skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you. My ex girlfriend had chronic pain and the US health system is terrible dealing with this. You go from tests to tests, surgeons quickly want to do their favorite procedures and otherwise they happily give you hardcore painkillers.

Two pieces of advice:

- Find a pain specialist who treats you like a real human and not just a science experiment or revenue source. there are some but not many

- My company produces implants for Spinal Cord Stimulation. The main indication is chronic pain that can't be treated with other means. My ex has one of our implants and it got her from seriously contemplating suicide to a good quality of life. A lot of doctors don't recommend the devices based on experiences a long time ago but the tech is way better now. The implant process is fully reversible unlike most surgeries. The main players in this area are Nevro, Boston scientific, Medtronic and Abbott (I work for one of them). Please look into it. I know several people who got their lives back with SCS.

Hope this makes sense.
This is true. It is simultaneously true that many of these people have excellent credentials from a signaling standpoint. e.g. Shaw loves their Rhodes Scholars
No if they have skin in the game they inherently want you to buy into whatever they have done creating an analysis that is flawed and intended to sell you.
Pretty demotivated, working only lightly but still on the verge of burnout. Currently upgrading and older Rails 5 project to Rails 7. The Ruby part is okay, but guess what, dealing with JS sucks in a new, different way. Again.

Really looking forward to the summer though, I got an inflatable kayak (my first boat ever) and so far it's been a blast.
Not all that great these last few weeks.

Feeling very precarious for no real reason. Early 40s, good and established front end job but feel tired and frazzled all the time. I had to start again financially after pandemic and divorce. Feel very uneasy about the future and income and job prospects, even though I’ve had good feedback and job offers in the last 12 months.

Side projects have ground to a halt feeling rife with pointlessness and inadequacy. They’ll just fail and so why bother?

Craving certainty and comfort but expecting that from random externals is unwise. I know this but still I worry and dwell and still tell myself that I’ll be found out, that I don’t deserve a well paid job,
that I won’t be able to maintain this and I won’t be able to look after my kids or myself. I feel oddly trapped by expectations and obligations of a good wage.

And thanks for asking. I feel better for just writing that down.
That's good ! Who are you with? I have 1GB / 100mb with BT but it costs me £80pcm
Nonetheless we should know, and document, our assumptions.
Perhaps weird, definitely not a trackball person!
The gross receipts tax policy is from Proposition C. So decided by SF residents, not legislators.

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/7/18065086/san-francisco-prop-c-...
You either believe the statistics, or you don't - but your anecdata is meaningless. The excess mortality figures tell you need to know.
The media wants you to believe that the vaccine protects against longterm covid. If it doesn't many people would skip the upcoming 4th, 5th, 6th round because it is providing no additional protection against the latest variants.

But here is an actual study that goes against this story. Will you believe science or myth? Are there enough excuses to keep the myth alive?
Consider seeing a doc or PA/NP in Physiatry. They tend to take a much more holistic and thorough approach to diagnosing issues, including neck-spine related pain.

Physiatry is a small specialty which most folks have not heard of. I'd encourage you to research the specialty and what it's about at the very least.
The most praised multi purpose keyboard maker out there is Nord, and the whole point of their stuff it's that the interface is physical knobs and buttons
If anyone would like someone to talk to, I started a free "Movie Advice Column" as a way to encourage people to share their feelings through the discussion of movies.

Leave a comment about how you're feeling and I'll do my best to reply with a movie that has characters who seem to feel the same way.

I believe that seeing others struggling through something similar in a movie is therapeutic, but at the very least distracting and quieting down your mind by watching an entertaining movie could in itself be helpful. That's my hope:

https://moviewise.substack.com/p/movie-advice-column
Well, then you would need to advocate public internet terminals that can be accessed at reasonable cost.

Some countries have internet cafes, but Finland has never really had them to any extent because "too many" have internet at home (in the earlier days) or in their pocket (nowadays). Libraries do offer decent access, but sometimes you might have to wait 48 hours or more until it opens next time. And the density of libraries is of course nowhere close to what payphones once were. And you cannot have a confidential phone call in a library.

So in some aspects what you call the current iteration of the network is not much more capable for everyone, quite the opposite. At least 10% of the population (mostly elder people) are completely locked out here. Many more in other countries, but there often more alternative channels still exist.
You don't have to wait until the entire world has this opportunity before ringing the alarm. If population growth is going down in the areas where the ideas are worked on, namely the developed world, which it is, we should still worry.
No, I'm saying that our process[1] for choosing representatives selects for people that aren't suitable to lead.

[1] Many other processes share this problem, to varying degrees.
I think that’s wrong:

The fraction of humanity in poverty has dropped as our population has grown — because those larger, more capable nations have more means to feed themselves and greater wealth to care for the poor.

A stall in population growth or a population decline runs a serious risk that our standards of living regress and those conditions worsen.

We need to maintain our growth to impact the issues you care about:

More people -> More wealth -> Less hunger
Yup, and the crappy news for humanity is that if we're expending unsustainable resources to artificially boost our population capacity that factor is likely to "correct" with a die off.

In our modern world you'd like to think that as rational beings we'd be conserving these unsustainable resources to fund "important" things - but no, we usually just release strategic oil reserves to try and game our political system... and we decrease the resource intake to reap short term gains.
most students at harvard and other elite universities come from american public schools, for the record. very high concentration of rich preppy private school kids, yes, but majority is still public.
>the issue then is getting a low profile heatsink for the CPU

You'd have to make something custom, but I think it would be much simpler than typical heat sinks. With air cooling, the vertical placement would be ideal, since convection will tend to suck cool air from the bottom and release it on the top. (I think the iMac does/did this). Even for water cooling, it would be simpler with far fewer turns in the pipe. Plus, I just like the idea of laying everything out flat instead of the weird 3-D origami that is modern PC design.
Good list, confused about the “tabs weighing less” bit. Isn’t that a preference left for the end-devs?

Another tip I’ve found is to check if the data is accessible on a mobile app and proxy it to see if there is a JSON API available.
That's kind of how I've always solved it at the smaller companies I've worked at. I'm on Hacker News all day and know all about these kinds of footguns so I write all the auth code myself and then provide a couple of helper functions/methods for the team to use that are unable to do anything too silly. Creating an object that throws an exception when you try to get it as a string or print it though is something I'll have to try next time.
Asking for camera access is not "awkward". In 2022, it's assumed that if I say yes, you'll record absolutely everything the camera can see, store it forever, sell it to anyone who wants it, and use it to show me ads for crap no one wants. There are a whole host of amazing possible apps using camera, location, microphone, etc., but tech companies have proven that they cannot or will not deliver these apps without egregious privacy violations.

Tech companies need to prove they can limit themselves to using data for the purpose for which it was requested, then we can talk about whether or not I'll give camera access.
Only in the vaccinated.
The frustrating thing is that we have all the tools to solve climate change, today. The only question is choosing to use them.

And since we know that these new tools have learning curves that are becoming cheaper, we have prettt good estimates that the switchover will be a cheaper energy solution than fossil fuels, with greater energy independence for more countries, leading to fewer wars!

But current fossil fuel suppliers have fantastic political control of the US, and they sow seeds of doubt and fear and uncertainty in the population, and buy off politicians to prevent market solutions from coming to the market. Much less the great amount of industrial policy needed to scale what we need to scale faster to meet the needs of climate change.
Simply going to canada.ca pulls in these US sites:
assets.adobedtm.com
use.fontawesome.com
www.google.com
ajax.googleapis.com
s.go-mpulse.net
Not too much to worry about there. Dig a little deeper.
Maybe we upload our consciousness to computers and live in a simulated world that takes far less energy than our current one and is heaven for everybody. But I think the bigger question is less for whom? Right now it seems like it'll disproportionately affect the poor in the developing world who are least able to transition and whose populations are least responsible for climate impacts from historical growth. I wouldn't mind personally driving less (actually, haven't owned a car in a decade and walk most places), but I think in the end the people who will be punished are the poor who will have higher AC prices during summers, gas prices to go to work, etc.
Well done, on the taking time off - future you will thank you for that.
How the MVPs of the billion dollar businesses got their first 1k customers
Honestly I did not find the learning curve that bad. It took me about 15 minutes to get as fast with the SpaceMouse as I am with a regular mouse. However the skill ceiling is high and there's a lot of potential to get really good with it.
Is this like a QR code but using audio instead?
Why does Harvard have orders of magnitudes higher GPA than any school with comparable student bodies other than Yale?
Actually no there were no birds in existence while there were dinosaurs only millions of years after their extinction per current evidence.
Reproducible builds make it possible. As an associated practical benefit, they also aid in making it possible to confirm that at least you’re getting the same version as everyone else, which is not something that can practically be done on mainstream mobile platforms, or at all on the web, yet which is probably the most likely form of attack (e.g. serving key-stealing code only to a subpoenaed customer, or only to one person as a rogue employee, to reduce the probability of being noticed).
Hopefully curiosity will always be around. I personally would love to have a few billion years to explore the universe (at least, if I could find a way to skip the boring transitions between planetary systems).
Without drawing any conclusions... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballer...

There were a lot more sudden deaths in football in 2021 than in any other year.

Could be:

1. Increased sudden heart failure due to Covid

2. Increased sudden heart failure due to vaccines

3. No increase in sudden heart failure, but in 2021 we observed and catalogued cases more meticulously than ever

4. Something else, unrelated to covid or vaccines
Yes. In the rare instance of myocarditis post vaccination... most patients recovered after rest and medication. No other intervention necessary.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...
Covid was a novel virus, which means it was and still is a poorly understood virus.

Vaccines came out fast and worked well because we had a new tech platform (mRNA).

But it’s starting to look like sarscov2 has immunity evading abilities, which is something that scientists were not able to work out until now.

The immunity evading ability should scare everyone at this point, but humans don’t do well with long term bad news when short term pain is involved.
I'm not sure you intended to come across as condescending but it does read this way.

"The major sense I get from Canadians whenever I arrive back is an enormous sense of financial illiteracy. Like they just don't know or care about how badly they get ripped off all the time on so many things and will never care enough to do anything meaningful about it."

First, that isn't what financial illiteracy means.

Next, It is very easy to write things like this but what are your proposals? you seem to feel they are being "ripped off", speak down upon them for not doing anything, but fail to offer any solutions.. very helpful?

Are they really being ripped off?

I lived in the US for ~8 years and used T-Mobile. i dont find the T-Moble price to be too far off my freedom monthly rates.

we LOVE to complain about the prices differences, but never actually show what they really are.

it is hard to provide coverage in a massive country with low population. California has more people vs Canada.
They are deceptively unintuitive also. I went back to the Monty Hall problem more than once after I previously thought I had it figured out:

Suppose you're on a game show, and given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
My ultimate dream is that providers like that will use Datasette itself - or a similar system that has the same characteristics: make it really easy for people to slice and dice the data using querystring parameters or even SQL queries and get back out just the data they want as JSON, CSV and other formats.

I do think that SQLite is a really interesting format for publishing data, and I'd love to see more places publish raw SQLite files. It's much better at preserving things like column type information and relationships between tables than CSV is.
Yea it’s not like a MRI machine you bought only uses Windows XP
That's why I still keep a landline, though the family rarely uses it. It so happened that my family was debating why we need a landline when each of us has one or two mobile connections. Co-incidentally, the next day a major city got flooded. Nearly all the cell towers in the flooded area got knocked out because the generators / UPS of the towers all conked out. Only the wired landlines worked. We all voted to keep the landline. (It also turned out to be a blessing because in some forms of the US embassy, landline is a required field).
Opps.. thanks.. i've fixed it..
Site QC: I clicked on the Twitter link in the footer. It references podbabble1, an account that doesn't exist. https://twitter.com/podbabble exists though.
Most people on the post-growth side of the argument tend to argue that outputs (green house gases, toxins) and not inputs are the major constraining factor. He should really have addressed that.
Attention Based Protein Disorder Predictor
ClojureScript and BigDecimal is a yak barbershop
Not great. Probably a better day than others given I had sex for the first time since I got divorced. Admittedly - it was not with someone I expected or had a strong desire for. I just seemed to follow through as to avoid an even longer dry spell and gather more data on what some women think about me. Not really surprising but women who will have sex with you tend to think highly of you. Fortunately - I also tend to be an underpromise and overdeliver personality… so expectations are usually never that high.

Since my divorce, things have been rough. They were rough before but at least I had a partner. I don’t have kids and am in my early 30’s but the separation and lack of support network has been really evident the last year. Desiring kids and seeing no hope for that happening has been quite difficult to live with.

I’ve decided to quit my job/hope I get fired (severance), live off a meager amount of savings (failed IPO has basically taken any savings I had built up and invested into stock options), and solo travel in Europe for 2-3 months or whatever I can withstand emotionally/financially. I’ll be going to events and meeting people that participate in a mutual hobby. It’s not going to be great timing because it will be insufferably hot but I have no choice here. I have to change things and keep iterating. I’m looking at leaving SV after being here for 7 years and moving to NYC - not because I like nyc or will enjoy it more but simply because dating as a straight man in SV is one of the hardest places in the world. There are 50% more single men than women in Santa Clara County between 25-34. The ratio isn’t much better in SF (especially when you consider many men commute into the city). It’s just too difficult and it’s hard to differentiate from the crowd - plus lots of women have trauma/stigma built into the persona that they’ll hammer onto me (even if I am wildly different).

So, yeah, shit sucks but I’m doing what I’ve always done - trying extremely hard, changing strategies, and pushing forward as always.
What medications cause anxiety and depression?
Ok, use Windows Server as your host.

Or use Virtual Box on Ubuntu
You have declined to get a credit or debit card, I suppose? If not, you may want to check out the data a “Level 3” transactor provides regarding your purchases. Data the card company subsequently sells to insurance companies, etc. Tip: pay for your “sin” purchases with cash.
A lot of people aren't worried about overpopulation in a vacuum. They are worried about overpopulation along with the rise of personal consumption and potential competition (read: perceived zero-sum games). The job market is already ridiculously competitive. Rent and homes are already crazy, partially due to so many people insisting on living alone and many countries still not having adapted to an increasingly more individualistic society.

Telling them "it'll cool off in 20 years" is about the equivalent of telling them "yeah the problems we have now will continue another 20 years, deal with it".
Meh. Climate change is devastating for huge chunks of the planet. But the population of the hottest parts could easily move to cooler parts of the world, most of which are sparsely populated.
Pebble
I so badly want one.
I went though a similar life event nearly 18 months ago - just keep going, eventually, once all the legal stuff is wrapped up the rest can just stay bubbling away for a while itself at a low volume. Pick the biggest challenge, and get that (mostly) done, then on to the next until you're relaxed.

Also - never trust the trades to turn up on time or to have everything ready for them to start work. We had carpenters who said they couldn't work on a day because it was 2 degrees lower than some minimum for them to put in floors.
An encrypted file stored along with the git repo (without the decryption key) has a different attack surface. My original comment was more targeted towards users storing their keys in plaintext.
How do you subtract the number of deaths caused by the vaccine itself?
No we shouldn’t, because “the developed world” is not a fixed thing. We can make the entire world developed.
Detached retina? (personally at very high risk for one, and the gas bubble and limited mobility was a clue.)

Just went through complicated cataracts surgery myself -- sending best wishes over to you for fast and solid healing. I know it isn't as good as an action, but you have this stranger's thoughts briefly in mind.
To be fair, U of Toronto is nowhere near selective as Harvard.
Is there any evidence that "long covid" is actually a thing?
I never understood that part about Matrix. They already had cellphones where they would discuss how to get to the nearest pay phone. Why not just use the cell phone to transmit ? Ah well, it wouldn't be as fun though especially that iconic scene where Trinity almost gets hit by a vehicle.
This title of the post here from the first thread is a bit counter to what the twitter thread itself is about, which is basically complaints about businesses being terrible at doing things in a safe way, and why that undermines what is otherwise good general advice.

The complaints are generally valid and I'd encourage a read of the full thread. However, where I disagree is that those pieces of general advice should be thrown away just because numerous companies are failing to do things well.

To look at the bank/credit card examples, in my opinion if a company is going to make the kinds of decisions where their fraud department is asking shady questions, they need to pay for those mistakes through employee hours wasted and complaints to regulators. I realize though I'm in the minority and can reasonably take the time to yell at the bank(s) for doing stupid things. I have personally had more success simply going into my local bank branch with my ID and so on at getting these things moving quickly, which most people appear loathe to do. Sit down in front of someone and make it their problem, start costing them money and they'll rectify things far quicker it seems (obv. YMMV).

I hope in 15-20 years with a slew of new retirees who have the knowledge and the time to fight this kind of garbage we'll start to see meaningful changes to these practices.
Not great. Nothing seems to be as reliable as you'd expect&need, communications included, which IMO would be a canary moment, yet it's met with indifference.
At least, this is how it feels, ymmv.
> If you were a fairly senior SWE then customers gave Amazon a few million dollars for the work you did.

This was early in my career, and I didn't work on anything customer facing, but there's still no guarantee of that. What if I'd worked on the Fire Phone?
I think remote work is often understated in reasons people move away. When you go into the office every day, it's pretty obvious that you have to live in whatever city you live in. But with remote work, the question becomes "if I don't have to live here, do I want to keep living here". For many (including myself), the answer was a definitive NO.

Sure many headlines and news segments make it seem that it's the crime, the high rent, and all these super visible indicators and while I'm sure that factored into the decisions of some, for many it was that they just wanted a change and got the golden opportunity to do so.

EDIT: It's not even that one may even "want a change", it's when you're presented with the opportunity to make a change, the gears in your head start turning as to what options you have at your disposal. I would imagine many people that moved had previously no intention to but just got the opportunity and decided to take it while it lasted.
> "do some majorly positive action for the world"

What can Jeff Bezos do more positive than creating Amazon?

What can Elon Musk do more positive than creating Tesla and SpaceX?

etc. etc.