skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"headbutting of cultures that so many Americans on the coastal big cities just don't get or approve of, and love to condescendingly talk about that kind of personality as lesser or barbarous in some way."

This cultural divide has deep roots in the power struggle that was created when the people who settled the Appalachian's figured out that converting fields of corn into distilled bottles of whisky was far more profitable since it could travel infinitely farther without spoilage along the trade routes.

They were "dirt poor" prior to this because they could generate fresh produce that had a limited scope and value on the market.

That's when the war on stills began and there was a very thorough campaign of misinformation about how "dumb hillbillies" were going to blow themselves up/make everyone blind trying to operate a simple still.

It was really about the potential shift in economic power if that region was able to leverage vast lands for growing and creating highly profitable alcohol that could be sold across the country.

That campaign/lobby was so effective that it still resonates to this day.
Reminds me of George RR Martin (author of the Game of Thrones books) who uses DOS for writing books.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502
I thought just the individual mandate was struck down by the SCOTUS. What other pieces make up most of the new taxes and mandates that were repealed or ignored?
How to Land the Space Shuttle
I saw lots of protest images in June, and July, and lately, featuring very few people with masks.
Probably, but would it be possible to make it so that one could easily swap the hash function? Like I am curious about the details here. I think it would be. Clients probably will have to implement a couple of commonly used hash functions, and so forth. I am not sure how it would work in practice or if it is worth it at all. I am interested in all the details though.
I guess I would ask if the things you're mentioning are AR, or are they just useful alerts in front of your eye. Does it require a camera?
Organized religion involves millions of people and is still alive and well.
The Argentine peso is also useless to people living in Argentina.
It's been suggested that Congress could protect any given enactment by expressly stripping the Supreme Court and lower courts of jurisdiction to review the enactment's constitutionality — which Congress seemingly has plenary power to do under Article III, section 2, clause 2. [1]

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/158992/biden-trump-supreme-c...
Well, Proud Boys are outsiders specifically entering Portland to cause trouble, further nuance can I guess be found in other hate groups that are coming in from outside Portland to stir the pot even more.

I just watched a video that included press, local cops, proud boys, KKK (labeled as such), and a single BLM protester (being beaten by the proud boy people).
How Do EC2 Instance Profiles Work?
I wrote the article. It was very hard to write a concise article about all of Vitamin D research, and so I didn't have space to address it, though I really appreciate the feedback. Race and Vitamin D is an interesting area. The VITAL trial, which is the largest study on Vitamin D that we have, with 25,000 participants, tried to enroll more Blacks, and in the end 20% of the participants were Black. They showed the same results, but interestingly it did seem like there might be a trend toward fewer cancers for Blacks who received Vitamin D, but this was not definitive. More research on this is needed.

The other reason I didn't get into race and Vitamin D is that we then start getting into the blood levels, and what really constitutes deficiency. I think we are a little too liberal with our diagnosis of deficiency right now.
Not OP but damn, I'd like that. Then maybe we could go back to native programs instead of Electron-whatever and use the web for stuff that has proved to actually work well on the web.
Commodore 64 Controlled Vibrating Magic Wand
Kinda surprised a train would run windows 95 at all and not some sort of custom train specific OS.
Very relevant point. We can't trust the science if the science isn't allowed to see certain things.
I suspect that they actually ship the products in order to look legitimate by providing a valid shipping label/number that can be tracked through a trusted mail carrier service.
How Hustle Fund's GP Triages Her Workflow
I work and live in different states, but those states have a reciprocal agreement: any local taxes I pay to my employer's state are a credit for my home state income taxes.

Last year a Turbotax glitch (combined with my inattentiveness!) accidentally marked my local taxes as belonging to my home state – this made it appear like I paid significantly too much for local taxes. I filed and happily but surprisingly expected a large refund. Instead, I received a more typical refund and a letter from the Dept. of Revenue showing that the state had amended my return to match their records and that no further action was required.

My taxes could be this simple every time. What a bummer that they aren't.
It is fat-soluble so theoretically it should be ok (based on my limited knowledge and the fact that it's a prescription product)

(I'm not sure those are the vials I'm thinking about, I remember ones that were Vit E maybe of a very oily liquid that I had to take once - not bad, but definitely weird)
This is my observation across several companies/teams. The options seem to be either sacrifice "real work" time to make a good presentation or make a half-ass presentation and have people criticize the low quality.

Do people here think "no prep" presentations could work? Where it's agreed that nobody will do any prep but simply talk about something they're knowledgeable about? Or share their screen and walk through their current project? Everyone in the audience knows that the presenter wasn't "allowed" to prepare so the expectations are lower, but people still get exposed to other engineers' work.
> It’s not your ideas against somebody else’s anymore, it’s influencer’s proven-to-be-right-ideas against ideas with less weight

Or in other words, argument from authority/popularity over ideas / merit.
This is the opposite of good debate, even more so with the dubious distinction of a tech "influencer" being an authority.

By all means, borrow arguments if they are good, but please do not promote them because of who said them.
I'm not here to argue that "everything the government does is bad" because I think it's a very nuanced situation. That said, I feel like the Hoover Dam needs to be mentioned in the same breath as Hoovervilles, and as a precursor to the Great Depression.

Arguably, this high-level decision making is the only part that the government did, and should receive credit for, as the Six Companies consortium actually executed the construction.

It's unfortunate that these arguments often involve people talking past one another; governments (being made up of people) are obviously capable of good outcomes. They're also capable of generating bad or inefficient outcomes. Those two latter points are where I think there is value in the discussion: is a governmental act moral, and does it increase efficiency (in the sense of humanity prevailing against its default state).
Really?

AR projected onto your Car's windshield is going to be amazing.

Many Tablet apps are really cool as well.
PostgreSQL Node Metrics: Don't Fly Blind
Having grown up in Utah, and living there now, I agree with the assessment of self reliance being emphasized much more here than other places I've lived (England, California).

When thinking about causality though, it seems to me like a mistake to leave out the Mormon influence. It's not just Utah, but Mormons founded many towns in Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, and Nevada as well. Distrust of the federal government was frequently and explicitly taught by church leaders into the early 1900s.
We're Being Bombarded by Ads for Drugs (2019)
Many of the adult-oriented ads paid upwards of $0.50/click.

Your parents would definitely wonder why you were receiving checks in the mail from Xpics.

Once I left the Visual Basic scripted web control running overnight by mistake...
An application running as a container bascially carries the same configuration as one running without the container bits would. That may include things like endpoint addresses, certificates, secrets, but can also be things like feature flags, authorizations, API tokens. Basically anything that's not compiled in is configuration.

The deployment side also carries configuration, including things like desired amount of instances, request routing and filtering, log destinations, log retention, persistent volume sizes and location, backup rules, metrics and monitoring rules etc.

If anything, application deployments today carry more configuration, not less. Fifteen years ago, half of the above didn't even exist. Perhaps you pointed you application to a syslog server and that was it.

All of this configuration exists in disparate tools (JSON files, YAML files, firewalls, metrics dashboards, cloud providers proprietary APIs) and will over time slowly turn into a sprawling mess. Bringing control over this into a central repository is a good thing.

Not sure about expensive, as the aim is maintainability and reduced complexity, but these tools do tend to get cumbersome. After all, they want to do everything. It's a fundamental problem. It's not surprising that has led to a surge in less capable tools.
I've gotten literally empty ePackets before (long before the recent seeds thing). I assumed they were some kind of Aliexpress scam, but it never hit me personally in any way I could tell other than a few seconds of opening and tossing empty bubble envelopes.
There's still an XDCC warez scene, too. Most of the servers are hacked computers, though, and some people have ethical issues with that.
> I believe taxation is theft

Then please stop using the things we fund with them. Roads, GPS, etc.
Good point. I see a spike in cases in mid-to-late June. Now ... what happened in early June that might lead to a spike in cases. Involving large crowds of very random people congregating together, perhaps shouting. Hmm. Well ...
It doesn't even need to be that there are "souls," we just need to find a way to explain what Thought is. Saying it's the lights on an MRI aren't good enough - all the MRI tells us is that blood goes to certain parts of the brain during certain thoughts. Just like a radar gun displaying 50MPH isn't the car actually going 50MPH, so too do we need a way to explain what a Thought or Mind actually is.

So far this hasn't happened. If it had, it would be breaking news, because consciousness would be "solved."
My wife keeps getting packages in the mail containing cheap jewelry, the type you’d find in a vending machine for $.25 USD. It’s all very strange.
My profile is on LinkedIn because I feel like I’ll miss opportunities if I’m not on there.

I’d love to remove it and go somewhere that doesn’t do this.

Are there any non-terrible, more purely motivated sites for an individual to post their background and what they’re looking for so folks can view them?
Good for you. Vitamin D is more or less impossible to overdose.
Go to Google's store:

https://eduproducts.withgoogle.com/products/category/chromeb...

Every Chromebook has a nicely listed expiration date. Past that date, security updates stop. At least in contrast to Android, they let you know.

I have old expired Chromebooks. They're insecure.

Most shops won't post the expiration date, and plenty of people buy Chromebooks with just a few months life left.
SpintronicFactory releases its roadmap for spintronics
For internal and b2b apps, what matters most is development velocity to be able to churn through a million unmet needs the fastest way possible, much more do than shaving off a few hundred milliseconds off the response time. On this metric, I don't think SPAs win.
I was told once when doing a WFA practicum that if search and rescue were called it would take several hours before I could expect to see a helicopter or have a team at the trailhead. This is mostly because it's a volunteer organization and whoever is at the phone doing dispatch has to call people and get them to go from where they're at to the headquarters to get gear, and then from there to wherever they're needed. Because of typical weather conditions in Washington it's also not unusual for the helicopter to not be able to take off or search. So a medical emergency on a day hike or climb could easily turn into a frantic overnight in the backcountry.

So you have to be able to control arterial bleeds and take care of lots of stuff that in the city you may not need to worry about because an ambulance will be there in 30 minutes.
Wow. What a story. Props to your brother. May we all be so bold and impactful.
> So, part of that is that even when an ambulance gets there, what happens next? […] Out in the boondocks, the golden hour is laughable.

In the province in Ontario, where we have a few density populated communities often surrounded by large stretches of wilderness, folks are transported by helicopter in emergencies:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ambulance

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_medical_services

* https://sunnybrook.ca/content/?page=rooftop-helipad

If you look at the list of heliports in the province, you'll see quite a number of them are at hospitals:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Heliports_in_Ontario

Including ones, like St. Mike's and Sick Kids, in high density areas where they're often at the top of high-rise towers:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OtDwkg-jGI

There are also non-emergency patient transportation services:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornge
For sure. I'm looking in to a WFR that can be done on nights and weekends instead of 2 weeks off work.
That's because Whatsapp doesn't have a feed. You are aware that Facebook and Twitter engage in censorship, aren't you?
I blocked them from my Google feed as well as numerous other ones. I'm not going to pay to see ads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397574
Google is the dominant force in this market. I'm sorry, but you can't pass the buck here.

Somehow, PCs get security updates.
Being bought out for large money often covers up the nightmare that would have been, and shifts it to someone else.
"The world is dying but I think saving it would be tantamount to communism, which is evil because it's killed millions." Excellent logicking.

You'll take basically any excuse to not do anything about climate, right?
That depends on the nature of the ambulance service. In the US/Canada, ambulances cover basic stabilization and transport the nearest trauma center. We in NA have a culture whereby minimally-equipped ambulances are tasked to deliver patients to hospitals asap. That approach isn't universal, nor is it necessarily the best.
In France, some ambulances bring docs with them to do things beside the road that in the US would only be attempted at a trauma center. That could mean stopping the ambulance by the road so the doc can work. Helicopters also act differently, often taking the patient not to the nearest hospital but to the one that is best equipped for the case (ie the one with an MRI for suspected stroke).
It can be done. It's just not comfortable to do, not especially fast, and drains battery. The google translate app that lets you translate pictures of text is a cool example of this. Very cool, but I wasn't exactly inclined to pull it out every time I saw some text while traveling.
Talk to your doctor.
Thank you for this deep-dive, I definitely agree it's not a panacea, though I do supplement and recommend most people supplement.

The question I have -- you did a deep dive into many of the "larger" claims, but the claim that I have found most substantiated and most relevant is preventative to various viruses (such as influenza):
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170216110002.h...

Do you have any additional information or findings about this?
Why'd you leave--just curious?
The ACA must have good parts and bad parts because the mandate makes the numbers work. Guaranteed-issue insurance doesn't work if healthy people can opt out (because you can just buy insurance after you get sick which makes the risk-pooling idea of insurance not work).
We have something similar at my current place where every week or two someone presents.

It ends up being the same people presenting and I don’t think it is because people are afraid of public speaking, but instead people don’t care about the talks.

At most 1-2 people (~20 person eng team) will ask a question, engage with the speaker, say thanks, etc. but most people either don’t attend the video call, or do so with video and microphone off for the entire time.

I long for a group of engineers who care about honing their tools, finding better solutions, making things reliable and efficient, etc.

It becomes draining to have the same people present over and over again.

/end rant
That's fair. And rural Indiana or Ohio feels similar to rural Iowa. So... there's geography, and there's culture. Geographically, the term feels wrong to me for someplace that far east, but culturally, maybe it still fits.
props for exposure -- the platform this was published on. this was a beautifully presented story.
Can you send them a screenshot of Safari returning Covid results?
Far more likely at the beginning of lockdown people panic bought what they thought were vegetables from amazon grocery but were in fact vegetable seeds from chinese sellers because they didn't read the descriptions fully.
My recollection of that book is that it doesn't really cover the settling of the west, and is more focused on the earlier arrivals who spread out to cover the land between (say) the Atlantic and the Mississippi.
Ti-ta-no-bo-a

5 syllables.

Agreed that this is unwieldy to say in normal speech.
> But no-one has a problem with other creative industries withdrawing their publications

I wouldn't say no one has a problem with this. It does happen, but it certainly doesn't make everyone happy. I for one would like for all released media to be available, or at least not actively removed from access.
yeah but then can’t you send and empty box? or fill it with junk if you need weight?
Here's the documentation for passing a user identifier to Hotjar:

https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033640653-Ident...

This is a bit better than it used to be. At one point the documentation had a field for User Email Address, and only a footnote in some documentation suggested it be hashed. Still, for a company that chooses to use the feature, the session recording can be tied back to the user account and any data already associated with it.
There have been a number of things I've found running some old version of embedded windows that I've been suprised by
In fairness, if anyone's content is going to stick around, it's probably Gwern's.
I leave the TV on during the day, mostly for the noise, but I like to hear some news too.

It's been driving me crazy that they are CONSTANTLY advertising all sorts of drugs, constantly filling my ears with unimaginable signs and symptoms.

Is it just me? Is there anything that can be done about this?

Most of these drugs you wouldn't need to know about unless you had a very serious and specific condition. In which case, your doctor should be the one to tell you about it, or at least a google search. But why do I have to hear about horrible diseases while I'm trying to de-stress? It's insidious.
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Glenn Gould's execrable habit of cacophonic humming dooms his recordings.
My argument is that Tax calculation should NOT be so complex that we need any entity (Govt or Private) to actually run it. Why don't we simplify the tax ssytem like other developed countries instead ? E.g. I worked in Hong Kong for aabout 2 years and for my taxes, the Govt. already calculated everything and I just had to check some boxes. Why cannot we do that here in the United States ? And Yes, I am aware of things like complex deductions etc but still, majority of Americans don't have that problem.
“Apparently teams dedicated to holding the fort grew bitter and had much lower retention than teams on greenfield work.“

Very true. The good performers will be “rewarded” doing the things that are really important: keeping things going. And then you have low performers and interns doing the new stuff.
The coronavirus is mutating – does it matter?
Some apps, and many webpages on Android have this dark pattern of miniscule transparent x's to close ads and popups, that somehow don't register very easily. I'm on a Pixel 3 and I've replaced the device for unrelated reasons, it's not my screen. And my fingers are normally-sized.

What that means is that people get this popup video playing, get a little X, try to hit the X but hit the thing behind it, or click on something else taking you elsewhere, or starting the video if by miracle autoplay ISN'T overridden...

And so forth. I could go on and talk about how I have to zoom in with two hands, crane my neck and open the little x so it's a bigger X, so I can close it...

But I'd rather focus on the question - how is this sustainable? That hostility makes users hostile, and it makes your entire ad infrastructure feel like a dirty enterprise, not the "it runs the Internet" philosophy that I'm guess adtech says to itself. Here's the thing - if I'm the company trying to advertise, do I even want to pay for clicks that are unwanted?
Agreed, though anyone planning to visit China and vocal against CCP should not use it.
1,000% this. I worked on ambulances in a fairly urban area, and even there the number of times we were at 'level zero,' or no available units for dispatch was unsettling to say the least.
400 IU is the RDA. On the other hand, the RDA assumes 20% will come from food and the other 80% from sunlight. That is, 2000 IU/day is actually what's expected from all sources. Enough to get 25(OH)D in range is the more generalizable rule.

Such an approach as you mention may work well enough if growth is finished (ie, plates fused) and there's a movement away from calcium to magnesium. That is, get more magnesium than phosphorus and then 1/3rd-1/2 as much calcium. For example, 1.5g phosphorus + 1.5g magnesium + 500-750 mg calcium.

As much calcium isn't needed after growth and I am assuming all RDAs are being met (with just a variety of whole quality foods before adding supplements). Especially enough potassium to ensure a negative PRAL score to further lessen stress reactions.

At such a low amount, you could try the sun/S.A.D. or red lamp therapy.
I have read that one of the strong selection factors for the settling of the west was the ability to survive beaver fever (giardiasis). Some have speculated that this may have correlations with personality traits.
What's the least scammy alternative to TurboTax? I keep paying for it every year because it's what I'm used to, and I have capital gains and all that junk so I can't free file.
I think it's related to diet, a deficiency in Vitamin D probably indicates a certain type of diet that leads to obesity. I wonder if metabolic syndrome and vitamin D deficiency are also comorbid.

You need fat to absorb vitamin D and perhaps this fat has additional benefits (satiety, less feeding periods, the integral of insulin over time is smaller). Ketosis probably has some role to play, I should check if they're controlling for this factor. Until they can control for the entire diet it's hard to really tell based purely on vitamin D, the metabolic processes can be so complicated in a human.

Disclaimer: mindless speculation above--I'm no expert, just a mathematician.