skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is some terrible mental health advice.

First, she claimed to be on 11 antidepressants, I doubt it but I bet she was on a few. ecstasy and many anti-depressants are serotogenic and you'll give her serotonin syndrome. You really don't want to screw with that, there's reports of ecstasy users ended up with permanent depression issues. To lower such risks, you'd want to ween somebody suicidal off anti-d's first to take a drug that's pretty similar to anti-d's in the first place. There's some recent research that shows if you've already done the one you won't benefit as much from the other usually [1] but if you were going to do this I'd taper off some of the anti-d's first.

The idea of taking heroin for mental health so you can go to rehab I think speaks to buying into Hollywood narratives. Hitting rock bottom doesn't help you recover from mental health issues usually, it only makes your mental health worse, look around people who don't have a home and you won't see paragon's of mental health.

[1] https://www.psypost.org/2021/03/previous-antidepressant-use-...
Plandemic.
> Most voted for it.

Of those who voted, a very small majority voted for it. By no means most British voters voted for it.

A reprise of the vote now would not secure the same outcome.
I understand. Maybe a "no trip" LSD can be useful for people who require larger doses of the substance for therapeutic effect.
Do you process at any fresh grads out of school who don't have work experience?

What are the recent projects in that case? Some Advent of Code stuff on github?
Being 2 years into a complaint with amex, 'bizarre instructions' don't surprise me at all.
From the size of it, I'd say it's about the size of Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma city bomb, which was a 16 ton truck filled with fertilizer. All trucks over this bridge were supposedly inspected, so I think it would have to be a more compact explosive. Perhaps the secret services have classified explosives the could produce this kind of explosive punch just from a car trunk load?
You'll be surprised to learn that the British people you talk to on the Internet are not sampled uniformly from the general population
To spell it out:

>President François Mitterrand argued for the single currency because he hoped to bolster French influence in an EU that would otherwise fall under the sway of a unified Germany

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2012/11/17/the-time-bomb-a...
How about not assuming malice and not jumping to conclusions without thinking a second or two about what it would mean for a company that aims at securing Internet traffic to... decide not to secure Internet traffic?
You're going to lose a lot of zig safety and type tracking features that way. I think it's possible that there will somehow be an exportable library abi in zig, but it is not at all on the roadmap. In any case, I don't believe there are obvious ways (I do know sneaky ways to do this) to ship post-compiled-only libraries this any of the programming languages I use on a day-to-day basis and even with venerable C, the "single header library" is all the rage these days
To an extent, the political climate and the weight of existing institution can uphold the culture.

People governed by politicians with suboptimal characteristics don't necessarily get to make decisions with perfect information, or to enjoy a voting system where votes have equal weight and reflect popular sentiment.

A sufficiently corrupt system can self-sustain for many years. With enough indirection and few votes, people have correspondingly increasingly limited input into their political decisions (or the indirect decisions of their representants).
> Many of them just can't speak English correctly.

I’m someone who loves seeing well written and hearing well spoken English. The standards I hold myself to are quite high.

However, I have never had a problem with people- native or foreign born- with less than perfect English communication skills.

Going down that route smacks of elitism, xenophobia and a hyper-normative mindset. The way you get good at standard English is by practice, which they are doing every day at work using the skills (technology) they have mastered. Some of my family are ESL and my place of birth (in the UK, for God’s sake) was and is looked down on for the dialect.

Is it really that hard to just ask someone to repeat or restate themselves?
I agree with you on most of those points. For keyboard though, by the time you shove a 1cm-high keybed in there, you may as well just carry a thin laptop and a keyboard together connected with USB.
> Utopia makes for very boring television.

The original Channel 4 version was brilliant (although the subject matter didn't age well, or maybe aged a bit too well). Didn't see the US remake but heard it was a dud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnN3WMwDsk
Some people have an easy time raising kids and some have a much harder time. There are a lot of reasons for this. Different kids, different parents, health issues.

The stress of a genuinely difficult parenting situation doesn't just go away with some superficial pop psych like focusing on the positive. That's such an astonishing claim, it's like telling a drowning person to use positive thinking to solve their problems.
Avoid things like generics. Keep your types as primitive as possible. Strong typing will covert an excellent developer into an amazing developer but won’t do anything for extremely bad developers. Data types are not a solution to people problems.
It was sold as a ten billion dollar project. That what politicians drove into people's minds with their ads.

Find me one mainstream media political add, just one, that discloses anything other than ten billion and I'll retract my statement.

Voters don't read ballots in detail at all. They vote based and what got pounded into their heads during the election cycle. Politicians know this well.
My last Intel MBP had sleep issues (2019 i9), but this M1 Pro has been bulletproof.

I will look in the logs. I am also planning to “upgrade” to Ubuntu 22.10 when it comes out since it will ship with an Ubuntu-patched 5.19 kernel. Failing that, if I don’t find anything in the logs or don’t have time to find a root cause (more likely), I may have to give up and switch to Windows 11 (sigh).
I agree with you overall, but it’s still a problem that they’re selling books on how to attempt suicide
I am not sure if it has anything to do with rain. Israel does not have much rain either and homes look much better there. And when we speak to the locals in Spain, their typical complaint is that they struggle to make the ends meet. "I wasn't on a vacation for seven years." - "I think twice before taking a RENFE train even though it is twice as fast as a bus." - "Kids won't probably be getting new laptops ever." etc.

Comparisons to the rest of the world are misleading. Being better off than Algeria or Brazil isn't that much of a result. Spanish people naturally compare themselves to other Europeans and the gap between the relative riches of Spain and, say, (West) Germany or Switzerland, is pretty visible. So is the fact that the gap does not seem to be closing, rather the other way round.

I agree that mismanagement is a huge part of the problem, and that it is mostly domestic. For one, the political parties seem to be enormously corrupt, on par with the Balkans.
First, this is from 1993.

Second, they make a lot of claims that at least go against my understanding of psychology - and with no citations, only mentioning their own book as a "source" at the bottom.
Putting up a sign would not have saved them from that lawsuit, at the temperature they kept it 3rd degree burns can be caused within 3 seconds of contact.
From the test videos iOS waits 10s or so for some reason, and then starts a 10s countdown.

So it sounds like Ford would win.
All depends on the size of the factory. Too small - can't swallow the large pill which is automation (hiring engineers, consultants, very expensive equipment). But as soon as your payroll hits a certain figure, automation becomes cheaper and bang! small town everybody laid off.

And it isn't all that big a number really.
It doesn't seem like you can zoom very far (on Android, at least), which to me undermines quite a lot of the wonder of fractals.
Forte IDE was written in Java, the IDE used for Solaris development.

There was a research implementation to write Solaris drivers in Java.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1215995.1215998

The Sun network computing thin clients had plenty of Java into them.

The classical UNIX does one thing well myth was hardly followed by all major UNIX vendors.
I would think it was trained on the same data. Seems odd one device would trigger and not the other under similar stimulation.
Being able to build infrastructure is a core state/social capacity that has to be improved; there's nothing special about trains. There's also no alternative, because roads, bridges, pipes, water filtration plants, transmission lines, fiber, power plants, refineries, etc. are all impacted by the exact same forces.

America did a spectacular job of redesigning society around maximizing car usage and continues to subsidize that pattern of land and resource use.
I honestly mean this with no disrespect but having written code exclusively in vim in the terminal for several years and the same in IntelliJ, I am confident that either:
- you don't have to write Java full time, and/or
- you don't have to work in a large Java code base, and/or
- you haven't been exposed to IntelliJ's features and how they can save you time

I love vim, I really do, but IntelliJ is a Java-specific IDE and there is absolutely no way that vim or emacs or vscode can compete on features. You can refactor code in a split second in ways that are just not possible in vim/emacs. IntelliJ has an understand of the structure of your Java code that vim simply doesn't have and will never catch up to having as its a general purpose tool and IntelliJ is a specific tool. Its vim mode is also pretty good. The only downside of Jetbrains IDEs is that they can be slow when indexing large projects and they can be slow in general. But I would still 10 times out of 10 choose to make a commit in IntelliJ over vim for a Java project that is non-trivial.

If you write Java I would (as strongly as possible) recommend giving IntelliJ another go and looking into its refactoring and other features.
It would be useful to offer at least some indications of remediations people can take.

It would have been interesting to refer to the post Spanish flu syndrome, and the encephalitis issues which lie at the heart of "awakenings" or, perhaps the long tail of polio and TB sufferers lives.

We've always had post viral syndrome. And bacterial infections leave their mark.

Captain America wasn't marked F4 because he was little.
Are people surprised by this? The vast (super?) majority of people on this planet seem to consciously claim to know or believe in supernatural things they cannot possibly know and that there is absolutely no evidence for. People appear to be extraordinarily bad at distinguishing between reality and their hopes and dreams.
It's easier and less risky to go after thoughtcrime.
I never suggested they were doing an empty gesture.

I’m assuming they’ll fix the problem, even if it’s just for PR purposes.
At Amazon, the initially granted tshares vest in a backloaded way. For every 6 months after you start, the vesting is (0%, 5%, 0%, 15%, 20%, 20%, 20%, 20%).

The large signing bonus for year 1 and year 2 is structured to make up for the back-loaded vesting.
I agree that having some of the world's broadest protections for free speech is important to the US political stability, & its technological/cultural/economic power.

But, hasn't the UK's "current system of government" been at least as continuous as the US for longer? (Has any regime-discontinuity happened since, say, the adoption of the US Constitution?)
True, but at this point the only thing that prevents her from moving to Czechia to make better money is the fact that her son likes Madrid and she does not want to uproot him.

That would be unthinkable some 20-25 years ago. Spain back then was, relatively taken, much richer than any post-Communist country and your living standard would have gone measurably down if you moved from Spain to Czechia.
All true.

I think of it as a spaceship. We can argue about how expensive maintenance of the food recyclers, water purifiers and oxygen systems are, but that's really moot: we maintain those things or die.

We'd have to make the decision to stop the oil industry etc. before it matters though. Until then the marginal cost of 1 spoon is vanishing small, and fussing over it is spending time and effort on foolishness.
if only we could all be as enlightened as you are, you are obviously not of this earth :pray:
Really beautiful, thanks for your effort! I am trying to prepare a small presentation inspired by the book `The Computational Beauty of the Nature`for an introductory engineering course and some examples in this website can provide good visual material.

edit: also would appricate to able to zoom in.
Is Extensive Reading just that? Reading a lot in general? Or is it reading a lot on the specific subject that you want to learn, taking all possible branches?
‘The Owner of This iPhone Was in a Severe Car Crash’–Or Just on a Roller Coaster
Maybe this has always been obvious to everybody but the American justice system is not about truth or fairness.

The goal is to convict no matter what. That is how the incentives are lined up.

Case in point: the (famous) Serial podcast started about the (now evidently) wrongful conviction of a teenager. He was recently released after 20+ years because of a note found written by a prosecutor that pointed to other plausible suspects, information never shared with the defence.

You are very unlikely to ever be judged by a jury of your peers. You are much more likely to not 'risk' that and take the plea deal. From the perspective of a European (and we have our issues) it sounds the system is fundamentally rotten.

The mythbuster story only highlight how basic truth finding isn't really an issue.
Just have the pipelines blown up. It's easy, everybody's doing it.
Rolls of film?

How big are these rolls that we're talking about? Not 35mm. Are we talking movie projector rolls? Or something larger and more industrial or medical?

Also you would think that if anything were required to be hand-inspected 100% of the time, you'd think it would be things that couldn't be x-rayed... precisely like rolls of film...

Not saying it isn't true, just saying that the inspection incompetence is shocking for something that is a known top priority military target.
Agreed. It makes a little more sense when thought of as really a 'culture debate', but that's just kicking the can down the road.
Lisp and Smalltalk existed before the C language, and don't have its damning flaws. Ada's also much nicer. As for the operating system, there are currently no good such systems that aren't very old. I use Emacs to largely avoid the UNIX sh. Ideally, a university would have its own operating system, but I suppose that would be too hard, in comparison to accreting another layer of shit over UNIX. Something such as Alan Kay's VPRI would be best: http://vpri.org

I didn't go to a university to learn anything about computers, fortunately.
> with no citations, only mentioning their own book as a "source" at the bottom.

The book has hundreds of academic citations. IMHO it's the single most important book for any entrepreneur to read.
> The resident of Diessen, Noord-Brabant, was hired by the the Rijswijk branch of Chetu Inc.

We are talking about a Danish person hired by an European company. I fail to see the point of your comment.
"increased incidence of ischemic strokes in young patients compared to pre-pandemic levels."

And if you plot this on a timeline they coincide with the rollout of vaccines.
Most states are at will, but he wasn't employed in "most states", now was he?
Now that is ugly, I'm dying to see if somebody can one up that one!
Work life balance is a hot topic. Personally, I think it is healthier to balance daily instead of yearly. I walk 1-2h/day, work maximum 8 hours a day, but havnen't had a 'vacation' in ages. I sort of tried taking 2 weeks to sit on a beach and it really didn't work for me. Just broke my routines and made me stressed.

Friends and family tell me I am stupid but I feel pretty happy. By taking a vacation every day instead of every year, I do not 'work in order to live'.

Though on the contrary, it is still nice to disconnect from the internet for 72h sometimes and I should probably do that more often.
Reminds me of the sleek F6 which looks like someone simply added a cockpit and wings to a jet engine: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/collections/british-ai....
"Remote work is the future for the tech industry"

I hope not. Because this also means that ten years from now (or less) someone in India, or any number of cities, will be able to do my job from there. I'm an advocate of a mix of the 2.

I suspect that it's too late. CEO's all over the place are working on outsourcing more tech jobs now that they know it's absolutely possible.
The author got it right. On the page you linked, it shows Radar’s ML fraud detection is free with standard pricing (payments.)

There are other features of Radar that are built for fraud teams (not likely to exist at small companies), which cost extra.
I'm only referring to the VirtualBox experience asked about by qwerty456127. Running e.g. Debian with Gnome under MacOS became extremely sluggish for me. The screen re-renders slowly, like running a remote desktop over a slow network link. I did a lot of searching and setting-tweaking when I encountered the problem earlier this year. I never found a satisfactory resolution. I tried this fix:

https://mkyong.com/mac/virtualbox-running-slow-and-lag-on-ma...

as well as others suggested on the VirtualBox forums, but couldn't get it running smoothly. I didn't have any trouble with a similar setup several years ago.
Dystopia is just as lacking in creativity as Utopia. You can have very interesting things happening even when overall society is getting better. For example: A TV series showing civilization winning against some form of evil is plenty interesting and has been done many times, despite it not being dystopian. Right now it's become "popular" to have things go badly or to have a set standard start of things going badly. This is a mental disease of movie writers in the modern era.
Very few people charge their cars at the most expensive time of day anyways.

For about a 3-day period during a historical heat wave throughout California we all did have to reduce our electricity usage for about 3 hours each day, which was mainly AC but also charging electric cars.

To conclude based on this that the grid is broken or that electrical cars (which mostly charge at night) are going to result in the grid deteriorating further makes no sense through.
Free speech has only really existed for the right wing in the US.

Left wing activists were spied on, imprisoned, and harassed all through the 20th century. With approval from people who otherwise crow on about the constitution.

Pacifism was illegal in WWI and people were jailed for speaking out against the war. Trade unionists were rounded up and beaten by police. Socialists had their phones tapped. Black nationalists and civil rights activists thrown in jail. Communists blacklisted and lost their jobs.

Free speech absolutism is a fantasy from the right. Only for protecting speech emanating from the right. When they are threatened by communism or related ideologies, they are more than willing to toss it out the window and did so constantly over a 100 year period.

Which makes all the current crowing from the right about their feelings of persecution around identity politics and "cultural marxism" twice as ridiculous.

Even here in Canada-- when left wing activists gather in downtown cores and try to disrupt things even a 1/10th of the level that the "freedom convoy" did last winter, they are tear gassed within an inch of their life. I was there in Quebec City at the Summit of the Americas and that's what was done to us. Same at the G20 protests in Toronto, where hundreds were kettled and illegally detained by police within a couple hours of the initiation of protests.

When far rightists did it, they were left to occupy international border crossings (with arms!) and disrupt commerce and traffic in our capital city for four weeks before police finally intervened. And I get to hear from Americans on hackernews about what an oppressive state Canada is. It's preposterous.
You are describing writing code alone. I’m thinking about other peoples code I’ve had to deal with where I didn’t create the types. Not saying I’m great at it, but that you can’t always control the quality of the code you have to work on.
von Neumann probes are also relevant to the clicker game "Universal Paperclips": https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

Universal Paperclips is a strange game that I found intriguing. Its premise is that you are an AI created to create paperclips (a "paperclip maximizer"); this is a thought experiment described by philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003. At first Universal Paperclips looks like a normal silly clicker game, but eventually it starts making you think about things you probably hadn't before: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Paperclips>. What I particularly appreciate is that it has several stages; each at first seems like a surprise, and yet within its context is 100% logical (if horrifying).

A nice video about the feeling it can give you is here (Universal Paperclips is about 1/2 way through):
"The Horror of Universal Paperclips and Space Engine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oca8BnDMin4

If you don't want to actually play it, you can watch others doing so, e.g.,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnhWc_kRzVE
Hong Kong offers 500k free air tickets to tempt tourists back
I agree, they get replicated fast. But large language models also have a democratising effect even when they are under paid API - they are lowering the barrier to many NLP tasks. They take skills from the internet and repackage them in useful and customised forms. This means the benefit is really being spread around to everyone building on them, they can build in a day what used to take a month or a year. I see them as "open sourcing" all these previously hard to access AI skills.

I see LLMs as part of a wider trend - we used to transmit information orally, then we invented writing, then printing, then media and internet. Now we can transmit the distillation of our whole culture as a model, it can be applied directly to solve problems. It's the next step in the propagation of culture.
> Putting up a sign would not have saved them from that lawsuit, at the temperature they kept it 3rd degree burns can be caused within 3 seconds of contact.

It would have prevented Stella Liebeck from even starting a lawsuit.

McDonalds coffee temperature is the same that it's commonly used for hot tea in England (on the lower side, to be precise)

The water temperature for black tea should be 90 to 98 C and for green tea around 80 C.

It's all about not warning customers of the risks involved in managing hot beverages (in England they are probably asking how is it possible that adult people can't handle hot water, but that's another story, for another time)