skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quit a normal job in 2015 to do freelance consulting. I had no plan, luckily I found two clients for part time work and for the rest of my hours I created a e-commerce site that I operated for myself. That quickly escalated and made more money than in a normal job, but running an e-commerce site isn't much fun.

1.5 years later I joined a startup, with 3 other ambitious guys which was super successful.
The first years was really a lot of fun and work. But over time that changed. Now I have left that startup and I am planning on building another one, just need to find the right ambitious people with a good and realistic business plan.
And not being in a married relationship is another impediment to good sex: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/want-more-and-better-sex-get-...

But of course, if you just can't get off unless you are having unprotected sex with people you can't trust to not have STDs, then yes, I'm sure the mRNA revolution holds some promise. Hope it works out for you.
The end of the notice period roughly lined up with the start of the ski season, so I'm going to do a ski season.
I quit my post-doc 6 weeks ago. Was really burned out and had postponed the decision for months already. However, I could never motivate myself to look in to other jobs. In the end, I quit without anything else planned. Only then I could notice how bad that job had made me feel.
Now I am working on a small startup idea. If this doesn't work out, I'll try something else. I'm working from a cheap co-working space, and it is great so far. Have more time for my kids as well. Don't regret it at all.
Not hard to update. But if you've been at a place for ten years in multiple roles. And haven't updated once...It's practically a rewrite, at least in the objective, skills, and employment duties sections. I'm going through this now and scrambling for job descriptions.
Whenever I bring my axes into the conversation people seem to not want to make a point anymore.
An interactive shell for AWS Parameter Store
> I had to switch to a more powerful board though

And therein lies the rub. If you can throw more computational power and resources at your problem, then you should absolutely go for something with simpler abstractions that make better use of your time.

The problem is however not with C or C++, but rather inexperience in how to manage the control/flexibility these languages allow. You now have 50 ways to shoot yourself in the foot, instead of the otherwise handful. And, you also get the choice of a few bazookas.

> I have no idea how people write whole browsers and operating systems in this language.

They use best practices that avoid all of the aforementioned 50 ways.
You do realize that prob 80% of Yugobyte code is PostgreSQL?
You either have a SaaS or a support contract. What makes SaaS any worse or different conceptually or ultimately than a support contract?
Practical question: if you're in the US, how do you deal with health insurance?
I have quited like 3 times and been fired 2 times.
Had small savings so I didn't starve, also could live at our family house, where I didnt need to pay rent, so that helped.

But I always got better job next time, because when I was unemployed, I learned lots of new things in webdevelopment and app development.
Very nice. Too bad this probably won't work with the worst virus in the herpes family, Cytomegalovirus, for the same reason our immune system struggles to keep up with it.

https://denovo.substack.com/p/cytomegalovirus-the-worst-herp...
A less overengineered form of what you're talking about would be GoboLinux.
Indeed. Thanks for the correction.
About half would just do 25 mph.
But the head and guts is the best part.
It already is in the eyes of some extremist vegans.

(see the "never touch anything animal related for whatever reason" crowd but who then go on and drink gallons of cashew milk from farms of abused workers)
Would be really interesting to get the student-count-to-founder ratio and grouping the counts by the amount of capital raised, headcount or any other metric that measures "success" in some way. Would help students deciding on where to study as well as VCs on which students not to filter out in their initial screening!
Another lefty here - same issue. Did the pre-order long ago. I’m back to pen and paper as I could not tolerate it. It would be great if it was possible to calibrate it somehow, by hack or not. I’ve kept it in case such a solution surfaces.
The first time I did it the startup I was working for was drying up and blowing away so I decided that was a good time to start my own startup. I figured it would take a couple months.

That was a spectacular failure where I realized that most of my mental models were either explicitly broken or the Fischer Price version of the actual model. I learned an outrageous amount. By the end I was glad I did it and wondered if I would do it again.

I found it easy to get a new job. Quitting and working on my own project was probably the best career move that I had made up to that point.

I took the next job and realized that I no longer enjoyed working for other people. I had seen too much. Office politics now seemed extra goofy too. It's just hard to take seriously.

So I reloaded my savings and then after a while quit again and I'm back to working on my own projects.

I learned a lot since last time but I'm sure I still have a lot to learn. Learning has always been the fun part for me. This time rather than working on just one thing I wanted to experiment with a bunch of different projects which is proving to be fun and already yielding more traction.

I'll tell you what the not fun part of the whole thing is, part of this is just the part of the world I live in and people I hang out with. People hate it! Boy do they hate it. Did you remember the part in pulp fiction where Jules is telling Vincent "I'm just gonna walk the earth, like Caine" and Vincent is going "No, Jules you're gonna be a god damn bum". Most conversations I have seem to have that undertone.

Not having a boss, especially before you reach success seems to make people really uncomfortable and sometimes upset. On the other hand not everyone reacts that way and I feel like it can shine a light on who your best friends are so thats cool.

It's a weird path, but I've enjoyed it quite a lot so far. I'm also sort of a weird person so I don't think it would work for everyone. I don't have any kids. I'm not really into material things so my expenses are extremely low. I usually work for longer than this but I've done the math and I'm pretty sure I could cover 1 year of expenses with 1 month of work. It's a good ratio.

I've also thought about doing this in SEA or Eastern Europe to cut expenses more. The idea of being a "digital nomad" (if thats what they still call it) seems super fun.
I can't say I didn't have a plan because I did have one but after a few years since quitting here are a few not so positive things that I didn't plan on.

1. Early mornings and late nights
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I really thought I would be able to unwind and relax but I guess that is just not my nature. I still find it very difficult to turn off, the stresses and thoughts that used to center around my job gone but new ones have replaced them. Eg. Current ones are based on inflation and my savings burn rates, investment bubbles and on and on.

2. Loneliness
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I really do miss having those daily interactions with coworkers, even the "useless" meetings. Things may be different now as I left long before Covid so it could be that those interactions are gone forever.

3. Weight Gain
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Correlation isn't causation and it is also likely as much to do with my aging as not having a job, but not being on a daily schedule has contributed to the extra weight I am carrying.

4. Stigma from financial and services institutions
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This one might be more of a personal perception but when starting relationships with banks, investment firms and even utility providers there are always questions regarding employment. I have a very healthy bank account but still feel it is more difficult to get a credit card for example without filling out the employer section.

Anyways I don't want to stomp on anyone's dreams here, I just wanted to share a few things I found through personal experience. I am still content with my decision and the good outweighs the bad.
Er, when did SPARC last have a new version?
More on what github does with passed "Accept:" media types here:

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/overview/media-types
I took 3 months off after shutting down my startup back in 2019 without knowing what was next. Went travelling, spent some time in London reading books and chilling out and enjoyed sitting at coffee shops at 8am watching other people go to work.

If you can afford it and have some confidence that you can easily get a job afterwards, I'd highly recommend it.

For me, it really helped not at all thinking about what was next until 2.5 months in. If you start interviewing already after a few weeks you don't get proper headspace to really relax and get out of the work mindset.
Maybe. Some developers have an aversion to the GPL family because of its “viral” nature. An MIT licensed project can be used in an LGPL one, but not the other way around. However, many projects are successful despite being GPL licensed. The Linux kernel is a major one, and Marlin FW (for 3D printers) has had its license used a few time to force Chinese 3D printer makers to release their source.

There’s a lot of misconceptions and FUD about the GPL family. So, as a clarifier: The LGPL does not restrict what the user can do with a product;[a] it only limits other developer’s. If another program wants to integrate Toit (or any LGPL based thing) into their product, they need to abide by the LGPL’s linking and open source[b] provisions. But a user can use an LGPL or GPL licensed product without restriction.

[a]: Despite what some developers may claim

[b]: It’s more “source available” but for the users only. Open source is just one way to fulfill that requirement
https://archive.md/REmb8
If the money is sensibly invested an adjustment in lifestyle might allow you to live on it a considerable time, or even indefinitely.
Bipedal Humanoid Hardware Design: A Technology Review
> There is literally no downside.

Lack of medical benefits for a disabled family member.
Lack of house.
Lack of food.
Lack of electricity.

Nope, can't see any downside.
> it's entirely possible to make a GUI based like a SUSE configurator based on nix

There is such a project already: https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui
It would be trite but mildly amusing to use all this author's own arguments against his new article:

> The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure is a 2018 book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. It is an expansion of a popular essay the two wrote for The Atlantic in 2015. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that overprotection is having a negative effect on university students and that the use of trigger warnings and safe spaces does more harm than good.

> The authors define safetyism as a culture or belief system in which safety (which includes "emotional safety") has become a sacred value, which means that people become unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns. They argue that embracing the culture of safetyism has interfered with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development.[2]
Except that it isn't used widely yet, if at all.
How many smartphones using POWERs do you know?

Or IoT devices?

Or...

Or...
Interesting YAML-esque syntax. I've always liked the idea of automatic variables, since seeing them in the array languages like J or K.

I half wonder if the team felt any pressure to release the language now, ahead of Advent of Code...
Maybe look outside your industry? I think you're focusing on the technical aspects of your skills, but if you've done that for 16+ years and are doing it well, you could do paperwork practically anywhere for better pay than that, I think. If I were you, I'd start applying at various office jobs and see what happens.

Sorta related - We hire junior programmers occasionally, and we used to focus on the technical skills. Turns out, the soft skills were a lot more useful. We had one applicant that sold us on her ability to get stuff done and understand what the business needs, instead. She had at least the minimum technical skill of course, but what got her the job (even though we had to make room in the budget for another developer!) was her sales pitch for her soft skills. She's been a great coworker, and we've since changed our focus towards soft skills like attention to detail.

My point is that it's very likely your skills do translate to other jobs in other industries, and not necessarily in ways that you can see from your current desk. Get out there and apply!
Not only does speed increase the damage inflicted by a given collision, it also makes them more likely: there is less time available to see and respond to hazards, and the space required to stop also is proportional to (speed^2). So for a given road, the risk level (frequency * consequences) is probably even steeper than squared: perhaps more like (speed^3).
Some people feel like Postgres with its decades of history is the safer bet. It's a known commodity. Or at least more known than CockroachDB and Yugabyte.
It sucked financially but it was the right choice for my mental health, at least in the short term.

Just don’t wait too long to find something new.
A while back I quit with nothing to go to due to promises not being kept. Wonderfully liberating and empowering, and I found a new job within weeks. Strangely I've found it much harder finding a job while I'm in work... Got some ideas about drone routing if anyone's interested in working on something (current company aren't bothered!).
Yay! I had a Cessna voltage regulator fail after over 30 years. So i would say this system works. :)
I took an extended leave from my work to travel. I did wonder what I was doing going to places and basically looking around/being a tourist, but at the end of it I came with the realization that I was capable of tackling any problem that came at me (not that I encountered any huge problems during the trip, although of course I was nervous of what I might face before I went), so that's encouraged me to go freelance, and I've handed in my notice recently.

The final boost was talking to someone who said I should recognize my own strengths, like having the bravery to leave home at a young age to go to college. I told her "I didn't feel very brave, I had my parents to fall back to in case things went wrong.", and I realized, if the freelancing idea didn't work out straight away I currently also have enough saved to fall back to.
How to change a column type in your production's PostgreSQL database
Stable Software Release System
How about they actually combat COVID first? Like, without needing to re-take them every few months.

Recall that Moderna was failing to progress beyond animal trials as recently as 2017. The reason was their mRNA delivery tech became toxic given multiple doses. They had struggled with this problem for years but found a neat solution: pivot to vaccines, because as everyone knows, vaccines don't need multiple doses. They protect you for life. <facepalm>

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/

https://www.statnews.com/2017/07/27/moderna-alexion-partners...
Few years back I was a co-founder and director of tech and research. We were not doing well. I was personally struggling financially not just at startup level but also at my person/family level. For 8 months nobody (co-founders) took any salaries. Because of personal financial struggles, I was drowning in a mild debt (asking money from friends) to even sustain everyday life. After a year, due to some internal politics (which I absolutely hate on any organization and given my more "nice guy" personality, I couldn't bare), I decided to quit. I quit without any second thoughts. I remember giving resignation without anyone anticipating it.
I didn't have any plans. After quitting, I asked for some compensations which lasted me for only 2 months. It was hard for me and my family (you know how Asian parents are). Out of nowhere, I decided to pursue grad school. So started GRE+TOEFL. Gave it. That was 2 years back. I am still in "going to grad school" phase for my Master's. Let's see how it goes in next 2 months.

However, out of nowhere during the end of 2019 I was approached by a startup here which works in Document AI space. I am the only senior. I am juggling through research + engineering ML. But in some ways, I didn't anticipate that I would be enjoying so much here. But still, imposter syndrome hits hard often.

If I hadn't quit my initial startup plan, I don't know what might have happened to my research and career. I might have been more miserable.

:)
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I quit my job as an actuary 2 months ago, and I'm only 3 years out of college. I did work setting up Python backends for annuity inventories. I felt underapplied. Quitting was a good decision for me.

Another post mentions the common expectation that, without a job, you would "suffocate" (though it's far from that). I like that idea.

My worldview is pretty similar. To me, money is just a way of organizing value. So if I'm a valuable person, why worry about money?

I'm very relaxed and better attuned to the humdrum of the world.
Mostly OK. I’ve done solo consulting and started up a few things. It’s never been about maximizing income, which always seemed to have too steep a price for my taste, rather about personal freedom and flexibility.

My early observation was that if you have a particularly valuable skill, you can easily find yourself on the clock in 6-minute increments and/or under someone else’s thumb.

As an inventor/promoter or solo consultant (entrepreneur, I guess) it’s possible to find a sweet spot where the money is enough and the pressure is minimized. I suppose a specialist could do that too, with help from an agent.
The most important feature is not handwriting recognition, but the fact that it is a large e-ink screen, where you can comfortably read and write. You don't get that with an iPad. If you read a lot of documents there is really no comparison, because it is a different category of device.
At this point it seems that only mainframes can get more expensive than cloud auto-scaling.

But yeah, some places have a very expensive acquisition procedure. To the point that the labor in buying expensive things costs more than the thing itself. But those places "solve" the problem by buying large batches, and the hardware x developer costs comparison don't change much.
Curious how humans make methane? I know cows add significant methane to the atmosphere, but never thought about what else emits methane.
Was 1980 the worst automotive year ever?
> By this logic we should for example stop most of the medical treatment in highly developed countries, where only a minority of humanity lives.

Let's think for a second about what would happen if we did this. Massive amounts of people start dying in the developed world because they get no medical treatment. Most of the productive capacity of the world in terms of creating modern goods is located there, so that plummets. Societies there collapse as people revolt at being denied medical care. The developing countries that were depending on this aid are even worse off than before. Hmm, does that sound like the best way to help the most people? I think not.

I'm sure there's an optimal split between keeping prosperous countries prosperous and advancing the current frontiers of human knowledge vs. sending aid to less prosperous countries. I doubt we are at the optimum. I'm also certain the optimum is not "loot absolutely everything from prosperous places and send it to less prosperous ones".

> So I wonder, what's the list of issues you think should be tackled exclusively to get the most out of our limited resources?

Oh you got me. I don't have a comprehensive list of all the important priorities. Whatever it is "lobster suffering" is way, way down on it.
There are even cases where it is context-depedent: Maße (measurements) and Masse (mass). Both are written MASSE uppercased, but how do you know which one's which?

For additional fun: Swiss German doesn't use ß at all, so there is no difference between "in Maßen genießen" (to enjoy in moderation) and "in Massen genießen" (to enjoy in large amounts).
That is a problem to be fixed by the server, not the client.
If they're afraid that a mall will create traffic bottlenecks, maybe build those malls so they're easy to reach on foot, by bike, or with public transport. That way you don't get that traffic bottleneck.
No, but the proprietary nature of the software, with updates that I can't control, might be.
I've blocked Youtube, it's a bit easy via a HOSTS rule, or firewall level (littlesnitch on OSX is great) or such. The HOSTS rule is probably too much but the later isn't.

ublock also can remove comments, the front page of youtube, etc.

I don't block youtube now, but I don't have "mindless" browsing, it's like the front page of google.com. I search for exactly what I want, and no ads.
A few years ago my project pipeline was going to pure maintenance and upper management was obviously 6mo+ away from knowing what they wanted in the next decent sized project. So I talked to my manager (CTO) about going down to a 4 day week (pro-rata) to do more in my own time. The CEO gets wind, comes in and is really agressive and dismissive of what I'm suggesting. This behaviour (ceo/cto dynamic) was pretty much the bane of my employment there so I wrote up and handed in my resignation.

I had more money than id ever had before and no commitments beyond rent and my gf. There were a bunch of things I wanted to do, so I did them. Lots of small things like seeing family (spread all across tye country, most of whom I hadn't seen as an adult/since parents divorce), side projects, and exploring nearby cities.

I started freelancing part-time after 6 months (bored mainly) and six months after that joined a great company (that I had freelanced for).

Honestly, I keep my finances and lifestyle in a place such that I can quit when I want, as a result I'm happier and can choose work I want when I am prioritising money.

I'm fully remote now and with covid "in decline" have been able to spend high quality time with family and friends whilst working. Remote work is the best work, no work is better. However it is certainly the money that makes it low stress.
No necessarily. It depends on a person's yearly expenses. If, for example, she was able to save 10 years salery in 20 years, it would mean that she consumes only 5 % of the total savings per year. This sounds quite sustainable, because you need only to achieve a 5 % return on investment (after inflation) on the savings to live just from these returns not touching the savings at all.
I'd recommend anyone with type 1 diabetes (or type 2) to read Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution.
http://www.diabetes-book.com/
China's millennials say 'no' to workaholic culture
First: have you used Postgres, and at what scale? Because that hasn't been my experience of it.

Second: do you know something that's comparable but better?
https://archive.md/pel08
Django is a back-end for many unicorn SF start-ups like Venmo. No one is going to use something different due to immature ecosystems.
Well, “works” in the sense that your Cessna is (and mine was) flying around the very best inspected of 1960s technology…
Not sure it's my favorite, bur definitely the most used: https://www.discourse.org/

A more recent alternative is https://flarum.org/
No offense, but some of those "themes" are hilariously bad. I love it!

The web has become far too homgenized and corporatized.
do you run fastapi through wsgi? have you tried Django with asgi?
For me it's the size. I used to say that if they came out with a full page (A4 or letter) display I would buy one, but since then I've become very fond of the iPad + Pencil + iOS focus mode combination. I'm not sure the Remarkable offers much for me anymore.