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Any statement about infinity is not something you can check directly, by hypothesis. The powerful influence of social proof cannot and should not be ignored. There are too many smart people who don't know anything about the foundations of mathematics, and believe that there aren't any consistency issues.

My point is that as a practical matter, they're right. Calculus works really well. But consider for the moment the question of why you are convinced that induction is valid. There is no proof of induction's validity. The epsilon delta thing is a definition, not a proof, and serves, effectively, to invert infinity into an infinitesimal. I am on firm ground with these statements, like it or not.

I agree there's little to be gained examining what things really mean when it comes to meaning itself - it is always going to be circular. I believe that the foundations of math lay primarily in its utility, and secondarily in the social fabric of experts (which may or may not be related to utility). The eerie, beautiful way in which math describes the world is fundamentally a human phenomena, and it's based on aesthetics, not logic. I suppose my objection is simply that one shouldn't go around thinking that the epsilon delta definition removes the ambiguity and messiness that actually underlies mathematics.
It’s rare a piece of tech has a more fitting name!

“Is your orgs politics so complicated that direct team-to-team communication has broken down? Is your business process subject to unannounced violent change? Bogged down by consistent DB schemas and API versioning? Tired of retries on failed messages? Introducing Kafka by Apache: an easy to use, highly configurable, persistently stored ephemeral centralized federated event based messaging data analytics Single Source of Truth as a Service that can scale with any enterprise-sized dysfunction!”
I have a hard time understanding this kind of point of view. Do you not have a choice to just not play VR? Alcohol and other drugs can be fun, yet they're harmful and there's no choice of alcohol without health damage. You just have to choose alcohol and take the health damage or live without alcohol, ditto for VR.
Really enjoyed reading it. the analogies are very clear, easy to understand and fun to read. the illustrations are amazing as well. wish there was more of it :)
"It’s possible decriminalizing could lead to a huge wave in crimes as people try to pay for their fix."

The only reason that drugs cost enormous amounts of money is that they're illegal.

Once they're legal they could be produced for virtually nothing, and no one would have to turn to crime to afford them.

In an enlightened-enough state, the government could even subsidize drugs for those that couldn't afford them. For therapeutic drugs like psilocybin and MDMA it's probably going to happen before long, though I'm not holding my breath for it happening in the US for cocaine or heroin within my lifetime. But they still don't have to be expensive, once they're legal.
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Suit yourself, but this kind of thing matters in a democracy where everyone has the capacity to influence the direction of the government.
Steady on – that's not what I said. I'm sure the Nixon administration exploited the war on drugs for racist ends (just as they exploited many other things for racist ends). That doesn't mean that the sole explanation for the war on drugs is a Nixonian plot.
> Because they can force the rest of the world to keep using USD at gunpoint?

And the alternative? The EUR which is held by an EU that will likely break in the future. The CNY which is held by China (great idea :) ) or Russia's currency which is inflating like there is no tomorrow.

Bitcoin/Gold could be a hedge but it's quite volatile to preserve value especially for short/medium term holding periods.

There is no alternative to the USD at the moment.
You should look at the Sackler family which has literally made billions selling opioids.
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This is great. Is there a way I can pay for it?
You might be channeling a chapter on dead-letter-queues in Kafka.
It's not about whether the person is "a success" or "a failure", it's about whether the person feels that their condition is materially impacting their daily life. If I feel that my gaming habit is impacting my job because I can't resist playing games during work hours, that can be classified as a disorder.

It's just shorthand for "this is something we'd like to fix".
Doctors have to play a whole metagame

I really detest this idea that blatant manipulation is necessary from people we are supposed to be able trust. How about this instead, where the doctor provides information and a plan of action instead of manipulation:

Doctor 3: "Stomach problems are common, they may or may not be caused by the most popular triggers, and they might go away on their own by coincidence. Here's the decision tree we can follow, which will let us know if we need to do more..."
This is actually something that I'm hoping that eventually homomorphic encryption would enable. Right now it's kind of a bad idea to buy leased out computation time from arbitrary sources. "Hey, I have all these AWS credits and I want to recoup the value of them, so I'll give you a 10% discount on compute time. Uh oh, it turns out I'm also a competitor for your protein folding endeavor, so I'll be analyzing your inputs to steal your secrets and then returning faulting outputs." I suppose you could just demand admin access to their AWS account and lock them out for the duration of your lease, but that's just as bad idea for them as the opposite is for you.

If we had efficient homomorphic encryption, then we could just sell so many operations. Then someone looking to lease second hand computation could just put a counter in the output to make sure they're actually running the full amount and bingo cryptographically certain results.
>It's not a zero sum game.

You're right and that's why I specifically said it's a net gain and not that there were no negative aspects to it. Constant economic growth pushes innovation, yes there are downsides just as there are with anything.
No. It's a misconception that mental disorders are meant to categorize folks by sets of character/personality traits, whether or not they negatively impact someone. No, you do not have "a bit of OCD" if disorganization simply stresses you out.

On the contrary, mental disorders are labels expressely intended to inform and enable treatment of distress. Disorder and treatment are inextricably linked.

This is all according to how the DSM defines things, of course. Others may have opinions on how mental disorders should be defined.
I don't worry too much about whether I left the door locked or unlocked, but suck a system would produce anxiety in me, because I could never be sure if there wasn't some circuit malfunction and it wasn't showing me a false positive or negative.

My wife and I had the exact same response to the baby wearables or gadgets that promised to tell us if our baby was still breathing up in her crib. We weren't worried about that, so the notion of adding something that would almost-certainly be a flaky indicator seemed guaranteed to increase anxiety.
> Recently I was reading a book on ADHD and the author was quite adamant that you could only be diagnosed with ADHD if your life was worse than "the norm". In this view, if you have symptoms of ADHD but can, for instance, hold down a good job then by definition you don't have ADHD. I deleted the book from my Audible account.

IANAP, but that sounds correct to me. I recall the DSM requiring negative impact on one's lifestyle as one of the criteria for diagnosis of any mental disorder. And even if I'm misremembering that, that's what psychiatrists look for in practice. They not only query what symptoms you're feeling, but also the impact they have on your day to day life.

Which makes total sense. Treatment of any disorder, especially mental ones, carries a (sometimes significant) risk. It would be unethical to subject someone to that risk for no possible benefit.
That's not what astroturf means.
Depends a lot more on how much you're able to leave no unencrypted evidence.
For what it's worth on the hiring side, applicants lie (or more charitably, wildly overestimate their own abilities) all the time. Of resumes I see, 50% of them will not show up on time to their interview. Of the 50% that do, 80% cannot pass fizzbuzz.

Past companies and open source contributions are not perfect indicators. I've seen people with stellar resumes fail to even know the syntax for an 'if' statement in any language of their choosing. I've had people absolutely ace takehome exams, yet in person don't know how to write a function.

False positives are also much more expensive than false negatives, so companies would rather accidentally weed out good candidates than risk hiring bad ones.
I basically agree with your whole comment. I wish people on all sides were less forceful, whether critical or supportive of mental health issues, to account for the shortcomings we have with the field.
You're getting downvoted because your question makes no sense. They are not related at all, which means you must not have read the link.
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Yeah, it says the company only helped with 1000 hires, too.
maps.me was sold and the app went downhill pushing some crypto wallet stuff and a ton of tracking/affiliate/ads stuff.

I briefly looked over the github commits earlier when this fork started and there seemed to be dozens if not hundreds of commits just to remove all those nasty integrations.

Looks like this fork is in better hands.
This story is cute, but my concern for calling it a treatment method is.. what is stopping the OCD from transferring to a new concern?

Surely, it's not about the actual hair dryer. If they suddenly get concerned about leaving the heat on or the lamp plugged in they will quickly run out of room in the car.
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The additional constraints are also what enable performance optimizations. And not the small ones, the ones that give orders of magnitude improvements. Whereas right now neo4j is slower for graphs than postgres, just with a nicer UI.
This is an admirable aspiration. Although, if I think about, the companies spend much more time with a recruiting/sourcing product. And the candidates change jobs like once every 1.5-2 years? So optimising for a candidate experience doesn't seem right considering they're not the customer.
I think Circle is the real winner here. If there are 200 million USDC locked up permanently in some contract, then Circle can safely spend $200m of it's collateral knowing it will never be withdrawn. Or, if they were generous, they could return it to the community that invested in IRON (seems unlikely)
A recruiting agency with a hundred thousand recruits in a database is not functionally any different than a call center with a list of leads they purchased and validated.

Do not believe anyone who tells you they can force employers to change their methodology when it comes to salary and compensation revelation. Recruiting agencies are so far outside that wheelhouse that it's damned near scandalous to even pretend the statement has any validity.

Also, I think it's important to differentiate staff recruiters from outside recruiters.

Staff recruiters are HR people. They're on the job to shove square pegs into square holes.

Outside recruiters are salespeople. They're on the job to explain why a round peg can reasonably fit in a square hole.

This is your career. So act like it.

If 10 different people were each going to give you a hundred dollars if you described yourself to them in a way that would obviously ingratiate yourself to them (person with cat photo, person with dog photo, person with photo of their kids, etc) most would immediately come up with reasons to make themselves1 appeal to their tastes.

But people keep on submitting the same dumb resume over and over again and expect a different result. Accentuate the things in your resume that matter to the company you're trying to get a gig at. Yes, for each of them. If you would do it for a grand, you can do it for a career.
I wonder if the pt-br words being so similar makes the difference more explicit, that perhaps the english words being so obviously different, makes it easier to forget?

if the topic would ever come up seriously, most everyone would agree that depression is different than regular sadness- but in casual conversation it sometimes seems to warp into depression being a kind of adult form of sadness, almost as if sadness is just for children...
>..My nodejs build broke after a recent update on my machine, which I didn't realize until right before the interview

I mean, you went into a combat scenario, and chose a weapon absolutely notorious for jamming.
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> whether people could live without Netflix

People would be surprised the Netflix button stopped working on their TV.

"No Netflix but I can still watch cable?"
You should probably do some research about Linus net worth. He has been employed to work on kernel for a few decades.

And if we are talking about some of the most important software projects, approx. zero of them are run by hobbyists. Some niche aplications - sure. But not the most important pieces.

(Disclosure: for the last few years I employ 4-8 people to work on GNU GPL licensed products, so I know a thing or two about how it works)
It's best to email hn@ycombinator.com but if you really don't want to do that you can just reply here.
I'm ADHD-diagnosed, and god damn do I wish I could just go to the store and get Adderall when I feel like I need it

The fact that I have to call someone and get a prescription every month just makes it so that I go untreated for months at a time (kind of a cruel irony that ADHD treatment is gated behind the wherewithal to make a monthly phone call). And honestly I think modern life is probably such that most people could benefit from 10-20 mg of Adderall.
Yes, that's the practical reason. But what's missing is a conceptual reason, something that makes it easy to remember what is and is not a developer tool.

Possible approaches that would be less confusing than what we have today:

1. Ship Python 3 with macOS.

2. Ship all of the command-line developer tools with macOS, including clang et al.

3. Bring back the Snow-Leopard-era /Developer folder, and put developer tools there.

4. Put developer tools in /usr/developer, or /usr/local/developer, or /usr/local/Apple, to balance both UNIXness and clarity.

5. Don't ship Python at all. The Python foundation already distributes a .pkg installer for Mac. If xCode needs Python, follow your own Human Interface Guidelines and put it in the Application bundle.

All of these approaches have downsides, but I still think they'd be clear improvements over the current situation. Which is to say, I want Apple to figure this out!
Unfortunately I think that it's even worse than that: the STEPS project created intriguing demo of a text editor written in a very little number of lines compared to traditional applications.

Nice? No! Nobody has managed to reproduce the demo :-( and I think that being written partly in Smalltalk is one of the cause..
The post strongly implies she has been dealing with depression for 5 and a half years at this point.
I think you're possibly ascribing more awareness to a lot of people than they actually have. I'm not sure the thought goes much past wanting to feel safe against something that they were taught was evil early on and never questioned.
I wonder if its simply a case of "eyes bigger than the stomach". The fox gets over excited with a coop full of chicken and goes overboard as there's so much food. Similar to buying too much food or snacks when shopping hungry.
Strangely, at least from an outside observer's point of view, one would think the user's interests and AWS's interests would overlap for that one -- it doesn't square with my mental model that answering repeated polling requests to an endpoint which surely knows the last emitted text are cheaper than leaving the connection open and using any number of fancy http push mechanisms to send down updated content

Or, if we really wanted to get crazy: use the new SSM protocol and push down the console log that way, since they have obviously already invested a ton of engineering into the protocol and its scaling concerns, extra bonus++ that it then would work from the EC2 Console, too
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I think General Fusion's approach is one to keep an eye on. Instead of magnetic confinement, they use pistons to compress liquid metal into which the fuel is injected. The force of the collapsing liquid causes the fuel to fuse, releasing energy which is captured by the metal and then extracted with a heat exchanger.
I'm not sure that what I said above was particularly clear, so I feel like I should rephrase it. If you already understand this and are including links to the places where you find the articles, that's already the solution and I don't mean to pile on! But maybe others who see this will appreciate a clearer explanation.

Whatever sources you're systematically drawing on, each deserves acknowledging. By "systematically" I just mean that when people randomly pass around one-off links to random articles, there's no need to be particularly scrupulous about provenance, but when they're building projects on other platforms, that's different, and then there is such a need. Otherwise the balance between giving and taking is out of whack.

The "taking", in this case, is using HN (and other aggregators) as a source of links to interesting stories; this needs to be balanced by some "giving", and on the web, the well-established way to do that is to link back to the place you found it. That way, good things can flow in both directions: your readers get interesting things to read, but they also get to know about a community they might like, and the community has a chance to gain new readers who might enjoy it.

If you don't do that, then the claim you're implicitly making is that you scoured the entire web looking for those articles, rather than drawing them from other aggregators that already did that. That woudl be false and misleading—it's "taking" too much, in the above sense. What you're actually doing, which is looking at existing aggregators to find good content that got overlooked there, is (a) genuine work and (b) a wonderful contribution—and that's the work and contribution that you deserve and should take credit for. I don't mean to criticize that or minimize it! The existence of many good articles that get overlooked shows how much it's needed. It's simply that each contribution needs its proper acknowledgment.
Ahah, I absolutely did! And sibling commenter SamBam got it exactly right :D
Yet, I and many others can find solutions to technical issues easily on DDG. Hell that’s what I was trying to find on Google and failed.

If it’s a frequent issue for you perhaps you could provide some examples? I only ask because I hear people agreeing with you and yet I have never seen an actual example.
Diversity of skin color is meaningful in many ways, but that's not the greatest example. Policies that have changed in recent years include giving transgender individuals protected class status, as well as gay marriage being legal, federally.

There are also the states legalizing marijuana to consider. If the war on drugs is in fact a racist policy, then turning back the pages on that, wrt the most common, least harmful drug, then real policy changes are being made. Furthermore, the current congress has introduced legislation to legalize marijuana federally. So yeah, we are seeing policies change.
They are idiots. And also probably very smart people. Sounds like they have their own issues to work on :-O
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You would be surprised how many people legitimately can't wrap their heads around a fizz buzz style problem, but also how many people who can yet completely freeze in an interview setting.
I was seriously addicted to video games for years. Thank god I wasn't thrown in jail for it. That's an extra source of misery that neither me nor my family needed.

Imagine if they threw fat people in jail for being addicted to food. This is basically the same thing they're doing to drug addicts. It's insane.
My new job is about porting an old legacy codebase in ABL/Progress/OpenEdge to c#.

I feel safe to say that most people consider that boring work for a boring business.

I personally don't need to work on "interesting" stuff.
12 hours is not a lot of time.

And what does it mean that they could exit, when the contract itself was completely broken in the meanwhile?
I tried out Triplebyte a few years ago on my last job search and did well enough on the quiz to bypass the technical screen.

Long story short I bear no ill-will towards the people at Triplebyte but will not attempt to use them again.
Why so pessimistic? GF has a novel approach to fusion and I'm ecstatic that they're actually building a proof of concept.
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hah, fair enough.
I multiplied when I should have divided - thank you for catching that. Even so, I do not believe that it invalidates my point about using the same measurement units across media.
I think you proved the parent comment's point with this statement by accusing a whole class of people of being guilty of something the vast majority had no part in and would find abhorrent.

It's understandable that they would resent such blanket statements. No one alive today participated in slavery, the vast majority of their ancestors did not participate in it. Many families hadn't even immigrated yet and may have had their own discrimination issues to contend with.

> This is more "both sides are the same" rhetoric that is only used to empower the fringe beliefs and extremism in the American right.

This is exactly the sentiment the parent comment is alluding to. I think the American left is more guilty recently of avoiding introspection and dismissing criticism, to the detriment of advancing their mostly positive goals.
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Those investors will never see that money again
That's the whole point. Code is law.

The alternative is our current, arcane legal system - only interpretable by lawyers who charge $600/hr.
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Kube-dialog it's another handy(?) tool from the creator of 'piu-piu' and 'sshto'. This is a dialog wrapper for kubectl utility to ease your work with k8s from CLI.
Of all the people involved, he was the one who _didn't_ know how to resolve a specific issue.
This is Coloradoans' loss for now. Companies can afford to exclude Colorado. When a significant number of additional states do similarly, then it will be companies' loss and the trend will change.
The worst developer I knew never wrote things down: requirements, comments, test plans, and bug reports were only communicated verbally. Even worse, their boss had the same mental block about putting anything in writing.

Oh, and to echo another comment here, they just LOVED cyclomatic complexity.
Well, I hope you're right and will keep an eye out (and will regardless be Fasttrack-ing in 6 months when I'm looking for FTE work, so I'll see firsthand :p)