skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, they have a cheaper version that includes subscription but if you pay the normal price then there is no subscription.
I'm not OP but when I quit my job earlier this year I went with a plan from the healthcare marketplace. It's not cheap, but that's the reality of US health care.

COBRA is also an option for a limited amount of time after leaving.
>Like, how Linux DEs change their standard APIs so often that unless you've targeted X, it sucks?

AFAIK that's mostly a GNOME issue, so despite it wrongly, IMO, being the default and the most popular DE of the Linux distros for some reason, I wouldn't throw mud on the whole Linux DE ecosystem because of it alone.

KDE, LXQT, LXDE and XFCE seem to have their shit together for the most part.
May I suggest that if there is a book you've always wanted to read now might be a time you could really enjoy it!
With respect, this feels like whataboutery. "To be fair" makes it sound like cars speeding past cyclists is a response to cyclists whipping between lines of cars, but they're entirely separate issues and can both be wrong at the same time without needing to be compared to each other.
>60 hour weeks at 39K amounts

39k is my base, at 40 hours a week. The 60+ hours a week, 6 days a week, is more a commentary on how my industry is completely slammed and people are quitting left and right just creating more work for those of us that are still there making work even less enjoyable. Add to that this is our traditional peak where it is already our busiest time of the year.

The OT is about the only nice thing right now, but when I'm on like week 30ish of it with literally no end in sight, it stops being nice too.
Onyx make great devices. Running android means it has access to all kindle features via the Kindle app, plus anything else the android store or internet have to offer (I play sudoku on mine often).
Have fun reading Infinite Jest. I mean it seriously but it's a lot of book.
The fact that products generally still work when your support contract runs out.
In fact, it has more imposed structure, exactly because of the unreasonably restrictive zoning laws in the US. Allow more variety and you get more choice.
https://archive.md/cCQ3p
Mostly positive experiences here. Would be interesting to hear from some for whom it didn't go so well...
Maybe some sort of artist? I’m sure there’s someone out there who likes to live like that.
After skimming half the thread and only seeing one view (DO IT! It’s GREAT!), I’m going to throw this out there:

- You will have heavy selection bias here (people who did not succeed might be working at a crappier job and unable to comment at this moment)

- You will also have confirmation bias among those who willingly quit (“of course it was the right move”)

- You are asking a very unique set of people with very valuable skills in high demand (you may fall into this category, but worth keeping in mind)

- The last 10 years has been a historic bull market and hard to fail in if you fall into the last category. We don’t know what the future brings (Not knowing what the future holds has been true every year of the last 10 years, especially January 2020. But I bring it up to say past results from others in this thread do not guarantee future performance for you).

All in all, if you are financially stable or have a supportive safety net, it seems like a potentially good risk to take. It also looks like you should have a strong plan to do something (hobby, hike, or work in another capacity). If you don’t, you may just stagnate and waste some of your prime years for growth and development.

But absolutely - if you have support and a plan, you keep the downsides in mind (it will be painful at times, and not roses and butterflies the whole way through), then sure - give it a shot. If you are growing and developing skills in a field you don’t care about, you should definitely change it up.

Reframing it - nearly everyone who goes to grad school full time quits their job (or takes a leave). Quitting to do your own thing, as long as you show employers why you did it in a year or two, shouldn’t be a detriment for getting rehired. That said, hiring managers may question if you’d quit again in a year (depending on your past employment tenure)…
Absolutely true, and that's happened to me plenty of times too. There's definitely a trigger in the minds of some drivers where seeing a cyclist means that they need to overtake them because the vast majority of the time the cyclist isn't going to be near the speed limit.
I did it once. Did absolutely nothing of value for 8 months and went back to work. I had savings so I was ok financially. Mostly played games and watched movies. Traveled a bit. Didn't realize I needed it until I was doing it.

I think I will do it every 5 years of work.
And if you're talking about an individual making a decision to eat a lobster or not, or to kill it by jabbing a knife in its brain instead of boiling it alive sure. The cost of doing one of the other is virtually nothing, so why not do the one that involves less suffering.

But when you're talking about directing government agencies to police an entire country and inspect places to make sure they aren't boiling lobsters alive and levying and collecting fines if they are, now maybe there's something better we could be doing with that effort.
> How about they actually combat COVID first? Like, without needing to re-take them every few months.

I sense some frustration behind that comment.

Two points

1) We don't see a decrease in Vaccine Effectiveness for Covid. The headlines you see confuse efficacy with effectiveness. There's no meaningful way to directly measure effectiveness and therefore, some studies use anti-bodies as a proxy. However, it should be noted that just because you do not have anti-bodies doesn't mean the effectiveness is reduced. The human body (T-Cells, B-Cells) are able to produce anti-bodies "on demand" as and when required.

2) The non-mRNA vaccines also reduce efficacy and we don't stop researching their benefits on other viruses. So, both of them are not mutually exclusive.
This is a great time to be solo building your company. Most of the services have generous free tier. These are the ones I use personally.

* Hosting + DNS with AWS & Cloudflare
* Code with GitHub and mirror to GitLab
* Domain with Godaddy
* Transactional emails with PostMark
* Errors with Sentry
* Docs, Mail, Calendar with Google Workspace
One that pays me a decent wage and doesn't go 13 years without a cost-of-living increase. My income has been effectively as stagnant as the federal minimum wage, you can hope for (some years) a 2-3% merit-based increase and that is it which usually a good chunk of gets eaten up by just insurance cost increases.

Like - I sit up at night worrying about "what about when I need a new car, we need a new roof, the well pump fails, we need a new well drilled" because my savings rate shrinks each year as my dollar goes less far and my annual pay increase barely covers insurance increases. Or I passed my General exam for my amateur radio license Saturday and I'm like "ok, cool, maybe in 5-10 years I can afford to get into HF radio".

And they're nuking our pension contributions and instead upping the 401k match instead, the 401k match I already can't get all of because paying bills that keep going up, while pay stays relatively stagnant, is a little more important than throwing 7% at my 401k for that match for use 30-40 years from now.

My wife, as a public school teacher, has had more (dollars) raises in the past year than I have in 6-7 years.
AFAIK, it is.
This is definitely something about your local setup or config. We routinely run hundreds and thousands of simultaneous connections through various versions of Django without much trouble.
Back in 2004, Joel Spolsky wrote about market segmentation and pricing of technology.

> And God help you if an A-list blogger finds out that your premium printer is identical to the cheap printer, with the speed inhibitor turned off. [1]

I don't think he could have imagined that consumers would be forced to tolerate the subscriptions and rentals we see today.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
He was commenting based on the culture he lived in at the time and based on their known history, and how different it was than European culture. He made a point that it was much better in many ways.

I wouldn't think that the spread of smallpox invalidates what he said, just because things may have been different in the past, maybe for his tribe, maybe not so much. I'm sure that he would have known if a disease drastically changed his culture a hundred years prior.

Even before smallpox there was quite a variety of native cultures, Kondiaronk being Huron, who were quite different than the Inca and Aztec, for example. He probably would have criticized them, also.
What a sick bastard. Fauci must pay.
There is indeed a <template> tag in HTML but it only works inside the current loaded page, i.e. to render rows inside a table. You cannot use it to include a header or a banner. In addition, the the tag relies on JS to be rendered.
Note: I am not an engineer. I’m mostly skilled in telling stories.

I got fired from every job I ever had before I started working for myself. Each time I left I ended up in a better job until the last time when I got laid off from a telecom PM role. I went to look for another job and never found one. At the time I was living paycheck to paycheck (barely) so this was quite scary. I did have a small severance but that was it.

I decided to make a startup and begged my friends for enough money to get going (secretparty.io). It started to grow. At the same time, one of my dear friends told me to put all of my severance into ethereum. It helped that he said he’d give me the money back if I lost it, he just wanted me to see what was going to happen.

My severance 10x’d in a month. I stopped working on the startup and begged my friends for money to start a crypto hedge fund. That was crypto lotus and ended up being one of the first serious crypto funds.

While being at crypto lotus, I grew frustrated that no one was making a consumer-friendly crypto project. That’s when I started working on mobilecoin.

Now mobilecoin is worth over a billion dollars in equity and several billion in coins.

All I can say is that I never would’ve gotten any of this without an insane amount of luck. It all could’ve very easily have gone another way and I might be homeless right now. Life is a series of dice rolls. You’re lucky if you can avoid getting snake eyes every now and again.

If I had it to do all over again, I would’ve started working for myself much sooner despite all of the risk.
Can you do an online degree and work on the side? My wife is doing a CS masters, of course it's useful to be married to someone who can help, but essentially she's starting from the bottom. I don't know what types of work you could do in the mean time, but perhaps it's a possibility?

Also, see if people are happy if you're simply working towards a degree. Put 2024 or whatever as your degree year and see if people care. I've only ever had to prove my degree status once in 18 years. Keep in mind often HR people are gatekeeping for the real decisionmakers, who will care less about specifics like that. If you can get in touch directly, that might help a lot.
The runway length is dependent on their expenses. If they earned 100k and spent 50k, it would last 20 years assuming no investment returns. If they spend around 4% of their 10 years salary annually, they're very likely to be fine for 30+ years as long as it's invested reasonably.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study
Usually you don't need a support contract for continued use of the software you bought.

I have old versions of a few applications and am happy with their current functionality. I can choose to not have a support contract and still use them. If I encounter problems later, I can choose to pay more for the latest.
Vax Has Slight but Waning Edge in Old but Harms the Young
Does product success only depend on product teams?
Team members often feel left out of the product management process
Our survey included a question asking teams how familiar they are with the company's product strategy
Producter (https://producter.co/) empowers teams to share the same vision and work together to create successful products
Would you recommend doing the Camino?

My wife and I are thinking about it.
Against Technological Inevitability – On 20th Century Critics of Technology
C++ is a weapon of last resort.

It’s very powerful if you need it, but if you don’t, it’s a lot more cognitive complexity for little gain.
Sure, but keeping logs for legal reasons doesn't mean transmitting those logs to all the web sites you visit. I think the point here was untrackability by websites rather than pure anonymity.
Depends on the field I think. I've heard for some areas it's basically "get into a Top 10 school or don't bother going".
Introduction to TF Serving
First, I think it's really important to decide what you want from a new job. Do you want job satisfaction or just a decent pay check? Starting there, you probably want to think outside the box.

It seems like you have experience doing paperwork and possibly have some knowledge of tax law, since you do imports. Maybe a company like HR Block needs people they can train (no idea whether they pay decently).

> I've even been rejected by companies in my industry

What about companies outside of your industry that have similar needs. Companies that import goods at smaller scale could maybe use someone with your experience.

It might be a good idea to start looking at local job boards and look at the ads with an open mind. "Is this something I can learn with the knowledge I have" is a good start, in my opinion. This means you'll probably need to send out a lot of applications in order to find a company willing to take a chance. But those companies are often worth working at.

Another option is to look at something completely different. Look at what market has shortages that you might be able and willing to fill. In my country, that could be pretty much anything that has to do with building and maintaining houses (painting, plumbing, etc.). Your country might be different, but these types of businesses are often willing to take a chance because they need everyone they can get.

Also, because you're doing paperwork, you could pretty much look at every type of admin work. It's really hard to find people willing to do admin work and even harder to find ones who do it well. Maybe there's a law office or another type of company that does lots of paperwork that can use someone who's been doing that for 11 years.

If you're not tied to the US, you could take a look outside the country. The UK is definitely in need of people who can clear freight through customs right now. You already speak English, so it might be worth a try to contact a company like that in the UK. If they really need people, they might be willing to help with relocation and visa applications.

Finally, it really comes down to willingness to take a chance and fail. If you want to do something new that requires failure. If you accept that failure is inevitable when trying something new, that failure will be a success in itself, because you're doing something. Don't get demotivated by rejections, try something different, but keep trying.
Aaaahhhh.... This brings back so many memories. Roland MCs, 808s, 909s, the RM1x. They were good times.

Bram Bos also made moonfish as a sequencer, using the same UI style as hammerhead
https://archive.org/details/moonfish12
side question, bit of a general question too... how do you make it fast with having optional type annotations?
I quit my last real full time job in 2015 (CTO at my own tech startup with around 130 employees at the time), with no plans whatsoever. I felt burned out and wanted some rest and a new career path.

The first project I tried was writing a book. A few months in I realized I didn't enjoy writing as much as I thought I would, but I found myself taking longer and longer breaks to go out photographing with my camera.

Photography was something I had never done earlier in life, and it came pretty unexpectedly for me that I would enjoy it so much. Photography quickly became an obsession, while my book project never sold well at all. I took a couple of part time jobs to sustain myself while starting a youtube channel about photography in 2017.

Now 4 years later I have quit all part time engagements and can actually kind of make a living from my youtube channel, which is pretty amazing. I am so very happy and thankful for where I am today, as I truly love my new career. I would have never found it if I didn't give myself a year to explore different possibilities.
I've been following along and donating since Chuck was on EconTalk in 2014, and the answer seems to be a clear 'yes'. Chuck sometimes says that the goal, other than to disappear because they're no longer needed, is to ensure that no city council or planning commission can ever make one of these really stupid developments without the opposition of people who buy into Strong Towns ideals, so it has been about fighting for mindshare. To that effect, their ~hundredfold increase in meetup attendance and the repeating of their message on huge channels like Not Just Bikes are both indicators of success.

They're trying to overthrow the design vernacular of an entire society, and that's necessarily hard despite that vernacular being dangerous, dehumanizing, and expensive. It's a team effort, but I think they're pulling their weight.

If you're (reasonably) wondering what they, as a particular organization, bring to the table, look at Chuck. He's a conservative Catholic engineer from a small Midwest town, which is significant both because that's a rare voice in this space, and because his broad appeal indicates something the organization is doing well so that it can reach a group that doesn't jump for 'Vision Zero', 'look at Europe', etc.

In his recent announcement that the fatal library crossing from his second book just brought about another death, Chuck is as feisty as I've ever heard him; he's out for blood. I think he might be on to something with the goal of bringing crippling lawsuits against city engineers who have been sheltering from responsibility by hiding behind MUTCD.
I'm on day one,
it's going great.
Fingerprints can be hacked
The Scary Future of the American Right
In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioner - Camus

This is more on thinking about current social / ethical topics. I know it might not be helpful for many, but I find I try to stop and think about it whenever I'm shaping my opinions.
Sounds like a rhetorical question meant to boost support for wasteful EU-approved "investment" ie centrally blessed handouts for more debt and government spending that continues to violate eurozone deficit rules from the 90's.

How about some practical problems for these euro-geniuses such as why is gasoline and energy in general so ridiculously expensive? An entire generation has lived a miserable life because of the EU, it's like a 21st century version of Soviet Union.
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one of the things I often hear is that people don't like to go repeat the same action a bunch of times, so for example if one has a bunch of microservices meant to be run through docker one does not want to go set ports up for all scenarios etc. and to have every member of a team do the same thing, and maybe updating documentation because you've written in port 5000 all over the place, hah hah, but no to answer your no doubt sincere question looking up open ports does not take a while.

What takes a while is another engineering principle that people are sometimes bitten by, trying to understand why a change in the system has occurred - in this case why your port that you always use is suddenly no longer open despite you not having done anything that you are aware of that might have closed it. Of course you want to understand why this change has happened because it seems weird, is there something nefarious going on at port 5000 now!?! Also because of all the things said above about wanting to not change all occurrences of 5000 in your developer docs and so forth so it would be nice if you figure out, as was shown as the top voted answer of the article, that you could go to somewhere in settings and turn off this usage of the port. I mean you could just scan and change what port you use to another currently open port without worrying about any of this stuff, which I guess would have worked in this case but I can't help but feel that would not really appear the best move whenever strange unexplained port usage changes occur. Your mileage evidently varies.
>Wealthy nations end up subsidizing the cost for poorer nations.

Or "subsidizing" the new yachts for the big bosses.
Also many things were created by scientist from non-western countries, so we poor countries also contributed to those yachts with out taxes to pay the education of our people.

Do you think that without the big dirty profits that are split between billionaires the people that work on science would work on something else, like cooking? I mean why would they care that their boss will have a smaller yacht?
I am also assuming that not all people that start a business are doing it for a giant dirty pile of money, most will do it for enough money for a decent life, some are doing it because they want to do something positive, and only the evil bastards will do it to make tons of money by exploiting others.
> I sense some frustration behind that comment.

Perhaps if the goalposts didn't continually keep shifting...
I had been planning to quit my job for a while. Got an exciting offer from a startup, handed in my resignation, then had the offer rescinded. Since I had zero savings, I had to find a new job in a month, 2 max. I wish I had the opportunity to do more stuff in that time, but the burden and anxiety was too crippling :\
> Usually you don't need a support contract for continued use of the software you bought.

I wouldn't want to run unmaintained software these days - security nightmare.
GoDaddy, seriously?
The cost to run the equivalent of a dryer outlet (conductors and conduit of some sort if required by the local AHJ) to a garage is minimal at build time, but more expensive to retrofit. Most EV owners will charge at home, and more than a dozen jurisdictions have deadlines for bans on new fossil fuel vehicle sales. Seems like common sense policy.