skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto with family. One antidepressant led to another, and then to another, and on to deeper depression, suicide attempts and more. Finally landed through the prescription pill grapevine on Xanax, which by far, without any comparison whatsoever, was the most persistently destructive and frightening. Like dropping a nuclear bomb on the whole family, for years and years.

I don't mean to bring other classes of drugs in, only to note that it is _very common_ for someone to go in for one thing, find it doesn't work, and then to start tweaking / adding / combining in an attempt to find a solution, and that's where the real problems often live.
Bazel Ruels for Apko
Ask HN: What was your formative "Backups " experience?
Mentioning the Amstrad CPC in another comment brought this back.

Sometime 1986-88. I am in my nurse training and I have to submit a multi-thousand word essay. I type away on my Amstrad CPC6128 which was running Brunword (a dominant wordprocessor at the time). Somehow I hit a keyboard shortcut which highlighted and deleted everything on screen. After staring to the screen for a few minutes I grabbed the manual, ran out of the flat to the local telephone box.

Called the developer - yes, his actual phone number was in the manual.

"Yes, the work will still be in the computer but it is impossible to get it back."

That was the moment I learned that backups are not optional.
Interesting experience but I use Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash actually, every day almost.

Not sure why in 2023 people keep saying it "doesn't work". Why say that? BCH just works and always has since 2009.
I used the asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf program extensively a while ago, and whilst it wasn’t that bad, it was still a bit hacky, didnt support page breaks for example. But maybe it got better now…
Covid was pretty easy but uncomfortable for me. Post-Covid has not been so..

I have somewhat severe post-Covid symptoms. I took a look at the Beriberi symptoms list. I have every single symptom of both wet and dry beriberi.

Time for a Thiamine blood test.
Well there are two points. 1) Piping strings is dumb. 2) Multiple incompatible sublanguages has a long learning curve. How many people can just write complex awk/find scripts without checking the manual? Using marcel, and knowing python, I can do those complex things without RTFM.
Ah, okay.

> I’m not sure what part of my comment is incoherent.

You called a general concept a conspiracy theory. Who would be the conspirators in this conspiracy theory? It's like saying... Breakfast is a conspiracy theory.
I have no idea why it came out as EPYC. I fixed it. Thanks!
I profoundly disagree that ML models are a good fit for transaction reconciliation.

It’s at least arguable that this task is the oldest documented use of writing, and from double-entry accounting to price/time precedence in modern market microstructure, we have algorithms that align very well with human intuition.

I can think of few cases where gratuitous application of even simple statistical methods would cause more harm than this one.

With all respect, the conversation becomes stupider with every post like this one.
1) This small study seemed to indicate people were highly contagious 8 days after initial symptom onset. It would be helpful to have more studies to confirm. https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/09/covid-patients...

2) Yeah, knowing why some people suffer more than others would be great to know. It probably is like trying to answer why some people get cancer. Genetics, circumstance, age, etc.
Yes, tabula is the other table extraction tool. I used both and prefer pdfplumber because it is really robust and works well with Jupyter Lab.
I'm not saying that Gazan civilians deserve to suffer because they voted for Hamas. I am saying that Hamas tries to inflate the death toll for Gazan civilians (both by lying about that toll, and by taking actions with the express purpose of increasing that toll).

If you refuse to go to war with Hamas because of this fact, you incentivize that behavior.

I can't really think of a more just case for war than "the government of a neighbor just brutally, intentionally slaughtered civilians in a surprise attack in our country." It doesn't matter whether the neighboring country is a dictatorship or a democracy.

It very much sucks for the people of Palestine that Hamas chose to start a war with Israel and is using tactics that purposefully result in the death of Palestinians. I hope that they stop putting rocket launchers in and next to schools. I hope that they start allowing people to evacuate. I hope that they stop lying to their people about "psychological warfare" in an effort to get more of them killed. I wish that neighboring countries would allow Palestinians to escape the carnage, and adopt strategies that actually support the Palestinian people rather than the Palestinian cause.

But the IDF and Israel do not control that. And I'm honestly not sure what people expect from them. If you can't fight an enemy that hides behind civilians, then hiding behind civilians is an obvious winning strategy. And personally, I don't want to live in a world where the government most willing to sacrifice their own people automatically wins any conflict.
Unfortunately for Google, Bard is irrelevant by means of being late and inferior to GPT-4
> Here's a thought experiment: would you be willing to share one of your great ideas with us?

Sure why not. Here’s an idea that I had that I lost interest in because of required capital investment in a physical product.

I hate giving my phone to people but lately I have to do that frequently either because they need to scan it for whatever reason or they can’t read it or whatever. I wanted to make a credit card sized e-ink card that would mirror whatever barcode or QR code or whatever was required. You give them the card instead of handing over your device. I was thinking about $25 would be a great price point.
> That's ridiculous, especially given the new studies that show that masks didn't prevent spread at all, even according to Fauci.

Those studies are flawed. They make no distinction between N95s, surgical coverings, cloth masks, and fit testing. Those are all huge factors. Properly fitted, high quality respiratory protection is effective.

One big failing on the messaging to the general public is not making these distinctions.
> large German hidden champion

If they're large, then they're not really hidden anymore. Hidden champions are usually those sub-200 employee companies usually located in the county side. SAP, Porsche or Zeiss are not hidden champions.
> Any other meaning is invented while interpreting scripture.

This is essentially what my sibling comment boils down to! Kudos for putting it more succinctly than I.
A side project story: Hacker Gifts (2018-2024)
My attempt to solve comma.ai speed challenge with end to end (E2e) ML
"If you know of an ethically dubious way to profit, why not do it?"
Not really. Their argument is "Hey, I looked at everyones art all my life and used that to build my internal model, but it's time for me to pull up the ladder behind me"

Copyright is not about reading your art, it's about the creation of subsequent works that are some arbitrary measure of 'too close' to the work other people already created.
Thanks: i totally get it now. Btw same here, never have done any drugs, but have had lucid dreams if that’s similar to what you describe.
No, you misunderstand the situation. The electoral system for Westminster makes a handful of constituencies, all in England, the kingmakers, giving the national government a hubris that is not matched by their actual levels of support on the ground. So government is for a subset of the population and the rest can go hang. The deck is stacked.

The regional assemblies are limited in power and subordinate to Westminster. Resenting that fact would remain a fringe position if it weren't obvious to all that the double whammy of safe seats in FPTP and the cahoots of the media will keep the tories in power vastly more than out of it, despite electoral results that can credibly be interpreted as regularly expressing a national and multiple regional preferences for anyone-but-the-tories to govern; and also that the tories don't give even the slightest smear of shit about the other nations in the union.

But you can grift and shaft the populace indefinitely, in the normal run of things, and get nothing but grumbling. What has really lit the fuse is Brexit, which Scotland most assuredly did not want, and which was imposed on them by the English, and which the English then ballsed up like a classroom of problem children left unattended. Many Scots now see the cost/benefit proposition of the union shifting sharply away from remaining in it.

Northern Ireland is probably also feeling aggrieved about Brexit given the fact that Brexit, as implemented by the aforementioned children, trampled all over the Good Friday Agreement, which did more to reduce daily violence than anything since Cromwell; the open border with RoI was a prerequisite for the GFA that we all took for granted; but their will is much harder to read, given the sectarianism still endemic and the challenges of Irish reunification. What certainly doesn't help is the tories getting into bed with the DUP, which I would call a blot on their record if their record were not just blot after blot merging into a uniform superblot, against which unblotted fragments of record are too dim to make out, like stars observed through the smoulder of a recently-burnt-out house.

Wales voted for Brexit, the mugs.
I wanted this, so I'm doing it myself
As a startup founder and designer, sometimes it's hard to focus on marketing tasks so I wanted a sort of daily to-do list of growth tasks I could actually complete each day to help grow my startup brick by brick. I decided, why not share what I'm doing in a newsletter.

So here we are "Actionables" is born. 5 daily growth tasks you can actually achieve each day to help grow your startup!

Of course, it's free so go check out the first edition. Would love some feedback if you don't mind sharing, good or bad :-)
> My point is that maybe we should apply a bit of common sense on top of that.

...

> But maybe those smaller companies don't need to dogmatically review the checkin for a documentation fix.

It's not dogma, it's just the necessities of large groups of people working together. A small organization can use common sense, a function that scales up to (20? 50?). 10,000 people can't operate on common sense; they need another function: rules.
More so just a question for you, but how does one get into or at least improve their technical writing as a software engineer? Any feedback? I've found met with questions from customers that my writing wasn't able to make clear and that's something I'd like to work on.
Why this and in this order?
Umm. The line between compound interest and simple interest is both larger and smaller than one would expect.

The thing that capitalists get wrong is to simply project the present into the future, forever.

Let's say you get 30% returns in 10 years, that is 2.65% interest. But we might be talking about a one time investment that only existed for those ten years. What happens before and after can diverge arbitrarily. Meanwhile a capitalist would just keep projecting 2.65% interest into all eternity, giving ridiculous numbers within 1000 years.

The thing about simple interest is that it gets consumed. No exponential growth necessary.
To be fair, I think Google's software looked just as bloated, half-baked, directionless and so on its fat and happy low-layoffs era. The firing spasm certainly doesn't seem to have brought any improvements, though ...
> I keep maintaining that Germany is much much better country overall simply because it's not centralised as UK is centralised in London.

That's interesting. In Germany the decentralization is considered a main reason for the many problems on modernization in bureaucracy and other public areas.

> Those are so so misleading into making people believe that Germany or mainland Europe is a wasteland that missed out on technology.

I think the reason is more that Germany was an early adopter of many technologies, but was then trapped on old infrastructure and workflows, while some others simply failed for various reasons. So it's more an upgrade-problem, then "installation"-problem.

> Europe's core problems all come down to cheap energy availability and that's solvable. It's much easier to solve than stuff like widespread social problems like decline due to drug use or political instability.

In theory yes, in reality it goes hand in hand. Germany for example is cursed by people who poison the progress since a long time. And the harm is showing since a while now. Ironically, it usually only gets better when something catastrophically happened, like Fukushima, or the War with Russia.
Building a global deployment platform is hard, here is why
It's not that different. If you're doing a split then you can either find the queen and put it in the new hive, or you can just split the hive without looking for the queen then listen to hear which hive is queen-less -- you can hear the difference in that case. But it's not that huge a difference that if you open a hive you can instantly say "oh oh, this one is queen-less".
Right, but this is copyright brained "lost sale" logic. Sky costs 30 EUR/mo because everyone involved in the value chain can only produce their creative works if they can charge that much. The resellers are charging 3 EUR specifically because they cut the publishers and creators of that work out of the profit. Of course you can charge 3 EUR for something you didn't have to pay for.

But you could also charge nothing - you don't really have costs because you aren't paying anyone. I distinctly remember the days of P2P and BitTorrent where pirated content actually was being provided for free[0]. So in my mind, charging any amount of money for pirated content feels like a grift.

[0] Or at the very least, using an internal scrip denominated in bytes transferred to encourage people to host the content
So because something is automated somewhere, nobody has to follow robots.TXT anymore?
It's not that "devs think it's okay" - it's that we accept that sales thinks it's okay and we don't have the experience or judgement to say otherwise unless we've been in a sales org.

The fundamental point I think everyone misses is that as organizations get larger, the network cost of running is higher and nobody has solved that problem. Smaller problems are more quickly solvable and no amount of story points will change that.
If anything, AI work feels like it has accelerated everyone with any dataset of value pulling up their drawbridge, reducing open interconnectivity of the web in hopes of charging for data access.

This started with scrapers and aggregation sites and has gotten noticeably worse.
https://archive.ph/SfhG5
Totally agree with this, as the one typically ideating, sometimes ideas for products just appear in my head, and then I explore if they are useful and solve a problem. This has worked well for me. I don't think there should be hard rules in how to come with ideas, brainstorming sessions should be free flowing and allow room for exploration. Sometimes silly ideas can trigger discussion paths to good ideas.
I think sports suffers from fragmentation in the same way as other content.

To watch all the televised football games in the UK you need Sky Sports, TNT and Amazon Prime.

Even then you can only see half the games whereas in other countries almost all Premier League matches are televised meaning that geographical licensing restrictions are also in play.

I would happily pay a fairly significant fee to watch all matches conveniently, but it’s simply not available to buy.
Because it’s going to quickly go from we observed this which is a finding to

we project that the world is going to end unless we do X which is not a scientific finding but rather one of a multitude of opinions on the future which is why climate models are averaged because there is no consensus and even if there was science doesn’t work on consensus.

You can tell by the dramatic article that this is why the government doesn’t let people like her give its opinions because her opinion diverges from that of the government.
Yes, it does incentivize this. But it disincentivizes something even worse (attaching penalties to honest testimony). There is no perfect answer here. All we can do is choose what sort of adverse outcome to want to minimize. US law tends to lean toward it being better to fail to penalize wrongdoing than to penalize innocent people.

That said, if someone is giving testimony that is intentionally deceptive such as lying and saying it was a mistake, making stuff up -- which is lying -- or even being deceptive without uttering an untruth, that is something that can be penalized.

The pros engage in perjury by just saying "I don't remember". It may be a lie, but good luck proving that.
Not just anecdotal: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33578876/
Lots of delusion and gaslighting in this area.
"Reliably" passing down information for future generations is a recent phenomenon. Just go and look at the history of mathematics and there were multiple periods where information was lost and rediscovered.
Node.js – v21.1.0
50M for incomplete software using unofficial, brittle connections to third parties that are actively resistant to "unofficial" clients? Sounds like a great deal!
The only real solution to this is "avoid big diffs at all cost". This is why the industry as a whole has mostly dropped git flow and moved back to trunk based development.
> reducing their power to negociate higher wages

"Negociate"?

> Workers being wage dumped on by cheaper more desperate workforce...

"Wage dump" - that word again. So this is how people pick up policital slogans and start repeating them, without even thinking about how much of it is true. I don't think it is true.

> people choosing to live on the dole because they're fuckups at life

Think about who is paying for their benefits.

> What happens with your bargaining power when your employer can now hire from anywhere in the world without any visa barriers

Right, because that's what's going on in the UK. I don't think anyone suggested anything even remotely like that. In fact, I don't know of any country that does that.
Game theory generally says offer as small as possible. Even 1% is better than nothing. Sadly this solution generally ignores payouts outside the game. We are pretty hardwired to have feelings related to fairness, and that changes the payout equation a lot.

I used to annoy one of my freshman econ professors because I would “stubbornly” (from his view) not play along with game theory thought experiments. His claim was I was being irrational not to accept some theoretic dollar amount, and my response was that I would gain more than said dollar’s amount from seeing my fellow students profit more. (imagine games intended to evoke prisoner’s dilemma outcomes, like you get $100 dollars if you say yes, all 200 students get $1 if you say no).

This was a period when behavior economics was starting to be really taking off, so I wonder today how those lessons are taught, because it is not at all irrational to value things outside of money.
Ask HN: Looking for Music Recommendations for Working
Hi HN,
I was looking for any suggestions to Spotify playlists or Youtube channels that you guys may offer for working/coding/etc to stay focused or keeping your momentum going.

I hate working in a vacuum.
It's a bit more complicated than this (disclaimer: I followed the trials and vaccinated earlier than most).

The current wave of anti SARS-CoV-2 vaccines skepticism has multiple facets and is also country dependent.

First, the risk profile of the disease meant that the best solution would be vaccinating those at risk immediately and leave the rest for judgement of the individual. However, people took the infamous Israeli study about 94% reduction of risk of asymptomatic infection (hence transmission affecting) at face value (the 5MM people from that study weren't swabbed regularly; it was an extrapolation), which meant that some tried to follow the dream of impossible elimination (impossible since March 2020) so they thought everyone needed to be vaccinated. Previous evidence on other CoVs was largely ignored.

Second, many vaccinated to go back to a normal life. Imagine the reaction when those people were faced with more lockdowns, masks, restrictions... Some thought they were made fun of.

Third, the government officials absolutely hated good news as they thought fear was good to achieve compliance, at least in UK and Italy. In Italy, not the nutjobs, but respected members of medical society unwillingly questioned the efficacy of vaccines ("half-work", someone said). This confused the general public even more

Fourth, adverse reactions are to be expected and with loads of inoculations, some are bound to appear even if very rare. Even more with these vaccines which are highly reactogenic. The confused reactions on the AZ vaccines when there were cases of thrombosis were eloquent. Also, risk vs benefit ratio was not considered. Children have very low risks but have a higher incidence of (rare) adverse events. Given this, the ratio isn't favorable, but it was pushed anyway without solid data (the confidence intervals on FDA documents for pediatric versions of these vaccines are horrid).

Fifth, some countries went out of their way to make the lives of those not vaccinating very miserable. In Italy you could not even work without three doses. Children without three doses > 12yo could not take the bus legally. And the whole Canadian truckers matter.

While antivaxxers are a very loud but small minority with no real power (they're extremists) the whole matter was a massive failure at scientific communication. Also because governments wanted to treat citizens like stupid peasants that needed guidance by the enlightened. Well, not all of them, but in Europe there were many.
What makes something scientific are falsifiable statements supported by careful observation and tests in controlled conditions. Not titles. Not affiliation with institutions. Recognition by the press or government is irrelevant to the truth value of research.

I think the whole scientific edifice is or is about to become a bad caricature of the medieval Catholic Church, and is just as in need of a Martin Luther to remind everyone that integrity and a return to principals is long overdue.
Yikes. That's terrifying.

Not putting on my "conspiracy" hat, but I'm sure the rise of pseudo medical ~~professionals~~ (read: "influencers") on social media has contributed to this in an indirect way.

I know someone who got physical with their doctor back during COVID because the doctor wouldn't prescribe ivermectin to them. (That person who did the assault is an asshole with zero professional medial knowledge, for the record) I can only imagine this was not a one-off never-to-happen-anywhere-else-ever-again case. I'm sure plenty of doctors in middle America or in more right-wing dominated areas have some horrifying war stories. Probably a fair amount in some left-wing areas too.
If you stick to marcel commands and python functions, then all the processing happens in a single Python process (with a small number of exceptions). Beside the process overhead, this approach also avoids serialization/deserialization costs, and even string copying costs. x | y | z just passes Python tuples from one command to another via function call.

Can you expand on your first point? Why are tabular and hierarchical output so important for your work?
Using the Viva New Vegas Guide, you can get a very functional install of New Vegas. I'd recommend the steam version, because most mods are made for that one.

https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/index.html
From a cursory read, it matters because all Buffer.from(...) calls use a shared buffer, and buffer over-reads are a much more common vulnerability than easy access to arbitrary memory.

Not a security expert etc.
Phishing scam catches Booking.com customers through official messaging system