skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'm kind of in the same position: I'm slow.

I do everything by the book, but in the end, everyone else does more.

I did notice that they're cutting corners, but then I tried to do it too, and I was still slower.

So, I'm still asking myself, am I slow or am I a perfectionist? I'd like to think it's the latter, but it may very well be that I'm slow.

My defense in my mind is that even cutting corners I try to do the important things right. It may be a lie I tell to myself.

That's pretty much what I got from this post, self-doubt.
Why is the webdesign so amateurish. I really don't understand these companies that can't put proper priority on having webpages that look really good and luxurious. Spend millions on great industrial design but can't spend the thousands for a decent sales page.
Tesla puts the brake lights on when you let it break by taking foot off accelerator.
Probably not willingly sacrifice themselves to the falcon I would guess.
While I understand that is a real risk (which is why I added my edit)... the average time someone in our company works is 45 hours with most being closer to 40 so I don't think it is having that effect.

More precisely, some people come in late (10:30 or so) and some people come in early (7AM or so)... I come in before the 7 AM people and leave after the people who came in at 10:30. But none of them work excessively. (except for me)
If there's money in it for someone, yeah.
I was just looking for this, all I saw was how awesome USB-C is, not that it charged with USB-C. Thanks!
I’d guess speed and prop redundancy
Of course. Oriental cultures place immense value on the concept of "face", that is, appearing adept, productive, and excellent in all things [0]. In the U.S., sometimes we think "it'd be a good idea to try to save face here" just as a sidenote, really. In Japan and China, "face" is a recognized thing with its own formalities and children are taught to avoid losing face even at significant personal cost. In such cultures, you can see how one guy pulling a bunch of overtime quickly escalates into forcing everyone else to do so too. This escalation is assumed so readily that this is just considered a given of the culture, as we read about in this thread.

[0] http://www.internationalman.com/articles/what-is-face-in-asi...
Amsterdam Introduces Contactless Payment Jackets for Beggars
AFAIK, Google hasn't said that EV certs are treated more favorably than non-EV. They were very public when they announced that HTTPS would be used as a ranking signal, so I'm not sure why they would keep it a secret if they gave special treatment to EV certs.
As a 3D gamer since 2011 (Nvidia 3D Vision), I completely know the feeling. It took me a few weeks to get used to it. The problem comes with screen resolution and processing power. If everything was 120 frames per second and 4k resolution (give it a few more years), I would bet a lot of people would be having less issues with nausea. And because you need 2x processing power (one per eye), its just hard to meet the requirements with our current technology (unless you spend $10k on a beast machine).
So I am being downvoted for having experience in the matter?
... But if you drop it won't it still rattle loose?
Perception is everything. You don't need to be good, you need to look good. On a tight schedule, deliver what was asked, and only that, even though you know other things are going to be necessary. When asked to estimate, try your best to give the longest you can get away with. Make it look or sound difficult. At the same time, do the hard work by yourself, figure things out on your own.

When asked to account for your time, use the opportunity to be good at creative writing. Give the most flattering and awesome impression about the time you spent.

Being competent is a pride for yourself only, for all others is whatever they want to see. Always act as if you are making less than you should. Act as, not be. Never stay working late, never work on weekends unless you are the one benefiting.

The value you give yourself will be the value people will give you.
Oh definitely, I was referring to things like Jira, Scrumm and the likes rather than industry standards.
Or perhaps a motivational poster? ;)

No, but as I pointed out in another post. The average number of hours worked is barely more than 40 so I think people get it.

As far as "out at five" goes... we have flex hours so some people don't even get in until 10:30... if they left at 5 it would be a very short week for them.
totally agree. The home button has also become an object of mystery. It seems to have several functions too many, and it's always doing one I don't want.
Anecdotally, yes. It does (and will) stop me from buying this and following models. Making people carry around (and forget / lose) an extra dongle to make up for removed functionality is the opposite of good UX. I will ride my iPhone 6 until it dies of HW failure (still mint condition now) and only then will I think long and hard about a successor. Ask me again in 6 years or so.
Were you wearing gloves when placing it on your lap?
Yes. I was referring to the relationship price-specs. Unless things have changed, a 1000$ thinkpad T won't probably buy you more than 8gb, an i5, possibly still a HDD (hopefully not anymore). I suppose people that are used to Macs won't see a problem with this, since Macs tend to be quite expensive, but it's still a bit of money, although I would rather spend this than buy a laptop that doesn't work well, like plenty of what's out there.
"mouse nipple"s are the best. I used to be able to play single player FPS games with it because I got so comfortable with it.

Nicest part is you leave the keyboard very little so for the few things I used the mouse for I'd have it but otherwise it'd be out of my way.

That said, I prefer Apple's trackpads these days because over all Apple hardware has been better to me than ThinkPads.
The same happened to yours. A bug in HN's truncation, I guess?
Find shows, movies, music that interest you. Watch them (with subtitles). Listen to it.

A lot of language learning exists below the "level" of words and sentences. The sound of a language.

And even when you progress to words and sentences, phrases, idioms, and the like differ. Gender exists, or differs. Native speakers don't memorize these. They learn by absorption. You are fortunate in that, with today's connected world, so can you.

P.S. The rest of it, e.g. working through texts, tutoring videos, and all that, I leave to you. Just remember: EXPOSURE. And that you can't and shouldn't try to consciously process and monitor it all. Steep yourself in it, and let your whole mind (including sub-conscious, or whatever we're calling it) process it.

P.P.S. Approach it this way, and you will find that some of the "much harder than when a child" belief doesn't actually really of fully apply. I became conversational in French, starting from zero, in about seven weeks when I was 22. In the middle of Vermont.
i've been waiting years now, not really a problem. When it's available I will install it on a test machine and make a copy of my live server's data there and then test it for a year.
I read these reports from Patrick with interest, but feel like he inhabits a different universe than I do.

Pinboard made $256K last year, so I operate in at least the same financial ballpark. But I do my taxes on TurboTax and have never spoken to an accountant or lawyer. My business is a sole proprietorship.

From my perspective, Patrick overcomplicates everything he undertakes with business processes and overhead. From his perspective, I'm probably a irresponsible slacker.

The upshot is that there are as many ways to run an online business as there are people, and how you do it depends as much on your personality as on objective factors. Big props to him for writing about his experience so openly, and in a way that so many people clearly find helpful.
> Ex-patriots

Expatriates.
There's already plenty of evidence that working beyond 40 hours a week translates into a reduction in productivity. This is not some new, revolutionary insight; it's old news yet so many people and organizations ignore it at the cost of efficiency. The 40 hour work week is not just for your sake, but it's in the company's interests as well. I could be wrong but a lot of the data from was from WWII. When your country's survival is on the line, most civilians will be very motivated to work as much as possible producing municitions and war machines. Some researchers measured productivity vs work hours during this time and they found a certain point where productivity just plummets.

Unfortunately these are the only links I can find given 2 min and I don't believe that they cite WWII research:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/12/working-...

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/

https://medium.com/building-asana/work-hard-live-well-ead679...

(What I like about Dustin's post is that he mentions that you can have a boost in productivity if you work longer hours temporarily like say for two weeks. Beyond that, there's no gain in productivity and most often there's actually a net loss)
Which Apple equivalent?
By your house most likely means the one in laurel heights which I've wondered about why it was the only one for years. I think I have it figured out. First, low crime area, see 24 hours Walgreens for a rough estimation of where that is in SF. 2nd near UCSF (all nighter college students). 3rd near California Pacfic Hospital, Doctors and Parents giving birth want coffee at all hours. Making it economically viable.
I doubt it given all the IT people, including HN readers, saying the college grads usually cant program worth anything. Whereas, the people who learned a creative, building skill by building straightforward or creative solutions to various problems often program better. Surprise!

The vast trove of empical data out there on activities like programming suggest that practice is main way people get better. There's also a sizeable anount of evidence saying ideal practice is a series of problems that increase in difficulty, a bit harder than before, and not insurmountable. Plus, learning techniques & observing examples from experienced professionals.

College isn't likely to teach you much programming skill at all. Now, programming practice + a college education in CompSci concepts can make for a programmer with more tools in the toolbox (taps head). It's not a substitute for repeated, informed practice of act itself.
As I pointed out in another post. The average number of hours worked is barely more than 40 so I don't think people feel pressured. And related to that, we encourage people to use their vacation time.
Your line of thinking is why the "War on Drugs" is a failure. If you think people want to hunt elephants, deal drugs, or mug for a living, you haven't thought hard enough on the socioeconomic problem that plagues the poor.
They exist to mess with people that copy/paste code from the internet.
Way to go China. Thank you.
aerodynamic stability to glide down to emergency landing area should problem arise.

more power efficient in cruise flight.
Planes are way more energy efficient in normal forward flight. And electric multicopters, like the popular camera drones, you don't need much of the mechanics of a traditional helicopter.
No, I prefer more sites with useful content like HN. MSM is not useful at all.
> Compared to rhinos, elephants are in zero danger.

Elephants are definitely NOT in zero danger. Certain species of Rhino are definitely virtually extinct (for example, there are only three known remaining specimen of the Northern white rhino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_white_rhinoceros) but elephants are in a pretty bad shape too. If the next 10 years are as bad as the last 10, they will be virtually extinct in the wild.

Furthermore, IIRC, the biggest consumer of illegal rhino horn isn't China but Vietnam.
> Isn't murder survival of the fittest?

Murder is bad for society, as people who can benefit society through say their knowledge of medicine or physics aren't adept at self defence.

A similar argument could be made that people who aren't very good at taking care of themselves are valuable to society somehow and should be protected from idiotic self-harm but I believe a person's autonomy trumps society's interest in preserving whatever value they have.

> I don't want cough medicine that might stop my breathing, but heroin was regularly sold as just that before the FDA.

Heroin was sold as cough medicine that might stop your breathing? If it tells you you might die and you choose to ingest it, that's on you. If you choose to play Russian Roulette, nobody's stopping you.

In case it wasn't sold with a warning that it might stop your breathing, you could have chosen to verify that it did what you expected before ingesting it. The modern FDA could also warn of the dangers without forbidding the sale of the substance.

> Tobacco products are heavily regulated.

They may be regulated but any adult can still choose to partake of however much they like regardless of the damage to their health.
Similar to sytse, I'd be interested in an open source release as well, especially if it's in Python (with an eye toward possibly integrating it into the open source annotation server http://hypothes.is), though unlike sytse I don't have any funds to spend on it, so would be satisfied with a clean code release.
I think neither the Book nor the Pro are comparable to a 15'' MBP.

Book is 13.5'', Pro is 12.5'', too small for me. Both max out at a dual-core Core i7-6650U (it's hard to find out exactly, the specs don't say anywhere, but that's what reviews tell me), which is two cores less than my MBP. Both max out at 16GB RAM, same as MBP.
You make some good points, but i have to slightly disagree with some of them :)

"Yeah, you might have a rough idea of spending habits for a handful of people, but not everyone, and not to the same detail."

The shopkeeper does. And as someone who grew up in a small town, the gossip is real.

"ou might know some of their political views, but only the ones they share openly"

Facebook doesnt know my political views? Though I dont openly share them on fb. More to avoid flamewars.

"If a co-villager wandered off for a week, you wouldn't likely have any idea where they went"

Depends how well you know them. You might know they like that spot by the lake for example. And if I leave my phone at home, no one would know where I went.(which sounds like a good reason to carry my phone, safety)
Yeah, still rocking the iPhone 6 here. I'd quite like the 3D touch that's on newer models, but not enough to pay for a new phone. Will likely stay with this until the battery drops off or it otherwise stops working.

Previously had 3G,3GS,4,5 so this is the longest I've a particular model.

Is the same stagnation in Android land too? I wonder how manufacturers will handle it in the long run?
Sorry. I've reread my answer. It was kinda offensive.

I don't see anything bad in Lisp becoming good for common use (on the web or wherever else) and I don't agree with your hypothesis. Lisp would just become more diverse in terms of libraries ecosystem and community. It will keep it's spirit and a core of really experienced users.
Why would it matter on the how the entire book is doing? Why can't the AI system take all of this into account assuming it has access to said data? Further, why should the AI system be used to run the entire company like you suggest. That is, it doesn't need to take into account every aspect of the business to replace a large portion of the workforce.

> This building burnt down because the solar panels on the roof caught fire, which spread across all the panel over the entire roof. The sprinklers never got a chance to go off because the roof collapsed.

Type 3 construction that burned to the ground? It doesn't take a human to realize or intuit that even type 1 buildings burn eventually (ask a firefighter!). If there is a way to truly model every possible variable when insuring a building, I will put money on humans doing a worse job than expert AI systems. You're asking the AI to not only predict but _know_ the future, and not asking that of the human... seems silly.
it's a good thing for charities to spend more on fundraising than they do

Well, sure, if a little money spent fundraising yields far more in donations and/or broadens your audience to your cause.

What raises concern for me is when the percentage of receipts spent on fundraising is disproportionately high and/or spent on overpaid insider salaries.
Well, I have an EU brick (which may well be different from yours) and seldom get more than 4 hours from it running Office and remote sessions (less if I fire up Docker, Visual Studio or heavier apps).

Like I said, we run a fair amount of extra stuff that may be to blame, but my experience carrying it around to customers for over a year is that I always need to sit near a power socket by noon.

Comparatively, my peers toting Surface 4s (who work on the same accounts and whom I travel with) outlast my laptop by a couple of hours.
+ it's really hard to detect a failure point. I never read a postmortem post that featured "and we had a rather silly name". A good name can make or kill a brand. It should be obvious but often it's undervalued or overlooked.

It's fine releasing under a temp name, but you have to make it a top priority to change it asap. I could rant on this for long, but the long story short for B2C products it's essential. If you deliver surveillance software for governments you can get away with anything.
You are wrong about at least Sweden following a different path.

When Sweden had a high growth, the taxes were low and it was much more of a strict capitalist economy.

When the taxes were raised to be internationally high in the early 70s, the growth crashed and Sweden fell quite a few places in GNP/Capita.

(I am Swedish.)
A good opportunity for you to include a "donate now" button when the service is down :)
Well, let him not stop pouring millions into Google Fiber.
There's overlap. Most FOSS or personal projects are prototypes for something built for fun or learning. Something can be a project without it needing success, money, or quality.

I believe Fred Brooks got famous pointing that out although it was unintentional for who he wrote about. ;)
I have different interpretation of being a genius. Being a genius doesn't mean she or he can solve really hard problems easily. One is a genius if he or she does solve really hard problems, especially in the fields like math, physics, etc. where all low-hanging fruits were way gone. Both Zhang and Perelman are genius, in my eyes. It doesn't matter how long it takes one to solve the hard problems. It sounds a fairy tale to me that someone wakes up one day with a genius thought, and two weeks later, complete a solution for a really hard problem in math, physics, etc. in nowadays.
Makes me think of this: https://www.amazon.com/NetReset-NR-1000US-Automated-Cycler-R... heh
Toshiba have it as an option on their keyboards.
That was my point. We have produced enough food to feed the world for centuries now, and we have had the means to transport it, but choose not to for political reasons. North Korea is a prime example, there's no reason anybody in the country should be hungry, except that their government is both highly isolationist and likes to meddle with the internal food supply.
It's so near the noise threshold. Most of the energy goes into heating the thing; only a tiny fraction comes out as possible thrust. The heating prevents using enough power to get more possible thrust; the thing would burn out.

Very frustrating.
Exactly. Just to pluck one at random, Michele Bachmann is an example.[1]

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2011-07-18/michele-b...
10% or more reduction in the quarter after the holidays is always to be expected. This is just more of the usual "we need to write about _something_" journalism. Sigh.

(PS: anecdotally, 3 family members upgraded to 7s/7s+ in the last month. No complaints about headphone jack, it's really only a huge issue in the internet echo chamber while ordinary people in their vast majority don't care and just use whatever buds come with the device).
> I've spent a lot of time figuring out how to do completely mundane things in Rust. At this point, buffer overflows and use-after-frees are not my biggest concerns in C++.

I could visit a country with a completely different set of laws regarding driving and a different road marking system. After a few days of driving, I might also feel like I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to navigate the rules of the road rather than actually getting to my destination when compared to driving in my native lang. I would also be unable to accurately ascertain whether one system was better than the other, because of inadequate experience with the new system. It would be a mistake to assume that I could become proficient enough in such a complex system in such a short period of time as to ascertain whether one was better than the other.

To put it another way, I don't feel like avoiding bicyclists is my biggest problem when driving, but having a dedicated bike lane at all times would probably be a good idea anyways. Sure, maybe you've never hit a cyclist, and never will. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen enough that we shouldn't do something about it, because it does.

> If your testing didn't catch the problem (which I can fully understand), a panic at runtime is not much different than a segfault.

No, a segfault at runtime is something that is possibly exploitable. A Panic is not.

> I firmly believe the OpenSLL team would've used unsafe blocks in Rust to disable the performance overhead of bounds checking.

Even if they did, that would still reduce the portion of the code that needs to be audited to those blocks. Effort could be made to reduce the size and scope of those blocks. There is something to be said for having the ability to categorize and enforce different safety levels in your codebase, when the alternative is no categorization or enforcement.
I have the 2016 model running Arch Linux. The machine is a great piece of engineering. Light as a feather, and feels durable. The carbon fiber body feels great in hand. Performance wise, I have the i7 model 16G RAM and 512GB NVMe SSD. The only slight negative would be battery life. I expected more, but it does last me a full 8hr day of work with screen dimmed. I'm looking forward to purchasing new in another year or so.
I believe T470s has one 8GB dimm soldered to mobo. Thats why 24GB is max.
I don't dispute your retort because the post you are replying to was worded to sound very absolute, but...

AI doesn't have to replace 100% of all humans to have a huge impact on unemployment. If you introduce a system allowing 4 people to do the job 5 used to do you're setting the stage for 20% unemployment, which is a huge deal at scale, and also the 4-to-5 ratio is very conservative for a lot of modern automation projects.

Are there many fields where AI/robots will be doing 100% of the work in the near future? No... next to none, I'd think... but there are LOTS of fields where they will be doing a huge amount of the work while being supervised by a relatively skeleton crew of humans sanity checking their work.