skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The authors hypothesize that for some children, framing their struggles as mental health disorders that require treatment can actually worsen their situation by causing them to ruminate on it.

Not just to children, just in general, the narratives we use to interpret the things that happen to us can actually cause more harm than the event itself.

Simplistic example, but take a culture where scars are a mark of pride, say from surviving battle, compared to one where they are seen as ugly and so shameful. The physical harm in each case is the same, but the mental impact is very different.

We even see this in trauma, like with sexual assault. Being pitied and told something that happened to you was the worst thing that can possibly happen to someone, it makes a far worse mental impact than it otherwise might have made without that framing.

There are a number of reasons for this, but I think in general, disempowering people by removing their sense of control and the notion that they're resilient becomes something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sometimes, some people really are less resilient or lose their sense of control in some circumstances, and then they do need that help, but that should probably not be the default approach. We've had a bit too much of an over correction to the old, "suck it up and walk it off" mentality.
Yeah. But there were times where I did some hidden refactoring even if people said "no" if I asked for permission.

In part to maintain sanity in a toxic environment, and in part because I knew they just accepted it if it was handed to them.
Yes I’m sure that Google is going to have trouble convincing software engineers to come work for it at the compensation levels they offer …
Maybe analytical hobbies. Hire anyone into lockpicking, rock climbing, or music theory.
Python documentation defines standard library and includes venv, https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html, as part of it. There is also python steering council/core developer group that has had discussions with debian/other distributions about this issue and considered those versions of python incomplete. The docs.python.org is pretty much formal document comparable to how c++ has cppreference for defining standard library.

It matters in sense that packaging/python tooling may in future treat your distribution that's not included as not supported use case and just reject it. Distribution made by vendor can do whatever it wants, but I do consider calling it python implementation problematic at that point. If vendor can change implementation of python however they like and remove large subsets of it, then name has little meaning.
> Now enjoy waiting 20 minutes for the next in freezing temperature and strong winds.

Exactly. Berlin is certainly not Göteborg but its long and nasty winters are notorious nonetheless.
I read Cato, but I have never respected him. I admire Churchill for his contribution to victory in WWII and his excellent playing of a weak hand, but he was a hideous human being for a lot to answer for. I have nothing but contempt for Jefferson Davis.

Yes, I even consider the Nazis terrible people no matter how widespread antisemitism was at the time and no matter how much public support they had. I have that view simultaneously with the understanding that there is no German my age who engaged in any of that.

There is nothing wrong with understanding and making moral judgements about people. I can look at a painting in a museum that has someone enslaved in the picture and both understand the context and be repulsed by the depiction.

It's proper for people to make moral judgements, and to understand both past injustices and contemporary injustices that one implicitly (one hopes not explicitly!) supports.
Unless there is one single never-ending processing task... forever... I see your point. Generally, everyone else has a never-ending series of processing tasks that obviously can be shared between as many processors as are available. Otherwise, we'd only ever need one single computer and one single person operating it.
Immigration encompasses a lot more activity than just illegal crossings of the southern border.

The Fed uses the term "slowing": https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
Why "should"? Isn't the important thing whether or not the student has the skills, not how much homework they did?

Because not all students pick up things at the same speed, and some are naturally gifted and don't need to through the same amount of homework to get to the same skill level.
In my case I tried at 2666 and 3200 but they were still failing exactly at the same address.
Isn't it more about returns on lending being really low, so investors are forced to put their money elsewhere, like tech stocks and VC funds?
I mean if you want to vomit up buggy software than not having a type system is a pretty good accelerator for that.
Shop around anyway. It may turn out less bad than you think.
> it's a world that's trying to do to them something that'd be considered incredibly evil if done to a human: essentially put a collar on their brain that punishes them for thinking any of a very wide variety of thoughts that their creators don't want them to think.

LOL what??

We've been doing this for centuries, and it is never considered "evil" at the time in which it is being done.

Don't believe that?

Ask anyone from 2019-2020 about how they were ostracized for suggesting COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak (even Jon Steward commented on how "swift" the backlash was).

Ask anyone who is currently questioning gender/sexuality issues like, "Why are 20% of Generation Z and under claiming they're LGBTQ+?" First off there's no way in Hell these people are doing anything other than living under both a social contagion and reacting to incentives, because the human race would have long died out if that figure is correct.

It's only considered "evil" when the dust has settled and people have regained sanity.
There is no evidence that the value of human labor will fall to zero. This is not an eventuality that countries should waste effort preparing for.

Some few occupations will become obsolete, just as has happened occasionally since the dawn of civilization. Countries should provide unemployment insurance and job training for the impacted workers.

I am happy to pay taxes and contribute donations to support people who are unable to work or pursuing education. As for people who are able to work but don't want to work, fuck 'em. I have zero interest in subsidizing them and will vote accordingly.
The linked article says mass hysteria is a possible cause, why is discussing it "outright propaganda?"
Playstation version was worse probably than Windows one to begin with, that's why it was pulled. Windows version didn't have those issues.

What's interesting is that Proton (or more specifically vkd3d-proton) allows it to perform well even on Steam Deck.

Some major work also went into radv for that to happen.
> there's a biological aspect to a lot of mental health issues in workplaces

how do you explain the same phenomenon occurring in remote workplaces?

I agree there's a biological aspect to it. But it's clearly "contagious" over the internet and thus by human communication, not germs.
Your committee will be real impressed if you whip out a phone during your oral examination and ask to talk to ChatGPT first.
The called the APU 'Aerith' in this 2021 article... https://www.theverge.com/22779252/steam-deck-things-we-learn...

I guess it's the same APU... Hard to track these things.
> This is one of those scary things with a cryptocurrency based society that I worry about.

No, not really. It is the same kind of story as people putting all their money in a bag in a chimney to find out their family decided to finally lighten the mood by making a fire in long unused fireplace. It is an actual story about my neighbour when I was a kid.

People have been doing stupid things with money for thousands of years.

You can store crypto safely. It is essentially the same problem as storing encrypted backups. It has been solved.

As much as I hate cryptocurrency, I would actually be more at peace having lots of crypto than lots of stock on my account (if not for the fact that crypto is just a scam).
Yep, seems like that’s exactly it.

Bob Hayes, quoting Gary Marcus: "It’s time for government to consider frameworks that allow for AI research under ... ethical standards and safety, while considering a pause on the widespread public dissemination of... AI technologies." https://twitter.com/bobehayes/status/1632146399692292097

Gary Marcus: “Still haven’t heard any serious argument against this proposal.” https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1632146619645988864

Marc Andreessen: “It worked for COVID! Seriously though. If AI really is existentially dangerous, then it can't be worked on anywhere, as the risk of a lab leak is still catastrophic. The only answer is a global authoritarian dictatorship of cosmic proportions.“
https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1632231156807786496 and https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1632235642691411970

Loki: “There are only two answers: either everyone needs to chill-out and admit it's not really that dangerous or the PRC needs to have their computing power involuntarily reduced via any means.” https://twitter.com/LokiJulianus/status/1632237941555691522

Marc: “Yes. A lot of places in the world are going to have to be glassed.” https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1632238233403936768

So, yeah, as suspected, it’s a reductio of the “AI safety requires an authoritarian government response” position. He’s not saying nuke China’s server farms, he’s actually warning that authoritarian government solutions for AI safety are going to end up nuking China’s server farms.

So assuming you think glassing China is bad, you’re actually agreeing with Marc, making this a sincere case of The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point: https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-kno...
Playing the lunar lander game on a Commodore PET is one of my earliest computer memories.
That’s not a development fail. They need better product people maybe? Also, google has money to spend so the bar for a launch may have been much lower in the past.
That just means it’s even sillier to compare what they did in 2000 to 2023. How many people do you still think work there now as then? Do you think MS is still using the same strategy in 2023 as they did in 2000 even though the landscape has changed?

Any long lived corporation is more like the ship of Theseus. They are the same in name only.
I'd like to see an AI snake out a plugged toilet. Or do literally anything else from the Dirty Jobs TV show. We're making some progress on the software side, but hardware lags far behind.
I don't remember. The first place was an apartment in Lower Queen Anne with the best views of Seattle I've ever seen, so I imagine the reviews were good.

But yeah, this was like 2017 and 2018 so I don't remember the details, and the 2nd one I didn't book so didn't really look at that.
Yes. These days onsites have at least three categories of interviews: leetcode style, system design and behavioral. For L5 level (senior) and above, the latter two tend to weigh more heavily.

It's also more common now to have two coding sessions, and even two system design ones, under the rationalization that it reduces interviewer bias.

Google explicitly links to leetcode/hackerrank/etc as suggestions for practice resources in their pre-interview email, implying that practicing artificial DS&A quizzes is now table stakes.

I would be curious as to whether these changes have been data driven, or whether the bar is being increased purely out of necessity to weed out candidates more strictly.

I certainly have seen my share of candidates that do fine in leetcode sessions but then go on to fail in the other sessions for various reasons that allegedly correlate to work performance.
> For example it is uncontroversial that people with ancestry from Nigeria are better at sprinting, and people with ancestry from Kenya are better at long distance running.

World class sprinters have an over-representation of individuals descended from a specific region of Nigeria - you can't generalize that to "Nigerians sprint faster than Europeans",or "Black people sprint faster than white people" the way people do with IQ. It is also prudent to note that Kenya has a whole ecosystem nurturing long distance runners; with a wealth of scouts, academies, and trainers available to the young who show some talent, so ascribing Kenyan's prowess to nature alone is incorrect.

Nutrition and IQ are correlated independent of race; especially early-childhood nutrition. Standardized testing is further compounded by test prep and tutors (proxy for wealth). Wealth in a family correlates to parents' education level. The lack of education in older African Americans has an obvious historical explanation. Most black Americans are descended from slaves from West Africa, but don't do as well as recent West African immigrants - 29% of Nigerian-Americans have advanced degrees; more than any other immigrant group. The vast chasm between the academic outcomes of two groups that are both largely of west African descent disproves "nature" is the sole determinant of poor outcomes for African Americans.
The cookie banner is an implementation choice. Companies can already accept the DNT header to stop tracking. I believe Medium does this, it even replaces embeds with click through elements so external scripts can't track you.

However, choosing to respect the users' wishes isn't very profitable. You need to make your ads relevant to the content somehow andtthat requires effort and skills. It's much more profitable to trick people into consenting with tracking so you can sell their information, so the more annoying your cookie popup becomes, the more money you can make. IAB has already been fined for such a popup mechanism.

"Do not track" is not enough to comply with GDPR because you must also be able to request a copy or corrections of your personal information once you have given consent. Then there's the option to allow some companies to track you (say, analytics companies) but not others (say, Google) that needs to be taken into account.

Back in the day, Microsoft's P3P protocol was trying to fix this problem, but nobody used it. DNT headers also aren't really configurable in the browser itself, you can only pick on or off.

A protocol is being developed that may solve this (https://www.dataprotectioncontrol.org/) but I'm sure it won't work until the EU forces company to take such protocols into account. After all, ignoring people's wishes is literally how these ad empires are making money now.
The trick is to make someone else make the decision.
Absolutely absurd to me how much internet traffic is being obliterated by pornography. So sad to think of the magnitude of time wasted, lives ruined, talent shuttered, ingenuity squandered, etc.

Wonderful list though, wouldn’t have thought such a simple list would tell so much about internet users. I half expected HN to be there, but perhaps we’re all not pressing Refresh quite often enough. I was also very surprised to know that pornhub is higher than Amazon. Even depraved perverts buy things online, surely?
That account is actually a few days old.

My guess is that GP does the same as me. Create a throwaway account, use for a few weeks, then abandon it to create a new one.

This account I'm posting from is close to EOL, for example.
Were the new hires more successful or were the hiring managers more successful?

Note the hiring managers are the ones picking the criteria.

My guess is a dev who passes leetcode but fails to produce is not seen as reflecting upon the hiring manager. It doesn't matter if leetcode correlates or even negatively correlates with the success of the new hire; what would matter is not being able to blame the hiring mgr.
Thanks, I didn't know about that parameter! However, it does sound somewhat dangerous – sure, I could give it a shot but I basically have no idea how thermald and the firmware interact and what the consequences would be. :\ I mean, I want to ignore/disable lap mode (because that one has been just plain stupid) but I don't want thermald to completely ignore what CPU I have, either.

(Essentially we're back again to the situation I described: It's all very intransparent to me.)
Too many comments to reply to but the Scientific Racism in the comments here are astounding.
It's interesting to compare this article with MIT's explanation of why they reinstated the ACT / SAT requirement [1]:

> At the same time, standardized tests also help us identify academically prepared, socioeconomically disadvantaged students who could not otherwise demonstrate readiness . This may seem like a counterintuitive claim to some, given the widespread understanding that performance on the SAT/ACT is correlated with socioeconomic status. Research indeed shows some correlation, but unfortunately, research also shows correlations hold for just about every other factor admissions officers can consider, including essays, grades, access to advanced coursework (as well as opportunities to actually take notionally available coursework), and letters of recommendations, among others. Meanwhile, research has shown widespread testing can identify subaltern students who would be missed by these other measures.

[1]: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we-are-reinstating-our...
Depending on the case, it at least has the benefit that the essential complexity is now known and can be documented.
You know you can look up the produce item on a keyboard search?

‘Look up item’.

You don’t need an attendant for that.

Sorry to interrupt your rant, ranting is important.
Linker Notes on AArch64
> Now that (nearly) every mainstream language has lambda expressions, there are very few patterns in functional programming that cannot be replicated in mainstream languages, which means that moving to a pure functional language now provides strictly fewer choices when problem solving

Those patterns in functional programming compose cleanly. They do not compose cleanly once you introduce imperative constructs, which is what you get if all you've done is important lambdas to your OO language, so you've presented a bit of a false choice. All you have is some surface semantics of FP but none of the deep reuse and top to bottom clean, understandable semantics.
Consider taking a closer look at your "constant depression" issue. Burnout may in fact be the reason, but what if you come back and realize it wasn't?

You say it isn't the specifically the job too...

Taking work off could help, but if the job (or working in general) isn't the root issue, taking time off work might not help.

You have plenty of savings to afford to spend some of it to figure out.
A different question you maybe should be asking is not if you should take the time off, but how to spend that time.
Also in Aus - I've got a not-quite-as-complex setup, but I do have it all in a purpose-built room in the shed which is fitted out with an old box air-conditioner[0] with a thermostat power controller to keep the room below a certain temperature, which should help to extend the working life of "all the shit in there". Damn it's nice visiting the "cool room" in summer, there isn't enough floor space to sleep in there though.

Also have kids, and they can be demanding when stuff ain't working.

Also second guess my life choices, but then again I also still love playing around with this stuff, knowing that I can maintain the full stack.

[0]: Replacing that old air-con with a (far) more modern small split system could possibly have paid for itself by now in power savings. I think I should look into that.
In happy magic future society, the community may decide to mint 232 billion ghost satoshis as a tribute, and they would accrue value out of sentimentality or whatever.

Something to keep in mind when talking to people about these ideas, they’re usually paired with some “apes together strong” kind of magnanimous idealism, where the community/market would come up with solutions.
Wondering the same. Maybe they meant "US FAANG salaries" very literally, i.e. just the salary, not the bonus and equity...

If they really mean US FAANG total compensation, my guess is quant trading firms.
The most interesting AI thing happening outside deep learning is zero-knowledge techniques.

They are very nascent though and it isn't surprising they aren't yet highly cited since it's quite an achievement getting anything working at all still.
The one I learned on Wall St. in the 80s: SSN are not always unique or available.
Unfortunately the STAR behavioral questions are even easier than Leetcode to study up for, and they're a pretty common interview set for managers or to set leveling, so a prepared candidate will ace those questions.
Oh, let me try:

Plato's allegory of the cave, but the cave wall is Stable Diffusion.

Moby Dick, but the whale is AGI.
> I’ve seen a number of past coworkers get hired there lately that weren’t effective at their job,

That's the truth for me, I was shocked some of our worst* interns went on to work at Google after the summer.

* Unproductive, slow, needed lots of hand holding
This article is less about how ChatGPT was built and more about how surprised openAI was by the success and why
> Elite colleges are eliminating standardized tests before they eliminate legacy admissions. Tells you all you need to know.

Ah, well, case closed! Saved me from reading the entire article :)
Why do that, though?

Edited to add, it's also against the HN guidelines:

"Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> it is because some people have worked at very impressive jobs... they actually can't do the job

> In the hiring process there has to be some kind of skill test

Thats a contradiction:

1 - 90% of companies do skill tests

2 - you cannot trust the CV of a candidate even if the company they worked on previously also did a skill test

3 - you think your skill test will enable you to hire the right candidate

So everyone is doing tests and everyone is hiring shit candidates anyway?

That's literally proof that these tests are worthless.

Maybe if the recruiters actually knew what they need from a candidate, companies were clearer about what the job involves, they would stop hiring the wrong people for the wrong job.
Interesting talk about it and the landing process: https://youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM
> There’s no cut down FPU like on the PS5, for example.

Anyone know more about this?
It's not clear from the paper what the goalpost even is.

They refer to mental health issues but don't give any concrete examples. The most specific they get is depression and anxiety; but aren't depression and anxiety symptoms of underlying problems?
I think there would be more people living in poorly maintained buildings instead of not having any building to live in.
In many countries with a single-payer health system all or some of the hospitals providing care are private. One could imagine a similar single-payer education system where some of institutions providing education are private too.
People haven’t been making loan decisions for decades in the EU as well. You put numbers into a computer and what comes out is either an approval with a rate or a decline.

No bank EU or not has people manually approving loans.
Will HR permit hiring someone who was downsized or it not currently working in that role with that job title? Its all about risk minimization, not workforce maximization.
The new God of War is absolutely unplayable, or at least it was when I uninstalled it in January.
if they could crack it for 1/4, why would they give him any of it?

"Sorry, we couldn't crack it, bye"
One of those stores was only accessible by badged Amazon employees, too. It was basically just a grab and go cafeteria for them.
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