skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was born on perifery of comunist country during at the time when regime started to colapse. All the people worked either at local state farm or one of few factories that were around.

We all were equaly poor and even if you had money there were few things you can buy anyway. You had a house (build by yourself) and food. If you were in good standing with government, you might get a chance to go to international holiday (in other eastern bloc country). Going anywhere in west would be totaly cost prohibitive even if they allowed to do it. Buying coffee in Vienna (closest big city) would easily cost 3 months of your paycheck.

So you were poor and you know you are poor, but it doesn't matter that much. 30 years later you can easily spot the difference in what does it means to be poor in developed economy: easily available loans and brain drain destroyed the periphery communities as whole. Now people are poor, they know it and they can compare to more well off everyday.
This is nonsense. There are plenty of diseases with similar symptoms.

I will report your post as probable astroturfing, the weird detail without actual evidence or source and pointing to Taipei suggests makes evident your motives. There is no substance or value to this post, except to.spread unfounded and untraceable conspiracy theories.
You're correct that the article doesn't mention antigen tests, ~~but the actual study[0] does~~:

Edit: Apparantly the described test[1] is indeed for antibodies. See child comment by projektfu.

> Summary:

> We studied SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among pregnant women in Norway by including all women who were first trimester pregnant (n=6520), each month from December 2019 through December 2020, in the catchment region of Norway’s second largest hospital. We used sera that had been frozen stored after compulsory testing for syphilis antibodies in antenatal care. The sera were analyzed with the Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunoassay (Roche Diagnostics, Cobas e801). This immunoassay detects IgG/IgM against SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antigen.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-inf...

[1] https://diagnostics.roche.com/content/dam/diagnostics/Bluepr...
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This is why we love Python! Yeah, I know we should do boring stuff for production and not get creative, but creativity is the real joy.

> Prefix (as well as postfix) operators are used in languages like LISP/Scheme, and have the nice property of not requiring parenthesis

This reads quite funny because Lisp is famous for its parentheses! The missing bit is parentheses aren't required but only in the binary case. Lisp supports n-ary operators hence why it needs parens.
(Disclaimer: I'm not a fitness expert; I'm just writing my own personal observation).

> People tell me this all the time, but when I exercise I just feel tired afterwards?

Okay, to normalize the discussion, consider stationary biking. For me I get the aforementioned high only when I exercise for atleast 30 minutes.

If I do it for just 20 or 15 minutes (instead of > 30 minutes), then as you said I just feel tired rather than good. I guess there's some threshold before you start feeling good, and this is probably different for different humans. Being the petrolhead that I am, I think of it like a turbo-lag followed by the turbo-kick.

> it only happens to people who are fit

I'm definitely not fit (though I'm not obese either) :)

> who have a history of exercising regularly?
No there's a tolerance thing I think, based on what I read in [1]. So in the long run you need to exercise more to get that same level of feeling good.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3025957/what-happens-to-our-brai... (I don't know whether or not the person who wrote this article is an expert.)
I think this is partly a second-order consequence of the reasonable expectation that, due to the rate of innovation and general churn in technology, computer-related information goes stale quickly and hence more recent sources should be prioritised. Having a date stamp on the page then becomes a liability (I for one am guilty of adding a current year number to my search terms for some queries to try to get more accurate results).

Another reason might be that SEO got really good several years ago so older content just can't compete.
Sure, but...selection bias? I don't understand the thought process.
> There is also a secret option to get into a lisp repl in Julia "julia --lisp".

Wtf....... what? I just tried it, it's true. Is this some easter egg?
Sleep quality and consistency associated with better academic performance (2019)
Sleep quality, duration, and consistency are associated with better academic performance in college students
I inferred your argument as being that consortia are bad because of what they do (pet features), not what they are.
> Haven’t many of the gains gone to the customers who are buying CNC parts?

Potentially yes, as long as the competition doesn't destroy the manufacturing landscape, e.g. by emergence of lowest-common-denominator or monopoly suppliers.
I had a cold two weeks ago and I lost much of my taste and smell. However, lab test said I was negative for Covid19.

I think I just haven't thought about how colds influence taste before Covid19 sympthoms became known. I have always thought that snot blocked the smell like mechanically, not that the virus actually made the nose not work properly.
Interesting! The article is from 2017 -- I wonder how have the last 5 years gone for the Russian people? Did the Ukraine conflict and the pandemic have an effect on this gap?
When talking about online communities and gathering places I think people make an incredible mistake: they consider relative values instead of absolute ones.

Sure in many cases one has to look at how much something is popular relative to the general population, but do you really need to think like that when talking about websites and forums? I mean, from an absolute point of view there are many more forums, personal blogs, rss feeds and independent projects than ever before, even if their relative popularity has declined. But what do you care? A forum hosting 300 active users is already incredibly crowded, it's very difficult you will get to know even half of all them in your own lifetime, why do you need everything to turn virally popular?

Would you want your local NIX club to suddenly jump from a few tens of members to thousands? No, because the point is to create a community. Who cares if some NIX club residing on Facebook has 100.000 members, ultimately what you care about is the one you go to every week/month and in which you see real people and talk real talk. We are not talking here about an industrial endeavor where if not enough users partake then production crawls to a halt worldwide, we are talking about buying a crappy computer, coding a few pages in simple HTML and buying a funky domain name for pennies. It will always be cheap and simple to host your own stuff, you don't need self hosting to become the next big thing to enjoy your life.
Well, in aviation, they do go to great lengths to let the pilot know which mode they're flying in and transition into and out of that mode has it's own protocol, training and feedback. Indeed the whole surepticious engagement of the MCAS system on the 787-MAX aircraft, and in particular not including updates for pilots in training to deal with what to do when that system fails -- i.e. awareness -- is probably going to end a few careers at Boeing. That seems to be an example very close to the Tesla situation. The AF447 crash in 2009 has a spookily similar pathology -- confusion about automated flight control modes. Both incidents were awareness of automation issues, one with it being on, one with it being off (more or less).

Tesla is banking on a beep and/or input control shake covering them for mode change awareness for a completely novice, untrained and uncertified driver. Is that a reasonably assumption?

Edit: There were other (tragic) factors in the AF447 crash, but in that case, if they'd re-enabled autopilot and let go of the controls, they would have very likely survived.
The 2% figure is arbitrary though. The correct thing to do is just stop printing money entirely. The idea of a 'deflationary spiral' is one of the many not very well founded bits of economics that's really more like psychology, but inflation is always and everywhere a redistribution of wealth away from savers and people at the bottom, towards those who print money at the top. There's a deep lack of justice in that.
McDonalds coffee is better. Dunkin’ and Chick-fil-A are better. (None of those is great, mind you; just better than Starbucks.) Starbucks is utter swill. Their coffee is always burnt, and if you’ve had anything citrus-like beforehand, their coffee tastes moldy. I have never had a good coffee there, and have never understood the appeal.
Over the year's i've joined and lead dev teams and one of the main issues we've always had is how we manage our secrets and share them. Personally as well while building my side projects in run into these issues.

I started building https://onboardbase.com late last year for this specific reason. Actively building and improving it and i hope it helps as well.
I was making fun of the apparent idea that some people are poor because they have the wrong attitude. So that was not what you meant. You are still wrong however, and your opinion is harmful in my opnion.

Mental issues may only cause poverty if there is a lack of safety net. Homeless people with Schizophrenia is ultimately caused by policy decisions. Schizophrenic people are more likely to be homeless in certain developed countries compared to others.
Modern front end javascript frameworks are made to offload the compute from the server to the end user. This saves the company money while giving the end user a worse/slower experience and drained batteries. However when I point this out react zealots get angry but never hit back with good counter arguements.

Blame Facebook and Google for starting this awful trend.
Thanks for digging up the primary source.
It's science if he did the experiment and documented it (he did, see post). It's proven science when others verify the results.
I cannot claim any special expertise on this but the CDC lists loss of taste and smell as a common symptom of flu and covid.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm
> How many of you mourning the old internet frequent neocities or have their own personal website ? I don't think the the answer is 'a lot'.

I don't, but I've been meaning to have one for a long time now. I even started and got a vps from hetzner but they blocked me. I can't really decide where or how I want to host it.

> Everyone on HN complains about everything being turned into a business but everyone also wants to create their own start up and turn it into a unicorn.

That's not true at all. Today I want creative communities and community-built software & hardware projects more than ever. I wouldn't mind having my own business that is beneficial to a community (same way e.g. how Olimex or Raspberry and PCB manufacturers are beneficial to people building open source hardware and don't have the means to fabricate circuit boards at home) but I don't think everything should be monetized and turned into business.
I know half a dozen people who say the same. I wouldn't give this too much importance. The flu feels very similar to Covid. When I had Covid, I thought I had a normal cold with allergies. I don't think you can assume you had it because of similar symptoms.
I find myself more and more using DDG. When I use Google I am mostly finding spam nowadays. Even if I try to filter results by date or add very specific keywords, I get mostly garbage.
I have a feeling that also results that don't support current narratives are disappearing from search.
Now when I find something useful, I am now bookmarking it where I didn't have to do that a year or so ago.
Sure. Different things work for different people.

Do what works for you. Cheers mate.
Regulations are written in blood, then the blood darkens and people forget why we have regulations.
interesting, didn't know non-covid flu strains effected taste and smell
I think Google prioritizes newer content because AFAIK modifying the date of a page to make it look like it's been published more recently is a common SEO trick.
Most likely to grab funds from librarys who "lost" the document.
stdout is terrible, logging would pollute information you want piped to other programs

So, the focus is on regular unix programs, not daemons.

stderr isn't great, because log messages are more status than errors, and usually breaks error detection, handling, and processing

Traditionally programs use -v flag (also -vv, -vvvv, you get the idea) to control the stderr “pressure”. Stderr is diagnostics output (stdlog), all logging should go there, but only WARN+, unless a user asked for more details. Logging regular programs to syslog is unusual.

Logging daemons via syslog(3) was usual before process managers, which now redirect stdout (which would be pointed to /dev/null otherwise) to a file, syslog or a similar facility.
He doesn’t seem particularly mind bogglingly rich to me? Maybe his behavior?
New https://support.apple.com article incoming:

> "We advise users not to store sensitive info and files on their computers, to prevent nefarious actors from being able to steal these sensitive items"
Is there any difference in the expectations of haggling if it is a man or woman doing it (on the tourist side)? just curious.
I wouldn't trust startup-bros either, without regulatory oversight. That being said, the hostility towards the FDA is not without basis (see below). Though I would argue that much of that hostility it due to it doing too little, rather than too much.

Why is the FDA Funded in Part by the Companies It Regulates?

https://today.uconn.edu/2021/05/why-is-the-fda-funded-in-par...

Hidden conflicts? Pharma payments to FDA advisers after drug approvals spark ethical concerns:

https://www.science.org/content/article/hidden-conflicts-pha...

Gaps, tensions, and conflicts in the FDA approval process: implications for clinical practice:

https://www.jabfm.org/content/17/2/142.long

Revisiting financial conflicts of interest in FDA advisory committees:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0009.12073

(edit: more links)
Amazing what started with Heroku* has turned into.

*Started for me at least. Heroku was how I got started as a Rails developer, and it made it so easy to get a deployment available to interact with from anywhere.
Didn't read the full article, but couldn't you argue that with audio recording and distribution 1 hour of string quartet playing labor can yield many more person-hours of string quartet listening in 1965 than 1865?
"Change in or loss of taste or smell, although this is more frequent with COVID-19."

ya didn't know this, thanks for the link
Jobs are not a necessity. People work because of they need money, country need people to work because they can tax and use the remaining to buy weapons. We don't need jobs, we just need hobbies. I am very optimistic about robots. It will be the time when there will be no slaves in this world, everyone will be truly free.
I remember checking caching headers to learn about content date at some point.

It's not just you. Also sites being gone and content getting lost. I think by now pretty much everything text should just not disappear anymore, and we seem to only have web archive which is doing something right (google cache seemed to have lost its persistence at some point but I may be imagining it because that's like 2 data points).

I wish web archive would skip videos and instead fetch more obscure websites but I'm guessing that being able to tell what's spam and what is not is not easy.

Shared distributed history cache for visited websites could be nice but within a short time I spent thinking about it I couldn't figure out a way in which this could work that would make me install it myself.
Just to add an interesting example of a middle ground, the fly.io blog post [0] currently top of HN [1] has the published date "hidden" at the bottom of the article. Their content is technical content that can go out of date but is also useful marketing content. The post is from August 2021 but has been posted to HN today.

0: https://fly.io/blog/run-ordinary-rails-apps-globally/

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30083764
The article mentions December 2019, I found another article [1] showing SARS-CoV-2 as early as September 2019 in Italy.

From the article: "A further SARS-CoV-2 antibodies test was carried out by the University of Siena for the same research titled “Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the pre-pandemic period in Italy”.

It showed that four cases dating back to the first week of October were positive for antibodies, meaning they had got infected in September, Giovanni Apolone, a co-author of the study, told Reuters."

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-tim...
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Why not just outlaw loans with interest rates above some reasonable limit rendering the obligations void and the very attempt of offering such a loan a crime?
The part you cited describes an antibody test.
If ever I have too much free time, I'll spend it modifying firefox to support DANE.
Rationalizing fear is a good thing, but far from sufficient. Practice plays a much bigger role. In unknown situations humans act on instincts anyway, not rationally. This is our nature. Thus, to overcome fear in general it's best to practice "a rational response" and inhibition of instincts in extreme situations.
What a farce. I can't think of anything more nakedly and obviously anti-competitive than literally paying suppliers not to use your competitor's products. Which raises the question - if that's not enough, then what would be?
Fear sometimes helps. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

More positively, basic life management may provide a way forward. Make a list of all the things that are interesting to you. Whenever you are bored or without direction review the list for opportunities. That may mean entries in the list itself or any entry there. Most of the time there is some avenue for exploration and value generation that you already know has potential and also fits the mood and moment.
This is a reputable newspaper but I would be careful in taking statements like early circulation in country x or y at face value. There are literally thousands of studies looking back at such data. Even if all of them are done with 100% sound methodology some are by mere statistics bound to find a positive result. Just like you can also dig up studies finding no link between smoking and cancer we have to look at the whole picture that thousands of studies find no such prior circulation.
A Transistor for Sound Points Toward Whole New Electronics
I think this has a lot of truth. My brother was based in the Philippines for a while for work and was expected to have at least a housekeeper and a chauffeur. I think having a driver was a very reasonable safety measure given the traffic there too. At the time it seemed very ostentatious to us at home, but it was totally the norm.
It’s not a good analogy. Gigs and stand-up comedy have big audiences. Academic conferences don’t. Hiring a venue, paying for dinner, these things have cost. $600 isn’t unreasonable. By contrast $12,000 to publish a PDF on a website is criminal.
Founder here

Thank you for posting my thread!

Feel free to ask questions on this =)
I hope things like React will just remain relevant for a long time.

I'm currently doing a project in React and Go, and for both, things written five+ years ago are still relevant, and will remain so. The Go blog, for example, is a really good resource where posts about e.g. error handling [0] from 2011 are still relevant and essential knowledge today. Instead of replacing it with something new (they tried), it's just appended to [1] but the existing post is still relevant and required reading.

[0] https://go.dev/blog/error-handling-and-go

[1] https://go.dev/blog/go1.13-errors
I don't have any data but I have a sneaking suspicion that this is just the tip of the iceberg in mind boggling inefficient government agencies.

Like not slightly inefficient...or even significantly inefficient...but outrageously unbelievably inefficient.
Is there an ELI5 of this subject? I read the github but couldn't fully get what that is. A model? To calculate government stuff?
Also, youtube videos sometimes don't have posting date in their description, not sure why. And I hate when platforms use contextual time like '1 year ago' instead of posting date.
Well, a few explanations I can think of:

1) Covid19 was circulating, but had it's first outbreak in Wuhan due to things like population density

2) Covid19 was circulating earlier than China informed the world know (I'm not claiming grand conspiracy here to keep things secret; the simplest explanation is China didn't figure out what was happening for a while)

3) There were other coronaviruses with the same or similar proteins elsewhere.

I'm leaning towards #3. It makes a heck of a lot of sense for a lot of things unexplainable with SARS-COV2. If there was a mild cold circulating similar to SARS-COV2, but less deadly and less contagious, it'd explain a lot of the epidemiology (for example, why waves break so early, rather than infecting 70-90% of the population).
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Except this is why chemistry is less entrepreneurial - you can't just set up a lab in your shed (for better and for worse)

And so now I write code for a living instead of trying to push the frontiers of medical chemistry :)

FYI I fully get why many chemicals are fully regulated. I recall a funny story from uni and how only the big boss head of the entire chemistry org had the authorisation to handle lysergic acid (precursor to LSD) and he had to be supervised while pouring it/measuring it for your experiment.
> I've found myself sitting at my desk each evening

Wait, isn't that what daytime is for?

Get out. Play games. Read. Write. Ride a bike. Build something with your hands, with code, whatever. Hit the gym. Cook complicated dishes. Go to restaurants. Join a club and make some friends. Even sleep more.

You need to find what you like to do with your time, and truth is it's probably not what you want it to be. Picking up hobbies and mastering them is what drives a lot of people through life. If that interacts positively with $DAYJOB, that's great but it's rare.

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Having read some of the other replies now, it's slightly disturbing how many of them draw to one of two conclusions: there's something chemically wrong with you, or you've made a massive mistake in life and you need to immediately change every decision you've made up to this point.

Sometimes life lulls. Unless there is something wrong —and yes professional assessment might help here— making massive and/or pharmacological changes to your life might be worse than just riding it out.

I'd personally just shoot for happy first. Treat this as burnout —as anybody working might call it— and take small corrective measures to improve you. If you need an extension to your studies, you can get an extension to your studies. Life isn't going to leave you behind.
You got my point. I do appreciate the created/modified date on pages, I just prefer content to be organize by something pertinent to the content itself. Sometimes that is the publication date, sometimes it’s something else.
Highly recommend reading “Confederates in the Attic” by Tony Horwitz. It gave a better view of the South’s psyche around the Civil War
A plugin that either automatically or on requests checks sites for the oldest known archive date would be interesting, though I worry it'd both encourage blocking IA bots and tax their resources.
No. We do "do whatever for 3 weeks and work 12 hour days on the week before a deadline comes". Maybe there's a name for that :p