skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that you're in a place for which you've worked hard in your early adulthood, a place you no longer want. Where you're struggling (based off your post and your replies) is that in any direction you look - it's going to take more hard work to get there. Like you're saying: I've worked so hard up till now - surely there's an easier way?

I can easily see how your CS PhD, however impressive, doesn't actually confer a lot of practical skills for a different job. It's the nature of PhDs. It'll look good on paper for a quant or FAANG job, but probably doesn't help much beyond, right?

And the same kind of applies to quant jobs: the level of maths in interviews is different from the day-to-day drudgery, so not only does it feel like getting a similar-paying job will be pointless, it's also hard. And getting other high-paying tangible skills (like web development) is also hard!

To me, the early retirement is a fantasy people paint when they dream of escaping everyday life. What most people dreaming of retirement want is not to be out of productive society, but FREEDOM. They want financial freedom to choose what they do and where. But that's not the same as not having to work.

So the metric you're optimizing for - money - is different to the metric you're actually after - freedom. Think of it this way - if you could work from anywhere, would you still mind working as much?
If you could also manage you're time so that you meet deadlines but otherwise free to set your day - meditate in the morning, take a walk in the nearby hills - would you still mind working as much?

If you're answering No to these questions, early retirement is literally standing in your way of achieving your goals in life.

(Just as a note, as all these things are tied up together - even if you had a fully remote job you're assuming you're tied to London as long as your partner works there? Because that's a whole other kettle of fish, which has nothing to do with your job and cannot be fixed by it.)
I think you are too “hard”, is a normal “surge” from a guy who has a trouble with a macOS update for the first time in 19 years! I also use macOS and I never had troubles with the updates but we can’t ignore that macOS in the lasts 6/7 years get updates a lot more frequently, so it’s normal normal have more troubles.

Surely Apple is not going to the dogs but is doing a lot more things/software/hardware and macOS is not “quite perfect” as it was 20 years ago. Also with the ARM chips Apple is doing a lot of confusion, especially with recovery mode/reinstall/format.

PS: is not my blog.
Degradation is a very serious, and inherently time-based, phenomenon.
I'm being downvoted without argumentation, but how will security ever be taken seriously if these measures don't become the norm?
I'm on neovim nightly and recently turned off treesitter. The highlighting is nice but it consistently was giving me segfaults while autocompleting, adds substantially to my startup time, and renders the editor completely unresponsive when opening large files. I think it's worth mentioning it's still early in development before highly recommending it, but it's cool to tinker with if you're in the mood for it.
> The joy of "discovering" this approach was short lived: This system is very well known in the game industry and is actually the keystone of games such as Starcraft II or id Software engines !

Is it very well known in the game industry? I have trouble finding anything about it.
Buddhist and other thoughtful practitioners of mindfulness meditation are well aware of this phenomenon — which is why mindfulness meditation is usually paired with mettā ("loving-kindness") meditation as students progress.

(The article mentions mettā practice towards the end, but doesn't explicitly acknowledge that the need for this balance has been widely recognized).

As TFA says, this is much more of a problem of McMindfulness than of more traditional contemplative practices
> It is to provide you with credit.

Many places it is to prevent abuse.

I don't think I have been able yo legally get a phone number in Norway without identifykng myself for years.

Maybe if you go to a lawyer they can sort something, but that will be another league for most of us.
One thing I like about cold-blooded Camus/Sartrean existentialism is, we're fucked up, broken creatures, so when we do occasionally get the best work out of ourselves, or even experience true empathy, it's a miracle. When you say you feel it too often it stops being true. Extend that to a whole culture where you have to say it all the time, and everyone's just a liar.
On the other hand, MacOS update failing only _once_ in 16 years is commendable.
And all the programs that stops working with each update. Have to hold off just to ensure that all programs are updated. Hated that each update broke something in my workflow, one of the reasons I moved away recently.
Looks like the pixels it’s painting on my iPhone are double size, 2x2 squares. I might have some weird experimental WebKit features enabled or something but is that an easy mistake to make with Canvas? I suppose so.
I've had the same exact experience. You lose connection once and there's no way to get back to your music without restarting the app. The iOS version is better but still not amazing.
I sometimes drive my parents (gas) car. It feels so archaic: slow response, clunky, insane engine noise. I love returning to my electric car afterwards.
I removed the global menu bar after realizing that it's incredibly tedious to use at large resolutions. It made some sense at 640x480 and 800x600, but at 1080p and beyond, you run into a great deal of mouse travel between a window and its menu bar.
They only need to be certain that the risk of the vaccine for the individual is lower than the risk of Covid for that same person.

In what way do you think millions of doctors, disease experts, and drug researchers have gotten that wrong? They have evidence that Covid is worse, but where is evidence to the contrary?

> I'm very surprised decades of science fiction litterature isn't enough to make people think twice.

Isn't it arrogant to assume that all the experts on vaccines are less informed or less cautious than you are, just because you've read sci-fi?

They didn't just think twice. They've done decades of research and testing, and they've closely monitored safety at every stage of rollout.
It’s not meant to be used as a headless system so I don’t think so.

Fwiw n=1 my update to Big Sur went surprisingly smoothly in full clamshell mode connected to 2 external displays.
OpenKeychain (OpenPGP on Android) is in maintenance mode
I've been wondering why MacOS updates take so long. Surely with how MacOS has a read only root volume and APFS can do snapshotting they can build the new boot image while the system is running and then just ask for the user to reboot into the new volume, after that consolidating the snapshots by deleting the old boot image.

One potential source of the long update installation time is going to be in how they ship firmware updates as part of their OS updates now and have done for a while (Note that they stopped shipping external firmware update packages for years).
Probably depends on your spot price.. we always set maximum spot price at the price of “on-demand” instances but due to how priorities work it may also sometimes not work when the data center in given region is out of capacity for given type.

TBH the bigger issue than boottime for AWS is lack of physical resources to fulfill the demand - this is what most big players are struggling with.
Drivers wanting autonomy isn't the only uncontrollable variable. Property owners along the streets have ideas, too. Optimising their street for the ability of drivers to drive quickly through it on their way from elsewhere to elsewhere typically isn't high on their list. Adds noise, depresses property prices.

The whole thing reminds me of some modernist architecture dreams. One of the great architects had an idea of cities as... let me be pointed and unfriendly. Of magnificently designed apartment blocks connected to magnificently designed workplaces by wide fast roads, and nothing else. Fantastic looks, very clean, very elegant in a way, but nothing else. Corporatist, not far from fascist, very far from humane.
With the exception of photovoltaic cells, all the other ways we generate electricity ultimately generate the electricity by spinning a dynamo - directly for hydro and wind, and through boiling water to steam for fossil, most solar plants (which use mirrors to heat water in pipes), nuclear, geothermal. Not sure if fusion would generate the electricity directly or also heat up water to spin up some magnets.
Absolutely true that keeping surveillance measures private is key to their successful deployment. Then several years later you can mock the critics by pointing out it's nothing new and they shouldn't be so dramatic.
just do a "pure object procedural" style of functional...

all "objects" are immutable (or by value), as are the functions arguments and return values.

But within a function you can still use variables and for loops.
That doesn't seem like it would work. Isn't it basic supply and demand dynamics? If people can work remotely in London from their home elsewhere the supply of available Devs for London companies has increased. They don't need to offer the same full salary any more because they'll have lots of choice to offer less, or give it to someone else.

You can't just avoid supply & demand dynamics by saying everyone should just hold out until they get a higher offer. As a non-London dev myself I can tell you I'd snap up a remote job for a 20% payrise, and I suspect most would. Your suggestion of only taking the full on site salary only works if everyone does it, and most will take lower. It's a prisoners dilemma kind of problem, if we all agreed to hold out for higher salaries we would all benefit, but for each individual it makes sense to defect and take lower because if you don't, someone else almost certainly will. The salary will reach an equilibrium where supply at that price matches demand.

Also, no offense intended about the numbers ;-). I mostly just made those numbers up with no bearing on reality. I'm actually more northern myself, and I'd say average senior dev salary here is probably around £50-60k. I don't really have any idea about equivalent London salaries.
One of our mac mini CI server also failed to boot after update today. When it happens on Linux I usually try to troubleshoot the problem rather than resetting a whole machine. It does not seems to be feasible on macos with reasonable effort because of recently-introduced security features (and also my lack of understanding of macos boot process).
The article touches this briefly: I think it's horrible that the antivax movement successfully managed to push a working lyme vaccine off the market, based on concerns that turned out to be false.

Every time you get a tick you should remember that you could be safe from lyme, but the antivax movement took that away from us.
Dormice not fieldmice- and I think they still eat those in parts of Central Europe, particularly Slovenia and Croatia.
Yeah, fair point. Money is important, but in tech it's unlikely to be the sticking point in the way it is for some others. e.g. my relatively normal rate as a freelancer has me earning over 10X what my mother earns as a receptionist (pre-ax ofc).
I still have my ERS-220.
Given it in lieu of payment for a website I did years ago.
https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/BARbarIAn is an AI for BAR if you want to have a poke around, it's a descendant of https://github.com/rlcevg/CircuitAI for Zero-K.

If scripting is more your style then AIs can be written in lua.
How much data is shared by the phone/OS itself vs applications you install? maybe buy a Pixel, disable as much unwanted features as you can and DON'T install unnecessary apps?
This. I'm surprised that even people who are very well-versed in math omit statistics other than an average or, at best, a median. Is it really just me who wonders about, and in this case really expects, variability in the value? Especially given the huge differences, you might have had a few slow or a few lucky starts that shifted the middle value. Probably they saw the raw data and didn't notice such huge spikes and would have changed the method if they had, but it's not even mentioned so this is pure speculation on my part.
I didn't say your house goes up in value because of inflation.

I say that the debt that is attached to your house goes down in cost, which is a net improvement to your assets minus liabilities.

> If my house was worth 1 million bananas, printing more US dollars doesn’t make it worth more than 1 million bananas.

Correct. But if you owe the bank a million dollars, and the cost of a dollar goes down, you'll still own a house that is worth a million bananas, but will have a smaller debt burden.
Natalie: A work-in-progress Ruby implementation, compiled to C++
That's correct, the SerenityOS UI does not attempt to be touch friendly. This is a classic mouse & keyboard system by design. :)
Isint that strictly depenant on completely different factors like network latency? And kind of bootstrap scripts you wanna run?

Or are you talking about cloud-init which is run by AWS themselves before running userdata scripts ?
> The first alternative to show up with an equally vast catalog (...)

This is exactly why Spotify can decay so badly and still succeed. This is why most widely-used apps are so bloated and offer such ridiculously bad UX. It's because the whole point of the business behind them is to ensure there will be no alternative.

Slack, Teams, Discord, et al. live off network effects. You'll go where the community is. At work, you'll use what your employer picks for you, and your employer has a huge list of concerns[0] that are more important to them than user experience. Spotify survives because of the catalog - making a streaming app is relatively trivial; reproducing all the deals with labels and individual artists is an insurmountable barrier. Netflix was untouchable up until their distribution deals expired, at which point the owners of the content all spun up their own streaming services - but a random entrepreneur can't possibly break into that market.

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[0] - Ranging from "does it tick the right cybersecurity questionnaire checkboxes", through "does it integrate with our SSO", "does it work with our SharePoint", to "was the golfing with the salesperson fun".
Karma is a hell of a justification ;)

My impression is that Buddhism, like all faiths, has that surface level of justifying why there is evil and how to get free of it - so there’s that inner peace [0] - but there’s also this call to action, to reduce suffering, to work on peace outside yourself - that’s compassion, and Jesus and Buddha were all about it, even if their followers sometimes lose the plot. (I’m too ignorant to speak of Muhammad).

As far as the corruption of religion into preserving social hierarchies goes, I like to think that the capacity to be co-opted by a state is a feature, not a bug: a viral transmission vector. These holy texts might not have survived without a corrupt state maintaining it.

[0] Nellie McKay has a song by this name on her album “get away from me”, it’s a fantastic critique of this focus on “inner peace”
Ours was named Otno. Still around but not operational for the last 10+ years.

A really incredible achievement, totally ahead of its time. Not ready to grant Otno true consciousness, but there was certainly a degree of -- intentionality?
> That doesn't stop the rest of us from holding our politicians accountable, though.

So your country goes against the US, the US retaliates by stopping trade. People in your country lose jobs, people demand the govt to fix things, what is your govt going to do then?

It easy to say our politicians should be accountable, real life is more complicated though.
That's…not how the FDA, or science, or medicine works. Antivaxers have no power whatsoever.
> We argue that privacy enhancement technologies, albeit highly advisable, might not be strictly necessary, in front of the recent push of operators to enforce privacy via organizational measures.

The cynic in me says this is true - not because this is anywhere near sufficient to allay the concerns of privacy advocates, but because it will allay the concerns of legislators and most people who are subject to it won't know the difference.
> but that never stopped us calling things "Chinese food" etc in the west.

I once collected a quote from a writeup on dailywtf, an aside that went:

"I should mention that I mean real Chinese food, not that non-deep-fried stuff they serve over in China."

The intended joke, obviously, is on people who think the American label "Chinese food" must reflect something similar to the food they have in China.

After spending years in Shanghai, eating local food, seeing the ads in bakery windows for "FRIED COOKIES", I still find the quote funny, but mostly for the idea that they might serve non-fried food in China. There is some, but it is most certainly not the norm.
I agree, I think changing the title is a better solution than linking to the release notes, but I still think it makes sense to offer extra clarity.

The original title of the blog post is "Highlights from Git 2.33" which to me is a bit clearer that this is not release notes or any kind of "official" Git 2.33 announcement but rather someone's highlights about Git 2.33. I have no idea why the original submitter chose to edit the title like this.
Gentle Guide to Get Started with Tmux
In Switzerland we have both. You can pay cash nearly everywhere, or contact less, or using our own transaction system 'twint' usually over the phone linked to any bank account (or even prepaid kinda like PayPal)
They would have to be signed including GPS coordinates, otherwise they would be vulnerable to a replay attack. And since GPS is not that precise, you would still be able to, say, take two nearby signs and switch them.
But is it valid HTML6 ?
Some people are just running for version numbers.
Oh, that explains! I thought somehow the driver installation broke despite having made an AMI of the same instance type with drivers already installed, and so I just run the install shell script every time and then it works. I figured maybe some hardware address is wrong or it's subtly different hardware, but it being time-based makes a lot more sense.
I'm starting to come to the conclusion that performance is much more important than we realise.

This thread is about how Spotify seemed like magic in the early days. The original iPhone seemed like magic. Netflix seems like magic in how fast it can stream. Similarly, early google and amazon were always fast.

I believe our subconscious values speed as an indication of quality far more than our product owners know how to measure for.
Relevant links for those who wish to look into it:

Repo: https://github.com/imba/imba

Docs: https://imba.io/language/introduction

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XS5q9xhaMc

Article: https://dev.to/somebee/imba-a-javascript-alternative-for-inc...

Site: https://imba.io

Discord: https://discord.gg/mkcbkRw

Twitter: https://twitter.com/imbajs
That would be similar to the process used by sellers who take cards payment and their PSPs (payment service providers).

Basically, the seller never stores (and ideally never even sees) the buyers' card numbers. Instead, the card numbers are stored by the PSP, which then issues seller-specific tokens associated to each card. The seller can then store the tokens, and use them to process any payments to their verified accounts. If the tokens are ever leaked or stolen they are useless to an attacker, as these tokens can only be used with that specific PSP to perform payments in favour of the seller for whom they were issued in the first place.
Sudoku maker Maki Kaji has passed away
You have to be kidding. This strategy of lockdown, wear a mask, contact trace and wait for vaccines clearly isn't working. Are you suggesting that it would work if the government could track our locations better?
> Are people going to insist that you keep wearing your mask, take booster shots and live in fear

I get a flu shot every year and wear a seatbelt when I drive. Not living in fear of either. Taking reasonable precautions doesn't involve living in fear.

> or are we going to collectively change our mindset from "Zero COVID" to accepting that COVID is just another risk factor in the world and move on?

Look at the places (e.g., much of the US South) with high resistance to protective measures and the current status of the healthcare systems. Are we going to accept that being a permanent or at least frequently recurrent state worldwide and accept the COVID and non-COVID deaths from exhausting ICU space, and the high burnout we’ve seen in the healthcare field? Are we going to radically expand healthcare expenditures to expand capacity and attract/retain people in the field with that as the normal condition?
I would like to remove my dependency from Google, then Pixel is not the best solution.
Well, if by "probably trust" you mean you are happy if that prediction fails every now and then, then sure.

If a link is saturated, say via TCP, then UDP data can still get dropped AFAIK.

Searching I found this blog post[1] which takes a small stab at it. Would be interesting to try other setups with more data.

Regardless, using UDP one should always be prepared to handle dropped and out-of-order packets.

https://openmymind.net/How-Unreliable-Is-UDP/
Dallas police lose 8TB of data, impacting criminal cases
There is no security in HTTPS. Are you completely sure you are not MITM ?
Thank you for your work!

Can you please share your thoughts on advantages and disadvantages of using WebGL vs just "<img>" elements (like on Leaflet homepage) to render tiled photos that require deep zoom.

I checked how some photo zoom solutions are made. For example, Google Photos uses tiled img elements, while online photo viewer in Apple iCloud used webgl to render. And I'm not sure what's best and why.
No, not right now. The current version of tags is relatively tightly coupled with the DOM for maximum performance. It should be possible to create a bridge like react-native but it hasn't been an area of focus thus far!
I hope one day you are my jury.
RSS isn't easily surveilled. RSS apps download feeds but that doesn't mean an eyeball could have seen any particular item. You could do custom trackable links and charge for clicks, but charging for impressions would be much harder.

Are there other Google ad properties that work that way? (charge only for clicks, not impressions)
I respect Ram Dass and I have taken LSD a couple of times. Everytime I see Be Here Now referred or I open the book I always laugh and think about how much LSD that guy took while writing the book.
From what I understand the vaccine wasn't taken off the market by the FDA or science. It was taken off the market by the company producing it, due to pressure from lawsuits and bullshit concerns about risks.
Linux, hands down, I like to experiment with different distributions.

I like windows because I like portable applications. Since I'm forced to use it at work along with Office I like autohotkey and VBA because of the ability for automation. I wish there was something, maintained, like autohotkey for Linux. I know there's bash but with autohotkey I can automate most software I need to use day to day.
I can't remember the last time I went to a restaurant or bar that didn't have Card payment and NFC options here in Germany.

Food stalls I agree are more hit or miss.
The trade-off for the mouse travel is only needing to align the click on the X-axis.
Just to address the really clear question:

>>> you learn to open up your own vulnerability

>>Towards whom?

Towards whoever is trying to control you. Only cults use your vulnerabilities as a tactic. And only very stupid cults skip even naming what those vulnerabilities are, and jump straight to "you're so vulnerable". This response against it is simply a measure of the antibodies that people have against being manipulated by brainwashed morons.