skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with this 100%. Hustle porn is toxic and and the ethos needs to be avoided.

It is clear why people latch onto the narrative. Working insane hours is a way to conceal incompetence.

When your boss or employees come knocking and sees the complete waste you have made of your task, you can point at your complete lack of social life and how much you have martyred yourself for your company as proof of your competence. "I can't be a fuck-up, look at how hard I worked!" THAT is a participation trophy.

I have a revolutionary new form of hustle: It's called taking care of yourself and getting an education AKA "Growing Up".

I do weight training after work every day. I eat healthy. I cook food with my girlfriend. I read multiple programming books a month ( Shout-out to Uncle Bob!). I read multiple other types of books a month. I meditate. I go to bed on time and get up on time. I work on side-projects. I even find time to smoke some weed and play video games with my friends!

And I am extremely productive. I'm constantly learning. I measure twice and cut once instead of hopelessly flailing at a keyboard long into the night. I do not need to martyr myself to make sure everyone around me knows how hard I am working, it's just obvious from the quality of my work.
Intellij can be made faster by:
Using SSD
Stuffing jdk on ramdisk
Disabling inspectors you do not need
That's part of the reason it's so outrageous - it's free in countries like the Czech Republic and Canada, but some old-school publishing company was granted the monopoly in the U.S., and as a result authors and publishers are getting gouged in the U.S.

The other thing that bothers me is the shameless, mercenary upsells that are designed to trick newbies. $25 for a barcode? Many book designers throw it in for free or you can get a free one on your own at bookow.com/resources.php

When I first got started in book publishing, it was even worse. Bowker was selling website widgets for some ridiculous subscription fee - $120 to start and $60 every year thereafter (https://in30minutes.com/bowkers-isbn-markup-new-authors/). I wonder how many poor souls are still getting charged for that?
Reminds of what happened with Inbox Zero. Didn't that guy wind up admitting he himself failed at it and it wasn't reasonable anyway? (Or am I getting confused with someone else?)
>Name me a non-obscure movie, show, or song and I’ll bet I find it on YouTube.

I agree that this criticism is about five years out of date. When I was younger, I used to happily go to Youtube to watch free versions of TV shows and cartoons. However, they've gradually become good enough at enforcing copyright that while you can absolutely still find anything you like on there, the degree to which it must be munged to escape the copyright filters means it's utterly unwatchable. It's actually really annoying, because you can no longer even find short clips of particular moments reliably, as they've often been taken down.
In fairness, streamers in Twitch hear music on stream, which is frequently unlicensed.

So wouldn't Twitch be liable for that content under this proposed copyright thing?
That is not Iran's posture.
something else is off - the idea isn't good enough, you're attacking it in the wrong way, whatever.

...and don't forget the fact that seems almost taboo to say these days: you just don't have the ability.
Yeah, but that's usually presented as an ugly American characterization. I actually wanted to be multilingual. I failed in part because I'm American.

I know a little German and a little French. I know a smattering of Spanish and Russian. I wanted to be fluent in all of those. I fell far short of fluency.
But there are public universities and many programs in Europe, curated by experts that never get anything wrong, so why would we need some solly internet videos, right?
I've never actually heard him say a single shred of useful, practical advice. To me, Gary is the epitome of a snake oil salesperson because I have absolutely no idea why he's so popular.

Is this some sort of twisted Truman Show dystopia where everyone is pretending to worship him and seeing if I am foolish enough to believe them?
progress is only incremental because of this absurd belief that any improvement in your life means you have no room to complain - it's how we in the west justify the continuing imperialism of the developing world that we destroyed
My understanding is that this view is shared by a majority of YouTube employees who censor the content. IE: We hate Trump, Trump is evil and his supporters are deplorables, therefore it is the right thing to do to suppress this horrible speech. If YouTube is treated like a publisher, and is liable for all content that is fine. But irregardless of your feelings about those views and people, when views that are held by a large percentage of the American population are actively being banned/suppressed you are no longer a neutral platform nor are you following the standard of just being a good Samaritan. To be very clear I would also have an issue with this is the target was people who are considered far left because at the end of the day I do not want to have an un-elected, for profit, monopolistic corporation (which was in fact given that power through safe harbor) forcing it's moralistic views on me or anybody else. If anything the tech companies have shown that they are great at technology and really bad at public policy, so lets let the democratic governments sort out the public policy side and the tech get back to being neutral platforms.
Isn't that Cloudflare?
hyper-competitive, individualistic meritocratic culture and economy. Equating wealth and social status with virtue and worth.

people set unrealistic individual expectations.

survivroship bias. It's not that these business leaders are superior people, but many of them are lucky. Hustle helps, but so does luck, whether it's having a really high IQ (for tech jobs), family wealth (when starting business and having a safety net if the business fails), or 'right place at right time' (a domain name name + some simple coding could have made you rich in the mid-late 90's ,whereas nowadays you need a full-scale app with tons of stuff to maybe have a shot at a small amount of funding or a small acquisition).
What hussle porn is selling most of all is agency. That you can get whatever it is you want through some actions you can take.
Shovelbot 3000. It uses the latest cutting edge techniques in computer vision to determine the best angle to dig. Except that it can’t actually dig holes.
I said this in reply to QUIC apparently ignoring hardware TLS offload...

Is this for real?

Even Quick Assist?

I am watching the internet be developed by the giants for the giants. In my memory, giants didn't act like giants. "At scale" wasn't a preprocessor. Browser developer tools were written to help you participate in conversation, not play unending catch up in translation, the meaning lost in acoustics of auditoria for the life of me I would think giants could make intelligible.
You clearly deal with more competent people than me. Literally the last piece of code I read that specified RSA OAEP was trying to shove user session data into it.

Thanks for replying to put my mind at ease on this.
Absolutely.

I think about it in the same way I think about "American Idol": Simon Cowell became a notable figure simply because he was honest with people; he dared to tell people that they were wasting their time pursuing singing.

Right now, Gary and all of these other hustle porn types are Paula Abdul. And they'll keep telling people that all they need to do is work harder, up until the point that it becomes to professionally more lucrative for them to stop being Paula and start being Simon. When we get to that point, they'll flip in a second. And their fans will eat it the fuck up.
Tim Cook is so focused on getting rid of the mac line. There is no way iOS can replace macOS anytime soon. So many features are needed to make iOS even appealing for everyday “computer” use. I am a developer, I need access to a full fledge unix system to do everyday work.

https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9w7hzq/it_seems_like_for...
> Even down to putting quotes around 'side' - presumably to punctuate your point that those who disagree with you don't have a legitimate perspective.

Yes, of course. That's the entire point. Modern Republican ideology and policy is a fundamental, existential threat to myself, my friends and family, and the safety and security of people like me. Why on earth would I consider their perspective to be legitimate? Why on earth would I consider trite 'both-sides'ism to be legitimate?
Amazon expected to announce NYC and Northern Virginia as new headquarters
As someone who mainly uses DDG when Google decides to block me for "searching too hard", one thing that would make me switch over to DDG completely is advanced search operators --- boolean expressions, exact match (no, not the stupid sort-of-exact one Google has), etc. Basically features that will let you "grep the Web" the way old search engines do, and what new search engines are even trying to forbid.
They are brief, but they can be longer than 2 seconds. They can easily last 7 seconds. Some even longer. Also, they can migrate across a huge swath of the sky and when you confuse a person's visual system, they have to interpret it.

Obviously, I don't know for sure. But I checked and there was one in the area with a pretty long duration depending on where you are.
Some of the writing and publishing associations try to point newcomers in the right direction. Science Fiction Writers of America/Writer Beware (https://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/), Romance Writers of America (https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=2101), the Alliance of Independent Authors (https://www.allianceindependentauthors.org/) and the Independent Book Publishers Association (http://articles.ibpa-online.org; disclosure: I'm on the IBPA board) have lots of free information on their website concerning best practices and pitfalls.
i also used lastpass for 7 or 8 years, premium even. the chugging speed was turning me off, so i gave BW a whirl. i switched a few months ago now and have zero regrets or issues. it's basically interchangeable as far as features i use, except it's faster. even better, it's open source, the ios app is free, and now it's audited. i'm very happy with it.
To clarify you're saying that you are ok with someone selling your software?

Or any company could make a closed source distribution of linux?
Interesting. A possible explanation for some strange and poorly understood phenomenon accompanied by bright lights could be "earthquake lights", bright lights that appear in the sky around the time of an earthquake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIEwKrvepH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMTSDzU1Z4

Not to say that it applies to this particular case. Just goes to show that there is much to this natural world we don't understand yet.
Yes, half a joke, also a quote from Don Draper in Madmen. Great cynic character :)
>and stopping dictators

If the US cared about stopping "dictators", why are there so many dictators allies of the US?
I wouldn’t say that the consequences were unintended. Lawmakers aren’t that dumb. More likely, they engineered the legislation specifically to consolidate market power and revenue in the hands of a small group of entities. They did this both because a small group is more easily controlled, and because this creates incredibly deep pockets from which they can suck out massive, headline grabbing fines. These fines serve to enrich the European governments that assess them, and help the politicians behind GDPR appear to be champions of the people who are taking money from evil capitalist American corporations.
WSJ was the outlet to break this story, before anyone asks why a link from a paywalled site was submitted.
They don't want users. They need the layer of apologists to obscure the grand systematic internalisation game. SI is subject to financial services law in the UK, at least...
No one wants to listen to a Ted talk in which a successful person attributes his success to luck (although in invoking Cunningham's law I'm sure one exists)
That may be true, as far as cultural "western" values of democracy, liberty, secularism, etc go. However the vast gap between the economic standard of living of e.g. Germany and those of Portugal are a source of (justified) friction. The less wealthy states see themselves as subservient to Germany and the wealthier states, with no real power and no real say in how the (supposedly democratic) union is run.
I got a "no such site" first and then this 403 error.
Yeah, India is very forward thinking about generics.[1]

Ranbaxy executives didn’t care, says Kathy Spreen, and made little effort to conceal it. In a conference call with a dozen company executives, one brushed aside her fears about the quality of the AIDS medicine Ranbaxy was supplying for Africa. “Who cares?” he said, according to Spreen. “It’s just blacks dying.”

[1]https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/05/17/a_...
> In the absence of the authorisation referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1,
Member States shall provide that an online content sharing service provider shall not be liable
for acts of communication to the public or making available to the public within the meaning
of this Article when:

> (a) it demonstrates that it has made best efforts to prevent the availability of specific works
or other subject matter by implementing effective and proportionate measures, in
accordance with paragraph 5, to prevent the availability on its services of the specific
works or other subject matter identified by rightholders and for which the rightholders
have provided the service with relevant and necessary information for the application of
these measures;

So basically if the rightsholders can convince the courts that they could have done more to proactively prevent copyright infringement, they're liable.
I'm not sure this is realistic in our modern society. Online, there is some flexibility: you can pay to remove ads for some things, and use ad-block on the ones that don't provide such an option. But in the offline world, I'm not sure what you're going to do. Physical ads are hard to block, you just have to avoid them when you can.

Economically, I'm not sure we're ever going to get away from ads. As I've said before in some of my comments, it's not just about paying for things you use. It's about paying more than the people who are willing to put up with ads, because otherwise companies will just do both: charge, and use ads. That's what we see in TV, in addition to many other places, and there's no reason to expect that not to continue unless there were widespread backlash, and I just don't see that happening. I don't like ads, but most of my friends don't seem to see things the way I do.
As others have pointed out, you just seem to be using a different definition than the rest of us are.

A single, unreplicated product is never considered a monopoly. A monopoly implies that customers don't have an alternative.
Bob's Red Mill did the same thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob's_Red_Mill
Or, Israel having nukes has made their neighbors wary of another attempt at annihilating them, which could trigger a large war.
The president is the leader of a right-wing ideology and he attempted to deplatform and smear kneeling players in the NFL. He explicitly asked the NFL to fire kneeling players and smeared them by deliberately misrepresenting their stated position (that they are kneeling to protest police violence).
But do you remember the stories of suicide nets at foxconn.. I would say most of the poems are about suicide
Because politics and circumstance.
Do nationalists not engage in mutually beneficial trade out of spite or something? Is there historical evidence of this?
Well, considering the US avoided the thalidomide tragedy because they decided approval in Europe was t good enough, you’re unlikely to see a scenario where it gets approved simply because someone else approved it.
Not to put a downer on speculation but probably military jets that lit the afterburners and zoomed away. My first thought was F-111s, but since it seems they were radar quiet, maybe stealth planes.
That's pretty much the main reason north Korea hasn't been attacked since the Korean War: even without nuclear weapons, nobody wants to risk war when Seoul is all but guaranteed to be leveled.
To this exploit?
Interesting. A little more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_flash
Would looking at it through a lens of clouds make it appear in a different spot to an observer?
Similar lights in the Australian desert appear related to inversion layers refracting headlights over the horizon (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s818193.htm)
Even if they genuinely cared about it, 90 percents of regimes worldwide are dictatorships or authoritarian regimes. So you can not work with anyone if you have very strong principles.
I like belonging to a country with socialized Medicare, it is refreshing to not have to worry about that cost.
> Why do browsers never implement something as easy as lock the vault with OS account pass after a certain period after unlocking like any password managers do?

You must lock your workstation, it's not enough to just lock the password manager. If you leave your workstation unlocked then an attacker could install a keylogger that captures the password to unlock your password manager.
"There is no universal solution for the Year 2038 problem"
Right by my house was an area used for bomb testing in the 50s and 60s - there are many pictures of the different types of live ordinance one could potentially encounter.

Down the street there’s an area very contaminated with chromium from a power plant, that the Feds claim magically stops right at the Pueblo line.

That and whatever you saw barely scratches the surface, no doubt. There are thousands of dump sites in Los Alamos. They didn’t even keep records of all of them or what was in any of them until recently.
End to end tests seem to be a crutch.

Of the people I've observed learning testing, the ones that do e2e tests early pick up habits that they can't seem to unlearn. And the existence of the e2e tests seems to block prioritization of architectural changes to make unit and functional tests more effective.

And the frameworks are never what I would call reliable. You can do work to remove race conditions from them but it takes tremendous discipline (if a tool is wrong by default, that to me means they are using the wrong metaphor).

These days I try to keep people focused on unit tests until they run out of runway.
I believe it was the antitrust lawsuits that forced them too, and it shows; if you look at all the MS protocol/format documents and compare them to something like RFCs and ITU/IEEE/ANSI standards, the MS docs are noticeably harder to read with their verbosity, weird syntax notations and conventions, and almost look as if they were deliberately obfuscated.
I know someone with this job. I don’t think it’s advertised anywhere as such. But it appears the role is called “data associate” or “speech and language annotator”. Basically they listen to the phrase after the keyword and then the response, marking whether or not it was helpful (maybe more detailed than that, not sure). It’s a data labeling job in some shape or form. Anecdotally, a lot of people seem to like saying the worst possible (offensive) things to Alexa and some people use it to sext. I don’t know if the latter was transmitted because messages are fair game or if because the user incorrectly tried to use the messaging feature. The only thing about this that really surprises me is that it isn’t outsourced to a cheaper labor supply.

I don’t have a Glassdoor account to confirm what this is saying but I think you’ll find at least circumstantial evidence here if you can view it.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Amazon-Data-Associate-Revi...
Actually this is debatable. The USA has the first military power in the whole world and could go and invade a bunch of countries if they wanted to and nobody would oppose them. Since they are not doing so, its hard to call them belligerent. The British Empire was way worse than the USA all things considered.
As long as Saudi Arabia is one of Americas "greatest" allies there is no leg to stand on arguing any aspect of US foreign policy involves a moral war against totalitarianism.
Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for HQ2
Users have to volunteer the tokens to friends (co-conspirators, lovers, whatever) or assert that they just love receiving garbage from strangers, so conventional "spam" is impossible.

AIUI
The system can count usages of Bob's tokens and rate-limit those. If Bob's Ex Gina is sending him fifty "Fuck you, Bob" messages per day, that might mean Bob's friend Harry has to admit his identity to the server to cut through the noise. Eventually Bob blocks Gina and she's no longer able to use his token and annoy his friends. Blocking someone invalidates your old tokens.
Is Will Smith's movie Happyness hustle porn?
The Great Illusion (1910)
Hun. When you put it that way, it doesn't sound all that much different from The Secret.
No offense but the article you referenced is misleading.

Sure, just the trial might cost that little if it’s an orphan disease, but it’s also ignoring all the other stuff that goes along with running a trial. Things like manufacturing, compliance, data analysis, etc.

When you look at the total cost of R&D for a drug, it’s typically 1/3 for discovery and 2/3 for development (clinical trials).

If your drug is used in any reasonable sized population, development is easily in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

You are correct about the failure rates though.
James Michener wrote a novel "Poland", like his other novels is a very readable slightly fictionalized account of a country/topic.
IMO, the right approach to regulating Google is similar to the regulations pre-breakup imposed on AT&T. Stuff like all patents and technology must be made public, interoperability, etc.
just open a guest window from chrome, and type the same search terms in the two different search engines, and you would see different results. it's not hard to verify.
That's easy when your views are within the Overton window, but unless you are retired or live comfortably enough the reality is you probably shouldn't discuss controversial ideas on the internet using a real name, especially for younger people, this stuff can come back to haunt you employment wise.

Seen talented hardworking people fired because of tweets and our government contracts.

I'd argue this even extends to mundane topics like city planning, you never know who you can piss off. There's always someone to offend.
Y2K 2.0

I had no idea this was a thing.
Great article, but he should have started with the "it's proprietary" bit.

Life is too short to run proprietary software.
You mean war against radical religious terrorists and dictators that are not allies like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and etc?

Countries which support the Al-Nusra front, which was affiliated to Al-Qaeda, which masterminded 9/11 an event which 90% of the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia or other gulf countries and 0 from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Iran.

The concept of righteous crusades has been around forever and it's stunning that it still works.
NASA is actually working on this, if I remember correctly. They want it to be a "low boom," apparently it's still a work in progress.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/6/nasa-quiet-s...
I have Scrivener and have used it. The problem is that, at some point, I need to start collaborating and otherwise sharing copies. At that point I need to switch to a common format anyway. So I'm not convinced that Scrivener helps me a lot given that I'll have to export well before I'm finished (in my case). Maybe if I were working on something solo for a long period of time but that's not how I generally write.