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How ‘Soft Fascination’ Helps Restore Your Tired Brain
I have to disagree with your big assumptions:

1. " I guess we all agree that drugs are obviously bad for society as a whole."

I don't think drugs are good or bad for society. There are positives and negatives.

I do think that our drug policy is bad for society, though.

2. "Drugs enable misery, poverty, overdoses and homicides"

a. ... "enable misery": or they reduce pain and misery (medical applications of many things (pot, cocaine derivations, opiate derivations, mdma/shroom derivations for depression/ptsd/etc).

b. ... "poverty" I don't think they enable poverty. i would say that addiction does so, which can be a result of drug use. but not all users are addicts, and not all of the 'drug' class substances are addicting. Addition to legal substances have the same issues of emptying wallets (tabbacco, alcohol, pills).

c. ... "overdoses". this is almost totally a result of the world's drug policies and the requirement of using a black market to get the drugs. If the purity and dosing information were provided with the drugs, the number would likely go in line with overdose numbers for legal substances. We also wouldn't have people taking spiked/doctored/cut/etc drugs in the same numbers -- remove the black market and you remove black market problems

d. ... "homicides". again this is 100% a black market/drug policy issue. The numbers will go in line with normal legal substances once the black market is removed. New issues may pop up (mainly because the existing market is so heavily managed by crime organizations), but those new issues will be better than the current issues, and they will be solvable, unlike the current black market issues (there is demand, so a black market will exist).

3. " they enable lower social economical classes into thinking that selling drugs is a viable and alternative" -- entirely due to the black market (created by the current drug policy).

4. "It also encourages illegal immigration."

- what? how? why? maybe a few migrants agree (or are forced) to transport drugs when they cross, but that's not why the people are migrating illegally.

5. "arresting drug dealers on every corner ... disrupt the supply" -- how is arresting a dealer going to damage the supply. The supply is already done when it gets to the dealer (at least the supply into the country, perhaps not the supply to the consumer, but lack of supply does not produce lack of demand). And because there is demand, they will just find new dealers. ... this is basically the entire war on drugs. The fact that you are complaining about this as not having been done or been effective 50 years in is more proof that it has failed.
The existence of the Electoral College, which was specifically designed to give slaveholding states an advantage when selecting the President.

The gerrymandering of electoral districts to maximize the concentration of white voting power.
Herman Miller Mirra 2, it keeps your back straight. It is comfortable, but not relaxing.
I think the thing that I've come to the conclusion with CISC and specifically x86 is that it's basically a better VLIW than VLIW. That's not to say there aren't opportunities with x86's memory model. To me the greatest advantage of RISC is it triggers my OCD less than x86 does... until I look at how CISCy ARM gets sometimes...
It's critical to find any intervention that works for a debilitating problem. If the hairdryer person lost their job because of it, they may not be able to continue ANY treatment and that might be the end of them.

The first goals in DBT therapy are to stop behaviors that may interfere with therapy or kill the patient. Seems like a good approach to me.

On a related note, I knew someone who had some very self-destructive ways of dealing with her stressful life and associated problems. She held down a good professional job at <big company> and most people didn't know about her issues. She found a psychologist that she liked (and I didn't) and after somewhere between 1 and 2 years she ended up dead. You've got to stop self-destructive life-interfering problems any way you can.

When a person might be bleeding to death, the first step is to stop the bleeding even if by tourniquet. You can do surgery to fix things later, but not if the patient is dead. Priorities are a thing.
So you say that the computer verified proofs of the incompleteness theorem of verifying the wrong theorem? Because there can't be bugs in a computer verified proof.

(Of course there can theoretically be bugs in a computer verified proof. If there are bugs in the verifier. But if 4 independent proof assistants verify a proof of a theorem, this is extremely unlikely.)
> And, I get it, Google doesn't care. Amazon doesn't care. (There's an argument that they should.)

And yet they will still email you, year after year… as a dev that's worked in finance/academic research labs and for low funded/bootstraped startups all over the world for the past 10 years… I'll never get into these big companies because I simply try to find companies that need work done yesterday, see my experience (maybe reach out to past corps i've done work for), and give me an offer for at least a short term contract (and these big companies will never do this).

The worst is when I've think I found an interesting company (that on more than one occasion, publicly likes to complain about not having enough devs… lol), start talking a bit and they send me a triplebyte link… maybe it will be different this time, but I doubt it because these behaviors are too ingrained in a lot of corporate processes (even if its mostly "big co does this, me small co must copy"-NPC type thinking)…
I personally have problems with doors, and stuff that should be locked. I can never be sure I locked properly.

Totally did backtrack unreasonable distances just to check if I had closed the door.

It's all fine when it's my door. Worst case scenario, I get robbed.

However it's more of a problem when it's someone else's door. Worst case scenario, they get robbed, and that's a different story. Or pets get out...

Obviously I can't take the door on my front seat... So my solution is to take a picture of me trying to open the door, a kind of proof that it's closed.

And, would you know it, it works! When I get anxious, I pull out my phone and look at the pictures.

It's getting better, actually. I believe I'm fixing it slowly. Good riddance!
Companies that are serious about finding software talent already sort of understand that and hire based on recommendation from high performers.
Seems like the free market at work to me.
So what you're describing is that this is a next-generation Ponzi scheme where nobody goes to jail but a bunch of people still lose money.

But yeah let's keep arguing over semantic definitions.
Amazing! Really nice.
Where did you graduate from?
I am all for decriminalizing drug use but let’s not throw around false narratives. Here are the actual reasons for the “war on drugs” straight from the horses mouth:
NIXON: [...] Let's look at the strong societies. The Russians. Goddamn, they root 'em out. They don't let 'em around at all. I don't know what they do with them. Look at this country. You think the Russians allow dope? Homosexuality, dope, immorality, are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the Communists and left-wingers are clinging to one another. They're trying to destroy us. I know Moynihan will disagree with this, [Attorney General John] Mitchell will, and Garment will. But, goddamn, we have to stand up to this.

With regards to the differing penalties for crack and cocaine, there are logical (though fundamentally misguided) reasons for it that have nothing to do with race as well. Crack cocaine is designed to be smokable, which makes it far more potent and addictive than regular cocaine . In addition, due to these properties, crack is significantly more correlated to other criminal behaviors than cocaine.
> The JIT that made the JVM fast was adopted from Smalltalk

No, that was technology developed for the Self programming language which didn't have much in common with ST (see e.g https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1238844.1238853, there is also an interesting talk by Ungar and Smith). The same technology was also used for an ST dialect (Strongtalk) which was quickly discontinued in favor of Java Hotspot. The influence of ST is generally overstated.
> Wow, I wish I could just go on sick leave for 4 months because I was feeling depressed...

Well... If you're indeed depressed, I wish for that too.

However, if you're actually healthy and just making a snarky comment, then I hope you never experience depression- it's hell. No amount of descriptive imagery or keen adjectives can ever convey what it actually feels like, so I understand how people who've never been in its jaws can be so dismissive. After all, just like it's hard to tell that stuffed inside a ballerina's blood-filled shoes are cramped, broken, _aching_ feet, it's hard to wrap your head around pain that isn't readily seen, much less try to empathize with the person feeling it.

The only way I can think of to describe depression is to describe suicidal ideation: when you have a moment, go to your garage, get a hammer, and smash your thumb with it. Not a pleasant thought, right? I'd be willing to bet that if you were to legitimately try, you'd find it almost impossible; the instinct for self preservation is one of the most basic, powerful instincts. Now, imagine a situation where you're in so much pain that this instinct is completely overwhelmed and you actively try to kill yourself to stop it, a situation where you cannot believe you'll ever be able to be happy again, a situation that feels truly hopeless.

That's depression. While suicidal ideation is one of the extremes, depression is something that drives a person to that point.

In all honesty, I sincerely hope neither you nor your loved ones ever have to face such despair. "That they experienced loss is not a gain, and that they experienced pain is not a victory."

But hey, I'm just some guy on the internet- YMMV.
I didn't see anything in the article about seeing herself as a victim or it being ”core to her identity." I think you might be projecting here.

In fact, I see her desire and efforts to normalize depression as an attempt to move away from victimhood.

> You don't want your identity to be "depressed person", because the last thing you want is to start feeling like a fraud when the fog starts to lift.

You also don't want to assume because the fog lifted, you should completely disassemble the support mechanisms you have built. Like with cancer remission, there is a signifant chance of relapse that can be somewhat mitigated by good monitoring amd timely interventions.
> Such an occurrence would send a very unexpected signal to markets and could result in panic as investors see the value of money market funds shrink for the first time ever.

Apparently "ever" covers neither 2008 (where the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy caused the money market to implode) nor 1994, nor 1978.
We truly are witnessing the next-generation of Ponzi schemes.
This article does a great job of describing how the current privacy practices of the tech world don’t comply with the GDPR at all despite all their assurances.
> We got jobs for over 1000 engineers

That's a lot less than I expected.
> If you think about joining a dev team where no one checked if any candidate could FizzBuzz, you can imagine the workplace environment that can end up with.

That sounds hilarious How could a dev team not be able to write 5 lines?
If you want to look into it, this claim is generally associated with Robert L. Hastings.
> "This Unawareness helps Decouple systems that produce events from otters that read events."

It simply means that the producer doesn't need to maintain a list of listeners. It just throws the event into the stream, and assumes that anyone who wants to read it will be able to do so.

RSS vs an email list, I guess.
I used to think the same thing, until I read an article that made me look into it. The article I read was a local affair that pointed out that inmates are encouraged (in my state, Maine) to file absentee ballots in the town they lived in prior to incarceration.

There are just a couple of states that allow that, but I learned that quite a few jurisdictions restore rights after incarceration, after probation, etc...
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This is great. Can you write me one for elastic search now :-D
These seem to be non-standard SQL extensions, AIUI. At least Neo4j has something of a quasi-standard solution for their querying layer, that might also be supported by other vendors. These extensions are a dead end.
If I read it right she didn't say it was chronic, unless I missed that.

It may have been episodal which happens to most people at some point in their.

I can understand the approach ( and not necessarily agree) if it were a chronic life long condition.
It has never ceased to amaze me how small these donations to political candidates and campaigns usually are.
From what I understood, clinical dysphoria is not always present in transgendered individuals.
I am a self taught engineer without a CS degree, and I went through Triplebyte at the end of 2017. It was an absolutely incredible experience, and really helped me break into the industry, and I’ll always be grateful to them.

I found an awesome startup to work at. And now, years later, I work at a FAANG company, working on tons of interesting problems. Thank you triplebyte, and good luck with the pivot!
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21698619
I'm a little OT (sorry), but I am wondering if is there a way to learn Rust while keeping up with the changes made from last edition (Rust 2018, which is 1.31)?
I haven't personally tried it, but I wonder if that's what "Warm Pools" is partially designed to help? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/ec2-au...

I guess whether that helps the SQS situation depends on whether it is _the ASG_ decision time that's the problem, or the ASG requests an instance which itself takes multiple minutes to come into service
This is effin’ beautiful.
Wow, billionaire gets rug pulled after promoting it just last week, and now he's calling for government regulation.
The OpenBLAS version of NumPy (from pip rather than conda), plus PyQt5, can fit in around 100 megabytes uncompressed on disk for a Win64 binary. However I no longer recommend writing number crunching apps in Python, since you don't have thread-based parallelism due to the GIL, and have to awkwardly shuffle data across processes. (Last time I tried multiprocessing, some data can only be sent to workers on Linux using fork-based worker spawning, and not on Windows which lacks fork and requires pickling.)
Maybe it could work via the CNO cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNO_cycle ?
Welcome to the new economy. VC money get poured with an exit at sight. The bags keep growing until it ends up on public offering.

By that time, the share is pretty much what it's worth. But 100 times round A. If all went well of course. Over 90% of the time, it didn't go well.
Who knows how that will end for Neo4j, but the investors have their eggs in many other baskets anyway.

What matters isn't showing profit anymore, not even significant revenue to justify further funding. All you need is some appealing growth figures, sometimes not even that, just a convincing argument that hyper growth is on the horizon.

At some point millions are put into advertising and a strong sales force to grow revenue many folds. In the enterprise market, the trick often works pretty well.
I started reading and thought "why not just …"—and you did!

Since this is Hacker News, I'm surprised that you haven't come up with some more elaborate system, e.g., properly locking the door closes a circuit, and you can check the status of the circuit remotely.
Good thing it's being removed in three months, then :)
The essay [1] from which the hairdryer anecdote is quoted has the thesis that categories (in general) are instrumental, and don't have much value separated from their context.

ADHD is a category of psychiatric diagnosis; psychiatric diagnoses exist to address deficiencies in function. Separating the one from the other, as you perceive, renders it meaningless -- or perhaps, useless. If one happens to have some of the traits of ADHD but it doesn't affect their life negatively, so what?

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...
This is great because (like _why's {poignant} guide to ruby did for me) it breaks the psychological barrier that I have to even get an intro to those technologies -- as an adult developer -- because it has new concepts that are foreign to me.
Banks don't like holding cash (because it doesn't belong to them, and could be withdrawn at any time). So it's actually the opposite: they pay for the privilege of not having to hold onto that cash.
But that's an orthogonal concern. Two people can easily display exactly the same quantity of, shall we say, ADHD-like tendencies. If one of them is a success for separate reasons, and the other one is a failure for separate reasons, why do we want to say that the failure, in addition to his other problems, also has ADHD? What do we learn from that?

If the success has a lot more ADHD-tendency than the failure, how do we defend the idea that the failure has ADHD, and the success doesn't?
I thought this was pretty telling:

> We got jobs for over 1000 engineers

Given how many years Triplebyte has been running, "over 1000" seems surprisingly low. I wish them luck with their pivot.
> billions of dollars are being minted by crypto

This makes no sense, if only because the US government is the only entity that can “mint” US dollars.

More directly, just because the brokerage website says you have $x worth of an asset based on multiplying quantity of the asset times most recent sale price of a unit of that asset, unless you can trade it and deposit the cash into your account, you do not have $x.
Note that type safety typically means better tooling that what Python people are used to. If you’ve only used Python you have no idea what you’re missing out on with respect to refactoring, editor integrations, documentation generation, etc. And then there is the actual documentation for humans that is guaranteed to be correct and up to date so long as your build is green.
>which means if something goes wrong no one can intervene and sort it out

That's true in general, but in this rare case anyone's USDC can actually theoretically be recovered in full if the price ever manages to get just barely above 0 for a period of time and they pull it out during such a period.

If nothing can be done, you have to just take the loss. But here something can actually be done, and it's not like it's infeasible. Just hard.
The penguin in this one is nightmare fuel
Not specifically, changes since then have landed in all editions. We did have a doc that described the full set of changes, but people didn't like it, so it got removed.
General Fusion's approach doesn't use magnetic confinement. Instead, they use liquid metal and pistons to create the pressures needed for fusion. The liquid metal then absorbs the heat energy which is extracted in the usual way.
So destroying public property is not violence now? Okay... thanks I guess.
> The first bank that "burns" funds in your checking or savings account is going to get assailed by a pitchfork wielding mob.

I think some banks have already done this as a result of Europe's persistent negative rates. See this Bloomberg article for a citation: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-22/banks-jus...
Right, so the companies are still your client. But you somehow think you can strong-arm them because you have some CVs in your database. In the end, the job platforms end up serving the client's needs. And company stay the client.
Exactly. In the third world, politicians demand at least 10% cut.
Unless you're dealing with con artists, the “pseudo” in “psuedoscience” is usually the explanation. I don't doubt Freud was able to help a lot of people, but I do doubt his explanations of what it was exactly that helped, and why.
So why isn't "the operator of the scheme" synonymous with "the central actor?"

>I see zero good reasons why decentralized schemes can't be ponzi schemes.

Do you know who Charles Ponzi was or why Ponzi schemes are named after him?

Do you know what he did or what Bernie Madoff did? They operated the Ponzi scheme. That's why they were a critical part.

This money really was going into the smart contract, wasn't directly given to old investors, wasn't being siphoned directly into the operator's pocket, all unlike a Ponzi.

You don't know what a Ponzi is and you're trying to save face, I get it.

> $272 million worth of USDC is still locked up in in the contract. Why hasn’t everyone recovered their 74 cents?

Why didn't the masterminds behind this scheme walk away with that cash? Because it was a mistake. Not a genius scheme being run in the shadows.
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OK, I wish I could just go on sick leave for 4 months due to being unable to function on a daily basis due to a medical condition.
Agree, the quote lumping the models of computation together is very misleading. Turing’s machines are immediately obvious how to mechanize and automate, even with very old technology. That was the key difference. Then proving them equivalent to mu-recursive functions and lambda calculus showed that these models of computation actually deserved to be called such. It proved that they could be implemented on a machine with no human ingenuity or creativity required to carry out the steps, which is the heart of what it means to be computable.
For junior talent I found it's much better to simply fork the $X,000k to a serious school with a good engineering program and run hiring events or sponsor things. Or establish a relationship with a research lab in the school that's close to your area of expertise.
Yet I see multiple comments warning about making depression part of your identity in response to a blog post that is pretty focused on why it is important to talk about experiencing depression.

I feel like the nuance is being lost in the opposite direction here.
> No, I _know_. It is, after all, my mind.

The arrogance of this statement is astounding.

> The fact that you don't realize you are being offensive is just so... chef's kiss.

I'm certain that you're offended by my statements, but only because of your aforementioned arrogance. Telling unqualified individuals to seek help from qualified individuals about matters regarding mental health isn't offensive. I'm sorry that I don't have the faith in random unqualified individuals that you do.

> Please continue your crusade against negligence elsewhere. You've added absolutely nothing here.

I ended our conversation previously and you chose to revive this discussion. You're welcome to see yourself out whenever you're ready.
Consistency is important. I can't say most of the time that FDA is way too strict and is causing lives by delaying approvals, and then disagree when it approved a likely useless drug - even if the drug is likely useless.

I'm going with the grey option and say that FDA should approve drugs primarily based on harm, with a note on usefulness. It then should be the decision of other regulatory bodies, or even better doctors whether the harm is worth the benefit for each individual case. And definitely there should be a separate decision on whether it's covered by Medicare - makes absolutely no sense to spend good money on a shady drug just because it got FDA stamp.