skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sensationalist title to a good news story: there was no intent-to-treat effect, but a low conversion rate. The ETT is a pretty impressive 50% mortality reduction. Also study is limited by a short 10 year follow-up period but there will be a 15 year follow up.

So I'll still get my colonoscopy, thanks
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Really divisionless random numbers
No you're right, this is why people made such a big fuss about the muslims back in the early 2000s... they used technology
Ask HN: Open-source Maintainer – why do you do it?
If you've written or maintain open source software, why do you do it? What's your motivation? And would you be more motivated if you got paid for it?
Speak to your bank and as [superchroma] has suggested cancel your credit card and fully aprise your bank of what has happened.

Document everything, get all documents certified by a court or JP (if that is available in your particular area) and then send it via certified main to yourself for a permanent record and if they decide at some time in the future to be naughty then you have at least an official record that could be submitted in evidence in any applicable matters.

Such processes can be useful, especially any officially recognised documents.

Finally, avoid doing business with them in every way and avoid doing business with every company or vendor who only uses PayPal and let that company or vendor know why.

You may be small fry in a big ocean, but even small fry (if enough are involved) can cause big problems with the big fish.
Is it just me, or do all these photos have some odd sexual tension in them? Perhaps its societal conditioning, but I don't seem to have the same response from modern days ads (even though objectively modern ads are more sexualized).
I got the same feeling about Japan as depicted in Isle of Dogs. it's the Japan as fantasized by Wes Anderson, not real Japan. "Weird and interesting and completely discordant but not in a bad way" is the perfect way to describe it.
I'm surprised Apple has no comprehensive test suite for this
Most people in germany (at least the ones with common sense) have a "Arbeitsrechtsschutz", a insurance which covers legal fees, a lawyer and so on. As this insurance is very cheap (i pay around 30 Euros a month) i can only recommend this for anyone working in germany.
I agree, California is a special, exceptionally difficult case. Due to reasonable policies which allowed it to be a hotbed of tech innovation since 1960s, it has enough inertia to allow it enforce pretty crazy policies, and still stay very much afloat.

Well, problems with electricity, water, and wildfires destroying towns? Transportation problems and a housing crisis? Never mind, Silicon Valley and Hollywood will fill the state coffers all right!

Tides turn slowly, but they are turning; I'm afraid Californian voters are heading towards a series of rude awakenings.
Front tires might also kick up the nails, "shooting" nails towards the rear tires.
No, as I found out in a recent problem myself. Cancellation of the card is a necessary part of the process.
Thanks. That explanation on avoiding selection bias makes sense, but it seems like the study is saying those who choose to get a colonoscopy (whether invited or not) are 50% less likely to die of colon cancer.

Also I’m not sure if the article mentioned this, but the data seems to imply that the % of people who opted to get a colonoscopy was similar in the invited and control group.
Really cool people call it CHAD though. :P
I saw a commercial today from Greg Abbott in Texas claiming that he wanted to pass a law that made income tax permanently illegal in the state. Meanwhile, people are getting gouged with almost no positive movement in income year over year at the same time that properties are appreciating about 15% a year in value.
Where are you getting "50% mortality reduction" from? The article says the reduction was zero:

> After 10 years, the researchers found that the participants who were invited to colonoscopy had an 18% reduction in colon cancer risk but were no less likely to die from colon cancer than those who were never invited to screening.
> used a prop to draw air through a venturi tube

"Venturi" is your clue that it was convergent--divergent by design! Whether that's a good idea is a different question...
TFA seems to link to a Docker image?

I think there are probably two main groups interested in ActivityPub. The 80% will want to just register on someone else's instance. The rest are nerds who will set up their instances for fun, and will not be massively hindered by the lack of simple set-up options. I would guess that users like you ('curious, but not invested') would likely not gravitate to ActivityPub anyway, and almost certainly not to hosting your own instance.
Arweave should just buy the single remaining bond that that Dutch water board issued in 1648. That'll solve all of their capital problems forever!

More to the point, an organization can write a promise on a piece of paper. That does not make it economically possible to keep that promise.
You can't use "if constexpr" to vary the type signature, for example (as in my link). Or to choose a different representation for a type based on a type parameter. Those will require metaprogramming at the template level.

Another example: you can't write std::is_same_v itself using "if constexpr".
I think dinner times can vary a lot, based on the cultures in each country/region. Meal times in general, I suppose.
I get forcibly relocating people but death? It doesn’t even sound like they did anything besides refuse to move.
...sure?

You disprove "no use cases" by finding one where a blockchain is a natural fit. Not by taking a standalone idea and grafting a blockchain onto it.
Our societies aren't very stable and they aren't stable because of inequality that goes beyond personal ability.
It’s really cool stuff, hey! Early days but really interesting applications in serverless so far.
Driverless vehicles don't go on rollercoasters, if they want to automatically phone in an emergency call they'll probably be able to do so reliably.

a phone in your pocket does not have that context.
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> Any repetition and you'll get used to it.

Tickling was a torture method in ancient Rome and people can die from it. So no, suspectable people don't get used to it. Not all people have the same sensitivity however, so I can imagine it was like that for you.
Type erasure is a specific compilation technique, it means more than a lack of introspection capabilities.

In most languages, a function taking a float and a function taking an int end up producing different compiler output (because they need to use different CPU registers). More to the point, this extends to generic/template functions with signatures like “void foo<T>(T arg)”, which then need to be monomorphized, that is, copied for each instantiation.

Languages with type erasure simply drop the type argument instead of instantiating it.
I'd love to hear why you think that's a bad thing. IMHO it's a huge quality of life improvement over 2.x. Everything is part of a target (flags, defines, dependencies, etc.) and far, far fewer magic variables that pollute random projects whenever you try to compose them.
Just use a public key as your address, and make signed pointers to the actual content. That's how people have been solving the update problem for ages.

Naming things continues to be one of the hard problems in computer science.
Also known as the "cooking recipe on the internet effect", where all you really care about is the ingredients and assembly instructions, but you first have to go throught pages and pages of text on how the author feels in the autumn when the sun hits the colorful leaves through the morning fog, creating this light and mysterious glitter that inspired her to create this recipe which, if we're honest, really is just the n-th variation of some well established dish that people have been making more or less like that for generations but which now has received so much more value by a proper classification into the author's internal system of emotions and motivations.
Not that I know much more than how to merge multiple audio tracks into a single file and do the Faststart stuff so the video starts faster, isn't the issue then really only that everyone only does milliseconds with mkv, and theoretical otherwise? Surely, when using nanoseconds and just moving the error to the next frame, jitter should be unperceivable, not even measurable on even high refresh rate displays?
About your last clause: <<which is an interesting coincidence considering who the largest non-Chinese force in that region is>>

I assume you are referring to the United States. Is the US military based in East Asia larger than Japan Self-Defence Forces? Honestly, I'm not sure. JSDF is much larger than most people realize. And to be clear, the UK has almost no presence in East Asia now. Every few years, they have a global tour, but nothing else.

And regarding the Australia submarine deal, France would only build diesel-electric subs. US+UK promised to help Australia build nuclear subs. To me, that is the #1 reason why Australia cancelled the France deal. I am sure they negotiated for months behind the scenes to upgrade to nuclear. When rejected, they announced the Ausuk deal.
My point is that you don't need p2p to have content based addressing. You "only" need a way to discover a provider for a given hash. p2p is one way, but other network topologies are also interesting to improve performance, for instance mobile clients can benefit from trustless edge gateways.
"Life is strange" (at least the first one about Max & Chloe) did have the odd bits of dialogue that didn't seem like something native English speakers would say, but in terms of setting, it was set at a fancy boarding school, which is a setting most Americans have little familiarity with (except maybe from Harry Potter), so the weirdness of setting even to Americans may have hid a lot of gaps in the authors' knowledge of American culture.
Thank you for making this, it’s absolutely stunning! I really like the Barnsley Fern. I’m going to be generating it myself in high res and printing it out at Walgreens photo for my wall.
Indian banks are issuing these things in current_year. You can just buy them. Do you have an argument about why the formula used for pricing these bonds is incorrect? What do you think about a related financial instrument backed by sovereign bonds that are rolled at expiry? Is it also impossible?
84MHz? ARM? Talk about over engineering. As the FM receiver IC in this project uses I2C you could do this with an AVR even, such as the 328P, as found in the Arduino Nano. The Arduino Due used here is double the price of the Nano.
Do you have any specific examples of things helix does better than neovim?

I think the neovim implementation of LSP and treesitter is quite nice. It was not that polished when I tried it last, but I think once it becomes mature, it will be really flexible. Tree sitter specifically is still considered experimental, but I think the timeline for that to be better integrated will be significantly faster than it takes for any new editor to get a decently sized community around it.

The zero config part of it is nice, but I think you’d be competing with e.g. VSCode with modal bindings on that note. Vim/Neovim have always had a fairly steep learning curve, and I can’t see that aspect of it mattering as significantly, especially since I only see LSP/Treesitter support improving in neovim.
The motivation to write it was to do something useful the best quality I knew how.

To continue maintaining it, it's mainly a feeling of being stuck doing it the last years. Some of the practical aspects have become a huge burden.

Internal and external motivation are quite different.
More British BS Corporation bs?

Not so long ago they said that weather isn't climate change, that it required a 30 stint to be climate change.

Now, we seem to be told things are climate change over nine instances of a 300 year period, including once in the 1700s and told it's climate change.

The climate changes people, it has since the beginning. The real change now is there are billions of $$$ involved, and much power to be lauded over people because of it.
uBlock, Tampermonkey - and all of the settings and logins I'm used to.

But you know what Electron apps allow me to do? Use my operating system's window management features.

Firefox had a feature to run web apps in extra windows but killed it. There are (virtually) no third party options for it and I have an idea why since I tried to make one.

Chromium has a feature like that but I remember something feeling "off" about it.
Indeed, there's a million places where gender differences exist in personal interests that would naturally translate to the workplace.

You can look at who buys military history books vs romance novels on amazon (something that's a far more voluntary, personal choice than a job which has financial and local incentives). From that you wouldn't be surprised men are far more likely to want to be in the military.

It's funny what society selectively decides to deem controversial and important to change, while ignoring the million other ways that same phenomenon exists uncontroversially everywhere else in society.

I don't think people care that women aren't interested in technology, they just want to see more women with x popular good paying jobs, then blame the industry for it as if there's some giant conspiracy to not hire them.
Military rule originates from the fact that the previous rulers thought they can suppress the population through so called guard labor. Once guard labor crosses a point, a huge portion of the population does guard labor which also puts them in the position to replace the ruler because the ruler is entirely dependent on this guard labor.
>Those are by far the most important features for a text editor to have

I'd say that those features are useful for source code editing, not text in general.
I like the IPNS idea. That would be useful even if it was just back-ported to bittorrent
the talent is there, so the market size. Needs regulatory barriers though, to keep dominant US firms out and enable domestic competitors to emerge. Not a very good track record of this for products which deliver intangible value, so good to see the illustrative cases in the tangible economy - robotics, engineering and logistics.
To left pad their CV
Very cool. This is super relevant to me, I've been porting Trealla Prolog to WASI recently[1] and I've been considering moving from wasmer-js to libapps/wasi-js-bindings. This looks like a nice alternative as well.

I tried running Trealla (you can grab a binary from here https://wapm.io/guregu/trealla) and it seems to work but it doesn't echo any of my input text. Does this have the terminal in raw mode by default? I'm curious how this works given that WASI lacks termios.h.

I always thought a "Steam for text games/CLI apps" would be super cool (ala webassembly.sh) but the WASI spec is missing a lot of terminal-related things: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/161

[1]: https://github.com/guregu/trealla-js
what's your favorite thing about interfaces and why?
I learned C in school. I’ve never written it on the job, but knowing it & the general Unix programming model does mean I can debug weird build errors and have and understand the source code and documentation of C libraries like sqlite. Actually come to think of it, I did write some C style C++ to make a setuid binary at Airbnb for binding & forwarding some ports on developer laptops.

I think C/C++ is very worth learning in general because the world’s most important and performant software is written in these languages. I wish I had a better command of C++; that language is the bar all others are measured against. “Is it faster than C? Is it more productive at maximum performance than C++? Is it safer than C++?” These are questions all other languages face.
In "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," Harari claims that human brain size has decreased since the agricultural revolution (which fits the whole downfall story of course).

A bit of googling for backup reveals that things may not be as simple, but it is not clear that current societies are selecting for brain size.
For whatever it’s worth, in your specific scenario, Amex can usually place a merchant block on that specific seller to prevent them from ever charging you again — I know they can for the New York Times, anyways. (I recognize this does not offer value to the Stripe conversation, but still.)
IIRC the plan is to migrate the core logic into a library that can be consumed by either a CLI or GUI. There were also some discussions of collaboration with the Neovide folks, something that I personally found very exciting as Neovide is an excellent Neovim client.

However this was last year, not sure what the current status of all this is.
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> Parental leave should be measured in weeks, not years. If you want to be a stay at home parent for years, leave the work force and then return...,.

And is for things like this that libertarians shouldn't make laws
The gold standard is the invitation. Imagine a study where you try to get one group of people to exercise, and you leave the other alone as a control group. Imagine you find that everyone who actually does the exercise lives much longer. This might be due to the exercise, or it could be that exercise doesn't work but healthier more responsible people followed through with the exercise. And the being healthier and more responsible causes you to live longer not the exercise.

This could also be true for the colonoscopy, that the more responsible/healthier people in the treatment group are more likely to get the colonoscopy and it's very possible responsibility/healthiness are driving the difference in health outcomes instead of the colonoscopy.
Which is part of the reason why vienna doesn't have turnstiles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq-X25pH1XQ
Well then maybe it might be worthwhile to start bittorent-like private trackers for IPFS?
I may be completely wrong, but I remember reading that Apple M1/M2 computers use a similar approach, with a minimal firmware in the boot image and the rest loaded with the OS.
it should have probably also found ISBN numbers as when i did a search for Achtung Panzer i had all language versions and releases mixed in results. So it might be fine for books with single release but books that have multiple release and versions and on top of that pictures can be less fun to check :) Maybe You should also cache results for like a 1-3 days or something.
How about step one? It was a horrible idea.
Excellent, would it be possible to make it regional?
For no particular reason, I tried to find out more about the Decision Master (edit: not Maker, thanks for the correction) software, but all I could find was the same ad (with some more text that's cut off) in Byte magazine 1981/01.

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/80s/Byte-1981-01....
Er... maybe I'm being dense, but doesn't the second paragraph describe exactly the same thing as the first, just in a more complicated way? (1): touching yourself is predictable, so only unpredictable touches cause tickling; (2): when you touch yourself, there is an inhibition mechanism that prevents your own touches from tickling you, so only unpredictable touches cause tickling. Both phrases actually state that your brain, your nervous system, whatever, can differentiate between your own touches and someone else's (or even touching inanimate objects, think spiderwebs) and has a way to ignore your own.
I’ve never seen more creativity unleashed more quickly than the apple apps store. The play store is fine if you stick to known apps but it’s just full of shit otherwise. But that’s the point of an open ecosystem.
"Think Different".
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I love projects like this! Great idea and motivation.

I wanted to give a heads up that when I search for “Python for data analytics”, I get this awesome book “The Storm of Bringer by Isabel Cooper”. I know you are still working on the site, so it was a good giggle, put a smile on my face. You gotta see it for yourself, contextual a warrior repping python.
> that are no longer allowed to have their own custom kernel extensions for "security" and "stability"

You keep implying that there are ulterior motives without a shred of justification. Why do you think that? What power do they get by doing this?

Also, it does not prevent things like Little Snitch or the various Objective See tools from being developed. There are no fewer firewall apps than there used to be. There are no fewer virtualisation applications either.

What you don’t get is that they started from the position that kernel extensions were an attack vector and a factor of instability. Then, they started addressing each use case for kernel extensions by providing user-level facilities. You probably set the cursor at a different location on the security spectrum, but it does not mean that you are any more right than they are.

> They are slowly squeezing macOS to make it more and more like ios.

Some people have been making that tired claim for more than a decade now. You’be had year to see how it works and where they are going, and it keeps not happening. Why do you think this is more credible now?
It's typically easier to go after the words and meaning than it is to do the hard work like getting kids to actually be better at school and have better home lives (aka culture wars).

Which is why this sort of slacktivist approach to everything is so popular today on social media. It's easy and lower effort to go after western culture while sitting behind a keyboard than to fix the hard problems happening IRL.
I expect that the price of debt issued by Indian banks correctly incorporates the probability that those banks will continue to exist and honor that debt until the end of time, which is 0.
There can’t possibly be any side effects down the road they said, with certainty after a whole six months of testing
> When the investigators compared just the 42% of participants in the invited group who actually showed up for a colonoscopy to the control group, they saw about a 30% reduction in colon cancer risk and a 50% reduction in colon cancer death
Great suggestions thanks. I'm working on a fix for ISBN numbers that will be up within a day. Caching is not something I've started on yet but it's a great idea I'll start looking into it shortly.
It isn't. They hit the ROC like every other classifier on the tails.
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You are right, I stand corrected. But it produces nytrogen oxides, so it's not considered zero emission.
That sounds like a VSCode extension I could write on a Saturday morning but whatever.
Yes certainly, at the moment it's only optimized for the USA but I'm working on adding several other regions as we speak. The issue is I have to do it individually region by region which makes it quite slow. I should have 3 or 4 more regions up before the end of the week and I'll add a couple more on a weekly basis.
I'm getting real sick of the state of npmjs.org and the lack of ES modules. Or, the lack of documentation on ES modules. So many examples, even for brand new 2022 libraries, show using require() and other gross syntax. It's simply unacceptable in <current year> that require, commonjs, etc are being used.

Take, for example, the yargs module. Somehow, a very popular library. Nowhere in the docs does it show a <working> example of how to import it as an ES module.

Worse still, the typescript typings are all wrong. For example: await yargs.parseAsync() shows as valid TS as the typings indicate that is a function. In reality, you get a runtime error because that function simply does not exist on that object. It's a mess and I cannot wait for Deno to become more popular.