skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's the semantics of "demand." To me, that connotes a claim of control or power or moral authority.

I have a right to complain that it's raining. And I have the free speech right to say "I demand it stop raining". But I have no right to come to you and demand that you make the rain stop, because that implies a claim on you that I do not have.
I think this is false, as the suicide rate has also gone up.
If you are going by the dates that Google and Apple browsers supported it for the first time. But if you tried to use ECMAScript 6 features back in 2014? Hah! The support would not be there. 5 years is a realistic number.
Is that not also available in Pandas?

https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFram...
The "ever more complicated tax system" is actually intended to make it easier for rich donors (with lawyers and tax accountants) to pay less taxes. That the complexity also props up the tax return industry is just gravy.
Depression definitely still has a stigma associated to it.

Both "it's not a real disease, you are not dying of something" and "it's not real, just snap out of it!".
India Launches $2B Drive to Woo Laptop Makers Like Apple
She should have at least had the decency to give it a Latin name.
> sqlite cloud

lmao
I suspect it has less to do with specific parameters of modern society and more with the general experience of living in it. It's a rat race that, for many, lacks any meaning. another point to consider is the psychological difference between being a big fish in a small pond as opposed to being a small fish in a very large one. With the Internet, we now have the means to compare ourselves with everyone else, and our minds can quickly reach the conclusion that who we are and what we have is simply not good enough. From there, it's an easy slide into a downward spiral.
Here’s one potentially major difference - US students have to worry about having to use “the bucket”, and everything that implies.

To be crystal clear: it implies an active school shooting is underway.
Probably a vastly unpopular opinion in HN but don’t we think sitting at home alone all day, working remote, could be related?

Humans evolved to be physically social, is 100% remote really the right direction for American society?
no exercise, ever

+ crappy diet

+ addicted to porn

= depression

surprised?

fix those three, depression will vanish

pills will not fix it

your therapist is incentivized to keep you "sick"
I think a lot of workers do see this. My suspicion is that the current vocal minority is comprised of: truly smart people (10x developers) who will be irreplaceable and liked the comfort of remote work during covid, foreign workers for whom this is a golden opportunity, useful idiots who think 2020-21 is going to be the norm with 150-200K packages out of school and 1M TC for 6 years of experience.
Freudian
I don't understand this concern about inflation. It was never that high, didn't last very long, and wages kept up pretty well (real wages are higher today than they were a year ago [1]). People are panicking over a problem that has done little real harm.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/05/economy/real-wages-inflation/...
When the value of the USD spikes to the point that a single dollar represents a year's worth of work at minimum wage, maybe then you can criticize it as being "taken over by speculators" in the same way that Bitcoin was.
I think one-shot model interaction may never be fully resistant to manipulation, but I don’t think it will ever need to be. If you have a first pass where you try to detect manipulative input and reject the prompt entirely, then you don’t need to make the response model as resilient to manipulation. Further, if you sufficiently discourage manipulative prompts (either by suspending/banning manipulative users, or simply prosecuting them under CFAA) then most people will mostly stop trying. This is pretty close to how humans already process input so it seems like a natural next step for the AI.
FloodGuard: Managed rate-limiting for A2P flows
There's something about yourself you should evaluate if you can't fathom someone else thinking differently than you, and you let those things affect your mood and happiness.

Also, I don't know if you saw the Durham report, but there's plenty of more reasons to be troubled with the established players in Washington: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/politics/john-durham-report-f...
So are we saying that software engineering can be at odds with your ability to write code? I'm not sure most people would say they are quite the dichotomy you present here.

While I agree it's often a team-sport, being able to create amazing things yourself (i.e. Git, Redis, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Rust and other single-person projects) that others struggle to replicate or contribute too shouldn't mean you're a bad software engineer.
> Making precedent binding seems a bit crazy, to be honest, because if the precedent contains mistakes (which it inevitably does), then those mistakes become binding also, right? So logical inconsistency and contradiction is inevitably part of the common law system?

It is also not the correct institution to "make law" I think. It does not represent the population in some way as in a representative democracy should be. It was not debated in the parliament and it was not campaigned on. It is in some way a rule of experts.
So then what value is the smart contract bringing to the situation?
> That's not how entire projects get done

Devil's advocate: it takes visionaries at the top (CEO/management) to push for things like "that may not be not how entire projects get done today, but maybe in the future if we can get a good low-code solution that does what we want well, we could save a lot of money"

Is it a pipe dream? I don't know. That's where good execution comes into play.
Apparently it uses: https://github.com/anse-app/chatgpt-demo
Good idea. Sometimes this is a large signing bonus. It could pay out over time but vest immediately on a layoff or something.
> Productivity on full remote workers can be difficult to track and is likely not higher than in office.

How so?

If you cannot track the productivity of workers without having to constantly monitor them in person, that is a symptom of unclear objectives and goals, and that is a bigger problem than having people working from home.
>no amount of government control can prevent bank failures

So we should just give up and trust the rich/mega rich to please be nice to the rest of us?

Because so far, they're doing a stellar job.
Again, the existence of X does not mean that all efforts to reduce the incidence of X were completely useless and therefore should not have been undertaken.

Binary thinking is full of such pitfalls.
I love seeing all these helpless billionaires and business owners flail trying to get people back in the office, with increasingly BS reasons. The world moved on and they can't stand they lost a tiny bit of control over workers.
That's what I figured. So that supports the idea that it's only measuring a very skewed set of visitors from Webgl, JS, and gfx designer type sites. I'd put the iframe on my very non-JS, non-webgl, non-gfx sites to skew the other way but I don't put JS scripts on sites.
Tech stack for fine-tuning LLMs
If you have tried training/fine-tuning LLMs on your data, what tech and infra stack did you use? My use case is training on data generated by my own activity
awesome! But there are no details of who built this?
I think there's another past staff/senior where you get to tell all of the other groups to leave you alone, and you're back to being dirty and building cool things. This is where you're most valuable and where they want you. But, you need the confidence that you've got it handled and you're trusted to communicate as needed.
I can't believe we're worse off financially than during the great economic depression. Do we have numbers from back then?

Are people today more apt to become depressed, are we conditioned to get more depressed, or is diagnosis better, or are we classifying and identifying more things as depression?

Back then we had no social services, no soup kitchens, "food stamps" etc. There was no governmental help (other than job creation such as WPA). There may have been more social cohesion and more reliance on the (extended) family though.
Exactly, lockdowns caused a huge spike in precisely all those things. Income disparity skyrockets as the laptop class gets raises and stock bonuses while the servant class delivers their food while inflation skyrockets. Housing costs explode as the fixed supply in suburbia is swamped with urban exiles working remote and lockdowns cause supply chain disruptions.
i'm sure it's a lot of factors but to your point one could look at this problem from a dozen angles and there's almost no way to conclude that social media and 24/7 race-to-bottom engagement model of news has been a net positive on our mental health.
There are about ~160 million people who need to file taxes each year. TurboTax for each year costs something like $40-150 depending on how complex a version you need. If it costs billions of dollars to role out a free system that's as good as TurboTax, that'll still pay for the cost of TurboTax or similar software within a few years at the longest.
> I'm curious how you know they aren't cheating you somehow?

How do we know that now, in the US? I don't know the details of tax calculations; I get money deducted from my paychecks, I pay a website so I can copy information from many confusing forms onto one confusing form, and then I get some money. It's inscrutable to most people.

And frankly, the for-profit system is currently cheating us, so...
Well, I didn't know that calc phones home. A power user. A developer. A sysadmin. A niche of all windows users. No, that can't be the reason.
> You’re gonna work from home and you’re gonna make everyone else who made your car come work in the factory? You’re gonna make people who make your food that gets delivered – they can’t work from home? The people that come fix your house? They can’t work from home, but you can?! Does that seem morally right?

His argument that it's "morally wrong" for one person to have a privilege that another cannot enjoy. This is exceedingly rich coming from a guy with a private jet. Absolutely hilarious.

Let's flip it. I have the ability to work from home because the output of my brain can be conveyed directly to my employer through a series of tubes. If I drive to work, then I'm polluting, contributing to traffic, to wear and tear on the roadways, and spending less time working for my employer. I'm making it harder for the factory workers, the delivery people etc., that musk is so concerned* for, to get to their places of work. It is morally wrong for me to commute when it is not necessary for me to do so.

* bullshit
So far, I've shared the instructions on how to build a custom solar engine, which was the most time-consuming portion of the project. Coming up next: high level directions on how to build one from scratch.
The graph was trending down (if the #s are to be actually reliable) since the late 2000s, which was a consistent period of cheap money / low interest rates. If the recent higher interest rates were the driving factor, you would think the trend line would have been more stable leading up to Covid and then higher rates.
How did I know The Atlantic would complain about conservative billionaires but not even mention George Soros?
How does Tommy Atkins compare with the mangoes from Asia?
So more of a political situation. I live in the United States and there is no such similar concern.

There is Tor if you do live in a country that practices censorship.
Cars are insured, and ideally landlords should be too. The problem is that if a landlord insurance policy (or mortgage, or long term lease) disallows pets, the landlord is going to prohibit pets. If such prohibition is void then pets are more likely to be allowed.

There were similar issues with social housing tenants where some mortgages or insurances disallowed them until it was made it illegal.

Of course enforcing these laws is hard...
Maybe running people out of their jobs for not getting an experimental drug that is no longer recommended in most working age Americans was bad public policy?
I'm an American who agrees. YY/MM/DD is the only reasonable order.
And god help you if you give up halfway through a command with a prompt. “Cancel”, “stop” and “nevermind” don’t work for half of that for some reason, so you have to walk up and tap the HomePod to cancel.
Julia has a pipe syntax (|>). But I think the bigger part here is more generally APIs built around it, which people are doing some things to port tidy syntax (https://github.com/TidierOrg/Tidier.jl).
Please speak down to me about politics and education! Obviously everyone can see you've been awarded several McArthur grants and a couple of Nobel prizes.

Risk has a price, and right now it's too low.
Excellent! Thank you for sharing. It’s calls to action like this one that let folks know how to use the existing government apparatus to reign-in this kind of criminal greed.
Also agreed, and what i personally use.
As nice as WFH is for many of us (or society at large), the truth is I think that many of us and society at large isn't really set up to do it well. For working from home to be balanced with also living at home, you need some physical separation and space so that work spaces and living spaces are easily compartmentalised.

This requires bigger homes with probably some layout adjustments. Some will already have the homes for such things, but many, not at all.

I always figured from the early days of the pandemic/WFH that distributed/decentralised workspaces would be a nice shift, so that most residential areas could have a not-too-distant workspace with no substantial commute. Then you decouple work's office location and/or personal home ammenities from your actual working conditions. Dunno if this is an actual thing or actually viable.
Besides the hn/tech bubble, what percentage of people work remote jobs? Probably 0% according to my circle (in Greece). Is it different in the US?
OpenAI Tells Congress the U.S. Should Create AI 'Licenses' to Release New Models
Yes but you do fight the framework in some cases.
Take for example persisting a database connection, or a pool of connections. A totally normal use case for a server side framework
Less than 20% of Americans wfh (we are in a white collar bubble), would have to be an insane effect size.
Perhaps we could act differently? That way we could get (and deserve) something better.
Most relocation packages are pro-rated over one or two years even, or are required to be payed back in full if there is a separation within that period (willful or not by either party).

My point is even with relocation assistance, the deal is still not great (could draw a very strained parallel to indentured servitude). Which is to say, not super appealing.
Most Americans don't work from home, but social isolation is increasing.
Cmd+f "Soros" => 0 results.

Opinion discarded.
Yeah seriously, what's next, a submission that someone got a new job at Corp X?
The diagnosis of "hysteria" dropped by two thirds in the mid twentieth century with the diagnosis of "depression" replacing it. People may well have been going to the doctor, but they were not necessarily being diagnosed with the conditions we now associate with their symptoms.

To your final paragraph, that also highlights the flaws in Gallup style polling. Even if people were being diagnosed in equal number, it doesn't mean they would admit to it in a poll.
As a middle easterner who has lived all over the world, you sound like someone who has never traveled outside of your cocoon of a bubble.
Big Basin is one of my favorite places on earth. If you have never been there - park down at the beach where the kite surfers like to hang out and walk up that way. It is a very long hike with some exposed areas at the beginning but totally worth the effort. You will feel like you are in Jurassic Park.
>> it would seem that the vast majority of the USA lives "in or near a greater metro"

To the extent that you consider the cities of Monroe (Louisiana), Ketchikan (Alaska), Elmira (New York), and La Crosse (Wisconsin) to be the centers of "greater metro" areas.

They're not greater metro areas in the same sense that NYC, LA, SF, or Boston are greater metro areas.
Ask HN: How do you cope mentally through all the hype
I feel like tech suffers more than most fields in terms of hype, probably because of the money. Lately it is AI and chatgpt, which tbh seems to me more legit hype than other things like maybe OOP or whatever. Anyway. I guess you just gotta ignore most of it, because there's no way to keep up and remain sane or productive.
IME sometimes you have to ask for it. Last time I moved I was working for a big soulless F500 type company.

When I applied to the job there was a note saying that they would not offer relocation expenses. I was one of two people hired into the team at the time for similar roles, and the other guy told me he managed to get relocation money just by asking
I addressed this in another comment so copying it here:

[remote work] hasn't really been a reality the way it is today. During covid, we were forced to implement norms and tools for remote working (like Zoom). Also, we learned about replacing an expensive worker for a cheaper one one at a time. Earlier, there used to be entire teams in some remote location, so it was similar to having 2 islands (one large, one small) with a bridge which was crossed may be once or twice a year during annual trips to HQ. Now with one-new-person-at-a-time, teams don't lose productivity but over time, American workers are replaced with cheaper ones.

Source: seeing it myself in my current company. Also remembers: shareholder class is ruthless. If I can see this, they are seeing and acting on it as well.

Edit: cannot reply to the unity1001's reply so editing here - sorry to break it to you but earlier, there were only tools. Covid forced us to implement cultural norms and processes to actually work with those tools effectively. That was missing before.
It’s fascinating how many potential modalities are at play with depression. Serotonin, inflammation, direction of brain signals. This suggests that depression may be a label that points to one of many underlying conditions, which could also explain why it’s so tricky to treat for some individuals.
I think mine are pretty simple, but I'm still cautious. How is FreeTax with stocks, options, employee stock plans, etc...?
That would be a massive improvement over what we have now, but even having to move within a year after your last move is difficult, expensive, and incredibly stressful.
Digging into the status page history reveals a reference to an issue lasting for 7 minutes, caused by a "minor technical change" that was rolled back. [1]

Still claims 100% uptime for May.

https://status.slack.com/2023-05-17
Sorry - I just reread my reply above and I can imagine it reading more personal than I intended. I apologise.

The point I was trying to make is this - I’ve worked with plenty of engineers who want me to trust their engineering opinions. Some are experienced. Many are not. I have no idea where you sit on that spectrum - I don’t know you; obviously.

For what it’s worth, I think it’s the right call to trust your own judgement. I just don’t think enough people actually nurture their judgement by exploring and experimenting with a lot of languages and styles. After all, how would a self proclaimed “Java programmer” know what problems you can solve more easily in Python? I don’t think you can truly understand the strengths and weaknesses of OO (or any philosophy really) unless you spend serious time embracing other approaches.

Again, maybe you’ve done that and maybe you haven’t. I don’t know you.
Thank you Stripe — your support is amazing.

So what happened was, the non-profit and owner of the Stripe account lost access to their organization website to a squatter, which replaced the site with adult content. So even though the event website is correct (and is microbiology related!) the parent org's site — probably used to register for the Stripe account, is not as kosher.

Stripe's support works INCREDIBLY FAST, thank you for this..
I learned that those switches are actually pretty standardized and you can just desolder them and buy proper ones for ~1$ and at least my older G500 could be opened and disassembled fairly easily.
This may be due to the excessive use of antidepressants, which can inadvertently exacerbate depression, transforming a temporary episode of sadness into a long-lasting and severe condition.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428926/
This is what manufacturing consent looks like post-Trump. Just flag and move along, and then rejoice when The Atlantic goes the way of Vice, Buzzfeed, etc.
OK, I'll give you a data point.

Six years ago I went to work for a small (~100 employee) startup. Three years ago that startup was acquired by Intel, so for the last three years I've been an Intel employee. Last January Intel cancelled my project and laid me off.

So here I am at 58, seven years from retirement, unemployed, not because I was lazy or bad at my job, but because people I've never laid eyes on, people whose names I don't know, people who don't even know I exist, decided they needed to cut costs. And because I'm 58 and ageism is a real thing in this industry, the odds of anyone else hiring me are very low. 58 is awfully late in life to be forced to start over.

The problem with corporations is that by design they provide a virtually impenetrable barrier between one set of humans (the owners of the corporation) and another set of humans (the employees). This has benefits, of course, but it also has one very serious drawback, which is that it allows the first set of humans to treat the second set like a commodity, no different from wheat or pork bellies, but not the other way around. This asymmetry disempowers employees, robs them of their agency and personhood. And all this happens by design.

It really should come as no surprise to anyone that one of the side effects of this system is a lot of depressed people.
I propose we accelerate and amplify current social changes. The only solution is more. /s
I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but it has always been the case that laws supersede contracts in the United States.
AK-47 has been a strain since the 70s [1]. But sure, blame it on "bros".

[1] https://2fast4buds.com/news/strain-history-ak-47
Are Chinese Tesla's better than American ones? Is it just higher quality control because of a newer manufacturing setup there?
It's not only related to financial conditions. Loneliness has been increasing, and it's a big contributor to depression. Social media are another massive contributor.
More and more I think the relative resilience of my country welfare has to be in big part caused by the excellent tax collection system we have. Hacienda, the Spanish IRS, website works perfectly with a national digital id certificate. You can solve any issues there, but for the majority of people there is nothing to think about, you receive a draft of the anual declaration and say yes. They will even go ahead and get information directly from some actors, like casinos and big corps, about who they are paying to, so you will get those automatically reflected in your declaration, or kindly be reminded they know about it. Big companies have strict requirements, in some cases daily declaration of transactions.

I can find obvious optimization flaws in every other branch of the government, but man, tax collection seems close to perfection here. Of course we could argue about this been a good or bad thing, but the engine is running perfectly tuned.
Yes I used OCR on the screenshot of the email they sent.
My assumption would be that they have something to look forward to. Some parts of Africa have improved a lot over the years, whereas the US, for the most part, had it good and now is seeing it slowly decay in real time.