skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my story with Brave. I am obsessed with browser interfaces, and have tried them all - Safari, Chrome, Vivaldi, Orion, Arc, Firefox. Because of my specific use cases, I always returned to Chrome.

Brave initially turned me off - I did not care about Rewards and Wallet. However, after turning them off, I found that it's basically Chrome (e.g. Figma works fine, unlike Webkit-based browsers), but de-Googled and with ad blocking natively implemented.

I also liked squared tabs more!

Also, here's my custom icon for Brave:

https://filerun.vlad.studio/wl/?id=GzgLxysYndDu4jW73RunWCYEV...

https://www.figma.com/file/vgSnbD1pIzI7AOEbWddiLO/Brave-Mac-...
You're demanding we waste our lives and energy to entertain you in the office. What did you expect?
Derek Lowe blog post are very good. I have an specialization in Chemistry in my secondary school. (It's somewhat equivalente to two year of a major of 5 years in Chemistry in the university.) I can understand most of what he writes and it checks out, but sometimes it get's too technical for me. They are very fun if you like Chemistry.
I made a similar transition. I suggest finding any role in a fast growing organization and then working your way up.

There are EdTech specific job boards like http://www.edsurge.com/jobs
Comment banners are the consequence of regulation.

No, consent banners are a consequence of scummy companies trying to vacuum up your personal data for nefarious reasons. They are not required by any regulation, aside from in cases where a company is asking to use your data in non-essential ways.
> the EU drives regulation to enforce seeking consent as a mandatory step

EU doesn't enforce popups that take half page space though, web sites added them.

> followed by browsers like brave programmatically defeating the ability of companies to seek consent?

followed by the choice of the user to automatically deny consent to those asking for it using annoying popups.

FTFY

it's like ad blocking, I don't want to consent to data collection or see ads and I automatically deny the permission and block ads.

It's a default, chosen by users, you can opt out, which in this case means you're opting in for choosing to which site give your consent.
I'd respect those moves grounded in the argument for a universal human right to privacy were it not for the glaring exceptions made to the EUs own security agencies and God knows what else under the national security exception.

Everyone in the industry tracking the privacy moves in GDPR acknowledges that far from improving privacy, they are intended to blunt US tech companies' success in the continent. And . . that's perfectly fine, i guess positioning it as a moral defense of privacy just doesn't sit well with me.
>This advice is going to be hated by a lot of people but.. care less.

I think there's a nuance in this that's easy to be missed. It's possible to care about the quality of your work but not care about the various forms of insanity in your management chain.

I think a lot of people fear that not caring means you turn into a totally useless person - that extremely unproductive person in the company that everybody hates but management and HR refuses to fire.

Not caring doesn't mean you have to become that person.

> I find I’m more productive than I’ve been in years because I’m not worrying if something takes longer than expected or is bigger than I realised. I can just enjoy the problem solving and shipping without the stress.

100% this. Care about the quality of your work. If you work for a place where that's never possible due to constant unrealistic expectations, start looking for another place to work.

I've actually found that some managers like employees who don't care so much because they need much less care and feeding. People who care too much also complain too much. And even if you do good work, constant complaining can overshadow that.
“I don’t care about cookies” means you don’t care about them. Do whatever, just don’t bug me. It doesn’t mean “no cookies”
I thought I'd never be able to code again - here's my story. There are no revelations here, perhaps just know that people do, eventually, recover.

I spent 6 years at a startup before realizing it was never going to be successful and I walked away (I was the founding engineer and mostly handled the PM work, it felt like walking away from significant other). I was doing the same, crazy 70-100 hour weeks sucking up all my energy. I had no energy or doggedness to get to the bottom of even the simplest issue. That was 2012. I'd been an engineer for 15 years, and I figured I was now too old to keep up. I gave up.

Since then I've been working Product/delivery roles, which I enjoy very much, but there are frustrations (no EM likes a technical PM looking over their shoulder). I tried to code in my spare time on things but the doggedness to learn/fix complex stuff just wasn't there anymore. Also life gets in the way. There are always more important things to do when you've got kids than spend time noodling with code.

Fast forward 7 years I was trying to get a game running for my son, an old 90's Win95 title. I started noodling with Docker and python. Very simple scripts. Suddenly, one night, I found it was still there, all that excitement about code, all that interest and inquisitiveness that had previously been hidden/suppressed came out bursting out. Before long I was pouring code out like hot coffee.

I'm still working my confidence back up to a place where I feel I could interview for a JOB doing it - but for putting time into my side-projects and noodling with Apps, I have all the energy and focus in the world.

TL;DR - I burnt out and changed roles, continuing to support engineering teams. A few years ago I did some code and concentrated on learning, not delivering, and that seemed to unblock me.
Brave is a solid option if you don't want to leave the underlying Chromium and it's extension ecosystem but still have privacy capabilities that Google is axing with Manifest v3.

Firefox is also a solid option. Firefox is one of the few stable options remaining to use a non-Chromium based browser. Most popular Chrome extensions have Firefox releases as well so you may not even lose that functionality in a switch.

Advocates for Firefox frequently point out that part of how we got here with the Manifest v3 issues is by consolidating browser technologies. Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc all use the Chromium core which is part of what gives Google such a strong ability to influence web technology developments to their advantage and our detriment. If this is something you care about then it may be worth voting with your feet and giving Firefox a chance.
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Things I wish WireGuard supported out of the box:

- Logging of peer IPs when they initially connect or change (yes, you can do this with module flags, but it should come out of the box).

- Tieing WireGuard private keys to a source IP. As far as I know the endpoint flag does not enforce an IP, a peer can use a different one and still connect.

- More control over DNS resolution for endpoints. I want WireGuard to periodically refresh the endpoint IP when I change networks, for instance.
Analytics info can be interesting and neat, but given how bad the adverts I see on Facebook are, and how badly wrong Twitter categorised me according to what I found by downloading all the data they stored on me, I don't think it's anything like as useful as its proponents say it is.

(Except, possibly, for automatic bug tracking; but even then, the value is in the stack trace, not the personal info).
Colonoscopy still most recommended screening for colorectal cancer
> Find a company with a mission you can get behind, which should help motivate you to excel, and thus have a sense of accomplishment, and ultimately be happier.

The company mission exists to guide decision making. Employee motivation and happiness comes from understanding that a job exists to pay for a fulfilling life

High performing people can choose where they work. Here's how you can attract them to your company:

- Make their job reasonably challenging. Their accomplishments should look good on a resume.

- Give them reasonable autonomy on how they work and who they work with (hiring).

- Enable a fulfilling life, whether on the job or out of the job: Reasonable and predictable work hours, good working environment.

- Don't make them pretend to drink the kool-aid. In fact, keep the kool-aid in a corner where people have to go out of their way to drink it. Having guiding principles on how to do business is fine, just don't pretend like someone's life motivation is to change the world through quantum-AI-enabled-crypto-retargeting-adtech.

- What makes me in particular go to work everyday? I like my coworkers and becoming better at my craft.

- There's no shortcut for a good working environment. Focus on having the right people/incentives/culture. Perks and offsites only go so far and won't fix your company.
Next up: getting rid of the download bar.
The only relevant difference is in which part you use the word "force" in the description of the hypothetical world.

In the real world, however, no one is usally forced to WFH. But we were forced to WFO.
Paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00218286221128289
Get different room for work when WFH
Was burned out at 21. Took me a few years to figure out some lingering childhood trauma was pulling me down. Came to term by accepting that some things I can't change, and figured out that control upon people should not be desired (got help to get to that). Then decided I should only pursue things in life that I love, whatever that is.

Like many said, caring less can be good, but only if that means you don't take things at a personal level. It's never about ourselves, it's about the others. Greatest truth I've ever learned.

Overall, a great hack in life is to develop some faith in the fact that things work out by themselves over time.
"I think it is to Live what GarageBand for iOS is to Logic"

That's what I was thinking, and I think in both cases this capture/export pipeline for musical ideas is a brilliant use of mobile technology.
Depends on why it didn't connect, right?

Was it a timeout?
Maybe an HTTP 401
Was it a DNS failure
Was there a TCP reset immediately?

Each one has a miriad of troubleshooting steps associated with it. Some could be local to the host, some could be network/firewall some could be from the remote host or behind that.
There are actually many startups making software for online shared spaces for remote work with side conversations, etc. Or 3d shared working environments for VR or the desktop. There is also Discord which has text, video and voice chat which is really convenient (like two clicks).

The Meta Quest Pro should be much better for AR/VR meetings. Also it's great for realistic table tennis and Demeo (kind of like D&D).

It's fairly trivial to set up a way for a webrtc video call duo to split off from a group. I assume there is already a startup doing that.

There are also co-working places in most cities now.
Some of your logos in the second link just look like Beats by Dr. Dre
There's an ISP called SkyNet in Russia. No satellites though, just regular ethernet cables.
Everyone in the industry tracking the privacy moves in GDPR acknowledges that far from improving privacy, they are intended to blunt US tech companies' success in the continent.

No, this is by far the minority view and is held purely by people who are ignorant about the requirements and functionality of GDPR.
Since everyone seems to agree that this is a nice feature, what do we need to do to make it legal for websites to not pop up the banner to begin with?
It just seems like those people should work at different companies. Having a mix of people who prefer WFO and WFH seems like the worst of both worlds. (WFO people don't get the atmosphere that they desire, WFH people are second-class citizens for collaborative activites, WFH seniors have reduced ability to mentor their juniors, WFH people still need to live a commutable distance from the office).
Is this a serious question? At the beginning of the web era, popup ad windows were a horrible scourge. That problem was solved, and there was peace for many years. Now the websites themselves produce the popups. Nobody likes popup distractions. Cookie banners are just one example.
40 is older than 20. You then don't have the same resistance to stress, lack of sleep, muscles regenerate slower, and you often start to have health problems. Believe me, most parents have back problems at some point, especially if you're not sending your child to daycare.

No wonder, armies around the world won't hire a 40 years old, and prefer youngsters in their early 20's: their body is still intact.
> Google has been pushing changes to the Web that would make it more difficult to block cookie banners and, more generally, to filter out unwanted Web content (such as intrusive images, videos, ads, and tracking scripts). Google’s WebBundles proposal, for example, will make it easier for sites to evade content blockers. Their Manifest v3 changes remove vital capabilities from privacy-protecting browser extensions.

Allowing Google to buy DoubleClick in 2007 was absurd and scandalous.

If it's now too late to undo that, it's vital for the future of the web that Chrome be separated from Google.

I have no idea how we achieve that, but I'm pretty sure that if we don't, we're doomed.
If deliberately done, why was the other leg showing signs of having had the bone cut?

It’s a confusing situation. Thanks for the additional information.
I made up a gag tweet a couple of days ago of how Apple added a "reject all" keys to their keyboard because it is such a obnoxious experience:

https://twitter.com/terhechte/status/1579571572586975232

tbh. such a key would be great, but having auto blocking is even better :)
And who's going to decide what hate is - you? What if I think you're hateful?
You turn them on once you have your first million hits/day. :P
> they focused more on their longing than their parenting

I never wanted to parent (that's simply a necessary constituent part), but I've always wanted to have kids, a family, a legacy, teach them, raise them, provide them a warm safe cozy family environment (that I remember from my childhood).

So far I'm very happy with the decision and 0% regret (only 10 months in though).
Release candidates for macOS 13, iPadOS 16.1 and iOS 16.1
I switched from Firefox to Chrome several years ago. After the announcement of the planned changes, I tried switching back to Firefox. I just couldn't stick with it -- Chromium-based browsers are faster (e.g., [1]).

I decided to give Brave a try because it's Chromium-based. It's been great. I did have to modify a few settings to get the look/feel how I like, but it I found it easy, and I expect others may not care. Brave shields block ads without the need of extensions like ublock. I don't have any complaints so far.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-95-Chrome-97
Our coffee machine isn't free anymore because of extensive usage, but we can pay with any NFC ID we register. My primary use case for an iPad is as a coffee coaster too, perfect synergy.
> having the US tell them to sell a product they acquired similarly.

Has the US actually tried to block a corporate merger between two non-American companies before?
I definitely understand the social aspects of WFO. I do miss it sometimes.

The tipping point for me though is the environmental cost. All those workers shlepping their body to and from work is a tremendous cost to the local and global environment.

I occasionally go into the office. But I regularly have 3-5 meetings with teams in different cities. Going into the office just to take video calls isn’t a great use of time.
Brave is giving users the ability to automatically say no to your cookie banners. People who use Brave don't want to be tracked and will never consent to it.
Burnout is extremely common in solo dev web3 projects. The first time I saw a dev stop responding to messages except telling close friends he was traveling Europe it looked like a moral failing. The 10th time it looked more systematic. Dev work requires extreme focus under pressure - then when they crack the community blamed the dev instead of looking at themselves for placing unreasonable expectations.

Unfortunately for your situation, I have almost never seen a dev fully recover from extreme burnout. If your case isn’t too severe you should immediately get away from code for an extended period of time until it becomes attractive to you again. Otherwise, don’t blame yourself but transition into a different field. Management is possible for individuals with ASD if you can put in the focus to learn social cues.
Ask HN: How to go about ceating an public instance of my FOSS webpastebin?
Hello, I am the maintainer of https://github.com/szabodanika/microbin, a simple pastebin web app that a lot of people love to self-host and I would love an official, high performance, high availability instance of this to exist that everyone can use, as a slightly modified fork of the original project.
The domain and the server would cost me some money and I would like the project to cover this expense on its own, but without annoying any users. I was thinking 1-2 simple blockable side banner ads but I'm not quite sure if that will annoy anyone or will even cover the costs. Maybe I should forget about this and just pay for it myself as it's my project after all.
Is there any other way I could make one or possibly more instances of this service public without much investment/earn the investment back?
One important thing is that I wouldn't like to ask anyone to host it on their own personal servers (as someone generously offered before) to keep management easier and just in case users do anything nasty (which I expect they will at one point).
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Every time I’ve traveled for work, they do not expense the portion where you leave from your home. It’s up to you to get to work.

So if you drive, you “leave from the office” (i.e. calc the distance from there), or drive to the airport, and getting from home to the airport is on you.

Curious to hear if this is different for others.
This part: <<However, because they dislike interruptions introverts tend to do more 'deep work'[1] which makes them harder to replace in an industry like tech.>>

I see this a lot on HN. There is an explicit bias here for introverts and deep work. This view overlooks the more extroverted roles usually held by direct managers and product managers. (Introverted sales doesn't even make sense in most cases; so ignore that side.) I have seen too many introverts who think they are doing genius-level work, but hardly talk to their teammates. The worst reinvent the wheel over and over again. (Proof reading this post, I thought of one more strange pattern that I observe: More extroverted people tend to write more documentation than introverted people. It's like a 'technical performance'. The introverts just keep it all inside. Sure there are exceptions, but that is an odd pattern that I observe!)

To be clear: I'm not for or against any side, but I can and do see the benefits of both on a daily basis. Also, I acknowledge the continuum between sides and inherent dynamism (people can temporarily "shape-shift" between sides).

Another thing that never gets talked about here: What about people are more extroverted than average, but still do plenty of deep work? It describes me very well. (Please do not read that description as humble bragging / uber-genius. I am an average developer. Also, I am neither a direct manager nor product manager.) As an example, if I go too long on deep work mode, I frequently stall with "analysis paralysis". My extroversion allows me to step back (heh, sometimes!) and ask for help. If the advice is unsatisfying, or "go away, I am busy", then I try someone else. In my daily work, I try to form a rough sin() wave between 80% deep work and 80% highly collaborative tasks.
Being honest? I use Edge or Brave over Firefox because of compatibility edge cases and battery life. And while Mozilla might be the least bad browser vendor, they're not exactly great and dependent on Google for funding.
> Remote workers can go and pretend to work elsewhere

Interesting coming from the camp that is both bemoaning the fact that they can’t spend hours of their day socializing at work, as well as the fact that they apparently can’t get work done without others holding their hands.

I suspect that the people claiming more productivity in office aren’t actually all that productive, and what productivity gains they have comes at the expense of the productivity of their coworkers.
> I suspect this is because for so long (as long as I can remember) they've had all of the power and control.

We are heading into a recession (if not there already). As the strong labour market deteriorates, this power imbalance will shift back to managers.
This isn't a technical article. This is an article about about an organization making a business decision based on broad goals, not specific tasks. They explained the technical and human requirements they wanted to optimize for and explained the other options they had available to them and why they chose the way they did. Then they explained their experience. This article is for managers, team leads, directors, to help them navigate similar business decisions.

You original comment was purely dismissive of the entire concept of advocating for and sharing the experience of different languages. You also seem very focused on the technicality that "You can program anything in any language" which while true, you CAN write a Facebook clone in [brainfuck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck), you wouldn't want to for many reasons. For real(tm) languages the decision is harder.
There's a blast from the past. Remember on the old Nokia dumbphones with T9 [0] predictive text. Belatedly realising you'd insulted somebody by calling them a 'duck' or an 'aunt'

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)
The likely endgames of 'no tracking' (accelerated by automating rejection rate up to 100%) are:

- drastically reduced free content (see the rise of paywalls on most news sites)

- an arms race to find other ways to track (see rise of cookieless tracking and retargetting approaches, first party cloaking, etc)

Not to say the latter wouldn't always be there, and but fact is a good chunk of the web is free and stuffed with ads because that's the only way to stay afloat, people simply don't want to pay for content.
> It sounds nice in theory, but as the saying goes

Listen to Ron Garret’s interview on Corecursive.[1] He sent verified Lisp code to Mars at NASA. The code failed but the debugger popped up and they were able to recover from it. Look for “Debugging Code in Space” and “Sending S-Expressions” in the time stamps.

[1] https://corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/
Yes, that's exactly my point! I care about rejecting cookies, which is why “I don’t care about cookies” is a useless extension to me. This Brave solution is much better.
> Kids are the best thing in the universe

You hear things like this all the time. I think the people with this type of mindset are more vocal. But it is not a universal truth.

On the other side of the curve:

There are people who love and care for their dogs more than their children. I've heard people say this with honest tears running down their face.

There are people who completely abandon their children for many reasons, sometimes mental illness, sometimes not. Sometimes mental illness triggered by the additional burden of the child.

There are people who literally kill themselves after having children. It's extreme, but it's a fact. Obviously it's not the child's fault, but definitely not "best thing in the universe" for these people.

Children can be wonderful. They can also ruin you.