skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds suspiciously like the "overpay your traffic ticket by a dollar and then don't cash the refund check so the transaction never closes and you don't get points on your license" urban legend.
Game of survivor played out in real life.
My partner is defending her PhD on using Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) i.e. a comparable device with constant current, to address severe OCD next Friday. Results are impressive (and published) on a small sample of ten patients. There’s at least three research programs that I know of (and probably a couple more if I had read the bibliography properly rather than just fix the formatting issues) with a dozen patients, some for OCD, other for other psychiatric issues. The approach is widely effective on neurological issues (Parkinson’s notably).

Her lab have scheduled double-blind trials as soon as the next patient is operated, which I think is next month, with a protocol that includes 1. implanting the device, 2. only activating the electric current for half for six months, and 3. have another psychiatrist, blinded to whether the device is active, test its effect.

There was an ethical debate on testing the device without Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) at the same time: CBT has a meaningful impact, and no doctor would imagine not prescribing that too, but scientifically, having patients with and without CBT, with and without DBS, etc. would allows to measure the effect of the each alone and together.

I learned about this seemingly different approach (I suspect the device is similar, but the current is triggered differently, from the vulgarisation — haven’t read the academic papers) recently, but I’d be surprised if most of the protocols didn’t extend without much complications.
This is true, mice must eat much more often.
TeamTrees vs REALITY!!

https://youtu.be/gqht2bIQXIY

Doing "something" is futile if it's ineffective, not permanent, and not scalable.
Maybe subject algorithmic feeds to public oversight.
Amazon has a privately managed instance.
It may be that facebook can't fix itself, but what makes anyone think an even larger and more powerful organization is the answer and won't itself succumb to its own system of incentives? She is pushing for the equivalent of The Ministry of Truth.

Relevant testimony here: https://twitter.com/gillibrandny/status/1445451624005001217

Remember, this is the system of incentives that had us spend 20 disastrous years in Afghanistan, across both parties. And has failed to deal with climate change. And healthcare. And education. And wealth inequality. And housing. And... Siri, what's the definition of insane?
Were you ever really meant to solve the problem or just be a Potemkin village in case anyone accuses the execs of not caring.
> We're committed to doing the best work we can, but at some level the right body to assess tradeoffs between social equities is our democratically elected Congress. For example, what is the right age for teens to be able to use internet services? How should internet services verify people's ages? And how should companies balance teens' privacy while giving parents visibility into their activity?

Oh fuck, here we go. This asshole is going to be the death of so many good things if we're not careful. Let's flip the questions a bit.

How should internet services verify people are teaching their children how to be adults properly?

Try that one on for size Mr. Zuckerburg.
A genuine question. Why is that Google uses a custom kernel (with patches that could not be mainlined) when the below options are available.

1. Compiling the kernel with custom knobs
2. Write the custom code as Linux modules
Google handled this in the right way: fire researchers who are clearly pursuing anti-company agendas, always. It's worse to pretend to support research (or "research", which TBH is what most of the anti-AI shite at Google was, bad actors working with external groups to "take down" big tech, funnel docs to DSA, etc) that hurts you than it is to just stop pretending you care what a bunch of hard-left extremist assholes think.

Facebook has a tough problem, though, because a lot of their criticism is not just one wing of loonies, it's from every direction including normal sane people, and a lot of them agree with each other for once. I don't think they're breaking any laws, but I don't doubt someone will invent a shady case or charge them under a new law just because everyone hates Zuck. Not sure how you dodge that.
>conspiratorial thinking

I wasn't aware there was any question that foreign groups (state supported or otherwise) actively coordinate on Facebook to influence US political campaigns.
> people rely on Messenger and especially WhatApp for communication, artists rely on Instagram for inspiration and social outreach

Great. Zuckerberg also bullied the Instagram co-founders out of the company, ditto Whatsapp, and they've routinely lied about both
While we're at it, we should start tearing down any large or particularly beautiful bridges and condemning their architects and engineers, there's a ton of researching showing how those things increase suicides.
Why would anybody defend Zuck or Facebook? He hired the political activist that leaked all these documents, knowingly and expected a different result? Just like Google, these corporations don't seem to learn their lessons and act surprised when these activist employees betray them?
Yes, it’s useful, but that occasional usefulness is substantially outweighed by it’s perpetual cost.
Dilbert lives! All hail the Regal Dilbert!
Lucky them! Mine dropped 4 months after the second dose.
The myth, that’s the Steve Jobs that I idolize. I’m not sure what he’s actually like or at what cost the world paid to fulfill his vision.

There’s two events in my life where I can clearly recall what I was doing at the time. The first is 9/11. I was eight years old and I came down from my bedroom, my parents were staring at the TV in disbelief. I knew I was witnessing something important.

The second is Steve Jobs’ death. I was sitting at my college’s math center. My friend who was sitting next to me suddenly declared: “Steve Jobs is dead.” Not sure why but I cried a little bit. It felt sad, and I didn’t even know the guy.

Steve Jobs whether you hate him or love him, you can’t deny the impact he had on our world and industry. He made technology relatable. He made it Human. He redefined how humans relate to each other via the introduction of the iPhone. Smart Phones rewired how we perceive the world and ultimately our consciousness.

I remember the naysayers. It’s too expensive, he should’ve stuck to iPods. He had a knack of being unconventional. In Japan, my home country, I remember a TV show where some rich businessmen bought the iPhone but primarily used their flip phone for work. It’s a toy they said. A decade later and now almost every citizen has some kind of smart phone.

Google and Facebook built an empire on Steve’s Jobs platform and ideas. Search and social media wouldn’t have been able to scale their power so widely without the introduction of the iPhone. He left a seed and technologists grew an Amazon.

Personally I listen to his Stanford graduation speech occasionally. Whenever I feel lost in life I remember, “stay hungry, stay foolish.” Those four words takes loads off my shoulders. I could only connect the dots looking back. I don’t have all the answers and that’s okay.

Day to day at work, I’m reminded that the systems and product we build have real life users. My job is to develop a relationship of trust directly with the user. There’s a lot of temptations to take shortcuts during development from management pressure or career ambitions, but it’s easy to push back if you imagine the user next to you frustrated that their app broke because you couldn’t write a simple test. My earliest memory of this ethos stems from Steve Jobs. No matter how fast you finish coding or how impressive the technology, experience is the only thing that matters.

Apparently he was a terrible person. :shrug: Why do I care? I learnt a lot from him and never had to deal with his shit. Do my heroes have to be saints? It would be nice sure, but the best stories I’ve seen are about complex anti-heroes and he played the part perfectly.
I agree, and I don't think the time is right for the next major product category. Force something through and you get the cube again. They'll presumably wait for head-mounted displays of some sort, and a play at cars.
It’s a poor comparison. Stripe Press can effectively show a dozen books like this. Amazon can’t show 30 million books like this.
If your grades were good at the small name school a master's degree at a big name school might be both within reach and give you a shot at compiler and OS work.
The autophagy research that won the 2017 Nobel Peace prize lead to the explosive interest in fasting for cellular health/longevity.

There are now thousands of studies published per year related to fasting and autophagy. IF is a byproduct of this interest.

Autophagy isn’t generally reached with most IF schedules (generally around the 24 hour mark and peaking around the 36 hour mark), but a lot of these studies are measuring other possible benefits and bio markers of IF.

The answer to your question depends on your goals, but if you are fasting because of the hype around longevity I would suggest focusing on 2-3 day fasting periods rather than IF.
You only emit a single log event (line) per request. Problem solved.
How I find them is in their speech. They come across as extremely insincere and "out" themselves by how they talk to either the interviewer(focus alot on themselves) or someone they believe is beneath them(dismissive). If you are a gatekeeper for their employment or something they need expect flattery and overly kind words. If you are no longer that gatekeeper expect to never hear from them again or abuse. Also this type tends to lie alot, thats usually how they do get canned.
Worthington's Law in action. More Money == Better Than.
Good thing that everyone's getting depressed! A brain implant has come to the rescue! Now if we could only find a wealthy entity who could be a good Samaritan and help fund it for the people who need it most ...

Never mind that "cackling laughter" isn't a sign that depression is gone, nor is depression a bad thing on the whole. The causes for depression are well known, so why are we trying to electrocute our brain into not acting in it's own best interests?

This whole study is completely absurd.
How can you be a serious political party if your logo is ripped off from a garbage company?
So are all ISPs sociopathic?
I've heard some talk about a CO2 Coin before (one where a coin is mined by carbon capture). I'm sure there are all sorts of reasons why it would not work, but it would be the only kind of crypto I'd ever be interested in owning.
We used to solve this problem by teaching people to have thicker skin so that we control the outrage regardless of the forum in which it occurs.

However for the last 10 years or so grievance culture has taken root and not only excused outrage, its proponents have actively encouraged it.

It makes me think of that scene in Star Wars where palpating is like “good, good. Let the hate flow through you”, expect we now have millions of people encouraging this.

How I wish we could rewind things to a world where foregiveness was still a virtue and we were all taught that sticks and stones may break our bones but words will never hurt us. Without such virtues, a world with outrage is inevitable.
if the iPhone had never come out, I think we'd have monstrosities for smart phones with massive keyboards running windows CE. I'm glad it happened.
Don't put trees in a banana split, pyrolyze them, grind them up, and inject them deep underground.
Logging is significantly cheaper than tracing to maintain in a usable state.
A Facebook login is required to read an explanation to the public? I get a login/password screen... There is probably a good quip there about the psychology involved in placing a response on a private forum, but the effect for Facebook is I will not see their response.
I feel like the issue with nosql is that it's largely unnecessary when newsql databases exist.
Granularity matters. Social feed granularity is small enough that an algorithm, even primitive, can sketch an arbitrary narrative on the spot by juxtaposing unrelated items, akin to a ransom note built from letters cut off from different publications. Pandora and especially GoodReads have large granularity, making it difficult to employ in the same manner.
fake news machine.
"Nobody really wants or needs 99.999...% of the the things companies make or do."

Heh, you must have built a real business.

There's a lot of things you need to keep an organisation going. Anything from insurance, contract lawyers, wifi routers, offices, kitchens, producers, suppliers, customer service agents, the headphones and computers and keyboards they use (which all had to be transported). You need all this stuff just to run a small company succesfully.

Having said that, many companies could probably make it work in a 4-day workweek, which I'm in favor of.
Mental clarity is due to body entering Ketogenic state.

You'd observe the same if you go on a keto diet

It's easier if you first go on a keto diet and then you put your body through intermittent fasting
Similarly, if the toppings are distributed evenly across the pizza, the average distance of a piece of topping from the edge is one third of the radius: most of the pizza is near the edge.
As an example, cgroup was initially developed in Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups
Gwern is a treasure trove of good reading.

I think my favorite idea is the Bonsai simulator. Low energy investment, but you end up with something neat over a long period of time. You friends would probably think it's neat when you post an update every year. And, you don't need any new technology, someone could just make this tonight.
I am reminded of a (probably apocryphal) story about a professor who refused to return a book to the university library: "Any student who wants to read this book, that's a student I want to meet."
I'm a PC in two games right now but DMing zero (and maybe too busy to start), so I've only built a few maps with TaleSpire so far. But I'm very excited about it, and especially the sites where you can share assets.

There are multiple maps built for Waterdeep Dragon Heist, for instance. The modern, web-augmented experience of playing D&D is a huge change from the game's past, and it makes modules and campaign books a lot more useful, since the community can share so many more specifics than ever before. TaleSpire takes that a step further, since you can also now share buildings and outdoor spaces.

In 5 to 10 years, this space is going to be just absolutely incredible. It's going to converge with machinima. It's already begun converging with independent theater.

I'm super excited about this, but I do a lot of front-end work, so I've always hated Roll20. It reminds me of a terrible app I built with Backbone.js, with all kinds of event bubbling problems. Plus, before TaleSpire existed, I was building experimental maps in Cinema 4D to see if I could enable online games with gravity magic. (TaleSpire does not support alternate gravity directions, but it's still way better for this use case than C4D.) So I may just be the ideal target customer or whatever.
Log after is SOP in any reasonably large architecture. Too much logging is a problem you encounter very quickly with nontrivial traffic.
> I don't get why Twitter always gets a free pass on the harms from misinformation.

Twitter is where all main stream journalists are. They are not going to bite the hand that "feed" them. Facebook on the other hand has still some amount of non political correctness on their platform so that's something main stream media who wants to control speech online cannot stand.

> I think it's because Twitter is seen as doing more (banning Trump, putting notifications on posts), but is that actually the case relative to what FB is doing?

Twitter certainly has a tighter moderation when it comes to "moderating" alleged conservative speech, yes, which is what matters to the former camp.
> Impossible that it would receive ethical approval

> The fact the patient knows she has a myriad of doctors looking at her, and that she had to undergo an extremely invasive and unique procedure means we cannot separate the intervention from the response.

Deep brain stimulation has undergone many such trials[1]. I'm not sure why this would be such an ethical barrier when we have much more risky and permanent procedures (various surgeries, for example) that can undergo ethical trials.

Methodology summary from trial linked below:

"We conducted a 6-month double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled crossover study in implanted patients with previous severe TRD who experienced full remission after chronic stimulation. After more than 3 months of stable remission, patients were randomly assigned to 2 treatment arms: the ON-OFF arm, which involved active electrode stimulation for 3 months followed by sham stimulation for 3 months, and the OFF-ON arm, which involved sham stimulation for 3 months followed by active stimulation for 3 months."

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25652752/
"The best I can come up with is that Facebook is so big that the "evil" is an emergent property of all the different things that are happening."

I half agree. I do in fact think its ben baked in from the get go, just that there was a period where it was not an obvious pillar; you could in fct do all kinds of essentially innocuous things and accept some surveillance capitalism with awareness of your wn liabilities.

It's now become so much larger and problematic, that the 'emergent property' is that every move adds weight to the need for the firms dismemberment into smaller units, or punishing regulatory limits. And I mean truly brutally, snap-noise making bone-breaking regulations.

"So maybe Zuck is telling the truth here, that they are trying to fix all this."

Nope. He knows if he wants to stay on top, he had t keep doing mpre of what hes done, and that his choices are otherwise to actually adapt, which he will not do.
It’s my external opinion that the real issue is the combination of the ad sales platform with the social media. If Instagram wasn’t owned by a company with an ad sales program, they would not have the capability to do what Facebook does today.
> You know it’s a classic example of inflation bringing an empire to its knees

I mean, its not, though its frequently cited as such by those obsessed with pure commodity money; at that level of reductionism it would be more accurate to say you are reversing cause and effect, as the Empire tried to cope with decline by debasing currency.

> My point is that history is filled with stories of inflation and its disastrous consequences.

History is filled with stories of inflation with and without disasters, and full of disasters during which inflation was turned to as an (sometimes successful, sometimes not) route of escape. Reading it as full of stories of inflation’s “disastrous consequences” takes both reversing cause and effect and highly selective reading.
Which came first, the shape of the body or the depression? Because whenever I don't work out I get pretty damn depressed. I think we humans are built to get adrenaline releases regularly or to suffer from chemical imbalances. Running, weight lifting, whatever it may be, you need to do strenuous activity or you're gonna have a bad time.
Only at trivial request volume. It’s easy to overwhelm any logging system without discipline.
GBoard allows you to remove words, and the gesture is very simple. For example, "pepsi" is corrected to "Pepsi" but who wants that. So, just type "pepsi", and "Pepsi"'ll appear in the bar above the keyboard. Drag it up, and it won't be corrected again. Easy. As usual with gestures, zero affordance...
State governments are much more interested in participating in the cable news culture wars to pump up next election numbers then they are in actually governing. I doubt it.
The author kinds of glosses over one of Popper's key insights in The Open Society and Its Enemies: the paradox of tolerance. He noted the danger of unlimited tolerance, and that those who are intolerant can exploit the tolerance of the the society to overthrow the open society.

We see this today in those who attempt to weaponize the idea of censorship when society attempts to minimize the destructive effects of intolerant views.

Further reading

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/11139...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
That's fairly amusing given in the thread above this someone is absolutely certain that he didn't write it and that it was written by PR, Comms and lawyers.
Authoritarian regimes don't have "rule of law".

The entire point is that all institutions in an Authoritarian country are under the control of the authoritarian leader/party.

If the judicial system has independent power and can hold the rulers accountable when the violate the law, it isn't an authoritarian regime.

This is precisely why the US has a system of checks and balances and why the judicial system is an important part of that.
I think when I see tutorials like this all I see is the large bill I’ll be receiving $$$, can articles like these include costs??
Do the legs have to be even?
It is subject to public oversight. It's designed to give the public exactly what they want.
Nah, Splunk can handle anything you throw at it.
For sure. A friend at Apple says that it was much better to work at when it was not as successful. Now that they have large piles of money, it attracts people who seek proximity to large piles of money.
To err is human. To really fsk things up you need a computer
Are people struggling with mental health because of 5 day workweeks or WFH + pandemic. Seems like the latter.
Single machine postgres is mostly fine when you're working with less than hundreds of million of rows, less than a few hundred gigs of data, don't need HA, and don't need more than a few thousand QPS. Outside of those constraints is why new things exist imo.
There's an even older term for this, from a little known "anonymous" organization - "bring the body and the mind will follow".
I'd be interested to hear the perspective of the people left in your wake. The cost of engaging with a strong-willed "do-er" is what happens when someone, by the do-er's measure, fails to keep up (or, god forbid, gets in the way). At that point, the do-er's productive ability has to be weighed against their capacity (or track record) for coercion or abuse. Steve Jobs comes to mind. If you've personally received pushback or resentment, it may be less out of misunderstanding of, or a lack of appreciation for, your ability, and more to do with your having been an asshole.

But that may just be my own trauma speaking.

In any case, I think a zen approach is often undervalued, especially per productivity and creativity. "Do" is, after all, a verb, not a noun; a performance, not a crafted object. It's one thing to be proud of one's manifest accomplishments, but to define oneself as a "do-er"...? One can "do" a great many things, including "damage" and "harm."
> Your view is the pedant’s view

You still face constraints, and the platform design is informed by the hardware it runs on.
I am currently at an organisation where Splunk is a bottleneck.
Everyone is different, do what feels right for you
"The long term profit maximization strategy was to maximize profits only up to the point where you risk getting regulated by government." That is correct, but as with Wall ST, the addiction to the gamble has long been unhinged by an environment that has been lax on regulatory options...so when the blowback actually hits, it will not be just painful it will likely come on the tail end of a ragnarok-grade event that will likely shank the whole industry for a generation because current C-suites are so far up their own asses they can take direct inventory of the last few days of meal plans.