skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the wrong way to read it - their likelihood is bad compared to an agency with secrets that gives it a better chance, and even then, that agency only receives a fair likelihood. At least this part is close to reality - per another comment, the NSA understood differential cryptanalysis years before academia

I guess we could add more score levels to make it more explicit, but I'm pretty sure that beer-addled table has bigger problems
I have a huge complex behemoth of an application which is written in CodeIgniter 3 with a whole bunch of changes that I have made over the years to the core. To call it CI 3 is a bit of an understatement.

I hadn't upgraded sooner because it had worked, but then due to issues with my stack. I decided recently to start from scratch and upgrade my toolset as well.

So I was deciding to either go symfony or laravel. Laravel won by a huge margin. From the perspective of a newbie. Even though I have 10+ years developing in PHP, I like to debase myself and approach with no baggage.

Laravel has so many more tutorials than Symfony 4 on Youtube. I wanted to learn and very very fast. So going through videos in 2x speed and getting the gist of how things worked was great.

Continuing on, there were many tutorials which had actually built apps using Laravel 5.5/5.6. So I was able to quickly get up to speed using Validation, Eloquent, Passport, Middlewares, Query Builder, etc.

On the documentation side. It's very easy to use and describes simply how to get things done.

Next was that Laravel had VueJS integration. So out of the box, I could have an SPA and use Laravel effectively as an API. Of course, right now I am one developer so 1 codebase is fine. But later on, if I need to split and have two codebases (VueJS front-end, Laravel API), then I can do that.

With Laravel I've gone from writing straight SQL to using the ORM. Which surprisingly for me, reduced my codebase by a significant margin and surface area for bugs.

I have found that there are a lot of Laravel composer packages compared to what I was using before and again makes my life so much easier.

Finally, there is a bit of synergy between Vue and Laravel. For example, I'm able to post a form with Vue using Vee-Validate for the validation. Then get laravel to post back any errors for Vee-Validate to consume. In jQuery and using my old codebase. I had to jump through hoops to get it done and much more code.

I will also say, that I had actually decided to go with Symfony in the beginning. The main reason was that Symfony was more pure and I have developer friends who recommended it as the way forward.

> and I'm not sure why Laravel took off the way it did.

It took off because with Symfony, try as I might. I just couldnt get on with it. It wasn't as pleasant experience with Laravel and honestly. Even if I persisted. The time that I took to go from zero, to duplicating my own stack was a few weeks.

I don't think I could have done that with Symfony. Yes, I could probably achieve the same result with Symfony. But not in the same amount of time.

As still a new laravel developer. I want to be able to deploy new features very fast. I can do this now.
Keynote to PDF is good enough for me, but note that I make slides max 3 times a year. I don't think I have any templates or anything. I've tried Slides.com and it's great as well.
With ur use of so many technical terms I guess u are a real IT guru.
I would like us to be friends.
I think we will fit together well
How Zuckerberg F$&ed Up Facebook for Your Business in 5 Simple Steps
How large and invasive is the Dart runtime though? Running in a VM and running with a runtime are only so far apart. And I'm interested in distribution package sizes too.
I would've probably upvoted the post if it wasn't on Linkedin.
Nudging technology adoption in government, a bot that summarizes documents
Yes. Leaving out likely predictors is worse.

Collinearity issues can mean that the beta estimates for collinear variables are less robust, making them harder to interpret. Sometimes this is approached by some data reduction technique, eg PCA.
With ur use of so many technical terms I guess u are a real IT guru. I would like us to be friends. I think we will fit together well
This is un-material designed
I assume they mean sterile when they say clean. Why do we still insist only on sterile environments? Shouldn't we focus on creating small eco systems that are suitable for humans, where probably lots of different microbes that are beneficial to us are included..
How do I declare an immutable data structure in Go?
Clean Modern GTD with Todoist
Anyone has any comment on Fuse framework? Since it has been open sourced i have been looking into it and it seems interesting to code in.
They buy from people in need as well.

I debated on selling them my F150. They offered me 17k and I told them to go fuck themselves.

It got totaled ~4 years later and I got a bit over $17k.

So the people that need cash will bend over. Those too stupid to shop around (marketing works as well) will overpay.

Almost everyone I know falls in love with a car or house when they're buying because it's such a huge purchase. For me I'm only in love if it's a good deal. That's one thing my parents certainly taught me well (thanks!).
I am about 4 hours in and still into it! Thank you for sharing the lectures.

Just finished the series on Face Recognition. I was wondering if the fusiform face area (FFA) get activated while thinking of someone's face instead of actually looking at one? Might also be interesting to explore the memory of faces in persons with prosopagnosia?

Haven't actuallly googled for these yet. Will do so in a bit.. after the next series of lectures may be.
There is a gap between the safer and safest security level: sometimes I want to display icons and symbols but don't want js to run.

Installing additional extensions is discouraged; but in my experience Decentraleyes makes latency somewhat less disturbing, CAPTCHAs appear less often; and uBlock Origin is essential [-].

[-] shipping with every available filter list enabled and cached may be a good enough default
He’s also retweeting uncorroborated replies that agree with him, and ignoring replies from the team that work on the project telling him he is wrong.
Tangent: I've been looking more into longevity and I've noticed "minimal exercise" is a theme. What does this mean to you?

I'm currently around 20% bodyfat. I eat healthy, drink when thirsty, sleep 7.5-9 hours, walk/bike as much as transport and do "convict conditioning" workouts 3 days a week. Outside of that, I don't "workout" but I am active in chores, hiking, etc.

All my friends are extremely invested in fitness and all sub-15% bodyfat. I am very disciplined but I try to focus more on nutrition than fitness (I cheat too much!).

I'd love more insight and if you had studies on this I'd love to learn more about efficient/minimal exercise.
I'm a builder, not a seller. How do I grow my startup?
Under scarcity, in choosing which foods to buy, how tolerant are you to the risk of being hungry because you allocated too few dollars to calories rich foods? My guess is extreme risk averse.
Doesn't work on iOS.
Unfortunately socialist countries being inevitably corrupt, the programs end up benefiting specific producers regardless of food quality.
Hello twic, since version 4 Redis by default does not accept connections that are not originating from localhost. Yet we have still problems! Please read the blog post for the exact details about why sane defaults were not enough.
> The fact that people feel obligated to stay long hours because their boss is in the office, and the whole concept of "we are all in this together so we should all suffer together" is a key driver.

You see this culture in the US military also, and not just when deployed where it is warranted, at home when there is no reason for it.

"One team one fight"
"Just spend a handful of days learning one of the open source stacks"

Sure, but which one? :)
I'm currently working on it
Rails app started from a solid template deployed to Heroku takes minutes. This is what we use for all projects:
https://github.com/lockstep/rails_new
I Know,and I'm proud of It :D
I agree that it's too complicated a good a task. However there are other paradigms that work, at least for older persons: eg asking people $5 today or $20 next week?
Thanks. Did a search before asking but couldn't find anything. Sorry to rehash!
I'm not so much referring to the economy right now necessarily. That will be affected, but the population pyramid is just one of many other factors, it's not a great proxy for the long-term sustainability of the welfare state and the burdens on young and middle-aged people in 30 years from now.

Anyway, Japan and Korea really aren't comparable. Just look at their pyramids.

Starting with the 64+ population, grew in Japan from 5% to 26%. Further, it's not just children (<14) who're a lower share than before, but also the working population of 15-64 which is smaller than before (from 64% to 60%).

In short, old:working age went from 1:13 to 1:2 (rounded off).

https://countryeconomy.com/demography/population-structure/j...

South Korea is in a very different stage. Its 64+ population only went from 3% to 13%. Meanwhile its working population from 15-64 didn't drop like in Japan but went up from 53% to 73%. If anything, Korea is in an amazing position right now and has been for some time. It's only now levelling off and going the other direction.

https://countryeconomy.com/demography/population-structure/s...

In short, old:working age went from 1:18 to 1:6 (rounded off). For every old person in Japan, Korea has 3 times as many working age people. And that puts a lot of pressure on the tax base, even if the economy is doing well, a greater share of production is redistributed away from young and working people to old and not working people. In a country where one young person has to produce as much wealth for himself and one old person, as another country where two young people can share that burden, there's a difference in pressure and sustainability of the welfare state.

Fact of the matter is that Japan is running a deficit on its social security system. You either need to raise taxes or expect welfare state retrenchment (which has happened in most developed countries over the past 30-40 years in large parts anyway). You can only raise taxes so much (Laffer curve). It's typically deemed as inevitable that Japan's welfare state will retrench unless it accepts immigration or technology rapidly does away with humans. I don't see either of these happening in the next few decades, so young people pay to support a system today that they're likely not going to enjoy to the same degree in the future.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198075/

The link between poverty and obesity in the modern world is well established. That means you can hardly point to a lack of energy consumption. I added a video to my comment, from a bio.chem course, that shows a common pathway how high energy state leads to obesity.

Note that I can't and don't want to (and don't need to) show very much here, only provide an argument against what I think is a strange argument from @Retric about "not enough energy in veggies". Energy is not the problem (the psychological feeling of "I have no energy", which may be more prevalent in poor people (I don't know), is not the same as a low energy level).

I doubt the considerations you mention actually happen, or when then it's not widespread. I think it's automatic behaviors rather than conscious choices, and I doubt most people think about their foods energy content (given that a large majority of people, including and for some groups even especially among the poor, consume too much of it). As I see it, the energy claim doesn't fit the available data - which shows an excess, not a lack. That's why I think explanations as well as actions have to aim somewhere else - or would you say we should provide even more energy in food (especially aimed at poor people or not does not matter, since obesity affects all groups to varying degrees).

Another interesting read might be (okay, although it does not say anything actually new): https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/79/1/6/4690070
is there ads? I was going to try it, but now I think I'll skip
Thank you for this! I used it to make a little script to download audio from each lecture:

youtube-dl --get-id https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyGKBDfnk-iAQx4Kw9JeVqspbg77sfAK0 -i > ids.txt
while read id; do
youtube-dl -f bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$id
done < ids.txt
How good is FFI in Dart? I mean how fast and easy is it? I see that it can call C and C++ libraries, but that's nowadays a basic requirement for any FFI. I'm looking maybe for an opinion and maybe some kind of numbers to back up it's performance.

As far as I understand it on Android it's compiled to a CPU native binary and has to use NDK and JNI to do anything. If that's a fact it's funny that on Google's own platform it has to go through two FFIs - Dart to C to Java. While on iOS just one - Dart to C, because what's there not to it for Obj-C?

I'm dreaming for a truly native everywhere platform. Something that would compile to DEX or JVM byte code for Android, CLR on Windows and a binary everywhere else. While using native widget toolkit for each platform - practically without any FFI. Also respecting HIG of each platform. Yeah, I'm a dreamer.

I heard about https://www.elementscompiler.com/ , but I would also like for it to be open source. :P
I have first hand experience in Xinjiang a decade ago. I can only imagine it's getting worse.

What I remember most was:

1) nearly hourly MMS messages to my flip phone from unknown numbers with an unknown attachment. Since my phone was bought outside China, the MMS attachment didn't automatically open the likely spyware.

2) Being followed and monitored by plainclothes policemen

3) Having my hotel room searched while I was away. Having police come to my hotel room to interrogate me but lacking access because I had the only key to the room (very very cheap hotel).

4) Armed convoys of Chinese army soldiers constantly going up and down major streets.
To answer the title.. why exactly?! Dive into some Eastern philosophy, now!
> It means the network controller is running erlang.

network-controller is a recent phenomenon and it would be quite interesting to see if this is what was meant. fwiw, a bunch of ericsson h/w for cellular access ran erlang in the control-plane f.e. mme/sgsn etc.
I live in Dublin in rented apartment facing very busy street and a pub across the street so had the same problem with noise during the nights.

I bought polycarbonate transparent sheet (firesafe) that can be attached to the window wall with a help of magnetic adhesive tape. http://goldstarplasticsireland.ie/secondary-glazing-system.h...

It is effective in blocking mid and high frequencies, still some low freq energetic noise comes in. Before I had to sleep few nights in a week with wax earplugs, now I manage to sleep normally.
Xamarin is consistently roasted in the Stack Overflow dev surveys.
Fired without any notice. Simply told his position doesn't exist anymore.

Since corporations are people, this one is a cold hearted bitch.
But the Marshmallow Test is a test! The child is told not to eat the marshmallow (maybe not in so many words), so there's an obvious correct answer to the test ("don't eat the marshmallow"), and some people are motivated to take that answer because they are motivated to do well when they are being tested. My own history is full of this kind of incident.

EDIT: to clarify, the Marshmallow Test is a test when viewed by someone who is always on the lookout for tests, like me and like some other children. Many children, I'm sure, would not view it as a test, and might correspondingly not pass it.
Poor kids grow up with patents who can’t often fulfil their promises, rich kid man grow up with parents who can.
The test is less about some inherent quality a person that can effect their future performance and more about their expectations given their expererience.

The fatal flaw in the original experiment is that they assume that the child is give with 100% certainty a choice between instant and delayer gratifications, when is fact the delayed gratification is contingent in their trust in the experimenter. I’d wager if you did the experiment with one test being a fully trusted adult and the other being a fully distrusted adult but the same kid in both cases you would get both outcomes.
I user hacker slides as a local docker installation. creates pdfs as well and lets me write all the slides in mark down. See here: https://github.com/msoedov/hacker-slides
It'd been going on so long, I would argue that there is an element of "coming to the nuisance" [1] going on. That is, the situation is like people who move next to a farm in order to "get back to nature." Hey! Turn out it sucks to live next to a farm! Lets shut the farm down!

[1] https://dictionary.thelaw.com/coming-to-the-nuisance/
Why not using something already stacked like google App Engine? You can choose the language and not worry about the deployment. Or AWS Elastic Beanstalk? Same thing.
Everyone here seems to be posting their favorite stack when the question is about simplicity and quick iterations. I mean, my favorite stack would be a rails app running on docker and that would take me 1 hr to setup but only because I've done it dozens of times. If I didn't know how to configure an easy sync pipeline, I would go with the solutions I mentioned before. They both have wizards to guide the process the first time and you have a clear view of the costs.
Social media, YouTube, Twitch influencer? I was one of those kids born in the mid 80s that grew up wanting to be a video game developer, while spending time online during the early stages of the internet. The idea of being an online influencer wasn't a thing that existed back then.

Now, I hear that a lot of kids want to be YouTube stars when they get older, and there's obviously an endless stream of people trying to be Instagram celebrities.

So, that's a ship that came after video games for the next generation, and it has likely already sailed for most since the market is flooded.

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Another one is mobile app development. 15-20 years ago I played around with a Palm Pilot, but no one considered app development as a career at that time. Now look at that industry. That was a big opportunity for people growing up in the early 90s to get in while it was taking off.
I don't want to touch it if it had ads. Hacker News is a community I like because its users generally promote the "Hacker Ethic" [1]. As far as I can tell this app has no infrastructure costs because it just uses the HN API. In putting ads on it, the app author is monetizing a free service they like to use. That is the opposite of the Hacker Ethic.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
I'm currently working on this. In 2016, I saved 60% ($36,000). In 2017, I saved 65% ($42,250). This year, I am working on saving 70%-75% ($46,200). I'm 23 and planning on transitioning from devops to a software engineer role by 25-26 (working on the skills I lack!). I never need anything and am extremely content! I think I might be able to get to 80% but that will cut into some things, so still working on 75% for this year.
Thank you. I have to check it out next time I am in NYC. The article also reminded me of the roughly 200 Seine-side booksellers in Paris.
But I think the whole point is that we don’t live in a vacuum.

The farmers for example. Since the first farmer has healthy crops, insects would probably be more attracted to his lands, therefore a higher chance of his crops being tainted or destroyed. He could put all that work in and end up no better off than the second farmer due to circumstances entirely out of his control.

Not to say he shouldn’t put that work in, but there is always an element of luck in anything that “works out” for you or me.
This. I wanted to do games since I was a kid, so I assumed I would be the best at it just because I loved them so much, until I got the job. Then I realized I sucked at it. I left the field for a few years, relearned everything from scratch, reset my goals and tried again. Now I'm much happier.
Do you have some recommended reading on why and how to combine Elixir and Rust?
Developers also routinely fail the Marshmallow test:

Should I develop for iOS, make a quick buck but give Apple more control over my work, and contribute to the growth of the platform, leading to a vicious cycle of control of Apple over developers?

... OR ...

Should I develop applications in a platform-independent way, but perhaps with slower returns?
We wish there was something like the Central Limit Theorem for philosophy, but moral philosophy, population ethics, utilitarianism, etc. create all these fraught impossibility theorems or paradoxes, and as technology improves, it’s hard to fault a lot of people for taking an instrumentally rational approach to materialism, and just feeling exhausted by the breadth of what you need to think about and the pedantic effort and risks required to act ethically in all the increasing interfaces with society.
You and me both. I see enough ads as it is and there are HN clients just don't show ads, so not sure why I would change to use one that does. It'd have to be a really good client.
OUTSYSTEMS.COM
No need to thank me.
GCC Important Passes
Outsystems PAAS www.outsystems.com
I can’t disagree with this more.

I’ve done native iOS dev as a freelancer since 2010 and I’ve never had even a hint of trouble getting work.

Third-party frameworks for cross-platform dev come and go, but RN is the only one that has ever felt like it might offer a challenge to native dev. A year ago I would have said maybe everyone was going to shift to RN, but then I actually tried it and I realized that it’s incredibly immature. I really doubt it’ll ever be more than a large niche, and most apps will continue to be built natively.

Regardless, I think you’re worried about changes that might possibly occur more than you are about changes that have already occurred. In iOS dev, the only major shift I’ve seen in the last eight years is Objectice-C to Swift, and even that wasn’t that painful because you can mix and match the code.
Proprietary or free?