skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to segment the claims in two:

Claim one (We have eliminated mechanisms aside from contamination for the obesity epidemic) rests essentially on anthropological studies with "uncontaminated" populations and conversely on the fact that animals in close contact with humans are also becoming obese rapidly even when holding calories constant (e.g. lab rats)

Claim two posits some substances that might be responsible, and I think roughly is oriented around:

a) antibiotics are intensively used in animal cultivation in a way that might leak into the food supply and water table downstream.

b) PFAS accumulate biologically after exposure at parts-per-billion levels, and become increasingly more concentrated as you go up the food chain and downstream, but e.g. potatoes are not exposed to enough PFAS to hit the thresholds for deleterious effects.

c) I don't think that lithium is actively taken up by plants to the degree that would affect pure unprocessed plant consumption, it's mostly about direct exposure and water contamination downstream.

I think the claim one hypothesis is really strong. I've had a similar hypothesis for a few years now, though mine was more oriented around infection than contagion, but similar in terms of structure - the more people you put close together the more likely they are to cross-contaminate with some substance that makes them obese, and the clearer difference we have between baseline humanity ~100y ago and modern ones suffering from the obesity epidemic.

I think the claim two hypothesis is a little bit weaker, but it's interesting that they have 3 proposed mechanisms that range from known effect, known presence (antibiotics), known presence but unknown effect (PFAS), and unknown presence but known effect (lithium), so I think they roughly descend in order of likelihood of explaining the obesity epidemic. I would guess, obviously, the answer is "all three", based just on the severity of the epidemic, but I'd guess it's quite likely antibiotics have a small effect, and also somewhat likely PFAS have a large effect, while I think the lithium hypothesis is the weakest of the three, but would be interesting to analyze further.
Link to website where you can also find sound examples (just below the first image):

https://gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=insolventunclesam
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Would you mind naming your company? Or a high profile company in the same field as your work? I'd like to get a taste of the sort of work you do.
Blue Origin was actively testing reusable rockets before SpaceX even existed.
> that a event based editor is the technical better choice

could you expand on this? what's the high level
Blue Origin predates SpaceX.
plenty of candidates with otherwise amazing track records can't code comically simple functions

Sadly, this rings true. In a non-whiteboarding context I’ve sometimes asked JS/TS candidates something that I originally though was a nice easy, practical sort of algorithm question: how would you find the intersection of two string[] arrays? Even with plenty of hints probably the majority don’t get beyond a nested loop (sometimes they progress to [].filter and [].includes, which just hides it).
Famines don't blow fallout into the air, or have indistinguishable targets when a ballistic launch is detected.
Apple's first security update towards curbing pegasus like spyware
> Well investment bankers tend to be pretty good at excel

> This is how I can tell you have never seriously worked in excel.

Ah, so the style guide and best practice is based on “Trust me - I rock and you suck”.

I can guarantee that I do use excel seriously, and my personal experience is the exact opposite. You wouldn’t see beautiful code with variable names like A2, and it’s exactly the same for me with excel.

Besides - a feature you can turn off in about 5 minutes stopped you from doing a deal?! Why not just explode the named ranges out? I suspect the issue here is an overly complex model rather than named ranges - I’ve seen lots of these without named ranges too and they are even less manageable in that state!
For sure C++ does a lot of heavy lifting at compile time, which shows in poor compile and link times, although it is less of a problem today than 25 years ago since hardware performance has increased.

I don’t agree that C++ automatically prevents bugs, even though using e.g. RAII can help a bit and leads to maintainable code.

If you use exceptions (you probably shouldn’t) there is one more code-path out from your code. That together with constructors/destructors being called and using STL instead of more trivial data-structures often leads to a lot bigger assembler output to trawl through if you need to.
While I understand your point about the popularity of Fox News in middle America, it's a big stretch to conclude that it's the only source. People have to start taking responsibility for which sources they read, listen to, and trust. There's nothing stopping these people from showing a bit of initiative and reading a broader range of news sources. Well, nothing except their passivity and desire to be spoon-fed news and opinion that correlates with their pre-constructed worldview.
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Healthy Eating Plate vs. USDA’s MyPlate
Our teachers are performers, experts or teachers who engage kids in meaningful class activities that stress on children building / creating in class. For e.g. our Western Vocals is taught by an actual singer.
A lot of good teachers are looking to supplement their income since the pandemic has made learning online, and we vet, train and enable them to teach our curriculum. That's what we referred to as gig-workers.
Having a complex brain is one way to achieve sentience. It might not be the only way.
The blocks not fitting neatly inside one another in the "do" and "else" blocks is quite infuriating.
LinkedIn faces awkward choices in China
If by "natural selection", you mean "naturalized capitalism" then yes.
Privileged kids have an even bigger advantage in GPA. They can afford to harangue teachers for retakes, accommodations, etc. The kid working in his parents restaurant can afford prep, but his parents can’t afford time to game GPA.
We should ban the Mississipi River, too.
> It's kinda sad to see the astronomy community consider a slight inconvenience to their hobby to be more important than worldwide internet access.

Astronomy is more than a hobby for quite a few people: it’s also an actual scientific field.
I certainly hope not. A global Order built on top of an authoritarian superpower will mean other nations of the world taking governance cues to restrict free speech, further Balkanizing of a largely open internet, and historical revisionism to erase atrocities. That's not a future I want to live in.
> These included real ID’s which we confiscated because they were being used by not-the-owner of the ID.

Wait, how does this work? You (as a private, non-government entity) can just confiscate an ID simply because you suspect the bearer isn't the person whose ID it is?
Is there any good guide on how to set up LSP for autocomplete for react/jsx or plain js in CudaText? I really want to give this a try.
Like many say, validation is basically questioning. 1. Is it useful to you, use it at least 5 times a week?
2. Does anyone else need it?
3. Have you tried the top 10 Google result websites? Are they bad? How better is yours? 4. Try to pitch to your target users through forums not ads.

No, I did not stop my day job to start a new side project or company. The only time I quit my job was the very first time, I started the project. Took 2 years to close it with no big success. And I realized I should have done that without quitting my full time. Since then, I built 6 side projects, never tried to monetize. The latest one was started with an intention to make money, doing good since day 2. Concentrate on SEO if you believe the top 10 Google results of your focus keyword are doing bad. Once you get into top 2, thats all!!
Yes, it's a different story in the metros that are constrained by geography. Everywhere around the urban core basically is being refurbished. All the small towns that used to sit the edge of the Seattle urban area have redone their sidewalks, added community centers etc. The homes are restored. Even working class neighborhoods have landscaping on most lots.

Seattle basically has a couple areas that are considered bad and you can buy some affordable land there. Everywhere else is getting tons of private and public money dumped into it.
How different is it from anchovy-based fish sauces like nam pla? The method of making it (fermenting whole fish for a long time) seems fairly similar.
The above are facts.

What is the reason for the downvotes?

Is it "my Marxist party, right or wrong", or do you have a reason why Fauci can't explain why he was sending money to a BSL-4 corona lab?
Ask HN: Long or Abbreviated Domain Name?
advancedlearningschool.com
Or
alschool.com
Or
al-school.com

I will also have an email on a business card, so john.smith@advancedlearningschool.com
would be too long. Or is it ok?

What do you guys think?
I'm not familiar with this mathematical style, if you can call it that. I kept wanting to break the line.
Tiptap does a pretty good job of it, but really that's just using a contenteditable as an interface to update a well-defined JSON representation of the content.

If you are planning to write a custom editor Tiptap is a good starting point, but it's weirdly over-complicated in places.
Right. The fact is that kids learn a lot from being in a class with our kids as well.
Music is a format we're still experimenting with ratios, but our communications courses benefit from there being more kids in a class.
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> companies that have failed to adapt

Because they followed the rules while Elon’s companies ignore them? Because that’s what this lawsuit is about.
Music ratios are being experimented on. Smaller classes here definitely work better. But for debate or public speaking or event photography, kids are learning a lot from (and teaching) one another.
This is a very exciting development, similar in spirit to the proposal by Bret Victor for Learnable Programming [1].

I'm also excited by the fact that from their website the CRDT for local-first collaborative editing and Jupyter like alternative are also in the pipeline [2].

For those who are interested in the history of structure editor you can check the venerable Tioga editor in Xerox's Cedar programming environment [3],[4].

[1]http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

[2]https://hazel.org/

[3]http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/cedar/Cedar_7.0/07_T...

[4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4
How do I get an invite one of those boat parties?! They really knew how to party back then.
Intention is not evidence of success.
Well, there are the Vinland sagas, and while the events in those are pretty wild, the mere existence of those suggests that some actualy did return. They where recorded sometime between 1220 and 1280 so even though this was well after the fact (about 200 years) it's still before the age of exploration.

Edit: As for the tomato question, the sagas suggests that no or very little friendly interaction with the natives took place, so no real trade or exchange of knowledge. These where not full on atlantic voyages but mostly near coastal areas of Greenland and what is now northen Canada. I kinda doubt that the natives would be growing tomatoes that far north anyway. Though, they did claim to find grapes, which suggests that they ventured a fair bit south as well...
Last of the Titans
The issue is not if testing "amplifies" racial disparity.

If it is the link in the chain which makes sure the disparity is carried on, especially to bigger amplifiers like college admission, then the decision to abandon it is clear.
"Wanking in front of random people" makes it sound much more sex pest than it seemingly was – they were people who he invited back to his hotel room, who willingly went, and then once in the hotel room he asked if he could wank in front of them and reportedly they just kinda... giggled. So he did.

Not my cup of tea, but let's be real: there are a finite number of things people do when invited back to hotel rooms. The idea that this is shocking or even surprising behavior is fairly divorced from reality.
For instruments, we keep class sizes to smaller ratios (upto 3). The class time isn't just divided across each student to get 20 mins of learning per student (in a 1 hour class of 3 kids). It would equate closer to 40 mins of learning time (with about 20 mins of time when other children are playing and one is only watching, instead of practicing by themselves. Instruments are a very different case, a lot of practice also needs to be done by the students themselves, and we enable that with supporting recordings and instructions.
In other courses such as art or debate etc., the entire 60 mins is learning for the student, and the group actually adds to the learning experience.

But fair point that consumers may perceive it in this way, and we can improve our communication around it. Thanks for pointing out!
On O'Brien, I found that I could just relax into the nautical terminology and allow myself to not understand every word: just enjoy the texture. And after a couple of books you'll find you've picked most of it up. After a dozen books you can recognize the names of 20 different sails, and explain when they are used. I realize that doesn't sound like obvious fun, but it's embedded in great stories of adventure and friendship. I've read the whole sequence twice and it's one of the most enjoyable reads of my life.
It says they 100% delivered. So…
The fact that you avoided using "wannabe" as a noun to describe yourself in that contrived example says a lot.
This is what I see: https://ibb.co/s9sNrdV

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These numbers are actually promising. 400 sales in early access for a 'niche' game would open the door for a few publishers out there. And as it stands this game has momentum behind it, NOT an easy thing to accomplish.

And further more, the steam page has quite a few problems that are easily fixed and would drives sales in a positive direction. Add some streamer outreach to the mix and this could do well enough to fund their next game. Just perhaps not well enough to satisfy the developers ambitions. Yet.

I would love to have this momentum on my own (very) niche game. Its is also on early access, interesting premise, zero marketing budget, and so on. Its numbers are nowhere near as promising as Yerba Mate Tycoon. Its a rare thing to click with an audience and YMT has done so.

To the Developer, keep going. Keep that mindset of honouring your customers its rare in games and of value to the gamers. Spend more time on you store page and promoting, and release it.
It will be worth it.
I'm building a product now while I'm doing my day job. It's not yet sustainable yet, but I've been spending time on it constantly. It pays my rent, that itself is a huge thing for me.

I would not advise you to quit your job. You can quit your job when your side project makes money equal to your salary. Set that as a bench mark and work towards that. Good luck!
Self hosting is important
Considering win95 was still being distributed on floppys, you had to be thankfull that you could leave the machine alone that long. I still have nightmares from the insert disk x of y message appearing, followed by 2 minutesh of grnsh grnsh grnsh floppy reading. On bad days, at x=y-1, some vengefull god would have corrupted a disk and you were stuck.
It's pretty clear from the design and marketing that what they are producing is not supposed to be a versatile device, or the best device for any task, or the most state of the art device. It has well defined artificial limits in terms of its hardware performance, and is attempting to create a charming ecosystem of well designed games that work well within them.

It's the same sort of thing which keeps people coming back to developing for older hardware and vintage systems, with the convenience of being significantly more modern.
You literally build the editor from the ground up (events like keystrokes modify a data object which then changes the page), rather than trying to patch the browser's editor (including all possible versions of every supported browser) into doing what you want.
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why 307 (temporary) and not 308 (permanent)? (curious about this as when I used to work on a ton of company websites and migrate from old sites, there'd always be a big process of setting up a ton of 301 (permanent) redirects)
No you overestimate the level of poverty. NYC is the poster child for Asian kids doing test prep, but it’s Asian population is among the city’s poorest. Stuyvesant, the city’s top test-based HS, is majority Asian but half the kids are in poverty. I have immigrant family members who came over from Bangladesh and lived in public housing. They could still afford test prep.
SeriousEats. It’s truly amazing. Most of their recipes are split into two pages, one is just ingredients+steps, and the other is a “story” - but not an irrelevant story of a person, dish, or how it tastes on a warm summer day, but instead it lists different experiments the author tested, results, dispels common myths, …
Definitely, and not just for creating things. Continuing here allows you to keep your train of thought without a distraction. The button I use most in my file manager is 'Open in Terminal' and I love it because I don't have to re-navigate through the tree.
Reminds me of Paredit, an emacs mode for structural code editing and navigation for lisps. It keeps the parse tree valid even as you do crazy stuff.

http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.ht...
> played first when he was younger.

was kinda the operative part of that sentence.
Scratch 3.0 is actually implemented using Blockly.
https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Blockly
It's pretty common for automakers to collaborate. I suspect that Ford would have some option to purchase or license Rivian tech if they become successful.
From the article:

> As usual, there’s no silver bullet and the actual naming convention should always be tailored to your environment. The main point is having one! And I hope this post gives you a head start.
Because the might with updates. That's the case they're making anyway.
Does the C11 memory model conflict with common optimizations?
If that’s what it once meant it’s since been perverted. Many places use a point system that gives additional points to under privileged applicants. And then there are programs that straight up take groups of inner city kids and give them full rides. Pretty equitable on the surface but perhaps not as effective or fair as intended in the long run. These type of AA programs are what Sowell is critiquing. In his opinion these groups of students would be better served at community, city, and state colleges with the option for less demanding programs where they could celebrate more success.
I don't quite understand this. Suppose I enter a start parenthesis - '(' - then what is it supposed to do / have as an AST?
Face palm: When the emoji you want doesn't exist
To be fair, if you listen to Eben Moglen and some of the other big minds behind gpl(v3), it becomes readily apparent they have been working to build up strong methods to deal with this very problem by using a delaying tactic.

I think they might be onto something.

Regardless, Eben is such a mind you owe it to yourself to listen to some of his talks.
Third option: Change the name. Domain names with common words are not good for SEO and don't stick in the mind.

Otherwise, when it comes to domain names, always get both if you can afford it.
Just wait for when Go 1.18 finally catches up with CLU, now that is blazing modern!
They work on a flexible employment arrangement with us (earning by number of classes they do with us), but with totally the right type of skills and experience. We have a fairly strict selection process, and our teachers are typically much better than what children have access to in their neighbourhoods.
Also class ratings are very high, averaging 4.5 on 5, so students / parents are also seeing the quality.

We're also paying our teachers about 2.7-3 X what WHJ does, and that's what it takes to get good teachers.
I had a professor from Germany that strongly recommended drinking when young, and driving when old. I think there is a lot of wisdom there.
The ratios really depend on the course. In our debate classes, having more kids = more points of views / approaches. Kids benefit exponentially from exposure to other kids. That being said, we're working on finding the right ratios for all our courses.
Your post has no connection to the post you replied to.
Suppose I have:

let y = f(2, 3)

And I add a start parenthesis like this:

let y = f((2, 3)

There is no longer a valid tree and it is not obvious at that point where, I, the end-user, want the parenthesis construct to end.
Yes, but if there's a unit in both sides of the division, you can remove it.
It’s an input control, not a battery crank.
Nice that squashfs is alive.

I tried to use it in a project about 4-5 years ago. It turned out that read performance was much worse than from ext4. Ext4 was able to submit block reads in big units. Squashfs submitted many times more tiny requests to the block layer. The git log looked like the code had been abandoned. Has that changed, too? The release mentioned here is user space, not kernel.
Globally namespaced resources (like s3) would disagree with you.
I tried it on a desktop PC, Chrome on Linux, Nvidia GPU several years old (seems to work well for most WebGL things though). I think what's missing from the current presentation is the "why". Why would I build something with it, and why would other people want to join in? I'm not saying there aren't good reasons, but the empty home page doesn't provide any, and nor did a few minutes playing around.

I think interoperability is what would really make a metaverse experience, so I'm pretty doubtful any single company could do it, even with Facebook's resources. I think the web itself is the closest thing to a metaverse we have, but it's still far away in terms of actual experience. I think that it's become universal because of the interoperability and common standards that mean it doesn't matter what software or hardware is used to create, interact with, or consume content, so it's a level playing field without one organisation controlling it, and so people are free to go nuts making stuff, without threat of losing it or losing access.
Viasat is a truly garbage company. When I was a hostage... er, customer... I poked around on my ViaSat router and made some interesting finds. If you're a user, go to your viasat modem IP address and append '/messages' to see the boot log. It gets purged eventually so this is most fun after a reboot. My internet 'went down' and they wanted to charge me a hundred bucks to send out a tech. The phone support lady could see my modem's telemetry data, so there wasn't a physical problem. I looked at the boot log and saw "firmware update disabled." and an "outdated firmware" error that kept repeating after my modem stopped working. They refused to replace it without first sending out a tech at my expense to inspect my equipment. From my perspective it sure looked a whole lot like they remotely bricked my modem to collect an extra $100 bucks. Another interesting find? javascript code for their inflight wifi systems, with different code for a bunch of different models of commercial aircraft, and a mysterious "kingabdullah" mode.
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There is no such thing as objectivity in art, and searching for this only leads to ridiculousness.