skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"whataboutism" is the stupidest way I see people avoid engaging actual debates .

> Putin's terrorist attacks against civilian infrastructure make no military sense.

(Points out that there's plenty of military precedent for this, aside from it being an obvious tactic)

> WHATABOUTISM!

maybe you can see how this behavior ruins discourse and guarantees you get dumber over time, but I doubt it.
> The great thing about Linux as the base layer is that it allows a commodity common ground with a very capable system that also facilitates more specialized layers to be implemented on top of it.

The great thing about x86 instruction set as the base layer is that it allows a commodity common ground with a very capable system that also facilitates more specialized layers to be implemented on top of it. Only a handful of programmers develop at a layer below the x86 instruction set, or even at that level for that matter.

We have to get our heads out of that mire.
Unless you compensate. Receiveing a button press means the button was pressed <latency> ago. Rewind simulation to that moment, apply input to game state, replay to current moment, send result.

Of course, single-player games don't usually do this, because it's very complicated.
Agree. I have watched a family member suffer mental health, anxiety issues. When she turned 18 she was finally able to get the doctor to prescribe meds. It was a life-changer for her.

So chalk that up as another Lexapro win (that was not forced by some drug company on the patient).
Let say I'm using statistics program like SPSS. I have 20 different datasets that explain 20 different variables.

The Scientific Method would be to propose a hypothesis, determine that the hypothesis would be supported is A was related to G, and then tell SPSS to run a crosstabulation of A and G.

Alas, the software can just as easily run a cross tabulation of all 380 possible combinations of variables. There is even a special command to do this. With p-Hacking I look through these 380 tables to find the one with the best correlation (let's say that is C and R). Then I try and guess up a theory that C being correlated to R supports.

I can't logically validate a hypothesis but only reject the opposite hypothesis.
That's exactly what happened to me. I began to take it when the pandemic hit and latter decided to stop. But it was transformative in the sense that it made me aware of how handicapping my anxiety was. My doctor didn't want me to stop tho. I clearly match the criteria to stop (stable for an year), while he still recommended that I continued. He didn't veto my stopping either, but it was my decision.
Adding to the anecdata, on the other hand, when I took it, I just felt the same :(.
Welcome to robots.txt:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
> How does this article's findings correlate in countries with other cut offs?

The result appears to be consistent across countries with different cutoff dates.

For example, British Columbia with a December 31 cutoff date.

https://www.cmaj.ca/content/184/7/755
I was a bit unclear: I want to submit anonymized traffic information to an open source traffic server, just like how Google uses Android phones' speeds to guess what roads are congested.
I don't have a good enough memory for the "wait" style of conversations. I'd need to take notes.

"We know X=1, so we should do Y which involves connecting A to C and removing B, so D, E & F need feature Z to be implemented in the next T months."

* Actually, X=2 so the logic as presented is questionable at best

* (but people don't like all their ideas to be dismissed with a single point, so we continue...)

* We can't remove B, it's required by M & N

* E doesn't need feature Z

* Feature Z depends on feature Q which won't be done in T months

The interrupt version is better:

"We know X=1..."

* Do we? I think X=2

"Is it? Why do you say that?"

* Reasons
I believe the point is to try to get people to engage in long-term thinking.
Most languages were like that when they were new. Famously Python. It doesn't last.
X = X doesn’t seem to be either, but it took some thousands of years for us to grasp the ramifications of such a statement
And, to be fair, even UI features like the joystick aren’t that big of a feature. We’ve had a similar thing in our app for years, it’s cropped up in several others over time including here. In the long run nobody is using our app because we did a joystick thing before Replit did.
Sadly, while this is more rampant in the US, it happens in other places too.
Silicon Valley’s plutocrats are shaking up culture in the region
That's great observation - after 10 years with children this stings extra hard. I also think that while having children I somehow lost the ability and will to make new friends. And this is especially tough because my old group shrank to only few, and most of them is too busy working to have time for their own children. Some claim that You can meet new friends through Your children (on playgrounds etc.) but I was never able to create any kind of bond with random people that had almost nothing in common with me, so it never worked for me (all relations created this way were boring and shallow and I prefer to read a book or watch TV than wasting time on shallow relationships that are clearly artifical).
Firefox Beta for Android now supports custom add-on collections
Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science (2008)
Do you remember when everyone was saying how Hyperloop would fail, when you looked throught the numers ? Well, it is dead now.

Skepticism is good. SpaceX had already working prototypes from early phases.
Come on, being able to tell the difference the difference between an investor scam anda true innovation is not that hard, just look at the few numbers, you get quickly on how realistic the projet is. This city is not.
What these articles seem to ignore is that depression is only one disorder they're approved to treat. They're approved for GAD, OCD, and a host of other anxiety related disorders.
I was about to write that there clearly are huge differences betwween the US and the rest of the world, but it seems some European countries have caught up with the US, especially Iceland, with more than 140 daily doses per 1000 adults [1]. Interestingly Iceland frequently has one of the top positions in the world happiness report [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_antidepre...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report#2022_Wo...
Statements like this need to be worded very carefully. In many people's minds, saying something like "most people don't need antidepressants" quickly becomes "antidepressants are useless". Many people who may benefit from them get scared away.

Speaking as someone who has been on/off antidepressants for GAD+OCD for the better part of a decade, I've had countless people tell me that antidepressants are useless and just placebo pills pushed by Big Pharma. But for me, they are life changing. They turn me from someone who just sits indoors having panic attacks all day to someone who can live a relatively normal life. I've tried (and continue to have) therapy, but SSRIs are wonder drugs for myself and many other people.

The caveat is, you often need to try 2 or 3 different SSRIs before you find one that works for you, and if you're unlucky, you may not find one, or the side effects can be intolerable. For me, I tried fluoxetine and citalopram, neither of which really worked, but sertraline changed everything almost overnight. The only side effect I've experienced is weight gain, which isn't great, but is better than the alternative.

However, this is the UK which may have a different attitude to the drugs. Before and during initial treatment, I was provided with around 20 behavioural therapy sessions, and even now I still have quarterly drug reviews with a doctor. At no point did I feel like I was being pushed onto SSRIs, and they checked to make sure it wasn't something environmental that could be easily remedied before asking if I would like to consider medication.
> Unix - only is a telling word - it is the /defining/ paradigm for that.

Don’t be ridiculous. We had networked distributed file systems over both the arpanet and lans before Unix even had networking. I even mentioned this in my root comment.
The first question has always been the same:

What does the pharmaceutical industry need?
I understand. But I'm going to assume the rule would be. Do X. No exceptions. As you know, doing sec means living with a healthy amount of paranoia. Imagine giving an exception and being wrong.

Sec = better safe than sorry.
Open door, meet obvious.
Obvious, meet open door.
If only FL Studio Mobile exported as a Ableton desktop project file..
Selection in Reported Epidemiological Risks: An Empirical Assessment
Achieving the Performance of All-Bank In-DRAM PIM with Standard Memory Interface
I also used to have general, ever present anxiety, but never was medicated for it. It seems to have abated by around age 29 to a large extent.

One thing that helped was finding a group of friends who loved and accepted me as I was. Really a key moment in dealing with the social component of anxiety.

I think pharmaceutical intervention and my path are both valid, but it's way harder to prescribe "friends who love you in the right way."
It was indeed dumbed down for the general public. I don't have a copy to hand, but I laughed like a drain at one section of the introduction:

<paraphrase>

"This book is intended for a lay reader, but necessarily contains quite a bit of maths. Readers who prefer to avoid equations and formulas can skip chapters 4, 6, 12-20, 26 and 27".

</paraphrase>

Penrose's notion of a "lay reader" is one who doesn't have a maths degree.
It’s all about balance. Use libraries where it makes sense (e.g., if I’m reading HDF5 files, I’m going to use the HDF5 library, not roll my own), but don’t forget that you (ostensibly) know how to program on your own and like implementing some things yourself (rather than just lashing together other people’s code). Using a language with a decent standard library helps.
“Buy things you don't need with money you don't have to impress people you don't like”
I want this, but absolutely do not want to use VScode.

Recently, my Readmes have been reduced to “Run ‘jupyter-notebook index.ipynb’”
I mean many systems are pretty close. In Switzerland its mostly trains, trams and trolley buses. Yes some longer routes start are either not trolley or just go off trolley lines later in the journey.

You can get pretty damn near to all electric with trains, trams and trolley buses.

The real difference is that now you can replace the diesel range extended trolley buses with battery range extended trolley buses.

I would strongly recommend against buying into the battery bus hype! If you are a city now that considered going all electric, do it with trolley wires and then some buses with somewhat more battery to extend some lines.

Buying a whole fleet of battery only buses causes a lot of issues. You still need a huge charging depot anyway. Its much worse for your roads. It causes much worse air pollution because those buses much heavier. The fire hazzard of electric buses, even with LFP, is pretty damn scary in a city. Trolley buses are also much saver in crashes because they are lighter.

So for cities that today have diesel buses, please, just put up trolley wires on all your main corridors. Modern trolley systems are great, and because of the battery tech we don't need crazy trolley switch anymore. The trolley wires just reconnect on the next stop instead.

Don't just buy fleets of battery buses that use up lithium that we could to better uses where less alternatives exists.

Also while we are at it, its incredibly dumb that we don't have trolley wires on highways. This is tech we could have deployed 30 years ago.
There was also a so-called pig war in the Balkans about 1910, also bloodless--this one even for the pigs. The Austro-Hungarian Empire refused to allow the import of pigs from Serbia, which was I guess a large share of Serbia's export trade. This it intended to bring Serbia to a right way of thinking. The embargo only increased Serbia's resentment of the empire.
As opposed to the standardization of a random collection of github libraries?
6. A2P and 10DLC - since allowing sprint and T-Mobile to merge the primary carriers here in the US decided to charge business like signal to continue to have access to the messaging services via monopolies like the campaign registry.
You forgot that there's also an overhead converting data from/to C++ and Python as well.

Sure, Python can make you start fast with any ML project, but when you have to deal with heavy-duty tasks, a switch to pure C++/Rust/Any-Compiled-Language implementations might be a good investment in terms of performance and cost-savings, especially if the above heavy tasks are done in any cloud platform
I'm not sure how universal this is, but for me, phenylephrine is literally just side effects. It still makes my anxiety worse, but does nothing for my congestion.
Mainframes are very expensive. You can buy mainframe with very fast CPU and RAM interconnect and scale it by buying more hardware. Or you can spend 100x less and buy a number of server blades. Interconnect will be very slow, so you can't just run some kind of abstracted OS, you need to run separate OS on every server blade, you need to design your software with that slow interconnect in mind. But in the end it's still 100x cheaper and it's worth it.

Also mainframes have growth limit. You can buy very powerful ones, but you can't buy one that's as powerful as entire datacenter of server blades.
The paradigm for abstracting away a thousand CPUs is AWS Lambda/GCP or Azure functions/K8s' implementation of serverless. It's not a total drop in replacement because a plain lift-and-shift can't change your paradigm, but cloud functions are very much a Cloud 2.0 (or at least 1.5) paradigm.
I went through a phase in my life a few years ago where I tried most antidepressants available in my European country. All were prescribed to me at varying doses by a psychiatrist working in our public health system.

Almost every single antidepressant gave me withdrawal symptoms (extremely intense mood swings and brain zaps) when I tried decreasing the dose. I mentioned this to my psychiatrist, who advised me to split the pills in order to slowly decrease the dosage. Even splitting the pills and taking a quarter of a pill less every 2 weeks was giving me withdrawal symptoms. I resorted to carefully dissolving the medication in water and volumetrically dosing to get the right rate of tapering off. This scenario happened to me with both Sertraline and Fluoxetine. The "newer" antidepressants like Escitalopram and Vortioxetine gave me less withdrawal symptoms, but they also had more severe side-effects whilst on the medication. Obviously this is all anecdotal, but my hope is that doctors would put greater emphasis on the possible adverse effects of antidepressants to patients. No other class of medication has been so... rough? for me. Glad to be medication-free now.
True the lack of docker support is a pretty big deal breaker if you use docker a lot. Freebsd jails have been a unique selling point for freebsd for years but I think linux containers have caught up and dockers ease of use and community support is unmatched.

I don't use docker much so its not an issue for me. I could probably setup jails for the stuff I use docker for but I'm lazy so I have a debian virtual machine running on bhyve that runs any docker stuff I want. My preference is freebsd but im not precious ill use what ever tool fits the job best.
My Longbets.org Prediction on Cancer
The solution seems to be massive power banks and something aching to camping stoves that charge batterys like BioLite?
Just different urls in case they get bandwidth limited
Rust-Like Traits in C++
Other people are already deciding what information you have access to each time you visit one of these sites.

While they might allow you to alter the probability of certain types of content showing up, the platform is already the arbiter of what content appears in your feed and is recommended to you.

An example of this would be engagement. Platforms have generally made the decision that they'll promote content other people have seen and interacted with. You typically won't be shown content that has low engagement unless you've gone out of your way to find it. This already has huge effects on the type of content that reaches or is created by people.

I understand that point in particular might be disagreeable to you but it'd be nice to know how do you feel about the other three. So much of the current discourse focuses around what isn't or can't be agreed rather than calling for action on points that are relatively settled.
I think CloudFlare pretty explicitly do not want people to be confident that they can serve 2 petabytes a month of API data on the free tier
Torrent was also my first thought. Is there any reason why this is not a good solution?
I'm not going to mention the awesome result and documented process, but I'm going to say: Congratulations! I'm happy that she said yes, and I wish you the best :)
Myocarditis is not the only risk when you get covid. You can't conclude that the vaccine is more dangerous than getting covid just based on this one effect; covid has many other dangerous effects on some people, such as destroying your lungs.
What was that saying? "It takes a village" ?

I think our individualistic culture is getting in way - somehow now everyone behaves like the new motto is "Your children, Your problem" (including me, but I personally am not very fond of children, so at least I'm not a hypocrite).
If I understand correctly, the paper claims to have found quantum effects that correlate with cognitive processes.
Ok, next time an engineer on my team can't stop himself from talking about his SIMD lock-free distributed queue, I'll just keep listening. Maybe I get to sleep in the office too.
You are putting aside any critical thinking to just be a contrarian?

This is the kind of project where the experts criticising it seem to have very valid points, it doesn't make any sense when you look at it from the perspective of how humans organise into cities and the needs for such cities to be efficient.

Bold doesn't mean good just because it goes against the grain... It can also be completely stupid, even more when there is no force to push against it (like the market is for SpaceX and such). It can just eat resources away due to the whims of one egoistical dictator...
First time getting rick rolled in plain text :)
> Maybe different brain types are as common as blood types.

What this research shows is that at least a significant part of ADHD diagnosis rates results from bureaucratic reasons, and unrelated to either disease or brain types.
The HN conversation yesterday about the complexity of the proton, in particular how we poke and prod at it to suss out its qualities and quantities, got me thinking about the subatomic particles of my personal subjective conscious experience.

We can trace, with quite a bit of precision, how a certain photon cocktail results in me perceiving the orange title bar at the top of HN. But where's the orange paint in my brain? What is it made of and how could we inspect it like we inspect the guts of a proton? And furthermore, where's the camera that puts all of those particles of paint onto the same stage? We know where the visual cortex is, yes, but where's the camera that can see the whole stage at one time?

That part, the integration of all of our perception into a single 'stage', is where I've long felt there has to be some kind of quantum or possibly field effect at play. Then I wondered if it might actually be possible for there to be an 'afterlife' of sorts in which the quantum relationship between particles is sustained beyond our life.

Dunno. Trippy to think about though.
A traffic service could integrate the live data with say, weekly patterns detected in public OpenStreetMap GPS traces, to get better estimates of actual conditions:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces
Here's the original link: http://www.dspguide.com/

You can also read it online: http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm

Generally, I found the bool very helpful for learning DSP theory without requiring deep mathematical knowledge.
Here are some OECD stats:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_antidepre...

here is that data with US included:
https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-largest-antidepres... (tho i am not sure i would trust BI with anything..)

Certainly seems relevant to quite a few european countries. And even more relevant to developing countries to not follow us in that way..
It’s an immense amount of space, 70 light years across, with many star systems, there must be at least one.
While stars, planets and other astronomical objects are fascinating, you still can't deny that there is a lot of, er, space between them, so the name is justified after all...
Aren't areas near North Pole dealing with more seasonal depression due to lack of light in winter months?
that doesn't mean they aren't there.
Using Cloudflare Workers to Optimize Auth0 Universal Login
People love to build arguments on piles of “facts” which nobody would be able to question in a timely manner after the final conclusion is done. Both consciously and not. Cutting this flow of nonsense short is essential for communication and negotiation, especially in gullible/hierarchical groups like family and friends (YMMW). I find that most of the times when I listen to a lenghty monologue, it serves a persuading rather than an informing purpose. 5 minute “ted” voice messages are the extreme example of it.
I know what they mean, and it is an incorrect assessment with a great bias towards their own interests.

The boss is another role. You can be a boss. Why not?

Ah, it entails risks also: paying bills, managing, taking decisions, risk of going bankrupt... so when most people talk about expoitation they do not talk about the other side of things so that their complaints look legit.

Also, working in an already setup environment usually multiplies your productivity. But if it is not the case, then the natural consequence is that copying the business model and starting to compete should be an easy alternative. If people complain and do not do it, there are more reasons they are not talking about.

For sure there will be bad bosses, and bad employees, do not misunderstand this.

But if it is so bad and exploited you have other options: become the boss, switch job. If you do not want either of those, you should wonder why, not starting to insult people who give you the possibility to improve your life conditions or survive. Out of mutual interest, of course. Not bc they are saints.

It is very funny when I see people talking about how they are exploited by others and instead of finding an alternative, like taking the risk to invest their accumulated wealth, they just come with this discourse.

Remember that if you are an employee you can just switch jobs also, you can do something else, you can try to build something your own. What you cannot do is go with that discourse assuming the other part does not pay any cost: for example, when there is an investment, you have to spend a bunch of money for something that is likely (most business do) to fail, putting your money in advance. The people who work just work, leave and find something else.
Who is having kids before age 12?!
Who will buy it?

Jetbrains, Vercel, Deno ?