skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dislike //TODOs for the same reason I dislike commented out code.

It adds noise to the code with no actual benefit. If a TODO is outdated it actually becomes a false flag, it's like a comment that doesn't reflect the code changes so now it adds to the confusion instead of alleviate it.

Personally I add // FIXME while writing code but I make sure to remove all of them prior to creating a merge request. It's my way to track outlier issues that I will turn around and fix as I parse my code. If I find a // FIXME that deserves to be its own enhancement or a future TODO I will capture it as a story. My org is Agile story driven which is why I put it there.

Perhaps adding TODOs for a personal project is fine. However for repositories that multiple developers touch a TODO at best is noise, at worst a point of confusion.
Thats horrifying. I think I'd genuinely just start eating the construction paper out of protest.
It’s above $6/gallon here in the bar area even for the cheapest gas so the prices are not that different.
I like the flexibility and control that RSS feeds give me over the content that I consume, but I also spend a lot of time reading reddit comments. With trybsync, I'm trying to achieve some kind of usable middle ground between the two platforms.

> Also, you may want to implement social login so it would be easier for people to try.

Thank you. This is a great idea and I should have added it much earlier.
I use // FIXME for the same reason. When I get ready to create my merge request a global // FIXME will point out anything I missed.
When I'm away from electronics, sometimes I feel like my mind is being hijacked by a shitload of information. In those moments, I feel very tiresome. Most of the time, I wander to the most recent thing that I do.
> what would you do with that information?
Well for starters anyone should check he has the right number of each organ, and at the right place (not ectoplasmic), and that their shape and volume is not pathologic.
You should also check your bones joints to check wether you have metallic accumulation or not.
It's not just about tumors. In any cases, there are generally many possibles diagnosises that do not involve a biopsy, such as blood/urine/lymph/fecal biomarkers, and DNA testing. In some cases you might even consider biofluorescence.
Secondly, if a thing look like a tumor, I would study the risk and if very low I would proceed for a biopsy (risk seems OK) or otherwise use anticarcinogenic drugs.
I would not proceed to a risky surgery unless necessary though, especially in an era where potent anticarcinogenic exists such as PNC-27

BTW it's very cool that this is a thing> https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/getting_data.html
>> ... may legitimately have been asleep at the wheel.

There is never a legitimate was to be asleep at the wheel. He was perhaps genuinely asleep, but short of being drugged against your will there is no non-negligent reason to be asleep at the wheel.
It's good to see that the article includes a "best ways to help" section:

https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/climate-change/#best...
Anything new since the last time you posted?
I want to get regular imaging; I've never done it. I don't even have a PCP, I've been frustrated with previous PCPs not paying attention to detail or waving my symptoms as psychosomatic. I'm not sure how to assess whether a doctor ahead of time would actually be willing to work with me rather than say things that they think make me feel better. These doctors keep running me against the 99% heuristic [https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...].

Now I have real money for the first time, I'm sure that makes access easier, but I'm not sure how to search and assess for quality medical care. It seems like search engines are not the way and it's mostly word-of-mouth. I guess I'll go around my office asking coworkers if their pcp is any good / has an opening...

I just want to go into a lab where I can have the imaging / diagnostics run, no question, have the ability to look at the charts myself and send them to whatever doctor -- rather than convincing a doctor to do imaging tests in the first place.

Are you in the US? How are you able to request MRI scans without an immediate cause?
> how does that even work

It’s just a full-body MRI. Costs a couple thousand dollars. Would put it in the category of neat curiosity and possibly useful as a baseline or if you have surprise cancer or something. But totally unnecessary and to be avoided if you’re prone to medical anxiety.
True story. I live in the US. A [famous] colleague of mine was invited to give a lecture at a major German university in front of a professor's class. At the end of his lecture, the professor picked a random student out of the class, and the student came down and gave a perfect 1-minute summary of the lecture.

My colleague asked how the students could be so disciplined. The professor said it was simple: they knew he would pick one at random, so they all had pre-prepared summaries of the lecture based on studying my colleague's submitted lecture notes the day before.
Lol yeah...
Any travel by Flixbus longer than 6 - 8h is really painful imho, they are not really long-distance bus. They are nice for cheap big city hopping. Of course a lot of people do use them for longer trips but honestly, I don't know anyone that arrive from a long distance bus rested tbh also.
Ask HN: Books about people who persevered when no one else believed in them?
Looking for suggestions. Can be fiction or non-fiction.
>Doing more hours doesn't make you more productive, the amount of meaningful work you can do in a day is pretty much constant.

Although that may be the case for most people, I doubt there's no exceptions to this.
I can count on one hand when I ever handed a plastic bottle without a cap back to recycling or to the store (we have deposits on everything and the cap is not included). I think the only people I remember tossing them were coworkers on a construction site. I will admit we sometimes took them off to repurpose them, e.g. for mixing colors for painting, but then they were tossed in the normal trash, so this wouldn't change anything.

So either this is highly dependent on where you take those numbers or I will call complete bullshit.
Looks neat - pandas is very powerful and it makes it more approachable for non-programmers. However paid product like this - I probably wouldn't make the switch to this and then have the company go belly up leaving users stranded. Too much risk.

Hope for the best though - pandas is pretty fantastic.
We had cities with free public transport in Germany.

One example was the city of Templin in Brandenburg.

The project was eventually abandoned because lots of people were just riding the busses out of boredom and busses were permanently full with costs exploding for the city.

See: https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/nahverkeh...
I think that's the key. Without a somewhat rigorous treatment, most interesting physics just doesn't work. The magic is that a well made resource is still consumable without quite understanding the complicated stuff. Then, if you come across something else later, maybe the commonalities make something click.
not tied to the processor architecture and thus can switch to a better/cheaper cpu easily.

The core processor arch yes, but for many (most?) of these small embedded systems, a large part of the code is basically device drivers used to communicate with GPIO, a plethera of serial buses, and any number of other devices which vary from microcontroller to microcontroller. So unless you offload all that to a RTOS of some kind (which your then limited to devices the RTOS supports) switching devices isn't easy. And for many things, the RTOS overhead will be the largest consumer of CPU+RAM. That is sorta the beauty of the ardunio ecosystem were much of this has been abstracted into common libraries across a number of device families.
There's an abundance of information even without paying for it.
Surprised to hear you were turned away. Usually they will take your money, just not give you any sort of deal. Either way, I think these days it makes little sense to buy new cars of the lot. If you want a new car, just go on the website and build out what you want, pay, and it's there 2-3 months later.
I happily pay for digital + Sunday delivery of my city's daily newspaper. The issue is that I'm not going to do likewise for the daily in 20 other cities. I would of course pay for a single issue of another city's daily, from time to time, just as 20 years ago I might have picked up a San Francisco Chronicle at the newstand if I happened to be in San Francisco. But they have no interest in offering that and I have no interest in maintaining a subscription to another city's daily.

I'm really fairly certain I would have purchased many, many, many editions of, say, the San Francisco Chronicle over the years, were that on offer. But it isn't. So after years of seeing the San Francisco Chronicle's popups telling me that the only way to read one of their articles is to subscribe, the San Francisco Chronicle has in fact received $0 from me.
The broader question isn’t whether a specific action is reasonable in context, but whether civil asset forfeiture is constitutional. So it’s a question of law for the courts to decide, not a question of fact for a jury to decide.
The link for "The UNIX time-sharing system" only provides a 1-page PDF of the abstract. I believe the correct PDF is located at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361011.361061

It wasn't clear to me by looking at the pages themselves. I hope usability will not be a huge issue and negate the benefit of this open access!
Here's a post I wrote on Julia discourse about why one-based indexing is not the culprit here, no matter what people may feel about it aesthetically: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offsetarrays-inbounds-and-....

Several of the most serious scientifically minded programming languages have also had arrays that can be indexed starting at different offsets, including Fortran, Chapel and Fortress. If Julia were zero-based OffsetArrays would still exist and be highly useful. OffsetArrays is not some "kludge" just to allow indexing from zero. Frankly, indexing from zero isn't improtant enough for that. What really makes OffsetArrays useful is being able to do things like have indices go from -k:k where k may depend on the particular dimension. That way the point A[0, 0, 0] is the center of the array and you can navigate up/down/back from there naturally. Of course you can simulate that with arrays that arrays that start at zero or one, but it's a major pain.
might be an exaggeration or false claim to get traffic to her of
I've heard of that, in some devices it can be a hardware issue where the bluetooth and wifi are in one module and one upsets the other. Maybe look into the model numbers of the devices and see if other people report similar things.
And the Anti-gun movement conveniently ignores the concept of a preposition.

Because one first part explains the rationale, the second part describes the right.
15 People joined Buffalo shooter's Discord private chat shortly before shooting
This will be a prime counter-point to people that claim RT is basically the BBC - kudos to the BBC shining a light on this and taking on the government in court to make it happen.

>A video shows the man threatening to kill the woman and attacking her with a machete.

>The foreign national cannot be named, despite evidence he is a threat to women, after the government took the BBC to court to block publication.

>Evidence shows that he is a right-wing extremist with a violent past.

>In an unprecedented legal battle, the corporation argued that women had a right to know his identity and it would protect potential victims from harm.

>But the BBC successfully resisted the government's attempt to stop publication of the wide-ranging investigation.

…

>X was arrested, charged with assaulting Beth and appeared in court. However, while he was at court, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dropped the case.

…

>We obtained writings in the which X boasted about severely sexually exploiting women - using language that is too offensive to repeat.

>In other writings, he expressed approval for a young girl being raped and murdered.

>He openly joined a site, looking for British women, under an alias used for his MI5 work. Consistent with this, Beth says he had described searching online for women to exploit.

>Given the BBC was able to establish that X had a history of violence and abuse, MI5 should, similarly, have been aware.

…

>The warning signs displayed by X are stark. Both of the women we interviewed think he is capable of murder.

>But, when we put our findings about X to the government, it took us to the High Court, trying to stop this story being made public.

>The court legally prevented us from naming X, because of an apparent risk to him from other extremists
My top list is 1) dogs, 2) babies, 3) lawnmowers/leafblowers/etc. This is why I hate living in areas with a lot of single-family homes. I find that kind of screeching noise pollution much more grating than loud music, trains or heavy machinery - stuff that tends to occupy a lower frequency range.

That said, it absolutely seems reasonable to have a decibel limit on vehicles, in particular to catch the antisocial people who deliberately tune their cars or motorcycles to be as obnoxiously loud as possible. Although, I was under the impression that in most places it was already illegal to register private vehicles that exceeded a maximum noise threshold, and that it would be tested during the annual vehicle inspection. Apparently not?
And the trope about it being slower is false. Yes, if you serve an amp page to someone who happens to come to your site, it’s slower, but if it’s displayed from Google search result page, Google pre-renders the page, making it instant.

The Apple News comparison is interesting from the article. Why doesn’t Apple get the hate given Apple News doesn’t just link to mobile web pages instead of articles of their own format?
> than you're really mentally challenged

stay classy!

never said that you are, just that hardcore bike fans are.

apparently you just proved that sometimes even non hardcore bike fans are.

> None of your numbers have citations

most of them are in Italian, I doubt you can even pronounce bruschetta correctly.

If I'm mentally challenged for giving you numbers, what would you define yourself that can't even verify those numbers that are publicly available, using Google?

Anyway, since you asked

Always glad to help people that had it worse than me.

https://www.aci.it/archivio-notizie/notizia.html?tx_ttnews%5...

https://roma.aci.it/notizie-e-informazioni/notizie-ed-eventi...

https://www.asaps.it/70913-_3_rapporto_annuale_sull_incident...

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/d...

https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/263507

https://www.atm.it/it/IlGruppo/ChiSiamo/Pagine/Numeri.aspx
I love assembly language and I'm sad that I haven't used it for work since ~2005. I had just discovered SIMD... I have finished Shenzhen IO and Exapunks (and some TIS-100) in recent years, but they're not really comparable to x86/64.

Timely?

https://i.ibb.co/tZZdMH7/hn.png
Common law uses case law for precedent, which is insanely complicated and requires years of study and decades of active practice to not screw up badly.

That example is not what you think it is.
Could well be that the complaining is exaggerated, but there is definitely complaining.

> "Theoretically, all students would need to be reimbursed or credited 79.98 EUR each," says [speaker of Bochum University] Dessaul. An enormous administrative effort, because almost 43,000 young people study there.

> The AStA (student council) [of Duisburg-Essen University] would have to initiate 40,000 bank transfers [for the refunds]. "This would be an incredible effort, especially given the limited number of people we have in treasury, finance, and on the board, that would be extremely difficult to manage and would probably also take considerable time"

https://www.businessinsider.de/politik/deutschland/trotz-ber...
It's obvious YC would make some crypto bets. The same way Ark invest is doing on the public markets, YC will do at the seed stage to ensure they have exposure to a market segment that might turn into a big thing (I'm skeptical, but it's not impossible and I don't have a crystal ball.)

What I'm curious about is the initial pitch. Did YC have a way to know that company was a terrible (potentially fraudulent) idea, or did the founders mask it sufficiently that it would have been difficult to tell?
> Riad had been cited at least six times for moving violations in the three years before the crash.

not an insignificant detail. sounds like the driver was a menace.
I was thinking more remotely noticing that throughput dropped - my switches can route at line speed if they avoid the CPU, but if the CPU is involved it drops to about half line speed.

If you're the one controlling the network router, you know when the sniffing is going on - this would be trying to detect that your ISP has turned the "NSA button" on.
I watcha lot of youtube lately. a lot of tutorials and politics. If I'm on a computer I flip the speed to 1.25-1.5x for the tutorials so when they talk to slow I don't get annoyed and flip it off.

I like to walk and think about things. mostly crap I want to do and never work on. I get way ahead of myself and when I go to start the minimal amount I can get accomplished usually frustrates me. and I switch to something else.
Google Play has hidden applications permissions
In an unusual turn of events the Google Play app has stopped showing the permissions for apps and instead has replaced this very valuable source of information about the app behavior and capabilities with "Data Safety" which barely shows anything technical and instead gives some vague interpretation of what the app does with your data.

Earlier you could disable automatic updates and always know what new permissions a certain update brings - this is no longer possible or available.

This is especially upsetting in terms of installing new apps. What do they do? What do they use?

For instance I've never installed apps which require "Find accounts on the device" (android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS) because the permission allows an app to find all the accounts on my device (normally an email addresses, including your primary google account, but that can be anything including your phone number, unique IDs in various services) and do anything with them.
The Edinburgh route seems quite ambitious, due to the apparently near-insurmountable challenges of meeting channel tunnel safety and regulatory requirements.

Deutsch Bahn tried for years to introduce a route to London through the tunnel, but even they couldn't make it happen and gave up in the end. Eurostar's monopoly is well entrenched!

And there is, of course, a London to Edinburgh (and on to Aberdeen, etc) sleeper service already: https://www.sleeper.scot
It may or may not be legally relevant--but it's certainly an almost astonishing amount.
FSD is a $10K+ add-on when you purchase your Tesla. I am sure people notice that.
I recall reading somewhere that in apes, some species have lots of endemic SIV and don't get symptoms, but other species will die from it.
Favourite memories of the loss-making, VC-subsidized consumer start up era
> Dutch public transport is the most expensive in Europe

Only because the UK is no longer in the EU.
Depends on what's in front of the car. If it's a large, broad, stationary object like a firetruck or tractor trailer, then the sensors on the car aren't able to see those obstacles. Teslas have been known to frequently run into such things at top speed, completely blind to the fact they were there at all. It's so bad multiple people have been literally decapitated at this point, and Tesla has to date refused to fix the flaw (inadequate sensing) that caused the decapitations to occur.

People say Teslas are safer than humans, but humans who can't see large broad stationary objects would never be granted a license. If you are a robot driver, no problem though apparently. In fact, if you have proven to be recklessly homicidal while driving, your license is taken away and you are likely put on trial. Not if you're a robot! They will clone your flawed sensors and robot brain, and ship it to thousands of people to be deployed on roads across the world.

When your web service goes down you probably find the root cause, fix it, and issue a report about how it's not going to happen again due to your fix. Not Tesla! They are aware of the problem, know exactly how to fix it, and it seems like one man's ego is getting in the way of shipping actually safe autonomous cars. Tesla cars are not safe because Tesla as a company does not value safety as a priority. They value design, whizbang technologies, branding and image, while safety is a distant concern. Elon Musk put more effort into naming the line of cars SEXY than he did to actually producing reliably and predictably safe autonomous vehicles. Musk spent far more time lamenting over the fact he was forced to name his car the Model 3 than the fact it decapitated a human being due to his poor engineering choices.

Teslas on AP are death machines (read: they are machines who have killed people) and we in the public are the unwitting beta testers for Tesla Inc.
Where are they going to submit a drug test...?
Wow! I did not realize this was the case. So this must be a result of domestic policy even beyond the job culture.
Not just brake dust (which is probably solvable), but also rubber from tires.
I give this less than a year before we get a scandal where a few Meta employees start banning accounts of sex workers and extort them in order to get their account back.
It’s very simple. The “news” makes very little impact on the average person’s daily life.

Unless you are a high level political operative or a day trader, the news makes absolutely no difference in how you go about your day.

Oh, so-and-so was caught in a scandal with such-and-such? Neat. Anyway, I’ve got to get to work and then pick up the kids and cook dinner and whatnot.

99% of the news is completely unimportant, but they breathlessly report it like it’s life and death.

For most people, it’s a momentary diversion, and if it went away it would make no difference at all.
Having started in modern frontend js, and now doing mostly .Net 6 API dev with a Xamarin client, I don't quite understand the obsession with MVVM. MVU seems clearer and more intuitive by far, but that could just be my web background talking.

Edit: to give an example of what I'm talking about, see this article's visualization of the unidirectional data flow you get with MVU. This feature in particular makes MVU much less ambiguous than MVVM (IMO at least)

https://thomasbandt.com/model-view-update
Set 2 half days as office hours where people self organize and collaborate on whatever they need to solve. Poll the team to find what those 2 chunks of time are. 2 half days is arbitrary, the core idea would be that builders/makers have uninterrupted time to focus and build for the rest of the week.
I think 100 can be unsafe. It'll go fast, it's heavy, and hard. Things will fly around.
Ignore it? I think it should be presented marked as Evidence A
Well there went 40 minutes of my time. thanks :)
It would appear this isn't a time-limited thing:

> Vicki L. Hanson, the group’s CEO, noted that the ACM Digital Library initiative is part of a broader effort to make its archives available via open access by 2025.

> “Our goal is to have it open in a few years, but there’s very real costs associated with [the open-access work],” Hanson said. “We have models so that we can pay for it.”
Expanding "boolean-ness" and treating more things as expressions lets ruby give you more readable code. e.g.

if user = db.query(id)
user.update(...)
end

and

user = db.query(id) || raise "UserNotFound"