skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally the first line from the article: “The decline in total testosterone was observed even among men with normal body mass index.”
It's weird how HN commenters consider free office snacks as an employee "benefit" and complain when they're taken away. I'd rather the company not put any snacks out and remove the temptation. For most of us that work at computers all day we really don't need extra snacks.
There was also a ton of fraud (some estimates were 1/3 of the money went to scammers and foreign people). They didn't have a good way to check if a business was an actual business or not. This resulted in entire neighborhoods of people getting 10K each by sharing the scam [2].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-24/small-bus...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-29/small-bus...
0.19% is entirely in line with other credible estimates:

https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

> Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27% (corrected 0.23%): the rate was 0.09% in locations with COVID-19 population mortality rates less than the global average (< 118 deaths/million), 0.20% in locations with 118–500 COVID-19 deaths/million people and 0.57% in locations with > 500 COVID-19 deaths/million people. In people < 70 years, infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 0.31% with crude and corrected medians of 0.05%.

But this is a meaningless debate. Your own preferred source makes it clear that the "average IFR" is heavily dependent on population demographics (i.e. in the very next sentence after the one you quoted:

> our results indicate that about 90% of the variation in population IFR across geographical locations reflects differences in the age composition of the population and the extent to which relatively vulnerable age groups were exposed to the virus

You're also completely misinterpreting Figure 6 from that paper. It is showing that their model of age-specific IFR correlates well with observed differences in reported IFRs. It is not claiming that those reported values are meaningful in the absolute -- in fact, all of the "reported" values seem to be higher than the model by a factor of ~2-4, and they're substantially higher than the numbers cited by the WHO bulletin.

(and yes, I know you don't like Ioannidis, but this is a metareview, not original research. Also, not liking someone doesn't make them wrong.)
My main side project right now is SongRender, a browser-based music visualizer video maker. https://songrender.com

I’m in the middle of a big rewrite of the compositing and rendering code that will open the door for fun things like multiple layers and blend modes and image strokes.
Aquafaba based mayo is great as well: just blend together aquafaba, oil, garlic and salt. It comes out with a similar texture and taste to egg mayo. I've had variations that add black salt to give it an eggy smell if you actually miss that part!

Another plant based trick is to combine vinegar with soy milk - it sours the milk a little and makes it curdle, emulating the taste and texture of buttermilk. Here's a pancake recipe from someone I know that has this trick to give a fluffy texture, where no eggs are needed:

https://angeliqueboudeau.org/fluffy-vegan-pancakes/
I doubt that many young people do "high protein / low carb" diet. It's hard to avoid carbs by mistake, especially with young people food like fries, pizza and beer.

"Low carb" diet does not lower your testosterone. "High protein" diet does [1], because proteins will bond with testosterone. Increased magnesium will prevent that [2].

"High fat / low carb" diet will increase your testosterone due to increased dietary fat consumption.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2129168/
[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3958794/
Exactly. As members of society we have an obligation to participate in society whether or not we are impacted negatively by its current shortcomings. In fact, the greater our privilege, the greater our obligation. Society would unravel if this were not true, because it would place undue burden on those lacking power to fix society - an impossible task without power. This is the subject of MLK's writing on justice and mutuality, that 'an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere' as well as Niemöller's poem about 'first they came for...'.

The question is really how to optimize awareness & participation with personal wellbeing. There's a big difference between getting psychologically clobbered by the outrage engines of social media or TV news, and being able to take in and understand current events in a way that encourages contemplation of how to best participate.

One way is to focus our attention and efforts on the things we can control as OP mentions. Another is to shift sources from fast/reactive news to more infrequent and considered sources. Another still is to participate locally and learn things firsthand.
Most companies present a unified front and CEOs don't usually sound equivocal or self-critical. Maybe it's just a PR move but it seems different than what you normally see.
There's something I've wondered about but I haven't seen addressed in your posts (I may have missed it):

It seemed to me that in 2016 there were much more political news posts that I'd have said violated the "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic" guideline than there were in 2020. Is that difference because of a change in moderation policy? Or is it because a change in user behavior, where users are posting political articles less fervently?

Or is this just selection bias on my part?
Another way to do this is to put everyone in a chain, and have each person be listening to what the person before them was playing a few seconds ago. I wrote some software that does this, and anyone is welcome to play with it: https://echo.jefftk.com

It's open source: https://github.com/gwillen/solstice-audio-test

Here's an example with some informal singing my friends and I were doing this evening: https://echo.jefftk.com/recordings/2021-01-15-023012.wav (it makes ephemeral recordings)
I've switched from CentOS to Debian 7-8 years ago (Debian 7) and I just love it.

I was trying a lot of distros, but I always came back to Debian and I stopped doing that for the past few years because Debian just works.
How about trying to encourage better political discussions rather than banning the whole topic?

We are in a very tense political landscape. Obviously people on HN need to talk it out. At least let's encourage healthy and proper conversations.

Maybe even have a specific "political discussion guidelines". The using downvotes to remove noise/unhealthy conversations we can have some proper arguments.
This is super cool! My band is a bit scattered geographically at the moment so this could actually really help us out.
Mass confusion over new Covid vaccine rollout,as LA seniors face weeks of delays
Hum... Your sibling has a nice explanation of what I was trying to say.

You don't sanitize user input when parsing, you do it on usage. "Robert'; drop table users--" is a perfectly fine name and you shouldn't mangle it on you data fields.
I would also really like to see what you've done
Yeah or "y <tab> <youtube query>". BUT! You can't do that in Firefox, which is one of the many reasons I switched back to Chrome (Brave) after trying to like Firefox for a couple of months. Chrome just does UX so much better. I really really miss containers though but Google has little incentive to offer that.
Sounds good to me. And what is the gratuitously complex instrumentation by which all of these companies collect personal data and track users: the so-called "modern" web browser. Authored by, you guessed it, companies who rely on advertisers. They purport to do many other things, wonderfully idealistic and technically impressive things, besides supporting web advertising. Those alleged pursuits seem to keep everyone distracted from their raison d'etre: Make money from advertising.
Thank you so much! I’ve had my watch for 4 months, I don’t know why I didn’t see that earlier. I have been going to the app switcher this whole time.
I'm building PredictSalary (https://predictsalary.com), a browser extension to predict the salary range of job opportunities. I'm also building SwanLove (https://swan.love), a dating website based on Linkedin and movies preferences (and later books preferences).

Later there will be a cross-functionality between them. For example, you can create a private group to share salaries. In the group you can like (romantically) people. Finally, there will be a feature to predict the salary from Linkedin profile.

In SwanLove, in the future, you can link your accomplishments from other websites based on API. If you were a runner, you could show that you have joined marathons in SwanLove by connecting through API to a running website. So you could show off your physical fitness. Other than running, you could show your chess elo rating to show off your intelligence.
In all sincerity I wish you well and hope your endeavors succeed in this market. I cannot help but be cynical given my experiences with of being a farmer in the 70's and 80's. I do hope someone can solve the issue and bring a return to farming for the family farm. It was a good life to grow up in and is a worthwhile endeavor for someone to provide a solution to get back to.
Do you have anything you'd like to contribute to the conversation here?
It’s because they negotiated a formal treaty (often to end a state of war) which was signed by the president and ratified by 2/3 of the senate. That is supposed to have the same force as any federal law, but over time these were neglected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_treaties...
It’s evil and it sucks
How fascinating. I would really have to let go of a lot of preconceptions to try that.

Honestly I haven't done that since I was a kid - I would "invent" food. My peanut butter and jelly variants included PB& banana, PB&raisins, PB&pickles - nope :( PB&grapes - would roll on the floor, etc...
yeah straight on point to capture your curiosity
The US is unreasonably fat today compared to the US 50 years ago. That seems like a more useful comparison than looking at other countries.
Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Vaccine Efficacy:COVID Considerations
To the winner goes the spoils. All Native Americans need to do is fight and win.
I remember Tom Hanks starring in some made for TV movie Mazes and Monsters - he was a college student who went CRAZY playing D&D. The game was going to brain wash you so you couldn't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

A year later there was a Saturday morning cartoon... It was a confusing time to be an 11 year old.
I'd like a follow up to this experiment where someone augmented magnetic fields -

"For six weird weeks in the fall of 2004, Udo Wächter had an unerring sense of direction. Every morning after he got out of the shower, Wächter, a sysadmin at the University of Osnabrück in Germany, put on a wide beige belt lined with 13 vibrating pads - the same weight-and-gear modules that make a cell phone judder. On the outside of the belt were a power supply and a sensor that detected Earth's magnetic field. Whichever buzzer was pointing north would go off. Constantly."

https://www.wired.com/2007/04/esp/
I think tangerines have thinner skin, maybe that helps?
wealth has something to do with intelligence? You don't say!
Once you start tracking the energy usage of exercise with a smart watch or similar, you'll notice that even extended exercise consumes almost no energy compared to the energy used simply living. Doing an hour of heavy exercise only changes my total energy usage for the day by a fairly small % compared to no exercise.

Diet is clearly a much more important aspect for weight loss. Exercise has many other benefits though.
I started this concept ten years ago. Dropped Facebook, no more economist subscription, no papers, never had TV. That doesn't mean holding a hard line and hiding your head in a pillow. There is enough overflow from HN, the radio, friends, occasional newspapers.
It seems I have a much healthier laid back attitude to work, friends, family. I see them all uptight about some event. Following news story breathlessly, fuming or arguing. Meanwhile, I'm trying to calm every one down, don't worry about it, it doesn't matter. Political parties change, administration doesn't. Think about long term goals, and affects you can have on that. Skip the day to day arguments.
There is so, much valuable news and information on HN, and so much valuable discussion, often from experts in their field. (More rare lately?)
You can gather your data, and solve most of your issues, from links provided in HN. So many interesting intellectual topics to pursue. For example:
Need covid numbers? Look at worldometers.com
Keep it up Dang.
But is IS part of the rules for the Senate, so it still matters.
>> It’s easy when politics doesn’t actually impact you. If you had relatives being deported or being shot by the police, it’s likely that you wouldn’t just tell your friends/family « sorry, i have no control over this »

My grandparents paid attention to politics, as did many in the United States at the time. TV news was watched, no Internet, lot of newspaper reading.

They were sent to Tule Lake and interned for being Japanese-American all the same; their possessions stolen by a government who doesn't care if its citizens "care" about politics.

The average person has no control over "politics." Caring about it didn't save my grandparents, nor the protests of all of their friends.

No one took care of that dirty work. That's the great delusion.
Thanks for the suggestion! I did put down adding data from other devices as a future thing to do, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

I must admit that as an Android user, I didn't know the Health app had those features. I'll definitely look into it!
Not exactly related to Telegram, but I wonder: how much can the government encourage deplatforming without violating the first amendment?

And is Telegram more like a newspaper, a classified ad section, a phone system, a bathroom wall, or something else entirely?
Only in US there's this serving size bullshit that requires effort to figure out how much you're actually eating.
I wrote a "defer" command in Tcl using this !
That's gratifying to the people who are curious about that topic, but it has the effect of starving other topics of oxygen. Worse, politics are divisive, and people that might genuinely enjoy spirited debates with each other on less charged topics are instead driven apart.

If you watch the moderation actions on this site, you'll see people corrected every day for using the site solely for nationalist or political or ideological flamewar. I can't think of many times anybody has ever been called out for problematical linguistics flamewar, or for using the site solely to litigate a particular way of writing SQL queries, or for using the site solely to talk about quantum mechanics.
What on earth is 'retinal cryptochrome expression' and how does that function? Is this same mechanism shown in this article?

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/jun/declining-eyesight-impro...
what's annoying is that some oranges... boom - they come apart perfectly into nice clean orange wedges. Then the next orange from the same bag will either have a bunch of peel left, or shred into pieces of mush.
Not my distro of choice, but I very much respect their work and product
> Ultimately they all prioritize some subset of “problems” that they optimize solving.

Sure...but not solving quickly, at the expense of all else. Rust is optimized for solving certain problems -- but solving them robustly, not quickly. Python comes a bit closer, but Python also wants to be readable; I don't have to worry about that.

I guess one way to frame it is: the core values (https://vimeo.com/230142234) of this language are velocity, and...that's it. Maybe expressiveness (less typing) and transparency (immediate feedback), but really those are just aids to velocity moreso than orthogonal values.
Longitudinal Evidence That Fatherhood Decreases Testosterone in Human Males
got downvoted to oblivion for saying fatherhood decreases T level.
Ask HN: Open-Source OCR Recommendations?
I'm looking for open source OCR, Tesseract?
Despite being in development for so long, my experience with Wine was never smooth. At least on a Mac. Windows virtual machine is still necessary.
CDC forecast: Over 90k Americans could die of Covid-19 in next 3 weeks
GENTLEMEN, ready your blue light and fast for SCIENCE
Comprehensive Guide to Pen-Testing
> what you saw in China to be a precusor to what will come to America

America is very culturally distinct from China. Of the negative outcomes institutional collapse or maybe secession are far more likely than one-party totalitarianism. Personally I think a counter-cultural backlash is most likely.
This matches my feelings. I'm Australian and id say the average person is overweight but not very overweight. I don't know how common this is in the US but you see those photos of people in Walmart with fat hanging over both sides of the scooter and its something I don't think I have ever seen in Australia.
Over surprisingly short distances you run into issues with the speed of light. I did live sound engineering when I was younger, and worked in some studio recordings, and the conventional wisdom of the field is that musicians will begin to get distracted by latency greater than 10ms (which you have to care about when sending foldback to a musician, even when all of your equipment is in the same room).

10ms only gets light 2/3rds of the straight line distance between LA and NY. After you start accounting latency in infrastructure components, round trips, and the fact that cables aren't laid in straight lines between two users, the idea of live musical collaboration over even short distances starts to seem implausible.
Also, it "just works". It's so reliable that I almost forget it's there. 10+ years in production and not once an OS/distro bang-up.
He also wrote it in French. They only provided the English version though.

On his website there was both an English and French version.

https://archive.is/rtBrn
Except Google has a proven track record of collecting way more data than is reasonable for it and sharing it with partners. DDG was created partially in response to Google’s flagrant disregard for privacy. Apple on the other hand was the one phone manufacturer who straight up told the FBI that it’s latest phones cannot be unlocked by them because of the full device encryption they used.
I hope it means dropping the i386 distro, not dropping i386 multiarch which is still needed like for older 32-bit games and such.

I don't see much value in i386 distro these days.
It's because in 2021, i386 processors are obsolescent. The last non-amd64 processor that ran x86 is the Pentium 4E from 2004, a 17-year-old machine. The packages will still be available as long as there's a maintainer, but it's not worth packaging a full debian release for such a small and shrinking portion of the userbase.
>Im not sure why citizens of representative democracies would want to inhibit political discussion.

There is nothing to inhibit. An open political discussion on the internet between the left and the right is no longer possible. That train has left the station.
Others here mentioned carykh's jumpcutter. I tried to get it to install but couldn't, then discovered it hasn't been updated in a long time.

There's even an issue with links to alternatives and forks: https://github.com/carykh/jumpcutter/issues/180

I tried out Auto-editor [1] and it works great for what I needed! Although for "removing" silence, I prefer to increase play speed instead of jump cutting.

[1]: https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor
I gave you an example in this article. The article talked up a couple of proposed pieces of legislation that had nothing to do with lithium, because they were proposed by republicans.
Today, is the day. Not yesterday. Today. The world passed 2,000,000 recorded Covid deaths.
One year?
She signed a document agreeing to keep secrets. That only requires modest reading skills.
Time Management by Randy Pausch [pdf]
Politics is just a small part of twitter, the overwhelming majority of twitter content is music, sports, entertainment etc, so a potential silo effect isn't much to be concerned about. Most people just don't engage in politics on social media because it's a soul draining exercise and generally not time well spent unless you're a political junkie that enjoys exchanging barbs with friends and strangers online. So is it possible some of the conservative political content on twitter might wane? Sure, but that's just a fact of life, some communities online just lean a certain direction. Finally, conservatives are not in exile from social media, just about every prominent conservative has an active twitter account with millions of followers and there are millions of conservatives posting all over twitter right now and this is something that can be trivially verified. The bottom line is that none of this is a big deal, it's politics flavored tabloid gossip.
Quoting myself from that thread in 2016[1]:

> This sounds like a cop out and I question whether this post would have been made had Trump lost and Clinton won.

Per comments from dang it looks like the reason is “it didn’t work”. Still funny how it turned out to be true.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108741
It's part of the ethos of the site that it isn't siloed. When Dan says there needs to be room for sites like HN, that's part of what he means: sites where we're all encouraged to read and discuss the same ideas. If what you want is something with tagged posts and categories, you've already got that in Reddit, at a much greater scale than HN, or in lobsters, if you want a smaller scale.
Its also very likely that this all matches up with the creation and then banning of leaded fuels in cars.
This summer, I worked pretty hard on a vanilla PHP game engine for generating semi-random, text-based adventures. I haven't touched it in 6 months or so. I really should get back to it. I was having fun on that project.
Those are only some factors and don't account for the entire wealth difference. I agree they are part of the explanation though.

Women social distanced more than men which is consistent with women generally being more careful about their health than men. They couldn't explain it with women telecommuting more or having bigger houses.

It's not hard to imagine that other lifelong lifestyle habits have a significant influence on people's behavior. Wealthiness isn't allocated randomly to people. It goes to people who already have different behaviors so of course they're going to behave differently in many contexts. I find it ridiculous that people consider high income to be a fundamental source of good things, rather than being interconnected causally in both directions with many other aspects of a person's life. High income people are also less likely to smoke which doesn't make sense from a wealth-enables-behavior standpoint because they can afford to spend more on cigarettes. Seatbelt use is also positively correlated with income which surely can't be explained by some greater convenience wealthy people have for putting on a seatbelt.
They are normal weight but often very unfit.
I think minmaxers were always just a specialized subgenre of fantasy gamers. The core to role playing games is playing a role -- the strict definition of drama and story. There was always a schism between those who saw the rules as an enabling technology to explore alternative takes on the human condition, and those who saw story and character as a matrix onto which the rules could be projected. Same as pretty much everything else, I'll wager.
Signal downloads soar 4,200% after WhatsApp data changes
I believe Proton's already had a lot of these patches merged for a while as they have a much more frequent update cycle
I can’t believe he’s still updating this, thanks so much for the link. Been years since I saw this. The guy is straight-up hacking your visual processing system!