skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found experiencing such "negative" emotions to be a sign to me that things need to change.

The emotions are "healthy", in that regard. What isn't healthy, is when they are not followed by positive change, most often including my taking action to effect that change.

(Resent them. Hate myself. Sound familiar?)

In this case, it's reading to me like your larger dev environment is substandard if not defective. Not that that's all that unusual, but you're in a position to perceive it and to understand (from and in terms of your perspective and experience) why.

Either that environment needs to change; is there some way you can successfully build such an initiative in your current environment? Not a "rogue" operation, but something that will be endorsed and reflect positively upon you in terms of your standing and security.

Or, you need to change your environment?

Unfortunately, these days and in tech, being "older" is often a significant barrier to the latter.

Anyway, speaking from experience: Don't let the negative emotions, unresolved, end up consuming you -- while their cause goes or go on their merry way, oblivious and skating by on larger life's externalization of longer-term damages.

--

P.S. I reread more closely. Smaller team. You are all "experienced". Maybe their approach reflects different experiences, expectations, even just personalities.

Nonetheless, don't let your negative emotions consume you.

In addition, or as an adjustment to what I said above, make sure you have enough of a life outside of work. Take care of yourself.

It is not your job (heh!) to fix every deficiency (real or perceived) of your co-workers.

Become more of an observer, and observe whether and how their behavior works out -- for them and/or overall.

And start looking for the door you'll eventually use, if it doesn't. Having an out might take off some of the pressure you're feeling, personally.

Best wishes!

And, maybe you'll actually come to perceive a development environment that works while being less "brutal". I'm not taking their side. Just saying, you never know.

I used to be very "strict" about "protecting" myself. Drugs are bad, yadayadayada. I'm still no fan of excess, but I look around me and see that the people who were more relaxed and less worried about such things, seem to have ended up happier and even sometimes more successful in life. Then again, a few of them nose-dived or ended up assholes.

On balance, though, I wish I hadn't been wound so tight, when I was young. I've paid a price for that.

At the same time, I still get quite frustrated by sloppy work that imposes upon co-workers and customers to compensate for its deficiency. Whereas I actually enjoy problem solving and doing things well.
Always get your nutrients/ antioxidants/ vitamins from its natural form, if you want the benefits of green tea then drink green tea that way you'll get all the benefits from it (water intake, refreshing and such) and will never risk overdose.
Shaming a criminal is useless, the relevant German government officials have to take the blame and the consequences.
You can use neural style transfer algorithms to upscale to a decent resolution, if you use style image similar to the DCGAN generated output.
> Vote with your dollars folks.

Unfortunately the vast majority of people don't realize or care about this, but out of curiosity, do you know which manufacturers are less guilty of this?
Or access to legal/medical marijuana. If you have a pain killer that is impossible/incredibly difficult to overdose on, you don't need to escape your pain via more dangerous drugs.

I'd guess it's a combination of many different factors.
Two things:

1. Things can be niche because there just aren't that many people who want them, rather than because you couldn't make them cheaply if there was demand. A good quality Videodisc player for example costs far more now than it did at the height of the format, because only weird retro collectors want one so there's no reason to mass produce them. Videodisc players are niche.

2. We're talking about literal space, it can actually fill up. Some orbits are either so low that everything de-orbits soon enough anyway and needs replacing, or so high that we'd never conceivably fill them, but in between are plenty of useful orbits that are finite, so filling them up with more crap doesn't make any sense even if you could do it for free.
Oh so we really believe the solution to all problems, including those directly caused by human technology, is going to end up being more technology? That the solution to human-caused complexity is more complexity? (With no diminishment whatsoever in returns?) That the solution to human actions that change the climate is more human changes to the climate? Because Progress? No skepticism at all huh?

Nobody subscribes to any quaint notions anymore such as "Extracting water from air is known as rain, and it's free," or "There are already too many humans, living in too many inhospitable places, enabled by technology," or even something as simple as "Hey I can keep two contradictory ideas in my head at the same time like 'I work on technology' yet 'Technology always has a downside'?"

There's an old apocryphal saying along the lines of (please say this in the stereotyped voice of Tonto or any Native American portrayed by Hollywood):
Red man build small fire, keep warm.
White man build big fire, keep warm by chopping wood.

Just thought I'd throw that in, since it's roughly analogous.

The human population needs to be cut back to within a sensible ecological planetary carrying-capacity, not be further propped up by ever-more exotic tech. The cutback will happen regardless, when these technologies inevitably fail or lead to worse problems that feed back on each other. But it's still frustrating that everybody wants to just rush headlong into the brick wall instead of hitting the brakes, and that anybody who has any foresight is automatically some Luddite or old-timer. Like people fresh-out-the-womb are the smartest ones, and the unquestioning belief in tech is anything but gullibility! Give me your money then!
I have the same impression. It reminds me of the infamous “Ecce Homo” from Boria.
Why isn't there an xprize for politically stabilizing these countries then? That would lead to vastly more efficient and convenient water sources.
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Draconian enforcement against illegal drugs have been tried extensively. Up to and including labeling exporting countries "narco states" and invading them. It doesn't work. Someone else takes up the slack.
Likely related to the third point in that list.

>An exemption request by Bunnie Huang and EFF to bypass HDCP ... was denied.

Both of these are too close to real money that it would be hard to get exemptions. All the conventional blu ray (i.e., not 4K) DRM stuff and HDCP has been broken for a while. If you can replace the optical drives in game consoles legally, you can circumvent DRM too. There are/were non compliant dvd and blu ray players that don't give a shit about DRM or geo blocking (region locked media).
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It may have been on purpose (came off as a sincere mistake), but Dan Abramov forgets to bind them in this talk while giving an example. It's a very common problem, even for the authors of React itself :)
It's just as much wage growth as the typical "wages haven't grown for the lowest quintile", which doesn't track what the actual job was either.

And the folks tracked in this study were from 40 to retirement, so I don't see a change in career being a major driver for the income growth.
React is intended to be a view-only library but in practice people shove all their business logic in there, mostly because React makes it incredibly hard to do anything else. Because of this, innovations in React are going in the wrong direction. This Hooks feature is meant to solve a portion of this, but it's going in the wrong direction.

A better bigger-picture innovation would be to have a React-alike that is actually only the view layer, and makes it significantly easier to write your business logic using plain old JavaScript functions/classes.

Ideally it would have an API that encourages you to write your business logic as a hierarchy of state machines, because that's what apps really are. But the state management should definitely be done outside React, similar to what Redux has done, where your actual state is transformed into props and passed into React.

Also, screw you HN for always penalizing my account so that my content shows up at the bottom instead of the top and has no chance of being seen. My content is good, your algorithms suck.
Not to get all Marxist - but using IRA's/401k's to get labor to go all-in on the stock-market was one hell of a judo move by the American capital class.
My company gives only nominal raises each year but we get bagels and donuts once a week.
Yeah, but this runs exactly counter to the common story that the "rich get richer and the poor get poorer".
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scary but not surprising.
Very good insight. WP should take your words to heart.
Nearly completely idle, except for the part about building a whole new steel mill. That's... not very idle.

And it is exactly that creation of a new steel mill that is where the value is going to be created - by the steel mill producing it.
Archery in the upcoming Robin Hood movie [video]
That's a good point. I don't have much theoretical background in economics so I feel like I'm unintentionally speaking vaguely due to not knowing the correct/best terms and theories.

I think the way I would define fair (and obviously this is somewhat a value judgement rather than objective fact) is that:
I don't think its unjust that a CEO gets payed more than a line worker, but when the company succeeds then I think the increase in profits should be divided up such that the ratio of their incomes stays about the same.

Also, when I say "just" I don't mean that in an extreme way where if profits aren't divided up 100% fairly then employees are oppressed wage slaves. Even if my ideal system where implemented things would still be subjective. For example, what if my employer implemented very generous benefits but didn't pay quite as well?
Drugs are still getting stronger and deadlier and much cheaper. This is obvious when you look at the a spike in Fentanyl use compared to other narcotics. While the amount needed to get high is lower, the potency is much higher. In addition to this, these packages are getting stepped on—where dealers cut it with another substance—a hundred times over before it ends up in someone’s veins with anything and everything.
What strategy are you using to "level up" with Khan? I'm curious because I'd like to do this as well but am not sure where to focus.
I don't know exactly what was used to upscale here, but Progressive Growing of GANs[0] was a breakthrough last year that proved at least 1024x1024 was viably producable.

The short explanation is: Train and freeze the most basic layer of the model progressively to "let the network" understand higher resolution concepts one piece at the time, and avoid mode-collapse.

The network architecture illustrating this a bit better is shown on page 3 of the paper [1]

[0]: https://github.com/tkarras/progressive_growing_of_gans

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.10196.pdf
We should consider the life experience of the homosexual boy or girl, who exists underfoot as a pawn for American Christian moral whim. American Christians constitute such a majority that if they willed something, then a mountain would move, such as tax and finance reform which considers the sacred issue of poverty. Unfortunately American Christians have been focused on sexuality for the last decade, but that's really not fair because it ignores the very real Satanic sexual moral scares that swept the nation not long before that.

One should also consider that those who go to churches may have better professional views than those who don't. There are Christian professional job networks there, and if you aren't in there, maybe sucks for you. You seem to think that all weights considered, you experience net career disadvantage for showing your face as one of the moral majority. I would argue those who aren't in these professional networks don't know what they're missing out on. I would also argue that if you come from a poor Christian background, you should try church hopping. Bay Area churches are bastions of quality and professional life.

One should also consider the privilege that is afforded to churches as a tax-exempt organization that does just about everything, including competing in the daycare services market (do you pay for daycare?). One should consider whether any other group is about to gain that same power of tax exemption, which is arguably one of the most lofty powers in a taxed modern life. This is a privilege cloaked in power.
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> what right do you have to complain that people are using that code in accordance with that licence?

It’s not legally required to credit the author of the original code, but it’s a jerk move not to do so, especially if the work is primarily not your own.

All it does is discourage developers from releasing things open source, which is very bad in the long run.
Supports a better Camera API - some people have cracked it to work on non-Pixel devices already though.

See: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/
Cocaine usage I get, though it's awfully unsustainable for your heart.

The thing about methamphetamine is that from what I understand it is neurotoxic at normal doses, and you have a much safer drug that's not going to be much more expensive available to purchase.
They are. The BLS puts together a 'market basket' that includes those items. However, it is the proportion that matters. Necessities like rent and healthcare are a larger proportions of expenses for the poor than they are for the middle and upper classes. When the market basket is created it takes consideration of everyone's expenses and so the weighting for healthcare costs say, falls below what it is that poor people spend on average and above what rich people spend on average (as a percent). Because these are a few of the spending categories that are inflating the fastest it is in this way that the CPI understates inflation for the poor and overstates it for the rich.
>> This license change takes it completely out of the contention for anything I would have previously considered it for.

> If you dislike the license, then use a different program

That's exactly what he said he would do, isn't it?
Seems like an acceptable tradeoff, like if it's cold in her room and she wants to get paid to heat it
I don't think the issue is "what is a class". It's more that the lifecycle functions get tied into the class, and you end up with a ball of highly conditional logic. It's easy for newbies to just add stuff to make it work, but end up with a mess.

React is the view layer, so the class concept of "here's some data and methods to alter it" doesn't really match with what happens - I don't know that components every should have been classes in the first place.
Personally, I loved Flex’s mxml/actionscript combo. Its main (fatal) flaw was targeting the flash player. At the time, moving to html/js felt like a big step backwards on developer experience.
Tizen is not a fork of Android. Tizen is about as far away from Android from a technology perspective as you can get with a mobile OS.

This would be kind of like saying iOS was a successful fork of Android, it just doesn't make sense because they really are not the same. One runs native apps, the other runs a JVM. The only similarity is that they are both mobile OSs running Linux.
A lot of software engineers around me love poking in their cars
Multiple alternative CSS files were a thing in early 2000s. But browsers never developed support for them. Now some sites offer switchable "themes", tough.
Unity Devs? Anyone there?
Looking for some Unity devs to collab with for a project. If you have experience deploying for Google / Oculus platforms - lets connect.
This year's FIRST Robotics Lego League Jr's theme is building a moon base. This article is likely too dense for the 6-10 year old crowd but can offer the coach/mentor some discussion ideas!

http://firstlegoleaguejr.org/
... or they love it, like uber
Awesome idea and implementation. tutorial is useful and clear. Well done mgechev, great job!
This. I run a hobby blog, and Wordpress is primarily...not work.
> but why methamphetamine? [...] Why risk your health when amphetamines and Adderall are just as good?

The phenomenon is called the "iron law of prohibition" [0]:

The iron law of prohibition is a term
coined by Richard Cowan in 1986 which
posits that as law enforcement becomes
more intense, the potency of prohibited
substances increases. Cowan put it this
way: "the harder the enforcement, the
harder the drugs."

This law is an application of the Alchian–
Allen effect; Libertarian judge James P.
Gray calls the law the "cardinal rule of
prohibition", and notes that is a powerful
tool for the legalization of drugs.
It is based on the premise that when drugs
or alcohol are prohibited, they will be
produced in black markets in more
concentrated and powerful forms, because
these more potent forms offer better
efficiency in the business model—they take
up less space in storage, less weight in
transportation, and they sell for more
money. Economist Mark Thornton writes that
the iron law of prohibition undermines the
argument in favor of prohibition, because
the higher potency forms are less safe for
the consumer.

I learned this term from Johann Hari's book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs [1].

The "epidemic" of opioid overdose deaths would be ended instantly by giving the addicts all the pure heroin they need. ("I think I've mentioned this here before... uhm, 'Switzerland'..., found it").

A response to my comment [2] said "drug overdose deaths fell by about two thirds between 1995 (Heroin prescriptions started in about 1994) and 2012:" [3].

Meth amphetamine is basically an anti-depressant - people don't need even Adderall, they need safe anti-depressants (!SSRI)[4], and help finding stability [5].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition

[1] http://chasingthescream.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14782416

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14783800

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18211048 (my comment about coca leaf's anti-depressant effects. Amphetamines are somewhat similar.)

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17997852

(edit: added [5], moved [4] to after "!SSRI")
(Edit2: moved all the references [] from inline to the bottom of the comment.)
I almost mistook your statement as an ironic statement of hysteria mentioned by parent. IOW, what I was hearing thirty years ago: "you never know what it's laced with". My experience says, "yeah, I do: nothing." I'll suffix that never tried heroin, which I understand to commonly be cut.

But PCP-laced pot? Never, and I can understand that someone isn't going to sprinkle free value-add on there. Cocaine will be laced with baking soda to increase profits, not more pricey drugs. I just never did figure out where people got that idea. Sure, sounds like heroin is getting cut with fentanyl (again, profits). But crack will get you plenty high, and addicted, on its own; there's no need for additives.
This is a much underappreciated point, one I first came to realize when trying to train reasonably intelligent lay users working with some of the 1st and 2nd generation WYSIWYG web tools (Fusion, Dreamweaver, and heaven help us all Frontpage). Point-and-click interfaces really only provide some degree of friction-reduction. A user who can be effective still has to think in terms of layout tools and behavior and different properties of block and inline elements that can be set, even if they don't have the language to describe these things and don't map it to syntax. That last part is the effort saved -- they don't have to map it linguistically/formally and for some people or some limited design/display problem set, that's big savings. I suspect, however, that's a significantly smaller set of people and problems than the common wisdom might indicate (and definitely smaller than "universal") and one of the reasons many web publishing tools end up providing templates + limited display options inside content and still end up being more popular than Dreamweaver.
>I think the point is that they want to provide two ways to do simple things: classes and functions.

At the risk of seeming like an old man complaining about new things, what problem would "classes" solve in javascript that the existing object syntax, which allows for inner functions and variables, doesn't?
Other style transfer AIs have produced much more spectacular results without blurring the image.
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My thoughts exactly, those artifacts!! Ugh.
> Nearly completely idle, except for the part about building a whole new steel mill. That's... not very idle.

No one said they built it, just that they owned it. It's totally possible (and common!) to own something that you didn't build and have never had a hand in operating.

But lets say a new steel plant was built. Who actually built it? Was it the the owner, or the project managers, engineers, architects, construction crews, etc.? Which of these groups contributed more value to the enterprise?
Are you referring to hooks in general, or the specific useState hook they showed?

I love the idea of hooks - the more I can isolate my logic, the better. The useState example I'm pretty ambivalent about, for the exact reason you state.
“A word often used to describe an open marriage”

Often used incorrectly. That’s not at all what polyamory is.
So, I've been trying to figure this out a bit lately.

How would you go about writing a customer facing query builder that is analogous to the MongoDB aggregation pipeline with SQL?

With MongoDB I could conceivably generate/store a JSON object for such a query. In SQL it seems a lot more obtuse to do.
Why does someone select Wordpress in 2018?

Because for whatever reason, people are failing to realize that Blogger is vastly better.
Uber, Lyft Are Biggest Contributors to Slowdown in S.F. Traffic
This website is like the perfect example of that "the web in 2018" post that was made a few days ago.
They have not updated many places in NC for over two years now. I think they are going to phase it out like all their other pet projects.