skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, and in fact it was project MKUltra that came up with the concept of "learned helplessness" (another name for induced depression) as a result of the torture experiments on people like the Unabomber. The funny thing is that civilian psychiatrists continue to insist that depression can only develop in genetically susceptible individuals and cannot be due to environmental stimuli only. Yet, the military/intelligence bases a lot of its "enhanced" psyops/interrogation techniques on the idea that stress/torture is perfectly sufficient to induce depression (even suicide) in ANY individual.

http://haidut.me/?p=952

Interestingly enough, when I tried to bring up the issue of "learned helplessness" as a very common state of mental health these days, I got heavily downvoted in another thread (though lately the posts seem to have recovered a bit).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24635610

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24632657
Facebook brought on transformation in information distribution and social discourse propagation that previously went mostly over top-down media channels.

I think it turned to be a net negative, but it was a seminal change.
The American government tarnished itself, Snowden just revealed it to us all (at great personal sacrifice). I consider him a patriot.
An Introduction to Conditional Random Fields [pdf]
It's explicitly stated in their comment:

> arguing about slight variations of the same mundanities: XML, XSD, IDL, ASN.1, Avro, JSON... Emacs vs. Vim, Weakly vs. Strongly typed, and so on...

There could be a lot of valid and important arguments around these things. Except maybe vim and emacs, who gives a shit about that.
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I've never had debilitating, long-term pain. Have you? I think it's remarkably sadder that people have to deal with pain like this. And you jump right to wanting to lock up people and take your revenge. Isn't that a rather sad state of affairs?

I've been in the presence of people who need pain medicines like OxyContin and who are not able to continue living without it. Not because they're addicts, but because they have horrendous medical conditions caused by all sorts of things, ranging from US armed conflict all the way to cooking accidents while on the job at a restaurant.

For however many people you think are addicted and killed by drugs like OxyContin, there are far more people that are in need of drugs like these through no fault of their own, and often times, directly due to the very same politicians who are now celebrating this "takedown" of Purdue.

The difficulty one of these individuals had in obtaining their necessary Oxycodone during the COVID-19 lockdowns resulted in him attempting suicide. This person is not alone in this dilemma. The ridiculous scapegoating and guilt-tripping of this drug has led to the ruination of countless lives as well. Many people are suffering right now because some people think it's a corporation's fault when they choose to put a highly effective narcotic into their system.

We can't send people to foolish overseas conflicts, require people to engage in dangerous jobs like oil rigging and construction work, and then not give them medicine to make their on-the-job injuries livable. Doctors are the ones who make decisions about what to prescribe - they are the ones who commit the fraud of prescribing unnecessary medicines. If you're truly so eager to throw someone into a cage for their terrible crimes against humanity, you may want to start with the doctors and politicians before the wealthy, greedy Sacklers. I know that doesn't fit into the neat little boxes on top of which people love to grandstand these days, but the truth is a lot more valuable than filthy, emotionally-driven platitudes.
This is an interesting claim, do you know of anything I can read for more info?
"Legal" is not a synonym for "prescribed unnecessarily".
MAC addresses are easily falsifiable...
I feel a little grosser knowing that but this activity, of maintaining your space, I like so much. The term "de-cluttering" comes to mind but it's so obviously a chore, a cost, maintenance, a reactive price. Anything that sounds active, moving forward, sounds much better.
As a computer scientist who worked in a physics lab: a lot. Other sciences could desperately use the help of talented computer scientists. Unfortunately those other sciences are mostly mired in academia nonsense and don't pay well.
Wasn't really aware of these details. Very interesting article.

Despite having used various nitrogen-based compounds that go bang in the past (and like many techies, that I find them interesting), I'm rather glad that I've never been involved with them in a big way professionally.

Perhaps I'm a bit timid, but it's always seemed to me there's always a reasonable probability of an accident, usually when one's least expecting it. I recall some time around the early 1970s a friend of mine who used to go prospecting for gold always having a large box of gelignite in the back of his car and he'd keep it there even if he hadn't been prospecting for some considerable time. In fact, I recall his stock of it getting so old that it used to get to the sweaty stage (this means it's unstable).

It used to scare the hell out of me and I'd keep well away but it never worried him. Still, it never went bang and he's still around. These days, he's a licensed fireworks maker.
CheatSheetSeries/Dotnet_security_cheat_sheet.md
This should not be a surprise to anyone who understands the purpose of the corporation. It is to create a legal entity that shields owners from liability.

See _The Corporation_ by Joel Bakan for details.

The answer isn't "get mad at the Sacklers", it's change the law.
It's probably a good idea to distinguish between drugs and food.

One way to think about it is that drugs are meant to have medical and therapeutic effects, while food act as fuel and nutrition.
Two ways: Quoted string using backslash-newline (like in C), or using verbatim strings (like here documents in bash).
We can do both
Maybe if you have thousands of dollars to spend on a home-cinema, it's not worth it but you can't really replicate the cinema experience both in terms of being blasted by the speakers and socially.

Seeing an awful film in a cinema is a hard experience to describe and/or replicate, for example.
Again, you're talking about the EU officials, that's not something I would consider. You're also pointing to the report as an authority on the domain, but while it is an interesting document to start a discussion it isn't in itself something that dictates what is useful or not.

The reason to standardize European English would be to give the 400+ millions people living in the EU a common, shared language they could identify with. These people already use in their daily life a form of English that doesn't follow US or UK standards. It is obviously understandable by citizens, otherwise they wouldn't be able to use it. They are right now using this weird, bastardized version of English to do business, communicate with friends, with their families, etc. This European English is already a de-facto language used for communication between EU citizens. Instead of telling them to correct their use of the language because it fails to follow British standards, I would like this distinct form of English, as it is practiced, to be recognized.

And if that offenses British English speakers, then that's fine, they will adapt the same way they already do.
Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn app development for Macs?
There are a lot of articles, tutorials and courses when it comes to iOS. But we have struggling a bit to find good ones for Mac
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I don’t know if that’s absolutely true. Google was successful simply because they built a better mousetrap in search and selling ads around it. The more shady things I’d argue came much later, from what I can gather about the publicly available information on the company and what it’s been like to work there through the years.

I’m actually far more worried about what these people and companies do to maintain their wealth and status. That tends to be where things go much much more sideways and ends up more often than not being very harmful historically
Article for the curious: https://yellowhammernews.com/life-threatening-hookworm-resur...
you don’t think of heroin is legalized, there will be corporations conspiring to do the same?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted since it's completely true. Making a cross-browser game is hard.

For regular apps it hardly matters but when you need to run complicated logic 60 times a second differences between browsers and even nuances in implementations between platforms (Windows vs Mac, desktop vs mobile) start to matter. And then we have all the rendering and sound caveats.
Not me, not exactly. I do miss the additional social interaction as-such, you know, for its own sake. But not really the conversations. If that makes sense. I'm pretty introverted (hence the interest in computer stuff), but I'm still human.
And that’s just it: on HN, rather than on the original article.
I get the gist of what the author is trying to tell us here, don't fall on the hype train(trending on Netflix, YouTube, social media etc.) now, instead allow media contents coming out today to settle, undergo the test of time, and if it is truly good content, in a few years from now it may still be regarded as worthy. The author seems to be applying the same logic when choosing contents that are 10 or 20 years old, only those that have continued to sustain its popularity/fame is what's considered as worthy.
One of the rationales for the Ministry of Truth in 1984 was that the government could always do the right thing: as soon as it learned, it needn't take the difficult step of admitting past mistakes, but could instead merely correct them.
I'm curious about what interpretation of events leads you to the conclusion that, say, France was aligned against US interests? What about Canada?

Edit: And it's one thing (not necessarily a great thing) if you and your allies are knowingly and willingly exchanging intelligence about suspicious activities you pick up in each other's countries to tip off law enforcement. Exfiltrating corporate industrial and technological secrets is a different matter and there's no way an allied government would be OK with that happening, even as an under-the-table arrangement.
Well, getting mad at the Sacklers may not be productive, but it’s certainly merited.
No we can't because their medication also helped a lot of people in addition to the abusers that make it difficult for everyone else to get treatment.
I feel dizzy now, thank you.
I don't see any specific age when women abandon STEM as individual contributors; it seems to be constant throughout all life stages at a moderately higher rate than men. Until high school, however, there is no choice, and female grades are generally higher in everything, so they stick with it until they have to make a prioritization choice.

I see it naively like this: life is a long process of eliminating options that don't meet your interests or best chances at success. Women in general have more options in life than men, career being only one aspect of that, which means that over time, any one of those options is going to be chosen less and less.

Sociology distinguishes itself from economics in the assumption that people's choices are the result of stupidity or victimization. I just looked up the top math student in my 5th grade class. She's a 5th grade public school teacher after attending an Ivy for Geography. I have not the slightest clue why one would ever study Geography in college, nor would I find it financially prudent in my situation to be a public elementary schoolteacher, but I also know this person to be quite smart and fully-capable of making her own choices. I talk to female H1B engineers that came here for a better life, which was not STEM work, so they often quit as soon as they get a green card. I see women retiring earlier to start new careers. Female attrition is a constant feature of the entire STEM pipeline.

If I try to be honest with myself, I will admit that I was not at all intellectually interested in my engineering degree. Computers were always about creation and expression and social possibilities to me, not the pedantism and rigor that I practiced for financial reasons. I think we all just saw it as a test to see whether we could make it, or how well we could do, a game. It might as well have been pinball, and it never ends. 30-year SWE veterans still play leetcode. I am constantly being told that the opportunity to unleash my creativity and wonder upon the world is just around the corner. I should have dispensed with all that and started out as an artist.

All the STEM greats quit this game early. That says something. If Gates, Zuck, Musk, Jobs, etc. had never taken DiffEq, would they have been any less capable or motivated? I doubt it. The women that abandon STEM may have more in common with them than we admit. They're probably doing something better with their lives.

Maybe women leave STEM because they can.
No unified response, every country had to fend for itself.
Why reducing podcast consumption may be a good thing
My first taste of Linux was in 2002 when a classmate/labmate looked frustrated and installed Cygwin on my Windows computer. A year or so later, I built a computer from components I bought from NewEgg. No distros worked because I had bought a SATA hard drive and the drivers were not built in. Knoppix worked when booting from a CD though. I "wasted" about 2 weeks of my life compiling a kernel that had SATA drivers built in (not kernel modules), using Gentoo. Air quotes around "wasted" because I learned a lot and it gave me confidence. But I still get a "kernel panic" in my stomach while installing linux.
I’m for pre registration for some fields with big large experiments.For other fields (robotics is what I have in mind),I think the experiments can be so rapid that pre registration would be a real hassle and slow down progress.
Transatomic Power
> This was a failure of our community.

Absolutely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484
The Last Stargazers
There are some that only care about "freedom from sin".
Access to the infrastructure is pretty easy - e.g. a WiFi Pineapple is $99. https://shop.hak5.org/products/wifi-pineapple

There is no absolute protection against compromise, but it would be polite for every web site to implement https and hsts to at least make it harder for visitors to be compromised. It costs them very little.

Maybe the analogy is soap in the bathroom at a coffee shop - most customers will not get cholera if the soap is missing, but is it moral for the shop owners to take the risk when the cost is so low and the downside is so high?
The big question isn't how simple molecules (building blocks) come about. The big question is how these building blocks organized themselves into the complex structure of even the most primitive microbes.

Every new form of life tends to fill successively smaller niches. There are more prokaryotes than eucaryotes, more singe celled than multi celled etc. but there is nothing in between the primordial chemical soup and the simplest life forms. I would expect a huge mass of simple RNA based life forms simpler than prokaryotes.
There's also a cruel irony in the fact that addiction has very negative impacts on folk's self esteem. One of the negative cycles in addiction is when someone does become the villain in their own story.

It's heart breaking to talk to a loved one suffering from addiction and hearing that they think they deserve to have it due to some self-perceived failing.

I really wish the U.S. would get it's act together culturally around how addicts are perceived, treated, and helped.
> I mean, if this was the case, why provide the source at all ? Or why make it free to use forever ? Why not release it under a license that states usage is only permitted as long as the author allows it, i.e. for a limited trial period ?

I am specifically making the argument that by doing this you don’t care about the freedoms that the GPL was intended to preserve. Being “open source” without having the other freedoms is desirable to some but I believe not in the spirit of the GPL, so what you really have is a project you claim under one license but you are distributing it on the side with principles that directly oppose it.

> If some people want to build a free world, fine, I agree with that idea in principle and I will provide my work to them for free.

Well, what I’m saying is that the two principles seem directly opposed. To me it feels like you’re operating what you call a humanitarian blood bank where 100% of donations go to people need-blind, but if you add $5 on top of your “donation” you’ll instead sell it on the black market and give me 50% of the price it fetched (let’s assume this was not illegal). If your mission is “I want to help everyone” then this directly undermines that; but if you’re OK with “but my sales on the side help me fund the entire thing so that the actual donations can exist” that’s just another perspective (and possibly a valid one) but it’s not fair to characterize yourself as purely only thinking about running it as a service to only get blood to the people who need it.

> it's a more positive approach than GPL, in that it's not actively "hurting" people that don't want to join the open source community

The GPL wants to hurt people who don’t join the open source community. Like, it actively is designed around that because it believes members of the community who do not participate violate the freedoms of the open source community, and it tries to get people to do this by leveraging one of the few things the open source community has: the projects themselves. Again, whether that is an accurate representation is up to you, but using the license as a stick to prod companies into paying you so they can do the very thing the license was designed to prevent just seems ironic and that’s what I was getting at.
They are protecting their property from theft by force by the state. They view themselves as the moral owners of that earned private property, and the state as the thug hired by the masses which is attempting literal theft (in the moral, not legal sense) at figurative gunpoint (don't obey - go to prison). They view their wealth as the fruits of value adding voluntary exchanges that is theirs and only theirs to reap, distribute, horde, burn, spend, etc.

That is the libertarian philosophy that undergirds these kind of actions.
Ramblings from Jessie: Battery Day
I honestly do not understand why I m getting downvoted here. Am I saying anything untrue? Or did I only find a flaw which is not mentioned here?

Imagine leaving a house unattended in a humid or rainy area for one year, you would come back to swollen up windows which I am sure are far from clear. I guess you would have to replace these windows at least 5-10 times as often as regular glass. Also, glass is 100% recyclable whereas this would produce even more plastic waste.
Turns out I wrote one a few months ago. This is its first outing. I just put it there without accompanying explanations, so it may seem a bit obscure. And it is clearly unfinished, if finishable. It is more a moral code in the sense of the ten commandments. And I am not native english speaker. So here it is:

Do not make computer programs that force humans into repetitive tasks. Computers are made for automating tasks, not enslaving humans.

Do not pass onto users a responsibility that is on the program side.

When the user has a responsibility, make it clear. The computer program must warn users when their input could cause a valid output for which they would be held responsible.

Programs must never silently fail.

Once users have used a computer program, you must not remove it from them, render it useless or make it available at a price higher than agreed beforehand. Once users have used a feature of a computer program, you must not remove it, hide it from them or make it available at a price higher than agreed beforehand.

Programs must not override users inputs solely based on a probability of them being wrong.

Users can always override program outputs that are based on probability or incomplete information.

You must document all the features of the computer program accurately and make the documentation available to all users. Documentation is written in good faith.

Documentation must at a minimum describe the program inputs and the valid program outputs. If the output is based on probability, the documentation must explicit the probability for the program giving a valid output, and the probabilities of giving whatever invalid output.

When the program performance varies between users, any user can obtain the program performance in his/her particular case.

Every citizen is a user of a computer program used for law enforcement. Every citizen is a user of a computer program operating in the public space. Every citizen is a user of a program collecting its inputs.
> Browserboard is the worst of the three: hideous latency, terrible accuracy, missing the start and end of each stroke, and fails all three.

Sounds like I have some work to do. Not owning a pen-based device seems to be really hurting my ability to create a good experience here. I only own Windows, Mac, and iOS devices, and no tablet.

Thanks for trying it out, I really appreciate the notes.

> All three of these tools just seem to be making rookie errors like doing too much processing probably on the main thread, and skipping coalesced events.

I promise Browserboard works really hard to get this right, though in JS it's not really possible to move things off the main thread. I wrote and maintain Literally Canvas, a fairly popular open source embedded drawing app, and dealt with some of these issues, but without owning hardware for testing it's really hard to cover the unknown unknowns.
Joy of less costly is the measure.

Wake up to the developer perspective.
facts vs narrative, from a journalistic POV: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23858477

autogenic narrative via pure juxtaposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect

Edit: before deepfakes, we had to make edits like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmLPhx6N8Vc