skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely wrong, I've got decades of live music experience. The older musicians with poor hearing are the most evangelical about using hearing protection because they never did. The older ones with good hearing will tell you that they have always used hearing protection.

It's not a theory, there are numerous studies about this very subject!

Genuinely amazing how wrong you are about this.
+1 on the last paragraph: Predictability means the code follows a pattern, not that it is boilerplate. Some amount of predictable code is necessary just to spell out what the code does, so that even someone unfamiliar with the pattern can simply read and understand it.
It has been frustrating to find information online lately, search engines return so much blogspam and bury good websites into oblivion. I was even prepared to pay for search recently, but thinking a bit more I'd rather selfhost. Has anyone had good experience with selfhosting Searx?
I suppose? I’ve always answered honestly and never been purged so far.

N1 doesn’t really help, but it’s a start.
Yes, you are so much cleverer than I. Ad hominem is ad hominem, however you try and wrap it up or disguise it. Arrogance is an ugly thing to display. Sometimes, you have to Read. The. Fucking. Manual.

The truth is that you have struggled to understand something largely due to pre-existing bias. You had learned a way to do something and expected to be able to map that to a different workflow without any learning. It really is that simple. It made you feel stupid, and you are confusing that with something being unintuitive. macOS isn't perfect, far from it, but claiming it's unintuitive because you couldn't immediately scan a document is nonsense. Scanning a document in KDE requires additional software to be installed, which is also an option for macOS, but with Preview.app, it's already there. Lack of familiarity is not the same as unintuitive. Claiming things are undocumentented when it takes 30 seconds to find official documentation on that very subject is nonsense. Moving the goalposts after being shown something is a asshole move.
I agree with you, but it's always easier to go after a centralized target who is doing a thing at scale. Is there a wage-thief who's doing it at scale?
What possible use case could this be for?
An Alzheimer’s gene ravages the brain
Awesome! Thanks so much for that, it really helped me learn
Technology as a cost centre mentality.

Time and time again, Australian non-tech companies cut technology jobs to cost cut.

Anyone competent looking to build a long term career working in the corporate sector either moves to sales/marketing. Or, these days, moves to Atlassian/Canva.

Over a rolling 20 year period, the process self selects for the least able.

The IQ at the "Head of Engineering" level in Australian non-tech is minuscule. Selection bias.

Most of them don't have CTOs, they have CIOs who report to an accountant in the C-suite.
if you got a jit in between you are doomed
€500M because of incompetence

https://simpleflying.com/an-225-destruction-blame/

>"There was no decision to transfer the plane anywhere. You could do Rzeszów, you could do Leipzig. Why Leipzig? Because on January 26th, there was an appeal to management from the [NATO Support and Procurement Agency] via [Antonov Logistics (Germany)] for the relocation of all our aircraft. Flight personnel, personnel, spare parts, etc [could be transported] to Leipzig in light of a possible war. There was no answer to this inquiry...And as I said, there was no strong-willed decision to transfer [the aircraft] between February 15th and 23rd.
> It's not clear to me whether the $A250M was the direct costs to the Exchange (ie invoices + ASX staff time) or the value which the Exchange was carrying the software on their books at ?

They are the same thing. The wage, service and material costs through development are capitalised as an intangible asset. (Essentially the attributable development costs become the value of the asset.) This intangible asset just got written down to zero as it was accessed as having zero future economic return.
> and multiple reports of serious injuries after the product failed to balance the rider or suddenly stopped while in motion.

According to the callback this is a technical problem, and not of unskilled users.
The feature is nice.

The syntax is not.

Using "inline else" is both weird, confusing and incorrect.

It is allowed to create new keywords for new language features.

And please don't use special symbols, this should be kept to the strict minimum, in my opinion Zig is already using too many symbols.

The use of the static keyword in C/C++ is an example of something that should be avoided.
What are you basing this on?

There's hundreds of studies on this, it's absolute fact that noise causes damage, I can't believe you're trying to argue that it doesn't. And literally every study I've found controls for age because that's a super obvious confounding factor

How do you explain that noise studies on violinists found significantly worse hearing loss in the left ear (closer to where the violin is held) vs right ear?
If you work for your e-company remotely as an e-resident from another EU country, you still need to get a trade license and VAT number to write invoices to your e-company and file income tax. If we leave liability aspects aside for a moment, you could then as well use your trade license and run the business as sole proprietor, which seems to be the much leaner setup.
How has the meds changed your life? And have you done anything else apart from being prescribed medication?
Something I found eyebrow-raising is that the expected type of expression `x` in `if (x) { ... }` actually changes based on what syntax is used on an `else` line that comes later.
For getting the melody right when reading, try for example this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_bbYj8uxeq-fS62PGC0D...
More energy efficient just means you can expend the same energy and go faster :D
You might be right, but some of it is also mentally making the best of your situation. If you tell yourself the story that it has pluses and minuses, you might be happier and even more successful than if you tell yourself you lost a genetic lottery. You might feel lower-potential and that might work against you.
I bought a Kobo for its easy public library integration. Jokes on me. My public library doesn't have most of the books I want, and the way ebooks are leased to public libraries is a disgrace-- something I only found out after buying the Kobo. So, what's a guy to do? I buy the books wherever I can find them at the cheapest price (usually on the used market, sometimes via Kindle store, sometimes via Kobo store). Then, I pirate it, since that's a much more convenient way to get a DRM-free format that actually works on my device.

In my case, at least, I paid for every z-library book I ever downloaded--with one exception. Z-library also made it easy to browse books the way you would in a physical book store. Sometimes, you think, "Looks interesting." You open it up, read a few pages and realize, "Not for me." Z-library was a good way to do this.

Both of those are legitimate use cases. Probably not the most common use case, but it sure was handy, and now I've got to find a replacement.
It is good that two similar projects are happening in the UK, one in the north, in Scotland, and one in the south, in Cornwall. These are the types of projects that are required that will boost the economy and prepare younger generation for better jobs. How much ever a small step it might be, it is a good start.
Even more, expecting larger returns from a company posting this kind of results (Q2 2022):

> Net income $ 16,002 (in millions)

US$16B of net income in a quarter and these leeches are complaining about costs? I can't scream "go fuck yourselves" loud enough to sooth the rage I feel reading this kind of bullshit.

Eat the rich...
Yes I think that the latest in ML everything else will help to create those traditional simulations.

But also I think that what an AI that can for example really answer questions about a video would need to do to be really effective would be to basically do compressed versions of those simulations using the spatial-temporal-abstract latent space. Which should be a better model than just the textual space.
In most environments this can be discussed, I think it is a specific subsection of IT professionals that are just quite militant about the subject. It is unpleasant, but just like all fundamentalists they're always going to exist. To my view, the best course of action is to politely ignore them and go on with your life.
The entire UK space industry has been a downer for the last 50 years.
Good. The mere mention of "combining existing successful open-source product with blockchain" should get about the same reaction as "combining fruit bowls with metal spikes". This is a good thing, it means that people are waking up to what crypto actually is. There is no successful or interesting combination of "useful thing" and "blockchain", unless your definition of success is siphoning money from technologically illiterate people to grifters' pockets.

It's evident that the person who wrote the blog post does not understand that they're being approached by grifters, who want to use their existing brand goodwill to expand their grift's outreach. Being approached by the Ethereum foundation should be treated like cold emails asking if you'd like to put a link to a casino in your website. I'm glad that the community was able to clarify this for them.
It's already a problem, I agree. Another big problem is the increasing measurable presence of those chemicals in pastry/bread/flour these days, with unknown long-term effects.
Unless you're aiming for polar or high inclination orbits, which the in progress spaceport in Scotland is likely targeting
It could MAYBE be used to create an open/libre clone of services like DocuSign, but there are certainly already ways of validating a signature on a document that don’t require inserting a blockchain into an office suite!

Beyond that, I also cannot think of any valid use cases
Counterpoint-- these cultures are perfectly well aware of homosexuality. It points to something deeper in American culture, IMO, where that men don't really have a comfortable place to just exist. There is no definition of masculinity that isn't in flux. As an Indian, there's a certain coldness in
American culture, at least for men. It almost feels like it's considered almost wrong to try to sincerely connect with another man. But I rarely see this tension with most of the foreign cultures I've experienced.

It doesn't help that most people don't consider it a problem. They see life as "men are supposed to be independent and if you get lonely you just date". If you try to insist there is another way, some amount of people will continuously push back as if it's an insult to their culture(it really isn't meant that way!). Which, okay I can almost understand, but then I go back to seeing constant posts about how lonely people say they are and I'm like "well that's what I was saying"
First time heard about Z-library. The home page design seems like a scam page though.
Good bugs often need bad bugs to thrive, so do birds.
Merriam Webster - Indigenous: of or relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group

Wikipedia - Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original peoples

By what measure are Maori not indigenous to NZ? If another group arrived first, they certainly didn't stay, and even by your own measure of "time of inhabitation", Maori have been here the longest (at least 350 years before Europeans).
I'm open to the idea that blockchain might somehow be useful for something somehow in the future. I don't see what LibreOffice could gain from blockchain.

I also think it's telling that they'd rather ignore the negative feedback because they want to apparently continue on this path than actually recognize that people don't want blockchain garbage ruining what's otherwise a good project.

I'm looking forward to the next post in 6-12 months where they talk about all the "awesome" plans they have with blockchain and they'll have the comments locked from the beginning. Oh, and not to forget the ensuing fork because honestly, we just want a word processor that doesn't suck and isn't proprietary.
Man, fuck this.
Reminds me of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). They have a web presence, in glorious HTTP like it's still the 1990s and everyone uses NetScape Navigator:

http://www.bom.gov.au/

They've been called out about the lack of HTTPS on their site in the media several times. In 2022, it's just shameful.

Maybe there's a technical reason, you're about to say. Maybe they have an enormous load on their systems and they can't afford the overhead of TLS? Or something?

Get a load of this: https://www.bom.gov.au/ works!

It shows a full-page error message -- via correctly configured HTTPS -- that says:

The Bureau of Meteorology website does not currently support connections via HTTPS.

You will shortly be redirected to http://www.bom.gov.au.

What kills me is that you if you use F12 network tools to have a look at their site, you'll notice that they're behind the Akamai CDN, which 100.000% certainly supports HTTPS and probably serves little else in this day and age... except for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and other backwards organisations.

Their excuse for this was that there already was an ongoing project by some consultancy (Accenture or Deloitte, I can't remember) to uplift their site. Years later that seems to have gone nowhere despite tens of millions of dollars spent.

Australian organisations seem to love this kind of thing. Still clinging on to the old system for dear life while burning a huge pile of money that doesn't actually deliver any improvements and gets abandoned after years...
The key words are "still being used", wire guided missiles are actually an old technology. Israel suffered from Russian Saggers fired by Egyptians in 1972, a missile produced in 1963 and it wasn't the first.
I can't speak for others but "normal" in the context of this discussion is not a reference to character and behavioral norms, but to productivity and in particular, the ability to complete tasks at a similar rate to non-medicated, non-ADHD people.
That isn't true. A blockchain powers Secure Scuttlebutt, Jami, Urbit, and has use anywhere a verified supply chain is needed. Because some people have politicized it, now all blockchains are scams or "useless". But this is demonstrably not true. It's just a technology and people have misused it but that doesn't render the technology itself useless or a scam.
I genuinely thought some people wanted to do this, but we're refused, so I've learnt I was wrong.

It would be nice if this was linked from python.org as well.
NFTs are Yours, For Now: And that's the Problem
Not quite, people think in Inheritance instead.
I'm talking about the case where you have these two functions:

def func1():
...
A()
B()
C()
...

def func2():
...
A()
B()
C()
...

Which is then refactored to

def func1():
...
ABC()
...

def func2():
...
ABC()
...

def ABC():
A()
B()
C()

Which is sensible, but then other functions show up:

def func3()
...
A()
C()
...

And you refactor to:

def func1():
...
ABC(True)
...

def func2():
...
ABC(True)
...

def func3()
...
ABC(False)
...

def ABC(doB):
A()
if (doB):
B()
C()

I'll leave the final example to your imagination, since I've already used so much screen space.

I'm currently in the process of undoing a lot of such refactorings in my codebase because it has become unmanageable.

I really think repetitive code is much easier to work with than overabstracted code.
Work? Almost certainly.
Career? Not very likely.
Python.net 3.0.0 Released
> Because there are no use cases for blockchains.

I think this is it or, at least, to moderate slightly, there are few valid use cases for blockchain. The top comment, from Theo Jackson, captures it really well:

"Please don’t. If there is a requested feature that _requires_ blockchain I’d be interested, but “possible ways to combine LibreOffice with blockchain technologies” sounds like a solution in search of a problem."

What are the actual problems LibreOffice are trying to solve here? It just feels like this post dropped in from 4 years ago where everyone seemed to be trying to shoehorn blockchain into everything with no clear idea of what they were actually trying to achieve.

And then there's the fact that many blockchain implementations have an absolutely horrendous energy requirement. It was always odious (or at least from about 2013 onwards) but, in 2022, in the midst of an energy crisis and rising prices, it's both ethically and environmentally indefensible. I know that Ethereum has been working to address this but the reality is that for many extant cases blockchain is horrifically compute intensive and inefficient.
Slightly off-topic. Anyone here moved to Estonia? How was the experience?
For sure, if it really is ADHD, I'm all in for treatments if they work well for the patient.

It's just that so many here on HN and elsewhere think they need medicines because they have problems to focus at work or in school or while reading a book.

On a slightly different note, focus and concentration is maybe not the ideal state either. Maybe creativity (new ideas, new angles, new thoughts) will be affected which in turn reduces performance and results. As others have mentioned here is that when they take medicines they sometimes get stuck focusing on the wrong things. And even if the focus on the right thing, maybe they get stuck on the problem at hand because they do not get new influences.

Aren't persons with true ADHD often quite creative?
I have a SaaS deployed that does just that.

Choose a back-end that includes easy handling of POST requests (Php, Django, Elixir-Phoenix) and ignore all the Javascript garbage they peddle on top.

You don't need a CSS framework or a language that compiles to CSS, you can recreate most modern responsive web-apps with 500 lines of pure CSS and a good understanding of the flex property.

You don't even need Javascript if all you want is simple forms.
Similar to the nissan.com case: https://nissan.com/
Something about many comments rub me the wrong way, which seems common on hackernews on some topics --lots of speculative or "why don't they just.." comments when one can easily look up the reasons for cable ferries existing.

Cable ferries (which this is) are simple and well-established. Cables guide the ferry from one side of water to the other, making operation safe, simple and repeatable, even in fast moving water. They deliberately have the cables lying on the floor. This keeps them out of the way of passing ships, and is the simplest solution. The winch part of the system must be on the ship, not the shore. It's very efficient for the ferry to pull itself along the cable. There have even been handcrank operated cable ferries. It has some other benefits, like acting as an anchor perpendicular to currents. No take up is required on the other side. It's scalable to long distances without having to add piers or towers. In this case, a power cable from one shore was simply added to replace power from diesel generators. This seems to throw people off into a tangent about batteries.

Why don't they just put batteries on the ferry? This mostly assumes that the ship is driven by a propellor and the cable is adding an unnecessary tether. But cables are already there serving other purposes, so it's a simple solution to lay a power cable along the same route and no real benefit to use batteries instead.

Why don't they just pull it from the shore? You would have to overcome the drag of the cables all the way from the shore to the ferry, the power and size of the cable would have to increase dramatically and it would be impossible to scale beyond some (short, I suspect) distance.

Why don't they just make the cable higher like a ski lift on each side to pull the boat? This would require a massive amount of tension, again increasing the size of the cable required. Like a ski lift, in practice you'd need the cable to go from one shore to the other and back in a continuous loop. This is definitely more complex, and loses some benefits of the cables, especially easily letting them rest for passing ships. The engineering problem and safety aspects, considering water level and side load from current would be much more difficult. It's not scalable without adding something like towers or piers.
> Accenture highlighted governance flaws on both the ASX and delivery partner sides, including “inefficiencies in the delivery lifecycle through to testing, with siloed execution and reporting resulting in misaligned views of status on delivery progress, risks and issues.”

They should have used blockchain - put your daily status and reporting on a blockchain and have it visible to everyone in a decentralized manner. No more silos or misaligned views. This is one of the many problems that blockchain solves.
I don't care about stigma, but comparing a drug to a wheel chair is just ridiculous.

I don't want to get addicted to another thing in my life, here in Europe we're quite familiar with (ab)using speed (amphetamine paste) and the idea of being on speed every single day seems pretty bad.

I don't feel "more like myself" on speed and I seriously doubt most positive effect would persist after a year of using and rising tolerance.
The issue is, this was one of the only major Blockchain projects in the world that wasn't... suspect.

Much harder to convince anyone to do Blockchain work now. It's a blow to Blockchain's reputation.
I'd like to recommend the MDN Learning Area, which they list under "Guides" (I think fits under #2 in the above list).

MDN: Learn web development - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Forms, Accessibility

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn
Thanks for Sharing, I completely relate to the 100% relapse rate with ADHD. Somehow I manage to be surprised every time I relapse.
Is it possible to find a sustainable house for her or not? If yes, the government can give her an aid to rent the place and the issue solved!
This is my experience of using AWS too at work. It’s why I strongly prefer Azure. You can tell AWS is totally drowning in poor management.
There was a HN Post some months ago: https://maksimdrachov.github.io/2021/12/24/moving-to-estonia

You can find blog post from him where he shares his experience after one week and one month
Gravedigging 101
What you just wrote caused me a lot of discomfort and yet you chose to write it. Because in order to think and discuss we need to risk causing discomfort to other people. I don't know what to tell you if that's not obvious to you.
I'm sure e.g. Walmart would have few billions in their name.
One thing : Nokia looks quite strong in their core business, that is telecommunication equipment (like base stations, not phones), and the phone brand isn't theirs for years. So they are competing with Huawei, but with Apple?
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