skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so sorry to hear you're feeling this way. I was struggling with suicidal ideation over pandemic, and it was a really scary.

As someone who just came out of depression (brought on by some family deaths, stagnation, and pandemic), my only recommendation is this: Change something. My experience is that stasis is the enemy, rather than any one outcome being the enemy. To be more concrete, I've been told to fear homelessness or debt or solitude, but when I've changed things up without regard for these taboos, it's been surprisingly positive. Some of the happiest and most hopeful (and most physically healthy) times in my life have been while unemployed, while homeless, while living away from my established social safety net or possessionless... and at least for me, the levity and creativity of that mental space has always brought me closer to both strangers and friends (both those with families and those without). In my experience, there's a gravity to doing unexpected things, that causes humans to fall toward you.

I've found the doing an odd thing gives you an immediate something to share, and the curiosity of ppl about the odd things you're doing (and learning about) can help bolster self-esteem. It's a wonderful upward spiral.

I know not everyone is the same. (I am admittedly mostly an extrovert at heart.) But I just wanted to share, just in case. I'm just short of turning 40, and a recent change in cities -- first to visit a friend and stay on their couch, and then to move -- has rejuvenated me.

Also, please don't discount the fact that different cultures are navigating COVID VERY differently. It may be that your local culture is not suiting you. Some people choose to fight the local culture as a means of self-preservation, but if you are troubled enough to be contemplating suicide, then pls seriously consider sampling other cultures. Even if you feel stress about "leaving", pls know that this smaller departure is far better than the larger one that nags you (for both everyone who cares about you now and also those who will eventually care about you) <3
Yeah Pulumi makes a lot more sense than terraform and I find myself wildly more productive in it
I suspect you would find services limited in the middle of the Arabian desert as well.

The United States is enormous and many parts of it are incredibly sparsely populated. For example, Niobrara County in Wyoming has a population of 2,467 and an area of 6,810 km^2, or a population density of 0.36/km^2.

For comparison, the Northern Borders province, the least dense province in Saudi Arabia, has as population density of 3.4/km^2, almost ten times more people per square kilometer.

People outside of the US really have no idea how empty much of the country is. I think there's an assumption that just because much of the land is livable (i.e. not desert, bare rock, etc.), it must occupied. But that's simply not the case here.
"The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

If anyone can recommended some other "beginner" books for learning genetics I would really appreciate it.
It wouldn't be in apt's log, it would be in the unattended-upgrades log. And I can say that when I removed Firefox from its config, it stopped happening to me.
not worth it for me; personally if i want to screenshot something i will, your app won't stop it, as you noted with the inability to block me from taking a picture from another phone. i'm not downloading to confirm if it works, i just would say blocking normal behavior isn't ideal and just adds frustration to users who have a legitimate need to screenshot something; it's like when forms decide to prevent copy and paste, no help.
Here would be my guess:

* GPU programming (GPUs have consistently kept up with Moore-like laws)

* FPGA/ASIC design (hard but price for all of these is dropping rapidly, so becoming more accessible)

* Bitcoin/cryptocurrency related tech, including standing up your own miner, full node, or understanding how to build applications on top of it (web3/etc.) (despite the hate, cryptocurrencies are still around and thriving)

* Solar and battery related tech (solar prices continue to drop, as does battery technology. Consumers ROI on solar installations are approaching 2-5 years instead of 10+).

Understanding "fundamentals", either in terms of computer science education or mathematics, I think is also critical but I don't really know what fundamental math should be focused on, in the short term. It's easy to say "neural networks" but proficiency in that area is mostly about learning frameworks (as a snapshot of right now) and little to do with some underlying theoretical understanding.

In terms of specific languages or frameworks, just a word of warning. What language/frameworks that were popular 10 years ago are still relevant today? Many people gain utility both from using and from being paid to manage frameworks (and to a certain extent languages) but they tend to be ephemeral.

One piece of advice that I think was pretty good was to avoid the "stampeding hoards". One can "win" at the game of being the best at what's fashionable now but the greater utility is in understanding more fundamental skills with the added benefit of, should a skill become fashionable later, being well versed in it when it does.
I grew up in a poor, rural area of the US and can attest that it's true... if you didn't pay the fee (and affix the requisite metal sign below your mailbox) you were on your own in the event of a fire.

At that time and place, fire protection wasn't considered a public service unless you lived in town. I never heard anyone question the arrangement and there was little appetite in that era for the tax increase that would've been required to provide universal protection.
This approach is not simple.
It complects a business process state with multi-methods.
Don't do it.

Model state where it belongs: in a database.
Three Body Problem trilogy. Most unique sci-fi I have ever read.
Sales I guess? Best way to learn that
No, Windows 11 is not compelling. MS is trying to be a worse apple, and doing a great job at it.
To survive the climate change. Depending on your location you should master swimming or surviving extrem heat.
The Rome thing may or may not be true.

It’s quite possible it is true, but we are a long way from any direct evidence that it was generally the case.
Dissenting opinion is not always welcomed, even if it is best?
True. I think they're counting duplicated code though. I don't see any mention of de-duplication in their paper.
This is a nice thought, but reality is always different.

A really popular person might have many millions of followers on tens or hundreds of thousands of nodes.

That person then boosts a post from another server and they have effectively DDOSed that server. All the other nodes will start querying that server about that post or image.

You can say that a single user should not have that many followers, however the root of the issue is that mastodon will have some scaling issues.
Thread: <https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604748747640119296.html>
We probably have better financial structures in 2022 than that, like insurance (or taxes that fund professional firefighting, like NYC).

Besides: it isn't clear we should incentivize untrained professionals to run into burning buildings. Ships are somewhat unique in that the people who are saving you are also sailors, and are presumably at least minimally qualified to help another ship in distress.
I agree this is an important place to start, but it might not be feasible given the situation they're starting from now.

It might make sense to take "under-" employment with a company that offers good health benefits, which would at least provide income and insurance to buffer the cost of therapy. It might be helpful to think of it as a "launchpad" or "staging" job. It can also be an opportunity to exercise the muscle of befriending new people (coworkers, regular customers).

In the US, Starbucks and Trader Joe's are popular launchpad choices of employer, at least in my metro area. There might be similar ones in your current home country, if it makes more logistical sense to stay local.
At some point a few years ago I learned a lot from Maximilian Schwartzmuller on Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/user/maximilian-schwarzmuller/).

Edit: I think I watched both the Angular course (after having used Angular for a while) and the React with TypeScript course (at the time I transitioned to React).

And with Udemy for the last few years, one can always just wait a few days and get the course at 90% off.
And who is supposed to do all of that? Without a central organisation doing resource planning, scaling, and paying for all of that, this is never going to run smoothly. 99.99% of users have no interest in running their own instance. Even groups or organisation will eventually get to the point where running and scaling their instance becomes a full-time job. But without any way of monetising that work, or finding sponsors, there is not much incentive to do that.
> This does not interrupt your browsing in any way.

That's not been my experience. I don't know what system you're using, but with Firefox on Ubuntu, I discover that Mozilla has put out another (goddamn) update (again, already, goddamnit!) when all my tabs suddenly crash, forcing me to restart the browser.
> This concept might even be apocryphal to an extent.

I've been to a pub in rural Cambridgeshire that had this on the menu. I made them laugh by asking what was in it and was it vegetarian.

I don't know if they were legally allowed to have it, but they did have it.
You're right Terraform is not cloud-agnostic in terms of resources, but I'd argue you wouldn't really want a truly cloud-agnostic configurator at the resource level as it would be far too leaky an abstraction to have any reliable value. On the other hand, in terms of a cloud configuration system as a whole, Terraform's state management and sequencing resolution is provider agnostic, which I think makes it a much better investment than any cloud-specific orchestration system.
Does anyone know what the conversion mechanism from the laser to x-rays is? Is that just because the lasers heat up the inside of the hohlraum, and the x-rays are just the black-body radiation from that?
Yeah, I can see that. Not disagreeing really.

I found ClojureScript worth it a few years ago. I’ve written two frontend apps (desktop-style interactive single-page applications meant for longer sessions) of reasonable size in ClojureScript. There’s a lot of non-glue code there (in fact mostly non-glue code, given the interactivity and statefulness of the applications).

Very little language and library churn has made maintaining them very straightforward really, and I won’t be rewriting them any time soon. Being able to use DataScript nearly made the choice worth it on it’s own!

The reason I’m mostly using TypeScript these days (for new things & backend code) is that it’s just too helpful for typing the data structures and reducing the "how many things do I have to keep in my head" burden. My TypeScript (like my ClojureScript) is mostly just functions and data structures (avoiding classes, inheritance, etc), and I avoid using any of the more complicated TypeScript features as much as possible.

It’s kind of heretical, but if Clojure had a well-adopted gradual structural type system (essentially what TypeScript has done for JavaScript) then I would find it hard to not pick Clojure for most things.
GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD?
I usually see it as RICE - rest, ice, compression, elevation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RICE_(medicine)
Presumably they would save it by extinguishing the fire then if you can't pay the cost of the service they take the property or place a lien on it.
Here's a few:

* Matthew Klein & Michael Pettis - Trade Wars Are Class Wars

* Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern

* Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (had never read it before, probably book of the year for me)

and of course, Matt Levine's Money Stuff, which is good every year!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/chronically-ill-man-releases-a...

> An Ontario man suffering from an incurable neurological disease has provided CTV News with audio recordings that he says are proof that hospital staff offered him medically assisted death, despite his repeated requests to live at home.

> Roger Foley, 42, who earlier this year launched a landmark lawsuit against a London hospital, several health agencies, the Ontario government and the federal government, alleges that health officials will not provide him with an assisted home care team of his choosing, instead offering, among other things, medically assisted death.
Open Ai and similar
how do they manage to avoid that in the article? they list at least three different restaurants that serve these long-running soups, surely they don't poison their customers?
The rule in question for the chimps applies to the whole population, not the exceptions that mostly make sense.
Who says unpaid? Make your friends buy you dinner or throw some cash your way.

One of the benefits of the fediverse is that you can experiment with new payment models.
This reminds me of when I learned there was no such thing as "The Children's Crusade".

As my history professor put it, "going to the Holy Land was an incredibly expensive endeavour reserved for a very few. There's no way anyone was going to waste it on young, inexperienced children".

Nearly every source we had saying that the crusade involved children came much later, after a few writers referred to the same source with a mistranslation (think reading "me and the boys" as referring to actual children).

But people spent 500 years discussing the horrors of the children's crusade without ever really questioning if it happened.
I subscribe to Asimov's bi-monthly (6/year) sci-fi short story magazine and there's always one or two stories that really stand out every issue. It's always a treat when a new one turns up in the mailbox. https://www.asimovs.com/
Of course, syndication also provided cheap airtime on TV channels for all the people who turned on the TV as background or who wanted to mindlessly channel surf. There's no reason to assume that will always be a common behavior and, even if it is, it seems more common on YouTube etc. than streaming television.

One also wonders about the value of the film back catalogs some services are acquiring. My sense is certainly that a lot of movie watching at home has shifted to TV and other things.
> I see it as analogous to how higher-level languages abstracts machine code. When it was a newer technology, people absolutely needed to debug and analyze the "magic" but as the space has matured that's becoming less and less common.

The fundamental difference is that you can keep analyzing a program in isolation as much as you like. Infrastructure is a living organism - if you shoot it in the head, you can't copy-paste an old working version over it; you have an outage.

> until maybe an AI can

Why is the solution to every problem always more layers, and never less? We understand running production infrastructure far better than we understand AI.

It's not that I don't appreciate ML/AI - it's fairly impressive what it can do, given you keep nudging it in the right direction - but I would never delegate unsupervised authority to it.
Have you ever followed politics on Long Island?
As I posted above, German public insurance is required to cover therapy if your GP prescribes it. So you can get private therapy covered if public therapists are too busy to take you.

The process is roughly like this:

* GP prescribes therapy.

* You call seven public therapists who are busy and note their information and when you called. There's a specific form for this.

* You find a private therapist that satisfies certain conditions (e.g. degree granted in Germany) that is a good fit for you, and your public insurance is obligated to pay for your care.

Here's a long guide on it:

https://www.bptk.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019-09_bptk_...
the guy who can’t pay the insurance fee isn’t usually going to be able to pay the full price of the services
Funny, I always took it to the inverse - the ones naturally good at math loved these kinds of exercises (and got even better as a result) and the other kids hated the exercises since they took forever, were difficult, and they couldn’t understand why it mattered they became good at them. Making it more relevant is helpful to both groups but more so the ones that didn’t already have a reason to be interested no? Either way as long as you can convince them practice is a good thing you’re golden.
It isn't right, but also... in the US, parties are institutionally weak. People do not (cannot) vote for parties, but for individual representatives. Ergo, different Democrats (or Republicans) run on issues perceived to have saliency locally. From such a collection of elected individuals, it is much more difficult to craft a "party" position -- because in some districts, supporting healthcare/gun control/whatever is not a winner.

Increasing partisanship and gerrymandering are making this less true, but it is still a significant force, particularly for Senate seats.

Strong parties, that run on a policy platform and where they have much more control over their members, just isn't a thing in the US, and couldn't be, without a lot of constitutional changes.
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.
I'm 28. And my life is pretty good. Always has been, for the most part. So take this with a grain of salt.

I would stop making threads like this. You're better off reading books. Some books stay relevant for centuries. Internet comments stay relevant for days. You have no idea who any of these people are, or if their advice is good or bad. I saw a few comments [1] [2] by people who seem to have some sort of self-awareness, but they are in the minority, most people in this thread are as clueless as you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34053261
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34052827
> and it still doesn't support opengl3.3

?? It supports Vulkan which is far newer...
Also, Alan Kay has been speaking and writing on it recently, as in https://internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf.
Pretty much in the same position. It sucks. I met a few therapists and they flat out turned me away and said I couldn't help me. Took 9 months to find a therapist and I have to say it's been a waste. No real change. No substantive advice that I can tell and no changes really, which is not really the therapists fault it's just the situation which can't really be changed. The notion that I have to just reframe the problems so that I feel better about them is not really a plan of action on how to resolve the issue/depression. The situations still exists, and from what I am reading this is pretty wide spread and only going to get worse in the US with the aging population and economy.
I think there would be a lot of value in having an imperativ, very high level language for cloud workflows that abstracts the underlying implementation or even cloud provider away. Think something like "when authenicated user uploads file of type image: resize to width 800px and store in bucket user-images". Given the lack of specific references to S3, IAM or other concrete services, this could then be executed by different cloud providers.
Your experience matches mine. Quite frustrating.
Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip
"Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome." —Charlie Munger
Instagram pictures don’t influence drink choices
Labor theory posits that the capital value of an item is the sum of all labor to produce that item.

That is wrong. See many goods sold above or below direct labor costs, eg silk.
I think you can go far quite cheaply. Get your code working on smaller/toy models, and then when you want to test it on larger ones you can ship it over to a machine at one of the cheaper providers (vast.ai/jarvislabs etc) to give it a run before pausing/killing the machine.

I've been porting Stable Diffusion (which isn't a small model) over to Elixir and as part of doing that have been starting/stopping my jarvislabs machine when I start/stop building. I've been spending about $1/day without trying to be efficient.

Also, fast.ai is a great resource for learning ML, I highly recommend it.
Total cost of running the department for a year, divided by the number of callouts. Possibly weight the callout types depending on approximate resources consumed.

Though I am fully in support of just letting the house burn.
We have a ~$200 fee for trash pickup in our municipality. You get the bill every year.

If you don't pay it, a 10% penalty is added. The next step, a lien is placed on the property.

They never stop picking up the trash, though. The next purchaser of your property has to pay the existing trash bill!

This same council raised water rates so they could reduce the penalties for late water bill payments.
Yeah Pulumi is a much better idea than this, it’s already production ready and you can use industry standard languages
Had never heard of this RFC and think it might be useful. Is there an example to try with the C3?
IANAL, but my understanding is that Diversity Training exists to reduce the company's costs due to discrimination lawsuits, and to make the company look caring and inclusive. Actually working has never been a metric of interest (to management).
> Mastodon instances do not have "terms of service" they have "rules". The "rules" are unilateral in that they bind the user and not the service provider.

Of course they do. If the instance administrators do not abide by the rules they set, every user has the possibility to jump ship to an instance whose team actually does its job properly. This is undoable on Twitter, which makes me doubt that the overly general statement of

> The entire model is strictly worse for the user than Twitter was.

holds any actual merit.
We could even call it something else! Like, uh, cash!
Betting on things that never change (2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29289541 (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33692661 (2022)
I think this comes down to market economics more than product design. Many manufacturers have been production limited by cell supply for a long time. You _could_ make cars with extra large battery packs for those who live in exceptionally cold climates, but it's a limited market, and you'd be taking away cells from shorter range models. E.g. you're likely to make more money selling 5 cars with a 60kwh pack than 3 cars with a 100kwh pack.
Fractint is new to me (cool! this would be fun to build in javascript...) but I was thinking of the same story.

Fractint Mandelbrot Generator V17.3 - https://archive.org/details/MEDLEY_SE230215

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
I'm 46, just recently got my self out of homelessness and addiction. Been clean and sober since June.

I've been studying programming/webDev for the past year (since my last release from prison) with the hope of making something of myself other than being a 46 yr old ex heroin addict, ex con, etc. Looks dim for me, oh well.

I'm in a similar situation as you (regarding depression. Esp. concerning certain thoughts of cashing it all in).

I just watched a movie the other night called Stutz, a documentary by Jonah Hill about his therapist. If you can get past the parts about Jonah talking about himself, the Dr has some really excellent gems of wisdom and advice in that film.

Keep your head up bro
Where, Why and When to Bank Offshore
Imagine thinking that mandatory stabilizing emergency care means "universal healthcare"

I hope that was a joke
Some people who do need a legal document for travel favor getting a passport? But that doesn't mean everyone has a state ID.
"Einstein's Fridge" was great to learn about the history and development of thermodynamics at a fairly high level.

"Good Inside" on becoming a better parent was also great and taught me a lot.

"Every Tool's a Hammer" on becoming a better maker.

"Crafting Interpreters" on learning about and building compilers.

All were really great reads.