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Man, what a story. Please, HN readers, dedicate 15 minutes of your time today to read it. It's so worth it.

I won't spoil some of the great passages, but let me leave you with the conclusion:

> These sailors are the products of the neighborhoods, churches, schools and families working together to produce individuals blessed with a sense of humor and the gift of freedom who can overcome any kind of odds. These sailors are tremendously loyal and devoted to their units and their leaders in their own private and personal ways.

> As long as we have the Dougs of this world, our country will retain its freedoms.
> Rust 1.45.0 adds the ability to invoke procedural macros in three new places!

Rust 1.45 will be the Rocket Release. It unblocks Rocket running on stable as tracked here https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/19

This is so excellent, and I love seeing long term, multiyear goals get completed. It isn't just this release, but all the releases in between. The Rust team and community is amazing.
The SEC would _definitely_ have some questions for you in the scenario.
macOS works, ARM has support for years; for many projects all you need to do is pass in the flags requesting support for both and they work pretty much out of the box. Some get a little confused about how such a thing could possibly exist, but I can’t really fault them for that :)
But none titled 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - a curious error in a historical piece. It's most likely Black Swan since it was released that year. I'd love to see the ad page the author is referring to.
If they are constantly recording, uploading, and being used for facial recognition I think it does.
I took a list at who on my follow list is checkmarked and besides a few friends, it's mostly reporters. So here's a related but separate point:

Something I often do, when I want to retweet a news article in my feed, is find the reporter who broke it and retweet their account rather than the person I was following. I think it's good to incentivize original reporting and therefore good if those folks are given a larger platform. I'd hate for those folks to lose out.

That said, I'd also be very curious about impact beyond that.

Note: I don't apply this retweet-rule to news that would have been public had the reporter done nothing. For example, on SCOTUS decision days, while I LOVE the work SCOTUSBlog does, I don't particularly care who I retweet for non-analysis breaking news.
And as per that top voted comment:

The question of whether the last gear will break the concrete is moot. The gears themselves will erode away to nothing before they get a chance to apply much torque to the final gear.

I think that the same argument can be made to this Lego demo as well ;-)
I suppose we would have to reason about the intention/function of the press. As far as I understand, freedom of the press was about the dissemination of ideas. In a democratic republic, the people must have a means of circulating information about various issues so that voters can cast informed votes.

It could be argued that the modern press spreads confusion and is less about the dissemination of ideas for the purpose of informing the voting public; however, the history of the press is not a glorious one. The press has always been a mess.

Nonetheless, I think, as you say, the "slow press" is more in line with the idea of informing the public. The "continuous press" is more about pushing propaganda and conditioning the public...in my view.
1 - unfollow the most polarizing blue check accounts

2- select "Latest tweets" instead of "Top tweets" in the timeline config (the "starts" icon on the top right middle corner)

It will improve the quality of the timeline
Great news, but it's not even 1.0 yet. Thus, it isn't stable enough for production use.

At the moment, I'd rather use something like actix-web instead.
That would be obviously the right thing to do in quite a lot of cases. Immigration and elections are about the only cases where being a citizen should matter. And conscription, if we keep digging.
chemical computer is more accurate than "machine" anyway.
I agree. His boss is very much to blame for this. He is awful, basically siding with the client against the team he is meant to protect.

It is very important to separate the domain of responsibility:

What to do -> the client

How to do it -> the developer

Sure, there can be interactions both ways between the dev/architect and the client but you must be ready to defend your borders (i.e. the implementation) very fiercely with difficult clients. The dev didn't do it and got no respect back.

I can't blame the poor dev too hardly though. Life really sucks when you have to work against your boss and the client.
That seems redundant. You can already turn off seeing retweets from accounts you follow, and the "latest tweets" timeline is already pretty sticky. I've never had it revert to the default "home" timeline across any computer or phone app install.
In a similar vein: The social media (in particular Reddit and 4chan) is a different beast on national US holidays, when all the professional opinion steering forces are at rest.
I live in a post-industrial, omnipresent-VAT European world, and it doesn't make UBI any more affordable in the foreseeable future.

I think we can consider the results of just-around-the-corner-for-200-years automation-induced mass unemployment if and when it actually happens, although I'm still unconvinced that delinking benefit income from desire to actually find work or any other kind of demonstrable need would be the best solution.
Nim-Lang
I've been using Foam for VSCode for taking notes for some time now. After trying a bunch of different apps this one really struck a chord with me. Just a simple way to take notes easily with plain markdown files and links.

- It's helpful to quickly get something out of your brain

- You can easily link related files together or use VScode search to find something. No need for a bunch of categories and nested folders.

[0]: https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
I mean, the most popular async message queue for python broadly supports pickle as its serialization format. I don't think this problem is exclusive to this blog post.
Twitter: 14,900 Tweets Removed for Misinformation, 4.5M Accounts Challenged
Fair question. I didn't personally supervise our last intern, it was my turn the summer before, so I'm not as deeply familiar with it. Now that you bring this up though, I think perhaps I may have misspoken. When I said muti-label, I think that was our goal originally, but because of the constraints of Snorkel you mentioned, we ended up reframing the problem into many single class models instead. They would both work, but because of how our business users worked, multi-label wasn't super important. For example, not all business users are interested in every label, so I think what happened was more than one model was trained, one for each label, and then ensembled based on the business users interests. Our final output allowed users to effectively sort, filter, and search documents based on any combination of these labels. Keep in mind too, some of these labels are fairly abstract, so just one of them was fairly powerful by itself and could perhaps power an entire team in some cases. I hope that helps, I'm sorry I can't go into too much more detail.
Having quit social media years ago, I’ve accomplished the same exact thing but on a permanent basis. I highly recommend it. Silence truly is golden.
Do you even sort of hear yourself?

You know the two aren't mutually exclusive?

And what do you, dear commenter, exactly do before drooling off to sleep that is so much more productive? Seriously hope it's not watching Netflix, wasting your time reading fiction, or God forbid, spend time on social media such as HN.

Wake up, tackle the biggest challenges the world has today, go to work, go home to do some more tackling in your free time up until you fall asleep.

If I sound annoyed, I am. This is what privilege looks like: people who have it easy in life, judging the fuck out of people who don't and aren't "doing their part".

I don't use tiktok for what it's worth and I don't care if it disappears, but jeez, attitude.
I agree with you completely that it's a problem when society as a whole doesn't have a good idea of what it means to be "productive" but I think that in your second sentence, you could just as easily replace "UBI" with "wages" and the truthfulness of it doesn't change at all. I think working for wages doesn't allow most people to do what I would consider "cultivating themselves," and possessing "marketable" skills is not the same thing as possessing useful skills.

Obviously we all have our own definitions of "productive" (I actually like to think of it more as useful rather than profitable) but my own personal opinion is that what is useful and what people get paid for have as little overlap as they've ever had, so the risk of replacing certain jobs with UBI isn't actually as much of a threat to productivity as it might seem like.
It reminds me of what Aldous Huxley wrote (about people in distress):

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
Try to avoid the positive feedback loops in the system. Everything gets distorted by that.

Retweets get more views and in turn more retweets. And so on. Everyone tries to game this system to harvest these feedback loops.
HN, Reddit, Facebook all have the same problem.

I'm preparing a blog article about this topic with an analysis and some solution approaches.

If you're interested, please contact me, I'm happy to discuss this very important topic.
Sounds like a great opportunity for a browser extension.
If you have been on the fence about learning Rust, I encourage you to dive in. It is very productive.
We need tests. But now or later?
Sadly our computer rooms aren't big enough to accept additional students to assist to our courses :/.
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> It takes at least a generation of time for a word to evolve to that level of offense.

Not true, maybe you are biased towards English words. Take Spanish or Portuguese, where the word “negro” (not to confuse w/ any English slur) really means “the color black” (etymologycally) and is thereby synonymous to black. It has always been used to show respect, in a less biased sense towards black people, because it really doesn’t carry any ideology in its semantics. But now, its use and meaning are changing towards similar slur words avoided in the US. It didn’t take a generation in such countries to change its meaning (politically), it is happening now, even though the word itself is the same, means the same, and had no problem at all a couple of years ago.
Well put.

I have a friend with a union job (construction) and is overtime eligible. I would love to get paid for the hours I actually work and have a contract that details what I'm responsible for. I know tons of people who consistently work more hours than required and get a small bonus relative to the extra hours (9-11 hour days vs 7.5 required). Then the rest of us are seen as lacking potential because we 'only' work 7.5-8 hours. They are constantly adding additional responsibilities and expectations at an unrealistic rate without any real training.

When I was hired, they hired me for a Java developer position and then stuck me into Filenet work immediately. The company is notorious for hiring under a generic title and then placing you into some obscure stack like FileNet or Neoxam.

I know unions can have their downside, but having a contract and representation when dealing with violations of it would be awesome.
Yup, that’s what I’m doing. Just offering my comments on how difficult some projects are to port: some require no new code and some will require quite a bit, and some will be blocked on their dependencies being in the latter camp :)
Fair points.

Just want to add I have heard people say they avoid antipsychotics due to what you describe as "dysphoria" and "sedating" qualities but one must also recognize that for many, a symptom of their illness is that they do not think they are ill or that anything is wrong.
That's not how versions work
> A lot of candidates come in with their environments just very poorly configured, run into weird dependency errors, mismatched installed versions, no linting or syntax highlighting set up in their editor because they don't actually ever code on their personal computer, etc. It's not uncommon to spend half the interview watching someone debug their dev environment, or struggle to remember the basic syntax of their favorite framework since they aren't working on the same codebase that they're used to.

Now THAT reflects the actual daily experience of working programmers.

All the maddening little configuration options to get things working correctly, and seem to take up far more time than actually writing code to solve customers problems.
i think what will actually happen is that rich countries are gonna move ahead with robotics, additive manufacturing and nano

and countries that cant keep up will be left behind with starving useless populations

bonus points: theres gonna be severe fresh water shortage
Thank you for sharing. I'm glad your still here to relate your story. I think speaking these things is an important part of the healing process. Pax et bonum.
Hi Gargron, ideally I want both, obviously! I like Mastodon, as open source software that can federate with other instances, it's very neat. I'm just disappointed that the federation specification is too hard for me to get working, and that appears to be the case for other people as well, given how many fail to implement it.

I did follow your tutorials, by the way, but I got stuck on certain things (cryptographic signing being the main one I remember), couldn't test them easily with the test suite being down, and gave up eventually.

Am I too stupid? Probably. But I can imagine a spec that gives me practically everything I want in a decentralised Twitter replacement being almost as simple as RSS or JSONfeed for example, which took me a few hours to implement.
I think that ‘personal connection’ is a easy way towards discrimination, just like ‘cultural fit’.

Humans are naturally more inclined to feel a connection to people who are in their same group.
It seems like loads of comments consider "someone good at coding" as the only benchmark of a good employee. Even the report implies that "people who took the test in private passed". Passed what?

I am looking for people who can handle pressure, who can communicate clearly, who can handle the unfamiliarness of the experience, who can handle time pressure even though most of the time they wouldn't face that at work. If an experienced engineer cannot split a string in less than a minute on a test then they don't figure as a valuable emplyee to me. Why? Because anyone can Google something or apply deep thought in a private room but good employees imho can work with noise around them, with distractions, with changing priorities etc. in other words the interview is a poor representation of a real environment.

Sure, it means you might lose out on someone who just needed a few hours to calm down but how are you supposed to know that? Maybe they needed another few hours, days, weeks? Maybe the test you gave them was hard but if you asked them about something else, they would have done better.

It's no different than someone turning up late. It very likely wasn't their fault but you use it as an indicator anyway because you don't know them and don't have much else to go on.
To whatever degree a mental health issue is treatable with drugs, it genuinely is a medical issue.

But that's not the only element of actual insanity. Real insanity almost always involves a sick social fabric as well that lies to you about critical information, often blaming you for problems over which you have no real control.

They know that schizophrenics often get better with in patient treatment, then go home to their screwed up families and get worse again.

My sister took graduate courses in psychology for a time. She once said to me "We clearly don't have the genes for schizophrenia in the family or someone would have it because the family would have driven them crazy by now." Dad fought in two wars. Mom grew up in a war zone. These were haunted people who could be rather difficult to deal with.

I can understand people wanting to make this distinction "that I just need a pill, it's not like I'm crazy." People who are seriously crazy aren't typically fixable with just a pill. It's more complicated than that and our current system isn't really all that effective at bringing people back once they've gone nuts.

This is part of why I object to the "homeless people are all junkies and crazies" meme: it actively helps make vulnerable people crazy. It actively blames them for things they don't control and denies the existence of systemic issues to the faces of the victims who have such a low social status and are so openly disrespected that they aren't in a good position to argue with it. They are expected to kowtow and agree with everyone hanging their crap on them.

So it actively helps drive homeless people insane and makes it a self fulfilling prophecy. It deepens the problem and is actively abusive of our most vulnerable citizens.
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I get where you're coming from, but we cannot just ignore the obvious incentives at play here. Pharmaceutical companies do want to sell drugs and many have a history of being not-so-ethical about it.

Of course there are people who legitimately have disorders who legitimately benefit from the drugs. But we also need individuals who cast a critical eye on drug prescriptions. The hard part is making sure those critical individuals are sufficiently trained.

If you have a friend who refuses to take drugs prescribed by a medical professional, maybe it would be best to get a second or third opinion from another medical professional.
The BBC is in no way impartial. They have a very specific way of directing interviews and such that push the narrative in a direction they control.
I had ups and downs after the first anxiety attack occurred but if normalized it was certainly a gradual decline into depression. Anxiety would come and go and although i never considered suicide I did wonder if I would be better of dead.

The liver flush I did involved a morning celery and lemon juice. 5 light meals. 1L of apple juice spread throughout the day. After dinner a glass of water with epsom salts (tastes like pool water but has epic muscle relaxing effects so amazing sleeps) and psylium husk. On day six involves some more epsom salts, then drinking half a glass of olive oil with lemon juice. There's more to it but you can find this protocol pretty easily. Its quite common to pass a lot of stones in stool the next day which is old bile that has been hardened after being purged from the liver. It's important to check you don't have gall stones before doing the liver flush. An ultrasound will tell.

In terms of parasites I cant say 100% but combantrin works on 4 main types (mostly parasitic worms) [1]. There's also liver flukes which seemed to be explain some symptoms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrantel
Can you share some examples of your tasks?
In my view its a simple category error, though of a subtle kind. Machines are similar to biological systems in only the most superficial ways: they are non-static systems which exceed a certain complexity and they both follow the laws of physics (see footnote).

There are a lot of ways to think about the differences between machines and people. One very simple one is that machines typically function in only a very limited subset of the space of their available degrees of freedom and small deviations are usually catastrophic. Biological systems don't usually have this property.

Another way to think about it is that machines show evidence of design, which you might characterize as a certain economy of ideas. Two clocks in a computer a much more likely to be identical or to share major conceptual underpinnings than two clocks in a biological system, for example.

I used to have your view of things and then I read Deacon's "Incomplete Nature," a book whose thesis fails to land but is never the less a comprehensive analysis of the properties of living organisms in a unified if rickety system which encompasses the basic laws of physics. It really convinced me that the analogy between brain and machine is poor.

The question of what a mind is and how it relates to the brain is not settled science or philosophy, at any rate. It doesn't do anyone any good to pretend it is.

(footnote): This is a reasonable assumption to make but its hardly widely believed by the general public nor settled scientific fact. Luminaries like Penrose still assert a fundamental disjunction between what brains do and what machines do and he isn't alone among physicists, to say nothing of the broader philosophical community or the lumpen mass of human opinion.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein (2007)

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Eudardo Galeano (1971)
Meanwhile the S&P 500 is 5% away from an ATH record. Unemployed people = gambling with stocks + FOMO?
> In addition, what is the result of 3 mile island? The word disaster comes with a lot of baggage that I would debate doesn't apply, it was an accident without any fatalities.

In the Harrisburg accident, the core had a melt-down, and molten uranium was forming layers at the bottom of the vessel. Water had been being cracked into oxygen and hydrogen by the intense heat. This process was stopped little time before the vessel would have blown up from overpressure. It would also have been possible that the layering of Uranium in the vessel would have become super-critical with the result of the reactor literally exploding. And this would definitively have had consequences comparable to Chernobyl.

This is stuff which isn't well-known outside of expert circles. During my studies, I read about it in an article in a journal of the nuclear power industry... this must have been between 1991 and 1995, I think.

Another huge problem which Fukoshima exposed is that not only the active reactor core must be subject to cooling at all times, in order to be safe, but also cooling basins for spent fuel with remaining radioactivity. And they should also be inside safe containments (that is, protected from airplane crashes, and so on). I think that no reactor built in the West before 2009 has adequate protections against that type of problem.

And to add, in France there is at least one reactor which is built directly at the shore of the Atlantic. It is probably not safe against major Tsunamis.

The general problem is that nuclear is a very high risk, low probability technology. Protecting against that risk costs lots of money, which makes it uncompetitive. The financial pressures in corporations lead again and again to the result that safety measures are skipped. And in addition, it is inhumanely hard to predict and plan to cope with all possible risks.
Here's the full advisory https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/files/Advisory-APT29-targets-COVID-1...