skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 weeks and 1900$ - maybe he gave up too soon.
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Or even "can you fix my printer?"
Excellent news. I know this worried a few people, and not having them would remove my major reason for using Firefox on mobile.

It's a shame it's going to be months until they get there, but hopefully I can continue with the current Firefox on Mobile until then.
> I also didn't experience anything like that with psilocin (mushrooms).

A guy once told me that he was suffering from a severe form of HPPD for months. It was slowly driving him crazy, but the symptoms disappeared immediately after he consumed psilocybin.
> If they were indeed a permanent, long-term solution, depression should by now have become a minor issue in society.

Chemotherapy is a permanent, long-term solution for cancer, and yet cancer has not become a minor issue in society. Anti-depressants are life-saving medication for many many people, but not everyone gets the right dose, not everyone continues taking them, and in some people they plain don't work.

Claiming that they're somehow not a solution for depression because they don't work for everyone, all the time, is logical fallacies all the way down.

> Yet it has not made a dent in hospital admissions

This is a stupid sentence. First, it's not sourced. Secondly, in the hospital admissions of whom? New patients or admissions of patients on anti-depressants? The first is an absolutely pointless statistic because -- who knew?! -- medicine that hasn't been administered doesn't work.

If he's claiming that over the group of people taking anti-depressants, their rates of admission post anti-depressants doesn't decline, that's still a shitty statistic, for a whole range of what should be obvious reasons, but I can spell out for you in a further comment if needed, but start with the fact that most people _develop_ mental health issues as they get older, and almost anyone who's hospitalized for a mental health issue will get medicated at that point moving forward, and anyone who's been hospitalized once for depression is dramatically more likely to be hospitalized again.

Unless the exact statistic being cited here is that there's no difference in readmission rates for patients who have been hospitalized for depression between those who took their medicine and those who didn't, it's absolutely ridiculous to be using to support his argument. Did I mention he didn't cite it?

> The number of people treated for depression has tripled over the past two decades

So? It seems like "common sense" that as a society we're better at talking about mental health than we used to be, and referring (rather than simply jailing) the mentally ill than we used to be. I bet his source (oh look, he didn't fucking cite it again) attributes this to many many many other factors rather than the non efficacy of anti-depressants

> and one in ten Americans now take antidepressants.

Again, this has nothing to do with his argument
I don't think anything is wasted here.

Something is learned, on next fail something else could be learned, but third or fourth time big things can happen.
Have you read the whole (admittedly rather long) article? He has a pretty nuanced view of it imo, especially at the end and explicitly refers to the "golden age of surveillance"
From a poor country here. Visa free travel to Japan. Not a single question asked while going through immigration.
"US companies have learned their lesson"

SURE. And they are all GDPR compliant as well.
>At the end of the day businesses have higher costs or are leaving the UK because of Brexit.

Though I personally (and not being involved in it directly or indirectly) think Brexit is essentially a "stupid" move by the UK, I don't think that it - in itself - should cause any particularly dramatic change, after all the world worked fine even before the European Economic Community and the consequent easyness in import/export within the EU.

Surely there will be some changes in procedures and probably some added bureaucracy but nothing that cannot be taken care of.

From experience, in the '70's and '80's exporting from Italy to the UK involved having a "special" status as "registered exporter" at the Ministry and filling a number of Customs and Bank forms (only for the record and as a curiosity, some of these forms were needed in some 10 copies and at the time the "most powerful" electric typewriter we had available could make at the most 6 or 7 carbon copies, so each form was typed twice).

I have the feling that Brexit is used as a sort of scapegoat or that linking it directly to the bad results of companies (most probably due to a number of different reasons) is a way to attempt influencing the people to be against it.
These blocks are non-continuous. It operates over a part of a row, where the start of the next row is the start of the current row + some stride.

I mean maybe? But I probably wouldn't anyway for this case as a slice reference is actually a "fat" pointer (ie twice the size of a normal pointer) and the length of the slice won't be used (the block size is known per kernel); LLVM might delete the length part anyway.

These are automatically generated kernels, so readability isn't the primary concern here.
Major Signs That Precede the Fall of World Reserve Currencies
Observing pedestrian activity transformed a city center
Most animal cruelty isn’t a federal crime. House passed a bill to change that
A scary amount of services will let you reset a password over SMS.
I sometimes wonder if this will become the norm when we green the grid and if so what people will do to mitigate it.
This project was doomed from the start, and was yet another vanity project for Boris.
Great Gaurdian article which references the design flaws from the get-go: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design...

As I understand, from a friend at TFL, they could have replaced the whole fleet of buses with electric ones for the same price as this vanity disaster.
They work ok in areas that aren't particularly congested. Even then, many of these shared bike/pedestrian ways are just packed full of little things that slow cyclists down in a way a cycle lane wouldn't. They're also poorly maintained as compared to the street that gets re-paved every so often while they just fill the worst holes & cracks on the sidewalk.

That's why some enthusiasts in .fi choose to cycle in traffic (even though that's not really legal if there's a bike path on the right).
I actually wrote the blog post and it's still work-in-progress. Thanks for sharing your insights.

Can I share a screenshot of your comment directly in the blog post? I think it would help the few users that stumble upon this post :)

I got custom-molded ear plugs with 25db filters, which I primarily use for DJing gigs and when going to a concert. Dropped $190 on the pair, works well and prevents my tinitus to be aggravated.
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The part that struck out to me was when OP said "Too many failures and destructive thoughts."

No amount of market research/planning/mvp asap will address that.
This is fundamentally a cultural problem that is reflected into the state of weak and poorly enforced laws. Unionizing is always going to a major uphill battle in this sort of society. Those people who are the most exploited have no political power and so face serious obstacles... including unfortunately the lack of class consciousness.
Show HN: Alterant – A simple Kubernetes configuration modifier
Displays only the title, than a blank page in Firefox. Displays endlessly the "accept cookie" page in Chromium. What's the conclusion of the article? Dunno.
I designed and built an ASCII terminal as a college project. The 25 lines was set by the number of lines a standard monitor could display, given a certain number of scan lines needed to make the font legible.

As monitors that could display more scan lines became available, people instantly used them to display more rows.
>The grades are now 1-9, with 9 being the highest and above A*.

Another example of the US inching toward the metric system ;-)
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I do but, silly thought first, would there be any legal liability in doing so?

It's such a sensitive political subject, I can't help but wonder if a third party app that fails to report outages properly could get in trouble.
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Well, 10 weeks is nothing. On top of that, you're trying to start with niche/limited communities. A student community focused on studying?

People want to communicate about what's fun, not about what's a hassle.

I don't remember how Reddit started but I remember one of the first r/s that got big was Aww.

There was a very nice example a couple of weeks ago on how before the network effects kick in you need to give people a reason to go to your site and use your service. Nothing like that happened here.
Doesn't DNS encryption effectively break ad blocking software?
For me it's i3 as a linux desktop wm that uses Vim bindings - really handy.

Agree on Vimium in Chrome - I have to check whether it's available on Firefox.

I've never heard of R# (and it's hard to Google) - what is it?
You see things like happening in places like Nigeria when the government gets its revenue from western oil companies , government has no incentive to spend towards its citizen.

- As long as foreigners continue to buy UST.

- Most tax revenue comes from billionaires.

There is no incentive for the US government to help people from whom it doesn't get revenue from.

This is exactly why Trump was elected, he has some incentive to help them.
It has a reasonable sound to it! Although I think the complete replacement scenario has proven a little harder than it looked on some tasks (driving could be an example).

Yet it seems like there is a lot more all or nothing efforts (or seeing human workers as a level of escalation), I see fewer projects aimed at being helpful in a user directed way without taking control.
Are there good bike paths in San Franciso? It seems like the weather is good enough for year-round biking, which would be a big plus.
Can You Be Addicted to Video Games? (
How to Develop a Successful Product and Why You Need Pre-Launch Marketing
His whole point is to not weaken encryption but to strengthen it, despite the likely social costs that will incur. Have you read the conclusion of the article?
On that note: there are currently massive anti-government protests happening throughout Lebanon, against rampant corruption in the establishment, which is behind the broken electricity sector (amongst others).

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/world/middleeast/lebanon-...
Punchcards (and thereby FORTRAN) were 80 columns. To have a viable glass tty, it needed to display 80 columns.
Disciplined by a technicolor behavior algorithm and not told about it. How appropriate!
Currencies rise and fall, the cost of Al (in the UK) was more expensive in 2010 than it is now. (And if you're a buyer outside the UK the fall of sterling would be a good thing, no?)

I'm having a hard time getting past the relative difference between the losses and the donations to Green Pastures, to blaming Brexit.
One problem of life expectancy is that old people retiring skew it, basically moving from Kansas to Florida at 70 increases the life expectancy of Florida, because the people who died at 20 in Kansas can't move to Florida too.

That's why Israel or Spain have such a high life expectancy with such a modest economic life, people retire there, they come while having already survived.
I agree with you that homelessness isn't as simple as just saying "mental health".

However, when people talk about homelessness being such a big problem in SF, I think a lot of what they are talking about is the subset of homeless people who are "violently mentally ill". That's something that I saw a lot more of in SF than in cities in the Mid West. By "violently mentally ill" I mean things like:

- Yelling at pedestrians that they are the incarnation of Satan and were going to use their demonic powers to strike them down.

- Using racial slurs for minorities that walked past.

- Purposely invading people's personal space.

I don't know why this would be a greater problem, or a more visible problem, with the homeless in SF compared to other places. Maybe in the Mid West it is difficult for people who are too mentally ill to survive the winter. Maybe other cities use anti-vagrancy laws to round them up.
> They see the world in much richer color than normal humans, and this has been empirically verified.

I am curious as how you could verify that. You can't observe someone else's experience, just their reaction to it.
Is there some way I can contact you? I'm curious to learn more about how you know/learned chemistry. Contact details are in my profile. Thanks.
Revolution == Rewrite. Ammendment == Patch.
New Gov == Refactor.

This kinda makes it easy to see how a simple system turns to shit over the long run.
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> if your state is corrupting state media it isn't likely to let significant private actors be.

Not necessarily. Yes, it can corrupt and control a big part of the private-owned media too but there are always a couple of outlets which are relatively free of direct State control. There are very few exceptions (like China, which for this reason also is truly a dictatorial State) but afaik even Russia still has some independent and relatively critic outlets towards Putin and his people.
But 10 weeks for 3 ideas is not enough... 10 weeks for 1 idea, maybe... If it's something that sells something, like SaaS. These ideas did not even have real monetising strategies behind them from the looks of it.
If you make a deal to buy a bus (or 1000) today, what tariff would you be incurring as a result of Brexit?

And if we're post Brexit, what tariff is the UK going to impose on a UK manufacturer that kills it's business?
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huawei has a campus in china built in such a style, though it's not meant for tourism:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Huawei+Songshan+Lake+Base&t=h_&iar...
For the benefit of others, the totality of that comment is much richer and more thoughtful than the snarky snippet you quoted.
Emphatically, this. I struggled to really understand and become comfortable with vim until I actually (1) completed the tutorial (vimtutor), (2) read the manual (:help user-manual), and (3) learned to use :help. If I would have just read the splash screen instead of browsing intro/intermediate-level vim articles online, I would have saved a lot of time in the long run.

As an aside, vim has really had a positive impact on my life (no hyperbole). It's the only editor I've ever used where I can regularly reach a state of "flow" during my day. I highly recommend giving it a try beyond learning hjkl, if you haven't already.
IME, reading quick articles or googling for a word doesn’t work too. But there is a way to get an interesting information. I built my curiosity stream by checking channels on youtube (it has non-crap channels, despite my beliefs). It wasn’t a quick process. One video by another I filtered content and made a subscription set which feeds me a couple or more videos per week that are good content and build my curiosity, as tfa explained. When there is more free time, I just check archives and find even more. Now I have a non-distracting queue of knowledge that requires nothing to sustain.

Funnily, before that I never hit “subscribe”, because it was perceived as a time-spending pit. And it is, for many “funny cats” or “fail compilation” channels which produce videos twice daily.

All this works because every piece there has easy connections. Articles do not connect – I have to lookup the author, register to subscribe, then manage updates from many sites, etc. Streams from mass-media like yt are more comfortable to follow and there are many suggestions from other channels on the topic.
Frequency of usage and importance may not necessarily correlate.

You can drive far by only using gas pedal and take the foot off it to decelerate. Does it mean that brake pedal is not important, because usage telemetry lists it as "rarely used, user does not know what he wants" ?
I've heard this a few times. I know some friends had this question too. There are some variance, but the context is the same: "Look this guy, he started facebook when he was 19 and he's now a billionaire, why don't you try the same?"

Maybe it's my social context...
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> which we know from statistics

What statistics?
>Small populations don't need too many novelty seekers. If everyone in a village is curious about Tigers, sooner or later everyone in the village would be dead. As populations grow the number of Novelty seekers increase and sooner or later the village has knowledge of how to tame the Tiger.

That's an anthropology way to looking at it -- which could be OK if one is speaking for some remote villages or tribes.

The modern world though is so complex and cross-cutting that I don't think this applies, at least not in the same way.

For one, novelty seeking is hardly associated with
survival for most people and groups (like in the village/tiger example).

Second, each of us has tons of different outlets for that novelty seeking, not just a single group.
Borges is such a pleasure to read. His writing is a continuous stream of wit and unusual, but consistent ideas.
I don't disagree a hammer is still a useful too, a lot like how a pencil and paper can still be a useful tool for architecting software, or when we need to sketch something out. However when it comes time to build a new construction, no, people are not out there hammering every individual nail. They're using nail guns and all manner of power tools to complete the job because it's more consistent and less time consuming.
The opioid epidemic.
> I told my kids either the shares will pay for their college, or they may need some scholarships.

Probably not the best strategy to put essential money into a growth stock during an unprecedented bull run and expect the growth to continue for another 9 years. The likes of TSLA being at a higher price than today in 20-30 years are decent, but in 9 years? Very uncertain. See: every growth stock that hit a peak in 2000, and what happened in the following 9 years.

At the very least, it's probably not the best idea to tell your kids that this is what you're doing.
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Did the parent gave the impression that he meant encyclopaedia articles?
I think you mean "verbatim". It's silly for that to be necessary to get reasonable results, though - if verbatim mode works better then those should be the results returned in the first place.

I primarily use DDG, and in my experience when its results are bad, Google's usually are for that query too.
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North of the GG Bridge has great restaurants and plenty to do.

Thanks, I needed the laugh.

Also, real estate can be found that are still within a range middle class can afford.

Compared to what? A tear down in (an OK part of) San Rafael went for around $800,000 a few months ago. Marin is consistently one of the most expensive counties in the Bay Area and there's relatively little public transit and bridge toll to contend with. Marin is also strongly anti-development.
Meanwhile, HN is more concerned with censoring opinions that have more to do with why life expectancy is decreasing than this popsci article can state.
I went to Iceland back in March. I drove around the entire island in a “touristy” Mercedes camper van.

As a visitor, I would say there were the perfect amount of tourists there.. not so many that it ruined my “experience”. However, that was in March. I can’t imagine what it’s like in Summer.

I’m now learning to speak Icelandic, and looking for software jobs in Reykjavik if that tells you anything. (Hiring managers please contact me)

Maybe I’m part of the problem?

You should go to Iceland.. it’s epic in a non-cliche kind of way.
For firefox I am using https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen
Not anymore. Google has a verbatim mode under Tools > All results.
Draw a comparison: would it be OK to hack / steal cars because they take up space?

I mean sure, scooters being dropped left and right is a problem - something Bird and co need to address, e.g. by fining anyone not leaving their items in designated areas - but transportation needs somewhere to stand. Whether said transportation is owned by a company or an individual is a moot point.
I run an email security business, we do fraud prevention and monitoring for businesses and brands. I get multiple inquiries a week to "hack a mailbox"...
Marin is over an hour away by bus from SF, with no train or BART. Basically to work in Marin you have to live in Marin, so any company that moved there wouldn't be taking advantage of the SF/South Bay labor market.

You're looking at closer to three hours depending on where you're coming from. There is a ferry from Larkspur but transit connectivity and parking are limited. The Tiburon and Sausalito ferries are worse.
This is another one that really stuck with me:

"But with all this, I would not be telling you the city's true essence; for while the description of Anastasia awakens desires one at a time only to force you to stifle them, when you are in the heart of Anastasia one morning your desires waken all at once and surround you. The city appears to you as a whole where no desire is lost and of which you are a part, and since it enjoys everything you do not enjoy, you can do nothing but inhabit this desire and be content. Such is the power, sometimes called malignant, sometimes benign, that Anastasia, the treacherous city, possesses; if for eight hours a day you work as a cutter of agate, onyx, chrysoprase, your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave."
Which is caused by?
I might switch from the current Firefox for Android (Fennec) when it supports uBlock Origin. I'm not giving up adblocking anymore. It would also help to have it available on F-Droid.
Not permanently, but there were quite a few of us in Bali this year (I think 7 at one point) working from Tropical Nomad. Now we've all moved on again!
That's other people's money though.
> must be written by a 12 year old if $1900 is "stupid money"

Well, many people cannot get their hands on $2k readily to just burn away. I mean there are many articles like [0] and that is only the US, this is ofcourse far far worse in poorer countries so for a lot (majority?) of people in this world $2k is in fact "stupid money". And these people are not 12.

[0] https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/18/pf/lack-of-savings-cover-un...
I've used it quite a bit over the last few months. It's a really positive start and does lots of things right, I really love the reader mode. It allows me to bypass all the cookies nagging and just read an article without fuss.

I'm not totally sold on the URL bar being at the bottom, and I kind of miss the support for CSS theme-color, but I can see myself switching at some point.
I dunno, how expensive are these units? And how does that compare to the labor and time expense of hooking them up to be reprogrammed, vs the risk of theft / hacking?

I'm genuinely curious btw, Bird and co have a huge scale challenge on their hands, thousands of units all over the place.