skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wanna start one? There is an interesting overlap between submission of links (HN/Reddit/Lobster), bookmarking them (Del.icio.us), image based collections (Pinterest), and push-pull feeds (RSS/Feedreader).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13789097
It's the #1 cause of acute liver failure in the US, I always find it shocking that the British take it like we take aspirin.
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It is difficult to know what sources of information to trust. I already have antibodies, and thought I would be ok for a while. If this is a new strain, how would they know to make a vaccine for it, and how many vaccines will I need each year?

Also, the article here says "case count". I'm really interested in the count of "excess deaths".
I think there's an idea out there that a this is a life plan that will succeed:

- Go to college

- Take loans to pay for it if you need to

- Get a degree in something that interests you

- Get a career in that field

- Make money, buy a house, have a family

It seems that this vision is becoming less true than it used to be or has more caveats (try to save money on the schools you attend, pick a degree that pays decently and that there are lots of available jobs in, find a cheaper market to buy your house in).

I think the life planning of people entering college has taken quite a while to catch up as this shift has occurred. Although it does seem to be taking hold now as more and more people discover that they really struggle to get out from under student loan debt, can't get jobs in their relevant fields, or find they can't buy a home.

I think it's good to see data like this put together, and more crucially to present some realistic perspectives to kids about what possible paths they might take in life and what the risks/rewards of those plans might look like.
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> It's usually prescribed specifically for fever, not just for any pain.

It is regularly prescribed (alone or as part of a compounded drug with opioids) for post surgical pain; as I understand it's the most effective common non-narcotic painkiller for traumatic injury, but not as effective as NSAIDs (or steroids) for inflammatory pain, because it doesn't specifically target inflammation.
Same, middle school here. Took a game dev course over the summer through the local technical college. The book recommended it, IIRC. Ran it the little bit I was still somewhat on Windows before switching fully to Linux. Now it is vim and gcc...
I went through a few KiCad tutorials (it's improved a lot over the past few years), and a lot of trial and error. With PCBWay and JLCPCB making it super cheap and delivered in a few days, it means you don't have to worry about mistakes so much.

My process is largely:

- mock it up with arduino boards

- mock it up on a breadboard with straight chips wired up like an Arduino but without all the stuff I don't need

- make a KiCad design that matches that

- make the PCBs, realize I made a few holes the wrong size, make more PCBs

- build, test, use

- plan to do it without the Arduino parts, but then give up after trying and failing to make Atmel Studio do anything
Sorry I still don't see the point. We could speculate how things could have turned out differently if they made different decisions 20 years ago, but that would just be it: speculation. If you have some better way to design it that you think could preserve perfect backwards compatibility while allowing the same pace of feature development, you should let them know. Because AFAIK both of those are at odds, no developer can realistically spend time on both for an indefinite period of time, and if there are no new features that anyone wants then backwards compatibility is irrelevant anyway.

>Expecting that it is something that "shouldn't hold up a GTK release" is a completely wrong way of thinking about backwards compatibility

Why? Once you decide to refactor an API you have to maintain an extra piece to translate the old to the new, there is no way around that. Developers can spend time before the release working on this translation piece alongside the new features or they can just release it now so people can test the new API before deciding to invest in developing that. For an open source project I can't see how the first option really makes sense, and if your argument is that they should have been developing it the whole time, that is essentially what they were doing for the entirety of the GTK3 development cycle.

That is being generous in assuming that it's even possible to do this, sometimes a design is so flawed that you can't even make it work at all with the new stuff. At some point you have decide to cut deprecated APIs or you are left with an infinitely growing pile of technical debt. I referred to this elsewhere, but old GTK1/2 applications that use raw unscaled pixel buffers are an example: there is no backwards compatibility that is going to work here that makes them function correctly with high dpi. It simply cannot work if the application is hardcoded to use an old API that has no concept of dpi or scale and assumes a pixel is always the same size. (Maybe someone can cheat with AI upscaling algorithms but those are usually pretty slow :)

I guess to put it another way: I don't see any way that GTK4 could have been designed differently to do something like make it easier to compile GTK1 apps against it while reaping all the benefits of GTK4. If somebody wants to make a GTK1 shim for GTK4 that translates GTK1 API calls into GTK4 API calls, they can go do it now, it would probably be a pain and it's probably not going to magically get you all the new benefits that would come from just porting the application to GTK4 and refactoring to use its new techniques along the way.
Another somewhat-related rabbit hole:

> A Scottish woman with a previously unreported genetic mutation (dubbed FAAH-OUT) in her FAAH gene with resultant elevated anandamide levels was reported in 2019 to be immune to anxiety, unable to experience fear, and insensitive to pain. The frequent burns and cuts she suffered due to her hypoalgesia healed quicker than average [1]

Acetaminophen can elevate anandamide levels [2]. It would be interesting to know if the altered perception of risk could be related to the "immune to anxiety" effect experienced above.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid_amide_hydrolase#Fun...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anandamide#Synthesis_and_degra...
Update: it appears that there is a reason for it.

DDG doesn't show results if there isn't an exact match for the query it seems. It requires you to search the same query again for some reason.

Maybe this is an experiment of some sort, I'm not sure.
Again, this doesn't happen on a VPN, but happens on my ip address.

And no corporate settings interfere with the browser, it's the personal device I tried on.

Another thing: when you search for "names database" on DDG there doesn't appear to be any results. No matter how much you try. I haven't found another query that yielded the same results.
We are biological creatures, and part of the biome.

All of the artificial things we've created do nothing to sustain our existence, only to facilitate our connection with the biome.

If, in the process of facilitating this connection, we eliminate the biome's ability to sustain itself, most of us will be dead very quickly.

That's one of the reasons people care so much.

Another reason, if you suspend your human-centric worldview, is seeing other creatures as our relatives on the biological tree of live, admitting their ability to have feelings and desires and suffering, and caring for their plight and happiness alongside ours.

We don't have to kill the biome to sustain ourselves. In fact, the opposite is true.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Of course this is all anecdotal and armchair psychology/psychiatry/neuroscience/neuropharmacology, but there could plausibly be some kind of correlation, here, and every anecdote adds to the discussion, even if of course they shouldn't be taken as empirical support for the hypothesis.

I've seen research about how opiates seem to reduce perception of both physical and emotional pain, which may partly explain why some people in unfortunate situations may become addicted. Emotional pain isn't adjacent to empathy but isn't necessarily orthogonal, either. If there's anything to this, it makes me wonder if there could also be some correlation between opioid receptors and empathy, or even some sort of correlation between pain and emotions in general.
Have you played it? Did you read Sprawl trilogy?
Well OC43 has been around for over a century and never mutated to start killing kids. So why would this be virus do that? Your speculation seems uninformed.
> “do your neighbors have basements?” If the answer is “no”, then it’s probably because digging is more trouble than it’s worth.

Basements are popular in cold climates because footings already need to be dug several feet down to get below the frost line. In warmer areas, basements are uncommon even if digging is easy.
> 2020-12-02: Zyxel requests more information about how the vulnerability was discovered

Sorry, but how did you figure it out?
Can we hide it better next time?
In the UK, the NHS advice for anything mildly painful is "take paracetamol or ibuprofen" (e.g. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/common-cold/), so they must judge the risk at typical doses as very low.
Why

recorder.send('record')

instead of

recorder.record()

As the latter allows better error control and also add something like record(60). Which would start a timer and stop after 60seconds.
Exogenous cannabinoids are also associated with greater risk taking:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7958920_Acute_Marij...
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It's not likely to be remotely correct. The only people who have a chance at it are those who are willing to risk their own money on it.
I think a couple different grayscale values with different font styles could work fine for coding keywords/variables/comments, but I really would like to know the native refresh rate.

Kindles have only gotten cheaper over time, so I don't see why e-ink monitors can't do the same.
In the UK, paracetamol and ibuprofen are sold in supermarkets, but you're limited to buying two packs of 16 pills per visit. Of course, you can easily build up a stash over time.
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I'm also a lay person so take this with a grain of salt. There isn't evidence that this new variant can reinfect people who previously had covid and all the expert speculation I've heard is that it probably won't break out of immunity. It's better to be cautious, but also no need to think the worst
It's absolutely relevant. Git needs the "rebase" command to stitch independent histories together; Darcs doesn't.

With Darcs, all merging can be thought of as rebasing, except histories remain compatible and mergeable. With Git, on the other hand, rebasing the same commits multiple times result in the same conflicts that need to be fixed every time, which is why "rerere" exists. Darcs does not need "rebase" or "rerere" or any of the other tools for complicated history surgery.

As for workflows that "require any of those properties": There's wide agreement that Git is overly complex (exhibit A: hundreds of HN posts about learning to use Git) and is especially daunting for beginners, compared to easier tools like Subversion and Mercurial that provide nicer UIs. Darcs brings modern version control to users without incurring the complexities of Git.

It's not perfect — it had/has corner cases where merging became computationally expensive, though I hear there are new developments to fix this — which is why I said the future isn't Darcs.
And so the question becomes, as it has been for 5 years and could have been for 20 years, how good is an online education, or an online+ education, compared to a classical lecture/exam/lab education? And what should the “+” in an online education look like? And how much should this cost? And does a University add value to the Community and Nation by its sheer existence and, if so, how and at what cost?

The greatest challenge I imagine to pure online is the possibilities to cheat during assessment/certification. They are rising anyway with the improvement in IT and are exacerbated by more virtual interaction. The Panopticon might be unavoidable.

More direct one-on-one time with professors, whether online or physical, could help. The professor as tutor, rather than researcher who gives the occasional lecture series.

I think it’s been that way at Oxford for a while.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/student-life/e...

Would also help with motivation, although one of the requirements of getting a college education is that the student demonstrates sufficient self-motivation to complete a program. It isn’t supposed to be super high school...although my impression is colleges were more like super prep schools before the introduction of the GI Bill after WWII changed/matured collegiate life for the better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill

This will be a Golden Age for the autodidact. I mean, like, wow.
Isn't this a problem with putting parties on a 2D "right - left" scale? SD are fiscally progressive but socially conservative.
The genomes for all three viruses have been published so it's easy enough to find the differences. But that doesn't directly tell us why the fatality rates are different.
1) The "Obsolete Terms" section is amusing.

2) But curiously, no reference to ranking by citation count. :)
Materialize [1]. I am a big fan of Frank McSherry’s work on Naiad, timely and differential data flow.

[1] https://materialize.com/
I wonder if HN is able to identify Chinese state manipulation of the comments here. I’ve never seen so many Sinophile defensive comments before. It’s almost like someone pushed a button and called for backup.
True -- my default is to assume that people are not trolls unless they are repeatedly inflammatory and unwilling to engage in meaningful discussion of any kind.
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For something this severe, it should be made to everyone regardless of their current 'warranty and support period' status.
I live in Taiwan.. I’m grateful to be living here during Covid.

Taiwanese people aren’t obedient. You should see how they drive.

They wear masks without flaking out about it as slavery or being against their will or whatever nonsense you guys are on about back home in the west.

Taiwanese people are couch potatoes and extremely reserved. They don’t really want to meet new people or hang out with strangers.

Also the government here didn’t play games in the early weeks. No wait and see business as usual lazy bullshit like in the
US. They check tour temperature everywhere, mall entrances, restaurants, government buildings.

The us most certainly should copy Taiwan.
One could argue Facebook makes zero sense in any context.
As a new account, can you show us some evidence to back up your claim that is not from state run media? With respect, a lot of the comments here are starting to read like the same non-native English speakers that you often see rushing to defend China.
Allow student loan bankruptcy, usher in progression into a new and cheaper era of alternative higher education. Much better plan.
Well, the thread is about what comes after Git. If you ask me how Git could be improved, then what it's "meant" for doesn't matter if there are unsolved use cases.

Also, there's no particular reason Git couldn't be modified to work well with large files.
I'm not sure if it's only anti government militia. Another possibility could be a heist/digital raid and that this bombing was there to prevent offsite backups of a secure data facility.

Nonetheless this seems too coordinated and well executed to be some random hate group, so I agree with you there. Especially with the evacuation messages.

Anybody know if e.g. the Nexus group or similar SSAE data centers had some issues?
>We could have had large form, glossy brochure quality displays with video refresh rates by now, but nobody outside of China wanted to get anywhere near this patent minefield.

That is quite the leap.

Some inventions we know and love would have never seen the light of day if the patent protection window was lesser.
Engaging people and meeting them where they are, with honest discussion, can sometimes turn an ardent detractor of something positive into an ardent supporter of something positive.

Can't win if you don't try. :).
> There's not a whole lot of evidence that illegal border crossings from Canada are a major driver of the spread in the US.

Ironically it's the other way around, too. Our borders are shut to tourists, but they keep showing up in Canmore and Banff anyway. And now Alberta has a serious problem with Covid spread, and a friend of my sister's just died a couple days ago from it. They have 1/3 the population of Ontario, yet close to the same numbers of daily cases and hospitalizations, which suggests triple the velocity.

There are compounding reasons as well, but everyone I know that lives there is complaining about all the Americans constantly showing up.
Students are phucked anyway, and it will offset credits transformation into a fintech based social credit system for some time.
Some college majors are net negatives to society (gender/women studies, among others). These should not be supported by government backed loans, and should not be guaranteed by taxpayers.
What is missing is data to support that, perhaps reasonable, assumption.

Objective data not provided by those who stand to benefit from a positive result.

Data that objectively identifies how that benefit is accrued and at what amount.

The kind of data that guided the development of every major industrial and service sector over the last 50 to 100 years and is inexplicably lacking in higher education.
It’s ignorance. I legitimately had no idea until I looked into it. Others I’ve talked with have said they had no idea. Ibuprofen makes me feel like I’ve been poisoned if I take too much or on an empty stomach. So acetaminophen was just what I took. (And when I had significant sleeping problems and was working three jobs so it really mattered if I slept or not, I took a PM version which was also not great.) Now I generally don’t take pain medication even if I’m pretty severely hurting, but if I do I stuff my face and take ibuprofen.
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Additionally I feel it worthwhile to note that my original comment was intended to be examples of pseudo-rationalism

i.e:

* Yudkowsky using a fundamentally flawed argument to state and defend the idea that pure utilitarianist mathematics in some circumstances excuses and justifies lifelong imprisonment and torture (And then proceeded to use that as an example of our morality itself being flawed by human perception(!))

(Citations for this can be found on the accompanying rational wiki page, which is kind enough to both give commentary, and also link to the web archive page just in case it's lost)

* Roko (of Roko's Baselisk) recently "rationally" advocating for conservative "traditionalist" futurism, and in the process arguing that the capability that technology gives us to remove human rights consensually, would be a positive thing, among other extremely flawed claims.

(Citations for this can be found by doing a search of his twitter, it's only about three days old at this point)

And that (the part I didn't actually type out, because I assumed it was common knowledge, unfortunately) that these arguments and mindsets are fundamentally products of a pseudo-rationalist movement, that is typically referred to as the Neo-reactionary Movement, or more commonly (and by it's proponents as well -- see [0]) the Dark Enlightenment.

Rational Wiki has a very long, very expansive, and very detailed article on that movement in particular -- see [1]. That article directly links it to Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, and Less Wrong as a whole (with sufficient citations), as they were hugely formative in creating the pseudo-rationalism inherent in that movement.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20140108010125/http://blog.jim.c...

[1]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement
It's no conspiracy, it's simply self-interested foreign policy. That "self interest" is very overtly expressed by the Kennedy, Johnson, and Reagan Doctrines exemplified by the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, the 1965 invasion of the Dominican Republic, and the United States providing military support to the contras in Nicaragua.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_doc...
but updatedb only takes a few seconds to update after it's done a full update, unless you've been fucking around with thousands up thousands of files just recently. Well on ext4, not sure about other filesystems.
Hope it wasnt rotten

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9087463/Christmas-D...

I wonder if all those logistical problems are due to UK transport companies forgetting how to deal with border crossings.
Almost everyone here is down with killing animals for minutes of taste bud pleasure, so it's debatable whether it's morally worse to harvest ivory to build something that lasts much longer (like keys on a piano) than minutes of taste bud pleasure.

Most of us are completely on board with making animals suffer by the billions while exploiting them. Usually this very post will summon people who are actually proud of it.
> institutional incompetence, or malice, or laziness.

AT&T in TN is an epic example of all 3 and then some. The most recent unbelievably stupid thing I've personally observed was the construction of 15 miles of new fiber on county power poles; right beside a Verizon fiber line that had been there for a decade. They put no slack loops in theirs, VZW's run has many.

that line went up this year, and has been torn down and out of service 3 times, so far, that I know of. Oddly I hear the VZW line keeps failing shortly after the ATT trucks are seen, where I dont recall hearing much about failures on the VZW before this year. So perhaps there was a design consideration that suggested the construction method.
That’s really interesting. I have a bottle of probably 300 acetominophen caplets from Costco, it’s my go-to hangover cure. Ibuprofen and acetaminophen are incredibly common in the US.
Wow types in a different file... This is like C++ but worse...

Is this because Ruby is extremely difficult to parse, to the point that nobody wanted to mess with the parser?

I remember reading a comment a while back from the creator of a Ruby parsing library and he said the language design is arbitrary and extremely difficult to parse correctly
My wife is like this in BOTH regards and I have been baffled by her for over a decade! I tell everyone, I have never met ANYONE like her, I honestly thought she was completely unique.

By all accounts she seems to be utterly immune to both physical pain and does not experience fear.

(1) She was a glass blower in college and would regularly get large burns that did not seem to bother her at all. She has multiple tattoos that she says caused no discomfort, gave birth to both our children without any drugs and to this day says it caused her no pain. She is aware of things happening but they do not bother her. Not in a bad way, I have often told people, she does not feel anything.

(2) She can say anything to anyone, anywhere and feel nothing like anxiety. This has also baffled me but I NEVER would have thought the two were somehow connected. I've asked many times if she ever gets nervous or anxious talking to people and says she does not and it is clearly true. In ten years I've never seen her cry or so much as tear up. When we lived on a farm she was our go to for any slaughtering, she sliced our goats throat without even wincing and I saw her once stand up to a 1,000+ pound charging heifer without thinking twice and made nothing of it.

It blows my mind but makes so much sense that this could be a single DNA mutation! Hopefully it is one 23 And Me can check for!