skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Physically demanding doesn't necessarily mean heavy. Moving at a rapid pace for extended periods is considered physically demanding.

If you're in regular shape at 50 or 60, this is tiring but absolutely doable for a few days or weeks. I'd even argue that it's healthy to physically push yourself.

But someone else noted that these temp workers aren't expected to hit the same output.
Totally agree.

When I'm having a tough time over something non-trivial, and someone looks pained and says something like "that must be hard for you" I'm just thinking that's nice but are we friends or are you my psychologist?

If someone said damn that sucks! I went through similar situation X and approach Y worked well for me, that's incredibly useful information! Sharing experiences is a huge part of friendship.

This writer seems to be suggesting that I should see someone's honesty and helpful information as a selfish insult.

Even if it's not advice, I'd much prefer the honest reaction. It's empathy. It doesn't diminish my pain.
It doesn't work for objectively detecting dishonesty. That part is myth and theater. However, it does work as a way of directing an interrogation so as to maximize anxiety (since anxiety is more or less what the polygraph actually measures).
> the references provided in a Wikipedia article are usually far more relevant than the ones provided in a typical IEEE paper

IME, speaking of academic research in general, often an almost completely different body of knowledge is cited by each. One is high-quality academic research, the other is general 'Internet knowledge', for lack of a better word. The latter often completely misses the boat.
I agree with the principles of what you say but I also agree with the other reply to you. It is definitely a continuum and we can only impose artificial boundaries to it; what is mutually intelligible to one speaker may not be to another. However, from my experience of the accents of the Atlantic Archipelago (owning to my political bias here!), I don't think Scots is more different to RP than Scouse or southern Hiberno-English, perhaps with the exception of some very isolated communities.
As far as I'm aware therapy and antidepressants are equally effective, in the studies that have actually compared them such as this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683266/ However that is only true in aggregate and obviously not necessarily true of any given individual.

I'm really reluctant to get into any further discussion though because it seems like you're arguing against things I never said, and bringing up irrelevant, but extremely invasive and side-effect prone procedures like hemispherectomy as if that proves that data about antidepressants is bunk, which is just a complete non sequitur. It would be like bringing up bloodletting or lobotomy as if that proves that the data about modern vaccines NOT causing autism is bunk. Just a complete logical disconnect.
> this person's entire career reads like a rat navigating through a maze built by superiors.... it helps put into perspective the follower mentality some have...

A few things:
1) The article was a fantastic read(!), and I couldn't help but think that the polygraph is a bit of a hazing ritual that is used to measure, not truthfulness/deception, but one's eagerness for the job and system. As a said in another post, once too many people begin to question a/the system that depends on wide-scale high levels of trust(compliance), it fails.

The whole thing seemed to involve a lot of behavioral conditioning.

Example 1: Offer computer access (so that you can do your supposed job) contingent upon one complying w/ and passing the poly.

Example 2: Oh, you hate the poly and put up a fuss? Well, thanks for complying: here's a good performance review and raise.'

So long as the writer responded appropriately to the bell, he/she received a treat. This is intro-level psych.

2) Though most are not subjected to polygraphs, the experience described over all, doesn't deviate from what most employees experience, unfortunately. You mentioned a maze, and you are correct. That's why the typical work arrangement is colloquially described as "the rat race".

3) A lot of people like "grabbing their ankles," as you say. As it's been explained to me numerous times, they appreciate the "structure" or "predictability." I try not to fight it anymore. Sheep make good eatin', and I realize I should just live as such.

> ...they have the leverage to not put up with these things...

As someone who's been around the block a bit, I no longer believe this. There are too many willing ankle grabbers in world that is more interested in compliance (ego-stroking of the insecure, actually) than in achieving perfection, or even just "better than." Of course, there are exceptions, but those are few and far between, IMO. So, the author suggested one coping mechanism, just as I above offered another.

Cheers!
I think you've really summed it up well here. I have exactly the same concerns when looking at large Clojure codebases. It gets incredibly tiresome having to do this and even at the end of it, I'm still left with that nagging doubt "did I miss some detail somewhere?". Hopefully there's a unit test or three to help put my mind at ease but, at least at my work, that's really quite the pipe dream.
Adding an example of a niche: Those who wish to crawl Google/Bing/Amazon/Youtube results for SEO analysis around the world. You'd write a wrapper or other positive list of domains allowed through the proxy.
With short tags and error_reporting(0)!
Another related game is the Game of Thrones board game - very similar to Diplomacy mechanically but tuned to shorter game lengths (on the order of 2-4 hours).

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/103343/game-thrones-boar...
Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal trust requirements (1999)
It's ridiculous how strongly people object to the idea of preserving national culture or being nativist, when so many of them turn around and focus so heavily on cultural preservation and nativism when talking about gentrification and housing policy on a local level.
I guess enabling individual homes to generate/store energy needed to run their home is more scalable than these so called huge beautiful batteries. But for now, they are good and buy time for innovations in home batteries.
By all means, make a better graph, so I can tell you what you really meant by your choice of presentation after the fact :p
I’m not suggesting there is no “there there.” Just that here is this basic shibboleth, trotted out multiple times a week by the media, that’s just not true. Does it mean everything is fine? No. Does it suggest that we’re living with the mixed results of various well intentioned policies, rather than the outcome of actual cartoon villany? I think so.
I struggled with the decision to stop taking it because it’s very hard to nail down how it even affects you. Talk therapy proved enormously successful.

This is kind of my point, though—if in my case I do NOT have a treatable chemical imbalance, if the medication is certainly not successful, is there any good way to tell?
Not if they do make you a zombie (either in general or as an individual exception that's not covered for)
UK Realtime energy stats - http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Electric mountain is primarily designed to handle the shortist term electrical demands ie putting kettles on (massive demand spike) during tv breaks for the most popular TV programmes. Fortunately the video recorder and subsequent personal recording technology and internet streaming on-demand helps to lesson the demand on Electric Mountain which is why we may never see another one built in the UK. However our demand for technology is driving up the need for more Nuclear and to a lessor extent coal fired power stations, but the ARM cpu is helping to play its part in reducing energy requirements as will parallel processing to mitigate the need for super fast AMD64 cpu's.

Base line demands are met (in order of scaling up or down to meet demand) is nuclear, then coal, gas, hydro including electric mountain. Electric mountain pumps the water back up when surplus electricity is available during the night.

During the week in Feb 2018 when the Beast from the East hit the UK, the realtime gas price on the energy market went off the scale. As more evidence and awareness stacks up that we are going into what is dubbed the Eddy Minimum (a grand solar minimum last seen some 500years ago), so people will take more steps to have a certain level of redundancy built into their homes (where possible LPG/OIL tanks on their property) in order to help mitigate extreme weather events.

Currently if everyone were to live a US lifestyle we would need 4 planet Earths, a UK lifestyle 2.5 planet Earths and so on.
Weird... I just tried it and it worked perfectly for me, even when whispering away from my phone's microphone. And I have a strong accent.
It sounds like the thick morass of crazy people fighting each other over random things might actually act as armor against sane people who think they can slip in and do their dark business in unopposed silence.
There still is no real wage growth [1]. Low unemployment should allow workers to bargain, but it's not happening.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/10/america-w...
> >Education - stop letting 18 year olds take out $200k in loans for poetry degrees.

> This sounds like government regulation?

No - the reason students can take outrageous loans is that the government enforces that they always get paid back. There is no bankruptcy discharge for student debt. Consequently, universities increase prices as the government allows students to take more debt. No bank in the world would provide a $200k loan for a poetry degree if it could be discharged in bankruptcy.

> >Housing - build more and higher density.

> How do you account for the fact that not really anybody is making housing for the poor or low income, affordable housing because it's not profitable? There's plenty of demand, but extremely low supply. Would that be accomplished with government regulation and subsidies?

The amount of red tape and bureaucracy required for building new housing, and other requirements like minimum lot sizes, makes it more economical to build higher-end units. But even with that, more total supply filters down and helps stabilize prices, including the lower end. The ultimate left-wing fantasy is rent control, as if regulating prices by government fiat magically solves the problem.

> >Healthcare - price transparency and make it easier to shop around. Incentivize frugality.

> Richest country on Earth ever, and we need to be frugal and maybe skip our insulin prescription this month.

No, but if you were able to shop around for a major, but scheduled, surgery such as a hip replacement, you may choose a cheaper option if you were appropriately incentivized. People already fly to foreign countries to get procedures done, because travel, hotel, and the procedure are still cheaper and higher-quality than the American healthcare system.
uMatrix can block frames and js requests on a domain/sub-domain level. afaik, it can't block at url level, if that's what you meant.

That said, uMatrix, from what I remember, uses the webRequest api which does work from urls. So if you know JS, you can always create an extension and add your own filter.
I think you've inserted a quote from somebody else there.

On the history of political Liberalism you need to go and read it to understand where I'm coming from - otherwise what I say to you is just going to sound like my opinion when I'm actually just telling you what is historically uncontroversial and accepted about the philosophy of political liberalism.

I recommend reading pages 428 - 448 of "A history of Western Political Thought" by J.S McClelland.

There isn't really "an argument" to make here. This isn't an argument at all. Exactly what argument exists to prove Libertarians and Conservatives or Republicans are not Liberals? Both parties get all their ideas from the same political philosophers - J.S Mill, John Locke.

> I'm genuinely interested, here, but someone has yet to make a substantive argument.

This topic is huge but a lot clearer when you read of the origins.
Epistemology is an interesting area of philosophy. It asks "How do I know whether something is true or not?"

It interests me because while there's consensus on what's true in the hard sciences, there isn't any outside of it. People have passionate and utterly divergent opinions on politics, which they don't have about mathematics or physics. There has to be a way to live in a world where people disagree massively about politics, or idealistically, where we can resolve the disagreements. I find this more interesting than most specific issues in politics.

I recommend Less Wrong or Nassim Taleb.
> I wouldn't say Breitbart is wildly different in accuracy to any of the rest ... because so many other outlets (like the NY Times, BBC and CNN) routinely publish things that are false as well.

I have no idea where the parent gets this (no source is provided), but more generally this is a talking point, throughout history, of liars and propagandists; it's a way of excusing and normalizing their behavior. Propagandists in particular want to neutralize or paralyze, not persuade, their targets - it's easy to see how destroying all trusted institutions would do that.

In the end, it's like someone telling you, after they just lied to your face for the nth time, 'everybody lies!'.
Are they security patches, though? The difference between a critical safety update and the update that adds new things to Candy Crush is imperceptible to the casual user who just wants to get work done and will foster an unfair distrust of the important need for these updates. Additionally, the implementation is frustrating and buggy.

If someone updated OpenSSL from an insecure version on my machine, I'd probably never notice.
You probably don't want to use this the same way you don't want to use random Docker images from the docker hub. I don't see the use case for this.
Clojure goes to great lengths in the design-space to craft the puzzle pieces – immutability, lambdas, simplicity, blessed primitives for state and identity – in such a way that Clojure's idioms are centered on clarity of thought instead of guard rails. This is why Clojure works (for people willing to go deep) in many places where Js/Ruby/Python don't.
Sibling comment provides a great resource, but I think a good place to start is explaining macros.

At the end of the day, every line of code you write is some data in a bespoke data format. Most programming language implementations leverage this, and academic compiler courses make you do the same work. A program lexes, parses, modifies... that data structure and eventually rewrites it to some other programming language, usually something lower level.

If you exposed that underlying structure to the programmer, you give them a lot of power! The simplest way to see this is that any time you write a highly repetitive bunch of code, wouldn't it be great if you could ... write some code that wrote the code for you? You know how to systematically express the thing you want: you can probably say it a lot more crisply in a few lines of (especially functional) programming languages.

Once you get rid of simple repetitive stuff, you realize that you can do so much more with this. You want advanced pattern matching? Sure: you can go implement it as a library. async/await? Library. Type checker? Library. New convenient way of defining functions? Library. New syntax for matrix math? Library. Et cetera :-)

People in other programming languages have figured this out too. That's why we have code generators. The difference is that code generators are far enough removed from what you're actually doing (because e.g. they're glorified string concatenation) to be quantumly less useful. Generally speaking advanced IDEs will do this sort of thing: actually parse the code you're working on and let you do fancy tricks with it. Lisp is like having that power, all of the time.
Not to distract from this useful tip, but remember when huge blocks of instructions like this were reserved for Linux desktops, and windows (mostly) just worked? What a wild world we live in.
Noted! Then again, super nitpicking, if that script tag in the beginning is part of the markdown document, then it should also be displayed in the final document.
I hope someday that a large majority of Americans come to the belief that the love of money is not always the best motivator. Being profit driven does not magically make something more efficient or better. It only makes people try to maximize profit and usually at the expense of more important outcomes. The notion that government can’t do anything right is a destructive one and it needs to die quickly. Privatization in industries that ought not be profit driven is a bad thing.
I'd be most worried about the legal liability, what happens if someone starts using your service to download or sell pirated movies or child porn? Whats your legal exposure?
Sounds like a good idea. I will think about it. thanks for feedback.
> Is there any room for good judgment, to weigh ethics, ability and consequences, and have a different approach in different situations?

Yes. War can be unethical but the most ethical response to an action. In practice, there are few ethical wars, which is why having any ethical conversation about war is incredibly draining and not worth it for most people: it is often sufficient to simply state war is carte blanche unethical.

Thankfully I don’t see any ethical wars on the immediate horizon.
Self-documenting code typically can answer "How", but not always "Why"
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18156361

Why is your only recourse, on the question of how to replace ad funding and keep even just the top 10% of the web alive, to attack our motives or ethics? Better to give a plausible version of how our rejecting ads, even skipping tokens for anonymous donations it seems, and just blocking to burn the ad-funded world down a little faster, leads to a better wider world later.
I defently been at places where the architects define tbr boundary of a microservice, or the api contracts rather actually implement it.
But the word 'Capitalism' did not exist in Smith's day!
thanks a lot for the feedback :)

Take a look at this standalone demo if you like https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine/tree/master/demo/js

it should be a matter of tweaking a few parameters.
‘Think of us small people’: Tesla fans are begging Elon Musk to stop tweeting
I don't care about comments, I care about unit tests and I need to run trough code with debugger. If code is testable I can run piece of code in isolation and understand how it works. Most of the time people do comments:

a = 4 //assign value 4 to a

Of course that is exaggeration but usually they restate obvious things and think it is good comment.

Also I don't trust comments, I have to see commit history, and if I see there was piece of code changed where comments are, without stepping through and debugging I don't trust code is doing what comment is saying.

I do not know how other people are writing code, but I have to run code locally, ideally in unit test or click through in the interface with test data. Maybe others just can run code in their heads and account for what is written in comments. But unfortunately I am not human compiler/runtime/processor.
Because I don’t have space to keep a bike in my apartment. It also means I can cycle somewhere and take the bus back, or vice versa, when needed - that’s my partner’s commute, a bus into work in the morning and a cycle back from the dock outside her work to the virtual dock at the end of our street in the evening.
Back in 2017 I traded a bit in cryptocurrencies. I noticed back then that a lot of buy and sell orders were being canceled. My assumption is that a lot of that was being done by bots that were either arbitraging, or trying to manipulate the market into putting orders at certain prices.

Based on that I am a bit skeptical towards trusting buy and sell orders as showing what amounts and prices people actually want to buy and sell at.

I would like to see someone gather and analyze data to show orders placed vs orders retracted and orders filled. But even the insight gained from that could be of little or limited use.
This kind of sounds like what Snips.ai is doing.. A Private by design voice assistant
> Robert Whitaker's theses in that book have repeatedly been scientifically disproven.

The book doesn't even have a thesis. Good job not even reading enough of the Wikipedia article to plausibly pretend to have read it.

Also, did you even read the link you posted? It says exactly the opposite of what you're claiming it says. The conclusion is literally, "Simple biochemical theories that link low levels of serotonin with depressed mood are no longer tenable."
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Sounds like a great idea. Let us know if you face any problems integrating it. Happy to help. Cheers!
A little bit unrelated: Are they any credible resources which give insights on how it is like to work for these three letter agencies?
I think the author is aware of the difference. His claim is specifically that the whole enterprise wasn't made to provide a bike-sharing service, it was made, or evolved, to use the user's deposits as a fund for something else (on the users behalf).
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I'm currently finishing a master degree in computer science and currently looking for a software engineer full-time position.

Before that, I have 2 years working experience at one of the multinational companies where I worked at HP as a software engineer.
> European view here. We're pretty much all left-leaning from an US-perspective.

I don’t think that’s actually true. Western Europe is often more social democratic in principles, but often quite conservative in implementation. For example, Europe relies heavily in VAT, which has theoretical benefits but is regressive. Healthcare in Germany is paid for by an insurance contribution that is much higher for the individual, but phases out on income above about $60,000 per year. Meanwhile, in the US you pay Medicare contributions on all income, and the left is pushing to make Social Security contributions the same way.

Likewise with college. Germany would pay a lot more to offer free education if it didn’t aggressively control the pipeline of students into colleges. That idea would be alien to the left in the US, where the belief is that everyone should go to college.
There are some clear cultural differences that America has with pretty much any other nation in the world.

The most notable is our very expansive definition of free speech, which has broad popular support and is found almost nowhere else in the world. American culture also exhibits a relatively high support for economic freedom and avoiding government largesse. Additionally, we have a strong liking of suburbs (as typified by the proverbial "white picket fence").
I ran this script on a node 2 years ago and haven't had to touch it since, it's been a fully-working, reliable VPN for my whole family for $2.50/mo and 10min of my time for initial setup: https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup
the chart shows that in inflation-adjusted terms we've lost ground relative to the year 2000. and of course, prices have skyrocketed for essential goods like healthcare.

and new essential goods are necessary now, too. think internet and phone, neither of which were as expensive or as necessary in 2000.

then there's the unprecedented level of student loan debt.

so yeah, people are far poorer now.

i'm tempted to say that the unemployment stat isn't real either. 5% unemployment is supposed to be churn, yet we're beneath that, which means people are afraid to leave jobs or there is some other thing that the stats are hiding.