skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Other studies suggest that people who frequently “media multitask” (like listening to music while checking email or scrolling through social media while watching a movie) are more distracted and less able to focus their attention even when they’re performing only one task.
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> This was novel to me. Listening to music negatively affects your ability to focus? I guess it's time to throw out my headphones...

The part about Movies and Social media makes sense. They are both "heavy" tasks, so they each have their demand. But Music? I would say it depends on the music. Some is distracting, some not. There is optimized music for concentration, usually found in video games. But there is also "heavy" music that demands your attention, IMHO usually those with lyrics, especially inspirational lyrics.

I'm curious whether they checked the type of music in those studies.
And what about the spike protein, which becomes embedded in and expressed at the cell wall? What do wayward spike proteins do inside cells? What are the full consequences of your immune system suddenly attacking your own cells? Are you potentially inducing permanent or semi permanent autoimmune conditions?

And such an autoimmune disease, if caused by the vaccine, would possibly be difficult to detect, especially on short timescales, and/or if no one is looking for them. Add in the stigma/silencing of professionals who criticize the vaccines and you're unlikely to get such research done/published, and it is a very real possibility that we just dosed hundreds of millions of people with a substance that may cause long term issues.

There's plenty of room for uncertainty here. It is irresponsible to suggest otherwise, regardless of the media's manufactured consensus.
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As a child playing the piano became a very weird experience (in hindsight). I'd need to practice until a piece became ingrained in my memory, and the only way I could play a piece would be to not actually think about it, and think about something else. As soon as I thought about what I was playing, I'd forget how to play the song. I wouldn't even know where I was, and could only pick up again either at the beginning or major points in the song. Weird.
> i cannot not hear their pulse, breathing, and other biological proceedings

Oh WOW, that is ...... wild and interesting
r/conspiracy is a sad story. I loved the subreddit from years ago, where crazy and even stupid conspiracies were discussed. Nowadays it's all related to "antivax" crap.
> Full vax is only 80% effective? This is quite a bit lower than what the news has been reporting, in the mid-to-high 90's

mid-to-high 90s is cited as the effectiveness at preventing severe COVID or hospitalization. Effectiveness at preventing detectable infection is obviously going to be lower, because asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic infections can occur.
It's more than just human ear sensitivity. Phase shifting changes the relationship between frequencies in a sound.

For example, phase shifting can change the amplitude of a sound. Analog hardware is especially sensitive to changes in amplitude so you might be introducing distortion just by shifting phase.
c) It confuses an isolated incentive for action.

That's an error that's super common in conspiracy-theory thinking: focus on one hypothesized incentive (out of many) that usually has nefarious undertones, assume that's the main or only incentive at play, and assume the party in question is successfully acting on that incentive.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I'm obviously a bit late with this, but I wanted to add that I'm not sure how much of a deterrent gas routes through other countries were for Russia to begin with, e.g., it did not seem to help Ukraine much.
>This would require global collusion and conspiracy

No it wouldn't. It would only require incentive for profit. If a company makes a highly durable vaccine, its competitors wouldn't make very much money, but neither would the company itself. Less profit. Make a vaccine that wears off after a slightly longer time than your competitors, and you can claim to be the best product on the market while keeping your users coming back for more. Guaranteed ongoing revenue stream. 'Conspiracy' is a loaded term that is used solely to discredit the opposing argument.
Numerous high fives to you. Too few people willing to say that they aren’t interested in riding rockets and changing the world and instead just want to make money to support their families and enjoy life.
so you support rounding up the fatties as they are the #1 risk right?

since we don't have a 100% vaccine we should do everything we can. next step, everyone can have a 1x1 jail cell to be 100% safe.
You can always argue that every 5 years there is shift, sharpening your software stack might be a continuous process as compared to being a domain expert
The problem is not what's important to you when you do an interview. It's not a friendly club, it's the guys who will pay your rent for a while, just act like you pretend to understand this, and ask by side channel, out of sheer strategy.

You CAN refuse once the contract arrives for signature, the interview is a lot also for the company to have argument to sell you to management as a worthy investment.

I admit I never take a guy talking about time off myself, because while I agree it's an important contractual part and something we must give as generously as we can, the fact he asked the first minute of our relationship means it's going to be painful for him and for us, because we're not a paradise company, things can be tough and high pressure (investment bank), people not nice on purpose and sometimes you have to do the right thing rather than the perfect thing, so compliant positive nearly sacrificial profiles will be happily surprised by what's still good while a dude asking "and holidays, 20 or 25 days" the first day will be very sad and burnt out by all the shit.
No not at all.

It's entirely within the realm of probability that an election was fraudulent enough to alter the outcome. That has happened in world history more then once.

On the other hand it's not within the realm of reasonable possibility that Texas doesn't actually exist.

These two scenarios are not comparable.

It very simply is not a "fact" that Joe Biden won the election cleanly (nor the converse). It might be most probable but it is not "fact" and there are people who feel the evidence points to a different conclusion then you have arrived at. Perhaps they are wrong but the issue here is one of "fact" and determining "fact" in this case is a very large search space. At most (right now) we can say what evidence we see and what we believe is most probable, not beat our opponents over the head for how stupid they are for not seeing "facts". (this was my whole point).

faith
/fāTH/
noun
1.
complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
sorry but the kantian project is dead bro.
I also have this. And I also think it's just a synthesis of many clues and I guess some people don't perform that same synthesis (my wife for example). Things like "last known direction", "position of sun", "time of day", "this side of the tree is wet but the other isn't", and probably a bit of grid neurons somewhere doing dead reckoning.
If it's unspoken why assume that assumption is being made? I don't see anything to that effect in the article, and while I can't speak for others I certainly don't have any objection to other people using whatever tools they like. I'm just glad there are alternatives I prefer.
Or don't even normalize. The one podcast I regularly listen too regularly has guests record over the phone or DIY and they are often inaudible (to my over used ears). That'd be a great feature on spotify if it doesn't exist
100%. There were/are other options. FB just makes it slightly easier because many business owners already know how to use FB because they have personal accounts. I hate when a company only have FB. I'll take an okay website over a decent FB page.
Why not just require admin consensus for privileged actions?

E.g. removing other admins, or other permissions-related actions like the re-orging in question

If your problem case is "one rogue admin," having multiple admins and requiring consensus seems an easy fix.
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> The robots went silent. What about the traffic coming to our CDN sites from Facebook User-Agents? The gap is indisputable. We see about 30% of a typical request rate hitting us. But it's not zero; why is that? We'll let you know a little secret. Never trust User-Agent information; it's broken. User-Agent spoofing is everywhere.

That is an interesting way of finding out how many spoof connections exist for Facebook and who the spoofers are. Just take down Facebook and all the traffic that says to be Facebook is spoofing. Simple as that.
This is completely off the top of my head.

Objective quick wins:

1) Less code. The less there is the less there is to debug and maintain. This applies to all code including dependencies, frameworks, abstractions, and decoration in your own code. If abandoning OOP means substantially less code then do it without question.

2) Iterate faster. If you have a build that takes 10 minutes and the next guy has a build that takes less than a minute they can fail 10x more frequently and achieve the same level of productivity.

3) Know your foundations with confidence. Things you rely upon become more of a barrier than a help given a long enough time line (shorter time line that could otherwise imagine).

4) The point of software is automation. If you find you are doing manual curation in the code you are likely wasting your productivity. An investment in better automation returns interest on the initial investment.

More opinionated personal preferences:

1) Unless you are writing in a language where you manage access to memory, such as C++ or Rust, abandon OOP. In garbage collected languages like Java, JavaScript, C# it only provides composition. It is a tremendous increase in code that does more harm in troubleshooting.

2) Prefer a statically typed language. As a JavaScript developer I have fallen in love with TypeScript. There are performance benefits to ensuring all primitives are strongly typed, but the developer performance benefits come from typing complex types. This is a quick win for defining execution of microservices and functional programming.

3) Prefer functional programming techniques and code portability. Code is less defective when it is highly predictable and explicit.

4) Save composition for last. Don't worry about how to put things together. Complete each micro-task in isolation, which forces a separation of concerns. Once everything is written putting things together becomes natural and typically works itself out.

5) Avoid pronouns in the code. The pronoun of JavaScript is the keyword this. Don't use it. You don't need it. I have been writing in this language full time for 13 years both at work and for personal projects. In that time I have really needed this only twice. The problem with pronouns is that they aren't clear (in either value or intention) by just reading the code, which takes substantially more time to interpret as a human.

6) Think in writing. You can save some refactoring effort by having a solid execution plan. The best way to plan is write things down as if to explain it to somebody who has no idea. If you cannot even explain it to yourself you won't be able to do in code.
Trackers?
Does Facebook even allow you to delete your account? Last I tried they didn't have a "delete" function.
These people quit their jobs during the pandemic
> Since the US intelligence agency is forbidden by law from spying within the US

Sure. Are they also forbidden to lie to congress? Or interfering with their own oversight committees?

I have little faith that the law is adequately applied to these orgs.
Oh my, I probably have both Kagi and eSellerate emails in my old archive.
I think it will be the first in history to hit 1T on IPO.
Even if this cause/effective were to be true, are we really going to reduce the job of Europe and other nations to ignore reason/philosophy/etc and set rules just to put more money into the pockets of local companies/people? I mean in that case, there are LOTS of things a government could arbitrarily do with their power to bring more money home. But they don’t. Because they have principles
Do you have a detailed write-up of this somewhere? I would be interested in reading it.
Yes, and all wars in the last few decades came about entirely naturally and by chance and certainly weren't provoked if not initiated by the US. That's just a good ol'conspiracy theory.
I think that is because product teams at Microsoft more or less expect MVPs to function as evangelist of the things they want to communicate marketing-wise. Originally the program started as recognizing community leaders/technical experts in specific MS technologies, but I feel things got hijacked somewhat along the way. Teams see MVPs as credible voices towards their audience so naturally the tempatation to use them as marketing voice is there.

Add to that the fact that MVPs themselves are passionate about those MS technologies so they for most part do want to repeat marketing line.

I used to be MS MVP, not for developer tech but for it pro side of things, and definitely saw these ”asks” in the messaging the product team did towards us from time to time.
Something is really wrong right now that's why they might be meeting every day.

Your experience with the Eclipse Foundation is very different from how the .NET Foundation has interacted. On top of that, communication has been very poor for a long time. I believe those two differences are at or near the root of all of these issues.
If you read the book the researchers argue that worldview is neither factual nor is it helpful.
I don't think that holds true.

80/20 rule? Probably. Then 80% of CPU time is spent in 20K lines of code.

But 1%? I don't think so.

A web project of 100KLOC will be a shit ton of features and CPU time will be spent in hundreds of different places.

Another issue is what I would call "code depth". Even if you find a few lines deep down in a framework or library that makes your specific use case slow - what can you do? Patch the framework? That comes with a ton of issues on its own.
From my perspective, as well as that of a good friend who obtained an MBA from Pepperdine, MBA's are most useful if they come with two things: A non-trivial amount of work in the domain of interest and, preferably, a degree in a related discipline.

In his case he had a Physics degree from Oxford and worked in various industries for 20+ years before entering the MBA program. We'd have lunch a few times a month. He would, almost always, lead the conversation with "You are not going to believe the nonsense...".

Not to say that the education was worthless, quite to the contrary. What he found was that students who were on the academic train and never stopped to work in the real world came to the program almost completely devoid of context and perspective. He was fond of saying an MBA was useless without real-world experience and was glad it took him so long to get to entering this program.
I wish there was such a rule for the courts too. No more "Intellectual Property" etc. Yet here we are.
Paywalled https://archive.is/TX6lA
r/antifa and r/chapotraphouse were also large communities that were banned.

Reddit policy definitely appears to be based on behavior, not ideology.
Now all they have to do is roll back SB239, which reduced knowingly exposing someone to HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor [1], and their laws might be somewhat sensible in this area.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/new-california-law-r...
Kids are also cheered up by puppets. I'm not sure what one would expect. It would work on adults who weren't sick, too.

Also, I feel strongly like I recognize that "robot" and that exactly this same thing was done in the 70s, down to emoticons on a monitor for a face.
>We investigated whether reconsolidation—the process during which memories become malleable when recalled—can be blocked using a cognitive task and whether such an approach can reduce these unbidden intrusions.

It seems like there's nothing "special" about video games, here, and that anything that sustains attention over a period of hours ought to work. A few decades ago, this might have been prayer, for example. I would expect reading and coding to work as well.
Your best bet is probably to talk to a broker that deals in private stock (such as Zanbato), and they can bring you potential deals as they come up. Note that you’re exceedingly unlikely to be able to be a direct shareholder, the deals are in SPVs that hold only SpaceX, and they come saddled with fees, so you need to be prepared to pay a premium.
If you are on aws, then step functions could be your best option. They are responsible for the workflow definition, and the compute load is completely dependent on the underlying tasks and aws services you are going to use.

Edit: typos
I faced the same kind of issue lately and thought that implementing a From trait for each type of error was kind of annoying.

Taking the article example, I ended up doing this:

#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Eq, PartialEq)]
pub enum MyError {
MyErr1,
MyErr2,
MyErr3,
}

fn read_number_from_file(filename: &str) -> Result<u64, MyError> {
let mut file = File::open(filename).or(Err(MyError::MyErr1))?; // Error!

let mut buffer = String::new();

file.read_to_string(&mut buffer).or(Err(MyError::MyErr2))?; // Error

let parsed: u64 = buffer.trim().parse().or(Err(MyError::MyErr3))?; // Error

Ok(parsed)
}

As I'm a beginner, I would love to hear some thoughts on this
your definition of an extremist is certainly lax isn't it?

I'd designate someone an extremist if they were plotting to do something, not some edgy comment that you'd find anywhere.

There's hundreds of comments on reddit wishing death, that doesn't make those people "extremists".
Semi-related, moth larvae (in my case Wooly Bears) are astonishingly intelligent. Put in a challenge arena they immediately begin a beam search and will learn over time what paths are futile, which require further exploration, how to pass particular obstacles, etc. They also have the ability to id humans and will "warm up" to individuals over a session of exposure.

Unfortunately this memory does not seem to persist long term -- after a day passes all it all resets. I was hoping a friendly Wolly would turn into a friendly tiger moth, but that does not seem likely based on my observations. I ended up releasing my Wolly back to the wild, he appeared to lose will when placed in captivity and I couldn't bring myself to keep him that way given my observations of his intelligence.
>> justice served

Moderators for popular subreddit r/JusticeServed on Reddit — one of the most visited websites on the internet with an estimated 12 billion page views per month — said Monday that due to new site policies they are no longer allowed to permit posts, comments, or any other content that shows a person of color as the aggressor
That sounds wonderful to me.
I do it all the time. I go hunting where there isn't even cellphone signal.

It's amazing what that does for the mind. Quiet, near-singular focus for a week straight is one of the most relaxing things you can do. You find that the pacing of life just seems to line up a lot better with human neurology.
This may have nailed the issue most closely yet.

It took you a lot fewer words than me too. :)
We don’t use repetition. We use behavioral thought control by giving rewards (good grades) for demonstration of belief (test taking) at early ages. These are nearly impossible to reverse at any age once embedded.

Kids believe in the tooth faerie, but can reconcile this belief later because it never showed up on a test. Now I’m going to piss off everybody. Try to reconcile your beliefs with observable facts about King Leonidas or Helen Keller. Or if you went to a fundamentalist school, try any religious figure. Those are minor beliefs that have little consequence for society. There are major ones too.

At some point, you should realize that you live in a fictional belief system. And I mean you, not just people who you think have been brainwashed. If you’re really truly brilliant and skeptical, you may reconcile 0.1% of these beliefs, but even then subject to “Murray Gell-Man” amnesia for 99.9% of your beliefs. The only people who can possibly escape this are those who are labeled as imbeciles for their inability to convert between memory of fact and assumption of belief.

For instance, there are ‘idiot savants’ that can memorize an entire book just for fun, but will never assume that anything written in any book is actually true. These people are completely unable to assimilate culturally, and we institutionalize them for that reason.

A a side note, just as soma (and nearly all popular drugs) create suggestibility, I think it should be possible to reverse this and become more like an idiot savant. An example might be an antagonist of dopamine, serotonin, or opiate receptors, but I’m not sure. If anybody has any other ideas or experience with currently-available compounds, I would like to hear them.
That looks like a Ruby one-liner which is very OO (calling methods with blocks on everything, everything also being an object is very Smalltalk-esque).

Python's problem isn't a lack of lambdas, it's a lack of consistency; for some things you use functions and for others methods.
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As a sort of logical aside:

Split tallies were used, effectively a lock and key mechanism of receipt. A stick was marked with a contract and broken in two. If you've ever broken a piece of wood, you'll know the roughness it embodies is remarkable, and on top of that the wood itself is intrinsically patterned and readily identifiable by even cursory examination. Thus it was virtually impossible to replicate. As to how these things were enforced, I do not know. Paper contracts also leveraged this model of receipt validation for some time.
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Things are not so peachy over in Linux.

I do see Qt 6 in MSYS2 though, so maybe I can use it only for my Windows builds.
You can add five more years of life to your Ubuntu LTS install
gates/mmsq seems a way more usuable metric then the nm marketing stuff?
Are you saying that it’s not categorically virtue signaling because someone can find value in that? Doesn’t sound logical to me. If the detail doesn’t contribute to the discussion but is meant to appease a specific group - that’s definitely closer to virtue signaling than to a genuine expression.
With gratitude! And maybe some withdrawals.
I'm hearing answers about why they would be either inclined to or not inclined to hire based on that question. My opinion is that it's just a question. Answer it and move on. Don't read for patterns where they don't exist. This also reflects lot of unconscious biases we might be nurturing by having strong opinions about these.
Phase shifts make no practical difference when you're equalizing headphones. You really shouldn't need to use notch filters there.

EQ phase is relevant if the dry signal has a chance to mix with the EQ output.

Changes in phase is not "distortion". When you end up making large boosts (especially to make sub bass audible), that's when your headphone drivers might start to distort sound. This is fixed with less volume, obviously.
The sad realisation that I'm the 0.1x software engineer.
The use of the term "instance" to describe a deployed instance of software predates federated software like mastodon.