skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had alice in wonderland syndrome a lot as a child and a teen, I distinctly remember feeling like I was a smaller "core" further inside my body. I hadn't ever noticed this was clearly a perceptual distortion, but it is isn't it?

For the most part I haven't had many psychotic symptoms aside from during lockdowns when I've had constant, obsessive thoughts about suffering. Sometimes I'll lay awake unable to fall asleep thinking about people forced into slavery, human trafficking, torture, my own future death etc.
Extra virgin olive oil is perfectly fine to fry in, unless you're seeing black smoke, you're not hitting the smoke point.
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Apple’s security theater is the pillar of their anticompetitive behaviors. The only users it helps are noobs who will just install whatever. If some serious actor wants your data, the theater doesn’t deter them, as evidenced by this Pegasus. If China wants your data, Apple will hand it over themselves.

It’s all a “think of the children” race-to-the-bottum where rent-seekers abuse fear and sycophanty to monopolize critical infrastructure.
If they don't vaccine and don't venture out it is fine.
But if they don't take the vaccine and do go to work etc, the risk of them catching corona is higher. They in turn can spread to others.

We have seen the kind of snowballing effect 1 or 2 infected can cause.

Of course vaccines do not have 100% efficacy rate, but the risk of getting corona and its effects is at least a bit reduced if you get vaccinated.
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> That makes an IPO look like an exit strategy.

Every IPO is an exit strategy or a refusal to run a balanced budget. If you have cash flow you can invest for free and compound the growth internally. If you have responsible financial management you can tap the bond markets for basically free.

VC's want a 10 bagger - they have had it and more - is Duolingo going to be valued at $65B in a couple of years? I doubt it.
Yes, a few days I've even had 5 different spam emails in the inbox.
Everything has unknown unknowns (u-u).

You do not know the u-u risk of covid for precisely the same reasons you do not know the u-u risk of the vaccine: they are both on the same timeline.

You also do not know the aggregate u-u risk to others: asymptomatic spread, modalities of spreading, etc.

The aggregate u-u compound the individual u-u of covid. Eg., suppose long-covid occurs at a higher rate than supposed, has a longer lasting impact, has a more severe neurological impact.... then this compounds the u-u risk on spreading (eg., suppose that asymptomatic spread is more severe...).

All you're saying by declining the vaccine is that you care more about the u-u risk to yourself.
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I just looked at their page and they are using https://strapdownjs.com/

Not exactly a one liner, but it looks simple to use.
To be fair: Background checks, in the US, aren't limited to criminal records.

First and foremost, sometimes checks include arrests (without conviction, or a not guilty verdict) if the company chooses the wrong background check company. The government doesn't regulate them very well.

But it can be things like a google search for you (Which means that a protest you went to could mean you "aren't a good fit for the company.").

It can be a credit check: I had to pass a credit check to work at a gas station once. The district manager was convinced that bad credit meant you were more likely to steal.

Very, very often - and more often than a criminal background check - is a drug test. I didn't take a job that did pre-employment hair follicle tests, mostly because the person in the room with me explained she had a drug problem in the past. She had been clean for 2-3 years clean and was willing to take regular drug tests. But they said the tests went back further than that, and no job if the hair follicle test wasn't passed (I think there are now laws that would have protected her).

Urine tests are more common, though. And a slew of employers do random drug tests - some call centers, for example, might do random hair follicle or urine tests (Student loan collections do this in some places). It doesn't matter if it would affect your job or not.

This is all mostly because there is no law protecting it: The behavior would be illegal where I live now.

Now, with vaccinations: Employers do have a little bit of business knowing health concerns if it can affect workplace safety in ways that can make other employees or customers fall sick. They already do this to some degree in, say, foodservice. For example, I know a food factory here (That I worked at temporarily) that requires stool sample tests and time off work if you have any sort of vomiting or diarrhea - you know, because it can make others sick.
For all our embedded work, we first prototype (something we always call a simulator which it kind of is) in typescript (used to be c#), then port to c => if we need 'less' (the c version is too big, too slow etc) we port it to asm. The advantage of this way is that we already know it meets the demands of the business (because we fleshed that out with the typescript version) and we have a low level version (c) that corresponds in functionality as we can test the 2 versions in the same way. Moving to asm is still a pain, but far less painful than other ways we tried in the past (like when I did a lot of straight to asm in the 80s, which was very painful, but there was no real way, except for some algorithms, to do the 'simulator' step here).
Android is not that open, either. Running background jobs on Android is severely restricted.
I made the mistake of buying Thomas' Calculus after watching a lecture by Knuth where he lauded having Thomas as his teacher. My oh my is Thomas' Calculus not a book to teach yourself calculus with without lectures and seminars to guide you.
This. Bear in mind also that even with the efficiency gain of the heat pump in warmer places (much of the US lives in places that are not warm), there are efficiency losses from generation and transmission of electricity to the end user.
You say that sarcastically, but those are all easy things you can master in a week, and they are the sort of thing you might find in the English language or even a dialect. It doesn't compare to learning Chinese or Arabic it seems to me.

Just the fact that you can write out romanji and get reasonably understandable Japanese makes it easier than a significant amount of languages out there.

In my opinion the only thing that makes Japanese truly hard is that they decided for some insane reason to borrow the Chinese writing system, which is the most insane writing system in the world, for half (why half!?) of their writing.
Yes, I can see that. Pervasive hyphens would resolve most of the ambiguity and make it easier to learn. (But they also look kind of ugly.)

Just be glad you ain't learning Turkish or Finnish, though.
Bureaucratic systems don't help the small inventors. Bureaucratic systems, without fail, are going to benefit people who can hire lots of lawyers. People with more lawyers and deeper pockets have a structural advantage in legal fights.

Sticking to the case study at hand, the patent system set up Bell to do a bunch of basic research, patent it, then lock out small competition. I'm cool if you're cool with that, but the antitrust isn't the reason growth was enabled, it was that the patent system was functioning as expected and the government disabled it.

When they wanted growth, they revoked the patents. Which is sensible. And revoking the patents allowed faster growth. You may not like how they treated Bell and changing the rules on half way through is indeed unfair, but them's the outcomes.
> After the Trump election, there was talk about end of democracy, financial collapse, end of globalization

It's important that people understand the following before the 2022 and 2024 elections, where Trump and R will gain several seats.

Trump is a patriot - he represents America first, which is good for the US economy and citizens, and thus anti-globalization. That's what MAGA means.

Ironically, it's Democrat leaders that are pro-globalization and anti-American, proven by the current porous border and relaxation of sanctions against China. (The border is open to increase people who are predicted to vote D, and to lower wages for company backers of the party.)

We will have a financial collapse if Biden's Marxist policies make people wonder if the US dollar should continue to be the global currency - the US has a 1% economic advantage by being that currency.

Why do Democrat leaders behave that way? Because when you live in a gated community and have your own security, the rest of America can go screw themselves. (20/25 Democratic city mayors have their own security, yet want to "defund the police" for others.)

And wtf is this?

Incoherent Biden Town Hall Excerpt (with Don Lemon of CNN enabling it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB9MOJUS6L8
It is not happening with the example from the article for me, but I have seen this practice ruin my search results in varying degree over the past 6 months. Some times entire keywords will just be broken because there are so many fake sites.
> LEAs have a legitimate need for targeted surveillance to investigate crime. This does not mean we should bow to every LEA wish, but we cannot dismiss them wholesale either.

"LEAs" have violated privacy of citizens en masse and we are back to political procecutions in free democracies. Winning back the needed trust takes time and effort. We would need to see a lot of changes here. Whistleblowers don't have the needed protection, even the justiciary made political judgments. It is not safe to give executive government any more powers that were constantly expanded with the war on terror anyway while we saw falling crime rates throughout most democracies.

You could outlaw encryption, which won't be successful and create problems anologous to the war on drugs as you would drive every pricacy concious citizen underground and criminalize them. This would have severe negative repercussions on overall security.

We also saw cases of child traffiking in government circles which I doubt would have been tackled by law enforcement, so I have my doubts about the motivations to weaken encryption.

There is no case for backdoors in my opinion and certainly not from a security perspective.
But they’re ISO27001 certified? Didn’t they have security controls for transit of protected information? What about human resource security?

What about their access control policy and network access control policy?

Do you know who their certifier is, as they don’t say, so I can ensure I never, ever trust them?
If one is not able to work in the industry oneself, there are also clean-energy ETFs that one can invest in, to support companies working on clean energy, which can manifest similar optimism by-proxy.
But there are more vaccinated people than unvaccinated people, so it’s proportionally not “almost as much chance”.

Ultimately when enough of the population is vaccinated, you’d expect the majority of hospitalizations to be vaccinated.
You have a point, but I assume those businesses' lawyers understand this better than our armchair speculation here.
> Gross, right? m4 is great for macros and includes. Not super fun for general programming. But, like immigrants, it gets the job done.

Weird comparison.
one bit of info i feel is missing from this, is that flaxseed oil is very good for cleaning your pan (better than soap). So when done, wipe with flaxseed. It's now clean, rust-proofed and seasoned.
Thanks. Yeah that would be better and bring a little more consistency, but since js is single-threaded it doesn't cause big issues.
> "Arthur is the longest-running kids animated series in history [...]" said the show's executive producer

Let's not forget the German Sandmännchen (children's bedtime stop motion animation) running since 1959 ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandm%C3%A4nnchen

And in Japan there's a few more in addition to the ones parent comment mentioned:

Detective Conan January 8, 1996
Chibi Maruko-chan January 8, 1995

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_series_by_episod...
Don't have to, I'm from EU and want the US keyboard layout.
I in fact did indicate that reading is the easiest in my post.

Speaking is harder than listening because it requires you to produce language and convey ideas from your own mind, with proficiency in pronouncing it in such a way that a native speaker might understand you. Things like idioms you may be able to infer meaning from interpretation when you are listening or reading but you will never use them in speaking unless you really truly know them. You’re correct that the variables of listening are out of your control (which is what makes it so difficult as compared to reading), but that does not make it harder than speaking.

In the military where the DLPT actually tests all three categories for proficiency, speaking is consistently and universally, regardless of target language, the one language learners are least proficient at.
With DDG, I found this thread. Google set to Norway as region/language found nothing from havfruen4220.dk, unless I specifically added site:havfruen4220.dk in the search.

My guess is that someone at Google reacted.
And still no traditional chinese characters which means you need a desktop extension and can't learn it on mobile.
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So, what item, that mr. Johnny Average uses daily, will now be banned (or made more expensive, by having to use barely "recyclable" materials), while nothing will be done about huge industries, and other countries that pollute a lot more?

We,ve forbidden plastic bags and replaced them with reusable bags, which contain more plastic, or with cotton ones, tha thave to be reused 20.000times, to make it worth it, compared to plastic bags ( https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotto... ). We've forbidden straws. So what's next?
Yes, I was sad when they wouldn't take orders to my country :(

I thought shipping was mostly handled by postal companies anyway?
I think it’s a reference to the line in the Hamilton song.
Why would it consistently turn into a hexagon as opposed to an octagon?
This is why you don't put easter eggs in software.
Reading your comments, I can relate. I never found an answer but ptsd, derealisation and schizophrenia all feel like they overlap or fit on a spectrum. Perhaps some of us don't quite have the ingredients to completely detach from reality and can manage our way around symptoms.
A lot of the time I think I'm just too imaginative.

If I'm quite upbeat and have good happy mood (not so common) then symptoms are much less likely to occur, so it could also be a depressive state of sorts.
Extra cars on the road? I use transport services so that I don't have to bring my own car,but since they're pricier per mile I'm more likely to use them along with public transport. Less cars on the road.
In this case I agree with OP. Yeah, you have much more control in the output when you speak. However, most of the case, it'll take forever to brute force your brain to compose the right words/sentences and even found no result most of the times when you're not fluent. On the other hand, in listening, you've built the pattern recognition during your study and easier to spot the speech pattern.

In my country, lots of people are bilingual due to the nature of the ethnic composition. I know way more people whose much better at listening than speaking with the language that they're not fluent with.
Yikes. I recognised him as an anti-creationist Youtuber around 2005.
Almost exactly one year on after 1200 "scientists" told us that whilst anti-lockdown marches were terrible and guaranteed to superspread disease, BLM marches were totally different and much more important than COVID. Open letters from scientists don't seem to mean much.

Also, temperatures in the USA haven't gone up for 20 years now:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/national-temperatu...
"politicians"? What about all of us? Climate change deniers are evil and crazy people, but even the rest of us, who admit it's real, still have to change our behaviors.
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How is this any different? Some people don't have PayPal accounts. Is one proprietary, closed-source platform better than the other in this scenario? I'm not a Patreon user (but have an old account), but at least they don't require a "real" phone number, and don't have a terrible CAPTCHA system to log in.
>> Evolutionary pressure selects for less deadly viruses over time.

> I'm hearing that for the first time, do you have a source?

A virus that kills its host before it has a chance to infect others cannot reproduce.

I cannot remember which virus it was (might have been ebola) but it wiped whole communities so fast it died off because there were no new hosts to infect.
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And France, believe it or not. Somehow the notion that penmanship, under professional scrutiny, can reveal enough about a person to influence a job interview or mental health wormed its way into French (probably a few other countries as well) culture and never apparently left. Despite having no or little scientific backing.

Then again, Americans seem to love personality tests like the Myers-Briggs in a similar way despite equally strong criticism of their utility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22198554
I’d say that, yes. Bluntly, the entire American school system looks pretty bad from the, in my case, outside perspective of someone who went though UK Catholic secondary school (‘secondary’ is an almost but not quite perfect match of US high school).
> After some reflection, I've removed this Easter egg. It'll be gone in the upcoming man-db 2.8.0.

Oh well, it was quite funny while it lasted. I like to imagine a person searching "man gimme gimme gimme after midnight" and being, for lack of a better word, rickrolled with that ABBA song.
Printing and movable type was first invented in China (though it failed to catch on there and as far as we know was separately reinvented in Europe). However the printing press, which is a mechanical device using movable type, was first invented by Gutenberg.
I know it's management's job to manage and obviously they have their own agenda but...

In the past I've seen issues that I know will blow up at some point in the near-future.

Fixing thing them would also make 3 other existing low level problems go away too.

I've explained that to management but as they don't grasp an issue yet arisen they instead let me get half way through something else "important" when the issue strikes and I have to move onto fire-fighting and working through the weekend.

From the comments that doesn't seem to be uncommon. This is the sort of stuff that "agile management" is supposed to fix but because most managers (in my experience) still think in some form of waterfall.

Rule of thumb: The more senior a manager the more they think in waterfall because that's how they see their master plan unfolding.

I know there's exceptions but there aren't enough of them.
I really like this advice and always op for the hard way, the way that solves things preferably for many others, once and for all in an elegant way.

At work, you have time to dive into stuff, for hours on end with little interruption. Very different from at home, with your hobby projects. I see work as a place where I do indeed solve very hard problems because I just have a massive amount of time and focus to spend there.
No doubt Drosten is a great scientist, but he seems to be very naive when it comes to Chinese politics and nationalism:

In his podcast he said: "...we basically do not consider Chinese scientists to be influenced...".

This might be have been true before September 2019, when this virus research was just an average research topic out of many, but it is certainly not true since the pandemic started.
The saying is perhaps more true for C than for Haskell.

Haskell has lots of things that either can't be made Monads or are even deliberately not Monads (to preserve parallelism).
That's interesting. Growing up in the UK as a child the equivalent of Sazae-san Syndrome was hearing the Antiques Roadshow theme. Even now when I hear that music it fills me with the Sunday night blues.
Anyone know how this ties in with the new Google Health? I think all healthcare providers have "do no harm" as a key motto.
Hopefully policy makers will target both consumers and industry in order to tackle this crisis.

Otherwise when we’re talking to our kids, and they’re asking us what we did to stop the climate crisis, all we’ll be able to say is ‘Child, I gave up unlimited free plastic bags for you, what more could I have done?’
The details are the important part here. If you understand why people are against the vaccine, it is because they are not convinced that the vaccine results in the greatest public health. Whether this is right or wrong, trying to gloss over the differences in the details doesn't work here since the conflict is at the level of details.

And no I don't agree with your point about vaccines being "different for every contagion". That is patently untrue, most vaccines developed in the recent past have either been recombinant, attenuated/inactivated viruses or adenovirus vectored vaccines that have undergone extensive FDA approval by now.

This is especially true for the vaccines required for schooling.
I can speak to the Netherlands that this summary may not be the whole truth. As a non-EU non-citizen, I could vote for the water board after being here for one year (the water board is important but imo not interesting), the city council after five years, but never the national elections without naturalisation. And as it doesn't allow (with some exceptions) dual citizenship, that'll probably remain never.

In comparison to where I came from (New Zealand), there you can vote in all elections if you have permanent residency, have lived there for more than a year, and have been in the country within the past one year. For citizens, you need to have been in the country within the past three years.
Can you sit on anything without sitting on your ass?

Now I'm thinking about what 'sitting' actually means.
People have been full of shit for as long as people can remember. Internet is just another communication medium for spreading the produced shit.
Good idea to ignore the law. If 23 member states agree with that, everything is fine.

If the EU wants to fear digital technologies that much, it should not wonder why it is lagging behind.

I hope the law gets sacked again. It should be obvious why upload filters are a bad idea.
Yep. I studied French on the side while I was at uni. It was incredibly valuable as I learnt a lot about English and language in general, and a little French. I got to the stage I could actually read books in French, and write a little (I had a pen pal). But when I went to France, I could barely ask for a baguette in a shop and, once the reality set in, I prayed they didn't ask me any follow up questions because I just couldn't understand.

Duolingo was the new kid on the block at the time, but there were still some people recommending Rosetta Stone at the time. They used to say it was "used by the US military" or some rubbish. All of these language learning things are the same: they claim to be easy and painless. They tell you it will be like acquiring your first language as a child. Nobody seems to remember the years of babbling and years of schooling that were required to become fluent in their native language.

The good news is, learning a language as an adult is easier than learning your first language. The reason is simple: you already have language! You can learn about your second language using your first language. Immersion is still absolutely necessary, but learning grammar and vocabulary using your native language will greatly accelerate the whole process. But, bizarrely, Duolingo etc. actually refuse to use the most powerful tool you'll ever have. It's completely the opposite way you should be learning a language as an adult.