skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had the same addictive personality. Latter diagnosed with ADHD which is a brain imbalance that has difficulty regulating dopamine.

Unmedicated, I have a constant drive to find something that gives a little reward. Cigarette, beer, doom scrolling Twitter, unhealthy foods, other forms of unhealthy and impulsive behavior.

Medicated, I don't have that feeling where I just need SOMETHING. And my 'addictive personality' is just none existent.

I've also done some work on myself as far as identifying triggers and feeling and being able to identify where that drive is coming from.

I think the addictive personality trope is really harmful and it's more likely untreated trama or feelings or untreated mental health.

Mental health is so overlook at least in the US health System. It's a real bummer but I don't think any of us are beyond hope and I hope that we can start to recognize and address that.
What Orwell got wrong was instead of the "hidden hand elites" using unending unwinnable wars to control the masses, they would use a man made disease like the everyday common coof!
Passports please!
Was so happy when I moved from 1password to Bitwarden. Far more reasonable pricing and a better experience IMO.
The difference is the stock market in not a game with net negative expected value
John Tuld from Margin Call movie...

So you think we might have put a few people out of business today. That its all for naught. You've been doing that everyday for almost forty years Sam. And if this is all for naught then so is everything out there.

Its just money; its made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat. It's not wrong.

And it's certainly no different today than its ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, 37, 57, 84, 1901, 07, 29, 1937, 1974, 1987-Jesus, didn't that fuck up me up good-92, 97, 2000 and whatever we want to call this.

It's all just the same thing over and over; we can't help ourselves. And you and I can't control it, or stop it, or even slow it. Or even ever-so-slightly alter it. We just react.

And we make a lot money if we get it right. And we get left by the side of the side of the road if we get it wrong.

And there have always been and there always will be the same percentage of winners and losers. Happy foxes and sad sacks. Fat cats and starving dogs in this world. Yeah, there may be more of us today than there's ever been. But the percentages-they stay exactly the same.
I don't know why you thought that personal attacks were merited here, but the fact remains that Subway removed azodicarbonamide from their bread years ago, as did many other fast food chains.

https://www.eater.com/2016/8/8/12403338/subway-yoga-mat-chem...
Not even those! The impact factor of a journal is a terrible guide to quality. It is more appropriately thought of as a measure of scientific sex appeal.

You must read each paper to judge its merits. Lots of junk gets published in top ranked journals.
English Sentencing Council introduces new guidance around trademark misuse
Yes, it almost looks like society values censorship more than free speech these days.
Robots having lunch with skyscraper view (GAN generated image)
No mentions of tortured phrases in the humanities and softer social sciences? For all their supposed appreciation of les belles-lettres (viz., "fine writing") those researchers sure seem to like their tortured phrasings.
Interesting - What company?

If you can't say, no worries.
If you were around at the beginning of the boom and had an AOL, Juno, or Prodigy account; eventually gave NetZero a try; watched Hackers and even The Net, know what a .nfo file is, marveled at Napster; collected Winamp skins; signed up to have DVDs delivered to your mailbox; and when Internet, Information super-highway, World Wide Web, and cyberspace were used interchangeably, you’re one of the lucky ones. I love the Internet for all it is now, but man do I miss the wonder it instilled in its nascency.
New SaaS idea: a busyness simulator that sits on your home pc clicking between emails, running semantically correct work-based searches and sending occasional high value Slack responses. I'd imagine the AI ability to do this would be pretty high already.

Beat big data with big data, why not.
Here is a paper (not yet peer-reviewed) which presents statistically strong evidence (N = 52,238) that vaccinating previously infected individuals provides practically no benefit [1].

Quote from [1]:

- "The cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection remained almost zero among previously infected unvaccinated subjects, previously infected subjects who were vaccinated, and previously uninfected subjects who were vaccinated, compared with a steady increase in cumulative incidence among previously uninfected subjects who remained unvaccinated."

Right now there is no scientific consensus that full vaccination of previously infected individuals provides any additional protection that is meaningfully beneficial. In fact there is a lot of evidence pointing the other way - supporting the idea that vaccination strategies should be highly targeted at only the most vulnerable populations.

[1] Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...
Some misuse of trademarks is a criminal offence, and the Sentencing Council have just issued new guidance (that applies to England and Wales) around sentencing for the most serious offences.

The most serious offences are those that risk harm, including death, to end users.
Can you show me an integer whose parity differs from its least significant bit?
For people curious about ADE (a fascinating topic that so far doesn't seem to have caused problems with SARS-CoV-2), here is some excellent background reading that covers many of the points made in the above comment, with citations and deeper discussion:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/12/an...
S&p 500 is not a simple algorithmic trading system. That is the problem! They have a selection committee.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500
No one would write "colossal information" instead of "big data" because English isn't their first language.
Looks like you got a lot of answers already; if you're interested, there are good biographies; also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell is quite good.
Many people under 50 don't care about inflation because they owe money, they certainly don't have money - it's all be taken by rent seekers.

Then all that nonsense about lumber earlier in the year, blaming QE for supply problems. Lumber prices now 1/3rd what they were a few months ago.
Sure, but the kernel has no concept of arguments: all it sees is a plain string.

PowerShell can do things better as long as you stay within its domain, but things break down when you talk to other binaries. Touched upon that here https://jmmv.dev/2020/10/powershell-cmdlet-params.html ;)
Sounds like a simple thing to solve if they just let me make a pull request for the function getDJIAValue() or wherever the hell it lives. Based on price is fine -- when splits happen just adjust the weight by the split factor. Are they really that incompetent at coding?
Fears of a Clown (2015)
Right. Abstractly viruses find a sweet spot between transmission rate and lethality to host. Too lethal and it won’t spread very far. However, in practical terms there is a lot more room for something like COVID to be far more damaging and still spread just like it has been or more. All of the immunity we now have and the particular nature and quality of it will certainly impact what the virus does when mutating. If it really can breakthrough vaccinated populations it’s going to change how it evolves. That is a lot of ifs, buts and maybes. The real world data just is t backing up a lot of these weak claims folks are making. In practical terms the vaccines work and do their job. There is a lot of interesting observations to make and we are in the middle of a great experiment of sorts, so we should be very data driven in my opinion.
> Passphrase compromised? If they're hosting, you know exactly where to go to access my passwords. If I'm hosting, I can tell you that I use 1Password and my master password and I'm still _relatively_ safe in that you don't even know where to find a copy of my password database.

The above argument seems to turn out the same even for cloud-synced vaults.

If Dropbox suffered a massive hack, the malicious actor could take all the *.agilekeychain and *.opvault files stored there, brute force the master passwords locally, and have potentially complete control over some people's finances and online lives.
I adore Ethernet over power, it makes my life so much better, but oddly doesn't get very much attention.
The S&P 500 isn't ideal, but it's much better than the Dow. Both indices are a selection of companies, but the Dow is smaller which leaves much more room for judgment calls. Additionally, that the Dow is weighted by share price is completely ridiculous.

(If you actually want to index, though, a total market fund makes much more sense)
Usually people care about inflation in the context of cost of living vs their earnings, not their net assets.
May be, but it surely scared the hell out of me.
Keepassxc on Dropbox works well for individuals.

Do Bitwarden or 1password add to this?

They seem to be for enterprise.
Imagine that the early purpose was just to allow physicists working in big collaboration to work together from different places and handle data more easily. Who could guess that any of that will happen as a byproduct.
Making a language regular and less broken isn't the same as reducing it's cognitive power though.

Think of it like this: if we made English even less regular would it make us better and freer thinkers? Of course not! It would probably make it harder to think clearly. A good example is how counting is hard to learn because the words are weirdband illogical. It's like converting between roman and Arabic numerals.
Time namespacing would achieve this, had it not omitted the real-time clock:

> Note that time namespaces do not virtualize the CLOCK_REALTIME clock. Virtualization of this clock was avoided for reasons of complexity and overhead within the kernel.
I wonder if having had different less deadly coronaviruses also gives some immunity?
> good work gets the attention it deserves

I'm not sure I'd go that far with the optimism, at least in my field (artificial intelligence). Some obviously bad work does immediately fade into obscurity, and better work probably does on average get more attention, but the variation is huge. There is so much stuff on arXiv, that to get attention you need some kind of PR push so people notice it in the firehose, or a dice-roll around a viral tweet or science journalist noticing it. Some of the better funded university and corporate research groups have actual professional PR and science-comm teams doing coordinated social-media blitzes, press releases, and blog posts around new arXiv papers! That's a huge factor in determining whether a given paper gets attention.
"to whom addiction is an intellectual exercise. Maybe they know someone that may or may not be an addict, and the chances are good, that what happens to that person won't really be life-changing to the person writing about their pet theory."

Spot on. I also got a massive armchair amateurish feel reading it. They feel very comfortable emphasizing that certain lucky addicts can seem to recover and moderate, but don't really seem to put nearly as much emphasis on addicts that might die or ruin their lives if they read that advice and think they can moderate before relapsing again. No mention in the article about %s of addicts these facts apply to, no mention of the author's name or credentials. Just a crappy article that doesn't help the situation at all really.
While they may stimulate some B and T, they aren’t close to the levels from infection.

From what I’ve seen many coronavirus have durable immunity from infection, you’d need to cite that they vary. Also, from what I’ve seen the T and B cell response is not nearly the same effect, nor as durable.

Further, like the Israeli report, there are a handful more reports of previously infected not getting reinfected at nearly the same rates. The Israeli report has hard numbers in the article you ignored.
Similarly, while there is an explosion in the markets we all know the most - equities, real estate, "commodities", etc. - there are many other markets out there that are, in fact, at a bottom. And like you said, nobody is paying attention or even considers them as an investment.

So while the hordes are all trying to suck blood out of increasingly tapped investments in real estate (e.g. 8th tier mountain "resorts" in the middle of nowhere) or equities (me-too energy or tech pump & dumps), the next big thing is completely being ignored.

And in 10 years, everyone will say it was obvious that these would be the next big play. 20/20 hindsight.
Amazon is small fry compared with BRK-A, which was up $8,854 on Friday - over twice Amazon's share price.
It's not smoke and mirrors because enough people follow it. Then it becomes self fulfilling. Yes, conceptually, in a vacuum it's BS. But you have enough demand and belief in it, it validates itself. This is how the market works...
Esperanto probably inspired Orwell on this, at least to an extent. He knew several Esperantists. Most of the "A vocabulary" rules are similar, like valuing regularities. I wonder if he hated esperanto, or just conveniently borrowed the feel of an artificial language from it.

To me, the euphemisation aspects of newspeak are the most "orwellian." IE, they're most likely to trigger that reference. Orwell himself complained about politicians and they're euphemisms. I think that's the part, above all that was drawn from current reality, and applies most readily in other times.

Somewhat related/noteworthy. Contrary to what I assume was common in his leftist circles at the time, Orwell was not enamoured with either Trotskyism or Irish Republicanism. I suspect the use of euphemism was one of the things that triggered him.
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And there's those of us for whom these machines are well past our time... but we still enjoy reading about them and having appreciation.

Frankly it's bizarre to me to think this isn't HN-relevant.
By the principle of reciprocity, such an antenna also shouldn't couple at all to the far field of a distant radiating source... Right?

So this should work well for a near-field coupling device, but not as some kind of distant silent receiver.

The "macroscopic atom" analogy makes me wonder, because atoms can absorb traveling photons just fine. But then again, only as well as they also radiate.
So the way we can tell a computer has generated a scientific paper is... because the computer probably failed to use idiomatic terminology when it referred to concepts.
The simple premise that S&P500 weights its components based on market cap already puts it lightyears ahead of DJIA.

Also including 500 big companies is much more reasonable than including just 30.

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People lately criticize S&P committee for the rule that a company needs to report 4 consecutive profitable quarters in a row to be included. Thanks to this they've missed the boat on Tesla and they had to eventually include it as the 8th largest component.

Someone on this forum joked that they should amend the rule to say: A company needs to report 4 consecutive profitable quarters in a row and the CEO name must not rhyme with melon tusk.
I thought top ranked journals have good reviewers, since the editorial board consists of researchers/professors from top notch schools. Can you share your thoughts why junk get published in such journals? Has it to do with collusion or reputation-laundering or more?
Think Different; The Big Pair Trade; Models are better than Beliefs
I’m going to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there. What you are describing is a logical fallacy. By redefining winners and losers to be an arbitrary condition instead of a fixed set of attributes (homeless, hungry, lack of class mobility, poor health), you can claim some notion of relativism but it’s not helpful for understanding anything. It’s a bit of circular reasoning.
Back in 2004 or so, I was building a distributed CMS with the goal of creating artificial "link pyramids" with the purpose of SEO, which was a rather new thing at the time.

Content generation was one of our bottlenecks, and as Google was already rather successful at detecting duplicate content, we were looking for a way to "uniqify" posts that would be used to stuff sites intended for googlebot, but not humans.

One of the methods that worked was taking source English content, running it through Babelfish, the Altavista translator to French, Spanish or German, and then using the same method to translate it back to English.

This resulted in texts that did not make much sense to humans, were full of precisely such "tortured phrases" but which were considered unique by Google.
Just weight it by 0.1 or whatever? Simple solution.
Guessing then that variants of the word might popup anywhere the land had significant Arab influence from yesteryears
Sometimes technological solutions work really well to solve social problems. For example, at one point, one person using the internet would tie up the phone line for everyone else in the house, and vice versa. Negotiating this shared resource could be considered a household social problem. But now there's no such interference, and most people have their own cell phones.
> First, it developed the usage of superficial socialization (lifestyle show-off, body photos, up to lewd behaviors or prostitution, depression for a lot of people, massive societal dopamine addiction),

No, the smartphone did not do that. All it did was amplify some of those aspects of human nature, making them even easier to project; aspects which were already prevalent across essentially all cultures throughout history.

Tabloids, newspapers, magazines, television, radio, photography, automobiles, physical mail, audio recording, the Internet & PCs, books, scrolls, tribal story telling, and on it goes. The smartphone is merely the latest amplifier.

Lifestyle showoff? There has never been a time in which people didn't commonly do that. There will never be a time in which people don't commonly do that. It's a core, fundamental system of human evolution and social structure. It's a competition. Humans never stop competing for survival, competing for position in the pecking order of society, competing to get the best mates, and so on. Very high levels of social superficiality did not begin with the smartphone, it has always been there.

Body photos? Since the first photographs. Drawing & painting eachother before that.

The ancient Romans and Greeks were hyper social, gossiping cats. They could be superficial as all hell. The same was true of the colonial generations in Europe. So were all people throughout all of history and without exception, to the extent they weren't busy trying not to die of deprivation.

The smartphone didn't fundamentally change anything. It amplified, and in some cases simplified, what we were already doing.
I don't think you are thinking about Mendocino. It is on the Pacific at the mouth of the Big River. The Big River flows into the sea from headwaters in the Coastal Ranges and has significant protection as a natural system. Mendocino is on the edge of large swaths of public land and there is little industrial agriculture in the area (what there is, is mostly timber, vineyards, and cattle.

The water politics to which you reference are in regard the Central Valley, because the California Canal flows from up near Mount Shasta to deliver water to Southern California. Polanski's Chinatown is an interesting primer on all that.
What medication did you end up with? I started recently trying a few that haven't worked well for me.

I started on Wellbutrin which had a bad side effect for me and had to stop, and now Vyvanse which doesn't seem to be helping my focus at all.
This seems unbelievably high (though I have no reason to doubt the researchers).

If the prevalence is really around 8-30%, this seems a lot bigger than what Apple could even make a dent in. (Because most of the offenders are relatives/acquaintances of the victims. The phones don't seem to have any influence on the underlying numbers.)

Furthermore, criminalizing content again pushes the actual problem deeper into the shadows.

Why there are no routine questions about abuse for kids? At least that would help to identify victims, remove them from the abusive environment, and even potentially help catch the perpetrator.
Can you just use one dish and then connect everyone to this one dish? Costs 100$ a month divided by all inhabitants. It makes sense to setup one dish and connect a couple of people to it. It does not make sense to setup one dish next to another.

Remote areas = Mostly people, that can't actually afford it.

Does Starlink support this or is it against their interest?
You get a better idea of what’s going on when you see beyond the one or two projects that used to occupy your time. That can be interesting in a lot of ways, not the least of which is figuring out that some of the problems you “solved” are just thinking too small and thus picking away at a much bigger issue.

Since I get bored easily, I usually value that sort of opportunity. Usually. If I turn into the cleanup man I start to become sour on the idea of people making messes for others to clean up and then I start looking for an exit.
The positions are called DevOps if you want to poke around at some job descriptions of the people who do this for a living. Outside of the egregious examples that get spread around (and if you’re not politically active might be the only ones you know so keep that in mind) it’s a pretty boring job. Clicking around Salesforce, lots of mailmerges, event planning, reporting, and the financial logistics of people with conditions on their money or people who donate through foundations or donor advised funds.
>how to excuse an intelligentsia which manages the public by simply lying its ass off
The article says Australian and other country’s online census tools don’t allow people to continue with incomplete answers. The US version evidently does.

It seems obvious that design decision would lead to more incomplete answers than the more restrictive design.
> (no one under 50 has really witnessed it in their adult life)

Akhem, there are places outside America. I still have the postage stamps for 100,000 monetary units from the late 1980’s and early 1990’s Yugoslavia in my mom’s basement somewhere.

My parents’ tales of ridiculous mass inflation have been etched into my brain. I was too young to remember, but the spectre loomed large. Especially in the mid 1990’s when the rest of Yugoslavia set the world record for monthly inflation that still stands today. Luckily we were our own country with our own money by then.

At one point hyperinflation reached 2% per hour.

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

I believe many parts of South America are going through high levels of inflation right now.
Any HNers who want to join me in creating the dad-punk band Leftover Vitality?
I failed an interview once when a founder started bragging about how his wife is sad that he doesn't come home to see her and their young children enough, and he was proud because it meant he was working hard enough. He asked me if I was a hard worker and I told him I preferred to "work smarter not harder" and gave some lines about being efficient and not burning out. I gather that he was not impressed, given I got no offer after appearing to pass the technical screen, getting along great with the engineering team as a whole, and applying to a team where I had direct (uncommon) experience and knew every member of.