skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been aware of this phenomena since my mom was diagnosed with an electrical heart disorder. Most times you see a young healthy athlete die suddenly it's often something similar.

Causes
Brugada syndrome is a heart rhythm disorder. Each beat of your heart is triggered by an electrical impulse generated by special cells in the right upper chamber of your heart. Tiny pores, called channels, on each of these cells direct this electrical activity, which makes your heart beat.

In Brugada syndrome, a defect in these channels causes your heart to beat abnormally fast, creating a dangerous heart rhythm (ventricular fibrillation).

As a result, your heart doesn't pump enough blood to the rest of your body. You can faint if the abnormal rhythm lasts for a short time. Sudden cardiac death can occur if the abnormal heart beat doesn't stop.

Brugada syndrome may be caused by:

Structural abnormality in your heart, which may be hard to detect
An imbalance in chemicals that help send electrical signals through your body (electrolytes)
Use of certain prescription medications or cocaine
Risk factors
Risk factors for Brugada syndrome include:

Family history of Brugada syndrome. This condition is often passed down through families (inherited). If other family members have had Brugada syndrome, you're at an increased risk of having it, too.
Being male. Men are more frequently diagnosed with Brugada syndrome than are women.
Race. Brugada syndrome occurs more frequently in Asians than in other races.
Fever. A fever doesn't cause Brugada syndrome, but it can irritate the heart and trigger fainting or sudden cardiac arrest in someone with Brugada syndrome, especially in children.
Complications
Complications of Brugada syndrome require emergency medical care. They include:

Sudden cardiac arrest. If not treated immediately, this sudden loss of heart function, breathing and consciousness, which often occurs while sleeping, is fatal. With fast, appropriate medical care, survival is possible.
Fainting. If you have Brugada syndrome and you faint, get emergency medical attention
Everyone who successfully lost weight made some choice as to their obesity. Some people can't choose to be lighter, some can. That's one of the lovely chaotic aspects of humanity, we're all the same in that we're all different.

There are many good reasons not to get vaccinated, some of them even officially recognized as medical exceptions. Having already had COVID is of at least as much if not more value than a vaccination; IMO, and the debates still rage there but few say natural immunity doesn't happen.

In no way does a blanket policy of social shunning benefit individuals or society.
Norway has an alternative that is the same as the Germans. (175 - hundred and five and seventy)

It was more popular in the past, but is still used in many dialects.
Do you have kids? hobbies? friends? Do you like to go fishing on weekends? Do you like to go out on a date on weeknights? Do you like going to visit family on Christmas and Thanksgiving and leaving your laptop at home? It's great explaining to your 11 year old that you can't go to their recital because your on call isn't it?

It boggles my mind that you suggest people lose skills by not using them often enough... these on call rotations aren't skills.

What's weird, is that we default to look at the goodness or badness of something purely on "skills" and "money".

Yes.. yes.. we've all read the SRE book and understand Googles approach to flexibility - but... it doesn't have to be that way.

Ask yourself.. what's next? What are you looking to do after 25 years of being on call? Will you still enjoy it?

I'll never have those nights and weekends back that I spent being on call for products and services that don't exist anymore. Sure, I made some money - but it didn't have to be at such a great cost.
Bitcoin’s energy consumption is completely unrelated to how many transactions it can process.
> No $GME rug pulls like what we saw earlier this year.

Not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum#The_DAO_event

Just like $GME, we have a handful of well-connected actors overriding the rules that typically govern the system, in response to a valid but unusual outcome that they don't like personally.
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I hope it's true, but IIUC the title is just a speculation, not based in data:

> Ash said he assesses it would take about two weeks before there is credible information concerning the variant's resistance to existing vaccines. He added that it's likely the vaccines would prevent serious cases of the new variant.
Yeah, but this exposes the issue with "bitcoin takes X percent of the energy production, therefore it's evil".

If you want you can build a generator near those wells. It's just cheaper to get the energy from somewhere else, because energy is fungible. A watt is not good or evil, it's the same as any other watt. Which means crypto energy consumption can be offset just like anything else, and is exactly as evil as any other convenience - driers, for instance, or flood lights, or inefficient heating, or anything else.

Focusing on crypto in particular says more about the author than anything else.
the data in your system is massively more important than the code. Not spending a week exploring and completely understanding your schema is going to hurt you in the long term.
The Swiss win again. Why this country is so much more reasonable compared to others? I want in!
Signing is a cryptographic operation. You can still sign a block after you don’t have something staked. People won’t accept that signature unless you have something currently staked. But then the question arises- who decides who withdrew their stake? Other stakers?
He's saying we're all suckers... and sometimes, it takes a long time to find out how true that really may be.
> None of this changes what you can to do right now: Ventilate spaces. Use masks. Test if you have symptoms.

To add; Supplement vitamin D, exercise, and eat healthily.
Speaking from experience, the ensuing burnout and lack of sleep leading to other health challenges isn’t worth the “life lesson”.
Also, he doesn’t start off being able to pick X lock in two seconds or whatever. He fiddles with things a while until it’s optimized. That is what makes it entertaining as well. You don’t have to sit through the whole process. He usually notes anything interesting that came up. Mostly you get results.
You're not the idiot. You're really, really not.

Reality matters :)
What books do you recommend about fitness, weight training and aerobic exercise?

Just started going to a gym after a long break, and I am an absolute beginner in this topic.
Here's a guess: It could be because of an emphasis on counting. Meaning, when counting, the significant, changing part of the numbers is the least significant figure, while the higher portions (potencies of the numeric system) become soon redundant. There seem to be a cultural differences in languages regarding the range in which this seems to matter: while it's just the tens in English, this is the entire range up to 100 in German. However, even in German this counting range ends at 100 at which point we're probably dealing with numbers that had been accumulated previously.
The "personal responsibility" narrative has seeped far to far into American life to be tolerable. Back then, we had industrial operations that were running 24 hours/day, things like factory assembly lines, steelmaking, the electric and gas utilities, and they had on-call rotas. But then we also had proper engineering practices, none of this "take ownership" crap, which reduced incidents, and we had unions that were in a position to push back on employer demands.

Instead we have self-indulgent junk like that. Wonder what my uncle would say, he was chief engineer for the gas company back in the day.
There is no "ideological" reason. I don't even own cryptocurrency. It's just a fact that the entire purpose of proof of work is to perform leader election. The defining characteristic of leader election is that only the leader commits new values, and there should only be one leader eventually chosen for a given round; the definition has nothing to do with using some sort of majority vote or anything like that. To see how it differs from "ordinary" consensus, I want you to tell me how a Bitcoin-like system could be used to decide on any value other than either (i) one known in advance by all parties (which doesn't require a consensus protocol at all), or (ii) one chosen by the node that wins the block lottery.

This is expanded upon in the peer-reviewed Bitcoin-NG paper that both of you are refusing to read, which breaks down the Bitcoin protocol into distinct parts (which was why I linked it--not because I am proposing that it replace the Bitcoin protocol, but because I thought it would be useful for you to understand how Bitcoin performs leader election already). Specifically, it analyzes the effects of splitting up leader election and block commit parts of the protocol. As it turns out, it has essentially no effect on Bitcoin's security guarantees, which is not surprising--because the fact that block selection and leader election happen at the same time is an implementation detail that doesn't actually matter! Once you realize this detail that you are obsessing over (the block being decided at the same time the leader is) is not important for the protocol, you will also see that the leader election is in fact the critical part.
I can’t even be on-call if I wanted to. ADA requires a company justify any essential job functions. Justifying a programmer needing to be on call is difficult because it is a secondary role.

Programmers aren’t hired to do on-call. The company just decides they can skip hiring anyone for those roles by reusing “existing assets”. Same with single sources of knowledge. They don’t invest in having sufficient capacity.

Basically, companies hire people who can do multiple jobs as cheaply as possible and with has as little support as possible. Which is not sustainable.

ADA can really highlight dysfunctional systems.

For anyone saying a small company can’t afford this, ADA doesn’t apply to companies under 15 employers or that can demonstrate undo-hardship given their resources. (By the way, trying to hire employees as contractors does not work.)
I'm saying that market needs to decide whether Bitcoin is toxic commodity or not and what I mean by not is Bitcoin being useful like oil and gas are or any other commodity.

And yes majority of people behave according to game theory because if they do not then they lose or in extreme cases die.
Worrying about gamma ray bursts is silly when we're staring down the barrel of widescale planetary disaster within one or two lifetimes if we don't immediately start doing more about climate change.

If the time it would take for a colony to not just self-sustain but grow is less than the time it will take before Earth's economy and industry become unstable, colonization doesn't help with single point of failure.

Look at what COVID and a handful of bad weather events have done over the years to major economic sectors and industries. The chip shortage is in part due to water shortage in Taiwan. Flooding a while back caused huge hard drive shortages. Etc.

Now imagine instead of the problem being "make enough pickup trucks", it's "put a bunch of electronics and equipment on a rocket and send it to a colony, or people start dying."

Talk of colonization efforts right now is like building a garage for the Ferrari you're going to buy some day. You just have to convince the HOA in your trailer park to accept the plans, and figure out how to use your lawnmower to bring home the lumber from Lowes...

Let's worry about colonization when we've sorted out how to live sustainably on this planet, and feeding/clothing/housing and medically caring for everyone who needs it...
Software development pushes us to get better as people
Because, you undervalue your time, you open yourself for abuse. May be that project that is behind can be done by you after work, as you sometimes do work then anyways. I have seen some managers who are acutely sensitive to this and repeatedly use this to their advantage while charming the underlings. Next, being on call means it is difficult to plan that long vacation, or a unplanned night of shit faced drinking with your buddies, or unable to sit with your kid in the night when she is sick. A perspective of life as unpredictable events helps reinforce this idea. You are, with out compensation making life predictable for others while making it less predictable to you. Third, your mental and physical health. Sleep disorders because of restlessness, groggy mornings and the stress that comes with normal working hours will take a toll over long term.
With all of the backlash over this decision, Google still decides to move forward with it.

I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content creators, but they are doing so at the expense of the user experience.

I used to use the likes:dislikes ratio to determine if a video is worth watching. Now I either have to quickly scroll the comments or skip around the video to determine if the info is valid.
The mean, bad people weren't able to reach whoever wherever while retaining anonymity. That drastically alters the equation. A kid in Pakistan can harass a female journalist in Spain today without any trouble; a random racist from anywhere can hurl racial slurs at a French footballer playing in the UK. Few people would dare to say the bullshit they spew online face to face, with associated risks.
It's not procreation that's our sole purpose on Earth, however. Yes, Darwinian evolution posits that ability to procreate successfully shaped every species. However, I'd argue due to our consciousness, our ability to generate culture via language and history and tradition, our ability to manipulate the environment via tools and learning, these move beyond Darwinian evolution. Our culture and language and toolsets are extremely powerful and wonderful collective objects that are worth preserving and cultivating evermore.

Just ask yourself, wouldn't it be a shame if there was no one around to listen to Beethoven or Mozart, to look at Monet or Van Gogh Paintings, or to appreciate the sound of poetry or the movement of a dancer? I think denying that humans are social beings in a massive social network is easy, that way nothing we do really "matters" to the universe, even though it matters intensely to other humans.
And how would they collectively decide whether to fire the police or not? Maybe via.. voting?
How can you think this is a critique of statistics? People are liking it because it's a clever brand of internet snark involving knowledge of statistics. You can say it's shallow and just for people who want to flatter themselves with how knowledgable they are, but it's hardly a critique of the field of statistics, just a critique of bad statistics.
> I don't think it's a coincidence that sci-fi that posits a frontier (generally space but sometimes others) is usually more optimistic than sci-fi that posits a humanity confined to Earth's gravity well. Writers and artists see this.

But see The Expanse for a strong contradiction of this pattern.

It has frontiers but human nature has not suddenly gone through a transmutation that makes it natively good.

...and I'll argue The Expanse is actually way better than most of those optimistic shows. Especially any of the Star Trek series. (Season 1 of Picard was an improvement on most ST, I'll happily grant)
In France you're necessarily compensated for being on call and then paid when you are paged.
That’s an excellent question, and I don’t have a good answer. We’re in such an early stage of our understanding.

If anyone has good resources I’d also be interested.
> The average citizen doesn't need to craft casual theories, they need to be able to look at them critically

Yes, I agree, and this is precisely my point. My experience with introductory stats was a heavy focus on the technical details, when in fact what would be more effective is focusing on statistical logic.

I’m specifically thinking that something like Judea Pearl’s The Book of Why would be good to introduce early in stats education.
Living is dangerous, you can die from it. 80% of the workforce cant work from home to make a living. We live with dangers all the time, beginning to call people irresponsible and immoral for not micromanaging all potential risks they could inflict on others create a system far worse than what its trying to mitigate.
While i think it should be

sender.message(receiver, params)

Why do you think that? Not trolling - it's hard to understand what you might or might not be "missing" without understanding your thought process.

In the overwhelming majority of cases, "sender" is implied by context; objects do not send messages on behalf of other objects.
This is not true - this comes from a misquoted south African doctor. The variant is still dangerous.
This is very true. Systematic bias in observational data collection (astronomy etc.) as well as systematic bias in experimental data collection (particle physics etc.) isn't accounted for in statistical analysis of that data.

A classic example I recall is a Feynmann story, where a group of researchers were getting very statistically sound and repeatable results of very unusual and unexplained particle track behavior in a cloud chamber. Feynmann looked at the data and said "you probably have a tiny piece of metal in the cloud chamber somewhere" and that turned out to be the explanation.

Similar examples in the social sciences include systematic bias in the preparation and administration of IQ tests to different groups of people (see Charles Murray's 'Bell Curve' vs. Stephen J. Gould's 'The Mismeasure of Man').

Hundreds of other examples can be found across all scientific disciplines, unfortunately. To quote the smartest PI I ever worked for "There's a lot of BS in statistical analysis".
Norway used to have the same system, but the government introduced a reform in the 50s to simplify. Many still use the "old" way.

The "correct" modern way is the same as in English.
The problem is that you’re computing the probability of one service going down, when I actually care about the union of the downtime of all of the services that I need (or, equivalently, the intersection of their uptime).

If every Arch package hosted its own source code, then even if each one of them has better uptime than GitHub, at least one of them is probably going to go down every single day (assuming their uptime is uncorrelated).

If you can personally centralize all of your own work on a server that you host, like a company-run Mattermost or something, and you have someone who can be on call to keep it up, do it. The result will, as you’ve described, be simpler and better than GitHub. But expecting every individual to run their own Git server is just stupid, because then my project is going to wind up depending on dozens of separately-hosted Git servers and I’m back to taking the intersection of their uptimes to compute the uptime of the whole system. There’s a sweet-spot here; GitHub is above the sweet spot, but a lot of “FOSS projects” (the kind that have a single maintainer) are below it.
If something goes wrong that wouldn't have gone wrong if you'd not penny pinched and got the better known vendor then you absolutely can get fired. And yes I've seen it. Only a couple of times though in my 18-year career. Both were manufacturing delays that cost the companies a LOT of money. Naturally the execs who approved it had zero consequences, both times it was a scapegoat floor level engineer.
.tar.Z or how to tell the file was archived by a Real Man[tm].
I always managed to get out of doing any on call work by pushing this point. There was a price for being put in the list of numbers that would reach my phone during non work hours and then further charges if I had to answer a call. Was always a pretty tense discussion with managers but they never wanted to pay for it and I never worked for free.
I was surprised that there's such a difference between low and below average. You'd think that there would be less of a gap between the two.
1.4.0 was pulished.It's ready to use.
My first job as a dev was for a consultancy and I had to review a code base for a client to support their argument that they require a rewrite. I had no idea about any of this so googled metrics, found cyclomatic complexity, and wrote a load of bullshit about the results of analyzing the code base showing it was complex. It served its purpose - they got corporate to accept a rewrite - but I’ve never used those metrics again.
"Most of the worst misinformation I've seen lately surrounding covid, vaccines, etc, would be solved if everyone had a basic understanding of introductory stats as currently taught."

I think a lot of it is more ideological at the "average" citizen level - on both sides. Most people aren't looking at the data, they're believing whatever they're told that aligns with their personal beliefs.
I think I'm getting close to "finish" this project. I've been thinking about using as a music visualization for my web radio project [1] or let people save it as an image or a short video, so they can use on their designs...

Anyways, on this iteration I have added a CSS linear gradient background, a setting sun at the center of the screen also with some gradient and fiddle a bit with the alpha values, so the mountains would appear more gentle on the horizon.

Hope you like it. I'm open to suggestions on how I should use this project.

1 - https://victorribeiro.com/radio/

Part 1 - https://victorribeiro.com/random

Part 2 - https://victorribeiro.com/random2

Part 3 - https://victorribeiro.com/random3
I love LPL. I knew he liked his craft, but even his intentions are pure -- I had no idea he purposely shortened his videos to icnrease his reach.
It's only a bioweapon if it was made on purpose with the goal of using it as a weapon, and nobody serious is suggesting that. If it was made in a lab to study coronaviruses, as some people claim, it's not a bioweapon, it's a biomistake, biotragedy, bionegligence if you will, but not a weapon.
Stop driving. Bike everywhere. That’s all you need to know.
There was a period in time where Macbooks had FireWire 800 and USB 2. Apple chose not to be first with USB 3, so the choice was more expensive, fast FireWire or cheap and slow USB 2 devices. FireWire was significantly faster than USB 2, USB 3 was faster than FireWire. Eventually Apple dropped FireWire completely, and added Thunderbolt connectors. That did anger quite a few people who were invested in expensive FireWire devices. My favorite Macbook Pro was a 2015 13" it had USB 2 ports and two thunderbolt ports for high speed devices. Honestly, the only thing I ever used the thunderbolt port for was driving extra displays.
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Which is why you can also see the exec team paged in the middle of the night, right? Because they're paid well and need to sacrifice?
The peer-reviewed paper to which I linked, which I am not proposing as a replacement for Bitcoin, explains (to those who are willing to read it) why the block being chosen before or after the leader election does not matter when it comes to the security and consensus properties of Bitcoin. It is important for you to understand that this does not matter so you can understand why when the block is chosen does not change the fact that leader election is being performed.

Again, I'll ask you, since you keep dodging the question: if the node elected as leader is (according to you) not choosing the block, who is choosing the block? Why are you so obsessed with whether the value was chosen "before" or "after" the election, which is an irrelevant detail of the protocol? If you can't answer these things and won't read the paper, I don't really see any reason to keep talking to you, because all you've done is make the same irrelevant point over and over.