skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Currency conversion" is not free. If a deal is to be settled in the USD then it means that the buyer is likely to acquire USD directly (by selling something for USD or taking loans in USD) and the seller is likely to spend the USD, skipping any conversion and strengthening the USD. Likewise, if the deal is to be settled in EUR the same is applied to the EUR and strengthens the EUR while weakening the USD.
I doubt they care about solving it completely, but publicizing this is definitely good PR for them.
Actually, no, they can't pay you based on how much time you spend on a task unless you are being paid hourly (and therefore are paid overtime if required to work more than 40 hours per week).

They can ask you to be at work at a certain time, or to do some task a certain number of hours a day, but they CANNOT pay you based on how many hours you spend doing it or they are in violation of labor laws (in the US anyway).
> Do you think that's a decision weighted by the decision makers at Wizards of the Cost and assessed accordingly?

I'm sure they weighted it, and then money won out

I have gone from being core demographic of theirs to not a customer of theirs at all, but for everyone like me they've pushed away, they've probably on-boarded twenty new customers. Right decision for them, sucks for me.
I’ve tried this before, but I always fear I vastly overestimated my ability to handle the worst case.
How much time are you on social media? Reading the news? Do less of that, delete the apps. Chances are, you'll find yourself going to check them several times a day if not several times an hour.
If you have some experience, and sign up for Dice, I bet you'll have recruiters reaching out to you in no time.
I run into people like you in the field sometimes. Unless you're actively hindering my efforts at delivering something, I ignore you. If you're assigned a critical task, and you block us, I'll bring it up to stakeholders privately to ensure they understand what you're doing. Sometimes this results in you being fired, most of the time, you just get assigned less important work.

I find people like you unpleasant to be around because I value competency in my peers, so I tend to ignore you socially too, but outside of that I have no opinion on your choices.

To answer your question though, no, not all of us are lying about how much work we do. Some of us enjoy the work, find if fulfilling, and carry a professional pride in doing the work well.
Do people still want to "get away from systemd". I thought most people had realized that systemd was a good thing by now :p.

There's not a single popular Linux distro these days that isn't systemd by default. Even """hardcore""" distros.
Also it's fueling a massive amount of power usage for limited utility.
This same advice would apply to lottery tickets. It’s the opposite that’s actually true, if you lose 25% of your assets right away, that will compound to become millions of dollars in the future. I’m not saying to invest conservatively, it should be aggressive. But investing in a crypto ETF, where most people agree 90% of the coins will and should go to $0…that’s just reckless.
But VPCs and networking and distributed computing aren't serverless. Serverless is using AWS Lambdas or GCP functions and not dealing with VPCs beyond having an endpoint to hit.

There's not getting around the networking and such - that's the full part of full-stack (FS) - it's more than simply FE+BE. Maybe call them distributed systems engineers instead.

What it sounds like though, is your organization (regardless of what we call it) is large enough to organize into FE, BE, and FS roles, with FS running the platform and being in charge of the fleet and for them to work on the system itself so that FE and BE can work without having to know about fleet - and FS folk are building internal tools that the rest of the org use to do their job, and to shield them from any of the implementation details your fleet has.
Indeed. It sounds like the author just wanted to complain about their hobby becoming mainstream. I play 5e on and off and the community around it seems stronger than ever. The fact that something like Critical Role can exist seems to speak very strongly against their points on its own.

Sure CR has been commercialised but it's still just as creative as their first streams where they had zero expectations we just get a couple more ads and a much more polished presentation.
what's your caffeine intake? can try cutting out stimulants if you're using them every day
Um, no. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Internat...
> I never really understood the criticism about "magic" in Rails.

I'll state my case as clearly as possible: The magic in Rails REQUIRES memorization... freaking everywhere. And it provides virtually no hints to jog your memory.

There's just too much tooling, hidden away out of sight, and applied through shenanigans with Ruby that other languages/frameworks make MUCH more obvious.

Simple trivial example? Rails fucks with imports left and right. Rails allows you to not even write a require statement half the time - it's just going to load things from places. Hope you have that list memorized.

Does it save you some time? Yes.

Does it make the code look "Cleaner"? Sure.

Does it make my life a fucking chore every time I have to run a damn console to find the source location of an object at runtime because it's entirely unintuitive about where it freaking came from? Damn right it does.

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If you started early in your career with Rails - you probably don't notice this. But if you have experience with a solid selection of languages (ex professionally I've used: GoLang, C, C++, JS/Typescript, C#, Java, Netlogo, Rust & Ruby) I find the discoverability in Ruby/Rails about the lowest on the list.

Very fast to work with if you happen to have it all memorized. But that's about the only compliment I can give it.
I haven't been able to trace them so far. Emails to the domain go unanswered and the WHOIS is obfuscated. It's not even clear what their plan is with the domain, other than to hold the existing PageRank since they didn't monetize it and left all my contact info on it. They didn't even install their own outbound links to try to divert some of the PageRank away.
DnD is a fun game for nerds, it's not some deep allegory about race. Perhaps if the purple haired five foot nothing SJWs didn't make a strong effort to look like trolls they wouldn't take offence.
Convolutional Neural Networks and Transfer Learning with PyTorch and Fast.ai
> I really want to easily switch to the previous window, not the previous app. Command + backtick doesn't work either. It doesn't switch to the previous window. It switches to the previous window "in the same app" which is not actually the previous window as that could be from another app.

I really can't figure out what your issue is after reading this several times. If the last active window was a different app, you hit Cmd+Tab. If the last active window is from the same app, you hit Cmd+`
I don't have the energy anymore for that. I'm 37 - that's 50%.
Yes. It's well known she's corrupt to the bone.

https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/congress

> As of December 22nd stimulus was just approved on that day. On December 22'nd, Pelosi’s Husband purchased deep ITM TSLA and AAPL calls. After Market close on December 22'nd, she voiced support for $2000 of stimulus after Donald Trump tweets the need for additional stimulus. Those same companies rally 5%, giving an instant +30 return, on Dec 23rd.
What technology are you in, if I may ask? (I'm curious for whatever technology or field would allow you to take such a pay cut yet still make enough to make life interesting.)
C'mon now...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-biden-...

Edit: you're still politicizing this in an inappropriate way. Meat production has serious environmental impacts and it's worth looking at ways to address that. Using false political/tribal memes makes your point unworthy of serious consideration.
I did switch to Pathfinder for a while but then I moved cities and trying to find a new, Non-5E group has been fruitless.

The last game I was in actually was Kingmaker, so I was quite delighted to see it made as a CRPG
Exercise.

You are missing out on things, bad things will happen, and one day it will all come to an end.

Now that we got that out of the way, recognize your body is a machine and you have at least some control over it. Get some exercise, change your location, give some attention to what you eat, connect with some people live. Make your body do something other than what it is doing.
> going back decades

Longer than that. In WW2, factories increased hours to 60 to increase production. The workers were all on board with this. Production increased for a while, and then dipped below the 40 hour results.

Some experimentation showed that to get a sustained increase in production, the working hours would be increased for a time, and then brought back to 40, back and forth.

Personally, I'm well aware that when my tiredness exceeds a certain level, any programming work I do has to be undone (thank you, git!) and redone after I'm rested. What I do when I want to work, but am tired, is work on things that don't require much attention, like organizing my office, making backups, etc.
There are a lot of Russians who don't support Putin yet will fight to make sure another one of these peaceful transitions doesn't happen in their home. Rampant crime, addictions, brain drain, internal wars - no thank you, please keep this peaceful transition.

I think Egypt was the last place that was gifted one of these. I hear it went well for them /s
The first thing to do IMHO is learning at least the basics on investing. You can afford to lose a few months in inflation to avoid following some rando's advice that doesn't fit you at all. The following is not even my advice, just what I think I'd do in that situation.

There's many communities around these topics, I particularly like Reddit's /r/financialindependence. If I had $600k in cash right now, I'd treat it as a windfall and start reading around here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/windfall

There's a logic to maximizing your money/safety, which is very generic advice to a very generic question, and it goes something like:

1. Make sure to keep an emergency deposit, in cash, that would cover all your expenses for 3-6 months. Adjust for fun factor and culture.

2. Pay off high interest debt.

3. Pay off mid-interest debt.

4. Learn about investing. Investing can be from getting a degree/masters in a higher paying field if you are young and underpaid, to day trading with all its intricacies. Of course the general blanket response is ETFs, Bonds, etc.

Learn about your risk tolerance. Higher risk normally implies higher profits. E.g. if you have most of your disposable income tied into good debt, you'll probably have quite a lot of profit. But get sick for a month with lower pay, lose your job, etc. and you might lose it all.
> I always fear I vastly overestimated my ability to handle the worst case.

Good! Now you can live through rough times and prove your own fortitude and resilience to yourself and the doubters.
Ok? That's a non sequitur. No one is forcing you to buy a dedicated server for $1300 a month which probably has the same performance as $250 worth of separate boxes. And separating services isn't what we're talking about here. It's adding horizontal processes across machines instead of on one machine.
This study cannot be used to contradict or support hypotheses. The study is too small, local (do you live in Tuscany?), and is highly confounded. What other traits covary incidentally with eating more or less meat? Hundreds. This is a paper that may advance a few careers but it will not advance our understanding of aging and health span.
The lack of any ability to move the task bar to the side of a screen is killing me on Win11. As an ADD person who has spent years training myself to glance to the right for notifications it's been really breaking my workflow by making it difficult to ignore various applications beeping and blooping.
Embracing Conway's Law
Talk to a therapist? And try talking with a couple to see which one is a good fit for you.

And you're not alone, this has felt like a pretty stressful time to me, and I've been around for a while.
This is a (maybe) feature of longterm gaming groups, not something you will find trying to meet new people to form a new group.
I'm hoping Go 2 replaces the file struct with an interface too. That's been a particular pain point for me.
Seen these on twitch.tv too. Some of those transactions might be scammer origin to build legitimacy.
D&D always has been a commercial product of the west.

What did they play in the Soviet Union that was killed by becoming a sold product?
I think the first piece of real advice I can give you is to seek therapy. Find someone who listens to you and try to explain what you are feeling to them. These problems are not unique to you, but your version of them is unique and giving prescriptive advice here will likely miss the kernel of your truth.

Beyond that, the most simple advice is the best that I think you can hope for here. Make sure that you are taking care of yourself, deeply. What do you need right now? To eat, to sleep, drink water, go for a run? Listen to those needs and act on them before anything else.

Good luck. You only have one life. Make it the best you can.
Unrelated, but checked out your site and how are you offering a 99.999 SLA when you run on AWS (and other clouds) and AWS's own compute SLA is 99.99 ?
Remind me why we need a post office again.
No they don't. They do it for a brief period when they are interns, under the theory that if you only have 2 years to make someone a good enough doctor you need that many hours per week to accomplish it.

The majority of doctors work 41 to 60 hours per week. This is self reported, so it is likely that it is somewhat inflated. I once met someone who claimed to work 180 hours one week (do the math).
Hm yeah, on the "not fully stable" angle, there's also some talk about "async drop," which doesn't exist just yet, and would be useful in async contexts. Maybe that's what it was.
I have dysgraphia and during grade school I was given an AlphaSmart to help in taking notes. It's a wonderful machine. Only edits text, powered by AA batteries, and no syncing, it just spits out text over a PS/2 or USB port.

I'd love to have a slightly modernized version but it seems like they're dirt cheap ($60) on Amazon.
sure - it could buy malaria pills, or it could just buy more farms.
Excellent points - thx!. Comments...

>>you need a lot of batteries to get through a couple of weeks of cloudy weather. or generator

Yes a generator would definitely help, and even with cloudy weather you get a portion of power generated. Mostly for off-grid, you'd just have to size bigger for x% generation on cloudy days.

>>in california it might be kinda illegal to disconnect from grid (violation of building codes and such: https://www.cailaw.org/media/files/IEL/Publications/2016/gri...

That is a real kick in the guts: "requirement of interconnection in residential installations". Especially considering the quote at the beginning: "Some authors have found that a subset of customers in Hawaii may already be better off disconnecting from the grid and relying on solar-plus-battery systems; moreover, California is not far behind".

Sounds like another gift to the utilities.

I'd bet there will be lawsuits to introduce a reasonable exception soon. Especially if the $8/month/kw capacity withstands the comment period.

This is utter bulls*t if California actually claims to have increasing solar capacity as a goal. Just disgusting.
Valve actively supporting Godot to make the engine work well on the Steam Deck
Pathfinder 2E is also a step in this direction. So yes, while older systems still exist with the style I enjoy, people tend to gravitate towards the new, which is unfortunate for me.
I'd wait until we see how the updated standard library looks like. In Java they had to invent Streams. Scala/Kotlin didn't repeat that mistake and so their collection APIs are more natural to work with. Historically golang has repeated most Java mistakes so I don't hold my breadth.

On the positive side, now Either/Try-like composable types are possible. So even if they insist on not having exceptions they could clean up error processing.
Hi - go talk to a financial advisor
Yeah, I found myself gravitating more towards lazygit with the default bundled diff utility, but I believe it has the option to plug an external one. Thanks, will check delta out!
It doesn't. They mean "fast" as in one box can handle more load which in their opinion is cheaper because you don't need to containerize and horizontally scale. I find that unlikely.
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This basically only runs on A: old hardware + operating system (no go, need to do other workstation tasks at that company), or B: a windows 7 virtual machine with DOS compat set up, anything else isn't working, windows 7 validation servers were recently taken down leaving things in a precarious state of support. That's basically what I would call held together by duct tape at this point
Maybe don't tar Penrose with the same brush ?
I think what makes the "good" releases good is that they drastically pull back on the so-called "innovation" in each.

Vista tried a lot of new stuff, most of it was meh, then 7 came along and reined it in a lot, then we got 8/8.1, again, changing a ton of stuff unnecessarily in the name of updates, then 10 tried to strike a middle ground. Now we have 11, with its exceedingly aggressive hardware requirements and forced changes. With 12 we'll probably be back to MS trying to compromise so people move on from 10.

I think MS's issue with OS planning is that they really don't understand "don't fix it if it isn't broken", after every successful Windows version they get overly ambitious, change too much and push users away. Then for the following release they have to consider the fact that a large portion of their userbase hasn't upgraded, so they actually pay attention to feedback and try to compromise between what people want and what MS wants.
This kind of “background processing” was covered in detail in the infamous “Learning how to learn MOOC”.
I would go further suggesting that for people unaware of this way of thought processing/problem solving (like OP?) peer pressure may bring something akin to impostor syndrom.

This doesn’t have to be a programmer only thing IMHO. If you spend 5 hours chilling and 3 executing and everybody is happy with your performance, it may be just your way to do things. If someone next to you does the same by coding 8 hour straight - its their style, and neither is better.
see what you want to do: be an employee, be selfemployed as freelance, trader or "business owner" on whatever skills you have / can acquire. You have to invest your time in what you see profitable / risk tolerable and put the majority of your capital in investiments and let compounding work for you. Capital preservation and growth is a must for anybody in the "capital race", a "day job/activity" is what help you achieve those 2 in the long term as your real goal
Wow, judging those pics looks like they got to “live the life”
My depression is cured
How is this any different than apple only allowing safari on IOS
> In fact, I’d argue you’re in for a slower learning curve if you believe there to be magic in these areas.

I 110% agree with you.

This is Rails striking again!

"Don't look at the magic, just memorize it." might as well be Rails' slogan.

Convention over configuration really just means "Memorize all my conventions, and don't ask why I picked them".

Great for the case where your use-case is in line with the chosen conventions and you don't want to think all that hard (or you just need to pump out content - like a contract agency). Pretty terrible for just about everything else.
They don't want to exacerbate racial disparities, which is noble. They could have used that as their sole justification, but for some reason they also try to say that the crime datasets are inaccurate. Their reasoning for this is surprisingly weak. Regarding the National Crime Victimization Survey: "And there are troubling signs of this [racial bias]: in the 2019 survey, people reporting crimes were more likely to describe their offender as young, male, and Black than would be expected given the representation of those groups in the population."
That's insane. It's like a human-level-or-better AI created an exploit that was unlike anything humans had ever seen before.

Of course, that's not what really happened... isn't it?
on further examination and since the account is brand-new/created for the purpose of just that one comment, I may have fallen for a satirical example of such.
> Do poor people get to see any of this money? Give me one example except for the US one time payment to citizens.

The UK government's furlough scheme which gave all people who lost their jobs to Covid 80% of their previous salary from March 2020 to September 2021.

Denmark's similar furlough scheme.

Germany's similar furlough scheme which will last over 24 months (it also used a similar scheme in the 2008 - 2009 financial crises.)

There's four examples.

You keep saying "central banks" while also talking as if the US is the only country in the world.
What’s Polluting the Air? Not Even the EPA Can Say
It's sad to see them slipping back to such tactics, as they've made strides in changing their image in the last decade or so. I have to wonder if there was one particular good idea fairy there, and it pained the devs to have to code this "feature" in.
Don't fear emotional or physical pain. Letting yourself experience it and accepting it as a normal part of life will help you be more present and enjoy the considerably more numerous good parts of life.
I often feel like I do way too much. Especially now that I am expected to be a full-stack engineer and be involved in managing the team. I wish my job was just programming, not all this Scrum stuff. Sometimes I think programmers need to know and do way more than people in other (perhaps more lucrative) jobs, but I guess that isn't really true.
Because the $200 crappy laptop you buy in the store comes with Windows preinstalled and people couldn't care less about their operating system as long as they can write the TPS report they need for work.
few things.. How is your sleep, diet and exercise?

Have you done any therapy? sounds like you could really benefit from CBT to help you deal with catastrophizing..

"Catastrophizing is a way of thinking called a 'cognitive distortion. ' A person who catastrophizes usually sees an unfavorable outcome to an event and then decides that if this outcome does happen, the results will be a disaster."

CBT can help you understand how to get out of such negative feedback cycles in your own head.
> Actually, outside of having trouble disabling tap to click, I haven't had a ton of issues with the trackpad.

Ahh, interesting! Not sure why, but it seems that some people have a horrible experience with the trackpad on Linux, while others have a great time (from a quick observation, anyway).

As a dumb guess, maybe it's due to different drivers being used? It's exactly the same on Wayland and Linux, so I'm guessing it's happening a lot lower in the stack (I read something about libinput? Not sure where that lies at the moment.)
Grr, so much to think about! Perhaps one day I'll have a much better trackpad...

> I also haven't had the Firefox rendering problems, but I think that might be because for the last Linux laptop I had, I specifically sought out a graphics card that was likely to not have any issues.

Ahh, what graphics card is that? I'm guessing it's not NVIDIA.
One library that haa been really useful for me lately is Dataset https://dataset.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

It makes it a lot easier to casually use a database (e.g. SQLite) to persist dictionaries without explicitly building a schema.

Great for CLI apps and ad hoc data crunching.