skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Language learning has a lot of quirks and this just isn't the case for most people who didn't learn a language early on, and if you're immersed/actively using the language then you're way less likely to forget. Your daily usage and exposure is simply your spaced repetition.

If one is bilingual at an early age, then it's much easier to learn/retain additional languages. Most language learning in America starts kids off much later than it should (middle or high school). Full immersion is also a great way to learn.

And as far as SRS goes, it's important to not make cards if you think they're not necessary as it's easy to just make the whole review process too much to chew on. And sometimes you can cluster information in a single card (maybe a sentence that's an idiom if using language as an example) such that you do get continued exposure, and can decide later if you need to break it up if you can't recall some parts of it.
Well for some definition of the word “bump”.

What I mean is that the mechanism by which sound travels is the same as the mechanism by which I can punch a punching bag and see it swing.

Even if the two materials never “come into contact” because it’s actually the result of charges repelling each other or whatever, the way it works in both cases is the same.
At a house that fronts onto the ocean, even marine-grade stainless steel fittings will get a patina of rust after a few years exposed.
>But in reality that "paying in" is just a tax I've paid, and it's not unusual to get less than I was promised for a tax I've paid.

Yeah, don't get me wrong. Taxes are taxes, and you just have to pay it. I have no problem with paying a tax to support elderly and disabled folks right now. But the thought of it still being solvent 30 years from now with the direction our country is heading is totally absurd. I fully expect the entire system to be gutted for our generation the moment a full Republican majority takes control.
I studied mechanical engineering in India and switched to software because it's extremely poor ROI even here. You get staggeringly higher pay if you're a good developer. I teach CS grads, and this is becoming so clear to me that not everyone seems to be good at doing this stuff. When someone outsources to India, and then complains about bad quality, it's because the way kids pick disciplines is purely based on the perceived prestige and the money. Every other field pays less than engineering, and every other discipline pays less than CS. Our testing system, the JEE, makes it hard for anyone to get what they're passionate about. They only get good at taking standardized tests. Very few people are lucky enough to be able to pivot to doing what they love and are good at.
AMR_SID claims to be 1.8kbps[1], but I can't imagine it sounds very good.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_code...
> the problem is that the cables themselves have no indication of what was advertised in the first place

Fortunately, this is changing, though it's shameful it took this long to get standardized, straightforward labeling: https://tidbits.com/2022/09/29/usb-simplifies-branding/
We're over-indexing on institutional failures and failing to consider non-institutional failure rates.

Institutions fail, and when they do, it's a huge disaster. Absent institutions, the general public also fails, and when they do, it's a huge disaster.

Now, compare the failure rates.

When individuals fail, we seem to think, either "well, they'll get smarter for the next time" or "well, I'm smart, so that won't happen to me" (the famous last words of every mark that walked the earth), yet when institutions fail, the prevailing wisdom seems to be, "institutions always fail"... this despite institutions effectively being composed of individuals, but with systemic checks and balances in place that attempt to mitigate for the failings of both individuals and institutions.

There's a long line of con men, fraudsters, quacks, etc. (let alone strategic/systemic adversaries) cheering in the bleachers, hoping that the public will decide that institutions cannot help and that "doing your own research" is the path to success.
The next useful falsehood on the ladder is that electrons in an atom exist as probability densities around the nucleus. Fire a photon here, and knock an electron off with this probability; fire it there, and get that probability instead. But before they interact with something, electrons aren't anywhere in particular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital

The real answer is that constituent parts of bound states like atoms don't really exist as separate things. An atom is a particular very complicated field configuration, and if you want anything deeper than that you're going to have to learn QFT.
I had a relative who was a great person but liked drinking at 5pm when he'd become really irritated and disagreeable, complaining about the world while watching the news etc.

I'm the same when I drink, I'm conscious I can become that person, so I still have drinks but I just watch my mental state, almost (mindfully) ha.
Wow that’s cheap. At the Animal and the Instrument, vinegar was $17.
Mine's timing out with:

```
Error 1 error occurred:
* No deployment available to monitor
```
Try to inject something new into what you're doing. It might be mundane and repetitive but try to figure out something new which you can inject as a learning experience.
The Smithsonian article that you link to provides no evidence for the existence of Solomon, David, or a united Israelite kingdom. It only posits that a neighboring people became wealthy by extracting copper and were involved in complex trade despite no evidence of permanent structures.
From Extensional AI (YC-W23), LeetSpeak: Write Code by Interacting with an AI
Exploring Artificial Generative Interactivity (AGI): With LeetSpeak, you write code by interacting with an AI. This is an entirely new way to program, and there are many possible uses. Try to create entire apps all in one go, find bugs in apps its generated, modify code you've created, fork and share your coding conversations.
a...brianna wu tweet? are we in 2015 again?

How is she being quoted talking about stock prices
> Thing is, there wasn't that much of it before the CDC spent over a month spewing bullshit telling people not to wear masks because masks don't stop the spread of COVID.

That's not what they said, which kind of highlights just how much misinformation was indeed being spewed well before then.
My AMD GPU performs quite well, but not for GPGPU I agree. NVIDIA did a great job locking everybody in
Do you really think that needed sources cited? Literally the most publicly prominent piece of legislation that was specifically passed by the GOP on this topic was in Florida last year with HB 1557. That legislation specifically created public education prohibitions about the topic with children aged 6 to 10 and had parental notification rights in it as well. The left opposed it vehemently and it was literally all over the news for months in the spring. Disney even fired a CEO over the fallout caused from his choice to publicly voice opposition to it.

For what it’s worth, here is your source, if you can think of a more public piece of legislation than this that expands prohibitions for trans topics beyond children, post it.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557/BillText/er/...
It's happening on January 19th: https://twitter.com/bitsavers/status/1607935736518701057
It’s 2 houses, there is zero need for over complicated proofs
Very few of the problems described in the story are solved with a virtual machine to run older software on newer computers. Lots of specific add-in cards, precise timing requirements for sampling, and high-altitude, high sunlight, high vibration conditions where an LCD screen does the job.
Fair enough, I reckoned the methodology on the website probably wasn't the best, and $/GB is a pretty bad metric to begin with.

I meant it mostly as an example of how there can be an order of magnitude of difference between prices, or at least half an order. I do concede my 50x number is probably very inaccurate in practice.

My family's plan is 80$/month for unlimited data for 6 devices, throttled after something like 60GB between all of them. Unused data can be used on the next month. Not once have I worried about reaching any limits, even with frequent Netflix and YouTube on the go and panic downloading Spotify albums before getting on a flight.
craigslist still has a rideshare section but that is super hit or miss.
Sure, but at that level of generality you're also talking about the mechanism by which light propagates.
I saw a few studies that seemed to point to evidence that smoking reduces the risk of contracting COVID. It was too late as I already quit smoking thinking that the opposite would be true.

I haven't started smoking again, despite the potential health benefits associated with smoking.
Forgot crypto, my actual bank account and retirement accounts and nest egg are accessible online these days. The login credentials for those are stored somewhere so I really hope they don't invent brain hacking technology to steal those. If you're the type to use a password manager, then I'd say those are the most valuable pieces of data you store. 2FA isn't never going to be totally utterly 100% foolproof so I wouldn't count on it solely to protect what I have.
> "a lot of covid guidance was confusing in the beginning and I think that admitting that has somehow become taboo."

I think any reasonable person can acknowledge there's a huge leap between "I was confused by what you said" and "YOU LIED TO ME!!!!"
why are you moving goalposts?

parent did not say you are free to yell fire in a crowded theater
There is a huge number of people in the world who drink two drinks per day, every day, with no calorie problem, and no significant ailment which needs improving.

See sister comment about HN posts on two drinks per day
not just allowed, required.

https://nationalaglawcenter.org/to-cure-or-note-to-cure-grou...

> In the 1990s, manufacturers began developing new ways to cure meats with celery or other natural nitrate/nitrite sources. Federal labeling rules require meats processed in this manner to include the terms “Uncured” and the statement “No Nitrate or Nitrite Added” because they do not use synthetic curing agents.

it changed in late 2021 though although i’m not clear by how much
>(Note, the way Elon "talks" in tweets would be sarcastic if it was someone younger, but remember he's middle aged and still calls things epic unironically.)

the way he tweets is pretty much distilled 2012-ish reddit
I've just started to do a worse job and using the time and energy savings on things that are fun.

I've been learning a lot of guitar (for the first time in years) during the work day with this method. I may even have a little band soon.
The way I’ve seen senior 86box project staff behave towards the developers of the project they forked away from really surprised me - a lot of emulator projects tend to be prone to silly rivalries, but this instance stuck me as unusually inappropriate behaviour - such were the levels of toxicity involved that at one point a senior staff member at 86box was bouncing around ideas mid-tirade speculating that a PCem contributor was in a sexual relationship with the project lead (put less delicately), this being drawn from the fact that they occasionally said good things about the project in public forums.

The software is what it is, and for anyone who considers it to simply be a means to an end, it’s a fine tool to use. I just personally found that incident (among other examples of extraordinarily toxic, childish behaviour from other contributors) to be sufficiently distasteful that I’d rather just not use the software at all.

This is are quite old sentiments on my part, and I expect things will probably have got a great deal better now, given how many years it’s been - it’s certainly not something that warrants calling for some kind of mob-facilitated cancellation of the project, which is, I must stress, a perfectly adequate PCem replacement under these circumstances.

Strictly just a case of me as an individual wishing that interactions had been less toxic prior to the parent project’s discontinuation. I won’t use it because of those memories, having known one of the people concerned at the time. I don’t really think it’s something that should affect anyone else’s decision to use the program at all - it’s very much an individual distaste for it on my part.
What? My wifi barely reaches the other side of my room with a wall in between, how am I supposed to think 350 miles is within reason? Even with clear sky, your signal to a tower an order of magnitude closer would be unusable.

If you look at apple’s latest feature, even them, with specific hardware probably, requires minutes of open-sky pointing directly at the closest satellite, to transmit mere bytes of data.

That tells me that if your phone is just hanging in your pocket, indoors, with a 5G nearby, it’s not going to reach the satellite at in any shape or form.
You can find a collection of individual stories that make any health program seem grim and tragic. They all fail some people.

What matters is the rate of these problems, which you'll notice this article never lists. This seems to be a common trend among articles critical of this program.

It's possible there is no good data on how well the program is performing, but then you should be honest enough to admit that.
Stable Diffusion macOS native app
Good article. It doesn’t really answer the headline question other than to essentially say “because he can”.
It depends on what your definition of the Metaverse is. The metaverse is not a Facebook / Meta exclusive platform. It's simply AR / VR with a connection to the internet. Most people, who have fallen for Meta's marketing and haven't used modern VR within the last 2 years, don't seem to realize this. No one company can singlehandedly control the entire internet, even if just the VR / AR side of it. That only happens in fantasy novels like Ready Player One.

Meta, the company, might not seem to have great prospects for now; but the metaverse is still the future despite its current clunky form factor and high cost (with the exception of the Quest 2).

In defense of Zuck, I agree with sklargh. Solely relying on ad revenue is a future dead end. Facebook needs its own hardware platform to survive.
I'd agree this sort of thing does happen in regular life where the agent of change is someone who's had wide ranging experience and maybe a lateral thinker and adopting other work processes that are proven in existing industries. (However the story above is just that, the chance that happened as stated are slim ... and only for reasons along the lines I've mentioned being a bit isolated or operating in a vacuum.)

Sometimes, not that I can think of much software or hardware related situations, the fence is just an idea, years of experience have lead to a situation where they've established a comfort zone of sorts, and hesitant to change the way things are done ... often because they don't totally understand complicated processes they might be using ... or because things done differently might be more open (but rare) to a specific problem or being prone to a failure which from their previous experience, might have chewed up half a day to a day if not more to sort it out ... when the fix by someone who is competent (having been shown the correct way from the start) is able to resolve the issue quickly, barely 20 minutes of time and patience and it's in half an hour it's like nothing happened.

As for "do not fully understand" - yes that is an excellent way to describe total inadequacy.
Not my experience.

1. Serverside GTM and segment proxied through a first party domain get around ad blockers
2. Many traditional paid media sources like Facebook ads open in in-app-browsers that are unlikely to have ad blockers
3. Marketing and product analytics tend to be separate.
Me thinks you are quite right: back of the napkin math indicates the average flight carries 64.44 passengers. So just the Southwest flight cancellations stranded 347,976 passengers. That’s a lot of people to re-route.
> For Brembs, older PCs offer another crucial feature that was lost when Microsoft replaced its text-based operating system, MS-DOS, with Windows. MS-DOS “handles data as they come in with no buffering delays”, says Brembs, who exploits this feature for his fruit-fly flight simulator. “In Windows, so many things are constantly happening in the background,” Brembs says. You might want to take measurements at intervals of precisely 50 milliseconds, but the operating system might be able to manage only an average of 50 ms, with intervals ranging from 20 to 80 ms, depending on what else it has to do.

This is pretty interesting, I wonder if there are special ways to get around this, or if you’d need something like an fgpa.
They sell it in a liquid form you can drop into water, that would at least be consistent per bottle.
> "Telemedicine or Telehealth doctor notes will not be accepted"

It's worse than contempt, it's abuse. He is looking for ways to make recovery from illness more difficult than it needs to be, and in turn hope some will come to work when they can't get a "regular" doctor visit in time - during a holiday week.
Awesome.
I just read through the code & Blog Post and the changes make so much sense as well as the code is super easy to read and understand.

Would be awesome to read part-2 of this blog post -> http://www.blueraja.com/blog/477/a-better-spaced-repetition-...

Plz plz plz pen down your thoughts on reviewing(part-2 of the post) if you get some free time.
In context, it seems like modernization simply means that the software knows whether a flight was canceled and therefore can automate the status updates for the airplane crew. Nothing to do directly with UX.
Tell an average parent today that 100 years ago the average parent raised 6 kids, and they'll tell you the people in the past must have been the superhuman ones!
it’s $40 per month or $375 per year. i’ve been a paid subscriber for years now. for me it’s totally worth it.
I've got an M2 Air, can't say I've experienced any of the performance/visual issues you describe.

Design wise...is a different story of course
And you'd even get MS-DOS PC image editing and desktop publishing programs that didn't didn't correct for non-1:1 pixels on-screen, only (hopefully) when printed.

Yet another way the Mac was glorious at the time.
This would seem to presume an opaque system whose workings are entirely unknowable with divine providence... rather than something constructed, operated, and controlled by humans.
well, if you want to get pedantic, the image referenced by the html in the background window is a png file--png's I belive came out in the late 90's. And the image name clearly references "weyland" the linux windowing system that came out way later than that.

I also remember the dicsussion in the movie at the time going on about georeferencing. Not saying that concept wasn't out there at the time, but it would have been miles from a 15 year old's fingertips.
In the UK as well, I believe.
This kind of thing is exactly why you shouldn't take those sorts of anthropic argument too seriously.
All of this makes more sense when understood in terms of Field theory:
David Tong: Quantum Fields
https://youtu.be/zNVQfWC_evg?t=1168

"All the electrons that are in your body are not fundamental. All the electrons that exist in your body are waves of the same underlying field."

The next question is, if there are no individual things, what does math count?
http://www.katabane.com/mt/ontology.html
You can find comments pretty regularly made here by users and former addicts.

There is little reason to suspect that HN would not follow age and income demographics; and chair sitting is a common source of chronic pain.

But also increasing rates of depression, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases led to the decrease in life expectancy.
I don't think I'm all that fast at it but I do wish ChatGPT could give answers a tiny bit faster. As it is I give it a prompt and then switch to a different tab while it answers.
The things I've done to keep my labs instrument PCs working...

ISA with DMA is probably the most frustrating to deal with because it's the most common. There's a host of ancient spectrophotometers and what not all needing HP's custom IEEE GPIB connection. Next most frustrating is still great, expensive equipment with a computer running Windows XP, and no upgrade path. Or the worst, an $800,000 direct electron detector purchased new from the manufacturer LAST YEAR running Windows Server 2012. This thing is 96 megapixel, 1500 fps, it NEEDS to be on the network.

Things were't as bad before they were digital. For instance, I was able to digitize a chart recorder for a liquid chromatography system from the early 80s with just a Raspberry Pi and Arduino. But a spectrophotometer from the early 90s? All non-compliant GPIB with no documentation. No realistic hope there.

With the amount of government money being forked over essentially to pay for or work around obsolescence, there should be a federal investigation.
I bought a basic dehydrator setup for my house just to avoid the sugar and nitrites in store beef jerky. Wayyyy cheaper too
Fast native running binaries will never be anachronistic
Ironically, the FAQ makes a better sell for DiffusionBee – I don't know if the UI can really be worse when it's just a textbox then a bunch of images.
This notion does not explain how the thermal bath appears. I.e. why the system interacts with a particular bath and not a superposition of such baths?

At best the decoherence can try to explain how appearance of a sufficiently big classical object may trigger appearance of other objects, but it does not explain how the initial object appears.
Too late, European law has mandated it's use, so now it's never going away. This will be something we can blame Europe for long into the future.
I think you're missing the aspect of Spanish flu that presents the threat. CFR doesn't define the threat.
> The problem is that the assistants aren't "smart" enough to actually do much that's useful with that voice recognition.

You'd be right if you were only discussing Alexa, Siri, or some lesser known assistants like Kortana; but Google's assistant is pretty decent at understanding your requests.
its not only ugly, its harder to use, more confusing where things are placed now...
Yes; the misty program is what you are thinking of.
It had a clamshell RF shield to deflect incoming tracking
“Cat as a Service” is my go to for these kinds of things.

https://cataas.com/#
Idk anything about measure theory, but I do know some things about markov chains so I was excited about [0]. Unfortunately measure theory is invoked directly in the definition so I’ll have to go down that wiki rabbit hole
What bugged me most that season is the fact that they visibly equipped one of the heroes with an F91-W, a digital watch, then it's a plot beat later that his watch stopped, showing what time he jumped in the water. The script thought it was an analog watch, but clearly costume department didn't get the memo!