skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one".

There are so many forms of illness where this is true. I've never experienced anything nearly as persistent and painful as frozen shoulder.

The worst thing I've experienced was probably Sciatica as a teen. It was particularly frustrating since the pain was intermittent and invisible to others. Through fairly substantial lifestyle changes, I haven't had issues in more than a decade.

I hope everyone in this thread (and the author) is able to become well enough to return to their lives.
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On the plus side, it's not a post about Rust.
Well you can leave the gmail account around for these stray cases or, you know, contact them.
And there’s no shame in “flipping burgers” to be sure. Anyone who takes the personal responsibility to earn a living has earned respect.
It's always astonishing how hydro and nuclear are so much better handled by SoEs like EDF or HydroQuebec that manage to turn a profit too, while private companies can never do it well.
I think you're right. Though for 2mil quid a job, we could have done better just picking people and sending them cheques imho...
The first time I saw "Do not pass" signs I thought they meant "Thou shalt not pass" as in "Do not enter"
> Okay, they sponsor existing projects and then take credit for them [...] I don't see any references to NumFOCUS in the NumPy Wikipedia page. The NumPy homepage makes absolutely no reference to NumFOCUS at all.

I have no connection to any of these projects but some very basic browsing on these sites refutes your assertions. You're using questionable criteria to make dubious claims. NumFOCUS was founded by the primary creators of many of these tools specifically to support them; it's not some unaffiliated third-party trying to take credit.

> NumPy is a Sponsored Project of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity in the United States. NumFOCUS provides NumPy with fiscal, legal, and administrative support to help ensure the health and sustainability of the project.

https://numpy.org/about/

> By 2010, a critical mass of projects were in need of a more formal structure to provide support and help to organize the community. [...] Travis Oliphant (author of NumPy), Fernando Pérez (author of IPython), Perry Greenfield (author of Numarray and Astropy), John Hunter (author of Matplotlib), Jarrod Millman (release manager for SciPy), and Anthony Scopatz (who came up with the name “NumFOCUS”) became the founding board of NumFOCUS.

https://numfocus.org/history
Wow. Not chronic pain, but I've dealt with chronic debilitating lack of sleep (brought on by a strong urge to urinate all night). I got to some places of really deep despair with feeling complete exhaustion but no ability to sleep for any substantial period of time.

It took a while before I found some things that worked between sleep doctors, urologist, physical therapists, primary doctors etc. It was particularly frustrating because frequent urination was seen as a kind of low-level thing. Still it was causing great difficulty where I could barely keep functioning.

Ultimately, what ended up mattering was (1) enlisting family to help advocate for me to my doctors (2) getting 2nd and 3rd opinions (3) being persistent and continuing to try new things, not being stuck with one doctors opinion

I got the impression that unless you/someone is advocating for you strongly and working actively to solve the problem, continuing to keep going back to the same doctor over and over and trying to give them the benefit of the doubt doesn't work.
Do you actually have evidence of this? Because I have evidence to the contrary.

https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
Let me think about a movie:

The thaw!
Humans are weird. We like seeing people succeed against hardship and enjoy reading success stories. But the enjoyment of their success can’t be to excess, otherwise people will see them as unscrupulous or arrogant. Not a slight against you or OP just interesting that we have our own individual thresholds of what kind of self congratulating is acceptable until it turns sour
Watching your video, I see a bit of a start with errors and inspection, but there's SO much more you can do there.

I no longer know what the best implementations of web-based error handling are, but this 15 year old(!) approach still seems to beat the state of the art in notebooks: https://github.com/cdent/paste/blob/master/paste/exceptions/...

You have a rich interface, showing textual tracebacks is unnecessary!

I'd do inspectable values as well (not just relying on __repr__, but making any top-level object interactively inspectable), but that's more involved. But probably worth it!
Actually Ronan Connolly has a PhD in computational chemistry/polymer physics, has has published many "Climate Science" articles, such as :

- Comparing the current and early 20th century warm periods in China

- Northern hemisphere snow-cover trends (1967–2018): a comparison between climate models and observations

- Re-calibration of Arctic sea ice extent datasets using Arctic surface air temperature records

- How Much Human-Caused Global Warming Should We Expect with Business-As-Usual (BAU) Climate Policies? A Semi-Empirical Assessment

And much more, see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8JOBXYEAAAAJ
> There is no evidence nuclear waste can be disposed of safely in the medium or long term. Only technocrats and elites want more nuclear energy. Its not the will of the voting public. This is a defeat for the environment and democracy.

You could put all the nuclear waste the US has ever produced on one football field stacked 3 stories high.

Roughly 83,000 metric tons.

Meanwhile we produce over 50 million tons of electronic waste that is full of nasty heavy metals that can, and do, leech into the environment causing wide spread destruction, because instead of storing them in some sort of containment vessel we just dump them on whatever country will take a pittance payment.

Nuclear waste storage is a NIMBY problem, in terms of environmental pollutants you could probably find hog farms that churn out more waste.
> But for some reason, on this topic, people lose their minds.

Not people. A section of the elites. Even with nearly a total propaganda war against the people, most people are not buying what they are selling. It's why they are so desperate to censor.

> I don’t know what the right answer is

Free speech. Buy the book if you can or donate it to the library. I know many libraries accept "banned books"/"persecuted authors" and even have "banned book" promotions. As far as I know, public libraries haven't gotten as flaky as news/big tech/etc.

> But we need to be having more open conversations about these things, not censoring “dissenting” views altogether.

Yeah, but you'd be banned from almost every social media platform if you try to have a discussion. All authoritarians love to ban "hate" speech - the chinese authoritarians, islamic fundamentalists, nazis, etc.
> To help pay for its vast expansion, the company and its developers have won at least $741 million in taxpayer-funded incentives in northeast Illinois alone
By 2050?
> I'm also viciously dismissive now of any legislation or practices that limit controlled substances. I'm not an addict and I shouldn't be punished for other peoples acts.

I find myself agreeing with this. Opiate overuse and addiction is certainly a problem, but I also question some of the negativity I see regarding their use (from a UK perspective). I was on tramadol (200mg/day) for about six months, and was told, by my consultant, that coming off them "will be worse than quitting heroin". I just stopped taking them, and saw no ill effects. I've twice been on codeine (240mg/day) for around 8-12 months, and was given similar, albeit less severe, warnings about withdrawal. In both cases, there were no side effects upon stopping. I have to wonder if such warnings make withdrawal symptoms more likely through the nocebo effect[1].

They certainly have been misused in many ways, but they also have their place and make long-term pain much easier to deal with.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352765/
Another person with orchialgia here, it sucks. Mine's been on and off for almost 20 months now. After three urologists I found something that worked (and it's like a miracle).

Something you touch on here implicitly is how much it changes little things in your life. For me it was long commutes, I can't sit for extended periods of time.

What I would add is that doctors can be great for things they recognize and can treat. With something like chronic pain that can manifest due to numerous causes and doesn't outright kill you, doctors can be very unhelpful. It took a really bad bout of pain to see a new urologist who diagnosed it as a damaged nerve and prescribed a device that works.

Not everyone is the same, but my experience led me to believe that if you suffer from chronic pain you just have to keep shuffling specialists until you find someone that's read different research than the others that works.
Take a look at https://quarkus.io/ which mostly follows on Java EE api's, quite pleasant to work with.
I've been involved in hiring engineers, and see previous employment 'flipping burgers' as a massive plus. It shows someone is willing to work hard when they need to.
Why are they not upfront about who is funding the research?
A couple of Google searches later lead to interesting finds: try "Ronan Connolly Koch" or "Connolly Willie Soon funding".

I'm not saying that taking money from oil&coal companies (and hiding it) necessarily implies that the research is biased, I'm just saying to take it with a big grain of salt.

But even with all of that, if you look at the charts they still clearly show the total impact (direct + indirect) of solar and wind is an order of magnitude lower than coal and oil.
Sleep apnea is like knee pain in that loosing significant weight either makes a huge difference, or does nothing. Unfortunately, if it doesn’t work for you people will still constantly bring it up.
I've learned so much about the flu through this. Covid can rarely cause strokes, but so can the flu. The risk is 7x during covid, so it's significant, but there's way more flu going around. This year there may be more strokes due to Covid than flu, but there's been millions of flu strokes in the last decade, which I was pretty surprised by.
It is not unheard of for a commercial entity to reason – "X may be technically illegal, but it is unlikely anyone will complain, and even if they do, if we just stop as soon as we get a formal complaint it is unlikely they'll sue us, and even if they do, the fact we stopped as soon as they complained about it will work in our favour legally".

If commercial entities reason like that, and quite often (even if not always) get away with reasoning like that, what is wrong with a not-for-profit entity doing the same? If anything, the fact that its motivations are philanthropic rather than commercial makes it engaging in that kind of reasoning even more defensible.
Nuclear waste has not existed in the medium or long term. It hasn't even existed longer than the Catholic church, a mere blip on histories timescale. Of course there is no evidence. But the short term failures do not give me hope.
Couldn't it be the reverse? Couldn't computation be the closest approximation to pure expression and interaction? Seems to me that this is more natural.

Also, I will bet 500$ that no one will be able to prove that all physics has a logical and mathematical basis within my lifetime :)
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> a planned economy that has ignored any american or european economic orthodoxy

I implore you to look up how China’s economy functions. It is successful because they threw away the majority of the “planned economy” bits of communism and have a capitalist economy. They have a stock market, citizens invest in companies they choose, starting a business doing whatever you want is easier there than many places in the US, businesses fail all of the time. None of those are features of a planned economy.

> and to a lesser extent, India, which has mostly advanced by freeing itself from the burdens of colonialism

It has little to do with that and more to do with making themselves globally competitive in many sectors (IT and outsourcing being obvious ones). They also operate under a capitalist economy that fosters these successful projects.

> In real terms, it has been stagnant or increasing, especially as people who were living well off the land have been forced to participate in the monetary economy or die of starvation.

Funny how people throw out actual concrete definitions and then say things like “In real terms” without providing any kind of definition. Maybe start by defining that.

Furthermore, the amount of people who were “living off of the land” are included in the 1.90 figure measured by the world bank. That’s not based on receipts at the grocery store or tax returns.

Finally, the number of people “living well off of the land” (who just were fucked if they got meaningfully suck btw) is vanishingly small compared to how many were “living malnourished off of the land”.
Corey and Lori Cole, the Quest for Glory designers, kickstarted and published a game set in the same universe: https://www.hero-u.com/
Sort of off topic, but I recall a DOS game my dad played that was kind of like a Roguelike but with rudimentary top-down graphics, where you explored a castle. Anyone know what it is?
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Every mp3 and an attempt to use mic results in "AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported" error message to appear in Firefox 82.0.2 on Windows 10.
I am using the language of GP, but you are attempting to use it to undermine my point. So... really?
The UK grid is on track to eventually becoming fossil free, although there will likely be a long 'tail' period where natural gas backup plants still operate during periods of unusually high demand and/or restricted supply.

2020 will very likely be the first year that renewables overtake fossil fuels in total electricity generated.

Here's a satisfying video of UK coal-fired power plants being demolished:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-52985841
I’ve set mine up for Spotlight. Now from any app it’s a quick double tap to open just about anything else on my phone.
I spent so much time on Decent/Freespace. The other game that gave me the same feeling was MechWarrior 3 (I had just learned of derivatives in school and used to gawk that they showed the derivative for heat production in the HUD).

Modern games have beautiful graphics but just don't recreate the feeling. Alternatively, perhaps, I am a different person and unable to enjoy the simple pleasure.
Comparisons of hog fecal matter to nuclear waste are tens of magnitudes of danger and complexity apart. A person can move hog waste. The most complex equipment the human race has ever designed can move nuclear waste.
All right here's what I want:

Anyone who feels that things aren't being done right, write it up as a specific job description, with a specific government or corporate employer.

You have no hiring authority. But you can see what needs doing. So write up what should be done, and who ought to hire to do it. Then just put it out there.

If we did that as a community, we'd build up a body of specific suggestions rather than noisy politically-opinionated complaints. And probably some workers, and some hiring authorities, would act on the open-sourced suggestions for what work needs to be done and funded.
I live in Seattle, but even before that I've not lived in a large city in the US before where you can get the police department to go after petty theft.

In Seattle, WA if it's a >$5,000 class B felony theft, then yea, sure. Living in the suburbs? Yes, sure.

Couple years back someone stole a bunch of prescription drugs out of my neighbor's car (pharmacist - they were for his job), police wouldn't touch it. Now they're even less likely, because the city isn't prosecuting as much.

And by not as much, I mean even lower than where we were at last year. Seattle went from a >80% prosecution rate in 2007 to a ~50% prosecution rate for non-traffic in 2017.
Flexibility will definitely at the stake though. For example, if I want to drive only a few hours every week, I just won't be worth it for Uber to put on its payroll. "At will" is irrelevant because I won't have the job to begin with. I am left strictly worse off.

No employer is going to offer me healthcare and insurance and what not for working a few hours every week. I am left strictly worse off.

In the present system, I can just switch on my app for the hours I want to drive and that's the end of the story.
Scott was a huge inspiration for me when I was a .net developer. I've recently become reacquainted with his work and his youtube computer explainers are great. Its sad to see him debilitated like this.
Of course, but it doesn't matter. Any bit of information can do the trick here.
> My point is that several of these titles are not abandonware since they are still being sold by original publishers on GOG.com

As a platform, you aren't required to proactively investigate the copyright status of works uploaded to your platform by the general public. If you leave it up until you get a DMCA takedown request, and promptly remove it if and when the DMCA takedown request arrives, then the DMCA safe-harbor provisions apply.

Any of these original publishers can legally serve a DMCA notice on the Internet Archive, and the Internet Archive will I'm sure promptly respond by removing public access to the material (they will keep it archived so they can restore public access when one day the copyright expires, or if the copyright owners have a future change of heart before then). The fact that those publishers haven't means that either they don't care about what the Internet Archive is doing to their copyrighted works, or possibly even some of them tacitly approve of it.
Rust-analyzer uses libraries, so I'm not sure what your point is.
It's also an absurd fantasy that you can predict the future in technological advancements on a 100-year scale either. Not to mention the intractibility of climate modeling over that time period.

Considering a few years ago people were worried about the problems of jobs being automated away, you might imagine a little climate change creating extra work for people would be good for social cohesion.

But it's all just a bunch of bozos with PhD's and masters degrees.
What makes you think "They’ve built the best user experience by far"

I can't even say "best" experience let alone "by far".

Apple is notoriously anti consumer on everything from hardware to software.

I don't know what you are talking about. They had a fun signup screen when you first boot your iPhone. I have 0 ideas what you are talking about for macOS.

I think their primary reason for success was their advertising/marketing.
This is such a great and actually important comment. I’ve been obsessed with program correctness / verification for a while now. It just seems like the holy grail that we can’t fully attain yet. But you keep bumping into certain walls, and the fact that correctness can only be relative to a given specification is a profoundly huge wall.

There’s no checking to see if your specification is under-specified.
This is a good illustration of bad tax policy, specifically Prop 13.

Zoom in on a residential street, particularly in the Bay Area, and you will see a row of houses which are roughly equivalent in value. Some homeowners pay several times as much annual property tax as their neighbors, because they bought their homes more recently and paid more for them.

That's kind of insane, and nobody would design the property tax system that way if they were starting from scratch.
Its not the will of the voting public.

To the extent that this is true it's because of anti-scientific FUD. The problem of nuclear waste is utterly insignificant compared to fossil fuel emissions.
It's a 10 year project. 2 mil becomes 200k per year. Still a lot, but then it's not really a purely job project. If you send 10000 people 200k per year you will end up with the same hole in your pockets of 20 billion after 10 years, but with a nuclear power plant less. And 10000 people with zero work experience.
thanks for the constructive suggestions. I should really know better than to post in these threads by now.
Lobe was a startup involving folks like Mike Matas that was acquired by Microsoft in 2018: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/09/13/microsoft-acquir...
Can you elaborate on how a "monopoly corporation" is like a branch of government? I don't understand your analogy, or what is special about a monopoly versus any other corporation with significant power, cultural or otherwise.
So it is true.
Funny how you don't think about pain and how debilitating it can be until you experience it. I had some kind of bizarre arthritis in my ankle at the beginning of the year. First they said it was gout. When gout remedies didn't help, they took a fluid sample. Not gout, not rheumatoid arthritis, not another kind of arthritis. Basically they were stumped. Luckily it went away after about a month. But it was utterly debilitating while I had it. No good sleep angle, couldn't walk, couldn't get it off my mind. Changed my life.

Sympathies for everyone out there dealing with ongoing pain.
> And whiny devs had to adapt to gain access to the richest cohort of users in the computing landscape

> With Swift and SwiftUI we seem to be heading towards a different future, and I’m yet to be convinced that it’s the right one.

The more things change, the more they stay the same...
I am also recovering from a frozen shoulder, but thankfully it was not nearly as bad as the author. This is also my second time having it. Both times have required months of PT, mostly stretching and some strength training.

As for the pain during PT, I found it helpful to talk to the physical therapist, which distracted my mind from lower-level pain. When the pain increased, I’d temporarily stop talking and free my mind of thoughts, trying to reach a near-meditative state. I’d let the pain come and go, like clouds in the sky. Some days that was easier than others. Perhaps it helped that I had already learned some meditative techniques years ago.
Yeah, regarding doctors I'm not sure anything they suggested help. The first one I saw that it was an infection and gave me antibiotics. That didn't seem to do much.

Then as it persisted another urologist thought it might be urine backflowing down my vas deferens and I took beta blockers to improve my urinary flow.

Finally the urologist basically said that sometimes after you have an infection you can have idiopathic pain for a long time afterwards.

And maybe that was it. It pretty much went away on its own. I feel quite fortunate for that, because it really sucked. If it had persisted I suspect I would've seen quite a few more urologists!
More third parties become reasonable contenders.
What worked?
Easy to say if you're not disabled.

One day, you might be. Just be glad you won't be left behind.

Edit: If you want a purely numbers based analysis, well, you're not considering second-order effects. Investment in accessibility represents an investment in technology. ASR in meetings, for example, is a necessary first step towards good auto-translation.
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If people do not like Twitter or FB policies, they are free to quit. I have quit Twitter and FB for exactly this reason - I do not like their policies of censoring the posts. This is that simple. If you see a turd on the ground - you don't have to step into it and then complain about the smell. Many censored entities do not have even Telegram account, where there is zero censorship where people could follow them. This means they do not care so much about reaching out to readers. They would rather complain but cling to Twitter.