skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I am not as successful but I live comfortable life and I feel same way as you.

A few weeks ago, I was feeling really low and asked for similar advice. It really helped writing down my thoughts and reading various comments.

Since then I am feeling really motivated and sort of high on life. I think having an achievable goal is really important in life.

I decided that I was not happy with my work, so I will definitely make a change. Which was a huge stress reliever.

Then I told my boss that I am not feeling motivated at work and I need to move into management. We will see what comes of it but that made everything concrete.

I also started doing leetcode daily, it is boring and pointless but gives me peace of mind since this is plan b.

Then in personal life I am really focused on getting 8 hours of sleep, and other relaxation related activities.

Anyways my suggestion would be start with relaxation. Fix sleep, get massages, hire nanny or housekeeper.

I was also minimalist before marriage, and my wife’s consumption habits are really stressful for me. It is not even about money. I hate stuff and give away things for free rather have them take up space in my house.

I realized I cannot change my wife’s habits, so I am just focused my reaction to her habits. I have all my minimalist gear in one backpack in the house. Working on reducing my wardrobe right now.

Since you have a successful business, Selling it would not be my first step. But if business is still making you feel miserable then sell it.

I think my main point is make a decision to change something and work towards it.
Is it possible it was a cultural thing? This is reading a ton into small details and generalizing a lot but... You mentioned you were helping him "get his life straightened out"; maybe he felt like it was going to pull him away from the friends that he'd grown up with? Kind of a difference of subcultures: one subculture that's poor and that values loyalty to friends over most other things (money comes and goes) vs a subculture that values career and money over most other things. (Not that these values are necessarily always mutually exclusive... but sometimes it can be uncomfortable to straddle the gap.)

The other thing that makes me wonder if it's a cultural gap is that you mentioned he was going to be able to make twice as much as he was making before for doing the same thing. If it's the same work as before, what's the difference if not cultural? Learning to talk a certain way about the things you do, use more professional language, present yourself a certain way, and ditch the people you work with if you can earn more money doing the same thing. Then he's eroding his value for loyalty by learning to bullshit the people he work with on a regular basis, because he's acting in a way that's not how he normally acts, and he's established a precedent that he's willing to ditch his new coworkers for an entirely different batch if he can make more money by doing so. He might look at that and look at the friends and/or community he already has and decide he doesn't like where that path might lead him.

That could also explain why he ghosted you. He might feel ashamed because he feels that he owes you for genuinely trying to help him. But how can he repay you except by accepting your help? And explaining where he's coming from would only lead to an ugly conflict or you convincing him that he's irrational and should just take the job -- but he's already decided he doesn't want to go that route. If he cuts all conflict, nukes it from orbit, then he can get on with his life however he wants to.
56 and still technical here.

Learn, learn, learn. Find the new hotness (at least one that has staying power).

For me, kubernetes is the latest 'big hill'. It seems to have legs for years ahead, and plenty of technical details that prevent anyone from completely mastering it.
Handles can be used to close doors as well as open them...
Assuming this is a genuine effort and not some kind of corruption, this potentially sounds great.

But as far as bang for the healthcare buck goes, why not advocate a serious national physical fitness campaign? Many people have gained weight and lost their fitness during the last 2 years, and we're doubling down on doing counterproductive things in cities like introducing friction and barriers for people to get to the gym in the name of defending them from Covid which is completely backwards. Losing weight is probably the single best thing the nation could do for not only better Covid outcomes, but also improving a bunch of other health issues from diabetes to heart disease and possibly cancer as well, if I remember right.
I don't understand why these models are not "derived works" under the GPL family of licences.
Well, if you could store electricity from the diesel to the batteries on a level run, then you could use the stored electricity to help the diesel up a hill.
> How do you deal with getting old

I don't know...

> I am turning 35 years soon

...kiddo, but I do know one thing: You're jumping the gun by decades here.
My main concern is that Tesla will end up poisoning the well in a regulatory sense, and other SDCs that are focused on doing narrow verticals properly will get caught in the crossfire.

The common pro Tesla argument of delaying self driving costing lives is absolutely valid. But it doesn't follow that allowing Tesla FSD to run red lights is the best way to accelerate the adoption as a whole.

If the whole industry was as cautious as Waymo, I think the risk of regulation would be minimal.

This is orthogonal to how well done the system is. I am extremely impressed it works as well as it does. But it's not good enough.
I remember thinking in the 90s that being able to use irc on a portable wireless device (pre wifi) would the most cyberpunk cool future I could imagine. A roommate had a palm pilot, and co-workers were already developing that weird stylus dislexia where they couldn't write cursive again after using the Palm pad scheme. Between slack and signal groups on my phone(s) today, I'd say the future is annoying. There was just no way of knowing then that the hidden desire of the long tail of people in the world was that each of them needed a way to share pictures of their butt, where previously you needed both a photocopier and a fax machine, and the fax numbers of people you wanted to send it to, where now, we have instagram. Everybody can fax literally everybody. We thought this would be paradise.
Hmm. Well my first answer didn't even garner a response. So I'll risk getting my hand slapped and try again.

I know for a fact that this is not true. YCombinator knows this is not true. How?

YC invests in P2P companies. Those folks already run some form of their own bank. In particular the lending function. Why do they choose to do so...because they don't want to earn 0% (or less) on their own funds. They lend them to others at rates they like, generally 8% and up. People who invest in tax liens (some of those reach 16% interest) also run a lending function. Currently, neither run these operations on the blockchain. But that could change and I think it will be easier for them once they do. The reporting costs should go down and ease of any legal ramifications should go up.
The same is true for anyone who handles personal investing (the trust function) or stock trading (the investing function). Many of you do both...you just call it something else.

The main problem though is all these articles by rich, white guys that ignores 99% of the World...and tells us all what we want to do or not do.

Please please stop.
Curious as to what you consider "recently"?
You raise an interesting point about the difficulty of code writing versus code review, and I think the point generalizes nicely to many other areas where AI is currently rapidly progressing.

For example, self-driving cars are also currently in this weird place where they're prone to making lots of errors, so a simple task for the human (driving) is replaced with a much more taxing one (keeping an eye on an AI driver and being ready to react at any moment), if we want to do it safely.

Whether any of those applications will be able to progress past that weird space into "no/minimal supervision needed" remains an open question.
"Quality of the people" has some fun eugenics undertones to it for sure. I caught COVID from my boyfriend who worked in healthcare at the time, before vaccines were available. All three shots put me out for a day or two and I was lucky to have a very accommodating SWE job. Your reaction isn't universal and maybe we should make it easier for working folks to have guaranteed time off? Or invest seriously in our decaying infrastructure, do we think food deserts are easy places to get vaccinated?

America is a thoroughly puritanical country and I wonder if that yoke will ever be removed
Big discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30204604
Communications of the ACM is a great magazine-like journal. They do a great job of making some of the deepest and newest technologies accessible to a typical smart software developer. Everything in it is written assuming the reader is generally a computer expert but not an expert in the niche that is being covered.
While this is almost assuredly in response to the Media circus around Joe Rogan, I find the child exploitation section interesting.

How many pop singers should this ban, if actually applied equally. Would Britney Spears (who debuted at 16 I believe?) have been banned on this. Many of the Disney type pop singers, that they always have a few around, would probably be banned on this. A rather large portion of the music industry should fall afoul of "promoting, normalizing, or glorifying child grooming behaviors".
I think you are spot on. Sports has been one of the main reasons left for many to get cable. I've thought a few times about trying to follow soccer more, but I'd need to get cable or YouTubeTV which is like $60/month. I recently started watching F1 again which is $80 for the whole year and it was super easy to sign up and watch on all my devices. It's even set up in a way where it's trivial to stay away from spoilers. I wonder if all access to sports and live events was that easy if they'd grow more as well.

I predict that the networks will either adapt or die as their remaining audience does as well.
Could we send people on the Moon if we wanted? We might but I am honestly not completely sure.

Would that be 1000x, 100x or even 10x easier than 60 years ago? Well, I don't think so.

From my perspective space tech has never quite leaved the prototype phase, for some reason.
True, but for me that is such a vanishingly rare problem that I use Google drive or a USB cord.
Correction I meant ranked choice
> Panel Lotto" (as I know it at least) refers to the company's policy regarding returning a panel that had dead pixels on arrival.

Like the Nintendo 3DS back than? Where you couldn't figure out, which screen(s) you would get pre-purchasing or Lenovo with their display panel and keyboard lotto?
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Toosie Roll Tootsie Pop?

(The world may never know.)
I was expecting it to be more ambitious, i.e. Moonshot, than reducing cancer deaths by 50% within the next 25 years.
Very powerful, but the pricing is insane. With a lot less money one can buy a full keyboard synthesizer plus a multi track recorder. I don't think that portability alone can justify that price tag.

Examples:
https://www.thomann.de/intl/yamaha_mx61_v2_black.htm
https://www.thomann.de/intl/zoom_r20.htm
And I didn't choose the cheaper ones.

Also, for those into diy electronics, check out the Electrotechnique Tsynth at https://electrotechnique.cc

Demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCA2L7CeWSE
Ask HN: What tech stack to use for my startup?
I'm building a website that is run of the mill CRUD (and am considering adding a mobile app in the future). I have written the backend API in Django and the frontend in React. However, I realized too late that a core marketing part of my project is SEO: React won't cut it then. I'm considering rewriting the frontend in Next.js (to solve the issues with SEO), or just completely rewriting everything in Django. I've looked through a few past HN discussions about the state of web development, but I still can't decide which is better. Right now I'm leaning towards Next.js because it would be less work/time porting React to Next.js vs Django for the frontend; this would let me launch quicker, which is quite valuable.

Do I go with the shiny new thing, or tried and true framework? Also, what do you use as your tried and true tech stack for new projects?
I'm a DS/ML consultant, but I've never done Kaggle or even serious public github projects. For context, I've only changed clients once, as my contracts have been very long-term. My initial client reached out to me and induced me into part-time consulting in the first place, and my second/current reached out to me based on previously working at the same company.

So I'm not saying that I know everything, but n=1 says that interpersonal connections in a domain+skill can be fully sufficient. Obviously, which one to focus on depends on where you're starting from - I have 10 years of experience in a domain and have interacted as a skilled expert with many people who are now managing budgets at various mid-sized companies. If I needed a new client, I'd primarily reach out through that network instead of using Kaggle.
How long does it take to learn a new layout? How important is it to have a keyboard with properly-labeled keys?
I think of people with whom I have good relationships as buoys, and your description of “whys” inclined me to add them as buoys, too; bulwarks against despair and for inspiration. Thanks as well for the nudge to read Man’s Search for Meaning. Listening to Blindboy talk on his podcast about Frankl is as far as I’ve gotten.

Having a child, especially one with disabilities that require extra daily attention, provided/provides a “why” and inspired me to come up with some others. How whys of you :)
I think its more accurate than calling it an outdated standard.
Current corona protection measures for the German federal parliament
Ask HN: What can we do after a giant impact event
Doesn't have to be an asteroid. The Yellowstone supervolcano exploding would be catastrophic enough. What can we do within the limits of our technology to restore Earth's ecology to a safe level? Assuming we are adequately prepared before the event occurs.
This version of the future belongs to the pedants.
It’s a worthy goal but I doubt the government could move the needle with any amount of money, much less with just $1.8 billion.

Culture is incredibly difficult to intentionally shift. People actively resist when they feel they are being manipulated even if it is supposed to be for their own good.
Sounds like Chesterton’s Fence.
I have Firefox RFP enabled, and as far as I know all these values will be the same across RFP users except the size of the browser window (which seems like a poor fingerprinting metric given the fact I can and do resize my browser during usage) - and maybe pixel density? (can't tell if this one is standardized or not).

If there are any other RFP users out there compare to mine and see if you get anything different other than browser window size: https://noscriptfingerprint.com/result/yiRFTom5qPpKPxOl
Another (paid) solution is Imageranger.com (don't have anything to do with them, but installed it for my father). I really like the import function that gets rid of duplicates (dedupes) and that put files into directories (video, photos, etc) and year/months based on how you have set up the import function.

The image viewing interface itself is okay although it might not be as smooth as e.g. Apple Photo (which I feel has its own challenges with how convoluted its image directories are e.g). ImageRanger has also tags and Face Detection and Recognition.

I have only installed the Home edition, and it seems to re-index the images to create thumbnails (relatively fast) if you have stored images on an external disk that is detached/attached between openings of the program. From what I understand, the Professional version does not have this issue as the images are cached (not tested out this myself). I don't think the face Detection and Recognition is on par with e.g. Apple Photo, but haven't tested it extensively enough to say that with 100% certainty.

What I like most about ImageRanger is its import functions and the way it stores the images in common folders and subfolders based on preferences and not in a convoluted DB.
amateur radio

especially in the bay area, one can listen to engineers who worked in the valley and at places like SRI during its early days.

for me, it all spawned off that interview question about what happens when you press a key? i got to the part where wifi kicked in and I realized just how abstracted my knowledge of radio propagation was.
I remember seeing these kinds of single-file web apps when I used PHP ~15 years ago. It was a good time! Unfortunately, no such culture seems to exist in other web language ecosystems.
Seconding paperless-ng, have been using it for a while and I am very happy with it.
Both a simple yet powerful expression of telecommunication, linking text. How is text shared? What format? In this case, Notion, syncing Mermaid diagrams:

> It is so, SO cool that Notion supports mermaid diagrams now!

Mermaid definitely seems to be winning it for diagrams, the leading text-base diagram system. It's on Github's roadmap[1].

[1] https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29927962 (24 days ago, 14 comments)
Are there seriously people who believe this bullshit? You think everybody who works only works for "heirs", and if there were no heirs, nobody would have to work?

If nobody would work, billions of people would starve within weeks. The only relationship to other people that would prolong ones life would perhaps the ability to eat some of your peers.
The Milwaukee Road had electrified freight rail as late as the early 1970s, so it’s not quite rocket science.
https://streamlinermemories.info/Milw/Milw73EndofEra.pdf
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2110117118

> There is ample evidence that masking and social distancing are effective in reducing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission. However, due to the complexity of airborne disease transmission, it is difficult to quantify their effectiveness, especially in the case of one-to-one exposure. Here, we introduce the concept of an upper bound for one-to-one exposure to infectious human respiratory particles and apply it to SARS-CoV-2. To calculate exposure and infection risk, we use a comprehensive database on respiratory particle size distribution; exhalation flow physics; leakage from face masks of various types and fits measured on human subjects; consideration of ambient particle shrinkage due to evaporation; and rehydration, inhalability, and deposition in the susceptible airways. We find, for a typical SARS-CoV-2 viral load and infectious dose, that social distancing alone, even at 3.0 m between two speaking individuals, leads to an upper bound of 90% for risk of infection after a few minutes. If only the susceptible wears a face mask with infectious speaking at a distance of 1.5 m, the upper bound drops very significantly; that is, with a surgical mask, the upper bound reaches 90% after 30 min, and, with an FFP2 mask, it remains at about 20% even after 1 h. When both wear a surgical mask, while the infectious is speaking, the very conservative upper bound remains below 30% after 1 h, but, when both wear a well-fitting FFP2 mask, it is 0.4%. We conclude that wearing appropriate masks in the community provides excellent protection for others and oneself, and makes social distancing less important.

In Germany FFP2/N95/KN95 masks are mandated in many places and situations. Only few people wear them with a tight fit though.
The traffic here seems well organized and very low. Look at this demo from RoboTaxi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFEvkmvIjVo
Annoyingly, the demo broke the back button of my Safari on iOS
I can't tell if your teachers were reading their Huxley or not. I guess it's slightly more obscure than just labeling kids Alpha to Epsilon.
> This process was short-circuited immediately for those of us who went into tech. It’s the new gold rush; you really can go west and seek your fortune. Remarkable times.

> it’s completely unfair to those still trapped in that life who weren’t lucky enough to adore computers.

I must confess that after being picked on throughout middle school and high school for being a nerd, I totally reveled in this observation well into my young adulthood. Revenge of the nerds, baby... the gentle computer geeks are the ones getting rich and living well in fabulous places, while the mean, popular kids never left the hometown and are worse off than their parents' generation.

Eventually I realized that this was still thinking like a kid.
"The model divides Earth into a virtual grid of 64,800 cubes, each 100 kilometers on a side."

Low resolution.
This is not how it works. If you subscribe and listen to Bad Apple!! once per month, the rightsholders of that song will not be paid 70% of your subscription cost because of you, or even 1%.
Chilled, misted, but never refrigerated.
Unpopular opinion but PHP/MySQL monolith, primarily server side rendering with client side enhancements, and you can have an MVC in weeks instead of months. When performance becomes a concern break off chunks into Go microservices. This is what we did and it's served us very well.
> I do, but since the data is not publicly released its not shareable.

I don't believe you do and I shouldn't need to either way. "Believe me bro" isn't science.

> Hence the reason I've explained

What's that supposed to mean? What reason, what explanation?

> and pointed you to the appropriate resources.

You pointed to no appropriate resources. You actually deflected from the question and provided a lot of links and waffle that did not answer the question at all. In case it wasn't clear, I was not asking for techbro handwaving about whether vaccines impact community transmission. I was asking for actual data.

> A reduction in the incidence rate ratio among vaccinated individuals is a reduction to community spread.

An assertion that you have failed to prove and have no evidence for, as far as I can see.

> Have a good evening.

You too. And try not to make any more claims you don't have evidence for, it's misinformation.
One motor per axle except in the Wabtec/GE ES44C4 and ET44C4 where it is four powered axles and two idle axles (Progress Rail has a similar locomotive that didn't make many sales)
At some point you're just hitting the raw material cost of roof+walls+insulation+labor built to code which--for a pretty basic structure--can easily be $120k no matter the location. Even if land was free this would still be unattainable for many under-homed people.
Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/277/
That’s a fair point. In my opinion, more languages should support something like TypeScript’s labeled tuple elements[1] for use cases like that.

1: I wasn’t able to find this in the main docs for some reason? Only the release notes. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...
I guess it depends on the server. I know of one trans woman who had no problem playing a female character on the server my GF plays on. She was just accepted by the community.

But as this is mostly role play I don't see why gender fluidity should be a problem.
I like GIMP, but started using krita recently because I needed its CMYK features. It's pretty awesome! More painting- than photo-oriented, but seems it can do most of what PS does. This link talks about what krita does that PS doesn't, then what PS does that krita can't.

https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/introduction_from_othe...
Yes travel holds zero appeal for me. It seems like a waste of time and money. I would be quite happy never leaving my small town. Doing other productive things is inspiring, however.