skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It had an accepted use in psychiatry for what was called a "model psychosis" ie it would give you a temporary psychosis which would help you understand it.

When the government wanted to declare LSD illegal (it has escaped into a "party drug"), they simply declared that the model psychosis idea is wrong and it was scrapped. But I think it has a lot of validity, on LSD and mushrooms I've often thought about going mad and being in prison, and had a lot of empathy for those people.
lazygit is also great.

VS Code also makes it easy to stage hunks in the editor if you like to stay in your editor; in the diff viewer from the Git view you can highlight the lines you want to stage and right click -> stage selected ranges.

I've never used tig. I'll look at it.
I went through exactly this 6 months ago and am now signed in on Android with exactly the same email address as I had on my paid workspace account

though I advise leaving it for a week or so after deleting it as it was pretty glitchy to begin with
FYI, Phillips screwdrivers are often referred to as "star" in my experience by average people. Best to just use the proper terms.
Amazing movie tip, thank you very much!
> One would presumably not want to store all the world's money on one server.

That's not how any of this works. Money is not stored anywhere in particular, unless we are talking about physical currency or commodities.

The entire point of a mainframe is to be able to centralize critical things (like credit card processing) that simply cannot be allowed to fail.

Most large banks and credit card processors operate their own pile of magic and then settle after the fact. It's not like VISA's IBM is the one big money bin that everything runs through.

> 1.5 million might stil be a bit low though.

In my scenario above, 1.5 million is a joke. That max spec machine could easily handle tens or hundreds of billions of credit card transactions in that timeframe.
This is likely really the US government's stance, reflected in the governance of one of the US's most dependent client states. A change in political leadership of Australia is unlikely to change its government's overall attitude to online government surveillance.
> And now we're being forced to pay for something that everyone else gets for free.

What we get for free is a <something>@gmail.com address and the associated services. We DON'T get yourcustomer@domain.com or anything like that on top of Google's infrastructure.

I can appreciate your frustration but these threads always come full circle to if you aren't paying for something you are the product and have much less control over your fate. Google's willingness to kill things is why I avoid coupling things like that to them.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes about trash in Yosemite.. "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."

> Back in 1980s, Yosemite National Park was having a serious problem with bears: They would wander into campgrounds and break into the garbage bins. This put both bears and people at risk. So the Park Service started installing armored garbage cans that were tricky to open—you had to swing a latch, align two bits of a handle, that sort of thing. But it turns out it's actually quite tricky to get the design of these cans just right. Make it too complex, and people can't get them open to put away their garbage in the first place. Said one park ranger, "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
This is such an interesting problem. I do think that new music that is competing with old music has an advantage in its newness, which humans tend to prefer. But it needs to be as excellent as the music it is competing with. If you as a musician are not writing music as compelling or interesting as, say Sgt Pepper, you are doing it wrong. You need to bring your AAA game if you are going to compete with the GOATs, yeah?

That said, the absolutely killer bit of this article is:

I learned the danger of excessive caution long ago, when I consulted to huge Fortune 500 companies. The single biggest problem I encountered—shared by virtually every large company I analyzed—was investing too much of their time and money into defending old ways of doing business, rather than building new ones.

[...]

But senior management hated hearing this, and always insisted that defending the old business units was their safest bet. After I encountered this embedded mindset again and again and saw its consequences, I reached the painful conclusion that the safest path is often the most dangerous. If you pursue a strategy—whether in business or your personal life—that avoids all risk, you might flourish in the short run, but you flounder over the long term.

This is sage advice. For your career, for your business, whatever. I'd spin it as this:

When an industry is on a downswing, it becomes cluttered. Market demand is falling so existing players are fighting for share of a shrinking market. For new entrants, there's no opportunity. So for example if you are trying to get a job in this industry, you won't find openings. If it's a market you're trying to enter as a business, you won't find demand/customers. Whereas in a growing market the opposite is true. Therefore we can say it is a truism that any opportunity is more likely than not to be a good one, because opportunities only exist in an upswing, and are pushed out in a downswing.

There's more to it, of course. Bubbles, for example. But the fact remains: opportunities signal a rising market and in general you should seek them out as the payoff, over time, is likely to be worth it.
Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now?
I've been feeling off in several ways for a long time now, months if not more, and finally got around to seeing some healthcare professionals. "Showing symptoms of severe occupational burnout" is what I'm being told, and it rings true.

I know there are probably plenty of people on HN who have gone through the same. Reflecting back on your experiences, what are the sensible things to do next? Aside from continuing to listen to the aforementioned healthcare professionals, that is.

Some questions I'm wondering about, specifically:

- Should I tell my boss and/or team? Should I tell them right away, or wait until I know what other steps I want to take? What should I expect their reactions to be?

- Should I take time off? How much? Or should I try to work reduced hours? I'm hesitant because I don't have many hobbies (if any) and in the middle of the pandemic there isn't much to do anyway. I don't think running out of things to do would be any better for my health than continuing as-is. I've been there before and I don't handle boredom well.

- If I continue working, is there something in my working environment I should try to change? Think of senior engineer in a typical DevOps-y SaaS startup.

- Is there anything specific to working in tech and burning out that I should know about? I feel like this isn't exactly rare.
It took quite a bit of clicking to unearth the GitHub repo for this: https://github.com/johnolafenwa/DeepStack#readme and there seem to be plenty of other DeepStack-ish repos in the user's profile
Most folks are complaining about `git reset` being more dangerous and to just use `rebase -i` instead. To each their own... I'm one of those weirdos who also uses the `git reset` in their workflow. I prefer it to `rebase -i` because it doesn't mess with my working tree a bunch while it's happening, plus I like to construct brand new logical commits, in order, in the manner described by the article.

But this part set off alarm bells:

> Once you’ve finished making your changes, it’s time to prepare your work for some “git clean up.” To do this, we’ll run the following command:

> git reset origin/main

Be very careful here! If you've run `git fetch origin` since you've started your work, you may be resetting to a commit that's newer than what you based your work on, and thus you'll wind up creating a commit which effectively reverts anything that's happened on `main` since then.

The more technically correct command would be:

> git reset $(git merge-base origin/main HEAD)

Since that resets to the commit you started your branch from.
So there is a lot of cool music being produced today; much of it is not mass market/chart topping/etc and so it doesn’t just get dumped in one’s lap like pop music did in the era of radio.

That said, a lot of music today is over produced- levels set too high, etc.

Also, a lot of pop and r&b music today doesn’t seem very creative to me- pounding bass line, trivially simple melody, chanted, simple, explicit lyrics, and then depend on production to try to make it interesting. This obviously appeals to a lot of people but maybe not so much to others.

Mass market music is intentionally formulaic; search the web for “Doctor Hook”.

On the other hand, there are some super creative things out there. I like genre-bending remixes personally like Pentatonix’ cover of Fleet Foxes’ “White Winter Hymnal”, or Steven Seagulls cover of “Thunderstruck”.

Point is, that the stuff that will fall in your lap is mass market and not as creative IMO as pop was in earlier generations. However there’s great stuff out there; you just have to look for it.

Also the tools to find music you might like are better than ever, eg you can hum or sing into Shazam or Siri a snippet of a song you liked, online you have lyric searches. And all the music services have ML to find songs you might like based on songs you like.
Thanks for sharing! This is a great series of articles I've never seen before. I'm also a crossover as defined here and agree with a lot of the perspectives, particularly about the many transferable skills in part three. I think working in a complex manufacturing environment helped me develop software debugging skills.

I see the licensure argument get brought up a lot. Many people working in "traditional" engineering fields never get their PE because there's just no need in their industry. Sure, that may not make them a licensed "Engineer" in some jurisdictions, but it doesn't make their work any less engineering.

The work done by other engineering fields also varies widely. Looking back on my work as a process engineer, it's honestly hard to say that entailed any more "engineering" than my software position does now.
From 1m in,

> People who talk about work-life balance do not bring into the discussion this situation where work is actually good for you, and enjoyable. And I think that warps the discussion terribly.

He then goes on to talk about Carmack also working long weeks because he wanted to.

It's just so exceedingly rare to have a small group, to be really vested in deciding where and how to go, and to be included in the rewards & returns too.

Closing this gap seems like one of the key, most vital problems civilization faces. Humans believing in their own potential, reaching, as Jonathan advocates in this video, is so important. But industry has scaled and scaled and scaled, and there's so few people left making decisions, so few opportunities. Vast systems working from the top down, ossified power structures are everywhere.

The social safety net is trash, the cost of living is sky high. Jonathan keeps talking about life choices, but most people don't have access to the high-return opt-in lean-in situations. Jonathan is raising up historical anomalies, very exceptional people, and it takes hard work to get there, but I also think he's missing what an exceptional Carmack rose through. A team of a dozen people working hard is not going to launch another John Carmack again, not going to be a major change to the industry: it was an earlier time, with more potential, operating at a different scale. There's still some great potentials about, for sure. And ultimately I agree, I want to see more work hard people, and I think it's fulfilling & a life greatly used is amazing. But I think that environmentally, there's much less potential for people to get into great involved work, and there's far fewer rewards & opportunities where being really good at your job pays off greatly.

Ultimately Jonathan just seems to want recognition that working hard matters, that you can become a far more productive & capable person by working hard. You can invest in yourself & become something far different by working hard. I can agree with that. But the list of caveats, the titaneous position against those who don't want balance but only want to tilt: it seems like such a vast & encompassing scope. It seems so unlikely to matter, & so likely to consume you, to use yourself up, without yielding a real difference. I'd like to see us- society- better amplify what we might become, through hard work. To enable us to stake ourselves in more directly.
Haha, I'm in the same boat. Have needed to set up a VAT number in the UK for almost a year, still haven't done it!
I don't condone Leary's research protocols, but the whole field was plagued with what is now seen as unethical experimentation back then. Leary was fired from Harvard in 1963, according to Wikipedia, and the Stanford Prison Experiment thing happened in 1971.

I really don't vibe with the manic LSD guru personality at all, never did, but the man was a consequence of his time and that kind of research happened all over the place and with all sorts of substances. I think LSD and weed would still be in the same schedule they are not, Leary or not Leary.
> So, what really happened in the meanwhile? What made him to metamorphose from a regular security geek into a persistent scammer who claims he's Satoshi Nakamoto? I think this is the real question to ask. There must have been some external forces come into play that made him do that.

Wright's been a low grade crook for a long time. He was sentenced to 30 days in prison in 2004 for contempt after he forged documents to try to escape some non-compete he violated.

The proximal cause of his Satoshi related cosplay is a massive tax fraud. AU has a refundable tax credit for qualifying R&D where they'll pay out around 30% of the money you spent on research.

Wright spun up a bunch of companies that did nothing but claim these credits-- with an intention of claiming around 65 million dollars worth. AU paid out the first round but the next year audited him. Their first question to cut through his obfuscation was "Where did the millions you claim to have spent on research come from?". Bitcoin had just become a big thing in the news and Wright started claiming to be an early miner, pointed to coins from a bitcoin rich list and said they were his, and claimed to have received loans secured by those coins to pay for the research. [There is also a whole separate branch of fraudulent sales tax rebates that he applied for when the R&D credits started souring on him-- but most of the docs on that haven't been made public yet]

Wright created a huge number of forgeries to support his claims and kept expanding the scope until he was claiming to be Satoshi, but the AU tax office wasn't fooled, ruled against him, and demanded he return the money he took.

He'd already spent much of the money, so he basically just took the faked documents that the tax office was too smart to fall for and sought out other suckers to fall for them. Effectively the classic Nigerian prince scam, offering people a share of his fortune if they could just help him overcome his short term cashflow problems.

There is some indication that he'd been engaging in this R&D credit fraud for up to a decade before the enormous applications that got him caught-- he's recently published R&D credit applications for fake projects (basically just applying for R&D funding for concepts he saw posted on tech mailing lists) going back to 2002-ish. So either these applications are recent forgeries or he's been funding himself through fraud for at least the last 20 years.

The relatively uncertainty about the earlier possible fraud there is that for the big 2013+ tax fraud much of the tax office documentation has been made public as a result of a civil lawsuit against Wright, so for that we can be pretty sure what happened... but for things other than that we just have Wright's statements to go on, and Wright is a fantasist and pathological liar that constantly makes stuff up even when its not to any advantage to him.
Show HN: A Clojure interpreter compiled with native-image
I highly recommend people read the article before jumping to the comments because it makes several interesting points.

My personal take is that there is no right answer because the definition of engineering is quite wide. Like the author we can argue that some work of the software engineering is indeed engineering (planning, designing, estimating) whereas the act of writing code for a giving feature is more akin to a craft.

That being said, I don't really care and I say that as a Canadian software engineering graduate, as opposed to a computer science major. If you like the engineer title and you want to use it (and it's legal in your country) then you should go for it.
How do you handle code reviews with Pijul and Nest?
Is it corruption? Lobbying is legal and it is obviously in office landlord's interest to have people working in offices.
Assault w/Deadly Weapon - took 15 years to get it pardoned and expunged. The hardest battle I've fought in my life. It makes startups look easy. I'll write more about it one day, but I don't want to screw it up.
Which part are you confused about?
>You won't be able to use your primary main_user@formerlyhostedbygoodle.com address as your login to the Office365 suite.

That's interesting...why not?

Edit: Found in their FAQ:

"We strongly recommend against setting your personalized email address as your primary alias for signing in. Doing this can create problems with signing in or even sending and receiving email." https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-personalize...

So it's not clear if you can't, or you can, but it's not recommended.
I think "productivity tricks" and stuff like this are similar to regular diet and exercise. There is a vast market of people willing to sell you whatever you want to hear as it's much easier than, you know, just doing the thing you're supposed to do. Every time I see some "crazy new diet" or "8 minute abs" style thing I always mutter to myself: "anything but a conservative diet and regular exercise"
That’s about how I use it. Don’t really need/use other services except I do need Netflix for the Seinfeld episodes. YT Premium is my only must have subscription.

See that’s where I think YouTube dropped the ball if they had got some of that popular content instead of funding new creators.
Modern software engineering is mostly abstraction engineering. If you can build abstractions on top of abstractions and they are profitable, you are probably a good software engineer.
Perhaps we should thank the script kiddies for irrefutably demonstrating that current networking and computing practices (and systems) are a house of cards.

Perhaps we should abandon some of the operations, engineering, and design practices that created said house of cards.

It's also rather amazing that there is apparently no warranty for clearly defective software, computing, or networking products and services, and that customers have no remedy when they are harmed by those defects.
Dude you're a fool if you don't think rich people put in hours and hours of work. They're almost never not working. Their entire lives typically revolve around work and nothing else.

You might have a point if you're talking trust fund babies but those people are miserable because they do nothing. They're not happy. The vast majority of wealth is not handed down.

>Rather, that attaining freedom from being told what to do much of your waking hours is morally or psychologically harmful.

Do you understand how this is achieved at all???? BY HARD WORK. Go out and create something of your own, no one is stopping you. If you think it's not going to be work I've got news for you. No one is going to just give you this freedom, nor should they because it would then be meaningless.

I'm sorry but you just sound incredibly young, naive, and lacking in any real world experience. You need to grow up and realize that almost nothing in life that's easily obtained is worth a shit.
This looks a lot like a direct clone of https://forwardemail.net/, except that ImprovMX isn't open source. I wonder which came first?

I like simplelogin.io (also open source, so can be selfhosted) because the aliases can be used to send and receive, though you do have to set the domain up on their platform first.
i'm aware of this and you're talking past the point i made. federal restrictions are stricter on voting than they are on alcohol.
I did a lot of different things in my career... I definitely saw engineering or at least saw something that was a gateway to engineering, but the challenge was that the vast majority of organizations had incentives that went another direction. Meaning, for most the cost and time to engage in any kind of disciplined behaviors was beyond what they were willing to do. Of course, the argument can be made that if they followed engineering practices it might have saved them time and money, but by and large companies don't have the knowledge to do things differently. You could argue that's why they hire software engineers - to show them how to do it right - but my own experiences were that most companies can't get out of their own way.

So, sure - there could be such a thing as software engineering, we could all be software engineers, but in most places we just hack along as programmers trying to hold it together with spit and baling wire.
I don't see how this is remotely feasible...
You're forgetting the circle of ageing techies that used to use AltaVista and now (in)directly control large budgets, have long memories and significant clout when it comes to guiding our replacements into making the right decisions and educating them about corporate (mis)trust.
That's because trap music (the hip-hop genre) and EDM (which has a trap subgenre) were highly influential genres in the 2010s and their influence continues to be felt, even though the latter's heyday with its huge electronic music festivals has passed. Those genres quite often intentionally used robotic vocals as an artistic choice. Simultaneously, there's been a revival of synthwave and other '80s electronic music in terms of influence and style. "Stay" somewhat typifies the latter.
You're considering moving because you'd have to spend a day setting up a post box and new analytics?

You don't think you're being a wee bit dramatic here, homie?
Rule 34 does it again: An OnlyFans-like metaverse and NFT project sets to launch
Yeah, you’re right. it’s when you put all the things together that it makes a lot of difference.

It’s not just autotune, but also the fact people today can make almost infinite punch-ins, a lot of music is time adjusted, samplers and modern synthesizers are in perfect tuning (compared to orchestra/guitar/synths of the past).

IMO “perfect music” has its own sound, which is a good sound, but there isn’t much to go after it. Maybe the next wave will be a little looser when it comes to this.
100% this... there is a product definition and the free bring your own domain model is not part of the free product definition any more. I'm having trouble understanding how technically literate people are grumpy about this. It was only a matter of time. Google is a business, not your friend and you should treat interaction with them in this lens. It's not 2002 when Google was the cool hip thing to use and they seemed to demonstrate the do no evil mantra. It's a publicly trading business, one of the largest in world by revenue and market position and financial tactical decisions will trump your feelings for what you think they owe you.
Apropos of nothing, I notice that your comment is post number 30 000 000 on Hacker News. Congratulations, I guess?