skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that a great salary helps attract/retain - but (and I'm not a rockstar coder who has to worry about this) - but out of the FAANGs, Facebook on the surface looks to be the least interesting.

There's the big social media silo and the Oculus and Whatsapp acquisitions - but nothing I look at and think "it would be cool to work on that".
Just feels similar to some of the old guard like ebay - a dominant company that makes and I'm sure can pay well, but nothing I'd cut off my left arm to work on.
Sorry, but if you look at a longer chart you can see this was a problem well before the pandemic.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOOREVLMHMV

Trying to blame the housing crisis on the pandemic is letting some powerful people off the hook.
Yeah its kinda scary. People meme it but so much of the modern world relies on an aging stock of retiree's to come in on contract and do a thing then leave to be sustainable.

It's not the amount of stuff that runs COBOL thats a problem, it's how critical that infrastructure is to human society - I don't think that's an overstatement.
Actionable item for US taxpayers:

> ... deposited to your TreasuryDirect account by the IRS as a result of an IRS tax refund ...

The how-to:

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/articles/res_i...

Anyone know when this became possible? I've been buying I-bonds for years and it's news to me. Paper bonds have been a hassle, all-online is a huge improvement.
A bit of context - Russia has been experiencing IT people shortage to the extent that they have granted military draft exception to IT workers, be it government or private. That US move is a part of the surfacing new "neuter the Russian Nazi beast" strategy that seems to be adopted by the civilized world. I mean it would be great if Ukrainian and NATO forces quickly reached the Moscow and denazified and demilitarized Russia like it was done to Germany in 1945. Unfortunately, that may not happen soon, and there may be years ahead with the Russian Nazist regime (as it is a totalitarian fascist regime with "master nation" ideology thus by definition it is a nazist one) menacing its neighbors and threatening the world with nukes. So, the beast has to be starved and neutered in those years ahead.

The brain drain of 90-ties has resulted in severe impact to Russia - as you see there is no capable Generation X aged leadership in Russia with most of the areas of technology and military having made no noticeable progress - like for example those blood thirsty old generals having no idea about drones, cell networks, etc. and only capable of WWII style ruining of the cities using unguided bombs. Brain draining the next generation from Russia would tremendously deepen Russian impotence in tech/military/space/etc. over the next decade.
What, fundamental knowledge and capability?
TexText (Re-editable LaTeX graphics for Inkscape) is a neat plugin. https://textext.github.io/textext/index.html
"Just because you have some money, that doesn't mean that you have to spend it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
“ A neural network isn't a lethal weapon “

If a click generates a deepfake that causes someone to commit suicide, it might be considered lethal in some jurisdiction.
Connor DeWolfe is an example of one of my favorite Tiktok/Instagram’ers on ADHD topics. Here’s a reel he did on hyperfocus and perfectionism: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CY2UjETKeb_/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M...

His videos are great because they’re funny, short, and surprisingly touch a lot of topics that ADHDers feel alone about.
I guess it depends if the application is a SPA or not. SPAs are usually mostly JavaScript with little server-side code.
They're as open as microsoft is micro.
Radical honesty is something that I would appreciate and find quite refreshing.

Offensiveness just for the sake of being offensive and trying to make other people feel powerless around you, that kind of thing I would not appreciate.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between these two.

Now, scheduling, I'm not quite as bad as the Germans, but I do require that stuff get put on the calendar, and you make a really strong effort to hold to that schedule.

If you think you can just call me whenever you want, then you can just fuck off. Not even my wife can just call me whenever she wants. Fortunately, she knows this.
It's an ambiguous statement. A good steward of users' data might mean that you ensure 100% uptime at scale, and minimize unauthorized exfil (this is probably what the OP works on).

Yet another type of stewardship is to be transparent about what you collect, why, and with whom you share it. Yet another is to be transparent about how you choose to manipulate people's behavior, both online and off. This is, of course, where Facebook fails spectacularly. But its not inconsistent with OP's words.
Its getting harder to argue that big corporations and government aren't working together to manage the people.

Its pretty clear where the mainstream news source take directions from, and now YouTube is making it clear too.

Its not surprising that people who have something to say are leaving (or are forced to leave) in droves.
> That's how we got golang.

I meant a language by removing all the warts, not removing all the features. :)

Seriously, if Go offered manual/arena memory management and real generic programming - stuff like template template parameters, STL algorithms, auto-vectorization, etc - it could effectively replace C++.
I’ve been sick with some kind of respiratory thing, and that link just sent me into a fit of coughing. True story.
Honest question - how does one provide value in this reality. It’s something I’m trying to understand
No Vyvanse actually is prescribed in many european countries so maybe it is for yours, for example it is prescrined in UK and in germany under the name Elvanse.
How do you know a pharmacian has the right to order it? If it is not explicitely allowed in your country what make them allowed to do so?

Omega 3 have mixed evidence, they probably help slighly as augmentations, like guanfacine.

Your cold extremities are probably because of vasocontrition, you can cancel this with low dose (1-3mg) daily tadalafil (yes the sex pill), which is available OTC btw.

As for the methylphenidate half life,
if that is a huge problem you can try atypical stims cf my original comment (selegiline, amantadine, moclobemide or the inferior moda/armodafinil)
or get prescribed serdexmethylphenidate (probably not yet possible in europe)
or you can do the easy fix, buy 4f-mph which is an OTC methyplhenidate variants available on https://rarechems.com/
however while unlikely, it is possibly more cardiotoxic and neurotoxic. Anyway you should fight cardiotoxicity and neurotoxicity (the former via e.g. tadalafil, the latter via magnesium l-threonate, ALCAR and antioxidants such as NAC)

> Thanks for your comments. I don't understand much of it
Feel free to ask any question for clarification
I could never get the point of these crazy-ass restrictions in the first place. If the US was serious about attracting such people, they would have visa-on-arrival (or online) and some kind of automatic green card, like many other countries do. It's not like there will be an overwhelming flow of people from Russia, just to get a plane ticket nowadays is like $2k - and you can always enforce the criteria you'd like (income, education) before entry.

The current "campaign to attract" will probably require travel to some random country first to get a visa, and presenting tons of random documentation, and waiting for arbitrary amounts of time in random places (US, Russia, third-party countries for a visa). It will only attract people who are truly hell-bent on moving specifically to the US.
I didn't say most because I couldn't really prove "most". Do you have a source showing that most hated it because of the lack of depth? Most articles I saw were just talking about the reliability issues.
True, grain of salt with everything. I’d suspect THC usage is more for self-medicating the emotional aspects.
> You can have robust and ergonomic code around nils if they are part of your type signatures

Go has `nil` built into the type signature, but the problem is that all reference types are inherently nil-able, and value types can't be nil (although they can have their own in-band zero values). This means you either pass around values (with the entailed overhead and copy semantics) or you pass around nil-able references.

Why would unions be more ergonomic than sum types? Presumably they would have the same ergonomics?
I really like it! Just a heads up, on my iPhone, the image below this text appears to be making the page horizontally scrollable by accident:

> While I was in the mood for XML I added a file so Google can index your posts easily. Here is while I was in the mood for XML I added to each blog and file so Google can index your posts easily.
Niz plum EC keyboard. The combination of 35g + the dome switches are a great combo of light activation but still letting you rest your fingers on the keys without triggering them because the activation is at the top rather than linear.
"Littler grew up in the 1970s, in suburban Manchester, where he remembers being “always scared, always frightened of what I was faced with.”"

I lived in Manc in 1977 - Wythenshawe to be a bit more precise. I was seven so a little young to be scared about much that I could articulate coherently. It was the Queen's Silver Jubilee year and summer seemed to last forever. I loved going to school (!) "Button Lane Infant's". The mums in our area organised a rota of four mums at a time to walk around 20-30 odd kids to school - about three miles or so for me and my brother. On the walk we whittered on endlessly and I remember we played a game where the world was made of sweets and discussed it. You'd be surprised what interests a seven year old to the point they can recall it aged 52.

Manc in the 1970s was a bit of a grey place. I do remember a lot of concrete and a lot of dog shit. However, where we lived there was lots of impromptu footie on the field near the allotments, behind some really crappy concrete garages, lots of bike riding and generally having a great time. I spent a few days in Wythenshawe hospital, to have the grommits removed from inside my ears that were put in by army surgeons in Rinteln (West Germany). Forty odd years later, I read in New Scientist article that "glue ear" is a bit of a dodgy diagnosis. I do have tinnitus probably due to surgery but it isn't that bad. I recall a smell of boiled cabbages and the walls being green. The nurses were lovely.

I could go on but that's more than enough.

Anyway, Scarfolk isn't really that much of a pastiche. My main complaint is with the name! It combines two English town naming parts but Scar- is mostly seen in the north and -folk is mainly seen in the south. Scarfield, Scarthorpe or Grenfolk or do the job properly and go for a really weird English name: Ryme Intrinsica, Hatch Beauchamp, Chew Magna and Curry Rivel are all near me. The name Scarfolk is quite obviously wrong Even so I can tell you how to pronounce it, if you are not too familiar with English place names. It is a bit like "Skaffuck" - you run both syllables into each other and folk loses the l sound. The final k sound is softened too - I put fuck in because it is a fairly well understood syllable.
Well you most likely need a CUDA compatible GPU with a non-negligible amount of vram to load the model. And a few hours of your time to mash your head at the keyboard in frustration because of the inevitable dependencies that won't want to resolve properly.

Most "open source" models don't actully upload the final models either, just the code they used to train them (not sure if this is the case here), so the next step after that is downloading 100G of data and running your workstation for a few days to train the actual model first.

I recall at one point I attempted to run BERT or GPT-J or one of those lighter language models locally, and it was going well until I realized I needed a 24G of vRAM to even load the model hah.
So maybe this was the inspiration for the color correction decisions on Ozarks! ;P
I used to work (left 10 years ago) at the FSF and dealt with a lot of that kind of thing.

Also prisoners asking for books.
The double membrane of mitochondria also strongly hint at their origin. Chloroplasts and nuclei of eukaryotes are similar in having double membranes.
No[1]. Unless a surprising proportion of the Jews from the "Former USSR" are from the Baltics, there are far more Israeli Jews from e.g. Morocco than from Northern Europe.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Ethnic_... Chart only includes Jews, unfortunately, but that is 75% of the population.
I have a USB-A Yubikey and I prefer it to the crappy USB-C one that’s just too small.
Who's to say that artists didn't stop the Vietnam War? If they didn't someone should stand up and take credit.
A friend of mine does. I don't.

First, it's a lot of work. The projects section of my personal website is already a lot to keep updated.

Second, I am trying to find intrinsic motivation to do things, and getting validation from others is the opposite of that.

Third, I have competitors and some of them are not so ethical. I don't benefit from revealing how I do things.

Fourth, nobody knows how much I make, and I prefer it that way. I don't even want to hint at it. Building in public seems to involve stats that I'm not comfortable sharing.
Omicron Sublineages Evade Antibodies from Earlier Infections
And how does this compare to the web browser add-on called "DownThemAll"?
Unreinforced concrete has its advantages... this tower still stands after 140 years, and so barring an earthquake it can't withstand it is likely to continue to stand for hundreds more years. Steel-reinforced concrete is considered to have a lifespan of 50-150 years... after that the reinforcement rods will have rusted, and in the process the concrete is likely to have cracked (this is called "concrete cancer"). And since these structures were usually designed in ways that depend on the properties of steel-reinforced concrete, that means they become structurally unsound even if they don't outright fall down.

Nowadays for projects meant to last people use stainless steel reinforcement or even carbon fiber reinforcement, but these are expensive.
At least if I'm understanding your question properly, frameworks only provide the frame, you have to fill in the rest
Google has had 10 years of experience censoring the internet in China, and they're just trying to be first to market with a viable censorship package for western governments, should they go full great-firewall-style censorship. It's just good business.
How to use arguments from previous command?
I don't worry about that, and I am (generally) at peace, despite things. Instead, we can have faith in God, who gives instructions and always keeps His promises, and they are good. More at my web site (no sales; from when I felt more eloquent than today; in profile).

(ps: there are some very likeable thoughts in other comments here)
Oil Wells Hidden in Plain Sight in L.A
Right, but the point is I don't want the maintainer to avoid or delay handling it because they would like to change something, but either don't want to offend or don't want to go through the tedious rigamarole of editing the file as they want by using the ensemble of GitHub, the Internet, me and my text editor as a very slow and inefficient text editor (especially as I probably don't understand all their comments at first because they know the system inside out, and I don't).

It's not that I will refuse to make changes, I will, within reason, it's that I'm also fine with the maintainer just taking over at any point and finishing it however they want, without any further back-and-forth. And I don't even care whose name is on it.
The article doesn’t delve its title that technocrats thrive at apple. It only focuses on what it calls “accountants”.

However is it possible that Ive himself was just done? With artists , either composers or of the visual arts, they usually have a stock of good ones they churn out and after that the output is usually a repetition or a hodgepodge their previous work. It’s possible Ive reached that point too as the iPhone kind of became an all in one computer that killed a lot of accessories, so any idea for a new kind of device is killed automatically. In that scenario, I don’t know what else is there after a watch.
Oh this is good to know, thanks!
There's no shame I'm just noodling and jamming. In fact, I find it meditative.

Sometimes just twisting a few knobs on a symthesizer and making a boring four-to-the-floor loop can take you away for a few hours
Do you know wether methamph and methylphenidate as act pharmacologically relevant methyl donors, like SAM-e?
Hmm I think this is bad. Not terrible, but bad.

I’ll chain a few methods but never more than can easily fit on one line. Usually just something like groupby agg rename.
Unfortunately, I don't have the stats, but I'm pretty sure the US is one of the top destinations for scientists and engineers too. And for the Russian part, as @ajross pointed out, the article is literally about making the process easier for them.

Also, my comment is clearly not a "random factoid". You can even see that Germany is the second one in the list (kinda to @yeputons's credit).

Finally, I don't appreciate the language policing. We can talk like normal human beings on HN, and save the corpo-speak for our day jobs.
I've wondered a similar thing about the song "Silicone on Sapphire" [1] from The Clash's album "Sandinista!" from late 1980. That song is a dub version of the music from an earlier song on that album, "Washington Bullets", but with the lyrics replaced by a couple voices on the left and right just speaking mostly computer geek phrases back and forth.

[1] Yes, "Silicon on Sapphire" would have made more sense but they used "Silicone" in the title.
Question: how do you add a label to an arrow (such that it stays on the arrow if you move it)?
> it's how critical that infrastructure is to human society

Exactly, and the regression horror stories I hear are unbelievable because these codebases are so old.

A while back, a major customer of this processor transmitted a payment reconciliation file that had bad headers in it and brought down the entire reconciliation system (billions of dollars a day flow through this platform). No basic input validation, no escape hatch for corrupted files, nothing. I couldn't believe it when I heard the story. The crazy part was how long it would take to harden the system against bad input like that because a lot of that code was written 20-30 years ago.

People working in modern systems think they know tech debt...
dev here (quite overwhelmed by all the new visitors coming from here, thank you all!): My wife doesn't like female assistants either, for us Alice got a male voice and we just pretend it is Alice Cooper ;)
Until it doesn't and you have to redo your entire drawing in another tool ...

It is always better to choose a tool where you're least likely to run into a dead-end street.
See also: NIST's answer to “Do you need a blockchain?” (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31192131
“ Depression is not something with upsides and downsides.”

Not sure if this is true.

Evolutionary psychologists have explored the improved tunnel vision that accompanies depression as a means for finding one’s way out of harmful situations.

Society-wide it seems many people are living in harmful situations/ways and are able to medicate their way out of the tunnel vision before recognizing the sources of pain.
"I think society's response shouldn't be to stop him from killing himself, but improving his living conditions."

I don't think the article is opposed to this. It sounds like the care home was violating their existing duty of care in not proving a clean living environment. I mean, who isn't going to want to kill themself when the people paid to take care of you and are legally obligated to take care of you let you live in sewage and you have no where else to go with nobody looking out for your best interest. So you aren't making the decision to kill yourself based on your medical condition but rather on the illegal level of care the facility is providing.

Although based on your statement about consenting to die, I could see that if you believe people should be allowed to consent to die without a terminal illness. For example, someone if someone is simply poor but is in good health. Although society has generally frowned on that so far.
what are your thoughts on wellbutrin and isopropyphenidate? (not combined haha)
And how to avoid ending up with a:

"General-Purpose Tool-Building Factory Factory Factory"?

"Why I Hate Frameworks": https://www.gwern.net/docs/cs/2005-09-30-smith-whyihateframe...
Would Comcast be required to implement the measures? I can't tell whether the law just applies to websites that host user-posted content, or also applies to ISPs.
> Be self employed.

You missed the joke, I think :-)
On SSRI 100% yes. I can stop Concerta and not even notice it aside from taking an extra nap. Miss my SSRI - no way, major dizziness. But then again I don’t plan to stop taking my SSRI ever. In my mind people wearing glasses also have severe withdrawal symptoms. ;)
Also people mix things up, they think CBD is a cannabinoid except it's actually a cannabinoid antagonist, meaning it does the pharmacological opposite of THC. (although it also do other things)
A lot of people look wistfully back on the good old days of futzing around with drama in their PC.

Time moves on. If you want computing to be an adventure, that’s what Linux is for.
He did win a Nobel prize so he did get some respect, at least from his Swedish colleagues.
Groupby agg is a bit of an exception. It’s returning something that is very different from the original. Not just a modification, but a different table that summarizes the original. You ought to be assigning it to a new variable.

Groupby->agg is a good one to chain because you don’t want the intermediary almost ever.

Edit: also, I never understand people who use query. That just seems like it’s begging for problems later on. .loc for life.
Consider Cyc [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

It deduces relations from set of facts in it's database.

If you have human knowledge from wikipedia on your desktop, you can deduce your own facts using Cyc's engine or something else.

It will be fun to tinker with. You can even start your own conspiracy theory, because you can.
> Anyone who comes even remotely close to performing CS almost certainly isn't using anything resembling the scientific method, and the difference between engineering and applied CS is blurry to say the least.

Actually that's one of the things Sussman noted about modern software development: that you have to "perform basic science" on your framework and library code by running experiments, rather than building up things from first principles.

So maybe computer science will become a science, after all!
Per the discussions, a prototype trained version of the model was released a few hours ago.

There probably won't be demos for a bit, but sooner-than-later.
thanks! very useful chart
Did you try Vosk https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api or Wenet https://github.com/wenet-e2e/wenet
> ADHD isn’t a disorder in the sense that people that have it are “ill”. It’s a personality type, and the disorder part of it comes when the characteristics of that personality conflict with then life you lead.

If it was a personality type, you wouldn't be able to treat it with medication. It's a difference in physical brain structure the same way schizophrenia is. There's far less side effects to Adderall than most other psychoactive drugs like SSRIs.

> You may procrastinate for a few days, but an ADHD sufferer will procrastinate for months and months.

Plenty of more physical effects than that, it's not all at the conceptual level. You also can't sleep well and your heart rate variability is different.