skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i recently listened to the bruce springsteen audiobook, 'born to run' -- it was great.

he talks a lot about his depression and how he finally got out of his deep rut, after 40 years of on/off again depression, sometimes severe

said he 'had it all' and still almost 'ended it all', so he totally gets it

i've never had it that bad, but i get it too, as much as anyone can who hasn't faced it directly

think he ended up just trying some particular drug mix that fixed him -- or, fixed him enough

so i do think there can be rewards to sticking it out as much as possible

and continuing to read about anyone who has ever talked about 'the black dog', like winston churchill.

i do wonder about the lifestyle stuff, tho

i always think back to that bored rat vs. playpen rat and water vs. cocaine experiment

if you are already getting at least 15 min of high intensity exercise (even a stationary bike, or the 'force fitmill sunny $400' --> recommend)

and you're eating right-ish

then those are both great

but i also wonder what, if anything, changing your job might do.

even if you try to switch to a 4-day/32-hour work week to start

take the salary cut if you need to

then look for other, more people-centric work? or physical labor-oriented?

or even start picking up small IT projects on Upwork or by pinging local businesses, etc.? to mix it up?

maybe try to change roles even within the same company? flip to qa, tech support, pre-sales, etc.? or a diff company?

just some ideas.

...one thing i heard back in the day, not sure i ever followed it myself - think i tried once - something like, "Do more of the things you like to do, and less of the things you don't like to do." seems reasonable.
> we can extract energy from anything flammable or otherwise reactant.

You don’t need that either. Stacking concrete blocks can work as a battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmrwdTGZxGk
I'm trying to describe to you a pattern of behaviour where US enemies get attacked under the guise of supposed human rights, democracy and freedom. Based on past cases, surely you can see how regardless of the reality, concerns about "authoritarianism" can be used to serve the extraction of super-profits from the working class of the global south?
It doesn’t have to “come with” an HSA. If you have an HDHC plan, you can use a third-party HSA. (An employer plan may come with an employer contribution, of course.)

It is the best type of retirement account when used that way and I think it’s worth at least $1K/yr today assuming you’ll be able to drain it before it turns into an IRA.
> It's perfectly normal and good...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
> How can you trust your judgement on whether they’re truthful about bigger things?

You can't. You will believe what you want to believe, and good liars are great at finding out what you want. A well constructed lie rests on verifiable foundations - ie. they also know when not to lie to earn your trust - and comprises of almost exclusively truths. There is no way to defend yourself once you become the target and start listening.

The only winning move is not to play.
Hmm perhaps it isn't in my comments... thought I had talked about it with this account. I was doing 60 to 80 hour work weeks until the last few months which turned into 100 hour work weeks (3am start time, phased sleep, working weekends).
This was all for a covid19 start up.
That would likely unironically be a thing if Google were a german company.
I often find these interesting.

https://english.stackexchange.com/

https://ell.stackexchange.com/
You obviously don’t employ anybody
He explains pretty directly why they were needed - current measures of inequality ignore significant government transfers to low income people.

As to the details, yes, it would be interesting to dig into.
I believe it is called "Strong Access Ordering Mode" and it is defined in the ISA, but I can't find any good reference online.

edit: this patent from 2012 from IBM references SAO:

https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2012101538A1/en
For a person covered on a spouse’s better insurance, it’s possibly worth $0. If you’re going to be covered for catastrophic incidents, that’s economically worth more than $0 no matter how healthy you are.
This is great. I might use it next time I'm job hunting.
It will get even more India focused because of the latest laws.
This x 100! My pronunciation in Czech is now pretty bang on, but when I started I didn't elongate "long" vowels enough - by that I mean a vowel like "á" should be pronounced about 50% longer than "a". My great example is when I was trying to tell my friend something about a pub called "u čápa". She told me she didn't know it, which was surprising as it was well known within my friend group. I explained its location and she said "ahhhhh, you mean u čápa!". I couldn't believe it - the difference between "I know this" and "What are you talking about, I have no clue what that could possibly be" was like 50 milliseconds more "a". But it makes sense - if you've only ever heard correct Czech your likely won't know dodgy Czech. Most native-English speakers have plenty of exposure to various levels of English-language ability, either directly via speaking to a tourist or indirectly through various other media (radio, TV, film, podcast, music).
Unfortunately low fees haven’t come to the third party HSA world (yet) so the employer provided account has intrinsic value. That said even without it I’d bet my equations stay the same.
I would agree with you but healthcare isn't a liquid/tangible asset like own stock or making cash is. I can't take out my healthcare the same way I can sell stock or collect a paycheck. Which in my opinion makes all the difference when calculating income. Its a much easy argument to make when healthcare's cost can be much greater than funds paid out. For instance if the equation for income was Income = Wages + Asset_growth (simplistic) but you could compare two people person A makes 10$ person B makes 100$. There is a lot of income inequality but if you add healthcare to that which is only "cashable when sick" of say 20$ both parties have a real delta of 100$ but there % difference lowered significantly in this case it went from 90% to 75% even though the actually income which people can choose how it is spent and use still has a 90% difference. Sounds like adding extraneous variables to mask more interesting differences
This has a pretty powerful 'auto' mode where it grades your practice and steers you towards practicing the bits that you have problems with, it doesn't require you to subscribe to any service or pay (the data is yours and it stays on your computer).

It tracks your progress in a very detailed way and remembers how you played a piece before to help you play it better in the future. It aims at making you independent of the program and to teach you to play well. It still is no substitute for a teacher, but it is certainly better than nothing at all. I have some plans to incorporate all of the Mayron Cole course into it but that will take a long time (and I currently do not have a whole lot of time, but that will change soon).
As an aside, I agree regarding the constant advertisement on Twitter, but I find the constant oversharing even worse. So many times I will see a few quality tweets from someone I don't follow, either retweeted by people I do follow or just recommended by the Twitter algorithm. Then when I do follow them the occasional interesting tweet is outnumbered 10:1 by mundane personal information about e.g. their kids or what they're having for dinner. No complaints about random people who use it as a social platform amongst friends doing this, but serious jouranlists with 50k followers who use Twitter as a career tool also do it. It reeks of narcissism.
This is an interesting idea. I don't want to just scrape by though, I'd like to use the skills I've acquired over the years to do something that doesn't involve being a full time employee for a company.
The WHO is a horrible cobbled together mess of political interference and compromises.

The WHO is also a vital resource for developing nations which lack the technical infrastructure and know-how to do their own research or develop their own policies, and depend on support from the WHO to advise and provide resources to deal with medical crises. It's out there saving lives across the developing world every day.

Both of these things are true, but the reason the WHO is a political football is because the nation states it depends on for funding and resources keep kicking it about for their own political purposes. The WHO is the organisation our countries have built, organised the way we structured it, vulnerable to nation state interference so that our nations can interfere with them when we want to.

The only way to get the job the WHO are tasked with done properly is to stop kicking them about and actually support them in their efforts. Insist they be freed from nation state interference, stop blaming them for being kicked about, and go after the nation states interfering with and undermining them. That also means reforming the WHO itself and better resourcing it. We need to stop being part of the problem and start being part of the solution.
They’ve never coded before. Completely fresh!
As long as there aren't as much women studying all kinds of engineering, you're going to see disparaties in the workforce. Lets stop trying to force equal distribution but rather equal opportunity.

Funny thing to see is that as a country becomes MORE developed, women tend to be LESS inclined to attend STEM studies.
I'd be fairly sceptical of something like this, given the source. Here's a better start for looking at inequality: the World Inequality Database's World Inequality Report 2018. Authors include Piketty, Saez and Zucman, who are heavyweights in the field:

https://wid.world/document/world-inequality-report-2018-engl...

If anyone wants the full nerd treatment, I teach a class on this topic and can list a bunch of academic papers.
It does mimic an MLM-Pyramid and Ponzi scheme, and this is exactly why they keep investing - they need to keep it moving - creating tools for people to use, even though competitively they cost more - but for early adopters using their early bought Bitcoin (etc) they've already gained profit and aren't spending their initial investment, they are also re-investing to perpetuate the appearance of adoption and usefulness.

Nowhere have I ever seen a "this is how much this costs vs. current options" in pitch decks for these companies though - price competitiveness since the beginning of time being the most important factor for competition (aside from governance which we'll eventually get back to).

Edit to add: I 100% expect all of my counter-narrative posts to get downvoted as Bitcoin "army of HODLers" is financially incentivized to suppress anything negative about their scheme.
If this is true, then the former students will lose their lawsuits. Surely it is better for this to be aired in court than for the government to claim sovereign immunity.
Free as in Climbing: Open Data Project Threatened by Bogus Copyright Claims
I understand that this article seeks to clarify and help the learning process, but this perspective could easily be co-opted by institutionalized racism to exclude ESL students and developers.
freecodecamp is a pretty decent resource.
It is pretty shitty of them to write those things about a kid, but they were asked to make a judgement. They weren't using these observations to figure out if you were lying, and when you say they thought you were "out to get them", you're actually playing into the same armchair psychology they were.

I don't mean to give you grief because I've been in similar situations. But I hope you've learned from it that people will hold you responsible for behaviors they observe, and not for your intentions behind them (e.g. acting sullen because you are actually terrified inside).
The reason humans are the dominant species
Sure. That's also great if you can monetize trained ML models so easily that everyone can participate.

It's already being done to some very small degree by few companies that locate their ML server farms in places where energy is cheap and renewable.

I hope this application will some day compete with crypto for computing power and energy and win but I don't think it will be popularized and commoditized soon enough to bring money into green energy.

I hopefully await headlines "ML training now uses as much energy as Australia".

If you could create crypto based on ML training it would be so cool.
Are you saying that any government redistribution is unhealthy? That seems a little extreme.
From reading comments by the current NSA commander during his meeting with congress election security is not a top priority. I don’t believe he even raised the subject. He did comment on the SolarWinds and MS Exchange comprises as top concerns.

From those points I suspect the concerns are foreign government intrusion into US information systems and data exfiltration generally speaking.
It will happen, because the developers will get the same fees what the miners get right now without spending energy (which is a risky and low margin industry).

Good luck getting real institutional money getting into PoS based systems though, PoW took 10 years to get accepted as a secure store of value for the tresuries.
Thanks I think this is good advice. To clarify: I'm leaning towards indie game dev and contracting on the side for a while so I can find my balance again. I am very burned out. 100 hours per week and being involved directly with covid 19 testing took its toll.
> Good to know that Linux has finally joined the fresh tech wave of the 90's and copied that basic useful function.

I don't think anyone has said that Linux didn't do this in the 90s too, e.g. KDE supports this since KDE2, released in the year 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Desktop_Environment_2

In pretty much its current transparent form, though more protocols have been added since.

Not sure what CDE supported, which I think was the big pre-Gnome/KDE UI.
Which are? (non-american here so I don't know about your immigration system)
Things that will get your PR rejected...
It’s so totally misguided IMO that I feel like I am maybe not understanding that.

It seems to inspired or in the spirit of ‘The Ministry for the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson.

“ It’s called Carbon Coin in the book, a Bitcoin-like currency that the Ministry gives out for carbon sequestration — that is, any project that sucks CO2 out of the air, whether it’s carbon capture or farmers rewilding their fields — at a rate of one coin to one ton. Oil companies get coins if they stop being oil companies, basically, leaving their assets in the ground for a century or so. Coins can then be bought and sold on currency exchanges like any other.”

The only argument I can see is that the sheer resource hunger will force our hand in using renewable energy. Of course, I am not saying this is a good argument at all.

There is no such thing as virtual energy. And the other forms of payment we use are a million times more energy effective.

What bothers me is that newsletters as this one who I believe are widely read serve this up as a good idea.

https://www.exponentialview.co/p/ev-315

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Somewhere in the parallel universe, far far away ....
Private companies are allowed to negotiate with unions, no? That's the point of a union - to have an organizational body that allows members to vote. All Elon is saying is that Tesla won't be providing stock options to a union. The union could still strike if they don't get what they want - but this being considered a threat or union busting is akin to a temper tantrum because you don't like that something you're currently getting (candy<->stock) then you'll no longer get.
This is boiler plate Gladwell critique and has been part of his reputation for a long time. Ironically I think we are due for a contrarian shift back to him being brilliant.
Why would it be the same? The purpose of "Watch" is to have a notification.
> Life expectancy, abolishment of oppression (slavery, debtor's prisons, serfdom, involuntary servitude, military conscription in many countries), educational attainment, and even standard of living have all improved

What fancy measures you have. How about "cost of owning a house", "cost of getting an education", "cost of getting health care" instead of those banal measures you got there?

Nobody cares that life is comparatively better than during Roman times.
Our fathers and our grandfathers lived a better easier life. In particular they had much better economic opportunities. People are upset about those opportunities evaporating.
ocaml is statically typed, it just uses type inference for 99% of cases.
So your're wrong in this case, he got all the advantages from static typing. Errors ade found at compile time.
You're confusing strong and static typing (javascript has neither). In more sophisticated languages such as scala, C# or haskell you can let the compiler infer the types for you, and you can then ask your IDE which type that is. This way you don't need to type out all the boilerplate, you get to see what a functions signature is, and you get compiler errors rather than runtime errors.
Yep. Even if the US brought manufacturing back (whatever that means since output is higher than ever), the jobs would not come back.
> Anyone that tells you that the SATs are not biased towards native speakers is full of putrescible waste.

> The long, flowery and poetic usages came later, via French, Italian and Latin, the language of the French invaders from 1066.

My wife (nonnative speaker, European, Romance language) started looking at GRE vocabulary at one point. She found most of the hard words were super easy; it was the everyday ones that proved tricky.
You can then refuse to work, as a group, and that will apply pressure to Tesla.
While I do agree, it's also often incredibly difficult to compare monetarily.

Plans vary in coverage and out of pocket expenses significantly combined with the fact you don't know what you will need to use the insurance for, if anything at all.

When you're younger, it's less likely it's valuable, when you're older, it's more likely that it's valuable.

If you have a preexisting condition (say someone needs dialysis), it's a little bit more straightforward because you already know what sort of services you need. Ultimately you don't know what you service provider will end up charging the insurance to cover costs, how little your insurance will try and provide, and what you'll have left to pickup on the tab.

Furthermore, employers are known to shop the market for better deals, so the insurance you sign up for could shift in 6-12 months. I factor insurance into comp but I look at only the most general attributes and I don't weight these as directly as compensation because I (knock on wood) am fairly healthy and tend not to use my insurance.
> Nobody ever dismissed it.

You must've missed out on previous HN discussions. I remember these guys in particular being paraded around:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBQplOe8-LE

I did find their tone quite dismissive, and the verdict in the title leaves little room for interpretation.

> What was dangerous was pointing the finger at China and saying “this is all their fault!” without any evidence.

True, but that's irrelevant to the plausibility of the hypothesis.

> There STILL is not evidence, but that doesn’t mean it should not be investigated as a source.

Arguably, it's still dangerous to do exactly that.
And, even if not bad, relatively simple. If you do what I'll refer to as business writing, even if you don't totally dumb it down and chop it up into short sentences as tools like Grammarly will nag you to, your editor is still not going to want a lot of long sentences, "SAT words," complex tense structures, etc.
I think it’s worth noting that that finding is not universal, and other studies do find the opposite. My brief skim through Google scholar does seem to show a fairly divided field here.

http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Whitening%20MS%...

https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/19805/1/Cole%20et%20al.%2020...

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/36436480/Gender_et_bia...
Having an open mind but is good but make sure your brain doesn't fall out of its skull. Just because a mining operation produces methane gas and it is better to burn this gas at the site and turn it into carbon dioxide because it is the lesser of green house gasses shouldn't mean you can sell this as a carbon offset since there is still a net contribution.
I think you'd get a better reaction if you dropped the straw men and the persecution complex.

The thing is – you are in some ways correct! The US has a large welfare and social security system. It's hard to compare directly, but it's probably reasonable to say that US social spending is in the same ballpark as many European countries.

The point about an "exceptionally progressive taxation system" is of course nonsense, and the idea that the "popular narrative" claims the US has "no welfare state, no social safety net" is misleading. In reality, the popular argument is that these services is the US are exceptionally broken. There is no effective "social safety net" if that system fails to capture people so often. It's like US healthcare expenditure – spending that's fare above that of many countries with efficient, effective, and universal systems, but with a huge chunk of the population unable to access it.

However, even an article like this—which tries to choose a comparison to make its ideological point as forcefully is possible—only manages to claim that income inequality has shrunk to a relatively limited extent, if you count all forms of government spending as income! Not a ringing endorsement.

The US is so weird with this stuff. Massive government spending programs with a culture that wants to deny it, resulting in this messed-up system with massive spending and rubbish outcomes.
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Oh no contest from me - I’m just telling you what I’ve seen in the wild :) also I don’t think it’s about saving time, but about the seatbelt being uncomfortable over long periods (observed this with taxi drivers who are behind the wheel a lot - another thing I’ve seen is, they buckle up when entering the highway, unbuckle when exiting into a residential neighbourhood - police presence and fines for not having the seat belt on are tougher on the highway. At this point they are actually wasting time vs. just leaving the seat belt on all the time, so it must be because of the discomfort... I guess)
Well, low intensity heat. It's trivial to create a setup where you take your hot morning shower with water heated in last noon's solar surplus. Setups like that are actually not uncommon at all, but they use direct solar heat extraction instead of photovoltaics. But a "bitcoined" version would be way too small scale and idle way too much to ever make back the hardware expense, at least unless progress suddenly stops.

Granted, it could still provide value beyond hot water: if you happened to own a considerable amount of bitcoin, your net worth would benefit from a greenwashing strawman giving bitcoin some more press attention.
This is the main problem. It’s hard. We could fix it if we were despotic and put people into tracks like the USSR who turned out lots of talented women in STEM, but were not and Film, TV and YT, etc highlight the easy life of glamour and fame, etc. So you end up with a million wanna be starlets and fewer women in STEM than statistics would have.

Let “Hollywood” glamorize STEM, propagandize it and you’ll get a better pool of talent. Instead the proposition is to scrape the bottom of the barrel harder.
When you’re competing against another business, you’re on relatively even footing.

When you’re competing against a government dropping taxpayer money out of metaphorical helicopters, it’s not exactly an even competition.
Except the same-damn-product ads also come up for things that make very little sense for re-purchase: artwork, DVDs, books, and so on.