skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a real problem. Here is my advice to people in tech. First, don't think you can work in tech until you retire. Maybe you will. But burn out is real and it usually happens gradually. The key is to save (and invest) as much money as you can in your early career so that when the time comes you have options. That also means being active and looking for jobs every 2-3 years in order to improve your salary. (you'll also gain more experience by working for different companies)

As for the learning part. Yes, finding motivation for self development is not easy when you're depressed or burned out. I'm not going to talk about dealing or treating depression since I'm not an expert. One thing I found helpful is developing different interests of mine since it solves the motivation problem. For example, recently I got into the world of investing and I'm learning a lot. This doesn't solve the problem of finding motivation for self development for work, but it helps in making me more productive and overall more excited about learning and doing.
Good luck applying this at a place like Amazon.
Stalkers case will also be a very bad publicity for Apple. 3 days isn't fair as that's enough to will allow a stalker to find home and office of a person. While most (~90%) thefts should be covered within <6 hrs timeline.
I think only requires constant learning if you do bad choices.

If you learn angular, knockout and those framework: your not learning javascript. You're wasting your time learning framework specific stuff and at the end of the day, you don't even know js.

For example if you learned react 6 years ago, you would need to learn about hooks and very few things.

I think it's just a matter of choosing the right tools.
I don't believe that any of the videos described were made for views or with the intention of having an audience. Many things go beyond your capacity for empathy if you're oblivious to them and their magnitude – they're shocking for a reason. I don't see wilful ignorance or filtered media as being a solution to any problem, but a big problem in itself. You seem to care about preventing people who "enjoy" this stuff from seeing it more than allowing anyone to see the world for what it is, if they choose.
I'm assuming you misread me, because I'm saying something to the effect of "reducing work hours and providing flexibility might be helpful for people, but the present social equilibria prevent that from happening, and mental health provides an excuse to avoid changing aspects of the economic system that have issues", and not some primitivist whatever.

Also, stress alone isn't the issue here at all.
Sciotex – Machine vision systems, automation, counting machines
I’ve been skimming this book called “Learning Web Design (5th Edition)” and it does a good job at that by including sections on the big picture and long term trends.

Its author has been in the web dev field for decades and has written multiple books on the topic. She has got some chapters written by experts in respective fields (CSS by Eric Meyer and so on)
Scam component websites springing up
I think that’s the thing they missed - WoW in the end is a glorified IRC client and removing every excuse to actually chat beyond your normal group stagnates those groups and the community dies.

A game like WoW shouldn’t be made so “everyone can do everything” either - sure it’s nice to see a raid but I never really felt the need - I had enough fun plugging along at my own pace.
Stacked cannons anyone? :P

Whether intentional or not, I think 12 unit select was one of the design choices that enabled the pros and experts to really separate themselves from the average folks.
> People who live paycheck-to-paycheck with family or medical issues wouldn't agree with you.

Considering they all go on living anyway, you’d say the good parts must outweigh the bad parts though.
> Otherwise you end up with every single statement they make being grounds for removal (e.g., "We need to fight against the special interests!, oh no, he's suggesting we fight!).

That seems to be the case in this situation. The President called on people to show up, not to riot. If the same standard was applied universally this would have a chilling effect on all protest.

This should be unnecessary to say but just in case HN thinks this is political advocacy: I personally dislike Donald Trump.
This type of stuff is what always made the west coast unappealing. Where I live, disaster is a bad ice storm, blizzard or localized flooding.

Complete devastation just isn’t my thing.
There is plenty of content they can't host and I'm sure tons of people were anxious to find examples they could use to take the site down with. Powerful governments aren't exactly too keen on the populous getting a real perspective of what war is like.

Also, bandwidth and power isn't cheap. They have to pay for it somehow.
ProcMon for Linux (Preview)
Big government contractors are more than willing to hire also.
I stumbled upon Disboard recently, a site that aggregates/categorizes Discord servers and lets you search them. https://disboard.org/
I used to do this, but now I check aliexpress.com first - usually I can find things at a third of the price, sometimes 10x cheaper, and I haven't really felt a lack of quality (just shipping speed).
> We plot single cell experiment data (lots of points) and we find vegalite, very performant.

I'd be interested in hearing more about your experience here. While I love the grammar of vega-lite (largely via altair), I've definitely run into trouble with many points. Is your work in this area available somewhere? Also, is this for Vitessce?

I think a lot of the performance issues I've come across is based on from copying data between python and the browser. For example, with a million cells you've got at least 5 floats per cell + json structure shipped to the browser. Plus this data tends to stick around in the browser. I'm bullish on approaches like moving data more quickly (possibly even sharing memory, if it isn't a real browser) via Arrow and doing aggregations on the server side with tools like altair-transform. But it's still early days for these.
> what you'd see most of the time is actually soldiers doing nothing

True, but that part of the reality of war is hardly relevant. I don’t need to emphasize with the bored soldiers. That’s part of life for me too.

I emphathize with the bored soldiers that suddenly had a massive bomb land in their midst.
No, Mark Zuckerberg was a nobody too. Having clout helps things along considerably when it comes to marketing and acquiring non-nobodies, but being a nobody is neither here nor there when it comes to potential. Replace "programmer" with whatever skills you think are most relevant.
Most of the technologies used to track people on the web have other uses as well, so this isn’t a unique case.
In my experience, "because I said so" is not a great argument.

Just one look at the way these color pickers are presented on first use, and how that selection becomes the default thereafter, tells you everything you need to know about the flimsy basis of your claims. The picker pops up and interrupts you while you're in the middle of writing a message, and then persists your choice. It's a speed bump on the way to your actual goal -- gosh, does anyone have a word for that sort of thing?

A person would have to be mighty well motivated to believe that this would be evidence of a latent demand for self-expression via skin tone.
I think implicit instead of explicit labels are only an issue for Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Nuance insists Dragon is not an assistive technology and has been basically ignoring in this area. Maybe once the deal is done Microsoft will give the subject attention, they’ve been doing a lot of good for accessibility.
Your first point, sad as it is, reminded me of this article I read, which gives clarity on how child soldiers are made in a way that I haven't read elsewhere, despite reading books on exactly that subject

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

Not related, but I'll just close by saying I didn't have the same respect that I now have for rotating shafts at industrial facilities until I saw some industrial accidents on the internet. Lo and behold years later, as a programmer, I'm working at a factory automating some things and there it is, an un-shrouded rotating shaft connected to a fairly large motor, right there at ankle level. Stink was raised, shroud was installed.
It's easy to do great when you can skirt any and all regulations.

That's the story of this entire space.

What legal protections exist there for minority shareholders in the so-called DAO?
Discipline over motivation. You need to cultivate discipline rather than relying on spurts of motivation.
The travel system in original WoW is beyond compare; the boats, the blimps and griffins, walking everywhere, finally getting a mount - it worked so well. After that long trek through the mountains to find a flight pint - so worth it. Even with a mount you’d still use the taxis (and the update letting you “travel through” was a good one) because it’d auto steer. Once the hub cities in expansions appeared it all was reduced to “hearthstone to Dalaran and hit the portal”.
Too bad. Being able to pick up a little harsh reality was a good, sometimes sobering thing.

We are trending toward a sort of digital disneyland. That depresses me.

Reality is far less pretty, and escaping that, avoiding the implications is being made easy and doing that made to pay well.

I do not see how this benefits us as people needing to know more than we do.
"people don't want "fair" though, they want to win about 2/3rds of the time"

This is why I think PvE is more sustainable for a player base and more conservatively solid as a business plan. WoW for instance.

But then by definition it isn't PvP and isn't going to get the same player base.
I’ve been able to track my SO using an AirTag registered to me. My SO did not mention if they got alerts, but I was able to see where they were at any given notice with my tag.
I prefer 'esoteric' programming languages too, they are better. Experience has taught that ecosystem is way more important for shipping stuff, so stick mostly to mainstream ones.
The last slide is enough to make one laugh out loud. Apple is crippling WebGL/WASM/PWA's and they know it. If they properly supported these incredible web technologies properly, it would enable an alternative path to distributing games/apps outside the App Store and it would provide meaningful competition, albeit eating into Apple's precious walled garden revenue generating machine significantly...
I assume the NYT could contact a collection agency and say "this guy didn't cancel his subscription, but just stoppped paying. So after 6 months of this, he owes us $xyz." And then his credit rating takes a hit.
This is good general career advice for non-depressed people (or maybe people with minor depression), but unfortunately the severely depressed person is unlikely to be very interested in anything (or not long enough to make a career out of it), and just doing career-oriented things like looking for jobs could be an enormous struggle.

Not that it's necessarily completely hopeless, and it varies from person to person, but people tend to underestimate how difficult ordinary, "easy" things are for people who are severely depressed.
(The Many) Spatial Indexes of PostGIS
> The tech field is one that requires constant and ongoing self-development and learning, or you're just going to be left behind and gradually become all but unemployable

Slight tangent, but I hear this all the time and I think it's total BS. Yes, if you're working at a big tech company and are gunning to continually move up the ladder, it's true for a while (eventually soft skills become more important for most), but I know plenty of developers who make a competitive salary, even in HCOL areas, and don't look at code outside of their 9-5 jobs.

Sure, they're not making FAANG salaries, but they're making more than enough to live comfortably on. I can name three different ex-colleagues at three different companies all making well over 100k a year and they're all still writing JQuery.

If you're not striving for the top, there are plenty of development jobs where you can make an above average salary and keep work at work.
Liveleak died years ago when they decided to begin censoring videos. Ogrish forum, the remnant of the predecessor site shut down two years ago.
Submarine Deck Logs
This seems too reductionist. It can both be sick entertainment and educational and socially valuable at the same time.
All of these "economic damage" studies have to be taken with a big grain salt due to the partial equilibrium nature of the analysis.

Take a simple example: Look at how many times waiters get sick with the flu, say a million hours per year, and then multiply by the average amount of money a waiter earns - say 20 bucks an hour -- and conclude that the flu costs the restaurant economy 20 million dollars.

Well that assumes that if the waiters didn't call in sick, that an extra 20 million dollars of tips/earnings would have been available. Yet that amount is determined by the demand for meals, not availability of waiters, and when one waiter is sick, others cover for them so all the meals get served. But then the extra labor of waiters needed to cover for each other is a cost, no? Well, again no, as collectively the pool of waiters that cover for sick waiters is the same pool that call in sick -- it is some extra volatility in hours worked, but total hours worked is unchanged. So at the end of the day, it's hard to determine how much damage to the economy is created by waiters calling in sick and covering for each other. It's certainly much, much lower than what you get by multiplying hourly wages by time spent sick.

Now come to depression. Depression may be just the mental price of brains capable of risk assessment or deep thought. Like sleep is not a dead weight cost, but just the price of having a developed brain. It's not clear that Depression is "costing" us anything anymore than sleep is costing us lost labor, and it could be that a world without depression would also be a world without genius, realism, and creativity.
It also so happens that the early users just so happen to be developers themselves, and hold a

Yes, you can achieve the same with crowdfunding/crowdsale - but then you have a corporation and regulations, and the pesky anti-dilutive and other protections of minority shareholders and so on.

Governance token should be just called what it is - equity.
Doesn’t really work on desktop.
The catch being the storage solutions employed here would have been impossible to imagine back then. But, perhaps just a 3-5 second video (like some of the gifs on the site) could have made the rounds. Even then they probably wouldn't have fit on a disk! Storage was so tough back then.
Unfortunately, the capitalist system often ends up in rent-seeking. Property rights gives folks the rights to hoard resources and rent them out. This is a complicated topic with no clear yanswer. Obviously, owning, leveraging, and renting assets is a motivator and reward to those who are winning in the game.
Whenever California is being discussed, the prop65 comment seems to show up. Given how ubiquitous the warning is, as I've seen it even on products destined for other countries, I wonder how many people who otherwise may have not heard of the state much if at all, have been taught to associate California with "that place where everything causes cancer".
I don’t think you can make an argument against the present valuation of FB on a historical performance basis.

Investors will tell you that historical performance does not guarantee future performance. It’s one yardstick, but it’s not always the best one.

Facebook’s historical revenue growth was catalyzed by environmental factors that are shifting underneath them.

In 2021, FB would not be allowed to acquire Instagram or WhatsApp. In 2021, Apple (custodians of their most valuable user base) is no longer cooperating with adware.

What does future revenue growth for a Facebook look like, who is not allowed to acquire upstart competitors, who is not allowed to extract maximum value from its mines, and who is facing regulatory scrutiny for past deeds?

Would you be willing to bet that $900B, or $300ish/share on $30 revenue/share have these uncertainties priced-in?

Yahoo! and AOL were dumpster fires in comparison, of course. But I wouldn’t be so certain that FB hasn’t passed its peak valuation, just because it has had a money printing machine for the past decade.
Thanks for sharing. I’m glad you recovered and very sorry about the others. My own family happened to escape it but my wife lost several loved ones.

> While all this was going on, I am surrounded by people who think it is all fake, nobody is dying, etc...

The saddest, craziest stories are the ones who, while the tubes were going in, used their last voluntary breaths to cry “How is this happening? The virus is a hoax!” We need to have a serious reckoning with mental health in this country.
Why is the comparison apples to oranges? You’re comparing euphemisms and a very specific definition of ‘fight’ to a direct call to escalate confrontation at protests.
How is this any different from a corporation?

At least with corporations you have legal recourse, minority shareholder protections, well developed body of law, and so on.
If you're in a relatively low comp area and decide to work remotely from a high comp city, does your location-based pay go up? Or is all "remote" work considered the same location pay-wise?

And furthermore, who's checking all of this—do you have to prove where you work, or just have a mailing address and a place to pay taxes?

I know one place that sent an inspector to verify the home office had the minimum required office equipment: a door and a shredder.
Why is it that online video games require these steady streams of updates to be viable? Chess hasn't seen an update in, well, I don't actually know the history, a thousand years maybe?

Although actually, perhaps a better example would be Smash Brothers Melee...
I may have missed it while skimming the article, but I saw no mention of how accurate the ML model was.

It may look like the results of a high fidelity simulation, but how useful is that?
Both points of view are necessary, but one is more important than the other.

The bigger deal is that in its inherent brutality, there should be a high bar for war, and that is something that people need constant reminding of.

The other is mostly a matter of public expenditure and the fact that military service is basically a form of welfare that's more palatable to many people, even if it boils down to paying people to work out and carry boxes around in a far away desert.
Team Fortress had that right - if you have a team that wants to all play medic let them do it. Perhaps have a game mode that forces 2/2/2 for those who want it but allow the mad scramble and the meta to develop organically.
Maybe it's just me, but I can't think of anything more depressing than doing the exact same thing my entire career. I think the need to stay current is an advantage of the tech industry.
Something something circle of life.
I’ll blame the the fact that I typed that in a moving car (I wasn’t the driver) and autocorrect is a bitch.
Yeah but good luck returning something from AliExpress.

I'm more into getting the stuff I want fast, and making sure it does what I want.
Have it chirp every time the owner views the location of the tracker.
I figured I could see if I'd been exposed by this backdoor by using the md5 supplied by netlab.360:

find / -type f -exec md5sum {} + | grep '^64f6cfe44ba08b0babdd3904233c4857'

Any feedback about using this method?
Especially most casual linux/programming tech videos are horrible: I do not even understand how someone watches those. You need to know how to sort files for latest entries (ls -lat) and instead of 7 chats you get a 15 minute video. How does that make sense? Not only that, you have to type the commands yourself instead of copy/paste. Very weird with larger programming explanations IMHO. Reading is vastly more efficient for me: I also absorb it better that way.

But yes, people are lazy readers it seems, so these things work for most I guess. And everything is optimized for revenue which makes stuff even more unwatchable.
The only efficiency is fleecing suckers faster.

DAOs are just unincorporated partnerships with anonymous partners.
i was about to post the same quote, since when is math concerned with social justice? Also, in my experience some people are born with mathematical ability far beyond others, it is very easy to distinguish
The Calculus and the Development of Computer Algebra Systems
Might make sense to just link to the official website

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/game-builder-garage-sw...
Yeah, I’ve long thought that the model of a relatively sparse standard library in a sufficiently expressive language is the ideal. What’s really needed is a newspeak-style parameterized “push” module system (or ML functors) to replace “pull”-style imports.

This way, modules can declare that they need certain functionality and then the end user provides it: instead of npm-style infinitely-deep dependency trees.

https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/06/ban-on-imports.html?m=1

https://wiki.c2.com/?BanOnImports
My personal fave is Crunch[1].

1: https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Crunch
Chess was actually most recently updated around 1860, when en passant was standardized: https://www.chess.com/news/view/breaking-official-rules-of-c... .
Endangered California condors 'absolutely trash' woman's house, won't leave
I think it’s worth noting that though many people would understandably view those two aspects as contradictory (biological in nature and often social and environmental in instigation) this is definitely not the dominant view of psychiatric professionals or researchers. Lead poisoning has a relatively simple cause and effect chain that few would claim is not biological, but nobody trying to combat it is blind to the environmental and social factors that determine who gets it.

You may not be the target audience of this particle piece, in the sense that they don’t have to convince you depression is worth paying attention to. When trying to signal-boost an issue, you often have to play up aspects of it that you yourself might not find to be the most acute, or even the most humane as in this case. If this is the angle that has to be taken to get it taken seriously by some people, I’d rather the argument be made than not.
An actual code explorer that supports module folders / hierarchy is added to the VBA IDE by this: https://rubberduckvba.com/.
(I learned today that Rubber duck exists... I'm looking forward to trying it.)
As I understand it, the Orbit platform presents the cards to you within the context of the text you are studying, where you'd probably want to create a card yourself if you were making them.

For example you just read a section of a text and decide you should make a card for it. In Orbit the text would provide the card pre-made.

I could also imagine extending this to make it possible for the reader to create personalize review prompts, on the fly, and build up a personal card deck for the text.
HTML Native Search. Nice
Sure but mobas are much closer to action RPGs than RTS games in the actual game experience. The origin story as a mod for a RTS is interesting but doesn’t lock in the genre
The key to WoW originally was having a solid core group to play with - it really wasn’t “soloable” the way it is now - and arguably that’s better for the game.

Last time I played a WoW expansion I got to level cap basically solo.
> People who live paycheck-to-paycheck with family or medical issues wouldn't agree with you.

You wouldn't know if you were talking to such a person right now without making a circular argument such that "a person without privilege cannot think the world is an OK place and since they think that they must be a person of privilege". Existence of depression and anxiety across all socioeconomic strata proves that logic wrong.