skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are the school policies all that porous? I don't have time to look into this too deeply at the moment, but take a look at this:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/immunize.htm

This shows that a very high percentages of children are vaccinated by the time they are 2 years old (e.g., 90% for MMR). Too me, this strongly indicates that those policies aren't very porous at all.

Are the covid vaccine mandates any less porous, especially given that only about 60 to 70% of adults are vaccinated, even though pretty much all adults could be vaccinated by now.

The old vaccines were new at some point too, and I would wager that development and testing regimes weren't as robust as they are now. I don't see any good reason to trust the new vaccines any less.

Finally, I didn't say the policies are equivalent in every way, but I still contend that they are fundamentally similar with regard to mandates.
Listening to Books
You should look into CBTI, and see a sleep therapist (my insurance covered this; so I only had to pay co-pay).

In brief, the goal with CBTI is to force yourself to get out of bed at 8am (say). You can still continue going to sleep at whatever time you’re used to. So clearly, you’ll be extremely tired if you keep getting 5-6 hours of sleep. My therapist told me that I’d essentially hate him for 1.5 weeks until this keeps going. Also, no naps are allowed in this phase. At some point, your body will be so tired that you’ll just pass out at midnight.
It seems like there needs to be a political push to fix the easily exploited systems that just use SSN, etc. E.g. make laws that require banks, etc. to need some other form of authentication.

But I guess an upgrade of systems will cost hundreds of millions of dollars...
HN pre-coffee: read only. HN post-coffee: writes enabled. :)
As an anecdotal counterpoint of the 10ish people that I knew that started lifting in their teens and early twenties not a single one had a trainer. Preventing injuries through proper form is the main benefit of a trainer and everyone stayed fairly injury free.

You don't need to hire someone to explain good nutrition, sleep, etc. Does it help? Absolutely. But necessary? No. There's so much amazing content on the internet. Especially when you see how little training the average personal trainer is required to undergo. Someone truly competent will run you close a $100 an hour.
>We are essentially awash in our own waste

Way worse than that, but I expect you know.

>Growing up, I was fed lies about a future of a unified world, universally prosperous under American hegemony.

Interesting, I'm Canadian and we certainly didn't learn this. We certainly have learnt about embracing the multiple cultures around us. How we dont need to melting pot the cultures and we can peacefully coexist. We don't need to 'unify', the more we embrace each other's differences the better.

>It was a dogmatic fiction, and I am still bitter about it. It's better to be real with our kids. That does not mean telling them they will die but they need to be aware of the risks and the scale of the work ahead.

There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, -MIB

It's virtually impossible for human extinction. It becomes 15 degrees c warmer and we have full collapse of everything alive on earth. The new thing you can make lots of money do is building domes and robotics. Your new home will be completely self-contained ecosystem. Robots deliver all your needs, you never quite really leave your house. Doesnt sound good, but if for some reason outside was just completely uninhabitable.

>Infinite growth on a finite Earth is not possible. We can basically either change patterns/behavior drastically or settle other planets fast. Either option entails hardship that the postwar generation simply never had to face.

Infinite growth is impossible, but the limit is so far beyond where we are now. I guarantee real gdp will be ridiculously higher 30 years from now. We certainly have a pollution problem, but interestingly cleaning that pollution will be gdp growth.
> “ Later in India’s history, road designers looked at the long, flat embankments that cut through the country as an infrastructure asset. The hedge’s path was, in certain areas, transformed into a series of roads. “

Calling BS on this without the author providing any sources.
meanwhile I can't get my health insurance's 'health spending account' to pay for my gym membership...
I've replaced much of my meat eating with Impossible (very available and relatively affordable at $5.99 in Trader Joe's in the US). Mainly for environmental/ethical reasons.

Ground impossible meat is as good as real ground beef IMO, though it took me a while to realize that you need to salt/spice it just as you would real meat too! ie. if you put straight ground beef on a grill, it'll taste a little bland. Same with the fake meats.
Sorry but this is completely false.

Look at the research.

> the Beyond Burger generates 90% less greenhouse gas emissions, requires 46% less energy, has >99% less impact on water scarcity and 93% less impact on land use than a ¼ pound of U.S. beef.

https://css.umich.edu/publication/beyond-meats-beyond-burger...
i didn’t say they weren’t. i said the same people crying about book banning in this case are the most prolific censors themselves
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Also go here https://identitytheft.gov and make sure to follow the steps they have.
My wife is vegan so I have tasted them all. I think the initial taste is good, but the after taste and the taste as you chew it, they get wrong somehow. The main problem however is lack of variation in texture and consistency. It is like everything is a cheap hot dog in texture.

I wish they added strains of imperfection that get stuck in your teeth or something.
This article is click-bait bullshit.

The title says "Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for Edge browser"

But the text says: "Microsoft has not responded to repeated requests for comment. Given the widespread condemnation of the feature, it may be reconsidering a full rollout – its deal with Zip permitting."

There is zero substance in this article.

And I say the above as a 90's Linux die-hard who loves to bash MSFT.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29350983 – this current submission has a lower ID and was submitted earlier.

Neither have comments so far but both are on the front page. @dang if you read this, can this one be marked as as a dupe?
What sort of ghoul compares a programming issue with something like the conflict in Vietnam? When he started writing about 15 million people dying you think that would have made him stop and rethink the metaphor.
So called "ancient astronaut theory," is an ideology. The premise is the hypothetical that earth was once inhabited by extraterrestrials, and then when you view archeology and history through that lens, and provide explanations for any outstanding questions or uncertainties using this underlying assumption as a premise (could it be aliens? ancient astronaut theorists say yes!), you have a complete and very accessible critical theory of history that is very entertaining bunk.

I could write the same series as Ancient Objectivists, Ancient Anarchists, Ancient Socialists, Ancient Elites, etc. The details they use as justification do not illuminate the subject, they use archeological and historical stories as evidence of their theory - it's all the same thing.

The reason people get the satisfying feeling of "it all makes sense" is because the one stupid idea seems to be reinforced by relatively neutral facts, when in fact, it's just a dumb idea displayed along side facts.
Ask HN: Need to get ahold of a person with knowledge in UK startups, how?
Hey HN,

don't really know where to ask this so here goes! I've been offered stock options at the company I work at, which is UK based. I've got a question I need answered as I'm a bit suspicious, and Google's to no help.

Where can I find someone to ask? It's nothing too complex. I'd even be willing to pay.
^ this post has a great overview. It’s a custom built globe library built on top of Three.js
Personally, the same advice to manage depression applies to managing better sleep: exercise, engage in body/mind-healthy habits. My bed room has all the tricks too: LED lights taped over, black out curtains, a Home Assistant automation for simulating sunrise with Hue bulbs. It has been a challenge.

Secondly, no caffeine after noon time on a work night.

When I started my first job, I went to the doctor for a sleep aid, he prescribed trazodone 100mg. I was anxious about falling asleep and being well rested for work. I used it for a couple of weeks and it helped me get on track. I did not like the side effects of drowsiness in the AM so I stopped, even when I took a half-dose. I am now getting good sleep for the past half-year because I adhere to good habits, not because I'm cured. I think it will always be a challenge, so it's a matter of being disciplined
> It's possible to farm animals ethically.

I am not convinced that this is true because it necessitates raising an animal for the sole purpose of slaughtering it. Though I realize that many will have a different measure of "ethical", I would say that these products are most certainly the way for me.
Isn't the actual problem here federal subsidies for beef production?
New variant classed 'of concern' and named Omicron
Show HN: SQLToy - a SQL database in 500 lines of code
Hi HN! My pet project for the last couple of months has been SQLToy.

SQLToy is an in-memory SQL database written in Javascript. It is under 500 lines of code and has zero dependencies. It supports the following SQL operations:

SELECT
- FROM
- CROSS JOIN
- INNER JOIN
- LEFT JOIN
- RIGHT JOIN
- WHERE
- GROUP BY
- Aggregate functions: ARRAY_AGG, MAX, MIN, COUNT
- DISTINCT
- ORDER BY
- OFFSET
- LIMIT
- CREATE TABLE
- INSERT INTO
- UPDATE

The purpose of SQLToy is to teach SQL. Instead of doing this from the "outside-in" by teaching the query language it is done "inside-out" by going through the implementation of the most common SQL operators. Instead of just learning what the operators do, you will also learn how they do it which (hopefully!) should lead to a much deeper level of understanding.

In addition to the code in the repo there is an associated Wiki (about 10 times longer than the code itself!) which walks through the implementation of each operation.

Feedback appreciated!
This would make more sense if manufacturing hadn’t improved in that time. But isn’t it reasonable to expect the price of these items to have reduced over the past 100 years?
I've tried it. It doesn't taste terrible. It's clearly not meat, however.

I'm biased (chicken farmer), but to me it seems quite strange to think that some highly-processed factory-produced meatlike substance could ever come close to matching the nutritive quality of well-raised and processed meat.

Factories are in general not well-known for producing healthful food.
This seems like India is following in China's footsteps.

The full tweet:

India's fertility rate has fallen below replacement level (2.1 children per women). However there is still significant variation between states.

The lowest birth rate is in Sikkim at 1.1, equivalent to Singapore, while the highest is in Bihar at 3.0, equivalent to Israel.

-

The map in the tweet has a state by state breakdown.
Not a vegetarian but I would bet in 100-200 years eating real meat will become taboo.
Don’t be mocking the one true goddess! Lest Eris cast you out, leaving you to partake of hotdogs with no hotdog buns for all eternity or 5 weeks —which ever comes first.

-Pope Wombatpm, KSC
Burning Cow Cabal of lesser Chicago
Slightly related but windows 11 is such a bad version that I'm going back to windows 10. The hotch potch of the old menus and the new menus are bizarre to say the least.
Their food product is gross and makes me ill. There’s something “off,” about it. Maybe it’s just the BK burger they supply. Don’t know. But I do know it provokes an intestinal protest in me.
PGDP is the project that's doing high quality book transcriptions. OpenLibrary is a distribution mechanism.
Microsoft finally made a browser which renders websites as expected, is up-to-date regarding security and features, and (most) people actually don't have the need to replace it with anything else.

I will never understand why they NEED to ruin this. It's baffling.
Sometimes I think the thing I want more than anything in the world is the time to spend 15 minutes making a coffee in the morning.

I feel like you've just given me my new life goal, a career and lifestyle that enables that.
Just another reason why people might prefer bittorrent then if it can saturate the line and the netflix player can't.
Your own links show Mughal GDP per capita at 700$+ in 1600, china at 800$+, a level that wasn't approached by UK until late 1800s and most of Europe until 1900s.

Britain started dominating India in the 1700s and got almost complete domination by 1819 by finishing off the last Indian hold out - the maratha kingdom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Maratha_War

India's economic decline coincides with colonialism and does not precede it, the opposite of what you suggest.

If you are going to disagree with virtually every economist that colonialism destroyed the economies of virtually every colony while siphoning off a lot of wealth to Europe, you will have to do better than post links that contradict your own statements.

By any dimension of comparison the Mughal and contemporaneous Chinese empires were superior to any colonial empires that followed - be it economic output, lack of hunger and famine, or colonial deindustrialization. The British empire was one of the largest setbacks to World GDP ever, as demonstrated by the information you yourself posted.
Do you know something we don't? For example, the algorithm behind HN voting? How do you know it was "voted straight to front page"? Right now (T+1h20m) it has 9 points.
Loops imply that the order matters when it doesnt.

When order does matter, loops are quite enjoyable
It's not just yours, it's common to most (virtually all?) ORMs, which makes these ideological arguments somewhat moot.

Just use an ORM for mapping and for simple queries and hand crank the complex queries.
So did we until the kids got old enough to have a say. Perhaps that is Disney’s thinking, they’ve got the kids roped in and exhausted parents willing to spend.
> The number of Axie daily users increased by more than four times in under three months to 2bn in October, according to figures released by Sky Mavis. Analysts have now begun watching for signs of slowing growth.

In case anyone else was confused by the 2B DAU figure which would dwarf TikTok by a couple orders of magnitude, this seems to be a typo for 2M. E.g. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/10/05/axie-infinity-n...
Yeah this is an open-source problem.

Contributions are very often scratch-my-own-itch bugfixes that don't consider other users or the project at large.

It is easier in projects that are greenfield where there's few existing users and a more cowboy attitude toward getting any code accepted to move the project forward.

In mature projects that have lots of complicated requirements and external APIs that can't be broken it becomes extremely hard for external contributors to be successful because contributing becomes something that resembles actual $DAYJOB work that people get paid for. Which is a lot of sitting around for hours thinking of ways that the simple and obvious solution is poor and needs to get tweaked, then hours of sadness over breaking existing tests and refactoring the whole idea until you boil it down to something which is often quite a lot of work and may fix many problems outside of the initial scope of the issue, spread over multiple pull requests.

That is what software development in a mature codebase looks like, and its not something that is fun and something that people usually want to get paid to do.
Crypto... Trump... when is the run for moon real estate gonna start?
WHO labels new Covid strain as variant of concern named Omicron
Dogs and kids (in that order).

Both need to get up at the same time everyday whether you want to or not. If you keep doing it consistently, you’ll have to go to bed earlier.

If not for them, I’d probably still be up til 3am every night. Now I can’t physically do it anymore or I’m a wreck for a week.
I laughed at your comment. On point.
They copied a browser which renders websites the same way as the browser they copied from. Value add, whether you like their choices or not, is arguably the only reason one would pick their browser over the browser they copied.
and everybody clapped
Indeed the analogy has not aged well. It's in bad taste, and somewhat offensive, to hear the term "Vietnam of programming".
Your first statement is unambiguous.

Your second sentence is ambiguous. It could mean

1. Put all of my gizmos in a single gizmo box, together, OR

2. Put each of my gizmos in its own gizmo box
Seems like some eager undergrad's notebook; an exercise in productive procrastination.

Not sure how useful this is in practice. Probably not very. Thanks nonetheless
It is a for profit company, the reason is always profit.
Agreed actually. I plan on building a new house in 15 years (playing the long game here), it will be concrete and a Faraday cage.

They also have whole house surge protectors too.
Huberman Lab. Listen to episodes on sleep.

TLDR, get ambulatory ASAP and direct sunlight in eyes as early as possible. Exercise in the AM. Watch the sun set outside.

Ever wonder why you sleep so well camping? I don’t have the reference on hand but iirc in an episode about sleep on the huberman lab, a study had fully reset a group with chronic sleep problems in just 2 days of camping. Go figure.
I enjoy impossible burgers. They grill a little different and don't release as much juice, but the end result is still tasty, and definitely tastier than cheap, higher-fat burgers.

As for the ground impossible meat, my only negative feedback is that it's a poor candidate for use in boxed dinners (like Hamburger Helper), because the addition of too much liquid ruins the illusion: it starts to dissolve into its constituent vegetable powders.

But heck, I recently found the burgers flagged with a modest discount at Costco that made them cheaper than the beef burgers, per unit!
Yeah, it's obnoxious. The problem is that much of what gives the best results can't be had through diet anymore — for instance, seeing as soil used over and over again is rapidly becoming depleted of minerals, vegetables are left without the nutritional punch they used to pack. Supplementation isn't ideal, to be sure, but it can be done strategically. I've been using Cronometer (and I'm sure there are other great tools out there) to track not just macro- but micronutrients, and that's given me a good idea of what might be useful to add and what I don't need to. I put the note about D without K up simply as a PSA — there are some supplements that really shouldn't be taken alone, especially in large doses.
What about vixra[0]?

[0]https://vixra.org/
That isn't much difference. If there is a promise of payments for enrolling others, that is still a subsidy from later to earlier investors.
GPM was the moment for me when I finally realized I cannot count on Google services. Since then I migrated to Deezer - so far so good, but I would not be surprised if they also turn to bad. That's why my music collection is backed up in the cloud now. I am self hosting a media server, so I am all good.
Regular exercise, sleep mask, earplugs, no screens 1 hr before bed (just read a book), no eating 3 hrs before bed, no spicy food, caffeine, or alcohol 8 hrs before bed, in bed at the same time every night, dark blinds, blue light filtering glasses, flux/night mode on your computer and phone, pee right before getting into bed, make sure you have a quality bed+pillow+sheets+comforter that matches your weight and sleep style, meditate earlier in the day so you can deal with the busy thoughts ahead of time. You can try melotonin but I built up a tolerance very quickly.

If all that doesn't work, trazodone. Life saver.

Maybe you can tell, but I've been fighting for good sleep for >10 years.
Stop using devices and you'll see the effect. But if you are sure you cannot, then you have to stop using it after a certain hour and you have to exercise more. Then just force yourself to wake up before a certain time - will it to happen. Done.
That math doesn't add up.
If a single stream makes (0.04×0.01) dollars or 4% of $0.01 on average, thats $0.004 per stream. If your friend has 1.2M streams a year, that's $4800 in payout per year. Can you elaborate please?
I understand that today it is popular to assert that people are just hapless victims of circumstance, that they don't have agency.

I don't buy it.

Furthermore, when people take responsibility for their lives, they tend to have much better outcomes. I'm old, and I've observed this play out constantly. Blaming others and circumstance might make one feel better, but it is completely useless.

And lastly, successful treatment for addiction and alcoholism involves the person taking responsibility for the addiction.
"Interest-free"? Maybe in the technical sense, but a $4 fee on the minimum $35 purchase for a six week loan is a pretty honkin' high effective rate.

If I didn't mess up the inputs, the calculator at https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/financial/apr-cal... says this is equivalent to a 163.2642% APR.

Granted, the effective rate will be considerably less for larger purchases.
You're right, I missed when you said registered snail mail, I didn't see that (I need new glasses, it's getting too hard to read) and I thought you just meant normal mail.

Second point: this absolutely is identity theft and that isn't a strike against op at all. Someone impersonated op to open an account. You're correct that the bank is liable for the fraud, but op is still the victim of a crime and has to jump through hoops to fix it. And the bank isn't going to pay a dime to op. For all we know, someone submitted a really good fake driver's license (or a copy of the real one) and SS card and opened the account.

I'm not blaming op at all—I had my identity stolen twice and the most you can blame me for is not putting fraud alerts on my credit reports, including one I didn't even know about—but the balls in their court to fix this
In theory, in a competitive market, margins will decline over time and goods will be sold close to at cost. This is especially applicable to grocery/food where margins are razor thin.

If we assume the inputs to impossible are significantly cheaper than beef, then cost of impossible should be significantly cheaper too.

But you're right, subsidies distort the equation. If somebody can chime in with what the level of beef subsidy is, but I'm doubtful it's enough to offset using vegetables over cattle. Should be an order of magnitude cheaper in a free market, once production is scaled up appropriately.
Discrimination based on color of skin and appearance is western zeitgeist since forever. Divisions in Indian society were based on social and economic status more than looks, appearance or race - as is common in every other country on the planet.
My meds must be off because I’m seeing the fnords again
Sounds like a successful political power grab by someone in the core team.
This is what your MS browser has become? Basically a tracking device for “dealz”, Which you can then pay for. It’s basically become the dollar general of browsers. There were insecure browser plugins that did this 10-15 years ago. This is Laughable and sad.
A set implies a uniqueness constraint that a list does not.

Generally a list is ordered by contract, whereas whether or not a set is ordered depends on the implementation.