skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US fertility is below the replacement rate at 1.73 births per woman, the increase is coming from immigration, so the US per-se isn't contributing to net population growth and arguably, when immigrant women come to the US, they are converted in 1 or 2 generations from high fertility rate to low fertility rate due to education, career, standard of living and culture changes.
The guy from "Aging Wheels" at YouTube, who by the way is a former software engineer, has a second woodworking channel channel called "Under Dunn". The last video was about a DIY Centrifugal Dust Separator [1]. It was a pretty cool video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2OStvRteRE.
What are some subfields of mathematics that you would say are crucial for gaining a proper understanding of all the things related to deep learning (e.g. let's say the paper you linked)? Even though the theory isn't complete, I'm sure a grounding in certain fields of mathematics will be helpful.
I used to interview programmers with an elevator programming problem. Neat to see it expanded so excellently and cleanly in this piece. Well done!
Avoiding "solid fats" aka saturated fats is bad advice. The science behind saturated fats being harmful has been debunked and even some government agencies have rescinded the recommendation to avoid them.

On the contrary, it's the liquid fats that are more often harmful, especially linoleic acid (aka omega-6).
My opinion is that this is a protocol bug. At the very least, there should have been an option for "just transmit this list of args to the other side & exec it", at least in addition to "run this through whatever shell there is over there"…

Such a feature would make so many things easier to script.
We’re all living in the same (complex!) ecosystem. It’s possible that the fish you’re relegating to be less important than you are somehow benefiting you in some indirect way
This is true for _libpython_ (the shared library version), which is the default on some distros (RedHat, Fedora, Arch), but many others (Debian, Ubuntu) use statically linked Python and never paid this performance tax.
Lots of things I learned quickly and easily because I found them fun - like coding.

But I always sucked at languages - I was in top class for everything in school and bottom class for german. As an adult i tried to learn spanish and failed miserably for ages. Tried all the usual suspects but despite wanting the end result I found the process so boring and frustrating that i gave up.

Then I discovered Michel Thomas. He made learning a language something to be figured out. Something with structure, and conscious thought, and fun, and fast - As well as being an amazing teacher he's an awesome dude (he was a frikkin' nazi hunter!).

The BBC made this doc about him where he goes into a school and teaches the 5 worst students GCSE french in only a few weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0w_uYPAQic

If you are struggling to learn a language, you need this dude.

Read more about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas
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You don’t actually know that for sure though. The following paper found PCR positives months after being infected, with a slowly decreasing odds ratio, which is in their words consistent with shedding: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Unless someone gets a PCR positive, has the virus sequenced, and then gets a separate positive later, has the virus sequenced again and can confirm they were actually infected again with live virus (perhaps using live viral culture) they can’t really be sure.
And coconut oil, which contains quite a bit of saturated fat.

Edit: apparently coconut oil is supposed to be solid at room temp. I should get an air conditioner
Lack of cruft and fuss is a feature though. And how's it not 'robust'?
Workplace bullying increases the risk of anxiety
Maybe Sim Tower? The game was pretty boring, but building and managing elevators to keep people happy was a fun challenge.
But if the example transfers trivially, why is there no convenient "download example project" button that offers an archive containing all the necessary files I need to run the example?
Even if the execution was flawed in that it did not deliver a successful gaming strategy or sufficiently complex model of the game, I still appreciated the nature of the exercise. I would love to read an article that takes it to a more accurate and effective system model.
From the study itself:

> This study was not specifically designed to determine the duration of protection afforded by natural infection, but for the previously infected subjects the median duration since prior infection was 143 days (IQR 76 – 179 days), and no one had SARS-CoV-2 infection over the following five months, suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 infection may provide protection against reinfection for 10 months or longer.
Are you asking whether people relate to each other on HN? Of course they do. It's a key aspect of the community here.

Users who undermine that system, in the way that I described above, are in a sense freeloading off the community established by others.
What about charged systems like proton-antiproton? We expect there to be some similarly tiny Δm there, but obviously you can't have FCNC because its no longer neutral?
Yes it's a tech appreciation from the SLQ-32 era. But at the same time receiver memory and sensitivity has massively increased, and many properties can be analysed, including the response to deception signals (delayed repetition of various strategies, sidelobe injection). LPI doesn't work for tracking as well as for searching. In the past it would take months for new waveforms to be analysed and platform libraries updated, now it happens in hours.
Not entirely related but I recently started playing with the built in "dis" library and it is fun to see the compiled representation of functions that the runtime executes. Just an FYI if you're ever bored and are looking to get more familiar with assembly, it is a very approachable thing to play with.
I assume a key-value store.
Negatives Stack; Positives Don't: The Number Line Model of Communication
VS Code requires more careful engineering than a CRUD web app. It also has a lot more dedicated talent with eyes on the problem.
I wrote a command line journal called 'did' that shows me what I did on this day over the last five years (like a 5 year diary). I enter a ton of items every day which all end up in text files. Only items including an asterisk will be repeated back to me in future years.

Inspired by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17538697
... waving just mean thanking by a move of the hand no ? How is that related to moving or not.

Hell, doing it is even an official recommendation in my country: https://mobile.interieur.gouv.fr/Archives/Archives-publicati... ("faites un petit signe de la main" = to wave)
Broken might be a bit heavy-handed, but it's not like I'm chiding some tiny mom-and-pop store for writing bad software. This is Apple, a company that has been developing their current operating system for nearly a decade. In that time, the closest their window manager got to a glow-up was the introduction of split-screen tiling. Pretty pathetic if you ask me, which is why I have to install Yabai on every godforsaken Mac I own. I'm not following them into the ARM transition if they don't fix the basics of their OS.
One past discussion, plus a one-commenter:

Elevator Saga: The Elevator Programming Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21425054 - Nov 2019 (1 comment)

Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8929314 - Jan 2015 (104 comments)
Seems like a fun learning project, but in the real world it's very counterproductive. You can obtain the base64 representation of the current clipboard contents very quickly using a single terminal shell command.
If you're already kind of old, you maybe don't want more kids anyways?
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> The Great Depression was caused because the Fed could not print enough money to act as the lender of last resort.

Not true. I'll quote from https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-depressio...

"One reason that Congress created the Federal Reserve, of course, was to act as a lender of last resort. Why did the Federal Reserve fail in this fundamental task? The Federal Reserve’s leaders disagreed about the best response to banking crises. Some governors subscribed to a doctrine similar to Bagehot’s dictum, which says that during financial panics, central banks should loan funds to solvent financial institutions beset by runs. Other governors subscribed to a doctrine known as real bills."

I've never seen any source other than you say that the great depression was caused because the Fed couldn't create money.
These articles always bring up a lot of comments that use the phrase "good for you" or "healthy", but in my experience most of the time a person saying "___ is good for you", they pretty much never quantify how or why.

Can you explain, in what capacity oils aren't "good for you" ?
Someone should make an open source version of the Observable ecosystem or integrate it into Jupyter tooling better. The notebook format is not encrypted or anything.
It’s not an insult. If you took that as an insult you probably aren’t as open to honesty as you imagine.
You need one connection per worker thread, and realistically you would only have one worker per cpu core. So how many LISTENing connections do you really need?
How much of a thing is Hadoop still in places working with lots of data? On the scale of Still something picked for new projects -- workhorse but surpassed by others -- legacy people would prefer to get rid of?
Book Review: Trajectory Startup (Idea to Product-Market Fit)
So you might think of anti-matter being matter but with all the spacetime coordinates (including time) reversed, right?

Traveling in opposite directions and back in time?
Problems with this approach:

1. Recovery.

2. Concurrency.

3. Polling.

In more detail:

1. Recovery. Suppose a worker dies while processing a job. The job should be retried, but how do you know this, since expire > 0? You can impose a timeout, but that has drawbacks -- there might be long jobs you repeatedly start but never finish. To recover failed jobs without imposing a timeout, you'd have to run both the UPDATE and the job processing inside a transaction. That way, a failed job can result in an implicit ROLLBACK, freeing the job for future worker attempts.

2. Concurrency. So now recoverable workers are trying to claim jobs inside a transaction. If there are 10 jobs and 10 workers, we want all 10 jobs processing concurrently. However, each worker SELECTs the first item_id and tries to UPDATE that same row. 1 worker wins. The other 9 workers block while that transaction completes, then update zero rows. Concurrency will hover around 1.

3. Polling. In the transactional UPDATE approach, there's no way to tell whether there are free jobs short of trying to claim them via UPDATE, which blocks. So you must poll, and either burn cpu on quiet queues, or introduce an artificial delay into job processing times. The beauty of the SKIP LOCKED approach is that it can tell whether there are free (not currently processing) jobs. Even if you wake all 10 workers up via LISTEN / NOTIFY for a lone job, 9 workers in the thundering herd will fail to claim the job, and go back to sleep.

I blame TFA for not sufficiently explaining the SKIP LOCKED approach. A much better explanation is here: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/what-is-select-skip-lock...
Protons and antiprotons must have the same mass under CPT symmetry
This was thousands of years later (significantly closer to our time than it was to the ancient civilizations of the fertile crescent - remember that the pyramids were older to Cleopatra than she is to us). Climate isn't linear and that was one of several fluctuations, but 5000-6000 years ago it was cooler in that area than today.
These technologies aren’t limited to CRUD apps.
You actually don't have to use enter and exit and I agree it is cumbersome and unnecessary although I understand the desire for inband and out of band separation... https://medium.com/d3js-tutorials/d3-without-enter-91934575d...
I have been taking metformin for anti-aging purposes for about 6 months now. I decided to take it mainly because the risks are small, and I wanted to counter the natural bias on these sorts of things, which always leans towards "doing nothing".

By taking metformin, it means I have a personal stake in the developoment of anti-aging medicines and have a reason to evaluate any newer options that appear (since there may be a reason to switch metformin to another treatment) I feel like taking metformin makes me less biased when it comes to evaluating treatments in the field, even if I think the efficacy of metformin is still an open question.

In terms of side effects, I have noted mild gastric upset (I actually wonder if this is part of its mechanism of action, making you less hungry in this way) but little impact on exercise (I take it even on days that I exercise, and I have a fairly heavy exercise routine)
Cloudflare is not the only DNS over HTTPS provider. For instance, Mullvad provides both DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS free of charge, with optional ad blocking, even if you're not using their VPN service. They have instructions for configuring Firefox and Android with their DNS endpoints:

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Of the many "understanding neural networks" papers this is one of the few valuable ones.
> avoid refined sugar and fats that are solid at room temperature.

Why?
A couple years ago I moved somewhere where my only internet option is satellite (HughesNet). The data caps are pretty low (50 GB per month) but if you use data on the “bonus zone” (midnight to 8am IIRC) you get an additional 50GB quota, so I wrote a tool that lets me queue up YouTube videos to download in the middle of the night. It’s a pretty simple collection of scripts that shell out to youtube-dl. I wrote it in TypeScript just because that’s what I was writing at work at the time: https://github.com/dylanscott/downlater

I’m still using it often a couple years later, though I’m hoping my Starlink pre-order will come through soon and render it obsolete.
I understand why Wendy wrote a critical review, the views of the author are not in line with hers. I can't comment on the book itself as I haven't read it, but at least based on the concluding section of the article posted, I can't find anything I wouldn't disagree with. Both women and men are hurt by certain aspects of the system, I had thought this was already a generally accepted fact since Esther Vilar's The Manipulated Man became popular. I find the conclusions of the author rather down to earth and sensible, nothing revolutionary.
Really simple mouse gestures for macOS (after xGestures became unreliable for me). Right-drag to the left to go back, or to the right to go forward. Only a few hundred lines of Objective-C.

Then I cleaned it up a bit and submitted it to the Mac App Store, and was pleasantly surprised it was approved. I think it’s the only mouse gestures app on there.
I think using Pypy instead of CPython will give you several times the performance boost as any of this.
I posted this to Lobste.rs when this story hit there and I'll post it again here:

> The pipe is one-character glue: “|”.

I think that this is mistaken. Pipe makes it easy to connect the output of one program to the input of another, but that is not the same as “gluing” them - you have to do text processing to actually extract the fields of data out of the output from one command and convert it into the right format for input to another.

This is why you see tr, cut, sed, awk, perl, grep, and more throughout any non-trivial shell script (and even in many trivial ones) - because very, very few programs actually speak “plain text” (that is, fully unstructured text), and instead speak an ad-hoc, poorly-documented, implementation-specific, brittle semi-structured-text language which is usually different than the other programs you want them to talk to. Those text-processing programs are the Unix glue code.

The explicit naming of “glue code” is brilliant and important - but the Unix model, if anything, increases the amount of glue code, not deceases it. (and not only because of the foolish design decision to make everything “plain” text - the “do one thing” philosophy means that you have to use more commands/programs (which are equivalent to functions in a program) to implement a given set of features, which increases the amount of glue code you have to use - gives you a larger n, which is really undesirable if your glue code scales as n^2)
This isn’t anywhere near as impressive as some of the examples here, but anyway:

I run an Etsy store that sells artwork. One of the most time-consuming tasks was creating the mock-ups for product listings, so I wrote a shell script that used Imagemagick to automatically generate all the images.

I was pretty pleased as I’d never written a Bash script before and it saves hours and hours of work.

I also wrote a Ruby script that uses the Etsy API to generate a fully-working Jekyll e-commerce site from my Etsy store’s listings. Much better that paying Shopify plus a bunch of other apps for pretty much the same thing.
Read a text file line by line and split words in Java
For decades, we were told that the food pyramid was the ideal healthy diet and that dietary fat was the enemy. It was all bullshit.

Eggs are healthy, eggs are unhealthy, eggs are really unhealthy, eggs are healthy, eggs are really healthy.

I had trained medical professionals tell me twenty years ago that I was going to ruin my kidneys with my low-carb dieting. Twenty years later, I'm still keeping the weight off and medical science has started to catch up to what I knew just by experimenting on myself with moonshot claims.

The biggest problem with medical science (just look at how COVID issues were butchered by politics and celebrity), is that they refuse to just say, "We don't really know." Because all too often, they have no clue. But they are trained to come up with answers and sound confident about it.
What would you consider satisfying evidence?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5839379/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31405774/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31954752/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4287273/
I was quite excited to be able to try a JKLA recipe, but these do contain egg unfortunately
I find that swag from companies I have worked for recently is high quality, great stuff. 3rd party swag at conferences? No thanks.

I have great back packs and other items from Capital One and Olive AI, and stuff I purchased in Google’s store is neat.
I literally think it conveys no information at all. It's a metaphor, and a metaphor that the hearer won't understand unless he already knows the answer to his question. He could just as informatively have said "it's complicated".
There is a lot of reporting about companies in two areas I am familiar with: video games and entertainment. Both industries are aware that there are a lot of young people really desperate to break into them. Not all companies take advantage of that, but many do.

Some game companies that have only really young workers below senior management and explain this by saying older people don't get what they are doing. They say it quietly, and indirectly because it opens them up to discrimination lawsuits. But what it really means is experienced people aren't putting up with something about the company.. the hours, the management, something. And unfortunately this does not really seem to be an impediment to their success.
A window sill-desk/laptop stand. I could place my laptop on this and look out the window at the same time whilst working. At the place I used to work we had some awesome views of the mountains, especially on the upper floors. I couldn’t stand staring at cubicle walls, so I would take breaks to walk around and see the amazing views. Eventually, I made the sweet desk. I could have my laptop on top with a wireless keyboard, or put the laptop below.
I cut it to the dimensions of my height and where I like to rest my hands.
There were some silicone strips/bumpers underneath to keep it from slipping or sliding or scratching the wall.
Pics:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VJLQqUhzHjPt4uCB8
Yeah I agree with the poster that said she is scared of driving. I'm guessing the excuse that she needed to read the book was either her using an excuse to self deceptively avoid facing her fear or just an attempt to save face by not saying how fearful she was.
They're genuinely working on being able to deliver it in the back of a van: https://home.cern/news/news/physics/cern-approves-two-new-ex...
This is always difficult to answer, and it will probably be a mixture of many, however I am currently following categorical approaches to machine learning. Category Theory is the area of mathematics that studies composable structures, i.e. like layers in a deep network. It is very abstract and was invented to solve problem in algebraic geometry, but has been fruitful in other areas as well.
I am a long sleeper as well and I don’t see any downside to it!
As someone who grew up in Baltimore in essentially a ghetto, I can tell poverty in the US is not "abject" or comparable to abject poverty in many developing countries. When I was growing up, people on government assistance had free school lunches, food stamps, cheese, free public education, sanitization, postal service, water, access to quality emergency care, most had telephones, TVs, and other creature comforts. And you're comparing this with people leaving on less than $1 a day?

The UN says: "Extreme poverty, deep poverty, abject poverty, absolute poverty, destitution, or penury, is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services"

I'm a progressive, and of course I want universal single payer, subsidized daycare, or free pre-K, free college, etc. But to compare the current state in the US to a country with vast swaths of people who die of cholera is ludicrous.

Here, watch a tour of a trailer park, does this look like abject poverty to you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jeMp0uF1kA
Yet Linux is not 99% of the apps, 99% of the apps are the Android and iOS apps used by billions of users.
I think the best talk of the health dangers of seed oils is in the following video:

Dr. Chris Knobbe - 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?' [1]

If you're short on time, you can skip directly to the trials data section [2]

1. https://youtu.be/7kGnfXXIKZM

2. https://youtu.be/7kGnfXXIKZM?t=2020
Here's the problem with your argument.

Nobody is saying that white privilige means that if you're white, you always have it better than when you're not white.

e.g. if you're white and poor, of course you don't have it better than if you're non-white and rich.

The point is, that ceteris paribus, you have it better being white. And that is what we call privilege.

And this shows in countless studies which correct for all non-ethnic factors such as income, neighbourhood, parents' education etc. You'll find worse outcomes for non-whites in ceteris-paribus studies inn jobs/hiring, healthcare, safety, education, political empowerment etc.

So I'm glad you admit that people have it rough simply because of their skin, that's what white privilege means, you not having it rough because of your skin but because of other reasons which affect everyone else too. That doesn't mean you can't have it rough, it just means it's not related to your skin color, and that's a privilege.