skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow been reading heaps into hypnosis recently, seems like its just a tool to deliver therapy more effectively in this case

https://time.com/5380312/is-hypnosis-real-science/

supposedly works for most of the population too (even for pain management in surgeries)

http://accurateclinic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/A-meta-...

https://cdn.journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/Fulltext/2...

https://www.mindsethealth.com/blog/acute-vs-chronic-pain
Reliance’s Jio bags fourth big investor with General Atlantic stake
An aside: Why does Medium add a login wall to some articles? Creating an account on a website to read somebody's blog post to me sounds... excessive.
fantastic. thanks! don't know why it took me so long to look for this
QT is excellent, but C++ is quite a tough pill to swallow for many. Especially as QT layers a macro system on top. I predict that native desktop apps will make a comeback when there's QT-quality cross-platform framework in a more approachable language (Rust, nim, or similar).
This sentiment is why I've moved to write Elixir code professionally three years ago, and why I write Nim for all my personal projects now. I want to minimize bloat and squeeze out performance from these amazing machines we are spoiled with these days.

A few years ago I read about a developer that worked on a piece-o-shit 11 year old laptop, he made his software run fast there. By doing that, his software was screaming fast on modern hardware.

It's our responsibility to minimize our carbon footprint.
I think young people don't really understand how quickly (and recently) tattoos went from something really fringe to something fairly socially acceptable. I remember cops occasionally harassing my (white) dad because he had a few forearm tattoos back in the early to mid 90s.
FWIW i do not remember having issues like that, i had mIRC practically always open, a web browser, email application, etc and i do not remember ever having networking issues.

Internet was slow but that was largely because for the most part of the 90s i was stuck with a very slow 2400 baud modem - i got to appreciate the option that browsers had to not download images by default :-P.

But in general i do not remember being unable to run multiple programs at the same time, even when i was using Windows 3.1 (though with Win3.1 things were a bit more unstable mainly due to the cooperative multitasking).
I mostly mean technological progress, I don't have a precise definition.
If they could, they would have done it 40 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Command
Pharmaceutical companies have a big say in policy in many countries that develop drugs. This will be a tough battle to overcome.
Ah, right, that seems on now you point it out.

I use Q-Dir at work because I’m constantly managing files on four networked devices.

No affiliation, just a satisfied user.

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir/Screenshots
I agree that conciousness of people is not "special", but why the need to add in an extra meta physical quantity of "conciousness". I agree it is probably a spectrum, but I think it is more just an emergent quantity.

People are just relatively high up on the scale so its different to imagine what other types of conciousness would be. Yes it is difficult to say what exactly is going on in a human brain, but I believe when you think it is entirely just a physical process, some very complicated electro-chemical interactions.
More like, consciousness is a matter of degree, rather than a binary yes/no.
No reason a video splitting app couldn't be written with client-side JS.
There's no way to rigorously determine how many tests are needed. The original threshold was an educated guess, and the new phased reopening policy is a different educated guess; all we'll ever have available is educated guesses. The best possible citation is that health officers across the Bay Area have said it's time to start reopening.
We don't have many users yet (private alpha), so I'm trying to get ahead of the ball. I'm wondering if this is a broader trend other people have seen or maybe a symptom of something else. Does it work for Google Sheets/Docs/etc because people are used to relating "documents" to separate windows and that is unlikely to carry over to "database tables"? These are hard answers to get up front from users, but maybe other developers/startups have insight.

At the end of the day, I will absolutely listen to our users (and definitely not argue with them). Always a great reminder, though, thank you!
> The divisions of interest of these classes are roughly represented in the blue/red map of the US.

Real interests, or perceived affiliative values?

Example: for several things "hinterland" areas are generally underserved by markets alone (hospital/medicine, broadband, delivery). Currently, the party generally stronger in those areas, though, seems more interested in eroding public solutions to those problems rather than building them out...
I get that angle, but have never read any criticism specific to YC.
That's quite a broad brush to paint with. There's plenty of bias in media around the world, and more than a few examples are even more systematic than what we see in the US.
In the US, the profitability of being a "land" lord is highly dependent on the income tax deductibility of depreciation on the building.

Yes, tenants will be better able to afford to purchase a home -- and will be able to sell it more easily should they choose to, either to upgrade to a fancier house or a better location within the community, or to move to another part of the country.

Yes, they will be responsible for replacing the refrigerator and other appliance, and doing the maintenance (said to be estimated at 1% of the cost of the property, but of course that would vary a lot according to whether land value is 20% of the total, or 80% of the total value of the house-plus-land or condo-plus-share-of-the-land.

And for first-time homeowners, there are always some rude shocks.

Those landlords will have to find productive uses for their money, perhaps investing in young entrepreneurs, or developing land to meet the needs of their community for housing.
>And I should add that "strong-ish" means a state that's not corrupt, strong enough politically to enforce its own rules via police action, and ethical enough to attract popular support. I don't think these things can be quantified, so people corrupting the system, or gaming the laws can always argue about whether or not the state is "strong-ish" enough.

Yeah, I was really surprised to see this piece was published in May 2020 without any notes of the major shifts in partisan politics of the past few years.

For instance, one wouldn't critique the Left today for being too decentralized or libertarian-municipalist. One would critique the Left today for being, essentially, the interests of the neo-feudal "center" wrapped up in moral language, with a social base that tilts far more educated, metropolitan, and white-collar than the rest of the population.

And then, of course, there's ignoring the elephants in the room: Trumpian right-wing nationalist populism, and COVID-19. Both have pushed official politics in a direction of greater "state capacity", and the former is explicitly rooted in the identity and interests of the neo-feudal "hinterland" being asserted against those of the "center".

Like Marx pointing out the falling rate of profit, I think you've hit on the contradiction in this "neo-feudalism": the networked metropole of "global cities" has to be maintained, militarily and infrastructurally, by nation-states that give people in the "hinterlands" a vote, often a vote that "weighs more" than that of the people in the "centers". Insofar as a company like Facebook or Google props up the San Francisco real-estate industry, that's great, and they can even worm their way around paying California taxes by various clever means. But an electoral revolt from the "hinterlands" so severe that both major parties now put up candidates and platforms centered around telling the "centers" (ie: San Francisco) that they're a bunch of loony extremists who need to be brought to heel? That's a political problem for neo-feudalism.
Yup, also picking up the tab to host it: https://winds.getstream.io/

Not sure if I'll keep on doing it though, bit expensive for a side project
My favorite approach[1] to the mind–body problem is a recent one, placing the interaction between the mind and body at actual primacy. Neither the perceived nor the perceiver can exist without the process of perceiving. However absurd, the things related can be seen as derivative of the relationship itself.

Resonates with zen, as famously espoused by Alan Watts[2]: “How does the thing put a process into action. Obviously it can’t. But we always insist that there is this subject called the knower. And without a knower there can’t be knowing. Well that’s just a grammatical rule, it isn’t the rule of nature. In nature there’s just knowing.” Also said[3]: “The grammatical illusion is that all verbs have to have subjects.”

[1]: https://www.magic-flight.com/pub/uvsm_1/imc_01.htm

[2]: https://www.alanwatts.org/1-1-2-not-what-should-be-pt-2

[3]: https://www.alanwatts.org/1-1-11-limits-of-language-pt-1/
Ask HN: Do kids drag your career down?
It seems that since I had a kid my career is in decline. I am currently working from home, but prior to this I would need to be home at a specific time to watch the kid. This obviously means I have less time to spend at work. Less hours means less dedication in the eyes of management.

On a side note, I took parental leave last year and was basically told by a manager friend that it means a lower rating.

What is your experience?
God I hate this. Show me your website based on the language of my browser, or in English. Period.

Yes, I live in Mexico, and yes I speak Spanish, but no I don't want to see your terrible translation.
Yes and no.

I’m in Switzerland, please follow my browser language. Don’t guess whether I speak Swiss, French, Italian, etc

I’m in Laos, my OS is in English. Please show me Laotian.

However, do make it easy for anyone to change the language. I shouldn’t have to hunt the settings page when traveling.
> RF enabling cars to be remotely interrogated, and encoding driver qualifications is well within our reach.

Half the country wants a government so small it can be drowned in a bathtub or be unable to respond competently to a public health crisis. You think we should institute elite certification so that some people can be allowed to drive fast on public roads...

Yeah, I agree safety requirements should be more stringent, but I’m not sure I support that as a means to allow more speed.

As a motorcyclist, when I see cars driving aggressively and at high speeds, I think to myself, “there is a person who is too safe...”
Show HN: Media Centre PC Build Using Fedora Kickstart
If you believe that the government doesn't have business being in public health, I'm curious to know what area you believe the government has business being in.
> It is slower than comparable desktop app, but it is usable for real world projects

Which means that under a high enough load it will be unusable, while Blender will deal with it just fine.
> You have a naturally occuring resource which is scarce and which nobody created. … Georgist simply say you can use an auction granting you possession for some amount of time …

First problem: This is a recurring process but the land is only "unimproved" at the time of the first auction. At which point no one was interested in the land, there being nothing and noone there, so the auction price is effectively zero. After that first auction you can't say how much of the market price in any later auction is due to the land itself and how much is due to improvements.

Second problem: In order to auction something off you have to own it first, but this is unowned land. No one has the right to sell it—or to prevent anyone else from using it. Land only becomes property after it has been improved. This is also the point where it first acquires economic value.

Third problem: You can't just go auctioning off already-improved land separate from the improvements. The improvements and the land are a single, unified good and in the vast majority of cases cannot be separated without incurring expense akin to rebuilding the improvements from scratch.

Fourth problem: LVT is valued mainly for being a tax on "unearned" external benefits property owners receive from the community, but the "unimproved" value of the property is a poor proxy for net external benefit received by property owners. On the one hand, the value of the improvements also depends on the community; if you build a family home or a restaurant or a warehouse the value of that building is going to depend on the demand for specific kinds of goods in that area and not just the cost to build a similar building. On the other hand, the so-called "unimproved" value of the land is readily influenced by the actions of the property owner, for good or ill. LVT punishes property owners who contribute to the surrounding community by taxing them on any increase in the value of their property which follows from their own contribution to the public good, and rewards property owners who contribute to lowering property values in their own neighborhood.
I hope Alan Kay doesn't feel too bad seeing all the nearly limitless potential he and his peers unveiled get squandered and captured by corrupt entities that are slowly but surely strangling the very essence of the Internet he helped create.

In the meantime, Tim Berners-Lee receives the Turing award.
I'm curious how English speakers (especially not in US?) finding national shopping websites because I live in Japan so never find foreign website written in Japanese
React 2025 – Build applications from the future, today
No, but neither are we.
I would argue that perfect social/economic mobility is probably not only unattainable but perhaps even undesirable. It should be high, such that gifted children of any background can flourish, but should almost surely fall short of whatever 100% “everyone draws straws” perfectly uncorrelated would be.

I believe that raising the next generation is our most solemn obligation as parents. It seems overwhelmingly likely that this would confer some benefit to the more well-to-do that cannot be entirely eliminated short of universal boarding schools and even that might not be enough.

Why do children of professors grow up to be professors, doctors to doctors, plumbers to plumbers, etc? I’m sure there’s some genetic component, but I suspect the overwhelming influence is what they experienced and how they were raised. When I was growing up, both my parents were teachers and at some young age, I just assumed that literally every adult was a teacher. It was the only job I knew and saw daily.

I believe that having and even encouraging parents to strive, scrimp, save, and sacrifice for their children is an overall positive force for society. My parents benefited greatly from it, as did I, as will my kids. If you took the actions required to make outcomes totally uncorrelated, I think you’d remove a lot of this sacrifice and effort that society benefits from when parents raise their kids to be “better off” than they were.
If the browser is computationally expensive abstraction, so is the various .NET SDKs, the OS, custom compiler and the higher language of your choice. Yes there were days were an game like prince of persia could be fit in to the memory of apple IIe and all of it including the sound graphics, mechanics and the asset was less than 1.1 MB !
However the effort required to write such efficient code, hand optimise compiler output is considerable not to mention very few developers will be able to do it.

Unless your domain requires high performance(with wasm and WebGL this will also be reduced) or something niche a browser cannot not currently provide it no longer make sense to develop desktop applications. The native application is too much hassle and security risk for the end user compared to a browser app and is worth the trade-off in performance for vast majority of usescases.

While the browser security sandboxes have its issues, I don't want go back to the days of an native applications constantly screwing my registry, launch processes , add unrelated malware and billion toolbars to your browser ( java installers anyone ?) .

Till late 2000's Every few months I would expect to do reinstall the entire OS (esp Windows and occasionally OS X) because of this kind of shareware / malware nonsense native apps used to pull. While tech savy users avoid most of this pitfalls maintaining the extended family's systems was constant pain. Today setting a chromebook or surface( Default S mode enabled) and installing an ad blocker is all i need to do , those systems are clean for years.

I do not think giving effectively root access and hoping that that installing application will not abuse is not a better model than a browser app. It is not just small players who pull this kind abuse either, Adobe CC suite runs like 5 launch processes and messes up the registry even today. The browser performance hit is more than worth not having to deal with that

Also just on performance from a different point of view, desktop apps made my actually system slower, you would notice this on fresh install of the OS, your system will be super fast , then over few weeks it will slow down, From antivirus to every application you added , they all hogging more of my system resources than browser apps do today.
Maybe. I don't have faith that the world is that meritocratic. I don't know many criminals, but I know people who are smart and competent, but who've fallen into careers with low pay and no room for advancement. Crime is something that doesn't require the resume or capital of legitimate options.
Without a way for end-users to actually make judgements about application efficiency, there will never be any real pressure to make efficient, native apps.

Though the only measurement I think people would actually care about is battery impact, and even that is pretty much hidden away on phones except to the few people who actually look.

But the other problem is: who cares if Discord or a browser's HN tab aren't optimally efficient? You're just going to suck it up and use it. With this in mind, a lot of the native app discussion is technical superiority circlejerk.
Yeah. What if those kids just joined the subreddit for fun, and didn't actually plan on using it?
There's a famous bit of research done by the guy who wrote Freakonomics.

He tracked how much drug dealers were actually making and found that if they just got a job at McDonald's they'd have a higher income.
The internet needs to be destroyed.
I don't run a German website, so I can't give you exact numbers, but in my experience, software can often default to something like 'en-US' in a variety of cases where you might not expect it to.

This is especially common in poorly localized tools. For example, a poorly implemented browser component inside some other tool or phone app might not properly set this value, and instead default to en-US.

Switching to the proposed method might fix the author's problem, but create a bunch of problems for other users in other scenarios.
> In the meantime, Tim Berners-Lee receives the Turing award.

What's that side note supposed to mean?
Why would you want to see Laotian?

Agree with the op. Not only do I regularly struggle with location-based internationalization, sometimes I can't even /see/ pages depending on location. Tried to find the product page for new google ear buds thing (in Korea) and they refuse to even display it. Of course, setting up local ssh tunnel to ec2 machine based in US takes < 60sec but it's still annoying.
Your subdomain http://forum.ossia.io/ lacks an ssl certificate for the login mask.

You can get wildcard ssl certificates for your domain and all subdomains from Letsencrypt.
There is movement away from stop-the-world GC, but not to reference counting. The movement is towards better GC.

The language Go has sub millisecond GC with multi-GB heaps since 2018. See https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote

Java is also making good progress on low latency GC.

Reference counting can be slower than GC if you are using thread safe refcounts which have to be updated atomically.

I don't want to have to think about breaking cycles in my data structures (required when using ref counting) any more than I want to think about allocating registers.
#RAD
Thank you for putting real effort into solving a problem you see in the world.

> There are no "rich" and "poor" countries, only ones with more inequality.

This is true only in the same way that there are no tall and short people, only taller and shorter people. Most of the population of the DRC lives worse lives than the bottom 1% of the US population in terms of material consumption. The US is rich. The DRC is poor.
You can always find "one employee" (of of ~10K in this case) to "say" just about anything.
If you look at it by generation, however, millennials are significantly worse off than Boomers:

https://www.newamerica.org/millennials/reports/emerging-mill...

Millennials typically are worth twenty percent less than their parents at the same point in life. My parents owned a house, two cars, and had two babies at my age. My dad was a public water maintenance worker with no college degree and my mom was in nursing school. The only people I know right now with a house, two cars and two kids are both accountants.
How do the patreons of the world fit in there? There is such content creators that I enjoy enough to give them a few bucks every month to make sure they can keep doing it
I experienced this a lot while growing up in a country with ~4 national languages - I spoke one of them well, but sadly only about 20% of the population speak it, so most websites will default to using the bigger national language (~70% pop) regardless of what your computer is set to.

It's really not that hard to find the language switcher on most websites, but it's still a bit annoying.
> There is more than enough way to solve these problems, but for some f'n reason there is no will...

It's pretty straightforward. Most people are simple-minded or dishonest enough that they can't understand or admit that policies they like can be inefficient or flawed. In the case of pseudoephedrine, the public conversation doesn't have too many advocates for meth dealers or trivially inconvenienced shoppers. By contrast, any inkling that a government program could be run more efficiently is immediately met with howls of outrage that reform proposals are just cover for the real goal of forcing poor people to starve.

Once you know what to look for, you'll see this for _almost literally every topic_ of this type, from infrastructure to public schools.
Land is finite. Capital can be created infinitely, by thriftiness of Labor.

Land wasn't created by any individual or any corporation. (Minor, and not eternal, exception: Made Land, such as by filling in a swamp or dumping fill alongside a river. After a century or so, it stops being special, and is simply land, whose value comes from its location and the services that are provided to it.

When the companies that issue stock are paying LVT on the land they occupy, and on the finite natural resources they claim for themselves and process to sell to consumers, the value of their stock will be reduced somewhat by that "pre-distribution."
Something the President of the United States of America retweeted.