skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Malaria was endemic in the US south of the Mason Dixon Line until the middle of the 20th century and it's had a huge effect on our history - from playing a part in the decimation of native populations to why slavery only took hold in some places to the difficulties of some Union offensives in the Civil War.

Charles Mann wrote a great book, 1493, on the Colombian Exchange which I'd highly recommend. The introduction of malaria to the Americas is one underappreciated aspect of that he introduced me to.
A friend taught public school in a poorer area outside of DC for about 8 years until moving into admin. He had one tactic that worked for many "bad" kids - call their parents, in the middle of the class if need be. He said today's young teachers, are non-confrontational and not used to verbal communication over phones as they were raised on social media and texting. So those young teachers sit there helpless while the student runs wild.

Now in admin hes some kind of teacher manager and he had teachers come to him, sometimes physically crying, unable to deal with a child with a behavioral problem. His says 99% of the time these problems are corrected with a single phone call to the parents. Just one call but no - young teachers these days don't have the guts or social wherewithal. So his job is now teaching adults how to make phone calls.

Another thing to realize is a lot of these kids do respond positively to teachers when they show them that they care and aren't there to simply baby sit and yell at them. He has had many students come to him later on thanking him for breaking their balls and setting them on the right path. Kids aren't stupid - they want respect but are treated like little monsters to be corralled and controlled like cattle.

Showing the kids you truly care is incredibly powerful for them - it connects at the human emotional level and those positive interactions boosts the kids moral and they feel more confident or centered in life.
As a 16 year old, thank you.
I’ve posted a variant of this answer on other threads about Homebrew, but to summarize:

1. Homebrew is entirely maintained by open source contributors. Keeping thousands of packages up to date is a significant task even before considering maintaining the packaging core itself, and analytics serve as both a warning system and hard data for package importance, instability, etc.

2. Homebrew is somewhat unique among package managers because of its relationship with the host OS: it has no say over how macOS behaves, and needs to adapt quickly to changes made unilaterally by Apple. Analytics help detect that kind of top-down breakage.

FD: Current member of Homebrew, former maintainer.
And this is the kind of stuff that made my friend an owner of two apartments before the age of 40.
Abstract:We propose a nonreciprocal microwave isolator realized using an electrical circuit with two frequency mixers. A phase shift between the mixers at the same frequency as the local oscillator (LO) frequency is $\pi /4 + m\pi /2$ , and the powers of LO applied to each mixer have a phase difference of $\pi /4+ n\pi /2$ (where $n$ and $m$ are the arbitrary integers). The up-converted signals in the upper and lower sidebands at the first mixer are combined at the subsequent mixer, even if they have phase differences. Because each sideband is in-phase for one direction and out-of-phase for the other direction, the circuit principally functions as an isolator with broadband from near dc to LO frequency. An isolator using commercially available microwave components successfully demonstrated more than 17 dB of isolation across the 0.01–1.50-GHz band at an LO frequency of 2.30 GHz. An on-chip broadband isolator with positive gain can be realized using superconductor–insulator–superconductor mixers.
Why would that be interesting? Presuming the effect of limited sun exposure is posited as vitamin D deficiency, that is already an indication for supplementation, regardless of any effect on CVD risk reduction.

The purpose of a study like this would be to determine whether vitamin D supplementation is indicated for CVD prevention independent of vitamin D deficiency, which is why the study recruited from the general population, excluding only those in whom vitamin D supplementation would be contraindicated.
Besides OCaml, Standard ML, Scala Native, F# (with Native AOT).
I own my e-mail identity without running a server (via DNS MX records). This is not possible with Mastodon (which relies on WebFinger).
The classic “I won’t ever pay for those resources, but I complain when others also don’t”.
The findings are so weak that it is entirely possible that the basic idea that someone who takes Vitamin D is less likely to have a major heart issue migth even be connected to the idea that people who take supplements generally have more healthy habits. You would need to control every factor of a person's life to see if D makes the difference: food, culture, stressors, exercise, etc.
> It isn't the parent's money!

It’s as much theirs at it is any other citizen’s.

> entitled parents siphoning from the system

Very loaded choice of words.

Parents who feel entitled to what? A quality education for their children?

> If you want to make changes, fix the rules under which schools operate and allow disruptive kids to be expelled.

Foisting the responsibility on individual parents to push huge political changes through seems entirely unreasonable.
A reason for high housing prices: restrictive land-use regulations
It's a trademark thing. “Android Subsystem for Windows” would imply it's an Android product.
If they are not grouping people by genetic risk than any of these nutritional interventions will always show a low impact.

Of course vitamin D is going to help some people more than others based on their genetic heritage. I am one of these people, and I get most of my vitamin D needs from my diet, mainly fish. Sun exposure might not be the best route for people to get their vitamin D, and this is especially true for light skinned northern people.

I ignore these genetically diverse nutritional studies and just focus on the metabolic pathways and my own genetics.
I worked for Amazon for two years. They always were very proud of their customer obsession and in some ways it really showed (great customer service, very speedy deliveries).

But what I never understood is how it never seemed to be a problem that over the years, the site is just filled with low quality / alibaba imports / bad products.

On a side note, the number of vendors that offer you to remove a bad review in exchange for a full refund (and you get to keep the product) is also making me lose all trust in their review system.

Product idea: use reddit to obtain 3 price point options for all items deemed of high quality (or at least that people are happy with). Say cordless vacuum cleaners and have an extension in chrome that only displays these 3 options when you look up for this item in Amazon.
I don't understand how command line makes the distinction here. Maybe if it where just a simple tool that doesn't require an internet connection for its functionality. But since Homebrew is not just the command line tool, but also a repository and build system in constant motion. I understand that as a developer you might want to have insights into how certain changes (will) impact the user experience.
What boosted my confidence as a new programmer was celebrating small victories and milestones. Completing my first project, solving challenging coding problems, and receiving positive feedback from colleagues or mentors gave me a sense of accomplishment and reassurance that I was on the right path.
To all you folks complaining about the quality of POD books, you should know that the book designer has a lot to do with the book's readability. Many self-published authors who design their own interiors choose bad fonts out of ignorance, or make the font too small to reduce page count and cost. Print design is really an art. The big publishers take it seriously, and some self-published authors do as well.

As for blurry covers, a common mistake among self-published authors is not preserving the aspect ratio for cover art. They'll stretch an image, or use a low-resolution image. Again, this is done out of ignorance or carelessness. Major publishers know to pay attention to these details.

POD publishers like Ingram Spark also let you choose the type of paper and cover finish. They can produce good paperbacks. Maybe Amazon's POD system chooses cheaper paper by default. I'm not sure.
Same issue, any updates?
useless to who?

it's useful to me as a user.
Key Strategies for Profit Maximization (With Examples)
Would be good to be able to build one from Google News.
The justice system is punishment. Proper disciplining would help foster discipline in the individual with teaching and guidance on how to make good choices and conform with those consistently.
> No but we observably do know that that the connections between cells are important, to the point that by mimicking that we've derived significant benefit.

That is true and it shows even more how important observabilty is for science and engineering. That's also why a simulation that actually provides an accurate enough model of reality might help us so much. The problem with AI right now is, that we try or even claim to understand Unix by mimicking the functionality of transistors.

> The Wright flyer didn't flap, and the wings only superficially look like anything a bird has.

They tried to mimick bird wings when coming up with flight control mechanisms.
What is a product? They make something that is used by others, and if they follow a product development mindset, calling it a product is fair in my opinion.
Ah this makes so much sense!

I bought a book on Amazon Germany last year, 1000 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, and as soon as I opened it I had a feeling it was a pirate copy. I even tried to find the book in a physical book store so I could compare, but didn't find it.

Just took it down from the shelf and went to the back page, and yes it's printed in Poland by Amazon Fulfillment.

I suspected it because the print looks weird, almost like a photocopy, uneven and thin and pale. The paper is like printer paper, and in general it just doesn't feel premium.

So the mystery is solved, but I feel cheated, even though the book was rubbish anyway.
While the real estate construction sector may seem less attractive for startups due to its capital-intensive nature and complex regulations, there are actually innovative companies emerging in areas like modular construction, green building technologies, and construction management software. These startups are driving positive change and reshaping the industry.
I am in the USA and have not shared nor been asked my GPA in any job interview.
Thank you for posting this! The appendices are incredible - thousands of partial vetos over the last 100 years. Wisconsin is insane.

> In Risser v. Thompson, the only federal appellate decision on the partial veto ... the court observed that this “is because the legislature chooses ... to attach substantive provisions as riders to the omnibus appropriation bill.” The court continued: “If the legislature stops doing this, the governor’s ‘creative’ veto power will be limited to appropriations matters.”

LOL
"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Marcus Brigstocke
In general I would agree but the hardest part of any success is getting the word out there.

Especially for double-sided markets like food delivery where you have a chicken and egg problem - why providers sign up when there aren’t users and why would users sign up when there aren’t any providers.

That’s a human problem, not a technical one, and is the expensive bit.
The equatorial world is rapidly becoming uninhabitable due to dangerous levels of heat. Biosphere is rapidly collapsing which will mean eventually there will be no food for you to eat. Is that climatic enough to meet whatever arbitrary bar you're setting?
I recently tried to search for my own web presence from late 90s early 00s, and I found the famous claim that nothing dsappears from the internet to be greatly exaggerated. A few snapshots made its way to web archive, but incomplete, and not very useful for any purpose. But to be fair I lost a big chunk of my own paper archive as well for various reasons.
There are quite a few of them. They just aren't part of the HN eco-system, but tend to originate in contracting companies and their associates (suppliers, family members). I'm aware of several of these and there is some interesting innovation happening in this space. Do keep in mind that anything you do in this space still has to conform to building codes so your ability to innovate is limited and 'move fast and break stuff' isn't really an option (fortunately so).
That's entirely wrong. The interactions of proteins and amino acids and ions IS, at a fundamental level, the evaluation of physics over time.
The best way of looking at it is that a single biological neuron is itself a complex machine full of genetic control circuits that sort of resemble neural networks and most importantly have memory/state that persists over both short and long periods of time. Each neuron is a full-ass living organism that itself is capable of learning and behavior, not a parameter is a model.

A virtual "neuron" by contrast is a very simple mathematical abstraction. It's vastly less computational complexity than a biological neuron. A connectome is only a very coarse grained map of how neurons relate, not a complete "neural network" layout. Not even close.

It might be possible to model a biological neuron using a sub-neural-network with state within a larger neural network, but assuming that can be computationally equivalent we don't really know how many equivalent computational "neurons" would be required to model the full breadth of computationally relevant biological neuron behavior.

So a worm with 302 biological neurons could be computationally equivalent to billions of virtual neurons. We really don't know.

Given that neurons have memory it may look a little like LSTM networks, and biological neural networks are not just feed forward so they're definitely closer to an RNN.

The above is why I laugh at the mind uploading people and would only stop laughing if we could both understand and model the relevant behavior of biological neurons and somehow extract usable state from living neurons. That's all 100% science fiction at the moment. The people who think we are about to upload minds are ignorant of biology.
My wife would emphasize this: if you are shopping for produce you want to choose products that are good quality on a given day and individual instances of those products that are better than average. If somebody else is picking there are agency problems.

Now we do have the problem that we struggle to find the time for grocery trips (ag work keeps my wife busy from sunrise to sundown.) Seems to me that a highly personalized delivery service backed by a full-service grocery that links your in-store experience to deliveries that you get could be a good idea, with regular deliveries approximating a “subscription” the economics would improve, overhead for $300 of groceries would not be much more than $30 and in our case we could tolerate deliveries coming in at a time that is cost-effective for the supermarket.
The native GitHub feature in preview will make this a lot better for those able to use it
https://github.blog/changelog/2023-03-01-feature-preview-ric...
Simple, I want to get people who are legitimately interested to contact me. Once you get to a certain price point, it's always a case of contact for pricing as it's a sales process.
Why's it very helpful?

I own myname.com and mylastname.com but so far it's been a complete waste of money and not at all helpful. Don't have anything to do with them.
Macron used the words "video games" and that makes him sound like a fool because the correlation between video games and actual violence is nil.

But, I do think he and other people are trying to make a point that there is a lot of content on the web which is horrifying, and sadly young people learn by example. Watching constant reels of people acting awful to each other desensitizes us against engaging in bad behavior.

IMHO, all the garbage videos I see of people doing "pranks" (which are often low grade violence against strangers) just make impressionable teens and young adults feel is is OK do engage in that sort of behavior - especially when it becomes gamified by getting Internet/social media points.

And this is where TikTok comes into play. Scott Galloway makes the argument that China is using TikTok to push a lot of this negative content into America with the effort to cause instability. They are also only pushing highly positive content inside China to bolster "healthy" social interaction. I'm not sure I can say this is 100% truthful, but anecdotally it seems correct.
I grew up in a union household as did my wife. It was not a good experience.
Tombs rich in artifacts discovered by Swedish expedition in Cyprus
That’s the point I’m making though. The law isnt a problem. It’s companies who abused user data that’s the problem.

It’s also worth noting that you can still using customer data for analytics under GDPR. GDPR doesn’t prevent legitimate analytics from happening. It just gives consumers power to be excluded from analytics and to force companies to be transparent about their usage of personal data.
It’s insanity to me that the only route people think you should get vitamin D is from the sun. In fact, most of us Caucasian Europeans should be getting it from our diet.

Cold water fish has the highest amount of vitamin D.
No, I doubt artists have moved on. And if they want no artificial gatekeeper, than it is #stablediffusion instead of #midjourney.

I would argue that it creates better images too.
Obesity rates rise sharply circa 1980

This is explained directly in the video I linked. Cane sugar is more expensive and less consistent commodity while corn syrup is cheap and consistent. Fat became demonized from bad science and sugar was added to almost everything.

Dietary and lifestyle interventions notoriously don’t work

They absolutely work individually. If someone changes their diet to cut out sugar they lose weight very consistently. Expecting that of people is not a systemic solution however. Watch the video I linked instead of trying to explain everything with looser correlations.
"I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me,” intoned Deep Thought, his voice regaining its accustomed declamatory tones. “A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate—and yet I will design it for you. A computer that can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix. And you yourselves shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten-million-year program.

-- h2g2
> Houses burn down all the time. Pointing out that everybody has access to a theoretically fireproof house is a bit funny for a thought that began with an admonishment about hygiene and food safety.

While I do get your follow-up criticism, I took the notebook comment to mean that if I stop paying my “notebook bill”, or a massive solar flare strikes my house, the notebook in my attic doesn’t vanish from existence.
If I could design zoning things and building regulations and generally Simcity/Cities micromanage in real life, I would set a demand of reserving let's say 500 m2 of green space for every occupant in a multistorey building. This aggregated space would have to be right next to or around the building.

As a concrete example: to build a building for 100 people, one must have 100*500 = 5 hectares of space around the building, reserved for a green space only, not parking lots or such.

Buildings would be more spaced apart and would not trap heat so much like traditional dense designs, so urban centers would be cooler. I dare to claim that people would be less crazy and generally happier and healthier when living like this. Over time, building less densely would see all kinds of positive effects compounding.

The green space could be used for many good things, e.g. growing hyperlocal food like vegetables, potatoes or whatever grows well in the climate, for having tree-shaded places during warm days, for just having a piece of nature to go to quickly and easily. Smaller batches of forest shading a path could connect multiple buildings built with the same ideas, and so on. It would be possible to use bicycles or walk along these paths.

In a nutshell, if one has to build high, then make all multi-storey buildings like a stacked nano-village surrounded by a larger green area/forest. Based on my subjective understanding very few people actually like the ground floor so that's a good place to put local small businesses like barber, shop, bakery, café, and so on.
> would have taken over the whole industry decades ago if it was actually a lot better.

I think it would have taken over if it was cheaper. But for larger size buildings it isn't and that's what I think stops larger scale adoption. But they are faster to deploy.
Plot twist; he's got an "Ask Me about Neal Stephenson" t-shirt.
Stick to the big five publishers section at Barnes & Noble then, and excuse the indie authors who don't have the budget to make your bookshelf look good.
Seems like this still massively overprices the cost of repairs since you are now using a diamond saw to cut through concrete, plumbing new lines and doing new concrete work to fill it in.

Compared to a handyman just handling it in 2 hours at most with typical wallboard.
The Anti-AI Movement
Not sure if they are the seed of the Ferenghi, but as someone who sells self published books on Amazon, they are a very nasty company to deal with.
Well, there is AZDO, and in platforms like Android, until Google bothers to provide Java/Kotlin bindings, it is the API most app developers will reach out.

Most will never deal with Vulkan and the NDK directly, unless there is no other way.

Likewise on the Web, for developers that what to write 3D code that is actually usable everywhere.
No, the findings are weak because they are, one, assuming that all heart disease is caused by vitamin D deficiency, and two, they are not segregating the population based on genetics, and the genetic need for vitamin D.

Sometimes I think they do these studies to discredit the value of nutrition and health.
> it was extremely rare to find a crew that didn't have a scheduling, drug, and attitude problem

I guess the only area for potential improvement by a startup is the physical labor, which no one wants to perform. As others mentioned in the comments, there exists stereotype that people in construction are dumb which is linked to the profitability "secret" - finding the cheapest labor. To the point even of importing entire crews from dictatures on another continent.

Otherwise real estate is full of architects, designers, inspectors, controllers, agents, and whatnot. They oftentimes have education and qualifications, access to data not available to you, and a professional network.
and/or add overhead power delivery to major motorways, allowing trucks to have (relatively) small batteries for the non-motorway parts of their journeys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg
>So all the violence is being committed by 14 - 16 year olds?

Close.

"According to France's Interior Ministry, the average age of those arrested is 17."
The saddest thing is, Macron's playbook doesn't seem any different from what I'd expect from most current politicians.

It feels like the real problems the world needs to solve are beyond any existing political will. So it's the downward spiral of denial and self-delusion.
Wago is a mixed blessing.
I'd rather they have kept the UI of IE, with the rendering engine of Edge/Chrome. That would've made it a little bit less of another Chrome-clone.