skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Long-covid is an increase in prevalence, and also does seem to present some unique symptoms.

Is it though? That data is exactly what the commenter above is asking for, and I've also not seen any data comparing prevalence of long covid to long-lasting side effects of other diseases.

> I feel like it might be more that we weren’t concerned I’m about post-viral symptoms enough in the past than that we are overly concerned with them now. ME and Chronic Fatigue and similar can be life changing (in a bad way)

Being in a car crash can be life changing in a bad way (if not life ending) and yet most of us choose to get in cars on a regular basis. My point is that the severity alone is not useful: you can only make an informed decision knowing both severity and the probability of a particular outcome.

Nowadays we are constantly bombarded with things fighting for our attention. Everyone is "raising awareness" for something, but as humans we are very limited in the things we can be constantly vigilent about. The only rational response is to prioritise the things that most warrant consideration, and ignore everything else.

Long covid is a particularly pointless thing to be aware of, because it's not like any sane person chooses to get covid, so the risk calculation is already two steps divorced from the actions we can actually take to avoid it.
Well... it depends. If it is going to take me 10 minutes? Sure, I can spare 10 minutes to help you out. If it's going to take 10 months? No.
I asked my high school math teacher to write me a recommendation letter for college. He politely refused, saying he could not in good conscience recommend me. I am grateful for him for letting me know, so I could ask another teacher.

More than once he'd announced in class that he was grading the class on a curve, but me separately.

Suffice to say we didn't get along.
http://www.cmyr.net/blog/gui-framework-ingredients.html has a bunch of what you'll need to know about building a GUI from scratch, especially if you're interested in any of the "hard parts" rather than making a toy. It's Rust rather than C++ but many of the principles are similar.

Other than that, I do recommend the immediate mode GUI approach if you're writing everything yourself, as it's the lowest overall system complexity of all the approaches. It has a number of drawbacks, and things don't abstract/compose as easily as a standard object-oriented retained, or a newer React/SwiftUI approach, but exposing the raw parts has its upsides.
I actually work at CVS Pharmacy. They are super long receipts, but it’s full of coupons. Not very interesting. People come back and use their extra bucks on stuff. I bought a soda the other day from cvs for like $2.11 and got $2.00 off my next purchase of a drink. Expires in 5 days. That’s $0.11 for a drink. Pretty cool and seems to keep a lot more people coming back then I’d expect. Walgreens does coupons but with pictures so you see the item you get discounts on. They seem to be more relevant and prominent than cvs coupons on receipts, but Walgreens never gives a money amount off items like cvs. That’s probably where the main competition happens. Potato potato, but one is certainly doing better than the other.
Just start now. Think of unsupported games as you think of games for Nintendo and Sony machines. Your financial support of gaming on Linux will encourage developers to support it. Waiting just keeps the status quo.
Dozens is a gross misconception, but this and other similar developments help bust these kind of notions that developers use to ignore Linux gamers.
Loss of familiarity - “where’s my cheese gone?!” - seems likely
I loved the 68k. It was what got me started with Assembly. But one of the key reasons I have an interest in RISC-V today is for its educational potential. I know how x86 killed my interest in assembly coding. ARM honestly isn't all that much better.

RISC-V gives people a way to learn and understand what a modern CPU is like. Remember Donald Knuth's books. He teaches algorithms on an imaginary CPU. As CISC architecture got superseded by RISC, he started using an imaginary RISC CPU in teaching.

His point is that people implementing stuff need to have some sense of how the hardware works to understand tradeoffs. RISC-V is in my view a great CPU arch to give that kind of understanding for somebody who is not necessarily interested in writing assemblers, compilers or what not.

Beyond that RISC-V really fits well with the heterogenous computing trend we are moving towards where specialized hardware is increasingly doing more and more of our tasks. I would say it is and advantage that these different specialized chips have some commonality between them. RISC-V is giving people a way of creating a whole ecosystem of chips for a variety of purpose which share a lot of instructions, debuggers, profilers, compilers and other tools.

There is no way x86 could be part of that revolution. x86 is stuck as a general purpose CPU. RISC-V on the other hand will power desktop computers, smart phones, micro-controllers, AI accelerator cards, super-computers and just about anything.
just wondering 1 thing.. is there anyone in microsoft that looks at the feedback hub or forum at least? They never seem to listen to ANY feedback..
Are you saying that space-age USSR was a true despotism, or are you equating "despotism of the proletariat" with actual despotism?
I suspect that what you’re seeing is that they were less overweight, which appears to us as “older” in young people.
Montessori schools have been on the rise for a while because traditional schooling is dehumanizing and authoritarian, not because traditional schooling has too many electronic devices.

I don't know enough to comment on whether or not their educational outcomes are 'better', or what definition of 'better' we should use.
Suspension bridges are well suited for use in earthquake zones.

Other styles like arch, truss and cantilever bridges are very much unsuitable.
This implies that wearing a mask will prevent covid infection. It will not, look at a place like South Korea or Singapore to see why that's just not reality.

Anyway, yes, it sucks, the only way I got through it was by reassuring myself that for the vast majority of people issues like brain fog do tend to resolve depending on their underlying cause. I won't lie and say it wasn't scary though. Essentially it deleted three months of my life.
> The whole price stickiness thing is the free market not working. How can you say the market will sort it out and in the next post give the mechanism for why it doesn't do so?

I suppose it's "not working" if by "not working" you mean "behaves exactly like economics 101 models that assume rational actors". But as it relates to this context, business are reacting approximately in the way we would expect, albeit with some delay/hesitancy. Average pay has gone up in the past few months, for instance.

>What you're really arguing isn't that the market will sort things out to someone's satisfaction, you're just saying the market is a jungle and whatever survives survives.

I don't argue that because it's not clear what "satisfaction" entails. If you mean the optimal choice every time, I don't think you'll find any free market advocate who would make that claim. In the meantime, I'm pretty satisfied. I can still eat out, and I have the choice between "higher wages but more expensive" restaurants and "lower wages but worse service" restaurants. It's not really clear right now which is the best choice here (eg. maybe I'd rather accept reduced/worse service than pay more), so letting consumers as a whole decide seems like the best course of action.
Seems like luck of the draw. I’ve had the same random freezing issues
These things are significantly less likely to cause the death of a stranger, especially as they're things we use in our own home.

However if you don't know the basics of knife safety (you shouldn't throw them, they're sharp, etc), maybe you shouldn't operate one.
Can also get it free with a Visual Studio subscription, that's where I got mine.
@varun_ch : Great going! I saw your "About" [0] page and you are only 15! Awesome time to be learning and finding more about code.
On a side note, I feel old :(

[0]https://varun.ch/#projects
Who would profit? Dog nutters. Currently they go to great lengths to introduce dogs everywhere, they even fake ESA doctor's letters to illicitly profit from service animal laws. Surely they would fake studies or write overly positive articles about studies.
It's not about cosmetic similarities.

Linux would kill it if it made it trivially easy to run Windows inside a sanitised and privatised container or VM that prevented telemetry and all the other nonsense.

I suspect a lot of people would accept a modest performance hit if that were possible.
When I was a teen, teenagers had after school jobs. McDonald's, stores, etc., were populated with teen workers at minimum wage.

Today those jobs are held by adults, expecting to be able to raise a family on it. Teenagers rarely have jobs, their first job waits until after they graduate from college.
The thing is we don't live in a fairy tale, we're limited in resources and time. We can't ditch both nuclear + fossil right now so we have to prioritize one over the other for the next xx years until we figure out a way of making renewables good enough, right now they're a good addition at best and a gimmick at worst. And it's not like renewables are a silver bullet either. If you ditch nuclear to import panels or wind mills from countries like China I'd like to see a full life cycle pollution/emission report
I didn’t vote on your post at all, although I will say I didn’t think you were agreeing with me. Anyways! I don’t think talking about voting is encouraged, bowing out :-)
I don't think pleasing tech adopters is what help windows at this point. Maybe 20 year ago, sure. Today, most consumers of Windows that are not business/enterprise, are probably doing it more so because that was the defacto OS for them when they were in grade school, and it has been the defacto OS on most computers sub $1K. We are seeing some market shift to chrome OS and there is probably a good future where Chrome OS displaces Windows massively. If it does, it won't be because of tech adopters and such. It will be because Chrome OS is what is gaining popularity for kids in school and they will grow up being used to.

Edit: Defacto above meaning, when I go into best buy, that is what is pre-loaded. Or I go to walmart, that is what comes on the computer.

Edit: 'there is probably a good future where Chrome OS' typo or poor wording. Meant to say something along the lines of, 'there is probably a good chance that a Chrome OS future happens'
I wasn't aware Mark Cuban is a high-tech individual
The first should be trade schools

Just so professors dont have to act oblivious as to why students are there, some still revert to “wdym, you should be here for the pursuit of learning”

But there is merit to that, the schools reserved for the upper echelon of society (in terms of most coveted exclusive network and access) have been around for like 300 years, they can weather this several decade long meme of inclusion and the coincidental corporate sector that has people convinced they need degrees to access that (and why expanded audiences want to be included in those school’s admissions to begin with)

“Hey current Dean and former US Treasury Secretary and cabinet member, remember that time when the proletariat was trying to go here? Are those dark ages going to be on the evaluation?”
https://archive.ph/feka6
Your comment might have been more effective in reply to someone supporting a mask mandate, instead of someone choosing to wear one.
This seems to be the same 1998 document:
http://w3.salemstate.edu/~cmauriello/pdfEuropean/Paxton_Five...

On page 11 they're listed as:
(1) the initial creation of fascist movements;
(2) their rooting asparties in a political system;
(3) the acquisition of power;
(4) the exercise of power; and, finally, in the longer term,
(5) radicalization or entropy.
I don't understand what you are saying with this comment. Every general purpose ISA that I know of other than Risc-V has a means of detecting overflow, such as a carry bit that you can branch on, and usually an ADDC instruction. Risc-V decided to have no method at all, other than expanding 1 instruction to 4 instructions. Integer overflow in C is undefined behaviour and we get a lot of CVE's from overflow bugs because of that. Ideally there should be a (hardware or software) overflow trap, as safer compiled languages like Ada require. Dynamic languages with bignums are another matter, though the instruction mix is likely a lot different.
I wouldn’t simply say no either, but to be fair their advice was to start with no. Then wait for their reply to determine whether you need to provide a detailed explanation or not. Essentially use their reply to smoke out the people who are going to get angry even if do you give an explanation, so you don’t waste time.

I don’t know if the overlap between those 2 groups (people who get mad at “No” with no explanation, and people who get mad at No with an explanation) is great enough that this advice makes sense (I doubt that it is), but it’s more nuanced that just saying No.
"Ed is the standard text editor." and maybe we didn't "need" anything else, but comfort and ease of use are good incentives to create better tools, and tools more adequate with our work environment.
Without knowing much about the field, intuitively this seems reasonable.
More potential return on your money generally means taking a higher risk (more volatile stock = more potential returns).
The higher risk here means loosing a higher percentage of your investment (in fact >100%).
You’re not the only one who notices this. I think you would be interested in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut [1], a great short story related to this topic.

[1]: https://www.cvccworks.edu/Downloads/HarrisonBergeronByKurtVo...
“black/white comparison on the SAT verbal test, some evidence of bias exists, but the bias is against white students on some questions against black students in other cases. Furthermore, our analysis of the results suggest that for this one, the effects are far too small to explain much of the SAT gap in test scores between black and white students.“ nonetheless the SAT math lets them find students who’s GPAs aren’t super high for personal reasons and also distinguish between students with the same GPA
But IIRC you need an active directory domain, so a server license to run this all off of.
> An oft-cited anecdote is the spouse or parent that finds mysterious porn charges on the credit card. Sex-related services carry an extremely high rate of charge backs. The transaction risks are much, much higher than other categories of goods and services.

Bitcoin solves this.
Imo, the best OS has the software that I want to run.

I think wine is doing a more important job than MS at allowing windows to die
Have you considered balancing out your estrogen with some testosterone? You could go on a low dose and get your strength back.
If you already have a dog, there's a good chance it's responsible for the smell in the first place...
Exactly. "What's the big deal?" right?
But it’s linux, so one obscure setting in a config file or slightly different hardware can make all the difference. I say this as a linux user since WinXP.

The whole OS market is pretty rough right now.
The problem with this is fragmentation, if I understand you correctly.

It's one of the two reasons why Linux isn't ubiquitous on the desktop. (The other being open source doesn't provide enough incentive to do the boring unsexy work)

Fragmentation kills support. Imagine non technical users searching for help on an issue. First finding articles on Windows, then version X, then getting 'only applies with piece X, Y, Z installed'. That's already a problem and the suggestion of making Windows less 'batteries included' would make it harder for the mainstream users, who are the bulk of users.

Fragmentation also kills products, it increases development costs, reduces velocity etc.

Microsoft knew/knows how to make a better product, they just don't choose to because they evaluate they can make more money by screwing consumers over.

In my opinion we need regulation regarding anti-features. It's not perfect but it's the approach that is the answer in the non-digital world.
Why do you feel obliged to read this site?
I do this switch 13 years ago just before 7 was released to macOS.

So mine last Windows was XP.
There is a vast ocean of difference between "borderline condoning" and "this data must not appear on any storage medium ever". People who possess images of abuse, be it of children or adults, should be forced to delete them and fined appropriately. Additionally there should be an investigation to identify the abusers and punish them accordingly. Beyond that I see no use in sending people who simply possess an image to prison. Yes, the person's rights are being infringed, which should result in some reparations, but I see no use in depriving that person of their freedom.

You cannot remove demand, but you can discourage supply enough that demand would have to be fulfilled by drawings or CGI renderings of nonexistent people.
Awesome game! Works wonderful for Vancouver, BC.

One thing tho - several times I got the same street 2 times in a row.
In theory, yes.

However Excel Online breaks down quickly with large file sizes, loses formatting and struggles mightily with complex macros.
Yeah, I read that, and wondered if that is a real justification for, well, anything.

I have and can run Linux binaries I had compiled (statically) from the late 90s. Doesn't mean that I should. If you are running ancient games, run them on the ancient OS.

Using this as a reason to dismiss Mac and Linux? Not the best thought out argument. Kinda makes the opposite point than the author intended.
Eliminating other causes is sufficient enough. A physician may have ideas for a treatment or at least establish a baseline to see if you improve.
I'm torn on the subject of student debt because I think some of the blame here belongs with the students and their families. Yes, you can argue that you shouldn't give 18 year olds 6 figures in non-dischargeable debt. That's a valid point.

But part of why people get into so much debt I think is because many people are taught from a very young age to "follow your dreams" and that they're special, an exception to the rule. Sure 95% of those who get a PhD in the humanities never get a tenured position but this time it's different.

At what point do the people taking out loans in fields with limited earning potential and the parents who fan the flames of this delusion share some of the responsibility? You are not special [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CnryN0_bvY
I didn't read the article but I firmly believe it's definitely colonialism but not just colonialism. EU had the luxury of being first to industrialize. World wars that led to efforts to create a new society and abandon old power structures. Stability. Decent amount of farmland. Dominance in sea based trading. Rail roads. Focus on meritocracy. Unfair foreign policies and wars. Copy right system that hurts developing nations. Using fiat currency and managing everyone else to use yours. Spirit of innovation. Abscense of class structure i.e middle class is idealized vs noblity or as in India your born in fixed class.

Basically having semi functioning government and electricity goes a long way.
Windows 11 is probably the last straw that pushes me to Linux. I'm still using Windows 10 on my Lenovo 470S laptop, but my next one is going to be a Linux one. I still have to keep a Windows gig somewhere to play old school games but that's pretty much all I need.

I'll also try to avoid any job that requires MS Office. Nowadays I have to "Save as" to easily navigate to a local folder, otherwise it takes quite a few steps to move away from the OneDrive default folder. Windows 10 is bad enough, but whatever I heard about 11 seems to be much worse.

MSFT has made the decision to suck money on Cloud, which is fine. I'd like to remind you not to fall into the WSL trap. Use a standalone Linux instead. Once you are getting used to WSL you are probably getting sucked into Windows anyway.
> You'd rather 10 children be [re-]victimised than 1 person falls under suspicion? Ok...

Well yeah, mostly because I don't understand what you mean be "revictimization", but I can easily imagine what it's like to have such suspicions leaked to the angry mob.
Lex Fridma's podcasts are as good as his guests. If you want "hard-hitting" listent to his interviews with Vladimir Vapnik (two of them), Yoshua Bengio, Peter Norvig, Judea Pearl, Juergen Schmidhuber, Francois Chollet, Rodney Brooks, Michael I. Jordan, Stuart Russel - people who are in a position to speak and think critically and whose salaries and reputation do not depend on saying what everyone wants to hear. And who know a thing or two, of course.

Most of the rest is unfortunately a bit like guest show TV. Fridman is a likeable guy but he's as hard hitting as a fluffy kitten. Also, he takes forever to ask a question sometimes.
I had glandular fever in 2018 and was struck down by a reasonably severe post-viral syndrome. The term is nearly synomonous with chronic fatigue syndrome. I had brain fog, horrible post-exertional malaise (the most defining symptom of chronic fatigue), etc.

There is no test to diagnose. There is no recovery timeline. I was simply told "you should get better within 1-5 years" by an endocrinologist. Luckily it took only 12 months to get my life onto track and somewhere around 2-3 years before I was comfortable doing strenous exercise.
Did not know that! I've always thought to myself how lightning fast find in files in vscode was. It all makes sense now.
>Let me tell you clearly. “No” is a complete sentence. It requires no explanation or defense. It is the only thing you need to say when you know you won’t be able to do something no matter how much the other party tries to get you to agree.

lol . if only it were so easy.

Actions of consequences, some of which can be unpleasant.
It's all games, both proton and native, on a specific computer. The issue didn't occur for a long time when I first installed, so I'm pretty sure its a software/config problem which a reinstall would fix. I just haven't gotten around to it. Probably a nvidia driver problem tbh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2lhwb_OckQ)
I assume parent isn't talking about creating SD card images for 12 different distros, but rather working with upstream developers so more stuff is mainlined earlier thus being useful to everybody.
>college is delaying young people to become mature, we're producing giant babies these days,

A good interpretation of humans generally is 'giant baby monkeys', in that we have curiosity and openness consistent with juveniles but not with most adult animals.

>on the STEM subject, teens good at math are never teacher's favorites, instead they're called nerds and some are even isolated from the rest,

This doesn't bear any resemblance to my experience of a not-so-special US public school in the 2000s.

I'm not saying your comment is without valid points, but you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater on your attitude about childhood.
To stop windows click Start.
just more advice that seems easier in theory than in practice
Should it be? I imagine the number of people who use Regedit is less than one per cent, and those people really don’t care what it looks like? (yes, RegEdit is a terrible UX but for me familiarity makes me less likely to make mistakes in a tool you really don’t want to make mistakes in!)