skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"while humans have succeeded in harnessing the power of fusion in uncontrolled reactions such as hydrogen bombs, harnessing it on a small scale has proved elusive"

That's fission, not fusion...
let's agree to disagree here. my ideal world is probably a lot messier than you'd be happy with considering.
For me, I've started feeling like I'm close to burnout. But quitting doesn't really seem like a helpful option.

Could I actually take months off recovering? No. I'd have to immediately start leetcoding and remembering what all those trees are for so that I could become employed again later on. And risk having to take a job that pays way less than before.

Which brings me to my main point: I don't see an option where the work ever actually truly ends. There's always more. Always things I need to be doing. And until I have enough to retire, I have to keep grinding.

Vacation doesn't help. It just puts me farther behind.
You are correct, unfortunately.

FreeBSD has one WiFi driver ("iwm", or on Haiku we call it "idualwifi7260") that supports 802.11ac hardware, and supposedly the 802.11 stack is ready for ac (there is an out-of-tree driver that crashes a lot but does get ac speed), but nobody added ac support to the "iwm" driver.

Actually both my laptop and desktop use that driver, so who knows, maybe I'll poke at adding 802.11ac support to it one of these days.
>calling people nuts is a sure fire way to solve this problem

I tried to emphasize that this is a very small slice of the population. They get kicked out of the village because there's no other way to solve the problem. Or at the very least, the village lacks the resources and talent to solve it. Human psychology is still a huge mystery. Ideally, everyone gets free, assessible mental health care, but ideally people would also wear a mask so they don't die/have others die. We're far from Paradise.

>I’m vehemently pro-vax but there are as many idiots on both sides of this issue as there are non-idiots.

I fully agree with this, and I much too often see people trying to cast this as a "all conservatives are antivaxx" issue, which is such a broad stroke that you may as well just say "anyone who doesn't agree with all my world views".

That is not who I mean when I say "nuts". Not the people genuinely misinformed (often by nuts), not the people who may have reasonable hesitations or doubts about certification of a new medical product. And certainly not "people who aren't my political party" (yes, everything is Red's fault. How productive). To be honest, not even the people high up who KNOW they are spouting BS or citizens who know the dangers but "want freedom" (they aren't crazy, that's just malicious and greedy at that point. different topic altogether).

But there are just some few people who genuinely seem unhinged and just want to latch onto something that feels relatable, even at the own health's expense. Those are the nuts gathering together. And this is far from the first time. Just the most potentially impactful.
I'm not… not anymore… after observing stuff like this. Like Joe, like some of his guests, like the results of how things have shaken out.

Notably, free speech absolutism is impossible to refute if everyone is arguing in good faith. Since quite a few influential political actors are demonstrably not, and are following well-defined tactics dating back to various fascist regimes such as those who produced WWII, it is insane to pretend everyone is arguing in good faith.

And it is both instructive and dismaying to see that the people most obviously arguing in bad faith have a tendency to insist, and get others to insist, that free speech must be absolute and that everyone must be taken with the assumption that they're arguing in good faith.

Tactically, it makes perfect sense, but it's a hell of an exploit.
If you fall into the *Big-Ass Text File* approach, I would recommend Dendron.so
It's an open source plaintext based note taking tool that runs inside VSCode with the option to add additional structure to your text using schemas (think type system but for your notes)

(disclaimer: I'm the founder)
Timely article.

I'm unhappy at my job and yesterday I decided that I am going to quit my job at the end of the year and work on my startup idea full time. This morning I woke up in a panic of what the hell am I thinking.

After I calmed down a bit I realized I hadn't actually done anything yet. I sat down and thought about it for a bit and realized that I am not in a good environment for myself. I could just get another job, but I think I'm ready to start working for myself. It is something that I've wanted to do my entire career.

Now I've got experience, and I have enough savings that I can take some risk. I've got a little over 100 days until I need to give notice. So I am going to spend a little bit of time everyday working on my plan.
Industry loves recycling / crushing machines because it removes working inventory from circulation. It's a very simple tactic to boost sales and the exact opposite of what is ecological.

Reuse, reduce, recycle.
I understand that not every tech job is paying SV wages. For a while I was earning 60k CAD and was still able to save up a good chunk of change. One thing to bear in mind is that if you voluntarily take a stint of unemployment you should probably see your expenses go down a fair bit as you'll have time to cook from scratch more often and will probably go off daily expenses like coffee.

Being able to voluntarily not work in your early twenties would be pretty spectacular - but once you start building a bit of a nest egg you should be able to afford short stints.
US plans Covid-19 booster shots at six months instead of eight - WSJ
Interesting, i've always had the experience with Apple that if it was within the 2 week or 30 day(im too lazy to go check) period of having received the device, if there was any issue at all, they'd basically just give you a new one on the spot / take a refund and just buy the exact same model.
Edit: YMMV, i might just have been lucky and been dealt with by a very kind apple employee
They are much more structured than mere delimitation. That's the whole point
Google is not allowed to prevent employees from organizing with each other and from collectively bargaining with Google, regardless of whether that ends up preventing business deals.

Making a business deal is not an excuse for breaking the law.
They don't, they dont show it on tv or print or news websites.
It also coincided with me canceling my Spotify account.
Visualising the modem dial-up tones/sounds
Lots of services are advertised that way. It's probably half the ads I encounter on YouTube.
I'm unreasonably excited for this dumb thing. I'm a big fan of Game & Watch games and can't wait for my pre-order to get fulfilled.
We have hundreds of engineers at work who all use the same apps on latest MacBook Pros.

There have been zero reports of widespread lagging which clearly indicates that there is some problem with your setup. IntelliJ is the likely candidate especially if you are doing Scala or Kotlin development.
Poster made $0.17 on day one of being a qualified revenue earning partner.

I mean, golly. What a lark.
/s
I'm the same way. I used to listen to Stern on the radio for my morning drive but never considered for a second going satellite when he did. There were plenty of options.
It doesn't stop you either.
There also hasn't been a precedent for a platform that has a large userbase spending hundreds of millions of dollars on sex workers being abruptly cut off by payment providers with no other recourse to processing payments from their userbase.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t know what your full situation is, but if possible highly recommend you start taking steps to give yourself more options/breathing room

Start saving a cushion for yourself/your family. Start with a month, then try to get to 3-6. Might have to cut down on some things but those will be important discussions to have.

Try to find something else outside of work that you enjoy. I know this can be hard, as I didn’t have anything before either. I now have a small revenue generating side product which in many ways is just “more work”, but I’m passionate about it
https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/
> That's fine. An uneducated guy bringing on other uneducated guys that talk about something as if they're experts.

I’m not sure that’s distinct from the internet commentariat here or elsewhere.
It is not our fingers that will be crushed but our necks.
I'll echo others here; Obsidian is an amazing tool. For those who are curious about Obsidian, I recently created a YouTube video series for my graduate students titled "Tools for the Life of the Mind." [0] It covers some philosophical points about flow and focus, then dives into reading and note-taking and then covers a few tools like Evernote, Scrivener, Zotero, and Obsidian. Video 13 covers a workflow for migrating Zotero highlights and notes into Obsidian, which I found buried in the Obsidian forums. Completing this missing link has been a game-changer for my research workflow.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHmevVAAXtu3_beDLtsTm...
The 5 Ws (and 1 H) that should be asked of every project (2018)
> I heard him be anything less than a thoughtful, critical interviewer.

He is the least critical interviewer you can imagine. Being uncritical and hyped up is his trademark. He is Mr. Softball to the extent he is made of fun for it.

He is not thoughtful. He has talent of speaking endlessly and keeping it going endlessly.
State that it is a well designed privacy invading device?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Zaharoff
LED streetlights decimating moth numbers in England
Great point and thank you for the kind feedback! The truth is all states (and cities within some states) are very different in their process for adopting new vendors. Funding per pupil in Southern states also varies greatly. For instance Florida and Texas are pretty well funded compared to other states in the South. We have only now started entering some state/cities outside of NYCDOE so i don’t feel I can give you the most scientific answer here (yet), except to say that all districts are kinda different (as I’m aware you already know). Any feedback or ideas are welcome!
I like this analysis and categorization. Does it originate with you?
And we can't forget about Rogan's thought-provoking segment with the DN guy.
The author seems unaware that their problem isn’t burnout. That’s a symptom. Their problem is a failure to set boundaries. Without boundaries they’ll just hit the wall again. Over and over.
Yeah I feel the same way. I work a stressful job that pays really well. If I leave, its unlikely I can land a job that pays the same. I just dont have the energy for leetcode. I am considering taking FMLA time off, which can be three months of unpaid time off. Just need a note from the doctor. I think three months is about enough to cure mildly bad burnout.

Of course work will not be happy with me, but I have to lookout for myself. They have to honor my position upon return, the question being that my future on the team would be compromised.

A more sinister idea is to take FMLA and leetcode full time for three months, then land a new role. Its kind of unethical, but life is so short.
There's so much wrong with all of this.
First automation of surveillance. I know Apple is not the first, but having private companies slowly treating all its customers as suspect is really wrong. We're not talking of someone suspected, with targeted surveillance. We're talking about everybody, USSR style. I don't care that it's automated.
We can go through the safeguards that Apple put in place.
Second hash? Seems that's just make it more costly to generate a collision, it's absolutly not a guarantee.
Human verification step? Just look at the shitshow of apple store review and how incompetent Apple is at dealing with this stage, that makes it even worse and more arbitrary.
There's nothing to defend at all in this whole thing. What Apple is putting in place is dangerous. Using pedopornography as an excuse to set a global surveillance system is horrible.
> but the image itself is not CP and would be quickly proven as such assuming you have a halfway competent lawyer.

Lawyers aren’t always doing their maximum. It doesn’t matter that they get paid, you also have to be among their top important customers, just like aircon repairmen.

Also, the picture is not CP but by that time, the phone is already entirely searched.
Windows Refund Day
I'm disappointed that Spotify in particular is going through this. They had a best-in-class user experience just a few short years ago.
The CDC has been an embarrassment. No emphasis on protecting the most vulnerable.
And every person you don't infect?
wrong. vaccinated people carry the same viral load as unvaccinated. that’s why vaccinated have to wear masks.
This was a computing paper trying to prod for security holes, not a political statement. It's not relevant the device itself might be problematic, only that it's security is sound.
ITT we express confusion that stooges in academia don't outrank judges and aren't above laws.
Ask HN: Dealing with Family Loss
I work in a Fortune 500 tech company in the Bay Area. Recently, I lost my mother to COVID in my home country and had to visit home to perform the funeral etc. Also, I have a young family here in the CA with a 3 year old child in autism spectrum.

I am feeling overwhelmed by the whole situation and need some guidance/pointers on how to cope with this. My spouse is very supportive but we both need some kind of professional help to avoid burnout. Any advice/help would be totally appreciated. Thanks hackers.
Yeah, that's why I assumed it wouldn't help that much. People re-upload 100kB memes all the time, but the bulk would probably be 5MB phone pictures that won't typically be re-uploaded.
But who actually cares? I don't understand the point of your objection. Are you saying that privileged people shouldn't talk to each other about their problems, because those conversations won't be relatable to people without those privileges? Should people who can walk never talk about walking because other people can't walk?

That being said, it's definitely better for poor people to become unemployed against their will, because then they can get unemployment.
> For a while I was earning 60k CAD and was still able to save up a good chunk of change.

Also keep in mind that stateside, a giant portion of expenses you would have to take into account while unemployed are what you intend to do about health insurance.
I like the characterization that Andrej Bauer uses: "while relates to goto, as effect handlers to shift/reset" :-)

That is, you indeed need delimited continuations to implement effect handlers, but they have more structure than, say, shift/reset. In particular, instead of being able to just yield (shift) with any function to an innermost context (reset), you can only perform a certain set of operations that are handled by a function defined in the handler.

This gives various advantages, in particular,

- you can give simple types to effect handlers (while shift/reset for example needs an answer type system), and you can use fine grained effect typing (instead of just a "shift" effect, you have "<exn,console>" effects)

- you can do better reasoning as the set of operations is restricted

- and (as a consequence) you have more opportunity to optimize them. In particular, tail-presumptive operations can be implemented to execute "in-place" without capturing the continuation for example.

- finally, different effect handlers are compositional and can be combined freely (unlike shift/reset; for example shift aways shifts to the innermost reset so we cannot compose arbitrarily compose with multiple resets).
I have worked with MODLR [1] for data modelling for a FP&A solution and highly recommend it. Its a complete platform, not just a visualization tool.

[1] - https://modlr.co
He saved up that money by working in a job that pays a lot but induces burnout. It's not really all that much of a privilege.
Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity
Maybe it's different in some parts of the world, but at least in the US, the scenario described by the parent will not be covered by the warranty, and you will have to pay for it:

> It's $200 for a 2015 MacBook Pro for Apple to replace the battery.
Comedy is a profession. Professionals should take their job seriously. Just because the product is fun and games doesn’t mean social responsibility ends.
I'm in the depths of this, have been since March (this last time).

I now spend most of my time fighting a pitched battle with myself, in order make baby steps in the direction of work.
But, I get stuck when it's time to actually submit a resume or contact a hiring manager. My biggest sticking point right now is preparing a convincing story for the interviewers. I'm just not ready to bullshit strangers about lofty 'career goals' or how excited I am to be a part of their 'company's growth journey'.

Taking time off has helped, but it's also run its course: I've done this so many times now, I can no longer convince myself that next job won't lead me back here.
Probably gaslight their users for the next 4 years and then backflip with a Key Note saying how they are revolutionising privacy by removing it
What sort of projects are those? Not software I assume? I've yet to work on a project in my life which remained in the initial scope. Plus debugging seemingly trivial bugs can take entire work days.
That's a hell of a lot better than what we get now which is "we'll pick a single expert and nobody is allowed to question him because we know that his truth is the right truth."
Labor must not be so fearful; play it close to your chest and cover your tracks. Change jobs if it works out, otherwise stay at current position and nobody is the wiser.
Out of curiosity, how long did it take you before you felt like you were back to your "normal" self?

I'm currently in the same position, and like the author of this blog, started my "burnout" recognition (followed by recovery) around end of November 2020 (first time experiencing burn out). I've since switched employers, and although I'm still way better than before, I don't feel my normal, creative, resilient and excited self. Minor set backs feel like the end of the world. I'm now having to battle with imposter syndrome, and I'm not sure whether this is part of the journey.
How is the storage accessed by the compute nodes? Do only some nodes get direct access and the rest need to use nfs or something?
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28265975
>I wonder how differently things would be going if the campaign was "Covid is here to stay. You will get it. Get vaccinated."

I actually heard someone say that today, but I don't remember where. Maybe Breaking Points, but not sure.

I was certainly rattled when I saw amateur video of hospital workers stacking bodies in a freezer truck in NYC. They should do more like that. As morbid as it is, it gets the point across.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/disturbing-footage-shows-dead-...

This wasn't the one I saw but you get the idea.
She has her resume on her site. She was only unemployed for four months. While I'm sure a lot of people can't afford that, it's a lot easier in the more common dual earner households these days. It took me about 7 months after leaving the Army before I finally accepted a job offer, and my wife ended up unemployed for 5 months a few years later. Both of those were possible because we had each other.

Of course, I understand that is still a privilege many don't have, and this woman worked for McKinsey as her first job, so I'm sure she's making a lot more money than I am.
HBM stack is no thicker than any other silicon. You can see this with HBM GPU's.
This is not constructive feedback for a Show HN thread.
We interviewed a lot candidates this way and yes all of them were employed full-time. None of the candidates we interviewed worked directly in our specific industry, so as long as they didn't work on company time of their current employer, there was no conflict.

Our time limit of 20 hours or less, also helps. The hours could be spread over many weeks if needed to ensure there wasn't a conflict.

That said, it's not unheard of that some employees have more strict contracts such as yourself and we certainly would have had to pass on those candidates or find another way to evaluate them.

We also had the luxury of being a fully distributed team (pre-covid), so collaboration could happen during the candidates off hours, with a team member that was working.
The settings in my app can be customized to make it as minimalist as needed (like hide favicons, hide the metadata, only show titles etc). There’s also settings for color choices and a setting to use lower contrast text. Font sizes and paragraph spacing can be changed to make it more compact. My app has a built in adblocker too for the built in browser.

My app has reply push notifications too which I don’t think any of the other HN apps have.

As for the font, Product Sans is not legally allowed to be used by third parties as far as I am aware:

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/102262/can...

My app allows you to change fonts too and it supports Montserrat font which looks visually similar to Product Sans.
I've often wondered if there are perceptual illusions for blind people: Maybe a physical cafe wall would feel like the rows weren't parallel.
Arcadia (Film)
AFAICT, these companies don't really promote within a title - they use a leveling system. The definition of a promotion is to move from one level to another.

Vague job titles like "senior" or "junior" can be useful in limited circumstances, but if a company can promote you within the same title, it's a bit of a smell.
Is an Exoskeleton Suit in Your Future?
Interesting, i ve heard it more used to refer to prostitution -- do ,e.g. strippers count as sex workers? Also, even that article is confusing, for example it says that sex work is prohibited in most of the world, but camming is legal almost everywhere.
Sometimes your manager is trying to build the kind of career within the company that he or she thinks you want, and not one you actually want. The problem is, if you push back things can go too far in the wrong direction.
First, places with high vaccination rates are crushing it. There basically isn't a fourth wave in Waterloo Region [1], and we have 85% one dose, 78% two doses at present.

Second, those predictions were made ahead of a year of mutation— delta in particular.

[1]: https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/health-and-wellness/posit...
CDC is working with limited information on a novel virus. As they are learning more they are shifting their guidance to match the current understanding about how the virus spreads.
If you look again, you'll see that it was/is in the list.

However, thanks for commenting - noone else bothered.
But that’s like saying it’s ok for banks to sell everyone’s bank account transactions because it’ll catch those pesky criminals when they make a transaction.

Why should everyone be surveillance for catching the minority who do the wrong thing. It’s not about whether anyone cares about atok1’s data specifically right now.
> don't see an option where the work ever actually truly ends. There's always more. Always things I need to be doing. And until I have enough to retire, I have to keep grinding.

There's always another possibility: you might die. And then what would happen to the poor work?
I recently interviewed some PhDs, postdocs, and professors for whom powerpoint was used as a tool for thought as well.
So he was a unicorn? A startup valued at a billion dollars was supposed to be so rare that it’s a unicorn, and now people are doing that with a microphone in a cave ;) (or little more, but technically he’s one voice).
Thanks for the idea. I will research F droid and put it on there.