skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...and began self-medicating with drugs and alcohol. Looking back, it was also during this time period that I had my first dissociative experiences, in which elements of my sense of self became separated in a way that impaired my ability to function.

This was a couple of years before the "meltdown". While meditation surely may have induced mental health issues, the drugs and alcohol probably didn't help.

What stands out is that he had mental health issues and some point that grew worse, sadly. It temporally correlated with meditation but that doesn't mean it was predominantly caused by it.

The meditation may have triggered things, sure, but my guess is he likely would have had a meltdown also if he went all-in on some other activity for 10 years.

After all, with multiple years (4, 6?) between the first dissociative symptoms and the break down, you could also argue that the mediation may even slowed or alleviated the effects of the mental disorder until some threshold was hit.
Nearly all well intentioned laws have quite serious negative downstream effects, because the world is vastly more complicated and interconnected then commonly expected.
Yeah I don't deny I'm a far better programmer now than 10 years ago, and may even be better than the average in some respect, but most of it is as you say tacit knowledge.

I don't have any catchy slogans or rules to teach.

I also understand that there is so much I don't know. Even if I hone my skills until the day I die, I'll never be so certain I know the best approach as I was when I was younger.
Well that only works if your life's goal is to accumulate things, imho we're way past that in the west, for a good 50 years
I remember an Adobe presentation[1] tried to walk back the "14 standard fonts" thing as being an Acrobat "convenience" feature rather than a PDF standard feature, probably because it doesn't look good to attempt to standardize a (format unimplementable without a) set of fonts you're unwilling or unable to let people freely redistribute. (But then that presentation also promised the nascent ISO PDF standard would always stay accessible free of charge, and we know how that turned out.) Certainly PDF/A does not permit you to omit them, though that's only one specific kind of PDF.

In any case, sure, here you go:

- The Be Book[2] for DR8 uses but does not embed AvantGarde-* fonts.

- Inside Macintosh: Interapplication Communication[3] uses but does not embed Palatino-* fonts (for this one I could be convinced it's because the uploader merged the original per-chapter PDFs[4] incorrectly, though).

- The Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines[5] also have the Palatino problem (and look legit, even though other Apple HIGs from that era do embed their fonts).

- Even the bloody spec[6] for PDF 1.3 uses and does not embed Caecilia-Heavy and MyriadMM_565_600_, whatever those are.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poc9PVmFzpc

[2] http://bebits.irixnet.org/be/docs/DR8/BeBook/acrobat/05_Medi... and others in that directory (1996 metadata)

[3] https://vintageapple.org/inside_r/pdf/Interapplication_Comm_... (1993 copyright, 2014 metadata)

[4] https://thrysoee.dk/InsideMacintoshInterapplicationCommunica...

[5] http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGOS8_Guidelines.pd... (1997 metadata)

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20101214132912/http://partners.a... (2000 metadata)
Yes if it gets to filling out background check documents, I don't fudge dates. I have though typically only needed to do those after offer has been made, etc.
Aren't we there yet? Gain of function research is exactly that and it gave us COVID
It looks like Fastly started working on Certainly sometime before March 2019, because that’s when they filed a trademark application. [1]

Three years seems like a long time to be working on a CA!

[1] https://uspto.report/TM/88345271
It's only reproducible if you can actually reproduce it in a different environment (different time/locale/machine/etc).
I’ve had thinkpads for years, first a T420 and now an X1C (and I use vim a lot) and I can’t seem to integrate the track point into my workflow.

Either it’s too fast and it overshoots, or it’s too slow and it distracts from what you’re trying to actually do.

How long did it take you to become proficient with it to the point you prefer it over a mouse / trackpad?
If you're trying to compare the entire concept of human violence to the very well-defined and narrow concept of caste discrimination, you're not going to get very far I don't think. And for the record, caste politics rears its ugly head in the Desi community in my country of Canada all the time, yet somehow we've managed to avoid the ugliness of gun violence and slavery that you somehow found relevant.

It makes for uninteresting discussion of the misgivings of different countries when the first thing you're able to reach for is "well what about colonialism?"
Yukon UFO could have cost unfortunate balloon fan $12
As someone that helped build and sell a startup (for hundreds of MM) in my 20s+30s pre-family, and now having a family… I cannot possibly conceive of putting in the time and energy to another venture. Maybe after the kids leave?

Back then I would climb for a couple hours in the morning for fun and then work until 8pm or later. Get beers, go to bed, do it again. Every day, most weekends, most holidays. It didn’t feel hard because it’s what I was meant to be doing. So much fun.

Now I can’t string together 2 focused hours. I’d rather take the kids to the park, or have to take someone to the doctor, or a sport, or whatever. Even if I had to work a “regular” job, the idea that I would work any harder than absolutely necessary, at the expense of time with my family? Not a chance.

I’m not saying you must be 20s or 30s or whatever. You just must care more about the venture than other things.

(In my experience).
The randomness of real roads is something drivers have to deal with

I think the point is that depending on circumstances you can spend either 45 minutes driving down a more or less empty road or 45 minutes in rush hour traffic and it's basically impossible to judge someone equally in those two cases. I know people here in Sweden who after failing their test a couple of times in city traffic, schedule their next driving test at a test centre in a small rural village and pass easily. These people can then return home and start legally driving in the same city traffic they couldn't pass their drivers test in.

There isn't an expectation that new drivers will never be flummoxed by encountering weird behaviour from other drivers or an oddly laid out junction

Exactly! And that is why it is important that we make sure everybody gets tested on that before we give them a license.
I made one of these (not this fancy, just a recycled Android tablet mounted behind one-way mirror glass, running a home-made app) and highly recommend it. I was 100% prepared for it to be a novelty that we got bored of in a few months, but eight years later it's still awesome! You can see my mirror and app code at https://github.com/ineptech/mirror but the version in the play store is outdated (weather and stock ticker apps are broken due to the free APIs going away) and I've lost the Play store signing key needed to update it.

edit: biggest "lesson learned" I'd add here is, I experimented with both touch and voice support but didn't like either. I already have laptops and tablets aplenty to interact with, I prefer to use this mirror like a clock - glance at it when I want to information, and otherwise ignore it.
I can think of a few different solutions for you, depending on your write/read loads and DB size. Unfortunately, I don't think any of your solutions will be quick/easy.

Feel free to schedule a call with me! I've done 3 large NoSQL to PG migrations for different orgs.

[1] https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min
This setting in google calendar is called "speedy meetings" and my workplace turns it on by default even though we're full remote. People need bathroom breaks.
Google is the Xerox of AI.
[Off-topic] but they've got absolutely bizarre webserver/blog behavior. I noticed "page not found" flash briefly on my screen before the content loaded, and indeed you can confirm with curl or network inspector it's actually returning http 404 status code/"page not found" content and then some bunch-o-JS injects the blog post. The Aristocrats!
Yeah this advice makes so little sense that I think the entire point of the comment was to put OP down. IIRC was like "you lost your job, so you should leave the country to save your marriage (btw I'm gonna assume you're male)."
> If you’re trying to use it as a scientific term then actually apply the term correctly.

Your comments in this thread are a very good example of the aphorism "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". As I mentioned above, it's pretty clear that you don't have a clinical background in HIV, because you're mixing up terms that have precise clinical definitions and drawing conclusions that are not only not warranted, but actively contradicted by the data.

There are a lot of incorrect statements or mistaken assumptions that you're building on here. I've pointed out a few of them already, but without the contextual domain knowledge, it would be difficult to correct them all in a way that's accessible to a lay audience. It certainly would not be possible in the scope of an HN comment.

As a general note: it's okay not to be an expert in a given field, but in that case, please keep that in mind when discussing it. The ability to find information which appears intelligible does not in se imply the necessary knowledge to contextualize and interpret that information correctly. That's particularly true when talking about information written for an incredibly specialized audience - even most clinicians would not be expected to read a paper on this topic, because HIV is a fairly unique subfield that requires a lot of domain-specific knowledge.
I really like the Sutton quote. Manually written AI systems show promising early results and then fail when compared to machine learning approaches.
WHY is human civilization still geared towards working in the daytime??

When was the last time any of us did anything that REALLY needed sunlight?

Except farmers and maybe construction workers. This makes even less sense in hot climates, where they spend an asston of energy to cool themselves while insisting on working over the afternoon.

Honestly, why can't we nudge the working hours up a bit in the day so that everyone starts their job after noon, and comes home at night, with a few hours of free time before and after sleep.

Elect me and I will abolish getting up in the morning.
Yeah, I have a day rate of about £1000, which works out to £20k a month. Not quite £30k. Maybe I need to up my rate for inflation.
In fairness this is a typical indie game dev story.. There are 100's maybe 1000's like this released every year. I'm curious why this one got a Guardian article. The creator must have some pull at the Guardian somehow.
Synthetic insulin was first created in 1978 by Genentech, a VC-funded company with only twelve employees. The inventors had been previously unable to get research funding for the project.

Previously all insulin was extracted from animals. The Genentech process brought its price down by 1000x and undoubtedly saved many lives.

https://www.gene.com/stories/cloning-insulin
Your typical “save as PDF” will embed fonts nowadays.

I think only professional (typically commercial, costing serious money) PDF writers have had a flag to NOT embed fonts in PDFs for decades.
It's always tempting. To make the easy buy. Just one more Hershey's bar even though I know it's made with slave labor. The cheap flagship Huawei phone that will probably violate my privacy. The Apple/Samsung device that is eroding right to repair.

It's hard to not just consume mindlessly. It's too hard to keep track of all the evil that companies perpetuate. How much of it is propaganda? How much does it really matter? What difference will it make?

I understand why people would play a game created by a monster. I read all the books before I knew. I loved the characters. The movies. But now it's all tainted like a Hershey bar made by a child slave. It would be so easy to go back to sleep and just... consume.
Gerd's AVR Simulator
>Imagine an AI-produced endless stream of music that takes all of its cues from your favorite songs and produces high-quality audio tuned exactly to what you like hearing

That sounds pretty awesome actually, but keep in mind that my tastes don't stay the same over a given day. At work I need something that helps me focus, when driving I want something that calms me down and if I ever get my ass in the gym I want something that pumps me the fuck up.

I would also expect an AI that did this to slightly alter it to what I was doing better and better. What it would not do is take into account what others liked, or what it got paid to promote (hello radio and probably Spotify).
Hmm, this seems less fun than Crazy Taxi. A huge part of Crazy Taxi was trying to keep track of the upcoming terrain and gauge how it's going to affect the momentum and trajectory of your car. With a flying taxi there is no terrain, no ramps, etc you just fly around obstacles.
Simplicity is for elitists.

Maybe some of you remember Didier Verna's Lisp, Jazz, Aikido: https://www.didierverna.com/blog/index.php?post/2007/04/03/L...

It's not hard to sympathize with Verna's feelings. These are all based on a similar set of philosophical guideposts: maximal output for minimal input, maximal possibilities of self-expression from a minimal set of generative rules, and understanding the deep "essence" of the craft, so that when you add your own contributions, it is by finding the "essence" of the addition and harmonizing it with the essence of existing work. And these are appealing because they give the feeling of tremendous power and the sky being the limit.

But the real world runs on the philosophy of Visual Basic, punk rock, and mixed martial arts, which are all based on a different set of philosophical guideposts: a) focus on practical solutions to real world problems; b) make getting started as easy as possible for everyone; c) it doesn't matter if added components harmonize with the original; what matters is if they contribute significant value on points a) and b), i.e., it's okay to get messy.
You pray to the alter of "smartness" and your God is no less vengeful and irrational as all the others!
Exactly. It seems like we prefer the easy way out. If we can't write a precise specification then we don't know exactly what we want the computer to do. And so all we can get are guesses.

The software industry has gotten this far with very little help from the formal methods community... that's changing in recent years in certain spaces where errors are magnified by scale like cloud computing, etc.

But instead of getting better at writing precise specifications we're going to continue to be bad at it and hope that an LLM can manage to infer the correct program. It might be millions of lines of code but hopefully it does some of the things we want most of the time.

Update: To be clear, I'm not saying AI/ML programs cannot help us to write programs at all, just that the inputs need to be better if we're going to have any confidence that the programs it generates are any better than a horoscope.
Node adds initial support for single executable
Alternatively: "students who wait to the last-minute to register for their classes get stuck with the 8AM classes and perform worse than students who registered early."
I don’t believe it’s a bad thing at all, it just is.

And glimpsing centerlessness for yourself sounds disconcerting, but instead seems paradoxically comforting when it happens.

For me personally, it brought with it a deep sense of peace and wonder about my existence and coexistence with a world full of similarly centerless beings.

To your point about wiring, I think absolutely yes. From an evolutionary psychology perspective, many aspects of conscious experience ensure we stay alive and procreate, but are not necessarily pleasant and seem to be increasingly incompatible with modern life.

Robert Wright’s book “Why Buddhism is True” explores this at length and is a really interesting read. It’s not a book about religious truth, but one that maps a modern understanding of evolutionary psychology onto the insights of Buddhist philosophy and how such philosophy can be incredibly helpful when dealing with the implications of living in a body that did not evolve to survive the conditions to which it is currently subject.
It's dangerous to you and the enemy because it's sharp on both sides..
How does that even work, though?

Ultimately, if two people are at odds over something and I'm coming in blind, the one trying to keep me from hearing the other side has already discredited themselves.

How is that even debatable, barring an appeal to authority or something equally as tiresome and/or fallacious?
It's the same feedback Apple has been getting for 11 years now. There's nothing new here. I think Apple is well-aware that there are people who prefer an upgradeable laptop and not having to participate in the Apple ecosystem. I suspect Apple has data showing even more people prefer having a more reliable laptop (upgradeability tends to decrease reliability) and the perceived benefits of the Apple ecosystem - otherwise why would they have continued on this path for 11 years now whilst having very vocal critics of this approach the whole time?
It could also be used to tack bas cops
Accounting: Hardware and software acquisition is very different at an accounting level in large orgs, and come from different budgets. Licensing and support can be easier to procure and plan for than hardware.

APIs/RBAC: Cloud infrastructure-as-code for block storage, object storage, DB, network, VM and serverless with the same security policy language accessible via HTTP is really incredible. I wish there were an open-source cloud equivalent, but I don't know of one that can do 20% of what AWS can do.
"While library staff must be committed to serving patrons regardless of socioeconomic status, many of them don’t have training on how to deal with an unsheltered person suffering from untreated mental illness, drug addiction, or other problems."

It's funny how people that never have to deal with homeless people assume that other people are required to.
My downtown library has been overrun for a couple of years, as it's situated between the ravine where junkies shoot up and the church that feeds them. Now, we just request books be transferred to different libraries and go pick up. There's just no reason for anyone in the community to use that library anymore.
404 for me also. Australia
This is true of many "arcade-like" games - the real fun is abusing the physics engine in ways not originally fully intended.

Trackmania is one, for example.
On Writing Children's book and illustrating it with MidJourney
If assume the article is correct and there will be Software 2.0, what's the cost of running it vs cost of running Software 1.0? The reason I'm asking is given this quote "when the network fails in some hard or rare cases, we do not fix those predictions by writing code, but by including more labeled examples of those cases." - is it more costly to do "curating, growing, massaging and cleaning labeled datasets" and ultimately training neural networks than to just write code? Maybe not for small NNs, but for DNNs?
Theres also quite a few cases of people who don't naturally fall into a 24 hr rhythm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep%E2%80%93wake...
> - Tailspin / Tales of the Gold Monkey / Archer Danger Island flight/business sim.

Back in the day there was a game called "Escape Velocity" that was essentially this but in space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Velocity_(video_game)
The problem might not be your script, but that the system is stateful. Users can access and mutate the /usr directory, and some software will do this outside of the system's built-in package manager. You can also compile and link against a shared library in /usr, but then later this library may be updated, so now your app links against a different library than the one you built against.

Older package managers use a "name-version" scheme to try and avoid package conflicts, but in practice there can be different binaries which have the same "name-version" identifier and they're not always compatible.

The way Nix solves the issue is to store everything in a content-addressible store `/nix/store`, where multiple concurrent versions can be installed without naming conflicts (the directories are named with the content hash). When an app is compiled, it is linked to specific shared libraries in the nix store which will always be present on the system. The `/usr` directory then, is just a collection of symlinks to the actual content in the nix store (most recent versions), for compatibility.

Because derived packages are reproducible, they will always have the same content hash on every system on which they are deployed. As a developer then, you can target very specific shared libraries when building your software, and you know that when you deploy them, users are going to have the exact same dependencies you had when you built it.
Also Fedora Kinoite, the KDE flavor of Silverblue.
404, this seems to have been released by accident.
Andrej's podcast with Lex Friedman touched on this too - worth listening to if this topic is of interest.

The pod was in the past year, so many years after Andrej's software 2.0 post, and after many years of great AI experience at Tesla to add to or potentially change his views.

Likewise, will be interesting to see how the HN community's experience with ML and AI over those years may have changed our views.
But this study is asserting that the earliest 8am class, of a system that runs 8am to 4pm, has the worst performance.

It can’t say that a 9am class in a system of 9am to 5pm would have better performance at 9am, and it certainly can’t say that the system as a whole would have better performance. Maybe 5pm is too late and affects child care or dinner or night jobs and now students are distracted all over again.
“we should obviate things I find distasteful, but my livelihood must be preserved”
Yet two huge indictors of a looming recession are completely opposite end of what happens in a recession: unemployment at 50 year low and consumer spending is at an all time high.
Well maybe instead we'll spend our time honing the spec and doing lots of testing instead of mechanically writing and reviewing code. I see that as potentially a massive net positive for software quality.
This appears to throw a 404 for me.
Hard to inspect but very possible test.

Correctness will go from a binary pass/fail to a probability
I do not agree with the author marketing elitism here as a desirable characteristic. There is nothing wrong with raising your standards for quality or working to be excellent within your profession but elitism generally tends embody arrogance, social stratification or other exclusionary attitudes.

You might inclined to disagree with "Well, he said 'this technical elitism' and then gave his own definitions so... ". Yes, he said that, and then proceeded to suggest it's not just acceptable, but desirable to view efforts below your standards with disgust.

There was no implication of mindfulness or humility in this process, only that it was an effective way to self motivate. There is a difference between what is sufficient and what is unacceptable. If you set your standard at excellence then anything less would be unacceptable. Tempting a mechanism as it may be for self judgement, it is a slippery slope because we often judge others to the standards we set for ourselves.
I didn't go back to read check but my memory is that it was around 531 participants. So with that sample size who know how small the control group is.
In any case it certainly is dominating more of my life than I'm comfortable with right now.