Anyway, this is a selection of "woke words", seemingly selected to make NY Times look like they are not serious, since they have increased their usage of such words. I'm not sure I agree with the argument.
Sure, today, it means a lot that e.g. e-ink screen technology is patented. But once the patents run out there will likely be a cambrian explosion. In the 2040s, who will care about it? Do we care which semiconductor company in SV had a tiny edge over another company 50 years ago? There is so much acquisition, merging and bankruptcy going on that in 200 years, the landscape will be different. Check how many companies managed to stay in the DJIA since its founding in 1896.
More information about that rat, which adds some unfortunate context to it. https://twitter.com/JanFreedman/status/958325784401375232
They do a residency instead.
And that's the point the grandparent made: in the US, pharmaceutical drug use, is done in excess (considering e.g. Europe as the baseline).
A huge number. People die without being beheaded all the time.
If so, it seems to me to be a perversion of solidarity to be loyal to blatant injustice.
In the USA, is antibacterial soap even a live issue, since the FDA banned basically all the chemicals used to make it about 5 years back? I would assume that at this point the ingredients they're using don't actually work (except perhaps in test tubes and at extreme concentrations) and it's largely just a hollow marketing term.
> Firefox 79 now automatically sets rel=noopener

Only took what, three years since that vulnerability was found?
I am a fusion power fanboy but would hope other researches are getting some loving too... I mean what about seasonal energy storage? would be a great technology in current times where weather's getting wilder. we capture excessive heat and dump it back when it's cold etc...
> For anybody living outside of the UK, going there isn't all that different from going to the US. The tuition is only somewhat cheaper too I think. As opposed to most "best" schools in mainland Europe being essentially free for locals.

The EU citizens from outside the UK are able to study in Scotland without paying any tuition fees.

The University of Edinburgh is as highly ranked internationally, as Yale, Columbia, and Cornell[1].

The University of St Andrews is as highly ranked locally, as Cambridge and Oxford[2].

> So I'd assume any kid in Europe planning to go to Oxford is probably planning to apply to American schools too.

That's completely wrong. Almost nobody is considering the US when applying to the universities in England, because England offers Tution Fee Loan to all EU students, that only needs to be repaid when one's income is over the repayment threshold[3].

However, this might end in 2021, because of Brexit.

[1] https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-un...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2019/ju...

[3] https://www.ucas.com/finance/student-finance-england/tuition...
You've given me a chance to put some useless information to use, oh boy!

So the article mentions GLP-1, but the primary hormones responsible for hunger and satiety are leptin and ghrelin.

Leptin is an anorexic hormone that is produced by adipose tissue. It regulates metabolism, particularly resting/basal metabolic rate. An interesting thing that you'll find with bodybuilders and competetive athletes, is that when you cross into single-digit bodyfat, it becomes significantly more difficult to continue to lose fat.

Some people attribute this to a phenomena known as "adaptive thermogenesis", which is the idea that your metabolism adapts and regulates itself based on your lifestyle and environmental factors, so that you don't continue either losing/gaining weight forever.

But the major contributing factor is that with diminished adipose tissue, systemic production of leptin is severely reduced and this lowers both metabolic rate and lipolysis.

(You can artificially restore leptin production and re-induce lipolysis in a low-bodyfat state through a short window (~36 hours) of carbohydrate overfeeding)

On the other side of the coin, you have Ghrelin. Ghrelin is a peptide produced in the stomach, and is pretty solely involved in appetite stimulation.

If you've ever taken GHRP (Growth-Hormone-Releasing-Peptide) or Ibutamoren Mesylate (oral growth hormone secretagogue), It will drive you ravenously hungry. A side effect of the peptides/hormones many athletes take for growth hormone production is the release of Ghrelin and a massive appetite, which is great if you're trying to bulk but also tends to make you incredibly tired.

So there you go. Bunch of useless information.

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If anyone is curious, this paper does an astounding job of summarizing the useful bits on Leptin + Ghrelin:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-789X...
What makes you think nuclear power has a power law risk distribution? For that to be true, it'd have to be possible for an unboundedly large nuclear accident..

Just because something has more concentrated risk doesn't make it fat tail. Nuclear power's winning safety record already includes Chernobyl and Fukushima.
You’re fooling yourself.
> People buy as much as they can.

That reminds me of something I heard early on in the pandemic.

"The economy is collapsing because people are only buying the essentials".
Oh, it disputes a lot of the facts, too. So do at least some of the people who gave interviews to Burroughs, interviews whose content the interviewees later described his having misquoted or in places outright fabricated.

Do you have any reasonably sturdy evidence that the claims you made are correct? Until you can prove them, you have cited no facts, but only made claims. Those claims are yours to support. Asking me to prove a negative doesn't really accomplish anything in that regard.
Renewables are only safer and cheaper bet once the battery issue is solved and can be made equally green, safe and cheap. The primary reason why nuclear isn't commercial viable today is that combining natural gas and renewables makes for a very cheap energy grid.
I also have some eczema/dry skin problems and one thing that I've found helps is not showering every single day. I used to shower once (or sometimes twice) a day, and it made the skin on my elbows and knees extremely tight, dry, and itchy. I now shower every other day (I still use deodorant and change my clothes) and haven't had nearly as many issues. That being said, I am fortunate because I don't have a lot of body odor and I don't sweat very much, so I can reasonably get away with not having a daily shower.
College degrees are already oversaturated in the job market.

Their value in terms of actual employability is basically what HS was 30 years ago.

Short pd some HR bean counters and the universities themselves most in the private sector don’t put too much stock in them.

A degree from the relatively small local college is about the same as big state. Ivy is it’s own thing for sure.
Hundreds of Chinese Fishing Vessels Off Galapagos
I like how people are downvoting your comment for simply linking to resources.

This way, we are in a mob rule. No one is independently thinking and questioning. Going against the grain is automatic suicide. Virtue signaling everywhere.

Paul Graham writes about it: http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html
I used to have a closet full of 1.44mb disks... Some games took about 50 of them.
Showering with just water is fine. Excessive use of soaps—not to be confused with cleansers—is where problems can arise.

As is the use of deodorants and antiperspirants.
Yes the answer is more than 1, but because the mechanism of action is so well understood and the temporal association so strong the answer is less than 10.
I'm not ascribing that sort of positive implication to OP, and I don't think reading my comment in that way is very fair. I'm just saying that this stuff is a lot more banal and uninteresting than many people would think. It's not about "freedom against the power of the state", nor about "the future of the internet". It's the sort of crap that the vast majority of us would rather do without altogether.
An exploratory thread by Zach Goldberg [1] where he discusses more words & expressions, and compares to other, broader trends.

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[1] https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1133440945201061888
Gmail’s don’t extend, at least via the IMAP API.
This makes sense to me given a layperson's understanding of biology and evolution. In modern times, food is plentiful. Throughout history, it was not: people often had to eat what was on hand, and make use of as much of the available calories present when they had the opportunity.

I'm also curious if there's any research done on things we get from binge eating that are not calories. Do we see a similar uptake of nutrients? Is eating less efficiently from a calorie perspective still beneficial in evolutionary terms if we get something else (vitamins, minerals, etc)?
I think the idea was that the OS, programming language, etc should all meld into a cohesive UI that would range from mouse manipulations for the simplest messages to keyboard input for finer communication (and whatever other hardware we come up with later), and a gradual learning curve that everyone (including kids) could mature along.

Some aspects of this are elaborated in "Design principles behind Smalltalk": https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk....
Well, most aren't. The huge majority of developers use Windows and many use OS X.

In any major dev conference in the US/Europe OS X is almost 50% or more (and almost 80% on the presenters side), while Windows has tons of "silent" users (e.g. not the kind to make noise on blogs/HN/etc, but like 90% of devs anyway, working in enterprise, etc).

Even on Stack Overflow poll, which attracts less of the kind of "silent" enterprise devs more likely to use Windows and "bland" environments like .NET and Java, it's 45% Windows, 27% OS X and a little less of that (26%) Linux.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/stack-overflow-developer-s...
An old favorite quote: "Everything in moderation, including moderation."
This past Sunday's New York Times noted that until the 1860's, almost all reputable scientists insisted that pandas were a myth.
> Healthcare: The US does spend too much here for what we get in return but this is a political choice. We could institute Medicare for All and _save_ money.

This is absolutely true, but also exceptionally hard. Extracting the $1 Trillion/yr out of the current healthcare system is going to put a lot of people out of work. We'll need a good system to re-train them for new work too.
You fall to the floor and scream as you feel a sharp pain in your chest. You feel something in your chest, but you don't die.
"By the gods," you moan.

> You take some pepto bismol.
You take the Pepto-Bismol, but it does nothing to help you. The pain is just as bad, if not worse.

> You take Tums.
You take some antacids and try to settle your stomach. The situation isn't getting any better though.
"Help! Doctor Kovas! Help!"

> You take mylanta.
The Mylanta doesn't help your stomach, but it does stop the bleeding from your nose. You manage to stand up and open the door to see several of your guards dead, killed by the dark forces.
I'm gonna rob a bank. In the best case, I'm an instant millionaire and I never get caught. I'm a glass-half-full guy.
The writer purports to make a case about the profit motives of the New York Times, but the graphs are presented without broader context. A more convincing graphic might be to put these graphs side-by-side with Google Books Ngram Viewer graphs of the same terms, since the Google Books data would presumably represent a wider sample of the culture at large.

The writer of the Twitter thread does mention Google Trends in passing, but only to hand-wave it away by saying that we "don't see corresponding spikes." Citation needed, I guess, since the Google Books data (which strikes me as a better comparison corpus than Trends) often _does_ show a large uptick, suggesting a given trend is more cultural than specific to the NYT. And in many cases, how could the data _not_ show a spike, given that a lot of the words on the graphic (e.g., "intersectionality," [1] "mansplaining," [2]) were not part of common parlance a decade ago?

That said, there are certainly also cases where the slope on the NYT graph for a given word is much steeper than the corresponding uptick in the Google Books data (e.g., "sexism" [3], "patriarchy" [4]). To some extent, I think this is to be expected, because the respective publication schedules + subject matter of news sites vs. books leads the former to react more quickly and decidedly to short-term linguistic trends. Nonetheless, I think singling out cases where the NYT clearly diverges from the culture at large would go further to make that author's point -- which, I should be clear, I think is reasonable one and strikes me as basically "right," and I believe it's an argument that could probably be illustrated by data. I'm just not convinced that the data presented in the Twitter thread makes the powerful case that the author claims.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?smoothing=3&corpus=26&...

[2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?smoothing=3&corpus=26&...

[3] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?smoothing=3&corpus=26&...

[4] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?smoothing=3&corpus=26&...