skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to dub this phenomenon the "unnamed skills". There are skills that are categorized and standardized: you can teach someone the poses and movements, the steps to follow, and the concepts to look for. But you can't teach them very much about putting it together into a whole and to apply some techniques in some ways and not others. Direct experience does that, and yet the way in which people interpret their experience leads to the sharp differences in style and overall ability.

Often this comes up in written fiction: authors will describe the characters and their thoughts and motivations in a mode natural to how they perceive things: some authors spin up plots and intrigues at every turn, others focus on raw emoting.

So I tend to view smarts as a personality trait, when we're dealing with healthy folks with no other issues(and realistically, most people are battling something else most of the time without necessarily being aware of it). There's a limited degree of smarter-is-smarter that shows up in testing, and then after that it starts being about personality-driven specializations, the ways in which they overcome problems. The archetypes are easy to spot in school: the student who seems to ignore any lecture or materials and rushes to get help from the teacher or study buddies, versus the student who quietly reads the text and never asks a single question. Both types can get perfect scores in some subjects, but usually not across the board, effortlessly. And as projects grow in scope and cover more skills, awareness of personality-driven limitations becomes more essential to success.
Indeed, from the submitted article:

> ... New York City’s MTA subway system, whose conductors have used a modified point-only system since 1996 after then Chief Transportation Officer Nathaniel Ford was fascinated by the point-and-call system during a business trip to Japan. In the MTA’s case, conductors point to a fixed black-and-white “zebra board” to confirm a stopped train is correctly located along the platform.

> According to MTA spokeswoman Amanda Kwan, conductors were quick to adapt to the new system, and within two years of implementation, incidents of incorrectly berthed subways fell 57 percent.
How many apps require web storage? Are there sufficient requirements to implement web workers or service workers?

Go back to the core design and simplify it. Keep what you need and everything else is noise.

My point was people pick the new and coming framework and it turns into tech debt. If development was more requirement driven, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Likewise, no probs at all in the install or upgrades ever.

Debian is the preferred laptop OS on the International Space Station, btw.
I remember all the scam apps. I would search for “Facebook” and there would be at least 5 apps with that name, all with the Facebook logo. The real one was somewhere in the middle of the search results, not at the top.
The process described is not only easily scriptable, but are things for which a human could very commonly make a mistake. You can add things in to include a human in the loop, maybe hitting return at each step, or hitting y, but deploying to production should never depend on a series of manual steps except when absolutely necessary
His point is that writing the single update function becomes complex when you have lots of changes to apply.
I run Linux on the Skull Canyon NUC and it works great.
My family recently got my mother's parents (100 and 98 who live independently) a grandpad. It's a closed network social media, meaning people have to be invited to it. It is designed for old people. They figured out how to navigate it themselves in ten minutes. It can call, video call, and leave mass voicemails.

From the children/grandchildren perspective, nothing has changed as it has Facebook and instagram integration, so we dont have to post on it directly.
Just saw it already exists: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
> But the weird thing is that if you take two adults and compare their IQs the difference there has a negligible weighting for environmental factors. Modern studies put the heritability of adult IQ upwards of 80%.

20% isn't negligible.
> The only easy and reliable ways to have a production grade Kubernetes cluster are to lock yourself into either a big player cloud provider, or an enterprise OS (Redhat/Ubuntu), or introduce a new layer on top of Kubernetes [1]

I think you might have misunderstood that page. The standard and universal way to deploy Kubernetes on to either your own bare metal or any cloud provider is to use kubeadm. However, if you would like a simpler and more automated solution and/or one backed by a vendor, you are welcome to pick any of the hosted platforms, distributions, or installers. CNCF has certified 70 conformant solutions: https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/

> Even if I never moved out of the big 3 (AWS/Azure/GCloud), the migration process could be painful since their Kubernetes may introduce further lock-ins for logging, monitoring, and so on.

If you choose open source solutions for logging and monitoring like Fluentd and Prometheus, then you can avoid locking into anyone's value added services and remain completely portable. If you decide to go with a vendor's solution, you may trade convenience for higher switching costs.

[1]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/pick-right-solution/

Disclosure: I'm executive director of CNCF and run the conformance program.
Hey thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to checking it out! Yes, I am working to improve the UI, I spent most of the time working on the back end, on the actual scripts. There lies my strength, I guess. I am not a very good graphics or web designer, and I plan to work with a UI person in the future. Stay tuned, I will make this app work also for English speaking cities!
That’s pretty interesting. Definitely something that should be addressed by accessibility.

On the iPhone they have some UI accommodations that might help with this sort of thing. I needed them for when I would try to do something with Waze while my wife is driving. There is nothing to brace your arm with i her Jeep from the passenger side and it’s quite a stretch, so my hand is bobbing all over the place. Those are times I wish Siri could do more UI interaction, like “press ok.”

I haven’t looked for that kind of equivalent mouse interaction motor control accommodation on macOS.
> Also, their review system had become so huge and untrustworthy even the stars next to an item are basically meaningless.

I agree, but still find big value in reviews, partly because I focus heavily on the more trustworthy part: the bad reviews. If they convince me I move on. But sometimes they're complaints about things I don't care about, or they don't rise above the baseline background bad-review radiation.

Mostly though it's a way to learn about aspects of a product that are crucial to its use but absent from the marketing materials. E.g. I found out in a review that I couldn't use a piece of plumbing hardware because I donn't have enough water pressure for it. It can be quite hard to discover this kind of thing from the maker or seller.
As a WM it is VERY useful and wraps windows for modern apps without issue. Some of the CDE apps though (dtcalendar and dtmail) are in need of a complete overhaul to be useful with modern protocols.
UX designers actually fought for this for ages. Like, at least since the 80s.

“Save the document?” is a stupid question: of course I want the program to preserve what I do. But I also need a way to roll back the changes afterwards if I discover a mistake.
Why was this downvoted? What part of this is untrue or inaccurate?
Federation is a solution for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud, which is a different problem than cloud portability.
> Really don't understand why anyone puts a side project on a pay-per-use provider

Serverless isn't always pay per use. Firebase, Netlify and Heroku all have limited free tiers where there's no limit you get to where you get charged.

Compared to a VPS, with the above services I get Git based deploy and don't have to worry about server maintenance beyond specifying e.g. which version of Node or Python I want to use.

Seeing people SSHing into servers to install packages and using Git pull to deploy makes me cringe now. I'd rather get on with coding.
I’m not sure when you had this experience but Best Buy has wised up and started offering reasonably priced cables. They now sell HDMI cables starting at $9.99

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dynex-4-hdmi-cable-black/616587...
> Kafka-esque bureaucracy

Is it? They seem to be holding McDonalds to the same evidenciary standards as anybody else.

That's the opposite of Kafkaesque bureaucracies, who make shit up as they like. They were just being consistent.
>Original Netflix series and movies are, by and large, fairly awful.

I've found it's not worth watching anything on netflix, originals or not, unless it's something I already know is good or if the rating is above 7/10 on a couple different review sites(even that's fairly unreliable).

I also find a lot of shows start good...are full of story dragging filler in the middle then end either in some kind of cliffhanger or just don't bother wrapping up most of the story.

I understand why they end that way....but most of the things i've watched like that don't end up with a second season...it just ends up feeling like I wasted a bunch of time with a story that will never conclude.

Not to mention the strange recommendations, the way netflix alters cover art depending what demographic they think you are...and something strange I asked about but was told I was crazy for thinking but..

But I have suspicions netflix associates unrelated accounts used on the same network in some way.

My girlfriend had been watching a series on netflix using my account, under my name on the roku app through the television.

She recently got a new laptop that came with a netflix app and used her parent's account to sign in. The two accounts have completely different information associated with them, my account had never been used on her computer, her parents account had never been used on the tv and thr show had never been watched on her parents' account yet when she started the show on her computer it started off at the exact minute she'd left off on the tv.

The only two things the two devices had in common were that they were used on the same network in the same house.

But I was told by multiple people I just have been mistaken and netflix doesn't work like that so what do I know?
This is such a great idea!

After reading the PR, there is one thing that is not clear to me: how can you ensure an swarm of bad servers are not trying to DDOS a remote server?
If a bunch of servers create fake users, and some fake super users who everyone follows, then the act of moving those super accounts is O(3) jobs for every follower the super user has (as it says in the PR)

Wouldn't this attack be easily exploitable? Are there any other tools to prevent these kinds of attacks? (apart from baning server domains)
Well, I never shop from Amazon, I'd rather use a specialized online shops or online storefronts of the company directly(ie TM Lewin for shirts)...

Main reason is that I'm not used to Amazons' shopping experience and it's huge selection of items, once I tried buying a travel trolley and felt overwhelmed by the huge choice, so I went to the shop and bought one in person after inspecting it visually.
I'm aware of that, but the two aren't mutually exclusive. When your "jokes" make your library sound better than it is, it becomes marketing. Don't brush off your attempts to sell your library as a "joke".
That would be awesome. Definetly would interest me in Mastadon if only to push my branding.
I think the point is that if you buy Apple hardware, of course macOS is going to run well, because you bought hardware specific to that, so do the same for Linux, buy Linux specific/well tested hardware instead of just any old crap, because you weouldn't do the same with macOS.
Many years ago I idealistically tried to switch my dad over to Linux but that was a nightmare, mostly due to hardware incompatibilities. My missus also ran Linux at some point but Ubuntu upgrades kept breaking and 3G modem drivers never worked properly. But that's years ago so I am sure the desktop Linux situation has improved slightly.

Since about 2010 my entire family is on Mac and support calls have also pretty much ended. When I read some of these other threads, it seems like it's accepted that parents/grandparents do nothing else than just open up a web browser.

That hasn't been my experience at all.

They buy printers, scanners, use apps from the app store, try to connect new and strange cameras, card readers, external screens (try simply connecting an external 4K screen to a random Linux computer, I guarantee you'll get a few surprises).

My dad's recently got into 3D printing (keep in mind he's a consumer, not an expert) and Fusion 360 would not even have run on Windows. He would not have been able to figure out FreeCAD either.
Google Apps Script without pain
> You're already in extremely risky territory by having co-founders and no formal agreements between you.

We're covered on this front.

I suppose there is not much by way of setting up outside of the Delaware route?
Kubernetes federation doesn’t really help with lock-in. Its for multi-cluster management. It’s also kind of stalled / going to be rethought - it has too many issues to be used at scale. Some may still like it of course.

There are two points of lock-in: beneath Kubernetes or on top of Kubernetes.

You still need to install and manage your cluster, so the low level lock-in of a distro is hard to avoid. What you may be looking for is kubeadm. https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/setup-tools/kubeadm/kub...

It is the closest primitive to help standardize “here’s how to install and run a K8s cluster in a certified way”. It’s unfortunately incomplete.

As for what’s on top of Kubernetes, that will be an area ripe for completion and lock-in.
I write libraries in an ide and give examples in a notebook. Working in a cross platform environment is painful when gpu stuff doesn't work out of the box for everyone or when you need a way to poorly spread work across a compute cluster instead of using your local machine.

Actually, I hate python now because of this. I would kill for a proper tool for implementing requirements.txt like package.json(yarn) or pom.xml(maven) that worked on jupyter by defining a base image similar to docker. Pip+virtualenv just seems like a half-attempt
Humans are a species, I thought we were talking about all homo sapiens, not a specific group which right now just happens to live in a specific place.
Surprisingly we don't

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/world-facing-g...
To be honest it worked much better in Vista/7, but still I find it more convenient to just press the meta key and type whatever I need or just use mouse because usually what I'm looking for is at Recently Added or Most Used section.

In the Linux world I think that Plasma nailed that feature.
Debian Stable, which is the default, is not rolling. Debian has 2-year releases (Stable), a rolling release that occasionally freezes (Testing) and an actual rolling release (Unstable/Sid).

Personally I've been using Unstable on my laptop for over a decade without any real issues, but then again I keep a very lean desktop (LXDM + awesome), so there is little to go wrong compared to a full DE.
Google Docs seriously mangles ODF documents.
>> because "we have programmers for that"

I hope it was long time ago. That's the most idiotic policy I've ever heard. :-)
Ubuntu has non-free software enabled out of the box unlike Debian. To me this is a negative, but to some it could be the difference between their wifi working or not. It's not that this is hard to change, but if you're already planning to make changes right away, maybe it's not the best distro for your parents. I've taken a liking to some pretty niche distros in the last few years. GuixSD and Void in particular. I used Arch for a long time as well. I love these distros, but I'm not sure they're right for my parents. Maybe if I learned how to make a customized installer that would ship my configs and certain software out of the box I could go that route.
Well this was disappointing... :(
You can, but actually seeing it in the wild is rare. I consider myself full stack, but I try to avoid anything js because I'm inhereting someone elses shit ecosystem.

If I was forced to on a couple projects I've seen I'd ask for 10k raise.
Digital Ocean's K8S offering is out of beta now: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/
I read a comment like this and just desperately want to look at the query log to see what’s being run. Followed by explaining a few offenders to see what the planner is working with. You can get really deep into optimising your dB, but often there are a lot of low hanging fruit to work with that you can make “good enough” in no time at all.
He died pretty early... at his funeral it felt like every nerd who ever attended the school was in that church. I think about 200 former students came. Teachers matter.
It’s common to pay for things to make them easier to configure/manage.

Red Hat OpenShift on RHEL, Pivotal Container Service on Ubuntu, Red Hat’s nextgen CoreOS based Kubernetes, Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes Distribution on Ubuntu, etc. all have different config management , install, upgrade, patching mechanisms that vary from Ansible, to Terraform, to BOSH, to Juju. Some handle PXE bare metal, some don’t. Etc.

There usually are free / no pay versions of the above that you can use self-supported, but then you’ll also need to coordinate your own upgrades and use community forums for q&a rather than being able to contractually have someone looking out for you and answering your questions.

If you’d prefer to avoid lock-in, All of that plumbing would otherwise have to be configured and scripted yourself with your chosen toolchain plus the newer “k8s small tools” like Kubeadm, Kops, Kube-spray, etc.

As the old saying goes, open source is only free (as in beer) if your time has no value.
There’s an anti apple or Facebook post just about every week too. Not all of these companies are equal, but there’s just a general pattern of crap over all big tech.

There are clear examples of carelessness or downright nefariousness (see FB), but there’s also a complete lack of government regulation.

They’ve had crazy growth or valuations in the past several years. There’s a lot of hateful sentiment driven by that, imo. People get jealous.

Amazon may have 1000s of misses among millions of customers, but those people are the loudest when it comes to writing their opinions.

I do think outlets like the Atlantic are inherently against Amazon and see Bezos being too powerful. These articles are less objective and more politically driven.

Just my 2 cents
Amazon's counterfeit problem has ruined it for me. Like eBay before it, it's mostly a place to window shop for me now. Despite the massive amount of work they put into their logistics, they seem to have no trusted supply chain.
On the other side, a $15 chisel set is essentially fungible as well.
> > I had a university assignment which would have been trivial if anyone in the class knew that fts.h existed.

> Never knew that one either. Not part of the C standard library I guess.

fts(3) is a BSD interface. It got introduced in 4.3BSD-Reno.
I found SoftMaker Office 2018 to work well in terms of compatibility with MS Office.
This is why the future of education is in the hands of educators - it will be less about where you go to school (Harvard) and more about WHO your professor was for a given topic. Think Seth Godin’s altMBA
Toptal, like upwork, but way better. Curated on both sides
synchronicity
Great teachers can ignite your passion or give you new directions that are hard or impossible to find by yourself.
>Wait, one of the reasons you've cancelled is companies that make media to get people to watch... make... MORE of it?

it's not a bad reason at all. I prefer to buy media that respects my time and does not painstakingly try to get me to maximize my engagement with the service, because that's probably not very good for me.
I've noticed the best "online" teachers excel in predicting what questions students will have and addressing them preemptively. I think the person behind 3Brown1Blue on YouTube does a fantastic job doing this. Throughout their explanations, they interject with things such as "Now, you might ask why I did it this way... well here is that reasoning" and then "but you also may have observed this and here's why you did".
In some ways, I feel like the ability to anticipate student's questions and hangups and respond to them is a far better predictor of their efficacy as an instructor than how well they understand the material or the quality of the lecturing.
Its interesting that they can just get away with this so easily and make it the consumers problem. im also wondering how often consumers dont know nor realize they bought something counterfeit.
It depends, i would not recommend this for all cases, as the article mentions it worked because this following things applied

1 you were already wasting your time when visiting the parents on fixing the computer

2 the parents were transitioned to the Linux cmpatible applications like Firefox,Chrome, VLC,

3 all the parents workflows were accounted for and were met by Linux

4 the switch is done to Ubuntu LTS and not some exotic distribution

5 training is done on how to accomplish the new workflows

If the conditions above do not apply then you should not attempt this, send them to a repair shop to format and reinstall their OS.

For some workflows that most parents do Linux is good enough, my parents only use the browser,FB and YT apps(on a tablet).
dannykwells' link has got all the good points for why a Jupyter Notebook is kinda disadvantageous, but what about the new Jupyter Lab?

It's not got support for simple code/header folding yet.
That's an issue.
You seemed to have linked to the C++ version only.

The C repo: https://github.com/RafaGago/mini-async-log-c
I'm not sure what you mean with the fear of water. I brought up rain as an analogy for something that happens no matter what your opinion of it. And if anything the people along the Rhein may soon have to fear a relative absence of water. But anyway yes, most of the European countries deserve compliments for actually taking action on the climate issue. I fear it won't be enough, but there's a chance it will be, and anyway at least it's something. The USA where I am, can't even satisfy the prerequisites. To implement a solution, you have to first reach a consensus about what reality is. Then you have to decide what actions to take based on that consensus. Then you have to put some adults in charge of implementing those measures. Then they implement them. The USA can't even get past step 1 ("What is reality?") because a kind of psychosis seems to rule the land.
I'd say this backs up the original point, because searching is what you do now instead of using the start menu. The huge alphabetical list of programs plus different-sized icons that make up the "menu" part of the start menu now is not so great.
I think it's ok not to know something to make a course for it. Even if only to learn it better. But I'd be careful given 2, pursuing this could lead to burnout.

There is an opportunity for anything infrastructure related.
It's getting so out of hand to the point where most products have all fake reviews.
My grandmother (100) just phoned me using FaceTime on her iPad. I find this insanely cool. She was born during World War 1, experienced World War 2 and is now able to enjoy modern technology to get in touch with her family. The only issue she has is accidentally touching the screen.