skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'm more sympathetic to people with disabilities because for several years I was close friends with a man who was born quadriplegic. His mom caught a virus while he was gestating and so his arms and legs are gnarled and useless, his spine is curved like the letter "c".

Going around with him in his electric wheelchair was a learning experience for me. Simple things like using the sidewalk or taking the bus could be extremely challenging for him. You want to talk about "burden" to me? Go sleep in a parking lot next to a crippled man for a few months and "then we'll talk" as the dramatic idiots like to say.

Civilized people make allowances for folks who, as we say, are challenged. It's only natural. It's no burden to be a good person, it's its own reward.

> Have you close-captioned all videos you've uploaded to various platforms?

FFS yes. It's not that bleedin' hard, innit?

I'm only bothering to type this because I have a level of basic respect for you bombcar based on some of your other comments. You're on the wrong side of this argument amigo.
You might be able to simulate that with psychedelics, meditation, or perhaps if they ever figure out how to reliably induce specific states with trans-cranial magnetic stimulation. Then someone can make a choice.

I’ve had experiences where I was aware of people and what was going on, but from the outside, it looks like I am passed out. It wasn’t really that bad.

I know of others who experience what is typically called “sleep paralysis”. It often comes with hallucinations and night terrors.
Alan Kay on how to fund research groups to solve big challenges[1]

"When “What Will It Take?” Seems Beyond Possible, We Need To Study How Immense Challenges Have Been Successfully Dealt With In The Past"

[1]http://www.vpri.org/pdf/Kay_How.pdf
I really enjoy PBS and generally agree with you but we’re at a place so far removed from objectivity in news gathering when the best still stand by this rationale.

> We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions

Terence Samuels, NPR's Managing Editor for News on the NY Post
Hunter Biden story

https://mobile.twitter.com/nprpubliceditor/status/1319281101...
Same point applies, since a firm is not gonna take a pro bono (this would actually be contingency fee) case they don't think they can win, which was what the OP was saying.
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That's a strong argument, and a practice I've seen suggested for LaTeX as well, where a paragraph break is indicated by two carriage returns, rather than one.

In particular, it plays well with most revision control systems which are line-oriented.

That said: revision control which is semantically aware of textual structure and sentences would also be useful. And I much prefer composing with sentences separated by horizontal rather than vertical whitespace, though I suspect I could change that pattern. It would however mean I'd be changing practices based on specific composing contexts.

That said, I two-space.
I have MS; just diagnosed in March.

I've noticed a bunch of little things, over the years, that are probably MS related - and a few more after a big relapse: Foot drags every so often, mental math that was easy - isn't, forgetting things, fatigue.

My advice is to take a breath and make a plan. I've started to realize that the retire at 65 plan might not be possible - so, I'm planning for a scenario where maybe I can't work in the same capacity, at 55.

There's a lot that one could be depressed about - so, it's important not to get stuck in those thoughts. Happy to chat offline or it seems like a discord channel (for the group) might be in order.

I'm JC Virus negative and taking Tysabri. So far, so good. It's had very good results in studies, but you have to stay JC negative
Stephen King wrote a short story on the subject, Autopsy Room 4.
In effect, style == "is ugly or not ugly" and grammar == "is wrong" and style is highly conditional on education, country of origin, and context. I am british, have used computer typesetting systems since the early 80s, but currently live in Australia which is caught between poles of british-centric and american-centric style guides.

Most computer typesetting systems are written by Americans. To the extent they interpret "." as a sentence marker, what they do is therefore by origin of software heavily dominated by what the US marketplace in style expects.

Most computer typesetting systems I use are contextually NOT WYSIWYG and involve embedding the markup and processing it through explicit steps. Whilst I believe these are more capable of being told "honour a different style" the style guides tend(ed) to reflect publishing paper journal constraints to space and style, not general writing style. So using T/ROFF with the -ms macros, or LaTeX with specific IEEE journal settings.

Microsoft claims to honour locale pretty strongly. I have no idea if this leaks into style beyond s/z spelling and date-time.
I think the problem with the in order designs is that there is not much to improve on. Most of the gains for OoO cored designs are coming from the branch predictor.

You mentioned A55 and A35. There are good boards shipping those cores, now. rk356x and various Amlogic SoCs come to mind.
Vim's sentence-aware navigation is a strong argument, though it's hardly the only text editor which does so, and for which two-spacing affords benefits.
The future is more human-oriented instead of pursuing profit at the cost of everything else. It will be based on resilience instead of JIT, sustainability instead of extraction. Growth will be slow to zero, but things won't crash so often or so hard either.

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/05/02/u-s-trade-representat...
Groupies Deserve More Credit
It looks like the writer mixed up SIM cards (subscriber identity module card) with the unrelated practice of security information management (SIM).
>Am I missing something or are these two things not just not in the neighborhood, they are on different planets.

Amazon owns Twitch. I think OP is highlighting that the EFF speaks out against Amazon's privacy practices while simultaneously supporting Amazon financially.

Edit: "I think..."
Haha skewed, NPR has been a staple liberal stereotype since my grandpa listened to them. If you’ve noticed anything it’s that the gap between liberals and conservatives widened massively starting in the late 2000s when the Republican party started slipping so they manufactured a wedge issue out of gay marriage and when that died down trans healthcare with some opportunistic blm thrown in. And look, it worked. It paid off huge for them but at the cost of literally bifurcating the country and hollowing out moderates and independents. So now it’s much much easier to see the side they’ve always been on since the contrast has been turned up to 11.

As much as I personally think the Republican party is absolutely fucking evil for the specific issues they capitalized on — because good god lower taxes, eliminating government agencies, and less powerful unions doesn’t pour gasoline on festering racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia creating a tire fire of hate and violence that will outlive me — I’m not mad at the game in abstract, Democrats play it too.
I wish there were more SBCs with PoE support.
These are always the most cartoonish viewpoints.

How dare you have an opinion! This is the internet! SapporoChris is going to require journal published studies, probably several, before granting you the unbelievable kindness of acknowledging your question.
Green technologies and the de-centrification of energy sources is going to countermand the trend. The work will still grow.
"Competent" on the object level - they are the people that are really good at the technical aspects of their job, but really bad at reading social cues or playing the political game. When they leave to found startups (and I've done this, as a Clueless), they are the ones who build a brilliantly engineered product that nobody wants, or stumble upon a hot idea only to get forced out by a VC's termsheet that they didn't understand, or they become the richest man in the world and then accidentally buy Twitter for $43B.

If you believe that starting a company is a pure meritocracy based on how good you can build a product, you are almost by definition Clueless.
I agree and I can’t figure it out. It’s not only the media either - it’s everyone. Extreme polarization is everywhere, and all of it seems to boil down to a struggle for power. Rich vs poor, citizens vs police, republican vs democrat, autocratic vs democratic - all being seen in extreme forms. It’s like the world has fallen under a spell or a mass psychosis.

I would love to hear theories of what the root cause is. Is it due to massive state sponsored manipulation campaigns via social media?

Worth reading: https://consilienceproject.org/social-media-enables-undue-in...
Good feedback, thanks. I think an export feature is helpful.

I'll be working on making it more clear, but form submissions get forwarded to the email specified on the form. So if you're putting the form on your sales page, you could forward it to sales@your-domain.com. All submissions are also viewable on sandfly.io.

$15/year for unlimited forms and 5,000 submissions, so you can have as many forms on as many sites as you'd like!
Thanks for the info.

> average ICBM is 500-1000 kilotons which basically destroys most buildings in 50 square miles and causes third degree burns for around 150 square miles (probably killing most).

OK, makes sense to me.

> Nuke map shows 1.5 million fatalities in downtown Manhattan with 800 kilotons

Huh? That means there are only 1.5 million people in 50 square miles of Manhattan? (ignoring the 150 of third degree burns) That seems terribly low to me.

Manhattan in it's entirety is 22 square miles [1]

So one "average" nuke will easily kill everyone in all of Manhattan and a ton of the surrounding area... but that's only 1.5 mil?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=manhattan...
>> So even up to then I had been keeping a distance from computers when out in public so that I could maintain the image of "Yeah, I'm good at computers but I'm not a computer guy or anything".

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life"
For some reason I feel more comfortable watching an ISIS beheading video than discovering the answer to this question
How is that any different from a major open source maintainer deciding to quit the project and leave it out of date? It’s an identical outcome for the end user of the OSS.

You wouldn’t demand that someone continues development of the project for free right? So they can either leave the project to rot, which seems morally fine to everyone, or they just also decided to start charging money for future updates.
This only really matters if you live in China or Russia. Everyone else will do just fine or better as manufacturing in China plateaus or declines and Russia’s sphere of influence recedes to its own border.

The US will continue to grow modestly but steadily with decent governance, lots of resources, and a growing population.
I don't know how this is relevant to HN but it feels well timed, for me.

My wife is alive. She doesn't a terminal diagnosis. But for the last five years, she's had no diagnosis. Visually, she's stunning and fit. According to every test they run on her, there appears to be nothing wrong. There's no explanation for the temporary blindness, the rapid onset arthritis, the partial spinal fusion, the diverticulitis, the random bleeding, the persistent fluid buildup and inflammation or the new magical DVT they found when looking for something else. It could be autoimmune, it could not be, I could be anything at this point. And there's no one who either wants to or is qualified to look.

I lost it after the title and lost it more through the first section. I couldn't even tell my wife what I was reading, when she came into the room. This story is the tale of all my fears. But where's he's poor, I'm not and where he has community, however temporary and dwindling, I don't.

I cannot imagine having to explain to our daughter that mommy is gone but I'm constantly thinking about the possibility of it. I've been worrying about this eventually for a couple years now and I don't know where people find the strength but somehow they do.

I feel for the author. I dread his reality every day.
For me, owning my own email domain is far more about control than privacy. I currently use some MX and SMTP trickery to forward all of my email to Gmail, effectively using Gmail as my 'email client' - but because the domain is mine, I can change that without too much headache, unlike if I were just using an @gmail.com address.
Risk assessments and decision rules like Minimax exist. (Saving up energy/time/resources is a specific possible action of many and might or might not be the optimal action)
I would recommend starting with apple cider since it uses almost the same basic equipment. Vodka is an inexpensive sterilizer.
> Look for growth in other places like Brazil which is poised to grow in the next 20 years.

Poised... how? This graph from a recent economist article doesn't inspire much confidence: https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/436/90/media-assets/imag...
It's not necessarily just a matter of time, but many R/R turn into progressive.
Are you saying that students with money to spend on tutors don't do better at the JEE or Chinese entrance exams?

I don't know otherwise, but that seems unlikely to me, so I'm interested if you have any evidence that poor kids pass these exams at the same rate.
does it matter what language you choose to start with?

Is Rust a good one to start with?
What an incredible and maddening story. These kinds of small-town corruption infuriate me, and demonstrate a historic weakness of the US’s legal system: the extreme power vested in county DAs, and their incestuous relationships with their law enforcement and judicial counterparts.
Consciousness does influence the universe by being part of it. That's why we have the illusion of choice within the context of each moment rather than some meta-alien's perspective. But no it can't defeat determinism if that's what you meant.

I believe someone called that idea "quantum immortality" and I find it conceptually interesting if not somewhat terrifying. However it does seem like the inevitable conclusion of these ideas.
I've got a family friend, she's my parents' age (so, in her 70s), and she posts these sorts of jokes _endlessly_. I'll share her most recent three.

A couple is married 40 yrs when the wife suddenly dies - After the funeral, the pallbearers are carrying the casket out when they accidentally bump into a wall, jarring the casket. They hear a faint moan, open the casket, and are shocked to find the wife is actually alive... She lives for ten more years and then dies again. A funeral is held and once again the pallbearers are carrying out the casket. As they are walking down the hallway, the husband points and yells to the pallbearers "Watch out for that wall!"

---

Boy to dad: how was I born? Dad: well your mom and I got together in a chat room on Yahoo, then I set up an email date and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room googled each other and your mom agreed to a download from my hard drive. When I was ready to upload we discovered neither one of us used a firewall… It was too late to hit the delete button and 9 months later a pop-up appeared that said, “You’ve got Male"

---

A father buys a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie. He decides to test it out at dinner one night. The father asks his son what he did that afternoon. The son says, "I did some schoolwork." The robot slaps the son. The son says, "Ok, Ok. I was at a friend's house watching movies." Dad asks, "What movie did you watch?" Son says, "Toy Story." The robot slaps the son. Son says, "Ok, Ok, we were watching porn."

Dad says, "What? At your age I didn't even know what porn was." The robot slaps the father. Mom laughs and says, "Well, he certainly is your son." The robot slaps the mother.

Robot for sale.

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Alright one more:

I am now proud to announce that I am selling adult toys. I hope no one is embarrassed to ask for them. I have all kinds, sizes and styles according to your needs. Discretion is guaranteed!! I am more then willing and able to demonstrate any items listed for you. Ask for yours anytime. I have everything listed below if needed:

Walkers, wheelchairs, oxygen tanks, canes, disposable diapers etc etc.

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p.s. you'd probably love Steven Wright.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/181771.Steven_Wright

But they are best heard in his deadpan delivery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB8ZDrNb3B0
I know of two languages trying something similar to this:

- https://dion.systems/faq.html
- https://www.roc-lang.org/

They're both experimental, but fun to read about!
I would try to avoid such binary narratives. I don't think globalization and growth are done, but they will almost certainly be very different going forward. In the case of the US, I think it's fair to say it will be a very long time before we have the level of globalized supply chains that we had at the end of 2019.

I read this article earlier today which I thought provided some pretty insightful answers to this question:

https://themarket.ch/interview/russell-napier-the-world-will...
Honestly these both are variations of nightmares. Neither is anything less than a full blown nightmare.
A fascinating story - the poor woman was the child of war criminals from another century and became a shut-in. So much history, and bizarre.

Another excellent article about her aunt, referenced in the piece: https://archive.ph/l8roL
The Economist is reporting on 1 new paper ... of the 100k or so written so far. Almost clickbait :(
google/gmail is also one of the principal agents which declares by fiat "your own domain self-run mail is spam because I think its spam" which then propagates to other mail providers.

SPF/DKIM no matter: if they decide it's spammy, un-doing this decision is appeal to a star chamber you cannot interact with directly.
Can someone from her era be a citizen via refugee status (due to her post-war germany and cuban history)? Not having an SSN is something that makes me wonder about her status and how she was able to subsist so long without being hassled about her immigration status.
Of course, these days it is the opposite problem: people know that there is money in software so they base their career on it despite not having any real interest.
Ubiquity of a permissive license, or all the revenue from clients with deep pockets -- choose one, you can't have both (not considering open core with value-add proprietary offerings here). Should be really obvious.

Use a permissive license if you really mean it, not if you want to growth hack.
Climate change would like to have a word with you
"I think we can trace most of our problems back to the end of the cold war. If we have some common thing to fight against we stop fighting each other...."

That never happened during the Cold War from what I've read, and from what I observed starting in the early 1970s it steadily got worse.
Brexit too.
Mapping the genetic architecture of cortical morphology through neuroimaging
I ran a similar experiment ~5 years ago with a previous generation HP: the 13 g1. Which, I can still highly recommend, because you can get the i7/16GB/high res screen version for~$100 on ebay now. It's a pretty amazing deal. A few notes:

This "recently" got the Linux container support, and it's a game changer. Instead of using the HTML terminal app as the article mentions, I was running in the Linux container and using mosh+tmux to my work machine, and that worked great. You could also run xterm or whatnot.

You can do development in the Linux environment, and it works fine. I mostly ended up doing my development work remotely via mosh+tmux.

For $100, it's hard to beat as a Chromebook, and the Linux environment gives you your normal tools.
Just about any language will do fine for this, Rust is a great language with an enthusiastic community. D

ownload Rust, install it to your system and get started with "How do I print in Rust". This will allow you to tell Rust to make words appear on your screen (no toner required!)

Bon voyage my friend, I hope you end up loving it as much as I do :)
JRR Tolkien Came to Write the Stories of 'The Rings of Power'
How do your have your outgoing mail configured? Up until recently Gmail would let you send email from another domain, but they seem to have shut this down.
Are you offering to pay for them to host their own streaming solution and volunteering to handle technical support for users who have trouble with it?

This gotcha-game is tiring. People don't have to like Amazon to realize that they and YouTube are the only practical game in town for free live streaming.
This discussion at virological.org is where virologists themselves are discussing issues around analysis of viruses in general. It is referring to ancestry and the likely host organism(s)

https://virological.org/t/the-comparative-recency-of-the-pro...

Horseshoe bats are the likely reservoir of sarbecoviruses (1), including SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 (2–4). Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 in 2002 and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019, there has been an increase in the sampling of sarbecoviruses in bats, which can reveal how recently SARS-CoV-1-like and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses sampled in bats shared a common ancestor with, respectively, SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 (jointly referred to as SARS-CoVs)

It may lie to one side of a debate about "engineering" but I take heart from the virologists doing the ongoing detective work to unpack what we can know about this disease and its vectors.

(I posted this to HN directly before. It got very little traction which I doubt means very much)
Since this is HN, here is a book recommendation:

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan

I’m going to add the usual disclaimers here about everything that comes with listening to a guy who has been predicting doom for a decade. He is very entertaining though and he has some unique insights and some unusual data comparisons - it’s fun to read.

To be fair, he did predict events in Ukraine a few weeks before they happened [1]. That counts for as much credibility as one can have with a title of “geopolitical strategist”

[1] Jump to 7:45 https://youtu.be/UA-jOLF2T4c
That isn't supporting Amazon financially, that's meeting people where they live in a world you don't control.

This is like saying I'm a hypocrite for using crosswalks if I also believe that our cities shouldn't be dominated by cars. If it's true, it's not true in a way that's interesting or useful. It doesn't suggest my views are insincere or without merit. Maybe my views do suck, and maybe the EFF sucks too, but you're going to have to do more work to establish that than pointing out that we're imperfect beings living in a world that may thwart our intentions. You'll actually have to engage with the substance of the argument and the facts in dispute, and make the case that there's a deficiency there.