skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a connection. You can imagine a nerve as a cord and when it gets damaged even slightly the signal dropouts do occur. Just like an analog TV gets noisy when the coaxial cord or its connection gets subpar, the human visual field gets distorted in a similar way. You can apply that analogy to hearing problems (e.g. tinnitus) as well.

For a long time we believed that when neurons die the condition stays forever and cannot be improved.

However the consequent observations on WW2 veterans proved the opposite - neuro tissues do recover but they do so extremely slowly.

If you had such a good response to B12 means that not all is lost.

What you can try to achieve is to provide the conditions for faster neurological recovery: speed-up the cellular ATP production to provide the energy for anabolism while slightly suppressing the immune system response so it does not get in the way. You biological machinery will do the rest.

The first part of the equation is reached with specific combinations of vitamins and coenzymes. For example, here is a combination that can serve as the basis: B1 in therapeutical doses (pills, >= 250 mg per day) + multivitamin. The second part of the equation is reached with NSAIDs.

Such treatment may allow you to reach some notable improvements just in few months. And those improvements will persist and accumulate.
How do you store that in the database? That’s an ORM-level solution, which just hides/black-boxes the ugly code. Also, I already specified ”no illegal state”, which could just as well be ”no state”.
> but when it comes to other systems, (such as businesses) centralization and hierarchies are far more efficient and the decision makers are generally much more informed with the relevant data. With democracy, you spread the decision making across a vast number of under-informed people, which seldom results in superior outcomes.

See, I would argue the exact opposite. In a feudal hierarchy, the people making the decisions are usually the ones with the least relevant information -- or in the best case, with the most outdated information.

Hierarchies are great at distributing information downward, but not particularly good at aggregating it upward. This is often for power gradient reasons: people enhance the truth to look better when communicating upwards. Even when people communicate honestly, there's a lot of context and nuance that gets lost as a message travels from person to person.

In an actual democracy, you'll generally find that the people with the best view of the information and consequences of the decision (by virtue of being the ones affected by the decision) are the ones to make that decision.

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Edit: I think I see where the misunderstanding comes from! In your typical corporate hierarchy, the people at the bottom usually don't care about understanding the information that is needed to make a decision -- because they won't be asked to have an input on that decision anyway.

In a sense, the corporate hierarchy is a self-fulfulling prophecy. By dumbing down the role of the employees and preventing them from having any real responsibility, the employees turn into mindless ass-covering robots without responsibility, and then the corporate hierarchist uses the argument that "democracy doesn't work because employees are just mindless robots that cannot take responsibility."

My experience is that when you give people authority over their own selves with a "I dare you to be responsible" what happens is that most people, well, are very responsible.

People get together for common causes and sometimes they need to be reminded what that common cause is, but once they have that in mind, they're fairly good at cooperating productively.
The full paper pdf is here. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/nr/d2nr00748...

The marketing fluff in the techxplore article is a bit too high compared with the actual paper that doesn't make any of these claims. For example, the fluff says "sustainable materials", "coconut shell" whereas the paper accurately says ypf-50 which is a bulk manufactured activated carbon material which could be made from coal just as much as it could be made from coconut shell.
Like you're on a list for starting a genocide.
> Watching from the sidelines, the Crypto world seems to just be morphing into the normal financial world.

Say this is true, how amazing would that be for countries without existing banking infrastructure to easily access it?
Or France, the most nuclear friendly country in the world since forever. Yet, they are slowing nuclear power to favour eolic and solar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_France).
He is probably a businessman who started as an electrician
I was doing exactly opposite (Angular-only) but now I see that maybe times when there were plenty of Angular positions with often more interesting projects are gone
A whole 5GW in the entire world? Crazy, it almost matches the 400GW of just nuclear output, and the many more of every other power source.

Wind + solar isn't a reliable energy source, period. You need a base load, whether that comes from hydroelectric, nuclear or, unfortunately, fossil fuels. Wind and solar are great at topping off things and should be deployed as much as possible for individuals to reduce the demand on the overall network, but they will never be a credible energy source, no matter how much people say "but batteries are just around the corner!". They are no, they are a waste of valuable metals and they are horribly polluting to produce.
Ignorant?

Energy storage is not a short or medium term solution. Pumped hydro is already maxxed out pretty much everywhere it's possible as not all dams are suitable -- in fact most aren't. Battery storage for large grids currently covers minutes of use, a few hours may be attainable. But wind can be absent for days or weeks, and there's such a thing as winter when you're as far from the equator as Germany.

Ignorant. Right.
With fiat money the cantillon effect [1] plays a big role.

In Bitcoin (fixed supply cap) that part is very very different.

One big difference is that fiat/political money (political because political decisions decide how money is created and spent first before it inflates and arrives to the rest of the population).

Like El Salvador: they use the Dollar.
But do they get some of the newly (for free) created trillions? Or do they only see the consequence of that money, meaning seeing their money inflated away… their part of the pie stays constant while the rest of the pie got inflated/bigger.

[1]: just google “cantillon effect”. It is interesting (the power is not only in the hands of the money holders but also in the political decision makers and those who have good relationships with them… a bit like it used to be with religion and the state… but now still with money and the state)
Visual Studio Code, Spotify, Slack.

Sometimes SPAs are literally apps that you install on your computer.
I’m sure I’ve seen an audit before but because Coinbase is a public company all finances have to be released so you should be able to see it there too?
why specifically call out semicolons?

what about braces and c-syntax in general?

i love pike, but the c-syntax is not my favorite part. i am more partial to minimalist syntax like smalltalk or lisp. python is nice too, but still to verbose.

that said, pike at least is really copying c-syntax directly with some extensions, and not just confusingly pretending to look like c-syntax as eg. javascript is doing.
JFYI, here (Italy, possibly all EU, but I am not sure) the max weight of a sack of cement (or similar, gypsum, plaster etc.) is since quite a few years 25 kg, but it once was 50 kg.

A "sane" max limit is 30 kg for a "normal" worker in good shape, so the 25 kg makes a lot of sense.

There was a precise technique to lift the 50 kg sack and put it on your shoulder, one single, tiny mistake in the speed or in the amplitude of the movement and it was very, very likely you would strain your back.

In the old times it was rather common as an accident on building sites, and anyway even people that never made a mistake have had their backs ruined over the years.

The "main" study/manual on the matter is actually US originated, by NIOSH, dating to 1994, that has been recently updated:

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/94-110/default.html

not limited to construction only, it applies on whatever activities imply moving loads, particularly if in a repetitive manner.
Multi-Tasking Wearable Continuously Monitors Glucose, Alcohol, and Lactate
Cool, now price them over a whole grid for the case where there's no wind for a few days, and that rare event called "winter" occurs in Germany.
"We don't want spent radioactive fuel" says man who advocates for horribly polluting, resource wasting, giant toxic fire risks
That makes no sense. You pay taxes on realized gains (i.e. when you cash out), not unrealized ones... otherwise people like Elon Musk would have to pay tens of billions of dollars in taxes and sell off part of their stock to even be able to pay the tax (and probably ruin the company in the process). The same applies to crypto, and even though it's mostly not needed (you pay tax on realized gains in most countries and it makes common sense crypto would be similar), some countries alredy explicitly codified this, just to be crystal clear: You pay your taxes when you convert back to cash. That's the "taxable event". Same as when you sell your stock.
Although cool, it kind of ignores the responsive design-ness of modern websites if I’ve understood the implementation correctly?

Everything seems based off knowing the exact size of the original and the new container, so if the proportions of the container change, so will the clipping?

Could probably fix with a lot of breakpoints and the like, but it feels like it would be better generating a cropped version of the image beforehand instead of using this.
France doesn't accept EU law supremacy either despite being a founding member.
How does this degrade when connectivity is poor?
Either way, unless they are fully backed by USD... stablecoin is just an unregulated bank and it can run.

If that's not the case, they have as much rope as they have ability to liquidate. IE they can keep buying their own coin to defend the price for as long as they can.

Imo, stablecoins are a good example of everyone knowing the score but systemic risk accrues regardless. Stabkecoins just the worst kind of risk. Low risk/reward on a daily basis. Risk of catastrophic collapse on a bad day. It's the type of risk that gets financial companies/complexes into trouble.
It is likely as they are already widely used.

> A study in 2019 showed that around 92% of trading in the Forex market was performed by trading algorithms rather than humans

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_trading
The collateral for DAI are hihgly crypto correlated - 43.8% USDC, 32.1% ETH, 11.3% WBTC, 5.9% USDP, and others. ETH and WBTC are just Ethereum and BTC, both of which have dropped considerably recently. USDP somehow dropped to ~$0 since April. USDC is sworn to be 100% USD backed so let's take that at face value.

DAI is said to have 150% over-collateralization. ETH & WBTC have dropped more than half. Let's say just off by 50%. USDP and others seem got wiped out. $150 x (43.8% + 32.1%/2 + 11.3%/2 + 0%) = ~$98. That means $150 of collateral is worth only ~$98 now, not enough to back $100 of DAI for 1-to-$1 redemption.

Looks like DAI is at the verge of de-pegging.
So you have friends that you transfer crypto to if they need to purchase something at a shop and don’t have the funds?

God that whole process sounds painful.

In the Uk we would just transfer the money across with a bank transfer as all banks support instant transfers which have no fees (including between banks).
Sorry all, should have been specific: Australia.

https://www.ato.gov.au/General/Other-languages/In-detail/Inf...

But be careful! Actually read what your local tax office puts out. Assume nothing: it can be very easy to get yourself in to trouble.

For example:

- You buy BTC @ $1

- You exchange BTC @ $11 for $RANDOM

- You just made $10 :-) and you owe the taxman ~$3 (if you're in Australia)

- $RANDOM falls to ~$0

- So you didn't actually make a material profit

- But you still owe the taxman $3! (though you might be able to claim some sort of offset on your material loss of $RANDOM; IANAA)

- Now multiply all amounts by 10,000 and be sad

It's analogous to selling any asset. You buy gold, you sell gold at a profit and buy silver. You owe tax on the sale of the gold; you assume you'll pay this from the value you now hold in silver. The price of silver plummets. You still owe the tax on the sale of the gold.
1 event does not make a rule. French nuclear reactors were turned off for maintenance, yes, but over the past 30 years, it is clearly Germany depending on French power
Good on Rossmann for calling out bullshit on his own side. Legitimate issues often get hijacked by do-nothing whiners, yet all too often they get ignored or even encouraged for the sake of prioritizing short term political gain.
Just going off your quote, I’d say asbestos exposure has little to do with radiation exposure? I’d imagine where there is radiation, there may also be asbestos, but that’s about it.

How many people working in that facility, too? Without ignoring safe working environments, his is a somewhat rare cancer and making precise statements about incidence may be tricky.

Finally, regardless of any of this, I’d probably rather work at a nuclear plant than a coal mine or oil platform.
A rat race, detecting malicious online reviews with machine learning, doing malicious online reviews with AI, etc.

How many marvelous things could humanity achieve if they did not waste their time with these silly tasks?
Strengthening Systems to Prevent and Respond to Biological Threats [pdf]
This album is full of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjrvXtDwEFc
> There was a lesson there that Netflix chose to ignore.

What is it? Network television spent decades milking shows way past their expiration dates and still made bank.

The Office was originally a 14-episode arc built to an actual conclusion and NBC made who knows how much with middling season after season of the US version.

People watched because we're creatures of habit and you only have to get us hooked once.

That didn't change. What changed is the # of options. Instead of 1/25 shows catching on its 100/2,500 and it doesn't scale the same way.
The point is that it's not being used a fraction of the time, because you take small fraction of total humans on earth (7B+) and it's a larger number than a large fraction of total humans in the US (320M). There are 100M crypto users in India, for example - that's only about 7%, but 7% of 1.5B is a larger number than 11.8% (market share of JP Morgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank) of 320M. Worldwide, crypto users are about 3% of the total population of most countries - but the U.S. as a whole is only 4% of the global population, so 3% of a global market is the same size as 75% of the U.S. market.
Many start-ups (especially ones that aren't backed by millions of VC money) choose Rails because of the super high developer productivity and the broad availability of well tested packages.

You could just fade out rails as you could with any other monolith, but many companies aren't doing it because it offers legitimate advantages.
Lots of Frogs and Toads Mate with Things They Shouldn't, from Boots to Corpses
If your job is replaced by a robot you can now have time to look after your kids. The problem is the person profiting from the robot is not the same person who needs the money to raise their kid.
The parent post was about trading/selling crypto for money without exchanges. Gold has indeed some other use cases.

It is however not possible to send physical gold over the internet. Gold is also difficult to verify. You'll probably need to rely on a broker/shop and their tools to test if it's real. Bitcoin is relatively easy to verify with software anyone can download for free.
Yep, every bot for sale is proof it doesn’t work. They do exist (at least for a length of time) but they are not for sale.
> the link text is "Lukol Protects Your Privacy."

Well that's the standard phrase today if you want to avoid telling people you don't give a damn.

Like when cookie banners start with "your privacy is important to us", followed by a list of 50 services that'll receive your user data from that site.
Though my favorite is the "our european visitors are important to us" banner for blocked EU users as it implies all other users are not important to the website owners due to a lack of comparable privacy laws.

Hilarious and sad at the same time.
That method is adding server, client and network load by delivering multiple versions of the same image, whereas a cached version on the front end can be freely re-used and manipulated as needed based on the specifics of the device and browser. It's not a matter of being a problem for the front end team. It's a problem for devops and the end user.
Netflix was a dvd mailing company with a website and they pivoted to streaming. Amazon did too. Streaming tech is pretty much tablestakes for any company with a billion to spare. You can’t keep insisting that’s all Netflix should focus on.

I’d also argue Amazon prime has fared far better with OG content than Netflix in a fraction of its budget. The blame should entirely fall on its current ceo who imo should be ousted and Hastings needs to come back to salvage his baby.
Has it been a problem for sites that don’t have that available in their backend?
> all these kids had were Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and TikTok, everything else costs ~10$

I don't think any of those four products includes free VPN. You'd need to tunnel Wikipedia through WhatsApp instead, or something.
the verge won't miss an opportunity to shoot at Apple

they have a preference for microsoft products, if you read them everyday (spoiler: i do), then you'll notice it
What is(n't) a taco is a semi-solved problem[0].

[0]: https://cuberule.com/
The answer might end up being prefab housing etc. effectively replacing tradies with robots, not completely but to the point where the ones that are there get paid well.
Musl build: https://github.com/markfoodyburton/ubond/issues/7
It can be setup as a mesh without self-healing properties.
TheBrain 12
Please check your local regulations on this. What Uwuemu says makes sense, but tax law does not have to make sense.

I might be wrong, but I believe the IRS views every transaction as a taxable event. Crypto -> crypto included.
>Image how this will be useful for being able to zoom an image,

OP: typo in the zoom section
> What about Instagram's "personalization" wouldn't work as a standard web page?

Really nothing. But for most people Instagram is primarily a mobile application and comes with the usual experience of a mobile application. Transitions, fast reactions, no "whole page" reloads, etc.

Continuing this experience into the less frequently used browser version only makes sense, especially given the fact that Instagram's tooling allows for a relatively easy transfer (iirc large parts of the mobile apps are implemented using React Native)
Doubtful, Dai is automatically destroyed as the value of its collateral falls via the mechanisms of liquidations and loan paybacks.
We should have t-shirts of stallman and rossman side by side
it has very recently been acquired by fastly
Not disagreeing with the fundamental point, but the original HoC was the first in a trilogy. The BBC made 12 episodes across the three adaptations.
If carpentry paid more I would stay as a SWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERZBoUfHY8

"MODERN PAVING TECHNIQUES W/ ASBESTOS FIBER " 1960s JOHNS-MANVILLE HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION FILM 99054

yumm
I wanted to get a full-time job offer to get a working visa ASAP, but yeah probably it’s saner to start with contract and see how it’s going
they operate at a lower OSI level and use various obfuscation techniques
I'm sorry but you don't know what you're talking about. Look into how Dai works, or check daistats.com
Not sure, he did also pulseaudio (which is funny because I'm not a fun of either of his two most known works, systemd being the top offender for me) so he might touch something in piperwire also.
s/frission/frisson : You're right indeed! there'e what happens when
the previous article you're reading is on nuclear power :)
I like the concept and employ some of it for personal use. A vscode extension[0] helped me getting started and now its used in nearly all of my projects.

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vivaxy.v...
“Malicious mass”… “benign calcification”. Not appropriate to tell people they do or don’t have cancer based on a radiograph gpt guess.

Also, can it tell the difference between a radiograph of a watermelon and a cancer filled breast? Prove it.
> So I'm quite confident to say that there's nothing inherently bad about lifting, pushing, twisting, pulling, turning, and holding heavy things. Quite the opposite.

Technically correct I guess? The thing is, in construction there is a lot less latitude for you to choose a) from where to lift b) where to put down c) how much you're going to lift d) how often.

> So the question then becomes: is this about technique? Are these labourers lifting with their backs, for example? Are they just never taught to lift things correctly?

rolls eyes
I don't know what Wiki says, but this here[0] says that right now, Germany is both producing one of the dirtiest electricity in Europe, all while still importing over 1GW.

[0] https://app.electricitymap.org/map
That is what happens when CI/CD engineering teams don't place the right tooling into the pipeline, otherwise it stops being advisory.
As I pointed out above, this would not have changed anything with respect to the need to import gas from Russia. Nuclear generation is not a substitute for gas imports.

Even worse, they can't "cancel their nuclear shutdown process" even if they wanted. First of all, the shutdown deadline had been firmly set in law twenty years ago, so it would require a major legislative effort to make another law. Second, even if they somehow managed to instantly change the law, the shutdown was "baked into" the operation and maintenance schedule for the nuclear plants. They were simply not expecting to have to run them beyond early 2020-ish so a lot of money was almost certainly saved by delaying maintenance. Hence, if they suddenly changed their minds about shutting the plants down, they'd almost certainly have to invest massive amounts of money to fix them first.
We need a hardware dev to chime in
You typically don’t have a lot of breakpoints for image sizes. Maybe 2-4 is typical.

But yes, since you already know the possible proportions and sizes you want to resize/crop/scale etc. on the server, and deliver the correct image via a picture element. The browser then fetches exactly what it needs.

This css property is however useful if you want something more dynamic and you don’t know or don’t care to know beforehand how the image will be cropped.
arch because the memes
> when cashing out

Cashing out meaning "selling crypto for fiat"?

What about if you sell BTC for another crypto or for gold or ...
Well, staying stable in these times is good (as opposed to Luna/UST). This is battle testing and future-proofing stability to some extent.

And honestly 4% is nothing in crypto world.
Apparently labour is ~35% of the cost of a house [1] though I imagine this varies a lot depending on the house being built, type of construction, location etc. Still, seems safe to assume labour is a large part of the cost.

[1] https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/advice/how-much-does-it-cost-...
The maths used in economics is widely known to be wrong.

When informed the maths in economics is wrong, the economists don't go and fix their maths either.

Economics is more like sociology with some random incorrect formulas written on the black board as set dressing.

Economics might in self loathing claim they are the "dismal science", but the cold hard truth is they simply speaking are not doing their jobs properly. It's a broken research field.