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What's moon plus sun?

Eclipse, obviously.

The thing I love about blog posts like these is how it reminds me that the tech world is a vast ocean that encompasses so many disciplines; it's not all full stack web development.

Related: I did not understand 95% of what she wrote.

I suppose it's fitting that an article concerned largely with AI was written largely by AI. (I noticed a lot of GPT-isms.)

I mean, it is mostly solid advice, e.g. asking AI to cite sources (and checking them!) and asking about the assumptions it's making.

And on the subject of automating things or making things more efficient, I'd extend that to a general reminder that just because things are the way the are, doesn't mean they have to be that way.

Which sounds obvious, but it's so easy to get used to a situation in your life that you don't like, but it's not so horrendous that you're motivated to do something about it. And then it just becomes background and you forget that there's the possibility of a better reality.

Speaking from many personal experiences here...

Did you use an AI to tweak/refine your comment? It's:

* Written more formally than the typical HN comment

* Uses uncommon language like "jocular asides" and "whimsical similes"

* Fails to recognize that those mentioned phrases are cliches that people have been using for ages, long before LLMs

In short, recalibrate your AI radar, it's malfunctioning.

AI isn't this funny.

Not everything you dislike is AI. I don't see any signs at all of AI authorship.

I agree with your last sentence, but on the subject of positive portrayals of US armed forces, the studios actually have an incentive to play nice. The DoD will let film productions use real equipment and personal, but only after vetting the script and making changes as they see fit.

For example, the Transformers movies: https://www.wired.com/2008/12/pentagon-holl-1/

The general concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-entertainment_compl...

I can't believe a software developer is using an operating system/pdf viewer that isn't patched for security vulnerabilities as major as an RCE.

Unless this was a zero day, but I would have assumed the article would mention that fact ..

Emojis? For the current weather, a single emoji could convey quite a lot; e.g. a snowflake for sub-60 weather (I have a low tolerance for cold), a sun for 60-80, fire emoji for 80+...

Now, I don't know if anyone truly needs the weather in their terminal prompt, but it is doable.

Well, no, which is why I threw in Kagi and Yandex as well. I can imagine Google and Microsoft altering rankings for certain results for political reasons, but Kagi seems too small to care about that, and Yandex isn't operating from the same political playbook as western corporations.

Now, in defense of your theory, I did double check Kagi and found out that they use Bing and Google for some queries, so the only truly "untainted" one is Yandex, which doesn't have ADL on the first page, or the next five that I checked.

That said, as I mentioned they do surface SPLC, which is similar in tone and content.

Limited sample size, but I think it's still plausible that ADL is an organic result.

I also checked Yahoo, and it has ADL as the third result.

I checked Baidu and Naver, and didn't see ADL, but I assume they're prioritizing regional content.

The second link returned on him was from ADL. No way that's an organic result.

It might be, actually. I understand why you'd think that, but look at the results for other search engines.

Kagi: ADL in 2nd place

Bing: ADL in 3rd place

Yandex: ADL not on the first page, but SPLC[1] is the the 6th result

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...

There's a PEP for adding support for a __pythonpackages__ directory, similar to node_modules.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/

Unfortunately the PEP is from 2018 and is still being discussed. The last post in the comment thread is from February.

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-582-python-local-packages-d...

That's unfortunate; until I went looking for citations I thought it was further along and actually scheduled for the next Python release.

Looks like there is a pip-alternative that implements the PEP, but I haven't played around with it yet.

https://pdm.fming.dev/

I see comments like this all the time on these sorts of articles, and I have two criticisms:

First, although "AI exhibits racial bias due to biased training data" is far more accurate, I think it's perfectly acceptable to condense that to "AI is racist". Especially in the headline of an article that goes on to explain the issue in detail.

Second, I would say that even racist humans are racist because of bad training data, so if we're fine calling people racist, why not AI?

Look at how uncomfortable they are with such an innocuous request.

Ah, but it's not innocuous, and everyone knows it. I assume you know it -- when you watched that clip of the senator, did you really think he had forgotten what the definition of "woman" was?

The question he was really asking was along the lines of "is it the health department's official stance that trans woman are woman and should be treated as such under the law?"

Although actually he wasn't really asking that either, he was signaling to his supporters that he does not think that trans woman are women, and he was attempting to embarrass his political opposition so he and his allies could talk about the lunacy of the woke left or whatever and how they can't even define what a woman is.

I can forgive people for not wanting to play along.

Although, I can't forgive people for not having an answer ready; that question is being used as a "gotcha" more and more frequently.

When I Google it, the first result is... your post, and none of the other results include the word.

Adding quotes to "badass" turns up (on the first page) a mechanics job posted in January, four hits for the same CNA job from over a month ago, and one hit for an administrative job, posted this month.

That doesn't seem like a lot of postings, certainly not enough to be considered an outlier.

Of course to verify that I'd have to do fifty Google searches and chart the data, which I don't really want to do...

I think you should, though, so next time you make such a dubious claim, you have the data to back it up. :)

To be fair, Yishan was CEO from 2012 to 2014, and back then they did way less content moderation.

This was a time when blatantly racist subs like /r/coontown were allowed, as well as fringe subs like /r/watchpeopledie.

When critics diverge so far from the role of answering the question "what's a movie I would enjoy" then no, they're not doing their job.

There's no critic that can predict what you'll like, since tastes in films differ so much.

I have a friend I don't discuss movies with much, because we disagree on pretty much every single one we've both seen; it's literally impossible for a single critic to directly tell us both what we'd like.

Funny you should ask that, I was just watching a video about car door manufacturing.

Here's the timestamped link showing a worker in a modern factory spray painting a door. https://youtu.be/iPhwBUnR_XA?t=442

Now, how common is that? No idea.

I realize this is somewhat of a taboo topic

Unfortunately true; I opened up a few times to different friends, and it never went well. But more people talking about it is the only way to change that, so thanks for posting!

I was in a similar situation as you; I remember once leaving work at noon claiming to feel sick, but actually it was because I couldn't think of anything except how I wanted to kill myself.

A couple years later, I'm still around, and here's what helped me:

* Bupropion, 150mg XL * Some basic understanding of CBT * Adderall

The obvious solution to these problems are SSRIs and other anti-depressants. These drugs are very powerful but have really bad side-effects for most people that take them.

SSRI's definitely have an unsettlingly long list of side-effects, but keep in mind two things:

1. Not everyone experiences them; anecdotally, my sister started Prozac recently, and she's told me it's been great for her 2. If you do experience side effects you don't like, you can just... stop taking them. There's lot's of different SSRIs with different effects, and from what I've read it's common to cycle though a few before finding what works best.

Also, SSRIs are not the only option. As mentioned, I'm taking Bupropion, which has virtually no serious side effects. Look it up. And if you want to try it, you can just ask a doctor for it; tell them your concerns about SSRIs and just ask for Bupropion. No doctor is going to force you on SSRIs if you don't want them.

Side note: the XL version is the 24, slow release version. Works much better for me than the standard 4 hour tablets I started with.

On the topic of CBT, as others in this comment section have recommended, I read Feeling Good by David Burns, and it did help. It wasn't enough on its own, but a basic understanding of CBT goes a long way. The basic idea is training yourself to recognize bad thought patterns and taking action before they affect your mood. Honestly, it's stuff everyone could stand to learn.

Finally, I also figured out that I had ADHD. This was related to my depression because, frankly, it was depressing to struggle to accomplish the basic tasks other people seemed to have no trouble with. Especially noticeable as a programmer, where intensely focusing on a single thing for a long time is... basically the job description. Adderall has been a life changer for me.

Have you been able to triumph without chemical assistance and what did that look like? Is my utter terror of these drugs warranted or should I just bite the bullet and try them?

I totally get the mindset of not wanting to take drugs. It feels like a crutch; something you shouldn't need to do. But eventually I realized that taking drugs daily wasn't any different than wearing glasses daily. I need the glasses to correct a biological defect with my eyes. I need the drugs to correct a biological defect with my brain. Humans are fragile, and a lot us aren't built to spec. The great thing about living in the modern world is that we can actually fix these problems.

I've never used their normal search engine, but their image search blows Google out of the water.

I highly encourage anyone who frequently uses Google images to try out Yandex.

What's really interesting is the differences in the results -- it seems like Yandex is actually filtering for high quality art. I've got a project on the back burner to scrape google and Yandex for the same queries and then do different sorts of analysis on them and see if anything interesting pops up.

Going by eye, most photo results on Yandex are higher resolution, and more saturated. It also doesn't pull images from video thumbnails like Google does.

I can relate, and I was in a similar situation not too long ago. I remember dreading weekends because there was nothing to stop me from curling up in a ball and crying the whole day.

And honestly, if you've taken advantage of FMLA, you're actually doing better at taking steps to help yourself than I was!

Medication really helped me. I've been on bupropion for about two years, and it's made for a drastic improvement. I'm actually able to see things for how they actually are, and not let every minor stumbling block or criticism make me think I'm a complete and utter failure.

If recommend finding a mental health clinic nearby and scheduling an appointment to talk about depression. The appointment will probably take half an hour, and at the end the doctor will give you a prescription. This is extremely routine -- you're not suffering from anything a million people haven't gone through already.

If you're scared on being institutionalized or something, just... Selectively tell the truth. I mean, I can't say this is the best idea, but it's what I did when the psychiatrist asked me if I had suicidal thoughts.

I think the most important thing to keep in mind is that your brain is just another body part. If your knee hurts, you go to a doctor and get it looked at. If your vision is blurry, you go to an optometrist and get glasses. If your brain is giving incorrect responses to stimuli, you go to a psychiatrist and get medication. It's fine and it's normal.

The stakes remain unchanged, because the stakes are the packages.

Since there can't be that much profit in this activity, I think it's reasonable to assume that a lot of the people responsible are doing it just because it's easy.