jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No one in any tweet said "it's just the cold" so you were misreading or misrepresenting — which is it?

From my "No lockdown in 2017-2018 cold season!" tweet you linked, straight up the thread two tweets, everyone can see the quoted tweet:

https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1330594561635315724

where Mark Changizi wrote:

"Overwhelmed hospitals everywhere!

...in 2017/18 cold season.

US: https://nytimes.com/2018/02/02/health/flu-symptoms-virus-hos...

UK: https://nytimes.com/2018/01/03/world/europe/uk-national-heal...

Italy: https://thelocal.it/20180119/italy-worst-flu-season-in-14-ye...

Japan:
https://japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/22/national/science-he..."

Obviously the point is that we had overwhelmed hospitals in 2017-2018 (almost every year, the Guardian runs an "NHS overwhelmed" story in the UK) but no lockdowns.

This was not to make light of that (bad) flu season, or to say "it's just the cold". Rather, the link pointed out that we didn't lock down over elevated mortality in bad flu years. That is relevant because WHO and CDC long-term policy guidance was and is against lockdowns:

CDC 2007: https://cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/community_mitigat... p. 25:

“... the effectiveness of pandemic mitigation strategies will erode rapidly as the cumulative illness rate prior to implementation climbs above 1 percent of the population....”

WHO 2006: http://upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2... argues against lockdowns.

If you can't follow this context without misreading as "just the cold", I say it's time to stop reading Twitter and HN right now.

(BTW, Alex Petrescu in that thread ended with a gracious concession about overreacting by using troll-form rhetoric: https://twitter.com/SeyelentEco/status/1336043936238845953?s....)
I read until "activex control" then stopped and wondered why this is on the front page now.
Convince me it’s more sophisticated than Stuxnet.
CA power is hilariously expensive compared to the rest of the country. 10c is much closer to average.
Not exactly public opinion when places like California are manadating it
Sorry to disappoint on the trolling charge.

But, perhaps you find it difficult to accept that sincere views other than your's are possible?

Sure, by all means pardon all cases where sodomy alone was the only charge.

No problem with that.
Man this is a huge bummer! I’ll miss driving down to fry's and just hanging out at the cafe or browsing the isles; they had everything!!!

It would have been nice if they changed their buisness model to cater to online shipping and using their stores as quasi wear houses to meet logistical hurtles...

Fry’s you will be missed!
Challenge: find your home logarithmically.
Why is this headline reporting that as fact, when the only salient facts in the article are "the purchases tab exists in Gmail" and "Google has stated this information is only available to the user?"
And that is the age old problem. People sign into a "deal" contract to save $5 now, but with a 1/1000 chance of someday losing $1000. And then they hit the spike and what happens?

a) Extra charge is forgiven?

b) Someone else picks up the tab?

c) They are stuck paying it?

And how do you deal with this big picture?

a) Require better legal language in the contracts to sign up for this

b) Ban these kind of contracts, because the user isn't "smart" enough to know how they work

Similar things happen in a floodplain where no one will issue flood insurance. It's mostly fine, until it isn't.
Lasers damage biological tissue in 2 ways, thermal (heat damage) and photochemical which is similar to sunburn caused by guess what high frequency light. There is also acoustical damage which is essentially thermal causing shockwaves from tissue vaporization [1]. Remember higher frequencies have more photon energy leading into ionizing radiation at UV and above? Below a certain frequency all damage is THERMAL.

Radio waves are much lower frequency and therefore the ONLY KNOWN mechanisms for biological activity is thermal but you seem to dispute that.

And yes it is true you will not get significant ocular heating unless next to a high power radio tower. This will not occur a 100w ham radio levels as you said and certainly won't occur from cell phones 3 orders of magnitude lower than that.

1. https://ehs.princeton.edu/book/export/html/363
> My counter argument is that you must break the cycle somehow

If you for some reason want more female fund managers, clearly the better way is to improve the pipeline, encourage women to study business. Forcing companies to hire people they didn't want to hire is obviously a very bad idea.

More importantly, why is the number of female fund managers relevant?

> If you don't take a hit now and put more women on the boards

"Dear Alice, we are happy to tell you that XYZ Asset Management has decided to take the hit and hire you for the position as fund manager, congratulations!"
>Drop the kids of at school/daycare

So, while we're both working?

>grandparents

One is on the other side of the country, the other is 2 hours away. So... sex three days a year?
Wow, I had actually forgotten about a ton of this stuff, shines a different light on how hard it’s been working to gain trust and be the “privacy browser” in recent years.
> Accurately copying Bargue perhaps qualifies Picasso as a serviceable mediocre realist.

The things you read on this website sometimes... Accurately copying Bargue requires far more that mediocre skills. Caravaggio is a great painter in the sense that Mozart is a great composer. If that’s where you put the bar, I probably have enough fingers to count the great painters in the whole human history. Amusingly for this discussion Picasso might still be amongst them.
The syntax highlighting on this blog creates some yellow-on-white text that is difficult to read or even look at.
What daeken said. Improving my mood translates almost exactly into simply acting like I would if I wasn't depressed. I don't try to pretend to be happy or fake it (though I do use cognitive therapy techniques.) Instead, I just try to do the same activities I would do if I wasn't depressed. I call someone on the phone and ask them how they're doing instead of sitting and thinking about myself. I make a healthy dinner instead of ordering pizza. I get some exercise instead of lying on the couch. If I work, I release myself from self-criticism (I'm so slow, I'm hopelessly stupid, I'm accomplishing nothing) and concentrate on the work instead. If I watch a movie, I allow myself to enjoy it instead of thinking the whole time about how much I suck and how I should be doing something productive instead.

It's hard to do those things, of course. The essence of depression is hopelessness. For me, it's hopelessness about myself, a deep conviction of my own worthlessness and the impossibility of ever not being ashamed of myself. When you think that way, it's hard to see the point of making dinner or going for a run. Long term, the biggest factor for me was to slowly learn to disregard the reality of depression. By now I have a long enough perspective on my life and my depression that I am better at seeing it as a temporary illusion. I knew a girl who had persistent auditory hallucinations; she heard voices constantly, angels and demons mostly. She knew they weren't real. At least she said she knew, and she usually did, but when she didn't, it was a problem. Coping with depression is a bit like that -- a constant effort to disregard what your brain thinks it knows. So when I go out the door for a run, or start cooking dinner, a big and very persuasive part of my brain is convinced it's stupid and pointless, even while it's making me feel better. By the time I'm done running or cooking, I'm completely aware -- with my whole brain -- that it was worthwhile, and the fact that I've accomplished something worthwhile in itself discredits the illusion. That doesn't completely dispel the depression, not for long. Soon enough, the next activity I want to make myself do still feels stupid and pointless. But it makes it easier to cope, and it reduces the severity of the symptoms.

The older I get, the more consistently I manage to make myself do the things that make me feel better. When I was younger, depression was overwhelming and terrifying. Now it's mostly just miserable instead of scary. Especially now that I know I can hold down a job through a bout of depression, and my friends won't desert me, it's a lot less frightening.
Be honest. We can tell when answers are dodges. And I always have the philosophy that the current state of affairs is not important - knowing where the weaknesses lie and moving in a positive direction are what matters. After all, if everything was perfect, you would not need me.
All the upvotes on this one rayiner. All the upvotes in the land. ;-)
> Cryptocurrency is "I'll sell my grandmother and everyone I know for money. HODL YOLO!"

How do you conclude that?
I don't know why Hacker News has a reputation for particularly high intelligence or technical expertise relative to other forums with similar interests. It's not as if anyone had to submit their CV and reverse a linked list on a whiteboard to join.

Unless you can independently verify someone's credentials and area of expertise, it's safe to assume they don't know what they're talking about. I've seen it happen too often that someone will make a claim in absolute confidence only to be corrected by an actual expert in the field, usually the person who invented the technology/language/algorithm being discussed. If that happens with technical discussion, imagine how wrong HN can be about everything else.

Sturgeon's Law always applies. The people most worth reading and talking to here also tend to who post the least, the more confident someone is, the more likely it is they simply can't fathom the depths of their own ignorance.
Makes me think of the two Lex Fridman podcasts with Jim Keller. The second one (last week) got quite fun/loose.

It's clear that Jim is constantly reading/actively improving, sometimes doing kinda unusual things, like having a specific strategy for priming his REM sleep by thinking a lot about some current problem combined with some kind of meditation exercise.
He's talking about how as you specialise in something you have to systematise your disparate, formulaic knowledge of the topic into a systemic understanding that you can draw new insight from. Working in that field goes from applying learned techniques to having an instinctual understanding of it as a whole, and consequently being able to be flexible and creative with your approach. I think this is what happens when something "clicks" and what were previously seemingly-disconnected rules of thumb join up to make a cohesive mental model.
Very nice tool. Especially keen on the YAML format and rendering for form purposes. Is it possible to abstract that part out on my own? Does it also come with a GUI editor? I’d like to plug it into our production platform to allow our customers to design their own forms.
I would argue that all falls off the cliff in terms of usability when we consider the rest of the world in terms of multiple languages, accents, creoles, and dialects.

Seen this skit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAu-DDlINs

So, maybe voice control is great for local work, but as soon as we consider the rest of the world, IMHO, its profitability and usefulness nosedives.
And the same culture runs through Microsoft-

Rep. Katie Porter: "You and your company were supposed to be preventing the Russians from reading DoD emails!"

Microsoft President Brad Smith: "There is no indication, to my knowledge, that the DoD was attacked"

That's accountability! dilligence! Microsoft at its best.
You can buy drugs or a hitman online without being traced.

Also ransomware can demand payment in Bitcoin without being traced.
MSRP is $106k with normal options (almost exactly the same as S Class), with a $7,500 rebate that comes out to $98k.
> as it sounds like Oracle/OpenJDK developers do not care anymore about backwards compatibility and looking to force people into not relying on system-wide libraries so they can start breaking things in newer versions without user-facing repercussions

Backward compatibility is of extreme importance, as always, but applications and libraries have had ways to bypass the documented API and hack into the runtime's internals. Which meant that the only way to achieve real backward compatibility was to change absolutely nothing. This is pretty much what happened for some time, not because anyone wanted it but because the investment in the platform decreased in Sun's dying days, and it took some years for Oracle to ratchet it back up. Now that the platform is under heavy development, even with the same commitment to backward compatibility, it is far from perfect because libraries have gotten used to hacking into the JDK. We are, however, taking steps to stop that, by encapsulating internals.

The new model is just better, and wasn't chosen because of this, but it is certainly another benefit.
> Scandium makes those grains smaller, among other things, which allows them to fit closer together for a denser, stronger overall structure.

This is not how grain size strengthening works. With smaller grains, there are more grain boundaries. These boundaries present an obstacle to the movement of dislocations, increasing the resistance to deformation.

Density is not affected by grain size, larger grains do not have any gaps between them.
They "made" €3, which they refunded.
> To do this work in software would require a workstation.

These days hardware capable of that throughput can be had for less than $500 and draws less than 50W. 3.9 gigabits really isn't all that much by modern standards.
This is not generally true. Mechanics in 5e with a radius affect a sphere of that size, and for grids normally the rule is that grid spaces are affected if their center is within the radius. So TFA's token radius is probably meant for ongoing effects centered on the player - light cast by a torch, the range of a paladin aura, etc.

The funky diagonals you're describing are an optional variant rule that's often used to simplify movement, but I've never seen a group that measures spell effects with that rule.
Still decent, considering.
Great article, yes, Masterworks is a joke or their price index is disengenious

Yes, past performance is not indicative of future results, its also the best metric we have for future results

Not responding to a request for comment means nothing

But the Beanie Babies… there was a rational trade there, a supply constriction when a supplier wasnt able to fulfill the beanie baby production contract. The founder resolved this and flooded the market and the prices tanked. Beanie babies arent the best example of irrational exuberance. Yes there were people far removed from active trading that merely believed in price appreciation, do these people matter? They exist in the most rational markets too
To my mind, the top echelon of trading card games, really only MtG and Pokémon, have a different economy. The games are actively played and people do make a living by furnishing the card market, as well as the organized playing market. I don’t have a description of the exact mechanism, but I think the greater liquidity caused by changes in the meta game, and therefore which cards are valuable at any given moment, lends confidence to the earlier cards. MtG is further unique, at least insofar as I understand it, that a class of the earliest cards still see play in organized tournaments and are generally very powerful. Pokémon doesn’t seem to enjoy this same phenomenon, but I guess the games perpetuate the nostalgia for certain items in the first edition.

This is why I never understood sports cards. The literally have no utility, which is fine in itself, but I cannot see how this does anything other than produce a few highly valuable artifacts of the cultural phenomenon that is sports. I actually think that the major sports league should create an ever green strategy game, to which the collectibles are inextricably linked as game pieces. Then again, they already generate so much revenue, and they would not be good at all at designing a game, so I suppose anything derived from licensing is simply gravy.
> but the iteration... is far better in Rust

That is something I would find hard to believe, if you mean iteration of changes. I have coordinated a few rust rewrites, and at least seeing engineers live programming, it takes far far longer to change and compile Rust code than python.

Could you talk more about your company's process or how you mean?
NFTs are collectibles to the same extent that CRDTs are literature.
I think you are just unhappy with the OS status quo and want something new. You aren't really interested in having Unix as the mainstream OS beyond its novelty and potential impacts.

This is rather telling.
> OS X and Linux are out there, but they're more like Unix-like OS's

OS X is a literally certified, specification-compliant, Unix-family OS with a clear BSD lineage. Just because the userland is closed sourced and custom hardware being necessary to get the best performance doesn't make it any less of a Unix.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
Table stakes for what? Fucking around with types for 6 months while someone builds a competitor in a weekend?
I needed a break so I used this as an excuse to try to remember how Windows actually handled keyboard input. I submitted a pull request:

https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when/pull/21
This entire problem seems to be solved by using asynchronous communication. Bam.
Also note "GCHQ developed a system called NOCTURNAL SURGE to search for particular engineers and system administrators by finding their IP addresses, unique identifiers that are allocated to computers when they connect to the internet."

Then the screenshot shows some queries of TELNET / SSH connections, which can mean: whoever uses SSH stands out from the crowd.

Wow.

Ever used SSH?
> As a high tech society no longer ruled by sun dials we should instead make the start of the scale 'dawn' (on average).

The day starting at dawn wasn't an uncommon rule with sundials. Its kind of weird, I'd say, that your idea boils down to "we aren't ruled by sun dials, so we should govern time by the rising of the sun". What?
Maybe they could improve the failure behaviour with some failsafe mechanism? *If the rocket is not within a certain envelope, gain as much distance to the pod as possible? Later when they want to have landing on land, a designated area for aborting could be used.
Or an even simpler solution you can implement today: text your uncle "hey, is now a good time to call?"
Thanks for the pointer. I found a follow up from the same author I posted:

http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic2010.htm

he addresses some of the critiques of his original article.
Your epistemology and categories are already flawed, as if there's an analogy between a thing (like a horse) and the Ground of Being (classically called "God"). God in classical theism is not a "thing" among things. If you think classical theism posits deity the same way people posit horses, of course you'll want "evidence" that is empirical.

So wouldn't it be helpful, for the sake of the thought experiment proposed by shawndumas, to at least see where his reasoning leads? The premise ("There is a God") might not be true, but an a priori exclusion of such a being seems no more based on logic than the counter claim. What is helpful, I think, is if by looking through those lenses we see if God gives the world more explanatory power than by not looking through those lenses.
Out of interest, did you find him unexpectedly by searching twitter, or in some other way?
Even if you're right, an escalating personal attack is exactly the wrong way to respond. Please don't do this here.

A better reply might simply have pointed out that there isn't enough information to draw such a conclusion.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11581129 and marked it off-topic.
How does it feel to be so cold-hearted?
You seem to be romanticizing a little too much to be realistic, yet you seem to be realistic enough to assess the current situation.

My advice is to lower your expectation a little. A mediocrity is better than a total failure. Consider achieving mediocrity the failure, which you would be willing to take before aiming for the big thing, again. Try living homeless for a week, and you'll know.

We're young and sometimes the balance between the ideal and the real can be stammering to hold.
Meteor looked interesting until I discovered it's dependent on node v.0.8.25 :(
Jobs' bi-monthly iPhone software meeting, in which he would go through
every planned features [sic] of the company's flagship product, is
gone.

Judging by the current iOS development version, this is a regrettable change that will come to haunt them. Things like the new color schemes would probably not have gone through if there was any executive interest in the look of the new software.
this is common. i used to be big into java in the late 90's, early 2000s... then "enterprise-itis" took over...
And fwiw, they currently appear to have somewhere between 20 and 27 professors in CS, depending on how you count people who have cross-appointments in multiple departments (some are clearly primarily CS, some primarily elsewhere, and some don't make it obvious from their website). So adding 7 is an expansion of ~25-35%.
Frankly, I think the Apple Watch (as it currently is) and the Pebble are both less useful than not needing to remember to wear or recharge a watch.
OK, fine, but if we talk about pure preference, I don't see why preference not to be in the same room as a dog is better than preference to have a dog around. I.e. if somebody say "but your dog can bite me", we can talk about it and I can alleviate their concerns and maybe we'll arrive to agreement that would be ok with us both. But if somebody just says "I hate dogs and won't tolerate the sight of them!" then there's no way to go anywhere with that, and then I would question why their hate has to have more weight than my preference for canine companionship. Because the article and some other people sound like the preference is a given, but I question - why is that?
Problem with CouchDB is that there is no eventual consistency if a document depends on another. They should rename it "inevitable inconsistency".
I read somewhere that the headphone jack works if a headphone is connected during boottime.
You can get to something more sane by using the Google Pacman. Amazingly, it loads faster than the image.

http://www.google.com/pacman/
If you are the type of reader that accepts everything you read as fact, then pointing out a formula isn't going to change that now is it?

Most popular TV shows are written on a 3 act formula yet you can still find them engaging, germane, and thought provoking.

In short formulas do not equal thoughtlessness.
Two things here:

1) This stings, being a consultant myself who actually knows how to work with clients. Sounds like the writer hired a consultant and heard what he needed to hear, instead of what he wanted to hear.

2) I think it's a bit off-center to say

Sometimes, different parts know what they know, but they don’t share it across the silos.

and then conclude the article with

After all, we know how to fly to the moon. You’d think we could get healthier businesses.

There's probably a reason for that. Technological advancements that get man to the moon aren't really going to trickle down to help you run your business in a more profitable way. After all, by the admission of the writer, not everyone who has knowledge always shares that knowledge.

Whether or not it's actually related to what you're trying to accomplish. I for one wish the "Man to the moon" comparison would just die. Everywhere.
The upvote/downvote arrows aren't for disagreement, they're for adds to the discussion/does not add to the discussion. That's the proper reddiquette at reddit as well. Unfortunately, it's generally ignored there, but Hacker News is usually better.