skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I listened to the Vox Conversations podcast and I feel somewhat skeptical about the conclusions regarding happiness. The author of the book says that he trusts a major study on the subject because it sampled what people were doing at the precise moment when queried and how happy they felt at that point in time. He then concludes that we are most miserable when e.g. studying and working and happiest when getting laid. The problem I see with this is that if they, for instance, would've asked a person just after doing heroin for the first time, how happy they were in that precise moment it would maybe be off the chart. Saying we should avoid stuff that brings long term fulfillment and satisfaction to remember having done seems like a trap. We're only our present selves for an instance, but our future selves for years to come.
Also: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html
I believe most electric cars already support charging on a timer. I have a ChargePoint charger that does the same thing on the charger side. The app even has a choice of all the electricity providers and plans to choose it so I don't have to look it up manually.
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I kind of agree. Linux is still bit of a shit show.. my audio stack got completely fubar'd on my last linux box so back to Windows I went.

WSL2 + Docker gets you really close to the development experience of Linux while maintaining your sanity.
Depends on how important a CTO is to the company - this varies based on industry/nature of the dev process. If you're someone who's working on problems in your free time/ownership mentality it sounds like equity comp is important to you. Might be worth addressing to C-suite and finding patterns in your industry for benchmarking before that discussion.
I feel, in my bones, that this must have been done for C, too: could someone google it for me? Doing a search for "... C Electron" is a bit fruitless.
All addicts are slaves. Don't glorify it.
My post wasn't not about criticizing EVs. My post was about criticizing the energy grid. I think "slow" charging over night is the best way to use EVs and an energy grid that cannot accommodate that (because of a predominance of PV) should be criticized.
Interestingly, on those days the air inside the supermarket smelled clean (not like smoke). Apparently, their HVAC system was good enough to filter out the smoke.

The air was significantly better in my house, too. I had installed some better air filters in the HVAC system.

I avoided doing anything that would make me breathe hard, i.e. do as little physical activity as practical.

The air quality is "good" today, so I'm going out for a run.
Have you considered working for a company with goals that you find more meaningful? For me working in biotech has provided that, but you need to find what's right for you. Don't spend your life working on "clones of other similar products with a slightly better price point". Your words!

Therapy probably couldn't hurt either, but you should make your career move soon if you can. Burnout takes a long time to recover from. Personally I burned out from working long hours and it took years to recover from, even though I was enjoying my work and found it meaningful. Don't overwork yourself.
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I agree. It is completely unfathomable to me how someone could give this advice.

Similarly ridiculous, couples going through a relationship crisis often receive this kind of “advice” to “fix their relationship”.

The only people who might think this is a great idea probably don’t have kids…
Meta has repeatedly demonstrated they will do whatever it takes to capture user data. Kid VPNs, in app browsers, etc. Is it any surprise that people are deeply suspicious of any coincidences that arise from using a supposedly private channel.?

Given evidence at hand, it is hard to view Meta as anything but a bad actor.
I'm not a googler, but I'd see this as a canary. Steve Blank's[1] The Elves leave Middle earth - The sodas are no longer free explains why auch "small" changes portend larger cultural shifts

1. https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
U.S. politicians tweet much more misinformation than those in the UK and Germany
A World Wide View of Browsing the World Wide Web [pdf]
And there's another disadvantage to 128-bit pointers - memory size and alignment.
It would follow that each struct field would become 16 byte-aligned, and pointers would bloat up as well, leading to even more memory consumption, especially in languages that favor pointer-heavy structures.

This was a major counterargument against 64-bit x86, where the transition came out as a net zero in terms of performance, due to the hit of larger pointer sizes counterbalanced by ISA improvements such as more addressable registers.

Many people in high-performance circles advocate using 32-bit array indices opposed to pointers, to counteract the cache pollution effects.
It's not necessarily burn out. I mean, it's possible that the job's just boring. Some people can handle boring jobs better than others, mentally.
As other commenters have said, this could be burnout. In my personal experience, improving from burnout requires two things: an extended break from anything mentally demanding (preferably more than a month, but at least a few weeks), and a change in circumstances when you return (whether it’s a different team, different job, different project, etc). Both are necessary. If you just take a holiday without changing up your work, then you’ll spend the whole time dreading returning to the usual grind. It’s important to have something different to look forward to when you return. While you’re away, you can think about your work and whether you genuinely find it rewarding.

A lot of people go through this. I’ve been through it twice, and both times it felt like it hijacked my brain. It probably feels like you’re doing something wrong or you’re a bad employee, but most likely you’re just in a temporary rut.
The "Covenant Eyes" app is fortunately unavailable at the Google Play store right now, but the Exodus Privacy analysis[0] doesn't show permissions far off from other, more benign apps. It's unsettling that this common set of permissions is enough to monitor your activity, who knows what, say WhatsApp does with all the permission it asks[1]?

0. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.covenan...

1. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.whatsap...
I was in a similar situation 10 years ago, but in a less well-paid job :) I happened on a musician's talk about how to be a productive musician. He was saying that his most important suggestion was to "write everyday". It seemed obvious that musicians should write music everyday. But he meant writing your thoughts everyday on paper. (I am not a musician btw) I took that to heart and started writing in the mornings. The practice helped me to construct, then re-construct, my work and career from first principles.

That being said, "my current mental state is affecting my ability to learn effectively" sounds like you're in some distress. It will not hurt at all to seek help.
I hate this.

I can't wait to try it out.
Disclaimer: I work at AWS in Professional Services and I’ve work with AWS and Microsoft (less so Azure) on the other side as a dev lead as a customer.

Cloud and the enterprise is very high touch and requires understanding the customer and meeting them where they are and not try to convince them of the “one true way”. It also requires respecting the customers business processes and understanding the politics of any large organization.

I have no opinions about GCP and even if I did, it would be gauche to criticize a competitor. I’ve never had a reason to have any dependency on anything Google as part of my work. Google itself doesn’t have the DNA that is required to work with the enterprise. Microsoft has been building those competencies since the mid 80s and AWS has first mover advantage.

It’s also the same reason that Google struggles with consumer products compared to Apple. Apple has spent decades selling to consumers, having human customer service, a network of Apple Stores, etc.
This totally be done with existing CV tech- think pedestrian detection in self driving cars.
I had the same thing happen. My business partner and I left our jobs simultaneously to go all-in as CEO/CTO, pre-funding. We jointly agreed we were "co-founders", exchanged in writing what I believed was a fair cap table, agreed in writing I held the most shares of anyone, and we each agreed to take only $30K/year after funding.

But we made the huge mistake of delegating legal solely to my co-founder. He secretly created a small equity pool for his "co-founders", and he secretly made it so the negotiated percentages we thought were fair only applied to the "pool" and not the whole company.

Nine months in, I discovered I was vesting ~0.3% per year. He took nearly all the equity for himself. Despite our agreement to be "co-founders", he suddenly told me he didn't know what the word meant at the time, and that actually he was the sole founder.

When I left due to this, my business partner told new investors there was never a CTO, then demanded in writing that I remove CTO from my website. This is despite him routinely putting in writing that I was CTO -- not to mention that I was responsible for all of our products, coding them largely myself.
I believe you're stuck with your current government for another couple of years. Unless they decide to call early elections, though polling suggests that the current government would lose an election called today.

It would be great if people decided over those next couple of years that they deserved a better government, though I've found that in a crisis people often decide to double down on what they've always believed. If they're not getting what they want, it's because they're not doing the thing hard enough -- usually because their political opponents have done something.

They may well change governments in two years, not so much because people "wake up" but because enough people decide they're fed up and stay home. The others then get their chance, and I hope they spend the next two years preparing a genuine solution. And good luck with that, since the present government has spent a very long time saddling them with an untenable situation.
"they again and again want some quality assessment to use"

It sounds like they want something quantitative not qualitative. They both have their place, and one sort of measure without the other is missing a big part of the picture.
Yes, the platform came before the Elixir love; it just happened that Elixir is the development ecosystem that best takes advantage of a distributed platform with private networking, and that Phoenix LiveView really screams when you can run it within 10s of milliseconds of all your users.
Check out this Android spyware, says Microsoft
My own experience with Linux is that it breaks from the most mundane of things, such that I wouldn't even dare suggest Linux to the average person because the tech support baggage that will ensue would be far more expensive to me than if they just used Windows.
The suggestions for taking a break or seeking therapy are great ones.

Fundamentally, there isn't much overlap between the work that we get paid to do and the work we find meaningful. Unless you work for a non-profit that's saving the world, there just isn't.

What to do? Well, one thing I've considered is that once I am fully ready to retire, I do part time software development and give half my earnings to a deserving charity. I get back a few days out of my week, and the knowledge that my donations are doing far more for a charity than my volunteering could ever do, and as a bonus I get to keep half to pursue my hobbies. I think that would be a win win for everyone if you could swing it.
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I've been in your shoes and will suggest something different than the consensus here.

Instead of sitting around learning (taking online classes) actually DO something.

- Create something with your own hands that gives you satisfaction.

- Write a journal everyday to give yourself a sense of accomplishment.

- Use those new EE skills to make a circuit that performs some small task to automate your daily life.

Sitting around and learning without applying the knowledge is a drain of your precious time.

Create, don't consume.
Back in 2016, I thought it'd be nice if LXC/D had something like a Dockerfile. It would just be a small layer or tool to do it, proved with a little python script: https://github.com/jonatron/lxf
A bit confusing. The challenge was:

> Armed at all points, and on our steeds—and Heaven defend the right!

The battle was decided by

> Breton squire Guillaume de Montauban leapt on his charger and rode straight into the English ranks

The outcome was

> Though his mounted charge may have represented a breach of etiquette, the outcome proved such a crushing blow that the English could not carry on and effectively capitulated.

Why is that a breach of etiquette if you're on the horse and you all agreed to be on your horses. But assuming for whatever sake, that this was a breach, that makes the whole story absolutely hilarious. It is reminiscent of the Indiana Jones scene where Harrison Ford pulls out a gun to shoot a guy who does sword tricks.

Hahaha, what a bunch of suckers.
Yes there's many different cultures in different fields.
FYI, I’m using vim every day. If you have run vim before - you should know what I mean. About others I don’t care.
Maybe you could tote the machine outside, stretch it, and then electronically reverse the charge to make it easy to blow off contaminants.
The IBM PC's 20-bit addressing was 16 times the size of 16-bit addresses. From 20-bit to 32-bit, 4096 times larger. 32 to 64 is 4,294,967,296 times larger (!). The scale alone makes using all this space unlikely on a PC.
Emacs may not be the best Lisp interpreter around, but I still love it for how open it is and for the great community around it.
An anonymous person donated 299 ETH from Tornado Cash to Redox OS
Oh neat. Not only do I share a name with a project, it's a project I was seriously thinking of starting.
The parent comment is 6 minutes, but the full 15 minute interview (about more the the internet) is worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLf6KZmJyrA
Living in a certain zip code is not corruption, and Americans don't need to bribe social services, or the police, to get on with their daily lives without being molested. There are many countries where that is not the case.
> The only thing different about the front end code vs a website is that it calls functions generated from my Go back end (fully typed!) instead of making an HTTP call

Now take it to the next level: put those functions in a service worker and create a REST API that works entirely locally and can be switched out for a remote server with ease.

Or don’t, if you have no intention of making a web version. But IMO it’s a powerful model for those who do.
Your silly game is what watchdogs should be playing.

Sadly, they just never seem to be up to the task.
I believe the comment was referring to running Pi-Hole on something other than a RaspberryPi since they are known for SD file system corruption. It has happened to my Pi-Hole and music server running on separate R-Pis. https://hackaday.com/2022/03/09/raspberry-pi-and-the-story-o... Use a throwaway PC that you have kicking around, or run it virtualized...
You're changing the context and thus missing the argument.

We were talking about Google "slashing travel and swag budgets at a time when “Google has record profits and huge cash reserves,” as it did coming out of the pandemic." and GP opined that he only wanted to show up for a paycheck and not get any extra benefits like travel budgets.

You've reversed the context to "You ARE a cog!!!" which is irrelevant to GP preferring to decline extra benefits when they exist.
Interesting. Any more details?

I thought about implementing something like this with a SBC to replace a broken motorcycle dashboard but never got around to it.
Can you clarify what you mean by formal verification, and why this scheme necessarily excludes its use?
Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++, Borland C++ - not for anything I do today, but for being a big part of my gateway into programming back in the early 90's.

OS/2 - was my OS of choice until I switched to Linux full-time around 2000 or so.

Linux

Emacs

Java

Eclipse

KDE

Python

R

Postgresql

Groovy

Grails

Spring

Pidgin

ejabberd

RSSOwl

Git

OpenOffice

All things that have made my life much easier and more productive in more ways that I could probably count.

Oh, and can't forget Firefox, VLC, and XMMS. Those are essential as well.

Might as well add AWS too. For all the (fair) criticisms one could level at Amazon, AWS is an incredibly valuable resource and has been a big part of my world for the last 10 years or so.
This might be the lamest nitpick I've ever written, but isn't a Battle Royale an individual/small team fight to the death? This is just a small fight between two teams.
Nice.

An air-jet sorting machine controlled by X-ray spectrometers. That's impressive.
No robotic arms required. Apparently, already cost-effective. Mixed metal recycling can now achieve very high recovery rates.

Air-jet sorters with vision systems have been around for decades, usually for agricultural products. Throughput is huge and cost is low. It's possible to sort individual rice grains.[1] Most vegetables in US supermarkets today have been through an automatic sorter.

So now this has made it to metals.

[1] https://www.sgsorter.com/rice-color-sorter/
Tea drinkers enter the chat...

With all the focus on coffee, it's nigh impossible to find decent tea or someone that understands you can't double the water for a grande using the same amount of tea.
It sounds like you’re commenting in general terms without having looked at what Fly.io is actually doing. Yes, choosing the right abstractions is the problem, and what makes Fly.io really interesting is that they chose different ones. It’s really well explained in their docs and blog posts.
Take a vacation
Try to move internally saying that you need a new challenge
Not to break your rose-tinted glasses, I think fly.io is pretty cool too. But it's a for-profit company with outside investment, coming from investors who expect a return on their investment, one way or another, and they likely have some influence on how the company will act.

Same has been said for every company who taken outside investment ever. "But no, Heroku/Figma/GitHub/X are different, they really do care about their users and would never sell/go public/Y", and then a couple of years later we end up in the same position.

It might not even be up to the "bunch of talented people" in the end, what they have to do to survive or to grow. But grow they have to, unless investors are fine with getting their ROI over 10-50 years rather than 1-10 years. A growing usually comes with some pain.
I got intrigued by OSINT near the beginning of the Ukraine war. I imagine a lot of community members have related background experience. But interesting to think of those without experience that got into it and can have an impact with the tools available.

There's a good podcast called New Models where they interview someone from the OSINT community. Recommend this if it piques your interest.
A quine in this form is hard.
Yeah though this is more likely to be detected with basic network analysis. Selectively compromising the RNG seed would be much harder to detect without source code.
Not so much "outside his skill class" as "unlikely to be played by a human". Computers have a really good idea of what the optimal move is, and it's sometimes not a move any human being would play. The main way to detect cheating is to figure out that they're playing closer to the computer's line than anybody without computer assistance.

In this case, his off-the-board behavior, where he seems unable to explain some of the moves he made, is also suspicious. His skill set is such that there's no move he's not capable of playing, though he should at least be able to tell you what he was thinking when he played it.
I skimmed through their docs but couldn't find whether they:

* support for abstract apps, not only HTTP/web apps like heroku, let's say I want to deploy a SIP app

* support for HTTP/2 and potentially HTTP/3

If they do support these two I would say it's enough to be considered Heroku killer.
Every day on Reddit, I see people asking "Should I learn X?" And it's so fucking stupid. Why ask? Try to learn X. If it's boring, stop. There are no grades. There is no penalty for dropping out.

There are legitimate questions to ask, "Is book Y worth the money?" "If I learn Z, will it increase my job prospects?" But "should I learn X?" is a bad question, and only something as awful as years mandatory schooling can make someone think it is a good one.
Tis but a scratch
All Microsoft products are free of charge if you know where to look for them.

Basically you have the big Fortune 500 companies subsidizing pirates who download from TPBay...and of course the pirate CD copies being sold in street markets all over Sub-Saharan Africa.

Microsoft with Windows, Azure, Office, Outlook and PowerPoint is the backbone of the economy. Come noon you have already used half a dozen of different flavors of Microsoft and again if you know where to look you tasted them all for free.

Analyzing things post-facto the bad reputation that Microsoft had was unwarrented given that we ended up under a much tighter stranghold of Apple in the mobile environment. At least the developing world is saving themselves using Android.
Just because you can refer to the identity of a thing anywhere in the cluster doesn't mean it can't also be memory-safe, capability-based, and just an RPC.
This is clearly and obviously a well worn trope and false.

Cable TV started as a method to rebroadcast broadcast TV with ads in places that could not get broadcast TV.

Then HBO came along. But was always a premium channel.

Then the Superstations came along that were rebroadcast of local channels nationally like TBS and WGN with ads.

Then cable channels like CNN, MTV, and ESPN came along - with ads.

There has never been a time that cable TV was ad free.
It can be art, but in most contexts it's a low information progress bar type "give the user something to watch" measure.
I found it interesting that a good chunk of outside contributions[1] happened before funding, and have almost completely stopped.

[1] https://github.com/rome/tools/graphs/contributors
Maybe you just have elevated mood and energy levels for a few hours? One of the nasty parts of dieting is that you can cut calories and not lose weight, just have less energy and feel worse. Probably not as relevant if your obese but cutting calories leads to some other effects than weight loss when your already lean.

Conversely if your weight is stable you might be able to add 500 calories with no ill effects, just more energy, faster recovery etc. It would be great if it was just formulaic like your post implies but it isn’t.
Maybe the author was referring to other one of the thousands of gods that exist because of the other numerous religions?

I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of them disapproved the concept of spyware, and I'm sure more than one would approve of pornography.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32955323
> Guillaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaume ... de ... Montauuuuuuban!!!!!

> Goddamnit Guillaume...
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They admitted violation, but did they admit it as a mistake?