skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can become delirious by which point the confusion may make it rather difficult to get treatment. I had a delirious fever from the 2009 swine flu, the fever lasted 3 days and the delirious stage only about 3 hours. It was pretty rapid onset and I couldn’t stand up let alone walk so by the time I noticed it I was unable to seek help. I figured the die had been cast and I’ll see how it turns out. Clearly it turned out ok but there is an inherent selection criteria bias in my post.

My hypothesis for COVID, that I don’t have good data for, was that it has an unusual immune system reaction profile with the long fuse being an under reaction followed by an overreaction and this overreaction could result in particularly damaging spiking high fevers. As someone with a preexisting auto immune condition the overreaction in particular worried me. I was worried that the use of fever suppressants early on in that process might exasperate the effect. I planned ahead of time to ride out the fever and was doing research into changes in mortality rates for Covid based on fever suppressants and I couldn’t find good data and was surprised by the lack of research to what seemed to me to be an obvious and extremely important question. Not having a good answer, especially for the Covid specific case, I decided to risk it.

When I did get Covid, post vaccine, it was a very rapid onset with a spiking fever of 106f (41c) which I knew was dangerous but again by the time that happened I couldn’t seek help. Thankfully that only lasted for about an hour and by the end of the day the Covid was basically gone.

I think in general I will try to ride out flus without fever suppressants and my N of 1 experiment seems to suggest that works. But agains selection criteria bias on that one. I really wish proper research gets done on this but I guess there isn’t much money in it.
It adds a branch every time you access the string (to check if it is small or not), and can stop various optimisations. g++ used to have small string optimisation, but (eventually) removed it.
Show HN: I created a tool to surprise my wife
Hey HN,

A couple of years ago, I was low on cash but wanted to surprise my girlfriend (now wife) with something special using my programming skills.

I built a relationship timer web page! It features a real-time relationship counter (e.g., together for 2 years, 3 months, 5 days...), photos of the couple, and a heartfelt message.

I launched this project on TikTok, and it blew up, amassing nearly 1 million views. The response has been incredible!

Now, I'm sharing this with everyone here on Hacker News as well.

If you're interested, you can check out the site and create your own relationship page.

Thanks!
I wonder if there's a way to get that mapped, say with earth-penetrating radar.
Building a Programming Language from Its Core
I think narrowing the theme of the list to just inventors is more an accidental result of the author's selection rather than their intended theme - eponyms seems to be the theme.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Pacific time zone (PST/PDT) - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho / Spokane, Washington

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe after some time

Technologies: Rust, C, Lisp, Shell, Linux, NixOS, POSIX, ZFS, Git, debugger, profiler, abstraction, data structs, algorithms, formats

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BPpCYuC1xBz4jTk5PBGJ0F1zebH...

Email: hire.derick@pm.me

I'm seeking to work with Rust (which I know well and am quite good at its advanced features).

I have 8 years of full-time professional experience (in addition to further experience).

I'm skilled at foreseeing how APIs should balance simplicity with flexible capability and what should be exposed or not, as appropriate for the level of the layer at hand. I enjoy using my lower-level knowledge to improve higher-level usage. I'm excellent at making clean, robust, maintainable code with great comments, and at doing debugging, research, and reviewing. I'm good at figuring-out and fixing complex bugs in multithreading. I've both maintained codebases as well as designed and implemented high-reliability high-performance parts, and so I know how to make the various aspects correct the first time.
Yeah Marx definitely came to mind. Kidding aside, there’s a time and a place for the word, but it seemed a bit wacky to respond with just “such a classist comment” and leaving it at that.

The food service industry doesn’t look through LinkedIn profiles to find recruits for those jobs. The parent comment phrased a legitimate question and it was met with a sarcastic remark that wasn’t insightful or well-placed.

But it was par for the course from people that jump on any opportunity to use that word. There’s no future in taking those people seriously and you shouldn’t give them a platform.
I used this app to figure out that snoring isn't my issue:

https://snorefox.com/en/
Mobian is Debian with specific tweaks that arent upstreamed to Debian to support mobile.

That being said, neither the Pinetab/Pinetab2 are very well supported, I would not recommend.
i prefer almost medieval. but very nice
Is there a study on the guilt that comes with over acquiring gears.
Take the wound scenario. If you bandage it up but start getting a fever the next day then its a new symptom and it's better you see a doc
Yeah, I think having it as an option is the way to go. Though I’d personally have it default to per-capita, as I do think that correlates closer with actual risk. To illustrate with an extreme example, an area with 10 burglaries per 100 people is clearly a way higher burglary risk place to live than an area with 20 burglaries per 10,000 people.
> cynicism masquerading as intelligence

Rather: cynicism and a form of intelligence that is better suited to abstract math than investing. :-)
> Strategies for attracting and retaining tech talent in a non-tech industry

Treat your product team like wizards, not a cost center. Make sure the product director is a tech hire with business chops, not a sole tech hire (will let the team resume build) or a sole business hire (wont understand the peaks and troughs of velocity).

Ensure that the customer is clearly defined internally, that the KPIs are oriented towards the bottom line, and keep things well-oiled but lean.

Your best solution would be to spin off an internal company with eventual plans to commercialize what you build. You want someone with startup/entrepreneurial experience.

Anyone who promises you a product within 3 months or tells you it will take more than 12 months for an MVP is snowing you.

Happy to chat more, my email is in my profile.
I take a long hot shower if I catch a cold virus - theory being to replicate the effects of elevated body temperature to kill virus, like a fever. It seems to be effective.

I also take a combination of Ibuprofen and Paracetamol (Acetaminophen), but only if I am in quite a lot of discomfort.

I find that in the winter it's important to eat warming food like soups, stews, broths. If I eat a cold sandwich or salad for lunch in the winter then I will often start to feel sick in the afternoon like I'm going down with a cold - a healthy evening hot meal will then restore my health.
A good practice! Back in the day, Eric Carlson put his engineers, software folk, designers on the same floor of the same building. The idea was, communication depended on unobstructed access! In the same cube, ten times a day. Adjoining cubes - once a day. Down the hall? Once a week.

All that was superior to out-of-sight which meant you only communicated indirectly and infrequently. Anything is better than that.
Seems click fraud is an elaborate way to fool the wealthy into thinking they're getting something out of the trade

We had a movement that encouraged the wealthy to become altruistic and give most effectively and look how that ended up

in other news, the head of Bagledesh's interim government is the microfinance dude, "access to credit is a human right", I used kiva.org quite a bit back in the day, felt much less depressing than gofundme, like people's future might actually be looking up
I think the best way to understand/appreciate javascript as a language is to A) separate it from the DOM, and B) take a functional programming focus

Too many times, when people complain about javascript, what they are really complaining about is the hectic nature of web development. You have three trillion dollar companies (Google/Chrome, Microsoft/Edge, Apple/Safari) actively fighting over agreed upon standards for how the dom is rendered and manipulated. Try and learn any language in that environment, and you'll have a very frustrating time

Why functional programming? Javascript was one of the earlier mainstream languages to support passing around functions as first class citizens, and it's often an aspect of the language that gets downplayed. By and large, javascript sits at the sweet spot of allowing you to do cool functional programming concepts, without all the strictness and verbosity of a language like Haskell. Is that a good thing? It depends, obviously. But for the sake of "Change my mind", this is where I bet you'll start looking at it in a different light

I'm not saying it's the best/one-true language. It's just another cool tool to have on your tool belt
There are 3 hobbies:

1. Doing the thing

2. Talking about the thing

3. Nerding about the gear for the thing

Every activity has a mix of all 3 types of folk. It’s ok to be in it for the gear if that gets your juices flowing. Sellers love you.
If Mozilla disappeared then I don't think that would imply the death of Firefox, I suspect there is enough motivation in the community to support a "successor" fork to fill the vacuum. I'm sure the transition would be pretty awkward though, and it could have some negative implications on new WC3 standards in the short term.

It ultimately depends on the "how" though, like if Mozilla were to act selfishly, they could get aggressive with the trademark and kill the brand recognition of a fork, possibly even requiring interface changes. Alternatively on the other end of the spectrum, if they simply passed Firefox in it's entirety to the community, it could possibly end up in a Thunderbird situation where it experiences a revival without a fork being necessary.

Absent Googles funding, I think the best case scenario would be it's top leadership leaving as the budget stops being capable of sustaining the salaries critical for "supporting their families" and Mozilla gradually transitions into the non-profit it was always meant to be, soliciting donations exclusively for browser development. All while free from any concerns about pissing of Google and losing their main source of funding.
Not necessarily the cheapest possible options, but cheap enough and fairly quick to get going:

If you want a MIDI pad controller, the Korg nanoPAD 2 [1] is $65 new (and often pops up used) and powered entirely off USB. You can then set up Sitala [2] to listen for notes from the pad and drag-and-drop samples onto each note.

If you want keyboard-style keys, the Pimoroni Keybow kit [2] is $57 - there is a bit of assembly, but no soldering.

[1] https://www.korg.com/us/products/computergear/nanopad2/

[2] https://decomposer.de/sitala/

[2] https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/keybow-2040
This is not a mass market device for everyone. That is good. I hope it stays the same.
Many occupations involve receiving cold outreach and filtering for useful offers.

Think YouTubers receiving sponsorship offers, journalists getting leads, recruiters getting candidates, VCs finding start-ups, and car dealers getting inventory.

These people are often quite receptive to cold calls & emails if you can demonstrate credibility.
or a warning every time you get into your car "Warning: locations like these have a significantly higher fatality rate"
Best I have would be an allergic reaction (possibly with constant exposure where you just keep consuming the allergen). Suffering with increasingly restricted airways and not taking an antihistamine or epipen.
Cell-Free Bioactive Scaffold Supports Cartilage Regeneration-Large Animal Joints
Saying that it is "just an evil conspiracy theory" is always just a rhetorical a way to lump it in with plainly ridiculous things like flat earth and moon landing denialism. It is done to run cover for the patently obvious efforts to enforce an end goal from the other side by making alternatives either too expensive through regulation or just flat out illegal.
My point is mainly that "drone only does something of value 1/4 of the time, rest of them are lost uselessly" isn't a bad statistic. Even if it took 10 drones to significantly wound an infantryman, or 100 to blow up a tank, that would be still a very good use of them.
That was not the argument. Please don’t strawman. Saying “I was just expecting something different” does not mean “what you are doing is wrong”.

I also expected replies to be done in good faith. That they would cover what I said, not that the reader would inject their own worst misconceptions and reply to those. I generally expect better from this website. I am also disappointed when that isn’t the case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEkhJoaUhFI
Awesome job, any chance of extending this to Europe? (Like Paris)
I work on small games.

I don't really want to waste time applying for funding though. I went through a phase where I was spending a lot of time on just trying to get feedback.

Aside from a few friends saying ohh neat, I didn't really get a response. Indie games aren't really billion dollar prospects...
A few months ago, my USB SuperDrive kicked the bucket after 10 years of use. I brought it to the Apple Store and asked for a replacement. They found it amusing, and said they hadn't sold one in a long time. They had to rummage around in the back for 10 minutes, and apparently only had two in stock. Maybe I should have bought both.
> A secured registry is long overdue, where every release gets an audit report verifying the code and authorship of a new release.

Microsoft did exactly that (since they own both NPM and Github) by allowing you to verify the provenance of NPM packages built using Github Actions [1]. It's not required for all packages though. They've also started requiring all "high impact" packages to use two factor authentication [2].

[1] https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/introduci...

[2] https://github.blog/changelog/2022-11-01-high-impact-package...
Quantum computers deserve to be mentioned in discussions about analog computers. Under the assumption that nature is quantum at its core it follows that every analog computer could instead by replaced by a quantum computer running a suitable algorithm.

This connection opens doors for research in both directions, how to design quantum algorithms and how to built physical computing systems that make use of quantum mechanics.
> Why? This just sounds like planned obsolescence.

It's a requirement of the volume calibration - beer glasses used for commercial purposes are classified as certified measurement devices under EU law, you have to print on the glass the year in which the required stamp got affixed [1]. This serves to provide the customer with a way to check if they're being sold the correct amount of beer.

Fun fact, this was a massive issue for stone mugs and led to a lot of confusion when the regulation became enforced [2].

[1] https://www.agme.de/?qs_servlet=downloadIxServlet&rq_RecId=3...

[2] https://germany.representation.ec.europa.eu/news/klarstellun...
Among other things, you're not allowed to use your own credit card to make a purchase where the money will come back to you, because credit cards want to charge cash advance rates for that.
Same; got a study after having a really bad bout of headaches and mood swings. I was suffocating in my sleep with 60AHI. Anything above 5 is apnea, above 30 is severe.

From what I understand, apnea is insidious because it develops slowly and your body acclimates to your increasing CO2 levels, even though the lack of oxygen is causing brain damage. Getting ASV therapy has been a game-changer. I was turning into a cranky dumb brute and ASV started reversing it, once I acclimated to therapy. That took about 4 months though.
Microsoft Makes Additional Claim Delta Denied Assistance During July Outage
Yeah, Moore's law seems to culminate and the rising tide with it. We seem to be entering an era where new tech improvements are mostly about integrated coprocessors and specialized workloads, and sometimes lower power.
Makes sense - I was wondering about the connection, but lazily looking up the etymology of the word didn't provide any obvious answer.
Say a developer wants to create and sell a game:

* Store 1 offers them 70% of profit and no funding

* Store 2 then offers them 90% of profit and significant developement funding, on the condition of exclusivity

The existence of competition (including a potential counteroffer by store 1) gives the developer a better deal, and possibly results in a better game or ability to produce games that wouldn't otherwise exist.

It's admittedly a little bit of a hassle for consumers to use multiple stores, same as with games that have their own launcher/account system, but there's no buy-in like with streaming services or console platforms. I think it's probably worth it for a form of competition that has been lacking.
> One of my biggest hurdles initially was matching products across 100+ websites. Even though you think a product has a unique name, everyone puts their own twist on it. Most can be handled with regexes, but I had to manually map many of these (I used AI for some of it, but had to manually verify all of it)

In the U.S. at least, big retailers will have product suppliers build slightly different SKUs for them to make price comparisons tricky. Costco is somewhat notorious for this where almost everything electronics (and many other products) sold in their stores is a custom SKU -- often with slightly product configuration.
non paywall link? https://web.archive.org/web/20240806165521/https://www.404me...
I agree that upgrading from Zen 4 to Zen 5 would make very little sense for a gamer.

However this fact was already well known and it has been discussed for some months.

It was not a surprise and verifying this fact is certainly a stupid justification for calling Zen 5 a flop.

Zen 5 does exactly what it has been announced that it will do. It provides a much greater energy efficiency than any previous x86 CPU.

It has a greater single-thread performance at a given clock frequency than any previous x86 CPU, but Arrow Lake S, which is expected in October or November, will have about the same IPC in the big cores, so about the same single-thread performance.

For any application that can use AVX-512 instructions, the desktop variant of Zen 5, i.e. Granite Ridge, can have a double throughput in comparison with any previous desktop CPU. For some people this will not matter at all, but for others this will be decisive.

The same happened at the previous SIMD throughput doublings that happened while keeping the same number of cores, e.g. Sandy Bridge after Nehalem or Haswell after Sandy Bridge.

For some people this did not matter, while for others it was a great improvement.
If they integrate Steamworks, these games usually (not always, but exceptions are rare) will not start up if Steam isn't running. I am speaking as someone who cares about and tests this.

Ironically, I have actually had far more success with stuff from the Epic Games Store. Lots of major titles such as Beyond Two Souls and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart function as completely standalone, DRM-Free binaries once downloaded, it's great.
That's an interesting theory, though it doesn't match my experience. My cat tends to bring the mouse inside through the flap, holding it in his mouth, and then will repeatedly grab it in his mouth, move somewhere else and let it out again. He has the option of killing it just by biting down at any moment.

My own hypothesis is that cats catch prey and play with them for a while as a way of getting more training per kill. They probably find some enjoyment in it, which is likely evolved as an incentive to practice. Cats are certainly well known for their playfulness, which tends to be stronger at a young age.

I suppose both theories might be true at different times, depending on the context or the prey. I guess mice aren't particularly capable of doing any real harm to a cat.
Racks of N100s.
I've been there as well.

In reality 99% of the time you don't need new gear. However there is also a delicate balance where a new piece of gear makes you excited to go out and do your hobby more and it's that going out more than makes you get better at it.
The problem isn’t with Wordpress, it’s with it being so accessible that the lowest bar dev shops spit out code as quick and cheaply as possible. Best way to avoid security issues is to not use third party plugins or themes without auditing them.

Even popular plugins don’t do the bare minimum like escaping output.
Florida Invests in Catastrophe
Worms who convince themselves they like being a victim of crime deserve to get stepped on.
Show HN: Beautiful countdown and shared calendar app
I've been using YNAB for the last ten years or so and I've found the best way of dealing with these sorts of cases is to exclude that money from "the budget" altogether (off-budget bank account, simply not linking them, or putting them in a separate "budget").
I avoid GAS pretty easily by the application of a simple method I've developed over years as a hobbyist photographer: Be Aware of Non-Optimality. That is, in bearing in mind there is no benefit to the expenditure of resources to obtain equipment that by itself will not meaningfully improve my practice - and too, that having gear I do not use will make me regret its purchase, further diverging from an optimal state - I find myself no longer with the urge to replace a perfectly serviceable DSLR with a mirrorless that may be newer, but is not really all that much better at capturing the exposures I care to make.

I'm probably not explaining it as well as I might, but I am happy nonetheless to say I've found my GAS very reliably cured by BeAN-O.
Not really, it's exactly my point. If you're a game collector and I show up with a game at a good price, that's a sale. If I pull into your driveway with the classic car you're looking for the sale is on the table. The sign means nothing, what matters is what you've got and how much it'll cost.
Thank you! We are definitely interested in expanding to as many cities and countries as possible. We focused on large US cities with good datasets for this MVP, but depending on how things go, we will hopefully be expanding to cities across the world very soon.
This was fixed years ago, and of course people then complained about not being able to remove their packages [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38874874
Makes sense, I dread the day when one of my cats passes (5 year old and 1 year old cat).

A nitpick: The researchers are asking the owners for the owners' observations during a time of grief, which doesn't seem as robust as it could be. Humans would be emotional, grieving, and also projecting their own loss to their other animals. (Theres not much of a control or a fair baseline here)
I don’t have an SO to notice this but I should do this (or at least record myself sleeping). Brushing off things with “getting older” (…who above the age of twenty isn’t?[1]) when they can be dealt with is a shame. Dying too I guess.

[1] Yes the age 25 seems to be the general peak, but people under that age can still complain about wrinkles.
A lot of real estate agents pay photographers to do virtual walk-throughs of their properties. You might be able to partner with the photographers and get them to up-sell their customers with your product.
A story can have multiple bad guys. Some are worse than others, in a given context.

For example: Liz Cheney is someone I would never vote for (not that I have had to make this decision), yet I applaud her role in the J6 hearings, and her attitude toward Trump in general.
Very cool! Car Break-In useful for “safe to park here?”