skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have noticed that, on reddit at least, entertainment has a very strong region from which it converges to "getting off on feeling smarter/better than other people".

This is based on my own experience filtering subs from r/all when I notice that this is the experience that they are providing. The filter list is currently dozens to hundreds of subreddits long, and almost all of them have several hundred thousand subscribers.

I suspect, based on these anecdata, that television has the same convergence properties, and the abusive reality TV spectacle is mostly about assuaging viewers' inferiority complexes in the same way. "Look at how badly this person is running this restaurant, at least you aren't as dumb as they are", "Look at these idiots taking this dating show seriously. If I were a contestant on the bachelor, I would never ____", etc.

(I am not intrinsically opposed to the notion that it's just gladiatorial spectacle, but I have been acutely aware of this force for a while now, and try to shoehorn it into explaining every social malady.)
Truth matters. Accountability matters. Future avoidance matters.
This is why learning morals and ethics don't necessarily make a person more moral or ethical: the knowledge can be used to try and "beat the system".
Might be tricky to package a beamforming V/Ku/Ka band antenna array into a cell phone.
> When I’ve heard people say “trust the science” it is always directed to people who have demonstrated that they do not understand the scientific method

I think "always" is too strong. With regards to COVID vaccines I have heard that line thrown at people who say "this conclusion is too new, it has not stood the test of time" and now lo and behold we are seeing that the early "95% effective" rates are not holding up.

In fact I would say that many of the people who say "trust the science" (politicians, etc) have no scientific background themselves and are not people we would otherwise look to for scientific opinions on anything.
No I think if anything seeing it was a response to “xargs considered harmful” made me take the authors side quicker
As a person from a country that's not US... Everything being centralized around the US and other countries basically having no sovereignty is also a huge problem.

When two companies collude, it's illegal. When countries do the same, it's perfectly legal and is called a "trade agreement" because it's them who write laws.
Well, the first step in selling someone something is convincing them you have it.
This makes me laugh. My firmly tongue in cheek take:

The whole family thing is just management hypocrisy.

I mean very few families take Grandma out back to be shot so they can save enough food for the head of the family to have a new private jet.

“Sorry kids, you’re not getting any presents this year but Daddy’s getting 300% more presents than last year. So every cloud has a silver lining eh?”

Better to be more like Ron Swanson and be a contractor.

We are not friends. You pay me to do a job and I do it well in return.

You don’t bullshit me and I don’t get upset when you want to stop paying me for whatever reason.
Haven't all states constantly been "failing" at wars, diseases, natural disasters and the like? How is suffering in 2021 more of a threat to "the state" than public suffering in any other year?
This is a common stumbling block for founders. Investors aren’t interested in giving you money to give to other people to see if your business might work. You need to demonstrate that the business does work, and then accept investment money to scale it up.

> My cofounder and I have deep experience in this sector, working for the very incumbents we want to disrupt. At this point, we really think what's holding us back is scale -- we need to bring on reporters/editors/etc to actually have enough content to bring in an audience,

This would be a red flag for my investment senses. Are you trying to build a scalable company that does something new and innovative, where your only real remaining obstacle is investment money to gas up the business engine?

Or are you and your partner following in the footsteps of your previous business experience, but this time you want to be at the top of the org chart and you want someone else to provide the money so you don’t have to bootstrap?

FWIW, I don’t think you’re 100% in the latter category, but I wanted to highlight the two ends of the spectrum on which you’re going to be evaluated. Investors get pitched by a lot of former ICs who think investment money is a shortcut to being at the top of a business in their industry, but who haven’t actually differentiated themselves that much from what they’re familiar with. It’s not enough to take your old business, add a personal twist, and call it a disruption. It’s not enough to be the n+1 competitor in an already crowded space, because you don’t have any of the advantages of first-movers or established companies.

One way to try to bootstrap this is by simply filling those writer, editor, and reporter roles yourselves even more. Can you demonstrate that doubling your own work output produces more than a doubling of traction? It may be extremely hard, but you can slog through a 6-month experiment where you and your partner work harder than ever before to produce more of this content. If you can show, with metrics, that doubling the amount of content produced translates to a tripling or quadrupling of your traction metrics, then you have a solid case to show investors that money is your only remaining obstacle.

On the other hand, if doubling your content production only produces a 50% increase in traction numbers, you have a sign that money and hiring aren’t your problem. The business model isn’t scaling and you need to change course.
Everything points to China as the source of this virus. That evidence alone should be enough to conclude China's culpability in its spread, until the regime is willing to allow an independent investigation. Even if it makes them look bad. The world will not believe them any other way.
Maybe I didn’t read it close enough, but workplaces that want their employees to be “family” are destructive to the actual families they have at home.

I actually attribute my divorce in part to my ex wife’s workplace making her truly believe that they were her “family”.

Everything there became more important than us. She called them her family and it was hurtful to our’s. I could write an article myself on this, but wanted to put it out there.

When work crosses the “family” boundary, it’s going a step too far.

We are coworkers. We get the job done 40 hours a week (should be 30). We go home to our families.
As I said in another reply

> It wasn't until I did my taxes that the true cost of running and maintaining my car became clear
I don’t think they say you have to be party goer? Sleep may be compensated by daytime naps, ie recently I learned Ronaldo naps daytime in his daily schedule which was interesting to me, he won’t get Nobel price for what he loves but still he tops at his hobby.
The Crossroads of Should and Must

https://medium.com/@elleluna/the-crossroads-of-should-and-mu...
The post office does (did?) ID verification for first-time passport applications. I think that’s about as good as you can reasonably expect since it gets you a bona fide, universally-accepted proof of ID that would work anywhere else.

I would bet that the post office employees are a bit less susceptible to the “hurry up and hit your metrics” pressure than someone at the Verizon call center.
> everything there about getting rid of stress and sleep appear to be immutable parts of my career.

There are other careers - problem solved!
Formula E is pretty much a spec series compared to F1, if anything they'd enter an endurance series but think any entry would be unlikely.
jesus christ. coding used to mean something. i guess we all should eat baby food because we arent being smart cool or clever by wasting time and energy chewing.
Meh I'd say having middle class parents is probably better.

Anybody who's in the US middle class can have a low stress life. Most don't because they want things. (Mostly they want to compete with people they view as their peers.)
> "They sure as fuck are not going to understand that exercise is important and necessary. They are not going to become discerning about what they eat. They will...inhale cheap carbohydrates in their burritos, burgers, pizza, etc"

Who are you referring to with these wide-sweeping, derogatory stereotypes, who are "they"? I genuinely find it shocking that you find it appropriate to group together the millions of people who struggle with obesity for various and legitimate reasons as "they".

Maybe also think about your privilege as an "engineer" with a wife who is a doctor before offering these unneeded criticisms on "lower educated parents".

It's narratives like those in this post which alienate people who are already struggling, and paint obesity as a moral failing. You are the one with a moral failing right now.

So I guess I'm yelling too..

WE DO NOT NEED TO DEMONIZE AND DEHUMANIZE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND, EDUCATION OR HEALTH.
> A lobste.rs user asked why you would use find | xargs rather than find -exec. The answer is that it can be much faster. If you’re trying to rm 10,000 files, you can start one process instead of 10,000 processes!

Fair enough, but I still favor find -exec. I find it generally less error prone, and it's never been so slow that I wished I had instead used xargs.

Also, if you're specifically using -exec rm with find, you could instead use find with -delete.
The article gives a figure of 15 kW for the chip. That’s the kind of heat usually generated by a small room full of servers. Radiating that away on the outside is not the main issue, solutions exist for that. But getting that kind of heat away from the chip and into the water in the first place has to be a nontrivial challenge.
Just like everything points to Qanon being the ultimate source of truth?
OK, so what if you don't want to be friends with your boss / co-workers. But have excellent work performance. Should this hold you back from promotion?
The other side of this coin is the home working space. If you live in a tiny little efficiency in NYC, I can imagine WFH is a fucking nightmare. If you have a ranch style home in the burbs with a room you can dedicate to being a home office, it's pretty nice.
This is a declaration, not an argument. There's no rule that says the relationship between management and workers has to be symmetrical, and if there were such a rule, then workers should demand access to all of the books and get to sit in on all of the meetings.
I don't know why you are conflating addiction with life-threatening physical withdrawal. Gambling addiction is categorized as an addiction according to the DSM, and no definition of addiction that I know of, clinical or colloquial, limits the definition of addiction to only substances which result in a life-threatening withdrawal. I think the term you are searching for is chemical dependency.

In university, I worked in a lab studying the biological mechanisms of addiction for a couple of years. There is a fairly well understood relationship between dopaminergic release in the nucleus accumbens and the formation of behavioral patterns.

This can be induced reliably with certain drugs, like stimulants, which chemically induce the activity of dopamine receptors. It can also be reliably induced endogenously, using a stochastic reward schedule. In other words, if you put a rat in a cage and give him a lever which produces a food pellet every time he presses it, he will eat until he is full, and then he will stop. If you give him a lever which produces a pellet randomly, he will press it all day, even to the point where he eats past the point of satiety, and forgets to drink water.

This response to a stochastic reward schedule has been demonstrated in all kinds of animal models, and also in humans. It's also exactly the reason why slot machines are compelling and habit forming.

You don't have to look very hard to see how a stochastic reward schedule is applied to things like mobile games, and the design of social media user journeys.

Gambling addiction is real, and social media is designed to be addictive.
>Many of the migrant kids I've met can't speak any German. Even kids that are already 10 years old.

Meanwhile, Sweden has no language, income, employment, or skills requirement (<http://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/B...>) for obtaining citizenship.

>Thus I believe this situation will escalate even further in the future, as it will be very hard for these kids to get a proper education without the needed language skills.

In completely unrelated news, Arabic is now the second most spoken language in Sweden (<https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/article_po...>).
I worked for Steve Jobs and I wouldn't say I knew what he was like. I had an outsiders view of what he was, and while there were some stories of his behavior, a lot of the details weren't out there. This was before the world of blogs, Twitter, Gawker or wherever people now share this sort of information.

Once you start working in an environment with a Steve Jobs type, things become complex and conflicted. You feel that you are doing great work, and sometimes you are. A Steve Jobs type will figure out how to motivate you with some percentage of shame, praise, monetary rewards or whatever combination allows them to drive you to generate the results they want.

Saying people want to be abused in pursuit of creating greatness is a vast oversimplification of the dynamics that occur in these types of relationships. It is an interesting dynamic that develops over time and is in general quite unhealthy. I still have Steve trauma to this day! I don't want to equate it with more damaging forms of physical and emotional abuse, but there was damage done.
>My rent alone went up something like 20%.

Your example is certainly atypical. BLS says rent is up 1.9% YOY.

> Look at gas

Mostly correct, up 42% YOY.

> Or wood

Can't find the BLS stats for this, probably because the amount of lumber the median household buys is approximately zero.

> Or food

BLS says it's up 2.6% YOY. Are you sure something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic isn't messing with your perception?
> I know in the modern world any vocal criticism of anyone is not allowed. Everyone is very fragile apparently.

Verbal abuse is not vocal criticism. In fact, calling anyone who stands up against boundary violations fragile is itself an abuse technique.

> But you can bet you’re missing out on some great work not being produced because of it.

Maybe for your own personal definition of great that thinks objectifying people to a function for some ostensible "greater good" is OK.

Maybe other people's definition of greatness necessarily includes not having abused anyone while achieving it. Something something virtue, human excellence, golden mean...

> Also my point about voluntary participation still stands.

For some absolutized romantic sense of free will, you'd be right. Humans don't work that way though. The number of people who go back to self-defeating patterns is a staggering proof to this; addiction relapses, returning to domestic abuse relationships, eating disorders etc. These are not even fringe issue, these are epidemics. Why would an abusive work relationships be any different?
Have you tried going 'inside'? Meditation can teach you to observe your own states as an outsider and affect them, kind of like hooking up a debugger to your own mental 'programs'. Once you notice yourself feeling stressed, firing up the debugger (AKA utilising your mindfulness training) and sorting through the contents of your mind can help you defuse it. Maybe you can even change a variable using your 'debugger' to improve the state of your 'programs' ;)

It also helps you sleep, because the difficulties sleeping are controlled/helped by learning mindfulness.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337506/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6557693/

https://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_en...
Yes, go ahead and read deeply. In spite of the chosen TLD, disagreeing with any piece of advice doesn't accidentally invalidate other ideas like some guru's all-or-nothing self-contained theory. There is also no luring you into signing up for a mailing list to offer you products or courses.
What evidence do you see that the effectiveness reducing hospitalization risk has decreased?
Further reading about the relationship between recursion, iteration, and accumulators: https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-05-11-recursive-to-itera...

This transformation is one you can apply in your own source as well. An example from that link, the recursive

def factorial(n):
if n < 2:
return 1
return n * factorial(n - 1)

can be rewritten iteratively:

def factorial1d(n, acc=1):
while n > 1:
(n, acc) = (n - 1, acc * n)
return acc
You can also use `find -exec` with `'+'` instead of `';'` as the terminator. This will call `rm` on all of the found files in one call.
Snowflake Stock Tanks as Research Warns Investors of Growth Slowing Down
For a sense of scale, 93 kg of uranium would occupy a space a little smaller than one soccer ball: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+93+kg+of+ura...
The people who would most benefit from this being priced in - American working class & global poor - have no way to influence the "price" in any broad sense.

Those who do have pricing influence are riding the wave for short-term gains (e.g. M&A), or washing their hands of the whole mess and leaving it for someone else to clean up (e.g. becoming NZ citizens).
I have two kids that are actresses (both are getting their first professional jobs now), and well, here goes: prior to 2019, asshat producers and directors were the norm. Everything from attempted casting couch-ish shenanigans (both were in their teens so, have a seat over there needed to happen to these guys) to screaming fits in rehearsals. Between cancelling sexual predators and COVID changing people's tolerance for abusive behavior, things are getting a lot better.

The disorder in all of it were lots of people were in the business for reasons other than putting on a great experience for audiences... and I do se a huge improvement on the stage from what was going on a few years ago. It's really important that everyone in the business, from Hollywood to the local youth civic theater continue to root out the bad ones.

There's a lot of great talent waiting to direct and produce the next show/movie/whatever, and it's time we gave them a chance over the abusive, predatory asshats that were the norm of the past.
While you’re right in a broad sense your points are irrelevant here. This is about fraudulent data (apparently created with a random number generator) being used. This is not and should not be something we expect from scientists. If this story was solely about the replication crisis in behavioral economics, then your comment would be relevant.
Ok, depending on your world view it started 5000 years ago or 3.5 billion years ago.
When someone shanks you and robs you will come here to whine like a little bitch, 100% sure about that.
What makes you think a "proper investigation" will find the truth?

("Proper" is a wish. reality what we'll get is an investigation - period. A helthy dose of cynism and familiarity with historical precedent and politics predicts it will land way south of proper).

An investigation of the kind presumes human involvement. If it was just a natural mutation, a "proper investigation" is just going to fuel witch hunting and help to cause/justify conflict.

If, on the other hand, there was human involvement, if 10 parties do it and one had this accident, does it really matter which one was it? (Especially since most of them had similar, just smaller scale, accidents, in the past)? Each of those 10 could have as well done it.

Future avoidance is more about prohibiting the practice of keeping such labs and doing such experiments for military purposes (which nobody will prohibit, anyway).
The 95% effectiveness was based on the version of COVID that was circulating at the time. No one said it would be 95% effective against every possible mutation. Claiming the results of those studies are wrong instead of a result of a changing environment is itself a misunderstanding of science.
Can anyone provide me with resources to build a tunnel by myself? I suspect there must be military pamphlets on the subject or maybe even books but I couldn’t find them.

1. How do I get into this?

2. …without dying
Wanting verbose logging from xargs, years ago I wrote a script called `el` (edit lines) that basically does `xargs -0` with logging. https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/e...

It turns out that e.g. -print0 and -0 are the only safe way: line endings aren't escaped:

find . -type f -print0 | el -0 --each -x echo

GNU Parallel is a much better tool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_parallel
We have a company wide meeting every other week literally called the "family meeting". My team members are so different from each that there is generally zero chit chat on slack, all day, every day - required questions/answers only. Family? This is just HR trying to show their worth with their latest simpleton ideas, just as the tech side has silly ideas like scrum, etc. We've recently started getting company wide emails with a big "Kudos" banner when somebody you don't know has done something that means nothing to you. Because we're a tight-knit family. Is this combo cargo culting meets gaslighting? You will be family - look into my eyes - you will be family. It's somewhat patronising, and I'm not sure it even makes sense with recent HR diversity pushes - we put in oil, then water, now mix like they're the same sort of things; a simplistic metaphor, but it sums up my team. We're there to do the work - maybe HR should give the Fantastic Four movies a rest.
> Also Afghanistan is a simmering 20 year old failure.

Nice strawman. Leaving Afghanistan (to fail) has been a long time coming. Obama wanted to do it, Trump wanted to do it, Biden decided to pull/had to pull/tripped over the cord.

The massive failure here isn't the fall of Afghanistan, it's the botched evacuation attempt. Even Balaji says: "Afganistan exit".. Leaving weapons and people to fall into enemy hands? I mean, come on...
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/18/design-improvements-make-diy...
maybe im just lazy and immature, but i really enjoy being in sweatpants and t-shirt all day. i only put on jeans and a button down 2-3 times per week.

also when you have little kids its such a privilege to be home all day, being able to take a 5 min break to go give them a hug and kiss and wrestle around with them a little bit.

im super comfortable and productive working from home, i love it.
A database without any code, actually.

It's less than a few hundred lines of Go that just wraps two other databases (syndtr/goleveldb and ledisdb/ledisdb) with a third library (tidwall/uhaha) that provides a Raft API.
Yes, I absolutely hate them. I was thinking of creating a "considered harmful" considered harmful rant but it already exists [0].

[0] https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html