skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well you definitely do sound like you have depression, and I'm glad you're seeking treatment. Personally I'd be interested in trying one of the newer experimental treatments like mushrooms. Don't discount the pills, though, it can take a while to find something that evens you out.

> it's just a slow decline from here on out

The moment you're born is the moment you start dying. From the greatest king to the lowest begger, we all just fart around doing meaningless human things until we punch the final clock. So what's the point? Why go on? Why do anything?

You have to give yourself a reason to live. It doesn't have to be an accomplishment or a goal. It can just be that you like flowers. Seeing flowers, smelling flowers, touching them, maybe growing them, learning more about them. You can live just because occasionally you get to enjoy flowers. When you're not doing that, you can find another thing to enjoy. One thing, then another, then another. Each for just a moment at a time. Life's a stroll down a trail of moments. You pick one up, enjoy it, put it down, and continue the stroll. And the cool thing is, you decide where the trail leads, how fast you go, how many moments there are. You can go at a snail's pace or a flat-out run.

Personally, I enjoy the slow pace now. Just sitting and watching a bird outside my window is pretty fucking magical. If I want to see more birds? Bird feeder! Or I can move somewhere with more birds. Or go take a nature walk. It's not immediate, and I can't force the birds to appear. But when it happens... Until the next time the birds come out, I do the next thing that brings me joy. Just stringing moments together. No point. No final destination. Just taking a stroll, picking up happy moments along the way.
Another possible explanation is that younger people tend to rely more on far right or far left media, which tends to be much more pro-Russia than mainstream media (sometimes organically, sometimes through paid sponsorship like https://twitter.com/bamnecessary/status/1499162014895296516).

Hasan Piker for example, the #1 politics streamer on Twitch, is quite far left and is much more pro-Russia than say CNN.
I think you’re missing the point here. Depression is a bitch and it skews the perception of self and the world in hard to comprehend if one does not experience it themselves. And that comes with various degrees of severity where towards one end people just want out, they feel something unbearable.

For a non sufferer of depression it makes a lot of sense to be happy that they reached a level where they can do whatever they want but with depression that desire ceases to exist.
What is it that you think is good or bad for the rest of humanity about this potential sale?
All you've listed is the things you did for yourself. If that's all you did - do for the others. It might be more fulfilling than you think.
Yes, that's not ideal. Thankfully not too sensitive by itself, but clearly something hasn't been done right.
The media is usually not profitable, they have other uses. Countless newspaper and tv networks go bankrupt
Glad to hear that you are seeking help. Just remember that other people out there have got it worse. So if you do nothing but enjoy each day, that's a victory.
I've been doing optimization work in C#, and I think findings like this one are unremarkable. I will readily admit C# is slower and less flexible than say C++, but for small things, I can always beat calling out to external code by writing optimized C#. This is usually because even a slower language like C# is still good enough to make the cost of marshalling objects or an IAT lookup become far more costly than the difference between the optimized C++ and C#. I don't know if thats the reason here, but I have my suspicions.
> The same way the EU decided that their citizens cannot think for themselves and need to be protected from Russian lies like small children.

But there is vast amounts of empirical evidence that this is correct. Why in the world would you think otherwise?!
How do you define success? The answer to that is rooted in your present unhappiness, but you have the power to redefine success.

From an outsider's perspective, your life is the one that I want to live, a life I would call successful! I would kill to be in a position to retire around the age of 40. I hate working! Starting a homestead and living off the land while I kick back and enjoy life, rather than generating profits for some nameless elite in a skyscraper.

You can make any plans you want going forward. What do you value? What is your calling? What is your crusade? The answer lies within.
I think one of the big reasons is that this generation came of age during the Iraq War.

They saw how the whole media and US military and intelligence community could push a story that was designed to inflame people and push for war.

And we saw the huge cost of that.

Fool me once…
I visit some fringe political forums once in a blue moon just to take a pulse. I was surprised to see a sizable pro-Putin sentiment which is basically a result of the whole “Russia Russia Russia” thing.

Boy who cried wolf is a real thing.
Yes the problem is class conflict, not a handful of people. The handful of people are just a sign of how badly the capitalist class are winning the conflict.
There's a middle-ground here where the input and output types of a function (informally) denote the pre- and post-conditions and a (correct) program is equivalent to a proof that your pre-condition implies the post-condition.

A function List -> Sorted List can both be considered a proof that lists can be sorted as well as a procedure for sorting lists.
Learn to complain better.

Seriously. There's a theory about learning and creating addictive games created by Jean Piaget [long story goes here]. Basically, if you don't feel the need for a change, the gut feeling that the universe is out of balance, you won't change.

It's perfectly fine to accomplish a lot and feel at ease. Being lost, however, means that there is somewhere you want to be but can't get there. Work on where that is, then you'll know more about why you're lost.

Apologies for sounding like Yoda. At some point, most all of us are happy, accomplish meaningful things, maybe take a victory lap. Yay. Contentment is the secret to happiness. You can have a happy life or a meaningful one. They're not the same thing.
I’ve read Man’s search for meaning by Frankle although it was moving, his personal motivation / source of meaning (religion) doesn’t work for those who aren’t religious.
>It's exactly free speech in the context I'm describing; the idea that dissent is good and everyone gets their say. Social media is free and open so it's quite clear that the bar for curation is going to be lower than a newspaper with finite space.

Explain to me how you would get your OpEd published or get on TV tomorrow, today, or 20 years ago. Explain to me how _everyone_ gets to do it.

>Social media is free and open so it's quite clear that the bar for curation is going to be lower than a newspaper with finite space.

The point is it doesn't need to be. Newspapers are now no longer constrained by how much paper they can fold. TV is no longer constrained by how many channels can be broadcast OTA or via Coax.

>Virtually everyone should get their say. The bar for censorship should be extremely high.

Censorship is not the same thing as not publishing your drivel. Are you suggesting that if you submit an OpEd to the Wall Street Journal and they don't publish it that they're censoring you? They're making a curated, editorial choice, it's not censorship - they are a private company with no obligation to publish or give platform to your ideas.

>Yes it does. How could it not? And who determines what is "dangerous or bad"?

This is what I'm telling you - in all media formats prior to The Internet, the owner of the platform or editor of the platform or governance for OpEds determined what was worth publishing/platforming and what wasn't.

>It used to be the case that most speech was in-person and local.

Is that good or bad?

>Most people were relatively tolerant and there wasn't a lot of curation.

We burned "witches". There has never been a time in human history where we were more tolerant than today.

The Catholic Church murdered people for suggesting that our solar system was heliocentric.

We have less curation than we've ever had in human history - by miles. We may have over-rotated.

>There was a consolidation in the 20th century, which is what you're referring to. Now things are opening back up.

There has always been consolidation - through money and power. There was an opening in the 20th century, and we've been less constrained every day since the invention of the printing press.
Isn't there something you find interesting and would enjoy exploring?
You picked the (probably?) single highest performing stock in the past 10 years. Call it luck, but it's not luck because you were born rich. What if you invested in any of the other hundreds of companies that have gone bankrupt or lost most of their value.

In any case being born rich is lucky for many reasons, but not for you investing in the huge gamble that was Tesla
Alan Kay's work is very much about children, but Engelbart's project was about (qualified) grownups and future civilization. (Children at the age of about 10-12 were especially interesting to Alan Kay, because they're at in a transitional state from visual dominance to symbolic dominance in thinking, following the work of Piaget and in the updated version by Jerome Brunner.) Regarding, what is discoverable, the civilizing aspect may be well in what is shown and in what way. E.g., Licklider's examples are actually conversations about constraints, without verbalising constraints specifically.

Edit: One notable "relict" of Engelbart's project is the outline view in MS Word (which, out of context, may not appear to be that remarkable, while it was much about how texts should be organized and understood).
Depends on the shareholder agreement and how the board fits into that.

By default it would be something like - if the board approved it goes to a shareholder vote, and if 75% or 90% of the shareholders approve the rest are dragged.

I doubt the board can force all shareholders to sell, that would be an insane power position for shareholders
I would argue on the point that more and more programming in my experience seems not to support things that are calculation heavy and need "correct answers" but supporting workflows and models of thinking.

I don't see how supporting workflows or setting/managing/evolving models of thinking can have anything to do with proof systems or proving correctness of algorithms.

Since we have CRUD basically worked out there is so much more software that can be written without being mathematically strict like the DBMS that we build on top.
Some of the cliams the parent is making don't hold up to scrutiny, but the core of their argument does.

It's sort of like how geometry literally means 'the measurement of land' since it was originally an applied field developed for surveying farm plots for the bronze age super powers after each flood along the Nile and the levant wiped the property boundaries away. I think it's safe to say it has expanded beyond it's original intention, and CS has the same properties.
"If we just...."

Young Americans, in general, do not understand or internalize national security or great power competition; and instead project high ideals and generosity to countries whose _leadership_ does not share the same view of their nation or the world. With Russia, using OP example, there was & probably remains the very serious risk of food & energy dominance by Russia at the expense of democratic nations - none of whom can make the transition to so-called green tech in-time to avoid that outcome. There remains the risk of a Sino-Russian alliance that would result in a very different world from today's somewhat free & open societies. I could go on at length, but will sum it up by saying the world doesn't work the way we wish it would, and we have to face reality head-on and not wish it away.
I feel like this would not be helping the people with drinking problems. A heavy drinker is likely to spend more than $5/day on drinking so they already value $5 as not worth abstaining from drinking. It could help some subset of problem drinkers though.
Too much cynics here. And from people that MUST know better, to bot.

You can do it this way:

- Invest that in make some software.

- That software sell very well.

Software is likely the easiest to pull. Also:

- Invest that in win a big contract to make software (for enterprise/goverment)

- Use the down-payment to (hopefully, right?) deliver on it.

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I work in this space, but more in the SMALL sector of it, and the major complication is not money, is to get into the kind of people that pay that sums. I almost win something like this, but the pandemic kick and all dried...
Thankfully there are some retrocomputing and hobbyist groups online that maintain this spirit of computing. I was born in 1989 and was fortunate enough to be exposed to computers at an early age, and so I was able to live through a time when computers felt new and before "pop culture" (as Alan Kay would put it) and other commercial concerns took over computing.

Some areas where I spend a lot of my browsing time are Mac and NeXT retrocomputing sites as well as keeping up to date with the Smalltalk, Lisp, and Plan 9 communities.
Sure. And the moment alternative to Twitter is even suggested, it is curbstomped from hackers, who see it as a 'permissible' target ( and seemingly it is based on the cheering that follows a hack ) and various service providers, who won't let it exist.

It is all fine and dandy to say 'build your own public square', but its point is somewhat lost, when you have a hard time even getting basic materials.
Volunteer: code for nonprofits, mentor others, help the elderly or less fortunate.

Weightlift. Not bodybuilding, but heavy weights. Grinding through what seems like impossible amounts is invigorating, both physically and mentally.
It does make a bit of sense to break a (relatively) wildly changing cost like fuel out of the fixed portion of the contract.

No way does the vendor want to assume the risk of fuel prices going through the roof and being forced to eat into their margin. At most they should share that risk with the customer—it isn’t like the vendor or the customer has much control over fuel prices.
Wife and I decided to have a kid a when I was around 40 (she's younger) as our daily life seemed to lack real purpose. We never had a strong desire to be parents but another several decades of work, netflix, sleep with a few vacations and nice restaurants sprinkled in to break up the tedium just didn't sound fulfilling after having done exactly that the previous ~15 years. It also coincided with some other health related stuff that made us really have to evaluate a now or never type decision on kids. We decided we'd probably regret it if we didn't.

I'm still somewhat aware that I'm having a mid life crisis but it's more of a feeling of wanting to enjoy my kid being a kid before he outgrows me and nothing else really matters. I don't chase money or work accomplishments, never really have, but they do pull at me and now I push back a lot more. So a massive shift of prioritization is in place where I prioritize my social calendar (or kids) over my work calendar at all cost. I really have no relationship with my dad (by choice, but with reasons) so I now often think that is my primary objective to make sure my son wants to keep me in his life as an adult. So in a large part I'm just trying to not repeat the mistakes my dad made with me... but I also really enjoy my kid and want to spend time with him, so it helps.

Anyways, good luck with finding yourself on the other side of the hill. Maybe my story will help you in some way.
It took me a long time to realize that even in Tech, the reason many choose the founder/startup track is simply because their basic middle class lifestyle and retirement were assured from the day they were born. Otherwise it simply would never be financially wise to take a job at a hot startup, or start your own business. Meanwhile there are many engineers who actively choose this lifestyle.
Do you find that all these need to come from the same activity? Is it ok if you for example have autonomy at work and are pushing your mastery on wood carving in the evenings and are getting purpose from feeding the poor on the weekends?
I have pretty much zero problem with someone like Musk being a Billionare.

Most billionaires made their money in finance or via generational wealth. Seeing a scrappy immigrant (Even with a $200k business loan) go from practically nothing to the richest man in the world, while doing things that actually have a positive impact on society is pretty much the epitome of the American Dream.
Does your statement apply to “get therapy” itself?

I’m not trying to be snarky, I’ve seen way more advices on getting therapy rather than start lifting weight. I don’t have an opinion one way or another, but when I read the GP advice, I thought it was the one being unusual rather than common
"Knowledge" is not the same as "expertise" in the sense OP means above. Clergy go to school and have degrees and have deep knowledge in their field, but that doesn't mean that ordinary people owe them any deference on areas of general concern.

True authority automatically draws respect because it enables those experts to do things and explain things ordinary people cannot. It's not just engineers--it's carpenters, accountants, lawyers, doctors, electricians, mechanics, etc. If literacy rates were skyrocketing because of the work done by Doctorates in Education nobody would be making snarky comments about them.
I dunno about all that, but in my case what I mean is "the only choice that would satisfy the author's criteria of being statistically sound"
US government spennt $6800B+ last year, why haven't they solved global hunger if it's so easy?
Do something physically hard, hard enough for you to slightly fear it. Martial arts, in particular BJJ would be a great option. You need to let your body command your attention, urgently and forcibly, so you get out of your own head and can appreciate comfort and safety again.
> In this case, the government denies you a platform to spread particular beliefs.

Is this something you believe to be a good thing?
China has a different model. Perhaps move there and try that?
App makes using iPads easier for people with hand tremors
I’m not convinced a regression of 21 Latin American countries is representative of the United States personally. Sure, it’ll have some effect. But even 3 per thousand seems extreme to me.
Show HN: HacheQL, a lightweight library to make GraphQL requests HTTP-cacheable
Hey all, I'd like to share something I've been working on for a while: HacheQL.

HacheQL is a developer library and NPM package that makes it possible to cache GraphQL queries and responses with the http caching mechanism built into browsers and the proxy infrastructure of the web.

It's open source, compatible with whatever graphql infrastructure you've already implemented, and is scalable and performant.

To set it up, just import and use our middleware along the GraphQL route in your server's code. Then wrap any http requests you wish to cache in the provided client function. If you have an extensive codebase, you don't need to transition all at once - using just the middleware won't give any caching benefits, but it won't alter your application's behavior.

You can see our source, and detailed documentation, here: https://github.com/oslabs-beta/hacheQL , and we are on npm here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/hacheql.
100x leveraged trading in just the right moment for just the right time :'D (JK)
I wonder if the constant cat and mouse play between Google algorithm updates and dark SEO optimizers could be fixed by a plethora of search engines without one specific dominant one?
Zero to Tesla. It's not like he has hundreds of billions of dollars sitting in cash. Almost all of his wealth is in Tesla/SpaceX. He created value from basically zero.

Didn't steal it from anyone.
Show HN: Building mobile apps in rust and flutter
Emacs community on Reddit, GH etc have grown and grown in peoples not really from IT, new lawyers, astronomers, ... ask for Emacs and that's for me means a growing interest, probably still too little to makes Google Trend changes, but clearly perceivable. Beside that real statistics are next to impossible so I can just tell what I see, and that's not a real statistic anyway...
Possibly an unpopular answer, but have you tried exploring or investigating any religions? I'm in my mid-30s and I've found religion has given me a profound sense of purpose and identity and community compared to a lot of my peers who have similar struggles as you (rich, but increasingly unhappy and nihilistic).

Of course, there's always the question of "which religion" since obviously all religions in aggregate have contradictory teachings when compared to each other. And if you absolutely can't bring yourself to believe in something like God without hard empirical evidence, maybe religion isn't for you. But in my opinion almost any religion is better than none if only for the uplifting camaraderie alone, so if you have even the tiniest desire to believe in something greater you could just pick one you think looks good and try it out for a bit and see if it has any positive outcomes in your life. And if your initial choice turned out to be good but sub-optimal (which it most likely will if you picked at random), as your faith grows you can trust that you'll be guided to switch to the best one for you over time (if you so desire).
Cramer's take, “If they say, ‘we accept,’ they’re phony. And they’re not phonies.”, was meritless and had no logic.
I am an individual contributor, decently paid at a medium size business. I developed warehouse management systems, inventory managers etc. Very small team and projects have been quite successful.
Oh I don't really disagree!

I just think the limit on our knowledge that you describe should lead us more towards caution than the opposite in a lot of situations. Because it could be worse too.
Interesting. I've found that reminding myself that others have it worse won't make me feel any better but add some amount of guilt on top
Smart people should write proofs. Less smart people should do the plumbing.
I can AppleScript to Finder on the toolbar and do some pretty nice stuff. For example, the script to add a button to open a terminal in the directory the window is showing is trivial.
> Hasan Piker for example, the #1 politics streamer on Twitch, is quite far left and is much more pro-Russia than say CNN.

I don't think Hasan is even remotely pro-Russia. What makes you say that?
The Progressive Movement’s TikTok Army
Absolutely, I just pushed up all the code here https://github.com/joshstrange/mousejump -- I can't make any support promises but it's been working for me really well.
My worry is still web vulnerabilities, opsec

opening a malicious pdf on their main machine or a malicious website

the one time all their sensitive info compromises their main gmail/apple account

How is it even possible to help our extremely vulnerable elderly parents and then our very young family members, nephews, nieces

We've probably all been pwned at least once, and we're the more cautious/aware of the population, how do the helpless even fare? Besides locking them down in the apple eco and idk vetting every file/website they use?
"Google Services generated $69.4 billion, or about 92% of total revenue, in Q4 FY 2021. Advertising revenue, at $61.2 billion, comprised 88% of the segment's revenue."

Most of their money comes from Ads, they couldn't give two crap about all other services, including cloud. And that's why they keep launching and discontinuing products.