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I see a lot of people say "writing is so important," and I think what they mean is "I feel really smart/good when I write." And I think what they are experiencing is that they…

So it sounds like you're arguing linkbait is fine because we all have internalized some general skepticism to fight it. But actually I don't think that's the best approach. For one it t…

Let me guess "opt-in" means checked by default and hidden 12 menus deep. Or worse-yet, opt-in means "Hey our rates are going up, but not if you agree to this" (something comcast di…

Yes that's true, but I think a lot of the knee-jerk reaction isn't intended to communicate "Stop researching cancer" it's more intended to communicate "Stop linkbaiting u…

I asked chatGPT. However it's saying that's 2022 problem 5, however that seems to be clearly wrong... Moreover I can't find that problem anywhere so I don't know if it's a hal…

I feel like I've noticed you you making the same comment 12 places in this thread -- incorrectly misrepresenting the difficulty of this tournament and ultimately it comes across as a bitter ex. H…

You can't have it both-ways. Either employment is at-will or it's not. An implication that companies don't have a right to make a better offer to anyone (or that employees don't ha…

What are you even talking about? "Roles" never do anything. People do things. Just because somebody's job-description says something doesn't guarantee that persons contributes anyt…

Nah you're entirely off base. Leading is having an affect on those around you such that they voluntarily look to your for input. Any role at a company can do that, so to try to pretend that falls…

One million percent, this is the thing that stuck out most to me. Maybe this is just so entrenched that it's a lost cause, but I feel like 90% of managers are just cargo-culting weird behaviors f…

I'd be curious to see long-term improvements, like resting heartrate over time, or heartrate @ 10 min mile over time.

Well obviously if it's harmful for people they'll find way to reduce the intensity of the shockwaves. Compared to inventing the LCD that's child's play.

They want this integration because it's step 1 of replacing us with agents. My workplace has gone from "Look at this helpful tool that can search the wiki or slack for you" (it sucked) …

Exactly. If anything I think the vast majority of us engineers under-diagnose ourselves for where we fall on that spectrum (which is probably the safe career and social move in the millennial generati…

Well, if you're approaching this as a hard-scientist that's not the case (for psychology). Because "disorder" may be on a spectrum, because "negative" and "impact&qu…

There's an odd presumption there... It sounds like you're presuming those who put a label on themselves don't want to change themselves at all; one could also imagine that those who put…

It's interesting because there are two diametrically opposed ways to interpret what you said One is - everybody thinks they have disorders, so just ignore that feeling it'll mess with you. T…

1. Weird title 2. Personally, I think the being more knowledgeable about (and conversant in) common psychological issues is great. Much better if we have a label for "depression" rather than…

See this is why I said what I said in my question -- because it sounds to me like a lot of people with strong opinions who haven't talked to many therapists. I had one who just kinda listened and…

Rather than here a bunch of emotional/theoretical arguments, I'd love to hear the preferences of people here who have both been to therapy and talked to an LLM about their frustrations and h…

20% of Americans use weed. I think HN crowd is more likely to read one article out-of-context and over-extrapolate. In this case, there's no article even linked, just an abstract, so anybody jump…

If AGI were invented tomorrow, it'd probably be by open AI. I doubt whoever made it would tell anybody, because the government might step in, they certainly wouldn't make it freely available…

I have no idea why we keep putting this stuff on HN. Common thing X causes/reduces 1 (out of 100) types of cancer or health issue. Without looking at all the effects together, the comparison prod…

I feel like this is a ridiculous bad-faith argument. You know damned well that banning people from the country for having a JD vance meme on their phone is not stopping international agents. Arguing b…

Telling the US government it's broken is a favor to the US government. Freedom of speech is a gift to both the people of this country and the institution itself, helping it be pure and accounta…

Definitely lucky relative to my experience then. My current manager is very strong, but prior to him that manager I don't think any programming experience/background at all (he was laid off …

Nah, getting to call a spade a spade is a great joy in life, worth far more than any toxic work relationship predicted on you having zero opinions.

Yes this is real, and even happens at larger companies. The surface issue is that when somebody has an incentive to self-measure their success then they have an incentive to overestimate (I increased …

Meh, imo this is wrong. What Kubernetes is missing most is a 10 year track record of simplicity/stability. What it needs most to thrive is a better reputation of being hard to foot-gun yourself w…

Yes, I can imagine a benign use of this technology, but past behavior and the PR dishonesty have given me no reason to prefer the most benign interpretation over the most profitable interpretation. …