skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Have you ever had a test?

At university a councilor (or similar) said they believe I have ADHD but it was near the end of a school year so nothing came out of it.

For what is worth, I've tried most common adhd meds on my own and while they definitely they also ruin my sleep so I am not convinced that going through the hassle of getting an official diagnosis will help all that much.
False. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMC_YS-11
I don't care, I just find it odd how you didn't really answer but got off a tangent on how trustworthy of this app we should be.
As far as i know Nintendo is the only console maker still having region locks and being extremely fussy about transferring your purchases when your hardware dies/is replaced.

I'd call THAT anti consumer.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but that's the impression I got from reading here and there and the reason I don't own Nintendo products.
That’s precisely why I’m building https://jmmv.github.io/endbasic :-)
This story is almost too good to be true.

I can confirm from my own experience, that it's pretty easy to accidentally absorb LSD by skin contact.
Discussion from 2017 when Adobe released the end-of-life information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848786 - “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
Question for the HN crowd - seems like people doing any sort of self promotion on these types of questions inevitably get downvoted. Is there a stated rule against it or is it just generally not appreciated?
My hack is that I'll start doing a thing while wondering if I should do it. Instead of standing around thinking about whether you should do dishes, do a bit while you think about it. And usually then it's easier to just finish.
Do you know about OS-level I/O caching/buffering? They make the sequential speed more important. And in case one wants to get faster, there is no need to go all SSD. There is often a lot of data but I/O touches only small part of it, so one can use few fast cache SSDs + many spinning disks in a cluster to achieve good enough performance with better price. There you go, spinning drives still make a lot of sense.
You create a Project in Geany. It will then integrate with `make`, so when you click `build` it will run make for you.

Myself I don't use this feature, I mostly use PHP code. I am very happy with Geany as a lightweight IDE or texteditor and have been using it for years.
> it's my device that I've paid for so there shouldn't have unnecessary restrictions imposed on it

Another way of looking at it is that it’s a platform to which they have licensed you access ... of course under those terms it should be lease rather than outright purchase (eg like a proprietary set top box) but I guess the market hasn’t quite wised up to that yet ...
One of my profs used to say that when it came to science Canada had a bronze medal mentality. We also cancelled a supercollider program in because it was more politically expedient to spend the modest grant required on low income housing for the more politically influential eastern provinces and did absolutely nothing to protect Nortel as they were slowly picked apart by Chinese intelligence.

https://www.bcbusiness.ca/ubcs-particle-accelerator-what-cou...

https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-dow...
Covid has been curtailed mainly with extremely expensive lockdowns.

The purpose of the apps is to control the spread going forward, without lockdown.
Perhaps it was driven by the Bing team's request for more ad impressions. The Windows product manager might have wanted the feature to satisfy the Bing team, without deluding themselves into thinking Windows users would like the feature.
Here in the UK, a lot of places are going electric only as we try to improve air quality. It hasn't reached the point of whole areas, but particularly bad roads...

https://www.ft.com/content/2982a382-20b3-11ea-92da-f0c92e957...
I use the moniker "CEO Richard Johnson" for such stories.

Anyway I'm so painfully aware of the 80/20 rule that during college I came up with the concept of "lifetime success rate" as in - "the end result of any endeavor done with the maximum effort one could apply".

Mine is at around 83%[0], which makes getting to 90% of anything a nightmare.

[0] This was my result of the final high school exam in Physics - a subject I almost failed a year before and managed to learn from scratch with the guidance of the best tutor I ever had.
That's really about location and specific skillsets. An "average" developer can be hired in 2nd tier cities for $70-90k salary.

Long time ago I worked in the US company based out of the Toronto area that ended up with IT ops people in call centers all over the US and Canada. It worked really well -- the Canadian developers were awesome, and IT type people are easy to train. They seemed to be able to attract well educated graduates with locally competitive salaries that were below average by US standards. Over the years I've dealt with a few smaller Canadian consultancies and they always seemed to punch above their weight.

If you can provide good work, there is alot of Canadian talent that wants to work in Canada.
I'm somewhat conflicted: I can appreciate Apple wanting to make sure that apps on their platform perform and behave to their standards but it is rather obnoxious that an app on their platform MUST use their payment system (and pay them a 30% cut) as well as being prohibited from accessing certain features like NFC. I could understand enhanced review -- even a higher price to justify the closer collaboration with Apple engineers -- for payment app makers who want to use NFC but to disallow it altogether crosses the line into anti-competitive behavior. I think Apple deserves to lose this one.
I've never ridden in a Leaf or other compact electric but is it really worse than the 2002 Tauruses and 1999 Grand Caravans (or 2019 Mitsubishi Mirage for that matter) that people seem to have no problem keeping up with traffic in?

I can see it being worse than whatever people who are buying leafs are trading in but I can't see it being that bad overall.
But if they were to hold onto their jobs they'd make at least $15 per hour (in "progressive" states)
TLDR: OMG text is difficult!

In this article, unusually, text is difficult because of naive expectations, not because of incompetence.
For example, the treatment of case-insensitive comparisons is quite good, but the author thinks that counting "characters" should be simple and well-defined, that conversion between uppercase and lowercase characters should be reversible, and that that one can "obviously use well supported libraries that solve this problem for you".
Alan Hurwitz, Teacher Who Turned to Bank Heists, Dies at 79
Stand alone code isn’t big deal.

Code that has dozens of dependencies is a whole other matter.

I had to bring in a 5 year old, since last commit, library. On its on it was fine. But the dependencies were a massive pain.
Theticket issue that comes to mind with social safety nets is healthcare and no country comes even close to spending as much on healthcare per capital as the US. We're talking double the amount spent by nearly every other country. Our issues do not seem to be rooted in a lack of funding.
Understandable! I made it for the few times I'm manually testing an API using Swagger or something similar and need a valid(ish) GUID to stand in for some field being sent to the api.

There's no shortage of ways to generate GUIDs, that's for sure!
> We believed that it was poor time management and that if we just worked a bit harder and had more self-discipline, we could do the job

It's frustrating that the "experts" still see things this way. As if it's some moral defect that people are too lazy to overcome.

Can't stop procrastinating? "Just work a little harder and get started already"

Depressed? "Just cheer up and get over it."

Addicted to drugs? "Just look at the negative consequences and stop using them"

I guess I could see this article as a step in the right direction, but it's still frustrating to see how the casual stigmatization of behavioral health and its symptoms continues to linger.
FWIW, NoScript fixes this, since the clickjacking malware can't run by default.
For me, the EPA range numbers are important because I'm in the market to buy a new car later this year and I'd like a fair gauge to compare vehicles on expected milage (part of the reason is wife has mileage anxiety, which I believe a lot of non-EV people have as well).

Looking at the first article the lead commenter posted that compared "real-world" to EPA ranges, Tesla misses the EPA range by an average of 22%. Other vehicles that miss the EPA range average 4.5% off.

Of course the EPA range is as much an estimate as the testing is and conditions change between testing and real world scenarios, but what's so different with the Tesla vehicles during EPA testing compared to real-world testing to cause such a large drop-off compared to other vehicles.

We can rightly question the EPA testing methodology in the first place meaning, what are they running (or not running) that regular people would. For example, does EPA not run the A/C during the test? I'm not accusing the Tesla A/C from excessive battery draw, as it's just an example.

Yes, having a larger battery is welcome, so with an EPA range of 400 miles, then we can real-world expect 320 miles.

*Quick addendum: I'm not a big fan of these types of articles and can more then accept that the testing the article performed was "flawed" as well. But we do need better, consistent range tests.
My intro to programming was deobfuscating the Minecraft sourcecode and then mix-and-matching the sourcecode from popular mods. It was great! Super frustrating but very rewarding.
Nintendo’s portable systems (going back to the Game Boy and including the Switch) have never had region locks, on the logic that somebody might want to buy a new game while traveling. The consoles (except for Switch) do, though.
There are production delays due to the pandemic, so few people can answer that (for v2). I have one on order, batch 2. Delivery was supposed to be in July, but now they say September.
> if you were making a Minecraft clone, would you target Switch or PC?

This depends a lot on your monetization strategy. If your plan is a free or low-cost game with skins for sale, having a wild west story for modding may not be at all what you want.
Silq – a new high-level programming language for quantum computing
I spend a fair amount of my day in Visual Studio and didn't know this, thanks!
And random structure to break nth-child selectors.

Even better: draw everything in a canvas.
My point is that it is terribly inconsistent. There are basically 4 ways now. You can see the scroll bar. The scroll bar is borderline invisible color wise to the background. Fade in out, some are over the text (which is annoying if you happen to be reading that bit and activate it). Fade in out space kept but the control is invisible. The fade in out has a second issue. Can I scroll? It suffers from the 'bellow the fold' problem of usability. As in there was more stuff on the page but I missed it. All because a paragraph break worked out just right.
Here are a few things I noticed when I started using ADHD medication.

I was suddenly able to focus on a task in a way that I wasn't able before. It was such an epiphany to experience what other people call focus.

That made me also notice that I'm really good at context switching. It's what I naturally do. It also makes me good at breadth first approaches.

Which makes me ask: Are you lamenting terrible context switching or the amount of context switching that you experience?
This is part 3. Part 2 discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23445575
Yup, same reason why all the plans and tooling was torched for the Saturn V.
Maybe one day, we can all find this funny.

Reading this:

"Exactly!" Emma slapped her hand on the table. "We need to go up a level. We need to identify and root out all the racist, sexist, and other offensive terms in everyday language. And we need it by six o' clock today."

"Why so soon?" asked Brett.

"Because that's the deadline for today's news cycle at my station,"

And watching this:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rayshard-brooks-atlanta-police-...

Is not funny to me, but I assume that was your intention. My hope radical inclusion reshapes the world we all live in.

You might write wonderful code, or manage wonderful projects, but at what cost if your employer winds up be boycotted (if only for a short period) for the views of their employees? As this has happened many blame the subjects of their satire and not their actions which waters the seed of resentment, which in your case appears to have grown into a forest.
It is applicable to most things. You can omit some bells and whistles while doing development, or skip edging after mowing the lawn.
I always read here and there people commenting about certain tips not working well on their own procrastination issues. My experience is no different.

Some months ago I wrote about how procrastination had harmed my life. I was going through a lot. Thankfully, things have hugely improved since then. Step by step, I'm getting my life together.

Way before my ex-wife left me, I had been reading some books on the subject. I had already identified the emotional nature of my procrastination, but I was still struggling to find a solution.

If I could give one advice to people who are facing very bad cases of procrastination, that would be: if you have the chance, get some psychotherapy. That was instrumental in my recovering.

My case had a complex emotional background. The extreme pressure I was putting over myself. The insanely huge goals I had established. My inclination to define my own value as a person based solely on my intellectual accomplishments. Everything mixed together. Overwhelming.

Don't get me wrong, the books helped. But mine was too complex a case and some personalized advice was needed.
Well, If you don't trust them and don't want to verify there is nothing they can do.

For the ones with basic trust, they do a lot. Way more than most others. (Just look at the transparent dev process, the depth of documentation etc.)
The Growth Mindset.

It just conveys a simple theory and if you keep it in the back of your mind, you won't be easily defeated when learning anything new.
An accessible introduction to type-checkers
The Nintendo Switch is not region locked. You can play any game from any region on it.

Moving to new hardware is more complicated than it needs to be but is not restrictive.
Apparently the idea of "jet logic" as a useful substitute for electronics in some situations (hence dubbed "pneumonics"), gained some popularity in Russia back in the '60s. Here is a moment in a fascinating educational video where they explain the workings of a jet NOR/OR gate:

https://youtu.be/gzGRLdB0BpE?list=PLgqu8dCNRlmX_d0Oz3T6gRTyw...
Show HN: Mojimess – Cryptography for Kids
> As soon as I put my wants/interests out on the internet it's almost certainly going to become chum for spammers, dodgy recruiters, the GRAFT and so on. i.e. Repurposed to ends antithetical to my original intent.

This is likely true when the conference is open registration, but generally not true when it's a closed conference that just so happens to be on the internet - practically nobody who wishes to be part of the conference enough to invest time/money/energy into getting an invite are going to then sell your data on to spammers.

It's the same with random irc channels without public logging - while everyone could be logging everything you say to use against you later, in practice this just doesn't happen in channels of 100-200 people.
The question was why the order was given at all.
Fixed Gear Bicycles for the Road
don’t worry we spend all that extra salary on medical expenses
Same, but also Bosnian Bill. Here's him opening a master lock with a plastic sheet as a pick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayQIm3Lo6ZM or a zip tie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIq9khF-axs&list=PLTSWkYxuSl... (he has an entire list of these ridiculously easy picks).
Ya definitely, but it's irrelevant now in this context
Just wanted to share this quick webapp me and my 6 year old put together. He wanted a way to send messages to one another using his 'secret coding' he had recently learned at school. It's emojis!!
I have used it as IDE on Linux for Python development along with vi before moving to emacs.

It was my choice as it was small lightweight and could open large csv and xml.

After that did not follow it, good to see it’s been constantly updated and developed.
There is something to this: most people (i.e. the majority but not all), when faced with intelligence beyond their own, get excited and interested automatically. This is good for intelligent kids and gives them a fighting chance.

Those positive feelings aren't true of other evolutionary advantages in kids, like when people are faced with sociopathy beyond their own.
T-Mobile Nationwide Outage
> For example, nobody says hm, I wonder how we solve night clubs, but online.

Sure they do, that's a not-insignificant part of VRChat. :p
I was going to write up a long-winded spiel about rubber sheets and various ways to look at gravity, including my own unique perspective, then I realised that XKCD has already covered this in "Gravity Wells": https://xkcd.com/681/

You're just describing the "landscape" of a field. Any field works this way, including the electromagnetic field, it's just that it tends to cancel out over long distances.

Your scenario is like two people living in shallow valleys atop a high mesa discussing the "free energy" that can be gained by going down to the ocean.
I’m originally from a third world country and those practices look unbelievably awful to me.

If this happened at a corrupt country, you can bet that university would be full of students that entered there just by nepotism, it is also very effective for discriminating against minorities.

I get that USA isn’t as corrupt as many of the third world countries but it is going there with slow and steady steps, removing SAT scores might make USA lose it’s scientific status in near future.
Sure, easy with hindsight.

But they did take that option and now refuse to pay the price. They are forcing paying the price on their users now.

They got additional benefit at the time, if I remember correctly: Adobe suite was 32-bit + Carbon; so having 32-bit x86 ABI allowed to them and to Adobe to have the suite running natively on the new CPUs, buying Adobe time to port to 64-bit and Cocoa, and axe Carbon without waiting to axe Intel entirely.

Given the benefits they got, they should be called for not wanting to pay the price.
A friend of mine goes to Harvard. He says once you get into Harvard... it's smooth sailing from there.
25th percentile for Harvard SAT scores is 1460...so there is a limit for how many dumb as a brick legacies matriculate :-)
Did you try to set the extension to "run on click"? Right-click extension icon, "This can read and change site data" -> "When you click the extension". I didn't try it myself (it might require reloading the page), but might be an option for 1000:1 browse to clip ratio.
Now that the "hydroxychloroquine is dangerous" research has been retracted, does HCQ count as a 3rd treatment? Or did we never get confirmation that it was effective?

Edit: what's with the downvotes? Go look at my post history, I'm not some Russian astroturfing bot. And I got a lot of informative replies, which is why I asked in the first place.
India's startups are flying low
> weapon of absolute last resort

At least when Israel was developing its nuclear bomb, its neighbours were not particularly minded to compromise. Contrast, for example, the Freedom Charter (a fifties document!), which was so studiously nonracial that the PAC had to split off:

> South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white…that only a democratic state, based on the will of all the people, can secure to all their birthright without distinction of colour, race, sex or belief

At this point the possible threat was clearly domestic blacks, not nearby colonies, and compromise with them was clearly quite possible. CODESA didn't happen earlier because the Broederbond took so long to change its mind—had it, it could have happened decades earlier.

The SA army was also in conventional terms quite sufficient to prevent any foreign invasion. Even Rhodesia with P.K. van der Byl and the other ludicrous types who congregated in Salisbury hotels could manage for over a decade. Armscor on the other hand was world-leading, and none of SA’s neighbours had anything like that.

> soviet supplied cuban troops on our border

They were on the Namibian border, which was from 1966 was no longer really South Africa’s. In any case SA militarily held its own—it inflicted far more casualties than it suffered and maintained control of Namibia. It seems to make much more sense to interpret withdrawal as a political decision to cease the indefensible occupation of Namibia, instead of evidence that a nuclear bomb was strategically necessary.
How much? One of the crypto libraries cited in the comments is about 10x the size of SJSC.

Besides, as an avid use of Signal, Wire, Bitwarden, and other e2e encrypted tools, I would GLADLY download a larger but superior encryption tool that is compiled to WASM instead of relying on JS.
You know what haunts me even more? That 60 years later, we still spend time and effort talking about this instead of doing anything.

Sadly, Canadians don't have the appetite for ambitious projects, whether military, civilian, terrestrial, space etc. Even when costs are reasonable (think of putting up $1billion in prize money to spur private investment X-Prize style) people will not tolerate attempts at risky things.
I'm not sure what the point is that you're making. Could you clarify please?
I've had Japanese and European cartridges in my Switch without issues. (Haven't tried American cartridges yet despite owning four.)
appreciate you summarising it like this!

yeah we had a 50/50 split agreement and applied to YC on that basis too.
Ok that's new. I last checked when they had the ... whatever the first console with motion controllers was called.

So are you absolutely sure that I can buy Nintendo stuff today and get games from anywhere in the world? Because my local selection is laughably small and crappy, and combined with region locks it meant it's not worth the trouble.
I think that a complete understanding of life and consciousness and the nature of reality would cause people to check out of the whole economic and reproductive cycle. What’s the point of doing anything if you’re just a collection of particles whirring around in a universe that doesn’t give a shit about you.

The continuation of the human race more or less depends on people not fully understanding reality and maintaining the illusion of the self.
How can I sign up as blogger?
I think learning some of the theory and models around entrepreneurship is really valuable.

Its incredibly important to have laser sharp focus, but focus is easy. The hard part is figuring out what to focus on. Prior work can give you very helpful tools to figure that out.