skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I focus on myself and what I have accomplished.

What did I do well today?
Did I learn something?
What did I accomplish?
Did I improve myself compared to yesterday?

I also have a reminder in my phone morning and night that tells me “I am good enough.”.
Drawing the Shorter Straw
Yep, it still is puzzling why Fireworks never got the recognition it deserved -- the amount of unnecessary suffering UI designers went through for 10 years they could have avoided by just switching tools is mind boggling.
You do realize that it was under democratic leadership that healthcare costs shot up so much. Obamacare increased my monthly payment almost 2X.
Yep. It's also important to understand that doctors - rightfully - still do pretty well by themselves in countries with single payer or other systems. It's all the extra insurance infrastructure that doesn't exist/rake in money hand over fist.
HP will pay hackers up to $10,000 to break its printers
To save on bandwidth and storage, I would guess
The 5-Hour Rule Used by Bill Gates, Jack Ma and Elon Musk
14 Productivity Tools for Developers of All Disciplines
The Tunisian Gardener
I feel like while I still suffer from this a bit, its mostly gone away for me.

There's the common quote that I hear people say "If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room." If you always follow that, you'll always feel like you're the dumbest, and no one will ever learn anything that you know. There's some other problems with that quote such as if everyone followed that, we'd all be chasing each other from room to room and the smartest person on the planet would have some issues, but alas, that's not relevant.

Going and mentoring people, or finding a company where you didn't start in as the lowest rung, will help you a lot. When you stay in the company you started in, as long as you're there you will wonder if you are skilled, or if you just have domain knowledge that makes you look more skilled than someone who just joined. Mentoring and teaching will help you realize just how far you've come, and the people who you teach will look to you like you look to those people who make you feel dumb and not good enough. I don't mean that in a negative way, they will respect your skills and look to you for advice, just like the people you look to now.

As for having trouble making the same insights and connections, that's just per the territory. Perhaps you're a developer who is self taught, or went through a boot camp, and working in a place that gets pretty computer science level (ML, fancy math and algorithms, NLP, ect). These people have lots of experience in these things that you don't, and so they make the connections, and you can learn to get there but it will take a long time. It's useful stuff, but maybe switching to a less intense job for a bit will help on that. Or maybe they know more about the current industry you're in, someone making medical study tracking software will do better if they have conducted a study before for example.

Lastly just straight up be honest and maybe ask them how they made that insight. Tell them that you don't understand how they got from point A to point D, and you can see if there's some thought process you can learn from them, or if the difference is just a large amount of background knowledge.

Truly lastly though, I will also say that consuming alcohol often can really slow your brain down, and just in case this is relevant, consider looking into cutting back safely with your doctor's advice. My mind has doubled in sharpness and speed of making those kind of connections since I got sober almost 2 years ago and also gave up smoking. So also talk to your doctor and be sure there's nothing physical that is actually causing your mental thought processes to falter and sabotage your confidence.
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The problem is that very few really "good" reviews actually get produced. If you accidentally filter out the really thorough and useful ones, you can end up with "real" reviews that aren't well written and don't really focus on actual product issues.

Take, for example, the review of the weights in the article. I would have ignored his review, even if it had been posted. He reviewed Amazon's warehouse rather than the product on hand.
FYI to other business software developers: this does not refer to a "canvas" object in HTML 5 sense nor tying that to a business domain model object as we might expect, it's a Business tool for apparently brainstorming business ideas for people that don't already have a clear business idea.
Let's assume the Maths is all we care about. One way to clear it up is to decide what we would need to give to a computer to figure out the results. Let's assume the computer can solve any equation we give it.

Bohmian Mechanics: Given Schrödinger's equation, Bohm's equation, the initial positions of the experiment and the measuring apparatus (assuming it is set on autopilot) and the initial wavefunction of the joint experiment and apparatus setup, then we evolve the system and the positions of the stuff in the apparatus will tell us the result of the experiment. Done.

Copenhagen Interpretation: We need Schrödinger's equation for the experimental setup, the initial wavefunction of the experiment, and some explicit timing for collapse as well as some stand-in for the eigenstates (we never actually collapse to an eigenstate or anything spiky, but rather to a nearby smooth state, such as a finite sum of Gaussians). We can optionally add-in the apparatus or observer wavefunction and collapse to something with an outcome involving those wavefunctions. It is kind of a mess to tell a computer how to do this, particularly if you have a number of experiments, possibly conditioned on the results of other experiments. It is not an independent time evolution. The Maths fail us in setting up a universe.

One could let this multi-experiment setup evolve until everything is done and then collapse at the very end. That leads to less of a mess of specification, but now one has the fact that we are saying reality does not have, in any, even approximate, sense, a definitive experience such as the one we are used to, at any point except for the last one. In some sense, this is the Many Worlds theory.

GRW is based on the idea of adding automatic collapse into the equations and that's fine and cool; it hits the wavefunction with a gaussian every so often. One also has to add in something else of an ontological nature, but that can be considered a philosophical issue (though it can matter what one chooses, say from a relativistic point of view). We at least have in GRW a Maths based evolution though it is different than the standard one.

The Copenhagen Interpretation is not an actual theory; there is no possible universe where it could be true or implemented. It can be made more specific, but it does require something more and the more one sticks to the Copenhagen spirit, the more of a "on high" specification mess, it becomes.

Both GRW and Bohmian Mechanics at least could be true.
'cinderblock utilitarianism' is exactly in-line with _The Timeless Way of Building_. Four square walls and a peaked roof? Job done for the next 300 years.
As a Carioca, my pet theory is that we are always late due to the lack of a decent public transport, specially trains. British trains are famous for being on time to the minute. Brazil is a really unequal society, public transport is really for the poor and terrible.
Do democratic politicians have some sort of training in maintaining the farce that more things should be handled by government, when governments in Illinois, California, New York, etc.--democratic strongholds where Republicans cannot be pointed to as the scapegoats--are on the verge of bankruptcy?

I don't think, deep down, republicans think the current system is better. They just don't trust whatever replaces it won't be much worse. It's easy to say "if we were just like <X European country> we could offer universal healthcare and also save money!" But <X European country> probably has trains that are vastly better than ours despite costing less to operate. They have schools vastly better than ours that they spend less money on. Clearly there is more to the equation.
I get it but OTOH just search for “XKCD password generator” and there’s like twenty offline options…
I agree, but I think they are talking about a different aspect of "not knowing". Which is, I get health coverage from my employer, I go to the doctor, I get some sort of bill that seems high but not crazy, I assume that is the cost of visit. But I am not seeing the transactions behind the scene between doctor/insurer/employer that may be several times what I am directly out of pocket, but pay indirectly.
Can you show anything to sustain that argument?
Using “Slots” to Pass Multiple Children to React Components
If you want to learn the fundamentals of CS (and then some), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programmin... is probably going to contain everything you want.
Yes, and my point is that that is a fringe agenda. There is broad public support for keeping some things secret.

That said, I think there is space to debate what the boundaries of that ought to be, and I think there are too many state secrets in the United States.
Well, they may, but they might be more content with long term capital growth. The thing is GOOG isn't as much vulnerable to the pressure of activist investors for dividend (like Carl Icahn in Apple's case), as much as AAPL is.
Indeed, it's also dangerous to be so passe about everything. Especially construction. Just because it's a cultural phenomenon doesn't make it an admirable one or one that should just be accepted as 'how it is'. Plenty of cultures have evolved and changed for the better.

A subset of Scots from an area near the border on England used to be known for having a culture where fist fighting over disputes was common and education was looked down upon. Many of these groups migrated to the American south and eventually moved on from violence and education rates have since drastically improved.

You can be critical or concerned about a culture phenomenon without dismissing the culture outright like some racist book in the 1920s about Japanese...
It's not an either-or. Those two things are closely related.
It doesnt matter. These are just the general American talking points.

Fortunately since this is a global forum, people can point out that the situation in AMerica is farce.

The basic stats are just solid - every first world country does better.

You guys have the worst of all worlds, and because of America's prediliction for everything market oriented, and the absurd partisanship - you have no solutions, and are ok with people getting cured in the ER.
The sociopath comment was indeed triggered by your question, though it wasn't fair that it got directed at you rather than any of the hundreds of other comments that make me feel the same way, and I'm sorry for that, but I suspect that any of those commenters would have given a similar defense.

It matters very much which widespread assumptions one tend to question, and which subconsciously get a free pass, and I find that HNers on the whole are likely to question assumptions like "people should be kind to each other" more than most people, while questioning "companies are legally required to maximize shareholder value" less, where in fact it's the latter that's false, and while the former isn't a statement of fact, it's a very healthy axiom for humanity.

Shared values are not "groupthink": they're what allow us to have society at all, and while we should be allowed to discuss them, dismissing them carelessly is anti-social.
> Pensioners were given a promise and now we're changing the rules.

There is a slight difference between the two situations you describe. That being that the promises being made to the unions were not being done by disinterested parties. Public services unions are notorious for being some of the largest donors to state and local candidates. The negotiators on the management side of the table are deeply beholden to the unions and have no personal interest in paying the obligations they are agreeing to, it's all put on the tax payer.
Yea don't underestimate MS's enterprise connections. Gives them a huge leg up in cloud.
The abridged version is that they were working on it but the head of Kaiser convinced Nixon that private health insurance was a better option. Fast forward a few decades and there is too much at stake for the companies providing the care^insurance for a graceful change. Large companies also don't give a hoot because they're able to offer corporate self-insured plans which constitutes a competitive advantage against smaller employers.

My personal opinion is that the ACA was also complete garbage. Either go single payer (or at least an option to buy into a single payer) or don't go at all. The half assed approach we've ended up with is the worst combination as the individual is forced to purchase insurance in a market with perverse incentives on all sides and no real competition.
Is it possible both accusations are valid? i.e. "A plague on both your houses"...

Maybe it's your political class that's broken.
My thoughts were that you give the website owner free/full access to the redesign and engagements stats for users on the redesign. If users are more engaged and the company earns more ad revenue from the redesign.. maybe they can just implement it?
https://www.codenewbie.org/ has a lot of resources.
> PSP introduced the concept of raster and vector editing

Actually, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperPaint_(Macintosh) is where I first saw that (wiki says released 1986, sounds right.)

Funny enough, at first I thought that the article was about that, although the name didn't seem quite right, and obviously the years and outcome were wrong.
Did you miss the part about "light on two sides of every room"? These evolved designs seem optimised for nothing that actually matters to human comfort.
The Minimum Wage in an Online Job Market
Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City (2016)
Because people write crappy reviews. I remember seeing a 1 start review for a video card that was basically "I ordered the wrong one and it didnt fit my system" reviews should be taken with a grain of salt.
If legit reviewers have their work deleted because of FPs they get annoyed and won't write more reviews, they may even stop using the site entirely.
You can skip the paywall here (if you have a Facebook account, of course):

http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/why...
I don't read it as "blame the consumer" but "the system is opaque".

The consumer doesn't know and can't find out. Articles have been written for, I don't know, a decade or more decrying the opacity of the "Chargemaster", etc, and how if you call a hospital to ask the charge for a procedure, they probably can't give you a quote.

If you have certain kinds of insurance, you're not even incentivized to care - you tolerate the opacity. But I don't think it's really blaming the consumer so much as blaming a system way off the rails.
It's not in Dallas :(
Awesome! I think this tool is great. I would recommend adding to your future MVP is an info highlight to each block of the canvas, so the user doesn't have to research the type of questions he/she needs to fill the canvas.
I find most developers I've met don't notice the distinction between the two types of time - I'd be interested to know whether people on HN have thought about it much before?
Should C Programmers learn C++, Go or Rust?
> British trains are famous for being on time to the minute.

What?

Can someone inform our train drivers of this please?
...implementing a healthcare policy cooked up by conservative think tanks in the 1990s.

The rest of the developed world shows that anything short of national healthcare system is an expensive mistake.
The liability issues might make it pretty difficult, I don't know what they ship on the Mississippi, but Lake Charles has a ton of LNG tankers with tight traffic restrictions.
In all fairness health care costs were shooting up long before Obamacare. Obamacare just did nothing to change that trend.
there are other kinds of problems. You are in the hospital, you feel queasy after surgery, nurse asks if you would like medication for that. "how much is it?" If you even think to ask that, usually they will not know, and can't or will not find out for you. So you can't make a rational decision about whether to deal with the discomfort or not.

Similarly, doctors often won't know the cost difference between various medication options, and those costs are always extremely difficult to figure out since there are usually various coupons that last for various amounts of time, which if you are willing to sort through you can game the system a lot. But in the long run it would be better if those games didn't exist. Switching asthma meds as you run through coupon time limits isn't really the healthiest thing anyway.

Or you are hit by a car, an amublance shows up "what will the bill be? Oh I'll call a different service" no, you can't do that while you are bleeding out, nor will you have any way of knowing which hospital will have the best rates to fix you, you don't even know what is wrong yet!

One might conclude that private, free markets don't make sense in this domain at all, perhaps.
You're seriously blaming the ACA on Republicans?
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Germany too has large businesses providing health care and mucho government. When I had my tonsils removed a few years ago, a €>1b/y organisation did the knifework, another organisation with an even bigger budget paid, and neither of them set the rates.

So why does this combination work in Germany and fail so spectacularly in the US?
curl https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/fivethirtyeight/russian-troll-tweets/master/IRAhandle_tweets.csv > tweets.csv
You can prepend "facebook.com/l.php?u=" to the link
Republicans in New York have had significant power in the Senate for quite some time.
What a pity.
Ask HN: Is Magic Leap just vaporware?
Yeah, sounds like Africa too. I don't think this has anything to do with Brazil, rather undeveloped countries. The usual story of first-worlders thinking they know how the rest of the world works.
As someone who got a peak into some of the intimate details of a large Hospice services provider, I have to agree. The fact that there are, no matter what they call themselves, salesmen who wine and dine hospital and senior home officials so that their employer can be made a part of their hospice pipeline is sickening. What’s worse is when you discover how many “palliative” patients will routinely temporarily leave care for surgeries, then cycle back on, for years.

Not to mention that many of my relatives, and myself, have been egregiously misbilled or convinced to purchase very expensive, extremely unnecessary devices/treatment. I’m sure a lot of people in healthcare are good, but the people calling the shots - including even some doctors - don’t give a shit
So the democrats are not to blame for implementing it? I don't see how you can single out any particular party for this situation and if I had to, I'd go with the people that actually jacked up my premiums (democrats).
Funny, I’m also from MA and when I read the article title I thought, “yeah bail is broken, we’re letting too many repeat offenders out on bail”.

Yet, the article has the opposite view.

Somewhere along the road our society has flipped and now virtue is vice and vice is virtue.
All the Obamacare horror stories paraded in 2010 were easily debunked. Everyone acknowledged that some people would be hurt in the transition. The surprising fact was that it was so hard to find someone who was convincingly, demonstrably hurt.
I no longer consider Amazon. Too many issues to note, but here's a few of them...

1. Counterfeits mixed in with legit supply
2. Fraud everywhere
3. Fake prices ($.99 with $30 shipping)
4. Fraudulent reviews
5. the article - Dark patterns everywhere
6. Not competitive with other e-retailers
7. Scammy and fraudulent pricing (raises prices by 10% to have a 10% off sale.. Prime Day)

I've migrated to the following for my stuff:

walmart online (order and pick up at store for no shipping cost)
eBay for random assortments
aliexpress for a direct pipeline of electronic chinese stuff
mcmaster carr for hardware that lowes and menards doesn't have
Misumi for aluminum extrusion
IRC topic groups (like freenode #reprap) for 3d printing specific stuffs from individuals
Craigslist, but this is obviously realllly spotty

Amazon is unreliable, obfuscated, and scammy. I can't even guarantee that what I order is what I'll get. It's just not worth the effort or time.
i have the exact same thought from reading this
distill.pub IS a legitimate journal.

From about page: "Distill articles are peer reviewed and appear in Google Scholar. Distill is also registered with the Library of Congress and CrossRef.
> It was no surprise to me years later to learn that JASC was acquired by Corel. Your life’s hard work, honesty, and kindness rewarded you, and I couldn’t have been happier for you.

Rewarded maybe financially, but it must have been a bittersweet moment considering that PSP probably had already peaked at that point and definitely did not prosper under new ownership.
I have seen one PC-based server that had redundant RAM. I never tried pulling out RAM modules, but I guess there is not much point in having a RAID1-like arrangement for RAM if the machine cannot handle random RAM modules dying without crashing the OS. And it wasn't even a super high-end system.
Don’t Blame Uber for Your City's Congestion
I know many people like to set goals on goodreads to read N number of books a year. I really wish there was a better metric used. Even number of words would be a massive improvement but you'd need that data for every (most) books. Which amazon could do rather easily...
Why you need to disappear into a book
The State of Enterprise Databases Survey
I'm struggling to think of minimal pairs that are particularly difficult. Maybe those involving liquids, for East Asian learners?

French's minimal pairs involving [u] vs. [y] are terrible. Beaucoup vs. beau cul, au dessous vs. au dessus, etc.
What's the first word in the act's name?
IEEE Spectrum just published its 2018 rankings of the Top Programming Languages
How old were you when you encountered them? Both are important programs but this sounds a little bit like people's recollections of their favourite games.
Getting Started with Vue.js in .NET Core Using Visual Studio
No, because those joints still need to be created somewhere in the process. It might be cheaper than the one-off build, but it wouldn't be cheaper compared to a more efficient design "factored out."
I wonder if you just proved his point by supporting Republican politicians.
Yeah, I often find myself wishing Go's type system were a bit better, but the reason I prefer it is because it's fast, easy to reason about, and the tooling/deployment stories are generally awesome (not always though--e.g., package management). So far I'm only nominally familiar with Crystal; I'll have to look into it sometime.
Well, yes... but it's not really the insurance companies fault. They're regulated and can only make a percentage of total costs so they need spending to increase so they can deliver growth to their stockholders. They negotiate higher prices for the consumer with the large medical services and drive out low cost providers so they can provide stable dividends. They make collecting benefits or reading a bill impossible and renege on agreed payments so that they can pay their employees to live in the style they are accustomed to.

Actually, I hate the player as much as the game. It's disgusting.