skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your input, gang! :)

Okay, to summarize, here are the list of things that might help when you are unable to get medicated or therapy:

1. Supplements: Omega-3, Zinc, Lithium (has severe side effects, but it works)
2. Mindfulness: Meditation/Yoga
3. Routines (according to HN answers)

Here is the list of things that I personally (!) think that might help:

4. Digital organization: Johnny File System, PARA Method

Here is the list of things I am personally (!) unsure about:

5. Offline organization/planning: Bullet Journaling
6. General organization: minimalism? Decluttering?

The list of things that need also attention:

7. Social skills & interpreting social cues correctly
8. Interpersonal skills & soft skills (manners?)
9. Effective "crutches" for things like impulsivity

Some more ideas that might help or not - these are rather experimental:

10. Fasting (for mood improvement?): https://www.hal.inserm.fr/file/index/docid/789122/filename/F...

And remember: use your own brain first don't trust anyone so easily! :)
(Except your therapist/doctor, if you have access to one.)

Final note: we need a Scott Meyers type of book for "Effective ADHD".
Awesome idea! Could there be an equivalent for software? Code bases classic enough to retype for coding practice?
This isn't a formalized debate forum, a logical fallacy (alone) does not invalidate a commentor's rationalization.
i believe chromeos uses a custom kernel with their own stack.
> Even if you have a great job , you can still lose it

Especially likely if you're distracted or impaired by an illness - even if not yet diagnosed.
Wait, seriously? checks Okay, that's funny. I totally did not realize that at all until I found your comment.
So, for example: what I learned in school is "the time between 500-1500 (roughly) did not have a lot of written records" and that was the end of story. Since reading on my own, I've found:

* Really, the time where there weren't any written records were mostly concentrated to 500-750 or so. Even though I had learned about Charlegmagne in school, I hadn't really learned much about all he did to encourage reading and writing (obviously, to the extent that it was possible given the cost of vellum at the time). The amount of written records were also not uniform geographically. As the original article says, Scandinavians wrote less than people in souther Europe.

* There actually are decent-for-pre-modern records of England from the time around the Vikings. The story in school was mostly "Things were great under the Roman empire, then things fell off a cliff and stayed that way for 1000 years." In reality though, there are the Domesday Book or the writings of Venerable Bede (just to mention two examples) that record events of the time.

Of course, there wasn't the printing press so it is technically true that things were less documented, I think this is just less so than commonly believed.
"Republicans generally want the free market to work things out",
-- why is the GOP so against people getting medicine from other safe countries, and 2. not allow medicare/medicaid to be able to negotiate prices?

They are basically both hampering competition where they can, and not allowing the gov. to be able to negotiate.

I am sorry but your comment doesn't hold water...
As I've said in a thread I made on forums a while ago, search&replace has other advantages. Reviewing matches, as long as you use /gc, is the default in vim. It's opt-in in kak, which I think is a bad default. Does kakoune even indicate you have some other selections off-screen?

I worked with large and messy codebase, where apparently there was always something more important than cleaning up.
That's literally a different language though, but I get your point. CPython is the worst implementation.
Yeah for me mono was horrible for a week or so, then exhaustion for 2-3 months but nothing like long covid.
Of course it could also be partly the fact I had mono in my early 20s and had covid in early 40s!
Expected to read some mind palace thing but came away surprised. Useful stuff in there!
Ear training gives you this skill

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhyyjRcrn84
This is a great option! Thank you. I'll have to see if I can make 700 fps work, but initially this looks promising.
Profit margins aren't a "the total shall be X billion USD" division across countries. Making less profit in one country has nothing to do with what your profit margin will be in another one.

Prices are always set to maximize profit, and what the customer is willing to pay you is the biggest factor in the equation.
No, that's not how copyright works. Copying a book, whether you do it all at once or letter by letter, would violate copyright.

In this case, all of these books are older and their copyright terms have expired.
It's a well-established pattern.

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...
Hey HN. I made this trivia game because I couldn't find a simple, web-based, mobile friendly trivia game without ads and tracking.

It is very light, ~300kb (compressed) over the wire, including ~12 SVG illustrations. Each subsequent game transfers < 10 KB.

The front end is Nuxt.js and the back end is node/express.

I tried to avoid user-hostile features that induce users to keep playing. To this end, there is no persistent score or points, just single 10 point games.

The questions come from the open trivia DB and there are many categories. You can play with an arbitrary combination of categories.

I made this a while ago, but never posted it. I want to share it in hopes that it will inspire me to keep working on it. I'd really like to add an offline mode and some other stuff. I have a bunch of cool ideas for it.

FYI, the contrast is low on the categories view, making it hard to see which categories are selected on some screens.
> spreading feral pigs to a new, larger territory.

This is only a problem if there are not hunters there. If there enough hunters, the pig problem will disappear.
Sounds like you have good insurance so the real price is hidden from you.
aliexpress does that for anything on mobile that it thinks is sex related, which is occasionally annoying when it gets something wrong, but is definitely not wrong in this situation.
Fair enough, but with that proposal you have the FDA and pharmaceutical companies positioned against you.

Price controls - at least with a Democratic administration - are more realistic, because the FDA doesn't care about that and the pharmaceutical companies at least get to keep their moat, which they will prefer over some lost profits from generics.
There are lots of inelastic markets, and I'd agree they do often suffer from short-term price volatility, but the US healthcare market suffers from longer-term price 'anomalies', which I believe are a product of its unique regulatory landscape.
My wife has long covid, 6 months later and she's only recently able to look after our kids alone - she's just been too tired before. I've dipped in to the groups she's part of and my very rough guess from the numbers is that it is something like 1 in 1000 covid sufferers get long covid. That figure though could be totally out either way as the number of cases was unlikely to have been correctly reported back when she got ill, and the new long cases coming through now won't be 'long' for months yet.
> 40 day insurance lapse

How does that sort of thing affect you? I can't imagine the pressure of knowing you 'can't' get ill for a period of time!

Do you stop biking to work, avoid DIY projects, skip the 5-a-side sessions that month...?!
Eventually they will figure a way to make them sterile. It's a huge problem so there's money in figuring it out. Drop some "food" and they win the Darwin Award once they eat it.
That's pretty awesome.

Of course it's absolutely not practical, but if I ever wake up as a refugee in London I'll register with a gp

Edit : I almost want to see a SNL skit with a man who decides to have a mental breakdown, but prefers to do so in London vs the US
Are you Scarlet Johansson?
No thanks, Whatsapp can stay in Whatsapp
Perhaps you should be arguing against lobbying instead of arguing “well, if we try to stop big pharma they’ll just fuck us so might as well roll over and die”.
Spent a lot of time writing code listening to Van Halen. A true pioneer.
The only thing almost as obscene as medical sticker prices in the US is the amount that just disappears after insurance settles. I have actually had a bill with a 94% "insurance discount" applied.
Which ultimately makes those rare and esoteric stacks less likely to survive because experienced engineers who don't have experience with those particular stacks have no ways of getting those jobs without experience in those jobs.

Companies like Jane Street make more sense. They use ocaml but they don't expect you to have any ocaml experience coming in, but they also have plenty of resources for training and hiring talented engineers.
Huh, I forgot about the Comey e-mail investigation October surprise (thanks a lot, Comey, you....). I wonder if Trump or Putin has any Biden surprises for this month...
> I feel like there are a lot of background assumptions involved in that process

Like what?
_ Monopolistic competition is more dynamic than the free, small-firm dominated market. Size gives companies the ability to earn surplus profit which is turned into long-term innovation rather than short-term fighting for market share._

Ah yes, this good ol’ myth. To debunk it, look around you at all the major players in tech who are hoarding cash like there is no tomorrow while doing incremental improvements to products rather than building something interesting.

The larger a company becomes, the more bloated and bureaucratic it becomes. Once they’re big enough, innovation is close to impossible, and the self-preservation instinct kicks in. Again, you can see that in almost all BigTech players today.
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Thanks! If you have any questions about the process, happy to answer in the comments.
I mean, at the bottom of a big tank, there's a bunch of pressure driving stuff outward. In my mental model there's not anything special driving water into these tanks -- am I mistaken?

If it's really just an issue of decades old structures out and exposed to the elements letting rainwater in ... can an auxiliary structure with a roof not be added?
> Food irradiation in general is safe and effective, but weirds a lot of the general public out (particularly those with low scientific literacy. Irradiated food doesn't become radioactive!)

Frankly, if labeling was available I would actively seek out irradiated food (specifically bread and fruits). This would be great to reduce food waste due to spoilage and pathogen risks (either from spoilage or otherwise present in the food).

I suspect most(if not all) of the "unprocessed" food I eat has not been irradiated.
Can't be worse than featherless dinosaurs. I think we'll be just fine enjoying deoldified footage.
> if you've ever seen the TV show Card Sharks...

I developed and taught an entire undergraduate math class on the mathematics of game shows.

https://people.math.sc.edu/thornef/schc212/gameshows-428.pdf

Much of the class I worked out probabilities like these, and compared what contestants "should" do to what they actually do.

Watching reruns of Card Sharks, The Price Is Right, and others, I've found that most people have a surprisingly good intuitive sense of probability. Not always, but more often than not.
This talks to a society wide problem, basic logical thinking tools (thinking at the margin, elementary statistics, etc) aren't taught in school and most of the population are ignorant of them.

They're not the most difficult concepts to grasp but high school students are busy memorizing facts instead, and these thinking tools are only taught in very specific university courses that not everyone will take.
Trump is really hitting all the right notes on the economy.

That said, smart breakups would make sense. FB/Insta would be a start.
For a high-level API, shouldn't this be expressed with types such as a `Result<T,E>` at the library level?

edit: now that I think about it, that would require some really nice optional chaining syntax to be even slightly usable.
Is there a list of Nice-AI? Or generally unambiguously awesome tech?
OP here: didn't expect this one to fly so high because it's too long for HN. Happy to answer any questions you guys have!
> Large firms don't just exist because of power, but also because to manage an increasingly complex environment (scientifically, economically etc) large institutions are required to hold the necessary knowledge to function effectively.

Large firms don't exist because of power, but because with their power they can use resources to do things other firms can't?

Sounds like they exist because of power. And it sounds like unnecessary complexity is something they would evolve to create, not diminish, because it's a great moat for them to hide behind.

Is that what we're hoping to accomplish? Create a few hypercorporations with tens of thousands of people working bullshit jobs because they've shaped industries in such a way so as to force that bullshit to be the cost of entry?

No thanks.
If properly cooked it should kill parasites and pathogens.

Food irradiation is relevant for other types of food too, including the ones we don't normally cook, such as fruits.
The crazy thing though is that statistics also contributed to the loss. There was a campaign to discredit Clinton so many Democrats weren't happy about her. Seeing statistics in her favor many Democrats decided to either stay home or vote 3rd party. This also give extra opportunity to tilt scales in 3 important states to win the entire election.

Moral of the story is, one should never assume that their candidate winning in polls is an excuse to not vote.
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I will give an opposite experience. I was hired with zero previous knowledge of Elixir or functional stack (well, except Haskell course at uni). The other dev actually came from C# background (I came from Ruby). 100% remote.
I work in Elixir most of the time but can read and write Erlang reasonably well, here's my two cents.

Elixir's syntax was inspired by ruby and so if you've used ruby or look at ruby code and think, "yea, I get what's going on here" then you will likely find working with Elixir's syntax preferable to Erlang. Erlang's syntax was based off of Prolog and so it will be less familiar, unless you have done a bunch of Prolog programming.

Elixir layers on a bunch of things that are very nice to have at a language level, the ability to rebind names is probably the one that most impacts code. In Erlang you can't rebind a variable, so Erlang code ends up either using lots of very small functions of having variables like `n` `n2` `n3`. It's not that you can't write good, clean, easy to reason about code in Erlang, but if you are coming from a language with mutability and variable rebinding, it's a bit of a culture shock. I find that Elixir hits a nice medium ground to allow you to wrap your head around immutable data structures, functional programming, actor model, OTP without ALSO having to climb the hills of unfamiliar syntax and some limitations (like variable rebinding) that aren't strictly necessary.

From a tooling standpoint, I find Elixir to be a bit more pleasant than Erlang. Mix (build tool) is great, ExUnit (unit testing) is great, ExDocs (docs generation) is great, Hex (package management) is great. The Elixir community has somehow stayed pretty unified when it comes to tools and for the most part they work really well.

From an interoperability standpoint, you really don't leave anything behind choosing to use Elixir over Erlang. Erlang dependencies work just fine, and the interop is so easy, here, I'll give you an example.

Want to use an Erlang module directly from your Elixir code, here's an example of how to use the timer module.

:timer.seconds(1)

That's it, that's the interop, you don't have to import anything weird, you don't have to fence off your code, you don't have to juggle types from Elixir types into Erlang types and back again. Want your Erlang interop to look more like elixir, two lines of code.

alias :timer, as: Timer
Timer.seconds(1)

Overall the Erlang and Elixir communities are friends (and Gleam, LFE, and all the other BEAM Languages). It's a very positive community all working to build great functionality on top of the really cool piece of tech that is the BEAM VM.
Not having Google/Apple ecosystem is a feature, not a compromise for those going to the PinePhone. Those making that choice need to have realistic expectations on what they're getting, and be able to accept compromises on the availability/polish on services like web, gps, email, camera, music, and also battery life. If you have to ask, it's probably not for you.
What does wrong even mean in these contexts? You can't reliably evaluate a probability model with n = 1 test cases.
Hi, can you explain how you imagine the functionality with SQLite and why SQLite specifically
I'm not sure it's that simple, because even _after the fact_ people were talking about how 538 "said Clinton would win". They're doing so in this comments section, in fact.

I also seem to remember seeing a study that people made better probability-based decisions if given probabilities phrased as fractions than percentages; I wonder if something similar is going on with the cards example.
Since it's not there yet and the show hn is now here, would you mind explaining what it does here?
> Large companies first and foremost benefit from economies of scale, not any dictatorial dynamics they might pursue.

Economies of scale are dictatorial dynamics. Economy of scale means you're putting unbalanced pricing pressure on suppliers.
guess you don't get out much.

please describe your system and how it is universally better, at the scale at which Vault is designed to operate. (pricing starts at around $150k annually, as a proxy for scale where Vault matters)
Usually by fax.
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1984 is especially interesting since the generation before mine in the Soviet Union would've only been able to read a manual copy of the book. My father was lent such a copy for one night. I'm thinking of copying it out in the dark as a form of LARPing of the samizdat.
All done with US International, but should be reproducible with other keyboard layouts; just that with, e.g. a German layout it might be harder to find digraphs that can be typed by forcing a non-combination for a dead key.

Firefox 81, Windows: Dead keys and the corresponding combination of letters where no single letter is defined by the keyboard layout don't even appear. I.e. I type ', and then s, which normally causes the digraph 's to appear, but here neither the ' nor the s afterwards register.

Chrome 85, Windows: The key sequence registers as just one letter, but apparently not as the ', which thus is marked as an error. This was also what I've seen in Edge (Chromium-based, probably similar version number).

Internet Explorer 11: Same as with Chrome. However, with the added bonus that typing a space seems to be impossible. No idea whether that browser is even on the compatibility list for that site, but it's all I have lying around here right now.
and in business.
I completely agree that the pharmaceutical companies will lobby to keep the current regulatory barriers. 'Big Pharma' has specialized in regulatory compliance, not drug development and production, so they'll fight to protect the barriers.

I don't think price controls will work quite as well as you do, and I disfavor solutions which require a benevolent bureaucracy (and executive branch).
Hi, can you please explain more, or you can open an issue and explain the expected functionality there
I can access that link just fine on mobile. You probably live in a more prude part of the world if you can't access that link on mobile.
A lot of these are less "woah, AI is real bad and we need to be better about using it appropriately" and more "people need to stop being fooled by snake oil products that promise impossible things."
> Put simply: enabling mypy + no-any gives you all the same static guarantees (and arguably more) that java does, so in what way isn't it statically typed?

The original question was about Python the language, not Python the ecosystem. At no point is it ever likely to be correct to say "Python is statically typed"; it will only be possible to say "this specific Python code can be statically typed, if you run the static type checker". This is a fundamental difference between optional static typing in Python versus a natively statically typed language. Because you can run the Python code without running the static type checks, which you cannot do in, say, Java.

Because of this distinction, it is never a genuine concern of a developer in Java or another statically typed language whether third-party libraries will be properly typed. There do not exist libraries without valid static types. You can't install something from Maven or what-have-you that won't type-check.

But you can do this in Python. You can install something via pip and there is no guarantee it will come with good type annotations for your type-checking tool to use, because the type checker is not part of the language proper. It's not required. So Python code exists in the real world that cannot be used with the same assumptions as you can use code in the Java ecosystem. And this is fine, by and large, because Python wasn't meant to be typed. There's nothing wrong with using code like this, nor is there anything wrong with writing code like this. You may not wish to do so personally, which is fine, but I don't think there will ever be an expectation made by the Python language proper of all Python developers to annotate their code. Python will always work without explicit types.

My point in all of this is that your original argument that "[whether there are concerns about third-party libraries having valid type annotations] is true in any type system" does not hold in the real world, because you simply won't have untyped libraries in a statically typed language's ecosystem like you will in Python. Perhaps you didn't realize that this was the point being made, but in any case you went off on a very semantic tangent that had no real bearing on the conversation at hand: the use of type annotations in practice.
Your costs would be much higher with Type 1: somewhere between 10-30mL (3-10x 3mL pens) is more typical.

This is actually addressed in the article though:

> The study used manufacturer prices for the analysis. The final, net prices paid for insulins are likely to be significantly lower than manufacturer prices in the U.S. because rebates and other discounts often drive down the price paid by individuals in the U.S.
Not the grandfather poster but those costs are about what I pay for my insulin without any insurance.
Mine apparently isn't :\
https://feralhogs.extension.org/natural-predators-of-feral-h...
Slated for release in OTP 24 I think. This covers the spproach they use: https://youtu.be/lM7UV95Rpyo

Most interesting take-aways from benchmarks are some cases where RabbitMQ processes 30-50% more messages per second. And where a native Erlang JSON library beat NIF C library in some specific tests. The PR link covers this info.
Other markets with inelastic demand and/or supply also suffer from long-term price anomalies: take housing/rental in SF. There’s certainly some more contributing factors that make an inelastic market turn into a problem, but it’s fairly obvious that it’s not governed by the regular “simple” market explanation of supply and demand converging to a price point if the demand is essentially fixed.