skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guy, excuse me, but you have home, family and work.
So, which especial "structure" you are dreaming of?
What a magic level of "productivity" do you want to reach?
Set your alarm for 7-30, have breakfast if you want, don't have breakfast if you don't want to, if you can and want to take a nap during the day, that's fine.
You're doing so well, so enjoy it.
Because the Teacher said life is like a zebra - there are a white stripe, a black stripe, a white ... and then, inevitably, there will be a hole in the ass under the tail.
:)
They don't dismiss herbs.
Cleve Moler Wins Iciam Industry Prize 2023
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If there is an aisle that says Cold Medicine, and you put a product that is in fact not cold medicine but something designed to look like cold medicine and trick people into buying it because they think it is cold medicine, then it sure looks like you are purposefully trying to deceive people.
Because you still have the boilerplate. When code has lots of boilerplate it's harder to find the important stuff.
We already have exactly this system for library e-book lending. There is a queue of people on the waitlist for a book and once loan period for the current reader is expires it is automatically loaned (no scare quotes because it is in every way a loan) to the next person in the queue.

I don’t see why the same couldn’t be done for other forms of media. Movies, albums, maybe even software licenses.

This system will likely result in a fairly minor decline in VOD revenue due to fewer individuals purchasing their own digital copy because they are once again able to loan works to others and take advantage of the same sharing of works that was taken for granted with physical media. If someone borrows a friends license to a movie to watch it once instead of being forced by the studios to buy or rent their own copy then there will be some lost revenue but I think that revenue only existed in the first place because of the walled garden scheme of owning nothing that exists right now. I also think if VOD licenses actually had value and guaranteed longevity they would be more appealing to consumers.
When you are sold the concert ticket you know you are buying it to only view at the one specific time and location. It is an event ticket. With a digital movie, ostensibly buying lets you view it whenever you want wherever you want in perpetuity but that's not actually the case. We can use the term "buy" for digital movies if you actually are just buying a ticket that lets you view the movie however wherever and whenever the license specifies. But that information should be highlighted to the buyer otherwise it's deception.
Point taken and there are two trains of thought. The way I think about it is that it's a double edged sword. If you have already trusted a dependancy then trusting an update is a risk but less than the risk of having known vulnerable versions. I rarely see developers actually looking at the code of new versions when upgrading. My take on all this is a pessimistic one based on what I have seen and not on best practices. If teams I saw reviewed the updates I would fall on the pinned side of the sword.
Worse, the Pencil 1 didn't have a lightning port, it insanely had a lightning plug - it had to be charged precariously sticking out of the bottom of the iPad like this:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0276/6463/files/How-to-Cha...
I suspect some batch processing job with a CSV dump is the culprit behind a lot of bad treatment of strings.
"Why is that necessary?"

Why is any product feature necessary or not?

If you want to buy something with a USB-C then buy that. If you want Apple to change then let them know.

"Get the government to make a company make a choice I want" is really naive and glib.

There is no systematic issue here - if this were household wiring, there would be, but this is not that.

Every product has different configurations, different requirements. In particular, with smart phones, the extra thickness of the USBC actually makes it harder to design around - the issues has side effects.

Governments should be regulating where there is a material necessity or safety concern, not otherwise.

In particular - your 'bike lamps and power lamps' have totally different product requirements.

The government could conceivably help an Engineering body to promote a narrower set of clean standards, but this is too much.
As I mentioned in another comment, this has already been happening for 10+ years. The eRx modules in all certified EHRs do automatically check for potentially harmful drug interactions.

https://www.healthit.gov/test-method/drug-drug-drug-allergy-...

The problem is that the patient's chart may be erroneous or incomplete. So the system can only detect harmful interactions on entries that are fully populated with RxNorm (or NDC) concept codes. Human doctors are expected to manually reconcile the medication list before writing a new prescription. But sometimes they skip that step, or patients don't even remember what other drugs they're taking. In some cases it's possible to query the patient's current medication list from a service like Surescripts but even that won't necessarily be complete and some level of manual reconciliation is still needed.

The other issue with drug interaction warnings is alert fatigue. For certain drugs there are a lot of known interactions, but those are considered minor acceptable risks due to lack of a better alternative. So clinicians get into a habit of ignoring all warnings and miss the ones that are actually serious. From a UX perspective there's no good way to solve this problem in a way that satisfies both the clinicians and the lawyers.
It is painful to even just skim this thread, seeing basically every comment brimming with frustration from being stuck in a paradigm that's straightforward to leave behind. So much wasted human potential.

It's a solved problem - torrent your damn entertainment. Movies are just basic files sitting in a directory. Files that can be rewatched whenever you'd like. If you are traveling, copy to your laptop. If you move and haven't quite set up your entertainment center or Internet connection, watch it on a computer. If your friend is interested in something, copy it to their USB drive. No fucking nonsense of some third party capriciously disrupting your life precisely when you're trying to relax.

Any business trying to sell me some productized solution needs to beat torrenting for ease of use. So far none of them have even attempted, because they all end up warping the user experience to appease Hollywood's delusion of control. Just say no.
> Suing an art supply store because they had markers on the same shelf as highlighters?

I dunno, it seems a bit more like the store getting in trouble for having lead paint right next to the section labeled "edible paints!" without much of a line between them. In my grocery store (Wegmans) they're slapped in the general "cold and flu" section.

See https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/paste... from the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
Alligators and snakes are swarming around homes ravaged by Hurricane Ian
If Linus had said "rust can't accommodate the idea kernel needs nead to trump rust needs", I'd buy what you're saying.

That line came from Linus educating a single wrong member of the rust community.

It only shows that person wasn't using rust in a way that accommodated kernel needs, not that it's impossible or even difficult to do so.
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Isn't gas from that part of the world unfit for heating/production/food in the EU? I've read that basically Russia buys it all from those countries for their own specific industry/military purposes and then sends their own gas through their pipelines to export them as those countries' own gas.
The right to bear arms is absolutely not under threat. Gun rights are the strongest they've been in decades, and that will not change until the supreme court drastically changes. Changes to the 2a would take groundswell of political support (super majority in congress or 2/3rds of states ratifying an amendment? but I forget the specifics). Given the political divide in the country, I do not ever expect to see the day. If this law has any teeth I fully expect it to be defanged as soon as they 'break the skin'.

I don't like this; I grew up with guns, but even I find the rabid fetishization of guns to be a sad reflection on our society, but I have precisely zero allusions of any change, any time soon.
What is going to happen to devices like diving computers/Apple Watch Ultra that require a charger that is magnetic to ensure they are waterproof?
Zinc is homeopathic though?
I'd guess that the context model (based on last 1-2 bytes) can be used to separate opcodes and their parameters.
TIL allowing objects after their respective parallel verbs to not follow the same form is considered moral decay of the English language

And yes, the internet is a silly place where we'd rather have an off-topic argument about the subtleties of grammar than wait for an iOS developer to resolve the original question
The standard charging cable Apple has supplied with new iPhones for years now has been USB-C to Lightning.
I mean, some of the most prominent CM includes mercury and was highly toxic. You'd think people would notice that.
This is such a short sighted view.

What just happened is, EU, a political organization enforcing the use of a technology on a company which operates on free market. It's Apples best interest to make technology that the consumers want so that they can sell more units of that. A political organization like EU has no say in this. EU citizens already make this decision for themselves by voting with money and choosing to buy/not buy an iPhone.

Today is one of the dark days of EU. In short sight it's a victory. But in long sight it's a hinderence to progress by enforcing a technology on the market instead of letting the free market decide the technology.
Can someone with knowledge please explain what the use cases are for this vs. just letting autovacuum run?
Looks like this is somewhat similar to doing a pg_repack regularly, but with a slightly different mechanism?
> the products were too close to others" that seems like a bullshit case

It's deceptive. If you're in a pharmacy and see a number of cold and flu medicine grouped together on one shelf, you'd be pretty pissed if you bought one and didn't realize that it was just Mike & Ikes with no medicinal ingredients.

Your marker and highlighter example is flawed because those are both useful for writing and are usually distinct in packaging and form.
Great anecdote! My wife and I have a number of cell phones, tablets, headphones, and computers. The computers have USB-C, and so does one of the tablets. One headphone has micro-USB, and everything else is lightning. We have plenty of charging solutions for lightning (mostly USB-A bricks with lightning connectors), so moving to USB-C will mean we'll have to buy a 5-10 new bricks and cables. Not looking forward to it!
Counterpoint X 3

True. But if you have a good well-enforced, sane style guide, then expressive powerful languages can be a good thing. If you hire devs who care more about playing with the language than delivering value then you're hiring the wrong people. You can't ditch these languages because some people are sometimes attracted to them for the wrong reasons.
I hope this viewpoint becomes a bit more accepted. The human brain is so complex and we love to put ideas in little boxes, hence the term ADHD. In X number of decades, there's a very good chance we will all look back and realize how dead wrong we were about ADHD, attention, and our extremely crude methods of "curing" it.

It blows my mind that especially in American society we are so accepting of putting millions of people on amphetamines to solve attention disorders. Anyone who has gone through higher-ed in the past 10 years knows a huge number of students are on these meds, and even if they suffer some of attention disorder, they are likely at a large advantage after adding the drugs. I'd love to see the percentage of med school students on these drugs.
How many times in one thread does this falsehood need to be debunked exactly?
> Do you think that was the actual reason or was it something else and they just used that for cover?

I have no clue at all. All this thing feels weird.
How can I get an archive version of a different NYTimes article?

I'm interested in this one: https://archive.nytimes.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/opinion/us-me...
I read the law and perhaps I misunderstood it, but I'm curious if there is a grey area with regards to pogo pin like connectors, seen as the MagSafe connectors on Apple's MacBooks or the ones on the back of modern iPads / the ones on the side of my old Galaxy Nexus.

Do those count as wired or wireless charging? To me, that's the only tricky part. My bet is that it would count as "wired" (and thus be illegal in the EU).

My knee-jerk reaction to the law in general is "but why...", but after reading more and the comments in this thread, I think this is a major win.
You don't even have to go back that far. Spain was a dictatorship in the early '70s.
I have a family Premium subscription. I'm sad this can not be the default YouTube experience for everybody as every time I see someone watching YT without a sub I do not understand how they can tolerate the barrage of advertising.

Surely this attention economy model must be a loss for humanity as a whole, no?
Yes of course. But that's not what the person I was replying to was asserting.
I wonder if seL4 could serve as the base layer for a new Smalltalk based system on something like a PineNote.
> Will VLC ever have a native dark skin?

yes
The placebo effect has been demonstrated many times to actually be able to alter objective bio markers and lab test results. This is why it’s so critical to do placebo controlled studies of drugs to determine that they actually have efficacy beyond the placebo effect.

Having said this, the placebo effect is no justification for medical deception. When people want medicine they shouldn’t get sold placebos that are marketed as actual medicine.
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I know there was some blowback online but the reality is that it was just a vocal minority, otherwise again, we would see the actual sales impact.
Maybe some non Europeans are unaware, but the EU handles several other areas than phone connectors.
> Have you tried writing to the large ISPs in India that seem to be blocking your website?

No answers from any of them.
You have an innate trust in the pharmaceutical industry. . your parents are statisticians. They know how those studies get made. The fact that they are highly educated statisticians and disagree with you may be a signal rather than a fluke
I thought supplements were treated different than, you know, actual medicine. That's probably why. But I've wondered that myself, too.
> A placebo presented as a stimulant may trigger an effect on heart rhythm and blood pressure, but when administered as a depressant, the opposite effect.

If placebos have been experimentally observed to induce changes in their subjects, then it holds that placebos can be used to alleviate symptoms similarly to conventional medications.

Comparing things to placebos does not imply that placebos have no effect. In some cases, placebos have very powerful effects, which is why we compare against them.
Still nothing available here in NL
In Canada, I see an add for bras, wiki:Pepper (disambiguation), wiki:Black Pepper, and then a shopping site named pepper. I'm not mad about this.
Rule #1: Do not embarrass the dictator.
True, though in my opinion that's not nearly widespread or impactful enough that people needed to be opted in to DoH by default as in Firefox, or sold DoH as a "safer" option like Cloudflare does.
> A political organization like EU has no say in this.

EU and most people living within it would disagree with this statement.
They have “doctoral” degrees, they call themselves “Dr”, and can even prescribe in Washington state. Absolutely mind boggling.
It is also greatly under-diagnosed, and long-term learning skills and coping mechanisms are more effective than medication. I started my treatment with low dose meds and that has helped me developed better skills for management.

The only thing I can say for anyone reading this is to know that everyone has symptoms of ADHD from time to time. Clinical diagnosis looks over your entire life history for consistency of symptoms. So keep that in mind.
Cute thought experiment:

Google is notorious for snuffing products they consider unprofitable. Yet persisted with Youtube for 16 years. Why?
Nordstream 2 is not needed to supply Germany with enough natural gas. It‘s not even open, was never open.

Russia decided to cut deliveries (long before February, even) until eventually cutting them completely. Germany‘s stated policy is to buy gas if Russia wants to deliver it.
I can't speak to the legality but the current setup is shady. I am much more well informed about medications than the average and very anti homeopathy. It still takes me 5 minutes of reading the fine print of several bottle to avoid accidently picking up a homeopathic treatment.
> A limitation of our analysis is, however, that the sample size of the individual studies was generally small [...] Thus, our results can be taken as an encouraging interim finding but should be corroborated by other, long-term studies.
The Alto was super-slow, even by standards of the time. It had a very, very limited CPU running an emulation of a more powerful ISA that app code was compiled to.

Things we expect to have dedicated hardware for -- network interface, display screen painter, disk interface, laser printer driver -- were just interrupt routines all on the one CPU. Programs competed for CPU time with feeding pixels out to the CRT-scanning electron beam, and with bits moving directly to and from disk-head R/W coils.

It did switch between those tasks pretty quickly, not like most machines then or today: there was no foolishness about saving and restoring registers. Each interrupt task was assigned a couple of registers permanently, including its own program counter, so an interrupt only ever just flipped which program counter was in charge.

The app-level instruction interpreter got to use what few registers remained.

So, on an interrupt, it would execute a half-dozen instructions to move one machine word, and yield. There were 16 PCs that ran in strict priority order, with the user-program instruction interpreter last in line. Each "yield" put the current PC back to the entry point for the next word to be processed, and the next live lower-priority PC determined the instruction to run next.

The OS was just one of those user programs.

It resembled the I/O processor on CDC mainframes of the time. It just ran the programs, too, not only the I/O.

But it really is amazing what they got it to do. Later machines e.g. Dorado and Dolphin had more stuff done in hardware so could be faster.
The argument is that CVS and Walgreens have aisles dedicated to medicine. If you go into one of those isles, it would not be unreasonable to expect the contents of those aisles to be, at the minimum, regulated and tested to medical standards, rather than the significantly weaker standards applied to supplements and homeopathic treatments.

The closer analogy here would be to go to an art supply store and buy paint tubes, only to find that you've accidentally bought ones filled with water because they were placed directly next to the real ones. You'd be rightfully annoyed in that scenario, wouldn't you?
I imagine those applications have a better idea what sanitation they need. Is it even the same for all of them? And toLower is what they do now, but how do you predict the algorithm won't change in future? When you sanitize proactively for future algorithms, it's just data loss.
Am I the only one that defaults UML to User Mode Linux and not Universal Modelling Language?

Yep just me ok
The Nintendo Switch runs a microkernel called "Horizon". It has been fully reverse-engineered, and a 1:1 open-source reimplementation exists: https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/tree/master/libr...
> It annoys me that apostrophe and English closing single quotation mark are the same character in Unicode.

They're not. You should be more than just tempted to use ' (U+0027 APOSTROPHE) for apostrophe, because it is. Closing single quotation mark is ’ U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK.
I may assure you that 1WU is not 1 part. Not even close. You can check it using trial credits with your data.

For example, I just checked that uploading 1.1GB example table(cell_towers with 14 columns) cost me 0.38 write units.
At least in my current state, the HOA has regulations that enable the voting out of the HOA should that be what the association members want. This dissociates the entity, much like a corporation dissolving.

I assume this is consistent in many states in the US.
If they had been able to pass on the wholesale prices to consumers - you would have been paying 10p/kWh in Q4 2021 more than 3 months before the invasion of the Ukraine. Businesses have been paying wholesale prices, as the cap does not apply to them.

The "cap" is a terrible system, which has only resulted in a very short lag to prices hitting the consumer - The energy price cap changes every six months, though this will change to every three months from October as requested by the energy companies, opposed by all consumers but the consumer lost on that one.

In Q3 2021 you were paying about 3p/kWh on a wholesale price of 300, now you are paying 10p/kWh on a wholesale price of 400 - and your daily standing charge has increased just because they can get away with it.
A single person argued to Linus a broad amount of the kernel's internal API should be painstakingly refactored to be philosophically rust-y. Linus said no way, that's not what we're doing here.

Luckily, that's not what the Rust for Linux project has been doing either.
Exactly, I agree with you.
There really is no excuse for holding people in jail for longer than a day for cases like this, where no violence or big monetary fraud is involved. If the police truly thought that a crime had happened, the appropriate response would have been to call the guy in for questioning and let him go after that. Four days in a jail cell is pretty fucked up.
Unfortunately Canonical does not fix gtk3 either. Ubuntu after 14.04 is broken and you cannot paste file paths into Gtk3 program's File-Open dialogs without an elaborate key sequence to bring up the pathbar first. But it is fixed in gtk4, which Gnome uses, so Canonical doesn't care.