skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't discount the pandemic fatigue. Creativity and drive in general has suffered immensely over the past couple of years. I notice it in artists I follow. I notice it in co-workers. I notice it in myself. As of four months ago it's been almost impossible to build up any enthusiasm for my open source projects, even when someone is handing me a PR on a silver platter.

I've been coding professionally for 25 years now. I've made many transitions to new languages, technologies and platforms. This is only the second time in my life that my enthusiasm suffered (the last time was due to a bout of acute depression a decade ago).

Don't give up. Things will get better. And remember to get regular exercise; it helps a lot!
The value I gave hugely understates oil's useful energy. Even so, the energy equivalents shown are huge.

But if you want greater accuracy:

A human being consumes ~2000 -- 3000 kilocalories per day.

A human produces only a fraction of that in useful work output:

- Total metabolism is only so efficient, I believe on the order of 25%.

- That 2000 -- 3000 kilocalries/day gives you 96--145 watts constant output. That's where the "a person produces 100 watts of (thermal) energy at rest comes from. About 1/4 of that, 25 watts, is required simply for your brain.

- People can work only so many hours per day, and at relatively low constant output.

The net available work is probably closer to 1/10 to 1/4 the net output. So a litre of oil -> 30 days of actual delivered effort by a human.

Of course, burning oil for mechanical energy results in about 70% losses through Carnot efficiency, so we can divide by 3 and get about 10 days of useful mechanical energy, roughly 3x greater than the raw dietary comparison I'd made above.

On the true cost of oil, I'd make another argument which is that if we consider costs to represent the true costs of production, then the fact that oil is created through an immensely inefficient conversion of ancient sunlight to biomass to kerogenic materials over hundreds of millions of years, and we're extracting it at roughly 5 million times its rate of formation, the production cost value should be about 5 million times that of present biomass.

The PeakOil discussion is looking at the net value basis. That also increases the price, but "only" by a factor of thousands, not millions.

If you look at the delivered GDP per barrel of oil (dividing national GDP by oil consumption), what you find for most countries is a value somewhere between $400 and $3,000/bbl. The lower values are for India and China. The US tends to see about $1,000 GDP/bbl, most of Europe $2,000/bbl, and Switzerland about $3,000/bbl. Some poor, low-oil-consumption nations do better (Mali did when I last looked into this), but that's more a testament to how little oil they consume rather than how efficiently they process energy in bulk.

Given valuation of $0.5 -- $5 million based on actual work / true cost of formation, use of oil as presently practiced is absolutely noneconomic. It makes about as much sense as burning $100 bills for heat. (I'm presuming non-inflated currency.)
I did the same thing starting in 2018 (so far fewer programs offering anything online plus I wanted one that offered health insurance because I was contracting at the time). I went to a school that is not at all prestigious but it's proven to be an amazing decision.

I got some mentorship that triggered growth on an intellectual, professional, and even personal level. At the end my advisor really worked hard to put me in a great job that was exactly right for me, it didn't change my earnings but the work is fascinating and the environment is excellent.

All this to say that like anything else it is what you make it and it's all about specific relationships. Look for specific faculty members you might connect with, even just taking their classes.

Also if you do enroll, make sure to go to campus at least once a semester: shake some hands, sit in some offices, make sure people can put a face to an email signature.
Surface parking lots take a huge volume of space that could be used to house tens or hundreds of families.

It has nothing to do with "cars bad", and everything to do with "why are we letting all this precious resource go so poorly utilized?"
Did we find a pretty broad socioeconomic distribution among dacha owners in the USSR?

Yes.
Offer incentives for less desirable properties, eh? That sounds suspiciously like having different prices, just with extra steps.
> The part that baffles me is that if you have a workable fuel like ethanol, from an efficient process that doesn't compete with arable land, why try to make petrol from it? Ethanol is perfectly fine, and inherently cheaper than any hydrocarbon you would make from it.

Indeed. Even replacing the current usage of ethanol in the gasoline pool would be a huge market, and AFAIU most Otto engines can be relatively cheaply modified to work on up to E85 fuel.

Perhaps they're trying to fly under the radar of the corn ethanol lobby?
Presumably people will start running having all sorts of fun fuzzing Google Docs now that they know that it’s not an infallible, opaque product…

Any web app pentesters here willing throw in their 2c? Could this offer insights into the way data is parsed in the backend, or might result in something more interesting than a crash?
Roman artefacts are dug up all over western Europe and even further. Is your premise that only one country is the allowed descendants of the Empire and that other constituted parts of the Empire aren't allowed their shared legacy?
That's is the suggestion from the scientists that re-examined it. In fact, there where many scientists that never believed it at the time, and wanted further research, but McGovern famously stated that the government did not have the luxury of time to wait for science.

Any similar nutrition model needs to account for the fact that France, Japan and Korea and have the highest intake of saturated fat, and the longest life expectancy in the world.
Oldest known words are 15,000 years old. Includes “mother”, “not” or “spit”
The 2016 Census fiasco happened for the same reason - ABS didn’t have the skills to know how to commission and govern IBM’s work.
Really? can you back this up? I can. I work in the cyber industry for a decade now. I've seen the data, I've seen attempt to bypass both.
Biometrics are by far better for the vast vast majority of people.

Do you even listen to what you're describing here? trailing someone, trying to extract fingerprints? this isn't a Jame Bond movie.

Cyber attacks are common because they are completely digital\anonymous by nature.

Secondly, humans can't remember\generate truly secure passwords, unique for every account they own. they usually rely on a tool like a password manager.

PM are definitely better than weak passwords but are actually weaker than biometrics. they are a central point of failure and have been attacked in the past.

For the average Joe, biometrics are more secure since he is not using such tool anyways.
How is try catch any better than Err/Ok pattern? Code that doesn't handle error cases shouldn't even pass any code reviews. This is exactly why Rust guides the programmers in a certain paths to ensure all cases are always handled. If you really don't want check the Err/Ok in each call, you are free to use '?' to pass that burden to higher functions.
In most places, you don't. Even if the land is yours, the state has the ownership rights. You can get a decompensation so. Which sucks in cases were they find some roman ruins when digging the basement of your house... But then you can also find WW2 bombs were I live, luckily, they didn't find neither under our house.
This light rail [0]?

[0] "Light-rail cost soars $1 billion"
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20001213&slug...

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Edit: here's another one

"Sound Transit’s light-rail system, called Link, has also had its share of challenges. The 25 miles of light rail that voters were told would be completed by 2006 at a cost of $1.7 billion, have resulted in 23 miles of track which, when completed, will end up costing $5.2 billion."

"The $2.6 billion spent so far on the starter light-rail line takes the rider from Westlake Station downtown to an airport station 0.4 mile from the terminal in 37 minutes. "

https://seattlebusinessmag.com/article/why-sound-transits-pr....
Depends. But what you label a flaw, I might label a feature. There is space for both of us to disagree about whether certain outcomes are desirable or not.
> BRF system in Sweden

To expand on this point, and a similar system in Finland called asumisoikeus:

Municipalities have a pool of housing units. The tenants do not buy the house itself, they buy a right to live in that house, which usually costs about 10% of the price of the house, reimbursed when they move out. They also pay a rent that takes care of the energies and depreciation of the house. Socio-economic status is taken into account when figuring out who's eligible

Now, there are some criticisms of the system, mainly that the rents aren't that much lower than commercial properties. However, it does keep house prices in check. 100m^2 (~1100 sqft) house in the capital region is about 9 years of average take-home income - or 5 years for a couple
Thanks, just try it out it's surprisingly easy I'm using default sounds 90% of the time. Just putting stuff on the piano roll and clicking some buttons for the drums.
I left the industry and just can't make myself look back. Shooting my shot at solo gamedev, because at least I can be happy and hungry instead of miserable and hungry. Never could quite keep my footing in the industry, anyway, despite my experience, because of multiple contributing factors leaving resources I need out of reach (no degree, lifelong mental health issues = jobs with the benefits and pay I need just aren't there). Late 30s.

I have no advice to give, because none of it seems to really work for me. Just letting you know you aren't alone in your feelings, because they mirror mine.
A lot can happen in 20-40 years, and has happened in 20-40 years throughout history. Industrial Revolution, being a prime example.

We've also become far more interconnected in the last 20 years, which plays a large part - whereas before people may have kept quiet because they thought they were the odd one out they now know they aren't.
Budget was under $50k, which you can make in a few months at a tech job. Nice raise will pay for that nicely in no time.

If you don't think a lot of places aren't gatekeeping on degrees, you haven't looked at many.

To be more clear for folks that think it is an absolute filter, of course it is not. I remember about half of hiring pipelines ending on that point last time I was looking. Was 100% of the top companies with too many applicants however.
No need for "PAM stuff" on Linux, plug it in and it's ready to use as a 2FA webauthn device. I think you can use it for PAM but I've never tried.

You can set it up as a GPG smart card if you're that way inclined (which also means you can use it as an SSH private key as well). The advantage there is that your private keys are never on your machine which means they stay secure even if your machine is compromised which is nice.

As for MFA (YubiKey or otherwise), I believe the "hassle" is worth the inconvenience. It means that of my (single site, very complex) passwords are compromised in any way my accounts will remain secure long enough for me to change passwords.
Right. Related to that:

Why is solving that important?

How would we know that we’ve solved it?

When we’ve solved it, then what happens?
What if someone less fortunate 'wins' the mansion on the beach. How do they afford the future upkeep?
Walk. And lift weights - all three basic exercises should be done.

That's what saved me in my then mid 30s in a comparable circumstances.
The actual title is "Press conference at ESO on groundbreaking Milky Way results from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration". Milky Way is one of the more important parts of that title because the first image of a blackhole that we got from the EHT [0] earlier was actually an image of the supermassive blackhole M87* in the center of another galaxy - Messier 87 [1].
I expect that they announce that they did the same measurements on the supermassive blackhole in our own galaxy, Sagittarius A* [2].

Beside that and as much fun as speculating about the content of the press conference might be, the announcement of an announcement is unfortunately just that [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A -> follow the link to the blackhole from there. The actual article has got a trailing * on its link and that does not properly linkify here.

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This sounds like burnout to me. I am in my mid-40s and used to have spells like this, but no more. I needed some kind of large change, back then, to get myself sorted out, but this could be pretty destructive because if I waited too long, the change I'd need wouldn't really be conducive to staying on whatever project I was on.

The key to not having to deal with this problem anymore, for me, was starting to proactively switch things around to break the routine of consecutive work-weeks. One of my tricks was to do some kind of mini-vacation every 6-8 weeks, go somewhere new, leave work behind for 3-4 days. Even smaller things like regular social events can work wonders - anything that breaks the weekly routine.

Back when I'd get myself into burnout periods the most effective way to recover enthusiasm was to pick up a new skill, work-related or not. I was in my mid-30s in the late aughts and not entirely sure I wanted to keep coding - so I signed myself up for an 18 month "executive MBA" program to find out if I might want to do something else, and instead came out of that with a whole new outlook on how and why to write code.

Then around 5 years later I started writing code on the side, for myself, to gradually improve over the long term, and this can be absolutely therapeutic.

Try to switch things around a little bit, do something new, see if that helps?
If the farmer disappears, the food will no longer be produced. If the landlord disappears, the house will still be there.
"from an unprotected template" do you even read?
stop trying to find some random internet page to justify yourself, have you ever seen a biometric implementation? I have.
Minecraft has been an incredible educational tool in the last 5-10 years and you're doing yourself a disservice by dismissing it so quickly.
I think gasoline or diesel is a commodity because for the most part a gallon of gasoline is a gallon of gasoline whether you buy it at Shell or at Costco. I mean Shell will probably try to say they have better detergents or whatever but for the most part they are the same.

Similarly, one unit of electricity from solar is the same as a unit of electricity because a kilowatt hour is a kilowatt hour. You could say well my unit of electricity is better because Elon Musk sold it but for the most part they do the same thing.

Housing is not that very interchangeable. For example, in the Denver area in Colorado apparently the Cherry Creek area commands a higher sticker price because of the school district.

Some homes are just more desirable than others. For me, I desire:

* Excellent public transit

* Excellent symmetric high speed fiber optic Internet connection to the home

* Costco or Sam's Club within half an hour or inexpensive grocery stores within walkable distance

And there are unspoken assumptions like somewhere an ambulance can get to me in time if I am dying and take me to a hospital so good roads and proximity to a good hospital.
If you are going to manage packages declaratively, you should do so always. It should only flow one way. That having been said… this can be solved just by showing what changes will be made before making them.
Men arguing over women's wombs. Love it. So this doesn't paint a complete picture. It turns out that 93% of abortions in the U.S. happen at <= 13 weeks gestation:

Among the 43 areas that reported gestational age at the time of abortion for 2019, 79.3% of abortions were performed at ≤9 weeks’ gestation, and nearly all (92.7%) were performed at ≤13 weeks’ gestation (Table 10).

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/ss/ss7009a1.htm

So it's not like we're a country of monsters despite what's technically allowed by Roe. Now I want you to imagine for a moment what's happening in the life of a woman who chooses to have an abortion well into her pregnancy, likely after quickening when she can feel movement. Well it turns out you can't, because every case will be different. And I don't trust the state to insert itself into that decision. But I'll bet every one of these women has a story to tell and that it's heartbreaking, and that we don't make those women's lives better by forcing them to carry to term.

Data from the Turnaway Study has resulted in the publication of more than 50 peer-reviewed studies, and the answer to nearly all the questions asked, said Foster, is that the women who got abortions fared better in respect to economics and health, including their mental health, compared with those who did not have abortions.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/21/1074605...

So that's my first point, but I acknowledged some will disagree.

Now, Mississippi's law is to limit abortions to 15 weeks, so you may think it's a reasonable compromise. But with Roe overturned, it will not stop there. It's only a matter of time till some states ban abortion entirely. Some already have:

https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-polici...

Anti-choicers will push for restrictions at the Federal level. They'll try to ban pharmaceutical abortion pills through the mail. They'll try to prevent women from traveling out of state.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/02/abortion-ba...

https://khn.org/news/article/texas-medication-abortion-crimi...

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/03/24/inside-missouris-pus...

Finally, outlawing abortions won't stop abortions. Never has and never will. What it will do is to punish poor women who don't have the means to travel to where abortion is legal. This is already the case under Roe, and w/o Roe it will be worse.

So sure, Roe may have been poorly reasoned. Perhaps a decision based on equal protection instead of privacy would have been better. But it's what we have, and given the virtual impossibility of amending the constitution, it's the only way we can have a Federal standard.

And no, I don't think handing it over to the states is workable, any more than it was workable to allow the states to decide segregation, voting rights, contraception, or interracial and gay marriage.

Women are entitled to equal protection under the law, and that includes deciding whether to carry a baby to term.

Overturning Roe is a travesty.

Disclosure: I'm a guy.
Yep. You got it in one. Private landlords are a part of the problem. They have every incentive to prevent new housing from being built. It should be challenging to be better at providing housing than the municipality government.
SWE in Île-de-France is typically worth in the area of €50k a year, more for senior roles. It sounds like you are being underpaid.
I guess article 56 of the Hague convention does not apply to the British Museum?
See also Chernobyl being full of actors with British accents ... jarring for about 30 seconds, and then you don't even realise for the rest of the show, because it's just that good.
+1. Languages that are general purpose get used for everything. Perl for the web. Python for builds. Scala transpiled for web.

Portability has many solutions that are good enough - often only bad because they result in second order issues which are themselves solvable with limited pain. Being able to scale software further without having to solve difficult distributed systems problems is of value.
Possibly something to do with Sidecar[1] since you effectively gain a touch display if you extend onto an iPad?

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210380
Don’t underestimate the friction required to step into a new paradigm or framework. In my experience, 90% of the effort is expended before most of the actual code is written.

Keep on truckin’ and before you know it you’ll be productive again.

(Caveat: this is all subject to the warnings others have commented on re burnout etc, if these apply to you then my advice is redundant)
I have to say you tell good stories about how wonderful you are.
Most likely they imaged Sagitarius A* the black hole at the center of our milky way and will present this image.

Some more info: https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-are-about-to-make-a...
Host, run, and code Python in the cloud – Machines with Python already installed
That's fair. But is it helpful to anyone to think about knowledge shifts on timescales that are longer than two lifetimes?
> What makes building housing expensive is policy, not a lack of "cheap land".

I am flummoxed every time the discussion of housing prices shows up. Seems like 95% of everyone who comments is completely clueless to the most basic aspects of it.

In the vast majority of Western regions, high home prices are caused by a deliberate decision not to allow building enough homes to match demand, in the places where people want to live. It's really that simple.

In itself, this is a state of affairs we could accept as the current democratic consensus, but it's really stupid when most discussion of the problem pretends that the root cause is something else.
It's funny but I was just going to setup my new OpenBSD router and obviously I'm using Ansible where I can declaratively define what packages to install, what configuration files to setup and so forth.

OP just re-invented that wheel.
Has it really helped? I remember talking to a young Swede a while ago, just a few years out of college. He said he bought a flat in Stockholm pretty much as soon as he had a job, and that the price appreciation since has almost outstripped his salary.
They haven't even decided if this should be a language feature at all, an you are already bikeshedding the name...
For what it's worth, as a 34yo who has also been doing this for ~15 years professionally, are you me? Because I probably could've written this post.

Don't feel alone. Just remember to take advantage of your strengths. You may not be able to keep up with the 24yo's, but the 24yo's really suck at "choosing the right problems to work on." You know, the most important thing.

It's very natural to feel overwhelmed, even 5 months into a project. I'm also at the 5 month mark, and it surprises me how much other people around me know.

One important point -- I have a lot of experienced people to lean on. Do you?

It sounds like they may have yeeted you into the deep end alone and said "go write Vue." If you have no colleagues, and (most importantly) no intellectual curiosity about Vue (which is a totally valid way to feel!), then that sounds miserable.

So my point is, the difference in our situation is that even though I feel overwhelmed, I don't feel demotivated (yet), because whenever I'm stuck on something, I have a colleague who loves to pair program and is happy to hop on Google Meet at 10pm, and a different colleague who basically designed and wrote most of the entire infrastructure that we use day-to-day. Coworkers like that make it super easy to look forward to the next day, because their enthusiasm is so infectious.

If you don't have anyone like that, don't worry -- it just means you're in the wrong gig. It happens. The solution is to remember that you are not your job. Downshift mentally. Treat your professional requirements as exactly that: a 9-to-5, and be sure to have side hobbies and a life outside work. During work, force yourself to focus on the simplest possible next step, and do that (and only that) until it's done. Repeat.

Best of luck friendo. Feel free to DM me on twitter (https://twitter.com/theshawwn) if you ever want to vent. Happy to listen.