skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“It would be really unlikely that almost three decades earlier, this sleep was a symptom of dementia, so it’s a great study in providing strong evidence that sleep is really a risk factor,”

This seems like a huge leap to take as a given to me. Brains, particularly when we're talking about dementia, are really good at compensating for a really long time.

So while this wouldn't surprise me, I really have to wonder about causation.

Many middle-aged adults I know have trouble sleeping. It's not a choice. That may be a symptom of an ailing brain rather than a cause.
It's roughly the same in the US.

The US Department of Agriculture estimates that 10.9% of the
population is employed in agriculture, food and related industries. More than half (6.4% of pop.) of those are employed in food service (i.e., waitstaff at restaurants). Only 1.3% of the population are actually employed on farms.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
Or Cloyster, Landorus, or Minior?
How Slow is JavaScript Really? JavaScript vs. C++ [video]
There was no situation given just a general statement that if police says "you're obstructing a police matter" that this would be a lie.
Yup, more or less.

Misc central authorities issue you secure enclaves. Dept of licensing, health care system, banks, github, employer, etc.

You then create key pairs as needed.

Publish those public keys to misc web's of trust, as needed.

Then use private digitally sign anything you think worth signing.

Log those transactions to the misc blockchains, as needed.

--

The alternative to authenticity is our current Freedom Speeches™ dystopia. Bots, sock puppets, identity theft industry, fraud, etc.

For all the naysayers: Would you install unsigned, untrusted code? If you answer yes, then stuff like privacy and authenticity isn't really your priority.

Choose wisely.
The 1990 methodology looks like "CPI-U + 4%" and the 1980 methodology looks like "CPI-U + .25%*(year-1984)." If we assume for a second that there is a methodology beyond hand-waving those offsets into graphs in order to obtain money from people like my parents, we would probably be looking for basket items with constant, high price increases over the last 40 years and (log-)linear escalating price increases over the last 40 years. Something to do with health care and education respectively, maybe?

That's almost certainly giving Shadow Stats more benefit of the doubt than they deserve, but after the manufacturing figure debacle (see below) I'm open to the idea of spelunking into these calculations and debating the merits of various choices they make.

https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-...

(Summary: "American Manufacturing is doing better than ever" figures were obtained by including Intel in the basket and multiplying up their revenue using Moore's law as a hedonic adjustment.)
Please mods, change the title to standard letters. The next time we'll have emojis in the title...
Have you checked how many employees IBM has ?
> What do you actually get for creating an intelligence that wins a Turing test?

> it's just about creating a cool sound.

I specifically want to create novel hard/dark/minimal techno bangers with similar effort to curating a playlist.

I want a toy that makes music that will keep me and my friends up into the wee hours, without the toil, without the bleeding egoic labor.

And I want people with good taste to have the same ability without putting thousands of hours into learning music theory and arcane details about DAWs and synthesizers and other... Traditional... Tools.

I want to twist the nips of a sexy thump machine and get a good feedback loop[0] going between jerky knees and the stupid-smart NPC musician in my laptop.

I want to spend the night in a tent with eyes that digests my tribe with its acid colors and plays us like so many marionettes until, exhausted, we cut the power and go home. And there wasn't a Guru making it happen, no Chad waiting his turn on the deck, just sound, lightning, and loving this f'n party, man.

The other points about writing songs that express humanity, and the inventor's hubris and all that hit the mark. But deleting the boundary between bedroom production and the rave itself... I'd be hard pressed to imagine anything more fun and exciting.

[0]https://vimeo.com/36579366
It's the latter, of course. Because if these numbers were actually correct, the market would have figured that out by now, and it would be reflected in the level of interest rates. Yet, it is not. So either people are losing money by lending at rates that are well below the level of inflation, and everyone is too stupid to have noticed that over the last 30 years or this article is nonsense.
It was the supply switch in combination with the state of the pipes. I believe the switch of the supply caused a layer of calcium coating the inside of the lead pipes to dissolve due to a different chemical makeup, leading to water then being exposed to lead. Had they not switched on the first place, they would have been ‘ok’. Not great for sure but they would have had time to deal with it. Which they probably wouldn’t have had money to..
That is an Onion headline if I ever saw one.
site's already dead
Login works for us, it seems.
Helpful, thanks! So poor testing, and no attempt to make the source water less corrosive and so less likely to leach lead from the customer's pipes.
> Vaccination is a moral obligation

Only if the mechanism of its action contributes to herd immunity. If it provides symptom abatement without lowering infection and transmission, then vaccination of those not at risk can prove counterproductive due to asymptomatic spread.
Rackspace did similar a few years back when they awarded their CEO with their most fanatical award or whatever it was called. Don't think he stayed at the company for much longer, either.
Interesting reading. The results, and the issues with housing, remind one of the post war building boom in Central Europe, Communist enforced 'blocks'. We would visit from Canada and marvel how everything was the same. Obviously a very efficient use of planning and construction. Almost assembly line. Actually impressive how many people they had to house, quickly.
The amount of design work that went into the community was more impressive. Years later, I could appreciate how everything was coordinated to have nearby playgrounds - so that you could watch your kids from your apartment. Schools, grocery stores, medical clinics, were all nearby in a logical efficient pattern. ( Communist system though, meant there was little to eat, or buy, or drugs, in those facilities.)
The wiring, (and plumbing) was all prebuilt into the concrete walls and floors, ready to be connected, upon assembly. The ideas and designs were great. Of course, the actually performance, and construction, were prone to the usual Communist era woes of graft, theft, and shortages.
To get back to the topic, phone wires were installed, but phones were not available for another 20 years. Imagine if Ethernet wiring was installed that way?
> We recently determined that between January 21, 2021 and March 1, 2021, fraudsters used information about you – which they acquired elsewhere – to obtain unauthorized access to your driver’s license number through the online sales system on our website.

I wish there was some additional clarification around what "online sales system” is?

Is that the system I use to buy insurance?

Or is that the system Geico uses to sell my information (which, aside from breaches, might be the other way 3rd party access is gained to my personal information)?
The author did link to a much more detailed explanation: http://www.shadowstats.com/article/no-438-public-comment-on-...

I skimmed it, it’s a lot to take in. In general it seems like the author doesn’t explore deeply why the academics wanted to change the inflation measure and takes for granted that it was simply ivory tower twiddling combined with political machinations. I feel like I am not getting a full picture. But I haven’t understood the author’s thesis in enough detail to comment rigorously.

Subjectively my personal experience over the last 20 years seems more in line with government stats than the author’s shadow stats: generally low inflation with a lot of volatility in certain commodities, and upward pressure in housing, combined with stagnant wages. Inflation at 10% over the last 20 years doesn’t really pass the sniff test considering my memory of prices in 2000.
My fear is that we still don’t fully understand genetic and epigenetic coding and there are probably latent dangers lurking with this class of vaccines that may not even be apparent until a new generation of posterity.
Trento and Bolzano in Italy are nice too. Probably depends on what languages you speak and what mix of amenities you care most about.
But guys Bitcoin takes energy. That's worse than giving monetary power to the people /s
> Isn't rustls [1] also built on very unsafe groundwork?

Depending on what you mean by "groundwork" literally everything is. Hardware doesn't obey Rust's rules, and you need to interface with hardware to get input, and do output, so literally every program will have unsafe code at the base.

The key difference is that Rust gives you the tools to explicitly demarcate what is safe, and what is not, and build safe abstractions on top of (hopefully validated) unsafe foundations.
SwiftUI In Production: All the hacks needed to ship a product
SPM has a lot of issues, though. For example: if you depend on a static library, it will both statically link it _and_ embed the binary; likewise, a static library dependency in a framework will cause build failures ~70% of the time when clean. There's others around resources, etc.

I do not believe SPM is mature enough to be the entire platform, and worst yet if you experience any problems it is entirely impossible to customize the behavior. I think it's going to be another year or 2 before dropping CocoaPods entirely is a fair choice for libraries -- SPM works for the most basic use cases, but not all.
These are pretty imaginative. I like the macOS update screen that fails to a kernel panic if you click it. That would get me pretty good.
It's gotten worse recently. The second row on my home screen are now dedicated to "Spotify original & exclusive shows" (when it used to be your weekly recommendation channels). There's another 2-3 rows dedicated to podcasts as you keep going down.

For reference, I don't listen to podcasts in Spotify.
Sure, but is it good for the person to not work? I get that you don't care what happens to the business, but the question isn't about the business - it's about the person. We get that this is the best economic decision for them, but are they happier? Do they feel fulfillment? Is society better-off?
Well, in the upcoming version of Munin, I move away from the static site, as it is very wasteful IMHO.

But, I agree that for a couple of servers, the security it procures might overtake the performance boost.

Let's add it again: https://github.com/munin-monitoring/munin/issues/1395
>Plus, there was pretty successful third-party security audit last year.

The security audit referenced by the post suggests offering EverCrypt as an optional alternative to ring. Are you going to act on the audit's recommendation, or continue to only offer ring?
> That’s true but in those cases they are passing tones.

That may well be their main function, especially in bebop (it's not so certain in blues), but they're still considered as part of the scale.

> For examples in a bebop scale you don’t tend to arpeggiate using both the consecutive tones.

That's true for any non-chord tones. The intervals are still very common (in bebop you commonly simply walk the whole scale up and/or down in straight 8ths or 16ths, playing adding the passing tone for the chord tones to end up on the downbeats).
Shut down is pretty good.
If this was approximately true, then a family making $50k in 2001 would be roughly equivalent to a family making $400k today.

If the government stats are approximately true, then a family making $50k in 2001 is roughly equivalent to a family making $75k today.

The theory doesn’t pass even cursory inspection.
> Why are you using that set of genes, instead of a different set

The study in question (doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2010.07.004) used ~250,000 SNPs, because those were the genes measured from previous studies. Even if all the SNPs in the human genome were used, the clusters would remain or become more pronounced - that's how principal component analysis works.

> or a measurement of 'height in cm' or analysis of ear-shape?

Why would you measure anything other than genes if you're measuring kinship? Genes are inherited, height is affected by nutrition.

> And where is the cut-off for a cluster?

There is no unambiguous cut-off - that does not mean the clusters don't exist or have descriptive value.

> Do you find it in any way strange that someone from the Netherlands and someone from Greece are the same 'race' even though, on average, their skin-tone, eye- and hair-colors, and heights are strikingly different?

Genetic maps tell us the Dutch and Greek person are more closely related than the Dutch and Japanese. Whether or not it's strange that their heights vary widely is irrelevant. I'm closer in height to my friend than to my sister, yet it's not strange that my sister is part of my family, while my friend is not.

> but the classification of people into distinct 'races' is arbitrary.

Tell a clustering algorithm to find ~5 clusters in the human genome distribution, and those clusters will correspond to traditional races. That alone should tell you it's not completely arbitrary, though you are right that the precise boundaries are ill-defined.

What is somewhat arbitrary is the choice of ~5 clusters - why not 10 or 100? That's simply a product of in/out-group organization. When you're interacting and competing with humans across the globe, as is the case in the modern world, you group up along the coarsest scale, or be out-competed by a bigger group that's less divided. If you don't group up at all, then that's no different than being a group of one - even the smallest team will out-compete you.

This explains the article as well - people in the past were more geographically limited, so they formed groups based on those local differences, instead of global ones.

If you have any more questions, I'd be happy to explain.
This had me nodding my head:

However, we have to weigh the residual risks against the risk of death from Covid

But then this made me wonder if there was a paragraph I missed:

Vaccination is a moral obligation

I think it's a mistake to think the weighing process you endorse in the first quote will land everyone with the moral obligation you endorse in the second.
My use cases:

1) to strip formatting of text

2) to validate text. For example spotting an O or 0, | or l, etc. Its quite normal when dealing with user input to find configuration errors this way

3) Quick temporary paste buffer. Nice when jotting down phonecalls. Better than onenote since it opens quickly and ready to accept input. it never opens on some random page full of categorized notes.
(and the subsequent lies about it)
I Don't Need Postman Anymore, I Use VS Code Instead
I dunno, Auth0 is still pretty stellar. Its not perfect, but the rate of disruptions isnt very significant IMO.

(famous last words)
Great touch triggering a BSOD when opening Internet Explorer!
The other way I thought of that the building itself appreciates is if the craftsmanship style becomes antique or vintage down the line. Or the architect becomes notable, etc.
This is great! Even though I skipped the whole Windows XP era by being primarily a Linux user all that time, and know it's all fake, the slight panic at what happens when you try to launch a program is real.
It's a balance I'd say. Arguably those satelites serve a purpose that ads don't.
That was my poorly made point, indeed... It can be more sensible from a financial freedom point of view to rent at 30% of take-home pay than mortgage at 60%.
I don't know about the macroeconomics of this issue, but I am SO happy to be free of my house: Constant house maintenance (remember to price that into the cost), cutting the grass once a week in summer and shovelling snow off the sidewalk in winter, pruning trees, insurance, always worried in storm season that a big wind will take the roof off (as happened to many of my neighbours). Home ownership is a dream lots of young people have (as I had), but I think it's a pipe dream. You'll be a slave to your monthly payments wether it's a mortage or rent you're paying. I have far more freedom and less worries now.
It doesn't appear to implement any standards at all, even self contained ones like the HTML parser: https://github.com/danfragoso/thdwb/blob/655eac96e4faa141cb4...
House minority leader to introduce resolution to censure Maxine Waters
A Path to the Minimum Viable Product
Find Hidden Web Content Using Gobuster
This is also true of non-failed states. Is there a lesson to draw?
What a lazy, unnecessary, unproductive comment. I'll not defend myself; HN would be better if both our comments get removed.
You could easily solve the immediate problem by exempting locals' primary residence - CA already has policies like prop 13 after all.

More generally, who could reasonably be considered to have a legitimate interest in housing policy? I can think of a few potential groups:

1) People who own homes in the locality

2) Renters

3) People who work in locality but commute

4) (This is the biggest stretch) People left behind by economic geography

On economic geography: as the economy evolves over time, the location of jobs changes. As farming is automated, there are less jobs in the rural Midwest. After the steel mills closed, Pittsburgh lost population. As the economy has become more knowledge and technology oriented, more jobs have moved to relatively dense urban areas that can support very liquid job markets and a high degree of labor specialization.

Obviously there's a lot of subjective trade-offs here. Personally, I feel there should be a middle ground (on policies around development) between "kick existing residents out of their homes" and "no middle class housing in areas with lots of job growth".
Employers know more about our lives than ever – now what?
How dare you to think different.
2 - Wonderful advice! It took me years to figure this out. The speedreading books/courses would instruct "Don't subvocalize" and so on. I tried doing all that, and never deeply internalized anything that way. These days when I read something worthwhile, I read it in a funny/crazy made-up voice in my head and take all the time in the world, and this helps me absorb the material and make it my own :)
Unfortunately, if you bring your cursor to the top of the screen there's a message (in Firefox) and an X (in Chrome) that inform the user that they are in a full screen webpage.
This is a genuinely nifty article, in how it goes into clear and well-explained details.

With that said, sometimes it’s the fault of the shoelaces themselves. Loops that are too large (overly long shoelaces) can snag on items in the environment (twigs, branches, etc.) to become forcibly untied, and some very specific kinds of shoelaces can be too slick and/or too stiff to keep a knot firmly tied (Canadian DoD shoelaces for boots are both very stiff and quite slick when brand new, they need to be broken in to hold fast; some dress shoes have similar laces, albeit stupidly thin).
Do they really "fly" those satellites over areas where they don't provide service and if so, do they have to?
Informed consent, a cornerstone of medical ethics, has very little to do with the fact that we can't prove treatment will not be detrimental in all cases.

Or perhaps you prioritise the group above the individual in all cases and think e.g. the Nuremberg Code is worthless historical artifact?
The open podcast system is growing strong: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/

However, 50%+ of all rss-based podcasts are hosted on Anchor, which is owned by Spotify.
There's a switching cost inherent to employment that some people simply can't or won't risk. The only way to give people total freedom to accept or not accept a policy like this is to make it so their fundamental needs are already met.
My immersion was lost when the BSOD didn't hang the music
I'd imagine it varies from country to country and by locality a bit, but I've lived in Australia and several spots in the US; at each tap water was routinely drunk.
For someone who doesn't work in the field, deciding to take the vaccine is an act of faith.
To expand on this a bit more, the corrosive water they swapped to permanently stripped off the inner coating (that I think was just mineral build up?) from the lead pipes, so now they leach endlessly. Most cities will have lead pipes somewhere in the water supply network. This situation is definitely entirely the city’s fault.
not-a-lawyer, but, we must be referring to different items here..
AWS Cognito works but it is a far cry from how usable Auth0 is.
Physical bookstores across Europe have dwindling stock of actual books. Instead, a relative few books are kept around as token attempts at being a bookstore, while the owners seek higher profit margins on things like gimmicky stationery, tea sets, vinyl records, etc. So, even physical locations are no longer very useful for discovery. You are lucky if you still have a local bookshop as capable of surprises as back in the 1990s.
I almost posted a funny reply in the throng of the comments, then realised I don't want to jeopardise my Google account. I didn't reply.
Don't mix religious and political beliefs with health and science

No? Newton? Pascal? Lemaitre? Wheeler?
On the Python angle, I recently spent some time building Python bindings for another Rust project with PyO3 and was quite happy with the result. Since then, I’ve been toying with the idea about building a somewhat compatible replacement for Python’s ssl module based on rustls. I’d be happy to work on that, but I’d need to find some way to fund it (Patreon or GitHub Sponsors might work, but so far I haven’t had a lot of luck gaining sponsors there).
I asked someone from the British Cycle Touring Club (CTC) about cycling across the USA - his advice was “The middle bit will be week after week of hard slog across endless farmland - sun, wind, dogs - you’d be better off cycling the good bits and catching a ride for the rest”.

Advice I’d probably apply to riding around the world - no sense torturing yourself for ‘completeness’.
> Every person that values freedom, individuality, and prosperity should reject any policy or law that is based on a "greater good" narrative

Curious what you think about COVID lockdowns then
I'm not sure what the West is, but I live in eastern europe and I have no idea what an electric purifier would even look like. Someone might order bottled water at a restaurant, but I'm pretty sure everyone drinks tap at home.

From what I've seen Germans seems pretty suspicious of their tap water(or maybe just hard water?) and use brita filters a lot. There is no actual health benefit or harm avoidance for using them as far as I understand.
Do you know what assaulting means? An arrest inst assaulting anyone.
Also its not for filming but for not following orders which is exactly what cops are paid do do. If you dont want to get arrested follow the order they give you.
The underlying problem seems to be that companies confuse identification with authentication.

A drivers license number is a unique ID. The physical card with security features and a photo is the authentication that it belongs to me, holding it.

Same thing with social security numbers. That can be treated as an identifier, so the bank can talk about an individual. But not as authentication and authorization to open new accounts.

Data breaches would be so much less scary if banks and similar didn't keep screwing this up.
Given the antibiotic stagnation, could we possibly develop something similar to target bacteria? Aka inject instructions in their genome to self destroy?
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