jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In contrast to the essay, my hypothesis is currently that interest is developed. I used to be in the 'born talented camp', but then after reading Peak, The Talent Code, and other books on the subject (and essentially reviewing the research) I developed a 'born interested' hypothesis. In other words, some are born with innate interests that drive them toward deep and intense practice, developing skills and abilities or knowledge, that make them 'outliers'. Peak touches on this subject, and while it is certainly true that some level of interest is inherent, the (preliminary?) evidence is that this is only an inclination.

My personal experience (speaking as someone who is somewhat of an expert in a rather obscure oceanographic sub-field) is that the development of talent and interest (can) go hand in hand. You dig in, develop some skills, this opens up some possibilities that encourage (and provide encouragement) for you to develop further interest and further abilities, etc. The most radical form of the hypothesis is that we can develop a deep interest in almost anything. The 20 yr old me had no interest in the things that I am deeply interested in now.

For parents and future parents I will note that in contrast to PG's suggestion, having children has been a significant motivator and my best work has resulted in part from the desire to provide for them. It was also produced during the last 10 yrs that I have been a parent. I am far from any kind of genius or outlier however, and it seems likely that the time required to be one would conflict with the time spent raising children.

Overall, the evidence is that the brain is extremely pliable, that elite performers in any field put in many intensive hours of practice, and that to some extent their deep interest in their field developed over time. Perhaps conclusive research about the innateness of interest is out there. In the mean time, I also experiment with encouraging the depths of my children's interests.
> (...) The paths that lead to new ideas tend to look unpromising. If they looked promising, other people would already have explored them.

an ode to metaphorical basement dwellers and a warning to those roaming illuminated paths

Nasreddin lost his ring in the basement of his house. He went outside and began searching. A curious passerby asked what he was doing.
"I've lost my ring" he said. "Where did you lose it?" asked the man.
"In the basement of my house" he replied. "Then why not look for it there?" said the man. "Because it's dark in my basement, and I can't see a thing in there!"

> (...) But as with any hedge, you're decreasing reward when you decrease risk.

and a tool recently mentioned here for evaluating bets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
First step of sign up requires an email.
Second sep verifies the email is active.
Third asks you to set a password.
They could be harvesting credentials and reverting on password reuse.
> It's not a very meaningful similarity

Hanja characters which are shared both in the Korean language and also Japanese language are actually quite meaningful. So much so, that persons literate in Japanese and Korean can get the gist of phrases and sentences written in both Mandarin and Cantonese.

Hanja characters are basically pictograms, not phonemic representations, and are quite different from the glyphs that make up the Latin alphabet.
Is there a way for an individual to check if he's in the dataset ? I am curious about what kind of data they'd have aggregated around me.
Before I read the article, I thought the “bus ticket” was referencing William Sidis, who in the early 20th century gave a mathematics lecture at MIT at 10, a Harvard student at 11, was expected to revolutionize math but then dropped out of the public eye to write strange books, one being an etymology of train and bus tickets across the US, collecting several thousand unique stubs. I bet that you could learn a lot about the flow of ideas and culture in the US from such a strange artifact, and while I agree with much of what PG says here, his definition of utility leans towards the economic sense.
Also of note, Knuth has a section on his website devoted to photos of traffic signs!
Give Directly press release ...

https://www.givedirectly.org/how-do-cash-transfers-impact-ne...

Direct link to paper ...

https://www.givedirectly.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Gene...
I've been typing for 36 years now (since I was a child), and have never had RSI once, or anything close to it.

I think it's because I never learned to touch-type "properly". I use most of my fingers, and I type very fast, but I'm not hitting the "correct" keys with the "correct" fingers - I'm just following whatever comfortable patterns I've burned into muscle memory over all these years.

If someone asked me to describe exactly what I do - where my hands and fingers hover, which ones hit which keys, etc., I wouldn't be able to answer properly without first filming myself.

I did once try to learn to touch-type "properly". It didn't feel comfortable and started to hurt after only doing it for a little while, so I stopped.
I don't. I find it way easier to concentrate without music.
I think you're both right and that there's a lot of nuance.

Central banks (who, let's be honest, are not terribly tech savvy folks nor advised by such) are still coming to the realization that a currency can be replaced with code, compute, and apps. Yikes. That sort of disruption is a kick in the teeth to folks who previously have held significant power (a currency is an expression of power). A monetary hegemony works until it doesn't. I will be the first to go on the record as a huge crypto skeptic, but I can buy crypto through my brokerage and am (unintentionally) invested in it by way of SPY->TSLA->Bitcoin, so the financial system has lent credibility to crypto (you can also trade bitcoin futures on the CME, the same exchange you can trade soybeans, oil, eurodollars, and all sorts of "legitimate" financial derivatives [1]).

Crypto is best suited for trustless systems. Can you trust central banks to not race each other to devalue their currencies? You cannot, nor is it likely their interests are aligned with yours. Their allegiance is to the system and the status quo.

I don't know what the future holds, but if technology can provide a store of value that can't be devalued on a whim, I believe there will be a demand for that service. Bitcoin and similar are the first iteration, one should expect improvements as the technology evolves. At the highest levels, this is less about a currency you can spend and about power and control, with such struggles previously confined to relations between nation states, and historically it is very rare anyone with this amount of power gives it up willingly [2].

[1] https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/products/

[2] https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/ (long read, worth it)
Isn't it what China does
Censoring those who create violent atmosphere
The problem is that companies like Facebook and Twitter are already operating like the public town square. They are so big that they have greater influence and reach than virtually all countries, in a product space that is highly dependent on network effects. They are, for all intents and purposes, a public utility. And they should be held accordingly to the standards - namely that they cannot censor content, in support of free speech principles.
Nice. But with that kind of money they can make a proper Linux client already.
Fox (however detestable you may find it) was created as an alternative to the corporate media hegemony on thought, I fear you have it backwards.
Yes STIR/SHAKEN is supposed to be in place in like 3 months...

I'm curious to see if it rolls out as smoothly as we hope.
and here we see why css is often write only.
Sure not directly maybe. But they could go after Boeing or Nike or Starbucks.

But my sense is that the ccp likes their “Sputnik moment”.
another request here. Sorry to hound you, but digging that up would be awesome.

The Ubuntu documentation could use some help.
In the Linode model, the user must keep their Linode instance for at least 90 days to get the $20 credit. Since the cheapest Linode plan is $20/mo, that means Linode makes at least $40 per referral. Even if that was a 2-sided incentive (the referred user gets a free month too), Linode makes at least $20 per referral (minus costs, so you have to watch your margins).
Oh, I can think of wiimote minigames that won't stand very well with Nintendo :)
Lots of info. Could use some Tufte love.
'Happy Christmas' remains awkward.
>Monads are just not that confusing: they're simply values with added context, along with functions that let you interact with those values without losing the context. It's a shame that this powerful idea is so obscured by its supposed difficulty.

This is a typical thing in mathematics.
Make sure you profit off of the referrals.

Edit to elaborate: Since you specifically mentioned referral models that give credits, read what I just wrote about Linode's referral model above (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2048246)
I don't mean to sound facetious, but it is simple - you must pick up the phone and maintain relationships by talking to people and organising to see them. No magic formula here, just take action.
Firefox's ad blocker is still ahead of Chrome's; if I remember correctly the browser's API limits what Chrome's ad blocker can do.
FTA:

"Of course, the use of your microphone with these apps is well understood by users, because that's the main purpose of the app.

The new apps are often sneakier about it. The vast majority of people who use the Color app, for example, have no idea that their microphones are being activated to gather sounds.

Welcome to the future."

With all due respect those users are morons. Color is, rightly, proud of their "snooping" technology. People who use Color will probably know it records audio through the microphone.

The proper question is: to what extent may people be permitted to degrade their privacy? For example, if both parties in a two-way call agreed to have the call recorded for advertising purposes, and to have ads interjected once every two minutes into the media stream, in exchange for the call being free, should that be allowed?

The Libertarian in me says yes. But sometimes people need to be protected from their own stupidity. Or do they? Hmm.
You should probably start looking to see where folks of shared interests hang out or attend relevant events. It helps with both starting a conversion and keeping one going.

If things click then conversation will likely move outside the event and into people's own lives. That's when the friendships start.

YMMV(but worked for me)
How does that work with shared folders?
Could I reach out to someone at Grooveshark here?
Definitely good to see the other side's response and see what forked tongued baloney it is...

"... our good faith offer to provide RunwayFinder a free license during negotiation for a constructive resolution to our dispute and absent any demands by FlightPrep"

IANAL but, as others have said, "absent any demands" could be interpreted as "if you're willing to roll over and accept our utterly bogus patent.

"constructive" just as much meaning "profitable to our rent-seeking schemes"...

And somehow the pilots community is against software patents? I wouldn't imagine this an militant group of hacker. But after this experience, it seems they've learned a little bit...
Everything being fine isn't much of a news, is it?
Maxima plus Sage Math wrappers works more appropriately, I think. Though I would prefer a faster language than Python for such systems. Something like Sage but with Julia.
I don't have any inclination towards the tweets author being right or wrong, I simply know too little about it. But at least they are providing something to try to back up their claim. If it's true or not will ultimately be up to law enforcement, if it comes to that.

My point was that the tweets author is trying to back up their claim while DJBunnies did absolutely nothing to try to back up theirs.
Location: Russia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C++, Haskell, Nix/NixOS, Docker, 3D Graphics (OpenGL/DirectX), Javascript/node.js/React, SQL, clouds/dedicated servers

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quyse/

Github: https://github.com/quyse

Email: quyse [at] quyse [dot] net

I'm hands-on generalist developer with ~10 year experience. Worked in gamedev (graphics/engine/network, industry and indie), co-founded blockchain analytics startup in backend/infra/devops role. Self-learning new stuff as needed, specializing into whatever areas required.

Not afraid of algorithms (participated in competitive programming) and so would love to work on science- or algorithms-packed project. May also be a good fit for wear-many-hats tech co-founding role / early employee of a small startup.
Probably University of Washington not allowing downloading of their material. Or you should just try it again a bit later.
Haven't we had enough of Beatles-on-iTunes posts?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1910177

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1910211

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1910185
Great idea! I wonder why you aren't using github (or bitbucket, etc) for hosting the project. I personally think that early projects can benefit from tools like that, since people can follow the progress (issues, bugfixes, etc) and access the code without cloning the repo.
Nice to have some c# submissions.

Looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.
This is best response. By miles. Later in your career you can make the big bucks. For now the best experience is the best thing.

And, changing companies is the best way to get the salary bump, unfortunately.
That may be, and on an individual level it makes sense to focus on diet and exercise.

From a science and a policy point of view it makes a lot of sense to investigate what might be causing N% of the population to balloon in weight if they maintain their default diets and levels of activity.

//edited to add

Reason being that it might be possible to give someone a pill or a treatment that allows them to consume tons of calories and be sedentary without the health drawbacks related to obesity. From a policy point of view that would be a big win.
At some point in a long living project, you have to declare some bugs are #wontfix. You are just lieing to yourself if you think you will ever get to the end of the bug backlog. It also can become an anchor, the team is focused solely on fixing bugs here and there instead of moving the ball forward (and hopefully fixing more fundamental problems along the way). I've made the call to mass close tickets like this. It's never fun, but sometimes you have to do it.

These ticket seem to fall into two buckets.

1) Pre Android 5.x bugs. I can understand why they don't want to invest here. Effort is definitely better spent trying to get more devices onto Android 5.x

2) Feature requests for apps. I bet a lot of these are either on a roadmap for a future version of Android, or are simply never going to be added.
You need Cash (to bribe)/Caste (to collude) to succeed as an Entrepreneur in India.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-no...
Email crackauc@mit.edu
I'm very interested. Sent you an e-mail.
> functionality was deprecated precisely because it WASN'T cross-platform

No, they've deprecated and removed far, far more than that. They've obsoleted and dropped fundamental containers and widgets which have been present right from the 1.x days. These changes represent hard compatibility breaks, each and every one of them. As an application developer, these are not improvements, but very costly.

And they even broke compatibility with their UI file formats, with no upgrade path.

Upgrading now requires hand-editing huge piles of XML. They could have written some simple XSLT transforms to provide an upgrade path, but they didn't. Or you have to hand-edit all of your sources. Either way, it's painful and with zero added value.

I don't expect a competently-maintained library to indulge in such huge breaking changes without a really, really good reason. The old functionality could have been retained, implemented entirely in terms of the new, but they just had to rip it all out for the sake of it. That's not maintenance with end developers in mind. It's a huge "screw you" to their actual userbase: application developers.
I feel like this is a misapplication of that philosophy.

Though my first exposure to (serious) exception handling was through the common lisp signal/restart system. So I view software has layers and the communication of errors up and down those layers. Rust for example provides this through Result types and either composing or implementing error types.

My point being that the parsing of a record of a service discovery system should crash just that parser process. Not the whole system of processes, the manager of those parser processes should note (log) that the parser crashed on a record and then ignore it (probably as part of a broader refresh system I would imagine). That would be the correct way to handle errors up and down because the point of a process is to do a computation and communicate through reliable channels. Crashing can be a reliable way to communicate (it is communication of an unreliable state, but the point of letting it crash is that the resulting crash can be seen as a reliable communication) and the manager of the parsing process should have had a case for it that wasn't just crash.
You mean the thing Elon musk constantly does?
Having an application that keeps working for decades isn't particularly rare in large companies. And yet the SAP applications are systematically among the worst ones to use, worse than the IBM terminal apps or a command line utility.
> It makes me wonder whether he is sincere in his new position.

Somebody who always says what he thinks without giving any thought to how it will be perceived, how it will affect his future relationships with people, his employment etc is probably not the person who will follow Hillary Clinton's lead and have "a public and a private" opinion.
> Why is the 30-pin connector better than a well-made micro USB connector?

Apple's 30-pin connector was released in 2003. And was undoubtedly in development for at least a year or two before that. It served Apple for nine years until 2012. It carried audio, video, FireWire, USB, and also charged connected devices.

In the span of those nine years, USB:

- didn't have a batter charging specification until 2007

- didn't have a power delivery specification until 2012

- deprecated mini-A and mini-B in 2007

- introduced a new connector in 2007

USB has always been a mess. Apple's connectors are the stability that people should strive for, not deride.
Yeah, an extra fifty minutes of life instead of an extra three seconds.
A massive robo-taxi company is well prepared to put several people going to a same place in a single taxi. I expect the full robo-traffic to actually be less than the traffic of vehicles occupied by owner alone.
Well its a tradeoff to get the instant social network of your phonebook.
It's probably possible to create a situation where a JVM process calls Rust code which then calls back to some Java function, if you're inclined to spend enough time hacking with JNI (is it possible to pass a function pointer out of JVM land?). But if you started as a native Rust process, there's no JVM runtime to call into, you'd need start that up first.
I found that up to +/- 4hr works , other makes life really hard
For example we have team in Singapore 12 hr diff , every communication is so delayed that is really painful
1) I've been donating to Doctors without Borders since I was 18 and help fund a project on Kiva every month or so.

If anyone's interested in researching where to give I also recommend checking out the Give Well foundation,[0] as it matters more how you give, than whether you give. i.e. there are millions of people who have partial or full blindness due to lack of vitamins. A simple $20 operation will restore their eyesight, which is gigantic. Alternatively, there are millions of blind people who will never be able to see. We have alleviate their blindness with a guide dog, but it costs $20k to raise and train the dog and blind person. That's a three order of magnitude difference in cost, and the 100x cheaper operation actually cures blindless, while the 100x more expensive option 'merely' makes a blind life better.

In other words, one person donating $100 can be much more effective (curing 5 people of blindness) than 100 people donating $200 (giving 1 blind person a guide dog). This is the sort of thing the Give Well foundation tries to approach in a data-driven manner: what is the most effective way to give. This is an extreme example, but I think it's a really important approach to charity.

2) Went to my mom's birthday today instead. Was fun to see family again.

3) 9PM, reall cold and dark now... but yeah, I'd really struggle with this one even in the afternoon. But I'll try to do it tomorrow.

Thanks!

[0] http://www.givewell.org/
Much previous discussion, claim and counter claim. Here's a search of previous submissions (plus additional hits of other topics):

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mars%20one&sort=byDate&prefix&...
I think you've hit the problem square with your last question.

The answer to "how do I take payments from my users?" is easy and there are several answers that you know off the top of your head (Stripe, Paypal, Kickstarter in certain circumstances) which are probably also the right answer. The answer to "how do I pay my users?" is much much harder. I don't know the practical answer for right now.

For the future, though, I think the answer will be blockchain currencies (think Bitcoin) and smart contract platform/currency hybrids (think Ethereum). These will let the internet route around county tax offices, kafkaesque licensing bureaus, and (probably, sadly) a lot of pro-worker labor legislation as well.

You /could/ do this right now: allow users who accrue credit on your platform to cash out either in USD (or your local currency, following your local laws and regulations) or in BTC. The problem is that the "real currency" side of things, even for one jurisdiction, will be a tremendous pain in the ass, and then that there is no significant constituency of people who use (or want to), or even understand blockchain technologies. It may also make your service come off as "scammy" or arouse suspicion, even among cryptocurrency advocates, since essentially anyone who holds the private keys to coin belonging to others is under suspicion these days.

Ethereum, Counterparty, and ilk provide some answers to the trust issue, but not a leakproof solution.

In short, I'm all ears too, and hope someone has a satisfying answer.
Why not? No need to restrict our fantasy investing to what people think is proper.
30GB month on Verizon is $120. That gets expensive fast.
I guess what I don't understand is why thought this was good news. Look around the world at countries whose economies depend on non-labor-intensive natural resource extraction. Saudi Arabia, Russia, etc. These resources form a natural monopoly and quickly become the subject of political power.
Please don't do this here. If you don't like an article, there are plenty of other things to read. Hopefully you might like some of those.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you have proper posture and a chair suitable for your stature? I'm sure the answer is yes, but a chair with a base too deep or too shallow could easily cause numb legs over an extended period of time.
Could you explain what you mean about YC not "fitting" with what a video game developer needs?