VRay

It worked out well for the guy who made Stardew Valley, I have to admit!

How does that work? Couldn't you fire the board and reinstate yourself if you wanted to at that point?

Man, I hear a lot of horror stories about working at Walgreens and the like on Reddit, even among pharmacists

I guess that just going there part time as part of a bigger plan will be a lot lower-stress than trying to make a living off it, but that still sounds like a bad idea

You might be better off working as an engineer for a year and then saving 3-4 years' worth of minimum wage money instead

I had a friend who really regretted using his savings to try and bootstrap businesses though, since he was still working at Amazon in his 60s

I have nothing but sympathy for a dishwasher or a random office worker who gets mistreated by the system

Software engineers, technicians, build engineers, sysadmins, etc are a different story. You have the power to change your circumstances, and it sucks that the world works this way, but you're going to have to use that power.

And yet you're collecting insane amounts of data with little or no way to opt out of it, and storing that data in a country where the secret police can rifle through it any time with effectively no oversight.

My guess is his friend had a 6-7 figure net worth and loaned him a 3 figure sum, otherwise this doesn't make any sense to me

Now you follow The Way of the House Husband

Comeon, man, you're reading HackerNews

Everyone here is ridiculously hireable right now

If things suck, just save up 6 months' worth of expenses and quit to start a SaaS business. If it blows up in your face, start looking for a new job when you're down to about a month of runway.

No sweat!

Amen

I got up late today, so I barely have time to make pancakes and coffee before I have to leave for my day’s slavery.. if I’m late, I’ll have to do the slavery in my underpants at home until the morning meetings are over. Then I’ll drive to my slavery and be stuck there for 5-6 hours, with only lunch and snack breaks. Unless I need to take off early to run errands anyway

The whole point of the thread is that a shady executive could use the same backdoor processes to get whatever he wants in an untraceable fashion, the same way that our trustworthy and noble government does

Man, that is some next level "don't feed the trolls"

Alas, I am human and must therefore engage with any algorithms I come across..

Hey Mr. Socher, I see that you've changed the site to allow anonymous searches. I just tried it out, and I have to admit, it worked really damn well for finding a pancake recipe. Good luck!

It's crazy, man. I'd expect it from Microsoft, but it blows me away that Google went this route

Facebook went from ZERO firmware expertise to where they are today. They're still asking idiotic, irrelevant leetcode questions and filtering out a lot of good hardware/firmware people, but it's entirely possible that in a few years they'll actually have a world class device team up and running.

Maybe Google was just too short-sighted. They kept trying to jimmy VR into all the world's low-quality phones, and then gave up really quickly after that proved unworkable.

I want to live in the techno-libertarian Utopia you think this is

The linked post is the useless info here. The dude randomly picked 3 words that come up in conversations sometimes and decided there’s an ancient widespread philosophy around them, then spouted it on his blog.

Japanese people are the kings of throwing perfectly good stuff away and replacing it. They build their houses to last 20ish years, and a lot of them buy EVERYTHING at the dollar store.

Aren’t there a ton of procedural tricks that giant companies can do to make lawsuits very expensive and difficult to win?

yeah, it's pretty funny, Google was so far ahead of Oculus/Facebook on AR tech that they made Oculus look like a joke. It's a real "tortoise and the hare" situation

Man, this is a really weird thread. I don’t vocalize my thoughts internally either unless I need to formalize and remember them. My guess is that the people who can’t imagine not having an inner monologue just don’t take control of that process, since I can’t imagine they’re unable to think at all without mentally vocalizing things.

And now it sounds like a lot of meditation is training to be able to think the way you or I do, haha.

Is there any useful, productive research out there about this stuff? The only time I’ve come across any convincing or scientifically rigorous psychology was when Feynman did some for fun in his spare time and wrote about it

Well, I tried to find a pancake recipe on "stovetop.app", "you(dot)com", and "get-sentinel" and so far I'm 0/3 on recipes and 3/3 on irritation for Nov. 9th HackerNews search engines

..holey moley, I just found something that works! I bookmarked a super weird search engine someone linked here a while back, and it actually returned useful search results immediately: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=pancake+recipe&pro...

that led straight to: http://online-cookbook.com/goto/cook/rpage/000DDF , which is possibly the best recipe site I've ever seen in my life. It's just an ingredient list and a paragraph of text below it!

You went to the trouble of showing "To see results and get the convenience of you.com, you’ll need to add the you.com Chrome extension" when you could have just showed me the **** search results.

This isn't making it more convenient, bro. You(dot com) just wasted my 10 seconds.

You're stabbing yourself in the leg in order to spite Google

Oh, that's good to know. Maybe it's time to invest in a kitchen scale. (And I'll buy an actual cookbook while I'm at it, so I won't have to deal with this SEO disaster any more..)

EDIT: Hey, wait, I actually found a good website with recipes: http://online-cookbook.com/goto/cook/rpage/000DDF

and a good search engine: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=pancake+recipe&pro...

Private companies (theoretically/ideally) don't have the power of life and death over you

Haha, yeah. I wanted to turn my flour, milk, and baking powder into pancakes, but it’s surprisingly nightmarish to get the two floating point numbers I need in order to get the ratios right

“Why not simply…”

Man, what a disappointing thread.. the BBC site is great except it’s all weird British ingredients and units (how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale?)

The OP’s site is a really nice search engine, but it dumps you into the recipes’ unreadable SEO trash pit websites instead of parsing out the data

PlainOldRecipe isn’t working to strip recipes down for me

When eth was dirt cheap, you could send $5,000 overseas in 10 minutes for $2, with just a half percent of slippage on the trades to and from fiat currency and ~1% price movement up or down

Yeah, theoretically it just used $2 worth of electricity somewhere in the world, but I’m pretty sure PayPal is going to do something nefarious with the $100+ you’d have to give them for the same service

It kinda sucks in its current state, but theoretically it has a lot of promise as a cheap and open source alternative to PayPal and a lot of banks’ services

At this rate, I don’t know if that’s ever going to come about.. looks like it’s just gotten bogged down in ways to increase its value at the cost of its utility..

Man, I kinda feel like embedded software is doomed. There are only a dozen or so companies where embedded software is a first-tier product for them that gets a lot of resources put into it. It feels like everything is moving toward using super low-quality Chinese drivers/firmware and really badly-designed microkernels (or treating linux like a microkernel) to squeeze all the functionality out of the OS and into bad managed software stacks.

Then again, any company that takes firmware engineering seriously can make devices 5+ years before Moore's Law makes it feasible for others, so maybe there'll always be room for us.

Yeah, I hate Facebook as much as anyone, but they’d have way too much to lose by deploying some sort of zero day-based hidden listening tools

I guess the financial incentive might be there for some shady ad network to do it, but that’s just so much risk to take on for such a tiny gain per infected phone..

Nothing like this ever happens to me with Alexa or Siri always listening, but I have all my web browsers locked down and I don’t use any Facebook apps/sites

I think you need to look into how pervasive and creepy ad network tracking is: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/locat...

Node is a nightmare

I can get a decently functional UI app working in native code with just the SDK for whatever platform it’s on, but try to use React and suddenly I’ve got a web of 200 dependencies, each more shady than the last. And that’s just for “hello, world”

Plus the JavaScript engine is single-threaded and insanely slow.. it’s gross. I’m guessing that one of these days app developers are collectively going to snap out of it and throw Node in the trash