skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see and understand your sentiment but, in my rather insignificant few years in the workforce - carrots, dipped in vanilla chocolate and honey, generally tend to work better than the stick.

The company could have apologised, and do a lot more ego stroking before asking a favour which they can pay for and maybe throw in an all expenses paid weekend with the SO as a thank you. Not only will you get goodwill but future problems are going to be significantly cheaper to solve. Even if you have a bad break up - as a business owner you should understand the value of mending bridges. It's cheaper than losing sleep at night and losing your steak dinner to a bad stomach.
I have been dollar cost averaging straight into VTSAX for the past couple of years and have seen something like a 40% annualized return lol. That probably won't continue, but what a ride.
> Rents for the poor are rising

Because of the economical impact of locking down the economy and giving money to everyone.

> Rents for the rich are plummeting

Because they don't need to live in expensive central hubs to get their high wages and there is less demand for their luxury flats.

Also, this lax definition of rich people is exactly how the richest 1% can stay hidden.
Interesting to see the differences in people. I've had a long career with very few rejections, but it has a lot to do with the fact that I don't apply to places unless I am really confident I am definitely going to be the best candidate, and that's generally been true.

That said, I encourage folks on my team to interview regularly just to know how to value themselves and to see that there are other opportunities, and to just get practice interviewing and learning how other companies run the process.

My rejections:

- laid off from Red Hat post dot-bomb (I wasn't really trying to stay at the time) ~ 2003

- rejected for a sysadmin position at Blizzard in around 2003 or 4?

- rejected from a lot of PhD programs in Physics (I wasn't really trying that hard, see a theme, it's called cognitive dissonance!) ~ 2008

- fired from Quora (honestly really just ended up misaligned with my boss and career goals, they made the right call) ~ 2014

- rejected from Stripe with two personal referrals after the last stage of the interview. I was pretty bummed by this and had spent a month putting all my eggs in one basket to work there. This was 2014 so I also missed out on a nice bit of stock to be honest!

At my current company I feel like I finally had enough continuity to specialize a bit and become an expert in a field to feel comfortable with what ever may come next. I hope others can find that in their careers too.
I can imagine that if such a product becomes successful and commonplace, there would be an immediate demand for a client that translates those paragraphs back into the actual message ("Thank you for reaching out, blah blah, unfortunately, blah blah, small team, blah blah, workload, blah blah" => "no").
I think it depends on who you are. I can't fathom not doing something. I want to retire, asap, though not FIRE-levels, but i know what i want to do. I want to do exactly what i do in my current off hours, which looks a lot like work. Because it is work. I want to work, when i retire. I just want to work on whatever i want to work on.

Which is the rub. Passionate people will be busy, all the time. Without it.. well, i can't even envision how to live.

I think parents need to help their children find hobbies. Find passions. Develop passions. You don't _have_ to be excellent at piano or whatever. I don't care what it is, be it games, wood working, farming, etc - but i feel like it is essential to the human experience.

But.. i've got an isolated view. So.. YMMV.
The EU did sign contracts. Unfortunately AstraZeneca is not going to be able to fulfill the contract, only delivering 30m out of 80m doses in Q1, with an even bigger shortfall expected for Q2.

https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1372897665864830978
As someone who uses the language. I think it's one of its most overlooked features. By convention comments are ignored, but the truth is they're not by the programmer. Comments are extremely important to keep track of what you're doing and reading other people's code. So I think this is a case where the convention doesn't meet the reality. Also using these features within comments makes it so every use of these extra features is documented and shows up in completions, so you the programmer always know what you're doing. I'm a fan haha
Sorry, no I'm not going to request access to read your article. That exceed my hassle hurdle.
> Having fewer keywords does make Go simpler to learn and simpler to read other peoples code

Go carefully touts how few reserved keywords it has, but I think it would actually be a simpler to reason about language if it had more reserved keywords.

For example, you may notice that "true", "false", "len", "new", etc all aren't reserved keywords.

This sometimes does lead to bugs, for example someone may make a function, like "func memoize(new func(...interface{}) interface{}) func(...interface{}) interface{}", which shadows a common builtin function with a function argument.

Usually, the above leads to a compiler error when you try to use the "copy" argument (a value) as a function, but every once in a while, you end up with a type-compatible shadow, at which point things can really break.

It would be less confusing if things like "new", "len", "copy", and "true" were keywords, rather than builtins that someone may accidentally alias and shadow.

If you account for things like rather essential builtins as well, go's list of keywords starts to look far less impressive, and on-par with java or C#.
I frequently have similar fantasies and have to consciously remind myself that I can get the same happiness in my current role.

When I think of opening a bar/restaurant, I'm actually just hoping for more quality time with friends.

When I think of opening a bookstore, I'm actually just hoping for more time to focus on reading.

When I think of becoming a cook, I'm actually just hoping for more passion and drive in the thing I make professionally.
New Crypto Telegram Channel
I am curious what technology did you use for drag & drop. Did you implement your own solution or depend on an external library?
This is true.

It’s also true that team using languages with more feature then they need can just take the parts that they need. It’s not quite as ideal as having a language that’s perfectly suited to your use cases, but it works well enough.

For example, I’ve been writing JavaScript for 3+ years. I have yet to use the prototype chain directly, only through the use of the `class` keyword, and I’ve only reviewed code using it once. I hear C++ is similar in that teams use a slice of the available language features.
Innovation through the metaphor: context topography
Not going to argue about having to spend money to get some time away from the kids. But education? If you retire then you have the time to unschool your children and while your family and friends will think you are crazy your children will get a much better education than anything that involves money.
> The answer to this question unfortunately lives *a long time in the past*, perhaps 30 years ago

TIL that the dawn of time was 30 years ago
Great way to think about it and useful resource, thank you!
When using merge requests, each push to a branch creates a new version. You can then compare between any two versions and review the diff.

Documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/versi...
Yeah, OP pointed out that he started drifting away from many of his friends because they were too focused on earning and spending as a goal in and of itself, and they were no longer compatible. But he still had a core group of friends who he still felt close to and understood his lifestyle.

It's possible his spouse just didn't have that. Sure, you can always say "get better friends", but that's easier said than done, and it has to be a huge shock to be unable to relate to all of the people you've counted as friends over the past decade or more, and watch your friendships die away. It's even worse if those former "friends" are judging you negatively for not "keeping up" with them.

I do expect that to happen with some of my friends (I'm FI, but haven't yet pulled the RE trigger). Some of them with similar levels of FI (or at least the potential) are still very focused on work and building (or helping to build) companies, and don't seem to want to change that. I'm happy for them that they're able to do that freely, without financial worries, but I'm (sadly) sure that we'll drift apart once I retire. Fortunately I do have a solid group of friends who have similar goals as I do, or at least understand and support the life I want, so I expect those friendships to remain strong.
The country is already like a Swiss cheese! But the majority of the tunnels carry water, connecting various water reservoirs and hydroelectric power generators,, not traffic.
I used to walk several km per day during my commute to work. I've never needed more exercise than that to maintain my weight. Now, it appears that I need at least that much exercise to maintain my weight...
This looks interesting, but I ran into a few snags.

The terms link on the signup page 404s.

The privacy policy page does not appear to provide the privacy policy

Is there a sample page or account?
They said uncollected taxes over the next decade would total 7.5 trillion and that sum would be equal to half the total deficit over the same time period. To me that sounds like the total projected deficit over the next 10 years will be will be 15 trillion (assuming no additional taxes are collected, but 7.5T if 100% were collected)
Also - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25640323 (The Lab Leak Hypothesis - nymag.com)
Fusing await using and await foreach and await (C#)
Users need to be able to edit the same files that ransomware encrypts, and differentiating between a legitimate user and a ransomware program is difficult.
> I suspect that once the moratorium is up, there will be a lot of landlords looking to sell. They've been not getting rent for a long time, and they may have to sell in order to get out of the hole they're in. Many still have mortgages, but they will have a hard time collecting a year worth of rent. But the bank won't have the same problem foreclosing.

My mother-in-law has 2 properties in SoCal and is dealing with this exact situation. She is speaking with a lawyer this week, in fact. I won't get into all of the details but will say that she owns these properties outright but has not collected rent on either since April and May of last year...
You have to flip that around. It has to be easier and dearer to own than rent. Seeking rents is already hard. If you follow all the rules and regulations it takes decades to profit when renting out homes. We need tax relief and incentives to build affordable housing...bad.
Deflation is bad for debtors only if nominal interest rates don't drop to compensate for the increased value of the currency. But given that any instability of the value of a currency is bad, inflation has historically done much more damage than deflation.
Unless you need that money to pay the mortgage on the property. If so, then "oh well, I get what I get get and I don't get upset" isn't really where most people are going to land.
AstraZeneca vaccine 79% effective with no increased blood clot risk – US trial
This is not about a strict monoculture.

You can have a robust and diverse culture in which there's broad agreement that a few things are bad - murder, slavery, sex with minors, etc.

RMS defended Minsky's sex with a minor and perhaps more relevantly if we read the linked articles, it's part of a longstanding trend with him. And he feels the need to push these views on others in a workplace/academic setting, via mailing lists.
Stallman is still a straight-up weird guy, but every year reality proves his hardline stance on software freedoms more and more relevant.
Ghost 4
And the natural language questions sometimes get stuck. For example, [what's the difference between cauliflower cheese and cauliflower mornay] seems like it should return a page that tells you what the difference is, but it doesn't. It returns a bunch of recipes.
The word "none" in this blog post is misleading, for the rows use after free, double free, and uninitialized memory. Criticism is of course welcome but let's make sure we get all the facts on the table so we're not arguing a straw man.

Copied here [from lobsters](https://lobste.rs/s/v5y4jb/how_safe_is_zig#c_vddk9j):

With regards to use after free and double free, this is solved in practice for heap allocations. The basic building block of heap allocation, page_allocator, uses a global, atomic, monotonically increasing address hint to mmap, ensuring that virtual address pages are not reused until the entire virtual address space has been exhausted. In practice, this is a very long time for 64-bit applications. The standard library GeneralPurposeAllocator in safe build modes follows a similar strategy for large allocations and for small allocations, does not re-use slots. Similarly, an ArenaAllocator backed by page_allocator does not re-use any virtual addresses.

This covers all the use cases of heap allocation, and so I think it’s worth making the safety table a bit more detailed to take this scenario into account. Additionally, as far as stack allocations go, there is a plan to do escape analysis and add this (optional) safety for stack allocations as well.

As far as initialized memory goes, zig forces you to initialize all variable declarations. So an uninitialized memory has the word undefined in it. And in safe build modes, this writes 0xaa bytes to the memory. This is not enough to be considered “safe” but I think it’s enough that the word “none” is not quite correct.

As for data races, this is an area where Rust completely crushes Zig in terms of safety, hands down.

I do want to note that the safety story in zig is [under active development](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/projects/3) and will be worth checking back in on in a year or two and see what has changed :)
Thanks for mentioning Amber! I assume it's this project: https://amber-lang.net/

I've long wanted to get into Smalltalk and this looks like a very nice, modern way of doing so.
Relying on charity to make up for a lack of proper tax collection is a terrible thing for society in the long term. It's unsustainable and will just further wealth inequality.

Also, most people, even most people on here, don't have 20k to throw around willy-nilly even if they have assets exceeding that amount.
Awesome product. Fast, smooth, and gets out of your way.
Waiting for Crystal On React (not Rails)
>but at least you have more space to confront that void and just maybe find some purpose or passion

This is what I'm talking about. It's likely much harder to do this when you retire at a normal age after having lived most of your life. But if you retire in your 30s or 40s? Or your 20s!? Good lord.

Think of all the great companies that get started and then snapped up by the big boys because the founders want to become millionaires. Imagine if there was zero pressure to take an exit when offered. I believe our world would be in a better place. I don't want to just highlight companies, but companies can scale and affect change in a way that just volunteering or simple philanthropy cannot in our society.

That's why I think so called "Lean FIRE" is such a bad trap. You're giving yourself very little margin to explore new purposes and passions. It's a much bigger bet that you're going to be satisfied watching TV and going for day trips to Niagara Falls the rest of your life.
I'm not sure how such a rule could be enforced. But let's assume that it could. I think this would cause a huge shift in IT. For example, companies would be more eager to switch from Windows to something more secure. Or if they continued to use Windows, it would be in the form of ephemeral VMs, perhaps on AWS, that lack an attach surface area.

But I would hope that financial pressure - like insurance companies not insuring unprotected systems - would have the same result without the need for regulation.
> That means once you have financial freedom from work, you're free to see work as a hobby, and be much pickier about what work you do, where you work, how you allow yourself to be treated at work, etc. Since you know you can walk out at any time, since work isn't something you depend on. It gives you the big end of the stick in negotiating with employers, and that in itself is freeing.

You can get this if your skills are currently in demand and have a few months of expenses saved up. You don't need to get to financial independence to have a healthy relationship with your job.
I mentioned it in the next section:

> The standard library includes a set of allocators which don't reuse allocations, preventing use-after-free, and which catch double-free. I'm not clear yet on how high the runtime and memory overhead are though, which will dictate when it is practical to use these.

I didn't include it in the table because I'm not yet convinced that the overhead will be low enough that people will actually ship software using those allocators. (All the zig programs I've written so far use the libc allocator and are definitely susceptible to UAF)

Perhaps I'll spend some time measuring it this week and post an update.
Even if it was "just a feeling", who said a feeling is something simple? Feelings and qualia are just as mysteries as consciousness.

The rest is reductionist. "The universe is made of instructions that everything follows and including us" is so 19th century.

>We believing in awareness is just instructions for how we operate as subsystems of the Universe and like or unlike other subsystems of the universe.

"Subsystems of the universe" merely running as automated systems based on rules have resulted in the Kardashians fanbase, people debating NY vs Chicago pizza, and OnlyFans?
I seem to recall a SalesForce scandal where a people trafficking operation was using SalesForce to manage their operation, and SalesForce may or may not have been aware / helped them configure etc

Edit: link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-27/fifty-wom...
I haven't used TB for a while, but it has corrupted my local inbox once, and on two other occasions deleted e-mail from the server before confirming it was on disk, causing recent e-mails to be lost. This was all over 10 years ago, so perhaps it's better now.
One thing, I’d at least consider, is buying vacant land and building. Normally you pay a premium for a new build relative to an existing house. But in this market houses are regularly getting bid 20% over list. To be fair, materials costs and certain subcontractor labor costs are also up, but the overall price tag, nowhere near as much.

This is probably one of the few times when building new is cheaper than buying old. New builds with modern finishes are more likely to hold value if/when there’s a downturn.
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. Please don't feed the you know what.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm with you but I made an exception for a baby monitor
> I've been using XUL apps since the days when machines with 128MB of system memory were pretty damn high-end. They were kinda heavy back then, but basically fine. They're straight-up lightweight by today's standards.

Right, but even XUL has grown quite a bit since those days - not to mention that it's pretty much dead at this point. Still, something other than "yet another desktop app built around some descendant of KHTML" would be nice.

There are basically four ways this could go:

1. Thunderbird spearheads a Gecko-based alternative to Electron (following Firefox in deprecating XUL)

2. Thunderbird throws in with the various XUL-preserving Firefox forks to maintain XUL as a Gecko-based alternative to Electron (since the Firefox folks don't seem to have any interest in doing so)

3. Thunderbird switches to some native-widgeted toolkit like Qt or GTK

4. Thunderbird switches to Electron

These are in order of my preference. Option 1 also thankfully seems to be Thunderbird's current direction, though it'd be nice if it could spearhead the necessary documentation and niceties for other applications to use Gecko in desktop apps.
Start connecting with everyone on LinkedIn for one...
Careful. "Consciousness" may just be a language issue. It seems like a profound concept but it's really just a word with a very vague and complex definition.

If someone tried to formalize "consciousness" it would be a technical book about 1000 pages long or something and all we're doing is debating about what goes in the book.

It's very similar to the question what is "life?" I mean we understand that biology is just carbon based molecular machines, debating what "life" is as a general concept outside of biology is not a profound issue, it's just a language issue and you'd just be debating what the definition of a word "life" should encompass.
I have the similar fantasies but then remember I would already be doing things like this if half the jobs I wanted to “try” weren’t credentialized.
I'm writing educational games for the PI, so it makes sense for me to get a device with the same hardware to work on. Also I can test builds without taking over one of my kid's devices
Most TVs work fine without an internet connection. I recently got a new Samsung TV. It really wanted an internet connection but works just fine without it.
I did the same thing. The relator told us that she stopped taking calls after our offer. If this isn't a sign that you shouldn't trust realtors I don't know what is.
Please don't. I know it doesn't feel this way, but replying is worse than the original comment.

If people follow the site guidelines and flag such provocations without replying, the thread grounds out. By feeding it, you furnish a circuit and all the current necessary for a prolonged electrocution.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
HPV is causing mouth/throat cancer, too.
Why Second Life's most famous cyberpunk city now has a homeless camp
California is a two-party consent state for wiretapping laws.
You are wrong and need to educate yourself.

Covered calls don't add risk of ruin, you just have potential to miss any potential further gains if you pick a bad strike. This could happen anyway if you were to sell a stock at the wrong time for example.
I think they meant this web framework:
https://amberframework.org/

There are two pretty big web frameworks in the Crystal world right now, one is Kemal which strives to be the Sinatra or Flask of the Crystal world (lightweight, supporting plugins), and the other is Crystal which is trying to be the Ruby on Rails or Django of the Crystal world (full-featured, opinionated).
"California's wiretapping law is a "two-party consent" law. California makes it a crime to record or eavesdrop on any confidential communication, including a private conversation or telephone call, without the consent of all parties to the conversation."
Honestly, just set up marginal brackets with zero deductions, exemptions, etc.
If the underlying layer isn't reliable, build a layer on top to make it reliable.

If the underlying dataset has issues, build a layer on top to address those issues.
He did this all wrong, he didn't have a solid 'plan' for his retirement to keep him busy besides basically be being boring.

As a writer he could have given himself writing assignments after a three month "chill" phase. Could have built up a back catalog of self-published works.

Lots of things -- and even in 2015 'this' was a thing the FIRE websites would write about a LOT, keeping yourself occupied and engaged after FIRE is extremely important.
> I had to quit reading any FIRE (financial independence, early retirement) blogs because they were full of people headed down this same path: Extreme frugality, bare minimum savings, assuming their lifestyle would never change and nothing would ever go wrong.

You should checkout /r/fatFire