skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you’re trying to argue they’re the same, using actual facts and data would go a lot further towards proving your point

It’s my opinion that they are the same, and that opinion is based on my own interactions with folks on those sides. I see a common thread of behavior when items they believe to be incontrovertibly true might be questioned—even minor and inconsequential things. When in positions of power over people, be it governments or in any relationship with a power dynamic, the end result seems to be trying to find ways of using authority to hurt, degrade, or marginalize those folks that might disagree with them.

No matter how righteous you believe your beliefs to be, if the actions you willingly take because of those beliefs hurt people, you are doing evil. If you are doing evil, your righteous intentions are corrupted. So left or right it’s the same.
> Time, meanwhile, hasn’t led to any significant research breakthroughs to explain his condition.

The problem is that, though there is a lot of information and a lot of advancements continuously, the brain and consciousness is still poorly understood. Certainly neurology provides a lot of information about the parts of the brain, but as a whole, it is so complex that it may never be fully understood. Strong AI, as a result, is a fantasy of science fiction.

Electricity will obliterate all myelin in the body, which surrounds nerve cell axions to insulate them and increase the rate at which electrical impulses are passed along the axon. The purpose of myelin is to increase the speed at which electrical impulses (known as action potentials) propagate along the myelinated fiber.

IANAN, but the result of losing myelin is everything described in the article, memory problems, cognitive disfunction and pain, and unmentioned, the individual will no longer recognize sarcasm, revealing a particular type of brain damage. Patients get the same result from electro-convulsive therapy, and it is bizarre that it is still an approved treatment for depression; trades your depression for brain damage, effectively an electrical lobotomy. Anyone that experiences sufficient electric shock will also develop one of the many pain disorders, such as fibromyalgia and polymyalgia.

Losing myelin is considered permanent, but it actually will grow back, it just takes about 20 years. When it finally does grow back, the patient is bombarded with extra brain function, such as rapid thoughts and hearing voices. Without stabilizing drug therapy, this can lead to severe and lasting insomnia, which can lead to extreme sleep deprivation, which can lead to despair and suicide.
> 1) how the goods in the CPI basket are monopoly priced

This actually is not as far-fetched as you're implying. for many types of commodity goods (baby formula, chicken, etc) there really are only 2-3 major suppliers left in operation. Agribusiness has taken over and consolidated many types of produce as well.

As we recently saw with baby food - disruptions localized to a single supplier can severely affect the entire product segment - this outcome can only occur in a highly-consolidated market. It wasn't like there was some problem at the baby farm and nobody could make babyfood, this was one supplier that took some lines offline and it caused national shortages.

And it's not just babyfood, it's meat production, meat processing, and many other food products besides. Smithfield controls a majority of the meat market for several types of products too.

"monopoly power" as regulated in the US has never required a literal monopoly situation and that would be incredibly unrealistic in a market economy. In practice, oligopoly pricing is sufficient to be very commanding if the participants decide to collude or to otherwise exert their power.

> 2) why all these monopolies decided to raise prices now instead of 3 or 10 years ago.

because consumers are generally primed to accept it right now, and there are legitimate supply-chain disruptions and increases to allow to you to handwave your increases away (price increases are far outpacing cost increases). If everyone else is increasing prices 20%, and your competitors probably are too... why not increase your prices too, even if you only needed 5-10%?

Never let a good crisis go to waste, and all that.
This is obviously not the situation under discussion. The book wasn't released before he earned any money on it.

He clearly states "My income dropped almost immediately", which makes it clean that he was earning money from it, and that a specific event—the piracy—coincided with a drop of "$Xk worth of sales" per month.

The analogy being drawn is to losing a job and consequently losing the income you would have earned from it. You've switched from "you never had that income" to "you never had that job".
Anybody remembering Microsoft's Songsmith?

https://youtu.be/Ci1K9Zcwvy4?t=17

https://youtu.be/mg0l7f25bhU?t=27

:D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Songsmith
That is the NBER's definition, which is inside the US. I said originally that the definition *outside of the US* (and outside of the current time - since the NBER has de facto followed the global definition until 2 months ago) is two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

The only reason the definition of "recession" is such a hot button issue in the US is that it looks bad for a political party to preside over a recession. They happen. At least 4 of the last 6 presidents presided over one. Most of them aren't that bad. It's fine to admit that the US economy has receded over the last 6 months, which it demonstrably has.

EDIT: The NBER, by the way, uses many metrics to declare recessions, and they particularly overweight employment and payroll metrics. The US is currently doing very well by those measures, despite the obvious weakness in the economy. I am assuming the NBER also undervalues the effects of inflation because they don't know what to do about it. That is why most of the world uses an objective definition based on GDP growth.
> Eclipse does roughly the same things

I will respectfully disagree. If you give IntelliJ a try, I'm sure you'll agree with me. It has an option to use Eclipse keyboard shortcuts too
And it's annoying to have to find the next line every few words if the lines are too short.

Newspaper columns have always felt way too short for me. Most books have longer lines, and I much prefer that.
> E-books should be free and of easy access.

They are, via public libraries.

I have two free library memberships, one offered to all residents of the state and the other from my town.

Combined, they grant me access to another DOZEN libraries in my state.

I have free access to a huge swath of the O'Reilly catalog with loan periods of 14 days, sometimes longer, available.

I've rarely waited more than a week or two to read award-winning fiction novels.

I can borrow the majority of popular magazines, ranging from junky to The Economist and New Yorker.

I get free access to the NY Times.

I get free access to a bunch of science journals.

I get free access to Lynda (now Linkedin Learning.)

I get free access to legal boilerplates.

The list goes on.
"The best outcome" doesn't mean the best life theoretically possible, it means the best life you can achieve for yourself in the life that you have. You do not have access to infinite information about how to live a good life. You have access to a limited amount of knowledge gained scientifically, an even more limited amount of your personal lived experience, and a vast trove of traditional wisdom. Given that limited knowledge, OP asserts that the best outcomes are achieved by paying heed to traditional wisdom.

There are certainly better ways to live than the ones handed down to us over millennia, and I think we ought to fine-tune what we've been given and learn from other cultures' traditions. But discarding everything our ancestors have given us because we think we know better is sheer arrogance.
I feel like you just disqualified yourself as an interface designer
Reminds me of Dave Allen's sketch about teaching kids to tell the time:

“and the third hand is the second hand…”

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update: found it: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0QVPUIRGthI
Don't tear down progress until you can say why we make progress in the first place.
Nothing closed to finished is no joke. Been trying to share memory between a main-thread wasm controlling UI and worker-thread wasm doing heavy compute. One problem after another only to find mutexes are janky / non-operable due to main thread wasm not being allowed to block?

So need to come up with some hacks so my code can do basic things like locks with shared memory. Not sure what these folks are thinking but I’m looking forward to a day when one codebase truly works everywhere.
They got the data and graphs from this document:

https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...

And put as good a spin on it as they could.

But the underlying facts are not great.

Figure 1.3 for example, which shows the flexibility of nuclear in France and nuclear is the thing on the chart that varies least, while all the other follow the demand much more closely, especially hydro.

Or figure 4.1 where they don't bother going below 60% usage as the price for nuclear would just keep rising, and it's out of design range for most of them anyway.

As that document makes clear, nuclear has limited technical flexibility, but it's the economics that is the deal breaker. So talking about what is possible is hardly relevant.

Any attempt to deploy more nuclear in France would have rapidly hit diminishing returns and been financially disastrous.
Yeah, from what I understand, it's generally accepted that some rabble rouser called Yeshua existed, and later had followers who considered him to be holy.
At least New Year’s Day no longer falls on 25th March.
Yes, and Spotlight's also useable from the command line as mdfind, which has an -onlyin switch to restrict the search to a directory.
> Libraries and books existed long before copyright.

There was even a period (ancient greece to middle-ages) where the very notion of "author" did not make much sense as books would get copied and augmented many times over by new copyists/contributors.

Kind of a sad that we lost this practice along the way, where a book was a living, evolving thing.
Interesting. It's been so long since I've looked into this stuff that I didn't realize external frame packs were mostly gone.
If I lived in -24C, it would be extremely valuable for me to have heat.

As it is, I live in a climate that does dip below 0C from time to time, and having access to heat is important, so I have a backup generator for the house, and another for the well, because water is important too. When I use them, just the energy cost is much higher than utility power, so I don't use them when utility power is available. There's capital cost and operational costs to pay too. Many people who live around me don't have generators, so they have to hope outages won't be too long, or that they can make it to a warming center --- but outages are often coincident with locally heavy snowfall and our roads are always steep, so that makes it difficult to travel even short distances to get to warmth.

In my area, the issue isn't rolling blackouts, it's usually lines broken due to falling trees. Paying more for uninterupted utilities wouldn't fix that, but if it were rolling blackouts, I would certainly prefer to pay more for utility power for essential loads rather than paying more for local generation for essential loads.
They're spies. They just stop transmitting when the signal strength meter person's present. It's not rocket science.
The look on an American's face when you describe something as being "a fortnight away"
This actually made me feel very much better about all the weirdness. Seeing it all in one place made it look clearly inevitable and also made it clear how little of a problem any of it is.
We are not allies. We do not share a common culture or morality. Your arguments are irrelevant. The schools are being destroyed right before your eyes and you are powerless to stop it.
There's nothing legally stopping the federal government from giving that to the states though. Which makes it clear that they just don't want to.
I don’t think that’ll be relevant to what the article is discussing. It’s about group vs individual traditions. We can’t refute those points by waving quantum mechanics.
Try to commute for a month next time please. ; )
Then why are you believing a CIA doctor?
How far ahead do you have to book? I've never noticed prices to vary depending on time ..
For what it's worth, leap day is at the "end" of a year. It's just a year that starts in March—an assumption shared with several other odd properties of this calendar.
The Caledonian sleeper is hell on earth. I did it once. The only worse experience I had was a rotten old YHA hostel in the 90s where I stayed in a bunk room with three people with bowel disorders. And it wasn’t much worse.
I'd say flag things that go against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Yeah. I don't think so. They want the information that others have created to be free - whee... But they're 1) being paid for their non-physical, presumably proprietary, creative efforts and 2) think people should pay them (but I guess not from funds derived based on the protection of IP) so they can pursue some different intellectual pursuit.
How hard is it to type "library genesis" in Google?
These two statements contradict either other IMHO.

> There's little photographers (vs. say, graphic designers) can do in Photoshop that they can't do in Gimp

> Photoshop is far from simple, but both the new user experience and the overall capability vastly surpass Gimp.

I agree with the second you.
Ok. By the way I don't suggest that those examples are related to copyright. They were about the more general "The argument is that nobody should be restricted from sharing their data if that's what they want to do." There are many reasons why people is being restricted from "sharing their data".
Like technical comittees?
So what are the "imperial" Volts and Amperes?
That's probably the only (if not most) unintuitive experimental knowledge we've come across, and we still don't have a good explanation for it today. No idea how that makes tradition "invariably wrong".
That wasn't the reason, Russia was simply the lowest cost supplier by far. They have an entire network of pipes developed over decades to deliver gas to Europe and Germany.

In fact, If Germany diversified LNG supplies it would make war less likely because Russia would have less leverage. Every geopolitical commentator for a decade has pointed out that Russian gas supplies were a weapon that could be used to deter Europe.
Add Orwell’s essay on the English language.
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
February, the last month of the year was shorter because the year isn’t long enough to give it 30 days

Originally February had 30 days, along with all the other months. (The 5 or 6 remaining days at various times were either extra days which didn't belong to a month or were omitted until there was a month's worth of them to catch up on.)

February got shorter because (being the last month of the year) it had days removed in order to add them to other months -- what was originally February 30th (the end of the year) became February 23rd (the end of the year, after which the leap day is inserted).
Most likely the real reason is that articles with "experts say" in the headline performs much better than "some experts say" or "some experts wonder if".

The underlying reason for the higher CTR is that most readers want to engage with articles that are more certain than less and their inability to fill in the unstated uncertainty gets exploited.
If you have good tests, the reason is often much more clear.
You shouldn't flag things just because you don't like them, but you should flag them if they go against the site guidelines. "Shallow article that's just marketing and PR" sounds like that to me.
I’m a regular train traveller in the UK. It’s a shit show especially for us hikers. Trying to navigate the mess that is different operators and ticket splits to not get utterly shafted is a nightmare.

Then half the trains go missing or are on strike suddenly.

I have got to the point I prefer the rail replacement busses.
Not being circumcised meaningfully increases the odds of transmitting and contracting certain diseases, by around 50%ish (though reduces some, interestingly enough) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907642/] and increases the risk of UTIs significantly (by about 75%, albeit still not super common). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6119846/]

Consider a world without antibiotics, and a UTI can become life threatening. Most STDs would be similarly restrictive to reproductive potential, as men are much less at risk than women, and many women would be taking quite a gamble having sex with someone known to have an STD.

Even today, PID can cause sterility in women and is not uncommon.
Actually it is pretty elegant system. Bit strange and extra calculation, but rather elegant option to pick.
Yeah, just because wages are a component of inflation doesn't mean we can't talk about them in real terms. Same for housing, also a component of inflation: if house prices rise/inflate 2% while inflation is 10%, it's fair to say that housing declined 8% in real terms.
To simplify: Red is the lowest energy visible light and therefore the easiest to produce. Blue is the highest energy, and therefore the hardest.

It is telling that the 2014 Nobel Prize in was awarded to the inventors of the blue LED, and not one of another color.

Once you have blue LEDs, using phosphors, you can convert that high energy blue light into a spectrum of lower energy wavelengths, i.e. white light. You can't have white light with red and green LEDs, or at least not that easily.

As for you finding LEDs too blue, that's most likely an issue with the phosphor mix they are using, maybe there are some LEDs that go below the typical 2700K "warm white" standard that will be more to your liking. I don't think lighting with pure red or pure green is a good solution since without a blue component at all, blue objects will appear black, and you will have a result a bit like with these yellowish high-pressure sodium lamps that are common in street lights, which in technical terms is a low CRI. You can try it though: get RGB lights and set them to red, green or yellow.
> Now imagine what happens when blue collars get saturated again.

The downward pressure on their compensation will see the cost to build new homes come down and thus the market will trend towards affordable again? After all, like all things, the cost of a used home is a function of the cost of a new home.
It seems a little funny to say you can't use multiplication or division operators, but then use shift operators to do multiplication and division. Also, the suggested solution uses a `*` in the final return...

It seems like you could instead use addition of a value with itself for the multiplication by 2, and it seems like there isn't any inherent need to divide by 2.

Here's my submission (set to expire after a month).
https://pastebin.com/mgvGakLL
Hour 25 is 1 am on the next day, which is 25 hours from midnight of the reference day.
Dates are one of the first standards through which humans discovered https://xkcd.com/927/.

Standards simple and useful enough to be used in everyday conversation die with their users. So I don't know anyone who keeps track of the Republican calendar, but I _do_ know people who are celebrating New Year's tonight. And the English still drink beer in pints.

It would only be simpler to use the Republican Calendar in a vacuum. Practically, all us programmers would spend all our time converting dates between Georgian and Republican dates, and I'd have to look at my ID to know my birthdate.
how about going to work?
Here's the base 12 multiplication tables: https://math.tools/table/multiplication/base/12

It doesn't look more or less nice to me than the base 10 version. Can you describe what is supposed to make it look nicer, especially to aliens?
Infection itself seems to reduce the risk reliably too. I suspect at a similar rate & more durably, especially considering that the vaccine only generates an immune response based on a single sub-unit of a protein. Versus infections where every protein is presented to the immune system.

I suspect the human body responding to that complete antigen is doing something much more complex & effective than an admittedly genius human invention. Perhaps we'd be wise to consider that even our best efforts are often (in ways we don't even understand) inferior to millions of years of evolution.
Your account has vouching privileges.
+1 for AutoSleep.

I've been using it since before WatchOS 7 introduced sleep tracking, and it's scarily accurate even at tracking when I doze off for a short while in bed.
Exactly what I was thinking! It'd be interesting to see this as a git log (maybe with different branches for different cultures)
Yes, there _is_ a reality we know. But that does not mean that things _ought_ to be the same in the future.
You might be surprised. We used to love jumping off bridges into Lake Amistad. Huge cliffs, train bridges, etc.

Your choices are your own to make, but from my point of view you may be missing out.
I’m not missing that. My point is that the actual evidence is pretty threadbare, and vaguely gesticulating about a conspiracy does not actually conjure stronger evidence.

Is it possible a missile really did blow up TWA 800? Sure. But I am not convinced by arguments that are effectively appeals to my latent distrust for the CIA, much less arguments that boil down to fill-in-the-dots conspiracy pattern matching.
Same for Long Covid - both regarding mass psychosis as well as an easy way out into disability compensation.
If copyright didn't always extend to cover all of Mickey Mouse's existence, would piracy be as popular?
Was that on the new trains?
I actually have 2 of these.

- The First had the Rom chip and ram removed from it and has a bit of wear.(by a goodwill that likes to strip computers)

- The second is in near mint condition, as if it has never been used. It works without issue. I had to find a power supply for it, since neither came with one.

I have been contemplating replacing the guts on the one missing the rom chip, since I have no idea where to find one of those. It should be able to fit a raspberry PI inside, alone with a much higher quality screen, but I don't really feel like figuring out the keyboard/trackpoint connections/software.
Grupetto: An alternative workout UI for Peloton bikes
I'm recovering from a broken leg, so I can't easily follow a normal Peloton class.

There are guides for running non-Peloton applications on the tablet (which runs Android), but there's no way to keep track of any of my stats.

So I reverse engineered the official applications and found a route to send serial data to and from the bike's sensor module. From there I was able to retrieve live stats, and wrote an app that overlays those stats over other apps

The result is being able to watch content from any app that runs on Android while still getting the same live metrics as you would within the Peloton app
> already gets sanctioned by the US

Iran trades with Turkey, Pakistan, the U.A.E., Germany, India, Kuwait and Qatar [1].

[1] https://oec.world/en/profile/country/irn/?flowSelector1=flow...
Reminds me how Sports Tracker (and really most apps) got wonky every time my phone battery got below 15% and got into aggressive power savings (and no amount of convincing would convince Android to fuck off).

Kinda smells like something similar, some aggressive power savings cutting on GPS accuracy or how much app is allowed to run in background.
> in software, I would rather tear it down and find out what it was there for.

if you don't have regression testing there's a chance you don't find out until something disastrous happens