skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am in the same situation. Disc herniation, post surgery, doing pt every day and no material improvement in 3 years. Ive tried many pt programs. My time is under extreme pressure.

Ah, we’re in very similar situations. I’m sorry to hear of your struggles. I unfortunately know too well what you’re enduring. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.

I had severe cervical myelopathy where my spine severely compressed my spinal cord, causing permanent damage. I underwent a cervical decompression and ACDF, but I’ll live with an incomplete spinal cord injury and its consequences for life.

On top of that, I have a herniated disc and Tarlov cysts in my lower lumbar spine. As if the cervical issues weren’t enough, I now fall randomly, making staying upright a constant challenge. The pain from both issues is so severe and relentless, I struggle to even explain it other than to note that it is "life altering."

I’m a few years out, and we’ve now discovered that my cervical spine is compressed again, along with nerves on the right side of my body. I started another physio program through my pain management team, but its not helping, more surgery is the only real solution. Still, I have to stick with physio because, as my medical team says, I need to be fitter than most people to manage my condition. Things are difficult enough that I don’t have the energy to question their guidance. What little energy I do have goes toward trying to stay employed.

> I need to stop sitting, and revert to a hunter gatherer movement pattern of walking, running and crouching.

I have a sit-stand desk and alternate between standing and sitting throughout the day for pain management. I’ll stand and pace for an hour, then sit for a while. It helps with pain in the moment, but I’m not sure it does much more than that.
Now we have another candidate to explain the Fermi paradox. Mirror Biology Armageddon. Even if life outside runs on alternative biochemistry, the odds are that some of its building blocks are chiral too, and subjected to the same risks in case the indigenous intelligent lifeform advances to the point of making mirror life.
I provide it simply as an example of one way to seal woods.

Wood cutting boards ("butcher's blocks") have been a popular item for as long as the profession of butcher has been around and longer.
If anyone wants a book that lays a lot of the foundation for this line of thought, do check out Language, Thought, and Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf. It's accessible, but brilliant.
Magnus described Ding's abilities as a 4/10 in the lead up to the match. In match commentary he regularly called the games "baffling" (as in baffingly bad) and regularly said they weren't strong grandmaster calibre. He is definitely very conceited and resents not being the world champion, even if it's only because of his absence.
If you have the technological proficiency to synthesize mirror chemistry cells from scratch, I'm hoping that implies you also have the ability to engineer e.g. bacteria that feed on reverse chirality molecules & turn them back into standard form, or create other mitigations. Safer not to make them at all though.
// Did read the article.

Try Roger Waters' “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking”, the album that nearly was instead of The Wall.

From Wikipedia:

In July 1978, Waters presented the concepts and played demos of The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking as well as what was then titled Bricks in the Wall, which became The Wall, to his bandmates in Pink Floyd, asking them to decide which should be a group album, and which should be his solo album. After a long debate, they decided that they preferred the concept of Bricks in the Wall, even though their manager at the time, Steve O'Rourke, thought that Pros and Cons was a better-sounding concept, and David Gilmour deemed Pros and Cons stronger musically.

The entire story is framed in real time as a fitful dream taking place in the early morning hours of 4:30:18 am to 5:12:32 am on an unspecified day. ...

Eric Clapton plays lead guitar, David Sandborn sax, and Michael Kamen piano (plus his orchestra).

It's worth the time, if for no other reason than to see if your experience is the same as Rolling Stone's:

Roger Waters' first official solo album will be of sustained interest mainly to postanalytic Pink Floyd fetishists and other highly evolved neurotics who persist in seeking spiritual significance amid the flotsam of English art rock. I can't imagine that anyone else will sit more than once through this strangely static, faintly hideous record, on which Waters' customary bile is, for the first time, diluted with musical bilge.

No "highly evolved neurotics" here, of course.
This is very similar to Dopplr.com - started in 2007ish and had a bunch of hype but not many people formed a habit of using it. It was acquihired by Nokia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopplr
Society doesn’t say “none”, if you are talking about Canadian MAID laws. It says “months and a pile of paperwork”.
fyi, all my friends now have VR. We play it every other day to socialize.
In addition to what most people said, many other game servers just simply announce upcoming maintenance work and take the services offline until the patches are deployed.

This way they can properly test everything and rollback any potential fixes if required.. even banking systems regularly goes down for maintenance.
I very, very much doubt that any of your claims are true.
> The government has no incentive to provide better housing or disability benefits to the working class when they can instead withhold those things and watch legions of poor & desperate people die.

What was Canada's excuse for poor healthcare before MAID existed then?
Distributional implications and share ownership of record oil and gas profits
Ask HN: Code Review on Project
I recently spent a lot of time on a take home project as part of an interview and did not receive feedback, I worked hard on it and would like the chance to learn from what went well and what didn’t from someone if they are willing.

The project is in typescript and react and does not contain references to the company I did it for, nor did I have to agree not to share my work. Please let me know if anyone would be interested in this or not.
i think this is an excellent litmus test. Anyone caught pushing langchain signals pedantry and should be completely ignored.
When should we require that firmware be free?
Be coming homeless isn't a problem with the person, it's an outcome of the system we live in.

The population of homeless people would end up probably where it was when you killed them all. Though I do wonder how long that would take
without the so called "corporate class" or capitalists and their relentless effort to pursue wealth, everyone would be worse off today. Billons died from communist wet stream in the 20 century but the lessons are still not learned. Yes, government regulation is important but capitalism is the reason why millions of people are not starving today unlike any other periods in time.
I don't think that's a good example, since it's obviously provably true and the proof is also obvious (either use well-known lemmas like log(poly(x)) in O(x^a) or show that lim_x->inf lhs/x = 0 via L'Hôpital's rule, differentiation algorithms and well-known limits at infinity).
I get the same with SwiftKey, it tries to replace "my" with "NY", which I never ever mean. FUTO has a blacklist, at least. I'm going to switch back to Android just for the keyboards.
Those questions are more interesting than they seem.

1. The line is where you can legally get away with giving advice.

2. You are for the most part free to experiment on yourself and you may for the most part read whatever crazy books you can find.

For 1+2 I think you can get away with telling the story about self medicating.

The difference is A) I hear good things about weekly ice swimming replacing anti depressants. Some people chew onions and garlic for open tooth infections and put kiwi on closed ones. B) You can go ice swimming and quit anti depressants. You can chew onions and garlic for open tooth infections and put kiwi on closed ones.

I'm pretty sure someone killed their parents for some reason and that we are allowed to talk about it.
13.8 epochs of the benchmarks?
I seem to have found the original source of the claimed sightings that has lead to this massive case of hysteria. It's a Twitter/X account called @rawsalerts. Here's the post:

https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1858717730746126444

There is zero evidence to support any of the claims made in this post, and it seems to have spread virally from here. It appears that rawsalerts posts disinformation and then it is disseminated through a massive network of fake news sites and fake social media accounts. Just do a google search for "rawsalerts" to see what I mean. It looks like much of its content is constantly reposted by NewsBreak, which has been noted as a disinformation/fake news site set up by China.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/top-news-app-us-has-chine...

Starting to get the idea? I believe this was a case of mass hysteria that was literally engineered by one of our enemies.
Have you tried it recently? Their predictions/corrections were great for me.
What does "perfectly optimized" even mean?

If you're suggesting that a game feels less meaningful because its predisposed towards memorization, I'm not sure that leaves a lot of games left on the proverbial table for you.

Furthermore, there's quite a bit more to Scrabble strategy such as:

- balancing your rack

- the natural RNG from drawing tiles

- time pressure

- anagramming

I guess here's hoping you can start an international tournament of world champions for Snakes and Ladders, or Candyland?

More seriously, perhaps you'd enjoy Fischer Chess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960
> anecdote

Perhaps it'd be best to circle back and check the actual specifics?
Here's a report re light orb phenomenon buzzing a FedEx cargo plane.

https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr20

News article of event: https://nypost.com/2021/10/27/video-captures-pulsating-ufo-d...

Interview with the pilots: https://youtu.be/HXLFC-hwQ6M?si=TEcOt3yTrSi1_VIh

There are countless such documented sightings throughout history.
Well, your first claim that in "many states cops earn more than software engineers", seems completely untrue.

I simply went on the BLS website (that you mentioned) and looked. In all 12 states with the lowest SDE salaries, the SDE mean wage is still higher than the police, and in all 10 states with the highest police salaries, their mean wage is still less than SDEs. I also spot checked other random states and have not found a single one where police get paid more.

Look for yourself, data from May 2023:

https://www.bls.gov/oes/2021/may/oes151252.htm

https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes333051.htm
It is horrifyingly cruel to deny someone the option of death without also solving the problem that made them want it.
This is correct. While there are certainly dark patterns and pain in the ass retention process hoops the company might try and make you jump through, putting in email that you want to cancel, calling and escalating until you talk to someone who will cancel your account, etc. will get your subscription cancelled. Should we have to do this as customers? No, but vote with your wallet and make a note you’d never renew until this kind of shit is fixed and they’ll at some point get the message.

Worked at a few SaaS companies and there are playbooks for retention, upselling, renewals, etc but if a customer wants to cancel, the company will cancel.

I’d put more weight on Carta in this example just having a broken process that I’m sure this negative press will incentivize them to respond and fix.
In your car crash example, that police report could be a key piece of evidence in a civil case that causes one party to need to pay up rather than the other. The amount they have to pay could be enough to ruin their life.

Of course, that's to say nothing of criminal cases
+1, this will happen.
I don't think that's the primary reason for CEOs being paid a lot. I think a much bigger reason is: For large companies that manage large amounts of resources, company-scale decisions are extremely impactful, and therefore it may be net beneficial to pay tens of millions to get someone whose decisions are slightly better. For example, someone who on average makes 0.01 fewer billion-dollar mistakes per year is worth $10 million per year on that count alone.
It was an odd sight at that hour of the day. I wanted pictures as something to talk about with friends. I really wish I had been astute enough to take video.
never?
If you make to your 80s you’re on borrowed time no matter what.
Do you by chance have a contact named Ava in your address book? If so you can try changing their name, or disabling the option to provide auto complete suggestions from your address book
Git is already a large binary in size. Hopefully if rust is added it doesn't make the binary size grow significantly larger, otherwise git may be harder to use in embedded Linux applications.
It's so easy to blame it all on the feet of oligarchs, but it is ultimately our collective responsibility. The democrats lost the popular vote. Think about that.

Progress, or even the status quo as it is today is rejected by half of the population.
No one is overthinking anything. Carta's behavior is poor, self-serving, and definitely using a dark pattern. If they cannot promptly schedule a meeting, they should wave the meeting requirement.

Here are some other thoughts:

1) Canceling a subscription should be easy and take less than 3 minutes. There is nothing special about enterprise software subscriptions.

2) Requiring a meeting to cancel and then scheduling the meeting after the customer is charged a renewal fee is outrageous. This should never happen.

3) Customers tried to contact Carta and could not get help. This means they could not just "call up Carta" and tell them "Your shit is broken, there are no cancellation meetings for weeks."
This lacks some context. Gukesh took Ding out of prep bc Gukesh prepped for 7 months, while Ding prepped for 3 weeks and basically wanted to retire from chess. Ding would be out of prep by move 8 as white and be an hour down on time very consistently.
I think dementia and euthanasia is already legally and morally very complicated so not sure that is the best example. I do think that dementia often causes problems due to strain on caregivers and cost of outside help. If you have systems of support and resources for these caregivers, then fewer people would be inclined to end their lives to avoid becoming such a huge burden. If you legalize euthanasia and have good frameworks for people to use to determine where their limit is, then people who don't want to become a burden aren't pushed to kill themselves while they still have time.

There are lots of ways we can change systems and institutions to change the choices people make and I see good people working to make that happen.

I guess it is a kind of a platitude. I'm not trying to claim that such changes are easy, simple, fast, or even obvious (though some may be.)
> We realized we may be hitting the AWS limit for how much traffic can be sent to a VPC resolver

Never rely on an AWS service until you've understood it's quotas. They are reliable services, but to maintain that standard, they have to impose limits at many different levels of the plane. There are some good "quota surprises" tucked away in there.
yah did better than I'd have, friend. I'm sure I'd have just been all like "oh lookie here, a drone flying around at 6am, unusual and cool!" and then gotten on with my day, ha!
It doesn't, obviously, since it's not possible to prove a negative. Much like there's nothing that proves that you won't begin to be able to fly if you stand on one leg long enough.

If what you've been shown so far is insufficient evidence for you, then I'm afraid you're on your own. I don't need to play the "how about this" moving goalpost game.
It's like active T cells drinking Gatorade (acetate) to stay energized, but when they get tired, they switch to lemon water (citrate), which isn’t as good for keeping them strong. By noticing this fuel switch, scientists can identify tired T cells and possibly find ways to get them back on Gatorade to keep fighting sickness.
Yes, the "mapping memory stuff" is the page tables. (The TLB is an internal cache the processor keeps of recently used page table entries, which is mostly internal to the processor and transparent to the OS, except that the OS needs to remember to issue a special instruction to invalidate the TLB after modifying page tables.)
Dear author (and others who writing things like this): it looks you put in considerable time on code comparisons and benchmarks. Why not publish the source code for them? Benefits include:

1. The comparisons, as you've written them up, probably will get stale fast. It would be nice to be able to re-run them.

2. Some of the examples are surprising. Why? Any bugs? Some kind of weirdness? Readers would want to explore.

3. Readers can see how you did the benchmarks. We can put more/less stock in them. Hopefully you used `criterion` or similar, with warm ups, etc.
I've seen more appealing orcs in Morrowind.
Could you both expand on what you mean? I've built some useful stuff with langchain v1 but gave up on porting it to v2, looked like too much work.
Do Sci-Fi Authors Dream of Electric Daoism
Yeah! I'm very interested in using one of these as a computer monitor replacement.
I would feel that way, also.

Losing a very long term partner is a horrible blow. You go through the grief to get to better times on the other side--but if there's no other side to get to, why go through it?

My memory is that the Canadian rules require more time than that so he probably had already set it up.
Sun-like stars produce superflares roughly once per century
This was the year that Roland became a guitar effects company but "nobody" knew it yet.

Of course Boss pedals wouldn't appear for years, but the Roland Space Echo was a little portable accessory tape echo effect that got them started in this direction and made it all possible.

I eventually got one and by the time it needed restoration in the 1990's the internet was already out and it only took a couple years before the electronic schematic showed up by pure luck one day.

I went over the whole thing in detail, I knew there were input impedance mismatches with many instruments from the way it acted, but it still sounded cool and people always loved it anyway.

But when it came to the tape itself, I just couldn't believe it. With all good components and ideal spec operation, there was no way to get the tape bias anywhere near what it was supposed to be for any known tape formulations. By a long shot. It still worked but just barely, and that's what everybody had been enjoying from the beginning, no different than they were when new. With major modification to the bias circuit, it's way better than new after that.

Turns out the high-tech Japanese electronics outfit built its first momentum toward becoming the biggest guitar effects company starting with a tape echo unit, when the engineering was so far off it could only be that nobody involved knew what they should have known about tape bias at all. One of the critical things that all studios and especially audio enginers kept up with since all they had was tape and it was everywhere.
if its not broke ....
> there will be no December 28th, 2011 in Samoa.

Incidentally, this is a great example when trying to explain why your software handling future events needs to track the original authoritative timezone.
A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal
I am a campground host for a US Forest Service campground where I often meet homeless people. I wrote this comment on a recent HN post:

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America, you don't know who your homeless people are.
I'm a Forest Service camp host. Homeless people are common guests there. They greatly differ from the popular image of the homeless as destitute, dirty, criminal, and living in appalling hovels. Most of them are clean and well-behaved. They just don't have a place to live. Some are on Social Security, some on pensions, and some work.

The image of the homeless American presented in this article is so striking that most of us miss how common homelessness is among people like you and me.
>

For my own part I can't afford to live in my own country. I bought a house in Mexico before prices skyrocketed. In the American context I am homeless. Do I meet Musk's image of homeless? I'm a retired research geologist for the USGS and a graduate of Stanford. Being destitute, dirty, criminal, and living in appalling hovel does not describe me.
I had the same question and this article was really helpful in explaining the threat models

https://www.deloitte.com/nl/en/services/risk-advisory/perspe...
They look arguably same to me.

Except in the women's faces. The ones women predicted look more fat to me (they're supposed to look more thin). So, to me, they look opposite of what they're supposed to be.
> Successfully cancelling/reversing a payment does not automatically extinguish any debit incurred, though.

The company could just not apply the debit, and instead send their customer a friendly message like,

"Heya! We regret to inform you that your payment method on file failed. We'll try a few more times over the next month, and then your account will be suspended, with the data retained for download/export and/or in case the account is reinstated. If you have any questions, or would like to make alternative payment arrangements, please call [phone number] during [normal office hours], and one of our billing specialists will promptly help you out. Thank you!"
I've been in many discussions over the decades about this--and I see a huge skew: those who have never seen someone have a bad death tend to think euthanasia is a bad thing, those that have had someone close die a bad death tend to have a recognition that there are situations worse than death.
Did a little reading on Fil-C and…
“Also, it's slow – about 1.5x-5x slower than legacy C.”

So that’s dead on arrival.
Good luck with the diseases of the future, when antibiotics are useless and we have no source for new therapies.
Emacs 30 Built-In Completion UI and Styles
Prions are real. Don't eat mad cow. Rememeber that boiling prions would not kill them, but burning them to ashes will.

Mirrored bacterias are still just scifi. It's too hard to make one of them for now and some normal bacterias will eat them anyway becuase there are a lot of weird bacterias that can eat some specific varity of crap. One of them will save us [1].

The normal bacterias can have trouble eating the reversed proteins, RNA, DNA and even sugars. But oil/fat don't have this problem! In the worst case, normal bacterias will just steal all the oil and fat from the reversed bacterais and kill them, and we will have to sweep the discarded reversed proteins and burn them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds
While knowing every possible word is very helpful in scrabble, the most useful, important words for the game will be very different than the words that are useful for speaking the language well. There's many words out there that are going to be almost unusable, as they are low value. So you aren't really going to need all the words, but you want to memorize basically every word that uses the high scoring tiles, and understand how wide the 'gaps' you are leading when you leave high value letters on the board, especially near high scoring, whole word tiles.

So you arent' overestimating how long it takes to memorize words, but how useful having a good, normal vocabulary in the language actually is for being good at scrabble. Go look at guides for English scrabble, and see the words you are trying to memorize.
As someone who is now in the rust world and very very sympathetic to the Erlang world... you both probably mean completely different things when you say "reliable". The contexts are just world apart.