skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brett Favre, a quarterback from the south, came out and said to not have kids play tackle until they're 14. But when they turn 14? It's not like that risk goes away.

IIRC, his statement was based on CTE studies on the brains of ex-high school (but not ex-college/NFL) players. Of the sample, those with signs of CTE had played youth football as well as high school ball. Only one CTE sample did not play youth ball (and the rest of the high-school-only samples did not have CTE).

Gist of it being that playing youth ball through high school puts you at a significantly higher risk of CTE than high school only. But, you are correct that any time spent playing has risks.
Haha. Sorry about that one!

The interesting part is that there are a lot of people in this comment section that are 100% convinced that the nuclear option was the only one. Your extreme take is a pretty standard one in the US…
You really think Russian agitprop is the best in the world? The US has conducted so many regime change operations I can't even count them, and they mostly start with propaganda aired from outside the country, funding from CIA front groups, and eventually the funding of death squads or invasions. Russia has taken Crimea, a piece of Ukraine that secures its access to a seaport, but nothing that compares to anything the US has done in recent memory (illegal invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, supporting coups in Boliva, etc) or currently (encouraging separatist movements in China).

This theory is like a mirror image of what the empire is doing to the world.
I think he was just saying try to be less ignorant. Which sounds like good advice to me.
'Road to hell is paved with good intentions'
Plants = 10 acres of forest
Reared animals =2 acres of forest cut down.
Choose yourself!
Ah I had an older friend who ran EverQuest 2 bots and traded the rare item drops or something for money (rmt). He was poorer so it's how he afforded playing other games.
This can be explained by the fact that it's clearly a communal sport, though practiced individually. The social and sharing aspect is clearly a part of the sport.

Is commenting on this thread also "attention seeking," because no one does so without making their comments public? Or is it a form of social behavior?
This is so true. Just look at the number of comments on any technical post on here (e.g. the "how to write a syscall" post earlier today) vs any post having to do google/facebook/amazon.

It's pretty clear that some people are only on this site to hate on "big tech"
What is digital revenue? Online sales of physical products, or something else?
Why are you directing your students to ad-laden sites that are burning CPU?

I don't use an ad-blocker, and nor do I accept sites with unreasonable ads. I block the whole site by closing the tab or hitting the back button.
It sounds to me like if you start now you have to pay if large enough of a company but if you are already a "customer" you have till january.
At this point, everyone knows the whole thing is a joke. The robotaxi race was supposed to be already finished by 2020 alongside with FSD at Level 5 - today it is still Level 2.

So, where are the so-called robotaxis?
I don't even know where to begin with that article, such a hacky mess and really not aything to do with the topic
I imagine a burned area becomes a pretty good fire break.

So does this mean that less work will be needed (state-wide) when this fire season is over?
> Consider a browser or web-view being displayed in Augmented Reality

Feels like Apple is working on something that needs this.
Instead of regulating played time of video games for kids, how improving education so it's actually engaging and entertaining to kids, then they won't feel like they have to escape their boring and dull childhood?

I'm obviously against that kind of regulation coming from the state.

I'm saying that and I was addicted to WoW during end of high school and college. But guess what? It was better than any alternative. My life sucked at home, at school, and personally. I lived in country where I was a misfit.
I was lucky to have a fun outlet that also made me fluent in English and learn a few skills along the way.
> wonder what that sport would look like

Your love life.

(just kidding!)
Yep, besides learning servers in Minecraft, I learned logic gates and very fundamental Computer Science concepts from Redstone when I was a kid. My parents were always good at regulating, but there were definitely weeks I'd play for hours.
Fifth pair in how many years?
> to get them more money

Wouldn’t they just lose money? Ad clicks are not valuable to the businesses themselves. Only to the ad companies.
I looked this up, thinking, there's no way that .15 C / decade is plausible, you're a wackjob. But there it is: https://www.co2.earth/global-warming-update

Global warming has only increased the Earth's temperature by 1 degree Celsius? That doesn't seem like a lot.
Hi - glad to see you here. I just posted a comment about the sample code on the home page - your comment wasn't up when I started writing it or I might have replied here.

Does the sample code need updating?
what bothers me most typed languages is when you have to code in frontend with it. And your functions look like this: https://angular.io/api/common/http/HttpRequest
Processed food is "problematic". The problems are well known and documented though

https://www.lhsfna.org/index.cfm/lifelines/may-2019/the-many...
"This CPU that's on the Vampire is the best CPU I've ever had in an Amiga"

Don't expect it to beat Apple M1 anytime soon.
The voting machines that americans are talking about [1] aren't "fully electronic black boxes", they're "paper ballots + a vote counting machine + maybe a machine that acts as an overly fancy pencil (but let's you verify the paper ballot afterwards, i.e. what you talk about in your last paragraph).

The paper audit trail, physical ballot box, etc still exists.

I don't know if these machines exactly justify their cost... but they don't seem to be security risks.

[1] So by this I mean "only the republicans are complaining right now" and "they aren't complaining about states where non-paper voting machines used". In fact it looks like that of the 7 states with some form of non-paper voting machines, all but New Jersey went for Trump. New Jersey was never going to be close enough that the republicans feel like they can complain about it.

[2] List of states and how they use voting machines here: https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...

Kentucky, Lousiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tenessee and Texas are the ones with "DRE without VVPAT" (voting machines that are more than a fancy pencil and/or paper ballot counter).

[3] Election results from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
Now that's what I call an Authentic NFT Scam®.
I'm getting board of this, I have more pressing concerns. Like collaring some criminals to de-crease the number wrinkles in our society.
No, not working for them.

The unique id is to retain settings across different devices.

Of course you have to trust them not to sell you out.
That has nothing to do with the policies of the region, and everything to do with the volume of taxing oil operations work that requires limited/no education and can pay 6 figures.
Very few languages "grab" me as a "I need to try this" type thing, but this one has. I do A LOT of bash shell scripting; I may try this (and/or the NGS also listed in comments) for a few things.
Yes, I personally know several people who were targeted by these extremists. Some went so far as to call their employers and lie about them to try and have them cancelled.
Defensive programming. I think it is fine. But not when it is enforced by rules. The even sillier one is that any 'if-else if' has to have an 'else'.
The entire methodology of this 'study' is comparing analytics from Google to analytics from Plausible? Who is Plausible, you might ask? Just take a look at which blog is hosting this very study.

This is a clever ad for a google analytics competitor.
“ however the absolute risk is still low.”

For an 18 year male athlete, is the risk lower than the risk from COVID? That’s the appropriate question. We don’t screen boys for prostate cancer. Why is that?

How do we know the vast majority of deaths are in the unvaccinated? Also, is it possible that vaccination status influences medical care? Can we do randomized blind studies to test your assertion? You are probably right, but given the lack of public reporting and the fact that people who make this claim never qualify it with the age or health status makes me deeply skeptical.
> I'd wager most of those voters voted for Nader because they wanted him to win...

Yes. I didn't say otherwise. But voting for Nader probably benefitted Bush as well. Something that's important to consider if you want to vote for Nader. To be clear, despite this, I think that the 2000 Nader campaign was a good thing.

I think the worst thing about "first past the post" electoral systems is that sometimes you end up voting "strategically" because of the above calculus.
> Install updated GNU tools using brew. Be forewarned that brew is slow and unreliable compared to apt or dnf.

Time to port apt-get to the Mac?
Large companies pay giant amounts of tax when they aren’t reinvesting all their earnings like Amazon was for decades.

Reinvesting earnings is a strategy available to all corporations, large and small.

Corporate income tax is not in any way shape or form regressive.

Crazily innumerate reporting on taxes paid by big corporations leads people to believe straight up false things about taxation.
I've had bad experiences, battery-wise, using on-device adblocking solutions (that inspect DOM). An alternative i tried was tunneling to my raspberry pi that ran pihole (dns blocker), and bouncing all my traffic off the home connection, but that was also battery intensive.

You're right, this dns solution is very unobtrusive when it comes to energy use.
amazing digging, thank you!
Leo Guinan on how to scale yourself by automating manual processes
Cast iron pans are wonderful. I inherited one that was purchased originally in 1929. It's used every day or two to cook eggs for breakfast, and as I've found over the years butter is fantastic for keeping the seasoning in great shape. It's more non-stick than teflon, just a little shake is enough to send my eggs sliding to the other side of the pan. All it takes is discipline.

Best part is, this same pan will probably live well beyond 100 years. Possibly 150 or more. How many household items last that long? This is what we've lost with our culture's planned obsolescence, products that last for generations. It my have been expensive back then, but that was the last person in my family to buy this type of cookware. Safe, long lasting products isn't an innovation, it's a very welcomed regression.
>haven't had cause to use it super regularly

>I still sound a bit like an extremely out-of-date teenager.

I don't think it's surprising that the way you speak hasn't changed much when you stopped using the language. Your peers were mostly teens at the time and that's the manner of speech you picked up. Had you stayed in Germany and continued to speak with peers your age it surely would have developed along the way.
I don't think this is accurate. The majority of scrums at every level lead either to possession for the team with the put-in, or a penalty in their favour. If the weaker team has the put-in, they can pretty much roll the ball straight back to the number 8 and get it away (possibly not in the rules but completely never policed).

It's exciting when either side gets a shove on and that there's at least the possibility to win one against the head, but I agree the game wouldn't lose that much for anyone but the purists and the front row specialists if we just moved to uncontested scrums.
"Today, the 680x0 is still used by industrial machines, the aircraft industry, cars vendors and fans of retro-computing around the world." it's right there above the fold
Ironing clothes -- actually getting them flat -- on a mountain peak or underwater is interesting because of the difficulty. Finding out the person isn't really ironing, but just pretending, detracts from it and takes it from "that's quite an accomplishment" to "so what?". It goes from an interesting logistical challenge to "can you take an ironing board and an iron up the mountain / into the sea with you?"
I (obviously?) didn't do a long term study. They have some details about their claims here: https://www.allbirds.com/pages/sustainable-practices [you can download their report]

Most sportswear shoes, "sneakers" in vernacular, don't accommodate resoling. But evenso, the plastic mesh or wool upper (depends on model) tends to wear out in obvious spots (same as where socks might wear out, like toes).
I switched back to Windows 10 at home. I was a linux user for many years, but because I have a full time IT job, I decided that fixing my linux issues became a huge pain in the ass.
Larry Page Java Question in 1996
Wonder if he got any Google shares?
Another butt munch in their momma's basement writing a hit piece because Tesla isn't a union shop.
So easy to spot these losers. They think they're so smart yet they can only write shit on a blog rather than invent something useful.
I don't understand the first one, the second one isn't about continuous spaces (cantor dust has gaps), but the last one seems pretty interesting and I'm working through it. Thanks for the links!

Edit: The last paper only describes fractional dimensions in a limited sense, because the way the author constructs the coordinate system still involves a positive integer number of coordinates.
If you want an open source alternative, just use Docker Engine, it's still open source.

You can install the docker client inside WSL/OSX and connect over SSH to a docker CE instance.
I'm designing a wearable device, and I'm looking for resistant materials, different from metals, that are safe to use on the skin. According to Wikipedia PTFE (teflon) is not harmful. Could someone recommend materials to protect the electronics from sweat/dirt and the skin from the device silicone?
from the filing:

◦New materials. Our successful track record of commercializing and bringing to market new innovations has made us a desirable partner for many outside R&D companies and vendors, allowing us to be first to market with novel materials while accelerating development timelines and reducing costs. A recent example is our collaboration with Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. to commercialize a 100% natural, plant-based leather-alternative. As we continue to build our library of materials, we plan to create new, differentiated products, as well as leverage new materials across our existing product platforms by refreshing our classic silhouettes.

We estimate that a standard pair of sneakers results in a carbon footprint of 14.1 kg of CO2e. Today, through our use of renewable, natural materials and responsible manufacturing, the average pair of Allbirds shoes has a carbon footprint that is 30% less than our estimated carbon footprint for a standard pair of sneakers, and we offset the entirety of the rest to provide our customers with carbon-neutral products. Furthermore, we believe in the power of selective industry collaboration to accelerate progress, as evident by our partnership with adidas to unveil the world’s lowest carbon footprint running shoe at 2.94kg of CO2e in May 2021. This partnership, as well as our decision to open up the carbon-negative, green EVA used to make SweetFoam, and our carbon footprint methodology demonstrates our ability to scale our impact to the broader industry and beyond, while extending our brand’s leadership as a sustainability innovator.

For example, in 2018, with the help of our partner, Braskem S.A., the petrochemical company and a leading biopolymers producer, we pioneered a carbon-negative green EVA made with Brazilian sugarcane, as an alternative to traditional EVA made from petroleum. We used this new carbon-negative green EVA to create SweetFoam, which is now in all of our shoe soles.
That's completely wrong I'm afraid. In terms of popularity (number of fans) Rugby is about as popular as American Football, at around 9th most popular sport.

The top two are 1. Association Football (aka soccer), 2. Cricket

Boxing doesn't make the top 10.
I can see no reason aside from lazy malevolence to downvote your comment woodruffw.
Well, I'm aware that there are people that believe this stuff today. But Jakob Fugger, if you actually read about his life, does not appear to have a moral bone in his body in the Catholic sense. That informed my comment. I personally suspect the village was done for show or as some sort of appeasement, not out of genuine faith.

Separately, I don't think we as a society that strives to be rational, should be open to claims of belief based on faith. I think they should be immediately discarded as arbitrary claims. Just an FYI, let's steer away from that particular topic (i.e. the legitimacy of believing some part of Catholic doctrine).
Managers who bow to Twitter pressure and fire people are more of a problem than the Twitter mob. The twitter mob is the indirect cause, the boss is the direct cause of someone being fired.
You could configure Docker Engine in Ubuntu to expose a network socket, and configure Docker CLI in Windows WSL to use that network socket: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Docker#Daemon_socket
Cross-platform development is a lost art. It made you think about your program a lot more before you hit the keyboard.

The people at AtariSoft and Infocom were wizards in that regard. People today just lean on Electron or something similar.

Imagine releasing the same game, written in assembler, for Atari, Commodore, Intellivision, BBC, Apple, IBM, TI, TRS-80, and Coleco machines.

Infocom had it a little easier, as it only had to write parsers for each platform. But then, it also released its games for freaking PDP-11 machines at least into the end of the 80's.
> Shooting wide-angle in color is aesthetically and objectively closer to what we (typically) see than a black-and-white telephoto picture.

I agree about color, but not focal length. Using very short focal lengths introduces highly distracting distortions. "Normal" focal lengths (35-50mm) are closer to what we experience, despite not having the wide field of view.
Only to the extent that schools and daycares are still open.
I don't see where LeGuin's argument is anything like "we shouldn't grow past where we are now".

She's arguing (rather imprecisely, since she's not an economist) against a narrow version of uncontrolled economic growth that maximizes shareholder value and raw economic output.

And the objections she voices - growing inequality, environmental externalities, etc - are well-discussed within the field of economics itself.

And while humans _are_ generally more well-fed, sheltered, educated, etc. right now than during past times, there are very serious problems on the horizon, due to increasing population, climate change due to burning hydrocarbons, and other factors deeply entangled with human economic activity.
Isn't EBITDA the number of greater interest to institutional investors such as Private Equity funds?

Interest could be irrationally expensive for a business, taxes could be higher than they should be if the entity is not setup correctly, Amortization represents assets which could be sold off.

These are all things that PE firms can fix/work on to one extent or another with financial engineering. They can't really grow cash flow.
Solene'%: Fair Internet bandwidth management on a network using OpenBSD
Button your lips, this thread is done.
Ah OK, I am coming from Safari background, where each private tab is isolated. Do you know why would Firefox make it differently by default?
> anyone who tries to shoehorn these stories into a right-left political framework has to explain why so few of the victims of this shift can be described as “right wing” or conservative... All of those I spoke with are centrist or center-left liberals.

I agree that it's not simply an example of the left attacking the right, since the accused are in many cases left-leaning themselves. But, that shouldn't be taken to mean that conservatives are somehow immune. The reason that all her sources were liberal was because she talked to university academics and journalists, professions where conservatives were driven out decades ago. Sure, they exist, but they're rare enough that it makes sense she wouldn't catch any in her sample. This supports her point, which I agree with — I just think she missed that this isn't a new phenomenon.
> Widgets, a new personalized feed powered by AI

Who asked for that?
Twilio Sells to 10M Developers
A few years back we were doing heavy file processing in Java with most of the time being spend in file i/o. Initially it was designed as receive zip file, extract zip to directory, read the extracted files one by one and processing it. If the zip file is 1GB and expands to 10GB when extracted, the amount of IO being done is significantly large. 1GB Read -> 10GB Write -> 10GB Read. Suppose our AWS Instance type is capable of 50GB/s, we were spending a minimum of 420 sec in IO operation itself.

This limited the throughout capacity of number of files which can be processed within a duration where the next set of zip files would be received in fixed interval. Since we passthrough the file only once during processing, we had to eliminitate the zip extraction and read the files in zip one by one as decompressed byte stream. This was possible with zipInputStream.getNextEntry() and reading the bytes but it posed a major refactoring and inconvenience where we now have to deal with byte[] instead of File in every place.

Then comes the most advanced nio and filesystem provider features (it was already available but we came to know about the benefits of it only then). All we had to do was simply replace File with Path and new FileInputStream() with Files.newInputStream() instead. Regarding zip file decompression, we simply replaced ZipInputStream and ZipEntry with FileSystems.newFileSystem() instead. Near instantly we were able to reduce 21GB IO into just 1GB IO reducing the total processing time exponentially.

Based on this understanding, we were able to implement the similar approach in zip file creation also where files will be written directly to zip as a compressed stream and only using Path in all places.

Developers are not just required have to a mental model about the memory constraints but also about the volume of Disk IO operations where the latency would instantly kill the application performance once the page cache cannot hold the files in memory.
This takes me way back. When I was in high school, one of my classmates had a job in a call center, and one of the surveys he was contracted to do was for a website dedicated to extreme ironing. Unlike most surveys he had to punch in phone numbers himself, so he called a friend who was in on the joke just to get some interesting responses.

"How much time do you spend ironing?"
"one or two hours a day, I try not to overindulge"

"What's the strangest place you've ever ironed?"
"A bass boat"

I don't remember any of the other responses, but everyone who heard that story got a good chuckle out of it. Interesting to hear that it's stayed around so long!