skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have said, take time off until you feel better. If at all possible do it while still at your current job so you don't have any added stress. Prioritize yourself and your mental state, and damn everything else.

You are amazing, certainly far from a loser, many people didn't start programming at 16, many people go their whole lives without having a realization like this. Use it as a way to start getting what you want from your life. It's yours to live.

Take time off until you feel better, as much as possible with paid PTO, sick days, etc with your current employer until the mental fog clears. Then decide what you want for yourself, then find a job that supports that and allows you to be the person you want to he for yourself.
This is bullshit. “Context” has to be the most vague and abused word in English. The article contradicts itself when they say “ One way to create a shared context is through shared struggle” which is a shared activity.

Friendships are formed through shared experiences. The more intense and positive the experience and its outcome, the more durable the friendship. Simple as that. Now go make friends!
There is lot of mostly good advice here. Ultimately is only you that have the answer to this, trust that you will find the answer. Your post has the seed of the answer already :)
Pricing adjustment helps if there's a arbitrage on cost to run vs amount charged. There very well could be if mining uses more power and the increased power cost is material.

Pricing adjustment doesn't help if cryptocurrency mining is being used to generate income from VMs leased with stolen credit cards. Might be more useful to have a CPU limiter that eases up as the VM (or payment) ages; although if that's not public knowledge, it will lead to support requests.
No, it's day trading and picking stocks which is betting against wall street firms, obviously that's not the way to go. But that's not all of investing. If you are diversified and tune a portfolio for risk, it's more like a bet that the long term trend will be for the global economy to become more productive as time goes on. And this is usually true, besides the transitory periods of recession.
Distressing! I have a terrible memory so I fantasize about having a phone number like that. Please tell me you at least made some money off of it.
Try Azuqua, I was their remote employee when they were raising their series C, albeit I wasn't cut out to handle their amazing product at the time when I was just fresh out of college, so we later parted ways.
They were acquired by Okta, so I don't know their status now, but you could have a call with their sales team and work out a decent pricing or custom APIs for your product needs.
https://azuqua.com/
Since you're talking about the example of healthcare, you're saying people from different races are physiologically different? If they're physiologically different, are they somehow less capable of high functioning abilities?

Or is their health a function of socioeconomics? If it's socioeconomic, then Nigerian-Americans and other socioeconomically successful immigrant groups should be positively discriminated as to be equitable to disadvantaged socioeconomic groups such as Vietnamese-Americans and Filipinos Americans. Or, for the purposes of appearing diverse, tech companies and universities include Nigerian-Americans in their statistics of black employees and Southeast Asians in with other Asians ?
Impressive to back yourself and leave your job to tackle such an interesting problem.
I love this problem because it is so simple, and the false line of reasoning is so compelling that it would hardly raise an eyebrow if you saw it in an academic paper and yet the conclusion is so obviously wrong. Decision problems are tricky and in non intuitive ways.
if they were sole dev in a startup for four years and couldn't ship software the startup probably wouldn't have lasted the last four years... Or they very quickly wouldn't be the sole full stack dev any more and relegated to some shit job
But why were they renamed from Dancing Bears to Goldbears? The name has always puzzled me, since I would expect it to refer to a yellow candy, when in fact yellow is only one of the multiple different colors of gummi bears mixed in the package. I wonder if it used to be different; the article doesn’t say.
Exactly. Finding the right balance is the right thing to do. I am not angry at cloud providers , but i am angry at OSI and their blind idealism that leaves us out there alone. I think that not solving the problem by them, hurt first of all the oss community.
> I struggle with evaluating my value in the market to determine my worth

The only way to truly figure this out is to practice and then find out what you're worth in the market.

> I struggle with LeetCode, which is making me feel like even a bigger loser for not being able to solve problems.

You might be better than you think. I remember by the time I got done leetcoding for my last job hunt, I felt maybe 50/50. I genuinely wasn't sure if I would get a good offer. I ended up getting more than fifteen (overkill, I know).

An important insight I had at the end: as you progress with more and more LC problems, you end up scraping the bottom of a barrel. Most of those questions that end up stumping you probably won't be asked, and if they are, you'll actually have an interviewer to talk through them with. In real life you aren't just in a room with a computer by yourself.

You won't really know until you get out there and start trying interviews. The more you interview, the better you'll get. You can do this. You've gotta stop the "loser" framing though. I see nothing in your post indicating you're a loser. You seem crucial to your current company.
This one liner "Only 10% of programmers are top 10% programmers, 90% are not." completely changed my view towards programming, I am also a software developer working at ANZ, but I do feel that I am not doing the great work.
I just wanted to ask how to be at 10% of the top programmers, Is there any pathways? Please suggest, I do feel existential crisis in some point of time.
Open Source Security Podcast: #325 – Is one open source maintainer enough?
I'm in (roughly) downtown Chicago. My building had no wired Internet when I moved in here last year (!). I called Comcast and they wanted $71,000 to install, and $800/month minimum to wire me up, despite all my neighbors already using them.

I called AT&T. Yes, they can have me hooked up with DSL tomorrow. At 1.5Mbps. O_o
Goddamnit. I already had to listen to a bunch of ads while I pumped gas today. At one point, they were giving health advice. Fuck you. Health advice from a gas station, where there's nothing inside the store but shit that will kill you? And you're pumping gas, sniffing fumes that will kill you, then will be burned and will kill you some more. Fuck. And yes, I did try pressing all the known mute buttons.
But mosquitoes don't transmit diseases intentionally, do they?
Does fossil or the SQLite forum use rails or Django?
Ask HN: What is your primary stack and what does an average day look like?
Would like to know more about the airfoil, how it was designed. Article just says it is “undocumented”.
Greg Abbott's house is there (I've been, but it was Rick Perry's house at the time.) along with some famous Republicans like Alex Jones, and most recently Elon Musk and maybe Joe Rogan. It seems like the hip place for famous conservatives these days.

But yeah, I try to avoid downtown if I can, but I've seen the camps off I-35 for years, just haven't been by in a month or two myself.
Would you like to jump on a call and have a chat? Probably easier than trying to help you in this tiny little box.

Book a slot here: https://devopsmentor.youcanbook.me/ (no charge, of course.)

Speak soon(?)
Meta commentary, most comments take this like a personal matter. The biggest picture feels obvious but unspoken: there's a massive dearth of good things to get up to, to commit to, even for the capable & willing. The job ought, to a degree, be it's own reward, especially for knowledge/creative work.

Yeah, there could well be a host of other concerns/blockers. And maybe this person is just stuck & unable to find good pursuits. But I think a lot of SWE's have a hard time finding really good pursuits. We kind of get lucky & find good groups of people anyhow, somehow. But the tasks & environments struggle broadly to provide fulfilment & purpose. Given what we feel capable of, this mismatch becomes, as here, dissonance.

"What I Want To Do As A Software Developer" is another data point I might point to here-abouts. There's a lot it doesnt say to me. But there's a more explicitly stated desire for purpose, which I also find here. https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/my-thoughts-on-what...
I'm not a therapist/coach but I do have plenty of experience and I can give you some free advice how to get out of this. If you want to chat, you can send me an email (I have the same user name on GitHub so you can find my details there).
I do love improving my dot files. My aliases and functions have become like a second language. I often make interesting one liners that make cumbersome multi command workflows interactive with fzf and related tooling I’ve built and collected.

I am a big fan of making higher order tools for yourself that reflect your own working style and preferences.
Brian Eno is responsible for Windows hold on earth! I wonder if he has bad conscience about this
KDE Energy Consumption Lab Is Ready for the FOSS Community
heads up it isn't cheap and there isn't a lot of sunlight
Do you enjoy talking to people about solving their problems? If so, consider switching to Product Management or Sales Engineering. Neither require hardcore cs skills.

Do remember that businesses value you by your ability to solve their problems, not by how elegantly you do it. You're killing your health to compensate for your imposter syndrome, but it sounds like you're just trying to impress people you don't work with.
Fidelity does not have easy online wires. Or at least, I couldn't figure out how to wire a payment recently; it seemed possible to do it over the phone, but I didn't want to read wiring instructions over the phone. Schwab was easy to wire payments with at least when I last did it in 2018ish. Schwab website says outgoing wires are $15 if placed online; if you have a large enough balance, the wire fee is waived. Fidelity wires are free, one of my credit unions charges $25 (in person or by phone), the other charges $30 or $40 (online form available which I haven't used or in person), depending on your balances.

I've done a fair number of wires, but I still need about nine more before I earn my top hat and monocle.
If you were using commercial amounts of water in a residential property you can bet your ass your service would be shut off.

(Not a judgment on what happened here)
I suggest therapy. This sounds like depression may be a huge factor. (That’s not meant as an insult, just in case it’s not clear in text, just an attempt at help.)

A lot of “lazy” or “directionless” people are really just depressed.
Definitely. Porn sites tend to be leaders in many ways. Seen it in UI/UX features. iirc pornhub/mindgeek had the thumbnail timeline scrub and timeline viewing hotspots before YouTube and other video sites.
Open source GnuCash can also fetch data.

(Personally, rather than fetch, I save OFX or QFX files from each US financial institution periodically. So that I can import them now into GnuCash, and also potentially import them into some other tool maybe decades into the future.)
Otherwise you can land directly with Express Entry based on your credentials. Much easier to find a job when you area already in the country!
I think analogy with medicine is fruitful. Small molecules can't be held responsible either, but they can be recalled from market and they do. Our pharmacology isn't good enough to design, say, vaccine that works worse for Asians, but we did require clinical trial participants to be a representative sample. Medicine is also mass produced, that's why there is post-market surveillance to catch rare side effects missed in clinical trials.

Even with all this analogy, we don't insist medicine should have known mechanism of action, although we do prefer it. So I think we will regulate models with recalls, testing standards, monitoring etc, but won't insist on understanding.

By the way, don't we already have widely deployed models, such as PhotoDNA, which supposedly removes millions of images a year to filter child pornography? I wonder how it was evaluated to be suitable for deployment.
Do you know what tooling is available for testing atomicity guarantees?
Importing synthetic fuel, at need, at a radically cheaper price than what operating a nuke year-round costs would be rather a large benefit.
"I struggle with evaluating my value in the market to determine my worth."

Apply for jobs paying more than you earn now. Settle on one where you aren't expected to do monster hours. Get in touch with a recruiter for advice on the money side.
> Even if I refuse to interview people as part of my job, will I really thrive in there? I'm certain this process permeates in one form or another throughout the company culture in various internal management, decisionmaking and promotion processes, but that's a separate discussion.

Are you sure you want to work at a FAANG company? You sure you would be happy? What motivates you to try so hard?
Redis has a BSD license because it was written by antirez who did not intend to make it a commercial enterprise. Today its too late to change and wont help Redis Inc to protect their ip. We looked at elastic, mongodb, cocroach labs, mariadb, redpanda, atlassian, grafana labs , scylladb. The last two are agpl but the motivation is the same: to protect themselves.
Midges are not solely in cold, muddy places like Scotland, sadly. They can also be found at beaches, in tropical areas, and a variety of other habitats. I'm currently near the equator, and midges are more of a bane here than mosquitoes.

But they do thrive very, very well in places with permeable soil. Scotland has its peat bogs (for those unfamiliar with the country: in some regions, basically all ground is peat). In the past, the country experienced freezing temperatures during most winters. But with global warming, that's no longer true. The freezes would kill many midges. Now, you can encounter hellish swarms of the little beasts.

Scotland isn't the worst, though. I've read that in Siberia, during the summer months, biting flies swarm so thickly that they can kill. Cattle have been found suffocated, their nostrils completely clogged with flies, and some of the local tribes traditionally went into tents and just waited out the swarms for a few weeks or months. Here's a fun little video: https://englishrussia.com/2015/09/01/mosquitos-and-insects-i...
Satisfying af
Doesn't a fab need to consume tons of water? That whole southwest are of the US is entering longer and longer periods of drought. Seems like setting up shop further north into a water-rich area would be better.
I found myself agreeing with much of your comment, except: "For people happy to clock out and try to convince others to do the same, that devalues the experience for others who ARE there to work as hard & creatively as they can to do amazing things with like-minded individuals."

Is there possibly a separation between PhD students who work 9-5 with a mentality of hard work but strong time boundaries, versus PhD students who work 9-5 but don't plan to make the most of the opportunity?

I'm also instinctively wary of any romanticization of a PhD program, especially when working long hours. From anecdotal reports, national labs also provide the resources to do great research, with far more reasonable hours and less of a pressure to work longer hours. I've read of too many reports, which exist even if they are minority situations, where advisors take advantage of the power they have over students, such as in this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26367099

I believe that doing "amazing things with like-minded individuals" is worthwhile, but can also happen in the private sector where the pay is commensurate to the value of the provided work. In general, I'm very wary of the idea that working longer hours should ever be romanticized, because the potential downsides are severe and should not be underestimated (including physical/psychological health problems due to burnout from long hours and failed relationships/divorce).
Thing is… most people have unlimited plans and don’t care anymore
That’s a claim that seems rather deserving of a source?
Have you looked into Taoist philosophy? I wouldn't call it "individualistic" but it does teach about letting go of concerns and accepting things for the way they are.
This also leads to a few bad outcomes for society at large.

- PhD programs can become abusive of their students/workers. Paying below subsistence or even charging money to study.

- PhD programs can become places where only those with no opportunity cost go.

- PhD students will stop caring about long term careers in their field - recognizing the impossibility.

- Science enters a hyper-competitive phase where scientists do not target ground breaking research. Instead focusing on small repeatable wins.

- Scientists adopt anti-competitive practices to secure their small slice of research funding including review kabals, and disuading research in conflicting views.

While I'm all for letting students take the risks they feel like taking, the current situation is the result of a systemic massive overproduction of PhDs through government funding. It's possible this overproduction of apprentices results in decreased productivity amongst those working in the field by introducing noise, and training costs to researchers.

If typical science PhD programs reduced their admittance by a factor of 3-10, you would still have a highly competitive field - but one where students, and in turn faculty have a career path should they produce results.
This sort of thing is already active in Quebec, Canada, though. And it has legal teeth in the province. Even the ratio of area taken by English and French words on a bilingual sign is policed.

I used to work in an Ontario tobacco farming town (English), and lots of French folks would hitchhike into town to get summer priming jobs. The term "Les chips" for potato chips was really common, but on French and bilingual labels you must use the word Croustilles. That's just one example of very many.

There was damn near a panic when Contact Lenses became a commonly purchased item, because there was no French word for them. Eventually they came up with one, and you no longer hear "Le Contactlens."
Maybe think of it like a shared challenge. You might be going through parenting together, or starting a business or some path through life that you have in common.
There can be a good number of opinionated armchair know it all‘s, but, like HN, if you’re willing to sift through comments there’s lots of great insight and references you might not come across on your own.
My advice is to taper with working less (it’s going to cause you anxiety) and get in contact with a therapist.
Python-patterns – A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python
Gnome has moved to Gitlab (2018)
Right, plenty of Republicans live there but the city and county governments are Democrat just like any other big city in the US. I take I-35 to/from downtown all the time and don't see any camps. There used to be a few tents on every exit and a giant camp under the elevated part of it, right across the APD HQ. Those are gone.
Forget about studying and just go interview.
I agree with the other responses here, but they missed one reason: because it’s funny.
> the email arrives in xxxx their mailbox but it is ignored (might even be flagged as something they don’t read anyway because, for now, it’s an unknown service)

Most services don't even offer a way to resolve this.

There is never a "this email does not belong to the person who created the account and should be detached from it" link.
WTFPython: Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets
I'm a huge Linux guy, but I'm comfortable jettisoning most of the concrete suggestions in this article because we now have the benefit of time and these technologies are all practically open enough. Few, if any, today are dangerously restrictive even though back then it made sense to be worried.

"Microsoft Word" is generally fine because we have Google and Libreoffice, etc. An important note I'd include is -- we probably have these things because of the pressure of the free and open source software that does exist.

But what I primarily want to mention is that there is a looming uncertain threat of dangerously restrictive software that is not practically open enough. This is the "LMS." Canvas, Blackboard et al. This is where the energy and pressure of FOSS type principles needs to be pointed at today.
Not sure where you are from, but in the US they are still industries that produce significantly more digital image media than most all others. And by publishing, I am not just referring to print.

Pretty much almost every photograph that you see on a media company website has been touched, color corrected, cropped or otherwise digitally manipulated by Photoshop.
I'm sure television news did that. The TV News accent is so uniform across the board that even the Canadian accent is hard to distinguish on some stations. Well, you still can, but when we listen to old broadcasts, that Canadian accent freaks a lot of us oot.

We're inching closer and closer to the full-blown CNN accent on Canadian TV news.

Incidentally I was amused to discover that people on the west coast actually often do say "oot and aboot." Until a couple decades ago, I thought it was a myth.
That's what I wonder too, if a big chunk of this money goes to intel then a bunch of smaller boutique fabs that are integral for some of the other stated areas like quantum computing will be impacted. How is the money going to trickle down through the sector?
> CA is a one party state, for all practical purposes

This is much less true than it seems superficially; its true that the state-level government is dominated by Democrats (including many offices that are nominally nonpartisan), but important local government offices, particularly Sheriffs–which are also nominally nonpartisan–are dominated by Republicans. This was particularly significant during the height of the COVID pandemic, because enforcement of public health orders is, under the State Constitution and laws, almost entirely entrusted to county Sheriffs, and every single county Sheriff in the State publicly announced one form or another of non-enforcement.
GitHub was hosted on Engine Yard[0] in the early days, and as part of that deal had an Engine Yard banner in the footer. We then moved to Rackspace[1] for a few years until the first funding round in 2012 when we built out our own datacenter in earnest.

[0]: https://github.blog/2008-05-07-rolling-with-engine-yard/
[1]: https://github.blog/2009-09-15-github-is-moving-to-rackspace...
Oh I think I wasn't clear earlier. I'm not actually arguing that the higher priced the good, the higher the quality, since luxury items are one obvious exception. I agree with you there. I was making a comparison between educational lessons that are priced for free (like say YouTube tutorials) versus anything priced above $0.

I think just having a price tag at all incentivizes a marketplace where the best lessons compete. Now how one determines that quality though...lots of different heuristics and I have a few thoughts on how it could be done better but reviews, especially negative ones do a fairly decent job of assessing for qualities.

My apologies if it was not clear what I meant earlier.