skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interpreted the post much more broadly, way beyond software tools. There are tons of things in existence outside of computers, and each of us is a noob in most things. Just some examples that come to mind:

Playing musical instruments and singing, yoga poses, barbell training with correct form, Buddhism, how to negotiate in an Arab bazaar, tax returns, training animals, riding a motorcycle, how to navigate forests, how to navigate the sea on a sailboat, how to direct and edit a movie, reciting poems, how to structure a novel, cooking and baking well, brewing beer, how the electric wiring works in a house, hobby electronics, how to build furniture, how to shoot guns and how they work, self defense and martial arts, fixing a car, hunting and fishing, BDSM and fetishes, finance products and the stock market, law and the court system in various countries, foreign languages, diet and nutrition, amateur radio, physics, painting, calligraphy, psychedelic drugs, networking effectively with important people, being a bartender or other service personnel, backpacking alone, raising children...

Some may say "I may not have much practice in [particular thing], but surely it's easy, it's just [...]", but I really recommend reading that blog post called "Reality has a surprising amount of detail", which shows how many things there are to learn about simple sounding special cases (like building a staircase). All these things and hundreds more are rabbit holes with more and more branches of rabbit holes of communities, cultures, various levels of expertise attainable in each branch and subbranch etc.
Right now I'm working on electronic music generation. That is, how neural nets and other technologies can be used to generate electronic music. It works roughly similar to text generation using Markov models, but there are a lot of problems not found in text that are specific to music.
I’m not really seeing the parallel. Unlike McCarthyism, this specific instance involves actual law breaking with enough factual basis that the government believes will result in a conviction.
Of course you can find examples of where the private sector outperforms government. And I can provide counter examples. I just moved to a much smaller city (in the same region) with gigabit municipal internet. For the same price that I was paying comcast for 50 mbps internet, I now have 20 times the speed with no data caps.

The market works great until it doesn't. The interstate system, and the military are 2 prime examples where the market is never going to provide a solution. Affordable medical care for everyone is another.
My complaints, with a library primarily MP3's:

1) It often forgets where I am in a song, or in a playlist. Or which playlist
2) After "upgrading" to iOS 13, all my songs now have "jump forward/backward 30 seconds" buttons instead of "Next/Prev". Wat
3) Sometimes it jumps into the middle of the next song. It's done this for like 5 years, although 13 is the first time to actually realize it's the middle of the song, so I can at least rewind.
4) I sync it to a single iTunes library, and every time I back up my phone, it duplicates any playlist I've used since last time... (probably more an iTunes complaint, which is a dumpster fire and has been since version 1.0)

It's generally gotten worse over the years. The Radio feature used to be awesome (way better than Spotify's), but now it's a paid feature?

I love that you can "Play Next" vs "Play After" in iOS 13, though.
I'm not sure that the "Device Account Number" matters. As I recall from the presentation, that number changes with each purchase. And Goldman has promised (ha!) not to sell your information for marketing purposes.

But it's still worth opting-out of your Apple Card's virtual number.

The number is in the wallet app, ... > Card Information
a solar plant actually covers land with hardware, most of it requiring much more rare earths and exotic materials

The most exotic material in crystalline solar panels is silver or perhaps tin. No rare earths whatsoever.
Pgagroal: A high-performance connection pool for PostgreSQL
Your comment illustrates what I found so frustrating about The Big Short, and people who cite it whenever CDOs are brought up: the filmmakers made no effort in understanding the theory behind CDOs, nor did they attempt to explain the potential benefits.

Now... it's possible that the way human nature works, CDOs will always result in companies engage in collective delusion that results in a similar meltdown. I think The Big Short would have been more interesting if it made that argument, rather than merely "CDOs are evil."

EDIT: I was reacting to the movie adaptation; I haven't read Michael Lewis's book.
I think branches are actually harder to reason about, we're just used to doing it since all of us have done it for so long. However I do believe that branches are less straightforward than "linear" code and add to mental complexity on larger projects.

Of course there is no data to back this up, but I think one of the next trends in programming beyond the adoption of functional styles, immutable data, "functional core / imperative shell" will be abstracting away from explicit conditional/branching logic in higher level code.

Obviously people can come up with pedantic/extreme cases where the abstraction does nothing to hide the complexity, or even makes things more complex but im not taking about that. I mean more simple abstractions like what was used in OP, or a filter() abstracting over a while and if combo.

I'm convinced based on personal experience that it makes for cleaner code and will become more widely adopted over the years as people explore it.
Flutter and React-Native are different directions, I think.

For higly customized UIs (think Ableton Live, Photoshop, Excel, etc.), I'd say use Flutter, because of the non-native rendering, it will look the same everywhere. Otherwise use React-Native.
It isn't always possible to answer every question in 15 minutes, but I think it's helpful when people have questions to come prepared with those questions. It's literally our job to provide health advice; the "realities" of dealing with high volume can't/shouldn't change that.
There's also https://vespa.ai/ from (former) Yahoo, which I think knows a thing or two about search.
They lack the necessary computational power to look at the messages and store them in plain text.
Price per gigabyte. Far more economical to use ZFS on spinning disks with a huge NVME + RAM cache than it is to buy 80TB of NVME. As long as you don’t need fast random access to the whole dataset all-SSD is wasted.
Were Neanderthals More Than Cousins to Homo Sapiens?
This has to be something that people have studied.

Novelty and new challenges are good for your brain. I'm positive that has been researched.

As to why learning new things makes you a bit grumpy, I'd bet that has been studied too. Probably it's just that feeling of knowing you're not good at it - and maybe envy of those who are.
The actual bill[1] says (more or less) that insurance policies that include prescription drug coverage must cover insulin with a maximum of $100 out-of-pocket expense to the insured for a 30-day supply (page 12 lines 12-18). That $100 limit is indexed to the medical component of the Consumer Price Index (page 13 lines 1-6). It doesn't directly affect the amount suppliers receive, and the state isn't offering to reimburse anyone for the difference. If you don't have insurance which covers prescription drugs then the limit does not apply.

This will most likely lead to higher insurance premiums for policies which cover prescription drugs. Certainly the insurers and suppliers aren't going to be the ones paying for it.

[1] http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?SessionId=108&D...
I wonder if you mean Tcl is bad, or that the damage is caused by Tcl being powerful and obviating the need for version upgrades of special-purpose software. Or something else.
Was looking for this comment.

I can see a world where they exist together in one universal library, but if they can't figure that out through good UI and UX, they 100% should be two.

Unfortunately they want to pressure everyone into buying a music subscription, so that won't happen.
The only people that do months of research are those with a chronic disease (diabetes, cancer, Lyme, etc.)

However, many people will at least do several hours of research before going into the doctor
>Doctors are mortals too and can only have so much time to draw on info they crammed X years ago.

First, doctors are expected and generally pursue continuing education. As much as the "golfing at an exotic locale during a medical conference" is a meme, many of those conference also educate doctors on new therapies.

Second, let's not pretend that the drug conpany reps don't get as damn close to bribery as possible to get their medications in front of doctors and in hospitals
I never signed a social contract. Can you point me to the text? I'd like to read it, since apparently it keeps requiring me to relinquish my rights.
Hm, definitely not in a loose legal system, so hackintosh is not an option. Then the most affordable way is to either run a (used) Mac on-prem or use a SaaS solution for browser testing.

I'm frustrated by how much more difficult this is from running Linux or even Windows on ec2.
Unfortunately, the battle isn’t over yet.

LinkedIn does plan on bringing this to the Supreme Court:
https://www.law360.com/articles/1237505/linkedin-will-go-to-...
Yes, I'm aware of that.

Given the way I use Thunderbird, none of the disclosed vulnerabilities affect me, so I'm not terribly worried at this time. Should one appear that does affect me, I'll reevaluate what I'm doing.

> In 2020 it is unfortunately simply not valid behaviour to use old versions of software

How true that is depends on the software and your use of it. Should the old version of TB pose an unacceptable risk, then I'll move on to something else.
The author of the study was not a math professor, so your example is not relevant to my comment...
How accurate does it need to be? If you shop in a market stall, or a bodega, then you could be tied to a neighboring store. But if you're in a regular-sized (American) store, it's certainly good enough.
But it isn't. It is licensed to an exclusive drug manufacturer who has a de facto monopoly on the new drug. If it were protected with drug patents then those patents licensed for free to all generic manufacturers, that would be a massive improvement.
One wonders if the populists will offer this a panacea for fear of illegal immigrants.

If they sell it like that I could see the tabloids foaming at the mouth with glee. :(
I got one of these off Kickstarter semi-recently: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pgarcia/neolucida-xl/de...

It works pretty well! Certainly helpful for an artistic novice like myself.
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"but this is a sickness that seems unique to Apple users: they gripe and complain, but-- sometimes in the first sentence of their post!-- vow that they will never switch to something else"

That is an interesting caricature. It's particularly interesting to me because while I've heard many people profess that they'll never use an Apple product -- a weird hill to climb and define ones id by -- I've seldom heard an Apple user say they would never use a competitor.

In real life every product has faults. I don't subscribe to Apple Music but instead use Spotify -- I could name a dozen very irritating behaviors of the product (some absolutely bizarre elements, like trying to clear a queue of songs). That doesn't mean I should cancel and wipe my hands of it. In this case the complaint is that this guy -- who never fulfilled the caricature, though by your post I imagine most assume he must have -- doesn't immediately cancel because of some UI grievances, when every competitor offers its own problems.
Google for your local, state, and federal law. Your continued presence in the jurisdiction indicates your acceptance of the implicit contract defined by these laws.

If it doesn’t vibe with your beliefs (which is fair!), there are other jurisdictions available for consideration, a visa and plane ticket away.
You could make the opposite argument too - our livelihoods are already wrapped up in the industry; so hedge your savings in others.

(Personally I favour diversifying with funds across countries and industries; plus a bet on a particular share, mostly tech for your reasoning, here and there.)
See also: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Induced_self-destructio...
Concierge medicine in some areas allow hour long appointments which makes the exchange of complex health concerns effective. I really wish the model would scale up, but primary care doctors are currently slaves to an administration.
It does not.

A Ph.D. goal is trying the go to the boundary of knowledge in a very specific area (which takes around 4 years), and then extend by 1 inch(by publishing). The main currency is status.

A startup goal is to create customers. The more boring the better, and the faster the better. The main currency is money.
Not sure, seems like the ones that did it already were self-determined enough to work. You would need to compare intra group before and after.

From a metabolic viewpoint cold showers might have some short term energy boost from the stress hormones it releases. However highly dubious whether that is healthy or sustainable long-term. 10-years down the line my bet is you would look like a marathon runner, all wrinkled and with bad skin. Hot showers can increase prolactin so I guess, moderation in both would be the way to go.
Consumer advertising for pharmaceuticals is legal only in the US and New Zealand.

Direct-to-doctor marketing is legal almost everywhere else, and it's by far what pharmaceutical companies spend more money on.
Obviously depends on what you're doing, but in my experience it generally isn't as fast as the C++ I write and compile with a modern compiler. Maybe comparable with other optimised compiled languages with GC. It's not magically fast, but it is quite good at avoiding unexpected slow cases - which can help it "win" even against C++ sometimes.

I generally test with MLton and Poly/ML, and MLton does not always produce faster executables, though most of the time it does. Poly/ML is a good compiler as well, and it has much faster compile times.
They use different parsing algorithms and from the sounds of it, I don’t think jison supports finding all possible parsers while nearly does.
Also not a lawyer, but you cannot force me to accept your terms of service. Contract law requires both parties agree to enter it.

When you create an account, etc., you are agreeing to those terms. If I browse a public webpage that just has a terms of service link on the bottom of it, I've not agreed to anything.
My ability to understand facebook's stack doesn't help me understand whether tiktok will eat their lunch, or whether the government will break up facebook and instagram.

At the stage where tech companies aren't behemoths like that, they're waiting longer and longer to go public. Uber, the poster child for this generation of startup investing, waited until it was a $60B company before it went public. Maybe it's easy as a company to get private investment in the cases where my insider's expertise would help me.

My ability to see that full self driving wouldn't be here by 2020 and that Musk's timelines were hype-fueling B.S. doesn't help me with tesla stock, which went way up regardless.

I think netflix, as it currently exists, is on the way out. But that's a long term bet. Not only can the market stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent, netflix can make changes and turn shit around on that time scale. My informed opinions about the macbook don't help me predict the invention and success of the iphone.

Maybe I could use my expertise for investing if I made investing my full time job, but I have one already, and it probably pays better than whatever I'd earn gambling. What's a reasonably reliable amount to beat the market by in your mind? A few percent? Is a few percent worth giving up a $50k-200k/yr promotion by devoting those same efforts to getting better at my day job? Is a few percent worth investing in my industry so that my portfolio losing value becomes even more correlated to my home losing value and more correlated with losing my job?

Hell, when I vest stock at work, where I'm literally an insider, I immediately sell during open trading windows. It has exactly zero to do with how I feel about my company and everything to do with wanting to hedge my wealth and my employment against each other. A.k.a. diversification.
*immediately types in porn subreddit.
I bought a house just over a month ago. I never met the sellers, sellers' realtor, or anyone else involved in the transaction until the closing date in person. Everything was done digitally including near all communication. I was able to take as much time as I wished to read over everything I was signing. On the closing day it I met the sellers for about five minutes and was with the lawyers for about thirty minutes. The whole process is vastly improved.
1000 Days of Code: Lessons from a 4 Year GitHub Streak
> It's not pleasant to feel like a noob.

Some people live to feel like a noob. It's a rush. They seek the feeling out. When they stop feeling like a noob, the rush goes away and they look for something else they can be a noob at.

These people have trouble finishing projects. Given enough energy and creative thought, they can be quite successful. But the the key is self-awareness.

Noobophiles who deny their tendency can strangle a project or company. They can find it hard to let go when success itself is the novelty.
Do people like printed reference cards?

I’m working on a Swift Cookbook.

It started as web pages but I’ve moved it to Github. Considering doing an ePub or trying to cram a lot into a one pager.

Having Strings, Sets, Arrays, Dictionaries, and Functional examples on one page might be useful, for example.

Here are my functional examples:

https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook/blob/master/functio...

If you know a couple languages, my thinking is that a few pages of examples should be enough to get started in another language.
If they exist, you are guaranteed to find them on HN.
Is there a "standard" for machine learning that's regularly capitalized?
M-Space: The Maxeler Collaboration Workspace
Anyone remember this guy [0] being fined 90 pounds for covering his face?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oJqJkfTdAg
interesting.. they could use that to predict earnings..

A few years ago when Chipolte had its little food scare, Foursquare used its data to predict how much the restaurant chain's revenues would decline. IIRC, it was accurate to within 1%.
Could someone please explain why you'd put nodiscard on a constructor? I'm a bit confused as to when that's needed.
Looks cool. Is this an example or also a tool to parse any script?
This is all true. Tk is a great way to make a GUI on Mac or Windows. Linux, not so much, as it's so ugly and outdated that it's basically unusable. Maybe things have changed in recent years, but a 1995-style GUI just doesn't cut it.
How was that market motivated? Did private companies take a leading role in AZT or Sovaldi research (I’m talking about the origins of Sovaldi not the efficacy studies and packaging)
The worst part is, even the ones that DO benchmark against the S&P500 or similar are almost always doing it wrong. I have a friend who owns TSLA stock. Of course it has done much better than the S&P over the past several years, so he thinks "it's easy to beat the market, especially if you know a lot about tech." But he's comparing just that ONE investment, not his entire portfolio of other (many failed) investments, weighted by dollars. I know he put a bunch of money on a couple of altcoins and probably several other losing stock picks, but he never talks about any of those other investments.
Per hiQ's arugment, but not per any existing ocourt decision.
Great job. Now you'll have to figure out what to do when those making insulin decide to take those resources and allocate them to producing something far more profitable.
I'd love to find out if there was anyone affected in reality. It seems improbable, as random string statements with no assignment is a pretty niche way to comment code, or surely it would have been mistake.

But there's so much poorly written JS on the web that there is a chance!
It Took One Day for Byte to Be as Spammy as the Rest of the Internet
At which point the government could produce more themselves.

Why shouldn't governments own private industry if it still competes through the market?
A multi-tool tool for collaborative development from Maxeler Technologies.
I still browse my library by artist, album, and genre. All I have to do is press the library tab, and the app seems to remember its position so I don’t even have to do that. This doesn’t outrage me and I don’t understand the complaint.
MoviePass owner, Helios and Matheson Analytics, has filed for bankruptcy
I do not allow HTML to be rendered, nor do I allow Javascript. Email needs neither of those things. Nor do I ever allow images to be rendered in email, external links to be followed, and I don't click any links in an email.
I think most people use ZFS for data integrity, not performance.

I make backups regularly (manually, because I want them to be offline), but I'd rather not have to use them if one of my drives die. Unless I literally just finished making the backup, I'm going to lose some amount of work.

My mirrored ZFS pool means that (A) a drive can die and I won't lose _any_ data, no matter how recent, and (B) I'm confident none of the data on either drive is corrupted, because ZFS checks it regularly (every time it's accessed, and during weekly scrubs).
A common (sometimes predatory) tactic is to make a bad loan at a high rate, as part of a self-financed sale to someone you suspect will have short term success but long term failure, knowing you'll get payments for a certain amount of time, then have the asset returned.

It's used car tactics at the next level.
I don't disagree with anything you've written. But if you name a strategy, I can make a case for why it's providing liquidity.

On the one extreme, some firms truly are paid to make liquidity. This is the basis of the maker-taker model. I think Rentech is at the other end of the spectrum.
And if you're not rich, and get cancer, which country do you go to? I bet in aggregate it is never the US.
Like hiQ, you can file a lawsuit and try to win. You might want to wait to see if hiQ wins their case.
We all work with incomplete information and we have to deal with that every day. Your comment to me reads like "you can be killed by a micro-meteorite if you go out so stay in an underground bunker".

Of course there are flawed VPNs and honeypot Tor nodes out there. The fight to track people and censor information is ongoing 24/7 around the globe.

Random event or not, if a government feels that it has to plug a leak as opposed to pwning/backdooring it then to me this means they chose the lesser evil and they really cannot crack ProtonMail. If that's indeed the case then this sends the message to me that I'd like my email to be better protected and I might switch away from GMail.

Whether there is a bigger game involved though, I can't know. Can you?
I was really impressed recently by Wealthfront's mobile site. It's so good and fast, they don't even push you to download their native app. You just don't need it when the website works that well on mobile.
Thanks, this is very interesting. Mind if I ask how you determine relatedness? https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=UsbCHardware This subreddit is very small, I am a very active poster there and yet I recognize none of the related ones.
I was under the impression that the Fama-French (3/5) factor model do pretty well at explaining why certain stocks/sectors do better than the market average.
Now imagine what google has on you.
Glad that at least one other person read the same thing as me rather than engaging in more self-reporting about how great it was for _them_.