jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In what way are all these things related to ADHD?

I've previously thought I might have ADHD to some degree (Never been diagnosed though) since pieces like that article felt somewhat familiar to me.

I would say I can relate to most of your list, but they don't really seem to be caused by ADHD to me. Or maybe I do have ADHD and that's why I can relate. I have no clue.
RtR is mostly about hardware repair. I think what you want is, to some degree, covered by open source options.
Hold on, who is behind https://archiveteam.org?

Folks, careful what extensions you add.
(edit: the below was written before the parent's edit. Still useful for understanding how that phrase works, though, so I'm leaving it.)

Part of the problem with your analysis is that "I make no pretense" is itself a phrase actually is a single negative in use. It means "I don't claim."

"I make no pretense of liking BTC" could technically mean "I am not pretending to like Bitcoin" as in "I'm not pretending to like BTC. I really do like it." But that's not what it means in practice. It means "I don't like BTC, and I like it so little that I'm not even going to pretend to like it."
You should consider what you want to look at. I made a telescope (ground the mirror, etc.) and discovered that looking at stars isn't interesting to me. But the big planets, moon and sun are amazing. If you want to explore the limits of resolving binary stars or hunting faint deep sky objects, you will want a different device than if you want to see the rings of Saturn which are surreal to see with your own eye.
Definitely. The M2 supply grew by about $4T last year, from $15T to about $19T, it's a lot, but it's about one annual federal budget in normal years. $4T is like 20% of GDP, not nothing, but not hyper-inflationary.

The question is will M2 grow by 20% per year, or is this a one-off?
I don't think Target is promoting their brand as a Generic version, but as a more higher end alternative to what people typically think of as Generic.
Insulting and demeaning racial groups is the opposite of inclusion. It breeds resentment and hatred. For a time there was a focus on treating people as human and not as [racial/sex/religion]

Trend these days is to encourage openly being a bigot, just as long as it’s against certain people.

Replace the word white with any other social group and perhaps you’ll see the problem.
>>"Bitcoin serves as an emotional dual to the lottery. While in the lottery people pour their hope and money into the chance of life-changing winnings based on impossible odds."

I'm reminded of an advert campaign slogan that New York State ran for it's lottery: "All you need is a dollar and a dream". Spot on.

An astute friend's comment was: "We'll keep the dollar and you keep the dream".

I've long agreed with the author that lotteries are an innumeracy tax. His insight that BTC is also largely the same is spot on.
Agreed. I'm not stable enough to look at wildlife through binoculars.
> On the other hand, it’s not immediately clear what advantage there is from the bank’s perspective in relabeling savings accounts as transactions balances.

Does anyone have any insight into why banks would relabel their savings accounts?
Tried to convince my son to add the new Slave 1 to the wishlist. Lost against a XBOX and Fortnight. Kind of a double loss for me on that front it seems...
Sure, I buy all that. But the article compares to 1998, which was not as crazy. We may yet get into a 1999 situation.
Why would small fines mean they should behave correctly? Small fines make it easy to justify as "cost of doing business". It's the large onerous fines which incentivize them to do it the less-profitable and more-moral way, because the fines cost more than doing it right.

Hate to be cliche, but reminds me of the opening scene in Fight Club where Edward Norton's character describes how insurance adjusters(?) determine if a recall is cheaper than the lawsuits from dead/injured people, they do it, otherwise... they don't.

Why would Amazon behave less profitably? Simply because we perceive it to be more moral?
mainly because of drug and substance abuse and suicide. Highlights the need for mental health treatment and perhaps more education around the perils of self medicating.
Are you an emacs hacker and have the knowledge/power to fix the problems that prevent it from catching up to, say, a mediocre editor like Kdevelop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17178246
California already has such a law. It's in the state constitution.
Your comment that I responded to was making claims about the optimization opportunities available to statically versus dynamically typed languages and I believe those claims were false.

If I have a function f and I call f(x, y, z), julia will compile a specialized method of f based on the types of x, y and z, and then will do type inference and build a computational graph for all the computations carried out by f, de-virtualizing and often inlining function calls inside the body of f.

If type inference was successful, all types are known throughout the computational graph and the language has just as many optimization opportunities available to it as a statically compiled language and is free to do as much or little theorem proving as is asked for. The only major difference is that if type inference fails, the program can still run instead of erroring. It will just lazily wait until it has enough information to compile the next method.

For instance, consider the following:

julia> f(x) = x + 2
f (generic function with 1 method)

julia> function g(x)
for i in 1:100
x = f(x)
end
x
end
g (generic function with 1 method)

julia> code_llvm(g, Tuple{Int})
define i64 @julia_g_17491(i64) {
top:
%1 = add i64 %0, 200
ret i64 %1
}

I defined a function f(x) = x + 2 and then put that function inside a simple loop in another function g and then asked for the compiled LLVM code for g if x is an Int64. The compiled code is simply x + 200 because the compiler was able to prove that those two programs are identical. Obviously this is a simple example, but I assure you, julia's compiler is able to do some pretty impressive theorem proving and program transformations by leveraging it's very powerful (yet dynamic) type system. I fully agree that type systems are fantastic for expressing programmer intent, but I do not believe that the type system needs to be static to get the behaviour one wants. Dynamic type systems are strictly more expressive after-all and it's nice to be able to fall back on dynamic behaviour.

Of course Swift offers opt-in dynamism whereas in julia it's more just that a programmer is expected to write statically inferrable code if they want performance optimizations comparable to static languages. This is just a question of what defaults one prefers, but I think in many scientific and exploratory contexts, julia's default is preferable.
FWIW you can run non-headlessly: https://docs.browserless.io/docs/chrome-flags.html#setting-h...
Fixed article link: https://quanticdev.com/articles/software-engineer-compensati...
One way to do that would be to monitor SMSes for 2FA codes. This can be easily done on Android and iOS. The app can run the payments flow in a phanthomjs esque environment and read off 2FA values from the SMS inbox, and bam! Payment done. Also, there are other options for authorizing recurring payments but at fixed amt, and paper work can't be avoided.
The hospitalization occurs later in the chain. This time period could be compared with February. In a month hopitalizations will be up.

The case count is very misleading. The maximum number of new cases is limited by the maximum number of tests processed. Current figure is 700/cases 40,000 tests. The only way to increase the 700 cases is to increase maximum tests processed daily or pick more likely positive people to admin the test to. There could be 100,000 getting sick each day but the case count will only reflect a shadow of that information.
Query performance is critical. Insert perf is a comparatively minor concern.

Even so, there are a few factors to consider:

- Half second dedupes are for users with 100k+ events, which is <<1% of them.

- We batch events for ~5s before adding them to the cluster, so we aren't deduping for every event -- only once per ~5s of events per user.

If this becomes an issue, we can remove the deduping from normal operation and only call it when we're backfilling / updating events. Even so, we still need this function to exist, and the 100x performance improvement is very helpful.
It is a great experience to setup arch. It is relatively straightforward and easy to maintain. The only reason I eventually switched away from arch was because of the lack of signed packages, which was a big issue to a security-paranoid person like me. If you're just going to run chrome, go with a lightweight WM such as dwm.
So this is going to be aggregating all communication in Facebook?

Sounds great - the problem is that it's Facebook arguing they should be able to do the aggregating but will take active steps to stop anyone else from doing said aggregating (say, suing companies that combine multiple social networking streams).
I agree, but that having been said, my email gets to me faster than either IM or SMS nowadays with Gmail's push.
It depends on your point of view.

According to the video on their blog post, their team thinks it's somewhat broken that you have to keep a mental lookup table in your head of the contacts in your life and the best way to reach them - who you should send a SMS to in order to get their attention, who you should email, who you should send a Facebook message, etc. They want to provide an easier and unified face for personal messaging.

Personally I like the idea.
"You're worried that this system allows the stalkers and mooches in your network to ruin your future plans. But remember, you are only broadcasting your plans to people you specify. If you choose to tell a stalker where you'll be, don't blame the application when you get stabbed."

Getting stabbed would be my own fault, but being afraid to post plans in fear of getting stabbed is certainly the application's fault.
C is a simple language if you ignore all the traps, pitfalls, gotcha's, corner cases, and exceptions to the rules.

By that measure, maybe Brainfuck is a simple language too. But I wouldn't want to actually program in it when there are so many sane alternatives available.
The researchers find that the workers who were paid upfront were significantly more productive, making 6.2% more plates per hour. The biggest effect was seen with the poorest workers.

Great, they made 6.2% more plates; what a win for capitalism! Shuffle around the payroll, no change in $$, and boom increased productivity.

Here's the study:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28338
Perhaps you don't know that HN imposes a character limit on the title, and hence I couldn't post the whole headline? (Also, curious - what country did you think the headline was talking about?)
I presume most of today’s stock owners are actually owners of 401k account which invests in something like Vanguard Target retirement fund. As a result, they know pretty much nothing about stocks, yet they do own them.
1. I did not know that, thanks! (I meant that it was invented by the modern polyamory community sometime in the last decade or two, more than specifically by Rationalists, but I was wrong about that, too.)

2. But, interestingly enough, if you read about the Kerista Commune that coined the term (a hippie commune, more or less, in the Haight in the 1970s onwards), among their precepts is this:

> 12. Rational Approach to All Things -This includes mystical and emotional phenomena; No acceptance of lapsing into irrational self-identity.

and later version of their precepts included these:

> 3. Rationality - Using reason and logic are basic approaches in all conversation, behavior, and inquiry; no acceptance of strong feelings, mystical intuition or unreasonable statements are being truth of any truth.

> 4. The Search for Truth through the Elimination of Contradictions - Working definition of truth: a very large body of premises which do not contradict each other. Contradictions between stated beliefs and actions, between two people's different versions of the same event, or anything else are encountered and analyzed to discover the most accurate picture of reality.

They were certainly a separate group from the present-day Rationalists linked to Yudkowsky et al., but I think their approach to handling their own feelings may have been very similar, and they definitely took the counter-culture approach of not finding society's previous acceptance of a norm of any value in evaluating the worth of that norm. I suspect the "Polyhacking" document would not have been out of place among the Keristans.

(As for schadenfreude, it's true that English doesn't have a native word for it, but it's certainly well-documented as an emotion throughout history - Psalm 35 talks about enemies who sneer, rejoice wrongfully, and maliciously wink, while saying, "Aha, aha!" One modern translation identifies what they do as gloating, which seems to be substantially similar. And apparently Aristotle had a term for it, epichairekakia: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...)
> It's why we have not just one but several safe and effective vaccines, for example.

Well, if I were to follow your skeptical line of thinking, I'd say that vaccines are never safe/effective, they simply have a confidence interval attached to them. Furthermore, vaccines made using novel processes have no long term data. Its never this simple :)

You see, we can't really apply such logic to every day decisions. The 'error bar' you referred to is of little benefit here, and also subject to the same skepticism. Its useful when you know a high percentage of the the variables, and all the mechanisms where data can be wrong/insufficient, etc. But you can't know that when you know so little of the pathogen. Its turtles all the way down :)

Also, HEPA masks cannot filter out COVID-19 (~ 100nm). HEPA filters, or sterile filters in general are roughly around 0.2um (200nm).

(source: works in biotech on vaccines)
Where did you see that they used NAS? Their preliminary results show it works even for the baseline model

they did a lot of manual hyperparameter optimization, and spend a fair amount of time unpacking the rationale for their choices, including a negative results section (!) in the appendix
> 8M adults, 300k gun permits.

This assumes that everyone carrying a gun has a permit to do so.
I have this old KVM system I occasionally need to access. It is pretty old, so it's primary access method is a java browser plugin and those have been removed from every modern browsers.

Luckily, it still has that JNLP link, so I was able to get it to work. I am really glad that JNLP exists, and that they didn't use OS-specific bundle -- I am sure the latter would have been Windows only, and I don't run it.
The problem is surge pricing isn't solving the underlying problem (i.e, undersupply of drivers). Uber recently moved to a model where the driver bonuses are disconnected from the actual surge amount: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/09/uber-ly...

Presumably if surge was focused on maximizing completed trips, then the goal is to find a price that matches riders to drivers.

In reality, riders are more interested in riding than drivers are in driving (this is how we got into this situation in the first place). You can easily charge 2x surge without killing demand, but supply won't rise by the corresponding amount.

Uber found a way to take advantage of this - fixed bonuses to attract the same amount of supply as before, but now surge is an independent variable that they can fine-tune to demand.

Your ride quality isn't improving with surge pricing, it's just getting more expensive.
Ironically I would argue concurrency is the ONE place where a gnawing intolerance of ambiguity might actually be a good thing ;)

(As broken concurrency is one of the worst forms of Heisenbug)
Scare quotes? Reality? Facts? Are we having the same discussion here?

There are limitations to science.
Honestly, the public interest in the free software movement was always about developers not wanting to jump through N legal/business hoops to use software or figure out how something worked. The most aggressive licenses helped this for a time by forcing corporations to participate. The software industry without open-source is like Automotive Engineers not seeing how cars work.

The other stuff seems kinda BS.
Strongly disagree. While “alter ego” helps short term it just delays the reckoning and imposter syndrome for later and leads to identity issues and confusion. Take the hard path in the present and watch it get easier later
You can self-host and use a mobile 4G/5G modem for the outgoing connections from SearXNG: the IP address is going to be shared between different users (at least with IPv4).
It's a limited access highway, not an ordinary road with at grade intersections and inadequate sight lines.
For that Podman provides a nifty little trick: `podman generate systemd`[0] which allows you to generate systemd unit files for your pods and/or containers.

Once generated and enabled, your pods/containers act as systemd services that can be started, stopped etc.

[0]: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate-sy...
The classic example of this is the 'manure crisis' at the end of the 19th century. Since commerce and transportation over land and in cities usually required horses at that time, a simple calculation in 1894 by the Times of London forecasted that every street in London would be covered in 9 feet of horse manure by 1950. http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2010/04/weve-recently-had-some-di...
When the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR was dismembered in 1989, there was a peaceful transition to democracy in my country, Hungary.

A lot of people say that "we should have made a revolution", what they mean is that the "free", externally imposed peaceful transition may not have been the best thing in the long run.

Now that I'm older, approaching 30, I'm learning what this mean. Basically, we got rid of the soviets, we got ourselves a democracy, but the political and economic system hasn't changed enough. We have very high levels of debt, we don't have good politicians or political parties, we have lots of corruption, high and constantly changing taxes, high administrative overhead, the so-called redistribution factor is 50% (meaning every second dollar produced is eaten up by the gov't and then redistributed to its network of "friendly" companies through gov't jobs, projects and grants or sent abroad to pay interest). Yesterday I went to a meeting where I learned that the buzzword "innovation" is defined in hungarian state documents as getting a gov't grant and then doing something with that.

We're doing a startup, and one of the first question we usually get is "which grant did you get?". When we say we didn't, that we bootstrapped ourselves people think we're crazy.

I don't know whether we would have been better off with a not-so-peaceful transition, and nobody wants violence in their country, but we definitely need some kind of politico-economic "revolution". Unfortunately, I'm beginning to think we don't have the necessary political resources (good people on the state side) for that. I don't think a smart and good-intentioned person today goes into politics here.

So, based on my experiences here --- given how much they're behind economically, politically and technically --- unless the North Koreans overthrow Kim Jong-il themselves, they're pretty much fucked for the next 50-100 years, because no externally imposed force will magically fix their system for free. Their best bet is to unite with South Korea in a painful way (eg. forget their own laws, taxes, gov't agencies and crappy gov't run companies, which means tons of people loose their job, and adopt what they have in South Korea), the way East Germany united with West Germany.

Of course, I'm just a programmer, so what do I know =)
I initially left those out because I thought I might be unduly biased towards them, but have added them as an edit.
Ok, cool, you've got my cursor. Do you have any ideas on what to add to steam stats on that site somewhere? I'm an avid steam (mostly valve) gamer myself, and I like to keep track of accuracy, headshots, etc. What would you add?
Unification would definitely be preferable to the status quo. I’m only saying that no government in the world would be happy about actually having to implement an unification with North Korea. South Korea’s economy would struggle tremendously, even with the large amounts of foreign aid that will probably come flooding in. But, as InclinedPlane said in response to my comment, “if it has to be done it has to be done.”
> As a feminist, this body-hating rhetoric infuriated me. The willing participation in the denial and degradation of my bodily needs smacked of misogyny, patriarchal control and violence against the female body, and everything that I fight against.

Huh? So somebody who willingly does not eat animal products despite the health issues is misogynistic? What does this have to do with sexes?

> I refuse to play the game that so many women (vegan or not) are forced to play by our violently woman hating society; I will never feel shame or guilt for eating what my body wants and needs to be healthy.

It seems like veganism is not her only problem...
"6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."

It's quite an unambiguous grant. Not only patents, but of whatever other instrument that could be used to remove the right to redistribute verbatim or modified versions in accordance to the rest of the license.

It was never tested on court. This can be a reason.
I would add,

5. China topples the NK regime and offloads the starving nation onto South Korea. That would ensure the end of Korean competition for decades, as the economic price of reunification would be humongous, yet the Koreans would not be able to turn this offer down.
I like the new system. It discourages winning an argument with numbers. 20 people upvoted the previous comment so that guy must be right.
>> The original article seems to base this on the flawed assumption talent and choice of tools are not related.

The article does say they could be related:

"Another possibility is that super-programmers are attracted to Lisp."

That would be a strong correlation. However, the article is about causality, though. If the truth is that

Programming talent -> Choose Lisp

Then it is not necessarily the case that

Choose Lisp -> Programming talent
Netflix allows you to stream on up to 6 devices but only allows recommendations for one user. My moms crappy dramas and my action/adventure movies usually lead to Netflix giving the highest rating to Anime movies, a category no one in my family watches. After down voting some films it becomes obnoxious. I would rather sit on my couch and flip from CNN to FOX news at that point. Netflix is annoying at best.
Using Lisp the same way as you do other languages isn't any more difficult than using the other languages, after you learn the syntax and the basic tools of course. It's what you can do after you've learnt the basics that sets Lisp apart.

In other words: the beginning of the learning curves of Lisp vs. other languages are about the same. Lisp's curve just continues after that.
I just wanted to let you know that based on your synopsis, I went out and bought an Asimov short story collection that contains this story. I've read one other Asimov collection and I enjoyed it, so I figured it was time to read another.
I didn't even notice they were gone at first...