skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As much as some may dislike this, putting in extra effort that pays off will always be looked upon positively by American society.

Goes all the way back to the Puritans who founded the first colonies in early America. They were known for valuing work ethic, discipline, and frugality - the values espoused by their Protestant faith.

Unsurprising that those same values have become deeply ingrained in American society over the years.
> Changing your network stack is like changing the foundations of the building.

Same thing with data storage. Platform changes are like open heart surgery on data centers.
That is an annualized rate, right?!
The long lives of primates and the ‘invariant rate of ageing’ hypothesis
I have, at times, pretty bad OCD - If this works and it keeps working, I'm happy for the person. In my experience though, OCD will find something else. The point about the other psychiatrist saying it's absurd is probably because they know, it will about having left her garage door open next. OCD is horrible, and nothing like what most people think; if you want to see the horrors many with the affliction deal with, head over to reddit.com/r/ocd
All drugs?

Carfentanil which has a lethal dose that's so small it's hard to notice or see?

I understand legalizing somethings we don't necessarily even like to put up with, but if something is as lethal as a gun I'm pretty comfortable infringing a bit on some freedoms.
I think the Steelcase Leap one is pretty universally considered good. The only problem is the price...

My employer sent me a Steelcase Series 1 to use at home and it's total crap compared to the Leap. The back adjustment is either 89 degrees (totally upright) or like 10 degrees (basically laying down), nothing in the middle. Those numbers may be approximations based on my feelings.

I have a $40 chair I bought on Amazon and it's almost as good as the Steelcase Series 1.

But let me tell you something: I recently bought a split keyboard (Dygma Raise) and it allowed me to change my posture significantly and adjust the chair height, and it made me much more comfortable. Chair height is such a changing factor, and pretty much every one supports it.

I am also considering buying a keyboard tray to attach under the table (just search for Keyboard Tray on your favorite sales website) so I can lower the chair even more.

I am also considering a foot rest.

So, to conclude: comfort is not only the chair, but everything else around you, which makes you sit differently.
Guide to enforcing authorization in your application
I don't buy it. That's one administration's decision to capitalize on anti-drug sentiment, but it really is a world-wide phenomenon with many powerful countries not controlled by the US choosing to continue outlawing drugs, like middle eastern countries and China. Most Asian countries still have very harsh penalties for drug possession. If you use an earthquake or a hurricane to engage in some crony capitalism, it doesn't mean you started the earthquake. Likewise, something about drug control means most governments have a stake in perpetuating it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis
HPy looks like the best compromise in this area.

It's not too different to programming the CPython API, and will give optimum code in Pypy and CPython.
i felt the same way, astroturf marketing
I don't see either of those as at all synonymous with "central actor".

I would consider all the founders and early investors who knowingly promote the ponzi scheme as con artists.

I google the definition to charitably give your argument the benefit of the doubt. I don't see how you think phrases like the following make for effective communication or a strong argument:

> If you're having to google the definition of the term maybe there's still a little more you need to learn about it.
Besides the controversial political agenda behind the "War on Drugs", I guess we all agree that drugs are obviously bad for society as a whole.

But it's kinda hard to do a war on drugs without - you know - arresting the drug dealers on known corners. Looking at you San Francisco.

Drugs enable misery, poverty, overdoses and homicides. Especially the ones that create physical addiction (opioids, meth, fentanyl, etc). But most importantly, they enable lower social economical classes into thinking that selling drugs is a viable and alternative way to level up in life (wealth), instead of allowing them to focus on real career paths. It's a false shortcut that distracts people from being able to focus on their real future. It also encourages illegal immigration.

Why aren't the Feds arresting drug dealers on every corner in a large scale operation first and foremost? Perhaps the simplest thing to do in order to disrupt the supply.
People destroy their lives with alcohol just the same. Should we abolish liquor again? (I have meth-addled family too btw)
Oh wow, this is very cool added context. Unfortunate that the linked article doesn't include it, although the story works out of context as well.
> thought Notion's free-for-a-certain-number-of-blocks pricing was great. It let you try the platform without limits on functionality

The problem was that it was difficult to know what a block was or how much you could do with 1000 blocks until you had invested enough time in the platform to be able to estimate how many blocks you might need to evaluate it.

Then there was additional mental overhead of trying to conserve blocks to extend your free trial. Do you implement something the correct way? Or do you maybe cut some corners to use fewer blocks so you can stay on the free plan a little longer? This extra decision making step added a little bit of fatigue to every interaction, which isn’t what you want when users are trying to evaluate your tools.

Typical trials have well-defined and easy to understand limits in units that users already understand: Users, bytes, projects, documents. If users have to learn your project before understanding the terms, it’s mental added overhead.
Another good and accessible discussion of what went wrong with this vax is Derek Lowe's "In the Pipeline" blog:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/17/cu...
China space station: Shenzhou-12 delivers first crew to Tianhe module
Big government here meaning the intersection between Big Business, Big Lobby and Big "Government". The War on Drugs wouldn't have near the legs it does if it wasn't aggressively lobbied for by private prisons, alcohol distributors, and pharmaceutical companies.
An alternate explanation is that you want more users and the quiz is one of the top things excluding people from the top of your funnel.
My own guess was that some ETL jobs were really data integrity jobs - in which case folks got used to higher levels of isolation being necessary across many reads to avoid false positives on their cross check stuff maybe.
That's what 0% interest rates are like. Limitless amounts of money as long as the economy has enough confidence to use it.
That does not explain what a reverse repo is.
Definitely. If she wants to do PHP, she can look at framework like Laravel or get into CMS like WordPress. It is one of the most popular languages out there from a job perspective.
Stats would certainly suggest the police focused on putting the wrong drug dealers in jail:

"In 2019, an estimated 10.1 million people aged 12 or older misused opioids in the past year. Specifically, 9.7 million people misused prescription pain relievers and 745,000 people used heroin."[0]

"From 1999–2019, nearly 500,000 people died from an overdose involving any opioid, including prescription and illicit opioids. This rise in opioid overdose deaths can be outlined in three distinct waves.

The first wave began with increased prescribing of opioids in the 1990s, with overdose deaths involving prescription opioids (natural and semi-synthetic opioids and methadone) increasing since at least 1999"[1]

So anyone who believes jail is a deterrent and wants to improve public health should probably be advocating for locking up more doctors, pharmaceutical company reps, shareholders and owners.

[0]: https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/opioid-crisis...
[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html
Just wondering, whats your take on the Opium Wars between Britain and China?
> Another option, if you're running at a larger scale, is to purchase mitigation appliances and just set up your own mitigation infrastructure. This will not be cheap and require some serious connectivity, but beyond a certain point it'll be more cost-effective.

How many companies reach this level? 99% of companies will have to rely on a CDN provider for this.

> You'll want to avoid anything HTTP-specific (as it will be prone to the same privacy issues as CloudFlare), and opt for layer 3/4 mitigation only.

Of course your CDN provider will be more effective if it can inspect unencrypted traffic. So, again, either you are at the level of traffic of a big IaaS provider, or like 99% of CDN customers you choose between letting your provider inspect your traffic or not be protected against app-level DDoS.

> Even something relatively simple like ModSecurity will cover a wide array of problems.

Everything is a question of measure. How much is "a wide array of problems"? How much is "some serious connectivity"?

A middle-ground would be using a CDN to protect against L3/L4 volumetric attacks, without TLS interception. And using ModSecurity or another WAF against application-level attacks. But the result will probably not be as good as applicative protection at CDN level, and will cost you more (you pay for the CDN, for your own WAF infrastructure, and for your 24/7 team ready to write new protection rules when a new attack occur).
> They don't really take a lot of actions to back it up.

Is this why more groups have been added to the list of protected classes? Is this why our current administration is one of the most diverse to ever exist?

I get the twitter outrage is fun, but when you look at data, our government has become more and more about equality and inclusion in meaningful ways. The US government isn't perfect, but it can't be perfect, there will always be room to grow. It does take time, but looking at data and trends shows equity ticking up over time. Lets have more nuanced views.
Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax
Haha if you enter 1337 on the keypad it takes you to the job listings
I have not signed up to triplebyte because I don't want to do their screening, but this doesn't make it better. It defeats the purpose.
The content is really only there to convince you to load the analytics framework.
Part of that is a side effect of poor public health policy in the U.S., where mentally ill and addicted either end up in jail or in a tent on the street instead of in a treatment center or an asylum like these other first world countries.
There's a 2% variation between the lowest and the biggest. Is there a need to know a precise word count, where 2% of margin of error is not acceptable? If there's not, there's no problem. The author doesn't attempt to define what a word is, so maybe all of these are correct for their own definition of word? Maybe the definition of what counts as a word is the boring problem that needs a solution, but it doesn't look boring or easy to me. You can't ask people to count correctly something that you haven't even defined.

Also, believing that complex problems are easy is not something only programmers do. I work currently a lot with Excel automation, and most people have no idea of what can be automated easily and what can't. I have some people coming that ask for automating a task they've never done manually and don't really know how to do precisely. I think that's the same mechanism of "overabstraction" that leads to people to say "WET instead of DRY" (Write Everything Twice instead of Don't Repeat Yourself).
The pictures don’t work with all ocd. Often times I would worry that I did the thing that couldn’t happen (open door, whatever) AFTER the picture. So I’d videotape the situation and myself walking away. It got silly. I really hate this condition.
Indeed, trick is normal humans are not going to remember, let along recognize 256 bits of state from a picture.

Seems like the best you can hope for is enough bits in a fingerprint that users can tell when it changes and make it harder to find a fingerprint that fools the user.
> I think it’s reasonable to see a correlation.

That's not reasonable at all. Forensic science and surveillance technology has made gigantic bounds in the past 50 years, as has almost every other aspect of crime fighting. We've busted mafias, dispersed organized crime syndicates (you know, the REAL bad guys) and made education more widespread than ever. It's gotten a lot harder to do serious IRL crime undetected (cyber crime is a whole other story). Giving a bunch of young latinos and african americans horrible mandatory minimums in lieu of addiction treatment has very arguably contributed to slowing down the decrease in violent crimes.
via "Ageing process is unstoppable, finds unprecedented study", https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/17/ageing-proce...
> Note how despite not coming with the OS, `python3` is still placed in the Apple-only `/usr/bin/` directory. And a binary exists at that path either way, it's just a stub by default. Because none of this is confusing at all.

There's long been problems with this on UNIX systems. For a long time there's generally been three categories of software to track (OS provided, third party managed, manually compiled/installed), and two different locations to put them (/usr, /usr/local. / is different and has/had other constrains and reasons behind usage).

OS provided packages go into /usr, stuff a user manually compiles and installs goes into /usr/local, but where does a third party package manager put stuff? It's not OS provided, but it is packages and maintained, so /usr seems valid. At the same time, it's user installed, so /usr/local seems valid. Both make the other used of those locations more complicated to reason about.

> Also, why is Python a developer tool, but Perl isn't? Or ZSH, for that matter? Does the distinction actually make any sense?

Possibly because some are used by the OS to actually do things for the OS (not sure if Apple finally got rid most those dependencies or not).

The problem of the OS shipping a component for it's own needs that gets used by others is a decades old problem at this point. It's complicated because if it's available users to use, they'll use it, and when the OS wants to update or change it in some way it can break user assumptions. If users update it system wide, they can break OS assumptions.
> If that isn't just the perfect description of politics in the US

Yes, but not in the way that you say.

Political change happens step by tiny step. You have to hammer the same point for decades to get somewhere. You hammer it by winning elections, by having better candidates win your primaries, by getting the news media, large corporations, and celebrities to virtue signal, by rallies, by protests, by sabotaging the system from within.

No single one of these things moves the needle on its own, but push on all of them, and your grandchildren may have a chance to live in a better world.

And yes, anywhere between a third to half the country will dig their heels in, and fight you on it, every step on the way on it.
America should become a nation of renters
I think it all falls apart above a team size of 5-10.
Just a tedious slog.
The number of tickets you have to churn thru in backlog review / planning / closing / etc ceremonies is directly proportional to the number of devs..
Having lived through OCD and come out the other side, I completely understand why the solution was considered bad.

Sure, this solves the particular obsession. But the issue is that OCD is never satisfied. You develop rituals like this and they work for a while, giving your brain that little dopamine boost every time you look at the hairdryer in your car. But that dose diminishes over time, and soon taking the hairdryer with you isn’t enough. You need to do something more to feel okay about the obsession. This is why OCD sufferers find themselves doing something over and over.

Sustainable solutions address the anxiety (most often meds) or build up the person’s tolerance for uncertainty (exposure response prevention). It was only a combination of these approaches that helped me overcome my illness.
Thanks, appreciate the kind words. It did derail my plans a bit to hit HN this morning, but it's fun to chat about and HN has done a lot for me over the years!
> They really shouldn't be called contracts at all, since intent ("meeting of the minds") is a fundamental part of contract law.

That's a really good point. They are arguably neither "smart" nor "contracts". Maybe a better term is "automated blockchain agents" or something similar?
Well, it fell from the sky into Yosemite. I feel like it's an appropriate headline, even if it's not literally true.
I'm sure JPL loved the referral...
I definitely wouldn't support the legalization of heroin. We already have alternatives(kratom, suboxone) that are legal and have far less abuse potential.

Not all drugs are the same, we shouldn't act like they are.
This is happening right now with the hilariously titled "SafeMoon" cryptocurrency. You can find posts on the subreddit openly asking people to buy a few million for $25 and 'gift' it to their friends and family.
https://fed.tips/sico4-1/

This relates to scarcity of short-duration treasuries, it's mostly a scary sounding non-event
Legalize it and let "hardcore" heroin addicts get a prescription. It is expensive due to it being illegal and the willingness of addicts to pay damn near anything, not due to any intrinsic difficulty in manufacturing.
Wow, I wish I could just go on sick leave for 4 months because I was feeling depressed...
Racing the Beam Explained – Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television [video]
Crime rates correlate pretty damn well to leaded gasoline usage and legalized abortion, too.
Isn't that what the core value of TripleByte was though? "This person deserves a job." Then some company says "Okay".
Agreed, I recently used Hired and TripleByte. Hired gave me 2-3x more leads, and they were on avg much higher quality.
I tend to expect a federal decriminalization of marijuana in the next 10 years. I doubt we'll see a decriminalization of crystal meth in the next 50 years.
This is my life as a Svelte developer.
I wonder how much making being depressed part of your identity prevents you from getting better.

I'm not dismissing the reality of it, but reinforcing it to yourself and others around you on a constant basis probably isn't helpful? Constantly ruminating on your depressed state probably isn't good either.

Pretending everything is great probably isn't a good idea or likely even possible (or desirable?), but I'm not persuaded constantly talking about it is a healthy option either.
Is I was reading the first few sentences, my thought was "why don't they just take the hair dryer with them?" And then I start thinking "well, maybe that's just an outward indicator of the illness and that it would manifest in other ways, maybe they have to treat the underlying whatever, these guys are experts after all if the solution was so simple..."

Then that's exactly what happened. Maybe there are underlying problems. But maybe, and this is a stretch, medicine treats symptoms and not causes. And maybe those problems don't really matter to the people who suffer when something simple can make their lives work for them.
I remember now! It is called the XY problem.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...
Why couldn't racism be either primary or secondary motivator for something?
Voters should select their politicians.

Not the opposite!
I'm hazy on where I heard this justification, but I recall some argument that the rate of violent criminals who recreationally use drugs is very high. That is, if a violent criminal is caught walking down the street and is searched then there is a high probability that they will have some kind of illegal drug on them.

The opposite isn't necessarily the case. That is, a drug user is not high probability to be a violent criminal. But by having available such a large net and by removing a large number of recreational drug users from the streets - the end result is a high proportion of violent offenders are also removed from the streets.

So a combination of "stop and search" policing with "three strikes" policies has the effect of significantly reducing violent crime. However, there is a good argument to be made that the benefit is far outweighed by the damage such policies have caused.
Airlines, Banks and Other Companies Hit by Akamai Outage
I think a lot of smart home gadgets are stupid, but we had to get a new garage door opener and all the decent ones are smart. It's amazing. My opener sends me a notif on my phone if it's been open for 10 mins and I can close it remotely.
Fascinating book indeed. I read it when I was a student some twenty years ago, I had been astonished by simple and clever trick Godel used to prove his theorem - to digitize everything, then operate with just numbers.
> I guess we all agree that drugs are obviously bad for society as a whole

That seems to require defining “drugs” very deliberately to only count substances and use cases such that by definition you’ve only included stuff that’s bad for society as a whole.
This seems oversimplified. Lots of politically very diverse countries around the world have harsh penalties for possession of heroin.

I don't doubt that the Nixon administration exploited the war on drugs for nefarious ends. However, I think the idea that the entire impetuous behind it was to target particular social groups is bordering on a conspiracy theory.
It is a bit like suggesting that Democrats are pro immigration only because immigrants tend to vote Democrat. I'm sure it hasn't escaped the notice of Democratic electoral strategists that the party could stand to benefit from immigration. But it would be implausible to suggest that this is the only reason that Democrats tend to favor a more liberal immigration policy than Republicans.
Except that the small steps that seem innocuous actually turn into dramatic problems in the case of OCD.
This requires the organizer to be organized.
If management is running sprint ceremonies but in 5-6 hours/day of meetings, they come in unprepared and ad-lib.

Our product manager sits in on the meetings such that he can says yes/no when questioned on tickets, but for all I know could be watching soap operas given his level of engagement.
Since you allege the existence of I'mUnprovable propositions renders Peano Arithmetic (see <http://tachyos.org/godel/Godel_statement.html> cited above), Coq, HOL Light, Isabelle and every other proof assistant that has proven the incompleteness theorem inconsistent, I look forward to you facilitating the development of a formal contradiction in any one of these systems. In particular a proof of False in Coq[1] would greatly aid me in getting through some of my troublesome proofs.

[1]http://r6.ca/blog/20061211T203500Z.html
> Smart contracts function – in whole or in part – to give effect to legal contracts.

Except when they don't, which is... most of the time?

It's true (and I would hope obvious) that a smart contract doesn't play like a legal contract, but aren't the vast majority of them intentionally doing things that are orthogonal to contract law?

Or irrelevant to it? You can buy Beeples all day but you still don't own a copyright, and this doesn't seem to be a problem for anyone.