skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that might seem trivial like a sleight at work, a driver cutting me off, or somebody bumping in to me feels like a deliberate, personal attack. Therapuetics can reduce that (at least for me), which means I'm more likely to respond to a given situation with a proportionate response, i.e. ignoring the situation or addressing the root cause.

I have read some articles that this is related to ADD causing a state of hyperarousal, but I'm having a hard time finding genuine medical research on this theory. If the theory is true, it would hold that reducing hyperarousal reduces the magnitude of angry feelings for a given situation.

Also, I believe that we can change our personalities. As I've gone to therapy, integrated mindfulness and attempted to get mental health issues resolved I've seen my personality on the Myers-Briggs test alter over time. While I realize Myers-Briggs has a lot of faults, it's the professionally administered personality test that goes back the longest for me so it's an informative baseline.
I'm an engineer. No CS degree. I coded for fun on various side projects from 2006-2012. I didn't consider myself very good.

I worked at a couple startups from 2012-2013. During that time, I became very proficient in Coffeescript and a couple popular frontend frameworks. I was very productive in terms of pumping out lines of code (that somehow resulted in a working product).

However, I didn't know how to write a for loop. If you had asked me what "for...in" was, I wouldn't have had a clue. And forget about asking me how setTimeout has to do with the call stack.

The problem with being self taught, at least in my experience, is that you end up being very strong in whatever areas it is that interests you, and whatever areas of CS are relevant to the projects you're working on day-to-day.

In 2013, I began to realize my (glaring) deficiencies as a programmer. That was the point when I started spending all my free time doing online CS courses. They helped a lot with filling in the knowledge gaps that I didn't even know I had.

The main reason I'm posting this is to give a shoutout to Project Euler.

Project Euler (https://projecteuler.net/) is an amazing way to test yourself (and learn) CS concepts. If you've done a coding bootcamp and want to do a "gut check" to see how much you learned (or how much you have left to learn), I'd highly recommend Project Euler.

(I'm happy to say that in 2019, I can write for loops all day long...)
Hopefully not, nobody reads the TOS and it's really unreasonable to expect users to. For example, Twitter's TOS clocks in at around 5,000 words, who has time for that?

Between the apps for work and the apps I use for fun, it would take me weeks to fully read through all of the TOS for every piece of software I use if I was insane enough to do it.
My closet is filled with Iron Rangers, 1000 miles, AEs, and handmade Mocs. All purchased at steep discounts or second hand stores. All look better than the day I bought them years later.

My oldest pair of shoes are going on 11 years, and look even better than the rest after one re-sole.
> The first complication came in 2008, when a group of scientists, in an effort to more precisely map out the evolutionary relationships among animals on the tree of life, identified comb jellies rather than sponges as the earliest animals

I really hate this wording, because it gives the wrong idea, namely that Comb Jellies as they exist now are the same as they existed 600-700 million years ago.
It's yet another Chrome only tool.
Hrmn. I don't think I've ever seen Lisp code where both branches of an IF are indented the same amount...
> Asking him to change his personality and what he "enjoys" just so that he can fit in is so absurd to me because it hints at the idea that you should surrender your individuality in order to fit in with the group.

I think you are completely misinterpreting the comment your responding to. That's really not what he said at all. You are essentially take what is a thoughtful suggestion to try and see beyond your prejudices/preconceived notions and turning it into a dumbed down "Just be like normal like everybody else" kind of statement.

But perhaps you do not like the post because maybe you are also one of these "I am smart and interesting and clever and everybody else is a dull, dumb, zombie" types? I might be wrong but I would guess that thats the case.
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Why does every thread have to have the same pithy, cheap, criticizing comment about page load speed?

It’s demoing a GAN, not a shiny “blazing fast” web framework. They whipped this web frontend up in a day probably. It’s not supposed to be optimized for your 3G phone.
To go full devil's advocate, that's because they're not doing much that's new. The space race of decades past and everything surrounding it was pushing human frontiers in science, technology, and exploration. Lots of that technology found its way into everyday use.

As far as I can tell, the launch technology here (the GLSV) is bog standard, the mission is unmanned, and it's using a rover that's less sophisticated than Curiosity. The ground being covered here is well-trodden.

Lest anyone think I'm pooh-poohing the achievement here, I'm not. Human spaceflight is still in its infancy, and being the 5th country to make a soft landing on the moon is a big deal, and a practical demonstration of a lot of technical prowess.

The problem is.. it appears to be mostly a demonstration at the end of the day. Is mapping the surface of the moon and detailing its composition more or less important than lifting 90 million people out of poverty? I know what my opinion is here, but I think it's something that reasonable people can disagree on.
That is nice. I live in India and we don't even have an Apple Store. One of their Reseller replaced pretty much everything with my 2nd Gen Macbook (Apple care expired) because the keyboard had the "quality issue".
So I'm a noob with Ghost: if anyone wants to subscribe to the Friday newsletter you can here: https://mailchi.mp/67e1bf258afa/nocsdegree

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I would recommend watching GroundHog day with Bill Murray. The key takeaway from this film I think, was be the brightest light in the room, be your most attractive self, and everything/everyone else will sort itself out.
its a component, not a marketplace.
Yes. And its almost impossible to do this without a huge investment in time and effort, except: If you use languages with FP, and are rigorous, then I believe (possibly wrongly) its actually somewhat simpler to understand because the style of coding in FP exposes much of this "better" than in classic imperative coding

So yes, I think you're right: great dream, hugely hard to do, if not actually impossible in most cases near as damnit, but there are places where program proofs take you to this, Military/Space/Medical needs to know the code calls don't have unexpected outcomes. And language choices which express as "how" you express code, can also help. Probably not enough.
Three things...

1) The purpose of talking to people is not to figure out the right answer. The purpose is to figure out the next thing we can all agree is a decent idea.

2) Almost no one has bad motivations. When I think someone is trying to be a jerk, I now realize that I am probably misunderstanding a person who doesn't know how to be nice in a way that works for me. Probably, the person thinks he or she is doing the best they can.

3) Everyone is fighting battles, internal and external, that I cannot see. It is always right to be generous and sympathetic.
I think the biggest difference between successful devs and unsuccessful ones is the hunger for constant learning and improvement. You can lack that hunger if you have a CS degree or not. I've observed this at my company and others I've worked for as an almost constant.
No.1 you essentially admit, and cite, that what he claimed was accurate (that Apple threatened to sue/get his channel shut down) but you feel it was his fault.

No.2 dude messed up. No disagreement there. But you are spinning his confusion into: "due to a nefarious intent on Apple's part." That wasn't the tone of the video at all.

No.3 you say, and cite, that what he claimed was true (that a shipment of Apple compatible batteries he had imported was seized). In the original video he said quite clearly they weren't OEM because Apple no longer supplies these "vintage" batteries to even authorized repair centers. Here's the YT transcript (as is):

> the Apple store and I say I would like to buy this battery can i buy this battery please they say no if I become an Apple authorized service provider and I wish to obtain parts to a machine that has been considered vintage Apple will say no if I talk to somebody in China who says hey these are not those knockoff batteries where we take you know where we just like put apple logos on a bunch of crappy cells and send it to you these are the good batteries these are the batteries that are responsible for us being 4.9 out of five

But you said: "He claimed that they were genuine OEM batteries" the transcript above from the video you linked paints a very different picture.

Your original claim was:

> deep a history of twisting facts to make Apple look bad.

But you haven't made that case here.

Your position on the guy feels a little "cart before the horse." You dislike what the guy believes/stands for/his criticism, and then went out looking for reasons to justify that belief.

Your post essentially implies he's a criminal for using "stolen" schematics to repair customer's own equipment and making compatible batteries (which, I'll fully admit, shouldn't have had the Apple logo on them: not cool).
Everything "free" on the internet could potentially have a reduced revenue stream. People will have to make up the difference somewhere in order to provide these services if they can no longer monetize the data.

Users that already pay for these services for this exact reason shouldn't be impacted, but it will impact other services that people consider "free", I would imagine.
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The on-site same day repair I've gotten from Dell has been a godsend. I can't even imagine being out for 3 weeks.
This reminded me the research of Jack Szostak, a Nobel Laureate who is looking back even further to the origins of life itself. Specifically, how the first protocells formed and reproduced. From an article published this summer (https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/07/origin-life-earth):

He and others believe they can reconstruct in the lab the long pathway that led from chemicals in space, to Earth’s formation, to pre-life chemistry on the planet, to early protocells, and finally to advanced cells with metabolism and protein synthesis.

It goes on to say:

Despite some theories that early life arose near hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean, Szostak is more convinced by research showing that the earliest cells developed on land in ponds or pools, possibly in volcanically active regions. Ultraviolet light and lightning strikes could have helped convert molecules in the atmosphere into cyanide and other useful materials to generate the building blocks of life. The shallow water would give those materials a place to accumulate at high concentrations, and volcanic activity could create hot and cold temperature fluctuations helpful for certain chemical reactions.

Key elements in the protocell included a fatty membrane for protection and growth/division, something which his group has been able to demonstrate in the lab. A bigger challenge is passing along genetic material to the next generation, which involves complicated RNA replication processes.

Full article: https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/07/origin-life-earth
I think this is one of the benefits of being a programmer. Our tools and materials can be easily stored in an online-accessible way, such that a git clone can recreate your entire environment and all the code you were working on. I don't know if any non-programmers who primarily rely on their laptops do (or can do) the same, much less people who work with music or videos or photos, who often have (hundreds of) gigabytes they need to work on with no real version control, and require much more effort and financial investment to be able to backup, duplicate and restore.
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It's wild how common this is, especially on Android, and how little people know about it. Those free apps you enjoy? Many of them make money by shipping with a 3rd party SDK that records your location (among other identifying information), collates it with other identifying information, and feeds it into the massive real time ad-tech system that powers large swaths of the internet.
I thought my similar position was unique, I'm glad to hear others can spend so long at a single place and have next to nothing to show for it as far as friendships are concerned. Who knows? Maybe it's the reason we we're able to stay in the same place so long?
That's cool! Extra inspiration for myself as well. I think it's good to bust the myth you have to love video games, or start coding aged 4 etc.
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The John Wayne quote is a slightly different thing. I don't think its particularly controversial to suggest that stupidity should not be rewarded as well as the absence of that stupidity (calling it punishment may turn some people off, even if it means the same thing).

The Vimes example is about the fact that being poor to start with is more expensive in its own right.

Vimes does not make a stupid decision not to buy the expensive boots, they are simply more than he can afford in any reasonable period.

There is another saying "making your first million is hard, making your second million is inevitable"
> Why would there be any significant added cost to consumer good pricing?

Assuming ad tech makes advertising more effective, banning it would make challenging a market incumbent more difficult. You'd need to burn more cash to teach more consumers about your product, a larger fraction of whom would be outside your target market.

Granted, ad tech does not always add value. And there is a legitimate question as to the trade-off between privacy and consumer prices. But the tradeoff exists. Reducing the threat of new entrants means incumbents will raise prices.
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Too bad your location is still sold by your cellular provider even if you delete all those apps.
I wish they’d work on the arsenic problem Arkansas rice has too
Hey I’ll respond not using a throwaway.

I feel that way too a lot of the time. When I was younger I was incredibly misanthropic in many aspects of my thinking, and hell ... even though I am less so as I age, there’s a certain realistic cynicism about human motivation that I’ve gained access to that means I actually have a worse picture of people than I did 20 years ago.

All I can say is, first have some empathy for yourself. Stuff is boring. People kinda suck. That realization is not profound and can’t be just willed away.

Second, there may be some aspects of yourself you haven’t developed yet, and if you really engage in developing your own wider potential, you will find commonality with far more people.

No one, no matter how smart, is pure intellect. Wishing all your interactions with people would happen on that level is a bad framework for enjoying people and for a rich human life.

I can think of any number of people who when I first met them I felt I had nothing in common with them, and really just didn’t like them, who became important figures in my life. Seriously.

I think high IQ low IQ or whatever ... any kind of nuerodivergence makes it more of a challenge to relate and empathize with people.

It’s possible to find richness in interaction. People are much less boring than you might think, when you learn how to conduct yourself in such a way that they feel safe talking to you frankly about their experience, their dreams, their passions. People can be ridiculously insightful when you least expect it.

Your challenge is to make people want to talk to you in a real way.

Start by removing the assumption that you are anywhere near as correct or as profound as you quite reasonably think you are. This self picture is an illusion. I don’t care who you are, it is an illusion.

I used to think humility and gratitude were just dumb concepts. You need humility. Not to “bring you down to other people’s level” but to enable psychological health and functioning, and ultimately happiness and connection and to become a more complete person.
Do you understand the concept of abstract syntax trees? This already exists in every language and we specifically and deliberately moved away from it because it's not conducive to code.
There is no reason that quality shoes cannot be built in countries with poor labor conditions. It’s just that low labor costs allow for selection of cheaper materials and low pay managers are tempted to cut corners on trivial items.
getting the old HN hug-of-death atm
I don't understand why it could drastically increase the price of a Macbook. I can buy a ThinkPad or a Dell Latitude/Precision with a Sierra Wireless 4G M.2 card for only an extra $2-300, basically the price of the card if you were to buy it separately. Older generations of ThinkPads could also have a 4G M.2 card easily added after purchase because the antennas were built-in from the factory (did this with my X260).

I suppose (guessing) if this was a SoC and there were no standard M.2 slots, then I guess I could see why Qualcomm would want some extra royalties in that case.
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recursion overrated imo.
What's the difference between an 'object' and a file?
> So it's 10 seconds for 200kb?

no, whole site took ~10 seconds to load with chromes Fast 3G throttled network preset.
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What kind of coding did you do for 6 years if after that time you couldn't identify a for-loop?
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That's more a soil contamination problem than a rice problem.
Sadly advertising went to away, it'll just shift back to less efficient forms. I remember that there used to be an even worse ad to content ratio and I would pay every month for TV and magazines and there would still be a ton of ads. Ads are bad but I don't see nearly as many anymore (the main thing is to avoid some of the different news sites and blogs that have way too many).
I mean, it's no accident they're making every effort to make Mac hardware as unrepairable as possible by third parties. And it's not because they want to repair the things themselves.
I don't disagree with you, but I don't completely agree with your implications either. From my experience, most people with a CS degree will not attain that level as well. Even at the masters level, a number of people will not understand. It's sad. I really feel this is a failure of universities not forcing students to learn, but I know there are a number of politics etc that factor into how hard they can make courses, and what they can teach.
> not a biologist, but I imagine this affects the gene pool, and overall (including social) diversity as well. -

I wouldn't worry about gene pool diversity in India (I agree with the first two statements though):

,,A 2005 study from Rutgers University theorized that the pre-1492 native populations of the Americas are the descendants of only 70 individuals who crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America.''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck
> It's like you try to peel back a single layer of why people believe what they believe and there's nothing there. No reflection, no relevant context, no mirror provided by an intimate knowledge of history or literature ... just nothing.

NAILED IT
No, I'm sure you're not the only one who has thought this. However, the apparent irony disappears quite readily when you examine the differences, the most important of which:

If you want a laptop but don't want to pay Apple prices, you can buy a laptop from Lenovo/Dell/Asus/you get the point.

If you want to play in the 4G/5G space you have to license Qualcomm's IP. They've been pretty aggressive about enforcing this. So aggressive in fact that they've been found guilty of anti-competitive behaviour by a US judge (in a case brought by the FTC), as well as by the EU (twice).

So yeah, in the face of that, it's difficult to argue that Apple's position - of selling premium devices in a competitive market - is in any way similar to Qualcomm's predatory tactics.

Now if you want to talk about the App Store on the other hand...
"This 22 year old self-taught PHP developer earns $15k a month and lives in an Austrian farmhouse"

I mean, f*cking seriously?

Yeah, that's harsh, but such a headline's an insult to those with a CS degree and serious self-taught developers alike.

To those who made this stay on the front page: given you're competent, you already make the same or more money as those with a CS degree, even if you might know less about the fundamentals, get over it! Upvoting cruft like this isn't going to vindicate your choice.
The parent said they didn't know what for-in was, which implies they were using a language like C for their side projects which only has for (i=0;i<n;i++) loops.
> AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have pledged to stop selling location data to brokers who may sell the information on the black market.

Most of them stopped according to the article.
iteration gets repetitive.
all unikernels so far suck ALOT regarding security. wouldn't recommend any of them to run in any production environment unless you want to lose all of your data.

NCC group did a good article on unikernels and how crap they are if you want to know.

A better idea, like already suggested would be to create an OS which builds itself according to a target application and system, to host that application on said system specifically. that would reduce about as much code, but keep potential security mechanisms like aslr, stack protection , user / kernel separation etc. in tact.
(now kernels / oses build to target system ,but not application! -> application would only use subset of kernel, and thus kernel can be built to target application, reducing kernel to whats needed).

don't try to be cheap for performance and skip security, we're not in the damned 80s anymore.

/endrant
> The main thing I lack is access to government jobs

I guess my question would be which government? I do government contracting (US), and degrees are not required. The labor categories are typically written so that if you don't have a degree, you just need an additional 4 years of experience. On almost every contract I've worked on I've met a developer without a degree.
LOL. I was one of those keepalive hackers. Once I discovered newsgroups and IRC I'd leave the line up to download while I was at school. Downloading a single MP3 over 19.2kbps took the better part of a day.
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If you run under a vm, your competition is a process, not an OS. Your unikernel is effectively a process with a funny syscall ABI.