skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm colored by just having heard https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/hannah-fry-orchid-cancer which was a podcast episode about cancer treatment and choices - and it says, there's more to it than this. Doctors may not value your life quality as high as you do etc.
>>Cursive is super, super useful when your writing tool can't withstand repeat impacts against the writing medium

In my experience it is much more comfortable to write cursive. You do not have to lift the pen for every single letter. It is quite annoying to have to do that, quite honestly. My hand feels much more happier to be able to just follow a flow.

I also do not understand the hate, it is much more comfortable. It is like hating touch typing. Sure, you can type with two fingers but not very efficiently.

To each their own I guess.
Start your own journal? It doesn't necessarily matter that citations to it won't be tracked in Scopus or whatever when it's first launched. Even the gatekept academic journals aren't automatically accepted into citation databases and academic search engines, it usually takes several years after they're launched to be fully accepted. Or discard the journal framework entirely—as long as people who are interested in the work can find the work, it's fine.

Edit: One of the most important papers in fracture mechanics was published in a campus newsletter. The publication venue doesn't matter that much.
Sorry, I meant $100K
Would it be from a different company outside the major players? I spent weeks trying to find anyone who could wire this building and gave up. I'm on 5G now which is actually 100X more useable than I expected.
I found the biggest challenge with Margit was that he telegraphs too much. Hell raise his weapon and then just hold it much longer than you think he will, you roll early and then he punishes you.
I am very lucky.

My definition of lucky is the ability to survive bad events while making the most of good events.

For example, when I was younger, I fell 30 feet and broke my arm. I choose to see this as good luck because some people have died when they fell that far.
I too have a free CF account, but I pay them to register my domains. Hence I used "paid product". I don't use other CF features and am using them just for registration purposes.
At no time do I give them the benefit of the doubt, what I did was point out that their behaviour is functionally identical to the behaviour we allow with another class of huge, predatory corporations.

If someone were to say, "Hey, now that I think about it, mall landlords shouldn't be in the business of extorting a percentage of their tenants' revenue either," I'd agree.
From the studies I'm seeing, limit access to the means of suicide, and you reduce suicides. Do you eliminate them? No, but a reduction is still a reduction.

Note most of the studies I saw were not about guns, but pesticides. I see no reason to think they would not apply similarly. Would be nice to see studies in them.

Now, should we /also/ try and tackle more issues down the chain? Yes. Not sure why this has to be a "pick one" scenario.
Matrix is where open source projects move their chat rooms when they don't actually want public input.
The musicians can't easily keep time. Not because they're bad at their jobs, but because sound travels so slowly there's an appreciable delay between the different sections of the orchestra. (50 ms for a smaller hall, up to 100 ms for a giant Mahlerian monster orchestra in a large space.)

Those are not small delays. The speed of light is slightly faster, so having someone at the front indicating time keeps everything together.

The pointing and gesticulating aren't limited to prepared rehearsal notes. Rehearsal notes certainly happen, but apart from keeping time, the conductor's job is to define the mood and emotional valence, moment to moment. This may be somewhat improvised, within limits.

Orchestras typically play somewhat behind the indicated beat because it allows for more expression.

There's also a lot of business-related admin - dealing with absences, holding auditions for new members, contributing to program scheduling, reading and possibly writing feedback notes to/from various interested parties, and so on.

Every once in a while a smaller orchestra will try to manage without a conductor. While the results are usually workable - professional musicians are very good at their jobs - they're not great.
Study gave at risk men therapy and money
> When you say "this envelope game", I assume you are also including minor variations of this game?

No; it seems obvious to me that the argument for switching presented in the original wikipedia article is meant to apply only to the evelope game as it's presented. Of course introducing variations could easily change the meaningfulness of the article's premise. That is, it wouldn't be considered a "problem" or a "paradox" if calculating an "expected value" were actually meaningful.

> then it is strictly true that it doesn't matter how we make decisions - using expected value or not - though it's not a particularly interesting point to make

True, but my point was more of a question: if it's obvious that calculating an "expected value" is irrelevant in this specific case (as the article says, "It may seem obvious that there is no point in switching envelopes as the situation is symmetric"), why is the argument presented in the article considered compelling? That is, either it's not actually compelling, or the "expected value" being meaningless in this case is not necessarily so obvious at first... but if so, why not? (Or, to put it another way, why is the argument in the article compelling enough to warrant such a long wikipedia page with such numerous proposed "resolutions"?)
Find Wikipedia photos needed near you
Ask HN: Using Cloudflare as mirror/backup instead of main domain?
Based on what's currently happening with "false positive" bans [0] being automatically issued for flagged payment methods [1], I'm thinking on using Cloudflare for mirror or backup domains only, and let users know if the main site ever goes down to use CF's instead. It's easy to automate this redirection from an app, are there any browser extensions that can help with this?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31574702
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31575361
I didn’t find the shortcut around Stormveil until my second character. After a while I realized that Margit-Stormveil-Godrick are all completely optional.
Visual interactions offer increased bandwidth in communication, but in a work exchange I find that bandwidth useless to harmful compared to, say, the intricate process of playing musical instruments in more than perfect sync.

Video calls are additionally worse, the extra input is almost pure noise and cannot even help you read the room to show if a person is distracted when their "listen attentively", "glance on their watch" and "just do something else entirely" are exactly the same. I find it much easier to distinguish with pure audio and no distractions.

Having to use video for work makes me feel as if I was in webcam business, though I admit it is useful in more sensitive meetings where you want to visually confirm participants.
>You can't run a harvesting tractor through a greenhouse.

Sure you can. Just needs to be big enough.
Web browsers have definitely progressed:

In the bad old days you'd have to restart your web browser because it crashed.

Now you have to restart your web browser because it has consumed all system resources, spun up the fans to maximum, and slowed performance to a crawl.

And those weekly severe security vulnerabilities don't crash your browser anymore - they just enable it to be taken over by criminals.
Show me where I can buy an operating solar panel if I don't have a suburban rooftop. Would make my life so much easier!
I tend to agree with this viewpoint. I actually found that my happiness decreased when a company I was working for started providing free lunch every day. The lunch break - along with a change of scenery, a short walk, and the freedom to choose whatever I wanted for lunch - was important for my well being. Also, employees would often complain about the free lunch options on certain days, which is kind of sad.

I suppose it would have been different if it were a big campus at a FAANG, though, where they have lots of different restaurants to choose from spread out through multiple buildings. There you still get most of the benefits of the lunch break that I felt I was missing out on. And I assume there are certain efficiency benefits to be had at that scale vs. having thousands of employees all having to fend for themselves.
In sea kayaking you're usually going longer distances, so being able to get into a steady efficient rhythm is important. Quick maneuverability is important, but it's not the highest priority. Wind also comes up a lot in sea kayaking, and being able to keep your paddle low is helpful.
Yes, and you saw the shit show it caused when the contract had to be rebid. There is a reason everyone is more careful these days. I can only speak about the process the big cloud providers go through from first hand experience.
I don't have any specific resources but it's really an energy and muscle group thing. When you paddle--and this is broadly true although maybe more specific to sea kayak touring than other things--you're not primarily using your arms. You're essentially keeping your hands in a fairly fixed location and rotating your upper body to supply the needed force. (Though this applies to canoeing as well.)

Some of the classic books by the likes of Nigel Foster are probably still applicable but I haven't looked at them in years.
The irony of course is that Browsers are actually quite heavyweight applications that don't run particularly well on thin clients.
Doesn't Erlang support these ideas of distributed computing .... And if I recall correctly Clipper supported remote execution of objects, or sharing object code in a distributed fashion.
I learned something from that so thanks. However, I don't think it gets at this issue. Different credit cards charge different fees and afaik there's no way to pass those on. Offering discounts to not use CCs is a good step, though.
It's not my repo, so I don't know. I don't see any specific criteria, so if you see a project missing that should be added, send a pull request.
Extremely common. For some reason it is cool to put stuff in lambda or azure functions or whatever. Or to use 11 different stacks.
Wait you run browsers _locally_?! All the cool kids subscribe to remote browser SAAS
This reminds me of a startup CFO I worked with, who could see the big picture. In the early days of the company, they worked in an office that shared a bathroom with a half dozen other companies. And the toilet paper in said bathroom was terrible. Like, not just standard-office-building terrible. Really, really bad. So CFO takes it upon himself to rectify the situation. He orders a couple dozen rolls of standard-issue "premium" office toilet paper (still not that great relative to home-use TP, but good by office standards) and leaves it in the bathroom. Two days later, it's gone: someone (not clear whether it was someone at the startup or one of the neighboring companies) decided to take it home with them. Everyone in the office starts grumbling about the state of the TP situation again.

Not to be outdone, CFO places another order; several cases this time. And it takes a few more days, but sure enough, it all disappears.

At this point, CFO is fed up. He orders two full pallets of TP. After lunch one day, several volunteers unload the toilet paper. Multiple stacks, floor to ceiling, in the bathroom. More stacks in the supply closet. Stacks in the hallway. Stacks in the lobby. Everywhere you look, there's toilet paper. And if people were stealing TP after that, it wasn't at a rate that anyone could notice.

Including the ongoing costs for the subsequent 18 months until they moved out of that building, the "unlimited TP" policy might have cost the company $10k. But it bought a lot more than that in terms of employee goodwill. Knowing that the bean counters are focusing on "our employees are producing a product worth $x; let's figure out how to have them do more of that" makes a big difference.
Even if one agrees that that is the most relevant figure of merit (which would imply, among other things, that FIRE, and moving out of the proletariat into the bourgeoisie, petit or haut, more generally, is an adverse social trend—which is not an uncommon position for communists, but rare for anyone else), it seems to have bottomed out, in trend terms, in the mid-2010s (while it did a sudden drop back down with COVID and associated restrictions, it has recovered quickly since that.)
Businesses in the past generally did not have hundreds of millions of people actively using their services 24 hours a day. This was rare even a decade ago.
I can't guarantee a secondary market quite yet, certainly not on launch, but it's something that will be a priority. I may find a way to build in liquidity short of a secondary market (our accredited investors have a 7 year term).
There was just an article on HN 2 days ago[1], with duplicates, about Microsoft opaquely locking Minecraft users out of their accounts, with little in the way of acceptable recourse (give Microsoft your phone number and pray).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31551846
> The good news is that we have decades of high-quality research demonstrating how to effectively intervene to reduce symptoms and to help anxious youth cope and function better. These include both medical and nonmedical interventions like cognitive behavioral therapy, which studies show to be safe and effective.

That's the good news? I guess hoping for a deep dive into the causes and some reasoning about how we got ourselves into this is too much? The pattern of only addressing symptoms is pathologically abundant.
XUL still rules in Sea Monkey Classic and Pale Moon.
Would love to see an Obisidian-style Calendar UI based on a textfile like this
Does remember me on the story from 2019, in which side a windturbine should rotated. They are all wrong, if they would rotate in the other direction (north from equator) it would be much better (the paper said +11 to 20% better). So allways ask, why is is so since ever ..
Reducing the Undos to about 3 could be enough to make that strategy less of a certain win

But you're smart to be generous with the Undos while introducing the game, because it helps users get familiar with it
Oh wow a task force. I wonder if they'll ever get to a point where they solve the problem and no longer feel the need to exist.
http://newtonfaq.com/ will get you going.
I guess I see the world's problems as just another engineering challenge. Just put in the work to create value. Make things better piece by piece.

> And I believe we can all agree, regardless of political affiliation, that the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse.

I disagree. I'm fairly optimistic. Yes there are problems. But there's plenty of good things happening as well. Perhaps it depends what you're looking for?

I actually don't come here for the tech contributions primarily (even though I enjoy tech). The most interesting contributions are when non-tech contributions make it to the top.

You're the 3rd post I see here about depressing matters. The other ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31565514

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31565012
Local dev isn't the end, it is the beginning. With it it allows you to get further than you would otherwise - and most importantly, when (not if) you do discover a problem on a lower environment (or prod) it gives you a place to try and replicate it. You run everything locally so hopefully you can make a change to mirror the problem... Not a guarantee but at least you have a good starting point.

Also your local dev should try and mirror prod as much as possible.
“Frontier” is the first Exascale supercomputer
Asking doctors who get paid for providing treatment to determine if someone needs treatment sounds perfect. I bet pharma would love to have more lifetime customers too. And think of how much more effective government/media messaging will be with this info!

How could this possibly go wrong?

/s
Hey thanks this is useful! Saves me some time on having to start with doing it myself. I know some people whose minds are slowly being taken over by this ideology, it's like watching a zombification. I'm not kidding, it's like talking to people I don't know or recognize, their assessment of very basic things is more and more removed from reality.
The new repo is here:

https://github.com/noisetorch/NoiseTorch/

It's been audited and no malicious code has been found.
Totally, I've often thought about how I could contrast Legends Solar with different ESG and impact products offered by large financial institutions with one hand, while they finance oil and financially destructive activities. To do that credibly, we'll have to be insanely transparent and good, which I plan to be.
> However, studies also estimate that upward of 10% to 21% of children and adolescents struggle with an anxiety disorder

If 10% to 21% of kids had some sort of minor physical aliment we wouldn't be content to just treat it and not question why it is happening.
The problem Netflix has, is that if you've been on a streaming platform for a while, then the other platforms are all more attractive because they have more content that you haven't seen, while the content on your current platform seems stale.

It's a weird system that encourages switching over. The only thing they have is inertia. But if you send emails and notices out to your customers saying that you are degrading service, or charging more? That could easily be the call to action they need to switch.
Ever since CF went public, their support quality has fallen off of a cliff. It's really sad to see as they have a great service, and especially recently have built some amazing stuff. I just don't understand why humans helping humans has become so much of a thing to avoid.

Yes it's tricky, and it doesn't scale well, but that's the price you pay when working with people.

Glad that there was a good outcome, but very sad to see it took getting on Page #1 of HN to be resolved.
Been listening to SomaFM and donating since 2003 or so. Love these guys.
I love this scientific curiosity towards DALL-E. Many people just say that it's bad at text generation (including me), but someone stopped to wonder if this is really gibberish or it has some logic to it. Classic "hmm, that's odd" case.

It will be fun to see people experimenting with extracting text prompts from generated images. I'd try something like "An open children book about animals" or "Random thought written on a paper". Maybe do a feedback loop of extracted prompts :)
A huge number thinks they will die because of global warming. Relentless propaganda aimed at kids takes its toll.
Oh yeah, for sure. The hand is certainly part of 'the tool' and variation there will make different approaches to forming characters comfortable for different people. My own hand is a small block with occasional tails between letters which I find comfortable to write in but is very idiosyncratic. I was taught to primarily write in cursive as a child and then re-taught to write in architectural block as a young adult, which I'm sure has something to do with it.
Sports stadiums and elite coaches, and doctors' third summer homes don't pay for themselves.
Netscape would crash the entire Mac pre OS X
back in the day. I didn’t have any such issues with Adobe, Aldus, or Microsoft software.

While MS did do some crazy stuff to kill Netscape, IE was just a better browser.

IE 3.0 for the Mac was native code and the most standards compliant browser in existence for awhile.
> You can use an IDE that displays inferred types as type inlays

This isn't captured in the code & that is a huge weakness. Being able to see the code change over time is, in my view, a huge advantage.

Reliance on high-tech tools to discern meaning & do the inference for us feels far weaker than simply encoding the good information into the code. That just seems far better to me, far more robust. Some of this is that I'm a vim user and don't want to have to go lookup & configure a LSP daemon for each file I evaluate, but some of it just feels like base common sense, that the tradeoff of actually being explicit are overwhelming & clear.

I think I argued against this pretty resolutely the first time around. I don't think your post adds anything or changes my mind at all.
That article really gives the impression that the browser chrome (the back button, etc) is the GUI that is downloaded, and is made up of HTML. The picture in the article doesn't help.
In other words, analog precision is not scaled.

Really easy achieve 8-10 bits, even 12 bits, but 16 bits or more are hard.

For example, now manufacturers use large matrices with lot of spare parts, and before put chip in case, it's precision measured and cut metal seals, so made very precise parameters.

So in reality, modern analog chips ARE one time programmable analog, but one time analog programming is cheap enough, but rewritable are inadequate expensive.

Also this is reason, why analog computers where extremely popular ~before microcomputers.

- Just because first computers where too slow and have too little memory, to simulate interest for real applications scale of analog circuits.

But digital progress where extremely fast and it scaled very well, so in very short time appear cheap digital computers, which could do 32 bit precision or even 64 bit, on 8 bit hardware.
And for analog, 16 bit still hard.

Where you could see race for precision - in analog TVs and in radios, used DAC (or mechanical multi-turn resistor) for frequency tune, and they limit progress of commodity equipment on about 12-14 bit, even when exist professional (scientific) equipment with 20-22bits or even more, but it costs many times more.

Other less easy seen example - in CCD sensors, ADC limit about 32bit, and even when exists market for better solutions, they are not appear, just because very expensive.

For displays this is not important, because most people accept even 24 bit color and because more depth achievable via emulation (yes you may hear about pwm in monitors).
Okay, let's grab Texas:

We'll roll with 20-59 which totals to: 20,765 confirmed deaths
https://dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/TexasCOVID19Demographics_...

Texas has 1,247 school districts:
https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/general-information/over...

That's roughly 16 parent Covid fatalities per school. This, of course, ignores population clustering which is going to mean more deaths in larger school districts. And there's some fuzziness because not everybody in the demographic has children (although Texas is probably higher in that regard).

Granted this probably overcounts a bit because 55-59 may not have children in school anymore. However, this also doesn't count people who survived but are in bad shape (who probably outnumber deaths by quite a bit) which may be worse from a student mental health point of view.

I see no contradiction to what I have said and I stand by it.