skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As much as 8 percent of the population reports experiencing auditory hallucinations on a regular basis (13 percent hear them at least occasionally), compared to just 1 percent who are diagnosed with schizophrenia. https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/articl...

Hearing voices may be a symptom of something serious, but not always. As long as a person's grasp of reality is not in danger and voices don't stress out people, they can live with them and not even seek help. Not all people hear negative voices. Older lonely people have been known to say that voices keep them company.

> voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic disorders are shaped by local culture – in the U.S., the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and playful. https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/07/voices-culture-luh...

Maybe the most famous case of a high-functioning outlier was Carl Jung. He hallucinated complete persons since childhood ,visually and everything. He discussed matters with them. In the end, he was able to get rid of them when he decided that they were not helpful anymore. It's easier to understand his weird theories and spirituality when you have read his autobiography. The guy was off the charts but not disabled by it.
We don’t need to adjust for inflation since we are comparing nominal returns across the board.

What other investment options were there from 1999 to 2009 that had a similar risk profile (implicit backstop by government), but also unbounded upside (unlike fixed income options)?

> I imagine the potential collapse of the financial markets, was maybe a more important cause of monetary and fiscal policy around that time.

Because the businesses are so big ABs interconnected now. If a mom and pop family business goes out of business, that’s a few people who need to scramble, they’re not politically influential enough for a bailout.

If multiple SP500 companies are at risk, then I am going to bet Congress is going to shift into high gear to find a solution.
I filled you in with a right word.
That’s a distinction without a difference
Must be feeling the pinch.
Cursor has been an enabler for unfamiliar corners of development. Mind you, it's not a foolproof tool that writes correct code on the first try or anything close to that.

I've been in compilers, storage, and data backends for 15ish years, and had to do a little project that required recording audio clips in a browser and sending them over a websocket. Cursor helped me do it in about 5 minutes, while it would've taken at least 30 min of googling to find the relevant keywords like MediaStream and MediaRecorder, learn enough to whip something up, fail, then try to fix it until it worked.

Then I had to switch to streaming audio in near-realtime... here it wasn't as good: it tried sending segments of MediaRecorder audio which are not suitable for streaming (because of media file headers and stuff). But a bit of Googling, finding out about Web Audio APIs and Audio Worklet, and a bit of prompting, and it basically wrote something that almost worked. Sure it had some concurrency bugs like reading from the same buffer that it's overwriting in another thread. But that's why we're checking the generated code, right?
I feel like you should add a slight disclaimer that you are involved in the project in some capacity :)
Dude, just fix the filenames.
+1

I spent years copying essentially the same ant-file across projects, just changing dependencies and target names. It's not really rocket science and unless you're trying to be clever, most java projects can look pretty much the same from a build perspective
Reflective plate covering and oops sorry officer I didnt know.
Another common failure case is only updating the validation state on key presses but not other content changes like auto fill.
I’m not going to engage with this.
`set -e` makes the script abort and is often used in lieu of proper error handing:

set -e
command
command [fails]
command

Whether the above reports error or not depends on the command; when you have a pipeline failing in the above way, it is even sneakier:

set -e
command
command | command | command [fails]
command

You are reliant on all commands in the pipeline being verbose about failure to signal error.

None of the above is advisable. The advisable code is

error_handler() { proper error handling; }

command || error_handler "parameter"
command || error_handler "parameter"

{ command | command | command; } || error_handler "parameter"

{
set -e
exceptional section that needs to be bailed out
set +e
}

command || error_handler "parameter"
I feel like this article is way too confusingly written for anyone that would actually benefit from it to understand it.
I've been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder when I was in my early twenties.

I've had several full blown psychotic episodes and been hospitalised several times.

Fortunately there was one medication - Amisulpride - that kept me stable enough to be able to have a professional career, though not without a lot of struggling and sacrifice.

I know what psychosis is and honestly, this avatar therapy feels a bit like bullshit to me.

When in psychosis, you are not listening to your voices - you are your voices and they can command you to do things you do not want to do. You are not in control of you consciousness.

There is hope though. A revolution in mental illnessis going on - check the metabolic mind site for more info - https://metabolicmind.org

I talk about my experience in my blog - https://www.feelingbuggy.com/p/finding-hope-after-decades-of...

Many other people have substantially improved because of metabolic therapy and there are dozens of random control trials going on with very promising early results.

There are ever more cases of successful treatment via metabolic therapy

Under the risk of being unpopular, it's my responsibility to let people know about this treatment option and bring hope to those who suffer from this terrible illness.
He also received the first patent for an object invented in space, a very clever zero-g coffee cup:
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadBasic...
Memories get a bit fuzzy after 5-10 years.But this take from 2012 is a reminder of what a mess Steve Ballmer was as CEO:
https://www.netnetweb.com/content/blog/blog/top-10-reasons-w...
A lot of users do care for fit and finish, but stick around with crappy UI because it’s not worth rage-quitting over.

They do move when better UI + same-ish functionality comes along.

The one sort-of exception to this is Enterprise Sales, where the people buying the software don’t always use it. But even there, corporate purchasers do get flak in annual reviews / feedback cycles for especially crappy enterprise software — so even there, especially crappy UI will catch up with you.
This is only part of your post, but VueScan is very good for older scanners on newer OSes. It’s paid software but I like it, avoids the landfill.

Nothing wrong with an older scanner after all - the tech was already impressive 10 years ago!
> GCP is the best of the three

I must have very different needs. In my perception, AWS is the best of the three, Azure is second, and Google would be #3. Depending on your unique news, you might choose different CSP's, from Digital Ocean to Oracle or IBM (the only place you can get AIX, IBMi, and z/OS)
I’d speculatively propose the reverse: that a change occurred that led to our suppressing these “voices” to our subconscious, where they are still present but suppressed below the threshold of conscious awareness. Interestingly, in parts of the world, these voices persist (eg Ethiopia where a high percentage of people report regularly hearing voices in their heads). Also interestingly, this book you mention was one of David Bowie’s favourites - yes, he of the multiple pop personas.
The Art of Stealing (2013)
> which are now photographing political lawn signs outside private homes, individuals wearing T-shirts with text, and vehicles displaying pro-abortion bumper stickers—all while recording the precise locations of these observations.

I could see datasets containing this information being weaponized while simultaneously discouraging public discourse. Very Orwellian.
It may have been.
> The apocalypse in the tech sector is real.

The tech sector isn't apocalyptic because of a few months of unemployment and a strange interview process.

Yes, it's harder to get a job, but demand is still high and tech unemployment is low.
Anxiety Beat the AI $10B Startup Deepfake Hackers
Just always quote variable interpolation and you will never have problems.

sh-3.2$ f='Hello world'
sh-3.2$ echo "${f}"
Hello world
sh-3.2$ for i in "${f}"; do echo "${i}"; done
Hello world
sh-3.2$
Rather than talking about engineers, I am mostly speaking about the subject which is calculus, aka the study of continuous change, aka infinitesimal change, aka derivatives and integrals.

At first order the engineer need to be able to provide some sort of solution to any problem and get something done. The numerical toolbox is kind of an easy reliable Swiss knife that will get you through anything related to derivatives and integrals. It

Ten years down the line when your nuclear core is melting and you need to pull the right lever will you be confident enough to trust your rusty manual computations tricks and not miss some minus sign somewhere in the transcription of your derivative.

The derivative and integral game, is kind of an interesting mathematical artefact about the study of functions from before the time we had computers. As far as I know it's not yet a solved game. It's more about heuristics and picking rules than using a specific formula.

Rule based Integration https://rulebasedintegration.org/ is a kind of collection of all the tips and tricks to play this game, but even then it's not foolproof.

Closed formula are nice to have but hard to get by in real problems.

The thing which makes the difference between something that is nicely behaved or not, is whether or not the operations are closed ("closure" concept). When it's the case you can build some nice algebra with nice properties. The computations becomes deterministic and formulaic. When it's not you end-up playing a NP-complete game to find the solution.

For example in the case of the study of infinitesimal rotations, the natural extension of calculus for physics, we have the Lie Algebra. Even there your numerical toolbox will be more useful than your pages of Feynman Diagrams.
Try Kate Gladstone's "Handwriting Repair" course:

https://handwritingrepair.info/

the biggest thing which helped my handwriting was switching away from ball points to either felt tips or fountain pens.

Getting a Newton Messagepad also helped markedly, and since then I've been using tablets w/ Wacom EMR styluses where possible (NCR-3125 running PenPoint (donated to the Smithsonian by the guy who bought it) through a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360) and applications such as Nebo or Write by Stylus Labs.
The post only have a few highlights. The Posix specs are only for paying IEEE customers though, but https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/ mentions it.
It's much easier to get into town from a farm a few miles out than to the city from the suburbs. Plus in the city there are lots of places and in most of our cities they have similar walkability problems (I'm from Atlanta which is particularly egregious in terms of transit and walk/bikeability). There's not naturally that one place where your neighbors are going to go and happen to bump into each other. You have to first meet them, then plan "let's go to this bar at 13:00, and here's how parking is going to work, etc." as opposed to just "everyone is in town, or at the bar in their neighborhood, the obvious place where you're just going to happen to bump into someone else who showed up for happy hour" or whatever.

I'm sure I'm conveying the difference badly, but it's the difference between random encounters with your neighbors whom you'll see the next time you both go to the grocery and then walk over to the fun coffee place vs. random encounters with strangers you'll never see again.
Thinking back on the discussions and decisions I remember, they all concerned countries that were similar to each other, and in a sense they were discussed precisely because of that. In theory you might have Indonesia as your home base and pick Ghana as your second market (the most different countries in that table), but in my experience people pick a country near/similar to the one they already know, where they already have some success. So yes, I think France/Germany a great example.

Further, I suspect that because they're similar in many other ways, they're also similar on that graph. It's not just a coincidence.
I doubt that it was one of mine, I'm much further south.

I'd be very curious to hear more about it
Kind of a weird definition indeed. One edge case: the definition states the file must contain characters, so presumably zero length files are out. But then how could you have zero lines?
Correct, but that accomplishes the goal of having a hidden tax (although more people are aware of it now) on earning income (since labor price increases lag asset prices increases).

Just look at who the biggest winners pre and post Covid are. If you owned assets pre Covid, you are golden. The more you owned, the more guilded you became. Pretty much all government policy I see starts with the basis of how do we ensure existing asset owners stay ahead of the rest.

It’s a mechanism to ensure the social order/hierarchy persists (which is a combination of wealthier/older/soon to be older/beneficiaries of older at the top and labor sellers/young/poor at the bottom). Because that is what is politically possible (until a catalyst prompts revolution).

Reducing purchasing power of currency is one way, but another is also replacing goods and services in defined benefits with inferior goods and services. For example, Medicare/Medicaid used to provide for seeing a doctor, whereas now and in the future, you are likely to have to see a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant, unless you cough up more money for concierge care or direct primary care.!
You can fix it if you want to.

By the time I graduated from school, my handwriting was pretty bad. I could read it, but nobody else really could. Then I got a Palm Pilot and it's primitive handwriting recognition forced me to slow down and make better letter forms. At the same time I devoted a little effort to improve my cursive as well.

It's stuck with me and my handwriting is still fairly easy to read. My block caps look like something off an architectural drawing thanks to Palm's Graffiti system beating me up nearly 30 years ago.
When they fly, there's no current. They just have potential compared to ground. Also presumably their electrical charge is very low and there's going to be hardly any amps when they discharge.

In the same vein, if your carpet gives you a static shock, that's likely going to be thousands of volts. But obviously there isn't actually a lot of energy stored (all you did was convert some friction), so there's next to no amperes, little work the electricity can do, and thus no harm.
Most of the stated "facts" are only ever true if anything you encountered was Warhammer 40k, or the measure is commercial success?

https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Perry_Rhodan-Silberb%C3%A4nde
Bezos says you're wrong and that he's changing the Post because of the polls that show nobody trusts the media anymore. The Post loses large sums of money because its costs are so high relative to its fairly small circulation, a problem that affects the entire US media business. He simply doesn't care what the "norms" of the newspaper business are because those norms have destroyed the industry. He seems particularly to be annoyed that podcasts/social media have outcompeted his paper.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezo...
Probably, so don't `set -o pipefail` in scripts that pipe into grep.
You can already do this trivially with Linux vcan[1] so I don't buy this argument.

I think the bigger factor is that innovation in the CAN ecosystem has been lagging behind Ethernet for decades now. Only reason it's had such staying power is industry inertia.

1. https://netmodule-linux.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/can.h...
If you're writing scripts, use that and don't forget -e and -u

-e Exit immediately if a pipeline (which may consist of a single simple command), a list, or a compound command (see SHELL GRAMMAR above), exits with a non-zero status

-u Treat unset variables and parameters other than the special parameters "@" and "*" as an error when performing parameter expansion
You can edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades to make it behave any way you like. I believe it is explicitely suggested when you install unattended-upgrades that you should edit that file to suit your environment.
Right now you can ding dong ditch if you have the code. As others mentioned using location could help. Or maybe a one-time-pin?
I was not saying it's an nvidia thing, just that significant majority of devices used by wayland proponents had undeclared implicit sync issues that were invalidated when faced with a driver that didn't have them.
It's the mindset, not the specific action.
Good points but I have a questions about tipping and taxes in the US. Do one have to pay taxes for the tips?

I know restaurant owners in Germany sometimes are able to pay a smaller wage to waiters and compensate with tips, because they don’t have to pay taxes for the tips.
> When we randomise people, these influences will still be operating on the outcome, which will vary across the people randomised to our conditions. Does randomisation mean that all these different effects are balanced somehow? No – not least because confounders do not exist in experimental studies! This is for the simple reason that a confounder is something that affects both the exposure and the outcome, and in an experimental (i.e., randomised) study we test for a difference in our outcome between the two randomised groups.

I do not think this sort of word-play is useful. If your random samples are small (and even if statistically adequate) the chance of confounders in one or both groups of an A/B can be relatively high, even though the selection procedure for treatment is random. So, "No – not least because confounders do not exist in experimental studies!" is misleading if it is expected on the basis that randomisation of treatment allocation somehow makes confounding impossible.

That the possibility of confounding is equally likely in both branches remains true for all sample sizes of an A/B where #A=#B and allocation is random. So, in my opinion, not a myth.
Yeah but there’s a slide down to the ball pit.
Samsung Interpreter might be the closest, but is neither free nor does it work on low-power devices
I started like this. Then I came around and can’t imagine going back.

It’s kinda like having a really smart new grad, who works instantly, and has memorized all the docs. Yes I have to code review and guide it. That’s an easy trade off to make for typing 1000 tokens/s, never losing focus, and double checking every detail in realtime.

First: it really does save a ton of time for tedious tasks. My best example is test cases. I can write a method in 3 minutes, but Sonnet will write the 8 best test cases in 4 seconds, which would have taken me 10 mins of switching back and forth, looking at branches/errors, and mocking. I can code review and run these in 30s. Often it finds a bug. It’s definitely more patient than me in writing detailed tests.

Instant and pretty great code review: it can understand what you are trying to do, find issues, and fix them quickly. Just ask it to review and fix issues.

Writing new code: it’s actually pretty great at this. I needed a util class for config that had fallbacks to config files, env vars and defaults. And I wanted type checking to work on the accessors. Nothing hard, but it would have taken time to look at docs for yaml parsing, how to find the home directory, which env vars api returns null vs error on blank, typing, etc. All easy, but takes time. Instead I described it in about 20 seconds and it wrote it (with tests) in a few seconds.

It’s moved well past the stage “it can answer questions on stack overflow”. If it has been a while (a while=6 months in ML), try again with new sonnet 3.5.
The risk is exactly the same as clicking on a link on the internet. There is no additional risk. You could type the link in your browser manually after decoding and the exact same thing would happen. That's because most QR codes are simple links. The ones that aren't are things like cards, wifi credentials, etc. But most of them are links. You click on them by scanning them. The same mechanisms that make using the internet a mostly safe experience that billions of people enjoy on a daily bases, also apply to qr codes. Because it's the exact same browser that opens them.

So, use common sense here. Links and QR codes are everywhere. And people click or scan them all the time at their own discretion.

This is not like 1995 all over again. All the same protection mechanisms that we've put up since then for links also work for QR codes. There's no real difference between a link I email you and a QR code that you encounter in the wild. You click or scan them and a browser opens and does its thing. I mention email here because email clients typically don't really restrict what you can do with links in them. There's a reason for that: people send a lot of links via email and links are useful. So the fact that some bad actors send people evil links via spam, is not enough reason to disable the feature.

QR codes are just a way to provide links for people to "click". It's not even a new way because they've been around for quite long. The US and Europe are late to this party. Most of the rest of the world already runs on QR codes for quite some time. Especially places like China and Japan.

Ps. I run a company that uses QR codes a lot. They solve a lot of issues for us. IMHO they are severely underused currently.
You're right. I will do that in future.
Knowing nothing about the game besides that website, I assumed from the pic that a non-zero amount of characters die.
I know I know. The QR link can resolve to a captcha/puzzle that needs to be solved before it actually rings!
i'm not seeing the custom validation messages in these examples at all in Chrome. Others are?
It looked like the plants are normally shielded by collapsible curtains which were open for the benefit of the video.
A lot of the times your contract will actually include bonus and stock options, so those are part of the price. And if not, then the employer absolutely does not have to pay bonus or offer stock options. The employee, ofcourse, has the right to move jobs if they desire.
1. inputmode is very, very limited

2. "Solved by host environment" in practice means "worse user experience" as pretty much all of them simply use lower portion of the screen.

In comparison, the current draggable on screen keyboard I spent significant amount of time getting working allows the worker to drag the keyboard around if it overlaps a piece of information they need, as well as takes comparatively little space on screen enabling workers to better see what they are manipulating.
Many of us don't do physical whiteboards anymore. I diagram a lot, but all of it is online. Apart from own satisfaction, there's no reason for me to get better handwriting. (And there lots of things more satisfying than that) Addressing a letter once a year without a printed label, I can use block letters.
The regexp still requires four letters before the last digit or special character which is a weird requirement.