skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can one really thrive while being poor?

Also, how easy it is to build a good school and hire good teachers if you all are poor? Such are the cases where an infusion of wealth can help.

Regarding handouts, ask whether those who receive food at soup kitchens, or free meals for their kids at school, find the practice useless.
I have trouble understanding how so many people limit themselves to 4k or 5k steps a day, as the article suggests. What do they do all day?
So that's how it begins.
A different view is Huxley's reducing valve theory of consciousness.

On that view we are bombarded by an overwhelming amount of sensation and information every second -- so much that if we were aware of it all we wouldn't be able to function. So the brain functions like a valve and reduces this flow of sensation and information to a manageable level -- just enough so that we can do practical things such as go to work , do the dishes, etc..

Psychedelics have the effect of opening up this valve so that one experiences more of what one is sensing, so one actually sees more of reality than one does in one's ordinary waking state of consciousness.

The problem is that it's harder to function in such a psychedelically open state (at least with large doses of psychedelics, like the kind Huxley was using back in the 60's). Under the influence of mescaline, for example, Huxley found the dishes in the sink too beautiful to wash.

This is just one alternate view of how psychedelics work. There are many others.
I thought gameplay and game design was what mattered most, not everyone is trying to beat Fortnite, FarCry,....
An obvious difference is that Dropbox was very early in its niche while at this point we already have many great meditation apps.
I think these are reasonable numbers to focus on, but other relevant variables could be just too hard to quantify or set as goals...

For instance how Netflix's catalog is attractive to new users/markets can be checked in regular polls, but it would be way more difficult to follow with fine granularity, far less precise, and ultimately a harder to handle number than just retention or number of new accounts.

This means Netflix could see decent growth on its numbers, good retention and a steady flow of new accounts created, while struggling to reach new markets where competitors are doing great.

This is an extreme example, but Blackberry typically had very good user retention and users loved their devices. Looking only at these numbers, they were doing fine for a long time (which is nothing to sneeze at)
Tankless are also useless if you don't have perfect water, and even if you do you have to descale them every year. The calcium, iron, and others in your water builds up in the small copper pipes, and an acidic cleaner is required to remove it. If youve ever used a Keurig it's similar.

Propane water tanks are pretty bulletproof. Even with bad water they just truck, and require no electricity to operate, unlike some other gas appliances.
The point is 10000 steps is not scientifically grounded.
> The planting of evidence story sounds unconvincing. There hasn't been any reason given who would have planted and for what reason.

What? You honestly believe that trying to incriminate activists by planting fake evidence of assassination plots and associations with maoist groups is unconvincing and not a valid reason?

I mean, not so long ago India persecuted an activist who helped Greta Thunberg to the extent of arresting and accusing her of sedition just because the girl helped edit an online document that Greta Thunberg promoted.

https://www.reuters.com/article/india-farmers-protests-idUSK...

> They are just trying to disprove the authenticity of electronic documents found on the computer of the accused.

There was no "trying". They found evidence that emails with malware were targeted at the accused activists, and they found evidence that said malware was used to plant evidence. Also, the "smoking gun" files were sloppily planted. I mean, the article states that incriminating docs were dropped on the windows folder without even having metadata showing they were ever accessed or opened in the computer.
"Tivoization" is a word because GPL2 does not say you must be given signing keys that allow your modified image to be accepted and executed by the device, these are not covered by "scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable".
My main consumers are probably the fridge and the oven. I made sure to buy an efficient fridge. Other than those I usually only have a laptop or two running. The washing machine only runs once or twice a week, most of the time only at 30°C.
Oak. It's only on iOS but it has no subscription and it's by far my favorite meditation app.
If I was a Chinese kid I'd be making a plaster of paris of my dad/mom and learning to mimic their voice.
Advancements That Led to Decentralized Cloud Storage
Basically every modern "mobile-first" bank/stock brokerage app, etc. is built on that. With a lot of them there is still a human in the process giving you the instructions (usually from a call center), but it's gradually shifting to tech-only solutions.
For Trump and Facebook, judgment day is around the corner
I was born and raised in the West and can't help but agree with you.

"Freedom" as a universal, sacred concept is incompatible with psychologically validated, focus group tested mass marketing, let alone the individually tailored ML stuff that has started to come along in the past 10 years.

If anything, Government power needs to be expanded to combat corporate/political/media special interests. Not arbitrarily, of course, but it might be prudent to expand their power in a way that acts in the public interest - such as increased funding to public broadcasters or independent media watchdogs that can actually enforce journalistic standards with fines.
If those are averages, it makes sense a lot of people will be below average, and more steps would be OK.
This prize was the biggest deal in the tech world back in ~2006-2010. They made way more than $1 million back in advertising and engineering recruitment alone, even if they didn't use the winning algorithm at all.
> The main thing something like React provides is a universal power tool for turning things off and on again: expansion, memoization and reconciliation of effects.

This should be React's tagline.

Once you see React this way, it becomes a tool to design an application architecture rather than just a UI library. The hierarchical nature of React makes it easy to picture the ownership and lifetime of a state.

I'm wondering if Headless React can be used, for example, as a side-loaded app to control systems in ECS in plug-and-play manner.
Yep that is my experience. C++ sucks. Thinking in rust and getting your ideas out is much much much easier. C is portable assembly, I prefer a language that protects me from footguns. I have better things to think about.
Education of children involves both.

"Externally imposed restrictions" is what parents and society do. Then, internalising and understanding these restrictions is part of the education process.

Children are told not to spend too much time gaming by their parents (hopefully) and said parents also impose restrictions when this is not so (hopefully), for instance.
Although there is a reason I said Windows and not some OS that can be trimmed down and compiled from source by the user (not necessarily GNU/Linux, there are others), it does not matter so much what is the "platform" (I presume you mean OS) nor its popularity. The idea is that fewer of each user's computers, no matter what kernel they run, would be able to directly contact other computers over the internet.
The reasons are complicated and evolutionarily symbiotic.

Lure a "pollinator" to protect and spread it. Avocados were the diet of some unknown animal that no longer exists. Avocados shouldn't exist except for humans preserving and exploiting them.

Well, look at capsicum. Birds can't taste it but mammals can. Even so, most deer and some humans sure do like jalapeños.

Some compounds are deadly poisons to particular predators while merely annoyances to others. Beyond deadly poisons, there are deterrents like emetics, anticoagulants, dissociatives, and paralytics aimed at defending from particular predators.

These are evolutionarily-conserved because they add to the fitness of a species.

Nature is a hacker: it reuses (mutations) a lot of pathways and molecules for different purposes. We just hack compounds out of nature intended for other functions that also happen to serve our purposes at therapeutic doses.
You are better using something like BabylonJS or PlayCanvas, designed from scratch to target the Web within the constraints of WebGL.
- Do you really get recommenditions for movies you already watched or down voted? I'm not aware of that happening to me.
It's not it the case that you use multiple different profiles within a single account?
I sometimes see that for shows we finished, yet people tend to rewatch episodes...

- Removing a movie based on "not payed X times" would remove all popular movies for all users in a multiple of X steps.

-I agree with the new episodes banner.
You could write Facebook in a couple days too.

How long does it take you to develop an edge against your competition?
Vestager warns Apple against using privacy, security to limit competition
>Was it an anti-Muslim thing?

Officially, no. But in reality, yes. They want to make the Uyghurs more Han to reduce feelings of separatism.
Am I the only one that find this article incredibly confusing?

It starts off talking about wanting to move energy production to renewable sources. Great, I'm with you so far. A major issue with renewable energy (solar and wind) is that they're variable, not constant. This results in uneven power. The wind doesn't blow, it's cloudy or it's night time. So we need a way to convert this variable renewable energy into constant energy that's accessible around the clock. An obvious solution to the problem is to convert the renewable energy into stored potential energy. This is what pumped hydroelectric dams are all about. Use the variable energy to pump a bunch of water up behind a dam, then release it when you need a more constant supply of energy.

Great, so we've got that much figured out. The world needs a way to convert renewable energy into constant energy.

And the solution to this problem is... the distribution of more efficient water heaters.

Wat

How do more efficient water heaters in any way, shape or form help solve the renewable variable rate energy to constant energy problem? I feel like I must be missing something obvious. Are we able to somehow store energy in heat-pump based water heaters and then extract that energy to run other items in our homes? When you store energy in a heat-pump based water heater does it not need to run at night when renewable energy sources are lowest?

Can anyone explain to me what the heck this article is talking about?

I feel like I'm missing the larger picture, but I don't see how these two concepts (energy storage and appliance efficiency) are related.
Some drink vending machines in Japan does that. Its compressor runs mainly at night, stops or runs in lower power at noon.
Yes and add to that the ability of many of these large-battery vehicles to self-drive. For example when the owner is working during the day, the vehicle could drive to a regional charging station. This could help with the distribution component e.g. in rural areas with no power lines for the last few miles — the vehicle simply drives the power from where it’s available to where it’s needed.
Most (all maybe?) of the new German banks and fintech products seem to offer it as they have no physical branches, you can often open accounts directly from your smartphone. Some will offer a way of identifying yourself via a post office with your passport too.
Completely agree. I am constantly baffled at the bullshit Netflix suggests me.

I just went to the frontpage of my Netflix and...:

- "My list" recommends 3 series where I have alread watched the last episode

- "Only on Netflix" recommends another two series, I have already wathed.

- A section displayed is "Watch together for older kids" - I dont have kids, never watched any kids stuff on my account.

- "Documentaries" contains six suggestions, 3 of which I have already watched on netflix".

- I am suggested several shows, which are good - but I have already watched outside Netflix earlier - and there is no way to tell Netflix (none that I know of, anyway)

9 out of 10 times when I go to Netflix, I intend to continue watching a series - but Netflix makes me scroll past SEVEN sections of recommendations to get to "Continue watching.." before showing me the series I have watched 1-2 episodes of most days for the past two weeks.

Maybe they are just too busy making sure all new series are woke-i-fied to care about how this simple stuff works?
In the end they will promote what they WANT to be popular, so our suggested titles will still be a mess of shit we already watched or disliked with a button.

Shows with 10 seasons you hated and disliked after 5 minutes will still be in our "continue watching" or suggested.
It loads a page which then makes a POST request to an API via JS.
At this point rather a lot more weight is being put on the DSL than a mere minilanguage, so I'd embed a language interpreter for something existing. I've used Tcl for this in the past.

But when you say "users", that indicates a different use case anyway. The minilanguage is basically source compression or code generation, it's for the developers.

> your users are asking you to change the syntax und use lisp-like evaluation/expressions

Nobody ever wants that except Lisp users, and if you're surrounded by angry lisp users you should just give them what they want and embed a lisp. Or even just write one, Scheme is small enough.

But as far as I can tell, "free monads" are a lot of machinery to re-implement imperative stateful programming when you could have just used a language that wasn't Haskell in the first place.
> The same adults are not trusted to make the decision of buying and drinking beer.

My understanding is that studies showed that drinking before a certain age (on average of course) has a high chance of causing physiological brain deterioration, but I haven’t done any recent research to see if this was still a thing. The age requirement is the government not trusting their citizens not to damage themselves.
This isn't the first time I've heard this. There's plenty of other sources that seem to corroborate this anecdote; and let's all not forget. The plural of anecdote is evidence.

All that said, actually waiting for FDA approval does seem a lot less risky
Countless free as in free beer ones, but very few are under real open source license. And of open source ones very few are production-ready.

For once there is chance that Amazon is big enough to make porting to consoles less of a pain in the ass.
For my daily driver I run Openbsd 6.9 on a thinkpad from 2008 with a spinning disk drive. It runs lightning quick and I have a modern web browser (Firefox 88).

Only thing that is non-stock is the ram size has been increased in capacity but I rarely use all of it (only if I have like 50+ browser tabs open) Just a guess but never counted it.

I think the keys to a fast desktop experience is

-stay away from linux. The kernel and most distros suffer from kitchensinkitis.

-don't use a heavy window manager. I use a custom configuration of Motif (it works and does not get in the way).

With quality software old tech is still more than competent today. I can watch HD youtube videos too if I want.

Office suites and programs like inkscape work fine. This is a 2 core machine.

If I need more compute power I can use the cloud.
The law already makes the absolute vast majority of these banners illegal.

Do companies care?
Mostly context on why researching such a thing would be valuable.
Nvidia GSP Firmware
I'm not sure you want to work for companies that force people to come in to the office.
I once applied for a job at a well known company that's mentioned at the very bottom of my CV as a hobby. I spoke with 4 different people none of whom ever got to the bottom to see that I'm actually a big fan of their product. Which was expected but also kind of disappointing.

That aside, part of the problem with CV's is that it almost never reveals a person's level of competence or the ability to learn, both of which are critical when recruiting. You can be good at describing your formal responsibilities and bad at, say, coding, or vice versa.

A few things that you can add at the top of your CV that I think can make it a little more meaningful:

- List your skills with years of experience in each. This one is easy to do and is quite effective.

- Ask for honest references from your colleagues and managers and quote them in your CV. This is a bit unusual outside of social networks like LinkedIn and AngelList, but might work.

- Include a paragraph that describes your philosophy, the people or views you admire. This may potentially have a stronger positive or a stronger negative effect on the reader, but you probably want to be hired by someone whose views and philosophy are better aligned with your own ones.

- A short (even 30 sec!) video can best represent your personality and make your CV stand out among dozens and even hundreds of other candidates.

I think going through CV's with the above at the top would make the hiring process more fun and much more efficient too.
It is a bit strange that the first piece of code is using a framework (lit). Since you would expect that it would show something with no framework usage. Having said that lit is very close to "platform".
This seems like something that could be measured with at least one of the scanning techniques we already employ. It seems like an MRI could provide a rough result that could lead to further and more direct testing.
"Let's trap people in bad marriages" is exactly the social infrastructure I'm criticizing.
Learnings After Quitting Caffeine for 3 Months
I think your worries are in the wrong place. I'm more worried about the FED bailing out the banks and companies too big to fail who have ventured into crypto
Neither of the two hold water if you look at how Chinese institutions dealt with the Ant IPO and recently the Didi fiasco and probably many more if you look.
They should probably be taking a sub-threshold dose anyways. The effects are the same and there's no risk of strong hallucinations.
Aside: Nightclub patrons wouldn't understand what they were looking at and would throw glass bottles at the Mona Lisa.
"Do Not Track" header was used to track users, and removed. GPC will be used to do the same.
In the UK at least, private test providers [1] must collect travellers' personal details during booking, but a live ID check isn't required.

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/self-declare-as-a-private-sector...
> The research found that the compound increases the density of dendritic spines, small protrusions found on nerve cells that aid in the transmission of information between neurons. Chronic stress and depression are known to reduce the number of these neuronal connections.

How well is the latter known? Is that consensus? Also, is it just an effect or a possible cause of depression? If it's just an effect, why would reparation be an effective treatment for depression?
It is very unlikely that they could have even explored the full parameter space if they wanted to, it's such a huge undertaking. It's probably optimized under some constraints, but there's a huge number of things involved -- support material, surface area, catalyst metal, alloying, promoters, pretreatment, temperature, pressure, flow rate -- my experience has been that you can take any catalyst and make it work a lot better by just picking an understudied parameter and optimizing it.

My guess is that you could drop the catalyst noble metal content by 10-100x or even substitute an alternative catalyst and find a combination of conditions and catalyst that works. It's not a sure thing, but it's not unlikely. Sometimes it's as simple as swapping one support for another and the performance goes up 100x, it's just a lot of tests to run that don't even apply to both lab and commercial scales anyway (so a lot of the tests are never practical to run anyway).

I think it'd be a bigger deal if it didn't require pressurization to 10 bar personally, pumps are expensive to operate and catalysts are a one-time-cost (if you're lucky).
Don’t you think someone — possibly a user of this site — would have noticed the network traffic?

Not only are you implying that there is a back door in the phone operating systems, but also in every other device on the same network as the phone to hide such traffic.

What you’re suggesting is certainly possible, but the idea that it’s been rolled out to the average person doesn’t seem likely.
In backend API, validate the JWT token (signature, nbf, exp, etc) to and make sure audience 'aud' field match to your client ID
That allows you to step through code. but it doesn't break when you get a crash (like gdb). At least when I just tested:

#dbg(defn get-first [input] (nth input 0))
(get-first [4 2 3]) ;; 4
(get-first 5) ;; gives me a stack trace and no program state

So it's nice to have, but I think this is maybe only useful if you're working through someone else's code?
> unaudited, unregulated, unredeemable opaque tokens like Federal Reserve Notes

Would be nice if every single FRBNY operation were able to be queried by anyone in the public in real time, had a fixed set of rules all holders of notes could see and vote on, and was redeemable for gold like they used to be before the rules changed underneath holders who couldn't take part of governance (foreign holders)…

> What could possibly go wrong!

We're stuck in bailoutistan globably, and now it will be more expensive for tradfi entities to get bailed out on chain (which will happen, but cant shut down the dex's, cant reverse trades unless contracts allow for that) which will benefit non tradfi entities that take the opposite side of their highly leveraged trades conducted on chain.
People who are not breathing longer than about 5 minutes have extremely low blood pressure.
So does American football, which kids in America are expected to learn: https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1038120/over-99-of-nfl-p...

Let's not assume the drinking age is anything to do with evidence.
Interesting that this bubbled up this week--China is cracking down on Didi over "security concerns" within a week of it IPOing on a US exchange.

This should be pretty embarrassing, so if Didi had legitimate security issues, the CCP would have kept it quiet and gotten it fixed quietly. I think this is to send a message, but I'm not sure to whom.
People need to be taught basic statistics in school.
Please look at [HTMX](https://htmx.org/). It uses just plain old HTML and might work for you.
I have had success with it in creating a Airtable like table.
> in addition to the cookie banner vandalism committed by the EU

You mean cookie banner vandalism committed by companies who couldn't care about laws and privacy and trick people into consenting through barely legal and illegal popups.
Twitter and LinkedIn are kowtowing to China
> What has any of that got to do with the Indian government planting evidence on 'activists'?

This.

I mean, the article states that the Indian government was found planting evidence regarding assassination plots and forging associations with a maoist group, and suddenly the discussion revolves about maoist groups around the globe?

What next? Should we commend the Indian government for it's keen eye to pick fake stories to frame activists with?
I'm always impressed how quickly you respond to the bat-signal.
For anyone confused enough, bleach WILL kill you.
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The library uses the new WebSerial API available in Edge and Chrome browsers.