skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An Update on Childhood Lead Poisoning (2017) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645046/

> As many as 500,000 US children (2.5%) under 6 years have BLLs ≥5 µg/dL. Each lead-exposed child costs an estimated $5600 in medical and special educational services.7 Lead exposure-related cognitive impairments cost an estimated $50.9 billion annually in lost US economic productivity.6
I think this is supposed to link to the SEC's .gov website where it was originally published:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001557127/000162828...
Same with me when Framework gets big enough to provide the top dog choices, I'd happily pay a premium for the modularity and run Linux. Hope that day is not too far.
Private citizens and corporations can absolutely do this, provided they're not discriminating against a protected class. A covenant or warranty on a deed are some ways of doing this, but you can also just not sell.

I think a bigger question in this instance is whether the government should be making these types of pseudo-moral decisions or if they should be bound by more restrictions than the average citizen/corporation.
Ad hominem is not necessary. Trading volume plays a role, but for everyone trading Tether -> BTC there is someone else trading BTC -> Tether on the other side.

If the USDT/USD peg began to fail naturally, you'd need a massive amount of non Tether currency to prop it back up (ie buy Tether at peg).
I've thought about this problem a lot too. In my mind, there is no "Adult rec league for eSports" that exists right now. I can go to my local rec center and sign up for adult soccer, football, volleyball to meet people and play for fun in a lightly competitive environment, but no one has done that for eSports yet.

I like the idea of booting up old games in that format as well.

It's definitely a hard problem, but with the increase in recreation time, especially for creative workers, that we're continuing to see I think it could be a big company.
Is that not just indicative of inflation?
I don't care about your degree, I care if you can solve problems. If you can't solve a simple leetcode problem, why should I expect you to solve anything else?
New name: meta mark
Yes, definitely - though you are correct that moderate dems are divided on this issue. There is no such division anywhere on the republican side to my knowledge.

Thus, we’re seeing a push for relaxation of sex worker prosecution in essentially only blue states.

Edit: realizing that I didn't qualify that you'll be hard pressed to find any lawmaker pushing for full legalization of prostitution on either side of the aisle. Right now, the most common laws voted on are w.r.t criminality of 1. the sex workers and 2. the clients.
Agree with Joe too. It's like when you order a steak, and ask for a knife, and the waiter brings you back a spoon for you own safety. I would get pretty annoyed.
yeah but Not Invented Here is also a thing. Experienced devs also have Their Way Of Doing Things and if the code doesn't fit that, then it's "garbage" and needs to be refactored.

I've seen at least two perfectly good code bases get refactored badly because the dev didn't understand how they worked, or they were in a language the dev didn't want to work in [0].

[0] One of them was me, and in my defence it was PHP.
Anybody that has been following that space in any details already knew that Nikola and Lordstown were terrible companies.

They did some minimal journalism on them and put it out. And nothing the showed outside of maybe that the truck was going down hill was in the least surprising.
> That's not how open source works. We get to modify apps. That's the whole point.

1) people are running all kinds of applications on Linux, not just open source ones. The solution has to work with Siemens NX or Autodesk Maya just like it works with Gtk Demo.

2) Even if you can modify apps, are you going to modify them all? No, most of them would be never fixed.

3) so you are mistaking "we get to modify apps" with "we get to rebuild the world, and everyone's system is part of the rebuild".
If you don't care for political arguments, you probably shouldn't defend a browser made by Brendan Eich.
Nice story, but I think people here have the wrong takeaways from it. Having an outburst or sharing personal anecdotes isn't going to help you in an investor pitch. Had it happened earlier in their YC interview things wouldn't have gone any different, as they make it seem. The fundamental questions and doubts would have all been the same.

If you don't have solid differentiators, growth charts, revenue models a touching story will not help your startup.
if everything is lowering IQs at all time, wouldn't it just be reflected in the mean then? This would imply that IQ tests would have to get easier over time to keep the average at 100.
Rather than fixing the issues behind the brand, just change the name?
Typically yes, but isn't the issue here that they purchased natural resource extraction rights as well? Those explicitly disappear after a certain amount of time if they're not used.
Generalist vs. Specialist Engineer
Show HN: Tsinject, a new dependency injection container for TypeScript
Why tsinject? Having used DI containers for other languages, I was looking for something simple with a clean functional interface. Most existing TypeScript solutions rely on decorators or are restrictive and clunky in other ways. I've used something similar to this in a few projects and thought I'd open source it, I hope it's useful for someone!
I love perl and simultaneously totally at-peace with it being "dead"...but it really isn't. Packages I care about are updated regularly. The core release is deployed regularly. There are numerous meaningful improvements discussed on p5p.

Fastmail, my email provider, runs on perl. You can get perl jobs in 2021.

The community is smaller now but more dedicated - not growing, but not dead either.

In any case, none of the moderately popular languages will die anytime soon...between the platforms that still run on them, and the geezers who have the time in retirement to volunteer, tools will survive
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Half of those companies you listed are owned by the same guy, who has a significant interest in pumping the price of BTC.

When was the last time you made an everyday purchase like food with BTC?
What’s the end result of the hyperinflation of everything?
I don’t use Dropbox and never have. Jobs was right
Higher demand only leads to cost reduction if goods are produced more cheaply with increased scale, which is not given. There is a point where diminishing returns bring saving at scale to 0
Household lead paint is still allowed in much of the world. India only banned* it in 2016(it is still poorly regulated, so still widely used). China the same in 2020.

*reduced to max level to 90 ppm
That pretty much sums up American vs. British comedy (televisual anyway) for me.

US: 'momentarily interesting' (resp. funny at the time) - series of one-liners and the like; UK: character development, hard to explain why it's funny, might take 'getting into'.

Green Wing for example - I thought it was absolutely absurd when I first saw it, and it is. But for some reason I went back to it (or was made to) and stuck with it for a few episodes while I learnt to love it. And now I do, it's one of my all-time favourites. And of course I've been back (several times) to watch the first episode(s) again, and they're hilarious too.

Or perhaps a clearer example is the original UK The Office (Ricky Gervais) vs. the US version (Steve Carell). Same rough outline obviously, some of the same (especially early in the remake) storyline and jokes, but somehow even then the humour is very different.

(I'm not hating on the remake, I enjoyed it enough to watch it all once I accepted it's different, and stopped expecting 'The Office' as I knew it. Especially once it found its own path and diverged from the same jokes - IMO - worse delivered.)
It’s a matter of the individual vs collective perspective. In America at least it seems like we have to always find some tie tot he individual because reasoning about collective issues doesn’t gain traction.

I may not have anything to hide, but we have something to fear about an all encompassing surveillance society.
Google has written up a detailed explanation of what they think the point is: https://google.github.io/opencasebook/cla-policy/
Escaping the Microservices Wormhole
Author here.

Happy to answer any questions, listen your thoughts and take any feedback about this post.

Hope you enjoy it and find it helpful!
I would guess people just love Atari games and assumed what it contained and didn’t really click the link.
Iterating on how we do NFS at Wikimedia Cloud Services
Taiwan's digital minister on China's digital authoritarianism
anyone know what is the most optimum performance/dollars setup for this m1pro?
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people (i mean funds) buying loads of it, with leverage.
On that topic by M.G. Siegler on 10/6:

"Facebook is not dying as a business, but they’ve died as a brand. The company needs to move on to ‘what’s next’ as quickly as possible to distance themselves from the social network. This is nothing new, of course — I wrote this over six years ago. They’ve more or less been trying to do this for years. But even in creating an umbrella company, they called it ‘Facebook’, which was dumb. It was the exact opposite of what they should have done. Because, again, Facebook, the brand, is over."

https://500ish.com/facebook-is-too-big-fail-eb8c143a9afc
This is also coinciding with the approval of the civil rehabilitation for Mtgox creditors. [0]

https://www.trustnodes.com/2021/10/20/99-of-creditors-approv...
The probably apocryphal story of Joseph Kennedy Sr. getting stock advice from his shoe shiner and getting out of the market in 1929 before the big crash applies here.
I wonder what will inspire Zuckerberg for the name. Google founders Page and Brin were apperantly inspired by the ABC-Straße in Hamburg, where the German Google offices are located.
I wonder how much of this has to do with the medium of communication. People often have wonderful clarity when speaking but then muddle things up horribly when they write/create decks/etc.

I previously worked with a very smart and capable woman who was in charge of a client-facing department at an agency I was part of. She would ask me to review a presentation she had put together (often sales-focused, but not always), and I'd go through and at the end I'd often find myself saying, "You know, I'm finding this is (muddled | too much information | unclear). What exactly are you trying to say?"

And then she'd give me a succinct, spoken paragraph that completely nailed it. And I would say, "Okay, write that down and present that!"

I thought about this a fair bit because it was such an effective approach. It bears noting that, AFAIK, different parts of the brain are used for written communication as opposed to spoken communication. For instance it is possible to acquire a brain injury that prevents speech but not writing or vice versa. So although I think part of this issue is psychological (people get less clear, e.g. unnecessarily formal or stilted, when writing), I think another part of it has to do with the way people think.

I think a good technique that helps with this is having someone verbally ask you pointed questions ("what does this do?", "why should I care?", "how is it different?") while being recorded, and then take your spoken answers and use those in your written materials.
This may sound radical, but have they tried being decent ethical people instead?
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Everything you are saying about the skill ceiling in Fortnite, I completely agree from watching as well as playing the game over the years.

Another point is that Creative mode in Fortnite is thought to soon allow full Unreal Engine Blueprints and open modding.

The "mode selection" screen recently was turned into Netflix or Hulu like "tiles" with the majority of the tiles being Creative maps made by the community.

Fortnite is making a pretty strong "metaverse" play with Creative and the recently released by Epic Games "Imposters" mode shows that you will soon be able to play nearly any game "in Fortnite".
Don't know if I'm the weird one but I always do 5x as "multiply by 10 then divide by 2" you just need to put a 0 at the end and get half of that result which is not a complicated mental calculation.
Fun fact, the inventor of leaded gasoline, Thomas Midgley Jr., also invented chloroflourocarbons (CFC's). See: https://interestingengineering.com/thomas-midgley-jr-the-man...
3Q: Making silicon-vacancy centers practical for quantum networking
Covid-19 and Performance at Work [pdf]
Eventually it will be on contact lenses. The point isn’t the hardware but the software stack whose outputs are “all visual and audio sensory perception” and inputs are “all body state.” This will be the all enveloping abstraction of interactive computing. Everything we have today will run within that context. The headsets today are a transitional tech and will also on their own get very small, thin, light, and culturally accepted to wear in public. And no, they won’t be ugly or hide your face.

For many, not being seen via an avatar will be akin to feeling unclothed. It will be strange and unlikely to be fully accepted by people who are above a certain age.
yeah, but intent matters, and someone purchasing an ebook is probably making a good faith attempt to obtain the media in a way that compensates the author - hence my elision in the passage i quoted, which seems to mean well, but is badly phrased. a downloader pirating the book is directly violating the author's rights wheras the purchaser is really also a victim along with the author - they are being deprived of money for something the seller has no legal right to provide. ianal and all that applies, of course!
If you want maximum possible accuracy for FP computation, you need to pay the performance price that denormals incur. In many cases, that will likely be a long running computation where responsiveness from a user-perspective and/or meeting realtime deadlines is not an issue. Any time "I want the best possible answer that we can compute", you should leave denormals enabled.

By contrast, in media software (audio and/or video) denormals getting flushed to zero is frequently necessary to meet performance goals, and ultimately has no impact on the result. It's quite common for several audio FX (notably reverb) to generate denormals as the audio fades out, but those values are so far below the physical noise floor that it makes no difference to flush them to zero.
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> arguments against Bitcoin made by Stephen Diehl on his Twitter account

Stephen Diehl is the textbook example of a fanatic. Not just on the topic of cryptos.

I would take whatever he says with a bucketload of salt.
MySQL / MariaDB not logging errors (log_error file empty) on Ubuntu
I think it’s because the monopolistic corporation meme has been done to death, so the focus is instead on the mindless “fun” adventure aspect.
> later in the article she admits to raping a guy

No she doesn't. You shouldn't label other peoples' experiences as "rape" willy-nilly like that.
Societies decide what they deem "legitimate reason", so you can like or dislike it - if you cannot get enough people on your side, unlikely to matter.

And no, sitting on a resource and not using it is - at least in edge cases - not ok. Leaving other people to die because you refuse to extract something life saving on your property might push the bounds of propriety, for example.
> What could happen if the speed of light dropped to 16km/s?

I've not read the books, but I have read the synopsis, and when I read this bit I was somewhat surprised as there are so many things that break that new limit - would our electrical minds work at that speed? What would happen to electron orbitals? What happens to the stars orbiting the galaxy at ~200km/s ?
Holy shit there was an unfinished game based on a Residents album. Being written by someone AT ATARI. https://voxodyssey.com/atari-2600-mark-of-the-mole

More here: http://www.digitpress.com/archives/cc_markofthemole.htm
I took another look. In one way yes …

> The dimensions of the Street are fixed by a protocol, hammered out by the computer-graphics ninja overlords of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Global Multimedia Protocol Group.

> In order to place these things on the Street, they have had to get approval from the Global Multimedia Protocol Group, have had to buy frontage on the Street, get zoning approval, obtain permits, bribe inspectors, the whole bit. The money these corporations pay to build things on the Street all goes into a trust fund owned and operated by the GMPG, which pays for developing and expanding the machinery that enables the Street to exist.

… but in another way this:

> „I deal in information,” he says to the smarmy, toadying pseudojournalist who “interviews” him. He’s sitting in his office in Houston, looking slicker than normal. “All television going out to consumers throughout the world goes through me. Most of the information transmitted to and from the CIC database passes through my networks. The Metaverse—the entire Street—exists by virtue of a network that I own and control.“

So somewhat the moneychanger-in-Klondike approach.

(“He” = Bob Rife, the villain; CIC = privatised CIA)
The mapping is clear, and I think many of us get it that anyone in any time zone can look at the mapped clock and see the same time.

As well, I personally think that building on UTC but making it clearly recognizable is a clever approach (avoiding, as you say; “Meet me at to 2PM UTC.” being quickly internalized in someone’s brain as 2PM local time), but there are too many (known) edge cases that this cannot solve (such as arbitrarily-numbered minute offsets, and possibility of confusing dates when setting the time)
To be fair, learning to program is something you do on your own time, and possibly with a lot of your own money (whether to a CS degree program or a bootcamp). In a job training regime, learning to program would be not just free, but itself a solidly compensated full time job.
Facebook is a stupid name to begin with.

Aliens would ask “wait it’s not a book with faces in it?”
thank you for giving me the heads up to never use that shell
As a possible alternative, you could check out my library: https://github.com/centiservice/mats3
>So, are you saying that people shouldn't be held to the consequences of their actions, because the North Korean government does the same?

No. No one is saying that. No one has ever said that, because it doesn't make any sense. Of course all actions have consequences. Of course saying something hurtful will cause others to react negatively. No one is contesting this. What people are contesting is that a very small but highly vocal group of people who seemingly get offended by everything can demand that the rest of us force consequences on people that hurt their feelings.

Right now, there's a small group of netflix employees planning some kind of protest. That is their right to do, that is a consequence for netflix producing this comedy special. The problem with the "freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences" line is that it always seems to be a very small group demanding that some larger group bow to their demands and force consequences on someone that wouldn't receive them otherwise. In this case, this very small group is demanding that dave chappelle or netflix suffer consequences for producing his special. But according to rotten tomatoes, and most of the comments I read on the internet, is that the overwhelming majority of people thought it was funny.

"Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences" means that if I call your mother a prostitute, I might get punched in the face. It does not mean that if a digital content producer airs a comedy special you don't like, that anyone who doesn't like it can demand that it be taken down and then say "well those are just the consequences!"

The consequence of netflix airing this special is that some people will get offended and may cancel their subscriptions and some of their employees might protest and/or quit. That's it. Caving to the demands of those offended is not "suffering the consequences."
Right, but the up arrow didn't get in their way, right? So why get mad?

I imagine that how it worked for them before is that the up arrow would move the cursor to the previous line into the output of the previous command, while feeding the arrow key escape sequences to the shell prompt as part of the command. IOW, a pretty useless and annoying key right? Why even press it? How did they notice readline?
The deal breaker with `..Default::default()` is that it only works for structs without any required fields.

Forgetting a required field just means you get the dummy value from Default, that is, if you even manage to implement Default for the struct at all (the required fields may not have a sensible default value)
SpaceX's Missing Gas
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Remember last year when we couldn't even say the word 'inflation' on HN without being flagged and completely stomped by the boots?

The boots are now realizing that inflation is here to stay. Even the most liberal media has admitted (NYTimes). Comparisons with 2009 fiscal stimulus didn't hold up.
Something like "The Meta Company" seems like the most likely bet here. Zuckerberg already owns meta.org through the Chan Zuckerberg Institute, and meta.com was updated yesterday to redirect to that same site.

https://who.is/whois/meta.com - updated yesterday

https://who.is/whois/meta.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(academic_company)
he has more money than god - if not for a god complex, what reason to continue with the status quo? he can do literally anything on or off this earth that is within the realm of possibility.
Bitcoin's market cap has increased by 70B in the last 24 hours. That fine and this rise is not even in the same order of magnitude.
The Philosophy of Bitcoin and How It Could Change the World as We Know It
I mean, preferences are preferences but you can hardly call command completion 'bloat'
I believe Numpy/Scipy really put some wind behind Python's sails.

Are there equivalents for Perl?

Perl was my first love, but I rarely reach for it now, since I spend most of my time data munging and doing Tensorflow.
(let's just say that we both assume "you're clueless and have no idea how any of it works" and not repeat ourselves?)

tether volume *by definition* will be close to BTC volume because BTC and most other altcoins are traded in stablecoins and tether is one of the largest of them. every time BTC changes hands into some other asset - there's a stablecoin on the other side of that transaction. of course trading volumes will be similar, that means literally nothing.

what you're trying to claim is that somebody is actively printing tethers to prop up BTC price, but in that case number of available tethers must grow by amount that correlates with daily trading volume during green days. it doesn't.

between july and now tether cap grew barely by 10% or $6bn while BTC market cap grew by hundreds of billions.