skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's clearly much better than that. The problem is that, in a medium like water, light of different wavelengths absorb differently. So the longer distance the light travels through water, the more the effect is, and this effect is different depending on the wavelength. So you can't just open Photoshop and change the color levels of everything in the picture simultaneously. You actually have to know/estimate distances to different objects and make adjustments locally based on that.
How to Be a Successful Person
I fear, therefore I learn
For years, I have spent countless hours in and out of work learning new computer and electronics skills. From embedded control systems and building op-amp PID filters, from signal processing circuits to learning every new JS framework and boutique language like Go, Swift and Rust; frontend, backend, devops, AWS, digital ocean, Azure... to re-reading new versions of books on the Linux kernel and crypto and networking... just... everything.

I do it partially because it is interesting, but in the past few years I've come to realize I do it out of fear. I read articles on online forums like this one and I'm terrified of being turned out to pasture without enough skills, so I focus dedicated effort on learning as much as I can because I'm scared of being destitute in the future. Despite no evidence.

Am I alone? Has anyone overcome this career-related hyper-FOMO? Is this a common anxiety?
I'm also free to discuss my opinion!

Stop trying to silence it.
With the 80-s just ahead, and my guitar skills, I could probably go for 0.5x salary. :)
Like others I don't understand the pricing here. For comparison in 2017, FB made $84 per US user, and $27 per EU user. So you're already paying more than you 'pay' facebook.

> He doesn't expect the social network to be profitable

I'd expect it to be more profitable than facebook at this price

[1]https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/120114/how-does-fac...
Sorry, my understanding is that there is a waiting list unless you're willing to pay. Even still, I don't ever think a donation-based social network will be able to outcompete a free (but totally selling your data) social network.
Do you have a cite for this?
Did I say AMA above? I should have probably qualified that...

But I'll say this. I was very socially awkward as a kid and teenager. I dated some as an older teenager, but didn't feel quite comfortable until I got to grad school (at 22). Then I fell in with a peer group, got a really good friend group (who I still keep in touch with), dated and got married, had two kids, now divorced. So it's definitely part of my story, but my experience now is probably not all that different than most of my friends.
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Walmart has very similar results to Amazon, just not quite as much, and limiting results to Walmart.com helps a tiny bit more. So I don't agree there.

You're mostly right about Target, they pretty much only sell stuff that they carry or brand themselves, but the other side to it for Target is that often you can't find what you want there at all - they have a pretty limited selection, and in any case the stuff they brand themselves just costs more and looks a little nicer, but usually it's not actually quality.
Many meetings are extremely important for me as a manager.

Very few of the meetings are about “deciding things”, rather they are about aligning views. As a manager I see my role as setting up meetings so that the most qualified peoples views properly influences the right stake holders. When everyone aligns on what problem to solve and how to solve it there are generally no need to take any decisions, since work gets efficiently done and few issues pops up that are not automatically solved by way of previously achieved alignment.

While using this strategy, what generally drives more meetings are:
1) Managers and other power holders that cares more about their importance and status than the work.
2) The parts of the staff that are dissatisfied and don’t like their work. In many of these cases, they have been obviously neglected/abused by management before and don’t feel trust in the organization.
In my opinion there isn't an answer to the question.

The italicized _this_ is what's important. You need to answer the question itself. As far as I can tell, everyone is caught up reading the answers as

1. All of the below _are true_.
2. None of the below _are true_.

etc.

but the answers don't say that. They don't refer to other answers. The are direct responses to the question. None of those answers make sense in context.

"Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? All of the above." That doesn't make sense.

"All of the above _are true_" (etc.) would make sense, but as stated none of the answers provided offer a coherent response to the question.
Despite publicly denying doing so, Google keeps blacklists to remove certain sites or prevent others from surfacing in certain types of results. These moves are separate from those that block sites as required by U.S. or foreign law, such as those featuring child abuse or with copyright infringement, and from changes designed to demote spam sites, which attempt to game the system to appear higher in results.

Google has a permanent demotion applied to a site I've run since 1996: http://onlineslangdictionary.com/ . I estimate that my traffic would be 2.5x - 3x what it is now, were the demotion not in place.

These demotions are hidden, permanent, and cannot be appealed. Moreover, these demotions can be performed by hand internally within Google - for whatever reason they choose, or for no reason at all. That is to say, some demotions are manual and not automated.

I have never been officially notified that the demotion exists, in any of Google's available tools or any other way. However, a Google employee checked the internal status of my website and there is, indeed, a permanent demotion in place.

There is no reason for my site to be demoted. This demotion was put in place while Matt Cutts was the head of the web spam team. I asked him about it here on HN, and he lied about it. (I know he lied because of my communication with the Google employee.) You can read my thread with Matt here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408087 .

I'd like to make the email chain between the Google employee and I public. But I don't want to ruin someone's career / life, just because they did the right thing and told me about the penalty.

So... I don't know what to do. Thoughts?
You would also have to give the tax authorities the ability to lookup the reference number so they can calculate how much tax is owed. Taxes can very wildly even in the same zip code (some places are better than others about this).
Legend has it that when Gödel presented his paper von Neumann was the only one in the room that threw in the towel on Hilbert's program on the spot.
Engineers on the ground developing technologies generally aren't responsible for overarching business decisions, no.
It's funny how they hide behind the "Frustration Free" packaging which ends up being pretty frustrating. I just ordered a Dymo printer and they slapped a sticker on the original box that ended up completely destroyed (and I had it delivered to a locker via amazons own delivery people).
As an industry electronic components are not all that different from knock off brands of LVMH products. Is it surprising to see a "customer" jump at the opportunity to score a "steal" on a new set of kicks which might look like the real deal but are certainly not. As slaves to the notion that everything must show up the next day we as consumers have decided that we should not pay for the shipping and are OK with whatever we get...Do you think Amazon makes more money working with Texas instruments or with the sellers that are hoping to make it big by boosting their reviews?

*Former employee at company that exclusively sold on Amazon.
> Why with cash many don't do that, beats me.

The banks provide a service that has some intrinsic value: They protect your cash better than you can, and store it in a place that is physically separate from your home.

Home thefts occur with a higher frequency than bank thefts, and someone who's known to keep large quantities of cash in there home becomes a bigger target. If your money is stored in a bank, you're more exposed to a banking system collapse but insured against ordinary theivery. If your home is destroyed, then your money is still safe; if your bank goes bust you still have your home (or at least the things inside it).
Amazon thinks it can automate itself out of these problems
I agree that regional or currency based pricing is not easy and comes with its own problems. But Wikipedia is one of those sites that's freely available and used by people around the world. I wouldn't have thought of the Wikipedia founder starting a venture that charges so much. The 2018-2019 fundraising report by Wikimedia Foundation [1] shows that all the countries in Asia combined contributed less than Australia and New Zealand put together. So he/they must have deep insight into how much money comes from where and the respective ability and willingness of people to donate from different places. They could've as well priced it proportionally with some adjustments on that data.

[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2018-19_Report
"If you're complaining about the price, this isn't for you" is kind of a truism, but I'm not sure it's a helpful truism in this case. At a moment where the phrase "subscription fatigue" is sweeping into popular discourse, $100 a year is a hell of a big ask for a nascent social network. App.Net couldn't convince people to pay $50 a year earlier this decade; today Micro.blog is building a cult following as a paid Twitter alternative, but it's very consciously not trying to take on Twitter scale-wise -- and it's actually a full blog hosting service for $60 a year (with a free tier if you're already hosting your own blog you want to integrate with it).
"Now, for good reasons that I will explain later, this paper must contain 8,224 repetitions of the string "~~Q(", another weird flower."

Quotes like this from the paper put me in mind of exposition from a Culture series (Iain Banks) novel.
Now that people have seen how fun Facebook is (after all it does have its benefits) I would love to wipe the slate clean and start over with a payed model.

Maybe not as high as Netflix, because there would be no need for such heavy bandwidth use, but definitely yearly/monthly subscriptions.

I don't use social media myself but I hear from family members and friends how fun it is to connect with far away relatives and of course organize and attend various social groups.

But I'm skeptical as to whether wt.social will work with the big players still out there serving a majority of users.
probably an issue of scale
The top-tier schools usually don't accept super-young students, though. What usually happens is, a second-tier school will accept a super-young student because they see no downside. The top-tier schools will tell you, just wait and apply again when you are older.

I don't know specifically about the Eindhoven University of Technology but it seems like roughly the 100th best school in Europe, which in the US would be like going to Saint Louis University. A fine school I'm sure, but if you can graduate there when you're 9 then maybe you should just instead go to Harvard when you're 18.
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In my experience, Amazon doesn't usually make you return damaged items unless they're very expensive. I got a set of free wireless earbuds a couple months back because a previous resident of my apartment accidentally delivered their package to us, and when I called Amazon they told me to just keep it.
Every 15 minutes, someone in the US dies of a drug-resistant superbug
> What happens if you make a typo, comment out a piece of code and forget to uncomment , etc?

Thanks god this is handled out of the box by any compiled language. I can't imagine myself writing tests to catch non-logical bugs.
I wear glasses as well. I've considered laser eye surgery. But I've decided against it, and all it took was learning about some of the bad outcomes. It's just not worth the risk. My eyesight is not that bad and glasses are fine. With my vision, 1 in 10 chance of being unsatisfied is not worth it. Sure, 9 of 10 times I'm happy, but I would far unhappier with a negative outcome for something so unnecessary than I would be happy with a good outcome.
CWL is a declarative/functional language for describing how to execute command line tools (staging input files, mapping arguments, collecting outputs) and how to connect the outputs of one tool to the inputs of the next. It is HPC and cloud agnostic. The same workflow description can run on a laptop or on 1000 cloud compute nodes. Lots of people are already using it to solve their problems, for some examples see https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Acwl+cwlVersion
I've never gone to Walmart and gotten fake SD cards and counterfeit video games...
I apologize. I've used the term "shadow banned" inaccurately.

It's apparently a synonym for something I only think of as hell banned. My quirky brain thinks of HN banning as shadow banning because the comments are visible if you have "show dead" on and can often be brought back to life if couched for. (So, you live in the shadows.)

Thus being banned on HN doesn't necessarily mean you have no voice at all. It can mean fewer people will see your comments and only good comments will be brought to life.

This leaves the door open for expressing yourself and even for potentially finding your way back to being a member in good standing, though that may only happen if something substantially changes an your life.

But people do, at times, have substantial positive changes. Homeless people do sometimes get back into housing. Very sick people do sometimes get better. Drug addicts do sometimes get clean.

And then their behavior may improve without them "trying to behave better" because their life sucks less.
C# only happened in the Microsoft part of the universe for most of its life.

Java has a bad reputation because its community appears to favor over-engineered opaque solutions (that whole ProxyAdapterFactorySingletons business).

Go pushes a quite different style, favoring explicit bindings over dependency injection.

Disclaimer: I write a lot of Go, but I don't have productive experience with C# or Java, except for a semester-long project at university where Spring Boot was mandated. I recall most students having trouble with its implicitness, i.e. they could not build a mental model for why certain changes had certain effects.
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Creator here... I built this because I wanted to keep track of the apt packages that needed updating on my servers, and forwarding apticron emails to Slack just didn't do it for me.
Yes, and I would say my interactions around academic topics were pretty similar. I really loved hanging around University computer labs as a kid and young teenager, and that was no different at all when I got to Berkeley.

And yes, I was pretty isolated from other kids. Part of that story is that I grew up in a very rural, mountainous area. Looking back, I wish I had had more of a peer group. I wanted to go to the Johns Hopkins gifted program, but I think my parents were reluctant to let their little boy go into the big bad world. I regret they didn't.
My general observation (anecdotal) is that people are more willing to pay a whole lot more for physical goods than for services (including apps, content and Internet connectivity).
With things like GNU Social you can have your own social network effectively free and you 100% control it. How can this compete with that? The only real way is the network effect (all your friends are on it so you feel like you have no choice but to join because it's going to be very hard to get everyone to switch to your network). WT Social doesn't have that, so... ?
You've got two replies reasonably arguing with the basis of your post, but it's important to keep in mind something more fundamental, even if we take your overall argument as given to start with:

>I wouldn't be surprised at all if actually those are from cheap doctors.

Even if this was completely true, the ease or difficulty of a medical treatment is a fundamental part of that treatment. If a treatment is simply incredibly hard for humans to perform effectively and carries risk of significant irreversible damage, that is a very different treatment in practice than one that is trivial and/or with minimal/temporary downsides even if it goes wrong. It's like with medicines themselves, where there is the concept of a "therapeutic index", the ratio between the minimum effective dose and a lethal dose. Some medicines have wide indexes, up to the point where it's essentially impossible to overdose (raw matter effects would hit first). These are fine to just have offered OTC for self-medication. Others, including very valuable ones, can have extremely narrow windows and thus require specialist prescription and ongoing monitoring/adjustment, up to and including only for use in a hospital.

Allowing "cheap" (inexperienced? unskilled? incorrect training?) practitioners to perform LASIK was itself a medical choice. Current training/licensing regimes are an inextricable part of the LASIK procedure, and if in practice there have been significant adverse results that should still be reviewed. It wouldn't have to mean banning the procedure entirely, but if it's a lot more dangerous than originally assessed the how|who|where of its performance might need refinement. "Caveat emptor lol" isn't how a good medical system is run.
Best way to motivate people? Trust them.

Trust is extremely rare in the modern work place. From grueling interview loops designed to weed out "fakers" to open offices, to micro managers, to always on Slackers...

A little bit of trust goes a long way. Find good people and don't treat them like they're out to rip you off and their motivation will flow.
Oh wow! I just checked the SAME listing again (that's in my order history) and they have changed it YET AGAIN so now it is a listing for a complete knock-off Philips Sonicare toothbrush...not just the brush heads, but the brush body itself. Of course, I still have an "order again" button in my order history. For reference, when I originally ordered the brush heads, they were $15.99. The brush in the listing now is $59.99. This is insanity!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NN07IMW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

EDIT: It does appear they finally removed swaths of old reviews. Finally.
and even with a good school, how much of receiving a good education is tied to good sleep and good diet? Being well fed and well rested is very important.

Coupled with new belief in the effects of epigenetics, bad food and sleep becomes something that can pass down generationly, both in habit and in gene expression.

Finally, once you reach a certain age, structured education disappears, and most peoples continuous self improvement comes from newspapers and television news. As journalism has forgotten its duty and role in education and become almost exclusively about capturing attention and feeding lust for entertainment, the nightly news acts under a veil of appearing educational.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullartic...

They calculated in 1/2000 lifetime chance of vision loss from contacts vs a 1/10000 chance for refractive surgery.
Ha you're right! When I was proofreading my comment, excepted stood out to me but I couldn't figure out why it seemed off. I do that a lot.
I got a chance to ask Woz a question at a speaking engagement. I asked him what he thought about the fact that I don't own my IOS device like I owned my Apple II computers-- that I can't tinker with the software and hardware and do what I please with it. His reply, which I don't recall verbatim, was to the effect of: "We have to have locked-down devices today so we can have security."

It made me very, very sad.
I've sat in on calls with Amazon Employees where they tell you to do exactly this to boost sales.......and then deny that they ever did it when you are contacted by the IP rights holder.

https://brandservices.amazon.com/projectzero
I understand the 'cosmetic' argument, and would like to offer my personal experiences as a counter.

I was 20/200 overall vision, and wore glasses since I was 11. At age 27, before going into law enforcement, I underwent the Lasik operation, and it was definitely a life changer.

Living near swamps, in the south, it wasnt uncommon to walk outside from an air conditioned building, and have your glasses instantly fog. My skin gets incredibly oily and the glasses would slide down my face. It was hard to find frames that didn't leave huge uncovered and distracting gaps in my peripheral vision from being too small.

In the academy, I saw plenty of guys have to deal with glasses falling off of their faces while doing pushups/working out. They'd have to evaluate "Do I want to see or do I want to not break my glasses" during defensive tactics training.

Post graduation, I can only imagine how negatively glasses would've impacted my job. Water getting on the lenses in the rain, splatter getting on them while tracking people through the woods. Sweat and condensation blocking your vision. This assumes they stay on.

Having to wrestle around with someone to get them into handcuffs is difficult enough, and its incredibly easy to get tunnel vision. Staying aware of your surroundings is important, and there would be a significant amount of due stress if you couldn't see what you were doing because your glasses got knocked into a ditch.
i think it could actually work. a couple of messengers (slightly different product but still...) have tried offering good alternatives to whatsapp at a sensible price. It turns out, people aren't motivated to switch even if the price is low.

When you make it expensive, otoh, it feels exclusive. After some reputation is built you can somewhat lower the price and perhaps many people are thrilled that they can join a very exclusive club.

whether this works out remains to be seen. success in this area is hardly likely but I doubt pricing is the determining factor.
>Both the Republicans and Democrats support job-retraining programs

Care to point me to campaign promises in 2016 to this effect? Or perhaps actions by the current administration in this direction? All I've seen or heard is pining for "clean coal" in various forms.

>The Democrats did lean for a bit towards offering something stronger, but proposals like universal health insurance were voted down by the centrist/neoliberal faction in internal party politics, and didn't make it into the 2016 platform

So these voters were so distressed by this that they decided to vote for the party whose stated goal was to remove health insurance from the poor and sick? This argument doesn't seem to hold water.
As someone who actually got the same degree at the same University as thd kid, I can confirm this is true. The amount of coursework he skipped is relatively high (every group project, some mandatory non-engineering subjects, at least totalling to 45 ECTS on top of my head) and the freedom he got when doing courses is unprecedented: no mandatory attendance and only oral examinations.

A 14 year old girl started the same program around 2006, she did do the full, regular coursework.
https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Acwl+cwlVersion