skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the answer! The local vs systemic bias thing is particularly interesting for a system like snorkel. I have a clarifying question.

I'm imagining a dumb example like recipes, where "1 tsp salt" is a common format for ingredient. I'd imagine that the majority of ingredients follow that format, so it'd be a natural function to write. I'd also imagine that there's a correlation between following that format and being a recipe with a european background.

Generalize that a little bit, and almost by definition the simplest N rules that get the most coverage will cover the majority cases best. Being outside the majority cases is probably correlated with most "human issues," defined however you want. Being an artifact of the properties of what the simplest N rules cover, I'm not clear whether it'd be defined as local or systemic in the sense you've worked on.

I'm curious whether this falls under the theory you've worked on already or the theory you're talking about pursuing in the future. If it's something you've worked on already, I'd be very interested in reading what you have.
Turns out this tool already exists! The creator of https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter dropped by and brought this tool to my attention.

It's everything I wanted, works perfectly, plugins for Chrome and Firefox.

Check it out! Might be exactly what you need.
Can I ask which languages you work with? Working with python and HTML/CSS/JS I find that VSCode works almost perfectly out of the box and the few extensions you have to install are well maintained. But for more niche languages I could see there being an issue.
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Out of the people who try, about 13% succeed. “Ridiculously low” is a subjective characterization, sure, but that’s a very low rate of success for any endeavor. The fact remains, as echoed by the UCL study author, that long term success rates are very low, the study doesn’t indicate anything more than people self-reporting that they are trying to quit. Right now, it is purely wishful thinking to interpret this study as representing a record drop in the prevalence of smoking in the UK which the headline to this post did.

The rest of your comment sounds as if you’re trying to convince me that it’s virtuous to attempt cessation. I appreciate that viewpoint and nothing in my comments (I believe) have suggested otherwise. Indeed, in my personal worldview anything so difficult to shake loose is worth gaining mastery over as a matter of principle, negative health effects aside.
I think the hacker has to be some insider who knew their window was closing quickly, because the ad copy does seem incredibly lazy. Like if you had Musk 'crowdfund' the next Tesla, while Biden announces that the USD will be pegged to Monero if he's elected, and Apple takes 'deposits' for the next iPhone, it seems like you could have done much better. Maybe we're overestimating the relative value of the big-name accounts though.
There are much better ways to install things in windows. Such as MSI files if you need to change paths and registry entries. Chocolatey if you want a 'aptget' like usage, there are several of these types. Using bash to install something is unique. I personally am a fan of in place portable install, unzip, run exe, done.
Can you explain why it is relevant that he's white?
If you honestly think it's as simple as that, risk your own money then donate any gains to those causes.
Turns out something that does this already exists!

The creator of https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter dropped by and brought this tool to my attention.

It's everything I wanted, works perfectly, plugins for Chrome and Firefox.

Check it out! Might be exactly what you need.
Opinion – I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing
I somewhat agree that depression could be a good thing under certain circumstances, circumstances that can be fixed and are not outside the control of the subject.

Also I feel that I need to add that there are different personalities, and disorders of personality. In a lot of cases the narcissistic usually comes on top exploiting and causing depression and insecurities in others. I don’t find that this type of depression is useful. And generally society is becoming more narcissistic which rises the level of distress in others and that can’t be easily fixed.
Sure, but millions of stock market damages are another league than a bit of chaos on Twitter and 120k$ in scammed money. You can easily find a car which is worth more.

So yes, there's definitely going to be a search, but he could've gotten far more heat.
> because many ADHD people have incredible focus (at times)

The concept of "hyperfocus" as a symptom of ADHD is relatively recent idea. It didn't appear in any medical literature for a long time. The first appearance I could find was in some author's book about ADHD, which wasn't even targeted at medical professionals.

It might be a symptom for some people, but misinterpreting it as a symptom of ADHD leaves the door wide open for misdiagnosis and over-diagnosis. When we start diagnosis a disorder notorious of lack of attention in people who demonstrate an abundance of attention, there's a problem.

The pop-psychology definition of ADHD is so broad that it's rare to find an HN commenter who hasn't self-diagnosed as maybe having ADHD at some point in their lives.

As you said, pathological ADHD (as diagnosed by a medical professional) can have a severe impact on people's lives. It's best that we leave the diagnosis to professionals and not give people the impression that the regular ups and downs of focus (studying/focus/mental endurance is work for everyone) are indicators of a mental health disorder.
Great post. He should have just sucked it up and billed the hell out of Alpha's company. Let him pay for his ways.
This problem might already be solved!

The creator of https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter dropped by and brought this tool to my attention.

It's everything I wanted, works perfectly, has plugins for Chrome and Firefox.

Check it out! Might be exactly what you need.
> when a platform has the power to begin a war; maybe more eyes should be focused on the responsibility of the platform.

Or, we break up and/or shut down the platform.
The USG is crazy. It's another red scare. Ofc, as a promoter of global capitalism, it's hilarious to see the government complaining that the multinationals that they cultivated are doing business internationally.

For those of you downvoting, explain to me how language like "pawns of Chinese influence" isn't just insane propaganda?

EDIT2: For what it's worth, I do have a bone to pick with China over their treatment of Xinjiang province, but lol if you think the USG ever uses human rights as anything other than a stick to beat enemy countries over.

Put another way: CIA guy whose ex-OSS dad gave Jeffery Epstein his first fake job teaching math is now ginning up fake nationalism. News at 11.
I've been working at Facebook for a while now, and I think the environment is competitive, and you do need to shine in front of endless talent, but doing so doesn't mean numbers.

Sadly, many people who don't do well take their feedback to mean that they need more code commits or comments. Some of them might even succeed at gaming the system for a short while due to a bad manager.
The truth from my experience is that as long as you drive meaningful impact, and are able to convince you manager and others of it, you will be doing well. Falling back to silly stat numbers is the toolset of people who don't have enough achievements.
In a way, good numbers don't mean good performance. But bad performance really does correlate with bad numbers. So people who are unhappy with their ratings will deduce that is the problem. It's aggravated by the fact people with good ratings don't boast about it (which is considered rude). I've noticed similar effects in college with grades. Judging by the vocal people one could assume the majority of the class failed at the exam, since whoever succeed will do well to not rub in their friends' faces)

* Personally I do use numbers in reviews, but only as a secondary way to backup my claims for what I did, or why it was important

* * If you are convinced that your manager and team only cares about stats, I recommend switching to another team or company when you have the opportunity.
Newlyweds, not a ton of savings. Trying to balance building a safety net while building a family.

It's not a terrible hardship given our current situation but given the volatility in the job market it certainly makes us uncomfortable.
It's important to hold on to good habits and not slip up beyond an acceptable threshold.

The world happenings have definitely affected me significantly. I had a great set of habits, pre lock-down with a meditation practice, exercise routine and just generally getting out and about in the city over the weekend.

Now, I have a sense of hopelessness that seems to have percolated through my body. I find movement and just generally motivating myself to do anything as a big challenge. I've tried the 1 push up mindset, but somehow I keep tripping up and eventually feel 'gassed' and 'exhausted' from just being.

Job-wise - am barely making it. Just about touch and go.
Life wise - don't really have one. We are expecting a kid soon, preparing for that, but otherwise not really much going on.

Would love suggestions from the community here around working one's way out of a rut. Just nervous af in general knowing that I was at a much better state few months ago.
Hey, I'm the author, if you have any questions feel free to ask me
It's a descendant of Zephyr, a lovely chat system that had great success in the world of stable IPv4 addresses, statically assigned, but which really hasn't made the mobile transition acceptably. Namable threads are amazing.
That wouldn't surprise me. A a merit based reward that feels like it wasn't justified and given for "political reasons" or what have you gives those who feel overlooked every reason to assume they don't stand a chance at all, and a reason to be angry. It's hard to be get angry or annoyed at random chance.
But the long term effects are observable as well, aren't they?

I understand where you're coming from, and I'm not too excited when people pipe up with things like "the brain is just like X, so you just need to eat more Y to fix your Z", but we're learning plenty of things about how the brain works, and I believe that we do so because we consider it as a complex system that is not unlike a machine. Remove its fuel, and it will stop operating shortly, cut away parts of it and you'll see functionality change or being lost.

I see no harm in reasoning about it as a very complex and very large machine with tons of inputs, outputs and modification systems. A long time ago, we'd consider the heart a mystery full of magic, and now we're regularly transplanting hearts and I believe we're "within reach" (though rather decades than months) of implanting completely artificial hearts. I see no reason why we shouldn't make progress towards a better understanding of the brain in the same way.
So far it seems it did involve a Twitter employee: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-ac...
> you'd be one of thousands of people holding HTZ calls or TSLA puts in your Robinhood account

Former options market maker. We regularly got incredibly detailed data requests from regulators following corporate actions. Everyone who made money got scrutiny. Anyone who made money who wasn't similarly profitable before is almost automatically punted to their broker's compliance department, who will put in several hours of investigative work by default.

One of the most consistent knowledge gaps between professional and amateur traders, I've found, is the underestimation of how advanced and pervasive insider trading / market manipulation surveillance is.
It is intentional and if you look on the app when you're switching between the two it even says "We'll switch you back to top tweets after a little while" or something along those lines. True jerk design.
Nice!

If anyone is looking for an alternative to use your DSLR on Linux as a webcam, I wrote Fujicam[1] recently. It is not anywhere near as polished as dognotdog's implementation — it is just a wrapper around v4l2loopback, libgphoto2, and ffmpeg, really —, but has been working pretty well for me.

Despite the name, it should work with any camera compatible with libgphoto[2], not just Fujifilm cameras. Maybe I should remove it from my dotfiles, give it its own repository, and polish it a little.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/dotfiles/tree/master/.loca...

[2] http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
For a good read, I recommend The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Constructive feedback and most other negative feedback is really aspirational at the company level. It sounds good for HR to try to say it’s a company “value” and to encode it in reviews. In reality it’s never ever worth it to give constructive feedback to peers or upward (downward is OK). It’s bad for social dynamics, cohesion, and morale, especially when it’s formalized as part of some review process. It’s essentially a trap - the only way to win is to not participate or to give very mild feedback.
Handful of good links on price elasticity testing

1 - https://vwo.com/blog/ab-testing-price-testing/

2 - http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2012/12/why-price-elast...

3 - https://prisync.com/blog/price-testing-how-to-test-different...
They think there's a difference between a "conservative" and a "conspiracist"?
Todo es increíble cuando la mente humana deja de ser egoista
BAU in Greece where a couple of days ago a demonstrator died after being brutally attacked and tortured by police a month ago. The relevant minister was quick to deny police had to do anything with it but breaking several ribs to a previously healthy guy who then dies off lung failure is somewhat suspicious. Not to mention that for a month now no state entity investigated this incident despite it being clearly caught on cam.

In general we witness at least one incident of police brutality almost weekly for months now. The frequency has been increased to almost daily lately not to mention passing a law that essentially curtails demonstrations and gives even more authority to police on them. I'm in fact quite surprised that none of these have been covered to almost no extent in international news.

The irony is that all this is coming at a period when Greeks barely demonstrate at all. The vast majority just seems to have accepted their fate, i.e. economic misery ad infinitum, and it's been like that for years now. So, I'm guessing this has to do with a special agenda of the relatively new right-wing govt. Who knows. Fact of the matter is that policemen != protectors.

I believe it is a sign of deep rot of western democracies that police is the most dangerous thing you can happen upon in a number of western "democratic" countries.
MediaTek is fabless and relies on TSMC. I am sure MediaTek could be pressured as well. Also going from in-house designed SoC/Modem to third-party is still detrimental.
It turned out to be an issue in my code!
Again, sorry for that and thanks for reporting this!

Should work now on FF, with those flags enabled
(tested on FF78, MacOS)
Thanks for the exercise -

I got an order of magnitude improvement on Tcl just by bracing the expressions:

Bad: expr $i +$j + 2

Good: expr {$i + $j + 2}

... it saves interpretation and evaluation to occurring once, hoisted in the [expr] engine; it’s idiomatic. The lua version still appeared faster, though I’ve only spent 2 minutes looking at this.

Again, strings should play no issue here; values must be able to generate a string-representation, but it’s computed lazily, and in this case, the $i, $j, etc in Tcl are working with native integers.

I’m happy we have things like Tcl and Lua; either one of them makes development enjoyable. I appreciate you taking time to write your code samples.
> Then he returned to mainland China in 1955.

It's worth remembering that he did that because he was pushed out, during the Red Scare.
There's a similar device (possibly a Flowbee) used by the robot GERTY in Moon (2009).

https://invidio.us/watch?v=84Ewj-BOBuc
You, as the attacker, don't have to do it immediately before either. You could make your trades, wait a week, then do the scam and plausibly say you sold when the stock jumped.
can you explain what research you have done in the racism in tech space?

edit: i mean this in good faith since that question is an incredibly complicated one involving power dynamics and systemic issues that can't be boiled down to a simplistic answer. why the downvotes?
Tons of people would cash out their options immediately after a major event like this. And you don't have to get in immediately before. You can buy a week or even a month ahead of time and make a profit.

I still think the OP is underestimating the risk of getting caught though.
> It seems like anybody familiar with the history of the profession would be wise to not so easily “accept treatment.”

It's amazing how mainstream the anti-psychiatry movement has become. Please ignore it and focus on the modern science. The attempts to dismiss modern science with questionable historical references is non sequitur.

> But then again, even insiders like Jordan Peterson will “accept treatment” that nearly kills them.

Jordan Peterson is not an insider. He's not even a good representative of the industry. Please don't interpret anything he says or does as representative of the field. He's a social media star, not a recognized expert.
> the SEC wouldn't put the required resources into this

Keep in mind that a lot of the SEC's enforcement breadth comes from brokers' compliance departments. Any time anyone makes an unusual profit around corporate actions, the SEC basically requires a thorough investigation by the broker's compliance staff.
> A Spyderco Manix seems to cost about twice as much as a ~15 tool Victorinox. In what way is it better, given that it's just a knife?

I guess it really depends on what you care about.

If you have the Victorinox mostly for the tools, then it's obviously better than the Spyderco. If you have it mostly for the blade, then the Spyderco will be better. The edge will be sharper and will last longer. Also, the lock is more ergonomic and probably stronger.

If you really like the Victorinox and don't care that much about the cork screw, a Leatherman wave/charge just has much better tools and blade than Victorinox, and you can get the blade in s30v for a bit better performance.
For those of us interested in beginning to do RE, what does everyone suggest?
We opened completely free trade to China so businesses could cut labor costs decades ago. It's just built into our system. What did everyone expect?

You're absolutely right that this is another red scare. It's honestly reminiscent of post 9/11 domestic support of the majority of USA population to bomb the middle east. You're not even allowed to talk about China in US society anymore unless you're furious with rage for them.
No explanation necessary. It's the same old racism, but with a new 2020 twist: it's ok as long as it's racism against people we don't like.

Check out the recent spate of black athletes and celebrities posting openly anti-Semitic comments on social media (one directly (mis)quoting Hitler re: Jews) with zero repercussions.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2020/07/08/stephen...

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/jewish-leader...

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/9400472/i...

A really thoughtful piece about this by Kareem Abdul Jabbar here too:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-i...
What kind of steel is in that Victorinox? How well does it take an edge (can it even take the same kind of edge), hold an edge, resist chipping, corrosion, etc. compared to the Spyderco? It might well be a better overall EDC tool, but since this is a story specifically about steel I'd guess that the answers to those questions would explain why 2x is literally a small price to pay for some people.
Can’t think of any off the top of my head, but the first thing that came to mind is this from Max Krieger: https://a9.io/glue-comic/
It's a feedback loop though, whatever comes next will draw the crowds, which will draw loud voices, which will draw capitalists to form a structure (and career) out of it. There was a great essay on this topic that shows up here from time to time, using slightly different words: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths.
Thanks, we use it every day, and it works really smoothly. Here’s a link showing it in action: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m92E9g-1wR_LsNYs-kjzHoFMZoN...
I think it is interesting how much disagreement and misinformation there is on even such a simple and verifiable fact. Neither side is presenting the issue accurately. The governor did ban the sale of gardening supplies supplies by stores over 50,000 sqft which were allowed to stay open and sell other goods. Both sides are intentionally misrepresenting reality. One side posts about the ban but conveniently omitted that it was not a complete ban. The other side refutes the implicit claim of a general ban, and fails to acknowledge the incomplete ban.

It is really scary how twisted the media presentation of simple facts has become.

For example, Politifact states:

>In reality, executive order 2020-42, which went into effect April 9, 2020, requires larger stores to block off certain areas of their sales floors as a way of limiting the number of people in those stores. The order does not ban gardening or the sale of any product, including, as we mentioned in a previous fact-check, American flags.

Section 11.d.2.c of the executive order

https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90499_90705-52....

>Close areas of the store—by cordoning them off, placing signs in aisles, posting prominent signs, removing goods from shelves, or other appropriate means—that are dedicated to the following classes of goods:... Garden centers and plant nurseries.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/donald-...
Copying a quote I shared in a previous discussion about the hack's implications:

"Justice Department lawyer Jennifer Utrecht in her reply [in a Supreme Court case] acknowledged the president’s tweets are official government statements"

[bracketed text inserted for context]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/can-presid...
Direct link to the Mozilla VPN homepage:

https://vpn.mozilla.org

This is an offering by Mullvad, and uses Wireguard.

As of this moment, the homepage says:

> We currently offer Mozilla VPN in the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.
Awesome, feel free to email me at kennan@jika.ai when you get started and I'll personally onboard you if you'd like! And in terms of optimizing, I think the biggest shift for me was keeping everything I want to do in a list (Google Doc ha) and building momentum by doing the easy things.
Stenography comes to mind. It seems it just gets mentioned in cryptography classes. Not sure that's very useful though.

I think machine learning is not taught enough relative to it's growing demand.

COBOL is a language that is still used in many places and will need people to replace those who are retiring, so I feel that is lesser known and not taught in many places.
They need to be called out. The amount of virtue signaling these companies do in the US does not excuse their actions elsewhere.

This is not confined to the US either, countries in other parts of the world will engage in actions for the Chinese government they would not do at home or without great public fanfare about how they are against it.