skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, well aware. Fortunately her group is an impressively can-do-attitude bunch, and she’s getting very concrete ideas from it. I think it helps that it was organized by a government-y instance who did some checking, and isn’t some facebook group turned physical or sth.

(Also, no drinking. That would be madness. Nobody in that group drinks at all anymore, it would set back their recovery by a lot)

For example, she had a cold last march which totally knocked her remaining bits of physical energy out of her, and she worried that she wouldn’t be able to come on a planned family trip to the zoo, because of the lengthy walking involved. She shared that worry in the group and another woman said “but then just rent a wheelchair at the entrance and get yourself rolled around most of the time! That’s kinda confronting, “I’m now a person who sometimes needs a wheelchair”, but it’s also very constructive and awesome if you get over that and it helps you get out of the house. We did that trip, it was super awkward (esp when she stood up from the wheelchair and everybody could see that well actually, her legs work fine), and we had a great time and for the first time after a big outing she wasn’t sick in bed for 3 days after.

Btw, a sidenote, “just go sporting” is terrible advice for people with heavy postcovid. Look up “post exertional malaise”. You gotta build it up very carefully, never push yourself too hard. It’s very hard but it appears to work (given enough patience).
I guess they don't need to map the whole sea floor, just enough landmarks.
I don't get it, who buys them? My time is so precious (raising 2 small kids now) that I do quite a bit of research before committing so much of my time to it. There are literally millions of books out there.

Even without kids, life is just so wonderful and intense to actually experience, stuff I pick up for just sitting and reading better have amazing reviews by many thousands. Yes, I won't support much some new starting author this way (but then if he wins say Hugo it gets on my list) but my time and well being is simply higher priority for me.
No he wants the govt to take action to stop the importation of massive quantities of a highly lethal poison.
What do you do to act famous? Obsess over your Instagram image and dress covertly when you go out grocery shopping?
It's not about comparing IQ between countries, it's about pre covid IQ scores with post covid IQ scores within the same country
That settles it then. Causation proved.
People say this but I never saw it matter like you say. I know many ux/ui people in my network who I ask for feedback and help; I have never seen any difference in uptake from the vanilla theme version I did myself through to months of tweaking these guys did. Sure it looks tons nicer but it doesn’t reflect at all in (measured) user satisfaction, signups or usage. The default themes these days (shadcn etc) don’t make any of the mistakes you mentioned and users that are not obsessed with tech don’t really care ‘it looks like everything else’. Maybe it’s because I never do b2c and only b2b, but I never saw the difference, not in the last 30 years anyway. Even when these design systems and widgets etc didn’t exist, people didn’t care because there was nothing better; now there is ‘more than good enough by default’.
This is why my kid started swim classes (water survival) at 2.

They can learn to swim the length of a pool, float on their back at that age.
At a very high level, the query planner's goal is to minimize the cost of reading data from disk. It gathers pre-computed column statistics, like counts of rows and distinct values, to estimate the number of rows a query is likely to match. It uses this information to order joins and choose indexes, among other things. Joins can be accomplished with several different algorithms, like hashing or looping or merging. The cheapest option depends on factors like whether one side fits in working memory or whether both sides are already sorted, e.g. thanks to index scans.
It's also a surveillance capitalism product, beware. proselint is BSD-licensed.
Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson is good if you like interviews. It's like Charlie Rose meets conservatism. Full episodes on YouTube.
Nice! Can you upload the data to hf, oxen.ai, kaggle or something?
The solution is pricing it in.

Like stores that sold physical goods had to price in things like staff or shoplifting or business rates.
One of the great losses that came with the end of the forum era was all these little communities with distinct cultures and regulars that you got to know.

I kind of found a similar vibe in some discord servers, but they're much more difficult to join as a new user than a forum because old information isn't easily searchable and discussions aren't as longform as old forum posts were.
Just gonna note this is still a thing https://ssotax.org/
If you accept "cognitive impairment" as a drop in IQ, then this meta study seems to find that globally after infection, and I claim my $5:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34973396/

> A significant proportion of individuals experience persistent fatigue and/or cognitive impairment following resolution of acute COVID-19.

> Ten studies analyzed data from Italy, nine from Spain, eight from the US, seven from China, six from the UK, three from Denmark, France, and Norway, respectively, two from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Israel, Russia, and the Netherlands, respectively, and one from Belgium, the Czech Republic, England, Faroe Islands, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey, respectively...
certified by OpenID foundation: https://openid.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/oidcc-client-b...
Australia's excess death rate is still higher than pre-covid: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-20/mortality-rates-austr... . If the Australian government released the data it'd be trivial to identify whether these deaths were concentrated in the vaccinated or the unvaccinated, but so far it hasn't released such data (if it even possesses such data in aggregate format).
It's very easy to suggest that to someone else when you don't have to take the risk or do the work.
They aren't exactly passing the collection plate around. It's much more transactional:

"So you had to have a special kind of paste before you went to go practice your Yogic Flying, and the paste cost, like, $150, and the Yogic Flying cost thousands of dollars to learn, and then your badge to get into the dome to practice the group meditation cost $100 a month."

"It cost thousands of dollars because Maharishi said that Americans don't value things unless they pay a lot of money for them."
It's a lot easier to get the paperwork signed when the event has already happened.
Yt2009 – a fairly accurate 2009 YouTube front end
Instagram really does seem to give some people delusions or let's delusional people really embrace their disconnect from reality.

It's so weird some of the things people do.
Not until my dying breath. The English language is a mess because of its haphazard evolution mostly driven by immigration over centuries.

Which is what bugs me about native grammar mistakes: only native people make them. No one that has learned English as second language could ever construct "could of" as it makes no sense. And the act of being defiant is very very different than being definite about something. Yet people get this wrong all the time, as if they never learned grammar at school, or let alone read ONE book.

(My pet peeve is native speakers unable to pronounce "aesthetics" correctly. Drives me nuts. )
I took it to infer that there are systemic factors that disadvantage segments of the population disproportionately and across generations.

Having worked with disadvantaged and vulnerable populations I would agree, we only hear about the pulled up by the bootstraps success stories and readily ignore the 99.99% of cases where offspring are worse off financially than their parents.
Indeed. He has communicated through psychiatrists, his wife, and lawyers that he would take his own life if he were to be extradited. Given the self harm risk, it's no secret that the BOP in ADX Florence or elsewhere would put him in de facto solitary - which the UN has said amounts to torture
First use of a neural network to analyze data from a collider experiment
> Do you really expect a hypothetical Palestine to be any different?

Depends on a lot of factors. I think there is definitely a path by which a peaceful neighborly Palestine can be created, though it will likely take a long time.

And btw, many of these Arab neighbors now have peace with Israel, that has held for a long time. Including this week helping defend Israel against Iranian missiles.

Not something anyone would've thought possible in the past, now it's reality. A reality that Israel would do well to internalize, instead of thinking of itself as a lone state surrounded by enemies.
Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion [video]
For that type of employee, it would all fly under the standard deduction anyway, so the IRS would not care. (Unless you had a side-business making $$ on this.) This is the first Raymond Chen post I've read which seems kinda dumb and pointless. Oh yeah I need to deduct my copy of random DOS app DBPieGraphicsPro-VII, which was left on a table at work.
It's secure as long as you are using a private client (one that can safeguard a client secret), but PKCE costs you nothing to it's strictly better to do it.
Do you know what might push them to go ahead with this? The first post-ww2 use of one in battle?
Oh, de-planing they will. The question is more: at what speed?
> It is typical revenge porn

No, it isn't typical, you are confusing "revenge" with "extortion."

The scammers aren't doing it because they are jilted lovers, obsessed stalkers, or even just bullies: They set out from the very beginning to create a relationship to extort cash.
It means it's out of "beta", or other kinds of limited release and can be used by anyone.
Parenting Styles: A Closer Look. Which Is Best?
Glasskube: Package Manager for Kubernetes
JExtract Guide (to generate Code to access the native library in Java)
This is like saying that since the tallest people are not the best basketball players, height in basketball doesn't matter.
> I personally prefer the idea, that your memory qualitatively changes in spite of language acquisition, you get another (upgraded) way to access your memory, and then you forget the old (legacy) way. I like this explanation because my own memories from the time I was ~3 yo are strange (conditionally on I could reproduce them well and not to invent things), they are almost eidetic.

I think people stick too much to the idea that human memory is kinda like computer memory.

"Remembering" trauma could also mean that the brain's structure changes in some way as a result of trauma without necessarily recording how the event exactly went.

Reminds me of a video of WW1 shell shocked soldiers I saw recently. It's not the exact memory record of the events which broke those men. Something more profound changed in their brain.
Jina Reader: Convert any URL to an LLM-friendly input
We use Tailscale quite heavily and the SSH feature. Along with many other features, it is great. However, the article doesn't mention pricing, which for me personally seems quite high at $18/month/user. [1]

[1] https://tailscale.com/pricing
Bowdlerized results are less useful/interesting to me. I'm not interested in pablum.
Don't worry about it being awkward, there are many reasons for being in a wheelchair besides not being able to walk at all. I mean, the fact that wheelchairs are provided at the entrance indicates that there is a demand from individuals who can walk to access them.
A couple of years I imagine.

Google doesn't embed or control those adverts and doesn't benefit directly from them, and they might not want to anger the minority of their user base with this addon any more than they already are by forcing yet more unskippable ads on them.

If the seek bar was disabled while a "this video is sponsored by" segment started playing, I would just stop using YouTube immediately.
Farewell to HD Atlas (Boston Dynamics)
The Spanish are not impartial to a good nap..

And ironically, the last time I read about it, they were having production delays on the German production line..
Cryptojacking Scheme Consumed $3.5M of Stolen Computing to Make 1M
> There are studies that have been done comparing people who had COVID-19, versus people who didn't, and then gave them cognitive testing to measure their ability to cognitively process information and test their IQ. And there's very clear differences in the IQ of people who had been infected with COVID-19 versus people who did not. Even mild COVID can give people about a three-point loss of IQ.

Hasn't pretty much the entire population of earth been infected by COVID at least once at this point?
Yes. The symptoms started the day after her 3rd jab. Basically she got that “woa i got jabbed yesterday and feel like shit” thing many people got, but then it just never went away. She got covid 1.5 months after that jab so there’s no telling whether the jab or the covid was the key cause to her long-time postcovid. The covid infection itself wasn’t particularly heavy.

We very much want to stay out of the “covid vaccines are evil/fantastic” debate. It’s fruitless. I will not respond to any comment suggesting that somehow we’re wrong and well actually, it couldn’t have been caused by the vaccine / the covid infection, or that postcovid is an imaginary disease.
"We are in this together"
> people's

The possessive apostrophe originated as a mistake or idiosyncrasy, credited to one of two people in the early 1500s depending on who's making the assertion, that became widely adopted.

Possession should be, in static, unchanging, OBJECTIVELY CORRECT DON'T YOU DARE GO CHANGIN IT English, written "peoplees" (or something like that but you get the point).

Merely calling "'" an "apostrophe" was a mistake for over a century, as the word was a well-defined rhetorical term that was later adopted to describe the mark sometime during the mark's slow acceptance.

Grammarly makes people sound like soulless automatons who have been trained to write by similarly soulless and robotic corporate ad copy writers.

Sometimes it seems like half the English language is just Shakespeare or some other writer making up shit that sticks-- and that's awesome.
Does the IRS take into account losses by the company?

Eg if A Jewellery shop gave employees a special 2-for-1 / BOGOF gold bars, I expect that’d raise lots of red flags?
> If other people forward it, they should be charged

It’s more complicated than that. Due to a new law in Germany, a teacher getting to know that these images are floating around and forwarding them to the respective parent could be charged for distributing child porn.
Lesson to be learned - never, ever trust russia as a state, it was and always will be source of subversion and various forms of attacks to anything representing freedom and democracy. Rule of law is a joke there, truth is an insult, the only thing matters who is currently stronger. Words, written or spoken are just tools to use and then abandon at convenience. Basically how mafia hierarchy and politics works.

Not sure how world should treat it post this war (barring it won't turn into WW 3), but never, ever as equal, always expect treachery. Enough lessons at this point.
But at least they maintained the courtesy of major version filesystem compatibility allowing faster in-place upgrades during an extended period (from v9.0 - 9.6), by simply changing the binaries. Possibly that held them back, but yearly updates that require more downtime/reindexing isn't so much fun, and possibly the reason why many sites skip upgrades until previous versions drop out of support (esp AWS RDS users). While the alternative of a logical replication upgrade (from v10 onward) has availability benefits, its a major project with unavoidable costs and significant risks unless schemas are relatively simple.
Everyone is different. I'd love to be able to work for 5-8 hours per day consistently. I have the opposite problem that you're talking about. I do agree what you say is very important for many people.
Thank you for your honesty.

Maybe one of the downvoters would like to explain why he / she finds this question so emotionally triggering.
Why? I had fairly good experiences with Cordova, once I figured out the right way to use it (documentation tends to lack a bit IIRC).
I guess it depends on the hardware you had. On lower-spec machines, some games needed pretty much the entirety of one's RAM; Windows 95 obviously took some itself, so launching a game from it rather than booting to raw DOS would result in degraded performance.
Maximizing tax revenue isn't necessarily ideal.
Republicans are the party of poor people now. Democrat support is falling everywhere except among affluent whites.
> They are made from synthetic polymer such as biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP).

Polymer cups are also made from synthetic polymers like polypropylene. So are polymer knives and polymer forks.
I'm actually ok with that. I see no reason why the teacher can't simply advise the parent this is happening without forwarding nudes of their teen to the parent.

I don't actually want to see my sons naked, thanks. They hit puberty, suddenly discovered the concept of privacy and I have no idea what their private parts look like.
The real story here is that ANL needs to fact check their press release.
For a review of (previous) uses of machine learning in particle physics, see:

- https://home.cern/news/news/physics/speeding-machine-learnin...

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-022-00455-1

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0361-2

Among many many others.

The paper in this post might have been the first to use an autoencoder trained on collider data, but that qualification is buried further down.
No, I don't think this type of action should be legal. I think they should do it anyway. Protest is more meaningful (and raises more awareness) when there are consequences.

(You're Lawful Good, which is an admirable quality in a fellow citizen, but Chaotic Good can be more effective when the system has been captured by a strong Lawful Evil element.)
Genuine clarification question:

Is that "hundreds of thousands" per month, as in salaries >$1.2 million per year? or do you pay some developers less than $1000/month?

Or are you paying "hundreds or thousands per month" to applicant filtering services?

Or do you have "hundreds or thousands" of different employees receiving a salary every month?
Evidently I am an outlier? I was asked to do it twice as part of ADHD diagnosis.

Once in the UK as a pre/early teen (2003~), and once in Sweden to be rediagnosed via a private company named Modigo (so, now I am not sure if it's standard as part of the healthcare system here).

Since I was 2/2 and that was 100% of my experiences throughout two countries, I thought it was the standard.
> But during the event he observed that most kids focused on how they looked rather than noticing others

Genuinely, that is good. People who care and judge how others look beyond normal social propriety tend to be pretty bad to be around.
My girlfriend has pretty bad post-covid, the thing that helped her most was getting on Citalopram. There's suspicions that many SSRI's have a anti-inflammatory effect on the brain, which might be the mechanism.

She's currently in oxygen therapy, we're positive about the effects but since it's dominating her life (and energy) at the moment it's hard to say what the effect is.
Democrats are the rule of law party now? When did that happen?
"We don't talk about specific numbers...". And a few paragraphs down the author confidently talks about "that $100B budget". That "article" is devoid of actual content.
The JIT compiler is great for analytical queries.

You can configure thresholds for the JIT activation in PostgreSQL as well if you want to elevate the bar from which the JIT is enabled.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/fact-check-b...

The funny thing about specialists is that they can easily embarrass themselves when outside their field.

Watching your average politician talk about technology is a pretty great example of people speaking with zero context. Some of them clearly aren't dumb but they can get in over their heads with ease.
Parrot is no longer a useful mental model. A parrot cannot make runs of logically consistent output, but new LLMs can.

They still lack intent/understanding. But a system does not need understanding for its output to consist of racially biased statements.

But let's also point out that GPT can also make very powerful anti racist statements. It can persuade people to be less biased against race. Reacting to the specific beliefs and points raised in the conversation. Generating sensible counter arguments.

In that way, GPT4 is better at refuting racist rhetoric than most people are.

So it's potential here is both good - its ability to help the fight against racism - and bad - its risk of generating racism.
> How can you tell the difference between real memories and implanted memories[1]?

Let's say something emotionally significant happened to you at the age of 2. Because it was significant, you keep recalling it regularly, maybe every week or so. Recalling and thinking about the memory is also strengthening it (and often altering it). There's not enough time to forget it if you keep refreshing the memory of it (kinda like LRU cache).

I have a couple of such early memories which I believe survived through this recall mechanism.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that a teenager that is willing to invest time into setting up a VPN so that they can talk to Nigerians probably isn't the sort of teenager to have this kind of problem.

We let people fly to countries without extradition orders. VPNs can be seen just like that: crossing the digital border. But for a company operating in a nation, it makes sense to impose regulation.
Nice observation! Appreciate this
I think kids are constantly comparing.

Watch how many of them are buying exactly what their friends buy, so they can fit in and relax a bit.
> Are they supposed to monitor the content of the chats? Some would call that eavesdropping.

FWIW, if the goal is to detect potential scam/abuse scenarios and offer help, then nowadays, they could train a ML classifier and have it run locally. If the conversation gets classified as highly suspect, the app could pop up some "this looks suspect, if you need help press HERE to share the conversation with us" warning. Privacy concerns would go away entirely, if nothing is actually reported to the mothership until the user specifically reports a conversation.

There's only so much they can do for users behind their backs, and a lot of that is undesirable unless you trust the company to be benevolent; local classifiers popping up recommendations could, however, help users help themselves.
Small country, but it has already started: https://www.wired.com/story/slovakias-election-deepfakes-sho...

It was shared on social media just before elections during 'moratorium' [0]. There was no time or place to dismiss it by mainstream.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_silence
A proof that Meson is Turing-Complete
Chemical weapons made in Germany If I remember correctly.

There is an easy fix for that. Don't sell chemical weapons to dictators so you don't need to lament later that "Oh, but, but, they used our product against people!".

Yup, what do you expected? killing people is the only purpose for that stuff.
The news trick really helps huh. We do it too and wow