skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Change the bags every ten years or so. You can get aftermarket ones by Arnotts, but Dunlop still do them too. Apparently they're used in ambulances, too.

I won't say I've never had EAS problems but it's never left me stuck, unlike coil springs.
This is the greatest comment on HN I have ever witnessed.
In the relational model, no there is no such thing as "optional values".

Even Codd often hinted (quite a bit of material in the 1990 book gives such hints) that "if a row has a null somewhere, it SHOULDN'T BE CONSIDERED AS BELONGING TO THE RELATION". E.g. if an attribute of a FK is null, no FK checking should be done at all on account of that null. The FK checking should be done only when the FK value is "complete".

As for outer join, one problem with it is that its result is (intended to be) the extension of a disjuctive predicate, the disjuncts in question being exactly the predicate for the "matching" case and the other one the predicate for the "no match" case. Now if you see a row in the result, how can you tell from that row which of the two disjuncts made that row appear in the result ?

Outer join is problematic by definition precisely because of the possibly ambiguous interpretation that derives from its disjunctive predicate.

(Would you do that with base tables ??? I mean design a base table that can hold a row for strictly more than one possible reason ??? I mean where the user then sees a row in that table and subsequently cannot tell whether that row is there for reason/meaning 1 or for reason/meaning 2 ??? I'll tell what you -and anyone else- would do in such a case : you'd also add the indicator telling whether it's meaning 1 or 2 (and then the problem of 'what if it's both' is also solved). Now think back about what could be done in outer join to resolve that very same kind of disjunctive ambiguity.)
I certainly communicate on it.
Reminds me of a lot of "prophets" today.
> Is Finnish unusual in having a more homogeneous pronunciation?

AFAICS, I'd say yes, it is.

There are some dialects (way up north, and in the East) where stuff is pronounced differently, but that's so hilariously different that I think speakers of those dialects are themselves fully aware that the way they pronounce stuff, it oughta be spelled differently. And conversely, what with only the "official" spelling being taught in school, they automatically learn the "correct" nationwide pronunciation from that -- thanks to the "everything is spelled as it's pronounced, and vice versa" phenomenon.
One theory is that educated people compensate better for decline on cognitive tests, basically by “muscling through it”. I’ve heard it doesn’t change the overall course of the disease much but it does make the decline less noticeable in the early stages.
It's not about what you did in the past. It about what you do in the future.
It might be technically piracy, but who's really losing out on lost sales if I buy this and play SNES on it?
Technical people love parliamentary procedure because it notionally resolves messy human deliberation into a linear call stack with system interrupts.

The important thing to understand is that the rules are mainly for exception handling and are borderline irrelevant on the golden path. Most of the time, committees don't even think about the rules because everyone understands motions, seconding, and voting. Groups often operate in de facto ‘suspension of the rules’ and just talk through issues semi-formally until it’s time to take a vote. That’s actually the optimal outcome in most settings.

The true test of the rules is when disagreements arise about the form of debate rather than subject matter. Sometimes there is a legitimate procedural question but often this comes up when the apparent minority decides to start maneuvering because they believe they are going to lose. In the real world, this tends to play out in one of two ways depending on context:

1. This is a highly professional body with a parliamentarian at the meeting (or at least somebody plausible like a general counsel) who can call the balls and strikes, or the chair is—at least in principle—considered competent to rule by enough people present. A ruling is made and the body moves on.

2. This is an amateur body (which includes most government bodies below the state/province level and the vast majority of private committees/panels/boards), in which case people will resolve the issue as humans usually do. Namely, either the meeting will fall apart and be unable to conduct business or the most influential or aggressive parties will win regardless of what the rules say.

"But the body can just resolve everything properly by reading the rules!" -- well, theoretically.

But think back to the last time you played one of those byzantine German board games for the first time. Now imagine that nobody at the table really cares about board games and are not used to reading game rules. Further imagine that some parties are willing to defect from the spirit of the rules in order to raise esoteric legal and procedural objections, waste time, and filibuster outcomes they don’t want.

Real meetings have time limits, and while the U.S. Senate might stay up past midnight occasionally, regular people who have to wake up for work in the morning and who are giving up family time for a thankless volunteer position generally will not tolerate taking 5 hours to unwind the call stack in a hostile proceeding. So again, the loudest and most assertive parties tend to wear everyone else down. In that case the rules are at best useful for establishing in the record that procedure was not followed, which is only really useful if the issue can be escalated to the courts, appealed to a higher body, or revisited in a subsequent session.

Others in the thread have suggested simplified rulesets, and I’ll recommend Rosenberg’s Rules of Order which was designed by an experienced judge specifically for smaller meetings. But the truth is that almost any set of rules will work for amateur bodies if parties operate in good faith, and almost no set of rules will work if not.
If a placebo is effective it’s presumed to psychosomatic as there have been no underlying medical changes. In this case I presumed that the term ‘placebo’ was being used incorrectly and what was meant was psychosomatic.
Our knowledge of the cosmos, in just a few hundreds of years, expanded from the Earth, Moon, planets and stars of the firmament, a kind of cozy neighborhood, to that of unfathomable numbers of galaxies stretching out to unimaginable distances of space and time.

Strange that gods who were so occupied with matters on this planet, who live in a nearby heaven up by the firmament of stars, are also still credible candidates for "creator" of the universe.

The real universe is so much more vast and so much more strange than any scriptures had ever imagined. One could be forgiven for excusing that underestimation of the universe as a limitation of the imagination of man.

In other words, "the god of the gaps" has to keep finding new gaps to fill, and the gaps are ever less tenable.
And if the market doesn’t manage to regulate something just put those things in the Externalities bin.
34,423 subscribers:

https://old.reddit.com/r/covidlonghaulers/

I wonder if some % of the population can be extrapolated from that
I wonder how much of the covid related long term cognitive impairment is due to the marked lockdown induced increase in alcohol consumption[1]. I’m assuming that if deaths increased other than death bad outcomes probably increased too.

Edit: I see nothing in the submission showing there’s no substance abuse effect, clearly or otherwise.

[1] https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/news-events/research-update/deaths...
You seem to have a view that the world consists only of (a) people who claim things, and (b) people who believe them, and that there’s no difference between types of claims.

The claim of someone who says they have the word of god is hearsay and there’s no way to figure out whether they do or not. The claims of someone who says they’ve followed the scientific method are verifiable by others. If they claim that their experiments show tiny blue tetrahedrons make up all matter, other people can check. Nobody can check if god talks to the first person.
While I could agree with the general sentiment, I think it's hard to understate how much of a role Apple played in the background of all of this.

But in any case, there's plenty of things to be said about this article. About one year ago (random link with relevant quotes : https://www.pcgamer.com/intels-3d-chip-tech-is-perfect-so-it... ), Intel was mocking AMD for using a chiplet approach, before announcing today that it was - clickbaity title aside - going to change everything.

The sad truth is, both Intel and AMD are in the exact situation. AMD went chiplet in order to make their performance cores at TSMC, and their less critical cores ("IO") at GloFo.

And Intel will be doing the same thing tomorrow (again, random link on the topic: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-ceo-visits-tsmc-agai... ) by producing their performance cores at TSMC and their less critical ones on their own processes.

In both cases, this is just a question of using a very limited resource (TSMC's best in class process) the more effectively that you can (by throwing extra engineering at making a chiplet design that works).

And it's supremely relevant to the discussion to talk about how Apple, by throwing capital at a company (TSMC) that was, for the couple of decades I used to cover this, at best 2 years behind the best in class, today where they are (far far in front).

We could definitely have a long discussion about the hubris that led 2015 Intel where they are today (completely stuck with a 7 year old "+ paint coatings" aging 14nm "performance" process), or how Gelsinger is trying to make the best out of the situation (I personally think he's immensely qualified and Intel's best hope, though that may not be enough to bring Intel back to where it was), but at the end of the day, Apple threw a wrench in what seemed like an unshakable performance lead from Intel by spewing a bit of money left and right (they didn't only bet on TSMC early on, they threw money at GF for example, and it wasn't that massive early on from my understanding), and the silicon world hasn't been the same since.
Tell me, how many scientific "claims" that you rely on a day to day basis, have you verified personally?

Or How many such claims can be verified with a single average person's limited resource?
I find that landing page insulting to anyone who might want to learn what that product is and why I should use it. So your webpage allows me to play basketball or go hiking together, is that what it does? Only by going to "the changelog" link, because I'm a curious fellow, does one find the discovery page and see an actual implementation: https://niche.community/niche/pzd3x67l0gmqn/hackernews/

> What is the current stage of Niche Community?

> Niche Community is in the early stages of its development.

Yeah, no kidding
China or India are not "the West".

My local mainstream media is reporting about Germany correctly and in full, btw. But yeah, we like to shit on Germans, other nations might not be alike in that.

> but we can’t forget Middle East, same way we can’t forget Trump and resulting deterioration of human rights.

Agreed.

> same as worldview of Putin, essentially the belief that their country has god-given right to invade others

Crimes against humanity are happening in Afghanistan now in much greater number than when the US Army was there.

I think that coming to resolve problems such as were/are in Afghanistan is the correct thing to do (not saying the practice worked out perfectly and that there weren't problems). That's absolutely incomparable to Putin who's there to take children, gas/oil fields and access to Black Sea, not to help.
> Whataboutism like "has anyone studied Long Cold" really does no one any favors.

Which, you know, we've probably messed up by not studying post-viral syndromes more as we're accumulating more and more evidence that they're important to long-term health outcomes.

It just took COVID to fully convince us of this importance, because it does it so visibly at such a higher rate.

I believe half to 3/4 of "long covid" is anxiety and hypochondria. But that still leaves a pretty substantial "real" burden.
Well you labeled it a "hot take" so that at least shows you understand how absurd this take seems on its face. So what's the part I'm missing? Why is this a good take?
I'm not sure how useful in general an unprepared person being able to call for help necessarily is. There is search and rescue (mostly volunteer) of course. But no one is going to assemble a rescue team at the drop of a hat.
He's been saying repeatedly that "it's going to be fully self driving next year" for the past 6 years now. At what point for you does that change from "overly optimistic prediction that didn't pan out" to "he's likely lying through his teeth"?

The unsettling duality that Tesla fans will accept is that somehow Musk is both an unrivaled genius AND he's consistently betting incorrectly on Tesla's timeline for L5. When other self-driving experts in the field indicate full L5 for the industry is probably a decade or so away (optimistically), I'm not keen to believe that Musk is just blinded by pure optimism for 6 years running.
DS4's have been solid for me, with the biggest issue being their rather disappointing battery life. Probably depends a lot on the types of games most often played, playstyles, etc though.
> I think the ratio of babble to sound reasoning is much higher in science

You mean lower surely?
You're correct but I'd like to point at that professional investors don't understand all of that either. They spend their careers focused on little niches in which they can find an advantage. So it's less, what are the mysteries of the economic universe, and more, why does the West Texas Intermediate futures curve differ from the Brent curve and how can I profit from the spread?

That and the goal of many (most?) professional investors is not to beat the market. For some they just need to have higher returns than cost of funding and anything positive is accretive. Others sell fund investors on things like low market correlation. Or others have more specific goals like hedging future fuel prices for an airline.

Point being, individual investors have completely different goals from most professional investors and as you point out, "VTSAX and chill" is the way.
Funny, I was just searching if the temperature dysregulation - randomly sweating and feeling hot or cold without a change in body temperature - might have anything to do with my covid infection two months ago (the answer seems to be: maybe, who knows!).
This is remarkable stuff.

Suggestion: A hotkey (in or out of the virtual computer) that allows you to reset to the default orientation without having to reload the page. On a laptop with only a touchpad, I'm fighting with the controls a bit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32621532
I used to feel that way then I realized everything else is a bit pointless anyways
Education is also self selected, so it likely representative of other choices as well.
Lex Fridman Podcast – Magnus Carlsen
>We might still invent other formal systems that are acceptable to us and that can resolve those statements.

That's irrelevant, though, because a mathematical proof or a statement X is considered in the context of a specific formal system (and any isomorphic system).

Proving that S can't be proven under formal system F will always be true regardless if you are able to prove the same statement in the formal system Z.

For example, you can't say "I just disproved that triangle angles add to 180 degrees" just because you've proved they add to more than 180 degrees under a non-flat surface or non-Euclidean geometry.

People saying "triangle angles add to 180 degrees" implicitly already mean "under Euclidean geometry and in a flat plane". It's just left implied, because it's goes without saying that they mean it within the system they expressed the problem and did the proof in.
Currently the only feasible thing that is going to make enough difference is to buy gas from Russia again.

Everything else is something we should have done 5 or even 15 years ago so as to not end up in this position.
Not to mention that the battery life of an inreach or spot is orders of magnitude better.
This headline is clickbait. Zuck said the FBI warned him of potential Russian propaganda during the election. Then, Zuck and his crew slowed down the spread until it was validated.

This entire discussion here is based on a false narrative, it goes off into rants of political discourse that were not true in regards to this story.

The only reason it was censored is because it fit a profile of what was expected to come. Almost all the conjecture from headline readers is covered in the podcast.

The conclusion is, if you want raw data, you can find it. 4chan is right there is you seek it. But big social media sites are not the wild-west everyone THINKS they want.
Avalanche conspires with law firm to attack competing blockchains
Nope, it's after 24 hours of inactivity.

Someone with the manage threads permission can unarchive it, but like the pinning thing that also comes with permission to delete it, so you can't just grant that to everyone in your server.
The EU could have invested in solar in Greece, Italy and Spain and Cyprus and interconnects further north, and likewise offshore wind in Denmark, pumped storage in Sweden, Austria and Greece

But it failed in securing energy resilience. I hope it has learned its lesson.
You will live a life of misery if you constantly compare your life to others' lives. Take it a step at a time and try to be better than you were the day before. Carmack lives in a different time, under a different environment with a different set of genes. He is an outlier through and through. Inferiority complex can push you to go past your own limits, but beating yourself up for "being interior" doesn't help.

Don't fret about factors that are not under your control. Social media and some video games are viruses pushed down by greedy unethical corporations that infect your mind to ignore your responsibilities by hijacking your attention. Sure, they can be good in some ways but those few positive side effects are not why they were created. Don't beat yourself for falling into the trap, but at the same time don't expect anything else to pull you out. You have to push yourself out.

Good thing is you have the ability and ambition to realize the farce and want to live a more rewarding life. Many don't realize and many more dont care to leave the passive plane of existence even once they do find out.

All the best.
No man is an island, true, but it's quite a leap from that to "art is fundamentally social".

And then there's another deep discussion about what is actually art. I would argue if an artist is motivated by social factors to make art, they are not really making art.
I’ve been feeling that a lot since I caught Covid a few months back too, thanks for mentioning, now I can look it up in context
Some Battery train companies include this in their plans.

Even non Battery electric trains can speed up or slow down at different points (while still staying on schedule) to act as a variable demand for the local grids. Batteries just extend that.

https://arstechnica.netblogpro.com/science/2021/11/can-we-ru...

> The analysis becomes very interesting when the researchers leave freight behind and start thinking about what could be done with many big, mobile batteries. Even without moving them, freight companies could use their capacity to provide grid stabilization services or sell back power when the price gets high. In extreme cases, this system could actually pay for the entire infrastructure.

> "Preliminary estimates of the most expensive 90 hours per year in the ERCOT [Texas] market, for example, show that batteries could be discharged at $200/kWh, potentially generating enough revenue to pay for the upfront battery cost in a single year," the study says.

> The batteries could also be moved to locations that have been struck by power outages or natural disasters, towed there by locomotives running on diesel instead of draining the batteries.
This is cool. Commenting to come back to
How much did you self isolate? I’ve noticed that the elderly who self isolated while having it or being around partners who had it have gone through a marketed mental decline. I think physical declines are probably there as well especially as we all age it is difficult to turn back the clock in physical fitness, past 35 more so.
There's something to it. But I don't believe the "type 2" dynamics point: if it were the case, then surely there must be some fixed-point you can reach if you take into account that your predictions become public.
What about before you die?
The model assumes the voters are Bayesian.

So, kind of like the efficient markets hypothesis, you have to ask "under what conditions will deliberative debate lead to better decisions?" Because sometimes the group makes the wrong decision.
lock-the-spock explicitly writes about reality, and within the real system we have, monopolies develop.
https://xkcd.com/202/
How would a pop up restaurant have local connections for high quality ingredients? Spoiler: they don't. They use Sysco. A company that specialized in cafeteria grade food anywhere, anytime, cheap as the dirt it is made from..

FYI if you see a Sysco brand truck at a restaurant it means you should never eat there, just go to mcdonalds as its the same quality.
American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists
This is all very strange to me. Basically everyone I know have had Covid, but no one are reporting any “long Covid”. Same with the rest of the country. Pretty sure most of us have had Covid at this point, but very little reports of long term effects. I’m sure there’s some people who experience long term effects of Covid, much the same as many people will experience long term effects from f.ex influenza. It’s just something that doesn’t fit right in my head. From the start of the pandemic Covid has been reported as much more dangerous in the US than in many other countries. I would be interested in seeing a comparison of long Covid in the US and a country that is much more relaxed about the whole thing, perhaps one of the Scandinavian countries. There might be cultural issues and/or “pre-existing” health issues that effects how Covid works on the populace.
If you can’t use the concept of causality outside of the universe, then the idea that there’s a creator outside of the universe who caused the universe is already out of bounds.
Since you are the one making the accusations, can you actually cite noam chomsky's articles/interviews instead of linking to 3rd parties that simply repeat accusations.

99% of chomsky takedowns are about what the accuser imagines what chomsky thinks, or would have said and how awful he is. Just quote chomsky directly to buttress any specific accusations you have instead sending people down citation free word salads.

I can link to 100 random articles to refute your 100 random articles as well.
You’d think so, but doctors seem to be crazy bad at statistics which is astounding since it’s so important to what they do. But its easy to look at the instance of hypermobility and hEDS among LongCovid populations. They occur at rates of 40% to 30% in LC populations and they’re supposed to be rare conditions of 2% to 0.2%. The fact that something so basic and obvious could be repeatedly overlooked should give you and indication on what I think about doctors and medical researchers.
Didn't occur to me that I could use this to turbocharge my gif game, thanks lol
China did not shrug and forced the development of local equivalents like a little more than a decade ago.

And theyre now still painted as the bad guy for "censoring".