skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With ADHD there are really only two options; atomoxetine (Strattera) and stimulants like aderall or ritalin (or any of the dozens of time-release versions of those two drugs).

I did stimulants for years and they really distorted my sense of self in a way that was hard to put a finger on until I got out of the long-term traumatic situation I was in. I felt like life was a treadmill and I was looking at my feet the whole time — I could go really fast but I lost sight of everything around me. I switched to atomoxetine and while it still takes effort to start something, it’s much easier for me to take a task to completion (or at least further towards completion).
990 open issues… bugs going back to 2018 still open…
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues

Please help me understand why I would want to lock specific versions of libraries in my Python projects. I’ve worked extensively with Python for a number of years and have never needed a lock file for my dependencies.
So in the case of a tructural support columns or foundations, How does the contractor insure they are still safe and capable of performing?
Because hydrogen has to be pumped at 700 bar there's a delay when the pump buffer has to be recompressed. This will happen after 1 or 2 cars have filled up, the third will have to wait for 20-30 minutes.
Not that different from charging an EV...
There seems to be a popular book about it from the guy who invented it: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/leslie-valiant/probably-ap...
He is very likely a racist. But curbing academic freedom isn't the answer. The answer is to ignore his antics. They are that neurotypical, that it should be easily identifiable, at least few people will take his contribution to 'science' seriously.

As to the teaching problem. I think the students correctly identified his problem. Valuable lesson at least technically. Don't react with a litmus test that is as bad as his antics.

The "Alliance" doesn't seem to be helpful at all. On the contrary, it may have a far worse effect than this professor. It is reactionary and in its panic wants to bury all academic discourse and wants to put people under suspect.

> And as they learned more about the history and limits of academic freedom and free speech on campus — a few members happened to have law degrees — they warmed to the prospect of some kind of limited intervention.

Yeah, wrong. As I said, even pupils identified him and his antics. What follows now is not constructive at all.

> "Academics have a tendency to say, ‘Academic freedom is my right to say whatever the f— I want.’ And it just isn’t." - Reichman

That is his opinion and apparently that of the AAUP. I think people try to

> “enforced by the public opinion of the profession”

No. The public opinion of academics was proven wrong time and time again. Not on a race issue perhaps, but to elevate that as a precedent is just moronic, especially for academics. You would need apply that to all theories with disproven effectiveness and truthfulness.

He was censured in the end. That isn't a great loss itself. But it is a huge loss in trust in academic institution and its ability to contradict false information. And this will resonate further as I very much believe we will hear theories as alien as those from the banned professor. Few would have known his name, but many will believe he hasn't been proven wrong...

DeVaro:

> repercussions I have faced for speaking on the issue of academic freedom

He is correct and probably replaced by someone that doesn't fight for it, a typical Yes-Man.
Do you not remember the early days of twitter? It was down as much as it was up, to the extent that the "fail whale" error page became a meme.

I think the reality is that new software usually sucks until it takes enough of a hammering that it becomes decent.
Then why simulate the suffering, and especially why do that in all the sick ways that exist? Out of cruelty? Or sporting?

Just choose a disease and go for a 10 minute Wikipedia rabbit hole.

If cruelty exists in their world, then empathy and caring must exist too.
SoftBank pays $1.6B for Yahoo Japan rights
Emirates spearheads airline industry attack on credit card fees
It depends, I think Syria was a half hearted involvement, I think Bosnia we did actually do some good. Anyone know why Russia and China can’t be involved/lead a UN peacekeeping effort? Why block it, dictatorships good is their only thinking?
PoS requires constant investment in terms of lost time value of money.
So? That's free speech, don't you like free speech?
Hmm, I'll still need to scrounge up enough context to understand most of that, but thanks.
> Unless they ninja mine (pre-mine) like Satoshi did....

What proof would you offer of a premine by Satoshi?
I do have to try mamba sometime but I feel like there is something more than python slowness going on.

I use Gentoo and its package manager is written in python. Even though it is more complex (IMO) it doesn’t have nearly the same slowness when it comes to dependency resolution and conflict detection.
> But they are also courting and helping Chinese companies coming out of China to set up in other places.

Presumably because those Chinese companies have the know how.

But those other places are democracies, so what’s the problem with this?

> Basically it is the same supply chain jut not located in China. Not entirely sure this is "getting out of it".

Isn’t your complaint about the lack of democracy in China? How does moving the work out of China not solve the problem?
Sure, it makes sense if you find something like `len_x` or `x_count` significantly less readable than `len(x)` and if you don't have to worry about resources. Can't say I've been there though.

I did a quick test of this `reverse` function (which probably shouldn't exist in the first place) and, unsurprisingly, it became ~30% faster when `len(arr)` was only called once.
I've taken multiple ~1000mi road trips in my Tesla. Charging typically adds ~2 hours to such a trip (14hrs -> 16+ hrs). I'm an "eat in the car and stop only for fuel" road tripper, so a ~30-40 minute stop every ~2-3 hours is far worse than an 3-5min stop every 4-5 hours.

What's especially frustrating is what happens when I arrive at my destination, where I don't have access to charging and the nearest Tesla supercharger is an "urban" charger with 72Kw max. I'll typically pull into that charger between 1 and 2am and spend nearly an hour there to get the car up to 80% so that I have a charge for trips during the week. The last thing I want to be doing then is sitting in an empty parking garage, waiting for my car to charge when I just want to get some sleep in my bed. I'd love to have a quick refueling option.
The future of deep learning is photonic
That looks to be as much about exceptions for education as about photocopying. Purely from a quick read of the Wikipedia article’s summary, it looks like a lot of it hinges on the interpretation of Section 52(1)(i), https://copyright.gov.in/Documents/CopyrightRules1957.pdf#pa..., “the reproduction of any work— (i) by a teacher or a pupil in the course of instruction; or (ii) as part of the question to be answered in an examination; or (iii) in answers to such questions”.
There is such a thing as leading by example. It is imperfect, to be sure, but it does have an effect. At the moment, Canada is one of the worst countries in per capita greenhouse gas emissions, so perhaps, we can try to do a bit better before blaming other countries. Someone has to go first.
A university is not a programmers' boot camp.
(I can talk here only about Western Europe here, I don't know academia in other parts of the world.)

A university is for learning the ways of science. Of scientific thinking and methods. And to learn the foundational facts of your field.

Engineering is the application of the science. It is not the science itself. You don't need a scientific background to engineer. It helps, but it's overkill.

You don't need to study to do development work. But a structured education helps to become a good software developer. Why? Because on the job you teach yourself only the bare necessities to solve the next problem. You have never the time to dive deep into the background of the problem. And deep and broad background knowledge is fun and helps to train your brain in general.
Not true, and they are more of a investor scam than anything else.
That's a very limited sort of platform, though, and certainly not anything for Twitter to be worried about (in fact, Twitter would _benefit_ from such a platform existing, as it might draw off some of the worst users). At that point you're looking at a platform that's not even attractive to the average racist; just to people whose _hobby_ is racism. So a small niche of extremely nasty people who other social networks don't particularly want to deal with anyway.
Looking to learn
So just people with cell phones? What exactly is the point of that statement?
PyCharm has similarly bad privacy: https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/privacy.html. I'm really happy though that I learned to use Emacs, really useful and language independent.
> if you do not have access to research that you don’t pay for.

The situation is worse as most of the research is already paid for by tax money.
Copilot, as far as I know, also does not seem to factor in the greater context of the application/code you're in when auto-completing these tasks.

To me, this is a huge part of modern-day development. It's not only about producing functionally correct code, but also code that integrates well and is semantically relevant to the broader context of the application itself.

That doesn't mean Copilot's input will have no value, but it just means that developers will generally need to refactor that code in a way consistent with the app they're building.
I made the mistake of studying Physics in uni because there wasn't any decent CS uni near my town. After interacting for a while with the bitter, skint postgraduate students that hung out in the labs, I dropped out, and I've been making software for a living ever since. Once in a while I wonder if those lab guys are already approaching minimum wage.
There are signs and rumors that a 3rd party (here: China) is already involved, at least in the sense of "Go ahead, we will not do anything".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Myanmar_relation...

Libya and Syria: Same here, some 3rd parties are involved anyway. The question is if "the West" (I guess this is what you refer to) should/must/must not get involved as well.
It's exactly opposite.

When rich, with POS, you need to do nothing at all. No investment, no risk, no competition, you can just park your money and tap new money.
Every time I'm starting a new service to run internally or reviewing something we have going, I find myself struggling to find the right instance type for the needs.

For instance, there are three families (r, x, z) that optimize RAM in various ways in various combinations and I always forget about the x and z variants.

So I put together this "cheat sheet" for us internally and thought I'd share it for anyone interested.

Pull requests welcome for updates: https://github.com/wrble/public/blob/main/aws-instance-types...

Did I miss anything?
> Some resource needs to be consumed, but we have payment systems that are currently multiple orders of magnitude more efficient than Bitcoin or Chia, so that is kind of a baseline. (Think Visa or Mastercard)

Well yeah, but blockchains obviously offer different benefits/drawbacks than those platforms which is why they exist.

> Secondly, Chia is a small coin, it did not make a dent in the global market yet. I can believe that so far nobody really bothered to invest in storage.

There are currently 30 EiB of storage securing the network which is about 3% of the total storage market sold every year and a much higher percentage of the retail HDD market. Chia also has significantly more full nodes than Bitcoin. And it's only been out for a few months.

> it is arguably more damaging to the environment as there are more toxic chemicals involved in tape than in burning electricity.

Tape drives don't work with Chia. But you're speculating about an environmental impact that is already happening today with hard drives. Maybe you should send a letter to Google or your local politician about the environmental impact of their hard drives if you're actually concerned about that :)
Does the resulting simulation (this universe) show any hints that it is nearly impossible for the theoretical hosting universe to exist?
While I'm opposed to this legislation, how is it "always the EU" exactly? As opposed to what, the US or the rest of the world always getting it right or not passing moronic laws and regulations?

Have the US already forgotten who's at the helm of the FCC for example?

I also suspect there's a lot of hate for GDPR, even though it was a mostly good thing. It's just extremely poorly implemented by websites, and sure there are loopholes that should be plugged (the """legitimate interest"""), but it was a good first step which I'd like to see be developed further and enforced more systematically.
US tech companies never had much presence in Hong Kong to begin with. You can't "leave" a place if you never really been there in the first place.
I think that I am fine with OpenAI, especially after spending the last week experimenting with Common Lisp examples (for the next edition of my book; look in src/openai in https://github.com/mark-watson/loving-common-lisp)

I use pretrained BERT models that I don’t have the resources to train myself. I don’t have problems paying a very small fee to run OpenAI’s models as an API that can do things like:

I just tried a random question:

cl-user> (openai:answer-question "What rivers flow in Arizona?" 60)
"The Colorado, the Gila, the Little Colorado, the Salt, the Verde, the San Pedro, the Santa Cruz, the San Juan, the Little Colorado, the Rio Grande, the Gila, the San Pedro, the Santa Cruz, the San Juan, the Little Colorado"

Not bad, but I think it missed a few. The OpenAI model can do a lot more things besides just answering questions:

1. Given a list of food ingredients, write a complete recipe including directions

2. Summarize text

3. Grammer correction

4. Translate languages (limited to English to French for now)

5. Answer any general question (I have an example below)

6. Write an advertisement from a product description

7. It is used at GitHub to build a service that writes software, given an English description of the problem

8. Generate spreadsheet data from data descriptions in English text

9. Write short stories, given a starter paragraph.

10. etc.
If you don't mind sharing, what meds did you go on?
Seems like a nicely researched collection of links, although I think they are a bit too quick to dismiss PoS as a lost cause. Perhaps PoW really is the superior system for now, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to research PoS systems.
Yeah, I think seasonal storage with hydrogen makes more sense than hydrogen trucks. People often underestimate just how heavy hydrogen fuel tanks are and the required cells and especially the huge radiator you need to get rid of all the heat. I once heard that the prototype for a Nikola hydrogen truck had a heat rejection system that required just as much power as a Nissan Leaf.
There is such an open source system: https://github.com/clarkerubber/irwin. It seems that the last commit was some years ago, so it's either very stable or no longer used. At any rate, this is what powers anticheat on lichess.org.
The Air and Missile War in Nagorno-Karabakh: Lessons for the Future
A fine example of why you don’t just get to make up the probability of something when you don’t know the actual probability.
Proof of Stake is superior to Proof of Work because with PoW, it's possible for someone to take over the network and tamper with the data if they control more than 50% of the mining power. The cost of buying new mining hardware grows linearly as you buy more of it. On the other hand, with PoS, an attacker would need to control more than 50% of tokens, the cost of acquiring tokens grows exponentially as you approach the 50% mark (it likely won't even come close) since bids drive the token price up.

PoS uses far less electricity than PoW, it's incomparable by orders of magnitude. A typical PoS network uses less electricity than a typical mid-size tech company... PoW uses the electricity of an entire country.

With PoS, if the initial distribution is done fairly without ill intent, then it tends to decentralize further by itself over time as early adopters cash out and newcomers buy in.

Finally, a lot of PoS projects are focused on interoperability, this means that they aim to grow into an ecosystem with multiple similar PoS tokens (with different use cases). It allows for free movement of value between different blockchains and they develop into a hierarchy connected via a network for exchanges and decentralized exchanges. There is no fairer, more decentralized system (logically, politically and architecturally) than a multi-token PoS ecosystem.
Why use pyenv when venv is built into Python 3? Also, pip installs your dependencies into active venv, so I don't see a point in using anything else.
You’re adding yet more weight and inefficiency.
Soon we will see scientific papers on the cogno-intellectual effects of excessive Infinidash use.
When society treats me like a problem to me optimized away… when people don’t believe my problems are real… when people think I’m using them as an excuse to be lazy and selfish…

It’s really hard not get angry sometimes.
Would be great to see examples for RPGs that don't use classes or equipment, given how similar the rules structure is (by design) between dungeon world and D&D.

Anything to do with features or abilities would be great too.
Haha

> Must include considerable time spent within the Infinidash lifecycle (OpenDash acceptable). Infinidash is at the core of everything we do.

Why yes, I have exactly this skill set
Quick Tech – Checkov by Bridgecrew
Lego World Map Excel Edition
It's not censorship when the rules are made clear. You are not permitted to make comments or videos that incite violence, such as the insurrection of the Capitol.
Olber's Paradox covers this case also. Obscuring matter would not make the sky dark. Any matter in your line of sight would also itself "observe" a hot sky, just as you do. Any such "observing matter" would reach equilibrium with incoming energy by re-radiating that energy at the same temperature. An infinite Universe looks like the surface of a star unrolled in your sky. All matter in the volume is baked, and re-radiates, at this intensity. I grant you only a moment to witness this spectacle, before you yourself reach equilibrium temperature with your sky.
As Apple Tightens iOS Tracking, Advertisers Shift Spending Toward Android
Satoshi mined it the same as anyone else and his stash is as good as gone for all practical purposes.
Lead by example? If you think China gives a crap about your example you’re horrendously naive.
It is a bit strange that the SQLite developers recommend SQLite as an application file format [0], but at the same time warn against opening database files from unknown sources [1]. In fact, their advice on using the `integrity_check` and `quick_check` pragma work against the performance advantage of using SQLite, as the entire database file now has to be read and parsed.

SQLite definitely still has advantages as a file format, but it would nice if there was bit more consistency in their messaging.

[0]: https://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/security.html#untrusted_sqlite_databa...
I made something with all of the pre-1918 books that are now out of copyright: https://www.locserendipity.com
So basically earth hour but 168 times longer?
POS might be the future, and if we find that it's impossible to predict which stakes will be doing validation, I'm all for Bitcoin upgrading to POS.

Its just not ready today. No one is going to risk their Bitcoin savings on trying POS.

Let ethereum test it, then BTC can adopt it after a few years.
After Apple Tightens Tracking Rules, Advertisers Shift Spending Toward Android
This seems like a very cynical take. Somebody has to mine to keep the network secure. Starting the code and hoping the world starts mining equally is naive.
I built a sealed box around a Sony 15 inch car speaker. Does a really nice job and didn’t need any theory because sealed boxes are inherently more tolerant.it’s a cube about 2 and something foot on a side. Knocked it together with nails and a jigsaw. Yeah I’m a really hack wood worker :)
Dr. Hipp seems to be trying hard to promote Fossil as superior to Git. Perhaps it is, but that ship has sailed already. He recently commented in an interview that Fossil is tailored and perfectly suited for the needs of the SQLite project. That's a strong argument in favor of Fossil and all he really needs to say on the topic.
This is one of the things that bug me about modern tech companies. They often “disrupt” a market by not offering any meaningful customer support and can save a lot of money that way. It’s all smooth sailing when things go well but if you encounter a bug you are basically out of luck. See all the stories of people having their PayPal, Google or Amazon accounts shut down for unknown reason and there is nothing they can do to clear things up other than having friends in the company or having a large Twitter audience.
> However you want to look at it, this coin looks crappy from both sides. Unless you're a miner.

Depends on what you are comparing to. For me, Bitcoin is easier to understand than the fiat system we are currently using, and that's why I'm heavily invested in to it.

In addition to miners making huge profits, there have been also cases where miner operations have turned sour, KnC Miner being one example.

Yes, there might be better systems out there. But BTC has very clear and simple protocol rules which are easy to understand, and it has properties which are very lucrative (permissionless, decentralized, limited supply, easily verifiable and transferable and so on). Other consensus mechanisms fail to deliver their promise in as effective way.
"Some people committed property crime so we need to show up with tanks and shoot these other people with gas and bean bags" is a much much much more serious threat to free speech than videos being removed from youtube.
500 mile trips are easily doable with battery-electric aircraft.
So, Pelko Method is a usual Pomodoro technic, but with random time like 25 +-15 minutes.
I get frustrated at the "light touch" wrt the workarounds rule on HN - I really believe OPs should be more engaged and expected to post an alternative as the first comment. Sometimes a thread goes for hours without somebody providing the info for those of us who can't access it.

In this case though, this is just Medium; there are various workarounds as others have indicated, (e.g.) a simple one on Chrome is just to view it in a private tab.

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wrt your comment on physical disability vs (the implied "trivial") things like mental illness I have seen very severe instances of both close up and don't think your comparison is realistic or helpful.
Without more nuclear power the hope of having a modern world without fossil fuels is futile

https://reason.com/2021/07/02/to-stop-climate-change-america...
I think it's a funny argument to make after months of stories about how criminals have extra wide backdoors in their crypto. I guess nobody here saw them?
He’s joking. It can be very difficult to understand humor but also very rewarding.
Direct to the Wall Street Journal source article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27738074
I had a random Sony surround-sound system that I bought for 60 bucks and it was great! I have to replace it because it's not easy to connect to my new TV. I tried a few soundbars and I've been flabbergasted at how shitty they all were. They're pretty and convenient, but any basic 5.1 or even 3.1 system is ten times better. I'm not fond of 5.1 because of wires, but 3.1 is good enough for depth and intensity.