skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is dark mode a fashion thing or does it really helps with eye strain? In darker surroundings, I just lower the brightness.
how in the world do FRB's "release enough energy to power the world for three centuries." If we don't know how and when they are happening, how can we measure their energy? Can someone explain?
An author I follow on Twitter had trouble getting his birthday corrected on Wikipedia - it got reverted repeatedly as "original research" when he tried to fix it. Had to launder it through a third party by posting the correct one to Twitter and asking his fans to edit it on his behalf.
Information has never been this universal and dense before. A half century ago the only tragedy or suffering you were widely exposed to was that between the bounds of your daily commute and whatever the local news station decided to talk about for half an hour every day. And negativity from everywhere is leaky, and being exposed to a whole planet of it puts in scope the scale of everything broken in the world in a way that to 99.99% of individuals is untenable to even approach improving.

Theres a reason there is a correlation between intelligence and suicide rates or why if you have someone in your family with down syndrome they always seem happy. The wider your perception the more you realize how little you can actually do to influence it. The narrower the easier it is the less there is to worry about.

Nobody has the perfect answer to this problem of course, but one option I like is to budget time for it. Spend a few hours a week "trying to fix the world" and then resign the other 164 hours to trying to fix and improve yourself. If you have explicitly allocated time for something and budget for it its less invasive in the rest of your life. Hopefully. Doesn't work for everyone.
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>People just plan based on their prior experiences.

That’s... pretty much the definition of ignorant. Being ignorant isn’t bad and being able to recognize what you’re ignorant of it much more important than “not being ignorant”.
Multiple hard refreshes later and it did arrive.
We wouldn't need to wait for Slack to get around to implementing a dark mode interface if we could just use the protocol with clients of our choosing.
> good natural light conditions

Dark modes are for... the dark.
Ask HN: How do you organise your book notes?
I'm curious as to what system you guys use to effectively organise the various notes you write on certain books.

Is it better to use markdown and break down notes by chapter, or to gather all the notes in one place a write a large summary in a pdf format ?

Thanks for your tips
They're certainly quite rude.
It's possible the OP isn't sincere in asking for more ways to be rude.

In a sense, being rude is a signal of power, because if you're rude and not powerful then you'd get punished for being rude. (As you say, I wouldn't wanna work anyone who behaves so rudely, though).
https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...
Haha, can't say I am too shocked!
Isn't this passive aggresive? Would you do this in real life? I feel like this thinking would breed bad culture and is a short-term win at the expense of a long-term relationship.
Or simply provide a preference setting. Sure, if you like it go for it. But I don't, let me turn it off.
Follow the links in the article. For example:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/19/mmr-vaccine-...

The figures are sourced from Public Health England which is part of the UK Government.

Also in the article:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/29/lives-at-ris...

Data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed nearly 90,000 cases and 37 deaths were reported across 48 of the 53 countries in the WHO European region in the first six months of 2019.

The data is coming from reputable sources.

> mostly crazy people

Sadly there's plenty of non-crazy parents who've spent far too much time believing the conspiracy theories and rubbish that originated from Andrew Wakefield's[0] bogus claims. I have a friend who's grandchildren haven't yet been vaccinated because their parents believe this rubbish. These are not crazy people.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
Find other therapists. Search around. Therapists are just people same as any other people. Finding one that clicks with you will help.
May I ask in which school are you studying?
Not sure, that's why I asked. :-)

Maybe confused it with another post? I do that a lot around here... And there seems to be a lot of people today in similar situations.

Regardless, as others have mentioned, the environment they are dealing with is wrong and if HR isn't the solution perhaps legal action that others mentioned would be the way to go.

To the parent poster, I hope things get better soon for you. Stay strong and do your best to get out of there as soon as possible!
If you connect a multimeter to some unknown wiring poking out of your walls, you can get the voltage, even if you don't know what it's connected to.

Specifically to radio astronomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity#Radio_luminosity
For Mac Users:

I had to choose View -> Reload (Command R) form the top menu bar to make this option show up for me.
>I've always wondered what would happen if the power went off for a day or two in Phoenix in August.

The same as the power going off in Minneapolis in the middle of January. It’s treated as a crisis by the utility.
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I'm not. I've been sick for 10 years now. Spent meaningful percentage of my 20ies in bed without having energy for anything. I've been away from work for a month now.

Every doctor that I speak to is in bucketing and hypothesis testing-mindset and none have been interested in the idiosyncrasies of my case. I have a pain in the right abdomen and back that is somewhat digestion related. I've been treated for H.Pylori before. I've done MRI, CT, ultrasound, colonoscopy and bloods and none are suggestive of anything specific.

I've exhausted all of my mental strength powering through this condition for years. I feel like I'm spent and every day is suffering.
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I'm not calling out Lineage as bad, I'm calling them out as unofficial community support, which I am saying is not "strong software support". Lineage is not distributed through forums but Lineage is a fork of CyanogenMod which got its start... being distributed through forums. From some random group of people who chose to use an embarrassing name. Lineage would not exist today if CyanogenMod hadn't been so popular. And the Android software update process was so broken that people had no choice but to download this software, distributed on a forum, from a group of people who willingly chose a wildly unprofessional name for themselves. Does that sound normal? Does that sound okay? Is any other OS distributed in this fashion?

I'm not trying to discredit Lineage. I'm trying to discredit the Android software update process. Lineage makes it better but it is not strong software support if you have to rely on the community to deliver out-of-band security updates.

Lineage is better than nothing, but only because the current Android update process is so broken. If Android was any other OS, getting updates from the hardware manufacturer or the community would both be laughed at. This process only seems normal on Android because the Android update process is so hopelessly broken because the original software vendor refuses to distribute their own updates.
No. I have a chronic degenerative neurological disorder, and I am having a hard time accepting it.

I am gettig professional help for this, and I hope it works out, because it's eating me up.

Thanks for asking.
https://archive.org/details/FinalJudgment
Great question. This is a platform where users post their side projects. They aren't being pulled from anywhere.

The first few users came from a public test on reddit as I wanted to see if this would be something that people could see themselves using. The responses I got were positive, so I went ahead and posted the website on several different (relevant) subreddits before launching on ProductHunt on September 2nd.

I haven't had much of a spammer problem (yet), but there is a spam filter and a cool-down preventing you from posting too much at once.
K2-18b is a possibility, but it's 111 light years away, and the fastest we can go right now is 692 thousand KPH (the Parker probe), or 0.06% of the speed of light, and that is not sustainable over a long journey. Even if we could get to 12% speed of light [2], it would still take close to a millennium to get there (925 years). Theoretically possible in a generation ship, but even more could go wrong with a ship then with a dome colony, and there would be no raw planetary resources to use for repairs.

K2-18b was recently found to have water and be the most likely habitable planet we've discovered so far[1].

The problem with dome solutions (Mars and Moon) is that there is a lot that can go wrong with a dome. Eventually it likely will suffer a catastrophic failure, at which point you hope there have been sufficient redundancies built in and they work. Mars might be terraformed, but there's also the question of should we do that if we've found indicators for the potential of life?

Mars is our best bet though, for migration in the next 200 years, which may be needed at the rate global warming is occurring. Best of course would be to mitigate climate change as much as we can.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/11/world/water-atmosphere-exopla...

[2] https://www.livescience.com/55981-futuristic-spacecraft-for-...
Non-work stress can certainly intrude on work life, and you can help out with that as long as you tread very carefully.

Years ago, I noticed one of my reports had been performing uncharacteristically poorly, often late to work, making sloppy mistakes etc. I dug into it a bit in one of our one-on-one meetings and turns out he had a lot of things going on in his personal life, his girlfriend had been laid off from her job, there was an illness in the family etc.

All we did as a company was give him two weeks off work so he could focus on dealing with things, and he was back to normal, and went on to have a long and successful tenure at the company.

This worked only because we were a very small company, and he and I had a pretty good personal relationship and hung out socially outside of work, so he felt comfortable enough to confide in me given the opportunity.
Is it pedantic? I can't read it any other way, what's 'earliest' supposed to mean?
We use an in-reach for text messaging at our cabin which is in the bottom of a gulch in the rocky mountains.

It does work, but only when a satellite happens to be in the right position. This basically means you have to queue up a message and it will get sent in 5-50 min.
Giving my boss a heads up that I was gonna quit if things didn't change. Things didn't change, so I quit. They had almost no other technical staff so they called me asking to fix "just a couple little things". I quoted my rate at 300$ an hour, minimum 20 hours. They balked. Three days later my former boss calls me and agrees. I ended up billing 80 hours.
Ações na justiça contra Atlas Quantum chega a quase R$1.000.000,00
Agreed, syntax highlighting would be great. I was thinking about something akin to fish's syntax highlighting and completion with the REPL.

I'll take a look at tree-sitter. If I get syntax highlighting for free then I'll take that!
If it's related to climate change, then definitely yes.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...

US responsible for about a quarter of cumulative CO2 emissions, and has been #1 since about 1911.

China is emitting more now, but cumulative emissions are only half as much.
We absolutely need more ways to buy a house without all the rigamarole that causes a buyer to sell at 20% more a year later. Banks and real estate agents already force most people into selling at much higher. What if there was a special kind of property that's good at in-and-out ownership, low friction moves like rentals. Get rid of the bank and agent fees. Build it into the lien.

Startup idea anyone. The demand would be high.
I'm sorry. I hope you can take comfort in my experience that this unhappiness doesn't necessarily last.
This dude's communication style reminds me of Trump.

I don't know enough about people's research on communication styles and strategies, but I would assume Trump took most(?) of his style from someone else.
This is what fuddruckers basically does.
I think it's a fashion thing with a thin veneer of eye strain reduction (since, AFAIK, there's little conclusive evidence dark mode matters here)
Change jobs; you are not a wage slave. I come to work at 8 AM and leave at 4 PM on the dot every day no matter the situation. I can care less about the company I work for because it isn't my prerogative to care, but instead, I am paid to build what they tell me to build, and we exchange my abilities for currency. In no way am I willing to give up my dignity or health in any way in exchange for currency.
This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

which led me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_protests

Its sources are the very articles that are being criticized in this thread.

Wikipedia isn't a news gathering organization. It aggregates information collected by others.
My rule is, whenever I find myself putting things into categories with names that are judgemental/subjective, that's usually a sign that my thinking on the subject is flawed somehow. Calling them "obtrusive" and "unobtrusive" scrollbars is just another way to call them "bad" and "good" scrollbars; it says more about the biases of the author than it does about the scrollbars themselves.
Based on the article, it seems that this is actually an opt-in service despite the title.
The question is about what’s consistent for the user not the application developer
>I hate the mild feeling of discomfort I get when I tell most people I'm a software engineer.

Why do you feel discomfort? The only reason I do is because of a sense of guilt, because it implies I make far more money than the person I'm usually telling who is making small talk with me.
And I'm saying you can't just "get it over with" sometimes because you can't really know what "it" is?

A kid is in middle school or high school or whatever and then 20 years later they are on an employer's doorstep. The tools and technologies that employer uses were not even invented when that kid was in middle or high school. Well, unless that kid's had some additional training in those intervening years, they're probably not going to know how to use the tools that the employer wants them to use. So it's appropriate for the employer to hire, instead, the kid who has had the training during those intervening years.

We currently call most of that training "college". If you want to call it "university", or "post high school", or "adult campus learning", or whatever, then do that if it makes it a bit more palatable. Call it whatever you like, but employers kind of need these kids to have it. And they'll only need them to have it more in the future. That's just the nature of our ever advancing society. That's actually a good thing believe it or not.
Do you have any thoughts on Elixir? I've been playing around with it and Haskell at the same time. Compared to Haskell, Elixir's dynamic type system and impurity make it a lot more practical to get stuff done, in my experience.
"It depends". I've used this when someone is claiming to their boss that we never communicated something, generally in situations where we've been communicating like crazy, but possibly not with them directly, but via emails to the several affected parties.

Generally I assume that the person is just forgetting because they are very busy rather than out to get me, but, nevertheless, you have to defend yourself against that sort of thing. Passive-aggressive in this case is superior to aggressive-aggressive. If you don't defend your reputation, nobody will.
Simple economics, you can't sell pounded sand and you can't sprinkle VC money or use Google's profits to subsidize the world.
Yeah I would think if you could tease out a correlation between degrees-above-average and all-case mortality it would be an interesting and valuable statistic.
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> Get rid of the fees that can push over $100,000 for a single family home in some counties.

It depends on what outcome you wish to achieve. Single family zoning is backwards policy in urban environments.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/11/single-family-zoning-...
Maybe a recent historical precedent that sort of matches is the late 1930's? That of course led to WWII. I wouldn't say it's as bad, but there's similarities.
Abstract:

Statisticians are in general agreement that there are flaws in how science is currently practiced; there is less agreement in how to make repairs. Our prescription for a Post-p < 0.05 Era is to develop and teach courses that expand our view of what constitutes the domain of statistics and thereby bridge undergraduate statistics coursework and the graduate student experience of applying statistics in research. Such courses can speed up the process of gaining statistical wisdom by giving students insight into the human propensity to make statistical errors, the meaning of a single test within a research project, ways in which p-values work and don't work as expected, the role of statistics in the lifecycle of science, and best practices for statistical communication. The course we have developed follows the story of how we use data to understand the world, leveraging simulation-based approaches to perform customized analyses and evaluate the behavior of statistical procedures. We provide ideas for expanding beyond the traditional classroom, two example activities, and a course syllabus as well as the set of statistical best practices for creating and consuming scientific information that we develop during the course.
Kind of. I'm feeling a lot of pressure to perform, but I don't have much urgency (which usually helps me and my procrastinating self). I am in my last year as a Math Undergrad, studying for GRE/Putnam, am running a Game Development startup (only programmer of 4 people), and I do Computer Architecture research (I haven't spoken with my advisor for 3 weeks because I fell behind and felt embarrassed, I'm writing a paper, have all of the relevant data, but hitting a wall in the analysis since I have never formally learned Comp. Arch. in the first place. I have very little context and only surface level understanding). I know I can pass my classes, GRE, etc. by letting things fall by the wayside so that I have more time for other things, but I want to perform well at everything which feeds into an anxiety-driven analysis/planning/shifting gears/paralysis cycle. I've since realized that I only like doing 1 or 2 main things at once in my life, but since I'm not established/behind the curve yet, I feel a need to have a good GPA, good test scores, publications, etc., and I don't have forever to do it when it would best work for my happiness levels. I've been in better places, but also worse ones too.
What is wrong with virtualenv, pip and pip freeze?
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/best as an alternative for a similar purpose. I learned about those two and other undocumented features from https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

You could also subscribe to HN on feed reader with such limitations, https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ and http://hnapp.com/ are two that I have used in the past. e.g. https://hnrss.org/newest?comments=100 and http://hnapp.com/rss?q=comments%3E100 creates a feed limited by number of comments.

In the end I decided RSS wasn't ideal way to follow HN though, and for quite some time I have been using https://hckrnews.com/ almost exclusively to skim through top 10 posts for each day. Or top 20 or top 50%, if you have more free time. Plus I like the table layout, with comments/points in their respective columns.
Can you move south?
Pretty soon they'll have us checking-in at kiosks and then waiting at carousels for our items to (very, very slowly) come out.
Nothing really poignant to say about this, other than thanks OP for posting something positive to read today.
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They do, but that doesn't rebut the fact that they are (recently) commonly used without intelligble meaning.
Not really at the moment, if I'm being honest.

I always have been, generally, which is what makes it so jarring right now.

I'm overworked and jaded at my current job. It's completely demoralizing to see red flags and systemic problems everywhere, bring them up to trusted confidants (and gently to the people who matter), and see nothing done about it. The management seems to be completely divorced from the reality of the situation.

I know I can quit and can probably find greener pastures elsewhere, but imposter syndrome and stress in my home life is grinding me down.

I know I'm competent, I think. I've learned so much being an autodidact, and am ~5 years into my SDE career, but my lack of a proper CS degree always feels like a blemish on the CV when I apply to jobs. This anxiety blossoms into complete fear during the interview process where I freeze up.

In my home life, I feel like I'm the sole provider and I have to do everything. My girlfriend, who I love very much and want to ideally spend the rest of my life with, has an overwhelming phobia of rejection and most likely undiagnosed depression, which is making it impossible to find a job. I work all day/ a lot of nights more recently, come home and have to clean/cook/etc., otherwise I feel like nothing will get done.

I have enormous anxiety about the future, financially, emotionally. How can I provide for two people, two cats, get a house on my current salary, let alone bringing children into the picture, which is what we want more than anything.

I've been leaning on drugs (adderall, kratom, nicotine) more than I should and smoking actual cigarettes again. I feel like I'm a slave to my environment and don't know what to do.

I just want to be happy and have security for my family. I want to pursue my old hobbies (making games, music production), etc. without feeling like they're an escape while everything around me crumbles.

Anyways, thanks for listening.
I'm not sure capitalism depends on evil, good, or bad (ethics, morals).