skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. From AP: 120 dead.

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1586418872206360577
Ask HN: Is it a good time to take a break?
Dev, 25 years exp. Had a good “right place / right time” run through some FAANGs so I could probably retire (chunky to fat) in ~3-5 more years of merely “staying the course”.
HOWEVER.

I’m massively burnt out. Like, severe depression burnt out. Go on medication for the first time in my life burnt out. Still love coding, but global events as well as very stressful last couple years of toil at work has left me in the worst state I’ve ever been in.

Additionally, I’ve spent the last 25 years wanting to “do my own thing,” but never giving into the urge - just optimizing for staying on track. I don’t mean bootstrap a startup, I mean indulge in work-adjacent curiosities. Make stuff for the sake of making it. That’s all.

It’s occurred to me that it might be a good time to kill several birds with one stone: take a year off.

I know not working for someone else for a year will supercharge recovering from depression. I had a couple month LOA this year and life got way better, but went right back to shit after LOA. It wasn’t long enough. Right now I’m trying to recover from work induced depression while working. It feels Sisyphean to say the least.

A year of getting to dabble in personal programming projects is a dream I’ve withheld from myself for multiple decades. Giving myself that gift … is a level of generosity that almost feels unimaginable.

Clearing my head for a year might let me find a new more sustainable way to work. I’ve stuck with FAANG because of great comp but I don’t like working on big teams/big companies. I’ve never given myself the space to think about how else I can make money by coding (something I truly love) that suits my values and stage of life better than just continuing to grind in bloated FAANG companies.

Compensation is trending to the lowest it’s been in years due to depressed RSUs and potential of growth for those RSUs. In other words, this is kinda the lowest opportunity cost time to quit, I think. I’d be missing out on a period of very low compensation.

And I’ve been at my last gig for a LONG time. We all know that the longer you stay at a tech job, the more undercompensated you became, at least in terms of base. So leaving and then coming back to a new company, if couldn’t find a new non-FAANG path, is at least likely to boost earnings (reset RSU value too) and hasten retirement.

So why not do it?

* Unsure how far back it sets retirement. My FA can’t/won’t tell me. He just says I can afford to take a year off.

* Re-employability. I’m obviously “old”. My resume is great, but I feel like age + gap year is not to be trifled with, esp if hiring is still icy a year from now.

* Might not want to go back ever?

* Medical catastrophe? I guess I just need to make sure I buy really good insurance during this time?

Should also mention I have a wife and kids and am also partially supporting my parents. I’m the sole earner. So the responsibility is large. Still, I can afford the year, but it’s scary.

Would really appreciate the wisdom of anyone who’s been at least close to this situation before.
Surely you’ve heard of OAuth.

But if that’s rhetorical/curt, then the answer can also be found on the home page of the site: it’s a service with a paid component and the login is to associate the purchase with your account. Very common across the web.
"I signed up for a pest service after purchasing my home because we were getting ants and water bugs in the house."

Lol. My neighbor got pest treatment for the first time recently. Guess what happens? The pests move next door. So now we need pest control.
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I loved it when I read it. Apologies if you're already familiar with this, but you should have a look at Giovanni Piranesi's Carceri series of prints which seems to have inspired the book's name (and main idea).
We wrap food in PFAs. You know, that thing people are making a big deal about showing up in tiny concentrations in well water near military air bases. They're also on every waterproof jacket you can buy.
That is, short-term, first-order profits!
>Partly due to power imbalance. Congresspeople are not typically subject to routine violence just because they are congresspeople.

Congressmen are attacked all the time. They have assassination attempts all the time. The average trans person doesn't need protection, but the average congressman does.

>They aren't typically dealing with a healthcare system that is actively hostile to them. They don't have high levels of homelessness, abuse, and suicide.

Healthcare is absolutely not hostile to them. Doctors are being threatened with firing (or may have been fired?) if they don't use the correct pronouns.

I do agree that trans people have higher levels of homelessness, abuse and suicide, but I don't think it is relevant.

>Additionally, congresspeople are public figures - being satirized is part of the social contract when you become a public figure.

Having a public social media account makes you a public person in a sense. If you don't want public attention don't make a public account.

>And congresspeople have power. Lots of power. Saying that an average congressperson and an average trans person are equal is just not true.

Seeing how a trans person was able to get a company that has something like 10% of the internet going through them (Cloudflare) to remove a site I would say trans people have a massive amount of power.

>If you pulled out another minority group with little power, your rule might be more agreeable.

I think we should have consistent rules regardless of how much power a person has. Should politicians not have the right to a trial because they are powerful? Of course not. Rules should be uniform.
As someone who just finished a week of 8 hour PI planning meetings with another week of the same starting Monday, I wholeheartedly agree. My experience of SAFe has been shorter term waterfall with a couple steps cut out. It's definitely better than waterfall and I'm grateful for that, but I wouldn't call it agile.
The dongle is a short-term conversion because people have old PSUs. In the long term this standard will be built into modern PSUs and it becomes a single cable.
Is land the limiting factor? Did Calif already fill up available space?
I have a public account and a private account. My public one is very civilized and I don't do name-calling. I just try to add to a conversation rather then detract from it. I don't 'vent' or resort to thinly veiled trolling.

My other account is a private locked down account where I don't follow anyone, instead I use lists. I don't want bots scraping someone's follower list and then randomly adding me due to some automated tool. I /never/ get follow requests as a result.

I also don't favorite tweets. Instead I bookmark them, so only I can see them. I don't want likes public. My private account is for lurking. You should try doing this for your 'read only' experience.
Yes but why not both? It's this same logic that lead to German dependence on Russian natural gas.
I find thinking about my future self motivating. Why wouldn't I want to do something nice for me?

Much more effective than thinking about what I "should" do.
That's a reasonable question, and one I asked myself. I considered some options:

- "Piece of art" didn't communicate engagement with the item as art

- "Work of art" is often used to mean a masterpiece

- "Artwork" is a neologism of the sort I avoid

Finally, "objet d'art" communicates appreciation as art, but not necessarily any artistic quality, and it's a phrase people use in this context.

While we're asking irrelevant questions, why are the majority of your comments questions and criticisms of trivial matters of wording? Obviously, we agree that words are important, but it's equally important to engage with the intended meaning of those words.
Precisely. The important thing to remember is that the Internet isn't designed to keep you anonymous. If anything, its fundamental design is deeply collaborative, cooperative, open, and auditable. The pseudonymity most people enjoy is the lack of observation, not an intrinsic property of the medium.

Everything from your final destination for traffic to the physical origin point to which you're connecting to the network is known by somebody who is by default under no obligation to keep it a secret (unless otherwise legally bound).
No, because there's no legitimate expectation of loyalty to a 'class', so one can't be a traitor to it (see also "race-traitors" etc). Armed thugs arrested people who were against the monarchy. (Well, I guess I should say "allegedly", since I haven't personally confirmed it, but I don't see any particular cause for scepticism.)
Not worth it. Interest groups can have very long timelines. Think Federalist Society. Besides I wouldn't even expect a group as small as the senate to be able to record votes this way and keep it secret. Better to control who votes, but keep how they vote anonymous.
The only reason to have “per cent” (%) as a concept is because decimal fractions weren’t invented yet when per cent was first used; until the past few centuries arithmetic was almost exclusively done in terms of integers or ratios (or various mixed units depending on the material being measured). Using 1/100 as a generic unit was a work-around to make numbers less than one easier to compare and recognize by turning them into 2-digit whole numbers instead of needing to do a careful computation to judge between say 5/13 vs. 3/8.

There’s not really any particular advantage to saying 0.005 of the amount (or 1 – 0.995 of the amount) vs. 200 times less. Personally I find it significantly less clear (though not really any more or less “impressive”), because doing mental decimal arithmetic takes some extra effort and leaves more room for confusion. That is, it is easier to reason about multiplying or dividing some quantity by 200 vs. multiplying or dividing by (1 – 0.995).

But the two numbers are reciprocals; this is grade-school rational arithmetic, not some kind of trick.
in late 2011 my teacher was giving a motivational speech about steve jobs and i was the only one to recognize jobs from an old photo the teacher showed us. so even the more public facing influences are not widely recognized for there past works.

I also feel ritchie's death was overshadowed by jobs death, despite his life having a more fundamental impact on this industry.
I get that, but if we can provide a safe single cable option, it's clearly preferable for a number of reasons. I don't believe this converter being badly made means the whole spec is not viable.
I'm currently going through my second company implementing SAFe. The first one no longer does it, and I'm likely to quit here because of the adoption. You should try to experience first-hand rather than come to a conclusion from random detractors and random SAFe consultants. My single piece of data: If I poll all the software developers who I've worked with directly under SAFe, some hate it, many just live with it, but NONE are huge boosters or advocates. I think that speaks to disconnect between SAFe advertising and SAFe reality.
Would Linus accept a language for core Linux work that came with a 1% penalty?
The only reason they sell in USD (aside from stability) is that they buy things in USD (weapons, financial services, US investments). THAT is what keeps the US dollar value higher (which isn't a good or bad thing in and of itself). This isn't a conspiracy, it's no different to how you sell your labour in USD instead of asking for bitcoin...
Synology uses mdadm to create the array, then formats the resultant block device as btrfs. Btrfs's RAID code never touches your data.
There is genetic evidence of grizzlies acquiring polar genes over the eons likely due to glacial advances and retreats altering habitats and cutting-off populations temporarily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly–polar_bear_hybrid#Anci...
>"Are you suggesting we sanction Saudi or drop sanctions on Russia? I buy the hypocrisy argument, but don't understand the direction of the whataboutism?"

Where did you see any mention of dropping sanctions on Russia? The post seem to advocate sanctions on Saudis. The US has oil. And yes Saudis are sensitive to sanctions. Not sanctioning Saudis just shows true colors to the rest of the world. See one day you are telling that some XYZ country is bad, bad, bad and the next day whatever bad they do is suddenly ok since it plays to your minute interests. I think that the reaction of any normal person would be something like fuck yourself and go preach your moral values to some other gullible idiots.

I do understand the danger though. There are currently whole bunch of not so unimportant countries like China, Russia, India etc. They lately seem to show various degrees of go fuck yourself attitude when it comes to sharing the agenda. of the West. Having Saudis join the block will not do the West any good.

No idea how to get out of this situation. However not selling them weapons should be a must.
The more domestic profit there is on oil the more impossible it will be to stop before all the profit opportunity is gone.
No. You could just say “I’m biased in favor of the Green Party” or “against the Pirate Party”
Please use old.reddit.com when linking from HN :(

Maybe dang could even make it an automatic redirect?
Not dismissing physical abuse at all. That’s not a stick, nor a stone. I’ve had numerous bones broken. Some because of me. Some because of others. Some from my parents. One from my child (technically my fault).

Both forms of abuse hurt. When the abuse goes on for a long time it feels like it takes 10x as long to heal.
Some of the interesting goals from the repo: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cowasm:

- There is no business unfriendly GPL code in CoWasm. CoWasm itself is extremely liberally licensed and business friendly.

- Unlike emscripten, we use modern Typescript, our code is more modular, and we make use of existing components when possible (e.g., the nodejs memfs project), instead of using our own.

- A core design constraint is to efficiently run on a wide range of platforms, not mainly in the browser like emscripten, and not mainly on servers like wasmer. CoWasm should run on servers, desktops (e.g., as an electron app), an iPad/iOS app, and in web browsers.
Yes, I got into Peterson a few years back when there wasn't much politics around his work then I became more and more confused about what he was actually saying and now I just avoid it as it seems to be too political. I wish he'd stuck to psychology.

His deplatforming from Twitter was interesting, because about a month before he had sworn of the platform and said he was only going to post for promotional material etc, he didn't stick to it, said something they weren't happy with and then was suspended. I feel his need for attention hurts his message quite a lot.
What SAFe does is provide some sort of visibility and accountability to senior management. (Which waterfall did before it) Until the Agile community can come up with a reliable way of identifying and firing the low performers for senior management, they will keep pushing down requirements like SAFe on the organization. Fortunately, the level of opacity between budget managers (P/L) vs execution managers usually doesn't get this bad until you've got 10 - 20K employees.
My opinion is that the 2nd book is the best of the trilogy, followed closely by the 3rd. The 1st, I could have done without, except that there's some information that will help make sense of things in the 2nd. Maybe a good summary can replace the 1st book entirely for some readers.

To answer your question, I think it's worth reading them. I enjoyed them both. There are some smart ideas in there, the Dark Forrest Theory being probably the most famous, and one in particular that is overlooked: an interesting (fictional) explanation for dark matter. There are some good characters too. Also, they're better written (or maybe better translated?).

The story progresses faster into the future, with some characters remaining present throughout the books (cryonics FTW), and there are some ups and downs, so it's not all dark and gloomy and pessimistic. But overall, I maintain that the story is one of pessimism.
Perhaps that seemingly at least half of the articles are hit pieces, and that lack of integrity is worth discussion.
> The Web is not meant to be a property of Google.

i'm not sure where you read in that that Google is owning this whole thing. They're just the first out the gate with working OPFS, so that's the implementation we worked against to get this up and running with sqlite. Google has worked with the other browser vendors from the start on the API.
It's remarkable that the finance crowd is so attached to this anachronistic tool. It's almost as if the C-64 were the favorite tool for writers, and Commodore still made it just because of that.

But then, the life and blood of the global financial system runs on Excel, so I'm not sure why I would be surprised by this.

In retrospect, we should have gotten them addicted to Lisp machines and Silicon Graphics workstations ;-)
It would be stupid for politicians not to investigate their opponents, for example the Republicans when they hired Steele to investigate trump. Investigating trump turned up multiple crimes and led to several convictions, there was plenty there and in an ideal world it would have kept him out of office.

Elon investigating folks who are trying to rescue kids because he's mad he got called out for a performative attempt at helping the same kids is much more shallow. Not reasonable in my opinion for him to behave that way. I'm unaware of others like him that do similar things.
He said on Joe Rogan that the problem was that “climate means everything and you can’t model everything” - which is not an opinion, it’s just false: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/27/word-sal...

Here’s his comments about appeasement (taken from his 51 minute documentary about it): https://youtube.com/shorts/cj2axyfmcoE?feature=share

The proceeding examples are crimes because they are untruths that will cost human lives.

—-

In this video he uses the technique: https://youtu.be/Qnzd5w2FSr4

And as he says about Elliot Page: “this person is a role model and will be emulated, they have a responsibility” this applies to Peterson himself.
I would rather use strategic resources located elsewhere first...

Also seems like there are many other things we could do w.r.t. the Saudi government if we wanted to short of "well, shit, guess the only option is domestic drilling" so this seems like a wild digression with no real relevance here.
If the votes are visible at any time at all then it still defeats the purpose. There is so much revolving door and if you promise the person bribing, I mean lobbying you that you'll vote one way and it's revealed you didn't, then they lose their future lucrative private sector "jobs"
Yes, an app on a platform that isn't the metaverse.

The Quest operating system, and the Meta app store, are obviously not the metaverse... the metaverse is a universe of shared 3D spaces. That's Horizon Worlds. The spaces are the "worlds".
It's not even X millions, lots of Congress critters have been bought for much less. Still, most citizens can't donate 20k to 50 Congress critters on the same committee to get their agenda pushed through.
If the dinner bill is split it is ok, otherwise it can be considered bribery.
Print something wise and spread these letters among people.
If being stressed means you get something done, maybe it's worth it. But if you get so stressed it prevents you getting things done, that definitely isn't worth it.

That helps me set an upper bound on my own mental suffering.
Very lean indeed.
That's still the exact same dystopian take: complying with the law is too hard for Google so the law should change to the detriment of smaller entities.
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Clearly it's not a huge deal, but it's still preferable. Not having to route for SATA drives thanks to the rise of M.2 is often praised by people who build PCs, and it's a similar kind of deal. A new spec that is more convenient is still a selling point vs the old spec on new PSUs.
looks like a duplicate, but it has no discussion. I'm not OP of either of these but I'd love for this to get to the top to foster a discussion about their approach (which seems exciting)
I read a bunch of the author’s guides and purchased an ICX6610 as my main switch for home and an ICX7150-C12P for my attic, with a 10gbe fiber link between the two. It’s total overkill but both are really nice pieces of equipment. I use the PoE features for my UniFi wifi setup, and plan to hook up a home server I run to one of the 40gbit ports.

The ICX6610 is pretty loud so it needs to be away from living areas, but the 7150 is fanless and silent.
"You don't have to get upset about anything unless you want to."
One needs to pay attention to the term "open source" in their repo. These days, there are efforts to shield OSS products from those who would simply drop them into AWS and take away part of one's financial model. That happened to Mongo, ElasticSearch, Neo4J, and who knows what else. So, there are all manner of new kinds of licenses which are not OSS approved. While it's true that this product's source code is open for viewing -- it's there in the repo -- one particular folder: /premium contains code which is not OSS and subject to a license which is the equivalent of an "annual maintenance fee - per seat" which many AGPL vendors sell to those who want to work around the AGPL license. I see it as a novel (compared to others) approach, but, when you consider what code they put into /premium, you have to ask: what good is the platform to me without those components?

I think we will continue to see creative ways to block misbehaving capitalists who take advantage of the OSS comunity.
Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin

Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir by Fred Herbert

Hacker's Delight by Henry Warren

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If a screen reader can navigate it, a bot can do it too. And they must comply with accessibility regulations.
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Taking sides require a certain degree of context so if you are really clueless, you shouldn’t take sides till you know enough
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I'd guess the one important application of fuel cell tech that people often appear to forget is going to be long haul trucks where it'll replace the diesel power train.

It's a big chunk of overall land transport that IMO in the long-term won't have other technologically/economically viable options besides the fuel cell.

Rail doesn't serve the last few miles to the destination.

Electric trucks are viable for short distances.
Trucking dozens of tons of cargo over distances > 500 miles isn't going to roll well with carrying another 3-5 tons of battery. And having to recharge that at 2 MW every now and then would require a very reliable/available and ubiquitous high power charging infrastructure.
I chose the life I have right now. Everything I did is based on choices I made on how to react on certain situations. This also means that I can choose the life that I want.

Introspection led me to replay my life objectively and got me to an understanding about how much assumptions I add to what really happens in my life. These assumptions were choices that twisted my perspective on many, many things. It was not my parents, siblings, friends nor the environment that made the choices, it was all me.

With the life I have now, I choose to be happy so I am presently happy.
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A lot of companies forbid employees from having vendor-paid for lunches, among many other restrictive anti-bribery policies. I'd go so far as to say private companies are more ruthless about this than the government.

Ironically enough, I'm pretty sure these companies do a lot of lobbying.