skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Screening employees/applicants for mental health conditions that may negatively impact their performance:

Is required for airline pilots, DOD, police and similar.

Is prohibited for nearly all other employers.

I understand the distinction, but its a strawman. Society is in denial about the costs of mental health issues among its citizens.

Given the growth & pervasiveness of mental illness the past couple of years, perhaps it's time we made research & treatment a priority? Cher should have resources available to deal with her challenges, and Apple shouldn't have to be a proxy for those services (or the object of the fallout from her issues).
It is not a weird bias. Paying off a revolving credit card balance every month is not that big of a signal about your future likelihood of repaying loans in a timely manner, but it is a signal.

Not borrowing any money, and hence not having any history of repaying borrowed money is zero signal.

If it was true that people who never borrowed money were more likely than repaying borrowed money on time than people who regularly borrowed money, then a lender would have already noticed this in their data and would have offered a more competitive financing product in the marketplace.

Since that has not happened, it is reasonable to surmise that the tiny signal of maintaining a small revolving credit card loan with timely payments is better than the zero signal of not maintaining any loan balance.

Note that having many tiny credit card revolving loan amounts is viewed negatively.
The World’s Largest Bee Is Not Extinct (2019)
“ Colleagues worried that Erdős might have become addicted. In 1979, he accepted a $500 bet from his friend Ronald Graham. Graham challenged Erdős to abstain from speed for 30 days. Erdős met the challenge, but his output sank dramatically. Erdős felt the progress of mathematics had been held up by a stupid wager. In an article by Paul Hoffman published in November 1987, Atlantic Monthly profiled Erdős and discussed his Benzedrine habit. Erdős liked the article, “…except for one thing…You shouldn’t have mentioned the stuff about Benzedrine. It’s not that you got it wrong. It’s just that I don’t want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics to think that they have to take drugs to succeed.”

The truth is far more nuanced. Like I said no one will openly admit to this as it sets a risky example for others.
I would proffer that the recruitment bias for this survey renders its results dangerous. I would proffer further that programmers at large do no use cannabis and the "true" conclusion for such a study might well be the exact opposite of the authors.

The recuitment basis for the survey is not random and is only amongst a very small subset of candidates the authors considered "ethically permitted" (specifically from GitHub, the University of Michigan and social media). So probably few enterprise programmers and few non-US participants, etc.. In other words not the majority of programmers.

"We now present indirect evidence that our participants, while not a random sample, are similar in many ways to previous random samples or studies. A true random sample would not have been ethically permitted, but we gain confidence in our results’ generalizability by contextualizing participants’ gender, age, and employment. ... our study population by recruitment pool (e.g., how they were contacted to participate in this study)... from GitHub ... from the university ... and social media" - page 4, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.09365.pdf

A more meaningful lead-in survey would have been to ask programmers from all sources if they are subject to any form of drug-testing.

Perhaps they should have selected a less clickbaity title for their study:

A Survey of [Ethically Permitted USA] Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation
Loop quantum cosmology is more compelling than string theory.
DeWalt, Craftsman and Makita all had "made in china". Bosch was not (I think it's thailand). Maybe i was too low-end.
I don't mean this personally towards her, and I'm not defending apple's weirdness, but I've always been confused by the mindset of employees that choose to become internal activists against management rather than, you know, just leave. Like I get it for governmental jobs like schools where there might not be an alternative without moving, but for tech jobs why not just go to a company that shares the same values as you? I say this because short of unionizing and creating collective bargaining, I've never seen this kind of thing work out positively for the person that does it.
This is done on device.
Is Percocet illegal in the US? Doesn't seem to be from other comments here?
IPFS domaim is very wide so different issues affect different parts in different ways.

One major hurdle is browsers not being made for p2p. We will need http gateways and other centralized compatibility layers for the time being, which are costly and very prone to abuse. I have hopes in better webrtc support to improve interop with browsers.

Other than that, a DHT at the scales we aim for in terms of indexed content is a problem when 95% of nodes are clients which don't contribute to it. NAT hole punching and supernodes will help.

With IPFS becoming the delivery layer for content stored on Filecoin, and being the standard storage layer for NFTs, there are certainly incentives for the protocols to be used and usage to keep growing heavily.
Posting this sort of hellish flamewar comment to HN will get you banned here, regardless of how right you are or feel you are, and regardless of which country you have a problem with.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN, we'd appreciate it. You broke a ton of them here—seriously not cool.
> How about this one: the entire system becomes so unresponsive that even a VT switch takes multiple minutes to process, never mind actually logging in and running diagnostics. I don't know exactly why, but I used to get this pretty regularly on a 2 GB laptop if I did the wrong thing in Firefox.

It looks like 12309 https://web.archive.org/web/20140816132654/https://bugzilla....
If you’ve ever spent a significant amount of time in the orbit of someone near that cluster of symptoms you start to develop similar doubts about the narratives put forward by them. It is rarely so cut and dry that such people should be casually dismissed, but there is often something to doubt.

The difficult truth is that the situation will be two sided. Someone’s behavior and actions will go beyond what is reasonable (or legally defensible) and the reaction will likewise go beyond what is reasonable (or legally defensible). It is a complicated grey area where nobody looks good and people take sides according to their biases rooting for one side to “win” instead of being motivated to fix problems.
Thanks, didn’t know about that
My only regret is that I have only one upvote to give
This looks cool! I have been using qalculate (https://qalculate.github.io/) recently, which seems similar. Has anyone used both and can tell me how they compare?
It takes weeks after I stop smoking weed for me to start remembering my dreams again. I don't doubt that there are other effects on sleep from acute smoking around bed time. But for me, the loss of REM sleep is definitely mainly a function of cannabanoid tolerance.

After many years of on and off heavy smoking, I would say that the best best practice is actually not smoking weed every day. I think there are some amazing benefits to weed, but for me they all but disappear with enough tolerance.
TikTok Was the Internet’s Most Visited Site in 2021
https://archive.ph/JqluK
> However: you seem to be telling a native Chinese person that they’re wrong about their impressions of their own country. Do you want to maybe add some nuance to that?

I don't read forgotmyoldname's comment as telling chunghuaming that they are wrong about their impressions of China. It's more about forgotmyoldname's own impressions, and his/her assessment of people in general who comment online about China.

In follow up comments, forgotmyoldname also provides first and second hand supporting experiences. Do you have any of yours that would contradict theirs?
Google PageRank has done more damage to the open web than Twitter could ever hope to. At worst, Twitter's just exposed the worst qualities of people to a broader audience.
Why do these pills even exist? Are there people that are able to tolerate fentanyl? It does not make sense for drug dealers to kill their customers so I have just never understood why these pills circulate if they are to lethal.
> I wish there was a way to (voluntarily) get those official warnings via other means

Mobile alerts are the most recent addition in the US; they are also carried by radio and TV broadcast, Cable TV, and a variety of other mechanisms. But not POTS,SMS, or email.
> One more step towards a truly open eInk tablet! :D

What about Inkplate? No one ever mentions that.
Talk to your primary care physician. Let them know you're struggling to focus and it's impacting your ability to function at work. Get a referral to a counselor and do a telemed appointment. Answer the handful of questions (truthfully). It's not like there's a series of tests for ADHD. It's just behaviors that are common to people with it.
I know it sounds odd, but I don't. Mostly I look for info on specific techniques, but they often include tips on general techniques as well. For example, here are a couple on cell/lacing effects.

https://youtu.be/E4yCzQ-VvhE
https://youtu.be/K4VrQLZQLYY

But here's the one you absolutely should watch first: safety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr1E9v_9fww

It's not worth freaking out over, but I'm a safety-first kind of guy. The Alumilite videos are generally very good (especially this guy) and they also make one of my favorite black/white opaque dyes. Stone Coat also has some really good ones, even though they're usually for much bigger pieces - tables and countertops - than anything I'm ever likely to do.
Doesn't it seem useful to have one language that can be used at several levels of sophistication?
VC give pretty bad advice in general. Their advice is the the description of founders they want to invest in. Most of the founders they give money to, more or less follow the advice they give (not directly, but because they have been selected like that). But as all vc most of their companies fails, showing that the advice in fact doesn't work.

Don't forget that if they really knew what to do to start a successful company they wouldn't be investors but founders
Sure. But you have a slight problem with ABI stability, at least in Rust, if you ever want to compile an ABI compatible replacement library. Until that problem is resolved, if you want to make a useful replaceable object you need to make a C style foreign function interface and use that, something that isn't exactly convenient for Rust to Rust use, even if rather helpful for making Rust libraries usable from other languages. C++ has a very similar issue, and has had it for years, albeit one mostly resolved by the advent of stable C++ ABI standards.
I really wish there was one for WeChat that worked and didn't get you banned.

These days they try to detect these alternative front ends and unfortunately if you get banned on WeChat that basically means you can't buy food, buy groceries, buy train tickets, reserve hotels, buy flight tickets, raise money, or a million other things. What's worse, if you get banned on WeChat people might even reject you socially because they think you're upto something illegal.

It's a horrid way to force everyone into using their official client.

I used to run WeChat in a virtual machine and remote access it, but now I just use a different phone for WeChat because the stakes are too high.
Think nuclear reactors, not yellowcake.
I am super shocked by your apparent ignorance of such well-known effects from the drugs you're using. Especially at such a late stage in life, having multiple kids under your purview.

Maybe I'll just assume you were high when you wrote that comment.
SpeedCrunch is less powerful but I find its interface much easier to understand. SpeedCrunch is really nice. It'd be nice if it was a tad more powerful (for example, to plot quick graphs)
Cher, if you're reading... Not related to any of that corporate politics stuff, you mentioned having asthma. I had that too, and found that Magnesium (200-400mg daily) and iodine (1000 mcg daily or more) cured it. YMMV of course.
A lot more companies will go to a multi-cloud active active architecture with maybe even bare metal redundancies.
No, it indicates that marketing departments the world over have been overrun with a very particular world view: globohomo
Personally, I feel that there is no need for clothes that are more comfortable than normal on an airplane. I typically wear jeans and collared shirts in my daily life, and I don't need to wear different things just because I am spending a few hours in an airplane chair. And I am 6' 5" so probably less comfortable than most on an airplane (though I am only barely overweight so maybe more comfortable than average in that respect?).

So, what is the problem? It is a minor problem, but here are my thoughts.
In an airport I am surrounded by people who "dress down" for reasons that do not make sense to me. It is undesirable to be surrounded by people who's behavior you don't understand--again, in a minor way. And I would say I would rather be around people who are dressed nicer, so invertign that we get: it is a minor "problem" to be around people that are dressed down.
A lot of what’s funded through ads on the web is garbage the world would be better off without anyway. For the rest, I don’t think there’s a single silver bullet answer. We can’t take the world as it exists today and swap out ads for something less harmful without other changes in the landscape. A world without a surveillance driven internet would look very different to the one we have today in far more ways than just the lack of ads.

Unfortunately momentum is hard to overcome, and even with a good monetization strategy for a single product it’s impossible to shift the market without also trying to more broadly shift consumer behavior to make the current state less profitable and to push the industry to more collectively and broadly searching for alternatives.
Supporting artists is fine, but it also facilitates a lot of art theft. Random article:

https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/nfts-turning-art...
Yep, and G100UL (unleaded) is coming real soon, so the lead argument becomes moot. Not that it was ever really a good one.
> You can also just not visit those sites if you don’t want to be tracked

Facebook's like button tracks you all over the web
If you take a pill that you think is percoset and it ends up being fentanyl, you didn’t acquire it legally.
One of my favorite things about gardening is that you learn every year. This last year I had a bunch of successes and some really big failures.

Now I get to spent the next two months thinking about what to do differently (No more uncovered brassicas - they all get eaten in my climate. Maybe my raspberries have a virus - I should get them tested. Sweet potatoes only go in pots/bags or raised beds from now on, since digging them out in clay soil is a huge pain, and the quality of the ones I grew in pots is better). Then I get to try again next year. It's process improvement, but in slow motion!
Because it’s a first class development experience, cross-platform by default, V8 is really really fast, and toolkits that support “build your own toolkit” are non-existent outside the web.

I don’t want to make a “Windows app”, “A Mac app”, or a “QT app”. I want a rectangle and a high-level enough interface to build my own widgets. People who are single mode users obviously hate that every app looks and behaves different but most people are multi-mode and don’t care.

JS is only easy at the most superficial level and gets to be a mess once you go beyond small apps.
I think part of the dynamic here is that when people give advice it often comes from one of two very different modes:

1. There's a piece of advice I want to give, and I'm going to give that advice to some degree regardless of the question or situation. Maybe I'll wait for a question where my advice fits, or maybe I won't, but it's a play _I_ want to suggest, so I'm going to suggest it. For example, "use Django" is advice I might give to anyone who asks anything about web apps because I know Django and it's easy advice to give.

2. I really listen to what someone's asking, and give them specific advice for their situation, without letting it be colored by my own experience or the moves that have worked for _me_ in the past.

The second is a lot less common! It's really hard to pay that level of attention, and force yourself to question your own assumptions. But it's also a lot more useful, since it's specific and tailored.

Critically, in a blogging context, only the first mode is really possible. There isn't someone asking for the advice, it's just me writing a blog post for some imagined asker. This is why most unsolicited advice isn't that useful, which absolutely includes whatever blog post you're reading. Including one of mine.
Yeah, I've gone for 1-2 months long period of everyday, to cold turkey and haven't found much issues(even when going cold turkey, like no jonesing).

How do you define being addicted to it, what is your benchmark?
Most advise is like: do what I did, if you were me, in the exact place and time as I was, surrounded by the same people as I was, and so on...

I think advise in the form of a small life lesson is more helpful.
For example: 'Take good care of yourself if you work hard.' is more helpful than 'Work hard to become successful.'.
Content creators often integrate ad content for sponsors, doing away with the need for 3rd party javascript. Users are entitled to control Javascript on the client side as they see fit. Companies can and do block service for detected ad-blocking or blocked javascript. For the aforementioned with front-ends, they choose not to. They know ultimately they'll make more money from those users in aggregate if they use the service than not. In other words if people "just don't use the service", the service is worse off. There are revenue generators that are effectively endemic to the services by design and cannot be "blocked".

Issues aren't just about tracking. Youtube for instance got where it is today by effectively stealing copyrighted content, and they still facilitate and profit from it, notwithstanding screwing over content creators with illegitimate takedowns. There isn't really a persuasive argument that Youtube is entitled to more of your data.
I have it. What's the problem with the Pinephone?
I think that's more a function of "We want to access all demographics without paying to properly comply with the interface design guidelines of each platform individually. What 'write once, run everywhere including the browser' solution have you got for us?"
I don't mean to be condescending here, but are you just learning about Apple's constant dissembling in this regard? The FBI loves it when people use iMessage, since most people have iCloud backups turned on.

Whatsapp is also pretty bad, but iMessage is some next level BS.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/what...

https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=2111...
Has anyone here lived with someone who has bipolar disorder? Or histrionic personality disorder?

It's a completely different world with the latter. You cannot ever meaningfully assume anything they say is true. It's a constant rephrasing of reality and editing of events, misplacing blame, and perpetual attention-seeking, pity, and bad-decision making.

And that last part is the key.

Robert Greene had a great insight: When someone is perpetually unlucky in life, it's very rare that they're just purely unlucky. Instead, it's more likely they're not great at making decisions. Instead of having any shred of self-preservation, they consistently self-destruct.
“smile” is an exception
Their demo of their efficient interface compared to GNU Calc:

SC: 5+8 Enter [4 keys, 1 shift]
Calc: 5 RET 8 + [4 keys, 1 shift]
SC: 5*(113+23) Enter [11 keys, 3 shifts]
Calc: 5 RET 113 RET 23 + * [10 keys, 1 shift]
SC: 7*ans Enter [6 keys, 1 shift]
Calc: 7 * [2 keys, 1 shift]
SC: sqrt(1231+41) Enter [14 keys, 3 shift]
Calc: 1231 RET 41 + Q [9 keys, 1 shift]

Maybe it’s more efficient than clicking buttons with a mouse but it doesn’t feel more efficient than the calculator I already use, nor does it seem to be better integrated with the software I use. It doesn’t even seem more efficient than the scientific calculator I used in high school.

I think I’m put off more by the lack of graphing and (as far as I could tell skimming their site) array/vector/matrix functions, which are the main things I do with Calc.
Disclaimer: it’s more of an experiment than something anyone should use: browser performance might get worse when displaying too many images.

There is a tiny bit of Javascript to close the overlay with Esc, but other than that, it’s only made by (ab)using HTML and CSS.
It’s at 123 point, submitted 3 hours ago, but there are posts on the frontpage from 6 hours ago with just 106 points.

So it’s either overheated discussion or moderator decision, which of them is it?
Wow, this is a fantastic site. I definitely plan on visiting Berlin at some point and I'll use it.
I really want an 8.5x11 or bigger, very low power e-ink device that I can use as essentially a photo display. I was inspired by this[0], but as I'm not a hardware guy at all, trying to make one is out of my reach. Hopefully this PineNote will become that device sometime.

[0] https://youtu.be/gECj1AE9D2c
FLAC is always lossless, but has a variable compression ratio so you can trade compression for speed.

Using the command line "flac" tool, "flac -0" is the fastest, "flac -8" is the slowest, but produces the smallest files.

In my experience, 0-2 all produce roughly equivalent sized files, as do 4-8.
Sounds massively jurisdiction dependent. I’d be surprised if that kind of computer surveillance was legal in my country, let alone webcam of a private area
Feels more and more like that's part of many many problems, perhaps most of them. And usually not a particularly small part.
What is more probable:

A) That Apple is breaking their own end-to-end encryption and potentially conjuring up a PR huge shit storm and legal problems by spying on a low level engineer?

B) Or that the other side of her iMessages simply snitched on her to middle management?

C) Or that she is needlessly paranoid?