skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many of those overdoses are due to the economic or personal impact of COVID-19?

A lot of people have lost their jobs, made homeless, or had their loved ones die due to COVID-19, and many more are incredibly stressed out and hopeless from the news and their lack of prospects in the future.

Depression and other mental health issues were already bad enough before the pandemic, but now they're even more prevalent.

Depression can lead people to seek escape from their misery with opioids, and can lead others to want to end their lives with them.. often the two impulses are related, with depressed people engaging in behavior which at the surface might seem pleasure-seeking but underneath is actually self-destructive.

I have a hard time believing COVID-19 and many of these overdoses are unrelated.
And if they did, it would be too late!
Lovely effect. Thank you for sharing.
> Finally Game of Thrones is probably the most important and influential piece of modern media depicting something like medieval Europe

It's only even vaguely in that category if you take an extremely elastic view of “like medieval Europe”.

> Though it is fiction, it undeniably has a massive impact on people's perception of the time period,

Undeniably? Based on...what evidence?
Maybe it's better for students to have 2 hours of instruction and then 6 hours of studying with peers/clubs/etc than 8 hours of traditional schooling.
As a general comment on how you can do this sort of thing super minimally:

You can use ffmpeg on the command line to transcode anything it can read (including streams) to an HLS playlist + segments, and serve those HLS playlist + segments statically using any HTTP server. Then you can write a simple HTML page that uses a video player to play it back in a browser.

I used this to create a simple dashboard page for my home security cams (they provide an RTMP stream I can feed right into ffmpeg) after I got sick of the software I had eating too much CPU (I use '-v:copy -a:copy', so no actually re-encoding happens).

Obviously, this owncast is cool for probably being easier to setup, definitely better looking, and having more features, like chat. I just wanted convey there's nothing magic to doing your own streaming video. More people should do it instead of feeding into the YouTube/Twitch behemoths and untrustworthy cloud IoT stuff.
Here is a simple math. How many people are needed to feed a single creator into a decent life? I suspect that the answer starts at a 1000 at least. And the creator is not alone. Others will compete for that short amount of time an average person can spare. Also people have other things to do rather than watching youtube/whatever so the chances that the creator finds that 1000 people are getting really thin. I think it is safe to assume the dilution factor is 100 at least. Then add some statistical distribution of market share each creator has, the ability of people to gravitate to already existing communities and suddenly you will discover that the world can not support too many creators at all.

Of course I've pulled the numbers out of my own ... but I think it is reasonable assumption.
What stops them from renaming this as a "network access fee" like with cell phone companies?
1080 is still pretty close to the best money can buy. That’s like a $750 card even today. You’re pretty much at the top of the capability curve.
Great question! I've been putting together a web interface in typescript with state management challenges that are beyond my experience, and I keep wishing I could consult people with more experience on how they might approach the architecture, and I'm coming up totally blank.

I think one issue is that like stack overflow any site for this would be heavily abused by beginners and people with poor communication skills who can't describe their problems well, effectively burying the interesting conversations under mountains of unintelligible rambling.
No AMP!!

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35418272
You presume he's wrong. Is it because of who he is, and you'd trust a different person? That wouldn't be fair, plus he has access to non-public information that could make the situation clear.

Before even hearing his opinion, my thought was China. The attack has all the markings of China. I would put Russia as 3rd or 4th most likely.
FTA: "The New York Times reported on November 24 that the Houthis will grant permission to a United Nations (UN) team to board the Safer to inspect and repair the vessel in the near future."
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Long distance calling used to be a pretty big deal. Even intrastate calls outside of your local calling area could be expensive--in fact, sometimes more than interstate. For BBSs, there was various software available that basically let you logon, do your uploads and downloads of messages, hang up and do your reading and writing offline.

Go back a few years further and people would do all kinds of tricks if, for example, they just wanted to signal someone that they'd arrived somewhere safely. They'd make an operator-assisted person-to-person and the receiving caller would just say that person wasn't there and there would be no charge.
Intel has offered a little bit of that confusion with AXV over time. Ice Lake supports all the modern AVX 512 but not the Knights Mill extensions. Previous chips with 512 support have spotty extension coverage. This year’s desktop chips lack them entirely. AMD has had their own issues with SSE extensions they added during the “Heavy Equipment” era being dropped in Zen.

Compiler devs are seemingly awesome at making due with these shifting sands.
There is a recent video by Veritasium[1] that goes into this. Super interesting.

[1] https://youtu.be/pTn6Ewhb27k
Dear Scott,

Thank you for showing us a glimpse of the elite world. I hope that during your journey ahead you might discover more about the world as well as yourself.

Life stages might serve as microcosms to foster our own growth. University is just the first taste of what the world could be like, but once you step out there is a whole different world of possibilities, if you bother to look.

Being fortunate to have knowledge gives you a higher responsibility toward others. My advice to your regrets is that you spend some time with people outside this cohort, especially the unfortunate. You don't need to go to Australia or even a 3rd world country to learn perspective - just talk to the outcasts, desperate, immigrants, sick and unemployed. You might learn something from them.

It is unfortunate that everyone is living in their own bubbles, especially the "rich" i.e. anyone with some life edge: American, educated, white, 1st world, healthy, employed, etc. Once you immerse yourself in the stories on the opposite, the "poor", you will begin to realize how delusional the notion of "choice" is. In reality, nobody has any choice in life: we were all just given different things in this world and our part (responsibility) is to make good use of them.

You might rightfully scorn at the elite for "playing the game", but realize that they themselves are imprisoned by their own fortune: the stress of "keeping up with the Joneses" by chasing wealth, prestige, image, etc. They are covert victims of their own successes, slaves to their own vices: in finance (stealing), consulting (lying), and tech (brainwashing). Only a few will knowingly (let alone willingly) admit their own sins - this is the curse of knowledge.

Once you understand better the human condition - that we are all just imperfect creatures, puns in a dark world, you might just be able to better discover your role in it. And perhaps, your "regrets" might just be the very key to forge you into a better writer.

Best of luck,
Take the most broad and crude measure, educational outcomes, as some, albeit imperfect input to the system and you'll see very unambiguously and consistently that kids with better grades will do better in life, in most measures.

Next time you are at the office, look to your left, look to your right: you will notice conscientious people, probably educated, probably reasonably hard working, team work oriented, and probably bright.

Then hop on the bus and have conversations with the 'average person'. You fill find somewhat less conscientious, less interested, less curious, less intelligent people.

We have very clearly and unambiguously a mostly meritocratic system: as you go from coffee maker, to skilled labourer, to creative worker, to middle management to executive, you'll see a pretty obvious trend.

It's funny how the meritocratic naysayers, probably already in the top 20% of income earnings, probably would believer firmly they are more 'deserving' of their job than the dude who drove them there on the bus, but that somehow, the system 'above them' is 'not meritocratic'.

The issue then becomes one of 'self awareness': we don't like our boss, we are jealous of others who have more, we see some folks 'skip the line' with better access to education i.e. we see flaws or things 'we don't like' to varying degree and so somehow we believe the system is existentially flawed. It's not.

The first time you start to hire people, it becomes perfectly clear: either 'you' are fundamentally part of that of that byzantine, unfair system, inflicting your woes onto everyone with unfair hiring/advancement - or - more likely, you're actually trying to hire decent candidates, capable of doing the work.

So what's more likely: 1) you are the lone hero in an unfair world, trying to hire 'good people' while everyone else is either dumb or plotting like Mr. Bean a fools dystopia - or 2) that most people are like you, trying to hire reasonably good people (hopefully the best you can) and trying to do a reasonable job - and there is some intelligence in that process.

It's the later.

Most modern systems are crudely meritocratic. When they are not, it's obvious, but that doesn't mean those failures are normative or existential to the system.
Sure. But wouldn't you then put the computer inside the display?
You need lots of memory too. Maybe not an issue for the desktop. If they doubled the SOC for 16 cores (8 hot/8 cool) and 32GB of RAM that would be a decent Mac Pro.

But plenty of people want >32GB of memory, I routinely use machines with 256GB. No way you can get enough RAM into the SOC. Large core counts are even harder, because speed of light means you need a new on socket switched architecture, memory on the other side is slow to access etc. TANSTAAFL.
We should look to Cuba as an example of what happens when a neighboring rich and powerful country cuts off trade, and threatens other countries who try to trade.
How to make money out of debt?
From the article it seems like they're allowing a UN team to come in and investigate/repair, and I hope they'll be allowed to do what is necessary. This would be a good moment for the UN to demonstrate its value when it is often criticised as ineffective.
> maybe there are a lot of CEOs who could be clinically diagnosed

How many times is it that the CEO comes up with the idea to do something like this? For start ups, I can see the CEO actually having this kind of involvement. Jobs/Musk/Zuck all come to mind of a CEO that is in total control. ATT/Spectrum/Comcast/etc all seem to be on a different level. This adding of fees type of schemes seems more like something the bean counters come up with, and then eventually the CEO is informed/blesses the decisions. Would a CEO in these companies really be the ones scheming up ideas like this or be more concerned about the next acquisition?
Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
The article mentions it happened with different SSD makes and manufacturers.
But I think search results are largely mediocre, aren't they? Search tends to favor content which is acceptable to everyone vs what's transcendent to any particular individual.

I actually think this has gotten quite a bit worse thanks to algorithmic content recommendations. For instance, when Pandora launched with hand-curated content, the recommendations were a lot better than I currently get with spotify.
> Classifying ISPs as the utility companies they are is the only way to end the gouging and systematic fraud.

This would further entrench them as government-chartered monopolies. Heck, most of the current anti-competitive forces extend from either explicit government monopoly grants or regulatory capture.

Or continue to beg the political process to solve the problems they created when they interfered with the market process.

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
I grew up programming the BBC Micro Model B. Starting a new school they had a computer lab kitted out with Archimedes, and once the computer teacher realised I could use it better than anyone else in the school (mostly programming in Basic), she left me to my own devices in the corner of the lab whilst the other students played around with "Turtles" (if you remember those robots).

I owe my career and livelihood to the Beeb.
May find it later when I am not on mobile, but iirc they aimed for 1W and ended up achieving 0.1W or so - at first they were sure something was wrong about their test rig
because it seemed like an unpowered CPU was actually working - and then they realized that it was getting enough power through the data and address lines, even though the Vcc was not connected.
Article in Frontiers in Marine Science cited in the SciTechDaily piece.

"A Closing Window of Opportunity to Save a Unique Marine Ecosystem"

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.6157...
What women expect from men seems to have sharply risen in the last decade. Before getting my degree and getting in shape I was able to find partners. Nowadays people aren't even willing to be friends with me. If women's expectations in fact haven't gone up then I have no idea what the people from my past saw in me that more recent people don't.
Yup, and me ;-) I probably encounter at least one or two more expats I wasn't aware of per week at the FAANG I work for, and always make a point of asking them about this - certainly seems that the ubiquitous small machines that someone could completely understand have made their mark!
I second this. I was making 60K in Hamburg and my freelance was giving me 1.5x for 20 hrs less (weekly and it was a client from U.S.A.). I had that job because i liked the people I worked with.
This is an extensive read, but worthwhile. If you find yourself enjoying the cynical insight, I’d highly recommend picking up the ebook.
My first too. I remember installing Linux with 30 or so floppy disks. I also use to go through and configure the kernel and build it myself because I was into over clocking at the time.
So the inspection hasn't actually been granted. And while the ship is floating in the open sea loaded with flammable cargo it's nearly impossible to conduct the sort of structural repairs that would be necessary to stop the oil spills.
Nine Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2021
Try airbnb.com.au Australia made legislation requiring companies to give the full price.
As a customer we're already paying for "renting" telcos' infrastructure which delivers the service to us. Modem is an essential piece in the infrastructure, without it consumer cannot get the service.

The fact that telcos itemize the modem means it's supposed to be a kind of elective, just as in older days when one could rent a "fancy" phone directly (with a voice-mail indicator!) from the provider. Those were add-ons, with extra fees.

I see no validation for not allowing customers to use own modems. Sure, the techical support fee will be gamed in such case. But at least this will clearly separate the infrastructure from the user equipment.

If modem indeed falls into user equipment category, then the rental must be elective. If it's infrastructure, then it has been already paid for in the delivery fees.
The border between China and NK is not hermetical closed. It's the easiest place to penetrate the border if you want to flee the county. Also China is NK's largest trading partner and the largest employer of NK labour outside of NK (buyer of slave labour might be more precise).

So it's really not so far-fetched that people living on the Chinese side of the border meet north koreans and hear their stories.
Hi everyone

I made this some time ago because provide a per link/site "noscript" on iOS.

I am not sure if this is useful to anyone else, or even if anyone else understands what it does. So I posted it here to see get see if I get some feedback.

I am specifically curious about

1. is it clear what the page does and why it's useful?
2. does anyone else think it's useful?
3. any suggestions to make things better?

The backstory is that I wanted "noscript" on Safari/iOS as I've found a lot of sites is simply nicer to visit without javascript. No popups, no GDPR consent screens, no ads etc.

The option of globally disabling javascript on Safari is not really realistic, so I was for some time thinking about solutions using content blockers, but never got that working.

Then I happened upon the sandbox feature of iframe's and decided to see if I could make it work. This is the result.

It's a hack and often breaks, but sometimes it's nice to be able to share a fast-loading version of some website which loads way too much javascript for little benefit.
I wouldn't necessarily be against this but it would have to be filtered for certain technologies and even then it gets messy. Perhaps some internal SEO management, or newer relevant thread linking system would be better. Some technologies I use are OLD and haven't changed in the last ten years. Sometimes a 7 year old post has exactly what I needed. If they could add a banner and lock down voting and commenting after 3 years, that would be acceptable.
Getting the drivers to work was already a pain, well, this will make it worse it looks like.
> guide you to any sort of successful outcome

I'd say, 99% of TV shows, cynical or otherwise, don't have that goal in mind, and is incapable of guiding you through life.
The last part about grieving through loss while the person is still alive is very apt. When my mom passed after brain cancer took her memories, she survived for so long with no idea who or where she was that her body dying was a relief and the grieving had mostly occurred a year before.

Well, I’ll never finish grieving that loss I guess. I realize all the time that there’s more to grieve. But the shock was certainly not there. The sense of loss wasn’t. That was difficult in itself; to tell people she passed away and not be as sad as people expected. I felt like something must be wrong with me at the time. In retrospect, she had just died much sooner than her body did.

It’s an especially strange human experience I think.
The Lisp Curse is an ignorant diatribe that was written by a (then) junior web developer with no Lisp experience, and has basically been disowned by its author.

His request to "please stop submitting this to Hacker News!" should be interpreted in its strongest form; i.e. including comments. It's right there, at the top: the first thing you read.

D looks fine. It suffers from the curse that we cannot have 1000 languages be popular simultaneously. Popularity is a game of musical chairs. People who don't get chairs when the music stops are not always the clumsy ones who lack athleticism and reflexes. Sometimes, in that crucial moment, the nimble one is just far from the closet chair relative to the klutz whose butt is inches from the seat.

In popular culture, popularity wanes fairly quickly. Yesterday's idol is quickly forgotten. Like Billy Joel's line in "The Entertainer": "But I know the game, you'll forget my name / I won't be here in another year / If I don't stay on the charts."

In computing, we can't swap tools quite that fast. So for fairly long periods of time, popularity begets more popularity. Something is popular today because it rose to popularity some years ago. (Some things have longer cycles, some shorter.) Anyway, that alone creates a barrier to entry, similar to a monopolistic barrier. No matter how good something is that you create, it just doesn't have ... the popularity to make it popular.
Speaking as a father of two kids under age 2 in a pandemic, sign me up for that quiet sit.
oh yes, I wasn't meaning to imply there weren't, just that I don't know any.
So is it scientific or a mystery?

If it’s scientific then it must be well understood in terms of cause and effect. In which case, it is like any other physical phenomenon, nothing special.

And if it’s not scientific, rather if it’s a mystery, then scientists will have to take a call on what is.
So he remade CAN without requiring a specific physical layer?

This jumps around a bit between the transport and phy a bit, I guess I didn’t really get where the special sauce is. I also never saw a kbps number.

There is potential I would have use for such a thing I guess. Although LIN works pretty well over 1wire and is built in to most UARTs now.

It makes me cautious when I read these things and don’t see specific talk about what hardware module is expected to do the work. Yea, they got two wire twisted pair distance, is that using a specific transceiver? Does that hook to a USART or CCP or SPI? It sounded async because of the longer bits as start of frame, but bit banging and capture/compare kinda sucks.... IDK maybe it addresses this all and I missed it.

What I didn’t miss is he is selling a book at the end.
This is such a silly reply. "Avoid the two most in-demand languages, particularly when one of them is the only language that can be used on webpages, in favor of "cool" languages that "make you think.""

You sound like those people that say you're not a real programmer if you don't know lisp.
No, he's confused. I was an early Internet user (starting in 1990) and nobody referred to it as the "web" before HTTP and the first web browser were available.

Gopher was probably dominant until 1993 or so when the first versions of Mosaic were available. I remember installing a version, probably in early 1994, on my Amiga and configuring SLIP to a local ISP at 9600 baud. It was truly amazing at the time.
Very cool project, I would love to use it as a way to teach computer graphics to students. Is there more explanation somewhere besides the brief description ?
I completely agree with your statement with regard to the advantage but I will actually multiply the value, it isn't a few percentage points, it is an order of magnitude in my opinion.

While I am happy to see movement in the chip/hw/sw stack ecosystem, I do have some concern. Will everyone just end up selling their own locked-the-hell-down, err, sorry... :) "Secure Boot"-enabled devices?

I see the reasons for these things happening, but I do hope we don't end up inadvertently locking out critical sections of the stack from end users.
Careful on this site - visiting from Safari on iPhone, and an iOS pop up asked to approve camera permissions
I think you’re right, but your assumption that people won’t consume “second-rate content” assumes that “first-rate content” wins on the big platforms.

The platforms make kings and the quality of the content isn’t always “first-rate”
I'd say the exact opposite, my 2014 MacBook Pro I use at home still functions fine, the battery is failing due to age but that is expected for 6 years of heavy daily use.

My 2018 work USB-C MacBook Pro has several keys failing and several others with mushy tactility, has a failing battery which you have to wait to reboot from because the charger is so low voltage, has a bluetooth chip that hard crashes and requires a reboot to kick it back to life, often kernel panics while asleep.

The 2014 arguably had harder use too because I used to use it for 3D rendering while all the 2018 has done is 2D design and Javascript.

Not even gonna bring up 2002 Titanium Powerbook that I used daily until I bought that 2014 which fared best of all and didn't even have a fraying power cable like the modern Apple chargers where they switched to "eco friendly" rubber that failed dangerously requiring more chargers to be purchased negating any eco saving.