skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is decentralised finance (defi). One example of application is lending your money (in stablecoin or token format) in a lending protocol of your choice. You can expect a very good yield compared to traditional finance. Aave and Compound are the most famous. This is one type of the many financial applications developed on Ethereum's smart contracts.
Is this study credible? I mean it was based on 28 men. Are the researchers and their institution, Hangzhou Normal College, legitimate in the field of medical research?
Cool - glad you brought up the smart lock example. How does that work without trusting (presumably off-chain) software/firmware to honor the change as to who should be able to open the lock? The smart contract might be iron-clad in showing who should have access, but at some point, that has to be interpreted and executed by a real-world entity, human or machine.

In other words, standard contracts work just fine (without any lawyers involved) when everything goes to plan. It's the failure cases that matter, and it's not hard to imagine a compromised lock (or an entire company's locks if they're connected to the internet for access to the blockchain) that no longer respect the smart contract. So you're back to calling your lawyer to help sort out the mess.
Yes, the downsides of TRT are numerous, but rarely discussed online.

It's not as simple as "experimenting" with TRT. Exogenous testosterone will begin diminishing your natural testosterone production immediately. In theory there are ways to counteract this, but in practice it's not guaranteed that someone can ever discontinue TRT once they've started. Even those who rebound may not return to their original, pre-TRT levels.

Testosterone is also interconnected with other hormone systems, which will also be disrupted by TRT. For many, TRT turns into a game of adjusting various medications up or down to try to get back to how they felt pre-TRT.
> If I pour water in the gastank of my car, it will also fail to drive.

But I'm pretty sure the manual say you shouldn't do that. Like microwaves say you can't put living animals in it.
It looks like Unreal has some amount of direct support: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/WorkingWithContent/USDin...
A timber company here owns 500,000+ acres spanning parts of 2 states.

Doesn't hold much of a candle to Weyerhaeuser which owns more than 12 million acres.
One of the most exciting upcoming topics on the Avalanche (sorry, not Ethereum) ecosystem is ILOs (Initial Litigation Offering). Initial Litigation Offering is a blockchain-enabled token that would give investors access to a portion of payouts from lawsuits.

https://www.coinspeaker.com/first-ilo-launches-avalanche/

I think we'll see many more of these in the future.
Biden said:

> Here’s what he said: "During our administration in the recovery act, I was...able to bring down the cost of renewable energy to cheaper than or as cheap as coal, and gas, and oil. Nobody’s going to build another coal-fired power plant in America. No one’s going to build another oil-fired plant in America. They’re going to move to renewable energy."

If Biden promises to increase subsidies for renewables (which, as I understand, he plans to do), and that causes disinvestment away from say gas-fired plants, isn't it reasonable for folks in places like Pennsylvania and Texas where fracking is a huge part of the economy to oppose such measures?

If "the market" is going to make it so nobody builds new gas-fired plants (I agree the market won't build new coal or oil plants) why is Biden proposing $2 trillion in subsidies for renewables?

To be clear, I think Biden's renewables plan is basically the correct one, but its going to be bad for currently prosperous middle class parts of Pennsylvania, Texas, etc., that rely heavily on gas extraction.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I love Elixir, but I have yet to find a way to be truly productive with it. Funnily enough I had a very similar experience with Go.

* It was very hard for our startup to find any Go developers.

* The Go language server would very often cause massive CPU spikes.

* At the time I was using it, the community support in Go was really, really bad.

I'm sure things have changed a bit, but there are always growing pains when choosing a niche technology.
Neurotech entering gaming? Could it be cheating?
Honestly, that comparison is very disingenuous just from the information on the site you just linked:

Fox News:
"Overall, we rate Fox News strongly Right-Biased due to editorial positions and story selection that favors the right. We also rate them Mixed factually and borderline Questionable based on poor sourcing and the spreading of conspiracy theories that later must be retracted after being widely shared."

Bellingcat:
"we rate Bellingcat Left-Center biased based on story selection and positions that moderately favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record."

These are vastly, vastly different forms and scales of "bias." They are nearly incomparable.
more like the difference between GPL and Affero GPL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/citizen-coup...

"Imagine there was no such thing as a library, and that members of the current neoliberal policy consensus were to sit down today and invent it. They might create complicated tax expenditures to subsidize the poor purchasing and reselling books, like the wage support of the earned income tax credit. They might require people to rent books from approved private libraries, with penalties for those who don’t and vouchers for those who can’t afford it, like the individual mandate in the latest expansion of health care. They might come up with a program where they take on liability for books that go missing from private libraries and thereby boost profits for lenders themselves, like federally backed private student loans. Or maybe they’d create means-tested libraries only accessible to the poor, with a requirement that patrons document how impoverished they are month after month to keep their library card. Maybe they’d exempt the cost of private library cards from payroll taxes, or let anything calling itself a library pay nothing in taxes."
My guess is that sspl software is going to be on the block list or in speak to a lawyer territory. Most places don't or shouldn't open source willy billy as they have business obligations that have to be met before doing so.
Ted Turner owns around 2 million acres and about 50,000 head of buffalo.

So, Bill's got some catching up to do.
I can access whitehouse.gov (or sci hub). The former is there explicitly to communicate the to the public the ideas and words of the occupant of the White House. Why do people keep saying monopoly when there are clear alternatives that aren't moderated through a private site/service?
If a direct popular vote was held promising voters $100,000, it would also pass by a huge margin. Probably every year.
In my experience, corporate lawyers don't really understand the distinction and will opt for the route of least risk, which generally entails a commercial relationship with the company. Unfortunately, neither Mongo nor Elastic really offer useful commercial relationships. That is, pay them a sum and be free to use the widely adopted open-source version of their thing.

The overhead to those relationships for what they do offer is significant.
FormKiQ Core: An Open Source Headless Document Management System for AWS
I'm not interested in donations, but I might have a go at this in a few months, if I get the time - as I'm a regular user of Signal, but I refuse to use Electron apps. Can't promise anything though.
My psychologist did the same, he just charged more.
The native GUI library for the platform you are using. Or a web app if you can accept it.
Decades ago, i invented a perpetual motion machine based on the Casimir effect.

You have this setup with two plates or whatever, with the distance between them suitable for the Casimir effect to arise, pulling the plates together. One of the plates is movable, and you have a mechanism for extracting work when the force pulls the plate inward, and for moving the plate back out - maybe the plate is on a string attached to a motor-generator, or to a magnet moving in a coil or something.

The trick is that you make one of the plates out of a semiconductor. The Casimir effect only arises between conducting plates. So you can turn the effect on and off using a voltage on the semiconducting plate.

So, you can apply a voltage to turn the effect on, let the moving plate move inwards, extracting work as it does so, then withdraw the voltage to turn the effect off, move the plate outwards, this time not needing to do work against the force, then repeat the cycle.

Obviously, this won't work. Mostly it won't work for engineering reasons involved in the scale of the thing. But there must also be a reason why it wouldn't work in principle. I don't know what that reason is.
39k EUR a year in Austria is 33% tax+insurance+pension:

20% "forced savings" (Pension + Vorsorgekasse)
7% health insurance
6% income tax

But 39k a year is definitely not a freelance programmer in Austria.

80-120k is the average I see at my colleagues and enterprise customers for freelance programmers with regular working hours compared to regular employees (5 week vacation, sick absence, ...). I know people scratching at 200k, but they are senior consultants.

So a more realistic view would be 100k 40,5% tax+insurance+pension
15% "forced savings" (Pension + Vorsorgekasse)
6% health insurance
19,6% income tax

This calculation assumes that you do not really have significant expenses of business. Having those actually makes the picture look worse.

You can calculate here for yourself, no "cheating" required:
https://abrechnen.wko.at (official chamber of commerce calculator)

A GmbH is always better at 220k+/year. But there may be reasons you would want one earlier (liability, employees, IP, investments, ...)

Employing people in Austria is expensive ("cost of labor"). Beeing self employed is not bad, if you factor in benefits and costs of life and quality of life.
When I tried it, I couldn't deal with it auto-generating a 'related' playlist whenever I played anything. (I pay for YT Premium, so if I could use YT Music then I wouldn't have to pay for Spotify.) How did you deal with that problem?
In Ukraine, however, the reality is that most of the engineers are employed as PE (private entrepreneurs) with some additional things included, like a decent insurance. And the overall tax for this scheme is just 5% so far. No other benefits or bonuses usually. So, NET almost always equals GROSS here. In absolute numbers it is something like USD 25K - 70K per year for junior - senior/TL range.
Another possibility:

- Internet access (and better telecommunications in general) means you're competing with the whole world. Every day you see many people who are more successful than you, which lowers your perception of your own social status. Testosterone is believed to increase status-seeking behavior. If such behavior persistently fails, maybe testosterone production is reduced to avoid pointless risk.
I was head-writing a comment about how disappointed I was that this was a quirky software name instead of chickpea water, which is almost magical in properties.

Imagine my delight! Teach me to assume...
These discussions always frustrate me, because for the ten thousandth time the same conversation plays out like a needle stuck on a record:

"So what is a particle?"

"Well, it acts like a wave but is not a wave."

"Aha..."

"It also acts like a particle but is not a particle."

"Okay, but then what is it?"

"I just told you! It's neither a particle, nor a wave, it's something else entirely!"

"I accept that it isn't either of those two things, but then describe the thing that it is!"

"I can't do that! You have to study a pile of textbooks this high to understand what it is!"

"Why? I understand relativity without having to have read a pile of textbooks! That's also an unintuitive physical concept with no classical analogy with which we are familiar with in every day life. Despite this it has intuitive visualisations to aid understanding! [1] Why can't you do something similar for quantum mechanics?"

"Wave-particle duality just has to be understood through the mathematics, there is no simpler way"

"Okay, okay, never mind. Now what about Spin?"

"Go away."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYq774z4dws
Everybody knows the world is a horrible, heartless, unfair place. They do when they visit their dying relatives in the hospital, when they go through gut wrenching legal proceedings with a person they once loved, when their boss tells them they're worthless. We all crush through harsh realities on the daily, having someone by your side doesn't make you weak. There is nothing to "normalize", if anything the abnormal thing is that we strayed from it to a culture that pretends the individual is all powerful, a masturbatory illusion of absolute self-reliance.

Grit will help you right up until you jump off a bridge. Very few people succeed through sheer tyranny of will, most do because they have a support network that helps them survive.
“Breach of the peace “ is very obviously what the radical representatives are violating from definition. Note also that while they may not be arrested by the executive, the legislative branch absolutely does police itself. It’s one of those corner cases the last several years pointed out as a pain point.

Edit-there’s talk of making it a 5,000$ fine per incidence on the news.
Great, we need more of that!

With politicans it is easy to hide behind partisan idealogy to justify that everything is fine.

The more regular, relatively apolitical accounts are getting banned, the more people realize that something is wrong with the way Twitter acts.
Not always. Frequently, the connection between code that’s written today and revenue tomorrow is tenuous and difficult to package in a way that says “look at me! I’m valuable!”

And, then there are those somewhat rare occasions where a project is not intended to increase revenue, and may even decrease it. At my last employer, we guesstimated that a project I worked on for months could possibly have ended up costing us $2M per year in revenue. That was both accepted and expected, because we were doing it to gain goodwill with users, but in such a way that it might end up pissing off a small minority of our customers.

I really wish, just once, I could work on a project and put underneath it on my resume “Increased revenue by X%,” because I’ve never worked on anything that was so easy to directly trace back to the top line.

Cost savings are another story, because engineers can fairly easily quantify how much less money is being spent by doing $THING a bit more efficiently....
Just a look through the docs this all reads much better than ethereum. For give me as I am still new to the rapid new things happening in this space.

What's is the ballpark transaction cost?

Also, I was curious what made it difficult to have smart contracts in bitcoin in the first place? I wasn't quite sure why others were not simply having done smart contracts like ethereum and hope to be better educated the solution here. thanks!
Canned beans are pressure cooked typically. I'd be more comfortable with the canned liquid.

Neither really seems likely to get me sick though.
Lot of riots got "declared" here in Seattle too, usually after the cops rushed a stationary peaceful group, and many breakdowns of projectiles and aggression by protestors were publicized by police. But a huge amount of it turned out to be fabricated, exaggerated, or embellished.
Yeah, in about 70 years, the block subsidy for the entire year will only be 0.01373184 BTC. I highly doubt that would be enough to guard almost 21 million BTC from double spend attacks. That's the equivalent of spending $70,000/year to guard all the gold that's ever been mined.
> Twitter has no business inserting itself into a dispute between

@dick said recently in an interview that these are geo-political decisions. That they might've did the calculus of losing advertising money but it's not the predominate reason [1].

[1] - I can't find this source. I find it weird that I can't search my history to find it. It was in an interview with either Bloomberg or WSJ.

P.S. The interview was in relation to Trump being banned but I think his response applies to Sci_Hub because these are intentional decisions, not from an AI/automated system.
Disclaimer: I'm founder of DarkLang, a sorta competitor.

While I personally agree that self-hosting is a nightmare, the biggest complaint we've heard about Dark has been related to vendor lock-in. I think this is a pretty good selling point for StaticBackend, for a few reasons:
1) what if you get too big for the hosting?
2) what if the company goes go out of business!
3) what if the company determines that hosting you is against the T&C (see the Parler thing this week, for example, although I completely agree with AWS' decision there).

I don't think self-hosting is really a good idea if you can avoid it, but a lot of people are soothed by the idea that they could, if they really needed to.
Which requires running a fossil server that you can access anywhere, i.e. it has a custom and unique syncing system. That is... a rather significant requirement, compared to using a general file-syncing thing that you may already have.

But yes, you have a good point - once you have a server running, syncing is very efficient.
Bought out part of Motorola to do this
Looks really cool, nice job!
There is something double strange about the p values.For the main effect, the broad based decline, p < 0.0001. But for the result for men at "normal" weight, 18.5 < BMI < 24.9, the p value is given as p< 0.05.

The first strangeness is that this hints at a much weaker effect. The second strangeness is reporting the p value rather than the effect size. I clicked the link to a pdf at the bottom of the article, but it is not the paper. shrug
I love that some of the mini games have been written up as VASSAL modules so we can still play them :)

And I still have my handmade pieces for Lord of the Tabletop in a ziploc bag somewhere around here...
I just started my PhD in AI (specifically NLP). Also took a non-traditional route (creative writing major -> 10 years in industry -> phd).

It's interesting so far. Research feels very open ended compared to industry. While I was in industry (AI fintech startup), even though goals were rapidly changing, I had a good idea of what problems to work on and how to gauge progress.

In contrast, research is far more undefined. There are days I feel lost and other where I'm chasing rabbits down deep holes. It's been hard for me to figure out if the problems I'm trying to solve are worth exploring (are they good research question? and more importantly are they publishable).

But that being said, it's only about 6 months in and I feel like I'm still learning what it means to do research. I've definitely enjoyed having the space to explore problems at my own pace and think deeply about them.
Do we know what distribution they use?
Stripe Bans Trump, but Donations Still Come Through
Interestingly, js usage steadily increased over the same time period.
The Clarity smart contracts have direct visibility into Bitcoin state and developers can write logic around it. I do not think the headline implies you are changing Bitcoin to do this (don't think at this point anyone can change Bitcoin in any significant way).
Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were major industrial centers with large cities, educated populations, newspapers, trains, etc. They were vastly richer than peasant societies like China or Mexico.

For a somewhat objective example, look at the life expectancy around those years ... Japan and especially Germany are near the top both before and after the war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_life...

Modern USA hardly even engages in full scale warfare since starting one of the deadliest wars of the late 20th century, except for the time we started the deadliest war of the 21st century?

Your reasoning strikes me as kind of post-hoc, but maybe I'm mistaken .. could you say more precisely what you think causes countries to go to war, in a way that I could take a random country and see if it fits the criteria?
The fear of phytoestrogens is completely unfounded.

Funnily enough, some men that are concerned about estrogen intake through food do stop stop eating cow meat.

A female mammal that, unsurprisingly, produces tons of estrogen.
While it may be true that the American lifestyle is more sedentary, I don't think obesity can be entirely or even mostly explained by that. AFAIK diet generally affects weight more than exercise does; if your diet is energy-heavy, it's very difficult (without being an athlete) to exercise enough to consume as much as your energy surplus from the diet is.

I don't have any references or numbers to back that up, but that's what I've understood from what I've read in papers and heard from some people who apparently did the math.

With that said, physical activity has lots of benefits beyond just weight loss, and it would be worth it to make one's lifestyle non-sedentary in any case.
There is nothing unhealthy about microwaved dishes.

In fact, frozen food, a primary candidate for the microwave, may be just as good as fresh food, sometimes better depending on the process and on how fresh the "fresh" food is.
Also microwaving is actually a healthy way of cooking things.

It all depends on what you put inside your microwave. Healthy food is healthy, junk food is junk, but the microwave has nothing to do with it.
Really, probably not. Perl was mind blowing, productive, and super fun when your only other choices were C/C++ and bash/sed/awk. Most people eventually realized that There’s More Than One Way To Do It makes for code maintenance nightmares.
The study in OP controlled for age and weight.
It happened when Ethereum was less than a year old. The hack exploited a vulnerability that was arguably systemic, since it also existed in a lot of the sample code on ethereum.org.

When Bitcoin was a little more than a year old, it reverted five hours of transactions after a bug exploit.

Both blockchains have matured since then and don't do that anymore. An Ethereum cofounder's company lost over $100M in ETH, and the community refused its requests to restore funds with a fork.
Very suspicious, indeed.
> Glenn Greenwald

Oh yeah, the guy who decided that the Giuliani/Randomly chosen computer repair shop/Hunter Biden laptop story was of such earth-shattering, incredible importance that he chose it as the hill he wanted to die upon, resigning from The Intercept in protest because the editors wouldn't let him publish stories about it.

Seriously? Greenwald has lost all credibility.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=giuliani+...
This is what I don't get about the (former?) SF / Bay Area startup scene. VCs tell startups "keep your cash burn rate as low as possible, to give yourself a long runway." But then they also want startups to move to SF -- the most expensive city in the country! Don't these 2 things conflict?
The guidelines say that people like yourself need more testosterone... you got more and it works... so you've concluded the guidelines are too conservative? That doesn't follow.
You should support piracy and especially Sci-hub. In bilking the public, the publishers restrict access to scientific knowledge. This restriction delays and limits progress. While any individual hinderance is minor, this is repeated millions of times over. The lost progress is lost to you, as much as to everyone else. How can anyone support parasites who hurt the whole of humanity and don't even have the decency to pay the scientists whose work they profit off? Piracy in this case is not only acceptable, it is a moral imperative.
1.95M vaccinated (~22% pop.) Isreal
US may block Xiaomi from American imports and investment