skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel extraordinarily lucky to be in a profession where the opposite is true. Although it was demoralizing during my first four years or so to see my superiors leave hours before me and my colleagues, work quickly became both more qualitatively rewarding and more quantitatively reasonable.

I feel like the article's suggestions are a little trite. Just make work friends and find a personal project at work! I suspect that a good number of people feeling ennui feel that way due to a lack of autonomy. If my hunch is correct, it seems unlikely they'll be able to just choose a personal project at work.
Well they probably have an upper tier. If it costs the same it's to be seen.

But yeah, if Google or Microsoft engineers can't create a custom instance with 32GB of memory then they shouldn't get the bid
35 is probably the age where you have accepted the fact that you are just a cog in the machine, and the output will benefit someone other than yourself. For years leading up to it you already know youre just trading your life's precious hours away for money - which seems to have less and less purchasing power by the year. Once you realize the job is just a means of keeping yourself going, the perpetual cycle dawns on you as a sea of misery and despair. Friends fall by the sidelines, opinions shaped into concrete paths, the 35 year old you finds it difficult to see meaning in the never-ending cycle of slavery that we call work.
‘Building up’ stretchable electronics to be as multipurpose as your smartphone
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You are mistaken, and I've mostly responded upwards in the thread, but I wanted to add that the fraud's purpose is not to prevent chargebacks, it's to be able to receive money at all. Mainstream processors refuse to work with these guys because the fraud rate is so high, so they try to get their transactions approved (in any way possible) by disguising them. It is still very easy for any customer to chargeback a credit card charge.
Does any of this have implications for libraries like your FALCONN https://falconn-lib.org? Have not read the paper yet.
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As a filtering method it still seems illogical.
Since there are essentially only two positions you need to hire for. Junior and Senior.
If the position is senior, grill them on the complicated technical stuff, because in their position they could potentially cost you millions with a small mistake, however this is also why they get paid so well.
For junior, hire four people, do normal HR and resume checks to establish that they are a safe hire, and let the actual work filter them out. Additionally, once you have established which of the hires are good fits, see if you can find other positions internally for the ones that aren't, as they now have already been inducted and understand company policy/culture etc, plus you have already spent resources hiring them. The hirees gain from the watercooler effect and start building loyalty towards their employer as opposed to leaving at the drop of a hat, since their company seems to care about their well-being.
Am I insane for thinking this way? Please tell me if I'm missing something.
> I once read that an OCaml to LLVM compiler was attempted, but people had problems with the GC aspect. I can’t confirm this claim though.

I was thinking of the same, but I hadn't/haven't used it so you may be right it never came to fruition.
Which profession are you in?
Expectation of 24/7, 20 minute response to a callout is bullshit. If that’s not shitty, you’re a victim of some sort of employee Stockholm syndrome.
I don't have a windows machine. But I think Threadripper must have been focused for Windows since most desktop users are Windows users after all.
I'm now 62 and I can already feel my sense of purpose waning. I realize now that I'm not going to change the world. My wife died last year and now I can see that whatever I achieve now it will all be forgotten in a few short decades. Sometimes I think "why bother doing anything?". Mostly I keep busy with things that I had no time to do until I retired at the beginning of this year. But, it has to be said that some of these things are just finishing projects that have long been on hold and that I want to finish just for the satisfaction of having completed them.

Sorry, rambling. Intimations of mortality have that effect on me sometimes.
Depends on what standards you judge by, and whether you use it responsibly or not. It's hard to talk about "technology" as a whole, but I would say it has definitely made our lives easier (not necessarily better or worse).
The hospital is only legally forbidden from sharing the patient's medical records without the patient's consent. The patient legally granted permission for the hospital to release medical information to CNN and the hospital has continued to refuse to do so.
Wait, I thought it was supposed to be Millennials that are spoiled and do nothing but complain about their jobs...
US bans government personnel from using Huawei and ZTE devices
Very cool that you made it work for you. I'm in a situation where on a daily basis I feel total Bliss and extreme depression.
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i.e., what Paul Manafort is currently standing trial for
It's the "How can I quit my job today" mindset. Each person has a different subset of options, based on their socioeconomic state:

- Concieve a child and carry to term, then raise.

- Start your own business.

- Sell your house and live on the street / forest.

- Become a farmer.

- Win a lottery / Bitcoin bubble / IPO skyrocket / other windfall.

- Move in with your parents / children.

- Commit crimes.

- Create pornography (enter a new industry).

- Start an online store / list items on eBay or Amazon.

- Move to Alaska, build a cabin, and live off the land.

Etc.

Sometimes a person will find themselves fixated on the most realistic option for their scenario, turning one of these into a plan of action, discussing with coworkers, and trying to make it even more realistic.
For me it was at 24, about 2 years after I started working. The first two years were exciting vanity-filled ride, because I was proving that to myself and others that I was really capable. I got quickly promoted to a project manager role (that was in a time and organization where PMs weren't just bureucrats, the role was exciting). Delivering my first project was hell of a ride (coffee and red-bull powered one), but after that, I saw that I'm just going to have to repeat that experience for the next 40 years. I gave my notice soon afterwards, and since then I look for jobs with best salary to effort ratio. Also, there are some kinds of jobs (management, enterprise architect), that are so annoying that I don't know how much I would have to be paid to do them again.
The government is the only entity that does not have to (and never should) follow capitalistic rules. The government is for the people, and capitalism, by definition, is not.
I was in the same situation and learned about recommender systems by implementing a simple movie recommendation system in JavaScript. If you are interested, you can find the source code over here: https://github.com/javascript-machine-learning/movielens-rec...
Sounds nice, but what about your family? Relatives that might need your attention?

I love examples like this one, but unfortunatelly they can't be applied to a general guy.

Though I have to agree that you have to go for a change one way or the other. Some people can do this almost right now, some will have to do some kind of preparations which can take quite some time too.

PS: not to metion that economical\social conditions can be an issue too.
Different Linux kernel config options, probably. Different options can drastically affect performance.
With pornography, there is the added stigma of an industry that has a lot of exploitation, abuse, and sex trafficking.
> In general, it often happens that people think they know better than doctors,

And people are allowed to make stupid decisions! It's not the state's responsibility to automatically defer all control to the residing 'expert'.
Do you worry about coming out of the other end of these travels - by choice or circumstance - and not having the stability/financial cushion that maintaining a steady job would have afforded you?
Just compare "South Park" to "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". CGI can't replace a good script.
I’ve hit this realization at 30. But exactly this.
At the age of 34 I opted out of having 'a job', set up a company of my own and now contract and consult. I change who I'm working for every few months to a year.

I don't (often) get that bored. There isn't time for the cynicism to develop, I feel like my skills are valued, I bring home a ton more cash, and if I dislike the way my client operates or tries to put controls on my working patterns, I walk.

I know I am extraordinarily privileged, and I don't know how long this can last, but six years have passed and I feel better than ever about my career. Or my lack of it.
Newsflash, don't form your entire world view as a function of things you read in the news.
I agree with your advice!

But I want to remind that a life-changing decision does not need to involve changing continents and continuous traveling. It can be just a career change. Not all 40-hours workweeks are the same.

I started my career in the social sector, doing fundraising for NGOs. Then, after 6 years, I quit to found my own startup. 2 years between a couple of tries that failed. Then I went to work in Marketing at a startup for another 2 years. Then I quit to study software development fulltime, so for the last year, I am a frontend developer.

Each of these changes came as soon as I realized I was not happy with my job/field. Each of them made me happier. But all of them were still 40 hours of work while living with my family or wife.
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> Why would you want to work for a company which asks these question in the interview?

Presumably because it is one of the big five (I didn't know there was such a thing). I suspect it looks good on your CV. You'll always be a big five alumni :-)
Never ascribe to conspiracy what can equally well be explained by stupidity... or in this case a broken scheduler.
That's a lot of words to define illness as "being worse than normal."

>The loss of function, the obstruction of an activity, cannot in itself destroy my health. I am too heavy to fly by flapping my arms, but I do not for that reason complain of being sick with weight.

It wouldn't be a loss unless he had previously been able to fly, otherwise it's a maintenance of the status-quo.
What kind of consulting if you don't mind me asking?
I've saved roughly 15 million and gave away 10 million to my girlfriend.

From the sale of my company.
China has been around for what? Three thousand years? Its not going anywhere. Even at its lowest point under Mao it still exerted enough influence to counter the Soviet and US political domination of Asia.
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Travel must have been a much bigger deal 100 years ago. You could not get shots for the area you're going. It would be so slow. On the other hand, with fewer travelers there wouldn't be areas over run by tourists.
I start hating my job every three years or so. Then I get a new one making more money.
I'm not saying this does not exist, i'm pretty aware that this is a real problem. I'm just saying that this remark--even if true and on point--doesn't constitute a valid argument against public hospitals since (1) this problem of public hospitals has already a much more widespread cousin in the private sector and (2) it is not intrinsically a problem of the hospital but a governance issue (which is called power abuse and has a lot of other symptoms).
Not all 3 have to respond all the time. It's a rotating schedule for having the overnight phone and the weekend phone (during weekend nights the SLA is relaxed to 1 hour).

And keep in mind, 20 minute response doesn't mean you fix the problem in 20 minutes, it means you respond in 20 minutes to the callout.

I think you're victim of an easy-going startup culture.
Nothing can make you feel powerless quite like a kafkaesque bureaucracy where the decisions are faceless and unaccountable.
That recession was caused by the Fed. Rates were raised sharply to break inflation.
Perhaps a better comparison is a slightly older one - the economic consequences of the Russian investment in the Trans-Siberian Railway. The significant [struggling to find a citation with numbers] investment as a percentage of GDP between 1891 and 1916 starved other capital investments that would have yielded greater return in the more populated west. In addition, the infrastructure investment brought the Russian Empire into stronger contact with previously distant empires (China and Japan). By 1914 and the start of World War 1, the railway was valuable in bringing resources from Siberia to the west. But, if that capital had been invested in the western provinces, even improved railway network in Ukraine, Poland and Belorussia, would war outcomes have been different. And, would capital investments more directly visible and related to population centers created a dynamic that would have been less sympathetic to Bolshevik ideology?
A strawman. Farmers alone could never account for the record Soviet rates of economic growth. And neither could they if combined with convicts/POWs.

In late 20s this was the deal:

- Poor peasantry cannot provide wheat due to very poor productivity. They use primitive and crude tools, because by definition they cannot afford anything better and can barely even feed themselves, let alone produce any meaningful surplus that can be exchanged for goods or money.

- Rich peasantry is not incentivized to, since the state has monopoly on pricing and is the only legal buyer.

- It's impossible to offer industrial goods to the peasants in exchange for wheat because all resources are directed toward industrialization to create means of production.

- There are foodstamps in the cities, food becomes more expensive, the workers are discontent.

- The state loses most of it's export revenue because the global price of wheat declines as the Great Depression begins.

- The West refuses to trade with USSR even in exchange for gold.

The entire point of collectivization was to raise workforce productivity in agriculture to free enough people to work in cities and to allow these farms to be able to buy industrial goods.

Forced collectivization mostly stopped in 1932-1933, you could run a farm on your own if you wanted to, but you would have been taxed at a much higher rate than a collective farm.

The other key point is that state monopoly allows for concentration of capital that cannot otherwise be achieved in a dirt poor country. Would an efficient soviet land owner (or a foreign investor) have invested in a tractor factory in 1929?

The answer is: No, because the demand simply did not exist. And even if it would have appeared, it would have been much easier for a land owner to just buy Ford's tractors worth $300-350 each, not invest in a tractor factory.

And even though the West refused to trade, the US engineers played pivotal role in construction of key soviet factories and plants:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Lincoln_Cooper
Fantastic work! I hope to see it become feature complete with the remaining grammatical cases implemented. It would be great to have an active and mature Turkish NLP library. Much needed work! (Preparing a pull request ATM.)
> I turn up on the day, but then these interviews asking difficult algorithm question seem to be a rarity in the UK, thankfully.

Perhaps...I've seen a few share of those in interview situations or in pre-interview screening tests. I like the fact the fact that is a standard test that every candidate faces. I'm not sure that the nature of the tests has any relation to the type of work one will be required to in some of these places...
Consumption as Identity
If you drink soft drinks every meal you are stressing your insulin system, thereby acting as a danger to yourself. People who practice extreme sports are also dangers to themselves, along with private pilots and those who take dangerous jobs.

This is not even to mention that disagreeing with the Party can become very dangerous to yourself... (Not so much in the Netherlands, but elsewhere, possibly. The soviets used forced institutionalization against their political enemies.)
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Startups should read this checklist before going whale hunting for big partners
That's right. The engineers have eternity to achieve outcomes satisfying to all parties. And if they choose not to, well, that's an all-time consequence, not a long-term one.
At your age (if it’s mid 20s) money should be around the bottom of the priolist, later in life that may not be an option
I know switching to consulting (and finding a lot of success in it) has made me 3x happier. I never would have risked the switch if family issues didn't force me to.
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Up for me, also reddit linked to it too.
The fact that will have reasonably priced, real-time unbiased global scene rendering within 5-10 years really blows my mind. I knew this was coming for a long time, but seeing it actually happen is so odd.

After seeing the bright potential of an AI-powered future turn into a sad totalitarian reality it's nice to see a "futuristic" technology materialize with little potential for malevolent use.
I wouldn't necessarily hold it against anyone working in porn so much as working in the porn industry. The porn industry is violently against even basic things like condom use (and the list continues). Such resistance tends to mean justifying things with excuses. Since compromising would be to admit to responsibility. So why should I trust that someone working in such an environment isn't going to treat private data, important infrastructure or financial software the same? Random programmers from overall mediocre environments are quite easy to find whether it is porn or something else.

Edit: It is always funny how when you claim that people are biased and don't have arguments on Hacker News, they downvote you. People really can't get out of their heads. My point still stands. Good programmers doesn't have to go into controversial industries. They don't need excuses to justify how things "actually really are". The article says that the porn industry is "leading" in technology. That is bullshit. They might be leading in commercialization of certain technologies for a brief second, but that is all. How many programming languages did they invent? Zero.

Don't go into mediocre industry where people accept problems as a feature. All the people around will be there because they don't care about certain things and so won't you. You might not like it, that is up to you, but don't come complaining when you can't find a job after 40 because you haven't developed the skills companies are looking for at that age. Like identifying, solving and taking responsibility for larger problems.
Yeah that's something to keep in mind - there should be an equivalent, positive article saying 5 in 6 people above 35 are happy with their job. That's a really good number!
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As I pointed before[1], Turkish and computers don't really get along. The beauty of Turkish lies in its irregularity, not the rules you learn. That irregularity is amplified by the shrinking vocabulary in use owing to the disappearance of many Arabic and Persian words which people used to use as recently as the 30s, 40s, and the 50s.

Understanding a Turkish speaker requires a grasp of the entire context at all times. "Matematikten çakmak" can mean to be good at math or to flunk math.

Another example which I noticed because it involved my name is "Uçak düşsün ama sadece Sinan ölsün!"[2] which Google Translate translates as "The plane is your dream, but only Sinan!"[3].

In fact, it means "I wish the plane crashes and only Sinan dies". Of course, "düş" as a noun is "dream" but "düşsün" is derived from the verb "düşmek" which means "to fall" but when it is coupled with a plane means "crash". Interestingly, there is not a good general purpose translation of "plane crash" to Turkish. Sure, you can get away with "uçak kazası" in most cases, but not all crashes are accidents. In fact, something as simple as "five perished in the crash" is perilous to translate. Most will translate that as "kazada beş kişi hayatını kaybetti" even in cases where the crash was not an accident. To deal with similar things, people end up over-using the word "olay" (event).

Now, ponder the difference between "Sinan bir düş" and "Sinan bir düş".

Turkish and machines don't mix.

Now, let's briefly consider the claim that Turkish pronunciation is easy compared to English. It is not. I am not even going to get into regional differences, but leave this one example which became even harder after the military junta abolished the circumflex. List the meanings of the sentence "Karı severim". Which one is pronounced differently? Note that at least one of those meanings can get you in trouble in polite company.

Edumacated Turkish native speakers always had a tendency to resort to English or French words even when completely unnecessary and I've been observing in the press and social media many examples of automated translation errors making it into daily use.

PS: A related rants[4,5].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17737333

[2]: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/magazin/ucak-dussun-ama-s...

[3]: https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/U%C3%A7ak%20d%C3%BC%C5...!

[4]: https://www.nu42.com/2013/04/translation-of-programming-term...

[5]: https://www.nu42.com/2014/08/replacing-hash-keys-with-values...
Why are the batteries dead? Anyway you might be able to run a cable to your next door neighbour. I know of people who already sell solar power to their neighbours.
I have also built several keyboards, and I cannot imagine the pain it would be having to define a key for every Unicode character.

What, like a QMK-style C macro for every Unicode code point? that's not the only way to design the API.
So far the only way to control my brother is to have him take an intramuscular injection every few weeks. Pills usually need to be taken 2 to 3 times daily. No one can control that (unless hospitalized), it's hard even for family members.
I think its because through experience people have figured out a lot of unspoken things about what its really like being an employee.

They have figured out that its much more about connections and office politics than hard work.

They have figured out that there is really no job security, and they could be one layoff wave away from unemployment.

They have figured out that its much more about face time and spending long hours at work rather than actually being productive.

They have figured out that the majority of their work, to their surprise is not actually that important or necessary.

They have figured out that its important not to take too much vacations, because its an opportunity to loose the little work they have to someone else.

They have figured out that they are never going to get payed the true value of their work,and that is almost the definition of being an employee.

They have figured out that its all a system of serventry not too different from the medieval relation between master and servant.

They have figured out that its a system that they are being grinded through and discarded, and that they are condemned for life to making someone else rich, never getting a chance to trully furfill their dreams and ambitions.

All of this takes a lot of time to figure out and piece together, it takes over ten years, and so the age 35 seems about right.