skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel you will be able to detect big correlation by using that kind of system. If there is a big correlation to be found, it is likely to have already been found by researchers.

I'm tracking my life by a similar system than OP, but the error with tracking is to start tracking useless things. For example OP track his calorie intake, it is a lot of work, and it is not really usefull at the end. It is unlikely to correlate with any other measures he is doing (apart from weight).

I personally only track mood, activities and position. Each tracking has a specific goal, and only take me 1 minute per day. I have a lot of headaches and could be tempted to track headaches to understand what triggers them. But now that I know what triggers them (when I'm hungry, or I spent too much time exposed to the sun) I would never have been able to detect that correlation from data.

So my advice to people wanting to track their life, identify first what you need the data for, and increase the number of data you track if you have a lack of data to achieve a specific goal, but don't track for the sake of tracking.

For example I track my position, to know where I have been, but also to warn my parents in case I go missing and nobody know where is my last position

I track my mood, to know if I am doing better over time, or if I'm able to improve my sleep not only by feeling it, but by having numbers on

I track my activitites, because I want to know If I work too much, if I do enough sport, or if I spend too much time on my computer in a week
A little off topic, are there any research on political tendencies/alignments of people who are defending or criticising block chain or crypto currency technology?
This should not be up to companies or developers, but up to governments.
The US is less concentrated than Canada, which is probably part of it (more than half of Canadians live in a handful of large metros).

Reasonable houses in my small US town are available for ~$100,000 (there's also listings north of $400,000, it isn't just a lack of economic activity).

Probably have to look at the US on a regional basis to do a meaningful analysis.
Making the same comment over and over again is really not adding anything to the discussion.
I'm actually working on an alternative to Google (though the goal being improved search, not improved privacy), I made this extension during one of the breaks from working on that
It’s surprisingly easy for some to get disconnected from the signs of dehydration. For example: when focused on a project I can go a couple days before realizing that I did not drink any water at all.
In a healthy marketplace, walking to another job works as well.
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Congratulations, you have earned the achievement “chronic condition”.

Your rewards are as follows.

You have max exhaustion at all hours of the day!

Exercise recovery is bumped from next day to 2 weeks!
Your pain level is now on par with dying cancer patients!
Everyone now considers you lazy and incompetent!
Doctors now blame all symptoms on anxiety!

You gain +1 to medical research ability. But -20 to Reputation.

You now get spontaneous and useless medical advise from people that believe in essential oil.

You are now on timer with your job until sympathy runs out!

Disability now can mock you openly as clearly your faking and don’t have a real condition!

You are now a burden to your family!

+10 sneak score; you quickly learn to hide your suffering!
+20 to loneliness!
-20 to persuasion! Asking for help gets little from doctor's.
+10 Planning! Your kids may be orphans soon, make sure they get taken care of. Read fine print on death benefits. ——-
Staying positive when you have a chronic condition is incredibly difficult.
Your not going to get through it without losing your mind now and then.
Credentialism and appeals. To authority to silence dissent are disgusting anti-scientific mistakes that plague our society.

Source: I’m a dropout and frequently encounter highly educated idiots
They're often called "lifetime fixes" or "fixed for term" in the UK. You can easily get them. The term customers choose is typically 25 years rather than 30. However they are currently running at an interest rate of a little under 4% which is much higher than the rate offered on a typical 5 year year fix. This makes them unattractive when you can just perpetually keep re-mortgaging on 5 year fixes.
> I can't help but think that flying will hopefully become a taboo topic

I hope we can figure out more environmentally sustainable flight, not hope we just stop flying
You're gonna love the mmap() stuff.
No Income, No Job anything?
> As is known that Tritium is bioaccumulative…

What? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Health_risks

“HTO has a short biological half-life in the human body of 7 to 14 days, which both reduces the total effects of single-incident ingestion and precludes long-term bioaccumulation of HTO from the environment.”
Thank you so much for such a useful application with a so nice GUI.

Swing rocks !
Not sure I want to leverage up on housing through the boomer die-off. Plus, there are way better investments.
Release Notes: Why and How?
I know exactly what you mean. It was my main concern before going all in. "Is this really helpful or just kind of nice?" But it really does the job and we have an unusually bad bathroom here.

Your other point, regarding turning off more timely, is just a matter of development. (The timer is also user configurable currently). But I want to add more sensors to it like a proximity sensor and light sensor, that will assist it to know if user really left room so that music can turn off faster. It's still very early.

I don't think the kickstarter is going to be funded as it looks right now. I'm about to open a Shopify store instead and continue moving forward. It's a product where you kinda need to experience it before you realise it's really nice. I think word of mouth will be largest marketing channel.

You really should try one. It has saved our "asses" here. :)
Mercury doesn't have atmosphere
How E-Bombs Work – Non-Nuclear EMP Weapons
Full quote: http://bash.org/?244321
We share the planet with other organisms, and we even eat some of them.

"Is not a danger" here means "we don't know and, as long as liability is impossible to be traced back to us, we don't care".
And, the pillars of government are college coaches. Ha
Now make it work with Bigquery please. I would love a nice Bigquery query tool, not happy with the in-browser tool from Google.
The 20 days delay is a problem with escrow.com specifically. Domain sales are a trivially automated process that should be instant e.g. literally any domain registrar.

Paxos family of algorithms solves distributed state replication. It is the backbone of the database engines that already power most of the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)
This is objectively false.

The vast, vast majority of homeowners do not foreclose ever. It’s no more “servitude” than paying the person who holds the note to rent from them instead of holding the note directly.

You’re responsible for maintenance and upgrades. And it’s harder to move to a new place if you own vs rent. These things are true. But “lifetime of servitude” is comically hyperbolic and ignores all the positives of homeownership that historically vastly outweigh those negatives.
( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 )
I have to say, I grew up on Lake Superior in Wisconsin, and it’s funny to hear the Edmund Fitzgerald referred to as just “a shipwreck.” In this area, the sinking of the Fitzgerald easily has more cultural relevance than the Titanic.

In the small towns that surround Lake Superior, it’s not uncommon to run into someone who lost a loved one, so be careful making jokes in bars — and there are jokes[1].

The mystery of it is also intriguing. To this day no one knows exactly how or why the Fitzgerald sank. The last radio message received from the captain said, “We’re holding our own,” and no distress signal was ever sent. Everyone onboard died.

It’s worth reading the Wikipedia page[2].

[1]: https://youtu.be/udZFnUb4Q6A

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald
> You mean the entire developer's thought process behind a change will be represented by a single 12x16 picture?

No, look at the log of FastAPI (or even gitmoji itself: https://github.com/carloscuesta/gitmoji) and you'll see that i.e. the bug emoji serves *only* to replace "bugfix: " at the beginning of the commit message, not the entirety.
To offer some alternative, startpage.com uses google search results and claims to be more privacy oriented.
The problem is waiting for three years to gain insight. This non-lean approach fails because in retrospective analyses context is lost, there's hindsight and survivorship biases. The opportunity to discover more relevant data sources is missed.
>Executive hospital pay is ridiculous AND the executives are often times just some MBA type without any real value add.

I can agree that executive compensation is exorbitant, but do not agree that "MBA types" (what does that even mean?) have no value add. There's nothing inherent with being in the health care industry that translates directly into administering a (large) business. Why would you think doctors or nurses would be good at that?
The average recession lasts 15months. So if you're planning to die before Christmas 2023 you won't have time as you say. But 95% of boomers will be just fine.

Also, inflation proof incomes (like pensions and social security) and investments with inflation proofing are a much better bet than "my boss has to give me X% to match inflation".

Then there is the housing market, most people's biggest asset. Anyone without a house will get fucked by rising prices. Anyone with a mortgage will struggle as interest rates rise, but only in cashflow terms, they're still making our overall. And old people who own outright will get all the upsides and none of the downsides...
>I initially thought "why do we need another one of these", like rolling your eyes at another programming language or JS framework. There's even another large-scale research project already underway at Cambridge [3].

I had a complete opposite reaction to yours. I feel like automatic proving languages are very quirky and stem from the creators not really knowing much about programming. At my university a bunch of professors who really liked Prolog made a formal proving language and guess what syntax it had? Yeah... terrible stuff.

Personally it's been a few years since I started thinking about this matter, but one of my personal objectives in live is to create a decently simple and intuitive (for both mathematicians and programmers) environment for formally proving their theorems
I'm wondering...wouldn't asynchronous CPUs help here? Maybe even with some timing noise introduced on purpose.
You claimed that blockchains solve the problem of atomically transferring digital assets. I gave an example of two digital assets I may like to transfer.

Please tell me how Ethereum solves the problem of exchanging WoW gold for FF14 Gil in a trust less manner.

The problem of transferring digital goods controlled by the same entity in a trust less manner is trivial and solved by many technologies predating Bitcoin. I can already trustlessly sell a piece of copper in World of Warcraft for gold without involving any other third party.
My take is colored by the fact that I only engage as consultant/contractor.

The key is to probe deeply before taking on an assignment. If the managers appear too clueless or fixated upon some timeline or budget, then I often decline the work. I often end up fixing / rescuing projects that have been blotched because the previous incumbent rushed into taking on the job. You simply need to ask questions until you are comfortable that the proposed role is feasible. If the client (employer) is unwilling to engage to that depth, then that too is a red flag.
you cannot ssh to RDS machine. so u need to get another EC2 machine and pg_dump over the network. the connection breaks - yes has happened to us multiple times.

RDS makes it very inconvenient to do anything other than use their managed services.

because RDS backup data storage is VERY EXPENSIVE even compared to s3. this is very deliberate.
I realize that, and I would imagine everybody else in this thread.

That was why, to try to avoid sounding disingenuous, I tried to apologize upfront for the question, and recognized and appreciated the poster qualifications.

I was trying to qualify what safe means in this context. A bit like when talking for example to an aircraft manufacturer CEO, for example as in:

1) "This new airplane model is perfectly safe to fly" ...type of safe

OR

2) "This new airplane model is perfectly safe to fly, I will do a weekly
trip on it with my family" ...type of safe
You are widely overestimating the risk that cop will be shot in traffic stop. It is much lower then 0.01%.

The biggest cause for police death are traffic accidents.
I don't hate blockchain - the technology - it's really interesting.

Something I dislike though is that so many conversations that enquire roughly 'why not use a more traditional technology' end up with rant about not trusting governments - that is 'cringe'.
The typical measure of entropy (Shannon or Gibbs, and let's spare details for later and after you've read up on the theory of large deviations) is

- sum (p log(p))

which is not that different than the formula for the mean

sum (p 1/n)

the critical difference is the normalization constant is based on the probability of the state rather than assuming a uniform probability over all states.

So, in effect, the entropy is a measure of the mean. It is a measure adopted to the case where "mean" is ill-defined because the number of modes and/or the variation around those modes is not handled well by simpler metrics.
Sure, at least in principle. And if you knew what every molecule was doing the entropy would vanish.
For the more lazy among us, there's also Wren which lets you do some estimates: https://www.wren.co/

Then, they actually let you donate/spend a bit of money towards offsetting your individual carbon footprint, towards whatever initiatives you choose (personally donated towards planting trees).

It's not like it would have as much of a profound impact as stopping the mega-corps would, but it's still something and pretty easy to do.

Disclaimer: not affiliated with them in any way, just thought it's a cool idea.
> For email, Inbox Zero means everything is basically in Archive, and is findable by successive application of filters.

No. Inbox Zero means that almost nothing is in the inbox. I practice Inbox Zero, but I don't put everything into Archive. The main kind of mail that I put into Archive is personal messages (hard to categorize them). I put finance-related mails into a separate folder, newsletters into a separate folder, German classes-related mails into a separate folder, healthcare-related mails into a separate folder, job-hunt-related mails into a separate folder and mails related to searching for a flat to rent into a separate folder. Archive is the default, when a certain kind of mail is not expected to generate a lot of mails, or it's hard to categorize something in general. I do use search, but the folders help in searching too. I guess I use them more like tags than folders. I've considered setting up notmuch with notmuchsync, but haven't got around to it yet.

As for organizing files on the filesystem, I do have mildly-deep hierarchies. One nice thing about folders as tags, is that you can construct a hierarchy which means that tag A implies tag B. So e.g. you don't need to tag something as "finance", if you already tagged it as "taxes".

As for preference for navigation over search, it's understandable to me, because by successively going into deeper folders you don't need to remember each "tag". The contents of the folders you browse remind you about what tags are available. You don't need to know all the most-specific tags right off the bat and you're not presented with a zillion of them at any time. You gradually get more specific based on context, at any one time presenting you with only a handful of tags to choose which are relevant at a given time.
> Should we ban people in the highest T quartile from becoming politicians?

We DO!

Testosterone production peaks at 18/19.

The minimum age for Congress is 25, for the Senate 30, and for the president 35.

> Why not start with these?

This is a false dilemma.

I've said we would limit age, I did not say there shouldn't be other limits or that it was the most important limit.
Elon Musk's Twitter Has a Cryptocurrency Scam Problem to Fix
Thank you. This was the type of answer I was looking for.
Well you can hunter1 my hunter1 hunter1!
> and 8 generals

Isn't it 11 generals now? After the command center strike that apparently killed two instantly and injured a third one sufficiently for him to later die in a hospital.
Ok, then how can I buy a World of Warcraft mount from another player I don't trust by using my Final Fantasy 14 money and a block chain?

Or, if that's too silly, how do I buy a .com domain name in exchange for some ETH, assuming neither I nor the seller of the domain name trust each other?

These are all digital goods, so can avax help me do it?
I probably cost insurance company 300-500,000 while figuring out what was wrong with me.

A full round of blood tests by a few specialist would’ve saved everyone involved a lot of money.

Wasn’t even a super rare thing. Just 2 somewhat common conditions. One of which is known for being dismissed as anxiety.
As far as I remember, no. This is just the sticker price. This is a conservative estimate for people who are not real estate professionals, probably looking to buy a house to rent for the first time. Based on the other comment reply, it sounds very conservative to dissuade people from making stupid decisions.
> Any small win will matter because they will have more than at the start of the war.

But at what price? And getting it is one thing; keeping it quite another. Remember both Napoleon and Hitler "got" large parts of Russia, but it also proved to be a huge factor in their eventual downfall.

> They stated what their goals are: stop Ucraine from joining NATO and obtaining the independence for Donbass region.

Yes, that's what Putin said. He also attacked regions far from the Donbas region and said that Ukraine is not a real country, the implication being of course that it's really just a part of Russia. So colour me skeptical.
Who do you mean by “right people?” Are you talking about fundraising?
On the contrary, it's not even slightly difficult to believe that this is not deliberate because it happens all the time.

Not everything has to be a mad conspiracy. It's roughly one billion times easier to believe that a bad automated flagging system has triggered and marked this particular link as spam, than it is to believe that someone at Facebook is twirling their moustache, stroking their long-haired white cat, and hatching a plot to thwart the dastardly freedom-fighters of the open-source movement.

Facebook's automated moderation systems are famously shit.
I mean, yes. But there’s no 5mm of air between tritium you drink and your stomach.
And go where? How many countries do you think will not turn him over to the US?
I’m actually an author and I’m getting paid continuously for zero work now. I totally categorize my books as passive income.
My county purchased a service that automatically estimated values. It was a black box to them. During my appeal, they weren’t able to describe how it chose to raise property assessments on which properties as it wasn’t done on every house. They wouldn’t even reveal the vendor. They were getting a ton of appeals because they switched from a manual, poorly coordinated process to an automated process powered by a third party.

It was very frustrating because the citizen review board accepted the appraiser’s number even though they couldn’t describe the methods and even though I brought dozens of comps showing a lower price and valuation of actual sales. They fixated on the number that the software produced.

I think if software should be used like this it needs to be auditable and at least source available, if not foss.
You know, there's credible and rational claims one can make to justify an overall negative perception of "crypto". To be skeptical of it, at the very least.

It is however concerning how of all people, a computer science student at a technical university is so closed minded, emotional, and primitive in their conclusions.

Blockchains are insecure because I say they are. Scams and stuff. I've Googled for 3 scam cases so it's only scams. Let me link you further into 3 other crypto hate blogs as "research".

Every new crypto project is useless nonsense. I've actually never used a single one of them, don't have any idea what they're about or how any of them works, but they're useless.

It's not that any of these sweeping conclusions are fully false. And with proper research one might come to similar yet probably more nuanced conclusions, the issue is that no case is made at all. It's a narrative with zero substance. If you're going to do that, at least be efficient about it: just write "crypto sucks" as headline and publish.
With so many large "crime waves", these small ripples which seem like crimes... Are they? Is MZ(read: Mark Zuckerberg) next to AC(read: Al Capone)? Does he still, in his heart of hearts, refer to his users as "stupid *f's"(as he referred to them in 2000's for "trusting" him. Nothing changed to make his users any smarter, so getting caught openly admitting how he feels did not change his opinion on his users, merely changed who he talks openly with, and the medium.
It’s amazing really that the internet or rather the WWW has become a dumpster fire of shitty articles and ML generated click bait articles. I put Reddit in maybe 80% of my google searches to ensure I get actual quality information.
https://www.sjaakvandergeest.socsci.uva.nl/pdf/privacy/handb...
Nobody doubts that conspiracies do happen: there's a specific criminal charge for conspiracy, for example.

What people call a 'conspiracy theory', in the sense of what you've posted, is a type of discourse that's basically only persuasive to people with a psychological predilection for these kind of narratives, while to everybody else, it's obvious nonsense.

It's a bit like the Reichsbürgern in germany. They see themselves as uncovering hidden or uncomfortable truths about Germany. To outsiders, what they write is basically ridiculous, it's full of fundamental misunderstandings about how states and laws work.
€1 per kWh? Is that a typo?
Tritiated water isn't particularly bioaccumulative: chemically, it's water and acts like it. The body doesn't preferentially retain tritium compared to normally hydrogen, so it doesn't concentrate in tissues like, say, dioxins or mercury. It can be incorporated into tissue, but not preferentially to normal hydrogen.

Making dioxins with tritium atoms in place of hydrogen would probably be a bad idea, though.
FWIW, also mentioned in the article, quoting Swedish newspaper columnist Oisin Cantwell:

> “One of the reasons we’re seeing those riots is the government’s failed integration and immigration policies,” he argues. “The murder rate has gone up and the criminal gangs are killing each other. But I’m not sure that copying Denmark’s strict immigration policies is the right answer,” he adds, referring to the country’s relatively hard-line approach to accepting migrants.