skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, what’s distressing is that those at the bottom have nothing, and those just above the bottom are literally swimming for their lives, treading water and trying not to die.

Do you know what one of the animal models for depression is? It’s called the “behavioral despair test,” but it’s actually much crueler and more insidious than it sounds.

Put a mouse in an inescapable cylinder filled partly with water. The mouse will initially try to swim and escape, but eventually gives up. Remove the mouse after 15 minutes. Just 24 hours later, the procedure is repeated and the mouse gives up after less than 5 minutes. The mouse has become depressed.

These are the conditions that capitalism knowingly imposes on those at the bottom of the economic ladder. Living paycheck to paycheck just to keep a roof over one’s head, if one is lucky, is what it’s like for a huge swath of America.

And, this is, if not “by design,” working as intended!

Can you honestly tell me that a literal 24/7 struggle to survive isn’t “self evidently mentally distressing?” Because it sounds to me like a recipe for PTSD and depression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_despair_test
>Depression may be just the mental price of brains capable of risk assessment or deep thought.

There are plenty of very smart people who aren't depressed, but I don't know of any smart people who don't sleep.
Dude seriously the stuff in Brazil is next level. Mexico I felt like they were stone cold but had some semblance of reason for doing stuff. Brazil was just primal.

I was in Brazil for a month, luckily before I watched a lot of those types of vids. Honestly it’s a dangerous place, right beneath the veneer. If you get off the path and into a hairy situation you might be done.
Equally depressing is the thought of giving up all the ground gained and lessons learned every time a new fad takes the stage. Watching the same mistakes made over and over, only moreso... That's depressing.
No doubt! I know one of those, and they made it through.

It is rough. I can see them question just about everything and feeling a little lonely, due to their peer group not identifying very well with their struggle.

Yeah, I had a couple loooooong nights deep breathing, eye on an oximeter. Was early enough to feel a lot of angst about going to the hospital! We were not good at treatment yet, people go in, die alone...

Woke me right the fuck up.

Not to say I was anti, but I had not really internalized what was happening. Was not as careful as I could have been. Definitely did not have all the info I could have had.
After a certain point wealth has very little correlation with happiness. Once you get above basic needs the return on wealth to happiness really quickly diminishes.
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Dude. Thank you for sharing.

What did you do when you saw it?

What would you say back?

Are you leaving any easter eggs for your own offspring?
Blizzard just letting Starcraft 2 die with no clear replacement in sight makes no sense to me at all.
Different strokes for different folks. I would go bananas having to keep up with the totally unnecessary technology treadmill: re-skilling again and again forever, on new hotness technology fads just because they’re new.

“I can’t wait to rewrite this legacy software in Rust!” - said not me.
Perhaps the increasing prevalence of "opportunities" to denounce things and endorse political beliefs had something to do with the decision to move away from politics in the office. If Thea opportunities can be freely presented at any time and demand a positive response or invite condemnation, surely you can see how this might be considered wasteful from a business point of view.
What alternative exist for close family relationships, for people who were abused by their families?
I read in a book, the idea is to break away from a similar kind of task and get back to it after break. If you are still at the computer doing other things while the code is being executed, you are in the same zone different task. But if you use the breaks to do a completely different activity you will be able to come back with a fresh mind and do the task well.

So read a paper book , take a walk, print research papers and read them when you are waiting,

The idea is to treat each of the tasks between waiting as individual task.

Edit: book mind of numbers
Liveleak stopped hosting gore, including controversial videos, many years before this shut down.
Point taken, but I'd argue that those people who manage to work 9-5 for extended periods of time are, first, probably not suffering from severe depression, and second are actually participating in on-the-job learning that really adds up over the years.

If you have severe depression, you are probably going to be missing out on years (or even decades) of work, and not learning nearly as much either on or off the job... or at most learning a bit on the rebound from your depression (as it's often cyclical, and even severely depressed people tend to have better days when they feel at least somewhat motivated or at least manage to keep it together).

Such severely depressed people are just not going to be competitive with people who manage to keep on working 9-5 for most of their career, even if the latter put in zero extra effort to learn outside of work.
Yeah and these “it’s all good! We’re all humans!” people seriously need to watch it and then realize you need to back up proper diplomacy with force if needed.
There are Usenix papers on bash and ksh -- I archived the ksh one here:

http://www.oilshell.org/archive/ksh-usenix.pdf

The surprising thing to me is that ksh was Lua-like in terms of being embeddable and Perl-/Python-like in terms of having GUI bindings(!) and being a rich language. Though I don't think it has garbage collection and thus was fundamentally more limited in its data structures than Perl/Python/JS/Ruby/PHP, etc.

My viewpoint is that shell should be more like the dynamic languages that won -- which are basically those 5. I elaborated on that here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/n1y2p...

Probably one of the longest documents is a 182 page Master's thesis from the author of the Oh shell, linked here:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells

There are many sections, but one of them goes into history, and other sections explore alternatives.

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Ken Thompson's original paper on shell just popped up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235450 (it was scanned and revived)

There are also interviews with Stephen Bourne around. I would say that those 4 shells form the "dominant" strain: Thompson shell -> Bourne Shell -> ksh -> bash, although there are many offshoots.

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If you want some fun reading that's not about the shell specifically but about Unix and language-oriented interfaces, check out "In the Beginning Was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson (search HN archives, it has appeared many many times).

Also I recommend "The Art of Unix Programming" by Raymond for how to design programs that work well with shell. It has history and Ken Thompson gives some commentary (in the print version, at least).

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I have a lot of thoughts on where shell is going in the future and I try to put most of them on https://www.oilshell.org/ ! Although it's easy to design something in your head but often hard to implement a solid version of it. For example I still think shell, awk, and make should be combined but that was over 4 years ago :) http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/13.html

(I have made some progress on those fronts by deferring some tasks to Ninja, which is very Unix-y and nice. And some of the foundations for awk-like structured data are now in Oil)
If you start calling modern social justice issues with a term without that historical "baggage", then it would quickly be dismissed as [first world problem](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=First%20Worl...)
Nothing since has compared to Action Quake II though some get close.
That sort of coverage doesn't sway people who have decided already not to subscribe to facts, domain experts, or reality. Conservatives would be shown videos of known popular conservatives online storming the capitol, and in all serious start claiming that these people were actually secretly Democrats or something there to make conservatives look bad. Some would call these would be videos of ICUs fake, just like some people think the moon landing is fake.

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - Orwell.
Have you looked into instrumenting zipkin or opentracing? I instrumented zipkin in a Java project and found it generally pretty easy
Goregrish
Is this to mean "People aren't killing themselves, ergo everything must be pretty good for them generally"? Because, if that's what's meant here, I have to pretty vehemently disagree with that sentiment.
I feel your wifes loss!

She OK, well connected to others and all that?

That gets better, but is a thing that does stay with us, changes us.

I need to be in touch often because of my own experiences. Hope she finds what she need to carry on and live well.
(I don't think that's the link you thought it was!)
Ew. This is coming mainstream. I have recently noticed young "american-style" super-fat women, which were quite uncommon in Finland and only associated with some actual physical disorder. Looks to me even that they do this willingly, to be part of the western feminist "body-positive" movement. Could be wrong, could be right, but "ew" anyways.
How much of LiveLeak is archived?
US declares support for patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines
In addition to the other points that have been made about how ad spending, confusing wording and public misinformation campaigns are waged against the state’s electorate every two years, there is also an issue of framing and context.

The propositions are presented in isolation without context. Somethings need to be considered holistically. Budgets are a classic example of this. There are trade offs. Any spending in one area means that those resources don’t go to other things. Should we fund cancer research? Yes. Firefighters? Yes. Why not both? Because we also need to fund schools, hospitals, roads, and the entire public sector. As a reasonably well educated and informed citizen it is not feasible to responsibly weigh in on a specific funding item. You would need to understand all the other aspects. As my grandfather (a third generation Californian) explained to me: if you aren’t 100% sure of what a proposition says vote No.
I've had a lot of jobs in academia and only had an office once, for about 6 months, because nobody else needed it.
Pinterest is killing google image search and is a major reason I fully abondoned google search in favor of ddg.
No VBA. Just lookups and conditional formatting
It's hard to theorize because Blizzard made so few tweaks to the game. I can't speak on "fun", but before 2/2/2 the problem was supports were way too powerful (Overwatch has always had a problem with supports being too powerful). The GOATS meta was a reflection of this where you were borderline throwing if you chose DPS. It's telling how many metas were driven by a support that was too powerful (Brigette; GOATS, Moth meta; Mercy, Nanoblade/Beyblade; Ana). Having too powerful supports means that ultimates are the only thing that kills anyone.

Of course Blizzard had a challenge designing supports - if they were too weak they were unfun to play but if they are too strong then your entire dedicated player base complains for months.

Ultimately I think the problem was the lack of diversity among the other supports/tanks. The relatively few amount of tanks/supports ultimately meant that the community would quickly coealesce on an optimal tank setup (Rein/zarya, Winston/dva, etc), and as a tank/support player it became boring to play because picking an off-meta tank would be seen as a throw. There's little that is worse than queing to play your favorite tank and the other 5 players yelling at you to switch to $meta.
Btw the current first line prescriptions are extremely suboptimal:
SSRIs cause sexual disfunction in 60% and even pssd
Bupropion cause tinnitus
TCAs are neurotoxic
MAOIs have a diet that is not hard to follow.

Irreversible or transdermal MAOIs are the answer for first line treatment - >
Moclobemide and Emsam
They have almost no side effects and are more effective.
A GPS-only tracker would raise the bar a bit, more expensive+power use. With the Find My network and UWB, it just seems like bar has been lowered without adequate protections.
All the data is in the spreadsheet. When it gets updated so does the map view (along with a bunch of other charts)
Man those essays are some hot garbage. If you read them, you come away thinking that the US just decided to attack Iraq to make a point to Saddam. Let me quote it

> Unlike earlier wars, in which there were political aims either of conquest or domination, what is at stake in this one is war itself: its status, its meaning, its future.

A beautiful sentence, but Saddam invaded Kuwait with the intent of conquering it. The essays would better be titled “Kuwait does not exist”.
You shouldn’t be afraid to leave a bad job, but if you are in your 3rd job in as many years and are thinking of leaving the problem starts looking like you rather than your employers.

I can buy I’d you move once or twice quickly, if are clearly showing progression, or have some explanation (those were contracts, my source kept getting relocated, etc) but I agree with GP that regularly flitting between companies/positions in less than a year isn’t great look without an alternative narrative.
Network effects make Mastodon and Diaspora irrelevant. Facebook is political discussion with your contacts., Twitter is public political discussion.
Not sure what you mean by plotting library but I cannot install any software so all I could use was Excel
What?

> how were they making money?

That clearly was the problem - they weren't.

They lived in a space where no advertiser would work with them, they don't have a 'paid content' feature. General population does not "hang out" on LiveLeak. You go there and then leave.

What is all this about "journalism"? What journal going to feature actual death videos?
Perhaps the lack of graphic Covid videos isn't because people are too shy to post them.

Covid is nasty, but at the end it's just another respiratory viral disease, a.k.a. "common cold".

It's just that before we ignored the human toll of the "common cold". (Yes, it is nasty and causes e.g. strokes and heart attacks and pneumonia. It's a leading cause of death that we never bothered to report before because we're so desentisized to it.)
>On the other hand, here in the UK - the socialized healthcare system is making it much easier to ensure doses get to people who need them. Something like 95% of over 50s have gotten their first dose. While I may not like it, the vaccine rollout is slowly going down the age ranges (40+ and vulnerable people are eligible now)

Vaccines are available for all Americans 16 and older. I'm not sure when this occurred nationwide, but California made vaccines avaiable to everyone 16 and older since April 15, and other states did so before then.

>The AZ vaccine was also researched in the UK, with lots of production here too. That especially surprising considering very little vaccine production happened here before COVID.

The UK invested a lot of money to build plants during the past year.

>What is probably hurting Canada is their small population, making researching and producing their own vaccine much more difficult.

Canada produces a lot of vaccines; just not the types appropriate to convert to COVID19 shots.
>Americans have a huge "denier politics" problem that other Western nations just don't have.

Anti-vaccine sentiment is higher in Europe than in the US. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2021/03/08/covid-19...
>People in general made good faith efforts to obey mandates but the "finish line" or goalpost keeps moving.

For example, see Fauci explicitly admitting to doing this. https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/vinay-prasad/90445
Every phone should have a UWB scanner, to scan for these things.
Also if your Tesla crashes itself, Tesla will release only enough data to tarnish you, even if you weren't actually driving.
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>(I've been an early adopter on that line of thought, he basically got famous early in the pandemic for how much of a failure his state was but people didn't realize it)

It's hilarious to look back in retrospect at how inflated Cuomo and DeBlasio's egos got in the early days of the crisis when NYC was one of the world's epicenters. They clearly both believed that appearing on national television in their "daily briefings" would lead them to greater things, perhaps the White House. (Same happened with Newsom in California.) Welp.
Is the United States Heading Towards a New Real Estate Bubble?
>Following that, we had a coordinated national effort to combat it rather than a laissez-faire approach of letting every state do as they please (which often meant nothing at all in many states).

As refurb said, this is completely wrong. Canada is decentralized (yes, including its healthcare system) like the US. Ottawa didn't mandate the Atlantic Bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Bubble), for example; the Atlantic provinces set it up on their own. Ontario's recent lockdown—far stricter than occurred anywhere in the US, as I understand it—is just that, in Ontario.
I could have definitely been one of those cheering you on as I flipped off one of the people you were blocking. The road is similar to the internet in the way it allows some people to dehumanize others.
Oligarchization of the internet.
I feel helpless after clicking around trying to find a live demo that I can play with. I have no idea how this tool works by just reading the documentations.

Having an example with code on the side can make it much much more clear what your tool does.
I feel the esports is a big part of why SC2 had issues - it was better when Blizzard wasn’t trying to make an esports platform and instead just made a game.
That's exactly the scary thing about war though.

You can grow up, go to school, make friends, fall in love, fall out of love, graduate, move, make new friends, learn to cook, fall back in love, buy a home, get a job, get a new job, learn to paint, fix that leak in the kitchen...

And then a car bomb goes off while you're walking by and all that time spent is gone.
Nick’s geology talks are a near-perfect mix of academic science, and dynamic storytelling.
I took covid seriously when a doctor I follow on Twitter shared how bad things were early on.
> otoh a cult leader with millions of followers, we do care about that.

Who was the cult leader spouting racist hate?
I feel decentralized storage and better tools are the key both for technical and social reasons. We should start looking at old data just like we look at old paintings, old parchment books and fossils - as things with inherent intangible value to be preserved for, and by, every generation.

Centralized archives are single points of failures subject to political and business pressures. Political ideologies and their governments love to hide or rewrite inconvenient histories. I feel centralized archives (like Wayback Machine or Google's initiative) can't be trusted or relied upon for long-lasting access.

Something that surprises me is that the tech community seems to feel the necessity for long-term archiving much more strongly than the history / sociology / humanities research communities. I expected university humanities departments would be at the core of such initiatives.
>Existence of depression and anxiety across all socioeconomic strata proves that logic wrong.

Further supporting the argument that the world is not "mostly an OK place".
I'm curious if cultural trends are too blame also. In today's age, heterosexual relations intending to make a family aren't exactly on the pedistool. Wokeness idolizes the most disenfranchised identities, detests patriarchy, and doesn't exactly complain about sacrificing sperm to the glow of digital pornography. Should I even mention abortion?

Oops.

Google "Symbolic world". It's the simulation theory smashing into religion, and it marks the end of the "enlightenment" age that material reductionism has given us.

It's going to be a wild ride, brace yourselves.
Color me a wee bit dubious.
Hey! A no-RUD landing!(Rapid Unplanned Disassembly) I think it did the transition back to vertical at a higher altitude than previous attempts. Too bad there was cloud cover and the video was not working.
ever find this out? I put it in my address bar and it tried to open my mpv player
This is false information. There is definitely an active development team and the yearly new coin caps are pretty controlled with a decreasing inflation rate that will reach zero eventually.

It's absolutely built to be a real crypto at this point.
Thanks! In addition to the other links I posted, here are high level thoughts on shell:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/philosophy-design.html

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/04/build-ci-comments.html (We need a language and abstraction for containers that composes, and that runs locally; containers relate to data dependencies, which relates to Ninja and make, which are shell-like)

I try not to let the ideas get too far ahead of implementation, so those posts mostly link to comments that speculate on ideas.

One big change in the last month, that I haven't blogged about, is a new headless mode which I just mentioned a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27055926

The idea is basically to separate shell into 2 processes: UI and interpreter/runtime. Shell is a text- and language-oriented interface, but it doesn't have to be a terminal-oriented one! This has an initial implementation that I'm pretty excited about. If you want to write a shell UI but don't want to write a language, join #shell-gui on on the oilshell Zulip (link on home page).

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Also it's great to see this work on shell parallelization, and looking forward to hearing about it at HotOS :)
> Tesla seems to have learned from that experience and gone with a very different architecture

Have circuit diagrams?
Wow. High quality stuff. Great API. Lots of demos! (https://ptsjs.org/demo/?name=sound.freqDomain is the best).
Hah foolish. There are many well-written posts in this thread that say the exact opposite of you. They’re right.

With the money part I agree with you (most would).
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
The same arguments could made against Btc and Eth just a couple years ago. I did lose an embarrassing amount betting on them circa 2018. Even today, Btc could suffer a 51% hash power takeover that would for all intents ruin Btc. Betting on Doge is not any more risky than the average crypto project.

Given the mainstream's reaction to crpyto, Doge, being cast as a refreshing, non pretentious alternative to Btc, might as well eclipse it in the coming future, I really wouldn't mind if it did, why not.
Japan should cut losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage elsewhere
Interesting.. how wide of an impact area would the exhaust have? Would it only impact signals traveling directly through it or would there be some bubble of interference around it?
>> Read the requirements of the job posting and spend some time trying to understand this problem space and company

You can do this for some positions, but pair this with rapidly applying as fast as you can. There were 160 applications to a SWE role at my company a month ago. Modern systems make it easy to apply and if you are looking break back into the business I think “quantity has a quality all of its own”
A Quick Intro on Libpq
Yeah, I agree

I get it, in Space there are no weekends or nights. People working on Mars missions have to work weird hours etc

But no, I wouldn't work at "infinite crunch" places
web.archive.org
Same. At one point there were a few.

Those people are heroes.
Did you see the demo on their home page? https://sli.dev/