skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Need is not the right word because it depends on the person. Some can get better with the right therapy alone. Others don't even respond to therapy + meds but might improve with more invasive neurological interventions.

But there are certainly people in our present world who do need meds to get out of the depression hole. There are people that do not respond to therapy alone but do respond to meds with therapy.

I don't think there's anything wrong with your comment, indeed the statement you're quoting is extreme. But I think HN has the tendency to go too far to the other extreme. At the end of the day, clinical depression is very heterogeneous. You need to do what works best for you.

Btw in case it isn't clear how meds are supposed to work in practice - medication for depression is not something you just pop and forget about. Any reputable psychiatrist will include therapy as part of the initial treatment plan, they don't just write a prescription and send you away.

Yes bad clinicians exist, but I think the pill popping trope for psych is way less common than people assume. Perhaps part of the source of this stigma is the role of the general practitioner. It is not uncommon to see random non-psychiatrist MDs prescribing SSRIs or stimulants, and in those cases it's a lot less likely the corresponding behavioral therapy is happening.

Anyway, medication is an absolute life saver for those people who need help in making the behavioral changes to begin with. There is a large body of studies at this point showing that simultaneous meds and therapy can improve depression symptoms more than the sum of their parts. Gold standard practice is to try tapering off of meds after the course of therapy, and more often than not the symptom improvements persist.

OP should get a professional opinion specific to his situation. He shouldn't go with the intention of seeking meds, but they should be something he inquires about. Some of the sibling comments here are acting like needing meds is a lack of will power, which is just as unhelpful as indiscriminately pushing meds.
“No container is ever completely drained, so some of the earlier product always remains in each container.”

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Solera
Is that a from-the-wall number or just the CPU?
There must be something that you want to do. 40 isn't that old.

Totally change your profession, travel, etc. As others have pointed out you need to move on from the crippling focus on your age and lost time. If you continue to focus on that, you will only lose MORE time.

Seriously, drop everything, re-train, and start pursuing life on your terms. I'm not saying it will be easy but sometimes having a purpose and struggling can be more rewarding then wallowing in comfort.
Because lifecycle management, access controls, auditing, monitoring, delegation/federation, budgeting, capacity planning - all of these other things together, which these tools may or may not help you with - are still far less important than troubleshooting.

Seriously, when shit's on fire, the last thing you want is to be deciphering the magic that brought it to its current state. How many layers to dig thru are there, between "thingctl deploy" and a critical S3 bucket having somehow been deleted?

Not trying to shoot down the idea - I'm sure there are people 10x smarter than me working on this, who are more than able to make a lot of this work well in practice. But that's the problem with using stuff made by people 10x smarter than you - when everything goes wrong, it tends to require being 10x-smarter-than-average to fix it.

The true power and success of Terraform is in the blunt simplicity of its interface. Every time you run it, it will spell out in very large writing, what exactly is it going to do: add this, change that, DESTROY this - it even uses the word "destroy" to signify the danger. I really appreciate any tool that makes it harder to do the wrong thing.
That's not anything to keep in mind at all. There are many different kinds of therapies and therapists. Lumping them together and writing them off is brutal and insensitive.

People need help understanding how to live. Therapists are trained to do that. Some of them are good at it, and some are bad at it.

But telling someone who is in need of structured introspection and practical cognitive and behavioral techniques to NOT go to a therapist is really pretty horrible.
If he expects people (me) to read or read about his online PhD thesis then I think he should’ve chosen a font with a larger x-height. Reading the type feels like peeking through a dense bush during a hail storm.
That is surely a form of theft, no?

It is utterly despicable either way, and exactly the behavior I would expect from a sociopath.

I understand the aesthetic appeal of the relatively well-designed products but anyone who buys Apple products is enabling a hugely powerful abuser.

Just say no to rotten fruit kids!
I get mp3s from Bandcamp or Soulseek, keep them in folders on my laptop, and put them on an old Sansa Clip for listening. If I make a playlist, I use Mp3tag to change all the album names to whatever the name of my playlist is.
It's a tool to migrate who you follow from twitter to mastodon. This isn't about how many new users joined Mastodon (which yes, would include bots). Your comment is entirely irrelevant.
Did we ever find out how much the UK is paying Rwanda to take these people?

Presumably Rwanda isn't dealing with the UK's dirty laundry for free...
Do-It-Yourself Solar Swimming Pool Heater
I've been waiting for this so long.

I think.
BS Jobs is the official term. From a tech perspective though there are plenty of people even on HN that will freely admit they probably do less than 10hrs of work in a week. There is also adversarial hiring in tech where you hire highly educated people and make/find work so your competitors don't hire them.

flunkies

who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants, store greeters

goons

who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, or to prevent other goons from doing so, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists, community managers;

duct tapers

who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing bloated code, airline desk staff

box tickers

who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers, quality service managers;

taskmasters

who create extra work for those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals
Nearly half of Americans age 18 to 29 are living with their parents
Given the $550 price of these, did you ever get to trail one of the cheaper ~$100 options for an 8k 4x2 matrix switcher?
I had been looking at one so that I can retain HDR with windows when duplicating displays and the cheaper ones seem to provide similar functionality.
Apart from what everyone else said (go see an ophthalmologist ASAP, eyes change, and wear your glasses), I've found that e-ink screens drastically reduce eye strain for me (as in, I cannot stand a normal screen for more than a few minutes, my phone's OLED tires me within tens of minutes at a time, but i can spend the whole day on my Kindle or e-ink tablet). Check if that's the case for you too with a low cost option (like a Kindle), and if it works it might be worth investing in an e-ink monitor (which doesn't work for everything but should be fine for coding).
Sen. Warren warns Tesla board that Musk may have failed to meet his legal duties
Airsonic servers are very cheap.

They are just labelled as shared seedbox.

Honestly, I don't know how to get that much bandwidth, that much space for the same price as a seedbox. I suspect reliability of data is not as good as a proper VPS.
You can have very high building standards and freedom to build duplexes/condos/whatever, those aren't at odds.

We should probably disincentivize (or at least not incentivize) single family homes in many places, higher density is much better for most things.
I've tried apps for tracking habits, which was great as it freed up Todo lists and Todo apps from lots of daily habit type tasks, however I stopped looking at it after maybe a year or more of useful use. Possibly I added too many things or the daily scan became too boring.

Being on a device is the primary distraction I've been hunting for an offline solution.

Presently I'm using checklist memo boards (cheap plastic things with toggle switches) that are on the walls of different rooms of the house with reminders for that place. So it's in my field of view and I'm reminded in the approximate place I can do something about it. Pieces of paper on surfaces get covered up and forgotten about, but these hang on walls.

Exercise specifically isn't a strong point, but trying to get outside during daylight has been a good motivation for me. Also doing things semi-useful like mundane gardening with an interesting podcast can be really engaging for me as hands and head are both occupied. Useful fidgeting I suppose.

I'm interested in trying an underdesk treadmill, I think that might work for me well.

This seems to work best for me, although I've got a lot of room to grow and improve.
As a 42 year old full-time undergraduate student having recently resurfaced from a deep depression that cost me my job of 11 years (which ended up being for the best, largely,) I can relate to what you're going through.

As so many other people have said, you are probably depressed. It's not your fault, you didn't cause it, you can't just 'stop' being depressed by trying to do things like you aren't depressed, and unless you address your depression, you simply won't be successful addressing anything else.

> I know the best of my life is behind me

I assure you this is false unless you deliberately make it so. Happiness isn't the opposite of depression: vitality is. From depression, the good times seem like a distant relic that you no longer deserve or are capable of. That is the barrier between you and the good times-- not age, or time.

Drugs could help you start turning things around in weeks. Even better combined with either talk therapy to keep you on track, or CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which gives you customized, situation-specific mental tools to change your behavior) if talk therapy/emotional deep dives makes you too uncomfortable. If you'd prefer not to take antidepressants, CBT alone is fantastically effective. (Seriously. Lots of peer-reviewed research.)

> no vices at all other than severe procrastination and a masterful ability to lie to myself.

You might want to ask whoever you're getting treated by if you might have a condition for which depression is a frequent comorbidity, because it sounds like you have trouble with executive functioning. The EF problems associated with ADHD, for example, quite frequently manifest themselves as extreme procrastination.

All of this stuff is eminently treatable, with or without drugs, with or without emotional deep-dives of talk therapy. While professional guidance is essential, what you'll get is a set of tools and strategies to keep the ship right and fix it when it goes wrong (which is allll part of the process. Don't beat yourself up.) I am completely confident you can regain a functional, fulfilling, enjoyable adulthood as I did.
What does 'cricling the drain' means ?

I took some material losses so it probably affected my reflection, but in any case it was a super deep lesson on human nature, and how, even in the 2020s we still operate on fuzzy animal logic (following, gurus, ..).
Cook whole grains like popcorn (2018)
"Are DMT beings AI?"

the whole piece reads like a satire badly written by ChatGPT
Wind Power on Mars Can Power Human Habitats, Scientists Discover
It seems the Mastodon ecosystem has serious problems scaling.

Most of the servers are closed to registrations, and we are just talking about a couple million new users over 2 months. What if 100 mil users want to move?

Are we going to relive the Twitter history, which crashed every time Justin Bieber tweeted?
It's as terrifying as it is wrong. Nobody ever forces you to take meds or being put into an "asylum". ESPECIALLY in Germany. I have no idea where this idea comes from but it is not true at all

Disclaimer: I have two very close friends and one relative who struggled with suicidal thoughts. None of them were put on meds against their will, or put into an "asylum". There was staionary therapy though, sometimes multiple ones, but not against their will
He's put _a lot_ of effort into ripping them.
I've heard they bet on VR for the same reason Microsoft bet on a mobile phone -- they want to own a device ecosystem. It makes a lot more sense to me in that context.
Fine, so the paper protects me for bogus withdrawals during a number of X days, it just doesn't protect me for the additional n.

The PDFs protect me for 0 days because they can claim I've faked them right from the beginning.

I'll take the paper :)
EU complains Meta distorts competition for classified ads
For you, sure.

Historians love old shit. I married one of them. This is just how experts respond to niche topics.
Secret chats are inconsistent across devices, lack features like message preview in notifications, can't unsend messages, entire chat histories are lost, the list goes on.
And here we are in modern times where we do, indeed, let buildings burn.

> No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burn

> Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna39516346
Bro you are are on the right forum. My family has a healthy dose of depression passed down. I can read it in every word you're writing. It's just a chemical reaction, you can defeat it but it will be tough.

Achievement cures depression. Any achievement. Dead time exacerbates depression - i.e. watching TV, playing mindless games, porn, hell even reading sometimes (if it's trash and you're just reading to escape your reality - obviously lots of reading can be good). Quit escaping your life because it's shitty or it will remain shitty.

So try this, set a small goal for yourself, either fitness or professional (i.e. a training course online, Udemy, etc. maybe refresh your BI skills with some modern Big Data type stuff). And just give that 100%. Knock it out, get the certificate, lose 10 pounds. Just one small win. BTW I work in that field a bit - it's gotten so much more fun in the last 10 years than just running Tableau over and over. Cloud services have made analytics just amazing.

Start there. The rest will come as you continue to set small goals and string wins together.

Don't worry about what happened already. Shit happened, now you just adapt and overcome.

Never quit.
"I learned it from you, Dad!"
Things that seem to be clear at this point:

- Musk has at least some level of interest in solving the fundamental problem of how to build and manage a public square, even if the purchase of twitter itself was initially presented as a joke

- despite having a clear, at least quasi-principled interest in the topic, his actual attempts to manage twitter have been juvenile and ham-handed at best and if continued are almost certain to doom the platform both financially and engagement-wise

- his recent activity indicates that he’s not oblivious to this fact - it’s a sinking ship and he openly acknowledges it - but does he view himself as some kind of uniquely-qualified savior?

At this point there are still more questions than answers. Will he actually step down? Who would replace him and what could they possibly hope to achieve at this point? Will the inevitable devaluation of Twitter stock take down Tesla with it? Will the other stakeholders in Tesla acquiesce to a humbled Musk returning to business as usual, or will this taint him forever? Has his behavior irreparably damaged the Tesla brand? Does any of this actually matter?
> They can still share their views and be heard, just not for self-promotion. It might seem like a good idea to tell them this up-front, but keep in mind that most of them do not care about the community, and the ones that do care more about their own self-promotion than HN.

What about false positives? If I post a link to an interesting article somewhere deep inside a discussion and the system flags it as self-promotion, I have no way to react to this if the system goes out of its way not to tell me.
Step 1 of turning your life around is to get off HN, Reddit and 4chan.
He does seem like a sycophant to me, his interviewing personality grates on my nerves for several reasons and this is one of them. But I'm about 90% sure he's not been trying to make Putin look cool. At least, not in the thumbnails.
Another bit of recommended reading is The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.

I had read Frankl years prior, and while he helped me thoroughly understand the concept of meaning and the immense value of it, he didn't help me find it when I needed it. All of his suggested paths felt a bit wishful or self-deceptive. Absurdism was the only conversation that felt like it was grappling with the problem directly and unadorned.
ING Closes Some Amsterdam Offices on Fridays to Save Energy
Yeah, I was talking about this with some folks earlier: Who out there could meaningfully change the narrative and attract users back?

One person suggested Matt Mullenweg which is about the best answer any of us could think of.
Not really, I had many long term relationships, and shorter ones in between. I wasn't a super popular man, but attractive enough that I could always find partners with reasonable efforts.

But in any case, I think it's not that different as wanting a wife and kids. You need to be able to seduce someone, whether it's for a casual relationship, or for marriage. It's start with physical attraction either way. I don't think mentioning "I want to get married and have kids" will give you a free pass which is ironic considering many women complain men only want casual relationships.

Modern dating where people meet online makes it harder too. A gay friend of mine who is 60 years old says that back in the day, he would meet guys in saunas or bars, and older guy would have a chance. But online, nobody want to meet a 60 years old guy.
And how do you determine that dependency structure easily? What tooling helps with this?
Is it really worth anyone's time revisiting the security clearance of someone who died 60 years ago?

Perhaps we should see if every citizen in New York paid the correct taxes in the 18th century too...? And then we can name and shame anyone who was a tax dodger... Or maybe we correlate DNA records with birth and death records so we can make a list of all the illigitimate children of the 1700's?
shouldn't this be either "How did dinosaurs sound?", "What did dinosaurs sound like?", or perhaps the original title, "The mysterious song of the dinosaurs"?
> You have to make an effort and weed through dozens of weird dates before you meet someone.

> I had resigned myself to enjoying life, was at a computer festival and suddenly there she was.

What you recommend seems to be the opposite of what worked for you.
Thanks for sharing that for the OP. The narratives we create in our minds to explain the world can be a huge source of suffering and act as giant barriers to any improvements we can make. “It’s too late because of X.” “The best years are behind me since I reached 40.” etc. I know this from experience in battling my own demons. Therapy can be a huge help here if OP can find the right therapist.
I love Clojure and also Common Lisp (basically, Lisp in general). But I also observed every single corporate Clojure project I had any connection with to fail spectacularly. Typically as a complete unmaintainable mess. Some as unmaintainable mess that is very slow and unreliable.

My theory is that this is result of no guardrails on how to structure your application. Clojure to be productive must be used by people who absolutely know what they are doing when it comes to structuring your app.

When it comes to Java you get hordes of devs still producing passable results. The structure is largely imposed by the frameworks (mostly by Spring/Spring Boot) and available help, literature. Even some antipatterns at the very least achieve some level of convention/predictability that is needed to be able to find your bearing around the codebase.

I would say, if you have a normal-ish project, care about productivity but don't have really stellar and mature developers -- skip Clojure.

Choose Clojure if you know how to use all that additional power, have need for it and understand what your added responsibilities are.

If you don't know how to wield Clojure's power there is very little you can gain by choosing it but a lot to loose.
Not the original poster, but regarding the last sentence, a psychiatrist is a medical doctor who can prescribe medication.

A medical doctor can evaluate the OP much better than we can, and determine if medication may be able to help, in addition to changing thinking patterns.
I encountered something similar to this last month. I was visiting Canada from Spain, and got an esim from https://www.airalo.com/. Due to what I guess is airalo obtaining transit from the cheapest provider, the data connection ended up being bounced through Czechia.

This meant that my android phone was a bit confused at times. When on mobile data the weather widget would default to showing me weather for random Czech cities, and search results would be Czech-localised. When on wifi connections, results were in English and Canada-localised, unless I bounced through a VPN exit node at home.

After 3-4 days, ads on Youtube started becoming Canada or Czechia-localised depending on if I was watching it via wifi or mobile data. It seems that google eventually decided that I was in Canada, continuing to play me Canadian ads even when I got home to Spain, on both wifi and mobile data. What was even stranger is that my partner started getting Canadian ads on youtube on her ipad too, which doesn't have any details about my google account (other than us living on the same internet connection). It took about 2 weeks for google to start playing us Spanish ads again.
Sugru parent company bought by Tesa
In any other western country and most of Europe, American Democrats would be considered insane right wing extremists. They don't even support having a healthcare system or banning guns.
The World's Countries Compared by 20 Key Metrics
Great works! Seeing the demo in the front page really makes me think of the cloud architecture as a whole may just be an operating system out of itself.

Heck, I once even thought of comparing microservices to microkernel in OS design and that might actually some make sense over time and time again.
I am not saying it won't. But the expectation is it should not have on hn unless it's at least IT or hacker culture related.
I'm not super familiar with the details of the case, but I'm familiar with Fortnite since I play it with my son. We frequently find voice chat being turned back on at startup, despite us turning it off. Maybe that's what they are referring to, somewhat sloppily?
Lucky you it started until 40s, also I don't think you're old to accomplish your desires. Look for professional help and do actively something to change what you want in your life.
This is a great point. He has a Masters in Engineering from a US university and several years of experience in implementing "BI Reporting/Analytics", finding a decent job really shouldn't be that difficult. He is going to have to come up with a good explanation for the "what have you been doing for the last 10-15 years?" question since "caring for his ill father" seems to only cover the first year of his absence from the workforce.
Or you can use multiple ordinary hydro power dams (i.e. ordinary lakes where one or more outlets are blocked).

I'm fairly certain we have these multi level semi natural systems here in Norway, but I am not sure if we use them for pumped hydro.

(Og course, if one doesn't care about ecology, one of those levels can be the sea.)