skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Canadian government has been targeting increased immigration for the past several years [0]. There has been a lot of bipartisan lobbying in support of this by the Century Initiative [1]. Imo the Canadian immigration system is a pretty streamlined system that the US could take a couple pages from, while also keeping the INS's strong background checking infrastructure. Sadly I know a number of people who abused the system (fake asylum claims, fake documents), but Immigration Canada doesn't seem to take background checks as seriously as the US.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-14/trudeau-p...

[1] - https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/
But sedentary people are the target audience for this exercise.

Athletes worry about having enough energy during their exercise.

When many people in developed countries are obese or overweight, every technique helps, especially something for those who don't like to sweat...
Once you accept lossy compression, it becomes a question of what level and type of "lossy" you're willing to accept, and how clever the "compression" algorithm can be.

If I want to compress the movie Thunderball -- a sufficiently clever "compression" algorithm could start with the synopsis at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball_(film) add in some images of Sean Connery, and generate the film. That's...maybe a 100K to 1 compression ratio?

If the algorithm itself understands "Sean Connery" then you could (theoretically) literally feed in the text description and achieve a reasonable result. I've seen Thunderball, but it was years ago and I don't remember the plot (boats?). I'd know the result was different, but I likely wouldn't be able to point to anything specific.
Yes, it works with DTS. Here is the full list of supported codecs: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Audio-Codecs
Ryokan in Kyoto is a must. Also, if you spend enough time - don't just do Shinkansen all the time. It gets boring pretty quick as you are moving from one big city to another. Rent a car for some time too!
I'm pretty sure that is already illegal for those specific reasons.
> And if we decided that we should do some things for public health in the very short term, should we humor every crackpot who wants us to wait?

That's a very short sighted view. Expanding the power of government is not always the answer.
I think the parent means you "solve" it by just avoiding it altogether :)
The whole value of this model is in 680 000 hours of training data and to reuse this value you need large model, not smaller ones. Smaller versions just don't have enough capacity to represent training data properly.
Sorry, yes, I meant Leak Sanitizer.
Careful, you stop the clock if you put it to sleep. The clock is not great (large deviations in clock quality), but I like to have all my clocks more or less within 5 min.
TLDR but you actually end up reading even more than the original. I could be wrong and this might actually work and condense a big function but if that is true, why showcase such an example.
I love how he captures it in a balloon during this Ted talk on fatloss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIlsN32WaE
I've seen it argued that text is worse because it forces people to read the words with their own inner voice. Somewhere in this discussion is a guy who linked to studies saying you are incapable of reading anything without believing it. (Do you believe me?)

Text, photoshop, special effects, deepfakes they're all just tools for spreading ideas, but we've been dealing (to some degree of success) with folks telling lies for as long as we've had language. I just can't see this fundamentally changing anything except the level of skepticism we give to video which (considering what hollywood has been capable of for some time) we should have been developing already.
Ask HN: Optimal way to prepare for standardized exams? Can games help?
Standardized exams are some mix of memorizing and problem solving.

For memorizing, spaced repetition comes to mind.

"Explain it out loud" can help with identifying gaps in understanding.

What other strategies do people use?

Can games help us digest new content? Any cool examples? (domain does not matter!)

What's the latest thinking on rapid/effective learning?
> less prestigious schools that graduate a ton of professors, like UC Berkeley

How in the world can UC Berkeley be "less prestigious". It constantly ranks world top-10 in all rankings.
The easiest way to power Web3
You get an efficiency problem there in that it means that the first thing allocations have to do is re-zero the allocation.
Or more like CLR/.NET (and even Java/JVM with the proliferation of JVM languages) where you've got a bunch of languages targetting the same VM.
I'll tell you. Any service that gives an explanation of ToS violations and doesn't arbitrarily lock and ransom your money and fall silent; such as AlignPay [0]. The last resort is to accept and use crypto or stablecoins.

[0] https://alignpay.com
That’s an interesting question. My bet is it would work similarly to Confluence, Google Docs etc. Basically the canvas would be deleted based on the creation date.

As for the associated Slack message thread, those should be just like they are today. Each individual message in the thread is deleted based on when it was originally created.
Years back, there was talk of trying to leverage this concentration, to improve national science education. Professorial educational skills are often less than wonderful. Eg, physics education research's "if you think your lectures are working, your assessment also isn't". And creating change by improving current professors is hard, expensive, and failure prone. So the idea was, to lavishly fund education research, training, and education minors, at these few institutions through which pass, most graduate students who will eventually become professors. Make their instructional training really excellent, and then wait for it to propagate nationally. One obvious downside being reinforcing the concentration.
Thanks for explaining, I appreciate it. And it makes sense what you've shared.
Why stop there Girolamo Savonarola was doing it in the 15th century, or Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.
Why don't you work 7 days a week now and get even more work done?
Travelling by train kinda becomes boring after a while, hence I'll go for a car next time.
CRISPR is a revolutionary tool.

AlphaFold doesn't solve folding. It makes metaheuristic guesses without writing a bunch of quantum chemistry, statistical physics, thermodyanamics, and topology maths / algorithms.

I don't mean to downplay AlphaFold, but we haven't solved protein folding yet. This press is really getting ahead of itself.
Perhaps this could be adapted?

https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech-examples/blob/master/m...
This is what was so infuriating about all the dim-whited "It's a private company, they can do what they want" posts.

Let's say for a moment that common carrier doesn't logically apply to Big Tech. The government was involved in 1A abuses if they communicated with these companies to censor posts. End of story. They admitted they did it.
Can I briefly and humorously boil your statement above down to "Ronald Reagen was probably innocent by way of sheer ignorance"?
> I'm curious if this is the same muscle that causes Charlie Horses.

Not sure what you mean. We can have charlie horses in any skeletal muscle.
In case anyone is wondering:

"There were in total 25 human volunteers in 2 sequential experiments..."

Broken down, that's 10 in one experiment, 15 in the other. No reason to get too excited with such a small sample size.
Which NFL Team Are You Stuck Watching Every Sunday? (2015)
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Well put. Welcome to contemporary political discussions. Objectivity is really scarce. The entire discussion goes down the toilet due to some form of 1) whataboutism 2) moral superiority complex 3) strawmanning 4) gas lighting. Add a dozen or so common biases and you've got a toxic brew of non-productivity. Furthermore, reconition of biases from a list like this [1] can be both good or bad. Bad in a way that it can be weaponized to shutdown conversation. Basically, everything you ever say (including this comment) would violate one of these cognitive biases, its a huge list. Feel free to use them as weapons! /s. There are also eggregious misuse of 2) which comes in the form of "For the children" or "Killing babies" or "For the good of the planet", etc.

Modernity has brought us closer to subjectivism than ever.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
> I don't think actual science was ever being suppressed.

Don't be ridiculous.

We knew very early on that the passengers on the cruise ship Diamond Princess continued to spread Covid from cabin to cabin despite being locked down in their cabins. Yet the scientists who pointed out that this was very good evidence for airborne spread of Covid were shouted down.

Why is this important? The mitigations we put in place were based on the theory that Covid had a droplet based spread, like the flu.
seems like you should either make the lookup automatable or stop collecting. eu citizens wont have such a fee.
Virtually no-one at a top school is spending a penny to get their PhD. Most of them are getting paid to do so.
Is your website cryptojacking? It blew up my GPU.
I don't think anyone is trying to claim that magazines are educational. They have some entertainment value and I'll take any excuse to not stare at a screen for a few hours.
Does this solve protein folding?
This is a very interesting point. It's like using Fourier Transforms/Laplace Transforms to do operations or comparisons that are way easier in those spaces.
Not really - your psychology really has absolutely nothing to do with how much force the Earth exerts on you (and everyone else). CICO captures this perfectly: the more Crust of the earth Out, the less force the Earth will exert on us, so we'll all weigh less. No amount of psychology will help or prevent you from losing those newtons of weight!
Oh, you're right. For some reason I thought it was requesting I pay.

A calorimeter in a general sense measures heat transference, calories being a measure of heat.

More specifically, what I build is an indirect calorimeter which uses respiratory gas analysis to not only measure human energy expenditure in calories but make an approximation of the ratio of glucose to fat being utilized. The reason I might fix my calorimeter sooner rather than later is to see whether I can witness greater glucose utilization with the soleus pushup than with other exercises of the similar energy expenditure.

EDIT: In the paper it states that they used an indirect calorimeter. It's a very cool device to have access to, but I don't recommend anyone build their own like I did. As the paper describes, it's really hard to get right with even the best equipment. Calibration is very difficult and subtle body movements can totally mess with a reading.

> VO2 and VCO2 production were determined using a TrueOne 2400 metabolic system from Parvo Medics. The gas analyzers and pneumotach were calibrated according to standard manufacturer procedures using certified calibration gases. Sufficient time to flush out the gas lines and average steady state measurements was always confirmed. The measurement period was extended when it was deemed helpful (such as if there was a fluctuation in VO2 caused by a cough or when taking additional time to confirm the precision of the result). We were careful to ensure participants were positioned when sitting completely relaxed to avoid
extraneous movement beyond the intended SPU plantarflexion movement. This included positioning the chair back rest and height for each individual to optimize a restful position.
Edit: for some reason I'd interpreted the question as being about cycling. Leaving in case it's useful for cyclists or motorcyclists.

I've done a lot of cycling across various bits of Japan, from shorter day trips on the order of 150km to longer 1000km+ trips. One thing to keep in mind for visiting cyclists on longer road trips: this may seem obvious but Japan is very mountainous which means a lot of narrow roads with little/no shoulder, and long (sometimes multi-kilometre) tunnels. Fortunately drivers are in general, very considerate and careful around cyclists.

For shorter day trips, many large rivers/lakes in Japan have cycling/walking paths along one or both sides and make for really nice riding. In Tokyo, the Tamagawa or in Kyoto Kamogawa and Katsuragawa have paths. Lake Biwa has a really nice cycling trail as well.

One of my favourite longer routes was along the north coast of Japan between Tsuruga and the north end of Fukui. The mountain pass along no. 8 through Takefu has some nice views but a lot of climbing and tunnels. For something shorter but pretty, follow the Tamagawa from Tokyo up to Lake Okutama. As someone else mentioned, I find travelling in rural Japan a lot nicer than cycling in/near big cities.
>You're presenting a counterfactual, that if schools were opened, everything would have been fine and it would have been business as usua

Person you replied to never said that. Could have been like my kid's school, where the kid/teacher missed a couple weeks but other than that the teachers that didn't die or whatever eventually came back and taught the kids in class in person.

>showstopping complications.

Well somehow they weren't as my county got hit worst than most and yet somehow my kid still got schooled, just through a private school. Didn't stop the show for those willing to keep the show going.

>Most people I've found blaming teachers

I definitely don't blame teachers in general. My kids teachers were great. Awesome people. The ones that gave up, and said well thinsg are challenging and I might die or whatever, well that's fine I don't blame them either. Go on and find another profession or whatever, you're not a slave. But I salute the ones who stuck around like my kid's teacher who was willing to adapt and overcome to keep things going so my child didn't get so far behind.

>abusers

The person you replied to never said teachers are "abusers."

It almost sounds like you're arguing against some other person you have beef with, rather than the person who replied to you. Either way I don't know what to tell you. My kid, and her teacher kept going on through COVID in person somehow, so I guess they proved the impossible can actually happen. We lived in our alternate reality where it is possible, and you lived in one where it was a 'showstopper.'
Sounds good to me. Cheers and thank you.
Another of those banned books articles that only lists books the author likes, and wouldn't dream of mentioning any of the books banned so effectively that they never made it into school libraries and reading lists:

In 2019, Amazon purged dozens of books from right-wing authors, including 16 titles from Counter-Currents Publishing, such as Greg Johnson’s White Nationalist Manifesto. Four books by American Renaissance founder Jared Taylor were banned, including 2011’s White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century - https://truthout.org/articles/after-activist-pressure-amazon...
That’s not why I nicknamed my chili recipe Red Mercury.
Demon sperm doctor lady is still out there speaking to large audiences. I feel zero guilt about the fact that she's been sidelined from mainstream discourse.
The most desirable jobs in the private sector are also filled by graduates of the same few elite universities, and this elitism is perpetuated by all of academia (not just the top few universities). The elite class has constructed this system to perpetuate itself. Academia (the core pillar of elitism) is the last place where this hiring inequality will be addressed (if it ever is addressed, which is highly doubtful).
> You would not break the contract

You wouldn't. Someone else would. Without fail.
There you go: https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-removes-ukraine-on-fire-do...

I already explained my motivations behind what you describe as "acting in bad faith or arrogance" and would rather not be going in circles.
Both can be true. Your point that internally these companies decided to start censoring, and later the Biden Admin started asking for the same. These is no exclusivity there. If anything, a Trump or Biden Admin might not have had the idea to ask for censorship had the Tech companies not introduced it themselves first?
> Everything has trade offs and as time goes on I value the benefits of technology less and less. I believe this has more to do with age than any sort of absolute value judgement.

For me it's long observation of tech improvements not improving happiness or contentment. More choices, more efficiency—just means more time trying to decide, and that you're expected to do more and context-switch more in less time.

I think there was probably a sweet spot somewhere along the line—or probably a bunch of sweet spots, for separate things—and in many respects we're way past it now.
Since in the not too distant past we walked on all fours, wouldn't the analogous muscles in the wrist also have this ability as an atavism? Or did we lose it
I was aware of and use copilot but I didn’t realize it was built on top of codex. And wasn’t even aware codex existed until you commmented.

I read hn pretty regularly but unless you’re really excited about the AI space a lot of this news washes over you and you mostly ignore it.
Here's an article from 2020 about the New York Philharmonic: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...

Blind auditions are probably not going away anytime soon.

The ugly truth about orchestral musicians is that nowadays (with the general downturn in ticket sales) it's not much a living. There are far fewer professional orchestral musicians than there were 50 years ago. Representation on a ship that's slowly sinking is not, IMO, incredibly pressing.
Brave adds 16 new leading DApps to its Wallet Partner program
12th century farmers were practicing subsistence agriculture. Locking the entire village off from the outer world was absolutely possible.

The cities are the big problem. During the Black Death, people coming to cities were quarantined before they were allowed to enter. Even then, many cities saw half their population die. A very significant number of settlements was wiped out altogether.

Ironically, it was actually quite beneficial to the regular villager - provided you survived. The Black Death has been directly linked to the collapse of feudalism in Europe, among with many other sociological developments.
Seriously? Now the FBI is engaging in mob tactics?

Is this the branch that operates out of the basement at Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria?

You wanna know this one weird trick about this story? It only matters that it exists and can be further weaponized by crying foul over its suppression.

You don't care about what the story is about, just the story itself (and the story about the story).
If you pleaded with them they'd probably let you work more than the 4 days.
The browser side is not where all the hurdles occur. It's on the capture side and the key/certificate management/revocation side.
Can I get a source on the Russian nazi claim? It's the silliest of the claims you made and if you present a shred of evidence for it I'll reevaluate everything.
Oh yeah, but at least in myself, they are primarily in the calves.
Your local radio show will undoubtedly be better than the average podcast because there's no barrier to entry for podcasts. However, the high tier podcasts are on average way better than anything your local radio show can produce.
Radical. I’m imagining randomly sampling images and identifying the text attributes associated with human ratings of image beauty.
I think the most important figure of merit is sadly how much money it will make the people in charge of implementing it in consumer devices.
MS has been trying to get AI into intellisense for years now and I always turn it off.

The lack of control over it just makes it annoying. In many ways it's faster to just type out the algorithm than it is to lay the algorithm out and spend the time trying to understand what's there so I can successfully convert the code to what I need.

Then there's the lack of stability. Yesterday it did something different from what it's doing today, so I can't even use muscle memory to interact with it anymore.

Intellisense has _always_ had that annoyance factor of getting in your way sometimes, forcing you to write code in a certain way to minimize that. All this just makes it more annoying and I don't believe anyone who claims it truly makes them more productive.
The lion trackers guide to life - Boyd Varty

I don’t know where we are going but I know exactly how to get there
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And returns the approximate inverse square root.
Putting aside the specific strength of Netflix - the wording on this poll is incredibly silly. You can cancel Netflix at any time so what is the follow-through rate on someone who "plans" to cancel? What about the cancel rate for Hulu or HBO What percent of people historically have cancelled Netflix once in a given year?

I know its a silly consumer poll so not a huge deal, but I see this type of question a lot in political polling about "Are you planning on leaving your job" or "Are you financially stressed" which seem to try to code a nebulous subjective answer to an objective one.
'Million miler' or 2M status meant something different twenty years ago than now. Now it means the person is unable to use communication tech and instead subjects themselves to invasive screening at airports.

It was unavoidable for some people twenty years ago. Now it is a badge of stupid.
Playing video games or trading have similiar effects or worse. Engineers who build those platforms should question themselves too.
In this case, is the body releasing actual fat into the bloodstream for use by the muscles, rather than the fat stores burning fat directly for ATP?
Appears to be an advance fee scam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam

You supposedly deposit some money for the surgery and then they'll give you the proceeds of the kidney sale. No actual organ transplant occurs and you go home poorer the advance fee.

Personally, I think it is a bit unconscionable that a transplant can cost $700k+ in the US and while everyone makes money off the operation, the person supplying the crucial part, the organ they may have spent decades creating and caring for, that person finds themselves as the only person without any money.

A sufficiently regulated organ trade is fairly essential, I think, to the future of transplant surgery.
No need to be sorry! I appreciate it!

It was actually in the link the parent posted. I just missed it at first.
That's, uh...pretty ignorant of the fact that most of the people in the IT world are infinitely more aware of how damaging FB and most social media sites are than the average person. Come on.
oh? where, exactly? Is that why we needed Obergefell, and Loving, and … ?
Isn't the problem that Flipper is a russian company? Considering the sanctions I would think the problem lies somewhere there.
Yes, the quote could be updated in a couple of ways. I like "An amateur will try to build what you asked for, a professional will deliver it, and a psychic would have built what you want".
Yes, what's reasonable to a company may not be reasonable to a consumer. Ie, as a company can create process that uses 10 man hours and my cheapest labor with overhead is $50/hr, but we can find countless CNBC articles that say the average consumer can't afford a $500 expense.
> Cavities are not permanent and they heal, read the book.

That seems controversial here, but I've read in several places that cavities can stop (a bit like an infection can stop)

However the tissue "lost" to the active part of the cavity is gone, as in a little chunk of volume is lost.