skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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At first https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784882173255680 seemed pretty damning but if you hover over the dates of the HN posts, the title attribute shows the timestamp, and it would appear Stripe's came in a couple hours before Bolt's. Add in Lyft and the "facts" around this story really seem to fall apart.
My understanding is that it basically just represses the signals that make you feel tired/sleepy.
By November 30, 2021, approximately 130,781 COVID-19–associated deaths, one in six of all U.S. deaths from COVID-19, had occurred in California and New York.

First sentence of TFA.

California and New York both have excellent statewide medical data collection, provide high-quality data, have been free of the data politics (or shear inadequacy) of numerous other states, they have both large urban and remote rural regions, they tend to see Covid impacts earlier than many other states due to travel and similar patterns. California alone is over 10% of the US population, together it and New York State represent 60 million people.

Data analysis is highly dependent on availability, quality, and import considerations. Having a large quantity of high-quality data from a small number of sources counts for a lot.
20 ships? Bring me my brown pants.
Bolt is supposedly worth 11 Billion, they make 40 million a year
Same thing in a private company. 45 days to get a server + approval from a VP depending on the cost.
That's one way of looking at it. Another consideration for each miner is to look for cheaper and more abundant energy sources. Despite what the born-again eco-warriors have to say about consumption and the environment, Bitcoin can actually be an incentive for safe energy sources.
First of all, you and all other of my fellow FLOSS developers have my respect. We may disagree on major or minute aspects of software design and philosophy, but ultimately we are a force for good in this world. I also admit that there are – as you say – nuances between GNU projects.

> I'm sick and tired of the religious vocabulary being applied to people who work on replacing proprietary software with free software

Well, I should have used quotes (“heresy”) to highlight the fact that I do not consider the usage to be entirely appropriate. But maybe instead of turning outwards it may be better to turn inwards and ask oneself why people such as myself, that have written less than about 10,000 lines of proprietary code in our entire lives, still draw upon such analogies to describe our GNU brethren?

One may think that following the Free System Distribution Guidelines only leads to the base system not shipping with proprietary nonsense. However, as you point out, there is also the fact that a chunk of the developer base find mentions of proprietary software offensive (?) and this necessitates shielding them with the #guix and #nonguix distinction. Perhaps naively, I find this counterproductive as I would rather have the “sinners” (sorry, I could not resist) on board and empower them to control the proprietary software that plenty of times is forced upon them because they have to make a living in a partially proprietary world. I want to allow them to transition cleanly to what we must ultimately turn into better non-proprietary alternatives. For example, I am happy that I can control and proud to have managed to keep my exceptions down to:

nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePredicate = pkg: builtins.elem (lib.getName pkg) [
# “So Nvidia, fuck you!”
"cudatoolkit"
"nvidia-persistenced"
"nvidia-settings"
"nvidia-x11"
];

Accommodating a user’s ability to do this, in my mind, makes us stronger as we acknowledge a reality where compromises have to be struck. Yes, one could bring out nonguix to accomplish this, but it is very clear from how Guix is structured as a project that these people and the software they rely upon is at the very best a secondary concern to the project’s goal and the software they produce. In summary I want to engage with users of proprietary software rather than to shield myself from them, as I think this is more likely to lead to long-term success of and superior free software.

Note that all of this is regardless of whether you are a card carrying FSF member and my general dislike for the law-based approach that the GPL takes to free us from proprietary software.
I think the focus on "burning" calories completely misses the mark. It gives people the misconception that food is nothing more than calories, and they can just "burn" off the excess, despite the fact that our nutritional needs become more important with exercise.
I've been following this case since it started (and found it quite troubling), and have a few questions:

- what instructions or laws was Prof. Chen accused of not following (i.e., what was the language in the grant application instructions)? Federal awards aren't always clear so curious what details the case came down to.

- Are there consequences to the government for having ~20 FBI agents showing up for something that ultimately didn't event have enough support to continue the case?

- does the government compensate individuals when they've substantially damaged someone's life without enough evidence for a case? Can an individual even sue the government for damages?

All genuine questions -- would love to understand how government power against individuals is kept in check.
But you also need to hire someone to manage the AWS infrastructure.

And the need to use-only-as-needed creates additional burden that doesn't exist with cheaper monthly-paid hardware.

The answer might very well be "it will take less time to manage AWS", but it's not clear. Some might need a pay-stack to handle the cloud's pricing.
Looks like it finally got a (although basic) vim emulation layer as well! Neat! https://library.panic.com/nova/vim/
>The expansion rate in the next 5 years seems decent.

I'm super skeptical about their expansion plans. Using the FCC's broadband map[1], I took a look at coverage around my neighborhood in Mountain View, CA. If AT&T fiber available to one household in a census block, its marked as "having AT&T fiber".

My block was marked as having fiber, but my house is not eligible for fiber according to AT&T's website. I started typing in other addresses in my block into AT&T's website and exactly one house was eligible out of the 20 addresses in my census block. I checked the four census blocks adjacent to me, and it was the same story, except for one block which had three eligible households.

Based on this it seems like their current strategy is to get into as many census blocks as possible to please the FCC while providing as little coverage as possible.

[1] - https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov
> It’s more than solutionism, it’s elitism.

> elitism (n.) the advocacy or existence of an elite as a dominating element in a system or society.

where does this idea come from? why can't people make their own spaces in their own corners of the Internet without being considered "elitist?"

is HN "elitist"? 4chan? Usenet? ZeroNet?
My personal experience was that modafinil was actually activated or significantly potentiated by caffeine. The stack together was like speed.
It gets boring re-inventing the wheel over and over again.
If that's the main result of the post, then it's a reductio, because YC funds competitors all the time and would never turn down an innovator for anti-competitive reasons—only because they thought it wouldn't be a good investment at that moment. Anything else would both be bad for YC's business and against its principles (https://www.ycombinator.com/principles/). Of course it still happens that YC turns down good companies which go on to innovate and succeed—but only by mistake.

Edit: by "principles" I don't mean some sort of moral edict, I mean YC's investment thesis, which is described at https://www.ycombinator.com/principles.
Stripe is international, including in India.
I did early interactive multimedia art history documentaries, with voyages into paintings through voiced over descriptions and closeup montages. It was captivating work, each documentary being 7 hours of material, in 8 languages. Because Philips and Sony were trying to prove CD-ROMs to the consumer back then, 42 years ago, they spent money. We got access to museum archives, worked on some of the first digital scans of a good number of well known pieces, and had celebrities reading the voiced over narratives. We had these weird Sony News Unix workstations with newspaper layout monitors - huge grey scale displays, spoiled me until 4K monitors finally arrived. That was '89-'94, the end of the dawn of all this digital media we take for granted today.
Finally, I though Godot 4.0 would get stuck in development hell, it has been wild so far, so many breaking changes, so many rewrites, it seemed like it would keep on this cycle forever(and this uneasiness held me from contributing)
I sort of fell down the rabbit hole of nootropics over the past year, of which Modafinil is a frequent recommendation.

I don't know if I would really recommend nootropics to the average person (because there is risk involved, and many of these substances have had very little in the way of human studies), but it's been an interesting journey. It was kind of a pandemic hobby I picked up.

My favorites are Aniracetam and Phenylpiracetam. (Both have become increasingly difficult to source though, despite still being legal in the US.) On top of a stack of supplements (magnesium, vitamin D, zinc, and fish oil).
Unfortunately bumwines [1] (last updated in 2003?) mentions the "new" blue flavor, but doesn't fully review it.

[1] http://www.bumwine.com/
> “They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both.”

Only a Sith deals in absolutes! I demand small bits of Rogan or else declare Young a Sith. Mark these words.
There was nothing in the article that lead me to believe people stopped drinking merlot because they didn't want to be seen drinking merlot. If anything the, implication is that Paul Giamatti's character convinced them they wouldn't like it.
Interesting stuff. I doinked around with this a while back when working on a 'hot take oracle' - basically a search box that finds a strongly-opinionated tweet about something (https://hottakeoracle.herokuapp.com/).

You can see that my model is basically just filtering for profanity as an indicator of "strong emotion", which makes sense. But it's interesting that postive profanity seems to be such a thorny problem, at least for Perspective.
Caring isn't a logical bar, it's a subjective-values bar.

Briefly, I can't tell if your question is really getting at the point I'm thinking about. I also don't know your background and I'm not even sure you understand where I'm coming from, so there would be a lot of ground to cover before any convincing of someone to care would be on the table for me.
It's Erowid, you can read reports from people on how every drug under the sun feels... they're all irresponsible people.
Well, merlot is a blending grape and that’s been wine industry “wisdom” for a long time, the book and movie just taught randos what the experts already believed. People outside of the US largely don’t drink it straight. Americans just glommed onto it because it sounded French. Pinot is quite drinkable as the main/sole grape.

Of course, drink what you like. But the industry was hardly “broken” (If anything Id bet it was accelerated) just altered.
Image and identification is a major factor in product enjoyment and loyalty. Even more so when talking about alcoholic beverages.

There is a mystique surrounding wine, as if it is a pure product shaped only by nature and the skill of the winemaker. The reality is that it's an engineered product full of adulterants(many natural and historical, but adulterants nevertheless. Think fining agents, acids, etc). Same with spirits. It's an industry that must produce a consistent product from highly variable inputs. Your impression of the bottle and the label also contribute to the brand/image.

People often choose the beverage that helps them identify with a story or project a certain image, not necessarily something that tastes good. Then again that's part of why their doing it. They want to signal. They need a vehicle for it.
My experience is that it keeps you wide awake for a very long time. Highly potent. Absolutely no focusing activity for me like dextroamphetamine / amphetamine / methamphetamine. As a result ADHD treatment value is low. Gave me some nasty joint swelling rather quickly so had to stop using it. If I were to market it I’d call it “clean coffee”
YC alum here, witness my HN submissions page full of 1- and 2-pointers.
Yes, Modafinil (rarely) causes life-threatening skin conditions. I got some mysterious purple blotches on my skin and discontinued use.
Was coming here to post the same: Modafinil, used judiciously, is amazing.
I mean, it's not A Modest Proposal, but Onion articles are still actually article length. I know most people just read and share the headline, but they're still taking the time to do full write-ups.
Zoom video production platform shows that online events aren't going away
But isn't too many calories a way, way bigger problem today than not enough micronutrients is? If we could make the former way better at the expense of making the latter slightly worse, it seems like it'd be a no-brainer.
Having a new protocol has value for the same reason HAM does. You hope that the character of the content itself will be interesting enough to be it's own subculture.

Unfortunately it looks somewhat nontrivial to use and unnecessarily different from everything else without offering any true new features. All it has is the content and culture.

It's also yet another privacy at all costs project. Which is fine, but I feel like that's all anyone does anymore and they've forgotten all other innovations.

Still, the long form Web1 content and old forums were wonderful. Is there anything I should be looking at? What's the coolest Gemini content? How do gemini users like to communicate?
> there’s only one Bay Area

I suspected you were just assuming that, so I googled it, and found quite a few.
Would you say the same thing if it was the person's first time with caffeine? Because Modafinil is a stimulant and used to treat narcolepsy, one could argue that going to work tired and treating people would have been more dangerous. I agree with you that he definitely should have done it prior but this is relatively low on my scale of recklessness. It is not like the effects weren't known. Just the severity of his reaction.
NY State Supreme Court Judge ruled New York's mask mandate “unconstitutional,”
Justice Thomas Rademaker drops the hammer: New York's mask mandate is "unconstitutional."

"null, void and unenforceable."
I've only ever heard of tens of thousands of views. Maybe it breaks 100k sometimes. I mean, we don't track who clicks on what links, but we do track HN page views and you can't click on what you don't see.

So, millions of views from an HN post is off by two orders of magnitude. Unfortunately! (or maybe fortunately)
False, as is specifically noted in TFA discussing data sources. Those are:

Statewide immunization databases in California are the California Immunization Registry, Regional Immunization Data Exchange, and San Diego Immunization Registry; the laboratory system is the California COVID Reporting System (CCRS). In New York, immunization information systems include Citywide Immunization Registry and the New York State Immunization Information System; the laboratory system is the Electronic Clinical Laboratory Reporting System (ECLRS). California data were matched between the immunization and case registries using a probabilistic algorithm with exact match for zip code and date of birth and fuzzy match on first name and last name. New York data were matched to the ECLRS with the use of a deterministic algorithm based on first name, last name, and date of birth. In California, person-level hospitalization data from CCRS and supplementary hospitalization reports were used to identify COVID-19–associated hospitalizations.

Specifically acknowledged are:

Dana Jaffe, California Department of Public Health; Rebecca Hoen, Meng Wu, New York State Department of Health; Citywide Immunization Registry Program, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

From whom those data were likely in substantial part obtained.
I wanna see the street view here :) - https://hyper-resolution.org/view.html?pointer=0.393,0.002&r...

Such good detail! Wow!
This isn't true, which is why the problem lies in the complexity class listed in the article. Arbitrarily bad pathologies exist even for simple inputs.
Stripe also launched the product that day on their blog. If anything it seems like Bolt tried to preempt the Stripe launch.
Modafinil is a pretty common drug prescribed for a wide range of issues, it doesn't have wild sudden side effects, it won't make you go suddenly crazy, erratic or cloud your judgement, it's essentially between a very strong coffee and a very weak amphetamine.

+Plenty of people get prescribed medicine and go to work the next day even if they never tried it.
- You can't determine what is a 'good life' for an animal. Scratch that, for someone else in general. It is incumbent upon the other to express what is good for them. You cannot determine, but you can deduce, yet there is little deduction to be had while the subject is incarcerated (limited options, how can you know this is what is wanted if the other options, i.e. free living, are not available?)

- You cannot say it is 'mutually beneficial' the same way you cannot determine what is 'good' for the animal. Most animals never have a choice or a way to express

Do whatever you want, but I hope no one pretends for a second they're 'doing good' beyond themselves for eating plants or animals. You are only 'being good' towards oneself in the form of sustaining your life, if that is your objective, your good. Some choose a noose instead

You don't need a pat on the back to sustain your life, nor this strange delusion that you're somehow making the world a better place by denying life to another thing, or deciding a life for another thing, unless you want to exercise a narcissism unparalleled
Wine has such a highly publicized social component and reputation for containing depths which are perceptible but inarticulable to non-experts, that I would venture almost no one really knows what they actually like.

I don't know if you've seen the movie, but Giamatti's character does come off as someone you feel really understands when wine is bad, or at least was written by people who do. It's hard to resist that.

Those who have achieved enlightenment just drink what's in front of them, shrug, and say, in the words of Thomas Hayden Church, "tastes okay to me." :)
I’ve seen really good answers who were despite being correct were downvoted in favor of someone with a higher SO score.

I posted an answer to a question like 10 years ago before dynamic or anonymous types existed in .NET. It was valid and I later prefixed it to say another answer is now correct but mine was correct for the version of .NET in question.

Still has people downvoting today.

It really sucks answering questions and investing time when people downvote for silly stupid reasons.

I’ve also seen questions asked which were good questions with examples and such. But downvoted because “that’s now how you do it” despite “I can’t do it that way because of constraints in the system”

Part of SO is really good! It’s been a game changer. But it’s really a different community now than when it started. I miss the early days.
I love how it quotes inspiration from dplyr and also from Julia libraries.
Doing drugs doesn’t make you irresponsible. Caffeine is a drug, is drinking coffee irresponsible? I’d argue it’s more responsible to browse Erowid’s reports and see drugs’ effects before trying them out, rather than doing something and not knowing anything about it.
I took it heavily in grad school. Prescribed off label for adhd. You can be in any state of exhaustion, take a modafinil, and an hour later feel like you just woke up on a Sunday morning after sleeping in. It’s nuts. The military uses it for fighter pilots. You can take it for days and only lose minimal amounts of reaction timing. At my peak, I stayed up for finals for a week straight with maybe 2 hours of sleep total. Don’t lecture me, I know.

Anyway, it took 2 days in bed for me to recover after. Brutal.

Towards the end of that time period, my brain stopped processing information in the 30 degrees at the edge of my peripheral vision on either side. We were at a restaurant celebrating being done and the waiter kept teleporting into view at around 60 degrees off my center line. Very startling. Done with it now since I don’t have anything nearly that stressful in my life, but back then, it was a godsend.

Modafinil has a 15 hour half life so my main complaint was my sleep schedule was about 26-28 hours so I was constantly shifting. Adrafinil is only the active isomer in modafinil so it’s more potent. I didn’t like it as much. Even at a half tab it still kept me up longer than modafinil. Also modafinil makes your pee smell when it’s metabolized whereas adrafinil not nearly as much.
Legacy means having a family member, usually a parent or grandparent, who graduated from that school. People benefiting from this are going to be disproportionately white.

I believe students getting in based on donations is the Dean's interest list or some similar term. Unfortunately, racist policies in the past, such as redlining, made it harder for some groups to build up generational wealth so this group is disproportionately white as well. I do agree that this group is probably small enough to be ignored if it was on its own. If it isn't, they should raise their cutoff for the amount of donations it requires until it is small enough.

As for athletics, those are very towards wealthier students. Lots of sports require expensive equipment or facilities to train in that poor students won't have access to. This impacts racial minorities for the same reasons as the above point.

> I think it's the large difference in scores by race that cause problems. And if you think it's unfair bc of upbringing.. how is putting them in with way more gifted students the answer

This assumes that differences in testing are the result of differences in ability. There are lots of reasons why someone might have lower scores on a standardized test or the SATs that aren't related to how smart they are. The children of wealthy parents are going to have access to better teachers, private tutoring in subjects they have trouble with, test prep, etc.

> Blacks are a rare commodity, at least ones that can succeed at Harvard

Why do you think this is the case?
Eh, it would be really nice to have back a Web where clicking a link couldn't result in loading a page that's tracking your mouse movements while you're on it.

IOW a web that's safe and user-controlled, again. Just a damn hypertext document browser that doesn't also bundle a spying suite and hand control of it to anyone by default. We should have realized when people started putting up troll pages that broke your computer simply by using JavaScript's normal capabilities, that we needed to seriously rethink including a scripting language with all kinds of ability to act against the user just because they followed a link, as part of the Web. We didn't do that, though, and instead we got gestures at everything.

I'm not sure Gemini's the right solution, but that would be a nice thing to have, which we do not have now.