skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> machine learning?

>> Not sure why you assumed this. ML isn't the only "innovative statistical method". I haven't read the paper though.

I have to assume things since I don't seem to have access to the actual paper. "Innovative" methods that predict things made me think of machine learning, but I'd be happy to learn more if I could read the paper.

> It is very _very_ rare to be able to demonstrate strict causation in medical sciences. This is why the title says "may".

The title is a lie. It very clearly suggests that the study gives some evidence of a causation, while the method and results don't support that interpretation at all.

If whoever wrote this wanted to honestly inform people about the result, they could have written "people who are depressed early in adulthood have higher chance of dementia later in life", which makes it clear for someone paying attention that this doesn't exclude a confounding factor.
I’ve not found the cold to be an issue. It’s actually pretty temperate, we get a few days of really freezing temperatures a year but nothing very low or very sustained. The darkness is more of an issue, we’re high enough that days get pretty short in the winter time. But it’s also a very cozy time.

Culture wise there’s just a lot going on. Currently the annual film festival is on with loads of ancillary events like playing live music to a live performance of a video game. There’s a strong tradition of authorship here so loads of books getting written. The music scene is always super busy which shows in the number of international artists Iceland has produced. Art shows abound, there are a number of theatres and concert venues and so on. Basically it’s easy to find something interesting to do.
Facebook doesn't listen to us peasants anyway, just like Google and the other mafia giants.
I haven't thought of combining access tokens with biometrics, that could actually be pretty slick. I have no real exposure to WebAuthn, but yeah the more I work in the 3.0 space the more I think that NFTs are one the most misrepresented technologies I can imagine.

I'm writing an app that utilizes NFT ownership to authorize access to a service, and it's been really easy to implement, though I'm certain I'll need to continue making improvements to it. But my theory is that I can sign a message with my wallet on the frontend using NaCl, send that message and the signature to my backend and verify it, then verify token ownership using RPC. My PoC implementations have been working pretty well, but I am not sure of any holes that may exist in this approach, so it's still a work in progress.
Take a look at Cloudflare Tunnels.
I'm not into crypto, but I think you're missing the picture here: the fact is that a lot of people are into crypto, and new people are coming in (even if they come in waves that crash and exit, some do still stick around), and Web3 seems to be here to serve this people.

You can even call it a niche.

If you can capture part of the value of this market by creating value for those users... what's wrong with that? How is this a non-existent problem?

NFTs are a good example of what you're dealing with. There are so many people with - arguably - apparent "poor taste" exchanging large sums of funny-money because that's part of their vision of an end game, and maybe that "poor taste" it's just because there's nothing else to do with the funny-money.

The problem here is that they want to spend it, exchange it, do things with it, and dApps are here to serve them.

From my understanding of this: the Web3 is not about/for you, or me, it's more for them.

If they are hyping it to be the future, let them be, it's their thing and we "don't get it" - that's ok. We've seen this over and over again, some stuff stuck around, others faded away. But it's ok to not understand some social movements and not be part of them.

You're probably experiencing what some folks experienced when Rock Music came about, it's confusion and it's an odd feeling. I'm not saying crypto will have the same popularity of rock music... I could say another example like EBM music... the point is that we don't understand a lot of things.
To reply to both my respondents, the link goes exactly to the source for Opaleye's version of the Maybe data type definition. Neatened up, it is

data MaybeFields fields =
MaybeFields {
mfPresent :: Field SqlBool
, mfFields :: fields
}

That is, an Opaleye Maybe (MaybeFields) is a pair. The first component is an SQL bool indicating whether it's a Just or a Nothing. The second component is the payload of the Just. If it's a Nothing the fields of the payload will be set to NULL.
>> The US was no more willing to export vaccines under Biden than Trump

That may be true in hindsight, but at the time Canadian officials prediction that a second Trump term would be less friendly to vaccine exports. That wasn't an unreasonable estimation of the US political landscape at the time.
Curiously, yes indeed. Facebook blocked me from posting it because "spam".... Deliberate? I'd like to think not, but here's the question, how does one let them know of this? Their silly little series of notifications that it's forbidden gives no option for actually voicing any text complaint, except a generic disagreement check box. Ridiculous.
The main point, which many people are looking for, is that it’s a version of Firefox maintained by anyone except Mozilla.
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I've tried. I've been on fedora for years but things just break. The sound breaks, the video breaks, with the latest release VScode and Teams broke. Also I've two graphics cards and one has been unusable for 6 months.
in the early days, crypto was sometimes used for things like illegal drugs, maybe it's some really smart addict who is paranoid
You know, Facebook is actually in the best position to rollback “social media” as we know it today. They just have to go back to linking only people who actually know each other in real life - and maybe at most a few degrees of separation; with the person’s permission (i.e. you have to opt-in to allow your friends/family to view your friend list / family list).

Of course this will never happens.
What kind of red light are you using for this?

Would just getting a red lamp for the office be enough for this?
Will there be an AArch64 build for macOS?
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Agreed about Lost in Music. One of my absolute favourite songs anyway, and then Mark E Smith-ified. It's louche and grand, and rakish and whimsical. I saw the Fall 3 times, the first being at a festival when I wandered into a tent at random. His words and performance did something inexplicable to me almost immediately. Was he having a seizure on stage ? Is he ok ? Is he all there ? I don't know but I've got tears running down my cheeks and I have to see the Fall again as soon as possible. And then on stage in small venues, just electric. The combination of again the vocal performance but with the kraut rock / Can guitars. They were tight. A tight band with highly repetitive songs and stream of consciousness, rambling, often incoherent lyrics. I don't know how to analyze it, but "fiercely this". It's a touchstone for any music, for me: looking for that same reaction of "fiercely this".
Agreed. I think it's probably helped the lobste.rs community.
Every time crypto is mentioned on HN it's like the Dropbox Show HN thread over and over again.

Decentralisation, open collaborartion, opportunity for entirely new paradigms of entrepreneurship free from the constraints set by the rulling professional managerial class. Weren't those core hacker values?

The Nakamoto consensus algorithm is the single biggest contribution to CS so far in the 21st century. Choosing ignorance of novel technology is really sad to see on a forum intitled "hacker news"
Because we just paid with credit cards. There is no disruption when you already have a replacement technology.
It's high time OSs try and implement something akin to what DoNotTrack was intended to do in web browsers. Of course it will have the same adoption issues faced by DNT, but if first-party apps (like VSCode, DotNet, and PowerShell under Windows) honored a centralized setting it would make life so much easier.
>If you feel like a better than average programmer, there’s a 50% chance you’re correct.

This is not correct right? The word average should be replaced by the word median. Then this sentence is correct.

More on topic. I strive to be a 10x engineer by multiplying the output of my 1x teammates (including myself) by a factor 2... if I manage to make my team of 5 all twice as productive, boom 10x!
The reviews are pretty great. Definitely legit.

> “It’s incredibly difficult for new browsers to penetrate the market, but there’s one such browser called Waterfox, which is attempting to gain a foothold into the market by claiming to be the fastest browser in existence by leveraging on the 64-bit architecture of the latest operating systems.” - Can A New Web Browser Break Into the Market? / London Datastore

Woah, they must be leveraging that new 64 bit technology everybody has been talking about!

> “In a week where we celebrate the best of the British technology industry, we speak to young developer Alex Kontos about building a successful web browser, a search engine that gives money to charity, Microsoft Edge and more.” - From bedroom coder to building a Google search engine rival / Trusted Reviews

Nice, they even give money to Microsoft Edge!
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Let's ignore money for a second.

Mugabe took land away from successful white farmers in Zimbabwe and gave the land mostly to friends and black people who wanted to start farms but had no ability to do so.

The former category might be extorting consumers and workers but he is "doing his job", he definitively values the land. When you give the land for free to friends those friends don't give a damn about the land because they got it for free. It's not difficult to see how this transaction is destructive. Every person involved is less happy than they could be.

The second class of black people who wanted to become farmers faced a completely different problem. They couldn't get loans to start their farms and they didn't get any financial support from the state to start farming, instead farmers were banned from selling their food when the government introduced price controls.
It doesn't take much to understand that hyperinflation results in absurd prices and a ban on absurd prices when every price is absurd is a ban on trade itself.

Now back to money. Money is zero sum. One person's dollar is another person's debt. That's not wrong but holding onto money for no reason will require better conditions on the debt (e.g. lower interest rates) or more debt overall to satisfy the savers. So telling the savers to get lost with inflation or negative interest rates will tell them that working to earn money that they don't intend to spend on consumption or investment is not wanted by anyone and they should either start working less or they should spend more. Letting money sit idle for no reason just doesn't make any sense from a societal perspective.
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LibreWolf may be a great and private browser for simple websites, but it’s definitely not your gateway to modern web applications. It locks down so much through a configuration override that a good chunk of modern web functionality just won’t work (WebRTC, for example). I gave up after about 5 times of looking up a problem and changing the configuration file without an end in sight.

They go a bit far for my taste.
This is your first day on earth? You sound like you have no experience how these tech companies grow and consume everything in their path. "Just disable it"... Sure. :)
Clearly you have a very shallow knowledge of the Node/NPM ecosystem. The very thing you mention as a downside is what empowers you to achieve the solution to the problem you want to avoid. Instead of going for the one-keystroke create-react-app, you can cherry-pick the packages you need and use that. Also packages tend to include other non-javascript files. I'd suggest you dive a bit deeper before drawing up wrong conclusions.
There are actually quite a few lovely tutorials for WireGuard out there and in my experience its performance is also far better than that of OpenVPN or other solutions, as well as the configuration is pretty easy.

I actually used it for working around NAT with a cheap VPS which now acts as an ingress and proxies the requests for all of the ports over to one of my homelab servers that i want to expose: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/how-to-publicly-access-you...

(disclaimer: the above blog post is pretty simplistic and shouldn't necessarily be followed to the letter, in most cases you'll want to expose ports on a case by case basis)
Funny to see this on HN (it's not about hacking, isn't it?).

The Swiss German name for the Handpan is "Hang" which means "Hand", but obviously is not a marketing friendly term in English.

My friend, a percussionist, has a couple of them and we made this recording in 2002: http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=214
> Our water sources are polluted. Our oceans are acidifying. We've strip mined our topsoil. Our rainforests are at a tipping point, on the verge of catastrophic loss. Did you see those fires in Australia last year? Disastrous weather events are up 83% in only twenty years. Top strategists and CEOs are preparing for water wars and refugee crises

Every single generation points to things going wrong now and thinks the end of nigh. It's been that way since at least the invention of writing. All you've done is present a list of problems. You have done nothing to build an actual case that the engine of human innovation is breaking down. What makes you think we won't overcome the problems you mention just as we've overcome all our previous problems?

> And you're here telling us there's no need to limit growth, that doing so is criminal, that the environmentalist cult predictions are failing?

Yes, I am. Because those predictions are failing, and they are failing because they imagine that we exist in a bizarre alternative world where we don't invent technology to solve problems but instead just breed, like deer or something, until we collapse. Wrong model, thus wrong predictions.

Did you know forest cover has actually increased over the past 100 years? Under your theory, we should have chopped down the last tree ages ago.

Our rivers don't catch on fire anymore either. Under your theory, we should all be drinking turpentine by now.

Turns out we can live in a clean world without arbitrary and murderously limiting growth or capping the number of people who can exist.

> In the comments of an article about how there's no American Bumblebees in eight states, which was predicted 20 years ago?

Well, yeah. Doing something about the neoniconoid pesticides causing the bee problem is probably wise. That's not the object of my objection.

The object of my objection is this idea that bees are suffering because humanity arrogantly tries to "play god" with technology and that we should stop and go back to the trees or something. That's an absurd and destructive worldview, and one that's embarrassingly common among comfortable tech types.
Strangely the fastest Firefox based, until recently at least, the latest Firefox release also seems quite an improvement
There shouldn't be one platform. Openness and interoperability are key.
I occasionally run into an issue that breaks localhost port forwarding. I can access the service that's running inside WSL2 via its actual IP (172.#.#.#) when 127.0.0.1 breaks. But that IP address changes every time WSL instance restarts.

I've had to set up a scheduled task[0] to update an entry in my hosts file every time WSL is assigned a new IP address, which works well enough.

[0]: https://abdus.dev/posts/fixing-wsl2-localhost-access-issue/
Is that your experience that, for example Q spreads better among atheists?
I have started reading independent sources, especially those who can serve as 1st sources or are genuine experts. By and large, anyone who reports on something within hours of the news coming out or act as secondary sources are not worth your time.

Eg: Stratchery for tech, Sinocism for China, Derek Lowe for drug development, Razib Khan for Genomics based anthropology etc. I also follow a select few twitter handles that do all the 1st source reporting on specific topics. This is super useful for war/contentious zones like the Middle East & Kashmir, etc. Statistically sound sources like 538 and Pew Research tend to be pretty good too.

In some cases, reading somewhat biased sources on each side is also helpful. Sources like Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Greenwald, etc., all have their biases, but they have a high moral bar. They never lie, but their biases do make them opine in ways that can sometimes include jumping to conclusions or purposely ignoring possible causations. Either ways, they are a part of healthy media diet. I generally like things coming out of the Rat-o-sphere & Scott Alexander, as they have a high bar on what constitutes a good source or proof.

The Economist and The Atlantic have been doing relatively good even handed reporting. NYT seems like it is in an internal crisis, but it does occasionally produce gems when reporting as 1st sources. WaPo/Guardian/BBC have long stopped being worth my time. In India, I really like The Print.

Hope that helps.
You don't even need to make a transaction. Cryptocurrency based authentication mechanisms use the ledger as a "trust-less" root of trust. You know anything that's been on the ledger long enough is valid. From their all you need to do is authenticate with the same PKI that corresponds to said wallet.

A simplified example: You own an NFT and want to prove that you own it.

You can produce some chunk of data (not a transaction) that includes a reference to the NFT (be it the UTxO, Tx, or some hash) and sign it with the same key that owns the NFT (or a derivative key depending on the design of the system).

Since it's not a transaction it doesn't cost anything to produce and you can share it with the interested parties however you wish.

In a sense you can think of it like GPG (and GPG based SSH keys) except instead of the web of trust being a federated set of servers and key cross signing, it's a decentralised ledger.

It's not simpler but it can be easier because it largely comes out of the box set up. The PKI is already well established and you don't need to really spin up or configure anything complicated to use it. You just launch a wallet with the supported features and it "just works".
> Additionally the American convention seems to assume all addresses are pretty simple, with there being an XOR relationship between street number and building name.

It doesn't assume anything of the sort.

American addresses are a reference tag to direct the postal service where to send your mail. That's it.
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We don't have to eliminate all transmission to stop Covid, we just need to bring the R value below 1 and keep it there. I don't think that direct transmission via sneezing is a significant cause of spread, but sneezed particles could remain in the air for a long time, long enough for a filter to make a difference.

I don't think there's any uncertainty left in airborne transmission: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2021/05/04/who-corona...
Yeah and it's been getting gentrified since.

It sucks that a bunch of nimbys came here and threw everyone fun out.

Hell even pg would get flagged off hn if he said the stuff he used to in the 00s.
> effectively a 4+ year old version of Firefox, with no renderer isolation and no support for most web features added in the last four years

Okay, hilarious. “Impressive that they’re keeping it up to date while maintaining XUL support”, I thought. Never mind.
I agree with your first post but to call the title a lie is not right. It seems to me that “happiness in early adulthood may protect against dementia” is logically consistent with your proposed rewrite, “people who are depressed early in adulthood have higher chance of dementia”

On reading the title alone, I assumed a university marketer was trying to reframe in an interesting way what had been found in the study (something akin to your proposed summary)
I have a gaming rig with two big front fans with red LEDs. I can swear my eyesight and mood improves just by staring a few minutes on them.
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That's a very gracious interpretation of OP's criticism, where he compares WHM to UFOs and "unaligned reality".

I had a look at your link, and didn't see much to interest tbh. It looked to me like smug skeptics, who haven't tried the method, joking about how much they dislike the cold. N of 1, I don't mind the cold any more, after despising it for my previous life. All I had to do was try it to verify.

The link's author, Ms. Hall, has a history of retracted articles on the site, for "too many issues with the treatment of the relevant science".

The worst part of her article, to me, was the denigration of WHM's confirmed attenuation of the inflammatory response - as if that's a "circus act", and "might not be useful". Inflammation is implicated in countless medical conditions. Managing it is a big deal, well worth exploring, and that's really fucking obvious.

The second most insane part was where they claimed his methods have resulted in deaths, without the context that this was from people trying the method alone where they could injure themselves from passing out (like in water). There are constant warnings not to do this from Wim and his trainers. That's very deceptive for a site that claims to be science based in their title.

Wim Hof's blood kills E.coli on it's own, and he has trained people to be able to do the same under laboratory conditions. Isn't that fucking fascinating? Not to the skeptics, apparently. He has trained 70+ year olds to climb mountains in their jocks - not worth a mention, it seems.

The top comment discusses the brown fat hypothesis, without doing the basic research to find that this is an explored subject - it is confirmed WHM doesn't generate heat from brown fat, rather it's the intercostal muscles.

TBH I'd consider that whole page and comment section a bad smear job. Not great, for a site that has "science based" in the url.
TL;DR : first half of 2022
A "public good" approach to digital social graphs is the broadest and most urgent social imperative since, I don't know, nuclear non-proliferation treaty?

It will decidedly not solve all problems associated with online digital platforms. We know for a fact that even the earliest and most innocent online forums would degenerate into flame wars. We know that filtering and struggle for the political control of news dissemination is "tech-independent": print, radio, TV etc all "solve" this in their own arbitrary and varying ways.

What facebook managed to achieve is to combine all those, together with many others (personal data collection, algorithmic profiling of people, leaking of such profiles to third parties etc) and deploy it at an unthinkable scale.
I'm pretty sure that's the point. It's a very tongue in cheek/sarcastic "blockchain will liberate us and save all our problems" comment parroting what you hear a lot of less informed & overly zealous individuals claim.
Skin. Is the biggest organ and lots of "sensors".
Addresses are first and foremost a social convention. Simple mathematics will not help you understand something with so much implicit complexity and contradiction.
well dang i should have been happier in early adulthood.. stupid me
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