skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strongest evidence in favour of this line of argument is the large variation in the presentation and prevalence of certain mental illnesses, depending on culture. It would seem roughly 1% of people hear very literal voices talking to them, in every culture. But the prevalence of anxiety or depression-like illness varies by like an order of magnitude, at least based on people's self-reporting.

Our trauma-focused mentality is so prevalent in the West that many Westerners cannot help but project it. For example, when presented with evidence that suggests quite few Sri Lankans developed PTSD after being victims of the tsunami, it's an automatic reflex, isn't it? What's preventing them from recognizing and discussing their trauma? Perhaps instead something about their culture or environment, prevents them from developing trauma? That would have interesting implications.
I submitted my own blog here, but then my intentionally configured HN timeouts locked me out. I was wondering why my little Linode was dying.

Yeah this was an incredibly odd and creepy experience that I continue to investigate here and there. I really appreciate the interviewer for letting me stay on and confront the imposter.
He was brought in as a publicity stunt. He did very little on the Amiga, and he didn't use it professionally in his work.
My bet would be Poland, then Ukraine.

There's this: https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/27/baltic-pipe-norway-polan...
I have big black mesh roller shades over a pair of large windows, they are amazingly effective at keeping the room cooler (as long as they're on the outside!) I think it'd be fair to say that they don't make you 'dwell in darkness' as much as a solid wall would...
This is the sensible advice. Don't just ask for a raise, gather evidence to support your request. It's a negotiation, and you need to prepare well for it.

Some companies give small yearly rises to keep up with inflation, but others will expect employees to speak themselves. It all depends on how much pressure the shareholders/board exert to keep fixed expenses from growing.
I do something related; I extend sass with a few custom functions which allow a convenient way to build svg from specifications written directly into the sass. Specifically I use it to build svg filters which are intimately related to the css rules which apply them. It's very useful to have both the css and svg produced in the same pass by the same tool.

I haven't done it, but this system would probably also be useful for using CSS to animate SVG
Under present circumstances, I believe the Germans have much bigger fish to fry, and possibly no fuel to fry them with.
Reading up on what is called neurodivergence, I can’t help but wonder if many mental illnesses are just normal human reactions to a state of domestic and world affairs.

For example, if society moved in a way that rewarded behaviour that would have been considered pathological in the past, would those people who cared enough to actively resist the tendency be more likely to be deemed mentally ill?

I know psych was weaponized like this in communist countries, but I can imagine it happening more pervasively and organically in democracies, from the bottom up.

Back to your point, instead of eg anxiety being something disordered, maybe it’s a normal expression of human behaviour but in a world where the opposite traits are rewarded. Maybe 500 years ago or 100 years hence, the anxious are normal and confident optimism will be pathologized.
Metastable scenario is metastable. Which quantum of energy or momentum broke the metastability is simply not an important question.

Peter Zeihan has repeatedly pointed out that permanently ending Russian oil exports is now within the reach of even Latvia's navy.
To me, the most fascinating thing about this is the complete and utter uncertainty. Who is responsible, USA? Russia? Ukraine? Poland? Terrorists? No one?

You'd think that in the 21st century, a piece of infrastructure getting blown up during a war, between two clearly defined sides, there wouldn't be nearly as much mystery surrounding the events.
It's in large part a warning -- there's no other explanation for the timing:

> The turmoil came on the same day of the inauguration of a long-awaited pipeline that will bring Norwegian gas to Poland, which used to rely heavily on Russia for supplies.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-gas-baltic-pipelines-leaks/32...

A single torpedo could sever the Pole's new energy supply.
Is there a reason to not use querySelector, since it’s a lot more flexible? One reason jQuery became so popular is because the DOM was painful to use. Things like querySelector fix that.
The Stolen Babies of Spain
https://archive.ph/Qw6BG
Uber Hack: It’s the Simple Things That Kill Your Security
It's certainly a conspiracy in the sense that the USA and its functionaries are not going to be coming out and directly saying "sure, we blew up Nordstream to remove a Russian bargaining chip and prevent Germany from suing for peace."
Why not just screenshot the interview call and check against when they show up on their first day?
I recall of an old story, say from 3-5 years ago, of some non military (geomagnetism?) sensors in that area that seemed to be damaged on purpose by an unknown actor, and one of the speculations was that they could be used to detect alterations to the (edit: measured) Earth magnetic field by submarines passing by.
> Putin, knowing that the pipelines are no longer practically useful

Didn't he also sign up to build a new pipeline into China?

Looks like China stands to win from all this, if Russia can't send the gas anywhere China can dictate the price they will pay.
They have large amounts of money they got from fraud and that allowed them to survive for long enough. But they have no competitive advantage they just have a contract manufacture who set up a low volume production line for them.
Honestly this one will probably always be conspiracy food. Nobody is going to tell the truth here for another 30-50 years. The truth would be too messy for the public to consume, this is state actors taking to each other in serous terms.
Replacing physical items with high fidelity video and automating the picking process when the shopper clicks add-to-cart could be sold as an improved experience.

I'd add a physical add-to-cart button with real-time inventory and give shoppers a bracelet when they walk into the store. They can pair that bracelet with their phone. They can either add items digitally from their phone or browse the store and add them from item locations. Stores would transform into customer service/fulfillment locations where storing items on the floor is unnecessary.
Is any actual work happening here? Does someone ever sign an offer letter and start checking in source code?
In this story, yes. In reality, it can be done in either direction. You can give a short person a step more easily than you can chop the legs off a tall person.
Wanna talk about how the WhatsApp client on macOS (and probably also Windows) by default shows your webcam on screen if someone videocalls you? That way if you are sharing your screen and someone happens to call you, everyone will be able to suddenly see you without warnings.

For me is such an enormous privacy violation that I removed the client (which is also a memory hog) and now use only the browser version.
Scientists find evidence for food insecurity driving conflict 2000 yrs ago
I've seen a lot of this, and I've started to pick up a few red flags you can watch out for.

- The biggest and most obvious is that they don't have a functioning webcam that clearly shows who they are. If I encounter this, the interview ends immediately.

- Another one is, if you do hire a person, they suddenly want to be paid through some unrelated company. ("Oh, it's my brothers company, I do this for tax reasons").

There are other red flags which aren't as certain, but should definitely raise your suspicions:

- The CV has been professionally designed or laid out.

- The most recent job entry is a vague "Remote contractor" or similar which doesn't list specific companies they've worked for.

- The name on the email doesn't match the name on the CV.

- You get a series of emails following up after a few days, as though someone is running a drip email campaign.

- The application email is sent directly to any of your employees, rather than to your standard recruiting email address, almost as though someone has used a sales tool to find internal contacts.

These last 5 points can occur in legitimate applications, but when you see them, it's a sign that additional suspicion is warranted. These fake employees are generally not individuals, but professional operations.
As for motivation, maybe cash out one or two paychecks? Dunno how it works in the US, but where I live that would be hard without any ID or tax information. Maybe they'll request the first paycheck as a cashiers check? Paypal payment? Who knows. But 1-2-3 months worth of US-level salary would be a fortune in some parts of the world.

In the days of remote work, it would not surprise me a bit if there are organized criminals doing this 24/7. Just churning out job applications, hiring people off fiverr, upwork, etc. to do the interviews, collect a paycheck or two and disappear. Could easily be worth $5000-$20000 pr. scam, if they manage to get hired.
I was offered a job at a major defense contractor in Binghamton NY without any interview. I had seen their job postings for this location for years and was mostly curious about the work they were doing. I finally got a response from some recruiters in NJ but they were evasive about any interview claiming the hiring manager was too busy, had some weird housing offer, and had an obnoxious superiority complex.

This was immediately suspicious and I hate slimeball recruiters so I made them arrange an interview and ghosted them. One of the recruiters called to chew me out while I was returning home from a successful interview for a real job.
But...measures of socialization are at an all time low?
It may not be due to smartphones, but it is a real phenomenon.
OP also probably means 'wary' (on guard, distrustful) instead of 'weary' (tired).
For those who want some slightly more "sane" arguments against the foundation of mathamatics that is normally accepted, I highly recommend that folks read these wikipedia articles.

Basically, if your concerned with the epistemological justifications for the traditional way that infinite set theory is treated, it turns out you're far from alone! A lot of top mathematicians agree with you.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionism#Infinity

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_logic

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_set_theory

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle <---- (all of the above reject this naughty child, and rightfully so)
Unless of course, you are left handed, in which case it's mirrored, and hard to follow.
I interviewed a candidate whose lip movements were not matching the sounds. His mouth just mumbled randomly, but a quite eloquent voice was produced, including sounds like "th". I assumed that it was some sort of sound delay and placed the doubts on myself ("it's probably my uncouncious bias"). When he got hired, he happened to be placed in the same team as me, and I was surprised to how thick his accent was.
He just stayed for less than one week, because he lied about a lot of stuff to HR as well (he wasn't even living in the country that he said he was, so there was no way to ship the equipment).
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I work with such humans! I was looking at that exact situation a few moments ago.
True enough that used car prices have kind of gone nuts in the past year or two.

I look for local private sales, not dealer cars. You have to be both patient and ready to pounce when a good deal comes up.
It't way more work to make a fake profile, with actual contributions to different (real) repositories, then just pretend to be an existing one.
BTW, in my experience getElementById() is still fastest.
Well he obviously can’t cheat at the beach because Magnus absolutely destroyed him there: https://youtu.be/T1OBEY99inw
> If someone has logged in from one IP or region for the first 4 weeks and then suddenly you're seeing new logins from a different city or country, investigate. I don't care if people travel, but we need to firmly understand the security situation.

Couldn’t they just say they use a VPN?
"This kind of study showcases that many challenges which our societies face today had equivalents in the past."
I like the concept of using mypyc to leverage type hints to compile python. But I was pretty frustrated recently when I got bit by a bug in mypyc[1] while trying to use black. Especially since I wasn't using mypyc myself and so didn't realize it was even in my dependency tree. Beware adding "alpha" quality software as a dependency to your supposedly production ready tool.

[1] https://github.com/psf/black/issues/2846
Analysis of Chromium issue 1196683, 1195777 (2021)
And, as Douglas Murray points out, resentment.
waiting for the time when i can only use my matrix/element and be able to talk to whatsapp or instagram or snapchat users without creating and maintaining accounts there.
Why would they? Controlling a population that is hostile towards you is an absolute nightmare. Americans should know, they tried it many times. So did the Soviets and it never worked out. Kiev's population has a Russian minority of less then 15% while in the eastern two breakaway republics the majority is. Have you ever looked at a map of Ukraine?

The problem with people like you is that you don't actually listen. You don't really have to agree with what the other side says, but you should at least listen instead of just believing what you want to believe and what the voice inside of your own head says.
I can't say I really understand the intended meaning behind the story. The ending is obviously fantastical and the author was a socialist, but it also depicts an absurd and brutal form of social equity. Is the whole thing supposed to be sarcastic in the sense of "look what those silly capitalists/individualists think of us and themselves"?
As I see it, the hurt is going to come from more hoops expected, as any burdens are always passed down to the individual. In in an ideal world, companies would actually read/think/analyze all the data/metadata they already have; however, we don't live in this world. And the individual's going to have to spell everything out in gross detail.
> In areas with cold winters, its not grate.

Was this an intentional pun or a hilarious typo?
You answered your own question in the back half of your comment.
DataProfiler: What's in Your Data?
The Darknet Diaries guy will probably want to interview you after this.
Yeah, refusing to fly even for a final interview/on boarding is a very hard line.

Even with disabilities, inability to meet the job description is a legally valid reason to discriminate.
The argument against this is consistency. Without a limit set, you are only guarenteed up to your request's worth of cpu, but you will often be allowed to have more. This can create a false sense of security, as your application is working fine (even though it occasionally exceeds its request). Until one day, when a neighbor happens to get thirsty, and your application suddenly breaks. Limits front-load the brokenness so that it happens immediately instead of randomly.
Nice article, thanks for sharing it.
When candidates tell me they’re in the US but our conversation has a 3 second lag, that’s usually a red flag.
There are many projects that have experimented with something like this - and personally, I think this is the way to go. Staked ID...
Quoting the Washington Post:

> Portions of the operation have been disclosed earlier, including in a 1996 paper in Studies in Intelligence, a CIA journal.
Yeah it could be "just" a scam though the arbitrage is really a scam too. The other thread's doesn't make sense because the dev is still trying to work despite being immediately id'ed as a different person on zoom. This scam only makes sense to me to be doing something like stealing the signing bonus but actually trying to be a dev is curiously naive or stupid.
There are, but the idea that a therapist will be destroyed by your super duper nihilistic puzzle questions is not very realistic. The position of "client thinks their problems are so big and so unique that I won't be able to understand them" is one that is studied by mental health professionals and is actually pretty easy to deal with (although hard to resolve). Therapists get burnt out by listening helplessly to people with real problems in their life like abuse and addiction and poverty. Being able to navel gaze about the meaninglessness of the universe means you're in a pretty cushy spot.
That would be around $19 billion and Apple has around $40 billion on hand. Although I think the culture of Japan would cause more difficulties other than having enough money to afford it.
Look at a graph of USD against GBP, Euro and Yen for the past 5 years. I agree with the general sentiment but this isn't a problem that is exclusive to the UK.
I really meant who is doing the references. Its hard to confirm who was their old boss or colleague. Is hacker6969@gmail.com really their old boss? You could ask a Linkedin account but that has no guarantees either.
Assuming your time is worth minimum wage - you haven't even broken even yet.

This is a very, very long term play.

You have to bank on YouTube still being a dominate market, not getting too greedy with it's algorithms or revenue sharing, and your old videos continuing to attract a large number of views.

If any one of those goes wrong - you're basically working for below minimum wage.
The author specifically states, and I quote:

>no matter how close any two distinct real numbers are to each other, there will always be infinitely many real numbers in between ... this doesn’t mean that the sets of real numbers and natural numbers have different sizes

What is misleading or wrong about that? What specific statement is incorrect?
My family bought a Tandy 1000 around 1985. I was eight years old and quickly started writing batch scripts and rudimentary BASIC games. My friend had a Tandy too and, being a musician, talked all the time about their "three-voice sound." We taught ourselves BASIC together by decoding the spiral-bound reference manual that came with the computer. Without any tutorial-style material it was rough going, but we persisted. I remember him trying to explain for loops to me and I was just n-o-t getting it. And I always wondered what GOSUB was for. "Why would you want to go somewhere then just come back again?" After several years it finally clicked when I independently invented function calls. ;-)
Can one explosion at one place in the pipeline cause vibrations down the pipeline, possibly weakening another joint/seal further on?

Not sure. I know nothing about underwater pipelines :P

Does all the gas leaking to the surface cause boats to sink if they get too close from the change in density?
I'll add one more thing: prior to the pandemic, it was often hard to get insurance to cover telehealth therapy. Now, it is common practice. Many therapists working in clinics or private practice do a hybrid model allowing clients to visit in-person or via Zoom/etc.

The cost of therapy is covered by an increasing number of insurance plans, so it's worth doing a few minutes of research/phone calling before paying out of pocket.
Duplication of work prior to publication is standard in many experimental fields, like synthetic chemistry. In some cases the cost of an experiment is high enough to be a problem, but conductivity measurements are not really that exotic.
In the Home Depot near my house, even finding an employee to ask for help is a chore. Often I have to walk to the front of the store to ask for help.
I was thinking if I get naked and go out to the street, singing loudly maybe they take me to an asylum and give me proper mental treatment for free, then I just thought probably they just take me home to my husband and ask him to look after me. In one word, the choice is not yours. Just have to keep on doing stuff. There's no exit, unless you don't believe anymore it can ever get better.
Reckon you're right about piano tuners/techs being a dying breed. I used to know a tuner who both tuned and repaired concert grands (in fact I occasionally used to watch him work). He sent his son (who eventually followed in his footsteps) to train at Steinway and even then he didn't reckon his son was good enough to do the top league without lots more experience.

These days, most people haven't the patience to acquire hands-on skills to that depth.
Today's popular usage often is tomorrow's proper usage.

Even if it is sometimes a bit unfortunate.
India, the UAE, nor Turkey are colonies of the United States.

Also the idea you can be on a level playing fields with citizens in certain countries without bribery is just laughable. The common citizen bribes in a number of third world countries just to get routine service, and if you don't bribe you're left pragmatically a sub-citizen status.

>Chesterton's Fence principle

Exactly. One should study why bribery is often necessary to even be a 'level' participant on the playing field before assuming anyone bribing is a 'colonizer.'
Dang, you're right. Methane is much more potent as GHG than CO2, lasts longer than I thought, and does degrade into CO2 anyway.
> Ukrainian sabotage -- pretty much the only actor for whom sabotage makes rational sense.

If you include the risk of getting caught or revealed (and you should), it would absolutely make no sense.
OpenAI using Whisper to obtain text tokens to train GPT-4
What if Apple moved sideways and got into the electric motor scooter market instead and displacing the likes of Vespa? If they keep the power low enough (no freeway driving here!) then most states wouldn't require a special endorsement to ride it. It would be the ultimate cafe runner!

Hipsters, college students, high school students, and suburban folks needing to drive everywhere would love it - and it would be reducing the amount of dino fuel burning vehicles on the road. The battery could be easily removable and carried in to charge in your house/apartment/dorm without any special equipment. Apple could absolutely kill this market.
Tell HN: Don Libes has retired from maintaining Expect - patches are queuing up
As a hard result, undecidability may be unimportant. Someone rarely wants to know whether a Gödel sentence is "true" or determine whether a program that references itself halts.

But such theorems, by placing a theoretical, if contrived, limit, often seem to have a qualitative implication as well: namely that solving the problem in the general case, even if we manage to exclude pathological cases, is hard or even unfeasible.

It seems consistent with the fact that there is no known algorithm for deciding whether a theorem is true, or for accurately and fully predicting the behaviour of arbitrary programs. As you said, that doesn't make formal methods useless. But it reframes the discussion away from trying to find a universal problem solver towards discussing tradeoffs (e.g. pushing the proof burden to the programmer, rejecting valid programs, or using imperfect heuristics).
To be fair, legitimate candidates might try to beat keyword screens. I feel like beating keyword screens is fair game as long as it's not an outright lie. It's just a way to get past a flawed step in the process so an actual human can make a decision. Those screens are really just the virtual equivalent of handing an interviewer a resume and them trashing it in front of you.