skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on applications of network flow theory and ecological measures to macroeconomics to determine mesoeconomic scale measures for use by decision makers and businesses. These measures use certain properties to determine both stability due to sudden shocks to the economic system as well as what various policy actions will have on the overall health.

This includes entirely different ways of visualizing free trade, etc.

I have made some significant progress in the past year, but I am running into this headache where the papers I need are not easily accessible (or cheap) since I'm not an academic and I'm literally doing this as a for fun side project. I've been trying to find a university or college willing to take me on in some capacity simply to let me get access to academic catalogues, but I am not having that much luck unfortunately.

The best results recently though include some really fascinating stuff that comes from statistical measures that give clarity to how a region would respond to being isolated for any period of time.
> Honestly, I wish I could delete at least half the comments here, including yours.

It sounds like if you had your way, you'd be quite the authoritarian. Do you hear yourself?

> The CCP is an authoritarian government. Yes. Is this being proposed in the US? No. Why all the whining and insane amount of pearl-clutching then?

Vaccine passports and mandated lockdown and vaccines without informed consent are bringing us closer to authoritarianism than we ever have before.

> Has the level of discourse really become that much worse on HN over the years?

So in response you create a meta post complaining about others complaining about authoritarianism?
I would assume that all 5 give slightly differing estimates of the current time [a, b, c, d, e] with duplicates being rare and not treated specially than values that are close. You can either choose 'c' to ignore the outliers, or average [b, c, d] or some weighted average of them or more. Maybe the weighted average of the middle 3 might be more stable than the single median.
Interesting take regarding the "don't build stuff that makes you dependent on Google" -- I definitely can resonate with that.

My motivation for building this was more so to capture a larger audience of people by integrating my website with software that so many people use, namely Google Sheets. And I see my audience to be non-technical who might want to build and host a quick form to collect emails or create surveys. They can do this without having to set anything up like a front-end or database.
I think there was a way in NT (at least with NT5/2000) to replace HAL components with more 'generic' components (eg standard SATA drivers, uniprocessor kernel) so you could more easily move it to different hardware.

I've only read about it but never tried it though, it may have been using the SYSPREP tools?
as someone who is not familiar with this world (but takes deep interest in (n)etiquette), would someone be willing to do a quick breakdown of ham netiquette, "being neighborly", fears of encryption and how abuse is managed in the ham world?

i ask because maybe there are some learnings and lessons there that could apply to internet policy today.

it sounds like certain things, like anonymity, are banned? there's some sort of community policing? i'm super curious.
I work for a large electrical utility in the U.S. and I hear you! We have a good handle on sending texts but we're not very good at receiving them. We've recently started using Lex on AWS to manage two-way conversations and our customers are loving it. They don't want to call overwhelmed call centers during an outage and be on hold hearing "your call is important to us" for 30 minutes and further draining their cell phone battery that they need for emergency use.
I was hoping for that as well. There's certainly a wide variety of play styles demonstrated by my (white, non-military, American) family and friends. Some are sandbaggers, some are risk-takers, some focus more or less on the bidding versus the actual cards being played, some prefer rule variants that add more randomness, some prefer rules that make it more tactical or information based...though I can't say I could draw a link between those game habits and real life personalities.
Seems like maybe you're responding to someone else's ideas about Bitcoin, as Lyn usually downplays it's use for payments and emphasizes it's capabilities as a settlement layer.

Also

> fix the government.

Yeah, good luck with that. It also seems quite contrary to the typical entrepenuerial spirit which is usually in favor of coming up with free market solutions that work around government futility.
As is usual, the submission mentioned above has been flagged. Here's the article to which it pointed: https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2021/08/23/lets_st...
What's the current status of the kolab.com suite? I vaguely remember using it in late 2000s
Not really. Letters used to be delivered (at least around here) by sliding them through a slot in your front door. Letters are older than the phone.
Sorry Im on my phone and missed a bit between the ads
>_no amount_ of alcohol is beneficial to overall health [0].

I don't buy it. At worst, the negative health effects of alcohol are on an exponential J curve. Negative health outcomes like the risk of cancer is very small up until a rather high amount of consumption (4 drinks per day?) and only then outweighs the cardiovascular benefits.

Regardless, like meat consumption, I have no desire to give up drinking in moderation. I think that with this, like with everything, one has to weigh their enjoyment vs the potential for harm.
In the world of cron tools I particularly like https://github.com/alseambusher/crontab-ui for a simple GUI to manage my crons - would be interested to hear if there are other handy packages in the space to check out
There's very little emergency communication that wouldn't benefit from at least cryptographic signatures; in many cases it's also important to be able to communicate private data in emergencies. Not allowing encryption makes amateur radio of very little use in emergencies.

There are lots of "telecommand" use cases that aren't to satellites, too.

The broader problem is that prohibiting new technologies in ham radio until they've been demonstrated to be useful (in your case, demonstrated to be useful in ham radio, despite being prohibited at the time, but most people are less blatantly unreasonable) is a recipe for, at best, chasing the taillights of commercial radio systems, and more commonly total technological stagnation and gradual abandonment.
really, it all sounds a bit childish... wanting to be accepted but getting emotional when whatever it is you've been saying doesn't get you the acclaim you seek...
I don't know anything about you except that I have read the complaint to which I am responding, bu all the people I know who get taken seriously are very concerned with the welfare and happiness of others.
Maybe you can take a hint :)
This is from a weird section of the Guardian that always has articles on this style. I think very few are useful for discussing.

They probably serve as some amusement in the printed paper.
There are high endurance SD cards, but eventually those will have also IO problems.
One neat trick I’ve learned is that you can use the points on a Fibonacci sphere to optimally compress unit vectors, for things like normal textures. For example, if you have an array of 1024 points representing a Fibonacci sphere, you can compress unit vectors into lg(1024)=10 bits with a nearest neighbor search and decompress with an O(1) table lookup.

In fact, the general strategy works for higher dimensions as well. Spread some points on the hypersurface of a unit 3-sphere with some kind of energy minimalization simulation, and the resulting array of 4D unit vectors can can be used to compress quaternions!
Interesting thought.
But CTs are pretty hard to read.
The reasons why drawings or simplified models are used in sex ed, is that they can be understood easily.
An actual model derived from a CT scan usually needs some explanations and a certain base knowledge of the matter. Regular organs do not look as “nice” as they do in drawings.

But if you are interested in the shifting of the skin/genitals in different positions, then take a close look at the models and especially their “code” (the model names encode body alignment during the scan).

There is also a comparison of a flaccid and an erected penis.
Or different stages of a pregnancy.
And a vulva comparison that shows arousal and the “relaxed” state.
that is insidious.
Hopefully there is an alternative
dangling a charging cable
or someone coming up with an antenna case that can boost the signal.
So far I'm good with just not buying one like that.
That used to take skill, before autofocus and digital cameras able to shoot at ISO 6400+ with post-processing to smooth out the noise. Now we're at a point where if the picture our phone takes is out-of-focus and too dark, we blame the phone.
And yes, though Google Forms already exists, I think that having the form write directly to Google Sheets can be useful for some people who might want to do something with that data in their Google Sheet (create charts/graphs or calculate stuff with the data, etc.)

I also plan to add pre-defined layouts to the form builder which people can choose from and also more HTML/CSS (and potentially JS functionality) that people can integrate into their form without having to write code, which I don't believe is something Google Forms offers
I think what you said is great, especially about having 100% of the cash to buy something, before you buy it, so that you 100% know you will be able to pay that bill and avoid the super high interest rates on credit cards.

And, there is nothing wrong with not using credit cards. Especially if you don't have a job that pays $200,000+ per year so you can afford to buy a house. But for someone making $35,000, of what use is credit?

I suppose that buying groceries and gasoline and getting cash back is fine, and worth it. And making sure you can return items if there's a problem. But the way a lot of people talk about credit cards, is that they are some kind of holy grail.

But for people who are halfway intelligent, I don't think that financial expert is really that necessary. Just read a lot of great books on the subject, watch a lot of videos, and manage it yourself. It's not that difficult. Why even pay someone. But, this does not apply to someone who has super high worth, like $250 million plus, but it's kind of dumb to talk about them, because they're going to know what to do anyways, or at least 99.9% of them.

Also, try to develop a talent stack that actually is valuable, if that's what you're going to do. Nothing wrong with learning how to grow roses, for example. That is a hobby, not a skill or talent, in my opinion. Sure, maybe one out of 100 million will somehow write a book on rose growing, but that is the exceptionally rare exception. However, learning to landscape and taking classes at your local college and getting certifications is a different issue. But even then, you have to be able to actually DO it if needed, for money - so you have to be able to life heavy stuff, work in the sun all day, etc. If you can't, what's the point. Same with your example of painting - that's a pretty useless thing to learn. And again, this is in terms of money, which you stated in the first part: "1 bit of general financial advice though: develop your talent stack"

Learn computer programming. Learn plumbing. Learn auto repair. Stuff you can make money at.

And again, nothing wrong with doing stuff as a hobby because you enjoy them, but that is a different topic.
Do you know if the company appealed to the cour de cassation?
That’s way too taxing on my brain! :)
I love the recording I have of Academy of St Martin in the Fields that has The Art of Fugue and Musical Offering (Philips, 1994). Both works are beautiful explorations of counterpoint. Especially MO if you read the story behind it. And the Crab Canon... Bach blows my mind. TBH I am no audiophile, but I like their performance. Have you heard it?
The history does not credibly support this analysis. For Halsey to say that the Japanese were on "the verge of surrender" is somewhat misleading; while the Japanese may have been willing to seek a negotiated end to the conflict, they were certainly not willing to surrender unconditionally, and in fact were throwing away an appalling number of lives in India, New Guinea, and islands all across the Pacific to prove this. An unconditional surrender was seen as necessary because the Western Allies believed that they needed a free hand in the postwar period to drastically restructure the political systems of the Axis countries and prevent future militarism. If you look at the example of the interwar period (in which negotiated truces had repeatedly failed in the face of determined militarism) and then note the result of the postwar period for both the Japanese and German economies, it would be very hard to argue that the Allies were wrong.
I’m all in for reposting content more than once, but this is easily posted more than once at month
he turned that into a book also:

https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Year-America-Time-Covid-ebook/...
Yes. We even have a family group chat that the kids and their spouses are part of! We stay connected all day every day even though we're hundreds of miles apart.
I like them and it's simply because they evoke an intellectual and emotional reaction. That's art.
> Actually, there is a reason why I am writing this on a dual-core machine in a Windows 98 SE window... ;-)

Nice. Win 98 SE isn't all that old (roughly the same Win32 API that evolved into Windows 10) but it does still evoke that retrocomputing vibe.

Has me wondering if there's another system that I could still use along similar lines. Needing internet and a web browser certainly narrows down the list fast. I don't know that the Commander X-16 could do it, though not an actual retro OS. Or perhaps Mac System 7.
The Mailspring ID was made optional at the end of March. You do still need it if you want to use Mailspring Pro features that require their server.
It's well known that gambling- and gaming addictions exist.

And more and more online games use psychological tactics to encourage spending.
Interesting. The above is similar to what I've seen and experienced personally. One of the reasons I was able to move into my role was because of my technical experience but every member of our team has the same concern: the further away from the code we get the less effective we'll be at providing architectural advice for the systems as they evolve. It really is a bit of a catch 22.

Instead we've begun talking about focusing on ways we can support the technical strategy as well as the business strategy more.
Service. In the sense of serving!? My two FM episodes, 25 years apart, were service. Not for regulatory purposes. To those, we but poor wee pirates were, and remain.
> Cattle cannot live by rainfall alone.

Of course they can, as long as you don't have too much of them. Animals in the wild live on rainwater alone just fine.

Also Normandy isn't in the UK, it's in France. Different countries have different practices around animals.
Unique Features of Transcend’s Consent Manager
It's itentional. He starts with, "First of all, you have to have a bad camera".
> lifting millions and billions of people out of poverty is an achievement that shouldn't be denied

This is an oft-repeated propaganda talking point. Their system created their poverty in the first place. Not sure breaking something then fixing it again is much of an achievement. Not to mention, the Chinese government changed the definition of what constituted poverty in order to make that claim. I really don't care about the US vs China war because I think the US has already lost but it is quite annoying to hear people repeat propaganda.
Would recommend shuffle.dev. Purchased the life-time plan a while ago, and use it to bootstrap my landing pages quickly and blog post websites. They look nice and clean, and they have a good variety of starting points.

I love being able to export and then modify the code, and push back to GH pages. Makes life so much faster and is the perfect no-code and code hybrid.
Most of the time, yes, it does.

Even in most slideshows, much less most articles, the text is all I really am interested in anyway.
If I go on itch.io right now and pick something at random, the likelihood of it being both made by a teenager and involving written storytelling is quite high. Likewise a huge hit of the last decade was Undertale and it had the kind of success where I recall seeing kids draw the characters in chalk on the sidewalk. The evidence indicates that writing never went away, it's just not upheld by large productions(and even then, Nintendo regularly eschews voice acting).

To me, there's nothing sacred about text, it's just a medium.
The concept of "Screen Time" is so insane. You can do everything on a "screen" from writing the next great American novel to watching porn. So, is X hours of screen time too much? Depends on what you're doing with it.
They're gatekeeping so you don't drown out their conversations with their friends by radiating kilowatts of noise because you think it's cool (or make money that way). Like what happened to Usenet as the internet got commercialized.
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> Sometimes I got corrections, sometimes I had to repeat myself, sometimes I would get an answer back in English, whatever! No one ever shamed me and my skills continued to improve.

Whenever I'm traveling abroad I always make an attempt to learn a few hundred words, some phrases, and how to sting together simple sentences. With very few exceptions, the attempt is usually greeted with amusement and a polite response. People were down right thrilled in Hungary, and the Portuguese are in my experience quite happy to suffer through you attempt.
How is your experience with restoring? Have you had expensive data retrieval costs?
I like how the conditions they are showing in the prisons are exactly the same if they had hacked prisons in the USA. Government malfeasance seems to be a universal.
You may not buy it but that's what the data shows. Now, you buying it versus you wanting to not believe it is another story. I too drink in moderation but that doesn't mean I'll act like it doesn't have negative consequences, however slight they may be. The study is not prescriptive, it's not saying people should give up alcohol, it's merely descriptive, in that it's telling the reader what's happening as a result of any level of consumption.
The existing iOS app is programmed by approx < 2 devs. They have an Android app which Apple will quickly shut down. The infra can be run by < 2 ops too.

I predict most of the dev team will be looking for a new gig soon... shame as they were a great bunch!
I'm leaving my current role due in part to them not hiring other devs efficiently, resulting in a long-term unsustainable workload and everything that it entails.

The final straw was during a meeting when it was brought up that they were using take home projects to evaluate candidates. We're drowning in work and you're delaying us adding resources AND wasting bandwidth on take home projects? Not to mention wasting that candidates time and contributing to the "all hours" mentality that made the job miserable for me to work in.
Philadelphia at Night
Definitely not closed off to turning this into something that makes money, but as of now this is more so just a fun side project I was interested in building and think that it could potentially be helpful for people -- especially as I add more and more features to it in the near future
Perfect scenario for a divorce then.

People want and need to go back to travel. Especially between US-China-EU

If it was for me I'd allow everybody, but given that majority rules and the majority is made up of vaccinated people , and the aforementioned majority doesn't want these people near them in their 12hrs plane trip...then it's a perfect scenario to let the skeptics enjoy the dodged bullet in their home country
On the other hand NES etc was way simpler to get going on than eg. todays mobile games or a Playstation.
If it were imposed by a democratically elected government, would it still be a problem?
Midair has made the attempt (https://midair.gg/ and "MidAir, Community Edition"), but is focusing on light-armor "capture the flag". They have a lot of the other "stuff" implemented, but it isn't/wasn't balanced by the time I got out of it.

VGG!
How Does One Calculate with a Circular Slide Rule?
The Battleground of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Facebook
And who defines "interesting"? Mentioning what ratio of comments are traceroute66's has no value either.
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The Japanese were not known for surrendering. There were mass suicides because they refused to be taken alive:

https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/japanese-mass-suicide...
The Lack of Security Layers in SaaS
AI Defense in Depth: A Layman's Guide
Last time I was looking into org-mode, I ran across an extremely frequent refrain of "there are no 3rd party tools for it, because there is no spec". And then I looked for apps that'd work with it anyway, and came up shockingly short, though some of the most-trivial things generally worked. (orgzly is the one I ended up with. it's pretty good, definitely recommended for anyone doing this)

Has that improved? It seems fine if you do everything from the CLI (or similar), but emacs is a little difficult to use on a phone.
I made a post about this above, but the difference between a negotiated peace and an unconditional surrender is rather crucial. The Japanese were willing to seek the former but found the latter politically unacceptable until sufficient pressure was applied.
I remember an acquaintance calling it “EverCrack” 20 years ago…
(automatic driver installs via Windows Update being the first thing that springs to mind[1])

That's the worst part of W10 for me. I have a tablet that was unusable until I learned about WuMgr because every day it would reinstall a broken touchscreen driver.
Nope. It does have a plug-in api, though.
Yeah, very hard to learn Cantonese since it's tonal, but you can do it! For movies, I find it a lot easier to reinforce once I've gotten used to the language a bit. Lot of good Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan films to learn with.

There are podcast packs in the app to get you introduced to Cantonese. I'll keep in touch to see how it goes!
Even controlling for those factors, there is no health benefit to alcohol, ie a middle to upper class person with self control does not fare better drinking alcohol versus not drinking alcohol.
Wow elementaryos in full lockdown damage control mode!

Banned krisives from their Slack instance (where they told him to DM them) and also banned him from the elementaryos subreddit.

Now this story has been [flagged] here.

Orwellian. I will never touch anything elementaryos.
LuaJIT's interpreter loop is similar, except that it's written in assembly, and the motivation is that the compiler could not optimize the C version to the best possible extent.

Kind of related, this post [1] mentioned some ideas to break it down into smaller modules without losing performance with tail calls.

[1] https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-i...
Most ISPs operate in a specific area, even today.