skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I genuinely don't understand what point you think this article is making that backs up what you've said here -- would you mind elaborating?

Full disclosure, I am diagnosed with ADHD and take stimulants daily, and initially felt pretty defensive when reading your comments here and starting to read that article. I have some problems with the article and generally find that author pretty insufferable, but the article concludes that the risks of medically-supervised stimulant use are low enough that the author personally finds stimulants worth prescribing to patients who benefit from them.

Even Section 1 which you specifically referenced, and which admittedly made me pretty annoyed until I read it a few times, and even though the author certainly seems to be trying to insinuate that ADHD isn't real, doesn't really seem to be actually backing up that point. His main point or objection seems to be that ADHD is diagnosed using arbitrary subjective criteria rather than objective measurements like other spectrum disorders (isn't blood pressure also a normally distributed trait, where we* "arbitrarily" draw a line and say people on the wrong side of that line have hypertension and should be prescribed beta blockers?).

I'll admit to feeling a little argumentative after reading some of the comments here but I do genuinely want to understand these points better, and I feel like I must be missing some fundamental context or point that the article is making.

*for various definitions of "we", since different countries and organizations define hypertension differently.
Ask HN: Why focus on unit tests over end-to-end tests?
I feel that I have worked in a few companies that overly prioritized so-called unit testing, to the point of spending too much effort on it. To me, it seems that end-to-end testing, meaning the kind of testing that tries to more or less fully simulate what the software user will actually cause the software to do, is both more useful and less brittle and will generally require less test rewriting than other approaches.

Yet undoubtedly I have met many at least otherwise smart people who are big fans of unit testing even if they cannot quite define what a unit is.

What am I missing, if anything?
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Should the US implement a ‘robot tax?’
Sweden is nowadays a low-trust society living in the shell of a former high-trust society. So many processes that are not adapted to the times we live in.
Think about your last two sentences in regards to the discussion we are having.
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That's literally the entire field of philosophy after the ~18th century.
I'm using the Fusion 13 Tech Preview, which has all of those bar file sharing, so I'm just using git to transfer :)

It has one glitch where the screen goes black sometimes when changing apps (maybe a new DirectX context or something), but that's easy to resolve by just resizing the window a few pixels to change the VM resolution. I usually use my VMs fullscreen so this is a slight adjustment to normal, but it's workable until they release Fusion 13's official version.
Well, it is lying. The function name says so.
Similarly, my country is trying to get rid of a coal industry, and they absolutely pay or promise a lot of money to the soon-to-be unemployed miners.
Is Raft byzantine-fault-tolerant though? Can it be made so?

Paxos can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)#Byzant...
Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying
I had a plumber show up with a metal slide and CARBON paper. The vintage swipe.

Many of my cards no longer have embossed numbers, so that has to be dicey.

They take checks too of course
Raft is not byzantine fault tolerant.
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This bridge has elements that make me think it's beyond ADA. The bridge could have been closer to the intersection. It could have both stairs and a ramp.
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I had a fun time recently implementing Raft leader election and log replication (i.e. I didn't get to snapshotting/checkpointing). One of the most challenging projects I've tried to do.

The Raft paper is very gentle to read, and gives you a great intuition on its own. Even if you don't want to implement it, you probably use software that uses it: like etcd or consul or cockroach or tidb, etc.

I collected all the resources I found useful while doing it here: https://github.com/eatonphil/goraft#references. This includes Diego Ongaro's thesis and his TLA+ spec.

Some people say Figure 2 of the Raft paper has everything you need but I'm pretty sure that's just not true. It's a little bit more vague than looking at the TLA+ spec to me anyway.
The Slow Death of the Sun-Seeking Summer Vacation
No they have not. Read the article carefully. They have had some success with implanting renal epithelial cells, but they have not demonstrated filtration function. It’s promising but not quite there and things may go prove to be more difficult than you think.

“ Eventually, scientists plan to fill the bioreactor with different kidney cells that perform vital functions like balancing the body’s fluids and releasing hormones to regulate blood pressure – then pair it with a device that filters waste from the blood.”
I love this site. When I was learning & implementing raft in my distributed systems course, this page was invaluable. Plus the paper itself is pretty easy to read.
I bought a vintage printer (juki 6100) to tinker with recently, I was pretty shocked how the manual included circuit and timing diagrams, and gave instructions on how to construct adapter cables for various machines.

Also the "driver" installation for IBM PC is just instructions on how to manually patch wordstar to work with it.
It used to be the only time you could make a call when someone was at work or at home.

Now you can call them literally 24/7 no matter where they are in the world. There is no recluse.

Interrupting people in the middle of what they're doing whenever, wherever is quite rude and fixing that etiquette is a GOOD thing.
one conspiratorily wonders if its a government ploy to turn everyone cashless so that they can be debanked at will.
> To mark the ending of the 52-year cycle, all fires in the Basin of Mexico are extinguished and then lit again from a single source, in what is called the New Fire Ceremony.

we still have this tradition today, when social media sites become stale and a new one comes and is invite-only until it spreads to the whole society
/dev/payments and paydemon are definitely two names that engineering founders would come up with, but which would not inspire confidence from anyone else. I liked the anecdote about not realizing that "forge" was not a good choice of names for a payment company. Naming is hard, just go with something simple and neutral, that you can live with. Stripe is boring, which is good.
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On Android: not really. Android's connectivity check will connect to Google.com over HTTPS to verify connectivity.

You can fake DNS and redirect some apps to local servers, but you'll quickly run into issues with HTTPS connections.

If you want to fake an Internet connection on Android using just DNS and HTTP, you'll probably end up bypassing some checks and failing others. Google's apps will likely all report that you don't have an internet connection and won't even try to connect, social media won't work, and other apps will get very confused but will probably still try to operate.

You can work around some of these issues by becoming your own certificate authority and setting up TLS certificates for every website you need to mock, but on Android that'll be difficult to pull off in most apps. Browsers should work fine if you load up your own root certificate (though you need a special secret setting on Firefox for Android because of Mozilla reasons).

For apps, you'd need to root your phone and place your root certificate in the right place on the system image (there are Magisk modules that can help you here). This will fix apps that opt out of user store certificates, but it will break Chrome, since Chrome requires certificates to be recorded in the certificate transparency logs, which you can't do. You can install the certificate in both stores to work around this issue.

Most apps on either iOS or Android implement certificate pinning, which means even if you get your root certificate into the system trust store, you'll still see failed connections. You can hack those apps (for example, using Frida to patch the applications) but you'll have to do each app individually.

I don't know the current status on the connectivity check on iOS, I believe you can get that to work with basic DNS and an HTTP server, but it's possible Apple has gone the HTTPS route too.
Tragedy strikes at Burning Man: death under investigation, thousands stranded
Ok man whatever you say. I’m just saying while you think you’re making some major point here it’s just pushing people away because it sounds so ridiculous.
> This makes sense for people who don’t code, but I see plenty of developer oriented bloggers who use Substack, which is puzzling to me

No, it makes sense for any person with any skill set. Just because you are a developer doesn't mean you want to setup everything yourself. We use plenty of tools to make our own experience better and more focused, based on what we want to do.

If I'm a programmer, and I want to publish blog posts, sometimes I don't want to care about the setup that makes me able to publish blog posts, I just want to post something.

> why Substack doesn’t get with the program and just support MathJax and colored syntax highlighting already

This, I don't know. Should have been done ages ago.
Ironically, there are very few characters in Tolkien who are consistently and unwaveringly good -- the huge majority, including some of the central figures like Frodo and Sam, had at least some moments of darkness, however fleeting.
Take a look at https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/ch12.html
How are these numbers affected by the fields of EVs (if real)
The natural solution to that problem that eventually develops from your line of thinking is extended unpaid internships. No thanks.
Kinda like SMTP in the early internet. No one had really thought about spam and bad actors. Pretty much no one had IP restrictions and relay rules. Then eternal September happened.

This said, abuse production generally comes with pretty heavy costs and sometimes systems are never stressed in a way they get abused, so there are trade offs.
It was mostly the mobile revolution. Consoles were always considered something separate from computers. It was phones that normalized not only locked down OSes but surveillance as a normal thing.

I remember in the late 2000s hating everything about the mobile revolution and predicting where it would go. I was mostly right but wow did people ever think I was nuts. Tech groupthink back then was the literal phrase “mobile is the future” repeated like something out of a political talking points memo.

What I got wrong was underestimating how evil social media would become. I never imagined how addictive it could be made or how toxic the content would get, or how it would help re-mainstream a whole raft of horrible ideologies. The addiction factor and brain dead content machine really hit with mobile too, so it’s not unrelated. Something about that little screen that is always there and swiping to scroll seems to facilitate addiction better than a PC or laptop screen.
Anyone using object storage like S3 for cluster coordination/election instead?
What happened in Sweden to bring about this change?
I remember, aged 10 or so, my fellow schoolkids thought we should get paid for going to school because it was "work".

Around this point, same school but not necessarily the same year, someone else in the class thought I'd ripped off their idea in the classroom and that this was a copyright violation.

Now?

Now I understand that the work done at school is not a product, it's at most an extended pre-interview test much like a code challenge (not that literal code challenges were really possible when I was 10, given a decent C compiler would've cost something like 2 week's pre-tax income).
https://archive.is/wO4Z0
This doesn't seem to be true, unless you don't trust what Eleuther themselves are saying.

> The work we do would not be possible without the generous support of our donors and other sponsors: Core Weave, HuggingFace, Google TRC, Nat Friedman, Lambda Labs

https://www.eleuther.ai/about
Ruling against FDA you are not a horse [pdf]
FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise—but not to endorse, denounce, or advise. The Doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to. As such, the Doctors can use the APA to assert
their ultra vires claims against the Agencies and the Officials.
Even tweet-sized doses of personalized medical advice are beyond FDA’s statutory authority. We REVERSE the district court’s judgment of dismissal, and we REMAND for further proceedings.
Let me rephrase then.

War doesn't bring anything of value to humanity.
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While I read this, I kind of assumed that this was written by a math-enthusiastic 9th grader and it felt wonderful! Write down your new-found math skills, that will make you remember them even better for the future and also trains writing skills!

Then I learned that he'd been out of school for quite a few years and is a programmer now. That makes me pretty sad. Is it really such a novel insight to learn about the relationship between exponentiation, roots and logarithms that you need to write a blog post? Isn't this basic school math anymore that everybody doing anything even remotely related to math should know by heart? (Programming definitely counts into that..) How do you even do things like basic finance, interest rates, inflation, without groking this?

It makes me worried not just about the future of society in general, but about our industry in particular. I'd feel uncomfortable working at a place where any of my coworkers would feel compelled to write a blog post about the relationship between exponentiation and logarithm that explains that exponentiation is not commutative.
Figure 2 is great, but I would agree the entire paper is needed if you are implementing raft. There are a few specifics in the paper that you need when implementing it.

P.S. love your blog :)
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the opportunity to mine all this data by the government for any policy or intervention cannot be underestimated.
It assumes no malicious agents. If you're malicious you can take control over everything with a single message (advertise being the leader of the next term).
Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin
https://www.jetbrains.com/store/#personal

No need to log in, prices are listed here.
https://archive.is/4OJyd
> Rather, it was justified in terms of protecting the cell phone carriers

I don't remember that at all. I do remember Jobs resisting the app store because he wanted everything to be a web app though (despite resisting the move to responsive web design).

Can you provide a source for your claim?
Hasn't Snowden documented enough of it?
Well, at the same time there are trains in blue states, in the first place.

To be less snarky and more concrete: blue states have more social programs to screw up and mismanage. But at least they're there. NY and Illinois are the two most corrupt and mismanaged states. But they both host powerful, international cities with public transportation and social programs.

Contrast that with Texas, its middling cities and a laissez-faire perspective on housing development, highways and social programs.

Indeed the state is doing well from a revenue perspective, and they've done a lot to nurture industry and wealth, which shows positively.

I'd consider going there, but with trepidation, and I'd never have my elder retired mother who's mostly penniless move to a place like that, given her health issues.

So it's nice to have variety.

And the blue red divide is fairly annoying once you become an adult, and see how hysterical and closed-minded both sides are. There's no paradise anywhere.
In 2022, 184,753 German citizens returned to Germany, while 268,167 left.

Departures have outnumbered arrivals every year since 2005.

Source: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Popula...
All I can say is that in the modern era you have to lead by example. Run Linux and Firefox. Use the services from the tech giants as little as possible, you won't be able to eliminate them, but you can minimize the amount of money and attention you give them.

Tell other people.

Contribute. If you work long hours, give a little money to FOSS. If you have spare time, spend a bit of it contributing, doesn't need to be a lot.

The timeline in the link is not set. The tech world has been disrupted many times, if it hadn't been, we'd all be on IBM mainframes and typewriters or something. There is no fate but what we make. Very few people are aware enough to show up on this website and read this thread, so it's on you to do something. If you're reading this you are the resistance.
i think i’ve probably missed out on so many amazing products, but i just immediately lose interest the minute a company demands my personal information before they’ll even tell me a price lol.

while demanding my information definitely doesn’t say anything about the quality of their product, it is for sure a red flag about other business practices.
It is supposed to be funny, the author of the video is obviously faking seriousness while presenting a joke package for emacs. That's a kind of a sketch comedy with a computer.
> in my experience, fountain pens aren’t just toys.

As an avid fountain pen user, I agree on that regard. Also mechanical watches are not toys in the same perspective.

I'm solely using fountain pens for plethora of reasons, but practicality is not one of them. They need maintenance, needs ink selection if your daily paper is not the best, they get upset when they fly, etc. However even the cheapest Lamy safari can outlast many pens without much effort.

Same for mechanical watches. They're built better, with better materials. They live way longer, and any modern piece can hold time good enough for daily life, but they need maintenance. They need care sometimes.

They are not toys as in "simple and badly made", but are toys as in "There are more practical options, but we prefer to use them because of reasons".
I can do it myself and it's not a huge hill to climb, but I don't necessarily have the time to do it. There is also the time that needs to be dedicated towards maintenance (upgrades etc.).
I have always felt that the problem with the plastic recycling is that there is a lack of an economy. If you sell a yogurt for $1.99 I don’t care about what happens to the container, I t’s hardly surprising that most of it ends up overseas, in the ocean or a landfill. If the state levied a tax on the container, manufacturers would be motivated to gain a competitive advantage and use something exempt from the tax. Recyclers, who might want to taste of that tax money, could invest in better technologies for handling the material. In fact, you enable capitalistic forces to solve a problem. It’s only cheap to use virgin plastic because the manufacturer is absolved of cost of dealing with the waste.

For my own part, I have started to throw all my plastic in the garbage. It feels better to know it goes in the landfill versus the great Pacific garbage patch.
The paper check scanner from Chase also (last I looked) cost a few bucks and needs an app on the Windows PC to process the data. That hardware is only useful when you process 100s of checks (eg: grocery store).
Give it a Google? The discord logo is at the bottom of the page.
Half-life of spike protein in vaccinees
>Chrome drops official support for Linux
and then all the world's E2E testing pipelines break
The question really is, is it affordable? And how long before even that option disappears?
No, but I'm British.

It doesn't help that the hyphen in "block-book" disappeared somewhere along the line in submission. That is somewhat idiomatic British english.

And there's another British idiom here ("learner drivers").

But this (problem X as pattern Y) is a common British newspaper headline construction (pattern Y is suggested to be responsible for the context in which problem X is occurring).

It is at least a mostly full sentence, though (if in note-form). US headline constructions often feel weird to us because they aren't.

I imagine the US form of this headline might read something like:

"Brokers dominate driving test bookings, applicants driven to black market"
More remote workers are willing to move in order to find affordable housing
Right – my comment about academic navel gazing was a critique of the article itself – which to me seems more self-promotional than academic anyway. The author references his own work no less then a dozen times, and fails to realize that he's applying the same colonial ideology he purports to skewer.
The goal of Russian propaganda is to spread doubt and distrust. The aim is to get people to believe that objective truth doesn’t exist, and that ALL elites are corrupt.
Management decision.
https://scihub.copernicus.eu/

No clue if it's enough for your purposes, but I think this is the basis for the article
Are you guys open to sponsoring visas ?
Most of my use of them is a web browser and a compiler, is that Apple based? It wipes the floor with my Intel &. AMD boxes.

> It's useful to keep the entire context of the response in mind, when replying.

Don't be glib.
Seems like the company pivoted to an AI taking app.
wait until a technology like sidewalk(or heck, IOT-scale 5g with sim-less connection to data-herding servers)
I‘m Indian living in US. I would rather prefer NFC solution like credit card attached to Apple Pay over UPI. Once you use NFC with Apple Pay you are not going back to UPI.
Plus credit card comes with fraud protection and credit card points that I can use for more travel.
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Finnish-German startup launches quantum computer for universities, research labs
* https://archive.ph/1vtiM

* https://archive.today/1vtiM
What's the story behind its disappearance? I remember filling that out when I first started working long ago.
Are there consensus algorithms that don't require changes go through a leader? In many distributed systems, you want to distribute intake as well.