skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The precariousness the author describes is real, at least in my experience. I'm 20 years into a career that many would find enviable except strangely devoid of any tenures longer than about 30 months, because that's the longest I've been able to surf my bipolar swings before imploding. Those meltdowns traditionally resulted in me running away from work to fall into a boozy depressive mess for six months, them returning once the mania kicked in again.

This year, a low coincided with the onset of COVID lockdown and I put myself in the hospital. Not checked myself in: I tried to hurt myself badly enough to be in the ER, ICU, and then inpatient psych care.

Even there, I was the "eloquent, self-reflective" model patient, much like I've been (in the manic times) the persuasive, thoughtful, creative employee that people couldn't wait to hire and promote.

After a couple of months of medical leave I went back to my previous job instead of quitting. It was driven largely by financial insecurity, as I had burned through my savings after not working at all in 2019...once again, due to being in a low phase _and_ getting sober and having no bandwidth left for anything else.

Being back to work at a place that has seen me swing from "A+ performer, definite strong leadership/promotion track, etc." to "can I keep a job, any job here? Ideally one that won't demand more than 40 hours a week of my time?" is far harder than jumping into an impossible workload while manic. Grinding out yet another week full of stand-ups and PRs when I have zero confidence is gut-wrenching, and on top of it all I have to be there and stable and not a depressive mess for my family, because I can't let them take care of me while the world outside is on fire.

All I want to do is get on my bike and ride for six hours a day, then cook dinner for my family, then do a little programming and writing before I go to bed. Literally, that's it.

Unfortunately, that's not a lifestyle I can sustain, even if I suspect it might be the thing that would keep me alive past 40. So it's back to work, taking my meds every day, and lying through my teeth when folks ask how I'm doing.
It doesn't take a genius to realize that there is something wrong about tearing up 10-20 tiles in front of an escalator and shutting down for 6 months only to appear one day and finish the job but still leaving the escalator off for another 1-2 months only to reappear to remove the barriers and turn on the escalator. Now do that all over again in and around the entrance to the station for another 5 years.

If you use the station everyday, you notice these things.
A root is not one static machine. Google can serve 1/3 of traffic for all routes, AWS could do the same.

I don't think folks realize how SMALL the root dns traffic is. Youtube / netflix / amazon prime video are just orders and orders of magnitude more demanding in terms of bandwidth - every second they are pumping MULTIPLE HD streams to millions of folks. They measure bandwidth terrabits per second. Even at 30 frames per second, we are talking incredible bandwidth.

DNS responses should be 1K or less (often .5K). About 40 netflix viewers at their top quality use the same bandwidth? Netflix has far more than 40 users.
Beat me to it. I was just going to post that link.

Worth noting, Jim recently was given a technical service award by the ARRL for his work. http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-technical-service-award-confer...
Hahaha. Who stepped in to do what? I don't think you've thought this answer through mate. Anothet time mate.
Oof - that article brings back a lot of memories of Slashdot and being a geek back in the day.

This is possibly one of the most infamous of all Slashdot threads - it was a collection of emails detailing how it was to be an outsider in the days after Columbine.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/voices-from...

If the stories in this post are interesting to you, a book to consider would be Geeks, by Jon Katz.

https://g.co/kgs/p2rLUT
My personal belief (which does not yet have enough evidence) is that boys have a greater variation, and indeed in general society encourages girls -- but this particular paper overclaims (while providing interesting evidence).

It could be one gender does have greater mental potential -- certainly one has greater physical potential, but the gap is much smaller and certainly not yet decided.
And it also needs voice and video to be useful.
Can you give us an example of a country that wasn't war torn and exploited at some point in its history?
> Prisons are absolutely related to police. The only way I'm aware of to get into prison is via an arrest by police.

Nope, you can go to prison without being arrested first if you showed up to court voluntarily.

> So, every arrest a police officer makes, they need to consider, "knowing what I do about prison, is it ethical to arrest this person?"

Nope, most arrests don’t result in prison time and unless the crime is particularly bad, the cop can’t even know if prison time is a realistic outcome. It sounds like your beef is with state prosecutors (e.g. Kamala Harris) and you just don’t understand the system well enough to know the actors involved.

> Police militarization is supported at the federal level through grants of military equipment, and nationwide through the use of trainings that teach officers they are "warriors" or "sheep dogs".

This is not “nationwide” in the sense that it’s up to each department if they want to participate. A city can absolutely refuse to participate in this programs and most rural places don’t (perhaps because they are ineligible, but either way not nationwide).

> They might all have different funding and standards, but there are systemic nationwide problems.

You have yet to identify these problems though. What issues do you think the officers in Cody, WY have?
Is there? Everything you see on the store shelves is there because some corporation manipulated the store to put it there, and because that corporation expects to personally benefit from lots of people buying it.
Barnett's #4 (war in the context of "everything else") is straight outta Clausewitz.

Interesting to see how he differs from 1984[1]:

Oceania is split across Old Core, New Core, and Disconnected.

Eurasia is split across Old Core and New Core.

Eastasia is split across New Core and Disconnected.

Disputed territories are contained within Disconnected.

Guess I'll track his trichotomy to see if it has any better explanatory power.

[1] roughly (in our world I think Eastasia is smaller): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Fou...
Is Chicago really that much worse than other similar cities like milwaukee or minneapolis? whenever I go to those (which, to be honest, isn't often) the streets don't seem _that_ much better.
Yes, but we can't really talk much as we need to get things done xD
The destruction of small businesses by the crushing burden of regulatory and taxation compliance is virtually complete.

Small businesses pay 10x to 100x more for compliance per dollar of gross revenue than their multinational rivals — for laws written by their armies of lobbyists, successfully architected to extinguish their more nimble and inventive small-business competitors.

I’m morbidity interested in how people will enjoy the world they’re creating for themselves...
I think a lot of it is perhaps fundamental attribution error, which is ridiculously common in people.

I actually tend toward the idea that people that manufacture and sell potentially harmful, but inanimate things are in no way responsible for their final use (or misuse). They're not forcing anyone to take these drugs, nor is the prescriber, nor is the pharmacist, nor is the truck driver who drove it to the corner store.

That said, I also recognize that while the person who put the opiates into a human body is the ultimately 100% responsible party for any harm caused by those opiates, the fact remains that many people would choose such self-harm in various circumstances (such as massively addictive drugs being prescribed by their doctor), and that we must consider the effects of circumstances on people and their decisionmaking.

Treating people as sheep that are entirely dependent upon their circumstances to determine whether or not they make good (in your and my view) choices is the wrong move, however.

Ultimately though, it's simply not the fault of the manufacturer or vendor if adults misuse their products.

There seems to be a lot of support for ending the drug war in the United States. (I'm one of those people.) If that happens, opiate addiction seems to become much more likely, as opiates will be cheaper, safer, and more plentiful/available. I guess I'm just not sure where the outrage at this manufacturer comes from, given the disaster that the drug war's been. What they're doing is (mostly) legal, and the parts that they're trying to hang criminal charges on shouldn't be crimes.
And, of course, even the decomposers depend on death to survive. Perhaps not directly, but if things stopped dying fungi would be in bad shape.
>disunited (as COVID response showed).

not sure I understand the logic here but Europe, despite having twice the population of the US, has about as many deaths. The region overall has responded well.
Are you arguing that you should only get in trouble for leaking if the information you leaked is surprising?
It's a valid use of the word. Just like in these sentences:

Joan was robbed of the use of her legs after the car accident.

Or

John was robbed of the opportunity to live a normal life when he was falsely convicted of murder.

Something was taken from OP, Joan, and John. In OP's case, probably his job due to the collapse of the tourism industry during this ongoing pandemic. Nobody needs to have gained something in return for this to be true.
Motivational Compass
My guess is to avoid risk of defamation lawsuits. I know in the states a lot of publications are careful how the phrase things to avoid even the risk of a lawsuit regardless of if it would be a legitimate claim.
I think you misunderstand. Nobody wants to build from scratch (manufacture?) a whole telescope. But a segmented mission assembled from components that are separately packaged and perhaps separately launched, is much more affordable and less risky than an equivalent mission that somehow unfolds. And,at some point soon, we'll want spacecraft that are larger than can be lifted in one launch anyway. We do this with the iss, lunar gateway, why not large telescopes or interplanetary spacecraft?
> I am a firm believer that all of the war and crime you see in the world is driven by some biological wiring that most of us continental organism possess, from ants to humans.

That is a very fatalist view that denies humans the agency we clearly have. We are obviously capable of devising social norms that go against our "biological wiring", whatever that even is. A simple proof is how varied social norms can be -- with respect to things like marriage/family, work, death, religion, etc. -- across different cultures in space and time.

We have the power, collectively, to end the horrible practices that lead to war, exploitation, imprisonment/torture, climate change, and whatever else. These are not an inevitability. The idea that it is inevitable is more of a self-fulfilling prophecy that allows it to continue without any challenge.

We have shown in many ways that we have risen above the determinism of many biological processes. We should realise that things can be different and change ourselves to be a part of that difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
Johnson and Johnson Begins Phase 3 Trial of Covid-19 Vaccine
> The fact that the Sacklers are going to get to keep the billions harvested by ruining the lives of tens of millions of Americans bespeaks a morally bankrupt civil society.

Selling opiate pills isn't the reason those lives were ruined, any more than selling gasoline is the reason that the climate is changing.

Opiates must be put into a body and swallowed to do any harm, and the Sacklers didn't have any involvement whatsoever in that.
If you install a service like pi-hole, does that query the root servers?
Do it and I'll use it
Huh? I seem to recall watching the series "Planet Earth 2" and there was some tense scenes with iguanas and snakes:

https://www.vulture.com/2017/02/planet-earth-ii-iguana-snake...

Looks like they have a predator to me.

You might have a point about war and in general consumption being a 'wired-in' behaviour. Then again assuming we have something like intelligence and free will, we should be able to choose to override some primitive behaviour.
Except we use statistic about the gender makeup of a field to determine if there is sexism. Which is flawed, but often feels rational.
Geoff Huston apologises for bringing the internet to Australia
> There was a Subway station called Runnymede that took about 5-7 years and when completely you couldn't tell they did anything.

Drilling shafts and installing new elevator is a bit more than a "simple renovation" IMHO.

https://ttc.ca/Service_Advisories/Construction/Runnymede_EA....

And that assumes that they're not doing structural fixes for a station that was built >50 years ago (Line 2, B-D, opened in 1966).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_2_Bloor–Danforth
The ultimate solution is decentralized technologies that cannot be shutdown, because creating a centralized technology (website, app, product) will open you up to endless enforcement actions. It will take a long time but the people desire freedom, so over the longterm freedom will win out over coercion.
I don’t even know if anyone is even saying there is a problem. All we have is some blog saying traffic has increased.
Where on the line ranging from opioids through tobacco through sugar through fast food through alcohol through 1970s food pyramid through steak through salads should we place the point representing “everyone who profited from items to the left of here shall be sent to jail”?
Show HN: Dial-a-Podcast
> no one tried to make this cheaper

What do you mean by this?
>not easy for a layman

a bar owner isn't a layman but a business owner, and in fact one who already has to navigate regulations around media in particular. For example if you don't get a TV license if you put a TV in your bar and show say, soccer games, you're in hot water too and everyone knows this.

If you act as a service provider in a business I honestly don't know why people would be surprised that there's some caveats.
You seem to equate slacking off with failure, when there's plenty of evidence to the contrary: https://blog.trello.com/slacking-off-speed-up-productivity

It's important to separate what we feel is productive work, from what will actually produce the most work on aggregate across society.

I think we can build a world where those who feel they need downward or lateral pressure to get things done can have this, but not at the expense of everyone else.
Electoral college. Boondock states get two senators each. Urban states get two senators each.

California's 40 million people have the same representation in the senate as Wyoming's 580 thousand people.
Someone will drive a truck through that loophole.
> that some very large percentage of opioid addicts were not previously prescribed opioids.

Doctors massively over-prescribed opioids. This meant American homes were awash with prescription meds, and lots of these were not needed by the person they were prescribed for.

So people started giving away their meds to relatives or neighbours, or selling them. Or people started stealing meds from their relatives to distribute.

The underlying cause is the same: massive over-prescribing of opioids.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw
It's sort of amazing that the reason we have these licensed people who are supposed to be "trusted" to give good instructions is because of the system of prohibition on the sale of drugs by the unlicensed.

The argument is, of course, that by restricting the distribution to licensed professionals, the abuse of dangerous drugs would be curbed because the trade would be restricted to to those trained in their safe use.

We have the worst of both worlds. This is all a result of prohibition.
The WPA overbuilt everything because its underlying purpose was to reduce unemployment, even if it meant inefficient allocation of labor, because the alternative (massive unemployment) was considered even worse.

That entire system has since been discredited, because there is no actual need to allocate the labor inefficiently on purpose to reduce unemployment instead of still being as efficient as possible and just e.g. increasing the number or projects. Or even better, stimulating demand for labor by giving money directly to the general population.

But the problem in this case isn't high unemployment, it's high inefficiency. A program designed to reduce unemployment by increasing inefficiency is obviously not a solution for that.
You've conflated the proxy DNS servers, that do grunt work of query resolution (or forward to other proxies that do), with the content DNS servers. It is not the content DNS servers that are causing the scaling problems, it is the proxy DNS servers, and the DNS clients and applications softwares that drive them.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-server-roles.html

The change that needs to happen is the thing that most people nowadays tell one first, that this paper in contrast leaves all of the way to the end: run your own content DNS server(s) for the root, on your own LAN or Intranet. It's fairly simple to do, and it's an idea that has been around for over two decades, now.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24277855

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19526108

* http://cr.yp.to/dnsroot.html (dates back to 2001)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24280536 et al.

It takes a long time in the DNS world for such grassroots ideas to percolate to the level that they get circulated by corporate officers. This article is, for example, still propounding that every resolving proxy DNS server works like ISC's BIND, and has a "priming query". This is untrue in reality, and is one of the differences between BIND and some of the softwares (e.g. dnscache and MaraDNS) that came along to replace it a couple of decades ago.

* https://maradns.samiam.org/faq.html#roothints

Similarly the argument that Google should use a subdomain, presented in this article without any counterpoint at all, has long since been countered by pointing out that this makes the malicious actors' lives easier; as conditional forwarding and split-horizon DNS service, which are well-known things, would then make it easier to fool Google Chrome. And there have been other counterarguments made, years ago.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3609498 (yes, 2012)
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Read the linked new yorker article at the bottom of this one to see how they played a direct critical role in getting doctors to perscribe them for minor pain.
"Dow Chemical is not responsible for Bhopal disaster that killed hundreds of thousands. They just released those chemicals into the air, you had to breath in order to be effected."

If a doctor perscribes you heroin because he read a paid-for-report by the Sackler's goons, then yes, they are responsible.

Not sure how you could blame a human for doing what their doctor tells them. Oxy is pure narcotic, and never should have been prescribed to anyone, but $$$$$ is a hell of a drug too.
Then I think you'd be excited to know that there is a major content update coming on the 8th of October that adds logic, wires, and some other new components to make the late game more interesting.

That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the first few hours and I feel like I got my monies worth even without the upcoming update
>NestedText is a file format for holding data
Then why not call it NestedData? NestedText is misleading because text and data are different. That was a distinction many users of XML failed to make when they used it to store data and ended up dissing XML for being obese when it was designed for large text documents (wherein XML tags are an insignificant portion of the document), and not data.
Another psychological component is that if you don't demonize the ones who have taken the Billions, then maybe you can get some of that too. Maybe like playing the lottery while ignoring the obvious predation of the lottery system
i think if they really work well as part of treatment for PTSD and other aftereffects of trauma, and perhaps other mental illnesses, that would be of profound value for humanity.

as far as people taking them in general: from looking at people who take psychedelics, it doesn't seem to me that they're any more or less enlightened or emotionally mature than people who don't. whatever the subjective experience, it seems like all the flaws and foibles of humanity are still there just as much.

it does seem like it teaches people a particular outlook or way of relating to the world -- but I don't think it's one that is superior or inferior to other perspectives. Probably society needs people who relate to life in many different ways.

I would worry about living in a society where it is the norm for everyone to take psychedelic drugs multiple times per year. I think things would get pretty weird.
The fundamental flaw in human nature is the universality of the thought "I'm a nice person, I'll never do what they did!"

Yet, few of us forego our comforts and vacations when that could measurably help many with basic life necessities. If you contribute 20% of your salary to charity, you're already in the significant minority, leave alone higher ratios.

Many here work in facebook, or Palantir, and find ways to justify how it's not that bad a company. Other tech companies too, but the point is made more clearly with these examples.

On a far simpler example, a few years back, most everyone in this forum probably used to pirate movies. Whatever Robinhood justification we all used, in the end we broke the law. Probably because we thought it didn't matter, that we somehow deserved what we took, and that we won't caught. That's the first rung in the ladder that after a very large number of steps leads to where this family has ended.

If you were ready to break a small law to just watch a movie, is it that unfathomable that these people will do dastardlier things to keep billions?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24270369 et al..
These same thoughts often cross my mind. But the grass is always greener on the other side. I do really love how unstructured being a prof is though.
Yeah, if the creditor has a choice between (maybe) getting paid at some point in the future or definitely not getting paid at all, some will opt for the maybe.

It would be different if they could resell the property, but in a market where no one is buying, it's a different story.
A doctor prescribing them and someone ingesting them are different acts. One does not harm anyone, and is just writing on a piece of paper. The other is extremely dangerous.