skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend therapy. Generally, men in the US find it difficult to seek out help. Often they think it's a failing and avoid it, especially in the context of relationships. Therapy is something you could almost do for yourself, if you could work out the puzzle. Therapy can do wonders at breaking the initial problem and giving you some things you can work on.

Therapists can also provide useful inputs for career and work optimization. They get treated as mental health problem solvers, but you may get more optimization out of therapy than attending a conference or doing something that's traditional for career development.

Finding the right therapist takes some effort. Don't expect it to help initially. Do some education on the kinds of things they treat and mental health in general. I suffer from anxiety, but I never made that connection before.
>>I think you'll still find plenty of interest in the topic (and it's intersections with the others) on the left.

Please provide examples because I am not aware of any.
What falls in the bucket of “universal programs”?
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Have herd of this dude before:

>Since then, he's sold more than 611 million acres of land on the moon. Individual, one-acre lots sell for $19.95 ($36.50 after a "lunar tax" and shipping and handling of the deed) and there are discounts for larger plots. He once sold a "country-sized" plot of land—2.66 million acres—for $250,000.

I really don't know whether I want to hate this guy for being such a con artist... Or to admire him for making a huge wodge of cash from the terminally fuckwitted.

The moon's so passé though. If anyone fancies a bit of more upmarket solar real estate, I've got a 2-for-1 offer on Rings of Saturn this week. Contact me, if interested.
Unless the book has had an updated edition it's missing all the ES6 good stuff. It was good to avoid the pitfalls of JavaScript in the past, but nowadays you should be using ES6, strict mode and, if that strikes your fancy, TypeScript.
Google Translate was good before the so-called "AI revolution".
This post is disgusting and should be removed. Encouraging destruction in chaos is not democratic discourse.
Can confirm, some programs and unis are very selective with very low acceptance rates but the average student doesn’t usually have too much trouble getting into a relatively good program without having to do standardized tests
Technology Pioneers 2020 – World Economic Forum
I think it would be great if they just replaced all statues with holographic projectors so it would be easy to change the statue to whatever the people wanted at the moment. They could even use augmented reality glasses to make it so you only see exactly the 'statue' that you want to see. I think it would make public places more inclusive.
> the logical appeal falls flat when you don't seem to really understand what you are discussing at a technical level.

Qualcomm 865 doesn't make that much difference. Not to mention the 865 wasn't out when those benchmark were done.
This is an amazing story I've never run across. Thank you for pointing it out. I think you got trolled, but I'm glad I got to learn about this as a result.
Minimizing allocations (and deallocations) and optimizing memory layout are just things you have to do for HPC in any language. Though I think that it is easier in Julia than in C/Fortran.
Reduction to a binary is only useful for producing comedically inaccurate generalizations
Oracle forms 2.3 & 3 where graphical terminal apps, starting forms 4.0 it also included windows (and X) clients.
I feel like for me, reading and writing articles like this are a major source of distractions. I often find myself reading articles like this, lessons of self-improvement and tips of motivation and ways to be a better programmer, instead of doing what actually makes me a better programmer (actually programming). To extend upon the article, I feel like one of the easiest distractions from self improvement is constantly reading about self improvement. Not to say that the lessons in these articles are a sham, but that there's a point where the idea of and dream of improving yourself becomes a dangerously stealthy distraction.
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You give every new born a random number. If their number % 10 == 3 they go to college. The end. Will that work?

My theory is that those kids don't do better than other kids.
100%. Normally these articles are thinly veiled attacks on something that has changed in the author's coding ecosystem that has angered them. When I saw hooks in the first few paragraphs I assumed it was going to be a "hooks are bad, mkay" article. It isn't, but still some what vague on actionable points or ideas.

Ultimately no one likes rewriting code and is typically under-estimated since developers mentally trivialize previous work rather than a greenfield affair.
I think it’s totally possible there will be external versions of these, connected through USB 3. Around the size of a hard drive, with an Atom or i3 and it’s own RAM/storage.
Figure out the right interface and maybe it could be used from an iPad Pro as well.
That was a real issue we were struggling to solve. Feels like Rust was the right tool for the right job.
Gregor Mendel was a monk who established many of the rules of heredity (Mendelian inheritance).
I had anaphylaxis after accidentally eating something with peanuts in it and went to the hospital. I was given* Decadron (brand name dexamethasone) among other things, eventually I was fine and went home later that evening.

The next day I got out of bed and pretty much fell over. I could barely stand up. Wife took me to the hospital again, it turns out I had a reaction to dexamethasone.

Definitely not something to play around with.

*I don't recall if it was a pill or an injection. Probably injected, since I had trouble swallowing.
Thank you for explaining this more simply!
I'd strongly tend to say "No" - alcohol is liquid ego, in my experience. Even a single beer will diminish awareness and consciousness.
this is a great blog. i don't think it would have really made sense or resonated with me if i hadn't been in therapy the last year or so almost exclusively working on this. which is what i want to really endorse if you're someone curious or in pain. there's ways to work on it.
If the author is here, can I suggest testing the Dark Reader extension too?
Satirical? I would +1 either way.
Is Netgear the new Adobe (see: Flash) ?
Yes, it's a serious drug indeed. I was involved a few years ago in caring for someone who was taking dexamethasone (as part of cancer treatment).

The side-effects when the dose was just a little too high were......scary. In the sense of severe, bewildering psychosis.
The point is that the SATs don't measure intelligence. "not intelligent enough to do well on the SATs" is harsh. And if anything I think it would go the other way--it's common to get a subpar grade on the SAT even if you are smart and a high achiever.

And regarding removing the bar allowing more people through, that's not true either--it's not like colleges all of a sudden have more seats available. They'll still only admit the same number of students, and they will still select for the best students.
Anecdote: I had straight As in high school, took every AP class they offered, 98th percentile SAT and got rejected from every single college I applied to except for one state school which I’m pretty sure they were obligated to accept me to for being a resident
Same here. I tend to do work in super efficient batches. I've completed two months worth of small tasks in under an hour sometimes.

My default is to put everything off and do it in a batch right before (or after) it's due. But the past few years I've focused on doing batches way ahead of time. Less stressful and much more satisfying. Getting into Project Management certainly helped with that!
Does anything happen to a current citizenship (I'm US) if I do this? Seems awesome!
NIH's All of Us research program joins fight against Covid-19
We Can Protect the Economy from Pandemics. Why Didn't We?
Jitsi is great.
Here is a clickable link to the proof:

https://imgur.com/a/BmrirNH
Ask HN: When should you roll your own persistence for a networked system?
I guess I'm mostly thinking of a server in concurrent reader/writer scenario. The common advice seems to be to use SQL or some form of database, especially for networked applications serving many clients. Yet Git has proven wildly successful while as far as I know rolling its own persistence/storage layer. It's also different in that it's written in C. And while git is distributed, I at least often use it in a more client-server manner (pushing/pulling from github/origin). I could be mistaken on any of these points so please correct me.

From the perspective of "commoditize [your] complements", one could say storage is part of the bread and butter of git's functionality, so it makes sense for it to roll its own. But that's also nearly as true of any transactional or eventually consistent web application.

Performance constrained environments like HFT could probably have a much higher latency and throughput capability by using a specialized handwritten solution and avoiding the SQL translation layer. Similarly, there are plenty of games that are written without engines, though I don't know how many are written without a more generic renderer like OpenGL/DirectX these days and that's a critical subsystem of any game.

Are there any other examples like git in this situation? Are there any general patterns that make rolling your own persistence viable?
Dolphins and whales are even-toed ungulates. They only entered the ocean about 40m years ago.
> [0] https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ipad.html

This is Photoshop only in name, in reality it's a rewritten dumbed down version that shares a few of the UI tropes.

Can we please stop pretending these cut down iOS apps are comparable to the real software
> What approach and management practices are currently used?

As far as I've seen, they don't have any in place.
I personally never really liked that book even when it was new. It's good if you wanna get up and running with JS fast while coming from another language, and are forced to use JS in places but it's not the main language of your project.

But it doesn't really give a strong foundation on understanding the language. It's more like "I know mainstream C-inspired languages, and JS often burns me with its weird quirks like how the this keyword works, I just want to avoid getting burned". But it doesn't really embrace JS itself, just sort of acknowledges that you will be forced to use it in the web so you may as well at least learn the "good" parts.

It's still decent at that purpose, but for really strong competency in JS I can also vouch for the Eloquent JS book and the You Don't Know JS series (I've only read the first edition, a new edition is partially complete and available online).
Zero sum thinking is probably the most central tenet of the broader philosophy of the American left.

That's why there's so much talk of "disparity" or "inequality" vs. actual improvements to standards of living and quality of life. Almost all economic growth creates inequality for the simple reason that the more wealth there is, the more potential you have for skew.

In China, for instance, there was much less income inequality back in the 60's but I don't think too many folks want to go back to those days.

Similarly, I don't really care how much a CEO makes, I care about my own quality of life. To hear the new American left tell it though, we'd be better off all being equally poor instead of generally wealthier with a big differences between individual incomes.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to comment :)
Theirs is AZD1222, fka ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. It has goofy delivery dates for multiple markets.

We've had no bad news because it's a simple design that bets on robust immune response doing the job. It's in contractors' interest to push ferocious timetables regardless of whether this vaccine strategy is viable: if it isn't, payouts are still secured prior to evidence of this coming to light, so they don't get stuck holding the bag. If it is, they're getting to market by next flu season.

https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/vaccines/azd1222-sars-...
Cool to see our extension tested (an RSS reader). What's great with this is that it gives us a metric to work towards improving. I've always been under the assumption that "cpu is cheap", but it does have real effects.
Given the era I think we are talking key punches, card readers and line printers here.
>It’s clear to me now that it's not about what I know, but rather how I think that's different on these days.

yup
probably depends if you are applying to another faang or if you want to work on mission critical insurance technology

people who really need skills are probably good at indentifying said skills
Anarchist scholar AK Thompson on the politics of masks and rioting
New Horizons Thermal Control System
if you're dealing with a major corporation paying six figures for a novel exploit to be developed specifically so a national intelligence agency can catch you, i think going to all the effort of preventing disclosure of your IP address by this method is somewhat plugging a hole in a sieve
I do this with my elderly parents. Doubles as a "powers gone out - are they freezing" alert.
This post did not reach the conclusion I was expecting based on the title. For me, I think I've largely experienced the opposite relationship between ego and my programming productivity.

Learning to program as a kid was probably one of the most exciting developments in my life up to that point, and I expect that's true for many people on this forum. I originally attributed this to programming's usefulness, and the mathematical beauty of watching all the pieces fall into place when solving a problem. And those were surely both important motivators, but, looking back, the primary motivator was the pure power trip of it. Programming is extremely powerful (software is eating the world, after all), and I could immediately sense that, and that power was the biggest high I got from it.

Throughout my teens and twenties, I didn't really consider this, and just followed the high, and it led me to develop skills and a successful career as a programmer. For me, it was a positive feedback loop, where the more I put into programming, the better I got, and the bigger the ego boost. Unfortunately, though unsurprisingly, it got to a point where my inflated ego started getting in the way of my personal relationships, and even my self perception. I considered myself a great programmer, but not a very good person. I became quite self-loathing for many years, but I've noticed that's healed up after moving away from programming as a primary job responsibility, and my personal relationships have benefited, too.

I still love programming for the beauty of it, and I still dive into little personal programming projects a few times a year. Part of me wishes I did so more often, but I'm held back because the only way I've found to get through a project of any duration longer than a few days is to basically develop delusions of grandeur about it. Programming is fun and beautiful, but very hard, too, and somehow without the promise of the conference talk, or the influential git repo coming out of it, there's just too much friction. So, more often than not, these days, I simply don't bother. I guess with my current middle-aged testosterone levels, I'd rather keep my family and friends than be king of the world.

(That said, if anyone out there finds this relatable, but has been able to push through and develop a healthier, less ego-reliant, relationship with programming, I'd live to hear about it!)
See what happens when East Asians from a poor background try to take advantage of affirmative action programs.
aren’t allowed to marry.

The term “nun” refers to a woman in a state of consecrated life, which has a variety of forms. The states of married life and consecrated life are mutually exclusive since the latter involves a vow of evangelical chastity. My point is it’s not a matter of “not allowed” – a man or woman who enters consecrated life does so of his or her own free will with the intention of living out the evangelical virtues of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
That's been my experience with doctors. Even our kids doctor, who we see multiple times a year.

My mom has a fairly good relationship with her doctor, but she worked in the same hospital with him for 30 years.
So education up until about age 12.

That doesn't sound like it has any connection to detainment camps to me.
Introduction to Pyrebase Database
They can't live on land ergo they are sea creatures. ISTM it's a daft claim.
Rust isn't magic. And you can write CGIs in any language. Shouldn't we also ask why are they using their own web server? or why a company with millions of devices deployed has done little testing?
Study on Coronavirus Antibody Therapy
Again, I'm not changing the language. It's using one word instead of another. Big companies have already replaced "blacklist" with "denylist" long ago, and you are going to see more and more of this as time goes on. There is zero onus on me. I just have to watch it happen. The onus is on you to catch up with and understand why companies are doing it. Most people who don't like social change are going to write it off and dismiss it. But if you want to know the real motivations and positive impact it has, you can learn.
> Kinda funny the author refuses to evaluate a five-year-old (?) standard (fetch), labeling it a trend/hype. And what are they holding onto?

Fetch is a very poor standard if you compare it to high-level HTTP clients that have been around since 2010-ish. However it's author states that it wasn't intended as a general purpose HTTP library but rather a low level tool that-level tools can make use of.

So yes: you probably don't want to use fetch directly, making Headers objects using obscure methods, manually encoding query strings, and telling your HTTP client that you'd like to treat application/json as JSON and decode it. Use a library.
It all comes down to politics. Some people want covid to be the "fault" of someone else. The WHO is a good target, because they did indeed have some really bad communication work in the early days of the infection:

1. They stated, more assertively than they probably should, that they believed the virus was contained in Wuhan and not spreading in the community (that's the "no human-to-human transmission" quote that gets taken out of context).

2. Their statements that people should not try to acquire PPE masks were poorly phrased and seemed to imply that masks don't work (obviously they do).

3. There was that one incident, not related to the outbreak really, where a WHO official hung up the phone rather than take questions about Taiwan (for geopolitical reasons, Taiwan is not a member of the WHO). This led to a thousand "WHO is in China's pocket" takes.

I mean, just in general the WHO has not comported themselves well here. There's been plenty of routine incompetence to complain about, and frankly they haven't really don't much to help.

But the political vitriol you hear about them is 100% blame shifting. Most of the people yelling loudest about the WHO failing to give good advice about this dangerous disease tend to argue in other contexts that the disease isn't so dangerous, we shouldn't be forced to wear masks, the economic damage is too great, liberty is at stake, etc...
> Almost everyone I know who didn’t graduate, it was due to finances. Purely academic reasons, at least anecdotally, seem relatively uncommon now.

That's probably true for the Ivy's since they get the cream of the crop.

The community colleges near me have a 25% 6 year graduation rate. I guarantee you that's not all due to finances.
And Reverend Bayes, too.
I wonder if that does shift the window, though? At some point I think you appear to be far enough out of the realm of reality that the suggestion appears unserious and is completely disregarded.

eg, if we were talking about climate change one could say that we should just sterilize every human. Certainly that would reduce CO2 emissions. But I don't think it would move the discussion in any meaningful way.

Defund the Police isn't that extreme, but the soundbite version of it may be far enough out there that many people ignore it in a similar way. Or maybe not, I'm just speculating.
Thankfully Bill Gates has moved on to Vaccines.
I've noticed on Derek Lowe's blog that there seems to be a definite hydroxychloroquine brigade that doesn't exist for any other purported therapy. And as you noticed, this brigade will pick apart HCQ studies for not doing X for a bajillion different varieties of X. (Not simultaneously dosing with zinc and/or azithromycin is the one that tends to be mocked the hardest on the blogs).
Some corrections to hopefully solve some misunderstandings.

> A Lorentizian manifold looks locally hyperbolic, so we need to imagine a light cone. Now the curvature of this manifold tells us how we need to distort light cones at different points to build up the full space.

A Lorentzian manifold is not necessarily locally hyperbolic and certainly the existence of light-cones do not follow from its hyperbolic nature. A Lorentzian manifold may be flat or curved, if it's flat we usually call it also a Minkowski space. Curved spaces come in many shapes of forms depending on the curvature which is a complicated geometric object. One particular case of curved space is a hyperbolic space which is one with constant negative curvature. A hyperbolic (constant negative curvature) Lorentzian (space+time) manifold is also called an Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space and plays a very important role in physics (see AdS/CFT correspondence).

> How the fuck do I visualize this? Is there some way to embed this in low dimension to play with it? For example, to understand regular curvature, you can play around with a sphere and a cone to get a feel for curvature ~= angle deficit ~= loopy deficit ~= holonomy.

Well, we humans suck at visualizing dimensions greater than 3 and projecting higher dimensional spaces into lower dimensional spaces (like we usually do representing a hypercube) is very hard to grasp unless you already know what you should be seeing. So your best bet is to choose problems with high degree of symmetry and visualizing only the interesting dimensions. For example, a stationary (i.e. doesn't change with time -> 1 dimension less to visualize) and spherical solution (2 more symmetries -> 2 dimensions less to visualize) can be easily visualized, in fact only has one interesting dimension! This solution is usually called Schwarzschild's solution. And because it has so high degree of symmetry it can be embedded a low dimensional space we can see, we usually call that Flamm's paraboloid and you can find a pretty picture here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_metric#Flamm.27s...

> I don't know how to visualize the curvature of space-time, and I'm completely unconvinced I actually understand it beyond squiggles on paper. I'd love a way to embed and visualize this. Please tell me if you know how!

Unless you develop the ability the visualize higher dimensional spaces your best bet is to select highly symmetrical problems and visualize the interesting dimensions of those, the way we generalize to higher dimensions is through math not through the visual cortex. The brain is a highly plastic structure so maybe with training you could develop the ability to work visually with higher dimensional spaces but I also wouldn't be surprised if the visual cortex has been evolved and finely tuned to work with the macroscopic dimensions it had available and this exercise would turn out to be futile. After all, the ability to generalize to arbitrary high dimensions may have some cost and animals would have benefited very little from it.
Excellent, this is good :)
Why Duck Typing Is Safe
Or he might have been born a peasant or a slave, and getting out of that pit would be likely near impossible.
Somewhat agree. Fundamentals help, but understanding them won't immediately clarify every configuration item in a Webpack configuration.