skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about you so I suppose take this with a pinch of salt as I'm probably not best placed to tell you about yourself.

That said, I hold a general belief that attainment in something is not dependent on your "talent" for that thing. Your "talent" determines your ability to progress in that thing without direction and/or poorly specified direction. Genius allows you to push past everything that has come before and effectively discover new things.
Yes I'm sure there are edge-cases it's a loose mental model or rule of thumb.

So I'm sorry that despite your admirable persistence to work through all those problems you didn't achieve the grade you wanted, but if you haven't given up on calculus I would encourage you to seek alternative teachers / materials that will work for you, as it is fundamentally a thing that can be learned just like anything else. And not in a cruel way, but undergrad level calculus should be achievable for anyone given enough effort and good teaching (assuming you actually want to invest this energy and effort in the subject).

Work smart and hard, but working hard in absence can at best be inefficient grind and at worst can crystallise bad habits...
IBM has a standard to represent JSON as XML
High heels and skirt for females and suit and tie for males is what's considered elegant in traditional western fashion.

It could also be pink hats for men and and yellow umbrellas for women. Or white clothes for the elderly and brown clothes for the young. Or any other arbitrary rule.

Besides, suppose I have a shop and I discovered I sell more if I make men dress ridiculous, women dress erotic and elderly dress funny. So I require a dress code according to age/sex in order to optimize sales. What's the problem? Don't take the job if you don't want to
Congratulations! Just got my hands on it recently so can't give too valuable feedback just yet. The contents promise to be a real good help with bootstrapping and scaling a product or an engineering project. A very broad spectrum of topics are reflected. It has a good balance of being hands-on and holistic at the same time. Pretty much at the first chapter though :) looking forward to read through the rest.
This doesn’t make sense. You’re arguing that this was about capital allocation for you, but if that’s the case, buy a used car for half of what a new car would cost. If you buy from someone like Carmax, you can get access to loans which are almost as cheap as what you’d get on a new car, and you’re buying a car with very little wear and tear.
With all due respect, this is like saying the more locks you have, the more secure your building is. I mean, yes you have to lock some doors to have security, but on the other hand putting a lock on the bathroom door, the light switch and the flush handle isn't increasing security, and could be reducing security. I feel somewhat the opposite -- there should be a very good reason to add security overhead, and without a compelling story the default should be open.

This is why i've been so happy reading about wireguard in the kernel recently. This makes it possible to have a very secure, low hassle default that is completely independent of applications.
But do we know that candidate wouldn't have gone on rampage had they not given him feedback?
OBS is a good solution if that works for you.

Also look at Black Magic ATEM Mini https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemmini - you need to connect a camera with HDMI output to it (i.e., something like a Panasonic G7) rather than a webcam, but it'll do the green screen in-device and output an HDMI signal. You can then run that into a USB3 HDMI capture device that will show up as a normal webcam.
I tried this approach and it didnt work out well for me because my company ended up doing a matrix organization and i had two managers. It turned out that being an ambassador for my current manager's concerns and wanting to make them look good in the larger org didn't work out. They just got upset when they weren't directly a part of the success I was having with the other manager and pushed me away.
15-20 Mbps uplink will be enough for most situations, at 4K. It's not like you'll be streaming ProRes or some other minimal/no-compression data. You should be encoding a compressed stream and sending that to the streaming service. For 1080p, you can probably get by with 10-15 Mbps up, though it is better to have more bandwidth since you might have other things pushing data up at the same time.
> Let’s recap a little bit at this point: A Model S with Enhanced Autopilot (which includes the Summon feature) and FSD “capability” is sold at auction, a dealer buys it, after the sale to the dealer Tesla checks in on the car and decides that it shouldn’t have Autopilot or FSD “capability,” dealer sells car to customer based on the specifications they were aware the car had (and were shown on the window sticker, and confirmed via a screenshot from the car’s display showing the options), and later, when the customer upgrades the car’s software, Autopilot and FSD disappear.

...

> This is all very puzzling. Alec bought the car from a dealer based on a set of features that the dealer understood the car to have when purchased at auction. If Alec saw that the car had Autopilot and FSD when he paid for it, how, exactly, did he not pay for those features?

Sure seems like the car dealer believed those features to be part of the car. Maybe the customer should return the car to the dealer in return for the original cost and the dealer should do the same with Tesla. Or of course Tesla could just save everyone the trouble by re-enabling the software.
A day or two ago there was an embedded software developer here claiming that low-level C developers "know what they're doing", so any languages with built-in safety features impose unnecessary safety restrictions, and that since any software can have bugs, there is no reason to use anything but C. Once that kind of stubborn attitude dies out, maybe we'll stop seeing people leave comments saying "This could have been prevented if they had used language X".
> But all the good will from the other people must be worth something!

Is it possible that there may be a distinction to be made between all the good will from the other people being worth something and all the good will being worth more than the legal headaches, PR headaches, and other potential consequences of someone reacting badly to feedback?

This is the kind of question that demands a quantitative analysis, but I hardly know where to begin beyond that it's an expected value question. Where do you go about putting a number to the value of something that "must be worth something"?
Wired Magazine, January 2000
Buying your first piece of real estate will provide you with a neutral stance on the housing market. Buying REITs like Camden, or another REIT from this REIT list also works if you don't overpay: https://www.reit.com/investing/reit-directory. Buying a consumer goods seller like Apple stock or Target stock helps if the concerning inflation happens only in the consumer goods sector. I'm not a fan of large allocations of TIPS because the returns are so low.
Not really true. I turned down a very good job in Amsterdam just last month, because they wanted me in the office 4 days a week. It was a great employer, tons of perks, I’m sure they were flexible about times and you could move that remote day to suit you etc etc, but still: 4 days in, not negotiable.

I’ve seen the same here in UK. The remote day effectively ends up being an unofficial reduction of working hours rather than an acceptance of WFH as legitimate.
They aren't asked to dress "to the same level", this is exactly the concern people have.
> That means anything that touches it becomes LGPL, right?

Wrong, mostly.

Any changes you make to the encoder library itself would be LGPL, but if all you are doing is calling the library from other code then that is not an issue.

If you make a change to the library, even as part of a larger project, nothing else but that change is forced to be LGPL licensed. If your update is a bit of code you use elsewhere, as long as you own that code it does not force the elsewhere to be LGPL - while you are forced to LGPL the change to the library there is no stipulation that you can't dual license and use the same code under completely different terms outside the library.
I will 100% back up the SM57 (to a slightly lesser extend the SM58, but it's still an easy make). I've also had no problems with Samson C02s[0] (though they can be bright if you don't EQ them well, but have great isolation) and the MXL 2003A[1] (much warmer—great for vox all around). All are relatively affordable.

[0] http://www.samsontech.com/samson/products/microphones/conden...

[1] http://www.mxlmics.com/microphones/studio/2003/
The example you linked to is pretty telling, because not only do the BPG images decode more slowly than natively supported images, the javascript decoding approach apparently breaks the browser's (Firefox's) color management. I think native support is needed for newer codecs to be viable for more than simple demos.
My ASUS GA502 makes all kinds of noises. It has a loud coil whine when the keyboard backlight is off/dim, and the audio chipset is constantly popping the speakers by turning on and off to save power.

I bought it open box; the buyer probably went insane from the noise before they could even set up Windows.
Ah. Missed that part. Thought it was just after it was sold back that it got turned on
RE: the appeal to history

Things are different now. People consume much more media, which is much more diverse than ever before. Thank population growth and the iPhone. Today, there are YouTube channels that only write video essays about The Simpsons, webcomics about engineering, blogs about crystal healing, and cartoon porn; you name it, there's probably a significant audience for it these days. The number of audiences and their sizes only get bigger with population growth, whereas an artist only needs a certain number of sponsors to sustain them, whether it's 100 or 1000.

The real obstacle is monetization, which primarily comes down to the business skills of the artist/producer, as well as competition between fungible alternatives (why pay $20 to watch a video when I can watch it on YouTube for free) and other external factors.
This might be one of those things that only seems true if you live in a world where the bottom quartile or half of people has been chopped off. There are a lot of people out there who are very limited in what they are able to do.

It's maybe not very hard for you or I or Dan Luu to work at something and practice it and reach a level where we are competent or better. But I've seen so many cases of normal people that work incredibly hard at things, and they just never get to that mediocre level. It's frustrating if you are trying to teach or coach or mentor them up, because you can see where things would have to click for them to get over the hump, but there's no keyhole for that key.
There are 9 different ways to write multi-line strings in YAML
Are you referring to the loan-based "financial aid"? This is one of the most hypocritical terms I came across. It's a loan, not an aid. An aid would directly reduce the amount of money you have to pay (discounts, scholarships, grants, etc.). A loan is not an "aid".
I was running video on a Lenovo desktop, CPU was at 100% the whole time, and it didn't heat up or make a lot of fan noise.
There aren't enough surfers in the world to support the needs of capital at the scale of Wall Street. There aren't enough surfers because it's hard to partake in surfing and partaking involves being cold and wet and many mouthfuls of salt water. Regularly partaking means living somewhere with good surf. That's not most of the world. Regularly partaking means having a lifestyle that affords time for surfing. That's not most lifestyles. Surfing is and has always been mostly aspirational.
True, as we've learned in this article. I guess it will have to grip to something else.

But in the theoretical banking the original comment was talking about (let's say 30 degrees), the track would probably have to be secured to the surface...

Well, how heavy is a bullet train, where is its center of gravity, and how much banking does it need if it wants to travel, say, 300 km/h in a (how sharp?) a curve?
This is identical to every other "hobby as culture". For example, hunting and the cornucopia of camo-patterned clothes and random objects. Camo easy chairs. Pink deer bumper stickers.
Agreed. What got to me was that no matter how hard you kill it, there’s no one to share it with if you’re the “best” on the team. They’re always looking up to you. Also you need to feel like you have some backup.
There's a lot of talk about fiscal responsibility in this thread, and I might have a unique perspective on it, living in a small-to-midsized town and being intimately familiar with a lot of people's finances who live there. I have wanted to write about this for a while, so this is a good excuse.

I serve low-income people as part of my job, and I make $49,000/year gross. But my expenses are about half that. I spend $742 on housing and utilities, including phone and internet (remember: small-to-midsized town!). My food budget is $400, thought I haven't spent that much yet. I have (or had) a $253 car payment. And so, I consume about half of my post-tax income and can save the other half. If I were co-habitating, I'd be able to spend even less on housing. Living alone is a luxury.

So why are all of my clients in miserable living situations? (I frankly don't know how to make ends meet at less than 175% of the federal poverty line without going the rice-and-beans route, so let's set those households aside.) Part of it is due to issues highlighted by this article--why do my clients need a $22,000 sedan when I bought mine for $14,000? Part of it is due to the "cycle of poverty"--once you are poor, you can easily get trapped in poverty until you learn some life lessons the hard way (read up on "flex loans" in the state of Tennessee if you want to see some stuff that my clients have to deal with). Part of it is health care, where costs are unforeseeable, and when they arrive they are quite high, throwing a wrench in the plans/lives of budgeters who aren't extremely careful. And part of it is substance abuse--not the illegal stuff, but the legal stuff: tobacco and alcohol.

In the end, I have gone through a lot of clients' files, and buying a car that's too expensive or living in a place that's too fancy is rarely the primary reason for their troubles. Why am I in such a good financial position where I'd be able to make ends meet even if I made half as much? Well, it's because I live in a cheap area, don't have any substance addictions, am extraordinarily financially educated, have enough savings to buy things like smartphones up front, know how to fight tooth and nail for the cheapest possible option when it comes to big life expenses, and am fit as a fiddle. Oh, and though I am fully on my own now, my parents helped me start my financial life with a good credit score. It's hard for people to check all those boxes, and some are out of their control.

So eliminating paycheck-to-paycheck living is a multi-faceted problem, with solutions as varied as better financial education, moving to single-payer so that unexpected, burdensome health care costs aren't a thing, having robust anti-substance-abuse programs, outlawing 270% APR loans (yes, that's what flex loans are...), etc. There's a strange dichotomy: it's important to have the personal mentality that you are responsible for your own finances, and that the government can't and won't save you. That's how financially successful people think, no matter what their income level. But it's also important to realize that there are ways that the deck is stacked against people.
Yeah, no, that's just about lousy definitions. The premise suggests that it's easy to become 95%-ile in anything, say, deadlifting among men who deadlift and not just entire population of the planet Earth. Before I can suggest author to try, he hastily corrects himself, that it doesn't mean "95%-ile among people who practice regularly", so "men who deadlift" is invalid domain after all. Rather, it should be... "people who lifted a thing from the ground at any point of their lives"? Not that impressive. And, sure, just converting yourself from "people who lifted a thing" to "people [of the same sex] who actually go to the gym regularly and deadlift" will get you into 95%-ile of the first, broader domain within a couple of years, because people who regularly deadlift would already be less than 5% of the population.

The thing is, it isn't that easy to actually train for deadlifting for a couple of years, it assumes dedication, some health requirements and basically is the difference between people who do some sport and people who don't. This is obviously ridiculous comparision to anyone talking about anything but playing Overwatch.

So, sure, this surprising life lesson will turn out to be true if you continue to craft the domains you compare in such way that you match competitive ice skaters vs people who were on the ice rink one or twice, MMA fighters vs guys who were in a streetfight once back at school, etc.

And while I don't play Overwatch, I don't think it's actually different than that, it's just that "people, who both can and want to waste significant portions of their life time in a dedicated attempt to become better Overwatch players" are less than 5% of people, who created an account on the Overwatch server (or whatever).
> may be preying on people's vulnerabilities (private coding classes for kids?)

Having trouble understanding how "private coding classes for kids" is preying on people's vulnerabilities...?
I like the EV RE320; it's way easier to use (don't have to be a perfectionist for technique / distance, at least IMO as much as the SM7B), and it's usually discounted at least $100 less.

The Rode RE20 is a very similar mic used in broadcast radio scenarios almost as much as the SM7, mostly because it is so forgiving of poor technique, and when you have guests on radio shows, it's not nice (or often even possible) to force them to be a certain distance from the mic, and use a certain technique.
I mainly use puppetteer.

You can even make it run on a Raspberry Pi and run it all day long.

I wrote a tutorial some time ago.

https://coding.napolux.com/how-to-scrap-web-page-nodejs-pupp...
First, no, it's not that amazing if it's something every 20th person has. Second, height is not something you should fixate on. The benefits of being tall are generally over reported. In certain arenas like basketball it helps. In others, like running, pants shopping or air travel, it hurts. I think it's probably about the 12th most important factor in person to person interactions, after eye contact, body language, eloquence, voice, the elements of physical presentation you can control, etc.
>Based on my interviewing history I'm not in the 95th percentile of programmers - I'm routinely outright rejected and don't even land the on-site interview. And this is basically my best skill for which I've invested an enormous amount of time and energy.

This means you aren't high in the 'programming interview' skill set. While related, I consider it distinctly different than the 'programming' skill set. I think it shares more in common with other interview skill sets than it does with programming. I suggest not using this to judge your proficiency in programming, and if you want to improve this (say you plan to be job hunting soon), I would focus more on interviewing skills than programming skills. Especially if you aren't landing on-site interviews.

For starters, improving your resume to have a good UX and working on how to answer interview questions, especially the non-technical ones, would likely help. Things like how to 'correctly' answer "What is your biggest weakness?" or "Why are you looking for a job?". A lot of it comes down to learning how to lie without appearing dishonest (personally I hate how much honesty during interviews is treated as a bad thing, but I have to play the game by the rules that already exist).
I totally agree with this. I'm an avid Duolingo user with an over 2000 day streak but I would happily use another tool/game/platform if I could learn Malayalam.

My family is Malayalee and I know the entire language in my brain because I can understand them speaking to me,but I respond in English. I would pay a huge amount of money for an English<->Malayalam instructional book and I'd pay a huge amount of money for a Duolingo-similar Malayalam learning experience. Niche and rare languages have little to no representation in the popular apps.
I'm with you. Tried it once but even some cheap beans from the supermarket are better in taste.
You can use official Apple services if that is your opinion. Should people who disagree be withheld the right to commission completely independent repair?
Now that I’ve switched away from Google, there’s no way I’m going back.

It was a ton of effort, and I started because they kept breaking / discontinuing things I relied on. I finished because of privacy concerns. I see no evidence that they are addressing either of these issues.

I’d guess when they lose a user, it is usually permanent.

Less anectdotally, DDG’s adoption curve looks solid:

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

Also, the gmail client seems to have peaked in popularity:

https://emailclientmarketshare.com/

and services like fastmail are more popular:

https://trends.builtwith.com/mx/FastMail

(Be sure “all internet” is selected to see the recent uptick in presumably personal email hosting)
I grew up in the midwest in an area where a lot of Germans settled many decades before I was born.

Later in life I traveled to Germany and just felt ... comfortable. I didn't speak the language or anything, wasn't talking to a lot of people, I simply saw all these faces that I felt I knew...

It was a very sudden change as I had already been to England, France, Italy and etc where things felt foreign and different. Then blamo, Germany and here are all these people I recognize / half recognize.
I've gravitated to more random modes in multiplayer games. OW has mystery heroes where hero selection is random. Hostility is almost always met with "dude it's mystery heroes".
great, those were the days! However, you got me with Slackware, I started with SuSE Linux instead.. ;)
I've also driven a truck over an SM58, dropped it about a dozen times, and seen them smashed up beyond recognition—and they still sound as good as new. Those things are built like tanks.
I would say it's quite apparent that consumer behavior did change. Consumers could have taken cheap money and continued buying cheap cars... but they did not.

But you can't blame Wall St for this. This debacle is squarely on the fed.
Sure it does, baring sociopaths they are still human with the usual sense of empathy. And even sociopaths have a sense of self-interest. You can trigger that sense of empathy and there's many books on it (starting with the classic How to Win Friends & Influence People). And most everyone likes someone who makes their life easier rather than harder. Hell, bosses in my experience promote sycophants (not saying you have to go that far) a lot more often than leaders do so it's likely to work even better on them.
> High heels and skirt for females and suit and tie for males is what's considered elegant in traditional western fashion.

But the dress code wasn't "high heels and skirt," it was high heels and short skirts.

Men weren't being asked to unbutton their shirts to show off their pecs, or to wear tight pants to show off their bulge, but women were being asked to show off their legs and asses, at least implicitly.
But how about a comparable laptop?