skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the information provided, here are some key points to consider regarding the phrase "the world is upside down":

### Understanding the Metaphorical Nature

The phrase "the world is upside down" is likely being used metaphorically rather than literally. This suggests the person experiencing this feeling is probably feeling overwhelmed or that things seem chaotic in their life or the world around them [1].

### Coping Strategies

When faced with such feelings, several strategies can be helpful:

1. Take a deep breath and try to stay calm. Centering yourself is crucial when everything feels topsy-turvy [1].

2. Identify specific issues causing distress. Breaking down problems makes them more manageable [1].

3. Focus on what you can control. Concentrate on actions you can take rather than worrying about uncontrollable factors [1].

4. Seek support from friends, family, or professionals. Talking about concerns can provide relief and new perspectives [1].

5. Practice self-care by ensuring adequate sleep, healthy eating, and exercise [1].

6. Limit exposure to negative news if it's contributing to stress levels [1].

7. Set small, achievable goals to create a sense of progress and control [1].

### Additional Considerations

- If feeling overwhelmed, try grounding techniques like deep breathing, meditation, or mindfulness [1].
- For significant challenges, don't hesitate to seek support from mental health professionals [1].
- If concerned about global events, stay informed through reliable sources and consider positive contributions to your community [1].
- Feeling disconnected or lost? Explore new hobbies or experiences to rediscover your passions [1].

### Conclusion

Feeling like "the world is upside down" is a common experience that many people face. By implementing these coping strategies and seeking appropriate support, individuals can better navigate challenging situations and regain a sense of balance and control in their lives.

Citations:
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41513746
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Share%20AI%20answers%20for%20q...
[3] https://hnsince.com/?session_id=ee7331de-0c8b-4f96-aad6-e5c4...
[4] https://www.buzzing.cc/
[5] https://www.buzzing.cc/lite/
As a counter to the negative comment about this submission, I’d like to state that I really appreciate seeing content like this on HN.
Solidworks perpetual licensing has always had an annual maintenance fee associated with it, but they changed it a couple years ago where if you let your maintenance subscription lapse they charge you for the years you missed plus an additional fee. They also increased their maintenance prices by like 30% last year.

So we are now in the process of switching to Creo which, while being a user experience nightmare, is so much more stable and runs faster than Solidworks.

Agreed about FreeCAD, the user interface is terrible and even though Ondsel exists I just can't stand the way the program works. As much as I want to use FOSS software there really isn't much that beats the commercial products if you have access to them.
I can confirm, I'm a member of one of these criminal gangs. Although, we specialize in who recently purchased nvidia discrete gpus.
I read The Hobbit aloud to my wife at bedtimes about 2 years back. Challenging at first, but it got easier, and I think we both enjoyed it.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pakistan+engine...

you should take a look at how things get done in developing worlds.
subtle off green PCB, my god, that's really nice
As a programmer, this still seems overly dogmatic. Why not just develop the discipline to put effort where it's actually needed instead of burning gas all around like a moron? Every programmer knows this. The extreme dogma seems the real lack of discipline to me.
> As one of the obligations of owning a trademark is to enforce its use in the marketplace, Chang's lawyers did just that.

There is no such obligation. Yes, if you don't enforce a trademark you can lose it, but it isn't like you will be subject to fines or something if you don't. This is a ridiculously generic trademark that never should've been granted, and if Chang (or his lawyers) were good, decent people they would've just let it be. The trademark would've lapsed, and everything would've been fine.
I'm looking at games and all the hacks the do in the name of efficiency.
Services like https://www.markmonitor.com/ sort this out. Notice that google.com is registered with them.
OpenSCAD is a counterfeit CAD! It doesn't Aid your Design so much as render one the user has to already understand. I do like it for simple
parametric changes to existing models though.

I wish we had something like it that could be used to create freeCAD macros, as in "Here's a sketch, which FreeCAD translates to OpenSCAD arrays, then runs a script that can do stuff with this model as input"
>epistles (it's in the name!)

Epistle means letter or written communication.
I find it exceedingly frustrating to use.

I knew I was in for a bad experience when I opened it up for the first time and I couldn't even select some components of the screen because the high resolution DPI monitor made some things unclickable because the pixel boundary box was impossibly small.
Yeah, but probably not for someone who needs Solidworks for their job.
This is why, between two successive measurements, I place one foot on the scale to measure the weight of just one leg (comes to 18-20 lbs). And the following (third) measurement is sufficiently different from the first one. I use this "weird trick" when I'm not happy with the first reading, and want a second opinion ;-)
> She took less than a week to create a working, bug-free prototype, but then lost interest.

This is pretty common, no? Same reason why everyone thinks AI will change development: people mistake the initial time cost of building an initial prototype for being representative of the total cost of making the thing people actually demand (which mostly never happens).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Fujimori
The Things We Return to Define Us
Cool, imagine after a collapse of civilization, last survivors dig out this, as the cornerstone to rebuild the old-time industry.

This card has such a sci-fi taste.
Caroline Ellison asks for time served, citing cooperation with US gov't
I remember these! And they weren't exactly circle CD-ROMs either, they had round sides but then straight top and bottom, so you could fit them in a business card holder / wallet. I always thought these were pretty cool.
The steelman of their argument (coming from things as a database person) is thinking about the problem in a different way for a different domain, which can beget a "simpler" approach.

Something like a document db approach (one big json entry to rule them all) gets significant benefits in setting certain levels of abstraction as even possible.

Hey - we just get the user details and then we update some json and that's all we can do, and it kinda sucks, but it means we're going to put most of our computation in this website and really make something that looks like a modern web app.

It has a bunch of downsides, but you dont have to teach anyone SQL, its just a simple repository pattern + microservices + limiting the scope of any one thing.

Type checking is strong, tooling support is strong and you usually can stick in one language and go ham.
It is your machine and it is their software. Why do you think what you want is more important than what they want? You can decide not to run their software if you do not like what it does, if you decide to run it, it will do what they want it to do.
I have crohn's disease, who can I sue?
Coming from an EE background and doing some simple hydraulics work, it blew my mind that the various components are mainly just the right shapes of metal. In retrospect I don't know what else I could have been expecting, except that electronic components are generally made of some special substance. Talk about actual "bare metal" development.
Example of a legit reason to need sideloading: bypassing wrongful assumptions.

a US company I worked for at a non-US office (imagine it was e.g. Google Japan) gave most employees a corporate credit card. Citibank made it impossible to download their app through the Play Store from the country in question, even though it was required to use it. Only option was to sideload it.

This kind of thing has happened on other occasions as well.
No, we're still going to talk past each other. The root of all your UI problems was an increase in complexity, but your experience was degraded, and now you're up a creek. Progress, growth, and complexity do not need to be intertwined, you just believe so the same way "capitalism realism" makes it hard to imagine a future without capitalism.

Before your laundry app, your AC app, and your TV being smart, it may not have been "seamless" to do those chores or work with those appliances, but you can't say your experience is seamless now, based on your anecdotes. A hammer is not made better by putting a computer chip in it. Simpler. Is. Better.

I wouldn't even say it's bureaucrats who think everything can be understood from spreadsheets. It's Pichai, it's Nadella, it's Altman, saying software will eat the world and data will lead us to a singularity but they're the same crowd trying to tell us Juicero is the future.

Your problem is a systems problem. The only way you will solve this systems problem is by changing the purpose of the system when you don't have any control over the inputs, interactions, or motivations of the system, because the tech brahmins that license the software and demand more money for minimal effort hold all the levers, and the AI craze is their final gambit to accrue all the power, irreversibly, forever. That's why it's a predicament.
You’re actually making the same argument that the article is—it’s just hard to tell because terms are being used differently.

Where you talk about merging PRs early, the article talks about merging commits early:
“You don't have to wait on all 5 commits to be ready to go; maybe the first 3 are OK, and the last 2 need more work. You merge 3 out of 5.”

But what you call a disruption-reducing tradeoff, the article argues is just shitty UX on GitHub’s part. The stacking-native tools it mentions are what you’d get if you took the workflow you propose and let devs start task B (and then maybe even C) immediately after task A, instead of making them wait for reviewer sign-off on A.
Great work! It's incredible to see projects like this still going in 2024.
Sounds like they bring the chicken out after simmering it the first time, then take it back to the kitchen and carve it up and serve it. So you've probably got another 30 minutes or so while the guests are eating that to chuck the carcass back in the pot with the cooking liquid. Assuming you already simmered the chicken in stock the first time that would be plenty flavourful.
Ugh I used to keep a British iPhone on a British network in the USA just so I could access my bank accounts, because the app couldn't be downloaded in the USA.

This situation really sucks.
As you stated above: "I really like tkinter and want to commit to it".

>> Yeah but Tcl... is it worth it?

That is for you to decide.
> There is no defensible justification for incorporating a money siphon into an entertainment product.

What do you mean? Society would obviously collapse if we did literally anything else—the Free Market is all that keeps people from murdering each other. By endorsing regulation you're just endorsing murder.
Also subdomains could set cookies on parent domains. Also causes a security problem between sibling domains.

I presume this issue has been reduced over the years by browsers as part of the third-party cookies denial fixes...?

Definitely was a bad security problem.
> I have a general riff that people are too entranced with next-word prediction in LLMs, and if you disentangle GenAI in next-word prediction and the semantic understanding that powers it, the latter is significantly more important.

Ok bud, you and Chomsky both.
As somebody that plays games I would unkindly ask organizations like this to stop existing. The only thing I ever see from these organizations is them lobbying to ban something in the name of "protecting people".

Children do not make their own money. You can't trick someone that doesn't have money, let alone have a credit card to make purchases. It's nonsense.

>This could be dealt with swiftly with a law that says that video games must have upfront pricing— either a one time payment or a fixed-cost subscription.

And leave millions of people unable to play games. Free games are popular for the same reason websites are ad supported: people don't want to, can't afford to or lack the payment methods to pay for them.

People used their wallets to vote on this. And they chose the F2P microtransaction-laden P2W games. The vast majority of those players will spend nothing on that game. You make it buy to play and these games are dead on arrival.

If these systems truly were so nefariously predatory as they are portrayed then you'd think that more than a tiny percentage of players would be spending on them.

I don't like these mechanics either, but I grew up playing them (Korean F2P MMOs), because they were the only ones available to me. If this change why through then these games wouldn't suddenly change, they just wouldn't be available in Europe. If the entire world adopted the regulation then the game wouldn't have been made in the first place. Instead you would get "to play this $60 game you must buy our custom $350 hardware" or something else like that.

Or... You would just get less games.

If you don't like a game then just don't play it. Why do you feel the need to make others unable to play it too?
I assume that as a European our GDPR laws would make this highly illegal if it were operating inside the EU?
I don't know all the details but I think the issue is not so much people confirming their own vote as much as states validating all the votes. Many states have provisional ballots and I'm not sure how those are checked to be valid. As far as mail-in ballots, what if you vote twice once with the mail-in ballot and again in-person? I don't think that gets checked before announcing results, and challenging the results is not straight forward, very contentious and political for no reason. All states should have immediate provable results with redundancy checks.
By golden age I only focus on top of the line Science, Art, Architecture etc which is a what a lot of people intuitively focus on since that is what we remember a period by. What rule was best for the common population is unclear.

It might have been the Mauryas but we don’t have enough details of how the common man lived in the Mauryan empire. The arthashastra seems like our best source. Both the Mughals and the British had their share of evils against the common population but my sense is that if you were Hindu you were better off in the British empire than the Mughal Empire except for the rare tolerant Mughal ruler (eg ; Akbar).
That's just a `git pull --rebase` away (or set pull to never merge but rebase), and all the non-merged commits are rebased onto the new upstream, and while doing the rebase the already-merged commit is dropped. The next git push origin HEAD:refs/for/main will then push the remaining commits.
Still not sure what this is, but here it is:

https://youtu.be/4YBxeDN4tbk?si=CqumD2CHaNMZ650g
You're threatened by AI, I get that.
This is a harsh reality. Certain semiautomatic firearms, like the AR-15 and Glock 19, are already quite close to the Platonic ideal of combustion driven individual weapons. They are overbuilt, in fact -- built for thousands of uses in sea spray and similar conditions. Such weapons will get simpler and simpler to manufacture with time. A principled approach to an armed society is more future proof than a disarmed society.
They never reached the highs reached by the Mauryan Empire, but were still a period of relatively prosperity and stability compared to what immediately followed (until the Mughals came)
Could you provide an example of a work that is actively hard to read aloud?
Non-paywalled at:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/underfunded-aging-na...
Most LDOs straight up won’t tolerate those conditions without very careful thermal management
Been going on for a while:

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation is a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...>
Due to its infancy software's low regulation, barrier to entry, and capital needed makes for one of the few equitable areas left for a person from a disadvantaged background to wind up decently rich if they play their cards right and/or get lucky.

Precisely why it's always under attack. Corps with simple technical objectives accrue thousands of developers into an org chart so dense it's a productivity black hole: anything to justify keeping wages down for the actual workers.
IMO, the easiest and most healthy way to get from here to there is by splitting those companies. There are plenty of ways they can be reborn, many even without hurting anybody.
Since analytics data is generally write-heavy, I would recommend to use ClickHouse. You can use async-insert[0] feature of ClickHouse, thus you don't need to worry about batching events on your side. If you are looking for an embedded solution, you can use chDB which is built on top of ClickHouse.

[0] https://clickhouse.com/blog/asynchronous-data-inserts-in-cli...
> ... about FreeCAD, the user interface is terrible and even though Ondsel exists I just can't stand the way the program works.

FreeCAD seems to operate in the same way as Catia (ie v5/v6), or at least have been developed to follow the same approach to things.

Saying that as I used to use Catia years ago, so the FreeCAD approach wasn't completely foreign.
Any drive that wasn't one where you insert the CD could read those, including portable music players of the time. You could buy mini CD'R's and burn all kinds of mini distros to it.
Genius. Incentivize economic production in industries where you have less comparative advantage. A common story of contribution to poverty in SA, although to be fair Uruguay is better than most others on the continent.
"People used their wallets to vote on this. And they chose the F2P microtransaction-laden P2W games. The vast majority of those players will spend nothing on that game. You make it buy to play and these games are dead on arrival.

If these systems truly were so nefariously predatory as they are portrayed then you'd think that more than a tiny percentage of players would be spending on them."

In an ideal world, this would be true. However, this is not that easy when all your friends are playing those crapware games and they don't exactly want to do anything else. No matter what you choose, you lose in some way. These games have negative externalities.
Nobody ever said it isn't okay to report security issues. This is about dumping 0 days on social media when you know fully well that the other side is cooperating and working on a fix. The who in this case matters because the reporter knew how the Nix community works, knew it was hostile thing to do, and did it anyways.

Again,

https://matrix.to/#/!VRULIdgoKmKPzJZzjj:nixos.org/$tJgEBGqKs...

What I meant is crystal clear if you read what I was replying to. Please don't take it out of context to spin a story. You did it in your original comment, and you did it again right here.
As far as I can see, the article doesn't give any examples of what the complaint is specifically about ("tricking consumers about the real cost"). I don't think the complaint is about 'in-app' purchases for skins etc in-and-of-itself.
To expand on this consider the amount of brains that can directly query the amount of a specific neurotransmitter used between two neurons and interpret what that means. That isn't exactly the same, but a hopefully illustrative analogy. An LLM's output is an emergent property of its structure and all the weights being multiplied together just as an organism's intelligence is an emergent property of its brain structure and communication between neurons. Neither of the emergent parts can currently reliably query the substrate they emerge from for similar reasons.

That isn't to say that such an LLM or biological brain couldn't be built, but none presently are.
SongCreator: Lyrics-Based Universal Song Generation
Thanks for this...I'd never heard of DuckDB.

I'm writing in PHP, so it looks like that's a nonstarter for now, but _very_ interested to see if a PHP extension pops up for this in the future.
Why would this help with games?
Happened all the time to me before I did some tuning Depends how much write contention you have and how long open transactions take to finish.
This metaphor immediately rang true to me but the article is definitely worth the whole read. There are a bunch of linked articles too which also have some very sound advice. I really like a tactic in hard situations which was saying "What I learned..." followed by "What I'll do is...". It makes someone feel heard and that you'll follow through with some action to make someone feel like you have akin in the game with their concern. I really liked a lot of other somewhat generic but still oft-ignored advice like lean in a bit, make eye-contact, and the title which is just that if someone is making you feel off, instead of just reacting like a thermometer and also potentially aggravating the weirdness, do things that help regulate and relieve those human tendencies based on feelings of fear etc. Excellent read.
I have mixed feelings about this sort of thing.

It's saying you don't trust your people to make the right decisions. That you don't trust them to understand the difference between a shortcut that does and doesn't matter. The fact that Chang's staff emailed them to say "hey, we've started taking this shortcut" is a reason to trust them. Any deviation from the plan, and they let him know? Great! But he thinks that if he allows good shortcuts, sometime later, they'll start taking bad shortcuts, but he'll never find out, or won't find out until it's too late? It's profoundly insulting.

But at the same time, fighting human nature is hard. Judgment will suffer while under stress, and working in a kitchen is certainly a poster child for "stressful situation". Even with the best intentions, bad decisions will be made, even if they seem like good decisions in the moment.

I still think we should strive for that trust, though. Making people stick to an inefficient process where they can't see the reason for it is how you get detached, uncreative employees.

> I think a charitable interpretation of his point is "I didn't care about fooling the diners about this specific thing."

The funny thing is I actually do think he should be caring about this. Bringing out a chicken to show customers, and either explicitly saying or even implying that they're going to take that chicken back to the kitchen, carve it up, plate it, and bring it back out is a statement of intent. If you don't do it that way, then that's dishonest in a way I'd consider really bad. If I found out that parading the chicken out to my table was just a gimmick, and that's not the chicken I ended up eating, I'd feel lied to (or at least very much misled), and that would affect my enjoyment of the experience and my desire to go back.
While similar at a glance, the underlying functionality between a 3d modeler and a CAD kernel is tragically completely different.

Even FreeCAD has some fundamental differences (and lack of functionality) between it and other mainline CAD programs.

Hopefully someone with more knowledge and experience than me can hop in and explain more, I'm just a CAD user, not a CAD kernel developer.