skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which won't work for many regions, and Google Voice numbers are blocked from a LOT of services—including PayPal which, lol, requires you to be authenticated to talk with support about issues of authentication (needless to say, I've refused to use them ever since).
What of people who were fertile but didn’t have children, through choice, medical reasons, death etc? Surely a person who is fertile but doesn’t have a child for any reason has the same net impact on the growth of population as an unfertile person (trans or not)?
Atlanta Has More Going for It Than Any US Metropolis
A lot of animals use sand - rolls in it or throws it at themselves.

I know it is not the same as soap, but it is an interesting parallel.
I like to focus on the main business element. If it's a SaaS for sharing videos with comments, for instance, I'd take a longer look at the video and comment models, their relations, and the call chain from API endpoint to model.

Another strategy I like is picking parts of the codebase and trying to refactor them. You don't even need to commit anything if you're not supposed to go around changing things: just by spending some time moving things around, seeing what breaks and so on will give you a better understanding of the code and what it does.
That's a vacuous argument. It's true for literally anything.

an excessive consumption of water is bad, drinking the right amount of clean water is solely beneficial

an excessive consumption of eggs is bad, eating the right amount of eggs is solely beneficial

an excessive consumption of toxic sludge is bad, eating the right amount (0) of sludge is solely beneficial

The question, of course, is what is the right amount and is it more or less than what most people eat.
Would be interesting to see their reject pile.
Oh, Levi's jeans fit is a subject of its own. I think I've currently got about 6 different pairs (few 501s, then some 541 and a "Commuter", whatever the number was back then). Waist 36 sometimes ends up tighter than 35 or even 34, depending on cut and the stretchiness of the fabric.

Specially with Silca being a cycling company, I think a lot of people here will be all too familiar with the phenomenon of "chicken legs" and how to find a pair of trousers to fit them into :-)
"Bot estimation for Twitter has no such analog."

And that's acceptable there isn't well-established/widely accepted practices?

Certainly Twitter and SEC will argue that to protect themselves from scrutiny and legal issues they likely deserve.
This has got to be one of the worst takes on IRBs I’ve ever heard.

The basic argument here is that rules are ineffective because bad actors ignore them.

- Before IRBs, unethical experiments were done by professors and grad students with disposal to all of the resources they normally have.

- People don’t always know what the ethical implications of their study is, or how it could negatively impact participants.

- The IRBs are not there to stop research. They are there to help people figure out how to conduct research ethically.
While I partly agree, the trans issue is somewhat more nuanced. More specifically, there is an ongoing controversy over transwomen using safe spaces reserved for women and participating in sports with women. Many see it as unfair to women, simply put. You can't just brush it off as conservative. And even though some are truing hard to find a good compromise (unisex safe spaces), some activists won't budge and insist on completely ignoring the difference.
Now I see.

He stated:
> Concrete prefabs haven't been built in Europe since the Soviets left in the 1980s.

but the reference was only to asbestos panels, which are actually not allowed anymore since 1992/93/94 (here in Italy), anyway replacements (not containing asbesto) have been developed since.

I was instead talking of actual concrete (not fiber cement panel) prefabs.
Set blocks of time where you can work, automatically turn of your screen using my tool: https://github.com/devtox/sleep-computer

By limiting the time you can work, you don't have time to randomly surf the web.

You could add a countdown clock as well, some people work better under pressure.
Not compared to a tablet.
See the example in this screen shoot https://snipboard.io/OSq4uG.jpg
>Well, no, that's ... that's just what government does, is make rules.

This right here highlights the core of the issue, this is exactly whey authoritarians like yourself, and non-authoritarians like myself have a hard time communicating

You can not fathom why anyone would question government authority, and I can not fathom why anyone would not question government authority.

Saying "that's just what government does, is make rules. " is an authoritarian position as well

To non-authoritarians, government authority has limits, its ability to "make rules" is narrowly defined to a very very limited scope.

To non-authoritarians the law should be simply the collective organization of individual rights, and the law shall have no authority beyond that which the individual would otherwise have the authority, the government is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do.

To non-authoritarians any law, regulation, or purpose of government that creeps beyond that is unethical.

>>People with actual legal educations who understand the design, of course, can. We make improvements every day.

This presumes that the original design is desirable and something that should be preserved, it also presumes that there was an "original design" and that everyone that has meddled in the law since has taken the "original design" to heart and faithfully applied that to all future changes, both are provably and demonstrably false assumptions especially in the context of the US legal system which is been fundamentally altered from the original design to no longer have any real connection to that original design

>These laws don't come from philanthropy

Almost all regulatory agencies and the regulations they produce are done so under the premise of philanthropy. I fail to see how these regulations are any different.
In every movement you have over-enthusiasts/utopists who don't see the challenges. But even in a game like Deus Ex you can see it's not difficult to see the utopia [0] from reality [1].

Now, like everything : no one will get a new limb if he knows a corp will make him a slave for life. So for these companies to succeed they must guarantee peace of mind to their users. You don't fear getting addicted to aspirin every time u take it. Perhaps open-sourced with generics parts.

On a more philosophical note, car makers gave us more freedom by transcending our biological limitations (higher speed, no tiredness) but in exchange of some loss of freedom (loan, accessible areas, time lost finding a parking spot, etc). Nothing comes without a cost.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG_oThcYsn0
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW1V1HQ5PDE
Mine would definitly be an truthful emulation of the elevator crashing up/down the shaft.
>personal devices are regularly being used in many cases (Non Gov Furnished Equipment) as well, and that thoroughly defeats the purpose too.

U2F and WebAuthN protect against phishing. This protection applies regardless of whether you use a personal device or not.

Even more relevant, one of the main benefits of 2FA is securing people who reuse passwords. Similarly, that gained protection is not lost by using a personal device.
Gender expression, gender identity, and sexual orientation are different. Most people same sex attracted people feel like their assigned gender. Even if they don't fit stereotypes
How about just taking me to my floor in silence? I have my own music. Let me choose the experience.
How is that chargeback granted? The inspector has documentation for doing his job in the property. Does Mastercard etc not even ask him for some evidence?
Refactor something unimportant with tests and a functional change, improve the documentation in the README, and push straight to the repo without a feature branch.

Reading the codebase does surprisingly little for me, you essentially have to change it and see what happens.
I believe the phenomenon in Scandinavia that more children are born in spring is partly due to families performing economic optimization wrt. timing of kindergarten and parental leave.
> All the added complexity of implementing minimum character limits on passwords and requiring them to be changed every 3 months literally drove people to write passwords on post its and put them on PC monitors back in 2019... Some things never change...

This does seem a bit silly, but is also the "logical" thing for many people, who won't be able to remember all of their different passwords and don't know of any better solution - thus the less tech savvy will store their passwords in a text file, a spreadsheet, or a post it note on their computer.

Personally, I don't know any of my passwords anymore. Everything is randomly generated by KeePass with the password databases being distributed across my devices or SD cards/HDDs for backups (encrypted). Once you stop thinking of passwords as something that you should "know", but rather something that you "have", then it becomes way easier. Far too many people have the wrong mindset and attempt to use the same password for multiple sites - they're one breach away from having a really bad time.

And yet, somehow we don't really talk about that and don't educate people. I don't believe that in school or university, across more than a decade of education a password manager of any sort was ever mentioned, be it a web based one or a file based one. Not even proper encryption (outside of SSL/TLS, but for websites), no mentions of PGP/GPG either. And that's after getting a Master's Degree in Software Engineering. Of course, I talked with peers and other people, including professors about these topics, but they were never officially covered in any of the courses.

That makes me think that outside of ads on YouTube for popular SaaS offerings in the space, it's a pretty dire situation for the average person.
reddit.com/r/deepdream has a lot of Midjourney output.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295192.2020.1...

> Of the adult trans population, between 25% and 49% of individuals are believed to be parents (Dierckx, Motmans, Mortelmans, & T’sjoen, 2016)
The sample rate 44.1 kHz is objectively "low" in the sense that if you have to want a passband of 20 kHz, then extremely sharp low-pass filters must be inserted before the ADC.

So sharp low-pass filters are extremely difficult to implement as analog filters with reproducible characteristics.

Even when they are implemented as digital filters, as in most modern equipment, i.e. the audio ADC uses a much higher sampling frequency and its output signal is interpolated and decimated digitally to 44.1 kHz, it is still difficult to design the very sharp low-pass filter so that it will not introduce any audible artifacts on transient signals (the sampling theorem is based on ideal non-realizable filters).

Raising the sampling frequency to be distant from the 40 kHz minimum value removes all difficulties with the design of the low-pass filters making it easy to guarantee that the digital signal reproduces exactly the analog input.

When the audio CD format has been designed, the digital technology was much less advanced and storing a lot of bits was a far more difficult task than later.

So they have made the trade-off of requiring very expensive analog low-pass filters in order to minimize the amount of bits stored on the disc and transmitted over the digital interfaces, because the digital processing and storage was even more expensive anyway.

Nowadays, it is much more convenient to just use higher sampling frequencies for audio signals.
For all who look for something like this, iZotope RX (the audio retouche software) has a function called "Musical Rebalance" which is great for reducing spill or changing the balance in a live recording.
This has been coming for a long time. How are our systems and thinking so blind this kind of thing?

If we’re lucky it’ll take years if not decades to as a society stop this contamination.

These levels are just the beginning and we’ll look back on them as the good ol days when the levels were ‘low’.
I’ve been playing with tech like this in various Discord servers for over a year now and I’m still fascinated every day. Knowing how incredible it is and then hearing people say “Sure. But, Discord. Ew.” is a shaking-my-head moment. The Discord interface is far from ideal. But, it has had a very high ROI for the small, low budget team behind Midjourney.
She stopped playing guitar for years when she joined a church and they told her to stop playing ragtime.
"just like gas pumps"

If your country doesn't have those (yet), it almost reads like satire.
> Specially with Silca being a cycling company, I think a lot of people here will be all too familiar with the phenomenon of "chicken legs" and how to find a pair of trousers to fit them into :-)

I'm not really built like a cyclist, so I usually have the opposite problem when buying cycling shorts :)

Although, to the point of this thread, I've found that actual sporting goods brands (as opposed to "lifestyle" or "sportswear", or whatever they're called) tend to stick to one set of measures.

I used to love my Gore biking shorts, so when I was in the market for a pair of running shorts, and saw Gore made those too, I ordered the same size and fit was the same.

I have similar experience with Decathlon, a French sports goods store, that also make their own products.

Ditto for Nike, where my basketball shoes are the same size as my running shoes – bought several years apart.
Beware CTAD on Reverse_iterator
Three ways...

1. I go straight to the entry point, the main(), and then follow how the initial configuration, flow of data, sanitisation, and routing is done.

2. I look for bugs. Fixing bugs reveals the complexity as you need to look for side effects of the fixes when you don't yet know the system. Writing tests for those fixes also helps understand the system.

3. I look for the least changed part. I find these are usually the oldest and most core part of how the program works, whereas more recent changes are business logic and feature addition.

But of these, the first yield the greatest initial understanding and allows me to change things with less fear.
> as we can easily prevent the healthy person dying causes of death in the first world.

Citation needed. Accidental deaths from motor vehicle injuries plus other factors are disturbingly common in the first world.
> Hotel California’s Hell Freezes Over version is generally very well regarded in mastering.

Never heard this, but I know the original track is used for reference in studios from LA to NY, and is generally regarded as among the best mixes ever engineered.

Another commenter suggested high end audio equipment and $10K monitors... not necessary. With any off the shelf hifi, $100 worth of equipment, one can easily hear mp3 high frequency problems. Focusing on the cymbals just makes it obvious.
That's a very naive view of the expanding bureaucracy which must grow to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

IRBs don't need to be ran by anyone more competent than a 5 year old to catch the cases you're talking about. What they have metastasis to today is just another part of the administrative industrial complex which has strangled academia.
>You're sure free to tell me what I think

You mean you don't view any of those 3 people I mentioned as heros? Ok, This still doesn't change anything, unless you're radically anti war in a way very few people are, there is someone you idol who killed far far more than Ted can ever dream of.

>You don't think a cat kills 7 birds and/or rodents a year

I concede this point, see my reply to your sister comment for why its just a bad phrasing of what I meant to say. I give an alternative phrasing there that better makes my point about why humans are uniquely evil.

>It destroys your statement that ...

But doesn't make a difference beyond that.

>I don't see any possible way for you to have a consistent position here

Here is a very consistent position for you : I want to destroy all sentient life or remove sentience from it, whichever is easier\faster. Failing the ideal goal of doing that to all life, a lesser goal is to do it to all humans, because :

(1) they are my own species, their evil and immorality is more my responsibility than the evil or immorality of other species.

(2) they have the tools and awareness to be not evil and moral, unlike most animals, and yet choose evil and immorality.

(3) their number and power are unparalleled and far beyond anything on earth now, so their evil and immorality is a huge proportion of all evil and immorality.
The TL;DR essence from the abstract:

> The reported acute effects were significantly more intense for the active dose compared to the placebo, but only for participants who correctly identified their experimental condition. [...] For all other measurements there was no effect of microdosing except for few small changes towards cognitive impairment. According to our findings, low doses of psilocybin mushrooms can result in noticeable subjective effects and altered EEG rhythms, but without evidence to support enhanced well-being, creativity and cognitive function. We conclude that expectation underlies at least some of the anecdotal benefits attributed to microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms.
What could Basic do over Logo? As a few of the books I posted show, Logo is a very capable language, ignoring turtles. Was Logo in the 80s somehow less capable?
Being part of a (STEM) college faculty, I communicate with scientists on a regular basis. They are usually very polite and precise in their language.

Sidenote: nothing wrong with tone policing most of the time. It is exactly what parents do when they raise kids.
I'm not sure if it's mandatory now either. The sign up button on the front page of Twitter.com says "Sign up with a phone number of email address". If you click on it, it defaults to a form with a name, phone number and date of birth, but there's a link titled "Use email instead" that changes it to name/email/date of birth.
>Being critical of your government is a protected right for USA. Everyone gets a moment to state their case if they'd like to make an accusation.

Unless a kangaroo “FISA court” says you can’t - in which case you’re screwed, and can’t even tell anyone about the “sentence” if it included a gag order. Still better than getting droned I suppose.
Yes. I'd be more worried about estrogen in meat.

https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/jco.2010.28.15_suppl.15...
Indeed. The original article comes across as really quite biased too. Longitudinal cohort studies can never nail causality but they are quite good at providing measures of apparent risk.

In cardiology, an odds ratio of about 1.2, called tiny by the article, can actually be considered quite large in some circumstances. Very roughly speaking, it's about equivalent to your risk per ten years of age of developing heart failure, or per 20 mmHg of systolic blood pressure [1].

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10557-022-07355-7
First ever gene therapy gel corrects rare genetic skin condition
Raspberry Pi as wireless access point
> Intro 1 on 1 conversation with Taro founders, so we can understand how to best help you grow

Mutually beneficial 'perk' - smart! :)
Part of why some people believe that is probably experience with teenage girls, who seem to somewhat frequently go through an "experimental" phase where they are lesbian or bi, but then later settle down with a man and stay in a long term (happy) relationship.

Admittedly I never heard of a man doing this. Men seem to know they're gay from the start and stick with it, unless they are forced into a hetero "lavender marriage" by social rules. This idea of experimentation seems limited to women. But given that it happens so often, the phenomenon can't be entirely genetic.
> I haven't talked at all about whether incremental WYSIWYG editing of TeX documents is desirable, nor indeed about incremental WYSIWYG editing of TeX documents at all. Nor did I talk about whether a more responsive TeX workflow was desirable.

In that case, I find this conversation irrelevant to me. The precise definitions are just that, definitions, and are there to serve an objective, they are not the end themselves. Goodbye.
If it is not scientific, but social construct, it means it can be accepted or rejected. So should we as a society universally accept all social constructs? Or should it be accepted on opt-in basis?

I can only recognize universal nature laws, because I cant fight physics, and recognize legal laws, because they are enforced.

But social constructs - it is not 100% clear to whom they are applicable and whether one can selectively reject certain social constructs.

If a woman can reject social construct that she must be housewife and take care of kids, then by the same logic anyone can selectively reject any trendy social constructs like having gender #69
Trust is built over decades, and torn down in minutes.

News outlets (on both sides) have been caught in multiple partisans lies, disinformation, and spin/suppression of inconvenient facts for "their side" for many years now, this has eroded the trust in media and makes presentation of facts harder.

Neither side wants to acknowledge anything that would be seen as supporting the position of the "others"

So in the context of the election, you have one side that refuses to concede that Biden was elected by the people, but you also have the other side refusing to concede that because of COVID and other factors the 2020 election has some pretty non-standard events that (while not impacting the outcome of the presidential election) is the basis of the questioning of the integrity of the election, instead we have people saying the 2020 was the freest, fairest election in all of history because their side won..

neither position is true or healthy, and both position have Cult-Like behavior
I really hope EU driver's licenses will follow soon. After that I could actually stop carrying a wallet. Cash usage basically stopped in Northern Europe years ago, but for some reason we still have to carry these few relics when driving or traveling.
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> How Did Elevators Lose Their Music?

The question is asked, but not answered.

Regarding the music itself, we get one mention of Brian Eno in the penultimate paragraph, as a side, and none of Erik Satie (who invented the genre in 1917 [0]).

This is a kind of content-free article. Literature for elevators maybe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture_music
Some type of Dead man's switch [0] could make it safer, if it's your main worry. Of course, it's another source of bugs..

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man's_switch
notepad.exe user reporting in; I neglected my gentoo install one month too long on an FFXIV binge...

I find that notepad has all the features I need, I generally only work on my own code so I don't need fancy tooling.
The old Abe rhetoric was powerful but it always felt like it was only hitting home on two of the three points. Obviously government, by definition really, is of the people. The much better parts were for the people and by the people.
Which group of people we mean when we talk about Romans? And from what period? I mean sure some country had computers. After all they are used now so they must have been couple centuries back too right?