skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am 45 and am 99% sure I won't make it to 46. This isn't some unexplained "out of nowhere" ideation. It's a consequence of being beat down and taken from over and over, then having to make due with less and less, rinse, repeat. There is a breaking point. In my experience most suicidal people I come across are so because of the same chronic loss and suffering. Pills and therapy and hotlines don't help. They are plasters ignoring root causes. Root causes take time and money and that's too much to ask.

I posted over a year ago in a desperate attempt to find a job that I could do despite all my issues. I'd been fighting for that for years. Because there is no social system where I am, not one that helps people. Culture here is about bootstraps and anyone who doesn't pull them or have them is a mooch loser who "deserves" what they get. I couldn't get myself anywhere better because of my issues. So I had to try and make due in the same grind but with far less ability and energy. One kind soul, the only one in all this time, offered such a job and I tried to get there, things got worse for me from a few sides and I slid back and couldn't go. I am still TRYING and hoping, but hope isn't enough. You have to be able to act, and the ground has to stay under you and not collapse.

We all know how difficult work and earning can be even when we are young and healthy and love what we do, imagine doing it when in constant pain, with no family who loves you, with no access to high quality medical care. Imagine seeing everyone around you grind and be exhausted and not having the opportunity and endurance they do. Not being able to go home and enjoy something after work because it takes all your mettle just to survive a day.

I have taken to using HN to vent my feelings on this topic when it comes up, and probably sound like a one trick pony. I am not even sure I care anymore. I used to worry what impression I would leave. That I might upset someone or ruin an ally with my depressive state. It all seems like it is irrelevant now as I won't make it anyway. Years ago when I still had some shreds of bootstraps I couldn't get any help from people or systems. I am incredibly resentful because I believe I could have built something then to get through this life and do some good. Now I feel most of the time like I won't make it regardless. I feel only social support/financial security/medical access would even possibly give me a chance..and society and family have decided I am not "worth" that. My value has been recorded and notated. You cannot really beat a system like that. Once you lose you means to grind and become a drain on profits you become a thing to be disposed of rather than a person. Nobody WANTS to be in these shoes. Nobody CHOOSES it.

Until next time...or not...
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
"And yet somehow the story is that EVs aren't succeeding"

That isn't the story. Even the headline calls it an "electric-car boom". The story is that there is a rush to build lithium mines to get ahead of the demand, which seems eminently reasonable.
> Pdf so badly needs a standard open source reference implementation

Similarly, I would like to see more attention given to PDF/A and high quality reference implementations and libraries targeting it. It solves many of the most common complaints here on HN about PDF: no audio / video, no javascript, no XML forms, all fonts have to be embedded, etc. - and it's an ISO standard.

We really need solid support for a document format that has readers that aren't constantly getting CVE'd from supporting too much of a bloated specification.
I'm not sure whether it's just Poppler or the software that uses it (Okular by KDE), but I know that typewriter is supported (I just filled a few bureaucratic work-related form). Forms as well.
This is a first offense. As mentioned in the black box near the end of the letter, things can escalate quickly.
Half a gig for IRC + gifs
China accuses Hong Kong protesters of committing 'evil and criminal acts'
I don't think it's a straw man. Look at the two examples I cited.

This is the first thing that comes up when you google 'green new deal':

"A Green New Deal is a big, bold transformation of the economy to tackle the twin crises of inequality and climate change. It would mobilize vast public resources to help us transition from an economy built on exploitation and fossil fuels to one driven by dignified work and clean energy."

https://www.sierraclub.org/trade/what-green-new-deal

And here's AOC's chief of staff on the green new deal: "“Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti continued. “Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” "

Second is Jay Inslee, the democratic running for president who has made fighting climate change the centerpiece of his campaign.

https://www.jayinslee.com/climate-mission

Look at his four points. Point three is "fighting for environmental justice & economic inclusion". Two of the other points are subsidies, one for clean energy, the other for a jobs program. The last one -- getting rid of subsidies for fossil fuel industries -- is a good idea. Control f'ing for the word tax (as in carbon tax) gives no results. Neither does cap, nor trade.
oh yeah, Netflix was down along with a loads of companies when aws had its issues, but the list i put out was the ones in last few months ;)
I doubt many people will want to add a jvm dependency just to support a PDF library.
Ask HN: How to Get unaddicted to YouTube?
I track my website usage, and I typically end up around 60-75+% devoted to youtube whenever I check. I think with my phone, it's probably a lot more. Ideally, I'd like to stop completely because that's a lot of time I am devoting to purely bs. There's some videos I watch for "learning", but it's more of a passive learning if anything. The rest is devoted to podcasts and random clips.
There have been plenty of instances of private, for-profit schools that operate in a predatory manner. States have a legitimate interest in regulating potentially predatory behavior. So-called code bootcamps are not special in this regard.
Pardon my ignorance then. Would it be accurate to distinguish between fear of tech (high then, low now) versus tech enabled capitalism (??? then, high now)?
> And in Java it didn't stop there; the people (person?) behind generics moved on to create Scala, a language with even more features and a notoriously complicated 25-step compilation process

What does this have to do with anything? Scala is complex to compile for reasons far, far beyond generics. Are generics somehow guilty by association because an engineer who was once involved in an implementation of them went on to build some other complex thing?
Sure, but it's not what got rid of pop up ads.
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This appears reasonable. Votes are anonymous. Every person gets one vote. The software basically always works.

I would scrap the whole "mobile ID" thing, however. You should fill out a voter registration card to get a unique private key that is imported into your wallet.
So still spam, but falls outside the legal classification of impermissible spam?
Bad string allocations can easily swamp the JVM, with things like loops adding a single character to a string with a string allocation each loop, and other naive approaches turning what should be a small reused buffer into gigabytes of heap.

The JVM does a remarkable job of just-good-enough don't-worry-about-GC, but anyone who is a paid programmer needs to understand rudimentary aspects of GC, or your stuff will go sideways fast in production.
I lived in Oregon--which has had exclusively vote by mail for decades--for a while and never heard anyone bring up vote selling as a risk to election integrity. No one (journalists, legislators, etc) ever claimed it was happening.

The state republican party still makes occasional claims of voter fraud, but those are exceedingly rare -- something like 54 ballots out of 4 million in the 2016 election cycle -- and they mostly come down to people voting in Oregon and in another state at the same time.

The only reported case of election fraud I can remember was in 2016 and done by a republican, in which she tossed out a bunch of democratic voter ballots. That's it.

For two decades of elections, Oregon hasn't had a problem with election integrity. They do, however, have a consistently high turnout, which they attribute to vote-by-mail.
I don't believe they'll be able to prove they voted for a candidate without giving away their keys.
I wonder: why not just accepting interfaces as contracts (a subset), e.g. literally allowing

func Foo(type T fmt.Stringer)(T) T

and allowing runtime values of type contract, e.g.

contract SignedInteger(T) {
T int, int8, int16, int32, int64
}

func Foo(x SignedInteger) bool { return x > 0 }

i.e. decoupling the runtime boxing vs the compile type parameter resolution from the "interface specification language".

I do understand that the need for the new "contract" syntax becomes apparent when you have contracts over multiple variables, but that doesn't mean in the single type variable degenerate case there is no overlap. Perhaps embracing that overlap would help people understand more quickly where the actual difference is (in the way types and function signatures uses them, rather than what operations they describe)
It will, since the object returned by the tag is not a string.
The point would merely be to buy us some time, if we go back to aroubd 1800, we will have lots of inequality and problem, but we might have another round to go on and to improve.

> But no entity capable of doing that exists.

I agree, this is a pipe dream. The reality is that there is absolutely no hope. Hence, my choice of not having kids.
Glad you got it sorted out!
Why is this surprising? Youtube has become the gatekeeper, not the facilitator of new and exciting video tech.
How is CPU and I/O use on the newest version?
I think you're right.

They are also taking steps to screw Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard over. The former had his mic cut at the debate and the latter has supposedly been prevented from buying Ad campaigns by Google (in addition to the completely unfair press she often times receives - for an example, look at how the mainstream press covered her when she went to meet Assad)

Apparently, Gabbard is suing Google:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/presidential-can...
But Taleb is specifically arguing against simple linear correlation measures like R^2. (See figure 1 in Taleb's article.) Feels like you haven't grasped the specifics of his argument without taking that into consideration.
as mentioned in another reply -- the slack client memory hog issue was fixed in the latest update.
There is some frighteningly prophetic speculation here, and not just about AI:

"Governments can use large databases to violate people’s privacy and to harass them. For that matter, credit card companies can do that, too. One can even envision a natural language system that monitors telephone conversations."

Written in 1985. Before the Internet. Wow.
"Socialize the costs, privatize the revenue."

Sounds like most industries actually, where externalities are passed on to society. E.g. resource extraction.
Has anyone tried Twist ( https://twist.com/ )? It looks a lot like Zulip but with a nicer UI. I think it is crazy that Slack has not invested more in first-class threaded, context-aware conversations.
Blockchain is a buzzword, but we've already had strong cryptographic protocols for voting that predate Satoshi.

We've known for decades how to conduct elections where every vote is provably counted, any individual vote is completely anonymous, and the identity of every voter participant is provable (i.e. preventing ballot stuffing).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
TikTok is popular because of the insane decision to shut down Vine. Other apps are filling in that void, now.
Seriously. Oh, good, now it's only 4-5x as large as it has any right to be, even allowing for modern software bloat...
Their founder mentioned elsewhere in this thread that they are working with the state to get into compliance as soon as they got this notice. Looks like they weren't even trying to skirt the law, they just got bad advice.
I suspect almost nobody who does the work of a data/ML engineer has a degree in engineering. Most are computer scientists or statisticians or mathematical scientists. Too few formal engineers choose this path for others to dwell on the term 'engineer'.

The main advantage of using the data engineer label is that it describes what you do now so that others will understand. It doesn't describe your academic past, only your professional present.

What's more, titles like data/ML scientist/engineer are still too new and ill-defined for anyone to worry too much about the exact work implied or the underlying credentials. 'Engineer' is just an attempt to imply that the role involves more involvement in production than exploration.
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ETL developer? Business Intelligence Consultant?
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I'm sorry man, but this tape sign guy is a fucking idiot and all the hubbub is retarded too

He's using the wrong tools to poorly do a menial job slowly. If you can't see that, I don't know what's wrong with you

Maybe next week there'll be an article about a dedicated salaryman who masterfully scrubs trains with a toothbrush
It would be nice to have something with a permissive license. There are a lot of commercial offerings but the costs make them prohibitive for my projects.
IQ is useful to me. Whenever someone thinks it's important I gain useful information about that individual
My company uses Zulip and I'm very happy with it.
Glad you got that sorted out. Lambda school does seem to be "one of the good guys" out there in this market, so I'm glad to see you're taking the steps to keep that reputation.
Do you have any sources for this?

According to a 5 year Oxford University study, the single best thing we can do at an individual level to decbarbonise is to say no to dairy and meat.
Such is the nature of slightly optimized Electron apps, T-Mobile Digits Desktop app is a similar resource hog.

Using the browser based version often is less resource intensive.
This seems so preposterous I have a hard time believing the story is being reported correctly. The state or Voatz are apparently unwilling to prove their system is secure. What are they going to do if someone disputes the results of the election?
Their valuation is actually extremely sensitive to usage patterns right now, however. If they lose $1m of business, it's not like they're worth $1m less. That million bucks is not only used in an assumption for making that money over and over for the next couple decade, but also as an indication of growth for more adoption. I don't know the exact model that gets used, but it's likely that losing $1m in business today causes hundreds of millions in loss for their market cap.
"We did not cut corners or push the 737 Max out before it was ready," it said.

After two crashes and the groundings, i would say they did. Of course that's not what all of this is about, just their pr dept.
Not having to worry about memory for 99% of the time.

Having to do research to optimize I/O is not just a java thing. As stated before in this thread, the C stdlib isn't historically great either, and a lot of languages piggyback on that.

Modern I/O is almost always a different library and you need to do reasearch.
A new and exciting chapter from the book of "Privacy as personal responsability"

From the publisher of classics such as:

Climate Change is a matter of personal choices.

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

Vote with your wallet, even if it hurts. Especially if it hurts!
400MB for what basically is a client for a proprietary version of IRC is ridiculous. How much memory did BitchX use ?
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Not directing this at you, but to all - this is a concrete example of why you shouldn’t blindly trust legal (or medical, or spiritual) advice. Ask questions, make sure you understand, and think critically. No one is infallible.
Contract is just the feature is defines the abilities of the genericized types.

A contract in Go enables generic programming or as other state it "generics".

In C++20 there is concepts which is very similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts_(C%2B%2B) in constraining the generic type before template expansion.
Engineers grew up on chat (IRC, AIM/MSN/ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, etc.) and have opinions about what it should look and feel like. When a company raises billions for a product that feels like using dinky Fisher-Price software that you could have written better and gotten rich off instead, and moreover when their product is forced upon you by your workplace and it becomes a major distraction and headache...

Ire, jealousy, hate... There are a lot of bad feelings towards Slack.

These are not necessarily my feelings, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't dislike them just a little.
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Yep, and from the status message, you can get to Twitter inside the Slack client and read memes directly from Elon Musk's timeline instead of going through your organization's dedicated meme channel.
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The vetting process and requirements for compliance likely makes it harder for schools who have alternative methods of teaching to be able to experiment and find better solutions to the problem. This pushes innovation in this field out of your state, which you may be okay with as long as people aren't getting swindled. But there's always a cost to these things.
Not only that but the best argument shows almost (but not quite) marginal contribution.
Links from bloomberg.com are always behind a soft-paywall.
or is this just happening to me?
I think you're annoyed because you like lambda school, the service it offers, the value it provides customers and so on.

On the other hand you see this mighty government unilaterally fining them for providing this service.

However, the problem is the law has to work in the abstract for every case and not just for this benign case.

If they don't ask them to work with the law now, what happens when a terrible institution that doesn't provide value and really takes advantage of its customers opens up?

Then they can say, hey you didn't fine lambda, why are you fining us?

And, worst of all, they would be right.

In the long run, this ought to provide a barrier to entry for sub-par institutions.

(Btw, I haven't gone through lambda or any competitor, and I don't have an opinion as to the quality of the programs).
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Correct. Live and learn.
If I had a bounty program for finding vulnerabilities in my statement, you would've won a prize)
The problem with that is there are a lot of transaction costs to individuals selling their personal emissions.

Like the comment one higher up mentioned, one way to get around that and do effectively the same thing would be to split the revenue among citizens. This is what a bunch of economists have called for doing: https://www.econstatement.org/
But a lodger is not a tourist using AirBnB, a lodger is a semi-permanent resident.
They need some good old-fashioned competition to light a fire under their butt. The Network-Effect is poison to competition, but I hope somebody finds a way around it.
Agreed. Do we really need more ITT Tech's or Trump Universities? I think not.
> The reduced demand from China and continued supply from the U.S. flooded the world trash market and drove down the price of garbage everywhere.

This sentence doesn't make sense. If there is more demand for trash recycling, how is it not driving the price up?
They could sell or rent the keys though.
Answered elsewhere in thread: Their legal counsel said they didn't need to. The lawyer was wrong, and they now have new legal counsel. Seems like a legit oops which they're since fixed.
Except that time when cloudflare took down even the downdetector.
True enough. And a nice analysis.

I don't have any insight into "military circles", but I do recall an action film (maybe from the 80s) that featured (among other stuff) a militarized wall and prison complex along the US-Mexico border. Some action/horror films (especially zombie ones) are loaded with ~prophetic social commentary.

Edit: And damn! Gwynne Dyer's talk looks amazing. And there's a transcript at https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo...
I know nothing about Slack's infrastructure, but in practice Slack issues affect different workspaces differently. I always imagined that a workspace resides in just one of many "clusters" (at the very least, maybe paid/enterprise vs free are separate?). Just speculation though.
Plenty of popular project management / task-tracking tools are very memory heavy too, and also so slow to load that one's reluctant to close their tab(s). Plus if I close them I sometimes have trouble finding WTF I need again. Jira, Asana, both major offenders. Can easily eat many hundreds of MB of memory. It's entirely fucking absurd for what they do and the content they deal with. Harsh (and harsher) language justified.
Dang, I just moved to WV for a software dev internship for the summer. Is it okay to drink the water in Charleston?
You might be the first person I've seen on HN who actually understands materialism vs. identity politics. If you're interested in talking, feel free to shoot me an email at fatimaraj@protonmail.com
Don't believe the hype:

https://jalopnik.com/the-truth-about-brake-pad-replacement-i...
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It would literally take less than 10 minutes to make a crappy looking sign like that on a vinyl plotter, from laying it out on a laptop to cutting and sticking it.
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s/proves/disproves/ right?
The other one had banks demanding 30% interest on bridge financing to continue
Taleb's IQ is simply too high.
Legal advise can be tricky, specially when trying to do something new. I have seen a few situations where this scenario played out

Out of curiosity, was the paperwork cumbersome, or did the old counsel just not know?

note: I considered rewording the "not know" bit since regulations can be tricky, there can be other reasons why they might've felt that the need to register wasn't there. Most of which I feel, for counsels, falls into the didn't know, didn't look category.
When I mean the web, I really mean the open web. Not Discord. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for how it used to be.
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Thanks! I must have missed that by a few seconds.
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I'm glad to see backlash – we need neutral platforms where controversial content will not be punished because of advertiser driven guidelines.
- Voting in private on a phone app. The opportunity for coercion is huge. The brilliant thing about putting a cross on paper in a booth on your own and dropping into a box, is no-one knows how you voted - so no comeback.

How is that true, when I just posted that voter database have been leaked

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-voter-records-from-19-state...

and they contain (per Wikipedia):

Personal data frequently included in a voter database:

Voting history (including federal, sub-national, primary, municipal, or special election voting history)

Name

Physical address

Mailing address

Phone number

Party membership or affiliation

Absentee or military voter designations

Source of voter registration, i.e., DMV/MVA, Public Assistance Office, etc.

Ethnicity or emerges race hypothesis

Gender

Birth date or age range

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_database

Not only that, but some states consider this public information!