skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it that we over-diagnose long COVID? Or that we under-diagnose post viral fatigue more generally?

I remember a close family member having a nasty viral infection aged 32/33 - not exactly old and frail - and they left it a very different person in terms of energy and general health. It really did take a year or so to clear up.
The irony of not understanding what ad hominem is while accusing others of it.
Developer Secrets, Security and the Future of Passkeys
Even if it didn't happen, it highlights the fact that it might be possible, right?
This is what I was thinking as well. Everyone is kind of "teehee"ing about this but it seems like a pretty damned good solution. PLUS if a boat accidentally hits it, it's relatively soft and not going to cause any damage which something like a barrel full of water could (plus that'd weigh a lot more)
The original article started by rounding an 18 degree difference up to 20.
> It isn't clear why it took the FCC roughly 20 months to move from the initial warnings to cutting the companies off

I'd like to know too. I am sure that spammers will try every delay tactic in the book, and while I am glad to hear that a deadline is approaching I am not pleased to learn that they were able to buy 20 months of time over the last deadline with a low-effort windows print test page. At this rate, actual lawyer tactics will buy them 20 years of delays for them and spam for us.
I think they mean the link above it, the actual outgoing link. So in your case it just adds another misclick vector.
Is it not? A ton of money is spent on fertility treatments by a lot of people
Seems that they operate in various altitudes but taking your approximation of 10% of the earth radius, that is 10% + 10% as the signal needs to travel to and from the satellite to the ground, that increases the total distance travelled
> You could, of course, keep to the driest topics, the most tamed opinions, nothing spicier than an animal cracker, but for some this self-censorship of "your most honest, primitive, real thoughts" (to quote Naked Lunch) is tantamount to a sin, just one step up from lying to your diary.

Um, I guess. It seems to me like most of the "controversial" stuff that people get attacked for is just lame vomit about current-events political junk. No one needs yet another clueless nobody ejecting that crap on the Internet. Go write about something interesting, like old computers, or music, or I don't know, your favorite species of grass. You'll be contributing something of value, instead of more mindless current-events garbage, and you won't get attacked for it. Win-win.
For anyone unaware the significance of the name "Handrian":

> Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Hadriani), also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin, is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian.[1] Running from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now northern England, it was a stone wall with large ditches in front of it and behind it that crossed the whole width of the island. Soldiers were garrisoned along the line of the wall in large forts, smaller milecastles, and intervening turrets.[2] In addition to the wall's defensive military role, its gates may have been customs posts.[3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall
What happens if you give a 1000 tablet PCs to illiterate Ethiopian kids? (2003)
Unfortunately, Starlink is not yet available in neither Sweden, Finland or Estonia: https://satellitemap.space/?norad=48119

Too much North.
Request: I've been looking for something like Discourse (owned community / hosting), but instead of a forum, a reddit style thing with threads and upvotes. Does it exist?
I used to help a blind guy with his Haskell on the #haskell irc channel in the 2000s. He told me he picked it because it had a very low character count. He used a screen reader so brevity was important.
Here's another cage to consider: language. We are limited in what we can think by the language we use. There are infinite things expressible using language, but still, doesn't it seem like there's ''stuff'' out there that can not be expressed using language, not only at a personal level (limited by the amount of knowledge obtainable in a lifetime) but also at the global, or even, universal level. Even if you add emotions, feelings etc. in the mix, there might still be stuff that can not be perceived by our minds at a collective level. What would you feel about this?
It's very rare that it happens though, maybe once or twice a year to me.
> For a lot of these types of things I could argue that my children might still benefit even if I wouldn't

But why would you care if you won't be here? It won't change your life, will it? I see no logical reason for such sacrifices (apart from a belief in something higher than us: life after death / higher purpose or similar).

> Call it a biological instinct, maybe.

This is the key. I guess, it's also the answer to my above question. It effectively means that this is a random choice, based on a gut feeling, and that most people (who do not have such instinct) will choose a different, more logical and beneficial, behavior.

> Are you equating the purpose of life (human or otherwise) with the meaning of the universe?

I tend to believe that yes, they are connected (not necessarily for humans: possibly aliens, too). I make such conclusion from the complexity considerations, as I explained above. Of course, there is no rigor to such conclusion, otherwise it would be ordinary science and our discussion would be unnecessary: this all would be just a fact.

However, it shouldn't even matter if purpose of life (human or otherwise) and the meaning of the universe are the same or not. My line of thought is that if you believe that there is a meaning of the Universe, then you have a logical reason to behave with a long-term view. And otherwise you don't, do you?
In Japan, being a token westerner is big business
You’re right in modern usage, but it is common to see °K in older documents.
At least in Finland, self-checkout works pretty well. Stores of all sizes basically have them, at least in Helsinki. If there's over four machines, there's almost always a person standing by just to help the customers with any issues. In the larger stores, I've often seen two people dedicated to that. If there's just two machines, it's always right next to a traditional checkout with a cashier.

Cashiers have never been the ones tasked with bagging our groceries over here, so I guess it's not that big of a step to just scan and throw it in the bag after that.
Appears to be missing the painfully bog-standard office roller chair used in the center of the court in the courtroom episode of TNG where Data needs to plead with Starfleet not to be disassembled for research.

It might be on there, it’s a huge list, but I could not find it.
This is correct. Here's a nice and comprehensive rundown https://www.techspot.com/review/2749-intel-core-14th-gen-cpu...

The power consumption seems really high.
AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices
Indeed, with paint flaking off the instrument panels and label-maker labels stuck everywhere!
Show HN: PC'fy my Mac – get a PC-like experience on macOS
Get a PC-like experience on macOS - keyboard shortcuts & windows management
Not to deny your friends experience, but just to shed light on an issue common with chronic illnesses:

People naturally heal all the time from illnesses like this. They just get better with time.

People also get desperate (and sometimes their doctors) and try all manner of remedy.

You get a situation where people who naturally recover end up attributing that recovery to whatever random remedy they were trying at the time. This can be compounded by having bands of people who got sick around the same time, tried whatever flavor of the month remedy was talked about at the time, and recovered around the same time.

Having long covid myself since summer 2020, I've watched this play out more times than I can count now.
Couldn't you scale horizontally, e.g. with thousands of satellite base stations scattered across a continent? Then each one could occupy a separate, non-overlapping spatial channel.

Perhaps you could split up and distribute your network backbone over something like that?
Exactly! So we shouldn't draw any conclusions based on such statistics.
Hadrian's Wall is also the inspiration for "The Wall" in the ASoIaF series/Game of Thrones.
There have been problems with suddenly-lost connectivity in the past as well, because the Ukrainians advanced far faster onto Russian-occupied territory than SpaceX and the US government expected them to be able to.
Google Workspaces is not bad (Gmail, Docs, Drive, etc) but having used it and M365, I'd pick M365 any day of the week for biz collab. Amazon's offerings (Workspaces) aren't even in the running.
Microsoft Sent Coffins to Competitors [video]
I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore
This is why I use a separate throwaway account for Android and no longer use a Google account for anything else.
ADUs are atypical to begin with, so the entire subject matter is irrelevant!
You see that in Monsters Inc and the sequel - they started off in the mail room. Most people think of the mail room as where incoming mail is sorted by the company, but the vast majority of it was often sorting internal mail, because mail from "outside" usually went to accounts receivable or accounts payable. But inter-office communication was huge, before it was all emailed away.
What were you using Falcon in, and for what?
Many days late on this reply but I am at 120K miles (2008 model). The engine compression is noticeably low now. Before warming up and at low RPM the car really struggles to make it up the hill out of my neighborhood. I've had 3 flooding events that were only fixed by rolling the car down that same hill 3-4 times. I have to slip the clutch a concerning amount when getting into first from a stop.

A new engine at the dealership price of $7K is still going to be cheaper than an equivalently sporty new car though!
Shouldn't the patient take more B2 in that case?
It isn't too bad; naming stuff is always hard. If the Microsoft marketers knew about it then I would expect to see Azure™ Gen.NET™ Live™.
How can a 'small testing setup' for an 'archive solution' be double the size of Windows 8.1...
That is not central planning. It was largely just corruption.
Having a lot of money is indeed something that isolates against a lot of problems as you can just get people to solve them/don't need to care for unexpected costs. If you are not afflicted by some bad diseases or certain personal problems, a lot of money brings a lot of freedom to pursue whatever you fancy.

That said, a few more dollars are indeed irrelevant to happiness beyond a certain level, but orders of magnitude might not be.
You ask too much of modern journalism to do anything other than write rage bait that doesn’t even get copy editing.
If this is truly frightening, you should reduce your reliance on Google since too much of your life is tied with them.
Leadership's extensive knowledge of web browsers hasn't exactly been the silver bullet to guarantee Mozilla's future, given past performance. Technological superiority is less relevant when your opponents are monopolists who are making deals with each other to interlock their hardware and software.

Perhaps in a world where the largest threats to Mozilla's survival as a company are corporate maneuvering and deal making, a lawyer is the best CEO to choose by meritocracy argument.
cURL is one of the most used C libs and is an example of good quality C code. If you follow the style used there, see e.g. https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/lib/dynhds.h (and associated dynhds.c) you will be good.

Looking at the source of some of the old game-engines from the era that have since been released as open-source can also be helpful, like https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM.

In both cases notice how simple and elegant a lot of the code is. There is already enough complexity inherent in the problem they are solving, and that is where the focus should be.

Any IDE with a working language server to make it easy to jump around and refactor should work fine. Limitations might be due to the C language itself?

Error handling on such a fixed platform does not need to be super-advanced. You should always be within the confines of the system so there shouldn't be much that can go wrong. If stuff goes wrong anyway just being able call a function Fatal("FooBar failed with code 34") when unexpected stuff happens and have it log somewhere to be able to dig around should be enough. You never need to be able to recover and retry.

Make sure to use https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html or a similar tool when developing outside of the PSOne.

That said, consider statically allocating global buffers for most stuff and avoid using the heap as much as possible. This will give you deterministic memory usage, no overhead, and simple code.

Good luck working within the confines of the PSOne! Many hackers have pulled the hair from their head on that platform ;)
my house was built like this. The bricks had perfect enough dimensions for the small bit of glue to compensate

Only for indoor bricks, wienerberger Porotherm
https://www.wienerberger.co.uk/tips-and-advice/blockwork/how...

Very cost effective.
Had a look because thought it may help with my ADHD but my ADHD doesn't like the fact I have to create tasks via a new process as it would distract me from what I was possibly focusing on.
"Digital film roll" brings analog cameras out of retirement
The Pico-8 scene has a number of demoscene artists.

Here's some examples picked randomly from the "featured" category.

- https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=66745#p

- https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=99910#p

- https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=115136#p

- https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=108652#p
NYC Child Care Hits $45,000 a Year with US Prices Surpassing Pre-Pandemic Levels
I can fix this overnight: make a five-digit number anyone can text that grants them a small one-time payment from the last caller, with the telco covering any payments they cannot collect.
Be careful, they can seriously impair your ability to feel sexual pleasure long term.
The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3B
[Just think logically!](https://xkcd.com/1112/)
> They regularly put foam insulation between two layers of cement so they are well insulated (or at least can be), and because they are built in a factory they can better control quality.

Not always possible: some locations need counter-measures against termites by building code, and insulated concrete forms (ICFs) have no/fewer options in that regard:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxJkYAA5jTU

Further, on shorter schedules, it may be difficult schedule a large concrete pour on short notice, so a team of guys and a portable mixer can lay block on an ad hoc basis on short notice. Blocks (cinder or other) also also often used for (small(er)-scale) retaining walls. The Essential Craftsmen channel has a video titled "Block vs Concrete" (where they used both for different aspects of the same project):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ld9sIbkEJA
the change is to require payment for all new users so they won't be paying more than anyone else other than the old accounts that got grandfathered in. They won't ban them if they pay but they will derank their posts and if they do allow a group of them to sign up with the same CC then they can punish the entire block of them if they start spamming with any of the accounts. It also allows for permabans based on CC or other identifying info making it more difficult to create a new botnet. It's not a perfect solution but it does add friction. There will probably be ongoing changes to make it even harder for bot accounts.
Keeping junk like this out of their ads seems like a good choice for Amazon.
>and you have the eternal source available vs open source debate.

How has this stopped you from being source available for your business? :)
Species removed from endangered list due to extinction
> with the majority of the world's population

I'm having trouble getting past 4B with terrestrial links.

China + India + Pakistan + Bangladesh + Russia (ignoring spanning the country) + Egypt + Vietnam + Thailand + Turkey + Myanmar + South Korea + Iraq + Afghanistan = 4.002

That's a lot of gnarly land to link.
That's because I. the future people ... uh ... someone please finish this sentence for me.
Show HN: Refactory – AI Code Refactoring
I found myself copying code snippets into ChatGPT all too often so I built a tool to make refactoring code easier.

You will need to bring your own OpenAI API key to use the tool.

I'd love any and all feedback about how I can improve the app. Thanks!

Also, this is open source - the code can be found at: https://github.com/daniel-black/refactory
You cover more points than I had in mind.

> If you have experience of shipping desktop apps to end users

I used to work on desktop applications in the early 2000s built with VB, VC++ and Java, recently (for fun) with PWAs.

> what are your biggest pain points?

Inconsistencies between platforms and irreconcilable user expectations. I think the web experience ironed out both.

> And what sort of solution would you prefer for them?

I've programmed progressive web apps which can be installed by a browser as an offline app in both Android and Linux - I don't know how well they are supported on other platforms. They aren't great but they mostly work since browsers expose many local client resources (camera, filesystem, drag & drop etc).

I never, ever, want to work on desktop applications again. The only reasons I can think of that justify a desktop application are regulatory, performance or technology integration. These justify a degraded user experience imho.
Through Piped, which proxies all requests through it's server
Vastly worse, but not mentioned, is yawning price chasm between what the farmer is paid for bulk wheat / corn / etc., vs. what the consumer is charged for colorful boxes of breakfast cereal.

Example: Current farm prices are ~$7.50 per 60-pound bushel of wheat. Vs. a quick check on Amazon says you'd pay $200 to $720+ for 60 pounds of "all-wheat" branded breakfast cereal.
there is also a team of human remote operators.
Different machines have wildly different quality and ease of use. Some stores I never have a problem, while at other stores they almost never work right.
1k-drone performance coming to New York's Central Park
Or, just avoid IoT. You don't need it. I refuse to buy any IoT product.
Same experience. Getting flavored tootsie rolls out of a pneumatic bank tube is basically a core memory.
This happens all the time with sports overuse injuries also. Kinesio tape, acupuncture, chiropractor adjustments, heat, ice. People try all kinds of things, eventually you get better. Whatever you tried last seems like it helped. But who knows.
I wasn’t around during the heyday of Demoscene but everything I see always blows me away.

I think these days, Dwitter has a similar vibe. 140-character JavaScript demos:
https://www.dwitter.net/
The demoscene is certainly top of the 'wish I was there' list. There isn't anything that I know which brings together visual and audible arts with engineering inventiveness in the same way.

I have purchased an Amiga 500 to play with demos someday, if anyone has a favourite demo that will run on the A500 please let me know!
A study from 2021 using data from early that year is going to be woefully out of date by now.
$1 a year is too low to be worried, but there may be an ulterior motive.
I totally agree that this was the opinion of many demosceners. However, my point is that this would seldom be the opinion of the general public. The demoscene grew organically, and trying to define what it should be about seemed a bit silly. The artificial limits, such as 64K or 4K intros sure were fun to compete with, but they make little or no sense to the uninitiated, and were pretty much arbitrary.

It was actually what put me off a bit -- I enjoyed the demoscene to learn new things and to experiment with computers in total freedom. I had no need for artificial limitations set out by competitions, and never really cared much for the gatherings of socially less developed boys who smelled pretty bad (even though I exactly matched that profile myself :).

I really liked the contrarian groups who faked a lot. In Nooon's "Stars" (1995) a 3D bee is rendered with a complete wing missing, to fake a high poly count.
"Transgression 2" by MFX may also be a good example of what I am trying to convey here. Obviously it was not real-time ray tracing, but what was it? It puzzled me for weeks!
Note that Israel is also occupying the West Bank, and has quite thoroughly destroyed Palestine there. It's not just Hamas. If it was, they could leave the West Bank to Fatah.
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And yet others, at least in isolation, don't look very futuristic at all. At most just kind of awkward.
It'd also make a nice soft but loud bump on a boat for any skippers that didn't see anything
you don't think self harm and suicide is just as bad, if not worse, from a safety perspective?
I think the bar has been raised by what even casual producers can do with DAWs. I gave a listen to a classic drum and bass album recently (Wormhole by Ed Rush and Optical) and while I really enjoyed it, by the end of the album I can kind of tell how many of the various samples were used over and over again. The Wikipedia article[1] lists the hardware/software they used, and it looks like the recording computer was an Apple LCII. So a lot of what they were able to make seems like it would have been limited by what hardware they were able to finagle.

Compare that to a similarly layered and voiced project in a modern DAW. While the compute requirements have gone up drastically, the complexity the DAW has compressed into a single screen would make it trivial to make a similar album now (from a purely technical standpoint - the album is still the work of an artist).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole_(album)
I have a HÅG Capisco, nice chair.
Silicon Valley missed the next wave of e-commerce
Certainly. And I'll be downvoted to oblivion for this (if anybody is still watching this thread), but to me that's the actual philosophical endpoint of so-called libertarian capitalism.

When you abdicate all decision making authority to the market, you also suppress the non-market community/social dimension in society, and you end up in a might-makes-right ethical model; and along with it comes a need to suppress the inevitable resistance to that (unions, left wingers, perhaps minorities, etc.)

The classical liberal individual rights stuff ends up being window dressing and justification for a far darker end result. Yes, nobody cares who you have sex with or what drugs you take or what porn you watch -- as long as wealth and control remains unchallenged.
Misclick when browsing on phone.