skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This study focused specifically on methylphenidate, one of many medications prescribed for ADHD. The title should be adjusted accordingly, as the current title is ambiguous and potentially misleading.
> Seek counseling. You're making life decisions based on web boards. Somehow programming and your relationship with your spouse are tied up together.
>
> You're riding really high now. You were really low before. Emotional roller coasters mean you should talk with someone, regardless of how you're feeling right now.

Is it that hard to believe that changing what one spends over a third of their waking hours per week on can have a significant impact on one's emotional well being?
Key word is "appears." Brain function is another frontier of knowledge just like all those encountered in a space program.

The Ponzo illusion is one possible explanation of the Moon illusion, with objects appearing "far away" (because they are "on" the horizon) appearing bigger than objects "overhead". However, some have argued that explaining one perception ("appears far away") in terms of another ("appears bigger") is problematic scientifically, and that there are probably complex internal processes behind these illusions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzo_illusion
What I've concluded over the years is that this is actually what the American people want. In other words, the policing is not "happening" to us - it is requested by us. The same way people like to watch those viral videos of monkeys being bullied.

Even here on HackerNews, you can see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624920

It only takes a few of these types of people in a community to make it feel policed (and that overall, people are neutral towards this happening).

Also, I want to point out it's not just in the US. I live in Germany now, and it's far worse here (people are seriously out for blood regarding minor indiscretions), but the legal system is more neutered/fair. You can see this in threads where people will post a cool thing they built, and people will chime in reminding them that they are breaking the law by not having an impressum (in Germany and Austria you're forced to put your name + address on almost everything):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30952084
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30708217
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31364983
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469343

Imagine doing the same thing for people talking about smoking pot on HN: "Just so you know, marijuana is illegal... so yeah, I'm gonna report you, sorry to ruin the fun".

My main point is that it often feels like the policing institutions exist outside of us, but in reality it's just our next door neighbors.
How old again?

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.8e30882276d3449aa086b970a97d0ea9...
After 1 year of SWE, I realized my body was becoming frail and mushy relative to when I was slugging cast iron fittings in the warehouse. Took me about 2 weeks to put together a workout regime with built in progression.

One of the things I’m glad of is the flex time and working from home so I can crank out workouts whenever it suits me.
Stanford did provided housing to them. Not just office, but they had reserved dorm houses in best part of the campus. The loss of those houses is what article complains about when it complains about "generic, unmarked houses". The house used to be reserved for fraternity members only. Now, the unaffiliated students can be assigned to live there too. Alternative spin is that fraternity does not get to decide who lives in those dorms nor what rules should they follow anymore.

Also related, Standford did survey over what students think about Greek life on the campus and its future. Most students 83% preferred to reform, de-housing them, or abolishing it. Two articles about survey:

- https://stanforddaily.com/2021/09/28/official-greek-life-sur...

- https://stanforddaily.com/2021/11/04/abolish-stanford-greek-...

> The only privilege I remember the greeks having was they were the only organizations who were allowed to post up flyers advertising their events anywhere on campus, while non-greek organizations could only advertise in spaces relevant to whatever department sponsors them and a couple of shared spaces (which is something I remember clubs I was part of being really grumpy about).

Isn't this pretty large advantage if the topic is social life? As in, when it comes to events and social life, this is University giving them pretty massive advantage.
...and the shareholders literally determine his salary.

Why do you care what these people pay each other?
There are so many ways to build decentralized social networks. It’s a 1000% solved problem at this point. They never get traction because they always require more learning and work than 99% of people are willing or able to fit into their lives. You jump through more hoops to reach fewer people.
The giraffe neck evolved for sexual combat?
If you need Onion Routing then you need Onion Routing. IPv6 Privacy Addressing gives you roughly the same properties you had with IPv4 NAT except now when you did want a stable address you've got one.

Multi address is much healthier in IPv6, so it's reasonable for your browser to even spin up an address associated with a Porn tab, and then destroy it again when you close that tab, while still using your other IPv6 address for a post you make meanwhile to Hacker News. It's also reasonable (while it was often likely to cause mysterious problems in IPv4) to give your local web server a long-lived IPv6 address while your web browser's address changes every hour.
"The banks froze deposits, prompting angry demonstrations last month."

Seems like an Argentinian "corralito"(bank froze deposits) at scale.
> I can't see the forest through the threes here, it just feels like I'm being tossed into a downstream river and whatever randomness happens, I just have to take it.

Yeah, pretty much. You have some control over it, but often not as much as you'd like. I was pretty consistently one of the best in my classes in school also, and then the real world said "Haha, you actually want to work on things that interest you and innovate? Think again!"

That's why I ended up working for life insurance companies and for health insurance companies and wealth management companies, despite telling myself I'd never work for such boring companies when I was younger (where I grew up, the headquarters for a life insurance company was the biggest employer in town, especially white-collar, and was omnipresent).

I have had interviews at FAANGs, though, and the interview didn't go as well as it could have for various reasons (sometimes just not being given enough notice / not motivated enough to practice enough for their ridiculous exams).
Space Bubbles
A bold geo-engineering proposal to block 1.8% of the sunlight reaching the earth to reverse climate change.
yeah and so? how is this information useful? if the actual useful information is encrypted, then size is meaningless as it is just random text until decrypted. presence/absence? you have a cookie or you don't?
Out of my circle, the only people I know that actually spend BTC as BTC for transactions, usually for things like personal domains, hold their own wallet and don't touch exchanges.

The people that heavily use exchanges hold it purely for speculation and/or gambling and have never once "spent" BTC.
FWIW this is a pretty hellish place to work at. It's kind of a bait job for young pilots, you basically do not earn any income there after all work expenses (it's a contractor type of a situation), at the same time the atmosphere is very toxic. But cheap tickets, yeeeeee
Ah! I can see how that’d be a PITA, thanks for explaining.
So use a 301 redirect.
Maybe focus on the main point? Or else try quibbling about China’s social credit system too.
I've been here more than 99% of the company and we're now at 2000+ (was ~50 when I started and was ~1000 when COVID hit). I've pivoted back to a lateral IC role but considering the size of the org at the time (not really that large, maybe 30 engineers total under the director) it was totally practical. The salary cut proposition would've been a one time thing to either give the laid off engineer enough time to find another role (because he had a temporary visa) or until we were comfortable enough to pay both of our full-time salaries (this actually would've happened fairly quickly).
This seems like the exact opposite claim to the top post. First we said, sorry, you don't have permission to innovate & explore & connect with people unless you have moderation and control. Ok, yes, this is opt-in following: that's how we moderate.

Now we're saying, sorry, you don't have permissions to innovate & explore & connect with people unless you also admit in the public & get exposed to randos.

In general I think both of these views impose unreasonable limitations & constraint upon people getting out there & trying things. Not all value that is created has to be perfect value, in my humble opinion. Should we try to keep an eye on these factors? Absolutely. To you I'd say, blogrolls (what this effectively is) is generally a pretty good way to explore, that in the blogging era different people would have different blogrolls & it was always fun to cruise around, & check out new people you hadn't checked out before. Even if you didn't end up following that person, they might have their own blogroll that had some interesting people on it. Connectivity, being able to go to different places, is a precondition for diversity, and this unqualifiedly enables connectivity. Worrying about that connectivity being an insular one is premature a concern.
That's not relevant. Perception doesn't occur "in the eyes, the brain, or anywhere in between". When something is perceived, that means the person has attained awareness of that thing. This awareness of an object's existence is entirely different from what was asserted, some sort of superimposition of prior understandings or other morphological change onto the eye's perception of that object's existence.
Some do... some in gold, too
None of these sound like particularly low-level concepts the book is purported to cover.

Like you said, "learning a little bit of C" would probably cover most of the things you listed. It sounds like you're a web developer.
> try to subvert capitalism by forcing half+1 workers representative on every company boards

As an economist, this is far from far left -- it's a fairly middle-of-the-road policy that is used in market economies that are more stable successful than the UK's, e.g. Germany. (And at 33% representation, it is the default across western Europe, where you would be laughed at if you tried to characterise them as far-left...)
Hmm... I think IPv6 might be actually better. Apple for example will generate and use a temporary IPv6 which changes every few hours to protect your privacy.
>The best just get bored and move on.

Is that the premise? Seems to be saying that constantly changing skills exhausts developers to the point that it becomes more lucrative to work in another profession.

Although, I suppose learning new things just to tread water can be boring too.
We also need more "public service" announcements - and not the 30 second boring ads, but actual plot points in movies and TV be centered around these common scams. If (I have no idea what's popular now, but let's say Marvel) a movie had a crypto scam as a central point, it would educate people way more than any number of government warnings.
He also suffers from psoriasis and I’m sure all this drama must be very stressful for him. Still one of the greatest golfers to ever play the game. Hands down greatest ever left handed golfer.
This is one reason why we’re most likely going to end up in a centrally planned dystopia … when so many of the talented people who can build alternatives prefer to do bikeshedding and bickering.
I would agree with this thinking of luck surface area. An anecdote:

I was passively job searching a few years ago. Saw some colleague invite me to Indeed. Figured I'd sign up for an account, just in case. Doesn't hurt.

Ended up interviewing with Microsoft. Got the job.

Then got some congrats message from Indeed on receiving my offer through Indeed. Weird. The recruiter in question was someone I had never had any contact with. Probably cooking their numbers by claiming credit on Indeed for hires which were done via other means (in my case, linkedin/hiring social).

Well. Turns out Indeed was doing a promotion where if you get hired through Indeed, you get a free gift. Pretty decent one too, I forget the other options, but I picked the Playstation 4.

Getting a free PS4 for getting hired by MSFT is super dumb luck. Surface area - I signed up for Indeed, "Just in case, who knows?".
That’d certainly prevent most tracking, yeah. This new Firefox feature should make #2 and #3 unnecessary.

I think this feature by Firefox is great, and privacy options are getting objectively better, if slowly. But the cynic in me guessing that server side tracking methods are going to start getting secretly better, if they haven’t already.
Well if you do half and half, you're only risking losing half at a time.
NASA could have gotten the price down to whatever the lockheed's is now. Or should I say up?
This was for ONE adhd medication and the risk was only increased for the initial 90 days... and then went back to baseline.
Memory issues are rare in every C++ project I’ve ever worked on when compared to much more common bugs in expected functionality (the biggest category), bugs introduced by new or updated libraries, or operating system deprecations, etc.

Overall, the aversion to C++ and other non-GC languages is overly stated in the industry by vendors looking desperate for a problem to solve to validate using their new language or as a solution for companies that want to hire large armies of sub-par developers to bang on keyboards.
You say the size is meaningless. But sometimes it may actually be meaningful. And presence/absence is information also. Not much, but it definitely exists.
Did this get buried by moderators? 610 points / 504 comments in 3 hours yet already down to #38.
Japan passes revised penal code with harsher punishment for cyberbullying
> We've simply put way too much social energy into making finance complex

What does "social energy" mean here? Human intellectual effort? Finance represents the complexity of the economy and societies - it's basically a model for understanding and rationalizing the economic activity going on. It can definitely become unmoored from fundamentals, but then have a correction, though.

> and I worry that we're continuing down a wrong path by demanding more complex safeguards, insistent that we can solve the problems with policy.

What's the alternative? What is the non-policy tool? Let it run without safeguards until it destroys more of the financial security of average people?

That's what's happening in the crypto world now. Perhaps we don't regulate it and the examples in the article serve as warnings to others?

However, if we do that with the broader stock market, I suspect it'll exacerbate the wealth gap issue you lament, unless your idea is to accelerate toward an financial and societal collapse/reset, which comes with arguably worse side effects.
Considering stimulants (generally, but also specific ones) only work for a portion of people that try it, I find this very unsurprising. The increase isn't that big and probably down to a mixture of disappointment and side effects without the main effects.

It's one of the main reasons doctors prescribe different stimulants. I've personally heard every mutation of "This one worked for me but the other one gave me bad side effects and little effect".
FWIW this is the same reason you can't implement implement a portable Unix shell in portable Go. (And similar issues with an init daemon)

Go only exports os.ForkExec() -- there is no os.Fork() or os.Exec(), because the things you can do between the calls could break Go's threaded runtime. (Goroutines are implemented with OS threads.)

Some elaboration on that: https://lobste.rs/s/hj3np3/mvdan_sh_posix_shell_go#c_qszuer

That is, the space between fork and exec is where pipelines are implemented, but also entire subinterpreters/subshells. The shell actually uses copy-on-write usefully. (And yes I'm aware that there's a good argument that the shell is almost the ONLY program that needs fork() !)

----

A lot of people have asked me why not implement Oil in Go and various other languages, so I wrote this page:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/FAQ:-Why-Not-Write-Oil-...

So the funny thing is that Python is a lower level language than Go for this particular problem. It doesn't do anything weird with regard to syscalls. I'm still looking for help on this (and donations to pay people other than me):

Oil Is Being Implemented "Middle Out" https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/middle-out.html
Luet – Container-based package manager
Treasuries are one of the most liquid assets in the world. The question is if they could crash in value while simultaneously maintaining the dollar value, that could break a peg.
Interesting article. I feel it's a bit superficial in two ways though.

Others here have commented on the opportunity cost of the actions involved in increasing your "surface area". I agree.

The other thing that struck me as not taken into consideration, is that expanding your surface area (at least inasfar as those 5 points are concerned) potentially also attracts "bad luck" as much as it does "good luck". E.g. expanding your network indiscriminately also makes it more likely to attract predators; Each new person that hears about your work increases the chances of an unlucky event (think activist twittermob). Curiosity without experience may lead you down bankruptable rabbit holes. etc
I think the disagreement about whether black markets are real and "price gouging" is a helpful way to frame what happens boils down to ordinary folks (excusably) rounding off high supply and demand inelasticity to 100% and folks that believe they have a more nuanced view (you and I) saying well it's not quite 100%.

If the demand and supply elasticities are really totally inelastic there's nothing to be gained from allowing market activity. No new supplies will become available due to a high price and no one will cut back on their consumption either. You'll just be allowing folks to get rinsed financially at their lowest point which of course sucks.

If either elasticity isn't perfectly inelastic then there's scope for increased efficiency through market activity, at the cost of some or lots of folks getting rinsed financially. That's the tradeoff and usually I'm for allowing the rinsing and making up the inequity on the backend in order to squeeze every last bit of efficiency out in an emergency. But I'm not die-hard committed to the idea and recognize the tradeoff.

The last point to mention is budget constraints. If Bill Gates is around and has 1000x more money than I have he really can inefficiently hoard resources even if he's not perfectly inelastic in his demand. This is a trickier situation to justify black markets but I think it's so vivid and awful that folks' minds jump right to this situation when not all emergencies are like this.
as.logical(2) being TRUE is perplexing only if you interpreted

2 == TRUE

as

as.logical(2)==TRUE

rather than as

2==as.integer(TRUE)

[Edit: "If the two arguments are atomic vectors of different types, one is coerced to the type of the other, the (decreasing) order of precedence being character, complex, numeric, integer, logical and raw."]
The study also does not claim to show a causal relationship.
The 'Extra Profits Tax' is targeted at the passanger, not the airline. They knew that the airlines will pass on the extra cost to the passanger.

The hungarian government knows that they have overspent in the past years and need to raise additional taxes. So they introduced a flat tax of about €10 (€30 for inter-continental flights) per flight. This achieves many things at the same time:
-The government gets additional income
-Orbán can blame the airlines/multinational companies for cost of living crisis
-Fewer people go on holiday abroad, more money spent at home
Tangentially related, but I wish the Tourist class would let me talk my way out of adversarial encounters by explaining that I'm merely a tourist and unfamiliar with local customs. Like Twoflower in The Color of Magic.
A carpenter is not going to make his/her own table saw. A basic table saw costs $300ish.

I'm not writing my own IDE or my own database. I can, and I have, in times past. I do pay for tools that I need.
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leetcode == smart ? oO that's new

I interview many candidates at FAANG, I can easily tell
the ones that have prep by just doing leetcode and the ones
that knows the shit.

I couldn't care less if you can solve all kinds of complex dynamic programming challenges.

I ask coding questions that
you won't find in leetcode and requires problem solving skill
and good craft.

And this is because I do like working with smart people and not with people good at memorizing patterns.
what's more shocking to me is the quality of flying Ryanair vs how outspoken their CEO is.

if you only read his comments, you would think this company is so solid that the CEO has complete free rein. and then you fly Ryanair and you realise it's just shock advertising.
You interpreted their point very charitably.

I think they knew that sourceforge has been effectively dead and is saying here that GitHub is following in it's footsteps.

I don't agree with that, but i believe that was the point.
If you feel confidant that Tether will collapse this year then prove it & start building an impressive brier score:

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/9121/tether-collapses-in...
I imagine it comes up fairly often for languages that don't do well with threads. No shortage of those.
When will the browsers take care of handling the cookie options for all the sites, so I can declare my preferences once and everyone stops putting up a popup? Surely this is already in the works?
The CEO has a history of being a bullshitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Leary_(businessman...

> In 2007, O'Leary was forced to retract a claim that Ryanair had cut emissions of carbon dioxide by half over the previous five years because the claim should have been that emissions "per passenger" had been cut by half. He has been reported to have impersonated a journalist in an attempt to find information passed on to a newspaper following a safety incident on a Ryanair flight. On occasion, he has apologised for personal attacks under threat of legal action. He has been criticised by a judge for lying, who said he was lucky not to be found guilty of contempt of court. He has also been criticised for dismissing concerns about climate change as "complete nonsense".

> Reacting to the decision to close European airspace in April 2010 over worries about the volcanic ash plume from an erupting Icelandic volcano, O'Leary falsely said, "There was no ash cloud. It was mythical. It's become evident the airspace closure was completely unnecessary."
Ah yes, very decentralized