skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define “air quality” as a single metric is crude at best, but arguably dishonest. The nature of pollution and the pollutants themselves have changed have they not?

Edit: To illustrate the point, assume that getting regular physical is more important now than 100 years ago, due to on average more sedentary contemporary lifestyles. Assume heavy air pollution decreases outdoor activity, which seems plausible if not certain. How long would it take for a body of scientific literature to develop to document the problem? Given measurement problems and the difficulty of doing simulation heavy research, we might never be able to prove such a linkage exists, even if it did.
Big Brains or Small Bodies?
> Yeah, non-smokers have lower testosterone levels.

Wait, is this true? Non-smokers have lower testosterone levels. That's weird.
>The tombs include 68 from the Buto period that began around 3300 B.C. and five from the Naqada III period, which was just before the emergence of Egypt's first dynasty around 3100 B.C., according to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

This is incredible. When you zoom out of your daily life, zoom out before smartphones, before electricity, before most modern countries exist... there were other civilizations, living daily lives, probably considering many of the same concerns we have today (family, health, work). Just wild.
Unit tests can't catch all bugs ;)
12 people have walked on the moon (4 are still alive), 12 more people have flown around the moon (6 are still alive). Time to go again.
Probably based on data from radiation leaks.
The money made by holding Amazon is value created, not value extracted. In 2000, Bezos, early employees, and investors could have decided to cash out by issuing dividends or buying back their own shares with Amazon's profits. Instead, they chose to reinvest that profit into Amazon in the form of new fulfillment centers and new workers. This gave Bezos even more potential profit, but again he chose to reinvest it in the company. This compounded for two decades, so now Amazon is a trillion dollar company. Without someone holding the stock, Amazon would not have grown to the extent that it had. Even if Bezos sold his shares to someone else, that other person needs to decide to reinvest Amazon's potential profits back in the business.
Except in the real world Apple purposefully prevents you from getting your hands on replacement parts, they sue anyone distributing scematics, refuse to repair equipment that's 4 years old and repairable and refuse to do data recovery.

So no, there is no part of that thats fine.

When laws around cars were put together people actually cared about their liberty, and I have the right to open car repair tomorrow and BMW and Toyotas of the world wont interfere. And unlike iPhones,cars actually are dangerous.
Wine is not an emulator, it is a compatibility layer for Windows system calls on a Unix-like platform. If something runs on wine, the performance overhead should be unnoticeable/very small for the typical user.
Interesting in light of the recent comments on HN that therecord.media is (partly) funded by the CIA.
That's unquestionably what the observational evidence shows. (Just look at pictures of soldiers and other men from WWII (wiry and rail-thin, but strong), Vietnam (still skinny, but getting heavier), and Iraq/Afghanistan (a surprising number of guts and much more flabbiness).

My guess is that there's more to both HFCS vs. sugar and the continuous exposure to endocrine disruptors in food, food packaging, etc. Think about it - how little of your life are you not in contact with plastics anymore? (If you're typing a reply, you're rubbing on those plasticizers again...)
For wires that need too run out in the elements around a quarter inch or higher, plus you need conduit, and backup wires. So about an inch or more with just naive napkin estimation. I'm probably underestimating it actually.
Yes, in Computer Science, using parameterized SQL queries is considered a Hard Problem™. /s
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After adjusting for possible confounding variables, BMI was an independent risk factor for low testosterone level
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So after adjusting for BMI, sugary beverage consumption had nothing to do with T. But BMI is correlated with T which is (very) old news, and sugary drink consumption is presumably correlated with BMI. Yawn.
Using Amazon's analogy, they exchanged an apple for an orange and are claiming they created an apple + orange worth of value. Really the value created is (1) the profit, which goes to their shareholders and (2) the benefit to their customer of having an orange instead of an apple, which is probably measurable but not quite as much as what they are claiming.
The current level of tracking/spying, absolutely agreed that it is immoral and unjustified. What I am undecided on is whether the minimum possible tracking, that of having a single redirect on the href, is similarly unjustified.
People enjoy the content they want, in the way they want. You like to enjoy Stardew a way that is different than OP. Neither is "incredibly perverse".
Given the link to WhoIsHiring posts on https://news.ycombinator.com/lists , I'm going to guess they qualify as not unauthorized at this point.
IIRC, WaitForMultipleObjects can only block on 63 handles. 800 threads blocked on 63 handles seems pretty weird.
Sickening Solar Flares
Crimes against the environment need to equate to crimes against humanity.
And roads aren't even cheap, but they are nice and decentralized and do not require smart planners.

That's a nice resiliency and I give roads credit where they are due for it. But cars are terrible and we simple cannot continue to do the easy status quo thing.
Might be but isn't that correlated? I only ever tested my testosterone levels when I was older and fit, and they were in the normal range.
I did think about that possibility which is why I wrote "life" and not "humans". Perhaps it should have been "visible life" or "non-microscopic life". Being alone on the ocean is certainly scary, but there is enough life and resources in the water to sustain someone basically indefinitely. Collins was alone beyond the tiny organisms that the crew brought up with them.
Totally not money laundering.
how do you volunteer specifically at nycmesh?
I have a 27" monitor also, and it looks fine to me.
TwidereX 1.1.0: “Mastodon Support is here!”
The people working in spy craft must be pretty cynical. I imagine the CIA is more about realpolitik. Doing whatever it takes to keep America ahead. You don't need to have an existential crisis torturing someone when you know that your Chinese counterpart is doing the same.
You only get disillusioned if you believe the facade.
This always confused me. Why does the WHO only have guidelines on "added sugar", why not all sugar?

Based on a naive reading of things, I removed fruit from my diet as well, but that's against WHO guidelines: I used to eat like 3 Fuji/Envy a day (haha).
> sans evidence

You're talking about an entity with the ability to fake any evidence that they would be able to provide you. So no matter what "evidence" they provide you would still need to make a choice to believe them.
What I need is that when I make a call to a service, it gives back consistent results. Ergo, when the app does do a rolling deploy, it will get the right config on startup, not some random version.

It looks like it does exactly that now, it just wasn't clear from the article.
All this color nonsense is written by people who have no idea about their problems with blocking IO.

It's about blocking vs non-blocking, and many of those write about their problems when they cannot leave the blocking hell. Or even their presumed non-blocking hell, as seen with node/javascript folks.

Well, you won't get secure multitasking if you allow blocking. You won't get fast multitasking neither if you allow blocking. The whole POSIX API is doomed. "Red" and "blue" are of course a bad thing. 90% of the time the kernel is waiting for some blocking IO, and keeps switching around, with all its context switches. With pure event driven non-blocking IO you don't wait in the kernel, you wait at the user code, who can decide to do something else useful in that time. And the user decides that he will need better tools to do more useful things in parallel.

There are tons of success stories of pure non-blocking IO. Once the happy manager puts blocking in, on peer pressure, posix layers and red-blue advocates the system goes down, and you are in deadlock hell, slowness and insecure concurrency.
This is not true. The Robert Lustig scaremongering is a big lie. In his talk he mentions the healthy Japanese but he does not mention that they eat more calories from fructose (in percentage of their consumed calories) than USA citizens yet are healthier.

Similarly how people stand against epidemiology they should stand against demonizing single ingredients.

Apple, by Lustig's opinion, is the worst fruit there is but he will never, in a scientific study, demonstrate the ill-effects of consuming apples, while another group consumes the same equivalent amount of raw fructose extract.
This is huge challenge BTW. I am dealing with electron kind of Web App and we are thinking in sell our subscription model with a bundle with MightyApp in the future waiting for the other versions Windows ( sadly) and Linux ( imagine the Arduino users ). Wait and see. The best for MightyApp!
No questions.

Just wanted to say that you're doing an excellent job. Thanks!
Or the metadata is enough when it comes to evidence. "Person X added person Y on Signal", in context with other evidence, might be all they're looking for.
The source code will be publicly available on Github as soon as we ship our first version in June. At this point we are gathering interest and trying to get feedback from the community to prioritize feature and orient our development effort!
In my experience, 99.9% of the value in hiring a consultancy is to light a fire under the respective asses of one's employees.
From the article:

> Other demographic and clinical variables examined as potential confounders included age, sex, race/ethnicity, poverty/income ratio, BMI, serum cotinine, heavy drinker status, and physical activity MET score. BMI (weight/height2) was measured by trained technicians at the NHANES MEC physical examination [19]. Obesity was defined as a BMI ≥30 kg/m2 according to the World Health Organization criteria [20]. Heavy drinker status was defined as respondents who reported consuming alcoholic beverages ≥4 times/week in response to the question “In the past 12 months, how often did you drink any type of alcoholic beverage”? Physical activity was estimated by summing the time spent weekly engaged in activities as reported by participants, multiplied by the metabolic equivalent of task (MET) value for that activity, which yields a MET-h index. One MET is the energy expenditure of 1 kcal/kg body weight per hours [21]. MET-min/week ≥500 was considered physically active, and < 500 MET-min/week was considered non-active.

I haven't finished reading it, but they do seem to have considered these other variables (body fat by using BMI as a proxy).
Yeah, I was thinking on a web site. Avoid the whole App Store thing. But Mini vMac looks cool too.
narush points out elsewhere that this isn't a controlled experiment, so take these numbers with a grain of salt. Also I am not a statistician, so take this with another grain of salt.

That being said, if I am interpreting Table 2 correctly, the study is saying that consuming a large amount of surgery beverages causes your risk of having low-testosterone related problems to rise by 2.29 times compared to not drinking many sugary beverages. This is after correcting for age, race, BMI, alcoholism, and physical activity levels.

The risk increase before correcting for these things is 2.78 times, so that would seem to indicate that sugary beverages do have a pretty large effect compared to the confounders they choose, though it is still possible sugary beverage consumption is acting as a proxy for something else.
Yes, the KDE MTP implementation was recently reworked, but it's still randomly unusable with most android phones in my experience, complaining that it can't access to the device, etc.

On the other hand, that other application, while barebones, seems to work 100% of the time: https://github.com/whoozle/android-file-transfer-linux
> Accenture doesn’t break out their revenue by client type

Yes they do, and they have been doing that since forever.
https://newsroom.accenture.com/fact-sheet/
Sometimes I get concerned by how unabashedly people put forward frankly socialist talking points in public discourse these days. But then I see how incredibly common sense refutations by people like yourself are, and feel a little less worried.
Some people publicly admit that they think it's OK to eat eggs?! Outrageous! Reading those words are causing me actual harm. Why isn't there a trigger warning? Egg eaters are on the wrong side of history.

I mean it's one thing if you sneak out to Waffle House at 3 in the morning when no one is looking for two over easy.

But anyone who publicly condones this barbaric behavior should be cancelled.

And any company that encourages this barbaric, utterly un-eggs-eptable behavior should be cancelled.
Very much this, a few places out sourced their IT on the cheap to ACN during financial crisis, the problem then is clawing it back years later, when actually it now costs lots to support a terrible mess and is a drag on the company.
>he was truly alone in a way that no other person had ever been in human history

The "had" there was meant to imply it was true up until that point in history. Other people have either nearly matched or slightly exceeded him depending on the specific details of the later Apollo mission lunar orbits. However it is mentally easier to be the second person to do something dangerous once you see the first person succeed safely. There is a reason everyone knows Armstrong and Aldrin, but Conrad and Bean don't have much notoriety today in the general population.
Why is it hard to imagine? The opportunities are there. You get to know the right people. You are already dealing with risky smart acts that you have to be ok with.
Is there some flatpak/snap/appimage version that doesn't require installing all the KDE deps?
Yes exactly. Sugar should probably be placed in the same category as alcohol in terms of health consideration. It's fine to enjoy in moderation, but fundamentally toxic. Less acutely toxic than alcohol, but more strongly habit-forming.
Yep! When you lose weight you slightly increase the mass of the atmosphere by roughly the amount you lost. Whatever doesn't go into the atmosphere goes into the toilet (mostly water).
There are still stupid high costs for stuff and people are still put on the payroll to do nothing. $70/hr for a guy who does nothing but get coffee...
https://nypost.com/2018/03/05/union-workers-are-making-42-pe...

There was a great piece done by John Stossel about why a pretty basic public park bathroom cost $2M to build and took years to finish construction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRuhiMDOjo
Influence of VR Head-Mounted Displays on Balance Outcomes and Training Paradigms
If Twitter shut down tomorrow, the world would be a better place, and nothing of great value would be lost. I'm not sure if I can be convinced otherwise.
The expert in question being the company which made it, because software isn’t a commodity like steel [0] where any two manufacturers are making basically interchangeable stuff.

[0] I assume. I don’t do steel.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments or ideological flamebait to HN. It leads to tedious generic tangents and flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Impossible to regulate with a mathematical magic wand. Removing confounding variables works for physics, not really for anything else.
Firstly, thats not how warranty work - if I add fins to my car that does not give you the right to void wrranty on the engine.

Secondly I vote to get laws passed that they make sure they can shove this policy. I've had enough of this corporate lawmaking and stockholm syndrome victims covering for them
While funny, that doesn't really apply here. We're exchanging an apple for an orange. That is a very reasonable barter transaction and I see no reason that it doesn't create value.

In fact, the value is likely to be undercounted by GDP. People are taxed on income, so casual transactions like the orange-for-apple trade are likely to be left out of GDP simply because they are unreported.

Your example is the opposite: over-counting GDP and the participants paying thousands of dollars in taxes.
w.i.n.e = Wine Is Not an Emulator
That metadata is not available, though.
Pretty cool app, but how can i use this to plan my fiances better? I do not have much background in finance and there was some things i did not understand how to fill in, would it be possible to include some video tutorial on how to do a good planning?
> What should be the goal of taxation in only a numerical and objective way?

To force the internalization of otherwise-externalized opportunity costs.

> From most of these comments the answer is something about land and wealth but void of any mention of taxable assets or specifically how to unfairly punish only certain persons.

From my comments in particular, the taxable assets would be things with inelastic supply, land being the most notable and prevalent and universally-understood example. Land ownership inherently externalizes opportunity costs onto every other individual member of society, so a tax on land ownership proportional to the rental value of that land (i.e. the value which can be derived from that land, and which others who would use that land are missing out on by being excluded from it - a.k.a. the opportunity cost thereof) would internalize those externalized costs, to everyone's benefit.

As for the "unfairly punish" part, none of what's proposed here is unfair at all. If you're going to claim an area of land for your own exclusive use, then it's only fair that you pay the rest of society your due rent.

That is, to distill the point here a bit: the idea is to penalize behaviors, not persons. For example, the behavior of hoarding land as an investment and speculating upon it is arguably one of the main drivers of skyrocketing housing costs, said costs being especially high for lower and middle class households relative to their income. Taxing the value of land penalizes hoarding land as an investment (indeed, it instead becomes a liability), thus resolving that particular housing cost driver and improving things considerably for the lower and middle classes.
Navy SEALs to shift from counterterrorism to global threats
You could also frequently merge master into your branch and squash at the end.
This comment made me notice a small typo in the 2017 version fixed in 2020

> h. Future Changes to Arbitration Agreemen

Someone forgot to dot their Is and cross their Ts :)
It's miles ahead just in the File Browser alone, comparing to the "Finder" in OSX
I wonder if this wouldn't work nicely when combined with UnifiedPush, so that one device (KDE Connect isn't restricted to PC<->Phone) could still communicate with another when not on the same network.

I can imagine myself leveraging this on a smartwatch I recently bought to install postmarketOS on.
It's hard to tell what these dark insinuations refer to, but there's nothing (that I'm aware of) that hasn't been fully explained many times—nor are there any questions we don't answer. If you're talking about shadowbanning, for example, there's plenty of explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686672 and the links back from there.
This is what I was thinking. Rate of consumption between then and now has to heavily skew towards now. I've worked with multiple people who would come to work with a 64oz of soda (diet, if that matters) in the morning, finish it by lunch time, and come back from lunch with it refilled. I assume these people are extreme cases, but even average soda consumption has to be on the high end.
For context, in India there's about 27,000 deaths per day in a normal year (napkin math: 7.344 deaths per 1000 from https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/death-rate, multiplied by the indian population size of 1.390 billion, divided by 365 days per year). Currently there are around 2700 deaths being attributed to COVID-19 per day.

I am much more concerned about poverty, starvation, death, and decreased non-COVID vaccination rates, than I am about COVID itself, for a country like India. SARS-CoV-2 primarily kills the very old and the very unhealthy, particularly diseases of modernity (this is not a value judgement but rather a statement of fact).

The indian life expectancy is somewhere around 68 years. Compare that to 78.7 in the US (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm). We've seen in the US how we likely caused iatrogenic harm in places like New York by practicing early invasive ventilation. We've seen (although we don't have the true long-term data yet) the impacts of unnecessarily suspending elective surgeries (such as was done in my state of California for a month despite a total availability of ICU capacity, and the fact that even if there weren't capacity many outpatient surgeries are more valuable than an extra COVID-bed-day)

Here's just one small example of the ramifications of succumbing to fear: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56425115

> It estimates that there have been 228,000 additional deaths of children under five in these six countries due to crucial services, ranging from nutrition benefits to immunisation, being halted.

> It says the number of children being treated for severe malnutrition fell by more than 80% in Bangladesh and Nepal, and immunisation among children dropped by 35% and 65% in India and Pakistan respectively.

> The report also says that child mortality rose the highest in India in 2020 - up by 15.4% - followed by Bangladesh at 13%. Sri Lanka saw the sharpest increase in maternal deaths - 21.5% followed by Pakistan's 21.3%.

It should go without saying that a 15.4% increase in child mortality is NOT a result of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which spares children. It's a result of missed medical appointments, decreased non-COVID vaccinations, economic disruption, and the general environment of largely unnecessary and maladaptive fear and anxiety that the populace has collectively been exposed to.
It's nuts. I used to live in a major city, 10 minutes from downtown, and the only high speed internet I could get was Spectrum cable internet. I recently moved to a rural, mountain area in the same state and there is a small ISP that provides fiber to the entire county. They even have good pricing.
This is a fantastic tool but honestly my favorite part is that I can try what seems like most of the features without ever having to create an account and providing personally identifiable info that will inevitably lead to yet another mailing list for me to ignore. So thank you for having faith in your users!
I know that they are considering it but the variables are so noisy that the mathematics won't work. It never works when it comes to epidemiology. It works for physics.
See also https://libdivide.com/ , when you need to repeatedly divide by a constant that isn't known until runtime.
By "those services" I mean "Github/Gitlab, cloud CI/CD, hosting and so on".
I help out with planning and designing hubs, upgrading & installing equipment, troubleshooting network issues, and with anything else I can related to network architecture.
Solution: Install US and Russian antiviruses simultaneously.