skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point he is quite depressed and anxious over everything. No offense, but I don't think it would be a good idea to introduce him to an Internet stranger.

I can relay his three best pieces of advice, though, all of which he related to me around the time I went to college.

1. Don't take a course where the professor wrote the book. If they knew any way to explain the material, they put it in the book, and won't be able to help you more than that.

2. People get excited about all sorts of things, and if you're reasonably friendly and available they will invite you to everything. That's not bad in itself, but you need to be selective about what you go to, or else you'll find that you never did the things that you needed to do, just the ones that you wanted to do.

3. There are lots of reversible mistakes, and others that are disastrous to try to recover from. Try to recognize your mistakes and back out of them before you hit the disaster point. Marriage is easily but painfully reversible until you have kids; then it's a disaster.
Thank you for taking the time to write this detailed response. I've been very busy, I don't want to just skim it and fire of a response after you took the time to write all that out. You are a good writer. Give me some time to respond.
There happens to be a lot of opportunity now, and lots of ponzis / scams / bubbles / etc. You're right that understanding it is needed, I've done deep dives on many projects and am doing quite well overall. Not for the faint of heart.
To be fair a massive amount of people end up with felony records based on bullshit, trumped up charges, or laws that now seem insane (selling small amounts of drugs which are now legal).
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That is precisely the point where Science ends. The notion that Science can and should provide a full account of the Universe in all its complex glory is a very strange idea, conveniently promoted by those holding the credential purse strings, aka the Science hierarchy.
It seems outrageously unfair.
> an urgency that every hobby needs to be monetized as a side gig

I noticed this effect most prominently when moving from Pittsburgh to NYC. In Pittsburgh my circle of friends generally had noncommercial side projects, weird art installations, and hobbies that had nothing to do with their day jobs and no commercial potential. In NYC my circle of friends spent a lot more time discussing how much their rent cost (more than 2-3x the cost of comparable units in Pittsburgh) and it felt like people spent a lot more time "hustling", trying to monetize their side projects, or advancing their (or their children's) chances at earning more.

I have no way of knowing if these two circles were representative, but I suspect the fact that NYC salaries are generally only ~1.5x higher than Pittsburgh salaries meant that many people had to devote more of their mental and financial resources to the cost of living.
Two weeks is how long it takes me to be somewhat recovered from work burnout, I’ve taken a much longer break and kept up productivity for the duration. You’re not wrong about the need to be mindful of habits thoughts. They’re not quite work habits, but no longer needing to spend energy maintaining work habits creates the room for me to maintain other habits instead. I do still have to be mindful of what it is I want to be achieving over a period of time and work to maintain habits that will push me towards those goals, but it’s a lot more pleasurable to get to choose on your own what those goals and habits will be.

Edit: A side note being, between the changes to work culture and me gaining the experience to be more desirable to work places, I’ve managed to move to a more flexible remote position that gives me a fair bit of control over my day to day. This has definitely increased my ability to be productive in my off time, due to the lowered stress on my general energy levels.
>> resume never parses

Every time I rewrite my CV I always think, finally it's picture perfect. Next time I revisit it, because I'm looking for another job, I always think, who the F wrote this piece of crap.

I'm either slowly making progress or I'm running in circles.
Qt still hasn't figured out to work with Windows desktop scaling. It's a nightmare on high-DPI displays. I wrestled with this 5 years ago and it's still not fixed.
I don't agree with you about that sentiment. Navalny compared middle asian immigrants to "cockroaches" and "rotten tooth". Just because Navaly is anti-Putinist doesn't allow him to say such disgusting things.
Everyone who works in the digital economy is avoiding taxes because of its nature. Nomads do it themselves, while big tech corporates do it for their workers.
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Try cutefish! It’s somewhat rudimentary still, but looks great, stays out of the way, works great for me
What's the quote? Knowledge can be taught. Wisdom can't be taught or told... it can only be learned through experience?

Edit: Ah, found it.

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it." - Siddhartha
How many times faster is an O(n) algorithm over a O(n^2) squared algorithm?

How many times faster is a developer who can write a compiler over one who can not?

We are at least consistent; I rather frequently see programmers claiming a "105 times faster!" benchmark that was actually the result of a fundamental complexity change.

Not everything is on a linear scale.
Exactly! They don't have to spend thousands on a super spiffy custom job if they don't want to. These days, if they can pay rent on their building or buy equipment for their business, they can afford a few bucks and depending on how much effort they want to put in, they can put up some basic info on SimpleSite, Wix, the managed Wordpress.com or something similar.
I used to use it some years back when I was still on Windows and using Chrome. It was pretty good for a Windows environment. For a Linux/Mac environment, it doesn't come close to a proper terminal emulator. It'll do the job, but I recall there were a few things that were annoying.
I literally did this too. Moved to Austin, TX and bought a farm after I quit my last full-time job. Went back to school to get an associates in construction management instead of actually learning the job (sounds like I should've gone your route). Anyway, graduating this semester then working full time to build up the raw land and get animals to keep my ag-exemption. Long-term I'd want to hire a farm-hand to keep everything going day-to-day so I can travel.

I've sort of conned myself into thinking I could start some solo projects on my own in the past 6 months, but it just hasn't happened due to classes and a myriad of distractions. Recently I've been beating myself up a bit for it, but I know that isn't productive. Once I solve a few ongoing projects in my life and I get things moving a bit faster for the farm I'll start keeping to a strict schedule of farming from 6-9am, then going to my coworkspace and code until maybe 3pm, then work out, then either socialize/read or go to a local hackerspace and work on side-projects.

Medium/long term it's important to me to not just live off of my savings and to generate enough value (not off investments) to maintain my quality of life.
Asians are not genetically more intelligent than other races. If this were the case, Asia would be more of a powerhouse than just the "factory workers of the world". Only a small amount of innovation is coming out of Asia compared to the US.

Asians in the US are more motivated to study, it's the culture. It doesn't take a lot of dedication to studying to get a major advantage over those that don't study as hard.
> Now, I move away from fact to my perspective.

I mean, the majority of your prose comes after your description of facts, and details your pet theory on how advantageous Asian culture and parenting is an adequate explanation for the effect sizes we're seeing — that a very poor demographic in NYC would come to fulfill the plurality of NYC's gifted and talented program.

And something about how Asians come from 2000 years of test taking, so they're really good at tests (but not necessarily "good")?
Trump DC hotel incurred more than $70M in losses while Trump was POTUS
The effect can be strong, actually, for a number of possible reasons. Let me start by saying nobody is 100% positive quite yet, but the response is "much larger than expected".

I started to write out a long response about b cells and such, but it's easier to read the articles that explain it with prettier pictures then I do:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj2258

The short version of mechanism is: When you are infected, your body preemptively guesses at what variants might occur and makes memory b-cells that can recognize them. When you later are vaccinated, it discovers which ones were "right" and generates an impressive response.

Beyond that, in some sense, it makes intrinsic sense - your body really does cost-benefit because of how many foreign bodies it has to deal with anyway - it initially treats it like any other infection, does the simplest, least energy thing it will take to get rid of it, and moves on. When it gets "reinfected" later, it tries a lot harder to not have it happen again because the threat seems higher.
I personally compare cooking time to time to go out end-to-end. Even with fast food, you have to drive to the pickup window, wait for the food, etc. It’s easily 10 minutes and you have to do it 1-2 times a day, so 2-3 hours a week. I’ve had fast food joints take 20 minutes to make the food, too.

I don’t think most people analyze the cost like this and they probably like restaurant food more.

It’s like spending “just 10 minutes” on HN everyday, adding up to something significant by the end of the week.
I'm a bit of a finance noob; is there any practical way to enter a long-term short position on usdt that would actually be redeemable if the Bitcoin ecosystem were to collapse after its downfall?
The deadline is still immovable. Yes, you've planned with a buffer, but you're still betting the farm that ultimately, it will come out in time to capture that business.

And Black Friday season is large enough (30% of annual retail) that you might well try for a farm-sized bet. Been there. Done that. Had the conversations around risk.

It is both "it must be operational by this day, or huge losses" and "we would rather not ship your effort than ship it between Black Friday and Christmas".
> Someone will post a new coin and half the comments look like bots and shills loving the tech and the use cases

Oh yeah, cryptocurrency classic - just look at the outcome of this thread, basically no solid solution backed up by majority of responders, almost every response links to different shiny landing page with plenty of buzzwords.
Any idea why? I've heard Windows OpenGL drivers are less performant, especially AMD's, could that be part of the reason?
I do think that it depends on the person. Some stories are meant to be told in movies. But if the story is interactive and choices matter, then it's perfect with video games.
35y+ here, i just sent him something along:

"software is communication, made by people, for people"

(which is more or less what you say :)

With all the consequences.
Most people, on either side, don't get it. Ever.
Kinda got the okay to move around during covid from past companies. We both have changed jobs since and said, "We've been doing this for over a year with no issue" and new companies were okay with it.
There's some conclusions that I disagree with here assuming the same starting facts. Also, I think calling things "racist" or "segregated" usually ends critical thinking because they have the same emotional label as the initial definition (systematic differences in treatment due to skin color) even as the definitions have expanded (systematic differences in outcomes, independent of cause).

Let's presume that intelligence is heritable. Given the difference between humans and other species I do not see how this can be argued.

Let's also presume that intelligence varies between humans. If there is no variation across a population, then it cannot be selected for, unless you argue a stepwise change that's completely uniform, for which I don't see any other evolutionary proxy.

Let's NOT presume that intelligence varies between races.

My question to you is this:

Can the children of a group of humans selected for intelligence (e.g. completed enough education despite a cultural revolution, had enough finances, etc. -- Asians; escaped systematic genocide, etc. -- Jews) be, on average and not uniformly and with lots of overlap, smarter than the children of a group of humans not selected for intelligence (e.g. sold by other Africans into slavery, so presumably disadvantaged in the original African society, lower-educational-barrier illegal immigration as with many Central and South Americans)?

Note for the purposes of this question that reproduction within each group (Asian immigrants : Asian immigrants; Jews : Jews; African-Americans : African-Americans; Hispanics : Hispanics) is much larger than reproduction between groups, preventing admixing over time.
Sinophobia and Covid-19 Vaccines in Vietnam
We have had 16 people hired in under a year and without a website at that time.

Companies will hire if you use your network to make it happen.
A better way to phrase this is that there is always room for improvement but we don't have infinite time. Deciding what to improve when is a skill.
20+ years and I concur.

Improvements in my "soft skills" have carried me further than any technical learning.
What a depressing reaction to adversity. An alternative reaction is to try and figure out why nobody cared, and get better at expressing yourself in ways that people will care.
Same with planes. How on earth do two tiny planes manage to enter the exact same point in space and time in that gigantic sky?! It happens.
funny reading stories like this as someone who grew up on a farm and knows how much hard work it is, I would drive tractors, feed cows, pull in hay, silage etc on evenings and weekends and even before school when required, from around age 11... I studied maths/sci and went into computing, and am now again coming full circle with vertical farming and controlled environments!
Traditional farming is so much better for the planet than intensive farming, however, I believe it takes a certain type of person and mentality to get through it. It really is a lifestyle choice!
I have also wondered how much easier farming could be if the farm didn't actually need to generate money to survive...
You've got a nice LAMP there, can I come in?
This is related to some issue with Safari's new WebGL 2 implementation they shipped recently[1]. Currently we disable the webgl renderer on Safari inside github.dev/codespaces to work around this.

[1]: https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/3357
oh hmmm then why are so many PMs at FAANG from GSB/Booth/HBS/Wharton/Kellog etc? seems maybe you're just wishfully thinking
So gold flooring is too much, but gold toilets and water faucets are acceptable. Nice to know where the "too much/too far" line is.
The "MVP" or "strawman" is incredibly valuable; people can't tell a blank sheet of paper what they want, but if you show them a thing they'll tell you what's wrong with it.

I've noticed myself that I can happily write detailed comments on HN or StackOverflow but have no inclination for blog posts, for that kind of self-content-marketing that seems to be popular these days.
You might be interested in different fermentation processes. A friend of mine has wild fermented, at pressure and low temperature (55F I think), a mix of Mac and Ida Red that ended up tasting delicious. He chucked in about half the campden tablets you'd need at his volume to leave some natural yeasts. The cider started off tasting sweet and being a good competitor for a Magners, and eventually became this very clear/tart flavor.

He uses a fancy and expensive SS Brewtech vessel and glycol chiller. I'm interested in duplicating some of this process using cornelius (corny) kegs with a spunding valve and possibly a used mini-fridge or basement for temperature control.
Aukus: Impact on Indo-Pacific Security Dynamics
It seems to be grabbing the MacOS system recovery images straight off of Apple's servers.
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"Wisdom can't be taught or told... it can only be learned through experience"

I recently had the thought, that good education guides you to certain experiences to really learn the subject and not memorize some definitions.
I don't think so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world
It’s sad this is needed in an analogous way it is sad that foster parents are needed.

Yes there is an ideal solution of having lots of volunteers to speak with the children, but ask yourself: how many people reading HN today do you think have volunteered in a hospital in the last year?

The world can be a harsh place, and we should consider whether we are resisting improvement under the given ground truth for the sake of the ideal.
> 4. The best code is no code, or code you don’t have to maintain

> 17. Keep your processes as lean as possible

> 20. Always strive to build a smaller system

He stops just short of saying it, but IMO a program with fewer lines of code is almost always better. You can write your Java in Python and have it be 1/5th the lines. You can drop the classes and use functions and save some lines.

Exceptions to this rule only happen because lines of code isn't an infallible measure of "size" or complexity.

> Project size is easily the most significant determinant of effort, cost and schedule

https://blog.codinghorror.com/diseconomies-of-scale-and-line...

This comes to mind after having written some short pieces of code which get "improved" by others. But all they did was move things into different files and turn some functions into classes. As though what makes good code is trivially wrapping everything in a class. I can't understand it.
I'm not trying to say that Austin isn't expensive because of course it is.

I'll simply state that I would never consider working for Tesla before, but now I would be open to it.

Travis County is pricey but it isn't too long of a drive to get to pretty cheap real estate.
Some people simply don't have a choice of whether to work or not... The difference is between being home and being homeless.

A lot of the posts in here are based on a singular view and it worries me.

Only some of us are very fortunate to be in a position where we can simply quit our job or pivot to a new way of life, but the majority of people in the world cannot do that and survive well. We should never forget the need to be able to consider walking in the shoes of others.
We Cannot Agree on Anything
1. This would require testing tons of people for antibody response all the time. That seems hard. We do at least have antibody tests that will test for infection vs vaccination.

2. If you are going to go this far, you'd also want the "vaccinated but had no effect" group.

The vaccine will not generate an immune response (or an effective one) in everyone, that's just how it works.

So the vaccinated group (and "breakthrough cases") include some percent of people who were vaccinated, but it didn't really do anything to them.

You'd want to know this number, because you want to know things like "how many breakthrough cases are people where the vaccine had no real effect vs people where the vaccine generated an effective antibody response, but not against this variant"

Especially because the "breakthrough" rate is small.
For ones who don't know context, Russians from both spectrum are really bad in terms of approach to immigrants. You don't hear it because immigrants doesn't have enough hold in media. However in everyday life, even the most liberal Russian can easily scorn and discriminate immigrants by saying that they are "blacks"(chyornie) and "churka".
China and Taiwan have each applied for CPTPP
https://anonweblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/untitled-cyberpunk-w...

“ Carrying an Ultra Laser Umbrella, he walked out of the garage the car humming as it polished, into the dark rain outside in the alley. A cloud of mist covered the man, as his umbrella tracked every raindrop that would make contact with the man and instantly evaporated them before they could get the man wet.”

Published 14 years ago
Best I can tell it's extremely situational. Depends on the person and also family/kids/environment.

A friend cashed out mid 40s but is the kind of person who doesn't stop. Did real estate, baking, landscape, had a kid, seems up for anything and quite content.

A another is wealthy enough to stop working at anytime but doesn't want to retire.

I slowly slid into retirement in mid 30s. Started out great. I sometimes work part-time and program for fun a bit. But when kid #2 and #3 came it was very difficult for me. Being retired was the saving grace that made it work at all. Now things are slowly getting better.

For me a normal day is 4-5 hours for kids, 1-2 hours walking/biking, 2-3 hours reading/programming/working. Then there is always something (doc appt, car repair, house stuff) in there somewhere.

Best part is the flexibility to do things during weekdays. Meet with friend/family for lunch, random escape room, errands.

Worst part is not having the camaraderie of good coworkers working together. I had one job that was great in that respect and gave me lasting friends. Other jobs not at all.

Financial freedom is amazing but everyone handles it differently. Best advice I have is if retirement is an option see if you can try it for 3-12 months.
Faulty premises often hide behind metaphors.

What does "got a golden ticket" mean? On merit?
Somebody else already opened an issue https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/issues/70
Lumina is another option
Your insertion of the word "critical" is making a strawman out of the assertion you replied to.
Huh. Surprised do see such low numbers for 40+ nomads. I would have thought the post-family-raising mid-life crisis would be the perfect kick starter for a nomadic career.
Your comment about Ruby is actually referring to the Rails framework. It also suffers for the slur.
Based on my experience dealing with offices of software engineers versus actual corporate HQs for companies that aren't purely software, it really won't matter.

Employees at corporate HQ's tend to want to have houses in the burbs. They tend to be in there 30s and up as well. There is no shortage of suburban real estate in the vicinity of the gigafactory. A minority of employees will live in downtown Austin and hate their life due to the horrific commute out of there.
>The hiring of an elite MBA over (2) encourages an elitism that disadvantages minorities and hinders social equality that socially aware tech companies seek to combat.

This is a feature of the system, not a bug. Elite MBA's serve as a class signifier, and not much more.
Felt F5 with a Burly Honey Bee, my 1yo included, behind. My Lady on an Orbea, my 3yo on his Cleary Gecko unless it’s a longer ride.

This setup handles a lot, park trips, grocery runs.

But alas we’re in the Carolinas and use cars once or twice a week. Subaru Forrester for air conditioning, and an old Chevy crew cab truck for working the bees.

In a miles to miles comparison, a truck is terrible for commuting, but thankfully that isn’t happening. For projects and camping the truck is really great to have.
It's not just commercial interests but government too. In my native New Zealand I've seen government officials directing people to FB for public health information. Is the same information available on their own website? Difficult to tell given how many of the .govt.nz sites just aggregate links back to Facebook.
Another Excel one; highlight the row/column (headers and/or frames.background of the row/column) where the currently active/selected cell is.
Shades of NCR vs. IBM, to call back to an even older school acronym pissing match.