skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, after 50+ years of rising sunscreen use, there's essentially no data showing more sunscreen use reduces skin cancer.

Sunscreen definitely prevents sunburns, and almost certainly delays visible skin aging/weathering. Those may be enough benefits for some people.

But the people/populations using more sunscreen are also having more skin cancer. Some theories compatible with these observations are:

• While preventing sunburn pain, sunscreen doesn't prevent the actual cancer-causing skin damage - and thus by allowing more time to be spent in the sun, actually worsened skin cancer rates. (This may have especially been a problem for the 1960s-1990s, when it was thought that only sunburn-causing UVB contributed to skin cancer - so sunscreens only blocked UBV. That encouraged increased exposure to the mostly-unblocked UVA, now understood as an equal contributor to skin cancer. More recent sunscreens block UVA as well.)

• Known carcinogens commonly used in sunscreens, or present as contaminants, are actually causing increased rates of skin cancer.

Anyone whose true worry is skin cancer should use shade & limited times of exposure - not sunscreens. (Ensuring a spaced-repetition of gradually-increasing exposure, to develop a natural tan without ever reaching a peeling burn, is also likely naturally protective against skin cancer.)

Further, while endogenous Vitamin D production relies on sun exposure, and low Vitamin D is correlated with health problems, oral Vitamin D supplementation may not replace all the benefits of sun exposure.

Generally, large population studies show positive effects of moderate sun exposure on many health outcomes, including overall longevity, heart disease, and non-skin cancers. Meanwhile, Vitamin D supplementation studies have usually not found that such supplementation alone reverses the correlations of many diseases with low Vitamin D. Thus, Vitamin D may not be the only mechanism by which sun's benefits are achieved.

So rigorous sun-exposure-minimization, even if it does reduce (often benign or increasingly survivable) skin cancers, may increase overall mortality through higher heart disease & other cancers. (Your HHS report mentions 9,000 skin melanoma deaths per year. There are 650,000 heart-disease deaths and 600,000 other cancer deaths.)

Get sun. Use shade, clothing, & timing to ensure it's not so much sun that you peel. Use sunscreen sparingly, only when you can't moderate sun exposure other ways.
Psychology. You can’t know anything and not know something about knowing.
IKEA introduces new SYMFONISK picture frame WiFi speaker
Dassault Systems was spun off from the european fighter plane manufacturer with the same name. They bought up solidworks and Catia and runs as a standalone business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Syst%C3%A8mes
Not to make it personal but: Do you do this? How do you find it? It's a simple and alluring solution plus I've been looking at the remarkable2, but this answer sounds like doing the dishes. I like a empty kitchen sink, but I honestly pay someone to come in twice week to have that, because the low-rent solution of just doing the dishes is beyond me. I'm never going to sit down and review the cards, and then the benefits of going digital. Globally instantly accessible by others, indexed, impossible to lose, etc.
> Does that trick actually work?

There is no time-boxing on reimbursement, so it should. HSAs are only about a decade old, so no one has done the extreme versions of it yet, but a decent number of folks are squirreling away receipts and letting the money grow.
> America's problems are numerous and have been discussed elsewhere at length. Suffice to say that sometime between 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis, America has not been keeping up with other economies in terms of what makes a first world country worth living in.

Maybe. Or maybe the media is just peddling negativity such that we are overexposed. I moved to Europe a decade ago and have since returned, and plan to go back occasionally. When I went, I definitely had the impression that Europeans had it together and that Europe was some kind of liberal Utopia. And it was neat and European countries have political ideas worth borrowing, but it turns out that Europeans are also just people with their own distinct problems. They aren't more enlightened as American liberal media would have you believe. Europe has some really cool cultures, but they aren't "better" than American culture(s). IMO what Europe does have that America lacks is a deep, vibrant history (pre-Columbian American history is relatively impoverished for a variety of reasons).
Sigh. This is one of my consistent complaints about Win10.
No, the phrase "paid in full" illustrates that the amount _is_ in dispute.

What you need is for the amount to be subject to dispute. See how the example they give of an invalid attempt to do this is a credit card bill, specifically because the amount of the claim is fully objective?

The cover letter doesn't add anything there.
I've tried it and the amount of visual clutter it introduces is matched only by inline CSS.
Radio Free Europe — The CIA creates its first major propaganda outlet, Radio Free Europe. Over the next several decades, its broadcasts are so blatantly false that for a time it is considered illegal to publish transcripts of them in the U.S.

No, Radio Free Europe was not an atrocity.
From their methodology section:

> If an app is available in at least one App Store but remains unavailable in one or more App Stores, the ASM will mark that app as unavailable in those App Stores.

This doesn’t seem to take into account whether the apps were removed by Apple or never enabled for those countries by the app’s publisher.
Google can fuck off and die. This should be opt-IN, not opt-out.
You think Microsoft hid that in a GPO because it has great discoverability?
To me the most infuriating practice is that if you don't enable your location when you open google maps they will passive aggressively position your view at the most inconvenient place possibly, some times in the middle of the atlantic, as if they can't tell which city you are in.
> Far from being the greater good, Google is remarkably pig-headed, often downright incompetent outside of selling ads...

As is the nature of dualities, the web has benefit immensely from Google's investments even if it would have chartered a different (and in your opinion, a better) course had Google not existed in the first place. Someone pointed out, you couldn't say the same for Amazon. As for incompetence: imho, webrtc, which Google standardized and open sourced, is likely the single most important innovation on the interwebs (in terms of impact) just ahead of Microsoft's XMLHttpRequest.
Opt in? I didn't agree to a specific term sheet when I started broadcasting my SSID. Public is public, it's not public with stipulations. At least not yet. I agree tho, we need to have some legislative solutions or something to protect our privacy. Alternatives exist, like not broadcasting your SSID.
They also profit immensely off of these "takedown" articles.
That API requires the MAC address of a wifi access point. You can't get that from a client probing for a hidden ssid.
Maybe if you only take San Francisco and New York City in consideration.

USA has famously cheaper life than EU (especially gas and food). Not that I would trade places.
It's the algorithm in and of itself that serves as the solution to the integral.
Slowly all operating systems UIs are converging into one.
> There is no tangible difference between the acronyms USA and CIA. We have been sold to the devil, and we've made him our master.

What are you talking about? Every country has spy agencies and almost every country conducts covert operations.
Really? I've made multiple attempts and always get stuck as soon as you have nested layouts or routes, which dashboards nearly always do (with master/detail views for instance).
You definitely are making a moral argument, even if that isn't your intention. There is no meaningful way to define "outside the norm", so it becomes a synonym for "unnatural" and a proxy for individual prejudices. Homosexuality is statistically "outside the norm", and conservative heterosexuals use this logic to support gay conversion therapy and other bigotry. You can overindulge in any dopamine-producing activity, so the same can be said for sex, eating, drinking, smoking, etc. The particular type of sex you enjoy is as irrelevant as the brand of whiskey you prefer.
Do you have any public project template repos?
This is a meaningless argument, like I said, innovation and upkeep isn't free. Software requires just as much infrastructure, tooling, and optimization as making a physical good. Your code will bit rot in weeks or months if you don't keep up with changes. Nobody is going to want the 100th copy if someone else has added a popular feature that I don't have. Lowering the price to build a user base is one thing, doing it just to get a sale is temporary and can't last. (edit: If I'm making a game I need art, if it's an App that uses ML/AI, I need data, and if it's an OS, I need hardware docs. None of these things are easier or harder to get than say wood or metal.)

Those wanting to use something other than Teams are still free to choose, the switching costs are the barrier to entry in this case and anti-trust can ensure it's not made artificially higher by platforms.
Oh I was going to question the other two assumptions, that surgeons, lawyers, and engineers work very hard, and that they (as an averaged group) are just as smart as the ultra-rich (as an averaged group)
> And if you didn’t pick Gnome (or KDE) it is a good idea to install a compositor if you don’t like software rendered desktop like the good old Windows 9x days.

So I haven't gone out of the way to install a compositor (are you talking a wayland compositor, or the older Compiz type stuff)?

But I have 2x1440p and 1x1080p and I've not noticed any perf issues, which I assume is what you're highlighting as the downside?

And I use all three major desktop OSes daily, so it's not that there's some blazing fast responsiveness to be had on Windows or OS X I'm unaware of.

> If your game doesn’t run well, just add this unknown PPA that will installs nightly compiled graphics libraries (who wouldn’t?).

This feels like five years out of date. Just pick a compatibility tool dropdown in Steam for most people. Lutris if you want something open source.

> And if your computer freezes mid game, sorry you didn’t change the virtual memory size before because it is a fixed size. Tough luck.

I haven't had a swap partition in years, and not once has it lead to a game crash.
Perverse incentives in a free market are often the unintended result of regulation. For example, regulations to make it harder to fire people have the result of making employers pickier about who they hire.
> AFAIK this sort of polling only happens if your phone has hidden networks remembered.

Alas, no when you have a SSID remembered it doesn't know if it's hidden or not. (well maybe apple has some privacy behavior for this). It's not only used for hidden networks: clients probe so they can quickly enumerate nearby access points so they can switch over to them fast if they lose connectivity.
>There's a big difference too in that when you publish a website, you intend for it to be aggregated.

You're framing this as an absolute and that's just not true. Were it the case, robots.txt wouldn't exist and I wouldn't be using it.
>> being effective can fuel wanting to be more effective.

I rather like that statement. Going to use it.
I don't intend for it to go outside of my house. I have not placed any access points in locations designed to make the signal reachable outside my own home. I expect that at some points near the perimeter of my property, passerby may detect the existence of my WiFi network. I expect them to politely ignore it and move on, just like I expect them to pay no mind to normal everyday sounds coming from inside my home.

It becomes a different issue when a corporation collects this information for business purposes. They are not random passersby. But I expect them to treat it with the same courtesy -- ignore, move on.
I don’t think the suggestion is that the CIA masterminded the war, it’s that they were employed to squash dissent against the war/test out what they learned with Operation Paperclip and Mk Ultra.
It can be automatically archived, and all of the conversations is being posted into github to keep the documentation.
I had an impossible debugging situation. One day, my Windows 10 machine decided that it would get a NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM error on boot. A BSOD on boot means it'll try the recovery partition… which caused a FAT_FILE_SYSTEM error just after the first conhost.exe window appeared. After “recovering”, it'd try to boot normally again – looping between two slightly different OSs, getting basically the same error over and over.

Eventually, I gave up on debugging, and tried to re-install. I put in the recovery disk… and it FAT_FILE_SYSTEM BSOD'd, too. When booting off a completely different device, with which there were definitely no file system errors.

So I put Debian on the machine. No problems, for some reason.
Needs a corresponding article called «the US anti-trust problem», of course american companies are bigger when they can just buy up the competition while continuing to run the actual service into the ground (facebook, twitter and youtube/google all fits here) since there’s no alternative…

Or maybe it should just be called «the US Social Media problem»…

(There’s also the tax issue, but that’s mostly on countries like Ireland and The Netherlands being tax havens (UK too, but they left, kinda…))
Screenshots of Windows 11 inside and out – Neowin
"If you're not the intended recipient of a message, and you intentionally intercept it (or attempt to do so), and the content isn't "readily accessible to the general public", then you're breaking the law."

...if true, then wifi itself is illegal, because every wifi station will "intercept" (i.e. receive) frames transmitted by nearby stations in order to avoid interference when attempting to transmit a frame.
> The Steele Dossier was paid for by a firm hired by Hillary's campaign.

Eventually, you're conveniently ignoring the fact that it was initially paid for by other concerned folks.

> So essentially what you have is some weak circumstantial evidence and a campaign that tried to take advantage of existing leaks

This is where your argument falls down. It isn't circumstantial evidence that Manafort worked for the Russian government's interest in Ukraine, and was convicted for work he did there. The guy he worked with fled to Russia once their ill deeds were known.

Stone worked directly with wikileaks/guccifier 2.0, who were working directly with Russia.

I guess you can try to say Junior was just doing what anyone would do, but his attempt to do so involved conspiring with Russia to get dirt on a political opponent - which doesn't make the Russia entanglements non-problematic. Especially considering trump then obstructed justice by lying about the meeting.

> as the Mueller investigation ultimately found.

Nope, the Mueller investigation was clearly an impeachment referral and documented multiple obstruction counts against the elder trump.

> But I suppose it's not worth arguing "religion" as this apparently has become

You are ignoring facts because that is convenient to your position, which is not backed by reality. Good day.
I have already tried this and all of the other recommendations out there including Shutup10 (on Win 10 Pro). It's quite possible it was working and got reset on an update, lots of things seem to get reset.

But whatever the actual case, it's not at all obvious what triggers the reboots or why. It doesn't even have the courtesy to ask. It just does it and loses all my current work and VM states. The deliberate removal of direct user control is absolutely nuts. I didn't buy my computer with its primary purpose being applying Windows updates and rebooting. It's there for me to use for doing work, and it's failing at that by placing Microsoft's whims above my needs.
I would never allow myself to trust in a publicly traded company to uphold any values.
FHE doesn't provide authentication of correctness (i.e. that the correct operation was performed) but you can verify its signature. You can still verify that it's your data but you just can't verify what they've done with it.

With the use cases of FHE though that just is not a major downside. Instead if you rely on some consensus protocol you can get a reasonable guarantee of correctness. If a random N out of M available operators are selected and all produce the same result or hash of a result, you can be reasonably sure that the expected operation was performed.

Additionally, as the "master" who can actually read the FHE data, for most non-trivial tasks I suspect there is often a proof or heuristic you can use to reasonably judge whether the result is correct or at the very least reasonable which should stave off a significant portion of the avenues for attack.
It depends on your definition of success. Here is a fairly detailed discussion of the CIA's exploits in Angola:

https://howardlsalter.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/the-cias-fail...

Despite it looking like a failure by many metrics, they show that it can definitely be considered a success from the perspective of large multinational companies dealing in oil and other resources. CIA director during part of that time was George H W Bush, who may have had some interest in getting access to cheap oil.
I think it is useless to group atrocities by ideology. Not the least because the distinctions are somewhat arbitrary.

What the writeup is missing is a contemporary context. It also tries to fault the current CIA, and by association the current US government, for mistakes or even crimes committed by different human beings decades ago. In order to make an ideological point.
Of course. Why else would they publish them?
CANDU reactors can use thorium fuel. Hydrogen being more abundant doesn't really matter, you have to either electrolyze it from water or extract it from hydrocarbons. [1]

There's about 3x as much thorium as uranium. [2]

[1] https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:29055311

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium
Right. Last I read, Hacktoberfest created a huge amount of spam for Open Source contributions, and all that was on the line there was a t-shirt. You seem to be suggesting that real money should be involved - do you think the outcome will be different than Hacktoberfest?
Hospitals have incentives to have a high sticker price - it benefits everyone. The insurance companies negotiate to something closer to the "real" price. That makes them happy. Government through Medicaid/Medicare has a way of giving money to hospitals. Customers only care about the out of pocket cost - indeed if they happen to notice the sticker price it'll only be after they know what they're actually paying - so that will actually make them happy.

There's a very small group. 5% or so of people, those who don't have private insurance and aren't on the public insurances - edicare/Medicaid/VA - . Those people are actually in a position where they get to see the sticker price but might have to actually pay it.

Which sucks.

But I don't see how that changes. The people getting abused are - despite what you might hear - are small in number, typically healthy and not particularly poor or old. The ACA actually went after those people - that was what the mandate was about - and tried to get them to buy a lot of insurance. More insurance then they wanted - and the end result was that the mandate's been effectively gotten rid of.
Yup, definitely. Agreed about wet riding. The weirdest one was coming out of my cold garage into a hot humid day, and the water condensing on my rims. That's why I say I wouldn't get rid of the rim brakes, but appreciate why they might be in decline.

I've tried hydraulics on friends bikes, definitely nicer, but again not enough to motivate me to switch.

That's how it is with all of these improvements. Someone will always have newer, slicker gear than me, but I keep riding. ;-)
As a data point, per user support costs (financial and other) are often much larger for European customers compared to the US or Asia. In my experience, it tends to be lower bump for consumer. Once you get into B2B or enterprise, European customers are significantly costlier to support than US equivalent.

It's a combination of requirements specific to markets (EU mandates like GDPR are easier train a support team on and build an escalation process), cultural expectations around handholding, not wanting to hear no for an answer unless it is delivered by an exec (and EU support teams inconsistently delivering the same message that a US would because they fear the response), and general language barriers.

In some ways, it is better to deliver arguably lower-quality support via the US with special treatment for a few key customers just to avoid having to setup support in Europe. Once you invest, you have to go all-in.
I don't know if Google does it, but it happens all the time.
You're asking people to spend a lot of time, money, and political capital, on an issue that you admit there is little to no evidence is actually a problem. I'm sorry, but that is not reasonable or realistic. I understand the whole issue of "no evidence of fraud doesn't mean no fraud" but if we treated every problem like this we would never run out of problems. When you combine all of what I just said with the fact that we know certain groups are disproportionately effected by these rules...it just comes across as you saying "yes I know there's no evidence that this is a serious problem but I care more about the process being abstractly and theoretically perfect than the people these rule changes would actually effect."
CAD math is hard and severely limits contributors.

Yes. Autodesk used to have a staff geometer, and probably still does. Constructive solid geometry is hard, because you can use complex forms to cut into complex forms, and have to represent the result.

A typical exercise in a good CSG program is to model a bolt. You start with a cylinder. Then you draw and dimension a thread cross section. Then you extrude the thread cross section along a spiral, subtracting that from the cylinder, to cut the threads. Then, at the end of the bolt, you cut a chamfer by extruding a triangle around a circle and subtracting that from the bolt. The CAD program must correctly and precisely describe what happens to the thread as it is cut by the chamfer. You can zoom way in and take a close look. You might have a design constraint that the chamfered thread can never be thinner than some specified width, to avoid bits of metal flaking off as the bolt is tightened.

Most of the free CAD programs bail before they deal with problems that hard.
I remember reading that before SP1, performance was very unpredictable; I read one review where it performed okay on a mediocre machine but was abysmally slow on a high end machine.

SP1, allegedly, fixed a lot of those problems, but by that time Vista's reputation was beyond repair.

The driver situation might have been made worse by the transition to 64-bit. I remember a friend of mine tried XP 64bit back in the day, and the system crashed constantly because some driver had been written with the assumption that a long is exactly 32 bits wide or something like that.

As far as Windows goes, I really liked 7. The UI was reasonably pretty and useful, performance was not too bad, compared to earlier versions, security was much better (or so I'm told, not being an expert).
I would nightly recommend ”The Jakarta Method”, published last year, and a very personal telling of the CIA’s support of the mass-murder program in Indonesia in the 1960’s (and then how this tactic was reused in a few other coups in Latin America when things were dangerously close to becoming too democratic).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Method