skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absurd. Other people don't have to live their life a certain way just because that makes you happy.
The title is weird.

1. […] wearing helmets because it is less safe to wear helmets

2. […] wearing helmets if such helmet-wearing is motivated by safety concerns

I’m guessing that only the first one makes sense now that I think about it. But I first thought that the riders had said, hey we want to wear helmets because we have safety concerns. And then the management said no.
This “bad US supermarket bread” doesn’t exist in California. We have even surpassed whole wheat and only eat sprouted seed breads and something that claims to be keto bread somehow.

It does exist in Japan. You may think they’re healthy but they eat the worst wheat products imaginable. Even white bread isn’t white enough for them; they cut the crusts off their 711 sandwiches and have whiter than white meat buns.
> it annoys me when people expect “The Answer”

I don't think it's unreasonable that people expect clear public health guidelines. I don't want to trudge through a thousand pages of research, I want the department of health to say "well we had some experts read the papers, and if you do X and Y and Z you'll probably be fine." I'd appreciate more details beyond that, of course, especially if it's an area of particular interest to me. But I can't be that interested in everything, and sometimes it's good just to put out a guideline.
I feel like this is something that solo founders don't address because continuity is a concept that attaches to shared assets. Once someone else cares enough to be involved the founder is no longer solo.
I snapped up a Dell Precision R710 with 92GB RAM. Helluva beast, there.

But I’m happy with running some 23 VPS, a custom firewall that blocks QUIC/UDP and a transparent Squid that blocks DNS over HTTP.

All that for $80.

Sprung for some cheap spinning platters for a couple of separate RAID5s.

Oh, Proxmox is my choice of VM manager.

Only problem with netfilter/nftables is their inability to decremental IP TTL.
You couldn't buy one without a screen, or run arbitrary code on them.
I mostly go into the woods to get my sun exposure. My pet theory is that sunlight exposure isn't a problem, it's the persistent exposing of the same tissue that's causing problems.

So instead of baking my body for hours on a sandy beach somewhere, I prefer to expose my body intermittently to the sun through the foliage.
It’s so weird to see non-Americans with no concept of American history criticize American gun rights or comprehend the foundational principles of an armed citizenry. Cliff’s notes: gun rights are not as much about personal self defense as they are national self defense. They allow the people to protect the country and protect themselves from the country (ie government).
I'm still in the "I have to pretend to like this buzzword in order to remain sane" stage with "serverless".
The ones i saw when i visited SF clearly didn’t come there to benefit from anything. They were zombies walking the street with saliva dripping from their mouth.

I can’t imagine that this is with 15B spendings. It also makes me wonder what it’s going to be without..
>In addition, the dollar is guaranteed to be diluted, meanwhile for Bitcoin, there's no such certainty.

People having to HODL tell themselves whatever they need to to feel confident in their so-called investment. Frankly, people that bought towards the top in Bitcoin are still massively down and that lack of certainty isn't exactly a comfort.

Besides, although I tend to think of your comment painting USD in a poor light, the USD is actually working as designed; to be nominally inflationary to encourage spending and investment in productive aspects of society and business and not to encourage hoarding. The USD is doing exactly what it's supposed to do.
I guess I'm just more willing to accept solutions of the form "recognise the mistake we made, and create a whole new API that is more correct" than they were.
What is your criteria for failure or success?

Is it giving people what they want, or giving people something that they are happy with later?
I'd worry more about the studies covering every possible confounding factor than the article itself. The conceivable confounding factors are practically without limit. The same can be said for data backing the "sun bad" schools of thought.
I get the impression that some American unions operate exactly as a cartel that also sets standards. I'm not against unions at all but the conflation of roles in the US is probably bad for workers long term.

E.g. plumbers unions opposed waterless urinals, and then created a standard that required water pipes installing anyway - https://reason.com/2010/06/24/plumbers-unions-vs-waterless-u...

Temporary job security, but long term makes people hate the union.
I know so many parents who would slather thick layer of suncreen for their kids to play in their backyard ... even when it's not sunny.
I mean why wouldn’t you? Degenerate React — a mostly static content “chrome” replacing the “layout.html.erb” and a component to render content from an API based entirely on the route replacing “article.html.erb” still is way faster than your average site. Slower then the equivalent SSR but ehh.
This seems like a nice solution. Why don't you play around and see? Maybe some fine-tuning would make it even more optimized (e. g. you might want to debounce the quality typesetter).
wtf is up with that page?

Side bar and chart:

> Least Debt: Tennessee ($875.12)

List:

> States with the Least Debt
> 1. Texas
>
> Texas has the lowest debt of any state in the U.S. Alaska's total liabilities add up to $222.64 billion, and its total assets add up to $356.01 billion, giving Texas the highest net position in the country of $115.08 billion. Texas's debt ratio is 62.5%
> ...
> 3. Alaska
> ...
> 5. Tennessee
Real estate is interesting. The issue is will you be able to make enough rent to actually get a return. I think at this point that's still the case over a 30 year period, but I'm not quite sure what that'll look like in time.
Or just wait for the next economic expansion.

I was telling someone today how I loved where I lived. They said, 'really? everyone says how much they hate it, how crazy it is.' Everyone hates everything, everyone expresses pessimism, applied to everything. We were in the place in the trend where we could still find ways to apply the idea, when it was still provocative to read. Now, for me, it's obvious and tired.

Recessions are, to a degree, self-fulfilling. Optimism and pessimism are intangible, but are real things that have very real consequences for anything you do - your current project (if you even start it), your job, your relationships, your economy, your society. That's obvious and well-known, and I'm tired of people screwing up my life, my relationships, my community and country with this stuff. Nothing is stopping us from living fantastical lives.
> you are asking us for free review of a tool

No, just the docs site - Please and thank you :)

> you claim is MIT, while you are actually keeping the source closed.

I do not get your argument. The MIT license is not a consumer-right protection license, it is a license made to protect us, developers, from having to deal with hostile actors. Nowhere in the license does it says the developer is required or responsible for disclosing the source in a human-readable form. It simply says the user can use it for free, that the developer is not responsible and there is no warranty.

> this unbelievable gem

Why is it an unbelievable gem? I do not see why it is different from MIT's "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."? Also, thanks for parsing thru the TOS - I created it from a template, thus haven't gotten around to actually making sure it makes sense (i.e a TOS is made to protect me and my company so it made sense to me to just keep anything that would prevent legal trouble).
That sounds like a point for RISC to me?

Ok maybe it is just a point against really complex instructions. There's clearly an optimum middle ground.
It sounds like your argument is now: "I like the look of being tanned and don't want to be burdened by the need to regularly apply lotion while living my outdoor lifestyle".

Okay, well that's your choice; but don't latch on to some argument about it being healthy, unless you're willing to endure scrutiny.
this was great. i now have 5 more tabs open. thx
Correct but it's an expansion of Prop 13 protections. There are a bunch of laws around rent control in California and "Prop 13" is just shorthand for "property tax control".
I don’t understand this as distinction with file systems. Networked file systems exist and I have a lot of production code that shares data as files in either some networked file/blob system. Often databases even just store a reference to a file path for stuff like images/other large artifacts that are shared from some file system.
There’s worlds of difference between crashing your bike versus being hit by a car while riding your bike. Yeah, it’ll hurt either way, but the former is substantially less likely to be fatal
I don't see how some HTML and a bunch of serverless code is going to fix the problem of instagram constantly indulging me in vanity and emotionally manipulative bullshit. The only thing it will do is lock me into a cycle of maintenance and updating all the the mercy of whatever this free tier is and the API that it connects to.

And neither is building my own solution going to change anything. That is my point. You can't innovate your way out of people polluting the commons for their own selfish bullshit, because even if you do they will just pile on once it becomes big enough and ruin that too.

Also, fuck serverless. Like hell I'm going to let my stuff exist at the pleasure of some corpo that can change its mind at any time. Own your code.
The fact that heat stress affects different populations with such different impacts is super important to climate policy and diplomacy and geopolitics. The authors in this case identified a concrete, statistically sound demonstration of disparate impact of heat stress.

That’s something I wish I had emphasized in my top-level post.
Our ancient ancestors such as those in Egypt would use the sun to fight off bilirubin with newborns by rotating them next to a sun-lit window. So yeah, common sense.
I can assure you that places without HOA generally don't have all that many atrocious houses. Nor do they have whole yards turned into park lots.
If this was true we wouldn't see human skin tone mapping pretty directly to ancestral UV exposure.
It is still some legacy you can leave behind.
Hard to tell, since the article doesn't bother to cite any sources for most of its claims. Including this paragraph without a single source is just incredible to me

>Meanwhile, that big picture just keeps getting more interesting. Vitamin D now looks like the tip of the solar iceberg. Sunlight triggers the release of a number of other important compounds in the body, not only nitric oxide but also serotonin and endorphins. It reduces the risk of prostate, breast, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers. It improves circadian rhythms. It reduces inflammation and dampens autoimmune responses. It improves virtually every mental condition you can think of. And it’s free.
AMD's plan with EPYC Zen 4 "Bergamo", with up to 128 Zen 4c cores.
> Do these pages belong to the same person?

what does your gut tell you?

despite knowing so little about art market and art history that you’ve never heard of the world’s most influential and highest sold living artists, you can probably still make a rational guess that this NFT collection is a copymint. perhaps the fact that the artist never once mentions or links to the collection from their Instagram profile acts as a hint.

this is what I mean by “trivially easy” compared to art forgeries in the real world, which do take professional art historians and years of study, and yet still leaves many of them fooled.

it’s worth noting that the collection has not sold, and very likely never will.
the objection is that, even after looking at longer timeframes to smooth bubbles, california real estate has appreciated by much more than 2%/yr over the last several decades. this is a policy that favors people who bought houses a long time ago over people who have bought more recently or are looking to buy for the first time. why/whether that's a problem depends on your perspective on what the purpose of a property tax is.

a simple way of looking at it is that property tax is just one of many ways that a city raises funds. it seems unfair that two people/families living in similar houses, consuming similar amounts of public services, might pay wildly different amounts of tax depending on how recently they bought their houses.

a more nuanced view is that taxes are not only about revenue collection, but also incentivizing or disincentivizing certain behaviors. high property taxes discourage people from living in highly demanded areas without having a strong reason to do so. a pair of empty nesters living in a detached 3/4BR home in SF is not an efficient use of the limited housing stock. if they really want to do that, they should be allowed to, but imo they should not be insulated from the economic consequences.

of course, this is all in conflict with the american ideal that you can lock in a fixed rate mortgage, pay it off, and have your heirs monopolize a particular plot of land in perpetuity. this has always seemed to me a promise that should never have been made, but at this point it would be very painful to unwind all the policy that props this up.
Bogus DMCA Notices Sent to Google by Fake Google To Protect Google?
The women's winner did wear a helmet - 13-year-old NISHIYA Momiji. I think because she was underage, the rules forced her to wear helmet.
> otherwise you wouldn't be complaining

1. I said kinda

2. You're wrong again. If we had liquid democracy, the situation. would have been even worse. Lucky us she had to respond to the laws and the hierarchy of powers, not only to her supporters or we would be all f***ed by now.

For once: they said she could be removed if she didn't do what she said she would, when they tried she refused.

End of liquid democracy!
there's no way to bind an elected representative to the voters opinion, if you live in democracy. It would be far to easy to "buy" or "force" the elimination of someone "the occult leaders" don't like.

We already had these arguments decades ago, "Tyranny of the Minority: The Subconstituency Politics Theory of Representation" explains it well, "Tiranny of the structureless" explains why (the) lack of structure, disguised an informal, unacknowledged, and unaccountable leadership and ensured its malefaction by denying its existence

Delegates are unaccountable leaders, nothing more, nothing less.

Looks to me that every 5 years someone rediscovers politics and propose solutions that have already failed both in theory and in practice, since the 60s of the past century.
Whereas being hit by a truck can end your life, end if you are wearing a helmet
Gov. Newsom says ‘NIMBYism is destroying’ California
Why don't you demand as much strong evidence from the pro-sunscreen status quo?
Under Breton woods the gold standard was managed in a way quite different from the pre WWII regime.
I get where you're coming from, but have you met our wildlife? Even the notoriously anti gun Canadians will make exceptions for polar bears and moose.
> Why is it okay for you to set the acceptable risk bar and steal boards from anyone that doesn't agree?

If it is a group activity the group sets the acceptable behaviour. Don't like it? Demand your board back and go play with another group, rather than expecting this group to accept your risk assessment which doesn't agree with their's.

This is especially true if the group is in any way more formal than a bunch of people arbitrarily meeting up.
And cycle commuting is part of the culture which probably makes it safer as well. Would wearing helmets make it even safer? Possibly. But one can always argue for incremental safety gear and processes.
Navy ships swarmed by drones not UFO’s
Try these bookmarklets:

With a peach background color and a pivot character one-third of the way through the word (plus one):

javascript:void function(){javascript:(function(){var a=Math.floor,b=document.querySelectorAll("p, title"),c=[],e="",f="",g="",h=0,k=0,l="",m="",n=window.open("","_blank");for(var d in b){var i=b[d].textContent;i%26%26(c=c+"\n"+i)}for(f=c,e=f.replace(/\n/g," <br></br> "),g=e.split(" "),h=0;h<g.length;h++)k=a(g[h].length/3)+1,l="<span style='font-weight:bolder'>"+g[h].substring(0,k)+"</span><span style='font-weight:lighter'>"+g[h].substring(k,g[h].length)+"</span> ","."==g[h].substring(g[h].length-1,g[h].length)%26%26(l+="<span style='color:red'> * </span>"),m+=l;n.document.write("<html><p style='background-color:#EDD1B0;font-size:40;line-height:200%25;font-family:Arial'>"+m+"</p></html>")})()}();

With a peach background color and no change to bolding for comparison:

javascript:void function(){javascript:(function(){var a=Math.floor,b=document.querySelectorAll("p, title"),c=[],e="",f="",g="",h=0,k=0,l="",m="",n=window.open("","_blank");for(var d in b){var i=b[d].textContent;i%26%26(c=c+"\n"+i)}for(f=c,e=f.replace(/\n/g," <br></br> "),g=e.split(" "),h=0;h<g.length;h++)k=a(g[h].length/3)+1,l="<span style='font-weight:light'>"+g[h].substring(0,k)+"</span><span style='font-weight:light'>"+g[h].substring(k,g[h].length)+"</span> ","."==g[h].substring(g[h].length-1,g[h].length)%26%26(l+="<span style='color:red'> * </span>"),m+=l;n.document.write("<html><p style='background-color:#EDD1B0;font-size:40;line-height:200%25;font-family:Arial'>"+m+"</p></html>")})()}();
The author doesn't know that Firefox on iOS cannot be affected due to the design of browsers of iOS (they are not allowed to use internal JavaScript or web rendering engines).

That brings into question the rest of the analysis in the article.
If you're interested in his stories regarding Google and AdWords (not AdSense), check out https://flownet.com/ron/xooglers.html
I personally am skeptical of some of the lines of reasoning that the idea of “risk compensation” leads people to. Like saying masks are bad because it leads people to isolate less, etc. (this was something some authorities were saying early in the pandemic, and it damaged their credibility later on.) Like yes, there is SOME compensation, in other words it allows risk/reward for some activities to rebalance a bit, but to use this as an argument against a pretty straightforward precaution is foolishness.

I’m also super skeptical of studies that aren’t, like, randomized and carefully done. Correlative studies can easily end up with the authors drawing conclusions of causation in the opposite direction of reality.

“Good things are bad because of convoluted logic” is always something I’ll be skeptical of.
People are trained to expect the Answer during their education which focuses for a very long time on presenting things as Truth with uncertainty coming in far too late.
Sun exposure. See e.g. https://www.aao.org/editors-choice/sunlight-exposure-reduces...
The Antarctic Snow Cruiser, a Colossal Failure
This is an unavoidable problem of any observational study. Do we have any randomized controlled trials that support the current dogma of sun = bad?
> If passenger cars, large trucks and buses. and motorcycles can share the road, so can pedalcyclists.

Separated bike infrastructure empirically reduces cyclist fatalities. And it isn’t hard to guess why.
Before 2009: very few adult skiers in Austria and Germany wore helmets, pretty much only the racers and children who were legally required to. I felt like a dork wearing mine, but I experienced a scary near-miss my first season on these relatively crowded slopes.

After 2009: at least 80% of adult skiers in Austria and Germany wear helmets, from the looks of things. Most frequent non-wearers are very old, permanently tanned Austrian men who literally have 5000+ ski days behind them or young ladies with nicely-done hair and make-up much more interested in getting good pictures for Instagram than actually skiing.

What happened in 2009? The Ministerpräsident (think US state governor) of Thuringia, Dieter Althaus, was flying down a black (expert) slope, turned onto a blue (beginner) slope with enough momentum behind him to go up it and crash into a lady from Slovakia.

He was in the hospital for weeks, living to earn a criminal judgment for negligent homicide, paying tens of thousands of Euro.

She died on the way to the hospital.

He was wearing a helmet.

She wasn't.

The absolute crush of helmet sales then and continued rates since are sometimes called the "Althaus-Effekt".
I will write two answers to this, as I think it has split into two topics, first about the need for education.

> We hear that radioactive ceasum is still a problem with mushrooms and wild boars from the Bavarian Forest. The concept of its accumulation in the food chain is common knowledge.

I did a quick google of this, and found this article:

https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/foodstuffs/mush...

According to the article (or rather one of the linked papers), the mean radiation level for some sample of meat was 4340 Bq/kg = 0.05mSv/kg. (EDIT, mSv, not mv)

Accoring to this overview, cancer risk is not measureable below 100mSv, and gradually increasing from there:

https://www.radiationanswers.org/radiation-and-me/effects-of....

Taken together, that means that in order to have any measureable increased risk of radiation, you need to heat 2000 kg of that kind of meat.

The maximum radiation level of meat to be sold, seems to be 600Bq/kg. At this level, you have to eat 10000kg before there is any increased risk.

By comparison, massive amounts of air polution from coal and gas plants, as well as transportation is allowed. According to this article, in Germany alone, there are 62300 yearly deaths from air polution:

https://epha.org/eu-air-quality-laws-protect-our-health-germ....

Most "normies" that I know, if presented with the first article, would get the impression that eating boar would be quite risky, and many would stop eating boar because of it. If they read the last one, they would just shrug. Pollution is not nice, but it is far less scary than those becquerels.

While in in fact, if every person in Berlin would eat 5 big fat boars (200kg meat each) from the contaminated area, the risk (not counting risk from obesity) would be insignificant compared to the air they breathe every day.

When presented this way, I definitely would count this as disinformation.

> The tale of a general public that had been mislead with propaganda is a pattern of argument that is typically used by anti-democratic movements.

When I claim that the general public is being mislead, it is because I crunch the numbers (hopefully without miscalculating). Air polution very measurably increases risk of death from cancer and a number of other diseases, while the case provided for Boars, for normal intakes of Boar meat, is extremely unlikely to be measurable.

Obviously (I hope) I do not suggest that we set democracy aside. But it wouldn't hurt if educated people were more active in spreading more accurate information, to counteract what I see as fear-mongering.
There are ways to mitigate this risk. Talk to a professional.
Interesting. There's probably still more that could be done.

I'm probably weird but since I was a kid through high school (1960s-1970s) I was a subject of various research studies and advanced learning techniques. I don't exactly know why I ended up in these but it's probably "right place, right time".

A lot of these involved "speed reading" as well as "speed learning". What this code does definitely broaches some of what I was taught and what was at one time more widely known. There are other aspects that are missing that relate to typography and dynamic reading.