skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but isn’t the main difference that children are still developing?

Shouldn’t we try very hard to avoid the possibility of screwing up a growing child’s body?
I realized caffeine was making my migraines worse. I always thought it was helping my headaches and migraines better, and it was, for around 1 to 1,5h. Then, it made me miserable, and I never realised, until I took long-enough PTO, and decided to try and cold-turkey quit.

I love coffee and I'd love to go back to drinking it, but I don't think I can. If you get frequent headaches/migraines, try cutting back on caffeine. You might be surprised.
I don’t know why but I never ever miss caffeine and I can drink coffee any time, even before bed, without any kind of effect.
I hate the taste of most coffee, but great coffee, which is well and lightly roasted and grinded the right way with a good machine gives an amazing taste. Of that coffee, expresso, I can drink any kind of amount, any time of the day without any kind of repercussion or addiction. Sometimes I stop drinking coffee for months and I can go back to coffee for the taste only. When I stop I just drink water instead.

So what kind of coffee are we talking about here ? Because I never ever felt any kind of addiction and I’m genuinely wondering how that is possible to be addicted
So some experts claim the Ivermectin clinical trials are poorly done, so based on this testimonial from a mother who's daughter was injured the Pfizer trial for 12-15 year olds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2GKPYzL_JQ - do you think the Pfizer trial was done well or badly? Do you think the way Pfizer trial was done is more or less disturbing than Ivermectin being promoted? Where's the outrage over this Pfizer situation (and which calls into question the oversight of all of the vaccine trials if this is possible).
If you get good value out of Signal and you can afford 5, 10 or 20 bucks a month get that auto-donate signed up. I can't think of a more cost effective way to directly contribute to practical privacy.
“ We're still very unclear on the long-term effects of COVID, after all.”

Nor do we know the long term effects of the vaccines. What we do know is that children have “statistical immunity” to dying from covid right now. Long term consequences could come from either covid or a vaccine, worry about what you can control. And covid is out of control so stop worrying about it.
on which layer? Bitcoin base layer has 7 TPS for which is able to guarantee its security properties. if you want to have fair comparison than maybe interbank settlements is close to what we are talking about. once we are talking about VISAs and Venmos we should pull Lightning network into discussion for which base layer provides security anchor.
> Is a death of despair from isolation and unemployment a COVID death?

Since that's driven by the response to COVID, I certainly don't think it should be, because the response is a choice which differs meaningful from a death by COVID infection or comorbidity. Teasing apart the deaths directly caused by COVID from those that indirectly led from our response to COVID is important for making these decisions in the future.
I mean 98% recover and many don't even have symptoms. The outliers are the ones getting seriously ill.
You're saying that 33% of _ALL_ deer in Ohio were drinking from contaminated water?

Maybe the original case came from water, but we all know that COVID19 is primarily a respiratory virus that spreads by breath and air.
That seems backwards to me.

Many libertarians are above average in intelligence, in part because it's a less mainstream viewpoint, but I don't think it follows that intelligent people tend to be libertarian. I could be wrong about that, but I've met enough intelligent people whom are the opposite of libertarian that if there is any relationship between intelligence and libertarianism that it's probably small.

> Competent, capable, hardworking people often fail to see the bigger picture, and dismiss others that aren't like them.

It's interesting that you say that. I can't say that you're wrong if that's a result of your experience. On the contrary, I've found that those who are competent, as you say, and have their heads down in hard work a lot, are as liable to viewing the world as being anti-meritocratic. Though I wouldn't go as far as to say whether the world is strictly meritocratic or anti-meritocratic, I think there's more of a relationship between having such black and white viewpoints and having one's head down in work for so many hours that little time is left to read about different facts and opinions.

My best example is a good friend of mine who is also above average intelligence, but works in a field outside of tech where he is, in contrast to me, much more of a slave to the office, hence he spends a great deal of time staring at one subject and not interacting much with information outside his field of view. His perspectives are often very black and white, and he would view the world as being entirely anti-meritocratic. Being an openly communist type, I could make some educated guesses about why that is, but I'll leave my opinion on that vague for now. When we have discussions about any number of things, including meritocracy, it's pretty obvious to me that he holds these black and white opinions because he's rather oblivious to the various counterarguments and experiences of others outside of his narrow field of study. Yet he is at least 120 IQ.

I just realized I indirectly insulted your view on meritocracy. I'm not really here to debate that, and your conclusion may be entirely valid. (and I would say not completely unjustified)

Yes, it's one anecdotal example, but that's a repeated observation of mine. Besides, pigeon holing people into single categories is a flaw of its own.
Why the 'xx'? I mean "X-mas" is a cross I get that. But why "vaxx".
I was considering using HSLUV for the background effect on https://potato.horse and documented my progress in this article: https://sonnet.io/posts/use-rainbow/

It's a (very rudimentary) introduction to colour modes.
Hmmm...like a sort of fuzzy IPFS, eh? I don't mean this sarcastically...i lefgitimately think this is a good idea. I knwo they have the wayback machine, etc...but i imagine you mean a more local, personal thing...i like this idea!
Ah, yes. That's not a very useful stat compared to something like case-rate-per-100K since the denominator could be all over the map.

What's the case rate per 100K at the population level there?

Edit: actually, didn't find exactly that table, but did find a section in the doc you link, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/..., on page 14, that shows vaccine effectiveness remains against symptomatic disease as a result of a study against delta and omicron both. But I would love to see the overall case rate to know about asymptomatic disease too.
So far, there hasn't been any evidence (I've heard of) of long-term adverse effects of the vaccination. Vaccines are not exactly new science.

There has, however, been evidence of long-term effects of catching COVID in some cases.

It is pretty obvious which option to take with the currently available evidence.
Nope - this doesn't violate net neutrality regulations in the US... because there aren't any!

This article:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/where-net-neutrality-t...

talks about how many are hoping that in the near future we will establish some net neutrality regulations, but for now there really isn't anything (at the federal level. Some states have tried).
i've seen some claims that the latest UK data shows negative effectiveness for the vaccine for COVID infection. This is possibly due to Omnicron or due to population differences between the vaccinated/unvaccinated. Also, it is very important to note that even though the data seems to show negative effectiveness for infection the vaccines still show positive effectiveness for hospitalisation and mortality.

I tried to find the original article about negative effectiveness in the UK but all I could find was this:

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/has-covid-vaccine-effica...

This covers Iceland, Denmark and the UK but doesn't really go into much detail about alternative explanations which I remember being covered in the original article I read.
Ok, but what are the long term effects of every other virus preschoolers could get? I doubt that covid is unique in that respect
I 100% agree with you. But as Satoshi famously said, you either get it or you don't; I don't have time to convince you. All these ESG shills hating on Bitcoin because they ignored it till now aren't going to accept it. Might as well leave them in the dust and focus attention on building great tools to use on Bitcoin
I sincerely do not intend this observation to be overtly political, BUT I've often wondered about certain very progressive movements having their logical extremes come into conflict. In the US, there's been a movement to remove gender from aspects of language (example, preferring police officer over policeman, business person over businessman). I personally don't really care and re-examining a variety of norms and phrases for entrenched bias makes some sense to me.

Romance languages have gender much more deeply ingrained in the language and present far more challenges in attempting to de-gender them. So, if the progressive attempts to respect the culture of others and be welcoming to different cultures, that can come into conflict with attempting to remove implicit bias that may (or may not) be connected with language (with the claim being that saying businessman inherently discourages non males from pursuing business).

Disclaimer: I'm not very political and align myself largely with moderate democrats with some libertarian sympathies at time. I have nothing against the ideals of re-examining previously held notions for pursuits of greater equality, just an interesting conflict in my opinion with political relevance. I find it fascinating that Trump improved margins with Hispanic voters over past Republicans and I find myself wondering if it wasn't so much about him as aspects of the progressive/democratic movement.
No reason to prefer the capped, but I definitely might prefer to not take the note at all.
In some countries you can just connect a small solar installation to a power outlet if you stay at or under a certain wattage (e. g. 600W for Switzerland and Germany). So your reaction is overblown for these cases.
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yes, exactly. I am getitng tired of people citing CDC facts that don't answer (quantitatively) which of any of actions are actually useful.

Note that many people who end up the hospital either didn't know they were infected, or got infected there. And probably many of the people with COVID who go to the hospital don't actually need hospital levels of treatment. We have a tendency to overtreat with technology.
Temporary local eradication was an option for a while, before delta: see Australia and New Zealand.

However these countries were always going to have to open up and accept the virus eventually as it became endemic in the rest of the world. They were just delaying the inevitable. As it happened, the evolution of the virus made the decision for them. However if Delta had not happened they would still have had to make the decision to open up at some point, probably after a significant proportion of the population was vaccinated.
I am not convinced we need to go nearly that high - 300hz puts a crapload more stress on your system performance wise for not much gain. 90hz is in my opinion already such a massive improvement over 60 that I do not see mind blowing results even going to 120 or 144. And many pro gamers were using 120hz monitors over 144hz at one point.

Realistically I think the two sweet spots are 120hz and 240hz - not necessarily because they are the best of the best but because they are each divisible by both 24 and 30 (the most common FPS of films and television) AND they offer two tiers of increased performance for different hardware requirements. You can run a much more taxing game at 120 and then if you want to spend the big bucks on the latest hardware move up to 240.

As for resolution I completely agree with you - 1440P is really a sweet spot for 27" monitors. If display / DPI scaling improves across multiple OS then I think eventually we will likely have 4K become the norm for 27" sized monitors and it will show some improvement but again be diminishing returns like the difference between 120-240. That being said as more film content moves to 4k I think we will also start to see 1440P become less popular as people will want to view content in something that doesnt scale.

All of this however is nothing compared to the improvement that a true HDR display brings - a high end monitor that can show a large increase in dynamic range is such a game changer and I do not think most people realize it yet - it brings us so much closer to how the human eye really sees that I really think it is equivalent to the difference of going from laserdisc resolution to something 4k. And on top of that now that cameras are also shooting in such massive dynamic ranges it is going to make older content just look plain in comparison.
The only reason US doctors all have computers/etc is because of the feds gave health care providers a big tax credit towards electronic record keeping during the Obama years. And then medicare basically made it really hard to continue to get paper reimbursements/etc.

I'm pretty sure the vast number of smaller clinics/etc would all still be on paper if not for those incentives because it was a pretty noticeable change over just a couple years.
I used to drink a lot of the crappy stuff as well but as soon as you know the taste of real coffee (be it an excellent 3-minute 1:15 V60 single origin or a double shot espresso fresh from the machine from a local specialty roasting place) it just doesn't go down anymore.

While it wasn't really much of a caffeine thing for me, I did simply like the taste and the fact that it's warm, but once you see it for the watery slurry from a marginal blend of "we found some beans on a boat" factory that it is, your taste in coffee gets upgraded and as a result you end up drinking less because the good stuff is not always within reach.

Most people I meet at high quality espresso places have had a similar journey, generally from the crappy supermarket pre-ground stuff, to paper coffee pads to metal coffee pods to actual coffee at which point even the memory of an amazing Costa Rica natural at 93°C from a week ago is better than whatever an automatic machine can give you.

For me, the caffeine doesn't do the whole 'boost' thing, doesn't impede sleep either. Coffee does make me dry out faster and that's something other people tend to forget, mistaking a headache for coffee-related instead of dehydration. But I can often taste the difference in decaf processed coffee and I general it does a disservice to the bean.

On top of everything else, you don't really need a lot of coffee, and if large volumes of warm liquid is a joy in itself, we have things like infusions (ginger, mint, fruits, but also Rooibos) that doesn't really "do" anything but definitely make for a tasty hydrating drink.

Right now I just manually grind my coffee at home (weighing it of course and making sure the grind size is correct - coffee snobbery makes it more work to get a cup you like), and pour a V60 or make an aeropress.

Whenever I do want an espresso I'll go outside and visit my favourite espresso bar that can pull shots I'll never be able to make myself (unless I become a full-time barista I suppose).
With the Alpha variation of the virus that would have been good enough. The study numbers showed someone vaccinated and exposed to Alpha had such a low risk of spread that even while fighting off the virus they were still safe 'enough' to be around.

If we had gotten 80% (some magic number between 70% and 95% I pulled out of nothing) of the US adult population vaccinated, and quarantine locked down the borders we could have snuffed covid out and been in a bubble paradise like New Zealand managed to do with just hard and long enough quarantines.

We didn't get there, and Delta and Omicron did get to us; two variations that are each insanely more viriliant and spread despite the vaccinations which are now only good enough to prevent serious infection and death most of the time.
If you run Chrome Lighthouse you will get a list of all the color contrast issues.
Ask HN: Is Brilliant.org Worth It?
So, I'm a huge Duolingo fan, with a 1024 day streak and paying for Plus and all that jazz. I've found it very useful when supplemented with TV and later chatting/speaking with people.

I wanted to find something similar for math, just to review and keep myself fluent because I want to eventually go deeper with physics, so I searched around and all I could find was Brilliant.

I did a bunch of the samplers they offer but this didn't really give me an idea of whether it's good or not, I really wish they had a trial or ad supported version or something like that because they basically strong arm you into putting down $100 unless you want to pay 2x or 4x per month for shorter time periods... I just don't know if I want it yet or not, so I can't justify that.

What is other people's experience with this thing? Is it worth it? Are there alternatives that are similar to Duolingo (keeps a streak, is gamified, cut graphics, with bite-sized levels, etc.)?

[p.s. I'm not interested in Khan Academy, it's slow, imperfect and MIT has lectures up for all of these topics when I want them.]
Get on a lot of magnesium + thiamine (this is important, they go together). Whether you quit coffee or not, but these two will help you with the withdrawal symptoms (and they are BOTH depleted by regular caffeine intake).
Biden has indirectly blamed all COVID deaths during the Trump administration on Trump, so it's fair to blame Biden for COVID deaths during his administration on him, too. Biden has had office for longer, but the vaccine has also been available for about that long, too.
You just said you're mostly done. If not the vaccine, what (mostly) ended the pandemic for you?
I've solved that problem by being one of those people who never calls back or checks voicemail. At some point, I've got 75 e-mails to mark as read and delete today.
So you just leave Windows update on in production?

Brave man.
I'm not vaxxed - but want to be. I tested positive for COVID now a second time last week and taking a few days off to be safe. This time it felt a lot easier to go through so I assume it's Omicron. First time around in July 2020, I was in bed for a day and couldn't smell anything for about a month.

My partner on the other hand has no desire for us to get vaxxed because they know people personally who have died after getting the shots. We also know many who died from getting COVID. We're not anti-vax people generally, our kids are all got regular shots but with this, we decided to skip it for the time being. Knowing this, we intentionally wear masks when needed and try to operate safely and give distance.

I think the US government failed in communicating properly and now with the approach of "shunning the unvaxxed", it's only causing further divide and a lot of my conservative friends will now never get it as a way to spite the government orders.
Motor mounts don't generally work for rooftop unless you have a flat roof like a commercial/industrial install. They're also more failure prone so in most cases it's easier to just install more panels.

Even ground mounts are generally not motorized for home installs.
My own approach is to try to drink 2-3 cups per day at most, but also drink decaf later in the day. I just enjoy the taste of coffee while working.
Personally, I think speed limits should be more heavily enforced.

There is a reason it is called a limit (in most places), and it is in fact illegal to exceed it. Speeding is also one of the primary factors in determining the severity of a crash.

If everyone got ticketed every time they exceeded the speed limits (not discussing implementation here, but there are ways that this could be automated), I'm sure our streets and roads would be much safer, and we could also have a meaningful discussion about what the speeds of roads should actually be. Currently, speed limits are nearly arbitrary and officers only enforce them when someone is going 10-15% over it or more.
> Who gets vaccinated for a disease they already had?

Chickenpox (a form of herpes) lies dormant in the system for decades causes Shingles. Vaccinations are recommended at 50+ for people who have had the former to prevent the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenpox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoster_vaccine
you want to talk about corruption? look at pelosi's investment portfolio.
Minor inflation? Look at the cost of food and housing (which are left out of the CPI to make things look less bad)
It's easier to bring the obsolescence bugging users to update. And you cannot disable the popups.
Even if you're not vaccinated, you're extremely unlikely to have serious consequences unless you're elderly and/or have comorbidities. The infection fatality rate of COVID19 (which can only be estimated) is something like 0.20%. "Long COVID" is extremely rare and severely overstated.
I think the person you are replying to is suggesting using PV panels to heat a thermal mass (using resistive heating or possibly a DC heat pump) to avoid the expense of an inverter and other electronics necessary to connect to the grid. This is actually a pretty good idea now that PV panels are a much smaller percentage of the total cost of solar nowadays.
> Founders will sometimes say "if I can't build this company with no more than a million dollars, it's not worth building it at all."

I feel like this became such a big meme, that it actually hurt innovation. With lots of founders (me included) adopting the "Lean Startup" mindset, it's much easier to build a "single-feature company" that does something slightly mundane, then get acquired/acquihired because what you're doing is just so easy to reproduce. In my mind, that explains why most Unicorns these days are stuff like debit cards for companies, yet another task manager or note taking app, etc.

tl;dr I think true innovation requires [capital & research & time], and feel like we've replaced that pyramid with [quick iteration & extreme scrappiness & failing fast], maybe a bit too much.
Or because they can't throttle video streaming sites down and internet speed test sites up?
I grew up in midwestern suburbs where Bradfords were planted with great enthusiasm. I can see the appeal, they have neat symmetry, create no mess besides the leaves and don't get too big. Their semen-like flower scent filled the air in the spring, and they were drawn and quartered during the summer storms or winter ice.

I have fond memories of watching a massive summer storm from a friends bedroom and witnessing the moment his front yard Bradford split in half. The same tree would later split in half again during the winter. Invasive or not, Bradfords will always hold a special place in my heart.
For what it's worth, recovering from the disease and getting a "booster" vaccine a few months later yields the best protection. I hope you do this.

People who are relying solely on disease recovery are far more likely to be reinfected, and face worse outcomes, as compared to people who get their full three-dose vaccine (two primary + booster).

Incidentally, your thought process is suffering from the naturalistic fallacy.
Signal admins too can ship you an app version that would show injected messages like coming from legitimate sender. [1]

However, while you can be your own xmpp server admin, you can't be Signal admin.

[1]: And for god's sake pls don't even start on reproducible builds, nobody really verifies every app updates.
> it exports cheap, often-subsidized, environmentally-ruinous energy from poor regions to financial centers.

No it doesn't. I'm not sure where people are getting this from. It _wastes_ energy; it does not move it.