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It’s a benevolent dictatorship. Benevolence is in the eye of the beholder. As a visitor to that country it is easily one of the safest and cleanest countries in SE Asia.
I agree that the attitude you're describing is the bane of India. We hate it too. The police steal from us too. We have strategies to adapt to its presence.
As a Hindu myself - my 2c on the topic...

Hinduism has no central doctrine, so while this particular priest may hold a view on organ donation (or lack thereof), there will be others who may encourage it. As an example - Lord Ganesha's head is "donated" from an elephant. The concept of organ reuse isn't new. There just wasn't the technology to deal with it in the past.

I may not be as learned as the priest you know. But I have yet to find any of the priests I know tell me organ donation goes against any scripture.
One might think this kind of technology will become particularly important if we get to the point of having self-flying planes.
Why am I not surprised that it is Singapore doing this.

That country is an authoritarian nanny state disguised as Disney Land.

I have visited many times and have lots of friends there. Nobody cares about freedom of the press because they are well paid and comfortable.

They have truly figured out how to placate the masses.
Before you talk to anyone, take a week of work off. Don’t open your mouth about this until you’ve had time to relax and think, as soon as you say something to either the founders or your boss, your whole work situation will change.
> Facebook has previously said it was “concerned with aspects of the new law which grant broad powers to the Singapore executive branch to compel us to remove content they deem to be false and to push a government notification to users”.

How comical is this coming from Facebook that went all out combating "fake news" but they now they are concerned about arbitrary censorship?
Lots of “journalists” are people who established themselves outside of journalism and then transferred in.
Discussion currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21661958
What I mean is that it's very hard for any new company to compete. It's also a very bad bet for any VC to back them.
It's a bit more nuanced. My understanding is that for Singaporean citizens and PRs living in the country, registering a business is pretty fast, cheap, and easy. When the small foreign company I work for set up a subsidiary there, however, it was far more difficult. A lot of paperwork, required a SG legal firm and associated fees, answering a bunch of questions from the government about the business, required an existing local as the Director, etc. and it took months. The timezone difference certainly didn't help communication speed either. Then there's the visa process if you want to bring in anyone from outside of SG. Maybe it's less difficult for large multi-nationals.
Only my opinion – I'm living and working in Singapore since 7 years and it definitely is a good environment to do business. The justice system is reliable and predictable to not startle potential investors and the government itself does not misuse their undoubtedly great power they have over the country. Misusing it however would result in losing money and that's pretty much the only natural resource they have. I'm feeling more free in Singapore than in my home country because whenever I have to do with the government, I know there's someone to talk to with common sense and nearly everything can be done online. You can look forward to doing business there.
For everything ~ The events had that happened to me, the people that I had in life, is like a bunch of neural network that made me what I am now. It doesn’t have to be always positive, a negative weight is also the reason my life points to what it is now.

Not to say my life is perfect, but with the flaws I had, people still cared about me.

Thank you my family, friends, enemies - everyone. One can’t be grateful to God until one be thankful for the kindness of others.
Maybe meaner than you, I discredit assertions from folks claiming whatever is happening exponentially as just rote repeated hyperbole...and it still annoys me.
I used to do that every night. It's easy to look back and see that even in a shitty day there are things you should be happy for.

Somehow, I stopped. Doing it in the morning seems a good idea to start again.
No good deed goes unpunished. That's what it's like to be an employee. Ever heard of all the hardworking people behind <revolutionary product>? Of course not. You traded a "safe" paycheck for your time and energy. Not more, not less.

If you're really that good at executing, you can become a founder yourself and trade one set of problems for another. Maybe take a sabbatical and build something you care about.

Whatever you do, don't carry a victim mentality to your next interview.
Really? Allowed as in without punishment? Is that the world you want to live in?
> In democracy, the public are the arbiters of truth. Particularly political truth.

Sadly, they are increasingly the arbiters of scientific truth. Part of me keeps expecting to hear some senator calling for the repeal of the law of gravity.
Most probably there will be a market for HDMI cables with Ethernet specifically disabled - so, IMHO, there'll be sellers for it :)
I'm honestly trying to think of cool stuff that happened to me this year, and while there is some, the crappy stuff outweighs all that.

I'm probably thankful for some self-discovery I did this year. Turns out I'm not really socially awkward after all.
I’m thankful for all the fateful situations that have led to my humility and happiness.

Without them, I might have thought I was someone else. I might have never truly defined myself.
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According to Sam Burton of The Federal Helium Program [1], we have at-least 100 years worth of Helium in Wyoming with the current supply and demand.
This is before taking into account new sources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOy8Xjaa_o8 [1]
I've always prided myself as the same type of 'miracle worker' you're describing. I believe my own experience has some overlap with yours.

A couple things:

1. Everyone here is right, talk to the founders. You're already considering bailing so you've got nothing to lose. Tell them how you feel. Their response to your concerns will tell you all you need to know about sticking around or not.

2. Burnout is real. It's as concrete as muscles failing on a final rep. Except it's a lot more insidious.

Instead of refusing to lift any more weight, your brain will start to suggest anti-patterns, rewrites and other harmful paths in an attempt to keep going.

Take some time off. Drop the hobby projects. Travel, go camping, etc., whatever, but get out of your current routine.

After a while you'll start to get the urge to write code just for the sake of it. Take it slow but see how you're doing. Pick up a hobby project again and see it how it goes. If you need more time, take it.

Last time this happened it probably took me 6 months to fully recover, but I had pushed myself way too far. I don't think it's normally that extreme. Depending on where you're at, a couple weeks on the beach might be enough for a reset.
Not anymore, technology has improved a lot! Get this one (or variant on it): https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KAFKRM

I've owned it for 5 years and it's clogged only once (it happened in the first week of ownership) then never again.

And one time (in 5 years) I needed to flush it twice.
Not just the politicians. I recently overheard a conversation at the startup where I work where people were talking about the benefits of unionizing I’m front the executive team.

It was clear they wouldn’t do it and talked about it like it was a joke. Something poor people do.

Part of it is that unions badly need reforming.

The other part is that nobody cares enough to reform them.

Most folks at my company don’t care because they get paid too much to care. Not a bad reason.

Once the economy goes to crap that might change.
Reminds me of this fascinating paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0112050.pdf

It's about an infinite chain of operations where each is to the last as multiplication is to addition.
The difference being that science doesn’t consider truth a single absolute but a boundary on the body of knowledge. Old theorems are replaced by “truer” ones.

EDIT: autocorrect
My Roku TV is the most blocked computer on my network with the pi-hole.
All depends on the cost-benefit evaluation at the margin. To fill the resource, the prime candidates may be too few to recruit, and the people with grown children still relatively young and healthy available to make the trip and contribute sufficiently.
Well the hardware fix would be replacing a likely rather expensive board, and more sensibly, separating the constant-write kind of load onto a separate block device, preferably something like a microSD matched with a significantly larger eMMC.

There could be a software update to slow or disable the log-like writing or at least warn when the reserved blocks were running low.
Yes, political implementation is a different topic.

However, this ain't an all or nothing game:

You can move some in-kind services to money payment without moving all. Eg it should be possible for politicians to refrain from handing out annual eye exams.
I can suggest you reading "factfulnes", by the late Hans Rosling.

It's a good book on how to approach the world, and much like his talks, it really pushes the idea that our world, though flawed, is often much better than we think it is.
Space race / nationalism
I just finished high school this year so I do have a few opinions. Our CS course was outdated, we learnt Turbo C++ ffs and I had a hard time doing that since I personally use the standard C++ or Python for all my projects.

Logical thinking is a very underrated skill in school. Not just in CS but also in other subjects like Math. If the syllabus were structured such that the student got more autonomy as well as a need to learn how to Google stuff on their own, I feel that would make for a kickass CS class.
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I like CFLs but hate most LEDs because they flicker! It's at 120hz, but I can see it and it drives me crazy.

Another thing I hate is LEDs with such a sharp point source them make speckle patterns like a laser.

But I did find some good LEDs and I'm using them now, them seem as good as the CFLs they replaced. Had to return a bunch of bad ones though.
It shows Tesla's priorities - collecting data on the customer has priority over keeping the vehicle running.
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A ton of LEDs flicker at 120hz which makes me crazy. It's like a strobe effect that I only see when moving.
It’s well-known in the embedded software field that you have to be mindful about writing large amounts of data to flash storage. Yes, a lot of other products, including cars, undoubtedly use flash. This is one reason why you turn down logging to a moderate level before shipping, or store log data in a RAM disk and offload it to the cloud rather than store it locally.
> Current content feeds are optimized for engagement (ie. advertisement load) and thus won't conceive of a "future self", only what your current self will look at and click on right now.

Spot on analysis. When I open Reddit it's indeed as if I don't have to think, I can just... turn off. Sure, there are times when that's the right experience be it after a long day or something - but once you're on an infinitely scrolling app it's hard to leave. Our brains just haven't caught up yet. As soon as I've left the app I struggle to list the 5 most interesting things I learned or saw.

> For those wanting to do anything difficult they need to optimize their information diet over a very long time-scale, like years, so content-feed tools should be aware of human-scale timelines (eg. high school, college, career, parenting).

One of the things I like about school is in some way it takes care of that for you, for a while anyway: this book follows that one, don't waste your time understanding this until you've poked at that, etc. But I don't think we actually learn how to develop (or maintain) those long-term learning plans; especially as they are rarely linear but much more akin to an RPG skill tree.

I'm excited to see what you build!
Agree with the holiday idea. Some time away will give everyone a little time to step back and reflect. Maybe let some of your anxiety seep into other parts of the organization.

I keep these two comments bookmarked and will even share them with members of my team from time to time when I think maybe we're starting to push too hard, just so we don't lost perspective:

This is why I don't work very hard. Not entirely kidding. What'll make or break the company isn't me grinding away churning out incremental features and fixing tiny bugs. What'll make the difference is whether someone spots the game-changing opportunity, whether it's a product innovation, a business model or a particular partnership. To spot that kind of thing you have to give yourself some space and not have your head down all the time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16231526

Probably because consistently busting your ass in the civilian realm is a deep mistake. In a combat mindframe, it's utterly necessary in order to prevent the deaths of people you care about. But in a civilian frame, that level of effort is sometimes rewarded with promotion, but even more often is rewarded with more work and a stubborn refusal to even grant increases in pay, since every farmer loves a hard-working mule, but not if the mule demands more from them. That would just cut into profits from the farm.

If you work like three men, then promoting you means replacing you with three people, or trying to find the rare bird who works like you do. The practical result is that they keep you in your place, and promote a lazy schmoozer over you, one who will drink the Koolaid by the gallon, and has the wits to push the papers around, no more.

https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2ibw59/til_a_...
I saw it quite a few times in reputable publications. I'm the last person to have a high opinion of the press's honesty, but multiple orgs lying about it would be a bizarre and easily-defeated conspiracy.
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Please keep nationalistic flamebait far away from this site. We don't want it, or what it leads to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: since you've mostly been posting unsubstantive comments and/or breaking the site guidelines, I've banned this account again. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

Abusing HN like that will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.
In the US it is almost impossible for a public figure, especially a political figure, to win a libel lawsuit.

In theory, a deliberate, malicious false statement against a public figure would count as libel; but in practice basically everything is allowed. This prevents politicians from intimidating their critics with lawsuits.

EDITED TO ADD: In fact in the US there is pretty much a constant stream of false statements about every politician, and I can't recall any politician ever winning a libel case. Devin Nunes is trying currently, and basically making a fool of himself.
The administration claimed a couple times that he quit for long stretches.
Sounds similar to the SCRAM ankle bracelets. IIRC..they read from the offenders skin precipitation.
The paywall JavaScript still kicks in after reading the article for a while via archive.org.

This should not suffer from the same issue: http://archive.is/8Cm3Q
Indeed. I have a pile of Pi's, and they're always configured for the weirdest things that interest me at any given time.

The Rpi 4 is pretty much a game changer. As is the Zero-W. The two together are something really great.

What blows my mind is that the Rpi 4 boots a hell of a lot faster than my workhorse Mac Pro. That Mac has 14G of RAM and 4Tb of hard drive, but I use my Pi's for desktop stuff because they are so uncluttered and fast as a result.

PS: Get a clusterHAT. Trust me. You won't get much sleep as you get the hang of super computing on these tiny-yet-brilliant things.
In the story above, the candidate is capable of eating (and does so in front of one of the roboticist main characters). She points out, as you do, that it would be trivial to store food internally for later disposal
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If we're talking specifically about the Apollo 11 mission, there are quite a few other differences as well. The obvious one was that it was entirely fueled by politics to "beat the Russians." The other fact that few people seem to talk about today is how incredibly dangerous it was. There were many individual components that had known failure rates - some of them as high as 50% - and if any of them failed everybody would 100% die. Now combine all of these. Based on the limited testing they did (and don't forget the first Apollo crew died in training), there was at best a 1/6 chance of the mission succeeding.

If you had the chance to go to the moon but knew you had about a 10% chance of success (the odds improved substantially with later missions), would you do it? And keep in mind, you literally watched your colleagues - the original crew that was supposed to be the first on the moon - burn to death.

For all intents and purposes, going to the Moon was a military campaign. We had to do it, even if we killed people in the process (the Russians killed way more people than we did in their attempts). Americans (I cannot speak for other countries and cultures) just don't have that mindset anymore, for better and for worse.
Agree 100%. Only thing I’d add is that the killer feature of the extension is that it allows one to treat ordinary python files as notebooks (without converting!) by 1. Connecting to a persistent kernel instance 2. Allowing the user to use magic comments to delineate code cells within the python file. With these two things, and the ability to export as a real notebook, you get the great experience of a notebook — submitting easily editable cells to a kernel one at a time, as many times as you want — without of all the usual baggage that that would entail. Plus you get to edit in a decent editor (and edit things other than just python files in it) instead of the crap Jupyter forces you to use.
Might not be that long. In the early 2000s 256-bit RSA keys were common. These days manufacturers don't care about twenty-year-old cars an owners have factored the keys.
Why would this be more likely to happen in the future? Is the future steampunk? Let’s try ripping WiFi chip off present day pcb and see what happens.
When my partner died (4 years ago now), this was one of the first things I got in order. The AUS organ donor registry was on the ball and actually contacted me first as soon as her death was flagged with with government (these things are time-critical), but I found it incredibly healing to go through the process of sorting this at a time when everything was spiralling out of control and understand that her death wasn’t entirely in vain.

I’ll never know who her skin went on to help, but I know she’d be overjoyed to know she made another final contribution to science.
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I use a bank of blue LEDs aimed up at a white ceiling for the winter so I spent some time looking into the question. I didn't find anything very definite or concerning.

Note that there is a whole snake oil thing going on with blue light these days. Some of what we see about this stuff might be coming out of that particular industry.
Young people 'panicky' when denied mobiles
German company Cargolifter tried, about 20 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter
Federal judges, not activists.

Federal judges care little about mass opinion, but a great deal about elite opinion.

Roe v. Wade had nothing to do with feminism, and everything to do with the positions of the American Medical Association, the Mayo Clinic (formerly represented by Blackmun), and academic researchers at elite universities.

Not a terribly important distinction if you’re pro-gay rights or pro-choice.

But give credit where credit is due.
I was you.

Team lead is playing politics. He would be happy to see you gone. His strategy is to grind you down till you run out of energy and motivation.

Do not tolerate this. Do not let someone else take the victory lap for your hard work.

The bad news: This is going to happen in your career often. If you are good at what you do, you become a target. Get used to dealing with it.

The good news: his playbook is well known. Heres what you do: Go to amazon and buy ten books on office politics. Then take a week of and read them, and mark out the behaviors you see. Finally schedule a meeting with the founders, and explain to them what you are seeing.

Then everytime he behaves like an a-hole, call him out. Put in email and send it to the co-founders. Sunlight is a good disinfectant. These people are usually cowards and they FEAR the truth being known by the key stakeholders - that they are not good at what they do so they compensate by messing with the people are good, and they have a lot of experience doing it.

Stop being nice to team lead. You are at war with him. He wants you out. Your rational response is to get him fired as soon as possible. Its either him or you. Or demand that they make you a team lead too. Make a huge fuss about this.

But PLEASE, if you go down, go down fighting. Don't let this MF win.
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I cannot stress this enough. Communication is key!

Similarly to what others have said. Set up a meeting with the founders and also have your team lead involved. The fact that you are considering quitting means you have gotten to a stage where the answer to what you should do next is VERY important. So you need to communicate this so the company also has a fair chance of solving your issues to keep you around because they might be unaware of where you are psychologically.

Something to keep in mind your with your team lead. He/She might not be aware of their negative impact. Managers see multiple sides of an organization and it is not to the benefit of the organization for all sides to have access to all the information about other sides of the organization. To deal with this, managers play politics. Not because they are stupid and evil, but in their minds to keep the peace for the greater good but sometimes it impacts people like you and demoralizes them. Knowing this, you should not go into your meeting pointing fingers, read everyone's actions up to that point as well-intended as possible and use the meeting as a discovery session where you acknowledge what they are trying to do, but these are the negatives of their actions and outline how this can be made better, so you can work better. The way they handle this meeting should be all the answer you need to know if you should stay or not.
The only institution in a democratic society in general that acts to determine truth is the court system. While a countless number of bureaucrats may make routine judgements about the truth, any disputes over that tend to head to a court.

In court trials, the smallest details of truth are liable to be deliberated and argued over extensively, often producing outcomes that satisfy no interested parties.

It’s easy to have an opinion about what is an “outright lie”, it’s more or less impossible to prove it, and it is literally Orwellian to establish an authority to preside over it.