skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am probably going to get downvoted into oblivion despite just sharing my lived experience, but I felt kind of similar to this on a smaller time scale for a couple days after my first and second pfizer doses. I would, at random times, have ZERO recollection of what I did in the time window starting ~20 minutes ago and ending ~20 seconds ago. Like, questioning whether my phone was stolen because there were photos in my camera roll that I was positive I had never seen before. I saw my GP about it and they suggested 8 hours of sleep with a regular schedule (I do), making sure I take a multivitamin (I do), making sure I'm getting adequate nutrition (I do), and to come back in a week if it was still happening.

Mine luckily cleared up after a few days, but I got it again the day after I got my 2nd dose, which also fortunately cleared up after a few days. Got Moderna for my booster and did not experience that with Moderna at all. I'm starting to wonder if I got unlucky and just got 2 bad batches from Pfizer or if it was possibly psychosomatic / stress-originating rather than chemical/biological.

One suggestion I have, something that helped me feel a lot more comfortable and secure in the world was asking family / close friends if they had noticed changes with me lately, and leaning on them to help me reconstruct a timeline of when it started happening. I hope that can offer assistance to you, but definitely see a doctor (or multiple doctors, if you are unsatisfied with the treatment, or want further confirmation of the diagnosis / other ideas) too if you haven't already.
> The subtle and possibly long term ones are still unknown

So just say you won't take it and be done, because there is no mechanism that can satisfy you.
> I can play 2000 different games of Wordle

Then they repeat. The whole cycle takes more than 5 years.
Do they understand how useEffect actually works? Or do they slap on dependency lists on it because eslint tells them to?

People understand how to use hooks, but I don't think many people understand them.
Even in C++

std::tie(a, b) = std::tuple(b, a);
What? There was lots of work looking at side effects of the vaccines. The AZ vaccine was paused in several places whilst rare and unexplained blood clots were better understood. It was only because the huge numbers of recipients that such information was available. What point are you trying make? That somehow scientists are not willing to raise problems with the vaccines? That's demonstrably not true.

What is also demonstrably true is that the death rate from COVID is now negligible for those vaccinated. Might there be some super rare interaction we don't know about? For sure, but there's also as likely to be super rare interactions with COVID itself, or whatever crank treatment of choice replaces a vaccine.
This, on the other hand, that is, necessarily networked applications where the entire purpose is to interact with people and data that are geographically distributed, is perfect for taking place in a browser, and yes, I agree that I trust the browser much more than someone's native app. For applications that don't need to be networked, though, given me native.
The difference with other services is that what people want when they subscribe to Spotify is access to music. What (at least some) people want when they subscribe to MDN Plus is ensure that Firefox and other open Web projects stay relevant. If people paid for Spotify merely so that Spotify stayed relevant, they would probably care in similar measure how Spotify spends its money.
rack rates, amortization, standing infrastructure.

Most people don't pay rack rates (that's the quote for $69K), many orgs amortize costs across many people, and hospitals run 24/7 and have to maintain a lot of standing infra. The capital costs for acquiring a pro-grade x-ray (and staff it) are nontrivial.

But yes, a single x-ray should never cause a bill for $69K. Even if the user only pays $5K.
China + TikTok for sure.
I'm wondering if we will find all of the masking, and lock downs, and social distancing caused more harm than good? My uneducated theory is people in close quarters are all exposed to a light dose of the virus, thus herd immunity is created. You may have a short spike but it is quickly squelched as society as a whole build immunity. In the developed lock-down societies, herd immunity never developed. People eventually had to go out were they were exposed.

Case in point, look at China. They are having a terrible time with Omnicron ... and they were the most locked-down society on earth during the original outbreak. Everyone else seems to be opening back up.
This has been an incredibly common model with cars for years. It’s called leasing, and many people find it preferable to owning.
People have 2 arms and 2 legs with 5 fingers/toes at the end of each. This is a fact, not changed by the fact that indeed there are some people with more than 5 fingers/toes, some with fewer or even none at all. Those people are the exception to the rule.

In the same vein a woman is an adult human female, characterised by having double-X chromosomes, producing large gametes and generally being capable of conceiving and nursing children. The presence of people with a double-X + Y chromosome (who are, in fact, men, not women, search for 'Klinefelter syndrome' [1]) does not change this fact, nor does the fact that some women - yes, of course they are still women - can not conceive or nurse children.

[1] https://www.webmd.com/men/klinefelter-syndrome
Notion, Obsidian, and the like are getting pretty popular and are all Electron based. Postman was good after the Chrome App -> Electron port, though now they've bloated it to do more upsells.
So it's pretty much like Uranium then. It's not rare, but we outsource its mining to autocratic regimes, because they're willing to produce it cheaply (while destroying their environment).
I mean, if I log into one, I'm gonna be logged in for both. If I logged out from one, I'm gonna be logged out from both.

I just wonder, does it link these two "anonymous" accounts (when I'm logged out from both)
> Svelte changes the semantics of your code.

So do hooks. Suddenly regular function calls can't be put in if statements or require "dependency lists" to make them work properly.
Evidence-based medicine, more than the indeed important issues raised in the article, is mostly impaired by the absolutely abysmal average quality of clinical research papers. The absolutism of higher-ups combined with their unrivalled (in the scientific world) statistical ignorance is hurting science more than anything else. And there's a reason to that: MDs are not scientists. We're highly-skilled workers, and more of the blue-collar kind.
I would prefer a new version of USB that guarantees total compatibility with all devices. It's very annoying to realize that your charging USB-C cable is not capable of 10Gbps, or that your 10Gbps cable cannot support 100W charging.
Also, if you track the up and coming chromeos ;). It has only become more widely used since the inclusion of actual apps albeit they are Android apps.
I think these questions come from the idea baked into charitable giving. When you purchase a good, the thing you're getting is obvious, it is what you're purchasing.

However, when you're giving to charity, what are you getting? You probably want to know.

If charities are smart, I bet they could take advantage of this by creating classic ladders which encourage more contributions if people get a say of where a "portion of their donation" goes.
How much government money does it take to get another human being?

A woman who has a child is infinitely more productive than you are giving her credit for.
I believe this is the technique used in Erlang's :queue.
It also breaks due to rounding even if you don't have NaN or Inf.
I'd love to use this product in my organisation, but I don't want to self host, and it's really unclear what it would cost me.

Seeing an "enterprise, call for a quote" type tier makes me assume it's going to be too expensive for agency securing 10-20 servers.
Sanctions and boycotts are unfortunately blunt. Yet, every citizen in Russia pays russian taxes. Tax rubles funds the war. Taxes are paid equally by those who support the war, and by those who oppose it. The end result is the same - bombs on Ukrainian maternity wards.

It is a shame that the innocent have to suffer, but I'd rather impose sanctions and boycotts and see a smaller number of bombs rain down over Ukraine.

For this reason, I support every move to cut off anyone in Russia from any and all foreign products and services (perhaps with the exception of medical supplies and children's toys, but the principle stands).

In aggregate all these small actions are having a very real impact on Russia's ability to conduct the war.
By using music/art as promotional material to sell tickets to your live shows.
Thanks - that's really nice to hear!

That would be really interesting. Are you using `pg` currently, and are you using WebSocket connections in Node to Elixir for realtime, or not using realtime in Node?
> In a world where it's easier and easier to create music, and distribute it, how do you discover music ? Through curators, podcasts etc. And those are managed by - you guessed it - labels.

That's simply untrue. The vast majority of curating and playlisting is through bloggers or social media personalities and not through labels, so I'm not sure where you got that from.
> I've purchased plenty of music, but the problem is that at least on iOS, the music app will still swap out song/album/info/art, or mismatch them altogether.

I wonder if another app might solve your issues? Certainly my combo of Navidrome + substreamer (on Android) doesn't have any of those issues. My music is tagged and has embedded artwork and the app just uses what's there. Then I just use MusicBrainz Picard to ensure my tags are clean and in good shape.

> My favorite way to support artists I love is to go to their tours and buy their merch, including vinyls that are too cumbersome to actually listen to :D.

This is the way!
Hello

I watched your video with the Crusher. For most places having a subgrade of rock or good granular material as seen in the video would be a luxury for road construction. In general roads on this material are fairly stable and it is the more common subgrades of clay, silts and sands that have problems normally related to drainage issues. Does your solution offer anything for these scenariosm?
I really have gotten obsessed with Cities:Skylines - and I think I finally figured out why: It checks most of the boxes model railroading did! If I had the space I'd love to do a physical train layout again, but since I don't I'll keep detailing in C:S.
Do you school-aged children? Pets?
So... I guess here we go:

I wrote and write a lot of software for internal users at my company.

What is easier?

- Test on firefox, ie, chrome, safari

or

- Test on windows 10, windows 11, 3 different versions of osx, and whateverthehell the CEO has installed at home?

Oh, and what about updating? Oh man that's a fun one. I was once part of a company with an auto-updating java installation. It was great, and we spent a non-insignificant amount of time making that not break every time, and it still broke depending on the machine privileges. We also had to make it work on 4 different versions of java because admins weren't willing to upgrade anything without a 6-month cycle.

What feature would I get? Desktop notification? Okay that's one (ish). Oh buuuut then a client would want to run it on their Android. And iPhone. And on that iPad. And what about on their fucking Kindle.

I think I'll stick to web :P And with React and other modern frameworks and sockets, there's very little that my SPA can't do.
why are hospitals charging money?
That uses 4 registers and a stack!
I specifically mentioned paying for Open Source.
It seems there are new apps for GNOME once in a while and it makes me super happy. I am thinking myself of writing one. They look gorgeous with the latest GTK.
And who are you?
> Using a compiler means that Svelte is essentially a dialect of EcmaScript

So are hooks. The fact that you can't put regular function calls (which hooks look like) in an if statement, or have to provide custom "dependency lists" to some of them, or that data returned from them suddenly re-renders (aka calls again) the function they are in tells you that this is no longer regular Javascript.
> I have been stuck like this since the beginning of high school I think.

There's an oft-repeated notion in the autism-spectrum community that around the puberty period (13-15 perhaps) a bunch of otherwise normal shifts that the brain goes through kinda tweak out a bit because of the autism and the mass-defragmentation process can sometimes end up culling important bits and pieces that are generally Important™. It seems that sometimes this can be unconscious stuff sadly (I generally hold that my memory got a lot worse around that period, which I incidentally don't remember too well too).

Also, just as a... thought experiment, and just for reference, there's a very important focus distinction that I personally only really twigged to the existence of (let alone importance of) quite recently, that being the difference between active/concerted focus and relaxed focus. The former is front-and-center cause-and-effect, while the latter is more "in the zone" and meditative. I've realized that the brain shifts between both models subconsciously for example as part of daydreaming, but that consciously identifying those splits can be as useful as they are tricky. For example, for me, reasoning about something just a step or two beyond my current frame of reference requires using relaxed focus, as the thing I'm thinking about will just fizzle out and I'll find myself thinking about something else. In the same vein I find that focusing on the idea that I'll be able to concertedly do something, and see it through, beyond first-order acute focus, also requires reasoning about the capabilities and capacities of relaxed focus.

I hilariously got my current mental model of relaxed focus from a ferret training book :D I happened to leaf through a few years ago. It explained that when training a ferret it can be useful to put a leash on it and use the leash to anchor it to your lap, not allowing it to jump down and explore. Only once it has accepted the situation it's in will it kick into idle gear (relaxed focus) and, ferrets being ferrets, it'll most likely curl up and promptly fall asleep.

My point here is primarily to illustrate the direct link between relaxed focus and introspection, and to point out that if you're using "this is everything" acute focus the entire time for all the things that you may have trained your brain out of leveraging relaxed focus. It's also very possible that internal imbalances and/or chronic disorientation from perpetual micro-reorientation (from ADHD / autism) might (I personally found this was the case) perpetuate a state of mind that doesn't settle enough to access this sort of thinking pattern.
Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout
That's not a rule. That's a heuristic.
Loved it, and would concur that having a better sense of what the hole looks like from above before the shot (or being able to click to see the hole from above like a map) would be awesome. But, I loved playing it. And, I sucked.
why are my dotfiles on the orange hellsite
Was wondering the same thing, honestly the only brand that stood out was Airbnb, I haven't heard of most of the others.
Im not qualified to judge the voucher program, but if the value of the voucher was cakculated as the median and not the arithmetic mean, would that reduce the scam that the article claims?
I, for one, can forgive FujiFilm... because, even though recently finally discontinued, they gave us FujiChrome Velvia 100 (& 50).
In an article dedicated to conspiracy theories surrounding Fatima and the Pope, no mention that the original Sister Lucy was disappeared and an imposter put forward and that Benedict, not Francis, is the current Pope. Not that these topics have much to do with typical HN subject matter but if why leave out two of the biggest whoppers when talking about this area of conspiracy inquest?
Huh, that hasn't been my experience. The high spec USB PD cables I have seem to work with everything
Same with software, books and manga and video games I think. The only digitalized industry where indies still don't really have a place is tv/movies
I had to take a cold break from Dyson Sphere Program - too many nights I was forgetting to go to bed!
Strava heatmap is terrible. It is heavily biased toward experienced (and often very fit/quick) recreational/sport/fitness cyclists.

I'm a very experienced cyclist and I don't upload my 'transportation' rides. It's not worth it. So all the data from me riding a particular route twice, five times a week - as well as my preferred routes to various activities, shopping, etc - doesn't make it into strava. My fun / training rides do.

Strava ride uploads tend to come from more confident and willing to ride on roads that are more intimidating or require confident riding techniques to be safe (such as riding at the edge of a bike lane, or on a multi-lane road, taking the lane). Cycling in urban settings is much less intimidating if you're fit and able to accelerate quickly and bike at closer to the average speed of traffic (which often really isn't that fast.) Drivers are a lot less prone to "punish passes" and other dangerous behavior if you're fast.

They may ride a particular road that is terrible for cycling but they have no other choice because of where they are coming from or going to, and because they tend to ride a lot, they'll bias the heatmap. One of my favorite routes to ride involved an utter shitshow of 5 minutes worth of riding, and I took that road several times a week.

It should also be known that Strava tries to play up their "we make data available for city urban planners and cycling advocates!" to their userbase...and then turns around and charges an obscene amount of money.

Speaking of money: strava data means you miss the vast majority of people riding bicycles - those on the very lowest rungs of the economic ladder. They don't have GPS activity watches or GPS bike computers, they don't give a damn about recording their ride to/from work/school; they may not even have a smartphone, period. They don't have 12+ hours of leisure time a week to go for rides for fun, etc.

Bike advocacy groups are increasingly trying to account for these folks, because they're largely "invisible" - they don't sign up for newsletters from bike committees and advocacy groups, they often are riding outside "9-5" commute hours because they're working shifts/nights and riding to/from neighorhoods wealthier folks do. Most people think that in any given city the predominant cycling demographic is hipster programmers on track bikes...not realizing how many cyclists are maintenance/cleaning/construction/food service workers are out on the roads while they're asleep.
I think good desktop apps are infinitely better than good web apps.

However, I pretty much only build web apps. Here's some reasons why:

* Getting pixel-perfect design is SO MUCH FASTER&EASIER on the web (and using web-first tech like React Native, in my experience, has largely just met a stigma of not-really-native and sometimes suffers on perf for the sake of design). [FWIW I've been doing "web" stacks for almost 20 years, but I've also done C# for ~10, Java for ~5, and C++ for ~5]

* Even if you're not doing anything particularly resource-intensive, it's way easier to target a single machine spec (your server) and know everything just works, rather than worrying about resource-related bugs on lower-end/oddball machines, antivirus, hardware issues (out of ram? out of HD space? etc)

* Similarly, shouldering heavy load/cost on a server lets my apps be usable by more people who might not have up-to-date or capable machines

* Barrier-of-entry is significantly lower on web apps: someone can click a link and immediately demo whatever I made, rather than worrying about marketing and landing pages trying to convince someone that it's safe and OK to download/execute a random binary

* Web apps are a single codebase that's also usable on mobile, tablets, and other devices without having to worry about even more build targets as long as your design is reasonably responsive. I know these "native" libs also technically support that, but it seems there's always custom build configuration per device and/or lower-level per-platform code for e.g. IO/native functionality

That said, I wish desktop apps were easier to design for. I could probably get over all the other "downsides" if I could make native apps that looked and felt as smooth & nice as web ones.
Bulk of discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30786649

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30782796
ResophNotes does as well:

https://resoph.com/ResophNotes/Welcome.html
If you are an American and shop at Costco, the toiletpaper section has been practically overfilled for the past six months. People simultaneously overestimate and underestimate just how much time it takes to ramp up and ramp down production.
IMHO kaiser is amazing. they have a different incentive from typical for-profit medical companies.
Hmm, and what effect does being aware of this have?
Super fascinating.

Short hand product notes:
Lower carbon impact, lower cost. What is the product life compared to incumbents?

From a user implementation perspective (IE the city crew):
- Do they need new training, new equipment etc, how long compared to traditional implementation?
- Is it easy to import to North America?
- What are the adoption risks?

Look forward to seeing this in the wild!
Interesting that you are going for a subscription model.
MDN docs are the best... they should monetize via high level articles and example implementations for systems.

For example, the webRTC docs are great and explain a lot about how it works... however, there is very little information about good patterns for including it in your application. I bet people would be happy to pay for guides like that, I would.
iOS has ~50% market share and an inbuilt payment mechanism that users have a higher rate of using than on desktops apps, and is a platform where people have been conditioned that "there's an app for that" compared to one where people have been conditioned "Don't run that exe, it might be a virus!".
I've red a short story that matches the description and the name. Took a while to remember but it was in A Science Fiction Omnibus [0], apparently it's by Bruce Sterling so could be a different story.

<https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15192261W/A_Science_Fiction_...>
You are right to question the narrative. These days it's common for news articles to play this kind of trick. There are just a lot of hidden costs the DIY youtuber is ignoring.
Seems like it's kicked off a wave of defense spending and I have even seen a "defence-tech" fund announced. Getting early into that field may be one way, either through a defence focused startup, or as a software contractor. Start the security clearance process of you can.
Even that seems not to be featured anymore in his latest videos
The oil in Russia did not disappear off the face of the planet, it's just temporarily inaccessible. The global demand for oil did not disappear, there was just a supply shock of sociopolitical origin.

Sooner or later, Russia will either stop the invasion or be stopped. Regardless of which outcome occurs, the global oil market will begin to stabilize after the oil that exists in Russia starts flowing again.

It's not a stretch to guess that oil prices could easily drop back below $100/barrel once this occurs, even if just briefly, as the increased pumping by OPEC will take a couple days to be dialed back.

I'm not a financial advisor, and this is not financial advice, but I'm currently shorting oil.
Basically the plot of “death note” and how detective L pinpointed Japan as the location.