skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you make $XX/hr, playing with your kids is worth greater than $XX/hr. Once you have enough money* to meet the basic needs of food, shelter, and security, the marginal utility of making more money drops considerably.

Life can be simplified to a conversion between time, money, and happiness. Time can be converted to money by work. Time and money can be converted to happiness by hobbies. College converts time and money into the possibility of making more money. Saving for retirement gives you time and money to be happy later in exchange for less money today.

Making more money is a net loss if your job makes you unhappy, you don't have time to relax, the stress shortens your life and so on.

Unexpectedly, the more money you make, the less time you should spend working. Someone with less money might take a second job to support their family, because more money makes a huge difference in their family's quality of life. Someone making more money takes extra time off every holiday, because the money "lost" is worth less than the family experiences gained.
The same way as PiHole does. It's not hard to block Google adds on 3rd party sites with a DNS or IP-level block.
May as well throw in cardboard box with that kind of straw man.
Finder just relaunches when you force quit it in Activity Monitor? Is there something else you had to do to get it to not relaunch?

Also, I'm not sure how much you are saving by doing that. My Finder uses 0% CPU when not being actively used.
Huge thanks for taking the time to post this. I am working with clients who are disrupting Chinese imports for things more easily made here, and the number one concern is bad actors using any easily available digital means to interrupt operations. DO sounds like the way to go.
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A company stating that they'd like people to work in the office, or from home, doesn't mean that they're correct about that, even in their particular context. Companies do all sorts of things that contradict established science in terms of increasing productivity.

As an example, from the sounds of these e-mails Tesla has their factory workers working longer than 40 hours a week, which is well established to decrease overall productivity.
If the +2 is kids than you left off an important $48K/yr expense.

https://patch.com/california/san-francisco/how-much-it-costs...
That sounds like victim blaming.

Most people couldn't tell you how a 401k works or even how a mutual fund works. It's why regulations are so important and it's why things like NFTs will probably soon be regulated as securities.
At least looking at job boards, there's a problem with .NET mostly being stuck in its own stack with little overlap while many jobs existing scoff at the idea of e.g. letting Java and .NET devs jump from one to another. Which leaves .NET in a weird position of having to go all-in, even if it has a high market share.

Without that stigma it's fine, .NET has a lot of answers to various things even if you have to deal with the Microsoft flavor. Similar to Java which still dominates most of the market in the same space.
If ISPs actually tried to do this en-masse, Google would move all ad serving to google.com
How do you measure testosterone? You make it sound like you just step on a testosterone scale each morning and take note of the value. If that’s the case, I need to get me one.
Indeed. This is straight out of Permutation City by Greg Egan.
That's correct. And if you have configured SameSite corrrectly and your GET request handlers are locked down, you don't event need CSRF tokens. Unfortunately Microsoft ASP.NET Core security engineers' careers seem to depend on have differing opinions on how to secure SPAs and APIs.
Based on a resume?
Vaccine efficacy drastically gets cut as weeks and months past, especially with newer variants. However, N95 masks stay at 95% efficacy no matter what the variant. It may be practical for grandparents to wear masks occasionally around their grandchildren and when they go into public indoor spaces, but it’s much less practical for parents since most live with their children.
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And their associated discord channels
I'm a full-time C#/.NET developer, and have been for about five years. Here are a few observations:

1) As time goes on, C# is increasingly just F# with different syntax. LINQ, closures, records/immutable structures, and so on - you can write code in C# that is more functional than it is object oriented these days. This is mostly a good thing; it also means that (to my eyes) the language has become much more elegant over time.

2) The level of cross-platform compatibility you can get if you're using .NET Core or .NET 5/6 is pretty fantastic. Performance has also improved dramatically. C# is in no way limited to Windows as an environment anymore - unless you have a dependency on .NET Framework.

3) Everybody has dependencies on .NET Framework. Those who don't have dependencies on unmanaged Windows DLLs.

4) Great debugging/developer tools, as others have mentioned. VS and Rider are both top-of-the-line IDEs.

5) C# is not and will never be cool, sexy, or the thing of the moment. It is a language for getting things done in an easy-to-comprehend way and that's just about all it is. I like it very much.
I can see ad-blocking as a feature an ISP can try to sell. Imagine an ISP-level PiHole. (I can see this selling easily given how many family and friends asked me to install PiHole for them.
It takes a loooooooonnnnnggggg time to published peer reviewed research, and the better studies will need to compare pre vs post so I wouldn't expect them till next year, at least.
I wonder how IC employees and middle managers will deal with the mandate.

Let's assume you manage a team of six engineers and two people decide to just not come into the office but continue working. Will you fire them? It would take 6-9 months to hire, onboard, and get the new engineers to a point comparable to the ones you just fired. Meanwhile I'm guessing you're not going to get much leniency in hitting our KPIs because 33% of your team just left.
> Sister getting divorced? Add 2 screens for her so she and the kids have some sense of normalcy and fun as they go through the hardest part of their life they've known.

I like how Netflix is the solution to divorce in this little world you made.
Yeah, this is crazy for an European to read. Having such amenities on the campus is an expensive luxury. Focus on education/research and let everyone practice their hobbies externally, according to their wants, needs and personal budgets.

Studying at an American campus is like buying an expensive timeshare.
I would pay an increase in taxes to pay the immunocompromised to stay home. I’m so sick of people bringing this up as if it’s a justification for us to wear masks forever
Just use AWS ECS Fargate - probably much easier to manage/setup than your own k8s cluster or even ECS k8s route. Azure/GCP may provide something similar. I think any Google product is always needlessly complex that only solves their own use case and probably many other companies need not blindly adopt those unless absolutely necessary.
wikipedia? Beyond their remit for some queries for sure, but they fit the mold.
In Sweden there are plenty of labor laws. E.g you have to lay off workers in the opposite order they were hired.

https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagen_om_anst%C3%A4llningssk...
Is it even theoretically possible to waveguide gravity? The electric field can be positive and negative, but gravity is unsigned -- there is no anti-gravity. This is probably related to what you're saying about faraday cages.
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Widespread immunity leads to overall lower levels of sickness. Vaccines aren't just to protect the individual being vaccinated, they benefit the larger population.
This makes me wonder if there might be a project out there that can compile Verilog to a schematic or netlist for 74-series logic.

Edit: unsurprisingly, the answer is yes - http://pepijndevos.nl/2019/07/18/vhdl-to-pcb.html
It would be hilarious if employees took him up on his offer and left.
What's the difference between a burner container and a private window (Ctrl+Shift+P)?

I suspect it would be fairly straightforward to make an extension that set a per-window default container, but I agree that it should be built in functionality. (Whether that default should override site-specific container rules, I'm not sure... I kind of want both options, but I guess that's where it starts getting complex.)

I'm annoyed by the lack of integration between container and history. I never really want to clear history for a non-private window, but I do want to be able to restrict what I see by container when it makes sense and not restrict when it doesn't. My main grievance: searching for open tabs (either by prefixing the location bar entry with "% " or by choosing the Open Tabs option from the dropdown that appears when you start entering something) should match across all tabs, at least in the context of a freshly-opened new tab.

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I can relate. Recently I've started working for big company and they have quite complicated and over engineered microservice architecture - the product I'm working on.

What I found is that I'm slowest dev in the team. I can do my work well but I'm spending time improving things that are not important in the scope of the ticket I'm doing.

I've tried to convince myself that this is because I'm trying to address issues with infrastructure but recently I started thinking "maybe that's because I'm getting old, and my performance is declining".

But on the other hand I found that I'm still "clever" and fast and bright if it comes to things that got my interest.

In my case it seems like some kind of middle age crysis. I'm just simply getting bored with programming, I've seen all of those issues before, now it's not different except scale, and I just feel like my effort invested in improving will be like drop in the ocean. Where back in my 20th I would flip everything upside down until I would succeed and make a difference.

What I'm trying to say is: Maybe you just getting bored of those problems...
and thinking about mental decline is natural thing in our age.

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As someone that only recently started exercising after a lifetime of being sedentary - everything they say about exercise is true. If it was a pill it would be the greatest medical discovery of all time and worth trillions of dollars.
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Is “everything a Ponzi scheme” unless the entity actually can create “value” greater than the money put into it?

Is everything that exists in economies within the bounds of national economics and central banks a Ponzi scheme? A reshuffling of money within the closed economic system?
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> what is an idiot-proof explanation for the need of docker in light of dlls?

I think the key thing is it's not a need. What you are doing is fine if your team can hire the talent they need to maintain (and grow) the product/software to match the companies needs.

OCI standards (what Docker uses) to some extent are trying to make a uniform ecosystem so engineers and architects know what to expect before digging into a project. That should not be compulsory though; other systems that work only make 'bigger' systems from places like the open container initiative better by showing what works in the wild.
If you could buy an acre on $125K~ year - I don’t think you live in hcol.
Note the date (1961), and the target hardware (IBM 7090 series), when considering whatever came after and existing hardware capabilities.
The patent doesn't cover just ranking documents based on their citations; it also covers various ways to extract "citations" from a webpage, weighting the pages to determine their importance, and doing all of this efficiently enough that you can process millions of queries per second.
It is part of net worth. It's just that typically you can't access it because you need somewhere to live. The exceptions are things like downsizing to access some of it, selling and them renting or moving to assisted living.
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> In particular I'm not sure how to really tell ffmpeg to handle multiple audio/sub streams without programmatic interaction

This is what gets me every time. I'm relatively proficient with ffmpeg (relatively!) but for the life of me I can never remember how to switch audio sub streams or drop some of them, etc.

And yes, one first needs to find out what's where, but there are many UI tools that can do this (in addition to ffprobe).
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It's really hard to get an objective view of a lang asking for a random thought :-) C# has a decent number of fans acquired because of Intellisense mostly, there's also not an insignificant amount of people who find it "meh" (boring, Microsoft etc.) If you are asking to evaluate it as an investment - it seems to be a pretty solid choice, though employability of a C# dev differs between locations. If it's just for fun/pet project, then it's better just to give it a try.
> My commute is less than 30 minutes (one-way) and is a pretty pleasant drive.... it takes an hour out of my day, but it's not the primary reason I don't want to go to the office.

Focusing on "reasons why I don't like the office" is missing the point, IMO. A lot of folks are betting on the long-term results of a short-term dislocation, but ignoring why things were as they were before the dislocation. It's sort of like the commentariat who come up with hot-takes in the aftermath of a natural disaster, and conclude "life will never be the same"...but within a few years life is, almost always, pretty much the same.

Yes, there are obvious upsides to working from home, but there are also fundamental reasons that we used to go into the office, and dismissing them all as "the old way of doing it" is facile. I think, in the "long" run (i.e. the next few years), the same forces that led humans to form cities throughout all of human existence will prevail.

Said differently: offices sucked before the pandemic too. The technology existed for remote work before the pandemic, too. Yet even in the most remote-friendly work environments, we went out of our way to make time for in-person communication. There was no sudden shift in technology or quality here. We did some short-term things to deal with a short-term circumstance, and now we're seeing the hangover of those choices. But the forces at play are largely unchanged.

If I had to wager, I'd bet that being in the office will be how you get noticed and advance in your career. Making on-site visits will be how you get the sale. Having in-person communication will offer productivity gains over video chat. The incentives to in-person communication will therefore accumulate over time, until we're back to where we started.
> This is "very much our lane," Dr. Bindi Naik-Mathuria, a pediatric surgeon at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, told NBC.

Being a medical doctor doesn't give you any special "expertise" in understanding the causes of homicide, making policies in an effort to reduce homicides, and certainly not in balancing Constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners against the restrictions that would accompany any such policies. "Science" can't give you answer to high-level questions like this.

The same people pointing to "the science" on gun control rarely would "defer to the experts" on other, similar questions: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-.... Most experts in economics agree that corporate and capital gains taxes are bad. And that is absolutely unpersuasive to nearly everyone on the left side of the aisle.

Every time "expertise" and "science" is invoked to override the lay public on an issue, the credibility of "science" as an institution is put on the line. Sometimes that's necessary because the science is undisputable and the issue is critical. But when expertise and science are invoked to make arguable points in what's ultimately a political disagreement, the credibility of the whole endeavor is undermined.
Commuting does not make any sense for most white-collar jobs. Let people work from wherever they are, everyone will be happier for it.
You can get home kits. You just give them a couple drops of blood and send it back.
>Some of this is just because VFW puts any linux video stack look like a bit of a joke

What's the joke? I thought using VFW in 2022 was pretty hillarious of a suggestion. Maybe you got the punchline confused? ;P

AVISynth died to me long long ago as it was just no longer pratical. The work arounds to get 10bit video was never stable by the time I dropped it.

I did enjoy the scripting aspect of things like you suggest, but that's meh at this point. Now that my brain has been rewired to think FFMPEG like, the frustration goes away. It's a steep hill to climb without question, but eventually, it just goes "click".
Your search results were a lot better in 2006 when there wasn't yet a huge population of sites cranking out SEOed garbage.

Google is trying, they're just losing the arms race of detecting crap content vs generating it.
So the masks don’t keep the children more healthy, and it’s entirely possible they hurt language development and classroom engagement.

Sorry, kids.
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Being in this bracket, I can see how easy it can be to live paycheck-to-paycheck at this income in a VHCOL with kids. $1M+ house (and not a fancy house either), $3k/mo on daycare, $800/mo car payment, $1000/mo student loans...it goes quickly.

That said, lifestyle inflation is the worst! There are folks making way more than this that are ALSO living check-to-check. As someone said on here, there are spenders, and there are savers!

FWIW, the folks that have plenty of money saved up at lower incomes are mostly homebodies and don't do much, which is fine, but that's not how everyone wants to live (myself included). Can't take it with you and all that.
Checkout jetpack.io they are trying to solve exactly that
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