skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're 29, you could quality of a Holiday Work Visa for several countries. Look them up, they're very cool and cheap. I got one for Australia when I was 29, got one for NZ before I turned 30 and then aged out of them. I had two big breaks in my career, one where I lived off my savings for 11 months (3 of those were with my girlfriend in Germany) and I took a road trip across the US for 5:

https://khanism.org/perspective/minimalism/

https://khanism.org/perspective/a-tale-of-two-journeys/

It will set you back a bit. I used up a good amount of savings, but I never had to dip into or borrow against retirement. I probably wouldn't do it again (unless I get accepted into a PhD program; one of my big goals), but I'm really glad I did. I literally traveled around the world and lived in three different countries. How many people can say that?
Maybe the shipment was planted to false flag the Americans? Do some press release about it, to add more credibility to the story?
African Millennials Turn to Farming, Hoping to Change Minds and Fortunes
https://outline.com/5PdMYy

Though FWIW, the article renders fine for me with uBlock Origin + Extra.
Trump has proven loyal to the farmers, at least, to the tune of redistributing over $15 billion in taxes to compensate them for the harm done by his administration's trade policies.

I'm sure the rest of us will receive similar consideration.
You can't turn coal plants on and off quickly
Negotiate a shorter workweek, e.g. 4 day workweek. Less exhaustion, and you can work on side projects on your remaining day.
Not really. Getting anything useful from the archives is still like pulling teeth, and quite a few documents still have not been declassified. Solzhenitsin only had access to his own experience and interviewing very few people (obviously, this research was not exactly looked upon with approval). But he was also the first to make note of it.

I mean specifically repressed through the state apparatus, not lacking Internet access. Of course there are different degrees of that repression here, from being executed on the spot, to dying of hunger and overwork, all the way down to being relocated 101+ kilometers from a big city.

I would very much count victims of Holodomor (as well as of less known famines in Central Asia etc.) and Great Leap -- it does not matter to the dying if the State actively wanted to kill them, or just did not care the least bit if they die or not. And there are studies from real historians that conditions in Soviet labor camps, during peace time, were worse than in Nazi extermination camps (I am not sure if there are English copies online, but certainly Russian ones are accessible).

Absolute numbers may not mean all that much (although as far as exterminating their own citizenry, communist Khmer Rouge have no equals) but it is still important to remember and never forget -- it's not a competition who is more evil, it's about making sure that evil does not get repeated.

USSR of Khrushchev and beyond -- it's also place where workers demonstrating for decent pay and food for their children were fired upon by the army, slight liberalization efforts in satellite countries were crushed with tanks, dissidents had their brains fried in psychiatric hospitals, etc. etc. Sure, it was much better than Reich in the 30s-40s, or USSR itself in the same period, but it is also an apples to oranges comparison. Had Reich been contained instead of defeated, chances are it would have evolved into something similar by then as well. But Soviet apologia usually does not make a distinction anyway.
An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017)
No; if anything it creates new opportunities.
> I have enough savings to survive for five years.

That's three to four years more than most people who make the jump.

If you're already making money from your side project, again, you're ahead of most people who make the jump.

Sounds like you should go for it!

The biggest thing to watch out for is getting lonely. When I went off on my own, I had a wife and kids. So I get to see them every day. If you work alone, you may not have any human interaction for a day or two, or longer. Human interaction is important to maintaining sanity. So make sure to make up for it somehow. Go to meetups, join a social club, be proactive about meeting up with friends, something to get you out of the house and interacting with other humans daily. Even if you're in an introvert, you still need human interaction. Find something that works for you.

> To not stick to a schedule/routine once I am solo

A lot of people have that fear, and it's pretty easy to solve. One trick involves starting every day with a walk around the block and ending each "work day" with another walk around the block in the opposite direction. This is your "commute" and puts you in the right mindset. You can do something else if you don't like walking, like make sure you start with a workout or a shower.

> People's and family opinion.

That's a hard one. Every family and culture is different. But in this case profitability solves a lot of problems. If you can respond to the naysayers with "I'm making money not losing" then that's a good way to appease most criticism.

> Failing and losing motivation.

Another hard one, especially if you have a lot of savings. You need someone to hold you accountable, either a cofounder or even an employee. Or depending on your relationship, maybe your girlfriend. As her to check in with you specifically about the business every week. Or if not her, another solo founder somewhere.
Apple’s focus on privacy is quite a smart move. Google can’t respond to it by tightening the privacy of their devices because that would undermine their business model.
That's a very interesting approach. Do you have more data/anectodes etc. on your point:

> By the way, for reasons I won't speculate on, this method (assume failure, which would you pick) turns out to be a pretty good way of picking the option more likely to succeed, actually.

I'm going to try to keep this one in mind for big decisions.
I still don't understand. How do you save millions of lives without the power to do big things?
Customizing UISlider – either color or image
They're not bad but essentially say little about the city and its inhabitants. Insight has been replaced by stereotype, real figures by mock superheroes, real context by staged drama: we don't even know if the repeat subject is Japanese. That said, there's some cute tricks with light and composition. The sort of thing you'd buy if you're a merchant of attention tangents.
My advice, for what it's worth, based on my experience:

1. Every time when I delayed making a significant decision in my life related to big changes, I regretted only the delay. I was always happy with the outcome, but always wished I had made the decision sooner. I now take this into account and decide faster. Life isn't that long.

2. Starting something on your own takes years. Unless you are very lucky, building your own business will take at least two years until you can live off it. In SaaS that's because how it works, in consulting it's because you usually need to find clients and work your way up via referrals. The only exception is if you can get consulting work from companies you already know (such as your former employer). So don't quit your job without a very good idea of what you will do next and plan to live on savings for two years.

3. There might be other jobs that will leave more time for side projects, so changing your job first and then starting something as a side project first might be a safer path.
The second half was more of a joke. I agree with you, they would probably hide it, unless FedEx was dumb enough to mess up and show it when they shouldn't.
> Successful languages pay
attention to what people want, but to change the language according to
what most people want is, I believe, a recipe for chaos and
incoherence. I believe that every successful language must have a
coherent vision that is shared by a relatively small group of people.

I'm continually surprised that more of the greater, vocal community does not grok this.
I really like the way you frame it: both choices are bound to be a mistake, so pick the one you can live with.
Agreed, it was more of a joke.
I disagree. I can think of at least three use cases that frequently employ Intel CPUs, and that involve running a limited set of low-risk software:

* Gaming-only machines, like my RetroPie example.

* Media servers, like for Plex or Kodi.

* NAS servers, powered by software like UNRAID.
Wow! Sometimes it really is about asking the right questions!

This question seems to be the right question to ask, but whether it is or isn't, thanks for reminding me.
If anyone is convinced what they are doing is good for end users they would let them make the choice. But expending time and energy to design and code deceptive dialogs with misinformation and avoid transparency betrays the opposite. You don't need an ethics course for this, it's willful fraud and deception.

Our societies are shaped as much by technology as by the incessant greed of a few often couched in euphemisms like 'innovation' and 'drive' to justify their value but these only accrue to a few. Behavioral targeting and surveillance have negative externalities for everyone not making money from it, and even for them in the wider societal and long term context.

If this is the behavior we are incentivizing then either we provide strong regulations to counter greedy and unethical behavior or accept these as our fundamental driving values without fabricating a 'feel good' alternative reality as a fig leaf or feigning shock at mercenaries in our midst.
Your plan is almost complete.

You could just take that five year's worth of savings, invest in real estate or open a Cafe, which could finance you through rent or business.

Then you can focus on whatever you like.
No relation that I know of; it’s a US company making IC for sub array beamforming.
There's lots of other potential reasons: maybe their system can't handle overrides, or maybe it's a canary so people know it's the government rather than their fault?

(But I do agree overall that it's probably nothing)
Reminds me of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContra...
Just do it. You will learn a lot and no matter what make a bunch of mistakes. Just don’t burn out. Work hard but make sure you spend time with friends, your partner, and most of all yourself just relaxing. Evaluate how you are working regularly and make changes. Forgive yourself for mistakes, errors, flawed thinking and keep hacking. It will not be smooth but entrepreneurship is awesome and you should go for it if you have the itch.
> It's simple, the more time you spend programming, the less time you'll have for socializing and the more time you spend socializing, the less you'll have to improve your programming.

Totally agree.

Especially at the beginning, programming skills need time and constant dedication in order to be developed.

A busy social life may preclude this necessary initial time investment by beginners.
Hell, I just used a .doc to .epub transcoding website today because I couldn't be bothered to look up a local tool for the job much less download it and read its docs.

The website worked and I moved on with my life. I'd probably even still be using Youtube to .mp3 websites had I not happened to have experience with youtube-dl.
Show HN: A Roadmap to Learn Generative Adversarial Networks
Not an issue if you follow th e recommendations in the PostgeSQL documentation. The way to comfigure write caches is described there.
> Also, I work in this field and I will just say that people _do_ behave differently based on traffic source: i.e. users coming from Facebook behave alike, but different than traffic from Reddit who act similarly to each other.

Out of curiosity, what is your hypothesis for explaining this difference in behavior? Would you say it's primarily due to differing contexts in which a link is posted, or differing populations on each platform? Or maybe these both contribute about equally?

Stated another way: would you expect the same individual to behave differently coming from Facebook versus coming from reddit, if they happen to be a user of both?
Show HN: Build Path – Flat File CMS for Mobile Tutorials
Some paid, some fought -- it was the fact that they no longer flew the British flag that meant the Americans had to start playing this game too.

Piracy certainly wasn't existential. But also wasn't the whole threat -- 1683 must have felt pretty existential in Vienna. As did 1453 in Constantinople. Of course that's not a European state... but that's pretty much the definition.
I am referring to etf price during extreme volatility. The price can diverge a lot from its NAV.

If the market is crashing then the bid ask spread is going to be very wide but i guess same will be true for common stocks. I think it is important to invest in high volume etf's like qqq/spy. So yeah you are right, arbitrage opportunities are still there i just think that during downtrends there will be more but in that case who cares about arbitrage! The best strategy is to go short.
At least for me there's been plenty of times where I just want to m I nify a single image, and potentially on a machine I don't have all my dev tools on.

Also I think this is project is a good side project, regardless if it's really "necessary"
I was hopeful that you were correct about chickens being gassed, but unfortunately that only seems to be the case[1] in the UK:

> The majority of poultry (chickens, hens and turkeys) in the UK s are now killed using gas.
> UK law states that animals must be killed, not just stunned, using this method.

From the same source, here is the method used most widely due to cut costs:

> Birds are hung upside down by their legs on metal shackles along a moving conveyor belt.
> They move along the production line to a stunning water bath; when the bird's head makes contact with the water, an electrical circuit between the water bath and shackle is completed, which stuns the bird.
> The conveyor belt then moves the birds to a mechanical neck cutter, which cuts the major blood vessels in the neck.
> Live bird shackling causes pain, and hanging birds by their legs is stressful for them.

I was able to find many sources that confirm this just by googling "how are chickens slaughtered." I'm skeptical of PETA and other radical-seeming groups, but I found a source that seems to be pro-chicken that acknowledges this, as well[2]. It says:

> Birds are stunned (rendered unconscious and unaware of pain) and then slaughtered with a quick, single cut to the throat.

However, researching this process reveals many articles about it's ineffectiveness - particularly in the stunning of the birds.

> Brain activity indicates that these animals may be capable of experiencing pain first when they receive a paralyzing electric shock that induces tonic muscle seizures, then when their throats are forced against a sharpened blade. [3]

Furthermore, sometimes the throat-slitting process, too, fails. The next step in the production line is the boiling of the bird carcasses to remove feathers, which means that many birds are boiled alive, hanging upside down from their legs. The Washington post reports the number to be around a million a year in 2013[4].

I always hope that animals are treated humanely, and until very recently I had few qualms with animal products. However, I personally have found that every time I investigate these matters, I am faced with a bleak truth - animals are being tortured constantly, in the millions.

I know you never claimed that all chickens were painlessly gassed, but I feel that dismissing the issue as being more humane than nature (and I agree that nature is brutal) will only deepen the problem.

[1]: https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/farm/slaughter/fac...
[2]: https://www.chickencheck.in/faq/how-chickens-slaughtered-pro...
[3]: https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/chickens-slaughtered-consc... (my apologies for a mobile link)
[4]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/usda-plan-to-speed-u...
OnionShare: Securely and anonymously share a file of any size
This sounds like what I was expecting, I’m glad to hear it. I already do a fair amount of work in an Ubuntu Desktop VM and it’s fine, so I imagine WSL2 should be at least a bit better than that. I’m REALLY over Apple hardware and don’t think I can justify the investment again. If WSL2 is as promised, it’ll probably seal the deal.
I was comparing iterm2 to anything on linux, (not terminal.app to anything on linux);

However terminal.app is decent enough, I would prefer urxvt on linux (or even termite) but not because terminal.app is missing anything major, I just like customisability.
I didn't even have to open the link to know this would be another set of Blade Runner-esque shots of city neon. This style is so ubiquitous it's practically a meme at this point.
If you're not averse to downloading and running their update application on OS X or Windows instead - you can update your headphone's firmware much more quickly from their website, through that application (http://btu.bose.com/ )
Those benchmarks were done 3 or 4 Meltdown microcode mitigations ago... the problem with Intel CPUs is, they become slower the longer they're exposed to security researchers.
Maybe. J Random Schmoe may do better because they’re investing their own money. The money manager managing JRS’ money on their behalf may make choices that help our MMM’s best friend more than anything else. Great for MM, but terrible for JRS.
Yes, this is exactly what I meant with my usage of the word. free-as-in-speech (where you can easily recreate the speech yourself) versus free-as-in-beer (where you can't easily recreate the beer since it is closed source) (at least this is always how I have interpreted the meaning personally).

The most recent example would be FileBot which I bought a subscription for mostly because it is high quality and is free software (as-in-speech). I would have used less functional free (as in speech and beer) alternatives had the filebot source not been available to me.

Filebot homepage: https://www.filebot.net/
Source code: https://github.com/filebot/filebot
>this guy also forgets Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Perhaps he is just not a fan of aphorisms pulled from Murphy's law themed joke books.

Though the trouble with Hanlon's law is not in its origins, rather it is that malice and stupidity are not in any regard mutually exclusive and also that people are quite adept at disguising malice as stupidity.
And next thing you know everyone in Germany will suddenly have an epiphany and switch to WeChat and get themselves a QQ.

Dumbest thing I ever heard.
It looks like Huawei's retaliation to Trump's ban. They must have been combing Fedex deliveries for mishaps they could use to build up a case Fedex is working together with US intelligence agencies.
I’ve always been under the impression that Ruby development in Windows is miserable, even with the installer. Something changed? Regardless, I (and I’d guess anyone coming from Mac) am so much more comfortable in bash, I’d really prefer WSL if performance is right.
GitHub Integration and Automated Deploys to Firebase with Google Cloud Build
I was talking about Value investing. Do you see value in buying uber and tesla at the moment? The best value is the obvious one. Do not buy these stocks or go short at least till they are more attractively priced and there story changes. The risk/reward does not look attractive in these stocks but people still keeping buying them!
How about the forget tradition of Netscape developers dunking their heads in toilets?

http://totic.org/nscp/swirl/swirl.html
We really don’t. But what we do know is that passive index investors save 0.5%-2% per year of returns by being passive, and that makes up for a lot.
Judges do sometimes appoint special masters to investigate complex issues which require domain expertise.
As someone who knows nothing about photography, I thought the pics looked pretty cool.
The Java time package has been a disaster for 20 years until Java 8, before that everyone was using Joda. As for generics have a look at what C# does for "proper" generics.
The fear is that there is indeed a critical threshold beyond which the release of methane will form a self-sustaining feedback loop - hence the "gun". Nobody knows for sure whether this can happen, or at what level, but it's a sufficiently terrifying possibility to warrant talking in terms of thresholds we should really try to avoid. 400 is just a nice round number. The next nice round number, 500, is quite nasty even without the clathrate gun (2-3 degrees of warming).
The bulk of the video is a british chicken farmer explaining the economic realities. I don't think bad chicken is unique to the US; I suspect cheap meat is about the same everywhere.
You mean hundreds of tools that run the risk of infecting your machine with malware and bloat?
It seems like photographers nowadays are only capable of portraying eastern Asia in one way: rainy alleyways, streets, and taxies at night, splitoned lazily to complementary colors in Lightroom. It takes maybe five minutes to create these pictures and they're done to death at this point.
I'm going to add one anekdote fit thé author, but the parent comment is awesome.

Realise that 100$ / month of nothing. It's the income of a small blog and even my small side project earns me 500-600€/month consistently.

Then again, do what you will regret the least.
Would love to see the same images pre-HDR filters.
That's not what image compression is.
Don't know about the Barbary corsairs and piracy, but in Slovenia we very much saw Ottoman invasions as an existential threat. Our history is littered with reference to "The big bad Turk who steals your kids, razes your fields, and rapes your wives".

That shit happened. Regularly. To the point that a whole cultural heritage around fortified churches developed. The peasants would retreat into their church behind battlements, and hunker down until the Ottomans left. The village would get burned down and the crops were gone, but at least almost everyone survived.

It didn't help that the Habsburg monarchy saw this as a successful strategy. Oh okay they're just burning the peasants, at least they're not getting as far as Vienna. This is working.

Of course once or twice they did get as far as Vienna and it was bad ...

This period of history left a deep seated distrust of islamic nations so strong that the whole "islam vs. catholic/orthodox" thing still featured as a driving force in the mid 90's Balkan wars. As an interesting curiosity, if you go to Bosnia around the Mostar region you can see a very interesting divide. Left side of the river littered with church spires, right side full of minarets. Barely any mixing.
The medium is the message, study the medium and it's effects on how information is distributed.

The genie is out of the bottle. Unless you want a 1984 style propaganda you have to accept that media is different from 10 years ago and it'll never be the same.
A product manager I've recently worked with had a similar approach. Don't ask: Why is X important. Always ask: Can I skip Y for X? Can I not do X to invest the same time to do Y?

That kind of thinking has kind of put a very big truck into my thought train in a lot of situations. Not doing things suddenly seems a lot more appealing.

And don't get me wrong. I'm an operator with legal and other non-functional requirements at heart. But there's still many things to ignore as much as possible.
Pixel Artist Mark Ferrari also talks about the contrast aesthetics between warm and cool colors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0&t=2192