skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical definitions separate physician dependence from psychological dependence and generally a psych disorder is anything that causes social dysfunction including an addiction. So heroin has biologically addictive properties like it leads to withdrawal and tolerance, but also one can have a psychological dependence on heroin for example they associated it with a certain location they always use heroin In.

So the terms of addiction in the medical world are really more about where society draws the lines.
Not all people who do great work are great people. In fact, I suspect a negative correlation.
So, you spend every single day of your existence in the US being absolutely fucked by the private medical sector, and you think that for some reason having no collective bargaining ability will make you better off?

I have a bridge to sell you.
I agree, but there are hundreds if not thousands of AI startups trying to make their own relevant LLM, and they're going to be scraping Twitter. The Onion called it many years ago [1]: "400 billion tweets and not one useful bit of data was ever transmitted".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0&t=138s
Interesting and potentially great use case. How does it figure out the minutia selecting adequate dependencies?
That's a nice collection of documents on the i960 RM and RN chips.
A lot of this niche stuff isn't hosted anywhere else. Smashboards doesn't have extensive content hosting and has always relied on other services. No way it's all archived by this deletion deadline.
It makes perfect sense in a world where in the end every single thing is condensed down to profit.
You honestly believe that people who get into Harvard don't have more self-discipline on average that those who don't?
In Chrome there is: "Hacker News New Tab" to do this
Dude I know people who have had their lifelong schizophrenia start at the same time they started using hallucinogens like LSD and mushrooms. It's not a conspiracy or bullshit. People I have loved have changed in ways they couldn't control and was destructive/scary for them.
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Syntax is a decision of the language's developers.

There is a tradition of using symbols in languages of the C family. Rust is in that space because it addresses the same kind of problems that C solves. Familiar syntax helps developers to switch language.

I guess that a Pascal like syntax for Rust is possible. Would C developers have liked it more or less than a C like one? My take is: less.

An example of a compiled language with little use of symbols: COBOL.
Let me put it in another way: safety profile of MDMA is better than lots and lots of other clinically approved drugs. And much safer than substances like alcohol, that are not only neurotoxic but hepatotoxic, carcinogenic, highly addictive and with worse withdrawal.

There was a time when MDMA was prescribed to thousands of people, and nobody had a problem. Of course some people will always abuse any substance, we currently have people killing themselves with food or sugar. But the best solution is not to classify it as Schedule I, which in practice is a full ban even for research.
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In school getting help from others or spending money to solve your problems is basically illegal. This does not prepare you well for later. Some students have problems making that change especially if they didn't even know of the existence of that change or if they were heavily conditioned by their experience in their first twenty or thirty years.
that's wrong in so many levels, once you're director+ or staff+ it's very unlikely that you will make more money moving rather than going deeper
Intuition seems to me to be the point at which you really understand something - and it allows you to make progress and predictions about other phenomena.

For example, I don’t think anyone has an intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics yet, and it seems to be limiting progress. String theory was an attempt at an intuitive understanding that has so far been fruitless.

Spacetime is a counter example, where a difficult concept was made graspable by some intuitive concepts and analogies, and progress very quickly seemed to follow.
Sprezzatura is the name of this. A "certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it."
I don't disagree, but: Twitter was big and it worked. Then someone created incentives for many people who know the code to leave.

The one's left don't know all the code (how could they?), but were forced to change many things about the site at a "just do it" basis. This error didn't happen because someone was too stupid to remove the code, it did happen because the connection to another thing was removed and the failsafe on the landing page doesn't have exponential backdown built in, not something you can necessarily know or investigate before, when an executive breaths down your neck and wants you to just do it.

This is about the new managment, not about engineers.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to explain this using interest rates. I mean, for sure, low interest rates made it easy to collect a lot of capital and lure users into a "free" service. It doesn't explain though why one would find this an acceptable and ethical form of doing business in the first place.

It was clear from day one of low interest rates that those wouldn't stick around forever. This business model is a pile of s** that breaks itself.

It appears as if the most 'successful' business people actually don't think a lot about any kind of sustainability in their decisions. It's just about quick growth. And when push comes to shove, they wine that they aren't able to pay the bills anymore, because of 'evil' users who don't want to watch their crappy ads.
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" I promise you that by reading these concepts you will find yourself as a customer that making a decision to buy something or start using something."

I don't think you finished this sentence?
> Gotta be a doctor or lawyer ... today they'd be pushing for programmer.

Where are you getting that from? Parents and teachers still push for doctor or lawyer for smart kids. Only if doctor or lawyer is unattainable would they suggest programmer. Furthermore, everybody still perceives doctors and lawyers to have higher status than programmers. Just look at TV shows from the 80s vs recent years: The high prestige characters are still doctors and lawyers, and also business leaders, sports figures, and military, but never programmers or engineers.
Could you justify any of those statements? I'm especially interested in why you think nginx is "utter trash", for example.
Also, isn't there an HN rule about discussion having to be constructive instead of just whaling on things?
To go further, its crazy how much cognitive dissonance can penetrate even the smartest among us.. If you had some understanding of how modern systems at twitters scale works, you'd know such a bug is highly unlikely.

You have multiple clients (android, ios, web) and a whole cluster of microservices calling each other. The microservices calling each other will easily use up more requests.

IMO the likely culprit is rate limits being triggered by a huge increase in scraping caused by the new api pricing.
> There's a point I've tried to make any number of times on Skeptoid, and that's if you want your argument to be robust and persuasive, don't include any bad evidence.

I often have to wonder, how are these highly intellectual people able to have a world view like that?

From my experience, bad evidence works wonders in arguments, because they're generally driven by emotions. It doesn't even matter if they're disproven later on, as the person will have moved on to new arguments.

Rational discourse like this person seems to take for granted is - from my experience - beyond rare.
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> But anyways, they’re already using US gear, tactics, ISR - why not this? You don’t need red blooded Americans to employ SEAD.

They don't have the modern aircraft, or missiles that would make SEAD missions against modern Russian AA effective.

Despite the narrative most of the stuff Ukraine is getting is super old.
Exactly. I think it really shows how reckless and deceitful he was.
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Lies, Notarization and Privacy
I was interested until I saw the price
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Man, we do need a public square.
I’m now very self conscious of using the word “spruik” (a feature of Australian culture is that we look down on Australian culture… this is called our “cultural-cringe”) - and just saw “spruik” used in a headline in an Australian news story, which shows it is still a very current word here.
Of course I have a source :-)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Avionic_Systems_Design/...

It was upgraded from the HAC-32 (Hughes system with the i960 MX) to PowerPC around 2002. See page I-12 of https://studylib.net/doc/11020640/navy-training-system-plan-......
I don't know much about Gizmodo, but replacing Kotaku writers with AI would be a net gain for everyone.
Negligence and contempt plays a big part in the odds though.
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by tens of thousands of blocked accounts? Are those your bot accounts that get blocked or it is you blocking people from your feed?
Add more ivy league schools to the point where they are common? Increase the size of existing schools so they accept more? Raise the value of suny schools by advertising? Luring top teachers? Syndicate top teachers content to virtual campuses branded by the Ivy League? Ban foreign students?

Employers want a ranked list. Parents want a ranked list. Schools ranked high want a rank list of the best schools. How do you get around human nature to appear better than a neighbour and a ranked list of the best schools gives parents/kids an easy template for a successful career?
I’m not sure if you are just being pedantic or intentionally obtuse. Of course no one is being physically forced to work at Twitter. But you surely recognize that some people have limited viable choices not to.

While having the choice to quit, uproot the entire family and leave the country you’ve called home for many years is a choice technically, it’s not a choice most people are in a position to realistically make.
What percentage of Harvard students would you say got in through family connections vs worked hard? Why do you focus on the former?
Literally all of your links are dead. Is this an LLM hallucinating non-existing evidence?
Note that this paper was written in 2014, three years before the book "Bullshit Jobs" was published. I wasn't really trying to bring out the whole book into discussion (which has noticable flaws and details left out.) I was just trying to point out similarities between your comments and Graeber's, that's all.

But since you've begun a knee-jerk reaction against this, I think there are some flaws with your criticisms (assuming you have read the book):

> People think they know what a job is, without having done it.
> But if you're so ignorant, you should consider that you can't imagine jobs you don't do, let alone do them.

What Graeber has done in the book is to actually do numerous interviews with the people who have actually claimed to have done these jobs, and then categorize them into some noticable patterns to arrive at a conclusion. If you can't experience every job in the universe, the closest you can get is to talk with the people who have done them - and this is what he's precisely did. There are claims that the sample size wasn't enough or it was biased - which I think is totally apt. But it's incredibly dismissive of you to describe this attempt as "ignorant": how are we supposed to do any anthropological / sociological work in a large scale when you claim "no scholar can even try to analyze various types of work without actually doing everything in-person beforehand?"

> But a job is not bullshit, just because you have a flight of fancy that involves massive restructuring of an organization or society. "Writing this CRUD application should be unnecessary because everybody should've used the same database in the beginning". So...make a time machine, or get everyone using one of them to switch. Should be roughly comparable difficulty.

I think the "duck-tapers" Graeber describes in his book are a bit different from what you understand currently. He's mostly talking about the people who are doing tedious cleanup work because of reasons that can obviously and trivially be fixed but the higher-ups in the organization are not doing it for various reasons (mostly politics).
> None of the tablets and phones I have tested are capable of even starting up on USB power alone: With a dead battery or removed battery they simply won't even power on.

This is likely to combat instability. A large sudden spike in current draw that has to be supplied by the wall wart a few feet of wire away from the PCB can trigger a brown-out. Especially with the usual quantity of decoupling capacitors, specced around having a large current source on tap much closer to the point of use.
Addictive drugs are also only amplifying existing human brain connections. And you can very easily liken porn to an exogenous substance that distorts how sex actually is and promotes fantasy. Measuring harm really depends on the context also. Porn production is often linked with human trafficking and exploitation of disadvantaged people.
I use to use a 1600x multiplier.

- 80 hours federal holidays

- 160 hours PTO

- 240 hours (6 weeks) to find another job or contract.

But this was also considering both a w2 contract job working through an agency and my wife worked part time in the school system for benefits. If it was a 1099 contract, I would have to consider self employment tax.

I had a great network of recruiters between 2012-2018 when I was going back and forth between contract and permanent positions and the local development market was hot for your standard enterprise DEVs with experience.
> And Russia has shown to be very effective at intercepting various modern weapons systems via EW or direct. Maybe they are evil incarnate, but they math good.

I dunno know about this part of the statement, the fact that we are still seeing long range deep strikes into important Russian territory (sometimes killing hundreds of soldiers at a time), tells me that maybe Russias EW and AA against semi modern cruise missiles isn't as good as people think.
Such smart plugs exist and it's right in the name: https://cloudfree.shop/

Dunno if they ship to India, but I'm sure you can find similar products on AliExpress if you search for the same keywords
What's stopping you son?

If it's capital, just get an SBA and start working.
Or in Brainfuck
A key flaw in your thinking is that the "bullshit jobs" label that Graeber talks about was not assigned by outside observers, but by the people doing those jobs themselves. The point was that a huge number of people believe their own job is bullshit, not that some arbiter of truth believes that others' jobs are bullshit.
How this renders is suboptimal to me. It's like a variant of heading.

I meant

-a the minus aflag text
-b the minus bflag text
Something the something text

It's basically table or grid layout without lines.
You just defined every third party app that works with an API. Are all such apps cash grabs to you?
The argument should be that these externalities get priced into oil to help with climate change effects and transitioning to clean energy. The analog I think are cigarettes and how we have taxed them out of existence
That is common human behavior, not corruption of what would be 'good' behavior otherwise.

The only difference to academics is that normal people don't try to create a consistent theory. We merely pick from whatever is available in to our moralistic toolbox.
Can’t speak for the GP but I’d say “No they do not” to your question.
> There's always someone pointing out something wrong, nothing would get done if you actioned every single 'concern'

> someone [...] single concern

"That spring, more than three dozen industry experts sent a letter to OceanGate, expressing their “unanimous concern” about its upcoming Titanic expedition—for which it had already sold places."

More than three dozen someones. More than three dozen concerns.
I didn’t go to an Ivy League school, but I did go to Stanford. I assure you there are many of my classmates who failed at life, don’t have good jobs, and are otherwise don’t fit that description.

An elite education is like a golden ticket, to be sure, but it doesn’t guarantee anything at all. Plenty of folks screw it up.

Twenty-plus years now after my degree and no one cares at all about where I graduated. If I don’t keep up, I’m overboard just like anyone else.
My officemate Paul Heckbert wrote a ray tracer in PostScript after we realized that the laser printer's processor was much more powerful than our "real" computer. As you might expect, the interpreted PostScript ray tracer was extremely slow but it did eventually generate an image, I think at 32x32 resolution.
It does look interesting, but I can't get over that screen... 2-bit and no backlight in 2023 is a hard pill to swallow for the price they're asking. I like everything else about the device, but I'm waiting for gen2 to hopefully improve this.
Unfortunately I can't trust GPT will not hallucinate something, I tested it to code review my code and it hallucinated issues.

It would be great if you could give it old , ugly code and you could get something better.

Maybe Intellj guys can use this tools to increase their productivity and we can get 100% correct tools that work with AST not with tokens, and can do advanced transformations and review that you can trust without having to double check it.
How is Elon allowed to transport people to space?
It already has it, try loading the extension
Get one with preflashed Tasmota. They are local connection only.
Maybe because Twitter is a US company with headquarters in San Francisco?
Yeah: 32 AMD 7713P (64 cores/128 threads), so 2048 cores/4096 threads, 32 TB of DRAM, 1PB of NVMe, with 2x100GbE to dual, redundant 6.4Tb/s switches -- all in 15 kW. In terms of other efforts, there have certainly been some industry initiatives (OCP, Open19), but no startups that I'm aware (the smaller companies in the space have historically been integrators rather than doing their own de novo designs -- and they don't do/haven't done their own software at all); is there one in particular you're thinking of?
So why does he worry about advertisers and bills? Why did he fire most of the employees? Why is he pushing changes to production without testing?

Why rush things when you can fail 5 times and still try again?
When you say it's failed completely what do you mean?

I've been translating between c# and python and having a great deal of success at the function and class level. I even ported unit tests easily between xunit and pythons unittest library. I've got close to 100% test coverage so I'm fairly confident it's done well
This won't change the stress. It will just move to something else, as a lot of the value in university is how it ranks you compared to others and one way or another, there will be some kind of ranking system.
Forget about status, I would rather not subject my kid to the constant catchup treadmill; jquery then, SPA yesterday, AI today, god-knows-what tomorrow, its like a never ending thing - its not enough to be stressed by work all week long, now you need to spend the couple of days of break also on learning the next flavor of the month.

Sure lawyers have to catchup with changing laws and doctors need to catchup with new medical breakthroughs but I doubt it is as much drinking from the firehose as programming is.
Nice writeup! A small improvement: There is `#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]` to avoid typing all properties twice.
Yes and if you’re six foot five+ and can play basketball well you should choose to play for the best basketball team.
Many moons ago, twixt primary school and high school, I enjoyed coming up with two derivations of

the volume of a sphere remaining after removing the volume of a hole drilled from pole to pole (cylinder plus end caps).

These things can get a little addictive :-)
Readable link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190505114631/https://twitter.c...
> Ivy league students don't get there by themselves. A life-time of adults help you.

See, this is what I do not get. I got without excessive effort into a top university in Europe. I never had to be taken care nearly this much. Learned calculus at 14-15 by buying an old book in a used book store. Learned programming at around the same age by reading C++ tutorials and doing programming competitions (ACM style, but easier). Ran in various science competitions, here indeed teachers helped me by giving me books, exercises and guidance, with greater or smaller success. Most of my university peers had similar histories. I believe I would be admitted to an Ivy school if I were American, based on my professional experience with people that studied there.

What gives? Is it the last >=2 decades that changed the picture too much? Is it somehow an exclusively American problem? Where are the self-motivated kids, why aren't they taking most spots in those schools? Did something systematically kill the motivation?

The slight (or perhaps not so slight) neurosis and coping mechanisms like "I wasn't even trying, so I didn't fail" imply that those kids are way, way past their comfort zone. Being this far out is very unhealthy, can even be lethal.