skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the same about Diet Coke (Coke Light in some countries). Something changed about 10-12 years ago and it started tasting "chemically" and harsh and I no longer liked it. I switched to Diet Dr. Pepper which I find has a smoother taste. But with the aluminum can shortage, it's become hard to buy in stores.
https://pycaret.org/
Remove the semicolon at the end of the above link to get to the actual journal paper; paper is behind the APS paywall.

Working link for the lazy:

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.0...
So they are competing on same terms as google, in practice. Thats good
They do.

https://www.digitalocean.com/open-source/

Please stop telling people how to spend their money.
> 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.

No, no, no, no. As someone who suffered remarkable mental turmoil over my inability to focus, despite reading books about it, asking everyone for help with my problems, just no, I hate this kind of puritanical thinking, it's exactly this kind of thinking which adds to the stigma of ADHD medication. The very first _day_ I took the medication I knew I'd stumbled upon something monumental. And then I realized that all those years of struggle in school and college, they were all for naught.

The only right answer is: see a psychologist if you think you have a problem, and get medicated if you and your psychologist feels you do have a problem.

> 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.

Nope. It just shit on my self-esteem and resulted in depression because I thought I was just not cut out for the things I wanted to be able to do.
Show HN: Scripting capabilities in non-standard GraphQL server
How will the Indian govt. enforce an alternative app store? Will Apple bow down?
Unit Testing Google Maps API with Jest
Accepting and learning from mistakes means you must first admit you did something wrong.

It's hard to admit you did something wrong because of what it implies.

Am I stupid? Am I not as skilled as I think I am? Did I miss something? Perhaps all of the above?

I think this is hard for smart/perfectionist people because we think we should get things right, and this is likely to be tied to our ego/identity.

But I've come to the conclusion that humans are just fundamentally stupid, because even extremely intelligent people fuck things up all the time.

Not sure if it's the right thing to conclude from my observations, but it does make failure easier to deal with since I can remind myself that yep, I'm still just a dumb ape.
We used it for our assembly course in 2013. A new professor joined the department the year after I took the class and he taught something else, so from then it depended who was teaching the course that year. It was a small teaching university (we had 5 CS grads my year) that was part of the math department (it has since moved to the school of engineering).

I never touched any form of assembly after that course so I don’t think it made a big difference one way or the other. My memory is hazy, but I think there might have been a personal connection between my professor and Knuth - they are roughly from the same generation.
Every time there's news, I see it on Reddit multiple times and on my newsfeed app as well from various sources. It's very much interesting to gamers and they're following it closely.
The after annual vacation thing is particularly bizarre - on on earth would anyone think it was appropriate to formally ask for an collect this information? This was done at scale, so many people were involved - I also don't understand how none of them decided to turn whistleblower before now.
Several years back (and things may have changed) Panasonic had a patent on the inverter and was the only microwave that offered it. I purchased a Panasonic for that reason and love it.

This from their website:
The Panasonic Microwave Ovens powered with patented Inverter Technology™ deliver evenly cooked meals, from edges to center, every time.
I dunno, having to kowtow to a pearl clutching gerontocracy seems pretty American to me.

This example in Finland seems pretty tame compared to America’s current effort to keep their culture “pure.”

Not so sure Americans should be leaning into “freer than thee” rhetoric.
Thought it was definitely going to be Linux. Ended up being something even more interesting. Good read.
Hopefully the bad publicity over this will also help to force them to change their behaviours.
Renegotiate the Unitary Patent to add compulsory licenses for COVID19
I think it would be extremely interesting if the thing that got tech nerds to get on board, politically, with the notion that a single company doesn't have to have a monopoly for consumers to be hurt by "market standards" was, uh, smart TVs with too many ads.
Are there examples of movies that won big/many awards but score low in crowd sourced ratings?
There are nonlinear dials with larger, clearly-marked steps for short periods (often only a few seconds), then larger steps.

See: e.g. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61-ZBoSyt0L... https://media.primasupply.com/25104-38090/cms/38090/files/8c...

DDG image search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=micrave+dial+timer&iax=images&ia=i...
Sure, I vaguely remember seeing a bunch of studies about how instant access to information, social media, "mindless" entertainment and constant stimulation is badly hurting our ability to focus. I've personally stopped listening to music or reading social media/news on my phone when I commute or go for walks, as I find the quiet time really helps my focus and attention longer term.
Very cool! I've done something similar for improving an OCR system on crinkled paper[0]. Blender is a powerful and totally underutilized tool for this kind of work

0. https://www.arwmoffat.com/work/synthetic-training-data
This is exactly the issue with "all day vs a week". Schedule.

If you charge the device every night, that's routine. You go to sleep, pop your phone and watch in a charger. Done.

A week-long battery has 1-3 days to remind the user to charge.

2-4 days isn't something you can build a routine on, it's not really a full work week even.
"non-technical" and "cli tool" sound like an oxymoron.
But if you hide the yaml config behind a UI i guess it can pass for "non technical".
What Trump would sound like as a tech lead.

Seriously, there’s so many fake outlandish claims in this. Most tech people do not turn off JS because they know most of the web will break. They also know React projects scale really well and React is not a trendy project.
I'm all for open source software but this feels like an awfully contrived way to make a profitable business.

18-36 months between each stage? This feels perhaps tenable for VC backed corps but for anyone bootstrapped, this is a long, long road.

I'm not remotely convinced that these steps feed into each other in a more pragmatic way than... I guess any other way? Couldn't you start with enterprise sales and move backwards, releasing your stuff as OSS once you're running a stable business?

The thesis seems to be that without community and a proven track record, you can't make money organically, which is patently false and proven by hundreds of businesses that don't have OSS/communities. Also, SaaS seems tangential to Enterprise sales in many cases, they're often times different segments (i.e. I won't consider your SaaS since I must be on-prem) -- if you only serve one segment, you're only missing out on the other segment, not cannibalizing? This is all hand-wavey of course, but I posit that this is a way to maybe build an open source business, but I'm not sure it's a solid, proven recipe by any means.

Maybe once Ockam knocks it out of the park in their IPO we can look back on this with greater confidence.
A Raku Manifesto – Part 2
Hacker News readers are fed up with inaccurate generalizations.
The watch is kind of meh for me, and I have the cellular version.

Sometimes the notifications are handy. But if I want to respond to a text, the watch is useless unless I just want one of the canned responses like “Ok”.

It is handy for working out.

As an actual watch, I have one of the older ones without an always-on screen. So when I worked in an office, I actually went back to an old-fashioned watch because it’s hard to discreetly turn on the Apple Watch screen. So I would just wear the Apple Watch when working out. Now that I work from home I wear the Apple Watch all day but I don’t get a ton of utility out of it. I do check the outside temperature occasionally but for that I could just open my front door.

Overall, if I knew this thing would be only as marginally useful as it is I’m not sure I’d buy one. The always-on face would make it more useful but I’m not eager to go spend even more money on this category.
But that means the graphene sheet need to be hotter than the surroundings? Or is this just converting heat from the air and infrared radiation into electric energy?
Pixelsynth
What are the efforts at other important levels? Silicon? Operating systems? Next generation architectures? Where is the leverage without being independent at the hardware level? Look what has happened to BSNL with 4G...
From the article:

> A software engineer’s job is not to write code, it’s to solve problems, by writing code when necessary.

This is a good litmus test to detect the presence of a senior developer.
Managers just have to do what they're told or find another job.

I'm not sure that's true, at least not in a healthy company. Still, if those are the only options and what they're told to do breaks the law, which option do you think they should choose?

European countries tend to have quite strong employee protections in law, so anyone who did end up quitting over something like this might get some compensation as well.
Sight and Sound put out two excellent lists every ten years. 100 best films of all time as voted by filmmakers and another list voted on by published critics. I prefer the filmmaker list overall but it’s interesting to see how the darlings wax and wane over the years. Citizen Kane dominated for decades but now it’s Vertigo.

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/greatest-films-all-time
yeah, I wrote this comment and then realized that I should add it to the original post too :)
I'd suggest once_cell instead of lazy_static. No macros, faster compiles.

https://crates.io/crates/once_cell
So essentially its converting energy from the sun, via latent heat in the atmosphere into energy

Could also use geothermal heat I guess
Nigerian scientists develop cheaper and faster Covid-19 test kits
Dopamine isn't a simple 1-dimensional value that goes up or down with drugs. It's not even accurate to describe ADHD medications as dopaminergic drugs, as stimulants have significant norepinephrine activity as well.

There are even non-stimulant ADHD medications that have no dopaminergic activity at all (Intuniv).

Complex human thought processes can't be reduced to single neurotransmitters. Everything you do is a complex interaction of many pathways that use many different neurotransmitters.

ADHD also isn't purely a chemical disorder. Plenty of ADHD people learn to focus and be productive through therapy and constant self-directed change. Plenty of ADHD people treated with stimulants just use their chemically-induced focus to mess around on the internet and continue to waste time.

Effectively treating ADHD requires approaching it as a mix of medication and lifestyle changes. Reducing it to just dopamine is a trap.
The current status quo is the result of a free market. There is no magical law of nature that prevents monopolies, it is in fact a very common outcome of a free market.
I really like this, I wish more languages had this, unlike a list which gives 200 package to do X, with no idea which is best.

My only comment is I prefer 'tracing' to 'log' for logging, but log will do fine.
Who else thought this was something that would turn AI loose on your bash commands, and automate everything in your CLI?
Practically superseded by HEIF, which is same idea but in complicated ISO container: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For...
What are the efforts at other important levels? Silicon? Operating systems? Next gen architectures? Where is the leverage without independence in those?
He has taken games that supported Linux and dropped that support because he is a jerk.

You don't have to be a "diehard Linux crusader" to see that dropping support from a platform because your store doesn't support it is a shitty move. Running the Windows version of Linux software via Wine isn't support.
Microwave beeping sounds. I’d like a microwave that sounds good. Or is quiet.
One advantage would be a foothold on a strategically valuable location
This is an understatement, it’s extremely high! I don’t know why HelloSign uses this business model of charging a monthly fee and severely limiting the number of templates. I assume it’s because DocuSign does as well. We use HelloSign and think a per-signature fee would make so much more sense.
I had no idea what this was or why it was posted.

This gave at least some context:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FZaDFYbnRoHmde7F6/stuck-in-t...
I had a related issue with dateutil package: https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/issues/327
Unfortunately they don't care that much.
No lockdowns, but Sweden seems to have controlled Covid
It's mind boggling, so much was already known by 1980s. We still run around bumping against the same stuff forty years later :/
So a lot like weka then. https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
Instead of down-voting, how about answering the question? :)
Searching in particular works for me. In the old days, if work B referred to work A, one was unlikely to get it unless one was already familiar with A. These days, it's not uncommon for me, in exploring the space around B, to turn up commentary with enough of a search term that allows me to discover A.

Compare linking via epigraph in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24501978
>> The medication is part of a treatment regimen, but it shouldn't be the entirety of one's treatment regimen.

> No, no, no, no.

I'm sorry you struggled, but I think you misinterpreted my post. I never suggested that people must go medication-free, or that therapy is the only option.

The point is that optimal medication treatment still requires effort to learn healthy habits, facilitate self-discipline, and improve one's ability to focus.

If you need medication to begin that process, so be it, but taking medication shouldn't mean that you neglect the self-improvement aspect of this. The medication can be a springboard, but it's a mistake to give up on self-improvement and hope that medication can do all of the heavy lifting.
I'd like to think the Indian government will have the interests of its own citizens at heart better than Google or Apple. India has a long and not very pleasant history with foreign corporations.
A big dumb ape that can admit his mistakes is smarter than one that can’t.

I stopped having a problem with admitting my mistakes when I realized the power of it. It also had the effect of humanizing me to people who thought I was a robot because I could do something well.
I understand the rhetorical dodges here, but as both a career SRE and a student of CS, I don't see anything here which invalidates the theoretical asymptotic behavior. All of the nuance added here is a complement, not a replacement, for traditional theory.

It is certainly true that the number of elements needs to be quite high before the question is theoretically interesting. The author is right to point out that L2 cache is quite large. Today's GPUs are also quite large in onboard RAM and have integer ALUs, so even millions of elements are not a problem for a basic consumer-grade video card. (Yes, I know that that sounds stupid, but GPUs and now TPUs in the datacenter are a real thing, even if they're quite unfair!)
Not if the Nazis takeover we can’t
GP seems to be arguing that medication is absolutely appropriate as part of a solution. You seem to be vehemently arguing that medication was critically important for you. There’s probably less contradiction than it appears you’re arguing.
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There is a nice little “framework” that I’ve came across [1].

Outcome = Events + Response

So basically he is saying that you can’t control events but your response to them. And, that’s the crucial part related to mistakes: Under pressure, we do not rise to the occasion. We rise or fall to the level of our training. So making mistakes and learning from them will continuously improve your Response.

[1] It’s from the book “Above the Line” by Urban Meyer. Worth a read!
Would you share some of your assumedly true understanding?
The OP is a review of a recently released book, "The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science," by Michael Strevens, a professor of philosophy at NYU: https://smile.amazon.com/Knowledge-Machine-Irrationality-Cre...

Streven proposes a new explanation as to how and why science has advanced over time, that builds upon but is different from the widely accepted explanations proposed by Karl Popper ("science progresses by disproving false theories") and Thomas Kuhn ("science progresses when popular paradigms stop working").

Streven suggests that science adanvaces because scientists (quoting from the OP):

> have no choice. They are constrained by a central regulation that governs science, which he calls the “iron rule of explanation.” The rule is simple: it tells scientists that, “if they are to participate in the scientific enterprise, they must uncover or generate new evidence to argue with”; from there, they must “conduct all disputes with reference to empirical evidence alone.” Compared with the theories proposed by Popper and Kuhn, Strevens’s rule can feel obvious and underpowered. That’s because it isn’t intellectual but procedural. “The iron rule is focused not on what scientists think,” he writes, “but on what arguments they can make in their official communications.” Still, he maintains, it is “the key to science’s success,” because it “channels hope, anger, envy, ambition, resentment—all the fires fuming in the human heart—to one end: the production of empirical evidence.”
At least in Australia (which had the same Coke Zero as New Zealand), I believe Coke Zero and Coke Zero Sugar are the same recipe.
Not sure why the censors haven't flagged this
The credit for that mostly goes to the sandboxed nature of the OS itself rather than app store review.
https://images.app.goo.gl/ZrvQDrMtKxbnMo2C9
There is, of course. Government build ports, airports, customs etc. This is part of digital infrastructure (until the day comes that stores are no longer needed).
LOL. We don’t need 30%. We’ll pay for it through taxes instead.
Corporations did just that in the specific part of the world under discussion here. I suggest you look into the East India Trading Company, Dutch East India and French East India companies.
Endless possibilities

* Try Nix on your distribution [1], package may be already there [2]

* Create package for your distribution, become maintainer, that's not the last time you need it

* Switch to less outdated channel, other packages would be fresh too

* Change distribution

Flatpak has its niche but your use case looks like fixing broken distribution. There is no package, package is outdated, it is hard to make package, it is hard to publish package - these problems already solved.

Hard problems may be

* I want several versions of the package

* I want entire environment like it was 6 years ago so I can run / compile application (in parallel with current)

* I want to run application in sandbox - no network, no file access, no mic etc

* I want proprietary application and they don't play well with Linux ecosystem

Hope Flatpak will address them while keeping security in check.

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Debian Sid is claimed to be not more unstable than Arch [3]. And I had less problems in a decade than a single Ubuntu dist upgrade. Rolling release does not accumulate breaking changes. Run update once a week and you'll be fine.

[1] https://nixos.org/download.html

[2] https://search.nixos.org/packages

[3] https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-run-debian-sid-relatively-saf...
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What more effort can one give but best?
It's not a question of the virtue existing. It's a question of whether it's selected for by a tradition of governance which elevates those people to public office, and whether or not a nascent tradition is liable to be torn down by the local strongmen instead, as a threat. It is a question of institutions, who runs them, and how they perpetuate themselves.
Why do we have this assumption that Apple and Google can only make the same margins as Spotify? What if that 30% means that since they have a larger company they wind up with the same margins as Spotify or even worse? What if Apple Music making money subsidized other free software that Apple releases like Numbers and Pages?

30% is the reward they get for making great business decisions, and as far as competition goes I don’t really think Apple is that serious. Apple Music is an evolution of iTunes, which has been an Apple product for 20 years.

If Spotify wasn’t profitable it wouldn’t exist. Apple’s platform makes that business possible on mobile. If Spotify’s investors weren’t content with making the money they are making now, Spotify can fold up. There is no reason that they have to make a “fair” profit or the same amount of money as Apple Music. None.

When you look at the App Store ecosystem it is incredibly healthy and competitive. There are numerous music apps, all making a ton of money. I have no sympathy here.
And I always thought it was something that built up suspense like a pot builds up a boil.

A quick dig around suggests the etymology described in the article is correct though. TIL, etc.
No government on Earth could run an App store.

Unless they mean force sellers to change defaults and dump on f-droid or something it's embarrassing they think they can.
Quite a lot of companies function better when managers are poorly paid, obedient and basically apply a replicable system with minimal autonomy. It would suck to work there but structures like that absolutely exist & are very profitable.
This read had a pretty intense 40k vibe to it :)
True but apple sells luxury , or premium products. They don’t seem to care for poorer countries
Yes... but your comment is not germane to the OP, which is a review of a new book offering an explanation as to why science advances over time that departs from the widely accepted explanations by Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn.
I'm curious to learn more about NEET and good links to communities Sounds like business minded folks / indie hackers would have a lot of perspective in common with the rebel homeless kids I've encountered who see themselves as smart for opting out of the "normal" path
Seemingly on the same day as:

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/bus-ele...

1st October was a good leap forward for transport in the UK!
I think this depends on the quality of the bug report or the following dialog.

Answers like this should have this disclaimer:
https://i.imgur.com/p76JlUk.png
Reminds me of SKLL: https://github.com/EducationalTestingService/skll
So... Your post is a great example on how mixing practices and markets makes everything confusing.

The OP is all about how revenue of marketing companies shouldn't be larger than the revenue of final goods companies. But there is clearly no such restriction on self driving cars, it's a final product all by itself.

If you mix both into a "data gathering market", you have no means at all to analyze it.