skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As of lately I've found a useful insight in the opposite direction: getting 'in the zone' is never instantaneous. Just like many other activities (e.g. social, or sport), you can't go from 0 to 100 just like that.

And that transition period sucks. Your brain was over-stimulated and now has to focus. It's crying like a child who's been deprived of his favorite toy.

It sucks and there's no way around it. But: being aware of it is liberating! If you remain aware that starting work is painful, you won't be waiting for a later moment where it will magically become more enjoyable.

Best of all, the hard first few minutes are just that, a few minutes. Maybe 10, which again are painful, because one is under-performing and mentally dispersed. If you are aware of the transient nature of this state, it will be less frustrating.

Embrace the suck.
I'm convinced that some folks cannot be taught critical thinking skills, some folks I think are just missing the relevant hardware to perform the needed computing, they might be able to get there in a round about way, but not on every topic. Ideological blinders, presuppositions, a bunch of things, get in the way.
> The project placed excessive emphasis on nonessential high-effort software initiatives, like developing their own BIOS replacement, desktop interface, UI framework, and nonstandard file manager. Developing and supporting this software consumed a lot of time at the Foundation

How many of these were funded PhD thesis vs software from salaried devs?
And?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/05/133159/mit-media...
Kai in Chandler, AZ is an awesome restaurant featuring Native American food/menu inspiration.
https://www.wildhorsepass.com/listing/kai/3304/

Definitely worth a visit if you are in the greater Phoenix area.
See a sibling comment--they do, for whatever reason, seem to go hand in hand.
Gamer culture needs to evolve.
My company chose exactly this design for several of our microservices. It is now almost universally considered to have been a mistake.
Share of cereals allocated to human food
They aren't all in the US. Right now they remove a .com by telling Verisign, a US company, to change the registration for the .com. Since Verisign is the only way to change a .com, it works.

Many root servers operate outside of the US. If the blockchain were the authority on IP addresses, then even if they blocked the US roots the others would still have it.

Even today if all the US root servers go off-line every system would find the others and use them.
I'm confused what this means. The production of fossil fuels is a geologic product.

To quote wikipedia:
"The transitions from these source materials to high-carbon fossil fuels typically requires a geological process of millions of years, sometimes more than 650 million years"
Their market penetration for the general population definitely wasn't great though. A big reason IMO was they didn't have a cellular data connection and cell infra hadn't yet been sufficiently developed with good speed and coverage. 2G/3G pretty much universally sucked even in its later forms.

Also speaking as someone who used netbooks throughout my time in K-12 ed, they were woefully underpowered and laggy compared to today's low end smartphones. A $80 Xiaomi phone can probably run most websites/apps at 60 fps, a 11 inch netbook with crappy internal HDD/EMMC and single core Atom, not so much.
It's not convention. If it's possible to create a transaction that one version thinks is valid, and the other doesn't, someone will create such a transaction, it will be included in the chain that accepts it if that side has the majority of the hash power, and the other one will reject it. Thus you will have 2 chains (not to be confused with 2 Chainz).

The definition of "major change" in this case is a change that changes the definition of a valid block or transaction.
The repo has PS2 ELFs and a Windows EXE inside
I wish that we'd care less about said edge cases. It's one thing to have an obscure, nonobvious death sentence, but "don't overdose on meds" should be common sense enough to avoid tiptoeing about it.
>> github developers with over 15 followers on February 2019

...I am wondering if it must also be a javascript project...
I can imagine NA cuisine being no more unified than Mexican, Tex-Mex, New Mexican, Oaxacan, California Mexican, et. al. are under the category of “Mexican”. I grew up on Tex-Mex and I was dumbfounded at the sight of a wet burrito?? But you learn and grow :) and I’m sure any emergence of NA cuisine would be similar.
I didn't say anything about "fake news," and I didn't make any claims.

It is my opinion that the group described in this piece probably recruits people for Kurdish nationalist causes. Lucky for them that Reuters picked it up.
I think Dan Olson (Foldable Human) nailed the real problem.

> Flat Earthers are not otherwise-empty vessels who believe one kooky thing. They believe that thing because it suits their purposes. [...] it says something they already believe about the nature of the social world. Flat Earth is a thing people want to believe because if it were true it would be irrefutable proof of everything else they believe.

Folding Ideas, In Search of a Flat Earth ~29 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44
Share of cereals used for human food (vs. animal feed or biofuels):

Globally: 48%

India: 93%
Malawi: 90%
Japan: 57%
China: 48%
UK: 38%
Brazil: 28%
EU: 26%
Spain: 18%
Canada: 16%
USA: 11%
Denmark: 10%
You need to be an electrician to properly diagnose most modern car problems. Its expensive, so instead we get mechanics reading codes and replacing parts suggested by the manual/reader and billing you for it even if that doesnt fix the problem. Its commendable he even tried the hack, but it felt halfhearted :( No time to to measure or source proper sensor (second hand one from wreckers would be guaranteed compatible), 5-10 hours ripping whole truck apart instead "by the book".

This isnt even a right to repair issue - non dealer wont have any qualms bodging third party sensor, getting one for $5 from pullapart yard, or slapping a resistor bypass for a cheap kludge. Plus you get access to wiring diagrams and codes from Ford. This sensor might not be available separately from them, but I dont see it as a big problem, its not a customized unobtanium part (like Apple charger chips with special firmware Renesas is forbidden from selling you).
Is it possible to buy mercury-free tuna?
>and the FDA and CDC advisory committees both recommended against mandatory boosting of younger populations. They were bypassed. Two long-time FDA scientists resigned over the issue

Where does it say mandatory booster?
Early, state-sanctioned LSD experiments in Bulgaria (2016)
How does it compare to Ferret? <https://ferret-lang.org/>
Enjoy it while you can. In no time at all, she'll be in her 20s asking for advice on what car insurance to buy.
Critical thinking is just plain HARD.

Let's face it, it is lacking as much on HN as it is on any social media site. That's because it requires a Vulcan-like lack of emotional investment in an opinion or worse, a belief.

Critical thinking requires dissociation, detatchment from the subject, and a lots and lots of research from varied sources. Not just a few websites, but actual focus with the intent to accept an answer that goes against the current opinion or belief.

This idea of "teaching critical thinking to kids" is valuable, but I think grossly underestimated in difficulty. Especially when parents have a vested interest in NOT raising kids to think this way.
Sorry but it is the employer who has you over a barrel not the other way around. They clearly have managed to manipulate you into working for free for a long time, and are continuing to say whatever it takes to squeeze even more work out of you for free. The rule is to never ever let a company owe you more than a month of work, and stop delivering the moment they don’t pay. My advise would be to say to them: pay me what you owe and I will deliver. Otherwise forget it. The claims made by the company are obviously BS. Unless they can provide evidence that they have (say) a signed contract with a customer worth $ millions.
Why are Hindu nationalists concerned about the fertility rates of the Parsi community?
I'd say 99% of folks based on my 50+ years of experience on- and off-line. I think I've only known a handful of people who can think critically about their opinions.
So why as governator did he support those failed corporate welfare mega solar projects?

Freedom is on your roof, not Ivanpah, Arnold.
What surprises me more is that people consider the cloud to be a safer option. Snowden showed us otherwise.

Most of my cloud stuff is encrypted with Cryptomator, all but the handy to have stuff (documentation, Isos etc). But I don't hear active talking about such precautions.

The difference with the cloud is they don't see people walking off with their phones and asking sensitive details. This makes them feel violated and rightly so. Most people don't feel so bad about the cloud even though it can happen at any time there and you wouldn't even know about it. When you think about it that's actually even worse.
I assume official inflation figures will always be lower than the growth in my expenses. It is the only possibility due to demographic changes causing greater demand for labor relative to supply, and will allow the government to fulfill its debt obligations (at least nominally).

Basically an obfuscated tax, especially for higher earners.
Do you have a source on Belgium? I found this article from a week ago that says that a single hospital (as far as I can tell) had no omicron icu patients at time of publication, but it also indicates that they might not be tracking it that systematically?

Anyway, I don’t really think there’s all that much mitigation possible, but I’m not convinced “let it rip” is necessarily a good thing depending on vaccination rates (I’m in the US, we’ll see how it goes)

https://www.brusselstimes.com/health/200725/omicron-dominati...
What about page 41 before 93 instead of 23? The poem fragment is actually the previous part of that poem. (https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/mary_gloster....).

Although the rest of the text outside the poem seems to match less...

I imagine piecing together these literary references would have been much harder in the 30s compared to now where you can just google them, and ctrl-f the whole text of the book.
I think it was one of the BCPs that recommended that people not use SRV records. I’ll have to check.
'... people who care enough to get a booster are more likely to care proactively about their health'

Are there studies to show people who care about health get boosters? My neighbors are hyper healthy and undosed. I am undosed and I exercise regularly.

I generally see many people who sat on couch for two years put on considerable weight. Getting dosed while eating ourselves into 2x pants sizes doesn't seem to be good for health, as it increases the co-morbidity counter.
This is great! I think if you swap the order to show (row x column) you'll help people grasp the intuition behind the need for matching up Matrix A's column count with Matrix B's row count.
If I spend a ton of time scanning receipts, updating my lists, it's a big time investment for me. Will I be able to export my data as CSV or something so that it won't be lost in case the company folds or the app stops being supported?
No; it’s much simpler than that: the Indian education system is immature, which often leads to the blind leading the blind, and such stunningly bad errors as this because the writers of the textbook were incompetent.

I’m fairly confident in this case that the writer deliberately made something up because he had heard this expression (an English expression, you’ll note—Telugu and Hindi probably don’t have a direct equivalent), figured it was relevant, but didn’t know the answer and didn’t bother to investigate, because who cares what the answer is anyway? It’s just computers, no one needs to know about them anyway. That English was probably his third language will probably have contributed a bit (he would probably recognise a similar phrase in Telugu of an object he was familiar with as a metaphor), but it won’t have been the most important factor.

Simplifying and not getting into the cultural aspects which are also significant:

Most of the people in the country are uneducated or poorly educated. You need teachers to teach, but there are nowhere near enough qualified ones. Unskilled teachers can’t teach understanding since they lack it themselves, and so they favour rote learning, and textbooks do too. This builds up a lot of inertia, so that it takes several generations to break out of it rather than just one or two as you might hope.

As usual, the poor are especially badly affected by it, since they’re much less likely to get a competent teacher.

English-medium teaching also comes into the equation as a double-edged sword, having advantages and disadvantages that I won’t get into.
I've never heard of this book before! That's such a cool idea, to have the pages out of order.
> I mean, I can just dump a bunch of links to studies and details about how boosters are highly effective, even for young people. And I can find dozens more.

This isn't baseball cards. The person with the most URLs doesn't win. You have to read the data and understand what it says.

You clearly don't, because you're citing pop-science sources such as "The Harvard Gazette", and irrelevant papers about viral loads in breakthrough infections, as if these are meaningful to the debate.

However, it is apropos that you cited the CDC ACIP deck from their November 19 meeting [1], since it quite clearly lays out the lack of data, and shows how reluctant ACIP was to recommend boosters for all. See slides 29 and 35 for a summary.

See slide 37 for a (rather hilarious) graph showing "number needed to boost" to prevent one hospitalization in 18-29 year olds (8,000-12,000) vs 65 year olds (481-859), which goes right to the heart of the issue: boosters provide scant benefit against severe illness for younger people.

See slide 61 for the CDC ACIP final recommendation, which clearly shows that healthy people under age 50 MAY receive a booster, but weren't recommended to get one.

This is exactly what I said above, what is written in the articles I quoted, and what you dismiss as "appeals to authority". It's right there in the source you linked. It couldn't be clearer. Did you read it?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
For a food that is i) cheap, ii) extremely healthy, iii) non-perishable, iv) easy to transport, move and store, it surprises me that mercury free tuna cannot be purchased somewhere.

The small amounts of mercury that tuna contains typically come from what it eats, and despite tuna farms existing, they are typically located in the ocean, and even when they aren't, the fish are fed food from the ocean, and so they end up consuming mercury.

Therefore, health experts recommend extremely small quantities of tuna.

Coming up with a low cost source of mercury free (or nearly mercury free) tuna seems like an obvious way to make the world a healthier, better place.

EDIT: according to this 2014 report [1] the difficulty is finding something to feed to farmed tuna that isn't fish (which either has to be bred at significant cost, or caught from the ocean, which is self-defeating since it means the tuna contains mercury).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4r9XC6Ta-s
We increasingly vote for people and figureheads. Not policies. Who even reads a party programme these days? I'm not Australian but this seems to be a thing in the whole Western world right now. It's more like the X factor these days sadly.
I prefer to use library genesis. No nonsense PDFs of entire books.
Don’t believe anything an employer tells you. Ask for hard evidence.
> once they turned off the benefits people decided not to work and spend down their savings because ... erm, why would people do that? And doesn't this undermine the premise that people stopped working because it was cheaper to not work, if they're deciding to go broke not working for funsies?

Once you get used to 100% of your time being leisure time for months to years, it's hard to overcome that inertia and start looking for work again, even when it's the rational thing to do.

> changing careers, and general re-evaluation of life choices

People changing careers wouldn't contribute to the total number of unfilled jobs being higher, though. And if "general re-evaluation of life choices" leads to quitting your job, aren't the only two possibilities that you either get a new job, or you don't work anymore?

> A lot of states started disabling enhanced UI back in June and July.

But what about the rest of the states? And the federal government left their money faucet on until September.
Hanlon's Razor - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Instead of/in addition to downvoting, allowing the community assign a political flair by voting on changing the font color for the posting, with a lower karma threshold to vote for font color.

If you think a post is a just right-wing gambit, then let those with some karma vote to make the post display in a red font…maybe light red leading to bright red if percentages increase.

If the post is just a left-wing gambit, then you can vote for a blue font, light to dark as opinions are tabulated.

Not as strong as a downvote (which should be reserved for abusive, manipulative, poorly reasoned, MLM, etc. posts, not just matters of personal taste or opinion IMHO), but lets the poster and community know that a lot of folks think this veers into political drivel of the red or blue variety. While still keeping the content up to be read. Allowing a very mild form of venting which should increase user engagement. Perhaps some might even find it an easy way to read things that only reinforce their worldview.

Nice way for dang to take the pulse of the community and their take on the editorial vector of HN.

Might add a green font for unbalanced views of long-term climate forecasting, nuclear energy and the other usual suspects. A lot of times, it isn’t worth arguing when the post doesn’t reflect a nuanced view of what is truly known and what isn’t, relative risks, etc…effectively (or ineffectively) an advocacy piece. Sometimes it is worth a short comment that takes 5 minutes, but sometimes it’s not worth the energy to correct, but isn’t worthy of a downvote either. A green font means the content is viewing things through “green-tinted” glasses. A balanced view doesn’t get a green font.
Activision Blizzard fires 3 dozen people in sexual harassment probe
They always have, the internet originated from U.S. defense, (was that not domain name allocation)? residing physicaly with-in a country never mattered. they still consider it ownership.

wasen't this why russia/ussr didn't adhear to US ip's on their local lan?

is this not the same as FAA wanting all the control, including foreign airspace and the space whithin your ceiling?

you physically do not have control over something but still want to say it's yours.
that's what this is, no?
Many of the most valuable, precious, and important things in life are tedious, boring, difficult, and painful. The unpleasant costs should underline the immense value we place in the things we're willing to suffer for. Very little is withheld when parents suffer for their kids, and it's ok to be honest about it.
My understanding is that a fourth booster doesn't seem to prevent breakthrough infections (which are very common with Omicron), but it does seem to reduce severity and hospitalizations (which are very uncommon with Omicron). Maybe it reduces the chance of a breakthrough but it's still common.

This is what the third booster does and probably also what being vaccinated closer to infection date does. This is exactly what happens when you have more antibodies.
Browser extensions and apps can start resolving alternate roots using non-DNS methods for those who opt-in.
Great video, thanks for the link!
Revisionist history at its best. If that was the intended effect, officials sure weren't very clear about it.
The article mentions the soap: it was real, it was popular at the appropriate time period, and it's possible the "brown Windsor soup" was a combination of Windsor soup (a white soup) and brown Windsor soap to make it seem more horrible to the audience.
I think how it worked in pre contact times was you ate whatever you could get. Deer, squirrels, nuts, seeds from wild grasses, berries, tender hearts of succulents like agave, and if there was nothing else, the inner bark of pine trees.

The gourmet scene probably didn't exist much before the rise of agriculture.
Polio was stopped. Since we can't stop Covid in wild animals, and since severity is moderating, when do we plan to end Covid mandates?
For me, it's the Olympus PEN-F. Not the most ergonomic camera, but there is something special about it.
"Just because they don't do computing like _you_ do, using a laptop"

Okay, can you write a book, programm an arguino, produce a song, calculate in a spreadsheets expected payments for your mortgage, design layout of your house, map out your farm for planting? No, not really.

They have devices that enable them to consume and feed the disguisting add industry and suvaliance machine, not to create.
Thanks, I fixed that in my comment.
I think this is a consequence for our generally nonsensical arrangements for raising children.

The 2 parents (or maybe 1 single parent) are supposed to do it mostly by themselves in what is called a nuclear family. That is a quite recent development. Earlier it was common to live in larger groups (like extended families) so the work of raising kids was spread out over more people.

The other thing is that is is no longer culturally acceptable to let kids roam by themselves. You always have to have them at arms length when they’re out. If you like to criticize parents for too much screen time, well, what are those kids supposed to do instead?
You forgot the time we literally weren't allowed to leave during most of 2020 and 2021.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
This is better than any other speech-to-text setup I've ever encountered, for one simple reason: I followed the dead-simple install steps in the readme, started the program, and it worked. Bonus points for the install being a git clone and pip install away. I don't know why this is a hard bar to clear, but bravo. (I suspect that it's because a lot of FOSS speech recognition is from academia where "follow the following 13 steps, including hand-crafting recognition parameters" is more normal and acceptable because everyone involved is already a domain expert, whereas I, as a user, just want "plug in a mic, run this thing, and get text on stdout".)
Hahaha that might definitely be the case sometimes
You weren't a member of Plovernet or CDC were you?
See the second link, the main Debian DL/ML team member has concluded that open ML is not feasible. Firstly due to hardware; everyone uses the proprietary nvidia CUDA stuff, AMD have open drivers but are playing catch up and both of them require proprietary firmware. Also the speed with which the space is changing, faster than Debian release cycles. Also the lack of libre training data, training opennes and the costs of retraining.
> Flat earthers are proof that some people will just obstinately believe in complete and utter horseshit.

As are people who blindly support "democracy" and the subsequent actions that are taken by the people elected (typically re-elected) "by the people". Maybe flat earthers are dumber on a relative scale, but it would be interesting to see how things look on an absolute scale.

> I mean something specific about stupid. Not just wrong, not just ignorant, but actively and self-assuredly wrong, often to their own detriment. Beware stupid people in large numbers.

And more important than their relative intelligence: who causes more harm in the world (say, measured in body count in foreign military adventures)?