skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, one thing to understand is that EVERYONE feels this. You're not alone, you're not more lazy than someone else, you might have different affinities but this is the cycle everyone goes through, on a weekly basis.

The sooner you accept it, the better off you'll be. Accept your best and your worst and just ride along.

There is enormous amount of BS around, whether it's in books or websites, or biographies.

Wishful thinking != Reality.

Beyond all that, I find balance in having multiple hobbies, knowing one thing: creative energy (for the lack of a better term) is pretty much hormonal. I find it's about a 10 week cycle for me. 3 weeks mad energy, 3 weeks netflix-and-chill "leave me alone", and in between is the transitions.

I'm a designer and developer by trade for about 24 years commercially, I produce music since 96, I have 2 kids, I hack on things, I also do 3D arts, I paint on canvas, I write macOS apps for fun, I take photos with highend cameras, I play pinball and own 6 machines, I make video games (released 1 on PS4 and 1 on Steam), I thinker about network protocols, etc.

That list may sound extensive and the juggle sounds impossible: that's because it is.

Realistically, I do one thing at a time for about a couple of weeks, then move on. I go back to it every now and then.

Eventually, through the years, I have these pools of hobbies in which I dive in and out of, and all is well. It's just one of those "dad things, dad does". In other words: hobbies.

Too much of society wants you labelled for something in particular. The fact is, my music inspires my rhythm, makes me play better at pinball, inspires me to make physics video games, feeds into my programming, pushes me to design something else, tinker with opencv and ball following algorithms, etc.

Life is too short to pretend to be someone else, ride the waves of creativity, don't accept to be labelled, enjoy the process, eventually you'll gravitate back to your choices of hobbies and discover new ones. In my experience, some of the best things in life came about from something completely commercially unviable. But that can lead you to a new career. Who knows where it leads, no one could tell you: looking back, not even yourself!
I don't believe there is 'disinformation' per se, but in common with practically all US-based websites the attitudes and policies on HN conform well to the current US attitudes and policies.

For any US citizens, that bias is invisible. For non-US citizens, the bias is very visible.
> The poem "If" is, largely, an endorsement of traditional norms of masculinity

Yes, and all the better for it.
The data you show is for up to 2016. More recent market info shows that middle-class property ownership which was once required to be considered as part of middle-class (definition was changed) is rapidly decreasing making it almost impossible to get from lower-class to middle-class and overall removing pretty big percent of people that are currently (by income) put into middle-class (but would not be if we used old definition).

https://www.rismedia.com/2019/09/03/is-middle-class-homeowne...

It doesnt matter how much money you make, if that money cannot buy you a shelter.

You might disagree but next years are only going to make that crisis worse and worse.

And more and more families will be not able to sustain the level of life our parents had - even whwn working 5 times as hard.
Are you implying people should feel free to create and obtain a new name on the blockchain using any random website? Also I do not see the list of popular GH names in the link you provided.
I've been using tiles for a while, it works pretty well
> I don't know why insurance companies don't offer 10gb of storage with someone like Backblaze for their customers.

Why on earth would an insurance company help customers better track their insured property, which means in the event of a claim they'd cost the company more?
Happy 4550002022, fellow Earthling.
Yeah, neither goes twice into seven.
Careful! You might run in to a Venetian who can’t pardon a word which slanders his nation.
Ditto, the US North West, where I now live, has had one of its coldest winters on record. It's been heavily snowing with temperature well below freezing the past few days, which is almost unheard of at this time of the year in these parts.
The Belarus case broke at least one big international agreement about planes. Was that even remotely the case for that situation in the USA ?
You’re taking advice from a drunk man, but get a blue collar job for a year after you graduate and see how you feel. Four possibilities:

1. You’ll love it and keep working it.

2. You’ll hate it and have a newfound appreciation for your relative privilege in CS.

3. You’ll still be ambivalent and not know what to do with yourself because you don’t really know what you want.

4. You’ll combine skillsets and find avenues that others haven’t explored too much.

edit: no matter what the outcome is, you get to make OSHA jokes for the rest of your life.
I don’t think your comment contributes anything useful to the conversation. Nobody sets out to write garbage code. Nobody decides to add more legacy code. However it still happens despite software developers best intention. So do you have any practical solutions to solve the problem?
A few thoughts.

Don't force yourself so much and just enjoy.

You feel the need to do a lot of different things but not finish them to a level you like. Some people are like that: they love to start ideas and solve problems, but have less interest in 'typing out the remainder'.

It can be good to plan life, but you might miss out on opportunities along the way.

One observation that opened my eyes: even without careful planning people succeed.
5 to 10 percent raise will mean that you only lost a little income to inflation. Yay.

Of course those at the bottom who aren't getting these raises will be even further down.
These kinds of meetings and "consensus" are collusion and should be prosecuted. Just like Apple colluding with Google in the past to suppress engineers' wages. The article tried to portray it as resulting in this company upping its raises to 10%, but how many came away concluding that 10% was a ceiling?

"She settled on 10% after her finance chief attended a gathering with peer companies. When the subject of compensation came up, a consensus quickly emerged among attendees that 10% raises were needed to keep up with both inflation and the demands of highly sought after tech talent."
Thank you.
I think this idea that there's a perfect ideal to strive for is present in all culture. From someone educated in "Western" values but living with "Eastern" tradition (simplifying a lot here), I've (personally) always read Kipling as very pretentious, and a relic of an older time. However seeing how often it comes up in forums and how people always laud it when it does, I think it strikes a chord with a certain mindset (that flies past my head unfortunately), and by that it will be a poem that continues to be a guiding light.
My belief is that people however should understand the context of something, even more so if it is a text that they treasure.
It doesn't have to be used to kill all insects, just the few mosquitos that are in my bedroom when I try to sleep. I'll remove any dead mosquitos the next morning and probably won't really alter the ecosystem, while it can make sure I have a good night's sleep.

Edit: after re-reading the article I see the main subject is killing moths to improve agriculture, not mosquitos in my bedroom
Here's a minor elaboration on that tweet:

>"Switches that should have indicated that the cover rolled up did not trigger when they were supposed to. However, secondary and tertiary sources offered confirmation that it had. Temperature data seemed to show that the sunshield cover unrolled to block sunlight from a sensor, and gyroscope sensors indicated motion consistent with the sunshield cover release devices being activated."

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/31/first-of-two-sunshiel...
Hmm... Does this then explain why Sri Lankans play Draughts on a 12x12, like the Canadians?
Spiritual but Not Religious
Friendly fraud can be faught. Both person's are known to the payment processor. You are still ignoring that it's the customer who decides how to pay. That's why a vendor won't pick crypto when the goal is selling products as in e-commerce.

Moving goal posts?

And you're talking about jobs in fan/artist investing now?

Honestly, i think that could have a chance. Same as Blockchain for voting rights for soccer clubs.

I already said that's possible and it's not related to the topic at hand:

> You're examples are similar to crypto investments, which is almost the only thing people would spend their crypto on.

But if you think any of both are even remotely related to the OP's post, than that's just idiotic.
It's definitely not "a whole lot of extra work".

The same attitude as yours has spawned an entire culture of repulsive inefficiency and egregious waste. Hundreds or even gigabytes of memory for a bloody chat client which still manages to lag noticeably on 2019-era hardware? How is that even acceptable?

...all because of some misguided and incredibly selfish notion that "developer experience" somehow trumps that of however many users there are (and because a lot of this is corporate shit, we have no choice but are forced to use it.)
Only want to kill mosquitoes.
I don’t think Kantian idealism is really idealism in the traditional sense, but it’s essentially just the idea that the world humans can know is not the world as it is, but rather just a subset or interpretation which, in all likelihood, bares little resemblance to the world as it is.
Apple's Mail program has a designation of Previous Recipient, which I believe refers to people I have previously sent email to.

While spam can certainly come from (or appear to come from) people in my address book, I would think it would be a good idea to whitelist emails that come from a recent recipient, where the subject line matches up as well.
Odds Ratio can only factor in known risks. I very specifically mentioned in my comment I was concerned about the unknown risks.

If my numbers were wrong, I apologize. I mostly remember not being impressed enough
> The parameters of the Bitcoin code are changeable

In principle, yes. But look at the clusterfuck that was the BCH fork. Something as basic as blocksize led to an outrageous amount of venom and two communities hating each other. Now imagine if the core devs wanted to change things that more directly affected the relative wealth of early adopters. Could you believe the anger if they proposed that we double the number of eventually mined bitcoins?
I have this opinion of Churchill too. Should we solely praise him, absolutely not, was he still one of the great men of history, yes.

That being said the former viewpoint is still being elucidated to many people so I am not overly critical of those who express it too enthusiastically.

The Mythos of Churchill must be challenged, just as the good celebrated and analysed.

Very few people seem to know of Clement Attlee these days, which is probably a tragedy considering his influence on what really matters in Britain today.
Step throat is caused by common skin bacteria that can spontaneously mutate and start attacking the throat.
Just replace meat with protein shakes
Agreed! And TCHAR was the dumbest of all of them. “Not all of our libs/tools/editors support Unicode yet so use TCHAR in the meantime and then one day when our stack supports it fully then you can throw the switch and all your char*’s will be wchar_t*’s and I’m sure that’ll go really well in your codebase.”
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding some of the philosophical aspects here, but the Copenhagen interpretation seems to just a label for the (now) undisputed basic facts of quantum mechanics, so the "interpretation" part of it seems to be a bit historical now. The Wikipedia page gives the following "principles" of the interpretation:

> Quantum mechanics is intrinsically indeterministic.

> The correspondence principle: in the appropriate limit, quantum theory comes to resemble classical physics and reproduces the classical predictions.
The Born rule: the wave function of a system yields probabilities for the outcomes of measurements upon that system.

> Complementarity: certain properties cannot be jointly defined for the same system at the same time. In order to talk about a specific property of a system, that system must be considered within the context of a specific laboratory arrangement. Observable quantities corresponding to mutually exclusive laboratory arrangements cannot be predicted together, but considering multiple such mutually exclusive experiments is necessary to characterize a system.

These are universally accepted facts now (it would be silly for any physical theory to contradict the second one). Even a kind of "out there" theory like many worlds theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation) would not dispute these facts (it just reinterprets the indeterminism of quantum mechanics as taking different "branches" in a multiverse). The "interpretation" part of it is a bit historical, as no "interpretation" should contradict these facts (a la Bell's theorem).

Edit: As a philosophy, any "interpretation" built off of these facts is cool, but until you calculate anything, it's essentially useless as a physical theory.
> Is your point to bring down those who have made it to the top on their own merit because you believe someone somewhere in their ancestry gave them a "massive leg up"? How do you prove that? And even if you can prove it, what is the fault of the person who was born into privilege? Do you mean to fault them for being born into it?

No, no, and no. I'm not proposing that we should tear anyone down, nor that we should stop hiring qualified people on the grounds that they were privileged. I agree with you 100% that that would be unfair and counterproductive. What I'm arguing for is not a policy change, it's a paradigm shift.

I believe that the first step to effecting real change in generational cycles of poverty is to acknowledge that generational cycles exist at all. Wealth does not simply flow to those who have merit--merit is in most (but not all) cases a product of wealth. It's a feedback loop.

We cannot place full credit for success on the shoulders of the privileged without also placing full blame for failure on the shoulders of the downtrodden. To acknowledge and fix the generational cycles that keep people down, we have to first acknowledge and study the generational cycles that prop people up.
Not really--MS SQL Server was Windows only and took a while to grow. Oracle ran everywhere and was simply a better database by the mid-90s. (Previously Sybase was quite far ahead.) Oracle had row-level locking and MVCC at a time when Sybase was still stuck with a cumbersome page locking model. Oracle was also more reliable at least in my experience. I used to hit page corruption pretty regularly on Sybase but almost never on Oracle.

Disclaimer: I worked at Sybase. It was an outstanding company in the early days.
My mom used to work at a library and so it was one of my key 8th grade hangouts. A few months after my dad passed (complications after open-heart surgery) I was there with my friend, James Daly, and he brought me a book of poetry opened to 'If.' For many years it was sort of a father figure to me, giving me a notion of what to value and what to aim for. I still cherish it, and the friend who gave it to me.
> $1.5T worth of users

Is that money divided evenly amongst the users?

> they don't care — why?

The incumbents stand to make money by denying the existence of a scam, whether they are involved or not.
Oops, I misread the article. Thanks for the correction.
Karen is a pejorative term for a white woman perceived as entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal [1] so it is just as "racist" as many other "racist" things. If "Karen" isn't racist then neither are many - if not most - things which are deemed racist. I'm fine with that so I hope you're sincere and are willing to follow this old-new definition of racism. If the term goes back to where it belongs - the assumption of people's traits based on their physical appearance with a heavy emphasis on skin tone - and it ceases to be bandied around as a label for anything which happens to displease the one doing the labelling the world will become a better place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang)
Warning: productivity sink. Save versus Procrastination or lose 5 hours
Because that's only 1.4mm at 1m, which is very useful.
Harsh truth: its time to settle.
Note that it is a 4-core CPU which employs simultaneous multithreading[1] (hyper-threading in this case) to achieve a higher throughput while executing independent instruction streams. This technique can provide multiple hardware threads to the OS to schedule its processes on (typically 2 per physical core), and the CPU takes care of executing them as concurrently as possible on a single core (typically by employing a few hardware enhancements within the core so that it can work with multiple instruction streams in a since clock cycle).

At first, the throughput up to 4 cores increases linearly because 4 OS threads can utilize 4 hardware threads independently, making the greatest possible use of available hardware resources. Beyond 4 OS threads, simultaneous multithreading comes into play and up to 8 OS threads get scheduled on 8 "simultaneously multithreaded" hardware threads, which offers increased throughput, but not as drastic (see how the author uses the word "slightly"). Beyond 8 OS threads, the throughput will not increase as you are out of hardware threads which actually execute your instruction streams independently. The OS can spawn an arbitrary number of threads beyond 8, but they will take turns executing on your 8 available hardware threads - no gain in net throughput. You get limited by the hardware.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading
Had that feeling 20 years ago. Any non-professional act you do will be like a kata. Just implement new tech and learn old tech, that will be sufficient. If you want to get serious, you need to do it like you would work an actual job.
Following this line of thinking, I managed to find a few lists that provide plenty of ideas:

[0] https://teambuilding.com/blog/online-team-building-games

[1] https://toggl.com/track/team-building-games/

[2] https://employmenthero.com/blog/free-online-team-building-ga...

Searched for “cooperative games for team building”. Because, duh. I don’t know how I missed that word combo before posting here.
This is... uh, interesting... but if you need work music I'd just go with one of the random 3 hour space music type videos that are all over YouTube. Similar vibe as this, but way less chaotic.
The general solution here is to use scopes instead of RAII to ensure destruction. Rust lost its thread::scoped libstd API because that was based on RAII, but there are multiple crates in the ecosystem that provide the lexical scope-based solution
In the US there are literally thousands of different public health agencies headed by health officers with strategies ranging from herd immunity by any means necessary to attempting COVID 0. Vague gripes about public health tag lines in such a fractured environment is unproductive.
Or they don't intend to actually help anyone, just patent troll.
It still has the same problem, unfortunately.
Citations and publications come first, actual science second.

Perhaps any effort to quantify success/status is destined to be gamed.
It doesn't necessarily work like that, it might be 1.4cm across its entire range.
This man has a great track record:

https://www.logically.ai/articles/who-is-dr.-robert-malone
'The reason I feel optimistic about the future of Alzheimer’s research'
Strangely enough, my introduction to this brilliant poem came from Dennis Hopper’s coke fueled rendition of an excerpt in Apocalypse Now. I wonder why Coppola chose If.
The Palace https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_palace.htm is one I frequently mutter to myself while engaged in code archaeology and/or refactoring.
they do have the advantage of having a much smaller range of hardware to support
White people, particularly white women. I'm fairly sure you knew this? Here's the definition of the pejorative "Karen" [1]:

Karen is a pejorative term for a white woman perceived as entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal. The term is a meme depicting white women who use their privilege to demand their own way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang)
>>>> in the people having opportunity to study and work abroad

No one asks for caste on a US Visa application or a US college application and neither does the US state department grant the visa based on caste. In fact about 50% of college/university seats are reserved for lower castes (affirmative action).

>>>> In some sense is like Jewish-Americans supporting diversity efforts and fighting against "white supremacy" but totally minimizing or ignoring the huge Jewish over-representation in all the important spots in society, from CEOs of big companies to SCOTUS and everything in between.

There seems to be a misconception and a very narrow view. Yes, some very visible companies have Indian CEO's. NVIDIA has a CEO of Taiwanese descent and the same is true obviously for TSMC. I think if you did a poll across most mid to large companies you will find that this assertion is incorrect. A very small percentage of the total CEO population is Asian or Indian. So, while the Economist likes to bring caste into the picture it's actually a non-issue for being a CEO.
HN is a pretty small community. There are ample dictionary word usernames left.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=generalmotors

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=usually

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fucking

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sucks

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=although

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=their

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hummers

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=appear

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rugged

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tough

None of these are registered yet.

Is it remarkable because it's a name? I bet we can find lots of those, too.
Wow they were very patient, hope they get second opinions earlier next time like ultimately solved it. Same with health, don’t blindly trust the first doctor for anything significant if it doesn’t seem right. Don’t shop for the opinion one wants but get a second one.
Side projects are a big thing for me... Recognise that it's okay to play around with an idea (or many ideas) for a bit and abandon it when you're bored. It's not a second day job so try to avoid creating pressure for yourself.
I think "inside the envelope" is still too obscure. Maybe better (but getting strained) to say the reporter had a secretary who usually opens his mail and only sends him a summary of his correspondence based on keywords he's interested in. But when he opens his own mail one day, he sees it has confidential information included in it, which his secretary has not been forwarding because it doesn't match the keywords.

Overall, I agree with the person who said analogies make it more confusing.
(1) I don't think "we've added other business lines while making our existing business lines more successful" can truly be described as a "pivot". Apple is still a personal computer manufacturer, and is selling more Macs than ever.

(2) I really don't think you can call Apple "a high-end AV consumer electronics company". Sony makes televisions, receivers, speakers, soundbars, Blu-Ray players, turntables, and $3000+ digital music players. You can argue that the iPod brought Apple back from the brink, but I don't think you can argue that any iPod was a high-end music player; the only video player they make is the Apple TV, and their audio equipment is limited to Beats headphones, AirPods, and one smart speaker of middling quality (and dubious smarts).