skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
White skin is adaptive at northern latitudes.

Exactly.

Sickle Cell protects against malaria. As awful as it is, it persists because your survival with sickle cell was better with it than without it in some regions where malaria was a big issue. (Granted, it may be a case where having one copy of the gene is a good thing with minimal downside and two copies is "Damn, that suuuucks." But the mutation persists for a compelling survival reason and not actually because the butthead in charge of the universe is simply a sadistic jackass like I so often feel they are.)

Probably most major "genetic disorders" are adaptive to some degree and in some manner. And most drugs have significant side effects. If "tan in a pill" causes heart attacks or cuts off circulation to your toes such that they necrotize and fall off, welp, you can keep your damn "tan in a pill" as far as my pale ass is concerned.
Sounds like the higher ups are asking you to decline more meetings, which I’m sure they will also be upset about.
Works for me on Firefox 82.0.2
His accent means that he pronounces 'S' as 'Sh':

Save -> Ctrl+S

Shave -> Ctrl+Sh
The real issue seems to be that audiophiles want something that is unrelated to actual perceptible sound quality. Instead people want to think that the sound is good, and they have some expectations as to what might make sound a little better. This is why there is garbage like silver-plated cable, expensive power cords, etc. People expect amplifiers to be heavy, so amplifiers use big transformers and such and end up heavy.

Unfortunately, this phenomenon seems to make it quite hard to find genuinely well designed equipment. I would love to get a small A/V receiver with high efficiency, the ability to drive a load of varying impedance from 1-16 ohms (possibly frequency dependent), and better linearity and noise characteristics than I can perceive. Actually buying such a thing is not so easy due to all the snake oil and the fact that almost no one reviews equipment on any objective axis.

There is one genuine complication that I’m aware of: analog audio connections tend to be old, bad designs. RCA is single-ended. XLR is a decent design, but it’s rare in home audio. Speaker wires, in all their silver-plated glory, aren’t twisted. So inductively coupled noise is everywhere, especially at 50-60 Hz. Ground loops are hard to avoid. Unlike RF, audio should have a flat response down to 20 Hz, so cheap, small tranformers are out of the question. Nice isolation hardware isn’t that expensive, but it would still add up if you wanted to build an A/V receiver with a bunch of isolated inputs and outputs. With professional systems, you are much more likely to encounter differential signaling, but you are also likely to have very, very long wires and rather low signal voltages from microphones and such. This can result in unpleasantness like AM radio becoming audible if you have non-linearities that might accidentally rectify the radio signal.

I would like to see the audio world move to digital signaling for everything, but good luck getting everything to interoperate.
> This is a core California infrastructure problem, and along with crumbling roads and bridges

To fix crumbling infrastructure we should be funding them more, not less -- although with heavy audits about how those funds are used. Fining them will only result in internal budget cuts on their end, which perpetuates a vicious cycle.
> Surely one or the other of these groups always has at least half an hour of circadian misalignment?

What is circadian misalignment? Nothing I see on Wikipedia backs up the idea that circadian rhythms are aligned to solar noon (which is what the interviewee in the article claimed). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm

The very idea of chronic circadian misalignment due to DST seems a bit suspect since we know circadian rhythms are driven in part by changes in light, and they adapt reasonably quickly over time to changes in environment (“entrainment”). Sunrise and sunset are the main changes in light, while solar noon is one of the moments when light is changing the least. We also know computer screens and indoor lighting are affecting circadian rhythms, so isn’t it likely that games, Netflix and internet use are orders of magnitude more concerning than a one hour shift twice a year. DST is a smaller change in my sleep habits than my weekly swing!
“ Our main finding is that -- contrary to the policy's intent -- DST increases residential electricity demand.” [1]

When you trade lighting costs for heating costs DST may well be more expensive.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w14429
Can databases be efficiently implemented without shared access?

Can message passing accomplish this at the same level of performance?

although I agree that simplifying resource access should probably be considered before fully shared state.
More detailed NYT obituary that talks about his life and career, particularly how he grew up:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/movies/sean-connery-dead....

RIP
This argument never held, particularly because the brunt of the social cost is borne by regular people but we never see a decrease in our energy bills compared to prior to DST.
Riveting actor, also, the best male chauvinist ever [1]. RIP you magnificent Bond.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXkbJwrN38
I've always quite liked this book, but the thing that really wrecks it for me is that the people on the side of evil are so chaotic they would not be able to organise a piss-up in a brewery, much less take over the world. In the real world, N.I.C.E. would rather be something like Google or Amazon.
Possibly because of disc protection based on intentional 'bad' sectors or bytes?
It depends on what the objective is. I've seen plenty of project where React was used just to have it as a buzzword, but otherwise provided no functionality and actually slowed development down and ended up being less reliable (we had to - poorly - reimplement behaviors like validation, pagination, etc that our backend framework already had for free).
It should be noted that the folks who study this:

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

Seem to have come to a consensus that if we're going to get rid of DST, then health-wise it is best to have Standard Time year-round:

> As an international organization of scientists dedicated to studying circadian and other biological rhythms, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) engaged experts in the field to write a Position Paper on the consequences of choosing to live on DST or Standard Time (ST). The authors take the position that, based on comparisons of large populations living in DST or ST or on western versus eastern edges of time zones, the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently.

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...

For a longer-read, referencing quite a bit of academic literature, but a conclusionary snippet:

> In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently. The latter would exaggerate all the effects described above /beyond/ the simple extension of DST from approximately 8 months/year to 12 months/year (depending on country) since /body clocks/ are generally even later during winter than during the long photoperiods of summer (with DST) (Kantermann et al., 2007; Hadlow et al., 2014, 2018; Hashizaki et al., 2018). Perennial DST increases SJL prevalence even more, as described above.

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...
> baking machine images, updating launch configurations and doing service rollouts with via autoscaling groups).

I tried this approach, using Packer with Ansible to build the AMIs. It took 15-20 minutes to build an AMI. Would you suggest a different way of building the AMIs?
What time does Sean Connery arrive at Wimbledon?

Ten-ish
I might be wrong about the 48k vs 44.1k thing. My impression is that the difference in sample rate between the formats was some sort of attempt to discourage lossless copying of published music. Recall that we couldn’t just throw it on a computer and resample it back then.

But regardless, you need to slightly over sample when doing A/D conversion because you need to do a very strong low pass filter before you hit the sample rate to avoid harmonic distortion. So you need the filter to be some amount higher than the target maximum reproduced frequency, because the filter is in the analog domain and itself introduces audible artifacts.

So you must sample at a higher frequency than you intend target. 48k makes sense because you have more ‘extra’ frequencies to work with, so it’s easier to get the filtering out of the audible space.
MMAction2 v0.8.0 Released
I moved to Arizona a few year ago. DST is not practiced here and it is so nice. Even if you can bounce back from the physical toll of DST relatively quickly there is still a substantial amount of psychological anticipation regarding DST thay I, n=1, really enjoy no longer thinking about...
> "...which makes it hard to plan for the future."

Let alone letting you retire in your home on a fixed income.
Don't forget about extra A/C costs as well!
to me his best was Jimmy Malone in "The Untouchables", but I'll always have a soft spot for Ramirez in "Highlander".
Yeah if you're going to be using interpolation to downscale it's obviously going to look worse than even the most basic version of downscaling. That's why downscaling uses the transpose of the the interpolation kernel, not doing that and being surprised the result doesn't look good is just silly.
There is no reasonable discussion to be had with people that deny science, deny inclusiveness, promote racism, accept white supremacy, and refuse to condemn violence against groups they don't like.
I always thought Rising Sun was rather underrated. Connery and Snipes what's not to like!
The Case for Internet Originalism
Fall back to a rapid test then?
Course schedule and all the course materials including videos are here: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html
This looks great! Are there plans on making more of this course's content available to non-CMU students (e.g. recorded lecture videos)? Thanks
Site correlating CVEs to advisories and fixes
This is another good write up on the swiss water method: https://levels.io/swiss-water/

TLDR: Swiss Water > paint thinner
Apt occasionally prompts to restart the ssh server, so it does have some knowledge of this.
Cows will be upset.
GPT-3 is a good step but not enough. We had some good result trying to use it to translate legaleese to more parasable pseudo code. However there is still to much approximation for it to be useful today.

Short/mid term I believe that we will have tool allowing lawyer / regulator to draft in a formal form from which we will derive the legaleese. The stanford LSP is pushing in this direction and there is early tentative tools already published such as blawx or Oracle Policy Automation. I m aware of at least 3 other tool under development that push for this paradigm.

Fun fact one of the earliest effort in computational law involve lawyer writing contract in a formal english in ~1957 (original paper still full of good ideas on legal formalism https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcont )
> Or you get an obscure other phone which is less supported and usually not as good value for money.

This is self-reinforcing though; non-iOS/Android phones aren’t going to be more widely supported unless people start buying them.
Oil wells are unique assets.

Lots of cowboys with oil wells are still pumping as much as they were before, only getting less dollars per barrel now.

Others are producing less due to the overall decrease in demand, and at the same lower price per barrel, making even less money per month than they were from the same wells.

Either way some have financial structures in place that allow them to continue to provide shareholder returns regardless of the suddenness or severity of the downturn.

Simply because oil is still coming out of the ground.

The difference is just the lower rate the wealth can build.

They might be looking at other things like real estate to put their oil money into, rather than drilling any more wells any time soon.

Other oil producers can be financially extended in ways that make them more sensitive to stress of different degrees, which can stongly magnify a significant upset.

The most unfavorable outlook for producers is when $/BBL x BBLs is declining faster than $/BBL.

Majors can withstand this for long periods of time, which is what they have now done for the good part of a year. They have now accepted a slow increase in $ and BBL from here as predictably too low in light of their encumberances to support going forward with what was considered a full staff a year ago.

They're producing less oil at a lower price and they're going to use fewer people to do it.

Otherwise the shareholders would take too much of a beating.

When balancing the books boils down to headcount versus dividends, it is considered as bad as it gets.

Some could also say major employers have been very generous so far preserving many jobs as long as they have.

Well, Shell actually raised their dividend this week but they're not planning on kicking out as many people either.
Fauci said himself he lied lol.
Thank for pulling out that false positive statistic. It is incredibly irritating when an article, even a press release type one like this, makes it a point to give an exact number for the true positive / false negative rate and then fails to answer the obvious other half of the question. It made me sneer "oh yeah? Well, a magic 8 ball that only ever says 'yes you have covid you're gonna die' would catch that remaining 1.5%; why aren't you doing that?"

But as usual, the fault is in the summary, not the research.
I support prop 13, and raising the tax on golf courses.

Revisionist History
A GOOD WALK SPOILED
SEASON 2 - EP1
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/11-a-good-walk-spoile...
Unix time says nothing about which timezone you're in.
Two papers on why Standard Time should be used everywhere:

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...
But by that logic no web browser can be in Debian stable.
FAQ by junior/aspiring data scientists (and answers)
90% of that cellphone data is Google based. . . so, Google is participating in this destruction of privacy, just another reason for trustbusting of Google.
> just to clarify, I don't agree with the original parent comment's comparisons to sexuality etc.

I have second hand experience (one of my relatives) about being dismissed for being a woman. Anectodal example (this was in the late '70s / early '80s iirc): she was taking an exam at the university (engineering faculty) and she was told that she taking exam was nice and everything but women are really supposed to stay at home and knit socks.

You see, that's the point. Yeah you might have been considered "lacking" and by your own admisson being late wasn't the only reason. It's a bummer, okay.

But can you, in all honesty, compare that to seeing your studies, your work or your job application or your opinion being dismissed because of your biological sex? Really?
I doubt anyone wants something to occur twice, but they might have an opinion on whether a 1:30am job should occur on the first 1:30am or the second 1:30am in the fall change. For the spring change, I think all jobs scheduled between 2am and 3am (a period that collapses into a moment) should ideally occur at said moment, but I can see how a smear might be more practical in many cases.

I don't recall how `cron` and other schedulers handle it, though.
I'm sure the sun's light has no bearings on biology.
How is this different from normal languages such as Java? Lawyers do not have a problem to learn actual programming language. This does not have a IDE support and all the goodies.

We implemented tax law. Split each paragraph as a javadoc for method. Manually calculated data were read from excel sheets, and unit tested. We even used Jira for bug tracking and integration.
Losing executive function is just horrible.

At the risk of being the exact kind of asshole so many of us are decrying here: I know something about healing neurological crap and one of my sons has recovered lost executive function as a consequence. (Though it took years.) Hit me up if you want to just TALK with me on the off chance that it is moderately useful to you to some degree.

I don't like giving advice per se. I don't like saying "You should do X!" But I'm happy to talk about some of our experiences and some of what I think about neurological stuff (and possibly life, the universe and everything because help may end up being in some seemingly unrelated topic).
If battery storage keeps getting cheaper at the same rate, then yes - two orders of magnitude would be seen in twenty years. Absolutely an important consideration if you're considering a big upfront investment in a nuclear plant whose returns will be realized twenty to seventy years from now (or whatever reasonable build time and operating lifetime you come up with).

Needing "several orders of magnitude" improvement is also pessimistic. There are installations that are borderline economically profitable right now (Tesla battery farm in South Australia): another factor of 5 or 10 makes those attractive in many more places.
I encourage everyone to go evaluate building and submitting a package using the AUR vs Launchpad (PPA). I worked at Canonical and would never go back to Dpkg. I recommend users try it out themselves and see how much easier and cleaner the PKGBUILD approach is.

AUR does have a process to rate, flag and comment on packages. It is also much easier to review the installation script using PKGBUILD. There are a lot of high quality packages in the AUR but you should review everything you install unofficially, just like installing packages from a PPA.
drink water
Minor nitpick: if there is cough involved, then those infections are not really asymptomatic, right?
I would actually say it's a very good example. That no matter how tightly and strenuously we regulate the safety of a product, 100% safety is an unattainable goal and that given sufficient benefit there is an acceptable level of risk of grave outcomes, including death. This is from a publication on the risk/benefit evaluation of new medical devices from the FDA:

Uncertainty – there is never 100% certainty when determining reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness of a device. However, the degree of certainty of the benefits and risks of a device is a factor we consider when making benefit-risk determinations.

pg 11 - https://www.fda.gov/media/99769/download
Because had the Chinese government acknowledged the Wuhan outbreak early, and done a local lockdown instead of trying to shove it under the rug, there would be no pandemic. Quite a reason to be pissed off at it (mind you, specific government and not an abstract "race").
Isn’t asymptomatic if you’re coughing.
> I think permanent DST makes more sense.

The chronobiologists disagree:

> As an international organization of scientists dedicated to studying circadian and other biological rhythms, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) engaged experts in the field to write a Position Paper on the consequences of choosing to live on DST or Standard Time (ST). The authors take the position that, based on comparisons of large populations living in DST or ST or on western versus eastern edges of time zones, the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently.

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...
Could you give some more details in that? Interesting!
Is freeCAD a viable replacement for Fusion 360 now, especially with the recent changes to the Hobby license?
I mean if there was ever a time for it to happen, a worldwide pandemic might be it.
> On the other hand, moving the technology forward and directly into widespread commercial use will save people

This is the only rationale I can come up with for Tesla's approach. The tenets go like this:

1) The ultimate realization of self driving will be successful, and will have profoundly positive impacts on society (e.g. safety, urban planning, ease and availability of transportation, economic)

2) The path to that ultimate realization contains many local optima traps

3) The only way to push past those local optima is by acquiring large amount of real world automated driving data, using systems in production

From a technical standpoint, I'm disinclined to disagree with them on the necessity of large amounts of real world system behavior data as a key ingredient.

Personally, I also think we (humans) have become way too culturally risk adverse. Or, to put the calculus another way: if I have a credible belief that I can save some number of future humans, what is the acceptable moral number of current humans to place at risk and/or kill?

Imho, that's a grave, serious decision, but not one to which the morally absolute is "zero, always."

From a purely ethical standpoint (leaving legal aside), the crux would seem to be informed users. Not all Tesla drivers are likely capable of understanding the current SotA, and I'd hope (and expect) that Tesla's phased rollout of the beta is informed by previous user interaction with assisted driving.
The scaffolding I'm referring to is the "debian" directory containing rules, controls etc..

The built-in Debian packaging tools are already wrappers on top of wrappers on top of wrappers, adding another layer on top of that (with Cmake or whatever) only adds to the confusion and goes to show how over-complicated it is.

For example, the article you linked uses dpkg-deb --build while I've seen alternatives use dpkg-buildpackage and debuild.

The 5 different documented ways was specifically referring to Python packages.

There are also helpers like dh_systemd which I could never get to work so just ran systemctl commands in postinst and such.
I love the trilogy. Some other similar things by CS Lewis that relate are the short speech "The Inner Circle" and "The Abolition of Man". The abolition of man in particular points out the difference between the aims of classical education and modern propogandism-- and how education should create free thinking independent individuals, rather than trying to shape them to our own views or create good worker drones.
That's why we should either use standard time year-round, or even better: introduce MST (Moonlight Saving Time). where we move the clock an hour backward (instead of forward) during summer so we have more evening to enjoy.
While I don’t agree with you, and I believe wide distrust of established justice offices like the FBI is conspiracy theory behavior inflamed by Trump, I at least grant you that if this is your position, I guess it makes sense to also believe all the disinformation around the Hunter Biden emails.

I just feel so sad for the US that it is such a deep epistemological divide.

Almost half the country appears to believe true knowledge no longer derives from fact or observation, but instead derives from speculative conspiracy theories that use lack of evidence to reinforce themselves to the point of being essentially unfalsifiable religious beliefs, like QAnon, Pizzagate, disbelief in basic institutions of justice, refusal to acknowledge or accept whole classes of humans, like trans people, through denial of rights and continued discrimination.

Anyone seeing this and not realizing it is a full on existential threat against basic human rights and decency just isn’t paying attention.
This is something I've given some thought to since encountering logic programming. Could something like this be done in say, Prolog?
Akka actor framework comes to mind. I am in the process of learning it and it is definitely simpler to wrap your head around it.
I question the need for all this complexity.
Show HN: Two ways to debug a machine learning model
A 5-story building in China 'walks' to new location