skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average was skewed by child and women (during/after birth) mortality.

In lecture [0] the professor mentions as an aside:

> And what is interesting, if you take out the childhood mortality, the Victorian person between 1850 and 1880 lived slightly longer, if he was a male, than you do today

That's well after the middle ages, but still also well before modern medicine and technology, such as good sanitation and water systems.

[0] https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/return-of-the-... (has the full text to search for the context of the quote)
It's so easy to focus on our differences, but the fact is that humans are very similar. Heck 96% of your DNA letters are the same as that of a chimpanzee. So even if you have no direct descendants your genes will be passed on.
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Some Microsoft teams also dislike k8s complexity for .NET backend development, hence Project Tye.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/introducing-project-ty...
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But then, it takes longer to chew more. Your reasoning about finer particles has always been my intuition, too, but taking more time to chew while exposing more food surface area to digestive action ought to mean that your blood sugar will rise to the point where you are no longer hungry after fewer bites. You may tend to stop eating after consuming less food, so the total excess insulin (how much overage for how long) may be reduced.

Or it may increase, or it may go one way for some foods/people and the opposite for others.

Another intuition of mine is that when we finally have realtime monitoring of blood sugar (some future Apple Watch, for example) and exactly what was eaten when, we will discover to our "surprise" that there is so much variation in individual response to consumption of the same quantity of the same food (and even variation for the same person at different times of day and variation for what else was eaten and when) that it will be obvious why nutritional studies based on the usual averaging of crowds never seemed to converge on the right answer. Some averages are meaningless.
> We just have a much higher population, a higher % of them are well educated, and we have an enormous body of historical knowledge

Specialization and trade accelerated with the Industrial Revolution as well; Adam Smith’s division of labour combined with man’s propensity to truck, barter, and exchange.
In case you enjoy this video and are curious, many of my edited sketches live at https://sketch.nono.ma. =)
I read about that too and they take canon lenses.

Then I realized... yikes! they cost more than many canon bodies!
> Researchers at the US Crisis Monitor analyzed over 10,600 nationwide protests between May 24 (the day before George Floyd was killed by police) and Aug. 22, and found that nearly 95 percent were peaceful [1]

so >500 riots then?
Tried it with the imperial march. 0 results. For shame !
Yes, that is case the early UNIX. it was changed to the current behaviour by the time V7 was released (1979).
I agree that "burn the heretic" has been normal human behavior for a long time: you can see it at work now, mostly among left wing authoritarians. You might have noticed them: they've been hard at work forming mobs firing people for expressing opinions, and lately tearing down statues (literal iconoclasm: a la Calvinism in the 16th century, or Taliban now) and burning down American cities. They'd all be extremely low in RWA score, which is why I assert that this "measurement" is simply a republican (aka classical liberal) detector.

Classical liberals are not meaningfully authoritarian in any sense of the word; though of course there have been historical aberrations (pre-Salazar Portugal could have been considered both Authoritarian and classical liberal, as I suppose were some post-war governments).

I agree that the book doesn't use a meaningful definition of "authoritarian." That's all I'm trying to say here. The author is some kind of nut attempting to demonize the half of America that doesn't vote his way as being "authoritarians." He also wants to "cure" them. That seems .... kind of authoritarian.

On those details: Evola ... I mean, the man is about as influential as Miguel Serrano or any other fascist crank who persisted too long into the 20th century. Who cares what he says? It's burbling nonsense. Toole's character was a farce designed to make fun of Evolan types (pretty sure anyway; maybe it had an element of self mockery). And Dreher is a hipster ding dong whose hipsterness consists in having read "Confederacy of Dunces."

I know actually right wing and actually religious people who would score high on this "RWA" scale. They're not authoritarian at all! Much more accepting of divergences from their beliefs than even modern American centrists.
I'd guess the kings, clergy and nobles liked their legacy and the people generally, then as today, like to work on something that improves society.

And also, the average life expectancy at birth is a lot lower than the age an adult can expect to live to.
People got old in the middle ages, it was just not as common, but probably more common for the aristocracy.
My guess is that there's massive luck factor in determining the outcome. i.e. you can pursue multiple ideas and you can't know beforehand which one will pay off. Best bet is to work on stuff you enjoy and don't expect success.
Quite simply it's worrying. Social media has become our voice. It's how we communicate to others on nearly every subject. If that medium is heavily biased, our democracy, our freedom, and our very way of life is threatened. Either they stay impartial or they must be regulated.
Googles internal mantra has been "mobile first" for the best part of a decade now...
I don't think it's ease of use or anything more complicated than your phone is closer.

It's kind of like when your remote control is in the other room.
> I didn't realize one could pay to be featured in a news article on BBC

I don't believe you can - that was the point I was making, if you missed it.
The logical conclusion of this would seem to be a system where Amazon just buys the stuff for you it thinks you should be buying....
> They claimed that as more people signed up, the proportion of bad actors would decrease

I can see the reasoning here: bad actors will be the first to jump on such a service. They actively search for new services that they might be able to use to pipe their traffic through. Awareness amongst the wider population will grow more slowly, as they aren't for the most part actively looking for it, so as that awareness spreads the ratio of good-to-bad will likely improve.

Though the absolute number of bad actors I expect is enough for me to dismiss ever knowingly installing something like this on any device I own (or allowing it on any network I have some responsibility for), no matter what the good/bad ratio is like.
The project contains software that acts as functional safety software in a vehicle, so ISO 26262 should apply. I couldn't find any reference to this in the repository or landing page?

Some sources mention it is for research only purposes (in closed roads?), others advertise this as a CES consumer product, has the project evolved along the way?

Each car manufacturer has to provide a battery of tests to regulators for each vehicle and sub-system within each vehicle. This project claims to be safe to use on more than 100 separate vehicles, perhaps I am missing something but this claim would require a considerable amount of evidence.

I am all for open-source and experimentation but in cases where we cannot provide guarantees, this should be done on a private road at your own risk.
But you still don't own the tools. Can't run Photoshop if Adobe decides they can't, or don't want to, serve you anymore.

There are some other comments that highlight why this matters, but I want to add to this: a year ago, the US government decided that they very much don't like Venezuelan government anymore, and issued sanctions. Adobe promptly announced that they'll cancel all subscriptions in Venezuela, no refunds - essentially shutting down the entire creative industry in the country. Now to their benefit, they've managed to get an exemption from the White House just before deadline and eventually did not cancel Venezuelan subscriptions - but was the US government a bit more stubborn, this could have played out in entirely different way.

Point being, a hard dependency on a non-commodity cloud service introduces a new class of problems that locally owned software doesn't have.
Influencers seem to work well in their own niches. Gamers can influence other gamers to buy gaming tech. Computer people can influence people to buy computer services.
But that's because they attract the right market. If you're watching a gaming video the chances are you're at least theoretically interested in gaming technology.
I'm not saying that, it is a list of three. And on the guideline for "private information," non-public emails are explicitly mentioned.
You are missing the business opportunities to do conference talks, write blog posts, best practices books, and sell consultancy services on how to sort out those problems.

That is why we are stuck in fashion industry nowadays.
“Average” lifespan is a misleading metric prior to the early to mid-20th-century because it’s heavily influenced by those who died before age 5.
Like the famous 2017 Burger King ad that deliberately hijacked nearby Google Home smart speakers. [0]

There's an argument to be made that it should be covered by cyber-attack laws. You aren't allowed to deliberately take control of someone else's computer without their permission.

Consider a hypothetical example: an author without use of their hands, who uses text-to-speech to write books and to control their computer. Imagine if they put you on speakerphone and you read out a sequence of commands to delete their work. That certainly wouldn't be covered under freedom of expression.

There's an obvious difference in degree, as spamming someone by hijacking their smart speaker isn't all that costly, but it's similar in category.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_advertising#2000s%...
Great animation but they seem to have omitted a very key part of the construction process, without which the bridge would possibly not have been completed: https://isc.cvut.cz/czechculturecourse/?p=2274
you're right! thanks for clarifying!
It would be terrible because without going through the decision process myself, how would I even know that what I got is what I would have chosen?
Famous article about that by the cofounder of ycombinator http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Bad spin. He claims the price is lower because of the “subsidies”. Which is opposite of what you’re implying.

Not only that your logic is flawed, the math also doesn’t check out. Why? Not everyone who were the first 200k early adopters got the credit. Because you would have to owed the tax liability. Hence it’s called a tax credit and not refund.

Moreover, if we use the logic you’re claiming. Then BMW has benefited from it too! Since they sell the i3 EV. Same with other manufacturers that offer BEVs. Like Chevy, Nissan, Audi and Jaguar etc.
Can I just say, I hate tweet storms as a medium, but hell if I didn't read to the end and if that wasn't the best packaged ad (for CompoundWriting) I've ever seen.
Great video, but could have used a scale reference. The pile driver at 00:21 looks to me to be about 30-40', but the wikipedia page for pile drivers suggests it's probably <25' tall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pile_driver

It's also unclear how the piledriver gets re-positioned for each pile. It does not look readily movable.
I think we've all seen enough of these stories to know that influencers take the piss etc etc - and articles like this always get coverage because we love to be outraged, but I don't know why more businesses haven't adapted.

My brother works for a brewery - they often get influencers asking for free beer. They respond - "yeah absolutely, of course. Pay for this order, here's a code to give to your followers. When we've covered the costs of your order we'll refund it and send you some extra stuff."

Some people take them up on it, others don't. Which I assume separates the wheat from the chaff.
Yeah, really. I don't think young people are really doing this for free food, I think the main reason is that they want to feel appreciated and treated well for once in their lives.

Edit to add: Walking into a store and asking for free stuff because you're So Important is a power trip. It's a small chance to act like a celebrity. But just think of all the kids pinning their hopes on the slim chance of being Influencers because they don't have more promising opportunities. It's sad.
>> I feel the issue is that others over estimate my abilities. Maybe a case of conflating value (which is real) with ability?

As much as people like to throw around the phrase "critical thinking", you're describing people being lazy and depending on their impression of you rather than evaluating the validity of what you have to say. It's a shortcut we all take because we dont have time (or ability) to be experts in everything so we listen to people we perceive to know what they're talking about.
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Unfortunately, I was not able to find any bug-report related to the Avid Pro Tools 7 in the bug-tracker https://jira.reactos.org/

Filling a bug-report is the important first step to have your software working in ReactOS
It's not the same token at all.

Every product on a Bust Buy store (including products competing with other BB products) was already bought by Best Buy, BB assuming a lot of risks - if BB prevents the product from being sold to the customer, BB loses money. Every product not on a Best Buy store is very likely to be buyable somewhere else, Best Buy can't ban you from buying elsewhere.

Apple doesn't buy the software displayed in the app store, nor does it allow any alternative stores. Apple has the only iOS store, and uses this to drive Apple marketshare in other areas of commerce.
Just imagine where you can be directed to valuable high quality independent information about products you might be interested in without having to be strongarmed, manipulated, or cargo culted into spending your money on them.

That might be nicer.
Also choose less challenging role and avoid promotions. It saves lots of time for enjoyment and a lot less stress.
IMO Joe Kennedy was using his sons to rehabilitate his reputation for being a NAZI sympathiser, and I suspect it was Joseph Kennedy not John that was being groomed for a political career.
Blueleaks led to numerous twitter suspensions, and note that the your linked account does not feature "ddossecrets" in the bio because of that.
Can this simply be prevented by sign edge detection?
Are there standard traffic sign dimensions?
If new Tesla can detect depth, then it should be possible to understand what is billboard and to ignore it.
I do not know laws in America is it possible to display real traffic signs digitally in billboards?
Our brains decreased by a golf ball size in the past couple thousand years.

It is much easier for stupid people to survive today.
Influences are very important to society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAAVLcMzr4
> You first stated that these concepts are hard, which is really not the case.

That was another person, I don't struggle with that.

> If you would have no understanding of HTTP/2 you would have to read a lot of RFCs too as every version is built on the former version with retaining many of it's concepts

The turd doesn't smell less because you managed to find another.

The reason I wanted to read about it was because some sources say STUN requires two public IPV4. I wanted to know what would happen if I had only one. Or if I had two IPV6.
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Impressive work and design. The creator must’ve had a blast doing this
We work harder than our predecessors (8+ hours workday, 5 days a week, both men and women), so I'd say we aren't really as smart as them.
I've seen a company spend as much as $80K for an influencer to make videos of its products, even though some of these videos broke 1M views very little of that engagement made it back to the sales chart.

The big view counts are because the viewers like the individual, not really because they care what product they're talking about.
Have you ever seen the web comic Strange Planet? [1] I tell people it's a great way for them to understand what high-functioning autism feels like for some of us and it's hilarious.

1. https://www.instagram.com/nathanwpylestrangeplanet/
If I can write a different text in the process, then yes, I suppose the important content of the book is the ink.
See my other reply, I was actually my job to know this stuff.

As to fraud, you might be misunderstanding this. There are different types of fraud and not all are covered the same.

I don't know US legislation, but what you should know, legislation or not, Visa and Mastercard offer chargeback program (don't mistake with cashback) where you can notify your bank when the transaction was not authorized by you or when you have authorized but not received the service or the goods or services did not agree with the what you agreed with the merchant (ie. when you got blue shirt when ordered green one). This is NO QUESTIONS ASKED, ie. now it is up to the Merchant to prove that they are in the right and if they can't prove it, you are credited with the amount automatically.

Now, this happens when the transaction happened through Visa/Mastercard network.

When you are using the card at ATM this is fundamentally different thing. The ATM is most likely operated by your own bank or through an agreement with some other entity that is not Visa/Mastercard.

You can think of this, that the card functions as an identifier that can be used to run transactions using completely different systems.
You can, but you have to be rather more rich, powerful, and well-connected than a cake reviewer.
Thank you for this comment! I suspect most people would do far worse than you in the mental exercise of explaining views they don't actually hold. As a conservative,

"This scary pill out there that could make me give [strong values that I'm happy with] up, destroying what meaning my life had previously. It's not much consolation that I'd later self-report it as a positive change."

summarizes my thoughts about MDMA perfectly.
ATC and Pilots use a subset of language, they get by with mostly the same 200 words and the formats of most calls is largely the same. So you know what to expect.

Additionally, ATC and Pilots require readback, ie you say what you understood. Only when ATC understands your readback will they assume you understood anything.
Having good lyrics in music?

Poetry that actually sounds good?

Paintings that make sense and take skill instead of bullshit art?

Repairing relationships and mending things?

Cooking for themselves?
The rule was enacted in 2019, though Donald Trump gave out Graham's number during a rally.
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I didn’t know you could write your own code with ESPHome, I’ll have to dig deeper.

When I hit a limit I went to Arduino and then hooked that into Home Assistant via and MQTT broker - Mosquitto.
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Would a grape eater be in breach if a grape seed sprouted from his or her poo a few days after enjoying said grape?

Are sanitation departments at risk of contributory infringement depending how they process and dispose of sewage containing grape remnants?
Get a grip on reality, jumping from an non-Brit doing a 5 sec Google search and maybe 10 sec headline reading to the conclussion that some mind cover-up exists and works is really sad...
3) Interviewer assumes he has skills to evaluate candidates's approach.
While the backend seems great, the Google assistant UI for this on Android is terrible.

For example, long press the home button, say whats this song, hum a song, it gives 3 suggestions, click a suggestion, click the YouTube link to hear it, click twice back to try another one of the three... And Google assistant has lost all state and no longer shows the 3 results. And if I "swipe up to see your snapshot" it crashes and dumps me back at the launcher...

Did they not even test this? Being able to do back and forward navigation without leaving the user on a random screen is like app design 101, and you can totally write unit tests for it.
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Careful. Analogies are a common form of deception. Used often in religious speeches, political speeches, blog posts and more.

The speaker offers zero substantial information yet manipulates the audience into feeling the speech was "good" through the use of analogies. There is sort of a catharsis when the person listening to the speech connects the dots between two unrelated concepts, and this subtle emotion is used as a form of manipulation often deliberately when the speaker is incredibly intelligent and often accidentally as is what I believe is the case here.

It's easiest to see the deliberate case in religious speeches or sermons if you're not religious yourself. Often you will find that religious principles or sayings have no proof and you will often find that the analogy is deceptively used in place of evidence or proof where no proof exists.
>Remember: it's not just about Russians, but the original allegation was that the Trump campaign was involved. That has been very quietly walked back.

Well considering that Trump's attorney general William Barr shut down the investigation and is reversing Mueller's charges that is not surprising. So not only was there never a full investigation done but the mediocre investigation we had is being undone. We will never know the truth of Trump's and Putin's secret relationship until a proper investigation is done. Including Trump's finances.

https://www.justsecurity.org/69266/barr-is-dismantling-charg...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/08/mich...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/politics/trump-russia-...

No one walked back on anything. It was simply not investigated since Republicans (especially people like Mitch McConnell) are putting party over country and not holding the president accountable.

DNC has many problems including mediocre security and treating candidates differently and picking favorites but that is not the topic of the discussion.

>Every single American should demand that evidence even if they despise Trump.

The problem with your entire premise of demanding evidence is that it's a red herring. This is not about producing evidence because any evidence produced you can label as fake or made up or false flag. Once evidence is provided the goal post is moved to evidence being made up or not credible. There is absolutely no benefit in the US government revealing evidence except for making Putin's team of hackers smarter. The people who believed that Russia did it --- will continue to believe it and that people who didn't --- well they will find new excuses for themselves.