skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps Thoreau can shed some light[1]:

"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. ... There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically."

[1] http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/walden/hdt01.html
My late father was addicted to Percocet / Percodan for much of his life after being severely wounded in the Korean War and then followed by the prostate cancer that was his ultimate demise. In the 90s, his doctor switched him to Oxycontin because of its ease of dosage (it's hard to remember when you took your last pill when you're high). Neither I nor his doctors knew that this 12 hour claim was just so that Purdue could defend its patent, despite the studies (according to this article) that pointed to it lasting far less than 12 hours.

Reading this article now helps me to better understand the pain and suffering he endured from these drugs and now give me insight into the lengths he went to for "rescue" medication, which included doctor shopping and paying retail price for more than half of his meds so that his insurance company wouldn't report him to the state or DEA (he did get caught eventually).

It boggles my mind to think how an industry whose purpose is to help people can become so corrupt and I wonder whether there is any hope of this getting better before it gets much worse. With the mainstream media playing enabler, it's doubtful it will ever happen (name the last news broadcast that wasn't wrapped end to end in big pharma advertising).
Just because investors are no longer willing to blindly shovel cash into the furnace that is SV's pointless startup culture, doesn't mean they will similarly slow down investments into innovative technology companies that have promising products, real revenue and strong visions.

Press loves to generalize. Doesn't make it true.
It were small mole kind of mammals in their ground holes. Something like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat - this one has very low metabolic rate for example.
Just start using it in all your marketing material.
There are philosophers doing experimental work in conjunction with neuroscientists, e.g. the Churchlands and Metzinger.
If it really does respond to treatment, then fine.

But though the article doesn't go into this, it's hard to imagine that the doctors who consider ENS to be probably psychogenic haven't attempted to treat it with antidepressants etc. If that had worked in all cases, Dr. Houser wouldn't have had to develop an implant to mimic the lost turbinate, and indeed, this article wouldn't have been written at all.

So we have more than a little reason to think that ENS doesn't always respond to psychiatric treatment -- I'm sure there's more written about this if we cared to dig it up -- and proves resistant often enough to make at least a few doctors think there's something else going on. And then arkades waltzes in here and dismisses all of that.
Basically, if you give yourself freedom to act on your impulses then your impulses will own you. Managers are supposed to be the rational decision makers. That cannot be true of every manager. In my opinion, if each person acted rationally we would not need any managers and we would only have to deal with one tyranny: rationality.
'Troll' used to be people that disrupt conversations and are generally a nuisance. It is now used to silence dissenting opinions and create forums and communities that essentially have singular viewpoints.

We are going backwards in terms of the freedom of speech.
I had a friend whose Macbook Pro started kernel panicking every time he exited emacs, completely reliably. A rather bizarre problem that persisted for months on his device, through some updates, but we couldn't replicate on another machine. Some kind of weird hardware issue? Corrupted software somewhere not detected by integrity checks? No idea. But these days, kernel panics and BSODs tend to originate from odd edge-case problems like that.

(And yes, the joke "but why would you ever exit emacs?" was said many times)
I'm in the middle of reading "Reinventing Organisations" and it's absolutely wonderful. It examines a handful of organisations that are doing it differently (including Holocracy) and takes notes about how their techniques compare and what they might have in common.

It's basically the blueprints towards building the next most efficient organisation. I highly recommend it. http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/
My understanding that it's per shard. So if you never partition, only one lambda function will run at a time.

Kinesis might be a good solution if you wanted to use this code to run a Disqus-scale service with millions of blogs. Not much would need to change.
> Spending your life building things, immersed in a study of some sort, or simply enjoying time with your family and friends doesn't seem like a bad deal to me.

Well, at least your brain chemistry thinks so. And eventually some mixture of idiots and bullies will be in charge of the people you love and things you created. And, if not, there's always the heat death of the universe to look forward to. Or the next supervirus if you're impatient.
Never mind the bus pass: punks look back at their wildest days
Congress is broke and the tech companies know it and optimize against this and will continue to make hay while the sun shines (i.e. before the US produces any effective consumer privacy legislation).
Affordable Care Act co-creater Ezekiel Emanuel, MD PhD, health economist Victor Fuchs, and Peter Orszag, former OMB director all have stated that the increased state Medicaid costs caused by the ACA have lead to less funding for state funded public higher education. Thus, the ACA leads to even less funding for higher education.

Most developed countries that have universal care (eg, Canada, UK, France, ...) have high tobacco taxes to help pay for health care. The taxes help to pay for the increased health care costs of smokers while also helping smokers to quit.

Our Federal tax is $1.01.
Most Americans hate doing math, do not read for pleasure, and rarely write outside of work. That's not anywhere close to success. The most important skill for getting good at something is enjoying it, and our current educational system is actively counterproductive on that axis.
I think the attempted underwear bomber was after Reid. Here's the thing though: if you're trying to set something on fire or storm the cockpit or some other actually undesired behavior, it's not going to be some routine in an airline manual that stops you. It's going to be all your seat neighbors who are going to physically stop you because you're obviously a threat.

The real problem is these wildly unqualified citizen-Paul(ine)-Blarts who saw on an episode of Criminal Minds that looking up and left while writing non-ASCII characters is an indicator of terrorist intent. She essentially pulled the fire alarm on a bunch of people because she's an idiot. What she did is functionally no different than calling in a false report about some random passenger on a plane that's about to take off. She should have to pay a fine for all the time and resources she wasted with her little ruse (I'm sure she felt very clever when she conceived it).

Imagine a Richard Reid scenario where some guy beats the piss out of his seat neighbor because he thinks he's trying to bomb the flight. If he's right, he's a hero (and he should be applauded for stopping a bombing). If he's wrong and the guy was just tying his shoes, he gets charged with assault. This is a good thing, because we don't want people seeing physical violence as a cost free option.

Being too dumb to tell the difference between an episode of 24 and your boring ass day is not a tolerated excuse to physically assault people. It shouldn't be tolerated as a reason to call in false alarms either. I'm sick of stupid people being able to inflict massive amounts of inconvenience and even degrees of suffering with no consequences for being wrong.

* I realize that stupid is perhaps an imprecise and mean choice of words, but I can't come up with a better explanation for adults who cannot appropriately assess the threat posed by a nerdy Italian guy writing in a notebook who doesn't want to talk to them. I get that calling people stupid isn't a way to make them smarter, and that it can have a negative developmental impact for younger kids to view things in a smart/stupid fixed-talent paradigm, but we need to somehow bring back some of the cultural rejection for acting like a goddamn idiot. I don't really care if she gets smarter (though that would be nice), I have lower aims. I want her to be afraid to be wrong because actions should have consequences. If there's no cost incurred to this person (actually, she'll probably be praised for her "vigilance" by people she respects) where do we draw the line?
Frivolous office decorations and perks can be tolerated so long as one avoids frivolous business decisions and products that are doomed to failure from the start.
I'm more concerned with job outcomes and long term career prospects than the course itself though.
Looks to me like it tumbled end over end, the front probably took the brunt of the impact and the rear took at least one hit.
> Eventually, your choices are nihilism or God

Why are those my only choices? I am neither a nihilist nor a theist. I'm just kind of enjoying being alive while it lasts. Do you think I'm doing it wrong?
Yeah, you don't click on weird emails and don't go to sketchy websites. Try managing IT security for an enterprise of 10,000 employees. A/V will save your ass hundreds of times every single day.

Computer professionals rarely understand the use case for A/V precisely because they are not the use case. In most all applications, A/V serves first as a safeguard against stupid user behavior, and only second as a safeguard against more advanced penetration (and in the latter case, one with only rare success). I'd bet that the #1 way enterprises are getting breached is still malicious email attachments, that's certainly true in my experience.
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This reminds me of one particular video by Adam Curtis (he uses Serkov as an example, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyop0d30UqQ
On the other hand its a standard procedure performed on many people. And if anxiety after surgery is common, then there is a good chance he will find enough people on the internet that they will already have formed a theory about this.

I had anxiety with panic attacks that had came with (for me) real physical (pain) experience for a few years. so I think that those people really need help, but not in the form of creating new disease-names for them. They need psychological treatment and maybe some physical 'placebo' treatment/surgery to cure them.

I got cured by telling myself over and over everything is okay, which felt like lying to myself.
So rare in the states. I have as far as I remember, I never had to prove I graduated anything. Some companies do background checks, maybe part of that is to call up the unis and ask if I graduated? No idea what the uni makes public, but I have definitely not had to hand in transcripts or anything.
I couldn't possibly prove that ENS will always respond to psychiatric treatment, and it's an absurd thing to even ask for in an argument. There's certainly evidence it sometimes works.

Beyond that, this is an obscure condition; this article may in fact be the most substantive thing ever written on it for a non-medical audience.
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A related point which has always bugged me... the html script tag has a type attribute. The only valid value, to this day, is "text/javascript".

Why oh why has no one written a runtime for the major browsers for others, say "text/python", "txt/golang", ... Anything other than javascript?

Once an alternative engine were in the major browsers they would hopefully take off as the world's hackers enhanced them.. and we could finally be freed from the shackles of a language designed in a weekend and bandaid-ed ever since.
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If you love React like most React lovers out there you love the team that makes Facebook, and you think everything they do is awesome and super cool: Flux, Flow, React Native, GraphQL and so on.

If not directly responsible, these people are at least accomplices of all the horrible things Facebook may be doing.
I don't thinking faking references is a good long term play.

So turns out you really get a great job, and get promoted to manager. Now HR hears a rumor and checks your application, finds out you lied. Guess what happens to your job?
> Also, plenty of devices not connected to the internet run Windows: ATM's, Billboard, Monitors, etc.

I hate to break it to you, but, in practice... these things are all typically connected to the internet.
Dual $300K income is achievable in households where they're both engineering or management professionals. But honestly, most of the people I know who've bought here have done so with the help of family money, eg. their parents plop down $500K for the down payment and they handle the mortgage.

Prices are also being driven up by a large number of foreign (largely Chinese) investment buyers. Their incomes are driven by all the Americans who buy goods manufactured in China, and so normal salaries don't apply.
Or maybe people with higher pain thresholds have more friends.
Seems like a very hard thing to suggest, really. I'm an atheist and nihilist and I've actually found myself to be _much_ less depressed than I was when I was an academically studied and strong christian. I've baptized, preached, converted, etc. I was like a superstar christian and now I'm an atheist and much much less prone to depression.

I feel like I don't attribute the depression as much to my religious affiliations or lack thereof as I do to my hormone levels settling down due to older age, but my specific experiences of religion did a lot to promote the idea that it's healthy to acknowledge your guilt in all things.
Right... so... if the coach is payed say less, than... could the students see a decrease in their tuition bill as the funds for the coach have freed up? Now, I am terrible at evaluating worth, especially for things as potentially complex as leading a sports team (was success due to the athletes? strategies? leadership? etc. Similarly for failure), but if Nick Saban is making 7.09 per year at Alabama, with a student population of 36k, the full salary divided by the population would be about $196 per year, which I am sure a student would love to see. (obviously my math is assuming full salary liquidation which is not realistic).
I think they are referring to the way Islamic fundamentalism is linked to all Islam practitioners/dark-skinned foreigners on the premise of race.

I.e. this guy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/iv...
i would say AI is today synonmous with algorithm that are automatically tuned given new data, and don't require changing their source code to perform better.
To all kinds of philosophers. It might sound pep-talk+patronizing but hear me out:

- What is science? natural philosophy!

- What is mathematics/computer-science? modern philosophy!

The journey from continental to analytic philosophy didn't end there. Today natural philosophy and modern philosophy are reaping the rewards of 'the culture of thinking' promulgated by the untiring work of philosophers of history and present.

If you feel any emptiness in your life, please consider spending time learning mathematics and/or programming. IMO it's the highest form of exploration of abstractions and information-structures.

You might ask? "but what's the point? and how does it help with unhappiness".

Well, here's the rub. The holy grail of computer-science is artificial intelligence!

There is a mad rush to achieve it from all walks of life and I believe it's going to happen very soon (within the next 10 to 30 years). You might want to be part of that!

What's the other big thing? biological longevity! There's an equally mad rush about to begin to extend healthy human lifespan to 100, 150, 200 years (and beyond) if possible.

AI and longevity don't end the existential gloom, but they change the game of which existential questions are asked.

There is another connection. The way math and CS is the natural continuation to analytic philosophy, transhumanism is the natural continuation to atheism! There is a connection because AI and longevity are exactly the two issues that are front and center in transhumanist thought.

Why transhumanism? Because once you're an atheist and an existentialist, and you realize there is no purpose in life, and that we make our own purpose, there are a few possible outcomes:

- nihilism/suicidal thinking (screw everything)

- religion (you go back to "thinking-less" life)

- absurdism (just accept the status-quo)

- superficialism (you give yourself some purpose just for the heck of it)

All four are unsatisfying. Well guess what, transhumanism is the fifth option. It challenges you that the drudgery of work (to make a living) and the thought of inevitable impending death (not to mention sickness and frailty) are at least as existentially significant as the meaning-of-life question (probably more so in the current state of human progress). It doesn't promise to answer the last one but it encourages to reach a life that is free of the first two.

Even if all of this is not convincing enough, consider one final thought. If we humans are biological machines programmed to have certain feelings and emotions which result in the existential gloom, and if we conquer our biology to get rid of sickness and death, what makes you think we would still be unable to switch off our feelings of existential gloom? feelings of boredom? What makes you think we won't be able to sleep as long as we want, instead of ending our life, and still have a shot at enjoying life when we wake up?

(P.S.: One parting word, space (the final frontier)!)
I've seen JSON like this many times, and I also hate it, but I'm hardly going to use jq to fiddle with JSON I've written myself.
Yeah, I'd love to see some data to support that theory. I know atheists are much less representative of the prison population and things like teen pregnancy - all things I would think would be strongly correlated with an unhappy population.
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The big advantages I see:

AWS ecosystem. Everyone is already running stuff here, or wants to.

Particularly data. If I have important stuff in RDS or Redshift I want to run my apps in a VPC next to that.

Managed service. I don't want to be responsible for etcd. I manage 150 clusters and counting. I couldn't do this without ECS and DynamoDB and their excellent SLAs.

I am aware GKE does this. When I use Kubernetes that's what I'll use.
It said I was posting too quickly (regardless of where I tried to post) and I hadn't posted anything in over 45 minutes. Maybe it goes up exponentially or something and I've just never run afoul of it before.
There's a lot of work done in analytical philosophy.

There's still good work being done in all different kinds of philosophy. See Thomas Nagel.
You're not a philosophy professor though. To steelman the OP a little, it's possible that spending your entire life grappling with seemingly unanswerable questions and not really getting anywhere could be pretty depressing.

Absurdism is great if you've got something to distract you from it...
What's particularly telling about how absolute fucking bullshit these "Top VC" explanations are is that fact that virtually every single one of their comments is in this abstract, passive voice-- they're all talking about some other company, some other fund. It's never their problem or their mistake. It's full of qualifiers. Be an adult and take responsibility for yourselves!

Examples:

- "the price of oxygen has increased..."

- "the VC's have been saying..."

- "the venture community has realized..."

- "investors are largely to blame..."

- "I won't name [the company], it's one we're not in..."

- "to make the business work you have to go deeper into the muscle..." (I don't have enough WTF's for this one)

- "A number of companies will fail..."

- "I would say will end in unhappy outcomes..."

- "There are good businesses..."

- "I've heard of companies..."

- "Companies have and are doing certain things..."

- "you can say that as values get more rational, things will get better..."
I'm unsure what point you're trying to make here.

[postings] on the Internet against anything religious [would be] 'racist'.

If not racist, what word would you use for attacking someone on the basis of their religion alone? I would add though, that since religion isn't always overtly displayed, people tend to judge religion on outward appearance, such as skincolor.

"who has actually had a fatwa declared against him, and faced death threats as a result of his support for equal marriage – to fundamentalists."

It's good that you put this into quotes, because it's not in the original article.

How is this any different than calling Trump 'Hitler' or a 'Nazi'?

How is what any different, exactly? Are you trying to excuse one example of repulsive behaviour based on even more repulsive behaviour?
Unclear and diffuse structure probably does insulate decision makers against legal action, blame, and other kinds of sanction though. It's the managerial equivalent of firing rockets from the roof of a hospital.
The "antidepressant screens" referred to here are in mice, not humans. The Nature paper is an amazing set of experiments that provide very compelling evidence that (2R,6R)-HNK is responsible for the antidepressant effects of ketamine in mouse models of depression, but Neuroskeptic is right that it's not clear that (2R,6R)-HNK is also responsible for the antidepressant effects of ketamine in humans. We know that mouse models of depression are not necessarily great; SSRIs seem to be more effective in mouse models than they are in humans.
To be honest I almost never comment on a HN post when I'm this uninformed, however here is my reasoning:

Since the crisis, people now have a much better idea of what's in mortgage-backed CDO's than they did during the bubble. The ratings agencies are also under much more scrutiny to properly classify the risk of these vehicles. On the consumer side of things, it's much harder to get a mortgage than it was before the crisis. Adjustable rate mortgages are much less common, don't have misleading intro rates, and don't make brokers sky-high commissions. I grew up in Miami in the bubble, and I remember every other radio ad was for no-questions-asked home loans. You just don't have that kind of culture now.
AMD are "supporting" OpenCL as in it works. If you compare the resources NVidia are putting into their deep learning support vs AMD it is miles ahead.

If you read between the lines of how dismissive AMD were of NVidia's work on self driving cars you can see they don't care about compute.

They are chasing the VR market, and that is fine.
That's the problem, I am afraid that of my academic "encounters" where about fake problems in order to get published or like you said to get hired etc.

Thank you for the advise, I agree that the discipline is not enough to make the decision.