skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its due partly to the very stratified nature of education in Germany and to be polite a lot of mainland European countries tended not to have much less immigration than say the UK and haven't got to the level of the UK and the USA in recognising the issues around race.

That sot to say that the Uk and USA don't have major issues with BME integration /Racisim
The Simpsons suffer from a problem that's rather unique to US TV shows, and I admit this may not be completely fair, given how large a percentage of popular shows are American: When a US TV show turns out to be popular it will be milked to death. Producers will keep popular shows alive for much longer than they should, because they know a large percentage of fans will watch every new show, regardless of quality.

The Simpsons had a good run, it's time to cancel it. If it's true that it peeked at season 10, then the most of the shows are produced after it's peek.
I usually brainstorm / take notes with OneNote, which lets me type, record voice notes, attach files, and draw when I need to draw (even on my laptop thanks to touchscreens). Once finished I'll go through those notes and turn them into categorized to-dos in the Microsoft To-Do app, adding due dates, reminders and little notes where necessary.
Bullet Journaling with a notebook, Google Voice number with transcripts sent to a specific email alias for ingesting into my gmail inbox with a Notes label (and a contact in my iPhone: "Siri, call My Notes").
I can personally attest to the truth of Scott's characterization of Lubos Motl's personality. Lubos once publicly called me a "category 5 loon" [1] for something I said in a presentation on quantum mechanics [2]. What he didn't seem to realize was that the thing he was attacking me for was presented as a straw man. There's a lengthy introduction where I said, "The thing I am about to tell you is clearly false, but it seems to follow logically from the things they tell you in quantum mechanics 101. The trick is to figure out where the flaw in the reasoning lies." (And BTW, I can still fool card-carrying physicists with this puzzle even today.)

AFAIK Lubos has never apologized (not that I ever really gave a lot of weight to his opinion).

[1] https://motls.blogspot.com/2012/10/evading-quantum-mechanics...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
South Park and Simpsons both suffer from their own past glory. Where exactly do you go next year after woodland criter Christmas?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_Critter_Christmas

Really, even in off seasons they often have great episodes, they simply suffer by comparison.
Evernote. But don't get obsessed by technical details of what tool is best: Evernote, Onenote, Tiddlywiki, etc... Just make sure you have all work/private/short term/long term notes in one place. Preferably accessible via multiple devices so that you can always access them.

And depending on the note type go through them every day/week/month to see if they are still relevant. Some people like to go the whole GTD way but I like to pick just the parts that work for me.
It was something like 1500 years between the discovery of squareroot 2 and squareroot -1.

If you view mathematics as the exploration of progressively stranger objects, that there's such a gap between discovering two roots should make us cautious of discounting things after a 100 year search.

We don't know what we don't know.
"I can guarantee it pretty well on my RHEL and CentOS systems"

Slashdot tried that with CentOS and failed miserably. I have my doubts regarding your guarantee.
Just plain dumb luck / random chance.

Look to the number of ultimately highly successful works (of various stripes) that have been rejected or ridiculed numerous times. The Beatles. KFC. Agatha Christie, Harry Potter, Louis L'Amour, Dr. Seuss, Chronicles of Narnia.

One of many lists: http://www.litrejections.com/best-sellers-initially-rejected...
"Why is it not good?"

Because it still allows the base problem of crap coding practice to proliferate.
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> built in the old-style scripting paradigm using a scripting language like Ruby, PHP, or (god help us) node.js

I feel like I didn't get the memo... is the new-style we're all supposed to use microservices?
Virality without value advantage tends to be short-lived.

Social signaling is part of the ‘value’ in my model.

The utility of existing competition and their costs are included in the term ‘marginal’.

I am aware that my simple model, occurring in a couple minutes, is incomplete that’s why I asked for refinements. Including factors like distribution & marketing seems very useful. However, capturing imperfect rationality does not seem possible for a simple model.

Do you have references to the ‘fairly comprehensive ways of expressing the likelihood of success of a product’?
Improving is a critical part of that process.

Remember, the theory of evolution is variation with selection. Variation without selection is simply randomness.
start males over 40 political party
I doubt buricrats are capable of regularly making that choice correctly. Remember communism failed in large part because central planning is hard.

Further, if a company's option is to fail or give up 90% of it's stock it's going to give up 90% of it's stock. The idea the government needs to give great terms to a failed company is simply corruption talking.
Maybe it would be best if you update your CV, LinkedIn, and StackOverflow page and turn on "not actively looking but interested in jobs" options. Not just "in case" but also to boost your own morale. There is only going to be more work to be done in the IT world, not less, and even if you aren't a Google-level employee, there are still thousands of jobs. I'm thinking you might be american since there seems to be a lot of 'oh no if I have no job I will die'-level of feelings in your post, so maybe (not for jobs) look at other countries how no-longer-inexperienced people look at job prospects. It might give you a refreshing perspective.
Assuming the merchant doesn't charge extra for using a credit card
They die on power lines. The snakes are rather large.

> The longest recorded length of this species is one found on Guam measuring three metres (9.8 feet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_tree_snake
The post starts from the assumption we should all use microservices because web scale. I'm curious, how many people here are actually using that "new style", and enjoying it?
Surely city charters don't stand as barriers to municipal consolidation when the tool at hand can modify the state Constitution?
My point is that his heuristic has dropped my expected value for betting on P != NP, because his argument is one that suggests we will find a class, not that we won't.

His description of "passing tests" actually sounds like the buildup of stress before breakage, where many near-faults are generated.

I'm less confident of the resolution post reading that -- so it seems extremely weird to present as evidence that P != NP, as it shifted my beliefs the exact opposite way.
not suggesting that they are not credible or anything but I think their technology shouldn't excite people that much. And may be rather than public funding this bank's side project, perhaps banks can use some of their profits to develop this on their own or with Ripple or at least may be it should be funded by large investors who have large stakes in banks. Just ponder upon, why should you fund this experiment/technology?
This makes it even more incredible that Seinfeld ended its run after 9 seasons at the height of its popularity. Jerry Seinfeld reportedly turned down $100 million dollars to make another season
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I'm the author -- this is a technique to use a trained random forest as a kernel function for similar data. It can be used as a sort of primitive transfer learning, or just as a way to get a very high quality kernel for a (labeled) dataset.

Happy to answer any questions!
Pretty much all your assumptions are wrong. There is no evidence 1 & 2 are true, in fact the opposite. Apple sells more single models of phones and tablets than virtually anyone. Almost every phone they sold the last year was a 7 or a 7+.

And the reason for their profit dominance isn’t other companies losses, it’s they are competing against commodity makers with compelling unique products and value. Beyond iOS and iTunes is their custom SOCs, which are years ahead of their competitors.
The odds are you are running on VMs in AWS, GCS, Azure or even DO. If that's the case, why on earth is your building block not a VM?
There's a few of those already.
Why should we have any more faith in the miners? They have a self interest to divert the wealth stored in Bitcoin to themselves, which doesn’t align with my interests as a coin holder.
start a males over 40 political party
leverage computer knowledge to bring majority non-voters to vote
non-profit start up
stop describing self a mediocre that's real loser material
Can you get away with carrying no phone? If you can, it is a weight lifted off my shoulders and might be the same for you. My time belongs to me. I'll see the missed call message and call you back when I have time.

It's hard to describe the feeling. It feels a bit like that time when I was finally caught and punished for doing something wrong, just a huge sense of relief.
And as the proliferation of the To Be Fair copypasta shows, they may get there soon.
Evernote, moving to notion if it gets android client!
total change best start now
Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2017?
The good: Acknowledgment of yin and yang (masculine and feminine energies).

Acknowledge of the primacy of sexual energy shaping our lives and society.

The bad: Most of this article is magical thinking woo from authors who are extrapolating pseudo-logic from shaky foundations.

There may be some nuggets in here but it’s probably not worth your time.
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I'm a big fan of "show, don't tell", most especially in news or similarly journalistic reporting. Most especially don't tell me how to respond. That's the deadly sign of clickbait.

I'm in favour of writing without editing when you are actually writing. But I'm also a fan of editing and editing ruthlessly when it comes time to edit.

Much of my own writing is in the form of essays and explorations. Here, I strongly favour being very well prepared. And, if not as prepared as you'd like to be, then be open about the state of your unpreparedness. Consider the piece "a line in the sand of my present state of knowledge" -- something about an idea I'm presently exploring.

(Being well prepared also, sometimes, means you can simply open the taps and let the words flow out. I've had numerous essays spontaneously emerge in this way, though most are really the result of long-time rumination. And it still doesn't hurt to edit the results, though enjoy the flood whilst it flows.)

Don't ask me about fiction or narrative -- not my genre.
I use a Bullet Journal for all my stuff. Its style of organizing allows to collect all sorts of things.

I tried a lot of TODO and note taking apps and none of it worked for me. Once written down, I remember most of it without looking at my journal.
doesn't excuse racism at all
If you refuse to support of a basic human right because of the character of just one of the persons needing those rights, what does that say about you?
You touch on something I had thought, but not said:

His argument seems to be "well, the border doesnt touch using under degree 100 polynomials, so it must never touch!"

I'm disinclined to believe that order 10^374738393874 polynomials can be accurately forecast by order under 100 polynomials, and suspect that portion of the border simply hasn't been examined at all or only in the most basic cases.
Isn't this yet another case for keto/intermittent fasting? It is well known that in a fasting state you trigger cell autophagy -> essentially force healthy cells to eat dead or diseased cells for energy...
Just click outside the overlay. It goes away.
at 62 not aging at all
but seems if I don't start it myself
a hired job in U.S. not appealing if would happen
and never made money that mattered working for someone else
so self start or bust
In the same boat but in my late twenties...
Hahaha that is soooo wrong. You might think you make a static binary with C by passing -static but trust me you do not. I believe it is still actually impossible to link with glibc statically. It's only been possible to do a static binary on Linux since Musl was written and that was not in 1992. In the 2000's there was an attempt to make true static binaries possible on Linux (think it was called Autopackage) but they eventually gave up due to the effort required.

The story on Windows is much better of course, but even there making a proper dependency-free (as much as possible) binary is much easier with Go than any other language. It's possible in Go because they don't depend on the C standard library and wrote their own linker.
If your willing to move and work for cheap it's easy to find work post 40. IMO, the goal should be to minimize expenses and eliminate debt so you get flexibility. The added bonus is it makes the required nest egg for retirement vastly easier to obtain.
My question is, when the crypto market corrects, will it spark a broader tech pullback? The big four will be fine, but lots of unprofitable tech companies will be vulnerable.
Market-defining ideas won’t be found in more of the same data
Pen and paper. I carry a notebook with me and rewrite the todo list (to a new page) every couple of days.

This makes it very clear what is and what is not a priority. If I rewrite the same thing for tenth time, maybe it's not important after all.
you must be fun at parties.
While I am happy about the new women’s movement which allows every member of the society to acknowledge the fact that equality still has not been achieved in many aspects of life, my main concern has been how the common narratives puts 100 % of the burden and request for behavioural change collectively on men. This text does a good job pointing out how collectively, women have and often still are endorsing the type of culture which then leads to unwelcome and problematic behaviour of some men. It indeed would be strange if women wouldn’t be subject to the same dynamics of evolutionary & cultural programming as men.

As far as I see it, everyone has to change, improve & question their biases so that a culture is created in which men feel neither safe nor the need to become predators and harrasers.
Which might be the saving grace should the equality turn out to be true, given the sheer number of scary-powerful algorithms that happen to be NP-complete. Certainly it'd be convenient if they were solvable, but... probably not safe, you understand?

Not really relevant here, though.
Just to add to the information on this thread, and I feel this will be relevant here:

Rolling Coal is accomplished by running the fuel to air ratio very rich, nearly all diesel motors cannot accomplish this without modifications to the engine and the emission control system. Generally this is a side effect of some modifications meant for increasing power by increasing fuel flow but taking it past the point all of the fuel can be burned; either on purpose to roll coal or on accident because of mistuning. The idea behind rolling coal, in my experience, is showing off your diesel motor which is many times more expensive and powerful than standard gasoline motor, and showing off it has been modified for even more power.

The article is most likely vaguely referring to this "Prius Repellent" YouTube video when it talks about rolling coal: https://youtu.be/hsC0kLNSLAQ

Although at the same time you have more popular Youtubes talking about how rolling coal is just a little too obnoxious: https://youtu.be/HjCPW2nj7do

The primary purpose behind rolling coal is not to attack Priuses, although it is absolutely terrible for the environment, and to nearly everyone very obnoxious.
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“investment” will continue as long as we run large deficits, if you count funding our rapidly growing federal debt as “investment”. It’s the “benefit” of our trade deficits.
Are you a markov chain?
Express doesn't do 64-bit though, does it? or did they drop that restriction?

> Other platform vendors also sell their compilers.

Also, no, Apple's platform compilers are free (though obviously somebody pays for them), and so are the platform compilers for the major free operating systems GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris. Sure, you can buy ICC or XL C/C++, but it isn't the only supported way to build and link against those platforms.
As someone also in my 40s I can relate to this tendency. I am not an amazing developer by any standard and I tend to under value my skillset. Ive seen people who are 10x engineers and I can say for certain that I am not that. I do think, however that there are niches and bits and pieces of info that I understand well and the average or even above average engineer may not know these things. I recently had an experience at a client site where they had a pretty complex, very fragile system that was built over the course of decades and they had entrenched developers that understood it well. I struggled to catch up and made a few errors that looked bad at the surface, but honestly were not something that is unexpected when you have a fragile system with tons of dependencies. That said it shook my confidence quite a bit and made me re-evaluate where I was in my abilities. I wondered if I was "done" programming or that I was going to end up in a bunch of less well paying jobs and be marginalized. Then I went somewhere else where I had some success, and it made me realize, it wasn't me, it was them. I wasnt a fit there, and that is ok. It sounds to me that you may need to evaluate what your strengths are and see if you can find something closer to those strengths. Software is a very broad subject. There are a million ways to code and build applications. There will always be some place that needs your skillset, and it may not seem glamorous or fantastic, but you may actually be happy at the right shop. That said I would be happy to discuss what you know/want to do and exchange ideas. Email is in my profile...
and don't forget that crap code == insecure code.

but nobody have to worry about it. just start a container the last guy left. /sarcasm
I know this is an extremely unpopular opinion (I've never met anyone in person who agrees with this), but I don't think South Park is good or particularly 'topical'. It's always struck me as fake, untactful and does nothing apart from making people feel smart about themselves.

The Outline (somewhat ironically imho) summed it up when they said "South Park is not subversive":

For 21 seasons, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have given fake woke white
people a sense of self-satisfaction, reassuring them that they rise
above the myopia that grips the residents of South Park; that they
are subverting the establishment, rather than perpetuating it. Much
like a joke South Park made about residents of San Francisco: They
smugly inhaled their own farts.

https://theoutline.com/post/2234/south-park-is-not-subversiv...
I'd say we should encourage this, but just make sure our intellectual property agreements are strong enough so that both parties benefit from their contribution.

In my view, we need to be moving much faster on developing technologies, drugs, and therapies. If some societies are able to help out, we should be grateful and welcome that - so long as the subjects all consent.
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Not sure if it will help, but I've heard from a lot of folks that my Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) has helped. If you end of subscribing, would love to hear what you think!
Sade - Paradise has to be my fav track.Im a sucker for that bass
I'm interested in hearing your suggestions for OP. What can he do for his situation? What about others who may have similar concerns?
I’m still in my twenties (barely) and confident enough to say that I’m not mediocre at a couple skills at least. I have worked in several jobs both supporting “legacy” business needs, and at a couple startups. Two things:

First, I think you’re being unreasonably pessimistic. I know programmers who just got started learning the craft in their forties, without any special aptitude for the work, and they’re doing fine. If I wasn’t hand-crafting custom stacks for my work now, and had less ability to do so, there would still be an enormous demand for just stitching together functional services for the rest of my career. Probably a lot of Microsoft tech would be involved, and this work is stigmatized as “boring” a bit too often, but ASP.NET and related tools are pretty solid these days and you can add enormous value to organizations in many industries just by integrating this kind of infrastructure with their existing processes.

Second, I like the idea of branching out and finding new projects, but why abandon the computer side of it? This century will continue to see amazing new ways of doing business that were never possible before. Commodification of computing continues and shows no sign of stopping in my lifetime. Why not learn a new domain and then bring what you already know about technology together with that knowledge? That is as close to a guaranteed recipe for success as anything I’ve ever heard of.
Kiss Of Life is one of the best love songs ever.
There is a grim joke in the UK "what's the difference between a Rottweiler and the CPS A You might get your kids back from the Rottweiler"
I think your mindset needs to change. Both of my parents (one is cisgender male, the other is cisgender female) have Computer Science degrees. My dad is 57 and still happily employed doing database adminstration. Like everyone that age he's been through his share of layoffs. We don't really talk much, but from what I can tell he generally kind of keeps a positive mindset with a focus on continual improvement (he's on his third masters degree now).

My mom (also 57) on the other hand has a pretty negative world view (it sounds a lot like your MRA-like perspective, except the gender roles are reversed). Everything bad that happens to her is because of her race (black) or gender, at least according to her. She's now frequently unemployed, and unable to keep a roof over her head without support from her children. She also hasn't invested in improving her tech skills.

My point here is that I think you need to have a mental model where you're in control of your life, not of one where you're a passive vessel being buffeted by a harsh, discriminatory capitalistic system.

One further point, that I hope you don't take offensively is that you talk to someone about these feelings. A few months back I was chatting with my CEO's executive coach, and it went off in my head that I really should start talking to a therapist (I'd long resisted this thinking I wasn't mentally ill enough for it to work). Talking to a third party has been very useful for getting a better perspective on your own life, a perspective that your significant other, friends or family can't provide.

Good luck!