skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is incorrect. The vaccine also provides protection from contracting the disease.

No, it doesn't. Vaccinated people get sick every day from corona, and they can also spread it - they're called "breakthrough infections." See the link below.

> That’s for protection of the individual, the immunocompromised in the community, the population as a whole, and to keep the healthcare system functioning.

Why are you spouting horseshit? You sound like those lying, fat chicks on the View.

Are you by any chance getting your "info" from Fauci or cnn?

"COVID-19 breakthrough hospitalizations: Who gets sick when vaccines don’t work?"

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/17/covid-19-breakthrough...
> this came from Pelosi

Probably part of it, but also the rich can't do their xmas shopping in Union Square safely this year, and if those stores close, not next year either. Everybody I've talked to in SF says they won't go there, even in daylight.

Note that Pelosi gave a statement about crime this week, but denied knowing the reasons behind it, since Marxists won't take accountability when their narrative is proven wrong. Just won't do it.

"Pelosi Weighs In on Crime Debate: ‘I Don’t Know’ Why Crime Is Increasing"

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pelosi-weighs-in-on-crime-deba...
Fortunately, there's another approach based on group theory that's able to hit n^2.41 and shows some promise.

Here's the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511460

Here's a set of lecture notes that are simpler to read and give an easy example of how group theoretic methods work: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/viola/classes/gems-08/lectures/l...
Do they have higher rates, or better access to information, introspection, tools, awareness, and common understanding of these things? I am curious about that.
The Chinese officials see law as a tool to control masses. Their constitution is therefore no more than a piece of paper.
Since some years every condition has "a genetic cause". Will be nice if those studies (3.5 miliions $ for playing with data from some databases - wow) will actually do real studies not just correlation.
The models are correct: We're just living in the wrong universe.
adding to this: if your issue is one of focus, try a pomodoro timer. it's a great way to shut off that voice nagging you about all the other things you need to remember to do, because you can forget about all of those and know that in 25 minutes you'll have an opportunity to reconsider them. if you're really strict with your time management, another approach is to use detailed calendars, but that's a lot more work than just a simple timer.
Patrick Leigh Fermor recounting walking from Holland to Constantinople in the early 1930's is an enchanting tale. He was in his teens when he started the walk, but only started writing the travelogue when he was in his sixties. He was a fascinating and erudite character. The three books in the series are:

A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, The Broken Road (unfinished)
>1/1,000,000 chance of getting chemical burns is fine by me.

That's fine by me too, and Bose should market the headphones with the description "1/10^6 chance of getting chemical burns".

Then the people who don't find it fine by them can make a rational choice about buying or not buying that product.

See, the public has this unreasonable expectation about wireless headphones being as safe as wired ones. Silly public. Can't fathom why they would think that way, with all the warnings of potential chemical burns in the product manuals.

Oh wait.
They've been doing this since April 202 [1]. Early reports also found on reddit with people being concerned. We too received quite a few of these emails over the last few days from various fake idenities and wasted time responding to one of them before realising it was not legit!

I can't imagine how much time and potentially money was wasted on these mass emails.

[1] https://joewein.net/blog/2021/04/21/questions-about-gdpr-dat...
How do you know the earth is not flat?, if it's merely because some authority figure told you so do you really know that the earth is not flat?

If you know the earth is round based on observed reality then why would you believe some internet rando who says it's flat?
Disney: No thanks, no deal and no ESPN for You(Tube).

You simply need more of this for YouTube to listen these days instead of them banning its own users and creators.

Just look at this typical ESPN fan:

> “I will cancel immediately if you can’t work a deal,”

The same will happen for Disney fans watching on YouTube and it is working. They'll just run to the Disney+ app instead.
If you are in a life-changing accident, in Europe at best you'll receive a few hundred euros a month in disability pay. In US you could sue for millions.
I believe this is the rare occasion where the American way of thinking makes more sense.
$1.1B for 1GW https://commercialsolarguy.com/americas-first-gigawatt-solar...

$20B for 10GW with cable to Singapore https://www.sciencealert.com/world-s-largest-solar-farm-to-p...

The writing is on the wall. The nuclear with its supposed "baseload" goes the way of Big Iron with its high reliability/etc. which got replaced by distributed clusters of cheap Linux boxes.
It should not be legal to advertise the possibility of messaging someone, if that someone will not be able to receive the message.

edited to add:

Those poeple have facebook profiles, post stuff publicly, you can comment, tag and all that. Except private messages. All private messages are silently undelivered. No error, only sent.
A better design could be such that remains safe (even if functionally degraded) when hit with a burst of cosmic rays.

Whether it can be done within the constraints of mass, volume, and expense that keep the headphones competitive is another (hard) question.
Calls for more oversight are calls for more bureaucratic procedures and this whole situation is already bureaucracy gone mad.
Same, account got banned in 2019, never received a response to the support ticket.
Having failed to truly "disconnect" in the past, my recommendation in order not to be distracted by the internet is to first and foremost write down everything that you would have the urge to google. Instead of googling it, put it on paper, and continue your activity. Once you are done you can review the points that you have wrote down, and think whether they are really worth pursuing. And if they are: stop right there! Don't google it. Think about how you could get this information without the internet.

This process has helped me rediscover atlases, dictionaries, and many other forms of offline knowledge. I almost see it as a form of survivalism: asking yourself how would you learn without electricity?

Of course there will be failures, either due to loss of focus, or maybe because of perceived boredom. But if one sticks with it, it really does become a good habit.
Manipulation involves a few things:

1. Recognize objects in the world, like a keyhole or whatever it is you want to take out of a bin.

2. Recognize your own position -- how close is your hand to the keyhole?

3. Adjust your position until it matches your goal.

My impression of things is that most of our difficulty comes from task 3. It's not so much that we have trouble recognizing where we are, where we want to be, or how to move from where we are to where we want to be. But we have difficulty defining movements that don't cause damage to nearby (or target) objects.

Your human hand has many features that allow it to grip an object securely without damaging the object. And you also have a decent sense for how to move your hand to an object without damaging the object -- or your hand -- though this problem is far from being solved in humans too. Ever stub your toe?
As a counterpoint here I don't consider this study or the Linux kernel study human subject research unless we define human subject research so broadly that the definition essentially becomes meaningless.

As a side note I find the "outrage" about these small academic studies quite hipocritical. This is a community where a significant proportion of people work in related to ads/clicks who constantly experiment on human subjects (at least by the definition applied to the cases above). Let's not even talk about the research done by Facebook et al (where a significant proportion of developers here work as well), who literally looked at how changing the time line affects the mental health of users.
In fact the BMJ is so credible that they call a vaccine engineered and manufactured by Biontech the 'Pfizer vaccine'
They haven’t actually been decriminalized. Some crimes have been classified as lesser crimes (through Prop 47, for example) and many crimes the DA has simply refused to prosecute. And the police know that making arrests is often pointless if DA won’t uphold the law on his end.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court disagrees with you in this particular circumstance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
One of my early jobs in the industry, some 20 years ago, was at a little company that had a stock trading system mostly written in Perl. My experience with Perl prior to that had been simple CGI programming and odd scripts. The trading system was for the exchange side. Working on that system taught me a lot of things ("wtf is bless?"). Perhaps most importantly it showed me that Perl can be beautiful.

That system ran a few small exchanges for many years. I doubt anyone who traded on them knew that their orders were handled by a big Perl system.
I understand why some people might be afraid of the risk. My point is that since you already implemented the code to detect EU customers, you could as well decide to not to set cookies rather than block them. In terms of complexity it's basically the same, but you get the benefit of increased exposure.
I kinda feel like we were trained to be maximally receptive in an era when information was just recently proven to be the most valuable thing, but also was still kinda rare. And then they just fucking dropped the information hose into our livingrooms and... now I'm blinded.
From my experience they don't care. Pretty sure they know their system is flawed and instead of investing in support staff they let you create new accounts. There's maybe an exception if you spam a lot.
A contrasting anecdote would be that I've got a pair of QC 15s, which are now probably ~6 years old. I quickly dumped the awful bulky case, so they've been thrown unprotected into all manner of rucksacks and other luggage, and have been squeezed into multiple overhead lockers.

A cat chewed one of the cables, and I had to replace the ear cushions (for a few bucks from eBay) but they're otherwise going strong, despite a fairly tough life.
I get this. When I was a teen we used computer screens with all kinds of defects, cracks, discolored patches, part of the screen getting cut off etc. Not ideal, but we got used to it quickly.
To any future digital archivist reading this line, please know that I smiled while I wrote it.
> The agent is read-only and has no capability to wipe a device, it is a read-only agent that we have security validated with a third party.

And you can change that over night, without notice to anyone not actively monitoring your platform for such messages.

Why is that your policy.

You expect a high level of trust. And still you engage in dark anti-patterns that nukes any kind of trust for anyone who know how to read.
That's not really the Harvard way. The Harvard way is:

* Take about 2/5 of students from the elites

* Take about 3/5 of students who are brilliant

Students of the elites look smart by association. Students who are brilliant are brought into powerful, moneyed social networks. It works well for everyone involved.

The focus on alumni donations is a little bit overblown. Harvard has way more money than it needs. What Harvard looks for is a lot richer than that. The alumni base is part of the national -- and increasingly international -- power structure. A president of some country, a high court justice, or similar sorts of power positions can be at least as important as a billionaire. Likewise, branding is important. The current push on DEI is to make sure that (1) the brand doesn't suffer (2) DEI-focused positions are filled by elite school alumni, and not focused on actual change to power structures.
Graphile Worker maintainer here; keep in mind that postgres is not the ideal location for a job queue, so you’re going to be limited ultimately by postgres’ capabilities. I’ve seen Worker max out at around 10k jobs/second but very much YMMV - you should benchmark it for your expected use case. Personally I’d move to a dedicated job queue if I started having an average of more than 1-2k jobs per second. The majority of systems never hit anywhere near this (we very much cater to the “long tail” of job queue needs).

Regarding the horizontal scalability; that relates to if you have heavy tasks (tasks that take a second or more to execute) - you can use more instances to get higher throughput.

Hope this helps!
An alternative perspective. The reason we don’t find them engaging and are so easily distracted is because they’re not very good and we didn’t have anything to compare them with until recently. This includes classics as declared by some entirely subjective arbitrary literary authority. It’s no different to wine tasting; status is more important than enjoying the thing. Practicers of Tsundoku are a fine example of the propagandists pushing the literary agenda forwards when in reality they read 5% of every book and are too ashamed to throw it in the paper recycling where it belongs and mistake the physical presence of the book as the value of the words.

For me, peak book-reading was the 80s and involved dragging myself through the local library because the other option was smoking, lurking around in public parks drinking or being a petty criminal. There are better things to do now, like complain about this on HN. There are also far more interactive communication pursuits these days and better story telling mechanisms.

I do still read books. I think I knocked about 15 on the head this year, mostly Pratchett and The Expanse series. But it’s on a Kindle, it’s not a magical romantic experience and I tend to read while pooping, waiting for someone to do the shopping, when picking the kids up from school or stuck on a really long Zoom meeting which I don’t need to speak during.

One notable disaster book this year was The Complete Navigation Manual. I am attempting to relearn map/compass based navigation again after a 25 year hiatus. This entire book could have been condensed down into a single markdown file in github that I could have read and understood the key points in 30 minutes. Such low information density is not something I am used to or like.
> So far, any framework I saw that claims to be the new rails, is speaking about features and the million things you can do.

I don’t think Remix themselves are claiming to be the new Rails.
Wow, I don't feel quite so alone anymore. I went through something similar, although I didn't have it as bad as you. I couldn't shake hands, lift a grocery bag, or drive for quite some time. The doctors I saw were stumped, and I got the sense that no one wanted to deal with it. I went to a PT, who guessed the problem incorrectly (in hindsight), but whose recommended exercises fortuitously happened to also help with TOS. It wasn't until many years later that a sports medicine doctor mentioned TOS as a possibility and everything clicked.

Can I ask how you were able to determine there was scar tissue? Was it just someone feeling it out or did you get an MRI?
Perhaps that’s because quality is hard to measure in terms of numbers.

What gets measured gets optimized. And price is the easiest to measure.

Everything else is murky to measure, and often delayed as well (like how long a tool lasts, or what that food will do to your health, or what the company will do with your data once you’ve used their app for a year or two).
I think it was in one of Rick Hartley's videos that he talked about designing for analog vs digital. There are a bunch of points I remember, in no particular order:

- the frequency of your circuit, that you need to design for, is determined by the rise and fall time of your ICs, not your clock. (With your square wave, for example, it's impossible for it to actually be square; it has some finite rise and fall time that determines the frequency you need to design to).

- IC manufacturers almost never actually tell you the rise and fall time of their chips. Also, they might do a die shrink at any time, resulting in you having to redesign your circuit to accommodate the higher frequencies from smaller, faster transistors (even if it operates at exactly the same clock frequency as before). If you're lucky, they'll even tell you about the die shrink rather than just letting you find out when suddenly your design stops passing EMI testing.

- high-frequency can be easier than low-frequency; you really need to pay attention to impedance control, but so long as everything is well laid-out the fields will stay closely contained. The lower the frequency, the more the fields will spread and the greater the risk of having problems such as crosstalk.

- Digital is easier than analog. Digital can tolerate a lot of noise before a 0 becomes a 1 or vice versa. Whereas if you're sending a signal to a 24-bit ADC, you might have to go a bit crazy and use a PCB-embedded waveguide, or something, to give it the isolation it needs.

- Even if digital signals are quite resilient from a signal integrity standpoint, you still have to pay close attention to crosstalk because it takes very little common mode current to cause an EMI problem. And you have to pay attention to EMI if you actually want your design to pass emissions testing to be able to sell it.

- Even at high frequencies, anything at a length scale less than (wavelength of maximum frequency)/10 can be treated as a lumped element. So if it's possible to jam two high-frequency ICs right up against one another, with the pads pretty much touching, that's probably actually better than a carefully impedance-controlled transmission line connecting them. That's not really applicable to some monster BGA chip, but if you're designing a switched-mode power supply you can make the node between the inductor and MOSFET a lumped element by placing them as close as possible.
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>How many times are you going to say "exploding"

I am going to say it every time I talk about Bose QuietComfort 35 II headphones, which violently exploded and left their user with chemical burns while they were wearing them and using normally.

This is an accurate description. Allow me to refer you to Merriam-Webster dictionary for the meaning of the word "explode", which you have an issue with:

>Definition of explode

>1: to burst forth with sudden violence or noise from internal energy: such as

>a): to undergo a rapid chemical or nuclear reaction with the production of noise, heat, and violent expansion of gases

Bose QC 35 II headphones most certainly did undergo a rapid chemical reaction with the production of heat and violent expansion of gases. The violent expansion is what left the OP with chemical burns.

You are welcome.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/explode
I've been running a mail server for about 8 years now for me privately. I use it only for ordering stuff and for communicating with vendors but it works very well. Large e-mail providers never block me as far as I can tell, small ones i don't know. But I never get the feeling that my mails don't arrive in time.

I've also run servers with applications that send out automatic mails and there, problems were bigger. I think this is because there are a lot of mechanisms such as SPF that miss when an application simply uses sendmail. I've followed the archwiki instructions [1] mostly, a couple of years ago, and it works very reliably.

This won't help protonmail with abusing users but for a private server, it works well. I think a server also builds reputation over time.

But honestly I don't understand why it works entirely. However, I wanted to say that private mailservers are not doomed :)

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mail_server
I've had trigger finger in my pinkies for maybe 10 years now.

To my knowledge nothing except for maybe surgery will cure it. Excessive typing will unsurprisingly exacerbate it. I manage by remapping keys from the pinkies (emacs + ahk + Japanese keyboard with thumb keys), and using a keyboard with ultra light switches (Fujitsu libertouch with light membranes, plus cut slits in them to make them even lighter).
I personally use a mix of pass from tests and a vaccinated friend’s pass for my activities. I test whenever in doubt, to make sure i don’t contaminate others, which means many times a month, and many times a week when the epidemic is peaking. In my opinion, this is a much more responsible behavior than having a jab and assume i won’t contaminate anyone.

I would add that fake vaccination pass use will probably climb with the combination of omikron variant, forced vax for kids and the increase in testimonials from vaccine side effects. People start realizing this strategy isn’t going anywhere.

NOTE: before people jump on me, i’m not anti-vax. I’m glad my parents had the jab, it made perfect sense in their case.
Same I feel like that is the only way. I can’t wrap my head around the concept of infinity. There has to be a beginning and end. What the heck caused the Big Bang? Why?
I'm not active on Linkedin but you can see changes as they are made in the github repo I linked. Or you can subscribe on the ascii-collab site to see what people are drawing.
The smoke is toxic and damages the lungs even in small amounts. Thus, throw something over it and run away. Anyway this is another good reason to not use wireless headphones. I'm still quite happy with my wired ones, thank you.
Group theory, abstraction, and the 196,883-dimensional monster
Necklaces worn to 'protect' against 5G are radioactive experts warn
Yes!

And if you consider the oscillatory nature of the brain, it is awfully easy for a massive set of weakly coupled oscillators to produce highly patterned nonlinear effects. We usually hold these things in control by virtue of our familiarity with them. But when they shift into some different oscillatory modes, the novel patterns become apprehensible.

For instance:
Atasoy, S., Roseman, L., Kaelen, M., Kringelbach, M. L., Deco, G., & Carhart-Harris, R. L. (2017). Connectome-harmonic decomposition of human brain activity reveals dynamical repertoire re-organization under LSD. Scientific reports, 7(1), 1-18.
The first part makes sense. Not to distract and interrupt a productive activity.

But the second part just seems pointless improductivity, doesn't it?

I mean, to counter lack of exercises due to excessive use of cars, you would at times avoid it. But not every time, when you really can benefit from its speed, safety and comfort.
Not an uncommon lay theory, actually. Unfortunately, I recall reading somewhere [0] that, experimentally, the effects of gravity are consistent with it propagating in only three spatial dimensions. If it could leak out of (or into) "our" universe along an auxiliary dimension, gravity's effects would be weaker than we observe.

Not to say it couldn't work some other way -- I'm not a physicist either! But (as these things always seem to end up) it would have to be a little more complicated. (Part of the "rolled-up dimensions" side of string theory is that the extra dimensions can't meaningfully attenuate the effects of gravity.)

[0] I don't think this is the one I read, but it rings the right bells: https://www.sciencealert.com/gravitational-waves-have-ruled-...
Which mainstream articles are you referring to?
Sabine Hossenfelder explains: https://youtu.be/GatiekRziok
Wish I had 500 points to downvote this. What a horrible thing to say