skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how the average ARM employee feels about this. Are they losing out on a windfall from their labors because the deal fell through? I wonder if that will affect retention?
Yes. Admittedly on the one hand what I see a lot is people embracing victimhood, relieving themselves or responsibility and self empowerment. That's the only aspect of anti-work that I don't like. Otherwise I think their message is very fair and very clear: raise wages to keep up with inflation, and treat workers humanely so people stop dropping dead of heart attacks on the job.
I rarely see any mention of how just so many people dying + becoming disabled impacts the job market. Historically big drops in available labor lead to improved labor negotiation (e.g. working conditions, wages). The "great resignation" is only one facet.
Okay I see.

I didn't want to spend too much time on the "how I quit my job" because my main objective here was why I think people should take a shot on their dreams at least once.

The idea around my 6 months of runway was to give myself a deadline such that once the time is complete, I could say "okay this isn't working, I need to find a job" or "this is going great, let's keep at it."

Thanks for the feedback!
Related: Does anyone have contact info for any of the foobar2000 folks? I'd love to get a portable package up on PortableApps.com.
No? This is a completely meaningless comparison
All of my experience would be the complete opposite. Obesity is so normalized in contemporary American society that we have skewed, unhealthy concepts of what is "skinny", "normal" and "fat".

Go watch the 1985 movie The Goonies and look at the character "chunk". By 1980s American standards he was so fat that it was a defining characteristic. In 2020s America he's an average kid. The same thing can be seen anywhere. Look at any photo of the general public prior to about 1980- high school year books, concerts, festivals, political rallies, beaches, shopping malls and compare it to a similar photo today, and the change in the average body and the number of obese bodies in the contemporary photo will be night and day different.
Hi there! I'm Yury, the author of the blog post. Ask me anything about contributing to Python, uvloop, or, of course, EdgeDB!

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Beowulf Clusters, node visualisation and more with Pi VizuWall
YouTube is considering NFTs, CEO's letter suggests
This was the case some 10 years ago, but Chinese labor is no longer cheap. The wealth brought in by making China the factory of the world drove the income level of its middle class up and now there are few advantages in manufacturing your products in China.

Western manufacturers are constantly pulling their factories back from China, many having gained an ultimate net loss from moving in in the 90s and now relocating again.
The phrase “great resignation” also implies that people are just quitting, when in reality they’re changing jobs. The unemployment rate is lower than it’s been in a decade (except a month or two here and there), people who are resigning are getting new jobs.
These curriculums are very much in the spirit for what I'm after [1]. Thanks! I never knew this would be called industrial engineering, I still don't fully understand how this is "industrial" or "engineering", but I guess that means I am learning something new :)

[1] https://www.isye.gatech.edu/academics/bachelors/industrial-e...
Walking a fine line here with regards to Art. 22 GDPR regarding automated decisions on behalf, and profiling of the individual [1].

This recent push of functionality that will make advertising look more private on the surface, another example of which is Edge's upcoming "Transparent Ads" [2] (whitelisted ads for trusted advertising partners), all of it merely prepwork for the day they sabotage ad blockers. The obvious next stage for them, after having successfully misdirected the narrative towards privacy being their primary use case.

Google must hate human beings, the shit they're pulling lately makes it obvious. So, Roko's basilisk... is this how it begins?

1 https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/
2 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-...
Fight Club Gets a Different Ending in China
Not quite so. The authors of the paper describe Soundscape Ecology as being:

[A]ll sounds, those of biophony, geophony, and anthrophony, emanating from a given landscape to create unique acoustical patterns across a variety of spatial and temporal scales.

And they contrast their definition to Acoustic Ecology by adding:

Acoustic ecology, as introduced by Schafer (1977) and Truax (1999), is seen as complementary to traditional ecological concepts rather than situated within them. Broadly interdisciplinary, acoustic ecology studies the relationships and interactions among humans and sounds in an environment, including musical orchestrations, aural awareness, and acoustic design (Schafer 1977, Truax 1999). Acoustic ecology largely emphasizes human-centered inquiry rather than the larger socioecological systems approach taken here.
If you go to r/AntiWork on Reddit and read their sidebar, it's fairly easy to understand what the point is:

> A subreddit for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.
At a past job I went to Serbia several times and the wine was fantastic. I took a pic of a few of the bottles but could never find them responsibly priced in the US.
Ask HN: Who has moved from the U.S. to Europe?
I've long considered leaving this country for a multitude of reasons.

I'd be curious to hear some first hand experiences of those who've made the move to Europe and what you think of the process and considerations one should make.

A few questions to start the conversation:

- Where do you live?

- What's the biggest sacrifice you had to make (i.e. pay, housing, friends, etc.)

- What have you gained?
yeah, this is pretty much my view on it also. I am not so much frustrated, but wondering if there is a way of progressing a research career outside of typical research institutions with actual research
If you are a military diver covertly infiltrating a foreign country's military installation and you get discovered by an agent of that country (be it human, animal or artificial), you are already quickly approaching (if not across the line into) "act of war" territory.

Granted, modern international relations has done a solid job of fuzzing the delineation of "acts of war" such that interpretations of acts can serve needs in a geopolitical context, but that will be the case whether you kill the dolphin or not.
I would hope so.

I used to think this was sort of the domain of crackpot billionaires faced with the fear of their own unavoidable death, the ultimate obstacle for them personally.

It may be, but with demographic trends I see it as more of a urgent public health issue. The inverted pyramid starting to show up in many places means we either have to increase the population of young, or somehow increase the health of older individuals into older ages. Both are probably necessary but the former often implies an increasing population size as a whole, which has its own consequences (it doesn't have to be that way but often is).

I just saw a couple of articles somewhere about investments in a major research institute, where they were luring people away from academic positions? So it seems at least nominally there still is ongoing investment in the area.

My impression is that so far it seems to be progressing like most areas of science: there seem to be a couple of well-established findings (like caloric restriction), along with a steady rate of new findings that usually don't replicate or generalize.

The most recent interest I've read about has been in senolytic compounds like fisetin and quercetin-dasatinib mixtures. It's unclear to me how that is working out one way or the other. It seems promising but also without a lot of data yet. If I remember correctly there were some concerns about ongoing use of low-dose dasatinib in some people but I might be misremembering that.

My sense is this area is somewhat difficult because it has had the reputation of "searching for a fountain of youth" and being the domain of aging billionaires. It also requires time in humans, which is notoriously difficult in research for practical reasons.

Also, a lot of it falls into this area that is medically regulated, but outside the domain of traditional clinical practice. This creates a problem because it's not treated as a disease that could be leveraged for clinical research. E.g., you can't apply the model of "randomize treatments to people who would be coming into the clinic anyway for disease X" because it's not recognized as a disease. But if it's something like quercetin-dasatinib compound, you can't just get it as a supplement, and so study it that way.

Hopefully the stigma issue will decline; the longitudinal issue is more challenging in some ways. The issue about it being regulated but not a disease is more problematic, and will either require a change in mindset (maybe going along with the stigma issue) and/or will require some deregulation of healthcare.
I don't like it either. I much prefer simple syntax with limited exceptions and variation. I use ruby every day but I prefer a syntax closer to go.
Last I checked, tea doesn’t occur naturally. Creating it requires a technique (technology).
I've used Nextcloud for my Contacts and Calendar for several years now. Works great on my iphone and linux computers (evolution + gnome-contacts/gnome-calendar).

I also use Nextcloud for my Notes/Task Lists (also works great with iphone and evolution), bookmarks, and recipe management.

My only issue with Nextcloud, is I really with they had an LTS release with at least 2 years of support. I have to keep my server moving between major versions pretty much every 4-6 months (you can't skip versions), or the clients which tend to get auto updated (especially on iOS) stop supporting the older server versions.
Because then a sane person could get ahold of the weapons, launch first, and kill all current opponents.
Given the number of significant digits, the answer is closer to stating that pi is approximately equal to 3.14

I agree, you don't have the mentality of a mathematician.
It's also a great tool. However, as far as I know, Testcontainers just manages container-based dependencies but doesn't prepare the data in any way.
I just moved my family to outlook.com, Office 365 Family allows up to 6 people for $99/yr (total), and supports custom domains.
No need to apologise! It's all good.

I'm worried too and I live in a place that will be hard hit by climate change. In fact, this year the house was flooded to an extent that was really unprecedented (we've had flooding before but not like that) and I wonder if that's just the sign of things to come. Who knows.
Reading between the lines to read race into a law where race is absent seems to me to be racism.

The whole point of laws is, they should make sense when you reverse race or leave out race completely.

And this is why critical race theory is cancer... its always one sided, victims are always darker and perpetrators are always lighter shades.
Regarding the biology:

- One of the strategies in drug development is to find a protein that is more present in people who have a disease versus those who don't (called "overexpressed" proteins), and attempt to stop this protein from work correctly (called "inhibition") by having a small molecule drugs that binds to a specific site of the protein (called the "allosteric site") in order to make it mechanically unable to execute its function.

- Cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) are a family of proteins that seem to play important roles in controlling cell division. CDK20 is overexpressed in a number of cancers.

Regarding the novelty:

- Discovering new inhibitors of proteins based on AI is definitely less novel than it was 5 years ago - while it's definitely still not the norm, AI is making big waves in the pharmaceutical industry. However, I think this might be the first publication validating the use of Alphafold for small molecule drug development, which is a major step forward.

- While it's interesting to see that it's possible to design a small-molecule CDK20 inhibitor, it's currently still very uncertain whether this is a promising drug: i. the compound could be insufficiently specific to CDK20 and could bind to other important proteins and cause unwanted and potentially serious side-effects, ii. the compound could have bad "drug-like" properties (e.g. bioaccumulate in the liver) or be toxic in some way, iii. the compound could interact badly with other drugs that cancer patients receive, iv. the compound could induce resistance (a common problem in small molecule drugs in oncology), and finally, and most importantly, v. the drug might just not be effective at treating cancer or any other diseases - it's not because a protein is over-expressed that it's the cause of a cancer, but rather a symptom of another biological dysregulation.

Still, it's definitely an achievement, and I applaud the efforts of the team and hope they'll find successful treatments.
> if website knows your interests it can offer you to unlock some of its content for something like $0.20

Why would a website need to know my interests for me to be able to pay for content?
Perhaps it wouldn't happen overnight, but wouldn't ETC prices rally with more people participating in the network?

> I am willing to bet money that after ETH POS transition, graphics boards prices will crater.

I really hope so. It's just such a shame that board makers made mining specific boards without display outputs. What a waste for the secondary market.
That's the second mover advantage right?
This is roughly the equivalent of a reporter quoting a tweet as “people are saying”. Anti work is angry about work conditions, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that they’re all quitting to lounge about. In fact, there are tons of stories there about people quitting bad jobs to get better jobs.
It doesn’t cost the other party anything to say you were joking. Saying you’re offended can lead to lost economic opportunity for somebody.
I would expect so. I think one of the things which makes places like GR not so great for me is that I don't have a ML background. I have done little bits here and there, and am pretty comfortable with the tools, but I am not really interested in using ML to solve problems unless it is kind of obvious, if you know what I mean.
That's still a war on ownership, just using the law itself as a weapon. But the law is ours to change, and we can withdraw its support of such restrictions, or even forbid them.
> There's always a reason for the fence.

Yes: To get the rocks out of the dirt so we can farm there.

https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=18-P13-000...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-england-stone-wall...

Now, of course, New England with its rocky soil is no longer an agricultural powerhouse, so maintaining a stone wall in the middle of re-forested land is rather pointless from the perspective of anything other than an antiquarian interest. The whole world has changed and the walls weren't primarily intended as boundaries anyway.
The Space Shuttle was refurbishable. Its barely a valid comparison
Racquetball is so great for the winter months if you live somewhere it's regularly below freezing. Really easy to pickup and play, hard to master.
According to CDC’s definition Joe Biden is overweight with a BMI of 25.
The 'you're the product' is a legitimate argument, but this argument makes sense only if you are aware of the phenomenon.When you think at the scale of Chrome/Firefox, it doesn't.The reason is simple: the average user is not aware of updates and changes (at all), especially those related to privacy and data.(Yes, despite the "transparency" commitments of Google/etc).Most people will still only see that the new firefox version introduced a new color theme or something equivalently useless.

So kind of, yes, these are against the user's will.Now my proposed solution is straight-out stop using them, but since 95%+ of people can't do that, there's no simple solution.(besides the simplest most effective one)
Worked great during the (surviving) workers during the bubonic plague.
https://history.wustl.edu/news/how-black-death-made-life-bet...
That's why people don't admit it to those affected. I suppose strangers chatting at the bar will be more likely to admit wrongdoing, but they are often still worried about judgement. So the only place they can completely admit things is where they're totally anonymous and that's just not the same - nor as interactive and engaging - as real life.
Some inspirational links I saved while preparing for my own portfolio redesign:

https://hicks.design/

https://timokuilder.com/

https://www.cminniear.com/

https://www.aileen.co/

https://www.aileen.co/

https://owltastic.com/

https://stefano-derosa.com/
"HCC is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatocellular_carcinoma
I think there would definitely be a market for it, but right now I have a prototype, and the amount of engineering effort required to turn it into a reliable product would be immense. Not sure how it would fit into a startup timeline.
I mean in an interview Steven Pinker himself said there’s some things that we may not want to know, because if the parameter is wholly outside of human control it’d just contribute to racism and serve no useful purpose.

Also even if a study found parameters like that, it would never be published as the scientists career would absolutely be ruined.
Show HN: Realtime Ethereum gas fee chart
After struggling with timing ethereum gas fees for a while, I decided to make a graph that shows historical gas fees as well as realtime fees. That way I could gauge whether or not the current gas fee was reasonable based on past fee data.

It's called blockgas.io, and a few of my friends have found it useful so I decided to drop it here as well.

Please let me know what you think, and if you want me to add anything to it.
Canada's Red-Hot Housing Market Is Betting Interest Rates Will Never Rise
> They aren't right, but I can understand the perspective.

How? I'm curious. If someone makes accusations that you know to be false, wouldn't your best defense be a comprehensive refutation?

What alternative do you see that would be more compelling?

I, for one, really appreciate this level of detail, because the most common alternative is to attack back mercilessly without evidence. This tactic being commonly employed by politicians the world over.
Foobar2000 was the hardest app to replace when I switched from Windows to Linux. I finally settled with Clementine which is great too, but that was basically the end for my music collection, organization and rating hobby. I had even built my own replacement to Last.fm/Audioscrobbler backed with a local database as I wasn't happy with their feature sets, and I meticulously kept all tracks uniquely identifiable with full tagging to derive some data of my listening habits.

That all basically ended -- instead of being an active process and participating in vibrant communities my music listening changed to just that, listening. The eventual switch to Spotify was much less dramatic for me. Sure it was replaced with something else to tinker on, but some of my fondest computing memories are thanks to foobar2000.
> I hope proposals like this are eventually accepted. [...] These measures [...] seem perfect to me.

> (I'll still block ads.)

You have shot down the argumentative line of your whole comment with that last line.
That's what's in the sidebar, but a quick browsing of the posts in there suggests a more socialist bent to me.
Is there a credible reason why SARS and COVID both came from the same country?

The right official response would've been to not start a cover up (and the rest of the world could've hopefully prepared better). Even the WHO was carrying water for China in Feb 2020.
“Currently, 59% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 39% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.”

https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-aborti...

Please don’t assert false facts, especially when the truth is a Google query away.
We would find those in tear downs.

This caused quite the stir about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29555093

TikTok, Facebook (for the FBI/CIA), and other platforms are probably lower hanging fruit. People just accept the surveillance, and there's not much reverse engineering one can do to determine what's being done with your data.
The result of decoding music files is deterministic and well defined, so essentially: they will all sound the same, unless one of them is screwing something up.

Some may handle sample rate conversion better than others.

Foobar's FAQ says as much: https://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ
It's ludicrous to suggest that value is proof of theft.
I wonder what kind of collective trauma could be causing the HN community to frontpage articles about Chesterton's fence a few times a year.
not published yet, but I am going to start writing the paper soon. I addressed the PI route in my post, but essentially, my career has not been focused enough which makes applying to be a PI very difficult.
No, you are wrong. It is exactly what it says, these redditors do not want to work, at all. Not for good pay, not for shitty pay. Just zero work. It becomes obvious once you read through several threads. They believe life shouldn’t be wasted slaving away for a paycheck so you can pay bills until you die.

The subreddit is mostly about people languishing the fact they cannot escape this cycle and day dreaming about how to get out, or sharing horrible work experiences with others for sympathy.
Most of the posts on that subreddit seem like fake stories, there's no proof required to post. Most of the top posts every month sound almost the same, titles like "My boss said i couldn't leave" for click-bait with a screenshot of what sometimes just looks like a word doc.
We see this opinion on HN frequently yet various legal systems recognize the concept of theft of nontangible services (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_services).

One wonders if the HN readers denying the concept of IP also support copying GPL code without adherence to the GPL. It would be logically consistent.
foobar can do bitperfect output. MPD too, given configured properly. A lot of players is missing this option (specifically bypassing system mixer), and it making sound noticably worse. On MacOS situation is dire (there are some players, but their UX is terrible, imo)
I was taking Armodafinil for a bit and this was my experience - it was too strong and would lead to insomnia for me.
Likely snatching enemy satellites in a single orbit (i.e. launch, snatch sattelite, land, all in the same orbit) before enemy can even detect that the shuttle is up there.
From that study...

> heart-healthy dietary patterns (eg, Mediterranean-style and DASH-style diets) are inherently low in cholesterol, with typical menus containing <300 mg/dL cholesterol, similar to the current US intake.

The CDC reports that greater than 240 mg/dL is considered high [1] with more than 11% of people having that.

The study and the CDC differ on what's normal.

A Mediterranean diet (to pick on something in the study) is mostly plant based [2] and LDL cholesterol comes from eating animal based products [3]. It's low in LDLs.

For people who have had high cholesterol (including those with heart disease) heart specialists will tell you to change your diet to lower the intake of LDLs. I know many who have been given this advice by a doctor and it works.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/cholesterol.htm

[2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/a-practical-guide-to-the...

[3] https://www.heartuk.org.uk/low-cholesterol-foods/foods-that-...