skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a film major and screenwriter. I store all my brainstorming, outline, and other relevant information in an Org file. I write the actual screenplay using Fountain Mode.

Fountain syntax is sensible and intuitive. This is, by far, the best screenwriting experience I have ever had. Other programs have a bunch of "story-management" features that I find bloated and useless. Fountain Mode allows me to use easily create sections that I can cycle just like in Org Mode. These "headings" organize act structure, plot points, and scenes.

The only downside is that I need to use an external tool to create PDF.

One way to make this setup even more awesome would be to integrate the screenplay with Org.
Google is a ad company, make no bones about it
I think the homogenization came with interstates, jets, and the quicker movement of people around the country. Your accent tends to come from the peers you were exposed to as a child and teenager and is nearly fixed by the time you're an adult. I have noticed a generational decline in southern accents in my own family. But my grandfather was born well after the radio became widespread.
id Software contributed many excellent games to Linux, but they're no longer doing it.
I believe a solution like this is an elegant way to ensure that the customer gets what they 'believe' they are buying which is a sure-fire way to keep the customer happy.
Putting a price on his skills and talent? How dare he!
It might also be sufficient if manufacturers open-sourced devices (designs, firmware, software) at end of life.
> Karthik: Right. Maybe you can give some other examples in the world. But he was celebrated when he was administering the occupation of Kashmir. But the moment he criticized the BJPs occupation of Kashmir, the moment he criticized it as reducing Kashmir to a “vassal state”, he’s been in prison.
> NC: In prison?
> Karthik: Yes, in prison, without charges.

This news article (https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/inx-med...) and several others seem to indicate that the Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a charge-sheet and that Chidambaram is out on bail right now.
The initial First Information/Incident Report was filed way back in May 2017.
Yeah. My Mac's for sitting at the desk or taking to the cafe and getting shit done. The PS4's for sitting on the sofa playing games.
Clearly you’ve never struggled to the extent someone has where they finally HAD to reach for help.

I love that a large group of people that are well and don’t have ADHD seem to think they can tell people with ADHD that they’re full of shit and really don’t have it.
"Non-apology..." "Completely incompetent..."

What are you talking about? This letter from the CEO of the company clearly apologies, takes 100% responsibility, makes zero excuses. And among other changes, it plainly promises the devices will be supported for the foreseeable future.

To quote: "[T]hey will continue to work as they do today. We are not bricking them, we are not forcing them into obsolescence, and we are not taking anything away."

If you worked at this company in any role (CEO or something else - you choose), what specifically would you have done differently so far?
Deplin [0] is a patented prescription version of Vitamin B-9 aka L-Methylfolate. It's approved as an add-on treatment for when so-called antidepressants don't help with a person's symptoms. There's a genetic test that tells if a person is a poor methylator who especially needs Folate instead of folic acid.

I don't know how they decided to run the genetic test, I just heard that they did and that folate really helps her. She eventually switched to non-prescription folate (from the supplement aisle), probably mostly because of cost, or maybe some other reason.

Folate is cheap enough to experiment with: if you notice something dramatic, keep taking it.

[0] https://deplin.com/what-is-deplin
Why Sorbet (the Ruby type checker) is fast
I don't exactly have a playbook. I generally just fix as I go. I try to install the project, fix any errors, run the test, fix the errors, etc. I can say that some version jumps have been almost no work and probably the max time I've spent is an hour to get everything working. It used to be a bit harder, but nowadays Pharo has automatic refactoring for deprecated methods, which helps...
my solution has been bookmark in Pocket -> Zapier -> MakeMySummary -> Todoist

1. Collect in Pocket
2. On a new add to Pocket trigger a Zapier task to Summarize it
3. Summarize the item in MakeMySummary https://www.makemysummary.com. Although this is optional, i find it easier to have some sense of the item i bookmarked without reading/viewing it fully. And i built it in my spare time to solve this exact problem.
4. On Summary done, Zapier will make a Todoist Task for me to review at a later time

Added benefit with Pocket is its searchable, so if and when i need, i can look up something i bookmarked. Google links expire as several noted in the comments.
That's quite the exaggeration considering that Unity, Unreal engine and other engines support Linux very well.
I've worked remote with a small team by having image of me on a monitor. I heard what was talked around the monitor and could push-to-talk comment back.

It didn't feel distracting the way receiving a phone call while being remote felt. It's clunky enough that people didn't come up unless they had to and I still could keep up with the verbal information that was passed along with the office gossip.

Some people get really bothered about this idea and probably if you are working on independent tasks you don't need to be so connected. For tight teamwork I found it to be the least bad option.
> This isn't true. It's about population control

Uhh, why do you think that? So far, I only see evidence that mass surveillance is to catch criminals and for marketing.

"1984" was a work of fiction, and it seems more a warning about perpetual war, totalitarian, and the communism concept of "cult of personality" than just surveillance.
Fountain Mode is awesome. I use it for all my screenplays. Thanks!

One suggestion: I have use Org Mode to store all my brainstorming, outline and other relevant information. I think it would be wonderful if I integrated it with the script somehow.
If you don't have a signup link, it's pre-alpha.
I would expect rating should be an exponentially weighted moving average, first and foremost, with ratings also weighted by some form of user reputation. The user reputation is the hard part (at least for Amazon I guess)
I heard the virus originated from bats, like SARS did, not seafood.

Bat cave solves mystery of deadly SARS virus — and suggests new outbreak could occur (2017):
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9
I can probably buy a truck of Encyclopaedia Universalis for $1000 (I'm even tempted to say $0).
While running my first business GA was not really usefull (We used internal tools easier to integrate in the code and adapt to our needs).

However GA data showed its usefullness when selling the business. The data was considered as a trusted source of information for the buyer.
And all the definitions (unique user, etc) were aligned with the buyer's, so it was easier for them to assess the metrics.
If people had been willing to ask themselves basic sanity question like that, the entire company / product would have never existed in the first place
The other side of the coin is that there are lot of (or at least some) doctors who will “misdiagnose” a patient to get them appropriate treatments that insurance would otherwise not pay for.

Personally, I had a number of very large lipomas on my body that no insurance would normally ever cover the removal of as they were cosmetic and socially stigmatizing and not dangerous to my health. My doctor filled out all the necessary forms with the proper magic language and my insurance paid the bill. These are simple, 10 minute, outpatient medical procedures that require a knife and $.25 of numbing agent. I could have done it myself if I could buy something OTC to numb myself.

Not all doctors are just looking to pad their billables.
Sure, but isn’t that true in the remote world as well? I can’t imagine it’s very good form to just reject a call or ignore it when you’re busy doing something else, you have to provide a reply to the person about why you can’t talk, and then that’s just as good as having done the same thing to a person physically in your office.
I mean $400 dumb speakers can be expected to last for decades with minor repairs now and then. Sonos just wants to turn speaker ownership into a subscription like with phones.
If you speak other languages Wikipedia certainly gets very interesting. German Wikipedia is pretty good, for some topics it is better than English Wikipedia. But Spanish Wikipedia is quite sad to read, todays articles have the quality I remember from when Wikipedia was 2 or 3 years old even though there are many times more Spanish than German speakers in the world.
Then there are the Swedish and Cebuana Wikipedias which are large but were mostly created by a bot with almost useless stub articles.

It makes me wonder what information sources other countries like China, India or Japan use.
The current version of Fountain Mode has the

fountain-export-buffer-to-fdx

command, which exports to Final Draft's native format.

However, exporting functions are scheduled to be removed in the next version. When that happens, you can simply create a free account on https://writerduet.com/ to perform the conversion.

Other free tools that can do the same.
Yeah slack statuses are already bad enough for micromanaging bosses
Before I retired, I avoided getting a cell phone because of this. Where I was working, I could see that my co-workers were using their cell phones as a company intercom. I didn't want any part of that.
I can remember it, I think in setups where the TV signal was passed through a VCR (so it could be recorded) and then into the TV. If the VCR detected there was no useful signal it would output a blue image instead of static.

Just showing raw static was much more common though.
Options dont matter when roads are already clogged. Whether the cars are electric or not wont make a difference.

Bikes/scooter are last mile transport, sure, you can squeeze another 10% capacity out of them or whatever. Maybe another 10% from car pooling. That's it. The only way to get more throughput on the surface is to replace cars with buses. The only way to get more throughput underground is to expand the tube. It does not need to be sweaty or ear damaging, in Prague our metro is really nice, and so is the one in Madrid.

The boring tunnel is basically useless, a hundred of them will move less people than a single tube line.

There is no space in central megacities for cars and the sooner you people realise that, the sooner we can start solving the problem.
The UX isn't all that bad other than on mobile, which is one of the worst experiences imaginable. I use it pretty regularly and the comments about the quality and latency really bear out. There's a weird issue with the server that the longer it stays up, the longer authentication takes (up to 60s on our server now), but that's only a minor issue that's probably fixable trivially if we cared.
This is good, but also leads to the obvious follow up question of how stringently it has and will be enforced. It's also illegal to lose PII and credit info for millions of people but, well, here we are.
> The Australian Department of Health initially referred to the color as "olive green", but the name was changed after concerns were expressed by the Australian Olive Association

Amazing.
EA has this with Origin Access (2 tiers, $5m/$30y and $15m/$100y), alongside Ubisoft with UPlay+ ($15m). And I guess platforms like Stadia would fall under this category.

Of course, the games are specific to the publisher or the partnerships the platform has.
Coronavirus forces Huawei to postpone developer conference
Annoying as it may be, it doesn't have to be pleasant to or even popular with broader society in order to be something iconic to our era. I can't speak to whether that's the case, though.
The EU is not a country, it is a collection of 27 countries.
I liked this article, but for anyone who suspects they might have ADHD and is looking for a more concrete plan of action:

1. Take the ADHD Self-Report Scale screening survey. It's been extensively validated and it's only 6 questions long: https://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/ncs/ftpdir/adhd/6Q_ASRS_Engl...

2. If you get a positive result, go see a psychiatrist (not a psychologist; they can't prescribe medication). A positive result isn't a diagnosis, but it's the closest you're going to get without a professional.

3. If you have ADHD, your psychiatrist will almost certainly start you on a stimulant like methylphenidate (Ritalin) or amphetamines (Adderall, Dexedrine, Vyvanse). Take the medication; it is the most effective treatment for ADHD by a wide margin.

4. Be ready to adjust. The right choice and dosage of medication varies so much between people that the state of the art is "try it and if it doesn't work try something else". Your psychiatrist should work with you to zero in on the right medication and dosage. This takes a while, so be patient and take notes so you can tell what's changed over time.

If you're looking for more comprehensive information, I find the practice guidelines aimed at medical professionals a good mix of practical and rigorous:

[AU] https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/advocacy-library...

[CA] https://www.caddra.ca/wp-content/uploads/CADDRA-Guidelines-4...

[UK] https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng87/resources/attention-de...

[US (child-specific)] https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/14...
Quick note from the author: Pragli has a feature that is inspired by a walkie-talkie. Pragli itself is not just an online walkie-talkie. Check out our homepage if you want to learn more about Pragli (pragli.com)
First off, I totally agree. Not as easy as it should be to write an async web server in python. FastAPI is probably your best bet. I usually use Sanic. Easy to accidentally block though.

That said, it sounds like you’re serving a large model. No amount of async/await or goroutines can solve this problem. A non-blocking web server is a godsend for I/O-bound tasks, but a large model is just a deep call stack - lots of multiply, nonlinear function like RELu, then add, times a billion. This would still block, even if you had perfect async/await code.

I made some assumptions here, but if I’m right, the answer is “shrink your model” and/or “buy more compute”. Neither of which are easy. But if you’re trying to shrink a model, check out Distiller https://github.com/NervanaSystems/distiller

Edit: the restriction I talk about is for event-loop based servers using something like uvloop or asyncio under the hood. Maybe this restriction doesn’t hold for other concurrency modes.
The Mutable Library for Haskell
Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring a Director of Marketing
In my condo, there's a bylaw that new owners must occupy the unit for one year, in order to discourage speculators and try to maintain a high percentage of owner occupation. While there are definitely efforts to skirt it, it does seem to mostly work.

Imagine if entire neighborhoods could create such ordinances. Prices would surely begin to trend downward, providing access to home ownership in desirable areas, allowing those with normal incomes to purchase starter property and begin families.

I wonder why this isn't ever discussed.
Tesla overtakes Volkswagen as world's second most valuable carmaker
“Marco Polo” is a pretty bad ass app for this...
> It's an invented problem created for a drug that didn't work out in the 80s

Discovered and written about before WW1, decades before a drug not working out in the 1980s. How very peculiar.

There are multiple studies, brain scans and what have you showing the treatment is not placebo effect.
Marketplaces: Underutilized Fixed Assets
It seems to be like that for cars too --- you can still easily get parts for a complete "classic 60s-70s" American car powertrain (carbureted V8 with points ignition, 4-speed manual/3-speed automatic, RWD live axle), with lots of aftermarket support and performance enhancement, but later models when computers were introduced are far more difficult and expensive to find parts for.
The trick is to get something covered to the point where you could comfortable refactor the bejeezus out of it, and know that it's still working from a higher level. The test should be how you know the code works, and under any situation.

That is, you don't need to test that inbuilt standard library stuff is working as expected (e.g does a string reverse) but rather, does the combination of possible inputs match your expectations?
Engineering Interactive Technologies
One consequence of this setup that people might remember: the Nintendo Entertainment System can produce a "color" below the standard black level because of the primitive (albeit clever) scheme used to generate the video signal. It's been alleged that this was forbidden for licensed games, but a few games (and the Game Genie) did use it [1], causing an unstable image on some TVs.

[1] http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Color_$0D_games
I don't see how 1984 is relevant here. The surveillance we have today far surpasses the simple ideas in that book.

> Uhh, why do you think that?

Because the people building the facial recognition pretty much say so? "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible" does not sound like marketing opportunities or criminal-catching to me! It sounds like a desire for total corporate control over the physical and digital world.

Not to mention, it is the logical end of using this technology; "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely".

Having such a powerful and omnipotent surveillance system in place enables totalitarian control over populations. This happens through chilling effects, through terrorism, mental boxing-in of populations ceding their free will to the government. Knowing that your own face is tracked everywhere you go and sold off to anyone and owned by your own government or other governments is dehumanizing. Do this for decades or centuries and you will have a very humanized and defeated population.

> So far, I only see evidence that mass surveillance is to catch criminals and for marketing.

I don't see any evidence like you are describing. I feel like we're living in different worlds.
At the same time, banning the one mechanism that inherently creeps people out might make them not worry about the problem as much, and we won't fight the more nefarious and less obvious mechanisms that come next.
Interesting, I get 4.000009
I e always found it funny how HN seems to put remote work on such a pedestal... some people cant concentrate remotely. Kids are a huge distraction, as are many other comforts of the home.
This is definitely the best way. Start with the how you want everything to look and make your code match your expectation.
I'm trying to convince my team to adopt a opt-in, voice only watercooler like that for some time, without success so far.

I makes a lot of sense to me, who have been doing this for over a decade with my friends.

Are you busy, don't join / mute yourself / go to the afk channel.

Are you waiting for a long build, just reading HN, between tasks? Join the channel and people can bond and talk about work/life.
What was it that made you move, and what is it that will make you stay?
Your dosage might be too high if you're experiencing emotionally empty. I recommend looking into Vyvanse. It's been a game changer for me compared to Adderall.
The competition is around serving the most relevant monetizable information. Google’s search quality for static content is arguably decreasing, while that kind of Search is a service I would personally like to pay for.

If Google were to “split up”, I as a customer would like a paid-for, transparant, utility search on one hand. My money can go to dealing with SEO abuse. On the other hand as a business I would like an ad-serving product, to which customers can voluntarily subject themselves to.

The two organizations would have to become separate business units, because I don’t want what’s currently happening: I search for information and get disinformation that others paid for.
Which company do you work for? I hope that you don't work for a FAANG or any other similar bigtech as those have probably more negative output (mass capitalism surveillance) than this company.
this reeks of internal political problems. this isn't good for google nor for google's partners. the only reason they would autocannibalize is if there are too many engineers sitting around doing almost nothing so they start inventing problems to solve.
I work from home and even when I have no startup plans I still keep two separate browser profiles, ssh keys, directories etc, exactly for the benefits you mentioned. Things like autocomplete suddenly become "smarter" if they know I'm looking for something work related.
In my experience, ignoring someone stopping by your desk is very different from not answering the phone. A phone call doesn't have the same degree of immediacy nor the same expectations of a response
Wow that's fascinating, I'd never really thought about page distribution.

I have good feeling that the majority of those views are due to Google providing the answer for almost anything that can be found on Wikipedia in an "instant search result" box. It has a wikipedia link beneath it to read more, and I guess many people do.
Systematically Improving Espresso: Insights from Modeling, Experiment
you don't seem to understand the concept of opportunity cost. In this case what is the optimal maximum they can extract for this product. The production cost is almost irrelevant.
> there is a growing public sense that the powerful cannot be held subject to justice any more.

Wrong. Not that they cannot.

Just that they ARE not. That only lasts for so long until people are fed up.

Then, reset.
I think people tend to think of "female" as a bit clinical of a term.
Wikipedia is becoming so much more than an encyclopedia. I am constantly amazed at the level of detail people are willing to document things in.

For instance, I wanted to find which episode I was up to in a particular series, so I Google it, find a Wikipedia page for the series, and sure enough there's a table listing every season and every episode, with a short synopsis of each episode.

I'd say a very large portion of all page views are due to media related queries (TV shows, movies, books etc.).
"The long term solution is, then, not eradicating ADHD's existence, but building a society in which individuals with ADHD can prosper in their unique ways." - Spot on the mark. Not that ADHD can be "eradicated" but having a society that makes it easier for people with ADHD to thrive is important.

A lot of our institutions (education, employment etc) are a good fit for the "neurotypical" among us, which makes coping with ADHD difficult, even though it does go hand-in-hand with a lot of positive traits (empathy, creativity, "hyperfocus" etc).

We can use the associated strengths to our advantage as much as we like, but for me, that means working staggered hours (my focus/drive follows a cycle that means I could be a 5am-er for a few days, then back to being a night owl when it comes to work output), and that just isn't possible with a day job, unless I put up with being half as productive. When I was consulting and working mainly from home, it was great as I could "surf the wave" of this cycle, so to speak, but with a day job, and the expectation that I can work regular hours alongside other people, it's no longer an option.

That example is specific to me, but I'm sure there are loads of other ADHD traits that make life difficult simply because they don't fit the mold of "regular people" - my kids are a good example, especially my 11-year-old... he'll annihilate a book in a single sitting and he's an incredibly bright kid, but he's a straight-C student.