skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Nobody perceives reality as it actually is.

A couple of comments: This sentence has a misleading form. It sounds like "Nobody here has a hat", denying something quite unproblematically possible. But would would it mean to perceive reality 'as it actually is'? The phrase seems confused. Like people who worry about life being meaningless, there's a category error being made somewhere.

And the phrase 'reality as it actually is' is but a modern version of the Kantian 'reality as-it-is-in-itself', (of which nothing could be known or said). Some of the problems coming from such language (i.e. most of Idealism and relativism in their various forms) and their history have been entertainingly explored by the philosophers Musgrave[0] and Stove[1].

e.g. "We can eat oysters only insofar as they are brought under the physiological and chemical conditions which are the presuppositions of the possibility of being eaten.
Therefore, we cannot eat oysters as they are in themselves."

or "We have eyes, therefore we can't see."

[0] Alan Musgrave, Idealism and Antirealism http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/I...

[1] Stove's Discovery of the Worst Argument in the World
http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/worst.html
cmd.exe, but it is probably configurable, and you can always just type 'powershell' to get it.
> So if we want to say that the experience of colors can be explained physically as well, then there should be some physical place where e.g. redness is occurring rather than electro-chemical flux of neuron interaction.

I am reminded of an essay by Stephen Jay Gould, on the history of preformationism, and the debate over whether the homunculus resided in the sperm or the egg. The idea that a human could be represented by an ordering of simple chemicals was inconceivable at the time.

The idea that physicalism requires a specific physical locus for redness is no more sound than the idea that genetic theory requires human-ness to be located in a specific base on a DNA molecule. Emergent phenomena are real, common, and not, in general, particularly mysterious (though the mind certainly is, at least to me.)

More prosaically, maybe redness is actually localized, as a memory of a sensation. Is there anything more to redness than a comparison to prior sensations?
Going to $0 is -Inf% loss.
What about writing open letters on Medium?
I was able to download on my iPad. Great app with a decent number of users posting in Toronto!
During training the weights are constantly changing and their final values uncertain. If you prune a connection to early you could destroy a synapse that would become important later on.
That argument completely ignores why the rules were put into place when they were. Namely, because the ISPs started to act in a non-neutral manner.
What are some upcoming technologies that will eliminate front-end engineers?
A designer I know was complaining recently that in his startup, his designs need to be implemented by a team of frontend engineers, who are slow, implement things with lower fidelity, and have a tense working relationship. He was saying that in five years, technology will advance to the point where frontend engineers (whether mobile or web) will no longer be needed, and that the designer will be able to take charge of the entire user experience directly, rather than indirectly through engineers.

I told him there's a lot happening that he doesn't understand, but upon reflection, the majority of work a frontend engineer does is routine and mundane rather than creative: wiring UI elements together, creating them, initialising them, add event listeners, fetching data from a server, saving it back, and so on. I have worked on a half-dozen frontend platforms (iOS, Android, J2ME, Symbian, Windows Mobile, web, Flash) and still, when I do a project, I end up doing tons of plumbing that I didn't anticipate until I got into the details. This plumbing doesn't add business value.

What are some technologies that are being developed today that are not ready for production use, but will be in five years, that aim to eliminate frontend engineers? Or, make do with fewer frontend engineers? What are some higher levels of abstraction being built?

Here's an analogy: in college, I had to write a paper using LaTeX. I found it a frustrating exercise, with unnatural syntax and terminology I had to learn, and I'd always get compile errors. I thought there's no reason a WYSIWYG word processor like Word or Google Docs or something else, in principle, shouldn't be able to produce the same quality output, while being much easier to use, and usable by 100x as many people as LaTeX is.

What is the equivalent of that for frontend engineering?
That's seriously good money if you are not in one of the big cities, right?
At what cost :-D
...you may not need it at all.

Yeah npm can run tasks by itself just fine.
Right. The key difference is you're not allowed to sell in-game/app money for USD.
It's a valid point but housing is more and more out of reach of folks. As a nation we need to open up housing opportunities. We've really regressed.
I would say that there is a social activist moral panic that we are in the midst of, some of which has been spurred by social media mobs and deliberate narrative reinforcement. Fowler is just one example of it, along with Pao.

Another example would be the horrible way Denise Young Smith was fired from Apple, and James Damore from Google.

This pick signals more of the wagons circling, fanning the flames by the Financial Times.
I am a student so $40/hour works great for me. I don't know if it's good money when you are paying for rent and other costs in a city.
Many millions of Japanese people live in these conditions (ワンルーム) and consider it to be normal. It’s all a matter of perspective, setting reasonable expectations, and adhering to standards. If everyone acts like these conditions are tantamount to failure, it is failure. If everyone shrugs it off as a fact of modern life, there’s no shame in it.
The vast majority of novice speculators are using Coinbase. They at least attempt to maintain the appearance of compliance; but I suspect a large market run would wipe them out of USD fairly quickly.

The fact that “experienced” Bitcoin speculators are getting nervous is a sign the bubble is about to pop. Tether volumes are hockey-sticking up as a result. There has been enough technical analysis to show that USDT volume drives BTC price and not the other way around. USDT volume is hockey-sticking over the last few weeks. Feels like a Ponzi scheme and the whales are cashing out.
I think the OP's point is that non-NN allows powerful ISPs to create walled gardens and restrict access to information that should be available to all.

And EMEs allow powerful media providers to create walled gardens and restrict access to information that should be available to all.

Not sure I but either argument personally, but that's my interpretation.
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Regulation? Possibly, it is a big enough social problem to warrant it

Im not exactly a proponent of regulating peoples impressionability, gullibility and lack of objective reasoning

Extremely Simple math is what should inform them within four years

But since that isnt happening I could see them becoming a large enough bloc to vote for such regulation of the human condition
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Then if I lose 100% of my investment, how much have I lost?
“The Progressive Framework” marketing of Vue is both appealing and accurate. As a shop that has both applications that reside primarily server side and have jQuery spaghetti where needed as well as full front end SPA applications Vue fits the bill for both arenas.
Interesting. Did anybody miss the GUI? Sounds strange that it was removed.
A couple links to maybe help get over your misery.

First, here is why academia decades ago was a nicer place to be and tenure was much easier to get -- meaning when parents tell you how great is was for them, times have changed: https://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html

Second, academia is part of a larger process that stamps out most creativity and independence in order to produce professionals who toe the line ideologically: http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/

Of course, that process starts much earlier than PhD programs: https://archive.org/details/TheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanE...

Good luck with your new directions. Wish I had know this decades ago myself.

BTW, on they joys of being a professional carpet cleaner: https://web.archive.org/web/20030807105050/http://www.unconv...
"More than a few people agree the best career would be one which provides challenge, intellectual stimulation, and rewards for quality work. Many however, would be surprised to discover they can have all of those benefits and more in some of the unlikeliest of careers. Case in point: I'm a professional carpet cleaner. Some people think this is a second-rate career. I don't agree with them. Carpet cleaning gives me challenges, intellectual stimulation, and many other rewards. To prove this, permit me to walk you through one of my work days."
> > ...A bubble, Galbraith observed ...

> Counterpoint: Galbraith confidently called the US stock market a "classic bubble" in April, 1999. At that time, the Dow Jones was at 10,494. Today it's at 24,504.

No! Current day valuation versus 1999 valuation has nothing to do with each other. In 1999 the market was over valued and the bubble soon popped.

> > Assets need to be productive in order to be true investments

> Counterpoint: Maybe assets need to be useful to have value. Land, copper, the balance on a Walmart gift card and my World of Warcraft gold don't produce anything, but they're useful, so they have value.

The key difference between an asset and investment is that investments produce returns.
Enjoyed the blog post from Sustrik. I also found Hintjens' work in line with my own sensibilities, e.g., his libero code generator. That is perhaps a good example of "finished" software.

Whenever I have suggested on HN that there is such a thing as "finished" software that is free of serious bugs, I get some resistance. There is a consistent knee-jerk reaction citing the same tired, old meme, "All software has bugs", and "Software is never finished."

Sustrik's post proves I am not the only one perplexed by this strange belief that no software is ever finished.

IMO, it is not a question of being infallibile or being available to fix bugs. The point is that there are programs that are not continuously growing in size and complexity. They are not "dead". They are "finished".

As for OpenBSD, certainly some programs I would consider "finished" but overall the size of the kernel and base distribution are in fact growing. Not only new drivers, but new programs and new libraries continue to be added. More code means more probability for bugs and vulnerabilties.

Anyway, less code, more terse syntax means it can be easier to find problems. Not everyone will agree with this of course. But I agree with Whitney and others. Less code makes it easier for me.
First, have some savings, it took me ~3 years to get a solid sales pipeline going.

There are 2 types of freelancing. You can specialize in a platform or framework, like Rails/Shopify/WordPress, or you can specialize in delivering whole solutions.

I prefer whole solutions as it gives me control over the project which makes it more likely to succeed. But it takes longer to build a reputation that will get you these projects. Until then, it's easier to find a client that knows exactly what they want but needs a programmer familiar with their technology of choice.

After deciding on what niches you want to go after, you have to start marketing yourself. Print business cards, start heading to meetups and conferences. Find any tech/startup hubs and go to networking events that sound interesting. My rule of thumb is to try and make at least one good connection for every networking event you attend. At the same time, find some online job boards for your city. I have had very good luck with a Facebook group run by a local startup hub. I've heard good things about LinkedIn but haven't looked much myself.

The best is when you can find clients by word of mouth, because you aren't competing with anyone else for their business. The goal is to build enough word of mouth that clients find you. Until then, you have to hustle.

If you make sure to announce on all your social media channels that you are now freelance and you make sure all your friends and family know, clients will start to find their way to you. It takes some time, but it happens.

If you put effort into networking and marketing, you should find clients eventually. As long as you have enough money to float your expenses until the work becomes consistent.

While building your portfolio, don't be afraid to do a free project or two for friends. Barter can work well with artists if you like their work! You can work at a discounted rate if a project aligns strongly with your objectives.

After your portfolio is something you are proud of, you shouldn't need to worry about discounted work anymore.

Try not to get stuck doing an under priced project for too long. It will get highly demotivating.

After a few years, if you live somewhere with a decently active tech economy, things should be well on their way.
One thing that I really would like to impress upon computer people is that mathematics is not (usually) a formal computer language. Symbols and technical terms change meaning depending on the author, people write with different "accents". There's a little ambiguity and informality at times, but a whole lot less than other kinds of writing.

Mathematics is (usually) written for humans, not computers. Don't attempt to read mathematics as you read code. To keep making bad analogies, it's a bit more like reading music. Picking the right tempo, the notes to accentuate, the interpretation -- this all requires a human. Computer still make crude approximations.
Discussed earlier here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15906305
I think I've nearly convinced Arthur to include an equivalent to "stencil" in k7. Fingers crossed!
This only works if the value of BTC is pegged to one or more fiat currencies. As it is, people are basically speculating on blockchain address space on BTC.
Or, we could raise taxes and try to make a real solution like a civilized society, instead of relying on random acts of charity. Charging property taxes on the actual value of people's property in California and using that to fund local government works would be a good start.
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It is, when the industry in question has repeatedly shown themselves to act in a bad manner.

Further, "governing least" is a terrible idea, because that also implies that they're going to fail to govern in situations where they should.
We don’t divvy up federal spend proportionally based on paid income taxes.

If we did “poor white” rural citizens/states would be in big trouble as they currently get more money than they should from a purely proportional measure.
The risk of being starting the whole thing. If you think starting your own coin is easy, go ahead and start mining, the hard part is convincing others to adopt your coin.
This is one of those times you should have used romaji
Your comment made me think!
How I read Mathematics.
First try to find the paper. First use http://front.math.ucdavis.edu . If you can't find it then use google scholar. If that fails then go on the authors academic website. If that fails then see if the author is live and try to contact them. Then repeat for their grad students. If all else fails post it to r/math or HN and ask for the pdf.

First you want to see if this paper is even worth reading.
Scan the Abstract and the conclusions. If it is still relevant then do a quick scan of the whole text and look for the things you don't understand. For everything you don't understand look up on wikipedia. Once you have found those pages then look on the citations on wikipedia to gain more understanding. If you still can't understand the paper reread it and then attempt to redo their calculations. If all else fails ask someone to help you read it. Whenever you get confused write on the paper questions. If you figure out that this paper is meaningless then look for another one.

If you figure out a new question that you want to persue more then try to answer that question. If you don't have access to professor or if they are impeding your work then use stackexchange. Either that or try to invalidate your new theory yourself. Recognize that you can be wrong.
Glad I don't need a cell phone.
I still use an MP3 player, and encrypted storage on my Linux notebooks.
I never understood having all my personal data on a hand held tracking device, just crazy, from a security standpoint.
>What's the difference between writing x commands and hitting enter once, vs writing x commands and waiting for each command to finish?

The point of homework is to do it yourself, not to clone a repo with the answers.
Easy enough to rob someone for this amount of money too. As Eric Schmidt said (in the context of a hostile government, but it works here too): no passcode in the world is going to protect you from a man holding a gun to your head and demanding said passcode.
Thank you. You have to opt-out, because there is no opt-in.
Is there a list of common websites and where to disable tracking?
> This is why I don't "freelance": it's filled with people who think spending 1 hour of unpaid work to get 1 hour of paid (and usually poorly paid, < $150/hr) work is acceptable. I have no inclination to compete with essentially free labor.

You sound really condescending. Less than 150$ is not "essentially free labor", and the people working for those amounts are not illogically choosing to do so. Even among developers it's a small fraction that can pull in the amount you are eluding to making. 150$ an hour works out to $312,000 yearly at 40 hours a week.
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sanctions have no power here

Blockchain networks have no capability of this concept
It's pretty clear that he's pointing out a security problem with "trusted" devices.
He just wasn't very articulate about it.
Man, I wish you sent me these about 6 years ago! It was hard to get out of my own way, and over my misery, but I was able to!

Thank you for sharing these :D
Sometimes cities will fund it themselves. A one way bus ticket out of town is way cheaper than providing housing.
You know where to find me!
Actually, Oracle came out as being against net neutrality several months ago.
Technology is always 5 years out, but it never comes.
Lol. That is the famous "sea to sky" highway. You should have seen it before the 2010 olympic upgrades. It is a runway compared to what it once was. It isnt really a mountain highway but a coastal route. It follows a train track most of the way. You all know it. Something like half of north america's car commercials are filmed in vancouver, and many of those use the s2s.

I used to ride it several times a week on my vfr. The real rollercoaster starts north of whistler: the dirty dusty duffy lake road.
China has, for many years. The EU is unlikely to.
besides a slippery slope argument is the a technical argument why it will be worse outside of the US? does the change only effect the last mile internet consumers or will this effect backbone connections as well?

i have seen a lot of stuff about the proposed FCC changes but every time someone asks about how this will effect non-US internet users the reply is always "because the USA is the best and your government will copy us"

Don't get me wrong i competently agree with the need for net neutrality, ISP's should not be allowed to throttle or dictate which data you can access or at what speed. I just want to understand the issue better and how it effects the global internet community.

I also don't think we should limit action to just the US region, if a website wants to protest let them do it for everyone to see, it might help when the fight starts in what ever country is next (apparently) but they do risk alienating global consumers who frankly don't care about US politics.
Having fun with cover letters
This is my experience as well, especially with respect to the "layer upon layer of abstraction". Abstraction isn't bad, but it's notoriously hard to do well.
That Bitcoin allows investors to go around their country regulation on investments makes a lot more sense than a sudden interest in cryptography from uninformed neighbours.

Interestingly, it also means that they will hold on to it for the long term or until it is regulated closely enough that they can’t hope to convert the coins later -- and there is always the hope form investors that their countries will understand or that they will emigrate. This would make me bullish, in spite of recent seemingly unreasonable price increases.
Invoking via cmd is not comparable at all.

If it was direct to Powershell, you could pipe objects directly into remote cmdlets.
A techie overview of how credit and debit cards work
Long-lived storage of a photonic qubit for worldwide teleportation
Hey thanks for the candid opinion!!! Sean from the webpack team here!!! Maybe it's been awhile since you have taken a look at our documentation! (webpack.js.org)!

I think something that individuals who try to make comparisons to their backend tooling that "just works" is that none of these tool have ecosystem constraints like the Web. I wanted to really talk about something that is important to understand about tooling, and why webpack might have some of the features it does.

In the web, you should only ship no more then ~<200kb of JavaScript (uncompressed), for your initial download. From there, you should be "dynamically" delivering JavaScript asynchronously in bundles/chunks. In addition, there are multiple module types that exist in the JavaScript ecosystem that libraries are published in. Sadly, some of the most popular libraries are being published with AMD Modules, or CommonJS, or no module system at all, and there is no consistency or way to know this about those modules without looking at their source code. Therefore, webpack out of the box supports the ability to load all of them. Not only that, but we employ a set of plugins that help optimize code using complex topological sorting, (aka things you'd probably never want to implement or hand optimize yourself) to ensure that your delivered code is the smallest possible.

Compare this to C++, or any "build" static toolchains. There are really _no_ size limits for the amount of dependencies or code that needs to be linked together. Therefore, there is no care in the world for application developers if they are generating 600GB Video Games, 10MB-100MB Applications, etc. Think if there was 5 ways to write C++ Modules/Java Modules, etc. and you had to apply the same constraints as the Web. (You'd probably see a lot more webpack's or a lot more convention tools that wrap things like webpack).

Anyways, as a maintainer of the project, we can't say this enough: "We are owned by our community". This means that if there are things we aren't doing right, that we owe you to make things easier to use, more conventional, when needed, and progressive in a way that lets you layer features and need on top of an awesome, and fast core product <3.

So if you have great ideas, please let me know. :-D
That is good money even if he is in the cities, thanks for the conversion rates. But depends on the frequency of work too.

That said, Congrats ishanjain28. I don't even get close to that :)
This is the "intrinsic value" the media claims does not exist.