skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 41 and I can understand the existential ennui of being capable and not finding satisfaction in it, or life. I hate each passing birthday as it seems to mark yet another failed year of finding content; hopefully, you can intellectually see that, when I say it, it isn't true and worth trying - what else can one do?

I've also been medicated on SSRIs (in my opinion, they were only worth it when I was going to kill myself), had therapy (good, up to a point for me, but worth pursuing with an open mind, especially when you are in a mental health crisis; sounds like you are), and tried some alternatives (shrooms have worked well to shift me out of prolonged depression when the standard meds and therapy were not helping; have a look at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01744-z, also a great interview with David Nutt on MedLifeCrisis)

Perhaps you might find Healthly Gamer useful as well (https://www.healthygamer.gg/, interviews on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClHVl2N3jPEbkNJVx-ItQIQ). It has been useful for me. The interviews have helped me over the last 6 months not to feel as isolated. They also gave me insight into my therapy and the workings on my mind.

Good luck and I genuinely hope you are able to find a more content existence.
Wait, you're saying FB was allowed to buy Insta because regulators assumed they'd fumble the ball? That they wanted Insta to die off?
Watch and Share Volumetric Video
Half agreement on the last part. I never care about typing, but I care a lot about readability.

And fewer characters often is proportionally easier to read.
If the lawmakers would just make 4 standards: 2 milwaukee (12 and 18 volt), 2 DeWalk (12v and 20/60 flex) it would cover most people who care about keeping their existing tools and be good enough for everything.
you know they cant call it a war on russian tv right?
Recipe for thinking two things are equally important. If one of those is as intrinsically unimportant as Twitter, the other is too.
On the "search" thing - one accidental feature of browsers that I appreciate is the clear demarcation between "find (on this page)" and "search".

On any application, if "ctrl-F" does not provide me immediately with a terrifylingly fast search-dialog that will scrape through literally the thing that is in my current window and nothing else, you fail. Period. Ctrl-F is part basic workflow expected from modern systems.

Search outside of what's in the current window? FAIL.

Search slowly? FAIL.

Nautilus' behavior would be analogous to spawning a Google search when I hit ctrl-F in Firefox.
Reminds me of https://danluu.com/input-lag/ - and I've been noticing it more and more as everything (even desktop apps) become "cloud apps" - everything is sluggish, which prevents typeahead and quick access.

Watching someone use the old text-based terminals you'd see at Frys or a bank vs watching them fight with a mouse-based web GUI is instructional; with the old text terminal you could enter the whole transaction as one long string of characters into the buffer, and even if it took time to load the screens, it would faithfully execute exactly as you ordered it to.
On the happiness front, consider learning about Positive Psychology (a rigorous research subfield within psychology focusing on happiness and well being). If you read books, consider reading ones by Ph.D. researchers in the field, rather than journalists (who unfortunately often overstep conclusions of research findings).

For example: The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky https://www.amazon.com/How-Happiness-Approach-Getting-Life/d...

I think trying LSD or Magic Mushrooms once (after proper research and understanding of safety precautions) may be an excellent move.
I'm the annoying uncle at christmas telling everyone to use Bitwarden.
Gnome makes it really hard to fix these kinds of things yourself without forking the entirety of Gnome.
This “you can fix it yourself” argument is really tiring sometimes.

For a project like nautilus, there are very few people with the resources and motivation to fix anything. So we end up with underdeveloped open source products.

Maybe we should try “we need better funding and coordination” for open source projects.
>Thanks to an analysis of its unprecedented trove of IRS data, ProPublica is revealing the 15 people who reported the most U.S. income on their taxes from 2013 to 2018, along with data for the rest of the top 400.

That is some dirt bag reporting using data stolen from the IRS.
Why does Google require Google Duo when all you need is Google Search?
Amazon-Owned Twitch Spreading Russian Misinformation on Ukraine
That works, right up to the point that it is your country that is invaded. Then all those theories go right out the window.
18-29 is 1993 or younger.

They we born during the Bosnian and Kosovo wars. They were 7 years old or younger when they briefly experienced no war in 2000 and GWBush and 9/11 in 2001 they saw the Afghanistan war start and not end until only months ago. 20 years of war and a loss!

They only know war. Can you imagine their war exhaustion? Can you imagine how much they don't care about a war happening on the otherside of the world that the usa aren't officially involved in?

The USA is still officially involved in somali, yemen, and syria.

These young americans are probably more concerned with those 3 and you didn't even ask them? You don't need to ask. You know they'll universally say to stop being in all these wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_America:_World_Police
15 Years ago, a 20oz bottle of soda was a $1 and 12oz cans were 50¢. The decade before that 12oz cans floated between 25-35¢.

So 15 years ago, the 23oz can was still a good value compared to the 20oz bottle of coke.

> The real question should be – how did they get away with overpricing it for so long.

Your question is framed wrong, it should be how have coke bottlers been able to keep the price so high. After transportation costs, the bottle, cap, and label are the most expensive parts of the thing (the can in Arizona's case). The liquid inside is stupid cheap.
How does one get involved in writing these kind of apps? I once looked into gnome2/mate development but only found a few books that were 10+ years old, and that was several years ago. Would prefer Python over C, but maybe that is not possible for core apps.
You can focus any file by typing its name in MacOS.

However, the behaviour is somewhat weird. If your current selection is a folder, and you start typing, it's a 50/50 guess of where it will start the search: in the folder you've selected, or in the parent folder of your currently selected folder

Edit:

Reading other comments I now realise you meant the behaviour of Cmd+F which doesn't default to "search in current folder".

Thankfully, there's a setting for that now, added a few years back: Cmd + <comma> in a Finder window -> Advanced -> "When performing a search: Search the Current Folder"
Entire family is Apple devices, and I actually set up MDM to manage them (ManageEngine's free tier lets you manage 25 devices). WiFi settings, enforced updates, FileVault encryption, etc all managed via MDM policies. Using Cloudflare Gateway (free) for DNS. Sophos XG Home firewall for router/VPN/etc.

I also put a basic 2-bay Synology NAS in the basement, and everyone's laptops are set to back up via Time Machine automatically.
>So I’m assuming that Russia is doing that

I've learned there's a certain portion of the population that believes the Russians are behind almost everything.
I wouldn't because I don't believe that's the choice I have. You can sacrifice Ukranians, accept landlocked Ukraine, hope it will stop there and you are still unlikely to prevent Sino-Russian axis that has been building for years now and clearly has a more matching world view than other current combinations.

This was started in 2014 and thinking it will go away if only Putin gets a big enough chunk of Ukraine is, I think, wishful thinking.
We don't know for sure whether the original sale was real, or whether the price was refunded under the table in order to inflate the perceived value of the asset. I suspect a lot of sham sales are happening in the NFT world.
You could allow the user to design his own algorithm...
> Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk offered to take Twitter Inc. private in a deal valued at $43 billion, lambasting company management and saying he’s the person who can unlock the “extraordinary potential” of a communication platform used daily by more than 200 million people.

That's intriguing. Twitter's user facing APIs have been pretty stale in the last decade or so, in fact it could be said that they have regressed. If you regularly use something like Slack then it's easy to see how Twitter have wasted 1000s of integration opportunities. With the right direction it could become an exciting platform again. I don't think Musk intends to do anything like that, though.
Don’t sit idle. Use your time. It’s running out faster than you realize.
This comment is weird. Who cares about the stakes? Dead people are dead people. Unless you want to get into a "realist realpolitiks" analysis, which coincidentally can also be used to justify the russian war of aggression. I've seen this take pretty often and to me it boils down to "ukraine is in europe and ukrainians are europeans so it's different and it makes this war so much worse" which to me sounds extremely... problematic?

Like the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan still make those wars and the Civil wars they caused much much more destructive than what's happening in ukraine. It's not a competition, for sure, but it's important to keep that in mind before dismissing or downplaying the consequences of American policy and the enthusiastic support for those wars of the American public .
This question has been posed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30230620 (slightly different circumstances however there are parallels).

Either way, my favourite answer was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30231627

"It helps to bear in mind that about 99.9999% of the worlds population have no awareness of your existence."

That helped me.

I then created a domain based on that comment[1] and then decided to create an alter ego[2] who will be my internet persona for the various projects I've been doing for the last couple of years.

I guess that gave me a bit of a purpose.

[1]=https://99.99999.fyi/
[2]=https://gregorius.rippenstein.art/
It's another 420 reference just like his claim to have financing ready to take Tesla private which turned out to be false and just a joke.
The only problem I ever had with KDE is it randomly hogging the CPU. On different machines, same problem. And not just for a minute, but 10+. Still not sure what the reason was, that was Fedora 24 to 30 and some random Kubuntu between (yep, all had that problem randomly). Maybe it's fixed these days.

GNOME just got worse and worse lol
> waste your time watching TV, sports, playing games, art, and all that stuff people do to distract them from life

I think you have it backwards. Working is distracting you from life.
> For reasons that aren't entirely clear, the MSM literally promotes every US war and foreign intervention no matter the cost or predictable disastrous consequences.

It's almost like the CIA and NSA might use their unregulated surveillance to get leverage over the media.
With ref to the shrooms, be cautious if you have a family history of psychosis/personal psychotic episodes
They're largely a holdover from smalltalk and lisps, which use them as a sort of generalized token. I find them handy mostly because you can express things like slot names, enums, or keys in a way that's unambiguously not user provided. In Elixir for instance (which has Ruby's symbol syntax slapped on Erlang's atoms), you'll often report a failure with {:err, "error message"} so you can pattern match on it. In principle, with immutable strings, you could just have {"err", "error message"}, and it would work the same! But that's hard to distinguish from a list which happens to contain two strings.

Of course, the only thing prohibiting :err from being part of the data is convention. But if you're just looking over the code, the atom stands out almost like a syntactic feature, so it's easier to hold to. Plus, since they're interned strings underneath, you can use them in macros to make things like schemas unambiguously, and convert them into migrations with very little magic. So that's it, nothing you couldn't do with interned strings, variable names, and enums, but all in one handy little first class datatype.
This is also what i have gathered, ive used mostly youtube and r/ukraine to get some views, i do realize they are highly skewed to ukranian side of the conflict, but i prefer it that way, the aggression is absolutely started by Russia so i have no sympathy for them.
Meaning comes from narrative.

The most powerful narratives are the biggest narratives.

Most big narratives are non-verifiable or non-empirical narratives, e.g. "the creator of the universe died for your sins out of love for you".

Find the biggest narrative that satisfies your epistemological standards and you will also find the most meaning for yourself.

Your narrative need not change how you live your life, it simply provides context—a bigger picture for every action you take.

For me, this is darwinism.
Find a Jungian analyst.
Agreed wholeheartedly. I was recently listening to the podcast You Are Not So Smart with an interview from an author named Britt Frank [0]. She discusses exactly the problem with low value therapists and how they can actually be really harmful as part of a broader conversation about feeling “stuck”. I really recommend the episode. After listening, I ordered the book, but haven’t yet read it, so I cannot recommend the book just yet.

[0]: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2022/04/05/yanss-229-britt-fran...
You mean like his offer to take Tesla private - a public disclosure with few conditions or contingencies?
"(theoretically)" is a good simple way to put it, but I wonder what would be simple + more accurate. In theory computers, internet, could be destroyed, or the servers simply shut off, never updated & left to bitrot, etc.

Maybe cannot be "individually" taken down.
Have a look at ManageEngine MDM. Their free tier is good for up to 25 devices. The interface is a bit weird/confusing at first, but I've been using it for a few years and it seems to work well.
I run an online club with about 20-something email addresses. We're almost certainly moving to Migadu (which doesn't charge per account and seems reputable, according to lots of folks here) and then downgrading our account to the "Google Workspace Essentials" so our Google Docs don't go anywhere.
He's saying Twitter is very left-leaning and censors criticism of progressive tweets.
Yes, peace is a technology for sure.
Specifically, for those who won't/refuse to live under (3) and will probably eventually end up at (5) anyways.
You can understand my confusion when GP specifically says 'private', that doesn't immediately call to mind fire, police, and medevac.

The rest don't sound like particularly good reasons to keep showering people with lead.
That makes sense if you assume Musk has learned something shocking about Twitter from the inside in the past couple of weeks. How likely is that?

It seems spectacularly unlikely to me that a demonstrably impatient person with a pre-existing thesis about Twitter would take the time to investigate and learn new things about its product/financials/culture/governance.

It also seems unlikely that a person with a known strong stomach for legal and ethical "flexibility" would be especially bothered by anything they did learn, assuming they took the trouble. But YMMV.
You're in an excellent position today. Here's my recommendation as a random HNer whose found success with this (We differ somewhat... my joke was dead by 60 :P ).

1. Spend a month visiting national parks. It's almost May which means Utah is PERFECT! Go to Bryce Canyon and Zion (make sure you cycle in the valley at Zion). Check out the eastern Utah parks too. Swerve down to Arizona and check out the Grand Canyon. Don't bring any access to work... none whatsoever.

2. You might love this so much that you want to go to Europe next. Assuming you're not off exploring the planet...

3. Work on software that is in a completely different business domain. Even contributing to open source instead of a for profit is a great idea but I recognize health insurance may be a problem for you then. Have some interest in finance? Work on investment tech. Have some interest in robotics? Work on drones. Do something tech that is nothing like you've ever done before.

4. Do you cook? If not, start cooking. I recommend highly rated asian stir fry sauces to start. It's just fun working a wok :) . Maybe give Hello Fresh or one of the other delivery services a try for the variety. A surprising number of people find intense inner happiness while getting good at cooking.

5. Report back.
Joke is on you, GNOME doesn't have a desktop :d
> Further, would you take landlocked Ukraine and possible welfare state over a Sino-Russian axis?

Those are not alternatives, they are a package deal; if you accept the first, the second comes along free for the ride. The Sino-Russian axis exists now, the only way to disrupt it is defeating one of the poles in a way which results in a realignment (and, more likely, that weakens rather than fully disrupts it.) Permitting it victory just makes it stronger.
Rather than a "fault" of young Americans I would just point out that they have never experienced a significant militaristic national security threat nor witnessed a great power competition, and old-fashioned tanks-and-bombs conquest has been rare from the first & second world countries for their entire lives.
Find a passion(s).

Understand that few people, at least in Western culture, attain wealth or social status from whatever their passion(s) may be.

If your passion(s) is associated with a relatively low-paying career, consider the possibility of keep your passion(s) as a hobby, and pursue a career that pays well and allows you time for your hobby/passion outside of work.

Understand the tremendous power of long-term, compound interest. Saving money does not seem important at 18, but doing it now makes life a hell of a lot easier down the road.

Also, establish a credit history with something like a secured credit card.
I echo /u/Babypuncher’s call for human idealism.

Legally, the Board can consider stakeholder goals and morality. I think if Musk announced a profitable-but-legal foray into genocide, you could urge shareholders to reject it, and no court will hold otherwise.

But at some point the shareholders can overrule you. And in those cases, we find management’s highest goal is usually preserving their own special salary, not the “interests of humanity.”
If they don't accept this offer, the stock will plunge.
As I said: "they try to minimize Russian/Japanese/Islamist wrongdoing and emphasize Western provocation"
You must have seen how he tweets, no?
The easier way to do this (counterintuitively) is what Tik Tok has already done - don't try to parse the content of the video, instead use user feedback to proactively serve the content that a user wants.

For us, a crowd of 'do-it-yourself' type-A's this seems like an incomplete solution, but the future is probably not one defined by user-generated search as much as it is defined by 'the computer just knows what I want.'
Yes, but every depressed human will eventually break because of that. No way you're getting trough with that - given, the 'highly functioning' is a displacement for your depression. They have been depressed before, but afterwards it'll be much more apparent (and urgent).
> Can't blame them after the Iraq war and everyone getting on a bandwagon of lies including the left, right and center with the exception of Libertarians.

This is only true if your conception of 'the left' is just American liberals. Plenty of people and groups on the left were against the invasions from the get-go.
Yes, you are right, that we, Ukrainians, sure on some extent using advantages of what happen.

But don't say this to other Ukrainians, because we pay very high payment for these things happening now.

I already accepted Jefferson's: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants", while others are not yet.

But I accent, for you may be blurred difference of crime from offense, but for developing countries these differences are huge important.

Because you live in country with developed justice system, but we lived in totalitarian country, where justice system constantly used for persecution of people with different from official see.

So we looking very carefully, where officials (police) could consider light offense (with light penalty). And we sure avoid, what could been considered crime with serious punishment.
True, but this was only a question in the grammatical sense. A discussion with only "questions" like these would be very poor indeed.
At least you have the money part figured out, LOL. I'm a couple years short of 50 and feeling an increasing dread that I won't be in a position to do anything interesting in the future, and that I haven't tried hard enough to have a lucrative career so I don't have enough banked to retire yet.

Can't tell you what you should do. I'm going to grind leetcode (the blind 75!) and brush up on systems design diagrams and see if I can convince one of the high-paying tech companies that I still have the mojo. I still enjoy slinging code, but I want to be able to "retire" before 60 and do it on my own terms, along with other hobbies that are mildly expensive.
Also anything OP might use/develop on it can open him up to licensing and liability issue right?
Get one setup as a "blast from the past" machine and try to sell it. I bet there's people out there that would pay for a nostalgia pentium ready to roll, especially if you did all the work getting it to go.
>Probably because Windows Explorer is great file manager.

Having it pointed out like that, you're right. I think my 'big' complaints about Windows Explorer have just been the lack of tabs, which I think are being/have been added in Win11) and the multiple-windows-single-process model, which hasn't been as much of an issue lately with explorer being a lot more stable.

Otherwise explorer is a very smooth experience. I just treated it as bad because of frustrations with Windows in general.
What happened last week is irrelevant. If I can sell my shares on the market today for $46 and Elon is offering $54, that's a ~17% premium. It's better than nothing but not nearly enough to convince >50% of shareholders to vote in his favor. Several major ones have already said no to the offer (https://www.reuters.com/technology/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin...).

If it was a serious offer the market would have already valued TWTR at ~$54, but it has actually gone down after Musk announced his bid.
See https://purplestatesofamerica.org/ (Click on "Population".)

And here's an interesting take: https://medium.com/matter/the-trouble-with-the-purple-electi...
It does very much undermine the claim of being “self made”.