skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People talk mainly on exercises (that are important).

But the central point is taking care of yourself. Finding tools that work with you.

For instance, I'm finding more and more that music is great, even being a bad player, just by playing a few notes here and there I found myself interested in the math and logic behind. SoMe2 movement on YouTube helped me find this.

Then I started doing simple programming exercises with different languages. Not the ones the market thinks are the most important ones. But ones that can bring back the "hacking" joy. Being a craftsman again.

For instance, I tried to start a side project with Elixir. It didn't work well so far. So now I'm just using exercism.io to do that. Basically, finding the smallest piece that you can handle, truly.

At the same time, you need to find people that you can talk about openly. You'll be surprised that people around also don't take their time to think about them.
1. Definitely a concern, but Hyper-V is also free if you already license Windows.

2 and 3. Sounds like the decision to go to the cloud is going to hurt companies twice in the long run. Glad whatever CTO made that call got his bonuses and moved onto the next place already.
I dropped my dev career on the floor in april this years due to stress, anxiety etc.

Since then ive started on carpenter school which all though fun and "real" also has made me poor.

I picked up the computer two weeks ago and coded some badly written code to do visuals for a friends techno gig, first time coding for half a year and i liked it.
I dont know if i would be able to go back to full time coding but the idea of teaching others sounds interesting to me.

Good luck!
Nobody has suicidal ideation just because they're 40 and haven't had kids yet. You have depression and anxiety, and it probably has nothing to do with kids. Get on some anti-depressants, and do Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Try mushrooms. If that still doesn't work, try ECT. But don't give up.
It wouldn’t have alienated them 20 years ago when they were begging to be a part of the WTO.

Information flow should have been part of the WTO contract.
> classical ethicists

Can you name some examples of who you're talking about?
Heh, finding office space in a capital city is much easier now.

But you're ignoring your own responses too, if office space in a CapCit was so expensive and impossible for you, what do you think a business is spending per year on it. You could have an office, or 5 more virtual employees.

Software companies having offices in big cities make as much sense as a manufacturing company having a production building downtown. Maybe it made sense in 1850s but doesn't make sense in the 2020s.
When my boys were babies my mom said enjoy every minute because you’ll blink and it’ll be over. I see what she means now, my oldest (only about 13) spends a lot of time with his friends but with me too. My youngest (10) is still my shadow and we’re constantly engaged. However, the writing is on the wall that they are their own person. I got about 6 to 7 years left and am already trying to start dealing with that fact hah.
I know a man who never had kids but wanted them. He runs a martial arts school. He gets to mentor a lot of kids. It’s like he didn’t get to be a dad, but he got to have more grandkids than anyone I know.

There are many ways to “have kids.” But know this: no one outside of you can fix what’s happening inside of you. The feeling of loss and envy you are experiencing may not be what it appears. Often times our brains disguise painful thoughts we are unwilling to experience as something else. This might be a good time to talk things through with a therapist or a best friend or at least someone with whom you can open up.
Maschine is different because it is for all intents and purposes the same application.

This does not have the same capabilities. Live just added support for AUv3 but generally third party Audio Units are not cross compatible and Note doesn’t even support those (yet?).

It does seem like Note could serve as a framework for porting Live to iPadOS with its touch oriented interface, but I do not think you could send it back and forth between the two without issue. Ableton doesn’t even let you load files saved for beta versions into regular Live, even if you’ve done nothing to the file.
I hope you’re wrong. In 30 years another couple million people will have died in car accidents if we haven’t mostly solved autonomous driving by then.
> the group of people using it to communicate is really small and shrinking every year

Group of people using it to communicate might be small, but group of people using SMS to get verification codes, messages from delivery company about scheduled delivery, doctor appointment reminder etc. will be for sure 90% or more phone users at least in Europe

So I find it very stupid to say nobody use SMS, because pretty much EVERYONE use them, just not to communicate with other, but to receive messages and you still need some app to receive these messages. So while I can communicate with almost everyone through Whatsapp I still need to use SMS app almost every day and I'd rather have all my communication consolidated in one app than must switch between apps to check the codes or other stuff, man I wish Whatsapp supported at least receiving SMS, actually I'm pretty sure that would be enough for majority of people which don't really need to compose message.
Best books to learn CSS for beginners?
What's the best book to learn CSS for beginners except Jon duckett and head first? (Problem: I need to print these books as they're not available to purchase, and neither of these books are printable).
I'm not talking about you. You might think there are worse problems in your life or society than conspiracy theories about Jews, hatred against Jews, attacks on Jews or countries trying to end Israel.

I'd just rather not have discussions with people who feel that way. If I encounter anti-semitism I stand up to it, but I'd rather not attract them like moths to a flame...
> that $4,500 a month is insanely cheap and an absolutely incredible value for Ukraine

"I have bought over 50 StarLinks, with official prices right from the website in EU countries - Poland, CZ, Germany - like 400-500 bucks each, then enable portability for extra IIRC 50$, then payed monthly fee of 60$ (was 120$ before). It’s the same for everyone else in EU" Dimko Zhluktenko, the head of Dzuga’s Paw charity fund, tweeted in his response to the development.

So regular joe donates them for $500 with monthly fee of $60 but $4,500 a month is insanely cheap?

I have a $10,000 toilet seat to sell you.
This is blatant lie. I can show you my SWIFT transactions out of Russia. There are restrictions on USD cash, so you have alternative rate for paper money, but you still can legally exchange RUB cash to USD cash.
6 figures salaries for senior devs in Berlin are quite common, even since a couple years ago.
It sounds like you're an extrovert. The tech scene tends to have more introverts, hence why this is a controversial opinion for your friend circle.

I think of it like this - extroverts gain energy from social interaction, introverts lose energy from social interaction. Working in an office environment with all extroverts is great so long as the company's work doesn't require more introverts than it has available.

But if introverts work alongside extroverts, the introverts are essentially paying a subsidy to the extroverts in the form of their own Lebenskraft. When people got sent home, extroverts lost this subsidy while introverts stopped having to pay it. Of course, they don't want to start paying it again. Who 'wins' this power struggle is essentially a question of who has more leverage, and extroverts of course have more social capital (because gaining it is a self-renewing function for them). However, because they dislike interruptions introverts tend to do more 'deep work'[1] which makes them harder to replace in an industry like tech.

Regarding your point about attacking the branch we're on, that's valid, but I would point out that almost everyone says they want an equal playing field for the global village, and leaving 'but not if it impacts my personal standard of living in any way' unsaid at the end doesn't go over well if you do have to say it aloud. For myself, I can only say that if I can't stay competitive in the global marketplace given the advantages I'll retain in such a marketplace, I probably need to rethink my strategy.

For your personal situation - can't you find a co-working space to work alongside other extroverts in? I would imagine Berlin doesn't have a shortage of them.

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
I have been here before myself, what helped was not changing my job but rather to live a healthier lifestyle. Get up at 5am, jump in the pool/shower, spend some time being grateful, meditate, journal, then hit the gym and start your day. Make sure you take enough supplements to combat a vitamin deficiency and eat better, cut out sugar, dairy for a month+ and see how you fair. I went vegan for a 3 months and it really kicked my body in shape.
My thumbs are still used to the wider space bar and I am constantly inserting a period in its place!
Oh we have that too, far to many parents driving their children to school when the could easily have walked.

Saying it's normal doesn't rule out exceptions, even frequent ones.
I would agree to personalise my filters on your system. The purpose is to stop the flood of junk and spam, to evade the agenda of whoever ranks the feeds.

I am already using such a system for scientific papers search.zeta-alpha.com, they do embedding based ranking and recommendations based on bookmarks and tags. It's 2022, I expect high end neural ranking. I even implemented such systems on my own, I know exactly how hard it is.

For example I searched on your site "Focal Loss", and I get news about "Former Longhorn Poona Ford Shines in Win over Arizona Cardinals". Search "Softmax Activation" and get "How to activate an eSIM on your iPhone". An embedding similarity filter would have rejected that, it's not even in the same ballpark.
I have set up a bridge on my own server. I bridge 1-on-1 chats and group chats equally and have set up spaces to separate the different clients for ease of overview.

Bridging chats of different technologies doesn't work well/at all (i.e. Signal bridge + WhatsApp bridge users in a single room) but bridging external chats (DM or group) into Matrix works very well. Some services need a daemon running on a phone (i.e. WhatsApp) and that's very annoying, but where possible these bridges all run in the cloud.

If you trust third parties, you can also go the easy route by getting a subscription from EMS (https://element.io/matrix-services/ems-pricing) or Beeper (https://www.beeper.com/). I personally prefer to keep my messages and encryption keys on devices I control, but others prefer to let someone else take care of it all and I respect that.

It's relatively straight-forward to set up a bridging server if you're comfortable with Docker and YAML files. You can read how to set up a Matrix server here: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server and here: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/b...

If you use the Ansible playbook, all you should really need to do is run through the setup, fire up a Matrix client, start chats with bot accounts, and follow the instructions on the guide (usually sending /login to a bot and authenticating your account with whatever service you're bridging).

Your Matrix account doesn't have to be on the same server as your bridges, which is a setup some seem to prefer. You can set up a Matrix server just for bridging so that you don't need to set up all the VoIP features and performance tricks while keeping your own server dedicated to just bridging stuff. This does break some nice features (i.e. double puppeting, a bridge feature) but it also makes your own server less of a single point of failure if you ever do get talking on Matrix.
"Why are you making these changes?"

We want more money, so we're charging more money.
The reality is that leveraging closed networks to gain effective monopolies (with all their known harmful effects) is a winning strategy with little counter strategies.

Users cannot switch to another OS because if they do they won't be able to communicate with social circle. This is also completely artificial because the networks have otherwise pretty much the same feature sets and are only distinguished by their accreted userbase.

Concurrent cannot compete because they can't gain enough users to get a critical mass

I wager that no single entity should have so many captive users.

Regulation is clearly in order
Not sure why you'd say "not even Verizon". Verizon is literally the worst carrier worldwide (ok maybe after NTT) with regards to interoperability.
No. Forget the economies of scale, because they don't help you, as a buyer. What helps you is leverage.

The economies of scale only get passed to the consumer if another provider is willing to pass the savings on, which only happens in commodity markets (like oil, wheat, etc.). Low-end server rentals are a competitive market. "Big 3" cloud is not: they use differentiated products and egress fees to lock you in to their oligopoly.

They don't have to pass on their economies of scale to you. They don't pass on their economies of scale to you. They charge you slightly less than your cost to leave them, and that's it.
I have for now, it took a pretty big shift in how I engage with work and it's proving pretty easy to slip into bad habits. But I now have the ability to spot when that's happening. I'm a software developer who has traditionally worked in digital agencies for context.

I worked very hard for a long time, whilst also trying to start my own SaaS products, and basically ended up not being able to do anything anymore. I couldn't bring myself to do any work. No amount of logic, rationale, money or anything was able to get me to care. I never took any leave, so I had something silly like 12 weeks of leave pay when I left. That plus savings, I took a 6 month break, and slowly got into freelancing as money was starting to run out.

Freelancing let me engage with work in a way that let me slowly build my enjoyment back up, and during this time I was able to build up new hobbies, start caring about old hobbies again, and start engaging with life properly. I did some cheap travel, I was always a gym nut but I got into mountain biking too, I was outdoors a lot.

I was fairly adamant I'd never work a 9-5 again. Then the pandemic happened, and work was good, but I was looooneley. I missed the hustle and bustle of the city, banter with workmates and after-work pints at the pub.

So this year I started another office job, I don't do a full week, and I clock in and out on the dot. I doubt I'll be in the office forever, but it is really great right now and I'm enjoying caring about the work again. Eventually I'll move on as everyone does, and hopefully it'll be to something not in an office.

It has also helped to have goals outside of work, during my time away from full time work I was able to dig deep and really consider what I wanted my work-life to look like in 10, 20, 30 years. Knowing what that could look like gives me a purpose to work toward, and I find that takes a lot of the FOMO/anxiety out of work. One burning question I always had during burnout was "Is this all life is?" and it was important to take the time to figure out that the answer is no.
What does she think you should be doing instead?
Even $25k if you look at small companies in southern Europe.
Absolutely +1 on the exercise. For me it's road biking. I just hop on farm roads and ride for hours listening to Audible, podcasts, or nothing at all and just enjoy the scenery.

Also - and I can't stress this enough - absolutely use your vacation time. And when you do, utterly disconnect from work. Turn "do not disturb" on your phone and other devices and not only don't answer work emails, don't even look at email, slack, etc.

I agree with the comment about doing whatever it is that will relax you. Sometimes that is just binge watching the latest Netflix show. But, if you work from home, I've found that absolutely nothing beats GOING somewhere for your vacation time. I - and friends who also WFH - find that just being at home on vacation can still be emotionally draining. Even a 4 day weekend away from home doing something completely different can be very recharging.

Even if I've come back to work and had to fix things others "broke" because they had to work around me not being there, I was much happier with that than if I did any work during my time away. And it also pointed out to me where documentation and knowledge was lacking or tools could be improved, etc. ;)
Women leaders are leaving companies at the highest rate ever
In order for employment to be stable over the long-run, the productive employee has to create more value for the employer than they receive. (Employers have all kinds of overheads, unproductive employees, and friction/loss that has to be covered in order for the employer to not run out of money.)

I hope (and work to ensure) that my employer gets an over-unity multiple of value from me and my team’s work. That keeps everyone happy over the long run.
This is excellent advice. Treat work as part of your life, not your whole life. Try and build your social circle of people who aren't in the industry, let alone your colleagues.
Overconfident, underinformed. Inserts random philosphical views seemingly unrelataed to the topic being discussed.
They are much less frequent, and at the very least you have full access to the hardware to debug if needed. Can you get me access to the AWS control plane's logs so I can understand why my RDS instance is stuck in "modifying" for 12+ hours?
Right now, more and more people in Gen-X and beyond are hitting their 40-50s having not had children and it will likely hit pretty hard. I think the best that we can/should do is maybe pass/share the relatable pieces on to the up and coming generations. It also doesn't help that there has been so much environmental poison and dietary trends that have deeply effected fertility, particularly in men.

At 47yo, I can relate... I have been married a couple times, and do have step-children. I sometimes grieve that I didn't get the chance to go through the earlier years with someone. At this point, I'm definitely not in a position to deal with very young children. I think it would have been nice to put more efforts into this while I was younger.

I would suggest finding a good place to do some volunteer work, which can help with getting past the funk and bringing some fulfillment into your life. Maybe seek counselling regarding any particular depression.
Lex certainly seems to be divisive.

What's your take on Curt Jaimungal (in a parent comment)?
Including the kid in the chores from as early as he possibly could has been a huge win for us. At 6 he can now handle stuff like simple food preparation, emptying the dishwasher and folding his own clothes pretty much unsupervised. That saves a lot of time on the evening clean up.
Adopt. My brother was in a similar situation and he was even older than you. It would eat him up. He'd hit the goals he wanted to hit in his career and finances and there was now nothing else to look forward to.

Him and his partner adopted a child. Never seen him happier.
I have been through the same. Caring less, working 40 hours and nevertheless, productivity went up.

Work is a tool to enable your private life. Not the other way around.
First you guys need to talk to someone professional with experience in mental health issues around fertility.

Second 40 is not too old.

There are options like IVF with or without a donor etc…

I know many women who got pregnant and had babies over age 40.
I'm burned out from spending a couple of years in meaningless corporate jobs, and now that I found a more challenging job I truly love, I'm finding myself unable to hit the bar. All of are insightful and actionable tips, thank you so much for the great advice!
Not sure why Hex-Rays spends so much time fighting piracy and making the purchase a very complicated process, it's a lost battle, there will always be pirated copy of IDA, stop fighting it and embrace it to make a better offering.
So when you run SIFT on an image, one gets dozens (maybe hundreds) of SIFT features back. The trouble with SIFT features is that each individual SIFT feature is a local image descriptor -- it describes a single point in the image. One can't just append the two lists of SIFT descriptors together and do a Hamming comparison on them, because it's not guaranteed that both images will have all of the same SIFT descriptors, nor that they would be in the same order.
When you want to do image comparison on image descriptors, one must compare every local feature with every local feature in every other image. This is great for comparing two images together, or for finding where one image is located in another image (homography matching), but this does not scale for large image sets.

In contrast, descriptors like perceptual hashes look at the entire image, and so are a _global_ image descriptor.

There are ways to convert local SIFT image descriptors into a single global image descriptor for doing more rapid lookup (Bag of Visual Words is one technique that comes to mind), but SIFT and pHash really are in two categories all their own.

More info on pHash:
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php%3F/archives/432-Look...

Example of SIFT for fine-grained image matching:
https://docs.opencv.org/3.4/d1/de0/tutorial_py_feature_homog...
Same! The old worries and anxieties seem so trivial now. And the new worries and anxieties all seem So Very Important.
And why shouldn't they be allowed optimize the price they can generate from their natural resources? Shouldn't we applaud them in helping green revolution by driving prices higher?
> Malamud is a disrupter for the public good.

> His effort to unleash government data behind paywalls has put him at odds with many trying to profit from dispensing public records. Yet in case after case, Malamud is winning and adding to the body of open knowledge freely available online.

This is truly commendable.
you may like this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vOf_fDtur4
PID and other basics of control theory have been around for ages, they're just not used in residential HVAC. Perhaps the limiting factor has been the traditional split system with only on and off states. As we move towards variable speed compressors and fans, we may see more intelligent controls. Maybe an AI can help tune the control constants?
Latency is inherent in Bluetooth, for music production you're pretty much tied to wired headphones (or expensive live setups). AFAIK, AIAIAI makes wireless headphones for music production, which has its own dongle and doesn't make use of BT.
> Or because you are just better in being a parent and biological getting satisfaction out of it?

It is totally this. We are biological creatures and we cannot escape that.

Love, sex, friendships, relationships, parenting, happiness, and so forth are all aspects of our biology. We are not automatons living a purely rational life. Satisfaction in life depends on those biological mechanisms and shouldn't be seen through a purely rational lens.

Kids aren't a scapegoat for a meaningful life. They do absolutely make life meaningful. Much in the same way eating a delicious meal brings pleasure. We depend on our biological wiring to feel such things.
Gogo is also working on an air-to-ground 4G/5G network covering the continental US.

The thing is that once Starlink has the service working, and they have, it does not require a lot of extra investment to support ships and aircrafts.

On the other hand, an air-to-ground system requires a full cellular network on the ground (at the very least with dedicated RF and antennas), although with fewer sites because cells can be massive, and that still only covers land.