skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a massive issue for both of you and I don't know how we can resolve it.

Because it's an issue for you because you don't have time to work on it and you can't always work for free.

But most people are on the other side. They work for a company and the company want them to use a package. But the package doesn't work or doesn't have the feature they need.

The can't fix it or add the feature because their company don't give them time to read thousand of line of code and fix the bug or even worse, they just don't have the skill for it. What are they suppose to do ? Their company will put pressure on them and they are stuck so they ask you to fix the bug/add the feature.

In the head of the manager the library is "famous", it is suppose to work and thousand of developer are using it. If it doesn't work it's because the company's developer is bad. But it's not his fault too. So everybody is in the same shit.

And it's a very recurring situation. I'm an average python developer, yesterday my task was to add celery to our django project. Celery is an old and massive "famous" project. It is suppose to work. But what happened when you follow the tutorial ? The tutorial doesn't work. What do I say to my manager ? Sorry the project sucks it doesn't work. He will not understand me. I had to follow another tutorial made by someone else and their install guide was different from the official one, and it kinda works. "Kinda" because it didn't work, to start Celery, celery needs to load the django settings. My django settings was using environment variable. It works for all of them except the django.SECRET_KEY. Why ? I have no idea, so I had to hardcoded the secret key in the settings which is not a good solution, but at least it works and I can progress on the feature I have to do.

What am I suppose to do ? Create an issue in celery asking for "please, can you fix your getting started because my company want me to use celery but it doesn't work ? Can you create a tutorial for using celery beat with django because my company want me to use it and I don't know how to do it ?"

Of course I didn't create an issue because I know I will not have an answer and it's always my fault because I can't debug the library for hours to find a solution to the shitty tutorial who doesn't work.

And that's just the type of the iceberg, I use all my day to make it work and I didn't manage to do it. I had to try different package, downgrade setuptools because one package wasn't compatible etc. At the end of the day, my environment was fucked up, django didn't even start anymore and I had to erase my environment and create a new one.

And that's the day of every average developer (so not HN developers). We get angry because nothing work, our company put pressure on use, and at the end, we ask coldly on github for bug fix or feature.
I suspect it could be done for sort of periodic noise (or possibly with a predictive net). I've always wanted to implement this on the web but never got around to it.
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The assembler is not an interpreter because it doesn't produce the output of the program it assembles.

However indeed it's usually called a translator (or, well, an assembler) rather than a compiler, exactly because its algorithms are simpler, and (even if it does things like resolving labels) the way a human looks at the output is as a 1:1 translation of the input.
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> Where has this 'pride in their past' narrative come from except for the comment that lists those topics?

Nowhere, but that's the thread we're in. I was just pointing out you perhaps misread what it was a list of, because it seemed to me perfectly consistent with the rest of the comment.

> The comment I appreciated kumarvvr posting makes no proclamations about pride or India or Hinduism, it talks about cleaning practices and traditional herbs almost exclusively.

I appreciated it too - and still do - just perhaps more so before reading some of the others.

Again, not 'taking a side' here, I don't really even know enough to judge what I'm being told, if you see what I mean. Here I was only intending to make a sort of meta-comment about your reply and the comment it was on, I'd have said the same in isolation without seeing the rest of the thread/submission.

(E.g. note I said 'allegedly' and 'someone' - I wasn't making any claims about anyone and certainly nothing personal.)
Lots of words and statements are censored on midjourney too. The title is kind of incorrect.
How do you know you wouldn't have felt the same about a placebo?
It is ambiguously worded, I agree.

I'm on mobile so I've only cursorily scanned the article. Looking at subfig E in figure 1, it seems that differences between active and placebo were minimal. I haven't checked their stats relating to those differences.

So I think the effect the authors found does seem small.

However, usual caveats: very small study, etc. I'd want to review the reliability and sensitivity of the questionnaires they used. Subjective experiences are of course difficult to capture reliably.

Having said that, and considering I've only scanned this briefly, it seems like a well designed study - for what it's doing. Adding the quantitative elements of EEG etc is nice.

The discussion section is good, the authors acknowledge several possible weaknesses and explore explanations.

So overall, looks interesting, but it's not definitive (and the authors don't claim it is). It's not a refutation of microdosing, it just adds to the literature, and perhaps offers things for future researchers to explore/control.
Which is half the fun for /some/ people.

What people are saying (including me) is that it's not fun for them, and Discord feels like a big hindrance instead of a benefit.
Hi, sorry but this is simply not something I'm interested in implementing.

Further, please remember that GitHub maintainers do this for free, on their own time.

Thanks!

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Anything more than that, block and move on. I've been on GH for 10 years or so and it's gotten really bad in the last few regarding pushy dickheads like this.

You owe nothing to them, and if they can't behave within the OSS ecosystem then they're going to get blocked. Plain and simple.

In the past, I've simply responded to drive-by PRs with "No thank you :)" and closed them. Not common but sometimes people do stuff that makes no sense and you just can't really say anything other than that.
Maybe as a monad? Now I'm even more confused.
I posted this more than 2 hours earlier.
If I have no other better option: walk.
I note the song also mentions "raising cain" (edited to fix autocorrect error), another obscure idiom for "causing a fuss", "making a ruckus".

But generally it's common for things passed down in an oral tradition to get respelled at some point down the chain.

Examples from music include Jock-o-mo in the song Iko Iko, where someone heard a word in a language they didn't know, then sang it and someone else wrote it down in a different way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iko_Iko
When I was 15 I went to see The Damned at Oxford Apollo, it was a good natured gig with a lively mosh pit, but as soon as they played Smash it Up the place went insane and a few rows of seats were ripped up. There was also a small riot outside when we came out as bored kids from a local estate had come into town to fight everyone leaving the gig. Spent half the night in a cell.
You can put WHERE before joins using nested queries, i.e. "FROM (SELECT * FROM users WHERE deleted") INNER JOIN ...".
Who Killed Tair Rada? Inside Israel’s True Crime Obsession
This site was useful enough for me that I got it for my phone. Some brown noise with ANC headphones and I don't have to hear other people.
Create a label “no bandwidth” or “f… off” if you prefer - then close it.
That's part of the skill of a good interviewer: making sure that the audience can follow along, understanding what's actually being said. The interviewer here is obviously an audio enthusiast/record shop owner rather than a journalist, so it's not surprising that they haven't had so much practice at this!

(I've done interviewing for academic research, which has different goals but is also a skill. It's interesting how difficult it is at first.)
Silence is not an option.

Silence must be silenced.
I have to ask, did you leave before the end?
Sometimes fasteners are deemed single use consumables. Softer metals are used so that it will intentionally deform for a stronger/better mating.
Perhaps people are different in this regard.
"Carnivorous animals have higher rates of death from cancer"

Say hello to Crocodiles :)

https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2405-8440(21)02697-9
IIRC the early versions of the Unreal engine used another custom scripting language, UnrealScript. It's interesting how engine developers go back and forth on the costs/benefits of embedded scripting languages. I think something similar happened with the Quake engine too (Quake 1 had QuakeC, whereas Quake 2 onwards was C/C++ all the way down).
> You can just politely say no.

To emphasize even more, you do not need to explain yourself at all, in any way. You may want provide your reasons / rationale, but you don't have to (see other comments stating that as well).
Perhaps this is due to Walmart and Amazon killing small merchants? Would be interesting to know what sectors of small businesses were affected the most or if it was systemic across all sectors.
Five message into the comments and the discussion devolves into compatibility issues between various versions of common lisp.

Welcome to CL hell.
I'm no dev but let's say that my job has a similar issue. The approach that I use focuses on being 1) truthful, 2) clear, 3) polite, 4) concise. In this specific order.

In other words: "Sorry, I'm not going to do this because [insert here the actual reason, not some lame excuse]".

Past that, if that user keeps insisting, the user is being entitled and you should not bother yourself with entitled people.
If I was not fooled again by microsoft, mathemical proofs for tricky parallel programing algorithms is what makes 1% of computer programming not for high-schoolers. Namely, high-schooler grade programmers, namely 99%, must trust those algorithms. It is even worse when a programming task is required to perform serious and "accurate" floating point calculations since there, high-school skills won't be enough (need a uni/college maths degree, since the "proof" of accuracy of a calculation is pure maths).

Tricky parallel algorithms need specifically designed mathematical logic to be proven.

For instance: AFAIK, ring buffers management using atomic r/w pointers.
.... if you keep a mobile device on you or live in a surveillance state.
Erm, define "impairment". Yes this study notes reduced performance in some areas (but the authors acknowledge plenty of weaknesses and explanations in their discussion). However, increases in something like "creativity" might reduce e.g. verbal fluency, while increasing "performance" for artists, or increasing insights when problem solving in many disciplines.
Yeah, like I said, modern soap. You can't buy the good stuff at all.
I think this where some bureaucracy would be in order. Have a list of rules somewhere for the project. Have a list of close reasons based on the rules. One of them will be "Feature Request Declined". With the rule being "If you ask for a feature, we will consider it but we cannot guarantee to implement it, we may close it with Feature Request Declined because of time constraints, priorities or just that the maintainers need a life outside of doing this.".

This might take the emotion out of it.
I think we have the answer now: They focused on getting acquired. That is never good for the consumer.
So you think there were better quality ones and bathrooms or that the peasants just washed in the river or with snow?
You can block people on GitHub to stop them from interacting with you or bothering you
This is the kind of thing that makes perfect sense but is not at all obvious to most people using Python, and IMO should be a caveat in the official manual. Great explanation.
> In a digital passport it suddenly my burden to prove it through the intervention of a server

Maybe I did not read the article well enough, but why would these passports not be simple signed certificates? No need for any network of third party to check whether they were signed by a trusted authority.
Could it work for cancelling tinnitus? Just have an inverse of that sound playing, with some controls for frequency adjustment for individuals.
There is a huge difference between distinguishing fake artist rendition Venus from real Venus pictures and distinguishing a slice of sausage vs a celestial body.

In the former the fake Venus is supposed to look like Venus. In the latter the sausage looks like nothing you can find in space.
> Vinyl doesn't have nearly the resolution or nearly the dynamic range that a high-quality digital recording will have.

Not to mention that setting up a tonearm just right appears to be a feat of wizardry, or being sure that the recording was properly mastered for vinyl.
Uh, so you took a break from your ADHD medication to microdose?

And you claim it is the microdose that made you less productive?

I posit you need to take a microdose with your normal ADHD medication, otherwise the anecdote is meaningless even as a personal reference.
I don't think there really is anything one can do. We don't have the medical technology yet to significantly improve someone's health to a consistent degree beyond the average limit. Sure, some centenarians in Japan might live quite a while (given their birth records are correct, yet there is a growing suspicion that they may not be [0]), but I'm not sure if we can reliably, and to a statistically significant degree, make people live beyond such an age.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2019/8/8/20758813/secrets-ultra-elderly-...
A fun game is to put an emoji or two in the prompt and see what comes out :)
I am planning out (nothing to show publicly yet) an automated dynamic algorithm configuration framework for solvers of difficult optimization problems. It is cool because there is a bunch of techniques from all over different kinda isolated areas of academia which became more accessible to hobbyist due to the covid era. There is also a lot of beauty in some results i plan to use. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3516098_Optimal_spe... .

I am also working on letting computers search algorithms that lets one multiply square matrices asymptotically quicker. Whether i will find any method that will yield any improvement over the state of the art i do not know yet. But it is cool because it is kinda like a puzzle where i can let computers chew on it for a while before come back to it later and have a look whether i see a way to improve the process. If someone has a lot of surplus compute renewable powered i could use occasionally i wouldn't mind such an offer. The problem is really embarrassingly parallel and probably also resumeable in case of power off.
It should be in the title.
Easy: Just say " My time is not free, if YOU want this feature you need to pay $100000. If you are unhappy with that, do it yourself."
I live in an area of Europe that used SI units, but did use customary units before. I think that part is conveniently forgotten in discussions, it’s not like America is exceptional in having some heritage units. Other parts of the world just managed to migrate.

Anyway what I say going to say is there was a migration Path here which went along the lines of changing from a base-12 conversion to a base-10 conversion. So there suddenly was a customary unit and a transitional unit. After that metric base units were introduced
The resurgent, often deadly craze of elevator surfing (2021)
Thank you for developing something people think is worth using and for
being a nice enough person to feel awkward about disappointing
anyone. A charitable assumption is that the requester stumbled on to
github and has mistaken it for his computer vendor's technical support
channel the way people used to do on AOL. I agree with everyone's
advice and would suggest in addition only that you be explicit about
your wish list policy in your README. I have such a section in mine
but won't post it here because it's probably too snarky for a nice
person.
Do you happen to be hiring for customer support / support engineering roles?
Consistent exercise and quality food (meats and veggies). And lots of thoughts and prayers.

I wanna second tarun's comment. Being physically active and having social baseline helps a lot on their general well being.
Longevity is not about medicine – it's about lifestyle:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125071/

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429558
"I am not planning to implement this, but it sounds like a good idea, feel free to send a pull request"

additionally apply label "PR welcome" and/or close issue

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"This feature is out of scope and not planned"

additionally close issue and optionally apply label "declined"

Ideally, you can also drop link to some documented project vision.

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Other comments have good hints how you can try explaining things.

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Note that on GitHub and any decent platform you can lock discussions and block people. Feel free to use this, you are not hired by them.
Because private certificate may leak and it will be difficult if not impossible to tell a fake from the real thing.
I believe at one point this happened with Covid passports in some countries.
Software Foundations in Coq [video]
cf "KeyKOS factory"
I think he's probably refering to something like the actix situation where the insults and vitriol because of the use of unsafe for performance, made the author quit. Which is unfortunate for any open source contributor
It's very difficult to dose mushrooms properly, in real world, content of psilocybin in a particular bag of mushrooms may vary by a factor of 5 or more, plus it decays at speed hard to predict. Even proper taking of mushrooms is quite unpredictable - you can be blown away or hardly feel anything - and microdosing is always harder. Personally i don't like mushrooms for that reason. If you could eat more if the original amount turned insufficient that would be OK, but psychodelics just don't work that way.
> so we may be seeing true LE headphones, in the future

LE Audio has been worked on for a long time, the last missing pieces have been finalized just about a month ago and the marketing push appears to be beginning around this time. From what I recall they expect the first LE Audio peripherals by the end of the year (but pessimistic me would say it's more likely the middle of next year). High-end phones with Bluetooth 5.2 and Android 13 should already support it.
You can have exceptions I am extremely against freaking pharmacists overriding a perscription. I have been in a situation where a pharmacist asked me to prove my condition. This shit like this is why I will never seek treatment in the US for any condition unless it is emergency life or death situation. No respect or consideration for patients' dignity.
This is like asking why we need decompilers.
Aren't you required to turn in your expired passport to get a new one, or report it as lost.
Github could do well to help here. In LinkedIn for recruiters you have auto responses "I'm not interested" etc. Github could do something similar, possibly with a "mute this conversation" option. And if someone is getting muted a lot maybe it's time to restrict that account or give them some kind of nudge towards improving their behaviour.
I've never made a serious attempt to add paper to my life, the only time I did was in the pre-smartphone era.

But I've definitely had no issue sticking with digital notes. I've changed apps but the process is basically the same. But I'm an outlier in tech, with an extreme high tolerance for complex black box systems, and most techies seem to feel uncomfortable without that 1 to 1 feel paper or DIY coded digital gives.

Paper lovers seem to stick with paper for decades, very consistently, they'll pick up a pen multiple times a day for years.

Some don't seem to have any specific process, they have many notebooks and things for different purposes, and they constantly try new things. I almost wonder if people who really value direct experience and experimentation are drawn to paper more than people who value predictability and control.

I see them make quick notes on napkins, make little areas full of random bits of important information, bullet journal in a nice moleskine, etc.

It's kind of amazing to watch, since some of these things could cause multi hour inconvenience if lost, and they don't mind not having sync. They must have a pretty good memory.

It seems like the real "process" and "tool" is a constant state of flow and change that they move with. Paper use looks to me like a totally different lifestyle and way of relating to the world, information, and your own mind, that probably has dozens of subtle effects.

Like, all my notes are in Obsidian, which makes it almost a second brain.

Paper notes are stored in specific places and you can only access them if you physically have them, which means the only always-accessible thing is still your own mind, and your notes are a bit more distant from yourself.
I am working on https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

It is at present just at conceptual level, but I am talking to the stakeholders.

Why is this cool? Well, if this works, then not only will it make education easily accessible to everyone but it will also fundamentally change how education benefits society.

Feedback and collaborators welcome :)
It's quite interesting that the term "elevator music" is still commonly used to negatively describe otherwise newly released music that one finds boring.

I wonder if younger people who have never experienced elevator music ever wonder where the term came from or is it descriptive enough that they're able to put two and two together.
His decision was religious, buying a birth control pi however is not a religious decision. If you go down that path any decision you make some religious person disagrees with is also a relgious decision for you because you disagree with them?
And otherwise identical?
Very cool! I use a similar approach with genanki. Your approach reminds me of shared art decks like [0]. However I found that it can be difficult to retain this information over the long term -- it tends to come in from random painters/time periods/art movements.

[0] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/184436527
Drivers don’t know the destination before they accept the fare?
Unless you're a doctor who is familiar with all the medications that your parents are currently taking, it's probably not a good idea to recommend that they take specific supplements. For example, omega 3 fatty acids can act as a mild anticoagulant, and if your parents have been prescribed blood thinners, the additive effect of the two could lead to problems.[1]

[1] https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs... [under the heading "What else do I need to know?"]
Perhaps because there has been nothing worth stealing there, and hence a culture of “stealing” never appeared. This might change of course, if/when China starts pumping out radically superior products.
Yeah but I guess the issue then becomes, what happens if the PR ever materializes? Would you want to maintain that code now?
Nor sure how the Muslim minority sees Hinduists (as opposed to Hinduism, most religions preach love of your neighbors in theory and ignore it in practice, Buddhism included) "love of the universe".
> the paleo fairy, because most of them die earlier than most people in developed nations

I require a source on the average timespan of paleo fairies.
Yea. Relatively straightforward on an MCU that supports audio, and running non-OS firmware. I think anything that runs through an OS or schedule would introduce too much latency.

So, it can be on a generic MCU, but not one where the algorithm is competing for CPU time with other processes.