skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of imagining that it works like a number line and then observing that you can use induction, you could measure outcomes: suicide, suicidal ideation, quality of life, etc.

That puts a pretty reasonable lower bound on what is or isn't depressed. It is absolutely an altered state of mind, and an information processing disorder.

For anyone who might feel like "it's ok to be depressed", this is not a normal thought, and there is no normal amount of suicidal ideation. Seek professional help or strong social support; just ask for help anywhere it might exist (go to an emergency room and just have a seat if you must). If you aren't depressed, these thoughts literally don't happen, as strange as that may sound if you are in the thick of it.
> Focus on what interests you and build.

I did this for some years and now I’m having the worst job hunt I’ve ever had to deal with. I’m not totally out of the loop as far as the hype goes, I’m on HN too much for that, but I wasted the past couple years learning “interesting” things instead of whatever the trend for languages/frameworks/tools were.
I'm not sure I'd have the same take. Yes, R as a language is kind of wonky and people who use R tend to not be good programmers. However, the APIs of some packages are designed well enough that even with all of those barriers it can still be easy to use for many scientists. I wouldn't copy the language, 6 different object systems and non-standard evaluation is weird. But there is a lot to learn from the APIs of the tidyverse and how it has somehow been able to cover for all of those shortcomings. It would be great to see those aspects with the data science libraries of the Julia language.
That story stunned me when I first read it, because it was so far ahead of its time. It reads like something out of Warhammer 40k, but it was written in 1950.
No, because the lesson is that the boy shouldn't have lied. It's not "the village should have believed him again".
How does the “economy” measure the billions of hours that are no longer wasted in commuting? The $millions not wasted on gas? The decrease in pollution? The increased quality of life of millions of remote workers who spend the extra hours working out, doing yoga, preparing healthy meals or spending a bit more time with family?

Or, you know, working a bit longer for their employer?

If landlords’ profit is the only measure then yes, this is a difficult time for commercial landlords who refuse to adapt in any way.
This sounds awesome as an idea. I however am wary about how many management layers of companies will actually understand this and not chase the newest feature instead. They might tell their developers "make it work" and afterwards not allot any time to "make it clean". Hopefully you are right and a few will distinguish themselves by actually caring about the code.
we kinda did in the beginning with Nokia, Blackberry, Palm, Microsoft with maybe Nokia and Palm having the most potential. Sadly those companies got complacent and the devs didnt want to support multiple platforms and we are here today with 2 platforms.
I can't fathom why all UX designers use iPhone. Half the features are hidden away and people don't know about them. There's like 11 different ways of pressing the home button or so to do different things depending on context.

And then they all go and do the same craziness where they work. For instance one can feel that the UX people at Microsoft aren't using Windows as their daily driver. If they did, they would for instance not have wrecked the task bar in W11.
I’ve been buying the Mini line for my partner, and they’re remarkably good. Very small and light, but otherwise new top-line hardware. They’re not going to make more, it seems, since they don’t sell well.
New site to daily read, thanks!
A small number of consumer keyboards, and lots of DIY designs, some with prebuilt offerings, can run QMK or other open source firmware.
That is horrible indeed but I guess it is unavoidably so - you can't effectively have n-level nested if-else and lookups on a paper without making it complicated. Translated into code, it should become much simpler with progressive inputs/filtering.
Many media do this these days, it's become an industry standard.

And to be fair I do get the point why they are doing that, good journalism has to be financed somehow lest you end up with a situation like in Austria where corruption scandals involving government-paid ads wrecking the entire political establishment and media elites of the country [1].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96VP-Korruptionsaff%C3%A4r...
Maybe it's because overall level of focus on career has diminished? People aren't achievers now as much as they used to be, most live relaxed lifestyles. No one is gonna rip their ass for a small salary increase, and a big increase is unlikely because advances in HR made market rather flat, everyone has a more or less deterministic value.

It's a good thing. Work is not everything. I actually never knew a person who moved because of work - yes sometimes they looked for work in a new place because they wanted to move to that particular place - because of their partner, climate, politics/security, just to fulfil their dream - but the whole thing of "being offered a good job 2000 miles away so have move there" is entirely foreign to me. Never knew a single person who did that. Just because why?
Forests in the US especially on the west coast evolved alongside fire, and burning is how many species propagate in these ecosystems.
> So a century, at least.

The idea of automated mechanization goes much, much further back, at least as far as Proto-Indo-European language (ca. 4500 - 4000 BC), predating even the Greek story of Talos. See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1n%CC%A5g%CA%B7nis

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talos

I researched this for a scene in my novel. (Alpha readers wanted, see profile for details.)

If you trace the etymology of Hephaestus, the creator of Talos, you eventually end up at h1n̥gʷnis, if I recall correctly.
From https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-holmes...: At one point, I tell her that I heard Jennifer Lawrence had pulled out of portraying her in a movie. She replied, almost reflectively, “They’re not playing me. They’re playing a character I created.”

Holmes is a textbook psychopath, i.e. "deficient emotional responses, lack of empathy, and poor behavioral controls, commonly resulting in persistent antisocial deviance and criminal behavior" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321752/
And now the GMail storage limit for free users is 15 GB, 15x what it launched with. I think it's rather naïve to expect that any free service will give you unlimited space or unlimited time. A 2-year inactivity period sounds reasonable to me. Literally all you need to do is log in once in 2 years to not have your account deleted. I often disagree with Google's handling of things, but this isn't one such instance.

And set up Google Inactive Account Manager* so that in case you unexpectedly pass away, somebody you trust gets access to your account after a set period. I've set mine to 3 months because I'm online so much, but you may find 6 or 12 months to work better for you.

* https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en
I would propose the following analogy as an answer:

1 - Person A has the flu

2 - Person B does not have the flu

3 - Person A treats the flu with rest, fluids and antiviral medications

If person B also rested, drank fluids and took antiviral medications, they would not become an unusually healthy person. Person B would not become the new normal.

What you're proposing is that it's OK to be sick. We treat every other form of illness with aggressive treatments. Depression is often ignored, poorly treated or treatment is inaccessible to many people due to cost.
If they protest they'll probably get plenty of "supporters" from the community, knowing human nature.
Uh oh - the Obama's messed up building that mansion on an island at sea level!
Size of Jurassic sea giant found, study says – CNN
I still don't see how my comment specifically relating to reductions in the birth rate in the US (a rich country) perhaps becoming a trend for all humans is remotely similar to sterilizing poor people in different countries.
> "Siri is unfathomably bad."

I disagree with most of what you wrote, but this we can agree on!

> "I'm not going to switch back for only one reason: iMessage"

Weird. Here in the UK there is no iMessage network effect whatsoever because everyone uses WhatsApp for everything. Nobody ever sends me an iMessage unless they're American, or their my Mum who I suspect just hits the wrong app icon sometimes...

Yet this doesn't stop a lot, probably a significant majority of people I know, from buying iPhones.
I came across this app recently. It's cross platform which is nice.

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/breaktimer-app
This is wild to me. I don't think I've ever worn out any mouse button nor had the same happen to my kids (who play a LOT of fast twitch/heavy clicking games). I use an M720 on my desk setup as does my wife. I think mine is over 5 years old and I know hers is over 3 years old. I had a 5+ year old M705 that the M720 replaced (for convenience of multiple computer control, not because of a failure).
You're right, I forgot about that use case.
Let me know when you have a goat that will eat thousands of pounds of fallen trees.

No offense, but it's fairly clear you have never stepped in the forests that this is a problem. It's not yearly grass. It's 50 years of buildup. You make a 12ft high and 30ft wide pile of this stuff then please tell me about goats.

From experience, had a bone fire that lasted three days before it was out.... Goats...

Along the same lines, you have an excellent wolf feeding solution, now to find the problem it solves!
Can you explain better the difference? I am trying to figure this out myself for a while...
Well I wouldn't go that far to call it disgusting, since the vast majority of human actions probably result in unintended, mostly negative, consequences.
At the moment, I am very seriously considering switching to not having a smartphone at all. I'm not happy with any of the options.
>"RMS being a bozo isn’t a crime and internet outrage about it has no effect on real crimes."

Not sure what this has to do with what I posted...
https://archive.ph/pzm9A
A big challenge: Enabling separation of concerns (UI/logic) for beginners
I'm seeing it's a common theme, especially in the Python community, to implement tightly coupled UIs and business logic. It's done in the name of convenience, but inevitably backfires once you go past trivial applications.

I've lived the whole evolution of web-based applications, back when CSS didn't exist and PHP was something added to HTML to make it "dynamic". I'm glad web development has evolved; I think everyone is. But why do we have to go back to it, repackage it as something cool and make the same mistakes?

I understand it's appealing to those whose title isn't "software engineer", because MVC can be a pain. Should it be though?

I'm working in this space, building a state-driven half no-code/half Python framework , but rather than driving more attention to it I'd like to discuss the premise.

Is this a battle worth fighting? Or am I making a big deal out of something no one cares about?
I looked at the attributes they say the dataset has.
Not too many (e.g. number of people, location).
The really interesting ones, like who is doing business with whom, are missing.
> None died within the 1-year warranty period, though.

Does the receipt track the serial number?
Even low-tax countries like Singapore make it ridiculously easy to pay them.
no it doesn't. See the other replies.
> but it needs to be done in such a way that it doesn’t fuck over existing property owners

This is impossible. The current system is such an extreme and unsustainable transfer of wealth towards property owners that there's no way to create a sustainable (let alone equitable) system that doesn't involve current property owners giving something up.
Unless it’s eucalypts, then they’ll eventually get it don’t you worry.
Used to be that you went to the store, stopped at the counter, and asked the clerk to fetch items for you, some still work this way (like bakeries).

Yet nobody complains about the shift to having to walk around to fetch and carry their own groceries.

It’s just a cultural shift.
The only federal regulation I saw referenced in the article were clean air regulations. Otherwise, it appears states and their residents are imposing additional barriers. And public opinion is a local issue of course as well. I don't know if it's really possible to change public ignorance, particularly if the strong opinions are political, so this might be a case where it makes sense for the federal government to step in. We can't just let CO decide to burn themselves to the ground without that decision putting other states at risk.

Controlled burns happen regularly in NC on state and federal land.
One of the big problems is that controlled burns can and do become uncontrolled burns. The largest ever wildfire in New Mexico was started as a planned burn (more honest label) just last year. [1]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/05/2...
Spot on.

> Even when you understand it's wrong, or at least heavily negatively biased, fighting those interpretations feels like trying to swim upstream in a terrific current.

Achieving it still feels like the end of "A beautiful mind", where there are people hanging out in the room that are not there. They sound like they are they, they feel like they are, they smell familiar. But they are not real and will disappear some wonderful day, as they always do. So you just nod to them and go on with your live.
A likely volcano-covered terrestrial world outside the Solar System
I'd like to see someone do something similar with international airport, some of those are pretty small but the vast majority are "big".
I personally know about 3 projects to use GPT LLMs instead of real people for Onlyfans and various dating sites. Can only guess how many people are working on this right now.
a quick search might find that there are (asus) mice with socketed switches
Enter LLMs to help automate all this even further.
How do you propose people should be punished when they commit billion-dollar frauds and lie about the medical benefits of their fictitious products?
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> Example: it takes me far longer to highlight or otherwise manipulate text than it would on Android or a computer. No, it's not a familiarity issue.

Ugh, I'm with you on that one. When I switched to iOS two years ago, I was astonished by how hard it was to select text, or even just move the cursor while you're typing.

Related: the swipe keyboard on iOS is so much worse than Android. It Tries to be Helpful by Capitalizing random Words, then when you backspace to remove those words, you realize it has introduced some secret markup into the text, so that the word you replace it with is also capitalized. Gets me every time.

I was happy with my Android phone, but at the time when I needed to get a new one, Apple was doubling down on (its marketing message about) privacy, and I naively bought into it. Shortly afterwards, they announced your phone would be scanning every image and reporting back to Apple.
With respect to the west coast of the united states this is an absurd proposal.
FWIW most of those UX designers work for product managers who dictate what they do. Microsoft fucked up their taskbar _institutionally_, not as as result of a couple rogue UX designers.

I agree with you about the opacity of gestures in iOS. I don’t like it. I’m used to it, and find many of them to be handy shortcuts, but the lack of discoverability for new users is not good.
> This implies some sort of malicious intent on the part of the Go maintainers

It doesn't really, not necessarily anyway.

Think of all the awful terrible laws that get introduced "for the children". While in politics there are certainly a lot more malicious actors than in development, there are certainly many people who truly believe they are doing good "for the children" and they simply don't stop and think what are the drawbacks of their proposals.

I think it's just human nature to look for solutions to improve things which they are involved in (which is great) without (often) giving enough weight to how it harms other people (which is not good). That's why it's important to push back against these things, whether in software or in law.
I will be the one overweighted in the report because I keep typing go mod init and go work init...

I don't know I never actually remember the commands. :o)
Really terrible! It's hard enough to trust people as it is.

The workers here are approaching the qualia of ChatGPT's experience, instantiated in a role for a brief moment.

Also something something atomization of society.
You ask them to leave, they do not... Unless the "security" recorded and streamed everything into cloud, very difficult to prove.
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Weed is chemically addictive. Your endocannabinoid system is downregulated for weeks after heavy use. You get withdrawal symptoms which are alleviated by use.

I've never seen the phrase "chemically addictive" used by someone who knew what they were talking about. It's only used by people who don't understand that neurotransmitters are chemicals too. Stop spreading this BS distinction.
Time to retrofit into housing!

Those who built smarter buildings that are easier to convert will come out on top. Those who didn't... maybe they should have put their money in VC instead of rental properties!
I've got two Logitech G500s mice, and the buttons broke on them too.

What I did was sourced some replacement Omron switches that have a "made in Japan" stamp on them, vs the ones that were in the mouse labeled "made in China".

It seems that the switches made in Japan are higher quality/have better QA.
Razer market themselves as performance peripherals for gamers, not super reliable mice for home or office users' piece-of-mind. Competitive gamers probably aren't too worried about replacing their mice every year or something.
I would be careful to draw that conclusion. Not all information LLMs are trained on is accessible to the wide public (e.g. ChatGPT has training data from closed sources).

Regardless, If you share the details of your prompt, I’d be interested to see whether my Google-fu turns up information.
I hate this idea that signals can move the "wrong" way.

There have been few days in my adult life that I wouldn't have preferred to not be here. Depression sucks. Yet, I don't think people are right when they tell me I'm wrong to be depressed.

I hear that some people feel their depression shouldn't be there and that they should feel happy, and in those cases I think this sounds like it could be an excellent solution, but in my case (and I think others too) I could give you very well reasoned arguments for why I would prefer to not to be here and why I feel a sense of sadness as my default state. At least in my case I believe arguments for optimism are more wrong than my depression.

Interestingly, my girlfriend is the total opposite to me. She's the happiest person ever met and I often wonder why she isn't also considered to be suffering from some kind of mental defect – I guess in her case the signals must be moving the "right" way because obviously the "right" way to feel is happy 24/7 and prolonged sadness is "wrong".

I guess I always kinda liked the idea that any advanced intelligence would end up as some iteration of Marvin the Paranoid Android, since the logical conclusion should perhaps be that life is pointless and hard, so therefore why bother? Perhaps the "right" way for signals to travel is in the direction of depression and hopelessness.

Sorry I know this isn't really on topic and I sound like a complete downer. I'm certainly not trying to diminish this research. I've guess I've just always found it interesting how some people feel they can categorise mental states as "right" or "wrong".
That is what depression felt like to me as well. I’ve written a book about it, Can’t Be Trusted. It is a memoir about engineering, mental health, and aviation. Here is more information about me and my book: https://cantbetrusted.org/?page_id=262 As a laser engineer with an interest in computing, I think this book would be of interest to the tech community.
self-loathing leading to suicide strikes me as a different kind of mental health crisis. you can be depressed without wanting to die.
Traefik Labs launches Traefik Hub, a Kubernetes-native API management service
Why would someone admit their obvious lack of rudimentary skills? The only time I ever have an issue is with grocery stores and produce - but most everywhere else and as others pointed out, at costco, self checkout is a godsend.
Definitely needed according to all the exit reviews for their products: https://www.looria.com/reviews/search?value=Logitech
Challenge: turn it into a nice bot (as top comment has done) and then try go get it to go back to being evil.
Fair enough. Even with the additional sources of water, it’s better to design civilization in a way that incorporates natural cycles.

The Intel fab facility does a lot to reclaim water, ultimately pumping used water back into the aquifer. New construction, such as the light rail expansion has purposely-designed swales to also help with that.

If anything, it’s because the ground water has been banked for years that it is mitigating the water restriction in effect in AZ last year.

On the other hand, we have so much precipitation this past winter, that the dams along the Salt River are having daily releases now. If you’re living in Phoenix right now, you might notice the elevated humidity for this time of the year; we might have a monsoon season starting weeks early here.
My only two complaints with iOS at this point are that the Files app and filesystem access is much better than what existed before, but still not quite enough and that I should be able to side-load applications that are not allowed by the App Store and have things like a Syncthing client that runs in the background without hacks using location as many similar apps do today. Or they could just fix that since it’s the only thing that currently comes to mind.

Android at the OS level is great on the Pixel 6 I have, but many of the apps aren’t up to par. This has been my most continuous complaint. Apps like Spotify and Netflix usually have quality and feature parity, but many apps by independent developers do not. Many of the Android utility apps for things like FTP look like they were made for Android 4 “Ice Cream Sandwich” and never updated.

I suspect this is because iOS users are more willing to pay for apps and so that’s where independent developers focus their efforts?

For now iPhone is still my daily driver. The UX and integration across products is a big reason why for me.
People can't afford to move because higher interest rates decreased the value of their home, so especially if they bought recently, a lot of their down payment is gone.

This is actually advantageous to first-time buyers since higher interest rates (and lower prices) mean their down payments go further.
Wouldn't that be priced into the relocation package you negotiate? It is a problem but no different than buying a home in a flood plain, if it's something you have to do.

Or maybe not, I have never negotiated relocation and the only industry I have to base an example off of is oil and gas and they pay ridiculous amounts of money so you get a comparable house/mortgage to your old one
It's not a cultural shift. This is externally imposed. Shoppers are not installing self checkout machines in stores, the companies are doing so to increase profits.

I'm expected to pay the same price for less service and be okay with that.