skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strawman, no one thinks that it is false: humans can be resilient and tough-minded; they can suffer the slings and arrows of life without expensive interventions from “experts".
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This still doesnt make sense to me. Imagine a continuous line whose positions map to the real numbers between 0 and 1. If I "move" the line over 0.1 wrapping the end back to the beginning (i.e. x2 = (x1 + 0.1) % 1), there will be no points that are in the same position as they were in before.

EDIT: If you need a continuous function, wouldnt expanding the space to a line from -Inf to +Inf and then using x2 = x1 + 0.1 do the trick?
Why didn't you want to be in college early? The little fragments of the rest of your story indicate that you may have enjoyed meeting a self-selecting and (presumably) more mature group of peers for a fresh social start. Did your social life recover in high school?
The memory wall arrived decades ago. That's why caches were invented (which don't solve the problem, just soften the blow).

One approach would be to snip RAM in as many pieces as you have cores, and attach each piece locally to a CPU core. Say eg. 1k cores each with 1/1000th of total RAM, accessible at L1 cache like speeds. Giving you crazy-high (combined) memory bandwidth. I know, there exist some IC's that actually do this.

Problem is such a setup is not suitable for all types of computation. For data structures that require individual cores to access other cores' local RAM, you still need some communication protocol (+ latency, bringing you back to square 1).

And we haven't quite figured out how to program such a beast in software developer-friendly way.

Hence the usual approach of "all RAM in one pile, connected via a fat pipe to a heap of CPU cores".
Maybe sound compression ? I need to bump audio to 80 % to underestand anything on Netflix.
https://youtu.be/EiKCK8YNVUk?t=2673

>I'm sitting here like I'm in an Apple commercial or Square or Swipely or some bullshit tech thing, instead of "OK" I'm clicking "Got it!". Like [obnoxious surfer voice] "Ok, Got it! Got it!". That's how I acknowledge menus in the computer. That's how, when it becomes total Brave New World life, your torturers -- you're gonna have to acknowledge your -- "You've been assigned 10 hours of genital torture." "Ok, Got It!"
I have brave with uBlock and other than a "site is insecure" warning it loaded just fine, no pop ups. Those still exist?
Human emotions are weird. People get super attached to things for strange reasons.

> it was so sad seeing a car being deliberately killed.

like this
That's because there is also a precondition for the domain to be bounded, and since the real numbers are not bounded, the theorem does not apply here (or for any function R -> R).
The idea is that the historical migration patterns inferred from DNA match the branching of Indo-European languages of their new linguistic model, which therefore should be considered superior to earlier models.
Parkinson’s Law (1955)
Bounty hunters would still be subordinate to law enforcement in this hypothetical scheme, because a bounty submission still has to get approved by somebody inside the appropriate regulatory body. If a corrupt regulatory body wants to protect certain individuals for certain reasons, they can still do that in this system.

Note also that the scheme I'm imagining doesn't give bounty hunters any special powers; we're not deputizing people to kick in doors. For example, my understanding of TFA is that the journalist built their cases through public information. The only exception was using their journalist credentials to get access to a "museum" -- but in that case, simply being repeatedly denied seems like sufficient evidence that it's not a museum open to the public, so being a journalist wasn't necessary to the case anyway.

It's more plausible to me that a regulatory agency might be too proud to use this kind of help. I have no special knowledge of the IRS, maybe they're in that category.
>>Even though there was a lot of money supply creation in the US in the 2010s, where was negligible inflation (folks were actually complaining it was too low). Why was that?

If you look instead of Price inflation, and instead shift of Market Inflation you will see most of the money supply creation directly lead to stock price inflation and laregely lead to a huge bubble in the stock market (that is largely still there) where basic fundmentals of a company did not matter to the stock prices.

You see the rise of alot of highly unprofitable companies which under normal conditions would mean lowering of their stock value but instead their stocks were still going you

QE and other fed programs where designed to ensure market inflation, and that is where most of that money supply went, not to mainstreet which is where you would see CPI increases

Come to COVID and the money supply creation was done in direct transfers to Mainstreet, and almost immediately we seed CPI go nuts...
my (similarly uninformed) opinion is… similar. the industry is so regulated and unsexy that it doesn’t attracted the thought leaders and technical talent necessary to created modern, inoovative systems. instead you get more verbose epic garbage. i could be totally wrong, but i always assumed it’s related to the sexiness-quotient of the field.
This. When I started my career it wasn’t just “work”, I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. That passion seems to be fading, and it was put into overdrive by the lockdowns. I can see a day in the very near future of giving up in this whole “work” thing.
Noam Chomsky:

"For two millennia the idea of getting a job was regarded as a fundamental attack against basic human rights and human dignity. Why? Because getting a job means accepting servitude to a master. It means saying, 'Okay, I'll rent myself to you for most of my waking life and I will follow your orders during this period.' That was considered an utter abomination. By now it's sort of taken for granted. But should we take it for granted? Or should we go back to the ideals of working people, classical liberals, Cicero, all the way to Abraham Lincoln, saying that this is not a decent way for human beings to live, that people should be in control of their own work and their own destiny. One of the founders of classical liberalism, Wilhelm von Humboldt, captured the point very lucidly. He said, suppose an artisan creates a beautiful object on command, in a job. We may admire what he did, but we despise what he is: a tool in the hands of others. That was common belief right through the nineteenth century. We now accept that renting yourself into servitude is one of the highest goals in life – an idea that would have been an abomination for 2000 years."

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MU5zQwtT4&t=3540s
> I assume the argument here is that if you see a huge linguistic expansion and a huge demographic expansion occurring at the same time, you can reasonably conclude that they are the same phenomenon and the expanding language is spoken by the expanding people.

That's a lot to assume, though. One possible counterexample is contemporary North America. The English-speaking population spread across the continent in a linked process, the same phenomenon, but the majority contribution genetically, is not from England. There are communities in North America where almost no one is of English ancestry, yet they are English-speaking.

The same sort of social/demographic upheavals and changes that can create large language spread, are also the same kind that can create homogenization towards a single language despite people speaking many languages.
I assume Sony was just trying to hit this site with the Slashdot effect by taking this action as an indirect DDOS.
Yes, thank you! That's the related one I could not think of : )
I couldn’t disagree more. It actually worries me that so many people seem to be making this mistake, simultaneously.
But the author is alive and active on Goodreads!

Why not give Authors/Publishers control on adding books and flipping the "book is released" switch?

If Amazon just put a little bit of effort, they could make this into a "goodreads premium" thing and earn money to boot.

Imagine selling input codes for ARC reviewers to be able to input reviews before the book is released for the public; publishers would gladly pay for the privilege, so that when the book is actually available, the top reviews are those of ARC reviewers.

There could be other things Amazon could do, this is just something I thought could earn them money and thus align their incentives with readers. They just need to "care"
> Modern work is weird. All your energy goes into it. But at the end of the day there's no satisfaction. Just emptiness and exhaustion.

As opposed to what? Works was always like that.
> doesn't cause injury is worth doing.

Not causing injuries is the hardest part.

You can start with bodyweight though. Pushups, pull-ups, etc. I recommend the YouTube channel FitnessFAQs or Calisthenicmovement for a good start there. No nonsense, direct guides with discussion of technique and injury avoidance.
For some of the reasons already mentioned, a lot of the 'big' uses that people talk about with room temp superconductors (transmission lines, more efficient CPUs, etc) just likely won't be practical or even possible at all for a long time with this material, if ever.

However there is one application that would likely be able to overcome any basic engineering or cost/performance challenges and get built relatively quickly (~3-5 years timeframe), in my opinion: The development of very small, room temp SQUIDs [0] for use in small, portable fMRI-type machines. Think a helmet you put on and have the ability to monitor spatial brain activity at very high resolution and without the need for massive liquid helium cooled machines. The machine in link [1] would be able to potentially be shrunken down into something the size of a football helmet and potentially be much, much cheaper, allowing for a cascade of new research into uses of such a machine in ways possibly outside the typically niche medical research.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoencephalography
My approach has been to install Guix, and with Guix install emacs-next (and python-wrapper, and python-pip).

I'm still a Guix newb, so all I can say is that there may be some tweaking to be done if you're using non-default paths, (e.g. XDG Base Directory Specification) [0].

[0]: https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg0045...
There’s other ways. Like iCloud - you can store something on a private container and it will persist in the users Apple ID
Philanthropy is a lot less arbitrary than the vast machinery of misaligned incentives we name government.

Like it or not, your tax dollars fund Guantanamo Bay, Trump's family separation/kids in cages, and every other odious federal program. (My state deploys my taxes to terrorize immigrants. Lovely.)

Your philanthropic dollars only fund projects you actually endorse.
> What to expect in the coming months, years and decades in the consumer space?

I don't expect anything until the results are replicated, multiple times, and confirmed in the peer-review process.
They’re trying to keep up with notes because notes are how they get paid and how they defend themselves against lawsuits.

My wife doesn’t do notes in front of patients, but as a consequence she spends several hours at home after her shift finishing up notes from memory. She does it because she works in the ER and it allows her to handle more patients (she hates it when patients have to wait 3+ hours so she does everything she can to get them seen quickly). It is definitely much more work for her to do it that way though.
Of course, when you get down to the heart of the matter, it is really: The customer doesn't want what you have to offer anymore.

Not having enough revenue to pay the workers a sufficient rate is just a symptom of that.
> Could understand why someone with less experience programming would find [LSP] helpful

Have you considered the possibility that people with more experience programming than you might find it useful?
bottom-end (600-900) dollar range in 2001-2002ish got you between 128mb and 256mb of ram.

my bottom end pentium 4 presario came with 128 mb and the slowest hard drive in the world.

Office XP/2002 and Windows XP both called for 128mb minimum as far as I remember, so a lot of the machines were targetting that number.
> If there was a viable low cost superconductor that worked at temperatures up to 50 degrees Celcuis and atmospheric pressure, the implications would include:

It's important to note that a superconductor is a superconductor not just as a function of temperature, but also the amount of current carried, the critical current density[1], and magnetic field strength[2].

If the superconductor has a really poor critical current density, and the indicated numbers seemed to suggest so, it might not be viable for a lot of interesting applications in electronics and similar.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_wire#Important...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnet#Magnet_...
I'm going to miss when the ability to double-click the top-left corner of a window will close it (and right-click brings up the window menu). This has been around since the Windows 3 days and still persists in 11, but it's going away in some places - e.g. you can't do this in most browsers, and the new file Explorer in 11 dropped it to support tabs.
> I still hit CTRL-S obsessively

Same here, but because I used to forget to save before tabbing over to something else that depended on the changes I made. Now I never forget to save...
Oof, my condolences. At least you make doubly sure it's saved.
What evidence is there of people 2000 years ago claiming that having a "job" was a "fundamental attack against basic human rights and human dignity."?
100g is a large volume of loose spinach and dry lentils. That's a hearty entree for a hungry lass once cooked.
The theorem only applies to continuous functions.
X/Twitter will not move out of San Francisco
>>Blaming workers for their poor conditions is elitist and fragile advice

I literally don't see where I said such a thing.
I've never done hiring myself, but I'd joke with my manager that I should be allowed to watch potential new hires type for a bit before approving them for the role which involves a lot of typing/chatting, copy/paste, general UI work. So frustrating to see tech staff manually highlight words, right-click, copy, find some buried window, hunt and peck to type, etc.
> A note culturally, I do sadly feel like what they responded to was george is upset and saying bad things about us which is bad for our brand and not holy shit we have a broken driver released panicing thousands of people’s kernels and crashing their GPUs. But it’s a start.
I think Google Maps is doing something similar where it sometimes asks you to take photos/a video of the street you’re walking on to detrmine your location more precisely (I think it happens when the GPS is not giving good enough precision).
I can see how it makes sense. Rather than repress the violence, make it safe enough: it still works as an outlet, it facilitates it so that hunger for violence doesn’t reach high levels, it provides rules and boundaries implicitly accepted by both sides which helps avoiding revenge and escalation…

It applies to many undesirable -but-hard-to-eliminate things really, eg drug use probably ?
This is of course the famous quote from Socrates, and I absolutely hate this "argument". "Socrates was wrong in 400BC and it's wrong today" is one possible scenario, but it's also entirely possible that:

- Socrates was right in 400BC.

- at multiple points in 2,400 years there was a problem with "kids these days".

- Socrates was wrong in 400BC, but it's fair today or at other points in history.

It's just a complete non-argument.

Edit: and according to a sibling comment it's not even a genuine quote, but that doesn't matter: it's a non-argument whether it's a genuine quote or not.

The same applies to this "list", which is not a "long history" but just 19 quotes from the last 19 years from random people. Maybe some had a point and some didn't? Maybe none did? Maybe all did? That 19 people about of several hundred million complained about something (fairly or unfairly) in the last 19 years is just a non-argument.
https://archive.today/leE5B
Not really. First, it’s unfair to extrapolate one persons toxic mindset to work in general. But aside from that, what I’m saying is that there are plenty of examples of people who are happy at their jobs and if one wants to be happy at their jobs they can follow those examples or use them as inspiration.
Can treating hearing loss reduce dementia risk?
> The courage superconductors

For anyone else reading this, there's an autocorrect mishaps here: it's supposed to be “cuprate superconductors”.
> I'm sure there's a number of other factors they didn't mention that make it preferable to simply use their perfectly working car.

I'm sorry but when one is willing to put that much effort to try to justify using a car to avoid a 10 mn walk, that's only because one is way too lazy and privileged...
People like to say that ffmpeg is complicated but when you make it into a nice gui it doesn't get any easier -- it is video compression itself that is complicated. No software could make it easier without making the decisions for you, like handbrake or some other click-through interface.

I'm not certain, but I highly suspect that if I sat down and learned about digital video encoding and compression on a granular enough level then figuring out how to do things in ffmpeg would be rather intuitive. Does anyone have experience doing this?
This doesn't make sense to me. 200g of cooked rhubarb already has almost 400mg of calcium which is almost half of the 1000mg daily US recommendation and more than half of the 700mg daily UK recommendation.

Thinking dairy is the only source of calcium is meme-nutrition like eating bananas for potassium especially when talking about a food already high in calcium.
The story is pretty different if you include state and local taxes.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Fe...
I agree with GP after investigating your response, TL;DR: because it's very narrowly true: mentioned once, can be found via [searching the article].

Investigation revealed the context of this single mention is a claim that it is a lie to say the modalities are different. This context is created for a claim that [recent metastudies] showing therapy effective are falsified, proof being the modalities are all moderate to high effectiveness.

The reading of it is a polemic against a They, starting as "experts" in the subtitle and continuing throughout, leaving a generally correct GP versus a narrow claim that a modality name is mentioned once.
If you mean to observe that the authors literally typed the string "cognitive-behavioral therapy" into their draft, then yes, they did that: the string occurs one time, in a list of modalities, linked to a paper that they propose shows that all therapeutic modalities have comparable effect sizes despite the fact that even the abstract of that paper says otherwise.
How people haven't amassed a pile of these already blows my mind. I ended up buying more than I needed years ago, because they were so cheap and readily available

It probably doesn't make much sense if we have to deal with customs, but I'm happy to send these off to others in the US
The biggest place I’ve heard of a practical application for liquid-nitrogen temperature superconductors is wind turbine generators. The bigger in power output the turbines get, the more price competitive superconductors become.
I hope she gets well soon. I’ve never heard of this before but we do a lot of hiking and camping and my wife had a tick on her the other day, so I guess we’d better be careful. I’ll have to see what kind of preventative measures there are.
I've enjoyed my work before (especially working on games I enjoyed), but I've never found it energizing.

Any mentally challenging work at the end of the day has alays left me feeling pretty low energy afterwards.

Also physically challenging (I remember working 10 hour days in a warehouse and then going home and having a quick bite to eat and then immediately sleeping for 10 hours, I didn't even have the energy to watch tv).

Also not physically or mentally challenging jobs either (as if just having to be present and 'on' during that time is enough to drain the energy).

The only times I usually still have energy to do something are in the mornings before work or on weekends, and that's pretty much when all the chores and errands and personal project work has to happen.
> If you can't Western Union money, there is a REALLY good reason.

That isn't remotely true. Why on Earth would you ever give Western Union this kind of authority, lol.

They've proven they can't be trusted many times over, most notably when they participated in the blockade of donations to Wikileaks.

It's viscerally disgusting to me that just a few years after that, someone would put them on a pedestal as some kind of moral arbiter. What the fuck.

> Good, I hate crypto shit and I want it to go away. It is all a scam.

Yawn. What a tired and ignorant sentiment. The fact is, people saying things like this are making exactly the same destructive mistake as people saying 'all politicans are bad' - you're throwing out a very important baby with the bathwater.

Fortunately, digital money doesn't give a flying fuck about your opinion.

> Get a real job and invest in a real bank. Crypto is all tax fraud scam shit.

Ugh. See above.

> Good, I hate gambling and online casinos. If you have to gamble, do it in my country so the taxes benefit.

You lack the minimum required table stakes of tax knowledge to be saying things like this.
Name is perfect.
Not having children helps a lot with that
Agreed. My understanding from someone I consider to be a very good clinical psychologist is that the only time you may need some psychotherapeutic intervention is when you are genuinely stuck with a problem you can’t figure out yourself _and_ it’s significantly hampering your quality of life in some way you consider meaningful.

And then, you only need help until you’re unstuck.

Teach a man to fish, and all that…
Worms Revived After 46,000 Years Frozen in Siberian Permafrost
There is an extension of that: https://github.com/HomeOfVapourSynthEvolution/VapourSynth-Bw...

Though if you are reencoding, you mind as well go whole hog and use QTGMC.
> Can you actually give examples of competent public spending?

That question, without an agreed-upon definition of "competent," has built-in Schrödinger goalposts. Is it competent? Is it not? Is it the superposition of both?
Obviously first applications will cover AI and crypto.
The more I learn about my depression the more I realize just how underdeveloped medicine is in this area. Everything that the author writes is true, some psychiatrists will even admit as much - i.e. that standard treatments such as psychotherapy or SSRIs or exercise work, but each of them just barely. We may be decades or even centuries away from reliably treating depression.

Most depressions indeed go away on their own, and perhaps are even helpful - they can force a person to reconsider and rearrange their life. The heavier ones probably have to be treated with everything that the patient and their environment can muster, all at the same time. And since the patient usually can't do much, it's up to the environment (friends, family, health care, mental hospitals). Please keep that in mind and force your depressed friends to go for walks, or do anything else at all, repeatedly. All the +5% basics like physical activity or smalltalk really do add up. Though the depressed person will not be able to see it for a while.