skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> these are distinct skills (people skills vs. technical skills)

I believe most people here will agree with that statement; nonetheless the problem is the ludicrous situation some people view the world through and consider that "junior techie moves to senior manager" as a fact of life†.

There is real social pressure on that front and lots of belittling of tech. Basically every time I meet some new person and say that I'm a software engineer, I get asked "But you still code at your age? Surely you'd rather manage people! What have you even achieved in life?" or any variation thereof and have to explain, justify even, that designing, planning, architecting, maintaining, and developing software is a real expertise domain in and of itself. The situation extends even in the workplace, where it is mostly expected of you to raise to management positions, and you won't get any raise if you don't "move past" "coding", as coding is largely considered a menial task by many, a sort of weird heritage of/transposition from an industrial culture.

† This has a vicious side effect of creating an ecosystem with mostly zero-quality software, since somehow only juniors and unskilled seniors code, because either skilled coders raise up the management hierarchy to get some raises, just leave for places/countries with a better mindset, or are overwhelmed by their unskilled peers.
One factor is that back in the early 90s China was still an economically backward, closed Communist enclave barely more integrated into the global economy than North Korea is now. One of the deciding factors in having to decisively move beyond the BMP was China's adoption of GB 18030 as a mandatory standard in 2006[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_18030
There are also a lot of cases where things like mineral deficiencies cause depression symptoms, and then SSRI antidepressants make them much worse.
But the world as whole, doesn't accept Luck. Not middle or even top management. Those who do, are actually founders, Bill Gate and Steve Jobs both talk about how lucky they are. I mentioned Luck in most of my interview and not a single one likes it. The older I am, the more I became aware how many of my success or wins , are not really because I am ten times better then others, yes it may have played a part, but there are lots of moving parts, and I am only a small part of it. In essence, I got lucky. There is no way, a human, or even machine could calculate what is going to happen next. The possibilities and probabilities are endless.
Pretty much anything you can imagine from front-end web to embedded circuits. Thing to keep in mind with Boulder is that it suffers from the same building restriction effects as SF, combined with explosive population growth, so you're going to pay out the nose for every square foot of living space. As long as you build that fact into your salary negotations Boulder is going to be awesome with a quality of life eons better than the coasts IMO.

I live in Colorado Springs for family reasons but would happily live in Boulder if things were a bit different.
I understand vast. I am not expecting Montana to get full coverage by the end of the decade. But San Jose, California? Hello?
Homeopathy doesn't work. Acupunture doesn't work. Traditional Chinese Medicine doesn't work. Faith healing doesn't work. These rigorous studies you're mentioning do not exist.
Train speed is not the limiting factor. Most tunnels have very low utilization in terms of % of time with trains in them.

If you have 4x as many trains but don't load and unload on the same platform you could easily get by with 1/4th as many passengers per train.
> we already have a perfectly fine train to O'Hare

I wouldn't call that perfect. It takes at least an hour from the loop to O'Hare on a good day.

In comparison, the Stockholm Arlanda airport is 5 miles further from Stockholm Central than O'Hare is to the Loop, and it takes the Arlanda Express high speed train 20 minutes to get there.
Go see a professional.

If, for some reason, you can't do that (money or time) talk to someone in the meat world. Find a good friend and lay it out there. Don't hint at it - say it. This is not a thing to be coy about.

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For me, joining a church has helped. Not because I found God or spiritual enlightenment, but because it's a community that doesn't care what I do for a living. They care about my wellbeing and how I am doing. They're always glad to see me no matter what shape I look like I'm in.

It's good to have at least one group of people that are glad to see you, no matter what six kinds of ass you look or feel like at the moment.

It's not easy to find a group of people like that. You might have to hunt around a bit.

If you're in Austin, I'll happily introduce you to them. Might be the right group, might not. That's up to you.
That's why the Boring company vehicles are more like cars and you'd enter them while on the surface from which they'd use an elevator to get underground. Also they wouldn't block the rail while waiting at a station. Subways are pretty efficient systems but that doesn't mean they are anywhere close to the most efficient system, especially considering they were invented during a time where it would be unthinkable to dynamically compute optimized schedules. When the London underground was built you'd need a room full of people working many hours to come up with a workable scheduling.
I was going to say it sounds similar to madison but that is half the population! Would you say it is oversaturated with tech?
So instead of pandering to one small set of states you’d rather they pander to a different small set of states?

Perhaps the problem is federalism.
Lots of web stuff, some big security players, a lot of government and academic research (NOAA/NIST/CU etc) data sciencey type jobs too.
Some back of the napkin math. $140 million for 40,000 households in Boulder = $3,500 per household. If 50% of people subscribe (typical for municipal broadband), that's $7,000 per subscribing household, or higher than Charter's market cap per subscriber.

A quarter of the population of the city is below the poverty line. If the intent is to offer them subsidized broadband, let's assume we get no capital recovery from those households. That brings the cost to $4,666 per household, or $9,300 per subscribing household.

This is high, but not out of the ballpark. Verizon spent about $3,500 on average for each paying subscriber for FiOS. Chattanooga's system was about $5,500 per household.
Oops, yes, I do mean BetterHelp.
HN doesn't really have a policy about what downvotes are for, and the community is clearly split about it.
From Wikipedia.. "It is often asserted among enthusiasts' groups that the primary cause of the failure of the leather flap was rats, attracted to the tallow, gnawing at it. Although rats are said to have been drawn into the traction pipe in the early days, there was no reference to this at the crisis meeting described above."
The JavaScript Trap, by Richard Stallman
They’ve added that in iOS 12.

(Not sure about ‘for an amount of time’, but you can mute or disable from a notification.)
If you're going to be the dungeon master, I see no reason that Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition won't work fine as an entry into the genre. Other systems tend to be very complicated and rely on the players knowing much more about the game to make it go smoothly.

You could also try some board-game RPG's instead.
Other options include pooling of benefits, and active job placement when things don’t work out.

Pooled equity would have to come from the startups rather than YC. Instead of “for 6% you get 200K” it could be “for 10% you get 200K and an equal share in the pool of your class. Divide it amongst your employees as you want, though we suggest....”

(Note: numbers are made up)
Hear hear... A parliamentary democracy would probably be better, but that’s not going to happen.
Exactly, similar issue exists with nearly all package manager tools - you’re putting a lot of trust in a lot of people you don’t know.
> But San Jose, California? Hello?

It routinely blows me away that my Manhattan internet is faster and cheaper than that at my parents' in Cupertino. I suspect common local political dysfunction underwrites the differences in housing supply, public transportation and internet quality.
Mindfulness.
In canada you can get into a program 100% covered by OHIP called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
If you can't get into a program, read the book: https://www.amazon.ca/Full-Catastrophe-Living-Revised-Illnes...

Lots of new research kicking around. That's a science-backed approach.
The film college
The capacity is ~2 beverages.

I think it doesn't matter a great deal, the value of vaccination is so high that each cooler can cost quite a bit and have a bunch of entities (governments, non profits, etc) happy to pay for it.
Why There Are So Many Unsheltered Homeless People on the West Coast
If so, the parent post couldn't have chosen a more ironic example. AGA cookers are a ridiculous Veblen good, regardless of age.

If the AGA is new (within the last decade or two), those people spent tens of thousands of dollars on a freaking oven. That's more than most people would spend on an entire kitchen remodel.

If the AGA is not new (from before 1990 or so), it's horrendously energy inefficient. A modern sub-$1,000 oven would pay for itself in energy savings in no time.
You can see a fairly large subset of what Siri Shortcuts appears to be by checking out the (now free) Workflow app: https://www.workflow.is

Apple bought it last spring, and based on the imagery from the WWDC keynote on Siri Shortcuts, SS is the same Workflow app with deeper system integration.
Optimization in Deep Learning: Momentum, RMSProp and Adam
Weekly Machine Learning Opensource Roundup – June 14, 2018
I sure hope they don't need to open up roads(lane closures) to pull the fiber. Traffic is already agonizing, closures would make the commuting nightmare even worse for cars, buses & bikes alike.
that doesn't matter much, as the platform is only one side, while the hosting/service angle is the other. ultimately, hosting your code yourself is the only safe option, but of course it comes with its own downsides.
QISKit ACQUA: Algorithms and Circuits for QUantum Applications
Ancient “su – hostile” vulnerability in Debian 8 and 9
I have tried purescript ide, haskell ide, dart ide, reasonml ide and more. It’s yet to disappoint. Although it’s true intelligent features to IntelliJ detail are rare but it’s useless when I can’t type more than one character / 2 seconds.
That will not solve the problem of writing to places an administrator can't write to:

1. Places where only SYSTEM have write access to (e.g. system32)

2. Places where only a specific user have access to (private folder in a file server share). An administrator won't be able to restore user's file without taking ownership on the folder.
I went to school at the University of Colorado Boulder. Something this article doesn't mention is that the city already has over 100 miles of fiber laid that isn't currently being lit up: http://www.govtech.com/dc/articles/Boulder-Colo-To-Light-Up-.... There were several groups of students looking to build companies to utilize this existing infrastructure, as well as business interests outside the city, but it just never went anywhere. I hope that it will see use soon, I was very envious of my friends that would commute in from nearby Longmont that could use their awesome municipal ISP.
Get out in the sun every morning for 20 mins
Drink lots of water
Stop jerking off incessantly
Do this for a week.
Let me know how things go.
Hmmm... I was afraid that the system would be too complex/off-putting for kids that young. I'll reconsider. Thank you.
Benchling raises $14.5M to help streamline collaboration among scientists
There's a few areas I think ANSI SQL falls down compared to some of the vendor syntax. eg I really hate the way table joins are done in ANSI SQL. I get the logic behind the syntax but the PL/SQL syntax for table joins gives me far less mental gymnastics. In fact it is probably the only thing about PL/SQL that I actually like.
I'm pretty sure that if you take the set of flat earthers, subtract the people who don't really believe it and are just having fun being contrary, and then subtract out the mentally ill people, you're left with very nearly an empty set; I'm even more certain that if it's not empty, it's utterly negligible. So analyzing what they place faith in and why without reference to "mental illness" in most cases is probably a waste of time; the surface appearance of putting faith in this or that rationale is not the real story. We're talking about people who are legitimately broken in terms of their ability to understand the world and are often unable to engage with it properly in many other ways, too.

As tempting as it may be to then pivot from my statements here and snark about people of a religious mindset different than yours, or ethical or political mindset different than yours, bear in mind that many such people engage with the world just fine. The sort of thing that we actually call mental illness is a qualitative cut above that sort of thing.
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Probably should be paid for relative to annual income, but yeah, seems like a reasonable expense.

Once it’s paid off, what is the maintience cost?

Will the city simply offer it as a competing service? Make it free for everyone and then tax?
It is a relief to see this view reflected.

In an efficient market for business talent, VC should not exist. They could be seen as in effect talent arbitrageurs. Something about business culture over a certain size creates a massive inefficiency where someone with the level of skill required to build a successful product is not snapped up by existing firms.

Personally, I like anyone who takes an arbitrageurs view because to me betting against bullshit is a costly signal of outlier intelligence.

However, viewed this way, it's not about kids in hoodies. College dropouts were useful because the key signal (ivy certificate) that gets them picked up by a firm that would smother their productivity, had been suppressed. That they were selected for the school in the first place was a great negative filter as well, so betting on the remainder is practically a no-brainer.

Given the exponential distribution of returns, from a statistical perspective, there isn't much value in explanations for failure because it's by far the most probable outcome anyway. e.g. who cares why startups fail, %90+ of them necessarily must, and merely avoiding a subset of failure scenarios is not equivalent to success. In that environment, there is only one necessary condition for 80th+ percentile talent to maintain: survival.

Being the person who climbs up that return curve means surviving the twin perils running out of runway, and of being snapped up by a firm for a job you were originally more suited to anyway. This second peril is the other major attrition factor that prevents people from benefiting from survivor bias.

The business of VCs who throw money at geeks in hoodies is to mitigate the former and get exposure to that overlooked subset of the latter. Given the remaining members of that sample, the people who also selected out of being snapped up for jobs will be necessarily over represented - and on that very steep curve. I think this explains why investors like colorful founder stories, because they are (consciously or not) looking for how the founders 1-stddev+ talent signal might have been suppressed.

Good news is: the confluence of a) an exponential distribution of success and returns, b) the guaranteed competitor attrition from failures, and c) the further guaranteed competitor attrition from the job market - survivor bias may be less of a bug, and rather, a feature.
Scrapping Brit cap on nurses, doctors means more room for IT folk
There are many people here who say, see a doctor.

But, how do you find a doctor? What kind of doctor is appropriate? How do I even know what sort of doctor I could afford?
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
As someone completely unfamiliar with the field I can only go on indicators of intent, but the two facts that the re-analysis was: (a) prompted by an external person finding flaws with their research, and (b) performed by the original researchers themselves rather than by an independent party, both seem like red-flags to me for the possibility that the re-analysis could be an attempt to save face, rather than an honest re-evaluation.

There's no way to say either way for sure, but an independent analysis without bias would be a little better.

This excerpt from the article also supports the desperately-saving-face narrative:

"The investigators spent a year working on the re-analysis ... “You cannot imagine what it has been like,” Dr. Martínez-González said, adding that he and his team worked through vacations and weekends — and swallowed considerable professional embarrassment."
Which makes for a pretty compelling reason as to why Charter hasn't done it themselves.
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After massive dispute with my partners I went into depression.

I started sharing my penthouse with economically challenged students.

We all go on hiking, fishing etc.. together. This is helped me come out of depression and now i am starting my new company with the same guys.
Crowding exists on the blue line because there's not enough power to run more cars to support the increase in rush-hour ridership in the neighborhoods of Logan Square, Bucktown, Wicker Park and Nobel Square. Outside of rush hour, it's not that bad. If the Blue Line could run 5mph faster, and run an extra car or two, that'd make a huge dent in that congestion.
Only in the right parts of Manhattan. I live on 78th street between 1st & York (0th) avenues. I am in a one square block fiber dead zone. :(
Oh, look the annoying D forum troll KingJoffrey / DigitalDesigns / many other sock puppets.
Isn’t being forced to consume things the basis of all advertising? I don’t really see how this is a facebook specific problem; all news sites have perverse incentive toward low content page views.
I works really like one of these projects to trial a 'practical' last mile, like something like cat6 for the last 100m.

In KC, I live in a 4 story apt, and frequently stopped to talk to the installers when Google fiber was pulling everything into the building. It really is Fiber to a jack in your unit, but the last 5ft is still copper Ethernet. I figure they could have saved themselves a bundle of $ if they ran copper inside the building. The consumer wouldn't notice and it's a lot more practical.
There was a time before the soft-money fiat system. Not really that long ago. It was also marked with many boom/bust cycles. The business cycle was probably first formally named and studied by Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi and described in the 1819 book, "Nouveaux Principes d'économie politique"[1]. I would suggest that the cycle is not necessarily bad. During good times ideas are tried that would not be otherwise and people with little experience can get jobs and show their competence. Then some bad year forces some tightening and a serious evaluation of investments of all types.

The big downfall with recessions is that people with little or no savings can end up in a very bad place economically. Not sure how or if our consumer culture could change to a saving culture, but I'd be interested in reading a book that compares the two.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle
Very exciting product!
AnyChart Qlik Extension 2.4.0 released: multiple scales, localization, and more
I don't see how Congress running huge deficits can possibly be good for the US over the long term? It flies in the face of all conventional wisdom regarding debt. I know that at the macro level things operate differently, but in general I don't think the government can paper over a lack of demand for other kinds of debt.

I read pretty much the whole article. It was interesting, but at the end, I realized that I don't think anyone knows how this all plays out and that stock buybacks or other factors are not that relevant. They may not be markers of anything, in fact. Stocks have always been kind of a manipulated insider scheme and that regular Americans have been forced into speculative exercises in an effort to hang on to what little wealth they (we) have been able to create for ourselves is what is wrong.

Will there be another crash like 2008? Maybe. When? I don't know. What if it's 30 years from now? I'm tired of the breathless "it's all coming to a head" articles because it already did come to a head and the Fed and the government papered over the mess, just like Japan did. Has Japan had another crash? No, they just kind of meander on stagnantly.

The biggest issue in the US is the Boomer retirement wave and the pension promises that can't possibly be kept to them. That's why we're hurting.
True, but they’ve been pretty happy to expand 90 our past 94. Judging by the amount of trains on the blue line even during rush hour and the relatively tiny capacity of the proposed shuttle, we can do a LOT more with the infrastructure we already have though!
Looks nice. It would be incredible if it supported autocompletion of table names and queries.
That's bad, but also interesting that you can have the world's main tech region without much fiber to home. Maybe fiber isn't really that important.
At this point I'm indeed considering all and any forms of compensation. Stock, cash, tiered / vested versions of both etc. etc.
Musk isn't selling a better TBM. He's selling an entirely new transit system. Well, an entirely new transit system that sounds very much like personal rapid transit and shares most of the disadvantages with PRT and adds a few of its own (such as focusing on supporting cars).

If Musk were selling better tunnel boring, what you would see is attempts to subcontract on major infrastructure projects. This bid is for an express "rail" system to O'Hare from the Loop, and the intent on Chicago's part is to make The Boring Company suffer all the risk of construction and possibly even pay for the entire thing (Chicago did previously have a construction plan for an express rail to O'Hare, but it was nixed due to cost overruns).
Where “recently” can be up to and including six years.... (and counting, I’ll let you know next year)
A Guide to Starting Your Programming Journey
Multiple database vendor support, not only postgres.
The creater of dbcli answered this question in the other usql thread [0]

> usql is a great tool if you're familiar with Postgres' psql client and wish you could use it for other databases like MySQL, Cassandra etc.

> dbcli tools are designed to preserve the usage semantics of the existing tools but improve on them by providing auto-completion. For instance you can use `\d` in pgcli and `SHOW TABLES` in mycli. This was a conscious decision to make pgcli and mycli drop in replacements for of MySQL and psql. I was also working under the assumption that people rarely use multiple databases, you're either a postgres shop or a MySQL shop. If you have a mix of both, there is a good chance that not a single person is interacting with both of them on a daily basis. You have different teams using different databases. But my reasoning there could be flawed.

> There is nothing stopping someone from adding an adapter to the usql tool to make it behave like MySQL (because they like the mysql client better) based on a command line argument, for instance.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17303625
Yeah, existing Xeon powered Thinkpads already go to 64 GB of ECC, so this is really just a core bump for those not willing to forego ECC (no one really should).