skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I'm the same age as you, born in the UK but have been working in USA for a few years now. I am also feeling burned out by my job, spend a lot of time fantasizing about retiring early.

This is a shot in the dark but I feel like a lot of my mental state has been caused by covid, missing regularly seeing my friends, family and the alienating nature of interacting with my colleagues only via screen. Because of this I have resolved to not make any large decisions until covid is completely over, since it's hard for me to assess how much differently I will feel once things get back to normal. Till then I save as much as possible to give myself more options.
I went for complete overkill and chowed down 30mg/capsule for a week, then melted them into oil & made brownies so that I could halve and quarter the dose. Did that for another couple of weeks. If anything, it seemed too effective at slowing peristalsis and the pain had largely gone away, so I stopped using the CBD but kept on with the probiotic pills (but taking them at a double dose because I figure it doubles the chance that they’ll make it past my stomach.) I’ll finish by taking a different probiotic pill with a different spectrum of bacteria et al. That plus my from-scratch diet should seed & support a replenished gut biota.
Because GDP doesn't measure right. It measures dollars, not value.

Take Google search, for instance. I can look up (approximately) all the information in the world, for free. That shows up in the GDP as $0, because it's free.

But what is Google search actually worth? Would your business, say, actually pay for it as a tool? Probably, at least for those of us who need Stack Overflow answers. Real value is being produced, but it isn't being measured because it is being given away. (Yeah, I know, ads. Search itself is still being given away. So is Linux and gcc and...)

And does Google search help productivity? Yes. Does Linux? Yes. Does gcc? Yes. The ability to get all these things for free greatly expands the things you can do.

Software is producing value. But because so much is being given away, the value isn't showing up in the dollar-based metrics.
Yeah, sorry for the phone typo!
My wife has a conspiracy theory: The reason why mask mandates are being extended is so that facial recognition has practice recording and analyzing faces that are covered.
I have observed that behavior in many other professions where the participants view themselves as very smart. Physicians and lawyers are at the top of that list.
Intuition could be said to be the opposite of reason, but not rationality. There are whole parts of the rationalist diaspora that emphasize how important it is to be in touch with one's intuitions / feelings and to integrate them successfully into one's decision making process with an aim towards being more rational.
EnTT's registry might be an interesting read if you haven't read it before. [1] The specs crate also provides a variety of storage implementations for varying types of components. [2]

I didn't work on the game, but I spoke with some of the developers of Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak. Since there was a straightforward quantity of entities and components (a bunch of vehicles in a closed desert space), the space for all data was preallocated at initialization time. I can't speak further on the specifics though.

[1] https://github.com/skypjack/entt/blob/master/docs/md/entity....

[2] https://docs.rs/specs/0.17.0/specs/struct.VecStorage.html
I'm not sure what site you're referring to, and that proves my following point....

There are multiple CDN providers. Unless they're all doing this, OP doesn't have to go with the specific one you're calling out here and can still reap the benefits.
This is entertaining and informative, but it needs some sort of thesis statement to be worth discussing.
That's why I appreciate that a rationality website is called LessWrong. Of course you can't be perfectly rational, but you can be less wrong.
I disagree somewhat to this - it's certainly true to an extent but when it comes to gross negligence or malicious intent most of the world will seriously come down on you. Only in the US is intentional malice generally written off with fatalist cries of "It was inevitable that some market participant would abuse this system."
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Open Source Patterns in Python
I bought an ATI card for deep learning. I'm a big fan of open source. Less than 12 months later, ROCm dropped support. I bought an NVidia, and I'm not looking back.

This makes absolutely no sense to me, and I have a Ph.D:

"* RDNA -- consumer cards. A new ISA with new compilers / everything. I don't think its reasonable to expect AMD's compilers to work on RDNA, when such large changes have been made to the architecture. (32-wide instead of 64-wide. 1024 registers. Etc. etc.) * CDNA -- based off of Vega's ISA. Despite being "legacy ISA", its pretty modern in terms of capabilities. MI100 is competitive against the A100. CDNA is likely going to run Frontier and El Capitan supercomputers. ROCm focused on CDNA. They've had compilers emit RDNA code, but its not "official" and still buggy. But if you went for CDNA, that HIP / ROCm stuff works enough for the Oak Ridge National Labs. Yeah, CDNA is expensive ($5k for MI50 / Radeon VII, and $9k for MI100). But that's the price of full-speed scientific-oriented double-precision floating point GPUs these days.

I neither know nor care what RDNA, CDNA, A100, MI50, Radeon VII, MI100, or all the other AMD acronyms are. Yes, I could figure it out, but I want plug-and-play, stability, and backwards-compatibility. I ran into a whole different minefield with AMD. I'd need to run old ROCm, downgrade my kernel, and use a different card to drive monitors than for ROCm. It was a mess.

NVidia gave me plug-and-play. I bought a random NVidia card with the highest "compute level," and was confident everything would work. It does. I'm happy.

Intel has historically had great open source drivers, and if it give better plug-and-play and open source, I'll buy Intel next time. I'm skeptical, though. The past few year, Intel has a hard time tying their own shoelaces. I can't imagine this will be different.
I can explain why I use tooling like this. I use Lilypond though, not Alda.

For me, it is very much just a markup for music notation that can be tracked in version control. Just like how one would write markdown and then generate html pages, I write Lilypond to generate scores.

Example workflow- I write a song, and use Ableton to capture it. I’m performing with real instruments, and creating arrangements without writing anything down.

Now I want to perform it with other musicians. I have a few options.

I can notate what I created by hand. I can use a proprietary graphical notation tool, which are expensive and generally have sub-par UX.

Or I can use a text-based system like Lilypond, and generate it. I can create reusable blocks, code snippets, look at a diff when I make changes, print the whole arrangement, print just the scores for individual instruments, adjust arrangements as easy as you adjust prose in a text editor.

And also, not have to think much about the presentation layer. Mature tools in this category like Lilypond output great looking scores.
> The one who can afford not to use loyalty card will earn the shop more profit (because no discount), meaning that it can offer bigger discounts to others.

I don't use loyalty cards, but I don't pay more because of it. There still exist stores that don't have them, and my observation is that the regular prices on those stores are about the same as the "loyalty card discount" price at other stores.

The "discount" you're getting with a loyalty card is a sham. The regular prices were just bumped up to give the illusion of a discount.

More to the point, though, the issue I see with your analysis is that you're assuming that privacy has a single value. My privacy is worth just as much to me as a wealthy person's privacy is to them. That others value them differently is unimportant. The cost of the loss of that privacy is the same regardless of income, but only the wealthy have a way to minimize that loss without going to extreme measures.
Don't be silly. Somebody is in that car. When you screw with it you're making somebody late, no matter who is driving.
>Why would working on ads be any more meaningful than my current job, even if it's using ML?

We can't answer this for you and really nobody should try since you didn't provide any areas of your life that you find meaning in or industries you'd be interested to work in.

Most jobs out there aren't going to have any meaning and the ones that do wont don't pay as much as you want since you've indicated in other comments that pay is important to you.

Heres what I'll tell you. Accept the fact that most jobs you have and most jobs everyone have are meaningless, put your 30,40,50 hours a week in at your current job and find meaning outside of work and just realize that work is a means to an end.

Or, quit your current job, find something remote realize that you'll probably take a pay cut but with that you might be able to get a reduction in hours that you can spend more time doing what you want and be back in your home town with your family.
In case anyone wondering how this is valid JS:

- https://tc39.es/proposal-hashbang/out.html

- https://github.com/tc39/proposal-hashbang

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Slack tags are unambiguous, and some folks have different notification settings for mentions vs simple messages.

Same thing with email rules prioritizing mail that has the recipient on the To: line.
"Useless" https://xkcd.com/55/
Something that doesn't fleece and abuse its customers and then expose their data irresponsibly?
Love it so far. When I think about all of the time and tasks lost because of my mountain of tabs, $15 is an infinitesimally small price to pay given my workload and schedule. If it's not for you it's not for you but at least just try it.

This will actually make me money and help me clock our earlier aside from the headaches I won't have. My life feels more organized and I am happy to have a team that is dedicated to building and improving a product. I have been a freeware/opensource nut for years but as I grow older I have learned the value of my time/happiness vs money. Everything is an investment and I am trading a little bit of cash for a better quality of life at work and time. That is going to be worth it 8 days a week.
Donating coins that are worth zero doesn't accomplish anything.
I actually mentioned in a thread about Plaid in 2018 that they sold transaction history to third parties, and the cofounder came onto HN to explicitly deny that [1]. I actually felt convinced they didn't afterwards, as I couldn't imagine such a direct and clear refutation if it were true.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655417
I see it more in the spirit of "how are we feeling today". Some sort of false comradery.
GPU stock is rising and prices falling. It’s too late now.
Funding, Buyback, and Hiring
I had same thing happen some days ago while rebooting my modem at home after accidentally unplugging it.

All kinds of apps I use regularly, which have absolutely no use for it, started asking for permission to list devices on local network.
The basis of many enterprise networks is device-installed CAs so I would be thoroughly surprised. iOS at least still allows you to install a custom CA and only a few apps will refuse to work with it, who likely reject connections that aren't secured via a specific CA.
I think you give yourself too little credit. You graduated with a PhD in CS, you must be well above average.
Back in the day, python was popular because it was a “batteries included” language, which meant I supposedly had almost everything you would need right there in the standard language. These days of cause no one runs python without going on a shopping spree of additional packages on pypi, so it would be less of a big deal if it didn’t include a browser lib, or a GUI lib out of the box.
There are some good bits in here. I love the subtitle especially: "The real challenge isn’t being right but knowing how wrong you might be." Knowing when not to provide an answer is hard. A big part of my job is communicating statistical findings and giving a good non-answer is much harder than giving a good answer, both technically speaking and socially speaking.

One thing I'll add that drives me nuts is the fetishization of bayesian reasoning I see some times here on HN. There are times that bayesian reasoning is helpful and times that it isn't. Specifically, when you don't trust your model, bayes rule can mislead you badly (frequently when it comes to missing/counterfactual data). It's just a tool. There are others. It makes me crazy when it's someone's only hammer, so everything starts to look like a nail. Sometimes, more appropriate tools leave you without an answer.

Apparently that's not something we're willing to live with.
> but this isn't increasing aggregate economic output for the world

How is it not? Demand is increased as people want to consume more content, and supply has risen to match it. We have more creative & interesting content by more creators than ever, that's certainly a huge increase in overall economic output by any measure.

If you want to make some separate point about how "this isn't good for society" then make it, the economic productivity benefits of YT are huge regardless.
Is this tool useful or not?
So, I was searching for ideas and found several requests from recruiters that they really need to see career changes from their LinkedIn network.
And I have created Eichar - this tool delivers information on who is open to work or to new opportunities from your LinkedIn network.
Now I am worried if this is really worthy product?
Please provide your feedback.
Thanks!
So did 1.1.1.1, which led to a lot of trouble when it started being widely used.
I made dotmatrix over the weekend and I thought some you might enjoying something like it. The library is written in pure python without any dependencies. As of now I've included some simple drawing functions using Bresenham's line/circle/AA ellipse algorithms and even a function for Bézier curves with arbitrary amounts of control points using De Casteljau's algorithm.
Find a small company to work for. There are a lot around and many are hiring. You may take a pay cut (or maybe not), but the QOL is so much higher at well-run small company than any big company could achieve. The work impact feels much higher when you're not just one tiny cog in an enormous machine.
Slight off topic: how do sites know an email address from one of those “temporary email service providers” is a fake/short-term email address?

There’s a number of things I like to kick the tires on without giving my actual email. So I’ll use a temp email and more times than not it’s detected to be as such. How is that known?
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I have long been suspecious that being an Uber driver makes sense if you can do it as an extra job and only do it on friday and saturday nights and in crappy weather.

You are putting the same wear on the car, but the prices are much higher.
I definitely agree with you. Manjaro is a great distro and I have used for multiple years. I especially liked that they offer such a broad range of supported desktop environments, each with their own downloadable ISO image.

If you are looking for something that's closer to pure Arch under the hood, your should give Endeavour OS [0] a try. It's basically vanilla Arch with a nicely configured XFCE desktop and a graphical installer.

[0]: https://endeavouros.com/
MongoDB was the first database tool I ever learned how to use. A big factor behind that was their free online training programs. How many other database offerings at the time advertised that?

Link: https://university.mongodb.com/
I've always been amazed and bit jealous of how 'fair use' has been enforced in U.S. especially when the movie scenes are used casually in YouTube videos like that of Wisecrack.

Curious, I checked Indian law and found detailed 'Exceptions To Infringement Under Copyright Act, 1957'[1].

Namely,

> (ii) criticism or review, whether of that work or of any other work;

Meaning I could theoretically create Wiscrack type video for a Bollywood movie and would be legally valid. But alas, I know for certain that if I'm critical of some movie or say even a TV serial I'll be sued my butts off the next day and I may or may not get vindicated in next 10 years.

I would really like to showcase the casual marital rape attempts or pseudoscience from TV serials, But it's not worth the fallout. Apart from copyright, They would file for defamation as well.

Recently an Indian media conglomerate filed $13,7 million defamation on a smaller YouTube based news outlet for criticizing their reportage[2]

[1] https://copyright.gov.in/Exceptions.aspx

[2] https://cpj.org/2021/01/times-of-india-parent-company-sues-m...
This is a fair point.

Right now, it shows a message on the bottom-left asking if you meant to close a page and suggesting "D" as the shortcut instead.

I think adding a classic mode with those shortcuts enabled should solve the issue. What do you think?
I dealt with a lot of the same issues around meaninglessness vs. golden handcuffs (at Google incidentally) and recently took a job at a smaller company, albeit without a pay cut. I specifically resisted switching jobs for several years for the same reason: having to grind Leetcode only to end up with the same alienation and cynicism. Turns out all that salary isn't just for hard work. Anyway, honestly, having now finally taken that step, I'll say that Leetcode isn't really a huge cost (you do it and then you're done for a while) and that simply working on new stuff does get you over one hump, namely the boredom. Not sure how long the new-stuff momentum will carry me past the possible onset of meaninglessness, but I'm trying to just adopt the "one must imagine sisyphus happy" mindset. Not a strategy but maybe at least a tactic? Happy to discuss further

Edit: I'm aware this is a very privileged situation to be in, honestly that doesn't help much with coping though and everyone wants to be happy. I seriously had just decided I never would be. Even that (temporary?) feeling is mind-blowing
> ROCm supports Vega, Vega 7nm, and CDNA just fine.

yeah, but that's exactly what OP said - Vega is three generations old at this point, and that is the last consumer GPU (apart from VII which is a rebranded compute card) that ROCm supports.

On the NVIDIA side, you can run at least basic tensorflow/pytorch/etc on a consumer GPU, and that option is not available on the AMD side, you have to spend $5k to get a GPU that their software actually supports.

Not only that but on the AMD side it's a completely standalone compute card - none of the supported compute cards do graphics anymore. Whereas if you buy a 3090 at least you can game on it too.
Game of Life: CUDA vs. Golang (2021)
Thanks a lot for this;
You can, on a rooted phone. There's ways to install a CA certificate with root (described in my only popular blog post) but there's also alternatives, like using Frida to disable TLS verification all together.

It's certainly not as easy and reliable as it used to be, but it's still common for security research to use these tactics to see what apps are doing.
I see it as a differentiator and unique competitive advantage. New banks aren't solely competing on interest rates and fees, but also on social and personal interests.

I'll post a snippet we recently added to our pitch deck:

> Accounts like those catering specifically to the LGBTQ+ community (https://joindaylight.com), the Black community (https://firstboulevard.com), individuals interested in supporting renewable energies (https://www.tomorrow.one/en-EU/), and social media creators (https://www.trykarat.com/) have proliferated. Retail accounts catering to the unique wants and needs of software developers is a natural next step.
I'm working in a small company as it is. Quant finance is meaningless by its very nature, big company or small.
Is your work time demanding?

Why not try spending 25% of your work day on a business project you love? Make it profitable and do it full time.
> Who care about the poor, there is no money to extract from them.

There is plenty, just ask all the MLM companies, dollar stores, and payday lenders
Would you mind expanding anyways because in this form it reads like a shallow dismissal.

Why do you consider the composition of the participant group important and therefore insufficient? Stimulating the brain by ultrasound sounds like such a low level intervention that it is hard to believe that age or sex could matter a lot.
If you want I can offer a fairly straightforward path from where you are that leads to more money.

Housing and location can be solved by switching to remote and moving somewhere more rural if you're up for that.

But it sounds like you've already come to the conclusion both of those things would lead you back to where you are now.

For you friend I prescribe reading Sidartha.
This seems like this would win The Ig Noble Prize
You are like a dog with a bone. As far as I have read anywhere and the available evidence, the CIA did not provide funding, training, or material to the Taliban, and the CIA was specifically pushing to support the Northern Alliance against the Taliban. The ISI backed the Taliban before and after 9/11, both to attempt to have some control over them, and to counter Indian attempts at influence through funding the Northern Alliance. ISI’ funding and support of the Taliban in direct contradiction to US efforts is one of the reasons US-Pakistan relations are severely damaged.

None of that is to say the CIA misadventures in Afghanistan before 9/11 were somehow harmless. They handed over briefcases of cash to Jalaluddin Haqqani, who became a key ally of the Taliban and the Haqqani Network he created ended up supplying explosives to the Taliban and lauching highly successful suicide attacks on US forces in Afghanistan.

I know people like simple narratives and having someone to blame, but the situation in Afghanistan over the past 40 years is not simple and is not because of the actions of just one country.
Where do you get that idea? The third-party fabs have far greater production capacity[1]. Intel isn't even in the top five.

They're a shared resource; however, if you're willing to pay the money, you could monopolize their resources and outproduce anybody.

1 - https://epsnews.com/2021/02/10/5-fabs-own-54-of-global-semic...
“Logical fallacies”
are mostly Boolean/Aristotelian and identifying them is completely useless and/or counterproductive in 99% of real world scenarios. Most of your reasoning should be Bayesian, not Boolean, and under Bayesian reasoning a lot of “fallacies” like sunk cost, slippery slope, etc. are actually powerful heuristics for EV optimization.
Mobile OSes are unreasonable in general because you can't manage many aspects of the system, fonts being one of the most basic ones.
Microsoft have taken an unconventional position here by refusing to render the actual flags at all. Instead, you just get the country code. The Afghanistan Flag emoji in Windows 10/11 is literally just an icon that says 'AF'; same for all of the others.
I love dunkey. He comes across as a dumb YouTuber making silly videos about video games, but this was really insightful just like the majority of his videos.

As a game developer, it's a crazy world out there.
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