skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm implying too much intentionality but that's not how I meant it. I'm not trying to say anyone truly _wants_ it to happen - just that it happens one way or another, whether subconsciously or as a second-order effect of something else.

I think we're in agreement that a depressed person generally doesn't want to be cheered up and won't be receptive to it, so you can be positive as much as you want and it won't do much.

I've been on both sides of this, and as the depressed person it seems most helpful to remember that I need to put in the extra effort to try to be positive especially when I don't want to. And as the partner it's helpful to remember that you need to create some separation so you don't get too pulled in and then are unable to help in any way.
Apache or GPL do not allow you to ban selling or minting NFTs.
Wow, sounds a lot like my situation. Except I don't make good money and my wife supports me quitting even though it would be financially impossible.

I would just say continue to slog on with your current job until they fire you. That's my plan.

I sort of agree that even if you have money saved you shouldn't quit without something lined up. The main part of burn out is a lack of hope. You need to believe that the next job will actually be better than the current one. I lack this hope because my jobs have been progressively worse.
What do I do when my boss is sabotaging interviews?
When I read these comments and see so many fellow HNers are in are in relationships with depressed partners it makes me wonder what’s going on. My ex wife was severely depressed for over a decade and so is my new partner of a couple years. I know leaving my ex was the right thing to do but now I’m back in a pretty similar situation. Having a partner who won’t get out of bed til after noon, won’t exercise, and eats only junk will drag you down no matter how hard you personally work on your own health.
>"I feel that direct mimicry of UIs and designs"

Unless the unique design is the goal on its own why waste time?
There is no discussion to be had here. Again, you don't want to hear answers, and the hostile tone further confirms it. Again. Peace.
The ones that aren't required at all?
All we want to know is, where's the beef?

Don't forget there are a lot of well-to-do devs here who just want to know what the technical details are. A lot of us are no longer in it for the money.

The author is basically calling out the proponents of "web3" to define it with RFC-level detail, something that I think would be tremendously beneficial to everyone in this debate.
You don't want to acknowledge the moral dilemma that I'm presenting and instead bickering about the details. I'm a medical professional. I know about HIV and AIDS. You're just being a boob.
if you have a direct fiber internet connection to your house page size doesn't even matter.
I wasn't getting that philosophical. I just think "ownership" isn't 100% consistent with property that can be confiscated by the government if you fail to make an annual payment.

on the other hand, I do feel like I "own" my bike. the government won't try hard to help me if someone steals it, but I don't need to pay some central authority in perpetuity to keep it. I guess you could argue that the trouble I go to to avoid theft is in some sense a "payment", but that becomes a bit abstract for me.
Did you mean "well over a year"?
The lack of self-awareness shown by this interviewer is staggering. You're right, they seem to relish wasting their (paid) and applicants' (unpaid) time. I won't hold my tongue. The people that do this are total assholes, if not downright sociopaths.
This may help: [https://millionshort.com/search?keywords=crafting_printers&r...]
The dirty little secret (which is showing more and more) is that to build a real business/application/etc on blockchain you're almost certainly using a "node provider". It turns out that running these decentralized nodes and doing so at anything approaching the needs of a real business is really, really hard. This is why almost all real crypto applications (including Coinbase and Opensea!) use a handful of node provider(s) with the two biggest being:

https://www.alchemy.com/ (currently valued at $3.5B)

https://infura.io/ (actually Consensys and valued at $3.2B)

For IPFS there's the Infura product and Pinata (which actually uses AWS).

While these may not be "crazy" valuations for the space it seems that many people and investors are aware that the utopian concept of everyone running their own node or whatever for access to/participation in these blockchains is more-or-less a pipe dream. You can check my comment history for examples of why these node providers are a necessity for anything other than toy blockchain use cases.

What's interesting about these providers is that (once again) you're trusting a single source. The blockchain isn't the blockchain - the blockchain is whatever your commercial and centralized node provider says it is. I have no reason not to trust them but the reality is not only are we back to centralized providers, we're back to inherently trusting them.

The gist of it is: if web3 is real and actually "takes over" companies like Alchemy and Infura are just the new AWS and GCP:

https://www.alchemy.com/company

Consensys is even more telling:

https://consensys.net/products/

Large node provider, wallet (MetaMask!), and popular development suite (Truffle) - among others.
Shit leadership setting wrong incentives is the reason
> “Real Africans” probably cringe when they see the referenced articles & books this author references.

i didn't see any references, which articles and books are you referring to?
> One thing I wonder is what makes intelligence "special" so that there are no differences, as compared to other physical traits where you do see differences between ethnicities?

IQ theory has the following problems:

1. Intelligence is not the same as height, as one of these is low-dimensional and mechanical, and the other is high-dimensional and very complex.

2. There are problems defining what intelligence is.

3. The "intelligence" as measured by IQ is problematic because it's engineered to follow a normal distribution. This then contradicts claims by IQ-ists that IQ predicts things which are very much non-normally distributed.

4. Many of the apparent successes of IQ theory can be explained by saying that low IQ relative to a surrounding population is indicative of a learning disability. This doesn't make higher-than-average IQ useful though.

5. People who score highly in IQ tests are interested in puzzles and seeing patterns in things. This is not necessarily a useful skill in real life, and may even be detrimental sometimes.

6. IQ-ists claim to be dispassionately following what the science says, but are generally incompetent at the fundamentals of science. For instance, they use measures of statistical association like Pearson Correlation Coefficient, which have been abandoned in all the hard sciences. These old-fashioned methods of statistical association are very brittle, and are easy to misuse. They appear to be ignorant of more modern and robust statistics. When their data has been checked using more modern methodology, their conclusions don't hold up.

7. IQ-ists claim to be dispassionately following what the science says, but their mistakes have serious consequences for people's lives. It can be used to justify racism and eugenics.
The usefulness of web3/crypto/blockchain is said to be in decentralization.
However it is not the blockchain and crypto algorithm that enable decentralization.
It is not even the distributed ledger. We do not need these things to be able to make distributed services. What we need is standard public interfaces.

Take an example of NFTs. They are increasingly popular, even if they are meaningless tokens not representing ownership of physical item nor protecting against digital copies and distribution.

What makes NFTs useful is that any token can be manipulated by any wallet/marketplace/exchange. This is enabled by using a standard ERC-721 interface. The interface is simple and well-designed. The adoption of the interface is high in crypto-software.

Imagine all e-shops would implement the same public API for querying products, creating orders, calculating discounts and shipping prices and making payments. We would need no Amazon to be the largest e-commerce website. We would need no e-bay. Anyone would be able to make a product-selling website or one-off auction on they own or using a 3rd party service/hosting. And everyone would be able to use their preferred front-end. Aggregators and price comparators would be created, with no need for web scraping.

The orders do not need to be on public immutable ledger, nor the payments.
Every entity can implement the API on its own, host is on its own, but is not required to. Every entity can decide to use 3rd party implementation and/or hosting of the API. The same as with crypto tokens and smart contracts.
There's also value in prevention.

For example, I've never used Tiktok in my life. I can't get addicted to it when I don't know what I'm missing. So I've internalized it as "silly teens dancing" and a "Chinese data grab", regardless of whether that is accurate.

This works for me. Clearly, nothing of importance happens on Tiktok, as in the real world I never hear anybody about it. So at best I would be missing out on entertainment, but I don't have a lack of that, I have too much of it.

I do use Twitter, where I also had the excuse to "stay on top of my industry". It's bullshit. Every industry has hundreds of weekly newsletters you can pick from that summarizes anything of significance.

You don't follow these experts for their insights, you're addicted to the timeliness and unpredictability of it.

Twitter is dangerous, it gets you addicted to hate and outrage. Uninstall it and never look back.
Even if you use patreon, people get greedy and eventually will sell out and put up reviews of stuff for affiliate links, free products for reviews, etc.
> Not sure I agree, HN makes the username visible right next to the post?

Yes, but grayed out, in the background, so to speak. I usually do not notice the username at all (capableweb, hi! this is the first time I've noticed you...). Especially the usernames next to topics/stories are completely ignored by my brain's eyes.
And why would a non-corrupt one which trusts itself and its future self want to switch?
Absolutely nothing about GitHub infuriates me more than this “feature”… “large diffs are not rendered by default”.

Why does GitHub ignore the most important thing to look at in a PR? It’s not the tiny changes that are of top importance, it’s the big ones. The number of times I’ve been burned by trying to ctrl+f for something I’m looking for in someone’s PR (trying to see “does this diff touch X” for instance) — and getting a false impression of the code I’m reviewing — just because GitHub silently elided showing a big diff somewhere in the middle of a PR… is too high to count.

The single most important part of GitHub is the social aspect (code reviews), and it’s the part it is objectively worst at. If I just wanted to host my code, I could make a simple server with SSH accounts and let people push to it. We use GitHub because it’s supposed to be a venue for discussing complex changes, and it sucks by default at discussing complex changes.
One may not have the parents/friends/family to teach them how to know who a competent accountant is (or worse, a nefarious one). It is impractical to spend a lot of time interviewing many professionals, so forums can provide a quick way to cut through some noise.

Obviously, different forums are helpful for different things. But I would do both, utilize the power of the internet community and the services of a professional.
What if a website IS a PowerPoint presentation?
Recycle it. The cost decline and power curve doesn’t make sense to keep antiques.
take plain old database, then add requirements 1) to be public, 2) not controlled by a single entity, 3) stored data is objectively consistent, and you basically get a blockchain
Solution: Pay toilets in the coach cabin.
This is exactly my issue. My OTP app is on my phone so I have to use it half a dozen times a day. I reduced notifications to the bare minimum (only messaging apps) but just checking one of them deviates me from the thing I was trying to achieve (get the OTP and go back to work) and it’s too late.

I haven’t tried the new "do not disturb" improvements in iOS 15 so maybe there’s something interesting there.

Edit: I just tried with the "at work" setting that allows you to disable notification badges and other things during work hours; let’s see how it goes.
I think it's a bit of both, plus corporate culture at Intel/AMD not getting it (especially Intel) and then OEMs screwing things up even more with all the hardware around the CPU proper. E.g. I have an x86 laptop where the SSD gets warm in standby; clearly that's not going to do any good for standby battery life.

Since Apple controls the whole stack, they can make sure all this stuff is done properly from top to bottom.
If this was a random nurse I might agree. But this person is a professor at UCSF.
Its a satire of books and articles about Africa. Thats what I mean, the pieces he is critiquing.
> until you actually watch somebody go so some distance doing a what you considered a impossible thing.

Agreed which I why I would love to see more anecdotal evidence or stories supporting these messages. And by anecdotal evidence, I really mean n=1 stories not some controlled group studies.

Right now it feels like everyone from a lifestyle youtuber to a VC are telling us that _this_ is the way but I don't hear/see enough people turning their lives around or achieving the so-called "impossible" just because they adopted some good habits. Basically the ratio of people striking gold to people selling shovels seems too low to me.
What you're advising sounds at least borderline fraudulent. Yes, they should absolutely be taking out any halfway reasonable business expenses (discuss with an accountant if it's not obvious). But I'm pretty sure buying a villa for the events that their 2 person company holds isn't in the reasonable expense category.
Is there browser any blocker for background 3D yet?
"""Put in 1pt font in his email signature "wear a red tie to the interview" then berated a candidate who showed up without a red tie for "lack of attention to detail"""

This made me laugh.
Given global travel today, _it could_. My point is the widespread application of these rules is putting vaccinated people together to maintain convenience and isolating unvaccinated people to prevent healthcare overload.
For so many things. Need to scan a QR code to enter a building, or need to display Vaccine status. My bank now requires I run their mobile App to be able to log in, even if I'm on a PC. Most OTP authorisation requires you to receive an SMS code. Government departments are now only contactable via the Net, so a smart phone is the minimum unless you have a PC.
The caves where covid is supposed to have originated are over a thousand kilometers from Wuhan, next to the Himalayan border. What a crazy coincidence that the bat traveled halfway across China without infecting anyone before it finally landed right across the street from the Wuhan Coronavirus Research Lab.
If you consider selling your daughter off for marriage self sufficiency sure.
What did you use for your back-end and for spitting out the HTML?
> But don't worry! AWS thought of this! They invented Another Cloud Thing, namely Lambda@Edge, to solve this.

No, CloudFront Functions is the Another Cloud Thing AWS invented more specifically for this use case. Lambda@Edge is the older and more general purpose edge computing facility.

> You read that right! Execute code every time a request hits your proxy!

Any rewrite rule in any platform, and heck, any other functionality provided by the distribution, is executing code every time it gets a request (whether or not you are writing code for the purpose.)
I disagree. You should line up a job with a start date that gives you a short break. At least for me, the biggest part of burnout is that you don't have hope. Why should I try hard if it's not rewarded? Why should I learn this new tech thing if I use the knowledge only once and then throw it away? You need that knowledge that the next job will actually be better, and to do that you need it lined up.
Seems like Cloudflare is well positioned to provide an alternative?
Did you know that Satoshi is not who he was purported to be? An answer is coming... Oh and be careful with these books. They're using barcodes to track us.
That’s a really cool collection.
These theories ineveitably boil down to "the group with the ability to maintain a monopoly on the use of violence wins", and then argues that group should be selected on the basis of payment rather than voting.
Your Dell dies if you leave it in your backpack over the weekend ? I contest that claim.

My XPS i9 dies if I left it in my backpack overnight ! I can't wait to have Linux properly running on an M1 Pro, so I can justify buying one.
> Even the word “decoded” as opposed to decrypted would raise eyebrows to a layperson juror

What does "raise eyebrows" mean?

You hypothesize a jury that simply doesn't understand the word "encoding," and can't be taught its meaning because it sounds like
"encryption"?

If a message were broadcast in Morse code, then you could be convicted for unlawful access if you were to decode that into letters, right? Because it's Morse "code," an encoding.

I guess juries might not convict in that case because they've heard of "Morse code", but not "Base64 encoding"?

Anyway, if communication with juries is this fragile (and maybe it is) then a jury conviction really means nothing and the trial system as a whole is pretty hopeless and certainly cannot justify imprisonment of anyone.
Between an S-Corp structure and having an i401k... definitely awesome for taxes. Nothing really competes for contractors.

I'd take the advice here of what dictates a "reasonable salary" with grain of salt however. $54k is not some magic cut off. Income only a factor in calculating it.

Here is official document. Purposely vague of course so it can be the IRS
s discretion or a legal battle: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/fs-08-25.pdf

Just get an accountant. Pay yourself as low a salary as they recommend and document how you arrived there.
What's amazing to me is that you can't pay someone $8 to find weaknesses in your system that let people mine crypto for free, but people are happy to do it and mine $8 in crypto before they get shut down. I don't really understand it.

What surprised me about this incident was how many script kiddies are out there. The sophistication of the attacks were so low. Very poor opsec (using compromised machines as jump boxes, but still logging into the site with their desktop browser with no VPN or Tor), very poor understanding of attack tools (LD_PRELOAD to make certain processes not show up in "ps", except we don't use a dynamically-linked binary to do that, so it has no effect), etc. I feel like I never converse with that type of person on HN, so I just forgot they existed.

I kind of assumed that whole field of specialization died off when people started getting aggressively prosecuted for this sort of thing, but apparently not. If anything, the crypto craze has really increased the demand for hacked Linux systems. I was very surprised to see thousands of compromised machines on major cloud providers attacking us, as well as a long tail of tiny hosting companies that I assumed didn't exist in the world of Linode and Digital Ocean. Like you can get a server in a rack somewhere and sell it to someone, and there are customers that buy that service. Mind blown!
>And I would say, the whole world is in a state of confusion caused by missunderstanding. If people would speak and write a bit more clean and clearly (like good code) I think everyone would benefit.

many professions have concepts that are complicated to understand for people outside the profession and as such develop their own jargon.

The development of jargon that is perceived as unfriendly and complicated to people outside the profession is often driven by the need for greater clarity inside the profession.

Finally in the case of programming languages and clarity arguments, clarity relates to your expertise, the less expert phrasing is sometimes overly verbose and destructive to quick comprehension, while the expert phrasing may seem incomprehensible to the non-expert.
I'm sorry, I don't know what to tell you (although your question sounds a bit rhetorical), and that's part of the problem in my opinion.

It's so ubiquitous now that even if you want to get out of this duopoly, you can't really.
This is nice stuff - I just wish it wasn't "for website backgrounds"...?! Can these just be screensavers? Please?
It's even worse with games. If you buy a game on steam, steam has an account api that is completely usable for online play, but the game companies want more data so they force you to make an account with them.

I have a stadia account and I've taken to doing the same thing. If i go to play a game and the first thing it wants me to do is create an account, I'm not playing that game, and I'm telling support about it.
I occasionally do Street View trips in random spots in Africa to get a sense of the place. Wish there was some kind of driving game powered by that data.
With the nicotine addiction the best method fighting it was Alan Carr's in which you don't rely on your willpower but on your perception. There's a monster in you that feeds on nicotine and it wants more nicotine. With each cigarette you make it happy and you depend on it more. Or you're just a fly falling down the tube of a carnivorous plant and with each cigarette you keep saying it's fine. Such analogies change your perception on how you look at nicotine addiction and helps you overcome it. Of course brain's rewarding mechanism and all the other related neurological/psychological concepts are important too but basically when you try to stop yourself from doing something (like, not smoking) then willpower kicks in and the success rate drops significantly whereas with perception you'll have a better chance.

I see a similar problem with Twitter/TikTok/etc addiction. Only with them the issue is, the more you give from yourself to the platform the more you are addicted to it. I'm not addicted to Twitter, for instance. I follow 70-80 folks and am followed as similar but every time I post something I feel the need/urgency (such as nicotine withdrawal) to follow up, either to check the likes or the replies or whatever. Our brains are so dumb and our egos are so fragile keeping the distance becomes a challenge of its own.

I don't recommend anything. Just keep your minds free.
I have a whole shelf of broken laptops, obsolete monitors, junked hard drives, etc, that will probably still be there when I die and my heirs have to clean out my house.
How to Think about Recommendations
If the trigger goes off just being looked at, maybe the manufacturer shares blame…
I tried eyeOS long time ago. A plan I never put forward was to use it as a UI to remotely control some device or give access to a few resources of the computer it was running on. Now that tor allows me to give a "universal" name for a machine, maybe I'll think again about doing that.
1. Do not assume this goes on forever. Use that $ to plan for the next thing.
2. Get an accountant and minimize tax.
Think about what happens if half of the factory personal is in home office or can only work at reduced capacity due to Covid concern => production capacity will be reduced. Then consider this happens transitively. Each supplier in the chain will work only at reduced capacity, and therefore the overall shortage can be even stronger.