skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>40. Penny Problem Gap: Economists assume demand is linear, but people’s behavior totally changes once an action costs money. If the inventors of the Internet had known about it, spam wouldn’t be such a problem. If sending an email cost you $0.001, there’d be way less spam.

Or, more likely, the internet as we know it would not exist and it'd just be some crappy failed commercial venture where everything cost money and it never took off. Building commerce into protocols is a terrible idea.
>This time I'd like to start really pouring my soul into something that can provide meaning to my life

Meaning comes from within. If you're looking for outside sources, you've already lost. If you've achieved enough material success that you no longer have to worry about working to survive, excellent! Be grateful, for you have something 99.999% of the world will never have. Use the free time you have achieved to think about things that matter to you. Not what you 'think' should matter, not what other people say matters, but what actually matters to you. If you haven't done this before, (and it sounds like you haven't), don't be surprised when it turns out to be a genuinely difficult question. That's ok! Take your time, roll it around in your mind. Don't try and go 100% all-in on things. That only works when you have a concrete goal already defined. You need to let your default network roam around for a bit.
This. This is the thing that I have discovered gives back a sense of fulfillment like nothing else.

My wife and I went through an extremely rough patch in our marriage where we considered divorce. We got our finances in order (even after going through a bankrupticy) and went to marriage counseling with a fantastic marriage counselor.

Now more than a decade later, we are pre-marriage mentors and financial coaches through our church. It is more fulfilling that I could have possibly imagined.
You're not wasting 'productive' years. You have a wife and kid. Ask them what they want out of life, and do that if you can't think of anything yourself.
Install and Configure PostmarketOS with Plasma Mobile
Did you do a post-bac program for this? I'm in the process of trying to leave software and become a PA, but I'm not sure what the best path would be, or how to budget/plan.
Acesleep+Coupon+Awesome+Savings+$300
US and UK have no official national id system...

So I guess, in the same way people in US and UK do.

Also remember that illegal work is not uncommon in every western country as well

If you're paid cash, you pay in cash

If you live and work in a small rural village in continental China, where girls have been hidden and everybody knows it, who's coming to check if you have an id or not?
Autonomy? Check.
Mastery? Check.
Purpose? <== you are here
Radio spectrum is vast, and you need to focus your jammer energy on the narrow bands used in actual communication. Frequency hopping makes that non-trivial, and that's before you consider directed beams and satellite uplinks.
I think your perspective is a bit too rigid, and it's resulting in a false dichotomy.

Yes, obviously the novel coronavirus is still here, and it is still a huge concern. This doesn't mean that people who are fed up with generations of police brutality and have taken to the streets to pressure their local leaders to put an end to it are somehow being hypocrites. They are simply demonstrating that ending police brutality is a much more important issue, one they are willing to risk their own health for (not just from the virus but also from tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper sprays, LRADs and more).

At the end of the day, humans are complex and everyone's calculus is different. I have friends who want to protest but have decided not to because they are immuno-compromised. I also have friends who have gone to the protests, and have since been self-quarantining (including calling in sick if their employers have called people back to the office). I also know people, like you, who think protesters are being irresponsible since packed crowds will no doubt intensify the pandemic.

Instead of judging these groups, we should strive to understand where they are coming from and why they may have made those choices, based on sets of circumstances and experiences that will be unique for everyone.
Intel licensed Vega for Kaby and was responsible for driver support. The line was discontinued[1] last year "to focus on 10th and 11th gen" products.

It's more interesting that AMD attempted to pick up the mantle at all after it was abandoned by Intel. A feeling of responsibility to customers, perhaps?

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-discontinue-kaby-lak...
This quote from Pascal might apply here. He said "There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ."
Both helpful git repos for learning how to architect async Rust apps using Tokio. `mini-redis` is especially well documented (I understand the current MiniCouchDB is still early!). Thanks for sharing.
Yes. By far. Some of it is due to the nature of creative work that requires large blocks of uninterrupted time. Most people don’t realize how much a 2 min conversion can knock us out of creative flow. When I am writing or coding it’s hard to have people around that want to interact. At the same time there is a creative burst that comes from collaboration so it’s a balance. I have learned what work benefits from which setting but it’s still something I am working on.
They are equally bad because in both cases the user is taken to a place that they did not intend to go. They are not bad because something is getting "stolen", they are bad because the user is no longer in control. That is a significantly more concerning aspect than someone not receiving affiliate revenue, which to be completely honest, I couldn't care less about.
The thing is, normalizing against population figures goes both ways. Yes, in incidents of white-on-black or black-on-white homicide, for every 10 million white people in the US, ~26 were victimized whereas ~53 for every 10 million black people. But there are more than 4 times as many white people as black people in the country. It is of course a drastic simplification, but if we roughly say that the average black person interacts with 4 times as many white people as with other black people and the average white person interacts with 1/4 times as many black people as with other white people, then the fact that the average white person is only roughly half as likely to be the victim of a homicide by a black offender as a black person is likely to be the victim of a white offender does not seem to me to support your point.
Learn about something totally alien and "beyond" your current scope of life skills. Find a new passion. Find a passion.

Perhaps consider a means of not losing the advantages of what you currently have, while allowing you significant leeway to alter your future course in a way that will become clearer to you as you discover it.
The US government can just walk in and say zoom.us has to feed all the data into MYSTIC for national security reasons. The CCPs ability to pressure some developers into adding bad code which might enable them to hack zoom infrastructure is laughable in comparison. Yes in theory they could attack some high value target that way, but only the hosting nation can exfiltrate mass surveillance without an alarm going off. Which is why zoom.cn is hosted in china.
I definitely agree with that. If you can't tolerate other ideas, then you aren't doing science.
You need an idea to pursue. The idea cannot be a simple myth about changing the world in some way, it has to be somehow more intrinsically engaging to you.

Studying some philosophy can help - not for getting the idea, but for usefully evaluating it after you get it.
This is a symptom of someone that lived a 'square' life style all their lives... and never did something out of bounds or take risks

You really need to spice up your life...
Go to the dessert, do some 'safe' drugs, (aka, mushrooms)..., get a mistress.... get a motorcycle (and be safe about it), buy one of those trycycle open air cars and ride the coast, start playing some social sports seriously, (volleyball/soccer) etc... etc...

It is up to you what you think you like, but often you never know until you try it. The fact that you are not happy, means you are getting a mini burn out from being so 'square' all your life. Time to rebel a bit, just don't throw the baby with the bathwater, (aka, don't destroy the good stuff in your life, just incorporate some more risky fun)
Biased, or simply consistent?
GH link, it's in Python, looks like it's using Django.
Help others.

If you’re a programmer then automate your charitable work.

How many people can you help this week? 50,000?

Can you buy fertiliser for an entire city? Can you pull a ton of carbon out of the atmosphere? Can you speak for the defenceless, downtrodden, voiceless people who are suffering? Can you eliminate hunger for a whole village? Can you teach 10 kids to code and teach them to all teach 10?

Start helping people
> 12. Demand Curves Slope Down: The harder something is to do, the fewer people will do it. For example, raise the price of a product and fewer people will buy it. Lower the price and more people will buy it. Economics 101.

Not always as true as you might think. There are Veblen goods [0], luxury status symbols for which the high price is part of the attraction.

More controversially, there may be Giffen goods [1]. Imagine a poor part of the world, where an average family spends half of its food budget on some cheap staple -- bread or rice or whatever -- and half on meat and fresh fruit and vegetables, but the staple part of the diet provides three-quarters of their calories. If the price of the staple rises , then their food budget will no longer provide enough calories. The only way they can make up the deficit is by buying less meat/fruit/veg and more of the staple: in other words, as the price of the staple rises, so demand for it goes up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
thanks for the feedback! I'll take your advice into account and dive into the book
Ask HN: What is the best onboarding experience you have had?
Interested to know what is the best onboarding experience you have had when joining a new company. It would help to tell whether it was your first job or you joined as an experienced hire. What made it tick?

Background: We are considering defining onboarding processes in our start-up and want to know the best practices out there. This is particularly important now that we are forced to a do alot of remote onboardings. How can we make it work for the team and our new members?
How is this even achieved? I've made websites before, but I don't know how you'd even go about hijacking the back button like this.
You can still get hoodwinked by youtubers[0] who (to the untrained eye) look like they know what they are talking about but are actually grifters[1] wasting your time

[0]: Siraj Raval (700k subscribers!):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A

[1]:
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2019/10/16/why-siraj-ravals-...
Yeah, tiny is the key word. Really, really tiny. Very small on Spotify as well.

It's just so different from when I was young, and people would call into a radio station, getting busy signals over and over, just on the chance they'd pick up and the further chance they'd actually play the song you requested. You had a real incentive to buy the record.
They are not comparable with Pygame, but easier for beginners:

https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.io

https://github.com/mjbrusso/game2dboard

Disclosure: I am the author of game2dboard
I can appreciate the fact that you reached out for advice -- thanks for that! I'm curious to know what parts of Aldous Huxley's work would present an inspiration for change here?
"Boogaloo" is a longstanding meme that refers to a possible upcoming civil war, that the media has recently misconstrued into a movement trying to cause a civil war.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/boogaloo
Or, you can learn something from reading this and realize that you're not really missing anything, because it's a distraction.

A more constructive path would be to focus on passion, follow your heart; wherever it may lead you.
>Why would they single out black people...

Black people are the least rewarded early investors in the startup we call the USA.

They have more right to be in this country than any group other than Native Americans, a large % are in fact descendants of native Americans but are not recognized as such due to a paper genocide and deportation program carried out by the govt of the US in the early 20th century.

No other minority group is in this position. Anyone who has studied the history knows the country still owes a tremendous outstanding debt to this group of people.
Thank you for your clarification that the post was entirely a critique of a single bit of word choice.

Out of curiosity, what other philosophers do you consider to be so absolutely correct (and so clear in their statements that misinterpretation is impossible) that rise to the level of proof or evidence when cited?
> loved by my family, surrounded by good friends, happily married

You got the most important thing right. Whatever you end up doing, don't forget that.
But it's not a "silly number game", it's a very serious analysis of numbers that should be done to try to determine whether certain conclusions are accurate or inaccurate. Otherwise we have only anecdotes and narratives.

Edit: I can make no claim of being a statistician. My statistical arguments probably have some holes in them. But I will at least say that the numbers that I've looked at seem to me to be sufficient to question the prevailing media narrative.
Im in a similar position after selling a company last year and recognise all for emotions.

After a month of golf, I realised that I needed to be in the game to feel alive and challenged, so went back and started another company pretty quickly.

At 33 it’s way to young to “retire”. Some people could probably do it and amuse themselves with hobbies and family, but I think most people driven enough to be self made financially independent at a young age would find it hard to switch to a life of leisure overnight.

If you do return to work or entrepreneurship, doing it because you genuinely enjoy the work and challenge rather than needing the money is a good place to be. I’m enjoying my work more than I have for a long time because the motivations are completely different.
Gen. Pazuello, who has been in charge since Teich resigned, has now been officially elevated to "interim minister". It isn't supposed to be a permanent position though so it would also be valid to say that the position is still vacant.

https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2020/06/03/ha-quase-vi...
Not sure if the blogs from tech companies can really count here. Those articles are made with the company's interest in mind, typically to boost recruiting. In my experience, they are always written on company time.
> if we roughly say that the average black person interacts with 4 times as many white people as with other black people and the average white person interacts with 1/4 times as many black people as with other white people, then the fact that the average white person is only roughly half as likely to be the victim of a homicide by a black offender as a black person is likely to be the victim of a white offender does not seem to me to support your point.

Italicized is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man designed to undermine the struggle Black Americans face.

I'm disengaging. Goodbye.
[I missed the kid part, ignore the rest of this comment as it's wrong] I'm surprised no one asked about/suggested procreation? You've literally set yourself up for that, at this point of your life. If you and your spouse are unable to, you should look into adoption. The lost feeling could be from not having a real, good use of what you've built up. It's like building a kingdom but not having any people in it.
There is a planet to save. I think you have a lot of work ahead of you.
Congratulations on your life this far, you have certainly checked off everything there is in this material world. Honestly, I mean it. Your work ethic is great, as is your abilities to get you this far.

How is your faith life, do you believe in religion? As some others have alluded to, having gratitude and giving back I feel are your next steps you should consider taking. I think you are at a great time in your life to start that dialogue of faith, start giving back, start believing there is more in your life, more people you can help.

Life begins when we give back :) (and I don't doubt you haven't, but I think it's the next step for you after reading your comments).
Plenty people build something other than killing machines. And not caring about it is a convenience perspective, afforded by circumstance of living in a well-defended nation.
I don't get the reference. Worry less about "vibes," I guess would be my advice. And consider that if someone says "brown cows eat grass" they're not trying to describe the entire universe; they're actually taking it as a given that your brain will work hard enough to remember that non-brown cows, and non-grass-eating cows, and even brown, non-grass-eating cows exist and have their own stories that are outside the scope of this one.

"Once upon a time, Little Red Riding Hood was going to go to..."

"NOT ALL RIDING HOODS ARE RED AND FRANKLY I OBJECT TO ANYONE WHO MONOLITHICALLY TRIES TO SAY SO AND I'M GETTING A VIBE... SEIZE HIM!"

To teach yourself programming in 1990 you would've gone to a bookstore or library, that employed a buyer/curator, who bought from a distributor, who bought from a publisher, who bought from an author, who probably also dealt with an agent and an editor. Other than the author and his/her own desire to produce something good, there were 3-5 other layers in the process, 3-5 other entities making the decision, should we submit this, should we publish this, should we distribute this, should we buy this and devote shelf space to selling it. Each of those steps is a gate through which only a limited quantity can pass, so whatever else it actually means, the book you pick up off the shelf in 1990 has passed through all those gates. Nowadays excellent and shitty writers alike are free of that.
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

You need personal connections with meaningful care of and for people in your community. Don’t donate: put in the sweat equity, and let your life change and fill up naturally as much as your service changes and fills up your community’s and it’s people.

Get out there and make a difference in your world with a humble heart, and you’ll find that it’ll make a difference in you, too.

If you’re in the US, there are a host of things of great value you can sink years into, ranging all over the spectrum from voter registration to homeless work to volunteering for literacy in libraries to doing trail maintenance work in a national park or something. The possibilities for civic service are plentiful!
He already has a kid, he said.
The paper by itself is questionable. It's apparently peer reviewed, but no journal is willing to publish it for now. One author asked for their name to be removed while others reviewers have dismissed its authenticity.

It comes across as six of one and half a dozen of another. Either way, it's politically controversial if it's remotely true.
All over the world people on various forms of lockdown are suffering various levels of income loss. Civil servants still get their entire pay packer. All the others are in a mixed bag - some are fully laid off and some may have unemployment benefits, some have cash that has been trickling down from federal/state coffers as they sit at home.
Look into the history of the great depression - the lack of purchasing power in the great mass of the population created a self perpetuating depression. It was only the "New Deal" in the USA that ended it. Google that and see, then WW2 came along = stuff made and paid for to be blown up to wage the war.
Landlords and mortgage holders are salivating as months of rents/payments accumulate to the point where the coming depression enables a huge era of foreclosure on homes/apartments/shops/cars etc - all of which will drop into their hands a a year or so from now, they will be able to sell rent etc.
So the Feds/states/cities must act to print the cash to give to each of the people at the very bottom (with income taxes witheld) so they are able to keep their homes/cars/apartments etc.
If not the sustained recession will cause the treasury to lose even more due to the recession's decline. Look at 1929-1939 - do we want 10 years of that?

an extract from the web:-
Did you know? Unemployment levels in some cities reached staggering levels during the Great Depression: By 1933, Toledo, Ohio's had reached 80 percent, and nearly 90 percent of Lowell, Massachusetts, was unemployed.

The next day, Roosevelt declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks. On March 9, Congress passed Roosevelt’s Emergency Banking Act, which reorganized the banks and closed the ones that were insolvent.

In his first “fireside chat” three days later, the president urged Americans to put their savings back in the banks, and by the end of the month almost three quarters of them had reopened.

The First Hundred Days

Roosevelt’s quest to end the Great Depression was just beginning, and would ramp up in what came to be known as “The First 100 Days.” Roosevelt kicked things off by asking Congress to take the first step toward ending Prohibition – one of the more divisive issues of the 1920s – by making it legal once again for Americans to buy beer. (At the end of the year, Congress ratified the 21st Amendment and ended Prohibition for good.)

In May, he signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act into law, creating the TVA and enabling the federal government to build dams along the Tennessee River that controlled flooding and generated inexpensive hydroelectric power for the people in the region.
Its a bit of a false dichotomy to say that the alternative to asking “what is your job?” is “what’s the meaning of life?”.

Just talk about anything. Talk about how the seats in the pub you are in aren’t comfy, then just yes and whatever they say and it will form a natural conversation.

You will know the basics about someone because the conversation will inevitably loop back to that naturally during stories.
It's more common in novels and games. But it happens in TV and movies too, take HAL 9000 for example. And you also have to consider that a lot of scifi shows predate deep learning, so it's often referred to as "the computer" instead and AI is reserved for AGI, usually with personality and a humanoid avatar.
In TNG the ship computer handled a lot of routines where the crew only provided high level input. It's advanced enough to run realistic holodeck scenarios.
Stargate Universe also had a ship that was mostly run by the computer and made decisions that were often inscrutable to the occupants and only made sense in retrospect.
This is true.

The only one I had that seemed to help (a little) would close around your neck like those devices people wear after they get whiplash.