skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Does anyone else get sick when their vacation starts?
For at least the past 7 years, without fail, as soon as I start my vacation (whether it's staying at home, or going abroad) I get sick. Cold/flu-like symptoms. Time of year makes no difference.

I end up spending ~1 week recovering, before feeling normal again but by that time I'm starting work again. I tend to have to make sure I book at least two weeks, otherwise I don't get a break.
If it's relevant: I work full time, software engineer, mostly remote.

Anyone else have this issue or know of it happening? Or am I just overthinking an unlucky run of coincidentally-timed colds.
The FLCCC protocol for long covid has had a lot of good results. I fixed my three and a half month bout in the spring with it. One dose of ivermectin and I felt better in a few hours and cured all the symptoms in five days with four more doses. The only remaining symptom of chest inflammation resolved with prednisone.
If it were any other country, he probably wouldn't have felt the need to lie about it in the first place.
"I'll require a second box as we're doing a Lotus Birth"

[Weak stomach warning] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_birth
There were still racist real estate covenants in Minnesota, etc.
Collector items exist, and while a certain amount of resources have to be burned to preserve them, on the whole, they seem to me like a positive effect on the environment.

Say there is an old Bugatti that rich people trade for tens of millions of dollars.

That is basically a token, and the cost to society is the original manufacturing cost plus the upkeep.

The inflated market price is a good thing, because it represents the potential consumption that rich people are not consuming and is therefore available for the rest of society.

On the other hand, if someone spends the same amount on a brand new yacht, then they are putting all that value into environmental impact, either directly or indirectly. And they're taking it away from all the poor and hungry, even if the yacht builders benefit and it "trickles down".

It's exactly the same logic as the famous Eisenhower speech about national defense taking away from the needy.

One simply needs to make the mental transition to considering all wealth the property of society.

Most people seem to have it all backwards, where abstract tokens and bank accounts are a waste, and consumption is "creating jobs" which is good.

Crypto, as far as I can tell, neutralizes things through requiring undue consumption to create the tokens, so it seems to me like a massive step backwards.
> being friendly to a beginner (e.g. a kid)

My child seems to intuitively get modern UI design, and doesn't seem to need many affordances to understand what to interact with or not. I think people who say older designs are better for beginners may be applying some retrospective thinking.
I'm running a bunch of old Mellanox ConnectX-3 cards, they've been plug and play in all of my Linux systems. Cheap too.
$120,000 a year

No article I've seen on the matter brings this up. These are fantastic jobs, and anytime the media reports the facts on similar cases, ordinary people (ie, people who bust their asses for 12.50/hour) start falling into the "move the factory to Mexico" camp. I'm sure Sanders wanted the whole thing to go up into smoke for his own reasons.

In any case, people need to stop paying a 2000 percent markup on porridge.
I'm not sure Frank Herbert would agree with you.

https://youtu.be/26GPaMoeiu4

https://youtu.be/5IfgBX1EW00
Corporations and political organizations freely spam our inboxes with emails and real mail garbage to milk us for money. I can't possibly get angry at citizens spamming them once in a while. Seems like just a 21st century form of protest--at worst, it inconveniences them.
Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK
He does, and I think I would far prefer being addressed that way. But consider the response of those who idolize and would compare him to Steve Jobs: there could hardly be a greater contrast in style. Imagine Steve Jobs presenting this pedestrian admission of a wrong turn and resolve to do better. He could no more do that than this guy could pull off, "Oh — one more thing."
Oh sweet! Programming searches definitely feel underserved since Google isn't quite literal enough for me a lot of the time.

The concept is to build a search marketplace that feels like a normal search engine to the end consumer. The hope is that you'd build an ensemble of expert vertical search engines that each can get traffic because they're part of the larger exchange (rather than needing to build a general search engine to get any traffic at all).

You can look at my cringe video / code for the hackathon here: https://devpost.com/software/askbid-a-decentralized-search-m...

The basic idea is:

1) The user posts a search query to the marketplace. This starts a time-limited market around the question "which result will the user find most relevant for this query".

2) Search engines decide if they have a relevant result to that query. If so, they post their result(s) to the exchange, and mint and hold "yes" tokens or mint and sell "no" tokens against their result.

3) Other search engines / information traders do the standard prediction market thing and trade "yes" and "no" tokens for the various results posted to the exchange until price converges.

4) The user views a SERP that shows the results (probably ordered by descending price) and picks one.

5) The "yes" tokens become redeemable for escrowed crypto if that result is chosen. The "no" tokens become redeemable if that result is not chosen, or if the market expires.

I have a shitty prototype on Solana's Devnet where I need to fix and tune the rewards to each participant. I figured crypto folks might be into trying something like this, even if it really is just a convoluted way of calling Bing until I can convince people like you to join.

Right now I've been faffing about trying to find ways to simply explain this to folks to try to find people who are interested. Would love any feedback you have. :)
This is really cool. A bit verbose for my taste, but OTOH it could be easier to remember than markdown or html. For example, I often forget the syntax for links in markdown - do the square brackets and parentheses come around the text and link respectively, or is it vice versa?
Same here.

I don't take much vacation (a week a year max) even though I have like 6 weeks vacation but without fail I need a vacation after my vacation has ended.
Most reals are not computable anyway:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0411418.pdf
Hillsboro, OR and Chandler, AZ would like a word.
Well, those 2 criticisms are true. You can test that out yourself.

What’s missing is that lots of things in your home are bad in water and are flammable. But how often do you need to save a baby from an evil villain by tossing their little box into a river and hope a nice childless couple who always wanted a child finds them and raises them as their own?

Situations where the material is a liability are few and far between.
>Dune is not an allegory for anything any more than Lord of the Rings is an allegory for anything

Which I'd consider bad news for the argument because Lord of the Rings is, despite Tolkien's opposition deeply allegorical. Whether it's the machinist east vs the pastoral West, the ideal Catholic community, the return of the King as a Christ like figure, and so on. It's at times painfully obvious.

You, just like Tolkien appear to have a conservative attitude towards fiction which always tends to deny obvious, often political intent in fiction because from your point of view, which I wouldn't even agree with, it allegedly diminishes art.
> In 60 million years of evolution they'll have their own space program.

LOL, You mean like Astrophage?
I like finding cases where both effect and affect are interchangeable, as in they create logical sentences but with different meanings.

> effect (verb): cause (something) to happen; bring about.

"It [the union] doesn't just effect cereal. It also effects Jimmy Dean breakfast bowls."

I'll give this one a C-.
> the average cereal worker makes $120,000 a year

Wow - why aren't workers in lower paid careers like service dropping everything to get these jobs? Why weren't people scabbing to get them during the strike and offering to work for $110k instead?
> Every simulation picks some rational approximation to Pi, because they have to.

Your simulation might need to ask for an increasingly tighter bound on the real value of Pi. You can totally do this with no more than the usual rational numbers, but it's not equivalent to "just picking some rational approximation" and running with it, because what accuracy/precision you pick is outcome-dependent and it's always possible to request more.
The tickets I've been given for onboarding have been poorly put together as the remote QA / reviewing process was horribly documented. The problems I was told I'd be working on turned out to be far more "in planning mode" than actually something they wanted people to work on. Two key engineers seem to dominate all of the meaty work and what was explained as a cool groundbreaking platform is really a boring accounting app written in elixir.

The most interesting ticket I've been given is re-writing how we do auth for certain clients. I need to get out of here.
God... the classy Platinum look is peak MacOS to me. I was never super fond of Aqua, and the modern design ranges from "pretty usable" with Mojave to "I think this is an Ubuntu skin" with Big Sur. Platinum just feels... right, to me at least. It's aged pretty gracefully compared to the look of Windows 98, and manages to look equal parts fun and professional. The only real sticking points are the graphics used in the icons, if they were replaced with more appropriately lo-fi versions of the NeXTStep ones I think it would be a true Renaissance system.
Although I know that some people prefer brutalist architecture, there's definitely a case to be made about the design of a building meant to house communications in a free nation that prides itself with the first amendment, you would think they would make it transparent or all-glass and even go out of their way to make the corners of the building see through. Maybe something like Mies Van der Rohe's Westmount Square in Montreal could have been explored with an added deep underground level to satisfy the nuclear-hardening requirements.

Sometimes buildings and architecture are testaments to the culture of the time that it was built, some might say it was the beginning of the cold war and the rise of secrecy etc.
ON Semi had/has factories in Malaysia and the Czech Republic in addition to having a bunch in the US. They aren’t cutting edge 3nm fabs but they still crank out critical parts just the same.
God made the IEEE floats, and all the rest is the work of man

-- Apologies to Kronecker
I'd use this if there were a Linux version.
For me the symptoms were brain fog, weird sense of smell, headache, heart issues, high blood pressure, shortness of breath, cough, fatigue, fatigue after light exertion.
More commonly, effect is used as a noun while affect is used as a verb.
A perfect employee is one who fits the role exactly. Define your roles and you'll know what that looks like.

You could get them wrong and have somebody come along and show you, by being what you needed, but that's a whole other thing.
They are both allegorical, Tolkien was just less willing to admit it.
Is developer time actually being conserved though?
"I'm old enough to remember when this was a conspiracy theory," joked another.

It's not a joke. This kind of technology is profoundly disturbing and creepy.

Precisely because when they inevitably attempt to roll it out into the mainstream, they'll be quick to paint all dissenters as tinfoilers, luddites and other nervous nellie types.
I’m not sure that’s the same. Apple has been doing amazing with product after product and product since the iPod exploded. People predicted doom most of the time even when they were INCREDIBLY successful.

I think it was fair to question Tesla. The Roadster was ultra low volume. The S was pretty low volume and high price (limiting potentially sales). Good, but still small. The X had a lot of problems during development and still not too high in volume due to price.

Finally getting the 3 out the door after all the delays and the tons of orders that came from that were the thing that seemed to cement them as not going to fail at any moment. I mean Musk has explicitly said they came REAL close to the end trying to get the 3 out, so it was somewhat fair.

In contrast with Apple the doomsaying continued for at least 10 years after they were very safe.

Seems a rather different to me.
I don't see anywhere that Sanders encouraged a no vote. Members have talked about voting no but Sanders speech appears to be commending the strikers only. Not suggesting actions.
Coincidentally I just discovered today that my Xfinity modem was broadcasting a public "xfinitywifi" by default. I only became an Xfinity customer a few weeks ago and had no idea. I even read all the terms of agreement and never saw this mentioned. I shuddered upon discovering this, just considering the security implications, and immediately disabled it. (I only gave in to using their modem due to a fairly large monthly discount. Starting to regret it.)
GLIDE is NOT Dall-E. Dall-E is a transformer (basically GPT-3), while GLIDE is a diffusion model. While they share some similarities, the major difference is that transformers generate image sequentially from top to bottom, pixel-by-pixel (technically, token-by-token), so one can condition them only by the text and the top of the image. At the same time, diffusion models predict all pixels at the same time, so one can naturally trade compute for result quality (do more inference iterations) and, beside sampling, do other image manipulation tasks, like text-prompted inpainting.
So much this. The people higher up the ladder are too detached about working conditions and expectations. They are often gatekeeping others growth based on nonsense. Often come up with bullshit policies to squeeze productivity.

We can all see the ineptitude of management (the higher in the ladder they are, the worse they are). If we could fire them, we would.
> and the existing practices around separate compilation and stable ABI can't be carried to Rust

They totally can, by using the C ABI. C++ ABI is not really "stable" anyway, it's been long due for a break.
You can't. See "Simulating Physics With Computers," linked here: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1394159744139632640

And some thoughts on the limitations with respect to creating AGI: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1446261451061145602

See section 5, "Can quantum systems be probabilistically
simulated by a classical computer?"

> The probability that they match is eight-tenths, the
probability that they mismatch is plus two-tenths; every physical probability comes out positive. But the original f's are not positive, and therein lies
the great difficulty. The only difference between a probabilistic classical
world and the equations of the quantum world is that somehow or other it
appears as if the probabilities would have to go negative, and that we do not
know, as far as I know, how to simulate. Okay, that's the fundamental
problem. I don't know the answer to it, but I wanted to explain that if I try
my best to make the equations look as near as possible to what would be
imitable by a classical probabilistic computer, I get into trouble.

When I was younger and only slightly more foolish, I wanted to spend a lot of time researching this to see if there was a way around the problem. I quickly realized that perhaps I should focus on adding value in a field that I was good at. :) Maybe one of you can try, since the only alternative is to take Feynman at his word.
They were scabbing. Predictably, quality appeared to go through the floor as a result

eg) https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/147225737151065293...
Yea, can wait for that one.

Really though Baldwin is claiming the gun went off without him pressing the trigger. Which is a flat out lie he either believes or he is getting ahead of a lawsuit. The gun he used is a replica single action revolver, the replica was made in the 1960s and has a trigger bar. You can bash on that cocked hammer with… a hammer… and it won’t go off. That firing pin can not make contact with the primer until the bar is moved by pressing the trigger.

Historical note, if a Colt SAA (Single Action Army) was to be carried anywhere, it had 5 rounds of the 6 shot chamber filled. It was carried on an empty chamber in case you fell off your horse. I saw a western once where the actor knew while talking about “trouble coming” to silently load a 6th round, good detail.

Side note, there are still countries in Asia and South America that have their police carry with an empty chamber, mostly going back to this OLD advice.

I would say Baldwin should have kept his mouth shut, but his arrogance since the shooting has wiped away any sympathy I had for the Actor. Baldwin the Producer, had always been liable in my eyes.
Pointers are usually stored in 64-bits on 64-bit systems, but some of the bits may be unused depending on hardware. Each CPU/platform has its own limit for the size of the virtual and physical address space. But the standard size of pointers in memory stays the same.
I got a Ford Escape 2014 a while ago. I needed something cheap and decent enough. I don't love it, and I don't spend much time on it. It has never had issues in spite of common jokes about Found On the Road Dead which I think may be behind the times.

The thing about a large volume manufacturer with a developed dealer network is: when someone backed into it in a grocery store parking lot and destroyed the bumper, I thought I would be making phone calls, waiting for parts, getting it in, etc. But the very first phone call to my dealer, and they had the part for this 6 year old car just sitting there on the shelf. Installed and back on the road the next day.
it's not (just) the media. It's human nature: you offer something sufficiently remarkable (in the sense that it invites a remark from people, whether positive or negative) and the remarks raise awareness which drive more remarks. A certain percentage of people think it's interesting/good and try it. It's the same principle behind populists saying outrageous things. The media amplifies it, but it happens even without media. You and I are a part of it right now, by commenting on this thread.
What a concept, maybe our legislators could do something useful for a change and make similar rules.
Here is something which flies under the radar everytime regarding petroleum:

"Petroleum is our source of plastics & polymers"

We may solve the problems of not having petro-fuel for industry, or ship oil and replace these with gas. We may solve transportation challenges by EVs. But, there is no economically viable alternative to producing polymers and plastics. If at all we are saving, it should be from the viewpoint of saving building materials for the next several decades. Every single piece of plastic or polymer or synthetic fabric you see around you, was born out of a oil rig.

Everything, from medical grade plastics used in medicine capsules to hospital equipment, to Falcon 9 parts we send to space, to kevlar building materials, is built from petroleum primitives. Imagine how crippled we would become if we fall in short supply. Like explained, the we must pivot our thinking to conserving building materials for future generations, than calculate them as fuels only.
Collateral is sold off automatically once they breach some threshold (varies, but it's always > 100%), and there are bots that compete to do this as quickly as possible. This is in no means perfect, but it is quite responsive, and did survive crypto's March 2020 price crash.
Yikes is that people interfering with food again to support the aims of the union? Nasty tactics.
> Finally, am I the only sick of these stereotypical images of 'native indigenous cultures living in simple harmony with nature' a la Avatar?

It's called the Noble Savage [1] [2] trope. It's at least as old as the Romans. It's also probably the reason so many of our sports teams bear the images of peoples we committed quasi-genocide [3] against.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage [2] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NobleSavage [3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2016/08/24/real-histor...
XCA if you need something simple running on a single machine.
please refer to the $100B or so spent on in-app-purchases
Beijing unleashed a propaganda campaign to redefine democracy
You’re not alone! And you may be surprised (or not) to learn that it’s a thing and it has a name: Leisure Sickness

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_sickness

I hope you’re able to find a way to fight it off in the future!
It certainly helps a lot if you're breastfeeding exclusively but it isn't as reliable as many would want.
Show me a single node operator or developer that has stated they would consider ever raising the hard cap on bitcoin. Until then you're just making up FUD for the sake of being argumentative.
I typically use whatever I have laying around. Right now I've gone atypical since I currently have a 10 gbps symmetric connection and my leftover hardware isn't quite fast enough to route it.
I sleep at 9 PM, wake up at 4-5 AM. Life without commute is good. My kids actually wake up earlier too now that they don't have to wake early for school.

I've often napped in midday, even at the office. Ironically, I sleep more consistently at the office (in my car) than I do at the home office with a bed nearby.
You're being downvoted because you're commenting on an article from today, December 21, and claiming that the information in an article from December 8 somehow supercedes it.

"the last you read" is outdated information. The article linked at the top of this page contains up-to-date information.
I can acknowledge off the top of my head that there were plenty of opportunities to be exclusionary, or not help inclusionary legislation or actively participate in exclusion, or merely being a recipient of a GI Bill mortgage.

I still feel people need to be treated more so as individuals, and that more support for progressive ideas will come from acknowledging the individual. Especially when that individual may have the power or network to help the cause.
The Simon Ehrlich wager comes to mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
The National Museum of Mathematics
My ConnectX-3 on Windows 10/11 machine takes 15 secs to reconnect on resume from sleep. It's not serious issue but a bit annoying. Anyone had similar issue?
A fantastic and experienced reply. OP, please listen to this
Sometimes it's food. Sugar crash causes sleepiness.
As a non parent surrounded by friends having kids I often wonder how much money and faff is wasted on things kids won’t even remember.
> Are you using population-level accident statistics to make this assessment?

I’m making a rather simple assessment. I’ve seen Tesla autopilot/FSD fail catastrophically in situations where I would have been fine. This does not inspire confidence that it will do better in situations where I would have failed. As such, I’m not willing to put my life in its hand. And, I really hope no effing Tesla hits me.
Also, changing the app itself is an option. The $LARGE_CORPORATION infrastructure works for other apps, if it doesn't work for the acquired app, it's not a given that the infra must add features but perhaps rather the app should be restructured according to $LARGE_CORPORATION habits. Sure, it will take work, but if according to OP the alternative is to wait a full quarter, then changing the app might be possible in that time.
CFSSL, cloudflare's OSS CLI for PKI
I tried it on your recommendation. Wow.
I don't know anything about these two sides or what are their issues, but I can see this article has zero actual facts. Sounds like some low level buerocrat who is salty at not being appreciated by his boss.