skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty much an argument against democracy, isn't it? The idea that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych should have been left in power against the wishes of the Ukranian people because he was a convenient puppet leader for Russia.

> The odds of Putin deciding to do a Hitler

This has already happened with the level of war crimes in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
I'm not sure if what I had was considered burn out or not, but I lost my passion for programming and stopped really caring about anything work related. Sometimes I'd get spurs of motivation, and during one of those spurs I applied to a startup because they sounded interesting. They didn't get back to me after a few weeks and that demotivated me further.

I sold my flat and was planning to move into a van to become a surf-bum. I handed in my notice and was working on autopilot/coasting until it was done. Then it all happened very quickly, that start-up contacted me, I had an interview, did a trial week (which I loved) and I decided to join them.

It was the best decision ever, I very quickly got my passion back for programming & creating products. Plus the job was remote, so I could move somewhere closer to the beach/mountains to surf/snowboard more.

I think what helped me was getting away from the stuff I hated, i.e; meetings/emails/'chats'/story points/jira and just focusing on programming and the product I was working on. Combined with the fact that it was much easier to peruse my hobbies, it cured my burnout (if you can call it that).
You're not gonna read all these comments, are you?

Hope you will still have luck, but in the meantime - sorry if it sounds harsh but seems like quickest way to communicate it - if you are not ok with yourself and with your life, I don't think you want to have kids.

It's like a polish proverb regarding relationships: don't try to find a girl who will make you happy, find the happiness within yourself and then some girl will find that.

If you cannot make it ok with yourself without kids I don't think it's a situation which you want to put them into. Seriously, there are many things that you cannot change about the world and about your kids. Being able to accept reality seems useful.

Also I've talked with quite a few people whose parents were all about kids - that was all they wanted from life. And these people as kids (as adults too) were kind of lost. Because if my parents only care about their children, what is there to care about in life? Should I also make kids ASAP and care about them? I mean, it is our biology but it's also a vicious circle.

Other than that you have some options, adoption, some other woman can carry it for both of you etc.

I wish you all the best.
This is the worst advice to give. He chose not to have with the one he is married to. And you are saying to turn his back on that same person. And have it with someone else!
After grad school I thought I'd never be able to enjoy work again.

I took a break and a hard look at what I wanted to do and came back the other side thinking I wanted to learn something new and apply it to make the world a better place.

I took a job that paid the bills and allowed me to have (long commute) time to learn AI. Fast forward 5 years, I now work using AI to help doctors do their job better and I love it.

I should say a big part of it was promising to myself to separate work and life. 9-5 is work. Weekends and other times are for my family and I to enjoy, recharge, and make sure I can back to a job I love.

Good luck on the journey.
Maybe unrelated but Dublin has an insane housing crisis. You need to offer large incentives for people to come to try to find housing.

I know a company who agreed to pay €5,000/mo for an aparthotel while they find somewhere. The person came from far edges of Europe, not a specialised or very senior role at all
Once kids get slightly older you have routines and they become so much easier to manage. My partner and I get plenty of time together once the kids go to bed, especially on the weekends since they don’t nap at school (ugh). The secret is being very focused on routines.
The ancient Egyptians expressed axioms by a series of concrete examples. Stating them as actual axioms or theorems with proofs (by Greeks, Indians and Chinese, among others) was an improvement.

How can we communicate actual axioms to extra-terrestrials?

Presumably we can create a kind of Rosetta Stone with different representations of logical and algebraic expressions, and maybe they can decode that if they can figure out how to decode whatever "broadcast" representation of this we come up with. And that assumes that they recognize such a broadcast as something from intelligent life.
Been there, done that (and tons of adrenaline/extreme sports on top of that), it feels amazing when you discover it and few more years, but novelty wears off a bit eventually. Had kids, and those years brought some nice memories and personal growth, but otherwise they were shallow.

There is no more depth in life than raising kids properly, the good and bad combined. If you are up to it.
Super impressive! Very well done. I have to admit this is the best case of using Stable Diffusion I have seen so far. Keep up the nice work!
There have been acquired by a venture capital investor, and the press release mainly focuses on their rapid growth and "extraordinary margins".

I think it is safe to assume that offering cheaper products will be the last thing they are going to do.
OTOH some people need the psychologist because they aren't living with their parents.

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Saying "an edge case exists" sounds really helpful to push your viewpoint but if you can just put "not" in the sentence and it's still just as true... what've we gained in the conversation by saying it?
You're missing that the worst thing that could happen to China is a Russian collapse.

China wants Ukraine to end like Afghanistan: an embarrassing and gradual defeat of the US/West - leaving behind billions in cutting edge military hardware - after a decade of being financially and militarily drained, while having nothing to show for it. Russia is the Taliban that can make that possible, and while you don't necessarily want them to be too powerful, you definitely don't want them to just collapse.

Not to mention the US will get even more ideas if they "win" in Ukraine. From the Chinese perspective (and the perspective of much of the world), Russia is currently the anchor on US imperialist aspirations.

The real big loss for China, is Germany, who has chosen to obliterate its purchasing power as part of this war. That's the loss of a huge trading partner and quite unfortunate.
Azure support is just so bad it floors me.

Azure forced me onto invoice billing against my will - and every month without fail they don't automatically match my payment and I have to endure increasingly threatening emails that my account is pending termination while their support takes days to reply to my tickets about it, and when they do reply the advice is usually just 'wait a little longer'.

I've moved critical services off Azure because the risk of wrongful termination is just too high.
Children do not fix your life. Rid yourself of that expectation and get a puppy.
I set up an auto-correct for 'ducking' to replace it back to what you actually want to say.

Also whilst Apple is reading this, please stop changing "were" to "we're" out of context. Ugh.
I'm almost convinced that such a layout is the future of search results.
I think open sourcing the code would turn this thing into the next searx or saerx might end up picking an up an idea or two. In any way it would be great many people contributing to something like this and implement missing functionality.

Speaking of it, you can rule out any column you don't wanna see by appending a couple of rules into uBblock like these
swurl.com###twitter
swurl.com###instagram
swurl.com###youtube
swurl.com###news
swurl.com###images
Let me play devil's advocate here. So you have your own Ninja file, great.

How it deals with:

- Use sanitizers

- Compile for several operating systems, even some later you might need to port to.

- Debug/relase/minsize builds

- disable/enable warnings as errors

- run test suites

- use ccache

- install stuff

- consume external libraries

- choose a nested common nested dependency for the same version for a lib, and, transitively, do it for all subdependencies (something I handle with Conan and/or Meson wraps)

- dll import/export and symbol exposure

- compile static/dynamic PIE/PIC libraries

- custom compilation flags to distribute your lib god-does-not-know-where-yet. (for example distro maintainers)

Now you might tell me you do not need much of that. And you would have a point. The problem is that when you start to mix and match projects

If you have done all that, you did it ad-hoc. CMake at least can do it for all your projects. And CMake is really bad, IMHO, I much prefer Meson.

For all the bad things CMake has, if you do even a 10th of this ad-hoc, you are already wasting time compared to using a battle-tested tool like CMake or Meson.
Things that worked for me:

Exercise. Sleep. Reduce your workload to something manageable.

Say No.

Meditate, active meditation is ok (yoga, some martial arts, even running)

Stop having hobbies that look like work and involve obligations, at least until you recover.

Clear your todo list. Clear your inbox. Like, just empty them.

Rest. Take back your evenings and weekends. Vacation if you can.

Above all, this is going to take a while. I don't think there is magic bullet.
Not in most countries I've been...

It became common to get atleast 1000 sms in your plan, combined with maybe 100mb of data back them, then unlimited sms with 1gb of data, and then slowly data went upwards while sms can't go up from "unlimited". 100MB is not enough to leave "the internet" running 24/7 on your phone, so internet-based chat services were unusable for general reachability back then (we're talking about early symbian and stuff like msn messenger era), and you just sent an SMS (becase 1000 is enough for everyone... except teenage girls back then(.
36 messages and nobody pointed out that a main source of burnout is when your *values* are not aligned with your work.

It's unsurprising people burn out when their job is about optimizing ads to enrich some billionaire and stuff like that.

Find jobs that are meaningful to you and you can improve.
The worst part about flying is sitting in an uncomfortable, cramped space for hours
No, there definitely is a difference. It is so large that one doesn't have to measure it. But if you were to measure it then it would be something like 5-10x reduction in focus time available per day/week. You cannot possibly compensate for that by spending more time on work/projects.
1. Not too late to have kids these days. Lower chances for sure, but not improbable.

2. Adoption is always an option.

3. Become a "big brother" or do some other kind of youth mentoring or teaching.

If your wife is not interested in kids of any kind, then #3 is your only option if you're going to stick together, and maybe mentoring and/or teaching is what you really want to do.
Very valid points. Its hard to describe the complexities and weird error or latency or other conditions that happen in cloud environments. OPs people kinda shrug and ask that you essentially turn it off and back on again and that usually resolves the issue at that time. There are so many abstraction layers when all the infrastructure is software run and I bet a lot of those introduce performance degradation.

Another element of this is I would think its more fun for a systems person to be closer to the hardware. Specifying, ordering and unboxing servers, disks, switches and setting things up sounds satisfying to me.
This is very philosophical and not answerable here or anywhere. It’s also very personal.

You could have ambition to change the world, help your fellow humans, cure diseases, whatever. Those are noble.

You could also view life as a journey of self discovery. In that case, having children can help discover your true self. Or is it your true self? How do you know?

Or maybe children are God’s gift, and it’s your religious responsibility to have children so that they can experience God’s world.

Or it’s a biological trick to ensure survival of the species. That is a scientific but unfulfilling answer.

There is no right or wrong answer.
Hasn’t it? There is considerably more infrastructure for the elderly today than a couple of generations ago. Communities where folks can maintain a bit of independence with caregivers and peers in the neighborhood seems like a nearly ideal way to age to me.

But of course not everyone lives like this and many have a horrible quality of life at the end so there is room to improve. One improvement is cultural I think: we shouldn’t be hanging on to every last strand of life possible, and should make it easy for those with little prognosis for quality of life to die gracefully in a way of their choosing.

In any case certainly more adaptation is needed, but I see signs of the development.
Did you interview them at the birthing center to find out?
Thank You for sharing.

I had the really same experience (except only 13 years in). What I found helpful is having autonomy over the project. Having the autonomy allows me to achieve better results with less effort. Maybe that is something that could help you as well.
Not necessarily. I'm a major fan of the "value for value" approach (i.e., you pay how much you think they're worth). It's been proven to work in some places already (e.g., Bandcamp, The Chosen), and we haven't really jumped onto its potential yet.
I think anyone still a catholic after all of the news stories about priests either has fully questioned their religion and come to their own conclusions or has decided to never question their religion at all.
US military also once bought fake chips from China:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2008/oct/06/secu...

There are good reputation vendors in China, but if purchasers type in the chip model in Alibaba and simply buy the cheapest, it's likely to be bad.

Russian purchasers should know this, but maybe they don't care or they got kickbacks.
GP is saying he would like not to but cannot shut it off because they’re not using autocorrect but text replacements. It does make sense in the general case to sync text replacements, just not if you’re using it in place of autocorrect
> And if you're wondering if this was discovered and subsequently chased out to #gothgothgoth, You Have Understood The Problem

Excellently put.

To me, it seems that the problem is that tagging is adversarial in any system where spamming can be rewarded.
Find your interests outside of the work. The programming is a mental work so I suggest to find some physical work.

Personally, I recommend the bouldering. It's an intellectual puzzle using your body.
I had Bell's Palsy back in August. Even though most people fully recover, it's very difficult to feel any optimism when you're looking in the mirror and your face can't move at all.

Thankfully, I do now seem to have just about fully recovered. I started getting tiny movements back around 3 weeks and by 6 weeks it was substantially improved. By day 33 I regained the ability to fully close my affected eye, and some time thereafter normal blinking resumed. Today, only yawning continues to feel like I have weird asymmetric facial pressures.

It is emotionally scarring though. I'm still less socially outgoing than I was before, and I now live in the constant fear that it could happen again. The slightest tingle in my ear has me racing to take anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
For much of the world, second marriage is not an option.

And it's also not fair to the first.
I liked the Silmarilion :)
FWIW, when my sister was born, my mom was 41 and my dad was 48.
The lifetime of a server is at least 5 years, which is the typical warranty length for server kit.
https://www.pgyer.com/xifb
I understand what you mean and I myself know that I want a kid, just not now. But I would never become a parent just because of an economies well-being or low birth rates. If I become a parent it's because I and my partner want to, that's it.
This (weirdly) edited copy-paste should be replaced by the source: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...
I am surprised how much I like this. I was expecting it to be another rehash - but yes, this is nice.
Ubuntu Pro APT integration is a bit much
Seems like a change to how touch is recognized. Used to be a light tap registered and now it requires a much more pronounced touch. Really sucks for us touch typists.
Yes, I agree, but the underlying IP is top secret. No one in the world can replicate it. I believe the leading forces want it to remain this way. (China shouldn't get its hand on high tech UEV machines because they might reverse engineer them, enforce export control laws etc.)
fwiw, those are both excellent articles & the macos notifications I found especially infuriating.
Maybe emotionally wise this could be true (in some circumstances). However, there are clear health impacts on the children that statistically increase as the man gets older (eg autism).

Also, if society can convince young men to not leave children, it can help them mature faster.
No. But you just distort what I am saying.

I'm not using a PC from 1992 because I consider them to be too old, not because some company unilaterally decided that it's now to old and that it is now junk.

My PC have parts from 2012 and is still working fine (I'm using Linux but tbh, even under windows, it works pretty well). Good luck running up to date apps on a 2012 iPad. My 2012 PC is up to date.

Most 10 to 20 years old PCs can run some light (and up to date !) linux distrib and can serve many purposes ranging from lightweight terminals to educational material in third world countries. Heck, with the right software setup, most are still really decent office computers. We are not in the 90-2000s anymore where every year your new computer was vastly faster than the previous one.

An out of date iPad is just electronic junk. Not because it is not fast (it's even as fast as when you bought it) but because it's not yours anymore.
Because Netflix are big enough that they don’t pay the same AWS prices and you and I.
Related: A free guide on the usability of intranet design:

Intranet Portals: UX Design Experience from Real-Life Projects https://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet-portals-experiences...

A small usability lapse: no publication date on the page, or in the report (presumably intentional). The report states:

"The research for this report was done in 2013, but the majority of the advice may still be applicable today, because people and principles of good design change much more slowly than computer technology does."
Cutting wood with a tool sharp enough 30k years ago to hack off a limb in one fell swoop is... unlikely lol
Actually something I am doing at the moment. It's definitely a huge improvement.

Regardless, having a good brainstorming session in person and actually building a strong sense of community and shared responsibility with a team you're on is so much better in real-life than remote for me.

Another thing is that finding an office space was really hard and we got extremely lucky. Try finding a payable office space in a capital city is not an "easy alternative" for the regular Joe I would say.
> he goes to bed at 11 pm and then wakes up at 2am to do his personal stuff - running a minimum 80km/week non-negotiable. i personally get around 5 hours a day of sleep which is manageable but there are times that's not possible.

This is patently absurd. The number of people who can get by on this level of sleep is probably less than the 0.01%
Let’s just say it was “special math “ and move on
I'm a DINK so I'm on the side of watching people with kids struggle to find time to do things without their kids. My observation is a person's free time all boils down to how both parents decide to divide parenting responsibilities. It seems completely possible to find a balance to do what you want with kids, just not everything you want.

I have friends where them and their SO seem to have really figured out how to divide things to make sure everyone has their own time. On the other hand, I have a friend whose spouse is weirdly transactional about time. He literally cannot find time unless his SO is given exactly the same amount of time. If he wants to go golfing twice in the same weekend - tough luck. It honestly comes across like they really don't want to be around their kids.
In my case, it's either a Zen3 laptop with 32 GB or an older Xeon desktop with 64 GB.

In both cases, it's larger than most regular office workers usually have, so I don't think Teams should expect this kind of machine.
*unknowingly
Coincidentally, I was trying to convince some people recently that "just for fun" is not the same as "shoddy".

For instance, a syllabus can make learning anything more fun, in my opinion (even though coming up with one may require some effort). [1]

If you do something "just for fun", it *sounds* like no real effort is put... But doing anything at high performance is more fun that doing it without too much effort. I think there's confusion about this point some times.

Corollary: to make anything you are learning more fun... always have a syllabus! (even if you need to create one yourself).

If you create a syllabus yourself, don't do it shoddily, please... :-p.

1: https://www.facebook.com/gemmanueloga/posts/pfbid02zWXd5RmCA...
Beyond ridiculous once you leave SV, by the way. Being difficult about dev salaries but no problem spending 1-10x that on cloud services because one CBA to give their devs time to research costs and metrics.. and then complain why there are so few specialists. The lack of introspection is palpable.
:ICANT: java :ICANT:
Same here. I’ve been having fun learning a lot of math from first principles in recent years but it’s 1000 times easier when presented in notation/framework I already have internalized from code. I’ve found some of the work in type theory a solid bridge between these worlds as a sort of Rosetta Stone. Works like HoTT are challenging and require (me) to keep learning other areas along the way to fill in knowledge gaps but it provides me with a common framework to grok math concepts in line with computational intuitions without sacrificing rigor.
haha wow....yes
What a positive surprise, I wasn't expecting something like this tbh. The UX is amazing.

I will use it for sure with some additional and essentials features for me at least:

- Ability to add and remove some columns: I have no interest in using Instagram or Twitter in my search results and I have interest in using Stackoverflow or HN for example.

- Ability to customize the width of each column for desktop: I have read in your about us page that you clearly state that “Mobile is primary”, however I would be interested in using it on my desktop on a daily basis and it would be nice to have the google column wider than the others for example.

- Possibility to customize the order of the columns: I think this is an obvious one.

Do you have any of these changes in mind for the future?

Congrats!
Yes, I have. I quit my job and worked on my own project for a while.

You have to be doing something you are interested in, and have full control over, so you can rediscover what programming used to be like for you.

Take things slowly, and your capacity for work and motivation will increase over time. In the beginning you will still have days where you can’t bring yourself to work, but just allow yourself those days, and eventually you will recover.

There is a section on burnout in this talk that I found helpful: https://youtu.be/CCVVLAs9mJU
MacBooK Air 2020 M1.
Dell XPS 15/17
iMac 2019/2020 (last of Intel model) - some users still prefer desktop (will run either MacOS or Windows on these)