skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn’t the employability that attracted me to software (back then, it was still a nascent industry, so the employment was still spotty); it was that software doesn’t really have limits.

The physical realm is full of limits. Much of electronic design is about working within hard, physical boundaries (I was an RF engineer, so there were a lot of boundaries). For example, you could see the “ringing” in the scope traces (those little “bumps” near the corners of the voltage level transitions). Ringing can have serious consequences in real life, and things like track length, or even solder burrs, can affect it. Then, you have attack and decay, which can be affected by things like cable length. Basically, there’s no such thing as a perfect square wave.

Also, when you are running at GHz frequencies (not really an issue, back then), every solder burr is a microwave transmitter. That’s fun.

Software didn’t have these “fences.” I could go pretty much wherever my imagination took me.

I’ve always been a cantankerous bastard. I don’t like being told where I can’t go.

Knowing the physical realm helps a lot, when it comes to understanding software, though. I’m glad for it.
A lot of sports have competitions for "masters" only which is typically 40+ years old

So you could learn to sail in your 30s, spend 10 years getting good (need plenty of time on the water and coaching) and then enter the masters.

Sailing is a sport where you need lots of time on the water, coaching and some luck.

But a lot of people drop out of it in the 20s and 30s due to families and work.
Sleep.

In the daytime, maybe a powernap or 15 minutes of mediation could work.
> SQLite is loosely typed

FWIW in recent SQLite you can turn that off using “STRICT” tables, however that means the available types are restricted to INT(EGER), REAL, TEXT, BLOB, or ANY.

ANY is also “Stricter” in strict tables: it does no conversion whatsoever, whereas in normal mode it’ll try to parse literals to numbers, and store a number in that case.
> Duckduckgo or any other search engine cannot simply ignore your IP address

Sure they can.
Having used Gentoo and LFS, it is good to install it once to understand how Linux works but long term it is annoying.

Arch is a better middle ground IMO.
So over the pandemic, I (in my mid 40's) went through ViBE's B2GM videos [1], and spending a couple of hours a week over six months or so managed to get up to Platinum 3 on the Starcraft 2 ladder; which, if I'm reading the stats right, means that (at that point) I would have been able to beat 50% of the people playing SC2 on the ladder. And there was still a lot of low-hanging fruit for me to deliberately practice when I moved on to some other projects in my precious free time.

Now, you're not going to compete in SC2 with people who practice 10-20 hours a week unless you also practice 10-20 hours a week; but you can certainly get pretty good and have a lot of fun. (Maybe neurological limitations from being older would prevent you from being top-tier even if you did practice 10-20 hours a week; but I'm inclined to believe it's more that older people are less likely to practice 10-20 hours a week for whatever reason.)

[1] https://youtu.be/mfFas8p5g7M
I always find interesting the people that claim with certainty that technology cannot solve X when there are no known physical laws forbidding it.

Scalability is already being tackled, rollups are already scaling Ethereum today. In combination with data sharding they will allow scaling Ethereum to the order of 10 million TPS by the end of the decade. But much earlier than that we will see multiple orders of magnitude increased scalability.

Transaction reversibility is a non issue. Any trustworthy ledger is non-reversible. The way you implement a reverse transaction in a pen and paper ledger is by writing a new transaction that undoes the effect of a previous one. Not by erasing the previous one. Ethereum itself is non reversible but this exact logic can be implemented over Ethereum in your smart contract if so desired. And, in fact, there is smart contracts that operate like that. For example, USDC the stablecoin by Circle has this logic built in, it can freeze funds and take control of them at which point it can do whatever it needs, send it to law enforcement, reverse a transaction, etc... This is one of the lamest counterarguments people put forward.
There is no lie, only assumptions on their part.
I could be wrong, but this seems like a surefire way to make your system develop weird quirks. Just looking at the issues someone seems to have restart/shutdown take 15 minutes: is this because of debloater or just regular windows things? Who knows?
These are great images for running in throwaway VMs, but how trustworthy is the project and how safe are the changes for using on bare metal as a primary OS?

I haven't audited the scripts they use, but I'm always concerned about running any custom Windows version cooked up by a random person.
Why not? We've been promised carbon capture forever...
I agree, there'll be suffering both here and there, and the Russians have suffered stolidly before.

The sauna I used to visit has closed. It was heated using geothermal energy IIRC, and that energy can practically be used to replace a gas-fired furnace somewhere in the city. So the sauna was closed a few days ago. I'm sad about that.

The Russians didn't have to go without a sauna in the nineties, they suffered this: https://nitter.it/pic/orig/enc/bWVkaWEvRllyM0std1ZzQUFqWnotL...

A bakery where I bought a bread this week has stated publicly that the selection may be worse during the winter. There'll be enough, just not as varied as until now. Not like this photo, also from Russia: https://nitter.it/pic/enc/bWVkaWEvRllyM0tqSFVJQUVKWGpFLmpwZz...

The Russians may have a great capacity for suffering compared to westerners, and if the suffering coming their way were only what's coming to the western countries, I don't doubt that the Russians would handle it.
Darts.
All of those toolbars and lister layouts are extremely customizable.
It’s a start and also chances are the people who insist on broadcasting every second of their drama filled life do not like being out of coverage.
"Hobby" seems to be in complete opposition to "compete at world level"
You are reversing cause and effect. The original promise of Bitcoin was to become a p2p payment system that could be an alternative (not a replacement) for cash. All of the speculation around it comes from that.

The unethical thing is to keep BTC around just because there are so many sunk costs associated with it.
Norwegian equivalent:

«To let the billy watch the sack of oats.»

A billy/buck goat is a male goat.
Can you name a single person you know of with one?
“fight like an old man, you will be one some day”

BJJ also has a culture of action and community. OP, look for that. Where are people +30 getting together)
Plus they also warn on each step the consequences of choosing those options and remind the user that this should be run after every update just in case MS enables/resets some of the disabled telemetry. Very pleasant UI/UX.
Awareness of the hedonic treadmill meshes quite well with my 'frugal' Yorkshire tendencies.

A favourite on HN seems to be coffee, and spending ever more on 'good' coffee. I mainly just drink instant coffee, filter coffee for the weekend. I still get my 'good' coffee and I appreciate it. Same goes for wine and chocolate.

It's also led me away from expensive experiences to unique/different experiences.

It's also helpful for informing new purchases. Do I need the latest car with all the bells and whistles or can I just stay a generation behind and be excited with a new car with electric windows or whatever.
I think Vincent van Gogh, started seriously painting in his late 20s. Needless to say in his brief overall career as a painter he made some works which had a great impact in the art scene after his own death.
Wow, that sounds crazy, remind me not to move there.
I’d like to try out Kagi but having every search I do tied to my real world identity (via payment information) with no ability to search privately really kills it for me.
This has become pretty common over the last few years in Atlanta for clearing out larger wild areas - they make short work of it
Ken Block, famous rally driver, started his rally career in his late 30s. Yes, he had money, connections and access to the best teams. But you could easily buy a second hand car for a few grand, tune it gradually, do courses and practice, practice, practice. You should carefully choose your speciality: rally, race tracks, drifting or just regional events (where entry can be as low as 100 eur). So your only disadvantage are the expenses. But they aren't as bad as you think they were.
Digital Heirlooms
Let me know how might would you like that your PASSWORDS-Wallet Keys-Digital Assets, encrypt credentials go to a benificiary through a acceptance verification (MFA revoke access)?
A low sample size impacts the reliability of the results.
Shooting and gun sports. Lots of regional skeet and trap shooters. Lots of long range riflery and indoor pistol competitions.
Sounds crazy but ok!
The kids have had far less trouble with Debian/Gnome than Windows 10.

With Win10, they'd keep accidentally moving/hiding the taskbar around, toggling fullscreen, toggling the screen reader, changing it to weird resolutions, etc... Then when my wife tries to bring one of their school websites up for them, she gets frustrated by the whole mess, & calls me to straighten it out--since she's a mac person and has no patience with any of this windows nonsense.

Many years ago, a certain English professor told me about people who like to shove sticks up their urethras for fun. This article just reminded me of that. Memories!
I suppose the rationale is to give the user control over when and what they want to update. You can manually download and install individual updates from MS without being forced to use Windows Update.
That was about OpenGL for Linux. There are a few OpenGL using games that run on Linux and Windows, so direct comparisons are possible.
Or allow them to optionally log in using their Google, Facebook and Apple accounts.
Kagi is nice.

Mojeek is getting better, they have opened up Focus [1][2] which allows for some tweaking.

Searx or Searxng?

[1] https://www.mojeek.com/focus/
[2] https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/08/mojeek-focus-search-the-web-...
You have no way of knowing. It's a useless thing to discuss.
> I mean how is this going to affect Silicon Valley since this is different than the dot-com boom/bust?

It's hard for an organization to justify paying 4x to Person A when Person B has the same background.

So, it comes down to whether the final salaries for both employees merge closer at the former or the latter.

Given cost of living expenses in the Bay area and the benefit of having some in person employees, my suspicion is that pay will likely remain relatively high for organizations that can afford it.

Now, here's the caveat. Most employers aren't paying their software engineers 200K. The organizations that are paying 200K+ for talent have the resources to do so. Only a relatively small number of companies can sustain and justify these employee burn rates over a long period of time.

All together, given that the actual median nation-wide salary for software engineers is closer to what you would reasonably expect to see for an educated, highly trained professional. In other words, the salary floor for remote employees is likely higher than what most people expect, but lower than what most people exposed to Bay area salaries are used to.

> And yes that's 200 vs 50 for the same level, say a Senior Software Engineer, one in San Francisco, the other in say Brazil.

This isn't an apples to apples comparison. Salaries are set by market influences. As long as there is sufficient friction to push American companies to favor US-trained talent, the floor for remote work salaries will be the expected salary range for a software engineer in the US.

Some companies can, have, and will continue to exploit salary differences. Many (most?) don't have the expertise or willingness to do so. So could I see remote work having some negative drag on salaries in the Bay area? Sure, but the floor is still going to be at or around six figures.
There was a case here in Norway a few years back. A litter of dead kittens was found in the woods, wrapped in several layers of plastic bags. Inner layers had scratches proving the kittens were alive and not stillborn.
> How does monetizing a public good for your own selfish social standing to the detriment of everyone else become freedom of expression to begin with? I'd like to know who those campaigners are.

Freedom of expression includes that and it was done for years. Photographs taking pictures or videos of public spaces and monetizing them is nothing new nor outrageous. There are local limitations, in Europe often about your ability to center other people in your pics or videos. But afaik, in USA you are free to take pictures of people or public spaces full stop.

> Somehow this has become blurred.

This was never as clear as you make it up to be. The primary difference is that too many people do it in current form and they do a lot of repetitions or include music.

Freedom of expression or speech or whatever never included the requirement to "not be selfish". Also, the limitations that EU or USA tend to put on places basically never deny specific platform. You might have to pay extra for ability to take pictures. You might be unable to use flash. It might be flat out denied to play music at some place (requirement to be silent). These are fairly normal restrictions, that dont care whether you are personally outraged over tik-tok or youtube - which is actually what makes sense.
> Apply Will Wheaton's Rule; in case of doubt (whether that rule applies): don't.

Where can I read more about this rule?
Me too. I can't get my head around all the properties for Flexbox, but CSS Grid makes everything so simple.

My latest trick is to swap around the "cells", without changing the HTML markup (generated by simple_form Ruby gem).
It's ok I'm perfectly ok with my old ance.
Do you also audit / control web browsers the clients are using?
Gardening, once you have the basics (ie you know how to keep a plant alive, and have developed a good idea of when a plant is happy) then you can create _art_

Blacksmithing (either sword/knife or artistic)

Photography, not physical, and the basics can be learnt with a simple course.

Anything to do with machining/lathes metalwork, the only barrier is cost and time.

Music, Its perfectly possible to learn an instrument and be good, world class is a difficult term though.

General knowledge, paul Sinha was a doctor turned comedian, then pivoted to "quizzer"

Story teller, life experience can be an excellent spring board to creating good narratives

Cuneiform scholar: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizat... There are tonnes of tablets yet to be deciphered
'coder philosophy'?

It's just awareness of yourself. If you know that if you have one glass of wine, that leads to a 3 day bender, then you can do something to stop the cycle. If you mindlessly consume to be happier, this is a tool to stop the cycle.
I'm a security reporter and got fooled by a blatant phish
Nahh don't worry I don't think you qualify as "content creator", even if you create code that could be thought of as "content" or to be honest even if you're a streamer who live-codes or something.To me what this usually refers to is video produced by "influencers" (or wannabe influencers), produced to a schedule purely to drive clicks and engagement. (edit: originally I tried to work in a fast-food metaphor here, but it did not land at all)

I wonder if you're like me at all - I kinda recoil when I encounter these people talking about creating "content" or selling "product". Just sounds like people are creating slop for their hogs to consume.
We see >10% of trials are from users who have trialed at least once before.

That is ~1/3 of your typical trial to paid conversion, so converting these users who already know and love the product, but are enjoying it for free, has a pretty large impact on businesses.
A handful of folks, myself included, are breaking org out of Emacs, making it more accessible to all.

I built two apps for iOS:

https://flathabits.com

https://plainorg.com

There are other org-based tools out there.

https://BrainTool.org

https://logseq.com

https://orgzly.com

https://beorg.app

https://easyorgmode.com

https://organice.200ok.ch

https://orgro.org
Yoga

You learn something new about yourself every day. And you excel again and again only to learn that there is more to learn.

Changes how you think, live and breath.

Plus you look awesome after some time.
I think OP means those ruin cell bandwidth too.
Somebody also suggested paramotoring in another comment, which is less like chess against the sky, but may be more accessible depending on where you live.

However they also warned, and this applies just as much for paragliding, that competiting in this sport is significantly more dangerous than practicing as a hobby.
I feel like the author is in a search of a fight.

The screenshot is of the second page of results. But right at the top of the results there's a control to switch to global results.

On top of that IP-local results are only presented in the top box with an option to change your location, a link to the docs explaining how IP-based location is only guessed and never stored.

Other than that, I don't see any location pollution in the further search results. For example, I searched "ophthalmologist" and I get no local results outside of the top box. Author doesn't allow for results being presented on their ranking for their search and just happen to be local to them and assumes it must be only/mostly based on location.

Also author openly admits they changed title to more inflammatory.
But discrimination comes from people, not companies. Also, indeed, why not work in places where there are no other Indians? It's not like with black people: no one who's not from India may have a slightest idea of a caste to discriminate based on it. AND it will also mean making more money.
At that age I decided to quit my tech job and live in China for an intensive language program. That opened my eyes to so many other things.

I'm currently working on learning Korean. Also working on my private pilot license. And then there is my constant work towards a sub 3 hour marathon (I'm almost there). Dabbling with music production too.

My 20s were mostly boring, but my 30s are awesome - adventurously and intellectually so. (I'm 36)

Sure, I'll never be world class at anything, but I will constantly challenge myself. That is enough for me.
On the other side of the Adriatic in Croatia whole cities are empty during the winter and swell 500% in population during the summer. There are no jobs except in the service sector and there's no incentive for anyone to do anything else since they can just rent apartments to tourists or open a cafe.

Tourism accounts for a quarter of our GDP. We are one tanker spill or bad weather season from economic collapse.
If I buy all of object X, no object X can be sold in Montana.
The issue with online privacy isn’t that ads exist or that the entities we engage with are able to provide us services based on easily ascertained information.

These recent anti-DDG articles seem to have a privacy-weakening agenda. Each tries to portray online tracking as just the casual use of uninvasive metrics to provide better services.

This is not at all comparable to what ad networks do including thr large ad companies such as Google or Facebook/Meta. Those are companies that build such extensive profiling as to be harmful, a level of detail that we don’t even let our own government keep.
The way the information is gathered is mostly opaque, utilises both online and offline sources and is certainly identifiable to the individual.
We then see the consequences of this from straightforward harms: such as AA members having their real names revealed to each other. To larger harms such as how period tracking information is now being accessed post row vs wade being over turned.
For me the swipe controls only work some of the time. Might be dropping some inputs
Is Linux Mint a desnapped Ubuntu? Or was that a one-off for Firefox?

Debian is a nice snapless alternative bc it'll generally run anything meant for Ubuntu. The only major downside is no PPAs
I think https://github.com/ahungry/org-jira gets you pretty close to what you want, if you're open to using emacs + org-mode.
A hackergroup inspired by Eudaimonism:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemons
A suspension preserves history, name etc. while rendering the account inaccessible. It's chmod 000 rather than rm. The sanctioned user can deal with the reason for the sanction and after that, recover the account, all the repos that weren't relevant to the sanction, and perhaps also the relevant repos.
A lot of people always go crazy when someone asks this question and instantly praise Total Commander. Link can be found here: https://www.ghisler.com/
As OP mentioned "running". As someone who started running in his 30ies:

Before you start running, learn warm up. And take it seriously. It's the most important part of running.

Your knees in your 40ies will thank you for it. (My knees don't.)
I've been playing foosball competitively since I was around 14-15, and what I can say is that it's easy to pick up, can be done at 60 ( Todd Loffredo is around that and still in the elite ).

It's a weird thing, it looks physical and it seems like you need fast reflexes to do it on the highest level but it's not true.
The technique can be picked up in ~2 years with 2 hours of daily practice.
What you need and what is hard to get is a calm mind and good decision making which could take a long time to get right, but some people are just born with that.
You can easily start in your 30s and be at the highest level, or even be a world champion ( I've seen a few people starting in their 20s and get to that ).
it is github cdn. yes it is mardown parser doing 90% job, but only got 1 star. can someone give it a star?
Rocking the Web Bloat: Modern Gopher, Gemini and the Small Internet
You can produce hydrogen in two main ways.

1) Electrolisys where efficiency is around 70-80 %.

2) Via natural gas which is less efficient and also requires a fossile source.

Add now on top of this additional energy losses due to transportation and upkeep of a hydrogen distribution network. Hydrogen powered cars are around 20-30% efficient. That's a lot of energy losses, you end up using only around 20% or less of the original electricity for forward momentum.

EV batteries do have weight to them, but as charging infrastructure becomes better you won't need a large battery even for long distances. Mercedes EQXX concept can travel at around 80-90 Wh/km.

To take this into context, a liter of gasoline contains around 8.9kWh of electricity. A modern car uses around 5 liters per 100km, or 44.5kWh per 100km, or 445 Wh per km. A normal BEV today uses between 120-250 Wh per kilometer.

Combustion cars cannot touch the efficiency of BEVs.

Even if you made hydrogen with renewables, BEVs still make more sense. You need fewer renewables to generate the electricity to move the same amount of people the same distance.

If you use hydrogen to store energy created from e.g. excess wind power, it's still more efficient to use it to run a turbine to charge EVs rather than to burn it directly in a combustion engine.
That particular hypothesis could be tested reasonably well by comparing the BMI of the two groups.
Alpa.ai: Free, Unlimited Opt-175B Text Generation
i'd actually be really into this.

even without jira, just something like hugo generate a static site to show others the backlog.

also this for confluence.

perhaps I'm just getting old, but I'm wanting more and more of my work to just be text files (markdown/yaml/whatever is appropriate) and tracked in a git repo.
The whole thing was an Invisible initiation, there was never any rabbit.