skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe GP was referring to GNU/Linux, often called 'Desktop Linux' or even just 'Linux'. Due to the fact that 'Linux' beat 'GNU/Linux' in the naming wars in the 90s, most people will never refer to Android as 'Linux'. Rather, Android/Linux is called 'Android'. While you are technically right that Android runs Linux, nobody says that 'Microsoft Word is now available for Linux' because its available on Android.
And maybe excludes short of time people taking care of kids? Maybe more often women
> Someone would just need to reimplement the Bash script as a PowerShell script.

... and then maintain it.
I've studied this quote a lot and I do think it's very hard to realise who Aldous is talking about, but I don't think he's talking about those in distress. Rather those that gave in to this world and can live with willful ignorance at it's pitfalls rather than distress.
Doesn't help you'll still see the retweets eventually through the algorithm or from followers you actually like, only way is to mute or block every one.
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I worked for a healthcare claims processing company that at the time stored all the production database and server passwords in a text file accessible to half the company, all because the chief architect didn't want to remember passwords. Yet we were covered by HIPPA and "passed our audits". If people don't care to follow the law and can manipulate the audit, who is going to stop them?
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It has the former: https://opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-781/
Once a month sounds nice. Mine likes to revert within a week :) (for the times I actually use twitter more than a couple times a month)
Sadly in this world human rights are almost always a question of geopolitics. It's the only explanation for why we only seem to really care about human rights when they happen to coincidentally align with our geopolitical goals.
Extending the grid transport capacity, allows you to transport the energy from the place where is currently blowing to the place where it is neaded. That, reduces the need to store power.
It's those auto-generated class names that kill me. :( They change all the time.

An earlier suggestion just worked for me, and I suspect it'll be durable:

twitter.com##[aria-label="Timeline: Trending now"]
twitter.com##[aria-label="Relevant people"]

I ended up adding more labels:

twitter.com##[aria-label="Timeline: Trending now"]
twitter.com##[aria-label="Relevant people"]
twitter.com##[aria-label="Search and explore"]
twitter.com##[aria-label="Footer"]
twitter.com##[aria-label="Who to follow"]
twitter.com##[aria-label="Search Twitter"]

Now my twitter looks like this:

https://share.getcloudapp.com/v1ue8EZY

Here's a pastebin of all my twitter-related rules. You can see I've tried to manually delete a _lot_ of nodes.

https://pastebin.com/Q6X8PrGu
Lurking for a few more min... great question! Dealing with both class imbalance and issues of pernicious biases in both underlying data distributions and training labels is an extremely important topic. Our underlying theory deals with local biases (e.g. individual labeling functions or sources of training signal being biased) but systemic biases (e.g. the user driving the system being biased) are certainly tougher.

One important and practical answer that we've found: with an approach like in Snorkel Flow, you can inspect the source of the training data and correct it if biased- which you just can't do with e.g. a million hand labeled training data points. So in practice this is a big advantage we've found.

On the theory / research side, this is definitely an area we want to pursue further!
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>it still makes sense to treat them as a moral failing, because it’s usually more likely to result in incentives and social pressures that lead to the moral failing/physiological problem being fixed, mitigated, or worked around

When compared to doing nothing and tolerating them, I can definitely see that. But I still think there have to be more effective approaches than either (even if we don't know what some of them are yet).
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> the probation conditions are part of the sentence and the reason why she wasn't incarcerated in the first place.

In this case, I think that she wasn't incarcerated in the first place because her crimes weren't severe enough to warrant incarceration. A 15-yr-old girl stealing (then returning) a cell phone or pulling her mom's hair and biting her finger isn't going to jail in the 21st century.

> They'll just revoke your probation and wash their hands of it.

In many states, violating probation can carry its own penalties in addition to those from the offense that led to probation. Therefore, probation being revoked doesn't have to mean restoring a prior term of incarceration (which may not exist), and punishment for probation violations can exceed that of the offense which led to probation in the first place.

> Nobody in the criminal incarceration system wants to be the one who showed leniency to someone who later turned out to commit some headlining crime. So, nobody is incentivized to help you out even for the most minor of infractions.

I think that understanding the incentives in play here is essential to understanding how the system works, and I also think those incentives go beyond not wanting to look soft on crime. In particular, both prosecutors and law enforcement officers can make themselves look better on paper by putting more people behind bars, regardless of the actual impact of their actions (or even their action's legality, in some cases). I'm reminded of a case in which a Florida police chief repeatedly framed innocent people in order to boost his department's clearance rate. [1] I don't see how we can make meaningful changes to the system without addressing that type of perverse incentive.

1 - https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/...
I think the challenging part is definition of "normal life". The burden of fitting in with the "norms" of the society by suppressing your own internal beliefs for the short-term gratification of feeling normal comes back to bite you in the long-term.

Over the centuries the society has mostly been unaccommodating to those who fall on the tails of this normal distribution, ostracizing them, punishing them, so on and so forth. But I still have faith in humanity to become more accepting and understanding those who are different instead of pressuring them to be the same.

So the first step is to believe that your life is not abnormal but just different from most people. I hope you find your solace in this ever-evolving world.
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>chuckle a bit because neither language works right now. Not even their dependencies work. It’ll be a while before they will be supported.

I'm not sure what's preventing you from giving a direct & specific answer. As it would be useful to know where Rust/Go's toolchains fail for using the code for cross - platform applications.
Yes, it's like the illness affects the ability to ask for help to treat the illness. Something like expecting people who fall down a cliff to walk to the doctor with broken legs. If there is nobody there to help them it's very hard to do it themselves, and even if there is someone it's harder to help a "broken" brain than a broken leg.
That too. Not saying your ideas have no merit, but such always need refinement. People who think they're the shit usually local-optimize, so don't regard anyone's evaluations as much since people generally don't know what work other people do, or are excluded from.

This is regarded upside-down usually, since a good worker leaving should be unnoticed by the org. But some people play Hero, to detriment of every one around them, or expect others to do their work because all they see is their own little bubble. That's OK by itself, but doesn't merit enough opinion for policy and governance levers.

It's kind of like gardeners optimizing for monoculture, and complaining about falling market prices and disease leading to lower; but predictable yields.
How do you think phones make phone calls?

Because today, they use LTE.

However that has nothing to do with whether Android is Linux or whether one can make a desktop do whatever they want.
Actually it still is because the law is not the same as law enforcement
In my experience access to credit besides credit cards has been extremely limited.

My wife and I looked into several different personal or short term loan options for our upcoming IVF cycle(approx 30k$). Most banks have either stopped offering them completely or made the requirements much harder. The two of us with credit scores of 750+, combined 200k annual income and little existing debt couldn't get approved for a simple 5k$ loan.

I fear for those that have a more dire need for the cash than we do.
This has been demonstrated to be false at the Europe scale, unfortunately. See https://youtu.be/1aCHN6dytVY (in french though)

In a nutshell, either there's wind everywhere, or not.
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If you have Edge by default then why would you want to install Chrome? Is M$ onto something here?
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The only calls I get any more are recruiters (80%) scammers (15%) and family 5%.
A bit DIY, but muting words could help for stuff like avoiding politics (unless you want to avoid those people even when not tweeting about politics).

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m...
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Well there isn’t any argument for why Twitter was at ”its best” during that hour. It is just a blogspot surfing the wave of the meme that Twitter without verified accounts is better. It is a joke that reflects an insatisfaction with social media (and maybe the world), only that.

By this time, the trick is getting old: get a topic that is trending on Twitter, write a few paragraphs giving some context using some humorous language and then print a selection of the funniest/cleverest tweets on topic. That’s it.

Why HN crowd give it the front page? I believe because HN crowd shares this zeitgeist that distrusts so called “experts”. It is a vote that we dislike a culture that is steered by influencers and people trying to earn more audience (the currency of this time).

I agree with the sentiment, but the article is pretty empty about it, just a meme retweet basically.
When working with audio as an example, saturation is much less obnoxious than wraparound. You can potentially destroy speakers and your hearing that way.
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Very well put. Though there is still some refuge in smaller online communities, if you know where to look. If you limit your exposure to specific places and avoid the rampant toxicity elsewhere, it's not that bad. :)
There was a great Cracked podcast about this recently. Preppers are basically preparing for some Hollywood doomsday scenario where the hero overcomes challenges by putting himself first and (sometimes violently) surviving by a series of physically demanding challenges that depends on his canny and his wits.

The real life pandemic scenario is 'solved' (in the same sense) by listening to Government advice, being considerate of others and staying at home and watching TV.
The ammo thing is strange. It's as if they estimate their probability of survival in a firefight by assuming their adversaries will be as accurate as storm troopers from Star Wars.
This is very true, but I think there’s a good reason for it - using Haskell forces you to first address many fundamental issues that most languages just let you paper over. The issues still exist in other languages, but you can ignore them, and then years later wonder why so much software is ad-hoc and full of complicated, but preventable, bugs.

E.g. haskell’s laziness forced early haskellers to think about denotational ways of managing effects, and ended up forcing them to invent modern monadic effect systems. Now, there are a lot of people who actually prefer explicit effect management over freely mixing effects and logic, and not just because they have stockholm syndrome.
Think about the requirements for market success of the different pieces of software. Games most run fast and any performance you safe can go back into better graphics. Performance is crucial. Electron is hugely successful despite not being very performant.

Developers love thinking about performance. It's fun and asked us to use so many of our skills. However, for many products other quality aspects are more important, like maintainability, extendability and expediency of development.

That performance often falls by the wayside on terms of business priorities ends up being reflected in the typical developer skill set.
I would love to understand the software process breakdowns that allow that "Charlie" code to make it into production! Almost everywhere I've worked, this would have been instantly caught during code review and Charlie would have had to answer to at least his peers for his crimes! Or, it would have been caught during the integration phase, as there had to be some other team consuming the byte stream and implementing the reverse to "decrypt" it. How on earth does this make it through all the gates and out into the field??

1. Were the requirements just vague? e.g. PRD just says "Encrypt the payload somehow, lol" and junior engineer Charlie, not being a crypto expert, just made something up? If so, that should have been caught and corrected by a code review. More eyes than Charlie would have at least looked at it and should have raised an alarm.

2. Did the requirements actually say "The payload shall be XOR'ed with the string 'Charlie is the designer of P2P!!' and then the bytes shuffled around as such: [...]" and everyone agreed this would be great? Where is engineering/security leadership push-back during the design phase, in that case?

3. Did the requirements call for proper encryption, and Charlie just ran out of time and cobbled this together? Again--code review, maybe insufficient project planning?

I mean, bugs slip in to code all the time, but this seems like something deliberately done this way and deliberately ignored through the entire design, development, test, and deploy process!
Almost 40% of homes in America are owned free and clear (no mortgage). https://www.forbes.com/sites/brendarichardson/2019/07/26/nea...
If you're running Linux with MBs of RAM, then you're well within Rust's comfort zone. If you're on embedded ARM (cortex-M) with KBs RAM, then Rust will be really nice and it does work today, but there's still a few missing features to make it nice to use.
Is this a spike compared to last few months? Where is best place to get the latest chart of unemployment over time for 2020?
> by listening to Government advice

I beg to differ. The CDC insisted masks don't work until April, the WHO until June.
I could not stop thinking about this CGP Grey video: https://youtu.be/DIssymQvrbU?t=83

The last ancient slippy titan is being assault again by Gmail.
The author's point is well-taken; but I don't think the problem is simply that psychological problems have become "de-personalized," and I think the move to "chemical" explanations is largely because the "chemical" treatments have been wildly successful (especially in comparison to, what? psychotherapy? talking about it?).

I think the actual crisis is a lack of good judgment in the scientific arena. There are obvious cases we can imagine where a "chemical" explanation is simply bone-headed. Joe's dog dies, his house burns down, he is laid off from his work. His resultant emotional distress surely involves chemistry; he's a person, after all. But it is depersonalizing, naive, and a bit creepy, to suggest that his distress is "just chemical" and should be treated with a drug. That's just gross, and I take it the author's point.

But consider another example. Terry has great friends, rewarding job, engaging hobbies, etc., but spontaneous and overwhelming anxiety over the possibility of being hit by a meteorite. This is now entering the territory of an irrational psychological reason, and it isn't "de-personalizing" or naive for a doctor to suggest that there might be a purely chemical explanation. We seek the chemical explanation when there just isn't any other sufficiently motivating factor.

There's a time for both approaches.
Yep you’re right. My bad. Hmmm... I still think my point makes sense. The “smash and grab” style attack fits given how noisy it was. People were wondering why they didn’t do something far more insidious like covertly gather everybody’s DMs and such. That’s not really feasible when you know your attack is going to get noticed fairly quickly.
>It's funny that it's ok to commit computer crimes if you do it to against the enemeies of the current zeitgeist.

I mean, that's been part of hacker culture since the dawn of time... and no one was complaining about the inherent unfairness of society when Anonymous would do it for the lulz.
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Wouldn't co-worker upvotes lead to workers prioritizing their output for what attracts upvotes rather than what the company needs to get done?

You'd get a team constantly making tools for each other and no sellable product.
I disagree. Human beings as you say are products of their circumstances and one circumstance that seems very pervasive is technology.

We are no longer fully human beings.

Technology had changed what it is to be human even in Huxley's time; nowadays I wonder has AI already taken over? The prevalence of computer run algorithms in human beings decision making seems to imply it has started at least.
The insidious thing is: if you post a rebuttal to some assertion, all Facebook sees is that you engaged with that content. So it will show you more and more. You will become exhausted with the arguments and when your guard is down: ads
Yes, it would. However, it rarely does because of how the incentives are: it's useful for optimization to pretend that UB never happens, and more optimization leads to faster binaries, which are what the compiler engineers often pursue.
Comparing the compilation speed of C, C++, D, Rust, and Go
PRNGs are often seeded with a "true" random value, from which they generate a sequence of pseudorandom values. In that case, you actually end up with a hybrid of random and deterministic. An example of this is `/dev/urandom`.
> inputs (sensors, environment, external chemicals) + current state ---> outputs (behavior) + new state

It's just not a very helpful metaphor, because we are nowhere close to having a way to simulate or compute that function.

So treating people as agents with goals, desires, personalities, experiences and histories and traumas, and drawing on our hard wired abilities for empathy, can be a far more useful model for actually helping and healing people than just giving them a pill.
Yes of course. He is talking about the people who have been "normlised" to be what the society or those in power need them to be: the masses who never oppose their governments, the people who give up their individuality to pursue a career to buy things they might not need, and so on. It is a reflection on those people who are NOT in distress but they ought to be rather than be ignorant.
There are also other categories of medications which people forget, with the spotlight being on SSRI. Off the top of my head there's also SNRI[0], NRI[1], MAOI[2], RIMA[2], and TCA[3].

Arguably for low to moderate depressive disorders there hasn't been conclusive evidence that psychiatric prescriptions work, however there IS conclusive evidence that for major depression the benefits are at a minimum "small" and up to "substantial" ([4],[5]).

So as soon as we discuss depression, everyone might mean something different. It's a sad state of affairs because now people think they're talking about the same things but they're really not - they just happen to have had different psychiatrists who assessed things and behaved perhaps differently, and where one might have really mostly needed therapy and the other both therapy and antidepressants, in the end everyone went home with a prescription for the fancy SSRI of the year.
Psychiatrists as a whole need to reevaluate the rate of prescriptions, the tools to assess major depressive disorder, and the actual array of treatments that are available to them.

I've had wrong diagnoses. I've had appointments that my doctors missed without rescheduling even though I was there. I've had those 15-minutes-and-you're-out meetings with a psychiatrist, whose prescriptions for what conveniently is the "newest pill" were given along with free samples until one day you have to pay for something you can't afford or switch treatment and deal with weeks of uncertainty, and so on.

I have been saved from death and cycles of immense self-destruction by a healthy relationship with a knowledgeable and experienced psychiatrist willing to take me, when my legal troubles had by then reduced my options and driven me further to the edge.
Some real discussions, a carefully explained switch from SSRI to RIMA, which worked. "Is that what it is to feel somewhat normal? I can't believe people feel like that most of the time!!"

It allowed me to truly know what therapy is, because there was more to the day than being unconscious or wanting to be dead or death-by-proxy. Therapy gave out some tools to live and interact in a healthy way with myself and others, and to seek more tools too.

The struggle still exists entirely and comes back in heavy waves some days. A lot more difficulties are now an inherent part of my life and rebuilding things will take time and struggles.
But psychiatric treatment gave me legs I had lost for nearly all of my life, and therapy taught me to walk again, and I'm well intent on walking out of everything I fell into - regardless of how long and arduous the path is.
And whenever I'm able to, to take others out of the pit too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin%E2%80%93norepinephri...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norepinephrine_reuptake_inhibi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_inhibitor

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricyclic_antidepressant

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712503/

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2253608/
I think it's normal to become 'depressed' after being deceived by someone you trusted. Medicating the victim seems like the wrong approach.
It's like telling the victim that this kind of deception is OK and they're the ones who need to be fixed for not being able to cope with it better.
There are a lot of psychopaths out there, it doesn't make it OK. Also, the realization of this should be painful and depressing. It is depressing. We live in a depressing time.
Most people today are completely messed up in the head. Most people.

We should try to fix this problem not patch it up with medication. In terms of evolution, our social system selects for mental illness.
Rewards the psychopaths and medicates the altruists so that they learn to tolerate it.