skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This alone will deter most people. Want to be a competitor, but the experiance just singing up is not very fluid. Wait for my account to be created? HAHAHA no thanks...

>We dont need another centralized social network.. the future must be distributed.

I agree!
Yes, but ebay sellers have a reputation to maintain so sellers that stoop to amazon levels of idiocy when packing their products don't last long.
Personally I find all those function calls harder to debug/review. I am perfectly capable of interpreting most non-complex small code blocks with a glance. If someone takes that and replaces with a function it usually forces me to step into function to understand what it really does. Function name wont be as meaningful as the actual code.

Forcing stuff to sub functions just hiding information away from the people that reads code.
I think the future of medicine is sympathetic engineers. It’s exciting to see this little guy go that route!
Yeah, Bitbucket's view is just gitk on the web, which is exactly how I like it.
"to convert the PDF (or Word doc, XLS, etc) remotely without the file ever touching the user's device"

This made me think that the site accepts a URL to a PDF/XLS/DOC file and returns PNG.
Open database exposes 93M files on patients of substance abuse facilities
I was actually one of those incredibly young kids to finish school, and this right here scares me. Nothing good came from the rush other than some local publicity for a few months. I think it crippled my chances long term social skills, and still going to therapy to try and catch up in any non-academic sense.
Cash or Accrual?
The article links to a FDA study on outcomes [1] but is very selective at what it chooses to highlight.

Here is what article singled out:
“In a recent study, the FDA found nearly half of participants who had no visual symptoms prior to the surgery reported having some complication three months after surgery.”

AND here are ALL the conclusions from the linked study results:

* Up to 46 percent of participants, who had no visual symptoms before surgery, reported at least one visual symptom at three months after surgery.

* Participants who developed new visual symptoms after surgery, most often developed halos. Up to 40 percent of participants with no halos before LASIK had halos three months following surgery.

* Up to 28 percent of participants with no symptoms of dry eyes before LASIK, reported dry eye symptoms at three months after their surgery. This is consistent with previous studies.
* Less than 1 percent of study participants experienced "a lot of difficulty" with or inability to do usual activities without corrective lenses because of any one visual symptom (starbursts, ghosting, halos, glare) after LASIK surgery.

* More than 95% of participants were satisfied with their vision following LASIK surgery.

* Participants were more than twice as likely to report their visual symptoms on a questionnaire than to tell them to their health care provider

So what this means is that more than 50% of participants of the study had NO visual symptoms 3 months after the surgery and including those that did have some symptoms, 95% of ALL participants were happy with the outcome.

Add me to those 95% -- I had my Lasik done a decade ago at the Stanford Eye Center and had a quick recovery with zero complications and zero side effects

[1] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/lasik/lasik-quality-life...
It's funny a deleted comment asked if geniuses ever achieve anything. My cousin is supposedly a genius (siblings all have doctorates) yet works in a laundromat.

I saw an article where one genius kid years ago was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said a gameshow host.
I meant the bugs in your dependencies that you'll have to backport fixes to. But hey, if you're writing bug-free code that'll be easy ;)
> I am excited to see which state will have the first Amazon fulfillment center crawling with feds.

I share your excitement but I'm not optimistic about this ever happening considering the increasing amount of cash Amazon is spending in DC.
My wife is an ophthalmologist and would never get LASIK. The benefit of potentially not having to put contacts in every morning just does not outweigh the possible complications.
it matters a lot more for mobile though, the difficulty of typing makes it much more likely to click those searches.
No, what I'm talking about is how to narrow a problem down. The medium you use to accomplish that is flexible.

I'm a little confused as you why you think clicking step-over 20 times to get out of the std::lib is better than just moving the mouse down 20 lines and adding another break.

So again, this feels like we're back at "this is a matter of preference".
>Caught selling garbage (product marked new actually used, totaly fake junk) enough times -> gone from marketplace and hard to get back in.

This is what they have now. Many sellers get suspended over used sold as new and inauthentic complaints.

They also have velocity reviews; if your sales increase too quickly you may get suspended for a bit.
Spaced repetition is something that should be taught in every school.
It makes sense, since most therapy is about as useful as pointless work meetings.
#protip If you are considering Lasik, do not watch the cinematic gem that is Final Destination 5
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yeah. I think the syntax and the fit of the syntax with the domain matter. Tooling too.

I want to spend time building something like that, but i have doubt there is really a market need/want.
Google to Restrict User Information It Gives Advertisers
This articles reminds me of Parkinson's Law: "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law

Without efficient ways of doing things managers want more people doing things like them. Like the traffic problem doesn't get better with more lanes.
Samsung M2026W is a super compact laser. I bought one to bring with me to events.
I've taken a medication that occasionally makes me feel stupid. For a day I might be unable to continue reading a book without re-reading each sentence a few times. I might not be able to talk to people about a complicated or technical subject without stumbling over my words. I will find it difficult to think in the abstract terms, and when I listen to others who talk about abstract values and concepts I have to continually relate it back to a concrete example otherwise I'm lost. My IQ is normally between 140-155. When I go through these brain-fog days I estimate it's at around 90.

It feels terrible. When I first experienced it, I was terrified that it would be permanent because that would keep me from doing my job and keeping up with my interests and hobbies. Now I only get this brain-fog every so often. I think it helps me communicate with people better and has helped me learn patience. I finally understand how some people might be genuinely, earnestly trying to understand what I'm trying to say or teach, but can't understand it because I'm communicating it at the right level of analysis.

If you're intellectually gifted (many programmers are), you shouldn't take that for granted. You got lucky, and if you weren't lucky enough to be intelligent, it might have been impossible to do the same kind of work you do today. Please appreciate that.
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I think well-structured retrospectives are way better than 1:1s for this in that they let people express feelings, but channel those into choosing and pursuing productive actions.

In particular, for the get-the-feelings activities, the Retromat has a number of good items in the "set the stage" and "gather data" categories. E.g., Weather Report is good for a quick feeling survey: https://retromat.org/en/?id=2

Or you can do Satisfaction Histogram or Amazon Review to collect reactions to specific topics: https://retromat.org/en/?id=87 and https://retromat.org/en/?id=18
In my experience, one reason this doesn't happen is because it's a lot easier for middle managers to carve out tasks and assign them then it is to corral and coordinate a bunch of enthusiastic people trying to help. It's easier for them to take credit for the work done in the end as well.
Would love to see a breakdown of how you do this from a bureaucracy perspective.
>do isn’t evading taxes, it’s just lasting an indefinite amount of time

Isn't the money taxed when a trust ends? So choosing a trust that lasts forever sounds like it carries a tax advantage.
Thanks for the pointer! :)
Me too. I often do that to compartmentalize. I'm not sure why anyone would prefer the second one. Now if A/b/c/d are only a few lines each, then sure go for it. AKA they fit in 24 lines ;) . I don't like hard rules but if it starts being more than 1 page long I get antsy and start refactoring my function/method. It might be 80 lines exactly but it's a demarcation point. So I'm probably more of a 100/40 person :). I would say that I use a medium size font, I'm not a tiny font person either.
Yeah let's rush this kid into the workforce, who needs social skills anyway.
Yes, and then you get stories like this one https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/steal... because the petty thiefs are empowered by the no jail policy.
"google's algorithm" is not an actual algorithm but the promise of organizing the world's information in an impartial way using machines instead of bribes. It was their selling point when they made the site, and their users have not forgotten those promises.

http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/361/

> Since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious. A good example was OpenText, which was reported to be selling companies the right to be listed at the top of the search results for particular queries [Marchiori 97]. This type of bias is much more insidious than advertising, because it is not clear who "deserves" to be there, and who is willing to pay money to be listed. This business model resulted in an uproar, and OpenText has ceased to be a viable search engine. But less blatant bias are likely to be tolerated by the market. For example, a search engine could add a small factor to search results from "friendly" companies, and subtract a factor from results from competitors. This type of bias is very difficult to detect but could still have a significant effect on the market.

Google does both nowadays. Shame
what's your experience running soffice server-side? I might have to do this soon, and I'm dreading it.
dubious: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/25/sea/
Except that Amazon is no longer the cheapest source for many products. Their outrageous storage and fulfillment fees make most of their pricing higher than local store deals or even manufacturer's own websites.
The `gs` I have installed says it is licensed with this[0][1] so I think it's fine.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

[1]: https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-affero-general-public-lice...
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It is possible to use an Intel machine without the ME. Since there are constant vulnerabilities and exploits around the ME, many enthusiasts do not like the idea of a vulnerable and secret super-admin computer on their computer. There is the option to disable the ME on supported devices (usually old Thinkpads) using me_cleaner[1].

I personally run Coreboot on my Thinkpad with the ME "disabled" (essentially just broken and stuck in a constant bring-up state), and System76[2], Purism[3], and Dell sell machines with the option of disabling the ME entirely, if one is super-paranoid.

[1] https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

[2] https://system76.com/laptops

[3] https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/
Largest Corp in America here. Looking at three modern browsers on my machine right now. I think IE is even tucked away somewhere so I have four at my fingertips. Zero trust or love for Chrome.
Half an hour or more is no longer a standup.
This solution offers total automation, filtering and allowing perusal of the content in the same way it was presented in the first place
I bought one probably about 3 years ago that is largely still good, albeit it has started eating paper when you try to print double-sided. It's pretty much solely a sheet-music printer for me so I suspect that aspect has failed due to lack of use. Other than that it has been very solid though, in fairness.
FCC Part 15 allows for intentional radiators and is the basis for WiFi. With directional antennas, one can make a P2P link that reliably exceeds 10km. A world record has been set at 381km [https://www.wired.com/2007/06/w-wifi-record-2] but I don't know if the power level into the antenna was low enough to be Part 15 compliant. In college, I set up a 40km link with compliant power and antenna gains (using offset feed Primestar satellite dishes), and we use Part 15 compliant P2P wifi in St. Louis for our ham radio repeater control and data network with links between 2 and 5km.
So that query is inflammatory. The question would be more about other political queries which might not be PC but also aren’t inflammatory.

Should they suppress queries about area51, Scientology, The_Donald, The_Müller, r/politics, Trump is a Russian stooge, etc?
I believe they're using it as an example of a thing that people have very strong, immovable opinions about, making it difficult to discuss. It just so happens that in the case of climate change one side is just objectively wrong, and its opinions are factually incorrect... but that just underscores the OP's use that it's impossible to discuss in public with them. They hold strong opinions in spite of overwhelming evidence against them, indicating strong feelings that will dominate any conversation you try to hold.
Yes, this is why I was never willing to get the procedure done. The risk/reward ratio is too unfavorable. Even if the percentage of people who have problems is very low, those problems are permanent. To take the risk of permanent injury just to avoid the inconvenience of wearing glasses never made sense to me.
One of the things stopping me from using sourcehut is that people I’ve partnered with recently for projects are intimidated by the email system. I haven’t gotten a chance to try that flow yet because of that

I use it for a few solo projects though
It is also used for areas that require a certain color correction as well, usually aircraft or combat roles and is covered under tricare for combat and pilots.
Oh I have no doubt that they're therapy... for certain people who need therapy. I even referred to a certain recurring meeting recently that always tends to be mostly a particular guy talking, as his therapy session. So I feel vindicated now!
I don't touch C unless obliged to do so.
Technical debt?
Hi -- I am looking for a home for dndemail.com. It offers do not disturb on your gmail inbox, across all devices.

If you are interested, michael at dndemail dot com.
Yes, but eBay sort of self-selects for better sellers and you can also see the seller's profile, feedback etc.

Half the time on Amazon it's hard to even tell anything. As someone else said, books are REALLY bad. It's a gamble as to what you actually receive sometimes.
I'm glad my LaserJet 1020 just keeps working and working. For infrequent printing it's just perfect. I always get the cheapest refill from Amazon and it's doing just fine. One refill lasts about two years and is 15€. The last two times I ordered the seller even included a note that if I'd give them a positive rating I'd get another one for free. Didn't do it cause I'm lazy.
I bought the hp p1102w 8 years ago and it's been great. I get generic toner off amazon for about $9, which works in it just fine. It can hook up to Google for printing via the internet so you can print from ChromeOS / Android. It feels a little sturdier than the Brother laser printers in the same price point. It supports Bonjour for MacOS printing. It connects over wifi or ethernet.
Same here. I can put in really good hours in a side project but once the site is online, my ambition totally drops off.
Nope, it wasn't, thus my amendment.
Maybe the generic way to do that is supporting tags on repos? So a repo could be tagged "lang:python3 lang:c license:gpl2+ license:mit" (that's: repo contains Python 3 and C code, dual-licensed under GPL2+ and MIT) or something. Granted, that would probably be manually-tagged, not GitHub's automatic guessing approach.
It may have been the rational thing to do. That something worse didn't in fact result from avoiding pre-empting MAD build-up with an early first strike doesn't mean this was the likely outcome. They may have been right, and we just got lucky, so now it looks like they were wrong.
You can watch 1080p if you set "dash" as your default quality in preferences, or by adding `&quality=dash` to the end of a video URL. The reason it isn't enabled by default is that it requires proxying streams, which is more bandwidth intensive[0].

0. https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/issues/34
I remember reading it back in August - however I should have mentioned that I specifically needed this for MacOS. Does it work for MacOS? The post indicates that it's limited to Windows.

On my Windows desktop, I already use Firefox as I have multiple monitors - so PiP wasn't much of a concern.

However it's a feature that I sorely miss on the small screen of my Macbook Air.
when I bough a TV on Amazon, the screen was broke. I asked for another, and the replacement... has a broken screen. Returned both, and bought for $50 more on Bestbuy, but it came intact
eBay has become my first stop for many categories of goods. It's not always the best choice, but it is often enough that it's worth checking. For example, both of my carbon monoxide detectors expired at the same time, and Amazon and local box stores wanted something like $70 each for replacements. On eBay I found the same model new in box for half of that from what I think was a fire system installation company.
> Reportedly, von Neumann possessed an eidetic memory, and so was able to recall complete novels and pages of the phone directory on command. This enabled him to accumulate an almost encyclopedic knowledge of what ever he read

If he was able to recall ~entire pages of the phone directory on command, I wonder if he could also recall (near) verbatim text of all the novels he had ever read, to what degree he could do this, or to what degree he could at least comprehensively recall key points, facts, timelines.

I would think he would have spent some time speculating on how the brain stores memories, I wonder if any of his theories were ever captured in some form.
Fascism is a well defined political ideology that doesn't just boil down to authority = good, though. It's like if people equated having a strong head of state with monarchism. In doing so you throw away 95% of the ideology, and use it as a synonym for a much simpler idea.
Me too. I bought a rare $80 art book from amazon and the first two were badly damaged from shipping and the third was just a little damaged so I gave up and took it. I was worried they would deactivate my account for being a troublemaker or something.
I'm pretty motivated by context / explanantion of purpose. If I'm just given platitudes, that doesn't count. I want to know why we're really doing this (so agree on frankness), and if I don't like the answer, I probably won't be sticking around for long.

To a point, this is more important to me than pay or equity.
My experience is relatively small.

The `convert` script of ImageMagick calls soffice by default if the input file is a LibreOffice type.

I actually started writing a shell script to detect if it was DOCX etc, and run soffice first, but then I found out that ImageMagick does that automatically, if libreoffice is installed.
I wonder if it's like the gene for sickle cell. Two copies of it are bad (sickle cell anemia), but one copy of the gene can protect against malaria. A bit of genius can be incredibly helpful, but too much can make it difficult to relate to other people.
Exactly the same here, I had my for many years and I forced my dad to buy one instead of a inkjet and some other friends, everyone is after many years still extremely happy with their choices. Some got one with a scanner, others color, I only have a plain black and white one and it always works from phone from Linux, etc. No problems at all. I connected it by network cable.
A few years back I was getting a little eye surgery done, under local, a quasi-regular thing with me. Because I like hearing about people's jobs, I asked my surgeon what he thought of LASIK. He has a very dry presentation. He paused and then began, "You'll notice I'm wearing glasses ..."

I filed that one away.
I don't think it's a preference issue. The problem you have when you split up functions is you're making decisions that have consequences in a fairly arbitrary way(not backed by an understanding of the system, just how you feel things should be broken up).

On top of arbitrarily pushing the system in directions, you yourself note that you hide the actual context of the code when you split it up. It might make you feel better in the moment but I don't think it's the right response to feel emboldened by making decisions with less context. Premature abstraction is at the heart of a lot of bad design and complexity.

With even primitive dev tools you can get a lot of the benefits (grouping, naming) with comments and braces. More could definitely be done on this front but dev tool progress is sadly pretty slow. Going this route you can have organization while not throwing away the all-important context of what the code is actually meant to accomplish.
How do you stay adding value to your network even if you are busy?
We all know that to keep a relationship alive, we must mutually add value. Most of the times this could be accomplished by sending interesting news or articles to the other person. But, how do you handle when you know people from different industries and are interested in unrelated topics?

What do you think about this solution? https://www.bluup.co
You can write `x lt 10` since XSLT 2.0 in 2007.
Likewise here -- the company I'm at uses github, but I'm moving my personal / side projects to SourceHut. I've really enjoyed the limited time I've spent using it to date, especially the clean interface.
Even at maximum allowed tx power? Two of these should do 1km LoS easily at 90-150 mW: https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Directional-Parabolic-Connect... Of course, more power, more range (but also noise, so in reality you don't want more than ~200mW with standard routers)

I used one of them to get a good 54Mbps connection with an AP ~400 meters away (5th floor to 2nd floor, only some treetops between). And that's basically the antenna just picking up the unboosted signal from the router (Linksys WRT54gs @ 85mW iirc)
Linear algebra done right by Sheldon axler

Linear algebra that focuses on matrices of numbers is missing the point and a proper numerical linear algebra class will teach them better anyway
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So, unique_ptrs and virtual destructors everywhere? Or value-type structure embeddings where everything depends on everything else in the public interface? I don't think there's a lot of middle ground.
What ever happens to these kids? I read these articles once every few years, and then .. Does the beurocracy of academia swallow them whole or is their work no longer interesting once they hit 18? Or do they become average academics?
Thank you for the suggestion! I love wirecutter but I've learned to take their suggestions with a large grain of salt. I have no less than 10 products bought from wirecutter suggestions but there are lots of other examples where I diverged from their suggestions.

In fact I looked at that post on printers and specifically their budget Brother laser printer pick [0] but the 1-star reviews were concerning which actually led me to ask here on HN.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0763WDSYZ/