skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

We spend a lot of our time trying to add pleasure to our lives to (temporarily) boost us above our baseline happiness level, when really we should be spending that time learning how to change the baseline level itself.

Isn't it odd that there are monks who live with nothing who are probably happier than any of us?
"- access to any material non-public technical information of the company;"

wouldn't that cover more or less any relevant investment in a startup?
Great example of blaming the tool [SQL] to try and bring in hip technology when the people are to actually blame.

We use Liquibase, which is event-sourcing for database schema changes, and a database that supports online schema changes.
The best way to make your talk memorable is to focus on substance over style. Work hard on giving something new for the audience to chew on. Without interesting content the audience will tune out no matter how well you structure the talk.
I agree with the sentiment that the best course of action would be to focus on your own work and not get caught up in the coworker's performance.

If you take the founder at face value, he's basically saying that keeping the coworker maximizes the chances of raising money. So another way to look at it is, would you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars today to maximize your chances of raising millions tomorrow?

And I definitely do think there are situations where that could be the case. The founder might have sold the investors on your coworker being a valuable part of the core team during a tumultuous period where the company let go of two engineers and had to rewrite the code.

While you may believe that getting rid of your coworker would maximize the chances of success, the reality might be completely opposite, regardless of how much weight the coworker is or is not pulling.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/PHB.html

Think of it as roughly synonymous with "empty suit" or "airhead".
My point is that 300-400lbs isn't significant in the grand scheme of things. There are plenty of things that add weight to cars that no one mentions. It's hard to then argue that electric cars are too heavy to be mass-market.

No one is advocating for fewer passengers per car, even though each passenger adds weight. In fact, we prefer more passengers per car because (among other things) it is fewer engines pumping out pollutants. The same can be said about electric cars. Yet electric cars are getting complains about another 300-400 lbs, but gasoline-powered carpools are not.

No one here has complained about the added weight of the unnecessary cargo most people carry. No one is mentioning the weight of a full tank of gasoline (an average full tank is ~100 lbs) and advocating for smaller tanks or to run with just enough fuel to get to your destination. Air bags and anti-lock brakes and automatic transmissions and air conditioning and stereo systems all add significant weight to the car. No one would advocate removing those things from cars. No one complains about the added weight of things designed to make cars more fuel efficient because we like the fuel efficiency. Yet batteries do just that, and here we are.

My point is, arguing that electric cars have a problem because they're as heavy as a gasoline powered car (with no gasoline in it, since curb weight is empty) with two passengers is disingenuous at best and harmful at worst. It's a complete non-argument. Especially when passenger cars are some of the lightest vehicles on the road, by an impressively huge margin. An electric car may be 12% heavier than a gasoline car, but a semi truck is still 1600% heavier than that.
Seems to have been fixed: "£800 billion ($1 trillion)"
Coming from a Mediterranean culture I can sympathise with the 'money doesn't mean happiness' maxim, but the opposite narrative is not much deeper.

In my life I moved from both extremes, from a poverty level wage in a dead beat job with a friend and family support network, to a high stress, high earning job, and something in between.

In all those situations I had sources of happiness and sources of unhappiness. As you move in life you make tradeoff that think will make you better off, some work and others don't. Ironically my current high stress job makes me happier than the previous one, because I am able to learn, grow and do great things. I traded a bit of work life balance for something else and that's ok; it might work for me and not for others.

So by all means avoid the rat race and live a more relaxed life, but also don't be afraid to try different things and see what works best for you at each point in your life.
Anecdotally, I really enjoy smoking weed and know dozens of daily users whose use has a minimal impact on their mential health.

I personally use weed and it makes me relax, helps with my insomnia and lack of appetite.

It's similar to World of Warcraft: Weed isn't the problem. It's the easy escapism that is the problem.
Why except video drivers? Both AMD's and Intel's drivers are free and open, as is mesa. The other closed drivers are alien to a free software system anyways.
Oh my god... I'm many years removed from childhood, but the last scene of the movie "Time Bandits" still chills me. Little Kevin yells, "Mom! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it!"

...and the adults, thinking themselves smart, reach right in, touch the glowing chunk of pure evil, and evaporate in a puff of smoke.

To this DAY I am so angry at those parents...
> Structured in the way it is, the reader is lead along the same path of discovery as the author.

I almost stopped reading. To put it quite bluntly, if she had put "the point" one line further, I was going to close the browser. The drama in the author's life was so unrelated to the problem that it really distracted from the point.

Without the preemie and the move, it could have easily been, "the school year ended, my son went to camp, we went on vacation, and sometime during the summer I noticed that my son stopped licking his hands." Or, it could have been, "my son spent the summer in the hospital and stopped licking his hands while he was in treatment."

My point is that the whole incident with the move and the premie is so fundamentally unrelated to the point, that it detracts from the strength of the article itself. Her son didn't stop licking his hands because of the stress of the situation, he stopped licking his hands because it was summer and the heat wasn't running.
How often are these long road trips though? Would you really not get an EV because very rare road trips take slightly longer, but meanwhile you're saving lots of money the whole year long on gas costs and not destroying the environment?

I can't imagine letting a few longer stops during infrequent long distance road trips being the deciding factor in what kind of car I'd buy.
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> I have an entire childhood of other experiences I could relate to you that tells me that I do, in fact, know how I would have reacted in I had just been talked to. And I am genuinely grateful for the (very few) times I was swatted, because there are things in this world that fear is the appropriate response to.

Sorry, but with all due respect: You do not. You know that with the accumulated past experience you had, you acted a certain way in a different situation. You do not, for example, know if the reason you acted differently when just talked to was that you'd gotten accustomed to more serious reactions for something serious and therefore interpreted the talking to as less important and dismissed it. You make the point yourself that it was rare, and is something you tie to really important lessons, so it would make sense if you dismiss being talked to as implying something isn't that dangerous.

Of course, again, we can't know.

> You understand the innate survivorship bias in this example, right?

Yes, I do. But you do not seem to have understood that the point of giving that example was that your example is also down to survivorship bias, and to illustrate why that makes anecdotes like this (both of our anecdotes) worthless as a means of determining how well either alternative works.

My point was not to prove that "my" alternative is better, but to illustrate why personal experience is a poor basis for drawing conclusions about this (and again: yes, that applies to my experience too).
They describe deleting characters, but most radiation causes bit flips, rather than character removal. Good news, this seems to work with a bitflip as well :)
I'd buy them, but it would have to be a set for £25, and on sale during one of the 100 sales they have each year.

Side Note: I don't know why they haven't made their way stateside, they are one of my favorite department stores. Always clean, friendly staff, toilets are impeccable (though that might just be a British thing).
Most cars do not have the suspension system to handle that. The average family is often already putting their car at the max load before adding suitcases. (for ride quality reasons engineers design them that way) A trailer putting most of the mass on a different axle is much better answer.
Mozilla isn't a monolith. Like most medium and large organizations, your experience can vary greatly between teams and management chains.

If Mozilla's mission and manifesto resonate with you, give it a shot. With Microsoft throwing their weight behind Chromium, we're the last bastion standing against a WebKit-derived monoculture. It's an impossible challenge, but it matters, and we've beaten the odds before. Current openings are at https://careers.mozilla.org/listings/, and I'd encourage you to apply.
Thanks. I hadnt thought of this. The problem is it returns everthing. Im wodering if there is some way to grep and identifier.
I guess I should just keep a list in my notes app.
This is incredibly out of touch. Ignoring the lack of available materials to put a huge battery in every home, the cost is currently about a quarter of the median yearly income across the EU. Adding that much cost to every home is a non-starter.
This isn't a long term health effect per se, but it is a health issue.

>A study by the Highway Loss Data Institute in June of last year finds that states that legalized marijuana saw insurance claims for auto accidents increase about 3% over the general national trend for the time. An updated study by the same group finds 6% according to insurance claims, and 5.2% according to police reports.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/07/marijuana-an-update/
You're comparing safety of others with safety of one's self.

Of course drunk driving should be illegal, you're putting others at risk.

Think of Kantian logic applied to the body. As long as I am only affecting my body when doing something, it is irrelevant whether it is safe or not.
Okay, but just an FYI that was probably a complement.

Wizardry and magic has positive vibes in American culture. I can see how that might not be the case in others.
There are some banks that won't have DBAs pretty soon if you're in charge, for better or worse.
Care to elaborate?

Nvidia used to be the only discrete GPU manufacturer that had Linux support worth mentioning. I know that AMD/ATi has made a lot of progress, but is Nvidia really the worst at this point?
When I looked at it they'd fixed it to £800 billion. I was wondering if someone had accidentally used the old UK billion meaning a "million million".

(Whole article is very likely to get flagged off, btw)
So.. Have you ever looked for jobs in home automation or contacted your hvac producer?
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Like literally everything else, it's about balance.

No, you shouldn't let the world dictate your choices every single day.

But also you need to conform to some amount of societal standard. Social norms exist sometimes to keep society working and moving forward.

As for happiness, if you are trying to 'get' happiness through external forces, you're never going to be happy. That's not a secret.
I'll second A Tour of C++ 2e. It's a great way to get up to speed on the most important aspects of C++. It's very readable if you're already familiar with C syntax style languages.
> WebGL commands don't need to be called via JS after anyref and host bindings land

So they DO need to be called by JS now. Which was what they said. The WASM advocates obsession with features that don’t exist yet and won’t be mainstream supported for a long time after they land is extremely frustrating.

WASM is cool, let’s stop pretending it’s something it’s not tho!
Fair, then the alternative interpretation could be that he wanted to vent :)
Thanks. I tried this on my Fedora 29 workstation but it returned nothing.
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> would buy tremendous free publicity.

That would not buy food on the table. Most money comes from Windows and what games should be optimized for.

See r/choosingbeggars for more entertaining stories on the "value" of "publicity".
> Coming out with a truly cross platform game that has Linux as a first class citizen would buy tremendous free publicity

It does not. Take a look at the Steam games supporting Linux. There's thousands of them, it's not special.
While I'm for decriminalization/legalization of marijuana, I think jumping into an industry will create lots of problems and we'll find out about in the future. Whoever is skeptical will be best off IMHO.
The strong the opinion the harder the unorthodox things are. The weaker the opinion the harder it is for newbies to get going. There is a trade off here.
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What delta-V? I'm not suggesting it go anywhere too distant. In a few thousand years there will be trillions of sentient beings living in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, trading with each other and building lasting, self-sufficient civilizations.
Until someone works out how to weaponize it which always seems to be the way....
No surprise. Passporting (allow banks to operate in all members of the EU if they are licensed in one member) is a key to all of the banks operations. Every bank based in London for that purpose now has to open a regulated branch in an EU member. The next thing to kill the market in London will be the movement of Euro clearing to an EU member. Brexit is a self inflicted shot to the head. The number of people that supported leave and lacked understanding of all the ties of the businesses that operate in the UK but sell in the EU was amazing. All the car manufacturing will be the next to move. There goes all the good jobs that the leave camp said were being stolen by immigration.

Edit: typo and to clarify I am not an UK or EU citizen, only outside observer of the train wreck.
Agreed, have been a Mac user since 2004… and got the first Intel iMac specifically for the ability to boot Windows for gaming too. I think the only native Mac OSX games I had when I got that first 12" PowerBook were Q3, UT2004, Starcraft / WC3 / Diablo 2… and maybe Tux racer ;)

Have long given up on dual booting. Granted much of my gaming is also done on consoles, Mac gaming support is better than ever outside of still generally anemic GPUs (and who knows what will happen when they move to ARM… a great many games will be orphaned in x86 forever -- e.g. will Starcraft HD get ported to ARM?)

Thank you, to all the indies (and open source engine porters) who have supported Mac over the past 14 years!
Our skills are special and very useful.

It just sometimes doesnt translate to awe inspiring as other skills in meatspace.

Btw - cool stuff like this is absolutely why boys join the boyscouts
Lots of things are going to change. Things worked before the EU. I am sure things will continue to work after the exit.
What the parent was getting at is if you don't have an environment devoted to QA specifically, your production environment is your QA environment.
Steve, just wanna thank you for the excellen twork you've done at making Rust more accessible to normal people like myself. Your book is an invaluable resource to newcomers to the language.
Perhaps related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales?
I have seen this claim many times, but wonder about it's validity.

It's easy to think that a truly cross platform game that has Linux as a first class citizen would make a lot of stir. But I used to play Heroes of Newerth years ago when Linux support were way worse than today. I also read HN then.

I never saw any special treatment for that even tho I loved the game and it worked really, really good on linux.

Searching on algolia just proves my point: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=heroes%20of%20newerth&sort=byP...

I simply do not buy the story that just because you release it on Linux, have good linux support etc it will spread like wildfire.

S2Games, which made HoN, made a superior MOBA imo but none of my friends play it anymore. They play Dota2 tho. I think the reality of the situation is that no one cares about if a game run on linux or not except extreme nerds that would never use Windows and go through the daily struggle that is desktop Linux.

I used to be one of them, nowadays I only use Windows.
This is not as easy as it sounds, because funny things happen if you ship your own libc - I remember last time I tried this there were problems with PAM and name services. But that was a number of years ago.

Can you ship with your own version of GNOME different from the currently running one?
One of the reasons is that the Red community is very small and entrenched. They know everything that comes out of the language, and to them everything is easy and understandable.

They will fight you to the death if you even try to say that "english-like syntax with no parantheses" is the opposite of readable or understandable when you don't know the system.

Go into any of Red's source files and you will end up looking at dozens to hundreds of lines of code with no comments and which often look like this:

return old-gradient-pen DC cmds start tail cmd sym catch?
OS-draw-brush-pattern DC size crop-1 crop-2 word as red-block! cmd sym = fill-pen
_read opfd hash alg-digest-size type

etc. These are obviously impossible to look up and find.

The whole development is haphazard as well. Everything hinges on two may be three people who know Red internals wihch frantically move from subsystem to subsystem developing features and patching wholes.

Patching wholes are usually like this:

- issue is raised on GitHub

- it's acknowledge

- a fix is written (with zero comments even for the complex issues) and merged

- the issue is closed with a "tested" label [1]

About 0.001% of "tested" issues contain any tests. The majority of fixes are apparently only fixed and manually tested against the reported issue.

etc. etc.

https://github.com/red/red/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+l...
But you're deflecting from a conversation that's just about enumerating the risks.

We don't know the risks from consuming marijuana (aside from anecdotes, but I've got a good sense of the risk from personal consumption and the effects on people close to me). The marijuana-legalization discussion is advocating that it doesn't have risks, and it's leading to people making uninformed choices. That's the discussion here.

What are the downsides?
I've been in games and game middleware (including in many cases with Linux support) for fifteen years and I have never once seen this happen. Generally there is a tremendous amount of commentary like this from Linux folks and the port neither gets meaningful (or profitable) publicity nor sales that outstrip support. This comment is the stereotypical Linux game post.

When supporting a platform can mean debugging and submitting patches for a users graphics drivers in exchange for a shockingly low conversion rate, it's an easy no for me.

PS I built and maintain an Enterprise AWS GPU app on Ubuntu and the platform is great. But it was very non trivial to get working.

PPS if you spend less than $150/yr combined on all software purchases (including mobile/console) please don't make a case for Linux gaming. TuxRacer is your apotheosis.
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This is the recurring dilemma of choosing something out of passion (what I want) or utility (what I should). Passion gives energy, utility gives meaning. There's a balance between the two. Some are lucky to have both, most end up with something that has none.
> Descent in most aircraft is typically done at idle.

Went on my first flight in decades last year. The moment we started out descent really stands out to me, I remember the eerie-ness of hearing the engines slow down a ton all of a sudden and no one looking disturbed by it at all.
Mastery comes when you know most of the 1st order stuff and can even anticipate the stuff you don't know because you also know the 2nd order stuff. In Java this is easy because after you get proficiency you can really dig in and read the JVM Spec and the JLS(1), and you have lots of great, powerful tools available to examine the running JVM, bytecode, etc. In other languages, this is a lot harder. JavaScript (ES6) kinda sorta has a specification(2) but it didn't start out that way and the jsvm doesn't have one (AFAIK). The implementation and the tooling for JS is widely varying, and typically includes lots of non-JS stuff like the DOM and networking - which is (really!) great but lacks focus. Somehow lots of popular languages exist without specifications, like Python, Ruby, PHP, Markdown. This is, IMHO, a very serious drawback because to become a master of these languages requires that you become a master of the concrete interpreter implementation, which is easily an order-of-magnitude harder and less direct than reading a specification.

(1) https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/

(2) http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/
I think you're reading into my argument a tad too much -- my rights end where yours begin. If I am doing any harm to anyone else, that should be illegal.

Hence why domestic abuse and drunk driving are illegal and should be.
Work on longevity so you won't have to decide.
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happiness is not the goal. meaning is.
I'm in the exact same boat as you. I've been mostly writing JavaScript for the past 2-3 (with some Go, and more recently Flutter).

I've started to learn some C++ a few days ago, mostly go get into lower level code and into game development (Unreal), and I've found it to be pretty great!

I've been going through A Tour Of C++ and it's a great primer on the whole language. I also read the Learn X In Y Minutes on C++ to get a feel of it before diving in.

What are some high quality, small C++ projects I could play around with and read the source code? I'd like to explore it in more practical use next.
Yes, I agree. That's why I said that it's necessary to change the way application are designed. And, of course, there's no silver bullet. Sometimes micro-services architecture is not the way to go.
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For scientific/technical talks specifically, a truly useful technique I learned from The Craft of Scientific Presentations[1] is the assertion-evidence slide.

This type of slide has a complete sentence at the top that makes a substantive assertion. Then the rest of the slide contains evidence for that assertion usually in the form of a diagram, chart or table. This type of slide is the backbone of a scientific presentation.

Generally, Alley's book is extremely useful.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Craft-Scientific-Presentations-Critic...
> Oh well, this guys sounds full of hubris.

From a later tweet by the same person: Linux support was a passion for many on the project, and I was a proponent in favor of that support.

If the Linux community is going to bite the hand that feeds them, don't be surprised when other developers aren't anxious to support Linux in the future.