skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not necessary that my billing and shipping be same. I might order to ship elsewhere
FYI, the email address is not properly redacted.
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In my experience, the best way to insulate yourself from the pangs of imposter syndrome and unproductive self-doubt is with experience of past successes.

Early in my software engineering career I would constantly and painfully wonder if I was actually capable of fixing a certain bug or solving a new or difficult problem. But then after working hard on a solution, 99% of the time it would work out. After going through this process of debilitating self-doubt and eventual success over the course of years, it has become much more manageable.

I still sometimes panic when initially faced with a very difficult programming problem, but I can put those fears to rest much more easily by saying, "ok, I've solved hard problems before. I may not know how to solve this particular problem yet, but I feel confident that I will be able to figure it out just like I did in the past with difficult problems X, Y and Z."

At the risk of sounding pedantic, part of leaving the beginner phase — and the true value of experience — is developing a kind of armor against those feelings of inadequacy (of course you don't want this to go too far into feelings of overconfidence or an inability to reflect when things do go wrong).

I also think it's the responsibility of more senior engineers to recognize when a more junior teammate might be having those self-doubts and be empathetic while helping them build up their own successes.
It is not a No True Scotsman fallacy, it is simply that the tech and machines/processes used to create the components are far more impressive and represent a more important tech base than the actual output from those processes.

If we want to trade vaguely related aphorisms: “Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.” The tip of the spear is less impressive than the logistical tail that makes it possible.
You sure about all of that?

Those 50 some police did not resign from being police. They resigned from emergency response duties because they were shown that their dept will not support them.

There is also more to that “poor 75yo man” story. He is a professional agitator with a now-deleted social media history of hating the police, despite this hatred he showed up hours early before police did with a police motorcycle helmet he wanted to return because it was the right thing to do, this stated by a Buffalo/NPR reporter who he happened to be there with, while BLM activists knew/recognized him as an agitator and told him to go home, asking him why he was there and replied a few times “just for fun”, then in the full video you can see he is using he is using his phone to scan over police radios (supposedly to skim Bluetooth advertising addresses and RSSI correlation, to get someone information to listen in on private band police traffic), all of this while not wearing a mask up until the interaction with police when suddenly he has “two” masks, one which appears mouth guard of some sorts with a mask over that.

But whatever... it’s a lot easier to just say the police beat this guy (pushed him back from an advancing police line)

https://twitter.com/ConservRachel/status/1268998560412033025...

https://twitter.com/PimpG18/status/1269328910988255232/photo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CubkyIzygQ

https://twitter.com/Sep112001/status/1269696080230350849/pho...
Yes! That’s pretty much the point. The ACT and SAT are really good at finding some of those people but there’s a lot a lot a lot of type two errors. Letting people demonstrate their motivation in other ways and not immediately disqualifying them based on test scores goes a long way.
I got diagnosed with ADD in my late thirties, and by then I could only do the dishes and clean my apartment if I didn't sleep the night before. Since then, I've met several people with ADD/ADHD that has the same experience, and barely anyone else that have the same experience.
It seems Bayes never actually wrote down what is now called Bayes Theorem. (Perhaps he knew of it). I think it was Laplace that recognized the full generality of the relationship.
As someone who was accepted and got to see their financial aid package, I have to mention that it's extremely generous as well. They don't just cover room and board and tuition, there's an understanding that you're poorer than your peers at the university so there's general spending money, money to buy winter clothes, money to fly home 2x-3x a year.

This is a rounding error for Harvard, but I didn't realize how limiting not having that would be at the school I ended up going to (which only covered tuition and most of room and board).
I second this. Flash, HyperCard, Dreamweaver, VisualBasic 6 are all the tools I (along with my classmates) played with during high school before any official cs/engineering training.
Yeah, also private schools make a business out of their college admissions profile, I am sure as this becomes the norm they will inflate grades even more.

I do think along with the application the school is supposed to submit a profile of the classes they offer and the average grades at the school and whatnot, but I do wonder how much admissions committees actually look closely at this. It's also hard to penalize a student for having all As, because maybe they did deserve them!

I think we are going to end up having even more emphasis on legit extracurriculars, at least for the average middle class student.
It’s not just that experiments have not detected the aether, the Mendelssohn Morley experiment and subsequent follow up experiments at larger scales shows that the aether definitely does not exist, and that’s where the problems start. If there was aether we should see the effect of drag on light like we do for matter with the Higgs Bosom field, but we don’t. Photons always travels at the speed of light without any drag in every direction. What medium does light travel through? The answer is that there is no medium for the waves to travel through, yet travel and wave they do.
Lots of us remember the days of XmlHTTPRequest. Fetch is downright modern in comparison. You should understand how your browser actually works and in this case, it's actually gotten a lot easier.
I mean, most people who are dying receive oxygen and/or ventilation. If it does significantly reduce death rate there, that's not nothing.
Depends how the weight reduction was achieved. You can often remove weight and make a structure stronger at the same time by changing the load paths or materials.

Furthermore, removal of material not in the crash structure would likely not impact impact performance. (e.g. drive train mass)
Note:

>Ironically, their paper arrived only months after a study co-authored by Viswanathan, da Luz and Raposo showed a catastrophic error in Viswanathan’s original albatross study. The wet/dry sensors they had relied on weren’t dry only when the birds flew: They were also dry when the albatrosses sat on their nests. Some of the longest “flights” in the data set might have actually been protracted visits to the birds’ nests. The study also criticized certain analytical techniques and claimed that albatrosses don’t do Lévy walks after all, and that it was unclear whether many species did.
The reason there is a potential is because of electromagnetic forces, which are mediated by photons. It’s a bit complicated.
> Trying to appreciate mathematics without understanding its inner workings is like reading a description of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony instead of hearing it.

I personally feel J.S. Bach would be a better metaphor here.
I just never understood this... like, isn't it just a vending machine company? And isn't the whole "AI-powered" really just basic analysis on what products people are buying?
Changelog: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/Changelog

Seems like the big feature is Vulkan support?
"A semester or so" reasonably covers until September 2021. I can't see the world standing for social distancing that long, and as such covid will spread throughout the population just like Polio, TB and uncurable/vaccinable diseases of the past. IFR of covid for undergrads is about 0.002-0.005%, so 1 in 20k-50k.

Chance of death for a 20 year old in the UK is about 1 in 4k, so you're 5-10 times more likely to die for some other reason than covid.

Indeed by moving away from home you're less likely to infect older parents, so it's a rational call.
Can someone explain to me how FFmpeg seems to be the only open-source software to do even just basic functionality with audio.

I was looking at getting the sound wave graph for a piece of audio a while ago, and not only was FFmpeg the only option I found to be able to do it, it was amazingly fast and also free.
> You can't Zen Buddhism your way out of the fact that you're going to spending years and years practicing until your fingers bleed, or until you're completely exhausted, etc.

Many Zen Buddhists know how long and hard practice for mastery is. Practicing meditation is in many ways skill acquisition as well, which is why it is called a practice.

You’ll of course be spending years and years practicing programming, and the insight that ego identification gets in the way and one must practice beginners mind is a simple yet deep understanding that comes from years and years of practice.
FreeBSD 11.4
I have my best coding sessions after I start the day with fifteen minutes to half an hour of mindfulness meditation. That calms my mind, makes me „less anxious“, lets me go into new directions without feeling the urge to walk away, procrastinate, do something else.
Rewrites only make sense if you get a multi-fold improvement. In the history of computing, that's rare. So they rarely make sense.

Well, JavaScript was really horrible when it came out. It was just about the worst major programming language ever made. It sort of reminds me of an interpreter I threw together for a programming language I invented when I was in high school, when I really didn't get any aspect of programming language design, and I based it on a misunderstanding of Lisp.

Given its central role, lots of people used JavaScript, and lots of smart people tried to fix it. Every few years, it'd get a lot better. It actually made sense to rewrite everything -- you got that multi-fold improvement in productivity going 1995 JS to 2000 JS, 2005 JS to 2010 JS, and so on. I mean, with each iteration, it was still obnoxiously bad, but it was that much less bad.

It looked like an exponential growth curve for a while, but you always knew it was an S-curve -- you hit an inflection point when you reach the level of competently-designed programming languages.

At some point in the past five years, JavaScript stopped being really bad. I mean, it's no Python, but it's at least within spitting range. Heck, it's better than Java. I won't even lose 2x productivity writing in JavaScript over best-of-breed languages, at least core language (ecosystem aside -- there is no numpy/scipy/pylab -- but that will come too).

With that, rewrites every five years no longer make sense. Unless there's some fundamental progress in computing, I expect JavaScript code I write today may still be used in 20 years. That's not something I would have said in 2010 or 2000.
Global Foundries may be stuck at 14nm, but they'd be the most natural successor to next-generation if their financials could be improved a bit. Its a shame that the New York based semiconductor fab has fallen behind.
> There is no iOS version, as near as I can tell because iOS is already where Android is headed.

I don't see why there couldn't be an iOS or Android version. It could work the same way Google Drive and Dropbox work. I also use Qfile on my iPad with my QNAP NAS and it works just fine.
So a person at the company offers to help you, and your response is to call him a criminal while he's trying to help you?

Come one now. Don't be absurd. It's very likely there's a mistake in a database somewhere that needs to be sorted out, not some "criminal" behavior.
> Commercial solutions are interested in keeping users locked in and constantly upselling more features to them. As a result of that, you get notifications, features, popups.

At this point I'm pretty convinced that non open source software simply isn't viable for end-user applications and tools. The incentives don't work. You always end up with upsells/ads, insane missing features, bad UX, etc.

Closed source seems to work fairly well for some things like OSes, games, and perhaps some big-contract B2B, but not for apps.
why duplicate something that works really well?
You act as if Apple hasn’t already made a processor transition twice and that their two largest third party software vendors - Microsoft and Adobe - didn’t make the transition each time.
Weird as it might sound, I can imagine a scenario where I wouldn't need anything past SQL in some form. I've got plenty of python scripts sitting around my hard drive that are just fronts for data manipulation. Especially with the cvs import mode, I could see myself using just sqlite or whatever
Yes, a compiler wouldn't have a reason to insert a pause instruction, except to implement a pause intrinsic or some other canned sequence.
>Harvard doesn't offer academic scholarships.

OK, but there are other places that provide scholarships.

>if your parents make less than 65,000 (20% of Harvard students) you don't pay anything.

That's awesome for students from low-income families. I support it 100%! But let's be clear here, a family with a household income of $66k/year (up to, I don't know, $200k/year) cannot afford $85k/year tuition without the student going into massive debt. Those students shouldn't even look at Harvard. It's not worth it.

>It's the kids who go to second- and third-tier institutions and take on massive debt who should reconsider college, not the ones going to Harvard.

What are we arguing here? If a student ends up with massive debt from Harvard, that's not worth it either - right?
Thanks for the heads up. Edited the URL, but I guess you’re seeing the old link still? Oh well.
At last check, Harvard has produced far more world class scumbags than my second/third tier state university alma mater. There's Larry Summers, who presided over their lame attempt to monopolize Russian ACH clearing after the Soviet party fell apart, which landed some professors in federal fraud charges. Then there's Tom Cotton who recently cheered on the idea of soldiers shooting at peaceful protestors at the behest of the NY Times, which fits with their hiring of noted NY Times managing plagiarist Jill Abramson, who had the nerve to say she wasn't paid enough to copy and paste other people's words. And considering Cotton Mather, Tom Cotton is only arguably the second worst Cotton to come from Harvard.

And we haven't even gotten to the MK Ultra participants, both willing in terms of the faculty and unwilling in the case of the Unabomber, have we?

The bad are so bad that they overshadow the everyday grifters, such as the William Empsons of the world who preached rugged individualism attained conveniently after suing their dead wife's family for a comfortable amount of money to live on while not needing anything from anyone else in a purely literary sense, I suppose.
> Ivy League schools will allocate a certain number of seats to allow those with the grades but without the means to attend the school.

Incorrect. All of the Ivies perform need-blind admissions for US citizens; they make an admissions decision without knowing whether the student will need financial aid (which is determined according to a formula). Harvard, Princeton, and Yale are furthermore need-blind for all non-American applicants, while the others look at need for a varying selections of non-American.

https://www.forsterthomas.com/admissionsconsultingblog/which...

Obviously, this is possible because they have huge endowments (they could do just fine charging zero tuition) and they know that statistically a large fraction of the admits will come from very wealthy families that will pay most/all of tuition.
Thanks for the comment, was an interesting lookup and I learnt something. Have to figure how it connects to optics/ML.
Right! But the problem is that you don’t actually get much of an education along the way. You get a bunch of not super useful knowledge that you’ve almost surely forgotten and some test taking skills. This is the downfall of so many programs that teach to the test.
What's the distinction between "SQL" and "code"?
Maybe like a staple in a pile of two dimensional papers, whilst the individual papers will feel the effect of the staple and understand it from one dimension, they wouldn't know about the other bits of paper, they can infer them from the effect of the staple perhaps, but unable to directly or indirectly know for sure. Maybe that will change, but until then, it's a nice way to visualise things.
People shouldn't be tricked into paying for an app reports the IOS battery health since it's already available in settings. This is a net positive for users.
It’s routinely taken for prophylaxis and treatment of hape/hace by high altitude mountaineers (and not just because of the film)
I doubt very many people are buying Macs to run Windows games. Mac hardware doesn’t exactly come with the greatest GPUs.
I forget who of the great men said it but it's stuck in my head that compared to the ellipse ("the general") the circle ("the particular") looks like an idiot's smile. (I guess that's one way of looking at the comparative value of various objects of modern mathematical research.)
I mean, that would still be wrong. IFR for flu is about 0.1% in a normal year. Most reputable estimates for the IFR for COVID are about 1%.
Matching the Spec2k6 scores of a high end desktop does not mean that the A13 has similar real world single-core performance. I've done ARM vs Intel perf comparisons in the past and we mostly ignored Spec2k6 because it looked nothing like real world code.

I'm curious if there are any better benchmarks that will run on iOS.
Gravity obeys the inverse square law over large scales. The extra-dimensional curls only apply over very small distances. We haven't yet measured any evidence for gravity behaving differently at those scales, though.
IIRC the authorities did something similar to bust one of the LulzSec members in Chicago. Once they identified a suspect, they surveilled his residence and correlated his physical presence with online chat logs despite his use of tor.
This should be easy to test, right? Look at the percentage of students admitted to Harvard whose parents went to Harvard vs. the percentage admitted whose parents went to some other similarly-selective school.
Excellent question! For example, if you have a landing page and use Tractific, first it finds the right metrics, then analyzes your data and creates graphs, and gives solutions like change the color of your features block or replace persona block with features block, etc. You can implement those solutions to increase your conversion rate. These solutions were basic examples but AI automatically gives them after analyzing it. Do you have other questions/feedback? I appreciate your interest!
I'm not familiar with the role of Ukrainians here but I'd expect them to be particularly vengeful given the events in the preceding decade.

The opportunity to exact revenge upon Bolsheviks who systematically genocided tens of millions of your people through starvation would be impossible to resist. Some resorted to exchanging children with neighbors so that they would not have to kill and cannibalise their own.

Imagine those Jews are now caged up, having picked their next fight with the wrong people. I can't say I'd do any less.
I actually thanked him for his help.

The company’s repeated actions are indeed criminal - it is illegal to not comply to unsubscribe requests, and I’m clearly not the only one here who has experienced this.

It isn’t some one time slip up. These things are designed, implemented, and signed off on.

Edit: not to mention, my account 1) has been deleted and 2) is still receiving emails. How much more info do you need from me? Anyone who matches that criteria is also clearly having the same issue.

Regardless, it’s hopefully resolved now, and I appreciate that. All I want is to stop getting freaking Triplebyte emails.
Excellent summary of changes here: https://9to5linux.com/ffmpeg-4-3-released-with-vulkan-suppor...
> But let's be clear here, a family with a household income of $66k/year (up to, I don't know, $200k/year) cannot afford $85k/year tuition without the student going into massive debt.

Click the link - "Families with incomes between $65,000 and $150,000 will contribute from 0-10% of their income, and those with incomes above $150,000 will be asked to pay proportionately more than 10%, based on their individual circumstances"

Essentially nobody graduates from Harvard with a significant amount of debt.
It doesn’t actually make much sense to do that for each individual particle, because the strong force will prevent some of them from being separated due to color confinement.
Sorry, pineapples, not coconuts. I don't remember having coconuts but the pineapples had no bitterness and the mangoes melted in your mouth!
What ever happened to Facebook's (or was it Netflix?) technology to create a new unit of time measurement to help align audio and video files? I believe it was called a "flick"...
Ukraine did not have any nuclear weapons after it relinquished them all in early 90s.
It helps for me because starting neutralizes all the exaggerated ideas I had built up in my mind about how horrible it was going to be. When I start on a task, it usually turns out to be only mildly annoying rather than pure misery.

However, I think there is a huge trap with the just get started trick. Often, what is driving you to get started is guilt. If your only promise to yourself is that you will start, then starting alleviates the guilt. And then the motivation disappears.

One possible way around that is to commit to a little bit more. Instead of committing to just getting started, commit to doing a small but significant piece of the work.

Another idea is to just be aware that, if you do the bare minimum that counts as getting started, you're not really applying the method in good faith. Essentially you're just wasting your time by trying to game the system that you yourself created.
Didn't read. Follow JavaScript trends that make sense for you and your team. Ignore the noise, get shit done.

You know what I hate more than "JS fatigue" - it's ppl complaining about "JS fatigue". Software evolves, and I'm always looking to bring a better experience for my users - and then means replacing components sometimes when there are clearly better alternatives, whether that is for developer experience, smaller bundle sizes, etc.
Openwrt on Mt7621 is phasing out hardware accelerated NAT
There is an Android version, but Android is becoming a toxic environment for it. The reason is because of the way syncthing works. It expects broad access to the filesystem, to add and remove files/directories according to its algorithm. This is perfectly reasonable, but GOOG is killing the ability to do so.

EDIT: Re Google Drive on Android: it works by not downloading most files, ie you have to be connected. You can pin files locally, but they go into a special directory controlled by the app. You can't access the files from other apps. For things like syncing a music library this is useless. They have workarounds specific for sharing media files between apps, but why all the complexity? Give me control over where I want to store my files.