skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience as a rescue-worker, I have instructed my SO to never have me on a machine for life support longer than one week before I'm in my sixties, and no longer than 3 days if I'm over.

This is my decision, and I won't go into details, because they are personal and I am not a doctor. Perhaps the point I desire most others get from my post is this:

We are all going to die. Usually unpleasantly. Most often, unexpectedly, even with a prolonged illness.

Plan your death. Plan your medical treatments. There are things you can control, you need to know & state what they are, and have it in writing.
Most people here seem concerned about vocs. Plastics, carpets, sofas, paints, air fresheners and a ton of other typical household items produce them.

I feel like the author is really jumping the gun here in identifying the source of pollutants by not seeking to consider the fact that new apartments are loaded with freshly off-gassing materials.

The other thing that should have been mentioned is more about their vitals prior to moving in. How confident was she in her baseline because it could be a preexisting condition that became very exacerbated.

Edit: But that said, my opinion of the Irvine company is extremely low. I’d not be the least bit surprised if they willfully cut every corner they could. Either with remediation or materials in the apartment. And pollutants do pool overnight but near freeways they are typically the worst in the dawn hours. There would be less air exchange in the apartment, leading to a buildup from an external or internal source.
In small countries that have the pandemic under control like Norway there are worries that AZ could kill more people in the affected age ranges than the virus has done so far.
I still wonder how that detection thing works. My custom Firefox setup with
requests proxied through Tor passes as the TBB, but copying the same request as
a curl command somehow doesn't.
This is fun lots of fun, but Im surprised that this kind of thing could be published at all outside of philosophy.
If this leads to the rich world refusing the AZ vaccine, and it all ends up being used in Brazil, that would actually be great!
The game developers are trying to enable people to part with the cash. That's it. Baiting people in to spending too much (which means people can't afford it, that's why it's too much) is the intended effect.

It's a couple centuries to late to be pretending that it's just some tragic oopsie
There are a lot of people to rent from that don't use that money to directly pay their mortgage.
Fredrick Brennan's Personal Site
I do not understand what you are saying. Do you imply thet IPv4 is non-existant in Asia??

How having ran out of IPv4 means that there is no "rea" Internet?

Honestly - it would be great if IPv6 caught up but the standard, first choice is IPv4.
Directly from the article:

> The owner, Donald Bren, is reportedly worth $15.3 billion.
5G Network Slicing: Slicing Security in 5G Core Networks
Yet personal experiences do happen and shape us, and we talk about it and propagate the skewed perceptions seasoned with half-assed ruminations.

I'll make an example of how this works between well intentioned people:

My wife is an excellent driver. We live in small town, in a country where infrastructure predates cars. Roads are very narrow, often on steep inclines, and flanked by tall stone walls. My wife regularly complains of large SUVs stuck unable to maneuver. On her account, they are almost always driven by women. Her reaction is invariably: "if you can't drive, just get a nornal-sized car!".

As this happens again and again, with caring frequency etc, occasionally we talk about it ans wonder about this pattern and what may cause it, or whether it is real. My wife's theory is that some women feel unsafe in a car and solve the problem by buying a bigger car instead of getting some practice.

And here we are spreading crappy anecdata. But that's life, that's how human interact.
If we simply extrapolate current trend, half of it will rot unused in US warehouse.
He's only selling a story, not his memory-- its not as if the purchase can make him forget?

In any case, isn't that the dream, on YC? (1) Briefly clock into a computer, (2) sell your thoughts, (3) millions?
Psychosomatic issues, while ‘in someone’s head’ cause very real physical problems that are quite measurable. Our brain and our bodies are tied together in ways that are not convenient to think about, frankly.

Just like the placebo effect causes real, very significant healing effects, even a subconscious association with a place as ‘bad’ causes real, very significant detrimental effects that are externally measurable.
I didn’t make it into anything and I don’t take it as axiomatic, I just wouldn’t spend time looking it up. It also sounds true to me based on my knowledge of biology, upon which I get to draw inferences I think are reasonable.
> Furniture

That's a good point. The article dwells on the remediations done to the site that admittedly may not be effective, but didn't mention furniture in the unit. It could be her couch or a cleaner she's using.
> but at what point do we consider the daily scaremongering by people with an agenda?

Indeed, at what point do we consider that?

Is it after half the world has been indoctrinated into taking a several-month old experimental medicine for an illness that the overwhelming majority of people under the age of ordinary life-expectancy survive - or, more commonly - barely notice?

Or is it after we've spent so many trillions on that illness so as to be able to turn each and every one of the 9 million per year of us who simply do actually starve to death each and every year, into a millionaire?

Yes, do please tell us about daily scaremongering by people with an agenda and how bad it is for everyone, you just go right ahead and do that.
>A 10 bpm drop then rise correlated with moving into and out of the apartment is pretty strong evidence of something.

Sure. 'Something'.

The kind of account this person provided is reminiscent of personal testimonials of individuals who live close to cellular towers. And so far, it is only her account. How do you know she's a credible, objective observer? How do you know she isn't experiencing psychosomatic symptoms? And now she's fixating on 500 gallons of something or other because of some passing reference in a report...Maybe there is something buried in there, so what? Who says that has anything to do with anything?

Also, this line struck me: "it’s an outbreak of new housing developments on toxic land and water with laissez-faire oversight". San Francisco and 'laissez-faire' don't really go together. You know, the city that will deny development license if the proposed building will cast an overly large shadow over a playground. Come on.

Is there something here? Who the heck knows, anything is possible. The fact that so many just want to take her word for it without an ounce of skepticism is a little disappointing.
Wait until you hear about California's Prop 13...
They should try entering the building with an oxygen supply, see if this triggers the symptoms.
Because metaphysical speculation is the curse of the soul, or,

Ecclesiastes 3:11 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
How can this give better performance (if that is what the numbers indicate) with half the transistor count? Why is it still using 300 w when it is on 7nm?
To make a fair presentation, it also need to list truthful reports. By the end of the day, the simple logic is that the false reports do not hurt truthful reports. If the truthful reports prove their point, no matter how many false reports exist, the truth is the truth.

Otherwise this action itself is purely propaganda implementing a false logic.

If this is done by a neutral third party NGO, it would definitely list both truthful and wrong reports.

BTW, watch police disperse crowds at Belgian April Fool party https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/137845598454942515...
I am equally skeptical of applying the principle of indifference here, and note that Bostrom also leans heavily on it in his original argument.

In situations where we really have no good idea of what the odds are, the principle of indifference seems to implicitly assume more knowledge than we actually have, allowing us to cloak our speculation in an aura of unjustified quantifiability.
Silkroad Ensemble gives one-to-one concerts at Brooklyn Navy Yard
> targeting an American audience

What led you to believe this was targeting an American audience? Do you think kids in other countries don’t know about space, or aren’t interested?
You cant even find a website that passes html validation these days.
Actually, out-gassing inside a building tends to travel upward. It's not unusual for the higher floors to have higher levels of gases than the lower levels. For gases to sink, they have to be heavier than air. Radon gas for example is 7.5 times heavier than air. Carbon monoxide is slightly lighter than air which is why detectors for it are better placed higher up in a room than on the floor.
Counterexample: Figma.
To be gaslighting, doesn't this have to be communicated to the person and therefore abuse?
All I know is we are 2 research papers away from fully realizing Celery Man.
There could be instructions in place to specify only all lowercase or just use .toLowercase() when sending. Also there could be a specified format for phone numbers or a function that turns all input into the desired format by stripping all special characters. Possibly only hashing the last 9 digits of the phone number for non mission critical applications instead of the full 10 digits.

This sounds like a good use case for short brief documentation.
If that software can’t distinguish a black man from a gorilla, i’m sure it’ll have trouble distinguishing two black men at least some of the time.
Polymarket is in fact the oracle for all of the markets on their site. They don't host them in the sense that it's all on the blockchain.

Augur has no actively traded markets last I checked. It was good by the election but has been basically dead since. Polymarket has way more volume than Augur as of now.

Omen is more decentralized but doesn't have much volume. There's also a version of omen on level 2 on the xDai chain.
Loving your children can be one of your chosen "ends."

What is abhorrent is when the government choses your ends, for you.

We should not want that.

We should not want government-forced sacrifice instead of giving an inheritance to a beloved person according to our own choices.

I would argue that people who want to ban inheritance love their "brothers" (random and probably non-deserving strangers) too much, and love their children too little.
Admins need to have systemd skills or they'd be out of a job. systemd is here to stay so might as well embrace it if you want to be gainfully employed.
ISPs don't care so they don't do anything. Website operators don't care so they offload the responsibility to Cloudflare. Cloudflare doesn't care so it bans and/or humiliates unrelated people however it sees fit. Nice.
Also the best of breed, https://excalidraw.com/
You're missing the point of the author.

In that game, people care more about still pretty low levels of crime than they care about their health, having a nice income, and so on.

And in addition, that game has crime as something that's simply immutable and that you remove by totalitarian policing.

I never said the game conveyed a deep message. I said that it conveyed the ideology of the creator. Those are very different things - often the second is accidental.
Why Europe Hasn’t Stopped Daylight Saving Time
Depending on the country, getting hit with a DMCA notice carries more or less weight. The ones sending the notice might also need to be very clear about what you did wrong. And a notarized letter is less easily prone to spam and abuse than a message inside YouTube's system. And you'll be probably able to win in court if the claim is spurious.

Much better than the current situation with YouTube's ContentID where the presumption of innocence is routinely violated, not to mention all the other issues :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trIn90HTqKs

(Also, the way the current ContentID might be violating European laws deriving from Article 13, but I haven't really been following that lately...)
It does have a fan that draws air in (I believe through the hole in the front).

I’ve seen these and you can hear it running during operation.
> In this case, the apartment complex appears to have over 1,800 units, which makes it surprising that only a single person is experiencing such dramatic effects.

I don’t disagree with what you are saying overall but you reference this “1 out of 1,800” point at least three times in your comment. It’s important to keep in mind that it’s not necessarily relevant as any number of people in those 1,800 units may or may not be experiencing a variety of issues related to this.
Arbitration agreements have no effect on criminal law.
Rather, treating understanding of numbers and statistics as an "attitude" seems to be more of a problem to my eyes. AZ is safe. That's not a statement of opinion. Get. Your. Shot.
Lucky, you are living in United States and not in Europe. In Germany, even if you successfully sue local authorities, you will get a tiny compensation like 1000 euro.

Another example to show how bad Europe is: if you will be putted to jail by mistake in Germany, until recently you will only get 25 euro per day... In United States Craig Coley got 1400 $ for each day (the case was closed in 2019)! That's more than 50x the amount you can get in Germany.

In Europe, your life worth nothing, just like in the north Korea.
This is a great point, I've heard of people purchasing a piece of furniture, getting wicked allergy symptoms/irriated airways, buying one of these tVOC meters, and finding out it's their chair/couch/etc.

She got sick when she moved in? What new furniture did she buy?
The simulation might not be faithful to what it's simulating. SimCity versus actual cities. One can imagine scenarios wherein you, as a mind being simulated, could discover the nature of the simulation. And that would be interesting, to say the least.
We don't know enough to do a thorough, adequate analysis - for example, we don't know what or how the ventilation system is setup, where it's pulling air from, etc.

Another thing that came to mind: there is a known effect with sound waves - where multiple different sources of sound may not be a problem source themselves (e.g. low level rumbling fans from large buildings) - but then where those sound waves intersect can cause a problem point that impacts biological life; it can be a single source of industrial noise pollution, multiple cases of whole towns getting sick because of it being traced back to the frequencies/vibrations given off by large fans - but what if some noises happen to triangulate to be a problem in your specific unit? It's not impossible.
Woke-ism is about seeing the world through a strictly narrow set of prisms: race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity and orientation, and the intersections thereof. Media editors and publishers filter out anything nonconforming. So, if you're trying to make it as a "journalist", then you have to be on board, ideologically and substantively in your work.

And, if you don't agree then you are a racist. If you write such an opinion, then good luck finding or holding a job writing (i.e. an unemployed racist).
The article by Peters that you linked to says that “in maximizing the expectation value — an ensemble average over all possible outcomes of the gamble — expected utility theory implicitly assumes that individuals can interact with copies of themselves, effectively in parallel universes (the other members of the ensemble).” This is nonsense.
Don't doubt that you don't know anyone secular who does, but there is a very vibrant secular Yiddish revival scene out there where you could meet people who do. For example

https://www.yivo.org/

https://www.yiddishnewyork.com/

https://klezkanada.org/

https://www.centre-medem.org/

https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/otazoyonline2021/

To name just a few.
Not great but not terrible
I don't know about making buildings worse, but there are definitely those who avoid repairs and improvements, but I think it's often more complicated than just property taxes.
A weird question, but what are the flying mechanics in your dreams? Like superman, ironman, or more bird-like? How much in control are you?
The primary useful function of government is to protect personal safety and property rights[1]. Some property is more expensive to protect than other property. Consider the cost of protecting urban homes vs rural land. Some property, like contracts, debt, copyright etc, is extremely expensive to protect, and some property, like a crypto key, is not protected at all by the government.

From this perspective, there are massive inequities in tax cost:benefit across asset classes. Some of the most expensive assets pay nothing, and the cheapest pay the most. But I don’t think it goes in the direction the author wants it to.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1991/pre...
Molds emit VOCs which is also a possibility in some places. You might not be exposed to the spores directly, but the gases emitted by the growth travels through.
Well, I don't think it is impossible: for example if N is usually 10+-2 cases each year, then N=30 is very unlikely to be just a statistical artifact.

Usually N denotes the sample size, but in this case the sample size is <the number of people under 55 vaccinated with AZ>.

Edit: clarification
I think my point was that a fridge is as much targeted towards audiophiles as Beats headphones are. Maybe a microwave would have been a better example.
Haven't used it in production. I've seen some good stuff come out of it and heard its many praises. It seems like its users and devs really care about making a good bit of vfx software.

Unkindly, it looks like a kludged together unorganized open source monster with functionality smooshed every which way without consideration for how it actually gets used. Slightly better than Zbrush, which is a ui abomination.

Overall I bet it's fine and dandy if you take the time to learn its eccentricities. I fear it's very low on discover-ability due to the lack of strongly opinionated and efficient visual metaphors. But I haven't taken the time to dive into it to make a full and comparative review. Nor would I. I'm old and don't have the time or ambition to do so.

tl:dr Blender seems cluttered but ok. Use Houdini if you can, but Blender if you must. Death to Autodesk.
Ash from wood may be compost-able, but I think the leftovers from burning coal can contain arsenic, mercury and lead among other things. There are also instances of the fly ash being radioactive. u/leetrout hints that they are from WV/EKY area, where hilly terrain can make stashing fly ash in slurry ponds less visible (but more susceptible to contaminating small streams undetected). Specifically in the eastern KY/OH regions, there massive impoundments <500 yards from navigable rivers (since barges transport to plants and water used in generation), so if they break, the sludge won't have far to travel to contaminate major waterways.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html - information regarding some of the byproducts.
It seems this excludes increases in efficiencies. For example today we have lighting that uses a small fraction of the power of a couple decades ago.

Plus we're nearing peak populations, after which the number of humans will be going down.
In Bostrom's words

> Apart form (sic) the interest this thesis may hold for those who are engaged in futuristic speculation, there are also more purely theoretical rewards. The argument provides a stimulus for formulating some methodological and metaphysical questions, and it suggests naturalistic analogies to certain traditional religious conceptions, which some may find amusing or thought-provoking.
This sentiment of "modern web has failed" is echoed often but it is always a generalization. Do I want to stab my eyes out every time I go to a news site? Probably. But there are good websites out there, many of which are "modern." It's not about web as a technology or frameworks or even "webdev culture." Some companies just decide having a good website isnt worth it.

Sidenote: I also think there might be too many websites in general. I always kind of think between Wikipedia and archive.org and other information Freedom projects that's all we need. Maybe a little IRC as a treat :)
Can you link the Nix Discord?
Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
How do you know this was the only person? Others might have complaint to the property management company. Besides that, not everyone thinks that its their own home who makes them sick and they will blame something else. Its possible that a specific area hasn’t been cleaned properly so only a few apartments will be affacted and not all 1800.

The only way to see what going on is by doing another Phase II ESA study. But those are expensive and you will need the approval of the owner which will be unlikely.
Suggesting a mental health issue in response to an article isn't gaslighting. Gaslighting is a specific type of psychological attack against someone.
fair point. you are right. reaction time works both ways. if it takes long to counteract a problem, it also takes time for there to be a problem to begin with

i don't have any experience with ships larger than a small sailing yacht myself and i guess, either you see a problem coming, then you have enough time to react, or you don't see it, and then it's to late either way.
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Media are on shoestring budgets, unlikely to sustain good developers. But it's not only media, many other services neglect the user-centric optimization. That case is probably due to proliferation of various kinds of outsourcing/seo consultants whose interests don't overlap much with users'.
I though the “placebo effect” is just regression to the mean. I.e. “sick people tend to get better”
The problem is small effects.

There is poison that kills you and then there’s poison that makes your life 1% worse. Most people don’t notice or can’t get a deterministic diagnosis, a small number of people are disproportionally effected.

This is where we are in many places medically. The big problems are easy, the small problems are hard.
Is transitioning slowly back to a hunter gatherer life style morally a bad idea? If so why?
Yes, I got that, but why have you declared a hash, which is a number, though a different kind of number than a base 10 scientific notation, as a string ?
I’m interested in the 3:00am spike shown on the monitors and her physical response. Could the building’s HVAC be programmed to turn on (or off) at that time?
Looking at the blog post on linear algebra, the line spacing seems a bit jammed in the presence of the inlined math.
Agree with you. And in many cases, the scaremongering is the agenda. It generates clicks. It sells ads. So the same media will try to scare you with that new virus that will kill everyone and you need to be terrified until the vaccine comes up, then tries to tell you the vaccine is terrible and dangerous. There isn't necessarily a logic behind this other than generating traffic.
Baby in Iraq first human documented with three es(2020)
Could you recommend any good articles? I've dabbled and enjoyed it but it never stuck with me.

I think I found the session management / default pane arrangement tricky, and would forget the hotkeys after a week or two of not using it.
> a single 3rd floor apartment

I haven't seen this particular complex, but a lot of new apartment construction in the area has a basement parking garage. You'd think it would have enough ventilation and have enough natural circulation that this would be even more unlikely. Unless they shut of the fan because no one was leaving during covid.