skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can play the word game of hunger too. Any claim of hunger that is not followed by eating when given the opportunity is suspect.

When a child complains of being hungry and pointing at the donuts, we offer them an apple and they storm off in a huff, we say "ha, you weren't really hungry". We reject the claim of hunger and instead suspect a desire for sugary stimulation.

Hunger is not a pure mental state but a case where physical sensations are labelled as hunger and we should often doubt that labelling. If you are on a diet there are common maxims like "are you hungry or just bored?" with advice to seek distraction because a momentary physical sensation will fade. We confuse many physical sensations for what we might want to strictly define as hunger especially when eating makes those sensations cease e.g. dyspepsia, low-mood, boredom etc. Initial assumptions of hunger can be relabelled just like the "I am excited not anxious" trick before public speaking.

The physical sensations driving the type of hunger from habitual anticipation of food are caused by observable changes in the body as it prepares itself (hormonal changes / stomach acid etc.). That gives some empirical baseline beyond qualia. So for this person on the sofa, too lazy to go eat, we should be suspicious of their labelling but can look at what their body is doing.

It's also notable that if you do any long term fasting (weeks) you find people talk about hitting "real hunger" and it's startling different experience from everyday hunger. I expect there are related physical changes but it's quite a different mental sensation - it's almost like fear - the feeling of an alarm cord being pulled and an "oh shit, I have to eat now".
I face the same annoying issues with Siri when I’m trying to set reminders from the Apple Watch. I often have to repeat 2-3 times then remove the incorrect ones.

But you have worst IMHO in other languages! When speaking German units are spoken before the tenths (fünf-und-dreizig to say 35). That completely confuses Siri when saying dates, hours/minutes, or just big numbers.
I felt the same way until I started experiencing carpel tunnel typing with both thumbs
https://letsdoreviews.com/11-best-iphone-13-pro-max-mini-acc...
Reporting from Sweden, almost all our stand alone houses (small houses) are built the same except with better insulation in walls, roof and windows (because of the climate).

I've never considered our houses rickety, although I do think wood now days is worse than 50 years ago, less growth rings in construction lumber.
I suspect American-style sucking toilets work well when your shit floats. When the bowl empties then refills, anything floating left with the water.

The European-style flush relies on buoyant waste getting carried away by the mass of water - which isn't the most reliable strategy.
Switzerland has a system called Twint. It exists as prepaid account or attached to one of the most popular Swiss bank accounts. Transactions are free (for end users) and instant, you can even chat with emojis under the transaction.

You can start accepting Twint without any hurdles. Or use a merchant gateway and pay like 0.3% or so.
Same here. I'm curious if it has any correlation to having an internal voice. Do you have an internal voice for your thoughts?
Some well-sampled straight-from-the-speaker Apple ][ sound:

https://youtu.be/oo46kKaHA3E?t=27

Of course, almost nothing sounded like that
Ah, I just checked my records. I contacted them in 2021-02. Their response was:

> We prefer customers to attach email addresses from widely recognized providers for security purposes. Additionally, our servers have a hard time communicating with private email servers.

> You may create a new email address to handle your tax returns through FreeTaxUSA with a major provider.
Mad cow disease is a prion disease, and as such it’s relatively easy to control it’s spread. You would mainly catch it from someone by eating them, which isn’t something we tend to do.
How do the IFR caps work with small transactions? Like < 1 EUR? Maybe I should move to Europe.
I find it extremely unlikely that the risk of loss of crew was not discussed with McAuliffe in both general terms and numerically estimated. She held an advanced degree and was almost surely capable of realizing the possibility of loss of life and making an evaluation of the risk-reward (based on the numbers, though not a ground-up root risk estimation) for her personal situation.

The possible benefit of a “teacher in space” is giving the nation (and specifically its schoolchildren) a role model that’s not an entertainer, a sports figure, or a military hero. I’m glad we have those, but having someone more academic has non-zero benefit.
Eric Lerner is a writer not a physicist. We have no idea whether the universe had a beginning or not, it can't even be formulated as a testable scientific question. The observable universe expanded from 13.7 bya, when it was miniscule, until today. That's all we know.

Here's what is actually known explained for the interested layperson by a competent physicist:

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/09/where-did-big-bang-...
And who gets to define my anecdote as "disinformation"? Surely you can't be saying that any story that runs counter to a particular given narrative must be false? (FWIW, it is completely true).

How do you know the disease would be worse? This particular relative is in mental anguish, as the kind of statements that you just made are the only available opinions on whether you should get the vaccine. After 6 months of feeling like death, they are questioning the decision.

ps. Are we ever going to re-set the Covid death count at the end of a year? At approx. 300k deaths per year in the US, Covid is the 3rd-biggest killer.
'Carthago delenda est'
I dont pay for Euro-cross-border anything. Well, €5.99 a month, but that comes with 100Gb of data.
Current offers here: www.kenamobile.it/offerte/
It's cheap? No US-based pharma corps are reaping big profits from it?

Btw., I live in Brazil, and I went with one of my daughters to see a GP a few days ago because she had symptoms of respiratory illness and was worried it might be Covid (she had had recent contact with peers who afterward tested positive). The physician told her to get a test, and if it were positive (it wasn't) she should take Vitamin C, N-acytilcholine, Ivermectin, and Hydroxychloroquine. I'm not saying that I think this makes sense, just reporting what a Brazilian physician said 5 days ago.

I also want to add that I'm fairly convinced that Ivermectin is probably useless for Covid, but I raise livestock and am a big fan of Ivermectin as a medication of first resort for my animals, and in some cases for ourselves as well... long before Covid I've taken Ivermectin for diverse parasitic infections with good results and no adverse effects.
Last year’s course indicates this:

> You will need to choose a software tool to complete the activities in this course. Altium Designer, Circuitmaker, Autodesk Eagle, KiCad, and Diptrace will be shown as examples in this course.
How Complex Wholes Emerge from Simple Parts (2018)
Yay more plastic in our lives!
The gap between how fantastic the language is according to Julia fanboys and how annoying my experience has been is very hard on me.

Everything needs to install a package, even simple debugging. Graphics is very broken, especially for headless environments. You get incomprehensible, unfixable, error messages since everything is statically linked. But you don't get speed since everything has to compile first. Unicode symbols are encouraged (at minimum it takes an order of magnitude more to type/paste/convert some Greek symbol than to type an English letter). All the experience you feel a smug attitude coming from the environment "we make everything perfect, thoughtful, beautiful for you, if something breaks is your fault" but then something actually breaks...

The most beautiful thing about the language is the computational physics community' enthusiasm about it (probably in the hope of finally abandoning Fortran). So JuliaCon's conferences are actually good and you find a lot of interesting computational problems solved in the language.

Only that the basic unfriendliness and unsmooth experience, coupled with a lot of immature features, really ruins it for me.
thanks (fixed!)
My immune system would definitely be better if I hadn't been confined to my house for months, and banned from seeing anyone for months after that.
They're not, EU doesn't collect taxes. It can however influence national tax policies.
For advanced topics, I've heard good stuff about these: https://academy.fedevel.com/courses/online-advanced-pcb-layo...

(high speed layout, BGAs, etc)

Not free, but not super expensive and they also have introductory courses ($50).

https://academy.fedevel.com/courses/online-want-to-design-yo...
Same here. I have no formal education but I recently finished my first 12 layer USB3.1 SuperSpeed + FPGA board. Every once in a while, I have to book a freelancer to explain niche knowledge to me - for example how to calculate the impedance for the USB3 specs - but thanks to good software, it was a lot easier to learn than I thought.

By now, I have my own tiny KiCad fork to make things easier to read and look like I expect it to.

https://gitlab.com/fxtentacle/kicad/-/commits/vector_font
These are helpful and show how any gate can be made from NAND:

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

https://www.nand2tetris.org/
Yes, in Russia stick houses are only fitting lowest-price market segment and only in the southern regions of the country. Mostly they are considered to be "not real houses".
I got a free Google Home puck with some purchase a while ago. The only thing I've used it for is setting timers in the kitchen, which it's quite well suited for as it's genuinely useful to be able to do this hands-free, and to have multiple timers going at once. None of the other things it can do are of interest.
I think maybe you're bar is a bit low for your comparison. I just recently moved into a old house in Sweden(ca 1845) and apart from some things being a bit dated, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the house!

That's not too say I haven't got a lot of work to do, I'm adding some extra insulation to keep heating costs down, redoing the kitchen cause I don't like the way it was done previously(from the looks of it, someone redid the kitchen probably in the 1980s or so, and with poor taste at that!), And of course, those negligent builders back in the 19th century didn't think to install fiber, so I have to fix that situation...

But hey, I've got 3 layers of brick that's been standing for nearly 180 years! The foundation is made from natural stone(is that the correct term in English?) and there isn't a crack in it!

Your comparison with cheap Asian houses is unfair since they probably don't have the money to do a better job, but Americans can't very well use that excuse!
Doesn't the NOR gate take more transistors to build though? IIRC, the NAND gate can be built with only two transistors while you need more for NOR.
>>I do experience this when resting, but I get particularly strong pain when doing any kind of exercise. If it were stress related you would expect exercise to improve symptoms not make them worse.

One study on pro-athletes found that 0.6% of cases were confirmed, after cardiac MRI, to have inflammatory heart disease post COVID infection:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/03/few-pro-...

This is only 1/10th as much as the percentage who report chest pain. Some caveats: these are young adults, and athletes, so probably in the lowest risk category. Other demographics could face much higher risks.

So I guess the chest pain could be a real symptom of long-COVID, but I am much more skeptical of the other symptoms (e.g. anxiety, depression, etc).

It's also worth noting that heart inflammation from infections like flu will generally subside over time.
Juries are common in civil trials in the US.
Maybe people will stop linking directly to such offensive sites
It feels like unnecessarily complicated way to give instructions to you phone or computer. It's not that I can't see it being useful in some cases, but more often than not, it gets in the way, if it's not something you use regularly. I just want to be able to turn off Siri permanently. Just remove all possibilities of me triggering Siri. Why Siri is included on the Mac at all is something I don't understand.
I think the problem is also that we also are shown what other people want to see. I genuinely don’t want to see political positions of my relatives, or my neighbors getting into heated internet fights. But I do want to see my relatives small joys, and I do want to know important neighborhood news and activities. That I can’t filter appropriately makes social media toxic, as I can feel my social animal brain see heightened emotions and want to participate in social heightened emotions online, even though it doesn’t do anything for anybody. Even fighting the urge to post and participate just makes my day just that little bit less fulfilling.
15% of kids seems like an absurdly high number compared to what i've seen reported in the last 18 month (including delta).

Aka : in the immense majority people < 65 are not going to die, and people < 30 barely won't notice anything.

15% of which kids ? the ones that end up in ICU ?
How can I imagine such a thing? Being a parent makes you do superhuman things. It's just not an option to "not feel like getting out of bed" - for all I know, the extra motivation of needing to care for my young family made me get on with life even when I did feel as bad as your hypothetical well-rested person.
> That is not true. Here is a typical study purportedly showing evidence for long COVID:

You've said "study" but you're quoting an article from The Guardian.

Also, it seems you even failed to read your source. Your article does not refer to the incidence of long COVID-19. Your source only refers to a statistical study of the prevalence of any of the symptoms that are attributed to long COVID-19, whose goal is clearly to gather data to help understand the problem, or even if one really exists.

Also, I feel you are either misquoting or being disingenuous. The article you quoted quite clearly states that "The most common symptoms were breathing problems, abdominal symptoms, fatigue, pain and anxiety or depression."

So, a charitable interpretation of your misunderstanding of what you've quoted is that you picked up a reference to a study whose purpose is to gather initial observations on the actual incidence of long Covid, looked at the raw data and unwittingly misinterpreted correlations for consequences.
KiCad is good and free. The only thing it lacks in comparison with $10k+ offerings is a convenient autorouter. But then again, I couldn't get automated routing to work in Altium either O_O'
> The guy quoted for said statement is a professor of medicine of a reputable university, so he does have the authority thing sorted out.

That’s fallacious. There are loads of professors spewing bullshit, including about their field, including at Oxford. It says nothing about the validity of the point they are making. Particularly after the point has been filtered through journalists with a questionable understanding of science.
Ask HN: Anyone having problems with memory and clear thinking?
People who are sitting in front of the computer most of the day browsing a lot of tabs, consuming and processing information, maybe even programming or doing any brain-intensive work: are you having changes in your memory? I feel having a little issues. I forget things and not able to think clearly after a long day. Its mild but its there. Even if I open a lot of tabs, I obviously don't remember everything word to word but the gist and the central idea. Maybe I've unintentionally trained my brain to process lot of information rather than store it. I don't know. But if others are feeling the same, maybe I am not weird.

Wondering if anyone going through this or related to this? Sharing would be great.
NAND-gates are important because every other boolean operation can be made with a combination of them. This means that you can construct a computer out of nothing but them.

If you want to see it in action try this https://nandgame.com/
Or just load up birdshot haha.
Me neither, but speaking to my watch when I’m on my bike, waiting at a traffic light, works very well! I’ve never seen a use for Siri on my phone or laptop but use it often when biking around to set reminders or timers without losing focus over my environment.
Couldn't agree more. We need tax reform, not software. The returns should be file automatically, if we disagree we can fill out paperwork with what we should be getting.
Anything that involves international co-operation and co-ordination is anathema to those with a nationalist or isolationist leaning, because it means you have to work with foreigners to address it. Either it doesn't exist, or it's a foreigner conspiracy anyway, or somehow both at the same time.
> Ivermectin does not cause liver failure. There is no evidence of this.

The ivermectin was taken on high daily doses. Many people would take it even without symptoms and a diagnosis. If you take any drug that much, be prepared for liver issues. That liver transplant thing is increasingly happening with a large number of people, not one or two.

The Brazilian Senate is currently investigating how these "kit" drugs were delivered. In some cases, they gave it to patients without family consent, and forged their death certificates, so "liver failure" or "Covid-19" would not appear in the statistics. It is also currently investigated who would benefit from this (large Ivermectin producers multiplicated their production after these incentives, and the president is known for elaborating corruption schemas around Covid-related agendas).
Wait, don't all people have that? If not, then how do they think?
Ya, we still have other options to connect. But one thing I experienced sometime back. These days we don't store contact number as we are connected on Social Media. I had hard time connecting with my old friends. I had to call a lot of other friends to connect with him.
I think a lot of the insistence on the “long covid “ terminology is just wanting acceptance that covid-19 can cause these post-viral symptoms, which a lot people still don’t accept, as demonstrated in this thread with people saying it’s just the stress of lockdown.

The medical community seems to take the problem(s) seriously, but has very little idea how to treat it. Hopefully the high profile of the problem will lead to increased research in this area over the next few years.
> I remember the heady euphoria around the Internet then, and the vision of "tech utopia" was certainly the dominant one: the Internet would bring a "democratization of information" where anyone with a computer could connect to the Internet, publish a website, and communicate with people across the world.

Thanks for making me feel depressed right in the morning.
A Guy Who Tells You How to Buy a PS5 Became the Most Powerful Tech Journalist
Easiest way to start selling is just to put your bank account number on a website or send it via email. I've yet to find a service that doesn't offer bank transfer. And since this year it's also 0 fees, instant payments.

If you pick a right bank, you also get a JSON/HTTP based API for free, if you want to get your payment processing fancier later on. And your funds are insured.

PayPal is ridiculously expensive and risky way to receive money, and not simple at all. As a result almost nobody offers it in Czechia.
Thanks. I couldn't find any info about last year's course. Is it open to preview?
Pretty much the only thing I use it for is setting a timer or alarm. For anything more complex than that it always seems easier to just use the app.
I think trait curiosity probably is a real-some-sort-of-mental-phenomenon, so I wouldn't go so far as to say it is not a thing. Please also understand that I am no expert on trait curiosity or personality in general. Still, I tend to lean towards thinking that most people really mean state curiosity when they think about an actual drive or desire to figure something out. But I am perhaps biased because I investigate state curiosity and leave trait curiosity to others.
I’ve heard scientific research described as very slightly expanding the bubble of the knowledge of all humanity. That one area of research is like a tiny bubble expanding on the perimeter of the whole of knowledge.

Using that metaphor, curiosity to me is the desire to expand small bubbles on the perimeter of the bubble of my knowledge. It may manifest in all the ways you mentioned. Why is this I’m doing not working? Or simply wondering “why can’t lions purr?” and expanding my bubble that tiny amount for no practical reason but to do so.
BGP is public routing information and multiple external sources are able to confirm that aspect of the story. It makes for a good conspiracy theory but the BGP withdrawal is as real as the Moon landing.
I am kinda forced to accept PayPal because credit card adoption is not as big in the German speaking area of Europe. Especially the younger audience often only has PayPal.

I have no exact numbers but like 70% of orders I get from Germany are paid with PayPal.

When I added PayPal to a SaaS of mine a few years ago only like 3% even used it.
Dreissig*

I speak German to Siri everyday and she never has this issue with setting alarms. Maybe it’s a dialectical difference?
Very Interesting, even I am trying to disconnect social media for a while. I think I will try to disconnect more frequently. Yesterday felt really good to be always from always online life.
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n490

Sounds like the BMJ dont trust this chap and are questioning his financial interests. Therefore I would question his motives with regard to this article, he isnt very forthcoming which is usually indicative of having something to hide.
Yes, I share similar thoughts. It was exciting when Julia came in, and it looked like it's going to replace a lot of python software in science. The symbolic differentiation is still quite nice. But every time I tried to code simple projects in julia, I've encountered packages that are not supported anymore, incompatibilities between versions and difficulties in reaching good enough performance among other things. I don't think I'll use Julia myself anymore and stick to python with occasional c/c++ for really performance-critical bits.
Maybe to not disturb your SO with flushing/shower etc? If I will ever building a house toilet & bathroom will have to be as far from sleeping parts as possible.

Quality of deep sleep is far more important than walking 5m extra from time to time
hahaha!! I sent international SMS to friends. Spent money to be online haha
Tesla to pay former factory worker $130M over racially hostile work environment
My recommendation would be to search YouTube for "Rick Hartley". The guy is extremely knowledgeable, yet humble, and presents things like grandpa reciting a war story. It's easy to listen to, and I'd take him being on any kind of program as an endorsement that it'll be high quality content.

The most important talk for beginners getting into high-speed is probably this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySuUZEjARPY
because without proper grounding, interference and EMI is going to destroy your HF signals (for example CPU to RAM bus).
I think you should have cited SYCL anyway. You way cited things less relevant, like rust-gpu. While SYCL may not have all the features, it's a precursor by enabling programming GPU and CPU from a single source.
Have you considered that some of these symptoms are consequences of locking down society and preventing real human interaction for 18 months? I haven’t had COVID and I have had more depression and exhaustion in the last year than in my entire life.
If Facebook had been under actual attack, and defended by taking itself off the internet… that would be the most hands-on approach to security.