skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I can offer any solutions, but I can relate to this very well. A few scattered but thoughts, consider any (or none) that seem relevant to you:

- I recently had some long conversations with coworkers who experience similar problems with motivation. I was especially surprised to hear it from one person, who--from an outsider's point of view--maintains an insanely high level of work ethic. His approach seems to boil down to having a top-down self-identification with his role and a bottom-up maintenance of good habits. So from one side he identifies as a professional who meets deadlines and is committed to doing good work. From the other side he tries not to work on the same task for too long, recognizes when he's starting to feel burned out, communicates it honestly to his manager and coworkers, and takes breaks to work on other more rewarding tasks, or just breaks from work altogether. His attitude reminded me a lot of the ideas in the book Atomic Habits, which is worth reading if you haven't already.

- It's easy to underestimate how much a change in environment changes your perspective. When I'm in a depressed mood, everything looks the same and I can't imagine how things could be less "true" in the future. In a different mindset, the bad things are still true, but seem less relevant. All software jobs *are* roughly the same, but having different coworkers, solving different problems, even working in a different building can help trigger a change in perspective.

- Do you have a good sense of what it is that *would* motivate you? Or what you want? Is there a particular part of the process of architecting software that you find satisfying? Or maybe a product or company whose mission aligns with your values? Personally, I'm most often stuck in this part. If nothing motivates you, it's likely more than work burnout and you might want to take some time to focus on your mental health.

- If you know what you want but struggle to set goals and make steady progress towards achieving them, I think it comes down to discipline. I've found that for certain things, if I wait for motivation to strike I'll be waiting forever, and unhappy the entire time. Sometimes detaching a bit and forcing myself to do something triggers a little bit of dopamine that inspires more momentum.
Now think about how many companies/products need the power of Erlang vs PHP where PHP has more tooling, better ecosystem and far more available talent to choose from. Just because Erlang can perform better doesn't mean it is the right tool for the job. Performance is one aspect and PHP is good enough for lot of use cases while it has tons of other advantages that Erlang doesn't.
similar technology exists on ebay for under $5, you plug it into the phone's usb port and it emits ir led lighting and back into a lens
There is a big difference between modelling the purchase of your own house as an investment, and the speculative investment of large banks in the housing market.

Housing prices do not have to go up for them to be a good investment for the person living in the house. If a homeowner can sell the house for the same price they got in at, then they have lived rent free. Even if they lose the interest on their mortgage, that's still likely to be a better deal than renting.
If you end up with the higher paying job, one thing you could consider is donating a portion of that money to effective organizations that support initiatives that interest you. So your more boring job can still contribute to important work happening in the world.
In the US that isn't an issue as most mortgages are fixed rate for 30 years. Once you lock in a low rate when you buy or refinance, you keep that until you sell the house.

My understanding in 2008 was that many people did adjustable rate mortgages (ARM) and then couldn't afford the rate hikes and defaulted. Since then everyone is afraid of getting into an ARM.
Great thing about Jet A, it's actually pretty hard to get burning.

Hydrogen: See Hindenburg.

I would rather not fly in a bomb. I just don't see it being viable for planes.

We're starting to see short distance small planes electrify and then long haul will probably go synthetic fuels over the next 10 years.
I feel bad that Freddie deBoer feels like it is still his responsibility how he behaved because of this illness we share.

Can you imagine being given a drug without you knowing, like meth, which caused you to act bizarre? Everyone would understand that. And it is the same thing with these mental illnesses. But for some reason it is always our fault and we have to apologize. I think Freddie deBoer is self stigmatizing and it is unhealthy.
> There is nothing about eating fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes that goes against our biology.

I am genuinely curious to know why you say that. The other poster didn't say anything about not eathing fruit and vegetables etc. They said:

=> Making a conscious decision to go against biology and select a different dietary preference is indeed an ideology (unless there is a real medical reason you cannot eat something, such as allergies).

I can't see where in that comment the OP said or implied that it "goes against our biology" to eat fruit and veg etc. It's clear to me that what they said goes "against biology" is not eating any meat. That is what characterises the vegan diet: the absence of meat and animal products, not the presence of fruit and vegetables.

So why did you say that eating fruit etc doesn't go against biology? Who said it does?

Did the OP change their comment between the time you replied to it and the time I read your comments?
> . A system capable of identifying speeders and charging them for their actions would be a boon for public safety. So surveillance here would be a net benefit to society.

Then you will be back complaining that "the traffic is much worse now" ;)

Chesterton's fence and all
Second the recommendation for the series. They have some misses, mostly of the sort where everyone seems to talk past each other, but I learn something from most episodes.
Having worked on a lot of the successors to Corona, I was surprised to see a full exhibit (including hardware) on display at the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center near D.C.

Corona itself is completely unclassified now.

https://airandspace.si.edu/udvar-hazy-center

https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/si-97-15881-10...

https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/web10844-2008h...
It isn't working on my Firefox (94.0.1 in Windows):

From the console I see this each time I try to draw a line:
Unexpected value NaN parsing x attribute. react dom.production.min.js:23:234
Unexpected value NaN parsing y attribute.
Individual pieces of evidence are often circumstantial, taken together they're enough to prove something.
I disagree.

Prices demonstrate the attitudes of people who are buying houses. I'm concerned with the attitudes of people who are not buying houses. Why aren't they buying houses? Because they think the are going to fall in the near future. Why do I think that? Because this is a popular sentiment expressed by normal people on social media.

Yes, it's wholly unscientific of me to use Reddit and Facebook as a barometer of society, but I'm not a professional economist, just another rando on the internet making bad predictions.
So what did he do wrong? I couldn't tell from the article, it only hinted that he did something wrong but did not disclose what it was

"In August of 2017 I made totally baseless accusations of sexual misconduct against the writer Malcolm Harris on social media. "

Can anyone provide more (specific) context
There is still the fear of accidental outbreaks from situations like OP, or biowarfare.
The point is not who's currently relevant, it's that people on the cultural Right complaining about cancel culture are on par with a schoolyard bully complaining about someone else bullying them. They are happy to do it when their opinions hold sway; when they can't, they whine about other people doing it.

And to be clear, I'm not taking a "both sides are equally bad" stance, I'm just describing the hypocrisy of this particular line of complaining.
I like buying stuff on gumroad, not sure if sci-fi fits though... https://discover.gumroad.com/
I see. Thank you very much.
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/the-benefits-and-drawbacks-of-a...
Former US President Teddy Roosevelt’s Drunken Rampage in Nairobi
Same experience yesterday running latest stable from
the website on a brand new M1M MBP with Monterey. Laggy, with a garish UI straight out of 1998.
This is super neat. I always wondered why do the people have to 'sort trash' when computers or systems where this trash ultimately goes can do it better than even humans can. I assume at least.

I am aware that not all plastic is recyclable but still. I think the system of getting everyone to do a job that can/should ultimately be automated is so strange. Unless it's impossible to do?
Ah, your data is well out of date.

This isn’t hysteria, and I don’t think hysteria is called for.

If smallpox had these numbers, well, that is a different story. But smallpox has had likely thousands of years to evolve higher infectivity, and seems to have reached a local maxima that isn’t there. Covid still has time to explore options.

Measured R0 in New York for COVID was 6.4 [https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.17.20104653v...] for the original strain before lockdown and masking.

Those appear to have greatly reduced the basic replication rate to around .9-1.3 or so shortly afterwards. As they are very severe countermeasures, it’s disingenuous to use the reduced replication rate ‘raw’ as no one is going to be doing them ‘naturally’.

The delta variant (B.1.617.2), now dominant in California and elsewhere, is approximately 2x more infectious than that original variant from the data I’ve found, which is limited [easiest thing I could fine here was https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/07/9947104...].

That would put it (in a ‘natural’ setting) at R0 being roughly 12-13. Measles is estimated to have a R0 of 12-18. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28757186/]

Outdoor infection IS less likely - this study of infected construction workers show only 1.4% of their outdoor only co-workers were infected by infected workers, where 43% of people they lived with and 26% of people they had indoor contact with while working got infected. There are many documented cases of outdoor infections, and even more where no known source could be found and all indoor or other sources were ruled out.

New variants driving up infectivity will of course drive this number up over
time if infections are allowed to spread (albeit hopefully vaccination can cut it off at the knees).

What does this mean? Without a vigorous public health response, Covid will continue to spread. It may continue to spread despite a very rigorous response from authorities because the body count is going to be low enough that many people just won’t care.

If we get an unfortunate deadlier variant, then maybe that will change. But one thing appears sure - we’re past the point (if there ever was one) where there is anything easy or pleasant that is going to happen.
Changing the voting system changes the incentives for different kinds of candidates to run.

Suppose right now you have a Democrat, a Republican and a moderate. In first past the post, the moderate splits the vote with whichever major party candidate is most like them, causing the one less like them to win. Also, everybody knows this and then only votes for one of the major parties. So then the moderate doesn't bother to run and the only thing on the ballot is the one evil or the other.

With approval voting, if the moderate runs, most of the Republicans approve of the Republican and the moderate (because better the moderate than the Democrat) and most of the Democrats approve of the Democrat and the moderate (because better the moderate than the Republican). So then the moderate runs, and wins. And you get a candidate you might actually want to vote for.
Your performance at a job is not limited to solely your behavior but that of the team. If the team is not leveraging your skills and sideline you then of course you're going to feel bad... just like you think it's not healthy to blame them... it's not healthy to blame yourself. Sometimes it's simply not the team you're going to be doing your best work with.
It pays really well to shift blame, I wonder is someone somewhere has an excel spreadsheet with the ROI for propaganda expenses. Like Greta pointing the finger to western countries while ignoring the biggest polluters and the countries that mostly contribute to plastic in the oceans.
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> I have asked that people consider that I deserve neither total condemnation nor total exoneration.

This. In a lot of circles I move there is a tendency to "total condemnation".

We can be better to each other. When we do not deserve it is when we need it the most.

Peace, love, respect foster peace, love and respect. "Total condemnation" might make the condemner have some temporary good feelings, but does no good for anybody beyond that.
We're on a discussion page for an article about Twitter's use of AMP in their own app, which was never proxied through anything, much less proxied through Google.
Most owners are on fixed rate mortgages, and therefore do not experience rate hikes as interest rates change. They only care about the market if they try to sell, try to refinance, or it impacts their jobs.

If there is a crash and they didn't lose their jobs, they may wind up under water. Meaning that they can't afford to move. But they still don't experience rate hikes.

The minority of owners on ARMs do experience interest rate risk. But the fact of that risk is exactly why consumers prefer the 30 year fixed mortgage.
https://archive.md/ys2kA
I'm having trouble getting good stats on it, but it looks like there were a handful of deaths -- maybe, single or low double digits -- that could be directly attributed to the COVID vaccine.

The smallpox vaccine, if we had to vaccinate the whole country, could cause some deaths too. This pretty old paper estimates somewhere ~200, I've seen an estimate elsewhere of around ~500, can't get a good source on the second one (probably they are in the same ballpark accounting for error bars and population growth since the '60s).

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196911272812205

Anyway, all this is to say -- there are definitely complaints to be had about big pharma, but the industry is pretty good at managing measurable risks nowadays. I don't know if 'old and well proven' is quite right. They were working with a different set of tradeoffs -- they had worse tech at the time, expectations were lower (and medicine was generally more dangerous)... but obviously, better than getting smallpox!
> The American "left" is soft right wing.

If by being "right wing" you mean strong authoritarianism and Mussolini-like fascism, then yes, American 'left' is right wing.

However, if right wing for you are conservative values, like family, independence, free speech, personal responsibility, and "judging by the content of the character, not the color of the skin" then American left is nowhere near the soft right position on any of those things. They are not even close to center.
Maybe they weren't aware that Newton ran the Mint in his later life, so exactly the same issues with counterfeiting.
Vacancies are still nowhere close to 2008 levels though. May indicate that there's more legitimate demand and less speculation going on. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ESALEUSQ176N

New housing starts are also interesting. Continuing to trend upward but still well under where we've been in the past. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST
The anti CRT stuff just won the republicans an election in Virginia, what are your examples of random twitter accounts toppling CEOs?
Where does the puppet master/unleashing pandemic stuff come into play?

The article of Bill Gates talking preventative measures against future pandemics (including smallpox, which funny enough is related to smallpox vials), has literally 0 conspiracy-related things in it. How can that even be a dogwhistle?

If you post a story about cancer, and I post a semi-related story of Bill talking about cancer prevention, am I also dog-whistling? Is anything that has Bill in it now a dog whistle?

Edit to add: The linked artile even has smallpox in the title. How you can say it is "wholly" unrelated is baffling.
$1 trillion of pipelines? Why?

This is about splitting water using electricity. You can create and use the fuel at the same site. Just need a water pipe and a connection to the grid. Splitting off hydrogen at a separate site is just wastefull.
I don't have data to back this up, but it seems to me most people were racist back then and there, but most people didn't save Britain from the Nazis, so from a PCA perspective one dimension is more significant than the other.
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I think some links are broken in the plasticscanner.com site, but it does look to be open source.

* Thesis: https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:1fa997b7...

* Wikifactor: https://wikifactory.com/+plasticidentificationanywhere/break...

* EasyEDA Schematic and PCB (GPLv3): https://easyeda.com/jerzeek/nir-spectroscope-final-pcb
The abstract looks simple enough? They played with some chemicals / catalysts, and have demonstrated a prototype where they made a "Solar Panel" that turns water (H2O) into 2H2 + O2... aka Hydrogen + Oxygen. The measured efficiency was 13.8%, less efficient than an electric solar panel (20% to 25% efficiency), but possibly the most efficient solar -> hydrogen design discussed so far.

Consider a 25% efficient solar panel -> 50% electrical efficiency to convert H2O into H2 + O2 == 12.5% total efficiency (and a 25% efficient solar panel is a high-end panel). So this design discussed is probably better than the status quo.

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There are internet flame wars over the future of energy and energy storage.

Lithium Ion batteries are one form. Hydrogen is being proposed as a fuel of the future (with Japan showing off Hydrogen torches all over the Olympics earlier this year, as a lot of Japanese companies are pushing Hydrogen as a future fuel)
YES. Ty!
Origin of the DX7 and FM Synthesis [video]
Yeah, I agree. But Occam’s razor rarely makes a good enough story…
it does seem likely to arrive but whether it becomes popular more difficult to predict as it's conditioned on the sway of public opinion, which seems heterogeneous regarding AR/VR
Exactly. And on "Vast majority of this is a push from Left, not the Right" here's the Green Party (probably the most left Australian party of any size) opposing it: https://lidia-thorpe.greensmps.org.au/articles/more-police-p...
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That link article? It makes bold claims about the GPL being imprecise, ambiguous, and full of legal holes.

But not a single example.

Rhetoric, huh.
It's the wrong question to ask but it sure as shit is what it's being promoted as.

Look at the wayward Toyota, they seem to think they can navigate around chemisty to sell their EVs with a hydrogen fuel cell attached.
Well made. Nice work
That's quite a regulatory hack. Thanks for explaining it to me.
Very nice and smooth! I think this may be my go to whiteboarding site...

One feature request would be that if I start typing when a box or circle is selected, it would put text in that object. I realize that this might be difficult with hotkeys, but I use that feature in Visio all the time and I love it for quick diagrams.

Next best would be if you select the text button (or '7') when an object is selected, it would insert the text in that object.
That's quite a pessimistic outlook. You can find inner peace even though you're being harassed.
What makes you think you are a successful manager?
I don't know the background, but I do think that saying or implying that he was conniving or strategically malicious would be a lie.

Are you suggesting that he may not even be bipolar?
Plenty of fixed rate mortgages in Europe. 30 year fixed is about 2% here at the moment.
you lump the western world together, but the vast majority of the derision is directed at the US. Worth considering why that is?

"Not angry about this situation" describes European foreign policy, not American
Has any professor gotten fired for their views ? The worst thats happened is some people getting disinvited from conferences, hardly seems like censorship, just editorial disagreement
That's only true in the US. In nearly every other country you have ARMs or worse. In Canada, my understanding is the typical mortgage is done on a 30 year amortization, but the loan is due in 5 years with a balloon payment. You have to reapply for a new loan for the next 5. If you're denied, you're screwed.
I certainly see the utility there!
I'm actually thinking of late-90s up through today:

There were a lot geopolitical papers written then about the unipolar world and how we'd reached the end of history and liberal democracy had won. To the extent that people imagined threats to U.S. dominance, they usually envisioned state actors like Russia or China. Few people predicted the rise of international terrorism, widespread state failures, mass migrations, and internal destabilization of states.

There were a fair number of commentators who said that the Internet was a fad and we'd go back to calling up businesses when we got tired of webpages. The dot-com boom was a bona-fide bubble - it burst, severely - and yet it also wasn't. I predicted the Amazon would go out of business in 2001 when their stock was down 90% in a year; it now owns retail, and is worth 50x that.

People wondered how the hell a website for throwing virtual sheep at one another was worth $15B in 2007. It's now worth $942B, and blamed for taking down governments.

We just had a page at the top of HN about someone's 2011 prediction that Bitcoin would fail. It did, for all the reasons they listed, and yet is still worth 20,000x what it was going for then. It's also had some 60-70% declines in that process.

The general lesson I take from these is that life is a whole lot more random and absurd than a lot of people think it is. A lot of people who lose everything in bubbles are right about the direction of the trend (oftentimes on a subconscious level), but wrong about magnitude and timing. I see a lot of people asking whether today's housing situation is like 2008, and to my eye the fundamental forces are nothing alike. But 2005-2008 might have been the bubble before the trend, which sets up the causal forces leading to a genuine housing shortage now.
I would not recommend taking programming tutorials from someone who is unable to get a job programming. No offense to OP, but there is a certain amount of real world experience you'd want from a teacher. I say this from experience, as a bootcamp graduate that ended up teaching at the bootcamp after graduating. I did my best I could, and I worked super hard at helping my students, many of whom did get a job after, but there was a ton I was bumbling my way through and hand waving involved that wouldn't be if I had 1-2 years of actual industry experience first.
Never knew Freddie DeBoer was mentally ill. I came across a few of his Twitter rants and guessed as much but in an insulting way. To see that he’s out there and open with it makes me a lot more sympathetic. Glad he’s now getting the help he needs.

Makes me wonder how much of the wild conduct we see online is mental illness and if more empathy would help. Or at least calling in a mental health check up.