skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The readme (here https://github.com/github/scientist#alternatives) doesn't mention, but here is one for Rust: https://crates.io/crates/scientisto
The HF ham bands aren't very wide. With the exception of 10 meters, from 50 to 500 kHz wide. Folks (including the ARRL) were afraid of abuse. With an SDR, you can generate a signal with any bandwidth you desire.

The reason the FCC didn't want to set a limit is because it's arbitrary. For example, MIL-STD-188-110D (which is an open standard) has a 2400 baud 3.24 kHz mode. But now it's illegal.
But typescript has "using" now? How can VBA still be so popular?
DeepMind AI accurately forecasts weather – on a desktop computer
This is an uncomfortable amount of information around microwave cooking meat for me..
If Xenix or OS/2 haven't changed then why would an old build of Curl suddenly break on them?
In the end it seems the pro nuclear, and indirectly anti-renewables, argument seems to boil to renewables being a socialist conspiracy to sabotage the Western economy and society or something like that.
Seed oils served on a platter coated in rinse aid, welcome to the future!
Medium employs the worst kind of ad-business model. I'm not referring to traditional ads but to the practice of imposing a corporate paywall (which is akin to an ad since it's not your paywall but the company's) to entice users into paying Medium for content that they don't even own. Additionally, they pay creators peanuts through an opaque monetization system. It's reminiscent of every other content aggregator website now.
All valid points, but I think the biggest reason is:

- It's what's available.

There is a bit baked into this statement which the article breaks down further:

- Companies won't approve anything else in the hands of ordinary users

- Companies' developers are too busy with too high priority items

And some things not mentioned in the article are also baked in:

- Even when developers get around to a project that could replace VBA, they don't understand the project, underestimate the time and resources required, and deliver a subpar product as a result

- Companies lay off people doing work IT and developers can't be bothered to support with no real plan other than overburdening the remaining ordinary users with extraordinary problems
What's next? We should ban all photos of winter forests because arbophiles might get off on them?
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Ohh so that explains why I saw `?model=text-davinci-002` appended to my ChatGPT URL the other day. I remember it was pretty slow to load then, too, so that's probably why they rerouted me
> if it's open, and longer then 7 days in the fridge you toss it

I hope you don't strictly follow that rule or you'll throw away loads of absolutely edible stuff. Pickles, ketchup, mustard, jams, ... Yoghurt is often still fine after a week. My thing of miso has been open for months.
French government websites do this for help articles, they have a "last edited" and a "last verified" date on each article
Fascinating! A few questions:

- once the LED has slowed down to 60 bpm, do you keep it at that tempo for the rest of the day? for a few hours? do you ever go back to 120 bpm and then go back down?

- generally speaking, how did you come up with the idea?

- do you think that a software version (i.e. some blinking pixels in the top right corner of a monitor) would work, or is the intensity of the LED (i.e. the fact that it's not part of the monitor) part of the reason why it works?

- could you also talk about the heart-rate sensor - how do you use it / how does it affect the bpm algorithm?

Thanks!
Fabulous cynism :-)

You're oh so fkcing right it's not even funny :-/
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Daylight Saving Time (DST)
I once worked on a site that was aimed only at Mac users, and this was back in the pre-Chrome days when Safari was the browser that was really pushing the web forward with stuff like Canvas and CSS animations, so we made maximum use out of every bleeding-edge feature.

One day I figured I'd test it in IE just to see how broken it was (I can't remember if IE even had support for transparent PNG yet) and when I tested it, our site would literally crash IE. As massive Mac fanboys, we decided this was a feature.
It's funny, with more forests, fewer farms, less pesticide use you'd think the insect population in the US would increase. Certainly the wild mammal populations are coming back strong. But it's going down globally. I would assume most countries are experiencing the opposite, fewer forests and more farms/pesticides. Still the population is decreasing.
VBA serves an awesome niche. I once built an awesome simulator that did some pretty complex optimization stuff. The main sheet had input cells for the user, a couple of radio buttons for toggling certain features, and a button to fire off the built-in Excel solver plugin and pull certain values from that process and display it all on a GUI on the first sheet. It took me just a couple of days despite zero VBA experience and most importantly I could send it to all of our customers who then had a full simulator that they could play with alongside their engineers. They didn't have to install anything (just click a button within excel to add a plug-in). Simple simple.
Interestingly, the only ones talking about this comes from the Android / Google / regulatory side.

Apple users are as far as I can tell happy the way it is.
Using different locales based on region for your servers is in itself an insane decision.
European VCs want the cash return too early in the product cycle. I.e they are too risk averse.
Actual curl in Windows? The powershell namesake shares no implementation and only very superficial bit of interface.
If this eAIDS is implemented, can we remove those mitm certificates from the browser and continue as usual, or will it involve some deeper change in the browser engine?
Don't Spy EU
Probably the name of some student association that uses the same characters as a phonetic homonym for the one your mention, but i don’t know. Chinese often picks these transliterations of words from other languages into character sequences that are rough homonyms for the original pronunciation, but may not have any other meaning, or sometimes may overlap in meaning with existing terms.

The article, indeed, seemed scant on details. I’m not a medical expert, so I don’t know, but which of those do you think would be more likely if you were to assess someone’s cognitive capabilities would it be an MRI or an fMRI?
Funny enough I was born, grew up and I currently live in the Eastern Europe.

I could tell you so much about our history and relations with Russia. From my own experience before '90, from my parents' during communism horror years and from my grandparents' during the War and the soviet occupation after.

But all that info is freely available in books and online - for naught. You can't change the mind of the Western leftists who never had to live through an actual implementation of their pet ideology. They dream about Norway, Sweden and Denmark while never even visiting Cuba, North Korea or Venezuela.
Many years back Yahoo did an experiment with ranking music. They found that every time they ran it, different songs would bubble to the top as "best". From memory, something about early front-runners getting a lock-in.

Edit: found a link https://unbiasx.com/the-yahoo-musiclab-experiment/
It's an extrapolation of that. The golden hammer gives too much credibility to the people weilding the tool.
You're absolutely correct. Thanks for your succinct reply.

Before commenting in this area I probably have to remind myself of the history of the MAD policies and the conditions that lead to that.
> You see parallels between the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism because the left made those comparisons repeatedly.

There were also many other purges, notably in the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China, with which parallels could be drawn. Purges incomparably larger and bloodier. Yet strikingly little media draw these parallels [1], essentially lying through omission. There's no better example than Handmaid's Tale, that invented a whole new sexist society to draw parallels with Christianity instead of Islam.

One must be aware that in the Plato's cave of media, those casting the shadows are not motivated solely by the pursuit of truth, nor are they a representative sample of the general population.

[1] https://reason.com/2000/06/01/hollywoods-missing-movies/
I've gone through the process now of being reviewed for ADHD both in Australia and the US, and I can say Australia really makes the process nightmarish.

To start with: the meds are so restricted ordinary doctors / GPs can't prescribe them. And trying to bring up 'ADHD' may get you labeled as a 'drug seeker.' But let's say you get an appointment with a psychiatrist (the ordained ministers who can write stimulant prescriptions) - wait times can be anywhere from 3 - 6 months. Upon which you're not guaranteed to be taken seriously because psychiatry isn't an exact science and not every doctor even acknowledges everything in the DSM.

In the state that I'm in I had to be drug tested before and after getting on ADHD meds. Before to make sure that I wasn't a drug seeker. And after to confirm I was taking the meds and not selling them. My doctor then had to apply for a special license just to write my script. He did this by writing a letter full of supporting clinical information and applying for the license to issue the script. So after all that effort (easily 9+ months) you get the chance to be given meds by such a doctor. But currently there are supply chain shortages so many people aren't even able to get their meds.

My US experience (much shorter):

When I was in the US I used a telehealth app on my phone to speak to a amazing clinician who specialized in ADHD (google some or this looks like shilling.) I had my meds not long after that. I currently don't bother with medication though because although it works exceptionally well: I can't sleep on them. I'd say to US people - have a look at some of the apps out there. You'll want to go with people who can actually prescribe and not psychologists.

Keep in mind there are other reasons that can cause concentration issues (depression and insomnia are examples.) It would probably be better for most people not to have ADHD as other illnesses are potentially easier to treat with less side effects.

((I really liked the conciseness, typography, and artwork in the article, by the way.))
Not on the individual level, free-riding is perfectly rational if you goal is to maximize your personal wellbeing, wealth etc.
You sound like you have the traditional Hughes sensitive gut. Welcome to the family.
Exactly. You can easily find compiled 1.7.10 mods everywhere, and even the source, but getting the source to build requires some work: https://github.com/GTNewHorizons/ExampleMod1.7.10
> the dysfunctional bureaucracy of IT

I am not here to talk about management-bureaucracy, of which IT depts; same as all other branches one can find in established corporate culture, have more than enough.

I am talking about the perceived "bureaucracy" of us tech guys here, aka. following established procedures to ensure smooth running of mission critical systems.

Yes, I want things to run through code reviews. Why? Because these things go to a production system that our customers (and thus the companies income) depend on. Yes, I want authentication standards. Why? Because there are a gazillion cryptolockers, and worse, out there, who would love nothing more than to run rampant on a nice and juicy production database.
I have a shellfish allergy, every meal out is like a game of Russian Roulette
Almost, as everyone knows DR-DOS, MS-DOS and PC-DOS were like 99% compatible, the problem was when one was lucky enough to trip on that 1%, because they reverse engineered MS-DOS (even the IBM's PC-DOS license did not provide access to everything Microsoft was doing on MS-DOS).
It might be niche for HN, but in muggle world its enormously popular.
Yeah makes sense, I was thinking mainly about Europe and somehow forgot that the climate is considerably colder in the US but there is still much more sunlight during the winter.
https://esp-rs.github.io/book/installation/riscv-and-xtensa....

"What espup Installs

...

Espressif Rust fork with support for Espressif targets

...

LLVM fork with support for Xtensa targets"

:( ?
> It should not be too hard to marry the good parts of major language families

It is. Language features generally aren't isolated modules that you can add and remove freely: they interact, and "the good parts" are only good because they play nicely with everything else. You can't have Lisp macros without Lisp (or otherwise homoiconic) syntax, or Haskell's concurrency without its effect tracking, or global type inference with Java-style inheritance.
Another interesting question is what countries they got their detergents from. Formulas may vary across the world based on what's allowed and what's not.
For a while there I thought I had ADHD, and started looking for avenues to get diagnosed. But when I talked more with some friends who have serious cases of it, I started to doubt. Instead of going for the medication, I removed distracting apps from my phone and logged out of socials. It took a few weeks to settle into the routine, but now my focus/attention problems are all but gone. Go figure!
> they are giving a service for the rest of the company

That is very true. And part of that service is to ensure that things run smoothly, securely and according to industry standards.

How well would an IT guy provide that service if he were to let some unvetted, undocumented script hacked together by someone who isn't a professional software engineer, run its merry way across the production database?
I told myself I wouldn't miss it this time D:

Welp, time to wait another 3 years. No way I'm missing the Epochalypse.
Use powder instead of pods. It's better anyway.
All of them, which his why Wikipedia maintains an edit history.

At the very least you should provide the inital publish date and last update.
> The advice I can give is to actively seek interaction with others suffering from the same, actively accept and ask for all accommodations and help, give yourself enough time for what you need to do and don't compare your experience to the neurotypical one. It is different and it's a matter of coping and accepting oneself and ones disadvantages as a normal part of life.

This has been my approach at this point. I've had to accept that I will likely never get medication, or even a proper diagnosis. My family actively fought every teacher who suggested I had ADHD, and there were several. Very honestly, the only reason I have sought diagnosis is to get accommodation which would let me work within the focus patterns ADHD causes.

My closest friend has ADHD, and my partner is in the process of getting an ASD diagnosis. The majority of my time is spent around neuroodivergent types.

Simply having people around you who share your experience is incredibly helpful, since you can talk to them freely and be understood. I've given up trying to discuss the experience with people who are NT simply because the understanding that the challenges I face are not just inconvenient just isn't there.
Why Democrats Are Ride or Die for Biden
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Rare pork is absolutely a thing.

https://www.seriouseats.com/case-for-raw-rare-pink-pork-food...

Food safety is a matter of both temperature and time (https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-complete-guide-to-s...), and we’ve all but eradicated trichinosis in commercially available pork.
Well, that the whole community of nuclear scientists, engineers and operators ignored the design flaws of RBMK reactors was an indirect conclusion of the two late 80s investigation boards the USSR (!) put in place. Read the annexes to INSAG-7, you can even find the design bureaus and directors named in there.

The KGB blocking the refit of the RBMK fleet is a myth from HBOs Chernobyl series. Truth is rather different, Legasov was seen by the younger generation as part of the establishment that held back modifications, while he simultaniously managed to piss off said establishment. And without support from the rank and file, and some enemies with the higher ups, his career was shot. Compounded by serious health issues following the Chernobyl clean up. Less dramatic than a KBG conspiracy for sure, but still bad enough.
This should be a product.
This is totally wrong.
It has already saturated because we are already using all the data we can.

The language model "creativity" is a total fraud. It is not creative at all but it takes time to see the edges. It is like AI art. AI art is mind blowing until you have seen the same 2000th variation on basically the same theme because it is so limited in what it can do.

To compare the simple game of chess to the entire space of what can be programmed on a computer is utterly absurd. You just don't know what you are talking about.
My car from 1997 with an analogue speedometer still has issues, because the wheel speed sensors have corroded and don't work when wet...
It could mean the astronauts are currently dropping the bag, which is not true. The ambiguity would be resolved by using past tense.
JetBrains Qodana is now compatible with VS Code
VS Code users can now use Qodana static code analysis in their CI/CD pipelines with a Qodana extension. This is the first non-JetBrains IDE that Qodana is extensively compatible with meaning mixed teams can now improve code quality with the backing of JetBrains intelligence.
Obvious problem: most successful uses include a human in the process to a greater or lesser extent (eg collaborative text editing with a chatbot). What do you do with these in-between cases that actually make up the bulk of AI-generated works?

I suggest a better approach is attestation. I, a human, vouch for this work.
It is always and ongoing process until it isn't. Knowing if/when the transition happened is useful.
I remember refreshing f*ckedcompany.com daily and seeing the long list of failed/failing companies listed. I was working for a shrink-wrap box application vendor and really wanted to get in on the Internet wave. The bubble pop made it easier to see who was going to survive, which really helped with the next job move to an early SaaS vendor. Didn't lose too much money in market because I didn't have much to lose. Interesting times.
ADHD is medicalizing a set of mental habits that many smart people form early in life partly out of boredom, and partly because they can get away with it. The criteria for diagnosing it in adults are impossibly vague and ad-hoc, and I have yet to meet anyone who went through the evaluation process who wasn't diagnosed with it.

By all means have at it if you enjoy legal access to terrific stimulants (they really do help you focus!), but maybe take the idea that you've suffered under the burden of lifelong illness with a grain of salt. ADHD is our generation's neurasthenia.
While playing with semantic categorization, I also found that it's also what you write about and how you write (seems obvious, but I wanted to confirm). I took a year of hn comments and compared my previous account to my current. It was in the top 20 ranked by similarity (out of something like 60k) just by building a custom 'fingerprint' for each user.
> Walter Scheel was never Chancellor, he was fulfilling the duties of the Chancellor while

I think this is really an issue of semantics & translation, because that is just what 'acting X' means? (Admittedly not always while still doing something else too, but I don't see that as significant - if it had gone on long perhaps a junior minister in the foreign office would've been named acting FM in his place too.)
My therapist recently diagnosed me with ADHD. I strongly disagree with that diagnosis, and I realised I don't know what ADHD actually is and that the internet and this article haven't been of any help.

I can relate to everything that this article says, but I suspect this is true of every single person with a mentally challenging job.

HN is full of developers complaining about open offices and useless meetings; do all of them have ADHD? Otherwise, what's the difference between a ADHD developer and a regular developer?

I _do_ have specific body problems that make my work harder, such as a very strong noise sensitivity and a circadian rhythm that requires me to sleep longer than the average person. Dealing with those specific problems did much more than throwing my hands in the air and yelling "ADHD".

Instead of a 2000-word article that might have been generated by AI, I would just follow these three points.

1. Sleep 9–10 hours every night.

2. Strong exercise regularly.

3. Work somewhere quiet and pleasant.
It's going to be obvious to other players that you're wearing a camera, and who would want to stay in a game where it looks like another person is cheating?

Making other players leave seems like it would be the fastest way to get yourself a lifetime ban to your local casinos.

(that's even ignoring the fact the casinos have already seen every trick in the book already, and will be onto you immediately)
I'm LLM-ignorant, but my layman brain wonders if the logical relationships belong in a kind of as-of-yet-not-invented "pre-processor" that feeds into the LLM.

(Perhaps though it has to be done during training so that "Who was the ninth Chancellor of Germany" becomes knowable in the first place.)
Apparently, the EU has not seen TikTok

Or Facebook
> make them feel less supported or inferior?

Your point would have been much better made without the hysterical language
Worthwhile read on the topic: Dr Gabor Mate’s “ Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder”
It wouldn't. The implication from the article is newer versions also work on it. And I say not without a lot of work.

They're not waiting on their, say, Blackberry 10 build to pass the test suite before tagging a release.
this hits home with a caveat: Every time I try a new strategy, even if I drop it later, I end up a bit better than before. It's like with each try, my starting point for the next attempt is a little higher. Once I accepted that this is just how things work for me, I stopped feeling anxious about it too.
If your corp causes damage or commits crimes, you're not magically shielded because you did it as a business. You can absolutely be held personally liable. Extracting money from your company just so they can't come after it doesn't work.

An example is the Bollea v. Gawker lawsuit, where the founder had to personally pay $10m on top of everything else, or the demise of criminal enterprises such as Prenda Law.

Deterrence absolutely works because individuals are affected in the end.
Hard to say without some idea where you are, but it was not hard for me. It did cost me a few hundred $ overall, but the process was fairly simple. It did take a few months to get a spot for a remote appointment (if I lived in the city it would be faster in person) And I just knew the clinic knew who they're dealing with (reminder sent a week and a day before, reminder sent about payment, reminder about a followup, etc.) Maybe try finding some group which may have experience / specific contacts in the area? There's bound to be a country/state-specific group online where you can ask.
I throw out food when it is bad, not based on some arbitrary timer.
A <time> and <datetime> element exists in HTML, but why don't an element exists that will format a date and time written in a specific format to the format of what the user want? I'm talking about automatic TZ conversion.
Not at all knee-jerk nor cheap job.

The article does not address the option of not having those missiles. And this “not addressing” seems highly deliberate.
Open-source DB that can work with applications written for Microsoft SQL Server
What would have happened if VBScript had won the DHTML wars?
Who is benefiting from the "entertainment" in the OP's scenario?
First automatic safety system lands a helicopter without power