skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see people telling you to be an expert on a subject or even to stop masturbating which might do it for you but that's not what I found to be the most effective for me.

I had social anxiety disorder and saw someone to get over it (with success). The best advice given to me was basically to ask myself the following questions before/during/after problematic situations:

- why is there a problem about the given situation?

- what did people __realistically__ thought about me in that situation?

(you can put yourself in their shoes i.e. how would I have reacted if I was on the other side of the situation, or how would a friend/family member react if I tell them what happened)

- why should I care?

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For example, let's imagine you have to talk to your director about what your solution to a given problem will be:

- why is there a problem about the given situation?

Well, it depends on you but I will guess that you're afraid that the solution might be poorly received.
Here, you have to ask yourself why it might be. Chances are, if you can't answer that without extrapolating, it won't.

- what did people __realistically__ thought about me in that situation?

In my example, I guess that you're afraid that your director will have less esteem of you.
In reality, your director is a human being (I hope) which has chosen to put his/her trust in you (even more so if you have a conversation about work). As such he/she will most probably just listen and consider your solution.

Even if he/she find a problem with your solution, chances are they will feel more proud about themselves that they will think little of you. Not only because people usually think about themselves first but also because they most often have at least a little empathy (and are not just assholes on legs).

- why should I care?

This is the best advice of all. Basically even in the unlikely case that your director really think badly about you. what is the problem?

Nobody at your office is liked by everyone in the world and most don't care about that as much as you do.
If you more afraid about losing your job, either its is baseless and you should stop asking yourself too much questions (just the question 1 and 2 in that case!) either it's true and it might be a good think to change your job environment.

Think for example about politicians. They often talk faster that they think (I guess the job works that way) and as a consequence say dumb things plenty of times.
Most people dislike politicians as a result but they (at least the successful ones) don't seem to care that much. Even if their jobs is to be liked by people, they continue to show confidence.

You don't have to go that far, but this example show you that you probably care too much about things you shouldn't. Stop giving too much importance to yourself and other people.
> Devices are now shipping with easy-to-enable "anonymous mode" apps that average users have no legitimate need for...

I'd argue VPNs are increasingly tablestakes as consumer ISPs adopt darker patterns like tag injection. (Recently discovered this in the wild with my new residential ISP.)
Speaking as someone with a linguistics background, I would say "cobbled together" is more accurate. Cheshire's "proto-Romance" was built by choosing words more or less at random from various Romance dictionaries (and a few non-Romance ones) without coming up with a rigorous explanation of the grammar or the sound changes which produced this result.

Usually, if you're proposing a proto-language, you need to give a consistent and reasonable set of rules that have both explanatory and predictive capability in terms of one language becoming another. I can posit a rule, for example, that a Latin b in between vowels becomes a v in Italian: the Latin taberna becomes the Italian taverna, the Latin diabolus becomes the Italian diavolo, the Latin habere becomes the Italian avere. This rule means that given a Latin word, I can predict what an Italian word descended from it would look like, and similarly, if I have an Italian word, I can speculate what the Latin word it descended from would look like if it were indeed of Latin origin.

The Cheshire paper makes no effort to explain the rules that get you from Latin to his "Proto-Romance", and in turn to modern Romance languages. It's all ad-hoc, based on grabbing whatever happened to resemble his decoding, which is why words are borrowed from wherever he could find a match.

(Also: to be totally pedantic, the b-becomes-v rule mentioned above is not the complete story, and there are exceptions, e.g. Latin habitus becomes Italian abito. It's a good first approximation, though.)
Uber and Lyft retaliate--in ways that are at minimum unjust and in a functioning legal environment I'd bet a lot of money would be found illegal--for rejected rides.

Google doing it would be different, certainly. Companies are less important than people and poor people trying to survive get significantly more leash than multi-billion-dollar companies. If ride-on-demand companies operated with a transparent bid-ask system (see something like Taskrabbit for an example) instead of the opaque and intermediated market that they do, I don't think we'd be having this discussion. But they want to set prices and they want labor to shut up and take it, and that's not acceptable. To that end, yes, this is a fundamentally different thing than a multi-billion-dollar company controlling a market.
GDPR only applies to geography because there's no possible way to know who a person is online unless they specifically login or tell you, and at that point you already have consent.
Great post, and appreciate what he is saying. But in this case I'm kind of locked into WordPress and the plugins I'm using. It will be much easier to start over with Laravel Spark which will give me more control. From there, I agree that it should never be rewritten again, only refactored.
The pharmacy will change drug distributors, which will change the manufacturer supplying their inventory.
SMS 2FA blocked 100% of automated bots, 96% of bulk phishing attacks, and 76% of targeted attacks.

On-device prompts, a more secure replacement for SMS, helped prevent 100% of automated bots, 99% of bulk phishing attacks and 90% of targeted attacks.
So other high COL regions...
Like everyone else they're devoting a lot of time, very early (it's NEXT F*CKING YEAR!) to the US Presidential election, and, as usual, 90% of their time is horse-race crap. How should so-and-so's campaign handle this jab? How're those poll numbers looking? Issues and fact-checking statements and positions are a rare afterthought. It's awful.

Plus my local station spends so much time on ads anymore (sponsor messages, promos for other NPR programs, trying to convince me to give them my car) that it's nigh-intolerable even if the coverage were any good, which it's not.
Ugh, Medium is the only site I've had to consistently break out the "Block Element" button with. I don't even mind ads and I'm happy to leave them on sites that I want to support, but Medium is an ugly beast with all of the headers and footers.

I still frequent it for work, there's lots of great stories, but it's almost insufferable.
From a user perspective, GDPR has no impact so far. I am still being tracked to death wherever I go.

Neither do companies offer me a way to get the data they have about me.

This guy has been trying to get his Facebook data for 4 months now:

https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/

Will be interesting to see if he keeps at it and how it turns out in the end.
Ask HN: Should I leave a dev job where I'm paid for doing almost nothing?
I’ve been very dilemmatic about my current career situation and I’m hoping I can get some advice from the people here at HN.

I've joined my current company 3years ago as a web developer. By the end of my first year with the company, they decided to offshore most of their technical work. I was subsequently promoted to be the project manager to manage the offshore vendors.

On paper, I’m currently a project manager. But I'm really just a middleman between the internal users and the offshore vendors. On average, I only spend about 3 hours a day sending emails to vendors. I usually spend the rest of the hours doing my own things.

I've lots of freedom at managing my time too! Because I can have long lunch breaks, I've recently started moonlighting through a freelance assignment to teach programming during lunch time at places within 30mins distance from my office. It's crazy how I get to do my own things during office hours while still getting paid! I literally have zero stress and I’m so happy every day. It doesn’t feel like a job at all!

However, lately, I’ve started to worry if this is going to hurt my technical career in the long run. I'm pretty sure my current job has nothing great to boast about at interviews when I've to move on to a new job. Although I still continue to learn newer tech on my own such as React, Angular, etc, it's worrying to wonder how much of these counts as real experiences when I really need to find a new job.

A part of me feels my current job is a rare find and I can't bear to just walk away. It feels silly to find a more demanding job just for “work experiences” when I can earn additional income through freelance gigs during office hours!

But another part of me is also telling myself I should leave this job asap for the long-term good.

Has anyone been through a job like this before? What path did you take and how did things turn out? Would you recommend that I stay at my current job for all the perks?
Even in Texas you aren't going to get away with "defending" yourself in this situation without a real physical threat. And gun owners know that, there are very few unjustified shootings of bill collectors or the like, and the really bad cases show clear mens rea.

But I was thinking somewhat along those lines, take a picture of the perp while keeping one hand close to my concealed gun. And you could well be generally right, I'm pretty sure from some of the snail mail I get or that shows up in USPS Informed Delivery that some of the past residents of my current location are dodging bills, but no one's every showed up to my house, nor have I ever heard of it happening around here.
Again, I've said that I know there are issues, that I end up discovering one at a time.

the problem is not the issues themselves, as once I know they're there I can trivially google for how to fix them, it's the fact they don't show up except sometimes

I do not care about boot speed at all, I care that I upgrade the system to a new distro release with systemd, test it, then it continues to work that way until I change something else

this is no longer the case, and in 20 odd years of maintaining systems I've never had as much "fun" before as I've had over the last couple of years with systemd

I just want my systems to boot, run my simple applications, then shutdown when I ask them to
With sufficient software and computational horsepower, a single whole-body MRI could replace most diagnostic imaging systems, I'd wager. Computer models regularly outperform radiologists in diagnosing several conditions involving structural abnormalities.
I found the video enjoyable. She is unfortunately left off the list of female computer scientists worth mentioning far to often it seems in graphics, t-shirts, stickers, etc..
> rather than have a few people attempt to judge ... as they groggily try to wake themselves up with coffee.

This was our experience during the YC interview as well. Since we had an end of day slot, most of the partners were yawning as we walked in :/

Agree on Startup School - amazing resource for us that we keep revisiting
I'm not sure you understand their intended usecase for the product - didn't seem to be much of a fashion accessory.
If you run or write that command into script without checking what DIR variable contains, the problem is in your lack of experience with shell, not the language choice. Also nowadays, rm itself has --preserve-root as default, so this won't delete your root fs.
It's either direct or indirect payments. Direct payments haven't scaled so indirect (ads) will continue.

This is a human behavior issue. You would need to change the behavior of billions of people before the ads model gets affected.
The worst is reading the code, understanding it, then re-writing it in $LANGUAGE. Then you have a (buggy) emulation of the original product.

I believe a re-write should be a new product. New accounts will use it, and old ones will be migrated to it. Chances are, the way you did things the first time around wasn't ideal (but you couldn't have known back then), so the process is improving and not just the code.
Show HN: puppeteer-social-image - Create dynamic share images using HTML and CSS
Cody's Lab recently put together a sealed terrarium meant to emulate the conditions of the Carboniferous period, and although it's going to be slow going I am still excited to see how it progresses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgAbxP9SHQY
But that is false. Acceptance or refusal of an offer is bidding. It's essentially an auction: Lyft/Uber asks, "Does anyone want to sell at $X? No? OK, how about $X+1?" etc.

What the drivers are doing is not bidding, it is colluding to hide the true market price, i.e. what the lowest bidder would actually be willing to accept. That is illegal.

Please note that my sympathies are very much with the drivers. Their situation sucks and needs to be improved. But breaking the law is not the way to improve it.
Anecdote, but I personally noticed variable effectiveness of epilepsy drugs between different generic manufacturers and the brand name. I was taking Teva brand for a while and it seemed to work fine. Soon I noticed that the drug wasn't working as well (i.e. had seizures) and I saw the brand I was taking changed (I forget what it was). Anyway I had to run around and find a pharmacy that had Teva brand again. I also learned you can ask your pharmacy what generic brand they carry, and you can also ask them to fill your prescription with a particular brand, but you have to give 1-2 days heads up.

Ultimately, I ended up going on the brand name of the drug and it worked much more consistently. Often, if a generic drug isn't working well, doctors will write prescriptions that request the brand name so that insurance approves it. I think they all know that generics can be hit or miss for these types of drugs. Anyway, I don't take generics anymore. Now, almost every time I go to the pharmacy they ask me "You know how expensive this is, right?"... Yep. My insurance is billed for almost $5k every time I go, and I pay $180/mo. Generics would cost me $20/month or so. It must suck for people who can't afford it, or who have crapp(ier) insurance, or who don't even know about the variance between manufacturers.
Isn't this data already available? Does the js snippet change something about that?
I am a graduate comp sci researcher that has experience in apparel manufacturing. Looking for collaborators to build a hardware/software open source platform to enable localized, automated apparel manufacturing. I have made some initial progress, happy to share.
Isn't mattermost an open source version of slack with most of the important features?
Would you rather have a well-designed flop, or a poorly-designed hit that you can't scale fast enough?

Remember Friendster from 2003? It's quite possible that it would have not lost to Tribe/Myspace/Facebook if it didn't take minutes to connect before eventually timing out.

There are things that are worse than wasted effort, and one of them is a hockey stick that slips right through your fingers. By the time the curve is inflecting, if you can't keep up, you're burning customers and inviting competition. If you have to rewrite at that point, you are going to lose to competitors with deeper pockets and no PR baggage.
added some as a comment :)
You can say that about anything humans have ever built.
Maybe I'm dense, but how would that inherently get rid of generics or change any of the existing regulations?
I've been using linux since kernel 2.2. Deployed hundreds if not thousands of workstations for home users and developers. Trust me, I've seen desktop ups and downs, and I disagree. Systemd works until it doesn't, and then it's an unfixable lost cause and you reload it like a naughty 9x box.
> Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers started the project to develop systemd in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#History

> Go was publicly announced in November 2009,[29] and version 1.0 was released in March 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)#Hist...

The brand-new language that Google just announced last year was probably not considered a serious option here.
On to driving down the cost of MRIs and eliminating their need for helium.
On the one hand, yeah, it's annoying. On the other hand though, if a piece of advice is wrong, it's wrong. It's not really a great idea to just ignore the building code when it doesn't suit you. There's a real problem in some parts of the internet where people with a superficial understanding of the problem space offer advice as if they were experts, and it needs to be pushed back against when those people offer bad advice.
> Nobody is forcing you with a gun to your head. Don't want to be "forced" - don't go do business in China.

What if the gun is economic?

Ok - I'm gonna say this is not my element or knowledge - so I'm pulling everything from my nether regions...

But what if the only option - because you need to increase your profit for your shareholders - is either this (play in China by their rules) or "go out of business"; that is, the "gun" here is the choice between staying solvent and maybe even profiting (short term), or shooting yourself in the head (figuratively)?

Do your shareholders care if the IP is transferred, so long as they make money? Maybe they don't understand that continually creating IP to transfer isn't a long-term plan, but maybe they don't care - they're just as parasitical, and when you're dried up, they've moved on or will move on to the next host?

You are right that nobody has to do business in China, but how do you expect them to do business elsewhere?

Let's say a company in Europe wants to manufacture widgets for sale - worldwide or at home, no matter. They have to build a factory to make those widgets, but to do that, they need quick, fast, and cheap access to say, plastics, screws, molds, electronic parts, PCB manufacture, and the list goes on and on and on.

Where do they get that? None of that exists nearby; maybe at one time it did, but not any more. Some or all of that stuff they can get in China, but now they have all the costs of getting the materials to them (import/export), then quality assurance (if they don't have someone in China checking for them), etc. At a certain point, they are now spending a ton of money as overhead just to get the parts to make the widgets, because that infrastructure is no longer available nearby. That cost will be passed along to the consumer - but as soon as that widget, or something similar, can be purchased cheaper closer to the source of those components, to eliminate those extra costs...well, they're not going to go with the local guy any longer.

You (that is, the government) could try to tariff their way out of it, but unless the country and citizens are willing to completely obliterate their environment to make manufacturing of those components as cheap as they are in China (and China, btw, is experiencing this, and I believe this is what is driving their investment in countries in Africa and elsewhere - they are essentially offshoring what was offshored to them; externalizing the environmental deficits to another country - maybe also cheaper labor?)...

I'm not going to belabor this any longer; I just think it's not as simple as saying "well, don't make stuff in China"...
Dicontinued when
I decoded the Voynich manuscript! It just says "Hey lookit this weird crap" over and over in a bunch of made up languages.
Agreed, I fail to understand the popularity of this aesthetic, but it is rather common on 'landing pages' for potentially interesting coding projects. It usually just makes the bottom half of my screen unused real estate.
Not sure this is reasonable.

Young people are actually pretty sick which is understandable because time is needed to adapt immune system to external ambient. The lowest period of sickness must be between 30-50 yo (no data, just informed guess).
Individual action will barely make a dent, to the point where it’s nearly pointless to bother. We need global collective actions and a worldwide tax on carbon emissions.
Remember when Excedrin was unavailable for over a year because of contamination during manufacture circa 2012?
I don't watch much of HGTV these days, but from what I've seen of the shows on it, I get the impression that the reason they don't feature the worked of skilled tradespeople is that they don't use skilled tradespeople. A lot of the work you see go by at double-speed is quick and dirty set dressing.
I also get the sense it's increased over the years. If you count all fund-raising time (drives plus the at least tens of minutes on ordinary days they push donations or giving them cars), promoting their own podcasts, and the now-seemingly-much-longer sponsorship messages (straight-up ads) I'm not sure it's any better than commercial radio.
> I should not be legally required to provide you content at a loss

You aren't. In fact, you're forbidden to provide this content in the EU.
> Why is it another open source developer's obligation to satisfy your design desires?

I never said it is.

What I said is that if someone values diversity of software, then they should object to applications including a hard dependency on systemD. That's just logical, as including hard dependencies on systemD reduces software diversity by requiring that the system it runs on uses systemD rather than allowing them the choice.
Something like this, perhaps! http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/02/12/transcribing-piano-ro...
Didn't sound like OP wanted a VM; they wanted a reimplementation or compatibility layer (like wine or wsl).
How does one get 'accidentally accepted' into YC?
https://youtu.be/P9yruQM1ggc
intel isn't fabless. They have a fab in the Phoenix area
On top of the annoying stuff on Medium... I feel like using it for SEO also means that it is being posted "at" me and not "for" me.

That is to say they post because they want me to visit their business site ... not really tell me a story.

Now for any given user (the OP here) I wouldn't accuse them of that and I'm sure they'd like me to visit their site, but also want to genuinely share... but overall I start getting a different feeling from Medium posts...

Reminds me of when I was getting started with web development. SO MANY basics articles out there that I'm pretty sure are just resume fodder written by people who aren't that much better than me, and really not written to share as much as post on their resume, that really kinda sucks.
Out of the DNC document dump? At least a quarter were confirmed to be outright forgeries (with fingerprints implicating Russia), and of the remainder almost all had at least some changes from the originals.

There was also the documents related to the DNC aide who was murdered, all of which were demonstrated to be forgeries.

And that's just the US political stuff...
Also, it's politically incorrect to say this...

That is interesting. Usually when people say this, it's from the opposite perspective. I don't often see people casting the idea that there are people who do need extra help as "politically incorrect"; I'd guess the particular political stance that doesn't like this would be a strong individualist, strong personal responsibility, small government stance.
If your business model does not work when behaving ethically, perhaps that is a problem with the business model, rather than a problem with the ethics.
But you can make certain ways how services are provided illegal. How is that not enforceable?
Quite the opposite IMO: it gives a name to the computation and simplifies the control flow by making the computation more functional.