skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, he makes a weak argument by analogy

> This lesser-known fact is masked by the isolated points fallacy. The isolated points fallacy consists in taking the high scoring points on a graph and plotting your line on the basis of them. Hence open source champions wheel out the standard examples of success - Open Office, Wordpress and Red Hat Linux (we'll look at why some of these have succeeded later) - ignoring the vast sea of floating half submerged buggy and abandoned projects (over 120,000) that litter Github. It is the sort of technique Mugabe would have used for TV. If you're accused of starving the country, wheel out a handful of well nourished kids for people to see. 'Look, our country is fine; see how healthy these kids are'. Out in the slums the less fortunate die of cholera.
I see impostor syndrome as the dual to Dunning-Kreuger. As people gain expertise, they become aware of the huge number of stones they've left unturned along the path of specialization. That knowledge can become so overwhelming, especially when compounded with other sources of anxiety, that one questions their ability to tie their shoes.

Naming it has power. We can talk through this insecurity, rather than let it eat us from the inside out.
Why wait for a tropical year though? Surely most people will assume it waits for a calendar year?

Of course, even without leap seconds, this severely complicates the issue since you'd first need to figure out the number of leap days in the next 1000 years, which is unfortunately not fixed since 1000 is not a multiple of 400.
You're right. And it's the adult version of "everybody gets a trophy" in that we all by default assume each other equally capable. Look at every single answer that pops up on the academic exchange forum - someone inevitably brings up impostor syndrome, almost no one, except in extreme cases, ever suggests that maybe someone is in the wrong field or in over their head.
My kid is in that age range and I'm going through the same thing as you.

I wake up at 4AM, walk the dog, get to work before 7 AM (some days as early as 5:30), work until 4 PM, get home at 5 PM, play with kid and eat dinner, get kid ready for bed and read to them, and then I have 30 min - 1 hour before going to bed. By this time I'm exhausted and when I try to do anything technical fall asleep 10 minutes in.

Our weekends revolve around my kid 100%. It is rare for me to be doing something besides playing with them or doing errands with them. I'm starting to see some independence though.

I really enjoy playing with my kid and it is a wonderful experience, but I've gotten out of shape and there are a lot of things I want to work on but never can. No hobbies right now outside of being a parent.
> I would be okay with it if the court system actually bothered to protect people's rights and police didn't abuse their power.

This country was founded on the principles that all governments decay, and all legislation should take this into account. We can't give the government power which could be abused to public detriment with a simple change in leadership.
While this link is very interesting, its advice doesn’t seem to completely pertain to the kind of “single deployment” APIs most of us are probably making.

From the draft:
“This document specifies best practices for writing specifications that use HTTP to define new application protocols, especially when they are defined for diverse implementation and broad deployment (e.g., in standards efforts).”

That’s not to say there aren’t useful ideas here (I found it very interesting in its own right), but the provisions against fixed URL schemes is followed by no commercial HTTP API I’ve ever seen.
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Instead, today the villain is...dental fillings.
I thought they actively study and memorise their own games, games of players they currently play against, and games of past notable players. Part of that study and memorising is practising playing the game through from start to finish.

It's not like they accidentally memorised them after they see the game once.
Some TPM chips are vulnerable to key dumping: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/11/tpm-fail_atta...

TPM dies if your motherboard dies, so you'd need a backup key anyway.

There's also no way for you to independently audit the TPM device, so you don't know how secure it really is. Personally, I don't trust Intel to keep the TPM secure, as they've shown they can't (see the above link).

The keys are in the chip if you use them for FDE, so you're expanding your trust that someone with access to the TPM can never dump the keys. This could be a problem if your machine is stolen.

By going the yubikey route, you can move the trust to a device that's physically on your person. That way, if the machine is stolen, there's absolutely no way to recover the keys, and there never will be even if more intel vulnerabilities are found.

You could use a yubikey for the FDE keys, and only use TPM for trusting the boot device. But if you're already carrying a yubikey to decrypt your device, you might as well boot off USB too.
From March 2018.
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What a complete nightmare! I bet that most of that data is useless, and the Dropbox account is just used as a dumping ground for everything and there's no tagging, cataloging, or any sort of data structures.
If the 'every programmer' already has a paying job, then there're may be other ways to advance their craft. For example, joining an open-source project that's worth their while and maybe contribute when ready.

Of course, one's motivations may be as diverse as their perceived rewards. Still, solving problems which need a solution always has a room for programming/design challenges, while working with others lets one connect and learn from the collective knowledge.

Eager minds with free time are precious!
>It's a fluke that I got this job interview...”

>“I studied for weeks, but I’m still not prepared...”

>“I’m not actually good at this. They’re going to see right through me...”

>If any of these thoughts resonate with you, you're not alone. They are so common they have a name: impostor syndrome

I mean it's clear that their secret sauce is just instilling confidence in everyone, and it's great to have such an optimistic view, but reality is that these things are often true and happen to everybody. Sometimes you're just not good enough, sorry.
It’s definitely perfect for that. It’s from this book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6398634-the-happiness-pr...

Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
> Yes there are situations where class components provide more intimate control (componentWillUnmount comes to mind since I'm not aware of a hook for that), but are we really optimizing the majority of our code for exceptional cases?

The return value of invoking React.useEffect’s first parameter is a cleanup function which serves this purpose.

Everyone in this thread is ragging on core concepts like useMemo or useEffect. Once you know these core functions, you’ve learned all the magic. Then you can write spells of your own.
Yep, 70% percent of my freshmen engineering cohorts had flunked out by 4th year.
So life is on balance a negative experience in your worldview? In all sincerity, I hope things turn around for you, because that sounds pretty bad
The term "cartel" is interesting here, if the power structure is indeed the voting population of San Francisco being predominantly homeowners, then as those homeowners are the suppliers of the housing market, it is a cartel in form.
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For real. I have a 1 year old daughter, my wife stays home. I work remotely from a very nearby co-work space or from home some days. Life is still a constant challenge though, can't imagine having to be in an office 8+ hours plus commuting. My wife would lose it.
I don't think electric cars are the product: they're the consumer-funded demand.
The "stuff" thing really resonated with me. I value not having a lot of stuff. I prefer less clutter, fewer things to maintain or care about. I hate that our society is often centered around the acquisition of material things, most of which have no practical use, and even dubious aesthetic use. I'm certainly not completely spartan, and do have stuff, but I try to be careful about what I let into my home (and admittedly have a few boxes of things that I really need to go through and probably get rid of). My sister and her husband own more kid-related stuff than I own stuff in total. If I do have kids, I don't want that, but struggle to see how it's possible. The necessities alone are pretty numerous, and I find it hard to believe it's possible to raise a kid without at least some books, toys, etc.
threadstarter jlawson was clearly talking about genetics.
It's not entirely paranoia. If we're talking the West, there's barely anywhere that isn't significantly more racially diverse than 30 years ago. Who wants their children roaming in a place filled with foreigners who don't share the same culture, have conflicting values, have moral stances deemed abhorrent by our standards (and vice versa), and who may not even speak the same language? Our instinctive mistrust and caution in that situation is well-evolved. Multiracialism is catastrophic for communal trust.
The more egregious collapses, such as with the high violent crime in majority black American neighborhoods or the horrifying rate of pedophilia and gang-rape in parts of the UK and across Europe are testament to the fact that this is a healthy parental response, not misguided paranoia.
HN makes an appearance:

> This is the time when reddit made an appearance. I blessed the Shen subreddit because I thought that reddit was some polite ladies bookclub - obviously showing my ignorance of it. It is nothing of the sort of course and some of its most vicious sites like Coontown - the reddit for racists only recently closed - shows what is so often like. Reddit is a shit hole; and to a lesser degree so are SlashDot, and Hacker News.

> Unfortunately some members of the Shen group, imbibing the mindshare poison, gave much power away to the opinions on reddit.

> The OS fanatics relished their power to bully and shame and people used to mail me and say 'You need to say something because XYZ has said such and such on reddit'. I did on occasion call such people 'complete prats', but really this was whack-a-mole because the supply of arseholes was unending.
Leverage against some random dirtbag who lives in a trailer? The bigwigs are using services like Epstein's, not Instagram spam. And they successfully shut down that potential threat when he was compromised.
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> most open source code is poor or unusable

Is there any special reason to believe that closed source is any better? If we can count the sea of abandonware on Github, then we get to count the mountain of "interesting" code that remains internal to large companies, or worse, the stuff that actually got released on unsuspecting customers.
In general I agree but have you used ghcid? I’m not really sure what people want in ide tooling, I’m quite fine with compiler output and everything else I want from an ide should be language agnostic: goto, search, replace, file navigation, etc.
Ramen restaurant prevalence is associated with stroke mortality in Japan
I detect sarcasm in your response and trust the legitimacy of random white papers about as much as I trust buzzfeed. That being said mercury correlation sounds semi plausible but I had an underwhelming Chem/bio education.

Can you explain the sarcasm in more detail?
Pigovian taxes are applied to mortal situations all the time. The most famous example is probably a carbon tax.

>The point of the tax is not to "correct the undesirable outcome" but rather to avert it as much as possible using reasonable techniques.

If you want to avert it as much as possible, set a million dollar fine for everyone. Why is that unreasonable in your view? If you don't think that would be a good idea, you're implicitly valuing it at less than a million dollars.
Sigh, this kind of thinking is some sort of variant of broken-window syndrome:

> But Board President Norman Yee said San Francisco should be exempted altogether from Wiener’s proposal.

> He said that SB 50 “does not take into account the nuances and intended impacts that comes up upzoning entire neighborhoods” and he noted that there are large developments planned in the district he represents.

> "We’re actually building our share of housing,” Yee said. “Maybe we could better. But we certainly are probably doing better than most places in California. We have motivated communities that want to plan. We should be exempt from SB 50.”

It's definitely true that San Francisco is building more housing than the other counties in the Bay Area, and that they should also do better. But that isn't a license to ignore the need for more housing directly in San Francisco. If anything, it's almost a non sequitor to the basic challenge facing any major city: how do you have enough housing within a reasonable commute of the jobs in your city?

Just earlier today [1] the mayor decried the lack of housing in the city that our public transit employees can afford. Over 250k people were already commuting in back in 2013 [2]. For a city of under 1M people where job growth has outstripped housing growth, that seems like a fairly high "deficit".

[1] https://medium.com/@LondonBreed/fixing-muni-ecb536aea50e

[2] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2013/cb13-r22...
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Maybe it wasn’t figurative. Maybe people wore parts of animals in some circumstances (for a hunt “for magical power”, whatever) and that’s whats in the paintings rather than a centaur type thing, although we don’t know and it could be a centaur type thing.
> First, you'll have to learn to draw to the screen. I had no idea how this worked. You are actually clearing the screen then drawing each portion of the screen in rapid succession, many times a second, to create the effect that objects are moving.

Not if you're double buffering you aint.
THANK YOU for saying this. Not only is it is service to would-be parents, parents who don't feel the chemicals but do feel guilt, but it's also a service to those of us without kids and without regrets.

...and "you da real MVP" for raising your kids well, without "chemical assistance." Thank you.
Let X = "the natural feeling of inadequacy that pretty much everyone feels when learning new things".

Your question is a bit confusing. It sounds like you acknowledge X's existence, but are mostly unhappy with the naming, since "imposter" implies a negative connotation (which X isn't), and "syndrome" implies that it is some sort of exceptional condition (where X isn't). I agree with you on that about X.

That said, I think imposter syndrome isn't about X per se. I am more interested in the case where X gets into smart people's heads and prevents them from being as successful as they can be (projecting a bit, because I too have imposter syndrome). In these cases, it makes sense to not only label it, but also give it a slight negative connotation. At that point, X becomes a phenomenon that is worth talking about.
Yikes. I've done the opposite. A fully qualified candidate was so satisfied in his competence that he was absolutely insufferable.

As he was completing the coding portion of his interview, I broached the topic of comments. "Nah, this is an interview, it doesn't matter."

This was back in 98 and he had a little personal website with a discussion board for his friends. He whined there about not getting the job, so I explained that it was his attitude, and not his skills, that made him a bad fit. His friends seemed to agree with me, that getting taken down a notch was a necessary step in his emotional growth.
some people thought (some still do) that, but so far research where men and women where most free to do what they want, the differences become bigger - not smaller.

Which actually makes sense. if we are made up of influences from nature and nurture and you remove one of those influences, differences in the other becomes more clear. its not rocket science but somehow people are still surprised by it.
I wonder how they measured them. Is it possible with large enough sample sizes the average values would probably be about right? Sort of like that idea if you get 10,000 people to guess how many beans are in a jar, the average will get closer and closer to the actual value as you go?
Ah well, at least collision avoidance systems are getting quite good. Hopefully they improve more and become standard on all vehicles.
Information and physical evidence are two different things. The government can use your password if they can find it written down somewhere, they just can't compel you to offer it up.

But in cases where the government has metadata, logs, or other verifiable info about what is on the account, media, etc., recent precedent has established that they can hold you without charges for any amount of time, in the cases of some individuals, several years, in order to attempt to compel you to give up your password.
Wait, we switched to a dental filling that emits more mercury? That seems... unwise.

And, if our diet is increasing in sugar and we are therefore increasingly needing fillings, the rate of autism could continue to increase even after the change is over.
Do we have the right to have kids? It goes against every principle of "informed consent" - bringing a life into the universe is a grand and momentous thing, far more life-changing than any other action that would normally require consent.

Anyone who is born will die - eventually they will suffer, and they will lose everything. And they may not even live a joyful life in the interval beforehand.

We require consent for far less severe things in modern society.

If a being cannot give consent to exist, then it is not our decision to make.
At one point I was considering trying to write a differentiable renderer for 2d (cartoons) look. It was a bit too much work for my skill level, but I wonder if it got done already?

I mean something that would be able to output a vector representation of something.
Couldn't the script just not have rubocopy run on it? I'm mainly wondering because although I don't primarily code in Ruby anymore, it's still my go-to choice for when I need to write a script. My personal rule is that I switch from bash to a general-purpose scripting language as soon as I need either control flow or string manipulation.
that's pretty crazy. thats like a high end metal roof with all the extras on the high end you were quoted for.
I mean, the claim that something changed about dental fillings in 1970 sounds at least worth looking into...except then I read that the theory here is that mercury in fillings causes autism through prenatal influence. And then there is a chart going back to the 1800s comparing mental illness with amalgam usage. Is this a post 1970 issue or not?

I wonder if the theory could be ruled out with data about people who consume a lot of mercury containing seafood.
Ignore them. Nothing they have to share could possibly be as exciting as your family. They went somewhere, saw something, whatever. Maybe they have some vile tale of drunken stupidity to share from Saturday night. Gross.

Everything they do, every weekend of their life, combined, pales in comparison to the life, love, and family you've created. Their immature adventures ought to register pity, if anything.
I wonder how that number looks if you compared founder CEOs with replacements.
The supes are a ridiculous hypocritical bunch.

They hem and haw about building in the city, but they’re okay with bullying a neighboring community[1] in a different county into building (they threatened Brisbane, down the road, an independent jurisdiction in another county!!)

[1]https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/04/san-francisco-supervi...
This is offensive. People talk about what they’re passionate about, and who are you to judge someone who is passionate about parenthood? It’s condescending. You could apply that same logic to anyone who talks about anything to a degree more than you deem it to be worthy of. I hope you someday get some perspective on life and learn how to appreciate people who are different than you are
From their blog post (https://blog.wealthfront.com/announcing-2020-career-launchin...)

"To qualify for our list of mid-sized companies with momentum, a company must be US-based, privately held, have a revenue run rate by year end of between $20 million and $300 million, be on a trajectory to grow at a rate in excess of 50% for at least the next three or four years, and have compelling unit economics."
Flame graph is only needed if you are having a lot of trouble pinning down the exact call that is taking a long time. In most cases I've found traces to be all I needed. For example if I see that this span of execution took longer than expected and I read through that code and see a bunch of JSON serialization its pretty obvious.

To be honest that comes with a lot of Node.js experience though. You probably need flame graphs to start out with, but eventually I find New Relic traces to be all I need, as I already have a sense for the relative CPU weight of the various calls inside a trace span.
Mostly this just indicates that your model of what 'rights' are is flawed, since it doesn't give the right answer for obviously true statements.
In the Bay Area city I live in, there was an empty building on "main street" which remained that way for about 13 years.

Every few years a potential new business would file for permission. Nope, no, "not a good fit", "too many of your idea already here", and more endless excuses kept the building empty.

Finally, about 1.5 years ago, a business was finally granted permission to move in. About 6 months later, a second business [a refugee from San Jose] moved in upstairs.

Both businesses resemble other businesses already on "main street".

I'd like to know more about the previous 13 years of "we don't want your tax money, we'd rather a big gaping hole and an empty building but thanks".
Aren’t those the people that make up their communities?
I'm talking about the power density of the primary reactor vessel (the part in a PWR that has things too radioactive for hands-on maintenance). In current PWRs, that's about 20 MW/m^3, vs. about 0.5 MW/m^3 for ARC.
I don't really see the issue, but I've increased the opacity anyways :)
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The Collatz map defines a discrete dynamical system on N^+. I don't know about your background, but the connection isn't hard to see for anyone with a tangentially related background. I have studied https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_dynamics (that page does mention Collatz incidentally) myself in a past research project, so the connection is known to me. The dynamical systems Wikipedia page serves as an entry point to the broad topic, but it's a huge field and intersects with many others so apparently a single short page isn't gonna cover everything.

What I meant was that "Collatz's got something in common with PDEs" isn't the unique insight of Terence. Of course the connection isn't obvious to, say, the average coder, but it's universally known among mathematicians who have at least studied related fields for a little bit. Terence's magic is on a much higher level.
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Are you aware of urinary tract infections in children?