skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, one of the interesting results in empirical studies of defect rates is that defect rate is influenced by lines of code more than other factors like “static types”. Similarly, analyses of defects have discovered that they tend to occur at the end of repetitive sequences of code, because the developer has sort of switched into autopilot mode. I think the obvious conclusion here (and my experience bears this out to some extent) is that languages and libraries that force boilerplate on you produce buggier code than languages and libraries that abstract the boilerplate away.
> I thought being a market it can only facilitate demand and supply matching.

Who exactly is regulating that assumption?
$47.99/month or $199.99/year - at the end of the (rather long) funnel with marketing spiel sprinkled in between, it asks for you to enter your card details to start your 7 day free trial.
Anyone who has an ADHD diagnosis should also look into ASD. Comorbidity rate data range between 33% and 80% between ADHD and ASD. I’ve only discovered that recently after 10 years as an adult with ADHD. Since then I’ve been looking into the past and recalling things like toe walking as a child, intense sensory issues, painful social interactions, and speech issues. As I’ve done so I’ve also connected with a lot of support resources and community. It’s been really helpful to have a fuller understanding of my blind spots and predispositions. It both helps me adapt to accommodate my needs, but also accept my limitations and unique strengths. ASD is poorly understood by the medical and psychiatric communities; recent research is making some huge steps forward in diagnosing female autistic traits, genetics, and having autistic participation/leadership in research.

It’s more poorly understood by the general public. People seem to have the idea that spectrum refers to intensity of symptoms. In fact it refers to their diversity. Some people have strong social skills but lack executive function, others have sensory difficulties and struggle with daily activities like hygiene. There is no “high functioning” autism, there are people who are highly engaged at appearing “normal” to the detriment of their energy and identity, often referred to as ‘masking’.

https://carmenbpingree.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen...

My synthesis of the research and anecdotes I’ve collected is that ADHD and ASD are distinct, but there is also likely a unique diagnosis likely to come in the future that represents the combination of the two. All of them are associated with the same regions of the brain, predominantly basal ganglia and cerebellum. It’s incredibly heritable. There is strong evidence that there are connections with endocrine disruption. There is a strong connection with non-conforming gender identity and ‘audhd’ which seem to be related to similar hormonal dynamics.

Many many founders and world-changing folks have ADHD, ASD, or some combo. It leads them to think in unique and powerful ways, and to see through established social norms to make real change possible. A lot of “former gifted kids” fall into this bucket. Their ability to learn rapidly and emulate social behavior actually prevents them from getting support for their very real needs which are often understood as symptoms of other disorders like depression. The challenges of real life eventually catch up and can lead to catastrophic burnout and diminishing abilities.

If you have an ADHD diagnosis just do yourself a favor and spend some time on embrace-autism.com for some good info and credible assessments.
I was diagnosed with ADD about two years ago and started taking meds.

A couple of weeks ago I found something which allowed me to stop taking meds - I started running. I did not expect this to help with my ADD, but my head is so much clearer and focused since I started to run, it's crazy.
There's existing literature on using fMRI on patients with a coma to detect conscious awareness. Here is one example (that references further papers): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2019.0097...
"40% of my time trying to tame the bad internal tooling I was forced to use to submit my code" .. I experienced something similar while working for a big Korean multinational. This combined with development practices from the 80ies was (when looking back) the cause of severe physiological issues that took months resolve.
Later versions of windows 10 and up has a sandbox feature (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...) you can enable to run random exes, also advised you keep a free malware scanner active etc. I resurrected an ancient piece of hardware recently and in the hunt for drivers these were key.
1. turn off notifications
2. global channels / group channels = mute, look at max one time per week
3. react only to personal messages and internal team channel (1 max 2)
For those who are downvoting me, would love to hear your take instead of a salty downvote. All numbers in my post are factually correct.
> the person failed pretty hard

How did they “fail” when you plowed right into them?
Hardlines sound much harder to hack, except literally. Which brings chain-shot (I think they did this in cannons at some point) back to mind.
2) Completely missed the "there is 111 kg ... " part, my apologies.
When my oldest went to the local middle school, there were 4 classes from one elementary and 3 each from 2 more making 250 or so kids. It seemed like there would be advanced English, regular English, and remedial English. Maybe 15-20% on each side and 60% or so in the middle.

Absolutely not, because being put in the remedial class was "tracking" so there could be no separating kids by ability. My daughter was sent to the library about every other day because she got her work done the first day and it was supposed to take two or three.

I am sympathetic to the idea that when a student is a little behind at one point doesn't mean that they always will be. Maybe things are going on at home, maybe they don't have a home, etc.

But our local school system insists on treating them all the same, regardless of their abilities.

My advice to my kids was to take any AP class that you could. It would be harder but you'd be in a class where the other students wanted to learn and almost always the teacher wanted to teach.
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If "full stack" means electronics up to JS, then there are probably quite a few people who can work at all those levels. Although a minority, at least they can understand a "fuller" stack than most, unfortunately.
I had the same experience. I was pretty annoyed to see that some server apps were unable to run after the upgrade because of some changes to the loop. "Why?", I was asking myself.
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You have a bunch errors in there.
First paragraph:
1. Raising interest rates does not discourage capital investment equally. It raises the expected future value needed by an investment to justify going forward, so it discourages marginal/malinvestment. The all in podcast had a decent chart on why this is a good idea recently that showed investments when the market is this overheated losing pretty uniformly.

2. You confuse money with stuff. Generally, more stuff makes people richer, not more money. More money when there isn't enough stuff makes inflation.

3. More spending is currently how we measure growth but it's dangerous and incorrect to label growth coming from spending. Savings drives capital accumulation and capital drives efficiency gains/production gains, which means more ability to produce more stuff. It is easy to make this error because there are tons of things we can do that destroys the capital stock but drives spending in the near term to great medium/long term detriment.

second paragraph:
4. This whole thing is basically wrong. Making credit cheaper only "solves" the problem if the credit expansion can grow the output of whatever the constraint(s) is(are) faster than it is growing demand for the constraint itself. This is both not gauranteed and not likely in this case given we were already basically at the zero bound interest rate and funding all sorts of insane startup ideas/company largess at the large companies. Higher interest rates reign in malinvestment, which is definitely happening right now and destroying demand from malinvestment is a very good thing.

Third paragraph:
5. Do you think the economy wasn't trying to self correct in the way you describe and failing prior to interest rates being tightened? We had very extended and worsening inflation from the exact strategy you describe before the central bank finally flipped to tightening. If this actually worked we wouldn't be here.

Fourth paragraph:
6. This is impossible to agree on because I would say the places that have taken this path to its logical conclusion ended in hyperinflation and economic death spiral and you will say those places weren't really trying what you propose.

Fifth paragraph onward:
7. I obviously strongly disagree with you for non moral reasons so I don't see a lot of value addressing your morality arguments.
I had a lot of fun getting GPT-3 to figure out that special commands can be used for actions. I hooked it up to a light switch it could toggle with {light on} or {light off}, and controlled it with speech recognition. It worked surprisingly well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJUXGqcrzM

After adding a delay function it could even do things like blink the lights when requested, and after making the video I added a dimming option it was also able to use.
I hug my friends (I’m fairly straight) but yeah the whole classically masculine vibe makes me pretty uncomfortable
If I understand the drawbacks to this correctly:

1) Each person's brain signals have to be trained separately -- there is no universal model

2) The set of trained images is small (e.g. 50) so five bits of information is enough to specify which image the person is thinking of... it is not really the AI imagining the image from scratch but an interpolated set of those 50 images diffused together.

If my understanding is correct, the use case of this is very limited if the bits retrieved is really around five. Underwhelming.
> This article doesn't do anything in the way of making psychology nor psychiatry more precise. This article is a lot of nit picking, in ways that look valid externally but would have anyone familiar with these things wondering why this was worth writing.

Great summary. I think the author's real audience is themselves and their real purpose is self-affirmation. Their article became popular on HN is because we (myself included) love to believe we know more than the common folk. A 50+ word list that purports to correct others is too tempting not to agree with. Particularly, when most of us don't have the expertise to know redefining 50+ words is not actually useful for its claimed audience.
How about no special rights for any ancestries?

The only objective truth for humanity is it’s inevitable end, in a decade or a million years. Believing we’re empowering the best equipped to get us a million more years is a ludicrous idea

It could be population collapse and rebuilding is the key to longevity at this point. No reason to believe more industrial production is 100% the correct optimization for species success.

It’s funny how a supposedly secular leaning social movement still generates sacrosanct poetry about itself.
One interesting point about stimulant meds: they also help people who don't have the ADHD diagnosis. The black market for stimulants is pretty sizeable, not to mention the legit market for things like coffee.
There is very little transparency as to how the polling data is used. I'm sure many employees don't feel comfortable giving honest answers on many of the questions. Also the surveys go far beyond tooling question - they ask about future career plans, happiness with the company, happiness with management, whether employees are interviewing for other jobs, etc. It's not hard to see how certain answers to those questions could color the responder in a very bad light from managements perspective.
Roughly 10% of American households are accredited. Bilking affluent boomers is a big business.
> Latin is of course clearly older than (Modern) English, because it was spoken 2,000 years ago, whereas English is spoken today.

No. That makes Latin younger than modern English, not older.
I think it would depend on compensation, working hours, and if the project was interesting.
Every job I've had in the Slack era has had its own Slack culture and its own dysfunctions.

Some places it's a non-stop interruption fest from management offloading everything onto lower ranking employees as if it's a priority 1 emergency.

Some places have endless DM groups causing information to be lost and endlessly repeated, confusing the new hires, and creating cliques.

Some places are joke and meme fests, wasting time and focus with reactions and gifs.

Others are ghost towns where asking questions directly, in order to unblock you, will get shrugs and no participation.

The best ones are mostly down to business and keep all the important information in a Notion or Google Drive. The latter is also easy to mess up though because people don't categorize, and even when they do, the needs of managers are often different from the needs of workers. Nothing beats having a .txt file with all your current personal notes, linking to important reference docs.

Mainly, communicating over text requires people who are good at it, who have some proficiency in writing, and who don't treat it like a flowing conversation with a rapid back and forth. That way lies madness.

Sadly, I haven't found a good way to change Slack practices. It seems to be quite innate and incorrigible. Finding a different job is the only thing that works.
>once you're editing a page, there's nothing that can even be slow

No, once you're editing a page, there's nothing that should even be slow. Big difference. I've found that if you have a page with more than a few hundred elements (i.e. if you have an outline for a book or something) then Notion becomes unbearably slow.

Also, if you type too fast on the mobile app, Notion will just straight up lose keystrokes. Like, for example, I'd type something like "afford", and what would show up was "a <pause> rd".
I love philosophy for the fun discussion, but when folks say there is more than Physics to something when we know so little about everything. Yes it could be true, but coming from someone who is already so unskilled in the sciences, they have no real basis to make those claims.

It is like someone making conjectures about the properties of prime numbers while knowing almost no mathematics.
The forced-birth crowd overlaps strongly with the "that 13 year old was clearly asking for it" so that argument doesn't work (the primary reason for forced birth is to punish women who dare to have sex).

But also, while I get what you're saying, it's a diversion: no one can force you to do anything with your body, or undergo any medical procedure, for any reason, even to save someone else's life. The only case where an exception is made, is when it involves controlling women, which has always been the case.

If you have a matching kidney for someone who will die without it, no one can ever force you to give up your kidney, and that's not even something that kills you.

If it's an emergency and someone will die without a blood transfusion, and you're the only person with the right blood type, no one can make you donate blood.

It doesn't matter if it's a stranger, or your child, no one can ever force you to do anything with your body, no matter how many lives it would save.

Forced birth however, especially in america with some remarkably biased birth mortality rates (black women are 2.5x more likely to die in labour than white Americans, some states have 2x the mortality rate of others), means being forced to risk your life and body against your will. Especially egregious because the most pro-forced birth Staes in america are among those with the highest labour mortality rates, and the lowest amount of support services for the mothers or children.

Again, the mortality is a convenient side effect, the primary purpose is to punish the women who dared to have sex.
What is the meaning of this language in the "5. Results" section of the paper:

Our main results are based on GOD which has no overlapping classes in the training and testing set. The training and
testing were performed on the same subject, as individual differences remain a barrier when decoding at the group level [2,
16,21,32,34]. To compare with the literature, we report results
from Subject 3 here and leave other subjects in the Appendix.

What training and testing was performed on the same subject? Are they reading peoples minds or just overfitting a model on purpose? This papers seems to suggest an unbelievably implausible result, with absolutely stunning, society shattering implications, so I'm assuming it's either wrong or misleading, given how casually it's tossed on arxiv...
Same here. That’s the framework we use to lint before accepting a commit.
This is beyond disgusting. I hope they have the legal standing to file a massive lawsuit against all involved.

One of the first things that popped into my mind is the likelihood of psychological trauma of that child who, effectively, sent mom home and destroyed her career and family finances due to his behavior (which led to the "go have a walk" decision).

I also have to wonder if the parents relationship with their kids --particularly the mother's-- was permanently damaged by this incident. It's like your kids became radioactive and anything you do can land you in jail for 20 years if you are not careful. This has to be horrible.

Frankly, I would probably give serious thought to leaving the country and starting over somewhere else. Living an entire life with such a dark cloud over your entire family cannot be easy.

I understand protecting children. However, I also understand common sense. What she did was not wrong at all. What everyone else did was horrifically wrong beyond any possible justification. They need to get justice. I hope they do. I also hope her record is cleared.

BTW, this isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened. I remember other cases from many years ago:

https://www.google.com/search?q=parents+arrested+for+kids+wa...
No need to feel so bad (edited from: be so negative) about meds. They’re a crutch, sure, or maybe a wheelchair. But you wouldn’t begrudge a disabled person their wheelchair, would you?

Or if you dislike thinking of it as a disability (even if there’s nothing morally wrong with being disabled): a pair of glasses.

Do we really think less of people (or in this case likely ourselves) for using a wheelchair or wearing glasses?
The mule can travel on an overhead rail, or have mules on each side.
Removing the audit trail and reporting from accounts probably turns this into theft according to the definition of the intention to permanently deprive, which forethought hence mens rea is satisfied by plural compounding acts of concealment.
This seems really bad for blizzard with Diablo immortal raking in all that cash from Chinese players.

Also immortal was developed by NetEase but I guess owned by Blizzard, that is gonna be interesting to follow. A massive hit to acti blizzard tho.
>20% of my time writing unit tests to hit the 100% coverage requirement of the codebase I worked on.

heh. try one of the teams with no coverage reqs…
Seconded, with one difference wrt. creative work - I sometimes use it to break through the "potential barrier". Often enough, I find myself eager to be working on something big, but unable to actually get started. Committing to even a µPomodoro (more below) does help me get through that initial hump.

I also find Pomodoros useful as a self-reward system. Pretty much the only one that worked on me to date (not perfectly, but anything else I tried didn't work at all). The idea is this: when trying to make myself focus on things I avoid, such as work during periods of stress, I commit to counting pomodoros as points to spend on hobby projects or entertainment. The exchange ratio varies with time - 2 work pomodoros for one personal pomodoro is my default, though I sometimes go 1:1. First time around, I added reward multipliers for streaks, but I ended up gaming it and then trying to tweak to be more reliable, and it turned into a time sink, so later on I just did simple 2:1 or 1:1 exchanges.

The kicker is, I don't even spend the reward in the end. When I finish what I set out to do, I tend to have a good work week or more of reward pomodoros accrued, and then I don't feel motivated to use them. However, the act of collecting points is still a reliable motivator.

All that is modulated by a simple problem: I only ever remember to do pomodoros when things get bad and I'm getting stressed about a deadline.

Regarding µPomodoros (micro-pomodoros): sometimes when the stress or activation barrier is too high, I split my pomodoros into five 5-minute sessions, with no break in between. I call those 5-minute timer periods µPomodoros. Increasing the granularity tends to help me overcome mental barriers.
I imagine that the rare folks who actually do structure their life to keep doing such things, are:

1. low-key, and

2. try to stay out of the spotlight to the maximum extent possible.
The tarp can get buried and frozen and hard to move. One tarp I needed to whack for a long time with a shovel and eventually dig out. Definitely works for small amounts of snow, and works great on a car, though probably leaves scratches. Maybe spray the tarp with cooking spray first? (works for snow shovels)

Though in a pinch there's nothing faster. If you have to leave exactly at 8am the next day for a big interview, check the weather and lay down the tarp the night before.
This is the only context I have ever heard "towpath" in. What other contexts are there?
circuit kit. like really basic circuit projects attached to a cardboard box, not like a rpi (though rpi would be cool too)
American private school salaries are often lower than equivalent public school salaries, because you don't need credentials to teach at a private school, and because private schools can be an easier work environment than public schools.

I did three years in education before switching to software development. I would have done a lot more if the pay was better and the schools provided more support to the teaching staff. Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time working on a bunch of worthless marketing websites instead of educating people but at least I can provide for my family and live a rich and fulfilling life outside of work.
This is spot on.

I work in this industry (contributing architect of https://nelsonirrigation.com/products/twig-wireless-controls...).

We dream of lots of fun things. And even try some of them. But not a few days go by that we don’t once again mutter “power is king” To each other. Everything we do revolves around the constraint of power budgets.
Don't forget to publish an article about it and post it to HN, I'm sure many of us are interested.
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GeoHotz is live on twitter Broadcast (since when did twitter have live video broadcasts?) discussing the twitter page loading and systems, sharing because people here like this kind of analytical stuff.
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Imagine if you're a worker considering Amazon and you heard they paid no severance. I'd be looking elsewhere...