skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's still kind of nuts when you compare it to how you install application on the other major desktop operating systems.
> only harmful in excess.

Tell that to the American Heart Association:

https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-s...

When there’s extra sodium in your bloodstream, it pulls water into your blood vessels, increasing the total amount (volume) of blood inside them. With more blood flowing through your blood vessels, blood pressure increases. It’s like turning up the water supply to a garden hose — the pressure in the hose increases as more water is blasted through it.

Over time, high blood pressure may overstretch or injure the blood vessel walls and speed the build-up of gunky plaque that can block blood flow. The added pressure tires out the heart by forcing it to work harder to pump blood through the body. And the extra water in your body can lead to bloating and weight gain.

High blood pressure is known as the “silent killer” because its symptoms are not always obvious. It’s one of the major risk factors for heart disease, the No. 1 killer worldwide. Almost no one gets a free pass. Ninety percent of American adults are expected to develop high blood pressure over their lifetimes.

Did you know that sodium can affect your blood pressure even more dramatically if you’re sensitive to salt? Recent science explains that certain factors may influence how your blood pressure changes when you eat salt, such as:

Age Weight Race/ethnicity Gender Some medical conditions (like diabetes or chronic kidney disease) Even if you don’t already have high blood pressure, eating less sodium can help blunt the rise in blood pressure that occurs with age. It can also reduce your risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, kidney disease, osteoporosis, stomach cancer and even headaches.

https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-s...
> This is cool for the solo programmer.

Who doesn't come back to their program after 6 months of doing something else.
What was the underlying issue?
I've recently discovered Slippers [1] which provides something very similar but for Django Templates. I've tried it in a side project and it is amazing. I'm pairing it with Unpoly [2] and Tailwind and honestly, I wouldn't try to build and SPA ever again unless I need full offline support.

[1] https://mitchel.me/slippers/

[2] https://unpoly.com
Sadly, some of the claims by anti-vaccination people became really true...
Thank you, Moderna!
Automatic configuration reloads with Occson Webhooks
A five-day course of ivermectin may reduce the duration of Covid-19
Not surprising in the least from Harvard. They don’t call it an “academic bubble” or “ivory tower” for nothing.

I mean, if the role is now just as a counselor, why keep the religious title of “chaplain”?

I’m not religious but it comes across as an anti-religious statement.
Building a Live Search Experience with StimulusReflex and Ruby on Rails
What happened when they found out?
In my experience, accurately reflecting the progress of and AJAX request, so I’ve seen a lot of people (myself included) take the lazy way out and just show an indeterminate spinner or bar just to show that stuff is happening.
Compare to "Science denier" as a pejorative.
Slippers: https://mitchel.me/slippers/
Unreal. Because voting is secure the conspiracy theorist decided to create a conspiracy and potential security threat by releasing passwords online for the system and allowing people in to the back door. How pathetic. You were that hard up for a conspiracy? They should vet these people more and allow less individual access. I’ve seen some systems where 2 or more people of opposite political parties have to open the facilities at the same time. Maybe try that?
I mean, it gets worse the more you fill it.
One memorable example of this was a book which said you could tell the temperature of a star by the wavelength of the light it emitted. It then asked you to calculate the temperature of stars in a depicted galaxy. I'm sure there are some subtleties that are not exactly perfect but good enough for a school textbook.

The part that made Feynman erupt in anger was the follow up question, "what is the total temperature of the galaxy".
Programmers can prevent obesity, Weight loss for programmers
Paul Graham is not a complete idiot, and you are not disproving his statement "hard to implement properly in a language without turning it into a dialect of Lisp".

If you have to parse anything, it's not a Lisp-like macro, which is always an object arising from a production in the language.

Parsing can be hard, so he is right there too. If we take out some subset of Rust that has a significant syntax, and implement it in macros, that sounds like being up to the elbows in parsing.
That's not about sodium - its about high blood pressure, which is not in dispute.

Your body is exquisitely designed to balance sodium. Sweat, tears, urine remove excess very quickly. Blood pressure is affected by sodium, sure. A point or two for an hour or two.

Unless you have a health issue related to sodium, lets quit demonizing it. The worst thing about salt is, folks use it to distract from real improvements they could make in their health.
To be fair, not crashing under poorly written programs is a fundamental part of OS stability. Windows at the time had no resiliency against a CS101 student messing up on an assignment, it was unstable.
If its goal was to prove that neoclassical economics is based on an erroneous assumption, then it was successful. However, it's worthwhile emphasizing that behavioural economics findings taken seriously by thousands of psychologists, marketers, writers, politicians, civil servants, and laypeople are a load of cobblers.

The field's most prominent findings—loss aversion, priming, ego depletion—fail to replicate. That shoud be publicized as widely as possible, lest the millions who have read and adopted behavioural economics concepts continue to use them to guide treatment, government policy, business practice, etc.
My takeaway from his course is that it is simply hard to do science properly. He had the example of a drunk bum showing up for a psychological experiment otherwise primarily run with students, completely spoiling the results. The first impulse is to dismiss the data point as an outlier, but then he pauses and considers that if the bum would have supported his hypothesis, he would probably have decided differently.

I would imagine there are many such cases in social sciences, that are not really clear cut.

Also in general, people can not reliably the fallacies they are prone to, so it is a constant uphill struggle. Maybe immediately crying "fraud" is not always appropriate.
What does your reactor look like? What fuel are you using? How are you getting to ignition?
We're being blatantly rude ITT? Cool, your little hyphen divider thing is dumb as hell.
> What difference is it to a Hindu if the Chaplain was Christian or an atheist

None, but is the Chaplain there for the benefit of the Hindu students?

Also, while there's not so much difference to a Hindu between a Christian and an atheist, the Hindu might well be more comfortable with a Chaplain who did not deny the existence of Hindu gods.
yeah, just adding a note that this is the software
Gif is simply the most versatile format on the face of the planet. When you go down the rabbit hole you’ll discover this too.
For me my breaking point was in mid 2019 before the pandemic even started. I was a contractor at an F500 and had to be in the office one morning at like 8:30AM so I could attend an "All Hands" meeting. Sat in traffic for close to an hour just so I could drink shitty coffee while watching the VP's of this company jerk off to each other's accomplishments for 2 hours.

I don't know why it hit me that day but I just felt sick of my time not being respected. Like yeah I get it if I have to be in early for a meeting that I have to take part in, but don't ask me to come in early so I can listen to things other divisions in the company did that have no bearing on my job (this place was a conglomerate so the other divisions were in totally different industries than mine). After that day I started to ask my team to work from home more and more. When I got sacked in March 2020 I took a remote job and have no plans to return to an office ever.
Prior to the pandemic I was heavily biased, primarily due to my ADHD, to work in an office setting or at least in a co-working space of some kind. College was a persistent struggle, as I was basically unable to prevent myself from being distracted or sleeping if I was working from my apartment or my room.

When covid hit, I'd just started a new job in New York (ironic that my timing was really that bad) and I reached a point where I had to break bad habits. I went through about four "waves" of breaking these habits, as painful as that was it was still progress. There was hope for a new office in August, but that basically didn't happen. I also moved back home when my prior lease was up, because why on earth would I pay to live in New York when half the city is still closed along with insane rent.

Cut to now, I was looking forward to going back to new york for the end of my 20's, however at this time I don't really see the point anymore. Being social is a farce (either at work or in person), I'm used to having more space and frankly the financial side makes immense sense. Remote work used to be something I was very against and unexpectedly I now welcome it. I also have bad acne, so the lack of social anxiety with that in a work environment is another plus. I guess I see my time differently now, maybe I'll regret not being more social, but I feel like I got that out of my system in my early twenties living in big cities since I was 19?
College degrees are overrated. I'm self taught and make 6 figures. I went to college made it halfway and realized I had already self learned more than my professor ever knew. I also made tripple his income as a freshmen. So I would hire self taught over a degree anyday. I make more money than any 3 of my previous profeasors/teachers combined.
> May be more people measure their blood pressure now? I never cared about it

Definitely. Especially in non-western countries most people were never tested in the first place.
So, suppose you don't talk to the police, but the police says that you did. Now what?
My original post wasn’t clear, but my usual commute is by subway not by airplane. I was just nothing being in transit (whether train or plane) makes reading easier.
> World population has only increased by 3 billion since 1990

And nobody is dying from Hunger anymore. What a miracle, if you think about it.
My commute was 30-45 minutes of bumper to bumper traffic on a route that would take 15 minutes outside of rush hour. It always puts me in a bad frame of mind that takes hours to shake off and set the negative tone for the rest of the day at work and then the rest of the evening at home.
Australia has a simple and trustable election system. Paper ballots, reinforced by the fact that more or less every citizen can get a job working on election day. Your duties include looking up people based on what they say their name an address is (no ID required; although many electors hand me their ID anyway) on a big electoral roll book, cross out their name, and hand them a ballot with your initials.

They go to one of the booths and mark their selection, and drop it off into a zip-tied big ballot box (that is visible to the general public, and of course election staff at all times).

After the polls close, the polling official cuts the zip-ties on the ballot boxes, everyone working sorts ballots into piles and count them, along with scrutineers from political parties who can watch. An officer-in-charge records and publishes the results continuously, and everything is saved and shipped for OCR-based recounting to verify the numbers. The process is federally operated and the same processes are followed everywhere.

Results are almost always revealed on election night.

The electoral roll books are processed centrally after every election, so someone who votes twice would be quickly caught. Someone who votes under fake names and addresses would most likely cross-over with someone else, hence an investigation would still happen. (We also have compulsory voting, which is another subject for debate, but it does mean "vote under multiple names" is mitigated without the need for ID laws).

The job pays reasonably well (A$457 for the day), more or less everyone who applies gets hired (I believe there is a bias towards maximizing first-time applicants), and it's hard to think about election fraud when every citizen can be part of the election process itself, and it's hard to conceive of how fraud can happen.
You could use BERT or Word2Vec or GLOVE. They are very simple to use with HuggingFace's library.
I've tried this and, honestly, I don't like it. Reason number one is how verbose it becomes on the templates when you have to pass a "body", it's at least 4 tags... when you have many nested tags it becomes messy. And then the worst offender to me is that it doesn't isolate the context from the parent template (you have to add the 'only' keyword like with includes), etc. I mean, it was my first option until I found Slippers which for my taste, makes the right trade offs and design decisions.
I'm a forty-something man, I got both doses of the Moderna vaccine in July, and I'm not dead yet. Only side effects I had were a couple of days of aching muscles.
dictators censor their people
He finished the semester and left.
>Hell, I'd like it if a language could actually achieve linear types without holes or being completely unusable.

I'm working on this: https://github.com/austral/austral/

The idea is to start with a simple, easily understood linear type system and then add borrowing, but without going too far in the direction where the type checker becomes a tower of heuristics and conveniences so that programmers can write normal-seeming code which magically typechecks.

So you can learn how to write linear code from reading a set of linearity rules, rather than from trial-and-error against the linearity checker.
3D Print Your Own Electric Scooter
Najibullah's finance, and defence ministers are famously working in Moscow as taxi drivers.
I'm personally amazed by their productivity

- in 4 months of learning the language they've completed 7 projects

- they've read a 700 page book in a month

- they've made a ebook on ada
Goatse links would be the least of your problems. I’m imagining my Gmail account without the spam filter. Everything showing up in my inbox, not just the stuff in my spam folder, but also all the stuff they silently drop that I don’t even see. Email would be unusable.
Looks pretty slick. I am not a gamer, and the controls feel very backwards to me. You need to hold the mouse button to look in different directions, which makes it feel like you're dragging, but the direction you move it isn't the direction you're dragging the view. I don't think mouse capture is a good idea in the browser, and if you're aiming at museums and galleries, maybe reversing the mouse direction to make it like familiar dragging would be better.

Edit: There's a bug where if you start dragging with the mouse and let go the mouse button outside the 3D view, it acts like the button is still held down (a bit like mouse capture) which was easier but quite confusing.

It seems unusable with a touch screen on desktop.

The fact that you can fly is useful but non-obvious. I ended up down at floor level and wondering how to see the pictures on the walls.

The demo is in a /fr/ path, but is in English (Chrome offers to translate it to English, because it somehow thinks the English words are French), but then some parts of the interface like "Share your place" are in French.
I mean, ostensibly yes. He hacked most of it together in Perl.
I agree. The point where I'm not totally convinced on Rust's model is when it comes to lifetime semantics.

People talk about the problems colored functions when it comes to async, but in my experience the real issue you run into with Rust is that once you need to introduce an explicit lifetime into a data structure, the complexity of everything touching it starts to balloon out of control.

This creates all kinds of complications, creates problems with automatically deriving the future trait, and leads to workarounds where people end up passing id's around everywhere instead of references in a lot of cases, which can effectively be a way of circumventing the borrow checker.

I don't know what the answer is, but sometimes Rust feels like it's an abstraction or two away from really solving the problems it wants to solve in an elegant way.
I agree with everything you said, and I still think it's a clever/useful idea for new programmers.
I think society may have benefited from Gates, Jobs, and Zuckerberg completing their ethics requirement.
I think you missed the point of the response above the divider. It was "what if we use the same logic in circumstances that makes it more obvious that this would be silly". It was definitely not meant literally. Maybe quotes would have helped.
Reminds me of a story of a 8-year old girl who passed state high school exam and got admitted to Moscow State University at the age of 9 earlier this year... (Alisa Teplyakova)
When there is a problem with car manufacturing, there is a recall and life goes on. When there is a problem with vaccine manufacturing, there must be a conspiracy.
> One of the most annoying parts of getting a degree was doing mandatory classes for stuff I had no interest in whatsoever, but it was core curriculum.

This is a concept that only applies to certain schools.
Translation note: "Heath Robinson" is pronounced "Rube Goldberg" in en/us.
Benadryl, no. But melatonin, sometimes, yes. My rule is to have a hard cutoff time after which it's better to take melatonin than to continue the cycle of whining, sleep deprivation, and next-day misery. The cutoff is late enough to have plenty of time to try all the other things involving wind-down rituals. It is not an every day thing. I found that having the consistency actually helps establish the rituals too.

Also, bedtime trouble usually means not enough outside time and physical activity during the day. Or that the kids want more of the parent's time.
> Can't they just wipe them clean and restart

They’re now evidence in an ongoing investigation. They don’t know exactly what happened to them because the perpetrators deliberately disabled the security cameras monitoring the machines before doing whatever they did.

Wiping them could destroy evidence or it could miss a different issue (hardware modification, for example).

The only reasonable response is to quarantine the machines as evidence and replace them with new machines with a known chain of custody.

> How is one person being present during an upgrade enough to render the physical machines suspect and beyond repair/review?

There’s more to the story, including someone intentionally disabling the security cameras that monitored the machines for at least a week. With a gap in the surveillance of the machines combined with a QAnon-associated leak and an intruder who misled the office, it’s time to start fresh and set the old machines aside as evidence.
A large part of modern chip design is accomplishing what you are trying to do inside a given power budget. Thus, anything that lowers power is usually a huge win. Switching power in CMOS is roughly proportional to V^2 (basic textbook, real design includes a vastly larger number of issues), so lowering V is a huge win. Also, reducing the parasitic cap with a better process is a big win for a multitude of reasons. But shrinking the process generally would require the voltage to scale also because the gate oxide was getting thinner. That is not really true any more as we reach supply voltages that are so close the Von of the devices, but used to be a clear trend.

High voltages are good when you want to deliver power because that is what you need (motor HP, space heater, etc.). But we don't use an IC for power, we use it to do logic, and in that case, logic is just much more efficient at low voltages.
It's a pretty stupid tactic, because judges can give instructions to juries to presume adverse interference—assume that the emails existed at one time, but are not available in the present precisely because of these "CYA" policies—as happened in Apple v. Samsung.

There's an offshoot of the Gell–Mann amnesia effect in play here. When programmers encounter Web sites that enact ridiculous requirements about passwords, they complain of bozos being in charge of technical decisionmaking, and then making decisions that either don't make sense or are downright bad based on nothing other than cargo cult advice. There are plenty of cargo cultists in management and legal departments, too, but they're often given the benefit of the doubt. Obviously they know what they're doing and have good reasons for everything, right? You know, just like the reason that a site requires you to have digits and punctuation in your password, but forbids you to have a 6-word passphrase because it's too long and contains spaces.
> It looks like the safer way to vote is avoiding technology

correct.

obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2030/
These are statistics/math problems that 2 medical professionals I'm seeing are working on, not my own work. But they got me curious. FWIW I worked in "data science" as a software engineer for many years, and did some machine learning, so I have some adjacent experience, but I could use help conceptualizing the problems.

Does anyone know of any books or surveys about statistics and medicine, or specifically mechanics of the human body?

- One therapist is taking measurements of say your arm motion and making inferences about the motion of other muscles. He does is very intuitively but wants to encode the knowledge in software.

- The other one has an oral appliance that has a few parameters that need to be adjusted for different geometries of the mouth and airway.

The problems aren't that well posed which is why I'm looking for pointers to related materials, rather than specific solutions (although any ideas are welcome). I appreciate replies here, and my e-mail is in my profile. I asked a former colleague with a Ph.D. and biostats and he didn't really know. Although I guess biostats is often specifically related to genetics? Or epidemiology?

I guess the other thing this makes me think of is software for Invisalign or Lasik, etc. In fact I remember a former co-worker 10 years ago had actually worked on Lasik control software. If anyone has pointers to knowledge in these areas I'm interested.
Yes I confirmed, this was what happened. The shitty part is that there was no obligation for this person to declare, they did it to be transparent, and their contract was never renewed. This in a store that is understaffed, constantly hiring with high churn.

edit: I noticed that they hire a lot of expats, and probably also why get away with it: If you're an expat who e.g., followed your (unmarried) partner into Switzerland, boy do you have to jump through hoops to stay. To these people, Starbucks is actually a lifeline.
Pretty sure it does. Line-noise languages (e.g. math, C++, Rust, Perl, K) optimize for expert use, the trade-off being that they're difficult to parse and understand for newcomers and infrequent users. There is of course also a huge difference between languages were the meaning of symbols/notation is largely context-independent (e.g. the three types of braces in C) and those were this is not the case (e.g. C++, math).
Java is one of the unergonomic popular languages I'm talking about. I'm never going back to that monstrosity.
https://github.com/bevacqua/reads
But doesn't actually keyword search the text? I looked for "music"
If you go to another team and tell them to drop a project because you will do it for them then it is fair for them to assume that you will start working on it very soon. If you don't have the time to do a project then don't tell people they must let you do it.