skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is there any way you can live where you're free from the risk of terrible calamity?

No.

> and suddenly leave you grieving in a way you'd never be

And we should consider that when deciding to enter a relationship.
http://www.dfwdedicated.com/guestbook/
Woman: has something bad happen to her.

Everyone else: gaslight her to infinity or straight up call her a liar.

Not saying it did or didn't happen, but this thread is super toxic.
It is perfectly on the level of the people who would fall for it, "How to Make Money Flipping NFTs" in their Twitter is a perfect indication (aside from the "art" itself) of the target audience.

With $313 for each the author of this only need to sell a couple to recoup the costs and would still have some beer money. If they manage to sell dozens and hundreds...
Stephen Fry on the Jordan Peterson Podcast
I think dying from COVID is the least scary part. The long COVID is way more common in my area. People stay ill for longer or lose fitness. We have one acquaintance that now has issues finding the right words. Personally I lost a few points of eye sight in just the three weeks. (Coincidentally we measured just before I got ill.) other friends just are tired quickly all the time.

So I think preventing all that loss of quality of life is also worthwhile.
It is tempting. I like the stupid heavy locked down nature of no app passwords, for the time being.
> Vaccination is neither prevents infection nor spreading.

Vaccines frequently prevent infection and spreading. (And yes, they do this by way of priming the immune system.) For example, we eradicated Small Pox with vaccines: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/788150/

My understanding is that vaccines do reduce the chance of Covid spreading. But with the Omicron variant, they help a lot with preventing severe illness and only a little bit with helping reduce infectiousness. And Omicron is ridiculously infectious, so it's going to whip right through well-vaccinated areas just like everywhere else.

But in general, reducing the chance that one person infects another is one of the primary purposes of vaccines.
It's insanely better. I enabled the Twitter theme, and it felt creepy how much smoother it was _while having the same interface_! I wish that I could login/view my feed :( I would 100% switch if I could.

If it's API restrictions, they should create a browser extension! Maybe someday Firefox mobile will allow add-ons again :(
I needed to do some development in Swift mid last year. I liked it and would continue to use if it weren’t for the fact that it seems like the only current and useful learning resources are Apples WWDC videos and similar content.
A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation [pdf]
Not technically, but you are guaranteed that if the db transaction fails, we don't end up with invalid data in redis.

The other side is not true though, but that will just cause a cache miss if the keys are timestamped.
We All Need to Stop Only Seeing the Dark Side of Crypto
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588697
This is correct, and frames are not sanded or planed.
Propolis is quite valuable and is quite easily harvested. I'm not aware of any beekeepers that try to prevent it.
You think that stopping contact tracing is a low risk option? I am less sure, given the news about infection rates in the NT which has much lower vaccine uptake, and in a population with co-morbidities.
Who says the 1x is the optimal speed to consume any information? Why stop there? Perhaps half, or even a quarter, would be better? Of course blowing through information as fast as possible doesn't do any good if you can't retain it, but I find it hard to believe that all the information out there is ideally paced for every listener.

I've actually found that sometimes I will be watching a lecture at 2x for a lot of it and then want to drop down to regular speed for certain trickier parts.
What is Classified advertising and what has been it's role since the invention of the printing press in funding (especially) local journalism? What effect did Facebook and Google, taking the classified cake but paying zero tax anywhere in the world, have on abilities of newsrooms to find themselves and pay for good journalism? With their control over algorithmic distribution of news, what role did these same companies have in promoting bad actors alongside reputable news, in doing so devaluing the entire fourth estate. And how did this devaluation of traditional media affect the value of those companies, who were then bought out by yet more billionaires for super cheap?
Let's ask Citadel CEO Ken Griffith's The Wall Street Journal, or Jeff Bezos's WaPo?
Also it's dangerous. Look at what the West does to journalists. I hope Julian Assange is recovering from his stroke, while still illegally detained.
A little anecdote from South Africa that agrees with this.

One of my sister-in-laws is a doctor working at a government hospital in South Africa. She and my brother both have Omicron right now. They caught covid in the first wave. Subsequently vaccinated with pfizer (brother), and Johnson (his wife). She had mild symptoms the first time around (Doctor's immune system); he was bed-ridden for days and even fainted at one point.

This time around she has zero symptoms, and he's got almost none.
Depends on the cognitive level of the said granny, but hearing ghost voices in a dead phone is either scary or creepy. I seriously doubt she can appreciate the effort and technological achievement at any level.

Nor does she have any fond memories of old crappy phones. In the olden times phone calls were so expensive that everytime the phone ringed it was something serious and mostly bad.
How is this not getting more love?

Pretty cool! Love where it's going.

Reminder to reset scrollbar positions of new goal dialog after submitting a goal.
It’s doesn’t require the U1 chip.
I think that depends on the definition of "infection" being used.
I totally agree. But meanwhile, I'm wondering if the droves of people that I have met who forego proven libraries and frameworks to roll their own, wouldn't also just do the same for crypto? Because exactly the integration and maintenance and socialization of these projects are underestimated.

Now, probably there are less people rolling their own crypto than there are people running their own, say... application framework, or ORM. Because crypto has more of a general feeling of "it's hard" about it. But I am still suspicious that there wouldn't be a bunch of folks out there who had to prove to their team that they were smart enough to roll their own crypto too, and are now stuck with it!
Read the thread, this is not a problem of funding but allocation of funds. I know schools that can't find $50 for supplies still find $80,000 each for 3 assistant principals who don't do any work, even in theory.
The argument against 3x seems to be a false dichotomy. I'd like to see a comparison of the author's recommendation of spaced repetition combined with "Mike's" 3x speed-listening. Increase your intake density and still get the superpowers of retention that SR proffers.

Per the author's charts you can increase the information density by either switching languages or speeding up the current language, so find the maxima of the information density-vs-syllabic-speed graph and make your chosen language match either / both parameters. That may not end up at 3x, but human perception and understanding is certainly greater than 2x common speed for English speech. I don't have a citable reference at hand, but a motivational speaker from my youth made this point. He said he speaks at about double the standard rate because nearly everyone can still understand him, and it lets him give twice as much detail in a story, or tell a story twice as long as he otherwise could.
> you can do something 100 times but still not remember how to do it off the top of your head
This. I'm one of the creators of https://cogram.com, where we're trying to address this problem, allowing you to get to a solution in your editor right away instead copy-pasting and then adapting something you find online. This may be of interest to folks who use Jupyter Notebook and google a lot of Python syntax -- it essentially brings Copilot-like features to Jupyter Notebook.

You can use it by either writing code (and Cogram will complete it), or by writing comments (in which case Cogram completes the code that matches the comment). We've also launched a web app that generates SQL statements from simple descriptions of what you'd like to achieve. I'd love to hear your feedback if you get a chance to try it out.
It is OK, though. It’s not that they’re assuming everyone has access, it’s that they’ve made the business decision that it isn’t worth going the extra mile to cater to a minority of customers that aren’t on Facebook.

It annoys me too but I’m not blaming my local restaurants for following market forces.
In New Zealand the numbers are high enough that it is a problem (disease, dealing honey crop etc).

https://www.airborne.co.nz/pages/bee-keeping-statistics-new-...
I disagree, if you are just doing you won’t be learning new things. I work at a place where there a lot of of long-timers are there and at that time there were only people that can from different fields. Those people work since 10, 20 years without even mastering what they do.

If they have to do something new they either give up or just try to come up with something on their own. Most of the time people have done things like that before and you can just read about them or look at their code.
Or your understanding skills are weak. I don’t know what you are even trying to reply, I don’t see one mention that says CDC claims vaccinated people do not spread the infection. Yes they said rarely, but that does also mean, vaccinated people are likely to spread disease.
Unlike your statement earlier which implies they claimed vaccinated do not spread disease.
that obviously isn't the authors point. The gist of the article is that treating the human mind like a hard-drive and trying to shove as much information into it, sort of like binge drinking, isn't a replacement for creativity, originality and contemplation, which is what genuine learning entails.

And as far as speed goes, "1x" is the normal conversational speed we've been interacting at for many millennia, and regardless how fast you tune the podcast app, your brain likely hasn't evolved to follow a lecture at sonic speed.

I actually think deliberately slowing down, if not in literal speed but at least by re-reading or re-listening is a skill more people should practice. More attention to what's already there and less attention scattered on novelty is an underrated ability. Think of it like this, if you want to be a great classical musician, you could study the same few Bach pieces for decades and you wouldn't stop learning. How bizarre is it to think you actually need to ingest hours of new information every week?
It had to get really bad first to manufacture popular consent for all the fun new surveillance we’re about to be subjected to :/
Where is YouTube Vanced?
Interesting. Some nitpicks and comment.

> Bees use the hexagonal cells of their waxy combs for two jobs: storing honey and raising youngsters.

And storing pollen, and curing nectar.

> They began by analysing honeycombs that had been prepared by queens as nurseries.

Comb is prepared by workers, not the queen.

> This is that beekeepers themselves have also, albeit unwittingly, helped the mites to multiply.

This isn't a new problem. Diseases such as American Foulbrood are spread by bad beekeeping and could be eradicated if beekeepers did better.

> Some larvae are thus killed outright. Survivors are weakened, making them vulnerable to infections. And that vulnerability is enhanced by open wounds left by the parasites’ feeding, which are exploited by pathogens carried by the mites. These are known to include deformed-wing virus and acute-bee-paralysis virus.

It's very depressing to see bees with curled up wings stumbling across the ground in the morning. Bees trying to shake off visible varroa and patchy brood cells with half open cells and starved, dead bees hanging out. It's basically always varroa treatment time, with brief spells where you collect honey. Varroa are awful.
Perhaps you could link to these NIST standards?
You're surprised a company making a product wants consumers to buy their product?

How does the "slowing down" story keep coming up when it's clear it was the best solution to the problem "what to do when users have the same battery for 3+ years and the device literally cannot sustain itself anymore".
> My dream team structure is a task-force like one. Each team has its own DevOps/DBA. They don't have to be dedicated roles, but someone in the team needs to be well-trained on those topics.

Looking back at the last twenty years, oscillating between central sysops and everyone doing their own thing (is that "devops" ?), I feel that an optimum requires both: local skills to iterate fast, central skills to consolidate. Striking a budgetary balance is difficult, but at least ensure that some local skills remain - sell it to central ops as a way to get the trivial demands off their backs !
Strongly agree. I would always fall asleep in class in college.

Once I got into the workforce I would avoid this learning gap by creating side projects or taking extra work which was aimed at learning specific new things.

If I sat through talks or presentations I would just information dump into a text file which I would data mine later. The taking of the notes helped some with retention, but organizing it according to my own thought process helped make it more navigable later when I was stuck on something.

Works pretty well for me in my career. YMMV if you try the same thing.
Ok, how about the featured article?

Or the CASP competition?

Or posted further up:
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/more-protein-foldi...

Or take the RMSD of a superposition of any two identical structures on the PDB?
Humans and their ancestors were strong enough that anything that evolved alongside them adapted to avoid humans or risk extinction. I'm not sure if human evolution from a simple mammal could survive alongside dinosaurs long enough to reach the point where we could effectively defend ourselves. I imagine we'd mostly be stuck either being small enough to evade them or stuck hiding in trees off the ground.
Debian (and Ubuntu as a result) has "task-*-desktop" tasks (meta-packages) which install, configure and tune the whole distro for a new/additional desktop environment too.
Integrating the two apps hosted on different platforms is also quite difficult normally. Things you take for granted that need to be shared, reachable, etc between apps all now need to be done manually for that snowflake platform.
I do this, and I'm constantly in need of book recommendations. Please help
> All insect populations are in drastic decline everywhere.

bees are indeed more complex, and in some places the populations are increasing due to high stocking of hives.

https://www.airborne.co.nz/pages/bee-keeping-statistics-new-...
They key advantage to video (and the reason why YouTube seems to keep expanding to encompass more and more subcultures) is that video formatting is also inclusive to text, audio, and still image formatting. You can only upload text to a blog, and you can only upload audio to SoundCloud, but you can upload everything to YouTube.
Why crypto/Web3 is happening and why it matters
I hope you're right. In the meantime voters are going Republican in VA and NJ.
From the abstract: "The emergence of intelligent life late in Earth's lifetime is thought to be evidence for a handful of rare evolutionary transitions".

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How do we know it is late in the Earth's lifetime? What if this is early?
I prefer to use Objective-C when using a C API that involves heavy use of pointers (buffer pointers, pointers to structs, requires mallocing things, etc.). It’s not that Swift can’t be used, it’s just that doing all of that is painful in Swift, and completely straightforward in ObjC.

I also occasionally need to use C++, which ObjC makes easy in the form of Objective-C++. Swift doesn’t (yet?) have any ability to interface with C++.
If you can't answer the question the way I asked it, then there's really no point in continuing. You're misinterpreting the qualia concept in an effort to believe a certain thing about existence. My question was aimed at isolating this misinterpretation. Qualia are individual subjective perceptions. There is no 'qualia of redness'. There is a qualia of when I perceive a particular red thing, assuming qualia exist, that is. That qualia cannot be compared or contrasted with your qualia when you see another red thing. But the instant you take that out of context, what you're dealing with is no longer qualia. There's no such thing as a 'redness' qualia.

We can isolate red as a wavelength of EM radiation because of this.
My problem was that I was watching Youtube videos (mostly pop-sci stuff) for too long and not doing anything. I solved this problem by watching them on 2x speed. My current problem is that I'm now watching 2x the videos.
I think you're on the right track regarding increasing the "weather" when the price is below the dollar peg — however this isn't quite to spur demand, it is to remove beans from circulation. This is what happens when you "sow beans", the protocol burns them and in exchange you get a locked-in interest rate (in pods), and you get paid out when all the lenders in front of you (the pod line) get paid out.

(and again, this is an activity that is incentivized when bean price is below $1 in order to bring the price back up)

Admittedly, the metaphors can get dense but personally once I started to wrap my head around it they were quite helpful!
There is a window of validity (often 30s), and a window of forgiveness (often +- 30s, so the same code will work for 90s), but the standards require only one attempt per window which renders TFA's claim pointless. Except for poor implementations, of course. And once in a million windows it may be 000000 (with 30s windows that will take 347 days assuming even distribution)
> The gist of the article is that treating the human mind like a hard-drive and trying to shove as much information into it, sort of like binge drinking, isn't a replacement for creativity, originality and contemplation

It isn't, but sometimes to get to the point where you can be creative and original you need to have a bunch of boring information stored away in your hard drive as a prerequisite.
I've noticed that I'm fairly unusual in my generation (late millennial) in that I strongly prefer to consume information through reading compared to listening or watching. My brothers and friends and girlfriend all love stuff like podcasts or casual YouTube watching, but I find that the increased effort needed to arbitrarily change speed or skip around always makes me end up not retaining or enjoying the content I consume as much.
Some of them are straight up clowns:

> Claim
Susan Rosenberg is a convicted terrorist who has sat on the board of directors of Thousand Currents, an organization which handles fundraising for the Black Lives Matter Global Network.

Rating: Mixture

About this rating

What's True
Susan Rosenberg has served as vice chair of the board of directors for Thousand Currents, an organization that provides fundraising and fiscal sponsorship for the Black Lives Matter Global Movement. She was an active member of revolutionary left-wing movements whose illegal activities included bombing U.S. government buildings and committing armed robberies.

What's Undetermined
In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of "terrorism," it is a matter of subjective determination as to whether the actions for which Rosenberg was convicted and imprisoned — possession of weapons and hundreds of pounds of explosives — should be described as acts of "domestic terrorism."

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Almost all media organizations are encouraged to publish hate-inducing headlines and clickbait, so in principle fact checking could help people. Stuff like the above Snopes bit is pure partisan comedy that does nothing but undermine the entire idea, though.
How do you propose to prevent it? The virus will be around forever and everyone will occasionally be exposed.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
Science’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year: AI brings protein structures to all
> Forget Google etc. The truth is you will probably need to work 10 years at smaller places first to gain experience

This is, IMO, highly presumptive. I have a friend who's entire career after college was "competitive rock climber" (his degree was not in STEM). He went to a bootcamp, joined a small company, and 8 months later jumped to Google. This was in 2018, he's thriving there now and his been promoted to a mid level engineer.

Not everyone can do that of course, but I wouldn't limit yourself.
Mods, and other like formats of the era, was just the coolest format in music ever. Not only could you play and enjoy the song (which is all you were limited to for all music to date), but you got all the individual samples that made the entirety of the song, the notation and could see/study the techniques used. Nothing else gave you that, and likely won't ever again. I never would have gotten into digital music creation and sound design without them.
Understanding safes and priced rounds -anyone have the accompanying spreadsheet?
> we’ve successfully mitigated fatalities

Mitigated, how exactly?
This is a great session by Kirsty, but in a couple of slides the calculation isn't explained ("it's complicated").

Does anyone have a copy of the spreadsheet she refers to?
Is PaaS considered easier because platform operations are handled by a different group of people?
> It was also buggy and a lot of fun

Sadly, "building" a PC nowadays is not very fun.

Install CPU, RAM, m.2 SSD... and that's all if you use iGPU. Just almost bare motherboard, there is even no cables to the disk drive!

GPU? Isn't needed if you aren't driving multiple monitors and/or gaming. Even if, it's just one card, install it.. and that's all.

BD/DVD? In 2021? Really?

Soundcard? If you really care than you just pipe it to your $kkkk receiver through SPDIF/HDMI/whatever, otherwise it is just fine.

OS? Just install it. Win10/11 would work out of the box, most Linux distros would work too.

The only "fun" there is hunting specs through the atrocious naming schemes (to be sure you aren't buying some 5-10 y/o part with the same index re-used on a modern piece) and hunting down the specialty things, like a SFF[0] mini-ITX cases and parts what would fit in it.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/sffpc/
I always hated school and I just recently realized why. When I could pay attention everything felt wayy too slow for me. But when I couldn't pay attention I'd miss critical information in what felt like seconds
> And as far as speed goes, "1x" is the normal conversational speed we've been interacting at for many millennia, and regardless how fast you tune the podcast app, your brain likely hasn't evolved to follow a lecture at sonic speed.

In normal conversation, people speak in far too slowly for me, myself included at times. They will spend an entire sentence adding no content to what they conveyed with the first word, gesture, or even length of pause.

Just because it's the optimal speech production rate for many people, doesn't mean it's the optimal speech consumption rate for all people.