skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend not using lithium without medical supervision. All of the bipolar people I know have significant side-effects from it. You also need to be careful with hydration because lithium toxicity is dangerous. If you get confusion as a side-effect of toxicity, you become less able to recognize what is happening.

From my own experiences with atypical anti-psychotics, getting dehydrated or running low on carbohydrates can affect my motor control severely enough that I can't drive. (I always have water and energy bars on me.) It resolves within an hour after rehydrating.

Interactions with other medication or supplements can also be dangerous.
This crap reminds me of the left/right brain non-sense.
That's fairly absurd on its face.

There are many important predictions to be made about medium term outcomes (say, in the 5-25 year range).

If someone says "We will never develop grid-level energy storage because elves cannot fly, therefore renewable energy is hopeless", we don't have to wait one second to investigate and (in)validate this claim.

If someone says "Sea level will drop by 3m within 15 years because today's cows are farting less", we do no thave to wait 15 years to investigate and (in)validate this.

If someone says "Astronomical body N28291k will hit the earth at 13:45 on Dec 2nd 2037", we do not need to wait until 2037 to investigate and validate the claim.

If someone says "The cost of coal will decrease by 20% over the next 10 years", when all known reserves of coal are more difficult to access than historical ones and when demand for coal appears to be dropping, we do not need to wait 10 years to investigate and (in)validate this.
During the presidential debate, Trump was talking about how wind mills kill "all the birds", indicating that there are in fact downsides to wind power.

All the "fact checkers" were brought in to discuss how there are other, larger threats to birds, like cats and buildings etc.

Clearly this wasn't a "truth finding fact check", but more of a "don't let Trump score any points" fact check.
> Somebody should stop and think about the kind of people that a job like "fact-checking" will attract. It's not high-paying, is inherently boring, and reminds me of a security guard kind of position.

Yea, that sounds inevitable (due to economic constraints).

If I wanted "fact checkers", I would prefer them to be either experts in the subject matter or people with relevant education and enough time to read studies. The result of their work should not be "this is false/misleading", but an "expert opinion" response where they can point exactly what is false and offer references (literature, studies) that contradict the supposed false claim.

Of course we all know that this doesn't scale, nobody's going to pay experts to spend hours reading studies to prove someone wrong on the internet. They've got better things to do.
Force myself and time box it. Set up my workspace, pour myself a coffee, listen to classical music, and give myself a hard deadline. Not easy, but I find having the right set up gets me in that mentality to get it done.
>C++ and blueprint spaghetti, no thanks

Exactly.

I enjoy writing my own small tools and slightly modifying some assets. I do hate that much of my current game is a black box since I don't know exactly how the asset actually works.

But I have fun working with Unity, Unreal always felt very hostile for some reason. Still can't get the C++ complier to work.
This is a pretty good start. I'm fairly sure I have at least 3/4 of those lines in my personal ~/.emacs.d/init.el file.
The heating thing seems like an odd bit of trivia today, but back in 1988 French nuclear reactors had a capacity factor around 60% and home electric heating such as heat pumps was considering one way of boosting consumption especially at night. Things have clearly changed over time, but I am unaware of any current regulations banning new homes with electric heating.

> obviously don't know what you're talking about.

Please enlighten us: European Union antitrust regulators approved the French government's plan to inject 4.5 billion euros ($4.8 billion) into embattled nuclear group Areva AREVA.PA, saying the rescue would not unduly distort competition. www.reuters.com/article/us-areva-restructuring-eu-idUSKBN14U1L0

PS: Hinkly is somewhat interesting as the French government has a major stake in the UK power plant. Digging into the financing gets rather interesting.
Maybe but it might be obsolete by then, especially considering how much lift capacity Starship will bring online. Will be a lot cheaper to just replace Webb.
I did read it. Did you? It's full of silly propaganda draped around bits of well-known issues (such as language fluency). 2/3rds of the actual text is weird anti-racist propaganda about white supremacy.

Your point is analogous to telling someone looking at a Christian school guidebook full of Jesus/etc. and then saying "yeah, but what about the non-Christian parts that are completely well understood and normal? Were you just put off by the religious aspects?"

Yes. And that is a legitimate take on the issue.
I really have no idea if this is possible, but is there any possibility that with enough wind turbines, we might discover a down side to them?

Each wind turbine essentially transfers power out of the wind and into our electric grid, right? Is it possible we could build enough turbines for that to be a problem?
Could anyone explain how the firmware (implementing UEFI, I assume) interacts with the components described here? My knowledge is limited to Tianocore edk2 on amd64 platforms.
Yet companies still try to convince you otherwise...
Used Flickr for years. Then Yahoo came along. Then the T&C's changed, transferring ownership of the photos to Flickr, not even attributing the photographers. Then they introduced fees.

I've not uploaded anything since Yahoo bought them.
Is this "the cup shouldn't let my kid drink the bleach?" or "interfaces engineered to be responsive to children's voices and marketed as being an authoritative source for facts probably shouldn't respond to requests for drinks recipes by parsing random websites with an algorithm so shonky it can't distinguish health warnings from recommendations?".

It's not like bleach manufacturers advise people to leave it around their household for easy access, or make special kids' editions which share many features with the adult solution including a cap designed to ensure it fits as easily in kids' hands as adults.

Yes, parents have some responsibility for actual parenting, but I don't think you can argue that an OEM going out of their way to ensure kids can use their products is entirely off the hook.
I anticipated the typical "But fox news but fox news but fox news" which is exactly why I added the last sentence to my comment.
The article is good but since when is Algeria on the Red Sea?
This is pollution by comment.

It is neither informative nor constructive nor actionable. Please refrain.
Around that same age I also tested whether Santa was in fact secretly my parents. I decided that Mall Santa would be the only person I told that I really wanted an RC car for Christmas, and I steadfastly refused my parents' attempts to get me to tell them what I'd asked for.

Lo and behold, Santa got me the RC car I so desperately wanted, solidifying my belief in him for a couple more years.

Turns out the real lesson, which I was too young to grasp, is that at the RC car display at Costco a 6-year-old cannot contain his obvious excitement in order to run a properly blinded experiment.
That’s a very inconsistent logic. LSD failed due to its uncontrolled mass distribution which should have never happened. Early lab experiments were very promising, and LSD is slowly coming back (check out MAPS).

Ketamine has been in production for decades as an anesthetic, so saying that it’s a fad because it won’t make companies rich is nonsense.
Most of the time, you need to mail them a dozen times to get the “fact-check” tag off from your articles. If their fact check is proven to be false (which it usually happens) they do not voluntary alter and take back their fact-check. They are quick to jump for bogus fact-checking, but not for taking back their wrong fact-checks.
"This isn’t true by practically any metric"

It's true by every metric.

My grandparents were born on farms without plumbing or electricity and they were not 'poor' relative to those in the region, they were about equal to others in nearby farms and villages.

In just a few generations we have: cars, electricity, ratio, air travel, safe air travel, plastics (just consider how pervasive that one is), dishwashers, washing machines/dryers (fundamentally changing domestic work), microwaves, 'all season' produce, vast array of selection, home ownership, consumer finance, credit, TV, the internet, access to information instantaneously from around the world, educational access (in 1930 about 4% went to College, now it's 40%), insulin, outpatient heart surgery, antibiotics etc.. Walmart, the Dollar Store, Target, Costco and Amazon have exploded consumerism far even beyond those things: you can buy any little trinket for a few dollars, and have it delivered from China to your door.

We live in an age of unparalleled material abundance, really, it's not even an argument, so it says more about perspective than anything.

You can draw the line probably anywhere from 'Silent Gen to Millenial' but there is no doubt, from here on in, the pluarity of people in Wealthy Nations have completely surpassed any concept of 'material need'.
Self administered, unfortunately. I do have a therapist with whom I discuss things related to the sessions, but he's not directly involved.

Also unfortunately, I'm about out of the drug, and will soon need to either try and find a reliable source, or call it quits on this particular treatment avenue.
Hey HN! A few months ago, all I wanted was a voice memos where I could hold-to-record. Holding and releasing lets me “burst” quick chains of thoughts together. It’s especially useful when walking with friends, to capture stray references and ideas.

After testing the initial burst interaction, I realized I wanted to transcribe them, and relate notes together into a hierarchy. Other features came naturally, like geotagging each note and swiping during recording to change the “temperature” (importance) of a note.

The app is open source and written in Flutter.
> You literally flew across the room?

I imagine so, in the hyperbolic sense. I've definitely seen people being "moved" by an electric shock, whether it's the shock itself or their intense reaction to it.
but my nvim is already an alias to emacs. please advise
> The benefit of all of this work and discomfort is that you come away with the ability to answer worthwhile questions that haven't yet been answered. And that's a highly transferrable and applicable skill.

This is why I have come to see that PhDs can in some cases make excellent founders. Source: CS PhD turned founder ;-)
Ask HN: What useful info should early stage company write in engineer job post?
What information should an early stage company write in its job post that will be useful for engineers looking for a company?
This looks nice!

One thing I always like to note when it comes to the topic of emacs configurations: Mine has steadily gotten smaller and smaller the longer I used emacs.

I'm a relatively new user. I started with Spacemacs, switched to doom emacs, and more recently finally crafted my own config.

The evolution of my .emacs.d was a constant "Do I really need a plugin/preconfiguration for this?" and for me the answer was "no" most of the time once I researched it, so I removed it and either switched to the default, or emacs builtin functionality.

Nowadays my config is ~130 lines as well, which includes a few lines of documentation and notes since my config is an org file.
If I had to trim it down further (or set up a config from scratch to get to work as fast as possible) I'd say that I could trim it down to only a few lines.
They don't seem to explain their methodology for how they've "age-adjusted" the figures which is a shame.

But assuming these are valid numbers: by this metric, both California (214) and Mass. (206) are doing better than Florida (235) which again contradicts the claim. Or am I reading these numbers wrongly?
It honestly makes me really nervous for the future. There is a LOT of distrust in experts that I see across the internet (and here in HN).

While there are bad actors, consensus is generally going to guide you closer to the truth than fringe experts. What does the community of experts who have studied this say about it? Is it something generally accepted by the experts or is it something that most experts disagree with?

It is nearly impossible that an entire field of study will succumb to bias. Climate change is the poster child here. Where experts disagree isn't that it is happening and caused by man, they disagree about the degree that it will be a problem (With all of them agreeing it's a major issue). Yet, I've often seen it claimed that those experts are all biased and this fringe expert funded by Koch research is really the one to be trusted (which, shocker, finds we should be burning MORE fossil fuels!)
Where did the comment say that Facebook “should be compelled” to do anything?
Show me where Apple says they protect against attackers who already have your passcode.
There's probably no point in going much faster for most control systems of physical devices of the sizes we're talking about. The actual response time of actuators and time to see the results of changes on sensors is much longer. Think the time required to actually adjust the throttle or gimbal a huge rocket engine, and then the time required to see an acceleration change as a result of that.

They probably use higher rates for stuff like measuring combustion dynamics during ground tests of the engines in development. If anything is wrong there, they'll probably seek to correct it via mechanical or fluid dynamics adjustments of the system itself, since active control systems could probably never react fast enough anyways.
This website regroups most of the other wargames and their points: https://www.wechall.net/
A close friend's startup has an oral alternative to Ketamine that hits a subset of the mechanisms in a more controlled fashion for this purpose. They are raising their first round of funding at around ~1,000,000 USD. If interested, please feel free to email me at the email in my profile.
According to Statista, 85% of Swedes self-identify as either "non-practicing Christians" or "religiously unaffiliated", unlikely they have a bible at home if that's accurate. "Church-attending Christians" come up as 8%, and are likely to have a bible at home. "almost as popular as the Bible" seems, if Statista is right, very likely.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/909409/religious-identif...
My understanding is that a lot of the complexity is making the telescope able to fit in limited space and then unfurl. That constraint is lifted significantly with Starship.
>Nobody has a need for it which can’t be satisfied at least as well by alternatives

Have you ever tried to send more than $5k, $10k or $20k before? You basically can't with your bank without having to go through a bunch of hurdles or time delays. I can easily do that with bitcoin.

Legit, real need for it that can't be satisfied with alternatives.

In addition the bank is often closed on weekends, and doesn't service you into the night. My bank site "shuts down" at night. Sorry, but my ability to use my money isn't limiting by your waking hours.
Looks nice as a simple zero-dep setup. That said, I would recommend one of the modus themes[0] as an alternative when Emacs 28 comes out, since they're built in to that version. They're amazingly thorough and accessible.

[0] https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes
As another example of Facebook's 'expert fact checkers', here's the letter recently written to Mark Zuckerberg by the editor in chief and others of the British Medical Journal - which is, as they say, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals.

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80
My daughter checked the existence of the tooth fairy by not telling us when she lost a tooth and putting it under her pillow. The pride on her face when she informed of of the results of her experiment the next morning made my heart sing.
"Experts" are wrong all the time. I have doctor who didnt even order my mri with iodine last week, because hes a fool. He didnt even know that was an option. He also didnt know ultrasound to find an injury was an option. I know more than this doctor on ligament tears and how to treat them at this point and thats supposed to be his job. This is just one example but I find new ones every week where "experts" in all fields have no clue what they're doing.

This obviously isnt to say all experts are not knowledgeable, but theres plenty who are not and often they are in charge. Thats why taking their opinion as ultimate truth without question is dangerous.
Sorry, those numbers are for monthly consumption.
wouldnt those be the brooms?
sure but we’re failing if we’re teaching adults to blindly follow ai
The secret key that Apple holds?
There should be one report vault from psychiatrists reporting on treatment successes.
It's so obvious to me that the quote means "an organization that combats voter fraud" that I honestly can't believe you're arguing in good faith. And I don't even like Biden.

If he had said instead "breast cancer organization", would you start claiming that he's trying to cause more breast cancer in the world? Obviously not, because that's absurd.
Article links to a scientific paper [1] that is notably missing.

[1] - https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1935-3/
An increasing number of U.S. cities are using license plate reading cameras
Canon Confirms We’ve Seen Its Last Flagship DSLR
I can 100% recommend this. Using O'Reilly like a library instead of a bookstore makes me a better developer no question.
People may also be concerned that there's a sinister purpose for the test, e.g., for screening.

I was skimming through a translation of Seneca, and in the opening dialog, the participants come to an agreement, along the lines of: "Just to get things straight, we're talking about the real stuff that the philosophers believe in, not the crap that the people believe in, right?" The subject matter had to do with death and the afterlife.

The thing that interests me is that someone's view on the purpose of the test might actually bias their answers and thus the results as well. So even if the test was valid in a controlled research or clinical setting, in a business setting it's a different test. Is intelligence a confounding variable?
A Michelin star rating is not a license. It has no legal force. It's simply a restaurant review, like you can read in any newspaper. Some consumers choose to trust Michelin reviews more than other sources.
It’s fun to troll online

Without more context, I have to assume you’re talking about the articles he wrote which I linked to in the grandparent.

I am not sure how pointing out it was unfair to get a woman in her mid-50s fired because she wore a costume in 2018 the Washington Post retroactively decided was politically incorrect in 2020 is “trolling”. More like, standing up for fairness, compassion, and justice.
It's essentially lost profits.

Let's say that your $45/hr number accounts for all the overhead. Just to keep the math simple here.

Let's then say that you generate $60/hr value for the company. That's $15/hr of profit for them right now.

If they could eliminate that delay, that's $10/hr of value you could be adding with that time. That's straight to their profits if they could eliminate it at zero cost.

Now, we both know that it's not zero cost. There's some cost associated with eliminating that delay. If the cost of eliminating that delay is more that $10/hr, it'll cost more to remove it than to realize it. And that'll eat into the $15/hr they're currently making.

We also know that while it'll cost now to fix the delay, at some point it will stop costing because the delay will be fixed. At that point, we get to realize the full profit.

Then it becomes a calculation of how long will it take. Because if it would take $11/hr for an entire year, then it might be worth it to suffer the loss in profits this year because the extra profits in the new year will make up for the shortfall this year.

And if you have multiple people using the app, the cost to fix it gets spread out across all the employees. With two employees, that's now $20/hr I could capture and as long as it costs less than that, we'll be good. Well, less than $30/hr because we aren't capturing that $20/hr until the work is done and we have to pay for the labor in the meantime and that means affecting current profits.

And of course, that scales. The more employees you have using the app, the more you can afford to throw at the problem and the more profitable it becomes to capture that extra. At just 100 employees, that's $1500/hr you can afford to fix this issue and you'll see returns of $1000/hr.
It's depressing that the majority of the comments here are just reiterating the same trite arguments of authoritarianism.

Whenever even mildly political posts show up on this site , especially regarding US politics, it becomes a shitshow.

For example, you'll find the anti-maskers/covid-deniers arguing that this is proof that masks are ineffective and just another step towards government control. That's despite the author actually saying anything to that effect.

Then you'll have the libertarians (with some Venn diagram cross over) saying that fact checkers don't allow individual thought, without acknowledgihow damaging false information spreading on social media is.

You'll also have well meaning progressives completely fumble the nuance of the situation.

in the end, the issue here is the author wrote a clickbait blogspam specifically to exacerbate emotions, got the expected result and then followed it up with another to capitalize on it.

Their original article had a specifically written title or "Junk Science" to seem more incindiary than the source they quoted (which used "shaky science" instead). That's a dog whistle of a title.

Perhaps Facebook needs more nuance in their fact checking classification with the ability to label something as clickbait , requiring authors to pick less inflammatory titles for their content. I suspect that would go a long way to improving social media anyway. Perhaps it could put the post behind a clickbait warning clickthrough or a strong clickbait text below the article. Or perhaps, like on HN, the post titles could be altered to directly represent the content.
Same with me and the GAFYD offer, it became unbearable especially with their smart devices.

If they had any brains they'd do a Workspace lite offering as part of Google One and the family plan, but I don't see it happening.
Never been spit at on the east or west coast. We were just walking to grab lunch.

The fact you're the one getting triggered by real anecdotes and dismissive is more reason it's not going to change anytime soon.
And how do I send money to pay a bill with pre-existing systems?

Pay a third party like Venmo, Square, etc a fee, or use my banks (also horribly designed and bad UX system) to send the money slower than watching paint dry. I'd rather pay the Bitcoin Miners that fee than a third party or even by bank.