skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what Myspace bulletins were. Your friends posted a bulletin, and you saw it. End of story.

Likewise with Facebook when they first introduced the newsfeed. It was literally just a feed of recent activity as far as I remember.
Related, Why do Nigerian Scammers Say they are from Nigeria?, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
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Wow. Busted on wire fraud and money laundering. This is the first I’ve heard of an arrest for this kind of scam. I always assumed it was too small time for law enforcement to bother with.
This is brilliant. I will be in touch with respect to some design tasks that need done on OpenEMR!
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I hear you. A lot of this is based on opinion; you find the duplication good, I find it near-unbearable. :)

One little objective thing though:

> but writing an IDE that doesn't have immediate type information for everything in scope will be more complicated. Some may even say this might be impossible to accomplish via static analysis. Because of this the development of things like the RLS are much more difficult.

The compiler is static analysis. If the compiler can figure it out, then so can any other tool. And in fact, the RLS works by asking the compiler directly, so it's not actually any harder. Well, there has been some refactoring needed within the compiler to support this, but it's the same interface as incremental re-compilation (which needs to ask the same questions) so it was gonna happen anyway.

I do think that IDEs are a way to split the difference here; you can hover over people or plusOnes and see the type.
A lot of these "formulas" become way easier to understand once you've derived them yourself (a few times), just as a heads up. Memorizing mathematics, if you care about taking it seriously for the long term, should be done at a minimum.
My battery is easily removable and has a handle. When you are riding a bike you usually don't carry stuff that you have to use your hands to carry. I always have a backpack. In any case I always have at least one hand available to carry other stuff.

I charge the battery in my entry at home every day, but I could probably charge it only once or twice a week and that would still be sufficient.
I really like the Nigerian Prince writing style in the same way I admire a good stack smashing exploit. So I think high school writing teachers should assign these letters as reading/writing exercises the way a Berkeley 61C kind of class should assign stack smashing as a problem set.

You learn a little about style, voice and a convincing argument from these letters. Writing one forces you to step out of your self. It also inoculates you to a degree.

I have been known to reply to friends' emails in Nigerian Prince style. ALL CAPS. FULL STOP.
my faith is that there will be a revival for this internet just like vinyl. I I dream it will be very based on physical location. Kind of a mix of mastodon with localwiki.
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Hmmm, never heard of adding NAC. And do you supplement magnesium too?

Your talking about things I’ve never heard of before, this does sound advanced. Any other things on your stack?
Interesting stuff. I was diagnosed with ADHD 12 years ago (after undergoing testing because I suspected I might). I tried various medications and after several years found that Adderall XR worked best. Tolerance is real, though, and I’ve had to increase my dose over the years, but I take half doses some days and skip when I can, which subjectively seems to help.

The symptoms are definitely the sort of thing everyone can identify with to some extent. But I think the key detail in the definition of ADHD is that it’s a “disorder”. In other words, these symptoms are normally distributed but if the combination of them occurs often and causes distress to the patient and/or other people, then it’s real. Two people with exactly the same symptoms but different life situations or jobs such that one experiences distress and the other none should be diagnosed differently. Not everything can or should be reduced to objective ratings.

I’d also like to echo the observation that the restrictions and hurdles involved in getting an ADHD diagnosis and in acquiring stimulant medication for ADHD are seemingly designed to vex the ADHD sufferer far more than a neurotypical individual. I used to have to, once a month, call my doctors office to ask for a new prescription, then physically go there to pick it up, physically deliver it to the pharmacy, and then physically pick up the medication when it was available. Which isn’t always right away since Adderall is so commonly prescribed (and because my health insurance has an insane restriction that only covers the brand name—but that’s a different story). That’s three or four steps not required for the vast majority of medication that are each easy for an ADHD sufferer to forget, put off, or otherwise screw up. Laws have changed where I live recently so that I only have to deal with the doctors office once every three months but the physical delivery is still a requirement. Thankfully I live near the doctors office and have a flexible job. Most people aren’t so lucky.

So ironically it’s far easier for folks without ADHD to deal with getting Adderall than it is for those of us with the disorder. C’est la vie!

Edit: I also wanted to mention that I’ve found that I’m actually much more agreeable and less irritable when I’m on Adderall than not. My family has witnessed the difference and told me as much, and I feel it too. Whether that’s a direct effect of the stimulant or a secondary effect of the behavioral changes it engenders I don’t know but it’s worth noting that the potential personality changes aren’t all negative.
I see what you're saying, but I think it could stave off a lot if a cop visited your house, looked around, and verified that you're not Walter White. If the 911 call came in, I'd hope the local PD would be a bit more likely to think "isn't that the nice scoggs guy we visited last week and not the bomb maker the person on the phone is claiming?" I'm sure they'd still come and investigate, but hopefully not with guns blazing.
Oh yes I was just kidding.

Can we assume you must be kidding too when you use the phrase "Normal CPU architectures"?
I believe you mean "100% of inhabited Poland", and even then you may be wrong. Check this map: https://www.nperf.com/en/map/PL/-/-/signal/ - there are plenty of spaces with gray "no coverage" dots for every operator. The problem is when you have bad GSM coverage in some unfortunate spot even in a big city - you may just can't solve it. And, by the way, there's a habit to place utility meters in basements, where GSM coverage is much worse.
If your ebike is a Brompton or some other kind of folder you can of course fold it up really easily and use public transport to extend your range.
I also find that, for things like cookbooks and guidebooks, Post-it notes and the like work more effectively than bookmarks do. Pretty much the only time I buy those types of books in ebook format is when I find them for free or very cheap.
Proof of work gives you spam resistance basically. Add a computational cost to do something to make it computationally expensive to do. Eg ddos protection, your browser needs to solve a hashing problem to proceed.

It allows bitcoin to be decentralised (unordered message passing, eventually consistent nodes, no on off switch, no single point of failure) trust-less (no authority to complain to who can arbitrate or make changes), and resilient to attack .. all of this: in consensus on mining new blocks, in immmutability of the transaction history, in releasing new coins into the system at a predefined rate. To name some.
I do this all the time. I have been diagnosed with ADHD, but I'm not on any medication for it. I think you're confusing the treatment and the disease.
Of course the scenario features a homeless man, rather then some well dressed white male in a suit. Gotta teach the police to enforce based on stereotypes, right?
100 watts would turn it back into a manual bike with some electrical assist. There's a place for that, but it's clear the author was looking for something more.
I started taking Modafinil about 4-5 years ago and my only regret is that I didn't start earlier.

I live in Europe so you can forget about amphetamines/adderall basically, only thing you'll get here is Ritalin and even that not as easy as you might think. Modafinil is easy to get on the internet though. If I lived in the US, I would likely be on Adderall I'd guess.

It helped me so much that I wouldn't have completed studies and got my current job if I wasn't on it. I know, because I still remember the struggles I've had before (and over time learned that I am not alone, that many, many people suffer from ADHD-PI or ADHD-like symptoms and all think it's just them...).

Also, fuck everyone trying to tell people that "eat better, sleep more and do sports" will fix ADHD-PI. You should totally do all of these if you aren't already, but it's not fixing shit. Medication works.
> from the dawn of literature in ancient Greece until well into the Industrial Revolution it was customary for us to snooze for a few hours, wake and toddle around doing chores in the middle of the night, and then go back to bed until morning.

I've read this a few times. I think it may not necessarily be a bad thing that we get all of our sleep in one continuous block. It may have been as vestigial behavior from our ancestors -- fearing predators and other threats.

The advent of artificial light has brought lots of benefits but it clearly has some big drawbacks wrt sleep.
Apple allows the same thing: email appears to come from apple.com, has Apple and iTunes logos, and arrives in an icloud.com account. Why? It happens to my dad all too often and he's even clicked on the linked. He only became suspicious when it asked for his social security number.

This is not about being gullible. This is about phishing emails being just convincing enough, and the email and web browser eco system not taking the problem seriously enough. Apple certainly has the engineering expertise to prevent this particular instance on their end, but no one's ready to throw in the towel and embargo any email containing a user facing URL that differs from the underlying HTML link for that URL.
In school, did you ever do the "give instructions to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich" activity? I'm guessing not.

I'm willing to bet you could have a video with transcript and pictures of the user's exact home set up and many people still couldn't figure it out. You are dealing with people who still don't understand why you don't have to double click links since they have to double click apps and don't know the difference between Google, the Internet, and Internet Explorer.

People are often stuck with modes of thought and operation from when they were younger, and for many, that was pre-computer. At work, we got a hand written letter asking for support setting up their account because they were having trouble with their email that their daughter set up (despite ample support options on the site).
Normally this is a valid discussion to have, but I don't think it has any merit here. The projects analyzed were launched in 2016. You're suggesting that a statistically significant number of people completed a project centered around a concept as fast-moving and heavily researched as blockchain could be feature-complete and bug free in under a year and a half. I'd believe that maybe a dozen projects like that exist, but not nearly enough to affect these numbers.

The bigger issue here is how many of those 26k projects are dead-end forks for playing around.
Yeah, that's just ridiculous. You can cycle 20-25km/h without catching a breath if you are even in decent shape
Well then you seem to agree with me? I'm quoting experience casually reading various articles in my lifetime regarding the machines. Again, I am not a scholar in this field.
Let's say you weigh 70kg. The 7kg lighter bike only saves you less than 10% weight overall but a 300W motor easily multiplies your power.
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The Legacy Code Rocks podcast is pretty good. They have a nice community on Slack too: http://legacycode.rocks
I'm on my second converted (bafang) e-bike, been riding about 4000 KM the past two years all year (Norway). I love it! I use it as my main means of transportation, both to work and for other transport needs.

My first one was a cheap/old 26" dirtbike with hydraulic brakes. It was OK but the front shock and relatively skinny wheels were a limiting factor.

My second bike is a mid/high quality 27.5" dirtbike with a good front shock and good hydraulic brakes. And it's a really good bike all year. I highly recommend getting fairly large wheels with wide tires and a good front shock for a conversion bike.
Mathematical picture language program
If you have good insurance (so most people here that work full-time jobs in tech), then you should be paying almost nothing for Vyvanse.

If you don't have insurance, then contact Shire's affordance help or use one of those prescription assistance companies that handles it for you. I don't have insurance and I pay $35/mo to a company that got Shire to give me a free voucher for my 3-month prescription.

Just wanted to point that out to others.

Also, it's ridiculous that things like GoodRX and 3rd party assistance programs are viable business models.
I wonder if sth. like an electric Vespa would be feasible. You would be able to pack in more battery than an e-bike, but the last mile would be a problem because you can't just pedal the rest of the way.
I agree, LPWAN is a better solution and this is almost exactly its raison d'etre, but the cost isn't really that much more. They're basically using GSM as an LPWAN substitute. GSM radios cost peanuts and the data costs would be pretty low since they don't need to transmit a lot. Plus, low power isn't that important since these devices are connected to mains.

> Maybe NFC-like tech, when the host device is installed in a car, which drives around the block once a day/week.

This is how my meter works (in the US) and is the same as described in the article. The meter broadcasts on the ISM band every few seconds and somebody in a car drives by while a scanning device records. Still faster than having somebody on foot walking around but I can't help but think a hub system like LoRaWAN might work better, so that no person has to go out on patrol.
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that's also assuming from your house to your final destination, the combination of battery range, leg strength, and public transportation is sufficiently diverse to get you where you want to go.

I live near the mountains, and you need a vehicle to go into the mountains. riding an e-bike into the mountains and then relying on muscle power to move the heavy bike is not realistic.
If pieces of a codebase need to be changed, I break it into a few general steps (varies depending on specifics):

1) Look at the code and examine what it would take to make it testable.

2) make tiny, safe refactorings to prepare the code to be tested -- only if you are absolutely certain these changes can cause no side-effects (usually I'll rely on tools to help me do this, just to increase the confidence level). If you can safely extract related code into appropriately small & related files / objects, that can be a great start.

3) Put the existing code under tests. Write tests around that code -- preferably unit tests that exercise the legacy code, as written, to verify its behavior.

4) refactor the code that the tests are using to represent a cleaner codebase -- maybe you extract some objects / functions.

4) Write new tests to demonstrate the desired changed behavior. Write them as if you're writing them for a brand new codebase.

5) Make the code pass those tests. Some old tests may fail -- if they represent the old requirement, you can delete them. If they don't represent the old requirement, you know you have a bug.

Repeat this process for each piece of the application that needs to be changed. NOTE: In a legacy app, you sometimes have to make peace with the fact that some of the app in production will remain legacy, untested code. If it doesn't need to change, then you don't necessarily need to sink a huge amount of time trying to refactor / put all the code under test. Get in the habit of doing it whenever you need to make a change (and factoring in that time into any estimates, etc.) -- over time, the cost of a change will hopefully go down as you pay off that technical debt.

If you're trying to figure out what the cost of change will be, sometimes you can use static analysis to look at a codebase and show potential issues for a given section. Using such tools can sometimes help you understand how heavy of a lift it will be to modernize the code.

As has been suggested, "Working effectively with legacy code" is a guide book here. You'll likely also want to seek out language-specific material about refactoring, unit/integration testing patterns & tooling, etc.

Good luck!
Taiwan has a growing physician shortage …

This does not seem like a positive lesson.
I've been getting interested in e-bikes recently. Work is 15km away, but I do weight near 0.1 [t] :)

Hows the battery holding if you carry extra weight? How much does the total setup, you included, weights?
They really aren't though. Anyone who knows your address could swat you anytime, and the reason most people are safe is merely not being an interesting target for those people unstable enough to do it.
> I work on tooling for a living, and have in fact tried to contribute back to babel but unfortunately there's so much noise and traffic that there's just as good a chance that your PR is stuck in limbo forever than being merged or even reviewed.

I agree it's a two way street and not all maintainers want to be "purely" what people consider a maintainer role unlike me - but it's a lot of responsibility on their part to have to look at every PR in a certain amount of time. I think contributors could also do more to ask and get involved although it will take more energy on both sides parts: like doing a hangout/video call etc even though it feels like people either maintainer or contributor just think making a PR suffices to get something merged when a lot of times it is so much more.

I think what I'm saying is that if you do get the time to make a PR and if employers allowed it, they should also allow for the time it takes to get through the noise and traffic by helping out with maintenance, not just the bug fixes, or that we need a priority kind of thing so that maintainers/contributors see effort from one another to make it better. Yeah it's definetely not that simple but I think we need more people/companies trying it out to really see what the problems are then just talk about it.
Ah sorry, I omitted some details in my tentative "plan" - I was not going to use the Kindle app to read technical books on iPad, but use the iPad along with something like a Safari Books Online subscription. At least on my laptop I have been fairly happy with the SBO formatting so I am hoping it might work well on iPad as well for a portable reading and note-taking setup.
Does anyone have any suggestions on finding CS papers worth reading beyond those papers listed here?
> You are correct that Marx predicted a brief transition period between capitalism and true communism

No, he didn't predict (at least, not in any of his public works) that the socialism phase would be brief.

> which of course is not what ever happened.

But, then, even if that was Marx’s prediction of what would occur if his program were adopted, Marx’s programs has never been applied, only Lenin’s which, despite claiming ideological continuity with Marx, applied to different starting conditions and employs different methodologies.

> But his communism is supposed to be a utopia, which is what I said.

What you said was he predicted a rapid and direct transition from the capitalist condition to a communist utopia; both the rapid and direct parts are false.

> Let me add that the vocabulary is not consistent here. Sometimes leftists refer to communism as a form of socialism, sometimes they are spoken of as two different systems.

There are different definitions of “communism” and “socialism” that apply in different contexts, but they are pretty consistently used. There is the definition of ideologies, in which communism is a specific form of socialism, and there is the definition of politico-economic systems within the Marxist theory, in which socialism and communism are different systems.
I wish they'd figure it out, since in their monopoly position they have control of authors' livelihood.

Anecdote: My PDF-based (too many tables+figures for reflowable) ebook about programming Z80-based arcade games was recently pulled from the Kindle store for "quality issues" despite good reviews. KDP gave me no explanation, path to improvement, or ability to appeal. I continue to sell the print book.

OTOH, I have a similar PDF-based ebook on Atari 2600 programming which is selling pretty well, using the same LaTeX template.

Meanwhile, a cornucopia of tentacle unicorn erotica continues to be available for purchase on Amazon. This experience is a bit disheartening, and I question whether I want to continue to participate in this ecosystem, at the whim of an unaccountable gatekeeper.
Given the age of this creation,the era of crystal radio[1] as a power source would be my first leap-to conclusion, whilst not enough to get it spinning from a standstill, enough to maintain motion once at speed from an initial hand-spin.

How could you test this - place in a faraday cage.

If that kept it running then my next thought would be some form of dry-pile battery[2], which is equally old enough technology wise and also proven to last many decades [3].

But certainly a fun puzzle to ponder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamboni_pile [aka dr-pilebattery]
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell [example of dry-pile battery operating for decades]
I did both drugs and Everquest in highschool and I have to say I would rather walk through the Qeynos Hills than the other option.
> It felt like it was made of cardboard. Helpful as a temporary consumable, and probably extremely recyclable.

It might've been, some of their desks are made like this: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/images/gb-img-fy15/ikea-board-on-f...