skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These anecdote-based "it's not that bad" comments are very misguided. Even the OP article clearly points out statistically even small differences like 5'7 vs 5'8 make huge differences and something like 5'6 to 6'0 can have 200x difference.

This is by no means "fine" seeing (1) finding a romantic partner is one of the most important determiners of mental health (2) youth today is going through a huge social isolation crisis. If you're short you're seen (not explicitly, but through statistical regression to the mean) as a lesser person.

I think it's absolutely crucial to understand this is not "fine" and compansate accordingly. This seems like the responsible truth to me.
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.

So of course children with ADHD do not function well in classroom settings where they’re supposed to just sit still and focus on something they’re not very interested in, all day. Most kids have some trouble with that. Kids with ADHD personalities really struggle.

The same is true of adults. Some adults with ADHD gravitate toward professions that suit their personalities and thrive. Others have a lot of trouble trying to succeed in their work. A common pattern in high-achieving ADHD people is to do really well in school up until university, and then crash and burn once things get actually challenging.

There are also a lot of interpersonal issues that people with undiagnosed ADHD may face.

I think that the medication can help people with ADHD achieve things that they would really struggle with otherwise. (Note that the effects of the drugs are different to them compared to neurotypical people - you don’t get “high”.) But I’m not sure I agree with prescribing it to children. I think instead we should make schooling suit them better (and while we are at it, let’s improve it across the board - it is truly woeful atm).

> Certainly I don't have any ADHD diagnosis but a lot of the symptoms resonate with me.

The symptoms resonate with everyone because they are common experiences. The difference is a matter of degrees. You may procrastinate for a few days, but an ADHD sufferer will procrastinate for months and months.
How the internet saved the home of blogging pioneer Noah Grey
The paid-for bias is extremely transparent, at least.
Attrition is low and they're rapidly scaling up. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FB/meta-platforms/...

They've said in recent earnings calls that attrition during the pandemic has been lower than normal. Lower than Meta even wants, since it means people who aren't aligned with the company are deciding to stay.
However, as underappreciated as it is, statistical theories are efficient maps, not territories. Quantum mechanics is a clever way to maximize knowledge and minimize unknowns but in all honesty it does not represent at all reality, only a knowledge map, and therefore famous paradoxes become apparent artifacts of those leaking abstractions. Theories that have actual causal content would necessitate some explanations of what is going on, AKA hidden variables theories, however the search space is huge and the usefulness not that high.
However the double slit experiment is still a real mystery though.

If some readers have some cognitive resources to allocate though I would much prefer them to analyze this extremely underlooked paper that is the first on earth to make canonical quantization of gravity works for quantum mechanics:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9706055.pdf
How would you implement something like strlen so that you have the strict, hard guarantee that strlen("foo") is evaluated at compile-time?
That could be true. But it’s a bit awkward no?

A human needs to be there at the beginning to either dream up a concept and then describe it in painful detail to the computer.

Or a human needs to be there at the end to sift through the results to pick out the ones that actually match some concept.

In trying to think of a useful application for this: if an artist can lock down the style of the output, and then pump in a script and further description to story board things or get near final output, that could be quite useful.
It took me a while to realize why my PC-based MIDI setup never "felt" right. It wasn't until I replaced it with an Akai MPC-60 style hardware sequencer that my MIDI compositions finally had that "thing" - idiosyncratic timing that felt good and made you bop along to the beat.

Missed the Atari age entirely.
Now we finally know what all the nameless goons working the Space Laser in James Bond movies tell themselves.
It’s nice to see a post that acknowledges the obvious truth that Meta is a great company with great people that does great things. Sure they do bad things too, but calling them bad and evil is usually all I ever see on HN and Twitter.
Would Apple's $90G buyback be better spent on changing its supply chain?
>I know my work does good for people who rely on us to be good stewards of their data.

That is the advertisers I assume as it doesn't appear to be the case for the actual users of the various FB products.
It's naive to expect that things will just stay fine and dandy if you "stop changing" your infra. Consider scenarios such as traffic spikes, network outages, and under-provisioned resources.
What are HN thoughts on other niches? Julia, OCaml eg?
Basically boils down to money in the end

Even the “good people” part, which transitively reduces down to money too
Yes, professional help is critical. It was for me, I would’ve never guessed “ADHD” or believed it without clear evidence based on IQ testing. It can take a few different doctors and some work to ensure you find a good fit though.

So at the same time take the medical professionals with a grain of salt. I had a psychiatrist berate me for 5 minutes for being late (though within the university health center’s allowable limit) after I had fallen into a hyper focus trance. He was working on prescribing me a medication to help with hyper focus related issues of being late. He did actually help me find one that worked, but he was kinda a dick about it. Ironic that even experts focused on treating ADHD still struggle grasping at an emotional level that “yes it’s a real physical thing”.
I think they meant an offer for folks living in places like the US or western europe.
I guess that could cayse confusion with the Cyrillic У
> Your site displays a blank page without running javascript. You are a long way off from efficient or super minimal.

This seems like a non sequitur to me. What does javascript have to do with efficiency or minimalism?
I imagine there are people making 4x average salary in Bucharest as well, not just Moscow.

It makes precisely zero sense factoring in a lower cost of living, as likely Bucharest also has a low cost of living. Actually, the numbers I found factoring the cost of living Moscow v Bucharest were much much higher for Bucharest, to the point where I thought they were ridiculous, and wasn't sure about their accuracy, hence I chose those which put Moscow in a more favorable light.

> Every statement that paints Russia in a positive light must be propaganda, right? This becomes tiring really fast.

Yeah well, the statement paints a fake positive light about russia. I am sure even that country has many positives but I focused on specifically OP's statement, because it was simply a lie.

You know what else becomes really tiring? What russia did and does to its neighbours since its inception. Focus on solving that, as people are more than eager to move on past territorial expansion wars and live in the current century.
This honestly seems like just a fun activity. Why not start every doc with a DALL-E generated image?
Removing Double-Logging with Passive Data Persistence in LSM-Tree Based RDBMS
In this paper, we propose a novel solution, called Passive Data Persistence Scheme (PASV), to address the double-logging problem in LSM-tree based RDBs.
An Open, General, CPU/FPGA Platform for Systems Software Research
Interestingly, the article computes the odds incorrectly: "... hit the same number on seven consecutive spins [...] the odds of which happening are 114billion to one...", which actually are the odds of having 7 consecutive 19s or the same (unspecified) number on 8 consecutive spins.
It does make you wonder.
>People who complain about the charge port on the bottom don't use the mice.

People who don't like pink bags don't buy pink bags.
Michael Dell observed that each time his company doubled in size, he had to change all the processes. Manual processes had to be automated; automated processes could be expanded to handle customers in a more nuanced way; and on and on.

Growth is painful and chaotic.
> [people] do the right thing at the cost of their reputation

You tell me that and expect me to believe the rest? Get that bag, sure. But don't lie to yourself and don't lie to me about what you're supporting in the process.
These stats include interns so they're always more insane than they really are.
I am thoroughly ashamed that I have overlooked the option to render text through latex for all these years.
For some, this is merely the paper evidence of shit I'm being told to my face every day.
A lot of us working in tech have it pretty well with salaries well above the norm, flexibility that isn't allowed to those at places like Amazon fulfillmet, benefits above many those working union jobs. That said, there is a very visible entitlement, especially those that chase TC uber alles.

I changed roles recently after a decade long term at a company I never thought I would work for. I left because I wanted some additional challenges that my current role didn't allow for as well as technologies outside what I helped grow. I left some flexibility, got offered new growth opportunities and will see what comes over the next couple of years.

Meta, Google, and Amazon, if you have any indication you are looking around, are companies that will reach out. I've talked with Amazon on and off for a long time. I have more respect for the teams, hiring managers, etc. from 10 years ago than any of them now. They will do a lot of things short of lying to get someone in the door. Google, yeah no. Their onsite policy as well as hoops you have to go through around open source (unless you are super high profile) just aren't worth it. Meta - even the recruiter had a hard time making excuses up as various scandals roll out.

For the rank and file, do what's right for you. For those with clout, you have leverage others may not have.

For now, for me, I'm dealing with a bit of a new world in domain I know. Retention will be based off growth and learning, not idiot perks to keep buts in seats as long as they can every day or the highest dollar possible.
Would be nice to see the source on this one.

Make sure that source shows that this hatred/dislike is against regular russian citizens and not the russian government.

I'm sure there are plenty of folks who are against regular russians, but I want evidence that it's some sort of major concern.
redox_installer_tui?
France would be a typical example, except that this is an urban legend.

Context: I graduated from the 3rd best high school in France, then from one of the Grandes Ecoles (~ Ivy League). I was born in the early 70's in Versailles.

German and Latin were seen as languages where the best students meet. This was a vision of the parents without getting in the reality. The best high-school students were everywhere.

I had Latin and Greek in mid-school and high school like anybody else. Complete loss of time when you are not interested.

At university it did not matter at all.

Today, when recruiting even for the "really French" companies nobody would think about Latin as a discriminant. It literally wouldn't cross anyone's mind.

There are urban legends everywhere, this is one about French education (which is sometimes great, and sometimes completely backwards to the point where I doubt the decisions makers have ever seen kids in real life)

As for today (and not 40 years ago), in the class of my son in that same elitist high school, one student does Latin and Greek. Because he is interested in the languages.
I needed two different sorts of attorneys about 5 years ago, so i asked my friends who have their law degrees and passed the bar how i go about finding lawyers for these two specific things. I was told unanimously to use the state bar association.

I went to the state bar site(s) and did whatever was required to get a list/callbacks/whatever, and immediately started receiving spam calls and emails from "Law Services" companies where they wanted me to pre-load some sort of debit card, which would then be debited any time i had need for billable hours from "law services".

It felt really strange and scammy, and i relayed this to my friends who told me to try that, and nothing came of it. I didn't even find the lawyer(s) i required, to mine own detriment of six figures of loss.
> The people at this company actually believe in the mission of bringing the world closer together.

That’s… actually a bit scary.
If you took the tradeoffs I outlined in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31222661 with a 256-tile pattern table you'd still be able to plot arbitrary graphs in a 128×128 region of the (256×192) screen and a pretty broad class of graphs at fullscreen, anything that only touched an average of 8 8×8 tiles out of each 8×192 column. And you could do it in 3 colors instead of 1, and plausibly you could use those tradeoffs to improve the resolution to something like 256×256, which would have given you significantly better vertical resolution on your lineplots.

Overall I think that would have been better, not worse.

The NES sucked at that kind of thing, in part because the pattern tables were usually stored in cartridge ROMs, but mostly because outside Japan you weren't allowed to program it. People did do this kind of thing on the TI-99/4A, which had the sprite/tile graphics chip TI developed (the same one later used in the ColecoVision), with 256 8×8 redefinable tiles in RAM: http://www.academic.ro/TI994A/

If you really wanted to provide high-resolution data plotting capabilities on a TV you could provide an NES-style 3-bit horizontal scrolling delay register that shifted from 0 to 7 pixels off the start of the line, then reset it during each HBI. That would allow you to displace what would otherwise be a plain vertical line horizontally by 576 different pixel-accurate displacements, allowing you to plot 576 data points, albeit with only 8-bit precision and 90° rotated from the conventional representation.

A sprite engine that allowed you to reload the coordinates of the sprites every scan line would have the same merit, but be capable of plotting potentially several lines in different colors, and without disrupting the background.

If your sprites, unlike those actually present in hardware at the time, additionally had a variable X dimension, and repeated their pixels until reaching that X dimension, you could use each sprite to draw a stippled trapezoid at 2× or 3× the framebuffer vertical resolution by tweaking its X position and X dimension every scan line.

Hindsight.
MorphOS 3.17 – Public Release
> I suspect the US is way down in the list of possible emigration routes.

That's absolutely incorrect. The US is literally the number one destination of international migrants. [1]

[1]: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/top...
I remember I tried to use Inkscape for a logo once and was so frustrated I ended up just writing the SVG in to jsfiddle because I couldn’t work out how in Inkscape.
I haven’t looked up modafinal on the site, but https://www.stuffthatworks.health/ seems ideal for this sort of crowd sourced tuning! Any experience with it?
Vitrowire
Oh yeah, I guess I was tired and didnt make the connection
It’s interesting to contrast the experience around the physical office between Jk’s post and Lincoln’s “why I left” post (linked by Jk).

Jk joined before covid, remembers the physical office, and currently gets some face-to-face time with teammates. Lincoln joined remotely and never got to meet his team. It seems like this was a big reason Lincoln left, and a factor in why Jk stays.
The MV Police Blotter on Twitter is a little similar but much more light-hearted.

https://twitter.com/mvpoliceblotter
I've often felt there's an optimal level of arousal for any given task. Pure creative tasks favour less arousal, organisational and physical tasks favour more arousal. Alcohol, caffeine (or coca leaves, khat, or similar) are tools we've used to shift our arousal needle closer towards what is useful for the task at hand. Unfortunately they do carry a number of pretty severe negative side effects - especially when you refine the coca leaves. In my past life, I would frequently myself spend the late night periods, sometimes a but drunk, coming up with new solutions to problems, then the highly caffeinated day time implementing them. It worked very well (until it didn't, but that's another story).

So, I'm all about self modification, but I think anyone playing that game would do well to bear in mind the potential negative side effects. Being able to grind out for days and weeks at a time may be extremely useful in the short term, but boredom is a powerful motivator for finding alternative solutions. Maybe not a good idea to turn that off for everyone, every day.

Also the medical industry has been proven wrong time and time again when they claim their drug has no long term side effects. People are still being told that SSRIs have no withdrawal effects.
even better. if your team can delegate back to you, you have coroutines.

that and a big fat mess.
Not with the ones making US coastal city incomes around the world, which is what this is about.
Opinion: iPad sees year-over-year sales decline – I blame iPadOS for that
The Atheist Experience Weekly Callin Show
I wish there was something as polished and easy to use as excalidraw that wasn't as minimalistic in its features.
This site should blacklist garbage paywalled sites.
It's funny you say that. Putin started this war by pushing the ludicrous claim that Ukraine is now run by Nazis.
I wrote it in C with just one loop: for(i=0; i <= 10000; i+=37) and one condition: if(i > 0 && i%13==0 && i%19==0) and it takes only 0.000003 sec.
Meta’s internal “you’ve been here longer than X% of the company” metric does not give credit to total tenure (ie. boomerangs), so IMO it’s highly misleading as a measure of attrition.
Cats only meow to communicate with humans, they don't make the sound around other adult cats. It's a holdover from kittenhood that turned out to be advantageous at getting human attention, so when they self-domesticated, so they kept it. So basically if you meow at a cat you're just saying "I'm baby".
Maybe interesting for nostalgia:

There is an Atari ST emulator for the Mac, http://hatari.tuxfamily.org or

brew install hatari
To be fair, FAANG-like places have essentially IQ tests as a big part of hiring. I think the GP comment could be rephrased as a pretty common observation that people who are academically or "traditionally" smart in a narrow sense can be super dumb in other ways. Just because you can propose a n•log(n) solution to find the maximum volume bound between two heights and widths represented in array entries doesn't mean you have some superior political thoughts or whatever. People seem to forget this sometimes
Yes, that's how it should work
Off Topic: I have mixed feelings on the recent Redditification of "Ask HN:" becoming a forum for almost exclusively self-help style posts.

Like, they're fine in moderation and no one person is being spammy so I have no idea how ask for moderation.
Moscow seems similar to San Francisco/New York in this regard - you move there if you want to be where the action is and put up with minor inconveniences. Climate-wise the Bay Area of course wins hands down, but I'm constantly hearing people living in the Bay Area complain about ridiculous rents, homeless, feces on the streets and muggings and in these areas Moscow fares quite a bit better. Grass is always greener.
Can someone recommend me an Ubuntu friendly application that’s one step up from MS Paint?

I find Inkscape and GIMP far too heavy and tedious for my needs: I work remote and just want to doodle on a screenshot.
Of several FOSS tools I regularly use for technical diagrams Inkscape
has the best balance of olskool accurate features and modern "designy"
type stuff. XFig is my old friend, and I love its inbuilt library of
1970's style clip art, icons, and technical symbols. But XFig feels
clunky now. Dia is a useful quick tool for drawing boxes and
sticks. But Inkscape has the overall balance right. Light enough to
draw a quick diagram, featured enough to design a book cover or
complex layered diagram. One feature I love is scanning/tracing
bitmaps to layered SVG objects that can be broken apart, simplified
and remixed. I noticed when using Openshot video editor under Linux
recently that it integrates seamlessly with Inkscape and Blender for
designing animated titles.
Is it just me or is OpenAI the exact opposite of open?

They may as well just call it ClosedAI at this point, seems like every interesting thing they do is kept under wraps.
The video on that page says its from 2002. So, in that video he was 61!

Its never too late.
Don't appreciate that comment at all. Rude.

What I'm seeing in your other reply is actually you not even reading my reply. Your making statements on things I already touched upon.

It makes you seem not intelligent. But that would be a rude thing to say would it? There's no point. If you want to have a discussion probably smart to say things that will keep the other person engaged rather then pissed off.

This is actually bad enough where I demand an apology. Say your sorry, genuinely, or this thread won't continue and you're just admitting your mean.
I think that way to say that is open a PR, and just let it sit open. Eventually the repo owner will either merge it, close it, or sometimes ask you to do something to it. In the last case, I often just politely decline. It's the flip side of the idea that publishing an open source project doesn't obligate you to support it — likewise, submitting a PR to a project doesn't obligate you to do any more work on it.
"The people at this company actually believe in the mission of bringing the world closer together. They recognize and embrace the huge responsibility it puts on us."

Bro if that were true then the end product of Facebook would be significantly different.

Seems like dude stays at this company that pays him well because, as he says,
- that's not true
- that's blatantly, superlatively not true
- They let him play with the lives of billions of people
- And they pay him well with good perks.

Yeah sorry JK Jensen, I read your post and all it says is you're greedy and avoidant. You love the great pay and great perks, and you lie to yourself about the impact you're having.
And that kind of spec'ing and compliance is ultimately rooted in legal threats: loss of life leading to loss of money.

Until software actively kills people (enough that it costs someone a lot of money), we won't see movement in this area.
It's a growing company. It looks like the number of Facebook employees went up 60% or so since then. [1] At that rate, it's mathematically impossible for there not to be 60/160 = 37% of employees newer than him, even if nobody left.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo...

[Edit: fixed calculation]
This is still the case in very rural areas. I remember camping in the fields down by the river as a cub scout. You just had to ask the farmer who owns them first, he would always say yes.
I feel like their initial mission of "democratizing AI" was just a way to recruit people. They're everything but "open".