skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody forces you to live like that. I'm 39 and not one point hits the mark for me. :D

While true that it's harder to get social connections it's far from impossible; in the end you just need to go out and meet new people doing things alone sometimes. On the other hand I have much more money, thus can actually travel when/how I want, compared to my 20s, and could probably quit my job in the next decade, if I want to.

Overall it's different to some degree, but in sum I'd say I enjoy life much more than in my 20s nowadays. Doubt that changes until I start to get sick(er) in my 50s/60s.
Underlying causes. Autoimmune Sjogrens, clotting disorder that was in over drive (factor 5) high cranial pressure(IIH)
Nerve damage(probably from Sjogrens) lot Vit D

Did an elimination diet. That calmed the body down. AIP diet to maintain.

Started high doses of Vit D, E, Omega 3. Started watching bob and Brad and spent a couple hours a day on stretching and massages.
Discovered and treated TMJ. Removing smells and lights. That got migraines under control. (Slow reduction over the months)

LDN got nerve pain under control.

Diamox to get head pressure under control.

The big one was I kept having stroke symptoms, but MRIs were clean. Started blood thinners and symptoms went away.
Space Operations Command
> like shuffling people around into random groups that may have built zero social rapport and have zero idea of each other's skills, and make them complete a project in a few days

That's not unusual. In a larger company that kind of thing happens every time a new project touches multiple teams. If you're involved in that project, you may get to work with people you've never seen before for a few weeks.

I don't see this as a weird thing to be honest.
Aren't Amazon revenues almost flat with only AWS still posting double digit growth?
> there's no way Cloudflare is allowing that much traffic through tunnels for free

What's the limit?
The documentation could use some proof reading. Grammar etc.

> Flix is strongly typed. Any attempt to use predicate symbol with terms of the wrong type (or with the wrong arity) is caught by the type checker.

*Statically typed
Worth pointing out. I know of a person who was a workaholic and then died pretty young from also having been a secret alcoholic for much of their life.
As helpful as it can be in some respects to project oneself into a future time and circumstance, humans are often bad a predicting how they would decide on serious matters until they actually find themselves in that situation. This is particularly true in cases where quality of life is at issue.
VS Code brought Language Server Protocol, so I don't think the "vision" balance is as one-sided as you imply.
It’s probably like mutual funds vs stock picking. some parents will do better and some will do worse. the child gains the interest money- if the parent is a bad stock then it’s bad in isolation…
schools are predictably mediocre but public/visible.
if the parent’s decision is driven by their own schooling experience and/or desire to change an aspect of society then i think it’s questionable to make the child an instrument of that.
In a gist: MobX just keeps the whole dependency graph of what data needs to update when what computed runs. Excel can't do that because it has to be able to work on large files with impartial data.
There used to be three, those two are still there, but the one under Ukraine got taken over by the CIA for their bioweapons program.
The original Call of Duty games for PC told WWII history stories very well. I really enjoyed them and it got me interested in learning more about the era.

Unfortunately the MW series of games lost this which I think was a shame. Different goals though than the original franchise I guess.

They really ought to have a series as told from the POV of multiple countries, in the likes of the original series. I would really like to have a historical take on COD from a French resistance perspective. I’m not sure sure that’s fly in todays market. Video games back in the day were a bit off a treat, took 5-10m to start, not something you could whip out your smart phone and play anytime anywhere.
A health care system that often ignores quality of life should be considered a public health problem, not suicides themselves.

Sometimes the suicides are justified because of diminishing quality of life. That's the whole point of assisted suicide.

The author is a click-bait-y pop psychologist whose other articles don't seem very thoughtful, so I should not have expected much of this.

https://english.elpais.com/author/daniel-mediavilla-gonzalez...
I’m still amazed that Adam Neumann squandered $18 billion in raw cash…that’s almost my country’s annual budget!
I imagine the only shame the investors feel is that they couldn’t pump up the share price higher, so they got an even bigger windfall before screwing over everyone that would be left holding the bag.
US State Department manipulated online discourse on PM Modi
Summarize YouTube videos, Files, Text, URLs in 1 click using AI
Person A holds 1 stock, valued at 100.
Person A sells 1 stock to person B. Now Person A holds 100 in cash, and 0 in assets.

Person B now holds 0 in cash, and 100 in assets.

Fast forward 5 years. The stock price has crashed to 1 dollar.

Person A still holds 100 in cash and 0 in assets. Person B holds 0 in cash, and 1 in assets.

There was no transfer of 99 dollars back from Person B to Person A. Person A's holdings were invariant because they don't own the stock anymore. The losses brunt by Person B were not transferred to anybody else.

Money doesn't travel back in time.
An observable is not the same as a Smalltalk stream, directionality wise. Smalltalk streams are like unix streams or a C stream.
One of my faves, for sure. I find the "slow is smooth" transition to "smooth is fast" especially holds true for physical tasks. Learning how to do something for the first time - carefully, slowly, awkwardly - you lay the initial record grooves of muscle memory, and if these are "right" the first time around, then you don't have bad habits to unlearn once you become proficient enough for them to matter.
He's trying to share what the experience is like to promote empathy, so that suicide can be better understood by those with less personal experience with it. He's not advocating for people to commit suicide, just for ways to engage with the problem that doesn't further isolate and other those who are suffering.
> Has he invested in anything that didn’t work out?

If he has, it was not to the point that it ruined him.
White House is working with hackers to ‘jailbreak’ ChatGPT’s safeguards
I wanted to love the concept but couldn't really. I couldn't afford renting a whole office so just had the cheap day pass that lets you use the facility. It's like going to a cafe with the benefit of leaving your laptop while you go to the bathroom or wonder around. Nothing like an office. I want a dedicated desk and office chair, external keyboard and monitor, a quiet area, conference rooms that don't charge you by the minute, etc. We Work is nothing like that.
As a programmer, I find it fascinating to build things from the ground up, with the inner workings either in full display or readily accessible for editing. With AI, the need to beg it to please behave, with a long list of things to do and not to do and a resounding order not to disclose such a list, is becoming commonplace.

Obviously, finding jailbreaks in LLMs is extremely important and consequential. However, there are meta questions around modern AI that remain valid, and this article is a reminder: is a continuous and direct feedback loop between code and coder a thing of the past? To what extent should we accept that LLMs are trained one-way, that we can only truly edit them with expensive trial-and-error retraining runs, hence, all we are left with is asking kindly? Are the current implementations all, or are we dealing with just one possible paradigm? Do we want AI, which relies upon computers, algorithms, and numbers written on memory, to be fundamentally programmable?
my mom is 48 years old, she loves her job, no one depends on her, has a different boyfriend every month, goes to the same parties I go to (which end at 6am) and we even share some friends (im 29). definitely not over
> He next question was whether I was an organ donor.

That's dark. I've been homeless for 5 years (including working full time and having never been an addict). I'm very healthy so for a while I felt like I could be targeted by black marketeers like organ harvesters.

> I completely see why people turn to hard drugs, I consider opioids daily almost.

I joke that if I were to give up and become an addict at least someone would help me because it'd be their job. I've always been a hard worker and hate being unemployed, I'm obviously not waiting around for handouts. The situation is just that impossible to solve, "no man is an island" except the homeless and similarly beat down people I guess including the ones who turn to suicide. It was humbling to ask for help for the first time in my life and be preyed upon or abandoned at best.

Never imagined myself here. Will never consider suicide, but the math and pressure to get rid of myself from my relatives and former friends is obvious. I always thought I had a support system but indeed what "they" say is true: everyone is in it for themselves. I constantly look for ways to be valuable to others, but on a desert island and sometimes literally starving there are few opportunities.

Helping others is the key, while not being exploited by predators.
i know what you are getting at. but wrt to that article she self-assessedly has been failing up until then.
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Unrelated to this is the distinction between money and wealth.

The challenge for a company like Weework is that it's hard to identify what wealth they generate- at least for me.

In other words, what are they making (goods) or doing (services) that provides value to the world (wealth).

I suppose they'd say that their core value is making it easy to rent space quickly. This is certainly providing some value, but I hardly think it's one that's heavily differentiated.

I bring this up because the conflation of money and wealth is so often what gets people in trouble. Decoupling the two lets us examine what the value of a company is, at its core.
I'm curious how the parent post makes you think they think pension funds are bad thing?
I just can't imagine we don't get a new programming language at some point that is a more precise subset of English but is closer to English than say python.

I mean previously we needed absolute precision in a programming language because there was nothing to disambiguate natural language. chatGPT's ability to disambiguate natural language is unbelievable. We will figure out a way to leverage that ability at some point in a programming language to the point that maybe it won't make sense to even call it a programming language.

Making software is going to get much easier. Denial is the most human of coping strategies with change.
Nice, let me know if you have questions.
All this is documented in Meijer's actual paper though? (Your mouse is a database) as well as his aformentioned talk (duality and the end of reactive).

He for sure invented observables (as we know it and as the mathematically dual of enumerables) - that doesn't mean it was the first ever reactive system or the concept of data being dependent of other data.

If I remember correctly he also explicitly talks abut Conal FRP and notations in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOl4E8x3fmw if interested
I don't want to be arrogant or looks like moron, but how can you know that people that you know "went through worse"? How can you measure it? I`m really curious, because all my life I live with understanding that there no way to measure other people feeling, emotions, suffering.
Usually it's the family that makes decisions at that point in a hospital for a patient, and they often make horrendous, selfish decisions and prolong the patient's enormous suffering before death.

Give people comfort care asap if they have a terminal illness, at the very least.
>I would not want to see others suffer so that I won’t suffer their loss.

The world being what it is, it's increasingly the opposite: others left or encouraged even to commit suicide (assisted or otherwise) so people dont have to help and support them.

In Canada it's increasingly becoming a trend for poor people to commit assisted suicide, not because they have some incurable disease and pain, but because they can't get by and are depressed by it.
Hey, fellow chronic pain guy here, though "only" 8 years and counting so far! I have CFS and Small Fibre Neuropathy, which pain-wise means I have constant neuropathic and muscular pain in my limbs.

Unless someone has lived with chronic pain, they won't be able to understand what it does to your mental health. Living in constant pain is hard - fucking hard. I've really struggled, and if I didn't have a family, without a doubt I'd be dead by now. Even with my family, I spent a lot of time fantasising about suicide, and one time I almost did it without l even thinking about it. It also turned me into a pretty horrible person, who slowly pushed away many friends, and made life difficult for my family.

Thankfully, I'm finally coming to terms with it, and I now have meds that actually help. I use an opioid and ketamine. The opioid helps a little with the pain, as does the ketamine - but really, the ketamine improves my mood, a lot.

For the past couple of years I've also been using cannabis - this has made a huge difference to my mental health, general well-being, and family life! Having the ability to be essentially pain free every evening after hitting a nice heavy indica is... amazing, in a way that only someone who'd been in constant pain for years could understand.

If you have access to legalised cannabis wherever you are, I can't recommend it highly enough. Christ, even if it's not legal, it's worth thinking about.
it's my impression that a lot of life coaches sell a strategy that they themselves didn't really explore and verify and then basically use their customers and recipients to convince themselves that they know what they are talking about.
They are saying that it would have been bad if pension funds had exposure to wework stock.
The VCs backing him are in on the con to. They want to pump and dump their stake on the real market.

SoftBank was the real con person in the WeWork saga…Neumann just left them holding the bag, and they couldn’t successfully dump it on retail investors or sell it to a greater fool.

The reason VCs continue to back people like Neumann is they have succeeded many times (e.g, Uber, Postmates, Lyft, Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPACs, etc.).
But they don’t solve that as well, cf. NYC subway.
> If that had happened maybe a trillion dollars of productivity since would have been lost!

On the flip side, how much productivity has been lost because of Youtube? ;)
Five years in University and never heard of this essay, not even in passing! Thanks for sharing.
This is a blatant false dichotomy. People can stop suffering by stopping living. If a person perceives the probability of continued suffering in life as very high with no ability to effect that then stopping living is their best chance to stop their suffering.
The linked document writes: "Net loss attributable to Uber Technologies, Inc. was $157 million"

The could have been profitable maybe if they didn't spend ~$400million on stock based comp!
Some context if needed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb

https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/
Just imagine all the testing he had to get to reach this conclusion. GP has suffered enough.
You don't want an AST or even a full parser for formatting most languages.

Tree-sitter deals with errors better than most parser generators but if you just lex and separate into chunks then you can much more flexibly format broken code.
> For at least some people, it may not be that they want to die, rather it may be that they predict 30+ more years of an unsatisfying life and wish that they could just skip to the end.

This is exactly it. It's surprising that people can't see this as obvious.
I think there is a critical balance between education and experience where a person has both sufficient capability and (critically) interest in using it, that enables this sort of thing.

Of course it also requires the opportunity to improve something, which is not universally present. Often the opportunities to improve stem from a recent change in organizational priorities, or the prior party’s lack of interest (instrinsic motivation) or incentive (extrinsic motivation), not necessarily their specialization or lack of understanding.
Non diabetic, didn’t/don’t have diabetic retinopathy. I had assumed that the detachments were unrelated to Semaglutide but just happened as a freak coincidence in time.

The no apparent reason was a bit of hyperbole, since my vitreous was pulling away from the retina and brought some pieces with it during the process. But as to why that was happening at my current age is unknown. Second was likely related to stress in the eye from healing from the first surgery. But the point was I didn’t take any blows to the head or eye, or any other common cause of retinal detachments.
But surely now at .21…
The 90s style art for this code game is incredible
Yes - I believe Uber used to have a number of terms which made that difficult in practice (eg restrictions on numbers of rides rejected/accepted per day, etc). In at least some countries though competition authorities have banned these.
I wound up in that awkward middle ground where I can’t do much more than basic arithmetic with RPN, but every time I try to use a “normal” calculator I fumble around and forget how to add two numbers together.

So then I break out excel and put together a formula with lots of parentheses to calculate what I really should learn how to do on the 12c.
> That’s true but I don’t think you really need $10B to escape the grind, that’s more of a “huge bank account number” kind of amount

He just happens to have arrived at $10B because some investments worked out. He could have been satisfied with 'only' $1B or $100M or $10M. It may be that it was simply an 'accident' that he overshot his escape-the-grind number.

And given the number of times he has started (successful) companies, it seems to indicate that he may be more in it for the challenge.
The Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar (2017)
The first step would be to understand that rehab is not the solution to any kind of problem.

Rehab is about making a lot of money, not healing people, they benefit from relapsing, they have zero incentive to help people.
people seek alcohol in pathological amounts to numb a pain they carry around. you don't know what pain that was for him and what caused it. not everybody stumbles into alcoholism out of habit, partying too much or work related stress.
There's a short documentary video by Mark Felton on this: Secret Nazi Antarctic Base - Fact or Fiction? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs0ZaCQrScc)
Because of lack of electronic immobilizer in many cars made through 2021 that made it easier to steal compared to cars from other makes.
That is a depressing view on aging. At some point kids becomes adults and can support themselves and if they were taught any form of responsibility, they will support their parents. These days my parents hang out with their friends or go once in a while on vacation which they pay or my sibling and I. To me it sounds like someone enduring a life style they dislike but accepted because they believe this is how life should be.

Maybe it is a culturally thing but as a kid I had to complain to my parents to get home and by then it was 1 am.
> I regularly use a ‘let’ and wish I could just have the entire conditional feed into a ‘const’ given it’s never going to change after the block of code responsible for assignment.

I'm currently doing a lot of audio work, where I kind of want to define some parameters early on that won't change, except if something "magic" happens. So, a kind of "unlockable" constant. Think in terms of, a bunch of filter coefficients that are predetermined by the design of the filter but need to be calculated to match a given sample rate.

Just a kind of "set and forget" variable, that ought not be written to more than once, or maybe only written to by the thing that first wrote it.
Explain why. It’s literally Uber for offices. It could’ve worked if managed right.
I thought the original MW was a bit bland. I honestly only remember Black Ops well, and I would defend it as the only game of the series that would do well as a piece of fiction writing on it's own.
Show HN: AngryPros – your outlet for work frustrations
Hi HN, I launched a Flutter app (tech stack details below) to learn app development end to end and now am hoping to grow a community by providing meaningful value.

AngryPros is a light-hearted social network for working adults to share their job frustrations and was inspired by a conversation overheard on a bus about how someone got in trouble for ranting on LinkedIn.

It works by asking users to provide only their job title and country to help in context setting but otherwise has a fairly familiar social network flow (with some unique mechanics e.g. awards).

Other then giving users a specialised space to talk about these matters, it can be quite refreshing and humbling to hear of problems from occupations we've not even heard about before.

Would love some feedback / suggestions / reviews on the app to help improve so please let me know what you think and thanks a lot for reading :)

Tech stack:

- Mobile apps -> Flutter with Firebase for auth and analytics

- Frontend -> Nuxt3 for better SEO using SSR

- Backend -> Golang with Postgres

- PaaS -> Digitalocean's app platform

* If you need help or have questions about the tech stack feel free to fire away as well

[0] Website - https://angrypros.com

[1] iOS app store -
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/angrypros/id6447777144

[2] Android app store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rawfishdev...
This sounds exactly what a 13 year old would say about life being over at 20. Or a 22 saying life is over a 40. Or a 40 saying life is over at 50. Or a 50 saying life is over at 60. See a pattern?
Thanks, I am stable for now. There is some vision loss but only in the periphery, my most recent surgery was on Tuesday so it’s not clear how much is permanently lost and how much will continue to return as the eye heals.
i don't think so. I think the Chinese take such entitlement to a new level. There's always obstacles in any project, but I don't see other national projects "defining themselves" or their successes by how they ended up beating those who refused to assist them. it's pretty twisted.
Those are probably the good Russians, hiding from the evil ones.
I am from a native English speaking country and I had never heard the word foehn or fohn in my life, so assumed it was a typo of foot.

Which coincidentally happens to have a similar contention as standing on fresh snow compacts it, but only from the comments did I guess it was supposed to be a melting analogy.
But wouldn't they be exceptionally waterproof after that? Or is the smell also impossible to get rid of?
exactly. the alcohol is usually just secondary and self-medication to deal with pain and that pain is very individual and personal.
I’m 37, married with two kids. Flying to Scotland for a week next Monday.

Life is what you make it. I’m happier than I was at 22, no question.
Just woe, really. Just one woe, and, ostensibly, a fairly quick resolution too!