skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After talking with a bunch of user researchers, we realised that a lot of the research process is stupidly clunky. User researchers often run a survey with open ended questions, manually group responses into themes and then turn that into a normal multiple-choice survey based on what gets said most. Overall it can take a full week of work and is pretty frustrating.

How our tool makes this process better:

- By analysing user votes we surface the most important topics/opinions, not just the topic with the most submissions.

- You get qualitative input alongside quantitative analysis, making product prioritisation way easier.

- By letting users submit new opinions you can discover new insights you never considered before.

We're in the process of setting up a freemium subscription model. Right now it's free to create your first survey [1] and we've got a sample survey going too if you want to just play around with it from a participant perspective [2] (it asks for your email but feel free to put anything in, it doesn't verify it).

[1] https://app.opinionx.co/sign-up

[2] http://app.opinionx.co/5fc62b9f9891c20db5dc2d14
Much has been written about the productivity gains of industrialization being erased at the household level when women started working in large numbers. The gist of it is we went from ~40hr a week of work outside the home at the household level to ~80 (obviously those numbers aren't exact because not all households are a married couple and the are people who are self employed, etc, etc). But obviously the home stuff is still getting done so the net amount of work being done is increased (less productivity gains from technology). Just google "women in the workforce macroeconomic impact" or something like that.

Whether this is a net positive or net negative is basically boils down to whether you think people are better served working outside the home or better served doing household things.

Also, all your comments are dead by default. You might want to make a new account.
Prior to covid an additional hack for those in SF was to attend a bunch of interesting tech related meetups.

Free beer, pizza and get to meet interesting people.
> Is this a scientific advance or a technological one though?

Where's the difference?

(this is a genuine question, I'm not trying to trick you)
Someone a few days ago shared a stack-based VM he’s building in C++. Quite interesting. He also has a C version on his GitHub.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25243084
You can use that offer to negotiate with your current employer. If your friend hasn't given you a number yet, ask what they'll be willing to offer you. Use that number to talk to your current employer and say something like "I got this offer from another company. I really enjoy working here and if you can match this offer, I'd rather stay here."
Shaver of yaks.
On similar cases we had to work on virtualized desktops, Citrix, or EC2 instances, after being in the customers VPN.
I was disinfecting something with an aerosolized 70% ethanol in the early days of covid, accidentally got a whiff (through a surgical mask, no less) and was short of breath for a week starting immediately (clearly from the ethanol vapor, also had a negative covid test a few days later)

Any of you HNers aware of this ? I was unable to find anything online.

It may be related to the vomit-inducing agent they put in store bought ethanol (by law, in most places). Or the ethanol itself - but I couldn’t find any description of what I endured.
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Correct. See "N4455 No Sane Compiler Would Optimize Atomics" [1]. The first sentence of that paper is (spoiler allert) a laconic "false".

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n445...
At $50 per share it works out to a $35 billion valuation although I expect a pop by final pricing
The danger is there are plenty of rebellions, revolutions and other "positive" conflicts where wars were never declared. You're basically going to be painting the people that took part in conflicts like the American revolution, Irish War of Independence, Indian War of Independence, Cuban Revolution, etc as "murders".
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Had a LOT of muscle aches. Took it for a few weeks. Aches went away. Mostly stopped taking it.repeat every few months.

Later on I started hearing from many sources to try it for migraines.

Realized my migraines had been ebbing and worsening a lot.
Got serous about taking it. About A 50% reduction In severity. Had multi hour ones 7 days a week. Can’t walk kind.

Dentist suggested a mouth guard for TMJ.
I looked up videos on it. Found a massage one, found a bad trigger point. 3 days later it eased up. Poof migraines almost completely gone.

I tried basically everything.

Elimination diet to find troublesome foods, etc.
Prism glasses, etc

Too much for here
Thank You all for the information and advise.

Based in part on the price and your comments, I have decided to purchase a Wacom Intuos CTL4100. This model seems to be the most popular unit and comes with somewhat of a suite of Corel software available for download.

This will be a gift for a young budding artist. Thanks again to all of Santa's helpers out there!! ;)
I'm certainly not arguing against trying different treatments and self-experimentation. If had a chronic illness I'd do the same.

I'm arguing against the experience of anyone person being applicable to anyone other than that one person. That why we have the FDA and randomized controlled trials. There are so many confounding factors that unless you test a treatment under very strict conditions, there is a very good chance you observed is completely unrelated to the treatment. Hell, drug manufacturers run trials and fall into that trap all the time.
Still they might have a talent for chess and not for ballet for instance. It might be otherwise but that was my claim and the Polgars don't refute it.

Also the Wikipedia page says she was a "chess prodigy". From my personal experience I strongly doubt that you can make every five year old child a chess player who wins blind matches against grown-ups only through hard work.
Yes - I did know that. I guess my question is directed more at Apple. Why stipulate this unless they want to hobble reasonable use-cases or inflate usage arbitrarily.

Is the answer simply "Because they can and they like money?"
> There's no reason why the web can't be open and cater for users who want to have easy-to-use and enjoyable experiences like Facebook and YouTube

Yes, there is. Decentralised systems are resilient. But their decentralisation has a coördination cost. The lack of this cost makes centralised systems more agile. They can also, on account of reduced redundancy, be more efficient.

In a stable environment agility is irrelevant. The efficiency of centralisation pits evenly against the robustness of decentralisation. In reality, we get a mix, e.g. our financial system.

In an unstable environment, however, the agility advantage tips scales in favour of centralisation. The past decades have seen radical computing advances in mobility, prevalence and capability. That gives a natural advantage to centralised players like Apple and Google and Alibaba.

Decentralisation becomes competitive once a landscape stabilises. I thought this occurred with laptops. But Apple Silicon shuffles the deck. (It does appear true for social media.)
Why do you say this?

Almost half of Americans are vitamin D deficient, a lot more if you are Black or Hispanic: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-deficiency-sy...

Vitamin D is very cheap, and it takes a lot to overdose: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

Up until a very short time ago, humans spent most of their time outside, and sunscreen did not exist. Now we spend nearly all our time inside, and many of us wear sunscreen whenever it's really sunny.

And there's a serious correlation between low vitamin D levels and COVID-19 fatalities.

We haven't proved causation yet, and we might never, but given the previous three points, there's every good reason to take vitamin D.
I agree. I asked my doctor for blood tests but he refused as I didn’t have any symptoms.

The whole system is set up to fix things after they go wrong, not to prevent them in the first place.
> it was that the set of problems that are worth solving in today's economy and can be solved by one person (or even a small team) is vanishingly small, and I just had a bigger impact when working with larger organizations.

That's an important observation. There isn't really that much interesting technical work left that a single programmer can do, as the field has been thoroughly mined for such work for decades now.

Interestingly, it's very different in art world - in technology, the new solution has to be an improvement upon state of the art, whereas in creative pursuits it merely has to be different and interesting. Hence, there's basically infinite work left for writers, painters, solo musicians etc.
The title should be changed to "PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available"; the article is about PinePhone, not KDE.
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I agree with you on the melting pot comment, but (pre covid) jet age travel makes the whole 'isolation' point somewhat moot in my mind. you can be on a direct flight from Aukland to eg. San Fran that takes ~12 hours. is that really that much different than the ~9 hours it takes to go from eg. London to San Fran? Maybe I just like travel (and airplanes) ;-)
TLB is not necessarily an issue as presumably you would be running the processes on different cores.

The primary problem is that separate address spaces requires messages to be serialized (although of course serialization can be trivial). With shared memory you can share (or transfer ownership of) data by simply sharing a pointer.
So, it has conditional logic? I couldn't find it. Interface needs improving.
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Yes, ZFS upgrades are really simple, but they are one-way, you can't downgrade after.
Once you put a fs on top of something, don't you lose any guarantees of finding broken sectors when scrub?

This is why I really wish btrfs would get native encryption, but maybe my info is out of date.
It reminds me of the leap made by Oculus. Easy to overlook.
Before and after picture from the same account:

https://twitter.com/DeborahTiempo/status/1333747356605571072
It's also 100% in line with Apple's recent trends of being hostile to developers. It's absolutely absurd to have to rent an server for 24 hours to do a single build. It's incredibly wasteful to have this much hardware sitting around and doing nothing.
Hobbits actually focused greatly on quality of life.
Perhaps fxtentacle is actually thinking of Data from ST:TNG.
I think the formula is just absurdly long. fast straights combined with extremely tight and narrow turns - so narrow that they are honestly pretty borderline for F1. The race there ends up having an awful lot of passing and eventfulness, which doesn’t sound like much unless you look at pretty much all the other current F1 street courses.
You can track epochs and blocks here https://beaconcha.in/
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Yes, delete the misses. 250k total. About 700 celebrities. I was predicted the day of death too, so each required 365 tweets. I did a combination of scraping IMBD + manual selection plus filling in the details. The whole process could probably be automated and I regret not doing that. It would be wild to see this in 2020...

I did consult actuarial tables mainly to decide how many of each age to include. With that few candidates, it wasn't wise to focus on people in their 20s and 30s obviously because it's very likely all of them would have survived.

A few more details here: http://jere.in/i-predicted-23-celebrity-deaths-in-2017-then-...
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Randoop – Automatic unit test generation for Java
Thanks for the detailed explanation, I understand your point now, but I'm still not convinced that it can't be avoided/managed properly.

The primitive jungle class example you provided is actually just a condensed view of a jungle, holding counters of 'bananas' and 'gorillas', it only entangles two "counters" which is perfectly fine:

class Jungle:
int bananaCount;
int gorrillaCount;

removeBananaFromJungle():
bananaCount -= 1;

Now lets say we improve it to add actual 'banana' and 'gorilla' classes, it may look something like this:

class Jungle:
List<Banana> bananas;
List<Gorilla> gorrillas;

removeBanana(banana):
bananas.remove(banana);

In this example 'Jungle' is only an aggregate of 'Banana' and 'Gorilla', whose behavior is abstracted away in their classes. Moreover 'Jungle' only implements association logic. It's completely possible to define another aggregate class for a space station that reuses bananas and gorillas in a different manner:

class SpaceStation:
List<Banana> bananas;
List<Gorilla> gorrillas;

removeBanana(banana):
bananas.remove(banana);

You could even allocate bananas and gorillas separately in your program (or unit tests) and play with them if you desire, without an aggregation class managing them. The important thing here is to promote cohesion and avoid coupling.

Sure, you could say that both 'Jungle' and 'SpaceStation' are duplicating logic, but it's simply association logic at this point, nothing that prevents bananas and gorillas to live happily apart from each other. Furthermore, it's highly likely that as the these classes evolve they may handle removal of bananas very differently, for instance, in the space station it will need to be disposed into the void, and in the jungle the disposed banana may be used to fertilize the soil.
UI should be build in into the browser. Users should be free to choice UI they like, but for that we need a standards that everyone would agree on.
The exact same thing happens behind the scenes when you pip install something. (Download source from a trusted website, run with interpreter)
Scott Manley made a pretty good video on the issues at Arecibo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V3VCt24tkE (pre collapse)
Hyperlinking to Hutchison Whampoa Limited forbidden (2003)
But it's also pretty hard to retire early... I'm grateful that I was born in Poland where retiring early is a real possibility (high tech wages compared to costs of living and low taxes make it possible) instead of a country like Germany, Belgium or Italy where you basically don't have such option.
> Personally I believe the first step should be reshaping Firefox into a full-blown WYSIWYG document editor, analogous to MS Word except that instead of reading and writing to a local filesystem it reads and writes them via HTTP[S] requests.

> Can’t blame the Jacks and the Zucks for taking the opportunity that was handed to them on a plate.

Notice that "WYSIWYGs for web" existed before the advent of Jacks and Zucks. There was Wordpress, with all its glorious WYSIWYGiness that FB and Twitter lacked, which, according to Wikipedia, was first released in 2003. There was LiveJournal that got released even earlier. And yet, it is Jack and Zuck, not Matt (Mullenweg) or Brad (Fitzpatrick), who somehow caught the zeitgeist and attracted the crowds.
I can't decide if you are making fun of diagram drawing or endorsing it, but here is my take on it.

I often start programming by "drawing" sequence diagrams, by typing up PlantUML descriptions (https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram).
This is especially useful, if the purpose of the program is to communicate with many other programs.

A sequence diagram allows to establish a language around the purpose of the program. Having it described textually allows extremely cheap (within minutes) iteration on names, algorithms and the architecture.

Showing all these aspects concisely at once makes it possible to develop a consistent, yet concise naming scheme, which can greatly reduce misunderstandings.

You can discover disconnects of interactions, the data flow or ordering errors by simply following the arrows with your finger/pointer and reading it out loud.

The other tool I found extremely useful is the C4 Lightweight Software Architecture Description Method (which can also be "drawn" pretty well with PlantUML: https://crashedmind.github.io/PlantUMLHitchhikersGuide/C4/C4... )
No, you're 100% correct. Despite the prosthelytization you'll get from many died-in-the-wool users who forgot what it was like in the beginning, in order to use NixOS effectively you either need to learn Nix, or be willing to spend a lot of time on IRC asking questions, which will end up with... you learning Nix. That's the reality. I think I spent something like 3 weeks porting my server configuration from Ubuntu to NixOS, by hand, piece by piece, many years ago. Admittedly I think we're better off than we were 7 years ago, but it's still not a grand slam. Even things like basic GUI installers that can set up your filesystem don't exist! Manually screwing with partition layouts to get volume encryption isn't easy to use at all, honestly.

There are an array of flaws with the tools but, despite that, they are unbelievable powerful and you can do things in NixOS you can't dream of doing elsewhere, and it makes things like using OpenZFS or whatever pretty easy and simple. And it makes some thing far more difficult than that, nearly trivial. But only once you know what you're doing. But that's just the reality: it's an extremely powerful tool that has many rough edges. Saying it's "the easiest distro to use" is a complete joke, and I wish fellow NixOS users didn't have some weird propensity to practically lie about how good it is on that front. I say this as someone who has been a NixOS developer and user for like, ~7 years and who apparently(?!) has over 1,000 commits to the tree now, too. Trying to actually sit down at a terminal and sell unconvinced people on it opened my eyes quite a bit. It's good, but lying about what it is and isn't is a good way to burn peoples faith.
Well denying people even the slightest reference to their culture is a sure way to get rid of those pesky open source people. Just punch them in the face until they leave.
> “Logical soundness must come first. This cannot be done without math.”

I’ve long had this (mistaken?) belief that formal methods and mathermatics do not primarily apply to the areas of computing I’m involved with.

I am involved with business systems that are primarily concerned with the recording of activities. Those activities relate to thing/s, and often involve people and places acting in some role (context). In some ways I am modeling interactions between phenomena, together with the concepts through which they are abstracted. Consider for example a payroll system or a airline reservation system.

How can formal methods and mathematics help in this?
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> I'd love to see you defend yourself to them, one on one.

Why does he need to defend himself? He built what he wanted. Other people built what they wanted. Why's that got to be in conflict? Why does one party have to defend themselves to the other? There's room for both.
I think you meant to say "may not halt"
You’re right, but I still think it is not fair for the university to require you to run certain software if it does not directly benefit your learning
> Apple created a fair competition by clearly spelling out the legal rules for everyone

I think it could be argued that it shouldn't be Apple's place to set the rules of the competition. If MacStadium is correct, that the best experience is one-user-one-machine, then their business model should win out. It's not fair competition to rule out all other business models.
From today's headlines:

https://www.foxnews.com/health/la-county-supervisor-visited-...
Actually isopropanol is pretty non-toxic. It will get you drunk and is metabolized to acetone, which is a ketone body that is also produced from metabolizing body fat, so your body is well equipped to handle it.

Not saying you want to consume isopropanol. Apparently it won’t kill you but you’ll feel like you were poisoned.
A better perspective is how much of the energy we already get that we're using. Some quick math tells me that to get 10x our current total energy usage in solar panels would only take 1% of the total surface of the earth, 3.4% of the land area and 56% of the Sahara. So just putting solar panels on deserts across the world and building a worldwide grid would be a much more feasible project than trying to capture directly from the sun. All those solar panels would cost ~13x our world yearly GDP so it's not completely unreasonable either.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B3Vtm-bk8NIntYc8mZRw...
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That sounds like much different situation. It was not about cheating and getting unfair advantage at all.

It was about stopping infinite debate about "what is fair" and "what are ideals rules" just so that one kid can get better grade. E.g. the claim that it is unfair was already motivated reasoning and your teacher perceived/treated it that way.

I am from former soviet blog and really, what teacher said is normal way to shut up bullshit complains. And yes, there is way more cheating in schools too amd bad teacher can get away with more.

But, the notion of fairness is important to both students and teachers.
For what it’s worth, the spelling and grammar mistakes don’t inspire confidence. Anyway chances are they’re going to have a hard time finding subjects for their last phase in 2022.
I love the fact that this makes tuples a language level thing rather than a data type level thing.

Every other language makes tuples a data type. Some languages special case the data type a lot for convenience. This language makes the concept of 'multiple values' something neatly handled by the language itself.
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Well since YBCO had been known since the 90s, it might have been useful to instead plunge all of their efforts into manufacturing and scaling YBCO, rather than racing ahead with a 30 year project to build a giant reactor with inefficient confinement.

Imagine if the Manhattan project decided to build ICBMs and Hydrogen bombs before they had perfected enrichment. Or if the government decided to fund the full scale model of a National Spaceplane (NASP, remember that?) before they had figured out how to make a SCRAMjet, or store slush-hydrogen properly, or deal with hypersonic heating.
Seconded. Pet peeve: whenever I see those comments after having the title changed, I'm curious: "what was the original title?". In this case, it was: "KDE Community Edition is now available". I just feel like it's a good idea to include this context when making a comment about the bad title so that the future readers can compare.
I like the fact that the calendar ends on Christmas Eve, as it should.
Yeah the guy we know at our favorite Indian place says "You know this is Restaurant Indian Food. Some time ask me, and I'll have Mom make you the stuff we eat at home!"

So we're gonna ask the next time.
> There are no free lunches in economics. Less production will result in less revenue.

Ironically, the free lunch, is an actual example of a free lunch in economics that does exist (The free lunch was in olden days, where bars would provide a free lunch. This endeared it to its customer base driving traffic back for evening drinks. The cost of the free lunch was much less than the profit from the extra alcohol sales, resulting in $$$ for the bar)

As far as a 4 day work week goes, there are tons of factors. Maybe the worker is happier with lower wages and more time off (i could make more money if i worked 80 hours a week, but i don't because the cost to me is more than the value of the extra mo ney). Maybe people have similar levels of production for 4 day work weeks. Maybe there's not enough work to employ everyone for 5 days but is enough for 4 and they think that is a better trade-off than laying peolle off. Maybe 4 day work week is non-monentary compensation that allows the employer to attract better talent. Etc.