skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I deeply believe that depression is just physical brain damage and dark thoughts are just the symptom making harder for you to get treatment just like a pain in the knee might make it harder for you exercise it a bit or get to the doctor to get treatment. I don't think that dark thoughts by themselves cause depression or even directly contribute to it. Same way the feeling of pain doesn't make your knee worse.

I think it might be helpful to have distance to your feelings. To understand that unlike your thoughts, your feelings have direct purely biological source. You might find it easier to suffer through them, like you can suffer through limping.

I hope I'll never get depressed so I won't have to find out whether that makes any difference.
What’s your top-k algorithm? I’ve used count sketches and heaps (I read heavy-keeper strictly outperforms count/count-min). I’ve also been told some variant of a hierarchical count sketch provides composability, but I’m not sure what that is.

(Actually, how do you compose? Is it the feature vector a union of all top-k features?)
Oso is making backend infrastructure security not terrible for developers and ops.

We're working on problems at the intersection of distributed systems and cryptography, we have good early validation and are now moving towards building our v1 product. We raised our Seed Round from Sequoia, have hired our first few engineers and are looking to complete the early team. We are building the product in Rust, which we think is both a good design choice for our use case and a fun choice for the team. Given the importance of these team members and magnitude of their contribution, they will get a meaningful equity position. The engineers who join now will not only have a disproportionately large impact on the product, but also on the culture and future of the company.

We are based in NYC and hiring engineers onsite.

Founding team: Graham Neray (early employee and Chief of Staff at MongoDB) and Sam Scott (PhD in Cryptography).

To apply, please visit osohq.com or email graham@osohq.com.
> maybe the reality if you don't need to create real value anymore is that life becomes a half-empty series of paint nights, cooking classes, and other such role-play.

More likely is that life for many people becomes a lot more time spent staring at one’s phone. Even in places where people have a decent amount of leisure time, a lot of those old community events and social clubs are struggling now.
> If you can't find $200 for a tool to help you do your job, you're not really a professional.

I am sorry if I misinterpreted you, but that was precisely what you said.

Elaborating, I agree with you, reinvestment is really important to improve work and product quality.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=renewable+energy+storage
If the grunts had some spine and ethics they'd hit the job market.
But can you get the online exclusive deals over the phone?
I elected them when I turned on EasyList in my ad blocker. I certainly never elected Mr. Kratky-Katz to balance publisher monetization for me.
> When anthropologists look at scientists, they’re trying to understand the species. But when viewed through the lens of Progress Studies, the implicit question is how scientists (or funders or evaluators of scientists) should be acting.

I have had a few recent exchanges with anthropologists and it doesn't seem they are interested in moralistic claims apart from defending the current academic framework. For example they were highly skeptical of science when it doesn't support the "nurture" side on the nature vs nurture debate, discarding scientific evidence as invalid using weak arguments. It was surprising to me how prevalent and an orthodoxy this is, and it seems they have contracted the relativistic disease that is prevalent in the social sciences for decades. I suppose most agree that progress is not an implied good (Plenty of comments here express that view). Pity because anthropology is IMO the most interesting social science.

As for measuring progress in science, the problem is that the vast majority of scientists are content with the current system of small unambitious steps, low risks and easy content-free papers, so you won't easily find many supporters there.
Cell injections could train the body to accept a transplanted organ
There already is. Amazon has had Kindle Unlimited ($9.99/month) for quite some time for now.
Conspiracy theory believers tend to endorse other unsubstantiated beliefs
Indeed. And if they're willing to backdoor a regime like that then why could we ever trust them not to backdoor everywhere else?
Save and invest 40% of your income. After 15 to 20 years you should be able to declare financial independence, if you want to...
I think at this state she doesn't have enough focus to follow a movie. She was temporarily in a bad shape after previous surgeries (though not that bad as she is now) and she didn't want to watch movies then.
Capuccino has milk in it.
> This seems to be a niche that nothing else fills right now. It's much larger scale than tabletop D&D. Much more freeform and literary than MMOs that do have a large scale. And asynchronous except for the monthly deadline.

I think MUSHs fit all of those except asynchronous, but I think there might be asynchronous ones out there.
>But it’s not like they were experts in balancing publisher monetization, or like they were elected. They’re just four dudes.

They were elected by people voluntarily installing EasyList. We had enough of you experts™, thanks.
Martin Berkhan, the guy that popularized the 16:8 "Leangains" approach puts milk in his coffee. From [0], "So, it’s a question of a dose-response effect. Can you have some milk in your coffee? Sure, I wouldn’t worry about it and I have it myself. Life would just be too damn boring with only black coffee, especially if you’re used to having some milk with it. How much milk/cream? I would put the limit at 50 kcal total used throughout the fast. That’s about 1 deciliter or 1/2 cup 2% milk."

https://leangains.com/questions-answers-5/
Ask HN: What professions read a lot of texts as part of their job?
yeah, but outside a tiny (although rich) part of the industry, they're irrelevant. Well, except for the things that Sun built and they bought.
There is. It is called the library. My local library has plenty of ebooks and audio books that I can borrow through both their website and their partners' websites like overdrive.com. And it doesn't even even cost you a monthly fee because it is already paid for by your tax dollars whether you use it or not.
keeping up with the latest technology has a side effect: you will still be older than most of the people who have learned the latest technology. so you will still face a builtin cultural mismatch that does not work in your favor.
> it’s just like a screwdriver, that’s why china is using AI for tracking and oppressing their uighur minorities

I don't think a screwdriver can be used to oppress millions of people.
> we are getting fairly unambiguous positive evidence that is at least in the direction of Pizzagate

What exactly is that?

>and if the Q line is true

You mean the person who has repeatedly posted false info? Photos where they claim to have secret information that were just taken from other websites, that people were arrested who haven't been... so on.

This all still seems to boil down to connecting things with nothing to connect them under the guise of not rejecting something.
Boars with friggin lasers....the lasers are controlled by sharks.
Wait, so what do you do that Gutenberg doesn't?
I was drinking Essentia 1.5 liter bottles throughout the day for a few months. I started noticing I didn't feel right after drinking it -- it was almost like a headache. I know this isn't scientific and there could have been another cause, but drastically cutting my intake removed the symptoms.
> the actual work of being a developer/programmer in a professional setting is a really shitty job and sad life

The thing is, it doesn't have to be and, until relatively recently, honestly wasn't. It's a shitty job and a sad life because we have open offices, ticket-tracking systems and daily standups. There was a time when programming was exciting and rewarding.
I've read some Pollan, In Defense of Food I believe. Certainly enough to convince me that nutrition matters.

I just don't get all that excited about food. For example, I'm currently visiting a research collaborator and friend away from home. Last night, even though he is unable to eat out due to health concerns, he insisted on taking me out to dinner. I was happy and grateful -- but despite the fact that he would be eating nothing, he was more excited by the menu than I was!

And more generally, I've been disappointed that eating together is the "default" social activity. Social life (at least at my age, and where I live) seems to be centered around getting a meal, drinks, or coffee. I've tried to expand things by inviting friends to more eclectic activities, but they usually haven't been interested.

The one exception is when I have a bunch of friends over for a party, then I do get excited about cooking. But that's an occasional thing.

Were your circumstances at all similar to mine?
I'll second that. I'd also add that most programmers have high fluid intelligence. This makes it rather easy for them to retool into another field and end up being talented at it.

Industrial psychology has very consistently found that fluid intelligence is a stronger predictor of job performance than even experience. It's often the case that the software engineer who becomes a manager at 45, ends up being better at it than the MBA who's been doing it for two decades.
> the quickest way to get a file from phone <-> PC is to Slack it to myself from my work account.

Assuming that phone and PC are on the same network, KDE Connect solves that scenario. You pair the devices once and afterwards you can not also share files, but also have access to a host of other features. The one I use most is clipboard synchronization.
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> Most student debt is owed by people who are already in the top quartile of wealth

I interpreted most to mean majority. It's clear the middle quartiles holds the majority of the debt not the top.
Australian government, spooks, and industry all on different cyber pages
> You have to apply some judgement; otherwise you reach ridiculous false equivalences.

An article about 'AI' that requires actual 'I' to understand? Inconceivable!
>I can't think of one person who did it to actually learn anything

I don't think this is the goal.

If I can just for example pay for like $15k in order to get $15k pay increase, then to me its a good deal.
New Windows malware sets up proxies on your PC to relay malicious traffic
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Literally everywhere outside of Silicon Valley you can get great jobs in Software that move at a reasonable pace. SV is very different from the rest of US
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I started skipping breakfast when we moved to a new house and I no longer had a microwave to heat up my oatmeal (I never learned to cook; the microwave is the only way I know to make oatmeal). On top of that, I had a longer commute, so I had less time in the morning anyway.
Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23-38 in 2019) will be considered a Millennial..
This is not journalism. This is a hit-piece on EasyList, with a clickbait and false title.

It seems even plausible, reading it, that the author knows about uBlock origin but avoids naming it, instead listing the two sellouts that are morally shady.
What an excellent, level headed article.

I wish it'd be emphasized a little more - as a software dev, you'll likely either end up having to move laterally to a new skill set that isn't entirely related to your previous experience (moving from C++ to Ruby on Rails and web dev as the example in the article) or move 'up' to management or architect positions.

Both of those are difficult and fairly unique to software development. Most jobs don't require these types of shifts. A number of jobs do simply wear your body out and leave you in difficulty in your 40s however, and that requires a complete career shift or that move 'up' to management, both of which are non-trivial paths to take.
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Of course people use parallel implementations. I was commenting on the methodology.

Also you're talking about two different things. There is feature experimentation, then there is development experimentation.

Yes, of course you need runtime flags to enable A/B testing. Implementing two implementations for development purposes has nothing to do with that.
This is definitely a problem, particularly for those that aren't in tech cities with endless jobs, but the alternatives discussed in this article are all....not great.

* Work as a consultant - I'm biased here from my own bad experiences, but consultants are often treated as a source of future problems, not solutions. (largely because of communication and incentives, not because of programming skill)

* Work in management - which the author admits is not because it is a good match in anyone's mind but the employer

* The third option is not easy to solidify, but it basically sounds like becoming a solo contract coder in your area of expertise

I suppose any better answer involves a change in the industry that is beyond one person's ability to control, but I was hoping for...I dunno, maybe advice on how to plot your savings to manage lower income in your later years?
Why would the NYT help Facebook? I thought the "old media" companies were angry at Facebook for owning the discussion space for news. Most people get their news via Facebook and comment about the news on Facebook. And let's be honest: how many people don't even bother to RTFA and just comment based on the headlines?

(Or does Facebook have an undisclosed investment in NYT?)
Old favorite for Turbo C / DOS programming http://www.guideme.itgo.com/atozofc/
Glad to know the NYT is still publishing op-eds by guys who think the world would be better if women couldn't vote.
These are the threats security hasn't yet solved
Probably, system administration or the rest of IT is the closest to a natural fit for a programmer going into other things. For people with the MS programming certifications this may be a pretty clear path and aided by their programming skills.

I’ve got family who seemingly bucked this problem, though. He has maybe going on 40 years of C experience, now. I think he’s said it’s become harder to find work that really needs his skillset, but he’s been doing the contractor thing for much of that time and always kept employed.
I'm a descendent and (coincidental) namesake of one of those 59 regicides, though one who fled to Amsterdam and avoided an interesting death. Fascinating times, for sure.
"We didn't want to spend too much energy, so we just moved a black hole."
I superficially like the idea of a meritocracy, where hard work and success move you up the in the order of things. Then I remember cheating, the difficulty of quantifying success, the shifting nature of what kind of success we want to reward, yada yada. Now I am more in the egalitarian camp, where I want everyone to have enough to be comfortable, but I still want there to be rewards for being successful. Some sort of egalitarian free for all, where everyone is a winner, but some win more than others.

I have this thought that keeps popping into my head. N people are on an island. On the island is a tree that makes enough X units of food, where X is greater than N, and each unit of food is enough to sustain one person. The N people work together to make sure that everyone gets at least 1 unit of food, and X - N units left over are split up by some fair enough competition.
State-level certification exams would fix this. You either pass the exam, or you don't, doesn't matter how you acquired the knowledge.
New Mirai botnet lurks in the Tor network to stay under the radar
You think hot salt is bad? Now let's add 1/3 of the periodic table to the salt.. But yeah, people are working on it. The Americans had something in the 60ies (hastalloy), the Chinese are working on it today. In the short term, many o the MSR startups are planning to replace the reactor vessel every few years to get around corrosion issues, as well as the graphite moderator going bad.
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This is a scare-tactic article from 10 years ago quoting ANOTHER scare-tactic article from 10 years prior.

The truth:
The number of programmers has doubled every two years since the 70s.
The demand for programmers is today exceeding the supply.

Until the supply/demand forces change, these headlines will continue to be nothing but fake news.
> I am sorry if I misinterpreted you, but that was precisely what you said.

If you have the money to spend on tools, but think Linux or VS Code is best, that's fine.

If OS X would be better for you, but you use Linux because you can't afford the tools you need, that's a problem.

Being able to find the money for something doesn't mean you have to spend the money. At the price point of a few hundred dollars a year or less, my concern is what's best, not what's cheapest. The company I work for will happily buy a Phpstorm license for any dev who wants one, but some are happy with VS Code, and one holdout is still using NetBeans. Nothing wrong with that!
> I'll learn to farm and support myself that way.

With the climate apocalypse, that's becoming less and less likely.
Copy and paste this post and repost it. I keep getting censored by these people.
Peter Thiel and Jack Dorsey raping and killing three boys each. Turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on.

https://s3.wasabisys.com/conv1/Overnight_14-17Jan/15JanCh3_100-200.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mzZrjobxhNIEf38M3xk-IeA5SeF4aUtB/view?usp=sharing

Obama admits to raping and killing boys he{re, with commentary from Peter Thiel, George Soros, Matt Porter:

https://s3.wasabisys.com/out2/Out2/15JanCh3_0545.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LCDoc1kT7cfSeKQ1vniP_sx32_bRsHau/view?usp=sharing

Trump asks for $4 billion to "take a blind eye" at 1015+:

https://s3.wasabisys.com/conv2/3Jan/3JanCh3_900-1100.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77YG0Vr/view?usp=sharing

Trump wants $138 million to ensure smooth outcome for false judgment for a court case:

https://s3.wasabisys.com/conv1/10JanCh3/10JanCh3_951-1051.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iSeGHDToFRoRdIht50Wii0i30mlw9INp/view?usp=sharin

Obama explains the Illuminati with Jack Dorsey:

https://s3.wasabisys.com/conv1/Overnight_14-17Jan/15JanCh3_200-347.avi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ok1-9IvANULzKBOwADFgaiYCFi6yszfj/view?usp=sharing

At 230 a conversation is occurring on the embedded Porter camera system with Jack Dorsey, Peter Thiel, Barack Obama, Bill M^urray, and the Porter's. Jack Dorsey provides a statement defining who their group is: "The Illum%inati is an underground organization of child rapists and homosexuals." Matthew Porter: "We have to thin the herd, so Barack is going to explain a few things." At 232 Barack Obama says the following: "You people have to realize we are child rapi'sts. The Illuminati are child rapists. As soon as you figure that out, you can decide what to do. Everybody is freaking out about what just happened [child raping event still going on]. This is who ^we are."

Full 71 page document:

https://s3.wasabisys.com/aviewmefirst/FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf
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I've been the opposite - preferring to work at big, rather boring places. The work itself is not as exciting or fast paced, but things are stable. And I've not seen any signs of age-ism. The two guys on my team pumping out the most code are both 40+, I think 50+ actually. Sharp as tacks. And it doesn't have to be old tech. We're using a lot of Go and React now, for example.
Ask HN: What is the most time-consuming part of your job?
I honestly hadn't but just went back and watched it not. Interesting explanation there, thanks for sharing. So the point is, like you pointed out, money is just government debt.

Let's say I pay for my education in cash directly to the university, without taking any private or public sector loans. Would that cause a "deflation spiral" as you put it? It's just bypassing a middleman that is unnecessary if I had saved that cash over time to be able to pay for the goods/service I'm receiving (in this case: an education). So, yes, while money may be government debt, I don't see how avoiding private/public loans would have negative economic impacts overall on society.
So you're telling me that if I exercise restraint in the way I eat, I can lose weight as a result? Wow.
For people making minimum wage and programming on the side, that’s actually at least about 20 hours or more
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I haven't eaten before noon regularly, since I was 10, nor does my wife.
I'm not unique among my friends, each who are thin and eat 2 meals a day (sometimes snacks). I'm over 40. My mom, who is losing weight, eats exactly twice a day at 10a and 10p with a snack for lunch. I don't know a person who eats a regular measurable breakfast at work, excepting the occasional company bagels and morning coffees (we don't drink coffee either). I never questioned the normalcy of it, since I know so many others who have the same pattern shrug
Or in a book margin.
Farming ;)

Joke aside, I don't know how much of this problem is more related to older devs insisting to have the same dev employment they always had than acutally being old.

Go into management.

Become self-employed.

Start your own shop, service or product based.

Teach younger people what you know for money.

There are many jobs besides just being a "senior developer".

I've also seen many non-tech occupations becoming more technical.

Learn something unrelated on the side and try to apply your dev skills to it.

Being a dev is cool, but being a dev-lawyer, dev-md, dev-techer etc. Is probably gonna let you have a good job later.
I would add code reviews to that. The advent of those was when it really stopped being fun for me, because it's really hard to keep that from turning into "your boss nitpicking every line you write."
As much as I like to believe people can teach themselves anything, if you look at places like Kaggle, there are really no self-taught people. It's just a parade of Phd holders and grad students. I'm sure there are one or two, but clearly for most people coughing up the dough for a Computer Science / Data Science degree is indeed worth it.
Also as a quick aside, they mention that AutoTrader would've had to fix "hundreds of thousands of pages" and I'm calling bullshit. No site of that magnitude is using straight up HTML pages. Even if it's a jekyll thing where you'd have to change a bunch of templates, I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of the required changes could be done in a few seconds with any decent text editor.
The $64,000 question is "Does the experience and skills that you have as a 40+ year old make you worth hiring versus a junior developer or fresh graduate?" Unhappily for a number of people, the answer is "not really".

This is not a profession in which one can coast. Every year in which you're not learning something that makes you a better and more capable professional, whether at your job or on your own time, is one year in which you're falling behind the rest of the pack.
Folks hate Thiel for his politics. The article referenced by TFA was posted here, about half the comments were just ad hominem attacks on Thiel rather than attacking his argument.