skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a personality trait, not easy or even possible to overcome. But it gets better with time as you gain experience. For instance, talking with your supervisor may be hard now, but will certainly be easier in six months. And in two years, your supervisor may be the one asking you questions and seeking your expertise. And you're not alone in this. Some people may appear very confident, and as you get to know them better you realise they are struggling too.
Considering the spotty nature of updates as it is... I'm not sure I buy into the idea this is a dramatic change as far as risk goes.
Slimbox 1.6 is now open source
>And nor the goverment or the majority of the population seem to bother what China is doing.

I think this has a lot to do with the, "It doesn't effect me, so its not my problem," mentality that is still pretty prevalent in the globalised world.

As the lyric goes, "Credulous, at best, your desire to believe in angels in the hearts of men."
My first time doing recursion was implementing an indentation level calculation for showing threaded/nested child comments in a mailing list display UI, one of my first web apps. The mysql table I had populated had an id and a parent and I just repeatedly queried the db for any objects that had the current item as parent, depth-first.

I didn’t realize that it was a threshold moment, and I didn’t even know if it was syntactically legal or allowed for a function to call itself (I had no formal CS training) but I remember struggling with the “how much should these child elements be indented” problem and eventually trying it and it worked; it was quite a rush for 14-year-old me.

Maybe try implementing something simple and straightforward that uses it, like a web front end that displays a directed graph of nested comments/message replies?
Why is it surprising? There’s a combination of blindness, and inflated sense of self worth. America romanticizes the “self-made man”, and so any help is discounted. (Famously, a $1M family loan in 1975 (4.8M in 2019 dollars) was described as “small”.) Not coincidentally, these is a strong correlation with ascribing their success to a meritocracy, even though luck has been repeatedly shown more influential factor in success.[0]

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/40510522/meritocracy-doesnt-exis...
I just don't think there is enough evidence to believe his story.
> There is something about tackling things you DON'T want to do, and getting satisfaction from having accomplished doing it.

It's even better than that with regards to exercise. I've been forced to ski by my girlfriend. I've hated it for the first 5 days, I was terrified for my life, literally. I wrote a 10 page document on how not to die since my braking and turning weren't really reliable.

Yet, every evening, despite having some muscle fatigue. I felt more in touch with my body than ever. I was more flexible, more alert and quicker in my body movements. This made me feel happier.

I've also noticed the same thing with cycling vs. going with the metro to work (I'm in Amsterdam, no excuse to not cycle). I never think about cycling in terms of fun or not fun. But I noticed a marked difference in my mood while I arrived at work if I'd be going with the metro.

There's also neurological evidence for this: exercise makes us feel better.

So I want to extend your claim to: if you exercise in a reasonable fashion, you are biologically bound to feel better afterwards. It doesn't matter how you felt about it before or what your opinions of the exercise are.

One tip to get a bit easier into it: always do a warmup with an exercise that you don't hate. For me that'd be running.
Wonderful reminders of point by point what also makes me happy and unhappy. The partner dependency is a huge one for me, knowing how to say no and doing my own thing hurt who it may hurt. There’s a danger that overly dependent and insecure partners start severely limiting your world perspective and opportunities because they don’t want to engage socially or have the motivation to pursue their own hobbies. Don’t let that stop YOU!
Defining value and self esteem based on our skills and abilities (either work-related or not) is one of the main causes of burnout.
I'm not sure I agree on the last part re: LineageOS et al. They've not failed, they don't gain traction as it's more difficult to install them (in the case of aftermarket firmwares) due to having to gain root. For Purism or hardware+os combos, then they've not got the same market share or share of mindset. If a big player made a (truely) open Android, I'm sure there would be people all over it. If they went down this path, it may actually open up the Android ecosystem. (then again, the hardware still probably wouldn't be completely open)
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Yeah, so fast-growing lettuce, kale, herbs, radishes, carrots, peas, and green onions would be the order of the day.
Much shorter and general headline concerning the type of problem:

Complexity Is a Security Risk
the US cannot disclose why as that would disclose capability used in detection that would teach the others how to circumvent it.

I for one support the decision and would rather have my data and whereabouts in the hands of the USA rather than CHINA.
I wonder why we don't have them at every level.

If we make it legally mandatory to put such a filter in every house then it will often get clogged and cost money and people will learn not to flush down the waste in toilet.

I read somewhere that people learn best when mistakes cost them money.

Imagine hotels having a massive filter then some might want to install sensors in individual drainage pipe coming from the individual units and charge their customers based on the amount of waste they flush down the toilet which ends up costing the money to hotel on subsequent cleanup.
What was the book of 5000 geometry exercises? I have students who could benefit from such a thing (and I might too!).
>> A disengagement doesn't necessarily mean that the car would have crashed.

Conversely, lack of disengagement doesn't mean that the car is driving safely. There is simply no way to know how close to an accident a car came, without the human driver having to take control.

Like I say above, disengagements don't really tell us anything about the car's real world driving ability. They're just a silly proxy mandated by bureaucracy, and only a very weak measure of real progress.
Why would they want to as it is just Huawei?
This is hard. I know; I struggle with it too.

Many people struggle with it. I imagine your director has struggled with it in his lifetime. I mention these things to point out that you are not alone in this.

For me, I fake it. I've practiced pretending people like to meet me and talk with me, and that they consider me a good friend and valuable colleague. This kind of pretense helps me see beyond my own fears. It helps me see myself reflected in their eyes: that they see me as plenty good enough.

You are plenty good enough too. Seriously. Try to look at yourself reflected in others' eyes so you can see that.

Good luck and strength with your struggle. It gets better!
For mobile telecom equipment:
1 Huawei
2 Ericsson
3 Nokia

How helping out 2 of the largest actually competitive companies in EU to gain more market share in US threatens EU security is beyond me
There is an arguement for making sure a company controlled by an outside state that cannot be trusted has nothing to do with providing important infrastructure, in fact it makes sense that this is monitored and perhaps somewhat produced by the local government to ensure maximum security.

However it’s something else entirely when a ruling given under that premise effectively knocks out that companies other businesses. I have a feeling this is more to do with Trump’s trade war than overall security.

Stopping Huawei getting android licenses effects it’s global business, it has nothing to do with the security of the communication network in the US.
The definition of Kilogram based on Planck's constant takes into effect today
The good news is that Huawei already sucked at making security updates and even claimed to have updated, but hadn't, so it's no huge loss.
https://www.wired.com/story/android-phones-hide-missed-secur...
Good luck hearing anything from EU.

EU should get permission from US to buy gas & energy or who to deal and business with, such a joke!
One method to achieve more self-esteem: Do more things you are proud of and less of those that you are not proud of.

Second method: Invest effort into yourself.

But the "effort" has to be something that actually takes work, courage or frustration, and it must not be something immediately gratifying or distracting. The reasoning is that in experimental behavioral economy, the worth of something is determined by how much energy a subject or animal will exert to get it. You are the animal, the "something" is "your self worth" and then you have to find a way to expend energy towards your self. Your subconscious will over time learn from these examples that you value yourself.
Human beings are hierarchical animals. Those on the top are happier, calmer, and better adjusted. Thus, to be happy, you must have more self-esteem. It is really a snap-out-of-it kind of thing. Imagine you are on the top of that hierarchy and you are instantly tricking your brain into being happier, and from there you will act such that you will soon arrive at the top. I recommend finding videos of confident people you would like to become, and step into their shoes. Not being someone else, but by osmosis see the world through their eyes. Your self-esteem has nothing to do with your abilities or your achievement. Please do not confuse the two. Good luck.
> By order of the American government, Google must now end its Android support for Huawei.

Google will continue to support existing Huawei phones.
There is a fourth group of people who used to build desktop apps applying the same approach to building webapps (no server generated HTML, treat the DOM as a retained mode widget set, and have a pure js data model). Two examples of this are JupyterLab and VSCode.
+1 for Vivaldi
I dealt with many of these same situations by thinking it through. Often when I am in a new, challenging situation, I ask myself this: is there anyone dumber than I am who is succeeding in this situation?

The answer is invariably yes. That means that I can deal with it through sheer force of will and hard work. It helps knowing that.

For example, you say you are a good coder. That’s wonderful. It is something you can be proud of, and you should internalize it. Even if you can’t, I bet some of your peers who are not as good at programming as you are can do pretty well when they are talking. So that shows you it really is possible even for less competent people to excel in your situation.

As far as being uncomfortable when talking to people, what I do is practice all possible versions of the conversation before it takes place. I come up with objections that I think the people I am talking to might have, and I figure out how to answer them by simulating the situation in my mind in real time.
Recently I just discovered something that made a big difference in improving my self esteem: a good posture. Just by being more mindful about my posture I have seen a big increase in confidence. This may help:
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/common-posture-mistake...
How does OnePlus's Oxygen OS fit into this? I believe it's based on Cyanogen, which is an open version of Android which, if I recall correctly, was not allowed to distribute the proprietary parts of Android.

So doesn't a big, open version of Android already exist there? Or is it just as tied to Google as stock Android is?
Getting my personal data out of Facebook
I agree, and would go a step further to say that the response to PG is woefully exaggerated. The fate of the poor is truly deplorable in the US, but that doesn't mean that every conversation about risk, opportunity, and entrepreneurship has to rise to the defense of the disadvantaged.

PG is saying you don't have to be rich to launch a successful startup. By this, I believe he means private-school, summer-house, frequent-flyer-miles-in-your-early-20s rich. I would contend this is at least 90th-percentile rich for US households.

His critics suggested he be sensitive to those who literally have no safety net, and could not move back in with their parents if it all came crashing down—I would contend this is at most 40th-percentile "rich" for US households.

Can we cut the guy some slack and let him speak to the 50+% of people in the middle? Honestly, that's undoubtedly where the bulk of his target audience resides—people who'd like to launch a startup but worry that they're not sufficiently privileged to do it.
Here's another part of the story. Huawei were not able to show what they used to build their software. When they tried, the end result did not match the source code they said they were using: https://commsrisk.com/interpreting-huaweis-failed-uk-securit...
Registering a company in the UK, and keeping it running, is both simpler and cheaper than in the US.

Registering a company takes a few minutes and costs less than $30. Compulsory annual filing costs less than $20. If your company's revenue is below some threshold, you don't need to register for VAT (similar to sales tax). And there's another (even higher) threshold below which you can file very simple annual accounts (unaudited, and including neither income statements nor cash flow).
The UK and quite a few other places require gig economy operators to register as an independent business.
I don't disagree, but I think the perspective is a bit weird. Especially this part:

>But the fact that the market power of the Americans has such a big influence is our own fault. European governments have failed to create framework conditions to create competition here as well. If you know which parties in Europe are in charge, it is not surprising.

Europeans have been specifically willing to let the US and China dominate these markets. Most of Europe literally relies on the US for their security with NATO. Many of our companies have been sold to China, or are manufacturing in China. Of course we can't have our cake an eat it too. (Unless it is something like this that you meant).
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Idk, it seems to me that PG is just wrong about this. Not categorically and in every single instance, but on the whole. It's like saying women are physically stronger than men, and pointing to some woman who is clearly an outlier. You could word it less strongly and say that some women are stronger than some men. But then what would be your point?
that's a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19956878 which is 3 position above.
In a single company, not country.

Any country can influence the local company and if you do business with the company then there you go.
I think the author agrees with you: the installable AOSP-based distributions are currently inconvenient, but they could potentially become more convenient and popular given more support.
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So I guess I was pretty condensed in my post:

> mindless automatically-generated

the 'mindless' is: solving is mindless application of heuristics/solving rules & the challenge is not to complete the puzzle but to do it in minimal moves/time.

The author's puzzle is too hard to solve mindlessly & then doesn't generate goodwill the way a hand-crafted stumper does in the puzzlescript-type games
Chinese investment in Latin America increased by $15B in 1st half of 2018
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Depends, Oneplus are growing but at 2% of share, whereas Huawei have 10%. Versus previous year of 1% and 8% respectively.

(source: https://www.androidcentral.com/oneplus-breaks-top-five-globa...)

Ancedotally I've never seen any Oneplus advertised on any traditional media here in the UK. Huawei, lots.
Have you ever worked on the same project for more than a year?

That's the sort of timescale where you notice quick hacky solutions come back to haunt you later. Sure you will deliver things quickly at first, but when you do have to modify things, or fix your own bugs it becomes a nightmare.
They are. From all the data I can see, property values for almost all areas in the Northeast and Rust Belt in general are declining (in real terms), except for certain few rich areas in and around the big cities that the richer populace is “escaping to”. I’m writing from mobile, but compare the Fed’s analysis for home prices by state.

Even Buffett says he’s looking at state finances when deciding investment options, and if he’s saying it, surely other organizations are too. It will be a gradual accelerating decline though (barring effects of natural disasters), since people don’t just up and move.
Yes, EU kind of 'outsourced' large part of technical platforms to US much like what happened to NATO (many european countries don't have real military forces to speak of and rely on US armed forces for protection). EU has no search engine to speak of. European antiviruses are a joke. There's no european 'office suite' that I know of. Should the United States apply the pressure, Europe has very little to counter the pressure with.
I haven’t seen it mentioned here but isn’t childhood nutrition and things like getting enough iodine, avoiding exposure to lead, and not getting abused huge in terms of how intelligent someone might become?

We might not be good at augmenting intelligence but it’s pretty easy to ruin potential, and all of these things are far more likely to happen to a disadvantaged child.
Unfortunately the article is lacking in specifics which leaves a lot of room open for interpretation.

From her perspective it sounds like she did a great job. It would be interesting to hear from other employees of that company on whether they feel the same as she does. This could have been measured along the way with a set of company wide surveys and certainly would have fallen within their data-first approach to reporting.
Pasting the direct link:
https://www.gofundme.com/bring-the-ibm-360-from-germany-to-t...
then you should work on that website a little every day, while researching how to make it even better :)
Can I get in the car, set destination, then sit in the back and watch a movie with my feet up? Can I call my car to me when I'm in LA and the car in NYC?[1]

If not, it's not self driving as generally understood, it's just driver or lane assist. A perception intentionally created by Tesla promoting their driver assist as giving a car that could effectively wander off on its own. Maybe take a part-time job as autonomous taxi. Long having offered full self driving in the paid options list.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920
Too many comments already but one quick one:

Self-esteem and confidence are related, but not the same thing. Solving your problem may require deeper consideration of where precisely it is.
>The accusations against the alleged friends and partners have not yet been substantiated with evidence. Rather the opposite. Huawei has granted access to its network equipment software.

The Founder and CEO of Huawei has links to the Chinese government and intelligence services. Sure, Huawei is happy to open up their current product and code to close inspection. That doesn’t prevent them from inserting spyware into future updates.

It is not just the US, India and other countries share the same concerns about Huawei. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei I think it is insane to even consider trusting critical communication infrastructure to a company from an authoritarian country with a history of spying on, censoring and mind-controlling its own citizens.
I was impressed with their movement and long after seeing the film for the first time learned that they were played by double amputee actors
You can reshape the question into how small could you make a microcontroller fabricator which can produce all of the electronics within itself? One square mile to one square foot - it seems likely that the best possible is within that range. How well could it be optimized?
No matter how rich, powerful, famous, or intelligent, everybody poops. What I mean by that is we are all flawed humans at the end of the day.

People may be better in one way or another, but we all have equal value as human beings.
> I think if Paul G. came out a little less strong at the beginning - without 'bullshit' - this wouldn't be an issue.

The much more interesting remark is the following part:

"...because it discourages people who aren't from trying it"

This is the soil he makes a living from, eventually. Cui bono, essentially.
> I expect it would be possible to replace the card reader and punch with something a little more modern.

The card reader/punch are part of the charm of something like this, though -- that immediate physicality is a real "oh, wow, so THIS is how it works" kind of moment that you can sort of follow up to records, floppy disks, and CDs.

Plus, I imagine if people could make their own little programs through a more modern interface that made the cards, those would make cool souvenirs that might help finance the museum a bit.
Yep, it was a great time. If you had been there for it, being in the U. S. wasn't quite all that but it was still pretty exciting importing fresh European cracks and doing NTSC fixing, an arcane art that even only a few North American crackers have mastered (three come to mind, that's about it). We might have had a better scene in Europe, but the States had toll-free local area calling and Blueboxing, something we could only dream about in Europe in the '80's. We made up for that with copy parties, brutal fist fights, lots of alcohol and even more optimized machine code though. Both sides of the pond had their charms when it came to the scene back then.

A rare example of how cool it was when both sides came together was a group called North East Crackers (NEC), which later became North East Importers (NEI): their leader was a 1st generation European immigrant so their cracks, imports and intros had that European level of design and quality while coupled with American speed and ruthlessness. It was a well respected group and a great fusion of two different aspects of the scene:

http://www.atlantis-prophecy.org/recollection/?load=crackers...
Thanks! I was curious about that myself. They seem quite pretty and a nice size for an 'experiment' like this.
The UK also makes company formation very easy and still slightly advantageous for sole traders, which may be a factor. I did check the criteria and they do include "must be listed for VAT or PAYE", so they're all real businesses to some extent and not just shells.

The US would do well to look at its business licensing requirements to see if they could be simplified in terms of paperwork.
I don’t disagree, but I did want to point this out: https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/ces-2019-bmw-self-ridin...