skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't believe we're as special as we think we are

Maybe if you believe this it becomes true. You allow people to tell you what to work on, when to work on it, interrupt you, and generally walk all over you. And you don't deserve any royalties right, because you aren't special? Your fellow developers don't deserve higher pay or royalties, they aren't special either.

Lets just see what happens when this mentality spreads. Developers will get no choices and must all program uniformly. Creative solutions must be approved by the board first. All decisions are made by shareholders and executed by project managers. You will be judged solely on your story point outputs in a perpetual 'sprint'. We can boil down every abstraction and implementation to the lowest common denominator.

Self hatred and crab-in-a-bucket mentality are a straight path from this self devaluation. I suggest we treat ourselves and each other as unique and special, regardless of our hijacked 'scrum' processes that tries to turn us into cogs. Not only do you avoid the risk of devaluation, you start to tap into the potential in people that has been beaten out of them by 22 years of indoctrination. This will only fully be untapped when developers realize we are special, and we deserve things like flexible hours, unlimited remote work time, planned vacations, and fair royalties.
> It absolutely shocked me that it is worth the time of these drive-by attacks to try combinations like root/password, root/root, or root/admin. Apparently they have enough successes using those incredibly insecure combinations that it is worth their time.

It is fairly evident to anyone that has looked at the traffic that a honeypot gets that most of the activity is automated.

Most of it is purely botnets, some of it is automated password guessing followed by manual login. I think the amount of people manually trying passwords is insignificantly small.
Amazon has a great repository of open data. You can go wild with these. [1] NYC also has tons of open data for their smart cities initiative. [2]

[1]https://registry.opendata.aws/
[2]https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/
Regarding the weather: most people most often stay indoors or in cars(does the glass filter the Vitmain-D causing rays), and usually wear long pants and a shirt, so only a small body area is exposed to the sun, so it's possible that even in summer, people suffer from Vitamin-D deficiency.
I can see this triggering an inflection point in Chinese debt accumulation (if it hasn't happened already). Considering the insanely high debt to GDP ratio in China, it looks like they're in for a massive recession.
A friend of mine built this complete with a whole pile of honeypots and lots of companies use it.

https://www.blockedservers.com/

Super useful.
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I'm building a tool like this, but I'm 2 months from launching.
>"In the new problem, she says, you have to find in the 100,000 points something like 10,000 arcs of ellipse."

Does anyone know how long this currently takes?
> If ABP is blocking all ads for me, why would I care about a conflict of interest?

You might not care, but if you are recommending others an extension to use for blocking ads, you cannot do it solely on your own preferences.

Imagine being recommended as alternatives an adblocker that you can install and forget or an adblocker that you need to configure and keep on watch in case it starts showing ads anyway. Having no experience with adblockers before, which one would you choose?
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NOT WHY YOU THINK - turns out to be your daily Adblock Plus rant, what a surprise. I too would like a clickbait blocker.
Most of these patients are likely exhibiting some spectrum of antisocial behavior, which means staying indoors or generally away from other people.

I don't think it's as interesting as it seems. I'm rather certain there's a sensible explanation.
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I don't accept the premise. Who are all these people saying they're "worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers"?

I've seen many times on Twitter non-programmers basically calling us cry-babies. However, they are often arguing against an opinion they invented.

"I hate interruptions" does not mean "I hate interruptions and I believe I'm the only person in the world affected by them"
I think they might mean the raw computational power (excluding ASICs).
Honestly, it would be better for these hyperlocal sites to be supported by ads from the local community, both for lack of toxic ads and for the fact that most readers will be in the same community. Now there's a startup idea for you.
I was is similarly displeased with "Unwanted Expansion". I'd prefer some sort of fixpoint algorithm, which could then be a applied to the case with "-", which their version couldn't.
I want these on a poster.
I'm not sure I'd agree to a "time tracker," but I am generally way more willing to pay to get content easily and donate to sites I like than I was when I was younger.
I mirror this 100%. I really wanted to not use a blocker because I was trying to "support the industry". I even for a very short time attempted to build my own blacklist, but it quickly became easier to just block everything.

Now not only have I been using a blocker for a few years, I install one on any family/friends computers I am working on, and advocate for one whenever it comes up.

I don't know what it would take for me to come back now. Unfortunately it's a tragedy of the commons: a small number of sites/advertisers can completely ruin it for everyone -- and, I'd argue, already have.
I'd say there are quite a few issues (foreign policy, for instance) where the cable news networks are more or less in lockstep with each other but not really representative of the general views of Americans.

Or, to give you another example, consider the tremendous amount of opinion column space given to people like David Brooks who represent a tiny proportion of voters -- and then compare it to the total absence of, say, anyone aligned with Sanders (who I think we can pretty safely say is more popular than any of the world's Never-Trump Republicans).
I don't know why people downvoted this, it's entirely correct. Although I guess the larger concern than the radiation would be the heavy metal poisoning but in any case it's still fine, just treat it like you would any other heavy metal.
This is not a problem that can be solved just by throwing more compute resources at it. It's not as simple as simply having too much data to process, the real issue is that each detector has a time resolution that goes down to about a nanosecond. If you get one collision per nanosecond then it's pretty straight forward to associate every one of the (possibly) million detector hits to a single event and reconstruct it accordingly. The issues arises when you have more than one event (i.e. collision) within each nanosecond window. You end up with detector readings for each event overlapping each other without a simple way of disambiguating them. This is called "pile up".

When I last worked there in 2015 a typical pile up situation was having about 50 collisions per detector reading. It is no simple problem to simultaneously reconstruct 50 collisions from the same set of overlapping detector measurements.
Many people on the internet want to chime in on a complex situation without knowing any of the backstory, and without understanding what is going on. Instead, they look for confirmation of their own beliefs and to demonize people who disagree with them. This is a sad reflection of the state of social discourse in the world.

This is what we get when everyone has a voice, but few have anything to say. So much interaction online seems to boil down to a minority of ideologues butting heads and driving anything like nuanced conversation into the ground. Even here that’s the case, it’s just partially suppressed by excellent moderation and strong rules, but it still boils up over and over.

How can we change this? How can the majority who don’t have all day, every day, to argue their preferred, rigid ideology deal with the incredibly loud minority who do?
I work in a similar space and one of the tools that might solve your problem is exploratory.io.
The problem isn’t DNS traffic. The problem is that for years people have been using 1.1.1.1 in the configuration of software and devices when they didn’t have an up address to configure. The result is that when 1.1.1.1 becomes routable all that additional traffic flows there and AT&T along with other provides carries that traffic. I was wrong that AT&T was blocking it for honorable reasons but this is a still a significant amount of traffic.
I hope rust community gets more interested in openfl. There's some good libraries already, opengl support, vulkan, there's ggez which mimics the LOVE api, but OpenFL is a fully equipped kitchen sink that a lot of multimedia developers are already familiar with, or used to be.

Congrats to OpenFL team! Fantastic work, inspiring dedication!

And go haxe! Haxe is cool too!
IN Italy there’s a little desk behind the cashiers and it’s split in half so while you fill your bags using one half the next client uses the other half. The amount of useless jobs in the states always amazes me, but then you look at the unemployment rate and everything becomes less useless ...
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Many homeless/sick move south so rates between regions may be affected.
It is a tradeoff in my experience. Being interrupted by small requests does jank me out of my flow but on the other hand immediately responding to a problem can save them hours of being stalled by some issue. It's simply necessary as a senior developer.

For the same reason I immediately often stop whatever I am doing when I get a code review request as it allows others to get a specific issue done faster and iterate on it instead of having to look for a different task in the meantime and come back later to the issue under review.

On the other hand the tradeoff is not worth it if the issue is not an immediate blocker.
Yeah, I've spent the last year working on a (functionally simple) SPA... I won't mention the framework used because I think it's irrelevant but the experience has only confirmed the position I've maintained for years; in general, web apps are broken.

The browser was designed to display hyperlinked text and to support a limited set of actions on form data. IMHO, the main reason the whole web app craze took off was because serving the apps from centralized servers solved a number of the issues around application distribution and updates. This was a big problem at the time but it's ironic that shortly afterward mom, pop, buddy and sis became very comfortable downloading and installing things like iTunes and (even more ironically) browsers.
Just to insert the usual analogy, if a single collision is the proverbial smashing of two clocks, and then trying to discern their makeup from the wreckage, this is akin to smashing dozens of clocks at the same time. How can you tell where one gear fragment was meant to fit when it’s such a mess?
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Well, the scenario I can imagine someone doing these kinds of competitions for prize money is say the super smart to uber rare Turing level thinkers; it wouldn't really be for the prize money because they'd likely enjoy doing it, though that might be enough incentive to temporarily redirect their attention. It's nice thank you prize money anyhow.
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I'm learning Python in College, I am not a programmer at all probably never will be but it is fun.

When working on a project any noise, any interruption at all I find extremely distracting to the point I have to stop and collect my thoughts for later.

During exams for Python I use earbuds and play a Brownian noise sound file turned up very loud to block out all sounds. It's probably damaging my hearing but it helps. Music has patterns and songs have words both are distracting, classical music is not too bad though it seems to help.
On the contrary I find this thread to be full of arrogant hypocrites chanting "burn the ad industry to the ground" while watching their daily dose of TV propaganda.
Might as well give them 50% stake in a company you built and might as well dilute your ownership? That makes no sense if you can hire someone to do the job, pay them X% more, and keep 100% ownership of your startup.

I think the reason YC and other incubators want cofounders is because it hedges their risk. If one founder gets sick or goes against YC's advice they can apply pressure through the other founder, and in extreme cases team up with other investors to oust the bad founder. If it's a solo founder they own too much of the company to divide and conquer so they can't make any power plays. I'm not saying that these moves are always bad - in general investors want the company to succeed. They just rather have an option than to put all their eggs in one basket with a solo founder.
Sadly you can't affirm that to all of the affected population, that needs testing. Some mentally ill people like to go out and walk mindlessly all day long. I am sure you know some 'walkers' in your vicinity, there's always one.
Weird question: i saw an article yesterday saying that redheads naturally produce more vitamin d.

So, what is the prevalence of redheads in psychiatric hospitals?
> What does Bitcoin have to do with it?

Previous poster was using it as an example of a medium for exchange used with micropayments.
Because of the particular distributions that you happen to have chosen. Alice doesn't have to pick uniformly at random. Since 0^p=0 and 1^p=1 we can experiment with different distributions by using "Math.pow(Math.random(),p)" in place of "Math.random()". For example:

var prior = Math.pow(Math.random(),1);
var hand1 = Math.pow(Math.random(),10);
var hand2 = Math.pow(Math.random(),10);
> Win probability: 0.5757182

and

var prior = Math.pow(Math.random(),1);
var hand1 = Math.pow(Math.random(),0.1);
var hand2 = Math.pow(Math.random(),10);
> Win probability: 0.9026432

But the win probability will always be >0.5 so long as the "prior" probability distribution has a nonzero probability of being between Alice's two numbers.
Interesting you allow <b> but not <strong>. Can you give the names of some of your clients? I'd like to check out how it looks in action. I understand if you can't though.
If you are over 60, get your vitamin D blood levels checked! Made a big difference for me, simply increasing dose
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I mostly agree with your point.

I was defining say Chinsease sensors as part of the audience rather than the news organization as the orignization does not have contowl over them. Much like in the US Fox News/CBS etc gets a list of words it can't say, they can add to that list but not remove from it.
More important difference: the base rate in the grandparent post is for the US, while the psychiatric hospital admission study is for hospitals in the UK. Serum vitamin D depends significantly on sunlight exposure and hence latitude, so the base rate is different there.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. If you're building a serverless app, you don't start with Flask. You start with the lambda and plain old Python. Seriously, what he wrote basically said he tried to build to a construct which lambda isn't meant to directly support and then had all sorts of problems.

Stop trying to write a full server and then map it to lambda. Start with lambda and map it to your service. There, done. That's all you need to know.
Waymo posted a video from the van. Pretty much answers all questions about what happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhcyTOaHdv4
But the political issues - good luck getting the school bond past the voting public, especially if it's for those people!
I’ve built a handful of projects using vapor and it’s been a great experience so far. Their slack is a great place for getting help and just talking with the community. Can’t wait to use 3.0 now.
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>. This will only fully be untapped when developers realize we are special, and we deserve things like flexible hours, unlimited remote work time, planned vacations, and fair royalties.

Ok, but why do programmers exclusively (being "special") deserve these things, but not employees in other fields, or employees in general?
Yep, use https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Sometimes it simply means it's the globally winning move. Two hypotheticals.

1) Users pay Facebook a monthly fee to use the platform (enough to fund it profitably, so say $25/month)

2) Users pay Facebook a monthly fee AND Facebook markets their information (if not through direct advertising, then other methods)

If the fee is the same, and there's no fundamental reason it shouldn't be, Facebook is under a fiduciary duty to always choose (2).

The only path to not monetizing users is Apple-esque "Make so much money you can forgo profit in service to branding that the market forgives you". And I don't see Facebook ever commanding those kinds of margins.

Absolutely agreed on corporate personhood. Teddy Roosevelt's biography and the 1850 - 1920 period is instructive, as you see what it really takes to claw back control from corporations (aka "combinations" at the time).
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I guess we ultimately lost the battle because normal people don't give a shit about this anymore....

I am not sure what precedent this sets for the future.
From the video from the Wyamo vehicle it's pretty hard to argue that it could have done anything in this case.
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Sorry to nitpick, but I remembered from this previous comment that Kluny is a woman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16425273, and it feels bad to leave that without mention.
IMO, that's a function of a subset of Organizations. Al jazeera news exists as part of a different spectrum, but they still customize their message for different nations. Brazil's local news has again got it's own very different spin on things.
This upgrade looks absolutely fantastic. The Elements piece in particular looks amazing, and has the potential to be a real game changer for shops that have a diverse set of applications that they use, and need large scale re-use of components.

At the mid-size corporation that I work at, we just standardized all Javascript development on Angular from a mismash of a ton of technologies. Angular seems very well suited for this role.

There was a interesting statistic recently that showed that Angular was dominating "east coast" applications (traditional financial services, pharma, insurance, manufacturing, established CS) while React was most popular in "west coast" applications - primarily silicon valley, etc.

I'm glad these two technologies are here to push each other.
Good points. Here is some data on vitamin D deficiency in the UK (where the original study was conducted) that also addresses seasonality: https://www.bjfm.co.uk/prevention-of-vitamin-d-deficiency

"Low serum levels of vitamin D are found in significant numbers of all population groups in the UK: in winter 30-40% of all age groups in the general population are classed as vitamin D deficient. Even towards the end of summer 8% of adults and 13% of adolescents remain deficient."

where deficient is defined as < 25 nmol/L of 25(OH)D
If you are able to win this competition, then why wouldn't you get a job in that area and get a comparable amount of money every month instead of just once?
Yes, due to the highly volatile JS landscape I was just trying to figure out what it means. So thanks

Don't know why I got downvoted but ok I guess.
> I don't believe we're as special as we think we are

I don't like the premise.

In my opinion and from personal experience, it's more to do with keeping an abstract of the problem you're trying to solve in your head, which is what the cartoon is portraying, than any thought of somehow being special in some way.

I mainly work from home, and I'm married, which means quite often I could be working on a piece of code - abstract in my mind - when the goodly wife enters my room and starts asking or talking about domestic subjects or issues. And then just like the cartoon, the abstraction I had so carefully taken the time to build up in my mind goes POFF!

That POFF! is most frustrating. It's not that I think I'm special, or that the POFF! is different for other types of workers/professions, but it does take time to settle down and begin to build the abstraction back up in one's mind again.
Yeah, absolutely - most regions probably have a nonzero population with Vitamin D deficiency year-round. But if I had to pick a place and time at which the overall rate of Vitamin D deficiency is high, the UK in February through April seems like a safe bet.
Cool, let's just take away 20% of the revenue then and see if it's required or not. As quoted on that page: "Sponsorship from local companies and organizations is the second largest source of support to stations."

Virtue signaling is still advertising, paying money for exposure. Otherwise it's a corporate donation and that does not scale at all. You can look at the continuous travails of open-source projects that deliver billions in value but get no funding as a perfect example.

The point is that NPR comes nowhere near the massive amount of content that people consume but don't pay for. Please don't just assume the entire industry is incompetent, there are millions of people working in these media companies and they are constantly trying new options. So far, outside of subscriptions for certain high-end brands like the Financial Times, advertising is the only sustainable model found.
So people locked indoors who can't see the sun have a vitamin D deficiency? Shocking...
People who are admitted to mental hospitals don't spend much time out in the sun or eat healthy diets? Fascinating.
Something I noticed (having worked as both a non-programmer and programmer) that hangovers affect me much worse as a programmer than not.

As a non-programmer there were always mundane things I could do to keep things ticking over: sending emails, updating reports etc.

As a programmer who solely codes, there's not many places I can hide in my work if I'm off form. If my concentration is impeded, my output will very visibly suffer.
Oh I understand that but from my perspective my small city of 70,000 seems to have a really vibrant developer scene. Each year it seems to grow more it's nice to see such a different industry do so well here.

Twenty years ago jobs here would have been food service or blue collar jobs like farming, fishing, welding. Now there are people coming here to work many are not locals which is also great they bring a new perspective on the world.

There wasn't even an official computer science program at the local University until roughly the mid 90s. I made an attempt at a CS degree in the early 2000s and the assistant prof (my age!) said he had to leave to get his CS degree at another Uni.