skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For anyone reading his exchange, ignoring, or going against, the opinion of 30+ mental health professionals can also be harmful.

In defense of GP, I want to caveat with this: if you go to a random psychiatrist and tell them about your issues, it's quite likely you'll get evaluated for the "usual suspects", such as depression. A proper evaluation (not just initial diagnosis, but matching treatment and noticing effects) can easily take over a year, since medication used in depression treatment usually take a month to kick in, and you might need to go through several before finding one that works for you, if at all - while also dealing with some nasty side effects.

Now, imagine a person with ADHD staring this path. How likely is it they'll go through the process diligently for a year or more, until the doctor figures out something else is going on? What's more likely to happen is, the person will keep taking the meds for a while, then forget to schedule a visit before running out, run out, enter withdrawal, then be unable to schedule a visit, leave withdrawal few weeks later, and feel too ashamed to talk to that doctor again. So in a few months or more, they may go to another psychiatrist...

... who will want to re-examine them for depression just to be sure, starting the cycle anew.

I wasted a decade of my life on exactly this.

Hence my standing recommendation: if you suspect ADHD, find a psychiatrist who's actually specializing in adult ADHD (and not just has it on a list of things they can help you with). ADHD can often be diagnosed or ruled out in days to weeks; going to an ADHD specialist isn't about trying to "get your favored diagnosis" (if you feel worried about this, just be up-front with them) - it's about minimizing the chance they'll dismiss this as an option, as (from copious anecdotal evidence) most other psychiatrists do.
You should probably test it on Safari as everything that runs on iOS will run through Safari.
A worthwhile message does not get ignored, especially when you "@" mention exactly the right people who need to hear it and you keep it straightforward.

Pinned messages are almost always propaganda by a product owner or similar. All the messages in between are usually useless reactionary bullshit that is neither actionable nor even informative.
The only way by road into the Moine Peninsula would be along the A836 up through the centre of Sutherland. You'd probably need to upgrade the entire length of road to be able to accommodate heavy loads and take out any tight turns. Possibly more practical would be to build a port in Loch Eriboll and ship absolutely everything in. The expense, in either case, would be eye-watering. In short that BBC article is one long on imagination and short on everything else.
That seems pretty bad. My old small diesel car gets 60 mpg, admittedly at much more sedate performance.
I see how it can be perceived this way, but I think it's because of the novelty of the condition (so people aren't used to it being casually used as much).

For more established conditions, we don't really feel that way, e.g. like, how:

"Turn the flashlight off, I'm going blind!"

"This jump scare gave me a heart attack!"

"Monday's make me depressed"

Are not really considered an insult to the blind, people with heart conditions, and the clinically depressed...
Rpee doesnt control manufacturing of those chips. Broadcom/Avago is,and they didnt bother contracting new batches. Rpee fully controls rp2040 supply chain and you can buy as many as you want <$1 a pop.
Your geographical white privilege is showing.

Getting access to books for instance in SEA or Africa is an entirely different story to one of the richest countries in the world with some of the highest standards of living (in your case Sweden but could apply to most EU/NA/AU/NZ).

I would say the vast majority pirating couldn't afford the work in the first place, meaning nothing is lost from the perspective of the author. It's not a sale stolen, it's someone that would otherwise simply go without.
You can't really do Orthodox ScrumMaster 2 week, incremental continual delivery for something like this.

Where are your small incremental milestones? How do you deliver working software every two weeks?

This was just a big, hard, database project. It's not a "textbook" easy to deliver project.

You just need smart cookie project managers and Chief Engineers to manage whether you do 1 week milestones or 1 month milestones.
> but e-books can be purchased pretty much anywhere in the world.

English and local books at least. Can I easily buy Swedish-language books in Germany? I really don't know.
Every time there's an indirect branch (including a return) there's a chance that they will be inspected. The "unused flags" optimisation does remove most of them, in a way that gets it right 100% of the time (excluding signals/interrupts inspecting state at random points, and possible bugs), but the pattern "an add or subtract or compare followed by an indirect branch or return" is still very common.

(I haven't looked at Linux Rosetta 2, other than to note the parity-flag computation coincidentally showing up in a screenshot posted to Twitter, so I'm not sure exactly how often they do the manual computation, but I'm guessing it's anywhere flags are used, in which case the unused-flags optimisation could be extended further by tracking AF and PF separately to the usual flags, which is roughly your suggestion.)

You could still remove the vast majority of the remaining computations with some heuristics that work well, but then you've gone from 100% correct to 99.9% correct, which is nice to avoid when you have the option.
Finally something that gives us the hope that we can use technology the right way.
Restoring my Rockwell 8R calculator with a 3D printer
The Zig syntax has been drifting for some time and it is not in a good place.

I am afraid that the designers are blind to it because they are using it every day.

I am also afraid that once a lot of code and libraries are written, it will be difficult / impossible to change the syntax, it might already be too late.

I love Zig but the syntax quirks might considerably slow its adoption.
Curious where you heard the detail about Amazon
The key question is, what proportion of zlibrary users would have purchased the books legitimately if piracy didn't exist, or would have been able to afford it? Anecdotally I suspect most pirates have little income for books but I can't find data on this.
Monolithic Mainframes are definitely the hip and trendy thing.

You can run a ridiculously large business off a monolithic RDBMS.
The CEO’s dad (also a co-founder) sold shares worth $3.6 billion, so he’s smiling to the bank anyways

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceos-dad-gets-a-3-6-billion-sto...
But now you're already heading into much vaguer territory. Readability is also important. Very important, I would say. That requires easily identifiable markers for loops, conditions, functions, etc., something Lisp lacks. This might be a place where keyword coloring could be useful, but then we're relying on external help.

Another issue is consistency. Take C, Javascript, or Go. Many loops are of the form

for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { ... }

You could argue that "for i < n" provides the same information, but then you'd have to find a way to start the loop at a different offset, use a different end condition, or different "increment".
LoRa is proprietary and patented. LoRaWAN as well. There are open patent-free alternatives.

Let's not fall into the proprietary trap again.
fucking hell. so much for the kind helpful image of Canada.

There's another person considering MAiD here
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/16/ontario-medically-ass...

He got a happy ending[so far] as he got enough money from a go fund me to keep him going for the next few years.
You just exemplified their point.

original post: we're not talking about crypto

comment: they're not talking about crypto but people still just say "F them crypto is bad!"

this comment: F them because crypto is bad!

Crypto (money, nfts) is bad, I think smart contracts are a mistake too, and I don't think LO needs blockchain either, but the objection is more like the one someone else said about, if there's some feature that needs it, fine, but don't just look for some excuse to use a solution with no problem.

But also it would be absurd to say that cryptography, authentication, and povenence have no valid application with documents.
I’ve never seen non-anonymous polls not used to weaponise, single out, and then fire someone.
I only really understood it while looking at imaging. How the base frequencies overlap to form an image and how the phase information is much more important for signal reconstruction than the amplitude.

While images have an additional dimension it still helped me to really figure out what was going on.

Since it is so well documented I recommend looking at DCT that is employed in JPG. The principle is the same, just the frequency disection works a bit different.
I've been using SonarLint[0] for a while for this, as it not only finds code smells, but also if i do things in a weird way, like doing
for(i=0;i>array.length-1;i++){console.log(arrray[i]} instead of just doing for(const element of array).

[0]: https://www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarlint/
> I believe andrew and loris have been with zig for long enough to have their own bias and no longer be aware of it, thus I believe it's the newcomers' job to hold up the simplicity design premise now...

Zig aside, that's an astute observation in general. I think this is an issue in Python where the old guard that have been part of the project for decades and are extreme experts have gotten bored and started cramming in new language features.
Don't have to...thier lame circumstantial evidence will do it for me. Boil your emails before leaking...got it.
It is not insane, far too many orgs are asking how can we shoehorn blockchain into X. The end-result is usually some vaporware, some weird commercialisation, or outright fraud. Libreoffice is a foundation, it should act in accordance with its charter. The public, likewise, should hold its officers accountable for acting in a way best serves these ends.
Free tier is 10 books per day. They really have a nice search and related books view making discovery easy. Lot of people will miss z library.
It depends on the final orbit. For most orbits you are 100% correct, and I would also add that the ideal position is as close to the equator as possible.

For some orbits (for example around the poles) the UK is actually a good place. Though I don't know the exact details.
Times are so crazily different. I tried what a really bad algorithm would take in CommonLisp. It is seconds it took.

(defun find-factor-aux(n div stop)
(cond
((= 0 (rem n div)) div)
((> div stop) nil)
(t (find-factor-aux n (+ 2 div) stop))))
(defun find-factor(n) (find-factor-aux n 3 (floor (sqrt n))))
(compile 'find-factor-aux ) ; need tail recursion to avoid stack overflow
(find-factor (1- (expt 2 67))) ; this takes just a few seconds on my laptop
; 193707721
(find-factor (/ (1- (expt 2 67)) 193707721)) ; check for more
; nil
(/ (1- (expt 2 67)) 193707721) ; get second factor
; 761838257287
(* 193707721 761838257287) ; check result
; 147573952589676412927
(1- (expt 2 67))
; 147573952589676412927
So it sounds like maybe 5kWh would be needed to melt snow/ice on a short run of stairs, but what continuous power level is needed? Maybe 300W of solar power applied over two days or 600W over one day would be enough to clear the stairs? Especially if you painted the stairs black. Maybe the stair heaters could be run sequentially from solar power to clear a stair at a time. A $1000 investment in 600W of solar panels and some black heating pads for the stairs seems like a reasonable cost (for some people or for a business worried about liability) for an often used small stairway to keep it clear for a few decades.
What happened to "you get what you pay for" and "if you're not the customer you are the product"? We already know what happens with free content on the internet: it turns to shit. And no, wikipedia or open source are not models you can apply to most books. The ones you can, we already have them: free programming books and the sorts.

Do you want books to be the next low effort, low quality, ads ridden, ideology pushing, click bait, spam, micro transactions, gambling medium? Asking for them to be free (as in beer) is the way to go.

Another thing: as a long time pirate from a poor country myself I never understood the need to morally justify piracy. I do it because I want to spend money elsewhere, not because I feel it is my right or it should be. I do it because I can and I profit from it. My head will not explode with cognitive dissonance if I accept I am wronging others to help myself.
This maybe https://www.vitalsource.com/products/waging-war-wayne-e-lee-... ?

There are endless websites that sell ebooks (ePub is only one format, you can easily switch between formats if you need), just google the name+ebook or epub
It seems the majority of the medical community sees MCS as a psychiatric condition with real self-generated symptoms. Choosing death over living in a place because it had some dead cockroaches and not enough windows? This does not seem like a choice a mentally healthy person could make.

MAiD should be delayed, IMO, until multiple mental health professionals weigh in.
Inline has a different meaning in C/C++, and to be honest it was not a very good keyword choice in the first place.
Haven't we learned the lesson yet? Let's not fall into the proprietary trap again.
Document signing: vitalik.eth signs a PDF, everybody can verify the PDF is signed by his private key. He has to broadcast his public key for this, and probably also a content hash of the document so that we can be sure we are verifying the correct PDF. He can broadcast this on Twitter, but that is not a secure and tamper proof ledger, and it is centrally owned, and it's not a great storage mechanism for this system to scale to thousands or millions of signatures. LibreOffice could create a new service like keybase.io but that is also centralized and we saw how that went. Another alternative is these messages are broadcast through a public and decentralized ledger.

How does this fit with zero knowledge proofs that the blog mentions? There may be signature attestations you can make that you want to be private from the receiver, but made in a way that the receiver can still verify the signature is valid.
| 19. Is there company-provided equipment? Will I have root access to my
| machine? Can I bring my own devices?

| It might just be me, but I find not having admin access on my work machine
| disturbing. It shows that the company does not trust its employees.

Two things here:

1. You may reconsider that when your computer is the one that downloads malware / ransomware or used as pivot point and other people have to deal with the fall out. This is usually a stop-gap measure as you would have to document/request why you need to install something and it can be recorded, approved, denied, etc. The software can then be added to the approved inventory so other developers can install it.

2. This is usually part of any insurance or compliance requirement as part of least-privilege access, software approval, and managing end-point devices.

In places that have endpoint device management admin access would be a fallacy since the configuration determines what you have installed. Your system logs and network traffic is being monitored overall and your device is just like all the other cattle being monitored. Again more so because of insurance riders or compliance requirements verses operators not trusting users.
It is a gate to the great knowledge.
What about passing a law that if your company is whatever this big at providing services, automatically enforcing that they need to behave as a utility company.

At this point, even Walmart, CVS, etc... should be treated as a utility company. the moment you got a big chunk of the economy depending on you, company lost ability of stop providing services, unless a court case is involved.
Ethereum energy consumption is now negligible:

https://ethereum.org/en/energy-consumption
No changes here. They are still heavily promoting this e-residency thing, but opening a bank account for your newly established Estonian company is still not possible remotely. You will need to travel to Estonia if you need a bank account in a “real” physical bank (not the fintech one). If you are not an EU citizen - you have even more problems. It’s a good chance to receive a refusal from both fintech and physical banks.
A Stock Exchange is the antithesis of a distributed system. The reason they exist is so it's a central place where everyone goes to buy and sell and the prices are public and fair. And a clearing house is by its nature a centralised system (A owes B $100, B owes C $100, so A gives C $100)

That's why the majority of crypto is bought and sold at crypto exchanges rather than on the blockchain.
I get your point, but ...

> A blockchain powers Secure Scuttlebutt, Jami, Urbit

I've honestly never heard about any of these. But I have heard/read about many other "uses" of blockchain, which ultimately boil down to scam. There are possible use cases, they just drown in the sea of scams.
Why break it up into levels? You schedule time and stick to it. All unscheduled time is considered busy. No interruptions. Deal with it.
If you cannot find affordable housing in Toronto, one of the most (if not the most) expensive cities in the world real estate wise, why not just move elsewhere? Surely the country side would be cheaper and have more fresh air.
The eastern part of Ukraine has vast resource deposits that are worth trillions. What makes you think resource competition isn't a part of it?
When you call the Apple store, you get a much more conversational interface with their chatbot that asks you what you would like: ie. Fix my iPhone, etc.
Worked remotely from Estonia for a few weeks, it was excellent. Would have stayed a lot longer if circumstances had allowed it. I was in a small town in the east (Tartu). Overall I found it very clean, safe, and well organized. Train system was amazing, food was great, and not super expensive. Culture was a lot more friendly than I anticipated. Definitely recommend, easily one of my favorite countries.

That said, their Digital Nomad visa application was entirely digital, and didn't have clear options for someone who didn't need a visa to enter the country/enter without invitation. As a Canadian passport holder, somehow this made it more difficult to fill out and understand. I ended up with a lot of null fields when I filled it out. Would have had to stop at the local police office to finalize it, given the issues I had.
Number theory is where I would start.
Maybe because nobody else has seen other use than shitcoins. Arguing this is not about crypto, but blockchain, when nobody has seen other use cases is the disingenuous part of all this.
I always wonder what happens to the wire afterwards.
The videos it tries to insert:

* How can we stop the war (English subs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CfDhaRkw7I

* Masyanya. Epidode 162. Sankt-Mariuburg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-GLAIY4DXA
Smart Home Hubs Leave users vulnertable to hackers
Thats why most of the Apps i download are from F-Droid
Swedish startup Sesamy seeks to slaughter the subscription model
> A blockchain powers Secure Scuttlebutt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt doesn't have the word blockchain on it, and from reading the protocol section, I don't think it uses a public blockchain as defined there: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2019/02/theres_no_g...

So you're just talking about something else, but as Schneier argues, anything other than a public blockchain is nothing new and has little to do with all the hype beyond the confusing names.
I am an amateur developper who codes for fun (and to make my family's life miserable though automation or a home chores app). I have a large background in IT and sysadmin-style coding.

This is not the answer you are waiting for but hear me out. If you plan to write some code beyond that single one page then I would really, really recommend investing time in a *simple* framework that does everything.

I use Quasar for any application/page I am writing. It is based off Vue3 and provides plenty of components. Anything beyond 3 lines of HTML (literally) becomes a Quasar app. Yes it is overkill. yes it creates big apps for a simple content. yes, yes yes.

But it also means that whatever problem I have, I have a solution that works everytime and I can scale up if I need to.

I have applications with a form and a button. I have applications that became PWAs. I am not a developper so I did not have a clear idea at the beginning what the effort or future would be.

Quasar helps me to not worry about that. A form and button application is 5 minutes. A 1à forms and 3 buttons and some processing is 5 minutes. Making a PWA and mobile app from that is 1 more minute.

Your form suddenly transforms into a monstrosity where users want to see the time, weather and the result of 16x34. You got it covered.

My case is a very specific one (an amateur dev who wants to have a good hammer to be able to see all apps as nails). Quasar fits the bill.
‘Single Source Shortest Path’ Problem Solved!
You would think a message board called "hacker news" would be more open to blue sky thinking. Zero knowledge proofs and a tamper proof ledger of timestamped cryptographic signatures could open up new use cases that are different than relying on central authorities.

One idea, document signing: vitalik.eth signs a PDF, everybody can verify the PDF is signed by his private key. He has to broadcast his public key for this, and probably also a content hash of the document so that we can be sure we are verifying the correct PDF. He can broadcast this on Twitter, but that is not a secure and tamper proof ledger, and it is centrally owned, and it's not a great storage mechanism for this system to scale to thousands or millions of signatures. LibreOffice could create a new service like keybase.io but that is also centralized and we saw how that went. Another alternative is these messages are broadcast through a public and decentralized ledger.

How does this fit with zero knowledge proofs that the blog mentions? There may be signature attestations you can make that you want to be private from the receiver, but made in a way that the receiver can still verify the signature is valid.

EDIT: Since I am on a throwaway account, my replies are being throttled. This could be another application of ZKP: create a proof that my main account has significant karma to post, without sacrificing my privacy.
There are no real world use cases of blockchain tech besides crypto. Or can you demonstrate one?
>even if it's a note that "We had a chat with Eth Foundation"

That's how it starts everytime. "We're just talking about it" ends up in shoving blockchains where they aren't needed.
Why shouldn't you ignore feedback that's ill informed, reactionary, or just wrong?