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Something I really worry about with these apps is that they now have a financial incentive to find more people with mental health issues.

Mental health issues can spread socially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contagion

There is a term used in a theraputic setting called catastrophizing: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/catastrophizing

I worry that these apps encourage people to catastrophize things, which is good for their profits, and bad for the mental health of their customers. I find it difficult to imagine a scenario where one of these app makers doesn't find a mental health issue that you need help with (and to pay them for). That sort of "diagnoses" can cause you to develop the disorder that they have diagnosed you with.

It's an extremely treacherous situation.
Yet many will happily drive extremely drunk or high (or both, as I’m currently seeing where I live as Californians invade). Sometimes societal regulation mechanisms like social pressure are not strong enough. Perhaps we as a society should understand what drives a man to drink until he can barely move, examining shared social traumas that many of us experience.
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It'll work with a multi-output device. It may be illegal where you're at to record without consent in case you're not already aware.
They can issue a recall.
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Not completely different... The newer installments in both of those games have substantial levels of in-app purchases. To an increasing extent, the $60 purchase price for a AAA game is being subsidized by continuing aesthetic purchases, loot boxes, content subscriptions, and opportunities to buy gameplay capability.
You invented a lot of stuff here. I think you didn't do it intentionally; it's classic argument-hallucination, so I'll help you see where you are confabulating:

MotoH never said that anyone had "secretly" taken over academic social science; to me it seems clear MotoH believes that it's all out in the open.

MotoH never said they were 'sabotaging western culture/society', which would imply some extreme coordination and direct intent - only that the idea complex exists and is totalitarian and dominant.

MotoH never said they were doing anything in present tense "as part of an OSS conspiracy"; the OSS was only part of the origin story many decades ago.

MotoH never said the scholars were effluent; they compared their ideas to effluent.

The above are strawmen. You made up a caricature of what MotoH said and then jumped straight to your conclusion with no argumentation in between (which seemed justified because your caricature was absurd).

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I think it would be great if you reread the last line of my post above (argue against the strong not weak/fringe version of the belief) and tried that. I can help though. Here are the claims for you to oppose:

1. Social justice ideology has become dominant over academic/corporate/media/cultural instutitions.

2. Social justice is a deconstructionist ideology that seeks to dismantle major parts of western society/identity and/or capitalism.

3. Social justice descends from the ideas of thinkers decades back mentioned earlier in this thread.

Which do you think are wrong and what's your argument?

Again I'll remind you: I've never heard anyone argue against the idea that cultural marxism exists so it'd be a real contribution if you were the first to do so!
Maybe you don't learn anything.

It sounds like you have a good opportunity to pause and reflect on your life and do what you mentioned in the OP: reading, running, and exploring the area.
Should do. I used this and OBS to do the same.
This white paper was a collaboration between Consumer Reports and Digital Labs. The results were summarized here:

https://www.consumerreports.org/vpn-services/mullvad-ivpn-mo...

Mullvad, IVPN, and Mozilla VPN were the top-rated VPNs. These 3 all have open source clients.
Those machines exist here in the US as well. Every grocer or store around me with bottle and can recycling machines operate identically, and are redeemed identically.
Adjusted for inflation, has military spending increased since 2000? It seems if it is trending at 2% that is probably beneath inflation.
I haven't really tried it but I would expect that Elm has solved at least some of those problems already. It feels like hooks are (another?) attempt at making react more monad-like but without having the type system to back it up.
Here's what I think he means.

If you look at trends over an arbitrary period, they may look useful.

If you look at the similar trends over a larger period, they look different.

Therefore, the smaller periods are just random variations relative to the larger periods.
> is there a story for why it consumes so much space on HN?

People on HN find it interesting.
Oh, "because I am forced to at gunpoint" is not at all how I read "I pay taxes to protect myself" in the context of public safety / war expenditures.
I have and it has been life changing. Here's the thing about a 2nd job. It isnt 2x better than a first job. Its about ~5x better by my calculation because it is 100% savings.

Heres the math.

I make 10k a month at job 1. After taxes 7k. I spend 2k on rent, 1k on food, 1k on insurance and other recurring and 1k on fun.

That means im saving 2k / month from job 1.

Now i get job 2. Im now making 20k / month, 14 k after taxes. But my expenses are still exactly the same. My savings have now gone from 2k / month to 9k / month.

So im really making almost 5 equivalent years of savings every year. At that rate, if you could keep it up for a decade, youd essentially account for a whole career.
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SectorLISP has always had a C implementation for explainability. It started off as ugly C because it was actually used to generate the assembly code for the first ~900 byte version. See https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp/blob/a561e031aec03270459f... and https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp/blob/a561e031aec03270459f... Once we reached 512 bytes I started deleting a lot of the C code since things like assembly macros weren't needed anymore, since the assembly was now being written by hand. https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp/blob/main/lisp.c

Once I cleaned up the C code, I noticed that the entire program didn't use pointers at all! (Except of course to interop with Bestline, but that could be replaced with fgetwc() instead). That's when the idea occurred to me that, since it didn't use pointers, it was also technically valid JavaScript too. So I asked around on Twitter to see if anyone's done a C / JS polyglot before. I got some helpful tips from a code golfer in Estonia who experimented with the idea and he told me about the paragraph separator trick. https://twitter.com/angealbertini/status/1463755612345540611 So I updated the C code to hybridize the two: https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/lisp.js It's a shell script and a C program and it runs in the browser unaltered without needing to be compiled.
That's not the point. The point is, if they get used to it, they will pay it.
> Do people actually need next-gen wifi?

Streaming VR to a wireless headset (SteamVR on Oculus Quest) is generally considered to require Wifi 6, though that is admittedly a niche use currently.
I'm not sure about the comment claiming caffeine withdrawal was worse than alcohol withdrawal. Perhaps there wasn't true alcohol dependence.
It’s so bad it seems unlikely it isn’t a joke. I mean look at their mission patches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches
Does this boil to the semantic question of if the stdlib is part of the language?
Pretty neat overall. I thought this was an interesting random fact:

> The key role of ice crystals dovetails with recent findings that lightning activity dropped by more than 10% during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers attribute this drop to lockdowns, which led to fewer pollutants in the air, and thus fewer nucleation sites for ice crystals.
Can't read due to pay wall but I'm kind of offended by the headline. MREs have gotten better over the years, give or take a few missteps, and haven't been anywhere near bad (yes, even veggie omelet can be salvaged) for decades. The current lineup[0] is downright decadent, at least in the US, and has been for longer than any writer at NYT has been alive.

[0]: https://www.mreinfo.com/mre-menus-2021/
Irrelevant. Changing density or building codes or YIMBY is for cities like SF. White folks need their acres.
Depends on the Costco. The one near me put the main entrance to the parking lot next to the store entrance.

The Walmart near me has the main entrance to the parking lot at the opposite end of the store. There is also a long protected cart path going down the parking lot.

The Costco on the other side of town is almost as good as the Walmart.
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> Additionally, treating the string as an array of unicode codepoints

I suggested no such thing.

> individual codepoints inside grapheme clusters

That's less severe than invalid codepoints.

Perhaps the whole thing whichever way it is represented should not be mutable given that there's no way to make it mutable in a sensible way?
Ok, I do know/appreciate that it is was itself in that context a Neville Chamberlain reference (though he said "for", not "in" ;P), but I think the contemporary Marvel reference was what people would try to make fun of me for (if they didn't know I "walked into it willingly") because Ultron was a bad idea that caused lots of suffering, particularly among people from an Eastern European country that were already experiencing massive strife due to foreign intervention (a la Ukraine, which was what is being discussed here).
Protobuf decoders are expected to validate UTF-8 strings for syntax="proto3" files, but not syntax="proto2". The behavior diverges mostly for historical reasons.

This is a validation pass only and it doesn't make any meaning of the code points, except to validate that none of them are surrogate code points (disallowed in UTF-8).
A PhD certifies that you are able to do research independently, at least in theory. Unless you are aiming for one of the very few CS research positions in industry or for one of the jobs developing a product that require very specific cutting edge knowledge that your research happens to have been in, a PhD is likely to be of very little use.
Another “monument” still standing: Latin script. It has survived an unusually long time.
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Parsing this out of utf-8 encoding requires no knowledge of unicode or even utf-8. All of the relevant characters (reverse solidus, quotation mark, and control characters) are single byte characters in the ascii subset. These characters cannot be found inside multi-byte characters in utf-8 due to the design of the encoding. Converting the unicode character escape codes to utf-8 would require knowledge of utf-8 encoding, but this unescaping is not a feature that would be provided by the language regardless.
It seems strange to compare to C++ when it has none of the features that most define C++ like RAII, OOP & templates. Its not really "simplified" - its something totally different.
Another thing - most european companies will reduce your salary and treat you as a slave if you are working as a contractor outside the EU (since no one can punish them that way).
I can confirm that an ex FB guy who went full-remote digital nomad style earlier this year and wanted to move as a senior developer for a French startup simply because he loves their idea (and it'd be easier for him due to timezones while he stays in Thailand/Cambodia) and guess what they did? They offered him less than half as compared to an actual junior position, even though they received milkions in funding, and the reason? He lives in a "cheap" place therefore he doesn't need a high salary anymore, who cares of his expertise, it's not going to be "fair" towards the other workers in the company.
That line of thinking breaks down when you consider people can generally move somewhere else.

Taxes have historically paid for civil infrastructure like irrigation systems well into antiquity. It’s unclear when such things originated because they significantly predate any systems of records. In that context taxes are rent paid to live in a society.
> Basically a 1D sensor that acquires a 2D image because the camera itself is moving.

Or a static camera and a moving subject. This same style of camera is used for "photo finishes" in races. The camera is literally the finish line, and the the first pixel to "cross the line" is the winner.
Yet we see 50k-80k alcohol related deaths each year in the US.
> in that case it seems like HIPAA would apply to these.

HIPAA is significantly more limited than most people think. Basically, if insurance isn't involved than HIPAA isn't legally required.
That pound cake that comes with many MREs is one of the best things I've ever tasted.

It actually has a kind of fakey/chemically flavor to it (if I remember it's usually apple flavor?), but for some reason it's still good, and the moistness and texture of the cake is exceptional. I wish they just sold those pound cakes by themselves.
Your linked wikipedia article describes behaviors or emotions spreading through social groups, but this doesn't mean that mental illness spreads through social groups. "Contagion" doesn't mean "illness", it means "meme".

Is there actually research showing that mental illnesses spread through social groups?
I'm sticking to my theory that much of what made Damore's document problematic - or problematic enough to warrant what happened - was due to, essentially, tone.

Maybe I am naïve, but I do strongly believe that it is completely possible to express non-orthodox positions in a way that doesn't prompt that kind of backlash. (And to put my money at least somewhat where my mouth is, I'll totally workshop something with anyone reading this if they're wanting to express such a position.)

Going back to OP, if I rephrase "k-complicity" as "don't challenge people with lethal power; instead be silent", then this all becomes "don't talk normally to people about sensitive things; instead be exceptionally kind."
I am currently setting up my a new M1 Mac for streaming using OBS Studio and was surprised that capturing audio from multiple sources other than the mic required this.

It is one of the few things I have found that “just works” on a PC compared to a Mac.

I am glad this exists, thank you!
Feel free to double check my math, but a modern M1 CPU with its ~16 billion transistors would be about 380 million times bigger (imagine a square ~1.7 miles on a side)
Stroustrup, not Gosling. And I like your logic. :)
This was a data science take home for a Director level position. Multiple data sets, domain specific, bad/missing data that you had to discover, predictions needed that combine disparate data types together, data is complex enough that off the shelf models wouldn't work, writeup of how to deploy in production, etc. I estimated 10+ hours to do it even half properly and that was probably an underestimate even if you got lucky with your first approach.
It's always great to see simple and effective tools like this. I went ahead and downloaded the html+js into a single file to put in my arsenal. Maybe you could consider putting the whole iro.js into the initial pageload and turn this into a truly one-file tool.
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Yeah, Harvey Danger is hyperliterate garage rock. The follow up albums are a little less raw than Where have all the Merrymakers Gone, but still fun to listen to as a background of your life kind of music.
I have.

Different ethnic groups carry different genes. You know how you sometimes see headlines like "DNA of 2,000-year-old corpse in the Himalayas analysed; he turns out to be Greek"? So apparently some ethnicities have some genes that others don't; otherwise they couldn't know that.

Make a bioweapon that targets people with genes that your ethnic group doesn't have, and you've made a bioweapon that targets only people of other ethnic groups.
> Again, broad pronouncements like this square... strangely... with my skin color and facial features. I think you'll find it a hard sell to much of this country, within and without the scientific community, that black African-Americans are not... you know, African.

The average Black American is almost 1/4 European descent due to mixing that occurred recently. My son has light brown hair—because his mom is Irish and Dutch. They’re irrelevant to a discussion of the genetics of Bangladeshis.

> Assuming that you're an American, the notion that you don't understand the defensiveness strains credulity. It validates quite a bit more in the eyes of some.

Those folks need their eyes checked.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. Behaviors and emotions are descriptive of the "issue" part of mental health issues. Behaviors and emotions are the symptoms.
Lots of re-orgs is also a pretty big indicator. A lot of VPs/directors need a reason to exist and they create that reason with reorganizations. This is basically the enterprise equivalent of pushing the food around the plate to make it seem eaten. With a re-org you can shed or minimize expensive to operate systems that don't generate a lot of clear value(i.e most tech-debt).
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Or two megapacks at about $2.5M which is product targeting this commercial / utility space.

https://www.tesla.com/megapack/design

Be curious what this cost. Sure, li-ion has poor endurance but we can't really compare without a cost number.
>When Ronald Graham, a concerned friend and fellow mathematician, bet him $500 that he couldn’t stay off his drug of choice for a month, Erdős accepted and easily won the challenge. When the 30 days was up, Erdős said to Graham, “You’ve showed me I’m not an addict. But I didn’t get any work done. I’d get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I’d have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You’ve set mathematics back a month.”

This quote is hilarious, and I find it interesting that there's a difference in intelligence between drug users and non users. My gut feeling is that there would be no significant difference.

I will note that most drug use does not impact intelligence negatively. Of course it can if abused to a great enough degree as that will significantly alter neural function but this also depends on the specific mechanisms of the substance.

Dr. Carl Hart is a great example of this. He's been a recreational heroin user for 5 years and is a tenured professor of neuroscience at Columbia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hart
In addition to the other comments, better for one person may not be better for the next person.
Can't you define FORTH (or a subset of it) for some architectures purely in assembly, then use those functions like normal? I remember some file floating around on GitHub that showed how to do that.

Anyway, amazing work as always!
Maybe folks in the HN bubble of tech knowledge know this about Google, but the average consumer has no idea just how deep the Google graveyard goes.
> a way to not allow byte slice functionality on a thing that is clearly not a byte slice

This already exists in the form of structs or opaque types. Both of these approaches would end up being implemented in "userspace" anyways, whether that's standard library or third-party.

However, (UTF-8) strings are byte slices. You can do simple manipulation with them as byte slices safely and validly. Split on spaces? Sure. Tokenize? Sure. Find substring? Sure. You can't do things that depend on say UTF-8 graphemes, but you can safely do most things that depend on bytes. For most purposes, treating strings as byte slices is the safest and correct approach.
> Make sure you check out some of the other "pro-sumer" lines first

Unless you enjoy networking as a hobby, I would worry with that strategy that there is a sizeable risk of wasting your time with unreliable devices, with ongoing maintenance work, or having to rework your network in a few years.

My current solution is to buy Unifi UAP-AC-LR (~120USD) and configure it as an access point using the “Unifi Network” app from my phone, and hopefully never touch it again. I have done this at friends, and fixed their WiFi woes, without requiring much of my time (occasional complaints that the WiFi isn’t working, but not due to the device*, just ISP or router issues). Easy to plug the AP into a new router if you change ISP or move houses.

* Well, one device just stopped working with a hardware fault: I think due to being installed in a very hot area. I haven’t had software issues or flakiness. Flakiness is my previous experience of prosumer devices and what I most want to avoid.
You are correct, but my comment was about mechanisms to avoid addiction. We do need to do something about reducing harm but prohibition is not the answer.
> Introduced arbitrary code execution via ${jndi:ldap://... inside any logged string.

hehe
>who has reviewed 650 mental-health apps

cough how many? jeebus, that's a lot of these kind of apps. just kind of goes to show there are too many apps.
No, AFAICR this predates SARS-CoV-19. And it works by targeting ethnicity, not citizenship.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29632621
I think I'm not understanding your initial point - are you saying that these apps need to find people with mental health issues (which makes sense), or that these apps are incentivized to start inducing mental health issues in people in order to increase their customer base, and that's something we need to worry about?

I see in your initial comment, you talk about these apps diagnosing people and that causing somebody to develop the actual disease (I guess like a reverse placebo).
Implementing the XDDM driver model in 5.2 gets you nowhere towards supporting drivers in NT 10 as XDDM was completely removed in NT 8.2. This is true of a lot of things in the kernel, future versions are far from a superset of the previous ones like the userspace side of Windows often is. Particularly after nearly 2 decades.
That’s an interesting point about pretty much anything that converts energy into work: fuel efficiency and environmental safety aspects evolve over time. And yet you can’t really predict the right end-of-life for these things, either.

No planned obsolescence or failure sounds like respect for the consumer. I wonder how well their light bulbs held up.
I'm not sure that it says anything good about Google that they built a solid piece of hardware only to purposely brick it for users after it worked well for too long.
How do you find the RF performance? For me the OnHub was vastly better than other home wifi gear I've used, but would consider more trustworthy replacements if they have comparable performance...
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Avatar and Interstellar, both made with enormous budgets by overwhelmingly successful directors, are weird examples to use for "non-mainstream".

In fact, most of the Oscar Best Picture nominees from 2020 [0] meet that description better than the movies you cited (not sure what was in theaters last year, but most of them were readily available from a mainstream source; I'm sure that in a normal year most would have been in mainstream theaters).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture...
It probably wasn't, alcohol withdrawals can kill.
And I wondered if it was about the Mac Cube, which came out about 20 years ago…
Pretty much why I won't be subscribing to any game streaming service unless/until they let me bring my own library of Steam & GOG games.
Looking forward to 2022 and the expiry of key patents on LFP batteries!
We should work to understand what drives use, and we are. Plenty of researchers are working on understanding the physiological underpinnings of the desire to use any given substance.

I personally suspect that over 50% of drug users are attempting to self medicate in some way. Whether or not they are consciously aware that self medication is what they are doing, that's another question entirely.
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