skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are those two examples even remotely comparable?

Uninstall social media from your phone, delete your social media accounts, put your phone in a box when you get home, etc, etc, etc.

These “problems” are trivially easy for an individual to solve. They are so easy to solve that I disagree with the basic premise that we even have a problem.

I think we could rewrite this article from the perspective of any generation. Just replace the phone with whatever hysteria was happening in that era. Music, video games, comics, or whatever.

The author of this article seems to just throw her hands up without having tried even a single thing.

“No, I cannot manage my own behavior. It is society that must change!”
I read this headline as a lack of evidence of hangovers being a cure for having to work. Damn.
The concept of "self" as distinct from "other/environment" is quite a complex cognitive construction and requires a lot of moving parts. It doesn't seem straightforward to me to assume that all beings share a means to achieve this understanding, when unthinking automata can relatively easily simulate the same behaviors in all scenarios that a chicken expresses vs, say, an elephant, dolphin, or human.
The first sentence of the link asserts:

> ...evidence that substances claiming to treat or prevent alcohol-induced hangover work.
In C or C++, if you write a function void api(unsigned), you can cheerfully call it as api(-42) or api(b - c) where b - c are int.

This is a poor, poor substitute for contract checking.
I’m in Poland and adhere to the local food customs. This means three meals a day: a moderate-size breakfast (typically sandwiches, sometimes cereal), large lunch around 1pm–2pm (main meal of the day – a hot dish sometimes prefixed with soup), and a modest supper around 8pm. I’m not great about eating fruits & vegs (my main intake of these is a salad that generally accompanies the lunch); I also tend to indulge in chocolate and biscuits as snacks, perhaps way more often than I should.

My body is very tolerant to what I eat. My BMI is in the low-normal range and had been very stable since I stopped growing.
Ford F-150 Lightning reservation holders face $30k dealer markup as demand high
No time, frankly to make a game you need a good idea an implementation skills unless someone is in the field of graphics or some very specific case there is simply no good reason to invest time to do it.
This has always struck me as…I don't think a "weak" use-case is the terminology I'm looking for, but maybe "fragile"? What I'm trying to get at is that I'm not sure that the existing non-crypto money transfer services have to charge as much as they do to be profitable. If cryptocurrency-based transfers get popular enough that they're perceived as a threat, then I suspect Western Union and friends -- or perhaps new entrants to the market -- will introduce "new products" that are more competitively priced.
I just posted a blog article about this a few days ago.

If anyone wants to work on something big in 2022 (very open-ended), please get in touch: https://rickcarlino.com/2021/seeking-collaborators-for-proje...

My background is in IoT / full-stack web dev. Media projects are particularly of interest, but I am open to other ideas also.
Why you keep reading how eating bugs and living in a pod is the future (Thread)
Omicron is highly transmissible. Scientists are looking for clues as to why
If that already happened then that's great. It's the first I'm hearing about it but I don't work in the sector so that's fair.

Nevertheless nuclear energy is a steady and reliable source of large amounts of energy, just like coal and oil.
By having a few of those, the grid operator can greatly decrease their need for grid-scale batteries, thus enabling more grids to deploy them faster, paving the way for more solar/wind.

This is not a competition between renewables and nuclear. They aren't enemies.

CO2 is the enemy, we must focus on that.

Point well taken about how long the nuclear projects take, that's why natural gas a bridge is important.

I want purely renewable energy just as much as you but I'm highly skeptical that it is possible or even desirable to build out all the capacity we need in just solar/wind/hydro in the short amount of time we have. Everything that helps, helps. Until the point where it doesn't and then that's the time to address that.
It's VC culture, doing what VCs need and want, which is looking for outliers and expecting 1 or 2 bets to return the fund. "Founders" and engineers should really understand what the incentives are and how the math in this model only favors the investors.
I can imagine Zig using memory tagging at a more granular level: imagine changing a 16B union's tag when assigning it. C and C++ only do it per-allocation IIRC.
I wouldn't mind knowing more. Do you have any links to research or work in progress in this area?

The Buddha had a lot of great ideas, but it was over 2000 years ago. If, perhaps, we can teach mindfulness in a way that is more consistent and available to all (like a focus-detection feature in devices), I would definitely support it if it results in the same changes in the brain. Since changes induced by meditation (both acute and long-term) are detectable with brain scans, this seems like something easy to test and compare with traditional mindfulness teachings and practices.
What if total economic freedom resulted in the reduction of other freedoms
For me it was exact same. Even when kids were safe, they wanted my attention approximately every 10 minutes. That destroyed my attention span quite seriously.

It got back after a while and effort, but social media were not to blame.
Eating bush meat is not illegal. There are many different animals/seasons that one can lawfully hunt and eat.

Considering that there are no documented cases of developing of CJD from consuming CWD infected deer, I think that is unlikely. It's hard to say for sure since the state of research on CJD is lacking to the point that most cases are considered to have no clear cause. Unless this is a new variation of CWD that can jump to humans. Not to mention CWD has not been detected in that territory. There's not a lot of research on prions in non-cervid game species. Sheep and goats are the only others I know of, and I don't think they are found in that territory.

If it really is diet related, I would think that the caregivers who are contracting it should be able to identify what changed since they started caring for the patient.

It's definitely concerning that this has been going on for a long time ans seems to be spreading, yet the best answer the government has is to call it unrelated coincidence.
‘Agree’ is the other way around, more often than not takes a preposition after in AmE as opposed to BrE
> One way that would really help achieve better mental hygiene for the masses would be if we had some sort of sensors that could detect when a person’s attention is being diverted away from the task at hand, and remind them to refocus.

I suspect that no, constant nagging wouldn't improve “mental hygiene”, in any useful definition of that term.

I also suspect it wouldn’t improve productivity, only stress.
They also have .new, enabling links like https://sheets.new.
Isn't for a game to be thrilling usually the ultimate goal? I'm not concerned about games being fun to play, that's what they are for. I'm more concerned about the dopamine exploiting patterns implemented in modern games, especially those targeted at younger gamers.
Upstream fixes are nice, but since the game statically links SDL you can't put in a newer version of libSDL.so in the game path and have it patched like that. Are there other ways of patching statically linked binaries with updated functions?
What about startup engineers and managers? A book about red flags and signs that a startup is about to crumble would be very valuable.
I'm fascinated because I don't understand how a bunch of rich, powerful men (they were mostly men) fall for this? Was she the daughter they wished they had? Was she like an angel fallen from heaven with an odd hairstyle and deep voice that gave a subtle signal she was not used to inhabiting a human body, and she came here to save millions of lives with her device? The ability to hypnotize rich and powerful men and the angelic aspect of it is why I call it almost mythological, like Odysseus and the Sirens.
> We've also extended protections for people lagging behind, for example by putting restrictions on what kinds of contracts can legally be entered into and voiding contracts that one party could not have reasonably been expected to understand, or entered into under duress or undue influence.

And are constantly bypassed in practice by those with more resources than others wrt engaging with the various legal systems (or corruption thereof) around the world.

> None of these protections exist under "smart" contracts

Not true, some people buy off chain legal insurance for a particular juridiction and only deal with protocols they have some legal recourse over. Some use multisig accounts with trusted parties.

> which is exactly why we can't and won't allow code to govern or mediate life as web3 envisions.

There is no shared we though, some individuals (and governments) will adapt to it, some wont, some contracts/cryptocurrencies will survive, some wont, and people will make the convenience trade-offs like they always have had as things change. If you are only willing to try to force someone else to do your dirty work of imposing on peoples freedoms, you'll be behind those who are willing to put you in the ground themselves to defend such irrespective of any particular jurisdictions laws.

> Your dystopian vision of "oops, you lost your retirement savings because you didn't decompile that contract before interacting with it, too bad", or "oops, you lost your retirement savings because someone beat your wife with a baseball bat until you handed over your private key, sucks to be you"--in short, the dystopia of "code is law"--flies in the face of thousands of years of jurisprudence and civilization.

Bad things will continue to happen to some people even with out smart contracts or cryptocurrencies (bad things which don't happen to most people in the course of their lifetime btw), but if you want to live your life in fear as an excuse to not learn and adapt in face of bad things that may happen, that's on you.

> Once the goldrush hype wears off people will realize how heinous the fundamental idea is and dump it in the gutter of history where it belongs.

Yeah, like when people stop being motivated by greed, like when central banks and governments stop debasing their currencies like they have through out history, like when large private banks and service providers stop blocking people from using their platforms, etc. Could happen, I'm not holding my breath.
Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total during 2021
This is false, I've optimized horrendously large json parsing by simply rotating the data in a table form and using a binary serializer/deserializer (c.js provided by kdb: https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/c/c.js ).

It's insanely faster to parse binary into js object without going through json at all than parsing string json, and we transformed a dumb application from slow death to "oh wow no need to optimize further, all perf problems are now fixed" simply by switching the serialization format (faster to download, faster to deserialize, faster to access).

It even helps the backend to serialize faster than writing enormous ASCII strings just to talk to the browser memory structure. Dont forget these json format are just better xml and still made for humans. Machines can work well with structures closer to the memory layout, for instance sending the header once and subsequent objects in ordered attributes with separator is closer to how an object is stored and accessed by JS.

I suppose a mistake we all make after years of JSON is thinking it represents objects for the browser but an object is always a byte array with an offset per attribute descriptor. So send the attribute descriptors and their type (which will describe a size too) first and then just fill.
The British understatement variant.
Or, io_uring the thing. One could probably wrap close() with LD_PRELOAD and not touch the binary...
Just yesterday someone called me a "little shit" on here and I have absolutely no recourse.
Which other freedoms are you referring to? How would they be reduced by total economic freedom? I don't see how economic freedom would lead directly to violence.
Vaccine testing takes as long as it takes to expose enough of the trial participants to see a statistically significant difference between the test and control groups. There isn't a bioaccumulation issue because the vaccine isn't administered daily, so the only long term harms would show up in the time it takes systems to react to it, which would be on the order of days. We have clearly observed long term harm from infection, starting a few days after infection, but no such harm from the vaccine, except for very low rates of myocarditis in young men.
I find it quite ironic that some random service claims anonymity but it isn't free software.

It's main selling point is "anonymity" and despite claiming to be a paranoid [1], the service doesn't even has a Tor mirror.

I'm sorry but if you don't publish your source code, I can't trust you to protect my privacy.

[1] https://www.axomark.xyz/anonymity
The list of all their owned TLDs are at [0]. There is an icannwiki page with all the ones they’ve applied for, but not just the ones they currently own.

0: https://ntldstats.com/registry/Charleston-Road-Registry-Inc
Well said. Also, you get to decide everything. There are no meetings or planning sessions. You can change your mind halfway through and no one else cares. Control can be quite satisfying.
They used to die in accidents a lot more then now. They used to be independent significantly sooner too. Like, 5 years olds herding gooses next to river with no adult independent.
>'Renting' in its essence does not involve doing anything: it does not mine resources, manufacture use objects, or provide a service. Rich people buy up scarce assets and then charge a fee for their use.

So if someone doesn't have enough accumulated capital or credit to buy a property to live in, tough luck. You can't legally rent from someone. I guess rely on charity or sleep on the streets? Seems unreasonable.
Really??? I was was just assuming this was the point of this all. So what is the point of this monitoring then (I think you have to lock in and share your location)? Is it only that certain individuals are denied unlocking? Do they just want to present mass unlocking like in a click farm? Other (non-chinese) vendors just offer immediate unlocking.
More details: https://whats.new/
It's difficult to find material that's a series, rigorously demonstrated and advanced at the same time (there's lots excellent material that ticks either one or the other of those boxes). Here are some examples I subscribe to that come close:

Covers Quantum Field Theory and General relativity in as approachable a manner as I imagine is possible while still going deep into detail: https://www.youtube.com/c/viascience/videos

Theoretical machine learning, Information theory and probabilistic inference: https://www.youtube.com/user/mathematicalmonk/videos

Heavy emphasis on analysis and measure theory: https://www.youtube.com/c/brightsideofmaths/videos

While ScienceClic's coverage of differential geometry topics is mostly a thin vertical slice of the subject, it covers it with incredible visualizations and pedagogical approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xodtfM1r9FA&list=PLu7cY2CPiR....
Nonsense!

Step 1) Eat beef before going out. Beef takes a long time to digest, and the alcohol goes along for the long digestion ride.

Step 2) Pedialyte before bed.

Step 3) When you wake up at 4:30am, more pedialyte.

Step 4) HOT shower when you wake up finally. Finish off the pedialyte.

Done.

Alternatively: just drink white claws.
I'm not sure how much that actually changes about the discussion, for the better.

If this is an addiction, then it will be one that's gonna be very difficult to break for most people.

In most places it's nowadays near impossible to go about your day without some kind of online activity or interaction. Especially as during this pandemic a lot of "in person" alternatives for it have been phased out of use.

So in practice the addicts are regularly forced to interact with their source of addiction. How are we supposed to fix that?
You could also use the accelerometer in the phone to measure power transfer.
Actually, I think the truly preferred path is to just monitor for udev events, which SDL supports but is presumably not enabled for Papers, Please for one reason or another.
I'm glad that the article specified that individual effort is important. Too often, people act as if a collective solution is exclusive of the ability to improve your personal situation in the meanwhile (this accounts for probably 95% of usage of the term "victim-blaming" that I see online, including on HN)

But I'm also a strong believer that raw willpower is a poor substitute for a supportive environment. I've had great results the last 15 years from identifying rough edges in my computing workflows and sanding them off with scripts and OS tweaks. Between the rise of the Internet attention ecosystem and my own higher bar for focus as I get older, more and more of this iteration loop has been consumed by optimizations to improve focus and prevent distraction. "Automating willpower" like this has borne some pretty fantastic results when it comes to my ability to focus and thus both my productivity and mental health.

Sadly, most people don't use a proper general-purpose OS like a Linux distro[1], and are locked out of the ability to change much of their environment. Mobile devices remain a stubborn challenge: While I'm considering getting back into rooting my devices after a decade, this is a pretty poor substitute for a proper OS, so I'm also trying to build habits that shift usage from my phone to my laptop.

In the event that you haven't tried scripting up guardrails against attention hazards (or are still using an OS that prohibits you from using your computer fully), I strongly recommend taking a serious look at this approach.

[1] I'm explicitly excluding Windows due to my familiarity with the severe limitations it puts on the user, all smartphone OSes are the most egregious offenders, and my familiarity with OS X is lower but I gather that it falls between Windows and a Linux distro in terms of how much it babies/limits the user.
Conditioned on what you want to achieve, I would suggest against, strongly against, or very strongly against avoiding (applied) mathematics.

In any case, I suggest flipping through the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine [1] and reevaluating your learning path.

[1] https://signalprocessingsociety.org/publications-resources/i...
Thanks for sharing that! Aside from the excessive fawning over the scope that was a great video - I think it’s awesome that the result differed from expectations with the (spoiler alert!) DMC-12’s uneven firing pattern and made the whole thing more interesting.
The author seems to be under the impression British English only has one set of pronunciations - Queens English/RP. Much of Britain (by area, not population) does pronounce Rs. I can think of at least 5 very distinct dialects/pronunciation patterns from the UK that nobody would ever confuse with each other (RP, Glaswegian, Cockney, Scouse/Liverpool, Yorkshire). There are many more, these are just ones that popped to mind as easily identifiable.
yes but seriously, what will cure work?

As a species, we've been doing it for long enough that we can try without it for a while, no?
> The politicization of the pandemic will in the future perhaps be looked upon as our civilization's greatest mistake.

I don't believe this is a civilisational-wide mistake -- more so an issue with a handful of relatively small (by population) countries trying to leverage this event.

Civilisation obviously extends way beyond those, say the 5% of the planet's population that live in the USA for example, but certainly there's some lessons to be learned here.
The suppression is occurring in the actual investigation in China, not in relation to this book.
The ease of access of today's distractions leads me to disagree.

It's so easy to take out your phone to check a social media app, or open a tab on your laptop to a social media website like Reddit, versus turning on a radio or getting up to turn on the TV.

A comic book doesn't fit in your front pocket, but a phone does; there's just so much less friction for distraction today.
We live in a world where, at least in some respect, when you are evaluating detailed technical analysis for which you are not an expert, it should be normal and expected to at least attempt to determine the level of expertise and trustworthiness of the source.

For example, I think it is extremely relevant and valid to point out Daszek's clear conflict of interest when he put out his original letter.

In this case, the fact that the writer has promoted other theories (importantly, theories analogous to the one under discussion) I consider completely crackpot certainly makes me look at the data here with a more skeptical eye.

More importantly, there are plenty of other researchers who I consider much more credible who have raised loud alarms about the chance of a lab leak (e.g. Zeynep Tufekci's excellent analysis here, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.h... ). The fact that I can look at one piece of writing with a more critical eye based on the author's history of insincerity does not mean I discount more credible researchers making similar arguments.
> So is there a way to send the user's translation requests to the app?

You can, but it naturally kicks you out of your app into the Translate app, so not exactly seamless. It's fine for the occasional one-off translation I guess, but not if you possibly want to completely translate one side of the conversation.
is using Mapbox for this feature.

> https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/3d-buildings/
This is just an observation but the Australian and some British pronunciations of "no" bear an interesting similarity to the sound of "nij" (no) in some Dutch dialects.

Perhaps the have a common source? Old Saxon?
American sellers sold 30% more items during 2021 holiday season than last year
It's not the system that is not supporting udev, it's the choice of the game developers how they compiled SDL .. without dependencies, and so without udev.
Meaningful movies help people cope with life's difficulties
> Surely TV and radio also have algorithms behind them determining how to increase viewership

What do you mean by this? Until very recently, TVs and radios never had the ability to report feedback on what people were consuming or whether people were watching ads. There were some surveys like Nielsen ratings that involved a small sample of people installing special hardware. TVs and radios have never served personalized results to individuals, even if there were “algorithms” involved — the targeting was toward the entire population at once, not to each an every person viewing. For most of TV & radio history, the “algorithms” were people and not computers, people manually sifting through data for weeks just to see if a show was popular.

It’s pretty odd to suggest that TV & radio was historically similar to what’s going on with today’s social media. Serving personalized results and gathering instant personalized viewing habits (“engagement”) is what’s fundamentally different than TV & radio, the feedback cycle fundamentally changed from a slow group feedback to a fast individual feedback, and that’s precisely why social media is more engaging and more dangerous.