skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I lack a reference but I recall reading that Pacific Islanders have for a long time been accustomed to drinking brackish water when nothing else was available and surviving you just fine. I do believe that there is merit to drinking this water when one is already hydrated rather than waiting until dehydration and throwing the body into a drastic imbalance.

I do know that a person can survive without food for a very long time however. Unfortunately I know this first hand as my wife slowly died from malnutrition due to a medical condition that prevented her from being able to eat. (It was not an eaying disorder if anybody is wondering). This occurred over a period of time that most people would not believe if I were to say it. But it was a very long time and it proved to me that the human body is far more resilient than most people give it credit for.
Could you compare Sourcegraph to something like Moose, FAMIX, GToolkit?

https://github.com/moosetechnology/Moose
It sounds like a job for the military. Those branches for which death at sea is a likely possibility. Perhaps start with what can be achieved with catching fish and work towards seawater intake, very, very carefully.

It is quite likely that some forces have already done the research ...
Well then maybe don't design killer robots...??
I just wish I picked up a DS. The prices for them now is ridiculous.
Agreed. I actually found a less than full time engineering job so I could spend more time working on personal educational work. I’m building a self driving off road vehicle from scratch in my spare time and learning all kind of stuff about machine learning in the process. I work so hard on it (for free, with no intention of commercializing it) that I’m constantly reminding myself to slow down and try to “do nothing”. I work 20-30 hours a week at my paid job and then spend another 10-20 hours a week working on what I call research (intensive educational hobby) by my own free will. I would never just sit around on the couch and get depressed lol. That’s such a silly idea.
How about Carpenter Brut?
Have you looked at building dapps on Bitcoin/Stacks (STX)? Clarity, Radiks and Gaia by Blockstack offer scalability and an easy on-ramp to smart contact development.
If it was Gavin Andressen then why the hell did he support the claims that Craig Wright is Satoshi initially?
“Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.”

SOURCE:
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/drinksw.html
But the image of the cables show what looks to actually be a literal cut cable. Not just a connector being disconnected but a clean slice.
The owners of Tinder are going after another dating app
Traumatic brain injury is perhaps underappreciated. https://www.gwern.net/Questions#psychiatry (Maybe as death rate from other accidents drops, it rises in relative importance?) Among other amazing numbers from that page, it quotes one study that shows 45 percent of the residents of a homeless shelter had a positive screening result for TBI: https://www.gwern.net/docs/www/cmajopen.ca/03aff85438a259787...

Notoriously, Stanislaw Ulam and Steve Wozniak had major personality changes after head trauma.
About a year ago I moved into a house with an astonishing amount of bird activity (for a city, in my experience). And it’s definitely caught my attention how much they pay to me.

Seattle is apparently known for its crows, and of course I’ve had plenty around. They’re very attentive to my dog walks and have shown a mutual respect because I always instruct pup not to chase them like she would other birbs.

I’ve also had a few visits by their corvid cousins, Steller’s Jays. One of whom perched under my roof, looked over my curtains and took a somewhat unnerving interest in me having a bit of private time.

This morning I was escorted by maybe 50 robins to the store, rooting around on the ground ahead of me then flocking together a few yards at a time as I caught up.

I’ve been visited by 1-10s of hummingbirds most days, and they hang out much longer if my attention is on them than on anything else.

A couple northern flickers have come to hop around and seemed to love posing for a camera. But I had a falcon come perch on my neighbor’s fence about 10ft from me, who stayed comfortably there as I turned to gawk until I tried to get a photo. That’s a lot more common: almost all the birds I see bail the moment I look like I’m pointing a lens (and I’d imagine they’d react the same if I’d pointed anything).

Lots of other birbs come by, and I’m sad I don’t know what the heck they all are. But they almost always have at least a cautious awareness of me, flying or flocking around if they see even a tiny motion on my end.

Less interactive, but I also see a regular flock of seagulls in the morning a couple blocks downhill, and twice in the last couple weeks seen a bald eagle fly by, once directly over my house.

I’m not gonna get to stay here much longer because there’s problems with the house and the owners plan to develop the property. But I’m gonna have this year of bird life to hold onto by memory forever and it’s really special.
I believe that the flu causes more long term damage than people give it credit for. For example, here's a paper talking about the flu and heart swelling: [0]

> During the Sheffield, England influenza epi-
demic from 1972 to 1973, the cases of 50 consecutive
patients who were initially diagnosed as mild cases
and were treated on an outpatient basis were followed.
Transient electrocardiogram (ECG) changes were seen
in 18 patients, and long-lasting changes were seen
in 5 patients.

It could be that the flu is worse than covid in this regard, the few studies I looked at were surprising/sobering. They were talking for years about "long-flu" after the 1918 pandemic.

Until we have numbers to back it up I would not make the assumption that covid is any worse or different in this regard. Conventional wisdom is that every virus that attacks the body leaves some people with long term lung, heart, and or brain damage.

[0] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.685...
Seems like quite a lovely life!
In studies, caloric restrictions had shown to slow metabolism, which leads to reduced weight loss over time. Then when a person rebounds or quits, then all of that weight comes back even quicker.

I encourage you to try IF for a longer period. A week or two. There’s an adjustment period after which it becomes easier and then becomes the norm.

Also I find low carb, but not necessarily keto works better with IF. Essentially the goal is not to spike insulin too often.
Ogee
Most people on the waiting list for that long are not going to be buying to flip it. It's not like sneaker flash sales which are copped by bots.
Company "worth" 10M. They buy $2M "worth" of shares for $1.5M. Acquire company, now "worth" $50M and liquid. Profit. (Numbers just for example)
Wait until someone at Wired figures out the NRO's next iteration of the Sentient program has the contract code named "Cyberdyne." There's something to be said for just enthusiastically embracing your public perception as a villain.
Arthemis of Thebes said once that to raise your users' engagement you need to constantly re-activate them with time-limited urgencies ("click now to get a one-time exclusive 10$ coupon").

What you're saying is also how they shot down Galileo or Copernicus. That anyway we shouldn't go beyond rephrasing Aristotle, great scientist, who made so many basic mistakes (in hindsight) that we lost 1000 years of bitter senseless discussion just by the effect of his authority.

Fuck the greeks, if you can, that's how you find new ideas (but that's already the discovery of the 15th century renaissance, which triggered eventually the industrial revolution, so people figured that out - and if you're looking at why it's slower elsewhere, it's because they are still stuck in awe at their elders' insights, how long did it take me to convert my confucianist Chinese wife to the idea that "we can marry without me taking an overpriced mortgage over 3 generations" :D)
I'm going to guess you'd have more software complexity to account for more dynamic conditions, as OP's link alludes to, along with more redundancy in safety. I'm pretty sure most 4 motor drones can function fine with just three blades/motors and possibly two even.

Source: I'm an expert flyer with dozens of seconds flying. I once bought my kid a tiny 2" drone and eventually took over as pilot. Now I didn't take it from him, he just stopped playing with it (What's wrong with kids these days? I would've loved it as a kid) but those little things are so fun to fly.
The root cause is demographics. People have a standard life cycle - you save when you are young, peak saving around a decade before retirement, and then spend savings in retirement. What is different now is that China has a massive boom in working-age population, and they are rapidly becoming more affluent, and the have a savings rate that is like 10x of the average American. I wouldn't say they are "so rich," just that savings rates have a cultural component.

So anyway, you have this massive influx of savings flowing into the system, buying up investable assets to save for retirement, and thus bidding up prices. They call this the "global savings glut." There are OLG (overlapping generation) models that show how this behavior works in a simplified setting; you can easily get over-saving, dynamic inefficiency, and "rational bubbles" as an outcome in an OLG model with different demographic curves.
Why such a small resolution though?
Nuclear Propulsion Could Help Get Humans to Mars Faster
Rather than keep making new variants of JSON, it'd be nice if somebody could convince some mainstream language maintainers to just update their built-in JSON parser to add optional features like skipping over comments and not caring about trailing commas. Most parsers support various flags already to configure things, so there could just be an ALLOW_COMMENTS flag and ALLOW_TRAILING_COMMAS flag.

As a case in point, the python parser breaks the JSON spec already with regards to Infinity/NaN, but then has flags to configure this. See https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#module-json

> The RFC does not permit the representation of infinite or NaN number values. Despite that, by default, this module accepts and outputs Infinity, -Infinity, and NaN as if they were valid JSON number literal values:
Agree as well.

We're seeing a lot of coming-to-terms with both the positive and negative fallout from this access.

Hopefully soon we might be able to start deriving a utility function based on what people are using the devices for, and then assigning positive and negative utility accordingly, with externalities factored in.

Then we could make an attempt at assigning dollar values, and begin to figure out what that means in an economic sense.
In this case it's also a hardware issue. If smartphones ran x86 I'm sure some clever hackers would've found a way to boot windows on them and from there you could play any game you like. But being ARM it's pointless.
It's particularly irritating when every position a company posts asks for a "rockstar". That's a recipe for, uh, something other than what they need.
A story of love, waves, and the arms trade
Jet engine metallurgy takes a lot of work to get right. It’s highly technical and the mfgs hold on to their know-how as much as they can.

So aircraft, yes, a number of countries are capable of building their own and do. Jet engines are more specialized and we’ve ended up with three major specialized engine mgfs: Rolls, P&W and GE. Anyone know of other contenders?
Well, so be it. He didn't try to be a trader, he tried to be a criminal - and he paid for it.
Could Chicken Be Contributing to the Obesity Epidemic?
Not much point talking if you're going to say "Citation needed" to trivial truths, while making trivially disprovable claims like rural whites not going to prison for drugs. (You may have heard of methamphetamines). I was actually intentionally trying to be more fair to the left when mentioning unfair blame being assigned, as it could seem biased if I only mentioned unfair blame against "conservatives", but it's interesting how you masterfully twisted that attempt at fairness into a slur against me.

"The liberal elements of whites are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the Negro as a friend of the Negro. Getting sympathy of the Negro, getting the allegiance of the Negro, and getting the mind of the Negro. Then the Negro sides with the white liberal, and the white liberal use the Negro against the white conservative. So that anything that the Negro does is never for his own good, never for his own advancement, never for his own progress, he’s only a pawn in the hands of the white liberal. The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros, and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked, or deceived by the white liberal then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man. The only way that our problem will be solved is when the black man wakes up, clean himself up, stand on his own feet and stop begging the white man, and take immediate steps to do for ourselves the things that we have been waiting on the white man to do for us" - Malcolm X, seeing straight through the word games and sophistry.
If the rules are unspecified the only thing you wouldn't be able to put in comments are what is specified as JSON syntax. If you add minimal specifications for escape sequences then even that is allowed.
Not just ocean water. From Wikipedia:

> However, it appears that Bombard may have been misunderstood in regard to the possibility of survival without fresh water. Bombard has never argued that human survival is possible only by drinking seawater. On the contrary, he indicates that seawater in small quantities can prolong survival if accompanied, if rainwater is not available, by the absorption of liquids present in the bodies of fish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Bombard
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Because if you want to make a living you either have to do something that people are asking for, or you have to convince people that they should be asking for. If the world doesn’t see taxonomists’ worth on their own, it is up to them to educate us if they want to keep their jobs.

We don’t have unlimited research funds and they need to play the game just like everyone else. Taxonomy has a tougher time of illustrating value compared to cancer research (as one example), but they still need to convince people that they should be funded.

Hopefully the field will figure this out before there is a crisis. As a recent example, the field of public health usually struggles to get funding compared to individual medicine. Before the COVID-19 pandemic very few people saw the value in having robust public health policy, agencies, and research, especially when they considered that they could add a new wing to a hospital or buy ambulances with the same money. Public health as a field did a poor job of convincing people that the field had something valuable to offer. Hopefully taxonomy can figure out how to convince the world that they offer something valuable before they go extinct (pun intended).
2¹⁰⁴*e-²2/(104!)=2.66523e−136
If annual occurence is 2 and it happens twice every week in a year.
But it has not so far :)

Weekly occurence of 0 has 13.5% chance of happening this being the case for 7 weeks before this last 8th 2021, 13.5*7/8= 11.8% so far.

But I'm no statistician.
Do you think a supersonic, VTOL electric aircraft is theoretically feasible?
I went down a YouTube rabbit hole - my theory is these devices are primarily attractive to the higher end emulator gamers - NeoGeo, GameCube, PS2, some PS3 and that generation as well.

This is why the screen size is OK because they're usually upscaling anyways.

I watched some benchmark of modern generation or even previous generation games and they are mostly dogshit, the GPU is anemic for modern workloads but fine for emulators it seems.

This is just my best guess, especially given the price of the hardware, it just doesn't make sense for normal portable gaming, but definite hits a niche for retro emu.
My bad, I was thinking in permutations but those does not allow repeated entries. It make sense now, like you said the difference is negligible.
IMO (please prove me wrong! There will be info in your proof I'd like to know...) - founder immigration is the greatest bottleneck for this capital to be invested.

A startup founder visa will more than take care of this 'dry powder' and get it working to increase the US GDP. Said visa needs to have a realistic "minimum savings requirement" to come live in the US & start a company (not the $1MM or even $500k required by EB-5 that put it out of reach for most founders especially on the younger side).

Said visa is a necessity because of the way human society works & the way the global order has formed. All this Capital is in the US (reserve currency). People who control it and decide how to allocate it are in the US (history). People do not like to give capital to other people who will live and use it thousands of kilometres away (oversight becomes hard).

Wishing for more tech startup founders to spring from the general US population alone is not going to solve it, and pumping all the available money into the same companies may be quite risky from a diversification perspective for the US economy.
> Almost feel like the early 80s all over again, but less for technical reasons.

It's almost exclusively due to technical reasons.
Worth reading the Boss Fight's book on ZZT: https://www.amazon.com/ZZT-Boss-Fight-Books-Book-ebook/dp/B0...

The book is more of a personal account, but it does a great job placing ZZT in a time that was pre-Internet and pre-creator tools (for most people) and how it was capable of empowering people in ways that were not common before then.
Fountain pens are hardly a trend. They will never rival ballpoints for the versatility but they have distinct advantages that will ensure that they have a loyal following.
Another signal we are in a bubble top. He is screaming there is too much money. If there is that much excess money everywhere, this paper isn’t worth what we think it is. The rich are running out of places to jam it in.
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They seem to be quite cheap on eBay unless I'm missing something
My wife just went through this (first time passport after she became a citizen) a few months ago and the process is largely unchanged from when I did it like 15 years ago.

If I'm being polite I'd call your representation here "intentionally misleading".

You can print the forms at home or anywhere else (https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis...). If you're unable to print a copy yourself at home or work, print them at your library, get a friend to print them, get a copy shop to print them, or figure out literally any possible way to turn a PDF into paper then yes, you can get a copy of the application from the post office or Service Canada.

There was no information requested about "the doctor who delivered you".

Your guarantor does _not_ need to be a public servant. It's literally anyone with a Canadian passport that has known you for two years, including family. Public servants (doctors, judges, lawyers, police officers, dean of a university, signing officer of a financial institution, etc) are an _alternative_ if you cannot find literally a single person in your life that has known you for two years with a passport and have no relatives with a passport. And if that fails, you can just fill out a form saying you literally know nobody.

As to the rest, the actual requirements[0] are:

You need to provide:

- Proof of Canadian citizenship (birth certificate, certificate of citizenship, etc)
- A piece of photo ID from any local or foreign government entity. You can submit a photocopy if a guarantor signs it.
- Two passport photos but they're really not as difficult to obtain as you're trying to imply. Walmart does them for like $8. Pretty much any drug store will do them. Costco does them. You need to get one of them signed by your guarantor.
- Two references: Literally any two adults that have known you for at least two years that aren't related to you. They do not need to be citizens. They don't need to sign anything. Just write down two people you've known for two years.

Then you mail it in.

My wife ran to the Shoppers down the block and got her photos in ten minutes, took us maybe 30 minutes to print and fill out the application and a ninety cent stamp to mail it.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
anyone has a good replacement for microsoft access and vba? I used to love how easy it was for me to create a dashboard with buttons
It just means that the managers in the company like you. In functional companies, that makes you a better engineer or EM. In dysfunctional companies, probably not, unfortunately.
Yeah, people on HN are kind of cranks about this sort of thing
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I wish there was a more universal format for parsers, but I just don't think there enough people who know their stuff.

Take PHP, a language that a lot of people use: the tree-sitter-php extension doesn't support features added in 2019, let alone features added towards the end of 2020.

If you want an up-to-date PHP parser, there's really only one open-source parser[0] that's accurate enough to be used on PHP codebases old and new, and it's written in PHP. Then if you want to parse in a robust fashion you have to adopt a number of hacks to get everything working.

I hadn't encountered LSIF before – can GitHub be configured to use those maps?

[0] https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser
To be honest, I'm pretty skeptical of any information coming from a .gov domain.

If you add up all the information disseminated by our government in the last 100 years, I don't think even half of it turned out to be factually correct in the end, meaning less truthful than randomness.
SoftBank would buy about 25% of Adam Neumann’s stake in WeWork for $480M
“My” flock of rainbow lorikeets, flock of sulphur crested cockatoos (with some corellas and galahs mixed in), and the ten (10!) baby and adolescent brush turkeys (and their father Doug) have watching me and my girlfriend locked down already! All in inner city Brisbane.

I’m spoiled that my backyard backs onto a patch of undeveloped scrubland. Baby brush turkeys are the cutest things in the world, and getting them out of my yard is cute, fun, annoying and quite silly!

Oh and never mind the Koels, Australian magpies, the butcher bird who’s claimed my roof as his territory and teaches his young to fly by zooming around my building as fast as they can go, and last but not least the dozens of noisy miners :)
Hiring is broken bro.
Except with pressure changes, physiology absolutely changes. There is some room for error within small changes..but at extremes its definitely different. (and Mars is 100% an extreme)

Its why in SCUBA you have to calculate MOD for nitrox. Because the partial pressures of oxygen will kill you. We only breath about 21% oxygen in air. And after rec depths, you often using different mixtures and take on decompression obligations, trimix, heliox etc. At certain pressures, things like HPNS will also have an effect.

You definately cant survive in a vacuum either with just a mask. Its why pressure suits are a thing.
'The Ramsey Effect' – on Frank Ramsey, the influential but lesser-known C (cont)