skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And before someone asks "But what if it's .. instead?": Yes, they controlled for lots of things:

I'm no experiment designer but I fail to see how you can control for variables when the field of the experiment is "life". There are an unlimited number of variables, wouldn't you find tonnes of meaningless correlations ?

The set of variables is unlimited and the focus of the study is so precise that I have a real hard time to understand how meaningful these results can be.

> there may be other lifestyle factors contributing to that lower mortality risk among people who drink coffee, like a healthy diet or a consistent exercise routine.

Yeah no shit. Or like getting 8+ hours of sleep, or winning the genetic lottery, or working at a desk instead of on a construction zone, &c.

If it's all self reported it's kind of garbage to begin with, I know people who think they eat healthy diets, they don't
Real fun! Very clever idea and well written, engaging story. And the bits of humor are nice.
This is an interesting comment, and I'd add one other element to this, which is that randomness is way more realistic, if we think of games as something intended to represent the real world in some way.

In real life the best marksman can get wiped out on the first day of a war, the best business strategist can get done in by a once in a generation disaster, and a hapless idiot in business can get an early big break. And so on.

I feel like it feels much more natural and intuitive to us to play games that are a mix of skill and random chance.
LatchBio just raised a $28M Series A to build the AWS x GitHub for biocomputing
One of the nicer things about using a separate process is that resource isolation is much better than in-process. You can kill the process without worrying about mutexes, OS scheduling applies priority consistently, the entire heap is freed once a job completes, there's no worry about leaking resources, and so on.

Even if you could do less I/O by keeping stuff in-process - and I'm not sure that's true if you build your graph in ffmpeg, it's just the source and sink of data which are external, and they'll almost always be external.
No, you played ARCHON on a C64, as did I. The first time I ever played a new video game straight through to the next day. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the_Dark
You don't get it. If 50% predict a and another 50% predict b and a layman predicts b saying "hey it was so obvious" he is in great error. You that is my friend.
The study covers this, as does the NYT article. From the article: "The mortality risk remained lower for people who drank both decaffeinated and caffeinated coffee."
Same-screen multiplayer is nearly gone. This dramatically changed how video games are experienced and enjoyed.
Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar before it locks you out
I have been running imagetoexcel.com registered with Google Domain. The service is live since May 2019 with 1000 DAUs. I have auto-renewal turned on, so every year it renews for one year charging my credit card linked in the account. I lost my cards in February, so I had to block my cards with the bank. Apparently, in May, Google Services tried to take the payment and hit a bad response from the Payment. I received an email stating the same, so when I tried to add a new card(s) it threw an error `OR-HDT-09`. Understandably they had to verify me and asked me to submit my ID, which I did. Two weeks to date no response from the Google Pay services, even on the follow-up. Now the site is down.

As a precautionary step, I've transferred my 4 other domains to the porkbun, which was super easy. I just thought of informing fellow hacker news followers to keep them out in such a situation.
I like how they made the cursor to a hand when hovering over the comments, as if you could click it, but it actually does nothing and is just a css class :D

Also, lol @ the comments: https://amazonwt.com/js/ytc-settings.js

... actually, when I think about that, I believe those scammers are German, IMO. They used the word "commis" for comments, which kinda looks like a false friend from the german netspeak "Kommis". They also have a german comment in there, "Geht das echt" (=> "Does this work", very non-ML, native speaker translation), no other non-english language. Mhh.
Why can't this argument be made for hydrogen
Not all doctors say that.

Yes, if you are having sleep problems they might tell you to cut back on coffee and other caffeine sources. Some people are particularly sensitive to caffeine and get jitters and have trouble sleeping. Most people do not have this problem and as long as they don’t drink coffee late in the day, it does not cause sleep problems.
Slight offtopic, but this is why the "if you try hard enough you will succeed" advice sounds like BS to me. Even if the most dedicated entrepreneur can only try so many startups in their lives. If the odds are vanishingly small then success is far from guaranteed.

Rejecting the role of luck in our outcomes is delusional, and people who support it have something to peddle (if only their own personal brand as thought leaders).
>And the Switch is not a bad hardware

It's a bit long in the tooth. It's a 5+ year old Tegra chip.
I'd say it's less painful as you're closer to retirement since a large portion of your earnings are coming from compounding interest.
> all of those moderate drinking studies… I am quite certain nobody is getting a health benefit from alcohol.

The effect where moderate alcohol use is beneficial have disappeared after better studies. It didn't prevent it from becoming "common wisdom".
Behind the Scenes: The pots, pans, and people that make millions of meals
Agreed about Upwork, it's a cesspool - however if you're desperate and are looking for the tech equivalent of a minimum wage job it could work. It's definitely not a sustainable long-term career path, but if your alternative is a fast food joint then it might be worth a try.
I don't eat avocados, so I don't understand your comment.
JEP 426: Vector API (Fourth Incubator)
Fairly simple, water is a State thing, zero Federal involvement.

If it gets declared a disaster then Federal disaster relief will try to help. So 0% of the extra water brought in for disaster relief will go to farmers. They have insurance for that.

The 80% figure is farm use of water in the state.
I hit rock bottom in 2002. My first wife, who I very stupidly married when I was 21, was committed to a psych ward. My landlord terminated my lease because of damage she did to the property that I had no means of paying for.

Sorry you had to go through this: My story had a similar path, though I didn't find my way out for some years later. Ex wound up in a psych ward numerous times, the first through a suicide attempt. It was out and in, and I sometimes wish I hadn't stayed so long. Then again, my life is pretty wonderful now and who knows if it would have turned out like this if I had left earlier.
Yes, and I hope it was taken as discussion. I am not even making suggestions to you, not knowing anything about you, your employee, or the situation. I do not for a moment think that I do know based on a couple paragraphs on the Internet.

Thanks for submitting your comment. It's so valuable to have someone openly discuss these things.
I hadn't heard doctors (and by that I mean: researchers) saying to drink less coffee, except if it's causing sleep problems.
My advice is, watch your costs. When you leave paying work it’s easy to think the slug you’ve got in the bank will last a while.

But traction will take 2-3x longer than you think, and an unexpected stream of “one-offs” will eat your runway.

So be extremely conservative on costs from the very beginning.
My point is that most drugs don't work this well for your disease, if you are diseased. If this result were mechanistically true, then we could instantly prolong human lifespan dramatically.
Try Malyon.el from Melpa and fetch some IF Z-Machine games.
Nice game, but not really difficult. Try to implement SquareMinx instead ;)
I was developing a similar game in Unity but decided to go further and add portals, rotations, splitting and other mechanics. Unfortunately, I have never managed to polish it (those 20% that take 80% of time, duh). I hope one day someone will implement something similar.
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> if I offer you a 99% chance to take make one billion dollars (legally) and a 1% chance of being killed, would you take it?

I'd take it in a heartbeat. I've done things that have a 1% chance of death just to have a good story to tell.
So the correlation is like a societal strength test of worthiness?
It is hard to resist suspicion of the timing.
One can't really, which is why these absurd claims of "we wont monitor your traffic" should be assumed to be blatant falsehoods.
great visuals is what i enjoy most about racing games, which is why many games with artificial tracks feel boring. i'll have to check this out
Right, but it's highly correlated to drinking coffee. Enough for me to continue drinking my 2 cups of black coffee a day.
Appreciate you sharing my post, @hmry! I studied ikigai for 5+ years, and it was eye-opening to learn the truth about the concept. With a few modifications, I attempted to redesign the 4-circle viral diagram to better match the truth (a big part of it was removing the mandatory aspect of money and instead making it an optional byproduct of your purpose). Here's what I came up with: https://www.sloww.co/ikigai-ebook/. All the best, Kyle
I don't mean any personal offense, but as an American I associate this behavior with "you can't afford not to travel" and "eating $regionalFood in $location has ruined the dish for me; I can't eat it anywhere else" types.
>most people don't go from 0 to $1k/year fan in an instant; they'll try out the free service, upgrade to being a $100/year fan, and from there upgrade to being a $1k/year fan

How do you know this? I'm mentally contrasting with monetization in games which I don't think follows that model, I think it is more like; if you are spending over 100$ its by repeating some smaller behavior (microtransactions), as opposed to deepening your investment thoughtfully as a function of time. Or, you're going to kickstart a game, and from the outset you're probably going to fall loosely into one bin of 20$-200$-2000$.

I don't have anything to back up what I'm suggesting (purely anecdotal) and I'm asking you because I'm interested in sturdier arguments than my own (or other experiences leading to different perspectives!).
This article, like Duke's book, has a solid premise, but fails to provide any actionable advice aside from a simple risk/reward framework. When I read the book, I was hoping there would be more information about how to properly handicap various situations, but there just wasn't.

Business and life decisions aren't as simple as calculating pot odds and outs. Anyone who has estimated a complex and unfamiliar programming task knows that the unknown-unknowns are the biggest part of any equation.
It's more likely to come through government somehow. I recall reading something weird about Japan telling auto makers which tech to explore, but I forget where.
It’s definitely skimpflation (great word, btw). They eliminated traditional dining service entirely on several other routes. Instead of sitting at a table with other passengers having a nice conversation while waiters take orders and serve meals, everyone now gathers quietly in the dining car waiting for a single waiter to prepare tv–dinners and shout out room numbers.
The average household uses 893 kWh per month. At your 4.8kWh per canister, that is 186 canisters per month, or six canisters per day. This is useless for typical home usage.
Mostly coding offline, but I did have a cellular hotspot that managed 4G LTE for most of the trip. I didn't investigate the train's WiFi since my needs were covered.

There was one state I didn't seem to have any cell service at all, Wyoming maybe? It seemed very similar to driving cross-country via i80 in terms of cellular coverage, with a few additional dead-zones where only the train goes. But in those spots the scenery is so beautiful you won't miss the cell network.
Battle for Wesnoth is like the Blender or Firefox of open source games, in the "I can't believe something could have this much polish and not be a commercial product" sense. It is really well done.
In fact, it says that decaf coffee also has that association, so that would mean it's not the caffeine.

It also says they don't make the same conclusion about artificially sweetened coffee (the study says it's "less consistent"—seems I need to pass the paywall to see the numbers on that). One wonders if they believe that the artificial sweeteners are killing people, or that they interfere with the benefits of coffee, or if they'd say this reveals that selection effects are strong here.
Cheating was fun with bzflag. The collision is done client-side.
The train’s wifi is just hooked up to the same cell networks anyway. Maybe soon they will have Starlink instead.
You can sure share your thoughts, and I can share my thoughts on whether you're correct, I'm just pointing out it's not proven your personal experience proves discrimination is part of the explanation.

None of those studies support your original claim. They support the more broader claim that women are discriminated in the job market.

> Not as generalizable as controlled studies but not as worthless as you seem to think.

Sorry, a single data point, by itself, when you share it attempting to generalize, is worse than worthless, since it can be terribly misleading.
>If caste might be at play

Again, how is that determined? Do you assume that a caste angle might be at play every time the manager is upper caste and the employee's of lower caste? Do you wait for the manager to be stupid enough to outright utter a casteist slur at the workplace?
I think there's definitely room for hydrogen, but the interface analogy falls flat for hydrogen. It's not like you can just drop in another fuel type into a hydrogen car after it's produced? The strength of electricity is that the backend is agnostic. It can be hydro, nuclear, sun, or some other future fuel. Hell, you can could run electricity using hydrogen if you wanted.
The problem is that the controller has to be built for the instrument. Doing it "right" in a generic way is close to impossible.
Long distance HV transmission has expected losses of a percent or less per hundred miles. That's not nothing, but compared to adding fully parallel infrastructure for a fuel source that doesn't seem to actually add up when you look at it? Eh.
How the brain responds to surprising events
Nothing abot this is puzzling. beneath the surface of Google's attempts to "look happy", there is a huge amount of resentment between individuals, and between individuals and leadership. Even when I joined in 2007 it was noticeable, but by the time I left (the second time) in 2019, it was painfully obvious.

Sundar's goal has been to smooth over this resentment and prevent events that would exacerbate it. That often occurs by cancelling a venue for discussion/healing. GOogle sort of evolved itself into a state of weaponized progressivism, and is now realizing just how unrealistic its naive view of using technology to transform the world for good was, and how it needs to turn into everything that it said it wasn't to continue to succeed in the face of more determined competitors.
Your trust is based on baseless promises and one isolated, possibly even manufactured, incident. I find this to be super naive.
Every startup I've ever spent any time at has needed help on the business administration side. Nobody likes that paperwork and the packaged services are incomplete. Needs an experienced human.
The 70s ticketing system ran off of "buckets" where availability of fares at various prices wouldn't appear until previous buckets were emptied, or time ran out. I don't remember the details (my only sleeper car trip was paid with Amtrak miles) but if you studied it and worked it you could predict when new buckets would become available, or when a bucket was about to "expire" and the price might drop. If I remember right there was a sweet spot about six months before, and another very shortly before (and if you wanted to be risky, and knew the line, you could get a coach ticket and ask the conductor to pay to upgrade on the train - that is the cheapest of all if there is space available as it basically ends up being the cost of the meals).

It's also a bit weird in that if you know some of the limitations, you can do things like get a sleeper for overnight only (from the stop around 5PM to the stop around 8 AM say) and then get a coach ticket from then on - which if scheduled right would end up being the sleeper for the whole trip as there's no point in resetting the room.

You could also book "insane trips" that the system wouldn't let you do but were perfectly doable, because it wouldn't correctly recognize that you could make the layover, etc. People would also try to trick it into letting you book trips that wouldn't make sense unless you're trying to ride the train for as long as you can (sleeper car mile purchases were "zoned" in the past - so anything in "Zone 1" would be a fixed amount of miles). They've since changed that to the more standard "miles are just pennies against a normal fair" type of reward.
California court finds that bees fall within a legal definition of fish [pdf]
This is absurdly ridiculous, I love it.

Despite the low resolution, bit depth, lack of color, and dithering, I like how using a better lens can make the seagull picture somewhat aesthetically pleasing.
Batteries are largely recyclable and lithium does not need to be consumed constantly by a battery. Most modern Li-Ion batteries in cars have useful lifespans of a decade or more and they're getting better.

With this you need to make a ton of these cartridges and then have a big delivery infrastructure to ship them around that uses a ton of power, way more than is consumed by the power grid shipping energy from a power plant into a battery.
I think they meant to say to avoid using email canaries named after the company one is emailing. I used to do this but it has been a problem as companies are catching on and blocking these addresses.

My most recent experience was with the Tractor Supply Company. They were upset I used an email canary so they called it "fraud" and cancelled my gift card. I've spent some of my retirement turning their customers away and might even put a few billboards up to warn residents of my state about their fraudulent behavior and lack of integrity.

Anyway since then I have been creating more realistic looking canaries that I can still tie back to the people I interact with, thus allowing me to notify them if their email databases have been compromised. I will never stop using canaries regardless of what ire and bad behavior it draws from corporations. It seems to be a good way to detect shady businesses now in addition to companies leaking or selling their contacts.
Building something with Django is so much easier if what you really need is connecting a Mentor and a Mentee
> the levels of testosterone esters that were administered to the female athletes (typically 25mg/week)

Comparing generic "testosterone esters" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_ester - from the fifties to "testosterone esters" from today, without knowing exactly which kind of medication was involved or how it was administered, doesn't seem like a good way to reach any kind of conclusion.
I'm very surprised that you're being downvoted here, or lead on frivolous logical goose chases by replies.

Everyone... just make-believe that we're talking about recreational drugs. Rather than a class of drugs that you and your social cohort do NOT take to get high, or to self-medicate your self-diagnosed mental health disorders. Perhaps that thought experiment will help?
How to build a batched notification system
Why would they scan paper books to proactively look for copyright violations? Have you ever heard of a bookstore doing that?

There's a different standard of due diligence if you publish a book vs just selling copies of it.
Also, standardized cardridges could be swapped at fuel stations (which was the original business plan of Better Place, in case anyone can remember). Also, this would allow a service to charge cars parked in areas of high population density with a lack of charging stations. Cardridges could be handled like jerrycans, making range anxiety a thing of the past.

THere are meny potential use cases where green hydrogen would make sense, even if people with calculators will tell you differntly.
Not barely plausible at all. For my epigenetic comment - Here is a relevant paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579375/

And secondly, low SES populations have much higher rates of psychiatric disorders and pretty much all diseases. If one were to combine thousands of years of epigenetic effects and persistent unescapable low SES status, then it does not take a leap of faith to hypothesize there will be long term effects. Much less "barely plausible", a comment that only arises because this is not your domain, but it is mine.
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Understood. I think I'll have to play around with it just to get a good feel of whether it is worth the switch for my personal projects at least. Thanks.
To clarify, there is only one route in the US that has an auto train. It goes from Lorton, VA (about 30 minutes south of DC on I95) to Sanford, FL (a suburb of Orlando), and in the other direction. It has sleeper berths or regular coach class seats, leaves at 4pm and arrives at 9 am, and is generally full of "snowbird" retirees and families going to Disney.
Great write-up and thanks a lot for pursuing this!
Nice to see a game with the packaging status in the main readme!

Pity it's not GPL.
An absolute must-read on the subject of exploitation and outright abuse in elite "women's" gymnastics and figure-skating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Girls_in_Pretty_Boxes
Ask HN: What are the tech growth stocks that you would invest in?
Funny to note is that this sometimes goes wrong, i.e., in Dutch we have a Witte Neushoorn (White Rhino, or, White Nosehorn if you will), however, this Rhino is not white but it has a wide mouth and English people call (or called) it Wide Rhino... Somewhere someone misunderstood and now we have a White Rhino that is grey.
NASA's Mars MAVEN spacecraft spent 3 months on the brink of disaster
Useful to whom? Presumably not the people who want structural changes