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> Notice how I didn’t say that the US can’t be evil.

Yes, you didn't, but the vibe of your message looks like whataboutism defense.

> Why focus on the US while Russia is going for textbook land grab à la Hitler?

Why focus on Russia while Israel is going for textbook land grab à la Hitler?

> Invading a country is very concerning, annexing it should considered unacceptable. Russia is doing the later.

Annexing a territory is very concerning, silently stealing the houses and land using settlers while killing civilians should considered unacceptable. Israel is doing the later.
Which stack? There are other ways of playing them today if you wanted to mess around for nostalgia-sake and also the creator of HC Simulator is quite responsive to fixing things that might not work quite right :)
TFG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y40RU5Nx6U
IME Airplay is too laggy for gaming.
My guess is that Puerto Rico and Cuba/Miami is a bigger market. I'm not sure you can put all of them in the same basket and I'm not sure how to call them to avoid ofending someone.
Singapore is the most boring, sterile place I've ever been. I'd take Tokyo, Taipei, or Hong Kong over it in a heartbeat. The entire country reminds me of a mall. William Gibson's 1993 Wired article "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" (https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/) is still as relevant as ever.

I saw a fascinating talk that convincingly argued that the Chinese Communist Party has taken its game plan over the last 30 years from Singapore, a de facto one party state led by the People's Action Party. It's interesting to note that this party was founded on socialist principles but is now firmly capitalist.
This was quite an interesting read, even though I didn't understand some of the details. QuickLook is basically tampering with the accuracy/completeness of the item by using a border and rounded corners. Whoever designed this may have believed that this looks nicer, but there's no good reason to remove information (even if a little bit) while displaying things.
I am not sure exactly what you mean, but I will try with the following advice.

See if you are able to define each element of your input data as a stochastic variable that you can sample from. Then make a function to generate a set of fixed value input data elements by sampling from the stochastic variables. Then run this many times to generate resulting basis vectors. Calculate relevant measures of variability from these vectors.
EU has no credit?
Singapore is more guilty of that than Switzerland. Singaporean banks are the post-FATCA Swiss banks.
So what they are doing isn't working now? They are making far less revenue than they will be in the future.
How well do you know math? Do you really know math?
Yes, if I gifted someone a gun and they used it to murder someone I would be angry and feel guilty.
It can be even worse. When you do a stellar level job, no one complains. When yu slip a little, you have thousands of users complaining about some minor setting showing wrong values: "This crap is useless, they can't even implement one value properly". And you get this after sitting three weeks chasing some obscure bug deep in some library from your hardware vendor.
Oh my god. Need to do some homework; have been treating nucleii as fixed point charges using BO.
> It's a lot better than homelessness though.

Yeah and that is why the lobbying power against housing-first, guaranteed/subsidized housing, basic income, unemployment benefits or healthcare not tied to workplaces and whatnot is so strong.

The only thing that keeps people from voting with their feet and leaving their toxic employers is the threat of losing healthcare and housing. Take that power away from the employers, and a lot will change on its own.
99.9% of people also don't vandalize toilets, buses, trains and other public amenities, it's the 0.1% that do that's the problem...
I used to be an employee that would kill themselves for even minimum wage.

I think being a hard worker regardless of reward is an honorable trait, but keeping that up for decades is difficult. Naturally I am very loyal and agreeable. I like to solve raw engineering problems, but also social ones. I find a way to adapt to pretty much anything and anyone.

This almost always ends with my employer exploiting me.

Recently I've switched it up. I focus for a solid 2-4 hours a day on my tasks, and I use the remaining time for learning. It keeps my mind moving and keeps burnout at bay. Even average engineers like myself can optimize their workflow endlessly. You have a few choices at that point. You can give your surplus labor back to your employer in exchange for raises, bonuses, promotions etc. You can take back those hours to improve your WLB. You can reinvest those hours into learning that benefits your current employer, but more importantly, makes you more attractive in the job market.

Right now I find myself consistently choosing the third option. Not because I'm focused on maximizing my earnings, but because it is the most fulfilling and enjoyable option for me.
There are a lot of other outlets to turn that job into something more fulfilling.

- People do their job to make money to provide for their families. For some, that's all the justification you need.

- If it pays well, donate a portion of your income to a charity that you believe in AND get involved with that charity. There are tons of great options out there like Habitat for Humanity, literacy programs, Shriner's, Boy Scouts or a local church just off the cuff. This turns your job into a way that you are helping your community through a organization with a greater purpose. It can shift your perspective.

Just providing some ideas. To each their own.
> How do you remotely detect if car stinks or not?

Why do you think they need to? These cars go to a centralize location every night, I would assume, and cleaning at scale can happen. How often do you think an Uber driver cleans their car in comparison?
That’s largely because the widely-reported 0.3% are the issuer’s takeaway, while the 3.5% are the (average? maximum?) cost to the merchant, so it’s not even an apples to apples comparison.

Out of the latter, three parties are paid: The issuer, the merchant acquirer, and the network.

Merchants pay significantly more than 0.3% to accept card payments even in Europe.

That said, US interchange rates (i.e. what the issuer gets) are much higher than 0.3%, which is why there’s credit card rewards.
If the only purpose of your life truly is to pay bills, that would cause anyone to burn out.
Curious about tech burn out as well on top of the job market. A lot of software that was once lauded are now poorly received by the public, so you either recognize the reality of your corporate work or persist in delusion.
You can donate to the US government: https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.h...
Show HN: Rubbrband – A hosted ComfyUI alternative for image generation
Hey HN! My friends and I built a new platform for generating images. The app is easy to use for people who find ComfyUI hard to use, or just simply don’t have a GPU to use it on.

For those not familiar, ComfyUI is a great tool for using open-source models like Stable Diffusion. It’s primarily great because it’s a node-based tool, which means you can chain together models, upscalers, prompting nodes, etc… which let you create images in the exact aesthetic you want. There’s also a vibrant dev community behind ComfyUI, which means that there are a ton of nodes and customizability.

We’re users of Comfy, but there are some major problems we’ve had with it. First is that it runs primarily on your own hardware, so if you don’t have beefy GPUs it’s not possible to use on your machine. Second, we found that the interface is rather clunkly. Lastly, the ecosystem is very fragmented. All extensions and workflows are scattered around Github/Reddit/Discord, which means new tools are hard to find, and also often times incompatible with your local installation of Comfy, which is super frustrating.

We built Rubbrband as own take on an image-generation tool, taking the customizability of ComfyUI, with the ease-of-use of something like Midjourney.

Here are the key features:

- Fully hosted as a website
- Use any Stable-Diffusion checkpoint or LORA from CivitAI
- Unlimited image storage
- Over 20 nodes, including SD, ControlNet, Masking nodes, GPT-4V, etc…
- Color Palettes control, Image References(IP-adapter), etc…
- A Playground page, for using workflows in a much simpler interface
- A Community page, for sharing workflows with others

Would love to get your thoughts! You can use the app here: https://rubbrband.com

We’re looking to also create an API so that you can create nodes on our platform as well! If you’re interested in getting early-access, please let me know!
I'm not "pivoting to a ML engineer" but in the last 2.5 months I've learned to some extent to use public models, use the tools and APIs to train and run them. That was a lot of reading with little code writing.

I didn't pivot into it, that was part of the project (object recognition in a video stream).

It helps if you work with small organizations that don't box you into a role but just give you stuff to do.
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Isn't almost every burnout condition based on self-reporting?
There are case where it creates psychosomatic effects but most cases people just express how they feel about their job, no?
> You get to meet the people whose lives are improved by what you do, every day.

dude have you ever been to high school?
To me, it seems like the spirit of Jony Ive is still around. Seriously, you should email Craig Federighi about this with (any links to) criticisms or images showing comparisons. Sometimes Apple takes action only when people high up are alerted.
Taking care of a school building could be way more fulfilling than working on ad-tech or some mobile-game funnels tricking people with black patterns (no reflection on you specifically).
This is it! People have a little bit of a screwed perception of what is „fulfilling“. Yes, there are people whose only kind of fulfilling may be working for a NGO that is trying to fight climate change, save kids in poor countries of the world or clean up the ocean from plastic waste.

While all of those are certainly noble goals, the vast majority of people doesn’t even shoot that high to find any kind of purpose. Most people are already satisfied and feel a sense of accomplishment when their job creates something of value for *someone*.

I had a job with a great paycheck, but spent 40 hours a week doing barely anything. It was fun at first, but it became physically exhausting. I have now a job with similar pay but I build apps that people actually use in their day to day work and quite enjoy, it’s significantly more stressful and demanding than not doing anything, but I don’t feel nearly as exhausted as I did with the previous job.

I’ve felt it myself and have heard others talk about it, but there is an increasing number of jobs that is either objectively useless or perceived as such (by the people employed in that job). Either way, it’s not surprising to me that burnout continues to be on the rise.
While these libraries are great, doing anything with them requires writing code. Hypercard was like PowerPoint, with a point and click GUI.
I think pretty much everything you mention is a solved problem.

To contrast, at work, we have some big fancy photocopiers that print too scattered around the floor. To print, you print to a 'smart queue' from the desktop, then you can walk up to any photocopier/printer and log in with your badge (same as is used for the doors/building access), and print whatever you printed to the 'smart queue'. If one printer is broken, out of paper, etc. (which has never happened to me), you could go up to any other printer in the organization and log in/fetch/print from there.

I guess the photocopiers take entire reams of paper of various sizes, and there's someone that refills them so they never run out. Probably there is some maintenance contract that keeps them all working.

Anyway, I'd say in my experience having worked there for five years, I can print with 100% reliability, and the 'smart queue' approach is much nicer than having to choose the 'right' printer from some big dropdown, sometimes accidentally printing something to some wrong far-off distant printer, etc.
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Isn't this what Ycombinator is all about? If you want fulfillment, start your own company and create the job that you are passionate about.
Looking at car ownership rates in the US over time and comparing to hypertension rates over time there doesn't seem to be much correlation.
I started using Fedora from more or less 2 decades ago. There was tones of different issue though. But it got much better since 18 or 19. I have upgraded it all the way to 40. There was one issue around Intel display driver which I had to enter console and uninstall the update. But other than that, I hardly had anything to complain about. Did not switch mainly because of VisualStudio and games. Windows 11 put the last straw onto the camel's back. Haven't tried Pop_OS yet, probably will try it someday if I got time.
It depends on the problems you have. If you need CUDA, then you married yourself to Nvidia. If you can use libraries that work equally well on both, then you would benefit.

When you are a government agency, it’s more palatable to spend the budget in a way it results in employment of nationals and development of indigenous technologies.
Are they bluetooth, or can real Switch controllers be connected to a smartphone?
Usually the response is 'not our problem'
I guess it can depend on any contracts or license agreements you sign or agree to.

I guess Microsoft products are a good example. Of course, there can be a different with "real" physical products and software. :-)
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Height, it was same height until you rotated LCD killing this nonsense argument :)
No. I use ML in academic research and teach it. Some come close to what is done in "real-world", e.g. training and evaluating LLMs with real-world datasets.
Never liked Ubuntu. It's just a Debian variant that lost its way.
I'd argue that it's harder to quit compulsive eating than it is to quit compulsive smoking. You can't go cold turkey on food
I second that academia can be terrible for burnout. In an experimental subject, experiments that can take months to prepare can fail for reasons that you can't do much about, and all you can do is start over.

I used to describe this feeling to my wife as if sometimes someone would come along from time to time and wipe your hard drive.

Even though my current job can be a grind, at least we rarely have to just throw away work.
> Most companies only care about the next quarter, or next investor call. Quality be damned, cut corners, work late. It's a never-ending series of death marches.

Or next round of funding.

> Quality be damned, cut corners, work late. It's a never-ending series of death marches.

Ditto on working in a startup.
Exactly this, the current top comment decries how their sales were affected by Teams, but there is no moat on video-calling software. Without a unique proposition disruption was bound to come knocking. Apple bundles Team's-like functionality with FaceTime, but it's not being targeted. The EU's position is largely driven from who is successful.

But what is success? Anyone who has a pre-existing relationship with the customer is going to be able to have the opportunity to inform the customer about their new products, brand trust and convenience go a long way in co-selling.

People that make basic apps frequently complain that they have had their app "stolen" when a, typically larger, competitor releases similar functionality. However was it truly their "idea", or were they just an early entrant that squandered their early lead?

The majority of ordinary computing functions of today started out as 3rd party applications, some churn is expected - I don't see it as innovation if we give companies false monopolies on ideas. If Apple can't protect the iPhone paradigm as a unique combination of features, no one should expect to keep possession of simpler or smaller ideas.
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I remember his apperance on those nickelodeon outdoor showcases. I'll never forget when he said his blood type was "B positive" becaudd hes such a positive person
Another interesting option is PouchDB[0], which is a Javascript implementation of the CouchDB[1] synchronization API. It allows you to acheive eventual consistency between a client with intermittent connectivity, and a backend database.

[0] https://pouchdb.com/

[1] https://couchdb.apache.org/
I stated my own consulting company a few years ago. Right now, it's just me. But I plan on hiring employees at some point. Consulting has prevented me from burnout. I almost never have to deal with bullshit corporate politics and if I hate a project, I find a new client.
> Title insurance is a much bigger scam/cost.

Given the horror stories that crop up regularly on HN or Reddit, these insurances actually make sense.
So it’s just another LMS? The title made me think this was going to be pedagogical research.
Consider me a disappointed online educator.
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Mono is alive and well in https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/main/src/mono. It serves Android, iOS, WASM and s390x targets, maybe some other too. It is generally much slower than CoreCLR, but besides supporting more platforms, has features that CoreCLR lacks like IL interpreter (technically, CoreCLR has one too but it has been broken for years and is never used).

Ideally, iOS's Mono usage will be eventually replaced with NativeAOT, but for now it's still being worked on, not in the least in iOS-targeting GUI frameworks like MAUI to provide better NAOT compatibility. In addition, NativeAOT's linker/trimmer is based on Mono.Linker and Mono.Cecil, so the project became part of .NET as was intended.

But you are right in a way, because the above is often confused with a separate, outdated Mono distribution that some people incorrectly keep insisting on installing on their Linux systems.
This! I enjoy my work in tech, but it mostly never seems to have a beginning nor an end. There’s always the next iteration of work waiting on the horizon. Even though I could afford to hire out, I relished the opportunity to do a repetitive home task like mowing the yard. The mental satisfaction of seeing an unkept yard transform into clean edges, clipped blade mulch islands and more order than chaos - all as a result of the sweat from my brow - provided an internal joy that is hard to describe. There was a beginning, middle and end which soothed my soul and reminded me of what I miss during my regular work in tech.
> Isn't that strictly better?

I think that greatly depends on the VPN. For something like Wireguard with a tiny attack surface? Sure, you can make that argument. For something big and sprawling like a commercial VPN (or even something open source like OpenVPN) - I think unless you have some other reason to run that VPN system anyway, the VPN probably has more attack surface than OpenSSH (and, in all likelihood, a worse security record to boot.)

Also, consider that if you are running the VPN server on the same system as the SSH daemon, an attacker generally wouldn't need to compromise the SSH daemon after compromising the VPN server - they'd probably already have a root shell just from popping the VPN.
If there is any causation in a particular case it's often the other way around: burnout can cause long working hours.
I'm in a rural area with water provided by a private organization. Any issue is generally resolved within an hour or two.
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People usually refer to MacOS Automator and iOS Shortcuts, but those aren't remotely the same thing.
well, maybe something about satoshi, the king arthur or mithras of bitcoin ;)
> However there’s no reason we should rule out general purpose languages.

We’ve learned the hard way general purpose languages are poor for configuration at scale. I know first hand having worked on some of the larger prod infrastructures out there.

At scale, the best SRE’s out there still have trouble reasoning about the system and end up pushing bad config that takes down prod.

Languages like CUE really are different and better. CUE in particular hits the right balance for configuration of millions of lines of k8s yaml.
You might be magic. Crazy, crazy shit goes down on Muni. I used it to commute from outer Richmond to downtown for years and the bystander effect was fully powered up on many of those rides. And it wasn't always the homeless people, little old Asian ladies could be hella scary.
That sounds a lot like "The peasants should know their place".
What max can they do by hosting already publically available content!
I have spent extended periods of time living and traveling on really small 15-17ft sailboats with no electricity or modern tech together with a young kid, and never miss anything about modern life. I feel so much healthier and happier using my body and being outdoors vs in my usual desk job. To be fair I have a job, home, and health care waiting for me if anything goes wrong. But I am certain this isn’t just simple romanticism- living simply outdoors drastically improves my mental health, it is giving me something I need that modern life lacks- possibly the combo of natural light, constant exercise, and no chronic stress. It is physically demanding and often very uncomfortable- and I don’t mind because I feel so much more alive and engaged. If I did not have a family to support, and a career that I feel is important, I am certain I would be happier just living simply and mostly outdoors.
Why did you think being a hard worker regardless of reward is an honorable trait? I don't mean any disrespect but when i read sentences like that all that pops into my head is "sucker"
Unless you have had a career as a janitor, it is extremely patronizing to tell the janitors of the world how fulfilling they should find their jobs.
I've bounced back and forth between Fedora and Windows a few times in the past month. Windows has no reboot or BT problems.

The machine has previously had Ubuntu on it, but that was a few years ago. Ubuntu didn't have any problems so either it's Fedora-specific or kernel or driver changes since then are the root cause.
It was available initially for select paying users then rolled out to presumably all paying users, and this new announcement is that it's available for in general all users.
They cater to their audience. And, they would not dare to suggest anything that costs money.
it probably is a bit of a virtuous cycle but i'd argue that richer people generally demand more accountability and have more power to enact change from their local government than poor people - whether this is due to richer people being better educated, or having more free time to think about local politics, or a sense of entitlement for getting more out of society etc... i think they all play a part in being engaged in local politics and having agency to effect change.