skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Cars used to be a safe space

I think you should specify "safe from digital tracking" because cars are everything but safe, they cause thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths each year in my country for example. And I'm not even counting the deaths and sicknesses due to car pollution.

I profoundly dislike cars and hope for a future where car ownership will be a thing of the past and there will be only self driving cabs / buses / cargo bikes, hopefully all electric, ideally hydrogen powered.

I know, I know, I'm dreamin' =)
I lost my one last month, never again:(
The cumbersome way would be to confirm the email, do a password reset and then deactivate the account.
I think its ok that we have innovation at legal front as well. And innovation requires exploration, choosing road not taken...
From what I can tell, bunch of different things going on here. The highest priority IMHO is:

> to never fully complete them and see it all the way through

Others who do have the persistence to see something all the way through, are simply, lucky! Lucky to have the drive. But there are things you can do, to improve your drive and determination, namely drugs. Go see a psychiatrist who can help you with that. Once you get a feel of what it's like to stay focused on something for a long time and see it through, you'll want to do it more often and naturally will learn some non-drug techniques to get there.

Some other things you may have heard numerous times, but doesn't help to repeat: have a hobby (could be as simple as taking care of plants), exercise regularly, preferably in activities that involve other people (I find top rope rock climbing to be perfect for this; squash also comes to mind).

> I'm stuck in a rut, wanting to better my skills and earn a good amount of money but unable to concentrate, riddled with brain fog, and unsure of my future.

This further tells me your issues aren't sprung up from your skills, but rather at a more basic level.

I can also recommend Sam Harris'es waking up meditation app which can help immensely with navigating your mind and better understanding how to focus your attention on things that matter the most.
1) you are working too much. It’s not sustainable.
2) especially when you are younger, the best way to get a raise is usually to switch jobs.
> entire goal of GPT-3 is in a sense not to be surprising!

Well, no. You can raise the temperature to get surprising results, or lower it to get the default. GPT-3's job is to learn the distribution, you sample it how you prefer.
"sole dev in a startup" is key here.
"Friendships are formed through shared experiences. The more intense and positive the experience and its outcome, the more durable the friendship. Simple as that."

Truly.
What about RCN? Is that Comcast now?
> If they can run a laptop at home just fine

The number of times I have seen people being okay with computer slowdown due to adware or viruses is insane. Some folks I know go with policy of computer format over every year because it is "natural" for computer to get slow over time according to them. Really most people are fine with downloading any software they see from web. There is a reason that fake software are highest paid ad category and only porn sites shows it.
OP may have been referring to individuals who are independently wealthy or financially guaranteed by parents/relatives. Families may only be inclined towards generosity when someone is at least notionally working to better themselves.

Given a lack of career path through the PhD program, these programs are likely to attract individuals who don't need a career in the future.
The Amazon Pamphlet
What the hell is their reasoning for only having a rule that applies to devices that cost $50-$99.99, aside from likely ruling out every cell phone?

> the manufacturer shall also make available [...] for at least three years after the date a product model or type was manufactured

How much you want to bet that was put in to allow manufacturers to supply software tools that the manufacturer can either remote-disable, or have time-bombs built in, or both?

Watch a cell manufacturer shrug and come out with the "YZ 5 Pro", manufacture it for a year, and then come out with the YZ 5 Pro A" the next year, etc.

Seems like this got poison-pilled just like a lot of gun legislation which is written to focus on things easily changed so they're not effective. "Guns over 14 inches with a vented barrel grip installed during manufacture" write the lobbyists, and then they send a memo to gun manufacturers to plan on adjusting their tooling to make 13.95 inch barrels, or leave off the barrel grip, easily installed by dealers or buyers.)
And that is the killer app! When you have 3 dozen 4GB DDR3 SIMMs sitting around doing booger all, it is overwhelmingly tempting to get a card like this, if it is priced aggressively, and run something really fast. Re-image the OS from slower storage at boot, or whenever the 18650 falls out.
open source learning
I’d suggest a personal trainer so you can start pumping iron. Get some muscle on you and good things will follow.
More likely they'll ignore the s/w. Huge amount of talent is working in such companies. Using AGPL will practically exclude them from interacting with the s/w.

Also, smaller companies like to play safe. If FAANG with their million lawyers aren't touching it, why should I take the risk.
> We can only look at the outcome as being satisfactory to the statistics of politicians and economists - rather than the effect upon the actual families, towns, and cottage support undustries around those enterprises

Where do you think the chip industry and every other industry came from, but from resources freed up when other industries and companies failed. Look at the composition of economic output 50 and 100 years ago and now - most of that is gone and less productive than what we do now.

Certainly having government driven by lobbyists to pick the 'winners', rather than the marketplace, isn't going to help our economy. It will temporarily help the lobbyists' clients.
I moisturize nightly.
I can definitely agree with that.
+1 for Schwab. An ATM in a foreign country ate my debit card. One call, which was connected to a real human in less than a minute, and they overnighted a new card to my hotel.
We're in an odd world where this is the case.
I was laid off from Eazel when their funding fell through in the 2001 dot-com crash. The founders were ex-Apple people and they arranged for Apple to interview those of us who had been laid off. I wasn't hired, but the people who did get jobs there made Safari. I spent the next few months at the library and watching my bank balance dwindle away, until some of my other former coworkers were hired at Danger and got me an interview there.
Uff I've battled with the same demon.
What has worked for me is working on two dimensions: Internally and externally.

Internally:
Therapy with a professional and practicing the Wim Hof method... Has really helped.

Then externally:
get out of debt:
Watch Marie Condo or the minimalists... Get ride of over 80% of your stuff.
Then your house is going to look enormous...
Go live in a small apartment...

Also get ride of car debt and credit card debt.

Then you are going to be free materially and mentally.
> "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."

If architecture, construction, and civil engineering firms could implement automatically binding license agreements that absolved them of all liability and responsibility, we'd probably see similar results.
Some Haribo products without gelatine/collagen from pig are marked as "halal" for consumption by muslim people.
Yes to the first question or to the second?
I helped a middle-class family member get off legally-prescribed opioids, and it took over a year of tapering and misery. If you stop cold turkey (or even just taper too fast), it can become dangerous. All that to say: I the drug problem is a separate but related epidemic that thrives on vulnerable populations. Even if you’re temporarily vulnerable, it just takes a few bad decisions to land someone into an addictive cycle that can last a lifetime. Once someone decides they want off hard drugs, it takes an enormous amount of willpower and support. Even years after getting off something like opioids, the cravings can linger.

I honestly think the drug problem is more powerful and detrimental than homelessness itself. The drug trade definitely feeds on homelessness, but it would likely still find a vulnerable population if homeless people were eliminated.
Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector division was in Phoenix for decades
I suspect you are not in the US. I can’t imagine any digital media director here opting to run an art department with graphic artists on Ubuntu. The GAs themselves would revolt and mutiny. In the last 30 years I have only seen I believe three companies that opted for for their art departments to run on Windows over Mac. From 2008-2012 all I did was contract work that optimize photo/art/ad workflow for these companies, so in that timespan deal they with around 50 different newspapers, magazines, and digital media producers in that time frame. It’s an apple world, at least on the desktop.
You completely!! missed my point.

>unemp at record low!

YAY - Look at how many absolutely fucking terrible, useless, non-growth, subsistence level jobs with zero healthcare, no protections, shitty wages, union busting, oligarch politicians telling people to shut the fuck up and we cant afford healthcare, college, living wages. We are "fighting" for you! Dont you get how hard it is for us to develop agreements that are for the benefit of such a diverse... wait.... Hang on a sec - Ukraine is on the phone, hes an important war buddy of mine...
The movement in California is against nuclear power in general. It reverberates across the nation through its influence.
This Venn diagram covers most career issues:
https://management30.com/blog/redefining-purpose-with-ikigai...

The fact is no one does the same job their entire life anymore. CS fields can be a particularly fleeting experience over 28 (tax programs end as you are no longer a youth), and many people get into the field for the wrong reasons.

I would suggest volunteering someplace local like a community center, as happiness is often finding a balance between a meaningful life... and a pleasant one. ;-)
> You completely!! missed my point.

It doesn't seem like you are trying to make it clearly, or trying to understand me.
I'm hesitant to do this because occasionally I've been blocked by some second factor for password resets, but at that point I've confirmed the email.
"That whole southwest area" is too generalized, as Arizona, by necessity, has been expert at water use in contrast to what surrounds Arizona.

(can't find the citation that i want for that, though)
If a process isn't using any resources, is it really running at all?

(Of course it doesn't really use no resources - it consumes a finite PID among other things)
That's what people claim they want, but it's not how they vote with their wallets.
Assuming the developer can get paid a 40-hour salary for working 40 hours a week elsewhere instead of 70-90 hour weeks plus 24/7 on-call, the developer is clearly capable of earning more dollars per hour of work.
Yeah, you are in a rut. If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll stay there. You'll need to be honest with yourself about how much change you're willing to take on and at what pace. Or, you could just stay in your comfortable rut.

You want to switch jobs? You'll need to explain yourself and demonstrate some basic coding and thinking abilities to complete strangers. This sucks if you're all stressed out. Don't go banging your stressed-out head against leetcode trying to jump ship. Just try to improve your life right now. Start making tiny changes and decisions that get you ahead. You'll feel much better, and it'll put you in a better position to move on.

First thing I'd recommend is to get away from work. Like... stop spending time on work.

- Start being more efficient; get the stuff done quicker.

- Give yourself more time when estimating.

- Explain the work breakdown in order to raise questions about priority and scope. Work on the highest priority stuff; don't spend time on the other stuff.

- Engage with others. Ask for help. Identify people who can be a resource. E.g. if given 3 days to do task X, will you grind through it (higher stress) over 3 days, or will you schedule some time with someone you have a good relationship with who is better at it and can accelerate getting task X done (lower stress)?

Part of a manager's job is to literally help you do the above things. Use your manager to discuss these things.

The bad news is that you've already shown to everyone you work with that you're a workaholic. So you're gonna have to get creative in how you apply this. But you can do it, as long as you keep your performance up.

Next thing I'd recommend after being able to 1) step back from work 2) while still performing... is to get into other things for fun. You need to tap back into the good stuff. The stuff you enjoy and are interested in. Just spend time on that. Not what other people think is cool. Not for popularity (yeah, you mentioned those libraries on GitHub). But what you want to do. It could improve your life a lot. Just do what you want to do.
trainee/failed grammar nazi here: you mean Envy. Jealousy is what the lord God feels, he's a jealous god: thou shalt have no gods other than him. Envy is "gee, I wish I was as god-mode as that" -which I think is more what you meant.

Nobody else cares, your meaning was clear.
Why does it have to be zero sum? Why can't society educate everyone who has potential to learn, and grow the pie? It's an investment in our future.
Thanks for the detailed writeup, much appreciated!

Another thing I'd like your opinion on is this: my use cases involve running a few services at home (NAS, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Photoprism etc.) and store "family" data (documents, pictures etc.) but nothing "data hoarder" level. So, 4 TB would easily last us a decade or more.

Do you think such enterprises servers make sense for me? (Noise, complexity etc.) Or should I just get a used desktop/laptop?
Contra anecdote: been using auto import with YNAB for years with multiple accounts and never had junk data. At least, not of that means the data is wrong/corrupt.

The two issues I have had:

1. Have to reauthorize bank connection, but that's Plaid's issue I guess.

2. Payee names are all over the place because it's often the merchant name. I used to try and fix these and only have a single page payee for each entity, but gave up.
I wonder - could you get better results asking for a more realistic depiction, then stuffing it through one of those style transfer nets?
Capitalists want money, and they usually do whatever makes money. In software, constant churn and superficial redesign seems to make more money than reliability, security, and core improvements.

Be that as it may, Office 365/Teams are probably new since Office 97.

Arguably it wasn't a Microsoft innovation per se and was a response to Google Docs/Slack/etc. but internet/cloud/web-based collaborative editing integrated with group chat, video conferencing, and document sharing are probably new features since Office 97 that are somewhat useful, even if they don't work particularly well.
Agreed. Step 6 is where it breaks down, because it's redefined A as being one of the two envelopes to being the halfway point between those two envelopes. Until step 6, it's describing two parallel views of the universe (depending on which envelope you first get - hence steps 4 and 5), and then mashes them together in a way that doesn't work.

Take the practical example of $100 and $200: A is either $100 or $200 depending on which envelope you receive first, so the equation is either 0.5*A + 0.5*2A, or it is 0.5*A + 0.5*(A/2). It can never be 0.5*2A + 0.5*(A/2)
Google is failing to enforce its own ban on ads for stalkerware
I get that you are unhappy about it but (no disrespect intended) that doesn't tell me anything. I know it's common, but the more exaggerated, emotional language I see, the less interest or faith I have in the reasoning and knowledge of the argument.
Those commands wont affect the design of the df, hence they wont affect the performance. Its just work that needs to be done.
An article from our state: “How switching to Linux-based free OS is saving Kerala govt schools Rs 3,000 crore.”

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-switching-linux-ba...
That is great advice and I will heed it, thanks.

Considering that the Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) is on the HN home page right now, it seems particularly relevant!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31553927
Thank you for asking for help. First off: you are burnt out, possibly with depression. I think you should reach out to a career counseling therapist, or a regular therapist. You need some time and space to turn off work mode and just process all of this. You don't have to quit your job immediately, but it's clear that your work situation is unhealthy. However, your work may not be the only thing that's making you feel this way.

Since you're only 28, you have about 30 years left in your career. Think of the long game. You may not be great at networking now, but you can work up to it. You may not have satisfaction now, but you can work up to it. Making a plan can give you a bit more stability.

Anyone can have direction; just close your eyes, point somewhere, and start walking. And anyone can have satisfaction; for example, if your programs work, that's more satisfying than if they didn't. In other words, direction and satisfaction are a place we give ourselves to go and a bar we set for ourselves. Not only do they not matter, but you can set them any way you like.

My own way of dealing with satisfaction was first to make myself care too much about my work, and then to change my work to be something that mattered to me. I'm sure it'll change again.

My way of dealing with direction has been to keep doing the same thing while I dabble in other things and think about what else I'd like to do. Still working on it. But I have a lot of life left, and I've decided my life won't be a race to a destination, but a walk in a park. My biggest challenge is figuring out what park to go to. And getting myself to walk slower...
Not really their fault. The banks fault.

I have two banks and one CC that use an OAuth type system now.
Idk, personally I (and the kids I'm giving those) prefer other Haribo candies, like Tropi Frutti, Color-Rado, and wildly strange seasonal creations, especially if made of natural ingredients only.
I think the main disconnect between large language models and what people expect from "AI" is the fact that LMs learn meaningful representations whereas most people associate intelligence with meaningful behaviors.

The term meaningful is a bit tricky to define. But when GPT-3 says one thing in one paragraph but the exact opposite in the next paragraph, my impression is it hasn't learned "meaningful representations" but just "plausible associations". A lot of language is just loose associations and so GPT-3 can do that as well as many people there and it can pull some logic and seem to reason (but can't do that reliably). IE, I think even just informal language has state that human track and so GPT-3 falls at this part of informal language (while can seem to otherwise do well).
Some products have this label due to fish gelatin.
Don't let LeetCode get you down. Plenty of companies don't do those types of interviews and plenty of really good engineers would suck at it.
Sorry I get a little too, "Dr. Evil finger quotes" sometimes. The idea I'm trying to share; inspired by the work of Brenda Laurel (Purple Moon). Try to consider a kind of digital machine that works kind of like a video game in that it might keep a child or young adult's attention for a period of time-- try to consider the failings of, "educational software" as it's come to exist in that it typically tries to, "trick" a young person into doing, "schoolwork in a manner that resembles a kind of video game" (Mario Teaches Typing). Ok.

Consider an alternative-- a kind of digital space where a young person can utilize a digitally interactive experience to rehearse morally challenging situations or to practice good citizenship in an intellectually and aesthetically stimulating manner. The idea is that this kind of machine might have the ability to revolutionize education by facilitating the self-learning of sophisticated moral concepts.

Consider the critical intersection between contemporary politics, education, and computers. In Europe the result of continually increasing rates of literacy as a result of the invention of moveable type resulted in critical political and social revolutions (The American Revolution being one of them). The question is-- could a sophisticated form of dynamic media facilitate a kind of sociopolitical revolution or paradigm shift in human culture? Following from the invention and proliferation of print it seems possible.

It's also worthwhile to consider what Socrates said about books (...) Do kids need a sophisticated machine to play make believe? I don't think so personally.
Not stranger than card manufacturers turning video game giant or pencil brand making plasma TV. It's fun to see how companies evolve.
> (Is it really so hard to understand how a program that exists and can be executed differs from the entire lack of any such program?)

No, but again, I don't see the relevance here. What I have been trying to say is simple: tying language semantics to the presence or absence of optimizations is going to pose challenges that could easily overshadow any potential advantages a more "relaxed" debug mode might provide for newcomers. Suggesting that the borrow checker be able to be "turned off" is not novel, but the idea of tying it to optimization level is, and that is what I have been trying to discuss, without much success.
Being inaccurate does not imply being creative.

There's some connection but they're largely separate.
Maybe it was better received in Germany at the time?

I'd be surprised if they didn't make studies and test groups
First off the tech doesn't go that far back nobody is using a TRS anymore. And second it's more of a retro vibe not an attempt to recreate the exact tech. I get why someone like you can't understand this concept. It's mainly because you're too logical and intelligent. You're basically a savant with a mind similar to a super computer, you're too logical to fully understand stupid people like me.

Let me explain what's going on. This is just low IQ people like me having a sort of appreciation for retro vibes. High IQ people like you likely are too efficient and awesome to sink to this kind of base cave man behavior that has no logical point. Pay no head to us, we're beneath you.
There's another way to do a lot of work and get things done, but maybe it's not for everyone: it's basically three weeks on nonstop, one week off. However, this is more of a lab rat PhD approach, where you're working on ongoing experiments/procedures and your clock is kind of set by the experimental setup. Maybe it's more of a biotech thing, but I can see this being a fairly productive approach for compsci. You just have to make sure you take that week off. (*basically this means showing up in the morning, doing very little, leaving early and relaxing a bit and maybe reviewing the results a bit. If a PI or someone asks where you are, just let them know you're reviewing the results of your work binge).

It probably doesn't work as well for people with other commitments who want the stable 9-5 routine five days a week (I personally loathe that routine with a passion), but for some things this approach is really productive and allows you to focus without distractions. The ones who go nuts and burnout, though, they don't take that week off.