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I heard this was one of the social functions filled by the Japanese postal workers. Their official job was to deliver the mail, sure, but they were also encouraged to spend a few m…

If you are in a bubble, stay there. It is a happier place. Yes, young adults today are more willing to "cancel" their parents. Often enough it is for issues which a generation ago …

Putting in a plug for Open BCI https://shop.openbci.com/collections/openbci-products which has been making EEG equipment for DIY use for years, and has some scientific validity cla…

Oh, but they can put blinky video ads all over the page so no matter where you look there are things to distract you. yeah yeah adblock pihole yes I know.

Just imagine how much more efficient you would be if you were using R's DataTable. Look, I applaud your skill, but at some point even a master craftsman realizes that the swiss arm…

Work which exaggerates the blindness. The people were told to focus very deeply on a certain aspect of the scene. Maintaining that focus means explicitly blocking things not relate…

> And I fail to see why our human brains couldn't be doing something very, very similar with our language capability. Then you might want to read Cormac McCarthy's The Kekulé Probl…

To defend the humans here, I could see myself thinking "Crap, if I don't say 1+1=3, these other humans will beat me up. I better lie to conform, and at the first opportunity I'm ou…

That phrase was probably a bad choice of words; I believe the fuller intent was "Let's fund initiatives which build our community, like teachers and school lunch so our kids aren't…

rowing is good, you're right about that. So is sandbags/rucking (goruck is the premier brand). So is kettlebells, but I have no idea who is good for training that. Key thing is to …

You don't see a person who needs workout advice from HN, but in case anyone else reading this might, > Running hurts my knees I've been following ATG (from Ben Patrick, the "knees …

I remember the happy days when a telephone number (also an email) was a ephemeral, changeable thing. Not a permanent unchanging form of ID. Alas, if you move out of the country for…

so modify the law to deprive an owner of their legal property which was given to them by the law? Not sure that's a precedent I'd want set in a common-law country, and not sure tha…

entity resolution is hard everywhere. Because the world is dynamic, but the common understanding of "entity" is a static object. and the only perfect description of the world is th…

Not quite. They do have the nitrogen in the air they brought down with them in their lungs. Repeated freediving can cause the bends. https://www.tdisdi.com/pfi-diver-news/freedivin…

really??? I've developed in R for over a decade using two terminal windows. One runs vim, the other runs R. Keyboard shortcuts to send R code from vim to R. first google hit if you…

I'm not sure you can eliminate fraud. You can shift it around, but not eliminate it. Sweden thought going cashless would reduce crime. Nope, crime increased.

I've been out of work for close to 6 months now, actively searching, interviewing every week, and finding that what the job market seems to value is that you have done the exact sa…