skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got tinnitus last year after the doctor misdiagnosed me and gave me a heavy dose of Azithromycin.

I've realised the following about what triggers and helps me -

1. Exercise: Regular exercise helps. When I regularly play tennis, go to the gym, or do yoga, the tinnitus increases right after the exercise, but is much lower throughout the day.

2. Stress and a proper schedule: If I drink more, eat garbage, or work during odd hours, my tinnitus increases. Instead of feeling bad about it, I use it as an early feedback mechanism to help me diagnose when my life is not in the right direction.

3. Weather: Tinnitus increases in the winters.

My aunt told me that regular yoga helped her mitigate her tinnitus symptoms too.

I felt quite sad and depressed during my early months of tinnitus, but over time I've tried using it as a motivator. If a slight ringing in my ears makes me feel so depressed, there are other things that could happen that could completely destroy my life. So I should remember that life is short, use the time I have left wisely, and do things that I've been putting off.

I've also tried using it as a feedback loop. If the ringing increases, there might be something wrong with my diet, daily routine, or stress. So it helps me recognise unhealthy patterns earlier.
Texas is cheap, but remember, you get what you pay for. If you're in the in with all the right people it is tolerable, else it can be rough in many ways including safety,legal and healthcare issues.
Well I enjoyed the piece. But it evinces a kind of derangement unique to modern life. Minecraft became so popular, and worth so much money, that the author couldn’t get over it.

Another example is that guy who threw away a hard drive with his bitcoin wallet on it, now worth $200 million or something like that. He can’t move on. Last I heard he was trying to finance a plan to exhume an acre of landfill and sort through it all by hand.
So he was commissioned to write 9 minutes of scrolling text (but which would undoubtedly be able to be read quicker if just presented with the prose all at once), and was paid around €20,000?

And he thinks something's unfair here for some reason?

Also he appears to think the ending was even particularly important in Minecraft, that writing 9 minutes of text is worth years of art and development work. That's odd.

>The friendship is more important than the money.

This is insane, he didn't know these people!
It's a bit sad because I think many here are missing the lesson to be learnt - artists want to be treated as artists (with emotion rather than rationality). When you treat them as cold hearted rational contractors, this kind of mess occurs.

I'm reminded of a similar event with the Doom soundtrack https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-d...
PhD in AI/ML is no longer a good bet, hasn't been for about 5 years.
> I do insist on being classy and respectful, particularly for the family members, but I wish as a society we would talk openly and honestly about these issues instead of high opacity implications.

Yes, I did not want to mean that the right way was silent mourning. I merely wanted to express that full understanding is not achievable, and that the truth is lost with the life, and lost forever. To me, everything said with this idea kept in mind is respectful, and from there talking works.
All of this sounds, to put it bluntly, like a lot of hemming and hawing to get around the fact that your favorite charity organization just spent $15 million on a castle.
People in the streets can atleast fight back... or run away and hide... with this now, what can you even do?
Distributed Ownership in Practice
Contracts, eh? Three people got a cut of the $2B buyout, some random contractor doing a bit of writing for the game isn't going to get anything. I made the game _playable_ for a huge number of people by optimizing the save format (MCRegion) and doing the first implementation of Unicode text, probably affecting the exponential growth rate a bit, but I understand that my contribution amounted to a few weeks of work, explicitly agreed on not doing it for money, and moved on with life.
The implementation used in this article is actually in C (which is the official, extremely well-tested one), with bindings to the Go language through something called CGo. There's no "server", it's all just code run in your application directly, so think of it more as a library that can access a special database file on your disk.

I don't know how it's done in PHP, I would think it's similar.
I've been wondering this since machine learning first became blew up in the 2010s and I guess this is as good a place ask to ask as any: is there some sort of law/theory/conjecture/whatever that states that neural networks are algebraically incapable of modeling physical phenomena in general, or at least within the boundary conditions implied by the training data? For example, if the physical calculation includes imaginary numbers or some other exotic function.

I'm thinking specifically of linear motors [1] which are capable of sub-micron positioning as long as the rotor and stators can be manufactured with enough precision. Is there some fundamental problem preventing us from using an interferometric laser encoder to train a neural network to control each linear motor coming off the assembly line, thus eliminating the much of the precision manufacturing?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_motor
Sure, Minecraft would have still sold as much if the ending screen said "You won" or much simply "The end".

But, he did still put in the effort in creating the poem. Every part of the game matters, and I think it's fair if he gets paid or at-least gets credit for his contributions to the game.

I understand the author being hurt as he's one of the 5 people that contributed to the game, he just needed the credit or any little token of appreciation from Minecraft. The author asked Markus to mention something he refused, which is kind of the author's fault for not signing a contract, but it's still sad.
I've read the novels. Only think I've noticed was the racism was much worse than in the films.
If the chance of a legal case going against Microsoft is 0.1% (e.g. his case is really bad), the estimated damages in such a case are enormous (I have no idea what they would be, but e.g. a tiny payment for every copy of Minecraft would be an enormous sum), and the cost of sending him an email is a couple of hundred dollars worth of legal counsel, then why wouldn't they chase him for a signature?
He mentions that there were only five people actually on the actual dev team _at launch_? Notch, C418 (music), Jeb (only coder at launch), Kristoffer Zetterstrand (ingame paintings), and him (ending). He said only 25 people were staff at the time as well. I am truly curious who they were and what their roles were.
I actually value live chats. I like them a lot if they connect me to a human.

They're faster than e-mails, which can take a few days to get a response to. And they're more convenient than phone calls where I have to stop other stuff while I wait to be connected.

I can also be more precise communicating things like bank accounts and order IDs, especially if I'm chatting in something else than my native language. Plus I can easily record and store the answers since it's just text.

So +1 for live chat from me! Bonus points if the company just uses WhatsApp rather than some box on the website.
when choosing a foreign language to learn most normal people would not examine which one has the most elegant grammar, the most performant representation of information or any such abstract design elements.

people ask instead: whom will I be able to communicate with. what kind of cultural repository (wealth) do I get access to. how will I benefit to justify spending the limited opportunities I have to reprogram my brain.

the programmer-to-programmer aspect of computer languages is not appreciated enough, especially not in the modern, highly networked and open source way of developing software. yes, the primary purpose is to marshal ones and zeros in silicon chips and it does matter if the language helps you do that in a sane way but this is just one of the many factors people consider.

I think, unfortunately for Julia and other aspiring challengers, right now the primary social network dynamics among developers is "winner takes all". e.g., its not a deep secret that the meteoric rize of python is because it enabled countless people to aspire to be part of the perceived AI/ML/FAANG gold rush. Over time programmer eyeballs motivate investment in ecosystem evolution and a benign spiral is set in motion.

I don't have a crystal ball as to when/if/how the current pyfever might cool down. You can't predict those things, they are an emergent property of our very complex networks. Maybe some killer feature or julia or rust or go or dart or kotlin will trigger some regime change, but unless it does, any discussions of alternate greatness have a distinct detached feeling to them.
A decent amount of the time I've been asked at the end of a live-chat if I would like a transcript emailed to me.
Try saying

"I reject that"

With "that" referring to the tinnitus.
Atari revives unreleased arcade game that was too hard for 1982 players
It doesn’t matter because they have a license to use the work, which is all they have been doing. They aren’t running around saying it’s their property because no one has asked them that.

Now even though they are put on the spotlight, they don’t really need to do anything.
45% of users are on IPv6. Clearly almost half of ISPs have adopted it, probably more than half of consumer ISPs.
Agreed, other companies/video games would have asked him for his stories on their games considering that he'd done it for one of the biggest video games.
I'm German and used to do freelance work. This interpretation is what I've been told by a lawyer in a similar case: the money is for the license, not the copyright, and unless specified, the license is the minimum of what could reasonably be expected, i.e. a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, limited license for the scope of the product.

IANAL but I think Microsoft is in the clear here because they bought out Mojang but they couldn't for example use the ending (or derivative works of it) in a spin-off game because Mojang couldn't have done that either and they have no standing to go after anyone reproducing the poem as a whole or in part.

In fact, the poem now being CC0 grants Microsoft more rights than they had, except it's still non-exclusive, meaning the same rights are granted to everyone else too.
> I'm really surprised that they tried it in the first place

Might be because they saw https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_... coming. If that becomes law it will introduce “an obligation for providers to detect, report, block and remove child sexual abuse material from their services”

Might also because their lawyers said banning apps containing even mild sexual content while not even trying to do something like this wouldn’t hold up in court.

Being as large as they are, they can even afford to do this with the goal of seeing public outrage, ‘forcing’ them to not go forward with the idea.
This. Another name please. Possibly not Donald.
You're missing the point. The lack of alternative app stores or the ability to accept payments and control subscriptions via other gateways is the problem. You either use Apple app store/payments and accept the fee or you don't have any transaction ability in the app.
Ah yes, linux on Dex was looking sweet!

Right now I'm using termux, which is working really really well. I'm amazed! I have this big PHP app wich runs perfectly fine on it, with dependencies and all, I honestly expected trouble, but it just worked.

As for the swap: yeah that sounds annoying :(
You don't "pick one up". You make it yourself.
Mojang could remove this poem today and not a single person would care or even notice.
How do they eat? Also, it's not just IT where you can get paid well in the US without a degree.

My experience so far tells me that people can do ok without a job so they put up with a lot of crap and get complacent. In other words, everyone wants money but people that are picky about easy, well paying and honest jobs don't want money bad enough.
tl;dr

Cold air can damage the immune response in the nose, which is why people tend to get more colds and flu in the winter, according to a new study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. "Cold air is associated with increased viral infection because you’ve essentially lost half of your immunity just by that small drop in temperature," said rhinologist Dr. Benjamin Bleier. The study found that reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils.
> A live chat window can be relatively ignored and checked once in a while.

Some live chat implementations have taken the liberty of requiring an input from your end every X minutes, otherwise the chat terminates. Support agents have literally told me "please wait a while while I look into this" followed by "are we still connected?" just a few minutes later.
Nextcloud is more a backup-adjacent system. You can use it for backups, but you're on the hook for maintaining that system and keeping it secure. Maybe you have time and will to do so but most don't. It's a lot simpler than it used to be on Ubuntu (nowadays just `snap install nextcloud` and you're good to go) but that doesn't make it carefree.

I ran my own Nextcloud instance for ~3 years, recently moved to Syncthing for simplicity. But that use case is more about making certain pieces of data available to all my devices, not for backups.
> I think it's fair if he gets paid or at-least gets credit for his contributions to the game.

He did get paid, $20000. How was Mojang supposed to know he wanted more when he accepted that payment?
You have interesting points. Still flagging the original link for political/questionable bullshit (which is… basically what you said, just in longer form and more politely).

In short, the more anyone else protests that they “didn’t do anything wrong” and “it was…” on this issue, the less credible they are at the moment—and yes, the gaslighting is in full effect.
Where it has... profiles approaching me, with photos of females who wouldn't even respond to my "hi" in real life? You're are not going to earn commission on me sweetie.
Seeing some of the comments in reply here from folks who find it hard to give or take gratitude, it seems a lot of people see what is being talked about as praise. But appreciation is distinct. Praise is: you are good or your skills is good. Appreciation/gratitude is: you really made a difference to me.

You can never go wrong just honestly and vulnerably saying, "I appreciate you because...", and telling someone how what they did really help you out, or let them know you appreciate them because they made a difference to you, you're just sharing how you feel sincerely. Whatever happens, you said what you could at the time.

As for accepting expressions of gratitude, people may have ulterior motives that you may correctly suspect, in which case...be happy, a frenemy has revealed themselves to you, and the fact that they see you as important enough to their interests to try to manipulate is its own form of compliment...or they may simply be imperfectly trying to express how much of a difference you made to them, like everybody else... Either way you can choose the meaning you take from it and find something to feel happy about or use.

It reflects poorly on your if you always suspect other people saying nice things to you, for one you have such a low opinion of others, and of your own impact, but also you miss many chances to find something good. For examples: someone may have been trying to connect with you, because they appreciate you, but by suspecting them, you pushed them away, and hurt them. May as well at least try to see the good and give a chance to it: you may be helping someone more than you know by doing so.
It's just like with any distribution, each have their own philosophies and how they want to tackle something. Oracle Linux is still around for example, but we don't talk about them too often.

Rocky seems to have mostly volunteers. Alma has people who are likely paid because they come from or likely still work for CloudLinux. Either way, you're getting a RHEL clone if you go with either. And that is keeping in mind that devs are a finite resource and always will be, regardless of how you look at it.

The thing to keep in mind is that more choices are better than just having one. Think about it, let's say Scientific Linux actually made an 8. CentOS users would've likely gone over to them instead at the EOL date. Since SL didn't keep going, there was only CentOS (and Oracle Linux, but again no one really wants to talk about that - and there are folks who will avoid oracle like the plague; I don't blame them). You take away the one distribution a large amount of folks used and where are they going to go? Stream? Fermilab/CERN were going to stream and... not anymore. Perhaps the bugs and instability were a bit too much.

The long story short of it is, you don't want another situation like CentOS. More options, the better. All EL derivatives/clones should all operate and work the same.
Same for me, but only if they are opened through a button on the contact page. I find those auto-opening chat widgets on the main page really annoying.
I think it has to be stressed that Vulkan and Direct3D 12 are still abstractions, and still do not provide direct hardware access. In some cases, their more explicit nature allows you to implement older APIs on top of them without any performance issues, but there are places where the abstractions make incompatible assumptions and it is very hard to get as good performance as a native driver can.
Yeah, "it is ______ group's fault I refuse to apply for a job"
Geeking with .NET Application and Firebird Embedded and FbNetExternalEngine
Note to self: Use ChatGPT to immediately respond to any support request that aren't from existing users so that potential customers have to perform the Turing test.

Plot twist: the chat bot is also running the Turing test. If the potential customer passes, they can sign up. Otherwise, “Contact us for pricing” and I don’t mean it as an anti-bot feature…
Obviously stability is the most important factor for the people running nuclear experiments so they choose RHEL. Nevertheless, if I were them, I would consider trying Nix or Guix to potrntially turn the configs/builds into comparably strict math and making these reproducible.
Rock Pi 5: First Look, an All-New ARM-Based SBC with 16GB RAM
>There are unlocked phones available and honestly this problem is mostly a US problem. Rest of the world isn't in the iron fists of their carriers.

In the rest of the world phones are unlocked in terms of being able to use different SIM cards, but mostly the bloatware is still there and can only be disabled (not removed)
> Experiment is done in two dimensions

Not even that.

They use the holographic principle (which itself is only a conjecture) to reduce dimensions. The actual experiment is done in 1-dimensional space-time: 1 time dimension and 0 space dimension. This 0-dimensional (0 space dimensions) hologram is supposed to describe events in the 1-dimensional space. But, again, they are not generating the 1-dimensional space in their actual experiment. They are generating the 0-dimensional model, which supposed to be a hologram of the 1-dimensional space.
If it ever came down to eat the rich I’m sorry to say, but the tech crowd, including employees would be the first up against the wall.

Hilarious how employees who make a salary 3-4X the US median somehow think they are the proletariat.
Lightweight package for interacting with ChatGPT's API by OpenAI
At the bottom there is a correction: “Correction: A previous version of this story misstated Dr. Bleier’s title.”

I think they need go and recheck the rest of the article because one of the final paragraphs is:

“Not only do masks prrhinologist Dr. Benjamin Bleierotect you from the direct inhalation of viruses, but it’s also like wearing a sweater on your nose,” he said.
It would only be effective if at least some proportion of clients used it.

If just a single client used this option, their traffic path, all the way to the exit node, would stand out to any network attacker.
Reminds me of "Beggars in Spain"/Beggar's Ride trilogy by Nancy Kress.
European Central Bank Digital Currency Design Document
> stop pretending you can read a hundred million lines in your life time.

For me, and I assume most others, it's not that we expect to read all the code ourselves. It's that there's a large developer community and security researchers who have access to the code who will collectively read it all. Of course this isn't a guarantee that there are no security flaws, and you still have the pipeline problem of ensuring the binaries you get actually come from the code you think they do. But all else being equal, I think open source provides a significant level of threat mitigation.

Even if you fully trust Apple not to intentionally back door anything, there's far fewer eyeballs on their code. Given that access to source code also has the potential to reveal security holes that may have gone unexploited, there of course a tradeoff here too.
Reverse Engineering an Omnivision Driver with Ghidra
This is wrong. DNA studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Mesopotamia_rela...) show that modern day egyptians are not really the closest to ancient egyptians, they just live on the land that was once ancient egyptian.
Email certainly has its flaws, but none of that has any material impact on how quickly chucky123 can reply to a contact form rather than a chat window. A contact form on a website just sends a POST request to a server, and then that server notifies chucky123. The process could be identical to using chat in that respect (it often isn't, but we're talking about a specific instance rather than the general case.)

If chucky123 replies to the notification immediately via chat or via email the user should get pretty much the same experience. Suggesting this is a benefit of chat doesn't make much sense on a technical level. It isn't. It's just a benefit of replying to contact requests quickly.
You think Apple tests their phones with all 120 carriers with every point release?
>The founder is Russian

who had his billion dollar business (vk.com) stolen by the russian government, left the country and acquired cirizenship elsewhere

it's a pretty good indicator that he is not a putin's stooge

>most of the engineering team is Russian. The founder visits Russia regularly. I assume their non-resident Russian engineers visit Russia too.Most of their user base is Russian.

is Microsoft an Indian company? the CEO is Indian, half the engineers are Indian, yada yada yada

>And they have an agreement with the Russian government not to be blocked if they cooperate on combatting terrorism.

I got the impression that it was just a way out for the russian government to give up on trying to block it, after they have repeatedly failed to do so