skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> whose life is better than yours, that person doesn't have bipolar disorder, because they're not experiencing problems

Your argument seems to hinge on this idea that a good life => no distress, which, if you've interacted with anyone diagnosed with a mental disorder, is obviously not true.

My life is great. If I didn't take a mood stabilizer, it'd probably still be good, but not as good. Regardless, my mood swings can negatively affect me and those around me.

If one day I reach a point where I can live without meds or therapy and reap no negative consequences, then yes, it would be fair at that point to say that I no longer had bipolar disorder.

> That person demonstrates that your problems are not caused by bipolar disorder. But the disorder is defined by you having problems, even though the problems come from somewhere else.

Bingo. My symptoms (mood swings) + my problems ARE the cause my bipolar disorder diagnosis. Until I had problems, I had no disorder.

What causes the mood swings, then? Genetics, upbringing, life experiences, diet, idk. Nobody knows for sure. It's an active area of research, but there is no one known cause. For all we know, there may be five independent and unrelated risk factors that lead to someone developing bipolar disorder.

It's like you get it, but you're still dismissing it for some reason. I'm curious what ulterior point you're trying to make.
John Long wrote a great story about this, which got optioned and eventually became the movie Cliffhanger.
6 months inside one of America's most dangerous industries
I think a better question might be: what are some valuable "non-ouroboros" projects?

Most of the stuff people use essentially seems to be one form or another of shuffling the unit(s) of account around, like the ones you listed.

You have a cryptocurrency. What are the uses for the cryptocurrency? Well, you can swap the cryptocurrency for another cryptocurrency or let someone else borrow the cryptocurrency in exchange for some more of the cryptocurrency or use the cryptocurrency to obtain a cryptocurrency that's a derivative of another cryptocurrency so you can make more of a different cryptocurrency. And what can you do with that cryptocurrency? Well, you can swap that cryptocurrency for another cryptocurrency or...

There's a bit of a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" thing going on (in the initial sense of the term).

Despite the cynical question, I'm genuinely fairly optimistic about the future of smart contracts and Ethereum. I think there are some interesting non-ouroboros ideas in the space, like Kleros, but none of the ones I've seen seem too popular, valuable, or useful yet. But I could be missing some, and I know it's still the very early days.
Really well is an overstatement. You shouldn't have to wait several hours to do a brew upgrade.
That's amazing. Before I finished reading the article I thought one solution could be to throw the hair dryer away, and just use a towel or something(not ideal but beats being miserable I guess). But taking the hair dryer with her was way better.
Waiting for a recuitor to call you limits your potential but makes the process easier for you. Applying yourself takes a lot of work but you get to select who you want and to target a bigger group which. But it's messy, ugly , stressful and filled with rejections for no reason.
Matthew made it pretty clear he had talked to a number of people, and waited months before going public
I think you read the blog post in the wrong order. The apology is on line 3.
You're right, and I'm not saying we should slow down on solar, but based on the numbers, solar alone is not going to get us where we need to be, so we should be pushing the nuclear industry to find out how fast they can deploy and bulldozing a path for them while we also push for faster deployment of solar.
Saw this today and thought of you stranger.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/o1zgt2/starlink_di...
The author hasn't read any David Deutsch, I can tell.
The question is what would have been the result of giving each kid 500U$S instead, which is what the computers cost.
Not to be overly snarky, but the lesson you should have learned is to just not be an asshole in the first place.
did you read the original blog post?
Where do people stay silent for so long?

[Edit: rephrased]
>> The machine was still considered impressive decades later when the AI pioneer
Norbert Wiener played against it at the 1951 Paris conference,[AI51][BRO21]
[BRU1-4] which is now often viewed as the first conference on AI—though the
expression "AI" was coined only later in 1956 at another conference in Dartmouth
by John McCarthy. In fact, in 1951, much of what's now called AI was still
called Cybernetics, with a focus very much in line with modern AI based on deep
neural networks.[DL1-2][DEC]

Yeess, that's true. John McCarthy named "AI". And he wisely set the
foundations of the field in the work of his thesis advisor, Alonzo Church, and
the mathematicians of his generation, and the ones before, all the way back to
Gödel.

That is to say, McCarthy set the foundations of AI in mathematical logic, the
branch of mathematics that began in antiquity by Aristotle, flourished in the
Middle Ages, the Rennaissance and the Enlightenment with the works of Arab and
Christian scholars, reached its peak with Leibniz and was finally exalted with
the work of Frege, Russel, Whitehead, Hilbert, Tarski, Skolem, Herbrand, Gödel
himself, Church, Turing and others. The branch of mathematics that gave us
digital computers, much like Jurgen Schmidhuber points out in his article. It is
this work that is the only, well, logical, foundation of artificial
intelligence. That suffices to explain why the earlier "cyerbnetics" branch of
research fell through: because unlike McCarthy's AI, it was not grounded in
solid theoretcial foundations that had already yielded such monumental results
in mathematics and computer science.

And it is the foundations of AI in logic that AI research must return to,
eventually, because it makes no sense to throw out two thousand years of
progress, just because an intellectual midget by the name of Sir James Lighthill
wrote a report. It would be even worse to throw out such richess of knowledge in
return for the ability to put bunny noses and ears on selfies with "neural
networks".
Triplebyte quizzes are a much more realistic representation of job skills than leetcode quizzes.
A quick DDG search says self-funded: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/a-googl...

But well, yeah, her CV and places she's worked (and got salaries from) at is impressive, some of that surely is helped (whether she wants it or not, it's how others are influenced) by the fact who her father is.
You are asking the thieves to just take $200 when they can take more? Good dreams.
And I know many more who sought out his class.
Sure, so what about those who are one or more versions behind?
Curious if anyone knows - how much of the actual functionality of Notion can you simulate in Figma? Would you just use it for graphic design or could you realistically simulate some of the actual app behaviour?
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> New CS grads struggle to find employment

Sorry, but I call major bullshit on this. Sure, if you have a D average at a low tier school, perhaps. But if you are a competent coder who got good grades in school, I see many companies ready to hire new grads left and right (obviously folks who graduated during the height of the pandemic had different issues to deal with). I don't know if we're quite at the "anyone who can fog a mirror can get a job" stage like we were in the original dot com boom, but we're not that far away.
The amount of kids living below the poverty line is not a small one.
> There are very real cultural differences and taboos against questioning and pushing back against authority.

Hence why so many cases of "Yes, I understand. We'll do the needful." that don't go as planned...
What's a bully? Someone who loses their temper? Someone who's scary and makes enemies more easily than friends? I think a bully is someone who uses intimidation to get their way, if someone intimidates random bystanders what they have is a need to work on their emotional self-control.
I got curious and checked his rate my professor profile. People either loved his class or hated his behavior. Sometimes both.
The cost is on the people who he behaved badly to. He needs to improve, not suffer.
I have seen a lot of your comments and articles over the past few months. I don't presume to put myself in your shoes, but my wife works in software engineering, and I work with several other women or wives of friends in the field. They have all had normal experiences, much like mine, with very few instances of anything being different for them because they are women.

I'm providing these anecdotes because you are providing your anecdotes and I figured it might make a discussion. As I said before, I have read your medium posts and your posts to this forum, and it seems that you are always fighting a battle that doesn't always exist (see your comment above that was flagged), but I feel like you are using the 'dismissal' of people viewing your arguments as irrelevant to the conversation as proof that the battle is happening and you're losing.

I don't understand why you might be starving or not making a living unless you are unemployable or have some type of issue that prevents you from performing at a normal level, as I have not known anyone in tech who could not earn a living unless they were struggling with something that prevented them from being able to work properly.

These are my anecdotes and they aren't facts or truths, I am just showing that the experience I have seen of women in tech does not intersect with your experiences, in a way that makes your points very foreign to me and I'm sure to others who don't share those experiences. Perhaps you are also in an 'experience bubble', and the world as you see it does not always conform to the pattern.
Its for the in vr steam overlay to display your desktop.
Steam compositor also takes a copy of the vr view to display within the little steamvr window, in the PIP view.
Of also used to be entirely up to content creators whether or not there were ads on their YouTube videos. We know how that went. Companies dependent on ads for the majority of their profit can't help themselves. What is one more ad? See Facebook's changes to ads on Instagram for an idea of what will happen on Oculus
The U.S. Capitol Riot Was Years in the Making. Here's Why America Is So Divided
If you expect people to do things they don't feel comfortable doing, you will repeatedly be disappointed. If you are depending on coworkers to go outside their comfort zone, you will lose coworkers (and probably feel they are undependable). Even if you are right and this person is "too sensitive" in some way, they were also an important contributor who has left a project where they no longer felt comfortable. No one owes it to any of us to "put up" with how we treat them.

Like, maybe a team that resolves conflict this was would really work more efficiently! But it will certainly push out anyone who isn't comfortable with that kind of interaction, while the efficiency gains seem more uncertain.
Well, to be fair, people write legal contracts without fully understanding what they are writing all the time too. I do disagree that people understand them on most cases.

Things are better on consumer law because it assumes from the start that people are stupid and have no idea what they are doing. But other kinds of contracts have quite large security risks.
I never thought those reasons would ever be valid until PHP 7.
>Gaddifi, a known antagonist who blew up a civilian airliner

I would like to point out that you are now the one stating "conspiracy theories" without evidence. A government employee of Ghaddafi's blew up an airliner. I'm not aware of any evidence, one way or the other, that he was personally involved with the planning or execution of it.

I wouldn't doubt it. But you're demanding one set of standards of information while not adhering to it yourself.
The article made mention of the fact that almost all of the startup founder/CEO social groups are environments of one-upmanship when what many people really need is support.

The comment was referencing this part of the article.
Because it was inseparable from the communist movement. The slogan you referenced was the communist slogan.

Communism requires equality, there was no independent women’s movement. Your families experience as you described corroborates that.

To strengthen my point: how many women are in political leadership positions? People’s Congress looks very male heavy…100%? communism brought equal participation, but didn’t stop patriarchy.
That comic at the end perfectly sums up my reaction (mostly because I want GATs though :)).

I'm not fully sold on Rust's existing async/await implementation but how would this suggestion even be implemented? It's a massive breaking change on multiple fronts and I don't know how a new edition would paper over the impedance mismatch between the new system and async libraries written in the older edition. Feels like I need another year or two of using async rust in production to even begin to form an opinion on this.

How would this work on embedded? I haven't done embedded since long before I could use async/await or Rust but it sounds like implicit anything (except maybe autoref/deref) is a deal breaker.
325M is a shitload of money. I'm not making a judgment on if it's "enough" or a good sign or whatever. I'm just saying it's an insane amount of money.
Hierarchies. The answer to your question is: hierarchies.
I read it as justification, which is typical in half-assed apologies. If that were the only flaw, I might call it a reasonable mistake. But given the other issues (failure to look at pattern, failure to work toward preventing similar future issues, failure to make amends), I think that's too generous a reading. To me it looks like part of a pattern.
People sometimes ask me how come a biologist might end up programming (or vice versa).

Showing them a map like this tends to clear things up pretty quickly!
> The holdout states give a voice to the people in holdout counties whose lifestyles are at the whim of a super-majority in the city.

Every non-geographic minority group in this country somehow manages to deal with this problem. What makes rural conservatives require such a truly exceptional level of representation?
The way the appology is set to the right does make it easy to accidentally skip past.
Discussion on Lobsters.

https://lobste.rs/s/6rnyn9/why_i_no_longer_contribute_racket
It's more like someone who habitually uses power in a mean way.
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Scientific progress does occur!

Recent advances are compatible with a long tradition with

contributions by Euclid, Dedekind, Frege, Russell, Church, Turing, von Neumann, etc.

The following article is in furtherance of the long tradition:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
Maybe it's my memory, but I genuinely only remember 3-4 rainy days this last season (in the east-east bay).
On the topic of destigmatization, I recommend this Robert Sapolsky lecture (on the neurobiology of depression) to everyone to understand just how physical and systemic depression is: https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc.

For understanding how lifestyle changes can help treat depression, I recommend this: https://youtu.be/drv3BP0Fdi8. He contradicts the author on the point of exercise—it is one of the most potent medicines (though hard to administer to yourself when you’re depressed).

Reflecting on my own (extensive) experiences with depression and its co-conspirators, I think there are two deep fears that inhibit seeking or sticking with treatment:

1. What happens if I don’t get better? Then I’m hopeless.

2. What happens if I do get better (and it’s not enough, or I ruin my progress with a relapse)?

I don’t have a definitive answer to either, but reasonable responses include: trying and failing feels better than languishing/surrendering (not trying is the only thing that’s likely hopeless), it is (or should be) OK to make nonlinear progress in managing chronic illness (depression or otherwise), and the universe/existence is at once magnificent and meaningless so just try to relax and enjoy the ride with your fellow creatures.
yes, apologies - thanks for the correction! :)
Instead of this knee-jerk reaction, why don't you first read the comment I'm replying to?

> it'd be handy to include why its a comparable situation

akkartik made that bizarre comparison, not me.
This is a good answer, thanks.
yeah, but the programmer will believe the chart.

the biologist, who knows better, will regard the chart as “our current best attempt at documentation, subject to change at any time at all”

My background is biomedical. This or a very similar chart was used in the last week of lectures on control systems as a lesson in humility.

It was meant to demonstrate both how complex things can be — and then, when the professor recolored the lines on a section according to the confidence in their correctness as a function of recent research, how uncertain our knowledge of that complexity really is.

He had a backup slide where an entirely new graph, with almost no topological similarity to the metabolic one, was created for a few of the nodes that participate in other nonmetabolic pathways.
There's a difference between someone who is naturally mean and happens to be in power and someone that uses meanness to get power.
That's also a hard sell right now based on the catastrophic failure of US public health policies during the pandemic.

Public health systems have shown they can do a pretty good job given a miracle vaccine to work with. Short of that, not so much. And unfortunately we don't yet have a shot that cures drug abuse.

A little more specifically, I don't think the lack of availability of rehab programs is what is the problem here, and that's about all public health could offer.
The justice system is about to get a lot simpler.
Did you read the original blog post? They clearly mention at the end they posted it because they were repeatedly asked why they disengaged from the Racket community:

"Why mention any of this now? Two reasons.

Over the last year, friends in the Racket commu­nity have asked me why I’ve reduced my involve­ment. Absent anything else, they assume the most obvious reason: that I’m bored or frus­trated with Racket as a language. That I’ve moved on to other things.

Not true. On the contrary, it seems impor­tant to reassert: I like almost every­thing about Racket. It’s still my favorite program­ming envi­ron­ment. I use it almost every day. I wish I could still contribute the way I did before. But I can’t subject myself to more of the same. In that sense, it feels more like exile than with­drawal.

I’ve been involved with FOSS projects for nearly 25 years. A project that depends on free contri­bu­tions of time & effort—as every FOSS project does—needs to be an appealing place for others to make gifts of their time. Sure, in any commu­nity of opin­ion­ated humans, occa­sional fric­tions and disagree­ments are natural. But Felleisen’s outra­geous hostility went far beyond anything I’d expe­ri­enced."

Also this main issue occurred three years ago. It is very odd to assume that someone decided to just sit on an issue for three years and then suddenly gotcha throw it out of nowhere.

This person was bullied out of the Racket community. They quietly left rather than try to fight against aggressive personalities. That's the real story here, and what happens in 99% of similar incidents.
Social stuff can be amazingly hard to sort out sometimes.

One of the benefits of the internet is that text makes it easier to "not raise your voice" so to speak. People who trigger each other in person and yadda may not know how to get past that more directly.

This is not a justification for anything. I hope they manage to build bridges and all that. This is the first I've personally seen this particular dispute.
Six parts to a real apology:

Expression of regret. "I am truly sorry." - Check.

Explanation of what went wrong. "I must have directed angry words at you, who clearly had nothing to do with how the day had gone." - This is weaselly. "I must have...", not "I did".

Acknowledgment of responsibility. " I clearly forget that I am the oldest and most experienced—and I should act this way in a post-mortem conversation." - Weaselly. Whether he was oldest and most experienced or not, no one should behave this way. And rather than taking the responsibility, it's chalked up to forgetfulness.

Declaration of repentance. - Nothing here. No commitment to change. No stated intention for better emotional management.

Offer of repair. - "Finally, as you surely recall, I encouraged you throughout 2019, in person and in email, to join the Racket leadership;" In the absence of any kind of effort or commitment to change, this would not be received as a positive offer. But rather an extension of exposure to an abusive individual. Not much of a repair.

Request for forgiveness. - Nothing here either.
So many amazing things coming to the .NET ecosystem, honestly excited for the next decade I'll spend with C#. It's already served me well in the last but .NET Core really supercharged it!
80% of the leads I get from hired aren't too great. But the other 20% are quality.
I think destroying something like water treatment plants, or gas pipelines could be constituted as violence, but not prisons, not in a country with the highest prison population per capita in the world. i refuse to believe that the people here are inherently more criminal and dangerous than anywhere else in the world, and if that belief is correct then our over-packed prisons are a sign of a legal system that got way out of control, but due to the size of the system and it's inertia, it will continue to self perpetuate unless challenged. Due to just how many peoples lives are intertwined with this machine, i don't see a civil path forward to a solution. It was the same case with slavery in this nation, we all knew it was a problem, but because too much money was tied in the economy supporting it...nothing changed until people took to civil disobedience.

if you don't want bulldozers, perhaps write to your representatives, and urge them to do something before the modern day John Browns start doing it for them.
I thought of a new framing of cryptocurrency reading this: it's a MMORPG for math nerds.
Not at all, there's more work than can possibly be done. It's not a sports competition - everyone can win.
I believe it would be possible to implement using an edition in a way that any *old* code is compatible with new code.

Regarding implicitness, a lot in Rust already is implicit (e.g. type inference). Good implicitness only feels weird at first, before we get used to it. I linked to Aaron Turon's article on reasoning footprint, but as a follow up, there is withoutboat's article on "not explicit" that goes into the topic more: https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2017-12-27-things-explicit...
if I wanted to rule without opposition I might take steps to drive away or suppress the intelligentsia, so I'm not sure what your metric is really measuring, maybe effectiveness of my tyranny?
I think org mode is frankly over-rated but having said that I use it myself for two things: a daily work-log and some tabular timekeeping. Really? the mechanics of the indent model are pretty crap.

It is possible to move from org to Markdown and then do better for pdf, eg via pandoc or some other emacs mode. I've used that in the past, because Markdown mode was even more confusing to me as a non-native emacs user.

That vi never got an org mode before the great uplift to vim says a lot to me. Emacs had more modes than there are things in heaven, Horatio. (than are dreamt of in your philosophy of editors)
Low power means nobody is going to notice.