skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I'm flattered that you would sign up because of my comment! I haven't been here that long and hardly ever comment but have always kept an account for times like you describe.
Tragic fact:

Although in modern usage decimated means "eliminate a large number", historically it meant "eliminate 10%". So if the predicted loss of 20% to 30% of the populations is correct, Myanmar will be much worse than decimated.

I can't wrap my head around the idea. I hope it's not true.
> I've been to therapy and always haven't had a lot of successful results. It would be long-drawn-out deep conversations that felt like the fix leaving the office... Then I got home and the perspective was basically gone.

I had a lot of trouble with talk therapy as well. There seemed to be a focus on "acceptance" and coping. Wanting to eliminate a symptom was seen as running from the cause. I felt expected to play a role within the office. And disagreement was being difficult, which meant I didn't really want to "dig in" or was an indication of some deeper issue or trauma. "Ah I see you don't want to talk about your mother. Interesting." So should I indulge them in their curiosity simply to appear "normal"?

> The solutions are basically: this is how your brain most likely works, here's how to plan around it in broad strokes, do your best to be consistent to that plan, and let neural plasticity will do the rest of the work for you

I so often tried to extract this information from therapists. I remember specifically saying, "Yes, I know it's _ok_ to be anxious, but sometimes I don't want to be. Sometimes you want to be the person in the room people depend on, and a jittery coward can't be that person. How do you plan for the inevitable anxiety? How do you push to achieve despite some hurdles?" I think a lot of folks cope fine with their mental health. But they still need help achieving their goals or putting limits on the worst aspects of their personality.
It is missing the date filter.
Definitely didn’t know that. I feel like dogshit if I skip lunch.
Youtube puts ads in any video for me. I don't know any exceptions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqBn6ts-Srk is just one random video from my suggestions which i opened and was immediately met with grammarly ad.
This quote doesn't explicitly state that the 10-15 million will die from COVID but its certainly implied. That doesn't sound like it makes any sense at all though. 20% of the population? Why would Myanmar see 2-3x the global death toll on its own? I don't think there's any data to suggest a 20% death rate even with 0 medical treatment at all (and assuming 100% infection).

Is this just someone getting trigger happy with an exponential model?
I won't comment on how they came up with that number or how accurate it is, but Covid won't be the only killer. As one example, people who have heart attacks aren't going to get prompt care either with the medical system overworked and over capacity.

That was one of the goals of the lockdowns in the US. Keep the healthcare system operational for all the other responsibilities it needs to fulfill on top of pandemic response.
Sounds like real humanitarian disaster, but how do they get a 50% case fatality rate in a country with an average age of 28. Doesn't sound very reputable to me..
Ill with Want
I appreciate the openness, but don't you think that optimizing engagement numbers in this way is ethically objectionable at least a tiny bit?
If people implicitly trust the system (or at least don’t get blamed for it’s failures) it makes it much easier for hackers though.
> Which part of an internal combustion engine creates the forward motion of a car? Is it the fuel injector? The spark plugs? The pistons? Of course it's none of these things: the function of an engine is obviously a result of all of these parts of a complex system working together.

You can't make the word "complex" do the heavily lifting here. There is a precise structural and functional organization of that matter that makes the engine. For the case of consciousness, you can't throw neurons and emergence together to explain away the precise structural and functional integration of those components that bring out consciousness.

You have to have a continuity of explanation between the "list of parts" and the final thing.

Otherwise someone else could have just gotten away with saying "an engine is an emergent phenomenon of atoms slapped together". If we're going to lack rigor, why not just stay at the lowest zoom level of explanation after all...

> Consciousness is observably a property of the brain. Consciousness can be predictably altered or removed by interfering with the chemical function at the synapse, or by inflicting physical trauma on brain tissue. Honestly I don't see what is so difficult to understand here.

So a live brain in a vat would have consciousness? If not, what are the minimal components of the body you have to add before you can observe consciousness?

Cartesian entrapment of consciousness “upstairs” is actually younger than embodied models, and none are as simple as you make it.
Confusing name. "Borg" means "castle" or "fort" in Swedish but it seems that the name refers to the "Borg collective" from Star Trek The Next Generation. So, it is a derivative of a derivative name. I kind of miss when new discoveries where named after Latin words, being a Spanish speaker many of them had a sense of coherence with the language. Better than Sonic hedgehog protein, thou.

update: For all the downvotes, I recommend to read "How new words are born": https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2016/fe...
The rules are, of course, not enforced by anyone but emerge from a common understanding of the language.
I assume most of those are from non-Covid medical emergencies that go untreated due to the entire medical infrastructure having collapsed.
never said anything about rights. but it sounds like came in with an attitude of condescension, disrespect, and antagonism. i don't see why you'd expect them to respond with good will
Calendly replacement, designed email templates, and video call collaboration features for $8/mo… interesting! So accustomed to Google’s “everything is free” approach that I’m curious to see how this does.
Where normally this gets brought up as some reason we shouldn't trust climate science, this is actually a good example of how media sensationalizes shaky science to get people riled up. (The cooling theory, at its height of popularity, coexisted with a larger body of research predicting warming. I.e. it wasn't well supported.)
I mean, believe what you want, just make sure I’m nowhere near when you explain to the waitress why your party of 20 tipping $11 is so much more generous than the one guy tipping $10.
You put "Bush" and "idiot" in the same sentence. I suppose that's not really promoting positive dialogue on HN. Hence why you got flagged
Highly recommend this Asian Boss interview[0] for anyone who doesn't know what is going on in Myanmar. She talks about the military coup, how militants regularly shoot at civilians in their homes if they have their lights on at night, how people are starving and live grenades are randomly thrown into neighborhoods.

It's a war zone.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVbfY0Qcpos
Thanks for the advice, I believe both are possible and that I can work from home while making the trip out to LA for conferences every so often, and hopefully make some friends during my trips there. My main desire now is to just build things, and remote work would give me enough time to do that. Moving anywhere, especially a currently overpriced housing market like Seattle/Bellevue, would probably steal a lot of energy and time out of building.
I'd love to know what this is about in plain English :) even the description starts diving straight into the mathematics.
Isn’t the answer in the fact that it’s recyclable. Not just the fact that you can recycle an old lithium battery into a new one. But that you can recharge it for 8+ years.

You don’t even need to do the math: if you invented an oil car that you filled up with 800kg of oil once and it ran for 8 years. It’s clearly an improvement.
The article presents evidence that this is not a brushing scam.
Neat. How long until they abruptly shut it down, though?
I don’t think many people argue it is unfair for YouTube to show ads. They argue it is wrong for them to be tracked aggressively across the web.

So where is the front end I can use to still give YouTube ad views without being tracked? I’m saying this as a YT premium subscriber.
TownScaper is a game built around WaveFunctionCollapse.

You specify which cells in a 3D grid are occupied by clicking, and it fills in the details to make a charming little town.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291340/Townscaper/
Thanks! Not sure why my post didn’t hit the dupe checker.
It never occurred to you that somebody would "blindly" (what does that mean in this context?) follow a dotted line drawn on Google Maps? That's pretty unreasonable, to put it lightly. Blaming users for the consequences of bad UI is a huge problem in software.
I was thinking that too, but apparently in modern English it can mean "to reduce by a large amount". The 1/10th thing is a historical usage.
I was homeschooled, so I was shown this in middle school hah. I think math camps and the like also tend to teach it before college.
Some great principles, but where do they stand on decentralisation of power?

It's hard to see the fuzzy feelings of this movement not being co-opted by state/corporate power to solidify their control of resources.
I can tell you now that nobody including the current engineers, can work with the requirement documents that are being generated over the course of our multi year system transformation project.

Of course, it’s still an improvement over the legacy system which has none.
Technology enables so much, including stupidity. When I spent a semester abroad in the 90s working at a bar in the vicinity of Ben Nevis, the people who made the trip there were serious hikers. They knew the risks. And even then they kept mountain rescue busy. Now we are lulled into believing we don't have to think about anything - we press the go button and it all just happens. Works most of the time, reinforcing the casual ignorance.
Untreated other medical issues due to health system overload? Maybe combined with civil unrest and partial societal collapse?

That's about the only way the #s make sense and even than it's about an order of magnitude larger than seems plausible. It's really a number that needs explaining.
That and current fatality rate is pretty low. Even without medical treatment I can't see it topping 5% across the population.
Even if we shut down all medical facilities, 20% of the population dying is outlandish.

Myanmar's circumstances excluded.
I would assume (taking the lazy way of not checking) that this is an issue of qualified immunity for law enforcement officers. Qualified immunity is a judge-created doctrine that allows police and other government officials to avoid any consequences for clearly bad acts. Any intelligent 10-year old could see that it's unjust for a citizen to pay for the cop's mistake in this situation. Qualified immunity says, "if there is no specifically on-point existing legal ruling that states the behavior violates the constitution then the government official is not responsible.

Everyone else is expected to use their brains and be responsible for the consequences of their actions. Government officials are not. This is not an issue of computer failures being treated differently than other high-consequence failures. This an issue of government failure getting a pass.

Qualified immunity is a corrupt and depraved element of the US legal system.
> If every single person in New York city got themselves a suburban house, they'd take up 0.1% of the United States (about the area of two counties).

Not sure what you're trying to say with this, but putting 10 million people anywhere and packing them into any density would require enormous infrastructure that needs to be built and paid for.

Of course, this does happen at much smaller scales and in many places. The pattern is repeated all over the USA: developers buy up land from farmers who want to retire, then quickly erect sprawling tracts of cookie-cutter mcmansions, selling a pipe dream of rural living in plywood and tyvek box with a 2 car garage. This always has the effect of straining the local infrastructure, making traffic into a nightmare, boosting the cost of housing to the point where it's out of reach for locals, and sucking the taxbase out of the nearby urban area.
This looks amazing. If the author(s) are reading this, well done and thank you. :)

The music in TIE Fighter was incredible. For those of you that want a nostalgia kick, this is (in my opinion) the best remaster I've found of its original MIDI score:

https://soundcloud.com/laserschwert/sets/tie

2:44 in the second track is probably the most iconic moment, although I'd recommend watching the original intro first if you haven't seen it!
How would greed lead them to paying 40+ hours of time and a half OT instead of hiring another worker?
Wow I wasn't aware there was any freely available PA-RISC emulator capable of actually booting HPUX. I know there were some attempts at the CPU and there's commercial offerings but no idea that qemu was this complete now.
Total Self Control – Take Control of Your Life Self_Help – Maiyro
In any given year very few people have heart attacks, or otherwise require advanced medical care to survive. So that would have only a miniscule impact on the overall death toll. Especially in a nation like Myanmar with a median age of only 29 years.
Lightweight Scheme IDE on macOS and iOS
To be honest, my art usually involves fingerpaint renderings of penguins being massacred by demons but I mean, it’s up to the viewer to make their own interpretation I suppose…
June CPI is up 5.4% YoY and 4.5% ex food and energy, so this doesn't even come close to covering that.
Sure it can, it can just ban crypto currencies and start fining all businesses which accept them and/or allow exchanging them for fiat currencies. While technically people still be able to transfer them I'm not sure how useful that would be in practical terms.
Seems unlikely still. E.g. the american civil war cost 2% of the population. What prop dies if all medical facilities shut down entirely? Probably no more than 5%?

20% is just utterly enormous.
That’s the trending tab. But your main page is tailored based on the videos that you clicked on or watched.

I just listen to specific genres of music so my recommendations are all great.
That would not be a valid assumption. Few people have medical emergencies each year.
Maybe "remaster" is the better term here?

Apparently the "OSV" in the track title means "Original Sound Version". TIL!
My irrational hope is that parent is a GM executive, dragging their family along to the site of future business deals.

Like Ludendorff holidaying covertly to the fortifications at Liège in Belgium prior to World War 1.

Kids sour faced in the back seats wishing you worked at Disney.
> As an outsider, it's hard to tell the difference, but I agree with the grandparent that an order of magnitude cheaper does look too good to be true at first.

Whereas, looking at it the other way around, an order of magnitude more expensive on the part of the manufacturer unfortunately doesn't look too bad to be true at all.
You're assuming you've been able to construct all those real numbers in the first place, using arbitrary imaginary cauchy sequences (i.e. cauchy sequences that cannot be constructed but rather rely on some magic axiom of infinite choice).
Previous (excellent) part discussed here fwiw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27538095
Here here. If you want to make art, make art. For most devs, you’re gluing together APIs or existing libraries, and Copilot will make this work easier over time.

Just as welding can be done for art or hobbyist endeavors, there’s a whole lot of welding that is boring, repetitive, and/or devoid of anything fun or creative. But that work still needs to be done. I’m not a software engineer, but if you can pull junior and mid level engineers up using software and machine learning, why wouldn’t you? Automate All The Things.
The LT/RT being a single trigger axis is just something the default Xbox controller driver does for XInput (and under DirectInput they're just treated as buttons).

If you install a different driver such as XBCD/x360c/x360wc it can be reported as separate axes.
If individual missiles are used to take Starlink satellites down, it would be quite an expensive affair. Probably should save those missiles in a war for something else.
Or maybe go with the shorter anonymous function syntax:

bar = &(&1 + 1)
The situation there sounds dire, but this story is literally a set of WhatsApp messages turned into “news”.

> One very reputable public health specialist expects that the population will be decimated by at least 10-15 million by the time Covid is done with Myanmar

I really don’t think you can come up with a headline figure like that and then hand-wave away the actual source.

My Bangkok dentist with an MPH from a good American university has been forwarding me Covid horror stories that are trivially debunked as fake news for the last 18 months — without names and verifiable quotes, the whole thing is worthless.
Our doom is going to be far less entertaining than a good Gibson novel I suspect. Maybe a good time to teach the kids krav and how to wire a solar panel to a car battery eh. :/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27869511
It does not. It is for very small-scale similarities.
Doesn’t fix the problem where when you make all the services you depend on use your gmail address for validation and Google arbitrarily decides to shut your account down with no recourse or contact to resolve it, you’re just screwed. Stop letting Google eat the web.
There is an argument to set the value of humanity to some finite, not ultra-enormous value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging
> So, it is a derivative of a derivative name.

Well that's how language works. Do you think those Latin names came out of nowhere? Or do you think they're themselves derived from Italic languages and other sources?
Most of these workers have no technical skills. Their jobs are very physical and laborious in many cases. My dad was a maintenance tech at Frito for a very long time and he never experienced anything like this. They still would not promote him to management because he had no degree, despite him being the most senior and experienced maintenance tech there. They often flew him to other plants to set them up, do PLC magic, etc. Anyway, the packers, cooks, and all the unskilled labor are treated like replaceable cogs. There is zero upward promotion in these roles. It takes almost no time to train someone up for most of these roles. They will use them up and hire the next person who will burn out in 6 months. (I think these kind of working conditions are terrible, but it’s pretty clear why Frito can do this).
Wouldn't attacks on Starlink be so asymmetrical that we'd want the enemy to try and shoot them down? They'd go bankrupt trying. We launch 60 satellites per Falcon, and who knows how many per Starship. Meanwhile the bad guys have to use a whole launch to take out one/few Starlink satellites.
I ran Haiku on my Nuc for awhile. It is starting to show its age, i.e. doesn't support locking your desktop, no multiuser support etc. As an also old BeOS user, it's purely nostalgia at this point
Very interesting article. I do indeed hope we get there. What is there now is way too scripted to be useful IMO.
I agree that the BBC article is poor, but an earlier article in The Guardian made clear that this was more than concern trolling:

“But this is not the correct route and we often come across groups of inexperienced walkers heading towards Steall Falls or up the south slopes of Ben Nevis believing it is the route to the summit.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/16/google-ma...
Some people do get very upset if you suggest male and female brains even have differences...
I’m baffed that nobody though that there might be an issue with the system when it suddenly turned out that 700 postmasters were disappearing funds. That’s way too high to be accidental.
Overtime may be cheaper than hiring another worker because then there are healthcare benefits and pension for one more head.
I'm not sure that is a satisfying critique. If I'm reading you right, you seem to be taking a particulate or reductionist view (apologies if not). This is also a well known battle between particle physicists and others, say condensed matter physicists, like P. W. Anderson. In that context, he was a fan of the "more is different" approach which basically said that certain complex behavior can't be understood by simply breaking things down to their constituent parts, that emergent behavior (more) is indeed different and needs different approaches. His paper and many writings say it better.

https://cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/ander...
There're fables about USSR satellite which is basically bucket with nails and explosive charge. In case of war it'll be blown up and nails will destroy everything in the orbit.
> Utopias like solarpunk look nice but how does it make good stories?

Feel-good stories make for good stories, like a good love story or a fantasy book about a young protagonist overcoming obstacles. There's nothing wrong with escapism from time to time.

But indeed, there's not even a trace amount of punk in it.
Historically, decimation was a punishment for Roman legions where every 10th solider was killed by his comrades in arms.
I suspect this is common across rural North America. Here in my corner of the east it's notoriously fond of sending unwitting tourists down unmaintained back roads that are barely usable even in summer. At least the foot of snow blocking the road lets them know it's impassable in the winter.
Hey! Thanks for your contributions to the BeOS Ecosystem. The OS wouldn't be the same without it!
256×224 is the resolution that the SNES renders at, but the full area was not considered usable. The exact usable area depends on the TV, but game developers would often restrict themselves to a “safe area”. With the GBA, the entire 240×160 viewing area is usable.
> I couldn't recall the exact text of a code example that I've encountered repeatedly even if I wanted to.

If you could it would be copyright infringement anyway.
Show HN: Video preview of $NEUY AI proof of contribution apps
20% might be high but in the absence of oxygen support most people over 65..70 will expire if they stay sick longer than a week with this damned virus.

I don't know the how big the senior population of Myanmar is but 10% is not unreasonable.
USSR's version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Project_K_nuclear_tests

Meta: At present the comment¹ by redis_mic mentioning this is downvoted to [dead]. HN's mob censorship system is completely broken.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27869119
Original Metroid 2 was remade (see AM2R). Nintendo had it taken down though because it completed with their own remake.