skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> socializing

This is probably the biggest factor.

I can't imagine being schooled and not being socially mal-adjusted.

The big problem is that most of the socializing we know, is never explicitly taught, rather it's implicitly imprinted on us as we go through the same stages of life. Skip one of those, and it becomes immediately visible.

In a less egregious example, in Grad School, it took less than an hour of knowing someone to intuit if they have ever had to share their private space with someone else before. (ie. if they dormed in UG or shared rooms growing up). Similarly, spending your formative years in a non-standard environments leads to mannerisms that people similarly pick up on. Often, the differences are not taken kindly.
I think you just proved my interpretation of the quote.

When you die you take absolutely nothing with you except your reputation.

People will judge you based on the values and trends of the day, and chastise you for not being or doing X or Y better.

In other words, you took your reputation with you when you died.

I bet these filthy men also contributed to the spread of disease, there's no way they washed their hands for 20 seconds every time. I bet these immoral citizens compromised the health of their children by painting their walls with leaded paint too.

;)
Yes, PureComponent, React.memo and shouldComponentUpdate are all the same mechanism.
> Whereas in React, it seems idiomatic to just memoize and throw in shouldComponentUpdate wherever you can as much as you can.

Absolutely not, wrapping everything in shouldComponentUpdates probably leads to worse performance as the comparison checks are more expensive in hot paths than just rendering everything again (same with PureComponents and so on).
Which would be solid advice, but he put there is no limit. That's the part I'm questioning.

You'll never get anywhere without self-improvement, of course, but there's no sense pretending we can all be a prodigy like von Neumann - whose natural intelligence was shocking even to the top professors of his day - if we just work hard enough.

There very much is a limit, but one need not be deluded to be motivated or successful.

edit Perhaps the point is meant to be read as 'you can always improve yourself further', rather than 'there is no ceiling on your abilities'. Which seems far more reasonable.
"Just do it."

That sounds familiar...

There's no substitute for repetitiveness and habit.

Feedback is important, but also valuable. It can be hard to get good feedback for free.

I've found that just slapping stuff up there is important, as long as I keep doing it, and make sure that whatever I "slap up" is of the best quality possible.

Every few weeks, I stop what I'm doing, and spend a day or so, writing up an entry about something. My usual read length is under fifteen minutes, but I have a couple of prolix entries.

You can see what I write here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/ and here: https://medium.com/chrismarshallny

I'm not a widely-read author, but everything I do; whether coding or writing, is done as if I were publishing to the masses.

Establishes good habits.

I also find that writing in the vernacular seems to be received well. But that's just me. YMMV.
Here here, we experienced the same thing. Somethings got to give and I'm not going to ruin my relationship with my kids forever, for a job or one semesters grades.
IMO, imperative programming is only intuitive for imperative tasks. Many common programming tasks may be imperative, but many are not.

Looking up a product number, placing that product in cart, and checking out is a naturally imperative flow. Humans would think about this somewhat imperatively and iteratively if they were doing it in the real world.

However, other tasks like formatting or searching data are usually not intuitively imperative in my experience. As programmers, we build a habit for translating these ideas to imperative sequences, but I don’t think that’s obvious to people who haven’t practiced it.

Compare a regular expression to a 40 line manually-written matching algorithm. If you ignore syntax, I think many people would agree that the regular expression which directly describes the goal is more intuitive to think about than the imperative machinery that achieves the same thing.
As a consumer, Uber and similar businesses are an enormous net positive. It is a much better experience than taxis.

It enabled me and my family to get around. Even if taxis had a consistent app across cities, the quality of the vehicle tends to be much lower and the drivers are not as kind. That may be just because Uber drivers can be reported much more easily than a taxi driver.

For smaller cities with a low taxi density, many Uber drivers treat it as an additional source of income to a primary job and I've had a lot of "stay-at-home" moms pick me up in Rochester NY. In NYC, I've noticed the opposite, with most Uber drivers treating it as a full-time job.

Lastly, without Uber, my wife and I would have had to purchase another vehicle. Thanks to Uber, sharing a single vehicle works great when we can't sync up start/end times for work (pre-quarantine).
Interesting, could you please elaborate on how you use it?
iPhone 11, iPadOS and iOS 13 for PWAs and web development
> Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.

This is very true.

Last year I saw a motorcycle stunt display in the Isle of Man. It was all very impressive, and the chap had extremely good control of the bike, but the time that his skill was most apparent was when he had the rear wheel of the bike on a car bonnet and it started sliding off to one side. I thought he was for sure going to crash because there's no possible way to save it when his feet are so far from the ground. Somehow he managed to wriggle around and force the wheel back to the centre. I still don't know how. But that was the bit that showed me how skilled he was: not the amazing bike control that he wanted to display, but the way he recovered from a seemingly-unrecoverable mistake.
Can you comment your own contributions in Hacker News?
I am not sure
I agree. Everyone is getting destroyed economically and the government is just bailing out wall street. This shut down is just insane and needs to come to an end. The cam just make masks mandatory!
I3wm and Ubuntu 20.04 server without any useless packages
In this project, you can install i3 from the Ubuntu server without installing anything that you don't need.
Surely it isn't any great surprise that the algorithms on advertising funded sites are optimised to get the consumers to view and/or act upon the greatest number of adverts, rather than achieve any objectives which would run counter to this, such as finding a small amount of meaningful content. And from that premise, surely it isn't a great leap to imagine that the solution is to break away from the advertising funded model.
Actually this is wrong - for example one study [0] shows only 12% of non-programmers approach problems like this while 54% use event-based approaches. Anecdotally, I've found good mathematicians who come to programming after their studies tend to dislike imperative systems too.

http://alumni.cs.ucr.edu/~ratana/PaneRatanamahatanaMyers00.p...
I can't believe no one is talking about MOOCs and how MOOCs are part of our daily lives and yet they have been absolutely toothless in taking over the system.

I personally think MOOC-with-tech-advancements is the future of education. And I have a suspicion brick-and-mortar educational system has played a role in crippling its progress.
I was similarly bullied through school and would easily get bored with the ease of the content.

I think partly because I never had the fine tuned sense of social interaction that many are naturally blessed with and paired with a dangerous tendency to let pigheaded curiosity be a guiding principle.

But, the the stuff it has taught me is indispensable. It was never taught explicitly, but without school I would have grown up completely oblivious of the invisible walls, thorns and highways that inhabit the society we live in.

Like if you want to infiltrate into a rebel base as a spy, you would want to spend a lot of time learning their mannerisms and adopting a persona. School helped me tremendously in fitting in, because my type of person would have certainly ended up an outcast in this society, if I was to be homeschooled.
Nice idea. It would be interesting to explore if it possible and if something like this has been attempted.
Lots of banks already have that service. My bank has had it so long it used to be a Flash applet. You can generate card numbers with a specified expiration date and usage limit.
My list is: DuckDuckGo, Protonmail (tutanota also an option but want to self-host eventually, rather than switch to another provider), LineageOS (want to get to Linux phone asap, preferably NixOS), OSM, Youtube-dl and container tabs in ff, git, org-mode, qutebrowser and firefox.
SPEAr: Expediting Stream Processing with Accuracy Guarantees [pdf]
This work tries to offer a solution to the resource allocation problem of many distributed stream processors. There is a video presentation of this work as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYwwJ4cn6hY
Ask HN: Is data visualization a viable career?
Is it possible to make a decent living (5k+ per month, USD) doing data visualization? Are there jobs in this field? Are there freelance projects?

To be clear, I am not talking about dashboard creating tools like Tableau (which doesn't take much skill) but more of d3 style, unique ways of telling a data story.
My understanding is that if a uploader does that, youtube has to decide whether to keep it up. If they do, they can then be sued by the right holder if it does infringe. If they take it down, no one can sue them.

So that's a huge incentive to just take everything down.

Effectively the whole point of DCMA (this part at least) is to pierce the common carrier protection platforms have.

Am I wrong? If so, any idea what Youtube don't just let people counterclaim and leave everyone else to argue it out in court?
I'll try.

You visit a site, get the index and it references two more files with two URLs:

"./jquery-3.5.0.min.js"
"https://cdn.com/4kVideo.mkv"

Your browsers get's those files, the first from the site, the other from a CDN. Your site scales according to the band-width that "cdn.com" is able to provide to you.

In IPFS, you visit a site, get the index and it references two more files with two URLS:

"ipfs://QmWYudWcbX6skKub5wg1Ga3LFh3vbW2k7PWfdqHtDYvAdp" (for fun I used the right address here)
"ipfs://QmT9qk3CRYbFDWpDFYeAv8T8H1gnongwKhh5J68NLkLir6"

Your browser gets those files, the first is found in about a billion places. A lot of sites use jQuery so almost everyone has the file's content available, and because you'd already had visited another site with that content-hash, IPFS knew it could just use that one (a perfect safe cross-domain cache-hit). The second is found in less places, but it follows the same logic as a torrent, with data coming from both a IPFS cdn the site uses, along with a few people who've also seen the video, so it loads faster from a few sources than one.

Hope this makes sense. IPFS is really just a decent way to implement websites like a torrent and enjoy the benefits that brings. It's not grand or out of this world, just decent space-saving data-management.
I am a happy DO customer but wish they would have the ability to pay yearly.

Corporate prefers paying yearly to paying monthly, and for that reason work uses Linode. (Which is not bad either, IMO)
This assumes several things, all of which I believe are wrong:

1. it assumes that the references to the writings of Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, William Blake etc. etc. do not litter the linguistic landscape and that people could not improve their understanding of the language by picking up on those references (John Buchan maybe not so much)

2. that there are not levels of usage of the language where these references are required (which I called deep fluency), one can certainly be fluent and argue points, but not know how to adequately poke fun at Alan Simpson's quote of "Who steals my purse, steals trash" without some familiarity of Iago.

3. Finally it assumes that there will never be any conversation or situation in which there will be people familiar with these references, and that they would do anything like sprinkle those references throughout their speech, as a sort of intellectual spice. Widely read people may often do this and, as like seeks like, their acquaintances are probably widely read as well, so it can be helpful to know what these people are talking about.

If you cannot recognize the reference, you cannot respond in kind.

At any rate I thought it a truth universally acknowledged that some phrasings don't go out of style, and must be in want of insertion into any discussion they could possibly fit.
It was only stolen 100-200 years ago. It had survived for 2000-4000 years... I'm not sure your argument holds weight.
Moving from Google cloud to Apple cloud, from Google messenger to Facebook messenger... What's the point honestly?
Irrfan Khan, Star of ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ ‘Life of Pi,’ Dead at 53
I know its meant a a joke but Jay-z copypasta over a beat is legit cool.
https://soundcloud.com/odyssey/jay-z-copypasta/s-JRXSJCBFsPu

So I get where he's coming from. If I heard this version first I would have thought it was actually Jay-Z. The naked recording has all artifices of AI generated voice but mixed into a composition they are gone to my ear.

And also there are a few moments that are surreal. A dragged out s at the end of a phrase. Change of flow from smooth to a fast staccato. Fucking the inflection was near perfect. There is something to this AI stuff.
I think we can be a little more optimistic than that. I agree that it’s probably a white whale to try to build a language which is fully declarative 100% of the time, but if we can make something that is simple and declarative 80% of the time, but falls back to something as graceful as Python for the other 20%, that may be enough to have a really big impact.
I'm the author. It absolutely is about anger management.

Sorry it doesn't seem to be your cup of tea, but it wasn't misnamed or something.
Tests Suggest the Fine-Structure Constant Isn't the Same Across the Universe
2 pizza team?

Well finally I might get my own microservice after all.
Depending on how you define “store”, that basically means no AWS. This particular client understood this to mean no EC2, since data remains on disk, which cuts out the vast majority of the AWS offerings.

For this client the only AWS product we were cleared to use was Lambda, and only for integrating Alexis into the product.
The dude killed three people and injured dozens others and nearly brought down an entire plane. Hes not unfairly represented, he's a terrorist.
"Hire for aptitude, train for skills" is a very software development oriented view. Training on its own is difficult and most available employees outside of engineering don't have a habit of self teaching. I've done a lot better with experienced people in my hires in my profession.
They probably don't have internet access at home. I read here 15% of families don't have internet at home.
Still cheaper than normal outbound data transfer rates though!
Fedora 32 has been released
Sounding "native" whether it's General American English or something else, is often a long path for a "foreigner".

The easiest start is to find a good accent reduction and pronunciation coach to have the initial assessment and understand your unique path.

Unfortunately one often finds that even the basic vowels you think you had nailed down might be "wrong" and have to be corrected in order to have an easily understood and enjoyable articulation.

For a long time I couldn't even hear a difference between IPA [i] and [ɪ]. It took a few weeks to properly recognize and replicate them in English.

Couple of my favorite resources: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-MSYk9R94F3TMuKAnQ7dDg https://www.youtube.com/user/rachelsenglish/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv8YBYZ2s_imUC3H84FwVFQ
> Few people have the attention span anymore to read all of the copy in BMW's old ads

or could it be that everything is so oversaturated with ads that spending two minutes voluntarily reading fluffy ad copy just doesn't seem like a great use of time, even if it's well written?

attention span is its own problem, but connecting the two like this seems... odd.

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EDIT, had more thoughts on this

i mean, i like the old VW Beetle ads. they're charming and clever and i enjoy reading them. but that's because the element of "trying to get me to buy something" isn't relevant anymore, i'm experiencing the (long-dead) ad willingly. but if the ad is a normal ad i see in a magazine... no way i'm giving it my undivided attention for two minutes just so it can manipulate me into liking X
Duo works fine on my $200 Chromebook.
How are you finding the reliability. I've been hosting my personal website on ScaleWay, and there's been quite a bit of downtime (say 40 minutes every few weeks). Not a problem for my personal website, but I'm not sure I'd want to host production services on it.
there's credit available, just in the form of loan sharks or third tier and above lenders with predatory practices already. very common in developing countries and hard to stamp out but demand is there.
I wasn't trying to be a douche. Just tried to find why it resonated with HN and if it was a startup founder that made the blog or something like that.

I liked the story.
During the CV lockdown, there's been a creeping adoption of paid Zoom accounts in the large company I work for, despite ubiquitous free Meet (which is also easier to schedule and use, given we use GSuite).

This seems to be mainly based on the perception (which I share) that Zoom copes better with large meetings and/or bandwidth challenges, and possibly offering the 'tile view' that Meet previously lacked. (It may also be because of novelty, or novelties such as being able to replace the background, which people love.)
Duo is for 1:1 video calls and has stickers and cute animations.

Meet is a video conferencing tool. What's the confusion?
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10*0.9...-0.9...
"Eternity feels a bit too long ... especially near the end."
I mean, if you thought the transfers were going to last forever, I have a bridge to sell you. Their plan the entire time was either to bankrupt everyone else and charge monopoly prices, which would be worse for the consumer, or to develop A.I. cars and fire the humans, which has other consequences.
Pretty much every category on Amazon is counterfeited

https://thewirecutter.com/blog/i-bought-these-things-from-am...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uo2GFh6FGsg
With a typo.
I think that is actually a very harmful myth that huge multinational corporations want to keep in people's minds. We produce less food per acre with modern industrial farming, not more. They optimize for total cost, not for land use. We could feed more people than we feed now just fine without any modern equipment, it would simply create lots of jobs.
i personally believe that freedom of info it's my right, i decide what i believe is true and what's fake or a lie, it's not for you tube to tell me what i should believe or just feed me what they consider to be true not the gov. just the fact that they gave themselves that job tells me that they are trying hard to make me believe what they consider right, true, correct, or in my best interest, which in my Case it's the opposite, there gov. business, is, has been, and always will be TO LIE TO THE PEOPLE OR US, AND THE MEDIA THEY CONTROL, WELL...
COMMON, IS JUST IDIOTIC TO BELIEVE OTHER WISE, AND TRYING TO DEFEND YOU TUBE, IT'S LIKE SAYING THAT YOU TUBE IS BEEN NOTHING BUT GOOD, TRUTHFUL, NEVER MISTAKEN, common people, use your own head and come to your own conclusions, that's why we are were we are in caos thinking that the gov is trying to protect us and the news media are telling dinner truth and want to help us!! you need to be a real idiot to still think or believe that.
Monad is now a subclass of Applicative.
Impact investing – Change the incentive, not the entrepreneur
Real life isn't as simple as moral rulebooks suggest
Yes but also try with periods after all abbreviations. Ave. St. Ln. Ct. Apt. https://twitter.com/eruditechick/status/1253703820430827521
one of my first ebay purchase turned out to be a fake headset. put me off them and i never bothered to look on the site again even though people said it was cheaper.

with amazon it's convenient and honestly the support (while hit and miss) is still better than the effort you get from minimum waged retail workers. i am getting annoyed at the rise in rubbish and duplicate listings though.
They simply don't test and don't count. There is a strong incentive to show low numbers at state level. They conduct covid test on everyone who come to hospital for any reason, but not anyone outside hospital.
I see that oftentimes this stems from the lack of knowledge regarding how the system underneath (VDOM, DOM, JS VM, computer ) works.

Case in point: why are (or were?) anonymous functions frowned upon in React props?

Is it because of the penalty involved with creating a function on each render call? Of course not - my phone can do 19mln of those a second.

It's because the VDOM sees a reference change, so it re-renders the component.

Obviously if there's a performance penalty, it's because of the latter, but I heard the former before as an argument in a discussion.
Hemingway is kind of a bad example here because he writes short and to the point.
> Microsoft forced people to install their browser, and other tasteless things.

> Windows 95 was also heavily about choice.

I recently received a tech support phone call from my mother because her "computer was showing an error that she only has one drive working, and it's really slow. I need all my drives!" Windows computers are throwing errors now if you don't have OneDrive configured. Tasteless. I'm so sick of this.

I don't want OneDrive, I don't want Teams, I don't want a 3d Objects folder. I don't want my computer to schedule its own restart, I don't want my (supposedly) sleeping computer to randomly play an "error" sound. I don't want my login screen to default to PIN instead of passwords. A young version of me considered Microsoft superior because unlike Apple, I felt like I could make choices about my environment. I just gave my mom a laptop with Linux Mint installed, I changed all of the mint icons to windows icons, I renamed Libre office programs to their Microsoft office counterparts. We'll see how this experiment goes.
USPTO: Inventorship limited to natural persons & does not include AIs [pdf]
I have learned anger management the hard way. In my past, We a had team who approves most of the deployments for our team and it was annoying because they used to take a crazy amount of time to respond even for small requests, I was angry because I had caught them on Youtube and chilling on the day when I was worried about my deployment for 6 hours. So, I used to get really annoyed and had to fight with them often. Then I learned to correct myself and learned ways around to fix the problem rather than make the situation worse. Not only on the professional front but also personally I had to deal with a lot of anger issues, so I believe it all comes down to how supportive you are to yourself and how effectively you tackle any problem.
Self-plug and an experiment only, but here's the blog of how I wrote a Storage Driver for Docker: https://blog.bonner.is/docker-registry-for-ipfs/
The ending of the article isn't really true to history, he didn't return to Pomerania because he had given up and had nothing left to fight for, he returned to Pomerania because he inherited the duchy, and decided a life as duke was better than a life as king in exile.
This is true in many fields, including IT. Anybody can install a piece of software by repeatedly clicking OK, and most of the time it'll go fine, but you'll need the expert when the install/upgrade goes horribly wrong with a slew of incomprehensible error messages.