skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a neuroscientist who published on central sensitization and chronic pain. Unfortunately, I was forced into retirement by chronic fatigue syndrome.

The linked article and others have convinced me that CFS can be caused by viruses.

There's one important and tricky question: is a viral infection necessary to trigger CFS in humans (such as long COVID or in this linked article), or is an extremely stressful series of events (which could include the physical stress of a severe viral infection) sufficient?

Giving a certain interpretation of their comment, I think the physician could be stating that they've seen patients with CFS that has been triggered by stressful events alone. I think this can coexist with the linked research if CFS can be triggered by stress OR a virus.

When chronic stress is mentioned as a factor, that should not be interpreted as being a psychological predisposition ("it is all in their head"). Instead, it is a predisposition on a cellular level.

The brain regions involved in central sensitization are tightly linked with those involved in chronic stress. Animal models of chronic stress lead to central sensitization of pain, as do animal models of chronic illness. Chronic stress causes an immense amount of remodeling in the brain and the rest of the body.

Proving or disproving that CFS can be triggered by chronic stress alone is difficult because CFS is a diagnosis of exclusion. Diagnosis can take a long time. We humans are always getting viruses and occasionally enduring stressful life events, so it is difficult to untangle the two.

If we look at my personal history, my diagnosis took several years (above average for CFS patients). I can point to 3 stressful life events and 2 viral illnesses that might have preceded CFS onset. The cause for my CFS remains a mystery.

Without a mechanism and diagnostic test for CFS, I think this question will remain unanswered.

I think it is contentious to say that CFS is an endpoint of central sensitization. It might be, but it also might be related to mitochondrial dysfunction or another mechanism-- too soon to tell, in my opinion. Central sensitization is certainly a component, but I do not think it is proven to be the only component. I should say that I'm extremely biased towards believing in central sensitization as the cause of many things because that was the primary focus of my research.

Again, without a mechanism and a diagnostic test for CFS, much is murky. Viral infection can at least be a cause. I think we're far away from having a tidy answer like the story of H. pylori and ulcers though.
not sure but i think distributors in the US add on a stupid high markup
that said you can get a leg for 200 bucks on amazon i think
i have been thinking of hanging one from the ceiling in our apartment and eat from it when i need a break but my wife won’t let me
> I hope they tax planes more and use that money to subsidize rail.

That sounds like a good plan. I don't think lobbying will let us, though.
This just like the JSPatch which creates a JS wrapper use Cocoa API in javascript environment.
I think to make the code compile and run for multiple platform, the top level API is the key, not the some-kind-of Objc-based-c-runtime.
Flutter is a good example. Chromium is a better example.
What this shown is more like the failing C# for Apple. I have no idea why so many devs used this, but with the end of Visual Studio for macOS, no more C# for Apple platform.
Our Journey at F5 with Apache Arrow
VB6 morphed into VB.Net but then the web took over and anything that could be accomplished as a desktop app was replaced by a web page.
There are many Apple devices that are good arguments against that claim, but the barely over a year old M2 Air isn’t one.
It's nice, but my Skylake laptop from 2016 also has pretty good llama.cpp acceleration. It might not drive the next hardware cycle as much as memory and storage constraints will.
Can you explain exactly what you mean when you say you used the eSIM "for everything"?
You don’t need a complete diagnosis if you can spit out enough debug info that says, “oops shat the bed while working with this flight plan”, then the support people can remove the one that’s causing you to fail, restart the system, and tell ATC to route that one manually.
If my phone breaks then I can scan a QR code or use an app to assign the e-sim from my home network to the replacement phone. e-sims only need access to the internet, not the network, to be provisioned AFAIK, and it can be done automatically at any time of the day so customer service reps don't need to be involved, unlike a physical sim card. Last time I signed up for an e-sim, I just had to have wifi, and the whole process was about 15 minutes.

What happens if my phone is stolen with the sim card, or the sim card breaks while I am away from my home country? Literally all of the problems you cited are not solved with regular sim cards.

Getting set up with an e-sim can be as easy as: download app/scan qr code, and provide payment info.
Just the visible waste, especially as those AC units are running in flats with windows open
I once had a job offer from a big company that developed exclusively in VB.NET, after transitioning away from VB6. Both for desktop and web. So it's still out there.
Maybe use a smaller alphabet though, base64’s can be quite hard to read / spell out / reproduce as it includes confusing pairs.

While somewhat less dense, base58 or rfc 4648 base32 mitigate these issues.
It’s simple: Corporate internal app development (mostly CRUD stuff, as you’d expect) was the bread-and-butter of VB, and it moved wholesale to HTML & JavaScript.
You only really need this part:

https://amazon.com/dp/B09V3HZ8B5
Clicky: https://aiplaygrounds.in

About the video: I want to see some gameplay, but most of it is a Matrix-like falling characters. Also, in the game the ships just get together and fire, there is chasing.

I remember https://www.google.com/search?q=doblons.io&tbm=isch and one of the interesting parts was that there where random coins to collect and upgrade the ship, so you can choose to fight or escape. Or try co collect coins while you escape and health your ship or upgrade the weapons. Something like this would make people more more their ships.

For example see this part of the video https://youtu.be/ff6FNxeN9WA?t=155
It's very cool, but also no wonder that it doesn't support all those features of regexes which technically make them not regular expressions anymore. Though, I would have thought ^ and $ anchors shouldn't be a problem?
Dolly the sheep creator Ian Wilmut dies aged 79
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They've slowly started doing Swift-only pieces - e.g, App Intents are also Swift-only, WatchKit complications (I believe), CryptoKit (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cryptokit/), etc.

(It's not a big blocker to still be tied to Objective-C IMO; I'm mostly just responding to the "might be the only swift-only API apple is actively working on" line.)
It seems reasonable to me to assume that nothing bad would happen if we stopped fossil fuel consumption right now. The ecosystems on our planet have only had fossil fuel emissions added for around 200 years, and in that time these emissions have had a very negative effect on the whole system. If we stop adding these we return to the normal which has been ongoing for millions of years. It's not a perturbation, it's stopping a perturbation.

By what mechanism would you expect something bad to suddenly happen?
> I will continue to do these in a terminal and Python REPL for all the reasons you bring up.

Do you have a way to prevent terminal utilities from accessing the network?
Yes, I'm essentially wanting to know more about those existing ICAO-based systems, be they machine or not.
Typically we do not know shit about it. If / when it starts we will.
Yeah, it's used in the top-level update() call in the BEGIN block:

if (update(ARGV[1]) == 0)
print ARGV[1] " is up to date"
Copying very long URL’s into a Markdown document or a social media post is pretty annoying. URL shorteners are opaque and add a point of failure.

On link-sharing sites like this one, we care about the URL’s we share and will often strip off the tracking stuff.
The NFL season opener is also the kickoff for the biggest gambling season ever
uuids are ubiquitous and easy and implemented in many languages in the standard library - therefore a dev can get near-guaranteed uniqueness without thinking too hard about it.

Until another standard similar to what the article is suggesting becomes widely implemented in standard libraries then uuid isn't going anywhere, although in principle I agree with many of the arguments presented.
I mean sure, if you look at every definition of the word ‘girl’ through every lense, you can find a way to frame the world in such a way as to produce… whataver this article is

I just don’t get this piece.
Even if in theory it would, Rust's commitment to backwards compatibility would mean that those things could not be removed.

You're asking for a different language.
>> I have yet to find a tool that can allow me to be as productive in so short a time as Visual Basic.

For me: Delphi or Lazarus
It upsets me that "companies shouldn't have the same rights as people" is apparently controversial in the US.

A "company" is explicitly an organization that we throw a handful of benefits and handouts to as a society, like limited liability and apparently the unwillingness to punish you for crimes. Surely it's justified that this legal fiction should be held to some standards that you couldn't necessarily hold a person to.

Hell, if you believe "Free speech" should apply to businesses, then "False marketing" laws should be unconstitutional! That's insane.
No way or no procedure.
The requirements for an injunction are much lower than an actual ruling.

The party must just show that they have a possibility of winning the case and that granting temporary relief will not cause additional harm to the plaintiff.

To use that as proof that the defendant will win is ridiculous.
VB died because of .NET and VB.NET. The syntaxes were similar, but VB.NET was much closer to a "real programming language" in feeling and complexity than VB was, and that's not what anyone who used VB actually wanted.

Microsoft was more interested in developing .NET and C# to battle Java, and less interested in developing and promoting VB, their own successful and original product.
You Don't Need UUID, But You Probably Want It:

- Don't invent your own ID datatype (especially 11 byte one), this is almost guaranteed to cause dangerous bugs, because each integration will have to carefully implement/hack it.

- Use UUID (preferably the new v7). 128-bit UUID is implemented, for you, pretty much everywhere.

- Serial integers still work too, but you should choose them consciously to fit the data model.

- Implement "natural keys" if you want pretty/memorable/Cool URLs. Never use non-standard PKs to store custom semantic data, because inevitably you will get garbage PKs that need to be fixed, and migrating a PK value is extremely risky.
Probably to receive 2FA and connect to the internet. Not specifically the eSIM.
It’s a sales pitch for base58 that I’m not buying at all. According to the code segment, they include numeral “1” but exclude lowercase “l”?

0-9 and a-f are unambiguous and widely understood. They’re more “human readable”.
I wonder the same thing about Apple's HyperCard. I used HyperCard a ton at school and side-projects. Visual Basic was a firmer and better step-up from that imho, less so as VBScript when it came to browsers.

As per other comments VBA is alive and well and I did many consulting gigs using that in Ireland in the late 1990s. I hope, in the name of all that is holy, that code isn't running still.
My extended family has 5 M1 Air (base model) laptops and they're absolutely great and are way more powerful than they need. I only hear the occasional compliment, and no complaints.

The storage is expandable externally, and the RAM is actually quite usable even on heavy loads.
Personally; I prefer the physical SIM card. I can move it to whatever device I personally want to authorize to use that line.

eSIM sounds like passkeys, in that it's tied to the device and whoever controls the code that runs on that device.
There's no telling what's real once you are willing to go down that route, least of all a doctors opinion. If someone stops displaying symptoms that could just be a non blinded doctor and a placebo.

I think the offense is going there without any double blinded science and then relying on non reproducible fields of research to annoy the patient.
Super cool! Tried it on my prompt which tried compressing information using emojis, but those were given a low importance score. Switched the emojis out for plain text, which is given a higher importance score, and I'm seeing better results.
Nothing actually has changed; the regular phone network has been digital TDM for ages. If you disabled the echo cancelling and use an uncompressed codec like ulaw it's always worked to run a modem over an RTP stream, provided you were able to guarantee zero packet loss and zero frame delay (no jitter).

But if you are asking if this will really be reliable over the public Internet, the answer is still pretty much no, not well. Any network hiccups or delays will often just result in the connection dropping completely. The advice to steer clear of such solutions is still as valid as it ever was, but for a hobby retrocomputing project, yeah knock yourself out.
Google doesn't sell private data to others. They sell ads and targeting ads. I can believe that Meta sells data but it is likely they have the same model. I don't think data privacy would affect their business since sales would be small part of revenue.

Data ownership wouldn't help with Google or Meta because they would put assignment in the user agreements. The same as they do for copyrighted content. The difference is that they might have to specify if the data gets sold.

The companies that would be affected are data brokers. Honestly, I think the focus on Google and Meta hides all the companies that are actually selling data, really private data like location.
It looks ClickHouse's competitors are catching up quickly. Particularly StarRocks, which was first a fork of Apache Doris and then a rewrite. They claimed to have faster query engines with cost-based optimizers and cross-table joins. I was wondering if ClickHouse will release something major soon too.
I completely agree. UUIDs are almost always evidence of overengineering, especially when user-facing. 64-bits is "enough" of an address space for almost any purpose, even global. And while it seems like speaking an ID over the phone or having to scan it manually is something you'd never have to do, in practice it happens all the time. Cut-and-paste is not always an option on all platforms.
Cool! I'm always impressed by other people's miniatures work. I never had that sort of patience... little grey men it is.
The current P/E ratio puts Nvidia at 10x that of AMD and Intel. Nvidia is currently charging extortionate prices to all of the big FANG companies.

At that point, I think it is more likely that the FANGs pour money into a competitor than continuing to pay arm and a leg for eternity.

The thing about enterprise-hardware is that no one has brand loyalty. Nvidia also has a single point of failure. Nvidia is what Google would be if it was "just a search company".

Nvidia will continue existing as one of the behemoths of the tech industry. But, if Nvidia continues to 'only' sell GPUS, then will its stock continue growing with growth expectations sitting at about 3x of every other FANG company ? Unlikely.
3- the people operating the system are capable of maintaining its source code
Someone else implied this in another comment but this line appears at the end of the article:

> If you click and buy any of these from Amazon after visiting the links above, I might get a commission from their Affiliate program.

When one wonders why that was included they might discover that the "short ID" example given near the top of the post is an Amazon link. One might then further wonder what the purpose of this article is.
We must applaud these efforts. This was introduced by someone who did not look at eSIM as a mere virtual replacement for SIM cards, but a new tool with new capabilities.
To me, it seems like the best feature Apple could offer on a Macbook is a 2-in-1 form factor, with a touch screen and an iPad mode.

I refuse on principal to carry an iPad and a macbook, since its basically the same hardware, and iOS apps should run on Macbooks (and do, if the developer hasn't outright blocked them, which sadly most do).
China just fought back in the semiconductor exports war
I don't use it, but it's working wonderfully by keeping self-absorbed dimwits from cluttering up Twitter/X.
And everything in that IDE was fast and super responsive. Today's IDE are more complex than ever and yet they lack in functionality that was present in VB6.0
I love some people “just declare” something legally unenforceable if that thing is not something they like.
Perhaps you've never actually participated in "new iPhone season" but it never involved moving your old SIM to your new phone. New iPhones came with a new SIM, and part of the activation process involved deactivating your old SIM and activating your new SIM.

As a consumer, eSIMs are fantastic for international travel. I can have a prepaid international data plan up and running before I even get off the plane.
What was the “everything” you’re referring to? Physical sims can fail too, so not a good place to store a phone book if that’s what you mean.

Some providers are better than others at generating and replacing esims. The worst one I came across was Vodafone which removed passwords from their accounts and instead texted a code to log in - of course this is impossible without access to a sim, so good luck I suppose.
>How then is my data not me?

Knowing your PII is not a crime, and it shouldn’t be.

Identity theft is not a crime. In fact, there is no such thing. You’re still you. I can’t steal your identity.

The crime is fraud.

Making material misrepresentations about who I am by pretending to be you to obtain credit is the crime.

>It's the cornerstone of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for society in our new era.

It’s really not. We have all of these now without data privacy.
>To others, it's one of the most important.

Its only really important to a very small minority of the population. The rest of the people say they want privacy, but have absolutely zero clue on what that actually implies and take active steps to worsen their privacy in lieu of using the latest smartphone or smartphone app.
Except the entire point and concept of government/states is that most slopes AREN'T slippery and will have a line drawn somewhere.

You can't just saw "slippery slope", you have to provide evidence that there's strong public (in a democracy) and political will to continue down that slope.

Even if you believe abusing Twitter is popular and wanted from democrats (it isn't), it sure as hell isn't popular for the entire nation.
My personal reason, which is probably unique:

VB 1.0 was extremely buggy, making it unusable for my use cases.

VB 1.1, which fixed the bugs I was encountering, was a paid upgrade.

I switched to Linux and never looked back.
Experience it turns out, is massively expensive.
I wonder about HyperCard as well. I never used it but, from everything I've ever heard about it, it was also an amazing developer experience.
Hearing Aids May Lower Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia
Apple Arcade raises the bar significantly on mobile, but it pales in comparison to the first party offerings for any dedicated game console. It's got a lot of good indie games, but is missing anything comparable to flagship console-selling titles like Zelda, or Starfield, or Spider-Man. Even portable devices from previous console generations had more compelling libraries in many regards.
It would be really cool to run an experiment like this. Have some population of rats living in a large enclosure that is held in a large centrifuge for decades and see how they evolve.
On a multi-user system, only partial crashes are features. Total crashes are bugs.

A web server is a multi-user system, just like a country's air traffic control.
You're just nitpicking.

"Does it matter" is a very reasonable response to someone expressing their opinion.
If Microsoft had put more effort into Internet Explorer and VBScript (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript), today's web could look very different, and in some ways better.
These are called telephone line simulators, and you can find them on eBay occasionally still.

If you want the 56k standards (K56flex, X2, V.90, V.92) though, it gets more complicated because the 56k side of the connection has to be connected via ISDN. So you'll need an ISDN simulator instead, plus an ISDN modem which speaks the 56k protocol and a way to get an analogue phone connection out of an ISDN line (might be built into some simulators but there are other ways to do this as well).
I have no doubt they'll find users. I'm just wondering at what point usage runs into spectrum limits.
I don't know of any 180B models that outperform gpt-3.5, including Falcon (according to benchmarks).

There are fine-tuned 70B models have higher benchmark scores than gpt-3.5, and when quantized they can run on a 64GB Macbook.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

https://huggingface.co/spaces/gsaivinay/open_llm_leaderboard
Here's a random selection from the past couple weeks:

> I'm visiting Oxford University for a few days. What are some things I should know before I travel? How do I fit in with people on my trip? Take the persona of a stuffy old Brittish aristocrat while answering.

> Help me edit this text to write it in a way which is less likely to cause offense: (...)

> I’m writing a story with different city states, where each city state has a different mix of cultural values. For example, one city might be very individualistic while another is more communal. The values exist to support storytelling. Each should be justifiable but also have interesting strengths and weaknesses that can be explored through stories told in those cultures. What are some other values by which real or fictional cultures could diverge in interesting ways?

> Is rapeseed oil ok / good for baking? We’re oven baking broccoli and potatoes. (followup): How hot should you make an oven to roast potatoes and cauliflower? How long should it be in the oven for?

> How do you make crepes?

> We’re in an Airbnb and the bathroom smells like arse. Any idea why?
I think there's a better "You Don't Need UUID", which is that you probably aren't going to generate so many integers per second that you need to do so in a way that's perfectly collision free.

For example, you can update a postgres integer 1000s of times per second, sequentially, and 100s of 1000s of times per second if you allow for gaps/ unordered sequencing. The reason to choose a UUID is because it doesn't require a db. Totally fair. But you probably already have a db lying around if you're generating UUIDs to begin with?

Or because you need an unguessable token, which a UUID is great for.

But if you have a postgres db around somewhere consider just having a counters table and using that. It'll be fast enough for almost anyone, it'll return smaller tokens, and it'll return tokens that are sequentially allocated (in range. These are nice properties to have!
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I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using your data without compensating you. If I sell my diary, you aren’t owed a cent.