skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely TV and radio also have algorithms behind them determining how to increase viewership. Facebook and Instagram do the same but in realtime with more knobs to turn. I personally don't quite understand how somebody can get addicted to social media but I understand video games and I would support some kind of government bureau that determines the addictiveness of a game and puts a label on it.
For example games that are story driven, you play them for 15h and then you're done and there is no cliffhanger should get a very low addiction rating. You play them, you finish them, you liked it and then you can stop with no problem.

Then the addiction rating should get higher if there is more endless endgame content, more multiplayer content, boxes to purchase, etc.

You get the idea, if the industry is so determined to find the bliss point of a game/food item then the governments need to evolve with that challenge.
What happened this year on Hacker News?
Social media actively censored such discussion and Google also manipulated autocomplete, etc. The WHO and CDC dismissed the theory at the time. The CCP actively scrubbed data which would affect the effectiveness of any subsequent investigation.
I know this is tongue in cheek, but really I could never do that kinda thing. Feels like I would be watering down the quality content that I see here every day. (also: I know nothing about Rust, never click on those discussions)
As far as I've read, based on research around attention and focus behaviors, the context switching element of it is the most dangerous part in terms of developing ADHD type behaviors, and I agree that TV and radio doesn't even scratch the amount of switching that happens with modern social media. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, etc. All of them make you switch context every 30 seconds or less, often for hours on end. I think we're making the mistake of looking at these older technologies like TV and radio, thinking "we survived that, we'll survive this" and that is incredibly dangerous.

Dr Andrew Huberman, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford, does some excellent lecture-like podcasts on the subject that are well worth a listen.
The autopilot wouldn't have been in use for the takeoff roll, though, would it? The question of automation smarts seems like a bugaboo in what I understand to be a highly manual flight regime.
I can downvote comments but not stories. Is there a karma threshold for downvoting stories?

EDIT:Ugh, sorry about this comment. Looks like I somehow posted it under the wrong story. No clue how this happened. Looks like I'm unable to delete it as the deletion time window has expired.
You really should try it on your codebase if you have the occasion
The tweet is from Bob Moran a Cartoonist:
https://www.thevoid.uk/void-post/bob-moran-im-not-just-a-car...
> cryptocurrencies are pure fiat currencies

I thought even Bitcoin maximalists have given up on this nonsense by now? Fiat money is legal tender backed by the taxation power of a nation state and ultimately, the monopoly on violence. This is why I always write crypto"currency" -- even naming so, crypto shills have pulled an ingenious move pretending their scam is a currency which it utterly is not.
Currently dealing with a multi-day hangover. Wish there was a cure.
For someone who can't see the pictures or read dutch, can you summarize?
There is a popular meme that shows the landscape of a colonized Mars, and the skyline is filled with McDonald’s and Chevron billboards. I think about that a lot.
An unsigned integer will never be negative, that intent is expressed clearly and correctly. What the operational semantics should be is unclear, because of the tradeoffs involved in signaling an error.

In terms of the C standard, "3-4" for unsigned ints is modular arithmetic, and the "wrong thing" is assuming that it will do anything other than wrap around. This is very clearly defined, and implied whenever you see an arithmetic expression on unsigned integers.
In the Guardian this weekend: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/01/differ...
The games that we create may not appear to be "games" to others, and certainly not enough fun to bother with.

i had an immense amount of fun coding and playing with a "gravity simulation" thing that was as much an exploration of visualizing floating point noise as it was of Xlib and the physics simulation. I severely doubt anyone else would care about 90% of it; it did animate some pretty pictures given the right parameters.

Ask rather "what software do you enjoy as a toy?" and you may find the creativity you expect.

Actually creating a playable interesting game is not related to computer sciences. Creating a video game thats worth playing only references the hardware in terms of "what limits do we need to work around / what capabilities can we exploit".
If they pull what Sourceforge pulled they're outta here:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourc... (sorry for the ARS link, it had the best information though).
I've never owned a smart phone but sometimes I power off my flip-phone. When I was working I would set the default ring tone to a nearly silent beep then set a custom ring tone for work and the paging system they used. I have no idea if WhatsApp supports this but if you could set custom tones per person or groups of people then you could minimize distraction. If your phone supports it you could also have it mute all sounds during certain hours.
Well it's almost enough. we don't have gas. Everything in the house is powered by electricity. Either from solar, battery or grid. So 10% still from grid. I am going to solve that by putting another 20 panels on the Northside of the roof. Not efficient, but maybe enough to cover the last 10%
You can find the details here: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...
Is it really such a useful feature, though? I have mixed feelings about the way this is used on StackOverflow, for example. I post there extremely rarely and it always bugs me to get a quick downvote without any explanation or anything. I'd very much rather see my post get no or very few upvotes and maybe some constructive comments on how to improve it than to have people use the lazy one-click solution to downvote it into oblivion.
Thanks for putting it in those words. I am very much a lurker. If I did have the ability to downvote, I would do it maybe two or three times a year, like I do on reddit.

>Also, I often read on mobile and don’t have the patience to write lengthy replies on my iPhone keyboard.

This also rings true. Or sometimes when I don't have the time or energy to sit down and write out a reasoned response.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Ad blockers and other such tools are just as essential for ADHD users as ramps are for wheelchair users. Their continued existence and unhindered operation should be legally protected.

Google's plans to take away this last line of defence are absolutely disastrous, especially for people who lack the knowledge or means to implement and maintain workarounds.

It is physically impossible on a biochemical or neurological level for us ADHD invalids to ignore whatever it is that triggers us. Removing these potential triggers as much as possible is therefore essential to prevent/reduce disorder-specific self-harmful behaviour, and to get anything done on today's internet.
Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?
When we speak of online tools, one can think of converters, calculators or even auxiliary functionalities.

What kind of tools are you currently using, missing or think can be improved?

Some examples:

- timestamp to date converter (e.g. https://magictools.dev)

- input tools (e.g. https://www.google.com/inputtools/)

- text comparison tools (e.g. https://text-compare.com/)
Oriental Raisin Tea is a common hangover cure in East Asia. It's not clear to me whether the relevant compounds were covered in this study, but I would love to see more exploration of how well these Asian remedies work. (I'm personally skeptical of 中医 = Traditional Chinese Medicine, but am open to being convinced otherwise.)
How the U.S., U.K. and Pakistan Teamed Up To Stop Another 9/11
Just contribute some links and you'll get karma as well. No need to engage in discussions.
I think that's a bit disingenuine considering the US government couldn't even put up a healthcare signup website without it crashing.

With such a track record, you really think they could just "tap in" or "modify" any given crypto protocol so they could audit every transaction?

Give me a break.
Just because there is no documented case, that doesn't imply impossibility. Your hard science doesn't prove contaminated surfaces to be safe and until that happens, people with common sense make the correct assumption that such surfaces are a possible vector; just how it is with other viruses, germs, etc.

I will never forget how my company brought in a virologist from one of our best hospitals to explain to us this covid thing that is in the news - this back in Jan, 2020, about 50 minute live lecture. Throughout the talk she kept making it very clear that our country was completely covid free, that they have taken measures like temperature checking of incoming passengers. I guess that moron also thought that just because you don't see air, air doesn't exist. About a month later we were in total lockdown, people were pruning their work monitors to take them home... Funny.
I thought the main cause of a hangover was dehydration and the cure was drinking more water?
As so many others have said, this article is dangerous for your health.

Firstly, how can mushroms harm you?

1. The most common case - rotten mushrooms. Mushrooms live in interesting places. If your mushroom has begun to rot and you did not watch out, then you will suffer from food poisoning. Beginners are hardly able to tell whether a mushroom is fresh.

2. Mushrooms that have not been prepared properly. Must mushrooms are poisonous, if eaten raw. Some can be stir fried, but there are species where every part of the mushroom must be given full heat for at least a quarter of an hour. Ignore this, and you will regret it.

3. Personal intolerance - quite some species are known to be digestible by some and to give bad reactions to others. This may even mean death. Learn that carefully, and go step by step when you try them while avoiding the all too dangerous stuff.

4. Poisonous in the strict sense.

When one explains mushrooms to inexperienced people, you have to teach them about the defining features of a certain species. This means that if any of the features is not clear, different, or missing, then they may not eat the mushroom. "I believe" is ok, just do not eat it.

In detail:

Puffballs - he must be joking. There are too many of them, and the beginner will not even understand what to look for.

Chanterelles - he even mentions the Jack O'Lantern without specifying the specific difference. That difference is ridges instead of gills. Further, there are many mushrooms with ridges, but I dare anyone to explain the similarity of a ridge of a chanterelle to a ridge of a trumpet of the dead (do not let the name scare you).

Oyster mushrooms - oh yes, they can be mistaken. Saying that they are difficult to mistake depends on the knowledge of the person and that may vary wildly.

Chicken of the woods - there is a persistent rumor that it is poisonous, if it grows on a poisonous tree. You will need botanic knowledge to be safe.

Hen of the woods - not even this one is foolproof.

King bolete - too little detail given, while many people still believe that all mushrooms with pores are edible. This is a dangerous and wrong belief.

Lion's mane - I bet money on that there are people who will mistake an old hedgehog mushroom for a lion's mane.
>>Keep in mind that despite this, nothing seriously bad actually happened here.

This is the exact wrong way to think about it.

With substantial experience with managing risk, the most important thing I know is that you MUST UNDERSTAND the difference between managing risk with knowledge, technology, planning, and skill, vs rolling the dice and getting away with it.

With risk management by knowledge, technology, planning, and skill, you can make an ordinary practice of very risky activities very safely.

But when you are rolling the dice and getting away with it, you may get away with it for a long time, long enough to think you are safe, but it WILL bite you, and hard.

"Near misses" are very clear indications that your risk management has a failure mode you didn't account for - and you are now in the zone of rolling the dice. If you do not attend to that, you are about to get bitten.

So, just because no one was hurt or died — this time — does NOT mean you can be relieved.
> provably better

First we have to all agree on what this means, which I'm quite sure is impossible. Everything the free market does is voluntary by definition. Every "intervention" is by definition not. That is exactly the basis for my opposition to authoritarian paternalism.

Also I disagree that corporations are "enacting control" - they are merely exerting influence. There is a world of difference.
> I'd think after a few years they would give the ability.

That would just encourage bots to sit for years and let their timers expire before letting themselves known.
Operating systems let you know when a device change has happened. You can even cache this where you pool the first time for the initial set of data and then you just check when a device is plugged in to update your knowledge of the state of the world.

I would imagine that’s what’s done if you’re running udev but maybe SDL doesn’t do that.
Fair point, it may turn negative at some point but we're not there yet. It's a moral panic. We're not talking about war or genocide, we're talking about the young people staring at their phones too much.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/china-init...

The US targeted mostly Chinese Scientists working in the US. His thesis is that caused excess harm to scientific productivity.
I knew paramedics who wore by IV fluids as a rapid hangover cure.

The usual (water, coffee, OTC painkillers) will work eventually, but this was faster.

But method of administration matters as well as the substance.
There is "Open" in its name. Author probably doesn't want anyone to create more closed source software using it.
Literate Configuration
Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
"To live more sustainably, if you don’t need it, don’t buy it."

This.

But it flies in the face of sustainability(TM), which has been captured by corporations and is the new new for capitalism.
My guess is that the justification for requiring a certain amount of karma to downvote is that if you have that, you've given evidence that you understand the tone and rules of the community enough to be trusted to help moderate it. This assumes that people upvote comments not because they agree with them, but because they contribute to the kinds of discussions HN wants to have. In practice, of course, that's not what gets upvotes a lot of the time, so I'm not sure that particular "game mechanic" is working as intended. To be fair, there is no practical way I know of to accomplish that intended goal, and this is as good a solution as any.
Stripping someone’s citizenship sounds like a “tough penalty for the worst” kind of thing, but what is the actual point?

I get that an IS terrorist is not a nice person to have, but arguably as a country I’d rather be able to put them in my on prison than have less control over them. You could arbitrarily strip their rights anyway with a law, and can’t do worse than basic human rights, citizen or not.

My suspicion is that this is meant to be more of an “oops” law. Oh we mixed you up with a terrorist so here’s your citizenship gone. Ah well you can apply to have it reinstated in person in UK. Oh you can’t enter the country? Give us 6 months to think about it.
This has nothing to do with shock, which is about blood flow and oxygen delivery, not hormone release.
> … It’s when you are doing something meaningful to you, and you really get into it, and time falls away, and your ego seems to vanish, and you find yourself focusing deeply and effortlessly…

Oh. Have I missed “the flow”.

I have been trying to get back into the mode from a while, with lot of self doubt in mind, “ you are just lazy”, “you are too distracted by Twitter “, “were you like this all along”..

It hit me hard when I realised that.. it’s been a decade and I still not able to achieve this.
They are not in audiobook form
Ah, the ol’ Simulacra and Simulation.
I get the feeling a lot of very successful scientists got to where they are by cutting moral corners where other scientists wouldn't.
Summarizing here: Looks like you need >=501 Karma points to be able to downvote
> byzantine Paxos.

Okay, I should've added "permissionless" to the list of desired properties. If you can a priori choose who gets to participate you´d have a point.

> If your country wants to prevent your from participating in an economy, it can

I think that the eternally losing "War on Drugs" should be a lesson that shows this is simply not true. Also, consider how Black Markets are a thing in authoritarian places, not free ones.

So, no, as much as a country can make it difficult for others, they can not outright stop anyone without significant cost to themselves.
You could. But the amount of time it takes is significantly more than yay -S <package> or emerge <package> vs the hell that this poses on Debian (not to mention the dependency hell you can run into)
>Everything the free market does is voluntary by definition. Every "intervention" is by definition not.

I think we're going to have to disagree for good here. I much prefer living in a country where radically free markets are substantially toned down.
I had that discussion this week end. I wonder if it will be any different from our Game boys? Or is the problem that smaller children get their hands on them?
Of course to make some sense of the world a model is required. But our brain perception model has these counterintuitive "features".

It's not only about vision. We seem to hallucinate whole reality at some half second in the future and if any stimulus comes that diverges from the hallucination, our brain retcons it. Or ignores it.
We weren't allowed to discuss lab leak on social media until the information overlords decided it was ok to do so. And it took them over a year before they gave us permission to discuss it.
Been here 12.5 years and have 439 points. So I'm _almost_ there :)
I would be interested in an overview and comparison of all the available options to solve this kind of problem. Here is a list of some services I’ve used successfully in the past.

SnapDrop

- Site: https://snapdrop.net/

- Source: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

ShareDrop

- Site: https://www.sharedrop.io/

- Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop

FilePizza

- Site: https://file.pizza/

- Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza

Wormhole

- Site: https://wormhole.app/

- Source: Closed (for now)
Emoji Frequency in 2021
Show HN: Is JWST There Yet?
Correct, autopilot isn't engaged until at least several hundred feet AGL; varying by airline. Some airlines don't engage autopilot until reaching transition altitude or even cruise altitude. Still, the flight director is giving you the same information, and most pilots will just follow that because it's the most accurate way of getting you to where you need to go... if you've set it up correctly.
The key difference with the bank robbing example is that that is a crime in both countries A and B, and it didn't take any pressure of country B onto A to make it a crime in A as well.
Yes absolutely TV and radio use algorithms to boost engagement. These are still dangerous, just less. The difference is the speed at which these sources collect and use information and the volume of data collected. It isn't just that these new mediums have more control, but that they can exercise the control in real-time.

With your video game idea, what's the difference between this and other software? Some social media seems like the game that never ends.
Worth noting that this is a review of other studies. They don’t find that these things don’t work, they find that the other studies are so low quality as to be not highly meaningful evidence one way or the other.

> Although some studies showed statistically significant improvements in hangover symptoms, all evidence was of very low quality, usually because of methodological limitations or imprecise measurements.

I would be very surprised if naproxen (a common NSAID, and one of the cures in question here) doesn’t help hangovers somewhat, but the authors are correct that no high-quality research looks into this.

Edit: this is sort of one of the unfortunate things about academic research culture. If I’m a good researcher, I could spend time looking into whether NSAIDs help with hangovers… but there’s already a bunch of lower quality research that does the same thing, and it’s very probable that my results would align with everybody’s priors (no surprise that a painkiller and anti-inflammatory would help with hangovers, which are in large part pain and inflammation) - so getting a ton of citations off it would be unlikely. So there’s really no incentive to spend a lot of time doing high quality research on something like this.
I'm sure you do. I'm questioning the basis for your imposing this view onto others who would disagree.
I find myself using Rubular (https://rubular.com/) quite often for experimenting with regular expressions.
I've had to resort to rolling my own mapping layer using JNA. Fortunately, 64-bit mmap support is being added as part of the Panama foreign-memory project.
1.) It is actually not fun to create games for quite a lot of people.

2.) Being good in cs does not imply being good in art and making games is 80% art.

3.) Academia is super competitive, so you pick hobbies.

4.) There are more fun things to do.
bacon egg and cheese sandwich with some kratom tea works pretty well
Span – Lay out and rearrange text, line by line, using keyboard controls
You can get a decent amount of upvotes if you comment with a summary or include the best quotes from the linked article.
>We need 1200 wind turbines to replace an 30year old nuclear power plant. Windturbine = 3mW, Nuclear power plant = 1.2GW

Hornsea two provides as much as a nuclear plant, with vastly lower cost and built about 15x faster. It's 165 x 8 MW turbines.

It was planned, executed, built and brought online before Hinkley point C even laid the first brick at ~45% of the cost and a load factor of about 65% (to nuclears 80) due to the greater reliability of wind with large turbines.

>mineral mining for the Solar panels

You mean going to the beach?
I've got >500 karma. Why can't I downvote certain users or comments, reply to certain comments, and occasionally appear to partially lose the ability to downvote for a period if comments I post receive downvotes?
Chess is very addictive, and certainly endless. Same with cardgames. I'm sure your government bureau would quite grow fast, coming up with ever more warning labels.
What makes hash-based proof of work function is that to produce some number of hashes you need to use some amount of real-world resources. In practice, the two main resource inputs are electricity and computational hardware. If hardware is scarce, as it is now, the hardware will be a large proportion of mining cost, while the more efficiently hardware can be produced, the more of the cost is electricity.
Again, *by context* this is precisely how you would *not* interpret "increase" here.

You've basically taken my point and turned it to mean the exact opposite, so that you can give a smart-ass reply while avoiding the actual question I'm asking. Well done.
Or two finger scroll on a touchscreen.
Isn't the key to just drink as much water as possible before passing out? I've always just prepared a huge bottle of water next to my bed so that I would hopefully chug it before I go to sleep.
Why do you prefer PG’s essays to these books?
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation (2nd Edition)