skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing and good luck with your treatment, I hope it is successful.
Exactly. The need to be productive for society until the day you die may have been a requirement in the past, but encouraging that today just sounds depressing.
Where I'm from the catholic churches offer the most prestigious high school educations because their cost is similar to college. They in no way offer a better education, it's just a paywall to keep your kids surrounded by like-minded society.
You can use mellow[1] to turn your socks proxy to transparent global proxy. Although this software is not maintained anymore, it still works.

[1]: https://github.com/mellow-io/mellow
So what you're saying is if I already don't feel useful in my early 40s I'm pretty screwed.
I never said a large multiple. Regardless, below are some numbers that could get us started in estimating costs:

According to this paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the average loss of value per day of delay from the cargo on these ships is between 0.6 and 2.2 percent [1]. According to other research I've seen, somewhere between 12% and 30% of daily global sea trade goes through the Suez Canal. Anyone want to do the math?

1) https://www.nber.org/digest/jun12/time-trade-barrier
I like Numi. It’s a handy, unobtrusive math scratch pad. I dislike the two computer license limit that isn’t disclosed prior to purchase, and the need to contact the developer in order to get that license reset if I crash my Mac mini or my MacBook Pro.
Do you have any brands you would recommended for home use for "prosumers"?
Concepts shouldn't be dependent on the language they're conveyed in, though. Try translating the passage to a language without the word "worship", or with 100 sub-distinctions, or introduce a concept like "zen" and his point falls apart.

He also introduces a false dichotomy which equates "worship" with "theism". If I "worship" money or sex, no one would seriously say that makes me a "theist". So even if we accept his warped use of the term "worship", his claim that atheism doesn't exist still doesn't hold up.
We're focused on routing (shoreside) and not navigation at the moment, so we've been able to build a custom in-house map focused on the needs of crew managers and operators.

Unfortunately you're right about the rest - it's a problem that's pervasive throughout maritime. We've had to build our own routing engine, port database, and much more that we initially expected to buy/use.
Well we do with anti-malware stuff, when a 0-day comes out and we know there are exploits in the wild and beta software is all we've got.
Ask HN: Why can't anyone tell me what story points equate to?
Contract after contract, engagement after engagement: why can't a single product owner, scrum master, agile coach, anyone, tell me what story points equate to?

Time? Effort? How many times I have to push my code? Cakes Available Per Day (mmmm, cakes)?

And what's with the whole Fibonacci numbers? 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, ..., etc. What does that even mean? Why even do that?

No one can tell me. I know someone can, but it's never been the people who are managing this stuff.

What's with the concept of trying to make story points mean "Effort"? Why even bother?

Why can't story points simply mean: time. How much time a task will take. How much time I think I'll need to apply assuming the best case.

I think X will take N time based on experience, environmental factors, common causes of time loss (meetings, coffee breaks, eating cake (mmmm cake), ...)... if you're asking ME to do the time.

Why does that then need to be converted into "effort"? Or Fibonacci numbers?

"Task X will take 7 gold stars and a glitter bomb to complete."

"Good work, Mike! That's a great estimate. Now get to work!"

Please help :(
Yeah, and thanks to your comment it actually got me thinking that I can (at least temporarily) mitigate my current situation by taking the nanoHD out of the loop entirely, as I do have another spare AP AC Pro in my closet. I also got the nanoHD because of extra MIMO speed (among other things, it's feeding my home office setup wirelessly), but the egregious loss in stability is not worth it.
Liken it to the 4kb demoscene: it's amazing what can be done with a little bit of information, as long as you don't have to describe the machine running it.

Or the distribution method, or even really invent the thing, since you're mostly just copying someone else's work. Plus it doesn't have to even do anything. In fact, doing anything might be a problem, so best to just sit there and look menacing (and spikey).
Look into salesforce.com certification and jobs. Those roles are very close to what you’re describing.
My sense from the article is that the author likes psychoanalysis a lot more than CBT and underestimates the possibility that a lot of people can derive substantial psychological benefit from what look like pretty simple, algorithmic-looking interventions. The early potshot at CBT for (gasp) attempting to quantify and study whether it actually provides a return on all the time it consumes is...silly?

The apps are definitely having scaling issues, and I think asynchronous text message therapy is much worse than video chat therapy, which is a bit worse than in-person therapy. But as the article itself admits, accessibility issues are much worse for in-person therapy. About a year ago, I had several weekly 1-hour video chat sessions with a therapist (I think "coach" was the actual word) through one of these services, and I got a lot of value out of it. Not everything needs to be long-form intensive analysis. I hope this space keeps growing.
How is pegging and selling the successor to what I have not making ad revenue? The difference is that they’re not selling pixels for money, they’re trading pixels for sales.
Huh, then that's confusing that the README mentions it. It could just be a planned feature and that wasn't properly clarified.
Agreed re: loading, but it's still important to be able to carry that disintegrating box to a pack station to be repacked. Usually you can't do that on the spot, since having a box strewn about on the warehouse floor is a pretty big safety hazard.
I have all aps and controller blocked from the internet for that very reason. Don't tell me when to update heh. Really sucks about not being able to roll things back.
I would love to see a "land tax" instead of a "property tax" - so if you have a bungalow on land that would be very profitable as a tri-plex you get taxed on that potential vs. on what you happened to have on the land... but that's politically infeasible unfortunately.
Dude, you're on HN, what do you expect?

DFW is making a compelling point. The words were taken from his magnificent "This is water" commencement address at Kenyon College in the early naughts.
Samsung does the same.
https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/co5aw4/unrem...
When I was younger, I would run as fast as I could straight into brick walls. I deliberately go more slowly now, and make wiser decisions. The value of my experience has taught me that it's better to move slow in the right direction than fast in the wrong direction.
DeepMind and Alberta U Introduce Novel Search Algorithm
Nah that'll be year 2, year 3 will be space grey.
Whatever cynicism, it doesn’t take away that this is just a fun thing to do.

I wonder if maybe Google employs humans that like things that are fun?
Couldn't they just... mentally imagine the diagram? I personally am bad at picturing things in my head but a simple linked list is pretty easy to do, and it isn't as if reversing one is an especially complex operation.

To be clear I'm not trying to suggest you think a candidate couldn't do that, I'm just surprised that this apparently didn't occur to Spolsky
Do you have any data to show that Medicare Advantage plan members have lower 5-year cancer survival rates than other patients? Because most other studies have shown that Medicare Advantage plan members receive better quality care on average. Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean the system is failing everyone else.
mind showing your work?
How name resolution is handled? I am going to play with it tonight, but it isn’t clear how is DNS setup. Is that something completely separated, or integrated on the tool? Thanks!
Genetics is also a major factor that a lot of people ignore. I'm relatively healthy right now and do my best to live an active lifestyle, but am also preparing for a physical and mental decline by 60-65 since that is when my entire extended family going back generations has always started to show their age.
Bitcoin symbol is used far more than Klingon characters. Simple as that.

And anyone Klingon is declared for use in the private use area, like other niche languages.
Maybe that's the real cause to the global chip shortage. Some AI is diverting the orders to some Frankenstein warehouse somewhere until it can calculate how to terminate all humans.
Dixie Chicks in/around 2004/2005 went public against the war in Iraq. At the same time sales for Dixie Chicks albums plummeted because they're "too liberal".

This was before twitter was a thing, facebook was "barely" a thing, myspace was dying...etc.

1968 (year may be off)...iirc there was a huge huge march (I've seen videos, before my birth) against the Vietnam War... you could say they were trying to "cancel" the war...guess that never happened either because something that big couldn't exist without Twitter.

In the middle ages over 300k women were murdered as accused witches, amazingly no twitter is responsible for canceling witches either.

1776 ... a few colonists decided to "cancel" their ties to Great Britain.

1860 ... a few traitorous racists decided to cancel their "ties" to the union...

all these things without Twitter.
Yeah it’s so obvious how much better your body and mind perform when you give it the right inputs and remove the bad.
Find a company where the other engineers are doing the same.

You’ll basically be fighting fires and not doing anything truly useful and/or intellectually challenging though. If you are an average engineer, you might even seem like a rockstar there.

Alternatively, go work in Europe, where coasting is basically a given in any non high growth startup.
The vast majority of people I know in physically demanding labour are not looking forward to continuing work at the same pace past age 55, and by age 60-65 they're well over it.

The vast majority of people I know in mentally demanding labour tend to split 50/50 wanting to scale back, and wanting to continue as-is. The latter group tend to resent mandated ageist laws, which is understandable. The former, see them as an unimpeachable way to get off the train.

I know that my motivations in work have changed since I past 55, and as I approach 60, they are most definately not about doing as much, or the same kind of work.

I have perfectly adequate superannuation, and I don't expect to struggle. I also attend financial planning sessions from my funds, and get guidance on realistic income expectations post-work. FIRE is (in many ways) based on the same kind of information: when you do step back, after some intial bust of enthusiastic recreational or debt-clearing spending, most people reduce their core spend (but in the case of aged people, increase their health spend).

Doing nothing is fatal. Hobbies are not "it" for many people, volunteering, or some lower intensity part-time work is a perfectly rational thing to do, even if basically wealthy (I mean in context, having adequate income from your retirement planning. Not, being a FAANG class retiree)

Travel is often best done when younger. Its tiring. Young eyes need experiences. Old eyes can handle mostly memories and a few less intense ones. If you are an adrenalin junkie, none of this applies to you, and keep sky-diving as much as you can.

I definitely feel superceded in the workforce. I have a good position and respect (declining!) but I feel its time to step into a role which lets younger people come to the fore. You need to make way. You even need to let them make mistakes.
> Ad is a broad term

Yes.

> this confuses people

No.

> but it also definitely isn't the entire monstrosity we have come to assume when hearing about ads on web pages.

Slippery slope. I used to think of Ubiquiti as prosumer. Now it's definitely not.
The entire site is an absolute delight. Very nicely done.
good: i never felt useful.
That would be anti-theism, or "strong atheism", though. It's the difference between "not holding any belief related to the existence of a god", and "holding the belief that there is no god".

Not to be confused with "agnosticism" which is "holding the belief that it cannot be known whether there is a god".
Yeah it's a pretty big bummer. I used to recommend their stuff a lot and I don't know if I'll be able to do that from now on.

It's not like their hardware is cheap, I'd much rather pay a monthly subscription than be served ads.
"Hepatitis C treatments"

We don't really need the same quantities of that, though.
Has he objected? If he is voicing his opinion on his blog, but the policy for GNU (which he runs) is otherwise progressive, then it feels like he is separating his personal opinions from how he operates a professional venue.
People don't stay in hotels getting daily laundry for months at a time
More Myths About NAND Flash
Possibly current decarbonization movement makes a new canal plan better?
In my (coworker's) experience with this sensor, they don't send a datasheet or give any specs on power, but they will replace your demo unit when you ruin your first one by trying to power it with PoE.
I second that. Despite investing in their infrastructure and recommending to friends (so basically being biased to like it) they just don't seem to care anymore.

I'm waiting for some company to take their place. And I don't see how making router software open source for a company that is selling hardware is not a win.
I'm struggling to find anything meaningful in this article.

But it does remind me of a few chapters within Yuval Noah Harari's "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" book which I'd recommend everyone read. But essentially he talks about how we're currently seeing a large influx and requirement for digital or technology related jobs, which will over time take some but not all jobs from traditional jobs (not up for debate). Now many of the people who have worked in traditional jobs such as check outs, clerks, factory workers etc will likely be higher in age and will struggle to reskill to other jobs, not just due to the change in technical requirements but purely due to age and our ability to learn completely new tasks.

Fast forward and the discussion talks about how the current and new workforce might be expected to change jobs many times more than previous generations due to such a rapidly changing world. He therefore raises the point that we all may need to reskill multiple times during our lives and will require significant cognitive strain on older people who may have previously been able to master their professional for decades.
This was not at all the article I was expecting given the title! Given that it's HN, I was expecting projections on when AI will take over which jobs in which order.
Looking from the outside in, that’s definitely how it appears.

Perspective is important :)
Nike Sues MSCHF over Unauthorized Lil Nas X's ‘Satan Shoes’
Is there any guides or libraries to help you writing your own proxy switch extension? I have considered writing my own for the same reason, but I don’t know where to start. I have experience in writing simple WebExtension, I just don’t know how to write a socks proxy in JS.

Thanks in advance.
Yes, really. Typical vaccines are like $5 to $200 or so. And worst of all, usually just one or two doses.

For all the horror HIV has wrought, global spending on vaccine development for HIV has been around $1 billion a year for the last few years. In contrast, the USA federal government spends $3 billion a year for HIV antiviral drugs for low-income Americans. $20,000 per patient per year for life. Unsurprisingly, new antivirals are where most of the research is.

It can sound almost like a conspiracy if I put it like that, but it's just the economics incentives. Especially since the developed countries where most of the market for charging a decent markup is, have the smallest market for most new vaccines, while having the largest markets for therapeutics for chronic conditions.

Now HIV is genuinely devillish to develop a vaccine for despite our attempts. But vaccines for hepatitis C, gonorrhea, HSV, among others appear to be possible. We almost certainly could develop effective vaccines for these with existing techniques, if someone coughed up the funding. Maybe all the buzz about mRNA vaccines will spur some progress here.
Haha teaching others how to behave online .... Oh my.
Not everywhere. In places where there is real competition the internet can be very fast. Modern DOCSIS 3.0 and above cable internet can get real speeds of at least 50 MB/s down.

There are places in kansas city where you can get gigabit fiber from three different companies.

It is only with competition that prices come down and speeds go up. It isn't really that hard in a physical sense to spool out coax in a neighborhood and from a technical standpoint that can deliver a lot of bandwidth.
What’s stupid is that ubiquiti could have easily advertised its hardware less intrusively in so many different ways.

For example, they could show “devices that integrate with <AP or Switch or Router>” or integrate the changelog of all their releases into the management UI for all products.

The list goes on for the more thoughtful ways that could have done it, but instead they did they took the absurdly lame way of advertising via banners. Jeeze.
Reading the primary claim is fascinating: "A composition, comprising: a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) comprising an open reading frame encoding a betacoronavirus (BetaCoV) S protein or S protein subunit formulated in a lipid nanoparticle."

I have a "I'm sure that means something to somebody" feeling. It's also surprising that the remaining claims seem to describe the resulting bits of the sequence, and that that primary claim can stand on its own. Of course, I'm by no means an expert.
Story points are level of effort. The Fibonacci allocation helps you estimate this level of effort without getting bogged down in the details of is it 8 or 9 points. There is a clear distinction between each step.

The why bother is to estimate your team's ability to ultimately deliver a product on time and on budget.

In some sense, story points do mean time, but remember if you assign an 8 task to me, I might be able to do that in a week, whereas you might be able to do 13 points in a week so story points are not strictly a measure of time but also of capability and hence "level of effort".

If you don't understand it then you should stop your task master/project manager and make the explain it to you. Otherwise, you will not be able to effectively participate in estimation.
Become a software QA test automation guru. The technology change is slower, and the expectations and problems are more predictable. In the testing world, your skills will stand out more. You won't be expected to reinvent the world, just to keep things working reliably. You'll be compared to other folks who punch the clock. Don't get me wrong, I have a deep of love automation, and QA, but culturally, you will find proportionately more who treat coding as a job rather than a passion in that role, but you'll still get paid for your abilities.
A huge number of assets would drop similarly if you unloaded .1% of their entire market cap in one day. I’d say BTC recovered fairly well from that sale.
One example would be Matthew 6:24b:

“You cannot slave for God and for Riches”

Riches is capitalized because it’s being personified as a competing god.
That article has a huge blindspot. The vast majority of professional software I've come across is in the $1k-50k/year range, ranging from $1k/seat mechanical CAD and other PDL/manufacturing/etc software to $50k/seat silicon design packages. Contracts for the latter may break $100k on a regular basis but many if not most customers for the rest, like the diaspora of subcontractors in automotive, biotech, or the MIC are small to medium sized businesses with annual accounts under $100k.
To be fair, the definition of "productivity" has changed a lot since the start of the industrial revolution too, from "helping your community make ends meet" to "engaging in soul-crushing, inhuman labour to make a group of wealthy investors who actively campaign against your well-being even wealthier".
Salesforce.com, NetSuite, SAP or another CRM/ERP specialistion. You're pretty much engineering for business people. You'll go to conferences, make bank (for the time being at least), be given formal training and live a pretty decent 9-5 with lots of job prospects. And being older, you'll be preferred as you've got more corporate/business/people experience.
CSS is very disorganized and redundant. Whether it's SASS or something like this, it's massively more productive to have something that transpiles to CSS instead of writing CSS by hand. Your code is much, much more DRY.
Note for US folks: Georgia, the country, not the US state.
"the answer to life the universe and everything" https://postimg.cc/w3g4TMvp
There's no "jump". The poster simply raised one hypothetical to consider. "Could be anyone", right?
Mikrotik wireless wire? Sub $200 wireless link. It's a pair, not an ap. Anyway - it does what it says on the tin.
It'll depend on the company and country, but generally it is less hectic because of stricter work hour regulations, vacation, etc. They'll always be the workaholics of course.

It helps that the culture/mentality is different from the start, but if you work for FAANG-like places or start-ups, it probably not hugely better. Vice versa, I'm sure you could find a more laid-back workplace in the US, might just be a bit rarer. To be honest, I've seen some coasters in FAANG-type places, too. The bigger the place, the more opportunity there is to slip through the cracks, but it's a risk. On the opposite end, in a smaller place your expertise goes further, so you might be able to get away with putting in less effort day-to-day. Plus fewer meetings.

In any case, and as other commenters have mentioned, the easiest path is to pick "boring" technology that still super valuable to the business, with a long shelf-life, but not sexy. You become proficient in it, maybe you already, don't mind working with it, and you're set.

There's still the tricky part of making it future-proof, but a lot of technology sticks around longer than you'd expect.
> You'll just get more and more people believing all work is exploitation and they'll stop working.

Which means less labor supply, which means higher labor prices, which means greater incentive for people to work (since wages would no longer be suppressed by the "either I take this predatory offer or I starve to death" effect).

> Then the people still working will have higher taxes

Not necessarily. That depends on who and what you tax. A land value tax + a tax on income or wealth after a certain point (say, $1m/year) would readily pay for UBI without putting any tax burden on the working class. The other benefits of LVT (like incentivizing denser urbanization and penalizing land speculation) are nice cherries on top.
Agreed. Perspective is important :+1 In hindsight, should not have commented and brushed it off :)