jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I assumed that was clear. I'm specifically referring to any relationship where one party has distinctly more power than the other. This includes bureaucrats, police, politicians, managers, c level, teachers, HR, advertising companies, the list goes on and on. Everyone's angling for more at the expense of everyone around them and that's the accepted status quo. Taking a step back to think about this and it's like everyone's on crazy pills.
Howdy. So, you're not wrong. The promise of psychadelic use in therapy is not that it "cures" the patient of their depression, or even gives them relief. The drug is not the drug. The "drug" is the experience that they allow the patient to have. You talk about modern humans lacking connectivity, proper diet, connection with nature, meaning---the psychadelic in question allows your brain to observe it's own memories, emotions, desires, and traumas more objectively and allows a perspective where change is possible.

The default paths your brain takes when making decisions are obscured or flattened out, so you have more possibilities. If someone has depression, guilt, and ruminates on trauma psychadelics allow you to confront that trauma without the manufactured personality our ego has created to deal with the trauma. Viewing something objectively, or even subjectively but from a different perspective can vastly alter your "sober" perspective of that trauma / event / emotion.

tl;dr: Think of psychadelics as a tool that can allow the mind to introspect objectively
Some high-end CG applications do not work acceptably under nouveau. If I must use those applications for my job, and thus must use the proprietary Nvidia driver, then I will. It is NOT my choice at that point, I am effectively forced into it. I wish Nvidia were nicer, but I also have to do my job. And no, using a non-Nvidia video card isn't an acceptable solution either, in some cases.
Greenpeace isn't that influential, the reality is that the economics of nuclear never added up.

Also, there really is something off-putting about leaving behind waste that lasts longer than civilisation has.
I'll give you the best interviewing experience I had as some inspiration for improving it. (I have had far more with people wasting time or rejecting technical tests because of ridiculous reasons than pleasant experiences).

The interviewer asked me to bring in a laptop with some code I could discuss. I did, we discussed. He asked me some questions, I added a simple feature at his request. No time wasted on my part (ok, I was in a position that I had code I could bring in). It was code I knew, so no gotcha or anything fancy. Relaxed, friendly, the interviewer learned something rather than trying to one up me.

Like I say the only downside I can see to this approach is that people may not have a side project that they can share easily. In which case they will have to do the equivalent work of a normal technical test. So the worst case scenario using this method is the same as the standard scenario.
Throw in Delorean-style gullwing doors for good measure. It's already stainless steel. And vertical takeoff and landing. SpaceX can do that too.
I just recently saw the video of the guy picking up trash with a claw/grabber and being told to drop his 'weapon'. Several police showed up to stop this threat from cleaning his property. Luckily though, no one was shot, and the officer that started it all resigned.
During the recent Microsoft Azure AD outage, I attempted to use the chat widget. Selecting "Technical support" or "Billing Support" both seemed to return 500 status codes while the "Sales Support" routed somewhere else and connected me to a person, perfectly fine. Presumably the sales team don't use Azure for anything.
It would be hidden amongst a big refactor, and it would have a bunch of unit and integration tests that all work correctly (because they do set the environment variables correctly).

Writing code that appears to do one thing and actually does another is very doable - you only need to hide one malicious line amongst thousands in a code review, while the reviewer needs to inspect every line.

Besides, the vast majority of code reviews are 10 minutes or less.
Personally I disagree. There is far less friction within an organization to fill a VP job with someone who is currently (or once was) a VP, rather than "taking a chance" with a candidate who has never previously held that title. Further, I have very rarely seen interviewers actually take the time to learn what your responsibilities are, let alone determine that they are representative of a title other than the one you have.
And I believe this slang came from Slashdot, which is like the Hacker News forum in the decade before Hacker News
I think it can be solidly extended to any reverse concept. squaring ... easy. square roots: non trivial. or even in programming, with the symmetry of one way programming (imperative or functional) and relational (kanren).

Oh ... I guess it may all boil down to bijective systems
I haven't had time to get very far into the author's Generic Algorithms book yet, but what I did read definitely exceeded my expectations.

https://pragprog.com/titles/smgaelixir/genetic-algorithms-in...

Really looking forward to where this goes with the Erlang 24 JIT and Elixir Nx. It's amazing all the work that's been going into performance.
That’s...now how any of this works. You can’t just change integrity-bearing things without FIM systems kicking in. And you’d need collusion to get something mainlined that would bypass that.
Wow, just learned this has an anti-stalking feature, which notifies you if a tag has been found in your vicinity and appears to be following you around. [1]

However, you only get a notification if you have an Apple device...so it's still possible to stalk someone using this technology if they're on Android.

1: https://youtu.be/kEhtM7YGSQc?t=656
Trying to figure out how this would work, the website doesn't really tell you anything.

Are you fronting this money or during the sign up process you have to bridge your phone number with a wallet, maybe you're generating the wallets/tied to this phone # and they have to load it up... it sounds cool/intuitive to use a phone number.

I'd be concerned with theft too like sim jacking though not sure how often that happens.

Are they going to get a text from blockpay saying "you received coin amount".

Yeah... phone #'s interesting but seems like you still have equal difficulty somewhere else unlike old way of scanning QR code/transferring that way.

Also idk how many lay people use crypto or if they have it it's through something like Coinbase/RH/CApp.
How do I turn it off?
Please!
Please!
That would be cool. Is anybody doing that now?

Initially "incentivize" people to submit year/make/model, then repair/parts/labor and build up a database of prices (later users would do the same thing with estimates).

I believe labor rates are the same across repairs so you could split that out as the dealer's standard rate. Add service reviews, etc.
> how could you begin to evaluate the net result

It's not always easy to estimate large prices . . . that doesn't mean there isn't one.

> Continuing with the hypothetical, the species that will disappear would have prevented a global pandemic that wipes out all of humanity

I can see why you would factor that into your estimate, considering there have been so many species to go extinct so far that have had that property.

The difference between your part of the hypothetical and mine is that mine is a likely understatement of the costs for your demand, and yours is a likely overstatement of the value of an extinct species.

Let's put it another way where quibbles over estimates and hypotheticals would not come into play. You said that the minimum you would accept for one extinct species is world peace. That means that any less value than world peace per extinct species is not sufficient.

So if I were to offer you world peace in exchange for two extinct species, you would presumably turn that offer down. Say, this species of mussels and a species of bottle fly. Now I very much doubt that this is actually true: you seem to be more than capable of putting two and two together. But it does mean that your claim that world peace was your minimum price for an extinction was false.
Depends on what you're writing about. For a while, I never used the email posts, because it wasn't adequate to handle my code blogging. That's changed since Chris implemented markdown.

If you just write text and post pictures, email is great.
> All WSB does now is magnify the winners/pumpers while leaving trail of poor people without their money.

That's all it ever was from my observation from around the same time; they shill the most absurd stock with emojis and brag about taking losses with diamond hands, but somehow discussing Bitcoin as an actual way to counter-act the ills of the 'hedgies' or central banks was banned so I lost interest.

I occasionally drop back in for certain things.

Like the ape statue at Wallstreet in front of the bull and buying kids those switches was cool, though.

But those incidents were always the exception, not the rule.
I wonder if this could really be harnessed in China as a weapon.
"Seriously, iTunes, does anyone still use you?"

What do you use instead of itunes?
I hear what you're saying but to me the advantage of ABP has been never having to see its preferences. I've used it for many years and I can't remember ever going into the preferences for any reason.

I've said this before but being a habitual user of noscript I feel that all I really need from an adblocker is to skip those annoying youtube commercials. Everything else noscript handles pretty well. So I'll have to see if uBlock can do that for me.
Yup. And they're tremendously useful (and the reason I don't normally need a db workbench tool). However, at a past employer, I inherited an absolutely awful CMS/fulfillment system/CRM hybrid that was bad at all parts of it's purpose.

It proved to be dramatically more efficient to have a full blown DB tool just dedicated to exploring and interfacing with that monstrosity's database and have my regular PyCharm instance for code dev and light touches against the DB.

Additionally, at another time it proved nearly impossible to get the IDE db explorer to work properly with the jdbc drivers for a couple of large-scale hosted data lakes, but was rather straightforward in DataGrip. I have no clue why it was an issue with the explorer in PyCharm, but since I got it working in DataGrip I rather quickly moved on and accepted that I was gonna use DataGrip for the data lakes.

That said, I definitely love the db explorer feature, and recommend everyone take a look at it if you're already using a JetBrains product.

Also, just another shout-out to JetBrains again for their hybrid subscription/lifetime ownership license approach, demonstrating that paid software can exist in the realm of linux systems and that you can make a successful company without resorting to bleeding your customers dry over subscription fees.
That's false economy when at the same time we wasted billions on a self propelled artillery platform that was obsolete before it was designed and building stealth bombers at $2B a copy. All to face a Soviet threat that had just vaporized.
SpaceX is water and whatsapp is diamonds?
I am well aware of the language situation in Italy, and I hesitated a bit before using it as an example. I probably should have qualified my use of the word "dialect" as you rightly point out. I do remind people from time to time that the regional languages in Italy are languages in their own right, and indeed the "dialects" spoken in Italy don't form a natural subgroup of the Romance languages, either (Piedmontese and Lombard are probably closer to the subgroup of the Western Romance languages that includes French rather than the one that contains Italian). But for my point here the distinction between languages and dialects is not important. The point is that in all of Italy, regardless of the local dialect or regional language, people are taught standard Italian. If we divide Italy, the Southern half is not going to switch to, say, Neapolitan, or the Northern half to Lombard, in spite of the rich literary traditions of these regional languages.

The situation in Korean is not qualitatively different, either. For instance, the Jeju "dialect" (now sadly moribund) is definitely not mutually intelligible with other dialects of Korean some authorities would insist on classifying it as a separate language. Even the mainland dialects (as they are traditionally considered as opposed to distinct languages) are considerably different from each other, not just in lexical items but in the existence of different grammatical categories (e.g. distinguishing between yes/no and wh-questions), morphology (the conjugation of verbs and adjectival verbs is all different), and phonology (different consonant and especially vowel inventories, different stress/pitch systems), to the degree that I wonder how much communication would be possible if it had not been for the imposition of standard Korean.

I used Italy as an example instead of the U.S., because it is a stretch to say that the U.S. has different dialects as the speech is quite uniform across the vast country compared to what you see in Korea; or the U.K., where the existence of Scots complicates the analogy. I did not intend to minimize the diversity of regional languages in Italy.
Any idea when / if you will be able to offer the service to countries other than US and Canada?
You have to share it to get it for free. You are free to purchase it privately after today.
Yes, there is no free lunch. Patrick shares some really valuable info and shares his approach. Don't you find that valuable enough to share a tweet about, especially since you can delete the tweet right afterwards? If the tweet is too much, just wait and pay for it when it comes on sale for a price.

I highly recommend watching the videos.
No question that they want it-- I'd agree that they are likely to build it themselves. Apple historically doesn't buy too many businesses (beyond the occasional talent grab).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
Personal responsibility can never be outsourced.
If one does not want to lose something, one makes an independent backup.
Google or whoever offers a probabilistically reliable system at a certain price. If one does not like the odds, pay a little more for another backup. Recurse. (Or just curse when data is lost.)
I think those are a couple different trajectories there. 37Signals/FogCreek both have modestly successful sidelines attached to massively successful software businesses. DHH is not going home at night thinking "Bwahaha, forget Basecamp, another book and I'll have to rent Lichtenstein to park my fleet of sports cars." Amy & Thomas have gone from consulting to info products to SaaS (concurrent with info products/training) and I will eat my hat if the SaaS doesn't eventually swallow the rest of their business because the economics of it are just so freaking compelling. I don't have a good guesstimate of Rob's numbers.

For my part, the trajectory was different: modestly successful product (and ancillary blogging/community participation) lead to lucrative consulting opportunities and gave me enough runway to do a SaaS which will probably eventually swallow any availability for consulting (like it did for 37Signals, FogCreek, etc).
The zone is something I'm very familiar with and have been aware of for a long time, even before programming. To me, the zone is a product, not only of complex problem-solving, but also, high creativity (but perhaps these are one and the same). By day, I'm an architect (as in physical buildings), and I often find myself in the zone particularly in early design, when thinking very big picture and developing new concepts; asking myself questions like..
- what are the different components of hte project
- how do they relate to each other
- how do they fit into the existing infrastructure
- how does it change the existing
- what is the experience of each type of user
- how do these experience differ from expectation (good or bad)
- how do these new relationships and interactiosn affect the business model

just to name a few... So these are a lot of questions to handle all at once. I find myself asking suprisingly similar questions now that I'm coding/designing. The basic principles of physical space don't differ much from web space. My analogy for this sort of juggling is an image of a person standing one-legged on a ball with a stack of plates on his head and juggling an array of different objects.

When I'm in the zone, my mind is hyper-extended and I tune everything else out. I often won't even answer someone who comes up to speak to me. In college, my mother would call me and I wouldn't answer for hours. She'd get angry and say.. you couldn't spare 5 minutes? 5 minutes means having to drop all the things I'm juggling, fall off the ball and break the stack of plates on my head.

In the most extreme cases, when in the zone for extended periods of time, I've forgone eating and sleeping (no caffeine needed in the zone), without any ill effects until snapping out of zone, which ends in a crash.
What makes this different to the dozen or so other services that already provide temporary e-mail addresses?
How big do you make the receiving queue on the client's side? How many instructions past #1 can it store while waiting for #1?
I'm struck by how these pilots (chilling in itself that it's happened enough times to count as its own group) are described as being suicidal. While technically true, it detracts from the greater truth that they are mass-murderers. If someone shot up a mall and killed 150 people then ate a bullet, would we describe them as suicidal?

I don't have a greater point I suppose, but it seems worth thinking about. Except, perhaps-- how do you go about 'screening' for inclination to mass-murder?
I can also vouch for mailinator, it's a brilliant service.

Also, if you just need quick access to a site, you probably don't even need to make an account. Just go to the 'forgot my password' page and put in sitename@mailinator.com - someone may have previously created an account through mailinator, you can just grab the new password in the email and sign in :)
I've been using http://10minutemail.com/ for years now. It's not pretty, but it works and I can't recall any of the generated addresses ever being rejected.
Because it's a value judgement and one at least worth considering so it's not idiotic.
I mean maybe the decision to lockdown for many many months is better but we are least need to try to estimate how many lives it saves in comparison to just letting it run and hope big the economic cost is.
I don't think it is a matter of you being a good or bad programmer. If their setup is working for them and you don't like it then it's just a bad match.
Bo, because that is a false choice.

The answer is instead to support human rights and freedoms, and fight back against attempts to take away our freedoms no matter who is trying to take them away.
In many countries, WhatsApp equals texting, period. No one will use sms, among other things because they're not free (~20 cents per message, character limited, no multimedia).

The reality is that WhatsApp is a requirement for social life. Any solution that doesn't start from that point lacks any practicality.
of course every cpu designer is using real world workloads to guide design
Sort of; Intel and AMD are stuck with the variable width instruction isa that exists due to historical evolution. To do something different you need a new isa.

Intel tried this with Itanium a while back and failed because it is difficult to get software developers to target a new isa and provide compilers and compiled code for everything unless you use a translation layer.

Apple is one step ahead here because their compilers already supported ARM isa (because iPhones use them) and had both the OS and apps ready to go from day one of availability.

They also had translation technology that would allow mutating x86_64 code to ARM64 code so that old apps would (on the whole) run acceptably fast on the new chip.

To do the latter properly, Apple had to create a special mode to run the arm chip with total store order for memory writes, which is not standard on arm. (It would be a lot slower if they didn’t have that when running Rosetta translated code.)

So both the OS being available, and the OS influencing the ARM tweaks (eg TSO) could they pull it off.

They also have the position that they build hardware that uses those chips so can mass produce - and in fact, replace - existing hardware.

Each of these things could be done in isolation by Intel/Windows/Apps but it would be difficult to do all three.

Even getting JavaScript maths in a special instruction was difficult enough on Intel, and that was something of benefit to any browser.

My guess is you’ll see Intel and AMD offering Arm chips in the near
future, as both AWS (graviton) and Apple have shown the way to a new ARM future.
> the vast majority of people who died this past year died of something else.

Given that no single cause of death is more than 50% of deaths, this is true for any cause of death.
Is this Riot rebranded? Huh, it seems I'm out of the loop.

Yeah, Matrix is great. I was probably among the first people to install Riot, but the grim reality is nobody (well, one geek-friend of mine and his wife) uses Matrix. Look, even I was surprised when you mentioned "Element": thought it must be some new messenger I didn't hear about...

But I'd surely rather like people to promote Element here, not Signal.
Great interview with Sacca - highly recommended. Thanks for posting.
This seems fishy about this article:
He is making 45,000 rubles ($700) for a 12 hours shift in Saint Petersburg. With his English knowledge skills alone he can easily make double that money just by working as a translator in a regular 8 hour job.
4 declines and you are out.
correlation causation blah.

playing devils advocate, imagine how much more we would have grown had the financial system been unregulated.
This is really an interesting article. I will be watching for the book as I also find that her works is really unappreciated despite blowing student's minds when learning about the theorem.
Most of people commenting like this ("'they' can't possibly pay for that unless it makes some kind of ROI") have not experienced business at scale.

Beyond a certain scale of business, sales and marketing management at those levels sometimes becomes very abstract, and relies as much upon suppositions as actual data. This is why brand marketing still exists, even though far more accurate and precise quantitative methods are available now.

Call center cold calling has a miserable return rate, but for some at scale businesses, it need not actually yield a measurable, tangible, positive return to justify its existence. For some businesses, simply the act of making the cold call itself is sufficient justification, because it puts the business' name "top of mind" in the public.

One of Graeber's points is that businesses engage in these activities because the management in decision-making positions at these businesses believe that if they do not engage in these activities, their competitor who does will gain a competitive edge. Most such activities are to generate some kind of constant, dim awareness of the brand name in the buying public.
Yeah I think the distortion makes it look really cool, like a new way to experience Quake.