skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obvious for me to say: there's a point in time when you're going to stop working and you're going to be draining away your safety net regardless, because you're retired.

So with a sabbatical now, just think that you're making time now so that you can have a better retirement later because you'll be ready for an enjoyable retirement as opposed to needing to take two or three or five years of your retirement, just calming down from your crazy career.

It's definitely not an easy thing to consider. Do evaluate with an extended pros and cons list and weight each item in the list.

Burnout for me weighed extraordinarily heavily.
I had it this year as well. Acupuncture helped with the nerve pain and the doctor diagnosed it as bells due to Lyme disease. Acupuncturist said when he was in China they'd diagnose bells palsy as lyme if it presents I'm fall.
The issue is that I don't just want to work from the office, I want to work from the office along with my coworkers. Sitting there alone is only marginally better than work from home. In the end we just need to self select into companies that follow our desired "work from" policies, it's just tough now since the pandemic made every company temporarily WFH so some workers need to swap as companies change back.
It finds the file using /proc/<pid>/fd/<num> and watches its size grow. It doesn't work with pipes, devices, a file being overwritten (not appended to), or anything whose size doesn't grow.
You could join a company that is in person first. I've joined a company that is remote first for their tech team and in person first for their non tech teams.

It works great. If I wanted to work in person I know a dozen companies that want that are willing to offer than. Just like I know a dozen companies that offer a slew of other factors I may or may not care for.
What makes LaTeX so horrible to use (for me) is the need to use packages for seemingly simple things which have weird dependencies and error messages only experienced users know how to deal with. This package is just one more layer of absurdity to me. Why does everything have to be solved with overly complex packages? Graphics are a thing for a reason. Am I alone in this?
A useful thing here is not just to include a unique error code for the type of error (usually numeric), but also to generate some kind of short Base32 or similar hash and print that right next to the error message while logging it to your normal back end. Then whether people send you a screen shot, copy/paste, whatever, you can easily search the logs to find the exact event that occurred.
Security certification body (ISC)² defends ‘undemocratic’ bylaw changes
> 3. Brave happily collected those tokens on behalf of creators who didn't want to be a part of the scheme (e.g. Tom Scott). They stripped the creators of revenue from the original ads and just kept the tokens/revenue from their ads.

People can't seriously be complaining about this given that everyone here is basically upset that Chrome is making changes that impact ad blockers?
Last time I looked, GCC had pretty poor support for 16-bit x86 compared to older compilers.
Thank you for the great feedback!

I would love to have a different search source, but DuckDuckGo and Brave don't give API access to their results. I would definitely add those if they opened up access to Swurl. Know anyone that could help me with that?
There's a lot more to be concerned about than session keys and passwords. Tax documents, health records, photos, private journal documents, just to name a few.
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You can already use your phone as a virtual transport with several different apps, but I do agree: one would expect this kind of feature from a companion app.
If it makes you feel better, Aristotle talks about the same thing, as does Socrates, in the same books where they argue against the blind trust/faith in many things.

We also use the word curiosity slightly differently - the older form is found in "curiosity killed the cat". The ancient philosophy term that would be closer to what we may mean by curiosity now is wonder.
Adding to this, here [1] is a calculator to get some rough numbers for exposure. It isn't perfect or all-inclusive but covers what I was looking for that being altitude differences

[1] - https://www.ans.org/nuclear/dosechart/
I get that investigations take time, but I can't see any possible justification for the FBI to be silent six months later. Even if there's still an "ongoing investigation" the public has a right to know more than just the fact that the raid happened.
A recent post from the Cato Institute shows that their push to repeal the Jones Act seems to have touched a nerve inside the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD).

"Almost at the end of the 41‐ page document is what appears to be a set of recommendations related to a March 2020 meeting of the Marine Transportation System National Advisory Committee (MTSNAC)’s International Shipping Subcommittee. Among them: “Charge all past and present members of the Cato and Mercatus Institutes with treason.”

https://www.cato.org/blog/charge-all-past-present-members-ca...
That argument is why I initially didn't become a software engineer. I was doing business thingy jobs because writing code was what I loved and i didn't want to ruin it.

But then I realized doing what I love and getting paid for it is even better. Have been doing that for many years and never regretted it.

That said, it's a personal choice and different for everyone, so what was right for me doesn't need to be right for you.

Btw I love how random this hobby of yours is. Usually all you see here is tech projects.
> And yet... if you don't have fun, it will never get done

This was actually accounted for by the system of thought the parent comment is discussing.

Since virtue is the median between two vices, there is a middle ground between focusing on nothing and focusing on something to the point of exhaustion. The virtue of eutrapelia. Thomas Aquinas argues that just as the body needs rest when it is weary, so too does the soul when it becomes overburdened. And, like the body, the soul takes rest in a kind of pleasure we call 'play'.
What VCS were you coming from, and what makes Git so much nicer?

I believe Git and Mercurial are considered to be 'about as good' by most.
There's no law in Russia, or within the power of Russia, except for the wishes of the State, or the organs of State.

In such a situation, to announce the decleration of martial law is rather deceptive : the State already wields absolute power. It is I think intended in part to play to audiences who do not know this.

As it is, I suspect now what comes is mass and forced deportation of Ukrainians in the face of the advance of the Ukrainian army; Lord knows what is happening to these poor people once they are shipped into Russia.

Such deporations are ongoing in the territories which were occupied earlier in the war.

The other horror is military slavery, where Ukrainians are forced into the Russian army, to fight the Ukrainians who are pushing the Russians out of the Ukraine.

As you can imagine, their military value is slight; I am hoping most of these people are able to surrender, but it is not always possible, and an artillery shell blows you apart whether or not you were forced into the army.
You seem very frustrated personally for the lack of SMS support on Signal.

I don't agree with your take or arguments, and you seem to keep branching off pejorative comments on their organization and product instead of actually discussing the points. I think the conversation would be more productive if we focus on the same point, i.e.:

* Focusing on what matters most is a good idea, as nobody serious about secure messaging uses SMS

* Your argument: irony-covered "dropping features is not a good product development approach".

* My counter-argument: it **is** a valid approach, why support a feature that was useful in the past, but it is now dying/not aligned with your core value proposition?

* Your other argument: their focus is on social networking, and some disdainful comment that "the competition already did it".

* My argument: how is catching up with well-established user behaviors across other messaging platforms a bad thing?

I remember when I didn't have a smart phone (I don't come from a privileged background, and this was 2009) and I used twitter over SMS. I really wouldn't care if they dropped support for it now, but back then, I would have churned.

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I think the people who maintained their SMS codebase left and they don't know how to maintain it properly, and it isn't cool, so they let it wither and now they want to amputate it. Which is fine really, though it highlights that you can't depend on them. I was starting to feel that already with their cryptocoin experimentation. It's a pity Signal is un-forkable.
> the horror of commute doesn't make up for the gains of socializing and others that just abhor having to talk to real-life people. Then there are people who work mainly to get paid and do not care to invest themselves beyond what is necessary. But are those really the majority? I always saw tech as the field where a disproportionally large amount of people truly love what they do. Mostly, because it takes so much grit and persistence to get good at it that most people wouldn't succeed unless they see something in it beyond putting food on the table.

Tech also attracts a disproportionate number of introverts who would rather work by themselves then interact with other people. Have you considered that maybe people want to work from home because it allows them to focus on their work better? That they do love what they do, but the social interaction and noises in the office distract them from that?

> Have I been under some weird form of Stockholm Syndrom where I actually enjoyed something that was pure torture to most?

No, of course not. But just because something is enjoyable to you doesn't mean it isn't torture for someone else.

> Have a lot of people realized they don't actually like being among other people, apart from their closest friends and family?

Yes. There are a lot of people like that. It's called being an introvert. And for many, including myself, it isn't some sudden realization, we have just had to endure going to the office because that is the way the world worked. But the normalization of WFH finally allowed us to work in an environment that is better for us.
Not clear at all. A journalist was raided and has said nothing about his current status except to withdraw from his apartment and work. The only seemingly questionable thing is a lack of charges, but he doesn't seem to be detained so it isn't necessary that he be charged
Typical Cato drama. Since when do they care about consumers?

The amortized cost of a $100M US cargo ship vs a $30M ship from India or whatever is peanuts.

The United States is the worlds pre-eminent maritime power. You need ships and the industry to support ships to maintain that. We also don’t want ships operated with the oversight of nations like Liberia in our coastal waters. The treason statement is dramatic, but there’s a legitimate point there… we enjoy the benefits of owning the water, and weakening that dominance to satisfy some phoney baloney principles will hurt the interests of the United States.
Some of the best friends and mentors I've made in life have been through my career. I still talk to friends from jobs that I left over a decade ago.

That's bizarre to me to have an explicit attitude of not befriending colleagues. It's never been something I've specifically sought out, it's always organically come to be -- but it's not something I would actively work against. I don't understand the benefit to that mindset.
MSB don't pay $250k/yr. For $100k/yr they will find someone in USA who will enjoy racking servers, wiring, configuring networks, installing OS, etc. If they look outside of US, they will find it for cheap.
I really understand why some people try to pack all their children in as few years as possible.

My son came almost 10 years after my daughter, he's still not yet 6 and still very demanding (while my daughter was objectively less, but still I barely slept during 2 or 3 years).

I'll die young ^^;
The 4 large schools districts near my city started this school year anywhere from 50-300 teachers short, many of those positions in special education. They are hiring literally everyone that meets the qualifications on paper, including those that are working towards credentials.

Edit: I should add they still do need to pass a background check.
Boston/Cambridge and NYC come to mind as cities where one can avoid having a car. Are there others that save sufficient public transport, housing and support buildings that should be considered. In Canada, Montreal fits that description. I’ve not lived in or talked to enough people from Toronto or Vancouver to know how liveable they are on foot.

Open offices are a plague. Any company using them is interested in reduced real estate costs and having a younger staff. They’re not interested in productivity or quality of work.
There's gotta be a way to be reasonable about correcting (or not) "the record" that recognizes large organizations have internal forces that may not always represent the organization as a whole. Somewhere between heels-dug-in and throw-employee-under-bus. I don't think a headline characterizing the disagreement about reporting as "The messy fight" helps things.
I took a Physics of Sound class for my minor in Physics during undergrad. One of my favorite classes I've taken.
I suppose it's my personal bias (I like minimal & clear layouts), but this current UI you got going on feels claustrophobic at best.

Since you're committing to a horizontal scrollbar, why not increase the size of columns and position the content so it feels like I am reading/looking _down_ (from top to bottom) not everywhere all at once.

Also, a better scrollbar design would be nice + individually making sure each column can be understood where it is from. In other words, some kind of a heading indicator. (You already use Icon + Source name but I feel it isn't enough.)

Maybe you already got all this planned out and you're busy with the algorithm stuff instead, if that is the case - sorry.
to have a site without cookie banner is easy: just DO NOT TRACK THE USER.

it's not a regulation failure.

it's a failure of the companies that still thinks they have the right to invade the privacy of their users.
Odd, I just tested it and it worked fine. What version of FF are you using?

Are you using some incognito or private mode?

Thank you!
I personally avoid anything Chromium based, period.
I just don't trust it (as most IT that care about privacy)

That leaves me with Firefox (or its less known forks: waterfox, librefox, palemoon).
As with everything, context matters. It's a great run-down of how to empower an error message. Many products can add so much value and saved support resources by doing so.

There's one thing I wasn't sure about in this article though. Did they talk to actual users regarding these empowered error messages or even asked them what they want to see out of common error messages they run into? It seems rather difficult to empower error messages without first understanding the scenarios that got them into the error state to begin with. Next would be understanding if these error messages are helpful to the users and asking them how they go about resolving these types of issues. All of that is hinted at in the "what makes a good error message".
Just this week Google's reverse image search began directing to "Google Lens" for me, which does visual search again, albeit rather poorly.
Agreed. I'm fortunate that I have a room that I can work in and close the door.
Kinda make sense, since the founder of Mozilla left and went to start Brave. Makes one wonder how the company is really defined by their founders.
>it's actually quite amusing how many parents say it gets better when the children leave the nest. then why have children!?

There are lot of places in the world where there is no expectation that the children will leave the nest.

The whole "I can't wait till my kids are 18 so I can kick them out and get my life back" is only a phenomenon in some cultures.
I recognize what you're saying and I miss that part of office life a bit too.

But not having the commute, and thus having over two hours per day that I can spend on more sleep, more time with my family and more time to work, that's just better.

And not having to deal with a noisy open plan office comes on top of that.
They haven't seen Kubernetes.
Disentangling the cognitive, physical, and mental health sequelae of Covid-19
This reminds me of my university time as a student. In the realtime OS/programming course we needed to build an elevator with 4 cars in parallel entirely on an i386 (Embedded) in an realtime OS including the simulation of people pressing the floor numbers.
You can add profiles with Apple configurator 2. You don't have to go the full MDM route. It's quite easy.

I think the problem is though that the iOS client doesn't support configuring this option in the profile (whether installed via configurator or MDM) either.
internet was free even before ads.
Not allowing the user to override it locally would be quite user-hostile! Of all the missteps Mozilla has made with Firefox (in my opinion), giving the user more control isn't one of them.
It exists and its called Global privacy control.
Which brave also supports.

https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

The issue is websites don't design Cookie banners to be useful, they design them to be annoying.
Russia is unlikely to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine
If sources selection and pinning to a specific column becomes a thing, I can see myself using it instead of google. It's great!
It's not really FOSS if it requires Unity. Especially funny since they mention Godot in the readme, and if they'd used Godot it would actually be FOSS
It is very cynic to stipulate a growth when the country lost its industrial regions due to Russian invasion
By the way the historical issue of corruption is not yet answered

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-is-ukraine-such-an-eco...
Haha, yes exactly. That is one of the design inspirations. If people can handle columns of dense content on newspapers, figured they could on search too? I hope so.

Thank you for noticing and commenting that!
It's basically been disproven at this point that simply lowering cost does not necessarily lead to better outcomes for the country. This was basically neo-liberal orthodoxy until the mid 2010s, by which point it was clear that lowering costs by offshoring labor had hollowed out the middle class in America. Money has a multiplyer effect. Each dollar spent is received by someone who then goes on to spend a part of that dollar and so on. So if you take dollars and send them elsewhere, that multiplyer effect is dampened. Things may be cheaper, but the economy is worse overall.

Also, as the article itself states:

> [The Jones act] aims to promote and maintain the American merchant marine fleet for commercial and defense purposes.

The act has nothing to do with making things cheaper. Any earnest proposal to repeal the Jones act should address how the goals of the act can be met in other ways.
It appears to monitor the contents of /proc/‹pid›/fdinfo/‹fd›
Imagine You're a Goofball: Dynamic Preventative ZFS Snapshots
Check out Boston/Brookline, I have a car to go see family / go north for nature but rarely use it!
No one is forcing you to connect, next time you fly. sit back, watch a movie, listen to music then sleep.
Or the 21st century version: Whichever happens to you, you turn it into a reason why you didn't succeed and you're not to blame.
I don’t believe that would be referred to as “the proton” unless it was being called “the proton compatibility layer”. It’s important not to forget the colloquial meanings of words :)
> TrackerControl also supports viewing network activity for each app, and then blocking network access entirely or for specific hosts.

Rethink blocks based on IP addresses (rather than host names). TrackerControl (TC) may be doing something similar (since it runs NetGuard underneath), but in the UI it appears as so that TC is blocking based on host names?

For DNS (host name) based blocks, Rethink bundles in 180+ popular host files (like StevenBlack, 1Hosts, GoodbyeAds, OISD, CPBL) in the app (on GitHub and F-Droid versions only). We are in the process of implementing a allowlist/whitelist and denylist/blocklist for individual host names, as we speak. Release in perhaps a month or so.
A lot of people are saying "you sound depressed, fix that before you have kids", but to me, it sounds like you're depressed--like you say--because you think you missed your opportunity to have kids.

This isn't abnormal, some people I know quite well had intense anxiety at the prospect of being infertile, and I know a few others who have struggled with depression when that turned out to be fact. It's a big loss to grieve, so I think your feelings here are valid.

I also agree with the commenters here who say you should check with your partner, and if they're game go see a fertility specialist. Being on the same page here is important: at her age she'll be high-risk, and the possibility of pregnancy/delivery being harder increases substantially, as well as the possibility of birth defects, etc. It sounds abstract, but what this translates into is intense pain for months, and abortions if things go wrong. The stakes are pretty high.

But that said, I wish you the best of luck! The door may not be closed to you two and it's worth checking into.
https://xkcd.com/1688/
> I also found that regular physical exercise outside (running for me) is a game changer and totally allows your brain to disconnect.

> Finally, don't guilt trip yourself on your free time. There is nothing you "should" be doing on your spare time.

Don't you think these two pieces of advice are conflicting?
I wanted a bit of education outside this, so Wikipedia tells me the Jones act declares that cargo between US ports must be on US-flag, US-created, largely US-crew, US-owned ships. The Lexington Institute, a center-right thinktank focused on domestic security policy, has claimed(June 2016) it strengthens border security and reduces terrorism.

I guess my question is: how much is a stronger border security and terrorism reduction worth, economically?
> This is extremely frustrating, because it feels like I'm wasting my time by learning something, only to forget it within a few months.

I really identify with this feeling. For a time, this meant that I put the minimum effort into studies to get decent grades and completely stopped learning on my own. Thankfully, soon enough I found Anki [0] and everything changed.

Through using the app ~daily for over 7 years now, I have a much better idea of how my memory works. It doesn't mean that I never forget anything (even things in Anki will decay if not engaged with), but it makes memory more of a choice rather than something that will automatically aggressively fade.

I'd recommend trying it out for 2-3 weeks and seeing if you like it. Using a shared deck that someone has already put together for something that you're already interested in is a great way to start. For me, that was geography [1].

[0] https://apps.ankiweb.net/

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2109889812
> I.e., what's the baseline?

I don't believe a baseline exists. The cloud is a new thing, and the fashion on how to use it is still changing constantly.

You also can not use this number as a proxy for any other thing. It's just what it is, you can't look for deeper connections.
Ah, works! Thanks!
A random record? You can bet on it
Thank you for the encouragement!

Yes the UX could be used for other search apps. Internal search is a good one, maybe searching a bunch different doc types or internal databases. Good point!