skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're elaborating on how the categories are intended to be meaningless, but you're not doing much to claim that they are in fact not meaningless.

If someone has low occupational functioning, you could call that a disorder. But why would you call it "ADHD"? Why would you call it ADHD for some people and OCD for other people? Suppose you have two lists of symptoms:

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Patient has an active mind.
- Patient has a crummy job.

Borderline Personality Disorder
- Patient rubs me the wrong way.
- Patient has a crummy job.

And you have several people who display every combination of mental activity, mental lethargy, likeability, unlikeability, good jobs, and bad jobs. You say everyone with a good job has no mental disorder, unlikeable people with mental lethargy and a bad job have borderline personality disorder, likeable people with mental activity and a bad job have ADHD, and unlikeable people with mental activity and a bad job have borderline personalities _and_ ADHD. Likeable people with mental lethargy and a bad job have a disorder as yet unnamed.

What did you learn about the reasons why people with bad jobs (your primary diagnostic criterion, after all!) have bad jobs?
> Comes with .NET 6.0

So I guess the general release of Visual Studio 2022 will be in November 2021[1] when .NET 6.0 is scheduled for release. Can't believe .NET 7 is scheduled to be released the year after and .NET 8 the year after that.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/roadmap.md
If it's added to the official spec, then browsers are expected to support that functionality out of the box, without needing polyfills.
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Don't need to em every 10th word.
Based on my experience with them, I think they totally failed at their previous model.

When I was fresh out of university, I had trouble finding a job. I had worked part-time at a small company through the last few semesters, but that company blew up just before I graduated. Every interviewer I ever met with was impressed because I really knew my stuff, but had trouble getting in the door due to an unimpressive CV and awkward mannerisms.

I did very well at Triplebyte, scoring in their top bucket and getting top marks in several of the sub-categories. Those metrics are relative to all engineers, which would put me even higher amongst recent graduates. I also did very well on every software project I worked on and scored top marks on several other objective tests, like the Major Field Test.

I was exactly the sort of candidate their system should have been able to help. I never even got an email out of it, let alone an interview.

Waste of time.
As a society we've already concluded that it's okay to prioritize safety over freedom, as long as the tradeoff is sufficiently profitable: we have seatbelt laws, we did lockdowns during the pandemic, and you can be involuntarily committed for mental health.

I think a much better argument is to point at countries that decriminalized drugs and didn't see an increase in crime. If legalizing marijuana resulted in a 10x rise in crime I'd 100% for keeping it illegal

(This is all from someone who is very much AGAINST the war on drugs)
'brew' works really well, no need for them to reinvent the wheel.
So the banks are lending their cash to the Fed or (repo market), and holding the treasuries (making interest) to let other banks or the Fed borrow the cash for some reason overnight.

The only thing I get from it is that banks are flush with cash and overnight rates should go lower because there is an abundance of cash being lent.

Seems like a game. Must be nice to be a banker.
Awesome! I've started a POC, but as with most things I'd rather not have to build it myself.
Circle can in fact ban addresses from transacting USDC and has done so working with law enforcement: https://www.coindesk.com/circle-confirms-freezing-100k-in-us...
"People say it failed without recognizing how bad the crack epidemic was, and is currently only a shadow of what it could be had it been left unchecked."

How exactly was it checked?

It's never been hard to buy crack if you wanted it, and for every dealer busted 2 more would move in to take their place.

I've yet to see evidence that the drug war did anything except for ruining a whole lot of lives and make some people very rich.
Anything comes to mind i find interesting, especially tech things. I try for knowing their stack and internals and methodology well by the time i,m leaving.
It's not an idealogical battle. And you aren't the mod.
Almost paid for Notion twice but I never do it… because of the damn tables… Just let add me add a simple non relational table where I can have row and column headers.
Not every tabular data needs to look like a database. And finally… it’s so unclear what they are working on that I just don’t want to invest my time on it if I don’t know where this product is going. So much potential…
The difference is in the bar for forcing companies to set aside parts of their screening process. To get them to do that - as we needed to under our old model, because we didn't have a notion of "recommended but without the requirement to skip tech screens" - we needed to be making very strong recommendations.
> If you feel teachers are undervalued, fine but teachers being underpaid and cops overpaid simply isn't logically consistent.

I'm not making this claim. But this statement has no logical problems, at least not as stated. Just because they might be paid a similar amount (or even if teachers are paid more) doesn't mean that the statement isn't logically consistent.

For example, Lebron James gets X and Nico Mannion gets paid Y (which is much less than X). Many still argue that Lebron is underpaid and Nico maybe overpaid. They deliver different value, and there's the notion of scarcity to provide the level service they provide.

If you think the average teacher (or some percentage of teachers) provides more value then the average cop, then you could make that statement and it not be logically inconsistent.

Unfortunately both have civil servant types of roles, which are hard to valuate in terms of financial impact.
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I agree, Macs aren't for me. But if Apple wants to increase their market share (hint: they're one of the most-traded shares of all time), they should start listening to their detractors. Especially for their desktops, where MacOS barely constitutes 7% of the desktop market share. Apple has been selling computers for nearly 5 decades, and their market share is still pitiful. Hell, if Google is selling more computers than you, something is seriously wrong with your computer.
It has nothing to do with the article and it is idealogical.

I never claimed to be a mod.
A school that has consistently ranked top 20 and sometimes in top 10.

My major are slightly mismatched though.
Yeah, it's a really tough balance to strike. I've worked with teams and systems where they were fully happy to apply a hack and move on and it worked great for them. I've also worked with teams who had a terribly bad culture of throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks for fixing weird errors and in the process making problems worse without actually fixing the problem.

Using good judgment to figure out when a hard RCA is necessary and when it's not is key to making forward progress without constantly shooting yourself (or your teammates) in the foot.
People are not software :)
> functionally equivalent to methamphetamine.

"The average crystal meth addict uses about 500 mg a day. And they snort it, which probably produces about double the peak plasma level as taking it orally. So they're getting the equivalent of 1000 mg oral amphetamine daily. The average Adderall patient takes 20 mg."

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/drug-users-use-a-lot-o...

The fact that it's safe to have licensed people prescribe a tightly-controlled substance at 2% of recreational doses is... not at all a good argument for fully unrestricted 100% recreational doses.

(I'm still against the war on drugs, for what it's worth)
Didn't you get the memo, there really is no use case for blockchain.
I’m not offended, but you are being offensive. Your whole approach here is toxic. I’m here attached to my actual identity talking about real mental health issues, and you hide behind a pseudonym without a trace of identity and question another’s own experience based on nothing but your opinion.

Why needlessly call-out, contradict and argue? This, my comment here, was a share out, it took some courage to post it, none of it was about or impacted you. You took it upon yourself to be the critic. So to that I say, buzz off. You’re unwanted.

> created: 82 days ago

Yup. This checks out.
in the comments:

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> I forgot how to implement the zig operation in a splay tree.

employee at Triplebyte)

> To put some hard numbers to this: further down this thread, there's a post about how "any engineer" could answer a question the poster thinks is too easy. I looked up the question in our back end and, in fact, barely a third of people who take our quiz get it right (the correct answer isn't even the most common one!).

So there 1000 job matches and at most (("hundreds of thousands of engineers on our platform" / 3) - 1000) who were incentivized to answer these contrived problems, did so correctly and still couldn't be matched.

So even among the large pool of engineers who have gone thru the process, met some arbitrary threshold of engineer-ness, there's still a huge mismatch between corporate/prospective employee expectations, that I'm not sure will be able to be overcome quickly even with these new initiatives, but it's interesting that they are being pursed now (not surprisingly after the shift in working environment after massive government restrictions on freedom uber alles).
Me reading this announcement:

"Jesus this guy writes and writes and says nothing. Wait, there was a link at the top to some sort of TL; DR, let me check on that to find out what the announcement is"

> What are we pivoting towards? To explain, let’s talk about economics for a second.

Nope, I give up.
Anybody know of a good graph extension for SQLite?
I should have clarified, the first interview is just a code screen. People submit resumes, and we test them with fizzbuzz. 90% of applicants are removed at this first filter.
You're right, but it could be enough of a workaround to help this person in the short-term to be able to spend the time long-term to better address the problem. For example, if they're completely distracted 10 minutes into therapy because the hair dryer might be on, it's going to be pretty difficult to actually engage.
I've done development on an app with Neo as the back end, and what I liked about it was mainly py2neo and the cypher query language. Even after developing in it, approaching another graph in DGraph was conceptually impenetrable, as my impression of dgraph was they had a bunch of unnecessary and poor abstractions in their documentation. The next candidate is the redis graph, but I haven't. With Neo, if you learn cypher, you literally don't need to know anything else about it to be useful in it, which brings me to what I think their real market is.

The opportunity I understood after using Neo was the big product play would be a kind of mental shift for enterprise data analyst users whose jobs exist in excel/powerbi today with power users using Cognos, and less devops/SaaS company/etc. I over-use Apple as an example, but if Apple entered into enterprise data products, Neo would be the kind of thing to be the underlying tech for it, as if you are an apple user, an apple'ey analytics tool would be based on users producing and reasoning about their data with graphs instead of tables, if you could imagine a kind of photoshop for data, or a fundamental conceptual change from spreadsheets to graphs. They aren't as competitive as a data tool, but I think they are unrivaled as a knowledge tool.

The tech is really great, but the product piece appears to have been a challenge because the use cases for graphs have been very enterprise'y, which has limited adoption because people who operate at that higher business logic level of abstraction that graphs enable are not the people picking and adopting new technologies. The growth will come from younger people who learned python in high school, and have a more data centric world view. Maybe that's the play.

Anyway, as a user I can see why they got participation on an F round. Imo, they've solved the what/how/why and have done some amazing science and engineering, and what I hope that money buys them is some magic.
I've suffered from symptoms of OCD on and off, and, personally, I totally believe this anecdote and think it's a great parable.

I think the world is probably split into pro- and anti-hair dryerism, both among people who do and don't have OCD.

>First, giving into compulsions just legitimizes them and reinforces the patterns that are central to OCD and can ultimately make things worse.

Of course, but that's the whole crux of this story: "She’d seen countless psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors, she’d done all sorts of therapy, she’d taken every medication in the book, and none of them had helped." It's paved over for conciseness, but I think it's implied that what you said is definitely not news to the patient.

Of course the first, second, third, and fifteenth thing you should and must try is what you say. I'm sure Scott would agree. This was a Hail Mary when every attempt to do that so far failed.

To give another example: I think ECT is terrible. But if nothing else has remotely helped someone with severe depression over a very long period of time and they hate every waking moment and are close to suicide? Throw that brain in a Tesla coil, I say. Another facet of hair dryerism would be stances on body identity integrity disorder. I won't write at length, but I think anyone can guess my position on it.

>Secondly, OCD has a habit of changing how it manifests.

Yes, this was my first thought, but I think that's also part of this parable, too. It likely will manifest in other ways for the patient, but this is a simple hack that actually helped resolve one immediate issue that was causing her a lot of difficulties at that time.

Some of the other issues will probably cause less severe of a life impact. There's a decent chance some won't, since it could be something thing like an oven, but the point is that this was one method to immediately address one pressing problem that was heavily affecting her life. Obviously you wouldn't just say "okay, you're fine now" and tell her to never come back; this would just be a stopgap while the patient is further treated.

On the topic of OCD, one thing that surprisingly helped me a lot and continues to help me came from what I believe was a random reddit or perhaps HN comment I happened to stumble across a few years ago. It was a short sentence from someone quoting their psychiatrist - essentially a suggestion of a different way of mentally framing things. It actually was "one weird trick" that really did immediately work in my case.

I think it was the precise phrasing of it that helped me, so I don't want to try to roughly paraphrase it from memory, but it definitely made it clear that while OCD is certainly a neurological problem, psychological techniques can help guide your neurology, like the proverbial elephant rider prodding the elephant a bit in one direction or another. Hopefully something like that, or perhaps something entirely different, will help this patient so they don't need to take their hairdryer with them anymore.
It likely will be revoked but the FDA gave them 9 YEARS for the phase 4!
If they revoke the approval Biogen doesn't care, they will have made $100 billion, they are flying back to their HQ on their new gulfstreams and laughing at the morons at the FDA.
You can create a new coin in a couple hours, the "hard work" is in selling and promoting it...
I have used maps.me until a few years ago but was never really happy with the performance of the bike routing algorithm.

I've switched to Osmand [1] and BRouter [2] (both available on F-Droid) and nerver looked back. BRouter on Android is a bit tricky to set up (you need to download routing tiles in addition to the map files through a really ugly UI), but once you're done it's the best bike navigator I can think of (and it's really fast).

The BRouter profiles are highly customizable, check out Poutnik's repositories [3] for examples.
Some of his profiles and many others con be tested on https://brouter.m11n.de/ (german).

[1] https://osmand.net/

[2] https://brouter.de/

[3] https://github.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles
Something I’d like as well as like to work on is automatically creating a branch with Python Hypothesis introductions and CI. Some projects will have higher B/C than others.
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Haha, wake me when they start paying developers to publish on the Amazon Appstore. Remember, this is for the de-Google-ified Android devices Amazon sells. They don't have Google services so chances are your apps will need major refactoring, and then you are stuck supporting two ecosystems all the time that are subtly different and broken (Amazon tries to emulate some Google services) while the Google side keeps tightening the noose around your neck that are the Google services.

And all that, to sell on an app store for devices that are the cheapest crap imaginable and attract a crowd that is about the opposite of what you would want when charging money for apps.
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Fairly new at this and don't work in the sector, just someone who enjoys this stuff.

I think it's because if the banks have too much cash, that's expensive because it depreciates. They don't want just "mattress money", so when too many people deposit and not enough people withdraw, banks have too much cash, and need a place to park it. If they can't park it anywhere, that means that they don't want more cash, which pushes the interest rates down. Fed has decided that interest rates going down is bad, so they basically say "hey, we'll take the cash off your books, give you a small interest payment for buying the treasuries" and now the banks don't mind taking more cash in.

Basically this is a way of keeping the interest rates higher on deposits, because the banks get subsidized to use that cash to borrow Treasuries, this gets unwound every night. So the banks can operate like they don't have too many deposit liabilities, even though they would without reverse repo.

I think this is a defense against inflation: If banks can't earn anything from cash, that means they have to push out more loans. Loans add risk/leverage (because it's that money creating event) and they also serve to increase monetary supply, causing inflation. Fed has decided that they'd rather control this process instead of leaving it to the free market in hopes that the situation returns to normal instead of causing additional inflation. This could be just kicking the can down the road, but what do I know.
I have used it exactly once 3 years ago to track down a regression and find the offending commits, while having no knowledge of the code base or architecture.
was there a lawsuit in the rear view mirror?
The three main parts (Modem + Mixer + FPGA) cost on the order of ~$18 in medium volumes throw in other required components, PCB, and assembly and I'd guess their cost all in is just under $30 when made in quantities of 1,000+. Add in profit margin and I'd guess they will offer it in the $40-$60 range.
It would look like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv

People would use crazy contortions of logic to figure out how to enable the internet and do what they want to do anyway.

"Emergency" services, you say? It would normalize "on Sundays we put on uniforms so we can access the internet". In a generation or two, not wearing fireman's turnouts on Sunday would be considered sinful. In a couple more generations, there would be violent street clashes between the fireman-uniform denominations and the police-uniform denominations.
Very good. Then surely the paper proof can be translated into an inconsistency of Coq, Isabelle or HOL-light, since all of these proof assistants already prove the existance of such an "I'mUnprovable" proposition.
yea, I went through their process on the employer side, and my guess is an average hire is 10k, that means 10m in revenue total
Not necessarily; lots of systems have 'shortcuts', e.g. I can predict the result of sin(1000000τ) will be 0, without anything physical/virtual having to wiggle up and down a million times. Lots of systems can be described by equations involving a time variable 't', where we can set t = whenever we like, then solve the equation to get the predicted value.

When a system is Turing-complete, equations like this will inevitably involve some expression with t-1; and solving that involves some expression with t-2; and so on back to the initial condition. Hence there's no 'shortcut' (this is a consequence of Rice's theorem BTW, which itself is a consequence of the halting problem).
And then do Monads.
Strange emphasis on 'now'. From wiki, "Mechanic's liens in their modern form were first conceived by Thomas Jefferson, to encourage construction in the new capital city of Washington. They were established by the Maryland General Assembly, of which the city of Washington was then a part.[1] However, it is not likely that Jefferson single-handedly dreamed up the idea.

At the time Jefferson promoted the law, a lien-like privilege already existed in civil law countries like France, the Dutch Republic and Spain, with some laws even tracing their roots to the Roman Empire. And since control of Louisiana had passed between the French and Spaniards, and had largely adopted the French Napoleonic Code, there was a similar privilege concept in that territory."
I went through triplebyte twice, once in late 2019 and then once again a few months later after the company I landed in shut down because of Covid.
I was happy with the process, they promised to take a lot of the headache regarding tech screening and it worked. I think the value proposition is clear - I don't want to do the same tech screens 100 times, and lots of smaller companies may not have the resources or desire to manage high quality tech screens themselves.

To be clear, I'm only addressing the comment about how people thinking highly of them are gullible. I had a great experience, twice, within a few months, and that included going through a time of huge uncertainty.

That being said, I was not happy to see each of the changes they've made over the last year or so, and this does not strike me a good direction for engineers. I suppose I have to agree that they are not doing this from a position of market leadership. Perhaps they were providing asymmetric value to engineers, and at the end of the day the engineers are not the ones paying for the service.
What if you are Munchausening about having Munchhausen syndrome?
> salary

Colorado now requires job postings to include something more or less like a "reasonable salary range". It hasn't been perfect, for example there are some companies who now just restrict their online job postings to say "except Colorado" instead of adding a salary.

But as someone living in Colorado it's been nice to know the salary range up-front more often and to have confidence that I can ask them for a salary range without getting the question turned back on me: "Well, what are you looking for?"
I was with you until you said that "Apple has added 6dof head tracking which makes the effect truly awe-inspiring", and I laughed so hard I spit out my coffee.

Thank you so much.
I find continuations alot easier to reason about as a programmer. I think async/await was chosen here because in simple cases it pisses off the borrower less