skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>From experience, this “dark place” is entirely
>self-manufactured by your own mind that is not taking
>instructions from you. Working to address that is the
>way out.

This is a frustrating belief I have come up against time after time from people who cannot seem to understand that their experience isn't everyone's.
Most people I know who live in the dark place have plenty of valid external reasons. I know I do. While my mental state can be influenced by attitude to one degree or another, the root cause are entirely NOT self-manufactured. This is a real problem seeking any sort of care for it since people believe as you have stated either from their own experience of "getting better" from nothing but an attitude or primary situational depression etc, or because others have told them so. It's a universal complaint from those I know who have real issues.
And the burden is on you to prove that you’re not using it. (And then their Watson salespeople wonder why you won’t take their calls)
That has the possibility of working out disastrously if the doctors first recommendation is surgery, when physical therapy (rest + strengthening) ought to have been the first prescription.
This NYT article hints at what it looks like to be under suicide watch: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...
I wonder the same whenever I see animal posts like this. They experience the same shit we do.
Jeffrey Epstein, accused sex trafficker, dies by suicide
I think they beta tested on Pixel phones.
Prepare your own data set for image classification in Machine learning Python
>Seems like most of the world just needs solar to last until the next day

as long as it's not cloudy for a week
An escape room here did a "find the speakeasy" which involved navigating the city competing against other teams. At the speakeasy awards were given for best dressed.

This is the closest I've been to what you described.
Dark Matter May Have Existed Before the Big Bang, New Math Suggests
I agree that nobody needs fast 0-60s but they’re just fun. Now, for the range thing, that’s no different from why you want a fast CPU even though 99% of the time you’re using 1% of its power, or why bridges are built to withstand many times their rated maximum load etc. You want to be prepared to deal with demanding situations. In this case that’s something like your family vacation that you maybe don’t want to buy an extra car for.
In this case yes because then the patient could seek further experts who might be able to identify a cause. By labeling it psychosomatic you are forcing a path of treatment even if it's not the right path.
The trouble with these kinds of disingenuous replies is that nobody can take them seriously.

* You know what a 100 round drum barrel is.

* You know as well as anyone that automobiles exist, and that local laws can easily be circumvented, and hence has little bearing on how well a similar national regulation might work.

* "Significantly less if you remove big anti-gun cities from the picture". I'm sorry, but this is utterly irrelevant. Why would their regulations or lack thereof matter one bit in deciding whether the people killed by firearms in those areas "count"?

* "Murmurs of defensive firearms use instances in the millions annually" doesn't even attempt to sound evidence-based.

Pretending like you don't understand basic facts does not help your credibility. Although I suspect these talking-point replies are not meant so much to be taken seriously or responded to, but to merely decrease the signal to noise ratio in any discussion so as to drown out legitimate debate.

To take the remainder of your comment seriously:

For both good and bad reasons, people tend to take acts of violence, particularly indiscriminate ones, more seriously than, say, drug overdoses, where people, rightly or wrongly, blame the victim. Of course not all gun deaths are blameless, but neither do we want to pretend like suicides are unimportant.

Finally, we do try to take many of those other causes of death seriously. I get the argument of proportionality (we should spend 10x the effort on drug overdoses as we do on non-suicide gun deaths, I guess?), but unfortunately these stats are usually used in an attempt to say "nothing can be done".

No, something CAN be done. We can and should do better to prevent easily-preventable deaths -- whether or not the victim shares some blame in the death.

If we can save a few hundred or a few thousand lives, is that not a worthy goal? We are on a perennial march to make automobiles incrementally safer, but we haven't insisted that everyone climb into bubble-wrapped cocoons. Our regulators walk a line that sometimes errs to far this way or that way, we fight about it online, we argue with our representatives about it, but overall, progress is being made and lives are being saved.

I'd like to do the same here.
> Is there actually a semantic difference between no sequence and an empty sequence?

It really depends on your function, but you might want to have the function behave differently if given an empty list rather than no list. One very common case for doing that is when you want to facilitate unit testing of a function.

> Not sure what you're referring to with get() in a dictionary.

A very common case, in which you don't care if the element is not present or it is a "False" element.
> Consumer tech is designed to be addictive

When scanning google news, I skip the entertainment and sports sections, because I have no interest (and they're really just advertising). I also skip the "tech" "news" section, because it's just another entertainment section.
I've experienced the strip mall thing you're describing. But we have some incredibly themed and customized rooms here. I wish you could have experienced one of those instead.
> If all goes according to plan, IBM forecasts a sales bump of 2% over the next 5 years, but it will take 2 years before Red Hat contributes to earnings.

These are not good projections. It's really hard to understand how RedHat acquisition makes any financial sense whatsoever if this is the actual effect. RH annual revenues were $3.36B for FY2019. [1] That's a tiny fraction of IBM's current revenue.

[1] https://investors.redhat.com/news-and-events/press-releases/...
We can't expect layman and ordinary people to understand the real consequences and implications of the misinformation and misleading from government and corporations involved in surveillance.

We on HN and every one that really understand the matter will need to keep fight for ourselves and others.

But I believe trying to find a answer to your question a great exercise that contributes very much. I just don't have a good answer.

Maybe something like, they cant even keep our PII safe... what di you think will happened with our key
https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours

Are they?
It was extremely useful for me in Tokyo, where the streets are completely unlabeled. The big win is using image recognition of buildings over pure GPS direction finding, since that can get turned around in the caverns.
I agree. I see the Model 3 as a Honda Civic that just happens to drive better than a $250,000 car from ten years ago.

The Model 3 is an extraordinary car, but the most extraordinary thing about it is that it's available to anyone for <$50k.
"..cover about 20 minutes of world electricity consumption..."

That seems like a meaningless metric. No one is designing a global battery system to power the entire planet. What matters is how battery systems integrate with generation systems.

"People assume the reducing emissions would stop climate change..."

Why do you assume people assume this?
> I have heard from people attending both events (DEFCON and CCC) that CCC is much more diverse in topics and what's happening at the events.

Yeah, I think the CCC events, at least recently, got very far into the mainstream and politics and strayed quite a bit from their roots, adding more and more that seemed intent of encouraging newcomers vs being interesting for those that have been involved longer. That's a valid direction, of course, but it feels less like a hacker convention and more like a general mainstream somewhat-tech-related convention, like re:publica with a few tech talks thrown in and set in december.
Schools turn into parkour training gyms. Might help against youth obesity (probably saving more lifes than the shooter protection aspect...), but excludes students with disabilities.
Not sure about the S, but the 3’d big screen looks really goofy to me and was a definite factor in my decision to wait for more electric car competition.
What does it mean for a black hole to spin at the speed of light? Which point on it spins at that speed?
It's not super common either. He was a very high profile criminal, but also a potential witness against very high profile people. Special precautions should have been taken.
Japan Is Facing an Unprecedented Population Meltdown
There are Python idioms for exactness, and idioms for truthiness. When in a situation where it's possibly ambiguous to test truthiness 'if x is None:' or 'if x is True': is completely unambiguous.

Most code doesn't need that and the truthiness nature of various data types is helpful in writing clear code.
There is a balance between "every clue goes to a problem" and just too many clues that aren't part of the problem and don't even add to the narrative of the story.

I like the ones that reward you for exploring a little more but guide you towards what is solvable.
> Adding information on railroad crossings to mobile apps would “provide road users with additional safety cues and ... reduce the likelihood of crashes,” the NTSB wrote...

I know this is going to sound like victim blaming, but are RR crossings really that hard to see? Surely the apps are not the problem, but maybe from the people racing the train and losing? And I get that some crossings might be hard to see until you're right there, but how is this tech's problem and not an infrastructure problem? IOW, if I wasn't using a maps app with added information, I would be in more danger, so why doesn't infrastructure fix it?
Okay, my apologies. I accept the correction.

Do you want to respond to the rest or just let it stand?
I would argue that you can 1. assume all prisoners are guilty and 2. not care about their welfare (both assumptions that I disagree with) and still support prison reform on the grounds that it reduces criminality in society overall.

Look at the current state of American prisons. We crowd prisoners together and make them feel angry, scared, weak, and ignored by the law (except when it hammers them down) for years on end. That makes it much harder for them to integrate back into normal, law-abiding society.

We should be trying to make it as easy as possible for a convict to eventually leave criminal life behind. But our current system does the opposite.
Wow, reading this made me realize how not-unique my experience was. I too learned to read a Thomas Map long before I could drive. I too helped navigate from the back seat (and then the front seat). I too knew what Thomas page my house was on, and my grandparents, and my school, etc. And in fact, I too rode in the back of a Mitsubishi Galant!

I also agree with the author -- people today are losing their spacial sense of the geography around them. With mapping apps they no longer get the greater context. There's nothing like a huge map that's 48 inches in each direction that gives you both granular detail as well as an overall picture.

You can't get that from an app. You either have detail or you zoom way out.

When I bought my first car in 1999, the very first thing I did was buy an SF Bay Area Thomas Guide and study it. I knew that I was going to be driving in the Bay Area I better learn all the major streets and freeways. I don't think new drivers today do that. They just rely on apps.

To be fair, I too usually rely on apps, but it's my extra knowledge that allows me to use the map app as a tool to enhance my driving, instead of as a crutch necessary to get around.
FBI Investigating Jeffrey Epstein's Suicide
To bring online service such as Jira etc. under one platform for easy access
Because the designer wants to decide how you experience their game. I prefer things that are more open ended where one can make more choices.
Strange article. It assumes that somehow having rail crossings marked on navigation systems would reduce motor vehicle to train accidents, if only the tech companies would implement it.

Do drivers really watch their maps to see upcoming hazards? I just glance once in a while to see how far until my next turn and which direction it will be.
I had a friend who worked at a startup which was acquired by IBM.

They managed to piss everyone off about 6 months after inserting IBM managers.

Typical "You're a startup. We're IBM. Our way has stood the test of time, so we'll help you out by implementing it here" stuff.

And I don't argue IBM has learned a lot of incredible business and management lessons over the years.

But you can't give a perfect playbook to someone of average intelligence, tell them they're the smartest person in the room because of the playbook, then turn them loose with other smart people and expect good things to happen.
Please re-read my comment, you clearly didn't:

1) Show HN can't be used because there are written rules that we're respecting

2) We don't need any special treatment

3) There's no gaming involved. There's just a form with 2 options and we chose the most favorable for us, explaining why

I'm afraid I can't cope with unwritten rules, because there's no way for me to guess them.
Roughly 30% of the population owns guns, and has everyday experience with people owning assault rifles who aren't a harm to anyone. The gun culture is the locus of a lot of important values in the US -- service to the country, acceptance of danger, self control, precise and accountable behaviour -- and gun owners are overall more law abiding than the general population. Gun owners haven't done anything wrong and don't see why they need to be punished.
You're probably right, but that's really nothing good. Our models are poor and despite not knowing where irrecoverable tipping points lie exactly, we blast full steam ahead with our emissions.
I'm sorry, but at least in the UK and on the NHS, fibromyalgia is very much a diagnosis of "go away".

I had to battle with my neurologist to get a skin biopsy, despite very clear symptoms of neuropathy, and a very clear trigger.

He eventually ordered it, very reluctantly. It came back normal, which for him for conclusive proof that I had fibromyalgia.

When I asked him about fibromyalgia, it was immediately clear that he literally had no idea about it - when I said that it disproportionately affected women, he actually laughed at the idea. When I said I didn't have pain in the tender points associated with fibromyalgia, and I didn't have flare-ups that are typical of fibromyalgia, he just filibustered. It really was his way of saying "I dunno, you're probably a wacko, go away".

I did a lot of reading of papers, and was convinced I did have small fiber neuropathy. I requested a copy of my medical notes and discovered 2 very interesting things - firstly, the neurologist was indeed convinced it was all in my head, that no physical cause would ever be found, and he'd influenced and biased other medical professionals I was involved with by telling them this at every opportunity. Secondly, the biopsy sample had been taken from the wrong place, and had later gone missing - there were no results!

I insisted on another biopsy, and sure enough it found small fiber neuropathy in my arms and legs. He didn't even apologise for what I see as clear negligence.

In the author's case, he had a biopsy diagnosis from the US, but said the UK docs didn't accept that, and he doesn't even have any pain meds - he absolutely should outright dismiss that in anger!

My advice for the author: you're in a profession where you can afford to self-fund private healthcare - put aside principles and just pay to see a private neurologist. If needed, they can repeat a skin biopsy, and you will absolutely not be left without any pain meds.

For neuropathic pain, the best pain meds for most people are Gabapentin, Pregbalin and tricyclics. If those don't work, SNRIs such as duloxetine, might. Opioid medications don't work well on neuropathic pain for the majority of people, but can help some, especially if nothing else works. Sativex (basically a cannabis tincture) also helps some people, and is very easy to get privately now if you have proven SFN (let me know if you want to try this and I'll tell you where to get it).
Why I Use Fish Shell over Bash and Zsh
I think this is more of a new thing. I've talked about this stuff with people who are now in their seventies and eighties, and they basically seem to get that animals suffer in substantially similar ways to humans.

The difference is that humans are broadly capable of understanding the moral consequences of their actions, and in the west we seem to have developed the concept of showing mercy to animals (stunning and sticking rather than bleeding animals out through the neck while conscious).

While some animals have more complex proto-moral behaviour, they would not be able or willing to extend these same courtesies to us, in the reverse circumstance.
> It's insane that the Russians are testing this thing over their own territory.

It would also be insane if the Russians were testing this thing over someone else's territory.

It's just insane.
An interesting flipside of the door problem is what experience is the mapmaker envisioning? In his first example, why is the default assumption that a player would WANT to enter a map full of enemies?

Usually this comes from a half-remembered fun of perfectly balanced battles, surrounded on all sides but managing to wade through them. There is an interesting parallel to game motivations and fiction plotting: the character needs motivation to advance into uncomfortable situations, either pushed from behind or pulled by desire. When you think along those terms, everything else falls into place naturally.
Code can have elements of speech, but it’s primarily functional, and that functionality can be regulated. A building can be art, but that doesn’t mean building codes can’t be used to e.g. require parking accommodations.
SFN sufferer here, can confirm that there is no treatment. There are some promising research chemicals, but we are a long, long way from seeing anything available.
In the US we really need to figure out what our prisons are for. Are they for punishment or rehabilitation? Do we just want to impose pain on people that have done bad things, or are we trying to change them into people that wont do those bad things anymore? Punishment might feel good to some people on a visceral level, but what good does it do?
Because you can only choose from houses that are for sale, when you're buying.
Silver Lake (a private equity firm) took Dell private in 2013.

Interestingly, the company didn’t use buybacks to become private but it did use buybacks to become public again last year [1]. It was done by buying back some piece of its business that remained traded in the stock exchange following the acquisition of EMC when Dell was private [2].

[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/77848-dell-about-go-public-sec...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-10-13/dell-w...
The right to bear arms is also part of the 1689 English Bill of Rights. It is a really old right, dating back to the 900s in various forms on the British Isles.
I understand the motivation behind the NTSB recommendation, but think I net out siding with the app developers here. The last time I checked, the overwhelming majority of active at-grade rail crossings are well-marked (and usually controlled by lights/gates in populated areas). Adding potentially confusing clutter to apps feels like it may in fact compound the problem if people mistake the tracks for roads/intersections.

Obviously, if apps are routing people down rail tracks, that's a big problem, but it doesn't seem to have been what happened here. Expecting developers to try to solve for every possible dumb human scenario doesn't end well.
The District Weekly – August 10th, 2019 – District0x
The GP didn't give 'advice' so much as they said "your medical records? ha, right... you're crazy." And then proceeded to shut down all avenues to further care and pain management.

Honestly it sounds like the GP is so cynical about the hot garbage they perceive UK healthcare to be that they basically said "please go away so that our utter inability to help you doesn't weigh on my conscience any further... oh thank god you invoked the loophole that lets me kick you out now and pretend it's all really your fault"
Wow that's interesting. I've never heard of this in Perl or Ruby, and I always thought of taint analysis as static rather than dynamic.

Though I don't have experience with it, maybe one reason it isn't used is because of false positives?

For efficiency reasons, Perl takes a conservative view of whether data is tainted. If an expression contains tainted data, any subexpression may be considered tainted, even if the value of the subexpression is not itself affected by the tainted data.

Has anyone used this? Is the runtime overhead always there, or only when you turn the taint mode on? It seems like it would have to occupy some extra space in the string objects all the time? (Although I guess if it's literally a single bit, it can come for "free" because of padding)

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FWIW here are some references on static taint analysis:

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/8/238344-scaling-static-...

cites https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec06/tech/full_papers/x...
Trust is very important is this scenario. As am also building an app that woud allow u buy safely from an untrusted person.
I get really stressed out driving without knowing the area/route ahead of time. With so much poor city planning out there, whenever I wing it I tend to end up in dead ends or winding cul-de-sac heavy areas where you can see where you need to be across a few feet of someone's yard. I've never really adapted to using phone/gps nav either for some reason as it feels so distracting and myopic. I still only use GMaps etc for preplanning. Give me a paper map and orientation to major streets any day.
>Regardless of whether you think the advice from the GP is sound or not, the best way to get a doctor to listen to you is to listen to (and follow) their advice first.

It's been shown that it's very hard to prove that you're not mentally ill if you're labeled as such. Getting treatment just means you'll be put on essentially random psychiatric medications (which have their own side-effects) or have to spend years in useless therapy (while your actual disease may progress).

If a doctor isn't willing to do the proper testing or evaluation the first time then they won't do it a second time either but just claim you haven't gotten the right psychiatric treatment yet.
I guess you primarily point, rather than type?
Wtf.

Ok thanks for posting. I will never use any RedHat product ever again.
Because it's true. Whatever bad things have happened since, their per capital gun death and murder rate have dropped.
Yeah; my old GMC had a carburetor and the fuel economy is the same as the current replacement, which is the same size, runs half the cylinders (unless it needs all 8) re-levels into aerodynamic mode at speed, and has shutters that close the radiator grill when possible. (The new one is fuel injected, etc).

I’m not sure what fuel injectors and electronic ignition got the industry, but it wasn’t real world fuel economy.

Oddly, even current year light hybrids are advertising similar fuel economy as the old truck. I’m guessing it isn’t a technical problem....