skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also a frequent modafinil user (maybe 4/7 days a week) and luckily haven't experienced side effects. I also drink tons of water throughout the day so that could definitely be a factor.
I moved from Australia to France back in September 2021. Bureaucracy is a sport here, but not much more than back home.

Would recommend/10, AMA.
> literally everything is made in china, if the quality is as bad as you say the world would have fallen apart.

And that's why nowadays things like washing machines and refrigerators which used to last decades now break within the first year or two.

> The same comments were said of Japanese products back in the day, "IP thieves", "shitty quality", and here we are decades later praising Japanese products. Its hilarious at this point.

But these stereotypes lasted only for a decade tops! I have not seen the same commitment to quality that Japanese brands produced. I believe it is a cultural difference, Japanese take great pride in workmanship.
Yep. If you are a technical person who wants to pursue their curiosity, get a tech job, reach financial independence in your early 40s, and build your own tenure instead of jumping through these hoops.
That’s been a thing forever. See also: “states’ rights”, “small government”, “personal responsibility”, none of which actually mean what they say on the label.
Impressive track indeed, I feel that despite the complexity of building a database engine, many companies / individuals are giving it a take (particularly in the golang community) Simple question for a novice, what makes edgedb different from existing alternatives like Neo4J?)
Oh, there are definitely beautiful places in America - just as there are beautiful places in Australia.

But the nationalist culture, the pride and arrogance, the ignorance of the cost to the rest of the world of American moral authority - this is prevalent no matter where you go in the USA.

And then, there's the social fabric. Go outside and find your nearest bum, living on the street. Get to know them and how they go there. That is a very American circumstance.
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This platform is an experimental social network solely based on soundclips. SONAR is meant to encourage genuine conversation and entertainment. I believe audio culture in the form of this app could create a community that is safe, smart, and more human than many of the current social media platforms.
> I don’t know where you are from, but LA is actually representative of large swaths of the US

I actually grew up in LA, and now live in the foothills outside of Boulder on a large forest property — which is nothing like LA or Vienna.

I haven’t run into many areas of the US reminiscent of LA, and the US is enormous. It can’t be painted with a single (and such a reductive) brush.
It’s nice to see this come up. This was my go to on Windows for many years until I switched to MacOS
December 2021 edition?
I disagree. I think the language was chosen to be inflammatory and overstated. The reason I think that is because everybody I know, from Republicans to moderate progressives to socialists, assumed it was much more radical on first hearing. Moderate progressives in particular were a bit alarmed by it, and then on hearing what it actually meant, were immediately on board because it's a bundle of familiar ideas that they already supported.

To put it another way, if the intention was to create a succinct label that gave people a generally accurate impression before they heard the details, it was a complete failure.

Conservatives in particular love it because if they want to misrepresent it as something radical and alarming, they just have to repeat the same name that its proponents use. (Not that that is necessarily going to work for them -- I think it comes off as a bit too obvious and lazy, especially since proponents have stuck with the label and coalesced support around it.)

I don't necessarily think it's a bad name, because it has attracted a lot of attention, and the idea has gained momentum, but it's just too obvious to deny that "defund the police" was designed to be misunderstood. For good tactical reasons, maybe, but obviously intended to mislead.
When I started running (or rather, attempted many times over a few years) I hated every moment of it and would regularly quit after literally 60 seconds. I had to learn to run very slow to start off. Very soon my pace drastically quickened and anything below 5k felt like a complete cop out.

Although years of not stretching has led to regular achilles tendon pain now (at least I think that's the cause). I'm stretching and doing calf raises.
>Completely misses the human element though

That's the point. The entire programming world moves in circles reinventing the wheel and repeating the same mistakes every decade or so. Humans are biased. We need definitive answers.

>You can create the most mathematically perfect paradigm/language but if it's brutal nobody will use it. Is that success? I don't think so.

No I never said this. All I said was PROVE OOP is BETTER than other paradigms in terms of modularity and complexity. I never said design a perfect mathematical language from scratch. In fact, in mathematics, the concept of perfect doesn't exist. A language is just a language, it's not better or more perfect than any other language.

>The biggest issue in software development is the sheer size of it all. How do we build software that literally requires dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands of developers all working on the same thing?

I don't know where you're going with this. The argument is whether OOP is a good paradigm and an easy way to prove this is to either mathematically prove it's better than all other paradigms or give examples on how it's better. Give me singular examples where OOP is superior and that lends credence to your argument. How does saying that software development is "huge" with "thousands of developers" working on it mean anything at all? It doesn't. It strays from the main point.

>I have evidence in the success of OOP in solving that problem in the form of all the software that exists and works

OOP and FP are both turing complete. That means Every OOP program has an FP and imperative counterpart. In addition to this many Non-OOP software solutions exist in the real world. Linux for example is NOT OOP.

Thus for both OOP and FP and imperative. Mathematical Proof EXISTS that it works. Statistical evidence through existing software also adds to that proof. The argument is WHICH is better? That's all we disagree on right now. Which Paradigm is superior and in what area?

> You can completely disregard that as "popularity" but to what end?

I can completely disregard it because in many areas it has been shown to be completely unreliable, illogical and contradictory. This is statistically valid. For example religion. Thousands of religions are popular in this world. All of them are declared as the absolute truth, all of them are contradictory.

Why are you continuously using a metric that has ACTUALLY been disproved to be reliable as your bar? The popularity of OOP ONLY shows that it works. It does not show that it is BETTER.
It's really amusing contrasting the brains going around in that family with them both goofing off with a lawn mower carburetor in the garage.
Other than existing code bases, what's the advantage of using Ruby for new projects these days when better tools exist? For example, Elixir - ergonomics of Ruby but cleaner functional approach, distributed and much faster for typical web apps.
Thanks for the pointer! Looks like this can handle several things I thought I could only accomplish with a Google account on Android
yes, we knew in march 2020 what the outlines of this virus were going to be. the only uncertainty was how much it varied at the margins (like absolute transmissibility, reproduction rate, in vitro resilience, etc.), but we realized quickly that it didn't push those boundaries in any surprising ways. it was simply a novel coronavirus, which meant that deficient immune systems were going to be unprepared to fight it. we knew this already, and still proceeded to become hysterical over this one virus, rather than focusing on protecting the immune deficient specifically.
> The downside is, Berlin is not really integrated into Germany.

I'd kind of consider that a selling point. Berlin is cool and is different from the rest of the country. But I guess whatever floats your boat.
New web application for watching movies using torrents
Bitflix is an open source web application which is connected to TMDb to fetch movie's data and YTS to get torrents hash. You can watch any movie you want with subtitles.
Astro Biologist...lol

I didn't think the science was settled on such things? Do I believe there is a logical argument for life out there? Definitely but how arrogant must one be to name themselves the Head Astro Biologist? And then to critique the economics of emerging markets...I guess that makes him an Astro-Biological-Economist too!!

Who knew a physics degree could take you so far!!!
Tag lines have been short and catchy for as long as humans have been shouting them or trying to put them on signage. Has there ever been a time when a group of protesters flew under the banner of a long nuanced argument instead?
Interesting.

I was diagnosed twice, both times in adulthood. The first time was by a neuropsychologist who did something like 8-10 hours of testing over about 3 days. I’m not even sure if she ever asked me about any sort of drug use.

The second person to diagnose me was a physician at the student health center where I was a graduate student. Believe it or not, he was actually a pediatrician! I think he may have asked me about my caffeine consumption (excessive!), while also being impressed by my shockingly normal blood pressure (almost always between 110/70 and 125/83). I actually think going on Adderall might have lowered my BP overall, due to the increased ability it gave ume to tolerate and problem solve my way through stressful situations.
> It is a very American thing to get so upset when the country is criticized.

I think this is thankfully becoming at least slightly less common, at least among educated Americans. For me at least the combination of meeting more people outside my bubble, travelling and learning more about the history of the United States has led me to a similar conclusion that you have reached.

A few weeks ago I returned to my rural Minnesota hometown to see people that had come from families that had lived there multiple generations wearing confederate flag clothing. I wonder if they had any concept of which side their forefathers would have been fighting with back then.
I've recently bumped into the YouTube channel ChubbyEmu. Medical ER case analysis by a real doctor on real cases. Think Doctor House, but not over the top and with lots of really well explained medical knowledge.

He's got one on a lead poisoning case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qHxEjINCAg
Direct experience, no. Just going by my own hunches here.

And the observation that, across the board - a lot of people these days seem to not understand the concept that someone would willfully choose not to carry a smartphone. Ergo, if you say you don't have one, you must be lying.
> The data is being omitted...

Looking at just the NPR article. The data is NOT "being omitted". As far as I can tell they've backed up all of their assertions in the article and are not exaggerating anything and the claims made seem reasonable.

If you want "pure data" there's plenty of sources out there, albeit with little-to-none in the way of interpretation. Those of us who aren't experts in labor economics actually need a bit of context and interpretation.
Oh, I stopped seeing chiropractors once I realized they hadn't bothered to check my high blood pressure in years.

Still it's kind of sad, you can't get honest medical advice from a doctor anymore.

You can't even find maybe you should lose weight in a dating book. Even books targeted towards men are afraid to offend.
I've tried a bootable vm image but couldn't figure out how to configure, the docs only cover the installer, no examples, so I gave up. It seems like it's a Guile recipe for an OS. I want the OS with docs, examples, maybe a simple instalker to get everything bootstrapped. Then I could learn to write recipes. Other than that, Guile is attractive and so is GNU Shepherd, which is why I tried it in the first place.
Building a Vaporwave Scene with Three.js
>I've completely lost the brain-dead nationalist mentality that had infected me in my earlier life

OP seems to deal in intense absolutes
I tried a few mechanical keyboard and I was not convinced by the sound and feel.
I used an obscure but well made low profile scissor keyboard for 15 years and I was quite happy with it.

But this is nothing compared to what I built last summer.

I also don't like long travel so I added specific mods to have shorter travel, with two small O rings inside the keycap, I also added weights inside the keycaps to improve the feel.

Tall keycaps are not an issue for me as long as the angle of the keyboard is well designed to avoid fatigue.

But there are options for low profile switches and keycaps, and they can be modded and improved just as cherry style switches.

Japanese keyboard like Topre are also known to use a complete different tech for switches that can be very satisfying (but full plastic)
There used to be a whole stereotype around "lazy Southerners" that turned out to be a massive hookworm infestation!

> ...victims succumbed to an insatiable exhaustion and an impenetrable haziness of the mind that some called stupidity. Adults neglected their fields and children grew pale and listless. Victims developed grossly distended bellies and “angel wings”—emaciated shoulder blades accentuated by hunching. All gazed out dully from sunken sockets with a telltale “fish-eye” stare.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...

> In 1899, American zoologist Charles Wardell Stiles identified progressive pernicious anemia seen in the southern United States as being caused by the hookworm A. duodenale. Testing in the 1900s revealed very heavy infestations in school-age children.

> On October 26, 1909 the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease was organized as a result of a gift of US$1 million from John D. Rockefeller, Sr. The five-year program was a remarkable success and a great contribution to the United States' public health, instilling public education, medication, field work and modern government health departments in eleven southern states.[45] The hookworm exhibit was a prominent part of the 1910 Mississippi state fair.

> The commission found that an average of 40% of school-aged children were infected with hookworm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookworm_infection#Eradication...
Very negative, if nothing else. Bit difficult to read their comments when the amount of ego oozing through their words is palpable.
I have no idea why people like Vyvanse so much. It’s just time release with a fancy mechanism and paranoia around abuse potential of instant release formulations, which work just as well in most, if not all.

However, Ritalin is less neurotoxic than amphetamines that can indeed hike your risks of Parkinson’s (and probably few other things)
I didn’t. My traveling companions are just a little wiser and more mature, now.
I do. Highly effective propaganda has associated the facts around Chinese trade secret stealing with claims of racism and general xenophobia. As a result, now you have plenty of individuals all over the world whose moral compass pushes them to ignore the facts around trade secret stealing and even go dispute them in online conversations.
They didn’t technically contradict your comment but I also didn’t feel like you were giving it a charitable reading either.

I find it odd that you’re asking why I’m framing it as an argument as though an argument wasn’t already framed.
Yeah wtf, Hacker News shows me next to nothing about cutting/chopping things down with repeated blows.
Before we stop frontpaging articles about Chesterton's fence, we must first understand why the articles are being frontpaged to begin with.
It's not lack of perspective. It's even worse when looking at America from Africa. I feel like we are peers in a great race to win the-best-shithole-on-earth contest. But then again, both have beautiful spaces, so I guess the real measure is between large cities, of which most is horrible for human needs. This is where Europe excels (and Japan & SK and few others) - they are human-centric and not work/car -centric. It feels like you are "living" in those countries, but in places like America you are just working... for what? Just money. Then what? Make some war etc? Skip. If I can I would move to Europe tomorrow.
A similar thing is said about other European capitals: Paris, London, Amsterdam, Edinburgh etc. The inhabitants of these countries will say their capitals are not really like the rest of their country (or an accurate reflection of the country).

It's why so many people flock to large cities - you feel less like an 'outsider' because the population of these cities is so varied.
7.3% is near historic lows on U6, but that doesn't capture childcare (like you mentioned) or retirements (at least as big of an "issue" as childcare).

Anti-work only actually comes into play in boomers who retired during the pandemic! Everyone else is effectively working if they can.

This is just a pure labor shortage - driven by demographic shifts that were years in the making and just now accelerated and by childcare shortages that are nearly fully state-driven
Apple codesigned AArch64 with ARM. That's how they beat every other vendor to having a 64 bit ARM chip on the market and with a core that wasn't even an ARM design at all.

They arguably did invent their own ISA.
I agree. It also suffers from calling out sci-fi as some homogenous group that owes something to everyone else, and that's a premise I think is incorrect.

The writer focuses a lot on Stephenson, and this whole article I think could be simplified by saying "I don't like Neal Stephenson's work because it's too optimistic." Great.

But instead it casts it's premise way too wide, and ends up sounding ridiculous.
I moved from the USA to Finland.

Biggest sacrifice I had to make was downsizing my residence. I have a small flat in Helsinki instead of a large US home. Homes are generally much smaller here, though with more rooms for the square footage than they do in the USA.

I have gained so much. I live in a place where it is safe for my children to wander the city alone. I live in a place where I never get harassed by homeless people in the street, in an exceptionally clean city with very little crime.

I live by the sea and enjoy clean air 365 days a year, instead of smoking the state of California every summer.

The Finns have an extremely strong predisposition to minding their own business. It makes it a little harder to make friends, perhaps, but I love not having to deal with busybodies. I am partially blind, and travel with a cane or a guide dog from time to time. In the USA I was harassed almost daily by people who didn't understand that you don't have to be totally blind to benefit from a guide dog or a white cane.

In Finland I have never been questioned about this.

They also have a much more work to live mentality and better work life balance than in the USA. You notice this when you see that when people introduce themselves they often do not mention their profession, as it's not seen as a core part of their identity like it is in the states.

I don't own a car, as the public transportation is so great here that it isn't worth the hassle of having one.

I have enough children that the taxes aren't actually that much higher for me. If I was a single person then the math would be very different, I am sure.

Local salaries are much lower than in the USA, but I do contractor work for US companies and still charge US rates so I haven't felt the impact of this personally.

I love having access to good health care that isn't tied to my employment; it makes being self-employed much easier.

I love being able to walk everywhere. The USA is a terrible place to be a pedestrian.
I use foobar every day for playing streaming radio stations.
Although I agree the authors could have done homology modelling, in this case AlphaFold is already doing that. It knows all the related sequences (through the sequence database similarity graph that it embeds) and has a very sophisticated modelling system. In my guess (I'd have to check with my old friends to be sure) it does as well as if not better in producing atomic accuracy for structural predictions for homology modellers better than a typical modeller could produce.

This paper is mainly a flag planted so they can claim they landed on mars first and fastest.
> "Yet, despite all the quitting and renegotiating, the real wage for the average American worker — meaning the true value of their paycheck after taking into account inflation — fell by 2.4% in 2021."

Because most are still not moving. If a worker won't leave under these conditions, there is no reason to ever give them a raise as you don't need it to retain them.
Most of the world's ills would be solved if facts and evidence were enough to convince people.
> limit the spread of COVID

I think it can be claimed that it limits the rate of spread, not total spread/infections.
Not that it's a bad thing ;) (for the most part)
By who? By those who are working on it (now and in the future).

Let's start with the author. If the author can't understand it in six months, that's bad.

Then, the author's co-workers, now and in the future. The author may be a genius who never forgets anything, but will his successor be as good? If the successor can't understand it, that's bad code.
Here's a master of wine blind tasting many inexpensive wines. He seemed to think Barefoot Cabernet Sauvignon was fine. Hated yellow tail though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK_hx5A54EU&t=5m18s
WASM threads are available in all modern browsers now, including Safari. It's very early days in terms of ecosystem but we're steadily getting there.
I think appetite itself has a lot to do with the nutritional density of what you're eating. I can eat 1000kcal of gummy worms and just be getting started, but 1000kcal of ground beef and I can't look at food for a few hours. Or in other words, it seems like your body will keep giving you hunger-signals regardless of volume, until it gets what it needs (e.g. protein, minerals, vitamins).
Interaction data are identifiable even across long periods of time
Yeah in quite a few countries in Europe nobody will just spontaneously talk to you unless they're drunk or a bit weird. However, many will also be delighted if you start the discussion as a foreigner. That's much less likely to come off as weird as some leeway will be afforded for other cultures.
And to think we all laughed at CSI enhancing CCTV images...
Just checked it out. Looks interesting. Thanks