skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being free might mean that you take a traditional full-time job, if doing so is the best way to "do what you care about today". But the great thing is that you can take that job without all the normal financial stress that goes with it, and with the knowledge that you can just quit if you don't like it or end up with a bad manager.

Aside from that, though, I really think you should step back and try to reexamine "life". Why does life have to revolve around "work"? Why do people define themselves by what they do professionally? The world is very rich, and I personally don't find it very hard to find meaning outside of a job (traditional or otherwise).

I get that a lot of people who go the traditional route end up retiring at 65 or whatever, and then have no idea what to do with themselves for the rest of their lives, and that adding another 10, 20, or more years to that retirement period sounds scary. I think of this as a result of societal brainwashing. From a young age we're asked what we want to do when we grow up, and then during much of our teens we are pushed hard to pick a university, pick a major, and pick a career. And this is right while our brains are still developing; the focus on employment fundamentally affects the shape of our minds for the rest of our lives.

Free to do what, you ask? Literally anything. Learn how to play an instrument, join or form a local band, and play at coffee shops, bars, whatever. Learn new languages and travel (or just travel!). Get involved with your community, whether that's youth outreach, volunteering to help homeless people, or whatever you like. If you're a software developer, get involved with (or start your own) open source projects. Attack that ever-growing stack of books you keep telling yourself you're going to read but never seem to find the time. Find and grow new hobbies, whatever they may be, especially those that have nothing to do with your former job. Commit to improving your physical fitness by doing something (running, lifting, a martial art, etc.) for a certain number of hours per week. Go back to school and learn things you thought were too impractical to make a living off of back when you were 18. If you're a parent, you can spend a ton more time with your kids (raising a child is more than a full-time job anyway).

There is enough in this world to fill multiple lifetimes, and restricting yourself to spending 40 hours a day drawing a paycheck is a very small part of the possibilities. Relying on a job to define ourselves and fill our time is the easy way out because it "automatically" takes up half of our waking hours (or more). I get that it can feel like a daunting task to figure out what to do with all that extra time, but I can't believe it wouldn't be worth it to do so.
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I would rather be kind of poor but having a good time (like other people paying for having a good time) than have a very good salary and have miserable days. Maybe accept some temporary misery if this means some personal development that I like.

But I can fully understand a decision not to change to a much less paying alternative as it decreases the quality of life for an other part of every day. Considering the frightening fact that when you move away there is probably a chance that you cannot come back that easily. This may present a fear of trying out the alternatives.
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I would suggest maybe step back and think about a point in your career where you really felt challenged and inspired. I've definitely had periods where I felt similar, but was generally because I was just bored and didn't feel any connection to the work I was doing. So many of us attach so much of our identities to the work we do. And if the work we do isn't meaningful then we end up in thought processes like yours.

The fact that you are really looking inward and thinking about this is super positive by the way, because without that things will never change.

Think about what it is you really want to achieve and find a job that gives you a sense of ownership and pride.

You got this!
It might have been re-organized with a different cost-structure and different product portfolio, though I agree that the 'big three' would not exist in their current form.
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Is there a particular reason you perceived their response as "scolding?" It just looks like a straightforward answer.
I get a 404. So they probably disabled the site.
Population growth clearly can't continue forever; we may as well get it to zero now instead of kicking the can down the road.
Standard leftie: all for sharing, especially other people's money, but the buck stops at her money.
There's always an incentive to make more young people to dump grunt work onto.

So without environmental pressure populations are going to grow
CDC advisers vote to narrow use of J&J vaccine due to concerns of TTS
Yes, we are nowhere near what it is going to take.
>social security numbers have been used instead

Historically that was sort of the case. I'd argue today that we mostly rely on state-issued IDs (especially but not necessarily driver's licenses) which are now overlaid with RealID requirements.

As a practical matter it's probably indistinguishable from what a federally-issued ID would be and I'm mostly content with not adding any more layers of identity verification than are really necessary. I'd probably oppose a push for a broadly required federal ID--although I have a passport (and a global entry card).
>However, that's what broke the balance on things like catcalling. Virtually nobody is doing it anymore and that's kind of a problem.

How is not catcalling a problem?
Try using a lot of curried functions in JS. Absolute game-changer for me. I didn't feel suffocated, just always lost and confused, when working in JS, until I started going a bit overboard with the curried functions.
> Rails->Phoenix omits a lot of the stuff that makes Elixir cool, both in itself and in OTP

How do you think Phoenix could better take advantage of Elixir and OTP? IMO, it already is doing plenty to take advantage of what's cool about OTP, through channels and especially LiveView. I suppose Phoenix apps could use Mnesia instead of relational databases. But would the benefits actually outweigh the costs?
Such small potatoes. Enterprise software companies steal that much probably every day
I remember something about this from a few years back. Can't recall the link now though.

His ssh sessions were constantly timing out. It only happened when he left the SSH session to idle. It turns out his router was dropping the TCP sessions because it considered them dead. He got around it by implementing a "keep alive" packet, of sorts. Very interesting stuff. I don't really work at such a low level in the stack regularly, so it's quite fascinating to see the strange issues people encounter with these tools. Especially when ISP's meddle around with stable protocols.

Also reminds me of how some ISP DNS servers totally ignore TTL values from DNS records[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29568510
And evenly distributed slice is my answer to your troll post Adolph.
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From the main author of LLVM, in case you don't recognize the name.

It is a nice overview, and then 25 minutes of advertising RISC-V, which his company, SiFive, is focused on.
Probably my interpretation. I should have said "strong rebuttal". Edited my comment above ;)
I remember there being a browser beta version, but I thought this was pulled.

Has it come back? Because that would be wonderful!
Most of my career I have been dedicated and worked seriously, but never over-worked for any extended period of time. I think I might be just a bit above average compared to co-workers in terms of amount of work done.

However sometimes I have been unable to produce almost anything for maybe 2-6 weeks. I was scared to be discovered and blamed. To my surprised it never happened. Most of the time I have been able to bullshit my way through it. Only once it clearly was discovered I did not do my job. Not even started actually. A manager asked a coworker to help me on my task, which was a bit of shaming for me, but not too bad either. I was a contractor and some time ago the company offered me a position (which i declined). So I do not think this had any consequences.
the startup i just left did this. they have about 300 employees, and are pre revenue. the process to add a field to an api response was incredibly tedious and sapped my motivation completely.
One thing I've found helpful to combat boredom is this: In the absence of deadlines or people nagging you to do something, pick the task you want to do most (or dislike the least), or the task that is most interesting rather than the task that's oldest or some other measure. That way, you're still chipping away at your to-do list, but you're happier to do it.
I thought about this too. My iteration of the idea is to have the USPS office to install a cert on a citizen's phone (upon verification in person) and make sure a cert is associated with one person only. This will allow easy and reliable online voting.
Besides that, pass leaks metadata.

If your passwords are the only part of your password manager you think are secret, then you're probably not considering the utility of an enumeration of all your network handles. Mine aren't very interesting, but I wouldn't post that on GitHub, even in a private repo.

I love pass and use it. But when I need to carry my password database around, I don't rely on pass alone - I throw the pass database in a Veracrypt container. That way if my flash drive is stolen, it's just an encrypted blob.
I used to have a wipe this ZK node clean and rejoin the cluster script to deal with ZK node outages that nobody could explain.
I think this leads to silos.
MicroServices written in different lang's mean Java Dev X can't maintain Python service Y.. Not in an efficient way.
What's worse, Java Dev can't move to Team Y without upskilling not only on the service, but also the lang, so they get pidgin holed. She also can't move because she's the only Java dev left.
I don't think people appreciate just how big the crypto fraud problem is, and how much bigger it will get.

Crypto is so big, to put it in perspective, the gambling sector worldwide was estimated to be worth roughly $265 billion U.S. dollars in 2019. That is just 2/3 the market cap of Ethereum alone.

Crypto is bigger than pretty anything right now. Bigger than pro sports. bigger than the entertainment industry. Only the tech, real estate, retail, and finance industries are bigger. But those are composed of thousands of companies.
I don't understand your example, `isSet` is always true and can never be false. Missed something?
All of OP's managers are fooled, why do you think you'd do any better?
> Under 'pass' all passwords conforming to chosen rules are equally likely, under your approach some are twice as likely as others.

But they're passwords. At most half of the passwords will have different probability than the rest which means that you're still left with a staggering number of un-brute-forceable passwords. Two to the power of ninety nine is practically indistinguishable from two to the power of one hundred.

By the way, if you're still obsessed about completely equal probabilities here, you can just drop the whole sequence of bits if it's larger than the number of alternatives when interpreted as a binary number and fetch a new one. It seems to me that the expected value of number of bits consumed for such a process won't exceed twice the number of bits that are technically necessary (because the probabilities of individual numbers of attempts are a geometric sequence with a factor of at most 0.5 summing to exactly 1, which would have an expected value of 2), which is around 12.5 bits per character. With a filtration like tr -dc "0-z" mentioned below you'll consume roughly 27.3 bits per character on average. So "better" is a subjective term here; one solution may be simpler to write in a shell command line, another consumes much less entropy. If you're deciding what to do, you need to weigh your criteria properly if you have more of them. You may very well have different criteria than I do; that happens.

> Using 'tr -cd' is, by my counting, five characters

I probably wouldn't use this in the first place because it requires a subprocess and a binary that I might not have on some computers. So by my counting this could be hundreds of kilobytes of extra code. Division with a remainder is most likely something you already have in your standard library regardless of whether you use it or not.
I went from Win7 to LTSB, then upgraded to LTSC (for gpu passthrough) but still hated it for some reason, mainly needing to undo windows changes and various issues that should have been defaults. I went to KDE and use windows only for some Win software that didn’t work on VM or wine.

I miss Windows 2000 Pro, it wasn’t bloated, pretty fast, didn’t crash and had the fewest problems.
What aspects of DeFi look attractive exactly? Yield of some digital coin which only has value relative to a fiat currency?

Your local bank at least complies with regulations that cap transaction fees for your chequing account. Meanwhile, ETH gas fees are completely unpredictable, and can easily be higher than the amount you're transferring.
I were going to say this, but found it in the Results / Conclusions part (nice link!). So to paraphrase:

Results: Working >40 to 50 hours per week and >50 hours per week were significantly positively associated with work productivity in univariate analysis. However, the significant association no longer held after adjusting for work engagement. Work engagement was positively associated with work productivity even after controlling for potential confounders. Working hours were not significantly associated with work productivity among those with high-work engagement or among those with low-work engagement.

Conclusions: Working hours did not have any significant associations with work productivity when taking work engagement into account. Work engagement did not moderate the influence of working hours on work productivity, though it attenuated the relationship between working hours and work productivity.

In my personal experience of workplace since 90's, whenever you have the chance to "level up", work a bit extra to gain a bit more progress and experience, it's absolutely worth it. If you don't gain anything by it or have no meaningful work to do (ie. process-related tasks and projects), it is worth more to you to leave work for another day.

I've become sensitive enough I can feel the stress begin to build at the end of the day, and know which day is worth to leave work (most days), and which rare day is worth more to you to stay a bit longer just to follow that flow out to its end.

Anything new after 3PM can wait to next day. Your mind will anyways work it out in the background if it's important somehow.
From their web page:

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Custom Experience Plus also uses:

• Device location information we obtain from the Verizon network and from Verizon apps you have permitted to collect location for these purposes;

• Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI), including information about the phone numbers you call or that call you and the times you receive these calls. It also includes information about the quantity, type, destination, location, and amount of use of your Verizon telecommunications and interconnected voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services and related billing information.

and this gem:

Q. If I turn off the location settings on my mobile device, will my location information still be used for Custom Experience Plus?

A. We use location information from our network. We will continue to use this type of location information regardless of your device location services setting.
Sounds like its about time for an antitrust investigation.
Which country was this?
This sort of censorship has been going on for a long time. For example 'oh fiddlesticks'. They are still swearing. But some sort of odd self censorship happened.

It is an interesting exercise for me. Try not to swear. No substitutes allowed. It is oddly difficult for me.
> 1) The "good" solution is to find some work you actually give a shit about.

Or think about why you do the work, what it allows you to do with your life. Doing what you love / loving what you do is one way to be happy, but it isn't a requirement, as long as you have a reason for doing the work. Life is full of things that don't directly bring fulfillment and happiness, such as brushing your teeth, doing the dishes, exercising (for many people), shopping for clothes (ymmv), and (for most parents on most days) cleaning up after messy children. All preaching about how you really ought to feel fulfilled by stuff like that aside, most people don't, yet it doesn't ruin their lives to keep doing it day after day.
I worked on a project that saved 8mil and got a pat on the back. I basically paid for my self for the next few years to do nothing.

Also for a lot of companies millions isn't a lot when profits,expenses,revenue are near billions. I don't really worry about cost savings anymore, the numbers are so huge all around, individual impact is always almost a rounding error.
Is this Telia (1299) related maybe ?
You can look up the age breakdown[0]. For ages 20-30, there's over 110 males for every 100 females in China. That's 1 in 10 males that cannot physically get a female partner of similar age (and recall, we're talking about one of the most populous countries in the world). Point being: anecdata about group date events is dwarfed by population statistics.

[0] https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/china-sex-r...
> The family of Ahmad Fawad Yusufi says Uber locked his account and declined to help them

Why would you bother uber about this?? Go get the police and the actual detectives to investigate.
> My only wish it was simpler to host

I think it can be simple if you keep it simple :). In my book Deployment from Scratch I show people how to run Rails on a cheap VPS with a couple hundreds lines of Bash.

Just Ruby + chruby + Puma + systemd (and optional systemd socket activation).

I include a scripted demo (so you don't have to do it yourself) which demonstrates all of the this:

- Setting up a git-pust deployment for Ruby applications

- Using chruby to automate installing requested Ruby versions

- Configuring NGINX as a proxy using UNIX sockets

- Setting up systemd socket activation for graceful restarts

- Configuring NGINX to serve static assets

- Configuring NGINX to proxy WebSockets connections for Action Cable

- Automatic SSL/TLS certificates with Let's Encrypt

- Redirecting HTTP traffic and subdomains to main domain over HTTPS

- Running PostgreSQL and Redis on the same server

- Building a custom SELinux module

- Configuring firewall

- Setting up automatic weekly system update

- Setting up log rotation for NGINX and PostgreSQL logs and max limit for system log

- Doing application backups and restores

- Creating admin tasks

Although it sounds like a lot, the demo is reasonably small and clean so you can go through all the files in 2 hours.

I think people many times complicate what they don't need to complicate...
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How much are antibodies present in your sinuses versus your bloodstream or various organs? My layman education here would suggest that antibodies are not really a big factor with the initial infection and spread, only when someone develops a serious infection and is sick enough they probably aren't walking around willy-nilly in public anyway. So that would explain why the vaccine protects against serious illness, but is less helpful in preventing infection and spread.

[EDIT: A quick google suggests that, fascinatingly, the mucosal system in your sinuses apparently has its own independent antibody development and production. The vaccines apparently don't trigger antibody production in your sinuses.]

Similarly, it might be beneficial if we could train this initial immune response better. I am not sure how it works. I know that despite extreme and very prolonged exposure to a very sick Covid-19 victim, I was unable to test positive for Covid and didn't have antibodies.
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Oh come on. Have you seen the people who have primaried her? While their politics may or may not be better, they have been problematic personal and professional lives.
That's the entire point though isn't it. You don't know what you want.

You won't buy a flying car because you won't do on street parking.

People claim they want flying cars but what they really want is AI to Animate Children’s Drawings
I was wrong the new ones do have software but nothing official, so its not really baked as much as random distros from random people.
This is really cool!

But apparently it's all processed through a 3rd party server (to do the conversions into Amiga-friendly formats). How long will the server be available?

BTW, it's so refreshing to see the Amiga in operation. MagicWB still looks welcoming, and the OS is a reminder of how simple and direct computers used to be.
I always thought that when our western governments talk about this problem, they are not concerned with the back breaking work that needs doing, but the amount of tax being paid by younger generations not enough to cover pensions and all the expensive medical conditions old people have.

I think its mostly a financial problem, not a physical labor problem.
Even if it's not i.i.d, a small amount of samples with much higher/lower times will just average out as noise.
I think it's largely depending on the person which of those sounds more tiring. An extrovert would thrive on these meetings, while an introvert might hate every second of them. Conversely, an extrovert might hate sitting alone in front of his PC for 60h, while an introvert might find it very fulfilling (assuming that he loves writing compilers).
I honestly can't relate and am confused who gets the work done then?

Who supports the running software, who writes the code for new features, bug fixes and upgrades? Who works on planning and figuring out what to do or not do next? Who works to mentor and train and ramp up new employees? Who does the work to decide if we need to hire more, how we need to break up the work, where we need to invest more, etc?

My work experience has always involved all of these things needing to get done and never having enough people to do all of it.
It’s almost some sort of very large, round thing that is just growing and growing

I’m sure there’s a better term for it
This article fails to mention Writeroom, the original distraction-free writing program.