skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2...

It's a study of 3226 people born between the 1930s and 1970s, and the size difference holds up, they say, regardless of sex and height (height has increased over the generations as well). The theory for "healthier" is, to quote:

>We hypothesize that larger brain volumes indicate larger brain development and potentially greater "brain reserve" that could explain the declining incidence of dementia as previously reported.

As for why, they state:

>While ICV and brain size are under substantial genetic influence, the timeline of effect found with our results indicates that early life environmental influences are more likely contributors. Life course perspectives emphasize the impact of early life experiences on brain health that also translate into larger brain structures and reduced risk for later-life dementia through improved reserve. Similarly, efforts to improve cardiovascular health during adulthood that occurred over the time duration of this study are associated with reduced incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia, indicating that modifying these factors could also serve to improve resistance to late-life dementia.

No mentions of lead.

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Interesting headline note: the UCD press release (<https://health.ucdavis.edu/welcome/news/headlines/human-brai...>) writes "That may be good news for dementia risk" whereas this write-up writes "Is That Healthier?"
First off, cool product. I've been seeing you guys all over Twitter recently. (Which also begs the question... did you put $ into creator marketing?)

I'd say PH launch is just what it's always been. One part of your overall launch strategy, and should be used as such. It's still a great tool to use, and even if it gets flooded with bots, it will continue to be. The only ones who notice the bots are the launchers, not really the users. Or at least, not to the same degree.
This could be devastating to our small technology business. I was holding out hope that this bill would make it, but now...

What are other folks doing about this?
Three-Dimensional Printing of Wood
I also format my blog HTML, I cant say why, but I want it to be tidy and readable.
Amazing! I'm french and I'd like to know if there is a chance I can dictate in french to Aqua Voice someday? If yes, any idea when that would be implemented? Great work!
They do more than that. For instance, they can be swapped easily. Think for instance a security library being updated by the distro security team. It also makes it easier to depend on an LGPL library, nicely allowing the users to modify the LGPL library without having to recompile your program.
They don't hang out in real life like we used to. TicTok or whatever is the house in the neighborhood all the kids hung out at.
>Why did humans replace the Neanderthals?

Maybe they weren't familiar with the latest framework?
I hope this isn't a sign of what is to come in music.

We can do anything imaginable with AI and instead we just make really shitty Dolly Parton music reboots.

Maybe we can do AI Tom Jones too and form a whole genre of shitty AI 70s music.
No expert here - but we need a deep clean and understanding of what is consent. A 22 page document? Shouldn't be.
This is covered in 'the body keeps the score' pretty extensively.
great idea, definately see the gap in market, well done for pushing through :)
That's a very different discussion. Personally, I think its bullshit if ERs are stuck with 6+ hours wait primarily with non-emergencies only there because they don't have insurance and want free care.

Don't get me wrong, its bullshit both because they're clogging up the ER resources and because they're in a position where they may be unable to get or afford insurance. Its also bullshit that insurance is effectively a must-have today. The whole system is very, very broken.
The nice thing is that in rust threads do not share memory by default, so you could in principle have thread-local GCs that doesn't require stop the world for collection. You also could in principle use GC for non-latency critical threads and vice versa.
Progress on SDG 7 achieved by EU countries in relation to the target year 2030
Same here, never understood the march towards 'blameless' culture - if someone is to blame, they should be blamed; if there is a pattern of mistakes they should be shown the door as quickly as possible.
An absolutely impressive achievement. I echo sentiments seen in other HN threads recently -- "I'd never do in-place FS upgrades!" -- yet Apple pulled it off on billions of devices with zero fanfare. Folk have scores of stores about btrfs/ZFS/etc issues, I don't recall similarly for APFS?
Try this whois [1] and see if it was updated to reflect your current registrar. Also look on that page after your query for "Registry Server URL" that may have more data. If that does not help, try making a change to the domain on your new registrar and see if it gets accepted or rejected. following change control process in your company of course

If you literally just transferred your domain there can be a small delay in the whois updating. Don't panic, it's mostly harmless. These are old and often overwhelmed systems that update via cron jobs and in some cases they use emails. to stop50's point

Also log into namecheap and see if they still list your domain in the domain management part of the site. Log into your new registrar and do the same. The domain should only be in one place and ideally with the "locked" status on your new registrar. If the domain is only manageable under the new registrar then you should be fine and should be able to ignore the email. If still in doubt get on the phone with your new registrar and they can validate if it moved successfully.

[1] - https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup
Beating by overheating: new strategy to combat cancer
> There's no open hardware GPU to speak of. Depending on license (can't find information?), this could be the first, and a starting point for more.

There's this which is about the same kind of GPU

https://github.com/asicguy/gplgpu
All the big companies started with Engineers. It seems companies have a life-cycle. Engineers are at the kick off, growth stage. But later it is accountants or marketing that take lead and then it kind of goes into slow decline.

Andy Grove, Intel, comes to mind.
> If you want to reuse the shared parts of binaries

But aren't we, when we use OCI images as a packaging mechanism, using containers to essentially throw away that sharing and arrive at a complicated version of static linking, where everything dynamically linked is shipped with the program?

Same goes for arguments about ease of patching things. When the software's package is actually an image, you are patching each image individually that is running on the system.
The really interesting thing to me from TFA was the reference to a 2020 study (<https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000010022>) that showed that "[o]ver the past 30 years, the incidence of dementia has declined an average of 13% every decade in people of European ancestry living in the U.S. or Europe..." (<https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/dementia-in...>). I didn't know that! Of course:

>Currently, 47 million people worldwide live with dementia. Due to the rapidly aging population, the number of people living with the disease is expected to triple over the next 30 years, as is the expected socioeconomic burden associated with dementia.

Astoundingly terrible, but I had no idea it was decreasing in incidence. That's at least some light in the dark.
People may have downvoted thinking I was making fun of the poster above. What I meant is through hobbies/sports you can usually meet people with common interests which is a good start to grow a social circle.
Pay attention to data sovereignty. Think about what you'll do if your customers or your regulator ask you to keep data in their jurisdiction.

"In the cloud" has recently come to mean "NSA gets a copy of whatever they want" unless you choose wisely.
Churchill met Roosevelt naked for a 1941 conference
Easier to write by whom? I ask because to me, Go has one of the ugliest syntaxes I've seen. On the other hand Elixir is very easy to write.
> "corruption does not imply that money was printed, nor does the lack of printing money imply low corruption."

If corruption is independent of money printing, "Printing money directly fuels corruption" is not a true statement.
TinyMCE provided a bit more information about this change in a GitHub discussion thread here: https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/discussions/9496

As I posted there, this directly affects my open source project which is heavily tied to TinyMCE so I may end up forking, and reducing down to what my project needs to reduce maintenance scope & burden.

TinyMCE have been jumping around with their licensing. They were under LGPL, with some (what I believe were) misleading guidance into meeting the LGPL (they specified rules about keeping specific branding elements). They then jumped to MIT, and since moved some of the open plugins to their commercial offering. Now they're making this change.
Why wouldn't you want to punish people who are at fault, especially if there is a pattern of problems or gross negligence that causes harm?
You are correct, in your example there are two problems and two responsibilities. However, "full responsibility" may not be the right phrase.

1) You will have responsibility outlined in the botched contract.

2) You'll lawyer will have responsibility defending completing a contract with huge holes.

Lawyers don't like suing other lawyers but it happens every day and lawyers keep insurance for this.
The RP2040 is a great MCU for playing with graphics as it can bit bang VGA and DVI/HDMI. There's some info on the DVI here: https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI

I wrote a couple of articles on how to do bit banged VGA on the RP2040 from scratch: https://gregchadwick.co.uk/blog/playing-with-the-pico-pt5/ and https://gregchadwick.co.uk/blog/playing-with-the-pico-pt6/ plus an intro to PIO https://gregchadwick.co.uk/blog/playing-with-the-pico-pt4/
I'd love to get more details, too. Sounds interesting!
These pages should be served compressed anyways right? Then there will be no difference in size anymore.
The cause is retrained by

"... for purposes of providing the Services to you."

if you take the narrowest read, it would allow them to store or cache them. That's it.
The full letter that this is quoted from is available here, it's wonderful writing (3rd and 4th paragraph): https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2814.xml

I have to admit I've never read any Darwin before, but in those 2 paragraphs he completely summarizes my feelings about the natural world.
Aside from the absurdity of morally judging bacteria, they were arguably good.

While they genocided existing (almost exclusively single cell) organisms, by producing oxygen, they prepared conditions for orders of magnitude richer and more complex life than was possible before.
I've been getting blocked using a work VPN also accusing me of scraping them.
You see this concern about file size of websites all the time, but the extra white space is not what makes websites large, it’s all the images, fonts, and JavaScript libraries that get bundled with them. For most sites the HTML is negligible and compresses well if you enable GZip.
Building Open Data Portals in 2024
> "says"

I had of course already checked and it does not. https://github.com/bitgapp/eqMac/issues/380

So please remind me of why your condescending comment was necessary?
Queue System Analysis at Starbucks Stores (2021) [pdf]
GPL forces you to always supply the source code but only if you distribute the application.

E.g. if you fork Nano and sell or make binaries available for download for free, people have the right to ask you for the source code.

If you don't distribute it in any form, then you don't need to.[1]

With MIT you can fork, distribute and people can't demand anything.

[1]: Contrary to popular misinformation, modified GPL software can be used by businesses as long as it is not distributed.
All of that is true but it has no bearing on whether the power of religion is waxing or waning, or whether religious institutions have discouraged non-religious community gatherings.
If you do graphics like Habitica, I think another improvement over them would be to do the graphics better. Not sure if others share this opinion but Habitica's art style I really find awful, generic and boring. Less so the pixel art (I like pixel art), but the colour palettes and sprites just don't feel great for me.
AIUI, Modula-3 provided an ability to actually encapsulate unsafety, in that the concept was elevated to the level of interfaces. Did any language prior to Modula-3 have that capability?

I think that's fundamentally different---although related---to just having an `unsafe` keyword. To take something I know well, Go has an `unsafe` package that acts as a sort of unsafe keyword. If we ignore data races, you can say that a Go program can't violate memory safety if there is no use of the `unsafe` package.

The problem though is that you can't really build new `unsafe` abstractions. You can't write a function that might cause UB on some inputs in a way that requires the caller to write `unsafe`. (You can do this by convention of course, e.g., by putting `Unsafe` in the name of the function.)

In Rust, `unsafe` doesn't just give you the ability to, e.g., dereference raw pointers. It also is required in order to call other `unsafe` functions. You get the benefit of composition so that you can build arbitrary abstractions around `unsafe` with the compiler's support.

My understanding is that Modula-3 supported this style of encapsulation (which is what I was talking about in this thread). What languages prior to Modula-3 supported it, or was Modula-3 the first?
As much as it can "weaken" security, an electronic backup is still recommended for most

Maybe I'm being dense (probably), but where would you save it?

iCloud? No, that doesn't work - you need the key to access iCloud.

Some other cloud storage service? No, that doesn't work - you need your phone to generate a token for access and your phone was destroyed in the same fire as the paper backup.

Seems like the safe choice is a lock box at a bank or similar. Or a fireproof safe at home.
Yeah, but even that title teases the possibility that there is a novel, and not merely newly discovered, replication mechanism. I mean, it’s better, and falls into the “surely they don’t mean that…” category, but still.
I disagree - if 'everything can be a process' we wouldn't need human judgement anywhere - and clearly we clearly still do need humans in the loop - and the reality is the judgement of humans is not all created equal. Some are better than others.
That is interesting about the manganese and glutamate-to-glutamine angle, although it's worth noting that manganese in foods has very poor bioavailability:

Humans absorb only about 1% to 5% of dietary manganese. Infants and children tend to absorb greater amounts of manganese than adults. In addition, manganese absorption efficiency increases with low manganese intakes and decreases with higher intakes

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Manganese-HealthProfession...

Another interesting tidbit from the links you provide, 90% of glutamine synthesis happens in muscle cells (from glutamate and ammonia). So in theory, building more muscle mass (while getting adequate dietary glutamine and glutamate) be beneficial for regulating glutamine-to-glutamate ratios. Although it doesn't look like this has been studied specifically as of yet.

On the other hand, over-training and extreme endurance training without proper protein intake leads to depletion of circulating glutamine levels. It is suggested that depleted glutamine may be the cause of increased risks of infection and chronic fatigue during periods of over-training (even in elite athletes).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9562160/
You can do something similar on STM32 parts that have an LCD controller, which can be abused to drive a VGA DAC or a DVI encoder chip. The LCD controller at least is fully documented, but many of their parts pair that with a small GPU, which would be an advantage over the GPU-less RP2040... if there were any public documentation at all for the GPU :(
Why sleepwalking? Seems very awake and intentional.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836495
"Where do people get these class warfare talking points? "

There does seem to be a segment of people that aren't super rich, but are rich enough to be isolated and don't realize there is a huge number of people really struggling. They don't seem to realize 'poor' people exists. Or think they should just get a job.

Typically, this class of 'bour·geoi·sie' don't realize they are benefiting from the 'class war' being waged by the super rich, and that they are actually winning.
You missed the "in any way that Vultr deems appropriate" clause. This is a classic weasel phrase which means they can do as they please.

"Why did you sell my data to an AI company?" "We deemed it appropriate."

There is also the sublicensing clause, which means they can sell it to anyone, and "process, adapt, [...] modify, prepare derivative works", which has nothing to do with hosting, but allows them to change your data and reuse it for any purpose they "deem appropriate".
Time to Rethink Retirement: Black Rock Larry Fink's 2024 Annual Letter
You are conflating criminal acts with engineering problems.

As stated earlier, blameless postmortems are for RCA of a particular incident. If you shoot every engineer who causes a incident you will succeed in having no incidents because no one will bring them up or making any changes for fear of getting shot.
To me, this is, over the long-term, a self-solving problem. Especially for simpler projects.

It took a decade for GNU/Linux to get to the point where CTOs would throw it in the same category as commercial UNIXes, but when that happened, well... when was the last time you logged into a brand-spankin'-new HP-UX machine?

And that was an operating system, one of the more ambitious types of software projects.

Redis is trading short-term profit for their sustainability as a business. There are already forks that are FOSS; there will be more. Cloud service providers have every incentive to not have to pass on Redis license fees to the customer.

TL;DR: you can't effectively compete over the long-term with the FOSS branches off the trunk that your now-closed-source software branches from.
Renovating a 400-year-old Italian farmhouse and a web-app to help me (and maybe others) learn German.
If the rest of your infra is on AWS(e.g., S3/RDS/Dynamo), why not just start with ECS? Egress fee's would seem to take a toll after a bit using Fly.io
Greek Tragedy in the Bottom of the Ninth: On Baseball's High Literary Drama
I think readability of HTML is something that people of a certain age just expect. I remember in the early days of the web just doing a “View Source” for interesting websites and learning a lot of really neat tricks to apply to my own websites.
Isn't this just reflective of the fact babies with larger heads are less likely to die in childbirth now than they were in the past? Due to increasing use of c-sections?
> Unless you just call everything a process: "His childhood was difficult and that's why he fouls people. Let's call his childhood a process."

Well... attempting to prevent stuff like bullying or domestic violence is a worthwhile goal in itself.

For the example of the soccer player, one might also question other incentives (e.g. bonuses tied to winning games no-matter-what), or why a player with a known history was hired in the first place.
What must one do on their project for GPL
A week of broken sleep is enough to change my whole personality. I end up hopeless, self-destructive, and convinced that I’m going to die imminently for some reason. Just this conviction that my heart is going to wear out any day now. It’s such a bizarre experience, especially to finally get sleep and wake up with such energy and positivity.
My main challenge is people, especially "experts," who come, preach whatever popular cloud stuff is today, and then leave. This leaves me with a lot of shi* to deal with.

We should keep things simple, KISS. My few key points for the future myself:

1. Be cloud agnostic. Everyone operates on margins and a slight increase in a cloud provider's fees could be a death sentence for your business. Remember, cloud providers are not your friends; they are in the business of taking your money and putting it in their pockets.

2. Consider using bare metal if it's feasible for your operations. The price/performance ratio of bare metal is unbeatable, and it encourages a simpler infrastructure. It also presents an opportunity to learn about devops, making it harder for others to sell you junk as a premium service. This approach also discourages the proliferation of multiple databases/tech/tools for the sake of CV updates by your colleagues, keeping your infrastructure streamlined.

3. Opt for versatile tools like Ansible that can handle a variety of tasks. Don't be swayed by what's popular among the "cool kids". Your focus should be on making your business succeed, not on experimenting with every new tool in the market. Master it well.

4. Make sure you can replicate your whole production stack on your box in a few seconds, a minute max. If you can't, well, back to the drawing board.

5. Use old and tried tech. Choose your tech wisely. Docker is no longer cool, and Podman is a rage on HN, but there are hundreds of man-hours of documentation online of every Docker issue you can think of. And Docker will stay for a while. The same for Java/Rails/PHP...

6. Keep everything reproducible in your repository: code, documentation, deployment scripts, and infra diagrams. I've seen people use one service for infra diagrams and another to describe database schema. It's madness.

7. (addon) Stay away from monorepos. They are cool, they are "googly," but you are not Google or Microsoft. They are notoriously hard to scale and secure without custom tooling, no matter what people say. If you have problems with the code sharing between repos, back to the drawing board.
If the culture is blameless than the CEO's should benefit from that blameless culture as well - (I disagree with this though).

Quite a logical leap to say that everyone in a corp deserves to be held 'blameless' except the CEO - imo, you can't have it both ways.
The phrase "in any way that Vultr deems appropriate" does not encourage a narrow read.

It is a wildcard that allows them to do whatever they want with the data and then argue, "We deemed it appropriate."
Yes, but if AI cannot solve the fingers problem, then can it reliably generate images of things which we have relatively few example images of? We have an enormous amount of images of hands.
A password reset prompt is sent to the devices, but unfortunately the article leaves out that the prompt only enables you to reset the password on the device that receives the prompt. So it is not a security issue, just an annoyance.
The article really does not add much interesting info beyond the headline
Do they still demand control over disk layouts?

I left because I couldn't use LVM, the fact they need to know disk geometry for a VM never sat well with me.

I'm under no illusion, I know the host needs to be trusted, but this is a weird/gross implementation.
Isn't it just errors_count/7? (errors_count * 1/7)

For example, if you got 70 errors before you now get only 10 errors.
How about 20 years ? Just curious...
Wired: The Deaths of Effective Altruism
I’m -3.25 (or right around there) and I found the AVP pass through lackluster. Better than anything else I’d tried but I completely agree with the “oversold” point. The quality just isn’t all the way there yet and the blur when moving isn’t great.
Is it really far-right or simply not left?
Future of Gaming Accessibility?