skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I have been out on a kayak with the kids a few times. I get your point though. 30 day tour of SE asia might be off the cards (although some people event take their kids on stuff like that)
Burn out is mostly a question of how your resources (energy, time, mental space, relaxation) are spent. In burn out, your resources are quickly drained. So it might be that what you do isn’t as important as how you do it. I was able to escape the worst of it through a lot of work with a professional. A good one will aid you in finding pleasure again in your life and work. From setting clear boundaries to how you look at time and your energy. It took me years though and a considerable amount of effort to do that as we are ingrained into patterns often that don’t or no longer serve us.
People believing in this are the same people who believed we'd have flying cars by the year 2000. I can't believe people are falling for such blatant sci fi marketing bullshit

I bet in 30 years we'll still be arguing that "fully autonomous cars are just around the corner" and "Musk will put a colony on Mars in 5 years"
You can switch the layout in the keyboard setting. Most languages have a qwerty variant.
I’m a 40 year old male without children. Doesn’t bother me at all. I guess it’s a matter of perspective.
What security problems?

Genuinely curious, not trying to be antagonistic.
Yeah I agree. Maybe more intersections when grandchildren are born. I read some stories that grandchildren having great relationships with grandparents.
> environmentally friendly means of transportation

Hate to break it to you but displacing three tonnes of metal and batteries to move your 80kg ass to Walmart isn't environmentally friendly in any way
Thanks for sharing. I really prefer the length of your comment over the article's.
My client does this. Really nice if you’re on the East coast. Ireland might have a few morning hours where nothing works in test. India has large chunks of time with the same issue. Surprisingly this hasn’t lead them to mock service locally. They are just less productive.
I mean didn't they re purpose says for the Ukraine costing 10s of millions?
I asked this on Ask HN sometime back but did not get a lot of responses. So asking it here because it might be of interest to people reading and commenting on this artile here.

Which programming language other than C is available for most platforms?

It is well known that some C compiler implementation is available for almost every computable platform. I am looking for another programming language that has compiler implementations available on a large number of platforms. It must compile source code into native machine code. It doesn't have to match C in ubiquity. It can be less popular than C. But are there any programming languages out there that are available on a large number of platforms?
Didn't Sourceforge open source their forge server software. IIRC it is an Apache project now.
Just in: Musk offers to buy City of Montreal
Interesting, I found Ghidras decompiler much less capable than IDA's. It generated incorrect or partial output far too often and the code generated was always extremely verbose, much less concise than IDA's, though this was shortly after the public release of Ghidra, things may have changed since.
Probably because I haven't witnessed the Textsecure days: I didn't even know Signal was doing SMS, until these days. Certainly didn't convince anyone to use Signal by telling them it was a better SMS app. So SMS as killer feature seems to be, at least for my peer group, firmly in the past.
That comment about Samsung ramping down CPU activity makes me want to puke. This is why we can’t have nice things.
I know a electronics company in Europe and the US owners of a big customer requested production in China.

The choice was between having a commission ( and starting it there) or lose the customer.

After everything was running, all components broke within a year. The Chinese company secretely replaced an important electronic piece with a cheaper one.

They now have all the customers business back. But probably within 3 years there's going to be a new board, who will try something similar ( again).
> I suspect you are misperceiving the lay of the land there.

I doubt that, since I was not making statements about California or any other location in the US, specifically. Which is why I didn't respond specifically to your previous comment. Which I will do now:

> Would you count subsides for fossil fuels as externalities? ;-)

My baseline assumption is that all fossil fuel subsidies are removed. If not, then yes, just slap the same amount back on through taxes.

Where I live, petrol taxes are about 5x higher than in California, with no subsidies. Use of fossil fuels for most other purposes, such as residential heating is banned. And cars have huge additional sales taxes, based on fuel consumption. Budget cars start at 2-2.5x the price compared to the US, while for fuel guzzlers it is way higher, easily adding $100-$300k for a sports car. Also, expect to pay $3 toll road tax to drive into the nearest large city. Toll roads are used to limit traffic in built-up areas, to keep local pollution down.

Meanwhile, electric cars have zero to low taxes and some priority access in some parking lots, bus lanes, etc.

GDP per capita is similar to California, but all these taxes make purchasing power a bit lower. Still, if I park my car at the grocery store, about 50% of the cars there will be electric and maybe 20% of the total will be Teslas. Most of the petrol cars remaining are old, cheap ones.

Clearly taxes do work.

I would argue that my country has actually done what California seems (at least pretend) to want to do.
Interesting thought on Forth. I'm also unproductive in it, but I think at no fault to the language. I simply haven't had the time to build a true forth to solve a problem. I usually have some data and some transformations and maybe some API calls to make to an application and a database. Not really a good use for Forth. At least not time wise.
The service company I used to work for got acquired by a much larger US based company. So the CEO flew in to to do some presentations, answer questions, etc. One thing that stuck in my head was when he was talking about price based competition: there are people flying in private jets around the globe negotiating a single penny off a dollar and that won't stop any time soon.
My parents tried that and were fairly lonely during the early childhood years. They hated trading inane poop stories with other parents and longed to return to real adult conversations. If they wanted to discuss the specifics of child-rearing, they’d talk to each other or ask their own parents for advice.
My mother suffers from this, and has for over a year now. It’s had serious effects on her mental health, self image, and in some cases daily functioning. In her case it has improved, but it has not resolved itself and probably never fully will at this point.

I won’t say what its onset coincided with though (you can figure it out).
Dude if you have anxiety and panic about not having kids, wait until you do have one. It’s never ending worry and anxiousness. If that’s your reason for it - don’t do it.
Not quite, that's not the problem. We're in the realm of maths here and therefore of pure abstraction, so that's not the point. Adding terms to the Fourier series of a square wave you have an overshoot that does not converge to zero as the number of terms goes to infinity. This is called the Gibbs phenomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_phenomenon
You need to know the age of the kids too. 0-3 months and 1-3 yrs are probably physically the most demanding.
Ha! Yeah it was one of the more frustrating issues. At the time there was no way to opt out of it either, but I believe they subsequently issued a firmware update addressing it somehow.
Those are some great insights, thank you for sharing.

Android notably does have some good apps for making music on it. There's a version of Cubasis on Android, Koala Sampler is on Android, Google had Teenage Engineering build a music app for Pixels, and I'm sure there's many other apps that have found a way to make it work, though I know for a fact that Koala Sampler has had issues with input latency due to the audio stack on certain Android Devices (where it becomes unplayable).

Apple's done a lot of work to make it a viable workflow on iOS/iPadOS. inter-app audio, AUv3, actual support for tablets, and a good audio stack are just some of the things they've done to make it a real platform for musicians. Google would have to put in a lot of work to make Android at all attractive to musicians and frankly I don't even know if it's worth their time. Still, they can do it and they've done a fairly good job of improving the state of Android for visual arts on tablets, so it's not impossible. Just a lot harder.
3 year reserved instances come with hidden costs:

- Engineers may want to switch sizes or go serverless.

- Long term vendor lock-in.

- Miss out on price cuts.

There’s a reason the vendors push them so hard. (No spot market on Azure either)
It sounds as if the author recorded an interview, did not understand much but inserted what he or she deemed interesting. I cannot parse that text either.
Couldn't agree more - generalised task capable systems will likely be composable architectures that draw upon a grounding in variety of methods, not just DL by any means. Synthetic sensoria capable of integrating, interpreting and generating general task capabilities are likely to lead us somewhere interesting. DL / LLMs are akin to Wintermutes before waking; with whatever passes for consciousness instantiating and evaporating with each prompt input (which some might argue is a good thing for foom-resistant biospheres) and no continuum vector state pseudoawareness. However, strongly feel we'll have instruct-GPT models on the edge as an interface modality, but they're not the holy grail or be all end all.
Part of the long-lost star catalogue of Hipparchus found in medieval parchment
Yes, but never got back to 100%
Lots of walks in the woods and figuring out what it is that motivates and making sure not to do things that are not that.
> ... and the quality always surprised me.

Why did the quality surprise you? Either you had some presumptions because everyone who ever spent money there - in particular when it comes to electronics and electronic components - know what a gamble it can be and are talking about it, or you have experienced this reality yourself but for some reason want to tone it down. Which is it?
Coming back from a 2 week absence due to burnout right now. Problems I experienced are still there, so all I can really contribute is a guess that 2 weeks isn't enough of a gap to recover.
If you set the unit to 1mm you can reach like 20% of the way to Proxima Centauri with Sol as origin.
You know what worked even worse? Not taking the Germans seriously after WWI and trying to destabilise their country - much like what the US strategy appears to be when dealing with the world power with the largest nuclear arsenal.

The odds of Putin deciding to do a Hitler are lower than the odds of the US installing a Hitler in Russia with some sort of ill-advised regime change exercise or economic pressure campaign. The strategy that has worked multiple times is encouraging economic prosperity as soon as possible, and promoting stable government even if they aren't very good. Long lived dictators generally aren't interested in stirring up major catastrophes that will lead to them dying.

And if the US hadn't spent the last few decades marching NATO's borders towards Moscow the Russian army would probably not be in Ukraine today, following similar logic. There is no need to start fighting if there was no threat and the Ukraine government had held together through 2014.
My wife and I missed out on having kids. We wanted kids but it "didn't happen". Yes, I used to also lie awake at night. My wife went through the demanding IVF schedule a couple of times. I admire her for that.

How do we cope?

I was a school teacher and now being a tutor has given me some interaction with teens. I am grateful for this.

My wife loves animals. I think our pets have given her something to cuddle and care for.

I think the only bonus to not having had kids is that we have missed out on the pain that friends have gone through when their child has died through an accident or health problem.
This. So much.

I can empathise - when I started out I was all about clever code. But the older I get, and the more code I have to deal with, the more I value simplicity.

The 80 character limit is a really good signal that my code is too complex and needs simplifying. The most common occurrence these days is when I have too many arguments to a function, and either need to curry it or create an options data struct. My code is cleaner for this.

And there have been many, many, times that a comment from past me to 3-months-later me has saved me an hour of reading. Code, even intentionally simple code, is not as self-documenting as it appears to be when we're writing it.
Slide to type uses a neighbourhood rather than a key. It’s by far my favourite way of typing on a phone. After a bit of training it’s close to magical. Google implementation beats Apple however.
You mean an actual strand of glass with three megabits of capacity? Where can they buy CPE hardware to support that combination?
All the kids smart enough to invent new ways out of climate change have been born. They don't matter. Adding more won't change anything but increase the amount of smart kids suffering from climate change.
Yes sorry, on iPhones.
Nope. Got burnt out after 3 years at a tech company. 7 years total in Silicon Valley. Quit. Took a break for a year. Moved to a different country. Recoverd.
It seems China is doing the math that Russia itself hasn’t done. Or it did but it was shelved but it’s leadership just plugged their ears,
You can definitely recover from burnout. The question is are you ready to face what happens after you recover? Because sometimes burnout is just burnout and you need a break. But other times burnout means you are on the wrong path, and you’ve got to make some kind of turn in your career.
Yes, it's possible. Give yourself time to recover, as long as it takes, and time after that to rediscover the joy. That may mean, for a little while, grinding away at some kind of unsatisfying but low-stress job while doing your own little "joy" projects in your spare time, or training in a new platform/language just to remind yourself of the fun of starting again from scratch.

Nobody says you have to be a manager, or take a permanent role. This time is a gift - an opportunity to sidestep whatever "career track" you thought you were expected to follow and instead figure out your own values and priorities - it sounds like you've already gone along way towards that, at least you know what you don't want.

We are uniquely blessed in this business with such a wide range of opportunities and modes of working. The rise of remote work has only made that better. Be kind to yourself, and remember that despite whatever kind of imposter syndrome may be lurking in the back of your head, you most likely have an extremely valuable skill set that continues to be in demand around the world.
Finding b2b markets for Starlink is very important. Starlink has about 500K subscribers today. Their TAM inherently shrinks as terrestrial fixed wireless access (FWA) expands. That expansion will accelerate with 5G FWA driving interoperability, but FWA subscribers already vastly outnumber Starlink subscribers. Starlink needs tens of millions of b2c subscribers, or it needs to find high value specialized or b2b markets that can't be served by FWA.
Don't feel bad, I think this happens to a lot of us.

TLDR: learn to chill and enjoy your career and free time doing the things you like most, with the people you like the most.

I decided to get back to a technical role (from management) because it's what got me excited about tech in the first place; but I have become very protective of my time.

MY TIME is just that, and not for sale, and non-negotiable.

I don't mind not being the best in the room, and I feel it's better that my younger colleagues get a chance to take charge while I provide support when needed.

Focus on the important things, family, hobbies, friends, building your network, and enjoying your free time. In tech you can always have a nice career and a nice salary, even if you're not at "the top"... learn to chill and enjoy your career and the wonderful opportunity you have in this golden age of technology because it won't last forever.
Also use browserpass to integrate pass with Firefox/etc:

https://github.com/browserpass/
Well, if you ask me personally about my opinion, then I think, that it would be a sad world, if all we could draw some "new life energy" from is children. We are already too many on this planet. Best we find other things to draw new life energy from. For example as a pensioner one could help other people's kids learn stuff. One could work a little in an animal shelter. One could mentor younger people. One could write down ones knowledge in some kind of document, maybe book. One could continue to do a little honorary work. One could try to organize a political discussion group to further democracy. Lots of things pensioners can do to still take part in society and have positive impact.

> I think most people will say that having kids was the best thing in their life because it truly feels that way to them.

That is actually what I wrote: They might truly believe it:

> Also people need to justify their own past decisions to themselves and might really believe, that it was the best decision they made.

I personally would be totally fine with helping my friends and their children out, by teaching their children math or chess or computer programming or something like that, once they are in that age. I could then see the fruits of those efforts, as they deal with school and education. Maybe I can even manage to teach them in a way, that they get good grades and have a great future. They do not have to be my children for me to see fruits of the work put in to raise them. I am not really a fan of having to swap diapers though.

But that's all me and others might be, and likely are, different.

That is kind of the point as well: Different people can have different things in life that make them happy. Children is not a one-fits-all solution.

And just to be clear: It is fine when people see their children as their thing in life. Their choice! Good if it works for them.

I do not think of raising children as the same kind of work, but I do think it is considerable work, which many people get into, without being fully aware, just how stressful it might make the next decade of their life.
It usually takes a switch (new project/company/client) for me.
Airbus has Skynet already. And it's a very generic name either way with multiple companies using it.
Not really. I think if a young musician or author creates an incredible work at 18 that touches the lives of millions they should be able to own and sell that work at the ages of 28 and 38 when they are trying to make a living and raise a family.

As a society we do this policy selfishly, because we’d like people to be encouraged and incentivized to create original works that touch peoples lives.
For example:
hscker

1) - yscker,uscker,jscker,nscker,bscker,gscker - 0 dictionary words

2) - hacker,hwcker,hecker,hdcker,hxcker,hzcker - 1 actual word "hacker"

3) - hsxker,hsdker,hsfker,hsvker,hs ker - 0 words

4) - hscjer,hscier,hscoer,hscler,hsc,er,hscmer - 0 words

5) - hsckwr,hsck3r,hsck4r,hsckrr,hsckdr,hscksr - 0 words

6) - hsckee,hscke4,hscke5,hscket,hsckef,hscked - 0 words

Super simple autoreplace, map one time all groups of 6 keys surrounding each key, then write a query to lookup results in the dictionary and you're set. But nope. Too hard for a trillion dollar corp.
video is a really bad format for this kind of content, imho. I can read faster than the video can explain. Even at 2x or 3x speed, it's still faster to read, especially if I'm only skim-reading to find interesting bits.
Yep, plus additional tactics, like waiting for the importer (of chinese goods to eg. USA) to get a huge deal, and then raising the price, because the importer has to deliver the goods in a relatively short term, and there's no time to change the supplier.

Also (in the case from the book - cosmetics) a lot of questionable health/hygine practices.
I know a few couples that had kids in their mid to late 40s. I believe it was always via an egg donor or via eggs frozen earlier in the woman’s life though.

Men fertility declines slower than women generally. Men are good to 50 or later usually but there are always exceptions. There is rising risks of things like austism but I think all of that is after 40 generally and rises slowly as age increases.

If your goals are not the same as your partners then maybe your partnership has run its course. Shared values and goals is why couples stay together. Money, and kids are two of the big major shared goals and if yours have truly changed then well.
If it makes you feel any better, Ableton Live's interface is also not particularly intuitive, though at least it has the advantage of tooltips. It does seem like something you have to use for a while to figure out the workflow, though some of it is a bit easier for Live users.

I think it is to Live what GarageBand for iOS is to Logic — a stripped down app that lets you build ideas on the go that can be exported to the main application to complete/further flesh out the idea.
I recommend not trying to fight the burnout (you're clearly still in it) and if your economic situation can handle it - lessen the hours, take 1 year off? take 2 years off?
I've been completely burnt out several times to the point of rancid bitterness. And I have completely bounced back to innocent like joy.

Find a healthy environment with a truly meaningful mission and work with people who are sincere, care and are not there for the money.

It is possible to get joy back into your working life.
They only allow questions with a video or image (not just from memory) which makes it unfriendly and of limited use.

They recommend /r/tipofmyjoystick or a selection of online chat rooms instead.
They're well built, they don't have the bizarro quality issues that every google device seems to, they aren't built in China if that's important to someone, and for the most part all of their software works without much fuss (even if much of it is crappy compared to Google's implementation.) They're the sort of predictably usable and well built device you'd buy for a parent or non-technical relative.

They were also basically the only game in town for high end android tablets with OLED displays for years. I'm really happy with the hardware and build quality of my Samsung tablet, it's the software that's a pain in the ass, and I'd have no problem recommending their devices to people if LineageOS support were more reliably available.

Tl;dr- they're basically the go-to consumer Android mfgr, people are used to buying from them and their devices are generally a safe choice.
This is a game changer. It works really, really well - better than I ever expected to see internet on a plane work. The price tag seems ridiculous, but will probably make sense for a lot of the operators of the planes on their initial STC.
IME 6 months was closer to the time required (and I suspect returning to the same role would have caused an immediate relapse).
Yes! Our CI builds for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
US Air Force tests exoskeleton to give cargo-loading porters a boost