skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's French or Spanish for free, because in our languages we split the concept of free beer and free speech into two words.

Gratuituous could be used for free of charge since it's what we used in latin languages (which I suppose is the same root as gracious - at least in formal french we replace gratuit with gracieux to mean the same thing).

So I wonder if English, tired of borrowing a strange word, will use gracious or gratuitous some day to denote free of charge ! That would maybe avoid all these questions of what libre means !
Are searching engines specifically for finding free answers? I thought they indexed the web.
People lose interest in Alexa for the same reason that most people don't spend their entire lives playing the same video game campaigns over and over again; the AI is compelling until you finish the game a few times, and then you figure out all their predictable patterns and discover all their limits. Once you figure out that Alexa is a dumb voice interface around a command line (without all the power of an actual command line), maybe you'll use it to play music or start a timer but the fantasies that it will be something you actively talk to in order to do everything in your home goes out the window. This is especially true after all the times it fails to understand what you say, fails to connect, or has issues because of AWS outages.
I agree with sibling comment, the environment sounds bad. If you need to chat with someone about it let me know, I'm happy to talk through things.

Unrelated, I actually love oncall work. If I get woken for something pointlessly, I fix it immediately. I'm a night person by nature, so staying up until 3am fixing a but and the sleeping during the day feels great. It's a constant stream of shiny things to chase and fix.
> In fact some might even say it is like shooting fish in a barrel

If by “some” you mean females in their mid-20s, then yeah probably.
Although controversal, there's no clear way to resolve utilitarian way of seeing this: an investment is required, and sometimes the investment can be good for society by improving a country economy.
For sure, the condition is paying taxes, and that is usually a partially satisfied only, as there're almost always a way to avoid tax. (Otherwise what's the reason for a rich one to invest into country at all?)
I'm diagnosed. I think the underlying nutrition/chemical baselines of individuals need to be studied. It makes no sense to lump all these symptoms under one label. I guess that's just the state of psychiatry though... Could some model of the brain be made for machine learning tools to play with?
Thankfully the options are not mutually exclusive!
But this article is doing that in reverse. Finding out that miscategorized shoplifting cases were in fact armed robbery, is worse, but author paints it as better.
> I've met plenty of people with an ADHD/autism diagnosis who have no problem reading people. They just don't have friends for whatever reason.

I fall into this category. Building and maintaining friendships is hard, because you need to be able to give time to your friends on a reliable basis -- which is very hard. If I'm having a day where I'm sucked into something, I wont want to stop doing whatever that is. Another big contributing reason is that with being very unreliable with communication because it's trivial to forget to respond, and the NT folk tend take that personally. It's also hard to maintain focus when being involved in a conversation that isn't that engaging...And having poor impulse control and emotional regulation means that it's easy to go from perfectly calm to overwhelming frustration and back in a blink of an eye...which tends to freak people out quite a bit.

There's a lot of ways that the disorders impact personal relationships between people.
I think your are misunderstanding. The visa programme does not allow you to skip the queue for MIQ. It just gives you a higher chance at a visa if you are rich. It's not going to affect NZ citizens trying to return home, because they find need visas.
> If one has a blocker then it should be raised to the team in slack/email as soon as you realize you need help from the team. Waiting until daily stand-up doesn't seem sensible to me.

The point of the daily stand-up is honestly more for identifying when people are struggling but not reaching out for help. A lot of people have a lone wolf attitude towards work even if they have a team so spotting when someone is avoiding asking for help is important.
Not the OP, and I’m not sure if there really is such a distinction, but what I think they were getting at is that “practicing empathy” is often (mis)interpreted as simulating the emotional response that the other is having, and then allowing that emotion to affect your decision-making. The real purpose of empathy is not to inject emotions into every decision and action, but rather to just ensure one doesn’t carelessly trample on others’ emotions.
"An ASD brain cannot blend in the minor mistakes as well, so it spends a lifetime perpetually surprised and overstimulated by every event that is even slightly unpredictable, and is fairly intolerant of ambiguous, uncertain, or new situations."

Wow, it's like you know me. It also makes sense that I found many of the structure oriented things in the accommodations useful/necessary (templates, checklists, email folders,, etc).
> As we all know, N_homeless = N_people - N_homes.

This is not even close to true. It’s regularly recognized that for many people, homelessness is rooted in disabilities, mental health issues, substance abuse issues, or other problems that hurt their ability to keep and maintain a home even if they had one.

It’s not at all a pure supply issue, although supply plays a big role in certain geographic areas. It’s a complex problem.

Keep in mind that even if you own a home, maintenance, utilities, and taxes are expensive.
Part of the problem is the API kept breaking every other version; ffmpeg is an amazing project for users but has historically been a nightmare to integrate with and package, for this reason.

It's gotten better in the past few years, though, but there's still a lot of legacy codebases that are useless today because they won't build against modern ffmpeg any more (even though the rest of it is fine).
I'm pretty sure AOT on Graal doesn't support swing anyways
I'm assuming that's how all the plugins work?
Everyone’s gotta eat. Even ladder makers.
It can be true that something is useful for all, but especially useful for some. This is a common theme in disability accommodations; they often are useful/helpful for abled people too.
It's not. It gives rich people more chance at getting a visa. People who are already citizens don't need a visa.
“Discussed” previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28784427

It no longer works on some sites like nyt - The site was offline for a day because of a legal notice.
Canada's public health agency admits it tracked mobile devices during lockdown
But “can’t focus on boring/uninteresting tasks” is often presented as the main symptom. Like … yeah no shit it’s hard to focus on uninteresting things?
> From the point of view of language geek, I prefer Swift's approach, as it is closer to PL/I, ALGOL and Wirth's linage of languages.

That's surprising, I remember that one of the specificities of Pascal and its descendants are its very fast compilation time. Swift seems to be at the exact opposite end of that spectrum. I'm not sure if it's the type inference, the frontend, LLVM or something else though.
I am willing to bet that quantum supremacy for some actually useful computation is not going to happen in this decade.
The faster someone tries to get me to sign something, the slower and more carefully I read it.

Do not ever let someone rush you into signing things involving health, rights, or expensive transactions.
I'm looking back on this thread and I really don't see what prompted you to go off on this rant. Which, while not like unhinged or anything, I just don't think is appropriate for the conversation that was taking place, or this audience.

I'm stuck here because what I genuinely want to say is something like "this sounds like a conversation to have with your therapist" which is truly what I believe. But that seems unlikely for obvious reasons, and it's easy to read it as a joke.

Anyway, it's not! This sounds like something you should explore with a focused, knowledgable third party that is invested in taking seriously why you feel so strongly about it. They have paid professionals for that but maybe a friend or a priest or something would work too.
I realized another thing that can happen is that if you have two sufficiently similar looking people. Basically person B tries to use their face to unlock A’s phone and then A unlocks it.

If they are sufficiently similar the phone could theoretically expand its knowledge of what A looks like so that B’s face triggers a positive match.

I have no idea how close in appearance they’d need to be for Faceid to do this though.
Everything About Ship in a Bottle
It will be abolished eventually, quite likely fairly soon.
There's maybe some insight to be gained by analyzing the commits to see if the code seems to be made by different people. I remember that there was the same theory about a very prolific person on the npm/js ecosystem.
I agree completely, and this puts it much cleaner than I worded it.
I'll take vacuum tubes for a $thousand
It’s hilarious how the same people that talk shit about VSCode being too slow use IntelliJ instead
Didn't get. Could you elaborate?
I'll also recommend Rainbows End. I believe it contains a pretty good prediction of what millimeter wave 5G could become.
It’s been around four months since I did it.

It’s hard to describe the effects. It’s unlike taking a medicine. I’ve heard analogies such as pouring concrete into your foundation, or shuffling your mental deck of cards. Neither of those quite describe it.

One concrete effect was that I stopped wearing a smart watch. After the journey I just realized I didn’t want it. I stopped having a need to see notifications immediately.

More abstractly: “revisiting” the worst of my childhood as an adult was moving and full of pent-up grief. I blame myself a lot less for who I ended up becoming as person.
For some reason my first thought was to wonder how to turn these into actual tile floor or wall.
this list is incomplete. you can help by expanding it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_spaces_and_their...
Marooned in Real Time
Requirements: Nice UI, CRUD, REST API to begin with.
One obvious one is the audio quality of Twitter videos, or lack thereof. That one immediately told me they were using ffmpeg's AAC encoder (it's fairly obvious on piano music). Some of ffmpeg's built in codecs are great and some aren't; AAC is in the latter category. I've done some ABX tests with it and some transcoding tests and it's just not great; even at 320kbps two or three transcode cycles result in clearly audible artifacts, especially in high frequency sounds like cymbals (you get a sort of warbly characteristic). MP3 actually has better performance in ffmpeg (via LAME) than AAC at the same bitrate, using the built-in encoder.

If you've ever heard a Twitch streamer, especially people playing 8-bit games or chiptune-ish music, and wondered why the audio sounded a bit dodgy, it's ffmpeg. AAC at 160kbps (the streaming standard) is supposed to sound better than that. OBS will use FDK if available, and on macOS and Windows it'll use CoreAudio if installed, but you need to install an old MSI pulled from an old version of iTunes to get that on Windows... so the vast majority of streamers on Windows are stuck with ffmpeg-AAC.

If you're using ffmpeg on Linux, install libfdk and use libfdk_aac; if you're on macOS, use aac_at instead. Those are much better encoders and ffmpeg can use them as external libraries.

Note that this isn't a criticism of ffmpeg; lack of quality in some codecs is a direct result of lack of funding (though I do fault them for, at one time, claiming the built in AAC encoder was good enough to be made the default and competitive with FDK; it wasn't and still isn't, but I think they reverted that claim at some point).

(source: I help run a couple anime DJ restreaming-based events and fixing the AAC issue is a big red warning item in my set-up guide; I once got a double transcode feed where both steps were using ffmpeg-AAC and I could instantly tell something was wrong)
Why are the only choices being an athlete or being black? Seems like you’re trying to funnel responses into a rather arbitrary and contentious direction.
I loved that book. It's too bad that all other books by him are more or less or a recap of FbR. I still laugh at his portraits of the OTHER brokers.
How many Bitcoin can my TI-83+ mine?
As a millennial that lucked out of the psych-diagnostic phase of Western Upbringing (thanks Mom!), I don't know if I am autistic, ADHD, Bipolar, or any of it, but I can say this: ADHD is a power trait for understanding the modern world. You probably need to be ADHD in the future.
Yup. Even authoritarian Singapore didn’t restrict its citizens from returning. It imposed rules on testing and quarantine, but they were free to jump on the next flight home.

Incredible seeing democracies like Australia and NZ tell their own citizens “no, you cant come home”.
The Coral Island, by R M Ballantyne

It was written a long time ago, and I read an abridged version as a kid. I got a copy to give away as a present, but got the unabridged version, which is not suitable for children. I decided to read it myself, and I am halfway through it.

It is going to be the best book I've read this year, because it is pure escapism in many ways, and this year has been strangely sucky despite the arrival of vaccines and a supposed return to normalcy.

Honorable mentions:
- Night in the Solomons, Louis Lamour

- Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
Also, Russia may need the money. Wars are expensive.
> Furthermore, my anecdotal observation is that articles in The Guardian about New Zealand reflect not reality, but rather the talking points of a very small subset of the hard Left of our political class.

their UK coverage is similar also

they were previously reputable (if slightly biased), but post 2016 reputability seemed to cease to be a priority
Most Communist countries had these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning_in_communist_co...
You think people would voluntarily isolate from each other without any rules in place?
I previously used IntelliJ IDEA on Linux for over eight years, so I can sympathize with your struggles. [1] Recently I started using OSX because my Thinkpad finally died and I could not find another laptop I liked. So far, it's been pretty bumpy, although I noticed that some things have improved (like fonts and build times). The downside is that many things currently do not work on aarch64 right now, and I somewhat regret making the switch this early. I recently started writing some Haskell, which was a pain to setup on my local machine but now that GHCi and Stack finally support it [2], I think it's getting stable. Hopefully more native libraries will offer support for aarch64, because despite the minor speedups (faster JVM), overall it's been a productivity-killer. Very few native libraries provide M1-compatible builds right now.

[1]: http://breandan.net/2014/08/18/shell-script/

[2]: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server/issues/20...
I just go to the way back machine when I want to view paywalled content.
Just to add to your FWIW: covid is also not endemic.

These regulations sound too restrictive but the attitude towards covid also seems kind of advanced of where we actually are, which is a disease that is mutating due to people traveling and artificial vaccine scarcity
I thought I'd love Notion at first in my new company after several years and several companies all using Confluence and Jira. But I miss Confluence, Jira less. I've encountered a common sentiment that Notion doesn't scale well because of it's lack of ridge structure and document/page hierarchy.
I went through the process of planning building a home. The total cost would have been in the 250k range.

The only time that a decision in the planning was made due to regulation was to defer putting living space above the garage. The division between garage and living space has higher requirements for flame retardants in the event that a car were to catch fire, so we put it off to keep costs down.

Because we were building in a rural area, we had the option to stick with a gravel driveway, which I suppose zoning in most cities would prohibit.

Otherwise, costs were entirely dominated by materials, labor, and the general contractor getting his cut. There is only so much you can do to eliminate costs of, say, a roof when you still have to have one.

> BTW, in many countries, if a person can't afford to buy a house, they buy a land and build themselves. My current understanding that in US you need licenses to perform almost any construction work.

This is only true for plumbing and electrical work, and even that varies by state. Typically, the only real requirement is that the work can pass an inspection.

I have done a lot of work on the house I currently live in, up to and including building a masonry heater.
Why is he not locked up like Ross Ulbricht then?
NZ needs to wait long enough until vaccines/treatment options are exists and are effective enough.

FDA authorized covid pill two days ago:

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
It's not the full data set. It's about 1/3 of all things past prototype stage, and half of failures. It's the failures between prototype and market. Some fail when they hit market. These didn't even hit market, so they're just pointless incomplete failures. No big wins yet, but enough to make a career of it.

If anything, the data makes me biased against people with nice cars. I expected most of the outrage to be from those who bought expensive cars.

Many of the relatively successful ones have been partners who owned no cars, though one guy has a very nice MPV.
For Java there really is no replacement for IntelliJ. I don’t think people “talk shit”. I use vscode and I enjoy it. I don’t use it for Java.
Citizens are not in line behind wealthy investors, they don't need visas.
Is love to see a computer simulation of how this played out.
It's a pretty good book, and I very much enjoyed reading it. This and the other book by Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel) together account for a lot of the current state of world affairs.
That’s fair. I was originally thinking in terms of external events (such as the riot mentioned). But sure, liability for the renter setting the place on fire makes sense.
> IDEs can show commit history.

How you check the commit history is beside the point - the question is, do you read the entire commit log history for a chunk of code before editing it?

If not, any comments there might as well not exist - functionally speaking you're maintaining an uncommented codebase.
About two years ago, I read a comment on here about the signs that you might have ADHD. I already knew that I had ADHD — I’d been diagnosed and treated in my late teens. However, the medication had done a number on me and after a year or so I’d dropped it completely.

I’m in my thirties now, and was stuck at home during lockdown with my then pregnant wife. I’m a working developer, but I knew my work was inconsistent. I blamed myself, and had mostly forgotten the diagnosis. Living and working in the same house as me had made my wife begin to notice just how much ADHD affected me day to day, and was starting to become frustrated with it.

Immediately after reading the comment on here, I created a doctors appointment. I ended up going back on Adderall, but when discussing dosage I asked for the lowest dose possible. 5mg. My doctor told me it was a child’s dose (not in a mean or demeaning way,) and was happy to start me there.

I’m still at 5mg. It hasn’t made living with me the easiest, for sure. But according to my wife it’s been a huge improvement. I’m so much more focused and capable. I really cannot overstate the improvement at home. My wife is less nervous about distractions and issues related to having a newborn being taken care of by a wife with ADHD.

Of course, it’s helped at work as well. I’ve been more productive than I previously thought possible. I’ve also just learned so much more and read so much more. Earlier this year, I ended up realizing that I’d like to try interviewing for the first time in years. Within a month, I’d doubled my salary. That last part is probably the least reproducible thing. But I do think I was essentially accepting a salary level I could live with because I knew I was an inconsistent employee and my employer was letting it slide.

Obviously, everyone’s body and mind are different. This isn’t meant as an unreserved ad for ADHD medication. Living with someone who could give me her perspective I’m really helped — I probably wouldn’t have stuck with it had she not been able to articulate a marked improvement within a few weeks.

Still, this single recommendation to go to the doctor and talk about ADHD was the single biggest life improvement me or my family could have ever received.
The defaults, as far as I can tell, do work like a mirror. There's a "flip" option on the "..." menu, if you want to invert that. And there's a "hide self view" option, as well as an arrow to hide the small version in the corner.
I hear you, definitely good points as well. It doesn’t come off well which I think either gives credence to
a) douche canoe
b) neurodiverse

I have some experience with this, picked up on some clues and ran with option B.

It’s kind of odd, but personality and intellect feel a bit like a zero sum equation. The more truly brilliant a person, the more likely they have trouble ‘reading the room’. Obviously there are exceptions and it isn’t so simple, but I have seen it play out more often than not.
Wouldn't it be simpler if you could just pay for N additional spots to be opened by your financing? If MIQ spots are limited due to finances and you can solve that problem that seems like a win-win. If there's an indirectness where the finances go somewhere else and the MIQ pie gets smaller for citizens at the same time, that's obviously going to cause outrage. This seems like one of those rare situations where more direct graft would be better.
Did you even try VSCode or are you just making things up? The official docs link you to a build of VSCode with Java extensions preinstalled, exactly what you’re asking for, calling the Coding Pack for Java: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/java/java-tutorial
Concur. You miss all context-sharing and exchange of q&a. And the team-ness plummets.
Ok. So the picture isn’t the bulk of it. Thanks
That’s not too surprising. Alexa is the kind of thing that would be a miracle if it was the only consumer computing device instead of nearly worthless to anyone with a smartphone or laptop. I too just use it to play very random playlists and set kitchen timers. I’m sure there are some people who don’t have the ability to use traditional devices who rely heavily on it. I had an uncle who went blind quite late in life and so never learned how to cope and would mainly sit and listen to the radio. It would have been a wonder for him.
Generalizing Overloading for C++2000: Bjarne Stroustrup [pdf]
> according to interpretation of Islamic principles, I assume

It's literally in the Quran:

* https://quran.com/2/275

* https://quran.com/3/130

And the Hadiths:

* https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:1615

* https://sunnah.com/bulugh/7/62

This isn't a matter of interpretation.
The Glassdoor reviews for that organization is a bit of a train wreck.