skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more concerned about people who doubt science as a default point of view more than the people who trust the science. If you don't trust science as a process, then you're just putting your faith in random crap that gets through your arbitrary filters. That's how we get stupid stuff like Qanon and Pizzagate.

We're always putting our trust in one thing or another. Personally, I'd prefer if we put our trust in a method that, over the long-term, strives towards some sense of "real" truth as opposed to some contrarian anti-science, anti-intellectual bull. Yes, be critical. No, don't reject science just because it suits you or because it might be uncomfortable.

The best thing about science? It's falsifiable. If climate change suddenly turns out to be wrong tomorrow, I don't have to cling to "oh, but yesterday the consensus was that it was real". It's "oh, these smart people are discovering new things that are giving us a new/deeper understanding of something we didn't quite understand correctly, time to update my understanding of the world".

If your point of view is dependent on your not understanding something, then it doesn't matter. You'll cling to your beliefs, which become a part of your identity, no matter what evidence is presented.
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Throwaway account for what I think are obvious reasons.

I've been working on this startup for about two years now in earnest. It's a news app/platform -- I don't want to go into too much detail for fear of identifying it -- but it's more than just the usual aggregator. We've started to forge partnerships, even sold some sponsorships, and built more than an MVP.

I won't sugarcoat saying by we're a breakaway success, but we also haven't seen any evidence that we arent on the right track. 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, but we keep finding investors who want to see traction.

I'm still very confident in the business, and that we can succeed if we could get a real start. I'm also afraid that for every week that we've launched but don't grow, we become a bigger red flag for future investors.

We're not in a position to raise enough from friends & family, and haven't had much luck yet with accelerators -- same basic feedback as the investors. I'm stuck, and struggling. I see all these Twitter comments about how much capital is out there, and see all these other companies raising, and cannot help but to feel frustrated.

To other founders who have gone through this -- would love to hear how you've overcome this seemingly insurmountable block, both emotionally and financially.
Except in the US series where they must require him to be more abrasive for better TV. There is a different chef Ramsey in the UK version.
No, There Wasn't An Advanced Civilization 12,000 Years Ago (2017)
I'd imagine it mostly has to do with the giant COL increase over the last 12 to 18 months. Employers typically don't just hand out 20% raises, so everyone is out looking for more money.
>buzzfeed news

What a quality source, I will absolutely believe in it's honesty
If you watch his UK shows basically it boils down to if you call yourself a professional chef he expect you to be one. If you are not then he will get angry. But on many occasions you see someone in the kitchen that just straight up say they have no clue what they are doing and you get to see him teach them without any of the yelling etc.
Sure, there are several issues in the process (hence it is so difficult) the expert(s) must be actually expert (not that easy[1]) and the software house programmer(s) and manager(s) need to be open-minded and willing not to take the (usual) shortcuts.

[1] this is a pet peeve of mine, but at my age I can see the difference between seniority (common enough) and experience (quite rare).
Is this just because of the prescription drug element of your program? If there weren't any medications involved, would you need any state certifications?
I'm a rational person who changes their mind once new information comes in.
Absolutely. Tesla bot was the nail in the coffin for me.
Being able to turn the violence on and off like a switch is a feature of an abusive boss.

Still, without knowing for sure, I've always assumed that the outbursts are staged, if not rehearsed. I can't deny that it's entertaining, like reality cop shows. A lot of drama is about worlds that I wouldn't choose to live in.
The pyramids were built with slave labor, but that's hardly an argument for slavery.
This new thing where everybody deserves respect and dignity has to stop.
It’s worth noting that job-hopping was temporarily reduced during early parts of the pandemic. No one really knew where this was going, so companies were hesitant to hire and employees were hesitant to leave a job they trusted to be around (if they could). There’s a natural rebound happening as companies feel safe to hire and employees feel safe to try new jobs. This is exacerbated by the way it’s all happening at once. Going to be interesting to see how and when it settles out.

The media tried to portray a lot of pandemic trends as one-way changes to our society and economies, but so far I’ve been surprised at how quickly everything has been snapping back to pre-pandemic normalcy after the temporary disruptions work their way through the systems. This goes for everything from lumber prices to work from home policies. Everything feels slightly altered, but trending back to pre-pandemic norms.

I expect to pay slightly more for lumber and have slightly more work from home options, but it hasn’t been the sea change of forever elevated prices and everyone working from home forever like it was portrayed months ago. I suspect this job-hopping trend will likewise calm down once things re-establish equilibrium.
Think of viral particles as analogous to bacterial spores or plant seeds. A bacterial spore also wouldn't necessarily evolve in a petri dish with antibiotics, it needs a certain set of conditions to exit dormancy, for example a petri dish isn't implied to have agar in it nor do all bacteria thrive on agar.

The actual "life" of a virus starts once the viral load has co-opted the cellular machinery of the infected cell.

Viral infections can definitely evolve when a selective pressure is put on them.
Yeah I guess that's because StackOverflow itself doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it a Q&A site? A reference manual? A programming wiki? Who knows, but I guess we'll close your question just to be safe. :-)
He’s not abusive to his own children? What a saint he must be. “Dealing with an idiot sandwich” is precisely the differentiation between nice person and asshole. “Dealing with an idiot sandwich” is also victim-blaming. The idiot sandwich might also argue “idiot boss who can’t articulate what he wants”.
Can load another os on the latest models?
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I've been hearing about flying cars my entire life. That's why I added the sentence

> He's making something the public thinks is way in the future seem like it is about to happen now.

People are taking it seriously because they think Musk is about to make it happen
Me too I dislike this kind of absolute statements about IDEs.

The author make a few good points about abusing some features; just like abusing any tool beyond their intended purposes.

IMO the best is the compromise of making the code IDE agnostic. So yeah, I do use IDEs and other tools in conjunction to that the tools I used and the skills I know are not bound to a specific project.
I think tech workers will win the PR game in the short term on this issue because of delta, but lose in the long run. Pay is a lot higher in this industry than many others in America, and when tech workers move into smaller towns they end up distorting the local economy. People often dislike the 'improvements' that come with the new residents and end up getting priced out of their homes. Meanwhile, tech workers complain they won't be making San Francisco wages in their new, much cheaper, location. It's not a good look, and a lot of people resent it.

Californians were already one of the most hated groups west of the Rockies and now they're moving out in droves, acting just as entitled as people already assumed they were.
This is only tangentially related, but after all the posts here the last few days about thought terminating cliches, I can’t help but reflect on the “X considered harmful” title cliche
There is a very large difference between a very smart source code editor (e.g. Visual Studio Code) and a complete IDE. I consider the first essential and the second completely useless.

For editing or just navigating the source files, the smarter the editor is, the better.

On the other hand I have never seen any IDE where the management of projects (e.g. adding/deleting/moving/renaming files and setting compilation/linking options) and the compilation/building/running functions are as simple and fast as how that can be done without using an IDE (if you know how to do it in the right way).

Especially the Eclipse-based IDE's provided by many vendors of embedded products are the worst offenders.

I have wasted too much time with helping puzzled coworkers to find where in the hierarchy of IDE menus one could find whatever was needed. Even when knowing where to find the commands, using the IDE menus was many orders of magnitude slower than what I could do outside the IDE to perform the same function upon the project.
While I agree abuse occurs I think this view is overly strict in the other direction. The phrase "the science is settled" is perfectly valid to use in many contexts and is useful shorthand for something like "if you want to deny this scientific consensus you would need to have amazing evidence, therefore it's more productive and expedient to move on and discuss something else". This can be different depending on context but the point is the same.

As an example; the science is settled, human activities are responsible for the most of what we observe as climate change.

This does not forbid anyone from coming along and proving the settled science wrong but it does prove useful for indicating our very high confidence.
Musings on Epsilon: We are failing to get ready for the next big thing
Inflation, or even fear of inflation, is going to be a big factor.

I see many people trying to spin this as a unilateral win for workers, but the subtext is that many of them are afraid that they have no choice but to seek higher wages just to keep up with their expenses.
https://fastcomments.com/

https://commento.io/
Weirdly, Buzzfeed news have been a trustworthy source of high quality investigative reporting for quite a few years at this point.

I think that's partly because they took advantage of the shrinking market for traditional print newspapers and snapped up some seriously high quality talent that had been laid off from other news organizations.
To be fair, term limits also protect the public from whatever tyrants they might accidentally vote into power. But this too has the effect of stabilizing the status quo, which benefits those who like the status quo the most (the wealthy.)
Yeah seriously. That was my first thought, wondering if an analogous element had been used or if similar crystal structures had been achieved in some other way. I'm guessing some automated A/B test found that this particular headline was really successful due to that confusion.
Old homeowners that benefit from prop13 don’t care and I can understand why.

If you’re able to own properties and pay relatively no tax on property that’s worth 10x what you paid for it that’s an insane win.

It also lets you vote to restrict supply even further to preserve “neighborhood character” and drive prices up even higher with no consequence.

Only new people get screwed. Their own kids maybe, but they can just pass the house down and capture that wealth for generations.

Meanwhile, new owners pay insane housing prices and fund the town via their actual market value property tax, while old owners leech this value and play victim. It’s a massive wealth transfer from young to old.

With such an extreme incentive structure it’s no surprise the rationalizations of it are similarly extreme.

I wouldn’t care so much if they didn’t consistently lobby to restrict new housing supply - but of course they will because the incentives are such that there is zero downside and only upside for them to do so.

It’s frustrating to listen to someone who bought a house for 300k and pays $300 a month on property tax whine when that house is now worth $3M and their neighbor had to pay $4M for a similar property and $4k per month in taxes. You won the lottery and then warped policy to your benefit, at least be gracious about it.
"A major cause of low reproducibility is the publication bias and the selection bias..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Causes
I've noticed that, like the author, many advocating for WFH live far away from their office and have long commutes.

Suppose your office were next door. Then, you could have a 1-minute commute and enjoy some degree of socialization and the amenities of the office. You could have lunch at home, and you wouldn't need dedicated workspace there.

The fact that many would prefer this setup to WFH suggests that the problem is not the office itself but the commute. There is a distance that, for most folks, commuting doesn't present much of a problem.

For example, my commute by bicycle is about 9 minutes, bus 15 minutes, car 20 minutes. I think the trade-off is worth it here, but I can imagine a point where it wouldn't be.
To this day, the movie Whiplash is one of the greatest illustrations of how a demanding mentor can produce tremendous results.
Things that help me some:

(1) Remembering that my happiness matters. If you are very determined to achieve a goal, or if you were brought up to believe that your achievement and your worth as a person are one and the same, or if you have a strong sense of duty and self-sacrifice, it's easy to lose sight of this. Being happy and enjoying life is something everyone deserves some measure of, and it's should be one of your goals alongside the others.

(2) Distracting myself. Intentionally. Distracting yourself may sound negative, but it's not about wasting my time with something. It's about how, just as nature abhors a vacuum, my brain doesn't really shut off and stop processing stuff; instead, it processes whatever is on hand. If I tell myself to stop thinking about work but give myself nothing else to think about, then my thoughts will quickly return to work. But if I find some engrossing activity to do, I'll have different thoughts that can out-compete work thoughts. (Incidentally, this is often better at restoring mental energy than unwinding by vegging out.)

(3) Avoiding putting in hours for reasons other than productivity. For example, in a competitive environment, everyone else puts in long hours, so you'd better too. Sometimes unavoidable, but there's a law of diminishing returns. Aim for enough hours to be on par, but don't take it beyond that. Another example is impostor syndrome: if you feel that you're not as smart or talented as others, you can compensate with "dedication" (grinding). But that's actually just insecurity.
This is abuse apologia. The exact same argument could be applied to allow any sort of abusive behavior from sexual harassment to physical abuse to breaking safety laws. Just because someone gives you a paycheck does not mean they get to abuse you mentally, physically or verbally.
Thanks, although I should say that I searched for a few minutes about this Trojan and it seems Microsoft antivirus has been reporting it on other projects as well for years (since 2019 at least IIRC) and in the support forums the most upvoted answer was that the only way to stop it except for reporting every single new version as a false positive to Microsoft was to get a certificate and start signing the software.

I wonder if there is someone here from either Microsoft or Virustotal who could do something about it?
> By exploring television shows, like “Hell’s Kitchen,” and chef memoirs, like Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, readers will see how bullying and harassment are romanticized in these mediums, glorified as a product of kitchen subculture, and consequently normalized in the kitchen.

Can the study really make this conclusion? Has media had an effect on bullying and harrasment in the cooking industry or is something that is already common in that industry being shown as entertainment?
> Never trust your memory to keep your new ideas. Once you come up with an idea, write it down instantly.

I disagree with this bit of advice very much. In my experience if an idea is a good one it will occur to me again. Very often in a more refined form. Of course if you are working on something actively feel free to write it down. But when not actively working on a given problem? My brain is a good place for ideas to percolate in. Besides I have a ton of ideas. It would be silly to treat each little thing as a precious resource like a miser.
How is this not higher?
Blaming television is easy. But this is not a new problem created by television. Commercial kitchens are high stress, fast paced, cramped hot environments with little pay that act as a job of last resort for many people. That's why there's violence.
Dupe.

Numerous recent submissions

229 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253110

SacBee 188 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253110

Twitter 40 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253096

And recent 0 / low comments:

The Guardian 4 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255294

SF Chronicle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28258072

Protocol.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253328

Mashable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28258039

Washington Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253953

Tech Crunch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253582
Aleister Crowley had some thoughts on geniuses (specifically religious geniuses, but he believed genius didn't end there) and how any human being can attain towards this level of consciousness: https://sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/aba1.htm

Specifically, from the Q&A, he says:

> Q. What is genius, and how is it produced?

>> A. Let us take several specimens of the species, and try to find some one thing common to all which is not found in other species.

> Q. Is there any such thing?

>> A. Yes: all geniuses have the habit of concentration of thought, and usually need long periods of solitude to acquire this habit. ...

His training system -- the A∴A∴ -- is designed to lead people to their genius. Interestingly, it is very similar to this checklist: it teaches self-discipline (by having to follow a specific training program); studying great people and works of philosophy, metaphysics, mathematics, etc; controlling emotions; controlling thought (including constraining it to a single idea); writing down ideas; etc.

I think Crowley goes much further and was more rigorous in his approach to applying the ideas listed. In his view, you don't _become_ a genius through this work, but connect to the genius that is already inside everyone. Connecting to this Genius and finding out your goals in life is the key to a joyful life -- or, as TFA says, 'Establishing a clear goal for your life should be a priority'.
This is counterintuitive to what I've learned about sediment filtration — any insight for a layperson?
Creator of Facata here. DBAPI 2 is the standard for accessing SQL databases from Python, but since it's about 20 years old now, I thought I'd have a go at updating it in the form of a Python library that's a wrapper for DBAPI 2 driver. The main differences with DBAPI 2 are:

* DBAPI 2 has five ways of writing parameters in SQL, but Facata has just one.

* In DAPI 2 parameter values can be provided as a sequence or mapping, but in Facata parameter values are provided as keyword arguments.

* DBAPI 2 has four levels of threadsafety, but Facata just has one.

* DBAPI 2 has a 'cursor' object, but in Facata there is no cursor object and statements are executed using the connection.

* DBAPI 2 overrides the autocommit mode of the underlying database by silently sending START TRANSACTION statements if a transaction isn’t already in progress. Facata never silently sends SQL statements.

All feedback gratefully received :-)
That's a good one, especially if using pronouns causes people to have to backtrack in their reading. Another pattern that personally annoys me is when people use "the former" and "the latter"; I'm forced to go back in the text to remember which one was mentioned first and which one was mentioned second.
My twitter is about 90% writers, mostly fiction. I find it pleasant and informative. I did alot of cleanup to get there. I do sometimes run into Awful Twitter clicking through from news stories and blogs, so I can see that not everyone's experience is the same.
Exercise is crucial to health, but not to weight loss.
> The report also showed that a Facebook page for The Epoch Times, an anti-China newspaper that spreads right-wing conspiracy theories, was the 19th-most-popular page on the platform for the first three months of 2021.

Domestic vaccines passports, the weapons lab theory and yearly booster shots ... not conspiracy theories anymore.

This is why people are losing trust in classical institutions like NYT and turning to places like Epoch Times.

The internet has pulled the curtain back and showed people the amount of lies and propaganda coming from all sides. You can't keep censoring information and expecting people to accept it.
Jocko has some good tips about this. https://kdalive.com/learn-leadership-skills-from-jocko/
Two years now using CPAP using a nasal mask.

My boss woke me up at my desk as I was snoring away after lunch.

The wife complained I snored and also that I stopped breathing at night - driving home from work I nearly hit the road dividers a couple of times.

Went to a pulmonologist and got a home sleep study - it was eye opener.

The first night was horrific - felt like I was struggling to breath but the machine needed some calibration to up the start pressure.

The first month I used sleep tablets and wore the mask 30 minutes with the machine on before I went to actual sleep just to get used to it.

Biggest issue is mask comfort - tried different brands (the fittings are universal) and eventually settled on a F&P Eson 2.

Life changer for me.
This really does not sound good.

> he said that all his contacts at the insurer had left and that none of them remembered what happened, either

At other times he is quoted as saying that he "doesn't remember", which does remind one of politicians or other guilty parties saying they "don't recall" any of the many remarkable details of past shenanigans.

He seems to be guilty as hell.
Do you mean that the GLM wouldn't properly account for obesity's relationship with testosterone if the two have a nonlinear relationship? Is this something that could be accounted for by splines? I'm still trying to learn this stuff.
I know in the modern world any vocal criticism of anyone is not allowed. Everyone is very fragile apparently. But you can bet you’re missing out on some great work not being produced because of it.

Also my point about voluntary participation still stands. People choose to work for Gordon Ramsey. He’s not abusing random people in the street.
Jocko's Leadership Skills for Startups
You’re totally right! I’m in NY. For a while I was looking only for work here, but as of a few weeks ago I’m aiming for any city. I’m an Italian citizen so I could even go to Europe hahaha. Thank you for the optimism about my position. I’m wondering how you would suggest meeting more people at companies that interest me? LinkedIn? I wasn’t a CS major so all but one of my school friends are nowhere near these industries.