skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with amp induced comedown can only be described as a sharp onset of malaise that rapidly increases in intensity to the point you feel subdued and hostage to your impulses where normal tasks like flossing your teeth are met with dread and take a ridiculous amount of willpower that is simply overridden by dopamine producing activities such as using a smartphone. This really messed with my sleep schedule cause I could not make it to bed when my brain was held hostage by depleted dopamine neurotransmitters.

The obvious solution is to prep for bed early on meds but why waste that precious, fleeting neurotypical window of mental clarity flossing my teeth when I need it to perform cognitively during the day. This is on 50mg/day

I wish my brain was neurotypical. I'm a slave to these pills now cause stopping now literally leaves you in bed for days and you never really recover and bounce back after 5+ years of dopamine down-regulation in your brain.
A 19th Century Hack of France's telegraph that manipulated error correction
Agreed. Sometimes the simple solution is best so we don't end up working for technology instead of technology working for people.

The lack of interoperability between smart home devices and a consistent communication (and security) protocol remains the most painful part. There are some good devices (open sources and commercial) helping - my $100 Logitech Harmony Hub remote has gotten more done and taken care of small projects.

It's comparable to the wild west that required manual loading of apps onto PalmOS or WindowsCE mobile devices.
I would be interested to see what you say after a couple hundred hours. VR has a very strong novelty effect. I thought it was incredible and amazing the first times I used it. And then, as it became no longer novel, I just gradually stopped.

I'll note that "3D is the future of education!" has a long history. Stereoscopic photos were the future starting in the 1850s. During WWII, the US Department of Defense bought 100,000 View-Masters and millions of reels because 3D content was more effective and engaging for training. But somehow those futures never happened. This one could well end up in the same historical category.
Btw, my WebAssembly emulators here (https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/) work quite well with a 60hz frame update even on mobile devices (some of them are still quite CPU hungry since they're doing a cycle-correct display emulation).

The WebAssembly version uses the following HTML5 features:

- requestAnimationFrame for frame scheduling

- WebGL for rendering (emulator code creates a linear RGBA8 framebuffer, which is copied into a double-buffered WebGL texture, which is then rendered as a fullscreen rectangle)

- WebAudio with ScriptProcessorNode and 2048-samples output buffer size to 'render' the audio (at 44.1 kHz), technically ScriptProcessorNode is deprecated, it works surprisingly well though

- everything is running in the browser thread

- everything is written in C, no dynamic memory allocation, except at startup
This is another example of age-based discrimination. Take a random adult and a random teen and the chance the teenager is going to be more smart, agile, conscious and simply decent are fairly far above zero. There are a lot of decent and stupid people among both teens and adults. There is little reason for people above 13 to have more limited rights than people above 18.
Who uses that stuff in high dosages four times a day?

Sorry but this gov site is not about reality based science. Sadly they are very good at writing so it seems that trying it alone makes you a zombie.

Sorry but why would they do that?
'lets just scare everybody'?
Facts usually come on top eventually and then you become unreliable. Which would be contraproductive as they pretend to protect people by information.

Only in the very last paragraph they sort of admit their numbers are not indicative of any real situation.

It's a drug,don't do them and if you decide to do anyway at least be smart and responsible about it.

Maybe I should write an article how oxygen is to be avoided at all times. Because you know; all subjects which were injected oxygen in the brain died instantly...
What drug? The come-down from Vyvanse is very gentle.

(Really, it lasts long enough for a person of average metabolism that what you experience in the evening isn't even the withdrawal, but just the tail-end of the dose, where there's slightly less of it. To experience the withdrawal, you have to stay up ~18 hours after taking it. Even then, from the few times I've had to stay awake for other reasons, it's still what I'd describe as "gentle"; but it does do interesting things to your dreams when it hits while you're sleeping, until your brain gets used to it. Personally, my dopamine-crashes-during-sleep gave me dreams with the exact visual character of Zdzisław Beksiński paintings. Oddly, no emotional affect associated—such visuals are not scary or unsettling, as they "should" be—they're just... what your brain is doing, trying to suddenly elevate noisy sensory data to salience and ignore the model saying "you're sleeping, that stuff is meaningless." Like an extremely low-light picture causing noise on a camera sensor, crossed with DeepDream processing.)
Then we can feel smug while quietly capitalizing on their volunteer contributions.
Er, if most languages are syntactic sugar over lambda abstraction, APL is syntactic chocolate. :-)
I've been a firm believer for a long time that a lot of IT jobs, including software development, but also all sorts of support and operations tasks, should be treated more like a trade, with more formalized apprenticeship tracks and training. There's value in a traditional college degree, but there's still a lot of practical skills you can only learn on the job. But there's also a lot of potential talent in the field that's not being harnessed because of the lack of a more structured pathway into these sorts of jobs. This sounds like an interesting program, but it's a shame it takes federal grants and private companies to provide something that a robust state education system ought to be covering in partnership with the corporations who would benefit from having these trained workers.
Alcohol was consumed en mass more than it is now. Little kids would regularly drink. Often alcohol was drank instead of water for sanitation reasons. It's been a huge part of nearly every culture for thousands of years.
related: I wonder if there is an emerging market for craft non-alcoholic cocktails in bars similar to the emergence of low-alcohol craft beers (in the ~2% range).
How does your definition distinguish between stack space used for call frames and stack space used for storage of temporaries? It's not possible to capture the difference without an asymptotic property, which wouldn't matter in this case because there's a constant number of function calls.
That seems like a very simplistic view. Life is not boolean, and neither are human beings. Denigrating a particular point of view as "old" and using "taboo" illustrates that you've already closed your mind to alternatives.

Some of the most shocking and suspenseful films ever made had little to no nudity or violence. They did so through good writing and production. Throwing a bunch of blood or boobs on the screen is cheap and easy and attracts like-minded audiences. Making quality entertainment is hard.

Also, thinking that blood and gore and nudity never existed in entertainment before the modern age and that the "old" values were puritanical is simply false. Shock value has existed as long as there have been books printed, movies made, and photos captured. The things published today have nothing on some of the illustrated gore from the 16th century.
I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but ImageMagic can do a lot of things like that. See for example https://imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/

Also, you can use the image library of Racket. You can mix bitmaps and vectorial images. See for example the https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html
>Why can't we trust (young) adults like other countries do?

Because higher drinking age leads to less drunk driving (in the US, at least). That's the reason the drinking age is 21. Unfortunately.

If we had a culture of responsibility around alcohol consumption, we wouldn't have such a problem.

Interesting, some states are raising the age for cigarette purchasing to 21.
GDP is a flawed metric.
Don't leaf us hanging
If you think that is bad wait until you see biologists use software. They do not treat it as a black box, they treat it as a god. Obviously this will not hold for all biologists but the things I have seen horrify me that that is part of science. Output from complex pipelines of software is taken as gospel without any checking because ´who can check all of that´.
Sleep schedules dramatically change with age and a lot of sub conscious stimuli. So, don't try and generalize from what works for any one person.

EX: I have started to get up around 6am even if the room is dark and I am not getting enough sleep. I find it annoying, and nothing changed but my age.
FCC’s Ajit Pai labels California net neutrality law 'illegal'
i will thank you
> Do you happen to know if rs1229984 is linked to any particular group that could make this result problematic?

It seems to me that we would not have to know about the link in order for the conclusions to be unfounded. These MR analyses rest on the assumption that the instrument is not linked to any potential confounders. This seems like a bold and unwarranted assumption when we are talking about an instrument linked to behavior, given the complexity of the chain of events (chemical, biological, and psychological) between gene expression and observable human behavior.

That education red flag involves just one possible confounder out of many that were never considered.
KNX can do basically anything you want from a building (including HVAC, security systems etc), but is just very, very expensive.

Also, most software server front ends for it are horrible. I am actually wondering if building a relatively cheap KNX hardware module for home assistant might just not be the best option in that regard.
That's right. The OP's father assumes [1] teleology and reasons from there to theology. But I'm not saying that if you start with teleology you necessarily end up with theology, only that you can en up there without being irrational.

By way of contrast, it is much harder to rationally get to theology without starting with teleology (though not impossible). So most atheists simply reject teleology out of hand, and then go on to conclude that theism must be irrational. It's not.

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[1] Of course I have no idea whether or not this is actually true. I'm just presuming. But it's a plausible presumption that is true of many religious people even if it happens not to be true in this particular case.
Or... he could not drink at all. That's amazing, tbh, good for him.
Nope, if that's what LLVM says then they're wrong here. Tail call optimization has nothing inherently to do with recursion. Rather, "tail call" means that the call is the last (tail) thing the caller does. "Sibling call" doesn't really make a lot of sense to me either, since most calls are sibling calls, and most of them can't be optimized away like that.

For reference, back in 2001, Microsoft's .NET CIL specs already had [1] a "tail call" prefix, described as follows:

> Tail call prefix [indicates] that a method should relinquish its stack frame before executing a method call.

(LLVM's first release was in 2003.)

[1] https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-S...
I agree that what you describe is a huge problem. I'm not so sure though if that problem can be alleviated by additional tooling. More often than not the cause of this is defective processes and assumptions rather than deficient tools.

DDD, ubiquitous language and bounded contexts in particular, can be enormously helpful with defining better requirements.

I'm not so sure about BDD though in this context. While the notion of the customer / product owner writing specifications in this format in a way developers can use these specifications to test their code sounds great at face value I have yet to see a project where this is done consistently and continuously.

Moreover, some types of requirements can be better explained by using diagrams or UI mockups, which doesn't really fit the BDD paradigm.
I am amused that they considered the PEBL “for girls”. I had a PEBL as the last flip phone I used before switching to a BlackBerry. I appreciated that I could flip it open and start dialing or texting with one hand (it was almost as satisfying as an automatic knife in its mechanics). The PEBL fit better in a jeans pocket than the RAZR did for me.
Interactivity with what? The air?
Also medication.
Stay in one place long enough to see a few cycles and you’ll get nice and jaded. Today’s old and shitty was yesterday’s “proper way”. It can change in only a year or two. “Global” refractors always end unfinished and the code worse for the wear.

Local refractors in code your touching anyways tend to work great though. Since your changing it you’ve built enough understanding to refactor it correctly.
Don't we spend quite a bit of money on safety nets in the US? I believe and often say that our government is inefficient with money. Maybe our programs could use a redesign?
Because the topic was really interesting to me and I wanted to read about it! :( It rarely
happens that I read the title of a paper and immediately want more than a peek. I got excited then got disappointed by a flat joke. Not funny.
I'm from KY. This article is great, but in focusing on these coding bootcamp graduates, it misses the much larger picture of just how much brain drain occurs for actual CS graduates (who, to be fair, are much less likely to be from Eastern KY).

Right now they're taking millions in gov. money to train a small amount of people... but Kentucky graduates many more people with degrees in CS every year, by about an order of magnitude. There are basically no "good" software jobs in the state, so a lot of the good graduates leave to go work at Amazons and Googles. Training local talent is good, but you have to have more jobs than Interapt, OpenText, UPS, and GE to cultivate a local tech industry.

What I think Kentucky should do is focus on brining remote workers back, for now - once there's a strong local talent pool, then you can begin courting businesses, not vice versa. I know a guy who went back to care for parents while keeping his $200k+ salary, which makes you pretty rich in Kentucky terms, and also provides a huge tax benefit to the state. I know lots of people at big west coast tech companies that would like to take their west coast salaries back home, but as is, I don't think any of us would go back to work at Interapt.
Show HN: Calculate and Visualize CO2 Footprint from Google Location History
In that case we need to give up on a previous era bad habit as there’s overwhelming evidence that it’s bad
Built this early alpha that calculates CO2 emissions for road & rail travels based on exported Google Location histories. It's far from accurate or complete, but I'd be curious to learn if the idea excites anyone.
The Roland 303 was made and designed in Japan.
Technopolis by Yellow Magic Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2lOyCxRp5s

Like many things, 'techno' was an international movement built on the shoulders of giants.

But to disregard the 303 from Japan which pretty much defines techno, and Tokyo bands making electronic music with the word techno in their title is silly.

Techno was an international scene from the beginning, and remains so today.

Not to say Detroit, Berlin, and the UK didn't have massive influences - they did.
What, why? Would kvass (0.5-2% abv, from fermented bread ) work then?
> The system we're talking about literally has "GOD -> anything" as an axiom

No, the system we're talking about has purpose as an axiom and God as a (perfectly rational) conclusion.
Will this ever end.
Yeah, OK, so what if I can't fall asleep even if I only slept 4 hours the previous night and I'm so tired I hear things? One beer works :/
I do agree but how is this related to the story? The issue is people under 18 riding the scooters, not people 18+.
> A visual prank exposes an Achilles’ heel of computer vision systems: Unlike humans, they can’t do a double take.

Thanks for giving us ML researchers a TODO. We'll get to work right away.
>Once again, the world of security is complex and surprise features can often be fatal

This. And for me, as an application developer, who is now (willingly) ushered into being a DevOps engineer on the side, it is scary that the tools in the DevOps world are so easily exposing me to security risks, whereas a seemingly much smaller set of best practices on the application side seemed to have been fine when that was all there was to my world.
> I looked into home automation when I had to work on an old house. I looked into KNX, which seemed to be a good standard: adopted by several manufacturers, robust, etc... The biggest problem, beside the price, is that I can't buy the hardware I want (ex: A/C unit) and expect it to connect to my network.

You could integrate KNX into IP, but that would require another server which is either dreadfully expensive, or just way to complex to maintain for an average house.

Also, i don't know how it is in the US, but many buildings around my area lack any proper cabling infrastructure because they are ancient. Things like having cable gutters for ethernet and coaxial connections.

Most have a single coaxial cable coming in from the floor directly into the living room. (because that is where the TV/radio used to be).

These buildings are unlikely to be broken down because of their high value, but renovating them would cost a fortune. Currently no proper standard for wireless home automation exists.
I am the submitter of the article, and I was banned from Wikipedia, but I'm not unhappy about it. I was never active on the site. I joined to present information about the Philip Cross case, and was banned shortly after creating my account because the username I had chosen ('fivefilters') violated Wikipedia's naming rules. You can see the history of that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:K1m_Fiv...

The Philip Cross article I worked on was discussed here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109290 - and it contributed to the Philip Cross account being banned from the area of British politics on Wikipedia.

I posted the link to this article here on HN, having seen it on Twitter. I don't know anything about the author or Gary Null, but the piece covers a lot more which I found quite interesting.
> it's based on a useless logic

It helps a lot of people deal with existential despair and thereby get through the day. That's not useless.
I think it's theoretically possible that one day VR might really be as good. But I also expect to be comfortably dead before that happens.

I'll note that TV was seen as the future of education for quite a while. And that videoconferencing has been the future of interaction since the early 1980s. The first never worked out. And although the jury's still out on the latter, it's undeniable that a) it's not as good, and b) it's taken a very long time for the technology to be reasonably useful.

Historically, people seem to confuse "we don't know what X can't do" with "there's nothing X can't do". Technoutopianism can be useful, in that optimistic people will try things out and discover where the limits are. The current wave of VR is interesting, but it's perfectly possible that it will end up in the same place as 1990s VR: a historically interesting wave of hype that turned out not to deliver much value that couldn't be gotten more easily with other approaches.
For an even more demanding programme: www.topology.org/tex/conc/mathlearn.html
there you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BlfAMitMf4
I was a middle school student probably when I saw your hair demo in Processing. Still looks great!
What about the loss of quality of life from not drinking?

Are those things ever taken into account?

We could a nutritionally determined portion of specific foods every day, sit at home to avoid accidents outside, get out enough for the required sunlight, and exercise the optimal around.

While it's good to know whether a "glass of wine" is good or not, it bad when such research is used to cut off any bad-for-us enjoyment we get.

Besides, it's a bunch of factors which makes the whole "one glass of wine is harmful" a moot point if you can take care of the rest (and why not start with them?).

In the "blue zone" of Icaria for example, one of the places in the globe where people live the most, people regularly drink several glasses of wine per meal and have been doing so for millennia. Yet, there they are regularly at 90+ and 100+. Then again, they're stress free, sleep whenever they feel like (no really, they'll casually open their shops at 2pm or at 3am if they feel like it), and don't eat junk food.
How many people own a microwave though? Most people i know don't have one and would rather spend to money on getting a proper oven.

Microwaves also seem like they have little use compared to things like a stove or oven. Atleast i personally have barely used a microwave when cooking.
Rephrasing the parent's point in a way that I think is not inflammatory:

"Anecdotally, the bootcamp graduates that didn't previously know how to code who I have worked with have provided net negative value - that is the productivity cost to the rest of the team has been higher than the value they have provided - and I think companies who hire them must not be aware of this possibility."

This has not been my experience, but I don't think it is invalid for someone to point out that it has been theirs. Net negative work is definitely a real thing, it just isn't my experience that it is only or mostly a bootcamp graduate phenomenon. I think anyone early in their career is likely to provide net negative value (I sure did). Companies have to make an investment in the value entry level employees will eventually create for them. This isn't new or unique, it's the case for all entry level folks in all professions.
I wish that promession had come to market. The process was supposed to involve freeze drying your remains and then mechanically disintigrating them via vibration. The resulting powder could then be relatively quickly re-integrated by the environment after it was buried or spread on the surface.

The idea really appealed to me, but as I recall the company never got funding to build their first facility.
God+and+the+State
Or a system of transportation that is not cars.
In information theory you can't come up with an encoding that will give you more than a bit of information per bit of source on average. Of course, the information we usually care about is usually highly structured, so we use encodings that compress the highly structured parts we care about and dont care if in that same encoding it would take many bits more to encode some other part. Ever used some sort of library or framework where in the beginning you get a ton of progress made in a small amount of time but when it comes to getting it to do exactly what you want you find your code balooning around the corner cases? Same idea in my opinion.
The experience most people have with the homeless is being harassed by the chronically homeless as they go on about their regular lives, especially downtown. I worked a block from a homeless shelter for a few years, and there was an overdose or knife fight a couple times per day, not to mention people shooting up drugs or shitting on sidewalks.

It's great to hold a moral high ground, but at some point we need to connect with reality. There are people who are chronically homeless and certainly not moral guiding stars, and there are many more situationally homeless people who need help and are perfectly fine folks.
VLC does yes. That said the real issue is that the download part can’t run in background for more than 4 minutes, so you can’t download big videos.
Jesus, are you even serious