skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As we're dealing in analogies...

Better think the serotonin/ monoamine hypothesis of depression is akin to saying a server load balancing failure is because of "electricity imbalance". Whilst electrons are undeniably involved, the explanation is not useful, and distracts from better truths.

We have such a scarcity of safe and effective tools to probe and influence the human brain. Herein lies the hope that the diseases we invent might be treated neatly by the tools we posses. Yet, given the origin of disease and the tools are sparsely interlinked, it is too often just a fantasy.

Yet to "do nothing" is usually not acceptable and so we persist, and iteration or invention become the next hope.
I have read your other comments on the thread too and I am really confused about something - are you saying that life/US treated you unfairly and hence everyone should suffer as you went through (suck it up, buttercup is the phrase I believe)? or are you saying that these crap jobs for $8 are fair?

I did not grow up poor neither did I grow up rich.. but I would love for people in my neighborhood, my state, my country and rest of the world (somewhat in that order) to have a better life with less uncertainties than what the previous generation had. The attitude of "I struggled, so everyone should also struggle" makes very little sense to me.
Everything probably? A lot of people just don’t care and are going to go with the cheapest option.
MS SQL Server has a fun feature called temporal tables that does some of this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/ta...
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Already happening. You can buy gas or oil at market rates or you can invest in some renewable energy. As prices for one go up and for the other go down, people start doing the right things.

As for water, there's plenty of it in the ocean. All you need is some cheap energy to desalinate it. Californians need not worry. One of the richest and high tech economies in the world sitting right next to the largest reservoir of water on the planet. They'll figure it out eventually.

I'm not saying it will be easy. But the combination of large scale investments in making renewable energy generation dirt cheap and increasingly more energy efficient ways to desalinate water inevitably means that people will have access to as much water that they need when this gets pushed far enough. Just a matter of time. Lots of places manage to get by with desalinated water already. Large parts of the middle east for example. It's just about making the process cheaper and more efficient.
Perhaps the easiest way to secure a legacy is creating the long lasting object with whichever claims you’d like and skipping the actual building of the kingdom
Depends on the local departments discretion and specific situation I suppose.
pyenv. same thing as nvm, but for Python.
> the difference between an outlier and a point that is far out of the distribution of the other points because of unmodeled variation

The phrasing implies mutual exclusivity here, which thus implies probability one of a data point belonging to one set and probability zero of that point belonging to the other set.

To be fair, in natural language it tends to be difficult to unambiguously represent ambiguity.
Nah. You can keep emergency funds in a money market account. Interest rates are still so low that bank savings accounts have a negative real return.
Yes that is why I said "some countries" and not the world. It is hyperbole. Of course I think Stripe provides a valuable service, but I don't think it is more valuable than, say, a hospital. I don't think it provides a service that is valuable enough for people to have to be putting 15 hours of work a day and for people to be stressed to the point of crying in the workplace because of it.

And my biggest problem is that, it is very likely that the culture that is fostered is precisely one where "the mission" as in "increment the internet's GDP" is seen as a form of life-or-death situation. That workers at these companies genuinely end up believing these things. But where really is the value that they are generating going to? In reality, these workers are being over-worked to generate value for the VCs and share holders of these corporations.

I mean, i there's another comment pretty much sums up how tech culture is now a days and it's basically wasting our most brilliant minds to optimise slot machines. Anyway, I do think Stripe is useful but I don't think any company really should treat workers and foster this kind of culture.
This is true but there is enormous pressure for these businesses to directionally encourage review scores to trend north. Higher reviewed locations and businesses always garner far higher engagement, and this directly impacts top line. As you point out, there is some ephemeral point at which users might begin distrusting the site en masse, but this inflection point is always easy to ignore as "a problem for another day far in the future." In the mean time, tiny but substantial changes occur all the time which nudge that score higher and higher.

In my experience, that macro trust issue is rarely discussed, even though, at some undefined point in the future, it could pose a serious existential threat.
It's the fact that prices are similar to the US. The only exceptions could be housing in the coastal US cities. Even so, with a 60k salary you won't be able to afford to buy anything bigger than a shoebox in Paris, if that. And if you live further out, and need to commute by car, gas is more expensive than in California.

Also, the 60k are probably before income tax, which as far as I understand, is higher than in the US.
This is excellent. I'll never work for a company with that warning message.
You really think the $1200 we got two years ago has made any impact at all on the prices we see on supply constrained goods today? Most of that money probably evaporated into paying off credit card debt or allowing for some breathing room from rent.
Worker insecurity is a real and intentional thing: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...
> just talk to anyone under 25 here who's living in a van or shooting heroin on the street and they'll explain to you in collegiate level prose why there's no point getting a job.

Oh wow. Just talk to any of the beatniks, or the hobos and vagabonds in the greatest generation or...

You can't take a sample from people who have dropped out of society and become drug addicts or to live in a van and make a conclusion about society!

If I took the same sample from of 25 yos from a Harvard lecture theater you can bet most of them are expecting to work 60 hours weeks.
Then in ten years you write post on HN "I have objectively good life, but it feels empty - what to do?" - every now and then there's a couple hitting front page.
> You do know that would literally just make the problem worse, right?

Depends what you think "the problem" is. To my mind the biggest problem is the hours of human life wasted on performative make-work while most citizens in a supposedly rich country barely spend any time on things that are actually fulfilling for them.

> Also, the "free" in "free market" doesn't mean what you seem to think it does.

On the contrary, this looks to be one of the minority of cases where the term is used correctly (which makes it a bad term, but I fear we're stuck with it).
It's all about scope though. Sure he might have lived a couple of thousands of years ago. Humanity still is only a blip on the whole history of the earth.

Maybe in 100.000 years even he will be forgotten as well, but he did get his 15 minutes of fame (relatively speaking), I'll give you that :)
Focusing on the percent of income paid in taxes is a trick to convince poor people to vote to raise taxes.

Income = Rough approximation of your contribution to society.

Income Taxes = Penalty for contributing, but also another contribution to society.

Not only are poor people not contributing (by definition of being poor), they're also convinced their tax contribution is too high.

Poor person: "My taxes are too high, I contributed a whole $20 to society through a 20% tax on my $100 income. That's not fair, the guy who contributed $100k through tax only gave 10%."

If I'm being radical, I'd propose a flat tax amount (not flat rate). Everyone pays $20k/year. Don't have $20k? Take out a loan and get another job.
https://github.com/chip-red-pill/uCodeDisasm
Blind programmers making software for other visually impaired users
I read that ssd speed somehow affected the apple silicon cpu speed. If that is true, the m2 is effectively a downgrade, is that correct?
It's worse than that. Their sample is based on people who have already decided to drop out of society:

> just talk to anyone under 25 here who's living in a van or shooting heroin on the street and they'll explain to you in collegiate level prose why there's no point getting a job.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162126
Not the GP, but I became a big fan of using poetry for managing python package dependencies.

For managing python itself and binary libraries I started using Nix package manager.

It allows to describe all dependencies via code, but with time that code became a boilerplate, so I created this: https://github.com/takeda/nix-cde

It works very well for me so far.

You do need to have Nix[1] installed, but hopefully that should be the only thing needed and everything you can just list in project.nix file (in the example in README.md you should have access to `dive` command even if you never installed it on your system). Which will make it available only for that project.

Here's also an example of a very simple project: [2]

[1] https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-install-macos

[2] https://github.com/takeda/nix-cde/tree/master/tools/aws_assu...
A team can absolutely have its own opinions about Python. “There should be one— and preferably only one —obvious way to do it” from the Zen is very much aspirational, rather than a declaration of an immutable truth about Python and it's ecosystem.
the only issue is what it means to "fail". it's not really an issue until you're hacked and then it's too late
I live in the southern part of India and a city by the sea. Summer temps here routinely cross 40°C each year for several days or weeks. There are other parts of India that get 1-1.5°C higher temps. I am surprised by the destruction caused by the high temps and the fires in and around London.

What seems to be the driving factor for this apart from the obvious record-setting high temp?
> Walmart employees would jump at an opportunity

That's exactly what they do. Most of my family falls in that category, and a desk job doing customer service at AT&T with reasonable health insurance is a big fucking deal. Getting that higher paying job in that market isn't as easy as you think it is.
Despite having failed 7 or 8 times you think the only thing stopping the average person from becoming fuck you rich is laziness? Your solution is for everyone to found their own companies and succeed? Isn't this attitude just a restating of 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps'? Most people are not capable of what you are suggesting but that doesn't mean they don't deserve reasonable pay and healthcare.
A raise to $16 from $15 is a 6% raise and an increase of $2k a year. That is a HUGE amount of money to someone living off $15/hour.

If inflation is driven purely by rising wages (hint: it isn't), why are corporate profits through this roof this quarter?
So do rats.
I doubt he would agree with that, just like depression has many forms so does the concept of quality of life
“altered mental status” in EEG context means, like, coma. These aren’t very healthy people.
Reminds me of the various models for the original 8086. Far pointers are gone, but having to use registers is a similar tradeoff.
Will Carbon natively support exceptions or is it solely going the Rust `Result<T, E>` route ?
It is possible to infer the locations if you had a lot of time.

AWS at least in the past use to co-locate with other third party servers in the data centre. And so you if you had such a server you could ping AWS endpoints to triangulate where physically those servers might be.
I am not saying they do nothing, it's just an difficult problem to police unless you just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Plates get swapped, cars get stored or parted out, it's luck if they spot your car on the road. You get put into a database, and you hope your car gets flagged in a situation where it can be recovered.
> It is no longer meant to serve us, but someone else who will abuse us for money.

As predicted by Richard Stallman. People hate him because of the conclusions he draws from his principles, even though they turn out to be right every single time.
Yes, plenty of people want to work in the mediocre circumstances of the US labor market, but only because they come out of a war torn or impoverished country.

No sane US citizen wants to work their ass off for minimum wage and minimum benefits. And why would they? Why give away your precious limited time for free, so some corp. can benefit from it?

Employment is supposed to be a situation with mutual benefit for employer and employee.

Flooding the labor market with cheap work force that doesn't complain when you break their backs is exactly what will worsen the situation.
What we need is LESS people that are happy to have their backs broken for peanuts. And unions might help achieving that.

Employers need to come up with better compensation. THAT is the only rational thing that should happen right now. And the tighter the labor market, the earlier that will happen.
Tiny tweaks and improvements (almost daily) to my Unix-related workflows makes a huge difference for me.

This is a good reminder for me to read The Art of Unix Programming.
The Big Quit – Interviews with Job Leavers of the Great Resignation
60k gives you ~3200€/month, which allows you to rent kinda easily a 30m² apartment in Paris or banlieue prochaine (suburbs) - even better if you go further out. In addition very few people commute with a car in Paris, most people use public transportation (usually up to 1.5 hours if you leave really far from the city), which costs 75€/month and by law if you have a CDI (Contract of indeterminate employment) it's half payed by the employer (IDK if it applies to other forms of employment, but it's a fair assumption).

Of course if you live somewhere else than Paris it's even better, and in every case you also count in universal healthcare.
It doesn't need to be spelled out that it's a microblogging platform, it just needs to mention that one of the features is that you write your posts in markdown, and I guess the average person would reason that it's a blogging platform with limited functionally as a feature, aka microblog.
Correct, in theory. However, if you are just starting out growing you won't have the knowledge to assess quality or control contamination.
I believe that by this point Sony had Spider-Man and Fox had X-men, both of which had proven to have legs. There was likely little doubt that a collection of other tried-and-true titles were worth a significant amount, even if Marvel Studios themselves failed to make a hit.
At my company, the soft-deleted items in our DB were a source of massive confusion for our data engineers. "How can a row be both deleted and undeleted at once, like Schroedinger's cat?" they puzzled.

We renamed "deleted_at" to "archived_at". And there was much rejoicing.
Now is the time for meaningful work. We really need to restart the WPA (1). It wasn't just a civic infrastructure program, it also supported musicians, playrights, artists, because "Hell, they’ve got to eat, too" (2). It's amazing how many tested solutions from the progressive era of this country would be turnkey today if we could only muster the political will. The country is so much more fractured than it was in this era as well, labor in the U.S. will never be a unified political force like it is in other countries or even like it was in this country during this era. Media has kept it fractured and headless for decades.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Project_Number_One
Seems to me like a confession of an addict, traveling down the road to cheaper substances:(
"C++ also has a very hard-line "you don't pay for what you don't use"

This always felt eye-rolling false to me. We can't have a better hashmap since we all need to pay for the std::unordered_map's un-needed features like bucket access. We are certainly paying for what we don't use.
Wrote this some years ago:

https://www.objc.io/issues/10-syncing-data/ip-tcp-http/
Not OP but anecdotally, this is how my workflow looks like:

1. Install pyenv to a central location of my choice, e. g. ~/.pyenv (this helps manage all those different Python versions piling up from all the isolated projects I have.)

2. Install pipenv as a stand-alone tool. Doesn’t matter which Python I’m using, I just want to have it in my PATH.

3. Now I’m ready to create fully isolated projects using pipenv. Not only does pipenv create a venv right inside my project directory for me, it also helps me manage and lock dependencies. It also talks to pyenv so it can fetch the per-project Python version for me; this is especially useful when collaborating with others on the same project; they can reliably check out the project without having to manage specific Python versions themselves.

YMMV but I’ve had a stable experience using this setup so far.
While I think smartphones have their (limited) uses, most of them don't appeal to me for one simple reason:

Why would I read anything on a cashiers receipt/slip if I don't have to?
Yea but nobody wants to work anymore.
Since they allow you to import Band-in-a-Box files, I'd say they're well aware of the prior art.
Am I the only one noticing that his entire timeline very nearly mirrors a list of US recessions? Was that intentional? Implicit? Coincidence?
I don't use Twitch because I'm not in the Twitch demographic, but I refuse to use Mixer because of how Microsoft was trying to push it on me.
Fortunately it rained last night and the temperature dropped pretty quickly.
FYI The committing every few minutes idea commits to a separate branch to prevent this clutter.
LTT tried to launch their own video hosting platform called Floatplane, doesn’t seem to have taken off so far.
CockroachDB has been a font of cool ideas from the beginning IMO.
There’s no convincing evidence that discussing medical aspects of mental health is productive on HN. Currently my comment that I’m alive has been downvoted at least half a dozen times because I had the temerity to still be alive, be glad to say so, be grateful for my psychiatric care, and reject that any of that is “suspect”. This isn’t the place to discuss psychiatry. Talk to your doctor.
I'm pretty sure I'm hell banned, but forget about all the chemicals of the brain.

Read anything by Irving Kirsch.

He used The Freedom of Information Act to study All the antidepressants studies that were sent to the FDA by the pill pushers, Not just the cherry picked studies, but All.

He found they basically don't work better than Placebo.

Personally, I think the "Happy" drugs have been the biggest con job the American suffering have ever endured. At least we know opioids work--for awhile. Antidepesssnts just make Dr. Wealthy more wealthy.

My hope is most of these wonder drugs are sued into history, along with those mandatory doctor office visits.

Ask yourself this--why do Psychiatrists have the highest rate of suicide if these drugs work?

I'm glad we have residents whom picked an easy speciality upon graduation, but these drugs have such low efficy rates they should be illegal, or over the counter, with the exception of a few. Trazadone can be nasty. A bad reaction is cured by a needle to the middle part of the brain.

Most are easy on the body, but don't do anything besides make an Artist (Medicine is an art, and Psychiatrists are the milking to the bone.) wealthy.

God help our suffering Americans.
Well, nobody has a chance in the us either. There are just various "industries" in need of fresh meat, who create a ilusion of "chance" to churn through idealistic, young people as a cheap labour source for jobs.
Good point. This is the sort of thing that should make us all go a bit deeper on this:

Perhaps it is marketing that is fundamentally evil.

Why should we be accepting of an entire industry dedicated solely to trying to convince people to buy things they literally do not need?
Continued:

Poor person: "I don't buy from McDonalds because it's unfair their prices as a percentage of income are higher for me than for rich people."

That's how retarded it sounds to me hearing people talk about taxes as percent of income. Yet that's somehow the dominate narrative.
That is an incredibly dismissive and reductive argument to make. "Feeling sad about your job" isn't limited to burnt out software engineers with a safety net. It can also apply to, for example, someone stuck in a shitty, low paying job with few, if any, prospects for better employment. The lack of a path to a decent future can, in itself, be incredibly demoralizing, even if your present circumstances might be decent. After all, what's the point in continuing if I can see that it's all downhill from here?
”The concept behind soft deletion is to make deletion safer, and reversible.” Well, that is one reason. To keep the actual data can be done for many reasons. Audits, reports, laws and so on.

Edit: Deletion is always reversible btw since there are backups.
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), "a new set of rules that will change how you confirm your identity when making purchases online".

A Google search will surface help pages from most European financial regulators and payment processors and banks. For instance, [1-3].

The rollout was delayed a couple of times so cutoff dates mentioned on older pages may well have shifted. In the UK, the cutoff date was 14 March 2022.

[1] https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/strong-customer-authentication

[2] https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/our-expertise/cards/card-paymen...

[3] https://www.visa.co.uk/partner-with-us/payment-technology/st...
It’s an airtight capsule. The bear isn’t going to be interested in it until you open it.

Also, bears don’t have can openers.
The way salaries are expressed in France is needlessly complex, and doesn't translate to anything in the USA. So when you see 60k€, what it really means is: 84k€ (before taxes, healthcare, retirement, etc.) and 40k€ (after all taxes).

Where the 60k€ comes from is... complicated, but has to do with the distinction between taxes, employee social contributions and employer social contributions. That's three layer of "taxes" or tax-like stuff, giving 4 different ways to express the salary: "total cost", "gross", "net", and "net after taxes". [1] Usually companies advertise the "gross" salary.

Yes, taxes are really high, but that includes a generous retirement pension, a generous employment insurance if you lose your job, you won't get bankrupt if you get sick, universities and Grandes Écoles are free [2] so your kids won't need to get into debt to study.

That said, overall you are probably better off at a FAANG in SV...

[1] Calculator: https://mon-entreprise.urssaf.fr/simulateurs/salaire-brut-ne...

[2] Except fancy private business schools that can be very expensive. Most STEM Grandes Écoles are free.

EDIT: seems I'm wrong, and actually it is similar in the US. My bad!
i think it corresponds most exactly with the desensitization of dendritic autoreceptors