skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for engaging! Sincerely.

If – if! – we take it as a valid premise that cognitive impairment exists after COVID-19. In adults. And if we take it as a valid premise that this is exhibited in younger people too.

Then:

I find it interesting to think about how one would study progress or decline in an education system, i.e. to look at that system itself to maintain and increase quality of the system. And: if and how one can reveal or disprove a population-scale effect on cognition due to this particular illness.

Regarding cognitive deficits or impairment, I’m not focusing solely on brain damage as the cause, although it is known to occur. There’s also vascular and endothelal dysfunction, endocrine issues like abnormally low cortisol and blood glucose dysregulation, and immune dysregulation – T-cells in the brain (not good, not usual), and elevated inflammatory cytokines which are known to affect behavior. (This is all unsourced; There exist sources for it.) A lot of this is reversible. It’s not known that all of it is.

I think we ought to look at these issues. In this context. I’m interested in thinking about and discussing the scientific mechanisms with which to look.
Yeah, it would be interesting I think to add an aggression variable. If two species meet and their combined aggression is high enough, they fight (with some large bonus going to species with some combination of aggression and ability to detect, as it is assumed they can get off a devastating first strike).

If the species are not aggressive, they can presumably at least the weaker of the two should get some large bonus.

Of course then we could play with the first strike bonus and the alliance bonus, and get whatever result we want from the simulation.
Presumably the brief moment where everyone thought they were going to get stinking rich.
European pension funds do exactly the same, the money doesn't just disappear into a vault somewhere. This is good because the profits can help combat inflation over a lifetime of work. The height of the pensions is very much dependent on market factors.

I think a bigger advantage of this system is that the money isn't your responsibility. Many people lack the fiscal responsibility to manage stocks and bonds or will do the smart thing and save up for later when they receive their pay cheque. By shifting responsibility to the individual the most vulnerable of society are most at risk of financial mismanagement and poverty during retirement or even not being able to retire at all.
Well they sound like mad scientists. Hopefully The research is still helpful for medical advancements
> I think people may be drastically over-valuing their code. If it was emitting an entire meaningful product, that would be something else. But it’s emitting nuts and bolts.

Please refrain yourself from this kind of blatant gaslighting. You're not the one to assess its value or usefulness and your point is at most tangential to the issue. The problem is that the model systematically took non-public domain code without any permits from the author, not whether it's useful or not. It's worth to hear this complaint and Copilot team should be more accountable for this problem since this could lead to more serious copyright infringement fights for its users.
That's the point. If you suspected anything then the tool wouldn't be useful, not too dissimilar to the Underhanded C contest [0].

[0] http://www.underhanded-c.org/
Really? Even the United States blue and red parties don't all vote in unison.
Channels are great. In my experience, newcomers can over-do it. I should have qualified it as "don't forget about mutexes."
Are there dead bodies? Did they go elsewhere? Russia, Russia, Russia?
Tbh I'm kind of happy for my VPS it's off the front page now.
My 401k is based on a portfolio of companies, each of which is valuable because of their success in the market. This portfolio changes over time as companies rise and fall.

My future social security is based on the promise that future taxpayers will fund it.

I’ll take my real value (401k) over the promise of value in the future (social security).
Real smooth scrolling where its actually tied to the movement of your finger is very good. Fake smooth scrolling where it's trying to interpolate between scroll events is shit.

I don't know why desktop mice are still stuck in this 80s era of jittery scrolling while trackpads and phones have been scrolling with pixel perfect accuracy for over a decade. And now every product page is tying animations to scroll position which looks great on smooth scroll devices but play as 1fps animations for mice users.
Because when you move money from a checking account, it's gone. You might say "ok well just hold the money for a bit" or similar, and congratulations, you've just invented credit.
I am saying there's nothing (or very little) interesting or novel in blockchain, yes. I mean that's literally in the article.

a huge ecosystem built on what is in reality a simple data structure which is neither particularly novel nor interesting
"Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear"
As I said there are minor exceptions.

Iraq and Iran were not top 30 economies when they fought the war.
Drone footage shows view of Soviet-era ghost town frozen in time
Alien Megastructures? Cosmic Thumbprint? Here’s What’s Behind This Spectacular J
If you use a trackpad or touchscreen and keep your fingers on, there is no overshoot. This only happens if you move and lift to give it some momentum, or fake JS smooth scrolling.
Effortless alternatives to medium:

Hashnode(tech focused)
Substack
For Linux, the best way by far to install jetbrains products is to use the toolbox.

I had the same issues you had until someone recommended installing through the toolbox, and it's worked flawlessly in multiple PCs since then.
There's no known issue with file formats being lost. (I think this is what it's about)

That's not to say noone should look at it. The US National Archives is an obvious choice.

But files should be kept in their original format.

You might shift formats to another copy so they can be easily viewed, ie in a web browser.

Changing format is the best way to lose information, for zero preservation gain.

The fact file formats are not lost is probably not intuitive, it's a interesting blog/research project why. Certainly people conflating physical media and it's hardware which does degrade with algorithms is partly why intuition fails.
That doesn't answer the question though.
Of course shutting down schools did impact grades.

Of course it did!

In part: Closing schools was poorly executed, and the lockdown/closure style of mitigation was never based in the scientific facts of the main mode of transmission, so it was always a blunt and stupid instrument.

For the avoidance of doubt: I’m raising the point that we should look at other things too. And interested in thinking about how we
would look.

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I don’t have pediatric studies on cognitive impairment.

I’ve seen quite a bit of literature on the mechanisms that cause it in adults, and only poor reasoning for children being exempt from severe and/or long-term effects. (Is this disputed?) So I’m for monitoring and studying and looking. And thinking about how to do it.
> I think this is mostly about Twitter's refusal to censor on behalf of the Indian government; see eg https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3bmn/twitter-censorship-in...

I'll explain the context behind this because Vice (as is usual with Western media propaganda outlets) does not provide any details.

The "journalist" in question, who goes by the handle @zoo_bear, tweeted out a clip from a heated National TV debate between a ruling party spokesperson and another Islamic scholar. Some unsavory remarks were made by the Islamic scholar on the ruling party spokesperson's Religious beliefs (she is a Hindu). She retaliated in the TV debate with her own unsavory remarks on his Islamic beliefs.

Now this "journalist", instead of putting out the entire clip, decided to cut the clip to only show the spokesperson's remarks which went viral not just in India but across the World. She not only received beheading/death threats but was also forced to apologize, tender resignation from the Party and go into hiding. Then after that, 4 other Hindus (completely unconnected to this TV debate) were beheaded, by Islamic terrorists, as a "revenge" for what she said. Only later did the entire clip surface and things cooled down. But by then, the damage was done. Was any of this reported by Vice? Nope. This is the kind of propaganda that Western media outlets indulge in.

Now the Government of India wanted to take this out-of-context Tweet down (as well as suspend the "journalist"s account) as he continued to put out partial information just to keep the communal pot boiling.

India is a multi-cultural, multi-religious democracy with a billion+ people. Any riots that break out has potential to turn into communal clashes on a pan-India scale. The Government, unlike Western Governments, has extra responsibility to take care of the social fabric of the Nation apart from protecting the country from adversaries on our borders.

So the Government of India is perfectly justified in requesting take down. Twitter not taking it down is purely politically motivated. It is not like it hasn't taken down accounts/tweets at all. It has done so multiple times on behest of opposition party members.
Not everyone agreed it was useful. That's the point.

People laughed at email, buying online, payment was even illegal in the beginning.

I was also there at the time from the very beginning.

This is the same thing. Hype, then crash then re-construction then normalized.

There is so much use for blockchain especially as infrastructure for society and in 10 years from now we will not even be thinking about it.

It's no different.
Is that commercially available already? Anywhere I mean
I really enjoy finding new ways to introduce her into how computers think, in the same time, I have to constantly level up my game, as I am competing with tiktok, instagram, youtube, netflix.. etc. So I have to come up with new incentives, and more and more interesting projects, e.g. I printed a tshirt with some of her code, or made a huge poster with one of the turtle images she made (https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...), or sometimes its pure bribery, like buying robux.

When I was her age, I spent hours just reading random man pages, pretty much because cartoon network was showing the same episode of dexter's laboratory for the 25th time.

The kids her age are growing in a strange era, programs will control their life, wether they want it or not, so it will be great if they can debug :)
Then I guess they don't need to borrow any more loans?
I’m not making an argument.
Just because you haven't heard of one doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

There is plenty of use for it, it's just not the same as for Web2.
My point is firebase felt anything but productive. It had the same mental load as DIY.

I agree in general: I choose netlify/vercel over S3+lambda or vps.
I often read these posts to see if there's any perspective that can convince me I've wasted my time the past few years.

Unfortunately this one didn't add any new information. It's just 'opinion' from someone very unfamiliar with the space.

This is very much in the vein of the infamous Dropbox announcement. Indeed, these technologies in their current form require a leap of imagination to see working at scale.

What's missing from this article is: (1) thoughts on anything specific happening in the space and (2) a sense of wonder about what new things have come from it.

"Crypto" is in one reading a massive flurry of activity to see how cryptography might transform society. Most experiments will probably fail, but it seems untenable to argue that the answer is: it's a fraud. We can approach this with curiosity or with derision. The choice is yours.
Tbh I can't think of a single commercial p2p product left. Mobile was certainly the driving force, but I think better/cheaper cloud infrastructure contributed. These days all the major content distribution companies have static content positioned inside ISP data centers so its fairly cheap and fast to distribute.

Even laptops probably contributed. A lot of people are going to be using laptops on the go and connected to mobile hotspots. You'd be pissed off if a game client used all of your battery and data cap in the background. Even the p2p of Skype was a pain, you had to carefully coordinate the transfer of large files. You both had to stay online and manually restart them. While now the central server holds it and it’s way more convenient.

Edit: I just remembered that windows lets you opt in to p2p updates but that's the only thing I can think of.
Try multiplying your numbers by a few thousand, billions of people use lets platforms daily. Reddit user interaction is also very different in regard to celebrities.
Context: I still drink, but significantly less than I used to; I don't think I ever qualified for an alcoholism diagnosis. I'm also very much into coffee, tea, and good food: everything that involves olfactory pleasure, basically. (Caffeine addiction is also something I'm acutely aware of.)

I got into alcohol originally for the taste — the same reason I got into coffee and tea — and realised early on I simply didn't enjoy the hangover/morning after, and since my personality is such that I have expectations of myself in terms of productivity in a day and I usually get my best work done in the morning, I realised that was highly detrimental to my emotional well-being: I would end up disappointed and frustrated the day after firstly because I wasn't processing things as fast as I knew I could, and secondly because a pounding headache tends to make people cranky.

So I started analysing why it is that I often ended up drinking more than I "should" at night and came up with a big reason: boredom. My olfaction needs stimulation. Since I can't sleep after consuming caffeine (my hard cut-off for coffee/tea is 4pm) and I don't know of any drinks that are both non-alcoholic and caffeine-free that have the same complexity of flavour, I go for fermented stuff.

I found supporting evidence for this when I realised that, if I had a project I'd started in the morning that somehow hadn't drained my brain by lunchtime and that I was determined to continue into the evening, I would basically forget to drink, even if there was a glass right in front of me. The same has happened to me with forgetting to drink coffee in the morning or even eat all day on those occasions when I've gotten into The Zone shortly after waking up.

Since I drink alcohol for the flavour first, and don't even like most of the effects of ethanol, I also don't drink when I'm tired, because I don't have the cognitive capacity to process the flavours: it becomes a waste of money, a waste of time, and a needless toll on my body. Being tired enough to forego the evening drink often comes from doing exercise during the day; by contrast, if I go to the gym after dinner, I often end up in a situation where I (can) drink a lot, because I'm so energetic after the exercise that I need something to do.

So for me, reducing the amount of alcohol I consumed came down to:
- Making sure I had other things to do (whether projects or obligations)
- Getting a suitable amount of physical activity into my day
- Constantly reminding myself that olfactory pleasure was the original reason for spending so much money on good wine, and that I can't afford, financially, to get addicted to alcohol.

In your case, it sounds like peer pressure also plays a role; I can't offer much on that because I long ago embraced the grumpy introvert side of me and stopped caring so much about that (which I appreciate isn't going to work for everyone).
Agree. The synonyms really look like buttons that may be clicked/tapped.
1. Are all crimes, right? Banks will take your consumer money (provider management does get more complicated) for gambling and porn these days. The stuff you can't get past them is almost exclusively criminal. If you don't like the fact that the government made something illegal, why are you blaming money? Also: crimes don't stop being crimes just because you paid in BTC, and those transactions aren't as anonymous as you think.

2. That part is true, largely. You do have to pay a (very large!) fee for the transaction, but it's not to anyone in particular and they don't know any more than the rest of us do about what you're paying for (which, again, is not completely anonymous!).

3. This part is laughably wrong. Even now, post-crash, transaction fees are measured in multiple dollars per. During the boom, it was routine to see entities paying more than $100 to get a transaction to post.
Not working for me (Berlin, Germany)

I cannot see the photos section…
https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html
Nitter link https://nitter.net/tsmith/status/1581318139895156737
I wasn't asking about possible downsides, of course there are pros and cons. I'm wondering how you came to conclude that taking down the content is the wrong strategy for facebook (or in general).
Yes, crown cap is what I was referring to.
Just want to see my country do well. Unfortunately it's mediocre. First step to changing that is realizing it's mediocre.
I think it would be helpful to quantify net worth and expenses. There are obviously exceptions, but I would say staying at FAANG and getting a handle on expenses should be the path of least resistance.

If you have been at FAANG for the last 8 years, your TC could easily be in the 7 figures if you were senior enough with appreciated equity.
Has anyone here made the jump from "engineering" to "sales"?

I started as a freelance webdev and now I'm a SWE at a bigco, but I dislike being an engineer. Lately I've been questioning if I really want to do a whole career of it.

It's quite isolating that the only people I interact with during working hours are other engineers or leadership, and all we talk about is technology.

I know a lot about software and sold IT services to small businesses as a freelancer, but I have no formal SaaS sales experience.

Any former engineers turned SaaS salesmen have any advice?
I found this [0] that the logic followed is a citizenship generally has to be voluntarily resigned but several actions can make you "accidentally voluntarily resign" it so to speak. It's strange to me Biden would do this especially since we aren't in open war with China but every day I wake up this world gets more strange. It does suggest certain crimes must be done with the intent to lose your citizenship as you suggest which makes Biden's action even more dangerous.

[0] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-us-citizens-can...
-40% over what time period? The current economy is not the norm.
I don't think it's legal for secondary markets (e.g. Kraken) to allow Americans to trade ICO tokens either. Basically no ICOs have ever been done legally.
Based on the behaviour of the remote and the AC unit, it works just like the Comfee unit where the remote sends the whole state (mode, temperature setpoint, fan speed) to the AC unit. The remote has a display on it showing the mode, fan speed, temperature, etc.

That doesn't tell me anything about how the actual protocol works though. I still need to buy an IR receiver and start decoding the protocol.
> While the rich are able to have money in a much more diversified set (real estate, business etc).

For the median household, most wealth is tied up in real estate (their home).
Is there research which studies the effect of COVID-19 cognitive impairment? I’m interested in the study designs.

It would be nice to disprove it, right?
Well, it would be fallacious reasoning if I was using this as the basis of an argument.

I didn’t intend to argue anything or draw any conclusions. Just making an observation based on conversations with friends and coworkers.
This is the thing. You either understand it or you don't. I can get you to see it. I don't have to, in the future it will be just there.

Web3 is a special case of wild wild west in a market with way too much money inflating it all, but the fundamental principles about having an open database accessible to everyone is here to stay.

The stock market is down up to 90% in some cases.

You need to think about this when some of the problems there are today get resolved and new generations start building with this as part of the toolbox.

But each to their own. I've just seen this so many times before and I can personally see the use cases, they are just not what most people think they are.
isn't it more like "NIH" syndrome? you still get to keep your cake and eat it too with kotlin.
Ask HN: What's wrong with working on two remote jobs if you can perform?
Most employees just wanna earn enough to retire
There's a 10:1 population ratio of US to Canada. Do they expect 1:1 results? That'd be pretty extraordinary.
> Charles Sanders Peirce (the only (!) mathematician with a top-level category to himself, who's arguably more of a philosopher actually)

He was something of an intellectual generalist sure. Nevertheless his work in logic was world class. For example he independently discovered the universal and existential quantifiers about the same time Frege did.
I think they mixed "for the rich … for the masses" and "for the poor … for corporations" while writing. But it's clear they meant contrasting terms.
Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows
I explained more in my comment at [1].

The big difference is that cars were a tool that helped regular people by being a force multiplier. Stable Diffusion and DALL-E are not force multipliers in the same way. Sure, you may now produce images that you couldn't before, but there are far fewer profitable uses for images than for cars. Images don't materially affect the world, but cars can.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227303
React isn't an SPA library.
I think the methods can be unsavory even if the result is nice.

Yes, the way Copilot was trained was morally questionable, but probably legaly fine (Github terms of service).

There is no doubt the result is extremely helpful though.
Why not point compressed air at the rails?

Edit: D'oh, already suggested up-thread. Rest of my comment still stands.

I'm sure even electric trains already have a compressed air system for brakes (though being UK, it might be vacuum).

If you really want to get fancy, have a computer vision system looking ahead that will only turn on the air when it sees leaves.
> literally millions of low quality SEO crap pages all targeting

So your solution is to therefore turn Wikipedia into the rest of the internet?
The first thing that comes in to mind is the Bezos leaked nudes.

At the time there was a story about the Saudi's being involved and some link to Trump.

Years later it came out that Bezos's investigator knew pretty early on that it was likely the brother of Bezos's girlfriend, however the National Enquirer was already in trouble for allegedly acting as a foreign agent for the Saudi's. By seeding the fake Saudi story they were able to apply huge pressure on the Enquirer.

Maybe something similar is happening here, Meta is under legal pressure somewhere on this topic. It doesn't have to be true, it just has to annoy the wrong politician/judge.
Yes, it’s the same in Australia. Party line is strongly whipped, except on very specific issues where the party says you can vote what you want (usually a “conscience vote”, very rare). There is generally an extensive backroom caucus.

The idea of Joe Manchin wouldn’t really make sense there, nor would the idea of having multiple factions within a party voting against each other.

As a result people from across the country appear much more similar. A Queenslander and a Victorian don’t politically differ the way a Californian and Texan do.