skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ultimately not good for the spirit. Yes, some people can tolerate the bullshit. Likewise, there are people who are willing to be poop divers for sewage treatment plants (though this is an imperfect analogy I want not to offend those who are fine doing far less meaningful work). This doesn't mean everyone can or should be poop divers.

Sure, everyone should be prepared to tolerate a level of meaningless and nonsense in the corporate world. I fully agree that one should not become too invested in work that ultimately serves the company.

Nevertheless, if humans were meant to live as sysipheans, by now we would have found more straight-forward ways of doing so, and we might even take pride in doing pointless work. Yet few if anyone is openly proud of doing nothing and still getting paid even when there's no social recourse. Naturally, when enough time passes and a person has yet to be able to actually contribute to the system, they are liable to be alienated. And why shouldn't they? If they can sit around for months or years being practically useless while still having to trade one's finite time for the privilege of food and shelter, there may be a breaking point where they can't make logical sense of the situation anymore. Where's the excitement? For many, we spend more hours at work than at home, especially if you discount sleep, and those hours are usually tired. That time at work had better mean at least something at some point; how is one then supposed to feel when they've reached senior status and... the situation is exactly the same or quite possibly worse?

It would be nice if humans could get more fulfillment out of their personal lives, but that usually doesn't come by default and rather requires considerable work on top of one's day job; family, friends, and social status all require work, and may of us don't even have adequate time for those. Is it reasonable to put a sapient mind through the anguish of being irrelevant in nearly every aspect of their lives for the promise of a distant retirement and expect them to not feel a sense of disengagement because the world is constructed in such a ridiculous fashion?

This isn't to say that you are entirely wrong, but I have to wonder if you believe that in every fiber of your being, because otherwise you could have been a burger flipper or a circus clown instead of the occupation that brings you to HN. I assume that you have a set of skills that came to you at least somewhat naturally, and that if you were unable to ever properly execute those skills that those skills (and thereby you) would seem worthless to yourself.

In my personal opinion, life is way too short to deal with meaninglessness for extended periods. If your job continues to be meaningless after years of experience, chances are you are doing the wrong thing and can benefit from a course correction.
Unless this is something Kobo added in the last couple of years, my Kobo automatically prompts me for whether I want to enable mass storage when connected to a PC and that's that.
Rackspace has a 10 user minimum.
Those numbers seem too absurd to be true….

Did they pay one guy or something and now we have an article?
There no way this is real, this definitely couldn't be economically viable
I'm currently using Longhorn for storage, but if I find some reasonably priced HDDs, I may add or switch to Rook.

When you make a change in git, it is automatically deployed without the need for human intervention.
> It exists because it became part of the POSIX standard way back when a pdp7 was an advanced computer…

The PDP-7 was long obsolete by the time the POSIX effort started. By then the most common Unix host was a VAX (32 bits), though it, or Unix-alikes, ran on a variety of 16 and 32 bit machines, hence a desire for standardization.
Unfortunately, an awful lot do, even the licensed/degreed engineers. I have lots of anecdotes from personal experience that indicate many are more technician/tinkerers than engineers.
Explore the great outdoors.
While tempting, I would think hard and loong. I've moved countries three times already, and it's getting harder and harder to do.
You can tell it’s a fiction piece, because robot’s battery allegedly lasted more than 10 minutes.

> was still on the loose the following day.
Movies That Show “Simple” Is a Force of Good (KISS)
A Wordle clone playable online
I feel like all of the downsides given in the quotes can be solved by making sure people get a variety of work. Define an interface and split the work into chunks. Just make sure people are being assigned to different kind of chunks should their skill allow it.

This is really just the crux of managing people and bringing out their potential. I’m not gonna split a CRUD endpoint or class between two people but I’ve also had two people write the same exact function because it was so complex.
AWS Lambda Powertools (TypeScript)
This screams “toy projects” to me. Separation of concerns is a hard-won insight. We call code without this “spaghetti” because it eventually becomes nearly impossible trace or to reason about. Even if you have all your engineers working all over the whole codebase, the codebase itself still needs separation of concerns to simplify reasoning about behavior. This is considered a good engineering practice because the alternative is that you need to hold the whole system in your head to understand any behaviors. I’ve seen codebases like this. It’s not pretty. Use of abstractions to simplify cognitive overhead is not a weakness.

The idea that projects should take source copies instead of library dependencies is just kind of nuts, at least for large libraries. Yes, the proliferation of tiny libraries is obnoxious and adds a ton of pointless overhead. But for large libraries, taking a source copy is absolutely crazy. Imagine taking a source clone of Chromium into your project because you need a rendering engine. Yes, you can probably cut a bunch of code out as a result, but you will also now need to deal with security concerns and incorporation of new features until the end of time. And this is now way more expensive and you can’t just do a straightforward merge because you changed the code. 5 line package? Sure, just copy the code in (assuming licensing is in the clear). 500 dev-year codebase? Cloning that code is by far not a win.
Why were there more Covid deaths in 2021 than 2020?
I believe this ruling has to do with unfair competitive advantage. The employees are not prohibited from quitting or working elsewhere. The company attempting to hire the employees is prohibited from hiring the employees. It’s a temporary measure until the court system works out the legality of everything.

Imagine this scenario. There are two heart centers in a city. One of them decides to hire the doctors and nurses from the other heart center and does so and then massively increases prices. I’m not a lawyer but I think this sort of thing is not permitted (or desirable).
Extremely tragic. I do not want to diminish your situation at all. The difference is that so many of the dozens and dozens of divorces I’m personally connected to had no tragedy such as yours and the people involved were not going into marriage prepared for the road ahead (something they could have enjoyed if they’d been in a more supportive community that taught them more). So many I know end the marriage for far less difficult situations than yours.
But one would expect something different (better) than "back to C, lets implement vtables by hand" :)

Procedural programming hype was in 70s/80s, but that doesn't mean we got rid of procedures afterwards :)
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid
> because the kernel is a non-modular spaghetti-code mess,

Laughs in Tanenbaum
I mean to be fair they haven’t been wrong in about 40 years except for fluctuations. Although those can be devastating to those stretched thin.

Honestly I’m of the opinion we won’t see any serious rise in rates. Too many mortgage holders and indebted governments would be broken.

Just look at the last month. The Fed threatens a few hikes that would push a 10 year bond to 2.5-3% and the market crashes.
Gold and silver tubes in a Russian museum are the oldest known drinking straws
How is this even a question when jumping ship is a 10 to 20% pay bump minimum and satying on a meager 5% or having increased responsibility for a year or longer before making a promotion official?
Of course, girls like Bobby Wickham ask you to pierce someone's hot water bottle with sharp implements while they are sleeping in bed. At least that's what the title reminded me of. Oh, what fun!

Ref: Wodehouse... Bertie Wooster.

Around 15 min in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uWIGhNPl0g
MAMAA (Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon) looks like the winner at the moment. Big Tech doesn't seem to like most of the alphabet (even though one of them is literally called that).
Here:

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/don-knuth/pearls-...

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/don-knuth/pearls-...
Jeopardy Heatmap Written in Elm
Yes, it is you (and few others). What you are experiencing is best described as depression. Been in a similar situation as you once. Of course the most important step is acknowledging that you need help otherwise that feeling will persist. Sometimes the source of the depression has not so much to do with your work life but has deeper roots.
If you are using exclusively the web interface (non POP/IMAP) then you can look at these two privacy-oriented:

https://protonmail.com/

https://tutanota.com/

Proton is located in Switzerland and Tutanota in Germany. If you need POP3/IMAP then:

https://posteo.de/en/site/features

I am a rather happy fastmail user, with my custom domain. The service is fine but Australia's privacy record is worsening increasingly fast, so at this point I would avoid fastmail if privacy is a concern.
I've been looking to buy in the Toronto are. Prices are up 15% since November. Houses that had comparable sales of $850k in November are now going at around the $1M mark. I don't know how that rise is sustainable.
Pharma companies are making billions selling vaccines that literally by their own admission don't stop people from getting infected, or from transmitting covid, and have horrific side effects, for a disease with something like a 99.99% recovery rate. It's not in their interests to provide a better vaccine even if they were able too, they're making bank.
It may have changed since I left, but my understanding as of a few years ago was that IBM was replacing the front-end with Clang but continuing to use TPO (at least for now).
https://gist.github.com/peatmonster/d86306009b7adfae717c10e1...
Congrats! I think there are plenty of comments with great suggestions, so my addition is simply encouragement.

You will have more time and mental clarity to be present for your life priorities. A new default of not drinking becomes automatic behavior after some time, so if it feels unnatural at first simply give it time. Enjoy!
Sigh! I got only one comment. I'd love to get more comments.
I hope not, MAGA is kind of overloaded at this point. If you add Microsoft, you can have:

MAMAA (Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Apple, Amazon)

or

GAMMA (using G for Google but not F for Facebook seems incosistent but it's a better acronym overall)
But tell me this doesn't get you hyped af!
Infections or lock downs should never be the barometer of success.

Success should be measured by death tolls, happiness, and economic prosperity.
I thought the lack of the CMPXCHG instruction was what initially caused Linux to drop 386 support.
List of Long-Lived Methuselahs
“ Pizza comes to mind.”

Thank you, you lived up to your nick :)

I believe that, if not for the things that you would die for the things you enjoy in life would, eventually, become insipid. Then, we (maybe not all of is) are liable to enter into a spiral of existential despair at the realization that our lives are meaningless to the universe.

My daughters’ play, my parent’s affection, my wife of ten year’s love have never gotten old. I don't care what the universe doesn’t think about me as long as I have them (and time away from them to spend all morning on HM pontifying to strangers as if I had a clue ;)

Can you say the same for the sparkle you felt unwrapping iOS7? the sparkle of (secular) Christmas vanished when I was 13 and I realized that nothing I received for Christmas made me happy, and nothing I could ask for would. But knowing that in 10 days Id be back in school and get to see my crush… wow!
As of now, 5.5 million people worldwide died of Covid over the past 2 years (give or take a few million due to bad reporting).

It's an enormous loss of life, but a tiny number for a worldwide pandemic, especially given current travel technologies that would have made ancient plagues orders of magnitude worse than they were.

In comparison, we're talking about the targeted, deliberate, highly organized extermination of two thirds the entire Jewish race in Europe.
What I'm more curious about is what are they looking to build?
"The wrong place" can become "the right place" in a relatively short period of time if we change the way we think about agriculture, is the point. For what it's worth, I think the main problem here is agricultural subsidies - they completely distort the market. Calories are cheap due to this, true, but the result is completely unsustainable agricultural practices, poorer health, a more fragile economy, and less variety and higher prices for unsubsidized goods.
Thats the one I found:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.21256931v...

forbes linked it:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elvaramirez/2021/06/01/study-no...
And totally terrifying once you have seen someone fall through. It is a natural surface. Like skiing on a real glacier is nothing like a groomed run. No matter the prevailing conditions there is always some unseen spot that isn't safe.
(R)Evolution – NorthmanTrader
Do not use a library without reading it's source code. Software problems are hard, and you can't hide from the complexity by letting someone else do the thinking. You have to know what the library author knows, so you can determine what's possible, and decide if the library provides you with the right abstraction.
> I do wonder if the project is still under active development.

They've publicly acknowledged that they're still working but have been quiet.

> I imagine it’s very frustrating to not have much to show after more than half a decade of development.

Yes and No. I think, rightly so, they are concerned about pre-mature commercialization. Tech transfer in HCI-like domains can often be wrought with issues:

"The Dynamic Medium Group’s vision is rooted in the idea that the computer revolution of the ’70s and early ’80s was cut short, primarily by premature com­mer­cia­li­za­tion. While the computer as a medium was still unfolding its potential, and way before it could do so entirely, it was solidified into commercial products, thereby stifling its free growth. Once corporations had built their businesses on the ideas developed so far, they were only interested in incremental change that could easily be integrated into the products, rather than revolutionary new ideas.

Because of this cautionary tale and to avoid repeating history, the group is wary when it comes to public attention and deliberately reserved in what it shares. "

However, I do think that getting ongoing feedback & recognition of impact is important even in long-term research efforts. This was hinted at in Glen's note on why he left Dynamicland: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/

The saddest observation through all this is ... why don't academia or corporate research labs do this type of long-term, personal computing focused research anymore? It's never been easier to build a computer or an operating system, but nobody has the appetite for it anymore. Maybe people feel that operating systems and computers in their current form are here to stay forever. Maybe the most we can do is port things clumsily to VR or AR.
Same. Search for something like fingerless gloves or mittens. By keeping your wrists properly insulated your hand/fingers don't get cold but you can still use them pretty much as normal.

I use them occasionally if I get cold hands.
Oh, wow. I had no idea this was the case with calibre-web. That is insanely useful, thank you.

Another tip: if folks want to use DRM'd books they've purchased indefinitely/however they want: NoDRM (a fork of the no-longer-maintained DeDRM) makes bringing in DRM'd books into Calibre completely painless.
Nobody is talking about forbidding. The topic is being a decent human who takes others into account.
They say 83 million boosters given, which is ~25% of the population. They seem to be using a different denominator for the boosted number there (I guess the number of people eligible for the booster).

It's reasonable to be measuring against eligibility when evaluating progress in administering boosters, but not being eligible for a booster doesn't really make someone less susceptible to infection, so it isn't the right thing to compare across countries.
1. High prevalence of supply managed (dairy, poultry) producers. These farmers are effectively guaranteed a high income through policy. Said income provides a lot of room to buy land with.

Further, the way into these sectors is to buy what we call quota. Dairy farmers in Ontario imposed a price cap on quota back in 2006 in an effort to make it accessible to young farmers. While the fair market value of quota has likely doubled in the meantime, the maximum price you can pay is what it was in 2006. This means that there is even more cash floating around, that historically would have been tied up in quota purchases, in which to buy farmland with.

2. Increased profitability in agriculture in general. The US ethanol subsidy program of 2007 set the stage for significant increases in the price of field crops. As that program winded down and prices were coming back down, the US midwest got hit with three major weather events over the intervening years that decimated their crops, boosting prices again for those who had one. Not to mention that the US Farm Bill has been modified over the years to be more favourable to foreign countries like Canada.
It's actually why the blog post bothered me, despite everyone heaping praise on it here.

"Then there’s the Prestige. Facebook gets a lot of blame in media lately, but in everyday life it’s still very prestigious place to be working at. Getting a mortgage or a car loan is easy, saying you work for Facebook gets you on the fast line."

That's the money quote, this person is only thinking about themself and really doesn't consider how their work impacts society or what company they're helping as a priority issue at all. I don't know why people like this are the way they are, it seems to border on sociopathy or greed or something to me ("screw you guys, I got mine.") At times they must have just buried their head in the sand over all the Facebook scandals including helping a freaking genocide. It's crazy, and reminds me a little of "American Psycho" to be honest.
Can someone explain why Uniqlo's future rivals will be the likes of Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon rather than Zara?
Related self promotion: my April Fool’s joke that Google will abandon credentials and just do all authentication by your behavior:

http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2021/04/leaked-google-init...
That isn't at all obvious.
Very idealistic people might not realize this as they start working on their project.

I wish it was otherwise, people, but it's usually "build it and they WON'T come" ("they" being the funds needed to make a living.)
This is second hand info, so sorry if it's totally wrong, I'll edit this:

E-ink tech is great, but patents and other paper-limitations are slowing down developments of cheap e-ink devices devices, and e-ink will become "great again", when patents expire.

I personally see many, many usecases of e-ink all around me, but the prices are way too high for anything that is not either really small or a repurposed old existing device (eg. jailbroken kindle)
> small, gui, command line, networked projects ... switched to chicken scheme for that purpose

What's your preferred gui library for Chicken for this sort of thing?
The IRC channel was #talos-workstation on FreeNet, now on Libera.Chat.

Do you know of some minimal example of calling VSX instructions from C?

Ideally just one .c file and one Makefile or README with the exact GCC command to compile it, plus a pointer to documentation describing each instruction.
I’ve seen assembler inserted into C source code with GCC, but I’ve never done it and I assume there are some non-obvious details to take into account.
Battery Breakthrough Provides Five Times the Range of L-Ion at Lower Price
Not just until the end of the pandemic, until the end of time. Same with nz and au
The original published version (and McIlroy's review) is in the second of these two columns (including the earlier one for context):

• Bentley, J., & Knuth, D. (1986). Programming pearls: Literate Programming. Communications of the ACM, 29(5), 384–369. doi:10.1145/5689.315644 = https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/don-knuth/pearls-...

• Bentley, J., Knuth, D., & McIlroy, D. (1986). Programming pearls: A Literate Program. Communications of the ACM, 29(6), 471–483. doi:10.1145/5948.315654 = https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/don-knuth/pearls-...

It has been reprinted (along with the review) in Knuth's books Literate Programming (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html), one of the volumes of his collected papers (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/selected.html).

Of course this post here ("More shell, less egg") is highly misleading, one which I'll post a separate top-level comment.
> Nothing new there, beaurocrats and public health officials have long had the power to make highly consequential decisions for large numbers of people.

I'll yield on the kind, but the degree with the Covid is off the charts for peacetime action.

Was this wise? Were the across-the-board outcomes worth it?

Those who made the decisions may be biased in their reflections on the matter.
> was enough for a single person to feed a family and have some extra using manual labor.

No, that was ten serfs each working 30 hours a week to in aggregate grow enough food to subsist on and generate the master's demanded surplus. That was also only true in good years. In bad years a portion of serfs just died.

A serf's life sucked in every dimension. Even if they only "worked" 30 hours they spent the rest of their time in squalor. If you think working in a field is so attractive there's lots of farms looking for day labor. Try it out.
The OP statement is very interesting, will need more resources to confirm. Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30010119

As for introvert/extroversion: On Susan Cain's book "Quiet"

The "Galen’s Prophesy" reveals certain behavioral predispositions of children within four months old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVJBzvaylH8&ab_channel=JillB...
I used to find this super fun: https://ipsc.ksp.sk/ Too bad they didn't continue doing it though.

The other more "serious" programming contests, ACM, Google Code Jam, Top Coder, Codeforces, etc etc -- felt a bit too artificial and too "serious" for my tastes. But if you found competitive programming fun you might like them too.
Another Roblox Server Outage
503 error as of this posting, 12:12 EST. My kids attempting to login using the mobile app receive an error that authentication servers are not available.