skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are able to push through the pain and exercise, I have heard it can be helpful, even if it's just light stretching. You might also want to get checked for sleep apnea. I know far too many comorbid cases of chronic pain and sleep disorders.
Thank you for putting that together!

I’m somewhat surprised that the highest rated were only #16 and #18.

Virtually all of those are in elite districts. Gunn, I think, has a household income of $200K.

Only a couple of miles away is the East Palo Alto high school (a charter school!), where only 12% are proficient in math and 52% in reading[0]. That’s where the service workers live.

Overall, California ranks poorly, around #44 [1], while the New England states are in the top ten, except for the ringer Maine at #16 [1]

Blue collar can’t afford to live on the coast, but they can elsewhere.

[0] https://www.niche.com/k12/east-palo-alto-academy-east-palo-a...

[1] https://scholaroo.com/state-education-rankings/
Could this be the link that ties the shitcoins to the main economy? Advertising? That would be very ironic, given that a lot of tech today is based on ads. It is especially ironic that it appears that FB and GOOG (and so many other free apps) may have been quietly propped up by crypto money.
This is exactly how I feel right now and what I have been thinking about
>Having no idea what the real trend is, couldn't any other factors counteract the perverse effect, making both parent's and your observations true at the same time ?

Absolutely. There could be other factors that are counteracting the effect, including those within the ACA itself since the bill contains many changes to healthcare, not just the restriction on medical loss ratios.
B&W could possibly give much better performance. A color camera like my Sony Alpha 7 ii has a Bayer Matrix of red, green and blue filter elements that reject maybe 2/3 of the light. If you removed the filter you would get more than a stop of extra light sensitivity. Now you have greater resolution because there are more identical black and white pixels. It's an expensive product because demand for it is small.

My Sony is an entry-level mirrorless. Image quality in mirrorless is equal to any SLR, the one thing you lack is the ground glass screen for focusing. The mirrorless camera eats batteries because it has to power the imaging system and screens when you are setting up your shot. The mirrorless is lighter, today they make very short and light lenses (especially primes!) that make a very lightweight kit. I picked this camera because I saw people weren't happy with the speed of the autofocus on entry-level Nikons and Canons.

Processing monochrome images from color RAW images will give better results than creating them from JPEG. When you do convert from color to B&W you have a choice of how to combine the color channels (emphasize red more than blue for instance) that can greatly improve your images.

I am a fan of the Ansel Adams Zone System in that value is the most important thing in an image, even if it is a color image.

Personally I take photos primarily to print them so I also would geek out about how to make good monochrome prints.

This site is completely reputable

https://www.dpreview.com/

and has forums where you get good answers.
What’s interesting about this crash is prices are still so high. Bitcoin is close to 20,000$ right now. So there are still huge paper losses, but I doubt that many bought in at just 20+k.

It’s odd to look prices dropping to 1/3 and think thing things could get a lot worse or it could turn into just another blip on a larger upwards trajectory.
I definitely notice the slow down with Uber/Lyft here in SF. None of my friends take it anymore except during extreme situations. I see way fewer cars around on the roads even now.
It’s almost exactly like when Rockefeller managed to use strategic rail infrastructure to attack and intimidate oil competitors until the entire industry became monopolized and had to be dismantled. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I tell myself that eventually I'll quit my job and 'micro-found' something simple that generates enough income that, combined with investments, will be sufficient. I've built a fair share of demos for ideas but it's hard to take them to a full product. Very few ideas I have seem good for this model (niche, executable w/ a small team) and the barriers to entry for software businesses have gone up considerably - it's hard to be a 'generalist' since the popular tooling is now built for specialists and the tech has gotten considerably more complicated, mostly due to evolving standards, customer expectations, and security requirements.
The Electoral College is a triviality that we get hung up on because every loser blames it for their loss.

The real undemocratic institution in the US is its most powerful, the US Senate. It should be directly democratic.
I've had my fair share of psychedelics so I was pretty skeptical going into this, but it actually worked pretty well although I would call it a more like a trance than a trip.

It can't alter mental state anywhere nearly the same way as acid though - really the most significant part not just flashy light patterns. Still very cool can't wait to try next trip :)
Probably being open from the beginning is the way to go, but if your top performers are going to leave because they hear layoffs are coming, they will still leave after layoffs have arrived. Most likely won't.
Yes, but extrapolating current behavior to the future is risky, especially when just extended a bit further the result is obviously ridiculous-- like a large negative price.
The main improvement to democracy was liberalism (the belief that individual rights trump majority rule). Is there an app for that?
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It's tempting to blame journalism for the ideological divide we're seeing in the US. But the very best headlines are the ones with a 50/50 split of public opinion (the most controversial). This is also where politicians gain the strongest foothold to push their agendas (wedge issues).

Unfortunately, under capitalism there is tremendous pressure on investigative journalism to make rent. Which tends to push stories towards the divisive and cynical end of the spectrum. And politicians towards negative campaigning and mud slinging.

I feel that Ronald Reagan abolishing the Fairness Doctrine in the 80s and Newt Gingrich legitimizing alternative facts and the glorification of ignorance in the 90s are what put us on this alternate timeline we find ourselves on today. We could add in the selection of GW Bush over Al Gore by the Supreme Court in the 2000s, which solidified moneyed/authoritarian interests and corruption over democracy for at least the next 2 decades, but looking like 3 now.

Local news is one detail in this. But really I think the divide is about the transfer of power from the previous generation to young people. We're witnessing a fourth turning and even a flipping of the parties around certain issues, which is why they're acting crazier and crazier in their denial. Looking at popular news channels and public officials, I can't help but wonder where the adults are.
In my mind anything more than 5 bucks is a lot for a currency you cannot buy anything with.
> Friendly reminder that trade deficits are not inherently bad.

Whether trade deficits are good, or bad depends on your monetary policy.

In case of Germany, it was definitely bad after them having such low interest rates for so long.

It was Germany's pride — it's manufacturing industry which took damage from low rates the most.
Ironically, git itself is a derogatory, ableist word, but I suppose that is too central to let it be rebranded.
Absolutely - I am typing this on a 2012 Windows 7 PC, 8GB RAM and an SSD. CPU has a Geekbench 5 single-core score of 400 or something, i.e. in no way fast. But surfing the web is snappy and the computer works fine.
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Hi all - This is a follow up from a recent HN thread on AI generated music [1]. I posted some songs I've been making using Jukebox and there seemed to be a little interest on the "how-to"... I typed something up quickly.

Here's my music if you all are interested. I've been looking to make vocals / "singer-songwriter" type stuff, rather than electronica.

Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lcCJzfXl50&list=PLaa32nLgVv...

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/songshtr/sets/machinecroon

Github: https://songshtr.github.io

The main challenge for me so far has been post-processing. Jukebox produces very "scratchy" / lofi outputs... and I've been DIY'ing with Audacity. Thinking of getting a track professionally mastered to see just how far the boundary is...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31968456
Yes, I buy and cook all the food for my family of four. However, I remember there were a lot of food items that I could never really make work for myself when I lived alone because I could never eat it fast enough to get through it before it went bad.

It is a lot easier now that I have four people to feed, although the issue now is more that our two kids are insanely picky eaters and it is so hard to find meals everyone can eat.
Ad hominem doesn't necessarily mean fallacious or invalid. Bob's whole brand is being a self-styled authority on what constitutes clean, high quality code. So yes, his achievements and personal credibility are important here.
Yes, some Talkers have great ideas, and some Doers offer terrible advice. I think a more nuanced mental framework that avoids ad-hominem is "opinions" vs "experiences".

Some Talkers peddle opinions because they haven't got any experience. Most Doers peddle the experiences they had. Why does this matter? Anything can be opinion if it isn't backed by data. Many opinions that look great on paper are terrible in practice. If someone is offering you an experience (or anecdote), at least they have a single data point to back it up. A surprising amount of influence is exerted on the internet based on "one guy's opinion".

The better Talkers aggregate experiences of others to back up their opinions. This tends to provide better evidence than a single anecdote, and can be done even if you have no hands on experience with the subject.

So to your point a better way to frame it might be "what data/evidence is this person giving to support their argument?"
I’d ask why does reddit hate its users so much.

Specifically, why is reddit pushing the new ui so much?

It’s horrible, it’s slow as molasses and it’s hard to use.

And readability is also worse, and you can fit so much less content in a window than with the good old ui.

Why does reddit hate its users so much?
Are you saying that being asked to apply for a job is a political act?
If you're doing layoffs, then generally one of three things is true:

1) The company is in bad shape, and the layoff is a Hail Mary play to try and delay the inevitable long enough for a miracle to happen

2) The company is in fine shape, but for whatever reason, has done an honest self-assessment and determined that they've got more people working there than are necessary to continue operating (and, if they're really being both honest and thorough, has done at least some due diligence to identify the genuine low performers)

3) The company is in fine shape, but the higher-ups and/or shareholders think they should be getting more money, so they're cutting costs and pocketing the difference

Two of those three are excellent cause to leave, whether or not the layoffs are announced ahead of time. Many cases of #2 are also cause to leave, when they do not do the appropriate due diligence and lay people off indiscriminately or according to nepotism/who plays golf with the right people.

If your best people will leave upon finding out that you're laying people off, then they will probably leave whether or not you announce it ahead of time like decent people—the only question is when.

So basically, you're compromising on honesty and basic decency in order to maybe buy yourself a few more months.
One bitcoin could be worth $20 or $200 000 in one year.

Which is just one of the reasons why it's a bad store of value or medium of exchange.
This is a mischaracterization of Sarno's work. One doesn't need to be "happy" to have relief of pain. Sarno's thesis is that chronic pain of this sort is caused by unconscious stress/emotions and the mere acknowledgement of the underlying issues is enough to cure chronic pain. Furthermore, Sarno stresses that patients must first undergo physical examinations by their doctor(s) to ensure that the pain isn't caused by anything structural. Only then should one proceed with his treatment. Note that Sarno (who has since passed away) was not some quack--he was a bona fide medical doctor who treated patients at NYU Medical Center's Rusk Institute.

I would ask you to read his books' reviews (of which there are thousands on Amazon). Are all of these people who were cured from many years of pain lying? Are the other commenters in this very thread lying? There is mounting evidence that Sarno's theories are, in fact, of merit--e.g. https://www.bidmc.org/about-bidmc/news/2021/09/researchers-m....
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The % of all ads devoted to crypto surely must be a trivial %
The founders were not that homogenous, and plenty of them wanted to recreate the British government for the new United States.
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Go buy a copy of https://www.survivingiso9001.com/ [No affiliation] for your lawyers. Not directly for the subject matter, but as a cautionary tale about consequences of word choice.
Indeed. Hosted k8s has been low maintenance in my experience, much lower than managing a bunch of VMs. I think the common thread between people who have horror stories using k8s is either pains from self-hosting or teams who adopted it without experience and used the ample rope it gives to hang themselves.
Hooks didn't exist yet, for one, as mentioned in the Dan Abramov quote at the bottom:

> we’re adding a stateful function API as a preferred alternative to classes soon

Class components were the focus at the time, and are now all-but-deprecated. Also, Redux was still very popular in practice, which it isn't so much now (partly due to hooks)

That's a pretty big change in the way people use React, which certainly informs a discussion like this
It’s a demonstration of the societal value of bad businesses going under. There are certain ideas that people just cannot be swayed against by evidence, especially if they have skin in the game.

The real destructiveness of crypto is the other ideas that have been starved for oxygen during this bubble. I am glad it looks like we are beginning to move on.
Google asks me to solve CAPTCHA's of crossing walks and traffic lights because robots can't do it.

Tesla self-driving AI can safely determine crosswalks and traffic lights.

Which of these two statements are true?
A recent talk with some good demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4DRAcdH9tg
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There are so many mundane things that happen in local communities that I'm not sure you need research to show how invaluable it is to local readers. Yet, is noise to everyone else.

I could think of a few, new businesses opening up, or worse, shutting down, or changes to government policies that affect residents. Maybe you're in a farming community and there's a big corporate buyout that's going to make your life more difficult, or something to celebrate. What about new parks opening up, or changes to traffic flow, or even, a new stop light being added at a dangerous intersection.

These are all things people locally care about, and true, they probably wouldn't actively seek them out, but having it on the front page of their news source would definitely be interesting enough to read.
I see, forgive my English, I guess because I'm not a native speaker I miss the nuances of how what you quoted at all matches the definition of cover up, thanks for explaining. I will listen and learn, and I hope Americans can listen and learn to not murder BIPOC and that BIPOC lives matter, but I guess with the poor schooling system there is no funding for this, and likely even if there was funding to teach children that BIPOC lives mattered the US supreme court will ban it.
I totally forgot about Facebook games! Some of them were actually fun...
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I will always want honesty from the company I work for. If they pull something like this, trust is completely lost and I’ll be looking elsewhere. If I were in charge, I’d admit our mistakes (we over hired, didn’t foresee economic conditions, invested in the wrong areas) which caused the need for layoffs. I’d never tell my employees that there would be no layoffs unless I was 100% certain of it.
I'm a writer. I can imagine it. But the landlord, grocer, car dealer and pretty much everyone else dealing in physical things wants me to pay for what I consume. I'm not independently wealthy. The only reason I can afford to write books is because the publisher pays me. The only reason the publisher can pay me is because people buy the books.

I can guarantee you that this type of behavior means I'm writing fewer books. It's very short-sighted.
Helped me too. I still deal with pain but it totally changed my mindset about it and relieved a lot of the suffering associated with the pain. I saw an associate of Sarno’s who co-authored one of his books, she looked at my imaging and was like, I’ve seen way worse than this, you’ll be fine long term, which was a huge concern of mine. That was a decade past now.
This is why I'm vehemently against further increasing copyright law, software patents, and treating Imaginary Property as something that can be owned.

We finally build the tools to allow the free sharing of information and almost immediately a bunch of rent seeking lawyers lobby congress to make doing that illegal.

I've always lived by the rule of "If you put it on the Internet, it's not yours anymore." Because that's de facto the truth. Only if you employ lawyers do you have even the slightest real power over something online, even if you're the original source. This isn't something 95% people can afford. Turning the Internet into just another place where the rich get preferential treatment is a terrible thing.
We’re learning how much leverage went into puffing up the crypto bubble. Bond yields go up, loans get called, crypto fire sale. The Fed meets last week July, if they telegraph another monster hike (looks likely, but they might lose their nerve) it’s gonna another crypto bloodbath.
Had a lot more fun making a dreamachine than using it. Kinda a big shrug.
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You should all (also OP) look into Fabry. It's a genetic disease which for some only shows up in adulthood. My Mum went through decades of chronic pain and though she had Fibromyalgia. There are dozens of papers showing how Fabry is often misdiagnosed as Fibro.
I'm just being a realist, and I'm not suggesting people will pay. I realize "influencer" is a trigger word, but not all of them are Tik Tok dancers and vapid teens. I lump people like YouTubers in here. They've learned how to make money from sponsorships, and maybe that sort of thing can happen at a local level too. And hopefully with written media of some sort (written, not printed... so blogs).
Bailing early sacrifices some benefits in exchange for you deciding the timing.

If you are laid off in much of the US anyway, you are eligible for unemployment in case that's needed. That might help someone with less assets in a protracted dry spell.

Also very common, you give up severance pay if you quit. If you can afford some timing risk, IMO it's best to have your scope up and be looking just in case, then wait until pushed. The severance will basically be a bonus if you're rehired quickly since you should have some leads lined up.
> Once again they are re-entering with the Steam Deck

Entered. It exists. I've already clocked dozens of hours on mine.

> which is also another failure waiting to happen.

That remains to be seen.

The real issue isn't the idea of an open console designed to run commercial games. The issue is one of key feature differentiators that might drive consumers to buy one.

Crypto is not one of those differentiators.

Both the Ouya and the Shield suffered from the same problem: Being Android-based, they couldn't directly play PC games. You had to either stream from an existing game rig or stream from the cloud.

The Deck does not have that limitation. It's differentiator is being able to portably run PC games unmodified.

Will that be enough to keep the product around long term? I have no idea. But it's ridiculous to pretend these are all equivalent projects. And it's utterly absurd to draw parallels between those projects and this crypto disaster.
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So is this part of the reason why Zuck would have framed FB's impending actions as being focused on low-performers? That way, people who believe themselves to be high-performers wouldn't bail.
Of which one stablecoin that everybody knows is very unreliable is still alive and well. That's very likely to collapse too soon imo.
Then set up a Constitutional Convention. People in NH view life differently than those in CA, and don’t appreciate the idea of one way for everyone, as determined by the folk in the large blue cities.
This reeks of recency bias: 100 years ago, a british gentleman likely said the same about the superiority of the British Empire as proved by its lasting power - now it's a pale shadow of itself, with Brexit sealing its fate.
Exactly. I'm in complete agreement. If someone else wants to give away their work for free, that's fine with me. But if I want to charge, I should be able to charge for my labor just like the farmer or the baker. Certainly they'll charge me for bread.

Writing is hard work. Writing books and getting them technically correct is expensive. This is very short-sighted.
My last team called our revamp of our admin portal "cow tools" :)
That photo of the founders(?) displays maximum turtle neck. Is that because of some Jobsian influence or is it an esoteric coffee house theme? Either way, it would have got my spidey-sense tingling.
I call it Imaginary Property and refuse to call it anything else.
This is how he holds at bay the two factions of lawyers:

1) Those ready to file a misrepresentation or breach of warranty contract claims;

2) Those ready to file a products liability, wrongful death or failure to warn tort lawsuit.
The feature is not called currying but partial application, it is very nice and intuitive.
I think we've all done something like that.

I try to insist on my production account being readonly and having a separate user for deploys.
you know, that's a really clever idea
It seems to be a little out of fashion with the HN crowd, but maybe meditation can help you a little on your way. It is taught that pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. Trained Buddhist monks can endure immolation, see for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4...

Good luck, hope you find something helpful here.
You're being short-sighted if you think you're going to be able to sell material in the future if the recording company or studio goes out of business. The only reason they have money to support you is because the public supports them.
"Not having your factories being bombed" has huge economic upsides.
Fiction books
Reminds me of the American TV show "What Would You Do?", of which there are many videos on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatWouldYouDo

It tends heavily to revisit certain themes, but overall it drives home the point that regardless of the social acrimony and political polarization that dominate social media and seem to divide Americans into inexorably inimical tribes, when it comes to everyday interactions, most Americans seem to be pretty decent and kind people.