skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is sad to see that folks put a company and its equity-holders first, before attending to their own lives outside of work. They put off their personal relationships and personal care activities (such as exercise, getting outside, various healthy activities away from a computer), and instead put that time into going above and beyond a 40 hour work week... and yet are barely (if at all) recognized for their efforts.

I am so glad to see people speak out about their experience, especially at companies which claim to uphold a certain set of values. Such as Amazon or Airbnb.

I recall at Twilio, I was emailed by an HR person ... from the email account of a Director of Engineering. An HR person impersonated a Director of Engineering in order to recruit and have a better chance of getting the attention of software engineers, to attempt to persuade those engineers to join their team.

Yet, one of Twilio's principles is/was "Transparency". Yet, there they were-- their HR people engaging in practices which are deceptive.

We must hold companies to their supposed principles, and to a reasonable expectation of professional ethics in general. \

Bravo, I say, to the author of this article.
That's $2k/year, which works out to $10,230 on a five year loan. Plus the $2k/year savings every year after that when the car is still in service.

It's a classic stock versus flow problem in economics. People irrationally over-weight the pain of a big lump sum, and under rate the pain of ongoing monthly payments. They misevaluate even as they convert a stock into a flow with an auto loan.

Similarly, people underestimate the cost of driving everywhere, when they have already sunk so much into the units investment.

I swear that there's something about cars that turns people's brains off. They are so deeply ingrained into our way of life that we basically refuse to consider costs and alternatives.
I most certainly agree that writing isn't cliche, but the exceedingly low barrier to entry makes it hard to distinguish yourself from the crowd of untalented hacks who want to squeeze money out.

More what I'm saying is that the environment requires shedloads of marketing acumen. Not that that's impossible to learn, but it means you're either getting someone to sell it for you (i.e., a publisher) or have to do a lot of work you probably don't love (i.e., not writing).

Or you could be like me and make stuff for fun, and never expect to get paid for it!
Was genuinely serious

AFAIK iOS provides hardware keys for fingerprinting
Yes. Thanks for this. This is very very similar to what I'm trying to do. I guess more like the subproject https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish than anything.

I suppose the difference is that I like the idea of being able to link to other servers and keep a contextual menu bar telling the user where they are. Also, in corporate environments SSH is often locked down because of what it could potentially do. This would be nice as it would be sandboxed to only what the client/server are coded to do.

Thanks for the link, this gives me some things to think about.
Squandering an entire companies potential as a PR move for your other company is hardly big brain executive work though. Film executives do that all the time, and they're some of the dumbest people doing supposedly intellectual work.
Tried GraalVM?
The Alan Watts lectures are very entertaining and are all on YouTube (audio only).
Pre-Expedia, travel agents would be able to tell you these things (at least for popular destinations)
Of course no one can speak for Musks intention in buying twitter. But what gives me sort of a really bad feel is the fact that he complained about twitter being bad (in his view, which many might agree or not) and so a solution seems to be that he simply bought his way in and now he actually has power to make changes to the platform, a power almost no other twitter user has. This is a platform with millions of users, any changes affect a massive amount of people!

The wishful thinker in me goes "I really hope he takes this opportunity to push twitter towards federation, decentralised moderation or a user-centric democratic control of what is essentially a public plaza" but I know it's not going to happen. Elon thinks things should be a certain way and he has the money, and therefor the power, to make them happen.

I'm really more of an observer in this situation as I don't really use twitter very much, but this whole thing just feels so... wrong :/!
i think more customization can help you get power users to spread the word, as long as it doesn't get in the way of someone who just wants to do/read/understand as little as possible to get results
You can't always just pin depression on lifestyle. There's a strong biological component that influences your susceptibility to depression and every other mental illness. Some people fall in a pit over what might seem like a minor inconvenience to someone else. Some people get depressed over absolutely nothing.
Let's be honest this whole thread is f**ed up.

A truth is that this guy is irrelevant. It's just your ideas that make him relevant. Just face the reality of your daily lives, and look away from some random stimulant on the net that try to rub your rough corners one way or another. Either you like him or hate him, you're just wasting your energy, people...
Yes, I am. You're absolutely right. I'm doing so in order to illustrate what it is about mature closed-source enterprise software offerings that makes them acceptable to use.

Otherwise it amounts to using a random binary blob and hoping it does what you want it to. Without any ability to check its internals yourself (short of RE) or any legal backing.

Some might opine that that's completely reasonable, but I think many might find it an unreasonable risk for an enterprise to take. Regardless of how new the vendor may be.

Again, you're completely right about the comparison I am making. I hope I've been able to clarify my reasons.
Surely the issue there is not Title IX but vexatious litigants?
In Helsinki
>I don't know where this persistent myth comes from that people love choice and tinkering, because they clearly don't.

I think it really depends on the product.

If it's something like Photoshop or Vim which are used by professionals for multiple hours a day and productivity is to be maximised, customisation is not just a nice-to-have but a necessity. Power users appreciate it too.

You're absolutely right in 90% of the cases, though I'm not sure which box web search would fall into.
How did you read my mind? I've thought of most of these things and thought I was completely crazy dreaming.

I absolutely want to interview people, dig their brains, hear their stories, etc.! This reminds me of how I used to go to my profs office hours because I just loved hearing them talk passionately about their subjects.

A question, livestream of what?
I feel a need to clarify.

I'm Eastern Orthodox Christian, so I do find some sort of speaking out to be productive. The apostles did evangelize, they worked miracles and focused on others above themselves according to the Book of Acts and epistles. But even St. Paul, in his epistles, speaks openly and humbly of his own struggles with the flesh. While he's given strength for that battle, he is meaningfully but still not completely liberated from dealing with the problems sin/temptation present. I understand that everyone who calls for me to listen to a talk could only be liberated to a partial extent. I think once a mortal is fully liberated, they will no longer need to evangelize. Kind of like how we only have sex in this world, it's something for the interim. Until the Resurrection, most if not all of our lives are a work in progress.

I also pay attention to the examples of the desert fathers, many of whom held exceptional wisdom which caused them to deliberately eschew all company, out of fear of becoming prideful by asserting spiritual/intellectual superiority and taking control of the lives of the people in the cities from which they fled.

Where you said "Fuck, I don't know! Ask someone liberated, not me.", I might say "Fiddlesticks, I don't know! Ask someone further along the path with a teaching mission, not me."

By the way I don't if you were aware or not, but this man, Father Seraphim Rose was actually a former student of Alan Watts. I find his writing helpful, personally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim_Rose
Appealing presentation but quite a bit turn-off with the on-boarding experience (the permissions for the outgoing requests and Github). On the side note, I'm unable to sign-in with Github, which I also don't understand why it's needed.
Person is reinventing Xanadu(tm) hypertext. Ted Nelson's book "Literary Machines" went into it in much more detail.
I think what you're saying is probably right, but I also think there's a big overlap between being a great writer and being a great marketer.

There's bonus value in getting paid because it's a relatively simple metric for "how good of a writer am I".
What kinds of online magazines? I don't know that arena well.
I kinda feel the same.
Choose a field where you are already good and get a job/have a business in it for living. On other side become a ruthless learner of whatever you like. Go to different gathering of industries/disciplines, go to Expos,if feel like you can also join part-time university course or become a citizen scientist.
Log your knowledge in any form of blog, journal, diary or personal knowledge-base. Hop between them when you feel like, if stuck read your past progress. It feeds my curiosity but it does not mostly create the positive cash-flow.
As someone who has struggled with depression and generalised anxiety for most of my life, I can attest that drugs (SSRI, SNRI) work. They take time to get used to. Use it in combination with therapy and counselling.
You sure have a lot of details about your friend's business. Most friends might say, "hey my cost of goods went way up" or "almost doubled". Your friend is oddly specific. And he doesn't have "a bunch of workers" but exactly 8. You must be a very close friend!
Freelancer, Contractor, Permie, Consultancy? More the same than different.
Please talk to a therapist first and foremost, preferably a psychologist or psychiatrist. Antidepressants are not an insant cure - you MUST pair them with actual therapy, always.

The test of this comment will be about my personal experience.

I have/had depression (its hard to say if its well and truly gone). SSRIs did not help me. They're effects were somewhere between doing absolutely nothing, placebo, and just making me extremely irritable.

What did help me? Its hard to say. Therapy definitely helps a lot, getting things off your chest. Therapists won't tell you how to think - they'll teach you how to overcome the way you're feeling.
I sometimes feel like I just learned to live with depression, rather than being cured of it. Maybe that's not what you want to hear, but that's my experience.
If Apple released an unstable fix that caused crashes, we'd be here arguing about how they should have taken more time to get it right. The odds that a buggy patch that's pushed to your computer crashes it is far higher than your computer being pwned by attackers because a fix is still in the works.
If only Apple had considered the plight of man before switching their laptops over to exclusively use USB-C connectors.
I agree, but I prefer to start with these things. Smaller measures should only be passed over if they fail. I know what you mean though, I know people with mood issues like what you describe. It’s impossible to make a recommendation that suits everybody.
> I was sure that refraining from lavish lunches, canceling ski offsites, and raising $1 billion from emergency venture capital investments was enough to keep Airbnb afloat, so I grew skeptical that executives had considered everything in the budget when trying to save jobs

How can this person even say this when they don't touch any financial data? A quick look at Q4 2020 results for Airbnb shows a $1B loss on net income ex. IPO costs and a $21M loss on the financially engineered/hacked "adjusted EBITDA". An unprofitable company is not in a position to be keeping jobs for the sake of it.

> These material conditions bled into work-life - while some of us took Ubers to work and shopped at Barney’s, others maxed out credit cards or could only afford to live in the East Bay

Oh no, customer support can only afford to live in the East Bay. This person needs to get a grip. A customer service agent is not making 200k+ in any world. That is a recipe for running a failed business. You know what does let people live where they want? Building more housing.

> a clearer non-product career ladder

There is no "ladder" to being a customer service agent. Experience doesn't scale your value to the company, so there's no reason for there to be a ladder. And with the advent of gig platforms there's no reason for there to be a manager either. Saying that customer service agents need a career ladder shows how delusional this person is with respect to running a business.

This person needs to realize that life is about working for yourself, never for the "Airfam". Loyalty means nothing. If they're burned out (it sounds like they are) then they can leave with their multi-million dollar stock options and free up a job for the rest of us who would gladly get paid half a million dollars a year to complain about "inequities". Corporate won't care they left and they shouldn't feel bad about it either. Sometimes some people just aren't cut out to keep going hard day in and day out for 5+ years. And that's okay, because if you worked at Airbnb then you can easily get a cushy job somewhere else.
Super interesting concept, and it looks great. Good work! but for something like this I'm either self hosting it or nothing.
Assuming the devices are all from Apple, I’m curious to understand what Plex provides when it’s serving Infuse on the frontend. In other words, what does Infuse lack when it’s connected to a plain file share or file server as compared to having Plex in the backend? Infuse is already able to transcode various formats as necessary. It’s also able to index media, fetch cover images, etc. Other than offloading the power usage for transcoding (which may be important in battery powered devices), what benefits does Plex or Jellyfin (or anything else) provide here?
You might find that you hate trying to "do" something with your curiosities. It might feel more work than fun after a while.

But I suspect that if you love learning about lots of different things, you'd enjoy sharing those things too (and teaching!). Blog, podcast, youtube videos.

If you're in a major city, check and see if there's groups that could scratch your itch. Odd Salon (https://oddsalon.com/) is really cool if you're in the bay or NYC - people give talks about weird bits of science and history.
I have suffered from a similar experience minus the ethernet. One of my hubs was even falsely labeled Thunderbolt when it was not. ALL of my devices were purchased direct from Amazon.com, no third-party resellers. All of them are dead as of today. I switched to using a USB-C -> DisplayPort cable for video. I upgraded my Macbook Pro, so I actually have a selection of ports. Prior to this I spent hundreds of dollars on so called 'docks'. I will never buy from these companies again. I will also never buy a USB-C dock again. Instead, for my Windows laptop, I have USB-C -> USB cables, and it also works with USB-C to DisplayPort. My Macbook has all the required ports.
if you're interested in some more hot takes, try Pentti Linkola's "Can Life Prevail".

Be warned about his views of democracy and the US. He opposed the consumerism of the US and sees democracy as "me, me, me" politics, where people vote for what they want now (or what they're told they want) rather doing the uncomfortable thing today for the sake of tomorrow.
There is a selection bias at ski resorts. And plenty of the interactions are a single serving, so comparatively safe. I presume you can still get an elevator/lift pitch.
be a broken comb
Repetition Is Persuasion
This is an old failing site, it’s gonna fail for the same reason that Diaspora and app.net failed, and it’s the same reason web3 is going to fail.

Real world users don’t care if their social network is on a “distributed” platform. And they definitely don’t want to pay for it. Relying on some tiny minority to donate….just to avoid the horrifying, almost indescribable pain of some social network using your data to show your better ads (the horror)…really?

Maybe we techies need to re-evaluate our priorities in life….
I had a horrible experience with a psychiatrist.

Then a great experience with another psychiatrist who managed to get me to function just enough for me to go see a psychologist who not only "cured" me but gave me a superpower of being resilient against life's wraths.

So your mileage may vary.

To whom might be reading this: don't give up. It sucks but sometimes we get unlucky and need to change doctors.
This will get buried but as far as ssris having "really bad side-effects for most people that take them", I think thats not true. I see lots of people on SSRIs, most deny having any side effects, some have minor side effects that tend to resolve with discontinuation, rarely do I see a "really bad" or persistent side effect.

It's like plane crashes, rare events get lots of focus and thus some people are terrified of flying, but really it's quite safe.
Dig into intellectual / political Twitch. One guy I've paid attention to is Hal Sparks, a comedian/TV personality turned webby political analyst.

He just reads a bunch of stuff and then does a livestream talking about current events and connecting them with what he's read (plus jokes). There's also a lot of reacting to YouTubers' video essays and the news.

Bullet points for livestreaming subject matter:

* Reacting to the news.

* Reacting to YouTubers / web content.

* Q&A sessions (this is key--the strength of livestreaming is audience interactivity, and that audience will be fiercely loyal).

* Spitballing -- You can give a rough version of a presentation you might give in a video.

* Live writing / creating -- This sounds crazy, but people actually watch people write code, create music etc.

Additional considerations:

* Create a ritual that people show up for. Livestreaming and video audiences love rhythm.

* You don't have to be that entertaining -- people often turn to Twitch/YouTube to fill a similar need in their life that they use podcasts for -- background noise / a distraction where they can feel like they're in the room with a public figure / community.
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Materialize is advertised more for derived data, i.e. live-updated materialized views, targeted towards analytics. Or, in other words, like writing streaming ETL as SQL. Although, I've been interested in using it as part of the OLTP stack. It seems like that's the angle ReadySet is going for.
during the coronavirus episode I grew fascinated with the inventor of N95 mask, the guy came from Taiwan and regularly write rather candid thoughts on newsletter section as if it's his personal blog in Taiwan's nonwoven association's website; anyway I digress.

Turns out this guy's just like you! He took literally every single paper built up to 500 credits for his post grad. And it is exactly this multidisciplinary approach that lead to his invention which is only commercialisable due to his intuitions in manufacturing processes...

I firmly believe there's value in broad interests and no time is spent unwisely. Just remember to step up when it's your queue, best of luck and even if you don't think you did anything I'm sure at least the swimming through the content was enjoyable trip all by itself..
It's their opinion of a person. You can judge someone without having explicit statements from them
>The problems with water and sand are not physical limits. Like climate change and pollution generally they're just unpriced externalities.

I'd say it's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. They're definitely are physical limits to those things, and they are definitely subject to unpriced externalities at present. I think the water shortages in South Africa are a good case study where the public reacted to avert a crisis once they were made acutely aware that a crisis was imminent if they didn't act. People just take water for granted, until they no longer can. But in saying that there is almost certainly a point at which things just can't keep up, or the alternative cannot be procured/switched to in a short enough time to avoid the disaster. I see it less as a problem of pure physical limits and more as a problem in control theory.
This is the answer: while there is no universal purpose to life, everyone can (or has the burden to) find their own purpose. From my understanding this was the big finding from existentialism, and afaik wasn't as big of a problem back when society forced you into a religious certainty.
Most well off people can get a loan to buy a house. A very tiny number can raise significant amounts of venture funding. This is why it is a badge of honor.
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I'm in a somewhat similar boat. I'm not even in my thirties and figured out that staying in IT as a full-stack lead whatever architect project manager do-it-all which I'd gotten close to would not even be remotely challenging and intellectually stimulating enough but would swindle me out of my time.

Right now I'm expanding that to slowly build up a hosting company (a cluster running on Docker Swarm and Gluster with a lot of tools and scripts already), jammed basically all fundamental music theory in my head and working hard to apply that, make YouTube videos, do streaming on Twitch, do 3D stuff, work with a game engine, graphic/web design, being capable to have professional-level conversations about therapy and always interested to learn more on the sidelines, doing voice acting and impressions.. well.. etc. because basically I gravitate towards more stuff and the list goes on. It turns into this rambling list real quick because I still have no way to synthesize it all into something that can be quickly and simply understood. I don't know if I ever can. My theory so far is that that becomes easier once all those skills go more into the unconscious competence stage.

It comes with the territory of being profoundly gifted for me and I wouldn't want it any other way. The main challenge for me is trying to find a way to have income and still be busy with all these things. Perhaps in some time in the future I'll be able to combine a lot/all of these things and sit in some ridiculous hyperniche.

So with all that, I have no idea where I'm going but going there is too much fun to let up and I'll fight forever to keep going that way. A confusing state and a paradoxical one since it goes past understanding to understand a lot. Wish I could help. I just wanted to share.
Hey, this may seem random but have you looked into infosec? Just suggesting based on experience and based on other folks I met in the industry.