skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long before that specific book came out. If you look at how they arrived at the recommendation here, a lot of it was based on discussions and voting by 15 experts chosen by the US Department of Health.

Actual studies are much less conclusive (see the one we are commenting on for example) and the evidence for 8 hours of sleep is shaky and the difference from 6 to 8 is rarely especially big even when it is supported with anything under 6 and over 8 having negative effect.

Check this systematic review (first result of my search[0]) which seems extremely sympathetic to 8 hours, yet the actual results are:

>compared with 7 h of sleep per day, a 1-h decrease in sleep duration was associated with 6% increased risk of all-cause mortality and a 1-h increase in sleep duration was associated with a 13% increased risk of all-cause mortality (N = 241 107 adults in 43 articles)

So, going from 7 to 8 hours increases risk more than going from 7 to 6!

Further

>Itani et al. (2017) reported that short sleep duration (<6 or ≤7 h/day) was not significantly associated with the incidence of depression compared with normal sleep duration (N = 16 257 adults in 2 articles)

>Lo et al. (2016) reported that extreme sleep durations (both short and long) were associated with cognitive decline compared with the reference sleep of 7 to 8 h/day (N = 97 264 adults in 18 articles)

But again it's only at the extremes that there is decline, which seems to be more like 3+ hours less than 8 a day.

>Health-related quality of life
No systematic review was identified that examined the association between sleep duration and health-related quality of life.

etc. If you go through actual studies and systematic reviews it is really hard to make much of a case that 6 hours is much worse (if at all) than 8, yet alone anything more than that.

0. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/apnm-2020-0034
Congrats Ivan! Well deserved! I've always enjoyed your AMA's on Reddit.
> Is FB sometimes incompetent? Sure (who isn't at that scale). Could they do things better? Of course. Are they trying to? Absolutely (the cynics would never admit this point, but it's true, e.g. the amount of resources and cross-company efforts thrown at improving privacy is incredible).

This type of argument is made over and over on behalf of harmful institutions. The police sometimes screw up, but everyone makes mistakes. Cars (as a sibling comment points out) sometimes kill people, but that's just a fact of life, and car safety improves every year. In each case, the institution's responsibility for harm is deflected by the argument that the institution, in its current form, can't exist without doing some amount of harm. Not considered is the possibility that the institution could fundamentally change forms or stop existing entirely.
"Tokutek claims to improve MongoDB performance 20x. It is unclear if this also means losing 20x as many documents."

ROFL.
Besides, the name, username, profile picture, etc are publicly accessible via permalinks

For example: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@clubhouse
What makes your product unique or better than GIMP?
The Original Double Slit Experiment (Veritasium)
Some countries call what Americans call a “401k” a “pension”.

Americans use “pension” as short for “defined benefit pension”, meaning you are owed some amount of money every month after the retirement age, and it’s up to the employer to do whatever needs to be done to provide it.

Americans use “401k” or “IRA” to refer to a defined contribution pension, one where the employer (and employee) contributes a certain amount into an account that is withdrawn from after retirement. However, the amount the employee can withdraw is subject to however much is in the account when they retire and however much the employee wants to periodically withdraw, so there is no definite benefit amount.

I have British family that refer to the latter as a pension, but we would not in the US. I would be surprised if any modern tech company offers a defined benefit pension anymore, even in UK/Europe.
I got 74%. I never knew name from those 2 category can be very similar like horsesea/seahorse
Shameless plug here: https://cheeaun.github.io/repokemon/
Yep, covid spread quickly over Russian Federation, but it was unnoticed until first test systems arrived. Quote:

"The first practical use of the test system for the detection of antibodies to COVID-19, developed by the Novosibirsk State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology" Vector ", was held among the employees of the FSBI" National Medical and Surgical Center. N.I. Pirogov" Ministry of Health of Russia. Testing was carried out in 204 employees of the center, who had no symptoms of acute respiratory viral infections in the previous two months. According to the results of testing, antibodies to coronavirus were detected in 30 employees of the Center working in the" red "zone and at the entrance to it", - the message says.

https://news.rambler.ru/community/44036116-immunitet-k-koron...
> I think running your dev environment in a VM is the future on all platforms.

We probably have a long ways to go before we get there and it does come with its own sets of challenges and usability quirks even if the technical implementation is good.

For example, 8 years ago I used to run Windows 7 with xubuntu running in a graphical vmware VM using Unity mode[0]. Basically a way to seamlessly run graphical Linux apps in Windows. Each GUI app you launched from the Linux VM would have its own floating window that you could move around like any other Windows window. As an aside, this feature has been removed from vmware for years now when it comes to Linux guests.

It worked well enough for then, and I spent 99% of my time in that VM (browser, code editor, everything) and I only used Windows for recording / editing videos and playing games to avoid having to dual boot.

But even with vmware's really good disk performance there were performance issues at times, you're also splitting your memory up between your main system and your VM, it's not that efficient. Then there's little quirks like your main OS not really fully being able to integrate with files and apps from the VM, so you have to do hacky things to get apps to launch from a taskbar, search doesn't work because your stuff is in a VM, etc.. Plus you always feel like you're split between 2 worlds, the main OS and the VM. It doesn't feel really nice and cohesive.

To a lesser extent nowadays we have WSL 2 on Windows which is what I use. It solves a lot of the VM problems from above and running an X-server lets you run graphical apps very well, but you still feel like you're running 2 operating systems and the user experience suffers because you don't feel like you're running 1 streamlined OS.

A prime example is having to put all of your files in WSL 2's file system to get good performance but having certain types of files there is an inconvenience or you may not want to do it because it doesn't make sense to put 100GB of storage files on your SSD. That happened to me because I have a podcast site which is mostly code, except for a ton of raw wav file recordings + mp3s. Instead of just having a git ignored directory in my project, I had to create a 2nd directory outside of WSL to store these files. There's many other examples like this too.

I don't know what the Mac story is like, but I would imagine at minimum you're dealing with files being split into 2 worlds and will experience the unfriendly split OS feeling overall. Does Parallels let you seamlessly run floating windows across your VM and macOS?

[0]: Here's a really old video of that set up https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/create-an-awesome-linux-devel...
Well that makes for a tough choice: should i pay $240/year for photoshop or $40 for pp to get rid of ads
> Seems like the idea is to run the whole dev environment is in a virtual disk in a VM

Pretty much.

I had bad experiences running Docker directly on MacOS. The IO latency was unbearable. I know they are working hard on it so maybe it's better now, but this setup works well for me.
TIL! Thanks for the explainer.
Something along these lines is the idea.
They're not, but the integration could attract the wrong sort of attention (both from governments and potential users), and uses engineering effort that could also have spent on whatever someone's favourite missing feature/bug is. Plus, there's just the overall smell of scams that is attached to cryptocurrencies, and people don't want Signal to be (part of) a scam.
Scientists Create Online Games to Show Risks of AI Emotion Recognition
Fedora Toolbox is quite interesting from this perspective. It does not provide a proper security boundary, since it shares the home directory, but it is really nice to make ad-hoc development environments. Since it is built on podman/buildah, it does not require the Docker daemon and can be used by regular users.
Huh? The control unit definitely has ultimate authority over the rest of the computing units in a processor core.
My own opinion is that Signal doesn't need to pick a single crypto, but if they'd wanted to integrate payments they should have created some kind of integration with an existing payment platform like Bitpay.

It's clear that the real intent was to make money, and it's unfortunate that they haven't been upfront about this.
The Complete Commodore Inner Space Anthology
Logitech is done making Harmony remotes
The chart shows a "harm score", made up of 16 criteria, not total deaths. I haven't pulled the full article for what the 16 criteria were, but a little more detail is in the abstract on the Lancet where it was originally published https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... . A contemporaneous article from the BBC describes more of the methodology https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210 A choice quote: "The study involved 16 criteria, including a drug's affects on users' physical and mental health, social harms including crime, "family adversities" and environmental damage, economic costs and "international damage".
A lot of companies (and the jobs those companies created) were built on top of that usury and the workers who lent out their money were even compensated for that!
The insights in developers' Google searches
This is very logical because engineers know they can be fired any minute with zero recourse. Inevitably, they want to invest part of their current work time into being able to to apply for the next job.

If people have a good social safety net and a good job security, the depth of their skills improves by a lot.
> None of these are actually contributions to mathematical research

So what? The site is a Timeline of Mathematics, not a Timeline of Mathematical Research. Surely notable new applications of mathematics belong on the timeline, regardless of whether they involved new research or not.
Big Sur’s Broken Clock
You should probably delete the quoted portion of your comment as well.
Official: Chinese Vaccines’ Effectiveness Low
Very nice work, thanks for sharing!

And a slightly off-topic observation: excellent choice of parsimonious as a grammar parser :)
It seems that nuts are harder to digest than we thought [0], and thus our bodies do not extract as much energy from them.

Also, composition of gut microbiota seems to have an effect on metabolism and obesity, at least in mice; that should not be surprising, given that gut microbiota "predigests" some nutrients for us. [1]

[0] https://thecounter.org/scientists-calorie-counts-usda-kind/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK154098/
> Those validity dates represent a period in the real world.

We have tons of that at work, so this feature would have been nice. Currency exchange rates, dozens of official code lists (including countries!), VAT registration status of companies.

If a user makes a change to a declaration submitted at an earlier date, then the data from the original submission date must be used, so we need to keep all this around.

Alas, not using PostgreSQL.
I agree with your assessment that 'more of something bad' is not necessarily better.

In addition it should be noted that the study relies on actigraphy, yet the shortcomings of actigraphy are waved away. This doesn't mean we can get good before-after estimates, but they should not be compared to estimates from PSG.
If you were under the age of 70 or so, with no comorbidities, you were already quite safe from the virus. If you're young and healthy, there was no medical justification for you to receive the shot in the first place; you almost certainly won't benefit from it, and the risks of taking it are as of yet unknown.

This piece of propaganda is in the awkward position of suggesting that the shot will make one safe, when in fact young healthy people were safe to begin with, and only expose themselves to some unknown amount of risk by taking the shot, and saying that even after exposing oneself to unnecessary risk, that one still won't be immune, and one still has to wear the silly mask and isolate oneself, etc.
> it irks me when people say stuff this assuming that an excellent programmer always has easy access to a FAANG

...or assuming that an excellent programmer (or, in fact, just a programmer) wants to deal with FAANG in the first place.
Maybe because according to the cdcs report there was only a few percent difference between masked and unasked infection rates? Nevermind the report ignored conflating factors. There is not even good data that masks prevent infections in a surgical theatre, which is much more controllable than population at large

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/
The banks don't have to manufacture the product. They just sell it. The easy money is the profit margin on the lending activity because the profit margin is usually constant, regardless of the state of the economy.

I'm not saying banks are evil but they do have it easy because they are core infrastructure that people don't want to live without.
Have you looked at it? For me at least, GIMP never worked really stable on my Mac.
I will take this argument and transpose it in Banking. A heavily regulated industry.

Are there TONS of data for an individual? Financial data, demographics (themselves and their family), tax-IDs, social security numbers, where they live, where they shop, how much they spend, do they have a subscription on "heterosexual-intercourse" website? do they have a subscription on "same-sex-intercourse" website? do they have a subscription on "donkey-sex-show" website? (think "Clerks"), Spotify, tickets to Metallica concerts vs Opera, Netflix, hotels, airtickets, restaurants, bars, you-name-it.

A bank has this and so much more information through bank account transactions, card (credit/debit) transactions, mobile phone app data collection, KYC, etc.

I don't remember a Bank losing the data that "Henry likes donkey sex shows". Perhaps there is a naughty admin stalking the current/ex partner misusing their work-related system account privileges but that admin won't leak the data of 100000 clients.

Yes the bank doesn't have a photo of you in a political rally, but they see you spend £€$100 supporting XYZ politican or political party, or you bought a hotdog 1mile/km from that park where X politician had a speech.

How come companies like FB keep making one mistake after another, on OUR expense and the excuse is "ooops I did it again" (they played with our data).

At some point the excuses need to cease and they need to get their stuff in a right order, or be shut down.

Edit: rewrote some words/phrases for clarity.
Creating your own NPM packages
Liberty is not concerned with disadvantaging people, or advantaging them for that matter.

Liberty is the action itself, irrespective of the result.
This was one special hell for me to use NSDateFormatter to actually tweak the way dates are formatted, emulating the system clock with some extensions. It's nice to know that someone at Apple is working on throwing more brimstone into the fire, because an OS that does not innovate is so boring.
How is this even remotely comparable? The article mentions the switch occurs when patients are unconscious. They cannot give or deny consent.

When you go see a doctor and it isn't a doctor, you can just leave.
The Apple ecosystem is worse than Google IMO.

I have an Android phone: I use a non Google browser, non Google app store and non Google messaging app.
Wisdom, Loneliness and Your Intestinal Multitude
I love it! What if I am the owner? Is then "guilty capitalism?"
His comment, that you're replying to, literally says 90% of the $1 million usd revenue comes from ads. The rest, so 10% of $1 million, comes from subscriptions and so on.
better than a software that doesnt do what users want it to do? a lot of things. Why dont you go and try Photopea. It has achieved so much what Gimp couldnt. Yes, its made for business and its closed source. But considering the number of devs and the number of years spent, Photopea is an excellent replacement for photoshop. I have personally used it for most of the small image editing I needed.
You don't need to install it. It's huge plus for me
> Just tell the peasants you're the hand of the god, and the god wants you to give their cows and grain to you. I think that worked pretty well for a looong time.

It did, until it didn't and you can read all about peasant revolts in a book all you want, which led to things like the Magna Carta.

But I lived in Italy and worked on a farm that sprawled for many KMs in what was a feudal lord's manor and it was baffling just how much absurd complexity from a supply chain and logistics view tending that much land entailed since it was so fractured and disrupted by hills and valleys, and the amount of bureaucratic BS that had to be created and subsequently put up with in order to survive as a serf: it wasn't just cows, wine or grain that had to be rendered, but actual members of your family were taken into the homes as slaves, physical or sexual.

I did the mistake of watching Passolini's Salo when I was there, and the level of somberness still stays with me to this day [0] when I think what horrid forms of cruelty Humans are capable of when they amass so much power and wealth. And this was just a modern take on things, just pondering the things they did openly during the dark ages and even in the height of Rome can send me to some dark places.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZhEDCk5Oh8
Economy is on the cusp of a major boom and economists believe it could last
For a quasi embedded project I picked lua. my requirements were small runtime size + fast startup time. I would say that the library availability is tremendously lower than perl,python,node but ample enough for most tasks (openwrt is almost completely built in it, including web views)

However I agree that nim / zig could also be good directions
Show HN: Silicon Valley Life Stories. Outlining career journeys of tech moguls
Forgotten Memories of Traumatic Events Get Some Backing from Brain-Imaging
If interest payments were the only thing getting bailed out people wouldn't be angry over it.
See also: recent threads on bitemporal history:

Bitemporal history
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26735260

Crux: Open-source document database with bi-temporal graph queries
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23493163
Emoji Shell
A Teacher Marched to the Capitol. When She Got Home, the Fight Began
A properly secured unprivileged Linux container is not particularly worse than VM from a security point of view, but its impact on performance is very minimal. The drawback is that one cannot use Mac or Windows as a host, but as long as one is OK with running Linux on machine and accessing, say, Windows occasionally via VM, this is a very nice setup.
This 100x! Sure the salary might be great, but to give up all the comforts of a...you know...actually developed country? No thanks!

I'd much rather work for a local software shop for a slightly above-averege salary in a country where the prospect of owning an apartment is more than a fantasy, where I won't go bankrupt if I have a serious medical issue, won't get shot by a raging idiot if I don't start moving at a red light fast enough, my hypothetical children can get excellent education without taking out predatory loans that will follow them for the rest of their life, not to mention the political system over there.....
So you want the ability to be a modern website held by a centralised authority? The world is not a world of static websites anymore; it is a world of applications accessible by a web browser. That would be a huge and unjust centralisation of power.

The most should be a consent popup, similar to how websites request to use the camera.
I think I read about this a long time ago where it was thought that this could be used to potentially bypass anti-virus checks
Each year the cost of the technology goes down. At some point it'll be cheaper than labor and that point will just come earlier if wages are higher.
ADHD and autism associated with in utero heavy metals and essential minerals
Last night I had a horrible nightmare
I block ads and I still buy things. The world won't collapse if advertising is curtailed.

Consumer habits will just become more unpredictable- and small companies could compete with big companies that spend billions on marketing.
With a little research it seems that these type of factory vessels are becoming the norm especially in Asia. However I’m not seeing much you can do about them. It seems like this is similar to many problems on the high seas: it depends on who’s flag fly under. That’s why most vessels fly under the flags of very tiny and obscure nations.
This is bogus circular logic and you know it. People want to use thing X and will blindly press "I agree" because they simply see it as a door handle before entering somewhere.

Having such long ToS-es that "protect" the company against any eventuality should be by itself illegal.

It's a rigged system is what this whole thing is. Let's not pretend otherwise, please.
Is vaccine effectiveness per person or per infection opportunity?

In other words, does 95% effective mean that if you took a large group vaccinated people and once a day had an infected person have a massive coughing and sneezing fit right into their faces, 95% would never get infected by that and 5% would?

Or does it mean that they would all get infected, but it would take on average 20 times as long as it would have had they not been vaccinated?
The government isn't supposed to run the company. It's supposed to get an ownership stake to compensate for the risk it takes on. The bank would just issue additional non voting shares and sell those to the government as a punishment for the share holders of the banks and teach them a lesson to not put their money into mismanaged companies.
Your more minimal VM is larger than a minimal SUBLEQ VM! :)

I think that is a fair characterization of most SUBLEQ implementations however that did annoy me slightly. You can make ones that use proper memory mapped I/O so they end up being truly single instruction, but they end up being larger.
This is hilarious. Would be great as the first round of technical interviews.

Pokemon trivia: Ekans and Arbok are reversed Snake and Kobra.
Web apps I use for my job on a regular basis:

- AWS Cloud9 (IDE)

- Google Docs (Office Suite)

- Gravit Designer (Vector editor)

- Photopea (Photo editor)

- Google Mail

What are your favorite web apps?
This assumes that patients know what they are getting into. Many patients have little to no knowledge of the medical field.

Being seen by a midlevel such as an advanced practice nurse or physician’s assistant isn’t even cheaper. You pay the same price whether you are seen by a midlevel or an actual doctor.

I think the least we should do is require people to clearly state their credentials and offer the patient alternatives.
That looks neat - any UK stockists? Looks to be about the same price as Nest once shipping is included.
I've only skimmed the article, but it confirms what I've seen reported from people who have chronic illnesses like CFS, autoimmune diseases and Lyme: chronically low Vitamin D. levels. I have psoriasis and Vitamin D supplementation definitely helps.