skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You parsed the sentence wrong, I am talking about "feeling down", not "down here".

The title of the advertising blog post is literally "I built an app to fix my depression" and goes on to the details of their situation. Certainly we don't have enough data to assess the severity of their n=1 depression but having gone to professionals and used SSRI medication by definition makes them a part of the clinical population.

If they were to say "this app helped me with the negative emotions that came with depression", that would be OK, but they go on to claim that app has fixed their previously SSRI requiring depression, an app they sell a public subscription for. That association is definitely not OK.

> Whats the world coming to if someone cannot create an app to help ease negative emotions without being harassed by gatekeepers and rent seekers?

It is the same world where people have induced harm abusing people's illnesses or desperation in the name of a quick buck. I am not saying this is the intention of the app maker, but the gate-keeping is there for a reason.

Look at this way, anything claiming to be potent enough to fix something can also be potent enough to hurt you. We can't have it both ways with wishful thinking. That is why we need discrete labels, concrete processes and well evidenced claims when we go about what is an antibiotic or what is a cure for depression.
> I still say, let everyone make the decision for themselves. Many old people (the majority) that get COVID don't die, but recover. They can attend performances.

While we're at it, let's do the same with drunk driving. After all, most intoxicated drivers don't actually get into accidents and many drive large safe cars that protect them well. Why shouldn't they get to decide their own risk preference for themselves? /s
As it happens, [I was adding Zstandard support](https://github.com/kafkajs/zstd) to [KafkaJS](https://kafka.js.org) yesterday. Sadly, the closest thing there is to official bindings for NodeJS haven't been updated for 4 years and don't build against newer versions of Node, so I ended up having to rely on some random fork that I have no reason to believe is going to be maintained.

Unfortunately, the overlap of people that know C++ well enough to write high quality bindings and also have an interest in NodeJS is not that large. I tried to get into it myself, but there's a pretty steep learning curve and once you go beyond tiny toy examples it gets pretty hairy.

If someone has the skills and interest in taking on a medium sized open source project that would be immediately useful to a lot of people in the Node community, Zstandard would be a good choice.
In Gould's defense, when Steinway and their attorneys met with Gould to settle the lawsuit, they were stunned by the fact that he requested only reimbursement of his medical expenses--he made no request for damages of any kind. Steinway paid the bills and Gould continued to be a Steinway artist for many years. [All of this is described in detail in "Wondrous Strange," which is an excellent biography of Gould.]
Yeah, but that’s how the 80%-rule of “good enough” entrenches the bigger actors, ejecting the otherwise perfectly fine alternatives. It’s the power law that makes the rich richer (and turning everything in a mess of managment-driven kludges.)
Wonder if this is because the concern of a delay for counting the results? I wonder if true it might take days or even weeks to find out who won... so I could see suspending it while waiting for results. This is surely an election and year for the history books. Kinda been feeling like I‘ve been living in some movie this year.
Congratulations for your new car.
Yea its easy to say that and then you end up with Love Canal and quack doctors injecting people with bleach to cure their cancer. People do things. Laws and morals stop them from doing bad things. Pray your country doesnt have many people no morals.
Thanks for this, I'll definitely look into it.
Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics gave a great talk at the CfA on this topic a few years back. He created GCAT, a database that attempts to track all artificial space objects. https://planet4589.org/space/gcat/web/cat/index.html

I'm looking forward to Public Observatory Night resuming in person someday. :(
Current Norwegian BEV registrations:

https://elbilstatistikk.no/

Volkswagen currently has 7 models in the top 25 selling BEVs for 2020: Audi e-tron, VW e-Golf, VW ID.3, Skoda Citigo, Volkswagen e-Up!, Porsche Taycan, and SEAT Mii.
It would be wonderful if we were anywhere near as diligent with masks as folks in Japan have been.

Unfortunately, masks became a political issue here in a way that probably had nothing to do with those dumb CDC press releases. Masks were cleverly and intentionally linked to a sentiment of 'freedom' and 'fascism' in an almost astonishing way.

This kind of thing doesn't even raise eyebrows here anymore:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/us/new-york-mask-bar-death-tr...

I don't know how much of it you've seen in Japan, but this country is divided, scared, and hopeless in a way that nobody I've talked to can claim to have experienced in their lifetime. People's family members are dying, people are losing their jobs, people are being evicted, people are losing their businesses, politicians are locked in a geriatric MMA grapple, and there's no vision for how we're getting out of this.
I didn't say identical. They apparently use the same index, not necessarily the same ranking algorithm or the same version of it.
It's not about asking "which half". It's that the numbers cannot be compared. If 90% percent of restaurants stay open forever, 60% of new restaurants could close in their 1st year but only 6% of existing restaurants would close. If we say 50% of existing restaurants will close due to covid, comparing that to 60% makes no sense, it needs to be compared to 6%.
I've authorized a friend to correct me like that whenever he sees fit (I'm ESL and I really want to be able to speak English like a native speaker), and I've learned a ton since then.
I rented a BMW (not a luxury model, the cheapest automatic available from Sixt in Denmark), and the experience was much better than any car I've driven before. The touch screen worked fine, and having a big map on the center console and a small map on the panel behind the steering wheel was really impressive to me. Adaptive cruise control, lane assist, and proximity warnings made driving much less stressful than it used to be.

But I also have owned a car in 12 years, have only rented 4 cars in that time, and borrowed a parent's car occasionally when visiting them, so I don't really know if BMW's work is really ahead of many others or if they're more standard features you see in all cars.
Ah the original templates from C++.
I have strong doubts this is exhaustive or that it could be.
For one, it doesn't contain the name "Genoveffa" which is the italianized form of Jennifer. There are wikipedia-level people named thus, so it's not that uncommon.[0]

There's an infinite amount of misspelled/localized names outside their country of origin e.g. Maicol for Michael, Sandiago for Santiago, Uilliam, Villiam, Willian etc etc

Aditional "anecdata": I live in a country (Hungary) where you have to apply for a special permit to give an "unusual" name to a kid, and since my son has an italian name we had to do that.

You can see the list of names people requested to add, and it includes random stuff like "Magneto" (which isn't on this list either).

This, to say that basically any given word can be a name in some country, it's likely not possible to have an exhaustive list.

Maybe replace with "extensive".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoveffa_Franchini
Right but Wine exists despite Microsoft.
I think the point was that the audio room is still an audio room, not that it has "still" working equipment in it.
> drink less coffee

Is this a good thing?
Can corroborate even as an American native English speaker - movie dialogue and music lyrics in English were hard for me to understand until I was in my mid to late teens. I'm not sure why that is.
I can't begin to imagine the burden of asthmatic Americans when the inhalers cost so much. Yes, they're about $5 in Australia, and I've even gotten them for free on occasion when I was unemployed.

Some quick stats about the medication from wikipedia [0] - The medication was generally available in the UK 1969 (1982 for USA), and in 2017 was the tenth most prescribed medication in the USA.

When I saw news popping up over the last year or so about how exciting it was for a generic inhaler to be approved and available I was surprised and appalled by the whole ordeal, to be honest. It's an essential medicine. Generics have been available for ages here.

How on earth can companies and the government be allowed to do this to people? I mean, the literal answer is probably the oligarchy. I would have thought that people who can manage their chronic health conditions and avoid becoming disabled (or dead) would be infinitely more exploitable than those who can't, but I guess the numbers have been crunched and that mustn't be the case. It's unspeakably awful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salbutamol
FWIW, the core idea in `nb` is that it grew out of exactly that toolset and philosophy and develops it into a single, streamlined interface with a bunch of conveniences and features. It embraces that model and is intended to support it.
There's a landfill at your local waste management facility?
How did you learn to forget specific things? That skill seems just as interesting to me as learning to remember specific things but I've never heard of anyone doing it, probably because eidetic memory (in adults, at least) is rare.
Wouldn't this be first monopoly breakup in the software industry if the decision does come through? If so then a historic moment just happened here.
x86 works in mobile form factors, as evidenced by the Silvermont-based SoCs that made it into a few phones, including a reasonably successful Zenphone.

The problem I saw was that the design philosophy at Intel was not conducive to fast turnaround, and the mobile market does not wait.
+1 on the steering feel. I owned 2008 328i RWD and steering feel... well, it felt 100% mechanical and heavy. Not for everyone, but I loved it and I'm glad I had a chance to drive the last good 'pure' 3 series.
This guy is way better at jq than me.
> Sounds to me like a job for a DSL that compiles down to Golang for the final output.

So, you mean it's the job for generics. Which is a DSL for, well, generic types that compiles to final output. That way, the repeated code doesn't even exist, especially not in the code that humans actually write.
> or switch class brackets.

Can you elaborate on that? What does that mean?
Depends on the country, but we're still a long way off a wide legalization. Some cities in the US (IIRC Denver?) have decriminalized psychedelics, but it's not the same thing as legalizing them. There's a lot of research going on and a lot of good results coming in, so hopefully we'll be in a different place in a few years.
Not all of us dream of a future where the ultra-rich get to shatter everyone else's windows with their sky toys.
There's BBC Horizon episode called "What happened before the Big Bang?" where Penrose stated that he used t to kinda roll his eyes when people asked what happened before because the question didn't make sense.
The whole episode is a wild ride including people from the Perimeter Institute proving soon to me how bizarre theoretical physics is at its frontier. Highly recommended watch.
Whenever I see Milewski’s name I immediately think of this video:
https://youtu.be/ADqLBc1vFwI

It’s a shame I don’t know that many people who’d enjoy it as much as I do!
This thread is why I love hackernews
I think fortunately those are orthogonal matters :)

First, I don't know that dependent types have huge decidability issues that are an inherent obstacle in general; Idris for one has a very practical and elegant model of computation – things like totality checking, linearity rules and elimination of "scaffolding" types do a lot for us.

Dependent types do allow telling the compiler about more dimensions to consider – in a way that allows for a computational explosion at compile time – but those were always an available to consider as part of the computation; Dependent types dont add that complexity, rather they allow us to address it in the type system. I see it such that we're in a stronger position to manage and navigate that complexity by allowing us to express it to the compiler in a succinct and clear way near the core context of desired action. Dependent types allow us to do less by allowing us to do more.

And integrating purely functional mechanisms with side effects is a fun and interesting avenue of research, and I don't know that adding dependent types makes that more difficult; I'd think it makes it easier?
The law specifically protects programs as a form of literary work. An API declaration is a fragment of a program, which is copyrightable under statute, just like chapter titles and headings are fragments of a literary work. API declarations constitute expression of an idea which has many ways to be expressed. And... even if a small part of a larger work is copied without authroization or license, then the copyright has been infringed.

Therefore, it should be uncontroversial that APIs are subject to copyright and that Google was infringing.
I agree that anything you are expected to need to adjust while driving should have a physical knob, button, or switch. That doesn't preclude you from having a touch screen to do other things though.
Michael Gorey – Experienced in Crisis-Management
Oh, "Roosevelt's railroad car" again. That was finally hauled out in 2019 and is now in a small railroad museum.[1] It's just an old baggage car used for tool storage.

FDR did arrive at that siding by train once, and took the elevator up to the Waldorf-Astoria, but he used a different railroad car, the "Ferdinand Magellan". Truman and Eisenhower used it while President. It's in a bigger railroad museum.[2]

[1] https://untappedcities.com/2019/12/12/secret-fdr-train-car-n...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan_(railcar)
Maybe in some industries there is no liability, but I’m in biotech and there is certainly a large amount of software issues that would qualify for litigation
I'm keeping "don't you know?" mood

> Coca-Cola to switch to 100% rPET

> December 2019 - in Sweden

> October 2020 - in the Netherlands

> first half of 2021 - in Norway [1]

Meanwhile

> Coca-Cola currently has an average of 20% rPET in bottles sold in California.

But

> California will make it mandatory for plastic bottles to contain 50% recycled content by 2030. [2]

[1] https://www.cocacolaep.com/media/news/2020/coca-cola-in-west...

[2] https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2020/10/02/California-...
The theory that describes what jq does and is proven to lead to further places is way better at jq than the implementation of jq that currently exists.
Does Web Performance Matter? It Depends
Wait, are you in good faith comparing H1B workers to slavery? I am not an expert on American history, but if you did, that escalated quickly :). The only rebuttal I have is, that no employee on Infosys is forced on a Lufthansa economy class seat to Newark airport. They do it by choice.

The whole "their code is horrible" is shifting of a goalpost. If that's true (and it might well be), then stop hiring them. If businesses see the point you are making, they'll stop hiring them.

On FAANGs adding value - I 100% agree. FAANGs add way more value than any Indian consulting company and that's reflected in the market cap of these companies. But surely,one can appreciate that FAANGs add value and that they lobby to have laws created in their favor. My limited point is that I don't think these American companies (which benefit from the new H1B rule) have any higher moral ground to claim with respect to their stance on immigration laws.

Also, A higher wage is an odd way to restrict hiring. A FAANG company can pay much higher wages for low-end coding job than Indian consulting companies ever can. So, if a FAANG hires the same Indian kid, at 120K/yr and have him/her do the same shitty job that the consulting company does, there's nothing here that stops it (please correct me if I am mistaken)
Out in rural areas there's also zero composting. I know, because I own a homes in both a major US city and a rural location.

Also, most of the plastic the city takes, the rural location services won't.
This is the correct response.
> I played drums for a while without ear protection, and viola.

Ear protection is of course a requirement when playing a drum kit, which is very loud. But when playing viola?
Lots of laptop makers manage this with a much smaller PCB.

I'd guess simply not much effort went into making the PCB small and cheap.

I would guess there will be a follow-up revision of the PS5 with all hardware much cheaper. That model will be the mass market one, and the profit maker for Sony.
Here is a demo video generated by mmpose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIJpQg8mXUU
i would say this is just imperative programming.
I bought a small APC back ups for a small low-wattage server.

I analyzed things and the UPS was making the computer go down and it hadn't lost power.

I removed the UPS and it has been rock solid.
Those complains is a known fake
Let's be real, beyond this being bullshit, it's double-bullshit. Setting aside that it's a morally corrupt idea that wouldn't help, it wouldn't even work. You can't get rid of encription. Code is easier to spread than both drugs and guns and neither of them are as widely useful to criminals. How could anybody who's not completely incompetent think that this would possibly affect more than just the average consumer? Who votes for these clowns?
You can do that but the cognitive overhead of understanding what code is represented becomes more of a burden than the burden of producing logic that is correct and fulfills requirements. You can see part of this in lisps where the arguments of many functions form their own de-facto languages. Then you are not only writing code, but writing it in a variety of different languages that share only a common syntax.
i get it, i just grabbed an optics lib to use it.
(Game) Bubble Shooter Tycoon: Bubbles Online
Whether something is “correct” or not in this particular grammatical regard comes down to cultural factors, not objective linguistic ones. If we look at the languages of the world, we can see plenty of cases where the nominative form of the 1st person singular pronoun was gradually replaced over time by the accusative or oblique form. Therefore, people coming to say “Tim and me” instead of “Tim and I” is a completely natural linguistic change and complaining about it is simply being pedantic.
> I suppose if that's the missing part of the puzzle for you, then that will help.

Of course it will help, because it changes the entire scenario from two people playing a game of chance to one person playing a game of deduction against secret knowledge.

The odds don't change because of some quirk of the Universe, they change because one player is changing the parameters due to his knowledge.

> I got out three playing cards and did the experiment myself over and over.

How did you do that when you didn't know which cards were 'goats'?
Link is giving me a 404 from Spain (07:00 CET).
> These days people might probably just use Google navigation, and don't even use their head anymore, sadly.

I have done some very long journeys through South America. It used to be the case that anyone spending a whole year or more in South America backpacking or cycling would learn Spanish. Why not, if Spanish is considered easy to learn and you have all that free immersion in the language?

But on my last long trip, I was amazed to find that most other shoestring travelers I met were simply using Google Translate on their phones to communicate with the people they met: whether waiters in restaurants, their drivers if they were hitchhiking, local people they struck up a conversation with, etc.

When I said, “Why not learn Spanish if you are here for a whole year?”, the response was basically them rolling their eyes and saying “Whatever, grandpa.”
Do you mean compost collection bins, or home composting bins?

If you live in an area that collects material for industrial composting you should 100% put the grease coated parts of the cardboard in your compost collection bin.
Relax that Flickr account is known fake
I don't know if I would switch to DC, but I do wish PSUs would accept an input of some sort.

I know that's something google did with its servers -- it would put a battery on each motherboard and have an onboard UPS integrated with the system.
if you do that you will likely wipe out a lot of non-person-name data too, just think of common words used as last names, like "Brown"[0].

It seems to me if you have PII in text data you should treat the whole thing as PII.

[0] although the dataset doesn't actually contain "Brown" as a valid last or first name, go figure.
Anonymity is not free speech, but anonymity is absolutely required for some free speech. Consider the case of free elections, most people consider it an absolute given that these need to be anonymous.

The potential for reprisal in expressing your choice or opinion in some circumstances is very high and anonymity is sometimes the only thing that can eliminate the chill of that risk. It is in this way a free speech issue.

On the other hand, if a crime or tort was committed, well that isn't considered free.
I'm ready to diy this study for an attempt to turn this constant ringing off.
One last point:
Wipro has performed way better than expected during COVID (https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/wipro-soars-as-june-...)

TCS has made an announcement that they will not have any layoffs during COVID https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/tcs-not-to-lay-off-e...

So, even when thousands of employees of these companies could not travel to the US, their profits soared. Anecdotally, it appears (need more data) that if these companies cannot send someone on an H1B, the job does not always go to an American national, it probably goes back offshore to Bangalore (good for us, we get those tax Rupees).
> but that ended when the person impersonated an FBI agent

I didn't know larping was illegal
This is ironic. The west blames China for censorship while today they support their own. China truly has vision banning facebook from.the beginning
It might be like RAID. People get RAID thinking their life will be easier, but it gets immeasurably complicated when something goes wrong.
But why not fly subsonic over the land and supersonic over the ocean?
Ego Network Visualization
Hi! Let me present my hobby project I crafted recently. This is an ego graph visualisation SPA using the Google autocomplete "vs" technic. Made as open source using Deno, AlpineJS and D3. Deployment is done via the awesome Fly platform. I find it useful in discovering a particular term's context map. Thanks for watching.
> With both a DNS-over-HTTP client and potentially a DNS-over-QUIC in the browser and serving advertisements over QUIC... there is a good chance that the world will see unblockable advertisements

And better tracking. In DoH RFC [0], 8. Privacy Considerations, 8.2. In the Server:

"HTTP's feature set can also be used for identification and tracking in a number of different ways. For example, Authentication request header fields explicitly identify profiles in use, and HTTP cookies are designed as an explicit state-tracking mechanism .."

"Determining whether or not a DoH implementation requires HTTP cookie support is particularly important because HTTP cookies are the primary state tracking mechanism in HTTP. HTTP cookies SHOULD NOT be accepted by DOH clients unless they are explicitly required by a use case."

I will stick to DoT.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8484