skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that just choosing wise places to put your capital? Where's the arbitrage?
Different fish, and different sizes of the same fish contain different mercury levels (big fish == more mercury). Many wild caught fish are quite safe to eat: https://www.fda.gov/food/metals/mercury-levels-commercial-fi...
There are too many things you do not know about how a person got there to make an adequate comparison to yourself and your situation. Be joyful for them.

You made different choices. You valued different things at different times. If you optimized everything to get the job you maybe would have the job - but you didn’t, because it’s a job and there is more to life than that.

What you see in their title / newspapers / on social media is not their life. The acclaim / praise is not their life. It does not guarantee happiness / success. It does not make you worse or lesser.

May the envy / anger be fleeting. It’s human, it’s allowed, but in the end, useless and harmful.
I love the CD collection, and hope there's some plan to make a new version with the remaining issues.

MAD is better than any history book in that it gives a view to how people really felt about events at the time. It also records minutia in its jokes that otherwise become forgotten after decade go by.

In general it's good to read old humor if only to see how slowly things change. The Realist has their archive online and it's a good read because much of it is still relevant from 1958: http://www.ep.tc/realist/
And yet your post (and downvotes) still don't really answer the question: What kind of basis/proof/data is the idea that Google should change it's massively profitable strategy based on? Which metrics besides "gut feeling" or "I don't like it"?
1. Thanks to the internet/social media, you will _always_ see people who more successful than you are, sometimes a lot more successful. You need to get used to it and learn to deal with it [1].

2. It may be helpful to think that this is probably also true for the person you're looking ahead to: she's also looking at somebody "ahead" of her. So, even if you get there, not much will change, you'll just keep looking at people ahead (also see "hedonic treadmill" [2]).

3. A lot of the time you're just seeing PR, and they're in fact not ahead of you. For example a recent trend is "winning startup competitions". I had friends who went to these, kept winning them, they got futured in newspapers... but then the product had no traction and they shut down quickly. Don't confuse PR with the real thing. Social media can be misleading.

4. In my experience, a lot of it is down to luck. For example, for our group, if a friend gets a juicy job at a FAANG, it will feel like they're ahead. (And they will be.) But having been at a FAANG and done interviews, believe me, a lot of it is down to luck --- esp. when it comes to getting a juicy job. Same is true for startups, I would say most of it is down to luck.

5. Often, other than luck, there's really something the person has done to get there; a lot of the times the major component is _hustle_. Ask yourself, would you want to do that to get there? For example, some startup founders who achieve initial success (Series A and later) end up working for their own company for 10+ years. Would you want to work for the same company (even your own) for that long? Eg. I had a startup, it failed, and since then I'm "just" an employee, and I switch jobs every 2-3 years, and I'm loving it, because I keep learning new things, meet new people, go to new countries, etc; right now I wouldn't want to trade this to be a Series X co-founder having to explain to my board why we're not growing like I said we would in the pitch deck (most companies don't end up growing like they were "supposed to").

[1] unless you become the next M.Z. (unlikely), this will always be true.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
I think in that case, people might be placing a limit on who they could become.
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Hm, I couldn't find where to start a new project from scratch.
There is no medical benefit to circumcision. There is risk of harm.

Parents do make medical choices -- these would be situations where there is a benefit to treatment and where there is medical consensus that the treatment is worthwhile.

That's not the case for circumcision where most doctors agree it shouldn't be performed other than for actual medical reasons like phimosis.
See also: SAP's Gardener. Their website reminds me of a spam landing page more than a valuable, robust project, so I'll link an official Kubernetes blog post about it: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/05/17/gardener/

EDIT: per the replies, it does look like a fairly different focus, my apologies, just got excited when I saw the virtualized control plane. (To save you reading the blog, Gardener launches a control plane in an existing cluster to manage workloads on a different, dedicated set of worker nodes.) It will be fun to think about k3v and multi-tenancy.
Or juste use riff which useful and provide just enough to implement wav, bmp and other file formats (so you'll find heaps of examples(.
Jordan B. Peterson writes in “12 Rules for Life - an antidote to chaos” that you should “compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today”
I have run a server software written in SBCL on Solaris for many years. In which sense is the Solaris support lacking?
Specifically recommend buying SPY (tracks the S&P). Then with a smaller subset you can speculate on individual companies/stocks after doing research.
Whenever you feel envious, remember that your world need NOT be a zero-sum game.

If you find yourself envious, instead focus on enlarging ur world to escape the zero-sum mentality.
Try thinking beyond the limitations you perceive yourself in currently.
I think the parent is making a rational comparison between many classes of being that we tend to define as either the animated unconscious or insensitive to pain in order to assuage guilt for killing them out of convenience.

I'm extremely pro-abortion and think it should be allowed for any reason by the mother until the fetus would be viable if birth were immediately induced. I will also continue to kill flying bugs who are unfortunate enough to get past my window screen but can't figure out how to leave. I will not refuse to see the comparison and I will address the potential cognitive dissonance.
They would have to experience some negative stimulus to avoid it. Disagreement with the term pain does not remove the resume that learned avoidance requires detection of a negative stimulus.

Further, while we separate negative stimulus into say thirst and pain, the fact you can torture people with either means the difference is ethically more semantic than meaningful.
That's not the same than being decriminalized.

In Portugal, if you do that the police will ask you for your ID if it's a light drug like cannabis, or take you to the police center if it's an heavier drug. If you keep being caught by the police a judge can order you to take psychiatric help.

Being decriminalized means that you won't be arrested when you ask for help, and you have access to clean syringes to avoid diseases and infections.

Help being provided, it's not the same than being legal.
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Why is that hard to believe? I just checked my bill. Last year, we consumed 1,402 kWh, which came down to around 33 EUR per month (a bit higher than my number above, which was the cost in 2017). We cook at least 6 days per week. Our washing machine is a cheap model from 2015.

The third person in our household is a little child, so we are more in the 2 persons range. But even for 2 persons, Google states as the average 3,000 kWh, which I find hard to believe. Even if we tried, I just cannot think of anything we could do to consume even more electricity.
In NMS, you can teleport to your base(s) from any starbase, and teleport back again. You can also purchase a freighter and use it as a customizable mobile base.

There's no requirement to have a base of any sort. If you want to be purely nomadic with just a small ship, you can. But, bases are fun to build and design. Provides a solid income if you want it. From a psychological point of view, it's also nice to have a place to call home in the midst of a vast and nearly infinite universe.
Nice code.

I wonder how easy it would be to roll your own web server that uses HTTPS?

The real challenge would be to do it without any extra libraries(just sockets).

Maybe some cryptographic library would have to be allowed.
Well, thesixtyone turned off their entire service.
In turn, I find the typical comparison platform estimate hard to believe. I live in a 2-person household and we need roughly 1000kWh/a without really caring for it. The platforms estimate 2500kWh/a.

Even with an extra freezer and a dishwashing machine we wouldn't come even close to the "estimated" value. Also: We pay about 0.25Eur/kWh. The 30-40Eur/mo is also true for us.
Redundancy. Only one of the scrollbars is actually active at the moment, but if it fails, a leadership election will take place, and one of the others will take over as the active.
This is a very great point that I’d like to highlight. The main problem with languages of today is shared mutable state. It’s the default in every major language, and it is the wrong default because of the inherent complexity it brings.

You can avoid this complexity by killing either one of the adjectives: shared OR mutable. Immutability is generally pitched as the only way to solve this problem, and it is definitely a valid solution, though not the only one. The other dimension to cut off is sharing. If mutable data is not shared, its mutability also becomes mostly irrelevant.

Rust and Swift both support immutability as well as unshareable references. In Rust’s case, it’s more like organized sharing that prevents simultaneous mutation. In Swift’s case, structs truly can only have one reference.
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Before today I did not know who Paul Graham was, what he had done or the lispy association to HN. Then again, I'm a few thousand miles from the Bay area and not much of one for keeping track of personalities in any field. Though I am of course interested in things 'tech' related for both work and personal reasons. Am I really in the minority of HN?

Any programmer benefits from exposure to language families other than the one that is their daily driver. Even within familiers there can be nuances and differences that are worth at least a passing thought. Probably applies to life in general too.
I love rails.
Opera Unity (or was it called Unite?) really taught me to never ever use proprietary software, since it all can go poof overnight without any chance of getting it back. I really liked Opera Unity. I had my own little website and stuff.
They're also shutting down Google Trip replacing it with a website (google.com/travel) which is less capable (e.g. you cannot add reservations) and there isn't at the moment any mobile app replacement.
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Ask HN: How do you personally learn?
My short list of the skills that have helped me the most in my career as a software engineer is not sorted. But the ability to quickly learn things is easily on that list. With technology constantly and rapidly changing, small improvements in the speed at which I learn things can have a big and cumulative impact on my productivity. But we rarely discuss personal learning strategies. What are your personal strategies? Please consider mentioning even what you consider to be dead obvious. It might not be to others.
Yeah but you're not representative of a significantly sized user population.
That may be a big part of the reason in the US, but Germany for example isn't big on decriminalization either, and we don't have anything similar to the US prison complex. I think a large part over here is that people think it's wrong and they don't believe in the individual's right to make a choice they consider wrong. Worldwide it's probably a mix of the two: powerful interests profiteering from the status quo and politicians and parts of the voting population not valuing individual freedom that much.
Perl has by far the best DB tooling of any of the many languages I’ve worked with. My point was sarcasm as rebuttal to the idea that a Perl developer might not have encountered a null value
While what you're saying is true, I think that's why the world is afraid to adopt Portugal's policy. If getting halfway there is worse than doing nothing at all, it's a very dangerous thing to try.
> I know I am.

That's great, but do you have non-anectodal evidence that there's a enough people to make business sense for Google to change their strategy?

This is a startup-oriented site after all, you don't run business on a single-person's gut feeling, but on data. Do you have a firm basis on which Google should change their, currently extremely profitable, strategy?
This is awful. I didn't know people felt or did things like this rather than focus on the level and quality of their own work.
Why bother ? Quicker and more convenient. With cow/pig i think its more troublesome to boil it alive.
Statistical effects are not guarantees that apply to individual examples.
I'd recommend following the link to the Phoebus cartel page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
agreed. changed it to was a millionaire before he started college
It seems from this that Portugal is less decriminalized than SF? Which also has clean syringes but the cops will let you shoot up or smoke in peace.
I’ve gotten this many times from coworkers through the years. I’ve had people target me at all costs. They would try to grow their careers at my expense. It hurt and in the wrong company worked for them. But in the long arc of time it only got them so far and they all left the company before me. But none of them knew my resume and I ultimately moved to much better pastures.

You don’t know what those newer hires have on their resumes nor the conditions under which they were hired. You’re also not likely to make any good impressions for yourself by being identified as a threat or confrontational. Good management doesn’t like that behavior (edit-outside of professions like law, politics, sales/marketing, etc).

Read “Siddhartha“ by Hermann Hesse. Take a deliberate approach to managing your emotions. Mediate. Remember that the world is bigger than one persons seemingly great career - both yours and others careers.

Corporate America has all of this as negative side effects. How you react is your choice. Maybe take the opportunity to reevaluate what you should be learning or working towards to advance your own career. Look for things you can add to your resume. Consider options that make this one particular situation not your only source of money, professional respect and growth, or so on.
I'll start with a few off the top of my head:

- Make sure it's something I'm interested in learning. There is no substitute for passion.

- Find a hero. Find someone who is already an expert and attempt to get as good as they are. But be realistic that you don't ever need to become as good as they are. It's just something that helps you focus on where you are headed.

- Have a list of other things you want to learn. You will get stuck a lot in the beginning and it's better to just quickly switch to something else when you are stuck and let your subconscious work on what you are stuck on. Sitting in front of a screen frustrated and trying to get unstuck is usually a big waste of time.

- Go for a walk. Some of my best thinking is during a walk. And there's mounting evidence that exercise generates new neurons.
A peek outside the echo chamber: my roommates and girlfriend use Reddit. They don't have anything bad to say about the UI nor are aware HNers hate it. They didn't even know it changed, they just don't seem to care.

I use old.reddit.com out of habit, but don't really care when I land on the new UI. I just use it. People blow it way out of proportion.

I like some of its features, like how it's now a modal over the infinite scroll. I don't have to open everything in a new tab anymore in fear of losing my place in the scroll or having that "sorry, no more pages, start over" message.

I really don't see much worth fuming over. The Digg redesign basically turned it into a weird news site e-zine. Meanwhile the Reddit redesign has the exact same spirit as the old one.
When I set my mom up, in 2003 or so, I gave her one of mine 21" Integraph monitors. I was a bit jealous when I realized her computer was able to do accelerated 24 bpp 2048×1536 on that gorgeous (and back-breaking) screen. My laptop at the time could drive on external screen at 1024x768 and that was it. :-(
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People think that because it is correct. Any serious crypto library (libsodium, OpenSSL, crypto++, cryptlib, ...) that comes to mind uses this approach, codecs use it, your C standard library uses it etc.
economies of scale only work to a certain point. You point to China as an example of doing it right. But China is really just in the same position as the us, but earlier in the process. They’re cranking out nuclear facilities, but are probably equally unprepared to decommission them when the time comes.

Nuclear is a very important technology. It probably doesn’t make sense to scale it up as a solution right now.

This is somewhat true for solar as well but for opposite reasons. Economically, it seems better to perpetually wait as the price and efficiency keep improving. Buying panels now and getting an extra year of service vs waiting a year and getting a better model is often not worth it.

(On the individual scale. There are obviously macro goals that incentivize solar investment now).
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The smooth talkers are usually poor doers. My experience with such people says that those who are good at PR are rarely deep experts and cannot be counted on to participate productively in a commercial enterprise. Don’t waste your time on these people: they’ve chosen an easier path, one built on social skills rather than solid technical expertise. There’s no shame in focusing on your work and on sharpening your own skill set. After all, that’s what makes you successful in your work. All else is extraneous.
Find the startup places: conferences, meetups, etc. Be somewhat discreet about saying you have money to invest, that's a good way to get scammed. Basically you need to social-network the hell out of the place so you can get good startups to come to you. You may also need to provide some additional benefit to startups - domain knowledge or contacts about something of value to them.

Eventually you will find the other angel investors in your area, and collaborate with them.

$100k is probably enough to build a small software product, especially if you can find a tech co-founder who is putting in sweat equity. The process of doing this will teach you a lot even if you never make back the $100k.
I actually like strong switches. Contrary to intuition lighter switches are exhausting me more than weaker switches for some reason.

Maybe because I play Bass and my fingers are used to a certain kind of haptic feedback?

In the end it doesn’t matter, as long at is not one of these ultraflat new macbook keyboards, I hate typing on them.
> There is no medical benefit to circumcision.

The WHO states, “There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%.”
Then I shall count my blessings, both past and present.
Mainstream psychology stays in an eternal mystical stage that speculates on possible inner states (and their self-reporting) rather than on observation. We can't really call it pain unless we can be absolutely sure that it's exactly what I feel when I say I'm in pain. We will ignore that under that definition, I can't be sure that my twin sibling feels pain. We will paper that over with an innuendo that things that look the most like me are most likely to feel pain as I do, and we will extend the definition of "me" to all potential scientists (humans) as a concession to abstraction and out of professional courtesy.
Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms
But there's many other libraries out there than just those though?
> an acquisition that complimented a company’s efforts closed for orders of magnitude than an acquisition of a competitor

You’re missing a key word here. Orders of magnitude more or less?
> scraper goes on to use that information in ways that are for
the commercial benefit of the scraper and usually to the detriment of the site owner

Yes, and they extract that benefit because in the process they add a value to that information for end-user.

> Am I missing some other fundamental right that applies here?

Yes. When it's not prohibited by law, it's allowed.
I have a hard time getting out of my head that those people could be putting more time into furthering their expertise rather than participating in a fashion show. I've had similar experiences with people who pursue very intense fitness activities. You can't train for a marathon while also putting in the long hours to be at the peak of your technical field for example. Sometimes, on a day off, I see people out in the road training for intense cycling or running activities and I can't help but think to myself "those people must be impossible to work with...why aren't they at work now?"

Then I also temper myself to realize that work isn't all of a person's life, and I also spend a great deal of time in non-productive pursuits that aren't help to me at work.

Working all the time at all costs isn't healthy. It reminds me to go out and take a walk, or a sculpture class or something.
but the green energy subsidy (EEG) fee is ridiculously distributed. Anyone in the industry who really needs a lot of electricity doesn't have to pay it at all while it makes up 20-25% of the price for citizens.

I can see that they don't want to scare off these companies but the way it works now is not good.
Humans always think we are in a race track competing with others. Imagine I'm running alone and I get to decide the speed & destination. Sounds philosophical, but always helped me.
Welcome to overzealous Christian nation which believes that it is their duty to diminish the sexual satisfaction that their congregants may have.
What surprises me is that their ads manager is also amateurish (it got a redesign too!) and i mean real amateur stuff like broken images. And that is their money maker!
You could program them to feel whatever you mean by "anguish" here, although it just sounds like a synonym to me.
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I am 36, my job title is a Lead Developer (I made it despite fucking up all of my late teens and the entirety of my 20s), and I have been outclassed in some respects by people in their 20s, and I am at peace with this.

You know there is some aspect of jealousy going on here, and being so self-aware in that way is really important and you're half the way there already! So any time you feel that you want to tear apart someone's ideas or someone's code or whatever else, that might just be the jealousy talking. While there's a lot to be said for being an old motherfucker (by tech standards) and lessons that you can teach others, just always use that as a damper on yourself.

Perhaps a good antidote to that mindset is to refocus. Tell people what they are doing right. Look for little moments of genius when you see them. Actively look for things that are done right, and be sure to let the person in question know what they did right! Building people up will make you feel good, and it will definitely feel a lot better than professional jealousy.

I hope this is helpful in some way.