skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds good. At what stage would I need to buy the license? I could not find any info on that.
Maybe creating a log of the work you do would give you some measurable objective points for your own self worth? I did that at my last place to establish their PIP was pretextual. It kept me around long enough to find the next place. But it also built my self confidence - by having an undeniable, immutable recount of my work. I’d keep a running log each shift and email it to myself at the end. Everything time stamped, dated, summarized, and relevant documents included.

IT support and now sys admin/engineering stuff.
You would think that. Unfortunately many/most people care more about their precious roads than they do about infrastructure.
Any reading you can link to regarding how to accomplish stuff like this? I.e. valid pdfs that are also valid bootable images?
You were replying to someone who said "I have to wonder what criteria you believe he should be using to decide his position when answering questions like this.", but that was referring to the questions he answered when he wrote the mentioned opinion years ago, not questions he answered during the hearing.

Your comment seems misplaced, since we're talking about opinions not confirmation hearings.
While you're not incorrect, there's a whole slew of the 'on the fence' produce that DOES get sent to supermarkets, and then don't get sold. There's been a few documentaries about it, well worth a watch.
Yeah I remember this, I furrowed my eyebrows for sure. Like how can you not know the founding of Apple in this day and age, its deeply embedded in the Reality Canon at this point
We should chat. Or you should check out weworkremotely.com.

These companies do exist.
This sounds likely, and I wouldn’t be surprised if google had deals with publishers to send additional data, like your computer’s internal IP via webrtc.

Alternatively WaPo could be using WebRTC to pull your internal IP and caching with your external IP along and other data to create a unique identifier.
Ah Huygens. Always Huygens
By OP's argument, the Soviets had ideology which supposedly limited their actions. The Chinese on the other hand are truly faithless.
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Indeed. J is a wonderful language.

From the article:

> I don't know why Iverson thought the hook was the thing to embed in the language.

There are deep reasons for the choice: http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/fork1.htm

In addition, viewing J as "a worse Haskell" is to misunderstand it. J is a function-level, not a purely functional, language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function-level_programming#Con...

From that link:

> When Backus studied and publicized his function-level style of programming, his message was mostly misunderstood,[2] as supporting the traditional functional programming style languages instead of his own FP and its successor FL.

> ...

> This restriction means that functions in FP [Backus's function-level language] are a module (generated by the built-in functions) over the algebra of functional forms, and are thus algebraically tractable. For instance, the general question of equality of two functions is equivalent to the halting problem, and is undecidable, but equality of two functions in FP is just equality in the algebra, and thus (Backus imagines) easier.
A very good Mezcal drink:

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012967-oaxaca-old-fashi...

The spraying of the oil of the orange peel through a lit match is a surprisingly fun thing to do.
Ah, ill will or using Java as a punching bag was not my intent at all. I was working on this task, and the Java code I referenced was based on a popular Gist to accomplish the same task that I needed to accomplish, with many comments of users adapting (copy/paste programming) the same code for their usage. I felt an 'in the wild' solution was comparable to my novice-level Clojure solution (those more well versed in Clojure would likely write a much better implementation of what I did).
This was meant to be a real world use case where I found my problem solved in Clojure turned out much better than it would have been solved in another language running my choice environment (JavaFX), instead of some arbitrary contrived examples (see Rosetta Code for tons of that).
Hardly midlife crisis. At 40, your kids might be getting old enough to require less time. You have a stable job, etc.

Most importantly, the massive amount of information on hand, connectivity of the internet, and some creative organizers have allowed people to do what many have always wanted!

Why is athleticism not looked on for a 20 year old, but is for a 40 year old?

When a woman returns to work after a decade and a half off because of kids, is she going through a midlife crisis, assuming working wasn't needed to survive?

A crisis implies an impending sense of doom or mortality. It implies socially unapproved behavior.
A 50 year old man buying a Corvette to hit on 20 year olds.

Extreme athleticism is hardly risky behavior unless you believe live should be without any risk and limited to strolls in park.
Sometimes life just gets in the way for a decade or two.

Does a 50 year old who buys a truck for hunting or fishing have a crisis? Hunting and fishing can be a lot cheaper than flying all over the world on vacations.

A 40 year old is easily young enough to handle an R1, so why not buy one? If he can handle ultra-marathons, go for it.

My father did triathlons until 60. Guess what? He loved them. It was a great way to pass the time.

As you get older, you find you may have automated a lot of your life away, or at least simplified it. You might also not be fighting to climb the ladder, but instead discovered where you are happy.

You might find your day to day too cerebral, with the rest of your body semi neglected. If you have achieved a lot "mentally", why not see what you can do physically?
Well, it probably depends on your personality, but for me, you do measure yourself against others, but you're not competing. Everyone can pass, everyone can get 100%. You win or lose on your own, not because someone else was better. Well, once you're in anyways. Applications are definitly competitive.
You could just breed it back down to being slower-growing if that was the case, if that was what any big farmer wanted...
> I read that section of his opinion, and it certainly seems like the answer is "no".

I don't think you understood what you were reading then. You can't just naively analyse someone applying rules other people wrote, and see any strong evidence in what rules he would write given the opportunity. In some cases (but not this one) a judge will write a side note explaining his thoughts, and even asking for the rules to be changed. But here, we just have someone saying "the Supreme Court said X must lead to Y, and this looks a lot like X, and thus it must lead to Y". The most you can gain from that is an understanding of how he interprets X; you can't learn anything about whether he thinks Y ought to follow X.
To put some real numbers to this: $500k a month is $6M a year, or maybe $3M post-tax (assuming there's no way to shelter that income).

At a very conservative 3.33% annual withdrawal rate, which all but guarantees that your capital will grow faster than you spend it in the long term, after one year of work he could live on an annual income of $100k, forever, without working another day.

I guess it depends on your definition of "luxurious", but $100k free-and-clear annually buys you a much nicer lifestyle than most people have!
Works well if you don't have a family.
Whoa, must be recent. Do you know of any alternatives?
The best liars totally believe what they say in the moment they say it. They have the ability to fool themselves, which is essential to fool others.

It's probably an evolutionary trait.
I think you are wrong.
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Sure it would. But these things don't happen in a vacuum. If someone like Ninja just quit streaming one day, there would be a ton of pressure on him. His followers would constantly be asking him why he did it, when he's coming back. They'd speak rumors about him, comment publicly on his health (mental and physical).

I'm sure your answer is to just ignore it all. No problem, if you're a robot. Then there's the pressure that comes along with quitting a super-high income job. There's a voice in the back of your head saying "You are incredibly lucky to be here. Quitting is crazy. You'll never get a chance like this again."

This isn't a job that comes with a lot of security. If someone like Ninja left the scene for 1-2 years, there's no guarantees he'd ever be able to come back and have the same impact again. The odds are he couldn't.
You have to pay for bandwidth, CDNs, storage, app servers, DB servers, etc etc.

Decentralized serving has just as much bandwidth, storage, and iron (if not more). Does it somehow make those resources cheaper?
> Is it true that one can get away with doing a lot of stuff that's sub-optimal for short term performance in an extremely competitive league like the NFL?

You should read up on the training regimen of Usain Bolt. Fastest guy who ever lived. His training regime is basically that he doesn’t train. I can’t imagine that his dietary adherence is any better. Short of malnutrition or massive sugar consumption, there’s probably not much he could do to screw himself up. Clearly his genes want to build a very specific phenotype.
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Not every company needs smart capable senior engineers. If you are just doing yet another SAAS CRUD app, you may not need anymore than an architect and some mid level developers. Full stack developers are becoming a commodity.

Most of the world’s developers aren’t doing anything that complicated. Yes I am a developer, and I command a slight market premium because of my architecture experience, but I am not the force multiplier that I was as a dev lead previously. I self demoted for a lot of reasons (for the same pay) but I know that my work isn’t as impactful.
Employers will take everything you're willing to give. You have to set boundaries. I used to work twice as hard over a weekend to meet a deadline. I then worked with people who, confidently, stated "Sorry, If you want to meet that deadline we need more resources." They would also simply not work weekends. If work didn't get done, it didn't get done.

This is obviously where imposter syndrome comes into play. If you're confident in your ability, you aren't scared you will be fired or let go for standing up for yourself.
Anymore? Was there ever a time when the "common" person had a strong influence on government policy, relative to wealthy people or large coalitions?

Note that I'm referring to policy, not rhetoric.
Just wondering. Would anybody want a block devise backed by s3 or other object storage? Local cache with snapshots that can be rolled back ? Maybe giving you a exobyte of addrisable storage ?

This would be a actual block device not a fuse file system.
I wonder if this is specific to YouTube in any way. E.g., I'd stop visiting xkcd if Randall didn't keep uploading regularly. Most open source projects (including mine) turn into GitHub graveyard because we can't provide even the most basic maintenance and support.
Lots of traditional-media pop stars have also famously burnt out.

In general, it is hard work to cultivate a proper institution that spreads out the load and makes this sustainable. And the skill for managing that is never really taught anywhere. Most "lone artists" don't even realize it's needed until it's too late. And that's where most of this frustration stems from. Culturally we focus too much on that one "big break", or the "eureka moment".
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Their findings were considerably more equivocal than you make out; certainly "actually not healthy to run more than around ~5K at a time" doesn't seem be something that their study is even equipped to discuss.

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)...

Things start to look rough for the highest quintile and especially the top 2 'tertiles of the top quintile' (I know, a weird subdivision here). But we're talking about 24 miles in a week and maybe 5+ sessions... pretty far removed from evidence that you shouldn't ever run more than 5K.

I don't have a horse in this race but there's a lot of broscience drifting around this area with the general message being that any kind of slow distance training will turn you into a pencil-necked dweeb with bad health and a shocking hormone profile.
Thanks everyone, the comments are much appreciated. Here's a list of books and other media resources recommended so far in the thread:

Robert C. Martin, Clean code: https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsma...

Vaughn Vernon, various: https://vaughnvernon.co/?page_id=168

Steve McConnell, Code Complete: https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Cons... 2

Clean coder: https://cleancoders.com/ videos

Hunt and Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer: https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Maste...

Hitchhiker's Guide to Python: https://docs.python-guide.org/

Dustin Boswell The Art of Readable Code: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Readable-Code-Practical-Technique...

John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ouste... This one looks particularly interesting, thanks AlexCoventry!

Kent Beck, Test Driven Development: https://www.amazon.com/Test-Driven-Development-Kent-Beck/dp/...

Dan Bader, Python Tricks: The Book: https://dbader.org/

Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineering-10th-Ian-Sommerv...

Svilen Dobrev, various: http://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/
Honestly, it's not that hard, you just can't do it halfway.

When everyone is onsite except for a few team members, that's a recipe for disaster. Everyone needs to go remote.
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Its damn good, I'd recommend it to anyone. Its missing a few features, but works as expected
Nice work!. I also made a similar file system Zbox: https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox. The difference is Zbox is a in-app file system focused on privacy, so FUSE is not supported intentionally. Although it already supports key-value store now, I am currently trying to extend its capability to cloud storage.
Going to keep it real. I get irked by downvotes and I have no love for Thiel, but this sounds a little far fetched. I don't really have an opinion of Altman and it's possible SV boys like Trump at the very least because they like taxcuts and they're rich, but that the reason for the dearth of rather quick downvotes is a mod switch is seems less likely to me as much as it's over zealous Trump supporters.

Regardless it's just a website. If anyone wanted to manipulate opinion, manipulating hn of all places is unlikely to do much. And hey, even if they are, they've succeeded in manipulating a bunch of people who might have money but seriously have little power.
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Ageism is exaggerated outside of the startup SV culture. I’m in my mid 40s and have never had a problem finding a job. My former manager is 60 and he self demoted to being a developer after putting his kids through college. Every developer I know over 40 is able to get a job if they kept thier skills current.
How did they used to taste?
It’s not an issue getting a job if you’re smart and can manage to get some experience under your belt, and you can pass the technical interview.

That said, I still wish I would have had the opportunity to go to school. I’m increasingly finding I don’t have the same kind of network had I went to school.

It’s possible to build a network while you are working but it’s much harder because you are at the mercy of your employer and the work power dynamic is different than university. You are also at the mercy of your employer and the people he chooses to surround you with, and don’t have as much control or exposure as I feel you would in university.

At least for me employers always talk a big game when it comes to investing in their employees education but I’ve never experienced that personally. They are too focused on the sprint, the next sprint, the quarterly OKR’s and with most of their employees not lasting more than a year or two why invest in someone long term? This puts all the effort on the employee who must then learn on their own time in addition to working and making their boss & co-workers happy.

The last one is killer for me. Most of the people you meet at work aren’t entrepreneurial. I think there’s a reason why a lot of people start companies from people they know in school. Many of the people I’ve meet throughout my career in tech don’t even like tech, they’re just working a job. I feel like at a university it would be easier to filter these people out of your professional network, where as at work you can be stuck with them for years. It’s easy to drop or add a class and be exposed to new people but try dropping a team or a boss.
As stupid as this is going to sound, I think about this quite a bit in terms of writing a blog. I've wanted to do it for a long time and in the past people have been very kind and supportive of my writing. However, when I think about the reality of what it takes to make a successful blog, I get very nervous about it.

I mean, it's dumb because the chances of writing a successful blog is next to nil. And the way to exit the scene is easy: stop writing content. But it's the path that worries me. You need to write a lot of relevant content -- almost certainly more content than you can reasonably think about critically. You will be judged on that content. If you make a mistake or change your mind, then you can be treated very harshly. It seems that the masses have this binary view of their celebrities: genius or moron. The more popular you get, the more people have you in their sights aiming to plonk you firmly in the latter category.

For a long time, I've spent ridiculous amounts of time writing in safe havens like HN comment sections: because I truly love writing. I like thinking about stuff and breaking it down. I like explaining the insights that I find. And most of all, I like the fact that somebody reads what I write. I like thinking that I've connected with somebody else who I don't even know.

I seem to remember a set of rules for writers by Stephen King (although my recollection doesn't seem to match what Google returns to me). In one of them he says to prepare yourself for an unbelievable amount of criticism. It's this that worries me the most. I don't mind criticism, per se, but I don't want to have to deal with a reputation based on ideas formed from my prose.

"He's the dufus who believes that unit tests shouldn't test requirements. What a moron," is fine when I'm dealing with people who know me. It's down right terrifying when dealing with people who are potentially going to interview me for a job :-) A slight miscalculation in how you describe something, a popular misconception arising from rumours of your writing, or even just having a derpy day because you didn't think it through before you put pen to paper... And suddenly, you are the moron in the eyes of millions.

Like I said, it's putting the cart before the horse by a long, long way, but it still stops me from writing, which is a massive shame. Somehow I must overcome it (advice is welcome, BTW!)
No the Red Terror was not a genocide any more than the Civil War was a genocide. Conflating the two doesn't make much sense.
Were you trying to reply to a different comment? Because your response makes absolutely no sense.

> Walking into changing rooms of teenage girls isn't indicative of moral character, or is being the focus of multiple sexual assault allegations.

Congrats on inventing this never-before-seen grammatical construct, though.
I think both make me think this is a GCP machine.
like if you see a A record point to 104.xx.xx.xx, then you might think this is a Cloudflare protected record.
I could be, but I really don't know the designed solution.
What do you do when you're building?
Have you ever tried WeFunder or similar crowdfunded mechanisms to raise money? I would invest a few thousand at generous terms to support you guys and the mission, and I’m sure many others would too.
I guess it depends on your definition of "middle aged". They seem to be talking about people in their late 40s to early 50s who you'd expect to have grown-up (or at least high-school aged) children and a lot more free time, compared with 30-soemthings with small children.
> What we need is a framework, or a backbone, that allows people to easily create new federated-native apps ("dapps") without thinking about consensus issues, protocols versioning, and with native laws compliance.

I agree that this is probably the way forward.
The only downside is how your identity is tied to the service provider you choose.
It was a PITA when Lavabit went down and I lost that email address.
> repugnant attributes [...] sexagenarian

You do realise that a sexagenarian[0] is just someone in their sixties, right?

0. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sexagenarian
Certainly this needs careful planning, like any big life changes.
[ meta-note: why is this flagged? we seem to be rather haphazardly applying the criteria "that good hackers might find interesting", especially given the number of hackers into life-hacking, surviving middle age and athletic behavior]

Not a fan of running, but I am picking up way more BJJ classes than expected at my advanced age (46). Another factor that might help (aside from more free time, money, and the psychological factors in the article) is the fact that once you hit middle age, sporting behavior "is what it is". No-one expects that you're going to tear it up and compete with people in their 20s.

I have found it way easier to maintain a focus on intrinsic achievements ("today I will do X because I want to and it's my goal") than extrinsic factors ("what people will think of me", "what I will look like") once Old Fart status is achieved.
I relate to this so much. I look up so much to people like Scott Alexander (Slate Star Codex) and Murat Demirbas (Metadata) and innumerable multitudes of other writers and scholars, I think that I'll never get anywhere nearly as successful with my writing.

But then I realized I very very much don't care about socially-constructed standards of success, and I just stop giving a shit and write what I want, when I want.
Try interacting with the public on Muni or on Market St sometime. You'll mostly get asked for money, threatened with death, followed, preached to about everything from aliens to God to Obama, scammed, lungs full of urine vapor, shoes coated in human shit.

College and suburbia have a lot in common: they're both curated for some level of having one's life together, where that's making the grades and test scores, or qualifying for the mortgage and car loan. They both self-select for similar values and life circumstances, whether teenaged career ambition or middle-aged middle-class desires for family life. They both guarantee a certain set of shared experiences.

In a city you get none of that. Everyone is welcome whether he sleeps in the doorway or the penthouse, works 9-5 in a cube or scrapes by in a punk collective. That gives cities their dynamism and creativity but also means the person next to you on the subway is exceedingly unlikely to meaningfully inhabit the same community. I've lived both ways, and I have to say I found the city a lot more alienating.