skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am seeing a lot of comments here about depression, though it doesn't ring true to me - the situation you're in is one that myself and a lot of the other comments can understand from our own experience of similar situations and it really does suck. My take is that you're feeling the way you do in response to the situation you find yourself in, and perhaps due to the loss of control and ensuing hopelessness.

As a first step I recommend taking a look at a book called Ikigai [1] (There is some fair criticism of the author taking that japanese word somewhat out of context, but don't let that take away from the key point of the book). It certainly helped me to work out a way to think more about how to find a more rewarding and meaningful career and ultimately life. It's a nice gentle read too.

As a second step, you could seek out a career coach or someone who you can talk to in order to uncover your needs and dreams - they're in there somewhere buddy.

I've only recently taken the second step myself to start learning more about how to feel more meaning in what I am spending a good chunk of my life on. I've found a good coach who has been enormously helpful in asking the right (and difficult) questions at the right time.

Final thought: money matters come up a lot in your post. You don't have to measure yourself in that dimension if you don't want to anymore. You can add a great deal of value to the world without $$$ being the base unit, and/or have a lot of fun!

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ikigai-Japanese-secret-long-happy/d...
In positions of power, No. I would, however, like to be proven wrong.

China broke into the US government's primary background check database the last time Biden was in the White House (the OPM hack, 2015). Personal details of millions of government employees with secret and top secret clearances, as well as the contact details for their family, friends, and coworkers over 7+ years (as required by said background checks) were stolen. The vast majority of people with a career in government service have a personal file somewhere in a CCP database - that is the baseline level of compromise.

The government did not lift a finger towards China in response.

Google "US government compromised by China" and you'll get loads of stories going back several years. This seems like an issue that affects all Americans.

Many US institutions are effectively controlled by Democrats. Journalists, educators, Big Tech, Washington D.C bureaucrats - all overwhelmingly Democrat. Same with the US government's executive branch today. Coincidentally, all of these institutions are soft on China, and for those that are capable of it, they will and do censor people who raise too many alarms about what's going on. It's very strange and sad that only Republicans seem to care.

The political party that's currently dominating has expressed their desires to have policies similar to those of China. Some examples are forced lockdowns, forced vaccinations, centralized economic control, forced disarmament of citizens, and limits on freedom of speech. Makes one wonder if the CCP is leading them by example.
"too wild"? That seems like fairly generic gaming opinions.

(Well, the F2P one seems a bit weird, given the wide range of options of getting games cheap-ish if you don't insist on only playing the newest AAA titles)
I think that this a bit of a separate topic. I wasn't advocating for making all drugs freely available, but rather wanted to caution that there are already plenty of doctors who try to not prescribe drugs based on some moral feelings (or fear).

However, on this topic I do think that there should be fewer restrictions on what you can buy. I have asthma. I would like to have an emergency inhaler for those rare situations where I have trouble breathing properly. But I can't have one, because asthma medications are prescription only here and I do not have health insurance. I am uncertain whether it's worth spending the likely €100-200 it would cost out of pocket to see the doctors and do the tests to get the prescription. So I make do with caffeine, wet blankets and sleeping upright on the rare occasion that I have a problem.

I can afford the medicine, but the mandatory doctors visits are too much. As I said though, this is a bit of a different issue.
There's a couple of constraints here that seem to be dominating your decisions.

One: early retirement

Two: the idea that the recruiter was right about not being able to find the money elsewhere

You have a PhD in Computer Science, one of the highest academic accomplishments in one of the hottest fields for the last 30-40 years. I want you to know how far ahead you are of people like me who just taught themselves to code and glue web apps together for 6 figures. You need to dispel the notion that you can't find your current salary elsewhere and that recruiter was likely lying to you. Finding meaningful work is a different beast, but you're staying attached to a job for a financial goal that isn't really clear.

Assuming you stayed at this job, how long until early retirement? It might make more sense to enjoy things now and take a break from working, move to a new city with a lower CoL (plus you don't even like London), and try a better work/life balance.

Depending on your flat's rent and joint savings, it might actually make more sense to leave the flat, put that money towards traveling (which probably won't even come close your rent), and figure things out. It's not like you're building capital renting the place anyway.

As a final bit, career suicide is a dead concept in CS. That seems like extremely outdated thinking especially with remote work's popularity now.
Yup; three other points I'd add:

1) I hate to say "year of desktop Linux" like every year, but with the Steam Deck release later this year, and Valve's commitment to continue investing and collaborating on Proton to ensure wide-range game support; Linux gaming is going to grow substantially throughout 2022, if only due to the new devices added by Steam Decks.

Intel has always had fantastic Linux video driver support. If Arc is competitive with the lowest end current-gen Nvidia/AMD cards (3060?), Linux gamers will love it. And, when thinking about Steam Deck 2 in 2022-2023, Intel becomes an option.

2) The current-gen Nvidia/AMD cards are insane. They're unbelievably powerful. But, here's the kicker: Steam Deck is 720p. You go out and buy a brand new Razer/Alienware/whatever gaming laptop, the most common resolution even on the high end models is 1080p (w/ high refresh rate). The Steam Hardware survey puts 1080p as the most common resolution, and ITS NOT EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE to #2 [1] (720p 8%, 1080p 67%, 1440p 8%, 4k 2%) (did you know more people use Steam on MacOS than on a 4k monitor? lol)

These Nvidia/AMD cards are unprecedented overkill for most gamers. People are begging for cards that can run games at 1080p, Nvidia went straight to 4K, even showing off 8K gaming on the 3090, and now they can't even deliver any cards that run 720p/1080p. Today, we've got AMD releasing the 6600XT, advertising it as a beast for 1080p gaming [2]. This is what people actually want; affordable and accessible cards to play games on (whether they can keep the 6600xt in stock remains to be seen, of course). Nvidia went straight Icarus with Ampere; they shot for the sun, and couldn't deliver.

3) More broadly, geopolitical pressure in east asia, and specifically taiwan, should be concerning investors in any company that relies heavily on TSMC (AMD & Apple being the two big ones). Intel may start by fabbing Arc there, but they uniquely have the capacity to bring that production to the west.

I am very, very long INTC.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/amd-unveils-the-radeon-rx-6600-xt...
For those of us who are not into RTS games, which of the features listed on this front page are ones that Total Annihilation was known for (and which other RTS games presumably failed to follow up on), and which ones are further innovations this game is making atop TA’s take on the genre?
> But a 6900XT is available for $3100 at my local store... and the 3090 is $2100.

That's just your store being dumb, then. The 6900 XT is averaging about $1,500 brand new on eBay[0] while the 3090 is going for about $2,500[1]. Even on Newegg, the cheapest in-stock 6900 XT card is $1,700[2] while the cheapest 3090 is $3,000[3]. Everything I've read suggests that the AMD cards, while generally a little slower than their Nvidia counterparts (especially when you factor in ray-tracing), give you way more bang for your buck.

> the prices for AMD cards are generally higher

This is just not true. There may be several reasons for the Nvidia cards being out of stock more often than AMD: better performance; stronger brand; lower production counts; poor perception of AMD drivers; specific games being optimized for Nvidia; or pretty much anything else. But at this point, pricing is set by supply and demand, not by arbitrary MSRPs set by Nvidia/AMD, so claiming that AMD cards are priced too high is absolutely incorrect.

[0]: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=6900xt&_sacat...

[1]: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=3090&_sacat=0...

[2]: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709%20601359957&Order=1

[3]: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709%20601357248&Order=1
Like I said, I'm happy to help—we're always happy to welcome any user who sincerely wants to follow the guidelines and use HN as intended going forward—but just to be clear, you'll need to follow all the steps in my previous comment for that to reliably work. Particularly step 3.
This will end up being a very good thing for Tesla. They were able to operate semi-autonomous vehicles for years while they iterated through software versions. They are faaar from done, but a likely outcome will be more stringent regulation on companies that want to do a similar approach of putting the betas in customers hands. This makes it way harder for automotive companies to get the same leeway, putting Tesla further ahead.
I mean is it meaningless? Maybe you don't like it which is find, but I find the purity of the work to be refreshing: make money no bs lies about "making the world a better place."
I don't mean to debate Brian's choice (your quote shows it does fall into my exception anyway) but mention to readers here why they may be more interested in following guides on compiling/interpreting implemented in other languages than C.
The submitter of this story here on HN is the developer of FlickType. He had also filed a lawsuit against Apple for allowing apps that have been outright cheating people with incredibly high in-app purchases and has pointed out several instances of scammy apps.

I thought larger companies keep tabs on the "noisy and popular" ones in media (and social media) and would take more care not to annoy them further. But this story makes it seem like Apple has decided to just keep pushing his buttons as some sort of punishment.

I don't believe there's anyone capable in Apple top leadership who's spending any time in leading the App Store team appropriately. The scammy apps and the contrasting meaningless rejections of praiseworthy apps only tell one thing – the App Store is an abandoned space run by "bots" with almost no oversight.

As an Apple iDevice user for long, this story (from the beginning) as well as others have made me wish for alternate app stores on iDevices enforced through regulation. The wait has been too long already, and Apple isn't being the steward it imagines itself to be or portrays itself in media to be.
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It's definitely big at Amazon. And I can tell you why.

Typically, recruiters try to setup 4 interviewees with 4 interviewers. You 'loop' through them, like speed dating. It's "an interview loop".

At least, that's my interpretation.
I wonder this too, but perhaps your insurance company buys this data on you and says, oh, they drink sugary drinks and eat candy and chips. They are buying Tylenol and ibuprofen for chronic pain. Maybe they will get diabetes and we should raise their premiums accordingly.
>A headline that just said "Customers" here would be far less precise.

"Shoppers" then. That would be more correct.

>(Isn't normally the complain that Americans think themselves all that matter in the world, a la "World Series" or "World Champions" for sports leagues that span just two countries? Can't win either way, I guess!)

All part of it.
> It feels more like "I built it using LaTeX to try and impress you"

It's not meant to impress you, a resume writer. It's meant to impress other techies.
For some technical context: this dialog pops up the first time an app attempts to send a packet to a local device. A "common" reason why this happens are actually your own network devices if you're connected on wifi. For instance sending a custom DNS query to the wifi advertised DNS server (if it's the router) will cause that dialog. Same thing happens if you happen to have a router redirect certain resources to itself. The latter typically at this point only happens for non encrypted HTTP traffic and that's basically no longer permitted.

So why it happens exactly would be interesting.
Archived:

https://archive.fo/kWPJk

https://web.archive.org/web/20210816190158/https://news.ycom...
After high school, no one cares much about age cohort. There's no 40-50yr-old bracket at my job or in a political campaign or at a car dealership.
Honestly emulation is so good now, and games so easy to acquire via torrent communities, that it is kind of difficult for me to justify (to myself) collecting retro hardware. Especially since I end up using Everdrives and ODEs anyway.

I've been seriously considering selling off my collection, but I'm too lazy to do it piecemeal.
Copy-pasted the example into Notepad and it still looks warped. Tried to align them adding three spaces to the middle of each line except the first and last, and most rows still don't align. Changed the font from Consolas to Courier to Courier New, and they still don't align.

Maybe Unicode Braille has issues with Windows monospace fonts? iOS and Linux display them aligned.
Unauthorized network access? Literally the whole point of the thing.
Just came across this.

Two weeks ago, Bill died.

Bill was an old friend of mine. We'd known each other for 25 years or more. His wife used to work at the company that employed me, and Bill and I shared extracurricular interests.

Bill was trained as a Maritime Engineer. Due to a story that is not mine to tell, his engineering career was destroyed, and he became a housepainter. A really good one. Because of his erudite approach, he got high-dollar customers. Many of his jobs brought in six-figure gross.

He sent his three kids to college. They all did awesome. He left his wife in great shape, financially.

Bill died of kidney disease. He had been on home dialysis for years. It sucked.

Even with the dialysis, his body started to deteriorate. It was getting worse and worse.

a couple of months ago, he made the decision to stop dialysis, and just check out.

His bags were packed. He had done his job, and left the world a better place.

The last few weeks, I made a point of popping by his house as often as possible. I'd usually pop in five or six days a week, and sit with him for an hour or so. Towards the end, it was ten minutes, because he was in a parallel universe, and my being there didn't do more than make it a pain for his family.

Helping him to die was a deep Honor.
> will compete with GeForce

> which performs a lot like the GDDR5 version of Nvidia's aging, low-end GeForce GTX 1030

Intel is trying to emulate what NVIDIA did a decade ago. Nobody in the NVIDIA world speaks of GeForce and GTX anymore, RTX is where it's at.
i wanna get a good Alyx setup to finally try VR, but with the gpu market the way it is, looks like my RX480 4GB will be sticking around for another 5yrs - it's more expensive now than it was 4 yrs ago (used), and even then it was already 2yrs old. batshit crazy; no other way to describe it :(
Autopilot is precisely the correct term -
An autopilot is a system used to control the path of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilots do not replace human operators.
A lot of your examples are also attractive because you'd already have the framework set up to deliver them.
Prevent collision with public domains. “ws” has an A record. It’s possible that your local Webserver also is named ws.

With all new gTLDs it’s easy to have a collision when someone buys the “router” TLD.
Thanks for the reply. I think what I was trying to say by implication is that I think folks fall so far short of the ideal that it's actually a regression. Related to this is what I see as an implicit belief that "rationality" means completely dismissing the lived experience of actual humans, i.e. lots of people are suffering but hey, at least we applied principles in a soulless and mathematical way, because that's what's important.
Erm, last I checked, four months from now is December 2021.
You're conflating niceness with morality.

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For a time after its launch in I think 1997 people were calling Total Annihilation the greatest RTS and maybe the greatest game of all time. I wish the RTS community wouldn't shit so hard on any game that isn't StarCraft.
The U.S. will investigate Tesla’s Autopilot system after a series of crashes
If you're into this style of RTS, I've found Zero-K to be a very good free similar game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/334920/ZeroK/
You might find working at Google utterly meaningless (I mostly do) but the pay would be excellent and more importantly you would have the potential to work remotely... at least 2/5 days a week and potentially fully remotely as well. And that's just Google. There's lots of companies offering full remote at this point.

With CS and stats in your resume you are well set. Stop selling yourself short.

It sounds like you're bummed out and not feeling great. Much like myself and many other people after this last year and a half. Save a bit of coin, and then go on leave or quit your job, take some time off, go hang with your family, and then try a new job with a fresh head.

99% of what we do as engineers is utterly meaningless. That's why we don't do it for free.
Why Perseverance’s first Mars drilling test came up empty
Assuming that the email client used even shows the domain. If you can train your employee to do an obscure technical check you can for sure train them to verify invoices. After all, if you don't then the legit supply chain provider can just generate fake invoices.
The problem is, even if your subjective idea of how Autopilot affects your own driving is correct, it appears not to be the case for a significant subset of Tesla drivers, enough that they've been plowing into emergency vehicles at such an elevated rate as to cause NHTSA to open an investigation.

Also, your subjective impressions may be what they are simply because you have not yet encountered the unlucky set of conditions which would radically change your view, as was surely the case for all the drivers involved in these sorts of incidents.
Looking back, the way OSS Middleware was supposed to reboot NetAct, was the wrong approach, we had better just rewrite everything in better C++ without the Perl/CORBA stuff, but many pieces were at play.

Not much else I can talk openly about it.
Because these services usually do not develop their websites to parity with their apps and push users heavily to install apps.
Another Googler here, speaking directly to the "working on ads" point: Ads is huge, but it's not hard to stay away from it if you're not interested. I worked in Cloud (App Engine) for four years and am now working on Chrome OS, and out of all the people I've worked with who transferred to other teams, I've only heard of 2-3 who moved to Ads.

Internal transfers are pretty easy too; it's not unheard of to switch teams every 18 months or so, so when you get sick of working on whichever huge distributed system you start with, you can go work on consumer hardware, one of the various operating systems, Google Maps, the Chrome browser, a site like Google Docs, one of the many iOS apps, one of the Cloud products, etc etc.

Working at Google isn't the wonderland some articles paint it to be, but it's definitely not boring, and there are lots of interesting people and projects around. You might not find your job itself to be super meaningful, but being surrounded by thousands of other engineers who all would like some meaning in their lives makes for an interesting community, and tons of fun little at-work side projects.
On most or all roads below 100km/h autopilot won’t allow speeding, and therefore I drive at the limit, which I know I would not have done if I controlled it. It also stays in the lane better than I do, keeps distance better, and more. Sometimes it’s wonky when the street lines are unclear. It’s not perfect but a better driver than I am in 80% of cases.

My insurance company gives a lower rate if you buy the full autopilot option, and that to me indicates they agree it drives better than I, or other humans, do.
You are slandering a journal and only provide a tweet as evidence for systematic problems at Frontiers?
It is not that uncommon for an editor to request the input of an additional reviewer if they they themselves think the paper is strong...although not listing the original reviewer is suspect.
The cofounder was telling the truth (or, at least, nothing in the lawsuit implies that he was not).

The plaintiffs in this case are claiming that when they linked their bank accounts to PayPal/Venmo/etc using Plaid they didn't realize what they were doing, or that it's somehow unfair that Paypal/Venmo/etc got their banking data (despite knowingly inputting their credentials into Paypal/Venmo/etc).

Paypal/Venmo/etc is not a third party in that case. They're the party that the customer was knowingly interacting with.

A third party would be an unknown / unrelated data broker. Ie, the cofounder is claiming that they don't turn around and resell data to anyone other than the app that the customer was deliberately using.
> The division happened when transitioning from hunter gatherers (which didn't need possessions, just hard work)

I am sure hunter gatherer societies were also very territorial. If the area you are hunting or gathering does doesn’t have much animals or plants, all the hard work won’t get you nearly as much food as someone who has a lot of plants and animals on their land.

And if you don’t think early humans were territorial just take a look at chimpanzees or even lions. Being tribal and territorial goes back a long ways.
98M customer accounts for $58M so 60c a piece. Sounds like they got a great bargain! Justice is served!
Google BigQuery has the full database, updated daily.
Some shop uses face recognition. Who cares enough to bother finding that out? (not to say it isn't important) It hardly indicates a social trend.
Any such fines are likely to be blunt instruments that end up blaming pedestrians for the failings of poor software.

For example, in many cities it's a common thing to walk directly at the path of a vehicle, but timed such that the vehicle will have passed by the time you get there. But if you try this in some other cities (eg Los Angeles), the driver is likely to slam on their brakes to stop and then wave for you to go in front of them, as if they're doing you some sort of favor.

Self driving cars are overly cautious, and I can imagine many will behave similarly. Add fines into the mix and then what, the pedestrian is supposed to pay for their having been interrupted?
Many players complain when DLC is released at the same as the main game because they feel it should just be part of the main game.

Framing this DLC as an "ultimate" edition seems like a great idea!
I took a cruise about five years ago, it was a smaller line, no photos were involved. I don’t think I’d submit to them either.
i have another one:

"don't let good be the enemy of what is actually needed"