skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purposeful practice can take far less than 4 hours - that's the whole point. My youngest was interested in cello at 4, did some practice daily kind of, took years of lessons starting with fun exercises and games. He was 1st chair in state orchestra 3 out of 4 years, played as backup in local and state orchestras during Jr High and High School for money, and ultimately went to conservatory.

I credit 'purposeful practice' because he would work his way through a piece a phrase at a time in slow motion until he understood what it was trying to do. Once he reached the end of the score he'd not need it any more, he'd learned each phrase like a friend.

So did he have any gift? Was it all about practice? Well, ask his classmates in college and at conservatory, he was the best of them and they all did that and more.

I think its easy to see opportunity and money get someone into the elite class of performers, and say "See! Its not giftedness at all!" Yes there's a scale in that group (that outsiders may have a hard time distinguishing) that shows something is different among them.
I don’t think that time was more egalitarian. The Wright brothers are just an excellent example of innovation coming from people nobody expects it to come from. Even their methods were top notch.

Back then they had classes of people who thought innovation was theirs solely and we have that now too.
While I understand where you're coming from, consider that there were initially hundreds of thousands displaced; tens of thousands still to this day. PTSD, depression, and profoundly disrupted lives. Many lost everything, and many will never return home. From this one incident.

Edit : I am specifically replying to the phrase "the impact to human life is minimal" when referring to Fukushima. I am not comparing harm of nuclear versus harm of fossil fuels, etc. Fukushima's consequences were, and still are now to a very large number of people, including displaced, farmers, fishermen, and even the effects on commerce and relations between Japan and neighbouring nations ( Taiwan's food ban, etc ), anything but minimal. How much cancer cases increased is not the relevant measure point here.
This is my biggest issue with typical proposals for a blockchain. If the proposal requires trusting a central authority, it's just a ledger, and might as well be a database. Less complicated, faster, albeit not as cool on your resume.
On 2 and 3: aspartame metabolizes into the amino acid phenylalanine, a precursor to dopamine and epinephrine[0]. In normal people, breakdown of the upstream neurotransmitters increase when phenylalanine increases, meaning there are no negative effects from it's consumption. It does not store in the liver.

There are some diseases that involve a malfunction in phenylalanine processing, like phenylketonuria[1] and hyperphenylalaninemia[2]. It would not surprise me a bit if people with subclinical forms of hyperphenylalaninemia self-medicate with diet soda to feel better, particularly energy drinks that come with other things that aid in dopamine synthesis. Disfunction in dopamine synthesis often affects other things like NO synthesis, affecting blood pressure and inflammation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame?wprov=sfla1

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylketonuria?wprov=sfla1

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperphenylalaninemia?wprov=sf...

Edit: changed serotonin to epinephrine, as phenylalanine is not a precursor to serotonin.
Sure but what Garrison never told us is that there is a rigorous application process to be selected to live in Lake Wobegone.
The content is completely irrelevant, s/he only showed dislike of the indentation with which I disagree. What does it matter whether or not it says "I love you"? Should we not be able to criticize any other aspects of code when it prints or displays something positive?
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Is there anything like that for Windows?
We don't even have to do that. Just compare humans to mice or fruit flies or nematodes. Genes make all the difference there. If people can accept that genetics cause the huge variations between species, why not accept the small variations between individuals? Why this "100% nurture" fundamentalism?
Aaron Swartz & Jason Scott More people like them is what we really need!
Another problem with the A380 is that although it could run more passengers through the same number of gates, airports had to rebuild the gates to accommodate the thing.

On economy long-hauls, I appreciate every config I've been on; they're roomy and the effective cabin altitude is very comfortable, so it makes flying easier.

That said, I think aviation needs to invest again in supersonic flight. I wouldn't care so much about comfort if I could take my 18-hour flight and bring it down to 10. I don't know the economics of it, but flying on a smaller, faster, higher-altitude aircraft would be more comfortable. Planes haven't really gotten faster since the dawn of the jet age.
Why do you think there is no circle and no triangle display?
The norm in the industries you quoted is certainly not to judge the quality of the product before it exists. I don't recall Anantech or GamePro (RIP) or Motor Trend ever reviewing a product based on conceptual specs and concluding something like "Yep, excellent work, says it has a powerful V8 and a 6-speed but gets 60mpg- awesome, we're done here boys!". If we could just compare vehicle spec sheets, there would be no need for automotive journalists to drive the cars or do long-term reliability surveys. We'll see how it goes for Rivian, but to say "Rivian makes superb trucks" when they haven't made a single street-legal vehicle yet is a hell of a jump.

Re: your Porsche comment, I'm not sure what you're getting at. You could indeed say a 1965 Porsche 911 is a superb car, because 1. it actually exists in production form and 2. the public (and automotive journalists) have had the chance to drive and judge it for themselves. Not so for Rivian, which again, has yet to produce anything but concept cars. If you're comparing a 1965 911 against a 2018 Corolla, you're just being silly. Vehicles are compared to other vehicles in the time in which they were introduced. No reasonable person is judging a 1965 vehicle by 2018 standards.

Anyways, I'm looking forward to seeing what the production version of these trucks look like. It sounds like they've got some heavy hitter investors on board so hopefully that translates into a solid final product that delivers on the claims they've made.
No, because there is more than one thing to be good at. One may be above average in piano, another in cello. One may excel at baseball, another at chess. All may have some exceptional performance.
The Winners of the World Data Visualization Prize
Eminem was the defendant

This is the opposite of the plaintiff winning
This sentence, when talking about support for old enterprise versions, is a bit suspicious:

> Satellite will not use newer versions of MongoDB that are licensed under SSPL.

So my read is that there is not only an intention of database consolidation, but also a desire of avoiding the SSPL.
Write it in C, there, problem solved.
Usury is simply forbidden in civilised parts of the world. Just sayin'...
Sure, advertising could have played a role. My point is that none of that advertising was actually necessary.
1. Frei Otto. (not Frie)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frei_Otto

2. He did the Olympic Stadion in Munich

(Yup, the Soap Films)

http://stadiumdb.com/pictures/stadiums/ger/olympiastadion_mu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympiastadion_(Munich)

3. I live in a house created (in part) by him, the Ökohaus Berlin

https://www.the-offbeats.com/articles/building-together-the-...
I'd be curious to hear more about this. Is there a certain time of year, is there a certain area you need to stay, what time of night, etc. Feel free to shoot me a link if there is already a good resource explaining some of this

The Northern Lights have been on my bucket list as well for quite some time but have always let the seemingly random chance of actually seeing them dissuade me from really planning something.
The linked CNN article is a very poor summary. It doesn't even include a proper citation, and the link to the study isn't directing to the one being discussed!? Come on, CNN.

I recommend reading the editorial in Stroke instead:
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.02...

And you can get the article here if you have access to Stroke:
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.023100
Maybe it is just me, but I am getting tired of cute names for projects.
lsof is easy to remember (list open files), I like that.
Thanks, Lenny Henry's nuts.
Came across this the other day. Does anybody use this and what do you think about it?
Funny thing though - home schooling so easily beats the institutional kind, you don't have to be very good at it to school very bright children.

Further, if the teacher at school with their class of 30 did nothing but tutor the students, each student would get 10 minutes (in a 5-hour school day). You as a parent can beat that the 1st 11 minutes of your home-school day. That leaves you hours of the day for moving ahead of the classroom.
Meanwhile somewhere else there's a thread from a startup founder asking how to hire developers for less than six figures / SF market rate. Remote is the future, people!
"But despite the fact that innovative cultures are desirable and that most leaders claim to understand what they entail, they are hard to create and sustain. This is puzzling."

I really don't see how this is puzzling.. there's plenty of people living in denial, sure, but there's whole a load of people who understand intellectualy how to do all kind of things: lead a happy fulfilling life, bring up your kids in a healthy way, be physically healthy. Knowing things is really overrated.
This is interesting to me because it's an example of the other side of the "Electron" argument.

`lsof` exists in Linux. At least, my Ubuntu 16.04 has it. So if this were an Electron UI, would we instantly have a Linux version as well? Or is it not that simple?

I do really enjoy the look and feel of this mac version, though.
I guess it's because other scientists and studies say low-calorie sweeteners can lead to weight gain or increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, and in lab experiments aspartame exposure lead to increased lymphoma and leukemia. It's not that obvious which study is right and which maybe had a flawed methodology, or which is the result of correlation rather than causation.

A random example that does not definitively settle anything but is enough to make you keep asking the question [0].

And one common sense argument is that many people consume way more diet sodas than they would regular ones. Since they have no sugar and almost no calories the assumption is that there is no danger to consume more of them, they are "healthy". Since artificial sweeteners have their own sets of risks in mechanisms that are perhaps even less understood, suddenly this assumption is that more dangerous. It could be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1038/oby.2008.28...
The A380 and 787 use exactly the same aircon packs, just more of them in the former case.
For me Google Cache was helping out under similar circumstances (also tried the Archive first, but apparently Google Cache was [at least back then] more up-to-date).
Tim Geithner was Obama’s treasury secretary.

Are you curious what he does for a living now?

He is President of a payday loan company.

Hope you’re proud of yourself Tim.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/private-equity-firms-are-the-ne...
As well as sarcasm, emphasis, irony, puns....

I really like this sentence from Douglas Hofstadter: "Every word in this sentence is a gross misspelling of the word 'tomato'."

There are so many ways a translator could go with that.
When the point in point to point systems are big enough, they are equal to hubs in hubs and spoke system. When there are tens of millions people in one spot and airports construction is limited due to land price, that's a hub.

IATA estimates point to several new 100m airports in 10-15 years.
So it looks like this was posted but had no comments at the time, but thank you for introducing me to that feature which I hadn't noticed before.
All-cause mortality is a pretty common way to look at “side-effects”, especially when it is not clear exactly what they might be.

These do need to be interpreted carefully though, lest you end up concluding that a drug increases your odds of getting into a car crash or something. There could be a causal link—maybe the drug causes drowsiness or affects vision—but it could also be noise....5% of the time happens 5% of the time, after all!
Yes, Process Explorer from Microsoft’s free sysinternals tools.
A cover on your webcam is not 'paranoia'. Just because a reporter is a terrible hacker does not mean your webcam is safe. How the author even arrived at that tortured conclusion boggles the mind.
I beg to differ that this site is dedicated only to software engineers. There are lots of marketers, designers, and other "business" types that visit - I'd wager that half of the visitors don't know how to code.

Therefore, my use of "average" is a pragmatic usage that gets the point across better, even if it's not technically correct.
I had contemplated doing a slightly more ethical version of short, small-dollar loans (10 weeks and max $500). I initially wanted to do it for a small 5% fee, and it paid out over 10 payments, with no additional fees or anything like that. But I couldn't make the numbers work with any amount of default rate.

Also the statistics on default for the payday loan industry are muddy at best (its claimed to be around 6%). But, victims tend to pull out one loan to pay back another instead of "defaulting", or paying the fee/interest portion of the loan every week to keep out of default.
Unfortunately I do not believe there is any law that you could pass that would stand up to judicial scrutiny that would ever solve this problem. Desperation has a way of overcoming all logic and reason.

That said.. you could always tax the snot out of them. If the lender had to pay a 55% tax on any money they loan out... but that would probably kill all sorts of other good loan markets, like cars and retail.
Thanks for the 10^-13 thing. It makes sense.

As for shadowbanning... all I want to say is this. IMNSO opinion, whoever chooses to comment on places like this or like Reddit is an highly impolite, because that's what blogs are for, and commenting is allowed on my blog (moderated, so one wouldn't see a comment right away).

I am sick of people ranting here or on reddit like: "oh, look of what crap some guy is saying somewhere," or "he's wrong wrt to this thing" ... but why on Earth aren't such comments made AT THE ORIGINAL BLOG POST?

If and only if the OP deletes your comment, only then posting here makes sense: "that narcissistic guy didn't accept comments, so I'll put them here: blah-blah."

I can't understand you, people.
> They might well be making a loss at $5!

Yeah that's what I said?
Right! Good point! The study should not be per-person risk, but per-bottle risk to answer that question. How much more does one can of diet Pepsi put your health at risk than the regular kind? Its the question we must answer when faced with the soda cooler at the gas station. But the study gives a different, not-very-actionable per-average-person-lifetime answer.
Wow, people don’t like Finn? This is not sarcasm, I am truly surprised. I thought he was a fantastic rebirth of the Han Solo ethos. I love him.
Agreed. Make it easy to help.
While learning design, I collected 100 design tools. Please add what's missing:
Nearly 100% of the spam calls I get on my cell phone in the past few years are to the actual cell phone number (which I've never given anyone), not the GV number. :(

Sadly, I'm not aware of a good way to filter these out.
Thanks Timmy.
Gift for boyfriend ideas
If there is anything you need as a founder it is self confidence. Bryan is right that it takes teamwork to do great things, but first you need to convince others to follow your lead. People with good self confidence contribute success to themselves and failure because of things outside their reach. It however helps to have a healthy dose of self awareness, and have both feet on the ground (metaphorically).
The World Below: Time-Lapse – Earth 2 (2018)
I've noticed many YouTube channels promoting their brand heavily. Has anyone used their service? Thoughts/experiences?
Yeah, just looked up Umar Farooq, the guy heading this. He's ex-McKinsey... Says it all really.
I was expecting some ncurses-based interface
Process Explorer for files, but I'm not sure about sockets.
* Payday lenders charge fees that automatically incur interest. There's usually a fixed application fee, and there's a penalty for paying off early. Both of these are designed to reduce the amount going out the door while increasing the principal.

* Selling their debt is quite profitable for payday lenders, so they are incentivized to make bad loans.

* Logically you can't pay a payday loan back of you're living paycheck to paycheck.

* Payday lenders nearly universally skip around federal and state regulations by incorporating in Indian tribal areas

Most people do payday lenders and installment lenders together. While there are bad players in every market, the competition/state/federal oversight in the installment space makes it a much better behaved industry.
Here we might be able to get a glimpse into part of the problem that the US is having with its immigration system, that certain jobs are linked directly with certain immigration status (in a sense of semantic interdependence). And thus, whenever someone who is a current US citizen loses his job, entirely (e.g. layoff) or partially (e.g. wage cut or reduced working hours), then an assumption based on equivalence arithmetic can easily arise for him that the part of the job he loses would be occupied by another person, who is very likely an immigrant, due to that 2nd degree link (from his perspective in reasoning) between job and immigration status. But the root cause for his job loss can be much more complicated (if we thinks a bit harder), and more real, than someone who was born in another country and fresh-off-boat took that job away (or stole, if the process was not a concrete thing that could be touched or seen)...Then suspicion, hatred, and sometimes even aggressiveness naturally follow...

But the job market, in its traditional sense, can still shrink, as long as there is increasingly more automation and growing average productivity in our society, even if we chase away all the workers born outside the United States who are not US citizens, and build a wall to create a certain physical separation between us and them. But would we hate and become aggressive towards our new machines and our more productive way of working? Sometimes we would...But it's still much easier to do that towards a living person, especially when he is more vulnerable, legally, than us on our land...

Perhaps the most interesting point here is whether such exclusion, expulsion or isolation could eventually solve our problem...Admittedly, they really work sometimes, for us, and for certain other nations throughout the history, for this or other problem or "question" -- and this indeed is our problem (or at least we have a share in the overall situation) -- and perhaps it's not our responsibility to worry about what that would leave those who are not the "same" as us to...

But is this really the best solution? And best in what sense, and best for whom?
The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of OSS Devs. Is That Sustainable?
Learn marketing, not "business". You're going to quickly get bored if you try to learn about "business", a lot of it won't apply to you.

Marketing is the highest leverage skill you can learn. Find an old course called "Magnetic Marketing" by Dan Kennedy. Listen to it at least 3 times (it's not that long). Trust me.
Show HN: Minos Hypervisor v0.2.2 Released
Sloth sounds like if you tried to pronounce lsof.
Interesting, because for a lot of history laws against usury were actually pretty common:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury
Regulations are always going to be "too broad" to magically work if enforced by people who haven't got your best interests at heart, the solution is neither to try to imagine some hypothetical regulation that is "narrow enough" nor to give up regulating and wring our hands at the consequences as unregulated capitalism cheerfully kills us all to make a few pennies more, but to get _good regulators_

The UK has a lot of white collar crooks who'd really rather you didn't know what they own. Companies House, the regulator and list of all companies incorporated in the UK, was told wink wink to get them to list the actual Human People who control them.

Unsurprisingly in practice the result is full of obvious lies (corporations listed instead of Human People for example) and omissions (companies that claim there is no-one controlling them when obviously they're actually run by a Russian oligarch who suspects his name on the paperwork might make life trickier)

When asked about this Companies House says alas, it doesn't have the funding needed to ever actually prosecute anyone for violating the law. Too bad.

But it turns out they did find enough money to prosecute exactly one person. The person who registered bogus companies with the names of politicians who allowed this bullshit to happen as the Human Persons controlling them. That person, unlike all the tax evading billionaires, crooks, and mass murderers known to be violating the law, got prosecuted...

The _wrong_ lesson is that we shouldn't have asked. The _right_ lesson is that the government is complicit and its regulator needs to be run by somebody who isn't there to cover for the bad guys.
I'd prefer a translator that just gave me the words and sentences. As a receiver of that information I can learn to do my own interpretation. Imperfectly and only after some thought and experience, but at least the translator won't be 'in the way' changing the message.
McCabe says he ordered the obstruction of justice probe of President Trump
There is actually quite a few fume evenths monthly, and a rather concerning report[1] from one of them.

[1] http://avherald.com/h?article=4b6eb830/0006&opt=7168
Not sure I see the distinction here?

I mean, if you want to invent a flying car, if successful you'll be the inventor of the flying car, and your obituary will say so.

The question just seems like a roundabout way of asking "Tell us how your startup idea is going get huge and stay huge for ages"