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sigh something is wrong here and I can't pinpoint exactly what.

> There is a LOT more to development than coding

Agreed. Many companies already have paid work hours for hiring. I just listed those examples because those seems to be more common than work days ATM and isn't most employment in US at will unlike EU and developed parts of the world?

I understand the company will still have some cost to that but why should individuals be worked for free to offset that?

A take-it home project with 1 week maximum allows for that with some amount to be paid to the person. Many respected companies do it that way if not whiteboard interviews.

Lambda already takes a cut out of these student's future salaries.

Sorry, I don't agree. The way this is advertised is gross.

It's illegal in NY, at least. I don't know about other states.

> I like the idea, and I think it's worthwhile

I can't think of any reasonable person who will accept 4 weeks of unpaid work and be treated as a trial product on top of that.

Um, is that 4 weeks unpaid? Is this even legal?

It will be interesting if you have been writing it for a long time.

I don't know what being conservative is these days.

Other than decreasing taxes and anti-abortion position, I can't think of anything else that conservatives support which wouldn't be unreasonable by their own system.

That sounds pretty bad tbh.

You can have parental control on iPhones and macbooks. I don't see the issue as long as you limit the screen time and whitelist only useful stuff. Use next DNS on your router.

> I cannot think of a worse idea than a teenager with a camera and a wide-open internet connection. Some day they will have those things. But not today, Satan.

What's the worst that will happen?

Porn? Twitter? 4chan?

What do you think about the IP parts of RCEP?

Hehe, that's the one I added above on second place.

Holy shit, did this have any significant changes?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/rcep-other-closed-door...

https://www.bilaterals.org/rcep-ip

I mean, few if not most of those things are available in PWA and via plugins (containers?), maybe not on apple but they are on windows and Linux.

There is a new filesystem api: https://web.dev/file-system-access/

Electron still provides more freedom but I would argue many of the existing electron apps don't need it.

So countries can now play real time factorio?

It looks amazing.

Others have already given possible reasons, another might be that they don't want to accept certain jobs or opportunities and are overly selective. They may not want to work yet but are adding any offers to the pile to negotiate better later.

I know a similar person who is good with designing distributed systems and programming in general. They had a offer from facebook but declined. They want to get a good paying cybersec job but alas there aren't any at good companies. Currently working on gigs and being broke.

I am tired of these articles. Can we please stop?

They don't have anything new. I know it's fun to pile up on apple or any big tech company for that matter but apple users here are already aware of most shenanigans and they have already made up their mind. It's the general public that needs more of these articles with better explanations who don't know about what they are accepting.

Your post came off that way.

And yes, it is not helpful to look negatively. I think people with depression understand this too. They can't help it. If they had more control over their thoughts and life, it wouldn't be a disease or require medical treatment.

As per the link I posted in the comment, pessimism has been rising in developed and rich countries. So I wouldn't be surprised to find more pessimistic people on tech forums today. Tech filters out middle class people likely in developed countries or parts of the world. HN is dominated by Americans who have had a rough year. Protests, political unrest, they are currently leading in covid cases worldwide, etc. Other comments explain different reasons, I agree with them too so I won't repeat.

One thing I noticed is the rate of not depressed at all votes. It gradually increased towards late night in US.

Essentialism, influence, Putin: prisoner of power, no longer human, invisible cities, and how to lie with statistics.

I am currently going through psychology of money (although it doesn't seem that interesting yet) but I can take up a few recommendations if you have any :)

I have been using audible as my primary way to read (listen?) and supplement it with kindle. Reading is too much friction at first but once I get past the first chapter, I am eager to pick up the written book.

A few members in my distant family died in the last few months. One of whom I was close with (grandparent) but it barely affected me negatively yet I had been forced into shell for months due to otherwise small things in the past. It's not the severity of the outcome. I recovered faster from those. I require medicine when that happens and the triggers are always small non obvious.

Please don't judge people based on the severity of their situation as to whether they are suffering or not. It doesn't help. It misleds bystanders reading your comment into a pit instead of seeking help.

As for the comparison to the world getting better, it's not linear and same for everyone. While on average, people are living better life than they did before. Life for people in some countries have gotten worse, not better. Maybe life for people which this forum self selects have gotten worse in the last few years.

Also see: https://ourworldindata.org/optimism-pessimism

I am much better than I was in the past 2 years this year. I still suffer from depression but I have found ways to deal with it. I am better at redirecting thoughts and containing them. I was able to finish few books in the last 2 weeks and continue with a morning walk routine. Those books really helped me understood why I was failing at modern life.

I cut mainstream social media from my life and reduced screen time. I am more optimistic. I am able to fight against the profitable pessimism.

I am reducing the urge to hoard more material belongings. I learnt that on HN. I was able to let go off fancy toys and electronics that I didn't use anymore but kept because I bought them and grown attached to them. If I don't use it, it's better someone else can. I don't want to keep them on eBay for months.

4x faster than before? I don't care to look more unless I need it.

I re-evaluate my room and budget every month in order to cut down what isn't needed. If I don't do that, I will keep using past as a justification for piling up more til I suffocate between Amazon boxes.

I bought a dustbin for my neighborhood because people were throwing wrappers outside and placed it with a note. So far, some people are using it and that makes me happy. Reciprocity is a powerful tool and I am optimistic someone will think about what I did and do the same in future.

I write more using a paper notebook. goals, priorities, learnings, etc. Software note taking tools suck because they limit your freedom on what you can do. At the end of my todos, I make origami pets from them as a reminder of what I able to accomplish.

Don't be afraid of being messy. Here's my notes from a few days ago: https://ibb.co/yPGb4Z8

They aren't coherent but just enough to remind me.

Politicians can only be good or neutral.

Why not me@steve, iam@steve, thisis@steve, thereal@steve or any of the other variants?

I really wish 2fa was implemented in convenient form everywhere. There are ton of sites that just force me to use SMS.

Yeah. Reddit is especially really intrusive and annoying. I feel like they just don't want people to use their site anymore. Whenever I open new Reddit, my memory and CPU usage goes up so badly.

I have seen increasing number of people using emojis as a word or username replacement. Given how well it works in many context, I disagree with excluding emojis.

How many people die from guns excluding accidents, law enforcement, suicides, etc in US?

How many of them illegally owned guns or had committed a crime with them?

How poor the area was?

What is the impact of media on encouraging mass gun shootings?

It's established that publishing news of suicide encourages more copy cats and the participants are co-related in some way. News of young people committing suicide encourages other young people and so on.

I support improved gun control laws but how much of it will be solved by it at the cost of freedom?

It's helpful to take subtle actions toward change for better when you are depressed. A key part of human tendency is to be consistent with what we have already done. It's a strong motivator to keep habits.

On intrusive thoughts, I think identifying them early and accepting them is important to re-directing them. It takes lot of patience and practice. Don't give up on the first few tries. Just remember that eventually you will be consistent with your actions.

I am having a horrible day -> what's the least I could do to make this day better? and then do it.

Please don't aim for something you can't do. It's okay if you can get out of the bed. No need to go for run. Aim for the least and gradually increase otherwise you will not do anything due to fear.

Another skill that will help you immensely is ability to prioritize the right things. Writing down what you really should do in order and sticking it to somewhere visible helps.

In the end, no clear solution exist. For some, medication might be the best option and for others, it's lot of training to control the factors leading to intrusive thoughts and eventually depressive episode.

Recently, there is an increasing conspiracy theorist group who believe that covid was planned by few billionaires who profited the most this pandemic.

Woah, I didn't know that.

For anyone else: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/why-gr...

So the idea doesn't seem that crazy.

I am deeply empathetic to both society and prisoners. I don't think a life imprisonment make any sense for either. I would be for removing it or replacing it with anything else.

Money that use to rot people in prisons for life could be saving people who are systematically pushed towards the criminal path.

You have 100% chances of being raped and abused in all sort of ways in prison with a lifetime sentence. Even if someday we get it to Norway standards everywhere in the world, why put a person in cage for life?

Another plan I have is to build an island where everyone with life sentence get sent and live.