skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I urge people who have a problem with drinking and wish to quit, who for whatever reason do not feel that 12 step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous"

I urge people to see an addiction specialist first. Do not see AA first. See a doctor asap. This disease is serious and has a high fatality rate. AA meetings are like a club after you have it under control (EG. don't attend drunk).

Disulfiram: An old military drug. This will stop you drinking but you need a significant other or parent involved. Each morning you must take the pill and your significant other needs watch to double check. Doctors are scared to prescribe this and the drug companies are ramping down it's production. Hoarding the drug is common.

naltrexone: This comes in two forms. The pill and the shot. When you first take this you should do the shot form. The shot lasts 30 days and there is not a possibility of skipping out on pills. Naltrexone will ruin the Euphoria feeling of alcohol and opioids (so it's a kind of two for one). No addiction specialists back the 'the Sinclair Method' but do back daily use of Naltrexone.

Rehab: Good short term, bad long term. Rehab failure rate is over %90. A normal rehab will run 10-30k per incident. Do not leave unless you had a Naltrexone shot. Longer stays will impact work, an unemployed Alcoholic is dangerous.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Very* difficult for people with social anxiety. People that succeed here find a sponsor which is like dating. You will be rejected literally by tens of potential sponsors until one says yes (hang in there!). AA has a very high success rate for extroverts who become a sponsor - caring over others going through alcoholism seems to rewire the brain.

Baker Acted/Marchman: If you have a family member (or a friend but you have family contacts) drinking to a point where they are unable to make decisions - you can file a Baker act. [Name varies wildly state to state]. A court can determine the individual needs intervention and can use state authorities to detain. Depending on your court appearance after 72 hours (don't be drunk lol) - the judge orders more jail time or programs.
Now the real joke is, who would even think Russia would be capable of firing missiles at about 300 satellites (those that orbits move over/close to Ukraine over the course of a day) moving at 7km/s?
You're not allowing for risk and exposure.

This is a lot of money, even for Musk.

I don't see this deal happening. He can't afford it (without exposing himself to unnecessary risk). If it does go through in the ways described here, he's an idiot ... and I don't believe that, despite my personal opinions about him.
Which is a big problem in having a fair economy.
> Presumably investigating someone over that would violate their 5th amendment rights, no?

You may wish to reread the 5th amendment.
Yeah, that was exactly my reaction when I learned about it :)
My thesis is: if they put in minimal effort into automation, then metamask spam would be trivial to block. Since we know of the metamask spam for months (years?), it means there was no effort. I could be wrong, but I'll stick to the most obvious explanation.
> I wonder what you think “overtaking” means, in the context of not impeding traffic.

Someone has to be trying to pass before it counts as overtaking and possibly impeding.

The law definitely doesn't say to stay in single file at all times just in case someone might want to overtake at some point.

> You mean like “….why are groups of cyclists going in rows of two or three in a narrow service road (40 to 50 mph speed limit).”

No, not at all! They only have to leave the lane if there is a big enough shoulder. A narrow service road is exactly where bikes are permitted to use the lane!!

You cut the most important part of my sentence which is "the core of the rule is staying out of lanes when possible, even when they're already single-file."

If the road forces them to be in the lane anyway, then they don't have to be single file as a general rule, only when someone is overtaking.

The only reason not to be side by side, other than overtakers, is when one bike could fit in the shoulder but the second bike would have to be in the lane. If both bikes can fit in the shoulder, then side by side is no worse so it's allowed. If zero bikes can fit in the shoulder, then side by side is no worse so it's allowed.
I kind of agree. I learned promises from the promise API - flatmapping over things, that will happen when the thing is resolved.

I remember async/await was harder to grok because it seemed so arbitrary. A bunch of syntax sugar, and function decorations.. promises were just method calls.
async/await is not the same as the do-notation, that's why.
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Regarding the error handling case, I've played around with the idea of implementing a Result type with typescript and hiding the errors behind that. The end result looks something like this

const res = await getJSON('/thingy');

if (isErr(res)) {
// Handle error.
return;
}

You can read the details from here: https://thingsthatkeepmeupatnight.dev/posts/simple-typescrip...
> despite being grilled on it and the level of skill not to great they just want senior people

Happens to me too, I get tough interviews, and a good salary, but the work is exactly the same as the juniors "a guy on the scrum team". I don't even understand why they hire seniors, or have that title when it means nothing. I guess they expect them to be just faster versions of juniors.
I'm in complete agreement that workers' rights should be stronger and protect them from quisling employers. But there is also something to be said about the technological mechanisms that allow the mass-mob to form. For example in the case of people who have a few hundred followers and end up with hundreds of thousands of people talking about them, there is a hateful amplification that should not be enabled.
Isn't 1080p @ 14" like almost exactly the same as 4K @ 27"? It's 157 ppi vs. 163 whereas 1440p @ 14" is 209 ppi. And 4K at 200% scaling is just sharp 1080p. I guess it depends what scaling you're using on the 4K display 27" display but if it's 100% it should be near perfect unless scaling isn't working like I think.
Hacker -> bad

Hackathon -> good?
You're making the exact argument Twitter made for not banning Trump during the first 3.8 years of his presidency. Like literally "Trump is newsworthy" is word-for-word the reason Twitter used for keeping him on.

Then, they thought that they were, or could be, complicit in a violent domestic attack, and made a call.
I try to read every one of these sorts of articles that comes up. I don't want to be caught flat-footed on some kind of weird memory leak issue from not using a pattern correctly, or something.

But every single one of these articles that I've read against async/await has been nothing more than inventing "problems" to try to convince people to stick to raw promises strictly because that's what the author is comfortable with using. No actually technical merits are discussed. Just fantasy issues so author can feel superior for not learning something new.

Like how the author claims you can't visually "see" that two await calls can be parallelized. Speak for yourself, buddy. And then complains about "having to go back to using promises" to affect the parallelization. My dude, it was promises all along.

It's just syntax. Use it, don't use it, mix and match it. It's not a moral issue.
Consider changing your attitude towards your point 2. There are thousands of non-unicorn startups successfully serving their niches. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25614966 for plenty of examples. Go to a trade show/conference that exhibits software solutions for a certain business vertical and you will return inspired.
How do you get away with not paying any capital gains tax?
That's a huge issue with supplements if you ask me. Is the government doing anything to stop this? Do they test random samples and fine/ban the company from selling?
Quite ironic that the only 'free' search engine left is Yandex.

So much for freedom and democracy (TM).
You do neither.

You offer users a list of filters they can choose to activate, so they only see content according to the filters they enabled.

There would be filters against spam, filters against opinions other than your own, etc.
Property taxes are definitely in the same vein, and I'd be curious about the same aspect there. Currently, local government regulation seems to be the main mechanism to deter this today (e.g. rent control, senior citizen exemptions, single-family zoning), but the "current residents" vs "newcomers" tradeoff is absolutely strong here. One differentiating factor between land tax and property tax, though, is that if I'm taxed on all the additional private developments I make to my property, public development becomes a more attractive option (which I'd expect would make the disincentive weaker with property taxes). For instance, if I would have to pay $2k more a year in tax if I built a pool on my property, I might be more inclined to support the public pool. This would not apply with land value taxes.

For sales tax and income tax, these would apply regardless of location, and apply at the individual level instead of cross-pollinating between individuals. If my neighbor makes twice as much, or buys twice as much, it's easy to rationalize that they pay twice as much tax as me. If my neighbor just bought an identical house to mine for twice what I paid five years ago, though, it is harder to stomach that my tax bill should be twice was it was five years ago as well.
The distribution could be sent in parts by email if you didn't have FTP access. In the UK, you could connect via JANET to an ARPANET gateway at University College London to FTP stuff from the US, this was before 1985.

The franz-friends mailing list is probably archived somewhere with regular messages describing how to get the distribution.
Nick Land (of the CCRU) supposedly recently "opened fire" on Moldbuggian hard-ons for monarchy, I'll need to check that out... (Likely related : Unabomber's criticisms of how the "left" cannot avoid becoming the tool (in both senses) of "the System" when taking power ?)

Found it (but not read yet) : from p45 on :

https://agorist.xyz/files/Agorism_XXI_I_2022.pdf

I'm guessing that they were always fundamentally opposed anyway, Land being of "bottom" and Yarvin of the "top" sensibilities (in the political compass sense) ?
Any country where one is forced to work a job they don't want in order to afford the basic necessities of life and able to pursue their passion in the vanishingly tiny amount of free time they have left after that.
To a degree you're right, but it's a somewhat navel-gazing point. There are circumstances where killing someone is legally and (arguably) ethically justified. (Defence, for example.) It's fine to adopt the principle "don't kill people" as an ideal, but - similarly to your point about free speech - it's naive to think an actual ruleset can derive from this ideal alone. Your point is reducible to "things are complicated", which - while true! - is kind of obvious.

No speech is unequivocally free, but there's certainly a gradient of more free to less free. I've spent time in North Korea, and boy was I glad when I crossed the Sinuiju-Dandong bridge back to China. And then on the other end of the scale there are things you can say in New York you could be prosecuted for in London. When someone says they want "free speech", they're saying they want to push the norms more towards the free end of the spectrum. It's fine to ask: "OK, how do we do that? What, specifically, does that entail in the present situation?" And those questions may entail compromises and nuances that aren't entirely satisfactory to everyone involved, while still all in all bolstering the ability to speak freely.

Free speech is messy and abstract, but it does exist in a meaningful sense, and there are concrete things that can bolster and weaken it. If someone says they want "more free speech", that's a meaningful political statement.
> Those people should be selling their land. We should not have a scarce natural resource sitting idle or under-utilized. From the article as well:

If we have that attitude to people owning things, then the first thing should be wealth tax on jewelry, cars, boats, and other luxury items which if you can't afford to pay the tax then you should be forced to sell it. I remember how popular that concept where here in EU when refugees had their jewelry taken by the government in order to pay for expenses and basic living. People have this weird attachment to objects that defy rational thought.

I get the sentiment, but in term of winning popular support it has some distinct emotional drawbacks.

If we want to specifically address vacant lots within city boundaries, a tax on that seems fair. Not many low income home owners live in their property owned vacant lots located inside city boundaries.
> I guess they expect them to be just faster versions of juniors.

No, they expect them to be:

- more independent

- able to bring past experience to bear on present problems

- make fewer mistakes

- be able to help others rise to the next level

- possibly make good team leads at a later stage
"Antabuse can lead to death or dangerous health problems."

So can a slew of other drugs. You should see the drug risks for stuff folks take for autoimmune disorders. It isn't just up to the doctor to mitigate the risks: Patients must do their part as well (blood tests and so on).

And most importantly: So can alcoholism. Alcoholism kills slowly. Withdrawal can kill not-so-slowly. Somehow, do you think the doctor is not responsible for refusing help when the alternative risks include death as well?

That said, I'm not a doctor and there are generally (but not always) good reasons to avoid a drug or another. The risk of drugs by itself usually isn't it, though, as it depends on effectiveness compared to other drugs/methods and comparing the risk of cure to the risk of continued disease.
> Peer programming, daily checkups, a rock solid CI, and, above all, trust in the professionalism of your team are some ingredients for high quality, high throughput software development.

Absolutely agree, the collaboration should happen sooner in the process, and I would add that the team should probably also have made at least a high level proposed solution together before the work even started.
All you say is interesting and probably true, but you did not address OP's specific point at all.
Power game.
Generally agree, but I fall prey to the Second System Effect sometimes, tho. I rewrite my "organically grown into spaghetti code over some time" original program, aiming for a proper design, and end up with some overengineered mess that's hard to maintain and burns CPU and/or memory in layers of abstractions. The 3rd time then is the charm for me, more often than I'd like to admit - avoiding the pitfalls of original program and having learned the real requirements/needed features and details from it, and avoiding the overengineering of the 2nd attempt reminding me to KISS.
One thing that is left out is the efficacy of the Chinese vaccines Sinovac and Sinopharm.

They are simple not good enough to stop COVID, to do that the Chinese regime would have to choose an American vaccine.

Which they of course never will do, so one can ask if the Chinese regime really wants the best for their citizens ?

https://myacare.com/blog/comparison-of-covid-19-vaccines
(Speaking a bit from experience given past drugs use.)

Isn't the same true for stuff like SSRIs? We don't know if/how they are going to affect the patient.
What's to disagree. It is indeed an opinion. That you seem to think yours is beyond question is telling.

Practically all humans on earth agree with me and have done for several hundred thousand years.

Your argument stems from a constructed stance of moral purity; akin to religious pleas to embrace poverty and self flagellation.
It takes control the machine to get payment. What other criteria was there?
It’s pretty good! Does the vast majority of my driving for me, except for roundabouts, gravel roads, and exceptionally snowy days (Scandinavia).

I do long road trips and feel less exhausted than I would otherwise.
How a Lone Tenant Is Holding Up a $70M Condo Deal
The US or UK governments would take drastic military action before allowing a hostile nuclear power to deploy military assets on its borders.

This is relevant to Ukraine because obviously it was allowing America to expand its military reach right up to Russia’s doorstep.
> It’s because we are taught to read async/await code in a synchronous mindset. We can’t parallelize the save calls in that first fully synchronous example, and that same — but now incorrect — logic follows us to the second example.

What a weird idea. When I see a serial bunch of awaits the first I think of is whether that makes any sense.

I think the author is kind of projecting his own views on everyone else here.
No you are avoiding a simple question with a nothing burger answer.
YOU may, buy your core frameworks may not. And if your synchronous code is holding up async loops, you're gonna potentially create a lot of very hard to diagnose problems. Beware the foundation on which you build.
Yup, I agree that the author is missing the point here. You can mix these syntaxes and have, say, "await Promise.all" without guilt.
I'm half asian and I get the "Asian flush" [0] which for all intents and purposes induces the same effect as this drug (DSF)

>Individuals who experience the alcohol flushing reaction may be less prone to alcoholism. Disulfiram, a drug sometimes given as treatment for alcoholism, works by inhibiting acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, causing a five to tenfold increase in the concentration of acetaldehyde in the body. The resulting irritating flushing reaction tends to discourage affected individuals from drinking.[9][10]

I literally have a negative feedback loop from drinking alcohol, it makes me feel really bad, my skin flushes, I feel my heartbeat in my chest/neck/head, and I literally feel miserable.

Honestly, it kind of sucks, because when you can't drink you notice how much socialising is based around alcohol. I've found ways to cope with this and am on good terms with myself now but it really took me a long time. Especially to get around the social/peer pressure of having to drink.

On the bright side, I'll likely never become an alcoholic.
Land itself isn't "productive" in our time the way arable land once was the key to wealth. Persistently rising housing prices does not mean that land is productive, it means mortgage rates are persistently too low.

Taxing land will not create more housing; if it was profitable it would happen regardless of tax.

> “It doesn’t disappear — so you can lower taxes on things that do go away.”

It absolutely goes away. The only value of land is its utility to humans - the infrastructure, buildings, utilities. Just look at all the ghost towns that lost their economic viability. That land now has negative value since old buildings need to be demolished before being developed. Measured in acreage, there is effectively infinite land, but without infrastructure and buildings it has no value to people.

The value of land that is polluted and needs to be rehabilitated becomes negative.
That's a good approach if only because it shows how and how fast someone can build up a mental model of what a piece of code really does.

The problem is that the 'existing code' may well be of poor quality and that in order to understand it you first have to get into what it was supposed to be doing in the first place, and this isn't always obvious. So the writer had better take good care to make the code self explanatory or provide additional documentation to give sufficient context. In a way the underlying assumption is that the code is 'good'.

And that's where the real problem lies: lots of code isn't all that good and plenty of it is probably best described as 'single use', in other words: write only. Trying to read it or trying to make sense of it is more effort than writing it ever was. And given the fact that code is typically read many more times than that it is written it pays off to write it well, but hardly anybody really does. The pressure to deliver the next commercial feature is just too high.

And woe to the interviewee that points out the deficiencies in the code if the author of the code happens to be the interviewer, because people will be people, so this could easily turn into a minefield.

Questions to ask of the interviewer before 'reading' the code:

- who wrote it?

- is it functional?

- are you supposed to debug it or explain it?

- was it written for the express purpose of the interview or is it code from the company codebase that is representative of how they work there? (this alone might be reason to terminate the interview depending on how it looks :) ).
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I always wondered why async/await introduced a concise way of dealing with asynchronous code, but then breaks all this conciseness with try/catch ...

Hence I tried to combine async/await with catch for an improved readability [0] two years ago. Turns out I never used this approach, because it's not common sense when working in a team and still feels too verbose. Either one uses then/catch or async/await with try/catch. However, I still feel try/catch still makes code unattractive.

[0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/javascript-async-await-without-t...
But why would you use such a remote asynchronous late stage feedback loop, if you are literally sitting in the same room as your collaborators, during the whole development process?
I guess clean up for those is easier?

traditional drip coffee and shelf stable creamer was the norm when I started.

Big tech is not all "free" and perks, and it depends dramatically on company or even just the division. There's the the big one of Google, with all its free food, etc but the other big tech don't do that - they have accumulated some free snacks and sodas, etc in recent years but they still basically charge for all food from the cafeterias. The free food at Google or startup-land isn't a huge selling point in practice - it simply is not worth much relative to the salary/wage comp.
> Being able to store tasks/promises and reuse/await them later is a clear advantage

This sounds like horrible spaghetti. I can understand you might need to do it in exceptional circumstances, but I wouldn’t make a habit of it.
Where are those mainstream voices now, in the grand scheme of things claiming that it's not safe for kids to go to school is a claim not rooted in science or statistics.

But probably those mainstream voices are not that interested in either.
>Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and/or adenovirus have been detected in several cases. The United Kingdom has recently observed an increase in adenovirus activity, which is co-circulating with SARS-CoV-2

Weren't most Brits immunized with an Adenovirus-based SARS COV-2 vaccine? Could this maybe cause issue with the immune responses to some Adenoviruses?
knowing microsoft, they'll fuck up by doing everything people hate about ADs

if it is subtle and match the game (part brands in a car game, sponsors in a sport game, real world brands in a contemporary games), i guess it is acceptable, just like with movies, AAA games cost a lot of money to create, so if it can help reduce the risk associated with making them, fine

anything else = f word

one must not forget, you build art, and you have a reputation to protect if you want to last, i guess microsoft gives no shit about its reputation anymore anyways

imagine seeing ADs in old paintings
Disagree, the concept of witch trials predates the technological "leaps" you mentioned.
Again and again, absolutely no reflection how so far all attempts of anonymity + decentralization failed to sybil attacks and other kinds of abuse.

Solve that first and you won't have to convince people anymore. Instead of starting another quixotic fight against "central control".