skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Covid is now here to stay, ranking somewhere in severity between the common cold, flu or pneumonia.

I know it’s ideologically motivated, but it’s surprising people just bold-faced lie about the impact of COVID, when the stats are there for everyone to see. In the US, COVID is on track to kill ~200K people this year:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker

The cold and flu will not kill anywhere near this number, pneumonia is a consequence of respiratory illness, not a disease in itself, and before COVID, this would be considered an absolutely insane amount of deaths.
You tried to use a timeseries database without a time column?
Lol, kind of true. Even banks try to avoid clients with net worth from crypto, although it is extremly transparent. Yes you can kind of prove it, but it is not trivial if you have thousands of transactions.

Let's say it depends highly who you are talking to. If it is someone who has never done prop trading, it would be difficult to convince him about anything. It is very easy to dismiss any gains from crypto as pure luck.
This also makes it ok to not finish a game.

If you bought a game for 60€ and played it for 20-30 hours but didn't finish it, I still count it as a net positive. 2€/hour for a good time, it's hard to beat that.
Yeah this is the "stairstep vs. lollipop" thing again.
I don’t know how to better explain to the hn algorithm than upvoting - but THIS is the exact sort of thing that should be on the front page on a Sunday. Perfection!
We need to start treating human attention as the scare, valuable resource it is. (Ditto for consumer goodwill).

Defaults on smartphones today make them worse than the annoying, noise-making novelty toys you used to buy your neighbours kids to drive their parents crazy.
Yet, Isn't using them w/o permission illegal?
According to NHS ophthalmologists at Moorfields eye hospital, I had acanthamoeba keratitis - a rare eye infection which… well… just Google pictures for what happens if left untreated. Theory is, I picked it up after staying in a hot tub too long and then leaving contact lenses in over night.

It’s so rare that the trainees never see any patients with it. The consultant asked me if I was OK for all the doctors there that night to have a look. They were fascinated but I was in a fair amount of pain!

I had to apply drops of what was effectively bleach to my eye for six months to ensure it went. Very painful. The diagnostic process was incredibly painful too. I can’t wear lenses anymore as I think my cornea is permanently damaged. Luckily my vision is back to normal but took nearly a year to recover.

Don’t sleep in your lenses. Don’t wear lenses in the hot tub!
It’s a very poor tasteful way of saying anti-immigrant sentiment doesn’t appear in a vacuum. That some auto label such people with this sentiment as neo Nazis is another issue.
Amazing never heard of this post, I guess he did this after his holiday to Mexico. Those labels are quite professional.
It doesn't - it only needs to support open standards.
My ex-manager once told me whenever he decides what to eat for a meal, he prioritizes calories per $.
Where I was born, buying licensed games was hard/impossible, so I just used pirated content.
Now, even if I can afford to buy, I still try out a pirated version and if it's good, I buy the game in steam(got Witcher & age of empires 4 this way) *(with some exceptions when pirated content gives superior experience, for example AC2/brotherhood where some content can't be accessed no matter how you pay)
We could carve out exceptions for specific niches. Ugly, but could work.

Who says the software has to be open? It would be better for sure, but companies may be interested in selling software for assistive technologies.

Interest may go up if the barrier to entry lowers. Undocumented hardware is quite the turn off.
I know a few people who are impacted by it. But they all, if I recall correctly, have confounding factors. For example, I know two people with MS where Covid has completely wrecked havoc -- and a year or so later are still largely devastated.
Oral Health Longevity Practices
I would argue an even worse situation are apps like Wyze camera that really need notifications enabled to alert you to camera movement, doorbell usage or other pressing events.

They have an option to opt out of marketing notifications but they ignore it if you check that and still send sometimes daily notifications of sales through of their crap.
Psychosomatic illnesses are in fact quite serious, but they require psychological treatment, not lockdowns of society.
Not only that, he's using my Google account, so it's managed as one of my devices :) With full access to unrestricted YouTube premium, Google Play, etc.

He's only got limits with respect to the time he spends on the phone or PC. So far hasn't discovered or been interested in "naughty" content.

I was forced to live in the "middle ages", communist Romania with no TV, no electricity, go to bed at candle's light, half an hour of cartoons on TV per week when that wasn't canceled to show the achievements of The Great Leader instead. I won't deny my kid access to entertainment and technology in the name of some dreamed up "Amish lifestyle / return to innocence" because there's no such thing.
Do you mean that your cell didn't have sunlight or that you literally never went outside? I was watching a documentary on ADX Florence, which is known for its maximum-security isolation, and prisoners were allowed one hour outside per day.
I think we’ve returned to a new, more callous form of reality, where mass injury, illness, and death are normalized, and any real concern for public health or intervention, including that which was considered entirely rational before COVID, is now greeted as impossible or insanity.
Lack of housing is a feature not a bug to the land owning class
Surely quality should factor in somehow? I would much rather play a short, innovative game than a long grind-fest.

Unless you're Papa Burch: "If you watch Paul Blart: Mall Cop seven times in a row, it's better than Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Gone With The Wind combined."

https://youtu.be/jI2zxBAIepI?feature=shared
This particular series of disputes was regarding the increase of "it's own waters" from 3 miles from the coast to 12/200 miles and if that was even legit.
yeah wow when the only option people have for getting around is to drive, most people will not want to give up their car

our argument isn't that everyone should just stop driving, leaving everything else as is. that would, as you point out, obviously not work

our argument is that there needs to be feasible alternatives to driving, which in many parts of the world is already the case and it works great (in fact, it works better than north american car dependency)

i do want to call out one more thing though

even if it was true that most people like their cars and driving (which isn't true at all)

given that the degree to which people drive is literally becoming an existential threat not only to future generations but already to us now

should the rest of us really just go ah we'll just let it slide then? like yes they're destroying our planet but, they really like their cars and driving

i don't share that logic
Money follows money, that's how it works.

If someone invests 100€ and makes 1% of profit, they got an extra 1€. You can maybe buy a cup of coffee with it.

But if a someone invests a million euros and gets 1% of profit, they get 1000€. That's a cup of coffee every day for almost 3 years.

Exact same investment, very different outcomes.
You're lucky. I found that even Google doesn't respect their own categories, and happily bucket useful information together with spam.
Yes, this absolutely works. Rather than viewing it as a rollback enabler, I think of it as a way to try things while keeping an escape hatch. Instead of deleting a column from a table, you can remove it from the view, and only drop it from the table when you're really sure that's safe.

But dropping a column from the view is an API-breaking change, so rather than updating the existing view I'd make a new view, possibly in a new API schema (e.g. "api_v2"). Then you migrate clients/applications to the new view, and only when nothing uses the old view would I drop both the old view and the column from the underlying table in new migrations.
1) we talked about something completely different.

2) please don’t be that guy. This is such obnoxious online behavior.
The same can be said about loudspeakers, a good set of loudspeakers is far more important than buying a super-expensive set of DACs, Pre and Power Amps.
Quite literally the sound of rock music is the sound of distortion. The kinks didn’t razor blade their amps for no reason.
It's trivial to manage on android.

https://i.imgur.com/w3A9Bge.png
> The US has an unusually large degree of local democracy by international standards. But, do people from other rich Western countries which have weaker local governments feel jealous of America over this? In my experience, largely no. Which calls into question how valuable it really is

Which, I suppose, depends largely on whether you're an American or not. Having created a polity that broke completely from the European monarchic traditions, the whole idea was to have a vigorous collection of local democratic entities. For the most part it has proven to work well over the past 200-plus years. Do we care that those who don't share this level of local democracy don't miss having it? Do they know what they're missing? No, and probably not, but that doesn't mean it's not valuable.
I'd think that could be managed with the help of faculty peers and the levels of administration, but barriers:

* Students who are mistaken, entitled, and/or lying... is a thing. Which do you trust, and is there a crying-wolf effect applied to students as a whole.

* At the faculty level, they're colleagues, often friends (sometimes more), are more likely to being seeing a better side of people with problems, and will tend to identify with other faculty. (Though there's also internal dramas, but they might unite against the common enemy that is students.)

* The administration can be made up of people with similar problems (especially overconfidence, and aggressive self-interest).

* In some facets of university structure, it can be strictly a business, no vestigial ideals of academia, only branding. Which is a problem both for how they behave in those facets, and for students haplessly trusting the university when a sociopathic facet is involved.
Looks like there are all sorts of adjustable massage table headrests on Amazon — perhaps one of them would do the trick?
WW2 is a terrible comparison here. You haven't given any good reason why we should view present-day Russia as analogous to Nazi Germany. Until you convincingly make that argument (and I'm frankly not interested, because the comparison is absurd on its face), there's no reason to consider your conclusions.
I wonder what would be example of a product that people would not need at all if educated?

I'd say bunch of cleaning chemicals when vinegar does the job or "branded chemicals" simply contain vinegar anyway.
Germany will very likely never catch up technologically to the US. We aren't going to have the Germany equivalent of Open AI anytime soon, or the equivalent of Tesla or Space X. So if you care at all about being on the winning team, it's probably not going to be Germany or even anywhere in Europe. You'd have to choose between the US or China and South Korea.
CRW-F1 didn't encode more information into the pits. It allowed lower end DACs to have more time to switch properly by giving them a slower signal stream within acceptable limits.

DAC's digital part is easy. What differs in quality is the analog part. If DACs were that simple, a 25 cent DAC would power every unit from bottom bin to top tier.

Before that Yamaha CD player I had, I used a lower end Sony CD-Player (I don't remember the model, sorry). Writing the same album, to same brand of CD-R, with the same speed in two different modes created two audibly different disks.

I sometimes challenged myself by writing in both modes, not marking the CD-Rs, and the audio difference was always audible. Even after weeks. 68 minute CDs were always had larger sound stages with more clarity and instrument separation. This is again on the same AKAI AM-2850 amplifier.

I guess this difference would be impossible to hear today, because higher end units have better tracking and better DACs. Also some of them use DAE and use multi-second buffers, so the "slower stream" is no longer present in the pipeline due to buffering.
> Well, who made them the gatekeeper? OSI bought a domain, they are not open source.

The broader community puts a lot of stock in the licence-approval work done by the OSI, the FSF, and the Debian project.

One concrete consequence is that the Debian repositories won't accept your package. (Debian's requirements are much like those of the OSI. In practice, the 3 bodies almost always agree on whether a licence is acceptable.)

Less concretely, in terms of adoption and community-building it can be really bad news for a project to be almost truly Free and Open Source.
My unscientific guess would be that classical music might have wider dynamic range than “normal” music. So the same compression amount affects the one with more range first (classical).
> Munich is easily one of the best -big- cities in the world.

That's the usual problem with relative comparisons. When the competition is cities with people defecating on the sidewalks (SF), half the city being bought up as a wealth store for Russians and Chinese (London) or places with incompetent politicians (Berlin), even a run-down place like Munich stands out. And the conservative clowns holding the Bavarian government hostage for decades does all it can to fuck up the city even more (see e.g. the years of the Bezirksregierung Oberbayern throwing wrenches into the C-series subway or tram trains, or how the state and federal government completely blew the 2. Stammstrecke train tunnel project), just to help out the local Conservatives which really aren't liked in Munich by acting like the SPD/Greens government is at fault for the issues.

Seriously, I demand better from politics than to be happy with being the best among mediocrity. Germany is the fourth-richest nation in the world by GDP, the most powerful economy in the EU. We can do better than that.
You might be referring to some other law than GDPR?

I was referring to the GDPR as pointed out in my comment.

There even is a GDPR recital that explicitly states:

"[...] The processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes may be regarded as carried out for a legitimate interest."

Source: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-47/
The Boots theory is funny because it's absurd. It's not actually applicable to life in powerty. There is no class of items where if you are poor you spend more on it than when you're wealthy. People in poverty spend more _time_ on things, yeah, but not more money or money per use.

You can see some discussion on that from people who actually grew up poor in https://mastodon.social/@danluu/111068036776213383
> e.g. see notification, don’t interact with it directly, then manually navigate to and enter the app that notified.

I do that sometimes. Not that it matters, because rarely any notification seems to deep-link into an app these days.
> Politics in Japan in the post-war period has largely been dominated by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has been in power almost continuously since its foundation in 1955, a phenomenon known as the 1955 System. Of the 31 prime ministers since the end of the country's occupation, 24 as well as the longest serving ones have been members of the LDP.[4] Consequently, Japan has been described as a de facto one-party state.[5]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Japan
If 400 microbes that contact your body makes you sick - then what if one virus gets into a cell and produces 400 copies? It is certainly possible:
"For example, SIV, a cousin and model for the HIV virus, is released from infected T cells with a burst size of ≈50,000 (BNID 102377) whereas cyanobacterial viruses have characteristic burst sizes of ≈40-80" http://book.bionumbers.org/how-many-virions-result-from-a-si...
So if not just one - then a few initial virions should be able to produce the infectious dose.

I guess time is important here - the organism detects the initial virions and prepares defences - so if the infectious dose amount of virions comes after the organism is warned they fail to grow into an infection. But my intuition is that the complexity of that process and path dependence makes that infectious dose so variable - that it does not seem to be any useful.
The hope is that hardware interfaces harmonise to the point where writing a new OS becomes actually possible. Right now it's not, there simply is too much diversity, and that's before we talk about all the quirks in hardware APIs vendors currently hide under the software rug. Then maybe, just maybe, we could start some real competition on the OS space.

Even if that doesn't happen I would be happy with the end of vendor lock-in.
So does that mean Apple can’t release anything until it goes through a standards body?
That is misinformation. The risk of "long COVID" has been widely overstated.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112338

Most any serious viral infection can potentially cause post-viral syndrome, but there is nothing particularly dangerous about SARS-CoV-2. And there is no realistic possibility of eliminating that virus. There is no sterilizing vaccine. It is now endemic worldwide through humans and multiple animal species. It's time to move on.

The notion of punishing people for exercising their freedom of expression is horrifying. That is unacceptable in a modern liberal society.
There are measurably much larger effects from insufficient replication hardware. Are you using the same amp, speakers, room, listening position, and volume level as the person who mastered the recording? No? Then your difference in setup is adding much larger differences than -90 dB RMSE.

It's all a painfully fruitless effort when you learn that most masters don't even consider the phasing of instrument microphones and none of it is at all a close approximation of what it would be like to be in a room listening to instruments. It's good enough, yeah, but there are much more important and difficult threads to tug than lowering noise in the signal chain.
A notification management system sounds like something that needs to exist, but how would it work if companies don't adhere to standards? I don't see any way out of this that doesn't first involve legislation.
I'd argue the rapid pace of new Chrome-only APIs is effectively EEE. Web developers can't wait to use new features, so once features land in Chrome they'll get used.

Then folks not using Chrome find more friction until they eventually give up and switch.
> Tech should serve us

It should, but it's becoming more and more obvious that it won't and can't. Literally every economic incentive it pushing towards 1) making it crappier until it's just good enough to buy, 2) maximally exploiting its users.

The market won't save us, because a competitor who tries to gain market-share by not doing that crap will eventually turn around and join in the fun, once it's in their interest.

Mobile internet may end up as being a giant mistake. It opens up an entire superhighway of enshittification, makes us more dependent on centralized control, and doesn't provide a much better communication experience that the telephone network.
OK, I think I can summarize the author's argument now:

* Facebook had a strategy to cement its role as the center of online life in Myanmar and it worked

* Facebook did not properly invest in Burmese [1] language content moderation and there was a proliferation of racist / genocidal memes [2]

* A lot of people tried to warn Facebook about the content moderation problem but Facebook did not adequately respond

* The timing of a terrible, full-blown genocide correlated strongly with Facebook's increased presence in Myanmar

* Facebook incentivized sensationalist content, and racist / genocidal content was an effective strategy for people responding to those incentives

[1] Not sure if I have the correct name for the language(s)

[2] "memes" in the Dawkins sense
The article on futurism.com references an article on theverge.com https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23889956/microsoft-next-g... which in references a job posting on microsoft.com https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1627555/Pri... This story very much reminds me of "The Submarine": http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html I.e. Microsoft is not pursuing SMRs, but some marketing agency have successfully planted the job posting and is successfully making media amplify the buzz. Or if the story is true it is still just a job posting, and you can't draw that big conclusions from it.
You should watch this: https://youtu.be/cD7YFUYLpDc?si=rUm6IR3IKXyzcaDB to better understand why high sample rates are a waste of time, instead of just reading about nyquist. "accurately preserving a 6kHz sine wave" sounds a lot like you think that sample points are reproduced 1-1 from the digital to the analog domain.

This just builds on the xiph video someone else linked but essentially

- sine waves are fine as long as you have points for rising and falling edge (nyquist, 44k guarantees 22k sine wave reproduction)

- bit depth only really affects noise floor, so it depends on your audios dynamic range
It doesn't at all seem like reaching for religion to me; seems materialist as can be. If consciousness isn't a phenomenon that requires a soul to explain, surely it's appropriate for physicists to study its nature. To call consciousness 'part of the fabric of the universe' seems like a fancy way of arguing that consciousness is a property of matter - and does it make sense, to a materialist, to call it anything else?
Very few people these days don't have access to credit. If you knew you would save 50% over a couple of years, even credit card rates would be better than break even. The real problem is a lack of knowledge, interest, or simply caring about priorities. More likely the CC get's maxed out and payday loans are the next step in a downward spiral.
> car hostile environment

wow, talk about orwellian language conditioning. other people take issue with me making needless trips in urban spaces with my multiton, polluting, dangerous, microplastics emitting private automobile... poor me i live in such a car-hostile environment... give me a break
Granted I’m still very early in my parenting years but if my child’s high school requires a smartphone I feel like I’m going to be viewed as a kook because I’ll turn up to meetings shouting at them about how they’ve failed the kids from a social development standpoint.
As a bystander this seems accurate, but at the end of the article Nate himself states that he has little hope that it will convince people on Twitter/X. It's more about credibility to his own readership, I suppose.
My numbers are very right. Straight from the table of the lady who processes this particular case in local Finanzamt.
It wasn't removed, just badly reorganized. It's here now: https://postgrest.org/en/stable/explanations/db_authz.html#s...
I'm very unfamiliar with this, so apologies for being vague, and for my failure to use the correct terminology: I remember reading (or someone telling me) that the design of beehives was partially to blame for the issues with mites - that the classic 'box' beehive didn't allow waste products (dead mites?) to fall out. Re-designing the hives so that they were suspended and had a grill at the bottom apparently improved the problem considerably.
Do you have any knowledge in this area? If so, I'd appreciate hearing your take on it.
And yet Apple uses Qualcomm chips and manages to update 10 year old phones.

It couldn’t possibly be your premise is flawed could it?
See Through the False Promises of Apple Vision Pro
when did this turn into a business since Jeff Meyerson was running it?