skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it genetics? Is it gut microbiota? (E.g. genetics of other species?)

If you don't control for portion size comparing people who all have a burger and fries for dinner every night is basically useless, those meals could be hugely different in composition, portion size or how much is left over. Even if dinners are identical, snacking can be thousands of calories a day that you might never see happening. You've also missed what activity they do as well...

Two people who both "chug beer and eat greasy takeaways" whenever you see them out can be very different the rest of the time. If one stays slim and one doesn't it's far more likely to be that the former eats smaller portions overall, snacks less between foods and does more activity overall, before reaching for more exotic answers.
Yes! There is such a thing as good government, and to me that means good people with a well-defined purpose and adequate resources. Not everyone can agree on exactly what that should look like, but I take umbrage with the notion that good government doesn’t and can’t exist.
So your advice is to throw up your hands, back off from technology entirely, cede all territory to bigcos, and just sit back and watch them run rampant right over everyone else too. Stepping away is not stepping "out", there is no "out" anymore.

I'm gonna come camp out on your front porch, it's fine ok? Not to be glib but if this bothers you have you considered just moving out of your house? Maybe house living is just not for you man, just walk away.
Well, that will surely keep the big media free of critics!

Not having a comment page has often been a response to critical readers. And that came at a cost too. Broadcast, one to many types and their culture is often authoritarian in that "the consumers" are often seen as trouble anyway. It is a lot harder to publish propaganda when people can push back.

Sure, there are foul people online and misinformation too, but the good stuff gets pushed right out with the trash leaving "authority" sources free to make that AD revenue despite not really informing people all that well.

This idea of more liabilities being used to limit critical speech is going to prove very expensive, and I do not mean lawsuits.

The cost will be a much less useful internet where it will be increasingly hard to find and have real conversations.

And that is where the value is.

The rest is either propaganda or entertainment or orthodoxy.
Do you know why they were unhappy? I could imagine reasons why, but wouldn't want to poison the well, so to speak.
Sounds like a pretty broad statement to make for such a low number.

The only data point I have - a 21 year old runner friend of mine was hit with COVID pretty hard at the start of the pandemic and to this day can't run anymore. Breathing problems. Constantly out of breath.

Not saying this is typical but it's a pretty devastating result to just be dismissed by the conclusion of this study.
The Problems with Deliberate Practice (2020)
>It’s really easy to say that but I have heard of no viable proposals to actually replace the police with “something better”. Nor do such proposals ever elaborate on how the new system would operate without vagaries and wonderful nice-to-haves like unconditional free housing for the homeless and UBI.

Police should only be involved when an armed person is needed. Things like filling out police reports of crimes, noise complaints, and traffic violations can be handled by social workers who can call in cops when needed. That will allow for a huge reduction in the police force.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1435439291715358721.html
A commodity is a product that's not differentiated between suppliers (think silver, pork bellies, robusta coffee beans).

Examples of things that are democratized (accessible to virtually anyone) but not commoditized (not the same as what you can get from other providers):

- Coca cola

- iPhones

- Teslas

- Google search

- HN

If you're going to make money by creating an NLP service for wide adoption, you'd hope to create some competitive moat. Otherwise there's no way for you to earn profits to amortize your R&D.
I don't understand where people got this narrow interpretation of the SEC's mandate. The SECs mandate in the securities Act has 3 parts 1)Protecting investors 2)Facilitating capital formation 3)Orderly capital markets.

It absolutely is about investor protection broadly. Check out 15 U.S.C 78aaa through 78lll

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/78aaa
Though stored procs will always execute on the server that is probably already the system bottleneck.
>that the populace is okay with such a policy would make me reconsider moving there

When I had to decide for a job relocation whether I should move to the UK or to the US I had many issues in mind, wages, safety, public transport, childcare, culture but I'm gonna be honest 'censorship in videogames' wasn't very high on the list.

Not to mention that the discourse in regards to Australia seems incredibly hyperbolic in contrast to more strict countries like Singapore or China, which actually have significant limits on freedom of expression, and even in those countries for the average middle-class person it is almost irrelevant compared to safety, income, housing, and whatever else.
This is in a pre-release build. I'm not happy to hear about it, but in reality Windows 10 has been incredibly reliable. Can't remember the last time I saw a crash to be honest, and I use it for 8-10 hours a day most of the time.
Sure, but that’s the government controlling a handful of well established entities, not a bunch people running bots which are basically invisible to the poker sites, even if the government cared enough to outlaw bots they couldn’t
> Even for something as clearly and uncontroversially genetically influenced as running ability, the group differences only really matter for the top 100 people out of 7 billion.

Sure, but there is no social contention arising from racial differences in the world's fastest runners. What gets us in trouble are the the racial differences in high-prestige jobs. To really understand the impact of differences in distributions, you need to look at some numbers. The excerpt below comes from Douglas Murray's new book. I am not going to attempt to convince you that racial differences in IQ exist. But he makes a strong case that if such racial differences did exist, the impact on the distribution of high-prestige jobs would be absolutely enormous:

"...Why are there so few minorities in these high-prestige jobs? It's a numbers game in which the odds are against a Latin (he uses geographic indicators in place of the colloquial 'black' and 'white', and 'latin' in place of 'hispanic') achieving one of those positions are high and the odds against an African are prohibitive, even if we assume that there is no racism whatsoever among the employers for high-prestige jobs.

To illustrate, I'll use the cohort of young Americans ages 25-29, the age at which the potential candidates for such jobs are coming out of law schools, medical schools, business schools, and graduate STEM departments. In 2019, there were 23.2 million Americans in that age group. About 228,000 people in that age group can be expected to have IQs of 135 or over.

The racial distribution of Americans ages 25-29 in 2019 was more multiracial than among the older population. Only 54% were European while 20 percent were Latin, 15 percent were African, and 6 percent were Asian. But that reduced dominance of Europeans in total population doesn't make a lot of difference in the 135+ pool. Employers seeking these exceptionally intelligent young adults were choosing from a pool that contained about 2,800 Africans [~1%] and 9,500 Latins [~3%] compared to 50,700 Asians [*~22%*] and 160,000 Europeans [~70%]." [~3% being 'other']

So, while the marginal IQ differences between individuals do not matter not one whit, when considered at the population level, these differences can hardly be ignored.
Their currency is pegged to the USD so its not a huge surprise their central bank prefers it. This of course has not stopped them from issuing euro-denominated bonds and holding other assets.

Either way it makes a ton of sense for them to trade an extremely volatile commodity (oil) for a stable currency. This is what allows them to borrow internationally and attract outside investment. If they floated their own currency it would be a disaster. But yes they absolutely could do this and it would not impact the value of the dollar in any appreciable way. The Riyad would tank and Vision 2030 would be dead in the water.
> I get that some people really want JavaScript to be object-oriented

JavaScript has always been OO, just originally exclusively prototypical OO rather than class-based OO.

> but I wonder if we wouldn't be better off embracing and building on its functional side.

But modern JS has tended to reinforce both the functional and OO sides of JS. Reinforcing one doesn't prevent the other.
Pedantically, at least a standard US football field is an exact size (120yds long, 53 1/3 yds wide).

Soccer pitches? Not so much ... FIFA states the field of play for international matches should be 100-110m long and 64-75m wide (tolerances are relaxed to 90-120m long by 45-90m wide - which oddly means you could have a square pitch). If one would like an example of a comically undersized pitch, look to NYFC playing at Yankee stadium - they had to get a special exemption from MLS, IIRC.

Still useful, though, and I think a reasonable person with familiarity with either soccer or football would get a rough idea.

Please don't take this as criticism ; it's not meant to be. The mention of football and soccer fields being used as a measure of size in the same sentence sparked recollection of some not-otherwise-useful knowledge stuck in my brain.
> Property in Australia is like a game of musical chairs but the music stopped in Sydney in 1978 (in Perth and Melbourne it was more like 2003).

Sounds like Vancouver
Like everything, the reality is more complex up close.
We've never had to think too hard about what underpinned our prosperity, about the law that underpinned our freedoms, because they never failed too badly, for too many people. Perhaps we've had as much law as we needed, and when things chafed we have pushed for changes?

Australia has no official right to the kinds of freedoms you're discussing, but those books and movies were here. Economically Australia has always been top at nothing, top 10 in everything, and that prosperity meant people were free to choose a life they wanted and live free of coercion. Like the poster above, I fear we're embedding an inequality we don't have the will to resolve. But that's been the perpetual fear, that the luck has finally run out.
I don't agree with the 'Intervention' the measures you mention in Aboriginal communities, but not because it restricted rights, because I think Aboriginal communities must be allowed to define how individual rights and collective obligations are balanced in their communities. I disagree with it because I don't believe it was driven by Indigenous people. Colonisation dropped a new worldview and law onto an existing civilisation and imposed it with genocide. Indigenous civilisation has different conceptions of duty and rights. If Non Indigenous Australia manages to build a new relationship with Indigenous Australians, I might feel I have the right to form my own opinions, but for now I don't think it's possible for me to understand enough to understand what is right for Indigenous communities, that has to be Indigenous led.

I detest the government that brought in the intervention, but in doing so they were supported by senior Indigenous leaders whom I respect.

https://www.abc.net.au/lateline/leigh-sales-talks-to-directo...
https://www.smh.com.au/national/its-time-to-stop-playing-pol...
The different settings apps that claim to manage the same thing don't cover the same settings. The old apps are not still there to support users who don't like the new look, they're there because the new apps are insufficient and cover an overlapping but different set of configuration. It's thoroughly confusing and frankly a terrible design choice.
Manual editorialising, too. (cf. correcting an error)

Recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28365163

As a joke I was thinking about making a web page that automatically updates its <title> tag to match whatever title HN chooses for its corresponding thread on the HN front page. :)
Pretty much. Many have complained about this. In fact I believe its one of the reasons lobste.rs exists
The social aspect is on YouTube as much as it is on tiktok, one got it work better in term of UX. As for shorts, the same critic can be made of Twitter, which I despite but the content is forced concise for the reason mentioned in another comment. Shorts on YouTube and Facebook are some poorly implemented afterthought, in playing catch up, I also find it sad we can't hide them altogether.
> The type structure is somewhat polymorphic, but breaks down. For example, rectangles cannot have both scalars and points added to them, because the message is resolved by the left operand of the message, not the left and right.

This seems very mildly ironic coming from Rob Pike, given Go’s stance on function overloading.
> I suspect the censorship that you talk about

We're on the internet, you can look it up.
So, removing or editing aparagraph that is factually inaccurate (gender critical writers aren’t biological “essentialists”—-indeed they are rejecting social construct essentialism) is a bong standard journalistic practice, not a transphobic conspiracy.
You may disagree with gender critical writers, but they aren’t biological essentialists.
Also, she screwed up the Wisconsin spa thing (it really was harassment).
The problem comes down to diffuse leadership. The mars lander sky crane was a crazy idea. The head of JPL raised his hand in one of the early design reviews and said so, then drilled down into why it was a reasonable solution and how they would "Test Like You Fly".

The sunshield is a crazy idea and no one challenged it. Even worse, it is impossible to test it on earth. Just about every (partial) test of the shield has revealed problems that have been patched instead of starting over. If they had made the Webb telescope nuclear powered, many problems would go away - including deploying a 5 layer, experimental sun shield.
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Elevated CO2 concentration favors plants with C3 pathway, because they appeared when CO2 ppm was much higher, than today. Plants with more recent C4 pathway (evolved around 25 million years ago), do not respond as much to CO2.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S197830191...
The only things Americans know about Australia are Steve Irwin and Outback Steakhouse, i.e., nothing.
Google frequently make mistakes like this. Sometimes channels are not so lucky when it comes to the reinstatement though.
So even without a physical ID document, the poll workers have at least the ability (if not the duty) to remedy a fraudulent vote attempt. The latest US "voting rights" push is to have as few voters as possible physically enter a polling place. Americans aren't grumbling about ID because they hate minorities; they're grumbling because their dead relatives voting in Chicago have been a running joke for 60 years.
I recall readinga book when I was young, it was all about a nuclear war - and the perspective of the characters was that AU was the last bastion of humanity to survive... and went on to talk about how the people were able to survive there...

So dystopian weird idea follows:

What if "they" are 'cleansing' Australia to make it clear for the oligarch elites to come in and claim the land!

:-)
This might not be the right place, but I wonder if there is a parallel "Defund the Schools" argument to be made that goes along with the logic of the "Defund the Police".

In another thread, some were lamenting how schools now have the responsibilities that extend well beyond simple education; should that even be part of an education system? Are we taxing it too much? Considering some of the things i have heard and seen in my own school days, it isn't hard to believe that there are issues with racism in schools. I don't think giving any institution that much power (education / future career prospects, food, etc..) is a healthy way to go about things.
and here all I wanted was to role play as a muscle wizard
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Yes, this is an actual publication by a christian organization; it's not a parody.
There’s also Beorg to natively access org-mode files on iOS, but I’ve not spent enough time to get comfortable with it, so I mostly don’t bother.
This is financial fanfic lol, what you've described literally never happens in reality.

> No I specifically mentioned that to use Wise without fees it's an issue for the unbanked, which is a major problem in El Salvador. I'm glad the plight of the unbanked is "fanfic" to you. We all know the rich legal citizens who are banked have the financial upper hand including in international transactions.

You uh, got some numbers to back up your assertions? Unbanked people are un-banked because they don't have money. Do you know of a lot of wealthy folks without bank accounts?

I'm gonna need to see some stats on all of this. Everything you've said is theoretical, hypothetical, and I'm going to need an understanding of exactly how often these scenarios play out. If it's just that, then it doesn't matter.

> For instance, it is a crime to carry a hand gun in public for defense in Hawaii without a virtually unobtainable license, yet the constitution pretty clearly says the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.

It actually doesn't, because if it did, you'd be right, and that law would be unconstitutional.

The point at issue is the "well regulated militia" bit and I defer to the Supreme Court's interpretation. Plus the whole context thing. America isn't a civil law society, its a common law society which means law is subject to interpretation and precedent. The text alone isn't the source of truth. In Quebec, it would be, because their legal system is based on the Napoleonic code. Americas is not. [1]

Anyways, this has been fun - you think crime is good when you personally disagree with the law, I think the law should be respected until changed, and that advocacy is the path. Nobody agrees with all of the law, but it works because we all respect it anyways. I don't think it should be a crime to hold a dead lobster less than 6" long. However, respecting the law is fundamental to a society. If you don't agree, we won't come to terms.

[1] https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/lawschool/pre-law/intro-to-...
It's a little different when you consider that the taxpayer funds everyones healthcare. Most people taking the side of requiring bicycle helmet laws are probably thinking "I don't want my taxes going towards looking after some numpty who was too stubborn to wear a helmet and crashed".

People arguing this position are assuming that requiring helmets will decrease the risk of injury, which I am well aware there is conflicting evidence around.
i have to admit, as someone who dislikes new agey non rigorous stuff, that this book superficially gives off the vibe of being something Id absolutely hate.

Would you be willing to give an example or two of some topics the books discuss that might be counter to what that perception or that you just found really insightful?

Or is my perception that the focus is new age mysticism correct?
I click on things from Business Insider, MSNBC, and The Hill reasonably often, the others rarely, and I didn't see any of them cover this. It doesn't prove they didn't, but it makes me skeptical when I'm told they did without proof.

Furthermore, some of those are definitely not "MSM" where MSM = some vague liberal establishment, so I wonder if you've veered away from the party line about the libs being hoaxed.

Newsweek isn't what it used to be, although I'm not sure what it is.
If I am not mistaken most of the immigration to Australia is from UK, India and China.
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Unlike the post title implies, this article isn't really about D&D in the 80s. From the OP:

> It’s not a major spoiler to tell you that the Dungeons and Dragons connection, highly marketable when The Dungeon Master came out in 1984, proves to be slight...

The OP's title is now "But down in the underground, you’ll find someone true…" I'm not sure if the post title is right: 1) it doesn't seem to actually make sense given the article content (Dallas Egbert is a kid who played D&D who went missing, but the easiest parse has him blaming it with the media), and 2) it only appears in the OP in a pingback that ripped off this blog post.
not always the same people? It's not a bet, it's just data/metadata that needs to be processed to de-anonymize you
And relevant usually refers to something that relates to the topic. Again, I ask, what does it have to do with the story?
He mentions the law being unevenly enforced. Are there other american companies offering high yield lending/savings products, and which haven’t faced scrutiny?

I know a bunch of offshore ones do, like Binance. And I checked and Nexo lets you earn interest on tokens, but not on Nexo’s own token.

To which companies is Coinbase referring? I know the space is full of unreasonably high interest offers so I wouldn’t be surprised if the SEC has failed to act against some. But which ones match this fact pattern?

Edit: someone below mentions earning yield on GUSD at Gemini. That does seem to be the same sort of thing. And sounds like Blockfi does as well.

Could be more suits are in the works. SEC has announced nothing yet, this is Coinbase trying to get ahead of it.
Here's the reality - I'd take google and apple's privacy protections related to my data over many govts out there?

Is that a bad thing to say? Back to the regular anti google / google news / apple programming.
You can use "Quick Assist" app on non-Pro to support other's PC, rather than remote desktop. It can connect to PC under NAT. RDP don't support NAT traversal by default so not suitable for support use case. Even WinXP supports "Remote Assistance" (I don't remember how it work). Did you tried RDP to PC in other house past? Please don't expose RDP port in the wild.

For user id claim, it's not only due to MS but all services. MS and others improving situation by supporting FIDO and password manager.
Tuning Nginx for Better Performance
Maybe Haiku with a good web browser will save us :)
The chip companies probably have forms of insurance in place to cover losses if their independent supply chain partners fail to deliver that they wouldn't be able to get if the partners were integrated.
Can managers not block transfers?
> But with mandatory voting the apathetic mass (who are most likely to be moderates as they don't really care but generally are reasonable educated people and don't agree with the extremist views) cast almost random votes which smoothes out the skew to the extremes non mandatory voting causes.

Pure moderates aka centrists don't exist. Those people average out to be moderate but they're actually "cross-pressured" - they have crazy beliefs that are inconsistent because they never thought about them.

The one constant is that nobody in real life is a libertarian, even though you always run into them on the internet.
I think we should handle social media like we do smoking. They must print a giant warning warning it's addictive and dangerous and they must pay for advertising campaigns against their product.
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Tasmanian here.

I’m still going to blame Murdoch and the LNP.

We could have had an amazingly well educated, liberal, progressive, and wealthy nation, but the Murdoch media and the LNP usurped the national agenda for their own personal gains and ideology.

We are an apathetic bunch, but that doesn’t give malicious actors the right to take advantage. They’re still responsible to a large degree.