skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even more messed up is the fact that some jurisdictions will criminally prosecute 14 year olds for sending nude pictures of themselves.

(I do think 14 year olds should be discouraged from taking and sending nude pictures of themselves – it is the sort of thing they could easily come to regret in a few more years – but I don't think criminal prosecution is an ethical way of providing that discouragement.)
Perhaps you missed the part where they controlled for "confounders—including year of study, age, race, BMI, comorbidity status, alcohol and smoking use, and level of physical activity"

So, after correcting for BMI, physical activity, etc, there was still a very significant decline in testosterone between 1999-2000 and 2015-2016.
> pretty narrow

Not so for better or worse. Multiple people have been banned from Twitter for calling a human rights litigation troll (and Twitter troll) a man (he is male).

https://nationalpost.com/news/free-speech-activist-lindsay-s...

https://mobile.twitter.com/bindelj/status/118726943929891225...

Calling a male troll “he” is definitely not illegal, yet you can be banned from Twitter for it. It’s not an incitement to violence, it’s not even borderline. Meanwhile that troll can ridicule one of the women in question for having a reproductive abnormality, so go figure. There’s a lot Twitter will ban you for that’s not remotely illegal, the gap is wide.
There isn't a scientific field where every single paper is groundbreaking. It's a Brownian motion of small incremental innovations, until eventually we stumble upon something big (like deep learning). In no way is machine learning unique in this.

Except ... while machine learning is great, has made important and significant strides, it's not a yet science. It involves essentially a series of sophisticated, mathematically informed recipes for feeding data to giant algorithms and having them create something useful (maybe very useful but still).

An analogy from a couple years ago is bridge building before physics. You accumulate rules of thumb, you get a vague understand what works. You get better. But you aren't producing a systematic field.

And that implies merely advancement isn't necessarily progress (which isn't to say there's no progress but building larger SOTA isn't that as the article notes).
Yeah, I can see the argument for places like SF. Where I am there are lots of areas where you can easily maintain 10+ feet separation, yet the city explicitly changed the law from "masks outside when you can't distance" to "masks outside always".
So the woman who exercises a lot probably does so because she has high testosterone,

But the man who has low testosterone probably does so because of social norms?

The chicken and egg appears to reverse in your reasoning here
looks like a legendary class
When someone says "I watched people throw Molotov cocktails and shoot mortars at law enforcement", the obvious implication is that we are talking about the type of military hardware pictured and described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortar_(weapon) being used to intentionally injure or kill a group of people, not a toy version intended for making a celebratory burst of color being launched against the side of a building.

There was at least one molotov cocktail captured on camera in September landing in the street between a group of protestors and a line of cops, though it is not clear whether anyone was injured by it.
I mean, no? There are two cryptocurrencies, ETH and ETC, and apparently most people think it's fine to revert a transaction for the reason ETH reverted it. The only problem is that people posit "but it's a problem when transactions are reverted, and, look, ETH reverts transactions!", which assumes the problem even though the assumption doesn't really seem to hold.
The CBM 900 (2020)
For an learner who wants to understand, I’d strongly recommend _Le petit prince_e and _L’homme qui plantait des arbres_. Both about an hour long, beautifully animated, adapted verbatim from books that have easy to find translations.

Both as meant for children (and adult who think like them) so you might feel condescended to — but both have a very simple, classic language, distinctly articulated that makes it easier to follow for foreigners.

The stories are wonderful too: about what makes a life worthwhile and conservation.

The other recommendation I’d make are:

* audio-books that might not have movie equivalent: the accent in _Regain_, by the same Giono as _L’homme qui plantait des arbres_ has me to tears;

* any version of Criminal (the UK one was popular but the French, German and Spanish one are great too); all have the same minimal set and nothing but dialogue (it feels like a hilarious and successful exercise in saving money on production);

* hopefully _Lupin_: it’s brand new, I haven’t watched it yet but friends say it’s great. It seems to have a wide variety of contemporary accents, fast paced dialogue so not for the early learner.
I literally clicked on this thinking "Neat! Let's try something new" until I remembered it's just perl rebranded... unless i'm missing something?
The issue with teaching it is it would hit too close to home as the captains of industry found a more subtle way way to bring Fascism to America in the form of corporate Fascism via lobbying, but at one time, they contemplated just trying to finance the violent overthrow of the government to instill a Fascist regime in the US. Prescott Bush was a big proponent of Fascist, so I think it is safe to assume some of those ideas where instilled in his son and possibly his grandson. While it is not a defense of the man, I do find it strange that people all of the sudden are screaming Trump is a Fascist, when the Bush family has a documented legacy of supporting Fascist policy.

https://timeline.com/business-plot-overthrow-fdr-9a59a012c32...
There are large amounts of the vaccine sitting on the sidelines right now.

See for example (scroll down and table shows % of doses used by state)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine...
Yes, it is not. But who cares? What I care about as a user is repairability:

* can I inspect source and build it myself?

* can I fix it?

* can I share modifications with others?

Many of the new "cloud protection licenses" offer this, yet they are (by definition) not opensource.
Maybe under very exceptional circumstances, i.e. a systemic network risk. Since the DAO fiasco we've had a number of high profile incidents and the community has rejected stepping in (look at the failure of EIP 999). I'm not sure if there's presently anything on Ethereum, that should it fail, would be as bad as the DAO failure. Maybe MakerDAO?
Yes. That's the intent, that if you have some code (such as your devops pipeline) which is used to provide some service to an end user, the end user is able to use/modify/redistribute that code to provide the same service without you being able to obstruct what they do.
I could already sync up my fitbit with Google Fit, so this already existed. Their argument is moot, as you suspected
Maybe they didn't enable multilib (aka multiarch on Debian)?

https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO
Hahaha I literally laughed out loud at this. Google making products. Have you seen how they make products? They have killed more physical products than they have delivered. They discontinue them more frequently than an average person throws out a napkin. Their first gen products are usually overpriced trash (Google Glass? Nexus Q?). If Google could pump out electronics with the speed and quality of someone like Anker or Amazon they’d be buying half of Europe for cash right now. I don’t pretend to know why they can’t but empirical evidence shows that it takes them several years and at least a product generation to put out something useful. For them to put out a fitness tracker or a smart watch in a few months that would be remotely competitive with the Apple Watch is just not in the cards.
Some people perceive Google to be better because when DDG fails, they try Google and sometimes Google succeeds.

That's no different than flipping a coin and hoping for heads. You normally flip with your right hand, but when it comes up tails you try again with your left. About half the time, your left succeeds where your right fails, therefore your left hand is better at flipping coins. I'm sure there's a name for that bias? (Notice that you could do it in reverse and draw the reverse conclusion - the same goes for Google and DDG.)

To actually compare them, you'd need to do the same searches on both, not just the ones where DDG did poorly.
> Raku is essentially used in nothing, so your time would be better spent learning Perl.

Only if your goal is to be able to work on legacy codebases. Learning a cool language in itself is cool.
In principle this should not be a big problem. See how Red Hat successfully works with GPL code.

I think the big issue is that all Sass Providers considered themselves free from such pesky license details like copyleft, because they don't distribute software.

I think the biggest problem with the SSPL is its vagueness when it comes to liabilities and its broad reach when it comes to contagion. In principle, a copyleft license that covers service providers is long due, but it better be a good and practical one.
Elixir has @spec and Dialyzer and we enforce using it where I work.
Or it could be neither. Perhaps that revenue isn't being generated in the first place.
It would be nice to have some indication as to whether or not the other person has backups enabled, but the issue is it wouldn't be a with-certainty indicator that your conversation won't be backed up since the other person could have it disabled but then turn on backups later.

Ideally it would be nice if you could opt yourself out of having any conversations backed up, but I'm sure to Apple the privacy benefits doesn't outweigh the amount of customer support hours that would be wasted explaining to people why some of their conversations aren't transferring to their new iPhone.
> A true open-source project like PostgreSQL only benefits from Amazon and Google offering it as a paid, hosted solution

And like, how?

For a project to be exploited by tech corps usually the project itself needs to be already relevant and widely used across the industry. That's why it doesn't really need any publicity from AWS and that's why AWS "steals" it, their customers won't have to learn a new tool but can re-use their knowledge. Lower entry barrier = more customers.

> If you are concerned with "competitors" offering your open-source project to more users, then perhaps being open source was just a poorly chosen marketing tactic that backfired.

How free-markety of you.

Now imagine that Elastic took your suggestion. They never made the elastic suite FOSS in the first place but only sold it as a closed source product.

1) It would have never got widely used in the industry

2) We would have never got a free open source tool that helped kick-start many other companies.

You could say the same about Mongo. Imagine what impact it would have had on the startup world if Mongo wasn't a FOSS project.

That's why it is fundamental to protect FOSS projects from corporate exploitation, in order to protect the whole tech eco-system.
Walden books! Oh man..thank you for that dose of nerd nostalgia!
I can't direct a movie but I can tell that Plan 9 from Outer Space is crap (or so crap it's gold, whatever). The kid who pointed out the emperor had no clothes didn't need to be a master tailor. And Gary Marcus doesn't need to propose alternatives to current deep learning practice in order for his criticism of deep learning to be valid.

... and yet he has: neuro-symbolic integration. That's his suggestion.

And in fact that's a whole field that's been publishing work for a while now. So he's not just making it up.
> How are miners supposed to be compensated, given that the block reward halves every few years?

A solved problem by Satoshi. The block reward covers miners expenses for the next 100 years or so, THEN, once the block size is large enough and transactions are in the millions, a fee of a few cents per transaction replaces the block reward.

> Can you rebut these counter-claims made by one of the Core devs?

Yes, easily. This article [1] shows what I am saying, Core devs are funded by Blockstream. [2] Greg Maxwell (nullc) is, "a very dangerous individual whose [actions] speak for themselves". Just read about his past, he is a master social engineer and manipulator.

[1] https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/60250/bitcoin-developm...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/74se80/wikipedia_admin...

> How are those developers being enriched? Lightning is free and open source.

Lightning does not work. It is a centralized "solution" to a decentralized problem. Sure, anyone can make a central database, hold Bitcoin and trade them, that is just an exchange, that is what Lightning is. What Blockstream is selling is not Lightning, their product is called Liquid.
It depends on how fame along the program is. It instantly values the company at ~1mm dollars. The YC halo also increases the valuation (and decreases dilution) of subsequent rounds.
If you're that guy and you have a secure job it means you write models no one ever sees in a company which doesn't know or respect data, or you work in some data science factory as a small cog of a fairly well oiled team. The latter does happen from time to time, but it's often the former.

In every other place, your job is on the line to be erased because people will soon realize no one wants a wise-ass who doesn't actually contribute much to the bottom-line in the end.
I listened to a podcast episode recently - I don't really listen to much of the podcast, but I had a 12 hr drive, and have enjoyed occasional episodes in the past.

The host is Eric Weinstein, who is himself a scientist and seems to be a rather sharp individual.

https://theportal.wiki/wiki/19:_Bret_Weinstein_-_The_Predict...

It takes _a while_ to get going. Eventually, however, the host has his brother explain a convoluted story where, basically, his brother (an extremely competent researcher and scientist) discovered a genetic anomily in all the mice used in labratories around the world.

Because the mice were bread with such a pressure on the population, the telemeres on their DNA were getting awkwardly long (or short? I don't remember) resulting in their cells being _unusually good at repairing themselves_ with a downside of under-reporting the incident-rate of cancer.

The discovery got sniped from him, when he started reaching out from other prominent researchers, and eventually the discovery was buried.

It seems plausible that he tripped across an extremely damaging fact, one that would have forced a broad re-evaluation of the risk of many substances and medications recognized as "safe" or "healthy".

Stuff like this long-term testosterone decrease, if it's indeed a bad thing (it might not be!) could be a result of that kind of scientific burying.

Anyway - it was an interesting story.
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elasticsearch had a contributor license agreement in place for about as long as I can think, requiring full copyright assignment for all changes you’d contribute.
Maybe that's because 99% is purely held to speculate on the price going up?
What kind of actual real world use-cases has ethereum's programmable "contracts" enabled? It's been out there for a while yet I fail to see where it made an impact.
Isn't it equally true that if they moved to being entirely proprietary but free-of-charge software, or if they had a "all rights reserved but you can look at the source if you want" license, or whatever, there would be no impact on most customers either?

If so, why bother leaning into the word "open"? Just call it freeware.
> The analogy is flawed. Saying there are no monopoly issues as long as there are at least two competitors is even more flawed.

There are significantly more than two companies that allow mass communication over the internet. In fact, there are a significant number of perfectly free and open ways to communicate over the internet.

Why is Twitter special?

> If major cinema chains (Twitter, Facebook..) refuse to show a movie, but you can still rent the back of Moe's bar (and thousands bars like it) and use their second-hand projector (an analogy for the small audience of alternative platforms). How successful will such movies be?

Sorta my point, because that happens all the time. No one goes around saying theater chains are monopolies and need to show every movie anyone deigns to have projected on a screen.

> Should we be concerned that the cinema chains can decide what sort of movies can be made or have any sort of impact?

Maybe, but that isn't legal standing for doing anything. If you don't like it, boycott theaters, tell your friends not to go to them, promote alternatives that deliver what you want.

Oh, but then the market might disagree with you and keep going to the theaters anyway. Well tough. You're not entitled to force people to care.

Alternatively, push for legislation around online communication platforms and how they are allowed to determine who can and cannot speak on them. But then don't be surprised when those rules apply to your mailing list too.
thanks no need of more digital mark and tracking
We use AWS's ES. And, as far as I'm concerned they already open-source their version.

Unfortunately for you, there's a decent chance that AWS freezes their support at a version before this license change, and never offers upgrades. As far as I know, AWS has never agreed to offer services based on code under the SSPL license.
Are you sure about that?

If you click through to the EU site

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...

and read "Google's Commitment" on ads:

> Google will not use for Google Ads the health and wellness data collected from wrist-worn wearable devices and other Fitbit devices of users in the EEA, including search advertising, display advertising, and advertising intermediation products. This refers also to data collected via sensors (including GPS) as well as manually inserted data.

So this only covers European Economic Area, and it only covers Google Ads.
I'm building Uniswap on Bitcoin Cash. Feel free to check out: https://devpost.com/software/swapcash

Same can also be potentially done on Bitcoin (BTC) with BIP-Tapscript.
Why not using this VC money to support Ethereum? They already do that and much more.
I’m not sure the pine time will be powerful enough to actually use. Iirc it has a 64mhz cpu and 3.5mb storage space. It looks like more of a toy for developers than something you would use normally.

The mi band might suit your needs better.
Testosterone arouses brain areas for aggression and muscle development (in humans and other animals). Masculinity is a different topic.

It doesn't "===" violence but if you're intentionally using "==" for type coercion, it could be true.
We've been discussing it; we'll probably remove the image but add the context. Next time you find something that makes you like this, would you please send a patch (or at least report a bug)? It's sheer chance that I ran across your original Mastodon post at all.
Measuring Customer Obsession
>It's kind of like living in a small town 150 years ago. The "people" of the town are the few giant service providers in the country. It doesn't really matter what the law says, if the town consensus is that you are not welcome, then they can make it very hard or impossible to live there.

And yet an entire town ostracizing someone for a non-protected attribute is actually protected speech and behavior under the first amendment.
If you can't participate in polite society, there's very few things the government actually guarantees you.
BFS (the BeOS File System) had very cool features, especially for the time (see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-b...):

- 64-bit, journaled, UTF-8 capable, extended attributes: things that are standard today but novel at the time

- It had "live queries" meaning feeds into file changes. AFAIK only NTFS has that today with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_Journal. Inotify is a hack: have you tried monitoring your root folder ?
It’s striking how much he sounds like my grand-mother who was born in 1920 about 400 m from there (Luxembourg). Same attention to language without being aristocratic or effete; same reluctance to sound slow.
There were issues a while ago relating to the MLAT setting, but I set it up a month or so ago on the pi-aware distro feeding to FA first, and then just ran the FR setup utility after that with no issues.

Obviously I’ve no real need for either of them, but its nice to have for something I was going to run anyway!
I don't think it's reasonable to attribute motive to the contributors in this way. Changes like this protect the elastic enterprise, whether they align with the motives of contributors would have to be evaluated on a per-contributor basis.

I've made several contributions to ELK, and my only motive has been that it's useful open source software, and I want to make it more useful. I personally don't care who profits off the codebase, I think anybody should be free to. I personally would object to anybody trying to lock down how it can be used, and would see any attempt to do so as running completely counter to my personal motivations as a past contributor.

Which is exactly what I see Elastic doing here.
I'm not sure if people are really confused about this or sowing FUD. Using Elasticsearch to search your own webapp is not providing Elasticsearch as a service. It's using Elasticsearch to provide functionality in your application.

Providing Elasticsearch as a service means allowing people to upload their own data and giving them an Elasticsearch instance to search it.

There's some grey area where it's a question if you're providing an application with a search feature or just hosting Elasticsearch. Like if you provide a way to upload logs and then search them that's Elasticsearch as a service. But if you provide an automated upload, is that enough?
If anything, we would have objected to the quality of the code they were writing.
Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope Clement Tested Poisons
Violent protests that did not lead to the death of a single police officer.

I mean, how violent could they have been.

My personal experience (not as a participant, but rather someone who observed a few protests from a distance) was that they were peaceful until the cops would engage with the protestors to impose the curfews that many cities had established.

And then the violence was largely 1 sided.
How does being outside running around increase grip strength?
To save everyone else from a google, the median plumber income in 2019 was $55,160 according the BLS (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/plumbers...).
I see that and I'm glad they included it, but ...

Was 1999-2000 that golden age when we all threshed the fields by hand and steered the plows on foot ?

I remember people being quite sedentary and obese then and I don't know that an activity comparison to 1999-2000 has any utility ...

EDIT: OK, I am thinking about this backwards - if, as I suggest, people were just as sedentary in the first period as they are in the second, then the T drop begs a different explanation. As you suggest, they also corrected for age.

So, perhaps, my instinct is wrong. I would still look very closely at the (adjusted, corrected) physical activity before drawing any other conclusions ...
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It's hard for most people entering this field because the incentives are perverted - there's this perception that DS is sexy and you actually don't need to know coding that much (just enough to scikit learn). Thus people with pipe dreams of tweaking model hyperparameters to spin gold come in and get a rude awakening. Not a lot unlike people flocking to become actors to LA.