skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment is a non-sequitor to the parent. You appear to be referring to neurotypical people abusing amphetemines ("people high on .."). GP is referring to using a prescription to manage an actual disorder.

They're not the same thing, at all. Please do not commit the offense of saying that there's no such thing as ADHD, "everyone has trouble doing ..", etc.
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What if there was a kind of search engine with support for all these schemas? An open platform for interfacing with websites supporting this structued data.

I know Google supports some of them (Product, Recipe, Article, etc...). This would support all of them as well as a way to push Actions (eg, OrderAction to order food from a restaurang)

Websites would expose json+ld data instead of html and clients could decide how these responses would render and interact with.

Does anything like this exist?
It reminds me of the time I took a 1 credit class in TeX and John Shipman marked me off a point because I wrote a self-modifying macro.
> Privacy isn’t important until, suddenly, it is.

That suddenly might come sooner rather than later, as the Chinese Tencent has invested an undisclosed amount into Discord: https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...

The same Tencent that owns WeChat, used as a surveillance tool for results such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vspukvqxTSg
> No language feature (or library) exists in isolation (or at least it shouldn’t). Feature interaction is among the hardest of problems, and often underestimated both as a problem and as something useful

The problem of feature interaction is not underestimated by anyone who has had to use C++ for any length of time.
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Anytime an application is "tweaking the flux capacitor" I roll my eyes. I can't stand jokey loading screens in anything other than indie video games.
It's always gonna be hard to block first party ads that come from the same domain as the content. Fortunately almost no ads like this are really malicious.
That assumes a hot market where values are riding quickly. The math doesn't work very well if the value growth is around the typical 3% per year.

Also, if the value of appreciation really is that high I don't think it is correct to leave that forfeited value out of the "renting is cheaper" equation.
The difference is that, on a turbo roundabout, when you're on it, you're not allowed to go straight when on the right lane. Right lane is only for exiting the roundabout, while left lane is for either exiting or going forward to the next exit. This contrasts with the regular roundabout, where if you try to exit from the left lane, you are risking collision with someone on the right lane who's not exiting.
The trick is probably to expose enough to be useful and convince the user that you have more useful details on the full webpage. For example when I search something and get a full StackOverflow answer presented above the search results (both in ddg and google) that often leads to me following the link to read the comments and alternative answers to learn about the gotchas and nuance of the solution. Or to stay with the example of GP, you might tell google that a page is about an apartment or a hotel room with two bedrooms and two toilets, but anyone interested will still click through to see pictures and additional detail.
In a traditional 2 lane roundabout you aren't forced out of the roundabout. An example would be https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9561738,-86.1623079,150a,35y...
In 1939 Germany declared war on Poland after having invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia.
I can recommend reading the books Atomic Habits, Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. The biggest takeaway from all 3 imho is environment design [1] [2], explained best in Atomic Habits (but also "used" in the other 2).

Also I'd recommend the Pomodoro technique, which is quite useful for me.

[1] https://jamesclear.com/power-of-environment
[2] https://jamesclear.com/environment-design-organ-donation
Utilitarianism is about whether the consequence justifies your course of action. If your goal is to prevent the 9/11 attacks, torturing whoever is the wrong solution. If your goal is to make people feel better, maybe, but even then I'd posit that you'd make them feel better by preventing 9/11.
Has anyone considered a hostile fork of .org? Set up an alternative root that initially mirrors PIR. Cache existing domains until their registration expires. Encourage domain owners to register with the fork using enticing terms. Like offering to rebate the cost of registering with PIR to be in both databases. Or offer much longer terms. Solicit ISPs to point their DNS to your root. Set a cut-off date that after which you'll stop resolving new domains registered with PIR. Give the internet the ability to vote with their feet and wallets who gets to be in charge of the root.
> The clock is a publicity stunt—and a successful one.

Is it? I had no idea it was still a thing. I associate it first and foremost with fiction. Specifically, Dr. Strangelove: the campy black comedy that's fifty-six (56) years old.

If pushed, I probably would have guessed it was a real thing from the Cold War. Let me be clear: I couldn't have said with certainty that the Doomsday Clock was a real thing.

I had no idea that it was maintained in 2020. It belongs in the era of Burt Ward in tights. "Time to Stop the 'Doomsday Clock' — Because No One Cares" might be a better title.
> You often hear this advice but for someone who has a difficult time starting things, the idea of "building systems" is overwhelming.

Interesting. Elaborate please.
I'm not sure that's true?

They have various values, like integers, etc all setup, They don't have a benchmark exactly, but they have Review, which can hold various values, such as:

PropertyValue or
QualitativeValue or
QuantitativeValue or
StructuredValue

so you can record both opinion based values and discrete values about various properties. Plus Review holds an overall value(AggregateRating ).

Sure they don't have a discrete type "GraphicsCard", but they do have generalized things, with value based items you can store about a thing you are calling a Graphics Card.

So I think it's totally possible, but I've only spent a few minutes looking, so I may be missing something.
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That is terrible. Why would they refuse treatment for non-terminal cancer?

Sounds like this is more a problem with NHS-specific bureaucracy or NHS funding rather than universal healthcare in general, though.
In the article it says 80 percent of the investments fail. If you can have that risk, I genuinely don't see the problem.

Heck for my personal angel investments I use 95 percent will fail. Yes it's risky, but the entire point was to find something that returns in the hundreds of percents rather than 7%.

The math works out.

I only worry about evil businesses getting this VC money or uneducated people making bad decisions on investments.
I'd rather systematically measure and monitor my code and systems (which should be done anyway) than waste my time with slower CPUs, memory, disks, NICs, etc. I've spent some time doing embedded, and I'd never dream of using an 8mhz, 16bit machine just because that's what my target runs.

If a fast cpu masks a "problem", I'd submit that it might not be a problem. Hardware is cheap, I try to save my brain cycles for stuff that matters, like HN, .emacs.d, and codegolf!
It simply joins the other cloud services that doesn't provide E2EE.

If you don't own the encryption key (and can be certain nobody else does), then your data is not private.
The opposite, in fact. My professor talked about the amazing things he did with Fortran. Then I had to learn it in order to find the bugs. I'd never use it by choice.

I know of 4 major languages created in the 1950's: Lisp, Algol, Fortran, and Cobol. Lisp and Algol were brilliantly designed, years ahead of their time, and have inspired nearly every programming language since then. Fortran and Cobol not only look like evolutionary dead ends in hindsight, but they weren't pleasant to use even when they were popular.

There's a reason we still see Lisp posts on HN almost every day, and very rarely Fortran posts.
Procrastination is a word often used to describe others without knowing the internal state.

If my boss decides on a fancy but obviously useless project and I work on something else instead, then to the uninitiated onlooker it might look as if I am procrastinating, whereas in reality I am following up on a rational decision not to waste my valuable lifetime on a useless initiative.

Similarly, students not studying for a test looks like procrastination to the parents, but if the student knows that the test results don't matter, it can be a good and rational decision to spend your effort on something else instead. "Procrastinating" on learning for a Latin exam and instead coding in C++ for fun seems like a highly profitable choice.
I'm an anesthesiologist so I frequently inject people with hypnotics and sedatives.

There's definitely a sweet spot where people will say things they probably otherwise wouldn't. Much like alcohol I guess but perhaps a bit more potent.
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Mass surveillance and warrantless invasion of everyone's privacy does not violate human rights?
> I've been in this A/B test for a couple of months now, so I've had time to adjust, and I still hate it.

I have been trying to switch from google to duckduckgo for years but its only the past few months that I have been successful and I have google to thank for that.
> How do you even add them.. it's like asking what is the utility of the statue of liberty plus the utility of NAFTA?

You add them by asking how much each part of the utility function makes you want to do a thing.

As TeMPOraL says, for your specific example you could do that in dollars, but perhaps a more emotionally affective example than USA icons would be asking how many oranges someone would need to offer you to convince you to have a hand amputation without anaesthetic: if you’re well fed, it’s ridiculous to even ask as even a lifetime supply of citrus fruit won’t come close, but if you’re literally starving to death you might well choose to lose a hand to gain anything edible.
> but there is a very great deal that can be put in a C++ library that is wholly beyond Rust's capacity.

Just out of curiosity, do you have some examples?
Past/related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878716

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482238

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975862
Imo cyan and blue are a lot closer than indigo and violet
Since Office is a first-class Microsoft component in Windows Update, I'd assume they can use the Windows Updates mechanism to set any group policy or registry settings they need to manage Chrome.
Here's one in Helsinki, Finland: https://goo.gl/maps/NoWE44KLKukEeq4d9

I also disagree that it is simple while you're on it although I have to admit that I'm not a very confident driver at the best of times so maybe that's just me.
Follow a lane around and you'll find that the inside lane becomes the outside and the outside lane exits.
I pay for NY Times (as well as several other papers, like the WSJ).

NY Times runs giant banner "subscribe" ads even if you're a paid, logged-in member. I still need ad blocking on!

I wouldn't mind ads equivalent to what you see in the real paper -- a Macy's ad at the end of an article, etc. But they should be in the page, and not popping up on top, on the bottom, or over the article.
I absolutely think there is a such thing as ADHD and these people were prescribed the medication to manage it. There was one person who I think managed to get a prescription despite being “normal” and I didn’t notice much about him that changed but we also didn’t hang out much after that.
Funny thing is, no one programmer can know all languages and systems, and with a short consult into an aspect of a system they're unfamiliar with, would be unlikely to give more than general advice.

Sounds an awful lot like the situation every GP is in... no one human can know everything about the body, so there are GPs that legitimately can't diagnose you.

On the other hand, the person with a particular bug to troubleshoot in themselves has all the time in the world to become their own specialist and do the knowledge synthesis that the generalists don't have the scope for.

I've read way more about my relatively common condition than anyone but the specialist I'm seeing, and I've come up with some things that he was not aware of in the process. Once down a certain condition's rabbit hole, the patient/specialist dialog really should be a give and take.
“so many parts of the industry rely on straight up theft.”

This will be a big issue in any kind of health care reform in the US. if they want to get costs even remotely in line with other countries a lot of people will either lose their job or make much less money. That won’t happen without a lot of resistance.
there's one channeled roundabout here, it might be great for residents but if you happen to be channeled in the wrong lane it's a 3km detour before you can get back where you wanted to go.
> GA provides objectively superior data and they probably get a lot of value from it

Which is why everyone uses it and we just sit back and accept the consequences. You can't be expected to be taken seriously if you simultaneously argue that other's shouldn't do something while yourself use it for precisely the same reasons everyone else does.
The main mental stumbling block I have about IPv6 (and I know it's kind of a silly one, but it's honestly what I feel on introspection) is that I can't remember an IPv6 address off by heart. IPv4 addresses just _feel_ so much more human-consumable than IPv6 addresses. I can't imagine myself using IPv6 addresses on the command line like I do with IPv4 now.

There's also the issue that honestly, I have no idea what is using IPv6 and what's using IPv4 right now. On my internal network I only ever deal with IPv4, but I have no intuition as to what is using IPv6; I couldn't tell you off the top of my head if my ISP supports it.
Yeah saw that too, it takes a bit of fiddling to get the right search term, try:

https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=City%20of%20Cape%20To...
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Can you provide a little elaboration on "the worst to be around"? What makes it like that for you?
You you want the "adults" bullying users and developers instead?

You really do not want what you are asking for.
Good point. For SF, I'm out. I would probably just insist on working remotely to avoid the daily commute there.
Was it "his" money, or Saudi Arabia's, though?
IIRC, the Python used in the macOS vim(1) is still 2.x. So at least on a Mac it won't be possible to just move on to Py3 and forget / uninstall Py2 for the foreseeable future.
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It's a broken social contract; more akin to re-zoning that apartment out of existence after you lived there for 20 years.

And for a profit motive, targeting the segment of the neighbourhood least able to complain, defend themselves or move.
I had the same reaction. According to Teacher Toms tag line, he is teaching preschoolers. I am not even clear if he understands preschoolers.

My observations of preschoolers is that they are learning the rules of the universe. That means very hands on discovery of the practical side of how things work coupled with a vivid imagination and creativity. That sounds like STEAM to me.

When schools teach social and political subjects to young children they tend to simplify the subject to the point of not being true. Kids are not ready for nuance.
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> I'm not going to go into UX (even though it's more important) because I think learning how to think in simple design patterns is the baseline for creating usable products.

In my experience, engineers are ‘How it works’ people way more than they are ‘How it looks’ people. The UX article they didn’t write would be more helpful. It’d be hard to write, and I understand why they didn’t.

There’s a lot of good UI kits available now. Those open source projects need better UX way before they need better icons, fonts, logos, etc.
Yeah, but that's America's choice to pay so much more for drugs that the rest of the world pays less for. It doesn't make the US system in any way better.
What?

a) From Wikipedia: The allegations were from buzzfeed, and were later unsubstantiated in an official enquiry with the 'victim' who said "she did not feel victimized, felt it was a clumsy interpersonal interaction and thought she had handled it in the moment."

b) What does this have to do with his opinion on the doomsday clock?

Honestly this outrage culture, and mob mentality is pathetic.
They see all of your traffic anyway, so it doesn't really matter if they also see your DNS traffic, it's not like HTTPS hides who you are visiting.
Hi, I'm one of the STX Next content crew. We actually have a companion piece to this that goes over the reasons why you should migrate: https://stxnext.com/blog/2019/07/30/why-migrate-from-python-...

Maybe that would be useful for a conversation with one's boss.
So patients who have difficult to treat illnesses or low chances of survival don't get treated at all?

"Healthy" is also a bit of a misnomer, as there are plenty of (currently) incurable conditions that require treatment not to improve, but to keep from getting worse. For those people, healthy is either not achievable, or is a very different state of being than others.
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Another potential problem is that it's not always possible to make a U-turn at a roundabout like this. Sometimes you can, but not always.
It was a synecdoche but thanks for the ad hominem.
The three IP's they return when you do a DNS lookup originate form Rumania, Switzerland and the island country Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The site was created by Russians though, just not sure it is hosted there anymore.
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If you want, you can alias man to call `tldr $1` or `curl -s "cht.sh/tar" 2>&1` first, then call man, then pipe the output into `cat` and again into `less`, like so:

man() {
(tldr $1 ; man $1) | cat | less
}

Edit: rewrote without the `&&` conditional
Something related but executed locally: https://comunica.linkeddatafragments.org/
I don’t know, they’re less self aware and extremely assertive? They’re usually way louder.
Is it? You can run a DNS server on a watch.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9561738,-86.1623079,150a,35y... is a "standard" two lane roundabout. Roundabouts like https://www.google.com/maps/place/Minneapolis,+MN/@44.883386... are more similar to a turbo roundabout but does not force traffic out after 3 exits or less, the inner lane could be followed indefinitely.
There's one in Espoo, Finland (Suomenoja). It's apparently the "roundabout from hell", although I don't personally get it. https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/espoo/art-2000005975273.html
Persistant SSH Threats?
For the past few months my server has seen an SSH connection attempt about once a minute. There is no reason to SSH to my server as there is nothing on it except at static website.

The SSH connections are coming from seemingly random IP addresses, rarely from the same one twice.

Is anyone else seeing such connection patterns?
This is interesting, because I've latched onto a particular color of masking tape for labeling. It's a light green, a color shared by very few other objects in the indoor environment.

https://www.paintersmategreen.com/

It stands out against cardboard and all the variously-colored plastic boxes I own, and it's light enough to offer great contrast with a black Sharpie on it.

So for me, that color is useful specifically because it's relatively unique.
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Does it need to be better? There are many quotes about simply being content in life. I finally realized it's okay for me to spend time playing Call of Duty if that's what I want to do. If I wasn't doing that, I'd most likely be doing some other hobby that may not have any particular value either. As long as I take care of my health, family, and job, my "spare" time is mine.

Edit: Yuck, that sounds worse when I read it back. I do volunteer and donate to charity as well. I'm not completely selfish.
They're most likely referring to the provider reselling your data (basically you're trading scattered tracking on many providers to NextDNS getting all your DNS lookups, which can be resold without your knowledge)
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Sometimes I think downloading an mp3 on mIRC was to me what taking a picture with a Polaroid was like to my great grandfather (or whatever tech was first coming out). Downloading anything means very little to my son, but I still remember the joy I got from downloading Tears_in_Heaven-Eric_Clapton.mp3 in some room on Dalnet.
This is the main way people deal with modernity: hobbies that mimic the surface characteristics of "the old ways".
I created Chart It as a platform to create and share charts on the web. There's no signup required. I would love any feedback.

Although Excel, Google Sheets and similar apps have great charting functionality, I didn't find any simple way to create charts to share. I'd have to create the chart, take a screenshot or somehow save to an image and then find an image hosting platform. I also wouldn't be able to include the data or allow anyone to customize my chart.

So I created Chart It as a simple platform to create and host charts.

The site is a static site built in React Typescript with AWS services.
On a regular two-lane roundabout some people don't use the inner lane when they want to go left, as they are afraid of not being able to merge to the outer lane. This design makes it easier to use the inner lane to go left.
> A voluntary exile. I would personally like it, but who would finance it?

Us. All of us. All hail mesh networks.
My wife is a resident. She used to intern at PCP clinics and was invited by her supervisor (a physician) to one of the dinners hosted by pharma companies (Sanofi, if I remember correctly). The dinner was a feast. The doc invited everyone in her clinic and their immediate family members. We had Shirmps, Lobster, Wagyu beef (I know it's a redundant word, but that's how it's known in the US), lamb to our fill. Sanofi rep footed the bill (and asked us to sign our names on a sheet when we arrived).

Experiencing that dinner and seeing my host family mom (a practicing psychiatrist in the US for a private psychiatry hospital) getting food every week from pharma reps, makes me feel disgusted about the connection between doctors and pharma companies in the US.
Besides vocabulary/characters, in what sense is Mandarin not simple?
We have one of these close to where I live. The idea is that the inside lane automatically becomes the outside lane after half way around, and when you are on the outside lane you are automatically forced to exit soon after.
What about people who consciously (or unconsciously) live extremely unhealthy lifestyles?
Hi. Thanks for your response. So far we have noticed that the time we spend in overheads for these small tasks is very minimal compared to the larger projects we take on through our other agency. Over here it is very cut to the chase, and we only need to know to know the files and logic for the microtask. We are not interested in the overall vision and roadmap of the product. We just cut to the chase. Whereas for larger projects - in addition to tons of project manangement, a lot of time is spent on trying to understand the product, figure out the industry, UI/UX, user testing and research and maintenance.