skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are absolutely right! I'm trying to find some of my past comments about this very topic but yes, I did face horrible burnout and associated anxiety and depression. I was placed on a number of medications by my primary care physician and told to go see a therapist. The medications helped in the very short term but quickly became less effective. So up the dosage and tell me to see a therapist.

The problem was I did not believe in the therapy portion. I thought medication was easy. But it didn't work. One day I ended up into my physician and she said "either you go to a therapist or I'll lock you in my trunk and let you out when you'll go to a therapist." So, I went to a therapist and also a psychiatrist who helped with the medication side.

It was like night and day. We talked. We worked through things I had no idea I needed to work through. I was weened off of the medication. And I was given the power and principles needed to help me in the future. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Enjoy Unlimited Water Ski, Parasailling, Windsurfing at More Watersports
I'm not clear on why this is particularly CPU heavy, though: "the authorization
service that determines
whether a user is allowed to,
say, publish a particular
package"
I think you and I read completely different papers. I didn’t see anything about not wanting to learn or motivations of easy.
The 'gravity-defying' art that washes away
How much is that actually necessary these days? I remember spending ages tweaking flags in the 1.4 - 1.6 years. But there have increasingly been sensible defaults with broad applicability. Now that G1 is both default and usable, even more so.

As i've moved onto 11, i've slashed our apps' JAVA_OPTS down to almost nothing - max heap size, some GC logging flags, that's it.
> or helicopter?

Probably a quad/octocopter - I know they've used one before for footage.

Third booster was supposed to land on a droneship - it was a near miss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXd5UHFuZVI

It needed to relight three engines, it ran out of igniter before lighting more than one.
>> I always figured to be an effective leader requires knowing your product.

One of the best bosses I ever had was when I worked at a small manufacturing company.

This guy spent a ton of time with our customers and our products, came up with improvements, made lots of fixes, found other products our customers could use, made some people really happy.

Then he went through the production floor. Looked at everything a fresh set of eyes, why do we do this, why don't we do this. Sped up production, saved money, simplified things, made everyone's life easier.

Next stop was the office. Why do we touch this document 5 times through 4 people? Why do we do this backwards? How come this person doesn't do anything all day? Let's move this schedule around.

It was about that time the owners fired him for petty shit even though we had record sales and profits for the 3 years he was here. Lesson learned, don't try to make any changes or recommendations that come a little too close to home.
Actually it was more like "new team got in charge" actually.

There is a FOSDEM 2019 talk about it.
>They also state that writing the service in Node took them an hour, two days for Go, and a week for Rust.

>At npm, the usual experience of deploying a JavaScript service to production was that the service would need extensive monitoring for errors and excessive resource usage necessitating debugging and restarts.

But if you factor in over the life time of the program, Where Node saves you a week times at the initial implementation and you paid back in extensive monitoring, it is probably safe to say Rust's TCO is much lower.

Not Sure how Rust will flare against Go. But I think there is a high probability that Rust is better in the longer run.
This is why I have such little respect for billionaires who leave no long-lasting meaningful impact at all.

Gates/Musk may be the only ones who appear to desire to have a many-generational-positive impact on Humanity.

Every one else are just egos.

Unless I am not aware of some of the greater things that ilk is doing?
Those VAT rules were brought in because companies like Amazon were abusing the system to save paying VAT.
It's probably a decade that I use woof[0] to "send" files on a LAN. It's packaged for Debian but essentially it's a Python HTTP/1.0 web server in a single file without external dependencies. With an option it can distribute itself and it can also offer an upload form to receive files...

[0] http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html
The Injustice of Young People’s Pay
"Javascript did the job", but not very well apparently. They specifically say that they "were able to forget about the Rust service because it caused so few operational issues". Add to that the increased CPU- and RAM-efficiency that generally comes with a rust implementation, and that rust rewrite looks like a no-brainer.
That's because there's a big amount of people, myself included, who feel like drug prohibition is good, all things considered. Not because "editing" the law is hard. (I am not American).
Freakonomics Radio had a nice podcast series, The Secret Life of a CEO, that looked into the effect of CEOs on companies among other interesting stuff like how is a CEO chosen, what happens when they are fired, etc.

http://freakonomics.com/ceos/
> There isn't much to discuss. The whole ecosystem is rotten from the core. It is nothing but scammers scamming scammers the whole way down.

Which blockchain-related conferences did you attend in the past year? Can you tell me specifically where I can physically find these scammers?

I attended a dozen or more of the most significant events, including ZKSummit, ETHBerlin, and DevCon and I must say that I did not experience anything like what you're saying.

> Yes. Go get an education and learn basic finance, economics, and monetary policy. When you are done with that, go out and get more education of politics, sociology, marketing and computer science.

Why are you attacking me personally?

FWIW, I have a degree in political science from one of the best public polysci programs in the USA. And I think that my work in software development / python / crypto engineering speaks for itself. But if that's not the case for you, and you want more traditional compsci chops, there's no shortage in the blockchain field.

> Because it pisses away small nations worth of non renewable energy in order for a few people to profit off a bunch of starry eyed naive suckers.

I have concerns about the sustainability of PoW; we all do. But looking at the warfare, imperialism, and environmental parasitism that state-controlled monetary policy and its "growth" has brought us, I think it's not so bad.

It seems likely that a serious PoS implementation is coming soon with Serenity/Casper. What do you think about that development?

I recently demoed the latest NuCypher version at ETHDenver. [0] It's not clear to us how we'd do what we're doing without the decentralized incentive structure of the blockchain. Can you suggest an alternative?

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om0tew-Z4gE
Imgur's unfortunate UI - there is a button at the "end" of the page to load the rest of it, which is not very noticeable if you're not looking for it.

The sentence refered to is:

PS. The only living things that deserve to be
considered useless are scumbags, like Scout
Burns, or this moron who is riding an
unfortunate ocean sunfish.
Whichever edges are rough for you personally, that's the point.

Like if you're great at finances but terrible at understanding sales and marketing, then the sales and marketing part of the MBA will be most valuable for you. And vice-versa, and all the other combinations.

MBA's ensure you have at least a minimal competence in each classic area of running a business, and aren't going to make bone-headed decisions that might otherwise seem logically plausible.

That's one of the reasons MBA programs tend to be centered around case-studies: so you're exposed to a ton of ideas that seemed reasonable but then turned out to be disastrous. As long as you've done the MBA, you're unlikely to repeat those. If you don't have an MBA, you might not know any better.
But this doesn't test what another CEO would have done in the same situation.

All we can do is make a guess about how the average CEO would have performed. There's no way to really test it.
Reread the first sentence I quoted from spookthesunset. Surely Andreas is a "spokesperson," insofar as Bitcoin has any -- I can find examples of popular media calling him a "Bitcoin Evangelist," plenty of interviews with mainstream news, etc. "Top of the foodchain" is a hard to pin down moving goalpost -- only one person is at the top of the foodchain, so anyone I can name won't count if you can find a single other person higher than them by any metric.

I'm not disagreeing with your more constrained claimed regarding Bitcoin and criminality, it was the broad claim of spookthesunset that I found ridiculous (which you seem to as well, perhaps for slightly different reasons -- I didn't really even want to poke at the term "normal person," given that the sort of people who work on cryptographic-Rube-Goldberg-machines aren't exactly normal by all standards, and that's okay, it's just a lot to unpack and not what spookthesunset was really getting at).

In retrospect, I do feel like I should have quoted less from spookthesunset.
This is exactly where perl (namely, perl -ne) is so very, very useful.
Agreed, but I like the article because it turns moral panic into something as normal as weather.
It works its way down the supply chain until it reaches the consumer.
The rise in CEO pay, and tying CEO pay to stock performance, are entirely orthogonal issues. The fact that the article doesn't seem to realize this distinction, makes me question how much of the rest of the article is similarly flawed.
I definitely think you are right. But then again, there are so many confounding factors at play that this all becomes so difficult to detangle.

I posted this in a separate comment too: Freakonomics Radio had a series called "The Secret Life of a CEO" that covered CEO performance and many other topics. I highly recommend it!

http://freakonomics.com/ceos/
> What it does seem to be is a kind of stamp of ambition. People who go to business schools are keen to work hard to reach the top of the business world.

Same as most degree credentialism. People don't hire Harvard graduates because of all the valuable stuff they learned at Harvard, they hire them because they were smart and driven enough to get in to Harvard.
That is a great philosophical question. My banal answer: entertainment is also better than it ever has been, and the messes of people are this more numb and manipulable than they ever have been.
I would guess the device wasn’t powered on continuously, but ran for a few minutes each day or so.

Also, that black rectangle on the red box looks like a solar cell to me.
Thank you for your FYI, I have updated the Amazon info into the webpage now!
> most people agree that these companies are not paying the amount of taxes they should

They will say this because the news tells them this is true. But it seems far from obvious to me.

If a multinational sets up shop in France, then a whole pile of taxes do get paid: VAT is 20% of all sales. Then there is income tax / social security / etc. I don't know any French details, but I'm quite sure it's above 30% in total... all of which you should think of as being collected on the transaction that A pays Mr. B. If the company spends most of their revenue on salaries, then this already sounds like order of 50% of throughput goes to tax.

In addition to this, they may make some profit. And it seems pretty hard to know where the profit was made. How much is iOS worth? Or the Starbucks logo... quite a bit, your groggy airport customers know what they're getting, but there's no really obvious way to put a unique number on this. And thus it's honestly difficult to say where the profit was made.

Yet this is often the whole violent argument! Over maybe 20% of say 5% profit, 1% of sales... 1/50th of the taxes already collected above. If they wished to collect more, they could easily tweak those numbers. I'd go so far as to suggest that we should just give up, set the tax on corporate profits to zero globally... but at least they are generally moving down.

> Our society has never been so rich, yet we see decline in education, health, etc

But we collect more tax than ever. It it buys us worse healthcare, or education, than it did in the past, then the problem may lie elsewhere.
Ask HN: Ideas for improving HN s/n ratio
For those who think HN is fine as it is, this post is not for you. For others I'm sure this topic has been discussed many times before. I'd been giving some thought as to what might work for my defn of 'improve'.

I was hoping to get a list ideas here that you think would work and references to other lists/discussions.
I think the issue you describe is partially a case of "when all you've got is a hammer..."

When all you've got is a computer and your own hands, you use the Unix way.

If you have a team (or the money to hire a team) of 20 developers, then you start looking for a problem that you can solve with that hammer.
We don't need Presidents and Popes either.

The world is a much more complicated place today, than during the time of kings, and the accumulating data is going to keep revealing the complexity is too much for one man or woman to be responsible for it all.

But when a Deepwater Horizon type event happens and the whole herd starts baying for blood, are we sophisticated enough to say hey look at the data whats the point of lynching one person?

Of late the US seems to have attained that level of maturity, given how they have dealt up with Wall St after 2008, or the Pentagon for the 20 year war or dear Mark Zuckerberg. So maybe it's time.

I don't see older firms changing but newer firms might turn less hierarchical.
I've heard of people getting "rhabdo" but was under the impression it was sedentary people jumping right into HIT. Clearly that wasn't your case though. Thanks for sharing your story and I'm glad you were ok.
> Do me a favor and Stop talking about temperature for a second.

At least something we can agree on! This was exactly what my original point was. The media won't shut up about temperature when they're using it to sell global warming. I was pointing out their bias: how they say one thing when it suits them and then say the opposite when it doesn't suit them.

But if you're going to replace scaremongering about temperature with some other scaremongering, at least chose something sane. Current atmospheric CO2 levels are 0.04%, of which a fraction is human contributed. CO2 levels don't cause problems for humans even at 1%. I'm pretty sure we will exhaust the accessible supply of fossil fuel before CO2 levels become a problem for us breathing.

And if you want to discuss political partisanship, gotta ask why all the scaremongering comes from the hard left. It's not like the political right don't care, they're just a bit more grounded in reality about what we can actually do about the alleged problem, even if the science is absolutely flawless.

And about "hit and run," I can only selectively reply because I am throttled on HN for wrongthink. Shutting down debate with these kind of underhanded tactics are staple of the political left.

A simple search of "1970s global cooling" will bring up a plethora of stories that were being pushed in the 1970s. If you want to argue that there was not a campaign to sell this narrative in the 70s, why don't you cite me some publications from the 70s which reject or even hold some scepticism the (mainstream) narrative at the time.
Let me instead suggest what not to do: use the internet or other low protein, high distraction forms of entertainment extensively. Set limits on them and disconnect after a while. If you have nothing else to do, that's fine too, because you'll now think about how you can fill that time in a rewarding fashion.

That said, since you haven't started yet, go ahead and veg out for a week or two when you do :')
Well, if no one has free will it doesn't really matter what you think, does it? Any agreement or disagreement must also be an illusion, because no one involved can do otherwise. In fact, "I find it false" is meaningless, since you have no alternative.
> You are assuming that somehow that tax revenue is theirs in the first place.
The big corporations that evade taxes are using the economic power, infrastructure and legal systems of countries without contributing to any of them. That is money that the corporations owe to the citizens of those countries.

> What if that tax rate makes a business non-profitable in France but a money-making machine in Ireland?
I see your point, they are centred about maximizing profit. But, there are other goals as well. The goal of improving the taxation system is related to broad social issues like wealth redistribution. It has nothing to do with the only goal is to maximize short term profits for companies.

> Also, too much focus is centered around taxes when spurious regulations are generally more damning for a lot of companies. For example some friends of mine have attempted to start escape rooms, they have all abandoned their pursuits because here in Spain the legal framework is unclear. All escape rooms in this country are in a legal greyish area.

This is one of the many reasons regulations take a long time to be in place for new kinds of business:
https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/five-girls-locked-in-ho...

I hope that your friends find a good way to start escape rooms in the end. If it is their passion they will succeed. Regulations may be slow, but regulations get set and then people can do business safely for everyone involved.
Can you elaborate on why they’re “entirely orthogonal?” Since this increased compensation is stock, aren’t they at least somewhat related?
Ethical AI is hard, but so are ethical laws, ethical taxation, and ethical advertising, to name a few more ubiquitous things than AI. The real answer here is that ethics is hard, and even if you know ethics and can get some agreement, getting humans to be ethical is even harder.

tl;dr: Ethical AI is hard. Ethical NI is harder!

Doesn't "Coherent Extrapolated Volition" actually boil down to, "Hey AI, don't do like us. Do as we should do!" (If we were better, more noble beings.)

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Coherent_Extrapolated_Voliti...

And if we can't have "Coherent Extrapolated Volition" aren't the only outcomes the subsumption of Homo sapiens into a different kind of intelligence and/or its extinction?

Come to think of it, "Coherent Extrapolated Volition" just sounds like the same sort of wishful thinking which religions hook into.

Voltaire in the 18th century: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

Tech in 2019: "We need to be the first to implement the god-like AIs, because the the first mover advantage will yield tremendous profits!"
Chat Based on gRPC
Most of my regrets come from this.
Yes. I had heard lots of advice from Random Internet People that using the plant kratom was very helpful in killing your desire to drink. Now, I'm addicted to the (opiate-like) effects of kratom. It's actually maybe a bit healthier for me than alcohol, but doesn't feel any better mentally or emotionally.
I agree that taxation isn't necessarily theft, as part of the social contract, but aren't property rights at least in some cases fundamental?
He’s Italian, given his name and what his profile says.
I can't even count of both hands the number of people I grew up with that cannabis has completely wasted away their life. Remember, in the era of dabs and edibles, recreational dosage is massively higher than it was in the past. It does do real damage.

Please be mindful of spreading the belief that it is harmless. I certainly do not think it as dangerous as many drugs, but it certainly ruins, and will ruin, millions of lives.
Spring Boot Soap Client
> Not Sure how Rust will flare against Go.

I guess it will be domain dependent. Go uses a highly-developed concurrent GC, which is going to make it a lot more convenient for certain specialized workloads that involve graph-like or network-like structures. (That's the actual use case for tracing GC, after all. It's not a coincidence that garbage collection was first developed in connection with LISP. And yes, you could do the same kind of thing in Rust by using an ECS pattern, but it's not really idiomatic to the language.)
Neat. It reminds me of the study that asked people to draw bicycles:

https://road.cc/content/blog/90885-science-cycology-can-you-...
Apparently the young man didn’t go into medicine after all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Friedberg
I wrote an electron app and I just charge per license.
It's an Apache Parquet format viewer https://www.parquetviewer.com

I've actually specified that a single license is per a single user but can be installed on multiple machines. I've had several users request this.
“No Link Found between Psychedelics and Psychosis: A large U.S. survey found that users of LSD and similar drugs were no more likely to have mental-health conditions than other respondents”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-link-found-bet...
No wonder he's doubling down on Apple.
const not_evil = true;
Thank you for your suggestion! I didn't thought about that. But in the next step, I will definitely make changes to consider nonjs users!
We've updated the title from “Rust at NPM”. It's not so obvious how to extract a decent 80-character title from this one so we can cut the OP some slack.
I think that if you have that much money you are in the top 1% of the world. (_maybe_ 2%)

I don't know a single person with that kind of cash. The most wealthy people I know (they live in $500k+ home, their neighbours have million dollar homes) in rich area of Chicago and makes a combined $400k (estimated) in income between him and his wife, don't have even close to that in the bank.

(what they do have they have to budget to save up, though they live really well despite this...)

I really think Silicon Valley is disconnected from the rest of the world's realities.
Thanks! The talk:

"The clusterfuck hidden in the Kubernetes code base"
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclusterfuck...
No. What I see people describing as ethical is not correct when people have no choice. It's also not meaningless to live with knowing free will is an illusion. Hard to really reply to such a dismissive assertion.
Similar but OSS: https://fsnot.es/ Happily using it for a few months now.
Well, how cheap we talking? :-)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-liquor/deaths-mount...
DNSLink and IPNS availability survey (2018)
I see. I missed how you can press/type two character simultaniously. Not sure if that work with mobile onscree keyboards and password manager softare.
Apple would need to give up the butterfly keyboard, the touchbar should be separated from function keys, and give me a dedicated USB-old and HDMI port for me to get legitimately excited.
The topic of this article is “this weird Amazon discussion”. Consider finding a more relevant link about your point (or writing one!) and posting it to HN so your desired topic of discussion can be aired.
I was "born good at math," too, yet I've seen peers who are far, far less capable achieve much better financial and career success simply due to their head start. I'ma doing quite well. I often wonder how much better I'd be doing if I hadn't been on the verge of homelessness and hunger more or less constantly from kindergarten through undergrad.

This isn't just an anecdote: plenty of studies have shown a correlation between starting socioeconomic position and success.

Having skill and natural talent helps. I don't think it helps nearly as much as having the luck to be born in the right place to the right people.