skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this hypothesis but it's mostly been disproven recently. Fungi were able to degrade it almost immediately

I did some reading and it seems the actual potential mass extinction caused by trees was this: Their roots/mycorrhiza dug deep into the earth and brought up large amounts of phosphorus. Occassional mudslides or other events would then cause this soil to slide into the ocean and create an algae bloom which deprived the ocean of oxygen. Very similar to what's happening today with agricultural runoff of fertilizers
Aware that I'm reacting to someone playing devil's advocate...

> private face-to-face conversations do not allow for effective coordination of actions across large distances. <snip> this kind of messaging and a conversation are not the same thing.

Technology allows it. The same way it allows for myriad other applications that technology has made possible via extension of a base capability. I would argue that the technological ability extend 'topic X' makes it close enough to "the same thing".

If a Government has a problem with an app because it allows private conversation between physically distant individuals, then that Government likely also has a problem with private conversations between non-physically distant individuals. They just won't mention that because it's transparently obviously authoritarian.

The 'technology' angle only has political play because there will always be a core contingent of society that is scared enough of technology to have a much louder voice than their numbers would indicate.
I’ve been a subscriber to Wired for almost the entirety of the publication. I also subscribe to their RSS feed. Lately they have been heavily pushing articles painting conservatives as being the most destructive in tech, politics, and society. Their bias has been overwhelming to the point where I feel someone is pulling their strings to push a narrative. You can argue however you want about conservatives, but Wired is losing my ability to like them. They’re becoming a political rag. The Verge has also been dabbling in articles like this one as well lately too. There are forces here trying to influence the media recently.
Since other people are recommending home-brewed solutions, I will mention my platform WebWidgets.io, which allows you to create lightweight webapps using vanilla JS and sync the data to SQLite DBs. It would be very easy to create a simple contact DB that has all the features you need and none of the bells+whistles that you don't care about.
Is there information in that article? Layout seems to encourage reading between the lines but they seem to be filled with space.
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The article made the wrong statement. The thought experiment isn't that you can't measure length with infinite precision. It's that you can't measure length with precision better than the Planck length. No infinities are involved here.
I tried to think about this and came to a personal realisation that perhaps there is no strict "foundational knowledge" for most topics.

Pick programming, is knowing binary operations foundational? Is knowing compilers? Is it knowing bubble sort? Or perhaps knowing data structures?

I believe that if you have been using/working in a field, whatever you touch for your own goals that's enough.

And perhaps the difference between being an expert beginner and an expert is whether you still care about such a distinction? If you can achieve your current and future goals and can eventually learn new concepts then you're good.

I'd say a beginner might be someone who wouldn't even know where to begin.

Let's pick chemistry for myself: sure, I could follow some video but without the video I wouldn't even conceive how to get started with anything.

While, say woodworking, I wouldn't call myself an expert but I would be able to imagine starting a random project from scratch and eventually figure out all the parts.

So, maybe:
- beginner: can't complete a project without help/support
- mid: can complete but is unsure whether that's the best way
- expert: has completed it before somehow
What are the long term effects? How harmful is caffeine addiction?
I'm aware of that, but here there's no coaxial cable TV lines either. The only lines in our area that can provide data service are the copper phone lines.
Verizon is really thin on the ground out West, their coverage just keeps shrinking as their LTEiRA partners shut down or get bought out by T-Mobile and AT&T.

Between Reno and Las Vegas it's pretty stark, huge holes in Verizon's coverage and a few 3G CDMA only towers, while AT&T has strong band 14 coverage, and T-Mobile has slightly better coverage than Verizon but also lets you roam onto AT&T.

Meanwhile in the San Juans the situation is dire on Verizon, with only one tower just on Orcas Island. AT&T has a handful of towerd, two on Orcas and then they force roam everyone onto T-Mobile who has dozens of local towers.

So long as you are on AT&T or T-Mobile with roaming you'll have the best coverage possible, but if your stuck on Verizon it seems your in for a rough ride these days.
Math lets you do it reliably at scale. The basic principles of how to cheat people have way more to do with psychology and information asymmetry than math. But math lets you process orders of magnitude more data so that you have more information and better models of peoples' psychology than they do themselves.
Of course, the "important sounds" are mostly below 8 kHz, but I think they're missing out by not looking at higher-frequency sound sensitivity, since that's the first thing you lose.
I've used this and other similar extensions but always them being an extension makes for a slow and unreliable experience imo. Pressing shortcut keys just might work depending on the focus and other current state. Going back to qutebrowser after trying out these extensions feels so fast and reliable in comparison - when you press a key it will instantly work like it should.
That’s what I’ve heard too. And they didn’t like the ones they had to get in the end, they didn’t work well but that was all insurance would cover.

But if they’re $4000 a pair, that’s _sixteen_ pairs of AirPods 2 Pro. Assuming you don’t get them on sale.

So if you lose/break ‘em every 6 months, which seems quite excessive, that’s still 8 years to break even with “real” hearing aids.

And that’s not to mention the fact that you can buy replacement individual AirPods or cases cheaper than a full set. Or just get AppleCare so replacements are even cheaper if you tend to lose/damage them a lot.

Even if you buy them and they convince you hearing aids would be useful but you want more traditional hearing aids, it still seems like it might be a good value. Compared to risking $4000 on something you might not even feel is that useful to you.
Now think about the college admission process in the US, where kids are expected to take arbitrary number of AP courses and get 5 in all of them, and write world class essays about passion and solving world hunger while excelling at several extra curricular activities and showing leadership and so on and on…..
> and I don't think the science on this is set at all.

It absolutely is.

There are also a number of denialist blogs funded by Heritage Foundation et al that spend a great deal of effort confusing people and putting out the false message that the science isn't set.

I spent two decades in exploration geophysics mapping global mineral and energy resources for major resource companies. I also spent some time on a global scale volumetric "spreadsheet" application (ERMapper) for stitching raw data, mosaicing sat imagery, performing earth scale magnetic, gravitational, radiometric, et al computations.

What is your background in earth sciences?

> to be honest I think there's a lot of weird political games going on.

More driven by corporate lobbyists than political positions.

Those onside with large corporate entities want to either ignore climate action or to support ineffective policy (of which there are many shades) - CO2 credits are ripe for abuse, companies can continue emmitting in exchange for kicking small sums towards ineffective programs (planting trees cut down last year, sequesting a tiny amount of carbon down boreholes that are extracting vast amounts, etc).

There are also many people that feel overwhelmed and will back bad policy because they want to do something, anything, and either don't recognise bad policy for what it is or feel that any action is better than no action.
Is that devices as in digital/alexa land? Never had too much overlap there. AWS and CDO were discrete for incident and problem management after ‘14 or soz
For me, I get drunk and I start to feel really smart and enlightened, however next day I usually cringe, but who knows maybe it was the drunk me that was the smart one and the cringing me is just too narrow minded and judgmental.
Canada is also a much smaller market that has minimal competition with unique cellular bands preventing reuse of said phones outside of a handful of other countries (without severe breakage of VoLTE, or missing low band coverage).
The exposure to subjects isn't the problem, this is the problem: https://paulgraham.com/lesson.html
That’s beautiful, thanks for sharing. I’ve seen that firsthand growing up. It’s like when you hear a song as a kid, and it just sounds cool. But then, later in life, you hear the same song, and it hits you on a whole different level—like the meaning was always there, but you had to live through stuff to really get it.
That probably depends on how much the thyroid function has been degraded already.

Whether CAR T will help stop the degradation is a separate question.
Yes the problem with severe hearing loss is that hearing aids simply cannot compensate for what is no longer there.

Hearing aids are actually a a lot more complicated than just boosting frequencies. At the very simplest, these days they are wide/multi band compressors that try to balance discomfort with natural hearing, generally focusing on speech intelligibility since that is by far the most important target.

If you have severe hearing loss I would strongly recommend putting yourself in the care of a professional. Costco is a great source of probably the lowest cost versus highest quality hearing aids these days... but the reason I say "professional" is because there are so many kinds of hearing loss and they all affect your perception markedly differently.

It's a lot more than just "missing some sensitivity at some frequencies".
Be careful with Docker ( crypto miner )!

https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/18m1k0b/holy_sht_a_...

Note that ports which are not bound to the host (i.e., -p 5432:5432 instead of -p 127.0.0.1:5432:5432) will be accessible from the outside. This also applies if you configured UFW to block this specific port, as Docker manages its own iptables rules. https://docs.docker.com/engine/network/packet-filtering-fire...
Things I like:

- Everything is an expression

- Async imports just work without thought

- Yaml-like object structuring

- JSX improvements

- Multi-line string literals without leading whitespace

Things I’m on the fence about:

- Pipe operators (better than .pipe I guess?)

- Pattern matching (love it in Scala and swift, but this doesn’t feel done right)

Things I loathe:

- Signifiant whitespace (removing brackets in general)

- Optional parentheses in function calls (a foot-gun in VB and Ruby)

- Splats in the middle of function definitions (I can’t imagine how this works with overload definitions)
I don't disagree, but was more referring to the swindler side than the rube, and compared to a good ML model we are all dumb.
Anti is two syllables, isn't it?
In my experience it’s not talent but opportunity that is in short supply. One of the smartest people I know is an electrician, simply because he grew up in a rural area and couldn’t afford to leave for college.
The more I learn about physics the more I am convinced this is a simulation.

In a way our universe is very lazy, at large scales where consciousness exists the universe is coherent, predictable.
The smaller you get the lazier and fuzzier the universe gets to save computational work. The actual state of things is only computed on small scales when you measure them. The speed of light puts limits on how far humanity can travel to extend the bounds of the simulation. Maybe the expansion of the universe is yet another hedge at limiting how far human can travel. Also, as things are red shifted due to expansion you can run the simulation of far away places slower due to time dilation.

The speed of light and the plank length are both hard codes to bound computational work. The plank length to bound computation getting too complex in the micro scale and the speed of light to limit computation in the macro scale.

It is also very convenient that the closer we look at things the more we see that under the hood things are discrete which is very convenient for simulating.

Maybe every level of the sim increases the plank length and decreases the speed of light in order to deal with inefficiency of doing a sim within a sim? Maybe at the final level of the sim we end up with the truman show.
Thank you for your kind response. I am happy for your friends and also the message you received at your gym.

Life is truly a journey unique to each one of us.

I’ve found peace and I carry a signed index card in my wallet on which I’ve written my “ethos”. It took me a long time to come up with it and I’m sure it’s common, but those 5 points are something I try to remain true towards.

Cheers mate, best.
Consider starting from basic logic. Thinking cannot be separated from various logical deductions, inductions, comparisons, etc.
> I'd like to see Apple run some opt-in scientific trials.

Several organizations have used ResearchKit to conduct studies:

https://www.apple.com/lae/researchkit/
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Actually you have been able to import your audiogram for at least the last two versions of iOS (16+), no third-party app required.

But it was simply called "an accommodation". Can't call it a hearing aid until you were approved by the FDA!
Most mods are for minetest_game, so if you pick a different base you can't use them all. I always just added a bunch of mods on top of minetest_game.
+1 to this. The Elmers who run these classes are great.

Having a structured environment with class assignments is what finally got me to practice regularly enough to build up some speed.

And once I could send and receive at a reasonable rate, I was able to actually get on the air, and then I no longer had to "force" myself to "practice."
I know what you mean. I am in India. Hearing aids are exorbitantly priced here and there is no Costco. I will definitely go for more professional ones once I can afford them, and not just buying them, but losing them too.
Small and so brief too.
Only in low-trust societies. Modern, higher-trust society can only function because this isn't true.
Possibly, but the challenges to do so are immense. Using the sun as a giant gravitational lens seems much more tractable.
They don't bite me at all, even when i am alone (when someone is with me, they curse my existence as they feel all the focus is on them). I am offended, but also happy.
Totally agree but there's a small caveat...

Everybody has vastly different sensitivities to sound exposure.

Even identical twins with identical sound exposures can have drastically different hearing profiles especially as they age.

I actually have always been very careful with my hearing; there is some evidence that I may have a very very mild congenital birth defect that makes me prone to hearing loss, but that's largely speculation.

My wife is actually older than me and has a spectacularly sensitive hearing - as does her mother! - and she's the drummer! (The wife, not her mother :-) I just do keys and vocals...)

That's why it's so important that everyone protect their hearing because even though it's not too loud for the people around you, it might be too loud for you - and you won't know until it's too late.
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Last letter is from April 2024 and says it’s the final stage! Something was about to happen but no update!!!!!!
my partner has lupus and i have psoriasis, getting to cure these conditions would be life changing (life saving in her case)
Interesting, then, that a hit piece on encryption is exactly on trend for conservatives.
You can do this by enabling developer mode in chrome://extensions, which lets you install from a directory.

You lose automatic updates though.
The eccentric geniuses at these elite schools will end up doing stupid shit for a bank.
Usually, when real journalism publications do this, they make sure to prominently display "OPINION" before these writings, along with a disclaimer that the views of the author do not reflect the views of the editorial board.
I’m no physicist/biologist, but I always find it odd when they look for water on other planets to see “if life could exist”.

Sure, maybe that’s a requirement for the type of life we on earth know about, but I don’t see why other elements couldn’t have also formed in just the right way to be able to reproduce, and maybe eventually “think”.
Not really an urban legend.
Definitely looks like something that could save me, and others, allot of time. Thanks for sharing!
I use a password manager but usually leave it set to lowercase, uppercase and numbers.

Then you get my personal favorite, which is sites that force you to use symbols, but when you do, they say you've used illegal symbols, but don't even tell you what symbols they accept, or which of the ones you've used were illegal.
No. Apart from grammar etc. you‘re missing, you might understand nothing while knowing 80% of the words.
I don't get it, aren't individual judgements made in the context of culture?

How does your example sound funny?
Why would it do that? You're asking for a raw memory address value.
A mathematics-focused student in Ontario could take Calculus & Vectors, Advanced Functions [1], Computer Science, and Physics—the first two courses should be straightforward for this student.

Though Computer Science and Physics are distinctly different from the mathematics courses, these are still directly useful for a mathematics student to learn—the problem-solving skills should also carry over. Key mathematical discoveries have been inspired by problems in computer science and physics, and many rigorous university-level mathematics books still draw from problems in these fields to motivate certain problems. At the least, they are less laboratory-heavy than Biology and Chemistry (the student could still attempt these subjects, though, and choose to omit the grades for university admissions).

That leaves a couple of other classes—or just one if English is required, as noted by another commenter. My school offered subjects like Grade 12 Drama, Visual Arts, and Music, where much of the grading was effort-based. In my school, most students in my classes saw these courses as a break from other intensive courses, with grades not being as much of a concern. This would allow the student to avoid using a grade for History, Economics, French (or another foreign language), or another subject.

The English requirement would then be a difficult challenge for the mathematics-focused student. I wish I could speak more about what it was like for most of my classmates who went on to study engineering, as many of them took the standard English course (I took a more demanding version of the course, due to personal interest). My classmates at the time did not seem to have an issue with university admissions to competitive programs despite not enjoying the subject at the time, but the other commenter makes a good point that minimum grades for admission standards have increased greatly since then.

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[1] As an aside: a past classmate—who was brilliant at mathematics and also great with people—later poked fun some years later about the Ontario government's naming for math courses. He said, "there's Grade 11 Functions... and then in Grade 12, there's Advanced (!) Functions." The last I heard, he went on to work as an investment banker at a top hedge fund by profitability in the United States.
One of the problems is that, currently, having earbuds in is a social signal of "please leave me alone and don't try to strike up a conversation with me", such as e.g. you might see someone on a train with earbuds in, and you know that means they don't want to be bothered.
A fun thing I like to do every so often is to try to break away from the natural notion that space has a horizon and that instead force myself to feel that it continues equally in all directions.

We’re naturally inclined to be ok with giant distances on the horizon. It’s natural to put more emphasis on that part of the world. Hold up your thumb to the horizon and notice how many things fit alongside it compared to your thumb help downwards against the ground.

On the surface of our planet the up direction isn’t usually interesting and the down direction isn’t even there. It is therefore quite horrifying (“fun”) to imagine space going down forever.
With current models it cannot be solved. Maybe it cannot be solved at all; humans lie/make up things (as in; they might not know they are telling a non truth) all the time and that's the best example of intelligence we have.
Also O- and it's the other way around for us. Mosquitos hunt me but usually leave my wife alone.
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The full article is available as the published Nature version care of Yale's Carlson Lab.

Specifically, Baik, L., Talross, G.J.S., Gray, S., Pattisam, H.S., Peterson, T.N., Nidetz, J.E., Hol, F.J.H. and Carlson, J.R. (2024) Mosquito taste responses to human and floral cues guide biting and feeding, Nature https://rdcu.be/dXckk

or maybe you can find it via: https://carlsonlab.yale.edu/full-publication-list
Lumino City was the first one that came to mind for me as well!

The next one was the Fantasian, by the creators of Final Fantasy (https://youtu.be/ePFgyBtvqQU) - apparently this is finally coming to non-Apple platforms this year, at that.
> It's good that public school exposes children to many subjects - hopefully most of them. So that they can discover if they click with one of them. The real danger is that someone never gets exposed to a subject at all. College is the place to specialize in a subject.

While some exposure is probably better on average than none, in some instances bad experiences can trip the fuse on developing an interest.

The rote nature of canned education, bad teachers, bad parents, or bullies can turn kids off of subjects they might otherwise come to love.
Walmart management is capable of seeing many combinatory benefits regardless of what they're calling it.
B-52s are basically ships of Theseus at this point. About the only original part left by the time they're retired will be the build plate with the serial number on it.

Firefighting is uniquely hard on airframes. It imposes all sorts of loads on aircraft that they just don't experience in "normal" operation. For maintenance purposes, one well-known (V)LAT operator I'm familiar with treats one hour of firefighting ops as 7 hours of flight time.
So? She certainly has one or more daughters, or neices, or is a god parent, or has friends with kids...
The difference, from the article, seems to be that the European teams are sponsored at the organization level, and pay the riders a salary, but the gravel riders are solo athletes, so they don't get a salary but can get sponsorships directly. Makes sense if you're up for the pressure of being an influencer.