skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't really change that much, our government has greatly minimised smoking by increasing the excise tax on tobacco by a large amount annually.

Every time the tax increase kicked in, the number of people accessing funded support for quitting spikes.

The Ministry of Health even encourages smokers to switch to vaping, which I thought is rather pragmatic in an age where people in NZ treat vaping as equivalent to smoking in terms of unpleasantness and the correspondingly expected politeness - don't vape near children, ensure your vapour doesn't blow onto other people, only vape outside, and even then, many outside areas in a hospitality business are designated smoking/vaping free.

Very few young people are taking up cigarettes, I have four teenaged sons, and in all their friendship circles, there's a total of two smokers. But, that leads me to our current problem is, we kinda screwed the pooch on how vaping entered the market, and how it was/wasn't regulated, and that's what all the cool kids are getting addicted to these days instead of ciggies.

So yeah. This policy won't change much, as the existing mechanisms have been rather effective.
I'm not saying "disturbed sleep", which I believe you are defining as apnea or other respiratory issue, should not be looked at. But even if it is, that does not answer the age related decline in SWS.

Even if there is no other health issue, SWS declines with age. The decline of SWS is linked to increased amyloids, which is linked to Alzheimer's.

Yes, apnea also has an impact on SWS, with the same relationship to amyloids and Alzheimer's, but solving the apnea does not solve the age related decline.
If it hadn’t been for Brexit, the EU market would be an “which exchange rate do you prefer?” away from being the equal of the USA. And the UK’s economy is something like California in this analogy, and they basically follow the same rules anyway despite all the noise about wanting to be different.
After some digging I found this:

1) The address that was used to send this message is not the first address that the genesis(the first "mined") block sent money to.

2) The "genesis"/Satoshi address has been used through the years a lot

3) The "Paul le Roux" address is far less active

4) this transaction was made 9 days after the first block was mined

My conclusion here is: Paul le Roux _MIGHT_ be Satoshi, but unlikely, more like very early adopter who either knew Finney, Satoshi or both. But neither can be said with 100% certainty.
Defense Innovation Unit seeks commercial options to deploy satellites deep space
I wonder how often employers get garnished?
One rule of thumb is to be wary of anything not sold on the perimiter of a grocery store.
Government-mandated (usually in selected specific cases) spyware trojans are not installed through any of the app stores.
Yeah. People seem to be bizarrely fixated on the bits of stories where they mention what SBF was famous for and quote his excuses and don't state that he's definitely guilty of this crime that we were waiting to see if he'd be charged with, and miss the point that the headline is that the guy is accused of a serious crime and articles on famous people accused of crimes usually mention what they're famous for even if that's good, quote a denial/excuse if there is one and don't announce what they're guilty of before they've even been charged with anything.

Sure, he did more full-blown interviews than most people accused of serious crimes, but that's mainly because most of them listen to their lawyers.

If media outlets actually felt particularly kindly disposed towards SBF, they'd be deploying the rhetorical tricks used to defend their favourite politicians
(can we trust the investigators? aren't the big losers in FX the sort of financial institutions that were taking calculated risks anyway? and how many of them go to jail when they lose their customers' money? aren't other crypto institutions much worse and what's their role in Alameda's collapse? maybe he actually he could win all that money back, he's made billions before?) not talking about how a one time darling of the Effective Altruism movement and former billionaire is under investigation after his brokerage collapsed after he allegedly transferred its customers' funds to prop up his other failing company. No matter how much biographical detail gets included beforehand, that's not a rosy picture.
What if it just makes consoles unprofitable and Sony and Microsoft stop making them?
Is it? Premium domain names have genuine scarcity and $850 is nothing to a company making productive use of it. Better than having them all squatted and resold for tens of thousands.
Dude I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, I’m asking what is it useful for in a statistically significant manner. I’m not really interested in some outlier professional fighters or whatever have to say about it. What fat person doesn’t know CICO is real? You don’t think they’ve heard it a million times? Yet statistically we’re only getting fatter. Trying the same stuff expecting different results is stupid, and yet we’re telling every fatty out there CICO, millions of them, for decades, with nothing to show at a population level.

This is stupid. Thus I’m questioning what CICO is useful for beyond some academic, theoretical sense. Actual applications. Because the application ain’t applying.
Ok, but can you please stop posting unsubstantive/flamey comments to HN? You've done that repeatedly, unfortunately.

You may not owe ex-billionaire fraud defendants better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Has the renewal price of any popular TLD _ever_ gone down? I guess you could argue that it has effectively gone down when staying the same due to inflation.
Agreed! Centralizing logs is so helpful, but you don't know it until you've done it. Too many people rely upon grep, when a handy tool is just a download away. Plug for said too: https://log-store.com
I agree. I am thinking of my future children or myself into my old age. Even if we don’t get commercial fusion until the 2040s, imagine nearly limitless energy (of course we still need to pay for likely massive capex, R&D, and transmission) and its repercussions!

At the very least we can likely pull carbon out of the air faster than we put it in. No more destructive hydropower, no need for fission plants, radically reduced costs for industrial manufacturing. Cheap energy could make raw resource extraction much cheaper and more easily automated. Fast transportation, vertical farming. With the concurrent innovations in battery tech, robotics/automation, and electric vehicles and ships, the future is looking incredibly bright
What happens whena tablespoon of neutron soup gets thrown out of the well of a neutron star? Does it suddenly expand to the size of everest? Where do the electrons come from?
Except if you believe in unfettered capitalism with zero government oversight, there's no other possible outcome than "the rich run the police".
As a non-engineer I will take this as encouragement.

From what I've seen around me, the ones holding the engineering titles simply are more methodical in how they search for a pattern or key to how something works. They will have a better vocabulary to explain themselves too.

But maybe they aren't as good in thinking outside the box?

Kind of like how someone who has completed a formal philosophical education will usually be better figuring out the ins and outs of a particular text but not necessarily will have what it takes to come up with their own? Not sure - I'm a humanities kind of guy who works with engineers.
> My kids are likely to spend the majority of their lives living a world where energy is clean, cheap, and available to everyone.

Unless you're in your early teens and don't plan on having kids until you're in your 30's this proba
Doesn’t people like Rob Pike argue for `cat |` since it fits so orthogonally with the rest of the pipeline?
No one is perfect. I'm sorry for being snarky, but how else can we make meaningful change without starting with personal responsibility. We can't blame big food for our choices.
GP is talking about Le Roux, who is in prison.
Why not ActivityStreams instead of RSS? It would have free and seamless interop with ActivityPub, with the only difference being a "pull" model as opposed to the "push" inherent in ActivityPub.
I never really understood this sentiment. How come Android phones are not riddled with bugs then? Or OSX?

It is simply the job of the sandbox and OS security to prevent security/privacy violations.
They could simply identify these like they did for EV certs. Whether you trust one of them more or less is then your choice, (certainly I wouldn't continue on a random e-shop with a country specific cert but I also don't like landing on a supposed government site that has a comodo cert and may want to sell me a green card) mediated by journalism and their ability to keep a better reputation than the lowest CA that still gets a lock.

If I had to guess, half of the least trustworthy CAs in the one-store-fits-all keystore are also government affiliated ones and we don't even get anything to differentiate them from any regular commercial cert.
Annoyingly, news outlets just recycle the hype. Tired of everything being exaggerated for attention in modern society, this is one reason faith in social institutions is on the wane.
In the press conference they mentioned that modern lasers have "20% wall plug efficiency". That means fusion has to generate 5x more energy than this experiment did, for you to get more energy out than you put in.
A walled garden they willing walked into and willingly can leave at any time? It’s not as though there’s nowhere else to go. The trouble is people want all the benefits of the walled garden without the wall.
Beautiful, thank you for sharing.
But the new house that you will have to buy will also be cheaper. On average, you are no worse off.
Appending stylized prompts has been around long time and easy to find free online AI image generation sites too.
On top of $100/year developer license, you also need an Apple laptop (or desktop) to develop for iOS devices. You are legally (though not technically) forbidden to run a copy of macOS on non-Apple hardware, even if a legitimate copy were obtainable without purchasing some hardware.

Apple is a hardware company, an appliance company if you wish, and also a media company. The fact that they are forced to also produce general computing devices as a wayto run stuff like Ableton or Photoshop is, I suspect, seen as a pesky legacy of Apple II days.
Replace all the humans with ChatGPT bots?
True, also to note brick construction traditionally can be dirt cheap if you adjust for materials and processes that are readily available locally. Nowadays there’s the option to go with hollow concrete blocks which makes building way faster and cheaper as well.
Assuming that those savers put the vast majority of their money in deflation-resistant assets like cash, bonds, or gold, instead of stocks or real estate (including single-family homes); this assumes further that deflation doesn’t increase unemployment and harm business by disincentivizing marginal spending, which many believe to be the case.

I disagree that people have to speculate to keep up with inflation. Maybe this is true in the short term (although individual savers in America can purchase inflation-protected savings bonds in exchange for their capital being locked up for a year), but over terms of several years stock markets are incredibly durable in the face of even high inflation. Investing your ample savings in a portfolio of index funds and owning the house you occupy should keep you well ahead of inflation over your lifetime.
Not necessarily.

How old and how backward compatible are you thinking?

- Symbol is 2014-2015

- Map is 2014-2015

- Weak* data structures and their methods span 2014-2021

- WebGL 2.0 is 2017-2021

- Custom Elements are 2017-2021

- Chrome-only non-standards (hardware APIs and a bunch of others) are pumped out at a rate of up to 400 per year

- WebAssembly MVP is 2017-2018

And so on. That's off the top of my head. None of them are backwards compatible. Some of them cannot be polyfilled.
"Processed" is a slightly confusing shorthand for "has undergone processes which either damaged its nutritional properties or added a ton of unhealthy shit for the sake of becoming more appealing and/or easier to preserve and consume".

A chopped apricot or a smoked salmon are in a literal sense processed food, but nobody is referring to that kind of processes. Rather, they're referring to the processes that turn an apricot into a Sachertorte, or a salmon into spreadable salmon-flavoured cheese. Dehydrating, extensive cooking, adding massive amounts of salt/sugar/fats - processes that destroy vitamins and other nutritionally important characteristics and mix the original food with large quantities of unhealthy ingredients.
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Not Martin, Le Roux. I think he's still being held by the U.S. Feds.
> We didn’t magically jump from only buying things in stores to only buy things from an App Store.

And it fucking sucked. Finding apps was hit or miss, there was no guarantee an app would run on your device model, and payments were ridiculous. Apple's App Store is far from perfect but it is vastly better than the absolute clown shoes of buying mobile apps for pre-iPhone mobile platforms.
Atlassian Hacked Again?
"Le Roux was sentenced to 25 years in prison in June 2020" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux
I was reading this link, cloudsek has provided a link to query some information regarding the marketplace where the attackers are selling the leaked info: https://exposure.cloudsek.com/

Do someone have more info about it?
Not even facebook is big enough to make people go way out of their way and install it. The easy way will always be the popular.
NEAT holds a different level of influence every single day, maybe even hour, based on your body's supply of energy, hormones, and other unknown stuff. Have you ever been extremely fidgety while people next to you are completely still? You would have been burning at least 2x the calories they were in that time.

Basically, its simple and accurate to measure calories in. But almost impossible to measure calories out. So TDEE actually shifts by a couple hundred calories every day. That's small but not insignificant, and explains why some people end up quite underweight and others quite overweight, even if they eat the same foods (over a long period of time).
That is great, because it is what is causing the business support for safer languages.

The amount of hours * salary rate per hour, burned with those security fixes.
Don't forget to tell that to Mossad who not even a few years ago hunted down a 90 years old Hungarian dude who was nothing more than a simple guard at one of the concentration camps, forget which one.
Most of Europe outside of the Alps don't really have to worry about earthquakes either.
my personal domain is a ccTLD domain and has gone down over time. I know it's a bit iffy, but I like my ultra short domain, and if they take it from me...oh well.
Domain squatting should not be a thing. Domain name prices should be such that squatting is unprofitable.
I hypothesize it's not useful because you're using grep. If you use a tool that can show you multiple lines all tied by a request ID, it becomes much more helpful.
1. The signature was created using a private key that corresponds to the address "1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3".

2. 1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3 is Hal Finney's (Not Satoshi's) address.

3. Hal Finney passed away in 2014.

4. Some coins that belonged to that address were spent in 2017. [1]

It appears that someone else (definitely not Hal) has the private key to that address.

[1] https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/70ec308460a38f6de25f89c6ed...
For those who don't know:

> Craig Steven Wright (born October 1970)[1] is an Australian computer scientist and businessman. He has publicly claimed to be the main part of the team that created bitcoin, and the identity behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. These claims are regarded as false by much of the media and the cryptocurrency community.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright
I think you're mistaking me, I mean 100% ghee. Only ghee.
Yes, strangely enough, that is exactly what I’m questioning!

They are a terrible idea whose time came and went around 2017.
I'm pretty sure created a gmx.de account around the turn of the Millennium and I'm not from a German speaking country. They had an email service and I needed an email.

The problem with absolute statements is that they always get it wrong.
> I suppose there are people just itching to install closed source mystery code from unaccountable entities. Unfortunately most of them are the friends and family for whom I am first line technical support. I'm not looking forward to the change.

What is this hypothetical even. Your nontechnical friends and family are also eager to go out of the App Store (after having to enable developer mode, which might be as difficult and full of disclaimers and warnings as Apple chooses to slap into it), then root around shady third party app stores and mobile websites to download mystery code? So they're simultaneously tech illiterate and power users?
100% agree. We should be dumping as much as we can in getting fusion up and running ASAP. It could be a silver bullet to stop climate change alone, and by driving energy costs lower, enable huge innovations in AI/automation and increasing material wealth.

$1T to move fusion forward just 5 years from eg 2040 to 2035 could alone have a huge ROI in terms of climate mitigation and decarbonization
> Apple will collect a 30% rent on all economic activity

I understand that it might be a intentional hyperbole but Apple very clearly and universally charges the comission (which is 15% if rev under < $1M) on digital good purchases. They have not planned to charge for bank transfers as some commenters in the NFT case of Coinbase fearmongered or physical goods. It's only a fee on things that App Store and Apple clearly enabled you to deliver to people with their system - digital goods.
Despite being a long-time Apple user, I just purchased an Android tablet the other day, in a large part because iPads are so locked down and controlled by Apple.

This decision will make me strongly consider returning it and getting an iPad instead. iPads leave Android tablets in the dust in terms of performance, although I do like the microsd card slot on Android.

Of course, it could take years for Apple to reluctantly implement the change.
Well, it lasts for several years, but considerably less than even a human lifetime: Tritium's half-life is only about 11 years, so gun sights, dark-proof glow-in-the-dark signage (usually reserved for critical industrial plants, ships and offshore platforms due to expense), etc, will become seriously degraded in just a few years. (Since the glow is directly proportional to the remaining low-level beta radioactivity, which can barely penetrate the glass envelope in the first place - you'd get more radiation (from radium) living in a brick house than carrying 24-7.)

FWIW, tritium and a phosphor granule encapsulated in glass microspheres have been developed for self-illuminating runway paint, but again, no one really uses it because tritium is stupid expensive, and again, it' loses half its brightness in only a decade.

On the other hand, I've been told that Trijicon will replace their tritium gun sights for the lifetime of the original owner. I plan to live long enough to cost them money...
another one, not much of a hack, more of automation

2001

I worked for a localisation company and we had to do this mind-numbing work that involved opening an image, selecting the picture, cropping it to a certain size, selecting the image, adding a feather to the selection and adding a faded border around the edge, in photoshop

I discovered photoshop actions, which let me record a macro and automate and chain together a bunch of actions.

For weeks, I always had my work done on time. like, a few hours of work done in the first few minutes of the day, and I could spend the rest of the time surfing the internet.

Then eventually I messed up - the format had changed slightly but I was using my old automation and made a record number of mistakes. they were on to me. my team lead made me show him the trick, and introduced it across the team. And for the rest of that month, we were the most productive team in the company, and all had our work done within half an hour of the start of the day, and the rest of the day to mess around on the internet and play games (I wanna say doom but that seems super old for the time - maybe they were just shitty PCs and couldnt handle anything else)
why would it take so long to discover this?
> Importantly, all developers got standard terms which created a level playing field.

Lmao, you must have missed the news about Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix and another few dozen Fortune 500 companies negotiating with Apple under the table. They already do bend the rules for sufficiently large companies, they just won't budge if you're someone that threatens them.
One of these is a fairy tail though. The free market doesn’t work like that, and that is a nice way to further empower companies.
No, that is not correct, git-annex uses a variety of special remotes[2], some of which support deduplication. Mentioned in another comment[1]

When you have checked something out and fetched it, then it consumes space on disk, but that is true with git-lfs, and most other tools like it. It does NOT consume any space in any git object files.

I regularly use a git-annex repo that contains about 60G of files, which I can use with github or any git host, and uses about 6G in its annex, and 1M in the actual git repo itself. I chain git-annex to an internal .bup repo, so I can keep track of the location, and benefit from dedup.

I honestly have not found anything that comes close to the versatility of git-annex.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33976418

[2]: https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/
Anyone know where he got this info? Is there a previous source?
>Nobody in the world has GMX email addresses except the Germans and the Swiss.

You can just make one, right?
>Apple in fact uses and sells your data for the same purposes it is "protecting you" from when other developers do it.

I don’t believe this is true, can you cite a source? The recent buzz about ‘targeted ads’ was actually about adds on their own App Store, no third party data sharing or sale was involved, so I believe you are mistaken.
Critiquing every episode of Ancient Apocalypse [video]
russia is one of the wealthiest nation on earth and their economy is one of the strongest in the world because not related to inflated bubbles like tech or healthcare but to raw materials, natural resources, engineering, steel and other hard materials production.

the war was supposed to sink them according to european leaders and yet they are stronger than ever.