skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe readers will enjoy this related post from Bernardo Kastrup. It may argue the point better, or not. I can't argue myself as it's too obvious for me. It's a unwinnable argument in my opinion, since it drives right into what it means to know something.

Why dismissing philosophy threatens the integrity of science

https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2018/12/why-dismissing-philo...
The long term monogamous dating market requires two people to accept that they likely won’t find someone better than the person they have found, so putting all of the options at one’s fingertips increases the risk of feeling like you could have done better.
+1 for React. I'm learning it, too. I'm not sure I love it, but I definitely don't hate it!
Give examples of problems and what you find hard.

The more I code the more I realise how hard it is. 20 years later and I can count the good programmers I know on one hand. Most of them think they are terrible also.

Programming is about delivering something that adds value to your clients customer.

If you do that without the latest sexy over complication that's pricey better than most.
whats a good resource to get upto date with diff between 11 and 8
You are calling Germany a crappy failed jungle tribe?
Whenever I get similar feelings to this it usually means I’ve been working too much and I’m burning out. After days on a coding binge, code starts to look like spaghetti that I can neither make heads nor tales of. After taking a break and decompressing things start to make sense again. About a year ago, I was working so many hours that I forgot how to program all of a sudden. Taking time off quickly remedied the situation and made me excited to program again. I don’t know you or your situation but it sounds like you’re burned out.
curious, what you are planning to do with the new knowledge
I advise Google stop pissing off both conservatives and liberals, or antitrust action will rain down pretty easily.
I know nothing about that but I guess it's entirely possible!
None. There was no need to. Focus your energy on actually making more money and growing your business using tools you already know and are most comfortable with. Improving marketing and sales is more important than chasing after the next best tech stack.
"Der Spiegel's purportedly high-performing fact-checking operation."

I am not trolling. But seriously, I doubt that the Spiegel has any "fact checking" that deserves the name. On the other hand, I am pretty sure that the Spiegel has some serious "opinion policing". It was once a news magazine run by journalists. Now it is more or less a political voice for the guy who inherited the majority of the shares. I would not call it a news magazine anymore, nor would I call it serious journalism. The guy delivered just what he was supposed to deliver. His messages fitted so undeliverable well in what they wanted to hear and communicate.

See this article form 1973:

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-41955159.html

Today Spiegel would call this "hate speech". The declining sales numbers are not surprising. In history, propaganda was free. You pay for journalism but who is going to pay for propaganda?
Low thousands? Is that really worth your time?

Buy post-it notes, go momento and discover that all is well - distraction on details is part of creativity. Self awareness of it is key to directed productivity.
It isn’t that strange. It’s basically keto, which has become almost mainstream.

For the record, I’ve tried the “zero carb” diet (basically meat) and it’s not that hard once you treat food as purely as something functional like a vitamin rather than a source of pleasure.
I learned a lot more about op amps, mosfets, SMD technology, bootloaders and PIC microcontrollers. These are fundamentals, so it's an investment with a high return value, I think.
A Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (2014)
Side note - does anyone know why did OKCupid get "tinderfied"?
I mean:

- requires real first name (bad if you name is too common or too rare; also, it was cool and a great discussion starter) EDIT: real names by default

- messages only after likes (it changes the dynamics a lot; before I got much more interesting discussions)

- option to swipe (fortunately, still it is possible to search)

Vide:

- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-these-women-are-quitti...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/7pv9mp/ladies_of_o...

- https://theblog.okcupid.com/why-okcupid-is-changing-how-you-... (may make sense for some mainstream, basing their judgments of appearance... but then - why not Tinder? plus, it is easy to filter too short or repetitive messages, so if OKC only wanted to solve that, it would be a piece of cake)

My two cynical guesses are:

a) there is a Tinder mole in OKC

b) since they are owned by the same group, there will be a post showing it was natural to join two (effectively killing OKC)
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Suburban towns are more likely to be more lean and get by without things like large professional police and fire forces because they lack the social problems of the cities.

The structure of city government is usually better defined and resistant to change, and would “win” over the annexed towns. Usually there’s a ward structure that benefits a certain type of political machinery. The backbone of suburban politics are usually powered by things like volunteer fire departments, schools or other orgs. Those types of organizations will fight hard because unionized city organizations have more people and seniority, etc.

No sane person would vote for annexation who isn’t part of a city.
Julia - started at the end of the year. Planning to venture in more deeply in the new year.
can non-CMU student learn that class online?
I found a pretty bad exploit of the Livebox 1.1 back in 2012. I was trying to find a way to replace the shipped firmware by OpenWRT. Never heard back from Sagem/Orange but the vuln was quietly fixed in a later release. I never knew if they never acknowledged it on purpose or fixed it by accident! Funny to see this on HN. Brings back good memories.
Somebody should pick up that idea and create a site like stack overflow but that doesn't discourage discusssion or reward destroying useful knowledge.
It appears you clearly don't like narrative, and yes -- if you don't like narrative, you won't like this book.

But many (if not most?) people do enjoy narrative -- they enjoy the build-up and suspense of what did Timothy Leary do that was so bad instead of getting straight to it, literary descriptions that paint a picture of a main character visually and personality-wise, and sentences that are natural and conversational (not a science article full of acronyms).

This is why I specifically mentioned the book is a combination of science and narrative -- which comes out of fiction. Born to Run is another classic example.

It's very rare that an author is excellent at clearly explaining science, excellent at writing narrative that hooks you, and also covers a topic that is very timely, widely unknown, and fascinating. That's the kind of triple-threat combination that makes it a best book for me.
There have been a considerable number of other people involved: the complete list of people in the NIST post-quantum submission teams is pretty big.
To be fair, America has no problem with dictators so long as they are supportive dictators.
Most importantly, I finally "got good" at MySQL and InnoDB. before this year I mostly looked at databases as magic put-stuff-in-and-query-it machines that always worked unless you were FAANG scale. Needless to say, that scaling boundary comes quite a bit earlier. The most interesting project by far was to limit query load of a big background job by implementing feedback control based on the disk throughput. I have a blog post written about it but the approval gears of the PR department can turn slow sometimes :)

Other things learned at work this year: Docker and Kubernetes. Not something I would have learned on my own, but in the end I'm glad I took the plunge since they're both pretty fascinating.

Outside of work: I finally got proficient with monadic parsing in Haskell. Parser combinators are simply the best parsing experience I've ever had and I really hope never to write another regex in my life.
>Java offers only vtable dispatch or switch on integers/enums

The JVM has complete knowledge of the class hierarchy. If a method has not been replaced in a subclass then no vtable entry has to be generated and the JVM just uses a static call.
Yeah, I recently had the opportunity to use Java 8 on the job for the first time and solving problems in a functional way was a sort of Damascus road experience for me. Now I want to go farther so I'm learning Kotlin.
The sentence is more correct than it is wrong. Here it is with the context of its paragraph:

> He is known for introducing the notion of “literate programming,” emphasizing the importance of writing code that is readable by humans as well as computers — a notion that nowadays seems almost twee. Dr. Knuth has gone so far as to argue that some computer programs are, like Elizabeth Bishop’s poems and Philip Roth’s “American Pastoral,” works of literature worthy of a Pulitzer.

Note this part specifically:

> the notion of “literate programming,” emphasizing the importance...a notion that nowadays seems almost twee"

"literate programming" is the notion emphasizing* the "importance" of writing code readable by humans. And this "notion" The word "which" would make it even clearer that the subject of the clause is "literate programming", but the sentence is still grammatically correct as is. Everyone thinks it's important for code to be readable, but Knuth is the one who is radical about how important it is -- to the point that he thinks programs should be "literature worthy of a Pulitzer".

In any case, the NYT author is more accurate than the previous HN commenter, who seems to have jumped to a conclusion without knowing anything about the concept "literate programming", or how and why Knuth is known for it. The NYT author is not "basically just pulling this statement out of her behind to embellish Knuth's reputation", but it seems the commenter is not as familiar with Knuth and/or computer programming as he thinks he is.
> Without any evidence to back up your claim, this is simply a case of correlation != causation. If we follow your example, then the subjugation of women also leads to a better functioning society.

It's a bit stronger than that, because not only all successful cultures banned public nudity - also all cultures that tried public nudity failed.

Re: topless beach - going to a topless beach once a while vs living in a society where everybody around you is naked all the time are two different things. Imagine a workplace where your female colleagues (if you're a straight male) are naked. There's a reason why some of the best schools in the world still separate pupils by sex.
If I tell my grandmother to open about:config she probably will write me off her will
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Indeed. CGPgrey did a nice video about these peculiarities of London: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
We almost did that by accident a few years ago. It was not a good idea.
The day I tasted climate change
Go and brushed up on c/c++!
I know no one else cares, and this isn't really my nit to pick, but "araf" is an adjective meaning "slow", not a verb, so you can't really "can" it at all.
Searching for the vulnerability address one can find this from 2012 in fact: https://www.heyrick.co.uk/blog/index.php?diary=20120905&keit...
those seem to be based on german words. in german that reads as: pointy sparks, blinking lights.
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Man it was a crazy year for me:

- Clojure

- Typescript

- Aws Lambdas

- Serverless

- Terraform

- Cloudformation

- Docker

- AWS Ecs with Fargate

- Kafka

All this mainly because I managed to land a job at a big company that encourages knowledge sharing across teams. So much better to have a community of other engineers you can rely on.
I care! Thanks for pointing that out.
Resource: Photography
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Don’t know about the maker of this tool, but his or her CEO never did
Sorry for the meta-comment but this just made me laugh out loud:

“December 19 and 5 days to ship seemed like plenty of time“
Enjoyable frontend development with ReasonML.
When have you been using Django compared to Flask? I'm curious, since I often use Flask + vue, but haven't used Django much.
I would love to do so, but we're always in a hurry for this or that project. I can't tell how many times I reported to the management that this way we're worsening our codebase and piling up technical debt. But revenue is revenue, and they always tell me "next year"... this is true also for education. I've been here for five years and attended only a mandatory course on workplace safety :)
- TDD

- AWS certified developer

- Patience

- Optimism
Also known as “regular modern day advertising and marketing”.

Does anyone else think that, say, for-profit colleges were using tactics any more noble and ethical than these folks?
I believe it is more likely to be a foreign nation proving a capability. They've just shown that with a team of a dozen people or so and some moderately sophisticated drones, they could shut down every major airport in the country more or less indefinitely.
Is this the notion of "embedding" they are discussing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_embedding

What is an "entity"?
How was the class? What were your takeaways?

His mind control methods seems similar to Buddhist monks. But monks spend a life time mastering their brains. How he is able to teach it so quickly?
I sympathise with @chrisseaton's frustration. When you make a comment highlighting something that looks superficially similar but is actually irrelevant, that's going to tend to derail the conversation. If your comment was unworthy of a parry, maybe that's a hint that it was unworthy of being made in the first place. Please make an effort to be part of the signal not part of the noise, even if your brand of noise is inoffensive.
Looks like work on the project has been stalled - https://github.com/BoostIO/boostnote-mobile/issues/201
Can you give an example of what kind of programming challenge or task that you recently had difficulty working on? I think part of your problem is thinking that programming is a mostly monolithic, easily quantifiable kind of skill.
So.... you're opposed to democracy if neighbors of its advocates are impure? Or was the mayor one of the advocates spreading it abroad? Maybe they shouldn't have convicted him in order to keep their record clean?

I'm having trouble getting at the meat of your criticism.
blinklicht is the german term for the flashing turn indicator on a car. and any other light that periodically turns on and off can be called that.
I agree with your first point, but Adam is also one of the sharpest people I’ve ever known. It’s hard for me to resolve the idea that he’d be complacent.

As for funding, he wasn’t liquid when Quora started afaik, but also even smart wealthy people take loans and get VC.
Real Estate speculation can have very long timelines.

The data on upcoming developments and rezonings is all public and trivial to find but is also available years in advance. It can take years for public works projects to be completed even if they're not delayed. This means one needs to be able to hold for a long, long time.

For example several years ago the City of Vancouver in partnership with the public transit authority formalized a decision to make a rapid transit line across the city. It's the sort of thing that will increase land values. However due to politics the line was delayed and construction is estimated around 2020 I think. The plan has been floating around since the 1990s and it was already cancelled once in 2001. Similarly there's another line that will likely be eventually built and it's mentioned in the region's 2040 transportation plan but the timeline is so far off.

The expected existence of these improved public transit options are likely to some degree already baked into the selling prices of properties in this area.
>Can't read the article because the economist Saya I've read my free monthly limit.

Google the link (on Firefox and Chrome, prepend a question mark to the url to force a search), or open the link in incognito mode are the two most common ways around paywalls.

Either way, there's a lot in the article and it seems wise to read it before answering the question it poses with a single sentence.
I believe your problem is simple and has a simple fix...

There are 2 kinds of learning: "Push" and "Pull". "Push" means you find learning opportunities and "push" them onto whatever you're building. "Pull" means you have something you have to build but don't have all the personal resources you need, so you "pull" in what you need as you go.

You're problem is that you're a "Pull" learner using a "Push" approach. The result is that you haven't learned deeply enough because you're pushing what you have so that permanent deep knowledge hasn't successfully transferred into the firmware of your brain. When you "pull" knowledge, you're applying it immediately in a deep, permanent way and you're much more likely to get all the value from it.

How do I know you're a "Push" learner? Easy, your language. "Coding challenges", "tutorials", "videos" are classic examples. Nothing wrong with these when you need them (by "Pulling"). But when you "Push" them into your brain you get the classic result: confusion, over complication, frustration, and eventually, anger. This is a common problem. You are not alone.

I am the opposite, a classic "Pull" learner. I bet I don't know more that 20% of the syntax of any technology I know. I've written over 2 million lines of code in over 1,000 successful projects but I've only written about 15 programs from scratch. I really don't care about how much I know or how good I am; I only care about getting the job done and satisfying my customer to get their job done with my tools.

Like I promised, your solution is simple: Find someone who needs what you're building and then find a way to build it. That's it. Trust your inner self to find what you need, learn it, make it work, and the internalize it.

The sooner you stop worrying about your problem and start worrying about your customer's, the sooner you solve your problem as a byproduct of solving theirs.

Give it a shot and let us know how it goes.
I've never had to write .NET as a day job, but Dotnet Core is tons of fun for me. I think it's a super productive environment. I did the opposite as you - started with a tremendous amount of python
requires real first name (bad if you name is too common or too rare; also, it was cool and a great discussion starter)

That is not true, https://help.okcupid.com/article/67-how-to-change-your-name :

We ask that you use your first name instead of a username,
but if you're not comfortable showing your first name,
feel free to use initials or a nickname,
as long as it's something you're comfortable having your date call you!

Edit: (See other posting in sub-thread)

Also:

messages only after likes (it changes the dynamics a lot; before I got much more interesting discussions)

I don't think this is a good argument for "tinderification". There were so many people (mostly men) harassing other people (mostly women) on OkCupid.
I think this was a proper measurement to reduce unwelcome messages.

https://twitter.com/OKCupidmen

https://shitguyssayonokcupid2.tumblr.com/
You probably confused that with Baidu.
I think that's close to hitting it on the head. The author makes it sound like metaphysics is distrusted because there is no clear way for it to put bread on the table, while in reality it is distrusted because there is no way to tell if it is true.
Not the parent, but that's less than 1 book a week, which I often do.

If your average non-fiction book takes you ~12 hrs to read, that 3 nights of 4 hours of reading. In other words, if reading is a main hobby it's totally doable. (Also if you have an hour commute to/from work on the subway or train, that's 10 hrs/wk right there, or... 40 books a year.)

Also, I personally find that non-fiction is much faster to read than fiction -- in fiction, you want to savor and appreciate each sentence as it paints a world you don't know. In non-fiction, there tends to be a "lot you already know" when reading that you can read quickly, especially when you read multiple books on similar topics. (E.g. reading about the Stanford Prison Experiment for the nth time, or an explanation of the Prisoner's Dilemma.)
What do you want to achieve? One learns to program by doing. I've never heard of learning to program by watching. No one programs in a vacuum. Programming in general is just a collection of techniques to sustainably build instruction sets to automate hardware. The techniques are as various as the domains they serve. Are you trying to write enterprise banking code? Detect anomalies in satellite imagery? Automate cloud infrastructure for a startup on the cheap? Sequence a genome? Support energy telemetry? Render lifelike images on a consumer desktop computer / gaming console?

Go and do, would be my two cents.
I agree with your point. There should be some skepticism that debt discourages, rather than encourages war. In more militaristic or authoritarian nations, if the debt were great enough, it could be an incentive to invade the neighbor/nearby country you owe it to in order to destroy it (assuming that scenario).

One of the several reasons Iraq invaded Kuwait, is that Kuwait refused to forgive $14 billion in loans (to Iraq) accrued during the Iran-Iraq war. Iraq's annual GDP in the 1980s was $40b to $60b depending on the year, to give you some idea of their ability to deal with the $14b in debt held by Kuwait (it was a considerable sum to them in the 1980s; it might be like the US owing Panama or Singapore $5 trillion today).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait#Dispute_ove...
Monetization definitely complicates things. When I was there, there wasn’t any.
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Especially when it's done in such a way that favors the bigger players - he gives two perfect examples in Instagram and Reddit - reddit especially is well known to have nearly as much pornography as the "tube sites" do, and one need only click "I am an adult" to view it.
It sounds like it could be burnout.

Nevertheless I de-facto recommend you read "The Practice of Programming" by Pike and Kernighan. I would also you recommend learning how to learn (there is a good coursera course on it), and also I would recommend finding a good course on learning to search for things.

The last two things are probably more important that having "good knowledge" -- being able to find the good knowledge, and good sources, and knowing enough to discern bad knowledge from good.
How do you know that the true metaphysics of the world doesn't have one additional thing beyond your theory? There is no way, there is not even any way to get a sense of what pattern it is following.
Red scare