skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You seem utterly unwilling to believe that you can meet a healthy person on the internet, and even if you did, you assume it's purely genetic.

You seem to have some deep insecurities. I already acknowledged multiple times that your stats are overall consistent with good health. I lightly pointed out, pretty uncontroversially, that some of those results have a genetic component - so thank your parents even if just a little. "you assume it's purely genetic" is pure hyperbole.

> You've sent me the distribution of lipids across all age groups, done for research purposes.

Yeah, exactly, why would that not be relevant? These are the distribution of lipid profiles in the NHANES dataset that is used to guide clinical care throughout the Western world. Modern medicine care is based on research.

> In clinic you rarely test anyone in those younger age groups for lipids as screening starts at 40 for men and 50 for women.

In the US it starts a bit younger. And again, rare is a hyperbole. We routinely screen pediatric patients in the US - that is standard of care. So....

> Are you ordering lipids on healthy 20 year olds?

Yes, of course - not that rarely.

If a healthy 20 year old has no record of being screened in childhood I will screen to rule out FH, obvi.

"healthy" is a nebulous concept - I consider it appropriate to order lipids on what I deem a healthy 20 something with risk factors (family history, certain childhood illnesses, HIV, diabetes - not all young folks with diabetes are unhealthy even if they are not as amazing as you, etc).

> ... My HDL was better than 95% of Dutch teenagers and my triglycerides were better than 90% of 20-somethings.... blah blah blah

Exactly. So, very good, as I already stated, even excellent. But not something that is super rare - 95%tile is 1 in 20, that is not rare.

You were that one that made this about an appeal to authority: "and having seen a lot of lipids/HbA1c I have to say I have never seen results this good in anybody else."

I quoted the literature to not make this some anonymous dick sizing contest - and also because the data is interesting. I admit lipid management is a personal interest - now you can look into why ordering lipids on 20 year olds is sometimes appropriate. You seem to be hung up on being butthurt that the entire conversation is not unconditional praise on your personal accomplishments.
But that's always been true, data can always be used against you regardless of what the laws are.
https://archive.is/aNNxA

"You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out" --Buffett (b. 1930)
The Dutch protests are not about third world countries.
I'm sure it will be useful for law enforcement or a defense attorney, if someone is on the record saying "I took this image with my Model Z camera" and they can prove that's a lie, it brings the rest of that persons testimony into doubt.
It's mostly about the ammonia produced by animals (manure).
Have to agree! I'm not sure what I was expecting with Wheel of Time, but I wasn't expecting it to look so cheap. Also one of the central characters wears a pullover in early episodes that's definitely dry-clean only, and had definitely just been dry-cleaned. While it sounds like a little thing, it's the little things that add up to an immersive world.
They don't run their own electric companies, and often don't even own their own buildings, both of those are essential. I suspect they lease their trucks and planes too.

If they're building it on AWS only kit and locking in, then they open themselves to risk. If they build it on standard VMs running on AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, then they can shop around at contract renewal time, just like they can with Mercedes vs Ford vs VW trucks
According to above graph, 6,1% of the output in the Netherlands is coming from traffic compared to 46% from farming.
And mind most of the output comes from farm animals like cows, pigs and chickens which the Netherlands has a lot on a small surface area. It is not as much caused by growing crops and fruits.
I've used both. If you don't care that Fastmail is Australian and that your emails don't sit encrypted at rest, they come with more features.

ie:

Mobile client that does contacts/calendar/notes/drive

Mobile setup was really easy on iOS with a policy

Drive lets you host a static website or photo gallery

Custom domain catchall

Proton needs a bridge to use any client but theirs. DMARC/SPF/DKIM was a pretty easy setup for both. Proton is missing mobile clients for their new apps (drive/calendar). Its nice they give you another GB of storage a year, a VPN, and a bunch of the nolog/encryption niceties.
Does their mobile app support push email, rather than polling?
There’s other browsers on android. No one uses them.

Safari is great. It works. No issues. But developers will do what they did to ie. develop for chrome and shove a banner up blocking safari.
I don't care what the protests are about, I'm saying why it is a terrible idea.
What's Signal on Mac, Electron?
That won't happen. There are too many cases where it helps law enforcement in reasonable ways.

I'm OK with tech companies choosing data retention practices that make them unable to answer certain kinds of questions, and, in fact, suspect this will be mandated in some locales. Until there is some law that prevents it, anyway.
Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Indiana for inducing a miscarriage through abortion drugs. Indiana also charged Bei Bei Shuei with murder and attempted feticide after her baby died following her suicide attempt.

Not every state seems intent on charging women, but I think it’s hopelessly naive to believe that none will.
I've been with them for maybe five+ years now. Very happy with them for email, calendar and contacts. Which is what I want from them.

This is mostly for personal use, but I do have a sole proprietorship too and wouldn't have an issue using it for "real business".
…mixed DPI, better battery, better handling of input devices, better sleep/wake handling, first-party hardware?

Some of those things happened, but not because of Canonical listening to those comments.

There is no meaningful discussion of Unity in that post. A lot of hate for Mir though.
No, if the premium was less than the cost of operating a datacenter, no cloud provider would be able to stay in business, much less interested in entering the market.

In order for the cloud business to make sense, turn a profit and sponsor the kind of development into new products done by these companies, we can assume that the cloud services sold by these providers must have a very healthy margin compared to the cost of operating a datacenter full of resources.

The primary thing a cloud business can do to drive cost back down past what you could do with your own datacenter is to have better utilization of their resources by dealing with an average across a much wider range of workloads, or by selling spot instances that get killed if capacity is needed, but based on how things are priced it appears that this mainly just pads their margins.

For the customer, it only really ends up cheaper than on-premise is if: A) you need very few resources and do not already have anywhere to put a server or lack a good uplink; B) your use-case is extremely well-optimized for cloud (e.g. extremely bursty serverless where you average load is a tiny fraction of a single machine); or C) you are Netflix and can make a deal with AWS.
The Netherlands is the second or third biggest net food exporter in the world. For food security, we can do with less farmers.

That doesn't mean we should screw over our farmers. But the tragedy here is how farmers are being ruined by long ignored legal requirements. The tragedy is not how the Netherlands will go hungry for lack of food production.
It's something that has been part of the US since the beginning, but the more people are left behind economically, the more they are swayed by these narratives.

See red pilling, incel types as an example.

Fascism does not appear in a vacuum.
> I think that it is possible to add local branches and commits to centralised version control

Well, you think wrong, because it's not. Centralized change control will contact the central server for every change.

If you can make local commits, it's decentralized source control. Prove me wrong: show in the SVN or p4 or CVS documentation where you can create local branches or commits while the central server isn't reachable over the network
I switched from Gmail to FastMail about 4 years ago and have been very happy with it. At the time, FastMail had no problem importing a decade's worth of emails from Gmail, and I still have the deprecated Gmail address forward to my FastMail account.

I'm on their ~$50/year Standard Plan so that I can use it with my own domain names. I point my domains to FastMail's nameservers, and it automatically configures all email-related DNS settings. It can be setup to accept mail to arbitrary addresses, so I now use service.tld@my.tld when I create accounts on other websites, which can help with filtering or seeing who is leaking my info. Any other type of DNS record can be manually added, so I can still generally point my domains to my GitHub pages.

I can recall only one outage since I've been using the service. I use their web client and Android app (which is just a thin wrapper around the web client). They are not glamorous, but they are functional and feel snappy.

One thing to be aware of is that FastMail is based in Australia, which I believe has some backwards laws with respect to Internet privacy.
All new consoles are sold with profit or breaking even so I don't know where this assertion even comes from.

Not to mention that they happily double dip by taxing for games, charging online service subscriptions and getting extra revenue via online stores.
> [...] why was it never codified in law?

The findings of the SCOTUS in Roe v. Wade was:

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy" that protects a pregnant woman's liberty to abort her fetus. [1]

In other words, *the SCOTUS finding said* abortion was codified in law -- the U.S. Constitution.

Edit: clarified the summary to attribute the finding to the SCOTUS and not to my opinion

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
Why is that “simply”? Why should we care more about biodiversity than construction and farming? I think really nothing is simple about this trade off.
Couldn't you have the clients send each other their public keys as the first step in the conversation?
The farmers' reaction is mostly due to the first part:

> not all farmers will continue in business

The farming differently mostly has to do with scale. We're already really good at producing efficiently, but we're building massive (relatively, nothing compared to the US) farms for meat and dairy and we're doing this right next to nature preserves. Our country is so tiny, that pretty much everything is right next to each other.

Over the past decades, through farming and related lobbies, we've seen a huge increase in the size of the farms over here. The economies of scale have benefited the share holders of food companies and banks, but not the farmers, because every penny they save gets cut from their income by these food companies. This causes farmers to aim for even larger farms with more automation, which requires investment, which benefits the banks.

Now, the government is telling the farmers we need to reduce the number of farms and the size of the remaining ones. After being fucked over mostly by large companies for decades, they feel like the government is now targeting them unfairly. They see all their investments might be useless in the future and they're angry because of it.

All of this is exacerbated by leftover Covid anger and conspiracy groups adding to the fire and joining the protests, which are becoming more violent and their demands are becoming less coherent.
Giant Vibrator Used for Aerospace Medical Research
Given that all of these exotic particles that are apparently discovered are extremely short-lived (at the limits of human technology to even register them) is it possible that scientists are radically misinterpreting the meaning of these experiments and finding particles where there's some other force or phenomena being observed? I'm very skeptical that it's apparently just smaller and smaller particles all of the way down, and every time they get bigger and badder technology to collide atoms, they tell us that they coincidentally discover new particles. What if everything here about reality is being misinterpreted?

Here's an analogy that might not make sense to everybody, but to me, this feels a bit like the famous memes from the Chernobyl movie. "3.6 Roentgen. Not great, Not terrible." where the real answer about the radiation exposure was radically different. Some the people tasked with coming up with that 3.6 answer might not have had a bad intent, but they were at the limits of their technology to provide an answer and radically misinterpreted what they were seeing partially because of that.
It can't be worse than wheel of time ... or can it?
You can already do that right now (even Vulkan should work fine through MoltenVk), although accessibility will be poor when compared with Apple's offering unless significant effort is invested.
Most of the public face of Dutch farming is a show intended to mislead the public into having sympathy, as if the farmers were struggling and at risk of losing their livelihoods. This is what every industry does in the face of regulations.

The farmers represented by these organizations are not poor. They are profiting handsomely while creating significant pollution - a cost borne by the local public and the global public.

The Netherlands is a small country by land size, and it has a vast number of intensive farms. The same intensive farming practices which are passable in other places are create high concentrations of pollution here. And as the NL as part of the EU and has agreed to abide by various pollution limits, it must make changes to curb its pollution.

Simply saying, "But this is my way of life!" is not valid if that way of life comes at an increasing cost to everyone around you. Just because something has been going on for some time does not mean it should be allowed to continue.

As for the protests, they are not protests - they are extortion or terrorism. As such, they should be met with severe criminal penalties. Allowing a group of wealthy bullies to take over a country is not acceptable in modern times. We are hopefully not just a bunch of apes with clubs forming clans and dominating those who "threaten our way of life".
Also Europe based, I see that as big over sight. I am absolutely sure, so, that the republicans will use there judicative power to fullest extent together with a majority in the House should they get said majority. And they will throw out the filibuster in the senate with the blink of an eye if it serves them.

The democrats on the other hand are way to tame.
> I am just sitting here for an entire decade waiting for great, engaging movies to make a comeback.

Tons exist, lots and lots of movies are made every year.
Well, even in hypotheticals, I'm not sure how many cases are likely to go beyond 3 layers. And that's just for journalism.

For practical functional applications, 3 layers seems high, and potentially a sign of over-engineering.

To get a little more technical about our hypothetical:

- I've used Mapbox in the past, and they included (at the time) a succint dual-attribution overlay for themselves and OSM as part of their APIs. It was well-designed and baked in (nothing for me to do).

- If I were to then take my own application and offer it as a service for others to embed:

1. There's a strong likelihood I'm offering a commercial service so attribution may not be required for my layer (provided service-charges covering white-labelling)

2. If I am requiring attribution, it might make sense for me to invest in direct OSM usage & cut out the Mapbox middleman.

3. If not, it certainly seems like my added layer would be the absolute extreme (and baking in a well-made 3-component attribution would be challenging but not insurmountable).
They backed out from these tricks in the Netherland standoff. As you guessed, it started with horrible wording, and has now became something way saner (albeit they kept their fees requirements)
[Continuing spoilers]

On Twitter late last year, I saw what was probably the single best idea that would have greatly improved the last few episodes, and could probably have been accomplished with a single scene (and maybe still could for a future "definitive edition").

The idea is that at some point prior to the last two episodes, Danerys receives word that Mereen has fallen, and that the slavers have retaken it. Her greatest achievement in "breaking the wheel" is now gone, and her designs to be the next Aegon are no longer nearly as assured.

Building on this idea, the scene could play out with her completely losing it and threatening to burn Mereen to the ground, her advisors only barely talking her out of flying across the Narrow Sea right then and there.

Mereen's destruction is averted, but the seed has been planted in the viewer's mind: Danerys has much less to lose now, and she's willing to rain fire on a populace with enough provocation. Now when the other shoe drops and she does this on King's Landing, the turn has enough narrative foundation to feel plausible and earned.
More or less.

Sometimes they will have intermediates, which then decay, and then those products decay, and so on. That's quite common. Eventually they just ... fall apart. The more options, the faster. The greater the energy stepdown, the faster, by which I mean "can it release a gamma? Or fall apart into some much smaller things?"

However, it is independent of "nearby" structure, where nearby is any distance larger than the nucleus. So, no, we cannot contain these particles within anything to prevent their decay, it is like trying to build a bouncy castle around a hand grenade in hopes that it won't go off.

Note that there is an apparent delay in decay, from our perspective, when particles are moving very fast, like a relativistic muon lasting longer (although still a very brief period of time by our standards) than expected, simply due to special relativity. But here this also would not help.

Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, and so on.
There is no such thing as an abortion clinic, there are facilities that provide a range of healthcare services, potentially including abortions.
I think there’s more preventing the passage of a law protecting an individuals right to abortion than whether it was a matter of political priority.

To pass such a law would require 60 votes in the senate AIUI. Given that this has been a massive part of the republican platform there’s no way ten senators would flip in the current senate.

It could have been passed in the Obama years but I wonder if the public would have had the appetite for it with the assumption that Roe vs Wade would have remained. Let sleeping dogs lie and all that

What this shows to me is the intentional inability for the senate to pass anything but the least offensive bipartisan bills and force other institutions such as the courts to intervene. However as we’ve seen the courts have their own agenda too
> they choose it because it works

MS DirectCompute also works. Yet last time I checked, MS Azure didn’t support DirectCompute with their fast GPUs. These virtual machines come with TCC (Tesla Compute Cluster) driver which only supports CUDA, DirectCompute requires a WDM (Windows Driver Model) driver. https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/2c1784a3-5e09...
Exercise's benefits go beyond burning calories. Burning 500 calories is not the same as avoiding those 500 calories.
"...doesn't mean a group/class of people..."
I'm well aware of that, as well as the definition, however, i've come across incorrect usage of the term on SMS as the short form for "common man/common people". Considering the context of that persons comment, i was under assumption that they use that term incorrectly, hence why i've put it in quotation.
Regardless, my point still stands.
"The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. These resources are held in common even when owned privately or publicly. Commons can also be understood as natural resources that groups of people (communities, user groups) manage for individual and collective benefit.". Note that the definition provided by you acknowledges various form of ownerships (private vs public) and that aspect is the core of my response to that comment.
...and followed by the //e which only used that string on boot-up if you had the enhanced chipset installed.
If consumers are unlikely to come and major corporations aren't going to open their own app stores or migrate to third-party app stores, then what kind of companies are going to need to have a third-party app store that's uncontrolled by Apple? Do you think these companies have spent this much money on marketing and bankrolling lobbyists in the US and EU for no reason?
Various approaches to "reducing emissions" by producing less food, by either urging people to eat less meat (quite popular in a lot of places) or by shutting down farms (e.g. what Netherlands is doing)
Note: Links to parts 2 and 3 didn't seem to exist anymore in that article. But they were easy to find just by changing the URL, so here they are:

Part 2: https://codetapper.com/c64/diary-of-a-game/lemmings/the-maki...

Part 3: https://codetapper.com/c64/diary-of-a-game/lemmings/the-maki...
Except it was not as the SCOTUS just ruled.
Tech Ops is a mess. Here’s why we’re committed to fixing it
The good and the bad about the F-35 cockpit: A Panther pilot’s guide
Pop shell seems really nice, but I am not too into GNOME. I know they are trying to make it an independent desktop environment, so looking forward to that.
> You are welcome to continue using the App Store.

As long as apps remain available on the App Store. I wouldn’t be surprised to see, e.g., Facebook making their messaging app available via sideloading only in order to circumvent Apple’s privacy rules.
Does that mean we can finaly use firefox with gecko and adons?
Have the protesters specifically threatened politicians with violence, or merely demonstrated near their homes?
Yes.

Signal.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework
The veterinary industry for pets in the US is about 100 billion dollars a year. I think assuming 1% of that is cruciate ligament treatment/surgery is probably a bit too high but it is a pretty common problem for dogs and surgery is a pretty expensive intervention so I am not sure. Its at least 100s of millions though.
> You're paying for all of that whether it's the cloud or on-prem. The only real difference if you're a large company is whether you're paying another company's profit margin as well.

So, then why even provide the distinction of rent vs own if thats the case?

> you are paying Amazon enough to buy that much physical space, power, bandwidth, IT staff, etc.

And you're also sharing the costs with other people. Clearly FedEx is saving $400M/year while also funding Bezo's trips to space, no?

> But any Fortune 500 transitioning to the cloud is literally just taking their money and burning it, because the alleged cost savings of efficiencies of scale are being completely absorbed by the cloud provider's profit margins.

This is literally not the case without the details so stop speculating. Every F500 should (and probably is) be doing a rent vs own calculation and determining the TCO, and then making the decision from there. It's not unilaterally the case, it has to be assessed.
The revenue difference I have heard, ballpark, for targeted advertising (based on tracking) on the web, en masse is 2x. So the gajillion dollar online ad industry would only be set back by 4 or 5 years. So, 2018? Not bad. I say, do it. Ban targeted advertising on the web.