skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's weird to say that about English when good communication is essential for success in any engineering field

Some of what's taught in English classes is about clear communication, and some of it isn't.

I think learning the 5 paragraph essay structure was very useful. But that's maybe 3 months worth of learning. The rest was English major stuff. Which is fine, but please don't pretend that it has a lot to do with "good communication".

> Even if all English does is force you to read more, it's probably a win in this regard.

It's not enough to say people had to read for English classes. You have to compare it to the counterfactual. In that regard, I don't think it stood up well.

1. I was already reading a lot. I just read different things.

2. I came to hate pretty much everything I read in class. It's only decades later that I've been able to appreciate some of the classics that we read.

On this point, I think English class was a net harm, at least for me. Of course, everyone has different circumstances; I'm sure there are people for whom a similar program as what I went through would have been a benefit.
Ask HN: Is there any way to see HN stats anywhere nowadays?
Specifically I’d love to find submissions per day over the last 5 years or so. Does anyone know anything still up for those kinds of stats?
They don't hate anyone. They just love money.
The catfriend fork is not by the original author!
Cool, I didn't realize this was a thing. Kind of disappointing to see only 2-3 studies available through the Apple Research app though, I wonder why it isn't more widely used.

Do most research teams have to build their own app?
Isn’t the modern Windows runtime just Linux anyway?
Yes, there is cheaper hardware like the Adalm Pluto with enough bandwidth and dynamic range, but it is not supported by the looks of things.
It’s still here. We dress it up as voter ID or something similar.
Here's a non-paywalled article with pictures.

Warning: there's blood in the middle of the page. But it's safe to open the page.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/breakdancer-headspin-hole-...
dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904553
He thinks you can trust the answers of chatbots? That is disturbing. Sure I use them all the time, but only for coding ; code I can review and verify after ; many other things are either a lot harder or impossible and I know it really does make up stuff with Confidence, so I do not even try. This guy must know that is how it is as CEO of this massive company?
This one seems deliberately difficult to answer correctly, even with the requisite civics knowledge:

> The President of the Senate gets his office

> a. by election by the people.

> b. by election by the Senate.

> c. by appointment by the President.

The Vice President is the President of the Senate, but the duties are typically exercised (save the tie-breaking vote) by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, a Senator chosen by whichever party currently has a majority. It seems both a. and b. could be considered correct.
Lucky my password is very secure, "ÈÍ§¾÷øÏ¡þää£àèÀ¸Àþ¡ï×ÕÞ£¸«"
Sincerely doubt he had permissions for either operation. ;)
I think you need to drop or at least weaken an inspiration from CoffeeScript if that's a goal, otherwise everyone will immediately draw a connection to that and overlook any other aspect of Civet. (I personally hate CoffeeScript especially for its indentation and that contributed to my initial reaction.) You can't solve this problem with simply supporting two radically different coding styles---the front page seems to prefer one over another anyway.
I suspect the answer is "yes", and probably with an FSA now too. There is a similar situation with the Natural Cycles app, which is cleared by the FDA as a medical device, so you can buy it with an FSA or HSA, or have insurance pay for it - which is mandatory, since it is legally a birth control device, which they have to cover. (It is also a steal for the insurance company since it costs roughly $10 a month.)

I expect that insurance plans that cover hearing aids are going to cover this eventually, as a set of AirPods Pro 2 is $249, which is substantially cheaper than other hearing aids on the market. An open question is if any other manufacturer will be able to get a device that works this well at this price point - the amount of software and chip design engineering that went into H2 and the bridgeOS or RTKitOS that the AirPods run is just not something smaller manufacturers will be able to easily copy.

Now, I wish I could find a better eartips fit for my ears... XS doesn't pass in the app as having a good enough seal, and S is just a little bit uncomfortable for me for all day use.
> If you're getting your order taken at Starbucks, you can totally have ears in even today.

Prior to hearing aid features, I’d say this is actually quite rude even if you “can.” I don’t think the service workers taking your order appreciate this very much.
the browser plugin works fine. I have no idea if it's proprietary software or not though
Traveling with kids is not what influencers portray it to be
Laughing at someone who says “hey an idea that isn’t falsifiable isn’t a good theory and certainly not something that any other ideas or theories should be constructed upon is I think more serious than not.
Yes, and I’m not proud of everything I do, but I’m proud of what I do, if that makes sense. I’ve had enough conversations with people on moral high horses to know that doesn’t matter to you, though. Go back to brainwashing people with ads or whatever you do
This is a critical space for progressing AI in science right now. Once we have algorithms that can process charts and interpret data, our ability to integrate scientific information from multiple studies will increase exponentially. We may even find new interpretations from charted data that human eyes are unable to interpret. Until then, it's as if we're stuck with blind AI agents who have to take text for granted without validating it against graphical data.
Here's what's new:

* Air Pods 2 were approved by the FDA in September

* iOS (and iPadOS) 18.1, for which the release candidate was released earlier today, comes with the ability to enable hearing aid mode and with a hearing test

* based on the hearing test, the AirPods can automatically compensate how things sound to you

* Apple has announced that iOS 18.1 will be released next week

Details: https://www.apple.com/accessibility/hearing/
Curious how their anonymous groups work: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-7&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FN_McQS3...
Cook says Apple wasn't first with AI, but will be the best
I spend most of my time in the western US, and the mosquitos there never bother me, but they do go after my wife and one of my two sons. Aside from being ravaged by a swarm of mosquitos in a Florida phone booth 40 years ago, I never had a problem. That is, until earlier this year when I spent two months in Hawaii. The mosquitos there were relentless and I always had itching bites no matter what brand of repellent, or how much I used.

This article mentions an observed preference to certain people by mosquitos, but it doesn't go into why. It seems to leave out geographical considerations, which I know from experience, are real.
Same here. I gave up on reading it once the diagram animations made it near impossible
Give learning Japanese a try. It's a meta-learning adventure! There are 3 distinct classes of characters (two syllabaries that each have a perfect matching pair with the other, 46 each plus some compounds) and the third are (mostly) chinese Kanji characters. Fun stuff!
I got dysentery in a human challenge trial
You have made a subtle misalignment of figures here. Yes, these existing diatoms fix 20% of the Earth's CO2 and are present throughout the entire ocean. However, we don't need to compete with that volume. We don't have to do the same order of magnitude to meaningfully impact the carbon cycle.

The Earth's carbon cycle manages about 750 gigatons of CO2/year and humans are emitting ~30 excess gigatons a year on top. The diatoms in the ocean are happily out there processing 150 gigatons of CO2/year, but what we need to engineer is only 30 gigatons (to completely eradicate human emissions).

If we engineered diatoms to fix, say, 0.3 gigatons/year, we'd eradicate a whole integer percent of our emissions.

Heck, if we got it in the 0.03 gigatons (30 megatons/year), we've probably built something scalable and created a useful entry in our portfolio to capture carbon, sinking about 0.1% of our carbon/year.

So, don't despair, we don't have to compete with the ocean! We only need to compete with ourselves! Or maybe do despair? Because we have to compete with ourselves... fundamentally, climate change isn't a technology problem, it's a political problem.
Gun control can’t be implemented in the US because the political system makes it impossible to do so. I don’t know any way to change this.

As for the problems that would persist even if we could ban guns: I don’t know how to fix those, either.
There are a few papers showing that the spike protein can cross the blood-brain barrier so maybe it's not even necessary for it to 'sneak in via the vagus nerve' as mentioned in the article.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35052867/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36810757/
He uses a custom system called Digital Project. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Project
https://archive.is/L9ONm
Ironically, you can't trust code of junior developers in exactly the same way.
For those interested in a more accessible LTE meta-data decoder check out https://github.com/JiaoXianjun/LTE-Cell-Scanner which can work with even cheap rtl-sdr dongles (for some things). It is a fork of an older https://github.com/Evrytania/LTE-Cell-Scanner
Not for ease of use and syncing, at least if you don't want to maintain cloud sync and set it up on your own. Bitwarden just works with an app install and not much user intervention involved.
* Slaps 22TiB SMR drive *
This baby can fit so many Linux ISOs on it.
Does anyone follow gravel racing? If I wanted to watch a couple of past races (ideally on YouTube) to see if it's for me, is there anything you'd recommend?

For context, I'd thought I wouldn't like pro cycling as a spectator sport, since my exposure to it was just from Tour de France and track cycling both of which I find somewhat ridiculous for different reasons. But I was totally riveted by the road races at the Olympics this year.

(Aside: What's up with the "cute dogs" in the title? The article body text has nothing to say about dogs.)
What about the use of power transistors that don't too well as silicon crystals afaik.
This is entirely the fault of the Indian Education System and Popular Media. The current generation knows almost nothing about these Indian Greats.

In order to rectify the status quo;

1) Everybody should get the monthly magazine Science Reporter published by National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research (NIScPR), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India. which gives a overview into Indian Science - https://sciencereporter.niscpr.res.in/

2) The two-volume The Mind of an Engineer by Purnendu Ghosh et al. published by Springer contains essays from many of our recent Scientists/Researchers/Engineers etc. - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-0119-2

3) Books on Indian Science/Scientists by various authors are available on Amazon India and are worth getting.

4) Also see the books by the great astrophysicist/cosmologist Jayant Narlikar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayant_Narlikar), specifically; The Scientific Edge: The Indian Scientist From Vedic To Modern Times. - https://www.penguin.co.in/book/the-scientific-edge/ and Science and Mathematics: From Primitive to Modern Times - https://www.routledge.com/Science-and-Mathematics-From-Primi...
Are One Plus z2 hearing aids with a hearing test app? Because that's the notable thing under discussion here...
Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahv_1IS7SiE
When did hallucinations were gone? Which model?
Dole/Kemp 1996 Campaign
This is all very confusing to me. The reasoning is it is unhealthy competition for their local businesses with this discount Chinese stuff. Okay that makes sense at some level of government is tasked with ensuring the stability of their economy. What I'm struggling with is why their solution to this is to block Temu. It seems to me the better solution would be to place a tariff onto these goods. This could provide the competition balance and income.

The other reason that blows my mind, having visited Indonesia a great many times, is the idea that Temu goods are not up to Indonesian quality standards. They seemingly said that with a completely straight face totally serious in what they were saying. Indonesian goods that are made for export to first world countries do generally have a higher quality standard than Chinese goods, but that's only because they are specifically made for export and they are overseen by companies from those first world companies to ensure the quality is there. Indonesian goods made for local use are on par with Chinese goods. It is all disposable trash.
I wonder if there is a similar "Pareto priciple"-esque approach that one could use to learn Japanese.
Hey everyone, I'm working on an automated fact checking service that works like so:

1. Paste a link to a website, X or facebook comment you want to fact check,

2. Select a quote on the site,

3. We search for relevant results from research databases, reputable news sites and searches on the web,

4. You get a web page with the quote, fact check rating, summary of the findings and sources,

5. Share that generated fact check page back to the source (and make it indexable by search engines), so people can be aware of the relevant information.

This is a work in progress and I'd love to know what information you think is a must have for it to show.
I feel your pain. What a dumb system.
I don’t think anyone mentioned JavaScript frameworks. Yes everything is perpetually relevant if it is made generic enough, but it is harder to be actionable and truly useful.
Salah satu fitur utama PINK4D adalah sistem login alternatif, yang memungkinkan pengguna mengakses akun mereka dari beberapa perangkat. Hal ini memudahkan pemain untuk menikmati permainan slot favorit mereka saat bepergian, baik menggunakan komputer, tablet, atau ponsel pintar. Login alternatif juga memastikan bahwa pemain dapat mengakses akun mereka dengan mudah bahkan jika mereka lupa informasi login mereka, menjadikannya fitur yang nyaman bagi pengguna.
Why do you think the chance of intelligent life is a very small number? Considering we know of several million species, the chances are that we are right in the middle of the curve, and can't recognize the vastly more intelligent species the way an ant can't recognize our intelligence.
I have the opposite problem.

I get “intrusive” thoughts about ideas/anything as a stream of information passively. Not intrusive in the sense that it’s bad stuff (it’s all positive/good thinking) but I literally can’t “switch it off” and it hits me no matter what activity I’m doing. Makes relaxing hard

Sometimes it’s an overwhelming amount of thoughts, so I always keep a journal or phone handy especially at night

No idea how to stop it, medication seems to be the only fix
I have a feeling that mostly went away not because society got any more considerate, but rather because glasses became much more commonplace, due to the explosion in prevalence of nearsightedness.
I just looked and qutebrowser is basically a webview right? I've played with webviews a little and it didn't feel much different than other injection-style scripting. What would make that better than the extension?

FWIW I tried the vimium or vimperator before and found it clunkier than I expected, so I can believe qutebrowser is better.
We can go lower
It doesn't seem to persist the cart for me across browser refresh. But if I add something else to the cart, the whole cart comes back. Strange.
US riders and promoters have created a parallel racing circuit with no drug testing. Many of the biggest and most lucrative events in American cycling aren't sanctioned by any sporting body and aren't subject to any form of external oversight. I don't want to cast aspersions on any individual rider, but the incentives at play are very obvious.
Sure but i can invent infinitely many unfalsifiable claims that mean nothing
Geopbyte
I agree for ssh - but I use it on a couple servers that have WordPress for the sole purpose of blocking IPs that engage in brute force attempts.

It has a real and dramatic impact on a few things - I got CPU warnings from one server a couple weeks back because I'd inadvertently broken logging and fail2ban stopped working and someone was doing a persistent brute force at high volume for 8 hours.

After I fixed fail2ban it dropped off immediately. I know some WordPress plugins will do this but I've not had much success with them compared to fail2ban so it's still my default for this purpose.

Are there better system-level approaches than fail2ban in this case? Or is your comment mostly directed towards those using it for ssh blocking?
I think it's flipped recently, or maybe I'm thinking of another kind.
I'm surprised the course by the name of this post isn't here.

The post covers a great mindset, but the math really is one thing, and learning how you learn and how you can learn is invaluable.

This is a great course to start learning about your learning.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

After/with this, there is a slew of adult learning knowledge that will likely make you feel better.

One key is learning to understand something, before learning to memorize it.

Another is creating your own mind map of how the concepts you are learning fits together.

Farnham street has some great books on mental models as well that was recommended to me as helping

An expert is someone who can often explain complex things in very simple ways. being an innocent beginner is one of the best mindsets to cultivate - you learn what you do and don't know pretty quick, and also a sense of known vs unknown, and size and number of unknowns.
Agreed. This test is not reasonable.

Even "who is the first president" knowledge shouldn't be a bar to voting. Do you think they offered this literacy test in the native languages of all taking it? Do you think all people in the US had the opportunity to learn, in their language, the history of the country?

At the time there were systemic barriers to education that meant that many folk were probably not even taught who the first president was. Let alone how old you have to be to be president.
The question is if human are capable of infinitely extensible language.

That's clearly false. It's not about some platonic mathematical simplification. Humans patently do not fit the Chomsky criterium for intelligence.

In fact, I'm pretty sure it's physically impossible for any real being to fit it.
You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean you understood my point.

It seems you aren't aware that space is not controlled by a single country. It's ruled by international agreements. Do you really think everyone sitting at that table is going to be using that power to make laws based purely on the merit of the technology and it's safety? Or do you think they're going to be bullshit arguments that are reaching at best? We both know the answer to that. Predicting what they will argue is not the same thing as saying their points will be valid. But you also can't just pretend that bullshit won't exist.
How to Organize Hackathon
Update:

TIC: TK-monad HK-dyad (>power<>sex<)

Debreviated:

Today I Compared
What's so important about "sharing a common ancestor"? It doesn't say anything about the spread of different types of life that could evolve, considering we have a sample size of one, and it also says nothing about how difficult it is for any particular form to evolve intelligence.
Why are intellectual podcasts so bad?
I didn't know how much I needed a quiz about Bob Dole's life in my day.
> Translation: “The Self hidden in all beings does not shine forth, but it is seen by subtle seers through their one-pointed and subtle intellect.”

That doesn't look sound to me. If the "seers" are seeing "The Self", are they beyond and separate from "The Self"? If they do so with their "subtle intellect", is that intellect outside of "The Self"?

If affirmative, then "The Self" is something external to the seer, making the term a misnomer. And furthermore, there is something outside of The Self (that which is seeing The Self), which remains to be explicated.
The irony of kids wanting to be replaced by machines while they should be learning how not to be.
Yes, performance is much better. But it's a bit apples to oranges comparisons because of distributed/sharding nature (example with bitmap scans https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/bitmap-scans-on-distributed-po...), and always synchronous replication (https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/yugabytedb-resiliency-vs-postg...).
I had the exact same wish for an interconnected knowledge map, so I'm building it myself! Please check out https://onri.ai, which plots all human knowledge on a Google Map, with their dependencies. I'm still building out the navigation algorithm and user features, but please let me know whether that fits your use case :)
IMO telegram is slavic whatsapp with some crypto spice. And almost any communication medium will be used to transmit bad things and managing that is an expensive arms race. If you really care to, you can probably find examples everywhere.
Blade Runner 2049 maker sues Musk over robotaxi images
Well, yeah that was expressly known about CoffeeScript. It pushed JS to the future and was expected to be not useful whenever JS gained more features, but that would take a long time. And some of the syntax features weren't adopted, which meant CoffeeScript seems like a different thing from JS but it wasn't intended to be a departure or permanent.

But JS moved faster and babel was made and eventually we could use JS-future even when browsers hadn't updated yet and CoffeeScript wasn't needed. But it was pretty easy to translate it to JS, commit that and keep rolling. CS was great at the time.
Distribute(d) Trust – The key to global encryption access [video]
Meta's smart glasses open door to new levels of facial surveillance
In many cars, the daytime running lights are also the headlights. Mine are in a 2013 Subaru Outback. However, they remain separate from my turn signals and do not deactivate when my signal activates.

For more modern vehicles, they have to turn off the LED/Laser-phosphor unit entirely because the lights design is too radiant and glaring for the turn signal to be seen. GMC and Ford big-ass trucks made within the last 5 years are an example.
Minor nitpick, the ball might be closed or open, depending on whether the boundary is included or not, respectively.
Oh, interesting. My machines have not had good mDNS support, so I have been hardcoding ULAs for LAN-only traffic.
"Spell backwards, forwards"

Both "backwards" and "forwards" could be correctly interpreted as the adverb in this one. It could be asking you to "Spell the word backwards, in a forwards manner" or "Spell in a backwards manner, the word forwards".

It's ambiguous enough that someone grading the test who wanted the disqualify you could make the case you got it wrong, no matter if you wrote "backwards" or "sdrawrof".
Distribute(d) trust – The key to global encryption access
This seems like a huge accomplishment, how was it achieved though?
The API looks fine, well
There are the "radicals" which can help you to interpret a new kanji, since they're the kanji building blocks.
There was a nice video recently about how the OGs optimized the site so well. https://youtu.be/-Ln-8QM8KhQ
Grok TiddlyWiki 2.0