skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been studying storytelling for about five years, as a way to improve my writing. Here's what I've learned so far.

The simplest unit of storytelling consists of...

(a) A character who attempts to achieve a specific thing.
(b) A conflict standing in the way of that attempt.
(c) A conclusion to that conflict.

Together, these three things form a Simple Dramatic Unit. For example:

(a) Sally tries to swim back to shore.
(b) But two shark fins emerge from the water.
(c) She gets pulled under.

Do you notice how, even though there's nothing particularly inventive or original about the above scene, you're leaning in a little? Wondering what happens next? That's the power of the Simple Dramatic Unit.

Technically the above is a complete story, but it doesn't feel totally resolved because it doesn't have much of a punchline. We want to know what happens to Sally, and we even hope for a happy ending -- how might she get out of this situation?

As a storyteller, you continue to string together these Simple Dramatic Units til you reach the punchline of your story (also known as the "resolution").

Once you master the Simple Dramatic Unit, and tying multiple Dramatic Units together, there are numerous additional variables you can weave into your stories to improve your storytelling:

- Stakes (Sally is a mother of two children, both on the beach that day.)
- Strong Characters (Sally is a risk-taker who feels a strong command over nature. Not once in her life has she ever feared the elements.)
- Theme ("Those who don't fear nature are all the more at its mercy.")
- Tone (Her children watch the shark attack from the shore with keen interest, but without alarm.)
- Style ("The beach was placid that day, the smell of salt rendered sweet in the humid air....")
- Originality (The shark fins aren't grey, but a fluorescent pink.)
- Etc, etc.

But all those things are secondary to the Simple Dramatic Unit. Master that first. It will serve as a very solid foundation for any type of story you want to tell.
Power questions are too unbalanced. Lots of “1 to the power of whatever” or “whatever to the power of 1” with the occasional “8 to the power of 5”

It also was surprising to get “3 / 2” and “7 - 8”. Even more surprising was the fact that, apparently, the answer to that last question isn’t “-1”, but “1”.
It seems logical to me that good ideas could be available to intolerable people.
Enid Blyton fans react to ′racist′ label
This is not a myth, but History recording real facts that happened.

Anyone can imagine a "flying car" or a "nuclear fusion reactor". It is a completely different thing having and putting the resources to work: the people, the effort, the money and the time to make something real.

Someone just "having an idea" only works in science fiction, and even there you need to do the work of writing the book, or drawing the comic.
> The entire purpose of the beta is to find stuff like this.

No, it really isn't.

The point of a test is to verify that the system works as designed, and in case it doesn't then there's planned room to iterate out unexpected issues.

If a system designed to be operated on the outdoors is not designed to operate with temperatures above 50C then this is a collosal screwups and gross oversight, as this sort of stuff is well-known for decades.

https://web.mit.edu/parmstr/Public/NRCan/CanBldgDigests/cbd0...
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Unfortunately the project that hosted the feeds (BBC Backstage) was shut down in 2010: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcbackstage/2010/10/bbc-backsta...
The Wikipedia article kind of suggests he was railroaded due to people not liking his ideas:

In 1865, János Balassa wrote a document referring Semmelweis to a mental institution. On July 30, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra lured him, under the pretense of visiting one of Hebra's "new Institutes", to a Viennese insane asylum located in Lazarettgasse (Landes-Irren-Anstalt in der Lazarettgasse).[60] Semmelweis surmised what was happening and tried to leave. He was severely beaten by several guards, secured in a straitjacket, and confined to a darkened cell. Apart from the straitjacket, treatments at the mental institution included dousing with cold water and administering castor oil, a laxative. He died after two weeks, on August 13, 1865, aged 47, from a gangrenous wound, due to an infection on his right hand which might have been caused by the struggle. The autopsy gave the cause of death as pyemia—blood poisoning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
And they could have "gotten by" with a diesel engine just like every other car company. that's a useless comment to make. We are tired with getting by. we need companies like Tesla/SpaceX that are willing to push the envelope with simingly stupid and useless ideas. After some time people will wander how past generations have gotten by without what they have just like now most of us can't go by without access to smart phones whereas 15 years ago everyone just went by fine.
This package is no longer available for new users and it’s expected that google will start killing old accounts at some point. https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-happens-to-your-g-suite-u...
Why can't old code remain underneath but UI elements replaced?
That is mostly caused by the internal politics that .NET belongs to DevDiv while C++ has always been part of WinDev.

Back in the early Windows days it was C and C++, then VB came along and it was VB for business while real developers used C++/MFC.

With .NET management tried to create an homogenous runtime, hence why it even supported Managed C++ (replaced with C++/CLI on .NET 2.0).

But they made an huge mistake that persists to this day, splitting the languages across these divisions, thus fuelling their feudal politics.
Strong second on the atlas headrest. It feels like the missing piece for the aeron as a chair that can do everything — focused work, lounging back to read, etc. I bought my aeron right at the start of the pandemics (as well as a split keyboard, vertical mouse) and honestly, not sure I can go back. Some consistent wrist and forearm pains have completely gone away.
A massive amount of longevity research is crowdfunded by a small community of longevity enthusiasts. Lifespan.io and SENS are both crowdfunded.

Unfortunately, death is a difficult topic for people to discuss and think about. It is mental hazard that induces existential dread, so it is very difficult to hold anyone's attention long enough to garner support for longevity initiatives. People convince themselves that death is in some indefinite future, and that they are okay with dying, but on the deathbed that fear and horror of the eternal void is always there.

But if offered on their deathbed to give up everything they have for a chance to live longer, most people would take it at that moment without hesitation. However, we are immature beings, without a propensity for long-term planning, so most people neither donate nor advocate for longevity research.

I think massive strides in longevity are possible today with enough research. The problem is funding. The problem is garnering social support.

We spent trillions of dollars fighting COVID, which will affect a select few, but we cannot spend a minuscule fraction of that on aging, which has the same end result, but for everyone. It's shortsighted and sad.
Is catch-all supported? Couldn’t find an answer to that in the FAQ.
You’ve posted the same comment about gsuite at least 5 times in this thread which is no longer an option.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-happens-to-your-g-suite-u...

https://9to5google.com/2020/10/08/google-workspace-drive-sto...
Paris Hilton has a trauma too! You don't tell me. By the way, can I tell you about my personal traumas?
It would be one thing to get a push notification asking if you wanted to install the app. But pushing this out silently is going to far.

It’s the scarier version of the free U2 album.
I cannot share this optimism. I wonder how a society would look like, where young people are the absolute minority and their demands and ideas drowned by the number and power of those who have lived for centuries, amassing fortunes, having used all the resources of the planet, so that there is no place for a next generation?

But then maybe my thinking is influenced by having watched Altered Carbon [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon_(TV_series)
Here's a spin:
Until now we have never had any kind of tracking for how much money is being spent on extra-legal drugs. Now we have a way to get the data that is needed for informed policy.
And pretty often that person will break the wall into something that harms. Up to and including suicide or only destruction of business itself. Yes, at high speed, but where you going actually matters.

Talking about mania as pure increase in productivity ia itself absurdly reductive.
512 bytes RAM is impressively low. I didn't think that to be enough to assemble a full USB data frame. Never heard of that cpu either.

Kudos to the author for figuring this out.
Note how those trademarks are for "Marvel Loki" instead of just "Loki" and give a long list of specific goods and services which they apply to. The only one for just Loki applies exclusively to "printed periodicals in the field of comic book stories and artwork."
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The app is just a fork of the German Corona-Warn-App [1][2]. From what I can tell only the UI was modified, the codebase seems to be still the same.

Honestly, pushing the app to users isn’t anything to worry about – and in fact something I’d have loved to see other countries do as well.

________

[1] https://www.coronawarn.app/en/
[2] https://github.com/corona-warn-app
Drawing music makes as much sense as singing a painting or dancing architecture.
Do you also have any issue with icloud? I somehow get bad IP range and never been able to have them whitelist me, re-attempting seems just put put me into a blackhole queue support on their team :(
I have literally never (to my knowledge) been rejected by one of the big boys (i.e. gmail or outlook). Was quite nervous about it in the beginning, but I haven't run into any issues.

I have had a number of bumps:

1. In exchanging emails with someone with a custom domain, I found there SPF record was broken and thus my server was rejecting their emails. I've weakened my policy and now their mail goes to my Junk, which I then manually move to my inbox because I'm lazy and don't want to set up a custom rule.

2. I wanted to subscribe to the Tarnsap mailing list, and had to decrease the minimum TLS level for outgoing mail to "none." Dr. Percival believes TLS on SMTP is "silly" (which, in the sense that all email is insecure, is true, but in the sense that email with modern security measures is better than nothing, is in itself a "silly" opinion).

3. I had some server downtime recently (https://figbert.com/posts/wrong-way-to-switch-server-os/) and couldn't receive emails, which sucked. But that was on me.

I highly recommend giving it a go!
And how is it worse than dconf?
People hated on dconf during the transition to systemd, but it is here now.

I do not really think one is better than the other.
> To say that cloth masks "haven't been shown to help do anything" is demonstrably false

From the only RCT I'm aware of having been published during the pandemic[1]:

> the difference observed was not statistically significant

The full quote is:

> Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.

But the important part is the difference observed was not statistically significant, not just because statistically significance is counted as significant for good reason, but because there's a possible 23% greater chance of infection. That's quite the swing, and something that's been seen before[2]:

> Conclusions This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection. Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.

That's without going into the many statements by leading doctors of the public health response during the pandemic (like Fauci or Jenny Harries).

This helpful Spectator article[3] goes over the damning lack of evidence there's been since long before this pandemic and also lists a few to watch out for. Still not heard any demonstrable falsification coming from an rct yet though. I wonder how long we'll have to wait?

Of course, we could always rely on reviews instead of randomised controlled trials, they give much better results… <cough> <cough> Excuse me while I put on my mask.

Note: this response was made in good faith ;-)

[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

[2] https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

[3] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-much-do-face-masks-a...
> Making practical tradeoffs to get what's important is engineering reality.

Not being aware that objects placed outdoors and exposed directly to sunlight easily reach temperatures above 80C is either a collosal design error or sheer incompetence.

Let's put it this way: for anyone to draw the line at 50C they needed to do at least a review of environmental constraints and operational ceilings, and the most rudimentary of cursory reviews (i.e., googling and looking at the first search hits) is enough to show that white objects placed outdoors at direct sunlight easily get to 80C.
"...gives itself full permission to utilize all device functions"

Is that right?
The general public is unfortunately quite unsupportive of longevity initiatives. Death is a difficult topic for people to think about, and they convince themselves they're okay with it right up until they arrive at their deathbed, at which point the horror sets in - but it's too late.

As such, longevity research is crowdfunded by a small community that is willing to face the existential horror head-on by acknowledging it and attempting to actually do something about it.
The worrying part is that it was installed without consent.
One comment also says that it's a Communist conspiracy.

Over in reality, though, the only permissions it has are to use the internet and bluetooth: https://hastebin.com/yexoyuluzu.xml
Goldeneye has a native 16:9 output; in 1997 mind you. Another example of that game being both incredible quality and way ahead of its time.
It is not visible what is returned or what is input im case of chaining. Because return and input parameters are not directly visible and you have to read all previous calls to figure that out.

And they both trivially allow for side effects.
> It’s bloat directly impacts the speed of the operating system.

Do you have any evidence of this? I remember in the XP days the German c't computer magazine tested populating the registry with hundreds MBs of garbage and found no performance impact at all.
on the front page, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27557516
I don't think that's the (main) reason that religions focuses on virtue and sin, but that's kind of to one side.

Free will does suggest that all prophets are making educated guesses, rather than receiving divine insight into future events. In Christian mythology there's the classic Matthew 26:21 bit that atheists like to point out in any discussion about free will (or lack of).

I don't have any insight into the texts of the other two large organised religions, but I'm sure there's a some number of distant predictions in those that stretch the 'everyone has free will' claim.
In the shade.
Same issue at a previous office. They spent a lot of money on Herman Miller chairs to much complaining about how it was a waste of money and they’re not even comfortable.

And they complainers were right insofar as I never sat down in the chair and went “damn this is comfortable”.

But that was also the first time in my life by hour 5 or 6 nothing was _uncomfortable_. Body felt fine, nothing was sweaty, everything was still just… fine. I felt the same as when I sat down.

And that’s pretty much been my goal for chairs since. Anything that can make the unnatural act of sitting upright in one place for a third or more of my day not _hurt_ is a good piece of equipment.

I’ve tried other cheaper chairs since. Some sufficed for a while, some sufficed until I got older. Finally but the bullet and got a Mirra and everything’s been great since.
I try and use native clients or TUIs rather than webmail. I'm current using Mail.app and aerc and having a blast.
I always thought that the purpose of hiccups is to rid the stomach of air, and that if I there were a method to stop hiccups immediately without getting rid of the air, it would do more expected harm than good.

Drinking water, I always thought, helps get rid of the air.
I am biased against restrictions on people's right to freely interact, and that includes people acting in the capacity of an employer.

It's perfectly reasonable to be highly critical of something one views as a violation of human rights.

My comment is also a valuable contribution to the public discourse, because it describes the poorly understood mechanism by which unions derive their power, which is regulatory restrictions preventing people outside of the union from competing on a level playing field with people within the union.
Gender bias in medical diagnosis: Facts, causes, and impact
I use Hetzner, personally.

Did a bit of a cost analysis here: https://figbert.com/posts/moving-to-hetzner-from-digitalocea...
There used to be noble causes worth dying for.

Now we scroll through feeds and pat ourselves on the back for increasing the average lifespan. No one asks whether these long lives are even worth living.

No one asks why progress for the sake of progress is inherently good.
I use mailcow and it uses SoGo which is quite pleasant in my opinion https://www.sogo.nu/
Except, the Corona Warn App is the biggest crap that I have ever seen. Yes, the code is open and free and super transparent; morally superior. But what about the effectiveness of this app? Even the German officials do not mention this app since many many many months. The app was criticised from all sides due to lack of effectiveness.

Even the freedom-loving large news outlets published their opinions that they would have wished to see some sacrifice of those high morals for at least SOME level of effectiveness.

I have the app and it is a big piece of junk since day 1. My brother is a doctor and is using this app. He has regular direct contact with Covid patients. Do you know how many "high risk contact" notifications he has received since Summer 2020? Yes, you guessed it: 0.
Yes! You just have to get it set up properly in the config (I remember reading about it in the docs or mailing list somewhere).
(Author here:) I got many emails about new patrons/sponsors yesterday and was astonished where this was all coming from, now I know!

Thank you for posting this and thank you all for your support! This helps me a lot to find the time to maintain the app, in general a kind of work that I think is often underestimated, also in terms of time invested.

For example, Google recently kicked the app out of their app store for spurious reasons so I had to act quickly to get it back ASAP. I kept track of the issue (and am still updating it, it's not over yet) here:

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/2909

This may be an interesting read and shed some light on how the Google Play Store team works and handles policy violations and appeals.
A typical scenario is saving as jpg, where you really want to provide the user the option to select compression level.

That typically is for a single program, though, and by that program. System-wide changes, for example for a product that can compress files on the fly, affect every program using open dialogs.
You can try https://www.rainloop.net/try-now/ they are pretty good with a slick UI. I would call it modern Roundcoube
The good old days with AHK. I remember writing the winsock wrapper library and httpquery wrapper back then, software of which i hope has been long superseeded by now.
It'll be incase of an emergency shutdown.

Can't have the servers freezing when turned off.
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It is easy to say something like that when you are not moments from an eternal abyss.

These are problems we can work towards solving. They are not a reason to abandon longevity research that can and will quite literally save billions of lives.
I would imagine you can get location by getting in range of those edison beacons google is pushing.
There’s nothing worrying about that. You get tons of apps installed without consent (including whatever spam your network provider pushes on you).

This app can actually save lives without sacrificing any privacy, pushing it to users is something that has no drawbacks.

The largest trouble for the German version of the app was that not enough people installed it. Choosing to install it automatically isn’t something nefarious under these circumstances.
At least the Marvin Gaye track is not a good example of just the Atmos difference. It is a completely remastered version that sounds nothing like the original. It also is 3.5 dB louder, which naturally would make the listener think it sounds better.

Overall, I think the OP was on point. It seemed like the mixing engineers thought that the additional spatialization provided by Atmos gives them the license to crank up the volume of all the supporting instruments (e.g. congas). This indeed drowns out the main vocal and puts it on the listener to focus on it (which is of course now easier due to the spatial separation with the instruments).
> Most of these start as phishes to lower level employees.

They used to (and probably still) do this. But more recently these folk are paying access brokers. A bit like bank robbers teaming up with criminal locksmiths.

> It makes sense to me that’ll happen again and I’m not sure I can say the solution is better backups.

You'll ideally need:

- Better security awareness training to cover human weakness such as spotting dodgy email and what to do if you click a link

- Patch vulnerabilities quickly as this will reduce risk considerably

- Company wide tested and sufficient backup strategy (most companies fail on this) to protect key identified data assets

- Regularly pen-test both your internal and external environments

Obviously it doesn't stop there, but those are key.
I will always find it funny that you can use the windows 95 alt+tab switcher by:

- Pressing alt (don't release)

- Pressing altgr

- Releasing altgr

- Pressing tab
It has 167 reviews, but they seem to be hidden.
In my country, the government re-skinned the Singaporean open source covid19 app, which appears to be about the same thing as this one.

The government didn't install it in every phone, but they made it mandatory for business-owners to check that you have the app enabled if you want to enter their premises. Everyone needs to eat/shop, so most people were forced to install the app.

Every grocery store has a greeter at the door to check you have the app running, check your temperature, and squirt sanitiser on your hands.

https://www.tracetogether.gov.sg/
You have to take kids to kindergaten twice and bring them back twice. The time while they are there needs to be used for cooking lunch. They are not there long enough to allow much else. It literally gives you program for whole day without freeing you for other activitities. Being full time with the kid is literally better for that parent, because at least you can structure day how it suits you. (There is benefit for kid itself in terms of socialization, but that is difderent topic)

And I say moms because in Swiss it is moms who are expected to do it and forgo other activities while men are expected to go to work. Men are much less affected by above system.