skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> As an industry, gambling doesn't really produce anything

This is true. And as you say, it can be exploitive. But the same could be said ten times over for casual "click" games that take money for useless tokens, or AAA games that take money to buy mods, or even socal media sites that use deep/dark pattern UX methods developed originally by casinos to monetize every second of user interaction - none of which even have the possibility of returning some of the money or money-for-time spent by the user. With that - 100% theft - as the modern paradigm, a game of chance or skill with a 95% ROI, and provable stats of winning or losing, regardless of how manipulative its marketing may be, is somehow more noble than selling someone useless tokens or virtual goods, in my opinion. As long as they're adults and know what they're signing on for, let's stop treating people like children. But people who buy virtual goods shouldn't be allowed to play blackjack, IMHO. They're not capable of making financial decisions with their own money.

Call me old school but I grew up in Vegas and never believed in offering a wheel of fortune where no one could win, or a game where someone didn't fully understand their risks and chances.
> On the other hand, Elon Musk (and Twitter) can dangle a big enough carrot to pursue a reasonable number of workaholics to stick around (and +hire some new ones) to move the company forward.

I couldn't help but read "H1B slaves" in place of workaholics.

That might sound mildly hyperbolic, but if you can force someone out of the country, that gives you tyrannical power over them. The power imbalance is so large it must be seen as coercive.

I'd be very interested to see the H1B demographics of post Musk Twitter.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/politics/twitter-layoffs-visa...

> “Firing folks who are on a H-1B in a major economic downturn is not just putting them out of the job, it’s tantamount to ruining their lives,” one former employee told CNN, adding that some people who had accepted Musk’s ultimatum had accepted it “out of self-preservation.”

> For that reason, some staff at Twitter who are on H-1B visas are staying on despite wanting to leave the company, a former employee told CNN, adding that they’re “concerned with being forced into a flooded job market where they may be unable to find a job and before being forced out of the country.”
PG not that smart need to me.
That's the second D.

If it's not a powerful enough effect to disorder your life, or you've developed adequate coping mechanisms, the diagnosis isn't appropriate. You can have people with the same subjective experience, same "symptoms" and one can be considered to have adhd and the other not. If you change your life in such a way that the effects you have are no long disruptive to it, don't negatively affect you, it's not adhd anymore.

What is a disorder or not is determined by the environment, not the individual. The social model of disability applies just as much to mental as physical.
Good point about private company equity. Probably they'd use cash bonuses instead.

I think you underestimate how much some people would like to see Twitter 2.0 succeed. Lots of people didn't love how censorious Twitter had become and want to help build something better. I have several friends who are interested in working there. It does sound like it will be long hours. But for some people that will be a badge of honor. Most of my interested friends are not married so have fewer other priorities.
> The certification took 20 months on an AMD 3990x computer (64 cores); and verification took about 13 hours.

I'm absolutely dumbfounded (and awestruck) that there are people who dedicate this much compute power to solving these tasks.
Depends on goal of war, whether war of aggression or conquest. If conquest, yes there's need to follow up with invasion, of which mobilization can be done after preemption. If aggression, i.e. goal is to merely want to cripple a place without occupation, a thousand hypersonics can easily bring a society to it's knees. If RU wanted a broken buffer state, they could have gone 100% on destroying critical UKR infra at the outset. Islands with high import dependency even worse off, destroy a few energy terminals and powerplants and carrying capacity reverts to baseline agrarian society levels of subsistence and sustainablity. In peer warfare, 1000 hypersonics especially global precision strike can dismantal adversaries major power projection platforms that can't easily be replaced. It's not going to end a war with a tenancious adversary but it can dramatically shape outcomes. An often cited reason for why US/PRC rivary is particularly dangerous to preemption is that much of the fighting will be maritime, where each side is incentivized to fire first to improve ratio of irreplaceable assets, and such advantage tend to compound. The more side A outnumbers B, the less remenants of B is able to defend against numberically superior A.
Yeah.. I got diagnosed with ADHD at 34 and my life has improved substantially with the treatment following diagnosis. If I hadn't seen stuff floating around on the internet and "self diagnosed" (Reading people's experiences with ADHD and thinking Hey! That's me!) enough to ask a doctor about it, I'd still be struggling way more than I need to.
Why would equity be motivating? Is Elon going to take Twitter public again?
Bob Iger named Disney CEO effective immediately
Based on recent statements by Warren, her economic chops should be highly suspect.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/disregard-livelihoods-million...

“These statements reflect an apparent disregard for the livelihoods of millions of working Americans, and we are deeply concerned that your interest rate hikes risk slowing the economy to a crawl while failing to slow rising prices that continue to harm families.”

She's a populist. Say whatever get the masses riled up with no regard to actually making sound decisions.
The idea that an ADHD diagnosis can be a band-aid over a deeper personal or societal problem isn't a very unhelpful one, considering that it can reveal, you know, deeper issues.

I'm not saying all ADHD diagnoses are false. My prescription will always be, do whatever helps you. If a kid says ADHD meds/accomodations help them with no problems, then I'm very supportive of continuing that. But if others have been on and quit the meds even before adulthood, and they still feel unable to focus/depressed/etc., maybe we should consider that the problem isn't in their body.
Python 2 -> 3?
I don't know if I have ADHD, but if I do an online survey it says I most probably definitely do. I was never diagnosed as a child because I largely functioned as a kid and was quiet and non-disruptive, but looking back the signs were all there.

Fast forward as an adult I have a number of coping mechanisms and one of them is to have something on in the background. I have never associated the effectiveness with the noise itself, but rather with something that is keeping part of my brain quiet. It prevents my mind from wandering. It is ideally something I already know. Like a show I have seen before or a podcast that I am okay not fully retaining. Not enough stimulation and I get distracted easily, too much stimulation and I shut down completely. Music doesn't usually work for me.
We're in a time when only recently > 50% of the human population became urbanised.

Even in the UK and the EU you're barely a generation away from "what do you hunt" being a fair and reasonable question - hunting boar in a European forest in the 1940s was not altogether uncommon, catching birds, fish, rabbits, et al in the countryside to supplement scarce food was absolutely a wartime pursuit in the UK.

As a Kimberley kid I grew up spear fishing [1] from boats, jetties, reefs, and the shore as part and parcel of a life building radios to listen in on US submarine comms stations further down the coast and reverse engineer early NAVSTAR signals .. thanks to a lot of post war types that felt the need to stay in touch with world tensions and events in the region from Vietnam through to PNG.

Can't complain about a healthy lifestyle with plenty of fresh food :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmCX7R-W4c
Adult with ADD here. I like to use grey noise while studying and find it has even less of the annoying high pitch of white noise (vs brown). I also like the sound of a stream or creek, which is close to brown noise. Grey sounds like a very large waterfall to me.

These kind of noise also really help for blocking distracting background noises, especially when used with noise canceling headphones. I find noise canceling doesn’t work by itself because it lowers the noise floor so much you can hear everything still.
Once I lived in the worst place noise wise. The street was transited at night, there were many dogs barking in the neighborhood, and people came in and out of the nearby rooms.

After one month, I managed to sleep by wearing something like these:
http://static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/2FLL3_AS01...

and over that, thick headphones playing a recording of popcorn in a microwave.

I managed to stay 4 months there.
one of the leading german publications published a claim about german intelligence and and a diplomatic exchange. you can find it compelling or not, but it is not some kind of dubious rumor
You forgot twch recession is picking up momentum everywhere. Majority of programming job can be done remotely. Even EM cut to only 10%, he can up the remaining salary double, and programmer can increase output productivity easily x2 with those hardcore 10% left. 3 decades of HR experience back this fact easily especially money is no problem. For EM, money is no problem. I am willing to bet $10K with you on this issue that EM will make it through woth all those fired and let go.
Because developers want to be able to hack on their own tools: fix bugs, add features, whatever. Graphics designers do not have the skills to hack on their own tools, so there isn't a huge population of them sitting around going "damn, I wish I had feature X -- I know, I'll build my own editor and open source it!"
Sublime is too expensive. $99 is too much. They should make a special christmas offer %90 off and many (of those who will never pay otherwise) will pay.
At this point I can't imagine not living in California. Lifestyle is to nice, where else can you go. Only real option is out of the US I think.
Russia is at war with Ukraine. so Ukraine did it?
I too love having AirPods in!

Do you clean your earplugs daily? I discovered I had to after a minor ear infection. Wet wipes alone didn’t cut it. Needs wet wipes + hand sanitizer. Don’t forget the case too.

I also made the mistake of putting the AirPods on too quickly after a shower. I was like 90% dry but inpatient. That too can trigger ear infections.
You are on to something. Dignified retirement used to mean a pension for years of hard work. We now live in a world of charlatans, and people who allow themselves to be taken advantage of. Paging P. T. Barnum. P. T. Barnum to the sucker born every minute phone.
PredictIt had a limit of $850 on the platform, and even it's in the process of being shut down by the CFTC. I see it as a chicken-and-egg problem because having actual stakes even when miniscule means that smarter decisions are made with allocation; but I feel a lot of users would grow bored or not even use the platform if they could only use play money. My personal favorite example was ran in Popular Science magazine[0] for a few years where users could buy/sell imaginary shares based on the % probability outcome of certain events/discoveries being made by a specified date.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Predictions_Ex...
I like the idea, but note that (1) and (2) can depend on what you’re used to. The fact that one doesn’t notice a handicap doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for improvement, given some conditioning.
It's a little ironic to me that even rants about how programming has gotten worse recycle the same points from 30 years ago. Read https://391.org/manifestos/1991-manifesto-futurist-programme... and spot the difference.
this is one of the most transparent writing I read about shutting down startup. It is very insightful in a cut-throat way, I really appreciate that.
True, but keep in mind that verbing weirds language.
I read the article, and my main takeaway was that the author massively downplays what "survival mode" practically means for the company/product. It doesn't just mean that engineers have to work harder or that you can't develop new products/improve existing ones. It means yearly "whoops hackers have all your emails phones and plaintext passwords now lol" data breaches. It means multi-day downtimes. It means being unable to take advantage of any market trend regardless of how big your comparative advantage is.

"Deep pockets" don't do anything on their own, especially not when no one believes in your company's ability to consistently fulfill its obligations to customers. You can hire engineers, sure, but how are you going to ramp them up when all of your engineering capacity is dedicated to keeping a small group of core services from falling over dead? How quickly can you bring people on board when you're notorious for a culture of overwork and abuse? You can borrow some money, sure, but who's going to lend to you when you're massively in debt from an LBO and you can't provide more than "long term" promises that in six months the company can actually function?
The fact that work got done and milestones were hit during covid via wfh undercuts arguments. “Do it my way cuz it’s better” has become “do it my way”. And the young seem less into accepting the latter. With the departure of the boomers, perhaps there’s enough openings to give some agency back to the workers, particularly if they work together a bit.

Everybody wanted the boomers out of the picture without, perhaps, realizing the loss of working bodies that might cause. Y’all got your wish.
Far fewer people wanna talk about JIT these days. Alas.
Yes you have to remove the other bottlenecks in the system too (I talked about residency spots in another comment). This seems like an easy win without any accusations of lowering standards.

> the gains don't compound

You give doctors, on average, an additional 2 years of their life to practice medicine instead of spending them in college on a pointless degree (not to mention, slightly lower college debt when starting out). Multiply that over however many doctors we graduate every year, and it'll add up over time. It's not "compounding" in the mathematical sense of the word, obviously. If you assume that a medical career is about 35 years, that's like an 8% increase in available doctor-years over 35 years (or something like that - the math is a bit handwavy). Without doing literally anything else.

I saw your other comment about degree requirements and I'll respond here. In addition to the consulting website, I also looked at Johns Hopkins and they do have a degree requirement. Thanks for providing that counter-example. I wasn't aware and I'll update my understanding of this.

However, your own source said "a baccalaureate degree...is strongly preferred". So it has to be asked - how many non bachelor's degree holders actually get into med school?

Every US-trained doctor I've had has gotten a bachelor's degree (I read bios when they're available). The ones that don't were foreign-trained. If the number of med school applicants greatly exceeds the spots, I'd imagine nearly all serious applicants are going to get a bachelor's degree to improve their chances. It sounds like you're a doctor - what proportion of people in your class got in without a bachelor's degree?
Fighting games have gotten much better due to rollback - Japanese developers for years would release games that were just unusable outside Japan and now it’s fine.
So if I understood you correctly then further lowering the cost of experimentally determining protein targets could be a viable way forward that is completely orthogonal to computational methods?
If the bitfield is declared as long, then based on that specific cell size the decision is made whether to pack the bits into the current cell or a new cell.

If a leading char member is followed by a uint64_t bitfield that is 57 bits wide, a new cell will be allocated for those 57 bits at offset 8. The char is considered to be a field of 8 bits allocated in an existing 64 bit cell, leaving 56. 57 cannot fit, and so the offset is bumped to the next cell alignment.

This is testable.

I'm only writing about GCC, not about ISO C, which specifies very little, allowing implementations latitude in choosing the underlying storage unit size and alignment for bitfields regardless of their declared type.
Most publishers I work with have moved on.
You think... "people not meshing with society" is a new thing you've just discovered? That needs more awareness?

Rather than like, that's approximately half of what mental healthcare is, and "people not meshing with society" is known by dozens of different specific technical names depending on the details of what "not" or "mesh" or "society" looks like in any given case?

This is embarrassing. One of the worst cases of HN "I just noticed something outside my field so it must be a novel insight!" I've ever seen.
It's not. The reason for this is not technical (unless you think they literally filled their user database with every possible username permutation with the word 'clyde' in it). It's to make sure scammers can't use names with these words in it, because it might make more people consider those accounts legitimate.
That's definitely a much nicer sound to my ears than the white-noise hiss.
There’s a substantial amount of evidence for FTX scepticism around form 6-12m ago, or even longer. (https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/pjv86z/ftx_just_b...)

In the mainstream news, I’m not sure, but there were clear reasons to be skeptics, and that no one with any money involved did real DD beggars belief.
And they should only work 20% of the week.
I am older than you and have gone through the same. Let me share a few thoughts. I am not trying to change your mind, just riffing.

Thought #1: You don't have to use technology. I have a laptop, but I do not use much software aside from what's required to interact with people and do my work. I have some other technology in my house, such as various home-built robots, but they are only used when I am actively working.

Thought #2: There is still a lot of software that is making the world a better place. My mother was in a serious car accident and never really got her mobility back. I am not a fan of car culture, but it's the world we live in. ADAS systems are saving people from life-altering car accidents every day.

Thought #3: There is a lot of very positive technology that is totally impossible without software. Genetics is the elephant in the room, of course, since basically everything about the field is totally impossible without good software. But basically every natural science is similar at this point. Even ecology.

Thought #4 is about this quote:

> If the internet weren't responsible for my coming out I'd say burn it all down.

Even with marriage equality and other progress, I do not think the modern transgender rights movement would have been at all possible without the internet.

My final thought is a different perspective on the final thought of the essay:

> No one knows what they’re doing, and it’s a civilizational problem.

There is a lot of essential complexity that we absolutely need in order to make the world a better place -- in biotechnology, energy, and materials in particular. Without modern information retrieval systems, I think our civilization would stop making progress and rapidly collapse.
I like what the other has said in under another comment — selling software to software engineers is like selling magic to magician. You are a magician, a very unfriendly use case to prioritize. It is reasonable for you to want what you want, but it would be suicide for the business to prioritize acquiring you as a customer.
I disagree. Fraud in popcorn production != Fraud in heart pacemakers.
A child named Alexa had to change their name because of the bullying.

https://news.yahoo.com/parents-forced-change-name-6-18055441...
Exactly. Most of us write software for non-programmers.

Pipeable software is great for developers and computer scientists.

But for laypeople, they need a UI. They don't understand -- and don't want to understand -- the machinations behind the process. They have a business process and they want the software to model that business process.

And that business process is not going to be executable on a command line.
Stripe account suffered a card test
My Stripe account suffered a card test, Stripe asked me to provide KYB materials including inventory documents and company documents, shipping information, but the account was still closed and Stripe is about to make a mandatory refund of all funds in the account (including the actual purchase price of the product).
I am seeking help, but Stripe support just tells me it is not working.
This could be a vulnerability of Stripe, if your competitor uses Stripe and you want to destroy the competitor's payment system, just test the stolen credit card like crazy and obviously your competitor's Stripe account will be closed.
You could go to Seattle. You could go to NYC. You could go to Austin. You could go to Boston. You could go to Washington DC. You could go to Boulder. I guess it depends what you like about living in California.
People like calling others names rather than discuss the actual issues.
No, you can't increase your overall productivity after cutting 80% of your workforce. You might increase individual engineer productivity slightly by paying them boatloads of money, but you're still saddling them with the gargantuan passive tasks required to maintain the site. That alone eats any productivity gains, while also burning your "hardcore" people out.
The redesign does not look good. The colour scheme just defies logic and big rounded buttons don't improve usability in any way.

Why has Google sworn to let down a large chunk of its users? I understand that companies need to innovate to keep their edge, but what is this redesign supposed to achieve?