skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s been decades and computers still come with bloatware. Phones will likely have garbage for decades as well. If there’s a few pennies to make off doing it, companies will just do it and not leave many options.
I'm not a parent, so I don't really have any grounds to argue how someone should raise their children. The only anecdote I'll add is that I would be reluctant to hold someone back from an opportunity to have the normalcy that I couldn't have in school. When I got to high school it was like my ADHD kicked into full gear, I started performing significantly worse and outright failing classes. My classmates, friends, and even teachers treated me like a lazy burnout.

Out of 120 students, I was the only one who didn't graduate that year. Sometimes I feel like I have the world's worst case of impostor syndrome because of how high school went for me. I was constantly testing top of the class but most everyone looked at me like an abject failure. I went into college with practically zero note-taking or studying skills and the first couple of years were a nightmare, even with medication.

All this is to say that medication can help when you need to feel normal, but it can't replace the skills you should have been developing. Some people can develop those skills and get shit done without medication and I applaud them, but I tried that route and ended up _years_ behind my peers.
What could be achieved by some theoretical model of an open market is largely irrelevant. The more relevant point is what HAS been achieved by the actual market. If the market, given enough time, is still doing things that are hurting consumers, at some point the government must intervene.
I just wonder how much time had to be spent trying to get a static site generator to build quickly and correctly, and how much time it would have taken to deploy a CMS and a caching layer, or wire up a UI over a headless CMS.
Interesting post! Resonated quite a bit with us at Ionic (we commercialize Ionic Framework and tooling/products around it) and have experienced every one of these steps to the letter (now in the enterprise step)! Very cathartic and insightful.
What if I'm not using Arch?
I'm on 6x10 mg of ritalin, and one thing that helped me with it losing its effectiveness is taking a reduced or no dose on weekends, and making a concerted effort to get plenty of sleep. I noticed that I'd be sleeping less when I took it, and eventually the ritalin was just counteracting how tired I was, but not providing any benefit beyond that.
Taking preemptive action to derail their economic recovery.
This is going too far, looks like nobody understand machine learning at hacker rank
You're talking about a different problem.

I would support virtually any company competing with Microsoft in the OS space, not because I'm afraid of a Windows monoculture but because I'm afraid of the effect and power monopolies can have. Let's say Microsoft open source Windows' kernel (now that would be interesting!), and a new company comes with their own custom OS built on top of it, I would definitely support them, even though the technology is the same.

Would it be better if there would be a different, new system, based on new technology? Perhaps, from a technology point of view at least, but that's a completely different topic.
Two locked-down ecosystems, controlled by two large corporations that act largely without competition between their respective market segments and who keep the barriers to entry high enough that no other competition can enter is exactly not a free market.

And, surprise, it is hurting customers.

This is exactly an attempt to make an entrenched duopoly face some actual competition.
> Open source is different, it’s an artifact, it’s a transposition in code of what you really want to do, of what you feel software should be, or just of all your fun and joy, or even anger you are feeling while coding. And you want it to rock, to be perfect, and you can’t sleep at night if there is a fucking heisenbug.

This has been my experience.

I have refined my development skills, as a direct result of my OSS work (I've been writing open-source for over twenty years). During this time, I was a manager, at my "day job," and the company I worked for actively discouraged managers from being engineers. I wasn't having that, so I did OSS on the side, to keep my chops up.

Also, I worked for a company that insisted on a rigid, waterfall-based development methodology, that I thought resulted in sub-par software. It worked great on hardware; not so great on software.

Through my OSS work, I was able to prototype and refine a methodology that is a great deal more flexible than that used by my corporation. I feel that it results in far better software.

I have not experienced a whole lot of the troubles that Antirez encounters; mostly because I haven't authored anything of the scale of Redis. I have, however, authored another project that has become a worldwide standard framework (for a much smaller demographic), and the best thing that I did for it (and for myself), was to get the hell away from it. It's being maintained by a team of fairly brilliant and energetic folks that have taken it to the next level.

I really feel that if I had remained "in the mix," I would have stunted it.

As Twain once put it: "I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure."
Sometimes the market chooses the best of various bad options, if the only options available are those bad options, or information to avoid the bad options is not readily available (e.g. you should be able to know which apps are undeletable before buying the phone).

So the best product, that violates the ideas of ownership in this case (if I own a device I should decide what apps run on it) might win in a free and open markets. But it's still OK to, for example, enforce normal expectations of device ownership, or enforce disclosure of information to ensure the consumer choice is genuine.
Now imagine if you're a user who's grown up in a generation that have always had emojis:

- They are part of our language and easily recognized from years of training

- Emojis are recognized immediate before reading a word and add to the speed and efficiency (as well as depth) of communication

- It becomes easier to understand sentiment before reading a word

- You're rules about where you should and shouldn't use emojis seem arbitrary

It's not as easy as it used to be to understand what all users want - your intuition about your preferences don't necessarily apply as broadly as they might once have.

As more young people build software products and become bigger audiences for other products, you're probably going to have to broaden your perspective on what experiences are common to all users.
It might be because of the following:

"Narendra Modi ‘wants state apps installed’ on new phones"

Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/narendra-modi-wants-state...

> India is said to be considering a plan to make it mandatory for almost all new mobile phones to have government software pre-installed, raising the prospect of the state being able to closely monitor citizens.
Smuggling won't do you any good when local companies stop making iPhone apps.
It’s hard to find any directly comparable benchmarks, but I wouldn’t be so sure that it’s actually faster than the CPU in the Raspberry Pi 4.
A couple of nuclei have spin-isomer (IIRC) decays that emit both the expected high-energy photon, but also a second visible one. I no longer remember which. :/

The challenge with seeing a single atom naked-eye, is getting visible photons fast enough.

For some value of see - it's just a point source. I had a professor object "that's not seeing the nucleus - it's just a diffraction-limited dot". Funny thing was, they were about to travel to a big star party, to I guess "not see" stars. Sigh. Admittedly the argument for pedagogical value is limited. But at least the years-later long-exposure photo of a single atom was interesting enough for popular press.

With an atom's electrons, the bottleneck is electron transition cycle time. So your photon budget is small and isotropic. And the retina requires localized hit(s) on deadline. With an pumped atom outside the eye, even with optics, my impression is you at best have a limits-of-perception experiment: "ok, I've a 50% confidence (my dark-adapted eyes) just saw a flash there".

Nuclear transitions are plenty fast. But they're also higher energy, and you can't see X and gamma rays. Well, except for the flash of retinal cell death, as with cosmic rays in astronaut eyes.

So with a nucleus that emits visible photons, you can tweeze, trap, strip and bombard an atom to fluorescence in a vacuum chamber, have a window that passes visible, and get a little dot, naked-eye visible with ambient room illumination. It's a cover photo somewhere IIRC, but I years back burned out on trying to re-find it.

But it's a fun concept, isn't it? And makes for a compact example of needing expertise. More compact than say a marine bio professor, writing a children's picture book on photosynthesis, burning lab time to figuring out what bottlenecks world phytoplankton mass. But they're sort of toy examples. Real need is more like being able to ask "Instead of an atoms-up primary school learning progression, might we do nucleons-up to materials? What might that look like? What stories might we use? What cross-cutting ideas might tie it together?". I wish I knew how to make progress on this.
That's most likely from donations in Bitcoin. The PACs actually want real-world dollars, so sell any cryptocurrency recieved immediately. i that case, there's an entry for the "x.yyyzzz bitcoins were donated" part, and then one for "we sold x.yyyzzz via Coinbase for $n dollars". Overall, that translates to "we received $n dollars from $blah in the form of x.yyyzzz bitcoins", which presumably keeps the regulators happy.
I should have read the article... the answer is shielding. even in lunar orbit, it's better than orbiting the Earth for brief periods.
It's a prediction.
This is really insightful, thanks. Makes me want to take another swing at Infinite Jest.

With depression, we might take medication to grant us a seat at the table of recovery via a therapist. The hope is to get off of that medication eventually. Perhaps the same holds true with ADD/ADHD? I am not a psychiatrist.

I've been wondering about this attention deficit and reading comprehension issue for awhile now. I would love to know how many of us adults actually read books anymore for longer than a thirty minute period? Any kind of book reading.

I like to think that I'm a somewhat experienced meditator by now. Having observed the mindfulness hype over the years I wonder if what people are really missing is just some silent focused time in general. If all you want is quieter mind, maybe you don't need a ten day silent retreat but just an hourlong reading session?

I know the topic has been beaten to death but it is an important one. This constant context switching between systems and devices who have been engineered to sap your impulse control and short-circuit your core reward system need to be investigated on a personal level. So it isn't just that you aren't doing those hourlong reading sessions in silence but that you're actively practicing a different kind of negative behavior.

This is just one uneducated person's opinion. If we're talking about a dysfunctional reward pathway would it not stand to reason that someone's gravitation toward systems who provide thousands of small immediate rewards only reinforce this dysfunction? Think video games, porn, and instagram. Juxtapose this with reading a novel, painting a picture, or finally understanding recursion. I feel kind of gross typing that out because it feels like some sort of appeal to nature but I can't shake it.
> Germany is really the world leader in personal liberty / privacy.

> "After absences such as vacations and sick leave the supervising team leaders conducted so-called Welcome Back Talks with their employees. After these talks, in many cases not only the employees' concrete vacation experiences were recorded, but also symptoms of illness and diagnoses,”

Are you sure? That sounds very Americanesk dystopian to me.
Average consumer is uneducated and doesn't care, and does not punish producers for their wrong doings
Yeah ... I'll go with the Flatpak, thanks.
His comment was about Indian Americans, who are on average much much better off than the average American, so really there isn't much need to bring third world resource scarcity mentality into raising your children here, but alas, you can take the immigrant from the country of origin but you can't take the country of origin from the immigrant.
Essential Spring Boot Annotations
They offer 3 options for doing so, in fact, in direct response to this controversy.

I can limit interactions to non-new users.

I can limit interactions to users that have contributed before.

I can limit interactions to users that I have manually whitelisted in my repo.

Unfortunately, only one of these can be active at a time, but the options do exist now.

Go to your repo -> Settings -> Moderation Settings -> Interaction Limits
Not criticising, asking.

> Local variable access using :? / No commas between parameters? / Operators using function call syntax?

Well, yes, yes and yes.
Arent they all available using firefox? Ffox/ linux Is my daily driver and I never find it too cumbersome to use those sites
This looks really promising! Gonna try it out on a couple of sites.

Wonder how it'll behave in the worst case scenario where:

1. WP cache is cleared

2. Someone initiates a complete crawl of the site (for SEO or whatever reasons)

This would usually put a heavy load on the server. Wonder if APO would help and keep serving the old cached pages, or if it would try to rebuild the cache itself, thus adding to the problem.
The color of gold is better explained by an ad-hoc combination of SR, GR, and QM, than by any one of them alone. SR and GR explain the planets' motion better than Newton and Kepler alone. QM explains pi bonds in molecules like benzene better than classical chemistry. GR compensation is required by GPS satellites and receivers.

So it doesn't have to be a combination of GR and QM, but it does have to be something which is at least as good as GR and QM respectively in their existing domains of explanation.
I hate these date formats. I wish folks would use the iso standard YYYY-MM-DD
As abhorrent as I find white supremacy groups, I don’t see any real trade off that I’m willing to make to reduce even a tiny amount of the privacy and security of communications to give government better power or means to police these groups.

I find private communications so sacrosanct that I’m willing to allow even the most vile form of private communications to remain private rather than sacrifice the privacy of all to aid government in policing the outliers.
Great article. I'll add the blog to my favorites too, I've always been curious about technology in the DPRK.
The main problem with open source issue reports is so frequently nothing to do with the way something is said (though that is often a problem), but the actual content of what is being said. 90% of the issues I end up with on GitHub aren't requests for support on the project, they are requests for tutoring of basic programming and IT issues.
I'm fed up with titles like this that suggest that an entire scientific community, or at least some body with a legitimate claim to representing the interests of that community, wants something when all that is really happening is that some particular group of scientists has submitted a proposal.

Here's the first line of the article:

> On Monday, a group of researchers sponsored by Breakthrough Listen, the world’s largest program, submitted a paper to National Academy of Sciences’ Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey that makes the case for establishing a SETI radio observatory on the farside of the moon.

Note that this line is also incorrect due to a missing word. Breakthrough Listen may be the world's largest SETI program, but it is certainly not the world's largest program, whatever that would even mean.

So this is some particular group of SETI specialists, which I highly doubt represents the interests of the astronomical community at large (I would guess that only a small fraction of astronomers even work on SETI).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing the project itself, just the misleading title of the article and the general decline in journalistic standards.
It’s a peculiar mishmash of ideas, many of them self contradictory. For instance, in the first section he calls for a revolution against technology, but then he spends several pages attacking “leftists” for their need to form organizations to feel powerful. One wonders where he expects a revolution to come from without organizations. Perhaps a completely spontaneous uprising of lone wolf mail bombers?

He also seems to conflate the alienating effects of capitalism with “technology”. If you watch tv shows from the 90’s they often used the word technology in that way- they would conflate scientific research with the tangible products that were purchased on store shelves and also with the kinds of social structures present in a large corporation or factory and call it all “technology”. But the strange move that Kaczyinski makes is to propose that people are too connected together and not isolated enough, as if being connected with other people and being a cog in some large corporate machine was necessarily the same thing. In fact as David Graeber and others have pointed out, it’s the opposite- every person is born in a social context and before they can be treated as a unit of labor to be bought and sold they must be removed from that context and isolated from their natural social bonds. That’s why we have such a dramatic separation between home and work life. Part of the reason is specialization- you are going to end up working among strangers since the people in your family and your neighbors are not going to have the same skill set as you. The irony is that the breakdown of natural social bonds that the separation between home and work life entails is why capitalism was called by Karl Marx the universal solvent of social relations- and that same lack of genuine social relations is what creates psychotic reactions such as what you see in Kaczyinski.

Both left wing activists and right wing activists are responding on some level to the same social alienation, but left wingers respond by trying to build their own organizations, whereas right wingers usually respond by explaining their feelings with conspiracy theories. That’s why left wing activists have large marches and strikes and things like that whereas right wingers engage in lone wolf terrorism.
As someone who occasionally hires technical people, I'm torn on this one.

The process at my employer is that resumes are submitted via the web site, they get stored in a shared folder (each application gets a folder with all of their attachments plus whatever they entered into the form on the web site), and once the competition closes the people doing the hiring (usually a manager and a team lead) review them.

When I review resumes, I spend about 30s per resume on my first pass through. This is where I just visually scan the document for keywords. For example, if I was hiring a Django developer (I'm not, this is contrived), I'd look for Django (obviously), but also for other Python web frameworks (e.g., Flask, Pylons, web2py), other big Python frameworks (e.g., SQLAlchemy), and other related technologies that we might use in conjunction with Django (e.g., PostgreSQL, Celery, etc).

Once I've completed the first pass, I take a deeper dive into the shortlisted resumes, decide who I want to interview, etc.

As a technical person, I'm intrigued by this resume. It's presented in an interesting way, and the presentation itself can even serve as a living showcase of this person's skills.

As someone doing hiring, I'm wondering how this will show up in that shared folder. Will it be a PDF with a link that leads me to this resume? Will there be no files attached and a link placed in the comment box? Will I pass on a potentially great hire because I didn't actually see a resume during my first pass?

I do think this resume would work really well as supplemental material to a traditional one. One of the best people we hired submitted a traditional cover letter/resume as a PDF, but had hyperlinks within the PDF to online supplemental material. This worked really well for my process because they passed the initial scan, and the hyperlinks let the applicant provide a lot of detail that would have overwhelmed a traditional resume format.
"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve.

Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve."

https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
Support for the AVIF Image Format
How to make a crowd color vote with Their phones
How would you tackle this :
- Having à Crowd of 600 sitting
- let them chose à color on their phone (4 possibilités)
- have people show their phones
- take à picture of the audience and count the Colors

Does it seem feasible ? Where would you start for the counting ?
"Automate everything" is a disingenuous claim. You're simply replacing a couple of lines of scikit-learn with a couple of lines of your CLI tool. There is pretty much no benefit to using this.
Even sewage, which is less complex, only makes sense in dense areas. Many homes have septic tanks.
It'd create a new middle layer of distributors to handle the bureaucracy... like with music and streaming.
What makes you think that current situation isn't the direct result of a free and open market?
This is just a joke.
> [TV manufacturer] should just sell me a smart tv without customer hostile "features".

Unfortunately there are basically zero TV manufacturers who will do this.
you wouldn't know anything about adhd meds and depression/anxiety?

I've had panic attacks this year, I had depression years ago, went to therapy a lot better on that front. Enter: Xoloft followed by Trintellix (1 week in). I dealt w/ them pretty well, I'd go lay down, breathe and maybe take a cat nap, wake up in 30 minutes go back to work feeling like a million dollars. Now, not so much.

So, I started xoloft a month ago, it screwed up me libido and made me continually 'want it' but not able to 'deliver' (or it'd take way too long). Switched to Trintellix, still have panic attacks, sex is better, but anxiety doesn't seem affected. Now, I feel I'm actually more depressed though, and just not wanting to get out of bed. Motivation is rough.

I'm also taking Vyvanse for ADHD. It doesn't seem to be as effective as it was before adding anxiety meds.

Should I just scrap the anxiety meds altogether and just deal with adhd? Anyone else w/ similar experience want to chime in? It's really messing me up, and I've recently lost my main client so I really need to focus and get some income (web dev/laravel), or I'm gonna be homeless (40 w/ wife and 2 kids - so not an option).
Can anyone comment on whether MMIX is still used for teaching? I figure it makes more sense to just teach, say, AArch64, these days. I'm not convinced that enough is gained by using an 'idealised' instruction-set, to balance out that it's not seen in the real world.

Also, here's the Wikipedia page on MMIX. It's even supported as a target by GCC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX