skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s true, but slightly misleading. Yes, SSRIs are not much better than a placebo, because a placebo is surprisingly effective against depression! It’s not so much that SSRIs are ineffective, as the fact that the placebo effect seems to be especially strong in depression cases
This is like tiny stuff. What fundamentally matters is the main projects they're working on and if they're doing a good job with that or not.

Maybe a new administration want to to change the culture at GSA/18F. Fine, they can do that.

Nuking an entire department and chucking out a significant chunk of work they've done because of a Slack chatbot and a few minor documents/policies is just mental. It's vindictive score-setting and an ideological purge.
It’s the view of someone currently hurting, disillusioned, tired and angry.

It may change or it may not; but it’s a valid feeling, especially for right now.
Thank you. I also really love the Charcoal filter. After fine tuning it to be a bit darker, I really like the look.
I don't know about 18F, but the shutdowns are far more widespread than that.
Tiny Tapeout is a multi-project chip not a multi-project wafer.
Yeah, I’m also having a lot of trouble finding sources for the specific claims they’re making (even, say, the NFL stadium redesign thing, which feels like it should be easy to find). And taking into account the AI-generated lead image, I’m a bit skeptical of all this.
Most of Europe (notable exception france), Canada, and Australia will happily betray their own citizens to extradition to foreign countries. If things get bad enough that science immigration becomes 'defection' they'd be safer from the US in China.
Tight knit might be downplaying the hold mothers of the subcontinent tend to have over their children.
Learning C# and .NET after two decades of programming
The people of Nagisaki and Hiroshima would like a word.
So... try understanding the code? It's still just code, and if you don't understand it, you might learn something.
i’m pretty sure he was being sarcastic
And after it happens let's keep filing for free.
What are the side effects ? I heard these drugs just freezes the intestine.
Neel, don't crawl into a hole. Use your skill. Fuck big tech.

Let's use these LLMs that they think will replace us all to create browser agents that remove ads, tracking, click bait, attention stealing... heck, we could even de-engagement farm the internet. No more trolling, hate, or toxicity.

If we all get personal assistants at the edge on our own pane of glass and hardware, then they have to pay us for access.

Want to show me an ad? Pay up.

Neel, quite often in life it turns out that your burning problem is also a thousand other people's burning problem. In your case, it's billions.
All the more reason why they need to hear the truth
I’m not informed enough to analyze the real cost of developing a web browser.

However, Microsoft’s mission is profits for shareholders so their calculus ought to be different than Mozilla’s.

It makes sense for a profit-seeking entity to surrender if they don’t see a path for a return on the investment, not so for Mozilla.
And those settlements will be not be full of exactly the same human beings?
Remember though, China is still a totalitarian dictatorship at least as bad as the USA. It's not the same situation.
China has never been a place, historically, that has welcomed foreigners as anything other than short-term visitors. To the extent that it has, those foreigners have become Chinese (Manchu, Mongol - and the "welcome" there is uh… being used pretty liberally). From a legal and policy perspective, there are very few paths to long-term residency in China for people who are not of Chinese descent, and of the nominal few there are, there are only a tiny handful of foreigners who live there for longer than a decade or so. By law you can't become a citizen of the PRC without being of Chinese descent. Chinese people are wonderful and on an individual level are incredibly warm and open to all the depths and facets of human relationships with non-Chinese foreigners. As a society, China has, in general, never been a particularly welcoming place for folks who aren't Chinese. I don't see any indication of that changing any time soon. Would love to be wrong.
Sit down and ask yourself this question.

At what point will I stop going to your job, if you have one, and take to the streets instead? What has to happen for you to do that?

Come up with a serious answer. Write down the answer. Put it on an index card or other prominent place so you will be constantly reminded of it.

Now read the news every day. If the thing on your index card happens, take to the streets. Even if you are the only one, do it anyway.
Right to bear arms (only Yemen and Idlib is stronger here) and some of the loosest regulations on non commercial speech.
I use Meet from Firefox desktop with audio. Are you on mobile?
sure thing, but can you trust it ?
There are so many horror stories abroad (like LATAM), that despite the 4x price point, people still buy US-manufactured GLPs instead of going to a foreign market to get the same prescription.

This is being injected directly into your flesh, there cannot be any mistake, or shortcut.
i mean that's fine, but that applies to about 20% of the posts on this forum. Way more than that if you acknowledge the various ideologies baked into american VC culture.

Regardless, I would think that asserting that a minority is responsible for political events violates the same guidelines even more flagrantly. Coherent application of rules is important.
Try YouTube. Just use your eyes.
I guess I should have prefaced that if it was made with responsiveness in mind and you took from factor into consideration. Anything can suck. Responsiveness was a huge issue back then not just for Flash.
I remember a few peak Newgrounds games from two decades ago more vividly than AAA, 60hr games that 100%'ed a few years ago.
The parent organization to 18F, the Technology Transformation Service (TTS), owns Login.gov.

Expecting to see more RIFs within TTS.
It’s not about paying taxes. The super rich don’t really pay taxes, and they don’t care whether the middle class pays taxes.

It’s about regulation. The only thing that can counteract the super rich are government regulators.
And don't forget the role RFK Jr played in vaccine hesitancy in Samoa...

> On June 4, 2019, during a visit to Samoa coinciding with its 57th annual independence celebration, Kennedy appeared in an Instagram photo with Australian-Samoan anti-vaccine activist Taylor Winterstein. Kennedy's charity and Winterstein have both perpetuated the allegation that the MMR vaccine played a role in the 2018 deaths of two Samoan infants, despite the subsequent revelation that the infants had mistakenly received a muscle relaxant along with the vaccine. Kennedy has drawn criticism for fueling vaccine hesitancy amid a social climate that gave rise to the 2019 Samoa measles outbreak, which killed over 70 people, and the 2019 Tonga measles outbreak.
Free speech concerns in the EU go like:

- You can't call people pedophiles unless it was proven in court.

- You can't say black people are inferior.

- You can't say Israel is doing a genocide.

and only one of these is a valid thing to be worried about IMO...
lwn.net - Such a beautiful website, just kind of perfect on mobile. Anyone know if it's using a commonly known CMS? builtwith doesn't glean much..
I’m nearly 40 and have threatened quitting over things that violated my conscience within the last 5 years. They recanted.

Belief systems, convictions and morals don’t have an age limit. They may have a “I need to not die” limit, but that’s the American lack of a social safety net.
Really just unbelievably stupid that the US has decided to brain drain itself for no reason at all.
blink... They outlawed silent prayer.
Yes, there very obviously IS a conflict of interest.

“Conflict of interest” is not the same as “corrupt.” A person can have conflicted interests and still make totally valid, non-corrupt decisions. Even making a self-beneficial decision while having conflicted interests isn’t necessarily corrupt/bad.

“Conflict of interest” refers to the interests themselves, which are very obviously unambiguously conflicted here.

Government interests: spend as little money as possible for capability X

Starlink interests: capture as much money as possible for capability X

That’s a conflict regardless of what decision anyone makes and whether it was the right one.
Yikes, good luck with that. Fortunately nothing like that here.
Let's just agree to disagree. I don't see any value fighting over these words.
How to get rid of the new Apple Mail redesign
Core isn't close. It's still a graphical interface.
Bro, it isn't 1975, it's 2025. The president has immunity like some South American dictator. His agents will be pardoned as long as they stay in favor.

The civil servant should collect his pay as long as possible and do as little as possible.
The market for tools, data and services which provide a helpful and comforting fuzzy veneer of activity and intentionality to the work of individuals, companies, and educational systems that are floundering is exceedingly large.
Yes, many of those things happen, for various reasons. Not one of those reasons is a cabal of cigar-smoking men in top hats twisting the mustaches and saying "Muahahaha, now I'll steal money from the poor!" like many people seem to think.
Respect for standing up for what he believes in. A lot of people in this industry would have no problem building drones that bomb children if it gave them a good “total comp”.
the visceral realization that something feeling incredibly deep and meaningful doesn't necessarily mean it's actually incredibly deep and meaningful, can, itself, be incredibly deep and meaningful. an opportunity to reset and recalibrate what you feel you want out of life.
A good macro economist I follow who called the spy 350 bottom and this entire runup back when everyone was bearish has been saying we are in a have vs have not economy since covid. And that is in part what drives the markets higher and higher. Majority are bearish and skittish but economic numbers keep printing like everyone is flush.

He is calling for a blow off top followed by a deflationary bust fwiw.
I almost exclusively work in Ada for my hobby projects these days; It's great for doing both high level and low level programming.
I don't think we'll see born-in-the-USA Americans moving to Shenzhen anytime soon.

But a huge fraction of our workforce is immigrants who have given up their homeland and distanced themselves from their families and communities in search of opportunities here. The fact that we're driving them away now does not bode well for our future economy.
further reading:

Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36500182 - June 2023 (108 comments)

Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997309 - Oct 2021 (146 comments)
Oof. I'm not totally surprised but this is such a shame. We talk about how we want to bring more of this industry back to the US and then this news drops. Our priorities still aren't right.
Most startups are not building foundation models, but using them as an input. So commoditizing their complement can actually lead to more opportunities. Similarly, web hosting which required big investments previously is now commoditized after emergence of AWS and other cloud providers.

Good point regarding movie localization. But, there is still a network effect in entertainment - people want to watch what is popular. So the top content made with lot of money can still have a big market.
He means that the priority is to appear to do something. Effective measures are not on the table; by the time you have an outbreak, it is already too late.

What is not too late is to get the '25-'26 flu shot back on track.
Reagan also ran huge deficits because of tax cuts and military expansion.
Along with naming things, the two hardest problems in computer science.
Counterpoint: People are not going to get off the couch.
> It's not the same situation.

Yet. It is not even two months in, we have not seen nothing yet.
I doubt people who work in cutting edge areas want to leave, not because of national security but because China is now pumping a lot of money into the areas. Those are the people who are willing to work on a 997 schedule anyway.

And yes there are still a lot of Chinese who do want to go to US, but from other areas.
While it is hard to predict an alternative future, the Flash runtime had suffered numerous security issues after all and I agree that a fresh new runtime with any successor to Flash would have been technically much better. Flash really had an excellent authoring tool and a mediocre runtime.
This seems like a tautology. By definition someone with superior political power can grind down someone else with less, if they were maniacal enough about it, or at least negate their efforts.

If they couldn’t, then they wouldn’t be considered to have superior political power.
Yes, the marine diesels run very slow, are two stroke, and approach 50% efficiency. Turbines have an advantage of weight though.
Last year is a bit different to this year no ?
Don't be dismissive of people's challenges in life, especially when they have the strength to share them. Money isn't the only cause of pressure in the world.
Until literally 5 weeks ago, it was common knowledge and not debated that Canada has a very protectionist attitude toward its local industries, but I see that this has now become contentious because the orange windbag said something about it. Here is a list of several Canadian trade protections:

* The agricultural products that are well-known, including milk, lumber, and the famous Canadian maple syrup cartel

* Similar protections on minerals and other natural resources (including oil), and bans of foreign ownership of natural resource extraction companies

* Canadian TV and radio stations must play a certain fraction of Canadian content

* Significant restrictions on movement of goods between provinces of Canada, and inter-provincial tariffs that add up to quite a lot

* Canada's limits on foreign ownership of companies in the telecommunications and digital equipment sector, as well as companies involved in defense

* A ban on foreign ownership of residential property

* Canada's data localization laws and digital goods tax

I am fine with Canada having a lot of trade protections, but it does.
Off topic question, but can someone help me with the word interrogate?

In my native language it carries the context of semi-forcibly extracting information from someone, and English dictionaries seem to suggest the same meaning, but I see it used in literature and academic contexts in many ways that don't fit that definition. What am I missing?
You can’t really buy/do anything interesting until making 8 figures. What meaning could life have if you can’t even build a small apartment complex.
> Until Steve Jobs went on the toot horn and told everyone Flash is terrible and it needs to die. No surprise there, old Steve just launched the app store and wanted 30% of every game thank you very much.

> Then to everyone's surprise, the Adobe CEO went on TV and agreed publicly that Flash had to go and we're working on better "open" tools.

I've got no love for Jobs, but he wasn't wrong. Flash games were a lot of fun, but flash restaurant menus were terrible, and I'm sure the Adobe CEO was tired of pushing security fixes every other week. Also, I thought Jobs contributed to the death of Flash in the browser should be enough times, before third party apps on iPhone OS were a thing at all?

I also don't miss trying to get flash to work consistently on Linux.
And to put it more concretely: directors at Google are pulling close to 7 figures in total comp. It's wild.
At YT, I hated that you needed two weeks of prep for the meeting to uncover two weeks of prep for the meeting where you could get preliminary access to the data source you needed to figure out if your job description was even viable.

I get that you need internal controls or whatever, but just log my queries, and if I'm stalking an ex then fire and sue me. It's hard to optimize conversion rate for superchat or whatever if it's a 3-month process to find out if the source of data I plan to use is actually the right source of data.

Is Apple any better? My friends on the inside say it's worse, but I'm also just one guy, and their stock is going up and to the right. Make your own decisions.
My friend owned a tax preparation place for awhile. Half her clients could file with the short form. Most of the rest had either dependent care deductions or EIC, that's it. <5% used deductions beyond SALT and mortgage interest. It's a gross business. They charge people for being ignorant and dumb with money (via refund loans)

Hell, I have a fairly complex return. It takes me <90 minutes with a $40 software package.
Converted to Catholicism in his deathbed and made serious errors in his Book on QM.

Plus all that nonsense on replicators/celular automata in later life.

Not worthy of the hype as far as I'm concerned.

A world with only the USA would have been far worse.
The UK left EU some years ago.
Yes. And part of why you're paid exorbitantly at these places is to absorb, manage, and counteract this dysfunction. This can be exhausting and lonely work.
Exhibit A

And yes, that’s correct.

Regarding Christianity, religious people have the choice of being in the registered religious practices there. Sometimes the registration requirements are incompatible woth the religion, such as a religious leader sent by the state, as opposed to someone chosen or independentally wants to lead/control people.

and unregistered religious practices are cracked down on. western society chooses to masquerade the unregistered issues as the state of religious practices in china. the unregistered population is just as large as the registered one.
What do you think Starbucks pays for theirs?

I buy Thomas Everything bagels at the supermarket, FWIW.
Every Republican must swear an oath to uphold Grover Norquist thought
what is happening is more complicated.

First, there's no legislation. What is happening is that the branded drug was in shortage so compounding pharmacies were legally allowed to step in under existing regulations.

The shortage status was first updated in the summer, and Novo went on a lawsuit spree. Suing everyone mentioning GLP on a website.

But, there have been more back and forths since, very recent.

TLDR what is restricted now is not the sale of the compound, but the manufacture of it. Therefore, you can keep selling inventory past the restriction, but of course that will either run out, expire, or be restricted as well. As of now, if everything stays the same, expect the last few compound pharmacies to run out of product at the end of Q3/25 .

However, I understand there's groundbreaking legislation being worked on that will dramatically change the status quo for the better, meaning more choice for end consumers and less profits for Novo.
>After all, Edward Snowden had a “stable” federal government job (...) and he gave it up to stand up for the right to privacy

Edward Snowden was primarily critical of Obama era foreign policy in the Middle East not being notably different from Bush. That is also why he send the data to writers and journalists whose work was primarily critical of US foreign policy.

Of course he understandably pivoted to become a privacy activist when the Internet overnight wishcasted him into that role and ignored his criticism of US foreign policy.
The internet is killing old PC hardware [video]
Not an issue if they get rid of income tax.
10 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167448
It's more than that.

With enough power differential that won't even be a consideration.
This defeatist attitude accomplishes nothing. Do not obey in advance
Read books. Like, a lot of them.

Start with Make It Stick (Brown et al.). Apply what this book teaches you to every one afterwards.

Next, read and work through Exercises for Programmers (Hogan) and A Common Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms (Wengrow).

After you finish those two, read The Missing README (Riccomini et al.) and Extreme Programming Explained (Beck et al.). These two books provide very different viewpoints into the stuff that isn’t coding in a programming job.

Assuming you’re using an OO language, follow that up with Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications (Booch et al.) and Object Thinking. They contrast each other quite a bit; having both perspectives is handy.

Once you’re through all those, I recommend Tidy First (Beck), Implementation Patterns (Beck), and Test-Driven Development By Example (Beck). These three books of his provide an incredibly accessible view into better ways to code.

If you’re anything like me you get bored reading one book for too long. I’ve found that having a second book going that I can switch to is great for that. A parallel track with The Pattern On the Stone (Hillis), The Pragmatic Programmer (Thomas & Hunt), The Mythical Man-Month (Brooks), and How Computers Really Work (Justice) provides a reprieve and some technical and cultural context.
I do my taxes myself almost every time. And they're more complicated than average.

I'm all for simplification, but it's already pretty simple to understand for almost all Americans.

The only part that sucks for all Americans is actually filing, especially when you have to pay some asshole intermediary just to make it slightly faster.

In our state, they streamlined filing. I still have to understand the same things, but it's 3x faster than before. So I know it's possible.

Laying off the one programming team whose products were actually improving my interface with the government was braindead stupid.

Again, yes, simplify the tax code. But for the love of Christ, streamline filing with DirectFile no matter what you do!!
My colleague makes mid 6 figures in the bay area and just scrounged enough money together to buy a house from the 1950s with asbestos.
> Massachusetts
I can say it's been far easier for my neurodivergent ass to survive at a small company where everyone knows each other and can see the work put in. Difficulties with socialization and consistency of working hours—both things I struggle with—are much easier to deal with when you clearly have each others' backs and won't shirk the work.

Sadly starting my own company, I realized how hard it is to work with founders who are neurodivergent in a different and incompatible ways. Just be prepared to examine the culture closely to figure out if it's a fit for you.

I'm now at a massive household brand name company and every day I want to rip my eyeballs out and give up on capitalism forever. Whoever thought big government was incompetent needs to understand the colossal waste and inefficiency of private enterprise will always dwarf that of the public sector.
Yep... maybe they took it down to add a Stripe subscription link :P
I don't see an inherent difference between this and what you do as a product manager, when you assign a developer to implement something for you. And then you only need to really understand the tech when there's a constraint in moving forward quickly.
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