skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent the first 40 years of my life wanting to be liked by everybody. I would go out of my way to be polite, not to cause waves or friction, and to basically be the 'nice guy' that everyone would like and be comfortable around.

It wasn't until I went to a personal development seminar, and the speaker was a very frank gentleman who said - "Look, whenever you walk into a room of 10 people you've never met, you will find 1, maybe 2 of them that you will like immediately and instantly get along with. 6 or 7 of the rest, you will probably become friends or acquaintances with through the course of time. The remainder will never like you no matter what you say or do."

Understanding that was a huge shift for me internally. I stopped trying to impress everyone, but instead focused on people who showed interest in interacting with me in all social situations. My friendships tended to stay the same, but my personal happiness levels increased markedly, and I stopped feeling guilty or worrying about what I did wrong when the odd person was unfriendly or ignored me. I feel free enough to just be 'me' again. The old saying of "You can't please all of the people all of the time" certainly rings true.
> Good morning, officer. I'd rather not answer any questions. Am I being ticketed?

Interestingly, that sounds different from:

> I won't talk until my lawyer is present.

I was wrong. "Never talk to the police without a lawyer present," means something completely different from what I read. It means talking to the police but pretending you don't talk to them when you talk about it on the internet. I'm sorry, I didn't realize this.
In a different example, a Buddhist monk in Thailand may take a vow of poverty, earn $0 a day, but nonetheless be well-supported by the community. This is why a qualitative definition like the one cited above ("a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services") is probably a better way to define poverty than a dollar amount.
It's an interesting question that's too rarely asked.

I find it surprising how many of engineers refuse God completely (as in, the concept of a creator).
Now can you imagine...in someone's eyes, you are the person they are not even sure if he likes them or appreciates them or not!
This is an amazing and thought provoking point. Nation states seem to go through two major phases on the road to a high level of development; the first is Peace & Health where violent conflict declines and some basic health/education/etc. infrastructure can be put into place. The second is Economy where the economy liberalizes and local producers gradually become smarter and more productive and climb the value chain through exports.

Possessing nuclear weapons is a powerful Peace hack. Once you have them no one can really invade you without the threat of suffering massive collateral damage.

If we want to talk about the raw numbers of people getting out of extreme poverty, it follows that India and China acquiring a nuclear deterrent specifically had the biggest impact as their populations are so large.
I have many of the issues you have when working VS under Windows; VS under Mac (for iOS dev) a lot less. So because of path of least resistance, I first finish iOS apps on Mac and then compile / test on Android (which is far more of a pain, which I find for React Native as well tbh and for their native ObjC/iOS vs Java/Android as well; my opinion, not saying one is better than the others; probably just what I'm used to). I use Forms as a framework, not 'out of the box'; I have many of my own controls and tooling; I have a live XAML editing environment and a crippled but functional C# scripting implementation to not have to deal with IDE's so much. When Miguel Icaza did a blogpost about the interpreter environment[0] finally getting some love end last year, I was hopeful, but unfortunately it seems development is going so slow that I implemented my own which is buggy for others (let's say unworkable) but allows me to live program on iOS.

I think it will make quite a difference; I know it does for me as I use it for everything, but within the confines of what I could implement in my free time.

Wish Krueger [1] would open source his interpreter as his has many bugs but far far less than mine and it could be a good effort fixing bugs and getting a better project on the iPad at the same time.

A propos ; Continuous is great for playing around with Forms and Xamarin iOS in a fast and responsive environment on an iPad Pro with keyboard. For just getting the screens perfect fast it is pretty good. Not sure why he doesn't have XAML support (or he has but I could not find it so I assumed not) as that is pretty trivial to implement.

[0] https://www.mono-project.com/news/2017/11/13/mono-interprete...

[1] http://continuous.codes
Always have always will!
Communism is about centralized control of a population. The central authority determines what you get, what you pay, what you do, and so on. Capitalism, by contrast, is a decentralized system. What you pay for something is little more than a product of the market. And you're free to do anything you want, so long as there is a demand for it.

Imagine I want to send a rocket to Mars. And then I go and check the prices and see these companies want hundreds of millions of dollars to launch one. That makes me confused. The materials to make that rocket cost at most on the order of tens of millions of dollars, and labor certainly doesn't explain the rest. I bet I could make one for less. And it turns out I can. Then a couple of decades later, I'm the biggest rocket supplier on the planet. In a communist system your only option there would be to try to appeal to the bureaucracy, and if you're lucky you might eventually, some years later, get a reply to your filing of form FNE-34821.43-z: 'We disagree. Thanks for your input, comrade.' Of course this probably isn't a fair comparison. In a communist system nobody would ever have the resources to even dream of being able to do something like launch rockets to Mars. Instead you'd have to beg old entrenched government bureaucrats to do it. I'm wouldn't hold my breath.

This notion of an economic system being driven by the people instead of being driven by the government is why in a capitalist system you're generally free to argue for a communist system - with some unfortunate exceptions, yet in a communist system arguing for capitalism is often enough to get you 'disappeared' - with some fortunate exceptions. Maybe even more visibly in a capitalist system you could even start a communistic system. Want to buy 5000 acres of land and start communitopia? Feel free to! Want to buy 5,000 acres of land and start capitalitopia in a communist nation? It's simply not possible.
That's great--it felt out of character anyway, though it's funny. Thanks for the correction!
Ecstasy May Make Octopuses More Social, Just Like Humans
I just looked at cVim and it’s definitely interesting. I’m currently a user of Vimium. Have you tried both, by chance? Curious about a comparison
Taxify is entering the e-scooter game
Ah, didn't realise there is a blog article about it. Thanks!
Anne Arundel’s share of the Metro commitment is about $13 million (probably more because the county has higher median income than Maryland as a whole). Just 3,000 daily riders board at Odenton. Let’s say 2,000 are going to DC and 1,000 to Baltimore. That means the county is paying $6,500 per year to facilitate Metro connnections for each rider. 295 moreover carries over 100,000 cars per day (more than double the entire MARC system). Another 2,000 would be a rounding error.
This Saturday (22nd of September), OpenGift Online Hackathon: Week 5 Golang
If I were you I'd send them a cease and desist letter
Why I’m not using your GitHub repository
Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion
I have no idea, haven't kept up with it. I'd recommend 1.x (<=4) any day though, simply for the education alone.

I don't really use it these days because I need systems that future cheap devs can maintain and once you enter userland it takes commitment and time I simply don't have to stay with netbsd.

Debian permits me to usually not have to care and that's pretty invaluable
Just enable AOT by hacking the proj file and suddenly you have amazing performance in release mode (but bigger APK). Normal builds have been getting steadily better for Android.
Frankly I'm bit confused why civil time in general is based on UTC instead of TAI. Except for astronomy, who does benefit from observing leap seconds?
These are different uses of the word "bias". In the statistical sense there is an objectively true right answer and "bias" refers to the difference between a model's average answer and the average true answer. It has little to do with the lay use of the word to mean the application of an inappropriate subjective value judgement in a situation with no one true answer (unless you take an extremely anthropomorphic view of statistical formulas).
For the record, HN's emotional callousness and inability to deal with soft/delicate subjects are for more destructive than shenanigans are
Netflix streams are usually so compressed that there is a noticeable improvement if you use 4K over 1080p. What you're actually comparing is "blurry 4K" to "blurry 1080p".
Why all websites should be designed for slow internet on the train
Coastal disdain for the middle has long been a thing yes. I suppose the modern difference is that when manufacturing was still onshore, no one cared what the coastal elites thought.
I'd say the opposite, put it on your resume because at this point it's experience that makes you stand out compared to other fresh graduates. Any and all experience is important to landing a job at this stage of your career.

Say you started or finished a couple of months earlier so it looks like a 3/6 months contract and tell employers that the contract wasn't renewed because they ran out of work, which is probably half true anyway.

You shouldn't lie but this is massaging the truth in your favor ;)
I guess my vote for Matt's Script Archive is going nowhere..
Phinergy a startup from Israel has a prototype car running on
Aluminium. So it should be possible to use Aluminum as energy storage.
http://www.phinergy.com/

Perhaps the same principle as why we recycle aluminum cans? It takes lots of energy to melt the aluminum can.
I don't think he's providing the solutions, is he? Just offering an alternative for people, to submit their homeworks using Python instead of Octave.
Oh wow. Helpful advice. I have ADHD and recently been taken off my medication abruptly because my BP was too high. I've been struggling without it.

I'll give your recommendations a try. Thank you! :)
I get compliments from women all the time. Never on my appearance, but I think I'm handsome.

It's always something genuine like my art I post in social media or a cool shirt I happen to be wearing, or that I'm always genteel.

I think it depends on your culture of course but from my experience it's a weekly occurrence.
>I was just surprised and disappointed at how many people assumed that paper had an unbeatable advantage on the purely visual aspects of presenting information, as if computers were still limited to 100dpi with really poor black levels.

I'm not surprised. Virtually all "designers" think low contrast text is better, despite high contrast being preferred on paper. They deliberately reduce contrast by setting the text color to gray. Even Firefox's Reader View, which otherwise fixes most mistakes of designers, sets the text to gray unless you override it in userContent.css. Desktop GUIs often have low contrast text too, which is also difficult to fix. Unless somebody somebody knows how to do this their expensive monitor will be wasted.
I think you got that wrong, he didn't say they were coworkers. But sure, that'd be very different.
For those who haven't heard of it, LineageOS is essentially a fork of CyanogenMod. Cyanogen (the corporation) is now dead.

OnePlus' oxygenOS which they ship on the 3, 3T, 5, and 6 is very close to cyanogenmod in functionality and no-bullshit-added android experience.
Thanks for pointing that out. Fix deployed, should be online in a few min.
I hope you realize the “non divisiveness” of the Chinese people is a state enforced ruling. Dissidents are jailed or expelled. Just saying looks and initial impressions can be deceiving. I was always reminded of this whenever I saw Ai Weiwei walking up the street in Berlin to his studio https://qz.com/1325316/why-berlin-is-the-favorite-city-of-ch...
Just seems like something that professionals would do! You wouldn’t let an aerospace engineer wire up a flight controller, but I guess grad students are cheap :)
Lots of cities without good transit have booming economies (Atlanta, Houston, LA, Seattle). That’s a red herring.
Please correct me if I am wrong - but when people say private blockchain I think they mean multiple nodes that don't trust other, but not an unlimited number of nodes or the ability for just anyone to mint coins upon it.
I’ve only been to Beijing and there were plenty of two-wheeled scooters. Maybe they were electric but they were all over the road.

And while I understand your point, I can’t help but think of the 1 million Uighurs in concentration camps and that this system is not a good one. This is the same system where the cultural revolution thrived where mao ordered all the birds shot and then locusts swarmed without predators and millions starved to death. And let’s not forget their current President is in power forever now. Imagine trump for life. I don’t think it’s a good model to follow.
UA and ASO vs. Retention – What Should App Developers Focus On?
In my experience, code reviews

1. Check that the code is addressing the problem at hand and is fulfilling a business need (mostly making sure it’s linked to a reasonably-written ticket)

2. Align style and make code look consistent across repos/teams (which includes pointing out similar work which could be reused)

3. Force other people to read and understand the change, so the original author isn’t on the hook for all support/oncall questions)

4. Highlight hard-to-understand sections that might be unclear to someone newly-arriving to the code, suggesting those parts need more explanation or a simpler implementation

5. Copy editing on error messages and docs to remove typos/passive-aggressiveness/make important information easier to see

6. Find bugs by humans running static analysis (“this will race/deadlock”) and provide pointers to resources to help the reviewee learn (“see <some link> for why and how to avoid it”)

7. Human-run linting (if the automatic linters miss/mess up stuff)

I’ve also see it used as a way to bully other less-knowledgeable devs by nitpicking and issue-raising when the commenter isn’t included on the original list of reviewers and leaves criticism without any constructive feedback (“this is wrong”)

Rarely have we spotted bugs in code review: that’s what tests, oncall, and a robust rollback mechanism are for
Also not wishing to brag. The craziest example of this I can think of from my own life is that during one particularly crazy house party during my graduate days I ended up super drunk and waking up in this girl’s bed the next morning. When I was sober I regretted it quite massively. But the morning was horrible. She said how she had liked me for ages and how everyone thinks I’m this great guy but I don’t even know it. It was truly bizarre because I never realised she liked me at all. In fact, we used to argue a lot about random topics like political things and so on. I thought I annoyed her. It was just a bizarre and awful morning.

So I suppose a corollary of “people care about you more than you know” is that you need to treat people as well as they deserve.
...but this is the same state that shot people in public in cold blood and now forbids discussion of that act.

I've never been to China, but I'm not surprised by the positive vibes you describe. But is it worth it?

The US is full of positive vibes too, but I don't use that as a way to suggest that our government structure is working well.
And that's if they give you 1080p. I cancelled Netflix because they rolled out price hikes and yet even dominant platforms like Chrome on Windows only get blurry 720p which is completely unacceptable these days:

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
You are being condescending and are plain wrong, we don't need such snobbery in our industry. It's bad enough with the utterly unrealistic white board problems.

Programmers and data scientists use Google every single day for their job.

Telling novices to avoid Google isn't just pathetic, it's a complete lie about how our industry works.

My name is Matt and I still Google basic programming questions even after 12 years.
Yep and if the teacher doesn’t arrive in 10 minutes you can legally leave the class room.

Come on. If you modify the device to work in a way it wasn’t intended (eg overclocked) you have clearly voided the warranty. This is what this is there to detect.
...yes?

I mean, I've certainly heard worse ideas than "stop making laws."
The next step in my view is the addition of quality components to the Forms base, and they are doing just that at the moment. I have reviewed and given input for CollectionView, FontIconSource and other specs that are actively being worked on. I saw Miguel demo-ing my input in .NET Conf in the demo Shell app, so they are listening! You did a few stellar Pull Requests yourself, with the Label Spans.

I took them a long time to restructure the project after Jason Smith's leave of absence, but I think David Ortinau is doing a stellar job and the GitHub project is an exemplary open source project. It needs more community involvement, and the F100 stuff you helped drive was very, very good. Next to better components and adding more resources this is another challenge for the project at hand.

I agree it is a bit of a Linux on the Desktop story, "next year", but taken the task at hand (so many platforms), the pace is not that bad. In the mean time I can produce good apps with a few extra libraries, so what...
A.K. Dewdney's "Computer Recreations" column in Scientific American in the 1980s also had early examples of algorithmic art - I bet you'd have loved those!
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Can you imagine the transition to that calendar? People wanting their two days off every five working days are one of the problems.
wouldn't that depend on which VM you are using?
It's cool that Apple's using your stuff, it's not cool they're not giving you attribution.

I'd add a JGuitar url and copyright notice to all your images, so that this is displayed in Apple's results, and also call a lawyer.
Why? Just out of pure hate or dislike for apple? A request to show a link to the website under the image would be better imo.

He could always play dirty and just print the website on the bottom of the image but I don't see how this or the c&d will help his site.
Um, what? Is any of that supposed to be related to the conversation we're having?
So for all intents and purposes, the week actually starts on Monday in the US, if I understand what you're saying.

For instance, if I were to tell you "Beginning of next week, I'm gonna X", you'd understand Monday, correct?
Turkey fines Google for violating competition law
Could someone here please put it on youtube/vimeo/... and link?
For all the criticism of how wages have stalled in the west, in the world as whole capitalism does pretty well :)

But the toxicity of capitalism often stems from the polarized debate, I don't actually think many wants capitalism without regulation, or communism without free property rights... but it's hard to argue for the sane middle ground when you're attacked from both sides.
Human mathematicians are bound by Gödel's theorem in exactly the same way computer software is. If an informal human-based "proof" does something that would be impossible with a formal software-based proof, then it's incorrect. There is no theoretical advantage to running the calculations on a human brain.
I don't see why putting your url on your own content is 'playing dirty', but displaying someone's stuff without telling them you're doing it or even attributing it sure is.
Thanks for the link. As that seems very relevant to the discussion, let me add some context: This is Mochizuki's answer to the recent criticism titled "Report On Discussions, Held During The Period March 15 – 20, 2018, Concerning Inter-Universal Teichmuller Theory (IUTC)"

For TL;DR see around page 40 in that PDF:

> Indeed, at numerous points in the March discussions, I was often tempted to
issue a response of the following form to various assertions of SS (but
typically refrained from doing so!): Yes! Yes! Of course, I completely agree
that the theory that you are discussing is completely absurd and meaningless,
but that theory is com- pletely different from IUTch!

> Nevertheless, the March discussions were productive in the sense that they
yielded a valuable first glimpse at the mathematical content of the
misunderstandings that underlie criticism of IUTch (cf. the discussion of §
3). In the present report, we considered various possible causes for these
misunderstandings , namely:

> (PCM1) lack of sufficient time to reflect deeply on the mathematics under
discussion (cf. the discussion in the final portions of § 2, § 10);

> (PCM2) communication issues and related procedural irregularities (cf. (T6),
(T7), (T8));

> (PCM3) a deep sense of discomfort ,or unfamiliarity ,with new ways of thinking
about familiar mathematical objects (cf. the discussion of § 16; [Rpt2014],
(T2); [Fsk], § 3.3).

> On the other hand, the March discussions were, unfortunately, by no means
sufficient to yield a complete elucidation of the logical structure of the causes underlying the misunderstandings summarized in § 17.
I'm suprised nobody cited TeX from Knuth. It's an absolute standard in quality of implementation, documentation and computer science background. Perhaps unsurpassed.
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I really don't get why people suggest lawyers and c&d letters as step 1.

Yes apple could have done this better and they should -- but why not just have a chat with apple before you go nuclear?
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This is an idiotic comment made by an obvious fly-by tourist that hasn’t lived in China for more than a few days.

If you actually lived in the country you would be infuriated by

- toxic milk powder. Which the government has done very little to punish the offenders. The offenders got rich and fled. Oh yeah, if you complain in we chat, you get censored

- disgusting air in Beijing and elsewhere.

- tons of ponzu schemes that go unpunished. And hey if you protest, you get jailed and your sesame score goes way down

Etc etc etc
How to arbitrage from OTC cryptocurrency market in China
The majority of the time I see the term "private blockchain" used it's in reference to something not dissimilar to a few companies keeping an append-only ledger.

In that case, each company is trusted to at least be authoritative for their entities and to be trusted to the extent that their identities are known and they may be held accountable.

In that situation, an append-only log with merkle-tree-like crypto could handle the situation just fine.

The key thing that isn't needed there is proof of work; participants do not need to be "rate limited" and, if a conflict arises, they can all be trusted to, say, arbitrarily pick the item with the lowest sequence number rather than needing a proof of work system.

In what situations do you think a private blockchain is warranted and specifically why is proof of work necessary in that scenario?
The world is irregular (Earth's rotation and revolution durations vary) but we want regularity in our calendars and clocks. That's the source of the problem.
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