skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is called imposter-syndrome, and it basically is the opposite of bullshittery. All of us have insecurities about what they do -- our field is concerned with very abstract concepts and at the end of the day you have produced something of value (lines of code, a build system integration, maintenance on a legacy system), but you cannot touch it, feel it or have any relationship to it other than intellectual satisfaction.

This can lead to a valuation problem, where we find it hard to put a value on the work we actually do. We suddenly begin to doubt the whole process and our role in it. Its not unusual in tech, really many of us have the exactly same thoughts.

>> "the people who work at [X] are probably better than me"

Yes, some of them probably are. And some others are incompetent idiots. But most of them are neither here nor there and good percentage of them are asking themself the very same question (with X = {microsoft, apple, nasa, you name it...}).

The fact, that you are able to reflect on yourself, "can pass technical interviews" and "code for fun" is a good sign that you are probably not a bullshitter.
Am I reading it wrong or did LuaJIT take 113x as long as C?
I'm reminded a bit of O'ahu tree snails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oʻahu_tree_snail

They have brightly patterned shells, and each one is different. One hypothesis for why this is is that it deprives the birds that eat them of a consistent pattern to look for.
Looks like there's no sound in the channel.
Good observation. Not being busy is seen as being lazy in the US. Not working 10 hour days and commuting a couple of hours daily is seen as not being invested in your career. Not running your kids to two activities per night and all-weekend athletic tournaments is seen as being a bad parent. Then we spend money on stuff we don't need as a reward for being so productive, such a good employee, and such a good parent.

My daughter decided to stop playing Spring basketball, which entailed two 1.5 hour practices during the week and four games a weekend with travel involved. She made the very mature decision that she didn't want to sacrifice free time and friends to play a game. At first I was skeptical about her having so much downtime, but she's happier, doing better in school, and has a tight-knit group of friends. I'm enjoying it quite a bit too since I don't have to rush from work to drive her around and have every weekend tied up for months.

I have a feeling a counter-cultural movement is going to start. Maybe not yet, but soon.
If I'm not mistaken, Miguel himself said that Mono was meant for portability (can run on Linux) and not performance. Would be a far better test to use .NET Core as you could still run this test on Linux or any other place where Core runs.
self hosting gitlab feels completely untenable, gitea is a wonderful project.
Why is this comment being ghosted? It’s pure censorship. Dang or other admin, can you please explain what about this comment merits it being ghosted? Curse words? Expressing my desire to lawfully execute a traitor? (Snowden did tweet storm today fwiw)

This was the flagged top level post by me (aside: censorship of my viewpoint is a real problem, I didn’t say anything to merit having the comment censored):
Personally, the whole “Fuck the NSA” attitude elicits a vision of some liberal tech elite fancying themselves as true digital thugs, running the digital streets and wielding more power than the NSA had just a decade ago. My personal anecdote is that the social situation deteriorated significantly after Snowden in terms of digitally facilitated social tribalism.

Bulk collection of phone records is surely a bit of an anachronism in 2019, since anyone with criminal intent will be fully cognizant thanks to Snowden and team. More generally, many people, including all criminals of average or better intelligence, benefited greatly from Snowden’s disclosures.

Widespread strong encryption has made surveillance far more difficult. Clue the public into an unwitting shell game. It’s a fun time to be the mouse in the cat and mouse game.
Private interests with their own big data naturally will be inclined to do a freestyle rap verse on the “Fuck the NSA” EP, on limited edition vinyl. Easy to forget that the digital big boy playing field is diverse. It’s a free country, after all.

Naturally this comment will be downvoted mainly for difference in personal beliefs.

Also, if Snowden doesn’t tweet about this to celebrate the victory, perhaps he’s concerned that his time in Russia is running out and that he should hedge his bets taking such responsibility.
Offering Speed as a Feature
Font parsers are generally poorly written so avoiding untrusted fonts is more secure. Web fonts also slow down the web and are a privacy issue. All that for no gain because they are completely useless. I already have fonts on my computer and they are fine. That’s why I block web fonts.
!fq cockroaches
My main issue with things like this is security. I don't particularly want to be responsible for running Internet-facing services as a hobby. I would only consider it if they had a good track record and really solid story around security, perhaps including rapid automatic updates or a remote kill switch in case something critical is found.
The Documentary ‘Hail Satan?’
I’m currently working legit 65-70 hours per week. We have a hard stop that costs millions if we miss. It basically means 6am-6pm Monday through Saturday. I’m not as productive as when I work less but there is a net win in productivity. I don’t think I can do this for much more than a few months. I can already tell it has markedly harmed my health. Being stressed for months at a time is hard.
>I'm not saying that there aren't good reasons to buy a Tesla instead of Hyundai and had they cost the same then sure I'd buy a Tesla as well.

The MSRP on the base-model Kona is $36,950, which is a bit less than the $39,500 Tesla SR+, but not dramatically. The next level of trim above the base model Kona is $41,500, and doesn't seem to add any significant features (LED headlamps, etc., which Tesla already has.) The highest level of Kona trim is $44,900, which is only $5k less than the Tesla Long Range model! My suspicion is that, given the low production numbers, Hyundai is going to focus primarily on selling the more expensive models. In practice this means (with a few lucky exceptions) you're looking at Tesla prices to get a Hyundai.
Coming from a decade of app development experience. Both iOS and android have the capability of inlining styles as well as abstracting it into reusable bits. Flutter certainly supports it very well
In case somebody from Gitlab team is reading, a lot of people want to have runner priorities in gitlab - the feature seems to be trivial, yet can save a lot of time and money for the user for you can use less ondemand runners or give more work for more powerful runners

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12715#note_11...
I grew up in the town Niemann Foods, Incorporated is headquartered in.

If anything, this strikes me as a response to Hy-Vee's continued growth. Much of Harvest Market takes aims at design themes Hy-Vee has bee pushing for a decade now.

I wish NFI luck but given their struggles in their home market, I'm not sure this is the Hail Mary they need.
If no one fights off the Somali pirates, then no one can sail their shipping boats through those passages, and the US turns a net profit by fending off the Somali pirates because no one else can/will do it. That said, it still sucks that we're the ones that have to do it.
Hi, I work at a startup that's developing an influencer marketing platform. It allows you to manage the entire process: finding the right influencers, running and tracking campaigns etc.

It's currently in closed beta. Send me an email if you're interested (address in bio).
I didn't downvote. I am genuinely curious as it is one of the places I am considering moving and I know I don't know anywhere close to as much as I do about Boston.

I think everything is relative. If you compare housing in Boston to Seattle. Seattle looks brand new because the vast majority of houses in the Boston area were built before 1970 and there are a lot of original features you don't want in Boston houses. If you compare Austin to Seattle then Austin seems brand new because it is.

If the taxes in Washington aren't great than I am more inclined to just go to CA.
There's already a monkey selfie created by a wildlife photographer who set up a camera that monkeys could activate to try to get a picture of them. It's embroiled in a copyright dispute over whether the photographer or the monkey owns the photo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
>> Unfortunately, I think that to some extent, it signals that “I’m interested, but not committed enough to get a full degree.”

Commitment is rarely the barrier to a full degree. More likely barriers:

- Person wants grad degree but does not want to risk getting off career track and losing momentum (e.g., consulting, banking, etc)

- Person wants grad degree but cannot afford it

- Person wants grad degree but cannot afford child care

- Person wants grad degree but needs salary to support family

- Person wants grad degree and can afford it, but has competing time commitments such as children

- Person wants grad degree but has visa issues locking them into an inflexible job

- Person wants grad degree but work hours do not allow it

- Person wants grad degree but cannot afford to downgrade healthcare plan (in the US)

Speaking from personal experience, i did my graduate degree 15yrs after my undergrad. I finally semi-retired from Wall Street and was doing a personally co-founded startup which allowed me the flexibility to do a graduate degree in the evenings. My wife had to focus intensely on taking care of the kids in evenings and late evenings while I studied.
I feel like there's a joke about getting high that could be made here.
It sure looks that slow to me.
Instruction on stress management and anger management is driven by parenting and school environments, not by state-mandated education and mandatory stress management workshops.

If you see your parents constantly on the verge of bankruptcy and lay-offs, struggling to pay off medical bills and resorting to shouting as a stress relief mechanism, then odds are, you'll grow up thinking this is the norm.
I think we handle GMO's in the worst way possible in this regard, the ability to 'own' a DNA sequence seems insane to me.
> The balkanization of the web and walled gardens is to me the biggest issue that affects the most people for the worst, and while we constantly talk about the new technologies that could solve the issue if only there was a way to develop them, we ignore (I think often out of unconditioned reflex) that the issue could be fixed in a timely and reasonable manner by bringing the government in with a reasonable framework.

Balkanization is sadly inevitable — there will be multiple regulatory frameworks that address varying cultural norms around the world.
Ah, I didn't realise that - I guess that puts the kybosh on the possibility of Typescript :)
Machines should think. People should work.

That used to be a joke. Now it's the new normal.
Monkey Selfie Copyright Dispute
>That it is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable death isn't enough to justify the extremes of vitriol I see in the US.

Depends on what you consider vaccine-preventable. The flu kills far more, and increased adoption of the annual vaccine would have a bigger impact in reducing deaths than anti-Baxter’s getting measles vaccinations would.
I get around this by using netlify[1]. It's free, one simple TOML file, and has plenty of features that make it worth the extra.

[1] https://www.netlify.com
And to put this in perspective, the average agricultural household makes Rs 107172 annually, or ~1526.26 USD.

https://www.nabard.org/auth/writereaddata/tender/1608180417N...
I find myself not actually giving out my real credit card or debit card number to companies now a days. Everyone wants to store your card info but I can’t trust them to not have a security breach.

There is an app called Privacy. I just generate a one time use or locked to merchant card with a limit.
Very cool, has anyone tasked a painting robot with reproducing images generated from a neural network?
I've seen plenty of both, but nothing so far merging the two.
Full text search will be coming to ProtonMail later this year (already available using the bridge).
No joke this article came in rescue at the exact time. I don't know if you are aware of the "doomer meme" (painfully relatable) but there are this videos with gosh damn songs that makes you fall in bottomless pit with others and then in the comment section where people discuss their misfortunes. E.g video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TNVqOmJc-YY&t=2s

I think the only way I can fix this is too make videos too and gradually, just like the guy above said make them uplifting:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19743173. 1:48
Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 - Strauss and then uplifting music.
very true, running gitea myself for 2 years, easy to use, light-weight(one go binary to run, one minute painless upgrade with new releases), no memory/cpu pressure whatsoever(I host linux kernel tree myself, so yes large git is fine there too).
I don't think it's comparable. That link overstates the amount of evidence. Notably the only good trial didn't compare it to metformin. Three small trials and a meta analysis. There is decades of experience with and significant evidence for the efficacy of metformin.
I think it's pretty hilarious that as late as last year, Tesla's Autopilot page (https://www.tesla.com/autopilot) used to have the tagline "Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars" (especially at the time the median crash/death happened), but now they've changed it to "Future of Driving" and "[...] full self-driving capabilities in the future—through software updates designed to improve functionality over time." I really want Tesla to succeed and break the ICE monopoly, but when they oversell mission-critical features like that, I'm perfectly content seeing shit blow up in their face.

Musk is a brash and reckless CEO, no one should be surprised hordes of people are hedging for his downfall.
That looks fun! I'll run through it myself and see what it covers.
From the article:

> “If I came to you and said, ‘There are these things that can fly over our country with impunity, defying the laws of physics, and within moments could deploy a nuclear device at will’ — that would be a matter of national security.”

What is it about the military mindset that absolutely must see everything not 101% under their control as something potentially hostile? If these really are craft from other systems, then it's pretty clear that they have exceedingly superior flight capabilities. So, for me at least, the logical extension to that thought is: "if they're here for a fight, they'll win." Considering that they are harrassing military installations rather than the general populace (ie, they buzz pilots and military bases, but not cities), isn't it congruent that they're trying to send a message rather than inflict interstellar war? (If that's what they are)
Is that really a problem for things like movies and cars, though? When I watch a film, part of the fun is critically examining and discussing it afterwards. If I'm making a huge purchase like a car, I'd want to be extra-conscious about things I'm not 100% satisfied with. Sure, don't be critical about everything in life, but it has its place.
Did you try the bridge recently? The last update should have fixed this issue for large accounts.
Seriously, what did you expect. You order crap food from a crap business and expect there to be a non-crap experience? Further you use a card which is non-single usage.

The only smart way is to NOT order McDonalds food. All their food is crap and makes you feel crap. The only way you can disagree to this is if you're simply unaware their offerings are total crap because you have no food culture and are not at all in touch with your body.

Downloading specific apps for specific businesses are a security risk. Use their webpage or pay at the counter. Also when dealing with shady outlets like McDonalds, use a virtual card for single usage. Plenty of providers will offer you this.

Let this be a lesson. Eating McDonalds means you don't value your health and body and using a non-single use card with such a merchant is asking for trouble.

This also shows the danger of having a card where the merchant can charge you whenever they feel like. Anybody who goes around with a single card and registers it with multiple apps and merchants are at risk at having their account emptied at any time. In that regard bitcoin is a much better solution, as it's a push, not a pull transaction. Anyone who reads this comment and still behave like the author will not have my sympathy when they're robbed.
Raytracing is a pretty great place to apply pypy, you have a very heavy loop that will hit the JIT.

I've certainly seen speedups like that on stuff like project euler code.
There are two ways to have a status page.

1) A guy with a button. It's right, but it requires the guy to notice or get told - and remember to push the button.

2) Automation. But your automation has to somehow catch bugs that you can't even dream of. And not be triggered randomly. And somehow be able to be automated but not fixed at the source (as if you know how something will fail - why not just fix that over adding more status checks?)
Also true of people who spend 40 hours at their workplace, which is totally fine (and often necessary!) for most knowledge work.
Out of literally bajillion features GitLab provides from DevOps lifecycle to project management and everything in between, Lets Encrypt certificates is what will make you switch? Are you serious?
The one exception to what I initially wrote is if Mono was used to compile to native binary (which is what Xamarin apps for iOS do: compile to ARM binary). You'll get very different results if you go that route but that's going to require different compiler options.
Yes, using docker compose to ensure that all of the containers are connected to each other, or using minikube to simulate deploying a Kubernetes stack.

If your test scripts are running as part of the "before_script", "script", or "after_script" block, they aren't running in the network namespace configured by Docker in Docker and won't have the same name resolution, so you'll need to port map your Docker containers and your test scripts will need to use "localhost" and ports to connect to your containers.

If your tests are themselves run in a Docker container, it should work as expected.
People like to bring up the long hours that workers in Asian countries stay in the office or workplace for to justify long work weeks in North America and Europe when needed.

In practice, they drag out their work day (eat breakfast, take showers, go to the gym, go on their phone) and don't really work significant hours in the end. Their productivity in terms of economic value produced per hour is markedly lower than most western countries. [1]

Doing real work for 65-70 hours is markedly dissimilar and very detrimental to your health. Not even sure if most people could say they could last for a few more months.

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/09/11/commentary/j...
Yes, the "novel" idea is the split in the actual binaries/languages: Do the core on rust/c and the render on swift/kotlin/.net...
Oh, I forgot about intrinsics too! Those will be in .NET Core 3.0, so you'll be able to use SSE, AVX, BMI etc instructions!
Hi! It is actively being worked on, but it didn't make it into this release. It is scheduled for the 11.11 release, and we don't foresee it being pushed back any further. Thanks for your feedback!
Introducing Atlassian for VS Code: Bitbucket Cloud and Jira Software extension
One thing with it is the distance from getting a computer to compose anything to getting it to compose close to human level could be 90% of the distance to getting it to compose at a super human level.

Even several months before Alpha Go beat Lee Sedol there were people saying the AI could be good but never great. Now everyone admits it's super human.

I agree that getting really texture and subtlety in the work is really hard. However a really good system has the possibility to be better than any human has ever been, and IMO that's super exciting.
Ask HN: How do you manage local development with a microservice architecture?
I work at a fast-growing company, and we've moved to a microservice architecture over the last couple years. I'm beginning to observe a lot of waste with our engineers trying to get 3, 4, 5, or even more microservices to work locally on features unrelated to those services. I understand that the 'right' answer is to build software with few dependencies, but we didn't know we were heading here initially, so it's probably too late to rearchitect major pieces of the platform.

What are practical strategies you have used to reduce the type of waste I've described above? Thanks!
Proof of Propagation (2017) [pdf]
I've been on both ends of this story: as a developer candidate and as a manager willing to fill the position.

Story 1: test project for about 10 hours, done according to industry standards. HR asked to refactor it so the code base would be read-accessible via webserver. I've declined it as a bad practice, learned enough about the company.

Story 2: put 10+ hours into inventing interesting take-home case and writing spec, gave it to 5 candidates, gave every one of them a half-hour code review session, accepted the best one.

I am having fun while writing code and prefer to work with similar people. It's okay if you don't want to build a take-home project for me, there are lots of software engineers who will and it will be more fun to have them around.

And, by the way, you may chat with cook for hours about food, ingredients, sauces and hygiene, or you may ask him/her to just grill a steak right here and taste it.
there seems to be no analysis on why the size and dimension of the ball is chosen - very few games have balls that are not spherical.. seems too much human intervention in generating the Sport
I disagree. I use VSCode as a text editor, not an IDE. If I was going to stop using it, I would switch back to Sublime, not Eclipse/IntelliJ/whatever.
> … what the site shows most prominently…

Program after Program after Program.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Of course, it's really not possible to show any computer program which is not written in a programming language.

> … basically say that these comparisons mean nothing …

Obviously not: please don't put your words in others' mouths.

> … a lot of data that could be used for some really cool stuff…

Take the data and do that really cool stuff.

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame

> … but there's no information about the market aspects.

What do you mean by "market aspects" ?

> …it may be true for some specific benchmark entries and maybe even all current ones…

So it would be wrong to try to dismiss those measurements, based on nothing more than extrapolation about how some other toy benchmark program might perform.

> … cool stuff the game could do …

You're allowed your own personal opinion about what's cool and what isn't (and no doubt others will have their own personal opinion).
Against Digital Bullshit: “It’s a Carousel System”