skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you afford a sabbatical?

The term has roots in "seven", just like Sabbath, so with 14 years in the industry, you've skipped one.

I think a solid half-year off every seven to ten years is an excellent practice for intellectually demanding labor.

What makes it a sabbatical is that it's a change of pace which furthers your career. I'd love to take a sabbatical and just work on building stuff, personally: from soldering, to designing boards, probing them, writing firmware, I'm a rank amateur, and I'd love to level up for awhile, while free of the burden of justifying my salary in the process.

It could be painting, there's a popular author who wrote a book about the connection between painting and hacking, can't remember his name but his stuff gets posted here all the time.

What it isn't, is a vacation, or a convalescence. It sounds like you haven't hit "can't work", just "sucks to work", which is a blessing.

If you can't afford it, that's understandable, there are ways to get some of the benefit from a new job, but "relieved of the burden of delivering value" is an important factor.

I've known people who pushed "sucks to work" until it became "can't work", and they don't all make it back to the profession, a bit less than half in fact. Whatever you do, I urge you to take burnout seriously, because at the limit it's a serious medical condition which can cripple or kill you.
Its unfortunate Docker came out of the VC space instead of being a hobby/research project with no intentions of making money. Solomon Hykes could have been the next Linus Torvalds and Docker could have been completely encompassed by a foundation, with the development being funded by a consortium of businesses each keeping each other in check as in the kernel.

As it stands Docker seems to have burnt a lot of open source good will, and now people are left choosing between a failed unicorn desperate to monetize or a Red Hat knockoff designed to get you into RHEL. Docker is such a huge ecosystem of tools rolled into one that it's bound to live on forever, but the magic is gone.
I don’t agree, there is a difference between all plugins vs some plugins
It would be nice if it could be customized.

And allow the user to remove sites, such as Pinterest, from the search results.
> The only large group of people who still primarily use SMS to communicate person-to-person is Android users in the USA.

This is precisely why RCS and MMS support aren't important. I just need Signal to deliver SMS authentication codes and notifications. For person-to-person communications I'll use Signal protocol.
Was expecting food taxonomy: when is a slice of food not a slice of food?

(Not go-lang.)

See cube rule of food identification for actual discussions on food taxonomy.
Still facing this. After 5+ years of straight working, and nothing but short 3 day vacations. Took nearly 7 months off so far. I was staying at my parents for half the time, and was able to have enough savings to take a long break, therefore it was an option I could take. But still feel mentally jaded.

For the first few months, time just passed while I was at home, and I thought it would get better but it didn't. I realized I needed to change environments, so I ended up doing some traveling in Europe but staying at places for longer, not just hopping around(I also have been wanting to visit forever). It was cool, and fun, but also realized I needed to work to change habits and mindsets in order to totally feel recharged.

Habits like checking my emails, and social media, are very hard to turn off and were draining me of my mental energy and being able to enjoy the present moment. I wanted to travel without my phone, and to just get a not so "smart" phone. But, I ended up ditching that idea as I'm dependent on it even for travel. It's a work in progress, but I'm starting to notice changes in habits, and I hope to carry those forward with me. A lot of it has honestly been me working on emotional intelligence, and figuring out how to manage my emotions, which in turn will help me manage stress, work/life balance, etc, and in turn avoiding burnout.

Finding hobbies I enjoy, and spending time on it, like Art and drawing has also been rewarding. I think a lot of it is un-learning bad habits, and learning good ones, like taking care of yourself better. Wish you good luck on your journey!
An entire class of corporations has a name -- "lifestyle business" -- where the value to the shareholders (owners, or owner-employees) is the lifestyle it enables rather than some potential IPO pop.

Such things exist, and do employ people who then enjoy those benefits as well.
Why can't you share your hobbies with your children? Learn new ones they can share in as they grow up? Stay up while they sleep for you time?

You're right in that you really can't stay up all night in such a way that you can't parent the next day, and yes, that's annoying sometimes, but just getting older, having more workplace responsibility does that to you too. If you're serious, childcare options (sitters, nannies, etc) exist for most scenarios. I have friends who kept a pretty active nightlife through their kids younger years by paying people to be there.

Whatever you do, I'd suggest you don't bank on using one strategy. Kids change. What you can do with them changes. What you'll enjoy changes. I'd suggest you go with it. Lean into parenting to find the things you like. They'll appreciate it too.
However harmonious the relationship following the split, it’s still damaging for children in that situation.

It may be increasingly common and I’d agree it’s better to separate than stay together for the kids but I do believe it has a lasting impact. It’ll affect the way they see relationships for the rest of their lives.

It’s selfish for people in their late 30s / early 40s to rush into having a family because they’re worried the window will close.
The big benefit is that heat recovery units only recover ~80% of the heat.

And if you want really good air quality in a room, you want 10 air changes per hour or so.

So, that means you are losing 20% of the heat in the air every 6 minutes. If you're doing this in the UK with gas heating and outdoor air of 0C, indoor air of 20C, a 2500 square foot average house and 9 foot ceilings, then it costs a whopping £14/day to heat just the heat lost in the heat recovery unit.

Considering that you can buy a CO2+temp+humidity sensor for £15, and then only use as much air as is actually needed for the occupants of the house, you can normally reduce this by 90% typically - saving £4000 per year - well worth it for £100 of sensors.

Math: https://www.google.com/search?q=700+J+%2F+kg+%2F+Kelvin+*1.2...
This is something I've really wanted for a while, and the design implementation is far better than what I would probably have gone for. Very nice! Bookmarked as a new Search Engine.
Full-scale Noah's Ark – a showcase for US creationists
Masks might be mandated in specific settings, but revealed preference makes it clear: Everybody goes to events, bars, clubs, has private gatherings, there are conventions with tens or hundreds of thousands of people in Germany as we speak. That's what I meant: Most people have moved on from being overly concerned with it.

I finally got covid last month. It wasn't fun, but I had worse colds. I think many people experienced the same thing, and so covid morphed from a looming, unknown horror to a known quantity.
You’re correct, sorry for the confusion.

Phase 1: iPhone w/o autocorrect but with text replacements.

Phase 2: iPhone and macOS, but text replacements are synched without option to disable. I don’t want autocorrect or replacements while typing on a real keyboard.

Phase 3 (reluctantly): iPhone with autocorrect, macOS without it, and no text replacements.

tl;dr it would be nice if I could disable text replacement on a per-device basis.
Docker Inc... so much unrealized potential.
This is the answer I was inclined to give upon reading.

In addition to the importance of a sense of community and purpose (whether derived from children or not), I'd also like to contribute another lens through which to view anxiety and depression.

Things like lack of exercise, poor sleep, nutrient deficiencies, caffeine/nicotine/alcohol abuse, under-exposure to sunlight and nature can all cause physiological cascades which result in depression and anxiety irrespective of ones life achievements or circumstances.

And yet, at least in my experience, when feelings of depression and anxiety are present, the first thought is of life circumstances. If only I had a better job, better spouse, loving children, fame, fortune, I would not be anxious and depressed.

It's all too easy to latch on to a perceived lack of something in your life and blame it for any and all of your negative emotions and moods.

Like most human beings, I struggle somewhat significantly with a few specific regrets from my past, as well as the anxiety of navigating important life decisions as they come up.

When I'm feeling particularly anxious or depressed my mind is more inclined to ruminate over past regrets, or to dread upcoming life events. If I'm not present, I still often fall into the trap of believing that I'm depressed and anxious BECAUSE of these regrets or upcoming circumstance in my life.

What I've learned though is that at least for me, it's helpful to first attribute feelings of anxiety and depression to core fundamental needs like sleep, exercise, nutrition, sunlight, etc rather than to jump to and ruminate over regrets and fears.

I suppose a way to refer to a framework like this would be something like 'physiological anxiety and depression' vs 'circumstantial anxiety and depression'.

I believe it is totally possible to have anxiety and depression caused by issues to do with sleep, nutrition, substance abuse, and for your brain to trick you into believing that you're unhappy with your life circumstances.

This all being said, I in no way want to downplay circumstantial anxiety and depression and insinuate that they are not real. It's vital to have things like purpose, community, and to be generally satisfied and excited about ones path through life.
"2. On Android, it goes through Google Messages. I don't trust Google.

So, I replaced Messages with another SMS app that doesn't spy on me and disabled RCS. If I wanted to do rich messaging through data connection, I would use Signal or similar."

3rd party SMS apps use a Google provided API to send and receive SMS messages on an operating system provided by Google. I'm not sure how you think using a 3rd party SMS app would be protecting you if Google cared about spying on your messages.

RCS through Google Messages is end to end encrypted while SMS is not, so you haven't eliminated Google in theory spying on your messages but you have assured that your carrier, the recipients carrier and whomever controls the OS and app on the destination device can potentially spy on your messages.
Great idea - and alienate one of their most important geopolitical allies straight to the arms of their biggest rival (China)

Brilliant
Bits of Architecture: Basic Processor Design
Presentation of high level processor organization based on RISC-V. Another video on tracing RISC-V instructions as they move through the CPU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEGdtF5WxBk
Dont think its about the hours but the freedom and being confortable with what you do (no surprises, no pressure).
I didn't genuinely enjoy parenting until my kids were all above 6, and it was gradual. My kids are 16 and 14 now, and at the start of their summer break I left a job I really liked to spend as much time as I could with them. Their problems were more thought provoking and time intensive, navigating tough tradeoffs. I love helping them through these moments, teaching critical thinking, and we still have fun doing things.

When they were younger, I tried to find some longer focal point and figure out what my role and goals were as a parent. I found that, and it helped relieve some of the repetitive stress of parenting young kids.

I don't know the source for the "75% of the time we spent with our kids happens before age 12" but I hope it isn't true. Kids are inexperienced people, and experience cultivates interesting people. I also believe an hour spent with a glassy eyed baby barely counts compared to a thoughtful, focused 15 minute discussion with a teenager.

I hope you find your groove. It took me a while.
Sounds awesome! I’ll pitch buying a bunch of these for work as well. Extremely good idea!
+1 on exercise. I find HIIT better for breaking out of mental slump then most other forms of exercise. Sprints are best for me[0].

0 - https://twitter.com/thisritchie/status/1426215815175680001?s...
Did you try forcing yourself to sleep on your side? I found if I roll onto my back while I sleep I frequently would either snore or stop breathing to the point where it would cause me to wake up.

To keep from sleeping on my back, I now put a foam roller under the back of my shirt before I go to bed. It's eliminated my snoring and help me sleep much better. Other people pin a tennis ball to the back of their shirt for the same reason.

I bring this up because I think many people are prescribed a CPAP machine to solve their sleep problems when positional therapy would be a more effective, less expensive solution.[1]

[1] https://khn.org/news/article/severe-sleep-apnea-diagnosis-pa...
Yes, I do believe him. When people tell you why they are doing something they are often telling the truth, especially when it makes sense.

Political leaders have to tell their people what they are doing and why from time to time, otherwise things don't get done.

I mean, where is your quote for why you think he is trying to reclaim former glory? When I say I think it was because of NATO there are actually quite a few Russians saying variants of things like "oh no, NATO is coming, we have to start moving the army to defend ourselves". Eg I was reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaganov_Doctrine while arguing with pjc upthread.
1) Why use React to build a static site? Why not plain ol' markup? Btw, a roadmap would be cool to see.

Static websites are usually visually complex and React components offer a nice way to expose as little complexity to the user as possible. Also, I only used React before, I know Vue other frameworks are also popular

3) Is it possible to "export" a page / design? I suppose that mucks your biz model a bit, but there's also the issue of ownership, backup, etc.

This is a valid concern. In the background, I use Next.js to export the static pages, so I can add a button to buy/download the source code.

4) Can the forms inteface with say Mailchimp or Hubspot? I honestly didn't take the time to look. Sorry.

Not yet. What are the third-parties what you would like to send you data to?
great info, I didn't know the origins behind the word. Thanks.
Kin Lane - Considering the Next Generation of API Gateways and Management
Thanks, that was worth reading and the writer has a clear writing style which I envy.
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Yeah, Microsoft has bamboozled users for years... that's the whole point.
This is not particularly egoistic. People change overtime and relationships are formed or broken everyday according to people respective evolution.

In PARTICULAR, wanting or not children is probably the n°1 important criteria to be in a relationship or not.
Im not telling him to leave his wife but its an option that is very likely to appear, and also that "staying because of past decision to your wife" might bring more pain to him on the long run than leaving her to have a child. Its a purely rational decision (which of course is not to be rushed either).

People (like you?) seem to believe in the "soulmates for life" dream but practical experienxe has shown me its not for everybody and many people end up miserable by saying in the same relationship out of principles or fear while they had so many good other options at some point..

Choose wisely.
I think it is somewhat clear what they're getting at, and it's explained visually in the picture further down.

Though maybe "crushing against the golden ratio" is not a good way to phrase the situation. It sounds a little bit like the stairs form a converging series, but from the text further up and the picture it seems pretty obvious that the author intends to convey that the step size of the stairs approaches a (power of) the golden ratio from above.
In your examples, would the edges be like:

tagged_with_italian_tag vs. tagged_with_spanish_tag ?

tagged_with_genus_tag vs. tagged_with_geo_tag ?

Would that afford such multiple graphs?
I pushed a small change to try to reduce this issue. Thanks for the feedback though
Cameras and paint brushes can easily make non-infringing works. Users of them can easily be trained how to avoid taking others work.

Copilot on the other hand basically defaults to infringing behavior. Users would have to go to great lengths to be sure they aren't infringing on others work.
Outsourcing existed before covid, it's swings and roundabouts. Most orgs are trapped in a way by their IT dept. Could they really pull off a total outsourcing gig without a business ending walkout / strike action or just dirty tricks from angry employee's who's motivation falls through the floor.

I would worry less about this, keep coding, get more exercise and consider seeing about scheduling meetings at equidistantly located cafe's with your team for a bit of fun.
Because they aren't for sale.
Pretty much all DAWs are that way though. They're very feature rich pieces of software. It's quite difficult to design something that can be usable by a layman and professionals at the same time.

It's kind of like your grandmother (assuming she's not a developer) complaining that VSCode or a JetBrains IDE is confusing. Of course it is. She doesn't know what half of it does, not because it's poorly laid out or designed, but because she doesn't have the domain knowledge. She's not the target audience.
This experience relies on there being other people of your age or others who have the same attitudes to online socialisation. I am the only person in my department younger than thirty and we all work fully remote; I feel a distinct genrational barrier when talking to colleagues online that is not at all present in person.
Make the wrong decision and you'll wish your curiosity had won the battle.

It's all a fitness landscape. Once you have a good signal of a steep, yet tractable curve, it's time to hone in and focus. Otherwise you need to keep exploring.

Within your exploration you need to know when to search and when to labor.

You also need to know when you've sunk too much into a fruitless endeavor.
Getting bored is not a burnout.
> Give yourself time to recover

This worked for me. I had to first admit that I wasn't okay, then I had to change the expectations I had of myself.

I had to get comfortable enforcing boundaries (i.e. say no), which was made easier by changing jobs (because I had an opportunity to set expectations with my employer). I also had to gain some better soft skills to make 'no' sound more reasonable, which was a challenge at first, but has served well since.

The other huge factor that made it possible for me was financial stability. It is much easier to set boundaries when I have money to survive an unplanned job hunt.
I admit I was always much more in the Ludlum camp when I was reading the genre 20-30 years ago. I've read Le Carre and watched the films but, while I could appreciate what his admirers were saying, I never really got into him.
It’s more what they’re not doing.

The main issue is that they linearise the sRGB colour space before adding together the components… and then never 'delinearise' it afterwards. Human brightness perception is non-linear and WCAG totally ignores it.

This is a collection of 'even' black-white gradients in different colour spaces.

https://docs.krita.org/en/_images/trc_gray_gradients.svg

LAB is pretty much the standard for a perceptually even colour space.

The sRGB gamma curve was chosen based on CRT mechanics… but it’s pretty close.

The WCAG calculations only make sense in a world where 'Linear TRC' is perceptually even.
I'm sure I've seen the opposite of this recommended: https://www.django-antipatterns.com/antipattern/over-use-of-...
Why pass objects with DB access into a template? I guess some people enjoy debugging templates and n+1 problems. (edited)
Are there countries where VCs are writing $20K checks? That seems like an incredible amount of overhead for them to bother/for it to be worthwhile to them.
+1 for sport and moving to another team.
Learn to Code in Google Sheets, for Programmers
The base stations were never free - they were subsidized by various sources.

But that $4,500 a month is insanely cheap and an absolutely incredible value for Ukraine.

The media loves to whip up a frenzy over Musk, but Ukrainian commanders on the front have said Starlink is the single biggest advantage they have, their efficacy would drop by more than half without it, and even, they’d rather have more Starlink than more guns.

Simply put no one has done more for Ukraine than Elon / SpaceX.
> Do you recall the days when it was common practice for ISPs to MITM all traffic?

This never existed in France. That would have been completely illegal.
Yes, I hated my job because I was doing status updates for 4 hours a day while still trying to code. After a year, I stopped caring about their project. I started avoiding work and interviewing for the last 6 months.

I found a new job that pays more, lets me code more, and interrupts me less. Now I'm much happier to go into work even if it's just CRUD APIs.
The US doesn't have more motive than Russia has to alienate their allies. It would have been a very dangerous move for the Americans.
> As long as you have bandwidth latency really isn’t that important for most activities.

As someone who recently spent a week at a vacation house that had HughesNet, you have no idea how wrong this is.

Every single individual request your browser makes has an extra half second attached to it even starting. Every TLS handshake takes a full second and a half, multiplied by every different host you're connecting to while loading content. Every packet lost (and there will be a few) has an extra half second to be resent. Downloading files over satellite internet isn't the worst thing in the world, but browsing the web over it is not an enjoyable experience. It feels like back when I was still on dialup while most of the internet had started to assume broadband.

The main reason QUIC exists as a protocol, aside from working around decades worth of horrible middleboxes that prevent new protocols from working on top of IP directly, is to reduce the number of back-and-forths required to establish secure communication which most significantly benefits high latency and mildly lossy connections like satellite and older cellular networks.
I have been in system administration for over 20 years... Cloud or OnPrem I have never once has a dev ask about the cost to deploy their new thing, software, etc

Never once has a dev asked about storage costs, of the differences in storing a file in a filesystem vs a blob in a database,

Never once ask about mem optimization could reduce infrastructure costs

never once
Wouldn't be impossible as long as the same soft synths are available on both devices, which in this case, they seem to be.

Case in point: Maschine+ and the desktop software has a similar approach where you can create songs on Maschine+ and later transfer it to the desktop application. If you just tune some things without adding soft synths/effects/VSTs not available on the standalone device, you can also transfer them back to the Maschine+ to continue edit it there.
edit; nm
Agreed. I work in marketing in tech and I have to say, AI is changing the game, but people aren't going anywhere anytime soon.