skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just my anecdote but I lived for several years in a student co-op (kinda like a frat/sorority but run by the students and mixed genders) and we did alot together much of which was not academically related but even so I only managed to connect with one person from that time after I left and only then because we happened to run into each other while living in the same city. That was at the largest uni in my state. On the flip-side, though I didn’t stay in contact at the time, I did connect through Facebook with several of my housemates at the college I attended my freshman year (and subsequently dropped out of). I don’t remember anyone from my actual major.
My point is that many software engineers don't really understand things you mentioned: load balancing, caching, scaling, etc. in depth and proceed with a high-level understanding to use tools that implement the low-level logic without fully understanding it. I'm not saying it's all of them but a significant number of them use the black-box approach.
Not GP, but I've commented on a few of your comments so far, so will keep going.

I still haven't repaired a few things in my life that still cause me significant stress (happy to go in-depth if you email, see bio), but I really had no idea what the medication would do until I tried it.

For me; it quietened my (extremely vocal) inner critic and therefore lowered my anxiety, and it slowed down the rapid bounce-around of my thoughts, particularly in situations where I wasn't deeply stimulated (eg I outlasted my kid playing ball for the first time ever because I stayed interested and wasn't just counting down the minutes until I could say 'okay that's enough'). And that's it.

But that means I can actually start to do the hard work of building the right habits to put some important bits of my life back on track, particularly when they'd been built wrong and have to be torn down.
providing you replace it with sleep and exercise no issue at all.

really the first reason you use it as a crutch at work is to help supplement a lack of the above.

then the addiction and chemical resistance kicks in and now you're dependent and in need of increasing amounts.
The COBOL/Java jobs would often ask for JEE experience.
Absolutely. I have an afro wig somewhere from when 70s retro clubs were the thing in London.
Or you could just accept the help from others--crediting them in your bug tracker or, at most, in some CONTRIBUTORS file--but add the perfection yourself?
I don’t know where you live where a bar tab would be $50-100. I went to two universities (one in Israel and the other in Austria, neither particularly cheap countries) and cheap student bars had beers for €3-5. Might be a bit more today but not much.
Treatises have been written on the sheer utility of "fuck". It's an incredibly versatile word.
I'm on a desktop and couldn't read the article either. I was shocked not to see a non-paywalled link posted in the comments. How are others reading it? I certainly haven't used my monthly quota for this site, which I never visit...
Those look fun. Figure a 2x heavier car and US freeway speeds (70 mph / 112 km/h) and I think you would end up wanting a lot more power. Even if the number seems high you only rely on about half given altitude effects and protecting engine reliability. Notably even on something as light as the i3 BMW tried using a tiny engine for their range extender and ended up switching to a larger 170HP unit.
It is just a matter of time before sending money to Russia for any reason will be considered as supporting terrorists.
the other great time to kick the habit is when you're sick... if you don't have a choice about being sick you might as well throw withdrawal effects at the same time, medicate and sleep it away and start fresh when you recover.
I wonder, can you turn this into a "tree aging" machine learning model that can then predict / apply this to other characters, for example those Google monocolor emojis.
I imagine your VPS provider will gladly give your info to law enforcement whereas a DDoS company might not.
Learning to See Edition
Why would someone use this over palette (https://github.com/Ogeon/palette)?
> Do you understand why both living room and chow mein are listed, but brown pants isn't?

I already told him I know what an open compound is. This is just rude.
Amazon used to have a lot of Perl code. So it's all moved to Python? Give me Larry over Guido any day.
It's cool to see this here, thanks for posting op. I was just deepening a solo campaign in Palladium Books' Recon [0] today and getting a space trucker team together in FrontierSpace [1].

Epics and long-form narratives are really important in TTRPG culture. While originally pretty overwhelming, I learned a lot by running long-form campaigns myself. I find that the session-level complexity is usually best when kept very low, compared to what people think. The scope of events is also kept low in terms of things like "what happened today".

Personally I find that there's something about dialing the dopamine down (contrary to what people would expect) that helps the game feel easier for everybody to play in the long term.

My kids allow me to GM a couple of ongoing long-term campaigns for them, one that went from dungeon crawl to space adventure within 2 sessions and continued into space opera territory, and another long-form high fantasy campaign that's been going for 4 years now. The former uses Supers! RED [2] and the latter is based on GURPS [3]. Both are kind of gear-and-pet-fests for them so it's part of our job together to manage all that. :-)

(Including links in case others are interested in the publishing culture or games themselves)

0. https://www.palladiumbooks.com/modern/recon

1. https://www.dwdstudios.com/frontierspace

2. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/130108/SUPERS-Revised-E...

3. http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/
> US about 400000 civilians post 2001,

Undoubtedly you're comparing apples to oranges. IIRC, when you start getting into big numbers like 400,000, the counting gets increasingly indirect, e.g.:

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-09-1...:

> Of all those who died in the post-9/11 wars, civilians accounted for the largest share by far. The Costs of War Project estimates that more than 360,000 civilians lost their lives at the hands of opposition fighters, local militaries and U.S. and coalition forces.

...

> Russia closer to 40000 maybe according to Wikipedia.

Any number at this point is a wild-ass guess.

> Of course the US news won't tell about its own cruelty.

Note the above cite was from an outlet literally named "US News."
you should publish it to gossips web

https://gossipsweb.net/
Which premise?
I honestly think it’s probably 2. I’m on 36mg of Concerta and .2mg of Clonidine. The combo has helped with my mood regulation, working memory, attention, and (to a much lesser extent) my motivation. But it’s not a cure-all. I feel like it helps me to get to Everest base camp, but I still have to climb the damn mountain. My wife is a litigator, and I am daily made very aware of the differences in our ability to organize and execute tasks. I’ve found that medication will get you to a baseline ability to function, but it’s on you to develop the external structures that can enable actual success/productivity/etc. If you aren’t already familiar with the work of Russell Barkley, I’d highly recommend it. He emphasizes the need to create informational strategies to supplement the medication. The meds are helpful—tremendously so—but they are a starting point.
But then you can't have generic functions that are efficient at run-time and work at compile-time ?

This feature is added to c++ not for fun but because if you can't have a run-time branch that will do some AVX-fu, or invoke some runtime function from BLAS or LAPACK, the whole "evaluate at compile-time" thing is... Not useless but not far either
In those situations, pick a random hex value, then convert and mod it.

I can't tell what integer `0x4C mod 10` is off the top of my head. Turns out it's 6.
AWS was built mainly with Java as far as I'm aware.
You could apply the same approach to the homelessness problem: "Let's just bite the bullet, end the land ownership system and auction the land, using the money to pay back the cost." I guess the idea is that every house is up for rent every year, rent decided by auction and payable to the government, who then compensates the former owners?

Are you in favor of that approach to land tenure? If not, why would water rights be different?
Complete list of C/C++ FFT libraries
>And then it pivoted all the way to full-scale complaining about wokeness.

I thought the article seemed very credible, and I also picked up on the author’s possible anti work sentiment.

I don’t think the analysis is any less credible and it is certainly worth the hour it takes to read.
We're talking about the scale. This is "manual image editing" on steroid.
Any thoughts on wellbutrin?

Interesting to hear about atomoxetine. I've read conflicting arguments on that but don't know enough to draw a conclusion.

Personally my adhd was best controlled by Ritalin SR 20mg. Novartis stopped making that and the generic SR I tried didn't work the same.

I can take 10mg ritalin instant release but it's harder to dose consistently.
Superposition is a mathematical conception, while the wave in a physical guitar string is a physical thing.

Superposition is the mathematical description of _our_ uncertainty about position of a particle.

The physical wave in a guitar string does redistribution of mass in the string using energy. The physical wave does some work, while superposition does nothing, because superposition is used for predictions only. When we know the location or other properties of a particle after a measurement, then its superposition is meaningless.

They share nothing in common in the physical world, while they share a lot in mathematical description of their behavior.
> Democracy is only good when it is not ruling and making decisions that serve everyone, and not just the majority, equally.

But you’re arguing that wokeness, which focuses on the interests of minorities which are being oppressed by the majority, is in opposition to this goal?
I'm glad there is work on open alternatives to twilio, but I want to either confirm some features are missing or find out where to learn more about them.

Is there any solution for:

* Conference calls

* Call queues

* Call recordings
> ... believed that CS programs filled students' heads with theoretical garbage

I'm not sure I'd call my algorithms, operating systems, and core CS classes theoretical garbage, but I guess I value not dedicating semesters to the front end framework or GitHub repository of the week. If anything, I now regret not paying more attention during my undergrad.

I don't want to extrapolate this too much for obvious reasons, but did this firm also view math, physics, etc. degrees as full of theoretical garbage?
With the absurd efficiency gains Apple got, I imagine most premium Windows/Linux laptops will run ARM in 5 years.
Any that I can buy? One of my favorite novel series is based off a gaming session: the Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Fair, in my case the camera drives my upgrades and the larger size isn't so annoying it's worth sacrificing photo quality.
Yes! I've been slowly getting into his work on the various executive functions, not just the intellectual/thinking one... emotional regulation is a big thing too!
I am afraid this will provide justification for the Russian govmt to close borders and may actually achieve opposite effect to what is stated. I wonder if this is intended or not.
I for one can read it just fine.
if he was the reason why MacBook Pro had that terrible keyboard or if he was the reason for removing the MagSafe connector, I say good riddance.
Loved the design, and the information on the project! I will be checking it daily!! I was working on something similar a while back! https://justfive.news/
My degree cost far in excess of 100k. If you gave me 100k liquid I would have found like minded people and educated myself far better than my college did.
Where are open-source projects that I can learn BDD/TDD?
For many people, including myself, the best way to learn programming is to follow great examples from experts. Given the popularity of TDD/BDD, can some one point me to a few popular open-source projects that are developed from very beginning using TDD, BDD or both?

-thanks
Is it truly so difficult to answer a simple yes or no question?
Grew up in a very religious, very "literal interpretation of the texts" home. They had everyone hit the books and even write reports. I guess the habit stuck with me after I left the fold.
Funny you mention that. I recently accepted their offer for a free 3 months, mainly out of exasperation of constantly seeing the interstitial every time I launched the app.

The UX of Apple Music is downright horrible. It proceeded to completely hose my existing music library. I could no longer access songs I had purchased in the iCloud Library, and it threw up a dialog stating I need to sync every Apple device I own with Apple Music to be able to stream music from their service. I was on a trip at the time, so good luck with that. Tons of embarrassing UI glitches, like widgets overlaid on top of others rendering them unclickable. Did Apple fire all their QA staff?
"GMO" refers exclusively to organisms that have had genes added, edited, or removed directly, it has nothing to do with plant breeding.
The US is quite more lax about it, state depending.

Outside of them, yes it is a nightmare that looks exactly how you would design a process someone with ADHD cannot go through.

I see no ill will behind it. It is just bureaucracy combined with moral panic.
This is what most of the existing open source operating systems are and it is much easier to contribute to those or fork one that does most of what you want. If you are aiming at a POSIX system then there is a fair amount of work but you at least then get a huge amount of already written software that you can run (IIUC Redox is aiming for this but written in Rust). A structure like Qubes OS would make it easier to do something less like POSIX while still running some existing software.

If you are interested in OS design, I suggest taking a look at NetBSD. It is a full OS supporting a bunch of different platforms all in one source tree and not quite as complex as Linux while still supporting most software the works on Linux. It has a nice crosscompile system and "rump kernels" that allow large parts of the kernel to be run in userland for testing (I think GNU Hurd also uses this for some device support). I think it has had at least a couple hundred active volunteer developers at any particular time for about three decades now (vs 7 years with mostly one developer it looks like for Redox). It is really quite a lot of work. src/sys is the kernel and src/sys/arch has the platform specific code, such as:

https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/amd64/

https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/x86/

x86 has the generic x86 support shared between 32-bit and 64-bit systems while amd64 has the 64-bit specific stuff. The rest of the tree is relatively easy to understand as well (e.g. most devices are under src/sys/dev), although a few things are in less than optimal place due to NetBSD still using CVS (there are git and hg mirrors so no need to learn CVS). The tech-* mailing lists can have interesting discussions.

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/

https://netbsd.org/

For Linux, LWN is a great resource for learning about OS stuff with in depth summaries of disscusions on many topics as they come up:

https://lwn.net/

It looks like Redox has a web forum, subreddit, and gitlab issues:

https://redox-os.org/community/
Qantas promises direct flights from Sydney to London and New York
Alternatively it’s a comprehensive tax.
For anyone reading this: Alex knows about the attack and has my permission to talk about it publicly.
> I don't understand how knowledge of a broad amount of words maps to creativity?

It's not exactly, but from first principles, using it as a proxy does make some sense.

A robust finding in the educational literature is that creativity is generally limited by how many things you know that are relevant to the topic at hand e.g. people who've never programmed before are not actually good at writing creative programs (there's a subtle distinction here where the end goal of the program may be creative, but how they go about getting there is unlikely to be creative).

So, very roughly, if you consider someone knowing more words as a proxy for them knowing both more concepts and having more connections between those concepts, you would expect them to have more creative output on topics of general interest (on average).

source: former educator
Thank you for sharing. The price of oil in early 1980s was high at US$35 and US$10 in the late 80s. So sounds like she might have got a barrel or two's worth of oil :)

With inflation $80 in 1980 would be $279 today.
Being short can be a disorder. It just so happens that picking fruit from tall trees by itself isn't considered by society to be a very necessary & important activity, while "social, school, or work functioning" is. Adults who remain too short to do things that are considered necessary & important for adults to do would almost certainly have a negative disorder of some kind.

That criteria sentence from the CDC website is overly broad. If you watch more technical talks [1] on ADHD they go into much more detail about what ADHD is exactly and why it affects almost everything very severely (it has a specific impact on executive function, which cuts across a lot of behavior). It's not just a wishy washy way of describing a category of dysfunction.

[1] one example: Dr Russell A Barkley ADHD - The 30 Essential Ideas everyone needs to know https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzBixSjmbc8eFl6UX5_wW...
> I only wish I knew how we could solve it.

The public sphere changed with the advent of social media. At first, corporations and governments found themselves at the whims of people, and then it flipped. I believe we may be able to bring back some balance with reviewable moderation such as via a site I made, https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/
I would be quite fine if it were.

But a certain kind of person (such as the first commenter in this thread I was responding to) believes most of their food if it doesn't have an adjective ("organic" maybe?) is a genetically modified organism, and everything bad about food is attributed to genetic engineering, this is quite false and a result of people who don't know much sharing disinformation with each other.
Padding videos to 10 minutes is not done to satisfy The Algorithm, but rather it was the minimum video length required by YouTube to enable mid-roll ads.

YouTube has since shortened the minimum video length to 8 minutes.
Interesting study. However, I rather disagree with the premise that "creativity" is akin to random juxtaposition of nouns. I consider that "imagination"...

Years ago, I saw small poster which read (paraphrasing):
"Imagination is making the simple complicated, while creativity is making the complicated simple"

The idea being that one can imagine almost anything (and "random" nouns is really just that), but creative results are "elegant", "simple" or even "obvious". It's a perspective I keep in mind when hearing and/or seeing "creative" things.
That is wrong. The demonym for a person from France is "French". It only sounds wrong to an English ear because we're so used to calling them Frenchmen, but it's chauvinism on our part, not a linguistic mistake on theirs.
I think it would be relatively quick.

The Latent_Diffusion_LAION_400M notebook generates six 512x512 images in about 45 seconds on a K80 on Collab.

DALL-E2 is more complicated but presumably also better optimised.
How are you able to?
As someone still struggling to get an appointment just to possibly validate a diagnosis but with all these symptoms.

Thank you. I may not have adhd but at least it gives hope.
The person you’re replying to seems to only take issue with the title, not the pay?
Wow great suggestion, thanks! Frankly I’m glad my news sources have stopped reporting on it so frequently… or I have just become immune. :)
There is at least some question about whether or not ADHD meds actually have cognitive benefits for non-ADHD users. This study, which is admittedly limited, shows that Adderall doesn’t provide a serious neurocognitive benefit to healthy individuals: https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4787/6/3/58

At the very least, it’s possible that the benefits to healthy individuals are highly subjective.
We are missing conference calls. This and other features are around the corner.

But, I am curious about your use case.

See roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/fonoster/projects/9
> I've seen tons of people trying to explain the current state of it and a lot of them do the exact same thing but in reverse: falling back on very basic mistakes made by the specific design of Bitcoin and taking that as a given of how they need to design systems.

I've seen a lot of people make that mistake too. A whole ton. But you can't tell me that you form your opinions on new technologies based on listening to people explain them poorly and try to shoehorn them where they don't belong.

> Everyone who talks about energy usage, scaling, and the oracle problem in this way is missing that these problems could have been entirely avoided by just not using blockchains in the first place.

They could have been avoided, yes, but someone chose to solve them so now they're solved. I don't really understand your point. Are you saying that nobody should have been allowed to solve those problems?

> The sense of struggle and "progression" here is entirely made up.

It's unclear to me what you mean by "sense of struggle". But a decade ago the technology had several unfavorable properties and limitations, and now it no longer has those certain unfavorable properties and limitations. Is that not progress?

> You're repeating the same mistake as the critics by even talking about these things.

What mistake am I making, why is it the same as blockchain critics, and why am I making such a mistake by talking about the quality of the forum discussions I participate in?

> The fact that the discussion is even framed in these terms as if these problems need to be solved

I don't frame things that way; I don't view most things in the world as "problems needing to be solved". What I do see is processes that can be streamlined through the use of certain technologies.

I don't necessarily believe that this RFC is helpful, or that blockchain is a useful technology in the context of BGP, but you're making a sweeping statement about the nature of all discussion of blockchain technology, a statement that I believe to be overgeneralized and essentially incorrect.

> in some particularly obscure fashion

Many of the systems that blockchains aim to improve on are already particularly obscure. Naming systems, ownership registries, and financial derivatives come to mind.

But more fundamentally, the complexity of a system's software implementation does not directly correlate with its utility as you seem to imply. Plenty of software projects out there are very complex, yet still manage to be very useful.

> Because it is actually useless.

None of your comment really supports this conclusion.