skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a victim of bursts of motivation and then suddenly I have zero energy to keep up with what I have been doing which was good for me. And then I slowly slip into the bad habits I thought I had gotten rid off and then motivation comes back and the vicious circle continues.

I read about how important energy is, how energy management is key to everything.
And the best way I read is to manage energy and not crash by the end of the day which can give that balance you need to keep going everyday without wavering from your goal(s).

But I seldom read about how to replenish energy effectively or how to have enough energy that by the end of the day you don't crash but have enough energy to keep doing things you want to do.
This thread is terrifying.

No, covid boosters don’t cause MS.

No, there isn’t a magical Mexican clinic that fixes everything.

No, light isn’t going to cure you.

Please stop giving out dangerous health info and stick to which JS framework is better HN
Why would they even need phds at all. Teaching first year student should be more of a side job thing.
> which obviously hits closer to home.

Maybe, but as I said I've watched it in Italy, as Italian, and almost everyone was watching it that night.

Also, I was merely pointing out that before Threads there was this other movie that pioneered the idea of the atomic holocaust.

There's also China Syndrome from 1979, but even though I think it's a better movie than The day after, the premise is different and the threat is the atomic energy industry, not warheads.
Well, I fully agree with your first two sentences. Then genetics likely are the next in line for what is healthy, not harmful, for your body.
You're lucky I missed a letter and not a word, it's a real issue with my writing.
Yeah you’re right, that is the aspect of uni that this article is about. Who gets to get the premo credential.
https://archive.ph/5anom
That's why the best way would be to have progressive property tax. So that owning large amount of real estate becomes uneconomical.
The part that specifies "which transitions are possible and which are not" (more precisely: which state results from a given state and input) -- known as the state-transition function [1] -- is a necessary component of the state machine definition. If you don't have that, you don't have a state machine in code; you just have a bunch of functions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine#Mathemati...
The local community college will have openings for adjuncts. You go first and teach a semester, then you'll have a better understanding of the problem field.
You can break your own record the next time and get more publicity. The hype dies down otherwise.
Look in the mirror. Lay on the bed and stare at the ceiling. Phone an older relative, reflect on the history of your family. Stare outside the window. Take a walk through the town or the city; people-watch; understand that mostly everyone else feels the exact same way that you do, they just have better ways at masking it; you may be suggesting masks right now in fact.

Ask yourself honestly: What are the trends that characterize the strengths and weaknesses of my family’s lineage? What are the cycles? How do I break them? How do I organize around a new one that will protect my own children from how I feel? What is the objective for humanity, truly? Are we to merely eat, accumulate wealth, frolic and procreate like hares and squirrels? Protest, program and attempt to prolong our inevitable in-existence on earth?
> uncanny valley

I think this is it. When the games are less realistic overall, the mind can still suspend disbelief. And in fact it often does; so low-fi everywhere is all accepted and forgotten.

Who hasn't read a book (or in the HN crowd, also played a text MUD) and become completely lost in the fictional world?

But once we hit that near-perfect, we stop suspending our disbelief (or the bar is raised near the top); so the imperfections which are detectable become jarring.
Yea the biggest source of messiness is people not throwing out stuff they don't need. They think they "lose" something by throwing it out. In fact they are losing unimaginably by keeping garbage laying around.
I’m looking at this and thinking: Did the colleges have no forsight, at all? Why did they think admission tests existed? Did they honestly think, “wow, the tests are flawed, so get rid of them, problem solved?”
The highest quality education I received was at a community college. The undergraduate education I got after transferring to a well-regarded research shool was lower quality, with larger classes and professors who weren't incentivized to put effort into teaching.
I use proxies for reading Twitter without logging in, but my point is that we shouldn't settle for a replacement that has the same problems.
Anti-values are attitudes or attributes that are properly human or attributed to objects, which are opposed to the harmonious growth of the personality and, ultimately, of society itself.
As a person with a good friend (computer scientist) who has MS, I wish you the best!

I take it you're in contact with physicians that are tracking your condition and its development, and you're not just relying on your judgement about your own mental state? If not, please get in contact with specialists ASAP, do not rely just on HN for medical advice.

Apart from the above, the best I could do is tell you to try to not be too hard on yourself. I know this sounds strange, but try to acknowledge the situation and that those are the symptoms. Work on accepting this as normal, so that it does not stress you out and lead to acceleration of the condition. If necessary find a person to talk to to help you deal with this, and to help you find what life changes to make so that it gets easier for you.

Just hold on. The science is catching up, and eventually it will! Stay strong, and do not give up!
Thank you. May I ask what are you planning for yourself in the future? I've heard that HSCT is not recommended after 40. Are you on any drugs and have they helped?
I somewhat disagree. It's true that many or maybe even most science requires large sums of money, but might there be some forms that we've yet to discover that could produce useful output with much more economic efficiency?

For example: what about a new form of think tank, one where people other than the usual suspects (ie: "the" "best" "and" "brightest") like people from "the general public" (perhaps even a few of the "uneducated", and maybe even a few picks from the "freaks and weirdos" category to shake things up for a change) are hired to simply think of new ideas?
Thank you. I thought it was another of image generation AI.
> be careful with MS it seems, there could be an immune stimulating effect.

If you know this, then why are you bringing the herb up as a response to somebody explicitly saying they have MS and are desperate for help?

It's like somebody screaming their house is on fire and you recommend trying a bucket of gasoline. And deep in the comments you'd mention "oh by the way, rhe gasoline could make the fire worse, and also, I make money off the gasoline-ordering-links that I sent you"
And to add: it is not the responsibility of the software engineer to deliver a product. This is like asking an actor to be responsible for release of a movie. Why the hell people keep expanding the role of a Software Engineer? Just stop this non sense already, please.
People seem to gain something by trying to be the person hardest and last to impress. It’s like some sort of Simon Cowell effect where people think being able to point out the flaws in something is a quality of an expert rather something anyone can do about anything.

Gamers and tech forum posters like HNers do this all the time about the things in their wheelhouse that they would say they know a lot about from graphics to React to dev tools to games.

It’s boring and I think it’s a dreadful thing to practice. A better exercise is to try to see the good things in something and appreciate those in light of the trade offs the thing must make.

Anyone can come enumerate the bad things about something.
Been diagnosed for about 10 years with RRMS.

One thing that has really helped me is the combination of remote + pair programming. Having an extra mind to work together is amazing. Doing it remote removes the stress of commute, noise/stress from the office, and allows for relaxing breaks where I can even lay down if I want.

Using note taking frequently, small commits, TDD and drawing diagrams continuously while pairing also helps keep my mind in context and picking up the thread after breaks. Whimsical has been a fabulous tool for this.

I've been of Aubagio before, and now I'm on Tysabri. The difference is staggering. Aubagio gave me tons of side-effects like hairloss, indigestion, increased fatigue and general feeling of being sick. And it still was not able to prevent flare-ups and lesions.

With Tysabri I can't identify a single side-effect. In the three years I've been on it I've not had a single flare-up or lesion identified after MRs.

Something I also believe helps me a lot is simply living in a country with healthcare and strong welfare. Knowing that when it eventually comes to not being able to work anymore, I have public disability pension that will cover 63.5% of my current salary until I reach retirement age (where normal retirement takes over). Having this knowledge removes a lot of stress and despair, which I genuinely believe helps keeping the disease under control.
I am a fullstack web developer / project manager.

I have just tried to mentally compare a MacBook Air that I have now, with an HP from the 2000s that I used to borrow from my mom a lot when I was a kid.

Honestly, I can't think of a single feature that lets me do my work much better (and yeah, I'm taking the performance increase in 20 years for granted here).

Yeah, the touchpad and the screen are infinitely nicer than they were before. But if I hadn't ever tried a high-resolution screen, I probably wouldn't have minded.

The biggest improvements seem to have come from everything surrounding the laptop — software, internet infrastructure, ubiquitous mobile phones, etc.

- I have internet connection everywhere and it's virtually unlimited.

- I can buy a server with one click for $5/mo.

- Modern browsers can be used to instantly deploy nearly desktop-grade apps to everyone.

- Very advanced tools (languages, libraries, IDEs, databases) are free.

- Not everyone has internet connectivity all the time, but the niche of only serving always-connected people is big enough that for a while (or several years!) I can just not care about offline mode at all and not solve the hard problems that occur there.

- Things that don't impact my work as much but do impact others' work: high quality video calls, free map services, free translation services, good TTS & voice recognition, fast OCR, ubiquitous TLS and fairly common E2E, very cheap storage, etc etc etc.

Perhaps the only work-related improvement that comes directly from my laptop's hardware (again, not counting performance!) is CPU-provided virtualization support. I don't know whether a 20-year-old laptop could run Docker, but.. probably not. Without Docker, matching production and dev environment would likely be much harder.
"simply"

In principle, yes, xkcd brings up a valid point. And it's not entirely sound. The entire point of hacking is to not have to get your hands dirty, figuratively speaking, and to obtain far more opportunities for exploitation than what might be had by drugging and torturing someone. After all, one could physically beat a single password out of someone to and find that said password has no value, all while putting one's self at risk of being targeted for committing crimes against humanity. If a password obtained through hacking leads to nothing, it's entirely possible no one will ever know you had it or bother coming after you.

And in this particular subject, placing material on stolen physical media carries a greater risk of being traced back to you than if a purely digital exploit was taken advantage of. It comes with less plausible deniability and a greater risk of getting caught in the act IRL.
Hi, there's an active MS community on Discord: https://discord.gg/Mr6cg3rE
Obviously they weren't truly licensed UNIX machines, but System 8 was quite capable in it's own right. Personally I like Apple hardware a lot more their their software, but the PowerBook at least shipped with one of the better Mac OSes.
Nonsense. Education is not about taking a course or reading bunch of books. The big part of education is being able to directly ask a knowledgeable person once you're stuck. You can ask the community of course but the quality of community answers is more than often just trash.
The raw image is not good and isn’t usable. AI denoises and this is what makes it usable. Then it doubles the resolution.

There is no point in reviewing the raw image as it doesn’t add anything. A study is generally 300-1000 images. If you’re going to review the raw and therefore look at 600-2000 images you’ve just wasted everything AI gained and you might as well not use it.

I acquire the images and I look at what I get and re-run anything that’s got artifact. This is not unusual and generally happens due to movement, excessive image noise or incorrect parameter selection.

I don’t review the raw, but I do review the output. Keep in mind that MR images have always been very heavily processed at every stage of image formation as any way of squeezing more out the the acquisition will have time benefits.

There are a ton of ways a tech can create a misleading or faulty image with parameter selection which leads to an incorrect diagnosis. This could happen quite easily and AI being part of any error m is not something that keeps me awake at night, unlike other other parameters with which I have seen mistakes and have made them myself.
“From 1991 through 1994, Sergey Bubka topped his own mark nine times, each time besting his previous mark by only 0.01 meters.”

https://nowiknow.com/the-man-who-inched-away-at-history/
Came to say "when (not) to use floats is actually the tricky part", read the article, and still say it. Not that the article is wrong, but I think that's just one of the minor issues when people use floats. If engineers would only use floats once they properly understood the concepts, they'll naturally start to wonder how to properly do comparisons (especially for equality).

To illustrate, here is some gold a friend recently showed to me: `float i = 1.F; while(i <= 10.f) { do_something_important(array[(int)i]); i+= 1.f; }`. We both died a little bit (though maybe only I did, because he sees stuff like that too often).
Yes, it matters. Different strains of the same species of bacteria can have different virulence in human (or animal) hosts.
How much spec are you using?
Find a smaller company, all my friends are either in big tech companies or small tech startups, they all complain about working hours, stress, being on call, &c. I earn 30% less but I have none of that bs, very chill 9-5, no techbro bs, no investors to please
I should thank you, though it’s also meant I’ve lost most of the last 3 days:

After our discussion I went and found the current work on PAR2/PAR3 (which, for those in the know: the current PAR3 format is not the old on the was never finished, but a spec that’s been re-written and is close to completion with real-world tools close behind) and I have a lot more hope for the future of parity files.

I still think they are wildly under-utilized (BackBlaze has always used them, but they are the only business I know of), but we might be having a different conversation in 2-3 years.
Removing SAT harms lower class people and benefits upper class people, so of course that removed it.
You covered exactly what I said, with more words, until making the claim that an interdisciplinary approach is required. "Interdisciplinary approach" means we need to research the problem space. The research is already done. The solutions are ready and exist. Its the implementation that people get squeamish on for fear of offending portions of the coalition in power. Their squeamishness doesn't justify delaying action, which is what your approach advocates by casting solutioneering as requiring additional raw research versus applying what is known.

Pipes, shovels, and pumps solve a lot of core problems for a community. Where and how they get laid down doesn't require sociology or political economy research. You might care about the people displaced by the infrastructure, which a compassionate person will, but don't forget that home construction and legal recompense for eminent domain are also known.

The major difference between your and my approaches: while the interdisciplinarists are arguing about the impact of infrastructure development on endangered plants and relative value of indigenous pottery buried for several thousand years, the pragmatists are getting people out of the bondage of poverty and enabling them solve their problems themselves because they have risen above subsistence.

Note there is value to ensuring the endangered plants are maintained and the indigenous pottery is studied -- as well as the knowledge gained from all fields that might come to an interdisciplinarists table -- but one must recognize the advancement of patron-funded knowledge is a bottleneck when it stands in the way of well-understood solutions.
Erik Verlinde: Gravity Doesn't Exist – Big Think (2011)
That's a very reasonable conclusion, it is technically GNOME's fault for refusing to implement a stable extensions API after nearly a decade of breakage.
Looking at the dot-com era, it probably would be more likely to compare crypto to the sudden rise and collapse of the 'dark fiber' companies.

https://25iq.com/2017/11/11/the-1990s-telecom-bubble-what-ca...

"Om Malik wrote a book on this period in which he estimated that $750 billion vanished when the telecom bubble burst. That’s a reasonable estimate in my view. The most interesting questions about a phenomenon like this are always: Why did it happen? What can we learn?"
Driving 405 freeway North, 1988 vs. 2022 [video]
Interesting. I was a student at Lund University in 1999. I vaguely remember hearing about a law professor getting caught with child pornography, but the exoneration never reached me.
While I agree with you with my alarm bells, I found out too that our medical system is way more a money extraction machine than an health machine.

But that’s exactly what a lot of clinics doing stem cell therapy are doing themselves.

No evidence the therapy works but happy to accept you as a patient as long as you can fork over $100k.
> Well that's a given

Funny way to admit that your original statement was flat-out wrong.

There is no separate "civil law jurisprudence" and "common law jurisprudence". Common law by itself is by definition not jurisprudence. Civil law combines aspects of statutory and common law (as one form of precedent) into a single system. Some aspects of common law even make their way into criminal law. Instead of just Googling for buzzwords, learn what they mean before you try to bluster your way through an argument with them.
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
Bro there are anime skins on the guns that shoot purple tracer rounds…
Same reason the most recent documentary tried to spin her immense fraud as an innocent mistake, she is well connected.
If one were moderately skillful and wanted to hoax, I wonder what kind of setup would let one make this video as "proof". What kind of "funnel" would you need? A straight cone?

I imagine the archer made several real-time videos from several vantage points to prove no shenanigans.
Everyone who doesn’t like what I like has a mental disorder. Come on, let’s grow up.
Related website:

- https://opendatadiscovery.org/

Demo (requires GitHub/Google login) + Demo Video

- https://demo.oddp.io/login

- https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZSa2FWAyUic

Use cases:

- https://docs.opendatadiscovery.org/use_cases

Presentation on ODD (by HN user germanosin):

- https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y0aFqHd4h3k
I agree the video isn’t the best of evidence. There are views from the other side of the keyhole, but they’re in different shots. Who says they didn’t fit a steel funnel at the other side of the door to guide the arrow through the hole?

The record is at https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/691706-mo..., though, and I do trust them to have checked that.
There's a popup asking me to accept a policy update as soon as I arrive. I don't have an account. A post is hiding behind the modal, but I can't see much of it to determine what this site is about.

Poor onboarding experience. 0/10, can't recommend. I can easily bypass these things, but most people I might point to it can't without guidance, and it would be silly to expect them to.
No it made it easier to discriminate and make more money money. Simple as.
Plot twist : a huge funnel on the other side of the door.
The question is: will only the sociopath led medium-companies become large companies? Or do large companies choose a sociopath leadership while becoming large?
A lot of people who work with computers get this idea. :) But it seems rather unlikely, as quantum-mechanical models are actually more expensive to compute. Quantization is not at all similar to pixelization or rounding effect, it's fundamentally different. Quantum computers being more powerful than classic computers hints that it's not a simplification, on contrary.
I think you're misunderstanding the challenge. Teaching first year students doesn't require Ph.D.-level knowledge, but it requires more teaching experience and skills than teaching later levels: The classes are larger; the students are less experienced at learning on their own; the students are new to the environment and less familiar with how to navigate it.

Large classes of novices are particularly sensitive to logistical and teaching errors. You make a question on a homework or exam a bit confusing, you have 400 students utterly perplexed who may not have the domain expertise to know it's the question that's broken.

At Carnegie Mellon, our teaching-track faculty generally own the large intro classes for this reason. They're the best we have at the process of teaching & education. It's the exact opposite of a side job. You want people who are deeply expert and passionate about teaching so that you don't completely botch the job, because the opportunities to botch it are huge.
But...that was exactly the purpose? To be able to more freely select amongst racial and gender lines as desired
Yes there is probably a particular virus that’s involved. It is EBV, unfortunately a very common virus that can get reactivated by COVID-19. The picture only got clear this year and there are no great therapies or vaccines yet. In this study from earlier this year, the chance of active military developing MS was 32-times (3,200%) higher for people who had EBV vs those that had other common viruses: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj8222
The unrealistic flaws of the video are fairly obvious and don't really need pointing out, and sometimes the endless nasal pedantry takes its toll on the mind
Apple Watch heart rate app helped 12-year-old girl discover and treat cancer