skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation is a mixed bag, you can't make blanket statements about it at all. The only thing that is always bad for working people is an excessively high real interest rate as interest can only be paid through doing actual work. Companies pass their interest payments onto consumer prices meaning the top 10% are the only net recipients of interest.
> Which I increasingly feel confident in the idea that there’s no meaningful distinction and ADHD should/likely eventually will be considered part of the spectrum
I’ve recently been pondering this point myself as I come across more acquaintances, friends, or colleagues who have been clinically diagnosed with ADHD after my own diagnosis. It’s certainly nice to be able to commiserate on some of the more common symptoms, but each of us has had to compensate (or not compensate) in a unique way throughout our lives. I’m always interested in how this manifests differently and affects one’s career or other major components of modern life.
I agree that a lot of what’s suggested by this article are very ubiquitous, (sometimes) easier-said-than-done tools and strategies for those that struggle with ADHD. I wasn’t personally surprised by anything here. I am equally frustrated by the lack of availability of an app or planner that lets me “manage my meetings and tasks” that truly meets my needs as someone struggling with executive function disorder and depression caused by the lack of this executive function. I’d love to hear any examples. I have been playing around with pomodoro/task apps (Focus and Focus Keeper) but they have some very odd shortcomings, and Focus wants $40 USD/year to continue use past the free trial.
AirBNB has a fantastic marketing team and can afford to have a dog slow website.

Why should the rest of us give two fucks what their eslint config settings are?

Merry Christmas.
> I mean, think of all the wasted space and weight having 8 exit doors on a airplane; they don't crash often

And if we had all doors except one passenger seat, it might be even safer.

We neither optimize for absolute highest survival rate nor for absolute highest convenience/efficiency.

The question is-- how much does the second staircase improve survival? Is it the most economic way to get that survival difference?
That’s just a virtualpostmail.com virtual address
I use Siri daily for setting appointments/reminders, adding items to the shopping list, or hitting play on Podcasts because I'm already driving. It's pretty game changing to not have to open a device and punch buttons for a couple/few minutes but rather just say a few words to book an appointment or remind myself to do x in y hours/days.
At the very least, given this is a bigco with enough technical staff to have shared libraries for filesystem work (so I'm assuming FAANG or FAANG adjacent), one would think there would be a CI check for naughty stuff (like using system(3)) which requires a n+1 level engineer override to actually get committed. There's almost always a better way.
Is there a reasonable chance it would help you create better software product(s)?
It is surprisingly hard to get the cryptography right, and the cost of misconfigured DKIM in particular is nothing gets delivered to most providers.
Apparently, yes "The Insights platform was widely used even prior to the pandemic," [1]

I found [1] from the telus site describing this at [2]. The data platform is [3].

They say that they aggregate the data into large buckets, but I haven't figured out exactly what that means.

[1] https://iapp.org/news/a/teluss-data-for-good-wins-hpe-iapp-p...

[2] https://www.telus.com/en/about/privacy/data-for-good

[3] https://www.telus.com/en/business/medium-large/enterprise-so...
I would not be surprised if you don't care if product you bought do task properly or effectively.
I'm not at all surprised. Far, far too often, the hype of the tech, and the "oooh, new shiny!" excitement wears off and you figure out that your "new, exciting, expensive labor saving device" is, in fact, more trouble than it's worth, the "smart" bits are better described as "dumb as rocks, but in a very un-rock-like way," that there's a sucker in the transaction who paid a lot of something valuable (money, time, attention, whatever) for the device, and that you're that sucker.

I grew up watching Star Trek (TNG), and even many years later, talking to computers just feels somewhere between "wrong" and "the Primary Processor Cortex is infected with Clamanthian Neurovirans!" - it's gotten dumb and they've got until the end of the episode to somehow fix it. It probably involves tachyons and the main deflector dish.

The more they try to sound like actual humans (and voice synthesis has been improving vastly over the past 20 years, I still recall thinking Dr. Sbaitso was impressive), the more jarring it is when they... don't respond remotely like an actual human would. Someone else in this thread shared a story of Alexa doing the same thing it had done many other times, wrong, and setting a microwave going with a metal oven rack in it. If I've told someone how to bake a pizza 30 times, it's fairly unlikely that they'll screw it up the 31st. That's not true talking to a computer, it seems to have the same low probability of screwing it up every time you do it.

That's all before you get into the fact that they're an absolute privacy and security nightmare, that plugging your whole house of "smart" devices in pretty much guarantees that you're broadcasting your every action to data aggregators (I consider actions taken in my home to be my and my family's business, not the property of whoever has the strongest clause in their EULA), that the devices will fail to function long before a simple mechanical device would have (resulting in huge piles of ewaste), and are just generally human-toxic trash.

I work in the low weeds of tech, and a comparison I saw some years back is entirely apt (paraphrased, sorry, I don't know the original source):

- Technophile: Has all the smart devices connected to his phone, can control his shower from across the planet, argues online over which hue of RGB light goes best for each programmed situation, and nothing in his house ever quite seems to work right.

- Firmware/CPU Engineer: The smartest thing in the house is his printer, and he keeps a loaded 12 gauge leaned up against it in case it makes an unexpected noise.

It's very true. Most of the people I know in the deep weeds have a deep, abiding mistrust for more and more of "consumer tech," and a deep hatred of "things" lately.
Stores had cigs, vodka, butter and milk and tubers (awesome!!)

And so you stunt the growth not only of Russians but many other non-Russian nationalities so that a few scientists might have a summer dacha and a car and plane trips back to the city for wives to and fro the science town in nowheresville --while they are under threat to have their families sent to gulags if milestones aren't met... nice!
> Personally I don't think AGI is possible.

What if we could perform a molecular simulation of a human brain scan? Wouldn't that qualify?
I have 64gb of ram and Webstorm still freezes for 15+ seconds sometimes. It's not GC, it's not memory, not plugins, just random bugs or filesystem access blocking UI updates etc.
This could be a nice way to further dig into the two human modes of desire and fear talked about in the Matrix Resurrections. I used to think pride and fear were the two modes, but I think "desire" is a nicer superset term.
LOL at Bell Hooks being more culturally significant than Joan Didion. I mean, that's just like, your opinion, man.
ah, but will your mediocre team become a great engineering team by focusing on milestone, instead of projects? Nope, they won't.
> "Recording (on a tape recorder, or your smart phone) “notes-to-self” or meetings instead of taking copious notes at meetings"

I have ADHD. I was surprised to see this one. When I stopped typing and (only) recording meetings and started writing notes by hand, it forced me to pay attention and think through what I was writing. Research backs this up as well.

In fact, I rarely look back on my notes. The mental process in the moment of writing it down is far more important in my opinion.
Speed determines time to stop including stopping distance and reaction time. For every second of reaction time per 10kmph you add about 4 meters of distance travelled before you even hit the brakes. So best case if you aren't looking at your HVAC, at 50kmph you will start the stopping process in about 28 meters, and at 60kmph it will be 33.3m and take longer to stop once you hit the pegs.

Doesn't sound like heaps but that is actually your margin for error, just 4m. If something jumps out in front of you at 28 meters away, at 50 you will have had 4 meters to stop, which modern cars can do, and at 60 you will hit them at the full 60kmph. The Australian government has some great road safety clips on the subject, I might try and find them.
> Our policy is not one trip but one day of doing this.

That sounds much more effective. :)
NYU Journalism Handbook for Students (2020)
Architects (and society) should periodically question the layers of safety codes that define our art, architecture and design. It didn't occur to me that staircases in these large apartments are /required/ to be shut off from the hallways, and have a permanent feel of "fire escape". They are not a part of the building, they are acoustically unpleasant, and all-around a bore.

Imagine an apartment building with curved, open staircases leading to each floor! Perhaps "Apartment Simulator 2022" will come out soon.
When I was in jail with (almost) zero distractions I read 100 books a year and 100s of magazines each year.

Since release 5 months ago I have read a total of zero, but I am getting back into it. The real world is distracting.
I am one of those folks (born in early 1980s in Minsk). One can get a taste of that era by listening to the amazing music from bands like Kino and Nautilus Pompilus.

Some example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWEfVZN64jU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syTqQ-TU_c8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aew6MJLyVL4
I do :

> The Turkey-backed FSA's wages are paid for by the Turkish government, they operate alongside the Turkish Armed Forces

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_National_Army

As for their terrorist proclivities:. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/14/turkish-backed-forces-f...

To be fair though, they basically took over the CIA operations.
> I know and respect Fabrice from in person interactions. He is exactly who he claims to be. Maybe an interesting question, instead of this current line of discussion, is to find out what led to his successes?

While I think the GP was a joke, you ask an interesting question that I tried to answer 12 days ago on this very site. [1]

tl;dr: I'm not fast, but I'm getting faster because I understand my entire codebase. I think that may be a good portion of Mr. Bellard's success, or if it is not, it may be the best way for mere mortals to emulate his success.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29533412
Gigantism is a never-ending temptation
Andrew Ng, I believe. He mentioned this in an Economist podcast interview, where IIRC he also said he doesn't expect AGI to emerge for several centuries.
Crypto ala Bitcoin is built on the same usurious model but worse. The only solution is negative interest on cash.
Genuine question: Are there any actual examples of giant companies using gstreamer?

Why I ask is that pretty much the only reason I have gstreamer installed on my pesonal laptop is to satisfy certain GNOME dependencies (due to GNOME, understandably, dogfooding its own stuff). Everything else (including apps I use daily e.g. mpv, Firefox, etc) depends on ffmpeg.

$ sudo pacman -Rs gstreamer
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by cheese
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by gnome-shell
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by gst-plugins-base-libs
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by libcheese
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by webkit2gtk
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by webkit2gtk-4.1
In energetic terms, localisable and quantifiable by biochemists, what is “desire”?

How might we measure it?
You know what makes a better alarm clock?

An alarm clock that doesn't stand a pretty good chance of randomly broadcasting your bedroom audio to the internet on a regular basis. You can even get ones that work when the power's out!

If you replace "assistant" with "internet connected room mic" when pondering them, I find it helps make the decisions far clearer. The best place for them is never having been shipped in the first place. The second best place is the trash. Down the list from there is "unplugged and forgotten." And somewhere at the bottom is "Powered on, connected, and waiting for a plausible excuse to broadcast fairly clear room audio out to the internet."
Except the thing that got everyone riled up is common sense activities like wearing masks and getting vaccinated. Where were those people at when bush was taking away their civil liberties? Waving their flags. I can at least get behind the folks like you who have a consistent view, but I definitely don't think that's 95% and I definitely think you are very mistaken that people are suddenly going to start trying to stop the other parts of the surveillance state (aka the actual bad parts, not the wear a mask part).
Okay, that's pretty funny.
> It seems like the outrage is about these brand-new residents getting equal treatment with current residents, instead of the current residents getting priority.

This seems flawed to me. Do poor people get to queue up for MIQ? No, because they can’t qualify for the visa scheme because they aren’t rich enough. So it’s not really equal treatment for these new residents because they are already given an advantage because of their money. They qualify simply because they are rich.

Equal treatment would be letting all foreigners apply for the same visa scheme based on non-monetary merits such as occupation.
> In any event, why should people feel happy about living under an oppressive system -a system which stunted their potential? Their "police" were soviet milicija

They can be happy to live in the US and have police kneeling on their neck until they're dead.
Not yet. I want to. Things are still ongoing. If you have any questions, feel free to email me on my address in my profile and I'll do my best to answer them.
Don't swallow your contraband.

In the US a callous cop gets tried and gets sent to prison.

In the USSR you got taken around the back, shot in the head and dumped in a hole on the ground, or if slightly luckier you got a chance to freeze to death after the commander of the gulag had you tamp down the three foot snow for his truck to drive in in your ragged boots and in your escape attempt you get lost and starve and freeze to death a couple of miles away but the commander doesn’t bother with a search party knowing what your fate is.
Maybe i need to give it another go but I couldn't finish this book; found it tiresome due to all the "personal anecdotes/narratives" forming the backdrop for the book. It could also be that i am somewhat well-read on this subject due to my interest in traditional Yoga/Pranayama/Martial Arts and hence felt underwhelmed. What i had hoped to find in the book was a catalog of techniques (based on tradition or modern) from "Western Scientific Research" showing actual measurable results in terms of Human physiological parameters. But whatever was mentioned was never clearly explained with actionable steps. However the webpage for the book's bibliography is a treasure trove of pointers to papers and reading for further research.

Since you are also interested in the same subjects as me, do you have any other specific suggestions for what i am looking for?
Actually, it continued for two years at least into the Trump presidency, see Operation Timber Sycamore.
Yes it would. And it's at least partly why they don't do it, which is sad, because our population is past the point wherein we will accept a bit of adversity as something acceptable.
I agree. It's too hard to police without invasive cameras or tracking.
It's funny. As soon as I wrote the comment and went back to look at the site I thought "Punks! Apes!" Yet again, I was too early.
There are indeed always more people coming into jail, and people going out. The big difference now is that there were many crimes for which the DA office might ask for significant bail that they now cannot. This matters because bail was a mechanism for taking people whom the DA saw as dangerous off the street.

Unfortunately this is not the point of bail, it’s to secure appearance at trial. Using it to keep risky offenders off the street is not part of it.
It's a tough issue, for sure, because the playing field is just so unequal. To even be able to approach these issues in a more equal way you'd probably have to start a lawsuit and go through a process of discovery because the corporation is bound by all these bizarre legal, financial, and political motives that don't apply when people are interacting with each other. This leads to corporations responding to such requests in a way that's inherently against the interests of the public answering these questions. Without a system in place that further aligns and incentivizes companies interests with their users the only way you can really approach this in a more equal manner is something like a lawsuit. Many times the problem is incredibly complex and while some people, even C level people may be all for providing this transparency it breaks down at scale and the company is at the end of the day beholden to its own interests and perpetuating itself.

I recently saw this video on YouTube about some of the shadiness going on with Roblox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

The official answers they are giving is basically meaningless legalese and that's becoming more and more common. As I said before since Roblox isn't entering into this conversation in good faith the only way to force that conversation would be legal actions.

Any kinds of laws further aligning the needs of clients/the general populace against the needs of big corporations/political elite have a really hard time passing because the system is self sustaining. We already understand this dynamic and we have been asking these questions for a long time but they keep getting pushed down and torn apart as "unrealistic".

This is a good video about how hierarchical systems self select for people who play the game rather than people who stick to their morals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

And here's a video that shows just how undemocratic laws passing in the US is and self serving of corporate/elite interests:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

The issue here is a bigger one because it's going to self sustain and to make progress at this point you have to kind of just fight fire with fire (be part of the elite, own a big corp, or throw massive amounts of money at it) and getting involved with those systems can lead you on the path towards getting in a situation where you're betraying your own goals for entering them...
I love the nonchalance with which this is presented.

"Oh here's a list of my projects."
I indirectly knew Soviet culture during the late Brezhnev era and forward, but never lived in the USSR myself. It seems that Russians were generally proud of their society and optimistic about its direction during the 1950-1960s. It was in the 1970s that disillusion set in. There was much optimistic literature about Soviet life produced in the 1950-1960s that represented honest belief.
Fall of Civilizations podcast is great, and I also loved the Sumerian episode. I had no idea they predated even Egypt for so much; giving us writing, accounting, base-60 numbers for time and angles, and so many myths (especially the flood) that seeped into all western religion.

I started contributing to a cuneiform Python repo. With Unicode, it’s incredible to see symbols from 5000+ years ago in your terminal!

𒉢𒁓𒆷 𒆠 𒆤!

https://github.com/wanderingstan/cuneifyplus
Or just use this plugin to bypass most paywalls.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...
No thank you. I'm still in denial stage.
Another issue: To pull off using system font stacks, our web page will look different in MacOS vs. Windows vs. Linux vs. Android vs. CromeOS vs. etc. This makes testing a lot more time consuming. With webfonts, as long as we use good fonts which work with the lowest common denominator (75dpi Windows displays using Chrome, in my experience), we don’t need to add a new testing platform each time a new OS starts to gain traction.
Personal voice assistants are great for tasks where using a device directly is involved inconvenient: setting a timer while cooking, playing a song r some kind of music spontaneously, turning on all the lights and lowering all the shades in the living room, or getting direction in the car. It works really well for these tasks and I’m totally hooked. But the other stuff, like buys things, where I could just go and do on an iPad much faster, it doesn’t make much sense.
> Ideally these apartments could be rented to the many many many people that prefer to not have a car of their own. Especially in SF, there's a need for more apartments like that.

The significant price differential for SF real estate without parking suggests this is about 3 "many" too manys.
De-identification can mean a lot of things, but when dealing with location histories one at a time, few of them help very much. How many people take the same route that you do to work? How many do it at the same time you went and stopped at the same store on the way back at the same time you did? How many took the same vacations? How many live in the same building? The intersection of these sets very rapidly approaches one person.

The question is the extent to which the aggregation obscures all this.
Also, does it matter? People are all different. The only thing that puts importance on these arbitrary differentiators is if you can integrate with the arbitrary rules that we created
I hate shared code across entire companies. Someone will write a useful package, it'll be integrated into lots of teams code, and then the original package author leaves. No one maintains their package. A year or two later someone wants to change it, but now no one knows where it's used, what the impact of the change will be, or even whose responsibility it is to manage and maintain the code.

All shared code should have a maintainer, and the maintainer should be responsible for updates. If that person leaves then someone else should have to take over that responsibility.

In the case of the problem in the article it should be a very simple matter of raising a high priority bug ticket to fix the issue, and the maintainer then informing users of the library that they need to update their dependencies. It never works like that though.
I listened to every episode of the Lex Fridman podcast in about 4 months.
I’d probably choose unfenced home swimming pools, driving laws, pollution and guns to fix before building fire codes, if we’re looking at “things that seem to be insanity”.
The infrastructure wasn't built for COVID. It was already all there far before. The sad truth is that privacy wise we lost barely any privacy because it was already all gone. The only risk is giving another excuse for legitimisation.
I ignore so many of these nonsensical articles on here, but this one really got my goat. Is there someone out there that works on "projects" where the goals of the project are not delivering milestones? I'm probably just lost in the generic management babble.
This seems more like an unbelievable design oversight on behalf of the people making an oven microwave combo than a problem with alexa.