skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still don't quite get this need to show strangers. I've had it explained to me, but I'm pretty sure it is part of a cultural shift, i.e. I'm old.

I'm a graybeard, too, and I share your lack of understanding about this.

The only time that I feel it's important to "show people" stuff is when I'm wanting to learn or reinforce my own understanding of it. I've found a lot of truth to the old saw that the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else.
I achieve the same by running two consecutive regex search and replace and a single backspace click

s/^/"/
s/\n/“, /

(Change all beginning of line to double pling. Change all new lines to double pling, comma, space)

I don’t even store this as a procedure, I just ctr-f and do it from whatever text editor I’m in (I’m not an Emacs user)

The nice thing about search and replacing your way out of problems is that it works on coworkers machines.

I’m not saying it’s better than a stored procedure or a macro but once you’re into it, it’s easy to regex your way out of all sorts of adhoc problems :)
I've never seen them push that as a marketing angle.

As a 23andMe customer from a couple years ago, it never even occured to me to try re-running the results.
I did basic accounting without needing any calculus. In fact I only used calculus after trying some machine learning. 90% of the population doesn't use calculus in their life.
A machine learning analogy for product/market fit
Oh, absolutely they should be firewalled by device if you are a salaried employee, especially since most employees work on computers that are the property of their company. But can't my employer assert that they bought all my time when I signed up to be an exempt employee? The moonlighting laws in CA seem to give them leway to so if they are in a related area to my project, which for AmaGoopleSoft is potentially everything that can be done with software these days.
Are you sure the blade is properly tightened? My Wilkinson requires some force to properly tighten, slightly bending the blade, at which point it's firm, sticks out less, at a different angle, and it's not as easy to cut myself.

Other helpful tips - let the hair soak for a couple of minutes; clean/dip the blade with >90% alcohol to remove moisture, preventing corrosion and dulling. Haven't had issues shaving since.
Sonos lets users choose to brick old devices in exchange for a discount. Ones that don't will no longer get updates past May.

The way this has played out in social media has been weird. I've seen more than one person turn this into "Sonos is going to brick all my devices!". It's either the world's worst communication strategy at work or people deliberately conflating two parts of one message.
I agree with the conclusion that AI dungeon might be the first glimpse of new kind of roleplaying game.

One tiny point i miss in the article is a reference to Dwarf Fortress, probably the most advanced fantasy world simulation.
> A fully free, stable, secure, simple, lightweight and long-term support distribution

The first, second and the last attributes make a kind of distributions I am really (really!) glad they exist but, unfortunately, am hardly going to use because from the real life perspective this means your hardware is not going to work, you won't be able to read common file formats and you will be limited to ancient version of software.
What nonprogrammers should know about programming
It's a proverb? From ancient China? If you want to go full on "take a proverb completely literally" planting a tree in January (in the northern hemisphere, far enough north) is probably a poor decision. I think the author assumes the reader isn't a computer.
> No one is going to pay you to tick the organ donor box

> World governments and wealthy private interests are right now paying huge sums of money

You are describing a different problem than the one the parent comment is describing. The latter is lobbying, which can be prevented through legal restrictions and auditing to make sure those restrictions are being adhered to.

The former is outright vote-buying. People who are looking for money can, and will sell their votes for money, goods, or jobs. This happens in less rigorous democracies like India today. This happened in the US as well with the old-time patronage machines in big cities. Even if you don't necessarily need to sell your vote to get any job, you might lose a job offer to someone else who was willing to demonstrate that they voted "correctly".

The existence of one problem does not minimize the other, and we should seek to strike as many impurities from the process as possible, rather than trading one devil for another.
This is true but unrelated to their current decline in sales since this isn't an option they currently offer.
Sad to see you're being downvoted for valid points. I'll admit I'm glad I don't have a job that involves staring at CSV or XML all day but I've found csv-mode and SimpleEmacsSpreadsheet lacking over the years, and large XML files can indeed be slow.
I am also a person with ADHD and the author really nails it.

Everything: Smart, but lazy every since I was a kid. Having to have a list when I am shopping, the endless and heartbreaking failed projects I desperately want to do and achieve but have been unable to do so. The reminders not working. I have to be going somewhere or doing something. 90% of the time I am just staring off into space and telling stories to myself, it has been this way ever since I was a kid. I slept through pretty much every single one of my classes. We would do reading around the classroom and I would always read ahead.

It causes a lot of friction with my SO. I can't go shopping with her because I HATE standing around waiting for her to select fruit and shop how she likes. I struggle to motivate myself to do the dishes and other household chores.

I have tried to organize my days but in the end the time falls away like water through my fingers. I have things I want to do, the time to do them, but I just... can't. I have piles of goals, plans, schedules, all of it falls to the wayside in day to day life. I read books on mindfulness and try to meditate, with some success.

I have been to many many therapists to try and MKULTRA myself into being more productive. I tell them all the same thing: I'm not depressed, I just want to achieve more of what I want out of life. It doesn't help. I am still just treading water.

I've been on ADHD medication before, and it is truly a miracle. I am a like a different person. I do extremely well as a programmer when I am on medication. Unfortunately, it is difficult to get, and I have to visit a doctor's office once a month to keep my prescription filled... honestly typing all this out makes me think I should go back on it though.

It is like my mind is screaming. My thoughts rush through me like a river and the things I actually want to do get swept along with everything else.

I crave dopamine. I work myself into a frenzy thinking about conflicts at work and between friends. I used to smoke cigarettes like a chimney. I smoke weed, I (used to) cut myself, I drink heavily. I hyper focus on comic books and video games and animation and novels.

I feel so much shame for all of these things I have never accomplished. I am ashamed I am not the person I should be.
Surprised they haven't expanded the offering to include regular blood panels and "doctor's recommendations" (subscription revenue). Hell, you could even do a "improve your bloodline" service that plainly explains how doing a, b, and c will help with that and set you on a life plan w/ decade-level health targets.

I'd have to imagine a well-packaged, boutique option for getting that done would be huge (and they'd have most of the infrastructure and relationships to do it). If it was affordable I'd buy it.
I've been thinking about this a lot recently and I've come to realize that ADHD symptoms seem to be a lack of skills in certain areas. Each of the symptoms are skills that you can train and become better at.
It was confusing because the person explicitly stated when someone says they experience something, believe them, and if you don’t understand then google it yourself. You responded by asking more questions, even though the post was explicit about how questions are exhausting and part of why a person may feel pushed away. This is why I said I’m confused, because it seems odd to respond to a post that expresses how questions are unwelcoming with more questions.
I believe if Trump were impeached for the same offense, with the same fact pattern, your assertion is not true.

The offenses and fact patterns in question are quite different in these two cases.
This is indeed an issue, but so many people are already on libido-suppressing drugs, between birth-control and antidepressants.

I guess you just chemically castrate everybody, and we live in platonic peace and harmony like in Futurama's Neutopia.
There are many physics ideas that are unknowable in principal due to the laws of nature. Back to the singularity.
May I ask what treatment is working for you?
Sure some safety features, like sending out a request for help when an accident occurs, might require tracking. But other systems like adaptive cruise control or active lane keep assist shouldn't require tracking. There needs to be a good reason for disabling tracking to disable a safety feature.
It's free if you order from GE directly through support. I was lazy and ordered mine off Amazon for $15.
Up to 2B times acceleration of scientific simulations with deep neural search
You can’t manually enter transactions in the register though last I checked. That’s the essential thing - predictive cash flow.
TripAdvisor was listed in the SP500 until late last December. Right there besides Caterpillar and Halliburton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies

But otherwise ya. They are a website with content, reviews etc.
That's a unique way of viewing it, cool.
Google is doing everything it can to tighten its stranglehold on the entire WWW, if another behemoth like Microsoft wants to put up a fight, I say have at it!

I certainly am not shedding any tears for Google, who relentlessly funnels people into their tools, automatically logs them in in chrome, pushes their products into schools to get young people into their data-vacuum as soon as possible. Not to mention shady practices like AMP trying to force developers to use their own version of HTML & serve their content on google.com, "or else say goodbye to your search ranking."

MSFT is definitely "picking on someone their own size" and certainly not doing anything more underhanded than what google routinely engages in, so I don't see the issue.
I believe it was God who included it, Moses just wrote it down.
It comes with the unit.
They would never snoop on a personal device - the risk of loss of user trust and pr has to be immesurably greater than any potential benefit. Maybe he used devices owned by Apple to work on his company.
> "Also, I really can't afford to live in the woods for a few months. I still need to pay for rent and food and healthcare and such. I'm glad that's an option for you but I can't do that."

That's exactly a big part of the problem; the way current society makes it impossible for most people to unwind, decouple and truly relax.

I'm struggling with my attention span and motivation, so I've been considering getting out of the tech business and greatly reducing stress levels in my life. I've already gotten out of the mindset of always needing to have the latest new thing and the mindset of trying to keep up with the Joneses, but my IT job keeps stressing me out. It's just pointless corporate busywork and dysfunctional processes and workflows all the way down.

I want something more straightforward, more beneficial to the world or even just to my local environment. It's never too late to make a change.
I have had an idea of how I would want to build a mint competitor, but I’m not up for the challenge. But I’d love to see yours. Can I get on the email list? My username at google’s free email service..
While this is bad, Google got Chrome installed on many computers using equally bad practices (Chrome defaults to Google search), which might be worst because they got executable files installed.
Knowing your DNA is basically is a sell-through for these test kit companies makes this is a nonstarter for me.
I just built an app that does this as part of its feature set - https://launch.getreconcile.com
asmjit has a register allocator, for sure not the highest quality one, but it's there in the asmjit's Compiler infrastructure.
I didn’t buy a test, because my brother did. Why pay $100 to get the same story twice?
This comment makes me think you didn't read the linked article.

No hardware is being made obsolete, or getting sent to the dump.
Me and my fiancé took turns reading the Silmarillion aloud. Its really brought out the mythic, epic poetic history aspect of it. Made me want to try reading the Illiad or Odyssey aloud -- maybe once I learn Iron Age Greek ;-)
I really prefer TripAdvisor data and reviews, but it is really difficult to compete to a monopoly. Google also is better at search and integrates better with their own service.

If at least they would allow me to download any city data in advance in their app. It used be possible to download the main cities in advance, but now you must have internet always on. They think that in any country you have internet everywhere.
Well, other people's unemployment may also reduce your salary prospects, stop career progression and make switching jobs much harder.

That said, you shouldn't ever carry any credit card debt anyway.
The writing out a physical check being better is a clear absurdity as opposed to having checks go out automatically for things like rent.

The real reason is that they charge for the paper checks, whereas the automated service was free, and so was a cost center for them.

If they had admitted that instead of trying to gaslight their customers I’d have respected them more.
I personally used marijuana for years to help me. The best strains I've found were high potency sativas (like 28%+) like Super Silver Haze or J1. I find the higher the percentage the sativa high tends to be more clear, energetic, and cerebral. If it's too low it's usually "muddied" so to speak.

Additionally, ummm how can I put this, if I took a break from smoking it wouldn't help with my ADD as it would make me anxious. If I smoked weed like a chimney (effectively mitigating most of its normal effects because of the increase in tolerance), it worked really pretty damn well most of the time (I could at least eventually start my work).

For me to have it work right (and I tried a lot of different ways of going about it), and maybe some folks are different, you need to pretty much be high all the fucking time so your tolerance is high enough. I'd smoke an ounce, by myself, in roughly 7 days to give some perspective.
It's a bit of novelty act right now. Like I know pretty well what my ancestry is and it isn't terribly relevant to my daily life as-is. If these guys told me I was actually part Cherokee or something unexpected, I'd shrug and continue doing what I'm doing.
That is a nice answer! Thanks! I'll check your pointers.

I don't want to be rude or anything, but to my understanding: the main feature of the group is that in it's name there is the word "woman" and priorities are set to make women feel good. The fact it's communicated through the name and goal makes the "magic" and help women feel good.

Is that correct?
Your germ line genome rarely changes. Your exome changes all the time. Your gut biome changes all the time. There's massive market opportunity but a ton of regulations around how to tap into that market opportunity.

On a separate note, Ancestry is going through a similar issue. They've had double digit revenue declines in their DNA testing suite. The truth around 23andMe and Ancestry is that they're really doing a super shallow sequencing and, I believe, are doing only genotyping. It's not super interesting in the long run because it's such a static dataset. Getting to exomic or metabolic/gut biome sequencing provides much more interesting insights into the human body.
Don't worry, they're RESPONSIBLE and SUSTAINABLE.

https://www.sonos.com/en/sustainability
sorry I'll take one complimentary stick as well to go along with everybody else
Eating to Save My Mind
Thanks! I actually planned to make results shareable at the start, but, knowing the internet, I did not like the idea of being held responsible for whatever content (say offensive or even illegal things) people would put into the titles.
How about if a judge gets to decide if they are required to be force-enrolled in to a class that teaches safety in similarly fitting situations and/or some quantity of community service from a list of activities that are fitting of rehabilitation and improving the commons.
How about the death penalty for the prosecutors involved?
Ask HN: When should a non-technical founder learn programming
As a non-tech founder, I’m currently in a quandary as to whether to learn to code. I've got pen & paper wireframes mapping out the respective screens & user flow & intend to create a high fidelity interactive prototype using Axure with its conditional logic functionality. This will give me enough interactive functionality for people to play with it & understand the offering. It should provide initial feedback, to confirm value prop. and give me a base from which to iterate going forward. My thought is that position I then have grounds to either shop it out to a contractor to build a more robust MVP or 1st version or alternatively to encourage a tech co-founder to come on board & hire a few engineers to build it out. I know there are a number of factors to answering the question & my main consideration is time. Is it worth me spending 6 months or so learning to code, just to be able to hack together something half-assed when I can achieve value prop confirmation in a fraction of the time using the aforementioned method. I understand learning to code I become a more well-rounded founder + am better placed not to be BS'd regarding technical stuff or timescales. However I'm not looking to play the martyr & learn to code just to appease people. For clarity, I have a basic understanding of some technical lingo & concepts & different programming languages etc but still, I wonder if this could see me through. I started learning Java in order to build an MVP for android, but I stopped. However it did give some insight into the process. My app is a social platform of sorts, which although down the road map, will become more complex - at present has a relatively simple range of functions (I understand even with the relatively simple. I’d appreciate your views on the matter.
Add Honest Achmed's root certificate (2011)
Gifting someone a thing that could be used as a paternity test at a baby shower would be more than a little rude. And presumably if both parents have already done it why would you need to test the baby?
It keeps a database of all the filter IDs it's ever seen and won't allow one ID to be in use for more than a certain period (6 months?) The reason folks use the bypass RFID chip is that it's the only chip that can remain intstalled "forever".
I’d say your intuition is correct.

The headline makes you think everything is back to normal, and that they’ve reversed course, but I can’t actually see that much has meaningfully changed.

It sounds like all your speakers will work after May, but if you have a mix of legacy and modern speakers, you’ll be forced to split them into two totally separate systems.
I'm also curious to know how people who use Python for data science and combine it with some other platform for web facing endpoints architect their apps in the cloud.
It is acceptable in native English. I think your target audience will understand. However, some people not in your target audience will get offended so it's up to you as to whether that's a problem for you.
Goldman Sachs says it won't do an IPO without at least one “diverse” director
It occurs to me that they could have followed the software trend where everything is a subscription service. As more is learned from the genome, they can deliver more value to the customers over time.
Don't say "us men" as if we were a single minded entity, thanks
I'm sure all services have similar problems so it's just a matter of picking your poison. The problem is that Google is so synonymous with search that people have forgotten they're a business. They expect the "best/most relevant" search results. Instead they get biased ones that tend to favor Google. And most will just take that as the best result.

And Google does its best to obscure the fact that the search is anything but fair (see also the recent move to blur the lines between paid ad results and organic search results). To most it just looks like the super smart algorithm found exactly what they needed. In reality it just found more Google.

So maybe the problem is not necessarily Google but people's expectations. Nobody asks a McDonald's clerk what the best burger is thinking they'll get a fair comparison with Burger King’s offer. They do expect this from a Google search.
Reposting myself on the subject[1]:

For anyone not aware (or confused by Silicon Valley tradition on constantly rewriting origin stories), TripAdvisor started in the dot com bubble as a B2B site. They clearly stated their business model was to provide reviews to other sites. Only that after the bubble burst, TripAdvisor had none left. They then basically invented modern SEO: long descriptive URLs, pages pulled out of a db with keyword variations in mind, constantly refreshing content with user submissions, and, the killer, buying links to influence Google’s naive ranking methods (which quickly evolved this to buying entire sites for their SEO potential). The billion dollar public valuation is entirely the result of a decade long SEO play.

(Source: was in online travel related business at the time. Was the first to buy links form Matt at SeatGuru, later acquired by TripAdvisor)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21516006
Correct, though my first search for "Mac Pro Server" actually turned up their server software that you can buy on the app store for, I swear it said $1999, and the image was of a laptop.
It's true that atmospheric nuclear testing has produced trace elements that were basically never on Earth before 1945, like Strontium-90 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90]. Strontium-90 has a half life of about 29 years, so it will be detectable for a few thousand years or so. Some others last longer.
I did it 6/7 years ago because the novelty, and enthusiastically recommended it to family and friends. Now I regret doing it considering how Google and Facebook has abused consumer data. I definitely would not submit my kids to the same fate.
While it’s true that there will be a lot of visitors using Google Maps, I still think that it’s a shame that we’ve ended up reliant on a private company to direct us around. In the ideal longer term, it’d be better to use this effort to improve crowd-sourced or collaborative mapping solutions.
Fascism will always seed as a reactionary impulse against competing traditions. And it is competition, on a culturally genetic level.

The choices for all immigrants are assimilation or coexistence, and the latter is a strong lightning rod for the anxieties of neighbors wary of anything different.
Ha! In the model's defense, its training data [1] ends in 2017 -- not sure if hatred for Electron was as prevalent back then.

[1] https://archive.org/details/14566367HackerNewsCommentsAndSto...
You may be technically correct, but the complaint is just a facet of the deeper (more real) issue: people want to own and control their data and they increasingly do not trust other parties. Even if 23&Me requires a warrant rather than a suppoena that's just nuance lost in a haze of "the customer is the product" exploitation that consumers hate yet feel forced to accept just like "click through" legalese.