skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free Pascal changed the string type some time ago to make it encoding aware (i'm not really a fan of the idea, but it was done for Delphi compatibility which is considered important by the FPC developers). I only had to change a handful of lines in my 10+ year old code (at the time, now it is older) to make things work (all were about treating the string as a byte array and manipulating the memory directly - i just changed the type to RawByteString which provides exactly that functionality).

AFAIK that was the biggest "breaking" change they introduced by far. In general have code from 2007 that compiles out of the box and this sort of stability is why i stick with FPC (and C) despite it being messy sometimes.

If you make a mistake when making a language or API you should make sure whatever fix you come up with will keep the existing code working, most common way being that the old API is implemented in terms of the new (even if slower, things will keep working) or in the case of languages, new stuff that can conflict with existing code can be opt-in (Free Pascal often uses compiler submodes for this).

Yes, this makes implementing the library/language harder but it is going to be a bit of extra work for the implementors in exchange for avoid A LOT of work for the users (especially when you consider all the combined time wasted in porting Python 2 to Python 3).
Yeah, this is what's gonna happen to Plaid.
I, like almost every person at the time, heard about wikipedia and scoffed at it. And, in the early days,the quality was atrocious and the scope seemingly insurmountable. But wikipedia almost ever gets better, not worse, and the limitation that the books have to sit on a shelf makes wikipedia far more than an encyclopedia. It has evolved, through time, to be something few people ever imagined it could be.
Not that this is exactly a massive disadvantage for you, but I routinely see guys such as yourself, not being exploited as such, but essentially never having their compensation match their productivity.

I believe the original poster in that they could be much more productive than their coworkers. However, in my experience, that has only a loose correlation with wealth, and playing the game right / nepotism take precedence for real earning.
There are very strict laws on how that DNA can be used. Only to identify remains.

You can also request it be destroyed:

https://www.health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Research-and-I...
Individual ads, sure. But an equivalent null hypothesis would be "social media advertising has no effect on people," which would seem pretty strange.
related, projectile-mode gives a bunch of similar niceties
Yes, except (presumably) they are using Airplay to the AppleTV for music (which locks out non-Apple products).

The Sonos equivalent is something like the Sonos beam connected to the TV via CEC. AppleTV v2 is now obsolete and I think was sold until 2015, so that's pretty much the same as the Sonos policy.

But it's a fair point - for simple setups this can work fine.
I'm a 42 year old Yang supporter. I never voted before and only used Twitter for a week or so many years ago. A few Yang posts are the only things I have ever retweeted. In particular when he was excluded from the debates I was retweeting everything with #AmericaNeedsYang or whatever. I am not a bot. But my activity then might have seemed bot-like.

Anyway if anyone hasn't 100% made up their mind on Yang maybe watch a few YouTube videos of him.
I don't think so, except inasmuch as confirmation bias will lead anyone with an anti-legalize-drugs bias to construe this as evidence for that position.

The incentives for these actions can come in part from artificially high prices. More legalization gets you more players, and could perhaps dilute the power to use the machinery of doctors, drug companies, etc. as a top-down drug pushing force.

Additionally, society tends to build up immunity with exposure. You can get more irrational behaviors with highly controlled or scarce things. In the short term, introducing a lot of free/legalized drugs into an already constrained society could increase damage, but for the long term? Not such a clear picture, in my opinion. Perhaps a slow loosing to allow society to adapt.

Honestly, I see very little here to make this a blow against legalizing drugs besides confirmation bias for those already against it.

It also leaves out the cost of the war on drugs, which you would, in a rational analysis, need to compare against the cost/problems of legalization, as the cost/problems of the war on drugs go down. Which one costs more? Organized crime takes a serious hit with legalization, a secondary benefit. Consider Prohibition in the United States. Alcohol's a drug, actually a fairly destructive one. Why did they repeal it?
You pretty transparently have a chip on your shoulder about this. "Lifestyle business" is not a pejorative. It can be, but it generally isn't.
When the president is using Twitter as his primary means of communicating with the public, it becomes a 1st Amendment right. Granted, this may be more an issue of the president using a private system to communicate with the public.
It makes sense if a language is so different and backwards incompatible than the previous version to just rename it to someone else.

Hence why a lot of people back in the day felt that Visual Basic .NET should be called Visual Fred instead :-P
The article is addressing the size increases in car models between generations. Popularity of SUVs over other types of car is a different issue.
> The fact that Yang's campaign is struggling should throw cold water on the notion that this kind of thing poisons the political process.

This is not logical. "This kind of thing poisons the political process" does not come close to implying 'any candidate who engages in this kind of thing is likely to become wildly popular'. That would be an obviously crazy position, and refuting it is only useful as a way to avoid engaging with non-strawmanned concerns about social media manipulation.
That map is missing data. Thunder Bay, Ontario is a densely populated area, yet not represented on the map.
Court..? AFAIK insurance companies in the US are free to model and quote you as they wish with the information they can legally get
New York on track to ban cashless stores and restaurants
You have to think this is mostly a political show trial, with the main government players hoping to make a name for themselves for some future enrichments yet to be named.

If as a side benefit, some execs think twice about pushing addictive pills to people who want them, I suppose that is a good thing as well, but to see this as much more then just a way for the prosecutor to "make hay" I feel misses the point.
I have a pet theory that it's much easier for ADHD people to enter Flow state.

But also that Flow state is often a bad way to write code.

One, virtually everyone has a tremendous case of Sunk Cost Fallacy around things done in Flow state. If someone spent 10 hours in a week working on code that you say is badly conceived in a code review, you'll get pushback and grumbling. Argue with someone who did the PR in a single sitting? They will fight you. Hard. This is the most amazing code ever written (because I felt amazing while I was writing it). The rush goes to their heads.

Two, writing code for other people requires empathy. Rumination. Flow state is considerably absent of both of those. So the problems and gotchas you know about ahead of time get handled, but anything you find along the way is very likely to get ignored. The quantity of your code goes way, way up, the quality goes considerably in the other direction.

I made a conscious decision a while back (making official an unconscious one I'd already made) to stop seeking out Flow state. I felt better, but objectively, it hasn't done me any huge favors professionally. From a practical standpoint, me writing less code means that people who write more baroque code than I do at my worst get to set the narrative for larger slices of the codebase. But I've also done something I hate: reason that if a lot of something is bad, none of it is better.

I need a new plan, and I need it bad.
You seem to be able to order it here: https://www.i6doc.com/en/collections/cdicle/
Don't forget Ubik, written in 1969 by Philip K. Dick. Excerpt below.

https://twitter.com/davidbrin/status/754490300140322816
"Tech giants like Apple and Google are grasping for EHR" is an oddly alarmist title and should be changed. Maybe "Tech giants competing to easily get you your health records".
Uber is bringing its self-driving cars to Washington, DC
lmao is this real
That's because the organization requires their docs to file data in that way; it's not a requirement or limitation of the software at all.

You're basically saying that software can be used in a shitty way. That's not exactly unique to this space.
> Whenever a friend tells me they're depressed, or anxious, or have attention difficulties or whatever, the first thing I ask is "what did you spend most of your time doing last week?". If the answer is "Oh, I found this cool new show and binged it", or "Oh not much, I wasn't motivated to do anything so mostly just scrolling the feed haha" - I immediately sit them down and suggest that maybe those things are the cause and not the symptoms. You aren't depressed, therefore you watch TV and observe other people's lives on Instagram. You are depressed because you do those things with the majority of your waking hours.

For me personally, having done all these things, even major lifestyle changes, diet, exercise, etc, causing extreme amounts of stress, there was VERY LITTLE benefit. I spend 99.9% of my energy to move my mood 10%, which reverted immediately upon anything knocking me out of the new routine for even a short amount of time. Being a couch potato will make a normative person a little more depressed or anxious. But thats like someone being depressed because of a life event, rather than something they deal with chronically.

There's something to people not being harmonious with their environment, and there's also something to environments not being harmonious to people. But most people have responsibilities and must go to work for a living, and don't have fully control over their environment. Western culture may be somewhat to blame, but for people who need help NOW just telling them to go on an information diet and exercise isn't going to help.
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Funny, that sounds a whole lot like a long, polite version of the "you're just lazy" argument folks with ADHD hear all the bloody time. Or the "you've got so much potential, if <insert pronoun here> can do it you can do it."

Polite or not, it really gets old.
One of the main advantages of cannabis as medicine is that it is so forgiving when used in its therapeutic range. It is the inverse of opioid drugs in this respect: opioids are very powerful, but can fairly easily cause death or dependence when used even in the lower end of their therapeutic range. Cannabis is much less powerful of course, but can be titrated easily because it has so little acute toxicity even at huge doses.
I'm unsure if this is still the case, but they relied entirely on Plaid when I tried it. I don't necessarily have a problem with this, however Plaid doesn't support some of my most critical accounts. In the end, this is why I had to stop using Lunch Money.
Clearly orchestrated kubernetes on a cluster of raspberrys is what you need!

>When you really need your "server" to just work for 5 or 10 years in a closet without worrying about it

Given pace of change raspberries don't seem to bad. Rasp3Bs are pretty sturdy if you get a good SD card - that's what dies in my experience

I'm personally rocking a old laptop as home server & will see how long that lasts
And by the way, it's a little bit of puffery and arrogance to think that you can make some state something "under penalty of perjury". You're not a court of law.
Fox and Breitbart tell their audiences what some (sadly, too many) want to hear about Those Wicked / Lazy / Stupid Others.
There was a spy in the USSR during the cold war who had to have some procedure done. He refused anesthesia. His pretense was that he might reveal state secrets or something. He was given an award for his bravery or something. Interesting story. I wish I could remember more of the details.
Most Americans Are Lonely, and Our Workplace Culture May Not Be Helping
I like the (debunked) legend that they mixed the two cheapest paints available, white and army surplus green, and made the best of the postwar financial situation.
You're right, it's just that the things I enjoy doing (and do well) aren't valuable to anyone else... golf doesn't pay if you're in the top 1%, you have to be in the top .001% :)

With the skills I have that do pay well, I'm not sure what role I'd enjoy. I always thought being a physical penetration tester would be amazing fun, but those roles usually go to ex military types, not random joes like me with no formal background. I like designing systems, but architects aren't really a "thing" anymore. Writing code all day long is drudgery now.

I certainly should get some help, I'm 99% certain I have unofficially diagnosed ADHD. It just seems like a lot of work figuring out what to do, and then I get distracted by something else I'm doing... heh.
It's harder to support https on an 8-bit web server. ;-)

http works great though.
In what sense is there a certain "amount of work to do" defined independently of the number of volunteers and their interests?

The only thing I can think of is that as the wiki grows in size, the amount of work that needs to be done to maintain fixed quality (combating vandalism, counteracting normal decay, fixing link rot) goes up roughly proportional to the number and length of articles.

I guess you mean something like "Wikipedia ought to have an article on X, and didn't in 2007 but does in 2020". That certainly tracks the fact that there was more low-hanging fruit in 2007, but I don't think writing that article means there's any less work for a fixed number of editors to do. The amount of work left to do -- between here and a complete encyclopedia of all human knowledge -- is damn near infinite, and is limited mostly by editor interest.
Google Maps entirely relies on the data given by transit agencies through their GTFS feeds, whether they be static or real-time. It doesn't do the same type of calculation that the driving navigation does where they average travel times based on other users' movement.

There are some other apps like Transit App that attempt to crowdsource the same data to reflect ETAs.
I usually do it over a weekend because I always forget to pack a lunch, too. As an aside, my tip for that issue is to go to the grocery store on your lunch break and stock up on healthy foods you can keep at work to make lunch there. Anyway, my suggestion was to try cleaning up your diet to see if it works. It sounds like you've already done that without positive results. Diet clearly isn't the solution for you. It was for me. Btw, I'm 37. I was on Adderall as recently as 2014. It took years of struggling to find something that works for me.
On the one hand, I directionally agree with you that much of modernity is addictive and maladaptive.

On the other hand, your comment is not unlike telling a depressed person to just exercise when having the wherewithal to exercise is galactically out of reach for them.

There is no blanket advice that works for everyone, no one-size-fits-all solution. It simply does not exist and never will, because humans are a quite diverse bunch.
Pluralization in Angular
I had the same experience. I wonder what's behind it and how well organised the group is.
I’m gonna just go on a limb and guess that this was downvoted into the greys by people who never saw the movie “Pretty Woman” where this was very nearly the exact plot as the news story here and therefore completely missed the irony:

It was a movie.
I sometimes wonder how much gaming, and stimulating websites like youtube, reddit play a roll in actually creating ADHD.

It's kind of a chicken or the egg situation, do people have ADHD and because they have ADHD they are more susceptible to gaming addiction? or do they become addicted to these sites/games which then creates ADHD type symptoms.

Not saying ADHD isn't an actual thing, but I've noticed a reoccurring theme where people who have ADHD also were addicted to gaming or the internet.

I discovered this guy who has a youtube/twitch channel who is a harvard psychologist who explained how gaming/dopamine releasing web products can have a negative impact on our reward system. How gaming and these addicting products can paralyze you and prevents you from changing behavior.

It's an interesting question, because as I browse comments on sites like reddit and it feels like everyone has ADHD, and these comments about ADHD have massive amounts of upvotes. Which is weird because ADHD isn't supposed to be common, it's supposed to be like ~5% of the population, yet it feels like most people have it on these sites

Here's the links to the guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWbh2-tW2e0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEsFPaOQKoA&t=2s
Seems (to me) to be similar to the Ron Paul bots (fanatics, I should say, because they certainly weren't mechanical war-bots; They seemed like what the right calls NPCs these days, but they were just so ... into it! 24/7! It's actually kind of nice to see groups of new/young people get excited about politics - I think they might learn a lot through the process (maybe)) all over Reddit in 2008 (not just /r/politics, but they were everywhere), esp. since that also included all of the influx of rapidly migrating Diggers.

Maybe it's not the same, but those folks were all in on the Paul Train (or whatever they called it). They were eggcited!
What would be an interesting project would be to create an automated framework to compare search engines.

Have dataset/s and see where the different technologies, win, fail and IDK.

Solr's Phonetic Matching I always thought needed improvement, it would be interesting to get a report on those for instance.
Well, the Mars mission was sponsored by Disney and you had refillable air-pacs for $200, good for a day. 1 hour before they expired they nagged you. Then the belters started to sell bootleg air-pacs - Disney shit the bed and implemented uncrackable DRM, we lost 230 settlers - before the revolution...
Wikipedia search works well for me. The site search is exhaustive, returning every single page matching the query. For topics in the news recently, all changes are propagated to Wikipedia's search index immediately, while Google takes longer to recognize changes.
> Yang's campaign has been consistently growing and growing as other campaigns have dropped out.

His support is consistently enough nonzero across multiple polls that you can say he has some support, but it's often within the margin of error of zero on individual polls. He's not gaining enough to have a welk's chance in a supernova of winning.

On the other hand, he generally leads NY Times-endorsed Klobuchar (and yet, pollsters are less likely to include him in their polls), so there's that.
I don't know about Reddit, but for Wikipedia I just write a guess for the title of the article I'm looking for, and if I'm not redirected to the proper title of the article, then I'm normally sent to a disambiguation page. I've never found myself in need of something like Google for Wikipedia.
Yeah but it depends on the subreddit though. For some things I'd rather have multiple opinions than that of one blogger.
> It means that you have ADHD in the context of the demands society puts on you and not you have ADHD, period.

I tend to agree with this to an extent. But, for me, even in a situation with unlimited resources and time, I simply can't get done things that I actually (truly truly) want to get done.
As a big league procrastinator, it's just another tool in the toolbox.
Car collision.
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Its not a workflow problem, organization problem or motivation problem. Often one can be organized, motivated, and have the skills, but be unable to apply energy towards the problem.
I always had that. I can’t go as deep on subjects without force of will, hard. But I have always had a knack for integrating information and learning new things with a relatively high amount of new things but not a lot of density for each thing. This can add up, sneakily, to very dense knowledge on a subject and I have made that a part of how I learn. It’s great learning new frameworks, languages, and subjects. That surface scan and seeing the whole of something comes easily.
Keeping color correct across different media is a royal pain in the ass.
People tend to be super critical of wikipedia but I think it could have been a whole lot worse. We are incredibly lucky that wikipedia isn't owned by some tech megacorp, it isn't loaded with spyware JS bogging it down, and it doesn't require an account to use.
You could switch to duckduckgo and use the ! codes; !r and !w search directly on reddit and wikipedia.

In cases where you aren't searching directly on one of the supported sites, and would prefer google's algorithms instead of ddg's (or reddit's), all you have to do is add !g. It's a lot easier than trying to get google to do direct searches (using site:) or search on ddg (I don't think google has any shortcuts for redirecting to search on another search engine).
Already exists (well, not iPhone, but...)
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/industries/gov...

And accessories like cases and cables from Kagwerks: https://kagwerks.com/collections/smartphone-cases / https://kagwerks.com/collections/cables/products/usb-3-0-to-... (aside: their training courses are A+)
NAD receivers are pretty good with a pluggable design.

For example

https://nadelectronics.com/nad-previews-t-778-reference-avr/

And example modules

https://nadelectronics.com/products/mdc-modules/
The science has been done and no significant amount of salt water is absorbed through the skin. (Your other points are correct.)
Are you just jumping around this thread copy/pasting the same talking points?

For what it's worth, someone getting banned from the comments section of an online forum run by a for-profit company is not fascism – it's not in the same ballpark, not in the same league.
Until they get ordered to retain that data.
Python 2s issues went beyond the string encoding.

Some functions would return either bytes our text (in python 2 parlance, strings or Unicode) depending on the input. People would call decode on text (despite it only making sense on bytes).

Ultimately Python 2 encouraged a programming model where if you just tested with ASCII everything worked but the instant one of your library users put in an accented character or a kanji everything would blow up.

Just to make things clear: many python 2 programs operated on bytes thinking they were text. There isn’t really a way of resolving this API without user intervention on declaration of intent (not saying 3.0 was perfectly right but not every change can be made backwards compatible if you still have existing code)
I wouldn't use reddit to find credible info about world events or trending topics.

However, it's an excellent source for finding information about hobbies and niche topics. The culinary subreddits have great recipe advice and I'll often go there to find best practices for food safety or unfamiliar techniques. Appending "reddit" to the end of my search means I don't have to sift through hundreds of SEO'd blog posts with questionable advice! For the time being, people don't SEO their reddit comments.

Now that I think of it, I actually do this quite often--Google really isn't what it used to be.
They already have an option like that. The problem is a lot of organizations still want to do their own thing or have their own requirements they want to impose on their users, which is where the large amounts of "implementation" comes from.