skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quit caffeine for a few weeks back in 2011 and the only thing I remember was the headaches during the first week.

Since then I have been enjoying my daily 2 cups in the morning, and 2 more around lunch time. I just love the taste of coffee in the morning combined with a nice sweet e-cigarette/vape flavour. But lately I've been thinking about quitting caffeine and nicotine for at least a few months to see how it affects me.

The last few years have been rough for me personally with anxiety/burnout/insomnia issues and a late ADD/autism diagnosis in my mid-30's, followed by a year of almost daily cannabis use because falling asleep without it seemed nearly impossible.

I'm off the cannabis now and on methylphenidate for the ADD and even though the medication improves my ability to focus, I'm beginning to notice that the combination of methylphenidate+caffeine+nicotine is horrible for my body and mind. Seemingly random I have sudden flashes of sweating, elevated heart rate, elevated blood pressure and falling asleep at night is still an issue.

Maybe reading this HN thread is the trigger I needed to try once more to get rid off the caffeine and nicotine. I'm not looking forward to the withdrawal headaches and likely even worse insomnia for a while.
Keepassxc and Password Store are great offline password managers.
https://archive.is/PUQpX
"Come, Thou Tortoise", by Jessica Grant.
Was trying to find speeding tickets of John von Neumann, but in vain. It would be nice if one could limit search by years.
Expected an article on the use of Haskell in urodynamics testing software. Disappointed.
Thank you for the questions!
As a nature kind of person, Fermont had everything I was seeking; Plenty of forest, the ability to hunt, trap, fish almost anywhere, a lot of snow during the winter, the Northern lights, the fauna and much more. It IS the place for outdoor activities. If you ever drive on the 389, I recommend you check out the Mont Groulx. [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monts_Groulx
The infamous Manic 5 hydroelectric water dam is on that road. Bring a camera, don't be scared to enter the trails near rivers and lakes, you won't regret it. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel-Johnson_dam

You are close to Labrador City in case you need to take a flight, the salaries were insanely good in my field, the inhabitants were really friendly and always ready to help no matter what.

On the downside, I would say that other than going in Newfoundland for errands, you are really far away from any other town and the more importantly, the sea (I'm from a fisherman village). Other than that, it does get really cold during winter. I've personally witnessed -63C on an iron mine, but fortunately, the humidity level is really low (it's dry).

Cheers from the Great White North!
> To nitpick: They aren't going away as long as we spread that message. ... Defeatism is trendy, and who benefits?

It's not defeatism-- it's just being realistic. I don't believe there's any useful method to make government actors comply with the law. I have an, admittedly US perspective, but evidence the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the NSA and the subsequent Church committee hearings, and Snowden's disclosures as examples. The power afforded by mass surveillance and data warehousing is too attractive not to be abused.
There's no escape. It's just a matter of time.
My bad! I wasn't aware of such a convention.

Good to know!
Pretty much anything by Neal Stephenson but especially:

The Baroque Cycle trilogy

Anathem
Just a nit, for Facebook, Scuba is not the logging ingestion service. It's Scribe, which Scuba itself uses as the ingestion :)

https://engineering.fb.com/2019/10/07/data-infrastructure/sc...

(I worked in Scribe)
big fan of bc. love that program
Heh, ok, yes I expected you to say something like this. I had biofeedback therapy as a child (also jaw/bruxism related), and those devices looked archaic, even for that time :)
Cannery Row, Tortilla Flats - Steinbeck
Smillas sense of Snow-Hoeg
Currently reading The Expanse series and it's great.
Yes, Chrome pretty much single-handedly changed that, timed well with Vista. For about a decade we got a reprieve because:

1. Memory safety mitigations became much more common (Vista)

2. Browsers adopted sandboxing (thanks IE/Chrome)

3. Unsandboxed browser-reachable software like Flash and Java was moved into a sandbox and behind "Click to Play" before eventually being removed entirely.

4. Auto-updates became the norm for browsers.

And that genuinely bought us about a decade. The reason things are changing is because attackers have caught back up. Browser exploitation is back. Sandboxing is amazing and drove up the cost, but it is not enough - given enough vulnerabilities any sandbox falls.

So it's not that security is getting worse, it's that security got better really really quickly, we basically faffed around for a decade more or less making small, incremental wins, and attackers figured out techniques for getting around our barriers.

If we want another big win, it's obvious. Sandboxing and memory safety have to be paired together. Anything else will be an expensive waste of time.
Same offer as Troy. Contact me for more info. Our deal size was similar and we were also essentially bootstrapped. My email is in About.

p.s., Yay Papertrail. We know you guys from ClickHouse. Great to get the backstory on the outcome. ;)
Remembered this more as a Mozilla initiative promoting 'maker' activities and community calls, hackathons here and there etc.

And stuff revolving not around the logo see in that archived page but this Thimble one
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing_thimble/

Got a large Thimble webmaker sticker in the mail once randomly and I wasn't even sure why/how hehe
This is something I have thought about a lot.

I have had coffee daily, gone months without any caffeine, and currently average about one cup of coffee every week or two.

I think the best approach is experimental and data-driven. Everyone has different genes, life circumstances, sleep quality, etc., so it's hard to deduce too much from others' anecdotes. Once a week, I do a version of the Beck Depression Inventory[0] to measure my mood over the previous week. For me, daily coffee definitely causes me to be slightly depressed. I have found a cup when I really need it (which is about once every week or two) is ideal. But, whatever it is you want to optimize for (lines of code, happiness, sleep quality, etc.), make sure you are measuring, and then start experimenting!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Depression_Inventory
Yes I believe this approach has merit too and fits many use cases and certain skill levels
Yeah, I suppose that works. It is 2d, but has such vastly different game mechanics that no one would argue it's a clone.
Coal ash isn't stored that way, but if it were, we'd need to find another mountain range to stuff it in.
Unsatisfied niche btw.. There is effectively no dating app for kinksters, but a lot of people are into kink.
Are some companies in general? Definitely. Are Indian startups also? Yes. But are only Indian companies? No.
Researchers unravel mystery behind ailing pond pine "ghost forests"
The behavior of the traditional vi is much different than vim and other clones. Nvi was a actually a re-implementation of the traditional vi for 4BSD (to be clean of AT&T code) and thus was originally intended to be bug-for-bug compatible, but breaking away where the original vi behavior was nonsensical or terrible.

For vim, `set compatible` or `set cp` is close, but still not traditional vi by any means.

A multibyte variant of the traditional vi is maintained at https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi/.

Nvi (now on version 1.8x) is also maintained - https://repo.or.cz/nvi.git

Nvi2 is yet another fork of Nvi, https://github.com/lichray/nvi2

Despite the very similar names, all of these editors have a variety of different features, and are structured very differently.

Nvi has a concept of a front-end and a back-end (which uses the BDB database). OpenVi uses the OpenBSD version of Berkeley DB which derives from 1.85. Nvi (1.8x) provides a minimal version of code also derived from that release intended from use with Nvi, and (IIRC) also provides support for using Db3/4/5. Similar situation for Nvi2.

Nvi 1.8 has been structured where a third library layer has been added, which doesn't exist in OpenBSD's vi or OpenVi. There is scripting support (Tcl, Perl, etc.) and GUI code in the other various forks ... all of these support various different options as well.

I should probably make a matrix of these, but you can get an idea by looking at the settable options implemented in each of the variants (as they historically include a comment to document from where the option originated):

OpenVi: https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi/blob/22c2a7022e31d91e09e...

OpenBSD vi: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/vi/common...

Nvi2: https://github.com/lichray/nvi2/blob/5fcdc13656500a8c5b4c073...

Nvi1: https://repo.or.cz/nvi.git/blob/HEAD:/common/options.c#l52
Huh... tough call. If you use "number of times read" as a metric that approximates how much I enjoy a particular book, then my favorite is almost certainly one of:

- Neuromancer by William Gibson

- The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

- False Memory by Dean Koontz

I think a good case could be made for a handful of others also. Specifically:

- Nineteen Eighty Four by Orwell

- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

- Foundation by Asimov

- The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

are all strong contenders as well.
The ACA plans I had available were only slightly less expensive than my COBRA, but there was not a single ACA plan available that would cover any out of network expense like my COBRA plan did. I did switch to an ACA plan after COBRA expired and it was fine, but I slightly preferred my COBRA plan.
This is possibly the most condescending piece of nonsense I've ever read on HN, and that's saying something.
My father was career Air Force. The base commander came to him once, and told him that half of the privates on the base were having trouble paying their bills to the local merchants. The merchants complained to the commander, and one of the commander's jobs is to be a good neighbor in the community.

The privates were all paid the same, and lived on base housing, with base furniture, etc., all supplied. Health care was free. Half would do fine, the other half ran out of money halfway between paychecks, and would resort to harassing others for loans, not pay back debts, etc/

He ordered my father to help the half that could not manage their finances. So he'd bring them into the office, go over how they handled money, prepared budgets for them, etc. He was very frustrated because this was a complete failure. He was unable to help them.
Anything by Douglas Adams, but especially his Dirk Gently books. If I have to pick one, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30398529

I’m not associated with them, just saw it earlier today on HN.
There's undoubtedly a flood of trash. But lower barriers to building games isn't making the game industry worse.

Somewhat strained metaphor here, but think of energy. Cheap power generation helped the Industrial Revolution along and caused a ton of awful, smoke belching factories to pop up, and a lot of people hated that. But cheap electricity is also the bedrock of every innovation since (including the type HN likes).

Easier accessibility to whatever resource always generates crap, but that crap always contains a percentage of treasure. And there's a lot of really, really good stuff hidden away on Steam that wouldn't exist without the easier tools we have today.
I used to use the GPL license to license my software, but now it seems like it is too much of a legal nightmare, so I've stopped using it.
Why are you censoring yourself? If a job is a shit job, just fucking say it. Why pretend?

> his remarks on your other areas of concern would be ill suited to this forum

This isn't a kid's show. Your comment is really interesting to me, and I'd like to hear what he said about these issues.
How much ram does that use up? What’s the latency? Is it sharded? Is it a cluster? So many questions
Your counter argument would be more persuasive if you provided proof instead of what seems like just another opinion.
I always wonder how much cumulative value has been generated by remote company towns built around resource extraction. Always a marvel to see civilization at work.
That might be true, in that they are underserved, but that is a huge difference from the USA’s non-service. My experience is in (the French speaking part of) Switzerland, where to get to a remote mountain village you must go by postal bus from the train station. The postal bus only came once every 2 hours, which was a pain, but it was very viable.
No hackernews. No reddit. no github.
In Taiwan you have to learn english to get a phd.

Additionally, you should know Taiwan sources many parts of the production process from technologies in other countries.

For example ASML is the company that actually makes the EUV machines that etch the patterns onto the silicon, and that company is Dutch. In addition to that the lenses used in the EUV machines are custom made from Carl Zeiss, a German company.

Both of the aforementioned technologies are highly advanced and there is no way for TMSC to replicate each one.

Taiwan does not hold a monopoly on semiconductor technology. You should note that Korea (Samsung) also holds second place in this area and is not far behind.

China is actually pretty behind in the semiconductor race. Worse then intel as of right now.
I think realistically the biggest source of research money is from blockchain projects as so many use formal methods nowadays, and have done for a couple years
Surprise limitation: you cannot have two worktrees set to the same branch, or at least that confronted me when I tried it.
>Greenland looks to me like a series of concentric hills.

What you are looking at is an implicit contour map - normally these lines are drawn in post processing to highlight levels of constant elevation. If you follow the "concentric hills" you are staying level and going around the hill. If you move perpendicular to them you are going straight up the slope in the direction of the gradient.
Anything by Liu Cixin
- Three Body Problem and the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy specifically
I think you misread. They're not saying that fixing institutions will fix poverty, how did you reach that conclusion? They're saying broken institutions impose a disproportionate burden on people living in poverty and potentially contribute to the perpetuation of poverty.
If you have Telegram there are a lot of books free to download on this channel:
https://t.me/embedded_library
You can just count ITW exploits against Chrome, for example, to see that they're increasing over the last 3 years. I assume the same is true for some other software.
I stopped consuming caffeine almost two years ago. My wife became pregnant and stopped drinking caffeinated beverages throughout her pregnancy, and this continued during breastfeeding. The first few months were kind of annoying to feel drowsy in the afternoon.

I definitely feel I have more energy than before. But, I also became a father and I have a new source of energy in my life. So it's hard for me to confirm whether it's all due to caffeine or not.

My creativity and problem solving have noticeably increased and I really feel like I'm back in my 20s. But again, to be honest, I do not know if this is because of the new love of my life or the decaffeinated life.

I'm certainly busier at home, I probably sleep less than before, and I have a lot of new responsibilities as a dad, but surprisingly my output at work is significantly better than my peers and myself two years ago.
FTL uses WebRTC too.
What wouldn’t you trust? It’s simply indexing public info.
Are you human?

> detached HEAD mode

Ah, I see, not anymore...
> If we offered to everyone who exists in America there's absolutely no way it would work simply by the numbers.

I don't see why. You just appropriately set the amount paid out and the tax tier at which you cross into the red and are paying back into it. Are you suggesting that this threshold is barely above the poverty line? Because that's the only way it wouldn't actually work.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ordered us to freeze and disclose assets
I would imagine https://grapheneos.org/ is the state of the art.
Are there features you can ban in your style guide to prevent serious compile time problems?
> a special government branch in place here to fight the sea

Ah that ought to do it.
Background: I used to drink 5-6 cans of soda per day for years. I put on a bunch of weight without even noticing it. I wound up switching to diet soda, and the weight came off, but I kept the caffeine up. I have been a professional software engineer for 16 years, and I'm currently a Director-level at a mid-sized company.

Around mid 2019, I noticed some bad qualities in myself: short temper, excessive frustration, losing sleep. I would blow up at a little thing, and then later wonder why I had been so upset about it. I carried this low-level anxiety all the time, and I was trigger-happy when it came to arguments or conflict. And I HATE arguing.

Nobody said anything to me about my behavior, but over time I noticed myself exhibiting qualities and traits of people that I don't like very much. I want to like myself! And so I made a decision to take some steps to be a better person.

One of my hypotheses about why I was so anxious and on the edge all the time was that I was drinking too much caffeine. I had other hypotheses, too, but I decided to try this one since it was a relatively easy thing to do.

So I quit. Cold turkey. The first week was hell. Headaches, trouble sleeping, craving a drink. But after that, I was fine, and I don't miss it at all. I'll occasionally indulge in a caffeinated beverage if I'm at out to dinner or for special occasions, but 99% of what I drink these days is caffeine-free.

I keep a daily journal. I track my habits and moods, such as whether I'm happy, sad, tired, angry, frustrated, as well as whether I exercised or had sex or hung out with friends or called my parents or how many hours of sleep I got. I've been doing this for a long, long time, and it's one of the reasons I was able to identify the patterns of undesirable traits that prompted me to drop caffeine in the first place.

There's a very clear shift in my behavior, habits, and moods from March 17, 2019, the day I quit caffeine, up until now. I am calmer. I lose my temper a lot less than I used to. I'm more able to stop myself when I see the signs of anger coming on. I can distance myself from work and remind myself it's just a job.

I sleep like a rock. My wife and I get into fewer arguments. I exercise more. In short, I find it easier to relax.

If you were to describe my happiness range from a 0 (miserable) to 10 (perfect), I was hovering somewhere around the 3-4 mark before, and now I'm consistently in the 5-6 mark.

Quitting caffeine was one of the best decisions I have ever made. It didn't fix everything. I still have problems, like anyone else. But a lot of the tiny things, the details that matter in my overall quality of life? Those things are better.

And I'm less likely to lose my job due to getting frustrated and blowing my top at work, which is a nice perk. My bosses have observed the shift in my behavior, and it's gratifying to hear that.
Messiah, by Boris Starling

Red Storm Rising, by Tom Clancy

First Among Equals, by Jeffrey Archer
“ I searched where the name Galene came from and learned that it is a lead-containing mineral. It would only be logical to name this side-project after another mineral. Pyrite, or a fool's gold, felt to be a good description.”
This is in general a really nice way to visualise datasets which have both a wide range of values, and "relative" local variations that comprise a small fraction of the overall range.
So who exactly is going to pay for all this?

Let's see (only what I have answers to):

Cheap rents and affordable housing.

Allow more vertical building.

Protective nets for periods of illness/unemployment/etc.

I and my employers pay a fund that covers it.

School districts equally equipped, with good teachers.

From the taxes, it's not so expensive.

Free (or very affordable, no-loan-based) college education if their kid passes a hard tamper-proof exam.

From the taxes, it's not so expensive if you only pay the smartest ones.

Taxes on outsourcing work outside the country.

Well, that's income, but I disagree. Just forbid making any business with tyrants. I know, I know...
The River Why by David James Duncan. A coming of age, meaning of life book with fishing as the central metaphor.
yah, i'd like to know as well, since i was thinking of recommending the static site generator (but not hugo) + github + forestry.io route for a couple orgs.
>and revoke your CPU's license to execute code if they deem your usage unacceptable

Is this even possible? Revocation is not simple to do especially if the CPU isn't connected to the internet.
As long as it’s not interfering with connecting with people, just consider yourself lucky.

I was like you maybe 10 years ago, and since then I’ve realized I’m just very fortunate that I find my work engaging and interesting.

When I’ve had bad jobs, I’ve kind of burned out on computer stuff and spent more time away from screens. It’s draining to hate your job.

When I’ve loved my jobs I’ve found it energizing to stay engaged and explore what I’m working on in my spare time occasionally. Usually it’s not just about solving a problem for my employer, but being able to explore interesting technologies while it also benefits my work. It’s great - everyone wins.

There have been times where I feel anxious about work though, and I’d rather do something else but I’m worried about how much I know or how well I can execute on upcoming problems. When that’s motivating you, my experience is that it’s mostly bad. You avoid people because you think you should be focused on work. You skip a shower here and there, skip meals, go to bed too late, etc. No job is worth compromising on your well-being and/or disconnected time with friends and loved ones.

It’s also exceedingly unlikely that you can move the needle on your contributions by compromising on your well-being.

So, that’s my take on it after 15 years or so working at a screen. There are good times and bad times to get absorbed in your work, good versions and bad versions. It can be hard to regulate for me, but I’ve found it important to recognize that it can actually be a good thing at times.

Also, your example of watching a movie seeming like a waste of time… that in particular seems to me like a case where we socially normalized watching movies/tv as a good way to decomp and relax. But shit, I can’t do it. It’s so boring for me 90% of the time. My mind loves to run and explore, not get boxed into some revision of a familiar story with different faces. Is it really worthwhile to spend your time that way? Frankly I think the notion that it might be a waste of time could be a signal that you’ve simply found a better way to spend your time!

Having said that, I totally get why some people like it and I’m not criticizing at all.
Note for anybody who's particularly interested in automated reasoning, and likes watching video - the UCLA Automated Reasoning Group has a ton of good stuff up on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/c/UCLAAutomatedReasoningGroup
Dune, book 1. You can take away so much from this book. The Bene Gesserit's "Litany Against Fear" and its application makes the book worth reading, and that's just the tip of the iceberg! My favorite part of the book but involves reunion. friendship and loyalty. The audiobook version of Dune, book 1, is also excellent. It includes dramatic acting and ambient music.

Neil Gaiman's Sandman dramatic audiobook (part I) is so good. I feel so lucky that while looking up the link to the book that I just discovered Part II was published in 9/2021. Highly recommend: https://www.amazon.com/The-Sandman/dp/B086WQ7J62