skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Procrastination is the intentional avoidance or delay of a task. I have ADHD and assumed I was procrastinating a lot. Nope. These type of models never worked for me.
Anyone implementing a POST handler should think “what if this is child porn”
Welcome to geopolitics
Governments can do that right now too. EU is trying to do that right now with Qwant.com where European Investment Bank invested €25 million.

So, I'm curious will you start using Qwant.com from now on?

https://www.qwant.com/
> I'm increasingly skeptical of the ability for civilization to make it into the 21st century.

Because of.....Y2K?
How is letting Apple running localized chat apps in China selling out our future democracy?
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No problem, serious answer:

This is the DSMV criteria: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html

Doctors are typically screening with a quiz that looks something like this: https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/adhd-quiz/

It's perfectly reasonable to say "I think I may have ADHD based on what I've read online, my symptoms match and people who know me have suggested I try adderall".

Some doctors are fine with letting everyone have stimulants, because they're pretty harmless unless you're really binging on them, and they won't give you enough to do that for very long.

Other doctors would prefer to put you on an SSRI or SNRI or wellbutrin or some other "non-addictive" medication (which ironically are more addictive, dangerous, and less effective), so avoid those IMO. You may have to shop around a bit, but your primary care doctor technically can write the prescription, but some prefer not to and you might need to find a specialist.

Contraindications for stimulants are if the patient has a history of heart conditions, complains about racing heart rate, excessive sweating, trouble sleeping, trouble eating, etc.

You generally want to start with a low dose of "instant release" as opposed to "extended release" pills, so you can have more fine grained control over the dose. IR pills can be broken in half, XR cannot. Some doctors are more nervous about IR than XR because they think it has more abuse potential (not true, but it's a common belief).

With all that said, stimulants will fix the problems OP described, but don't mistake that for a pleasant experience. The truth is that amphetamines are extremely mentally exhausting, and if you don't take good care of yourself (planning proper meals, staying hydrated, resting at appropriate times, not taking more pills when you shouldn't), you can quickly spiral out of control. It's hard to explain to someone that doesn't do drugs, but stimulants can leave you feeling like a shell of yourself, and it's really disconcerting. It's sort of like being over-tired where you're awake but your judgment is clearly impaired and you don't feel like "you". If you stay on them long enough, you'll start to feel like a zombie just going through the motions (successfully, mind you), but without identity. I make sure to take weekends off to preserve their efficacy for the work week and to make sure I don't become too dependent.

I'd 100% recommend having stimulants in your toolkit, and chances are you're already supplementing with worse stimulants (like mountains of coffee or soda), so do give them a try, but be careful.
Correct - thank you.
Or alien civilizations just stop growing eventually before consuming all the energy their star provides.
Sometimes it does happen. I once interviewed with a company that was hiring because one of their engineers had died in a motorcycle accident.

Personally, I think trying to reframe it as happy and positive and coming with a grace period is a little frivolous. Your team should be prepared to transition someone's responsibilities in the context of a sudden, wrenching, and traumatic change.
I appreciate your feedback, and I try to be more balanced with this kind of article these days, and publish them less often. However, I'd like to point out that I've always strived to find other resolutions to these problems first - I spoke with Moxie and others involved in Signal at length before writing this article, and only wrote this as a last resort. With organizations like Mozilla, I have also spoken directly to some of those responsible, though it's more difficult with a larger organization, and waited until a long-term pattern of bad behavior had been established. I make these criticisms because I want them to live up to the ideals they proclaim - it's with the hope that they'll change for the better.
I had the worst interview experience there (contacted on LI and agreed to interview). Totally unnecessarily drawn out interview process that took months, with a long homework exercise only to be dinged at the very last interview with a “walk me through your resume” interview (are you kidding me).
This might also explain the disconnect between "what the survey says," "what my friend says" and "what I say," and what the driver associations are saying. It's conceivable that people who are doing this full time are more likely to let an interest group do the talking for them.

Long story short, I'm inclined to say that any source of opinion that isn't breaking drivers' views down by quartiles, is a highly selective version of the story.
what is your point? that its okay to actively prevent schoolchildren from studying? how does it matter schools were shut for 8 months 3 years ago. the point is, with the current pandemic, schoolchildren are stuck at home anyways and denying them high speed internet is denying them access to education. plain and simple. you argue because its been done before so everyone is used to it and thats somehow okay? its not
The lawyers at my workplace have the same opinion as the lawyers Moxie spoke with.
Happy to articulate it for you!

Without a trigger (also called a prompt), there is no behavior. We need someone (ourselves, others) or something (alarm, calendar) to take action.
This will be a disaster as is usually the case with government outsourcing duties to the less qualified private sector. Surely there must be a "law" named after this by now.

Realid itself is a clusterfuck. I tried to get a driver's license with it. Presented all the paperwork. Was told my signed lease was not acceptable proof of residence and that it would be impossible. I'd have to get a regular driver's license or come back at a later time, pay again and more this time for a second license. Fuck that. What a clusterfuck of stupidity. I'll try again when it renews, assuming the pandemic in the US is completely done. Or not. It's just a fact of life that to fly from state to state, one needs to carry a passport now. In a "free" country. How ridiculous.
So Firefox should aim to only be marginally better than Chrome, degrading itself along the way?

Firefox: 'I know we used to do cool stuff but Google rips it's users a new one on the regular so we need to be more shitty too, what're they going to do leave and use Chrome, lolz' /probably
I disagree. I am mildly ok with them ensuring there are no bombs on the plane. I don't see a reason why government needs to know I am flying to WI. If I think they don't need to know why, why on earth would I want to volunteer the who.
That sounds very interesting. Do you have a public repo I could check out?
What do we typically believe now that we would no longer believe if there were an advanced species benevolently not hunting us for sport?

I am trying to sort out what are the moral and ethical implications of humans not being the most intelligent or advanced species it is aware of.
Sure, but even someone retiring after winning the lottery might deign to write a few things down for you. The point of the bus scenario is that there is not even the possibility to ask them a question you might get an answer to.

I don't really see why framing it as a positive thing or negative thing matters, no one is actually getting hit by a bus, it's just a hypothetical scenario.
I agree, and I'm not sure I can think of the motivations either except that extreme strain causes people to do stupid things, it could even just be an accident.
I hate to say it, but this is one of the reasons I stopped donating. Mozilla was getting a bit like EFF-lite and I've had enough of the EFF's non-mission nonsense as well.
Looks good except it still has a 16:9 screen. Looking forward to the rumored Titanium and Nano.
It leaks into crusty oligarch coffins
Because permitting banning apps without due process is a dangerous precedent. Next up will be Signal because you could use it to talk to dangerous foreign nationals, or VPN apps because you could send secret data to the evil-state-du-jour. Process matters, even if this particular app doesn't.
I see maybe 3 people on this list that fit that bill. I doubt it's much different at MIT, CMU. Might be different at Berkeley.
That would be a staff level position, possible but not common. https://levels.fyi has details, but in the 200s for experienced, 300s for senior.
At the numbers we’re looking at, even if only 1% of civilizations (maybe even 1 in 1000) would be exponentially expansionary, they would still make themselves fairly obvious and outcompete all the others. The Fermi paradox doesn’t assume that all extraterrestrial intelligence behaves this way, but this rebuttal has to assume that no ETI would behave this way.

And that seems improbable, if only because aggressive, exponential expansion is a fairly valid Darwinian strategy.
You mean like the four “executive orders” (really just one) he issued in response to the Congressional stalemate to Covid.

Who is going to reign him? The Senate? Federal judges who he appointed?
The P series seems pretty overpriced compared to the competition today IMHO.
And 9th gen Intel CPU in 2020?! My current laptop mantra is Ryzen 4000 or bust.

But ok, ok, say they didn't have time to port their design to the new AMD chips since they're new. Fine, but I better see Ryzen based notebooks with more than 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD and 16:10 screens with res higher than FullHD in 2021 or I'm gonna lose my shit.
It would also help MoCo funding simply if more people used Firefox.
It is generally not reasonable for traveling domestically. Imagine having to show ID to take the bus/metro. Sounds absurd? Well, think of the children.
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What are the debugging tools like for this?
I agree that the mismatch is not a direct failing of SQL or the relational model - but we continue to use it without adopting a better approach or developing a common abstraction layer. With all of the syntax growth, SQL could certainly have a join syntax that understands object composition and returns structured data.
At which point they need to get hydrogen, and guess where all the hydrogen is.
Does that mean western organizations will finally stop censoring western people living in western countries? Will they finally stop banning people for voicing support for democracy in Hong Kong? Or for condemning concentration camps in Xinjiang? Will they finally stop ruining their products in their attempt to be granted access to the Chinese market? Will western employees finally be able to ‘like’ a tweet thanking their company for listing Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan on their website without being fired?
A better film than "Jobs" is the documentary "Steve Jobs Man in the Machine", free to see at:

https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=Steve%20Jo...

Mentioned in the CNN doc is the trick Jobs played on Woz in their first business deal. Jobs told Woz that Atari had paid them $700 to build the game Breakout and paid him half, or $350. But in fact Atari had paid them $7000, not $700.

Yet even after learning this, Woz continued working with Jobs and later co-found Apple. That says a lot about both men.
> The way that people underestimate the scale and complexity of Google's indexing always makes me chuckle.

The same approach that works for Google can also work for a public body supported by public funds. It can also use much of the same systems and maybe even personnel that Google currently employs for this purpose. I'm essentially asking for the search division of Google to be appropriated by the government.

> Also I'm sorry to inform you that the way the index shards are produced, arranged in memory/on disk, and the manner in which they are queried and ranked are inextricably linked. You can't make a search-neutral index format that can be queried economically.

I'm not asking for a search neutral index - public Google just needs to be (largely) open, transparent and accountable about its ranking algorithm. That's why the stipulation that other
entities be allowed to mirror the index - they can optimize the index for their own purposes and rankings on their own hardware.

> I'm especially fond of the idea that other parties will just wantonly copy it, like for research purposes or something.

Not for research purposes - other entities will be free to copy it for purposes like sovereignty (governments), less/more censorship or to build their own systems on top of it for profit, or any other purpose.
Anyway, there are bigger problems in the world than Google. While I am not sure payment processing is more urgent that regulating Google, there are many other things that are orders of magnitudes more important to tackle than regulating Google.
I'd love to have some competition for Auth0 so this is good.

But, what I'd love is an Auth service that does what you do for Office365 accounts. For some reason, nobody does this and, at least in Auth0, you have to manually set up O365 as a custom OIDC provider.
The article was referring to the USA situation. The difference between their situation and the Romans is that some of the people who played a part to the present situation (policies, laws, housing, blocking access to education...) are very much alive.

> Not many people in industrial Wales seemed to share in the benefits of colonialism.

I guess Welsh economy also profited (to a lesser extant) from slavery [1][2]. But if Normans purposefully enact systems that benefits them at the expanse of Welsh, solely (or even in part) because of their welshness, then of course you are legitimate to fight against it (if I understood you correctly).

[1] https://history.research.southwales.ac.uk/news/atlantic-slav...

[2] https://history.research.southwales.ac.uk/news/wales-and-atl...
Why would all of them do that, universally?
I think OP was listing ways that humans are acting negligent which shows that we are susceptible to a filter.
The breakup of the AT&T / Bell System was in 1982. Let's look at what happened to the seven companies it was broken up into. Pacific Telesis was acquired by AT&T in 1997. Ameritech was acquired by AT&T in 1999. Southwestern Bell Corporation was acquired by AT&T in 2005. BellSouth was acquired by AT&T in 2006. The other 3 are now either part of Verizon or CenturyLink.

The breakup of Bell sent a message, but so did the reconsolidation of Bell.
I'm picking up from a senior colleague who wasn't hit by a bus, but did die suddenly out of the blue, with absolutely zero warning. Reconstructing everything that he was doing, and why things are the way they are, has been an interesting challenge to say the least.
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The 9/11 hijackers had ID. Turns out terrorists don't care if you know who they are.
Well, I'm merely saying that a lack of proposals indicates a lack of workable solutions.

By proposal I don't mean an actual bill ready to be passed, just a high level overview that does talk about the implementation. Obviously doesn't need to be a sound legal document.

I think it's perfectly fine and important for people to speak out against perceived injustices committed by tech companies. But yes I do also think that calling for "regulation" while being very vague is also a bad idea.

We've seen this play out with GDPR. Tons of people were (and are) calling for more stringent data privacy regulations. So EU came up with this monstrosity nobody fully understands in its consequences (because you can't). Enforcement is totally random. Some websites ended up just banning EU users. Many now come with very annoying cookie popups. Those that try to "comply" can never be sure they fully do. Very few people are happy or have benefited from this thing in any way.

I think this is exactly what you get when you want something done but don't know what.
I use Signal because I think it protects my SMS messages

It depends. I think calling them simply SMS messages instead of being more precise is misleading because:
Text messages sent through your mobile SMS/MMS plan are insecure and need your phone to be connected to your mobile network.

and

Signal Desktop does not send or receive SMS/MMS messages. Only Signal messages will be sent or received. The desktop app is an independent client that works whether or not your mobile device is present or online. We also want to encourage users to move away from insecure legacy protocols.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Ca...

I find it very confusing.
I use a mac, and often use Preview to highlight and mark up, but sometimes I'll use acrobat instead, if I'm sharing with people who use windows machines, since then things seem to interoperate better. I don't know what's best for linux machines, since I've not used them in years. (As a professor, I need something that handles microsoft files, because that's what administrators use ... and that narrows the choice to windows or macos.)
Yeah, and js_of_ocaml seems like a more reliable solution, since it uses the normal OCaml compiler and just translates the bytecode.

I don't see any reason good React integration couldn't have been built on top of js_of_ocaml.

The whole BuckleScript/Reason project seems like it just made the whole ecosystem messier for very little gain.
Which, of course, could be a reason to switch to a different provider. :)

As someone who has things like a car PC to which I can't afford an Internet connection because all of the service is priced to include people streaming YouTube and Spotify all day... I find net neutrality an appalling concept. It's essentially a way to force ISPs to serve Google and Netflix's needs exclusively. (They are the majority of all US network traffic, and their bandwidth use as they expand to 4K video is basically drowning out everything else.)

Why shouldn't I be able to get a cheap $5-10 Internet service where I have to pay extra if I want to watch Netflix? Most of my Internet devices aren't used for Netflix, but I'd love to be able to afford plans for them.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poach

2

a: to take (game or fish) by illegal methods

b: to appropriate (something) as one's own

>>> c: to attract (someone, such as an employee or customer) away from a competitor <<<
"[..] the person made a decision and took action"

Is not that a very low information content theory?

I mean, is not all this discussion about why somebody would choose not to take an action that it's beneficial for them if they know it is beneficial? That's the real question.

It's like this people that say that everybody can choose to be a millionaire. OK, but in that case, why so many people choose not to be a millionaire? Or why millionaires don't choose to be billionaires?

It seems to me that to answer "because they choose" is just wasting ink and explain nothing.
proving identify to fly is a pretty reasonable rule

Why would that be so? People don't show ID to get on the train, the bus or a boat, and what you are called isn't the transport company's or the government's business.
That is the standard applied at banks...
> Are $500k+ yearly salaries in SV really that usual?

Salaries? Not at all. Total compensation? Well, it depends.

Software engineers with < 10yrs of experience routinely make this much at FAANG. The total compensation number usually includes the following:

* Salary

* Bonus (anywhere between 15-25% of salary)

* Initial grant that vests over 3-4yrs

* Stock "refreshers" that you get annually

* General equity appreciation due to a bull market

For senior engineers, the equity portion of their compensation far outweighs their salary.
The rationale is that the potential damage is higher with a flight. Bombing a bus/metro might a dozen or so people. Bombing a plane can easily kill hundreds.
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What does that have to do with internet speeds? Citation needed.
It didn't change my approach to treatment, no (I continue to take vyvanse)

However, the description of behavior of people with ADHD, made me say "oh, shit, that's 100% me". So, it was nice to know that I am not alone. It's comforting to know that some of my weirdness is from ADHD, and not inherently "me"
CO2?
And how does requiring ID mitigate that danger?
We can and we have determined the level of fraud. Hint: It's nearly 0.

The right is simply fear mongering to push their racist agenda.
What annoys me about realid is the time it takes to make it. It takes weeks ( as opposed to being able to get one the very same day at dmv ). So average user is told tuff noodles, while average person who uses fake, working id has criminals working 24/7 to ensure easy access ( https://www.fox5ny.com/news/shipments-of-nearly-20000-fake-d... ).

And when you point it out people say something along the lines "Well, that's why you need realid!". It gets depressing fast.
The consensus protocol doesn’t help in removing either of these trust requirements?

If I own the mechanism of root node discovery, I can mount an effective Sybil attack against a new network participant.

The history of Bitcoin is full of hard and soft forks and changes to the rules. That’s why your original Bitcoin client wouldn’t even let you join the Bitcoin network now. The people in control of the network are in a position of immense power with minimal oversight. So on what basis should I trust them with my life savings? What recourse do I have if they ruin my life?
Recommending a tool that wasn't even end-to-end encrypted over Signal because you didn't like the way Signal's leadership responded to your demand to support F-Droid is the most relevant thing you wrote. Just because it was malpractice doesn't make it out of bounds.
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> X is the worst!

> No, look at how bad Y and Z are! They're so bad!

this is a... Sokal? (I think it's pretty easy to read the intent here, and more generally: internet comments are hardly rigorous proofs, and that's probably a good thing.)
How are my personal decisions relevant? I'm calling for a government appropriation of the search division of Google.
Plenty of people pass the background check and commit crimes. Should we eliminate gun background checks entirely?
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Just count it as a victory that he asks you first, rather than handing out his bank details.
Sort of true. The rocket equation doesn't account for the added weight of lifting the rocket itself, just the added fuel. Multiple launches can reduce the practical overhead, even if not changing the overhead in the limit of 0% rocket mass 100% fuel mass.
I just produced a search result that puts a Vimeo video in the carousel at the top of the page. It was difficult, because Vimeo sucks and nobody uses it, but it proves that the arrangement of junk on the SERP is origin-neutral. The top result gets a bigger box.
And here I am, can't even get a recruiter from Netflix to reply, after submitting my resume on a job that I was match for 10/10 requirements on the description AND got someone to refer me.
The difference is that taxation is subject to political forces, and politicians may not be able to pursue an unpopular policy that stabilizes the value of money. The Fed is mostly immune to short-term political needs and often pursues unpopular actions to meet its objectives.