skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the worst things you can do, as a parent, is tell your kid they are smart. I have two kids and one of them is obviously “gifted”. The other is still pretty far ahead. Smart is a bad word in my house. Gifted is not something that is ever uttered. We (as parents) work very hard to instill a sense of hard work, effort, and purpose into our kids lives. They do BJJ, a martial art that is very hard, even if you are very smart. The main purpose is to teach them there are things they aren’t good at and have to work at, and even small improvements in BJJ can feel like huge wins. My motivation and reason is very similar to the authors. Everyone always told me how smart I was, and wondered why I didn’t succeed academically. It’s because it was too easy and I was already “smart” so why bother? I started building software professionally at 19 and moved away from home. My first few years away from home were hard as I had to learn life skills like “focus” heh. Anyhow, that is my story time about kids and being smart. FWIW, my 7 year old came home one day recently and said “I think I am smart. I can read books the fourth graders do....” heh. I just told her “good, but it doesn’t matter. Just enjoy the books” she really thought I would be proud she is smart, and of course we are, but “smart” can set you up for a hard time finding fulfillment later on in life.
I never heard of him nor these specific parasites but I remember learning in school that snails and slugs are hosts for many kinds of parasites. Which is why I would nor eat one, especially uncooked.
"True" I think as I spend yet another hour clicking links on Hacker News.
Man, I really want this telescope to succeed its mission, but I just can't get over how complex its deployment procedure is. I am extremely pessimistic about it actually managing to deploy as planned.
In a similar vein, I saw this linked from HN not too long ago and thought it was a really neat application of the birthday paradox--all about finding duplicate packs of Skittles: https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/follow-up-i-f...
Jamie Vardy the famous philosopher https://www.joe.co.uk/news/jamie-vardy-is-trying-to-get-his-...
Same here. Another dark pattern is they require the country code, they could have inferred it from my IP and auto populated it or had a list of countries via a dropdown instead they bury that the country code is required in a paragraph and disable the button if the phone number lacks it. At very least enable the button and pop up a error message if the country code is lacking. How many non technical users will give up with this form? I suspect many of them.
Funny that only 'gifted' people make comments in this thread, and everybody relates.

I was labeled gifted too, once, by my mommy. Yeah.... It's a hard life, Pfew!
The life of a virtuoso musician is a curious one. The first 20-25 years of their lives is intensely stressful and gruelling. Practising their instrument for 10+ hours a day isn't uncommon, and their lives are usually dominated by chasing competition to competition trying to prove their worth relative to their contemporaries so that they can get signed by various agents and record labels (assuming that they are aiming to be a professional recitalist/recording artist).

Those that survive this track and don't grow disillusioned with their art are rewarded with a profession that will carry them for the rest of their lives, easily into their 80s or longer if they then branch into conducting (Neville Marriner was performing right until his death, aged 92). More importantly, these people typically love what they do, and their quality of life is amazing - they aren't wage slaves and maintenance of their skills can be as little as a couple of hours a day.

Is this path applicable to everyone? Almost certainly not, but it's definitely and interesting life path for the few who do make it!
I remember distinctly a conversation I had in early 2012 about what I jokingly called "big memory" as killing off the (then ubiquitous) "big data" trend. Most people's sensibilities have not adjusted to a world where getting 64GB of memory in a server is a triviality, and you can 8x that without too much effort or cost.

Unless you're storing media, or you are truly "web-scale", your business data will very likely fit in 512GB.
How did you know he was playing games? Did he say that was why he was staying up all night?
Does it actually work? Speech recognition is often terrible enough in normal conditions, so I don't expect it working well on audio captchas which are often designed to counteract speech recognition.
"went Sparta"???
Future African countries will look much worse than Wakanda
Blind people are basically bots. If they're not viewing and interacting with the screen it's hard to tell the difference.
Thanks for the link.

''Praising children's intelligence, far from boosting their self-esteem, encourages them to embrace self-defeating behaviors such as worrying about failure and avoiding risks,''

This is arguably good advice regarding 5th graders. For adult software engineers, however, go ahead and praise them for being smart, since worrying about software failure and avoiding software risks is great.
Yes, please read it in a strategic manner. However also consider that a praise can be presented in different ways. Sometimes a company is praised to increase the company's pride. Sometimes it is praised to really show a need for cooperation. Sometimes it is praised in a manner that shows "we could work together but if not it's also fine". And sometimes such a representation is honest and sometimes its fake. So at least three dimensions in every sentence.
> is an educator

> North America

Hardly a good box to tick, by most reports.
Because the article basically assumes that all gifted people are like her. And that being gifted is not so much an asset.

Which is statically wrong. But there is a category of gifted people, and the girl in the article probably belongs to it, which considers that being gifted is so bad and that people who say the opposite just don't understand what being gifted is. I'm gifted and I have no issue with that, like said in the threads they need to stop assuming that because they are gifted everyone owe them everything, work hard like anyone else if you want success
My problem is that even in university, the vast majority of problems I was set were tractable, and I could oversee all of them with almost no effort. This only bit me when I had to do my final term project/thesis, since that was a problem no-one else had worked on before. I was a bit ambitious, after all I knew I was smart, but I just couldn't figure out how to start on it, so it took way too much time and was finished unsatisfactorily. The same problem haunts me in work since, and makes it very hard for me to find motivation.
Could you elaborate on the complexity, comparing it to other complex science projects that succeeded? I'm a layman, curious if this is actually riskier than what humanity has done so far.
As someone who is very close to two doctors, I can tell you that networking and elbows matters just about as much as any other career.
Airline statements on Boeing 737 MAX's safety and worth
Be careful relying on studies in this area. The "growth mindset", like much of psychology over the last several decades, is subject to the replication crisis.

At the very least, the size of the effect is almost certainly quite small.
Take a look at Fractint (fractint.org) and all kind of fractals it can generate.

I became obsessed with IFS (iterated function systems) a looooong time ago. Take a look at the colage theorem and try to make your own ;-)

Cheers
Pushing censorship is literally slitting your own throat.
"I think I am smart." That's really cute!

I mean, it's pretty much impossible to hide smartness. If you are smart, you will know. I am not attractive, but I also heard that if you are very attractive, it's pretty much impossible not to realize that.
Chemical synthesis demonstrates proves that Antibiotic from human nose works by proton translocation. -resistant bacteria are an increasing health threat, making new antibiotics essential.
Not to be picky, because to be honest I completely believe that what you say is plausible, but that's a lot of outrageous claims with very little in the way of examples or evidence.
It's a reaction to your statement

> if you want to search over big data, which should be a pretty common procedure these days

It's not a common procedure by any stretch because the vast majority of datasets aren't really "big".
One challenge is kids will figure out they are smart all on their own. As a parent you have to almost actively repress the notion in a kid’s head that they are “smart”.
Being "gifted" is sometimes badly misjudged. I have a friend who was the best in his school, then we was at the bottom of his class in high school. All his confidence disappeared when he found that "best in school X" can actually mean nothing because school X may be quite bad by comparison. The one eyed person that is the king in the land of the blind is the best comparison.
Second, even having a high native intelligence does not guarantee you will not waste your life doing trivial jobs where you don't contribute a lot to the society and it is not regarded as a good use of your capabilities. "Yes, I am the smartest burger flipper in McDonalds, I am awesome". Imagine Einstein deciding to become a plumber.
Hard work in itself isn't necessarily valuable. Smart work is.

It's vital to learn early on that you have to put in the work if you want to achieve anything at all. Merely being gifted or naturally good at something certainly is not enough.

However, I'd say it's just as important to understand the purpose behind any kind of work and to be able to question how things are usually done.

Achieving the same or better results with less work is what will set you apart.
Glad you figured things out - but I’m very curious about what you switched to.
Ask HN: How does the comment suppression on here work?
I can see that my comments are now automatically buried -- I'm curious how that works and what triggers it. I tested this on a brand new account by posting a 1-sentence comment in the same thread and it automatically showed up at the top, just like normal.

It seems like this penalty is manually (and arbitrarily) applied by the moderators with no warning or explanation. Is that correct?
I know it's been talked about before, but it is still the headphone jack that will decide my choices. I'm forced to play the dongle game with my macbook, at least I should be able to listen to music with quality headphones (wired) still with a simple solution. I'll stick with my OnePlus 6 for a while.
They called me gifted as a kid. Tested at a genius level IQ (not that it matters).

I barely passed high school. I started my first company while in it.

I dropped out of my engineering programming. I was teaching other students about computers and was running a business on the side.

I am not someone who follows the rules well.

My sibling is the polar opposite, they have three Ivy League degrees. They were top 3% of their class. They follow rules well.

I’ve been entrepreneuring for a commensurate period of time and overall look back very fondly on what I’ve accomplished and the trajectory of where my career is heading. Even the winter I had to eat peanut butter and whatever I could get for free to survive is something I don’t regret, it was a wake up call for me to take more off the table to survive bad times than to reinvest everything in growth.

My sibling has expressed to others that they wonder if they chose the wrong path. I do not wonder these things. My life feels right.

Do what you love and it’ll never feel like work.
JSON Path in PostgreSQL [pdf]
I don't think it's unrelated to the article, actually. Static site generators like Jekyll are a nice success story for DSLs. The takeaway would be: be more like Markdown, less like a poorly thought out SQL wrapper.
BS but I imagine this is how they verify you own the number and prevent a rival app from executing a denial of services attack on them by unlisting everyone’s number.
At this price point it better be good. It has to make up for all the other astrophysics missions it killed with its (near) endless budget overruns.
Thank you for this good argument for why we all should block ads. There is no reason for you to stalk users
The joys of capitalism.

I jest, though. While it probably feels the same on paper, your mental health is (probably) much better now, I would assume.
You are confusing Docker = the deployment artifact with Docker = self-contained runtime perfect for CI/CD

Longer answer here https://thenewstack.io/docker-based-dynamic-tooling-a-freque...
Snow might be the next clean energy source
Whoa, it is actually illegal to make "not accessible" websites?
GazelleGames does that with game covers. Lichess has one where you need to find a checkmate in one move. It's usually pretty easy, but could in theory be frustrating for someone just starting with chess.
Abuses show Assange case was never about law
In school everyone gets the same assignments and has to take the same test. At work there's a subjective element to performance, where everyone has different assignments, and everybody has different ideas about how hard everybody else's assignments are. In school you don't have to report all the things you've done and how valuable and difficult they are.
On the face of it this looks like an issue with screen-readers reading the page simplistically.

An element that is not displayed should not be 'displayed' by screen-readers either.
Well said. Some people talk about enlightenment. To me, that is nothing else than fully realising that what really matters has actually been at our reach all the time. It's just that it is so difficult to filter out the external pressure to "achieve more".
>converting data such that it is represented in ones and zeros

er, what? Isn't it all?

>This dramatically reduces the size

huh? There is no symbolic encoding less efficient for length than binary.
This is my fear of working remote. Seems to come up relatively often in threads that discuss remote work -- needing to force oneself to leave the house (which is also the workplace)
You’re thinking of I-joists, which are a kind of engineered lumber, not a kind of mass timber. And those do light up like kindling. The glue used in glulams and the like chars at the same rate as the wood, and it’s pretty easy to achieve known fire ratings simply by making the members a little chunkier than they need to be since the char rate is known.
I thought Docker builds are not generally repeatable, since they often `apt-get update && apt-get install`, which depends on the current state of external package management?

They are definitely not reproducible in the sense of building bit-for-bit identical containers, unless you use Bazel.

That being said, I've found Dockerfiles to be a much more reliable build process than most others (recently struggled to get through LogDevice's cmake-based build.. ugh).
Following US Huawei ban, China threatens own blacklist for foreign firms
Sport is a double-edged sword. I was shit at calcio but in Italy it's the only true religion, so I got to play it anyway. I built my role on hard work and tactical awareness, rose to team captain, then... my ankles just checked out when I was 18. My mood never fully recovered, I think. Nothing really compares. Outside a football pitch I'm the laziest person ever; the sort of hard-work mentality one gets on the pitch does not really translate to white-collar jobs, and I know I'll never find again the sort of high I could get when scoring or tackling.
I had one of those answer a question boxes on my MoinMoin wiki. It was something like, "Enter an element which combines with oxygen to form CO2". The spammers worked their way round that pretty quickly. There must be humans who are working on helping the bots.
TIL Samuel L. Jackson is the most wikipedia'd person who's ever lived in Washington DC. That's kind of wild considering the competition includes every US president ever, among many others.
I haven't seen it in other comments so let me add that interpretation as well:

It is not just an expression of a participant in a trade war between his and another country. It is also an expression of a politician who wants to become a father figure for his people.

It is very very risky to even hint at something like this in such times. It is not impossible that we see Xi Jinping taking apart Huawei at some point to beat a possible internal competitor.

Think about the admirable spirit one must have to put ones life on the line. Wow. That's more than Elon Musk or Ma Yun are doing.

And it also means he's either going crazy (unlikely) or that he has a lot of backing from political forces that try to undermine the Xi government from within. Let's hope he's more Cao Cao than Yuan Shu.
This happened to me too. I went to college with a high enough SAT score that I skipped straight to Calculus 1. I took Cal 2 and 3 and Differential Equations and managed to pass them all despite very little comprehension of the material. These classes were my lowest grades overall. I never took precalc or trigonometry so I missed the foundational concepts. Right before I graduated, I needed a few hours to round out my math minor, and I took Trigonometry, and all of Calculus suddenly made sense. I really wish I had not been allowed to skip Trig or Pre Cal!
"running your own mail infrastructure" - I once got responsibility for a complex email nightmare dumped on me (tens of thousands of users, hundreds of domains, hundreds of servers) and I had no idea the vast number of entertaining ways email infrastructure can be screwed up.

Mind you - I guess at a small scale it might be OK - but infrastructure like email is both vital and utterly thankless. Let someone else do it.....
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> nobody in their right mind should add a script that fingerprints users

I helped vendor-select and lead implementation on a fraud solution that was an integration with SiftScience (yc-funded, https://sift.com/), which relies on fingerprinting. This was years ago but I still think about the project and how it plays with user privacy etc. I will say that -- fingerprinting as a component in fraud management is/can be highly effective.

The problem is, once you get into payments fraud through bots, I think the conversation becomes way more nuanced. If you're looking for a solution to bots spamming or throwing bad data into your app, maybe that's a little extreme. But if the choice between privacy and becoming a front for credit card fraud and chargebacks, you're in a choice between who the victims of your service are going to be, and how much ill is done.
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Should we put the onus on screen readers to not read elements that would not be displayed when the page is rendered in a browser??

Admittedly, I am not familiar with screen reader standards, but my gut feeling is that they are doing their users a disservice if they are not representing what browser users are seeing as similarly as possible.
That path will barely get you to 1% income, and definitely not in all areas. Just another working stiff.

The Dr. who runs the LASIK place near me drives a Lambo, and he probably has 10 Drs working for him.

It’s rare to strike it rich on your own labor.
I'm sorry - did I offend someone. Or did limited mobility cause a click on the fiddly and untitled downvote link instead of following the link :-)
The Outsiders was the first thing I read about how, contrary to popular belief, the gifted might have a curse instead of a blessing:

http://prometheussociety.org/wp/articles/the-outsiders/

https://web.archive.org/web/20190531123431/http://prometheus...
I'm a layman too, and just watched this https://youtu.be/bTxLAGchWnA to better understand the complexity.
I don't understand why writing an ORM requires creating a new query language. The point of an ORM, as I understood it, was to think about objects, not query languages. When I wrote my garbage ORM (https://hrorm.org) I just ignored everything that's hard (you can write your own SQL for that) but the easy things (basic CRUD) don't require a query language at all. They are just provided by an object-based interface.
Have you heard about the US college admissions scandal? Surely academia must be flawless, pristine in regard for the moral high ground based on your assumption, and surely they don't have all the pitfalls that every other walk of life has.

Homework has been known to be done by others students, or parents even. In higher academia, how many people on a project really lean in to contribute? Maybe 2 out of 5.

Graduate school may be slightly more immune to this, but the barrier to entry is also much much higher monetarily for most.
> telling a coal miner

Or a journalist. Guess what, your four-year college degree didn't do you any good, they should have taught you the skills that have actually been current in the real world for the last 20 to 40 years. Whoops.
Concrete isn't carbon neutral therefore mass timber can still be better for the environment.
> A time-varying relation is just what it says: a relation that changes over time ... Critically, the full suite of existing SQL operators remain valid on time-varying relations

Any relation by definition is supposed to change in time. So why do we need to introduce a special kind of relations? The authors essentially confirm that there is no difference between classical relations and "time-varying" relations.

Also, it is not clear how does it relate to EPL (in CEP) which is also based on SQL.
The flexible future of branding and the death of the logo as we know it
Simply try to browse the page without using mouse, just the tab key. The next step would be to use screen reader, NVDA[1] (Windows) or Apple VoiceOver (MacOS).
There are automated testing tools, but they don't cover the whole spectrum of problems. Nevertheless you can try

* WAVE (Chrome or FF plugin, https://wave.webaim.org/extension/)

* AXE (https://www.deque.com/axe/)

* AChecker (https://achecker.us/checker/index.php)

* Funkify (Chrome plugin, tries to emulate various disabilities)

* Lighthouse in Chrome Dev Tools also checks some accessibility rules

The full list of things that you need to take care of: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/ (it's huge I know, it takes 5-7 days to test everything from this list)
A wave of graduate programs drops the GRE application requirement
An acquaintance's dad was a fire fighter in NYC, and decided he wanted an extended vacation. So after a fire he walked up to an ambulance, and said "Find something wrong with me!" and hopped in. The end result was 3 years of disability with full pay - a nice long vacation like he wanted!

Like yourself, when he told me this story he was quite proud, fully believing he deserved the time off and happy he put one over on society.
Ask HN: Gmail / G-Suite Alternative
What is some good Gmail / G-Suite alternative that

- respect privacy
- has mail, contacts and calendar
- has good web interface
- supports custom domain
I think a big amount of the complexity comes from the folded up sunshield. I remember it had torn during a test deployment last year.

Here is a quick animation showing the whole deployment process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpVz3UrSsE4
> Ultimately I suppose you’d be able to zoom out to the world and see its Google review score.

Mostly harmless?
And they're missing a ticketing system, a CRM, a wiki, an inventory database, etc, to say nothing of the actual computing infrastructure.

It's kind of insane to run a business on free software. If your CalDAV server suddenly has a bug with a partner who uses Apple/Windows/etc calendar, what are you gonna do? Drop everything else to start debugging? Call and tell them to switch calendars for you? Abandon them?