skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the placebo effect definitely does exist, I do wonder if a sense of agency (i.e. having the sense of control over your sickness) also has a similar positive effect?

The reason I ask is I've read many books about mental health over the last couple years. The more modern ones are all about acceptance and wearing them as a badge of honor. The timeless ones tend to talk about overcoming/controlling them by having a sense of agency.

I'm not particularly proud or fond of wearing my problems as an identity. I think thoughts are more powerful than we believe. Sure we should absolutely talk about them openly, but how many people make themselves more sick because of their thoughts? I found myself in this pattern for awhile because I instilled the identity that I was sick.

We all face the vicissitudes of the human condition. We all get to choose how we perceive them.
> I'm looking for possible realistic near future scenarios regarding climate change to communicate better with people who think everything's going to be fine.

A realistic scenario is that "climate change" is going to be used as a catch-all argument for politically enabling mass-migration to certain areas. These are man-made economic and sociological disasters though.

As far as actual disasters go, depending on how long you've lived, you'd have already seen these and other doomsday climate predictions fail to come to pass.

> there would be a new ice age

> global warming would make much of the planet uninhabitable

> acid rain would render many cities unlivable

> many coastal cities would already be underwater

> changing climate would create new large scale storm patterns that would devastate large areas.

Throwing new doomsday fan-fiction onto the list might be entertaining, but isn't going to be terribly persuasive to climate change skeptics given the results so far.
Yes, there might be a pay cut, but half of that pay cut's already there (via reduced stock prices) and the rest will come anyway for someone about to be PIPped out. Expected value then is zero. There are still other companies both in and outside of tech - possibly including the one we both worked for - that are still hiring and offer pay that's still good by most standards. There's contracting, which in past downturns has often picked up a bit to fill gaps left by hiring freezes. Also, for someone who has been pulling down GAMMA pay for even a few years, "nowhere" is very much an option either temporarily or permanently. I'm pretty glad to be "nowhere" myself. ;)
30 minutes isn't much contiguous time and would probably be a net-negative in my goals, even when considering health benefits. It does worry me that I may retire in bad health but I'm saving as fast as I can to avoid that. I'm also speed-running to ensure I will have the time I need to help my parents as they get older. In any case, I am confident I will be able to retire (I nearly have the funds).

To be clear, I'm definitely burnt out. At this point I don't see any way out besides ER. There just aren't jobs out there that use my skills without demanding 30-70 hour weeks.
Yes, i see a gallery of movies and stuff about dvd.
It almost certainly did not operate in any way similar to how it was described in the article. See my other comment but I highly suspect this was a much simpler solution in real life. I don't think there was any monitoring of "code words" at all or even any automated voice detection. It just seemed that way to outsiders because all they ever saw was the correlation without actually understanding the capabilities behind the scenes.
What’s the big deal about hypersonic missiles? They fly fast, okay, and?
Understand the problem and solution before coding.

It sounds simple, but it's hard to have perfect discipline. Especially if you have a strong bias towards action like I do.

It's shocking how applicable this is! Don't code an algorithm before having a firm grasp of the solution. Don't write code in an interview before you're sure you've uncovered everything your interviewer wants. Don't slam out a UI before understanding how all of the edge cases should act. Unless the point of the code is exploratory, the code should be a foregone conclusion by the time you start.

The more you practice this, the more you'll uncover bugs and underspecifications before you've spent days going down the wrong path.
Some of the kids would have been totally isolated, especially if they or a parent are otherwise classed as "clinically vulnerable". Or just very determined not to risk COVID.
Since the pandemic I have claimed that a lot of Americans will discover the power of the dollar soon, when they realize that a better QoL is just a passport and a flight away.

The current inflation, rate hikes and the tug of war between buyers and sellers will only expedite this knowledge. The common person in America just cannot win in this casino.
Maybe not a 'trick' but writing comments before I dive into the code helps me structure my thoughts and then piecemeal the work.
I think analogies can be taken too far, but "both North Korea and the US are probably interested in compromising the computers of their adversaries, and may intentionally or unintentionally infect others in the process" doesn't seem too far-fetched to me. It's not the same as saying "North Korea and the US are functionally and ideologically the same."
The simplest trick that every programmer learns early: when parenthesising, write both parentheses first: (), {}, [], etc. Then fill them in.

Even with modern IDEs this one neat trick saves a ton of annoyned confusion and swearing.
If I were in your position I'd investigate agricultural
applications. There are some companies involved in vertical farming
and precision farming, whose crucial enablers are image recognition
and autonomous drone technology. The benefits are drastic reductions
in the need for water, land, and pesticides. If you can't get any
companies to hire you then you can always volunteer to assist a
university research group in that area provided you can convince the
PI that you'll need negligible supervision.
From a technical perspective this is possible, I think. But it would mean one of two things:

1. Your implementation/OSes default configuration is messed up.
2. You accidentally messed up your local configuration yourself.

If 4rergdes0903004059 is a zone owned by Xerox (i.e. the zone public key), there is not reason why staples.com would point there unless 1. or 2.
In hobby/student projects, yes, very often. Maybe even in some cheap white goods. Otherwise they wouldn't have bothered publishing application notes on it.

It's awesome to just hook up a random coil you found/wound to the pins of an AVR and watch it just work.
They were able to shoot down _one_. This was after analysing many sorties and a bit of luck under ideal conditions. Radar has improved but so has stealth and operating procedures.
What Counts as Seeing
https://archive.ph/EOHxq
Fun fact: The Zurich-Munich electrification was paid by an interest-free loan by the Swiss confederacy, in order to finally saturate the North-South line from Germany to Italy that was heavily expanded in Switzerland.

The trains are still always delayed by 30 min because it’s single track on long stretches and delays always happen in the German and Austrian part of this line.

And the Basel-Karlsruhe line is still not finished.
I was actually wondering if COVID measures could effectively lead to people losing immunity to things our immune system usually has little trouble with.

We evolved as social creatures being exposed to one another after all.
Same reason we fly in subsonic aircraft rather than ballistic rockets: ICBMs are much more expensive.
What was your experience like and where did it lead you? For me it was part of the wake up call that showed me to the door. Being OTP for 14 Stores and GM for 1 was what pushed me over the edge.
I understand what you're saying, but it's ironic considering that espousing anything but leftist viewpoints in most tech companies today will instantly brand you as a hostile.
> THz radar

I've got your THz right here (shines laser pointer at sensor)

You'll see puff pieces from radar manufacturers saying "we spotted your best stealth plane, game's up," but they tend to leave out critical details like how more sensitive radars tend to be more vulnerable to jamming. Detecting a stealth aircraft in peacetime is a very different prospect from detecting a stealth aircraft in a hostile EW environment, which is itself different from an outright hostile environment where every radar pulse is a targeting opportunity for an anti-radiation missile.

Also, it's not black and white: range of detection matters. Shrink it enough and either your opponent has to put up more radars or you get the opportunity to slip through. Retro-reflective stealth is defeated by networked radar, but then the opposing forces have to maintain a network and you can try to disrupt that network. Even if you can't disrupt the network, it doesn't fit on a missile, so now the missile either can't target you or needs network communication to target you, and now you can try to go after the missile's network, which is wireless and even easier to mess with.

Stealth isn't necessarily an overriding factor these days, but it definitely gives you options and puts pressure on the opposition.
yeah fair ig i'm more trying to mock the people where u tell them and they're like "sHoW ME the STudiES". kinda frustrating that a bunch of people been saying this for years and got ignored and kinda frustrating everybody acting like this some huge revalation.
I don't understand why a slightly delayed exposure to some "common" viruses can almost destroy the liver of young children.
> a party controlled by the terrorist group

I really don't think this is true.

It's widely believed that some former high ranking IRA members still are involved in the party leadership, but nowhere near the extent that they could be said to "control" the party

> Sinn Fein is the Provisional IRA,

The ceasefire was 25 years ago, there is a whole generation of SF members who have never been in the IRA, so no, they are not the same organisation

> and proud of it

Yeah, there's pride at having held off the British Army for decades, but also a lot of very mixed feelings
And yet they are still a monster of a company.
yep, I use them as a blueprint for what I'm going to write...
Open Source Explained
Ukraine is a poor example since Russia's approach is to induce fear by firing indiscriminately at civilian areas.

So it's impossible to gauge the accuracy of anything let alone the rarely seen Kinzhal missiles.
You could harden a Linux server by killing the init process. That would cause a kernel panic, and prevent new processes running (e.g. shells). Existing processes like Web servers would continue to function, so you could put this at the end of the boot script :)
Look at France’s and a few other countries’ attempts along these lines.
Rest in power, Michael Brooks.
HAKMEM http://w3.pppl.gov/~hammett/work/2009/AIM-239-ocr.pdf
Haha I actually like the interfaces of most POSIX compliant tools. But maybe I've not looked to critically at the interfaces. Do you have any examples that are particularly bad in your opinion?
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think that decentralized DNS, and decentralized naming in general, is one of the few use cases that can be neatly solved by a blockchain, but is extremely hard to solve any other way.

A major problem when designing a decentralized naming system, or any naming system at all really, is preventing malicious users from grabbing all the cool names for themselves. The only way to do this is to make acquiring domains costly, and blockchains are a perfect way to enforce that in a decentralized manner. Other problems include accurately tracking domain ownership and letting the owners transfer domains to others, which cryptocurrencies have solved long ago. As an added benefit, because all domains in such a system are owned by a public key, we suddenly no longer need a root of trust for TLS, instead, we accept any TLS certificate signed by that public key.
"If you doubt this, ask around. I wager you’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn’t want a safer, fairer, more just world for everyone if they could get it."

I'll take that wager. I've met a lot of people whose concern for others drops off sharply beyond their own family and friends. Then there is the deep tribal impulse that is satisfied only at the exclusion of others, almost as a principle. Suggesting they employ the starman in their discussion won't make a difference because it's not a rhetorical problem, it's just how their priorities reflect on how they act in their daily lives.

The issue is in assuming the most charitable version of an opponent when we have their actions to guide us instead. For example, right now there are lots of Russians who think it's fine to invade, kill and steal, not for safety, fairness or justice for everyone. They just want better for their tribe. And we should respond as such based on their actions.

And if you assume they want safety, fairness and justice for everyone, their responses will vary from 'sure, why not' to 'of course, that's exactly why we're liberating, cleansing and reappropriating'.

Many of us are just selfish bastards, and that's a character flaw.
Try and talk to your users directly and if you're attempting to improve their workflow, try and watch their existing workflow and ask them questions about why they do things as they are now.
Also use lists and hash-maps first, be wary of exotic features.
A cruise missile strapped to a plane is not what people mean when they talk about hypersonics, even if it is (barely) technically correct. The new class of hypersonic missiles are aiming to be Mach 20 or faster, and highly maneuverable in comparison, quite a different capability. This is the type of missile that has not been proven to work beyond testing yet.
Sounds like the difference may be circulating adenovirus and AAV-2.
Opt out is ridiculous for a programming language. Do you really want to play security whack-a-mole with your development environment?

There are countless, better privacy respecting tools.
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Except that the examples I listed after more than 10 years of operation, especially the use of Deep Learning and training on tons of new data, have NO efficient alternatives, and still require tons of data centers to the point where some of them literally caught fire and their use is worse for society. Unless you want more surveillance, spyware, etc who would be happy with that?

The end result to all that wasteful training is that it doesn't work or it gets tricked or confused by junk input. Proving to be a waste of energy, time, money and the re-training, fine-tuning process has to be done repeatedly if there is an error, or everyday on new data.

Either way, it is pointless to outline a comment as 'This is a false dilemma' without countering my claims as I have both recognised the wastefulness of decentralized blockchains like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Doge, that are much worse for their intended purpose (payments) etc and using tons of data centers for Deep Learning / Machine Learning training, re-training, fine-tuning, etc everyday on user data which benefits surveillance capitalism, spyware uses etc which that is also worse for everyone.
Defunctionalisation.

Instead of writing code that does what you want to do, have it return a description of what you want to do.

Then write an simple executor for such descriptions.

Why do this? Well it allows you to manipulate, test, store and inspect the description.
We're using ESP32s in everything, originally because they're pretty great (what's not to love about lots of IO combined with wifi and bluetooth?) but also now because they're the only thing you can get.
You can't intercept them (yet) and they're difficult to detect. You don't see that as an advantage for standoff weapons?
Sure it's not fair, but there's no handicap in this game. Silicon isn't given any leg up for being millions of years late. Raw results are what really matters, not results weighted by whatever criteria would render the comparison subjectively fair.
Your laptop is an implementation detail
Taking the dot product of the [x,y] with the 8 directions and picking the one with the largest magnitude might be faster in some cases.
fair point. But I think having the ticket 1 euro/day (365 euros/year), as in Austria, and investing the 2.5 billion Euro in the infrastructure itself (improving trains, hiring and training employees, increasing the offer) would be much better than making it simply "almost free"
>If someone posits, for example, that universal basic income (UBI) could ameliorate the loss of jobs due to automation, a straw man would be, “So you want people to sit at home all day and collect free money?”

I don't see how this is a strawman. UBI literally lets people receive free money even if they sit at home all day. At some level, a UBI proponent has to "want" this outcome. If you think that UBI wouldn't cause people to leave the workforce, that's a separate argument.
I am biased toward over-planning. I have found your approach to work best for work I expect to take several days. In that case, actually putting together a lucidchart / draw.io diagram about what service will get refactored where is a huge help. It also keeps data flowing uni-directionally (yes, compiler will prevent circular dependencies, but there are ways to make code dirty without ever hitting that).

On the other hand, this diagramming does take hours and some people do fine with it. I can also do ok without it, but find it to generally be worth it, especially because I get interrupted all the time, so it's good to have a clear picture of the end goal.
> That proves my point even further, because I don't develop anything remotely web-related, hence that performance scenario is completely moot for me.

I hope you realize non-web development is a niche nowadays. So it's perfectly reasonable to prioritize .NET benchmarks that target ASP.NET Core web apps/APIs.
I see it more as a way of pre-empting predictable retorts in a constrained time and space. If your retort is not obvious then fine, we discuss your argument.

However, if I say A and I know 90% of people counter A with B then I'll say A and counter with steelmanned B and then counter that all at once so we can quickly jump to C.

C would either be a less predictable counter or no counter at all.
I don't know if I'd describe it's take as 'notably clever' but the focus wasn't on hordes of zombies / insane cults / etc but groups of people coming together and trying hard to rebuild some sort of life after a massive epidemic that kills most people. There were clashes between different groups, some resolved amicably, some with violence.
The prophet drooled too, when he had his epileptic fits that were thought to be communications with angels.
A bit late here, but by any chance, does anyone know of a similar site for non-english high-quality ebooks? Specifically, I'd really like to read some french classics in the original french. I know Project Gutenberg, but quality is variable compared to Standard Ebooks.
Could this be used for automated tests?
The BBC has been rabidly anti-Iran since like 2003, when I first started reading it.
I have doubts, too. There's lots of rural kids who didn't have much contact with others in infancy, pre-pandemic. Wouldn't this have shown up in them? Wouldn't it be part of the constant "advice for new parents" flood?
We should call him Doctor Hurricane. He must have heard this joke a million times already. He might be one suck joke away from becoming a supervillain.
They are physically separated from EU mainland, they are exclaves.

As said once you manage to get inside one of these extra-territories you are technically on Spain teritory, but you have NO access (without a boat) to Spain (or the EU).

As an example, if you manage (from Morocco) to enter one of these you cannot be chased by the Morocco Police (that will stop at the border) and you can - say - ask/apply for asylum, but if this is denied the Spanish Police will bring you back to the border and put you in the hands of the Morocco border police.

And it is not like any "mainland" border that you can escape anywhere, these territories are tiny and you have no ways to go other than sea or Morocco.

Same goes for drugs, congratulations, you managed to bring some hashish in Melilla, if you manage to sell it there, good, otherwise you won't be able (easily) to bring it to Spain.

Most of the "drug activity" is on the beaches of Spain, around La Linea, Campo de Gibraltar and Algeciras:

https://estaticos-cdn.prensaiberica.es/epc/resourcescas/info...

speedboats leave the coasts of Morocco and quickly unload the drugs on the beaches, then they are loaded on cars and distributed in Spain.

The rest is attempts to smuggle drugs (and tobacco/cigarettes) hidden inside trucks or cars boarded onto regular ferries.
Because even USA doesn't have unlimited money. A B-21 can carry a lot of cheap precision weapons. Eg. JDAM costs like $25k each, compared to many millions each target would require with missiles.
If you are interested in these kinds of things I can recommend the book "Hacker's Delight".
Apple partnerships are helping build new homes and new starts in communities
It is natural when you are powerful to let your worst impulses get the best of you and it is human to make mistakes but when you are a public figure people will imitate you and when you cause harm to others on purpose and you refuse to admit it was a mistake you are enabling others in some capacity to do the same. I said I don't care what he did because the harm he is causing due to his unapologetic arrogance is in the present and future, it is ongoing. Overlooking it means supporting and enabling his behavior in society. Not that I won't be grateful if he cures cancer, just that he and everyone else in this society need to know when you cross certain lines you will always be held to accountability.
One time, someone told my girlfriend she should try Keto to help with her Epilepsy. Maybe they were on to something, I guess.
Here's a fun and well sourced video about the source of failures: https://youtu.be/PmYvkCXXI4E

Or if you don't like fun: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/17/texas-energy...

> These failing sources largely included nuclear plants, coal plants and thermal energy generators. Frozen wind turbines were a factor, too, but Woodfin said wind shutdowns accounted for less than 13% of the outages.

That's ERCOT Senior Director of System Operations Dan Woodfin. So no, it definitely would've happened with just gas and nuclear.
Oh you can see many more starts, milky way is more clear etc that was not the point. I don't have much different setup (Nikon D750 + 20mm 1.8 which is actually a bit bigger glass than yours), but when you take picture from camera, its completely different from what you typically find presented from amateurs and pros alike.

The difference is that ridiculous amount over-processing, literally re-painting parts of picture ie to add more contrast to milky way. Once you know what goes inside making of such a picture, as a photographer you can't have much respect there, I know I can't.

Its same as celebrities with unnaturally smooth plasticky skin - when you know how they look like in real life even with tons of makeup, those shots over-processed on top of that look just cheap and bad taste.
TempleOS: you can have serious mental health issues and be competent at programming.
When implementing something:

Figure out enough to get started. Then start. Don't think you can get a perfect view of something before wading into it, you'll just be wasting time. Likely your first attempt will suck so with your new found experience from starting and trying you can improve for your next attempt.