skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The therapy mentioned doesn't begin to resemble anything like I got. My feelings, physical or emotional, were valid. That was a basic premise. The idea was to teach myself some mental tricks to, basically, distract or corral those feelings as they rise up, as to how those present in my mind further on.

Pain distracts me. It makes me highly anxious about my health. It ruins my mood. No surprise.

I've been suffering from a throat condition that has made me unwilling to eat many days for almost two months. We are not quite sure what's wrong yet. Maybe it's because I don't have chronic pain, but it seems clear to me how the pain interweaves with my thinking. It triggers thought loops. It is an automatic excuse to stop self-care. I can't eat it hurts. (Not eating and getting sicker will hurt more.) When it flairs up, i want that to lead to "go take care of yourself!" thoughts not a loop of "is it resistant to all antibiotics?" which is of no use to me.

That's an insight I learned from CBT not even for pain. In my case, this is mostly about anxiety at its core. I'm not sure I would expect too much benefit otherwise.
I can only speak to twins, and they're toddlers and not old enough to be on a bus, but... My driving ability rapidly deteriorates when they decide it's time to start arguing / fighting with each other, or myself, or when they're just screaming about whatever it is they decide they want to scream about, or when they're having a "problem" and are demanding help, etc.

I've accidentally rolled stop signs, I've accidentally crossed lanes, I forget my blinker. It's all of the hallmarks of distracted driving. It's not constant, in fact it's rare, but then I only have 2 in the car with me and it only takes once for an accident.

We have very long conversations now about why it's bad to distract the driver before we get in the car and start the engine. It's helping, slowly.

I cannot imagine doing it for a living.
Considering that the Yamaha DX7 is an FM synth I can see the thinking behind calling this a 'one-operator' synth
Left to their own, trees will grow, die, fall over, and build up soil. The soil is carbon sink. You just have to keep it from eroding.
I play a concerning amount of VR Chat because it helped me greatly during COVID while I was single. It is an amazing experience, but I find it very dangerous for society in some ways. It has improved my mental health I think, but it's limiting my real world socialization so I don't know if it's that healthy.

You can very easily replace your real life with it outside of work and bills, and get all of your social needs from it. As someone with crippling social anxiety, it removes something that triggers my social anxiety and I'm able to easily make friends. People are more open, identity just isn't a thing because everyone is anything they want to be, people are more open to being 'close' to other people and forming relationships with them. I've been comparing it to the early internet in the 90's and 2000's, especially since the entire game outside of the base code is something like 99% community created by artists with great creativity.

I dance a lot in VR in EDM clubs which I have never done in real life. The other night I went to a real world concert and I danced for the first time in my life. I felt confident and knew other people didn't care, finally. People started talking to me, they were interested in me. I honestly didn't even know how to process it until the show was over, but it was definitely because of my gained confidence in VR.

It's the bleeding edge of the metaverse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1wUg9HCODU
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I don't think you understand: the key is not mine, it's from the previous users of that domain, so I can't apply these instructions as I don't have their private keys!

To make things worse, there is no mechanism to let the key server know that the emails associated with these keys are invalid.

And I have tried my best to get in touch with maintainers to explain the stupidity of this situation, but there is apparently no way besides revocation certificates to deprecate or delete a key. Or, if I give a less generous interpretation, maybe they want to keep pretending that PGP still has a lot of users?

So a known bad key is associated with my domain, with no way to fix that - except maybe waiting for PGP key servers to die and be finally replaced by something better.

This is why I call that an outdated technology. I'm sure it was good 30 years ago, but it should have evolved.
I'm guessing they turn off the microwave when things go bad, like engines going offline and reducing total power generation to the aircraft.
CBT became popular IMHO because a lot of people who needed psych help simply did not have good guidance as children and young adults about how healthy adults manage problems, because its aims are more amenable to experimental observation than alternatives, and because it is short enough in duration for insurance providers to find it appealing. But that doesn't mean it is as effective as its adherents claim.

Food for thought: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/07/therapy-wars...
Backup to a Macbook/iMac. It's what I do when I get a new iPhone — much faster to restore than over iCloud or wireless transfer. Only issue is that, of course, it isn't automatic.
CBT could be very helpful for some patients, it is a tool after all. The problem is when these tools are hyped and used in the wrong places, not only are they unhelpful but they can backfire. We know quite a bit about misused/abused tools in SW development.
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Love PE.

Back in undergrad, we kept a leaderboard amongst each other to see who could solve the most problems. I had just learned python and thought I was cool.

Good times.
> Members of the RaidForums hacking community have a long standing feud with Troia

Anyone know what the beef is? Do they think he's incompetent?
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CBT is well established and is a decently effective tool. The description given by the author is in accurate. At it's core, CBT is about identifying bad thought patterns and acknowledging that they don't match reality. Useful for someone with body image issues. Probably less so for someone experiencing chronic pain from an underlying physical issue.
Here's the press release from Sandia
https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2021/10/22/this-device-could-...

And the published paper it refers to
https://avs.scitation.org/doi/10.1116/5.0053885

And I agree that the answers to my questions are probably not public, this is likely going to be very useful for things that go boom, in addition to a lot of other civilian applications.
Here's an article on how to program the DX7 that might help: https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pages/dx7/manuals/pr...
If you're looking for an alternative, check out ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). Many studies have found it to be as or more effective than CBT for a broad range of issues ranging from depression to Schizophrenia.

While CBT tries to substitute dysfunctional thinking with a different narrative, ACT is about realizing that any narrative you're telling yourself is just a narrative, and any feelings are just feelings. As such they are not all that serious or meaningful. We don't need to try to push away, ignore, or try to change the thoughts and feelings. People weren't meant to feel happy all the time and we shouldn't try to. Instead we should find out what truly matters to us and focus on that. I'm probably not doing it justice but that's the gist of it.

A good book on it is A Liberated Mind by Steven Hayes.
Glad to hear you recovered well from covid. Seems like a lot of hospitals have been filling up lately
I think this starts in childhood. My daughter always wakes up starving, so she usually eats a big bowl of porridge. I think we all do this, and out of habit continue this into adulthood.
> ableist

> problematic

> Twitter

Closed the tab after this. Apparently, even the left-leaning NYT did too.
The article discussed this. id negotiates to allow non infringing incidents to exist, but opposes their ability to trademark the similar name.
Sounds very enticing, however $25/m for 1 TB seems rather pricey. Is replication that x2, or is it included?
There was some humidity and the soluble coffe (from a popular brand) compacted in the glass canister, so after doing a little pick work I had the great idea of putting it in the microwave (to remove all the water and have a coffee powder again, Easy peasy).

To my surprise the result was worse, all melted into a sort of really sticky chocolate tar.

It seems that everything has sugar added currently.
It matters a lot for a desktop UX. People have no patience for a laptop that can't sleep when the lid shuts.
The small chunks and interactive learning of https://www.codecademy.com/ and similar, I found pretty great.

freecodecamp has some good ones on youtube

A couple of good books out there too, trying to recall, may be from tutorialpoint? I may update when I get back to my desktop computer.

"w3schools" mention may get this downvoted - but I've found the small bits of learning combined with interactive examples helpful for many things..
frankly (for me still) a good place when I need to add something I can't remember like button hover or something..

can't recall what the hackernews hate for it is, something like they go against some tech standard on something or another - so don't make it a holy source.. MDN ( https://www.codecademy.com/ ) is closer to that, although I'm sure there are those who will debate XYorZ vs the w3c - who others will debate is bad cuz they don't play well with T,U or V, and are influenced by G or something.

I've enjoyed the cssGrid learning from (I think it's "Jan" aka layout land https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7TizprGknbDalbHplROtag ) - which makes it so no framework needed these days, which is awesome. Now there are many more grid learn resources on youtube and elsewhere.. so finding the one that fits your learning style should be easier.

Interact server and DB? like ajax / javascript? Or more niche like react vs vue? DB like MySql vs Postgres or different?

There's a lot of options these days, which is good in some ways and makes thing tougher in others imho.
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That's for the average person, but for someone who's trying to gain muscle, a minimum of .8 per lb is recommended.
He is obviously shorthanding Software Architect or Information Architect here. It clearly has nothing to do with actual buildings or other civil structures and he isn't using the legal label either (eg. "Licensed Professional Architect" in California).
> a form of psychotherapy that integrates theories of cognition and learning with treatment techniques derived from cognitive therapy and behavior therapy. CBT assumes that cognitive, emotional, and behavioral variables are functionally interrelated. Treatment is aimed at identifying and modifying the client’s maladaptive thought processes and problematic behaviors through cognitive restructuring and behavioral techniques to achieve change. Also called cognitive behavior modification; cognitive behavioral therapy.

https://dictionary.apa.org/cognitive-behavior-therapy

It seems they deleted that definition from their site. And having been through CBT as part of treatment a couple times over (now) almost twenty years, I've never been told that "pain is a 'faulty or unhelpful' distortion of thinking." It's the response to things that have always been the focus (that is, the pain is real, but the response is what's "maladaptive" to use the term in the current APA definition).
This is why I still use a i7 Thinkpad x230: ease of repairability.
I regularly talk to founders who are going through the process of leaving their startup, and something that always gets tricky is what happens with your vested equity. Friendships are lost over this question.

I did a bunch of research and the most common thing that happens is this:

- the departing founder reduces their ownership to 5% or less (giving the shares back to the company, even if you've vested them)

- the departing founder receives at most $25000 (depending on financial circumstances of the company).

This is typical for companies that want to stay on the startup (rocketship track). This may not be the case for your company, but either way I'd try to ensure the company is structured for the success of those who are staying there.

Some founders ask for a lot more money or they want to keep ownership of the company - both cause a lot of trouble for the company and may lead to the company dissolving (in which they get nothing). They also destroy friendships and relationships, which are valuable in the long term in tech.
The article mentioned thst reducing thr number of channels decreases the energy use, but surely this is for some kind of tradeoff? Would he nice to hear what this might be since the article did not mention or speculate it
Agree, I will always upvote it because it’s a good story for those who haven’t read it, and it begets really good comments and other war stories from seasoned devs.
That's a gritty question!

First things first, I would think about the parts that went well, that you actually liked, then look for a role that incorporates those same elements to the extent feasible. Really dig into that one and isolate what you'd want to duplicate in a new role.

Regardless of the size of the company. There are exceptional and awful roles at any company size.

I would also be prepared for interviewers to expect a calm and candid explanation for why the company didn't get to where it wanted to go. Obviously, no finger-pointing or hyperbole in it.
> If the past two years have shown anything, it is that there are a heck of a lot of teachers' union members will do anything to get out of the actual work of teaching.

The teachers I know and I know quite many (basically the female side of my family consists of teachers) do not act like that. They try to come by with the sub-par software choices that were made for them. I agree that there are also many bad apples. The education system in Germany is especially well-suited for bad apples :( (non-terminable).

> In the real world, the issue with this feature is that by making the idea that enterprise users gain security by prohibiting `view-source` commonplace and routine, Google and Microsoft are going to turn `view-source` into criminal activity soon. And teachers not wanting to do work is a convenient excuse.

This is nonsense. There are much more restricting policies available.

> Writing a decent quiz application is a weekend project for any developer who does not need left-pad to pad a string. The key part is the content, the question bank. Almost all publishers have question banks to go with almost every textbook. Heck, some of us would actually read them and decide which ones made good practice questions and which ones did not.

So why do teachers develop Google Forms Quizzes
Companies are not forced to provide service, even if the customer """bought""" something that requires that service to function. If it weren't "honest customers" being punished, but rather people being banned from accessing an online game for hacking or racism, we wouldn't see nearly as much concern for this being allowed.
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The marketing is "classical liberal." But I'd put money on it having a very specific sort of ideology once it gets started.
This is a feature. Nobody has to activate it. It's not broken when the function you consider breaking is off by default.
It's either a spot market (i.e. immediate delivery) or a contracts market (e.g. futures, options, CFD). I don't think there is such a thing as a "spot market contract".

In this case the price spike happened on a spot market. The buyers simply needed more gas than was available for sale. So the profits simply went to to the producers that had any gas to sell.

Edit: this Reuters article names some companies that raked in profits:

The biggest winners were companies with access to supplies, including leading energy trader Vitol, gas suppliers Kinder Morgan (KMI.N), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD.N) and Energy Transfer (ET.N), oil giant BP plc (BP.L), and banks Goldman Sachs (GS.N), Bank of America (BofA) (BAC.N) and Macquarie Group (MQG.AX).
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/results-tally-up-bil...
U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google
1. Pivot to Crypto. Doesn't matter what you make.

2. Raise VC funding. Super easy if you are making anything Crypto.

3. Launch coin.

4. Retire.
I've noticed in general that a good place to look is in the therapies that are used in treating personality disorders, people with eating disorders, C-PTSD, PTSD, and trauma. Right now that's DBT for emotional regulation, but for the trauma itself, EMDR, somatic therapies, motivational interviewing, and things like Internal Family Systems therapy. CBT DOES NOT WORK for this population. DBT has been proven as well as EMDR but the other things need to be looked into further. A lot of these share biological tricks (the eye movement and work with your body) and the rest of them have borrowed things from mindfulness and work on radical acceptance and dropping judgement rather than overrationalizing. CBT at its core is constantly causing you to overthink and judge your own actions which is not something you want to do to someone who's already doing that.

CBT doesn't really stand up against severe mental illness, so why should we expect that it's good for the average person who's suffering from some mild depression and anxiety? We have gold standards that can help people who suffer from some of the most treatment resistant forms of mental illness. Someone with severe CBT who responds to say, IFS after 20 years, you know that's not a placebo. This stuff needs to be studied more drawing from what we know about the populations who suffer the most, because we know that's not a placebo effect or a one off when we see people go into remission.
I wasnt aware that CBT was used for pain management!

I've seen a therapist, ostensibly for depression, that used CBT techniques.

My experience has been a positive one!

I take issue with the article in the way it cuts a path from the very broad overview statements on the APA website to asserting that CBT is "built to be dismissive and invalidating".

There is so much to take issue with in that article:

"CBT is based on the premise that any patient coming into therapy is experiencing distorted, “faulty,” “catastrophizing” thinking. CBT therapists are trained to convince patients that they’re overreacting and that they’ll feel better when they realize they’re overreacting."

IMHO that is a totally unreasonable way to characterise CBT. The use of the word "overreacting" suggests that a therapist is seeking to invalidate the patients experience. That invalidating approach is not built into CBT, and if the author has experienced that, then I'd say that was rather unfortunate and the therapist is at fault, not the practice of CBT.

CBT aims to get people functioning and coping by equipping them with strategies that work, for them. It's an individual approach that takes time and discovery.

Anyway....

On the APA website, they do provide some more background:

CBT treatment usually involves efforts to change thinking patterns. These strategies might include:

Learning to recognize one’s distortions in thinking that are creating problems, and then to reevaluate them in light of reality.Gaining a better understanding of the behavior and motivation of others.Using problem-solving skills to cope with difficult situations.Learning to develop a greater sense of confidence in one’s own abilities.
CBT treatment also usually involves efforts to change behavioral patterns. These strategies might include:

Facing one’s fears instead of avoiding them.Using role playing to prepare for potentially problematic interactions with others.Learning to calm one’s mind and relax one’s body.
Not all CBT will use all of these strategies. Rather, the psychologist and patient/client work together, in a collaborative fashion, to develop an understanding of the problem and to develop a treatment strategy.

CBT places an emphasis on helping individuals learn to be their own therapists. Through exercises in the session as well as “homework” exercises outside of sessions, patients/clients are helped to develop coping skills, whereby they can learn to change their own thinking, problematic emotions, and behavior.

CBT therapists emphasize what is going on in the person’s current life, rather than what has led up to their difficulties. A certain amount of information about one’s history is needed, but the focus is primarily on moving forward in time to develop more effective ways of coping with life.
I have had none of these problems with a base Ubuntu install.

Installing Xmonad though introduced all of them. And my active conclusion is that there's simply a hundred corner cases and it takes time and effort to beat a specific configuration of window manager, graphics subsystem, and system status monitoring into submission. Change a major piece and break the accreted fixes.

Installing Xmonad was worth it, but lot of configuration was needed and the end result still isn't as reliable as what I left behind.
Doesn't sort well.
I'm less comfortable projecting my own opinions into the head of 'withoutboats than you are. The author of the comment they responded to and the author of this post are not the same person.
People focusing on nitpicking my Linux example: it's irrelevant. In general the principle stands true: sometimes, to get a feature you need, you must install unstable software. Nobody wants instability for its own sake; what they want is the feature.

I fear my Linux example may have led people down the wrong rabbit hole. Linux is irrelevant in this context.

I could have used Windows. Sometimes, in the history of videogames, you needed a newer version of Windows. If you wanted to play the game, you needed to install this version.

Or DirectX, or whatever lib. Pick your poison. Nitpicking particular examples is missing the point.
Most NFT don't transfer copyright, so I'm not even sure if they can give permission to use the images or prevent other from using them.

Also note that the two owners of the NFT are the authors of the article, so it feels more like another detail to pump the NFT.
This guy explains the process of creating a basic bass sound quite well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XbrTC0NndM
This is so funny. I've seen websites that leak one-time code through client code so the verification could be automated, but this is another level. Generating a code client-side and allowing the client to decide what the email content could be!
A data lake can be home to many different data formats e.g. parquet, AVRO, Thrift, protobuf, ORC, HDF5S, CSV, JSON all co-existing together. Spark lets you create a virtual abstraction over all of this, and query it as though it was a homogeneous database. There's no need to import data into a centralized format and schema.

This really all ties back to the "old" Hadoop days, and is an evolution of compute over data not in a fixed and managed format/schema.
CBT was an absolute help for my socal anxiety. It seems strange to use it for something like chronic pain but the truth about much anxiety is that you are mentally creating a world that doesn't exist and reacting to it, CBT is excellent for countering that.
I get that it didn't work for this person and maybe shouldn't have been part of their treatment plan but I think it's unhelpful to many to dismiss it as some sort of abusive behavior as they do.