skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a bit to say about this.

First, having kids is THE BEST thing I ever did with my life. Your mileage could/may vary.

Assuming you can get your spouse on-board:

1) YOU ARE NOT PAST THE WINDOW! My wife was 40 when we had our first kid. 41 for the second. Many other parents at our kids' school are similar. Some used IVF, others did not. IVF, while unpleasant, is covered by many insurance plans.

2) As others have said, you can foster, adopt or use a surrogate.

If you cannot get your spouse on-board for trying something, then you might consider leaving them. My ex-wife and I had been trying (then 30M, 28F) without success. Our inability to conceive was one of the reasons that I left her. She now has kids with another man and I now have kids with another woman, so it all worked out. I know this is rough, but it is also a possible solution.

Good luck and I'm sorry that you are suffering.
> If you want to have kids, have kids. You’ll figure it out. Sometimes you won’t.

The issue many people have with this line of reasoning is that not figuring it out affects an unwilling participant (the kids).

The most common sentiment I hear is that people want their kids to have at least the quality of life that they did when they were kids, and without a reasonable guarantee of achieving that, they will not choose to have kids.

For some, it might be that the kid does not have to work in the farm fields all day. For others, maybe the kid gets to learn how to read and write. And others, the kid does not have to work at all and gets to go all the way through high school. For others yet, the kid needs to have their own bedroom. And so on.
> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

Do you not think that's a bit concerning? Will I see a different internet using Firefox than I would with another browser?
Blocking cookie banners is not the correct solution as it breaks a lot of websites. What you actually want is to accept them with your preferred choices.
When I first read this as a teenager I didn't see what the big shocking secret was supposed to be, after all very above average people appearing to be significantly better than the average seems like a tautology.

And then, as I grew up, I realized many folks don't like admitting that someone else could be better in a general sense, maybe out of stubborn pride, or mistaken beliefs in literal equality of outcomes. Or maybe because they're afraid of putting in the effort to improve themselves, preferring the easy way out as a crab in the bucket.

In any case, it made me reflect on how many other 'obvious things that cannot be said' appear everywhere as one grows older.
As if those are mutually exclusive
It's the only comment in a long and pointless Europe-does-this/no-it-doesn't that has found any statistics at all, so I think it's reasonable to accept it, unless much more detailed statistics can be found.
write errors that don't make me think: https://dev.to/swyx/write-errors-that-don-t-make-me-think-24...
Not rational people must be fired from IT.
We adopted when my wife was 40. Almost 20 years later, absolutely no regrets.
Relevant Veritasium video (2018) [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38gVZgE39K8
In general I think extensions with functionality like this that require unfettered access reading and modifying every single page you visit are a huge security concern so having it be part of the browser itself makes sense. Same logic applies to ad- and tracker-blocking.
Side note. I have always wondered, if we can hear the multiple frequencies caused by wave interference in soundwaves (e.g. square vs sine), why can't we see multiple frequencies in light waves. I assume it's just too fast?
My personal favorite is Auxy. Has a subscription, but there's a ton of free instruments included so the subscription isn't mandatory. Very easy interface but can create complicated compositions. Can export to Ableton, MIDI, WAV and others. It's easily my most used app outside of Safari.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/auxy-studio/id1034348186

I think the basic interface of Auxy would pass the grandparent test. Some of the knobs might be a little confusing. But selecting an instrument and plotting out the loops is dead easy.
This is the best way to think about it imo, there are all kinds. I'm lucky enough to be able to comfortably bike to work. Unsurprisingly; I like to go in a few times a week for a change of scenary (and to still keep a big screen. A number of my teamates aggressively defend their right to 'never come in ever again' up to and including shaming those who like the option of WFO.

I think we're at an odd almost feverish inflection point right now. I say this typing on my (giant) home monitor.
Was hoping to get insight on better logging for engineering users, not UX design.
How is Brave a cryptocurrency scam?
A fair amount of what people want wouldn't be all of Manifest V2, but just the part of onBeforeWebRequest() that's being removed.
What does typically happen with all those legitimate interest opt-out switches, when you just neglect the banner?
Generally a pipe dream in my experience.
The best way to do this without switching browser is to use ublock origin's filter lists (in the settings dashboard) and enable "Easylist Cookie" under "Annoyances".

I believe the article mentions it
Drilling ends and data analysis begins for borehole observatory
1. If you have the money take some time off and go somewhere. Bring the kids if you need to. At least two months.

2. While there, consider if burnout is partially your subconscious telling you something. A lot of people, myself included, have gone through phases where we later realized that the joy in learning how technology is made has faded and the mission that we're attached to doesn't actually align with what we actually want to do. Sometimes it's ok to quit a six digit position and take a five digit one if it means it fulfils some longing in our life, like help a friend, help the poor, or safeguard the world in some way.

3. See if there are aspects of your life that you may, deep down, want to change but that you're avoiding changing. For me, it was excitement. Note that these are different than mission in that they're self or at least family directed. Be clear eyed about the risks, because ultimately you are responsible for the choices you make, but don't be so cautious as to be cowardly. If you want to fire a gun at bad guys, first understand that they may fire back, but ultimately if you still think it is the best call, to not do so is cowardice.

4. If nothing above works, just start helping the least fortunate. It has a double effect of reminding yourself, viscerally, just how bad it can get[0] while also providing your mind with a sense of community and purpose.

[0] I met a former programmer at a soup kitchen who just had a run of bad health and life issues.
Because I hate shamelessly plugging my app, I'll do it for them:

https://fivethreeone.app/
If it's any consolation, I'm in my 40s and I have 3 kids and I honestly have days where my burnout and anxiety is as bad as you describe. I don't think it's not having kids that is your problem, I think you're probably predisposed to having an anxiety disorder and you're going through your mid-life crisis.

Note that I'm not downplaying the seriousness of your situation by calling it a mid-life crisis - the mid-life crisis is real as fuck and it's a force to be reckoned with. I think the trick of it is to redirect that angst and energy into something useful. Rather than wreck your marriage and run off with 27 year old, maybe you should try an entirely new career, or get into volunteer work, or take a 6 month sabbatical. Who knows? In any case, be very careful of what bridges you burn. I'll let you know if I figure it out...
I have this issue with Google Family Link, where I want to add my child's voice to a Nest Audio. The app straight up tells me that I'm not connected to the wifi, which is clearly not true. Furthermore, the app knows I'm connected because in the logging you can see it finding the Nest Audio.

It's impossible to figure out what goes wrong. Plenty of people have the same problem, but Google only has this forum where superusers assume everybody else is either lying or an idiot. Meanwhile, they take such error messages at face value, despite many people saying they have wifi.

All that to say that I'd rather have an overly technical error that actually tells me what's wrong, instead of a friendly error message that's straight up wrong.
You don't have to use BAT when using brave... Just don't turn that feature on.
It solves one thing: it shows you who tracks you and what it tracks.
If the energy to build and power the batteries all came from sunlight then why not?
The discussion usually starts with "I wish you'd have gotten good money and done..." and ends in whatever career is better in her mind that day. It's usually a trade.

Stopped paying real attention years ago, but it's usually a story where she knows a person who makes however many dollars a year and I could have too. I don't think this discussion would have been any different if I was in one of those jobs.

That person usually works 60-80 hours a week. She leaves out the times when it isn't a great year in that area and they were laid off for 8 months. She misses the toll on your body working like that takes. She doesn't realize the cost of the trucks and the tools, if you need them.

I guess it is easier when you simplify down to $X a year for your best year.
I have found the ML image categorization models an excellent method of extracting a unique descriptor. It is possible to compress the image for matching and storage into a compact signature.

I did it here: https://github.com/starkdg/phashml

https://github.com/starkdg/pyphashml

It is available in a python module that uses tensorflow model.

Feel free to message me.
Going into the office reminds me that I’m part of a team, working on something important, and gives me a space where I can focus and get things done. Also helps me build deeper relationships with people. I have very rarely gotten into an impromptu conversation about someone’s kids remotely. Stuff like that happens every time I go in.

Working from home gives me flexibility and uninterrupted heads down time (in theory) but I’m generally much more distracted.

I think people (myself included) overestimate their ability to get stuff done at home. There’s an adverse incentive, because being honest with yourself about that means you might have to go in more. But people vary. Some people are very disciplined working from home.

Hybrid is the way.
I suggest to try to remember what you once liked about coding. Then do this again, literally the same thing.

Maybe you enjoyed building a website with html? That's not really coding, but just do that. Build a small little website, only html for fun and see where it goes.
Using the current fleet of Delta Air Lines as an example[0], they average ~180 seats per plane. If everyone on the plane was using the internet then that would be 1.9 Mbps per passenger. GeForce Now requires 15 Mbps for 720p 60fps[1]. If there was no other internet usage then 350 Mbps could support 23 15 Mbps streams.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_fleet#Current_...

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/sy....
Interesting, I didn't know Google reverse image was better several years ago.
Yeah I actually meant to only link to the last one! (I removed all other versions).
Chromium being open source, Brave doesn't need to use the Manifest v3 changes in their codebase.
How are we doomed?

Like it or not, but Ads are what made the internet what it is today.

Ads keep information on the internet free.
I appreciate your comments.

> The only solution is to get acquainted with the idea that your life will never be what you wanted, …

What I’ve found fascinating as I’ve gotten older is that the life I _wanted_ at different points in my life has never been what I ended up with later, but somehow that’s been okay and when I look back I always come to be thankful for every “setback”. Like Steve Jobs’ commencement speech, life has to be lived going forward but is only understood looking back.

You are certainly a stronger person as a result of having two special needs children, likely far more compassionate and understanding than you would have been otherwise.

I’ve heard the concert expressed as setbacks being our “divine moment” to move toward our true path. Maybe a bit woo woo but I certainly feel like my setbacks have put me on a more fulfilling path.
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New(ish) parent here. Two things:

First, the bad news: lots of comments saying stuff like "Don't have kids to fill a perceived hole in your life". In general, the advice "Don't do ____ to fill a hole in your life" is good for frivolous things, but I don't think this applies to being a parent. Parenting is a biological and psychological life milestone. To me it's felt more like leveling up my maturity than buying or achieving something. An analogy is something like going from relying on my parents to moving out and being independent. I realize this step isn't for everyone, but am skeptical about 95% of ppl so confident they don't want to take a step their linage has done for thousands of years.

Second, the good news: my experiences (and accounts of friends as well) suggests that attachment to a child is less biological and more developed than you'd expect. When my daughter was born she felt like a stranger; I didn't know her. The more time I spend with her, the more she learns and depends on me, and the more I grow emotionally attached to her. This suggests you'd get 98% of the parenting experience through adoption vs being a biological parent. You'd miss out on stuff like "o wow her eyes look like mine", but at least in my experience, this has been less important than I would've thought. The big stuff like seeing them learn, their innocent joy, and you 'paying it forward' in the circle of life would be the same. (NOTE: these are my 2 cents as a biological parent. It'd be worth reading some adoptive parent accounts as well). Also, if adoption is not for you, I'd still recommend getting involved in helping kids in some way (education, financial, etc.); again, what are we here for if not to help the next generation?
Firefox containers are amazing for this.
I've never seen anything that so perfectly encapsulates my feelings about this whole return to office thing.
Yay!

This is what you have to do to make a browser relevant in 2022.
That’s an interesting observation about the effect of social norms and the inability of granular individual choice to make everyone happy. The WFH people say the same thing—the WFO folks have advantages in hybrid meetings, etc. Allowing individual choice doesn’t necessarily lead to everyone being happy, because you give up synergies that arise from everyone doing the same thing.

The same is true for parenting as well. In 1970, almost 35% of the population was kids. Today, it’s closer to 20%, and in many states and cities less than that. There has been a resulting collapse in the infrastructure supporting parents. Parenting is just a lot better and easier if everyone around you, especially in your cohort, also has kids. I think the only way around this is pluralism. If you want to have a lot of kids and be around people who have a lot of kids, go to Utah and let Utahans maintain the social norms that encourage everyone to have kids. If you don’t want that, move to New York.

Same thing applies to WFH. I don’t think letting people choose at a granular level is optimal. Instead, organizations should probably decide whether they want to be an office-first or remote-first organization. And then people can self select into the organization that fits their needs.
We recently had a post here on HN about a bookmarklet that deals with this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998091
OK, I'll take the bait ... It's better to attack the argument than to attack the poster. I shouldn't have to defend my credentials to make a comment. I'm not a virologist but I understand how viruses can be mutated and how they replicate. I understand the basics of the BU experiments. Knowledge of a specific set of experiments that were part of developing a specific vaccine does not equate to knowledge of the basics of virology.

My point is that claiming the BU experiments on ePPP were not GOF because they didn't produce a more deadly pathogen is a somewhat nonsensical definition (whether NIAID promotes it or not) and an ineffective defense of the work. Derek Lowe can do much better, but he didn't. In the process, he misses addressing the real concerns of critics and fails to understand or acknowledge their fears (which have nothing to do with the precise definition of GOF as used by Derek Lowe).
The Mississippi River’s levels are near record lows, and it’s wreaking havoc
Look into spaced repetition, and more specifically Anki. It would seem it's the ideal tool for the problem that you're facing : studying for exams, not for the long term.
WFO isn't necessarily about personal preference. People who want everyone to WFO believe that WFO produces better outcomes for the company. That is different than someone who desires to work from an office or remotely out of personal preference. For instance, I may prefer to WFH because it makes my life more convenient, but I can also accept that WFO produces better outcomes for the company.

Personally, I haven't seen many good arguments that WFH produces superior work outcomes. Companies are collaborative human endeavors. Most WFH arguments I hear are related to personal fulfillment: more time with kids, less time commuting, more time for hobbies, etc. Those are all great things, but have little to do with productivity. The closest work-related argument I've heard is that some people work better when they're free of distractions at the office. That takes us back to companies being collaborative human endeavors. One may feel they work better in isolation, but part of ones job is to interact with others, even if that's not fun.

I don't want this to sound judgemental. There is no requirement that people organize their life around what's best for the company they work for. It's totally fine to enjoy working from home. But I don't see the argument that WFH is better than WFO for most companies, even if it's often better for the individual employees at those companies.

I think we'll get more conclusive data when WFH is and is not appropriate.
Instead of blocking... what about certain cookies that you can set as persistent inside a browser. So a persistent cookie will ask permission to store your given preference forever. So next time you face the same question, it just queries the persistent cookie cache, checks whether you gave your permission to store those fucking consent cookies for ad tracking and bugger off.

Those fucking cookie banners... if you search for something, each and every fuckin page asks whether they want to track you. And since the banners are not standardized everyone tries to fuck the user in the arse big time by changing button locations, hiding options, and wording it in a perverse way. So in essence people will go mad after the 3rd time and just press the shinyest button to escape the torture. It just doesn't work and makes your life miserable.

So what about ff, chrome, edge, brave plus the chipmunks sit together, hold hands and come up with a standard for it? You can even give a 3 letter acronym to it, so when people regurgitate it, they can go through an orgasm every time...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... implement cookie banner blocking. Fuck man, whats next?
What a rabbit hole. Lots of house geek info here. Love it.

https://russellking.me/2017/09/06/how-to-quickly-evaluate-a-...
I've long noticed this. I used to hang out with a group of Stanford graduates, two of them started extremely successful companies, one of which has a valuation > 5B. I think they were just simply better, and in many facets. Height over 6'2, BS/MS in CS from Stanford, played sports at a near professional level, while still being sociable. In my head I wanted to say it was their network that lead to the success, and it no doubt did, but when it came down to it, they were just able to build companies and see market opportunities that others cannot. And they weren't working around the clock.

I will add one more point. Most people have simply never come into contact with truly elite people. Work at any large company and probably zero actual elites work there below the highest levels. VP at Google is not elite. This is where the confusion comes from
As impressive as this regime is if you can do it, I'd recommend most people start a little slower and mix it up a little more - this kind of highly repetitive strain will burn out your body, just as the insane work schedule burnt you out.

Start slow, throw in some yoga or tai chi and build up those joints and tendons - they don't increase in strength as quickly as muscles do.
The "woke" crowd waves so many flags it often ends up shooting themselves in the foot.

People got outraged because Mozilla asked for donations in crypto, because it's not green energy.

They want a commercial grade browser, made with zero ads, zero crypto, with enough features to work both with DRM protected video but also with hardware video acceleration in even the most obscure OS, funded only by donations. And, in practice, money made from donations it's not enough at all for the amount of manpower needed for a project like this.

I'm in favor for being sensible and having an inclusive environment. But people expect too much from a software project.

PD: What's worse, the CEO of Mozilla Corporation raised her salary up to over 3 million dollars, while Firefox marketshare is down over 85%. Not very woke IMHO
> but you can disable it and move on

BAT is disabled by default.
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nice stuff, I dig it. Some more customizing options and it will be very useable.
Nah, they are beyond sensible, there are woke politics behind doors.
Exactly. Software must crash as soon as possible and include some context information which is necessary to further debug the problem.
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Show HN: APIs and SDKs to help developers build pricing plans faster
Hello HN Community,

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One of the things I learned by coding was how painful it is to build & maintain pricing in SaaS.
The pricing structure and logic always end up being coupled with the core application code and the billing platform. The product catalog is typically managed in spreadsheets, by the product & monetization teams, while all the possible package types, including the legacy ones, are typically hardcoded across different git repositories.

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We have planned ahead and have already introduced reach functionally like plan migrations and versioning, multiple environments support, a/b testing, and embeddable components you can use such as paywall widget, or customer portal widget. This way, you can ship pricing plans without having to do a full Phd on pricing & billing ontology.

We're just getting started and have a bunch of things on our roadmap. But we’d love to get feedback from the HN community to check that we’re on the right way.