skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are only ~50 new drugs a year, and many of those are highly specialized. So, it's really not hard to keep up with new drugs. The hard part is actually staying fresh on all the existing knowledge that you don't use regularly and some changes to best practices.
Oh, fully agreed. It's not like it's 1874 and we pretty much all have a fair amount of leisure relatively speaking.

It's just I've noticed a fair number of "great contributors" to human knowledge and civilization appear to have had a lot of trivial things in life taken care of out of the box. As opposed to those who come up scrabbling (who often wind up wealthy but aren't necessarily great contributors in an intellectual sense). The Greek philosophers, Buddha, people like Thomas Jefferson, the people in this article. All some degree of wealth and leisure and other people (initially at least) taking care of the small things for them.

There are always the Ben Franklins though so I guess it's not a universal truth.

Just kind of makes me wonder what humanity could be if so many people weren't born into a world that required a hustle or die mindset. Meh, probably just a lot more video game screencasts on YouTube:) But maybe not.
I was a big fan of dropbox until I bought a Chromebook and got T's worth of space in Google Drive for free.

Just FYI in case you don't know: unless you have a paid GSuite account¹ or an educational GSuite account, Google's privacy policy allows them to mine data in your Google Drive for advertising purposes. Even if you pay for extra storage.

This may or may not be acceptable to you, but for a lot of people it isn't.

1. Former Google Apps for Work.
Edge – Templating engine with fresh air
I think that's backwards. Fiscal indiscipline leads to not lowering spending when there are lower revenues.

You get there by enacting rules that make it really hard (politically damaging) for the government to spend what it does not have.
What the first chart doesn't show you is how much stuff is going on in the "web app" box. If you have e.g. a User entity, you would have to add code to write to the 3 secondary datastores at each point they are written to. And if you add another one, you have to go back and find every write and modify it.

In the second example you handle it once per entity and datastore and the "web app" doesn't need to be aware of the secondary stores.

It's just the listener pattern applied at infra level. You trade code complexity for infra complexity.
All things equal, the person who works harder will usually come out on top (of course, there's always some RNG). Applies to all areas of life. Scenarios where you have an unfair advantage (money in the bank) are irrelevant here.
You can not control your sub-conscious, the one part that glues together the creative part of your work. You can feed it, you can walk it and you can hope that the digestion pours out something useful.
This might look like slacking off to some ignorant person, in violent denial regarding creative work.
Because, if break-troughs are not gained by mechanically grinding away for hours on logic riddles, till you level up to genius- it might be the "work hard, not smart" that's actually lacking off.

One can treat this like a sport, can threat this like a craft. But then you still will never be a da Vinci, or a van Gogh - elevating a whole field by digressing and recombining . Just another speed-painter hoping that his great day shall come after the 1000x tourist portrait.
Marvin Minsky died and we have a revolution in AI. Jeff Hawkings called that one in "on intelligence"
this is such a typical HN discussion; misleading headline provokes reaction to the headline rather than the content of the article. nowhere in the article are entrepreneurs discussed, or doctors, or anyone else whose work requires many hours of clocked-in work.

the fundamental claim of the article is that deliberate focus in a creative field cannot happen without deliberate rest. you can't always be on if you want to achieve the types of breakthroughs which underpin the most significant steps forward in science, literature, and music.

that's it. he never discussed Gates' work habits, except in context with Gladwell's 10k hours for expertise thesis. he then goes on to say that those 10k hours do not exist in a vacuum, and that this number is often misinterpreted; those 10k hours of focus also require a commensurate amount of leisure and rest.

he even specifically says that "[scientists'] legacies are often easier to determine than those of business leaders or famous figures", which to me says that those individuals are outside the scope of his discussion. how so many people here are projecting that conclusion is a mystery to me.
An unintended benefit of this law passing is moving a common practice closer to the user. Let's not forget that Google and Facebook already normalize your traffic and sell it without your consent. Now ISPs can enter that market directly and completely bypass Google and Facebook.
If there's no need to tell a parser where the link text begins and ends, then putting the URL in parentheses after the relevant text (without square brackets) would be less fussy.

The "HN style" of citation/linking is basically the IEEE citation style. You could call it "blessed".

http://www.ijssst.info/info/IEEE-Citation-StyleGuide.pdf

https://www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecitationref.pdf
Ice Cream for Breakfast May Improve Mental Performance and Alertness, Study Says
Not everyone here is in the industry, what's an MSL?
Ephemeral Environments for DevOps: Why, What and How?
Yeah, and the funding is already up to $165K in 4 days...
I think you'd typically want to use tags [0] for controlling which portions of an ansible playbook run, for a one-off set of tasks like this. This one in particular isn't set up to work that way though.

[0] http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_tags.html
Isn't anycast ip usually used for that instead?
Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students
They can work better, or they can work for what we can afford (our collective value of them). Washington is in a constant struggle to make sure we get neither.
I'm just spitballing my opinion here.

One of my favorite quotes is: "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years." - Bill Gates

Working long hard inefficient hours might get you short term gains, but consistent effective work over years will bring long-term success.

Typically (for me) putting short time constraints on projects amplifies my focus and cuts down on wasted time. The best way to cut down time is to have a well planned path of execution (know what you're doing before you sit down and don't do anything else).

That's how you can be successful without necessarily working long hours.

I'm not successful in terms of my own standards, but I think this makes sense.
No, that isn't my logic and isn't what I said. In the case of the US it's been a continuous legacy that began with indentured servitude and slavery, continued through slavery and sharecropping, and now exists today in various forms including in prisons.

If you can't or won't argue the points I'm actually making, don't try to inject your own version of what you think I might be saying.
Go through minimal effort to set up a sham company, some new startup, so on and so forth. Are they really going to look into it when there's a big pile of money?
I would personally go with the first option, in your example. "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

How do you imagine the better career earnings that come from the 2nd offer? At the next interview, they ask him, "what was your previous salary?" Then ten years, five companies and five frameworks later, he (if lucky) finally matches his MSFT competitor at 130k.
There was also a Jetpack featured on White Rabbit Project (can't remember the episode). It seemed pretty legit.
https://twitter.com/durov/status/847454485882355713

> Definitely, updated source codes will be online later today.

And the Desktop client[1] is kept very up to date. My biggest complaint is that they have stopped updating the API documentation [2] which has lead me to become a rather lukewarm telegram developer (though I still have a few projects I am work with)

[1] https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
[2] https://core.telegram.org/#updates-log
Way to go Dropbox. Just be prepared for when Operating Systems start shipping this functionality built-in. If you can prepare for that inevitable reality (by, say, providing modules or something for specifically that) then it'll all go great. Great werk so far. Started using dropbox in college and I am an extremely satisfied user. Let me just cue up some Fleetwood Mac
this paper? https://cmaurice.fr/pdf/ndss17_maurice.pdf where is IntelCAT mentioned?
Mousewheel doesn't work for me on this website
It could work intermittently depending on which vCPUs your VM or covert channel apps get assigned (intermittently as that could change unless your hypervisor uses CPU pinning...)
Ask HN: How do you avoid staying too late at work?
How do you avoid the urge to stay later at work than you should be staying?
That's exactly why the cable companies wont sell congressional data. Why would they shoot the goose that laid the golden egg?
Jiminy.
I suppose an upside of this is it affects everyone: including those who voted Republican and for Trump. We ought to make sure they understand what's happening too.
I used to spend 80 hours in the office. Most of it was waiting around for everyone to go home so I could get some programming done.

Now I'm much more balanced. I realized I want to have work I'm passionate about, and go at it with all the gusto I have, but also limit it to a timebox so it doesn't take over my life.

Everything that involves reaching "as far as you can" needs to also be boxed. Otherwise, it's like a cancer cell that "grows as much as it can" until it destroys you.

So, define a box for how much you want to work. Inside that box, work like a single-minded barbarian. But outside the box, enjoy life, smell the roses, and participate in hobbies. That's my formula now.
Cable tends to have a higher latency than aDSL. I don't know if that's the tech or just over-subscription on cables part. The trade off is in the bandwidth allowed so people mostly gave up that feature in exchange for enough bandwidth to do other stuff.
Have you noticed how large companies often do a poor job on security and tons of personally identifying information gets stolen? Or how data that is supposed to be anonymised isn't, very?
I loled at this one.
I thought the concept of purchasing history for a specific person was not possible? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13992953
People that develop on windows and want that smooth mac style scrolling - at least from my experience. Also LOTS of free and paid wordpress themes use it as a selling point.
It is the exact opposite of an ant colony. It's almost directionless at a societal scale, cooperative only at a narrow tribal scale. America has many tribes. This is a natural consequence of its diversity. The diversity moderates many things, good and bad mood swings, including efficiency because we're simply not all on the same page, often not even on the same book.

The county has gotten a lot of rope to hang itself because baby boomers have charged a massive pile of debt to the country's credit card. That card was built by the silent generation, who also gave the U.S. the gift of the dollar being the world's reserve currency.

And in some sense that reserve currency's status is better secured by Brexit, because it demotes the EU and Euro as being a direct equivalent competitor to the dollar.

All of the things going on are interrelated, and make complete sense. The way they're happening is about the only way they could happen because as crazy as they seem, they're still the path of least resistance forward from where we are now.
I find it also helpful to see the number is above zero and the code paths are actually exercised regularly, not just in rare failure scenarios.
There is a similar electricity tracker at http://energynumbers.info/gbgrid . The main notable difference is that this one adds embedded wind to the window power total. Embedded wind refers to power stations which aren't connected to the metering system so they will show up as lowered demand (the tooltip for wind on the gridwatch site mentions this).
I also agree completely. One thing I want to add is that with personal projects, I care about my code and the structure etc as much or maybe even more sometimes as the "work" code. It's just me in the personal project.. why not make it as I want, and make it really nice for myself?
I had to stop using Dropbox because it was unusable on Linux. It leaked memory, hogged CPU cycles, and cranked up IO Wait times.

It was simple and thoughtless, for sure; and that reflected in its decrepit behaviour.
Beware of Salesmen, Be-With Relationship Builders
Probably because saying something is "financed" by demand is counter-intuitive.
Look into remote jobs. Plenty of people that need skilled node developers.
> if your life goal is NOT about being successful but more about living a balanced life with happiness

What good is (your definition of) success if you do nothing but work and are unhappy? Or did you mean something else by this?
I think the "Quote Tweet" option is supposed to replace this.
I like the cross platform support. Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, it works on all of my devices. I'd be afraid that platform specific sync options (iCloud, OneDrive, etc...) would neglect their software client on competing platforms.
If You Want to Stop Big Data Breaches, Start with Databases
I'm doing well with storing state in multiple nested components, each state in the component it "belongs" to.

This approach matches well with GraphQL (without Relay -- but with Relay I imagine it would fit even better).
> "Exhalation" is my favourite Ted Chiang story.

I haven't audibly exhaled (I am honestly not trying to pun here) at a story this way in quite a while. Thank you.
The trick here is just apply for roles that are node based and you will be forced to learn it at a high level very quickly, if even just for interviews. There's nothing quite like just jumping straight into the deep end! (it's warm in here, come on in ;)
I like how you're never certain if Bartholomew is in the right for rebelling against the arbitrariness of Agile practices and an overbearing paranoid boss, or if the narrating manager is right that B.L.B. is a shirk just pretending to do work and disrupting the environment with laxness and insubordination. And both the HR rep and the VP are either responding appropriately or with bureaucratic indifference.

The ambiguity of it all is what really makes the story sound true to life.
I'm using an Ubuntu Phone and Telegram is the only native messaging service app in it.

I'm using UP for a beta-testing purpose so no big deal.
Gender Bias: It Is Worse Than You Think
I tried to switch quite many times. Problems are typically: refusal to sync some files, excessive memory and CPU use (last time I tried OneDrive it used ~700MB RAM when storage was nearly empty), no LAN sync (speeds up things considerably when sharing with family/colleagues), no block-level sync (touch a small part of a 300MB file and it gets completely resynced), no Linux client.
Wait but why post series about Elon Musk
> If you're trying to make a serious point about health

Not trying to make a serious point about health.

> do you have to cite your expertise as an ogler of women

You are misappropriating my comment.
You should really write an analysis contrasting the functionality of these IDEs, especially those 'mostly forgotten' ones so they aren't lost into the abyss.

I've used Squeak Smalltalk and DrRacket in the past. As someone who finds slime/swank/sbcl in Emacs a pleasure, I can only imagine how great some of those other environments can be.
http://runeberg.org/sweddrom44/
I would say a huge distinction is that for scientists the expected failure rate is in the 80%-90% range; so diminishing returns hit harder and sooner. Success is more contingent on keen observation and pivoting to a better ground idea. For Musk, Jobs and Gates, who are more like engineers, the expected failure rate is much much lower. There is still a 'fail fast' paradigm that is effective, but it's effective in a very different way.
That's true, but hasn't that always been a risk? No doubt they've been keeping all this data already. It's a risk, but not a new one because of this change.
Well as I understand them it's not wrong, it's just very limited. It would be like describing Engelbart's projects as "Making interaction with the computer more graphical and efficient such as by employing pointing devices and interactive text", whereas ARC's aim was much more visionary.

I think their ideas go beyond just making programming more accessible (your summary), but more along the lines of "using computers as instruments of enriching thinking".

One of the projects (Chorus) even specifically mentions and rejects programming as a problem-solving tool (for that specific domain of problems), instead opting for thought-process enhancement from the other side, basically making spreadsheets on steroids.
I don't what you're talking about. The pharmaceutical salesmen I've known were retrained coal miners without college degrees.

You should never trust a salesmen to give you advice, because the advice inevitably is, "you need this thing I happen to be selling today."
The hate is not about the char count. It's about:

1. They failed to provide a way to remove @s from thread replies. Edit: Whoops, there is a UI for this. Which jarringly takes you to a different dialog and back! So my new complaint is that they made it harder and weird. I stand by my opinion that they screwed this up.

2. They failed to provide a way to change the visibility, aka 'dot replies'

They fixed one thing, and broke two. Par for the course for Twitter UI designers. It has always baffled me how consistently bad every part of the Twitter UI is. Just try using lists sometime.
McDonald’s USA Unveils Next Big Change: Fresh Beef Quarter Pounders
Now the prices are lower... and the profits as well.
Those Millions of C/C++ programmers have certainly accomplished more and have happier lives then the Tens of armchair safety experts groking internet drama.

In my experience the people who wring there fist at C/C++ are generally people who at one point tried C/C++ and either got frustrated and quit or got told they suck or turned down at job interviews. Or they are people trying to sell you the new hotness and have some personal gain to accomplish. People I know who did some C/C++ and now work with other languages could care less about replacing C/C++. They just do there thing.

And honestly, academics and busybodies have been whining about safety and memory and hating on C/C++ for decades. We need to get rid of it. It smells, its bad for your teeth etc. Creating a never ending stream of total crap programming languages that no one wants to use. That never actually do what there creators propose that they do. And that never replace what the say they want to replace.

Even some crusty C++ programmers still hate on C coders and how did that work out for them :)
Looks like the site was generated by this [0]. They'd probably appreciate someone raising an issue.

[0] https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc
I don't know if I agree with this. We're having a revolution in NN-based statistical modeling and machine learning, not AI. And it's not happening because Minsky was holding back the field, it's happening because GPUs improved to the point where these models could work and investing in them made economic sense.
I do watch stuff on Twitch with friends, for example the League of Legends LCS games.
JavaScript. But Less Iffy
Bartleby, like Walden or even modern office sitcoms, only sounds true to life and appealing once you've found yourself in that position. I still don't really understand the ending of the original story, though. Melville reveals a character point that seems out of nowhere. Is handling dead letters for the post office really that soul-crushing?
Easy. Politicians love campaign contribution bribes and ISPs see that bribe cost as minimal compared to the amount of money they stand to make.

No citizens required, needed, or wanted to make this easy, easy decision.
I did that too; I remember the squares paper in the book. I see it in front of my eyes still. Good memories at some Portugal vacation with my parents in the 80s.
Answering the question of choosing a VPN is complex and varies by what's important to you. Like with security, there are few black and white answers.

The VPN comparison chart [1] is the best reference I've seen on the dozens of factors one might care about.

[1]: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/
If you can achieve flow that easily, then you likely don't need the Pomodoro technique. It's for those who have a hard time focusing to begin with.
Protesters want to publish browsing histories of who voted to strip privacy
maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493152 ?
Basic partial application in JavaScript (screencast)
Ninja Launcher – Curated set of best services to get started with your website
Don't you consent to let them use your data when you sign up for their services? You don't need to use Google and Facebook to use the Internet. You do need an ISP to use the internet.
>That said, if your life goal is NOT about being successful but more about living a balanced life with happiness, then go live your life whatever way you want. In fact that's how 99% of the world live their lives.

Human beings have struggled for thousands of years to define what it means to live a good life and be "successful." Few (if any) ever associated success with the acquisition of wealth. Even the rich ones, like Marcus Aurelius, did not consider wealth to be an indicator of a good life. It's rather odd that you would do so with such flippancy and dismiss those that pursue other avenues of fulfillment as "not successful".
Separation Anxiety
I agree with this. There is a lot of unwritten protocol in publishing and it's usually better to pair with someone that know how to select the journal, fight with the editor and referees, how many cites to use, ...

But be careful because there are also workaholics in academia, so select someone that is happy with your amount of time dedicated to this.
> Of course they have. It's a basic set of machine code instructions. Can you specify which doesn't please?

That they exist is not the problem. That they exist _and_ don't provide enough performance is the issue. That is, your "no cost" is what I'm asserting here, not that it doesn't exist at all.

(This is not my area of specialty but was brought up when discussing this behavior; it's measured as a 20%-100% hit to speed, which is unacceptable.)

> Do you honestly think a project like curl has everything it needs "which needs a lot of unsafe" already implemented in the current standard libraries?

I don't think a project like curl needs much (if any) unsafe.

> Why don't you rewrite the curl in Rust then, it's just using what's already written? Let me know how far you come.

I did not suggest that curl should be re-written in Rust. I do think a functional equivalent in Rust would be good to have. I do not have the time to write such a thing myself. Luckily, many others have been working on this kind of thing.

> does curl still have to use a Rust wrapper around openssl,

ring is a port of BoringSSL to Rust, piecemeal. It still has some C code today, but at the end, will be all Rust/asm. Given that BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL, I would imagine that it would have enough functionality.
Quote tweet is a retweet with added text. It's not a thread reply. As far as I can tell they just broke dot-reply and remove-recipient.