skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a very wealthy friend (born into wealth but successful otherwise) who wont do anything unless he can be in the 99th or 95th percentile of people doing it. He tries stuff that seems like he would be good at and doesn't do the other things.
Or maybe he wants his Starship launch plans approved. "Oh hi lol [I'm going to be a PITA to you all until I get what I want]"
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People will move back in droves when this is over. They'll be on the fast track to EU and have lots of investment
It's a weakness unless you succeed in synthesizing ideas and intuitions very fast into something unique and high quality.
Agreed, video games got me into adulthood. And I didn't turn into an addict and I picked up some valuable skills from it.
that's not quite the same thing, as it doesn't provide "name and adress", no?
Media Rage, a Mac application that had a broad and rich set of features to manage metadata, find duplicates, and organize media files like music, photos, etc.

The developer’s site (Chaotic Software) doesn’t exist any longer, but here’s an old page elsewhere [1] with a description of what it could do.

[1]: http://mac.majorgeeks.com/files/details/media_rage.html
I've been on the internet for quite some time, and I just haven't seen a lot of the bad stuff, or even the dumb stuff, that people say is unavoidable.

I struggle to think of examples, and the worst ones are things that might be described as "sounds kinda racist but the person who wrote it is probably not the cross-burning type".

Sure, I could find it if I went looking. But I don't.

You could argue that this is because of some kind of benevolent filtering, and I'll grant that dang (of HN) does a great job. But I think it's mostly because I don't delve into the kinds of places where that would happen.

So I'm honestly just not sure what you mean when something will devolve into 8chan. I've heard of that but I don't know anyone on there, so I don't even really know what it is or how the devolution might happen. Mechanically, what would take place? Would I follow a friend, and then start getting weird flat-Earth stuff because of their second cousin?
Not OP. Fair point, but also "people with the same medication" is not the same as "strangers on the Internet".
twitter is the site where the world connects. everything else is just a product, a service. twitter really has become the public forum in a way nothing else remotely competes with. i 100% feel & understand Jack's deep shame at singlehandedly ruining all the dreams of cyberspace. the products are irrelevant: what matters is connectivity, speech, freedom, possibility: twitter with it's mass adoption as public forum & strong centralization has ceased serving it's oroginal role, of being an enabler, of connection & communication, & become a dampener & duller & constrictor of communication.

personally i dont think their moderation is that bad or biased, but like all online services has zero service & no forgivenance, is authoritarian in extreme. i dont mind their algorithmic slant, and dont find it particularly dangerous, mostly just dull & uninspired with occasional upside moments & surprises.

but things like having to sign in, with increasing barriers to use... these speak of a company undergoing a sharp turn to Instagramification, to redditification, where the product is perpetually degrading & decaying into shit, with dark patterns rapidly rising & absolutely nothing of good note or regard being added. the mighty fall. the world having centralized it's public forums here, this is going to hurt a lot more than shitty instagram immolating itself, to no real loss.
Mentioning because it took me a surprisingly long time to realize this, and maybe I'm not alone:

With soft earplugs like hearos, you can adapt their comfort quite a lot with a pair of sharp scissors. Try shortening them a small amount, which is the easiest modification and might fix pressure when lying on your ears (sharper the scissors, the less they'll distort while trying to do something more precise)
Considering how seemingly impossible it has been to get GPUs and SIMD units accessible enough for programmers, I don't think we're ready for more until compiler technology and languages mature significantly.
It’s a truly distinct and amazingly designed website that I’m often not smart enough to understand. It’s a unique property on the Net, and that’s saying a lot these days.

One thing I would like to understand more is the archive system (used to reduce the problem of dead links). Is there some kind of automated process to create local copies of the linked webpages, or is it done by hand using some thing like wget or curl? How far do they go to archive embedded assets such as images or PDF files? Are there any copyright considerations for archived articles (what if you archive someone’s article that they would prefer to keep off-line)?
Antidepressants saved my marriage and the early development of my daughter.

My wife suffered a combination of depression and PTSD caused by a very bad childhood since basically middle school.

Under the stress of a newborn child it started to escalate to dangerous levels so she seeked help. After many failed therapy attempts she landed on Sertraline, which caused her symptoms to almost completely vanish and had only very mild side effects.

In the beginning she could not believe that neurotypical people feel like that all the time because she could not even remember a time anymore without depression and anxiety.

It fundamentally changed her and after 2 years of taking it, for the first time since she can remember, she is worried about the future and looking forward to it instead of hoping that she may die soon.

Talk to your doctor, get good advice, but don't be too afraid to try medication because it could potentially vastly improve your quality of life.
"It’s gonna be most painful for the oligarchs and people in their environment who are used to consuming massive amounts of foreign goods."

If 'tax the rich' works and reduces the power of the rich, then hasn't the West just taxed the rich of Russia and reduced their power to remove Putin?

Democrats can't have it both ways. They propose a billionaire tax in the USA to reduce the power of the rich to interfere with people in charge, then actually implement a billionaire tax in Russia and expect it to increase their ability to interfere with people in charge. It's an illogical position to hold.

"Btw even the USSR which was generally much more autarkic couldn’t survive without foreign currency for energy exports. What makes you think modern Russia could?"

If there are sanctions in place, what are they going to spend the 'foreign currency' on?

You can't eat dollars.

"so assuming there are countries willing to accept them they might be more likely to choose that"

The 'leave for other countries' is a globalist position. Most ordinary people are rooted in social support constructs on the ground. They don't leave, and prefer their own country.

In fact the attitude to those who leave from those who remain is likely to be good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Makes sense I guess. I didn’t bother to fight the paywall but that sums up the important bit.

The one thing worth mentioning is that postpaid cellular plans are kind of a ripoff unless you use a family plan. If you have 4+ people using post a paid plan it can be really cheap per line with the hardware subsides but if you buy individual plans you are looking at 60-100$ per. Individual plans are much cheaper on prepaid even when you buy your own phone.
> On average, viewers in the US alone spend over 600 million minutes every single night trying to figure out what to watch

Fake news. I spent barely 300 million minutes every night trying to figure out what to watch. And my friends are usually down under 200 million.
Thanks for the perspective, I've never worked in this kind of company so I'm glad to hear you feel your talents aren't going to waste.
Congratulations on having a frankly privileged experience with the medical system.

The only thing dangerous here is you, acting like people shouldn't advocate for themselves to every extent their intelligence allows.
Is grammarly not correct here?
Yes you are correct. Google Desktop Search. Connected Apps in Neeva is similar but better. It supports indexing more apps, like Figma and GitHub.
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I see what you're asking. Scribus exposes an API (Scripter) that can do, though not everything Scribus' UI provides, a whole lot.
One thing no one mentions since they only just got their freshly molded IEMs is the maintenance.

You have to be careful to not get ear wax inside them. That means cleaning them a lot more frequently than any regular in-ear headphone.

Eventually I bought the hearing aid vacuum (it uses a needle, and pumps through a filter to suck out the wax) for $100 to be able to reasonably maintain my IEMs after a $300 cleaning from the manufacturer.

That said I’ve had my same IEM for around a decade and they still sound amazing.
From Dan Luu's excellent blog post on the value of in-house expertise [1]:

Another reason to have in-house expertise in various areas is that they easily pay for themselves, which is a special case of the generic argument that large companies should be larger than most people expect because tiny percentage gains are worth a large amount in absolute dollars. If, in the lifetime of the specialist team like the kernel team, a single person found something that persistently reduced TCO by 0.5%, that would pay for the team in perpetuity, and Twitter’s kernel team has found many such changes.

If removing a blinking cursor has a 1% chance to increase the booking rate by even 0.1%, , then it's worth it for AirBNB to pay an engineer to implement the change.

[1] https://danluu.com/in-house/
You can still play those using Dosbox (an emulator) and downloading the games from various archives. There are also browser ports for several games. One of the recent ones I saw, which was also shared here, was Prince of Persia (https://princejs.com/ ).
Good. They should be scared.
I just ordered this book and wrote a blog post about it because the _description_ spoke to me. Which kinda proves the point, I guess.

I have been lucky enough to turn my passion into a successful software career working for someone else but I’ve always wanted to be self employed.

https://joeldare.com/im-a-scanner
...or if you need one that works in a terminal, I've got you covered :)

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/spreadsheet.html
Kagi supports DDG bangs. So just type `Walmart !g` and you will get the google search output
My point was that it's probably not a coincidence that the worst abuses happen in countries that followed "Ethnic" Nationalism rather than Civic (aka Liberal) Nationalism.
Because npm maintainers do not, and apparently have never known, how a good package manager is supposed to work.

I have zero trust in NPM.
> Grades are normalized on a gaussian curve.

Are we talking about grades? Honestly when I see "50% of doctors are below average" I intuitively think of some other metric, such as the correct/incorrect diagnosis ratio, or the number of people that died because of their errors. Maybe it's just me but their uni (?) grades never comes to my mind.
Honestly this doesn't sound too bad. You seem to have volunteered for a lot of assignments and it seems you were fairly well compensated. Once AirBnb becomes even bigger, the midnight code runs will end just like they have mostly ended in the likes of Microsoft and Google. Remember folks taking care of your mental health and avoiding burnout is your own responsibility. In this case, taking on less responsibility was an option.
>A few people have problems with medical professionals.

>"Death by medical error or accident is the nation's leading cause of accidental death"

Trust the "leading cause of accidental death".

Medical training is extremely limited. Physicians literally don't understand how any of the drugs they prescribe work, and the standard operating procedure is to memorize 2-3 drugs out of one class and never prescribe anything else in that class.

Physicians are constrained by: their hospital policy, HMO incentives, civil liability, criminal liability, boards, legislation, insurance rates, personal biases, past unique experiences, influence of their mentors, weather, bad knees, bad marriage, whatever. Sometimes they are just having a shit day. Some keep practising to the point they are so senile they attempt to sign a prescription with the syringe needle (witnessed that myself).

They are just humans. Rather greedy humans, most of the time. They will never be fully frank with you.

3rd opinion? People often seen 5+ physicians, and spend 10+ years to get a proper diagnosis.
Therapy changed the way I see life and toned down my expectations.

I live less in the future and more in the present.

I judge myself less and feel emotions more.
If anyone at GHA is reading comments, could you pressure your upstream VM hosts to all allow ‘rr’ (Mozilla record and replay) usage? They must enable performance measurement counters (PMU), but it is game-changing to be able to use CI not only to detect issues, but also exactly reproduce rare bugs by simply downloading an exact replay of the exact steps that led to it. We currently use self-hosted buildkite and buildbot runners specifically because we can enable the required performance counters, and temporarily save every run as an rr file so any result can be reproduced locally and investigated.

To quote an old post by the program author for more specifics:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23076703
> dysfunctional department that had been significantly under resourced

Was it infra?
It's only a strength if you have a strong base and a way to tie things together. Being interested in a bunch of disparate fields is not in itself useful. In fact for most people it's probably completely useless, because you're going to suck at everything.

Ex: OP wants to read "textbooks to learn basic concepts" and "swim in their ideas". That doesn't equal competence.

However, if you have strong expertise in a particular field and can find a way to utilize the ideas/learnings from a different field you're interested in then it might be useful. Big if though.
I encountered this once and was just sooooo confused when they got to the part about how the mentor had helped them make all this money and achieve all these life goals. I was like, “and so now you’re…hustling people at a Starbucks in Vacaville?”
Easy to say when you're in a major city/within the 100 mile border zone.
I fall into this group. I've so far found it to be a strength (mostly).
R&D/prototype style work benefits highly from having generalists around. Most normal people just don't have a lot of breadth in terms of knowing what else is out there or what's been done outside of a narrowly defined field.

95% of the time you'll be greeted with a "huh...interesting" and no follow up, but in my experience that remaining 5% can be pretty awesome when you stumble upon something that solves a problem in a way nobody else imagined.
Thanks for warm fuzzies, favorited.
This reminded me of https://mveg.es/posts/writing-a-device-driver-for-unix-v6/, which was recently discussed here under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30679923

Also... have you considered contributing this content to the NetBSD Internals book? https://www.netbsd.org/docs/internals/en/netbsd-internals.ht... :)
My point was that some of the "techniques" are just things that humans do naturally - noticing that gives you quite a lot of power (but also responsibility).
> Let’s think about a link. Many pages can point to a single page. Many-to-one. One-to-many. So, we could achieve tagging with links by listing all backlinks to a given page. Tags are just backlinks to pages that don’t exist.

Does this make sense to anyone? This reads to me like GPT-3 wrote it, a simulacrum of a deep thought...
What do you call these types of groups? I want to see if they exist in my city.
So hard to finally accept this. I would tell myself "Maybe this company is different", "Maybe this department is different", or "Maybe my team is different." Every time it was a fantasy. Sometimes it can happen for a month or a year, but the hourglass always runs out. The belt tightens, and dollars are squeezed from somewhere. Eventually the squeeze finds you and it's time to jump ship or quickly learn how to set boundaries.
I have a similar pattern and decided, maybe instead of trying to fight it, I should turn it into a strength. Build around it https://rigelblu.com.

David Perell's dime video was the final clue I needed — pick your center and just go https://youtu.be/gRDopONrnHE

Happy to chat if it helps. Who knows, maybe you could help me. I’m relearning software engineering now after being out of it since school (2004).
Side-effects: I generally react very badly to drugs. I wouldn’t put the SSRIs I’ve been on in the “really bad side-effects” by any stretch. Worth the trade-off in my case.

Aside: Get yourself tested for the MTHFR gene mutation.
My understanding has been that the wait times have been increasing, and the pay hasn't been keeping pace.

It's an inefficiency problem.

"don’t cover the hours they can spend waiting at shippers and receivers."
Well the Dell XPS developer editions are nice if you can find them.

System76 makes bespoke Linux laptops, they could be an option.

I’m in the same boat: I’m looking for a laptop to replace my 2013 MacBook Pro and I’ve switched to Linux on it. So I’m hoping more folks reply.

Reddit would probably be a better place to so this though on something like r/Linux.
The guy who came in last in his medical class. In the worst medical school in the country.

..is somehow always better...than everyone else? Always?

Professional opinion is just that, an opinion. Opinion of potentially the worst medical student, from the worst medical school. but because they got a prescription pad, they are now smarter than anyone else in America. Got it.

Health is ultimately our own decision, and ours alone.
I think you're referring to a B2B customer support role (e.g. a CSM), which is very different from what customer service at Airbnb is. There's no clients at Airbnb with bespoke issues. It's more like customer service at a hotel.
> What does one do with an intellectual life other than swimming through intellectual content?

Psychology: I've used it.

HEXACO/Big 5, I've used it to find my girlfriend and test on compatibility. How do you do that? Well, I score high on "openness to experience", I can spot other open people from a mile away. Conscientious vs non-conscientious people are also quite easily recognizable by how rigid/organized they are. When a person disagrees sometimes and agrees a few times then they're moderately agreeable. Extraversion/introversion is easy to spot as well. Neuroticism is harder to spot but anxiety (or lack thereof) is correlated. There! No questionnaire needed! Though, when I knew my GF for 3 months I also gave her a questionnaire for fun which was stating the obvious: her personality was like mine. The most fun way in which you can see that is by looking at both our YouTube feeds, it's quite similar.

Priming: the idea of priming is nebulous due to the publication crisis, but it did teach me to care about the atmosphere you're setting.

Statistics: using statistics in psychology made me better at data science

Neuropsychology: one topic raised interesting questions, which was: can we want something and hate it (yes!)? Can we like something and not want it (yep)? This taught me a lot about certain aspects of addiction.

Neuroplasticity: awesome concept. Neuroplastic behavior has been observed in meditators and hardcore gamers. My guess is that anything you'll do intensely for a few hours will change your brain somewhat.

The publication crisis: many things in psychology are bullshit because there's too much of a publish/perish culture and because of that reproduction of research is an issue. This is especially why you need to put whatever research you read into practice. By using it yourself, you'll find out quickly whether it's research you can meaningfully build on yourself.

Intuition: you can trust your intuition iff (1) you've had many examples of whatever you're intuiting about, (2) the rules were structured like chess or poker (expected value + law of large numbers is needed -- see (1) ) and (3) you can sense you're own intution in the first place. Because of this I immediately realized that people that say "yup I'm good with people" might make the catastrophic flaw of thinking that they're also good with people from an entirely different culture! I've seen this happen up close. The reason is simple: you haven't seen anyone from an entirely different culture, so whatever intuition you have I would not trust it.

Just some thoughts about psychology. I've been an enthusiast about psychology for about 15 years and got academically schooled in it 10 years ago.
You had me at steampunk
> If that real-world rate of improvement continues

https://xkcd.com/605/
Accusations of racism and harassment cause battle between Stanford and Cal profs
Yes, I think she can. I think this is better than running the whole editor as root.
Space Empires 5 (a sequel would be ideal, but better support for current-gen OS's would be nice). Stellaris is good but doesn't quite stratch the itch the same way SEV did.
Hacks

Buyouts

etc
The comparison with the Beats is interesting (I know next to nothing about the Beats). Thanks for sharing!
Added above. Thanks!

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bricklin.com/histor... is an impressive run
While I don't know you, you underestimate "social geniuses" and con men.

Regardless of what you think of Trump politically, his is an example of the unrelenting assault of certain personality types, likely of the hypomania category.

I have known possibly two or three hypomaniacs in my life, thankfully lacking sinister ulterior motives, but nonetheless the experience can be overwhelming.
As someone else said, your diversity of interests is a strength even if "the system" does not seem geared towards that end.
Did you try simply sitting down and with closed eyes and waiting?

From my experience dealing with depression, it's likely connected to unprocessed feelings. Stuff that was too painful to face and therefore was shoved down. The problem is that they don't stop hurting you just because you ignore them.

Drugs will mostly mask the problem from my experience, unless you intentionally use them as a bridge to get to a point where you can solve it.
The responses to this thread seem overwhelming to me, as someone who has struggled with burnout/depression.

I think these are the important takeaways:

* Talk to a medical professional, like a doctor / GP

* Keep talking to your therapist if it helps. Look for a new therapist if your current one isn't a good fit.

* Work with your "care team" (therapist, doctor, loved ones) to create a treatment plan. Agree on ways to check in / track, so you can adjust the plan.

"Treatment plan" might include medication, but also combination of diet/exercise/practices like journaling.

Mental health and wellbeing is a spectrum. Nothing about health is permanent; it all requires upkeep.

You probably take lots of other supplements without thinking about it, like enriched flour or fortified milk. SSRIs supplement insufficient serotonin production (the causes of this are very complicated).

The contraindications, lifestyle changes, side effects that accompany SSRIs are not trivial. Your fears are valid.

Remember that you're in control of your treatment plan though. If you feel worse or decide the trade-offs aren't worth it, you can keep tweaking or remove mediation entirely.

Don't give up!
I absolutely love the footnotes along the sidebars (though I would prefer it if they were all on the same side)
What are you guys trying to post that can't be posted on Twitter or on some other private service?