skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>DuckDuckGo’s search results are something between worse to terrible

I would like someone to make some objective research on that.

My experience is the reverse, so I strongly suspect our reticence is just one of changing our habit more than an real thing.

I switched to DDG years ago and it took a few weeks to wean out the tendency to compare searches, usually brought on by the fear of missing out something.

I very rarely have to resort to a !g search and usually if I can't find it on DDG, I won't easily find it on google either.

I don't feel like missing out on anything and I always find what I need (and if I don't, I can't find it in other searches either).

Other platforms have some strength in some area, like Bing and Google have more tools for image searches, and it's possible that one of these is better than the others at some specific domain, like research papers or patent searches.

But after switching to DDG, all these options are still available and -at least in my case- 99%+ of my needs are met with it.
Exactly. A high school bully in a Bell 206 is not a good authority on the capabilities of even amateur UAV hardware
Most military bases in the US don't have air defense systems active.
first time I read this but I'm not even surprised the term exists .. it's probably a natural and very old phenomenon right ?
Let me dumb it down for you. If a lot* of people don't have those symptoms, catch covid, then do have those symptoms, you can be confident that covid is linked to those symptoms - whether we have the exact biological mechanism or not.

*A statistically significant number.
This isn't because of the writing though. The whole article, start to finish, is about alternatives to lithium ion batteries, of which a derivative of durian is an option. Judging by the URL (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200724-the-battery-made...), BBC tried several titles until they found the one that got the most clicks. I don't think the author would have picked the current title if they had the choice.
The main activity of gangs is transporting drugs. They do use autonomous aircraft to transport drugs but except for synthetic drugs, generally the volumes are high enough to require sea transport (narcosubmarines).
Diets don't fail because they're inherently flawed and the system is more complex than we think it is. Diets fail because people fail. "I tried and I failed, but I still do all this physical stuff or could if I wanted to" is dishonesty, whether intended or not.

Asserting that, for some unspecified (but large) fraction of the population, tracking your caloric intake and energy expenditure versus the number on the scale is inherently flawed is dangerous, misleading, and probably false. At least partly because overweight people may lie to themselves.

In this sense, and in the context of Fella, throwing more drugs at the problem isn't a solution any more than throwing additional hardware at an application because the developer insists that database indexes don't work everywhere. It's true, but requires extraordinary evidence, and should not be the baseline assumption.
Peer recognition is more effective than bonuses for running a company. The problem companies have with knowledge workers is how to organise them. That requires a certain culture and social environment, and I assume the great cultures have clear internal lines of communication to work out which peers are the exemplars of the sort of work that happens. And workers like working for successful companies.

But that is all secondary to what gets employees in the door each day. The technical term for the thing that does that is "compensation".
Who are these people trying to fool? I haven't rolled my eyes that far to the back of my head since I was 14. Is someone trying to get some recognition by their peers at their job with a ridiculous blog?
I seem to have similar issues and personality as you. I co-founded a startup last year and started at a frenetic pace, but was unable to turn myself off.

Over the last 3-4 months, the insane productivity was replaced by constant anxiety which mutated to burnout, and forced me to take a break from the company because I basically stopped functioning.

At this point, it seems the choices are either figure out how to set boundaries with myself and work at a sustainable pace, or just avoid these kinds of positions (founder is probably the most extreme type) and the addiction to work that they tempt.
If you want examples of years of bad scientific advice take a look at the food pyramid. It literally consists of interest group representation. It’s not based solid on science.
Pfizer moves towards an oral anti-Covid-19 therapy
Linked elsewhere in the comments: https://github-to-sqlite.dogsheep.net/
Yes, companies could be forced to spend more on labor in the short run, but that's a Faustian bargain that harms all parties in the long run.

Artificially higher wages at the expense of lower profit margins means lower volumes of investment, which reduces long-term productivity/wage growth. I recommend you read this 1957 book, Why Wages Rise:

https://fee.org/resources/why-wages-rise/
https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archi...

"GitHub does not provide issues-only access permissions"
Yes. My understanding is that body weight is more than 60% genetically determined, but somehow it is the moral worth of the phenotype that is to blame.
That was great, thanks for linking it.
Yes this. Distributed tracing is making these concepts more popular but in many cases it requires manual instrumentation of every function call and state one wants to track. I would love to see more auto-instrumentation but seems this should be implemented at the interpreter or compiler level.
In 2020, Duiran prices in Thailand fell dramatically. Covid-19 travel restrictions meant they could not sell them to the largest market - China - and so there was so much Durian going un-sold that some people were giving them away for free.
This hasn’t really been well tested in court. If I hover a drone for 20 minutes at 6 inch altitude in your front lawn in front of your toddler and you blow it to smithereens with a 12 gauge you’re not likely to be prosecuted for it.
Can you share some of the better discussions and resources you've found for this?
My wife coughed for almost a year. A YEAR. Awful coughing that hurt my ears when I was nearby. Never anything coming up. Just coughing and coughing and coughing. One day it finally stopped.

I had a chest x-ray last year because my chest hurt. Nothing showed up. It kept hurting. For a year every day when I’d wake up my right chest hurt. It hurt a little bit to breathe for almost a year. Eventually I realized if I sort of flexed in a weird way tensing up the muscles I could breathe without it hurting. So I started doing that, and one day that pain stopped.

I don’t know if these were symptoms of long haul Covid but they were certainly bizarre things to have happen, and it seemed like a major coincidence for it to happen during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In this study N = 303, and ~67% of these participants had at least one pre-existing chronic condition. Furthermore the symptoms were self-reported through an online survey.

Pointing out these facts because the results are far from conclusive, and thus may not be representative of the population at large.
Hair I'm not sure, but I think the sort of 'dynamic' trees and foliage that move with wind and rain, should add more realism. I hear Witcher 3 had some kind of system that did that, not sure about any other games that do that.
Downvoted both because of your tone and because other mechanisms (like people who’ve had Covid becoming more prone to reporting symptoms caused by other sources) could explain these results.
Test cross-architecture without leaving home
I'd say continuous pay. If it's your job and you're good enough to keep it, your continuous pay check is just the agreed upon exchange for doing said work. If you're not good enough, then that pay stops (or you're promoted to management). If you do something above and beyond expected for job, then bonuses are what is used to reward. Sure, some peer recognition or other non-monetary award might be appropriate for certain things, but if it is something that allows new income to company, saves company significant time/money, etc, then cash is king!
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-will-do-anything-to-g... - from the other day
Agile input processing is here for smoother, more responsive gameplay
structural batteries are a small trend now (even Musk/Tesla talked about it)

this idea could very well be interesting to pursue applied
I'm non-binary, assigned male at birth. I totally agree that having a program aimed at men and building supportive communities for men is important, as they are often under served by existing support infrastructures.

I'm curious if you'd consider non-binary folks as well? Should I not sign up if I'm nonbinary? Or even anyone who is ok with a 'primarily for men' atmosphere?
If you’re interested in this stuff CodeMirror is a fascinating exploration into these grammars. Particularly CofeMirror 6 and the Lezer parser.
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There was a time when I was seriously considering a taco delivery drone business in Austin, TX. North and south of downtown (where most people live) it's a very short city. So it seemed perfect.

Anyways, after talking to a lawyer and learning about FAA regulation I decided it was too much work.

The short version is a drone with line of sight can fly under x' (think it was 600). Over that it must have first person cameras, and is technically an aircraft so it must be flown by a licensed pilot and get FAA clearance... but you can't drop a taco from 600', and you can't go below 600' without the operator having line of sight.
I would think that most people with $10k+ of drone up there, aren't risking it physically or legally by playing with helicopters?

Someone playing with tech that someone else is paying for though?
I know I am not the only guy that has done this... repeatedly... right?
Some providers feature in scammer tutorials much more than others; for being cheap, offering free credit, easy to use, powerful and susceptible to multiple accounts per credit card or supporting unusual payment providers that scammers like.

DO ticks many of those boxes or did in the past.
I don't know for certain if I had long covid but I experienced weird symptoms in my body beginning in January when there where >30,000 new cases per day in my country.

I was fatigued, had unexplainable chest pains some of the time, had problems concentrating, headaches, always a runny nose. I never did a antibody test because I self-isolated for most of the time and never met people without a mask, so I initially thought I was just developing an allergy. Multiple doctors tried to find out what was wrong but all tests where pointing to me being very healthy.

Then I got my second mRNA shot in July and all those symptoms went away, like magic. Very weird for me and maybe I had long covid and what you described happened.
It's hard to take this study seriously when there were no proper controls and many of the symptoms are non specific. They reported anxiety as one of the most common "long COVID" symptoms, but according to the NIMH something like a fifth of US adults have anxiety in any given year.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/any-anxiety-disor...
I imagine they’re referencing the re-occurring stories where sleep or oxygen deprived infantry can’t tell the difference between planets and incoming aircraft

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23455128
Traction is relative (and occasionally subjective) - at the MVP stage “traction” could be as simple as a growing pre-order or beta list. If you have a value prop and can explain or show it well, you should get traction if/when you find the right audience and channel(s). Each investor may have their own idea of what traction “should” look like for this kind of business, have you asked them “what kind of traction evidence would get you to write a check?”?
I don't think you even need to learn how to make truly fast systems right out of the box. Just learn how not to make mind-bogglingly slow ones.

There's a lot of low-hanging fruit when it comes to performance and quite often it seems to be left in the tree...
Unfortunately, FDA approval is being rushed and may appear as early as next week, possibly in order to justify mandates. This is despite (a) Pfizer trial does not conclude until Jan 2023, (b) the control group for the trials have been lost.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28252026 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28252075
Because not everyone has a travel passport. Especially in the US this number is shockingly low. Also they expire. How would you transfer this data? Also some people have more than 1 passport and potentially don’t want both countries to know the other passport exists.
Oh, please. Personal experiences are just useful examples, anecdotes, illustrations. They do not describe the universe.

The obesity epidemic in this nation isn't caused by people are eating good food and exercising. It is caused by the kinds of things my examples illustrate. And yes, in this case, there happens to be a single basic truth: People are eating too much and too much crap.

You might want to poke fun at what I am saying, come back with contemptuous responses, kill me with downvotes and flagging. And yet, the obesity epidemic has rendered every single weight loss program, drug or magical juju bean "solution", ineffective, even harmful. I wonder how many people have been hurt badly by horrendous weight loss/gain cycles as a direct result of these "solutions"?

Our problem is not solved with drugs, supplements and magical programs.

Our obesity problem is a far deeper issue that requires intervention into our industrialized food system as well as a rethink of our educational choices.

What's really interesting to me is that in this entire incident NOT ONE PERSON has countered my claim that the real problem is bad food and bad habits. That's interesting.

Also, not one person has said something like "No, you are wrong, thermodynamics doesn't work that way...you can eat four times the carb/sugar-laden food you should eat on a daily basis, sit in front of the TV and still maintain good health".

No, all the negative reaction is pretty much about being offended for my strong reaction to yet another easy weight loss scheme that, based on recorded weight loss industry history is going to be no different from everything else we have seen. Only this time it is YC backed, so, I guess that's OK.

In engineering we are trained (or should be trained) to perform real --not imaginary-- root cause analysis in order to understand how to solve a problem. When you do that with regards to obesity, absolutely everything points to bad food, bad choices, bad personal habits and bad education. That's it. This is the root cause package, if you will. And none of this is fixed with a pill. Temporarily, maybe. Long term? No way.
no, all he said is you can't comment on ongoing legal matters. I have no idea how you went from that to "humans are controlled from voicing your opinion by your corporate".

this is pretty standard. even in personal matters your lawyer will probably ask you to shut up.
Nothing was omitted from my statement. They have been authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization, not the full approval process because, if we waited for full approval, we would have no vaccines at all because full approval can take well over a year.

In any case, the Pfizer vaccine is expected to be fully approved within days.

https://news.yahoo.com/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-may-031718964...
What fixed wing craft can hover 1000' directly above the rotors of the helos? Don't fixed wing aircraft need to be constantly moving to stay in the air?
Gain admin on Windows with a Razer mouse
Currently, AMD is fab capacity limited and couldn't get enough cpus made to be 50% of datacenter purchases.

Add to that some reality about purchaser reluctance to switch, in part because of at least perceived quality of platform support, and Intel still has a lot of breathing room.

We're starting to see some positive signs from Intel fabs, so they could likely recover, as they have before. For AMD to become dominant, they will need to continue to do excellent work for a few more years while Intel continues to wallow as they have since maybe Skylake.
It seems like modern day BRIXMIS equivalents would definitely be trying this...
Stupid article lol
This misunderstanding i feel comes from the deeply technocratic language that the CDC uses for public relations posts...

it makes it super easy for social media to misunderstand and spread in the form of FUD, I've seen a lot of it in the last month or so.
He said it was to "Clint Cage", a "registered pseudonym" for himself, but obviously he was paying homage to John Cage.
I have had one dose of moderna but got a severe fever from it so I held off from the second.
This will probably get a lot of downvotes but in the way that “paint” is a solved problem and “art” is unsolved, I think parsing as a solved problem. Good languages and DSLs are an unsolved problem.
I believe is using the tech and apps for remembering what I read.
I recently started using Readwise app for getting all my important sections from different books into daily dose of reminders. It works well.
I also use Notion for auto syncing of book highlights.

I don't think it's fair to eliminate technology from reading. Use it for your advantage.
As a Software Person who is self-studying Formal Methods and TLA+ i can categorically state that you are wrong!

The Mathematical Notation is THE universal language of Logic, Set Theory, Functions etc. which are the mathematical underpinnings of Computer Science and Programming. This is what all Engineers need to be familiar with. Programming languages are incidental in this case and are merely used for syntactic expressions of Mathematical Concepts. This is as it should be and the reason Leslie Lamport (the inventor of TLA+) settled on this specific notation. Please see his interviews/videos on Youtube for more details.

In my own case i started by grasping/studying the basics from the following books;

* Software Engineering Mathematics by Woodcock and Loomes.

* Understanding Formal Methods by Monin.

* Introductory Logic and Sets for Computer Scientists by Nimal Nissanke.

* Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists by Scheinerman.

This allowed me to start studying Specifying Systems by Leslie Lamport which is the main book for TLA+.

PS: User "pron" to whom you replied to has a nice 4-part series on TLA+ which i have linked to in another post in this thread. He really knows this subject :-)
You could just use a throwaway account.
> … but according to the NIMH something like a fifth of US adults have anxiety in any given year.

That has to be significantly higher after 20 months of “breathe and your dead!” news coverage.
FWIW the researchers acknowledged this in the cited paper:

> because stress/anxiety is a symptom that many persons may be experiencing due to the pandemic, and not due to COVID-19 per se, we quantified the number of individuals who experienced stress/anxiety as their only symptom

> We found that only 6 participants reported stress/anxiety as their sole symptom, demonstrating that our PASC prevalence is not driven by this non-specific symptom.

That said, completely agree that the study is fairly low quality and has many confounding factors, see my other responses here for further commentary.
And the key question would be: is there any statistically significant report of safety or efficacy problems in any peer reviewed study or even reported through VARES?
People don't care about brands, they care about functionality. There's a reasonable problem in the market that every company is now trying to take over the gatekeeper role, which kills the value proposition - Netflix made a heck of an inroad on piracy, then everyone else launched their streaming services and suddenly it's almost back to the bad old days - and certainly it's very hard to discover where to watch things now.

This is also why Steam has mindshare: I just plain don't really want multiple "I am your games platform" apps - to the point I ignore new releases till they're on Steam.

So if someone creates a decentralized platform that can provide those things more easily, that'll win - but, I'm pretty skeptical it'll happen: decentralized platforms have been atrocious at providing the type of services companies actually need, like a payment system that is just "I enter my credit card number and you give me services I requested" or "being easier to use".

But one place to get everything? That's a killer app.
It seems pretty bad to have kebab-case identifiers in a language that also has an infix subtraction operator -. The only languages I know that allow kebab-case idents are lisps, where subtraction is (- prefix notation). From the examples:

lam(actual): num-abs(actual - target) < delta end

This is a new, even worse kind of "whitespace significance" than indentation. Is it a function called `num-abs` or a variable `num` minus `abs(actual - target)`? I can't tell if the language would allow `actual-target` as subtraction.
I don't think this is completely true.

What HNers often complain about is companies that run "cargo cult" start ups, pretend to be "family" but only one way.

I've been here since at least 2009 according to ny profile.
Sounds like you've been watching Better Call Saul! Although, they were handing over stacks of cash instead of swapping burners, but yeah, essentially the same premise.
My question would be what percentage of people does this type of motivation apply to? Most people don't edit Wikipedia or write for Quora. And on Quora, plenty that do have ulterior motives like selling a product or quietly embedding referral links or building a "personal brand."
Story of Melissa who has been named as a Trailblazing Female Entrepreneur (2021)
Because I don't want my health history being part of my main account.

Also it's all a maybe. I don't know if I actually had long covid. It's all speculation on my part by correlating events.
In general zk means zettelkasten, which is a way to take notes and organize information.
There are plenty of implementations on this idea-- like neuron or roam research.
I think person you're replying to has it backwards. The big metros are where people are leaving. Look at rent and housing prices in any mid size city. Take Knoxville, or Orlando, or Louisville, or KC.
This is not entirely true as no vaccine is 100% garunteed. As shown in the link, mayoclinic shows 97% protection after second dose.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/measles/exper....

Also, people do get tetanus boosters as needed and some people do have to get another round of Hep-B again. My wife who is about to enter a nursing program has to go through another regimen of Hep-B because her medical paperwork shows she doesnt have immunity. She was vaccinated. It does occur in some people that their body does not retain immunity.

Now yes, I would like to see a better COVID shot. Or atleast know the full limits of the COVID shot. We are still not 100% how long someone has immunity. Hopefully it is a long time. If it turns out to be short, well yes I think we all want longer. There is also no garuntee of protection against variants. Measles could very well morph out in the wild as something different and current MMR vaccines render useless. I would actually say it is not an if, but when. As it is common for things to evolve over time.
Small ones usually have sufficiently strong motors to do things that the bigger ones can't.