skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made it out a few times. After a break-in, I took off backpacking and lived off $20k NZD of savings for nearly a year:

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

I attempted this a 2nd time in a car and it wasn't quite as good, but I'm still glad I did it:

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

If you're under 30, holiday work visas are great. Tons of countries have these agreements, they're cheap ($200 ~ $300) and let you live and work in another country for a year. The US has them with Australia, NZ, Ireland and a few non-English speaking countries too. IT work doesn't require certification like some professions (medical, legal) so it's easier for us to get work.

A lot of people are afraid to make these kinds of jumps. I will admit after that last 5 month drive and watching my bank account drain, I can understand the security of a job and I probably won't take off again (unless I can get into grad school to work on my PhD). It's much more difficult with family/kids, although two people I graduated with lived out of an RV for a while and even raised their kids for the first few years in RVs. One got off the road because he got cancer and needed to settle down to be close to a hospital for treatment. The other decided to home school in the RV.

> step over people on my way to work

This was one of the reasons for the 2nd journey, because that was life in Seattle.

I think overall this concept seems nice, the "R U OK?" but it fails to actually help people from the systemic problems of dissatisfaction with life. The best intentions cannot solve issues of loneliness or missing a life partner. They cannot correct a society which pushes young men and women to get STEM jobs and fancy careers instead of going into the fields they want (honestly I think men should be encouraged to go into art and education and more fulfilling work instead of women being encouraged into the same careers that leads men to be totally unhappy with our lives; but that's a whole different rabbit hole).

I'll end this rant by saying I've been lonely for quite some time, but still recently walked away from two potential relationships. One of them brought up really early she wanted a family and the other I had shared the fact that I didn't want kids. When I was younger I always assumed I'd have kids, because every girl I dated wanted them. Now that I'm almost 40; I just don't want to bring anyone else into this world to suffer and die.

I think these problems are big, really big, and this kind of website or concept isn't going to help people really get past the feeling of deep unsatisfactions with our lives. That takes a lot more work; and a way to build a better world.
Thomas Piketty Jumps the Shark
> I hate the mild feeling of discomfort I get when I tell most people I'm a software engineer.

Oddly enough, I recently found myself saying something to this effect, in a meeting: "I'm an engineer, a professional. I like to take pride in my work. I look at doctors (or civil engineers) at my age and wonder about the level of respect they enjoy and how they approach their profession. How did we get to a point where we (generalizing here) got to a point where we both behave, and are treated as borderline-savants who must be tolerated out of sheer necessity?"
Well before you pay yourself on the back too much, we have similar issues with American tourists in Europe. Almost like assholes are noticeable everywhere and this is independent of their nationality.
As the other comment says, you concern yourself with the opinion of others too much.

While you're at it, you're choosing the modern-average crowd of people who do nothing interesting with their personal lives. Sports fans, movies, bars? Come on!

Easy first step: pick an individual sport and stick with it for a year. Check out your local bouldering gym or get into tennis, for example. Both of those have above-average, healthy, driven, interesting people.
5 mildly uncomfortable truths about venture capitalists
Employ or feign total ignorance of operations so no one can expect a raise, because the boss/manager doesn't even know what you do here.

Assume loyalty only from those whom you have directly hired; remove all those who predate you.

Make a strict deadline, but merrily add features at your whim, when the deadline is missed, then act astonished "how could this have happened?"

Elicit sympathy from your underpaid minions for crashing your Porsche again while auto racing.
What does this have to do with keybase chat?
I suggest that you do two things:

1. Stop consuming the news.

2. If it helps, take some positive, concrete steps to contribute in a positive way to the issues that you care about. You can reduce your carbon footprint, donate to organizations that appear to be helping, and cast your vote in a way that aligns with your values.
You should be picking a large enough number you'd be happy with. If you think there's a chance they'd offer $120k to start with, go for that figure. If you join on $80k and they say "Guess what?!? We'd have paid you double!!!", start looking for other jobs immediately on that higher rate and don't even put the $80k one on your resume (I actually did something similar and doubled my previous salary in 4 weeks).

Suggesting the first figure is all about anchoring [1]. Once that first figure is out there it sets the tone for the negotiation. Many employers will try to offer you $current_salary + $small_delta. This advice is all about anchoring at a higher figure, breaking away from any relationship to your previous figure. So it's important you do say the first figure.

Also, the deflection is there to make the figure you want seem normal to you. It's no big deal you're asking for a whopping salary - that's just what you expect. The last thing you want to do is take a sharp intake of breath and make it seem like you're overplaying your hand. Just casually drop in $top_end_figure and move on with the conversation.

A great book on negotiation skills is "Everything is Negotiable" [2]. That book has literally made me thousands.

[1] https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/negotiation-skills-daily/w...

[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-Negotiable-4th-Gavin-Ken...
I think as a society and an economy, we need a more holistic view of wealth and profit. Obviously a company where everyone just focuses on having fun and forgets about making money isn’t going to do well, but on the other hand, is a company that makes billions but where everyone is stressed and miserable really doing well either? It’s profitable in monetary terms, but not in ‘real’ terms if we include wellbeing and quality of life when measuring outputs.

The impact of a product on its users is also important—does it have a positive or negative impact on their wellbeing?

A business that creates negative happiness should be viewed just like one that creates negative cashflow.
It's a lot cooler now, it seems because of the money + media exposure. There are still some old and new negative stereotypes, particularly against CS students
Uber is sued over resistance to California 'gig' contractor law
The other side of this is mania. I've been truly OK, GREAT ACTUALLY, NEVER BETTER, I'M A PTERODACTYL!! but mentally unwell and pretty much headed for a crash like a booming speculative financial crisis is.

I think the better attitudes to mental health is (1) self-compassion and (2) compassion in general. Health is never a binary -- my blood work says I'm in Good Health but as I run through my late 30s I have occasional muscle aches, get gassy or super sleepy after certain meals and so on.

We're human. Life is transient and fragile.
Obtrusive = useful, works as intended but it's offensive to design guys so lets swap it for an unobtrusive one.

Unobtrusive = beautiful, thin, glossy, glassy, & invisible but using it feels like lottery, or whackamole. You'll also need steady hands like a surgeon or a advanced robot to use cos its just too tiny for mouse, much less finger control. So, instead of drag-scroll, people end up tapping the scroll bar to jump around the page.

But that's not all. The user gets tired and taps the backspace button. Alas, instead of moving back, it goes to a different page because the all knowing designer messed with that too.

After a few confused back/forward presses, the user closes the tab or the browser, if the designer messed with the tab closing process.

But it's all right cos user engagement has improved!
"They were fired for other unrelated reasons, I assure you, but definitely not for answering 4 or 5" :)

If it's prefaced by this I would be even more scared. It's like a parent telling you "I won't get mad or punish you if you tell me the truth". Spoiler -- they always get mad.
And then learn about the technology, and learn about the attribution.

If there’s anything I learned from the governments attribution of the DNC “hacking”, it’s that government attribution is crap. Go ahead and search for the actual evidence used in that attribution (good luck finding anything other than click bait MSM). It’s almost as laughable as the evidence in “trump tower server back channel to Russia”. For any security-minded folks it will be good for a laugh.
The debt servicing comes from the rental income. You submit to the lender a business plan of how you are going to use the borrower money, how your shares act as collateral, and how you will use the cash flow of the rental income to make interest payments.

It's no different then any other corporate loan.
My perspective is I'm much more concerned that France has to take US Gulf Coast level climate management steps in the first place. I think all the advice is good, but I don't think the problem is lack of knowledge but rather denial that the climate crisis is as bad as it is. I am not offended, sorry to both of you if it came off that way.
Here's a silly thought: why can't we put the spacecraft on top of an ICBM in a silo and launch when the next extrasolar object is detected? The American and Russian armed forces worked out 24/7 launch readiness in the 1960s.
I think gambling is harmful similarly to the worst of drugs. I would much rather see cocaine legal than gambling. I just think children are a demographic the least vulnerable as there is always a guardian to put stop to it, they can't lost life saving etc. I am all for limiting gambling (or outright banning many forms of it). I see the whole loot box thing as very low priority though and I think better results can be obtained by education and maybe even slight exposure to the exploitive mechanisms. If anything it's better if a child learn the hard way and lose pocket money than an if an unaware adult gets suckered in and lose their live savings, family, job.
Exposed to the browser doesn't have to mean it's exposed to websites. The browser has access to all sorts of system settings that websites aren't allowed to view. Although admittedly it's hard to disguise scrollbar behaviour if it affects the page width.
The article is about how many of the lite mode optimizations were added to the last 7 v8 releases, resulting in an 18% reduction vs lite mode's 22%. The people responding to you are making the case that the 18% reduction is basically as good as.
From an even wider angle, silicon valley is fuelling this dystopia under the veil of "solving difficult problems".
Bono won't care as long as they don't pitch him to invest in it (like webOS)...also it has to play "All That You Can't Leave Behind" whenever you activate tracking mode.
Uber says drivers aren’t core to its business, won’t classify them as employees
> configurable

I mean, if I write an app and hide a "dysfunctional prettiness [Y/n]" configuration somewhere in settings, is that a good thing?

I'd argue there are at least two better options that are trivial to implement, and surely more if one cares to do UX due diligence when trying some novel design.
Whatever Happened to Caller ID?
I was thinking the UK due to Brexit and austerity under the Conservatives etc.
Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of work? Is there something that you have always wanted to try but found it hard to start? Perhaps checking up on meetup or something like that...
New use of insulin compound could treat aggressive brain cancer: study
Congratulations, and best of luck!
> If you need to just get some generic "good job", then the answer is to learn what you need in the first twelve years of school. I think that's enough time.

The 'Everyone needs to get a degree' mentality is really just part of a long term trend:

100 years ago 6 years of schooling was enough to get some generic 'good job'.

50 years ago 10 years of schooling was enough to get some generic 'good job'.

25 years ago 12 years of schooling was enough to get some generic 'good job'.

In another 25 years, 12 years of schooling will not be enough to get some generic 'good job'.

> If everyone has a degree, it offers no advantage.

A degree isn't just a way to give someone an advantage in a zero-sum game - it actually changes the way people think and makes them proficient at different types of work.
There are many Wikipedia pages on current, ongoing events. The editors even label them as such. So apparently it is intended for that purpose.
It's the net promoter score all over again.

I don't know if there are inventories for depression, but every time someone tells me I'm a bit talkative I take the Young Mania Ratings Scale. It's a wonderful, wonderful tool:

https://psychology-tools.com/test/young-mania-rating-scale
> I don't have much saved up to just quit and search for new jobs full-time

> I've been applying every day since but haven't found anything
Is posting through Tor not allowed? Only I am able to see my comment.
"You can view a website's DA by using MozBar (a free Chrome-extension), Link Explorer (a backlink analysis tool), the SERP Analysis section of Keyword Explorer, and dozens of other SEO tools across the web."

Why wouldn't I just type in the domain at moz.com and look it up there ? </retorical>

[1] https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority
If true, this would be an interesting case of a revealing code name -- "fog bank" is an apt description of the consistency of an aerogel.
We can argue about "fundamentals", but I'm happy hiring non-CS grads. Because for us, "fundamentals" are things like "can you work in a team?", "can you write/communicate well?", "can you grasp real-world workflows/issues/bottlenecks real people have using products?", and "will you try the simplest thing first?". Other degrees offer the same or more opportunities to hone these skills.

It's easy for senior engineers on the team to address gaps in CS knowledge, but much harder to address a lack of soft skills, writing, or over-designing/too much abstraction (because you were taught the patterns, but not when to use them). I could go on, but IMO, this is why interviews are still so broken, and why the field of software development still faces the same issues it always has. Granted, I'm not building a DB, but compared to maintenance and over-engineering, performance is rarely an issue, and easily solved via profiling.
Name one country with better-than-average standard of living that has opened its borders and thrived. There will always be a wall around something nice — either around your house, or your neighborhood, or your country.
>Why does horizontal space matter on desktop anyway?

Because some people like to tile their screens into two halves.
Yes, you said it better than I. MSM/Dems constantly lie about the facts to push for gun confiscation, when the facts dont align with they they are regurgitating from the gun control playbook.
thanks for the pep talk!

Just typing it all out was pretty cathartic, getting a positive response in return gave a lil burst of renewed confidence. thx :)
Would there be a performance penalty (I’m guessing in cache coherency) in having an interpreter that’s really two interpreters in the same process, where modules that use the “strict subset” of the language (the part that doesn’t require the more advanced object-model, or any FFI preemption safety) run their code through a more minimal interpreter, and then whenever your code jumps into a module that requires those things, the interpreter itself jumps into a more-complete “fallback” interpreter? Sort of doing what profile-guided JIT optimization does, but without the need for JITing (and before JITing would even kick in), just instead using a little bit of static analysis during the interpreter’s source-parsing step.

I ask because I know that this is something hardware “interpreters” (CISC CPU microcode decoders) do, by detecting whether the stream of CISC opcodes in the decode pipeline entirely consist of some particular uarch, and then shunting decode to an optimized decode circuit for that uarch that doesn’t need to consider cases the uarch can’t encode. But, of course, unlike hardware, software interpreters have to try to fit in a CPU’s cache lines and stay branch-predicted, so there might not be a similar win.

(Tangent: I once considered writing a compiler that takes Ruby code, rewrites the modules using only a “strict subset” of it to another language, and then either has that language’s runtime host a Ruby interpreter for the fallback, or has the Ruby runtime call the optimized modules through its FFI. I never got far enough into this to determine the performance implications; the plan was actually to enable better concurrency by transpiling Rails web-apps into Phoenix ones, switching out the stack entirely at the framework level and keeping only the “app” code, so single-request performance wasn’t actually the top-level goal.)
HIV is specifically a retro-virus, a class of virus that's very hard to get out of a person's system. This specific cure, though, is making it so that the key that HIV uses to get into a certain door[1] to your cell won't work. Since most viruses get into cells in different ways this won't have any impact on influenza.

There's been some work[2] on broad spectrum anti-virals but I don't know where that is right now.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO
Web browsers don't rely on python to run, and the Web is important, so Javascript engines get prioritized.
Some similar experience in my own PhD journey. I think two things are likely the cause:

- Academia attracts sociopaths
- Academia is slowly imploding, thus resources are becoming more scarce, thus folks are bitter.

Hang in there and gtfo of academia as fast as you can. My quality of life has improved immensely since I've left.
> No that is only one potential implementation of UBI, and generally the only one acknowledged by the Anti-UBI crowd (in a fear mongering sort of way).

Because it's the most likely to be implemented and is the only one being touted by presidential candidates.

> And my understanding with housing is 19 Million people are eligible/qualify, but only 25% get assistance

Is that 25% get approved out of 19 million applying, or just 19 million are eligible but most dont apply? That's an important distinction.

> Those numbers are very consistent with the percentage of wealth owned by these groups.

You're talking about wealth, I'm talking about investments. Taxing capital gains at a higher rate would just lead to less investment. Less real estate being built which in turn means higher housing prices, less VC funding so less opportunity for jobs, etc. It's taxed lower because it's a higher risk.

> That seems totally arbitrary

It's not. At no point does the government deserve more money than I do for my own work. Yes the government provides that safety net, schools, roads, etc but that is paid for on an individual level way before 50%.

I agree that we need to strengthen laws that allow companies to hide money, but at the same time every single one of us tries to pay the lowest amount every year come tax time; so I can't blame corps for doing the same.
From the comments, seems there is confusion on what you're looking for. I sense sarcasm in your request, i.e., 'What are cargo cult things one can do to show power?' But some responses are more genuine. If you make the ask clearer in what you're really looking for, it'll make it easier to decipher the responses.

My 2 cents...
Regarding question 1, my understanding is that all non-binaries messages are copied regardless of size. Only binaries ever use shared memory. Early in BEAM development they debated optimizing shared memory for local messages but ended up not using it, partly due to the extra code complexity. Always copying messages means there’s little difference between local or remote messaging code paths and removes ref counting. Haven’t read the source myself regarding that, but it would be an interesting price to study.

I’d bet optimizing local message passing would be a good feature of a BEAM implementation in Rust since the ref counting and other details would be less worrisome. Another research topic would be how BEAM would compare to say Java/Dotnet runtimes on cpu cores with lessened hardware shared memory guarantees and relying on message copying between cores instead.
I had a scary similar situation. I continued to search for a new position and after four months, I was able to find something that was a much better fit.
> My work stress level is basically maxed out and has been for a long time.

It's probably really worth it to change your work situation—it might help with the other issues even if it seems unrelated.

When you're really stressed it can have a big impact on your thinking in other areas, even if you'd swear your thoughts are based purely on an objective assessment.

It may be that you make a change, work somewhere else, maybe even change careers—whatever it takes to not be constantly stressed—and then the other parts of your life begin falling into place.

Be patient with it, but if you get away from the stressful stimuli for long enough your mind will start naturally settling again and many of your problems may clear up.

When you say this for instance:
> I have literally nothing to look forward to

It may surprise you some day that you couldn't think of anything at this time while answers are so easily available then.

Good luck.
>I think maybe you and I are just using "certificate" differently. to me, a certificate is very different from a degree.

I agree that we are using this word differently, because to me a degree is a certificate.

>there’s definitely no way I could be meaningfully certified as a historian

I agree: because of the nature of history, no meaningful certifications of this knowledge can occur. My point is that PEOPLE STILL ATTEMPT, every single day, to award meaningful certifications in this area, and since people are already attempting, it makes sense to just aid their efforts rather than throw out their efforts entirely on ideological grounds, no matter how correct those ideological grounds may be.

I agree that history is not a field that can have a meaningful certification in an abstract sense. My point is that these certifications STILL HAPPEN in a very real and practical sense; so why not optimize the process that already exists rather than wishfully hoping we could shut down the process entirely on ideological grounds.
I agree that a society needs to have some shared values codified in laws. Things like not killing each other are great examples.

But, are shared values the same as good and bad? We generally consider certain forms of lying to be bad but they are not illegal. And, not everyone agrees on those. So they aren't entirely shared. If we go down the rabbit hole of reason and logic on this it's not so simple.
It's sad to see an apparently intelligent person embrace this kind of stupidity.

Rates of firearms ownership in the US have been declining steadily anyway, so even IF you buy the idea that gun violence is increasing (and there's evidence that it isn't), then you have to question how "more gun control" is the answer when gun ownership and violence are already un-correlated (or even negatively correlated).
Being the only remote employee when the rest of the company is onsite.