skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The form factor helps a lot.
It would be nice if he did get a lawyer and we got some new case law that banned ridiculous contracts like this. But seems like he is already feeling defeated after the divorce.
Could you expand more on your struggle session idea? I'm aware of the analogy to Mao's China but I'm curious how you'd see it playing out in this setting.
I have a lot of experience working with the weird nerd archetype and watching them navigate large orgs.

First it's absolutely true that orgs that purport to support weird nerds will revert back to rewarding politicians. I've seen it happen, and typically has to do with who is doling out money.

However, in my experience the vast majority of brilliant nerds way overextend themselves, and are much too confident outside their domain. They're also much more likely to be jerks and will tumble from conflict to conflict until they get their way by attrition or status. Conflicts are strangely more personal because so much ego is tied up into it. They're more likely to assume they're right in every (non-tech/science related) situation.

My advice to weird nerds (assuming emotional intelligence isn't an innate skill) is: Find a way to turn your brainpower onto this challenge as equally important as your core interest. Treat interacting with your institution like a long term engineering project or investigation. Think long term and be strategic, create and track longer term plans, try to learn what people respond to, what works and what doesn't. Always try to be kind and maintain some humility, but assuming you aren't sure what that really means, then ask for lots of feedback. Or you can just find someone you trust and delegate all of this to them, like a technical founder hiring a CEO.

(Edit: relatedly, if you work for or with weird nerds in a support role, my advice is to take full advantage! They might have a useful point, so set your own ego aside, don't take it personally (they are weird), and try to listen charitably. Their work is what you're here to support, after all.)
Guys this isn’t that complicated.

Basically every commercial interaction you have these days involves someone trying to cheat you, with basically no way to find recourse to human understanding or help.

It’s every day, every time you interact with a corporation as a consumer. It fucking sucks profoundly and people are completely exhausted by it.

Have you really not noticed?
Shifting traffic to jersey is a good thing because theres more road infrastructure there than in manhattan
> and realized that everyone at a certain level or above in administration Came From Money

There's a lot of that. And in academia in general.

Many/most are decent people. But even those often haven't been exposed to the ordinary life experience of the majority people from their country. And that often seems to affect how they think about themselves and the world.

Also, there's often implicit self-promotion and self-interest behavior. Which they might think is normal, since it's in their upbringing, and in the circles they now travel in. But it's not necessarily normal to the masses of their countries (which I'd expect to tend towards more cooperative and egalitarian in some ways).
I disagree. A "weird nerd" is much better in leadership than a socially adept careerist to parachutes in to get a bump on their resume. To build good products you need to care. A "weird nerd" is more likely to care.
It feels like more and more areas of life are regressing to the mean in terms of how status is distributed. The mean being some sort of centralized cabal-like structure (perhaps autonomously/accidentally centralized, like an algo) doling out status. By design, it is highly uneven, quasi-random (there are things that make you eligible but there are no guarantees), and their authority to do so unquestioned.

Take social media: it is more about who they've said you are rather than _what_ you say. The key message of the medium is less the content of the message itself (though it figures in!) and more the combination of your online persona's followers + likes along with the message itself. I'd argue social media is a real shift in the Internet itself where we began to take online reputation very, very seriously, to the point that we decided we'd believe that likes were more than just Internet Points.

And people _love_ this sort of structure because it means that something other than actual competence can be the deciding factor. They have a shot at being in the cabal and among the deciders. And it's a lot easier to evaluate people: simply see what other people say about them.

Not saying that non-technical factors don't matter. They matter a lot and are often very easy wins to pick up. But it's clear people like systems that aren't centered around competence as much as they may claim otherwise. And areas where that isn't the case seem to eventually be converted to more conventional hierarchies.
You didn't use this word specifically but this whole conversation has the underlying prior of the "everything is a spectrum" mindset.

In that context, everyone is neurodivergence because, afterall it's a spectrum we're all on and nobody is going to be deadest average. At some point we have to define at what point these spectrums become clinical. The kind of language you see in the DSM for stuff like this is "does it affect daily living/relationships/health in a negative way".

Being neurodivergent isn't a disorder, not showering because you're obsessed with programming probably is.
Is there any naming standardisation for laptop displays like this? It just seems to run on eDP and have a slightly uncommon 3:2 aspect ratio, but I don't know if those mounting points are out of the ordinary.

Being able to pull a working display panel out of another machine, and even 3d-print or cut an appropriate bezel if it's smaller, and use it would be great for repairability.
Truly why invest in anything real when everyone in power is there to make stock market go up eternally... Or federal bonds. Which will be flipped over for reasonable profit until they are not anymore, but even that is unlikely to be fully sudden.
If the original intent was to stop scalper (which I agree with), the agreement could have said “you’re not allowed to sell it for a profit. If you sell it at or below cost, you’re fine”.
Reading your question, I think Svelte or SvelteKit is probably a good option like you said. It's basically just JS/HTML/CSS as normal but if you want interactive UI stuff it's very simple to add. At this point SvelteKit is totally stable, it's just not as popular as React so it doesn't have as much community / LLM support.
I'd like to see the laws around this kind of thing changed in two ways:

1. Contracts banning resale outright should be prohibited. The strongest similar provision allowed should be a right of first refusal at the original purchase price.

2. Freedom of association should be limited to human persons. Companies as large as Tesla shouldn't have any more power to ban customers than the USPS does.
> In some ways, things are better than ever for folks like you. Starting and running a one-person business making software is feasible now but would've been much harder in decades past.

Yes, you are absolutely right.

Unfortunately, I have been trying that and failing. I don't blame anyone for that either.

> Unfortunately, industry has problems that are big enough that they're not easily solved with one person. So tools that work to bring about a team's success will be valuable. As will individuals who work well in teams.

You are absolutely correct. And yes, that is why people shouldn't hire me.

Nevertheless, I think there are some problems that one person can solve.

I want to make the next-gen version control system. I think that may be small enough for one person. Other infrastructure software can be like that too.
The rise of America's debt ceiling – in charts (2023)
I can imagine an alien species storing information in plants. It’s like a self replicating database.
The fruiting body of a mushroom often represents only a fraction of total biomass. It depends on the species, but what we see above ground is more analogous to a flower than an entire plant.
Being married and gainfully employed and able to build and maintain relationships as well as hold conversations with strangers when necessary can come at an exceptionally high cost for neurodivergent people in the form of masking (like a kind of mental tech debt). Instead of overt social difficulty, this might present itself as anxiety, depression, and suicidality—those conditions are worthy of medicalization IMO.
Yea, seems rather extreme when the doctor could also just prescribe phloppycoxin.

Somehow reminds me of another joke...

What do they call a testicle transplant in the US?

"Shooting someone else's children"
I don't think city voters will swing for a Republican in the gubernatorial race, unless the Republicans field a Bloomberg Independent-type (which they can't, because their own base has rejected that kind of politician).

What's more likely, IMO is that overall city turnout will be severely depressed in 2026, and Hochul may find herself counting on an uncomfortably slim, demographically homogeneous, and purple suburban voter base. That's what she's used to as a Buffalo politico, and I don't think she's fully come to terms with the reality that that doesn't "play" at the statewide level.
Tai chi works wonders here. If you have a Tai chi group meeting every morning near you, you can do worse than join them.
> Have you use a broad fork?

Ha, no. I have heavy equipment, including a no-till drill for my no-till application needs.

I assume this means you have, though. Why have you used it if not for tillage?
Cheap direct air capture: grow biomass, sink to bottom of ocean.
If your house has wheels, there is no real estate or construction gatekeeping. It also bypasses ridiculous property taxes. It then just has to plug in to utilities like at RV campgrounds. With sufficient effort, both energy (via solar) and water (via atmospheric moisture) can be extracted autonomously, if only in part. An EV charging infrastructure is already being built up nationwide. Sewer and garbage disposal are still required. Mobility is what America needs in the face of climate change. Grounded houses are an idea of the past.

This may seem ridiculous until one realizes that several homeless people in North America often live in cars.
If that was the goal (was it? I have not seen anyone say something like that) but if it was, then they should share the money too. Manhattan can't take all the money and shift all the expenses to New Jersey.
I can’t think of any use case for statistics, personally or for my kids.
If your identity is stolen, at best the company is sued and pays for a few years of credit monitoring. I don’t think this is adequate, given the potential consequences. We need a better systemic solution for this.
Fair enough. But most corps pick profit, and for those that don't, it's nearly impossible for a lay person to get/understand them.

For example, it's extremely unlikely that the victims in this story knew to check the articles of incorporation.
Microsoft made $146 billion in profit last year. Terrible economy.
I think they mean that gmail/outlook are highly abused and you can reduce spam by demanding a challenge response from new addresses on those domains when they email your domain.
Your script does not handle stderr, stdout, and SIGINT correctly, probably more.

With enough work at least some of them could be fixed, maybe even all. But why reinventing the wheel if timeout is contained in coreutils and available on nearly every Linux machine?
>I'd argue you need a deep understanding of social value to even want to make a great contribution to society.

Autistics only nessecarily misunderstand social value in a superficial way. They are frequently compensating for a sort of "social blindness" with unusual strengths like pattern recognition to get insights into social situations in a more detached way through a different lens.

People also can be on a team with somebody who has a deep understanding of social value who doesn't have it themselves. Jobs/Woz comes to mind.
It seems to have trouble with long skinny shapes, I had one that would keep moving and occasionally flip over
I am mixed on how much we focus on posts by "a lot of people on academic X". Perhaps they offer some valuable insight here, or perhaps it is just a few grumpy individuals spouting off unwarrented critisim.
There are much worse possible outcomes for NYC than neglect from Albany.
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Structures do cost more. This is mostly increases in labor and code compliance costs. In hot markets the structure cost is dwarfed by the land cost though. There is only so much prime real estate available. That won't stop techies from trying to build a house in a factory to bring down prices, even though that makes little sense.
> And people _love_ this sort of structure because it means that something other than actual competence can be the deciding factor.

It's different competence. Not incompetence. It's being competent at identifying marks to exploit, attention-seeking, etc.

I don't particularly care for it myself and feel pretty strongly that it's narrowing the gap between humans and apes, rather than widening it, but it's still some kind of skill.
Ah, someone else with a jimcarrey___ username put it out there and Jim Carrey only has a twitter account. Funny how the brain re-records things as I remember it as a video and more harsh off the cuff.
I have to throw it in the -unknown pile for quotes. Can’t edit the comment.

If you’re a quotes person, here’s a decent site starting with some David Goggins quotes. https://wisdomquotes.com/david-goggins-quotes/
Ah, now I understand why you are confused. No, most people with health problems in the U.S. are paying, at most, only a copay for a visit. They are getting medical treatment at no cost to them directly. It is paid for by an insurer or the state or Federal government.

This moral hazard is fundamental to our problem and why many have problems regulating their consumption.
> but seriously. You need to be able to hold a conversation. You need to be able to talk productively with your fellow people, including difficult conversations. You need to open to negative feedback, to be able to take criticism or contrary viewpoints without turning into a puddle of some combination of depression/rage/self-hatred, or people are just not going to get on with you.

You implying that non-nerds have any of these traits lol no they don't it's just that they exhibit more of group-thinking and less individualism, so they provoke less situations that might potentially cause conflict.

My experience with nerds is "ok each has their own opinion this is going to be difficult but let's try cooperating" whereas non-nerds act exclusively "my way or the highway" because they have never previously encountered the idea that their view of the world might be wrong "because I'm the majority".
What cars produce ultrasound? I thought radar is used.
> but to make diagnosed people feel more included and part of a group, the more people get diagnosed even if it's 0.01%, the more safe the others feel because they're not alone,

I've worked with younger people in tech. I'm seeing a mix of effects, positive and negative, from increased diagnosis rates.

On the plus side, some people are using their diagnoses to find helpful support material, techniques, and advice.

On the negative side, some people get a diagnosis and then try to use it as an excuse for every personality trait they can fit under the umbrella of that diagnosis.

It's really difficult as a mentor to have to explain to someone that their diagnosis of anxiety or ADHD or autism doesn't give them a free pass in society for all of the things they struggle with.

I've had to explain to numerous people that having an ADHD diagnosis doesn't, for example, exempt them from the same performance review standards as their peers at work. This can be difficult to acceptance for someone who was given extra time on tests and possibly more leniency on assignments throughout high school and college due to their diagnosis. The educational institutions meant well, but the students took the wrong message from their accommodations and assumed it was always the world's responsibility to bend to their personal quirks rather than the other way around. Teaching people that their diagnosis is, to be blunt, not other people's problem is a difficult hurdle to clear for some. Many others get it right away, of course, but the internet rhetoric about neurodivergence leads a lot of people in the wrong direction.
> Finding a cycle is hard!

I mean, it is easy in the size of the graph, you constructed implicitly an exponentially large graph, I don't think it's in the spirit of GP point where the hamiltonian cycle is exponentially (in the size of the graph) hard to find
You need to have an operator in the middle, that is, 12 would be satisfied by a string of "5+7", not just by adjacent 5 and 7.
What size should a parking spot be? Who should pay for a larger one?

Over the last number of years, it feels like large vehicles have become more commonly used but most built infrastructure remains the same. I notice this at the city owned parking lot a couple blocks from my house - the whole thing becomes very difficult to navigate with the length and width of some modern pickup trucks/SUVs. It sounds like it's not a big enough issue in this parking lot (perhaps because it's only one large vehicle) but it would become an issue if everyone were driving a cybertruck there.

Should parking spots in parking lots be made bigger? This would probably mean fewer spots / more expensive. Should cars be split into "standard" and "XL" classes? XL spaces or lots that support XL cars could be priced accordingly. People purchasing vehicles would have a better sense of "oh this car won't be allowed in many parking spots.
British, French, German, USian, Canadian, Chinese, probably other places too. The curriculum varies a little (the Canadian and Chinese curricula are quite different), and I'm aware that schools vary, even within a jurisdiction, but there are prevailing attitudes.

Discouragement looks like "wow, that's really hard maths!" "maybe you should try something else first," "very impressive, but you should focus on your schoolwork," "quit doodling and pay attention," the library having no books on maths outside the curriculum, getting marked down for using concepts from outside the curriculum in schoolwork…

This is completely understandable, for a system that works how ours does. I'm not saying I could run schools any better. I am saying that you wouldn't expect the cultural practices described in the article to have the same outcomes as our schools do.
For an accessible book on the history and impact of the early telegraph networks I'd recommend The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage.
That's ridiculous. A server only needs to be capable of running a single authoritative copy of the game and handling dead simple network requests to prevent every kind of cheating that matters except input automations, which you can't prevent reliably with a rootkit anyway. If you have a case where this isn't true, feel free to expand on it instead of just blindly believing it must exist. You don't need client-side control to make very powerful guarantees of systemic security in much more serious contexts than a game. You're not only doing special pleading, but you're doing it for a scenario that, as far as I can tell, has no theoretical reasoning and no examples, because you haven't provided any. I have to conclude it's imaginary. I gave you a good breakdown of what threat models I think exist and some sketches of technical solutions, like client separation and authoritative servers. I speak from both sound theory and experience implementing netcode here. Maybe you are too, but I can't tell from what you're saying, because again all I'm hearing is "nuh uh, sometimes you need it!" I see no why, how, or when in that argument. Is the problem you can only fix by having total control over the whole platform of every client in the room with us right now?
Always so surprising how its easier to hire new grads than to just redirect your existing staff thats already integrated into the process and culture to work on something else.
But as long as the stats are not reliable, that's unknown territory. Maybe the police is getting more lazier, maybe less, maybe there are less people reporting because it is seen as useless, maybe there are more because they get tired of it, one can simply not get a picture independently of where the trend is going.
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Oona's blog posts are consistently bangers; always a treat when she posts a new one.
> They should have also given a credit for exiting immediately and not staying in the city, i.e. transiting through the city. This would have made New Jersey considerably more likely to be in support.

Which NJ residents do you think are through-transiting via the Manhattan's streets? The core demographic being targeted here is driving onto the streets to park and go to work, not to drive into Brooklyn, Queens, or LI.

(To my understanding, the plan with the congestion charge is to waive the charge when drivers stay on highways and freeways, i.e. don't enter the grid. So a NJ resident who takes the GWB and drives down HHP and then Brooklyn via 478 would never pay the congestion fare.)
> by getting diagnosed and telling people your diagnosis

One of the things I try to emphasize with newly diagnosed young people is that they should not make their diagnosis an outward part of their personality.

There's a trend of putting your diagnoses in everything from your LinkedIn profile to your resume lately. I've been helping with resume review in a group and I've been stunned by how many times I've had to tell people that they need to remove their ADHD diagnosis from their resume.
But having one gives a platform for those narratives to spread and potentially become dominant.

To be clear, I'm not saying freedom of press between countries should be eliminated (quite the contrary!), only that diversity of languages should be preserved. In my opinion, this does two things:

1. Allows more diverse ideas to come into being, as language directly affects on one's way of thinking.

2. Slows the spread of dangerous ideas, due to some of their appeal (or the charisma of their advocates) being lost in translation.
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Yeah, that's not quite what I meant. What I was trying to get at was more analogous to the ambiguity of i and -i. Suppose I wanted to create a system of math whose intended model was the negative naturals rather than the positive naturals. Let's call this new system NPA. NPA has the exact same axioms as PA except with predecessor instead of successor as the core axiomatic construct. So zero has a predecessor, but no successor. Everything works as before, except with the letter P instead of the letter S. Addition still works, you're just adding negative numbers and getting negative numbers as the result, which is what you would expect. It doesn't break down until you get to multiplication, where, if you follow the same definition as standard PA you get the "wrong" result because you want the product of two negative numbers to be a positive number, and there are no positive numbers in NPA. So AFAICT multiplication is required to distinguish PA from NPA. Which raises an interesting question: is there a non-trivial operation you can define to distinguish i from -i the way that multiplication allows you to distinguish 1 from -1?
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