skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is a tricky one if you are lacking in self-confidence or social skills. When I was younger I tried to be pleasant (or my interpretation of what I thought is pleasant) and came across as boring or a pushover. So I went the other way and became a jerk which I didn't do well either. Now I am a little more balanced but it took me decades to get there.

So I think the advice should be to be pleasant but also not to try to be liked by everyone all the time. Be a complete person with boundaries and be friendly as long boundaries are not crossed. Also have goals and don't be afraid to express them.
Humanity has truly lost its way if we’re weaponising beluga whales
Maybe... but more likely no, this is random luck.

What's sure is that you do not understand the medical system at all. I hope this poor man's family did not force him through too much suffering.

FYI clinical trials, despite what some would like you to think, are absolutely not designed to help those participating in it.

FYI 2: "average doctors" have to follow guidelines like everyone else. The "exceptional doctors" proposing "advanced new cures" are either dishonest or failed to communicate properly with their patient. It's always astonishing to me when I realize people think that practionners have such freedom in deciding their treatment plan. This is not how it works.
You mean like Bill Gates, who is spending billions on this? Or Jeff Bezos?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/28/gates-bezos-and-other-invest...
I don't know how many tv shows I've seen that go like this:

Boss: "You're fired!"
Worker: "You can't fire me, because I quit!"

I always thought that was an odd ordering.
So what is the moonshot failure rate now? 100%?
The logic is that you need to power the carbon extraction, and right now we use fossil fuels for power, so you wouldn’t be able to net reduce fossil fuels because you would be burning more than you extract.

I think it’s naive though. There is a theoretical point at which it’s economical to just build excess renewable energy production and use the extra power to repair the climate.
Why is it hard to fire employees? Workers have extremely weak protections in the United States. I never buy this argument. If google wanted to clean shop they can, other tech companies do it regularly (IBM, Oracle, etc).
> Avoid stuff that could cause irreversible reputational harm, or slow down a security clearance ... avoid saying stuff online that you could regret later.

Avoid jobs where it matters. A corporate drone cannot say what he wants, neither online, nor elsewhere, because the HR department could be watching. Ever since cashing out from my startup, I care even less about what any culturally-marxist corporate HR department may think about me.

> Reflect seriously on what problem to prioritise solving. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about global health and animal welfare.

No, don't waste your time on problems that you cannot possibly solve by yourself. Work on stuff in which you can make a difference.
> Where's the evidence that doctors see a 80/20 split in real life?

Cause they definitely don’t. Even in a select subpopulation - say, people going to a derm for screening - you’d expect one melanoma per 620 persons screened (as per the SCREEN trial). Since most people have more than one mole for evaluation, and even those with melanoma will have multiple innocent moles... a mole count >50 triggers a referral for screening, though in more cautious docs, possibly as few as 25...

If you wanna be really generous and consider our hypothetical high risk group to have an average of 10 moles per person, that’s 6209:1, not 80:20.
Apple's services are making more money than ever
I was on a carrier for a year, and we had a large number of false alarm Man-Over board events. The pilots were incredibly frustrated at the Navy's camo, because they would have to fly around looking for a blue sailor in a blue ocean until we finally finished counting everyone on ship. The reason the Navy has those is because they look cool and "carry the honor and tradition of the US Navy", the reason the military does most things. All in all, it gets kids fresh out of high school to sign up.
As a 52 year old Scottish person who's doing ok('ish), and typically in a Scottish fashion has no problem being forthright, I don't have a problem stating that for any normal human being in a professional career....this is mostly a pile of wank.

I guess my point is, sure it's nice to reflect on your <30 life, but no-one normal in their late teens and into their 20's needs to apply any of this bollocks.

Go enjoy your 20's, you never get them back again, they were the best years of my life and I did very little tech. You're likely never going to be Mark Zuckerberg or the Google twins (god forbid). If you do come up with a cracking idea (like the Stripe brothers) then go yourself, but this list is what is wrong with our industry when it comes to younger folks entering the biz. You don't need these crutches, you either got it or you don't. But I implore folks in their 20's to go get some life experience, and then develop a "life changing" or "disrupting" app.

And you know there's nothing wrong with being an expert mort, with a blog and now and again being invited to talk at a session on your favourite tech you got invested in.

Happy to answer questions.
Still waiting for the day when I receive a form asking for my consent for authorities to see private media I have shared with a friend whose device they are prying into.

Not holding my breath. They seem to have no clue that in accessing a user's device, they are also violating the privacy of that user's friends.
Also also, banks don't falsely claim "we're not fractional reserve" on their websites for years.
Read-only databases: https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/#Publis...
Google's Q1 was a $70B reality-check that it needs to finally make a big change
Stableishcoinish?
We don't know how well their watches sell. The headphones+watches number is surely dominated by headphones.
People in the US use car parking spaces for offices
I don't disagree. I place "pleasant" near "considerate." You can give bad news or disagree and not be a jerk about it. I think some folks are putting it too close to "make others happy."
I didn't downvote, but I don't see a bright line between me using the right tools and procedures to fix my phone vs having a third party repair service do it. I also don't think that a repair service is going to be more qualified in general than I am at the tasks I'm likely to undertake. (I'm no Louis Rossman, but I'm a fairly skilled electronics hobbyist; I haven't broken anything while servicing it in quite a while.)

If Apple is going to support a phone after a third-party repair (which I'm not sure I necessarily agree with), they should do it after I remove and reinstall a screw equally well.
Fully agree. This company is located near me and does this now: https://carbonengineering.com/

I’m not sure about the specifics of this new Prometheus startup or if their process is different.
If you are going back in time and wishing to set things up for success, there is usually a lot you can do to remove rather than add to your responsibility burden when you are young. Young people are often rushing to "make it" -- get the car, get the house, get the relationship, get the family, etc, etc. Once you have those things, your options narrow considerably.

While working for free is not an option that is available to a lot of people, I think the sentiment is still valid. No matter how many responsibilities you have in life, when you are young it's probably best to try to delay adding more so that you can spend some time exploring options that will be much harder to explore later in life when you are more established.
Fair enough, but keep in mind that Oreo cookies are a knockoff. But nobody thinks of them that way because they're the best known cookie of that type and usually the first cookie of that type that someone tries. It is the original in their mind.

If your customers are introduced to all of the products in your segment at the same time, they probably won't even know who is the "knockoff" and who is the original.

Also, when I think knockoff I think of some less than desirable product that isn't as good as the "original". Even after we know that Oreos are knockoffs, it doesn't change our perception of them because they make a high quality product that is desirable (if you're in their target market).

Many products that Apple makes could be considered "knockoffs" but again, most people don't think of them that way because they do an excellent job with design and use high quality materials.

It's probably a bit of imposter syndrome, but as long as your products are great then I wouldn't worry about going to market after a competitor.
> adaptive mandated warranty periods that better match the common sense expectation of how long a device should reasonably last.

Warranties are not really substitutes for being able to repair your own stuff, though, depending on your use case.

I personally find warranties less than useful, because to get a warranty repair, I'm going to have to go without the device for days and go through added hassle and often expense.

Then, what happens when the warranty period, even if reasonable, expires? Once again, you're on your own.

I'd much rather just fix the thing myself.
That's different, because it's a dynamic situation with another person at risk where clues could help recover that person safely.
Fixing Random, Part 26
You don't need to convince me, but when people in general have 2 alternatives and one is free while the other requires a recurring fee of $5 per month, that's a big difference. How would you even explain to laymen the benefits of choosing the one that's not free when it's not even more convenient? To most people, it's paying money to complicate their lives and that doesn't make sense.

Also, $5 being super-cheap is relative. If I was really strapped for cash, $5 would pay for nearly a week's worth of food. Some people can't spare that.
My guess is he hasn't gotten to scaling the text sizes yet. It looks like all the text is the same font-size.

I think in the Reddit thread, he mentioned having to draw each character (lower-case and upper-case) pixel-by-pixel for the display.
Definitely my favorite: https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/9988a06f-c7d1-466d...

Thank you for this.
A Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1k
> Facebook was the first social network where you can actually go and signup an account on your own

Myspace, Friendster, Bebo…
Barometric sensor works better that way, for one.
I'm beginning to realize that there are a lot of ordinary small businesses that do things through Facebook. I tried asking a mechanic what to do with my car, and they answered...on a weekend! No other form of communication substitutes. The same people don't seem to respond to email, and I prefer written communication to phone calls.
It Seems Like Alzheimer's but Peek into Brain Reveals a Mimic
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/how-a-major-cryp...
For anyone interested, I finally figured out how to run Rust on a local AWS lambda instance using SAM:

https://github.com/vishaldpatel/rust_lambda_sam_local

.. hopefully it'll save you some time =).
This article teaches little about freelancing as a swdev.

Seriously, "use git", "get paid" etc ?
In my mind it's a tell for how future interactions are going to work. Let's say I have a question or some issue with the space, am I going to get to have a normal human interaction or am I going to have to put in a formal request to some automated system and hope somebody responds?

I highly value the first kind of interaction over the second.
Macs brought in more money than iPads.

Despite being neglected, sold with defective keyboards, and macOS being maintained with a skeleton crew for years.

“The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.” — Tim Cuck

The Mac is still stronger despite Apple's constant neglect and self-sabotage. Mac, not iPad, is the future of personal computing. That iOS becomes more and more macOS-like proves it.
Are you actually rewriting HTML content, script content, and AJAX content to route everything (and rewrite things recursively) through your proxy, so that you can handle e.g. AJAX calls to api.destination.com which may be only CORS-enabled for destination.com but not desiredsite.com? I've had to build this type of thing before, and it's a massive pain to get right. Had been considering writing something for the generic use case in Cloudflare Workers. If this is along the lines of what you're doing, I'd be very interested in being an active alpha tester and providing active feedback. Hit me up at the email in my profile if you want to chat!
A Trump-Loving Town and Its Favorite Undocumented Immigrant
Exploring the Pros and Cons of a Cashless Society
You had me at “fattest pensions this side of the industrial revolution” lol
I'd guess that they don't want major retailers blocking their IP range.
"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."

https://twitter.com/cavalorn/status/654934442549620736
Ask HN: Do you think Google make ReCaptcha harder for users who block ads?
For the last few months, ReCaptcha has become really hard for me to solve... and some very important websites use this service, like my bank.

If often take me about 10 tries to get through their unpaid slave work.
If I'm in a bar with friends or colleagues, I also tend to drink at the same rhythm as everybody, but once I had enough (it can vary depending if I've eaten and if I'm tired or not, but generally around 3 pints), I will generally to stop even if other people around me continues.
Well let’s look at the more important number that is down. Net income is down year over year as are margins.

https://9to5google.com/2019/04/29/alphabet-q1-2019-earnings/
Next.js is server-rendered which means it includes a light weight node.js server that pre-renders your pages, you can export everything as an static website, but it's not really the main selling point.

I like to use next.js for small brochure-like websites. I think it's simpler for simpler things. But for a more full-featured content site I would chose gatsby.
Or you could just not interact with the people you don't want to interact with.

I don't think any transhuman has a vision of transhumanity where you are physically impossible to suicide or are forced to interact with certain people.
> Having technical documentation out there is very costly

How expensive is it to provide the ability to download PDFs?

> as is having parts logistics for consumers, especially if it's not your core business.

The manufacturer itself doesn't have to do this. It would be sufficient to allow third parties (such as, perhaps, the company that the manufacturer is buying the parts from) do it. That sort of thing would be in their core business.
It's a communal space. If they see me coming in to an open area as "disrupting" that's probably not a community I'm interested in anyway.

It's not like I was requesting to see a meeting room that was in use.
I'd remove the unnecessary animations when loading the images.
What is the general rule you use to distinguish

> ISIS sympathizers, Nazis, Stalinists, or pedophiles

from

> gay couples, catholics, or divorced mothers with three children

?

Without a general rule, it looks like you're just repeating whatever random confluence of social pressures led to your belief.

You mentioned inciting crime and civil discourse, but not every member of those groups will be doing that. Somebody saying "I like Stalin" isn't inciting any crime or violating any rules of civil discourse, yet you'll want them banned just for their belief. So there's something else you're judging them by that you're not saying. Personally, I think you're judging them according to their group stereotypes. It's particularly evident in your classification of pedophiles. Surely you know that pedophilia is a condition people just have through no fault of their own. Why punish people for their sexuality? I think you're confusing pedophiles with child molesters because you apply the stereotype to all of them.

> there is no need to be tolerant towards the intolerant.

Can you explain how that's not obviously contradictory? You must have two different meanings for the word tolerant. What are they?

Your argument about toxicity ruining forums is disproven by the lasting popularity of Reddit which uses subreddits to allow variety and keep offensive things isolated from general passers by. They are effectively an implementation of the personal filters I was talking about. It's also disproven by the internet as a whole which has both 4chan and Hacker News coexisting without turning the whole world off the internet because it's all toxic.

I'm not talking about breaking the law. That's a separate issue. I would be fine with companies just obeying the law. If I didn't like the law, I'd challenge the law, not the companies for complying with it. Really, they need to provide different filters for different countries, which they do. In some countries, promotion of homosexuality is illegal. You may think about these laws whatever you want, but the reality is that they exist.

> and all obvious trolls had "won" every argument.

Here you've admitted that your real intention is what I suspected. To control the thoughts of other people. You want everyone to conform to your personal political beliefs. You're afraid of free speech because people might be led away from the one correct set of beliefs that you personally have somehow been gifted with (despite growing up in a world with free speech). Don't you see the arrogance of that?

Anyway, my main point is that I think big social media companies have so much power over so many people that they should be required to give greater freedoms to their users than small forums are. Kind of like how anti-trust laws restrict the behavior of big companies but allow small ones more freedom.
Rich people are investing more in education and health
Why "absurdly" reductive?
>"What is now clear is that a lot of dementia is caused by gloppy proteins. We used to think it was just two gloppy proteins, amyloid and tau," Nelson said.

>The next step: Finding better ways to measure abnormal TDP-43 and diagnose LATE. (It stands for an unwieldy scientific name — Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy.)

https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/guidelines-proposed-newly-defin...
Searching for "TOTP drift" seems to indicate it's a problem. I'm personally not very knowledgeable, but I've used a few TOTP libraries, and I don't remember any actually recording the detected drift like the RFC recommends. At most they allow for some drift from the current time, but that's usually up to 1-1.5mins, so if the token drifts more than that, it won't work.
Are you French and your wife English-speaking? That’s what the OP article mentioned as “école horizontale”. The author lived in France for years but her family spoke English at home and thus her French proficiency never got great.

In my experience living abroad, the fact that so many people speak pretty good English is both a blessing and a curse. We could have a conversation in French but it’d be pretty boring. So my friends and I always speak in English but I don’t get better at French.
I guess it depends on the game being played. When I played C&C in the 90s over modem, the latency was huge but it wasn't a major concern for that type of game.

Now that I play real time sports, and I'm no professional, it still makes a big difference in my enjoyment of the game when I'm playing at home with ethernet and top tier internet service vs playing at my parent's house on wifi and basic internet. The lag can really affect my ability to play my best and it sucks losing because you don't have a low latency connection.

That said, I'm very curious to see what the latency will be, because if it's within a reasonable range it could be acceptable. Either way, I don't think even casual gamers will have a significant impact on their sales, but it will have some if the lag is too great for some of today's games.
>(god forbid)

AFAIK they are my ideal. They are the best founders in my opinion
Young people use it to interact with family. Their friends are all on other networks.
People aren't really binary like that ... "competent" or "not competent". It's all mushy and complicated. Some of the most competent people I manage at some kinds of tasks are basically a net loss at other tasks. The pleasant ones are lot easier to work into diverse tasks and get a "competent result" even if it is more messy than just tossing them a task an forgetting about it.
I find this website absurd. Is it really just articles by random people which give high-level advice on how to have a career? Because if so, most likely there is little coherence between any of these pieces, meaning that people will really just listen to whichever article they agree with.

Also, lot of this advice in particular, sucks:

"Reverse engineer the paths of famous people" - too bad these paths often start very young due to privilege and wealth, and also have huge amounts of luck involved. The two things you can't really control in this world: how rich your parents are, and how lucky you are.

"Avoid spending time to earn money" - what, like compound growth isn't a thing? I would much, much rather make $20 now than have to make $100, or $500 when I'm 60.

"Work to solve problems that aren't popular" - his/her advice is, work on an un-important problem because no one cares about it, so at least you'll make big contributions. But, ummm, no one will care. This goes common advice, which is to seek leverage in your role - that is, big effects through small contributions.

I could go on. This is garbage and just not redeemable.
Agreed, "ninja" came with a lot of dogs and cats (assumbly named Ninja). And "test" provides a weird assortment of not tests. I'd say filename keyword matching might be dangerous and some measure of image analysis should be made.
Most people don’t WANT to understand. If you try explaining it to them they just plain don’t want to hear it; it’s not that they are too stupid. Sure there are those people also; most just want to bury their heads in the sand.
> Why is it hard to fire employees?

Because when you are billions-of-dollars profitable, and you go ahead and fire a lot of people, it tanks morale, and good performers start looking for the door. (Note: This does not hold in the middle of a recession. We aren't in the middle of a recession, though.)

Because a company could be just as successful without XY% of its workforce, but nobody can correctly identify which XY%. (This one still holds in the middle of a recession.)

Because a lot of that XY% would be more productive, if they were instructed to do something that's more useful to the bottom line.
I've also seen weird controlflow using linenumbers, I pick an easy but common one. I don't expect that the program can handle all the cases and produce something sane. But most of the cases I saw are easily fixable with an enddo or endif.
Google is not going to sell every g*damn email you ever sent for $$$, but Facebook will and does. So there was never as much profit there for Google as for Facebook because Google was run more ethically.
I don't know about iPhones, but my current phone is a Galaxy that is pushing 7 years old. It is showing no signs of giving up the ghost yet.

My laptops and servers last even longer. I tend to get well over a decade out of them.