skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also habit destruction. The longer travel is subjected to these types of restrictions, the more people who were in the habit of travel, especially by aircraft, will decide to do something else, especially for leisure. Business travelers also will be impacted long term as companies have discovered that Zoom meetings can replace many (though not all) in person meetings. Trade shows were already in danger of dying but had inertia from the good times behind them. Probably half of pre-covid trade shows will never come back. Lots of long term demand destruction is being generated.
Might be wrong but this sounds more like depression to me than aging. I've had a few bad ~6 month bouts of this and always the strongest symptom was a total lack of interest in things that I know I used to enjoy very much. It seems to happen to me once every 5 years or so (I'm 49).

Personally, drugs and CBT never helped me with these. They might help you. I mostly just put my head down and kept coding for work and did nothing after work but lay down. I just had no interest in reading or watching TV or anything. If I hadn't had kids to support, I would not have been able to force myself to go to work either.

Eventually time would pass and it would go away and I would remember how much I liked coding and how much I liked all of my hobbies.

It's very hard to imagine ever returning to normal when you're in some sort of depressive episode. But statistically speaking, you almost certainly will. That knowledge always helped me to get through them. These is a good chance that in 6-12 months, you might again be quite excited by new technologies and the thought of going to festivals/bars/clubs.
Does citi let you create any no. of virtual numbers and can you set limits for them ? I sorely miss the BoA flash feature and haven't found a replacement. I would sign for citi if it's the same.
Much to learn here for modern music journalists. Instead of inserting their own desires, shallow beliefs and ego into the review, the book is reviewed for what it is, with the artists intention considered and respected.

Compare and contrast with this tiresome Guardian review, which leaves you very unclear about the performance but all too sure about what the reviewer likes and wants

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/30/the-smile-revi...
> That would mean that "making your code easier to test also improves its design" is wrong.

I assume that quote is talking about unit tests, but it's becoming more and more accepted that integration tests are more important than unit tests. https://kentcdodds.com/blog/write-tests

This shift away from unit tests is the corollary to Ousterhout's preference for deep modules.
If you think about it, this actually makes sense: you have already been producing the paper strip tests for years, they are accurate, so if you want to have an electronic version, why not use the paper strips? Another testing method (whichever that may be) would need to go through an approval process first, so unnecessary extra costs. That said, it would be nice and more environmentally friendly to have a device where you can just insert your paper strip - but that would totally "give the game away" for everyone to see...
The thing happened everywhere. French prime minister met with mayors and had political meetings unmasked, shaking hands and stuff, at the peek of the pandemic, got covid, then blamed his 11 yo daughter for it.

Macron had a huge party at the president office, with people chanting and dancing, not wearing masks, while people were still supposed to take extreme precautions.

The only original thing about boris johnson is that he put minimal numbers of restrictions on his population for as long as he could. For that you can thank him.
Huh? How many system calculators does Android have at this point??
Time for everything IS running out. And no, there's no roadmap that shows you how to stop feeling lost. I'm 52 and that feeling becomes ever more intense. I wonder how I got here so quickly. I'm told THAT feeling intensifies at 70. That said, the way I deal with it is to accept. I accept my age; the feeling of time's fleetingness; that I will cease to be (god/Jesus, Viracocha, Mandaeism, Zoroastrianism... are constructs that do little to overcome this feeling).

And so I live trying to being aware of each passing moment, and thinking about how I might better use the next moment. I have a personal web site on which I wrote down every major event in my life, and when I feel low I read that. I've achieved and done a lot. And I want to do a lot more. Mostly much more loving. In the both carnal and (obviously seperately) paternal senses.

I have hobbies I love - I did not pick one randomly because one should have a hobby, but because I truly love building those things. Creating something I recognise as beautiful is rewarding as f•••.

I also keep fit and healthy and take some pride in having lasted so many years without gaining weight other than muscle mass. I've done a variety of drugs, I've broken the law, and I'm ok with all of that because I think I've loved more people than I've hurt.

All these things... there's no meaning or other weird existential shit that comes of it. Other than being at peace with myself, my place in this fleeting existence, and enjoying as much of it as I can, while I can.

In parting, try sitting in a meeting and if there are women in the meeting, watch how men just talk right over them. And then interrupt those men, turn to the marginalised woman, and tell her you found her perspective interesting, and would she mind terribly repeating her thoughts. This is a probably hugely incoherent ramble about how I have learnt to actively try to get past what you describe. Some days are rough, most days amazing.
You pay with your data and your privacy.
> turning 35 years soon

> Now I feel too old to go to festivals, bars and clubs and make new friends that way.

LOL.

No, you aren't old. You are just tired and forgot how to have fun.

What to do with that is up to you, but you are in a desperate need for a new experiences and feelings.

And with 500k in savings you have a pretty decent opportunity to just drop everything and be whatever you want to be for a day/week/month.

Just make a list of things you did and didn't do for some reason - and if the thing is reasonable try to do it now.

> turning 35 years soon

> Now I feel too old to go to festivals, bars and clubs and make new friends that way.

/me writing this with a light hangover. I befriended a new person yesterday in a bar.

35 is definitely not 'too old'.
Awesome. Would you consider adding this experiment to the repo? https://github.com/PEZ/ghost-chase-condition/tree/master/tes...

Or, if that's a too big ask, just give me some hints how to do it, and i'll update the repo.
> There is a constant battle between regulators, lawyers and companies

Which has unquestionably benefited consumers.

If you look at the financial system 50 years ago and compare it to today consumers have far more rights and protections. And the system continues to learn and improve e.g. requiring banks to hold more reserve capital and increasing the amount of deposit insurance.

Problem for Web3 is that governments, regulators and the legal system do not play a central role like in Web2. And so all of the safety nets built up over these years will evaporate and consumers will suffer.
What a mix of the rich, the poor, and the indebted. There really is no common thread with which to stitch those nations together, not ideologically nor even geographically. I.e., there is no obvious single problem to solve which would affect these nations' governing bodies' attitudes towards energy policy.
Same issue on OS X
> what is this everything you want to have time for? Do you wish to be in a relationship? since you mentioned it at the beginning.

I don't know to be honest. Perhaps what's nagging at me is the lack of optionality. There are certain things I am now too old to do, like go to a school as typical student, go crazy at festival or clubs, go backpacking and easily meet new people, and have casual relationships. It's not that I want to do these things. I don't feel any desire for them. But the fact that I don't have the option to do them is depressing to me.
I don't get that meme. Yes, Google Reader shutting down was a bit annoying, but I exported my subscriptions into a different reader and have been using that ever since. But somehow for soo many people it was really important, but they didn't bother replacing it?!
Do you want to find out about managing a bad case of complexity in an existing project? Or are you searching for ways to avoid getting into a bad place with sw complexity and looking for even radical simplicity because you are determinde to avoid (or can't afford) complexity?

These are quite different missions since it's rarely possible to recover form complexity if you've already gone there.
I added this experiment, and the results (spoiler, it isn't getCurrentTimeMillis) here: https://github.com/PEZ/ghost-chase-condition/tree/master/tes...
Rich people have too much money so they put it in riskier ventures
I don't own a car. Now what?
NixOS reproducibility effort is tracked here: https://r13y.com
A relevant blog post from someone in Ottawa about his interactions with the protesters, that adds some context to the protesters

https://maybury.ca/the-reformed-physicist/2022/02/03/a-night...
You might want to look into who is financing Web3.

It's the exact same VCs that bankrolled Facebook, Google etc.
Perhaps I need to reread but it seems like this rejection of gnosticism sings and dances much like gnosticism itself.
> In any case just set it as your policy that you don't talk to collectors, you only engage with businesses directly.

Are collectors so toothless over there? Here a valid collection is an easy win in courts if it's not paid, and then it can be garnished from wages, pension, other income, or your property. Collections absolutely can not be ignored here.
Ah, Jane Jacobs.. had that in my reading list for a very long time, but that's an interesting point with regards to complexity .. thanks!
I hear you, and as a FOSS maintaineryaelf I agree that it is frustrating to see all complaints but no volunteers.

But, many issues in Inkscape are due to bugs introduced by changes that were not properly tested. If you have resources to change things around, you should also test the outcome properly before you hit that release button.
One thing I do know. I am learning Ethereum and the NPM library you use to interact with smart contracts either in the front end or back end is called web3. So maybe that is where the name came from or maybe the name came first and the library just used it.
WebVDU: Retro Graphics JavaScript Library
Latitude

Altitude

Vertical

If I ever need to confirm which is which, I use the the mnemonic above. I usually imagine latitude corresponding to rings on the earth moving up and down along the surface. This image is triggered by thinking about "altitude" in the context of latitude for me.

The latitude defines which of these "rings" the point is on.

https://cdn.britannica.com/07/64907-050-7ACA69C8/Facts-paral...
Eh, GTK as a whole is… well, not healthy for cross-platform development. It used to be a good deal better (though it was never really excellent), but from GNOME 3 they’ve pretty much decided to flat-out ignore other platforms and their conventions, and shift GTK from being GNOME-focused but fairly platform agnostic with pretty good look-and-feel theming to being just GNOME GNOME GNOME and wildly out of place in look and feel everywhere else.

Of course, other options in a similar space like Qt aren’t entirely better in that they don’t behave fully like GNOME on GNOME platforms. The best cross-platform native-feel apps, like Firefox, tend to use GTK on Linux (or possibly KDE/Qt in KDE?) and other things on other platforms.

As a Linux user I inevitably use quite a bit of GTK software (though barely any GNOME stuff, if you savvy the distinction I’m drawing), but I dislike almost all of the directions it’s headed in since GNOME 3. Decent scaling is one of the few redeeming features.

sprash is describing a very—ahh—ideologically pure position, but I do deeply sympathise with a desire for a return to the GTK+ 2 ways. My ideal would probably be to scrap GTK+ 3 and 4 and create 5 derived mostly from GTK+ 2’s philosophies, just including the good technical parts of 3 and 4, but determinedly not a full style unto itself. Also I’m fed up with client-side decorations matter and want better support for server-side decorations, as was done traditionally and as is still generally preferable on Windows and in most Linux window managers, or even platform-matching client-side decorations, which would be good for macOS and Windows and frankly GNOME.

GNOME has basically sabotaged GTK as a cross-platform library—even as a Linux-wide thing (apart from KDE). They’ve taken it over to serve their own purposes and vision. Their vision does improve and unify some parts of GNOME desktops, but as a user of something other than GNOME (Sway), I don’t like most of what they’ve done to GTK.
pipes |
ahh that brings back memories. i had an account.
> went to a foreign country

Why on earth does this matter in any way?

> shit on their president

Uh, this is what they said:

> Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.

Not exactly “shitting” on him is it?

Anecdotally, I think joe Rogan has lost a TON of fans over the last few years. There is no better example of this than the joe rogan subreddit. It used to be a place for fans to gather, but now he regularly gets roasted and fairly criticized. And if you’ve actually watched the JRE over the last few years, his podcast has changed SIGNIFICANTLY (for the worse imo). There’s no better example of this than the clip from 2020 that was circulating this week, where he basically calls antivaxxers bozos.

He used to have a kooky, interesting perspective and I appreciated how he would approach topics with an open mind. Even if I didn’t agree with his guests, he’d ask decent questions and confront the egregious shit. He doesn’t do that anymore. His guests are just people that believe the same fringe, unsupported contrarian conspiracies.
You should worry about the federal tax "spigot" instead. It does not take very many brain cells to understand that taxes are collected everywhere and paid out wherever politicians want leading to geographical inequality.

Interest rates and capital gains kinda act like a tax as well because wealthy people concentrate in a few high profile cities and are not spread out like local bank branches.

Oh and land is a natural monopoly so land owners get their cut as well.
Tutanota.

It's secure, reliable and supports also family members and shared calendars, for 1€/month/user
Came here to say something like this. I’m a tech person. You have to teach/force yourself to love listening to and talking to customers’ problems. The programming comes later.
> Automation is brittle and inflexible

Wait what ?

Mine automation works for years without an issue. Flaky automation is meaningless.

> that alerts a human if it encounters an edge case.

No. It shouldn't alert anybody almost never if it's good. When you have 300 automation routines, even if it alerts once a year you will have some alert every day. So it needs to alert lower then that, when the world falls out or something...
I'm pretty sure that Brompton bikes are made in the UK, so no EU
That's the whole point, right? It's the people not the technology.
> As for what kind of app usage the tablets track, Wacom says the software driver collects data on pen tablet models, how customers use its devices, and which software applications are used when tablets are in use.

So they do spy, but it's "anonymized" (after reaching Google's servers..)
“Obviously the universe doesn’t want you to pass my class” - professor
I suggest looking into: https://www.amazon.com/Righting-Software-Juval-L%C3%B6wy/dp/...

It's very unorthodox, but cuts through a lot of the bullshit.
Tyranny of Convenience
As long as the blockchain doesn't have "personally identifiable data" you're fine.

When a web service is requested to "delete your data", all they need to delete is your name, email, phone etc. and still keep your activity data.
Amazing thank you so much for the details! I was looking anywhere nearby the sea I am sure it will be more expensive than countryside but still doable. Do you have recommended Portuguese site to search for land/property? Thank you again! I will reach out via email
English also has a preference to producing lists with vowel sounds generated with the tongue posture at the back of the mouth first, followed by those made towards the front. "lat" comes first with this unwritten rule.

"fi fy fo fum"
"friend or foe?"
etc
You have half a million in savings at 35, and you feel like you haven’t accomplished anything?

I think you’re describing depression, anyway, and that’s the real reason why you feel this way.

Invest in therapy, to help you cope with the fact that life isn’t about having a purpose. You seem to be let down by this idea of “accomplishment” that is engrained into our brains since childhood by our capitalistic society.
I’m sure that you can look back and find out many accomplishments, plus you could try and do things for the sake of it. That helped me ;)
I remember this discussion coming up at least once before. AFAIR the argument was that many people had problems interpreting the test strips (not waiting long enough, mixing the results up). So they built a more foolproof way of reading the strips, which then tells you exactly what's up in simple words.

Edit: Turns out there's a response in this thread that says the same and in better words. [1] Man I hate twitter UI.

[1]: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/130178603213683507...
Annual typically implies recurring. Annual in APR (Annual Percentage Rate) etc. An annual plant flowers once a year, not just once, etc.

If it said "one year", that would match the meaning you have.
I turned 40 recently, and it hit me like a tonne of bricks. My relationship had just ended, my startup had gone on ice thanks to Covid, and the international move I'd just made reversed in the space of days (due to the break-up). The feeling of "what am I doing with my life?" hit hard, I'd already been doing therapy for a while, but the lack of fulfilment and satisfaction is still there.

Technology bores me mostly, even though it's what I'm good at. I feel like time is running out to do something, I just don't know what that something is. It's really tough to figure out what you want to do, and how you go about doing it.

BUT you're not alone! Speaking to friends, and possibly to a therapist, will help you to process the feelings that you're having, and may help to take steps forward. I'm trying to find enjoyment in tech again, but if I don't then I'm going to go find enjoyment in something else - likely something drastic, knowing my history! Ride a bike, go on holiday, join a club, read a book. There's so much out there, it's about being brave enough to go and do something different.

At least that's what it is for me.
Modern Algebraic Geometry is indeed highly abstract, but generally the conjuring of obscure objects is with a specific goal in mind, for example

- consolidation of many types of results into a `simple' theoretical framework, I suppose this originates with Noether, and reaches it apotheosis in Bourbaki's tracts.

- embedding of 'classical' objects (solutions to polynomial equations) inside a larger 'category' (schemes) where certain mysterious relations observed in the classical world (Weil Conjectures) have a more `natural' interpretation (fixed point theorem) and light the way to a proof which would have otherwise been beyond reach
Atleast in my country, to send legitimate marketing e-mails, a user has to be given a choice to opt-out *before* the first e-mail.

So it's not enough to allow them to opt-out with an e-mail exchange or an unsubscribe link, you must allow the user to opt out when you initially gather the contact information.

If that wasn't done, it's illegal (and unethical) to send marketing e-mails, even from a paid service.
I should start a rotten egg shop.
> A good government

if only absolutely everyone could totally agree on one single definition of "good"...
> playing video games became a chore

Ouch. This is the one I identify the most with. I am, or was, a huge gamer. I used to play shooters, MMOs, and grindy RPGs and loved it. I could easily spend the whole day playing.

Now I can barely play for more than an hour without feeling some kind of anxiety that I'm wasting my time or need to get to the goal as efficiently as possible. How can I fix this!?

I'm already taking vitamin supplements :)
A lot can be fixed with demurrage currency. Eternal currency inspired by the gold standard does not work because time doesn't stand still when you don't spend your money, there are people on the other side waiting for you to spend your money so they can buy food.

"Printing" money is a side effect caused by people delaying their spending eternally. You can have an fixed supply inflation free 0% interest currency with an annual fee on excess liquitiy (often known as negative interest). All you need to do is implement the demurrage fee on cash via expiration dates. Expired notes require a fee to be exchanged, the expiry date is printed on a replaceable sticker.
Lol. Why is the Dr.Mallone and Dr.Peter McCullough interview still there? Those are the controversial ones. They did not say not take the vaccines. Dr.Mallone said that he is vaccinated.

Do some research first.
This is silly, probably won't work in all cases, but I love it as an anti pattern
You are being targeted with a type of ad campaign called Retargeting or Remarketing. It uses cookies to inform ad networks that you have recently a page with a particular retargeting campaign ID. Its popular among advertisers as it shows that you are "in the market" for a particular item, which is much more specific and valuable than a random person. If you would like these particular ads to stop, simply clear your cookies or click on the encircled I icon inside the ads to configure them to not target you. Alternatively you can block all ads. It's worth noting that some retargeting matches on the cookies of anybody sharing the same public IP, ie router/ISP, so others in your household may have to do the same. Also, often there are retargeting pixels set for multiple ad networks, so you may have to opt out multiple times.

People often ask why they are targeted after they have made a purchase. This is because of limitations of tracking. Merchants can add trackers that show on their checkout pages to associate ads with sales, and stop targeting browsers that have made purchases. Sometimes this works, but often either A. advertisers don't correctly configure these systems or B. limitations with 3rd party cookies make it so the "I've already bought it" signal never makes it back to the ad network.

What I don't understand is why consumers aren't offered a choice by ad companies to actually just tell them they bought it. I would assume a marketer would love to know feedback from buyers like when/where/why the purchase took place as well as commentary on the product, vendor etc. It seems like a missed opportunity to make the advertisee more empowered and advertiser more informed.
Previous related (to the issue, not to the article) thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29056847
So their advertising influences taste, but does it actually influence sales?
Perhaps this is naive of me but to have half a million in the bank and being miserable sounds like a pretty poor state of affairs. Time to convert some of that money into time and experiences.
In my experience, rewrites are most of the time motivated by switching to the latest hyped stack than anything else.

Nobody rewrites anything in the same stack/technology.