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In many cases, doctors treating the injured troops give them diagnoses of psychiatric disorders that miss the underlying physical damage. Much of what is categorized as post-traumatic stress disorder may actually be caused by repeated exposure to blasts.

I've said for years that people who are suicidal typically have very serious, intractable personal problems but get dismissed like it's "mental" or emotional. They need actual help for actual problems, not "attaboys" and not empty assurances that "Someone cares."
I'm into sports shooting, and during winter our club has an indoor range that used to be an old bunker. So we're in this 25 foot by 60 foot concrete tunnel, that's about 8 feet tall at most. Not a giant cavern by any means. And closed doors, so just (forced) ventilation open to the outside.

I've shot .357 magnum and shotguns in there. It's loud, yes. I wear ear plugs and ear muffs when doing that.

But not by any means do they rattle my brain, and I can't imagine it's anything close to what you see around an artillery when firing.

I mean look at the ground towards the camera in this[1] shot, clearly a powerful shock wave going out in all directions.

[1]: https://youtu.be/Ny0h_G3VkhE?t=77
> don't censor the bug reports

They do, but eventually even the polite but grumpy comments build up to the point that it looks bad. These comments are public -- that's the whole point -- so the only way to hide them is to delete them. Normally this upsets users even more, so the "trick" is to "improve" the service by dropping the entire forum on the floor and starting over with a new piece of software. Not because it's better in any way, but because it is an implicit DELETE * FROM "BUGS".

Microsoft is on their... what... third forum now? I lost count.
Having money causally linked to reduction in suicides
The pace of javascript ecosystem is annoying at times.
The first issue is due to deprecation of md4 hash and can at least can be worked around which may allow to avoid upgrading _some_ dependencies - https://stackoverflow.com/a/72219174
I do happen to like Jane Austen's style. I wish she had written more science fiction.

I like most of what Neal Stephenson writes (to varying degrees), and Ian M Banks and some of Charles Stross's works are also great. Of course, everyone like Terry Pratchett, too, and that includes me.
The original purpose of an LSM-tree is to take I/O off the critical path of a write (there are other reasons to use them though, for example reducing space amplification).

I would argue that by definition an LSM-tree buffers committed writes in memory, and that means you need a WAL for recovery.

If you are going to immediately flush the memtable then IO is on the critical path. And if you have fine grained updates you'll end up with lots of small files, which seems like a bad thing. It could be reasonable if you only receive batch updates.
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Yes. It does limit theoretically limit the evidence, but it’s the same crime whether they accept the money and follow through with the appointment or reneg and appoint someone else. The crime is in the solicitation.
I agree, they're exceptional models, however this can not be said of all models that boast a large context window.
Data laundering. What a time to be alive.
I'm actually a customer of Patelco and wouldn't say it's too soon to criticize. They've had multiple widespread outages over the past three or four years and still haven't figured out basic communication stuff.

Also, this appear to have happened over a weekend, so getting all of
the employees, vendors, Board of Executives, lawyers awake, on the same
calls, and come up with the deliverables is much slower than 10a on a
Tuesday.

I saw some complaints on reddit that this started on Friday. No matter. Patelco is a financial institution with about $9 billion in assets. They can afford to and should have people on call during the off hours. 3–4 days is an unacceptable response time. This isn't some wanky ChatGPT bullshit, this is folks' money.

Security just isn't Patelco's thing. E.g. I've a "passphrase" set on my account and about 1 in 5 tellers actually verifies it before giving me access to my account in person. So far nobody I've talked to over the phone has ever bothered. Their old PC-24 online banking platform did some pretty obviously insecure things, but they've since switched to a "more modern" banking platform. Welp. It's been so long I don't remember why I had a real dim view of the new product, but again if the reddit peanut gallery is to be believed they were sending out credentials and whatnot in plain text. I'm only a member because their computer glitches worked in my favor.

As sloppy as Patelco is, they still give off an air of being more professionally run than some of the other smaller Bay Area credit unions.
That's interesting that at the time, in WW1, it was assumed to be a physical injury to the brain caused by the shockwave of exploding artillery shells (hence the name). A few years later a consensus evolved that it's a psychological problem caused by the stress of combat, which was the prevailing opinion for about 100 years. And now it's looking like it might actually be a physical injury caused by shockwave damage to the brain.
I'm not sure I was clear, or if the manner in which I was attempting to frame my response using the context of the parent post worked the way I thought it would.

But what I mean is that 10 minutes would be perhaps the approximate boundary where I feel comfortable holding the floor engaging in curious but uninformed speculation, and the sense of fraud that I am possibly wasting everyone's time by continuing to speculate begins to encroach.

If I care about a subject enough I think like most people I don't have problem holding forth on it, free of supporting notes, for 2 or 3 hours if circumstances (and the extent of my command of the material, and the patience of my audience) would allow.
As a consumer, I just care whether some decision that a business makes is long-term, or whether it is short-.

Few things characterise what is uniquely unpleasant about contemporary goods and services more than risky, shortsighted features and policies.

Eg.: the luxury device without battery compartment, the barbershop that denies service unless the client provides an email and postal address, the airline with a policy of double-booking every flight, the car that disables its heated seats without the customer paying a monthly fee...
Your comment doesn't reflect what you're quoting, you call it "personal problems" which implies extrapersonal problems occurring in their life, when the quote describes actual physical damage done to their brains.
Every time I ask gpt4o, it gives the wrong answer (M).
But when I change the prompt to Chinese, it always gives the correct answer (M+1). (Just translate to Chinese, ask, and then translate the result back to English).
I'm wondering if there are any papers discussing this kind of inconsistency between languages.
There’s a section “Potential Mechanisms” on page 18 of the PDF.

“Table 4 presents the effect of increased broadband availability on several county level economic outcomes. Each column includes all controls and fixed effects included our preferred specification. Column 1 reports that the result of a 10% increase in a county's population with access to broadband internet is a reduction in poverty rate of 0.089 percentage points. Column 2 indicates that a ten percentage point increase in broadband availability results in a reduction of unemployment in the county of 0.013 percentage points.”
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The article provides several concrete examples where RAND drew conclusions counter to the implied interests of the USAF.

In the absence of counterexamples your argument sounds plausible, but incorrect.
The answer was in one of the links already shared about browser support.

Still, here's another.

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_object.asp

better yet: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_ob...
> I mean, the former governor of New York just said the New York prosecution against Trump wouldn’t have been brought against anyone else.

Trump is flagrantly corrupt and coordinates crime through lackeys, many of which have been convicted of felonies. No, you don't catch old kingpins on the stuff you get everybody else with. There's definitely a two-tier justice system going on, but it bends in Trump's favor at every turn.
This email address gave me a SMTP delivery failure. Is your mailserver running properly?
This feeling doesn't last forever though. It fades relatively quickly, all things considered.
Do you think you could try my library [1] and let me know how it performs in comparison? I've been curious about its compile-time performance, but I've never tried to compare its performance against that of magic_enum.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32236447
Patelco's finally fixed their site and added a slightly more detailed response:

https://www.patelco.org/securityupdate

tl;dr it was a ransomware attack. despite customers complaining about a barrage of fraudulent activity Patelco claims that credentials and other PII has not been exposed. Yeah. Right.
Menendez has not been convicted yet.
Impeachments take time because the impeachments we’ve had so far have tended to be political theater. I have no doubt that if there was a bi-partisan super-majority wanting to remove the president, they’d hop on a Zoom call and have it done by the close of business.

Edit: My example was going to be if the President addressed the nation and declared himself to be king… but Biden literally just did that, reluctantly accepting that he was beyond the review of the courts and accountable to no one but himself.
I have seen Bun use Zig and they're showing some interesting performance gains. I'm unsure if it's because the code runs faster, or because it's easier to write better code.

Either way, it got me interested in Zig.

How's the developer ecosystem feeling these days, the community, and what have you all developed with it that was fun to develop but also cool to see it working?
I'm intrigued
Not sure where you are, but in Canada you can look at labour market information to get an idea.

The government runs a tool called the Job Bank [1], and it can be used to examine labour market information associated with job title.

Checking "Software Engineer" [2] shows 429 job postings associated with the title "Computer Software Engineer" on the Job Bank. Then comparing that with "Machine Learning Engineer" [3] which only has 60 job postings. Then also you can look at the "Prospects" tab for each and see that there's a lot of uncertainty around "Machine Learning Engineer", while the prospects for "Computer Software Engineer" are well established and look pretty positive.

There's more to look at, as there are quite a few jobs associated with the idea of a "Software Engineer" (For example, "Web Programmer" [4]), and so depending on what you're interested in and what's offered at your school, you may see different prospects as compared with the generic "Software Engineer".

[1] https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/home
[2] https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/marketreport/summary-occupation/54...
[3] https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/marketreport/summary-occupation/29...
[4] https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/marketreport/summary-occupation/22...
A tickbox doubled the US mortality rates
Curious how they plan to enforce this. Will they be auditing their own organizations? Are theg requiring govt organizations to go through some kind of review before they're allowed to deploy new software? Are they relying on whistleblowers? Or is this basically just a declaration with the expectation that their organizations will act in good faith going forward?
Health problems are real problems. They're personal problems and can impact how your mind works.

The quote says they frequently get psychiatric diagnoses but new research indicates it's brain damage, not something talk therapy will help.

I'm saying the same thing: Suicidal people have real problems that need real solutions, not talk therapy or emotional encouragement.
> Sometimes feature requests are actually bugs

You can have two missing features that add up to a bug in total. For example, I worked with two cloud products from the same vendor where a missing back-end HTTP feature of the CDN product interacted with a missing HTTP front-end feature of the PaaS service such that the two products that have a "natural fit" together couldn't actually be used in combination.

This made many architectures that ought to have worked a no-go, forcing customers into contorted design patterns or third-party products.

IMHO this is a bug ("Can't use your products"), but each team individually marked it as a missing feature and then they just ignored this for about three years.

Also: not enough people voted the missing features up because not enough people were using the products... because they couldn't.

I know this is a bit off-topic here, but it circles back to the "statistics is hard" intro in the original blog article. You can make catastrophic business mistakes relying on statistics you don't full understand, such as this example of "you won't get many complaints for unusable products".

You will get many complaints however for the usable products... they have users to complain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Yes, but alas other people do.
> How would you do it better?

Many political scientists believe that the parliamentary system used in most of Europe, and in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, is superior to the presidential system in producing political stability and good policy

Many have also said that Latin America has experienced the brunt of the negatives of the presidential system, while the US largely escaped them due to wealth, cultural norms, and maybe even good luck. But over the last few years, things in the US have been degenerating to the point that maybe they aren’t escaping those negatives any more

Maybe one of these days it will get so bad that Americans will listen to these political scientists and switch to the Westminster system. Maybe what America really needs is a Prime Minister. The Westminister system doesn’t require a monarchy, see Ireland and Malta for examples of parliamentary republics with predominantly British political traditions. In a parliamentary republic, you have a figurehead President while the Prime Minister holds the real power. Other examples of parliamentary republics (albeit non-Westminster) include Austria, Germany and Israel
Go try some violence and get back to us.
What made you think Seals are primadonnas? Does this apply to other special forces too?
You are correct. It's most efficient to first stop hydro when there is cheaper renewable generation available, then if there is still excess then pump uphill into storage. It would be silly to have water going both up and down at the same time.
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You should read their recent decision in a corruption case. There is a federal law for agents of government bodies or organizations that receive above a certain threshold of federal money, saying they can't accept or solicit bribes or rewards for official acts. The reasoning is federal money shouldn't be squandered on crooked deals.

A mayor gave a large contract to a local business owner who then gave the mayor $13,000 in gifts and "advisory" fees. SCOTUS said that was okay, because the mayor didn't explicitly agree to a "quid pro quo" bribery deal before giving out the contract. They jumped through hoops to avoid the "rewards" part of the law.

So if you get your old public position back, you might be able to reap some SCOTUS-blessed rewards.
This is incredibly cool! Nice work!
I just turned 50 and am slowly starting to hate being sleepy. I think(?) I'm getting a restful night's sleep as I typically have, and I'm still active and eat pretty well, but damn... every time I sit down after about 3 pm I feel ready to doze off. I have so much I want to do (not necessarily work, either, but things like reading an engrossing book, watching the movie with the family, etc.), and frequently falling into a groggy state frankly sucks. I'm still experimenting with how to improve the situation.
For one, he's possibly going to skate on trying to overturn the election due to this ruling. He's possibly going to skate on stealing classified documents just on Thomas' concordance. Trump has already shown he has no respect for the law. Trump voters don't seem to care at all either. He can and will do the absolute worst possible things he can get away with. This ruling may not be enough to destroy the Republic but it's giving ammunition to someone who is more than willing to do it. This is the closest we've come to destruction since 1860. I don't think freaking out about this is alarmist.
How does saying “you should expose yourself to both things if you possibly can” express that there is a difference between the two?

I suppose I can imagine that GP said that you can feel the difference between levels of brain damage incurred (they did not), but even if that were the case then why would you encourage someone to expose themselves to artillery if you thought the damage was more than zero?

“The damage from both is different but also zero if you zig zag check mate 8-)”
In WW1, so many French young men died in the battles that the average height of the French soldier declined by over an inch in WW2. It became popular for French and German women to marry old men and foreigners after both wars.

By preserving the women, society can bounce back from a catastrophic loss of young men.
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The President is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Why would he have to stop at only his domestic rival when he could instead simply eliminate anyone who appears to be in the way, and whether or not that is the right decision is deferred to congress and the courts who now consist of people who are still alive and have fallen in line?
You're mixing up the voters with the politicians. Trump voters aren't vindictive about losing elections, they're frustrated that their lives are falling apart and they have no control over it.

The world is changing and it's leaving people behind. Not the people in the coastal cities, the people in the middle of America. They see a government that not only doesn't care about them but that actively works to shut down the industries that they rely on. They saw a Republican Party that just assumed it would get their vote and a Democratic Party that wished they didn't exist, and they felt powerless.

Then Trump came along and he spoke to them. For the first time in decades they felt seen and heard, for the first time in decades they felt like there was a politician who understood them.

They can't see that it's a fraud, they can't see Trump for who he is, because Trump gives them the attention that they so desperately need.

The "condescending elite" that I referred to wasn't the Democrats, it was both Democrats and Republicans who didn't think that these people mattered. Trump proved that they did, and the only way we're getting out of this situation is for more honest politicians to recognize that and solve these people's very real problems.
I find it difficult to believe that a coterie of seal spouses coordinated a brain study of their dead husbands and after finding a smoking gun, none of them thought to fire off a message to anybody in the Navy.
Regarding gossip -- I think these are not the same structure. While gossip will start by sharing a story, the way it strengthens social bonds, and the reason it can be so hurtful, is that it centers on a shared reaction. "We're both condescending and amused by this embarrassing story about someone else! We're very similar in our reaction so our bond is deepening!" The same can happen in a positive way, like when two people gush at each other in appreciation of something they've discovered they both enjoy. In particular, it's not just sharing updates about 3rd parties in a neutral way and without knowledge of whether the other person is has the same evaluative view. Sharing such an update with a person whom you know to have a very different view of the subject than you do is generally going to feel like a different kind of social interaction.
There's a teaching moment in here about the downside of engineeeing a project like a quilt made of other people's code.

The more disparate dependencies you adopt, the more of this kind of headache and chaos you invite into your future. You may gain some development speed, or get to put off having to think through and implement something in a domain that intimidates you, but you do set yourself up for major synchronization and migration problems that look a lot like this.

I've mostly given up trying to convince people to use fewer dependencies, to know them each better, and to shim them aggressively so that they can be trivially replaced -- but I hope people are at least starting to recognize the tradeoffs they accept when they don't.
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