skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great answer, thanks. So measuring blood levels of vitamin D and setting a specific target no higher than 50 ng/ml should be enough to avoid this problem for most people? Or could taking a high daily dose for a short time to get to the desired blood level cause trouble as well?

Finally, do you see much difference in getting to that high blood level of vitamin D from sun exposure vs D in diet (fish, etc) vs supplements?

I recently started trying to get more vitamin D from the sun, a sperti vitamin d lamp, and food, in order to reduce the amount of pills needed for a given IU. I use the dminder app to track estimated blood levels between tests.
I don't think there is any such principle as "if rescuing the human might disturb some animals, just let him die."
Analogies might be useful to illustrate an idea, but they are useless as evidence or for supporting reasoning. I find that they weaken arguments, and sticking to the relevant facts keeps discussions on track.
In a SHTF scenario I think the idea that you would be able to reach, operate or maintain a refinery is fanciful.
A fair point, and, though I'm not personally sad about making the switch, I definitely don't want to imply that other emacs users should drop everything and switch to evil mode.

But, at the risk of branding myself a traitor, I would suggest that anyone who doesn't already have emacs shortcuts burned into their muscle memory should choose to learn the vim ones, because they're somewhat more widely supported.

(And to use doom emacs to do it.)
I would already be happy with working builds

If you use a non-mainstream compiler it is a horrible mess. Almost every other time I build my program, the compiler crashes and I have to make a clean build.

Recently they have fixed the issue, I updated the compiler, and now it still does not compile. Random type checking error. After a clean build, the type is accepted and it compiles. I tried to make a mwe, and instead of a type checking error, the the compiler crashes at that line.

At least it always compiles with a clean build. But the resulting program does not start (not accepted load segments). I have not figured that one out, so I uninstalled the update and keep using the crashing compiler version.
You're right, that's exactly what I've got. I'd forgotten the exact setup I have on Twitter. I just checked and I've got a TOTP app (with backup codes on paper) + Yubikey. I'd disabled SMS for 2FA last year, around the time when Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was compromised with a SIM swap attack.
There are really two different options here. Some devices, variously called EPIRBs, PLBs, and ELTs depending on the exact device and application, report to a system called COSPAS-SARSAT which is a free service operated by an international collaboration. You do not need to pay any service fee for these, although you are required to register them with a local authority (the Coast Guard in the US) so that they have contact info for you.

These devices tend to be expensive because most of them are manufactured to either FAA or Coast Guard standards that are pretty strict and require things like a multi-year permanent battery, water intrusion and impact tests, etc.

On the other hand you can get a couple of different consumer-pointing satellite communicators that rely on commercial networks, mostly GlobalStar. Spot X and Garmin InReach are the two big ones. Both are cheaper up front but require a monthly service plan. They do tend to have fancy features that PLBs can't offer like two-way text messaging, but they're not generally built to any particular standard for durability, so you wouldn't want to use them, say, at sea or in an airplane.

The COSPAS-SARSAT system also generally has better coverage than GlobalStar but there are tradeoffs, esp. depending on the different capability levels.

The thought that they're pricey seems like a reasonable thing when you compare e.g. a $400 EPIRB to the $200 Spot X, but the EPIRB is tested to work in water whereas the Spot X has janky firmware that doesn't always work great anywhere (I love mine but... it has rough edges).
Agreed yes, and you could use CUA keybindings and be comfortable everywhere, working cross-desktop, cross-terminal, cross-platform. Only a minor variant on the Mac with Cmd instead of Ctrl. Some good options:

- Geany

- Sublime Text

- VS Code

- Notepad++

- micro

- ne

On top of these I usually memorize Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E for the command-line, and "i… :wq" for vim, although haven't needed the latter in a decade.
> First, he offered to take wagers from other scientists on whether the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, destroying New Mexico or even the entire world.

Of course if you bet on the bomb not causing the end of the world, you can only win.
Is Patreon-powered NeosVR the best social VR platform on the market?
> Whenever finding stuff like this, I always wonder: do the authors know, and expect their audience doesn't?

Do you mean the superficial author of the piece or the author of the PR material they are regurgitating?

My guess is someone involved with the latter function knows what is going on in the market and is deliberately being deceptive (but probably not outright lying, the release itself probably doesn't claim that TikTok lacks the described features though it is probably written in a way which gives that impression), the former may or may not know, but probably doesn't care; the better a stenographer they are the more access they get.
You might enjoy Oliver Knill’s lecture notes on undergrad math topics, which are similarly concise: http://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/teach/index.html
If you want something more built out from the start you could use https://www.jhipster.tech
Are you really going to pretend that no progress has been made here? A lot of brands monitor their supply chains because they're worried about consumer reaction to unethical behavior.
It's because gen z kids are sick of their dad's pulling up shit from the 90s like here, check out this ace of base midi file and zine txt files in l33t speak...

No dad.. It's ok..
no ideia, at 64gb ram im always at 50+, chrome being the heaviest consumer.
Maybe I don't understand Brave well enough, but wouldn't I just help create another all powerful gatekeeper?

I don't believe cryptocurrencies will work. As soon as they become widespread they will be banned or regulated just like other forms of electronic payment, including know your customer rules.

For the moment, I don't see that we really have the tools to replace ads, much as I would like that.
> Can you explain to me how a social media platform mostly used by teenagers relates to military clashes on a contested border?

Any content that criticizes the Chinese Communist Party is removed and hidden from western eyes. Content that paints the Chinese Communist Party in a positive light is promoted and injected into the feeds of western users.

This is one effective mechanism of propaganda delivery currently being used, but it isn't the only one.
Cellular coverage is amazing and always improving but the exact areas that are problematic/have gaps are more likely to be search and rescue locations. Further, people don't always stay put after a device runs out of power, and it can't be assumed everyone is carrying a device on a cellular network (particularly children).
That's specifically not an argument I'm making, but thanks.
“Entry-level”jobs pay 20% less than non-entry level jobs with same requirements
> roots in the microcomputer revolution, vs IBM

You mean the IBM that invented the PC? The distinction you're trying to make here is far from clear.
Compare to https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/SimCity_2000:_Network_Editio... for the precedent
A simple “expensive compared to what” seems in order. I agree it’s expensive, just not particularly so in USA or other high-income countries, which is a good point to make. However, in low-income countries where satellite communications are prohibitively expensive, even if you can alert emergency services, they may be unavailable or unreachable or outside the rapid response area you need emergency services in.

Basically, if you can afford it, it works. If you can’t afford it, satellite comms might not have saved you anyway, even if you had it.
Criticism moderates duplicity and complacency. The mere presence of widespread criticism would help. It would also serve as a foundation for a system to mitigate these problems going forward. You can't solve the problem until you:

1. First identify it as a problem (which I don't think we've done enough but you think the problem is apparent to everyone)

2. Direct the criticism to the right people (not just politicians, but medical leaders and the medical establishment as a whole - believe it or not, they have a halo effect and are not sufficiently criticized. The industry systematically weaponizes our high regard for the medical profession in order to prevent what it sees as adverse reforms)

3. and acknowledge that there is a way to mitigate the problem ex ante, instead of saying "sure it's a problem but it's unsolvable because of all the emergent complexity." Say what you want about Elon Musk, but the man thought "I'm going to shoot multiple giant rockets through the atmosphere and land them back on a moving boat simultaneously" then proceeded to actually do it. He didn't throw his hands up to emergent complexity. SpaceX took complexity by the horns. Synthesizing and amplifying non-duplicitous, high quality advice from medical leaders/orgs is not that complicated! Only they can lead you to believe that it's complicated, and then somehow deny that they did that. If they contradict themselves, it's because "we used the best available facts at the time." Laughable, and completely non-falsifiable.

As an aside, perhaps Americans would be less anti-scientific if a majority of them weren't scammed by the medical industry and charged $150-$200 for a tiny consultation with someone who is bribed by pharmaceutical representatives to shill for harmful drugs. Maybe Americans would be less anti-scientific if their government wasn't captured by medical lobbyists for over a century so that there isn't a faint hope for reforms like universal healthcare. The industry doesn't care, because they know that if America wakes up, and politicians aren't captured, total compensation for doctors and surgeons would eventually drop 40% with negligible or no impact on innovation and medical outcomes. To them, something is wrong if a huge chunk of your disposable income isn't siphoned to their wallets every year (part of which you never even see - that is, insurance premiums paid by your employer that you would otherwise receive as income).
I've also found DDG to be more then adequate for search.

The issue I had more often is random captcha's for sites I actually need to use not letting me through. (Thanks school).

My solution for this is to keep de-googled Chromium installed, and just use it when I run across these sites.
The price is going up for two reasons: 1) fear due to the virus and its economic consequences 2) the USD is falling rapidly.

Gold as a commodity is almost exclusively priced in dollars globally. If the dollar plunges, gold will spike higher accordingly.

US spending being out of control right now (pointing to aggressive dollar debasement as the Fed 'prints' - runs QE infinite to monetize the ever expanding debt) and concerns about the condition of the US economy near-term with the virus, have pummeled the dollar lately.

So the price of gold is up due to the drop in the dollar, and there is a considerable fear premium on gold right now as well (likely to the tune of several hundred dollars). As that fear fades you'll see a drop in gold, from whatever new high it puts in, as in 2011-2016. It'll set a new higher low due to the dollar losing real value it will never recover from the spending spree going on (there is probably going to be $5+ trillion in unexpected spending that will occur over several years due to the virus, which was not baked into the dollar or price of gold previously).
> Maybe a high foliage environment would be a better target for directional mics / acoustics.

I don't think this works as well as you might hope. When in dense foliage, it's difficult to hear sounds that are not that far away. It's a fantastic noise insulator. For this reason, survival classes usually teach signalling with reflective surfaces, like mirrors, watch faces, metal object/knives, etc. If you can sweep a helicopter with a reflection several times, they'll notice and rightfully think it's man-made. Plus, you can't hear someone screaming over a helicopter anyway.

> I think the search and rescue efforts as they stand are pretty disruptive (helicopters, teams covering grids) so I don't thin this is incrementally worse.

Certainly they are, but I do think drones close to the ground would be incredibly more disruptive, and potentially dangerous to curious wildlife.

> The "unprepared skiiers" you mention are someone's child (and often someone's parent).

You are not wrong. I think I was getting at, that most rescues are unglamorous, and usually caused by sheer stupidity of the people that were lost. Boats running out of fuel because they didn't prepare properly, or the skier example of ignoring all warnings, etc. It's not often that people were prepared, and the rock beneath their feet gave-way and now they're trapped.

Yes, we have to rescue stupid people too, but I think we should weigh the external costs to the environment when doing so. We wouldn't drain a lake to find a missing person. Maybe that's not a fair comparison? I don't know... but I do know people went outdoors to experience nature, so we shouldn't destroy it trying to save people either.

I guess, in short, you can make this scheme work, but I don't think it'll add tangible benefits to rescues, and it might actually be more effort to manage and operate, which could suck resources away from actual "boots on the ground/in the sky".
A new programming language – Berlin
For coders, or future ones, this is my first video podcast. I had a screen-share with Dennis Hackethal on the benefits of Functional Programming and his new language - Berlin.
Some Emacs-style bindings, like ^W (erase word) and ^U (erase line), are baked into the UNIX tty discipline -- basic implementations of these bindings exist within the kernel.
We Failed with ProductHunt Launch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
I thought so as well, but I'm starting to believe it's more looks civilians running away from faultering currency ( Venezuela, turkey, Russia, HK ).

Which has very similar market conditions.
> So without any other evidence why should we assume that estimate is wrong?

We shouldn't assume that the estimate was accurate either, for a couple of reasons:

First, the defendant definitely has more information (e.g., manager's employment records). More information usually leads to a more accurate valuation. And the defendant seems to have valued the case higher because it hired the expensive defense attorney.

Second, Gamemaster's attorney dropped the case, probably because they lacked the required experience with these types of employment cases. If they lacked the required experience to handle the case, then they probably weren't qualified to give an accurate valuation either.
Isn't it way more likely that the shoeshine boy was just repeating what previous clients had said rather than playing the market himself?
Beware with the elderly, as smell can also be a sense which diminishes with age, or as a comorbidity of conditions such as Parkinson's disease.
Agreed. I don't use vim for day-to-day use, but if I have to ssh into a server it's nice to know that I can still get by.
At this point I use Chrome only for Google Meet. It works in FF ok, but I've had audio problems and general performance issues that just don't show up in Chrome.
>Direct helicopter money into everyone's bank account...oh, wait, we are doing that

Except the amount is peanuts, peer countries are doing 2k/mo without issue but its somehow a struggle or hyperinflationary for the US to do 2400 over 6 months?
One part of this rings true to me. I left Red Hat a bit over three years ago, and part of the reason was container-itis was sucking all of the oxygen away from everything I cared about there. The rest of the OP might well be BS, but that part seems very likely.
MacOS uses ctrl+a/ctrl+e EVERYWHERE (but it doesn't work well in Microsoft products, if it works at all).

I like my emacs line editing mode :D
Google would disagree with you: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Thanks — I've been replying there but figured I should comment here since this is where I first saw it. I definitely hope this leads to some UX work, especially through the lens of thinking about how badly it will fail for vulnerable users.
> A while back, when I was curious about TikTok, I downloaded it and was instantly swiping through a video feed that was already getting customized for me.

Has this been definitely proven though? I tried finding evidence of whether TikTok tailors content for unregistered users (based on their location/device for example), but so far, I could not find a page that would even clearly ask that question. Every article about the algorithm I have read only considers registered users...
This can't be correct. What would be the point of different compilers be then? There's no way that every compiler would produce the same exact insrtuctions for each respected input. There would be no point to using an optimizing compiler or one with better intrinsic support.
It took decades to reach 5% in 2015, but now we're moving. 50% looks to be 2 years away.

It's surprising that China doesn't show as dark green on the world map. China was into IPv6 early; the address space was needed.
This does not work well in practice, yet.

There is a lot of interest already in using both off-the-shelf and more purpose-built drone technologies in search and rescue. They currently have too many limitations: they cannot navigate complex tree canopies close enough to the ground to provide reliable visual contact with subjects; their flight time is so limited that deployment and management is a real pain for large search areas; and if they aren't fully automated then you get the same signal problems with your remote that we have with our much more powerful radios with the added benefit of extremely powerful repeaters scattered on nearby hills.

This isn't to say they can't be a resource in SAR. Alameda County brought out a brilliant array of UAV equipment after the Camp Fire and were able to survey large portions of the burned town of Paradise and then process the imagery down to almost 1 cm resolution in their IC trailer. It really was some next-gen stuff and they did it way faster than the ground pounders could survey the same area. Down in the southwest, in specific types of terrain, drones are being used to quickly survey some popular holes that hikers find their way into. And, a drone scouted an orchard and found a lost subject there about a year ago.

But you have to weigh those successes against the much larger number of cases where people with hundreds of hours of experience can still very nearly step on top of a nonresponsive subject without seeing them. Finding lost people is hard, and many of the failures to find lost people have more to do with the problems of getting bad information into IC, or searching the wrong area, or the subject being in an inaccessible area, or the lost person's remains getting quickly predated by local wildlife.

Thermal imaging likewise just does not work the way that people think it does. It doesn't work in cold environments like the Sierra in winter (western or eastern), because people are typically wearing insulated clothing and the entire area around them is a gigantic heat sink. It also doesn't work in very warm environments or in heavily vegetated environments or rocky environments with sunlight -- rocks absorb and re-radiate heat and so do plants.

I've had this conversation a few times with different technologists. What we need is a balloon that we can put up with a big ol' repeater on it. That would provide a lot more immediate benefit for search operations. But, it's not sexy, so nobody's as interested as they are in trying to fly quadcopters over impossible terrain 20 minutes at a time.
One useful configuration was changing the command mode key to a single letter. This way you did not have to switch back and forth between escape. Additionally, for people who have hyperhydrosis, which drastically hinders laptop touchpad usage, vim is really useful for navigation. As for vim itself, it is perhaps more effective to use a modern text editor rather than Vim as it is was a bit of a hassle to get it set up. Vim is very useful, and its good to see more encouragement for it in modern software development.
>What about the gold-rich asteroids we can mine?

Which asteroid(s) are you speaking of?
It ain't that difficult. Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, I worked for a training company teaching C and C++. This was done on Unix boxes and our clients were mostly VAX VMS and IBM people. The editor we used to write code was vi (not vim). The clients had no prior experience of it, but by the end of day one of the course they could write programs using it - not without a lot of complaining, it must be admitted. Perhaps people were smarter back then?
I use no-script + privacy badger.

If a site wants to use adds that will work despite, I have no issues seeing them. The extensions block pretty much any I would find unethical.
Your comment would be a lot more useful if you explained what those commands do.
If you zoom in on the highways, you can see RGB ghost images of moving vehicles. Is that an artefact of using 3 distinct filtered inputs or something else?

[ps. The frequency shift is definitely reflecting vehicle direction - right side of highway is BGR, the other side is RGB. Delays in the sequence of 3 filtered captures?]
There are several within the vast expanse of Emacs extensions:

https://github.com/mrkkrp/modalka

https://github.com/fgeller/fingers.el

https://github.com/jyp/boon

I believe I've seen at least one standalone editor focused on this, too, but I don't recall where.
IMO its happening to languages that are no longer popular enough to maintain multiple frameworks. The difference with Ruby is that it was always mostly rails. I'm worried Ruby will descend into a Rails death spiral. Depending so heavily on one framework stops innovation
other pros
* It's very divisible allowing smaller denominations

* It's soft enough to divide

* You can carry a lot of value in a small volume/weight

* It doesn't corrode (you can bury it, burn it) so it can be passed along generations
Chat buttons allow us to troll websites that have no idea what they are doing- most of them.
And this means that you can go between systems, not just editors. Before I learned vim bindings, using Linux was so punishing because I was used to using command/ctrl/shift/arrow keys and whatnot to select words, navigate to the beginning and end of the line, etc. After I moved to vim bindings for all my editors, switching to Linux was so easy that it's now where I spend almost all of my time. However, if I do need to use a Mac, I no longer have to fight muscle memory (except for that infernal super key copy/paste).
The snide yet accurate approach is "I will respond to reasoned critical thinking instead of blatant motivated reasoning when I see it."

Actually good questions and proposals deserve legitimate feedback regardless of source. Bullshit deserves to be ignored or called out.
The dying art of Mac Apps (2018)
Seriously. That’s a really extreme position to take. Saving a human’s life clearly and objectively outweighs temporarily disturbing wild animals with increased noise. Is this seriously even a debate?
How does the Vscode and Neovim thing work though? I've tried to implement something similar for Kakoune and Atom editor, but i noticed that Atom would always manage its own buffer, and Kakoune as well, so i'd have to basically duplicate the buffers - passing tons of data around constantly.

Does vscode-neovim work around this somehow?