skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The size of the university doesn’t matter

You're missing the point again. This isn't about the original data. It's about how you combine data from multiple schools to calculate an overall average. If that process doesn't include enrollment, you get the wrong answer.

>> Also, did you “forget” about people with degrees again?

>No I didn’t,

> [four paragraphs about degrees, ignoring non-degreed people again]

I'm not allowed to make the comment that deserves.
I don't think Apple allows other app stores on their platform.
Well you see, most US companies now have development centers in India and soon many of their products and services will also be developed here. But that won't make these companies Indian companies.
I like to think the XenoGC is what began the wave of open hardware for modding, but I could be misremembering my history. I love mine haha
I don't understand this logic at all. It's so much more dangerous for a nation state with an army and the ability to disappear dissidents to know so much about you rather than a multinational company...
It feels like a bit of a false dichotomy to me. I love watching old shows and movies, including Mulholland Drive which I've seen a dozen times. But I also enjoy new things. Isn't that normal?

Now, that said I haven't gone to see a summer blockbuster in a decade. I don't like Marvel movies or Star wars sequels. There was only one good star wars movie in the original trilogy anyway.
I absolutely think that there are forces putting fuel to the flames with this as one goal. Not necessarily the origin or the main driving force, but I'm sure it happens. Just as with other recent polarizing movements.
I have read that the best way to get started in finding good films is to use awards as a starting point: Academy Awards, Directors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards. These organizations are made up of people who live and breathe film making, and they vote for what they think is the best, not the most popular.

Note that their choices aren't perfect; I've watched some movies that won awards that I really didn't like. That said, I think these sources are a better starting point than lists based solely on popularity.
Must be a higher-end thing, for whatever reason. Mine is literally the cheapest 43-inch 4K "HDR" model they sell (for a bit under 300€).

I got a plastic remote with a fair amount of buttons that are much closer to standard a dumb TV remote (and rather suspiciously similar to LG's...).
I also haven't found any ads in any menu, despite being connected to the Interned and logged into a Samsung account (by necessity).
How does that work? Does the Xbox One have an official SDK?
>The sources said, "Android has 97% market share in India so we should intervene and handhold Indian startups. Making it mandatory for Android phones to be pre-instaled with our apps in under consideration". [1]

Indian Government being arbiter of the app ecosystem on a phone and pre installing apps? Ominous vibes. Good luck with your desire for competition and innovation.

[1] - https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/industry/artic...
Well, it's probably almost the truth.
This does sound promising. Is it possible to run this process in reverse a la a heat pump to create an AC with no moving parts? Or is this purely a one way process?
The kernel TCP stack made a lot of sense when processes were almost as large as machines. When you had 1 CPU and 32MB of memory to run a web server then why wouldn't you use the kernel stack? But these days the host is as large as what we used to consider entire networks. You can easily have 256 CPU cores in a box now, and that box will be running hundreds of different processes at a time. Not all of those processes will be served equally well by whatever constants are defined in the kernel, and by whatever system-wide tuning parameters are available. And yet, there's still the problem that the box has one or a few hardware network interfaces, and something has to manage access to those resources. The architecture described at [1] is an interesting solution to this problem which avoids kernel networking, mediates NIC access, and provides custom stacks and parameters to each application.

1: Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/11/snap-networking/
BTW: Last week a German doctor got arrested at Speakers’ Corner in London for speaking to more than 30 people.
Yeah, an App Store is in no way an artificial need. There’s a reason fortnite is on the Google Play store even when they had the option of only installing through other methods.

For non-savvy users it mostly solves the “evaluating installer maliciousness” problem. For all users it enhances convenience (unified method for installing and uninstalling software) and software discovery. It is not a perfect solution to any of the above problems, but IMO it’s very good.
They can run profiles for lots of email accounts that might not be used.

A profile update time stamp isn’t necessarily “I used gmail.”

Google might also notice some random script continually querying for every user.

Seems like a lot of setup for a spammer when lists of Gmail emails are already floating around.
Meta:

I think High Hopes is from 1994 (not 2003 as the article states). I think I know this because I bought the CD single in the 90s.

Probably an innocent typo and not a indication of a less than carefully crafted post.
New UK app records police encounters and saves footage in cloud
The user data is valuable, it could even create some degree of individual user lock-in. Lock-in becomes barrier to entry as the market becomes saturated. I’m not sure how many people feel that strongly about keeping long-term historical fitness data.

If the data creates powerful network effects in a way that results in a winner-take-all effect then in theory a monopoly could emerge even before market saturation. Is there a strong case for that?

App developers will want to create apps for devices that are popular, so that is an effect. Eventually enough apps could potentially create a barrier to entry, if “volume of apps” is the buying criteria.

But often the volume of apps is pretty irrelevant. Show a user a compelling experience with 10 mind-blowing apps and you can still compete against an App Store filled largely with trash.

In the end it’s a couple hundred dollar device you put on your wrist. There may be extremely compelling products that have large market share, but I’m just not seeing how that can become a monopoly.
Bug reporting should be about facts, cold hard ones and not about feelings or comments. Stay on topic, explain what you did and if you also link to a video showing the bug occurring don't comment during video. Just show the steps to reproduce it. Or if the bug happens on a particular architecture then also show that one as well and that should be the end of it. The developer needs info how to replicate it not reading a novel or entering a debate. I hate stuff like cheesy comments or mean ones. KISS is paramount in this case.
Playstore(Google) and Appstore(Apple) are major soft power assets of U.S. Govt. we've seen the former exercised effectively against Huawei, crippling its International smartphone sales.

Considering U.S. - India trade agreement has been elusive for a long time due to differences from fruits to solar cells, India would definitely not add App(Play) store to the list; especially now due to the situation with China.

Although there's nothing stopping anyone from creating 3rd party app store for Android, the lobby wants Govt. to be involved for forcing handset manufacturers to pre-burn this new app store. It's certainly possible, as made in India Samsung M-series phones already has all major Indian apps, they might even provide privilege escalation like Fdroid to make install/update seamless. What they are going to replace Google Play Services with would be interesting to see.

Of course it's not going to happen with Apple unless anti-trust issues in US/EU forces Apple to open its platform for 3rd party app stores.

Coming back to Huawei, Playstore denial didn't have impact on its sales in China as Playstore was never there and China has hundreds of local app stores for android (although silicon denial will have an impact there). Similarly, having local Indian app stores does make strategic sense.

But as a consumer I'm worried about the privacy, security implications of a local app store without common International rules and scrutiny; Especially since I have personally seen what some of these leading apps can do with user privacy and security[1].

[1] https://abishekmuthian.com/paytm-says-to-me-that-its-pos-fea...
I am just puzzled about one bit of this, why the hue and cry few days back about this. Don't Android App stores like the Amazon one already exist? What's stopping these devs to even distribute the apps themselves?

iOS is a different matter but Android has always allowed this. Not sure if they exist in India, but I have seen Android phones come with non Google App Store as well.
> The idea of harvesting energy from graphene is controversial because it refutes physicist Richard Feynman’s well-known assertion that the thermal motion of atoms, known as Brownian motion, cannot do work. Thibado’s team found that at room temperature the thermal motion of graphene does in fact induce an alternating current (AC) in a circuit, an achievement thought to be impossible.

So it sounds like, if this really works, it may have some impact on our general understanding of thermodynamics or the properties of Brownian motion?
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19418997
Right, always answer the question, even if you don't think the answer will be helpful: you might be wrong, and if you're not then providing the answer is likely to be the quickest way for the asker to find out that they didn't need to know.

But also: don't ask "why do you X" if someone hasn't said they "X". On this occasion I didn't particularly want to enable both A and B, I just noticed the problem when I briefly did.
Java Double Class
You’ll still need a source of heat. This is a power converter not a source of free energy.
Can Software Save Savings?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devki...

It’s only the UWP platform, so it’s not full access, but it’s good fun for my homebrew fiddling :)
I had the pleasure of using one in an airbnb that wouldn't allow you to change volume during the first 5 seconds. It would also not boot up on the previous input, so could be quite noisy with no recourse.
Bipolar, schizophrenia, and depression can also cause attention deficient. It is extremely common for children with Bipolar to be misdiagnosed as ADHD.

Depression is usually easier to diagnose accurately. Schizophrenia can be hit or miss, depending on severity. In my case (I'm bipolar), psychosis was so much a part of my normal life that I was completely blind to it and my external symptoms weren't severe enough to be recognizable.

For just ADHD, There are also other classes of medication that can help. Atomoxetine, bupropion, guanfacine, and clonidine are alternative medications that work differently than first line stimulants.
While I doubt that you have a reliable source for your assumption that poor people don’t seek out deals or limit unnecessary purchases, I’ll note that being poor literally reduces your capacity to make good decisions - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poverty-brain/study-finds....
It is also enjoyable to talk to people about what is new and popular, and to be part of those conversations.
It's very telling that a rule needs to be created to allow users to perform an otherwise obvious action. It shows that big tech don't have even the minimal amount of ethics.
Christian Schwartz is a mycologist who was recently interviewed on the Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t podcast. He has not taken psychedelic mushrooms, doesn’t know much about those species because it’s not where his interest lies.

He also expressed skepticism of the “wood wide web” upon first hearing about it, but as he continued to study all the species interaction, he became just as amazed as the “hippy dippy” types.

I don’t think the Radiolab guys or most of the people they interview are big psychedelic users either. Their episode on mushrooms is pretty awe-inspiring too.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/from-...
In practice, no one renounces their child or their intellectual property or important information (looking from the skin of companies), no matter how much you impose a thousand fines, only when the fines exceed the value of the person or information seized, you could be renounced to this, for example: to be fined a million dollars if you rescue your son.

But this is a stupid solution... Instead of punishing yourself for something that isn't your fault (or something you overlooked like not creating a backup, or, in the case of children, not taking good care of your son), well this problem can be prevented and the irresponsible punished BEFORE the tragedy happens. I propose that companies that do not have a backup of their information be fined, or in the case of companies (financial, social networks that do not want the information to be disclosed), regulate the security of their company or otherwise be fined. With this, he punishes himself BEFORE the tragedy and not AFTER.

If the fines come AFTER, the ransomware is not mitigated, the hijackers get what they want.
I'd love it if there were recommendations for TV's available in other countries. It looks like the recommended TVs (Sceptre branded) are only available in the US. If anyone has any recommendations for Australian equivalents I'd love to know!
I am not sure how I feel about the government being directly involved in creating the app store. On one hand, I believe the government should take measures to nurture the local startups and app, to give them a fair chance at growing. On the other hand, I don't think an app store created and managed by the government will have the right incentive to be competitive against foreign players and may just end up spiraling into a hot bureaucratic mess, with more and more hoops to jump through just to get an app on that platform.
> Of course "some" is assumed.

That's not how it initially parses for me, and I think for most people.

As for the emotional investment, for this one case certainly not, but this same pattern keeps coming up time and time again, not to mention the constant barrage of other nonsensical statements the media constantly exposes us to. I think this incessant stream of micro-aggressions against logic and common sense ends up having a significant impact on our well-being and at a larger scale may even be contributing to extremism, conspiracy theories and the growing absence of any semblance of truth from the ambient political discourse.

> And isn't it more correct to talk about who wrote the paper, than which organization published it?

I'm not sure what you mean by that.
> I've always been one to 'just deal with it' but after a few years of working through school and seeing my younger brothers go through the same thing with medication, I realized that I was essentially just handicapping myself.

That's not entirely true, though. There is a lot of value in learning good habits to cope with ADHD and developing systems and mental models to improve your ADHD situation. ADHD isn't a purely dopaminergic "chemical imbalance" in the brain that can only be improved with chemical solutions, similar to how depression isn't entirely a chemical imbalance of serotonin.

One of the downsides of aggressive ADHD medication treatment is that it can handicap learning of good habits and coping strategies. Some, thought not all, patients quickly learn to rely on the stimulant effect of their medication to get anything done, assuming that medication is the only way to improve. This becomes a problem as the motivating effects of stimulant medication wear off after months or years, leaving only the concentration-enhancing side effects. Internet forums are full of 20-something ADHD patients who think the only way to address their ADHD is ever increasing doses of stimulants, but eventually they hit prescribing limits and increasing side effects. The solution is to approach ADHD as a combined treatment with minimal medication and heavy emphasis on self-discipline and healthy habits.

Regarding this study: Don't forget that ADHD medications aren't simply dopamine dispensers. All of the stimulant ADHD medications have significant norepinephrine activity, as well. There are many reasons why pure dopamine agonists aren't effective for ADHD.

> I wonder how different things would've been for me if I had started taking an effective medication at 16 and not at 25.

In reality, you may have benefited greatly by spending your formative years teaching yourself coping mechanisms and learning good study habits before introducing ADHD medication.

Many people take stimulant treatment for years or decades, but the unfortunate reality is that the long-term effectiveness of stimulants isn't exactly a sure thing. Clinical trials and studies rarely run for more than a few months. The studies on long-term patients are mixed, but not encourage for long-term effectiveness of stimulants ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11322742/ ). If you only recently started taking stimulants, you might be in somewhat of a "honeymoon phase" where the core effects are still strong. Note that after years of use, people will tend to overestimate the effects of the drug due to the severity of withdrawal symptoms on days off.

In short, I'd encourage you to continue addressing your ADHD symptoms with ever-improving self discipline, personal habits, and healthy lifestyle choices. The medication is part of a treatment regimen, but it shouldn't be the entirety of one's treatment regimen.
> As somebody said, the best code is written when you are supposed to do something else

Offer not good for user interfaces. :)

At least in the Gnu-slash-linux world it's like this. I once fixed a volume slider widget where the lowest value was almost zero. I can't be sure, but it's quite possible that when I realized the stupidity of that bug I took a break and went back to my regular job.

Nearly every open source UI I've ever seen looks as if it were designed as a gift for the in-laws on Christmas eve.

The exceptions generally leverage the web (or borrow large parts from it). That's why people are revving their Electron monster trucks in your craggy-ass Gnu-slash-linux parking lot.
Quote: "As somebody said, the best code is written when you are supposed to do something else."

Not for me, my best code is when I write stuff for myself. None of them are open source and they tend to have better code than stuff I work for clients. Which usually means I borrow my code from my pet projects a lot when solving client's problems.

That also leads to a nice side effect that over years I have a huge collection of personal code that I just copy/paste and I know it works. When I do a live session of creating a PoC the client even if himself is a developer gets lost in my fast switching of pages, copy/paste, my fast way of talking and throwing overwhelming information at him that in the end they just get lost. And one hour later a final "it's done, here take it" usually gets a "holly shit, that's awesome". When I hear that I know the client is mine.
It was a water spray (Bil said "aerators" around 0:44; he probably did not mean the spiky lawn care thing, but rather a sprinkle system), to keep the existing chemicals on the ground from turning into dust and flying further away. (At least that is my understanding.)
Real and Fictional starship size comparison
Tearing into a $1.3M Oscilloscope
> Not quite

Goodreads is kind of a weird space which shows that the popular vote is kind of useless. It’s hard to find a good book based on ratings. Everything seems to be either 4+ stars or garbage. The Fault in our Stars probably has a better rating than print copies of Hamlet. Actually, all classics seem to hover around 3.68 stars. Never 2. In fact, I don’t think any books published in the history of the world have a rating less than 3.

Anyways, the language you google in heavily affects recommendations. Searching in general is not a useful way to find anything cool. It’s much better to happen upon a good source of reviews or criticism which align with whatever gets your rocks off and settle for curated entertainment/art.
IMDB is notorious for having BIPOC- or women-lead films average ~1.5-2 points lower than you would expect from reviews (e.g., Metacritic or RT averages). I believe there was a chan-lead op some years ago, but it's also probably just part of the site's culture.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4975722/
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/

This is a long-winded way of saying, "Don't just look at numbers, be aware of context."
Thank You for the links.

Does what Google books have done and their work with Haathi Trust (https://www.hathitrust.org/) fall in the same category? I thought this was tested in courts with respect to books. There is analogous case law backing up music CDs, won't that hold?
"Anyone can install whatever software they want on their device from wherever they want it."

This is the current situation on Android. It is similar to macOS or Windows. It comes with a store but users are free to install apps from whatever source they like.
Photos by definition don't have a rest mass because they are never at rest. They must always travel at the speed of light, which means they don't experience time, so rest does not even make sense for a photon.
What if the locked-down ecosystem is the result of overly restrictive copyright laws? Wouldn’t it be better to tackle the root cause and adjust that?
Nobody mentions that USB-C enabled the production of laptop power banks. They are such a help for when you travel and want to work on a long flight or a train ride.

Power rating is a mess, and manufacturers are all trying to mislead the consumer as much as they can about it, so I agree, it's a mess if you don't research it thoroughly.

But I do research it, and my life is much better with it.
Overnight, then heat (saucepan/stovetop, or microwave) in the morning.

Cooking need only be long enough to heat the oatmeal, not to absorb liquids. This is especially useful for steel-cut oats.
How is your sleep? Exercising enough?

Biology is complex, the drugs mess with that system in direct and indirect ways. Coupled with lag and resistance, it makes accounting for outcomes hard.

ADHD is interesting in that to me, our interaction and methods of coping with it need to be participatory. The drugs don't work on their own, we need to still make lists, walk around, exercise, crack jokes. Just realizing you have it pushes it off the mainline to a branch.

I'd say slow down, do some science and take great notes.
> Some people view them as irritating annoyances that should be pushed to some forum like stack overflow though.

I maintain a fairly large open source project. We close "issues" that are support requests on sight, with a more-or-less automatic message telling the person that they should use Stack Overflow or Gitter for questions.

This is not because they are irritating annoyances. I in fact do support people on Stack Overflow and Gitter about the project. But there are at least two reasons for keeping things separate:

a) In terms of organization, I need the issue list to be about things that are actionable in the repo.

b) More importantly: only the core developers and some very enthusiastic people follow the GitHub repo. There are many more people available for and willing to support on Stack Overflow and Gitter. It is important that support requests reach these people so that support can be distributed. A lot of users even have more practical experience with the project than the core developers.