skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of Okey: Moved away from SV because we got sick of being beaten out on offers for homes (over a dozen attempts). Slightly better financially and the family is still together so perhaps i should be more thankful. Continued struggle with existing job and not being able to break into a role/company that will be more fulfilling or financially rewarding. I get stuck in this loop where i see people on linkedin or acwuaintances get jobs that i think i like, and icarry too much tension and fear of failure into interviews i guess.
If fallacies worked then everyone would use them, but they don't, so nobody uses them!
Some EVs are close to or exceed 6000lb
Mostly good here. I'm working full-time on finishing a fiction manuscript and it's taking longer than I want. This isn't a bad thing in itself—my writing progress has been steady and forward—but I struggle with anxiety across all areas of my life and if I don't take precautions to manage my mood then I feel every passing minute as an acute failure to finish my book.

That sounds grim but I still say "mostly good" because I'm so grateful for the overall conditions of my life: a lovely walkable neighborhood with kind strangers around every turn, robust family and support networks, fast internet, great coffee. The little things.

One tactic I find has been great for avoiding unwanted emotional injury is staying off Twitter. At best it's a catalogue of everyone's successes who isn't you, at worst it's the comments section of a news website where the news is all bad. YMMV, but if you're an emotionally sensitive person navigating an uncertain period in life I can't recommend it highly enough.
In the past it's been anything from acne medications to birth control and even anti-depressants. Depression isn't an unusual side-effect at all.
Oh I'm 100% not arguing long covid doesn't exist I have several friends who have long term sequelae from covid. But judging by the research people like yourself and them are probably out numbered by people who have psychosomatic issues.

And that makes studying and treating cases like yours and their's more difficult.

I also 100% believe that psychosomatic diseases are real and need to be taken seriously, they just require a different treatment plan than persistent auto-immunity or permanent lung or heart damage.
Covid cases are asymptomatically approaching zero. However, your duplicate entries will reach their target asymptotically :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote
The claim that the act of creation gives you exclusive rights can be coercion in a value system that doesn't care about the act of creation (or just cares less about it than things like mutual agreement about what to do with the commons).
From what I understand we should we looking at the patent claims to see what the patent really covers.
Your old furnace may well be costing you more in fuel than the cost of replacement. A 1980s furnace is likely well under 60% efficient, plus it drafts inside air up the flue. A new furnace will be 90%+ efficient and the firebox will use outside air.
Alcohol can definitely cause anxiety, and make anxiety worse.

I will also suggest alcohol can trigger depression - but that is a claim that is ripe for debate and not well accepted.

Alcohol can also "treat" (in the sense of suppressing symptoms) anxiety and depression, thus leading to a downward spiral since it tends to make these things worse, thus you get into the cycle of "Oh I'm feeling anxious, better have a beer - oh, now my anxiety is worse now that I have sobered up, better have more..."
If we're talking about 'reasonable' conservatives, the typical answer is that booking people who commit a crime, and then using the threat of prison time to force them into rehab will ultimately be much better for them and the community than immediately releasing them under the guise that poverty causes addiction and crime and that therefore they are essentially blameless.

Some former addicts attest that, when they were addicted, it was only the threat of prison time that could force them into rehab, because at the time they were not fully in control of their own decision making. They say the 'stick' helps motivate them to choose rehab instead, and it ultimately helped them out of a bad situation.

Sam Quinones' book, The Least of Us, documents some of this and is well-researched.
Harvard admits a lot of people not actually capable of doing the work. Rigorous grades would expose those people. The patterns among those people would embarrass the policies driving those admissions, and expose the school to criticisms, probably unfair, that it prefers to avoid.

Better to give everyone an A and avoid all the controversy.

This is almost certainly deteriorating the overall quality of the education available at Harvard -- why kill yourself to get the same A as everyone else? Even if professors want to encourage excellence, how can they signal it?

When I graduated in the mid-80s, Ivy League grads were distinctly more capable than those from my pretty good school. From what I see this is no longer the case.
Just spent an hour this morning helping a customer's 2 js devs do a hello world setup because of the first one. And even as someone experienced here, it still took me 10-15min to untangle the core issues. (In this case, enabling esm as in the article, instructing babel to preserve module imports, and then some whackamole of individual imports.) Every individual step made sense in isolation, just not in aggregate.
That's a huge problem. Payphones don't have biases. As long as you have enough money, they just work.

People have many, many biases. (For example, against homeless, and those who are often in most need of help.)

The reality of depending on other people is that you're dependent on their flaws. This works out for most people, but certainly does not for many of those who are marginalized.
Arn't AI poses estimates more likely to become the future rather than the white balls motion cap suits from the 90s ?
100% agree, but for most companies disclosing it once makes it a high-priority issue for it to never be an issue again; 0.1%-1% of the engineering org gets tasked with making some framework for logging, making sure there's no way to log outside the framework, and chasing down stragglers who can't/won't use it to get their management chain to accept the risk of it recurring in their little corner of production.
Understand that you don't think they'll do much, but states that have that, along with the two other items, have witnessed roughly 30% fewer gun homicides.

If we test this out in more places, we can have better evidence than, say, what you or myself think are a good or bad idea. :)
Well, everyone is entitled to write their thoughts/opinions. There's nothing wrong with that. It's a wonderful exercise that everyone should do!

The real questions is why do people go to these thoughts/opinions rather than the "expert" thoughts/opinions?
When will this patent expire?
That sounds pretty cool, if you're writing dystopian sci-fi.

Back in the trenches, I'm thinking that people making "have a baby, or not?" decisions will not find "But you could have a SuperBaby!" to be a persuasive argument. Without plot armor, who's magically making sure that SuperBaby doesn't have some grim bugs, which might take a while to manifest? Any good reason to think that SuperBaby will need fewer diaper changes and less parental resources long-term? Will want to look after his or her non-Super "parents" in their old age? Or that the currently available version of SuperBaby won't be obsoleted by v2.0 in a year or two - with upgrades to v2.0 being "less than practical and satisfactory"? Really, it'd be smarter to wait until v2.0 comes out...wait until v2.4 comes out...until 3.0...wait...still waiting...still waiting...
i like that bet, I was ignoring AI in my observations. The server running the AI will probably be cheaper overseas all the same though
Who is the person you're quoting? I'd like to give it a listen.

Considering Canada's history with Uranium mining I'm surprised that they didn't bring that into the fold as well - it's a delicate subject since a large amount of the costs of unsafe Uranium mining were born out by indigenous peoples, but for how few actual mines there were a lot of people have died from health complications.
The notion of faking a feature until you figure out how to make it for real, has real world consequences when it becomes just part of the background approach to product development.

So what that the problem you're aiming to solve is impossible, that all the techniques you can think of to try don't actually do what you need them to? Implement them anyway, maybe some combination of them will eventually stick. If you don't, you'll lose, well, fail to gain market share!
in countries that avoided hugely disruptive lockdowns the excess mortality barely moved at all. Sweden, a noteable example because the media attacked them for a year, was the worst faring non-lockdown country in the world and they still don't even break top 30 countries excess deaths during covid.

Not only that, but in 2021 sweden had the lowest excess mortality in the entirety of Europe.

So let's not pretend the math is simple here. Social disruption is lethal to vulnerable demographics. Even daylight savings time changes notoriously cause a large surge in heart attacks.
Maybe not even script kiddies, there are (allegedly) Ransomware as a Service organizations now.
Mindblowing that this technique is patentable
What evidence do you have that the city was better 20 to 30 years ago?
I think this is straightforward technical language being translated into patent language. But you should always read the claims; the language is usually more precise there.

I believe the technique at issue is a way to compress the data -- using standard codecs like JPEG2000 -- without first de-bayering the image. I imagine it was pretty novel when the patent was filed, which would've been the mid '00s. (The Red One used this technique, and it launched in ~2007.)
My late father was a physician and he absolutely stayed up late doing homework. He'd study for hours before an usual case.

I remember as a kid helping him swap out the latest updates to these massive binders of the latest and greatest info in medicine, which were expensive subscriptions he paid for. They'd send sections of text and instructions on what pages to remove and replace with the update so you'd always have the most current information.

Now we have web-based solutions that do the same thing, and they're often not free, either.
you could also use these characters in a --no-color mode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements
SF is probably hit the hardest by WFH. If you lived and worked in the city you probably had a pretty good commute, so you're not getting the biggest benefit. And while I know it's a less common preference on HN, a lot of people enjoy going in to a lively office and occasionally grabbing drinks with your coworkers after work. It's a great way to make new friends. But with WFH there's a prisoners dilemma where no-one goes in because no-one goes in. Hard to justify living in one of the most expensive cities in the world at that point.

As a side note, I've been reading a lot of comments like the one below describing SF as a "nightmarish hellscape" and I just want to caution people to not read into things too much. I've spent a lot of time in both SF and Seattle, and while there's specific streets you want to avoid, and you can (rarely) run into weird or disturbed people in other areas (like most major cities) overall they're lovely places if you can afford them.
Apple actually tried (and failed) to break RAW from the RED royalties in 2019, so I believe you are correct.

https://www.engadget.com/2019-11-11-apple-prores-raw-red-pat...
Well duh.

So it's "You just need to go through the webpack Concepts section"...except if you want to actually do some work with it.

See, that's the thing:

If like OP you are an experienced developer freshly coming to web frontend development, the Concepts pages of the webpack docs will tell you very little that you'd find unfamiliar. It's stuff that you've seen a variation of in countless other build systems. (At least that's how it was with me all those years ago.)

But as the docs themselves say: "Plugins are the backbone of webpack". And that's where Pandora's box opens...and where the designation as "just a JavaScript bundler" becomes ridiculous.
The solution is to not tolerate drug use, petty crime, vagrancy etc etc

Homeless people aren't stupid. They find a way to get to where it is most comfortable to be homeless. In SF you can do drugs all day and night and get free needles and poop on the streets and no one will bother you. In other places you will not be able to do this.

Why are people surprised that places that go to great expense to subsidize homelessness have a lot of homeless people?
>it’s time to resort to the pointy end of the stick.

Are you planning to commit an act of political violence? Do you have weapons?
In order to maintain an exclusive and elite image it has to surpress skills and talent to only promote its top performers, even in a place where its top performers out pace the brightest of a normal college.

Elitism at its finest. We could get so many amazing people if Harvard didn't cut people short.
It's definitely uncommon, and the ones you do see around typically have out of state plates. Some are people commuting in from VA and MD, and others are just slow in registering their vehicle, or have a second residence elsewhere and keep the registration there. As the article notes, DC is expensive already when it comes to vehicle registration, so people avoid it when possible.
Wow, this is stunning!
The main patent in play, https://patents.google.com/patent/US9245314B2/en , expires in 2028.
> This is like ants arguing that life outside their ant hill will likely have 6 or 8 legs because all the life they've seen so far have had 6 or 8 legs.

I've never liked this kind of argument because ants don't argue. So you're saying that the thing that we're doing is like something else that doesn't exist, and using that impossible connection to draw a larger conclusion.

Ants don't argue because they don't have brains to do so. We argue because we have the brains to do so, and those brains allow us to do so much more like actually measure and interpret the world around us to draw the kinds of conclusions that you're seeing here.

Even if ants could argue with each other the question would become are they arguing about anything relevant? Can they measure and reason about the world around them? Can they do science?
A lot of ivy league kids come from upper middle class families where it is kind of expected that you set high academic goals and try to attend prestigious institutions, their parents generally take an enormous amount of interest their success and continually guide them.
How to read mathematics (2015)
Until tested in court, many, many things are patentable...
I never messed with InstallShield but I have used NSIS (free), Wix (free), and Advanced Installer (paid). Advanced Installer is absolutely worth it in my opinion, although it still has trouble hiding the nightmare of Windows installers. NSIS syntax is a cross between PHP and assembly. Wix is literally an attempt to program a database using XML. That's three things that don't fit together well.

Part of the problem is that most Windows installers are based off MSIs, and MSIs were made for MS Office by some engineers who thought relational databases were cool, so they made everything in MSI be a relational table.
Have a high-paying job in IT (DevOps, Cloud), same company for 10 years, two kids and a loving wife that are luckily supportive of my situation.

February
Had my first depressive phase in January. 2 days where I could not get out of bed and don't remember what happened. The weeks after that were kind of blurry, almost like watching myself from the outside. I could not trust my own judgements and had to refrain from verbal communication due to being snappy and overly agressive. Started a diary, writing down my thoughts and feelings and in hindsight it is really difficult to believe that I wrote those lines. Many things stopped making sense. Material values became disgusting and I feel that the things I do at work do not have any impact. What worried me the most is not enough quality time with the kids. I simply do not have the energy after 8h of meaningless work to inspire and teach them the way I would like. How can I preach values and be a role model if I'm stuck at a job I don't like anymore?

April
Fast forward two months. I took the best decision I had in the last couple years. Took three weeks off from from work, family and the internet. Spent them in a different country with people whom life dealt way worse cards than me. Helps to put things into perspective. Those three weeks alone helped me to put priorites back into place and appreciate the thing I have. Stopped watching the news and don't give a flying f about work anymore. Will quit at the end of the year and hopefully find something more meaningful.
Rant: smart-people daydreaming while bad-people manipulate the less fortunate is all I see here.
I don't think so -- I think it's a reference to Gollum, the apes in "Planet of the Apes," the de-aged Moss Tarkin (sp?)... basically CG people. That work is almost entirely at the high end, because it takes a lot of digital art work to make them look realistic.

This is moving down market, fwiw, but it's not disrupting traditional moviemaking. It's a fast-growing but tiny niche that I believe will saturate before it comes close to replacing the entire industry. (Full disclosure: I work with cameras professionally, so maybe I'm not an unbiased observer of the industry.)

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On the other hand, SF has a significant tech population that has been living in the city but taking shuttle buses for an hour to their offices down south. I imagine flexible WFH for 2-3 days/wk will enable a larger number of people in the future to live in SF
I don't think it's that simple. Maybe if someone has lots and lots of investment homes, they may think that way, but someone owning a single home shouldn't be excited about its price inflating--it's not like you can sell it and reap the profits, because you'll just be buying another similarly inflated house.
>> ...but there's no practical reason to migrate.

The Puppeteers took 5 planets with them when they found out about the galactic core explosion. It honestly sounds like the guy who wrote this just finished Niven's known space series.
I've worked on a service that handled credentials where we added tests like this to try to catch if a log statement gets added containing the username/password. We used a few end to end tests rather than attempting to include something like this is the unit tests for every function.

Our tests would set up the app's full context, get a hook into the logging framework to watch for log statements, then make requests to the service containing a set of dummy credentials, like { username: "foo", password: "bar" }. If a log statement containing "foo" or "bar" was detected the test failed.

It's not going to catch every type of issue, but at least some potential footguns can be preventing this way.
It's not not-a-monolith just because you can disable or remove an ever increasing number of "tested"/supported functionalities and move further and further away from the supported configuration. This might be OK for personal or toy systems, but it's an immediate pass for anybody who cares about their time.

This comes up every time the systemd discussion happens and it's a little absurd that people need constant reminders that replacing a decent chunk of a base Linux install piecemeal is not viable.
Is it internal and/or fully secure? And doesn't require you to get your bike out by 5PM sharp? If so, yes.

Is it just an outdoor space or rack you lock your bike to? If so, no.
Thanks to being a n00b programmer at the time, I ran out of memory on NT4 plenty of times and it handled that more gracefully than my Linux desktop today. Whatever you're talking about must have been some specific issue.
"i'm afraid you are not in a position to see the problem clearly."

Actually I am. I've worked both sides of the problem (and in that regard I agree its a problem), and see deficits on both, hence a different opinion, but thanks for the condescension and presumptive dismissal, as I now know about what further effort to devote to this conversation, which ends at the following period.
Not great tbh. Might just use this opportunity to rant a bit. Maybe it’ll be cathartic.

For years I’ve felt increasingly physically unwell. Started as dizziness when walking outside. Nowadays I also feel utterly exhausted, and short of breath, often. Kinda like how you feel coming down with the flu, but like most of the time. It’s ruining my life, frankly.

I’ve had many tests done to exclude cardiac or neurological issues, plus a variety of general blood tests etc. Every doctor I’ve seen thinks there is nothing wrong, and at this point I feel embarrassed and ashamed for wasting their time.

So I’m trying to believe them, and I’m trying to work on the assumption that I have some kind of somatic symptom disorder. Pretty sure I’m depressed too, but mostly as a result of this, and the general negative direction it seems to be heading in. Maybe I need to see a psychiatrist and get on medication. I’ve done counselling in the past, which helped to some extent, so perhaps I’ll try it again. I don’t know anybody else who has been through something like this, so I feel a bit isolated in that regard.

Thankfully, I’m able to work, and I have a supportive family/relationship. So it’s not all bad.

One interesting implication is that I don’t give a shit about trivial annoyances in life. To the point where I can barely understand people who complain about e.g someone stealing their parking space or petty office drama. This might sound like a good thing, but I’m not sure. I worry it makes me a bit disconnected from normal life in a way that is probably unhealthy.
I jumped the gun and misjudged this, Mea Culpa.

PS: I'm not cut out to be a founder
But even working on a simple CRUD app can push an industry forward. There is so much more incremental progress to be made, which pushes the economy upwards, than just the “big name” hot ideas (like cancer).

There are still so many low hanging fruit that even simple technology can improve
Not necessarily even a stranger per se, but poor communities are often "closer" to each other. They (sometimes) depend on neighbors for help more than rich neighbors do. Many of the kids play outside because they don't all have ipads and playstations keeping them inside, many adults walk to the bus/subway and interact with the kids in their neighborhood every day. So, I can see how a well known neighbor might splurge on a treat for some of the kids in their neighborhood to brighten their day.
> What does a cosmic-spanning-AI want to do with its life

For those that have a tendency to exist: Survive and propagate.

If something other than perpetuation of the essential forms and patterns that constitute the entity motivates it, then it will be more likely to cease to exist. Or be replaced by any variation that is more strongly motivated and capable of surviving and propagating.

The anthropic principle and all that.
SF is expensive and horrible. The only reason people in tech live there is because of employers in the area and it beats living elsewhere in the Bay Area which is expensive and dull.

There's really no other reason people would put up with an hour (or more) commute each way every day.