skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It just seems like an example of scientists playing around with a complex system they have a very incomplete understanding of, with potentially risky outcomes.

Scientists don't "play" around with medicine; this kind of stuff is highly regulated.

TMS is only used to treat depression when all other treatments have failed. At that point, the benefits outweigh the risks. Namely, at that point the patient is at risk of _death_ and no other options are available.

> Psychotropics are already suboptimal in that same sense (addressing symptoms, not root causes)

We don't know the root causes of the vast majority of diseases. So we can't say whether psychotropics treat the root causes or not. But we do know they work. They save and improve many, many lives.

And that's how modern medicine works. Does it work? Is it safe? Then we use it. All modern day treatments are suboptimal. That doesn't mean they don't work, and that doesn't mean people shouldn't use them when needed.

It's interesting that I don't see these kind of skeptical comments about antihistamines. Modern antihistamines are suboptimal (I should know), but everyone with allergies is glad they exist.

> I don't want to discourage anyone here from getting treatment

Personally I think this comment will contribute to treatment hesitation, whether that was intended or not. Mental health is already highly stigmatized, and seeking help for it is a daunting task. Telling people that scientists are "playing" around with their brain isn't helpful. Good doctors are following a strict, science backed playbook for the treatment of mental disorders. These playbooks save lives.
oh yeah ps the specificity gradient (https://youtu.be/dDE_y7Qri9w which I recorded much later) is stewart brand/frank duffy "shearing layers"/"pace layers" stuff; see https://doriantaylor.com/shearing-layers-applied-to-the-web
How smooth is video playback of newer codecs or even higher resolution of any codecs at 4k? I thought about bringing back my w520 from the dead but the cost didn't seem worth it.

Coding videos below 1080p are harder to read and unless it's a school lecture, 720p is a minimum.

And is it you main, do you have a separate system for media consumption?
Because constexpr and variables are not the same thing? E.g. with a variable you can still always take its address. With constexpr you can't.

Plus 'constexpr' is a patently ugly keyword. Also an important metric to consider :)
I do agree ultrabook + powerful desktop is the best combo for most people who actually need a powerful computer. that's what I ran for many years. there are a few reasons why you might want a powerful laptop though, mostly coming down the limitations of remote access.

using a GUI over remote kinda sucks imo. even something like text editing is not as smooth as it would be locally. photo/video editing and especially anything 3D (CAD, gaming, etc.) is really painful.

there's also the security implications of enabling remote desktop. it's not a showstopper, but it's something I'd rather not worry about for my personal computer.

and finally, if you have the money for a powerful desktop and a powerful laptop, why not get both?

anyways, I just gave away my old xps 13 and replaced it with a zephyrus g15. it's not nearly as fast as my 9700k + 1080ti desktop, but it runs most games acceptably at 1440p. c++ compilation is very fast, though obviously not comparable to an overclocked 9700k. the portability and overall fit and finish aren't as nice as the xps 13, but now that I'm not taking the laptop everywhere as a student, I don't find it to be much of a compromise.
i was impressed by the variety of different wasm runtime providers that exist for krustlet: https://github.com/krustlet/krustlet/pull/677#issuecomment-9...
Both are probably right. There's probably enough stupidity to go around, so that neither side suffers a shortage.
I've been using PrecisionInks for 10+ years. It is an old school family business and never once disappointed me.

I use this spectrophotometer for calibration: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1369004-REG/x_rite_eo...
> If not supremacy of dollar, what reason do you hold dear for the toppling of yet another sovereign government in this case?

Why the US and the West targeted an anti-Western, terrorism exporting dictatorial regime with a history of trying to acquire WMD whose overt ideology was a blend of totalitarian socialism and a unique version/descendant of Islam during a period where it was unusually active in targeting anti-Western, Islamic regimes especially those with a history of trying to acquire WMDs under the aegis of a war on terror?

Dunno. Must be rumors that they planning to move away from the CFA Franc somehow raising worries that they’d stop selling oil for dollars.
And even inkjet vs laser doesn't matter since many companies may do like HP and require you sign into an HP account just to print.
Using "Optional" doesn't provide any extra compile-time guarantees except that the function could return Optional.empty(). It's already possible to see that it could return null, so there's no extra guarantees there. The only advantage of "Optional" is that it lets you deal with the empty/null case with a nice functional API instead of if statements. It doesn't do anything to solve the reverse problem of guaranteeing that non-Optional functions can't return null.

If you just want to provide a hint to the caller at compile time about whether you intend for the possibility of returning null, you could use @Nullable/@NotNull annotations to achieve that with no overhead.
Best of luck to you! I hope everything goes well.
What would be the long term effect of young generation totally incapable of long term attention?
They forgot to list all the deaths from colonialism. And forced famines by people like Churchill. And the countless deaths from destabilizing countries in the global south, done by the US empire.

Weird how they never talk about all the people lifted up out of poverty by people like Mao and Stalin. Wonder why that is.

Great source, clearly unbiased.
If I were in need of a new laser printer I'd probably consider color at this point, but it's not worth replacing my existing B&W printer for a once in a blue moon color print.
Francis Fukuyama’s Defense of Liberalism
What do you want, an AI that reads your mind and generates the exact art you want? Barring that, a perfectly intuitive tool is impossible past a certain point of complexity. If you want something in front of something else you're going to have to learn what a layer is. If you want something at just the right transparency you're going to have to adjust the transparency.

Maybe some kind of virtual art studio in VR would be helpful for people who want a more physically intuitive experience with some extras like undo and saving copies, but even then you're still going to have to learn a thing or two about the tool to use it, like any tool.
Károly Zsolnai-Fehér is just so darn charismatic. That has to be one of the reasons Two Minute Papers[0] has >1M subs. Is there anyone in the space even close to that level of engagement?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg
If your only color print needs are for photos, look into dye sub printers. You can go years in between printing, and use the same roll with no issues. These are pretty much what you get when you order from any brick&mortar store printing from digital files or any modern photobooth kiosk
Environmental Assessment of Proposed Tracer Particle and Gas Releases
The (not AAA, just a dude made it) game "The Shore" is a Lovecraftian short walking simulator that has a lighthouse feature rather prominently. DO NOT WATCH THE TRAILER. But if you like lighthouses, Cosmic horror, body horror and can play a walking simulator, you might look at it. I would rec, but who am I?
Hmm, this is a fair point. We allow people to hurt themselves in certain ways. There is most definitely some threshold above which we make it illegal but I can’t tell what the threshold is. It’s not “risk of death” because BASE jumping would be outlawed then.

But it’s clear we do this “for your own good” falsely often.
While I don't think this has any wildly profound revelations, I would highly recommend reading it because it contains reasonable advice punctuated by really, really adorable pictures of the author's puppy.
Being a member of multiple tribes and through that seeing that each has its own goals, beliefs, and communication protocols.
So if you are trying to troubleshoot something in a particular container how do you handle it? Attach a sidecar with various tools or...?
There was that post a few days ago about Apples massive profit margins in the mobile phone space, which just seems to reinforce what this study is saying. Am watching the Pinephone space with massive hope for the future, though there is not much there for the present moment.
Every line of code you write is a job automated.
Yes, in a language like Java where it's retrofitted in years after the decision was already made to allow literally everything to be null. In other languages, that doesn't apply.
Leaving aside the morality, one huge objection to this level of targeting granularity is that it’s just bad business.

Obviously a gross oversimplification, but to a first approximation ads ranking, pacing, and auction drive ads revenue. Ads targeting drives careers, at least at FB at least as of a few years ago.

The creepy factor does way more damage to FB’s business than the bells and whistles that the buyers of inventory use adds to it.

When something happens on Google, people feel like it happened in their living room. When something happens on FB, people feel like it happened in their bedroom.
I learned my kanji with Wanikani. Beyond level 30 I found myself ditching the mnemonics and basically "brute force" the learning process. If I had to start all over again I would choose Anki and example sentences (my current learning routine).

I don't think there's really a way around learning by example sentences (either through Anki, reading a lot, ...) so you might as well start from there.
Fed a diet of the necessary consumables-- toners/drums, fusers, rollers, separation pads, etc-- a 1990s LaserJet will outlive us all. For me, "peak LaserJet" was probably the LaserJet 4 w/ an integral JetDirect. The 4000 that followed was pretty solid and faster but more plastic-ey than the 4.
Coffi, a Foreign Function Interface for Clojure on JDK 17
Annihilation is one of the most underappreciated films in decades. That thing is so amazing. Garland's work is fantastic.
There no NFTs are worth my attention.
As someone with ADHD, I had to uninstall TikTok because it became too much of a distraction in my life. When videos auto-load, have no previews, and take a commitment of only a couple of seconds, it's too easy to watch one more video too many times.
How are droughts creating problems for solar?
The last time I bought one, a new printer and ink cost less than just refilling ink. That was a very long time ago.

I print infrequently, but need to have color prints available at any time for family, so I got a color laser printer something like 15 years ago. It has wireless so it's on our wifi and I've never had any issues with it, nor have I even run out of the original toner.

It was definitely worth it, I never want an inkjet again.
Architects design buildings with the heaviest load being paper. Paper is the heaviest thing in a building.
> Do people think to themselves “Hmm, I need a quirk that makes me different”?

It's somewhat subconscious. You see someone do something that grabs your attention. You see this person getting attention as a positive.You want the same attention, so you mimic the traits that attract it. And the more people that do it, the more it grows an ingroup that you can feel safe belonging to. And actually these quirks aren't making them different, they're making them the same as other people who use the same quirks. Anyone who has ever seen a goth person and soon after began dressing goth themselves is doing the same thing.
HP LaserJet print quality these days is worse than their laser printers back in the early 2000s. It’s quite sad. The products are flimsy and under engineered. The prints aren’t as sharp and the inks are as expensive (sometimes even more than) as before. They rev versions of printers and make them incompatible with previous cartridges that technically fit, but are no longer in the supported model list. Scammy as hell.
I really want Pieters to write about the thousands of robots that do stuff in the background.
Yeah I badly want revenge on the whole industry, or at least a way of banishing them from my life forever, but the local maximum I've attained thus far is to buy bottles of ink, drill small holes in the top of the cartridges, inject ink and cover the holes. The printer still complains of low ink (i.e. it's lying and probably always was), but you can suppress the warning. So it costs me one sheet of paper to find out the truth about my ink levels, and I haven't bought a cartridge in years. I have two color & two black, so I can swap a full one in and refill the empty one at my convenience.
Plants owners will always say that they analyzed their own plant being safe...
Robot Swimming Trials
> they're not democratically represented

Biden is 78 years old, Harris 57. In Canada, Trudeau, at 44, was considered a young prime minister.

Also, old people can vote.

> they barely take part into the consumerist system we built, they’re just there

I think you’re confusing elderly people with disabled people. Many retirees, some even in their eighties or nineties, have disposable income and are healthy enough to enjoy it.
NFT and blockchain gaming is the future of the industry
Isn't Brother agressive in it's constant unclearable warnings about using generic toner?
Aside the point but I can generally tell. With PDF signatures they’re either too smooth on the lines (that’s what mine is) or there’s some artifacting on the signature.
If you go that route, most people can't tell the difference between a person's signature and a different person faking their signature.

By the way, in Spain printed-signed-scanned wouldn't be legally valid either, unless a notary has seen the original and can certify that it coincides with their own handwritten signature. Otherwise it's either original handwritten signature, or digital signature in a digital PDF file, or printed digital signature with a secure validation code that you can verify in some URL.
Try to help them understand each other.
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

The journalist in OP chose not to report on it, but the mystery gas is probably one of the candidates summarized on pp. 3-5 of this 87 page PDF, which shares acronyms with OP ("Urban Threat Dispersion"),

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ea_utd_...

The list includes perfluorinated gases (perfluorocarbons, SF6); several kinds of aerosolized microparticles with DNA sequence tracers; aerosols with amine dye or biological antibody tracers; and some proprietary fluorescent dye called "Visolite", "commonly used in HVAC tracing".
A New Bootable USB Solution
You tell both sides to at least leave you in peace, and you watch out since they will likely not agree with you.
Great article but I don't like the way it ended. Needs revision :-)
The partial solution to this is what _used_ to be called "open-mindedness". But it's not a pattern for "immunity" but in analogue, practices to keep you "fit" and prepared.

I think CGP grey summarized the pattern nicely, and I quote: (timestamped)[0]

"The trick is to keep your identity separate from your opinions - they are objects in a box you carry with you and should be easily replaceable if it turns out they're no good.

If you think that the opinions in the box are who you are then you'll cling to them despite any evidence to the contrary.

Bottom line: If you want to always be right, you need to always be prepared to change your mind"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlsU_YT9n_g&t=72s

I would also add my personal take that you should also presuppose that the person you're talking/listening to will have that attitude. Most people don't, but by merely starting from that point, conversation can have a positive turn when you get a glimpse of why they decided to put that opinion in to their mind-box.
Imo Home Manager isn't really about dotfiles. It's a NixOS-like module system for configuration unprivileged programs and services. You could use it, for example, to install and configure systemd user services for Emacs to run as a daemon, and for gpg-agent to run and work as your SSH agent. It lets you bundle specific versions of programs (with patches or configuration changes) in a declarative, reproducible way on non-NixOS Linux distributions, and if you incorporate it into your dotfiles it lets them become more reliable and comprehensive in that way. It also includes features for directly managing dotfiles, but if you're happy with your current dotfiles management system, you can leverage Home Manager to portably configure services without using it for directly managing all your dotfiles.

> Does nix have a way to restore app artifacts?

Not really. The Nix store is read-only, so if your dotfiles are in the Nix store, running applications can't write to them. There's a lot of stuff in ~/.mozilla that Firefox expects to write to during operation. There are aspects of Firefox that you can configure in Nixpkgs, including bundling extensions and setting defaults, but ~/.mozilla is not like ~/.vimrc, so it's not suitable to generation by Nix in the same way.
Splitting Oculus, Instagram, and WhatsApp kind of makes sense.
The bigger problem I've seen w/ off-brand toner are refilled cartridges that are poorly plugged and end up leaking toner all over the inside of the printer. Toner is a nightmare to clean up, and once you get toner deep into the nooks and crannies of a printer you'll never get clean paper output again.
The M1 is an SoC with CPU + GPU + NPU + NAND Controller and many others, being used in a Fanless condition under 10W on MacBook Air.

>Official data for the "situational" consumptions are a bit harder to find.

A single HP Core uses ~4W at peak. It's performance per watt is quite far ahead than anything in x86 at the moment. Intel AlderLake might help a bit. But will still be behind in pref / watt.
USA has financed itself by taking investments/loans from other countries for decades now, at some point the net inflow of money will have to stop and the country will have to sustain itself rather than live off funding. Imagine what happens to the economy when you can no longer import twice as much goods as you export.
for me this is one of the bigger festering wounds in programming. error handling doubles the size of the code. error handling is complicated.

so we put on our big-dev pants and build all sorts of structures around handling errors to make it more sound/ergonomic.

but at the end of the day:

o its still very difficult to respond in a semantically meaningful way to errors as code

o they still almost always just get dumped into a log or ignored, or just result in a panic

o even if we have managed to surface them - they still aren't really that actionable by the end user

so we haven't helped the situation much, but some of these answer like catch/throw have really unpleasant consequences - we may have made it worse
It does teach you about effort and pragmatic productivity, which is a general skill.

I've spent years trying to design code that would give me some benefits but in reality they were taking too much time for low use-case value. When you have time pressure, you write code very differently. You aim at the smallest patch that can solidly implement a feature. It minimizes code changes, patch size, bug introduction, time spent, client happiness. Also mentally beneficial to see tiny regular results.
who came up with the "metaverse" word?

is this a marketing trick to sell me something?

or is this an attempt for the media/companies to regain influence on the internet?

"metaverse", i never heard of that word in casual conversations

i'm curious to know about its origin, and why it is linked to NFT scams
"Most of them are just trying to make a living..."

https://youtu.be/w2ppyMUlXfM
Besides the heap of javascript, very cool.
The device literally generates white noise. It's clearly stated in the article. It adds a white noise track on top of the existing sound. It does not change the original vocal track - it just lays noise on top of that.

Are you telling me that the white noise in their link is dissimilar to the sound of the train blowing air into the microphone? You have to be kidding me - did you even watch the rtx video? Click some others too. It filters lawnmowers and all kinds of stuff.

> Your video is not even remotely similar in sound.
uh-uh. sure. sorry buddy, not going to bother having this conversation with a deaf person.
It's sad really.

There is an alternative reality where anti nuclear activist [1] never succeeded and we continued to make great progress on reactors. Ultimately, reducing fossil fuel use and corresponding GHG levels.

One of the very things the environmental groups fought against was one of the things that could have saved us.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement
If the GIL is fixed, why would you want multiprocessing versus threads? Threads are cheaper to create, easier to communicate between (even if you need to be careful), and simply do different things than what multiprocessing intends (eg easier for blocking I/O on many threads, versus multiprocessing which is really more of a task queue)
You could just use matrix and element for notifications.
Just include that header in a separate C/C++ file that has no other purpose, then you won't have to recompile it every time you change something elsewhere.
I would suggest the chromebook spin 713, 13.5" 2K - Gorilla Glass– Intel Evo Core i5 – 8GB RAM – 256GB SSD – Thunderbolt™ 4. It's considered a premium, so it's 619usd but that's still a less than any apple or Microsoft product i have seen in that category with those kinds of specs. SSD user upgradable. You can install Linux apps including vscode, Chromeos had come a long way.

It's a 13.5 3:2 and I think I remember it being about as tall as my 15.6 16:9.
I don't think I will buy another laptop any time soon. For work I prefer a desktop machine, and most of the tasks away from a desktop I can handle with my phone. I am thinking about travel pack of compact keyboard, mouse, HDMI cable and a USB-C hub to plug it all into and be plugged into the phone, but in current circumstances I don't see a situations where it would be really necessary.
Give Termux a try: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/
So the U.K., famous for its CCTV networks, is fining a business owner 100K pounds for setting up his own video surveillance? Is this yet another case of "rules for thee, but not for me"?

In the U.S., there is no expectation of privacy in public. This means that anything that can be seen from a public sidewalk or roadway can be recorded. If you want privacy, you need to create it. This means putting up blinds/curtains, fences, tree lines, etc. Same is true for anything that can be heard from a public sidewalk or roadway.

This ruling in the U.K. would likely be a first amendment issue in the United States.
Having used both a 15 inch and a 13 inch within the last couple of years, I will give the most measured answer: “it depends”.

If you’re lugging the laptop on a lengthy commute every day the I would say that speaks against having a heavier 15 inch.
On the other hand if the work requires an external GPU and sustained CPU-bound workloads such that a robust cooling solution is necessary: then 13 inch is probably not a good choice.

I’m definitely not in the same camp as some “road warriors” that don’t use external peripherals though, so screen sizes really don’t matter much: for the work I do (webdev) you’re nuts if you don’t use external min 1440p screens. Also external ergo keyboards are a must in my book. Laptop keyboards are absolutely terrible for your wrists.