skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of all the parcels in San Francisco, perhaps 1000 are terminally "built out" and the overwhelming majority of the rest are severely underused as detached simplex houses or parking.
> You want mold-resistant carpets and kitchen towels

Ugh, synthetic towels. They don't absorb anything, just push it around. They burn and/or melt if you try to use them as a substitute oven mitt. They're beyond awful.

Get white cotton ones and bleach them. They actually function as towels, which should be the minimum standard for, you know, a towel. You don't need mold resistant towels.

As for the rest:

The cost problem's the main issue. Take away the cheapest materials, demand goes up for the next-cheapest and pretty soon it's not cheap anymore (yes, they can make more, but only to a point). Our society's totally adapted to clothes so cheap they're not worth repairing, that don't need special care because, even if extra care would make them last longer, they're so cheap it's not worth any time or materials, et c. Given the modern cost of labor in the developed world, a large chunk of the population would be doing a lot more DIY clothing repair than they do now.
oh god not another restriction. What's next? no titles?
ADHD is not a disease; our brains are just wired differently. The upsides of ADHD - hyperfocus, strategic planning, ability to readily correlate otherwise unrelated things all contributed to who I am and my success. The drugs help even out the downsides to ADHD.
With the context of what wealth inequality is doing to society and what political power raw money brings to people, I posit there is a line where it is wrong.
Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US
The window decorations stuff drives me batty. Titlebar and buttons aside, there seems to be a widespread misunderstanding about window shadows. There is some vague effort afoot[1], but a surprising number of developers don't really care whether they're consistent (note, nobody even mentions shadows in that extremely long gitlab issue you linked to), despite the Gtk folks going to tremendous efforts to make them look nice for their specific toolkit. Which is great, until you have a Gtk 3 app beside a Gtk 4 app and it looks like they're each being affected by a different light source, begging the question: why do we even have them? Shadows are supposed to create a consistent sense of space and guide the eye around the desktop, but if they're all different, that isn't happening. They're just noise.

To be fair, it's difficult because Wayland clients might have rounded corners and other odd shapes, and I'm not in a position to really look into it myself so I shouldn't complain, but argh, the indifference about it is frustrating.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1517
When you go to input an appointment in Apple's Calendar app you can do it one of a few ways:

1) From another app, which obviously this author didn't do
2) Tapping the "+" icon on the top corner with a date in the calendar below highlighted. The New Event screen comes up with the highlighted date automatically filled in the Starts and Ends fields. This seems the most likely method if they were manually entering an appointment.

The point is, there is not enough detail to suggest that Apple listens to phone calls when there are other more plausible methods (and certainly more testable) that Siri could have used to obtain the information.
Feel free to educate me. I’m from neighboring Bangladesh, and the situation with pluralism in India seems like the situation with secularism in Bangladesh. Western educated elites trying to impose it on a larger population that doesn’t want it. Or at least has a vastly narrower conception of it than the elites do.

At the end of the day, Bangladesh exists because Bangladeshis wanted a country for Bangali Muslims. Most Bangladeshis subscribe to that core premise. So it’s bizarre to me when people attack Britons upset about immigration from Bangladesh using accusations of “racism.” The Brexiter and the average Bangladeshi are ideologically on the same ground. Their differences arise due to conflicting interests, not conflicting ideologies.
It's interesting because at least in terms of working professionals, of the most productive professions I've worked with, the ones who focus on "meta-level" concepts are usually the ones who overthink every detail and get very little work done and ultimately they are the ones who burn out.

They tend to bike-shed details, take way too long to try to create sophisticated abstractions that never quite achieve the silver bullet they originally thought it would, and spend too much time dwelling on irrelevant details that ultimately leads no where and results in a kind of paralysis that can be very hard to break out from.

The ones who master a specific language or master a specific library/technology that focuses on doing a few things very well and in very concrete terms are able to deliver the most business value. Furthermore they absolutely have the ability to take their mastery of that and map it to new languages or new libraries. I mean I'm not talking about going from Java to Haskell or Haskell to Idris, but rather people who master C++ can fairly easily pick up Java or Python or TypeScript. People who have mastered Unity can easily pick up Unreal Engine. People who have mastered web development can easily pick up mobile development.

The idea that people who have a solid mastery of a technology and a programming language are somehow just stuck and unable to take those skills and apply them to other areas I think is overstated and just untrue, but those who treat software engineering as highly theoretical and focus on abstractions, design principles and get caught up on these high level details tend to not get much done and when they realize that software is not as clean and elegant as they would like it to be, they get burned out and give up.

I think going over any substantial codebase for products that are widely used and deliver solid business value on Github where most code is not at all reflective of the ideals often espoused on blog posts validates my point of view.

In short, people who treat software as just a tool to accomplish a concrete task are more productive than those who write software for the sake of writing software. They don't write the cleanest code, or the most elegant data structures and algorithms, but they produce the greatest amount of tangible business value.
The expectations of your partner are likely the main reason for lowered sex drive. You need to learn to let these expectations free and not be affected by those, or by your own expectations.

Only then you will, hopefully, rediscover parts of your sex drive.
Apparently I'm not the only one who did not get the sarcasm.
Then that means you don't have free will. Consciously, you might feel like you do, but it's all deterministic.
Avoid plastics - particularly when it comes to food.
Opinion: An important chart on the page begins after the text:

"Is the Founder Institute Right for my Business?"

https://fi.co/overview#:~:text=Is%20the%20Founder%20Institut...

...where it positions Founder Institute as a "Pre-Seed Accelerator", that is, as a stepping-stone on the Startup/Capital ladder, squarely between "Inspiration/Education" (i.e., Startup Weekend, leanstartupmachine, Y Startup School, etc.) and "Seed-Accelerator/Angel" (i.e., Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, etc., etc.)

Googling for "Pre-Seed Accelerator" seems to yield a few hits; it seems that this idea (at least in the finance community) seems to be (and pardon my use of lingo!) "gaining traction"...

Also, I wouldn't mind seeing a web page or Wikipedia page, comparing all known Pre-Seed Accelerators...
Total** Cookie Protection

**: Not total

It sounds like the "Full Self Driving"** from Tesla... got to love the new-speak.

**: Not fully self-driving....
Last resort doesn't mean it's not effective. And depression is often a symptom, not an illness itself.

In the case of ADHD, amphetamine helps the dopamine dysfunction which in turns alleviates the depressive symptoms.
A company I worked for had an internal project that was a .NET monstrosity (the rest of the firm was either mainframe/COBOL or JVM based). They named it "Project Maelstrom". A more apt name could not have been had.

Note: .NET is not bad in itself, I guess, but we had no real production experience with it and was mostly spearheaded by people who used it as an REU (Resume Extension Unit) to get jobs at Microsoft, with little to no actual justification for using it where we did. I guess that was their dream, and for at least one person it worked as such. But I always felt it was kind of underhanded.
I as well miss that playfulness of that era. We use these things all day, why shouldn't they give us a smile from time to time from something that happens.
It's still heavy.

Other suggest that it uses same or even less memory than Xfce, that may be true on fresh boot, but it's misleading, because Plasma utilizes lazy load aggressively and also still leaks memory like crazy.

I tried to use it for a while and I noticed that memory grows quite a bit after using it for a whole day for example. I witnessed once plasma-shell process using 600MB and kwin 300MB, which is quite bad, worse than even GNOME. You can restart processes and it returns to normal, but I don't want to do that, I want DE using reasonable resources, not 1GB for showing wallpaper and few windows
Part of the reason you can do that, though, is that based on your age, you spent most of your life living in a way where you were naturally active, just to get through the day. You likely did not grow up eating food that was manufactured to addict you to it. And you did not grow up on platforms that have scores of PHds trying to figure out how to get you, individually, addicted to their platform.

IOW, your natural instincts largely worked because your environment supported a fairly high quality lifestyle.

This is not close to true anymore. Our natural instincts and daily lives have been hijacked beyond recognition.

With WFH, for example, people may go days without having walked beyond the distance it takes to go from their bed to their desk, or if they're lucky, from their bedroom to the home office.
someone is desperate for training data sets...

And would be very foolish to base your future skill training on such obvious entrapment, but we know it will work out very well for them.
>Instead of simply rejecting people from the mountain path, lead them, with friendliness and encouragement, to another path they can take.

I would point out that you get a lot of societal bang for your buck even if gatekeepers only sometimes give feedback. Getting rejected from 20 jobs and getting feedback from two of them gives you a big ambition boost: someone is looking at my applications! They thought I was a good enough applicant to merit some of their time!

The next 18 feedback emails probably don't add as much value as the first couple.

Anyway, my guess is that giving good feedback, absent any societal movement to change norms around rejections, still has a fantastic ROI.
I don't claim that people outgrow ADHD, nor do I believe that to be the case. There are a number of other therapeutic drugs for ADHD beyond Ritalin, and there are other useful behavioral interventions including diet, exercise, time outdoors, cognitive therapies etc. That is what I mean by 'interventions'.

I'm trying, probably somewhat poorly, to make the point that there are a lot of potentially useful things to try in terms of managing ADHD beyond Ritalin (though that can be a very useful tool for some).
Redistribution politics are always destructive and temporary in nature. The EU has not discovered some way to invent free stuff out of thin air. If you push redistribution politics you will cause stagnation and lower productivity.

You can think that's "chill" but sooner or later the outside world will run away from you and you will be outcompeted.

Just look at what happened now to the german car industry, they are so proud of their strong unions, but they get outcompeted by tesla instead who is now building car factories in germany. It almost got killed by the unions in the same way detroit was in the US when the japanese caught up.

Nice sweet union deals with lifetime guarantees of great benefits, mean nothing when the whole company disappears, and the country goes into a recession. It's just putting your head in the sand for a while and pretending that you have found the perfect position where opportunity will last forever.
If you were trying to pick a cloud provider right now, based on these results who would you choose?
Anecdote: I had an old co-worker who was given 6 month's notice that he'd be let go from a previous job, and his manager at the time helped him look for a new gig + gave him shining reviews and references. After the 6 month period was up, they still gave him several months of severance, even after he had found a new gig. Some companies/managers actually do care about you, and it seems like Coinbase is roughly in that court.

Getting laid off with zero warning and no severance can be a life-ruining event if it's at a bad time logistically in someone's life. It could be way worse. Always have your resume updated, and take interviews every now and again just in case.
When I finally got my hands on those disks I watched them back to back to back. That was one of the last times I stayed up until dawn on the weekend.
Have they ever been good? I come from a long lineage of people who had a parent die while they were still children. Sure doesn't seem like the good's been equitable or balanced.
The US low speed rail network works pretty well for freight. Despite some occasional bottlenecks and delays, it's still superior in certain ways to rail freight in China and the EU.

As for HSR, do we really need it? It might make sense in the northeast corridor but it's hard to make a business case elsewhere. The California HSR project has turned into the usual government megaproject boondoggle with long delays and cost overruns. Even if it actually gets built I'll probably never ride on it.
For the unfamiliar, dialectical materialism tends to do this a lot (that is, understand and explain exploitative facets of our economy long before mainstream press gives the particular problem in question any notice).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=289v_gKJjWU&t=43s

Moof.
Crypto solves a bunch of problems of its own making while retaining all the human problems (fraud, etc) of the existing banking system without hundreds of years of regulations and policy to stabilize systems and attempt accountability.

Tether is analogous to the gold standard but without verifying the gold exists in reserves, or ever existed at all. Exchanges are facilitating billions in money laundering and fraud while eating massive fees and paying millions to founders. Transactions can be hidden behind shell wallets/groups and filtered through many exchanges reducing transparency and increasing odds of successful illegal activity.

There is a ton of legitimate criticism just looking at the fraud side of Crypto and how lack of regulation in that space enables a ton of crime. It's often drowned out by PR or the next big blockchain based thing that seems flashy but still comes with all the same problems as regular physical money.

It's like asking your IT group to install spyware on users workstations instead of respecting or enforcing HR policy. It's a people problem, not a tech problem.
I disagree:

“ In this paper, we discuss candidate triggers of islet autoimmunity and factors thought to promote progression from autoimmunity to overt type 1 diabetes (figure 1). These factors seem to have their effect mainly in the genetically predisposed individuals.” [my emphasis]
It's funny you see filing patents as evidence of innovation when I see it as precisely the opposite.
FDA approves first systemic treatment for alopecia areata
>2 months of so of PIP is more than enough to find a new role.

I think a lot of people here underestimate the difficulty of landing a new job depending on your background, overall skill level, experience, and location.
> I’ve heard of people using 60+ mg of Ritalin and thinking that’s normal.

Hello. That's me. I can sleep on that dose. Is that not normal?
Any idea what happened under the hood there? Do you think you just accidentally guessed an existing username/password combo? Or something more troubling?
CRISPR for Carbon Capture
My severance don’t jiggle-jiggle, it folds.

Converted it to fiat, you really oughtta see it.
Inform Act lets Ken Paxton pressure AMZN to reveal who sold books he doesnt like
What exactly is the issue? Company predicts that the market is not going their way, and they are tightening their belt. Sucks to be on the receiving end, but are they supposed to keep all employees forever, business conditions be damned?
Being an employee in a high risk field like crypto is a tough business.

You are everyday one day away from a massive market crash or crypto heist to be let go.

(Yes, conventional companies too, but not to this extent)
However bad you think you feel, at least you still have a paycheck and don't have to scramble for employment in a market of hiring freezes across the board.

Those you're directly telling this message to don't have that comfort. Now is not the time to talk about how bad you think you have it. You might have a couple sleepless nights, they're going to have sleepless weeks.
Wonder if this is why they produced Ted Lasso and not some other-sport-related series
Really hard to do. Better get used to gardening—a lot. Produce? Often wrapped in plastic. Anything canned? Those cans are lined in plastic, so goodbye canned tomatoes. Frozen veggies? Plastic bags. Anything that comes in an apparently paper sack? Probably a plastic liner layer on the inside.

If you go extreme with it, you can't even use stuff that comes in glass jars or bottles—the inside of the lid is plastic.
> The scale of its woes does not approach what is happening in San Francisco, New York or Los Angeles.

No, but its famously permissive zoning also does not let NIMBYs veto all new construction and make housing utterly unaffordable either.
Perhaps, but replacing the gold standard with no backing is not then the answer. There should be hard accountability on anyone who can create money. Cryptographic measures seem promising in this regard, but I have never heard of governments funding research on limiting themselves. China has been doing some work in digitizing its money, but it seems it is making the government even more powerful.
Are these errors regional or general? Are there cases where applications such as youtube run services in different versions depending on the region?
Well, a dose doesn’t last forever. It wouldn’t be surprising if it was a net negative. You tend to feel worse on the comedown for example.
> The developers of mobile operating systems also have power to shut down this insidious data market.

Pretty sure Alexander Graham Bell will rise from the grave to dance the jig before this happens.
Brilliant approach, really. Never occurred to me to try something like this!

Are you affected? Very likely. What can you do about it? Nerf your CPU performance by disabling "turbo boost" or equivalent. Should you do it? Probably not unless you're particularly vulnerable (journalist, human rights activist, etc.)

One thing I found interesting that may get changed later, so I'm documenting it here, is in their FAQ they say:

> Why did Intel ask for a long embargo, considering they are not deploying patches?
>
> Ask Intel.

So Intel did ask for a long embargo, then apparently did nothing about it. My guess is they investigated "can we actually mitigate this thing with a microcode update?" and arrived at the conclusion after actually trying - or possibly after external influences were exerted (you be the judge) - that no, there's not much you can really do about this one.

Later in the document another FAQ says:

> [...] Both Cloudflare and Microsoft deployed the mitigation suggested by De Feo et al. (who, while our paper was under the long Intel embargo, independently re-discovered how to exploit anomalous 0s in SIKE for power side channels). [...]

Which is again telling us that there indeed WAS a long embargo placed on this research by Intel.

Only mentioning this here just in case the PR spin doctors threaten the researchers into removing mention of Intel on this one. Which honestly I hope doesn't happen because my interpretation is that Intel asked for that long embargo so they could investigate really fixing the problem (state agencies have more methods at their disposal and wouldn't need much time to exert influence over Intel if they decided to). Which speaks well of them IMO. But then again, not everybody's going to come to that same conclusion which is why I'm slightly concerned those facts may get memory-holed.
VS Code extension that manages Machine Learning experiments
Thank you for you sympathy and empathetic response. Your son's in good hands.

As an ADHDer, I never understood what it was like for others until I got treatment with stimulants. It's like I can just take this magic pill and for 8 hours I'm "normal."

I wish there was an opposite pill, one which made people inattentive and impulsive. Then everyone else could try it for a day or two and see how debilitating it is. Regular, everyday life is like being falling-down drunk in terms of mental incapacitation, and the pills for the first time let us experience life sober.

Edit: how old is your son now? One thing I worry about as a parent of an ADHDer as well is her eating. I've so far avoided treatment for her because I'm worried she'll eat less and her growth will be stunted. We're cautiously waiting on medication until post-puberty.
It's taking only an external view of homelessness: what are its effects on me and people like me. It completely ignores the consequences and experiences of being homeless: losing possessions, damaging relationships, stretching support networks, risk of acquiring long-term health and legal problems.

It's a "valid point" as far as you're talking about numbers not people but I don't think you should feel so comfortable only going that far.
Coinbase had over 5k employees?!!! WTF. What were they all doing?
Same for me. I actually tried to find my wallet in around when it went over a few hundred dollars.
> The average testosterone level found in men is drastically lower than our ancestors.

I'm curious -- how far back do we have good data on that? When did we learn enough to measure it? Are there techniques to estimate it for people in the far past, or is this the kind of thing where you really need to collect / process samples at the time of interest?
In the end I care about the stock going up, and now it finally seems to be doing that. The point of a company is to generate wealth for the owners and nothing else. Employees need to negotiate with the contracts according to that.
Why is it the whole point? The chat is about aviation fatality caused by pilot suicides, not to show “132 death as solid statistic”.

Also, the small print is “March 2022 China Eastern Crash is likely intentional, but unconfirmed”. You took out the important first part. The article has four paragraphs that discusses this specific event, yet you choose to go with a small print.
Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos