This may be hyperventilation [1], which is too little CO2 in the blood, not too much O2. Symptoms include dizziness and loss of consciousness.
I discovered this in 7th grade by doing about 30 seconds of rapid breathing followed by holding my breath. Reliably passed out in 5-10 seconds, regained consciousness in <15 seconds.
Can anyone comment on the similarities with (apparently somewhat less sophisticated) laziness as in Haskell, or the memoisation/caching done by the Nix package manager, or (perhaps most interestingly) the approach of the Funflow library for Haskell[1]?
This looks interesting. I'm open to replacing my current (actually quite rudimentary) "capture to org-mode" setup. Is there any way to dump all/important parts of the information Memex captures to plain text/CSV/etc, or, say, a sqlite database?
Overall, this is a space I'm very interested in and this looks like a polished product. I'll be keeping an eye on it; I've installed the addon and am looking forward to playing with it :)
PS. "Full-text search" seemed to me (and might to many) like full-text search of webpage contents, not just URLs/titles. It's not malicious, of course, but it feels slightly misleading.
> Is there any way to dump all/important parts of the information Memex captures to plain text/CSV/etc, or, say, a sqlite database?
Yes indeed there soon will be. Currently working on a backup & restore feature that would make that possible too. First cloud backup & local dump, then exporting in different formats.
Depends a bit though on what people really want out of it and how they intend to use it.
Want to get this right together with the community.
> "Full-text search" seemed to me (and might to many) like full-text search of webpage contents,
You are right in your first impression. It IS full text search on the content of each page you visit :)
Interesting, but I think Dawkins has a point: religion does interfere with scientific matters.
Maybe, if one doesn't take the Bible literally, but as a metaphor? But then again, for thousands of years the Church said we should interpret it literally.
No, not really. One of most influential early Christian theologians, Origen of Alexandria, wrote about Genesis
And who is found so ignorant as to suppose that God, as if
He had been a husbandman, planted trees in paradise, in Eden
towards the east, and a tree of life in it, i.e., a visible
and palpable tree of wood, so that any one eating of it with
bodily teeth should obtain life, and, eating again of
another tree, should come to the knowledge of good and evil
No one, I think, can doubt that the statement that God
walked in the afternoon in paradise, and that Adam lay hid
under a tree, is related figuratively in Scripture, that
some mystical meaning may be indicated by it. The departure
of Cain from the presence of the Lord will manifestly cause
a careful reader to inquire what is the presence of God, and
how any one can go out from it. But not to extend the task
which we have before us beyond its due limits, it is very
easy for any one who pleases to gather out of holy Scripture
what is recorded indeed as having been done, but what
nevertheless cannot be believed as having reasonably and
appropriately occurred according to the historical account.
That said, as compared to the orthodox Christianity that came to dominate, there existed early Christian communities which interpreted biblical stories more literally, communities which interpreted them more allegorically, and communities which interpreted them esoterically. But these mostly died out in the first few centuries.
In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to man in a human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm, and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their words.
In order to discover the sacred authors' intention, the reader must take into account the conditions of their time and culture, the literary genres in use at that time, and the modes of feeling, speaking and narrating then current. "For the fact is that truth is differently presented and expressed in the various types of historical writing, in prophetical and poetical texts, and in other forms of literary expression."
The linked document is from 1992 (commissioned in 1986). However, I don't know when the ideas in this section became part of Catholic teaching. The Catechism assembled ideas rather than created them, they already existed in other sources (biblical or prior writings of the Church or scholars). Thomas Aquinas and others are cited in the footnotes so at least the core of the idea (that the Bible isn't meant to be entirely literally interpreted) within the Church dates back to their writings. However their acceptance (that is, whether the Church declared these ideas official canon or just valid non-heretical ideas), I can't say when that happened.
> Maybe, if one doesn't take the Bible literally, but as a metaphor? But then again, for thousands of years the Church said we should interpret it literally.
No, the canon wasn't even set thousands of years ago (so there wasn't a single accepted Bible to take literally or metaphorically), and Biblical literalism as a doctrine is a minority doctrine in Christianity that is only a few hundred years old, originating within Protestantism, and mostly became a big deal with the explosion of fundamentalism in the US even more recently than that.
The Catholic Church didn't even think laypeople should read the Bible until fairly recently, one of the main concerns being the danger of naive interpretation, which simple literalism would surely qualify as.
While “literalism” might be close enough for rough grouping, I’ll note that few evangelicals or even (traditional Christian) fundamentalists hold to absolute literalism. The Chicago Statement on Inerrancy is the widely accepted standard, and it says:
> inerrancy does not refer to a blind literal interpretation, and that "history must be treated as history, poetry as poetry, hyperbole and metaphor as hyperbole and metaphor, generalization and approximation as what they are, and so forth."
Evangelicals do hold that the Deity means what He says, even about creation in Genesis. There’s a potential for fact/faith conflict there, but it’s not really logically necessary.
Which is to say, Dawkins isn’t a terribly reliable guide to what believers believe.
It is a thing, and there's evidence for it in certain academic fields. [0] studies this effect in economics, and this would be reason to expect similar things in other fields like maths, CS, and physics where alphabetical surname order on research papers is standard. Modulo a lot of context, replicability issues, and the like (and of course career choices), there's a chance you actually are doing your daughter a tangible favour this way. :)
> Faculty with earlier surname initials are significantly more likely to receive tenure at top ten economics departments, are significantly more likely to become fellows of the Econometric Society, and, to a lesser extent, are more likely to receive the Clark Medal and the Nobel Prize.
> These statistically significant differences remain the same even after we control for country of origin, ethnicity, religion or departmental fixed effects. As a test, we replicate our analysis for faculty in the top 35 U.S. psychology departments, for which coauthorships are not normatively ordered alphabetically. We find no relationship between alphabetical placement and tenure status in psychology.
We took Show HN out of the title. It was an honest mistake.
Since you know the author, maybe tell them to post it when ready and send us an email when it's up? We might be able to put it in the second-chance queue (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there)
Quick note that may be of interest: S² is the mathematical notation for the "2-sphere", aka what we call a sphere in everyday language. I suppose that's explained by this:
> A unique feature of the S2 library is that unlike traditional geographic information systems, which represent data as flat two-dimensional projections (similar to an atlas), the S2 library represents all data on a three-dimensional sphere (similar to a globe).
(S^2 if the superscript character doesn't show up for you.)
> Physiological values are complex in paediatrics. They are more than complicated because although there are published ‘normal values’ which will guide the clinician in knowing whether a child is tachycardic or tachypnoeic, these are in fact reference ranges that were initially based on expert opinion. Although meta-analysis shows these reference ranges to be at least somewhat valid, it is probably safest not to think of them as ‘normal ranges’ at all since much of the data includes children in abnormal circumstances. Indeed, the clinician who relies on these values will by definition be unlikely to have a ‘normal’ child in front of them.
Relatedly, I'd imagine that (akin to the story about choosing what parts of a fighter plane to armour) the worst health emergencies, esp. in children, are the ones where the child does not make it to the ER alive or is either unresuscitable (word?) or deteriorates rapidly and uncontrollably before a diagnosis can be made.
No, generally the parents have to request an autopsy. The provider can always recommend getting an autopsy, or requesting one, but ultimately that decision lies with the parents.
I've seriously considered getting some sort of foot pedal arrangement, albeit mostly for FPS games - I'd love to be able to use one foot to melee attack, and another to activate/deactivate the mic.
I’ve tried repurposing a three-button guitar footpedal for FPS games before.
The connection for the pedal is TRS, with one button being ring, another sleeve, and the last both—so it ended up being useful for only two commands as the last button would be ghosted by pushing the other two simultaneously.
I used the pedal for left and right leaning and with melee in the center, but with the ghosting, I ended up dropping melee and just stuck with using it for only leaning.
I used an Arduino Pro Micro which supports acting as a keyboard and just soldered a TRS socket so I could just use a regular TRS cable to hook up the footpedal.
It’s a bit satisfying once you get it working and the project didn’t cost too much—maybe about $20 (found a cheap used footpedal) and enough games use “q” and “e” binds that I get to use it a bit.
I've never heard of this, can you elaborate?