skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at countries that have large private and comprehensive education systems (and which aren't well-segregated like the US), it is very obvious that you are permanently ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids every year.

Whether you learn something from it or not, the purpose of school is to learn. If you went into work every day and had someone beating you up every day, would you be productive? Probably not (and btw, the only reason we have systems where this happens at all is because of what adults want, not what kids want).
Not only when I work... I generally look mad; somewhat permanently furrowed brow, I suppose

I've also been routinely mistaken for somebody with military service history. I guess something to do with how I glare

Skeptical it's about how I dress, it hasn't significantly changed since I was a teenager. Purely focused on comfort. I can't be bothered to buy clothes!

I've also been told I have a smile that lights up a room; people can't make up their minds... or maybe it really melts this angry image
I guess my comment was a bit misleading, what I meant was the entire sysop of having a single node (which is what I have) running smoothly. I mainly work development so at times having to tinker with the OS, keeping things up to date (including GL), secure, manage logs, etc can be quite time consuming.

I do remember the first time I have a bit of a meltdown with the stage upgrade procedure. Granted the same thing can be said of any upgrade, you follow steps toward latest and greatest. But it was a bit of a job to get that up to date from the image provided by Vultr.
I kind of feel you, but I got downvoted too often on Reddit because people cannot get sarcasm through text so this might be necessary
These days holding the door open for a woman probably qualifies.
Airbnb Reinvents Feudalism
Interesting question. I’ve felt lost most of my life but haven’t consciously thought of trying to overcome the feeling itself. Lately I’ve been looking at humans and animals as all not knowing why we’re here but doing stuff anyway and wondering why and what’s the point. I’m exploring the idea of the point being to just be and if that’s the case then how can I be the most alive in any given moment. I’ve been examining when I feel the most alive and how to have more of those moments. For you it seems you’re unable to identify those moments but you mentioned you have had a few highs. I wonder if that’s a good place to start. Whatever you were doing leading up to those moments, do more of that. See what’s tangential and explore from there. As others have said, you’re not alone. I hope you figure out ways to have more moments of feeling less lost
no? Did I or did I not link to a policy by the university? The council and congregation do not have the right to violate their own constitution and laws by selectively enforcing them and using underhanded hiring tactics. If they wanted to make a private political activist club, they don't have that authority to do so even if it's impossible to enforce this. So the compelled speech is a blunt instrument against the rather delicate issue of free speech grievances at the university (given that the university has its own policy which may not be enforced properly)
I'm always concerned when I see these types of studies that the conclusions drawn from them will lead to "cures" that are worse than the disease. God help us should we ever succeed in eliminating all the challenges of life - we'll evolve into spineless blobs.
I suspect we will see more air rage videos in our future.
Well I am constantly muttering "FFS" while battling with my code/compiler, so maybe.
My anecdata on ADHD:

I know someone who was diagnosed around age 8. Her parents declined to give her the speed that was recommended. When she was 12, she went for a run one morning and found that it made a huge difference in her ability to focus and maintain emotional equilibrium. She ran as many days as possible since that first run and runs ~12 miles a day (in addition to doing multiple team sports and weightlifting). She is doing great in life - about to finish college and is generally happy. She's quite dependent on her exercise though and if she misses a day for some reason, she is pretty miserable.

I'm not a doctor and have no idea if this would work for anyone else, but I have to think that there are better solutions than giving people speed.
1. Is spot on, these types of businesses really only make sense in a few North American markets, ie NYC.

The other issue is that to actually provision enough service to meet customer expectations on availability and speed, you need to economically over provision your workforce.

Cities used to restrict the supply of taxi drivers intentionally in order to maintain driver wages.
"Free" is an absolute that can never be achieved.

But work (or at least the money it produces) can deliver types of freedom not otherwise available. Like just deciding to spend a weekend in Paris, or buying a boat, or whatever. Not that everyone can/should want those kinds of freedoms, but money really is a proxy for freedom in this world.
The Australian stick-exchange came to the exact same conclusion and scrapped their own blockchain solution. It was always a stupid idea.
> Lets say a process has a file open. Lets say it is a really big one, like 200GB. Ok, so our disk is nearly out of space, better delete this 200GB file, problem solved right?

Not naively intuitive, but for this you can write an empty file to the large open file with shell redirection.

cat /dev/null > /path/to/big/file

and that will free up the space on disk immediately. Not great, but more or less nicely handles the somewhat common runaway log file case.

I get how this corner case sucks, but to me it seems so much better than the endless parade of reboots and application restarts necessitated by file locking in the Windows world.
I like to think of good noise isolating headphones as a self defense feature on planes. With them I can mute just about any noise in the cabin, and also look unavailable for small talk. With sunglasses on, hoodie on, and headphones in people tend to leave you alone, plus it's easier to sleep
Not to downplay the severity of the problem in America, but bullying is pretty damn severe in East Asia. The "nail that sticks up gets hammered down" quote often used to describe the situation there. Search "japan bullying" in Youtube and you'll find a long list of videos talking about the issue in Japan in particular.
I think therefore I am unhappy.
I definitely had to experiment as well - I bounced around between Claritin and Allegra for a couple of years. I did try Zyrtec and experienced significant fatigue with it, which led me to stop using it pretty quickly.

Earlier this year I discovered Xyzal (expensive, but does have generic versions, too), which appears to be a close relative to Zyrtec. Interestingly though, they recommend taking it at bedtime rather that in the morning, the idea being you'll get a better night's sleep from not being congested AND you'll sleep through the worst part of the fatigue from it. This has worked out well for me - my allergies have bothered me less this year than they have in the last ten years or so, and I sleep better at night (I've had problems with insomnia off and on for ~20 years).

RE: the OP, I'm in my mid 40s and have always had some issues with following through and not procrastinating, and my sister was recently diagnosed with ADHD, so it's probably something I should at least discuss with my doctor at my next physical.
Nothing stopping anyone from building mutability into an Erlang based language:

https://youtu.be/5EtV2JUU0Z4
Listen to Your CPU – Full-Table Scans Are Fast
It's a fine line, if Github wanted to I'm sure they could write up a convincing cease and desist. I think they spoke up about it because your article gives the impression that this sort of thing (fuzzing APIs) is okay, which I wouldn't exactly say is positive.
> I'd disagree; having an immutable record of ownership is valuable; especially so in countries where a centralized institution may not be trustworthy.

The idea that the blockchain can save you in this situation seems like pure fantasy to me. A record of ownership is only useful if the government is willing to enforce it. Otherwise it's not worth the paper/bits it's written on.

> For titles on homes which are subject to liens, it would be a great consumer benefit to be able to access this information without paying several hundred dollars for a title search.

This is useful, but doesn't require blockchain at all. Just a public API/database and a set of legislation that would force use of said API. A blockchain would require the same legislation anyways to ensure completeness.
> people will say the most extraordinary things with apparent sincerity.

But the level of extraordinary is still far from what 4chan can produce
Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor
Urban dictionary is hardly a good enough source to do the heavy lifting you're trying to use it for.
I am kinda surprised how much Windows likes its wchar's. Windows had support for multi-byte codepages since early days, and it has ways to indicate compatibility level for individual apps.

It seems the solution would be simple: once UTF-8 introduced (back in 1996!), add new "UTF-8" codepage, add new "SetDefaultCodepageToUnicode()" function, and tell everyone that wchar_t is legacy and should not be used anymore. They could probably do it in time for Windows XP!

Instead, UTF-8 codepage was only introduced in Windows 7 (but had incomplete support), and finally got the proper support in Windows 10. That's a lot of time Windows programmers were forced to use UCS-2.
That’s really a misunderstanding, commonly repeated even by professionals but not really scientifically valid.

There are a lot of different causes / paradigms / regimes for ADHD that all get lumped into “ADHD”. Various therapies have hugely different effects on different types of ADHD.

And some ADHD drugs tend to have the same effects on non-ADHD people as they do on ADHD people.

Here is an (also outdated) breakdown of 7 types of ADHD that are differentiable using brain scans: https://neuropedia.com/7-types-of-adhd/ Each show different parts of the brain affected. The "ring of fire" type of ADHD is notable for responding very poorly to stimulants.
> "Ponzi scheme" has been thrown around flippantly lately, and I think your comment is perfect example of that. [...] It's not a 'box' that SBF would be proud of.

Even SBF's magical box is not technically a Ponzi. Often times these scams are simply pump-and-dumps.
then stop updating the kernel once/week.

There are mechanisms for updating the kernel in-place, and I believe canonical is one of the leaders in that domain, but if you're choosing not to use it and you don't want to reboot once/week, you can still keep your system level libraries up to date without rebooting.

The above poster didn't say you could update absolutely everything in linux without a reboot, just that the locking mechanisms in windows means you have to reboot to update things that don't require a reboot in linux.
1 kcal = 1 large calorie.

So 4.5 kcal/lb per day * 10 lb = 45 large calories per day, not 450.

> The small calorie or gram calorie was defined as the amount of heat needed to cause the same increase in one gram of water. Thus, 1 large calorie is equal to 1000 small calories.

> In nutrition and food science, the term calorie and the symbol cal almost always refers to the large unit. It is generally used in publications and package labels to express the energy value of foods in per serving or per weight, recommended dietary caloric intake, metabolic rates, etc. Some authors recommend the spelling Calorie and the symbol Cal (both with a capital C) to avoid confusion; however, this convention is often ignored.

> In physics and chemistry the word calorie and its symbol usually refer to the small unit; the large one being called kilocalorie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
Not sure why competitors wouldn’t do this to get access to the Tesla network which is a huge selling point in the US.
That's great, and I believe you've experienced positive benefits in many ways. I myself eat a large amount of meat.

But it's a privilege for individuals in high income countries. The economic impossibilities are tied to the resource side: water, energy, land-use.

Again, I'm far from anti-meat but I am a food systems researcher and the world cannot extract enough resources to feed ourselves mostly beef - or meat for that matter. Nor could we do it at cost.

Perhaps there is a scenario where a majority of the population is directly involved in agriculture and we spend >50% of our income on beef. But then you have a massive reduction in total GDP because more human capital is pulled away from other sectors.
Both can be true. I for one am fully on board with the change zoning movement. I also think it should be managed at the state/local level though, so as a senator, she’s focusing on more or less the right thing.
>I've yet to see an optionally or gradually typed language pull that off well.

Opinions on Coalton in Common Lisp?

https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton
The "ugly personal insults" part really stands out. It seems inherently self-contradictory: "I should be able to say anything I want, but you should be restricted in the nature of your reply."

As you say, doxxing is much closer to violence, and there's every reason to forbid it. But she's attracting attention because of what many people see as "ugly personal insults" against them.

Similarly, right at the beginning, she talks about being "afraid to ask questions for fear of asking the wrong questions". There is already a term for this, JAQing off, where questions are not sincerely intended because you're not going to listen to the answers. They may be intended to sow doubt, spread misinformation, or simply waste time re-re-reexplaining the same point. Those are "wrong questions" because they're not really questions.
Yeah thats super frustrating I see that all the time.
I agree with your main point but I don't think less smart people are any happier for believing in more mainstream philosophies. The reason smart people usually don't resonate with these philosophies is that they're brittle; look at them a little closer and you can see the cracks. People who choose these philosophies will come to know of the existence of the cracks, usually by others pointing them out. After that it's some form of willful ignorance which nags at the soul.
> Whats the motivation to block/misinform?

What’s the motivation to submit to it?
In a hot market that's how you get your offer rejected. It's also how you are stuck in limbo for 6 months because you unknowingly got into a massive, stacked transaction.
What exactly does flex port do outside of the non descriptive marketing words on its website? Is it an oracle erp for a formerly pdf and paper heavy biz?
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It's really helpful to hear from someone a few years out from a diagnosis. There are so many accounts from people who just started meds and are thrilled with how it's going and the initial excitement of "life didn't have to be this hard". I'm in the "I should really see someone" stage, and part of the reason I'm skeptical of these accounts is that I imagine stimulants would make anyone more focused and productive. To be clear, I'm not doubting that meds are helpful to people suffering from ADHD symptoms! Just holding myself to a high bar; I'm afraid of benefitting from meds I don't really need.

If you're open to sharing, how has your lifestyle changed beyond the first few weeks? Are you still on medication, and how does it help these days? Has your diagnosis been helpful in ways other than meds? Of course, totally understand if you don't want to share.
interestingly enough, while this seems like an obviously good application for forth, i have never actually seen someone get to a working c compiler this way
I have been struggling with trying to build leverage. I just can't decide what to build leverage in.
Anyone who is interested in bread (and wants to try baking) I highly recommend getting or reading The Bread Baker's Apprentice: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/250188/the-bread-ba...

It's jam-packed with recipes and history and works surprisingly well (there's even a "steam oven imitation" recipe that is quite nice.
I have no intention of commercial flying, though I can feel the pain of commerical pilots suffering from ADD. Ironically, the only time I am not able to "not concentrate" is when I'm flying the plane, as flying requires a state of constant change of focus, i.e. radios...instruments...see and avoid...controls...ipad...etc
You've heard of speed dating, now try snitch dating!
How do you define a contract which guarantee that the result of `add(a, b)` is correct? Not just that the result is a number, but that it is the correct number?

Of course `add()`is a silly example since this is already a built-in in any language, but consider a function `calculateSalesTax(product)` - how do you define the contract which guarantees the result is the correct number?
I was also bullied a lot. Especially between first and eight grade. I was much bigger than everyone else but I would never fight back. I always felt bad about potentially hurting someone else so I would just take it.

The kids couldn’t actually physically damage me since I was so much bigger. They did cause a lot of psychological harm. I had a very negative predisposition towards anyone that I met. I just assumed everyone would be hostile towards me and would want to make fun of me. I still struggle with this mindset and I am in my thirties. I will usually be very shut off from people I do not know.

There were a couple of times that I did stand up for myself. Each time the bullying completely stopped.

I thought I was being the better person by not fighting back but that was not true. I was being harmless. That harmlessness invited more violence.
> happiness is attributed to material possessions

Is it?

I see far more people saying that material possessions don't make one happy than that they do. How many movies, novels, etc, are about living for oneself rather than possessions? How many say the opposite?

IMO everyone knows that material possessions are nice to have, in the sense that we all want what we want, but also that they do not produce happiness. Does anyone say otherwise?
While both written from scratch at some point in history, the trouble is that Linux is the newer one. Symbian is rebranded EPOC, which is older than Linux.
Stimulus is short term gain, long term pain. The inflation from the stimulus is now permanent and people are back in debt trying to afford things.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/11/16/credit-card-balances-jum...
Yes, as I said, shortages may be real - however, the media don't react at all to the numerous people raising the question of why there is no increase in the price to meet the demand, meaning higher wages.

My point was not that there are no shortages, but that the writers of the many articles about it are deaf to any feedback and only promote the exact same talking points without change.

The "pro markets" side has always been quick to point to "the market" - but strangely, they completely ignore it when it comes to employment, where the market does not seem to work at all. Price seems to be decoupled from demand and those same pro-market voices ignore any and all questions about that phenomenon.
Worse, the MP was clearly giving them the run-around from previous meetings. Sending police to ask questions the citizens themselves likely answered in their emails, or answerable via telephone, is an escalation of this tactic.
Political assassins seem very very unlikely to politely inquire about attendance.
Finally, someone expresses it well!
The Democratic party deliberately moved right under Clinton. What was at the time called "triangulation" was Clinton adopting republican policy positions and one-upping them (e.g. welfare reform, NAFTA, Glass-Steagall). This drove the republicans crazy (remember Gingrich's Contract with America) and ever further right.
To me, the most influential book is Allisons’s Essence of Decision. Most people seem to treat it as a book about the Cuban middle crisis, which of course it is, but the event is analyses through the lens of several analytical techniques. That’s the part that is fascinating to me, especially the organizational process model.
> For example, one thing I always think about when cooking is how popular tomatoes and potatoes are in Indian cuisine (the former being essentially mandatory in most dishes), but since they were both brought over from the New World, the food from just 400 years ago would've been extremely different from what it is today.

Tomatoes in Italian cuisine are even more recent. While they were theoretically available from the 16th century, Europeans believed they were poisonous and refused to eat them. It was only around the mid-end of the 19th century that they became a popular and accepted part of the cuisine.
Ask HN: State of the art reinforcement learning libraries for C++?
G.H. Hardy, A Course of Pure Mathematics. Old but beautiful, redoes results which you may well know but with rigour.
I think you would be very surprised how quickly animals can adapt. Same for humans. Most of us have no clue how to live without modern conveniences. But I think if we took away these, a lot of people would adapt. A lot wouldn't survive, but a lot would learn quickly.
Yes, they are the stupid ones worthy of ridicule and scorn for taking a device specifically designed to hoover and exfiltrate as much data as possible for monetization and value extraction purposes.

The people who made these systems, trading off people's right to privacy, and implementing them in a way where you can't actually find out how shit works without months of digging through convoluted, constantly changing API's/toolchains of course are beyond reproach.

The tech industry's detachment from any semblance of normalcy or humanity never ceases to amaze.
You can get a (perhaps poor, but tastes nice) simulation by having the ability to shoot warm or hot water as a spray directly onto hot metal in the oven.
One aspect of today's society that would have seemed strange to anyone 100 years ago is that any verbal/psychological abuse of any kind is bundled as more ok than minor violence.

Violence is almost never the answer, but modern bullies seem to be artificially building situations where it's the only answer, since they know they'd get their way otherwise.

It's true that many abusers become this way due to violence at home, but abandoning any option in responding to force with force seems absurd.
Event Viewer has gotten a lot better over the years for surface-level stuff, but is still summary only. Which in no way mimics the *nix verbosity. I'll see if I can find a good entry point.
Don’t aim for happiness but for meaning and the joy it brings.
Would some kind of toaster-slot mechanism work? Contacts could be on the bottom edge, and with the right shape, you could have them extend a few millimeters onto the front and back, to get contacts on 3 sides.
1) Ignorance is bliss

2) You learn something new every day

∴ Every day you have less bliss
If you go to GMail's landing page the first word you see is the word "Secure". There's a picture of a lock and shield. It says "Email that's secure, private..." Therefore, if I use Gmail all my email must be e2ee!
Gitlab has invested pretty heavily into being able to self host virtually anywhere.

If they aren't committed to it they are certainly investing a lot of time into doing it well.
Sarcasm is also really hard to deal with in text, even for native speakers. And super hard for non-native English speakers.