skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 21, and everybody I know who did this is either already burned out or in a precarious life position of some sort.

OP, don't listen to this crap here's the stuff I wish I'd done four years ago:

- Look at real systems in the wild and ask yourself "Could I build that?", if the answer is no figure out how to and try it. I mean websites, command line tools, applications. Once you start looking at the world of computing through this lens and thinking about it you realize just how much you still don't know.

- Focus on the CS fundamentals, look up the algorithms textbooks employers will have expected you to read during college and get a start on them early. The fundamentals change much slower than the latest web framework, and if you master them you'll be employable for much longer than someone who only has a long string of obsolete web frameworks to their name in 20 years.

- If you have any hobbies you'd like to pursue, find a good book on them and do it now because you're actually not going to have all that much time later. Especially if you're pushing yourself and pursuing projects, secondary things you want to learn will start falling by the wayside. I still haven't found the time to learn piano.

- The world really is full of interesting problems to fix. Here's some advice on spotting them: http://www.jdpressman.com/2017/08/28/the-favored-mindset.htm...

- Figure out what you really want as early as possible, and I don't mean "from your career" or whatever. I mean what you want period. Lots of people say they 'just want to be happy' because that's a default trope, but if you really just want to be happy your best bet is to become a Buddhist monk. You have to think beyond such things if you're really going to find a coherent self identity.

Some stuff I did do four years ago and would be hurting if I hadn't:

- Figure out how to reliably have a great conversation with people. Carnegie's famous How To Win Friends And Influence People will get you most of the way there. This is a skill you'll use every day of your life just about, and it'll really help you get towards some of that living the parent insists is vital.

- Start trying to meet people outside of your traditional high school friend group. Unless your high school is truly elite, whoever your friends are there are probably kind of stunted and ineffectual compared to the people you can meet out in the 'real world'. Pay some mind towards how much others can help you, but people who base their entire social life around that I'd think live sad cynical lives.

- Don't get lazy, keep pushing the limits of what you're capable of. In order to learn you always need to be just a little bit outside your comfort zone. If you always stay within what you know you're capable of you won't learn.
Steelers vs. Bears Live Stream
I assumed this was a side-effect of devirtualization. Obviously indirections are slower, so if the compiler can look at a dynamic call and realize that there's only 1 possible function it could be calling right there, that's a win. Only my 2c
Let's officially dump the original meaning of "beg the question" because it's a poor translation from Latin.
The beauty of being young is that you can actually do everything the commenters said barring external limitations such as money.

I lean towards comments suggesting to think about college and continue honing programming skills.

When you are young, you haven’t seen what’s out there yet. College is the stepping stone towards that. If you don’t know what’s out there, how can you know how to build something that’s useful?

Also, practicing programming doesn’t have to be boring. In my teen:

* I wrote fortune telling CLI app to impress girls.

* Hacked infinite money on my SimCity and Dune 2 save games using hexadecimal editor.

* Pranking a friend by asking him to download an agent that control his cd rom tray (for haloween purpose)

* Wrote a bunch of excel functions for soccer gambling.

So I guess, long story short, life should be fun, but that doesn’t stop you from being a kick ass in programming.

Don’t worry too much about CV or portfolio. If you are good, you will have plenty of time doing that already in college.
hope we have more IAMAs on HN. Reddit one has too much noise.
Well, I'd refer you to this book: https://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics...

You are free to disagree with the thesis, of course.
I suggest using the excellent BookFinder.com, not Google or Amazon, to search for books.

https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=Nippon+Eita...

Shows a handful of copies from $50-100.
The new electronic police state
I believe everyone should give critical theory a fair shot. But I find the majority of the thinkers to have pretty simple ideas that are heavily dressed up and typically exhausting to get through, with little personal benefit, except perhaps social cachet in certain communities. I personally think you're better off grappling with the dead philosophers who critical theory seems to be predominantly in conversation with, like Kant and Hegel. And then add in Marx and Freud.

If you believe I am off base, I welcome suggestions of thinkers who are an anti-pattern here.
American history can be quite convoluted and confusing. This book might help: https://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics...
With no details on how this list was generated, it's nothing more than a curiosity (searched for waffles on google, counted pages from each site, rank ordered by amount of syrup?) - and the general site layout feels so sketchy and dominated by huge search ads, I really don't want to go poking around on other pages to see what I can find.
That's what I said, though.
Quantum Key-Exchange
Initially I would not have admitted to anyone or even realized that I was putting people into a 'narrative' but then I think as I noticed other foreigners engaging in that type of thought pattern, I also noticed it to a lesser degree in myself. What helped me get over it was learning the language and really getting to know a few people closely. When you can laugh about the same things, see your own insecurities and fears in someone else, hear their stories about falling in love, and all of those other very fundamental human emotions, for me that really broke down any artificial distance that I had created in my mind.

I definitely don't think that because I've superficially lived in the same location for 4 years that somehow my experience is now anything like that of my neighbors, but I do believe now more than ever that despite our totally disparate backgrounds, there is still so much commonality between people all over the world. And of course like anywhere people come in all types, ranging from charming, funny, rude, shy, nerdy, mentally ill, etc. and everything in between.

Where in India can I ask? I visited India almost ten years ago now, and I have good memories of Rajasthan, Delhi (except for the crazy pollution!), Mumbai, and especially some smaller cities in Dehradun. The level of poverty in India seemed much more dire than in Cambodia, though I don't know if that's borne out statistically or not -- just my impression. Still, I would love to go back and now I suppose the flight would not be nearly so long.
Ask HN: Who is building something great in Vancouver, BC?
I keep hearing about this surging tech scene around here but rarely hear about any new startups. Who is building something up here in Vancouver?
Agree on everything except Zizek. He's an entertaining provocateur, but there's no way he's at the level of Hegel and Kant. His interviews in the British news media are hilarious though.

Hofstadter's book is brilliant, funny, delightful - a real treasure.
> Big news, training focused on small-business owner skills beats training focused on management skills when applied to small-business owners.

I consider that setting goals, dealing with feedback and persistence in the face of setbacks are not skills that are focused on small-business owners and can be used by BigCo management also.
Agreed. While we're at it, can we also drop the meaning of "raise the question"? That one is a mistranslation of English ...
Among other reasons Kozmo failed a) prior to smartphones and b) when there were less people using the internet.
> The normal pipeline is HS-> College -> Entry level corporate job -> change jobs -> slightly better corporate job -> change job -> ... -> senior programmer in a corporate setting....I'm at the end of this pipeline, and it pays the bills but it's not that great...

This, in a nutshell is the problem with investing your youth in coding. There is more to life than optimizing your potential as a producer so you can optimize your potential as a consumer. I, too, am at the end of this pipeline. There are worse places, but explore your options first.

If you want quality life advice, look elsewhere. More generally, don't look for it in any narrow community where most people are still young. Being young doesn't preclude wisdom but being young and narrowly focused doesn't improve your odds of finding it.

If I were starting over I would spend more time understanding my goals and values, work harder at building deeper social bonds, and invest more in caring for my mental and physical health. I think this would have made me a better person, a better parent, and even a better employee.
If you're already working with plutonium, whose dust is also very, very toxic (in addition to being radioactive), the additional danger of beryllium doesn't seem so great in comparison.
Security is probably not the exact same thing as it was on desktops.. However anyone who's been burned by a Javascript miner (like on the pirate Bay) or whose data is mined for ad revenue knows that the web exposes you to a series of lesser assaults which we shrug off typically.
Just because breaches in privacy and security are not as flashy as waking up to a computer which won't boot doesn't mean web apps are secure.
First Tesla Model 3 Spotted in Germany
I would recommend Walter Benjamin if you find the politics distracting. Also D.W.Winnicott (http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/winnicott1.pdf). A reconciliation of these two strands are being explored currently by Bernard Stiegler...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technics_and_Time,_1

I have written about it in relation to Facebook here:
https://iainmait.land/posts/20170201-transitional-object.htm...
Michel Foucault's "This is not a pipe" is very similar in theme to Baudrillard's work. Deleuze and Guattari (recommended by another commenter) are another pair of giants. I'm currently reading "Deleuze and Guattari for architects" and would strongly recommend it. Actually, most of the Thinkers for Architects [1] books are excellent and accessible. Despite being for architects, I would expect most engineers to benefit from them.

[1]: https://www.routledge.com/Thinkers-for-Architects/book-serie...
This is the book Neo has in his home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6R94keJcHk
Monitoring Cloudflare's edge network with Prometheus
Could you share a link to your TECK model? I am unable to find a TECK model that has the spacebar split into right spacebar and left spacebar?
We bought a Purple and gave up on it after three nights. The foam portion of the mattress compresses a lot and the purple grid on top has this weird property where it holds weight up to a point and then collapses completely after that point - there's no progressive compression property in that grid. Those two aspects of the foam + grid amplify one another to result in something that has deep valleys where you have your most weighted points of contact (for example hips and shoulders for a side sleeper) and peaks where you don't. For me this meant that my legs would be coming at an uncomfortable angle out of the hip valley placing weird stress on my knees and my core/torso would similarly be forced into a weird curve over the peak between hips and shoulders. I woke up every day feeling like I'd been mildly beaten up and my wife compared it to a torture device - she has never experienced back or neck pain in her whole life but three nights on the Purple were close to debilitating for her.

The telling aspect of their marketing/FAQ is they actually tell you to expect this: they claim that years of sleeping on poor mattresses has conditioned your body to the wrong position and so it will be painful for 1-2 weeks while it corrects to their one true mattress. This seems like a load of bs. I've slept on hundreds of mattresses across the spectrum, from quarter inch closed-cell foam pads on top of rocks/roots to various hotel luxury mattresses and everything in between - and never experienced this level of painful need to "get used to a good mattress".
Upthread there are quotes from other physicists chiding Slotin because what he was doing was extremely dangerous. It was known at the time.
Did you mean Seil? I can't find any app named Abseil for macOS.
"Life, after all, is a dream of little more than fifty years, and, whatever one does for a living, it is not difficult to stay so brief a course."

sublime
Know Your Flow
It's under the 'BBC Design & Engineering' page on Medium which has several managers from the department listed as editors:

https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering/about

It has also been shared internally on a few slack BBC teams that I'm in, so it's all good.
iOS 11 Jailbreak: iOS 11.1, 11.2 Working 100% Install Cydia and PanGu 11 Exe
Yeah, sorry, I wasn't contradicting you. Mostly curious how entanglement relates to the superdeterminism. As best I can tell it shouldn't.
The future IMO is recursive meta learning. This far the max recursion depth afaik has been 1, and that's just a first step.

Also, SeLUs were supposed to be game changing. Are they, or why are they not? Why haven't they been used more? Or what's still missing?
> flexibility in UI/UX design that is available on the Web

If you take advantage of that flexibility to create a UX that's very different from the standard widgets, it's likely to be inaccessible to blind users with screen readers. Check out this rant on HN from a blind friend of mine (a few paragraphs in for the part that's most relevant to this thread):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580342

As far as I know, the most accessible cross-platform UI toolkit for the desktop is SWT. It uses native widgets for most things, and actually gasp implements the host platforms' accessibility APIs for the custom widgets. But, I can hear it now, somebody will say they hate SWT-based applications because they wreak of Windows 95. Oh well, fashion trumps all, I guess.
I see, thanks for the precision!
WPF still works nicely for prototyping in a visual editor. Declarative is much more robust than the old imperative awt/swing/winforms.
UC Berkeley has (had?) a WiMAX base station that staff or enterprising students could connect to with full campus bandwidth. When Comcast started some shit, my flatmate managed to secure some kind of uplink to the WiMAX network. On a clear day we got fantastic speeds, but during stormy or even foggy weather we didn’t have any connection.

WiMax is like the Betamax of 4G network technologies.
Show HN: Goms, self-hosted baas, short video
I have been working on a self hosted baas since the last 5 months. Recently recorded a short video to demo one of the core features

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-iTjlCcA4c&feature=youtu.be...

Skipping to 2:46 to skip the "deploy on heroku" part.

What is happening in the video:

- Setup a new instance

- Upload a sample store schema[1] written in JSON

- Create a new instance of an entity (a product here - bottles)

- Convey what "actions" are (they are different from just data editing)

Check it out here

https://github.com/artpar/goms

[1] https://github.com/artpar/goms/blob/master/gomsweb/static/sa...

ps: If you try goms on heroku, remember goms creates a sqlite db automatically if nothing else is specified. Heroku puts server to sleep after 30 mins of idleness, which wipes the sqlite database file.

The recommended storage is Mysql/Postgres
Edison and the Ghost Machine
That is not correct. Over a thousand APIs were dropped or substantially modified to be “carbon clean”.

Even Multi-Finder was a lot of work because apps happily poked OS globals.

The original Mac OS was more like an embedded app toolkit than an OS. The original implementations were all ROM!
Depression makes sleep more or less impossible sometimes, and more or less unavoidable others. My SO has severe depression, and no symptoms of bipolar (which I would recognize due to my own diagnosis), but experiences times where he's dead to the world for 12-14 hours, but then also experiences times where he will lay awake for hours trying to fall asleep.
That was 2 separate "demon core" incidents, about a year apart...so they clearly didn't learn much from the first one.
A daily broadcast of cryptocurrency news, catalysts, trades and analysis
This is the one. If you can code then focus on communication, empathy and organizing ideas. More generally, try to understand product and the process around it. Take an idea, even one that's contrived and try to run through a SWOT (as lame as that sounds, the exercise makes you think). Don't get caught up trying to perfect your syntax - learn how to write (sometimes shitty) code to solve real problems.

Further, you'll rarely solve big problem on your own. Doing the above will prep you for working in a high functioning team. Strive to put yourself in a position to work with the best. From there life will take you to the right place.
Thank you for the suggestions. I will definitely study these.
> and includes translaters for Pygments lexers and styles.

Kudos! So often we see a translation of tool or library to another language, but no way to leverage existing data / code bases. Nice!
Which Benjamin?

I've read some of his more famous articles (i.e. - "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"), but I remember them being very political. Sort of an art-historical and aesthetic-theory application of Marx.

Which, personally, I enjoyed. But was surprised to see Benjamin's work referenced in that context. Could be that I'm missing something, or mis-remembering, though. This was years ago, now. =)
It doesn't help that curl | sh has become trendy.
As someone who's just moved from Sydney to London, I've found the overall quality of 'restaurants' on Deliveroo and Uber Eats to be much much lower in the UK. A lot more scrappy takeaway chicken places, for example.
The main problem with fuzzy logic is that there is no link from the claimed fuzzy degree-of-membership back to the real world. This means that there is no clear-cut way to build hierarchies of fuzzy logic systems, i.e., to combine fuzzy values.

In contrast, mathematical probability has a link to the real world in terms of long-run averages. The constraint that "the average or relative frequency must work out correctly" yields a calculus for combining probabilities, that we call independence, conditional probability, and Bayes' rule.

In some ways, fuzzy logic is a less powerful solution to a less-well-characterized problem.
> Wealth inequality doesn't affect the people on HN in any real, substantial way if they work for a tech company because we (mostly) are in the 6 figure household income bracket where you can live a good life in America without being bothered by things.

Maybe in some cases. But not in others. Some of us are "secondhand smokers" of wealth inequality.

Myself, I'm the only techie in the family. My parents were not in tech. My siblings are not in tech. My SO is not in tech. Many of my friends aren't either. Supporting them in hardships caused by the income situation does affect me personally, and so does looking at the problems of people I know.
Encourage 'Dutch reach' to stop cyclists' car-door deaths
Does anyone know if there is a way to do this (make Caps Lock behave as both Escape and Control depending on if any other key is combined with it) on Linux?
Jaeger – A Distributed Tracing System
You have an imagination right? It's actually worse because your regretting not doing a thing that is only in your imagination which is impossible to live up to. So you're sad because you didn't do x, let's say snoboarding bit since you haven't done it you are regretting imagination not regretting not doing more of something you understand well.
I can code, and I can build infrastructure companies. But what I would really like is deep understanding of something that's not strictly tech. Science, agriculture, history, fluid dynamics, etc, etc.
> the Network Time Foundation were funding 1 day a week of
> his time, but that was just weekend work, he's a busy guy

I guess he just doesn't have the... time.
And you still don't answer.

My question is not ambiguous.

And looking at your "hate", I think that you prefer what happened in Jugoslavia and not what happened in Czechoslovakia
Reckless driving is not cool, it's fucking douchebaggy. Other people are on the road, trying to go about their lives without being crippled, maimed and killed. They're all trusting you, their fellow citizens, who have their life in your hands, to treat it with respect.
if you are on here at 17, you are doing alright! there is no recipe, remember some of the greatest writers did not lead traditional lives, greatest discoverers didn't listen to mommy and daddy and the people who changed the world didn't ask for a recipe, they created one! +1 for travel and question everything, especially the stuff you take for granted.
As a Brazilian it makes sense to me, Brazil economy just keeps getting worse and worse, a lot of Brazilians are moving abroad chasing some opportunities. London is very famous as a destination for them, before there was Deliveroo I knew some people who did a lot of construction work because a lot of firms would hire them even if they don't have the proper visa, I assume you can do the same with Deliveroo.
> I'll take chaotic freedom to tight control

FWIW, I'd take tight control if it was in pursuit of humanitarian values, such as accessibility for people with disabilities, rather than a company's bottom line. The chaotic freedom of the Web isn't very good for accessibility. Yes, yes, accessibility is possible, but in practice, very often it doesn't happen. See this rant on HN from a blind friend of mine (yes, the same one I posted elsewhere on the thread, but it drives the point of this comment home):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580342
Is that really such an improvement?
InnoDB clusters on disk by PK so if your record is the same width and you don't change the PK it can AFAIK update in-place.
Not only that one scene, but a lot of the ideas in The Matrix are inspired by the writings of Baudrillard. That's presumably why the Wachowskis put the book in that scene, a subtle joke.
Having read it many years ago (and by read I mean suffered through) I feel the Wikipedia entry is sufficient for understanding the concepts. The book (my copy at least) has no primary sources. You do not need the book.
Their logistics solution is just not as advanced as it can be. That's just common startup logic, the hardest problem will be solved with more money and good people and SV network has good people.

They need combinatorial search and some travel time data, live re-search when new orders come in. For this to work well they need to predict new orders in advance, this means they need data on the spatial distributions of orders through time (which now they certainly have).

They practically need to solve a variant of a problem that Uber has. Their delivery drivers load much more "passengers" but have static pickup points (known restaurants so there's only variance in the delivery point, pickups are pretty much static).

It's an interesting problem to solve, given that this kind of logistics research is practically invisible and I can't name any papers that dealt with this problem in any advanced way.

If done properly, then they've solved the logistics problem for on-demand companies that have enough data.

If solution is some ad-hoc mutated monster then it is just a chance for someone else to get the other pieces of cake.
The interview itself was good but rather high level. My personal bottom line: unsupervised learning is the next frontier.