skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some PDFs really don't work at all except in Acrobat. One example is USCIS form I-9: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-9...
https://omgmobc.com/

This is a supposed copycat
Oh I know, I've driven in Ireland many times. Funny thing is, the only time I've had an issue was driving late at night on an empty road. Ran into a ditch. Perhaps the traffic keeps you hyper-focused.
In primary production most things you don't consume yourself have either to earn income or cost you money to dispose of, and suddenly zero waste is a big win. Pig slurry has massive costs associated either with remediation of water or cartage. If you can make methane, drive a generator or heat or cool something or run pumps, and then have (in disease terms) sterile and nutrient rich water to use.. it's better.

Ploughing in your unsellable fruit is said to be heartbreaking. Suicide in farmers is high.

Growing less and getting a better price for it might be better than growing more but losing half the produce to skin taint or bruising. Less inputs, more value per acre worked.
Nah, they just package the knowledge and sell it for a nice profit. No point in doing anything else than what they already do very well. There are quite a few unknown unknowns when starting a side business, and little reason for them to do it (other than small pilot farms just to get a feel for how it works, to build better equipment)
Reminds of my young teens in middle school…joining the gamesurge.net server on IRC to find a Counter-Strike 5v5 scrim
Tv-links.co.uk

(was in alexa top 10) at some point.
> Comparing to the flu is just ridiculous

You are too easy to dismiss here. I wasn't comparing severity, but rather out understanding of the flu. Please re-read. Nevertheless, tens of thousands have died every year from the flu. Many more who do not die get post-viral syndromes. The symptoms change every year, sometimes with full body rashes, or severe congestion that lasts weeks. Sometimes it mutates into something deadly, like the last pandemic. The vaccines we've created are hardly effective. To pretend we understand the flu is to be willfully ignorant or disingenuous.
What would happen if instead of collecting tax for UBI the central bank would issue new currency? Prices would keep on raising forever, but from time to time we could cut a few zeros. The ones who hold onto cash would see their money slowly losing value, better use it or lose it. This system would be easier to implement.
I remember this well. It was an amazing experience to have high quality video at that time and they should have kept going.

The interface and website UX was sleek.
Interesting Impression by Signal App founder on Web3 and NFTs
> autoantibodies were detected from mild covid cases associated with long covid symptoms

And? Just because someone has those antibodies doesn't mean he has long-covid.

> How do you explain the rise in children’s hospitalizations in areas with high covid rates?

>"A five-fold increase in pediatric admissions in New York City this month. Close to double the numbers admitted in Washington, DC. And nationwide, on average, pediatric hospitalizations are up 48% in just the past week."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/new-omicron-variant...

Nothing in the article says because of Covid. And it is very easy to explain in fact. Hospitalizations always surge during holidays. Most notably due to falls and other respiratory viruses such as the flu which is known to be worse in children than covid.

Even so the article cites this data (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admis...) and says: "US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Tuesday showed that on average, 305 children have been in the hospital with Covid-19 on any given day over the week that ended Dec. 26.".

That 305 children in all the US.

The other articles you cited use the same deceptive framing.
A whole year? Did one of the parent had to become stay at home parent or how can it even work for working class?
> I also looked into taking a very lightweight wiki (LOC in the high thousands) and adapting it to our needs, but found that most of those didn't have a code model that would lend itself well to doing things like swapping out a custom format for Markdown, we'd basically be rewriting half the wiki at that point. Even DokuWiki, a relatively large project, is too blasé about running regexes on page contents for my taste.

Just fyi, MediaWiki does have support for using a different page content mark up languages (Content models in mediawiki speak). In the default that's mostly only used for special purposes like CSS pages (See Special:ChangeContentModel), but the interfaces are relatively clean if you want to add your own.
Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)
Rise to Globalism by Stephen Ambrose and Doug Brinkley is an adequate precis of US ascent to global power, which IMHO contains the seeds of its demise.

The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John Bogle is the economic/fiscal/investing perspective I align with at the "non-billionaire" level.

China analyses is fluid at this time as you can imagine. Stay in touch with the usual The Economist, Bloomberg, Foreign Affairs, Parameters, and similar sources. IMO China's ascent and America's decline are both to a large degree psychogenic at this juncture, and a catalyzing condition to commit a path hasn't been developed yet.

eande's suggestion is good. If you find Dalio's theses persuasive, then I recommend you read his other three books to understand the quant angle he is coming from. You have to understand that as a billionaire, he can afford to be as much as a generation or even two off of his projections, and he'd still shrug that off. We don't have such luxury, so you have to be more discerning on his projected timelines, the numbers behind them, and the global market context it all takes place within.
Withings Body Scan: Smart weight scale with multi-lead ECG
Often enough that two of my family members died due to untreated non-covid ilness (kidney failure and diabetes), an uncle attempted suicide, and a cousin spiraled into depression and was hospitalized. I know dozens who have caught covid, and none were hospitalized. I doubt that I'm that much of an anomaly.
Can someone explain the appeal of Discord? It seems to be the same as Slack. In what way is it differentiated from existing messaging services?
I find it offensive when I see people assume that the only reason anybody takes psychoactive medication is to deceive themselves. I know people whose lives are much better on medication (and who see the world much more accurately than without it), I know people whose lives are worse. Are you so confident that you can decide for everybody else which group they fall into? The world and the people in it don’t exist to make clean narratives for others, whether you’re a drug company rep or anti-psychiatry.
Yeah. T-shaped is part of the corporate BS lingo. It is meaningless and it has a shallow appeal of something more profound than it ostensibly is. If you really think about it, everyone is T shaped or more like a root of a tree with depth in various aspects of their career. It is also time dependent. In 2011, I knew a lot about computation fluid dynamics. Today, not so much.

The whole thing is a fad.

Unrelated but there are a lot of things like this in the startup world as well. For example, Elon keeps saying all you need to do is find out what arrangement atoms need to be in and then figure out how to do it. Yeah, no shit. Drug discovery is just sticking the right atoms together? Or software engineering is just pressing the right keys on the keyboard and Michael Phelps is just modulating the right muscles at the right time? It sounds more profound than it really is. It is also completely unactionable and impractical.
Match Group (Tinder, Hinge, etc.) Suing Muzmatch (YC S17)
Why Galesburg has no money
It was improved in 14 but may not eliminate the need for pgbouncer depending on the use case.

https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-14-performance-monitorin...
I really dislike this software development meme: that you should care more about why one tool is superior to the other than just knowing how to use any of them well.

If you hired Larry Haun and his brother to frame a new house, they'd have it done in a day or two with nothing but nails, a hammer, a SkilSaw, a framing square, a chalk line and some chalk. If you hired some random contractor, it'd probably take six guys a month, go way over budget, the job would be a mess, and they'd have used 15 different tools.

Larry is better not because his tools are better, or because one tool emphasizes how to use it the right way. Larry just knows his tools and knows how to do the job well with them. And that isn't to say that using any tool at all is fine; an unsharpened rip saw will take a hell of a lot longer to use than Larry's SkilSaw. But the outcome of the project still depends way more on Larry's skill than his SkilSaw.
Try FreeDOS in 2022
It's not about a non-binary threshold. The problem is having a threshold in the first place.

Say that given the evidence there's a 9 % chance the null hypothesis is true. A frequentist used to a 10 % significance level would then say the effect is true. A frequentist trained on a 5 % significance level would say it is false.

But that's just an arbitrary cutoff that by itself means nothing.

If instead we look at a practical scenario where we would use this result, we understand the problem space better. Maybe we have figured out how to get limited rights to the transpositions of famous music to other A4s, and this would cost a lot to do, but earn us some money if we do it and the effect is real.

Should we acquire those rights or not? Ask the 5 % frequentist and they would say "there's no significant difference, so you shouldn't." Ask the 10 % frequent and they say the opposite. Who do we listen to?

Let's ask the poker player. They will ask "What exactly does it cost to do this, and how much will you earn if it works out? That matters!"

So let's say it costs us $100 per song to get the rights to the transposed version, and we think it will earn us $102 per song if the effect is true. Now we can just plug in, remembering that there's a 9 % chance the null hypothesis is correct:

-100 + 102 * 0.91 = -7.18 per song

Not good. What if we made $127 per song with the same cost?

-100 + 127 * 0.91 = +15.57 per song

Worth doing, at the same probability of the null hypothesis!

In other words, you can't determine what's significant until you know how you will use the result.

Statistics by itself is meaningless. It gains meaning only when it's used to choose between actions.
Let‘s hope web4 is around the corner with some real and useful innovation, so we can all stop taking about Ponzi schemes.

I thought web3 was about to be about AI running the world, 5G mind control and IoT everywhere, now I hear it‘s about blockchain.

Blockchain supporters stole a word once (crypto), now they’re trying to steal web3.
I am disappointed.
I recently installed two Linux VMs on my laptop. One, running the latest Ubuntu, got the network interfaces (yes, I have two defined) working as I wanted. The other one, running CentOS 7.9 (because that's what we're stuck with at $JOB) doesn't, with the same network setup. Both are using systemd (something I've tried to avoid as I'm very old school when it comes to Unix administration [1]) and I've yet to figure out what is going on. The set up is easy, first interface, non-NAT, gets address via DHCP. Second interface, NATted through the laptop. CentOS interfaces are completely borked upon boot up, and it takes about 10 minutes of constant enabling/disabling the interfaces to get them "up". Pre-systemd, I might have had a chance to just hard code the network settings (which would work for my setup). These days? I'm feeling more and more computer illiterate as time goes on.

[1] I'm a developer who can admin a Unix system if forced to, but how to administrate Unix has changed at least three times since I first learned in the mid 90s, and I'm tired of the constant changes (shakes my old-man fists at the sky).
I really used to think this way as well, and was dead set against psychiatric medication.

Unfortunately I have had multiple family members recently deal with crippling and harmful bouts of depression and extreme anxiety.

They tried many things, but ultimately it was medication (not to remove the feelings, but just to help manage them) and long term counselling that helped things get better.

The medication alone is not going to help. But when someone can’t even get out of bed, or ,eave the house, or is so sad that everything becomes a dark fog, I disagree that medication is not required.

I’m now extremely grateful that I am in a position where I am able to afford it.
Just schedule lots of emails and Slack messages.
That was in 2009-2010 when WhatsApp came out.

By that time SMS were free and unlimited under most plans in the US but not in other places. WhatsApp, Viber, LINE etc. caught the non-US markets rapidly as a free alternative to an expensive service. These messaging apps didn't do as well in the US, as they had an equally free built-in alternative (SMS).

Later, most operators made SMS free everywhere, but it was already too late.

10 years later, we still see the same results.
I use imagemagick's convert. But sure. Just be sure you want to retype the wifi password every time you switch from wired to wireless ethernet interface. FFS.
You're doing the thing I wrote about in the first few paragraphs of the article.

By the way, the largest academic cryptography group, IACR, was founded by people who were working on cryptocurrency before they founded it.
In academia you are rewarded for focusing on one extremely narrow topic (your thesis). The "top" of academia is overly composed of I-shaped rather than T-shaped people, who don't do as well in getting there.
Even if this 3% number was accurate, which it's not, the most vulnerable group of people typically do not have school age children.
I've seen a video of a guy who 3D printed the mold of a very rare replacement part for his BMW and cast it with Aluminum, and it then fitted and worked perfectly as well as the original if not better.

I have family that still use JD tractors from 60s and 70s. In fact I have a relative who bough one for less than 2k, refurbished it for ~5k, and use it during winter for his chalet. Why don't we build pre-computerized tractors? I understand that cast-iron will break, but still the point remains with CNC machines becoming cheaper and cheaper.
Brother does this on their laser printers. Their inkjets seem to follow the dark patterns that are promiment in the industry.
A ton of things happened to many kids during the pandemic.

0) Physically away from school
1) Poor learning experience
2) Spending more time with parents
3) Relatives getting sick and dying
4) Dire medical news everywhere
5) Dire political news everywhere
6) Dire environmental news everywhere
7) Many parents lost jobs
8) Many parents lost income
9) Children pressured to (not) take vaccines
10) People (not) wearing masks / Kids pressured to (not) wear masks
11) Away from friends
12) Evictions
13) Excessive drug use
14) Excessive social media use
15) Affected by evolving social justice issues

So there could well be some causation there, but which things are causing what is not immediately clear.
Vertical integration is something which served Elon Musk quite well in SpaceX, so it was a familiar territory when it was used in Tesla operations.
The Dutch own farmland everywhere where it matters, not just in America, because they do quite efficient industrialized farming.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-...

https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-farmers-flee-env...
This article points out yet ANOTHER way in which modern academia is rendering itself obsolete.

Let academia die the miserable death it deserves. Let us instead focus our efforts on building its replacements rather than participate in this research funding gangbang of society. Because, make no mistake, we are all paying for this garbage.

For replacements:

1. We need systems meant to EDUCATE goddamnit. (e.g. Khan Academy)

2. We need systems focused entirely on producing PUBLIC and cutting edge research where resources are assigned on merit. (Don't yet know what these research systems look like.)
The Graph OS
And where did I say that everyone is like this?

Christ, people. You aren't necessary everywhere with your "actually" stuff. Chill.

I'm sharing what I observe and what I find disturbing. You can just ignore it.
Ever hear of the "Living Well with Schizophrenia" [1] channel on YouTube? Lauren there's got schizoaffective disorder too. She really helped a friend of mine feel less alone with her own schizophrenia.

1. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCENqBB_xNax3mLX_WGLf2Lg
New variants have followed Omicron. And that will continue to happen. They may be more benign or less benign than what we’ve seen so far. But I keep hearing the assumption of “definitely mild”. I’m not sure the science is so definitive on that point.
"Imagine a world where proprietary software doesn’t exist, because it is obsolete; entire generations of people are taught to value freedom, and to staunchly defend it, helping each other learn and grow (and produce better software in the process, with less bugs, because people are now free to do that, without relying on some evil company)"

Rhetoric aside (all companies are evil) I feel like this argument fails at some level because Free Software has not yet figured out a business model that would work in a world with no proprietary software.

Ironically current popular non-propritary software tends to be more Open Source than Free, and much of that is currently relying on "some evil company" for funding.

If the suggested imagine happened, and all company funding dried up (as hoped for) then how does one make a living writing software? And if you can't make a living why do it at all.

One could take video as an example. With funding you get "evils" like Disney, marvel and HBO. Without funding you get what? Tiktok? Even popular YouTube is funded directly by advertising, sponsorships etc.

So is the cost of "quality software" (free, open or proprietary) that proprietary software exists?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/newsequ...

Each GUID generated by using NEWSEQUENTIALID is unique on that computer. GUIDs generated by using NEWSEQUENTIALID are unique across multiple computers only if the source computer has a network card.
Sure, they can be a good temporary crutch, I can see that. But are they addressing the root causes?
^ This ^

3 months right now is extremely fast to see someone in a clinic with a social work degree. Was told the actual Psychiatrists or Psychologists are completely full for an indefinite amount of time (As in years on the wait list).

And this is paying out of pocket.

And we were told directly from the clinics themselves, that the pandemic has led to an explosion in the number of clients.
Some people prefer to rent. It has distinct advantages and in big cities you can often rent beautiful places that you'd never be able to buy. You can have plants, art, etc in a lovely minimalist space that doesn't need a lot of stuff to be inviting and livable. I don't understand why it wouldn't work with a wife and kid. Owning a place doesn't change that.

Renting does not imply a shoebox apartment or a mediocre house in the suburbs.
At some point we have to face the facts: NYC’s school admins aren’t good enough. Private schools have been open in California for ages.

But this is normal. Public school workers are deep mediocre workers. Most of the time they skate by being mediocre. But this moment demanded that they do their job well. They, challenged to act outside mediocrity, found their skills wanting.
> where resources are assigned on merit

No Child Left Behind was supposed to implement this; the problem that quickly became obvious is that schools that were already doing well got more money because their students had higher scores and schools that were struggling actually lost funding because their scores were garbage. This contributed to the gap widening instead of closing.

It's difficult to figure out how to develop a system where resources are allocated based on objective potential rather than historical metrics.
It wasn't the graph that confused me (I've seen a supply-demand graph before and understood the axes were "reversed" compared to most other disciplines), but the description in the post itself.
The data it provides is enough to get funding or not, Voyager still provide data.
Hello fellow "waster"! It's nice to see another one from the other side of world! I practice the Bolognese fighting school (Achille Marozzo and Antonio Manciolino) at our fencing club (Sala d'Arme Achille Marozzo). Fun fact: I was born, raised, and currently living and writing from Premariacco, Fiore's birthplace :)
It suffers from a classic architectural excess - shell looks cool from the outside, at the expense of a usable interior. It's a metal sculpture which happens to have an interior.
Anti-psychotic drugs helped stabilize someone I know. It did matter to find the right drug, and nothing else helped.

So there, one anecdote vs. another.

I do agree with the general sentiment, though that has to do with the rulers of this world (not politicians).
xcode-select only installs the command-line tools, not the full IDE.
"Man, Mozilla Persona was cool, shame it got shut down. Wish someone would bring it back."

> cryptographic identity layer emerges with good UX and application support, and an optional economic layer and users aren't screwed when Mozilla inevitably drops support

"wait no not like that"
I'm not in either of these industries, but I suspect a major difference is that an airline owning a jet has a lot more leverage against potential malfeasance by the manufacturer than the average farmer has against John Deere.
Disagree with everyone here. I actually love the Economist. It is short bite sized articles that gives you a good overview of what's going on in the world. I admire how they correct themselves, how picky they are about British English and generally have broad scope of a particular topic, presenting multiple sides. Consistent styling and plots, excellent typography to top it off. There is nothing like that out there. Similarly, people of HN love the New Yorker and I find it unbereable. I like my news like a datasheet. Short, concise and to the point; not a long winded vocabular pornography.
Big-data analytics firm Alteryx buys rival Trifacta in $400M deal
I did not know that about No Child Left Behind. If you have some links, would really appreciate them. I will look myself, as well. Sounds like a great bit of history to learn from.

I do believe that academics have come up with the right approach to determine the value of research - anonymized peer review. The problem is, there are always signals that leak through that veil of anonymity that help you determine who the authors and even the reviewers actually are.
The fact you think people acting above their station justifies this invasion of privacy is incredible. This is an awful system. Listen to people who are telling you why and you might learn something about humans.
And if modern web3 had even half the level of innovation as the 80's digicash stuff, people would probably object to it a lot less.
On the contrary, blindly believing (not knowing) is unscientific in any and all regards.

I too saw people taking pills and becoming "robots" in the methaphoric sense. They were dull and not themselves, "just" without suicidal tendencies. It was absolutely devastating to live under a roof with them.

When I got a major depression, a decade back, I decided that I will not take any meds, because I'd rather die the person I was, than live on as an empty shell.

Did that mean I didn't get help? Hell no!