skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The qualifier 'full' is important here. The article even makes note of this:

> ...some scholars have understood the system to not be considered a complete writing system...

In particular, the written and spoken forms aren't precisely equivalent. Some archaeologists consider this a bigger deal than others (I'm more on the "not a big deal" side), but it's worth noting.
> From the post: "When you invest in a startup, the money directly goes to the economy to build up a business, to create jobs and to actually contribute to the trickle down economy."

and this is completely wrong.

The money public investors pay to exiting shareholders do play a major role in the economy - it enables the early, IPO/angel investors to exit, and allows them to convert capital locked in the established startups to new startups, without waiting to "cash-out" using the company's profits (which may be years away).

In other words, the public markets makes capital movement much more efficient. It lets high risk takers take on bigger risks (for the corresponding potential return), without taking up the required time.

It's a misconception that many people have, that investing in the public markets is less useful to the economy than direct investment. Both play a critical role, and without one or the other, the capital markets will be _way_ less efficient.
> Your whole position assumes that the other person has some kernel of truth to what they're saying.

Exactly. They might have been fed garbage propositions that explain their garbage conclusions, but calling them insane, crazy, <pick-your-favorite-slur> is just a cop out of discomfort of the dialogue and co-existence, through the way of sub-humanizing them.

> It's wrong, and if your epistemology won't let you say it's wrong, your epistemology is broken, not vaccines.

I’d say on the contrary, “epistemologies” that demand purity and certainty (ideology is a better term for this) don’t tend to explain reality well and because of that they don’t survive in the long run. They are inherently maladaptive.
Vault-Tec meets only very flimsy definitions of "competence" themselves. What fraction of the known vaults were some form of horrific experiment, again? What fraction eventually released sane, healthy survivors? And Super Mutants don't count!
The final KL10B permitted up to 32 256K word sections.
> Most connections most people have on social media are with those they already know

This definitely depends on what kind of social media you like. Facebook is for following people you know. Twitter is for following people you're interested in hearing from but don't necessarily know personally. Tiktok is for watching videos that you find entertaining from anyone who posts that type of video. Tumblr is about following your interests and finding people who post content you like and potentially interacting with them anonymously.
Always seemed pretty wild to me that for the tiny moment of time photons from my computer screen travel from the LEDs to my eyes, they're being dragged toward the floor at the same 9.8m/s^2 as everything else.
Linux 5.9 Dropping Soft Scrollback Support from FB and VGA Console Code
A boat is a funny shaped hole in the water where you pour all your money.
g is not gravity, it’s a constant that quantifies the force that gravity impresses on a mass in Newtonian mechanics
On Living in the Wrong Neighborhood in Japan – This Japanese Life
> You example does not address my original question in

We'll have to agree to disagree then. For example, I am taking an online course right now. There is a chat room where people post questions and there is a moderator that elects individuals to speak. There is a private forum where people can post questions. I absolutely expect them to moderate that content to avoid any slanderous statements.

What happens now if someone call into a radio station live call-in program and starts spouting nonsense? Same thing that would happen on the Internet. Let's sketch it out. I don't have money/time to do any moderation at all (or pre-vetting of on air guests) -- Well then I better not do it at all or I better be responsible for the consequences if a nut job gets on. I cut him off ASAP and do my best and what happens? Does a swat team descend and smash down my door? No, maybe I get a cease and desist and nothing more happens, maybe I get filed against in court, maybe I have to defend myself. Maybe I pay for liability insurance (as I mentioned happens in many other similar circumstances). Maybe I am legally compelled to remove from my servers any recorded content related to the incident. Maybe I have to pay damages for the time it was up.

This idea that private real-time conferences like online classes will be impossible in such a circumstance is the hyperbole I am starting to detest. Would there be changes: hopefully yes. And my belief is theses changes would positively effect all online discourse.
Massage Gun

Had pretty bad RSI that was making it hard to work, and shoulder spacing that gave me shoulder aches.

I got a massage gun and that alleviated it enough to get me functional again.
Aren't they being dragged by the Sun, Jupiter, Milky Way Black Hole, Alpha Centauris Black Hole, Sirius, etc also just at an exceptionally small rate?
Yeah, I’m going to need some sources for that.
Who did He murder? Can you give me a name?
You can’t? You have no verifiable War Crimes? I thought as much.
Discussed 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24802269

Not the same article though: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-japan-disaster-water/japan...
Thanks for addressing this - #2 would have been my guess.

Did you report it in the Chromium bug tracker? (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list)

From my experience, they tend to look at those sooner or later.
China's economy expands 4.9% in third quarter, missing expectations
The first thing I notice is their Brain Flakes (TM) looks exactly like something I played with at school as a kid some 25-30 years ago (albeit the pieces were a little larger)
China Warns U.S. It May Detain Americans in Response to Prosecutions
What if my distance to one point on the shell was zero? Would I not feel infinite acceleration towards the massive point on the shell that I was infinitely close to?
Yes, I remember it almost being a meme about SF tourist groups being told the prices of European castles/estates by tour guides and being completely unimpressed.
Younger folks are getting it, folks are tested and treated earlier, treatment has improved and viral load has fallen, meaning it's more likely to be fought off with lighter symptoms. The latter is mostly likely due to masks and social distancing.
it's like buying a lottery ticket - good if you win, doesn't hurt if you lose.
It might still be processed in aggregate, but they stop associating years of precise locations to your account.

I’d be surprised if they don’t follow that wish just for PR and legal reasons alone. The fewest people will actually opt out or if they do accidentally opt back in since the “enable web and location data” action appears anywhere from Maps to Google Home setup.
Can I beta test? I’ve tested many sleep gadgets already :)
That "perspective" can be extended to other forces. E.g.: one could say that an electron taking a complex spiralling path through a magnetic field on Earth is merely following a "gravity+EM geodesic" and is actually in free fall the whole time.
Because it's easier to program with three fingers on the switches than four :)

But it was because there were 8 registers and 8 addressing modes, so a two operand instruction used 6 bits for each, leaving 4 bits for the instruction.
> I make a distinction between web apps and web sites.

This is an important distinction to make. But far too many web sites try to place themselves in the "web app" category when they really don't belong. Using a heavyweight JS framework does not automatically make your blog or news site into an app; it just makes your blog or news site slow.

I've long thought that browsers should move to formalize the distinction between traditional web sites, and web apps. Apps should get access to the richer, more invasive APIs but only when the user instructs the browser to grant app-level permissions to the site, and at the expense of having stricter security and privacy policies enforced (ie. no third-party cookies, and probably no third-party scripts).

> Native phone apps don’t render their initial screen server-side. Why should web apps?

An extra RTT to local storage is pretty much always quicker than an extra RTT to a server. And it's not exactly unheard of for a mobile OS to cache a raster image of an app's screen to use the next time the user launches that app or browses through their collection of running apps.
A vice admiral in the Army?
That rank doesn’t exist.

What other poorly informed thoughts did you just shit all over us?
Yes, taking someone else's money is usually how taxes work.
Speculators have pulled back from largest recent short positions in U.S. history
Refrigerator Repairing And Servicing, Memory Size: 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB

https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/refrigerator-repairing-...
yeah, an ultimate first world problem. A single average Costco trip produces 10 times more plastic waste.
Interesting that it was a Koch Industries executive who was detained. The Chinese certainly are not blind to the veins of power.
You presume to know me.

I actually pick up food from local restaurants around me.

I (and many other people) continued to pay my gym membership when they had to close due to the lockdown, to support them during that time.

And so on.

I don't even have the option not to wfh (and even if I had, why would I go to the office and risk unnecessary exposure to the virus?), since my office closed for our safety even before government lockdowns became a thing.
> Utility patents cost around $6,000 including legal fees and drawings.

This is for the initial filing, and it won’t cover the cost of dealing with the rejections that almost every patent application receives. It’s also a serious underestimate—10k is more typical for the initial filing.

>file a provisional patent application yourself ($150) before revealing your product. That will give you 12 months to explore whether or not your product is viable. If it is, get an attorney before the 12 months expire.

Almost every single provisional application I’ve seen filed without a lawyer’s input has been close to worthless. This is a false economy.
C was specified by K&R in 1978. Pascal had a specification for the core language, and BASIC was largely seen as a toy.
Contra-Counting Coalitions Value Variety
Noise in question is present in experimental images obtained from rodent and human brain. The nature of this noise is quite diverse, part of it comes from blood circulation, part from movement, part from camera/photo-multiplier noise.
You can’t let it dictate anything. If it hurts to go to the gym, still go. Find the constraints that allow you to do what you want to do without aggravating your body too much, and build some pain tolerance. Psychological tolerance is a must as well, but you almost have no choice but to develop that unless you literally want to never progress.

This is advice for people that make it out of their critical treatment phase and now must manage the rest of their life with the aftermath.
I LOL’d, at least...
But is that not a good way to encourage people to work and produce goods/services? UBI isn't there so you can live a comfortable life off the taxpayers, but as a safety net for accidents, bad luck and other unfortunates so that they don't die. But once they're back on their feet, they should be capable of restarting their productive life and no longer need social welfare.
This needs to make it to the front, especially as I have heard rumours the last several years that these programs have grown in usage and that there is virtually nothing to be done about it.
Interesting tidbit: in the Netflix show The Crown, there's an episode[0] where the queen's mother buys a castle in Scotland where the owner is happy to get rid of it because of all the pains of maintaining it.

Which is based on real-life event of the purchase of the Castle of Mey (1952):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Mey

[0] s1e8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown_(season_1)
It's been a few months now. L-DOPA tolerance is dose-dependant, term-dependent as well as drug-dependant. After looking for ways to work around this, I found L-DOPA from Mucuna pruriens does not have the two major side-effects I was concerned about:

1. LID (Levodopa induced dyskinesia) - ironically the "cure" for Parkinson's disease (abbreviated to PD from here on) induces PD like side effects!

2. tolerance built up over chronic use.

We're not sure why Mucuna is able to do this but regarding LID one hypothesis advanced in a paper I read was that it might have something to do with pure L-DOPA being co-administered with Carbidopa in order to prevent peripheral metabolism of L-DOPA so that a greater amount reaches the brain. In the paper they show Carbidopa worsens LID and patients on pure L-DOPA alone took longer to get LID. Mucuna group didn't see any LID symptoms for the duration of the study.

Regarding tolerance, there are a few papers that compared Mucuna with other common PD drugs and found trial participants remained responsive throughout the study to a greater degree while on Mucuna compared to the other drugs. Here's one such paper: "Mucuna pruriens in Parkinson’s disease: a double blind clinical and pharmacological study", https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/jnnp/75/12/1672.full.pdf

Tolerance also seems to depend on the dosage and delivery regimen, the key thing to watch out being the prevention of dopamine peaks and to maintain a smooth steady level through continuous administration via IV — "Does Tolerance Develop to Levodopa? Comparison of 2-
and 21-H Levodopa Infusions ", https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8474479/

Having done all this work, I'm still highly wary of continuing Mucuna for years. I keep a watchful eye on any behavioral (hallucinations, insomnia) and physiological (tachycardia) abnormalities in myself, just in case. Also because I don't have PD, I can stick to a relatively low dosage (PD patients are given 45g of Mucuna/day equivalent to 1.5g of L-DOPA; I take 2.4g/day, roughly a twentieth of the therapeutic dose) which seems to be highly correlated with LID (what I'm most anxious about).

What gave me the confidence to move forward was knowing that Mucuna has been used in traditional Ayurvedic and Siddha medicinal systems here in India for thousands of years and is still actively in use as treatment for mood disorders¹. Something that lasts long and is also backed by science can't be wrong. Even so, I won't deny that L-DOPA via Mucuna is a minefield I'm gingerly stepping across.

¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyxVCPgUVMI (sorry, the video is in Tamil, "poonaikali" is vernacular here for Mucuna pruriens)
Ehhh Id rather take the trade-off of just manually blocking than Sony taking a big brother approach. You may have a higher sensitivity to harmful words though. I think that having Sony intervene on every instance of a troll on a platform targeting young adult demographic is going to be a fairly tall task.
The Rise of Military AI and What It Means
I read this article expecting to hear about potential liability concerns, not IP protection. It seems to me that I remember playing with a toy quite like theirs as a child many years ago. Basically cheap poker chips with cuts around the edge so they can connect. So it seems quite unlikely that they'd try to protect that IP, since it probably wasn't their invention in the first place.

The designs that they show being copied by others are an interesting problem. I got bored of all the pictures and didn't compare one by one, but it seems like if you were to do a clean room design of a helicopter made of these snowflake chips, it would be legitimate to copy. I would guess they are suing this other company based on the copyright protection of their instruction manuals. Seems hard.

I'm quite glad my interests for developing products involve a healthy amount of algorithms rather than just pieces of plastic and instruction manuals. Success breeds competition, and in something like this I doubt it's feasible to compete on quality, only price, which is a hard battle.
Looking at the latest visual transformers paper (“16x16 words”) convnets definitely start to look less relevant.
- Almost all the train journey tickets I've bought

- A queen size bed and memory foam mattress along with two (small) memory foam pillows

- Memory foam work chair back/lumbar support

- The large wide wooden desk I bought at the start of lockdown

- Osprey Farpoint 40

- A very small and light daypack bag from Decathlon (~10-15L)

- (More of a lifestyle change) Fitting boxers (not the very loose/flailing ones) instead of boxer-briefs

- UV + Anti glare/reflective + Blue light coating photo-chromatic glasses.

- Asics Nimbus for running

- Buying a smaller phone (older SE)

- A small easily clippable book light

- Buying an analog alarm clock (I do not feel like interacting with my phone when going to sleep or waking up)

- Moving to my own domain and paid email host - I really get less spam, I have better ways to control spam (though I am still looking for one that provides even better control) and I do not live in the fear of getting blocked out of Google a/c (happened once I didn't even bother to find a Googler in my network; I used it only for forums etc)

- A VPS that works as my seedbox and VPN

- Tarsnap, backblaze b2, rsync.net, Dropbox (with Cryptomator). I am relieved about my personal data and I also feel in control of it.
It's older than the Nazca, according to the article.
It's impossible for an object with mass to go the speed of light. But you can observe what happens as you approach it:

Let's say I put you in a spaceship and accelerate you to 50% the speed of light toward the sun. From an inertial viewer's perspective you are travelling toward the sun at half the speed of light and it takes you ~16 minutes to crash into the sun. But from your perspective it only took ~14 minutes to crash into the sun[0].

Repeat the experiment except I accelerate you to .99c. From an inertial viewer's perspective you are travelling toward the sun at nearly speed of light and it takes you ~8 minutes to crash into the sun. But from your perspective it only took ~1 minute to crash into the sun.

Repeat the experiment except I accelerate you to .999c. From an inertial viewer's perspective you are travelling toward the sun at nearly speed of light and it takes you ~8 minutes to crash into the sun. But from your perspective it only took 20 seconds to crash into the sun.

Repeat the experiment except I accelerate you to .9999c. From an inertial viewer's perspective you are travelling toward the sun at nearly speed of light and it takes you ~8 minutes to crash into the sun. But from your perspective it only took 6 seconds to crash into the sun.

Repeat the experiment except I accelerate you to .99999c. From an inertial viewer's perspective you are travelling toward the sun at nearly speed of light and it takes you ~8 minutes to crash into the sun. But from your perspective it only took 2 seconds to crash into the sun.

See what's happening? As you approach the speed of light, the amount of time that elapses until you reach your destination approaches zero. So from an inertial observer's point of view, time has completely frozen for travelers approaching light speed.

[0] Using time dilation formula from this page: https://www.phy.olemiss.edu/HEP/QuarkNet/time.html
Cash is also not cash by that definition. A dollar bill is what is called a banknote, which represents that the bank (or really the government) owes you a dollar.
Breitbart/Fox News readers aren't the ones having mental breakdowns.
Thankfully, birds sometimes come and help hedgehogs get off the road:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIqFiQ2MwfA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFK4wT9udFo
Equities in a given sector, whether public or private, tend to be highly correlated, but external observers just don't really get the full picture unless they dig into the specifics of the situation.

IME, private marks in aggregate are less volatile than equivalent public performance for a wide range of reasons, but that doesn't mean that a private manager can liquidate a portfolio company at an optimistic mark in a downcycle any more than the manager wouldn't be able to get a better price than the last mark in an upswing.

I think it's also worth clarifying for other readers that the risk you're talking about is volatility and has nothing to do with the actual fundamental risks of a given investment. Private equity (broadly defined) managers look to minimize risks in their investments, but they're talking about business and financing risks. I don't think I've ever heard a private equity manager ever talk about minimizing volatility and I'm ok with that.
When you throw a ball up and down in a moving car the ball is also parabola. You don’t need theory of general relativity to explain it.
Eh, I think there are more important things, like if you pass a variable to a remote function, it doesn't ever mutate underneath you when you try to use it later.
The two months in 1980 that shaped the future of biotech
Alternative Measures of Growth for Markets
This is a product that was in existence before this CEO was a sperm. I guess it's whoever patents it first jeez.
I have to disagree on this point.

Formatting could be beneficial, but it gets abused so fast that it becomes a problem.

First thing, no one challenges the choices made by the formatter, which is a problem in the long term.
The other thing is how far the formatter goes. Rubocop in ruby is a clear example of this, they went way too far with it and producing a readable rspec test is impossible without violating at least one of the rules.

A few days ago, I ended up writing something along these lines:

```

def something
err, obj1 = dependency1.call(someargs)
return err, obj1 if err.nil?

err, obj2 = dependency2.call(obj1)
return err, obj2 if err.nil?

err, obj3 = dependency3.call(obj2)
return err, obj3 if err.nil?

err, obj4 = dependency4.call(obj3)
return err, obj4 if err.nil?

err, obj5 = dependency5.call(obj4)
return err, obj5 if err.nil?

[nil, obj5]

end

```

This is a pipeline, to a human being it looks simple because the "return line" after reading the first time and understanding it's an early exit in case of errors, it's identical in all 5 steps. Human brain just excludes those returns after having read the first one.

Rubocop however claims that there is too much complexity going on here due to 5 if branches. That's a machine reading the code.

If I have to rewrite the code according to rubocop standards, it ends up being a lot less readable and with a lot more indirection for no particular advantage.

I find it funny, we use styleguides to ease human interactions with code, but we let the machine evaluating that. It's problematic, the machine doesn't see the code as us.
your size in X, Y, Z, is how much space you occupy at once, i.e., at a fixed point on the time axis. But how would we even make sense of the notion of "size" on the time axis? How much time we take up for a fixed value in one or more of the X, Y, and Z axes?
Also if you're married, joint income of $300k. For 2 people working in Silicon Valley, that's easily achievable.
Vitamins (B-K) + calcium + fish and cod liver oil: several years.

L-citrulline, zinc: 2+ years.

Ashwagandha, Boswellia: slightly more than a year.

L-DOPA, niacin, L-taurine: a few months.
Real world isn’t Blind
Is it similar to how changing FOV in a game makes the movement appear slower/faster, but in both cases the space traversed is identical?
I went to a snobby engineering college. Freshman year I learned about LaTeX but it was really complicated. I found LyX and loved it! I sent it in for a paper. A TA gave me bonus points for obviously using LaTeX. They were disappointed that I had used LyX. I still think about that a lot.