skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I sleep LESS (5, 6 hours) I feel better. More energy, lighter on my feet, less depressed.

This is a well-known phenomenon, believe it or not. Acute sleep deprivation has a strong anti-depressant effect in people suffering from depression. It can even trigger hypomanic or manic episodes in people who have bipolar disorder. Scientific American wrote a nice article about it several years ago: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-sleep-depriva...

As you noticed, the effect is completely unsustainable. Chronic sleep deprivation will worsen depression, not improve it.

There has been some research into using acute sleep deprivation to kick-start treatment with traditional antidepressant medication. Results are mixed, but it can help some patients cope until the antidepressants start working.

There is also some [very] weak evidence that advancing your sleep phase (going to bed earlier, waking up earlier) can stabilize the acute antidepressant effects for a couple of days: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12799743/

Long term, treating the underlying depression with traditional methods (CBT, bright light therapy, exercise, antidepressant medications) is the only sustainable solution for most people.
Don't let a lack of a job posting stop you, I would find someone on twitter and reach out.
This wording should be required by GDPR. :)

If that would be the case, maybe more sites would follow GitHub here.
> [..] is a construct

It is the way companies are currently constructed, pretty much everywhere. Even when you have strong employee representation, in which case that influence is via the employee representatives on the board, not via employees just doing whatever the hell they want.

Once again, if you want to agitate against the company, you are free to do this. Just don't expect the company to employe you.

> But the board also decides what working for the benefit of the company means.

Not without limits. Boards are answerable to shareholders, and may be held liable if they act against the interests of shareholders. But even then it is the board that decides this, not random employee X. As an employee, you are in a chain of command (tends to also be in your contract, which you entered into voluntarily). And once again, you are free to not abide by that contract, but don't expect to be employed by that company.

Basically, what you are talking about are vastly hypothetical constructs that have little to do with how companies actually work.
It seems many people find USB/IP works as a replacement for real USB passthrough http://usbip.sourceforge.net/
I was looking for a laptop capable of running 3x4k displays and there is currently a 186 page thread on macrumours about the 16" being too hot with external displays.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noisy-with-an...

I can't remember where I saw the benchmarks but I saw a HUGE difference in performance for the CPU depending on if you were running an eGPU or not simply because you're not stressing the internal GPU. Closing the lid reportedly also makes a huge difference. We may be using different definitions of "overheating" but generally what I saw was a laptop which advertised it could handle FOUR 4k displays but it could only do that while being loud and slow. Looking at updated reviews it seems like it's only certain configurations that lead to this problem. Nevertheless I saw reviews, they looked bad, and I held onto my money, and bought a solution with better cooling.

I have strong hopes the m1x will just support a ton of displays out of the box and just work in a compact package. If they released a 14" that could support more than 2 displays I'd freaking faint and wake up weeping with joy that my dream computer had arrived.
atmospheric methane is the reason early life appeared and evolved on earth. oxygen that supported human life turned up much later. i often think of a friend's favourite quip: life is just one fart's desire to create another fart.

even now, we dont entirely understand climate change/global warming. the greenhouse effect is actually increasing canopy cover of many existing forests.
Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well:

- Any moderation policy will anger someone

- Content moderation is inherently subjective

- Errors at scale result in many errors over time

Mike Masnick goes into this at depth here:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191111/23032743367/masni...

the three points above were taken from this video by Derek Caelin:

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01...
I work a lot with GDPR and making sites compliant, and some agency's do in fact tell this to their customers. I suspect it's to sell their Services for cheaper.

Luckily where I work we are pretty serious about this stuff. Since one of our main revenue's is Data protection consulting, anything else would be idiotic anyway
Midnlessly scroll through my phone :(

Hopefully 2021 will be different.
For very recent comments, click on the timestamp to get the single comment view and be able to reply.

(I had to do it here too.)
Very interesting writing, I wonder if the people sleeping just 6 hours (who are in the best condition acc. to a later explanation) wouldn't be because they have a cause in their life? They have a purpose that is why they get up early and motivated enough to work on it. For people with more sleep might be less motivated in average?

Interesting topic nevertheless.
I was referring to maturity as a function of age and less about categorizing a whole culture as such. Regardless, I am referring to the maintenance of a healthy level of “fun” so life is more rewarding. It’s not really a trade off as you seem to be implying.
Well.

I'm fucked.
Thx, I'll check it out!
If BSD was all there was, would there have been such a movement pushing back against tivoization, binary blobs in devices, etc.? Perhaps only the great idealism of Stallman could produce the GPL and FSF, the BSD license on its own wouldn’t have done it.
”Businesses are the real victims.”

—Another fake quote
This is not an issue with the C++ language. It is clearly a compiler bug (well, misoptimization).

There are plenty of real reasons for liking or disliking C++ but your response reads like a knee-jerk response.
To me that mark is 6 hours. The more I sleep past that the more lethargic I become. Likewise if I sleep between 5 and 6 hours I’m fine but will catch up with me
The links in the comment you quoted were evidence in support of mask mandates.

"while many of the available interventions work, mask mandates stand out for their effectiveness and relative lack of economic tradeoffs. “Mandatory mask policies seem to be as effective as policies that have higher costs,” says Tookes."

The article is saying that mandating masks has a positive impact, but recommending them does nothing.
That's correct. Using cookies for the user session is fine and does not require consent as long as you really are just using them for the user session. The moment you use them for analytics, you have to request consent for analytics, even if they are primarily for maintaining the user session.
How often should you blog for SEO results?
Correct; optical, not SAR. Should have made that clear in my original post.
I am dubious. Origin of the World has such deliberate composition that it's hard to believe that there used to be another whole panel's worth of content up top. It would ruin the piece.
Protein bars?
Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'
We (my cofounder and I) have built several startups previously and spent an unnecessary amount of effort on auth. This led us to build an open source alternative to Auth0 and AWS Cognito, that’s called SuperTokens. We’ve spoken to 100s of developers and startups to understand the pain points with current services and we hope you find this useful!

Why did we build this?
To be able to control our user data and have it stored in our own database.
Have certain customisations that other identity providers do not offer
We couldn’t afford to pay
It took too long to understand the documentation of alternate service providers

How are we any easier?
We think that Auth0, Firebase etc are great services but auth is complex. There are many different use cases for different types of apps. Since services have to cater to each of these, they tend to become complex in their implementation (due to no fault of their own).

SuperTokens takes a modular approach - making it possible to pick only the features you need for your use case. This means you need not worry about complications associated with other features (eg: SSO and OAuth if you don’t need it) and this in turn makes it easier to implement and manage SuperTokens.

We are still early in the journey and working hard on building more functionality.

Please see our website: https://supertokens.io/
Our GitHub: https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core

Do let us know what you think - specifically whether you would consider SuperTokens for your app. Why or why not? What can we change or offer?

PS: We did a "Launch HN" post earlier when our product was only for securely managing session tokens (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24306572). We realized we need to build more of the auth stack (signup / signin, social login etc) and hence we're excited to announce that we've built basic login functionality.
There is a notional standard "best price", the NBBO, that a broker-dealer has to meet; you can't take payment to route an order somewhere that doesn't meet the NBBO.

But the NBBO captures pricing from all kinds of traders. Retail traders are cheaper to trade with than institutional traders, because retail traders aren't moving gigantic blocks of stock that are going to blow up the market makers that are facilitating the trading.

Everybody knows that retail traders are cheaper to trade with, and everybody knows where the retail trades come from: the retail broker-dealers. So market makers cut deals with retail broker-dealers: they chop up the cost savings between themselves and their customers, who get prices below the NBBO. That's called "price improvement".

What happened here is that Robinhood claimed in its marketing to be obtaining the best available prices for its customers. But it wasn't living up to that claim. Its upstream market makers made it clear to them that they could get more price improvement for their customers, if they took less in PFOF rebates.

The SEC filing suggests that Robinhood was offered 80/20 price-improvement/rebate, and instead took 20/80. The two big problems here: first, 20/80 is worse than other retail brokerages (virtually all of which do PFOF, because none of them are especially competent at actually executing trades) --- even if you factor in the lack of trading fees, and second, Robinhood had claimed in its own marketing that they did the opposite.
Launch one of the Christmas songs, let it play for a few bars, then grab one of the blobs and sing a solo. Amazing!
Well, somehow we in EU have to comply with DMCA, which is not an EU law. Every company that _does business in_ EU can get in trouble for not following EU law irrespective where it violated that law.
Yes, like on cigarette boxes with mandatory, non-dark pattern, visible without scrolling 3 meters button to choose "Don't agree, Continue".
Do you want to give your plumber an equal seat at the table when deciding how to organize the bathroom? Or to the painters of your walls regarding the color?

As an employee you get money for using your skills in the way they ask you, like you ask the waiter to bring you the food you picked, not something he rather wants to bring you.

As an employee you are not part of a self-governed community. In a democratic state its the opposite. People pay taxes into a common pool and then (ideally) have a seat at the table to decide how to use it. See how the money goes in opposite direction? You get no salary for being in a democracy, you pay a membership fee!
Good question! We just shipped GitHub Discussions to millions of developers and we can learn whether people use and like the product by looking at whether people are creating discussions, customizing categories, and answering questions.

The argument that you need to follow users around every step of the way to build great products is simply untrue.
Is this really what you ate like on a day to day basis? Not snarky or anything, just genuinely shocked and curious
I believe it is generally untested in law whether third-party Analytics count as "legitimate interest" (direct consent not required) in EU GDPR, which is why cookie banners talk a lot about "legitimate interest" now.
We've outlined some of the key new features of Airflow 2.0 here - https://www.astronomer.io/airflow - and it's available on Astronomer Cloud today.
Bread, pasta, fruits, and vegetables: all things we've been eating for at least a couple thousand years; no fat or mostly saturated fats.

Twinkies and Oreos: signicant quantities of novel ingredients that have only existed in the last 150 or so years; high quantities of omega-6 polyunsaturated fats.
Ask HN: I got a Raspberry Pi what should I do?
So I got a raspberry pi as a gift. I was wondering what projects should I try on my raspberry pi.
It's more like a store of value as it has a fixed supply, and if you think about it, over time, people lose access to their wallets, so really in 30 years, there will be even less accessible bitcoin, thus increasing its price even more.

The real value is once we get the cross blockchain projects that facilitate transactions between different blockchains. That will unlock the true value of all block chains, as they will be interoperable.
New Ad Fraud Scheme Highlights a Growing Problem for Streaming TV
"Linux" = "Linus' UNIX". This is as amateur as it gets.

Hell, my grocery store sells sausage bites made by Dietz & Watson that are called "Dietz Nuts".

Names are not destiny.
I’m guessing a cookie with an expiration of 24 hours, but I could be wrong
And as far as I know there is no ruling that using a VPN or other kind of proxy does make you count as "being in the country of the exit node wrt. actions done through the VPN".

Which means that you can't say a user is not residing in the EU (without a popup asking the user if they are residing there... ;=) ).

On the other hand if there would be such a law it would have kinda interesting consequences.
Impressive effort by the reporters:

"The AirBeam reports data through a phone app, but we wanted a fallback, so we connected the AirBeam to a tiny Raspberry Pi computer. We modified open-source software to control the AirBeam and download measurements to the Pi every few seconds. We also had to add a clock module to the Pi to keep more precise track of time."
> then you still can’t use those cookies for other purposes, like analytics, right?

Yes. It’s not the cookies, it’s what you make the use of them.

The wording even predates GDPR. You could even dispense of the banner if you had DNT set to 1 or 0, since that would count as consent/not consent resp.
> the reason they are not standard is because the are hard.

With your first sentence, I was really hoping that the punchline was going to be "because they are hard to market"...

Not only because superficially I'm a cynic, but also because it implies that there's some hope since the MHz/GHz wars are probably at their end or near their end.
Legalizing more forms of sex work would be a good start given that much of the violence is a byproduct of a hostile environment created by puritanical ideals put down into law but that's too practical and gross men might like it so it'll never gain traction.
Are we claiming that if GitHub has a dashboard like “number of concurrent sessions” and “average length of session” and “unique users who touched this feature” it would be a GDPR violation?

Because I can’t imagine that they don’t.
I take the time to check what I'm agreeing to.

By law it's default opt out for non-essential usages specifically to deal with people who are annoyed, but not everyone plays by the rules.
We're just going through this with my dad, far fewer resources for the middle class when it come to getting assistance at home. Becoming "purposely financially destitute" sounds like a good strategy but I'm sure it has its own risks.
Gotcha. I was wondering about both - it seems possibly useful to be able to automate my authZ and groups in ShareWith, but mostly I would like to see what a Zanzibar-aaS can do. Guess I'll stay tuned :)
I used to be a skeptic when BTC hit 20K the first time around, but now that PornHub is accepting payments using cryptocurrency due to the whole MasterCard-Visa conflict the future is looking bright. I wouldn't be surprised if OnlyFans and other (legal) sex workers started accepting cryptocurrency in an effort to sort of deplatform payment processing. Interesting times!
Vaccines Are Here. We Have to Talk About Side Effects
Show HN: Virtual Sumo Competition 2020
Q: >Where did she make demand coupled with threats?

A: >she announced that she'd like to discuss an end date for her employment [editor: threat] if she wouldn't be given the chance to fix the paper up for publication [editor: demand].

"I you don't do as I want, I will leave." "Fine, you can leave".

I can't imagine any company that would, or could, react in any other way in this situation.

The Betriebsrat would have absolutely nothing to do here, as the company is just complying with her request. And yeah, once you "discuss an end date for your employment", a "Freistellung" is a completely normal event.

Now in Germany that would result in payment continuing until the official end date. In the US things are different, but I don't have any information that this didn't happen (she just moaned about access to company systems, and that is normal in a "Freistellung").
They appear to be using a self-hosted analytics solution. Every page makes a request to collector.githubapp.com.
Which is actually mandated by GDPR, but that doesn’t seem to end the endless click required to block cookies on certain websites.
> I think Facebook, Twitter et al should never have regulated content

As soon as they started to editorialize the content, by having a black box that decides what to show you, they didn't have an alternative anymore. If they didn't censor it themselves, people would notice that it's those companies spreading lies, not small people.
It’s a good way to look at things.

Someone on HN said you’ll easily lose weight if you stick to foods less than one calorie per gram.

I believe it but I can’t find many foods ...
> but also contain ingredients and additives not commonly used in home kitchens and artisanal restaurants

That is incredibly broad though? Not sure what "processed foods" would be then.
Mass news media have always suppressed or ignored critics that were not congruent with domestic political regimes. Why should digital platforms be any different?

The vaunted Arab Spring in this plea had a pretty mixed outcome. Libya is a messs, Egypt ended up with another dictator after overthrowing a democratically elected organization (which the west didnt want, but was the only viable party after the same said west pushed for quick elections), and Syria ended up with a civil war, ISIS and same regime after every western and digital platform insisted for years that the regime was on its last legs.

The only platform that didn’t restrict Trump was twitter. Even (most of) Fox opposed him until it was clear he was going to mop up the primaries. He may be mainstream now,
but the states and platforms have closed that loophole for now.
Pollan specifically calls out protein bars for being extremely processed and full of hidden unhealthy ingredients.
It depends on how you count: 1 unborn, 1 miscarriage, 2 legal adults still here, and 10 others. That could add up to 10, 11, 12, 13, or 14. All are from the same mother.

Car seats go in rows 2 and 3, since those are easiest to reach from the side door. It helps that our state hasn't totally caved to the car seat industry lobbying.
Of course Google will use that data - isn't that part of the reason for the acquisition?

They will say they will not but one day they will be found out.

At that point they will blame an errant engineer, "sorry, it should not have been production code", "A mistake". And if there is a fine it will be inconsequential to the data they have extracted.

Google have form in this area, as does facebook and others.

The tiny fines are not a deterrent.
Mostly limited to food though; doesn't work for items like polio vaccines and three-prong electrical outlets. :)
on a slightly related note...turns out termites are responsible for 1-3% of all earth's atmospheric methane.

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-termite-mound-filters-methanea...

[..]Just like cattle and other ruminants (that is, an animal that brings up food from its stomach and chews it again), termites have bacteria in their guts that break down plant material. And just like cattle and other ruminants, one of the by-products of this breakdown is methane.[..]

[..]Globally, it is estimated that termites are responsible for about one to three per cent of all methane emissions. It may sound small, but that's up to 20 million tonnes of methane each year coming out the rear ends of these humble insects.

However, unlike us humans, termites have a built-in filter system in their dwellings to remove this greenhouse gas before it's emitted into the wider atmosphere.[...]
Tanning Beds and Sunbathing May Raise Endometriosis Risk
Airflow 2.0 is a major release that's six months in the making. In addition to being much, much faster, this release includes HA compatibility, a new REST API, a refreshed UI, and a much simpler DAG creation experience.
'Losing a Generation': Fall College Enrollment Plummets for First-Year Students
Great work!

Thanks, github, for setting the example.
> She's not “black” nor was that claimed; she’s “Black”.

You must be deep inside some cultural bubble not to see how hilarious this sounds.
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use floating point.” Now they have 1.999998 problems."
In Cinnamon youn can bind 'center window' to a combbination, i chose super+c.
Good lord, everyone needs banners and popups?

Why not just let browsers controls who sets what cookies?

I'm tired the endless cookie popups, can we come up with an "allow cookies if the browser accepts them" standard as long as that guarantees no cookie popups?

Then browser vendors can ship a delete all non same origin cookies on tab close or something.
> Was curious what their treatment was going to be regarding tin whiskers. Not much there (of course this is point in time inspection so it kind of makes sense)

Did you read their specs?

There's a small part about whiskers that already convey enough meaning:

> UNACCEPTABLE WHISKER

> A whisker is a slender needle-shaped metallic growth between a conductor and a land. Typically the result of mechanical stresses in high tin compounds, it is a reliability concern."
Have you considered the CSA layout? It's QWERTY, but the most commonly used accented characters are easily accessible. It's not ergonomic for programming, but switching between US and CSA doesn't require a significant adjustment (once you're used to it, at least).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSA_keyboard
It's a French comic book based on Vautrin's work. The painting plays a minor role in it.
I'd argue that regardless of the author's motive, as a layperson, it's a good book because it's easy to read and started me down the path of exploring my sleep in-depth. My take away from the book is, like so many other biological functions, we still don't really know why we sleep but we know sleep is important. Learn more if you want to, learn about why this book could be considered controversial but for most people the takeaway of "sleep good" is what matters.
We think cookie banners are horrible and couldn't design one that isn't disrespectful to you all – developers. Also, privacy is good?

Sometimes there is no conspiracy theory. :)