skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^ Take all parenting advice with a grain of salt, everyone's sample size is too low.

100% concur and well said!

^ Months 1-3 were my least favorite. A tiny infant is a sort of alien, and very fragile. Somewhere around 3-6 months they'll look at you and smile and your heart will melt.

Can't remember if it was 3, 6, 9 or 12 months but yeah. I've always told soon-to-be parents not to be surprised that it doesn't feel like a real person on day 1. And that the first 6-12 months are largely janitorial.
Sorry to hear about your pain =/ That really sucks. I have had friends in similar situations and without friends and family to help, they're pretty stuck... the US is terrible at taking care of its people. That's not on you, our social safety net just sucks. Have you looked into local instead of federal (city/state/NGO) support systems? Some areas have better support than others.

I'm glad to hear you at least are able to play video games and lurk on the net... having SOME activities and socialization is better than nothing!

That said, in terms of income... if you can do computer stuff, have you considered doing some freelance work from Upwork or similar? It's not consistent, offers no benefits, doesn't pay that great... but it's better than having no work at all. And maybe that would let you build up more of a portfolio for other companies to see.

Maybe the tech sector proper is at a glut right now, but other sectors (manufacturing, retail, etc.) still need devs & people with tech skills, and presumably the big ones are better about ADA accommodations. Maybe those are worth looking into, whether you want to go into the office or find a job that can accomodate you working from home?

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Also, work aside... it sounds like at least you have time on your hands, and have some mobility. Do you have national parks or monuments near you? Can you get an America the Beautiful National Park Access Pass? https://www.nps.gov/subjects/accessibility/access-pass.htm For a one-time $10 lifetime cost, it lets you access all of our national parks (which often have good ADA accommodations and interpretive systems) and similar recreational sites... a great way to spend a day or two away from the computer. A lot of them offer volunteer or limited part time work opportunities too. You won't get rich out of any of them, but it's a good way to feel better about the world and yourself and meet cool people to boot.
First: I have become an evangelist for disability insurance. I know it sucks but total award amounts seem to be higher and more sustainable.

LA would be hard, I feel for you.

Any suggestion on advocacy programs? I am in the Midwest if that helps.

I know that this depends on specific impairments, but have you found ways to do things you enjoy? This is the hardest thing for me right now: I don’t want to spend the rest of my life watching TV.
I work on a medium sized project. A full rebuild is about 25 minutes on the M1 Mac and was about 55 minutes on the i7 Mac mini we used before. The "normal" build (what most developers have to face semi-regularly) is about 15 minutes on the Intel and about 4 on the M1. (I checked our CI numbers and can't explain the discrepancy sorry but I would guess the M1 Mac is quicker linking and the link time dominates).

Our CI does clean builds once a week, and the other builds somewhat regularly. Reducing the feedback loop by 10 minutes for a developers post merge check is a huge win IMO.
The proof of kindness is everywhere, too. Just look around.
This is why I tell my wife to move over when you see a Tesla.
I don’t think the goal is to be totally sustainable indefinitely, if I ran a micro-SaaS product, I would fully expect a bigger player to add that feature one day. The goal, IMO seems to be to get something working and generating ARR with as little overhead as possible. If you can make $100k/yr with 4 hours per week of work, that’s a huge win even if it doesn’t last forever.

You can still work a 9-to-5 and enjoy the benefits those come with as well as having supplemental income. Because you’re still in a career as a employee at this stage, a big player coming to eat your lunch isn’t going to be financial ruin, only a lifestyle change if applicable.

The bigger goal (for me at least) is to get enough cash in an index fund where the money you need each month is exceeded by monthly gains of your investment portfolio.
We have such a weird culture around how we treat teenagers in this country. We all remember drinking and smoking as teens, but parents tends to rule with an iron fist and convince themselves that they have more control than their parents did, which means we force healthy normal curious kids to go out to a secluded area (probably by car) to get high or drunk or explore in other ways, away from an adult that could help if something goes wrong, and at a much greater chance of involving the police and putting their future in jeopardy. I respect you for giving your daughter and her friends a safe place to just be normal teenagers. I’m not saying parents should buy their teens a bottle of vodka but everyone should start from a place of being realistic and reducing harm.
Okay, but what specifically is faster?

Make is rarely a big bottleneck, except in very pathologically written projects, and when doing incremental builds. I think the main problem with big make setups is recursive make, which prevents it from having a global view on the project, and forces the main make to execute many sub-makes recursively, all of which has overhead.
Absolutely get an attorney, they will collect when you are approved. My mother waited years for her SSDI denials to be appealed, and died in the interim before the issue was resolved.

Start the process ASAP. With an attorney with good recommendations from others.

EDIT: AARP link because it was the least biased piece of info I could find on the topic that wasn't a lead or referral generator: https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/questions-an...
> Is tiny-core linux open source?

It's GPL, so... Yes. Their git repositories are currently here. [0]

> I would like to see their package selection configuration. Small distributions are a ideal case study for grokking the internals.

The "TCZ" packaging system works by mounting applications via squashfs images, that then act as overlays. [1]

[0] https://github.com/tinycorelinux

[1] http://tinycorelinux.net/arch_copymode.html
i like the idea that uncle bob subscribes to and teaches a certain style or school of coding. kind of like judo vs karate etc..

you may not be an adherent of judo and you may prefer and better understand karate, but that doesn’t make a judo teacher a fraud.
The idea is devops as _culture_ - I come in as an expert and set it up, then show them how I did it, then run through various disaster recovery scenarios so they learn it and can handle the vast majority of problems.

And you'd be surprised how little problems you might have - I've had many VMs with literally years of uptime running without issue.

Most people focus on "devops" as a job - and they never bother to teach the rest of the team anything about how stuff works. Worse than that, modern clouds encourage you to build opaque and complicated systems which probably only someone working on them full-time has a hope to understand...
> Yeah. That’s right. You can run your entire operating system… from RAM. And, even with only 48 MB… it still runs fast.

I feel old. We had GUI OSs booting from floppy drive and RAM Disks with the OS + a few apps in 16MB of RAM some 30-40 years ago.
I'm really sorry you're dealing with this. I'm going to mostly share info about public benefits in case it's helpful, just because that's what I know (and I don't have as much knowledge about some of your other questions.)

What state are you in? I know you mentioned SSDI, but just to relieve some of the stress of getting by, you should try to apply for as many public benefits as you might be eligible for (SNAP/food assistance, Medicaid [medical care], affordable connectivity program [internet], Lifeline [phone.]) With little or no income, you should get some decent support from these programs.

For getting disability support (SSDI, or SSI), you might consider getting a lawyer. You're right it can take a long time to get this, but odds go up if you have a lawyer helping you. You can also contact your local legal aid which you may qualify for based on income.

In terms of jobs I'll do some thinking and see if I can post more. Are there any activities that you can definitely do without getting stuck due to your disability? There are definitely options for flexible computer work, and also things that are more phone-oriented.
Ask HN: Origami book recommendations? Or other cool handcrafts without tools?
My wife's birthday is coming up and she loves Origami, but books stores only have mass market books on it.

I wish Robert Lang (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uogPWqEYlU) had an origami book.

Does anyone have a recommendation for an Origami book (preferrable in English, but Japanese with good diagrams would work too) or other resources like YouTube? Ones that aren't just a 100 pages, of here's a crane, here's a ninja star, etc.

Lately she's taken an interest in modular origami if that helps.

I'd love to hear about what other people like to do with their hands while watching stuff in the living room!
> I always hope it's going to be about 'power and reliability of Bazel' but as friendly to get going with a basic make rule.

Have you seen https://please.build? It is very close to what I think the answer to "What if Blaze was made today?" is. It is conceptually much simpler and doesn't suffer from some of the things that need to happen in Google-scale projects/teams. For example, they haven't done the same gross thing with proto_library that google did. You only define one and it only builds the bindings that are actually needed by the targets you are building.
Short answer is 'Yes?' although finding the answer was a lot more difficult than I thought given the many broken links on the TCL site. As usual - Wikipedia provides the following "Tiny Core Linux is free and open-source software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.[4]" although the [4] link to the FAQ doesn't provide that detail hence the 'yes?' reply.
Here is another trick, if you don't like McDonald's food but are looking for a working place: Some McDonald's locations have incredible working/seating setups. They are usually the newer McDonald's. The coffee is good enough, there is some "reasonable" pastries and the management seems to tolerate working for 3/4 hours on a single coffee / pastry.

Bonus: They have fast Wifi (though I do tethering for security reasons) and power outlets.

Some of the McDonald's I have been to are fairly empty. Like maybe a customer or two in a hour. This is the US where everyone is curbside picking his fat meal. Your workplace is being essentially subsidized by these guys, since the math would not make sense for the place.
But can it run Crysis?

Apple is pretty much a no go for gaming.
Any state that was a slave state and member of the Confederacy is part of the South.

Missouri was never a member of the Confederacy. Slavery was in force before the Civil War, but do you really propose a rule that would also see Delaware considered part of the South? It's dumb to use state lines anyway. For example, Branson MO has a lot stronger claim to be part of the South than Sedalia MO, a town of which some people have actually ever heard, is 60 miles south of Mendon. Try visiting some of these places before pronouncing on them!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_states_(American_Civil_...
Probably mostly meds if in the US; US citizens don't have access to cheap generic medications nor universal healthcare so something like chronic pain can cost a lot out of pocket.
Rant totally unrelated to the article content:

Why do so many websites insist on using such small font sizes? I zoomed in to 200% to read this comfortably... It's awful having to do this all the time.
The particularity of this project is the use of Wikidata datas from the SPARQL query language.
This is very true - some apartment buildings have great community (of course, plenty don’t). Demographics certainly drive part of the distinction, but just having a person step up and do the barest amount of leadership is also critical.
Yes, often mistakes happen at a higher level. But the "don't implement your own crypto" advice also covers implementations of primitives.
Yeah because then the entire country will only have to care about what NY thinks
Any interest in adding Ghost to your list of CMSs?
The Golden Gate Bridge seems to struggle as well, go get at it...
You could try making money on a youtube channel, document your journey. Could help a lot of people and make a few hundred dollars on the side.
See if there any exercise that you can tolerate. Yoga or kayaking something to keep you moving. Fishing could help with getting enough protein on a tight budget or even something like trying to grow microgreens on your window sill could help you eat healthier.
Instapot pressure cooker for cooking beans and rice would also help to get enough protein on a budget diet.
30 Rock also spoofed the "Subway Hero". A real story of a person falling on the tracks from a seizure and bystander jumped down and pressed them both into the track well while a train ran over them. There's alway bystanders and I'm sure the dynamics of a small town are different. Especially when a rush hour subway platform might have more people than Mendon.
If you mean startup as in VC backed super growth oriented companies. Then this set of incentives is exactly what got us here. I don't see anyway local news framework make big money without devolving to the attention grabbing mindless beasts we have now.
Debt: Can you sell the car? Now is a great time to sell. If it's a lease, you could post it on leasetrader.com (or similar)... again, it's a great time to get out of a lease. It's nice to have a car, but it seems like getting out of that would be a healthy financial decision. Remote jobs are a plenty, and you live with family, so you can tag along with them when you need to get groceries until you've got a job and can afford a car again.

If you live within a couple miles of a cafe, then you can walk there and back everyday to get out of the cabin fever feeling, get some exercise, and change up your scenery for a boost in energy. I know a couple miles sounds like a lot, but you have to recalibrate your thinking to your current needs. When I didn't have a car, I used to walk 4 miles/day. Then I got a bike, no car payment or insurance. Then I got a car. Find your path back to what makes you happy. Chances are, that doesn't require a car.

Depression: It sounds like you've gone down the clinical route, so there's no need to cover that. From there, I'm not sure what your aspirations were in the startup world, but you might have to be honest with yourself about what is realistic and where your skills are now. Again, recalibrate your thinking and take it one step at a time. Your immediate task, besides your health, is to get a job that you can do.

Again, remote jobs are a plenty. What are your skills? Keep applying, keep working, eventually you'll find a remote job were the expectations are low and you can keep up. If we knew what your skills are, maybe there's even someone here who needs a part time person with those skills. Avoid startups and consulting, those are going to be high demand and that's not right for you right now. You've got this.
I was aware of the reactor when I applied but it wasn’t the primary motivating factor. I’m sure many schools have unique programs like this and it’s just a matter of taking advantage of them wherever you attend.
The amiga could run in 256kb. 512k was more common, eventually 1MB, and more was a luxury.
I've lived through this myself. There is hope. I had the great fortune of being able to live with family until I could weather the storm. It turned out I needed to de-stress by life, live with accepting people, and eat delicious and healthy food over the coarse of a few years. I had destroyed by mind and body burning the candle at both ends with little to no nourishment (physically and non-physically), and the tax man came.

Every hope for your success..
Here's another great video with Robert Lang discussing 11 levels of complexity of Origami. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDwPXRy9IFc

Ok, spoke too soon. Robert Lang does have lots of books on Origami https://langorigami.com/publications/my-books/
Yes.

> experimental medicine combined with Atezolizumab, an immunotherapy drug

Atezolizumab is an approved anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody. What’s the experimental medicine?
This jives with my hypotheses as well.

The language tooling is also deeply tied to browser wars and evolution.
The closest I've come to understanding Monads was funny enough, the Wikipedia page (ok so there's at least two pages on Wikipedia for Monads, one in a category theory context, and one in a more general programming context, the latter I could actually begin to grasp). It wasn't overly full of vocabulary from category theory, nor did it try to compare it to taco bell menu items.
Ah, well for that you need to buy the book ;)
It would be kind of interesting to see how the World Trade Center collapsing would affect the public image. (1999)
First of all, I’m very sorry to hear about your situation. My wife has chronic pain and had to give up a career she loved so I have some second hand experience with this.

Can you code? If so please email me and I may be able to give you some work paid per deliverable. You can work on your own schedule without pressure. Nothing huge, just enough to get you started.

Email in profile
Although it doesn't help the OP, another option in private LTD. I knew someone who had terrible bad pain that even surgery didn't help and they used their employers LTD and it was easier to get approved along with much higher payments than SSDI. And if structured right, its tax free. So even if running a startup or consulting, you should make sure you have LTD coverage.
> I posit that at the root of all societal friction is the widening income/wealth gap within the US,

Why would you think this when there is little meaningful difference income-wise between Democrats and Republicans?

A significant chunk of the US votes on single issue matters that have nothing to do with economic status (abortion, gun rights).
Write. My career blew up early and I've clawed my way back, but can't imagine what it's like to be in your shoes, but..

I read a Priceonomics article entitled "What it's Like to Fail" and it really moved me during a low point in my life. The subject of the article wrote over 100 episodes of the TV show Roseanne, and wound up living in a van. The article, and the book he wrote to earn money, put a lot of emphasis on writing jobs; gig jobs. He wrote, wrote, and wrote more and slowly pulled himself back up.

https://priceonomics.com/what-its-like-to-fail/

Also, when I volunteered with the homeless I found the mormons to be an incredible resource. Most people don't know this, but the Mormon church is VERY giving and expects nothing in return. If you live near a larger city, the church has stores of food and supplies, and produce food to give to those in need.

Call your local mormon church, talk to the Bishop or a Missionary, and they will be slap happy over the moon to help. At the very least they can help supply food and other necessities.
I’m sorry to hear about your situation. It may seem hopeless at times but remember working at startups is quite challenging and you did that - and faced challenges lots of people wouldn’t care to try to.

Your current assets and your psychology are two different things. Every improvement you can wring out with the latter, could be the piece of strength you need to deal with the other. Seek out any way you can to build up mentally bit by bit. Even little things if they can make a difference.

I’m no expert on this stuff but I wanted to let you know you’re not alone out there.
I heard good things about Viktor Frankl's books, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning. He went through Auschwitz and learned (and then tought) how to deal with hardship.

People who are willing to work with you, who you can help, even in the context of your handicap, exist. Find them. Be honest about your handicaps.
Thank you for writing this. Reading it in the USA on our Independence Day reminds me how wonderful my country can be.
The concept could be quite appealing to people who do a tour around a few tech companies and then are ready to de-accelerate in their career. Maybe they want to coast FIRE but still have income and do something with their time. Previously, these used to be called lifestyle businesses.
> 7. Baby-led Weaning was amazing for us. No purees. No special "baby food". At six months, our kid ate with us on the table, same food as us. Really helps their independence, easier on groceries, and helps to bond eating the same thing together.

Totally! Only limiting factor are the teeth.
What were the three worst things?
Most of the performance advantage of Apple silicon is that it puts CPU, GPU and all memory (that is typically VRAM and DRAM in traditional architectures) millimeters from primary DRAM. When competing purveyors start do this with their own clever packaging, they will start to approach Apple’s mips/watt.

Emulation on M1 is outstanding. The spatial locality of main memory nullifies emulation penalty. Apple has come close to what Transmeta tried to do.
Are you calling all creatives schizophrenic? Because, uh, citation needed, and that goes against my experiences of hanging out with nothing but creatives 90% of the time.

Us all being schizophrenic would be pretty revelatory if it was true.

Artists may be weird, but...
If I may also quote!

A monad is a special kind of a functor. A functor F takes each type T and maps it to a new type FT. A burrito is like a functor: it takes a type, like meat or beans, and turns it into a new type, like beef burrito or bean burrito.
Are you trying to tell me that you can't browse the modern web on an Ivy Bridge-era system?
I very much agree with you. I must have been unnecessarily critical in my initial comment, I did not mean it as a rant, more like an observation about where-we're-at towards what seems an inevitable conclusion to me. Sorry that came out wrong, clearly I got carried away.

In asking if "Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation", you correctly explain why we're yet on the "yes" side for the typical web agency category.

[Although FWIW I was hinting at a non-trivial category who should know better than not to setup a scale-ready infra for some potentially explosive clients; which is what we do in the entertainment industry for instance, by pooling resources (strong hint that k8s fits): we may not know which site will eventually be a massive hit, but we know x% of them will be, because we assess from the global demand side which is very predictable YoY. It's pretty much the same thing for all few-hits-but-big-hits industries (adjust for ad hoc cycles), and yes gov websites are typically part of those (you never know when a big head shares some domain that's going to get 1000x more hits over the next few days/weeks), it's unthinkable they're not designed to scale properly. Anyway, I'm ranting now ^^; ]

My unspoken contention was that eventually, we move to a world where k8s-like infra is the de facto norm for 99% of infrastructure out there, and on that road we move to the "no" side of the initial question for e.g. web agencies (meaning, we've moved one notch comparable to the move from old-school SysAdmin to DevOps maybe, you know those 10 years circa 2007-2018 or so).

[Sorry for a too-terse initial comment, I try not to be needlessly verbose on HN.]
Yes, for the outside of computer cases, but also for everything else like mounting drives, motherboard, drive cages, etc. I had a Torx screwdriver so I didn't mind. They were much better than Philips.
Yeah, the original Mac had 128k of RAM total. But is was 1 bit black and white and only one app at a time.