skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The feeling of collective hopelessness we all to some extent feel are no doubt backed by reality of stagnating wages, tougher economic future, questions about homeownership, retirement worries, our kids growing in a hyper-woke world, climate change, wars...

While we're all prone to "rosy retrospection" as indicated by one of the comments, I feel that we indeed live in tougher world than our parents (maybe others don't share this feeling).

One thing that has helped me is to take up sports. Specifically I play a racquet sport at a club. After doing my daily work, chores and Dad duties, I drive the club around 8:30 PM and play until 10:30. For those two hours, my mind is fixed on the ball. I don't check my phone or kids, regret the past or worry about the future. I look forward to these two hours.

If you play a sport, or want to take something up, it might help you get over the burnout.
> Also, fusion based energy will get a boost.

A boost in funding, or a boost in output? The latter is so uncertain you shouldn't be speaking like this.
The simplest recommendation I can make is to find EmRes training https://www.emotionalhealthinstitute.org/

This woman offers a very affordable and simple training https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-emotional-resol...

Organic Intelligence is another good org, though more complicated to engage with.

Self inquiry methods like Focusing and IFS are taught widely, though adjacent to the skill I'm referring to.

For a more comprehensive meditation skill set, see Judith Blackstone's books, and seek sessions / trainings in Realization Process.

There are tens or hundreds of other ways to learn these things ... I keep thinking I should write a long article I can link to when these questions come up.
Being rude to people by dismissing feature requests as invalid isn't helpful.
Intel plans thousands of job cuts to manage cost amid PC market slowdown
I suppose you would just do the "I forgot my passkey" flow.
There is zero chance you have all the facts.
It's pretty different. Compare the BBC, for example, where basically every article on the front page seems to subtly or not-so-subtly imply that our planet is on the brink of full-blown catastrophe. While such articles occasionally gain traction here, it's mostly just cool tech news and interesting stories. Perhaps not as engaging, but much better for a person's mental well-being.
You can't call all criticism as small-mindedness.

This might be brilliant and creative to you, but to some this is just not that impressive, technical or otherwise.
I, too, enjoy sharing my message history with the various Russian intelligence services.
FFmpeg is great software. It is unbelievably flexible and has a ton of functionality out of the box. It has a bit of a steep learning curve, but the user manual is quite comprehensive.

I have used it for transcoding video/audio to HLS and it has worked very well.
I definitely feel burned out. It's not just recession, war, etc., it's also the depressing state of the software industry, particularly the niche I work in. It's the feeling that there is a better job out there but it's somehow out of reach. Also, inflation makes my way above average salary actually mediocre when it comes to buying things. I hate saving massive amounts of cash to buy some small property.
TikTok going big on US e-commerce?
Yes, there's plenty of burnout & low-grade depression/ennui, and yes, it's especially overrepresented in a place like HN that offers an endless variety of bite-sized distractions.

But no, it's not everyone.

Get outside. Exercise. Do activities that require focus for tens-of-minutes or hours, rather than batches-of-seconds or minutes.

Look away from things you have no direct control over, no matter how much (synthetic) social-proof that some manipulative media presents suggesting "everyone" or "most people" or "good people" or "with-it people" obsess over such events.

The person who is most sullen over "the world" is not at all the most virtuous, even though large assemblages of depressive people tend to unconsciously advance that idea, and wind up in a destructive competition over who is most (fake-)caring.
You can learn how to navigate against and around other people's biases.
The patents probably cover details that have become important in other industrial processes, and have gone on without enforcement for too long already.

A favorite trick is to require a contract promising payment in perpetuity, even after the patent expires.
This doesn't make sense. Why would "crimes keep decreasing" explain a surge in "homicide and total crime"? Are you sure you understood the linked paper correctly?
Your speculative stock investments may be worth 1/3 less, but Apple doesn't have 1/3 fewer factories now compared to last year. They still control the means of production just as before.
Am I? No.

I suggest going out for a hike or a run.
Your original comment is flagged, but I am generally wary of clicking on pdf links. Especially on mobile where I have to download and open in a different app. That's just a huge pain.
There already is conversion. The motors are inductors and phase current can be much higher than battery current
Small nit:

>detonating

Should be deflagrating because the ICE flame is designed to be subsonic.
You are definitely not alone, but it is also dangerous to think of it as an "everyone" problem and not get help for yourself. I can't remember any time in history when there weren't wars, recessions, layoffs or other global or local problems. It helps to not worry too much about things outside of your control and focus on your own life, family, health and happiness.
I think that burnout is describing a deficit in one's ability to adequately respond to such stressors due to a lack of mental energy.
Yeah, it is life as we (collectively) created it for ourselves.

All the hardships we experience on different parts of the world.
We enable it.

We are distancing ourselves from a natural way of life.
Gabor Mate implies that indigenous people had a fulfilling life, as they followed their instincts (their needs).

Some of us can afford to benefit from the fruits of cheap labor.
We first worlders are aristocrats in a sense, as we are of the "ruling class" to an extent.
We don't see the suffering there.
Out of sight, out of mind.

When I look at the US and other first world countries, it is an open secret that those who appease the ruling class, will get a pass in their elections[1].
It is really strange that people like Mario Draghi and other ex-Goldman Sachsers get influential positions in state institutions.

The one thing I keep in mind is that, most of us (if not all) have the potential for evil.
See also a couple of talks and lectures from Robert Sapolsky.

I don't doubt, for a second, that I would be a Nazi too, if I lived at that time.
I am a sheep.
Likewise, I have my biases.
It is hard to see all of your biases and understand yourself 100%.
Let alone understand the thing what we call "reality".
We even assume things (e.g., in math, physics), since we can't be 100% sure on anything, it seems.
We assume that our experience is "real", and we can't prove it.
However, we hold on to that, since it appears sensible and the (current) alternative seems to lead to nowhere.
I think, therefore I am.
A sensible assumption, I suppose.

However, we exploit not only people from other parts of the world, but we also exploit our own.
People working for you in stressful jobs for very low salaries.
This happens even in Germany.

Cheap bananas, coffees and labor.
We get a taste of aristocracy.
Thinking of Naval Ravikant stating that we're relatively well off compared to medieval peasants.
However, this is at the expense of other people.
It isn't fair.
But no one cares, really.
Neither do I, which is horrible.
I am therefore evil.
I am no better than American/European (Goldman Sachsers, Time Warner Company etc.) or Russian oligarchs.

So who am I to criticize others, when I should be criticizing myself?

Really, if they want to nuke the Northern Hemisphere away, what can we do against it?
They have the power, we really can't have a significant impact on these decisions[1].
Therefore, out of control, out of mind (i.e., stoicism).

1) https://obrag.org/2015/01/princeton-study-u-s-no-longer-an-a...
> isn't the upper bound of the energy

The energy of a 10g object at 0.2c is not just bounded, it is calculatable, and not really that large. The earth has had worse encounters, multiple times, in the last century. The above wildly overstates even a "best case straight down direct hit" scenario.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177030
Not saying that there aren't real issues, but remember, news makes money off of getting you to constantly engage, so they are financially motivated to sensationalize.

Consuming more content isn't going to have an impact on layoffs, Ukraine, recession, etc.

What it will have an impact on is your mental health, as you are experiencing now.

Things that have worked for me:

- Get out into nature as often as possible. Trees and streams have been shown to reduce stress.

- Meditate

- Do physical activities, like lifting weights, yoga, and hiking.

- Pick up a hobby.

- Have dedicated blocks of times to not checking work messages, news, etc.
Second definition is "interchangeable" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fungible
I am forced to interpret the titular "new nuclear age" ironically, as not including any new nukes.
A cautionary note is not a shallow dismissal. In your action, ensure you are improving discourse, not eliminating it.
I have ascended to the even more-conceited plane of "I don't bother with social signifiers" (which ironically is a signifier in itself- but in my case, I mostly do not care). Then again, I'm not currently in the dating pool, so YMMV
Not to my knowledge, but that wasn't my point.
Military-funded experimental railguns are in the 10s of 1000s of gs. Are these the record-holders of whom you speak?
When employees "vote" it may not be by secret ballot. It may be by a method such as card check whereby people know who's voting which way. There is a long history of humans using intimidation to get their way, and without a secret ballot, that becomes a thing.

Beyond that, people have a tendency to vote "yes" on things when they don't know about those things. There's always a fight on referendums on the language to be on the side of the "yes", because "yes" wins most of the time.
While it feels crass to say it, I'm pretty sure we're still enjoying the 'fun debt' experienced by the pan-american natives when they got introduced to European diseases.

By that measure, Russia history should result in it being at least somewhat reasonable soon though, so not sure that's how it works.
People struggle to get math, too.
Eno's most celebrated musical experiments were not exclusively confined to ambient music. He was also involved in a project which asked the question: what would it sound like if you created an orchestra which used standard, established musical instruments, playing well-known classical standard themes, but one that was composed of a combination of both fully competent musicians and totally inexperienced and utterly incompetent first-timers? Eno's answer was that you would produce extraordinary musical experiences for the listener which amounted to a unique combination of choice and chance. For me and many others, his translated into some of the funniest musical experiences I have ever known. Please listen to The Portsmouth Sinfonia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpJ6anurfuw
Both. Output, and because of that, funding.
FTA:

> Next, I wanted to see what would happen when I disabled telemetry. After some activity, I checked the log, and found no events were logged. That is good.
If this move proves profitable (likely will) shareholders will pressure Apple to move further into ads. I wonder what an alternative ecosystem would look like.

Does anybody have experience with Fairphone/PinePhone/Librem as their daily driver? I don't necessarily need all the apps, but the common ones like WhatsApp, Amazon, Uber, Doordash, etc. Also, which wearables work best with open source phones?
You’re commenting to a post that’s saying everyone is burned out. It may not be “the world is on fire” but I’d say it’s pretty close.
Came here to say this. Romex/THHN might be a bad idea, but that's because they weren't insulated for this purpose. 12 AWG would work.
> My ideal solution would be to export any message older than a month to an archive on my NAS

I'm confused at what is stopping you from doing this?

> ideally in a format that the app could search on request.

Are you not able to import these backups into the desktop client? IIRC it is just reading from a file structure. I don't see why a small script couldn't resolve this. Obviously you wouldn't be able to search on your phone, but you said you didn't want that data on your phone anyways. If you did want to search on your phone from your computer's storage, I think you're asking way too much of them (and in danger of asking them to store data for you, which they never will do). But this is hacker news, and I don't see why you can't hack together that tool in a weekend. Probably just a few beers on a Friday is enough for it tbh.
Even a video game is probably better. When "browsing" it's scary to realize how quick I am to jump to the next dopamine hit at the first sign of boredom. I'll be half way through a sentence that gets a little boring and then - boom - new tab, new site, new stream of content in less than a second. It's so habitual.

Walking is great for exercise, the physical world still matters. But if you want something in-between, a video game with its ups and downs might work as well. Anything you have to stick with will help.
Who said anything about a hosting server? Why isn't there a simple option to export a conversation to local storage, encrypted or unencrypted, along with a warning that 'your conversation is now leaving the secure Signal zone.'
You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.

Apple is willing to provide these Employee Perks to everyone, but the Union will still insist on getting something out of their collective bargaining agreement. Therefore this just became the something. It's that simple.

Unions are not always automatically a good thing folks. For every good union story out there, there are an equal amount of bad union stories. As a union member, you give up your rights to negotiate things directly with your employer, which include receiving new perks. Now your union has to do the negotiating, and you better hope they get what you want out of it.
Not untrue, but it's one of the less bad places to come on the web.

It can also be to do with your own mental filter... HN has submissions that are both on the pessimistic doomsday side at one end and hyper over optimistic side at the other end, but orthogonally there are also purely fun submissions - and these can be quite uplifting, a happy reminder to many of us of why we originally ended up doing what we do.
While I hope so, you can't know it will.
> I still don’t understand how so many technical people can fall for the marketing.

Because if you're predisposed to hating new technology or generally thinking technology causes more harm than good, then you'll look for the weakest interpretation of a new development and use that to get angry.

For all the angry ranters in this thread it's the idea that Meta will be the only company to do VR hardware and software ("I mean it's their name for god's sake!"). In reality Horizon Worlds is definitely the runner-up with stalwarts like VRChat and Second Life that actually have mindshare across multiple platforms and headsets. Immersed is the better app for productivity right now, Workrooms is pretty new. Horizon is playing catch-up. Companies like HP and Apple are making headsets. The market is just getting started. But the idea of a healthy, competitive, VR market with lots of choice doesn't fit the narrative around evil technology so nobody wants to make that point.
Life is not a pony farm. Get used to it. As long kids and you are healthy and there is some food on your table it’s alright. Turn off your damn phone. It’s draining your mental health. Leave all your social networks. Leave all your friends and coworkers. There is no reason to be burned out. Find some positive people. A bit is sadness is far from burn out. Recessions come and go. At some age you will attend funeral of friends or family members every year. That’s natural cycle. I started with some shitty job in 2011 because nobody was hiring. Now I have huge mortgage and big corp might close our lame division. Take a walk, take vacation, go to gym and start lifting weights. Spend more time with family. Don’t panic about future, it will come anyway. War will be over and West will continue loosing significance in the world. There are too many things in life one can’t change.
https://play.generative.fm/browse

:D
I got my Twitter account permanently banned by talking about “Russians who send their kids to die in Ukraine.” (They refused my appeal and moderation at scale is hard). I’ve never been happier in years.

I find so much more time in the day for activities and I have to witness ridiculous American politics, Elon, Zuckerberg, and world events far less.

I just, gasp read the CBC and NPR once a day like I’m my dad or something.
I have over 500 online accounts. Imagine if all of them used a login method where I had to have backup devices registered, instead of just me backing up the credentials (like I do today with a password manager).

With backup devices, whenever I upgrade or replace a device, I need to go to each of the 500+ online accounts and register the new device. This is much more work than a quick login to each site via my password manager (which can happen on-demand, only as I need to use the services).
Mythbusters isn't a great example, to the point that there are re-edited episodes floating around that remove all the superfluous teasers, "coming up"s, and unnecessary repeated shots.

https://www.reddit.com/r/smyths/comments/8gix4w/streamlined_...
SMS is not a trustworthy protocol. If you want security, set up OMEMO or Matrix properly. If you want SMS, use an SMS messenger. You shouldn't fear Google/Apple in this matter, but rather Big Telco, who probably stores all of your SMS messages for at least 5 years (if they comply with government regulation). There's not really a company on the planet who can fix that for you, besides maybe Tracphone if you'd consider using burners.
If energy and food production (eg mining and farming) are automated, if transportation of such resources (eg shipping) is automated, and if resource distribution (eg grocery stores, utilities, and other mercantile outfits) are automated, and these systems' integration is automated, money, and thus the idea of "payment" go away.

The issues are the Monday before that, when one or two jobs are still necessary, when money hasn't yet entirely inflated into worthlessness, and the Monday after that, when people realize they have nothing to live for if they can't be of service to their community or loved ones, have no dreams to chase, and their only means for expression that hasn't been automated away is the destruction of their despair's origin: the systems that keep them alive begging nothing in return.

Check out the short story "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster
I was mainly thinking people could charge EVs at non-peak times. It's interesting to think about using the cars as batteries, but I don't know if they're set up for that.
What Apps Movie Characters Would Make According to AI
Is that true in the US? I know that in Germany there are workplaces where you have a choice if you want to join the union or not.
Stranded whales die on remote New Zealand islands
Exactly. Removing or changing the licensing on APIs in a way carefully targeted to break ZFS, but not affect actual proprietary drivers such as the NVidia graphics drivers.
Amr Awadallah, cofounder of Cloudera, is arguing that Keyword Search will be replaced with Neural Search within the next five years. He’s not alone; a number of companies have emerged in this space recently (e.g. Deepset Haystack, Hebbia, etc.). Amr launched his new startup Vectara today. They claim their Neural Search as a service is as easy to use as Algolia, as scalable as Elastic, but "neural-first" leading to much higher semantic relevance (they are free for 15k queries per month). My question: do you really see neural search replacing keyword search, or do you simply see it as an extension?
What is the role/responsibility/benefit of corporate members? It's not clear from the available descriptions why a company would want to become one. Perhaps simply to support the initiative?
This is factually wrong, both in terms of quantity and quality.

Current AI models are not "just sort of repeating and copying from memory". This is just an incorrect characterization of how they work and how they perform.

AI skeptics often say things like this then backpedal with something like "Well they aren't really repeating what they heard, but their generative model is just a slightly more sophisticated version of repeating what they've heard." But this weaker claim is also true of humans. It's certainly the case that >97% percent of what humans say is "just repeating and copying" in the same sense.
Maybe it's time to take a new approach. Have you given building in the public domain a try?

We're just getting started. Shoot me an email anytime you want to chat -> breck7@gmail.com. Also I can send you a promo code for a free #BuildPublicDomain t-shirt from Cotton Bureau(actually really comfortable) - https://cottonbureau.com/p/DH38R3.
> Someone tells me about a show, I add it to a list and then find it later. Throw it up on Jellyfin and I can watch it anywhere using Tailscale (based on Wireguard).

Jellyfin FTW. I spent a half-dozen attempts over a dozen years trying to make XBMC work such that I was spending more time using it than messing with it (including just getting lost in their UI with an accidental button press and having to figure out how to get out of whatever unfortunate mode I'd become stuck in) and that anyone other than me was able and willing to use it. None succeeded. Painful set-up, painful UI (the themes don't help because they don't change the way it behaves), and you have a copy of XBMC on some XBMC-capable device attached to every TV you want to watch on.

Jellyfin solved all those problems.

Edit settings in a browser, leave the TV UI to do TV UI stuff. Clients on every major platform (even if the best ones are paid on some platforms—my paid tvOS app was entirely worth the could-find-it-in-the-couch-cushions amount of money it cost). Roku, Android, tvOS, whatever. Stream to any computer, tablet, or phone without installing anything. It's great.
Europe (Portugal)
While nothing can bring back their children, siblings, or classmates, one hopes (but doesn't expect) that this will help consign a particularly vile and repugnant conspiracy theory to the dustbin of polite discourse.
So, they want to force us back to torrenting.

Twist my arm, why don't you?
You mean they used it as a recruiting magnet?