skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate on your knowledge in the first graph? I thought I remember reading that scurvy patients recover pretty quickly, and according the the NHS[0], it's about 48 hours to start feeling better and 2 weeks to recovery.

Scurvy is vitamin C deficiency. Vitamin C is water soluble.

Vitamin D is fat soluble. Fat soluble vitamins generally work on a longer, slower time scale. It takes longer to incorporate them into the body and longer to become deficient.

People who are deficient in vitamin C may simply not be getting enough of it in their diet. Because vitamin D can actually be manufactured in the body, it tends to correlate to other underlying issues.

People with other underlying issues tend to require more time to recover from anything, medically speaking. They may even have inherent challenges in absorbing vitamin D properly or using it properly.

I have a genetic disorder that predisposes me to deficiency in all fat soluble vitamins, including vitamin D. I'm sure my firsthand experience with being slow to heal and my body being slow to adequately resolve nutritional deficiencies (on the order of months of supplementation to fix things) is on the fairly extreme side, but most Covid-19 patients in danger of dying from it are elderly and have underlying health issues. So I would expect my experiences to be somewhat similar to their situation.

Does that make sense? Did I answer the question?
I think that's the point. I'm personally not an advocate of this because it seems to be a little too "beat you over the head" with its moral metaphor, but the whole point is that the President should have to personally kill someone to understand the gravity of what they are about to do.

From the perspective of an advocate I'd say: If they can't come to terms with killing one, who are they to execute hundreds of thousands?
No, "checkmate" in shogi is the same as as in chess. What I meant to say is that if you are checkmated, you have to resign for the game to be over (on 81dojo). In theory, you could be a dick and not do anything until you run out of time for example, but that would be bad manner and you would be sanctioned for that.
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As a canadian, i find it amusing how basically my entire country is being dismissed as a non-representitive special case!
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I thought there's no way that ~10% of the NIH budget would be thrown into that particular money pit, but lo and behold!

https://www.nia.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2019-07/FY21-NIA...
They look like bells. I saw something similar in an old house where they were used to call servents and different bells corrosponded to different rooms.
Look at how much the GIMP has improved in the same timeframe :)
Yet, this happens to be a strategy used in therapy for ADHD and related disorders of executive function.
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I'm sorry, but yes, this is just a product. There are no human rights violations at stake, c'mon.

And the DoJ is arguing that Search is a monopoly, not Chrome. And what do you mean, "cannot customize anything and has to suffer"? My original comment was literally about customizing the new tab page to be different. And who is "suffering" from this? Nobody is dying of hunger because Chrome wants to show an ad.

The reason your comment was disrespectful is because perspective is important. Human rights violations and genocide are not comparable to a private corporation -- whether it's a monopoly or not -- deciding to show a dumb advertisement.
Blindsight is also the name of a phenomenon that provides some evidence for the fascinating hypothesis that cognition and consciousness are at least to some degree, separate.
I wish I could quote some paper or otherwise confirm this for you, but when I was at Google, Google itself has disproven this by hiring a cohort irrespective of their interview outcome (you can imagine what this did to googlers' impostor syndrome when they shared the results), and then tracking their performance for a few years. They did about as well as people who were subject to traditional scoring in interviews. Now granted, this is not a viable option for all of their interviewing, but at a minimum it suggests that interview scores aren't as strong an indicator of future job performance as people assume.
Do you use linter sometimes?
But not with the cable that does come with the new phone.
The study has a demographic breakdown table that has some details about other conditions the covid and the control population had. One thing that stood out to me was: 'Immunosuppression'. The COVID population had this condition at 8x the rate the control group had and this condition may be induced deliberately. That seems like it could be an alternative explanation to low vitamin D.
I still think you missed the question.

Game Theory, Seven Bridges of Königsberg, etc. were not raised by the game players, but mathematicians.

And the original question is not arguing against the "usefulness" of these games themselves either; it's about the practice/endeavor of merely playing these games.

>DeepBlue and AlphaGo and Watson /are/ playing the game

DeepBlue and AlphaGo are playing the games. But they don't "think" or, in the OP's words, "waste their mental energy", since they are not even human beings.

The designers of these AIs are not playing the games, though. That's what the question is about.

>Also, playing, understanding, and thinking about these games

To me, thinking about these games' mechanisms and/or how to optimizing them is totally different from the mental energy used in playing it.

Again, I'm not disagreeing or agreeing with this sentiment (actually I strongly disagree), just trying to explain what the OG questions is in my understanding.
Have you ever had a thought you can't put into words? Some people do not even possess an internal monologue!
I'm not sure how well this will work for certain things, like pushups: Each one gets harder as you go.

For things like work projects, this is a good approach for me: Sometimes I find myself putting off beginning something because it's a big project and I don't have it all figured out yet. But once I catch myself in that cycle, I start on the preliminary work, get into a groove, and (unlike the pushups) things get easier as I go.

That said, I did just interrupt a (relatively small) project to come here and see what's going on today.
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> standard 60W incandescent lightbulb

Which is why nobody uses incandescent bulbs anymore.

You can get the same amount of light for 1/5 of that power with LEDs, i.e. your phone could power that amount of light for an hour.
"low Vit D levels lead to more, worse and prolonged depression & anxiety"

This isn't entirely accurate, and I'm going to quibble a bit with it and cite a study, but TLDR exercising outside during the daytime is probably better than just supplements of D.

To be clear I myself take Vitamin D because it may have benefits, including for mental health, so this isn't me trying to say D couldn't help with depression, just that that particular statement is a little misleading in that we don't have the best evidence for it.

There's definitely some evidence that Vitamin D levels are correlated with worse depression scores, but no studies about deficiency causing it to be worse; I suspect few people would choose to sign up for a study to make they depression worse, tbh. Anyway, the closest are studies of supplements to Vitamin D levels in depressed people, and the results there are mixed.

For example a study called "Effect of vitamin D supplement on depression scores in people with low levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D: nested case-control study and randomised clinical trial" in the British Journal of Psychiatry found no statistically significant differences in depression inventories.

I believe there is some meta analysis that shows that Vitamin D supplementation may benefit people with clinically significant depression scores. But if you are badly depressed, you should consider moderate mixed aerobic and anaerobic exercise outside during the day, which gets you sunlight for vitamin D, exercise, and light exposure.

Regardless of whether Vitamin D makes a difference, exercise and light exposure both can help with depression (or in the case of the latter at least Seasonal Affective Disorder, which can cause or exacerbate depression), and the evidence there is more substantial. For the record, light therapy boxes seem to help with SAD even when they generally have low UV so little chance that it's vitamin D that's making the difference.
If you click the '+' to enhance you can make out what looks like bells that appear to have a pendulum underneath them, and the length of each line seems to follow a harmonic series so it must be some kind of musical alarm chime but I've never seen anything like it :)

Can we also talk about how the vaulted ceiling has a similar, but altered motif as the floor? Really talented stuff!
So they messed with the synchroniser and the synch check relays, on a reciprocating deisel.
I design such systems and it sort of reads ok, but a few key details not right or not explained - those size of generators grid connected will have reverse power, pole slip, instantaneous over current electrical protection as well, AVR excitation limiting, plus overspeed relays which would not have let this happen. (gas turbines traditionally have a hydraulic control oil relief overspeed "bolt" that comes out with centrifugal force and no software could mess with, these days electronic replacements are coming in vogue, but...)

As for synch check, rule of thumb is two independant systems, one hard wired, three overall if you can swing it because often one of the multifunction protection relays will have that function available and you wire it and/or code it in line.

But I have seen big reciprocating diesels go into synch at 30-60 degrees out of phase and if they hold without tripping the generator protection then you might get a brief flicker of the lights, some stress on the crankshaft that who knows what it does long term, but some of them were old and had it done to them many times.

Yeah, so they did it, waste of a good machine for known outcome if ask me, very wasteful with no need.

And it is a very particular kind of attack, if you knew it was a problem it could be protected against for hundreds or thousands of generators literally in 24 hours or less - hardwired synch check which can be achieved with a voltage relay at it's simplest.

So I am not seeing anything in that excerpt other than highighting bad design practices.
I would argue that a USB-C cable is equal or higher value then a (USB-A cable plus USB-A brick).

Edit: Oh, they also removed the earpods. Yeah, for the 2020 SE this is a clear move to increase margins. To be fair, it was already lower margin and is still a great value phone.
It follows that lung damage (which can be, ironically, caused by breathing more than 50% oxygen) might lead to lower oxygen levels.

"The brain requires a constant supply of glucose and oxygen. However, if you have a chronic lung disease such as emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis or COPD, having enough blood oxygen can be challenging.... The brain uses about 25 percent of your oxygen intake, so avoiding low oxygen and brain damage is important.... When your blood oxygen falls below a certain level, the result is called hypoxemia. The symptoms of hypoxemia include extreme shortness of breath, headache, confusion and restlessness." - https://lunginstitute.com/blog/oxygen-and-brain-damage/

"The coronavirus damages both the wall and lining cells of the alveolus as well as the capillaries. The debris that accumulates because of all of that damage lines the wall of the alveolus the same way paint would cover a wall...." - https://health.clevelandclinic.org/heres-the-damage-coronavi...
Killing all of your cattle is still a concern.
You can see them better in the high-res version:
https://www.rct.uk/sites/default/files/collection-online/0/2...
You and I would be fast friends, I think. I've been talking about empathy at work, and I feel like it's a new concept for some.
Alright. But please be aware that it is possible to chill discussion through stridency. I don't believe this applies only to me.
However many deeper issues are, in part, dealt with by coming up with incremental coping strategies.
The amount of libraries/frameworks around AI and video games production is still small.
I can still record my screen with a video camera no matter what
Always web. Mainly because all those apps contain links, which open in the browser. So it makes more sense to use them in the browser.

Twitter on android is a PWA (i think). When you try to add a twitter home screen shortcut, it creates a shortcut to the twitter PWA, which opens in its own fullscreen chrome wrapper, not in chrome like other web links . But that's NOT what i want, e.g. i want the links i visit to stay in my history, and to be able to switch between different tabs. So i end up not using the PWA either.

That said, twitter's web app is good because it doesnt try to do too much. Every app that pretends it can handle animations/loading/fancy ux on the browser just fails because of the choppiness. I think SPA web app makers do not test their apps beyond localhost so they dont see how bad it
can perform in real world conditions
By default, spacebar now play/pauses the timeline, and search moved to f3
IMO the single biggest environmentally-unfriendly move Apple made is not allowing user serviceability.

Even a simple ability to swap your phone's battery for a new one would reduce a lot of emissions. But they want you to spend $$$ on new stuff, so they make it hard for you to fix. And on laptops, soldered SSDs, soldered RAM, non-swappable batteries. You HAVE to buy a new PC even if you just want a little more hard disk space.
They also give the false impression that the number of sides is equal to two.
It seems like the price is fixed. Apple has done the research to know exactly what price they can sell the phone for. The only variable factor is how much stuff they put in the phone. When manufacturing costs go down they add in something that was previously cut due to cost.
> Can you give concrete examples when data processing on the CPU is clearly better than on the GPU?

Pretty much anything where the matmul is important to performance, but doesn't dominate it and requires serial steps. A classic example off the top of my head would be solving a matrix differential equation[1].

Here's an example in Julia using DifferentialEquations.jl and CUDA.jl for the GPU part:

This is solving the differential equation du/dt = A * u for the cases where u and A are arrays on the GPU versus when they are arrays on the CPU. I'm doing the solving in-place to try and minimize the amount of expensive allocations.

using DifferentialEquations, CUDA

function mysolve(u0, A, tspan)
f!(du, u, A, t) = mul!(du, A, u)
prob = ODEProblem(f!, u0, tspan, A)
solve(prob)
end
mysolve (generic function with 1 method)

julia> let n = 50, u0 = rand(Float32, n), A = randn(Float32, n, n)
# Make GPU versions of u0 and A
cuu0 = cu(u0)
cuA = cu(A)

# Do a run of the code so there's no compiler latency biasing the results
mysolve( u0, A, (0.0, 1.0))
mysolve(cuu0, cuA, (0.0, 1.0))

# Now run the compiler code and time it's execution:
@time mysolve( u0, A, (0.0, 1.0))
@time mysolve(cuu0, cuA, (0.0, 1.0))
end;
0.000314 seconds (621 allocations: 98.281 KiB)
0.007218 seconds (10.33 k allocations: 382.266 KiB)

In this case, the CPU code was ~20x faster than the GPU code. True, I could get a better GPU (I'm using a RTX 2060), but I could also get a better CPU (Ryzen 5 2600).

There's not much point in using a GPU for this example, and I think that just comes down to the fact that there's a non-trivial amount of serial work that needs to be done between the matmuls.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_differential_equation
If you mean that the industry is less likely to allow a self-diagnosis of "it's the autism" as an excuse for sexual harrassment, sure.
I've heard people ask "Will all of this go away after the election," and we're seeing the same hysteria over COVID-19 in places like Canada and VIC, Australia, so my gut response would be 'no' ...

But you cannot deny there is an extreme US-centric political angle to this; especially when you see stuff like this getting pulled or "fact checked" on major media platforms (who have shown their political colors).

Maybe the American Media Propaganda machine is just bleeding out into the rest of the world? I cannot say, but I do think that COVID-19 is a case of mass hysteria, possibly the largest we've ever seen.

I do not deny many have gotten sick and died, but I also think this is nowhere near as bad as people are making it out to be. The elderly should have been protected. The rest of us should have been allowed to make our own choices about risk. And the "long COVID" stories might be true or might be purely psychological.

This is not a time of honor.
All I can say is I know of at least a couple of design teams that switched all of their workflows off Sketch and onto Figma, so seems like a direct competitor to me.
it's a full of crap metric due to the fact that the definition wildly varies among developers. While UX can be quantified by actual metrics (retention, number of steps, accessibility points), DX is nothing but a bunch of opinions.
Could it also be that vitamin D levels indicates some other pathology and maybe supplementation with vitamin D itself doesn't do anything for chances of getting infected?
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You think it's going to take 6-9 months? I give it until Nov 4th.
Sometimes the 2 minutes can very quickly take something off your "to do" list. Read the first page of a book, realize you have no interest in it, and done: You can stop feeling guilty for putting it off.

On the other hand, sometimes the "small step" backfires on me, psychologically: I eat the apple as the small step to eating healthier. Then, later in the day, I feel good about myself for eating healthier and decide to have a few cookies as a reward.
Vitamin D doesn't go up or down in a few days. It's a cumulative thing.
Please don't be a jerk when correcting people, no matter how annoying another comment is or you feel it is. It's great to provide correct information, and also enough.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
OK, slightly off-topic rant: I have to say that timestamp is the weirdest UI element I've run across in a long time. Nothing about it gives any indication that it does anything useful. Want to link to just the thread started by a given comment? Click the timestamp. What? Why? Oh well. Want to favorite a comment? Click the timestamp. Um, OK. That's weird.

I would never think to do that and on mobile have accidentally hit it while trying to do other things and been thoroughly confused how I got there or what led me there. It seems like it would be reasonable to make each of its function into a specific link above each comment. I don't think it would make the UI too much more cluttered, personally.

OK, rant over.
I think there's still a ton of good stuff like this to be mined out of asymmetric multiplayer games.
I'm just saying it doesn't matter how the internal economics of the company work. Look at the end product and think "Is this providing enough value for its price". Trying to track a $3 cost savings through a complex supply chain is fruitless.

If the savings really did just go to C level pockets then the product next year would be less compelling than the competitions so you would logically pick the other offerings.
New Interesting Operating Systems?
Is there any work going on for new and interesting operating systems for the desktop? I'm growing tired of Windows, macOS, and Linux. I'm mostly interested in new interaction models and the GUI. The documents on a desktop model is feeling a bit dated, no?
Will have to give this a try. The PepWave SpeedFusion is a massive price rip-off for what it delivers.
A question that sometimes unlocks a task for me, when I can remember is:

what’s the smallest possible thing I can do to move this in the right direction?

And somehow, thinking about the thing in those terms helps me go “OK well I’ve been putting off this bug that was reported because it touches a system I don’t understand well, BUT let’s start by just reproducing the bug.”

And at any point, really, you can either stop, or find the smallest possible thing that moves the task in the right direction.
I like the idea. Hell you wouldn't even need co-op at the start if you can implement a decent pathfinding AI and be able to swap between tank/turret. Would even be a bit more depth since you'd have to think about both things and make decisions when to swap.
This is just silly. And what you say is the opposite. If I need a new phone now, you think I should buy a year or 2 year old phone? That will not last as long.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Very unlikely given what we know about biochemistry. Vitamin D is fat-soluble so your body stores it in fat.

Because of this, levels are generally stable over a period of months. Although there are health conditions that cause vitamin D levels to fall (particularly chronic kidney disease), it's highly implausible that COVID-19 itself could cause vitamin D deficiency directly.

Even if COVID-19 were to cause kidney issues and you didn't see sunlight for two weeks, it wouldn't move someone with adequate vitamin D levels into the deficient range. The time period is simply too short.
The vast majority of people do not live that far north. People who do should be well aware they are, in fact, "a special case" for purposes of dealing with vitamin D deficiency.

https://engaging-data.com/population-latitude-longitude/

For the boat loads of people looking to nail me to the wall over my very mild and qualified statement, why don't y'all try to get creative and look up data on vitamin D deficiency in girls in Muslim countries and then come up with some way to imply I am a misogynist* or I am anti-Muslim or something as part of this really, truly ridiculous pile on of people acting like I've said something crazy.

* If you don't know, I am probably the highest ranked woman here. I mean, that never prevents people from assuming I'm some rapey, misogynistic man. But at least try a little harder and don't give me really low hanging fruit for rebutting your argument like "Actually, I am a woman." because that's so very tired for so many reasons.
> "He had worked with our old vendor's SAN for years, then we got a new SAN."

Great way to invalidate years of experience. Presumably from your telling of the story, he didn't cause problems with the old vendor's SAN?

> "He "accidentally" shut down the entire SAN."

So, was it an accident, or was it an "accident"? You can't have it being a mistake if you're also hinting it was deliberate and malicious.
I don't know why this is downvoted tbh.

This is a very popular sentiment. I was interning at Tesla and went to a 'Women in Tech' thing, referred to one of my friends sitting next to me as 'A chick'. She took no offense but the whole panel roasted me brutally.
I was 1:50 into that before I figured out how the British accents fit into the joke on this Key and Peele skit.