skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I laughed at espresso, I’m glad that has been a shared experience. I spent around $2k on coffee equipment since the start of the pandemic. No way I’m going to go back and drink sad office coffee or deal with poorly maintained espresso machines in micro kitchens now.
Chime has API to create your own client. We have used it to create Video Conference module for app.
Ever read Ubik? I think the only thing missing is that it should charge your for each piece of toast you make and remit the payment to either the manufacturer or your landlord. If you are behind on rent, you can’t make toast.
This may be surprising to some people but the Big 3 all have two parking lots. The closest one to the building is limited to domestic vehicles. Further away there is a foreign car lot, sometimes very far away. This has been the case since the late seventies here in Michigan.

The idea is that it coerces people who do business at the auto company to buy domestic. They do have security people handing out tickets and it's hilarious that the guy thought a Tesla was a foreign car.
Hey man,

I'm sorry to hear you're feeling that way. I agree with most of the advice in this thread, but I'll also say if you're feeling like you have the urge to take your life, please wait that feeling out. I'm writing this home alone on a Friday night, so trust me when I say I've been there and I feel a similar type of loneliness in my life.

One thing I've been focusing on is trying to adopt one healthy habit a month. Just one. Many of the replies are giving good suggestions as to which habits to form (going outside, volunteering, working out, etc) but if you are feeling overwhelmed by this response, just pick one and do that for a month. Then add another. Your first few months are just about not feeling like shit. Once that stops, you can direct your life better because you will be more in touch with yourself.

Re: suicide, the best thing you can do when you feel this way is wait it out. Almost everyone who waits out this urge (and even depression) feels it pass. If you have someone in your life like this, it helps to just be with someone. You don't have to talk or do anything with them. You can consciously sit and do nothing, but do it in the presence of someone who cares for you. That's helped me.

This is most just from my experiences with depression and listlessness, so if something doesn't work, just ignore it. Again, I'm sorry you feel this way, but wait it out and build good habits slowly and hopefully things will start feeling better for you.

Godspeed my friend
One of the most chilling maps I've ever seen is the one of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory. It looks like a cell using lysosomes to kill prey.

https://i.imgur.com/v1lNHEY.jpg

@dang Care to weigh in on this submission? Seems to be a lot of flagging/vouching going on.
Did you not read the part where their cost of living dramatically dropped? You know, the entire comment you replied to?
Most of the workforce is young enough that they weren't going to die anyway. The endpoint they're interested in is "does the person end up with long-term lung scarring/cognitive impairment/erectile dysfunction/dry mouth" and all the other scary long covid effects. I've seen at least one study showing increased risk of all sorts of neurological issues after even mild covid cases, FWIW.
I disagree with the no shortage of demand part. The amount of volunteer positions I've been turned down from in my life is pretty mind blowing.

Still agree with the general concept.
8:52 on iPhone because I was laughing at checks with the chess photos.

It’s hard to find good satire anymore, appreciate their work.
> Vulkan is not officially supported on OSX

And neither is OpenGL
Merkel warns Europe is ‘on thin ice’ as concerns about Covid delta variant grow
"I know my software just works" is really hubris. The fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants game industry has cranked up programmers egos and made them ignore a wide range of tools and practices that have been proven time and time again to improve developer velocity and reduce defects.
I fail to understand how that’s more explicit to be perfectly honest. If it’s hard to resolve where overloads are coming from then that’s a problem but otherwise it just seems more verbose for no benefit. Addition and multiplication are the operations in use here, why shouldn’t we use their operators to represent them?
there's a lot of overlap between safety and correctness.
No offense to the writer, but it's a relatively light piece given the amount of ads. 7 of the 9 "paragraphs" are only one sentence. If this was a newspaper, the entire thing would take up maybe 3 inches of a single column.
Exactly. It is so weird to see all this marketing speak that makes it sound like users can get to benefit from something, but in the end this is just something that gets people to work and provide data for free to multi-billionaire universities.

We don't any more studies or research to know that the best privacy policy is to not collect any data in the first place.
Chinese national team claimed top 4 positions in IOI 2021
> I’m not sure why the /s as this is a legitimate argument in favor of WFH.

I suspect that there's significant variation here: widespread WFH means fewer people driving ~1.5 hours a day to their office park jobs, but it also means fewer people taking public transit to urban centers. The former is an ecological disaster; the latter is probably slightly better than the same number of people air conditioning, etc. their independent houses and apartments.
Thanks. Well written. Readable.

This sentence from it sums up many of my conversations about FP

It probably also doesn't help that we have a function literally called >>=, which is hard to pronounce. It's pronounced "bind", which is only slightly more helpful in that that still fails to evoke any useful imagery
A beautiful comment showing a special kind of introspection and humility. Would you contact me through my profile? Hard to find fellow business owners with your perspective.
Tons of companies do. I forget the exact number but I was paying like $3/month for Spotify when I was registered as living in Indonesia and paying with an Indonesian bank card.
Did you not read the part where the salary dramatically dropped? Why is it justifiable to pay someone less for the same work, just because of where they live? If I find a way to produce the same output but with lower expenses, the difference is my profit. I don't share that with the party purchasing my output so they can fucking steal it.
I guess the out of India theory has competition! All hail nationalism comedy!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Aryanism
If you don’t want to go to the office and you’re being forced to, quit. There’s WAY too many jobs out there being offered fully remote and at the same salaries for you to accept that shit.
Uh, what? I’m in Sydney and as I write this it looks like we’re going in to full on metro outbreak and lockdown this weekend. For the third time, IIRC. The country’s vaccinated approximately no one, there’s been near zero entry or exits of the country for anyone who’s not rich/famous/a politician, it seems like half of the past year has had internal travel restrictions between states and metro areas. There appears to be no plan to systemically improve our situation before next year.

Yes, we haven’t had mass deaths and hospitalizations. I’m very thankful I’ve been here instead of the US, or many other places. But dont pretend it’s some utopia that’s escaped the troubles of the last year.
I’m not saying it isn’t a great development. It certainly adds an
option for early detection of some cancers where there previously were none. But it isn’t cancer prevention. It is a highly sophisticated technical undertaking which for educated and motivated patients in well resourced health systems will reduce cancer mortality and morbidity by some increment. Depending on many factors this could be a big or small increment. In the real world the efficacy will be less than what the trial shows. It is also likely that Grail (with north of $1 billion in VC funding) will charge as much as they can for this test. The size of the trials necessary to prove efficacy means that there will be highly constrained competition in this space.

The distinction with prevention is important, because we ultimately must aim for preventing almost all cancers, and not be content with anything less than that.

Disclaimer: I’m an Oncologist.
I’m sorry to hear that you’re feeling like an outcast.

First, I want you to know these feelings are reasonable and you’re not alone in feeling that way.

Second, while it may seem hopeless or insurmountable, you can make changes.

You have an opportunity now in front of you. You have identified an area in life where you feel inadequate. But you don’t have to feel that way permanently. You can make changes to build up your experience in that area. And I totally understand that it feels hard to know where to start, how to make progress, or whether it’s possible. It can feel demoralizing. But if you’re up for the challenge, you can grow.

I have often felt this way and I’ve slowly improved over time — now I’m 28 and have done a number of things I saw everyone else doing when I was 22 feeling like I had already thrown away my life.

If you’re open to chatting about it and think it would be helpful, shoot me an email: skylar.b.payne (at) gmail.com.

Wishing you peace
Living in a highly sought-after area is a luxury and people who forgo luxuries to save money should not be subsidizing their coworkers who do not. Should your coworker that just bought a Lamborghini get a raise to compensate for their costs too?
Of course, that's the very meaning of cost of living.
Please refrain from "existential threat" rhetoric unless you are in fact advocating for an eliminationist total war.
Myths are useful cultural references, in being universally understood. I didn't interpret the use of the term Eve here to connote any religious intimations.
In situations where the output's shape changes based on the operation this can be helpful.

auto accumulate = ...;
auto a = ...
auto b = ...
auto result = a*b;
for (int row = 0; row < a.rows) {
accumulate += result[row]
}

This expression might be entirely valid when a and b are both 2x2 but then becomes incorrect when there's a different shape in b.
Governments could rezone business districts to residential mixed use too and solve our ridiculous housing shortage issues.
Or they did the math and it was worth it.

Maybe they don’t already own a home in the Bay Area?

The article mentions a 10% cut at a company where the average senior engineer makes $450k a year according to levels.fyi.

In most of the country, you’re living very, very well on $405k a year. In the Bay Area, you’ll make a 11% more and be house poor or spend your life in traffic. For most people, that’s a bad deal.

I’d put it this way: if a recruiter called me and suggested I quit my job and move back to the Bay Area for an 11% pay increase, I would be laughing as I hung up the phone.
>collective opinions about big tech progressively shifted during the last decade

Big Tech is still relatively speaking a very new thing. There are enough people who just had their first smartphone in 2015. So not really a decade.

>I might be naïve, but I think that HN played a role.

I wish that was true but it is not. Purely from US side of things, EPIC and DHH probably done more damage than anything else.

Although Big Tech had all the problems sitting in front of them for years but they were not sensitive enough to view those as problems. Remember the biggest problem of anything is to first admit it is a problem. EPIC and DHH lit a fire and set on a chain reaction. Those who previously were too afraid to speak now wrote to congress for help. Those complains piled up, congress think of it as possibly a non-issue to reaching a certain threshold being a big issue.

My personal opinion is the ban of Parler and silencing of Social Media was also another big thing, whether you agree or disagree with it. I mean it is pretty bad when EU hate Trump but also speak out for Trump about silencing him. It is a problem because Politics is Power, big tech decided to flex their muscles and show who is really in power. And you get bet this doesn't sit well not just with politics in US, but politician across the world.

I think most people often forget, Republic, Democracy and Rule of Law, all of these were set up because of Power balance. And it is pretty clear Big Tech crossed the red line. And now there are enough political interest and business interest ( from small competitors ) to fuck them up.

And it is also why all the discussions about monopoly are quite meaningless. It is about power, and AntiTrust is exactly about the abuse of power.

I dont actually agree with breaking them up, but it is a good threat to use. And I also dont know how to go forward other than some form of regulation. But regulation are often good intention with bad consequences.
Over 80% of my team wants to return. Dunno man, I don't get it.
> You forgot the part where it refuses to toast your unlicensed bread.

The RFID chips make the toast taste better!
You weren't missing much. The Alpha workstations most of us got to play with were dog slow. It was a funner architecture to read about than to use.
7:03

amazing.
Calling out (tech) corporate hypocrisy will never get old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
They allowed unmasked vaccinated people indoors. Then all the unvaccinated people took their masks off, in effect lying about their status to everyone else.
What has cost of living got to do with anything?
I spent $700 on the breville machine and it makes far better coffee than the $2000 fully automatic machine at work that has to be disassembled almost daily to avoid mould build up which no one does. When back at the office I’m drinking tea only.
What does amount of work have to do with anything? Justifiable? What? This isn’t unicef. There’s no moral question here. It’s a bunch of tech assholes divvying up the spoils from further computerising the modern human experience.

Then the notion that anyone is being stolen from is just completely ridiculous.
HN should just ban controversial topics. Every time, these threads just devolve into mass flagging and downvoting and many times its usually one-sided depending on the majority view. Not interesting and not fun at all.
> By the early nineties scientists found the building was sinking at what they called an 'alarming' rate.

I think “alarming” was the term used by USA Today which first reported the study. The scientist himself did not seem alarmed at all:

> Wdownski said he doesn’t believe anybody in the city or state government would have had a reason to be aware of the findings of the study. The bulk of it focused on potential flooding hazards, not engineering concerns. The study’s mention of the “12-story condominium” was relegated to a single line. “We didn’t give it too much importance,” Wdowinski said.
Kubernetes Cluster on GCE: Beyond Kubeadm
People are more likely to agree to a lower salary if they have a lower cost of living.
> you seem to have no concept of what suffering actually is

There is so much wrong with this statement, in the context of OPs post that I don't know were to start.
I see now. That makes sense. It is similar to how the anti-Bitcoin crowd in HN constantly smear Bitcoin as an environmental disaster while ignoring facts like:

- 100% of gold is strip mined literally raping the planet and leaving the mined earth completely unusable, while polluting water supplies.

- The primary alternative to Bitcoin is the US Petrodollar system which relies on proof of violence backed by the most powerful military industrial complex in the history of the world to ‘liberate’ oil-rich nations who dare trade oil for anything other than USD. (See Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc.)

- Gladly ignore things like Blood diamonds, the environmental and social costs of mining Lithium and other rare earth elements used to build the so-called green economy.

- Bitcoin uses mostly clean energy and increasingly so over time thanks to incentives while Gold, Platinum, Copper, etc are never held to the same ESG standards.

- Bitcoin gets demonized for its energy consumption while using half the energy of YouTube, an ad-infested spyware-ridden cat video site and less energy than the world’s hair-dryers /s

Edit: downvotes but no comments, sad.
Would also save the city cafes and restaurants. Offices are doomed but hopefully cities are not.
Political posts are banned unless they involve technology
You got me there. Couldn't even begin to understand people who are growing up with social media.

Honestly I think targeted ads that are actually interesting to the person they are intended for is the only sane way out of this. No one likes ads that aren't relevant. If I'm going to be tracked and targeted, then at least don't annoy and bore me to death.
We have phones with 300 dpi screens, but we can't find any 200 dpi monitor for PC on the market right now, it's insane.
Don’t Let Your Best Product Managers All Become People Managers or Your Company
There was a "Office Reopening" lunch a few weeks ago. You could come in if you wanted or you could join over zoom while the CEO did their spiel. Since I was hired remote I went hoping to meet in-person the others on the engineering team. Only one other team member showed up of about 15. Got to meet a lot of the product and marketing people instead if that's any indication of who is going back to the office (Non-coastal, East of Missisippi but not Chicago).
I for one appreciate fewer programs segfaulting due to unexpected input, the security is just a bonus
Does this also mean spam will slow down too? The postal service sure does love to claim my address "does not exist" and fail to deliver much of anything to me ranging from mail ballots to large boxes, but one thing they never fail to deliver if my weekly phonebook sized stack of spam.
>Or just sell bonds like they already do for 10x what they collect in tax revenue.

Bonds backed what? It's future tax obligations and revenue that creates the demand for the fiat currency the bonds pay interest in, and guarantee that the government will have revenue with which to pay that interest and the principal back, respectively.

>I hope that in the future you’ll avoid promoting solutions that require violence to enforce.

Violence to prevent the misuse of scarce natural resources is not aggression.

Society at large has a legitimate right to govern the usage of scarce natural resources to ensure their socially optimal utilization. Scarce natural resources are not true private property.

That is what makes a tax on scarce natural resource usage, like a land tax, different from a tax on people, like a head tax, or their movable private property, like a wealth, income or sales tax.
Of course! It'll come preconfigured with your Amazon account, so it'll automatically integrate with other Amazon Home appliances that you have.

Except the bread bin your mother gifted you for Christmas is a Google device, and the two do not work together. As such your toaster is always adding a reminder to buy bread onto your Amazon Fresh grocery list. Your fridge is constantly reminding you about this, whenever you are more than 2m away, and it is in "suggested products" mode.

Compared to the adverts you saw before - often for processed junk food even though you are trying really hard to be on a diet - you actually find the bread adverts a relief and less distracting.
also a molecule doesnt just have a single set of 3d coordinates. You have conformers, solvent effects that affect their conformation as well... Often in a biological system it can be a minor conformer shape that is the strongly binding one (case of taxol). If you want to compute physical properties such as NMR, VCD, ECD you need to optimize your molecules in a completely different way (quantum mechanic calculations of electron shells) than just with a simple mechanical modelling approach to just do docking... we are talking about a 1s calculation per molecule vs a 24h or more for a mid-sized molecule.
That’s irrelevant. It’s up to you to make a choice about what is the best value and suits you best. Rather than paying a high CoL on principal even though you would be better off somewhere else and on a pay cut.
I regret nothing, even bad things that happened were lessons. And without those lessons, good and bad I would not be where I am now. Of course if I was in a bad place now perhaps I would have regrets.

There are things I wish I did, but if I had done them my life may have been very different. I think once you have children it is hard to regret anything because that would have changed who they were entirely, either by having a different partner or a different egg/sperm.

The one thing I am glad I did was travel and work around the world for 3 years. I learnt more about life during that time than any other education or work could have given me.
In fairness to the anti-vaxxers (I have no sympathy for them), COVID-19 has crossed over to many mammal populations, and the scariest variants will almost certainly come from animals, not from anti-vaxxers.

I say this because it leads me to view the situation less as a threat to my personal safety, and more like a mass Darwin Award candidate, or nature’s version of a voter registration purge.

I’m eagerly awaiting the day when we can vaccinate young children against COVID.
The thing is you treat it seriously. We have triple the daily cases here in Berlin and are celebrating like it’s over.
There is more than one definition of a matrix or vector product and whichever one is most obvious can be contextual.
> Yes, we haven’t had mass deaths and hospitalizations.

I wouldn’t expect so. You have 2/3 the population of California and almost the size of the USA (although populated all along the coasts).

I also don’t agree with dude it’s some Covid utopia. But, just density-wise it was never going to be very bad there.
“I often feel that the American programmer would profit more from learning, say, Latin than from learning yet another programming language.”
-- Edsger Dijkstra
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...

I don’t know Latin, but the meaning of the quoted phrase was pretty obvious.
23 is much too early to declare yourself a failure in life. That's the depression talking. "That shit ain't the truth."

Just because you're not having the outcomes that you want does not mean you're a failure.

Depression and feelings of inadequacy and failure are a vicious circle, because ... depression makes it hard to succeed.

Depression also makes it hard to connect with people, and hard to stay connected.

Depression also makes it hard to take care of yourself.

Try to find a primary care physician, or a therapist, or a similar professional. If you don't like who you find, for whatever reason, find a different one.

Treat them like a project manager. Be sure to be actively involved in choosing your management tactics.

I've tried suicide twice. Once when I was five. Once when I was about your age. I'm 63 now, and I'm glad that I didn't succeed.

Only within the last ten years did I ask for professional help. It saved my life. Most of my life prior was like dental work without novacaine.

Two of the things that have helped me (YMMV) are a prescription, and a career change.
> There is no one enjoying ill-gotten gains here.

Well if it's found that the construction/design of the building is at fault, then it will be the developers.
I mean, sure.
For a real battle-tested combination of spinlock and futex, see https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/synchr...
People are selling themselves short. Your salary and your cost of living aren’t connected. The value you deliver for the company is all that matters.
Yes, that is what I'd meant. I edited my comment to clarify. It's not just that unvaccinated people are lying, it's also that stores, and other places, are either not allowed to verify or don't want to verify - thereby putting all at risk.