skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tweet is a hyperbole, but it points at the important role of luck and survivorship bias.

It is clear that given the dimensions of skill and luck, the most success will come from having both. If you lack either skill or luck, you will automatically be at a disadvantage compared to those who have both. This implies that the most prominent success stories are the result of luck as much as of anything else. However that isn’t very often mentioned in those stories.
Part of gender affirming healthcare - which also includes possibly affirming a gender congruent to their sex - is extensive therapy and investigations by psychiatrists.

People are not handed HRT like candies, nor do they undergo such surgeries on a whim.

By banning gender affirming healthcare you force kids and adults to seek HRT off the market, from possibly malicious and opportunistic actors.

It’s no different to drug policies really. The war on drugs has failed in every state and country that has attempted it, whereas the humanitarian approach taken by Portugal has shown to actually solve the issue.

If indeed there is a trend, doesn’t it make more sense to have the kids reviewed by certified and approved medical professionals and give them therapy and evaluation instead of making it harder and hoping that they don’t go to gray market?

There is an enormous amount of research done on the topic, and is definitely not new either.
You also have those who were born on third base going through life convinced they hit a triple telling everyone else why they're special.
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I should be a doctor, with my handwriting.

TBF, my handwriting sucked before I started using computers, but they didn't help.

My entire family has awful penmanship (and it's an Ivy-league family). I used to dread trying to decipher my mother's notes.
Lilo & Stitch.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

Time After Time.

Those are all rated PG so should be reasonably OK for a 12 year old.
Your statement ignores the fact that this article’s info comes from the DHS Inspector General’s report on CSS usage within the department. The IG did the legwork to figure out that agents didn’t comply with department policy, nor the relevant Pen Tap and Trace statutes.

In the case that agents use the already well established workarounds for 4A protections, the agents must still file for a warrant post hoc within 48 hours, which they didn’t do, hence the article.

And Stingrays / CSS devices are used, there is always an unreasonable search applied towards all phones accidentally intercepted, so there is good reason for both department policy to be followed, and for a judge to at least review this after the fact.

Your comment is lazy. The IG report exists for a reason. It removes almost all of the ambiguity you pretend might exist in these cases.
Really curious about something: according to the Pareto principle you should identify the top square root of employees that are top performers and pay them significantly more than the rest (they are producing several times more,~ 9 times, you even if you pay them double you get more value than from the rest of the people). Was this a conclusion of your project on employee retention?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disservice

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/disservice
There's a bit of a glaring omission here.

They persisted with covid 0 well into mid-late 22. It was very clear 2 and a half years into the pandemic that covid was not ebola.

Hard-line initially is defensible, rationalizable.

Later not so much.

The other conclusions seem off too. Other Asian and South Pacific countries demonstrated their willingness to lock down and turn more authoritarian in the face of an unknown threat. They pivoted though.
I don't know why the "you didn't build that, you just got lucky/born wealthy/born in the US/born with good connections" argument has picked up recently. Just a lot of people wanting to justify why they're not also wealthy business owners? Most without ever trying in the first place?

Every idea for a business isn't equal. A good idea, combined with good leadership, and good execution, will 'beat the odds' the majority of the time.

Honestly, that this is all there is to the post, and that it was a tweet, just adds to the rediculous of the statement. Just spewing unfounded opinions with no evidence onto a platform that encourages short easily digestible posts.
I recently found out cursive (aka. joined up writing aka. running writing aka. .... Handwriting) isn't thought in US schools any more.

This blew my mind. I understand the reasoning behind dropping it from the curriculum, but hearing that students couldn't do cursive really, blew my mind. And I'm not even sure why it surprised me so much!
I used Elevenlabs voice AI to generate voice acted quests
Those are not the odds, just his success rate.

If you do everything badly (i.e. come up with bad business ides, cannot implement even those bad ideas, are bad at hiring, managing money, paying taxes etc.) then your success rate will be 0%, not 20%.

The issue here isn't about how hard starting a business is. It's obviously hard enough that many (most?) people who try will fail.

The issue is: can you do things better? Is doing things better lead to higher probability of success?

The "it's all luck" people say that you can't. There is no better or worse way. It's just luck. Therefore any advice is useless.

The opposite point of view is: yes. There are better and worse ways of doing things. And if you know what they are then you can tell other people. And that advice will help them to achieve success. But not guarantee.
Although I was not involved in the study itself, I was a volunteer for the rescue program in Chernobyl in summer 2018 when a lot of the data was collected. I assisted with checking radiation levels / decontamination and operating a whole body radiation counter to measure the radiation levels of the dogs for a different study.

The stray dogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone were surprisingly friendly. Better socialized and behaved than a good number of pet dogs I see in the USA.

As mentioned elsewhere in the replies, if you think the program is interesting, consider donating to the Clean Futures Fund: https://www.cleanfutures.org/dogs-of-chernobyl/
Somewhat relatedly, I recently went on a months long mission to reacquaint myself with cursive. I hadn't used it since grade school, and had almost totally forgotten many characters.

It was fun, and felt good to accomplish something so useless.
Here's the thing, if the right actually was honest, they would be supportive of social transitioning, because that is how a kid can figure out their transness. Maybe for some kids, it's an experiment and they're really cis, but for many (because honestly, socially transitioning is not exactly easy in many places), it is a life saving first step in understanding themselves and establishing evidence for medical professionals to warrant medical transitioning at some point.

However, the right is also banning social transitioning. They are not interested in letting kids figure themselves out. They are determined to eliminate trans people.

See the recent CPAC quote from Michael Knowles. This is a conference participant calling for the elimination of transgender people.

Trans people are not a hypothetical for cis people to discuss. We exist and have existed throughout history. Many cultures have ways of recognizing multiple genders. The idea that we should be eliminated should be horrifying on its own terms, never mind, that historically people do not stop with the elimination of one group. Eventually they come for others.
Perhaps not very advantageous power for the retirement benefits but I think it still shows the immense influence of the industry. I'm not aware of other private companies which are exempt from paying into Social Security and have an entire federal agency dedicated to managing their separate system.
> Someone somewhere is feeling the compromises.

All of us do.
When people read "protein" they think food, however proteins can have physiological effects on the body. Human growth hormone, snake venom and insulin are all proteins, and they do far more than just provide nutrients.

Peptides are just small chain proteins, so the same rules apply.
Where does a device come into play? Just need to perform a poll
As soon as you reach for Shakespeare in order to justify a word's usage in vernacular English, it's clear that you've missed the point.
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35024900
Maybe if the blurbs are not worth any attention then the book itself and how it's been edited is barely even deserving of that same attention? I'm sure the free classics from gutenberg.org which one can download on a kindle showcase no blurgs.
the Chernobyl retriever
Its worth pointing out because rust has a monopoly on easy-to-write gc-less memory safety, with the alternatives being modern c++ or higher level languages where you run into a garbage collector
This was the thing that totally blew me away when I was introduced to GPT a couple of months ago.

It’s “programmed” in natural language.

And when you think about it, it’s obvious: we don’t really know how it works, so how else could we program it?

That said, I don’t understand why the outputs of these systems aren’t “read” by a second GPT instance that is tasked with determining if the output is OK.
signals represent continuous time varying quantities, like an electrical voltage, an audio signal or the current mouse coordinates. streams (event streams) represent a sequence of discrete events, like key presses or network packets or financial transactions.

the key difference is in backpressure strategy: signals are canonically lazy, they don’t compute or do work until sampled, and only the latest value is relevant (nobody cares where the mouse was a moment ago when nobody was looking). streams are eager, you can’t skip a keyboard event or a financial transaction, even if the pipes are backed up – instead you have to tell upstream to slow down so you can catch up. The benefit of event streams is the guarantee that you'll see every event, which means streams are suitable for driving sequences of side effects (keyboard event -> network request -> database transaction).

signals are a good fit for rendering because you only want to render at up to say 60fps (even if the mouse updates faster, which it does). and you only want to render what’s onscreen, and only when the tab is focused. rendering (say dom effects) is indeed effectful but not in the discrete way; the dom is a resource, it has a mount/unmount object lifecycle, and due to this symmetry it is a good fit for rendering whereas isolated effects (without a corresponding undo operation) are a terrible fit for signals because backpressure will drop events and corrupt the system state.

You can use streams for rendering too, but it's dis-optimal, and potentially by a lot. If your app chokes on a burst of events, you want to skip ahead and render the final state without bothering to render all the intermediate historical states. Signal laziness is what enables this "work skipping"; a stream would have to process each individual event in sequence.

I have no idea if JS projects get the backpressure right, can anyone confirm?
Instead of keeping N terminals open for N projects, I usually keep only one open and put each project in a screen session, then wrap them all in a “meta” session.

I started using this pattern before I moved to macos, but now that I’m usually on a mac, it helps because I still haven’t gotten used to macos window / desktop management. Managing one terminal is easier than a half dozen.
> somehow on an exponentially more powerful and capable modern computer it seems that things like instant input response and no missed key presses is somehow asking for a lot

I would guess there's still an 8bit CPU polling the keyboard matrix, only inside the now separate keyboard. That being the first layer, it can only get slower as it traverses all the other, new layers.
Well, chances are the word comes from the Irish language (Gaeilge).
Cuid. As in "Mo chuid ..." (my portion of ...).
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-22...
You are missing the point and are confusing real-world applications with SEO-optimised websites and e-commerce apps. Besides if anything, dark patterns, tracking etc. are pushed mainly by the product mgmt. sect, a group which I agree has had a lot of toxic impact and is mentality-wise closer to the monkey-banana-hoarders than to their engineering peers.They share the same lack of competence, unfounded arrogance and tunnel vision with the likes of Uncle Warren. It all has nothing to do with the genuine, intrinsic motivation of an engineer.
You’re saying “incorrect” like there’s universal agreement on the subject. One can (and many do) just as easily argue that the rate of return on capital investment always exceeds economic growth in the long run. Over time, the resulting income inequality destabilizes society and leads to outcomes undesirable to everyone, like getting your head cut off by an angry mob.

if you believe this, capital investment does not make society better overall absent controls which insure income inequality cannot grow unchecked.

I’m not saying this is inarguably the truth, but if millions of people read “Capital in the 21st Century” then it’s at very least not a fringe idea, and one cannot simply dismiss criticism of investment as it exists in our economy.
I feel like a boomer just compiling Python from source and using venv/pip/setuptools/wheel until all the stupidity blows over.

I wasn't even aware of hatch, PDM and Pyflow. Every new tool is just trolling the Python community. I even submitted a couple pip patches, never again.
If there is something about your job that is making you miserable daily, especially if it effects your mood outside of work definitely make a move. Beware of strongly linking your general happiness to your job generally though. If your are unhappy about something outside of work changing your job probably isn’t going to help make you happier.
I have something like this built-in to a modified cigarette pack guitar amplifier. I have two LEDs wired in a circular-series circuit (I have the positive of one attached to the negative of the other, repeat for the other end) and I have those on the speaker output in parallel with the speaker. I can watch the harmonics visually via the LEDs when I play and tune the guitar.
> Where did they sleep?

Maybe at least one of their parents had a sofa.

The trick is to have parents who aren't homeless.
A Case of the MUMPS (2007)
This is a little pessimistic.

Just take smaller risks. I built my first business over nights and weekends and didn’t quit my day job for 5 years.

If you want something bad enough you just have to take the chance.
I wonder if the ANC is actually bringing out latent tinnitus that was already there, but we don't often experience sudden transitions to and from silence where tinnitus becomes most notable.

There's evidence that in urban environments street noise is loud enough to cause hearing loss over time. Millennials or younger have basically worn headphones their whole lives as well, and only recently have devices started alerting for dangerous exposure. If you've listened to music or a podcast on a plane or the bus with earbuds then the volume would have been at dangerous levels.

I don't want to imply ANC may not cause tinnitus (this should be explored), but I suspect the reason people feel it wares off also has to do with the brain acclimating to background noise again.
Most gringos can not burn through a single failure, let alone 5-7. This helps to explain why the US Military is as large as it is...
We aren't? Then next time you mean something other than "completely false", I'd recommend steering clear of the phrase "completely false".
1. If you feel like you need to panic (or cry), feel free to do it. You must allow yourself to feel (and express) like you're the biggest loser ever walked the earth.

2. You seem to have an analytical mind given what you wrote. Let that guide you. For example: maybe you recognize that the PhD will be a big multiplier commercially in your career. The right question could be: how do I finish this quickly, effectively and efficiently so that I can reap the benefits over a lifetime. Hint: maybe ChatGPT can help.

3. You've been in love. You will be again.

4. Screw self-help. Your _actions_ are the only thing that will get you forward. Let actions shape your thoughts.

Good luck.
What? US students don't write by hand anymore? ...
It's unfortunate because taking notes by hand is still a useful skill, and writing in cursive is much, much more efficient. I did learn cursive in school, but didn't learn it very well: my hand would cramp up, and I couldn't keep up at "meeting pace" without my letters turning into scribbles. I had to spend a long time as an adult trying to improve my handwriting to get to the point where I felt like I could take legible, useful meeting notes.

Meanwhile I hate typing notes because I feel like typing forces me to think too linearly. Whereas in meetings I tend to end up with several clumps of loosely-connected notes, and I tend to spread them out somewhat evenly across the page. So even though I can type faster than I can write by hand, I still prefer writing by hand because of the freedom I get on paper. I also think the act of writing somehow helps me remember things better than typing. And e-ink just feels wrong, it's like the worst of both.
They do talk about that.

Elon Musk cleaned out manure tanks for a while in Canada if I'm not mistaking. There are some interviews where he talks about this (and showering at the gym across the street and sleeping under a desk and having no money) in quite some detail.
Playing the devil's advocate here, why should we teach handwriting at all? Why not just have first-graders learn to type?
Yes, I know that, but I think you have to use :global operator and combining it with parent scope class, which is extra steps in Svelte
You are really intent on stretching any kind of multiple versions released by the same author, into a license for full-blown falsification of books. Unless I can provide a legalistic formula for exactly how much notice must be given for exactly what kind of changes and by whom, apparently anything goes.
> What happened here isn't a case of the government going insane.

You're missing Dan's references to the two notable previous cases of the Chinese state adopting batshit insane policies and persisting with them for years, namely the Great Leap Forward ("their pots for backyard steel furnaces") and the Cultural Revolution ("out of their schools for class struggle"). Both were calamitous, directly leading to millions of deaths, and accomplished nothing at all of use.
Simple flocking behavior :)
Hardly useless. Over something like three thousand pages of work notes and personal diary since I discovered the habit in 2018, I've learned there's something to the idea that longhand writing eases access to a somewhat unique mode of thought.

There's craftsmanship to it, too. It's not something I anticipated, but I do enjoy for its own sake not being the anglophone sort of wāpurobaka any more.
Excellent. Thanks for those links.

Toshiba and HTC had this around 2011 when the mobile OSes were really bad with no updates available, phones produced by HW companies like Toshiba who had no idea on how to support sich HW software-wise. Even the Laptop 3D screen's drivers used to break with the next larger Windows update.

So I'm happy to see these devices return. I hadn't thought that this would happen anytime soon. However, theses are integrated devices again. Bit afraid that the support will be as short-lived as back then.

We haven't kept our FHD 3D TVs for the same absence of updated 3D TVs. But these have unified interfaces at least (Packed HMDI Stereo and SBS or TOB for normal HDMI). So maybe a standard external devices might make more sense than those integrated tablets and laptops.

Time to charge my Fuji Real3D cams once again, I guess.
sorry, I was confused by a French similar word. The intended meaning was "to harm"
For reference, a fully loaded resort experience in Camaroon, which ranked 97th out of 197 countries for cost of living, will still cost you $91+/day. $30k for the year works out to $82.

You have to compare like-to-like. You can go camping to minimize housing costs. Unfortunately the buffet service is sub par and the drink service is non-existent. There's not even a service class of people that will clean your tent for you and fold cute towel animals while you enjoy am afternoon of bocce ball.
The difference is that it's something which already necessarily happens in quantum systems.

Say you have two isolated particles A and B, and A is in a superposition between eigenstates 0 and 1. If those two particles interact, we say that they have formed a quantum system in a superposition between "A is in state 0 and B interacted with A in state 0" and "A is in state 1 and B interacted with state 1", right?

MWI "simply" lets the same happen with observers. You have a particle in a superposition between states 0 and 1. You observe (i.e interact with) the particle, which puts the "you + particle" system in a superposition between "the particle was in state 0 and you observed the particle in state 0" and "the particle was in state 1 and you observed the particle in state 1".

There is no wave function collapse mechanism, what we describe as "wave function collapse" is nothing more than the particles in the macro world becoming entangled with the particle we're testing.
> The terminology of signals (and slots) has been used in Qt [0] since the 1990s I believe.

Was confusing then and is still confusing now.
The best physical analogy I can muster is that of a sail: wind propels you forward, yet it's never originating from one direction. Ride the wind to your next challenge; the younger you are (and with the least amount of external responsibilities, e.g., family, mortgage, debt reduction), the easier it is to adapt to quick changes in wind direction / speed.
Not the commenter, but as far as unconventional anecdotes for autoimmune disorders go, how does intestinal worms whet your appetite?

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/patients-resorting-to...

Study from the article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894910/
What are the advantages of these mainframe systems versus a basic Linux server?
We did both in school in the late 90s. We had "computer" class 2-3 times a week where we learned touch typing, as well as "penmanship" where we learned print and cursive handwriting.