skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's obviously true. When dozens of virologists wrote a letter in the Lancet stating flatly that no lab leak was possible and anyone who claimed otherwise was a conspiracy theorist who should be silenced, how many virologists stood up and said no, that's not true, lab leaks happen frequently and this should be investigated?

I think the answer is none. None stood up and said that. Yet we know from records releases that even some of the virologists signing the letter already knew they were lying. They were saying things like the viral RNA is "inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory" and then just days later saying in the letter that they strongly condemned any suggestion that it came from a lab. They had done things like apply for grants in previous years justifying their research by the possibility that a virus would escape from a lab into the wild and start a pandemic. And they knew that SARS-1 had escaped from labs in China and Taiwan multiple times. Then they insisted anyone saying those things should be banned from every communications forum possible.

Virology is a dead field walking. They've had their primary activity banned in the past and it's well past time they get banned again, permanently this time. Not one of the people in that field stood up for what was right, because they were afraid they'd lose funding.

As for "that's like climatology" yeah, maybe? It's obviously possible for entire scientific fields to be corrupted by the desire for funding and to protect their own careers. But in climatology there are at least some insiders who stand up and say that the most extreme claims aren't true. Retirees usually, for sure, but the field still does better at challenging its own claims than virology.
Commercial dishwashers work completely differently from home ones. They are designed to use the same water across multiple loads. Home ones clean way better but take 1.5 hours per load rather than the 3 minutes commercial ones use. Have you ever actually used a commercial dishwasher? They are about as similar to a residential dishwasher as a Porsche is to a dump truck.
That is almost never used correctly. I have not seen it, for one. If it's crazy math calculations, file processing, image processing - sure, but that's not how microservices are used in 99% of the cases. It's basically an anti-pattern.
there is a difference between these types of addictions. Granted, someone might be "addicted" to buying clothes/shoes/etc. but that person won't take debt to try to get more shoes, whereas an addicted gambler might just do it to get his money back...
also, nowadays, with a smartphone always ready, gamblers have less options to avoid their addiction (whereas with casinos they could ask to be blacklisted. Also they always had to go there, which takes time and effort. Taking the smartphone does not. A very small lapse of 5 minutes can lead to losing a lot of money. Also with internet ads they really can't escape nowadays.).

Still, it is a legal business so basically it appears as if (in a working democracy) the community has decided that gambling is ok overall. (personally, I'd like more regulation because the benefits of gambling, which is taking money from addicted people with basically no value add, do not outweigh the costs)
Sure, writing a function yes.

But most people use count/max/avg prebuilts, with little to no logic. If it ain't Turing Complete, it's not programming :P
> but its usually some typescript challenge or something like that - which i refused to learn, since i already know javascript. once static type checking became a requirement in front end is like the intersection for when i became a dinosaur

Why? Static type checking is a good thing to reduce errors.
Most places close enough for "take the train for a night out in London" will (practically by definition) be "you can commute into London for work from here" places, though, with correspondingly high house prices. Certainly Cambridge is not cheap for housing!
If one is going to over-consume anything, let it be books. Minimal environmental impact (reusable and recyclable), and intellectually stimulating. Minimal negative health effects too with a proper posture and as long as you don't read a book while crossing a street.
The user seems to have deleted most of their junk comments themselves now. The best way to contact dang is email, see the Contact link at the bottom of the page (I already emailed about this one). I was able to flag the comments - you have to click on the comment's time time to get the comment page with those extra options.
Yeah but is anyone asking the real question: how many million of years has children had to learn to avoid Teslas? A design flaw if you ask me. Why I am hesitant to getting one of my own...
There are 300+ applicants, but I imagine most of them aren't near 15 years of experience. I also have 15 years on experience and recently got a contract position immediately after just one interview and one take-home exercise. I was the only viable [1] candidate the company had, despite paying top market rates, so the decision to hire was a no-brainer for them.

[1] They use niche and difficult technology (Scala HP Haskel-style approach) and reject people who are not at least already ok at it.
It wasn't part of the requirements
not allowed to share it. but it’s for real I’m 80% sure
Lauching Loggify – The Release Note Communication Pipeline
https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1558876752062976000
Without a working credit card for three months, I would have been unable to begin the process of another payment option.

And it's not specifically the "I didn't have a card" problem that was solved. It was the far more general "I had an issue that required human intervention and sacrifice on behalf of the provider", which was resolved. I can think of zero other tech giants with that level of service.
A safe can be opened, so should safes not have doors?

It is often good to leave keys right next to a locked lock.
For a lot of people with technology taste, the web is offensive. Not to say that interfacing with say ugly Windows APIs is that much better, but at least you have way more control over the machine and your program, so (in systems programming) interfacing with ugly abstraction is only a minor part of your experience.
Well here it stops lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu4ZEnIwYZI
This is all excellent advice.

I'd just like to emphasize your point about being prepared to hear their answers. But really hear it. Don't let the brain demons (depression warps perception) get to the words before you do!

Also, people often don't know how to have difficulty conversations, so this is another thing that can just make hearing the message harder. Eg, they often try to encourage as a way of showing compassion, instead of just showing compassion. They're stills being supportive, but it might not be the support you need. And just encouragement, without a good framework and a healthy mindset—which could have has been compromised by burnout—won't be enough.

I wholeheartedly also recommend going to therapy (and people often think this takes years, but it can just be a couple of sessions).
Raising $537M and throwing a significant portion of it towards customer acquisition probably helped a lot
No, this is the perfect her care for an option. This gives the buyer and option to buy or sell at an agreed upon price. The buyer of the option pays a premium, and only loses that if they choose to not exercise the option. If they exercise the option they also have to pay the agreed upon price.

As such, there is an asymmetric upside in this case.
I think with WK getting to 1.5k - 2k is possible in 1-2 years if, as OP said, you invest a lot of time every day. I noticed that if I could keep my usual pace every day I would complete it in ~2years. But since I do take breaks, have better and worse days, I am at a 4-5 year pace. I am at level 32 and about 2.5 years in.
Don't fix it if it isn't broken
> which i refused to learn, since i already know javascript. once static type checking became a requirement in front end is like the intersection for when i became a dinosaur.

I doubt you are a dinosaur for not learning Typescript. You should be able to pickup Typescript if you are motivated, but that is hard to find when you are depressed. From your description it seems that you have all the background skills necessary, even though you have not had the energy to keep up with all the latest trends due to depression and other health issues.

As others said, you need to work on the root cause (maybe burnout or depression). You should contact a professional to help you manage this and get your energy back
No, overconsume everything, else you're not doing it right.

8 billion people with 30,000 books each... I'm trying to math it...
This would then be inconsistent with Musk's stated principle of reproduction as a civic duty (at least _his_ civic duty)...
That's an easy 70 points for Tesla.
considering how many children Elon has brought into the world, why not?
I love that the crash test kid dummy breaks exactly the way a Roblox character would, that seems fitting somehow. My mind was automatically adding the "oof!" sound.
> Most definitely not. Thinking about the processes and long term effects takes a deeo understanding of things, time to properly think it through, experience to get it right and constabt adjustments.

Isn't what your describing second-order thinking though?

For example — "I'm hungry therefore I'll order a takeaway" is an easy decision, if you ignore any second order effects & consequences (e.g. impact on your health/finances).

It's layering in second (and third, fourth) order effects that requires the time to think through, experience, etc.
You are not having a good time there are you? This is how people turn into Batman.
Ok, here's a real comment about Second Order Thinking.

When trying to reduce my adiposity (lose fat mass), I get hungry. Everyone talks about diet and exercise. No one really talks about hunger. Dieticians talk about satiating foods - food that fills you up, but that is only one aspect. Last year I decided I need to find another way to experience hunger. Learning about this has greatly helped my efforts to get healthy. I highly recommend "The Hungry Brain" and some time with a Cognitive Behavior Therapist if you have had repeated difficulty in losing weight. Tell your therapist you want to change your relationship with food and learn how to handle the sensations of hunger. These are easy words to say, but to really change your learned behaviors takes a lot of time and effort.
Well, at the very least, it proves the unreliability of Tesla's autopilot
This is a strange advertisement for LiDAR or a strange hit into Teslas' direction.

Also it looks like only unknown brands are to integrate LiDAR tech.

What about the big brands? Do $bigbrand cars with collision detection/emergency braking assistants stop for children? Which technology do they use if not?

I don't get the point.
Musk should get on that asap in light of his not enough people theory
This was filmed by a competitor.
I wanted to like WaniKani. I spent nearly a year trying to use it but my memory appears to be incompatible with their way of doing spaced repetition, which is extremely simplistic. There's no attempt to set intervals based on the user's settings, the user's previous performance or the vast accumulation of data they must have regarding which ones tend to be easier or harder, let alone some sort of ML approach. Anki handles the first two of those fine, WK should be in a position to push that aspect further but they haven't bothered. The overall feeling is actually somewhat adversarial - as if it's a challenge, rather than a way to help.

I ended up spending 2+ hours a day just doing reviews to stay in one place - not even attempting to study any new material. I even wrote a couple of tools to let me review recent failures, but in the end it was clear it just wasn't working.

The subscription pricing approach is also wrong, in my opinion. Yes it's technically a web service but there are very rarely any updates and although they heavily advertise the potential to learn all the kanji in a couple of years, in reality it'll take a lot longer. So the spend is going to be $300+ even if it works for you, and the incentive to get through it quickly to save $$ is misaligned with a better goal of learning in a thorough and sustainable way.

Anki is better in most ways, really.
In human terms, my older brother who I learned to code from (he left me his TRS-80/100 and the BASIC manual when I was 8, plus some Springsteen tapes, and gave up programming to become a federal prosecutor) told me:

Your problem is you can never look two weeks into the future. Which is now exactly the same thing I think about kids a decade younger than me. It's true, but they're not dumb, they just have to live awhile.
Just a note of appreciation to the author for the clear, accessible way this is written up. Understandable by semi-technical people like me.
> That means that the smart thing to do is buy them as you read them, and not hoard them.

And this is one of the major benefits of e-books: you can postpone the purchase until about 15 seconds before you want to read the book.
Former professional translator here (Japanese-to-English, 1986 to 2005). I have very mixed feelings about MT.

On the one hand, as you and others point out, rates for human translation have been hurt, and the quality of a lot of MT-enabled translation visible to the public is mediocre to poor.

On the other hand, MT is enabling communication among people that was not possible or practical before. A small start-up is able to find customers and suppliers in countries with different languages. People with common interests but diverse languages are able to chat and share ideas on social media. A person receives an e-mail from a long-lost relative in a language the recipient doesn’t know; MT enables them to correspond and eventually meet up. Little of that communication would be taking place if a human translator had to be found and paid for each interaction.
I don’t hate GitLab, and I do appreciate the open-core aspect of it and the competition. However, despite its popularity for businesses, I think GitHub, for better or for worse, is unquestionably the best choice in terms of reaching people (for most projects, at least; the benefits of GitHub may be less relevant or even negatives for certain projects, like particularly niche privacy/freedom related ones, or alternatives to GitHub or completely different version control systems).

I’d also like to note that GitLab has a number of the same possible concerns in the sense that it is not completely opensource, libre, and standard. There are paid features and features that are specific to GitLab that people rely on.

Perhaps things like SourceHut or CodeBerg (gitea) are better examples from that perspective. And I think those often fit the few projects that actively benefit from not being on GitHub due to those factors and the platforms’ views aligning more with potential contributors, etc.

For personal, private use and such, Gitea has been what I have used for years. I find it has fit my needs better than GitLab, but I would still be hesitant to use it for much else, other than internal repos as a company, etc.

edit: it only occurred after hitting submit that you might’ve been saying that GitLab itself is popular and successful despite not being on GitHub, not that GitLab brings the same benefits/negatives of GitHub. I’ll leave this post as is, though.
> What about defence in depth?

It is a manager-speak buzzword. What about it?
When I read this, my first thought was that by the time it made it to the front page it already has crashed then I clicked on it and yes indeed.
> its usually some typescript challenge or something like that - which i refused to learn, since i already know javascript. once static type checking became a requirement in front end is like the intersection for when i became a dinosaur.

Did you refuse to learn because it seems pointless, the interview excersize seems pointless or is it because it's overwhelming at this point in your career?
There's numerous examples of it stopping for children, including in official testing. It was already stopping for children in 2019. Including in sudden appearance of them from behind an object (see at 2:20). https://youtu.be/x7Hp2zACGmg?t=126

In fact it does it better than most other vehicles in the above test.

The more interesting thing here is that I want to know what's going on with the algorithm on how this thing has 213,000 likes and 26,000 retweets despite only having been posted 5 days ago. Twitter bots at work here?
Round age crisis multiplied by burnout, I feel ya. Not a us/eu citizen but same issues. My plan is to finish the current project, get a bonus and just chill for a year or so with therapy.

I have similar thoughts, but when I think about life and jobs and reality, logically my gut feelings do not make sense. Plenty of people around who seem okay but do not express any significant “depth”. It shouldn’t be that hard, so what is my true concern and what are the goals?
Hi LightG, author of Unattach here. I'm happy to hear that you're considering using the app.

Regarding scale, practically all of the work is done within the user's browser; the server is used only for downloading the app, auth, admin and metrics.
Don't worry, full self driving will be available by next year!
And the terrain map eats mobile data like candy
I love programming languages and software design, but I was burnt out on doing this full-time (or even 4 days a week), after over 15 years of doing mostly legacy projects and web. It only scratched a certain itch. At some point I'd scratched too much and it became a sore spot and the only programming I did anymore was for work, no longer on the side. I left the commercial space to go into education and teach software development (and related) courses. This combines everything I feel like I should be doing: pass on knowledge, help people and contribute something meaningful to society as well as the curriculum. I also regained the energy and will to learn new things and become a better programmer. (A disclaimer: I was always attracted to this job and have been wanting it for over 10 years, I know it's not a general advice as much as an example of changing my role completely but still doing what I actually love doing, technology wise (and socially))
You don't need technical experience to watch the video and be concerned.
You can't save locally, it's all saved in the cloud. However you can download a copy from the cloud afterwards.

And no, it doesn't make your designs publicly available.
When you think about how you read English text, or text in any language really, you don't decompose all that much during normal reading. For example, if you look at the word "house", you don't read it like "H-O-U-S-E-house" like a child learning to read would, because you have learned to recognize "house" immediately.

But even then, it's still useful to learn how the different bits and pieces of language fit together (etymology, root words, and such) in order to parse new words that you encounter for the first time. Even if you have never encountered the word "quizzacious" before, you can see the root word "quiz" and can make an educated guess about its meaning.
How familiar is enough?
Dynamic linking is just poor man's IPC.
For kitchen appliances you should try to get restaurant grade if you can afford it. Won't solve all the problems but Restaurant appliances are made for heavy use so are more durable compared to home kitchen appliances. Last 1-2 years would have been a good year to get 2nd hand restaurant appliances with the many restaurants going out of business.
This has definitely happened in the past. It's arguably happening to US Democrats now, with pickup trucks getting more expensive to drive. This is an indictment of the political system rather than an argument against regulation, however.
I like how they are doing experiments as to whether the car will stop for children, on a road with actual children running up and down the sidewalk. (a 1:45 - that's as far as I got)
In some places there are public libraries. You can go and sit there for hours everyday and marvel at all the thousands of books you'll never, ever read.

Can also be done at bookshops.
There is also usually a new year's deal where you get lifetime membership for 200$ instead of 300$, which gets announced through the community forum.
First, you need to take a big break, a couple of months at least. The less computing-related activities the better. The summer hasn't ended yet, do some outdoorsy stuff with other people. Depending on your situation of course, it may not be possible. Then just radically cut back on work and try to spend more time with your loved ones.

Second, you need to get your love for technology back. It is still there, but it manifests as hate. My theory of burnout is that it arises when the amount of effort you put in is disproportionally large compared to perceived payoffs. The brain just does a ROI calculation and refuses to put more effort in. To combat that, you need some easy successes. Try doing some small fun project and bring it to completion (for some definition of completion that makes you excited). This should bring back your confidence and excitement.

Third, you need to think strategically about your career. The truth is, for run-off-the-mill web development returns on experience taper off after a few years, so you are at disadvantage compared to younger folks that haven't lost their enthusiasm yet and are prepared to work long hours for less pay. So to make yourself desirable in the eyes of employers, you have to offer them something those people don't have. One option is to go into management (no need to scoff at it, it is hard, offers plenty of opportunity for growth and is exactly the area where older folks can shine). Another is to specialize and become an "expert in X" - maybe in some subject area or in distributed systems or machine learning. Think about what most suits you.

Good luck.
Do you have a source without a hexagon profile picture?
Indeed. Unfortunately the article lost me when I saw the graph of "extent to which you consider second order and subsequent consequences" vs "odds of success".
I had this problem a couple years ago and decided to invest in learning Rust. So far, I think it's starting to payout. Most companies that use Rust take software development seriously. Another language that I could think of is Ocaml (or any other lisp language). Barriers are higher/harder, but it should pay off.
More practical, the famous magician J.E. Robert-Houdin invented a "lighter alarm clock" (réveil-briquet) in 1837 that sold pretty well and made him rich and allowed him to develop his "magical" tricks (many based upon electricity: he had an electric door bell and an automatic front porch in the 1860).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvyvZHf6hZQ
The trouble isn't just that it's offensive for people with technology understanding and taste, but the clients in web space often consider the tech and your work as disposable and they treat you as such.
Yes and no, it's hard to say if the test setup is fair and/or realistic based on the video alone. If the setup is intentionally made so that the car on the right has an advantage, e.g. the dummy materials are chosen to be more visible to its sensors, then it is highly misleading. If the source is not trustworthy then worrying about hidden agendas like this should come to mind.
They're not top of mind for him
Probably not the answer you want, but the EU is literally filled with towns like this. Cycling and public transport can get you and your kids anywhere.
Ideally, it would always stop.

The fact that sometimes it sometimes stops before hitting a child is not completely comforting.