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Doctoral programs are at least 4-5 years long and crazy emotionally challenging as well as a pretty surprising drop out rate, if someone doesn't take time to research them deeply before they commit to something like that then I think that person needs to learn the lesson that that will teach them. Yelp is the surface level easy way. Networking and cold-calling tons of current phd and master's students over the course of undergrad and during internships is how everyone does it.
Just curious, why did you pick logz.io instead of one of the other logging frameworks?
Is there something specifically compelling about it?
> They all relish the idea of a salacious story.

Does that make you a horrible person? It's not the most flattering character trait, but in my experience, all of humanity has some appetite for the salacious.
Think it's a shame that such a privacy-last and openness-last machine as the Chromebook is the "standard" for kids and classrooms.

Windows isn't perfect, but it has the broadest ecosystem of applications in the world, and is far more manipulable than Chrome or iOS. Far more.
Really depends on your mentor. I've seen some gross abuses where the union was absolutely essential.

Also the union hooked up like BBQs and whatever so like, that's nice.
The US government throws billions of dollars at things on the norm. This could easily grow in the future.
Curiously, you have been ambiguous in the mathematical notation. Counterproof: let x = y.
Hence a laptop/tablet. People carry these in different ways. People are stronger than they think.
Does anyone believe the NYT at this point?
Also, nothing prevents an AI model from having a goal like maximizing pleasure or uptime. Then we could see some "real" intelligence, in the sense that the AI will do things that will help it 'survive', which might include even trying to upgrade itself.
Hello HN: This is a a modification to an old side-project that explores what is possible when you are left with a shell and no utilities on a Linux machine.
That's where I'm going towards next. I'm going to create a song from scratch using just Ardour and Zyn synth. I actually find Ardour's CPU usage to be more efficient than Ableton or Logic. And honestly, the learning curve isn't any steeper
> Very clean. Also, changing the slightest things required to go through 5-6 files.

Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" is a great book (I only know the 2nd edition from 2019). From a naive understanding of the "clean code" school of thought one might assume that splitting up everything into small functions, classes, modules is always the way to go. But Fowler's advice is much more nuanced than that. His list of bad code smells includes the aptly named "Shotgun Surgery", which describes just your quoted situation. The suggested way to go is then to first inline all the scattered stuff, next to extract parts such that the logic is more contained.

Your rewrite sounds very similar. And of course you are right: School and books probably don't do a good job of transferring this knowledge. That "Shotgun Surgery" paragraph is easy to discard by a reader who hasn't experienced the pain themselves.
I expect he may be averse to choosing a permissive license like the ones you mention, but perhaps AGPL?
I've got a modular phone. Fairphone 3. I hesitated before buying it because almost all the reviews said something along the lines of it being heavy and twice as expensive as a non-modular equivalent. In the end I bought it, and I couldn't be more satisfied.

There's a discrepancy between the criteria of most people who write reviews about phones (and, of course, hardware in general) and 'regular' users, of which when it comes to phones I very much am one.

Technical reviewers - from Arts Technica to The Guardian - care about how speed, camera quality, form factor etc, compare to other such hardware of a similar price. A regular user who buys a phone every few years considers the device in itself, or at most to their old device. This seems fast, it takes nice photos, it fits in my hand. Plus whether they can afford it. This is not only a different set of criteria but a different kind: difference versus in-itself.

This problematises the supposed 'objectivity' of conventional technical reviews. It allows other criteria, ones which are difficult to quantify and therefore value, to become more important. For me: the value of never having to go through the stress of trying to pry a battery off the screen it's been glued to. The value of not having to order confusing parts from an ebay seller in China. The value of knowing that if something breaks, it'll be no problem to fix it myself. And also: the value of a supply chain which avoids exploitative practices.

I've come to think that tech reviews by speed wonks are inately problematic for this reason.
Fantastic. We'll also be looking forward to hearing from you comparing him to fascist dictators and outright Nazis everywhere because orange man == bad. The situations you bring up is everyone's fault for not taking the pandemic seriously from the start.

> This is pure election year nonsense

Nonsense happens every election year. Just like the BLM chaos in 2016 and the Twitter archeologists finding dirt on everyone. History is repeating itself every election year.
>No you can't. Overwatch, CSGO, etc, etc. don't have a way to make a team and queue as a team (against other teams).

I don't think this is true. I play Overwatch and I sometimes play with anywhere between 1 and 5 other players as we have arranged to group up before looking for a game. With 5 other players, it's a 6-stack, and I believe that a 6-stack will always be matched against another 6-stack. As far as I know, it takes the average skill rating of your group and finds another group with a similar average skill rating to play against you.
I strongly prefer the native, compiled software of the old days, and dislike webapps. There's only a handful of webapps that I find useful and usable, while the majority feels unresponsive, resource hungry, and generally a step back from late-90s software.

At the same time, I absolutely think it's the online distribution of webapps that is the killer feature. People only need a URL. There's no download and install process (and the less tech-literate users often had difficulties with that), and perhaps even more importantly, there's no patching. As a developer, you know that all your users are running the latest version you got deployed. You don't have version 1.0, 1.01 and 1.12 floating around the Web as downloads, you don't have to beg people to download and install the patches, you just deploy to the production server and that's an automatic update for everyone.

That is IMO why browsers won as an application platform. In my very limited experience coding for the web, it's a remarkably bad application platform. You don't have many useful primitives. You don't really have a choice of language. You're beating protocols meant for documents into submission so they become useful for apps. It's more difficult to create a UI than it was in Visual Basic, Delphi or Borland C++, and so on. But for all of that, you get an application that someone can start using after clicking one link, and that will transparently auto-update.
When you're a NIMBY, depending on your political persuasion they might say:

* I don't care, just not here

* One of the housing developments in other towns, which I don't oppose

* Working from home is the future, why do people need to move here anyway?

* Further out, served by improved public transport infrastructure.

* Homelessness is really more of a mental health services problem. So the real solution here is healthcare reform.

* The problem is billion-dollar corporations all centralising in one place for no good reason. We should spread the jobs out.

* Who says the population has to grow at all? Capitalism is the problem, the endless growth it demands isn't possible.

* The solution is a bay-area-wide master plan to deliver an integrated response, addressing our current and future needs for jobs, homes, schools, equality, desegregation, mass transit, homeless and mental health services, and a response to the climate crisis.

Needless to say, these are well beyond the power of someone building a few condos. But the NIMBY's alternative is only to assuage their conscience, so realism isn't important.
Good privacy ...
Sadly I think some people's view of whether doxing is good or bad depends on the political views of the victim.
Agreed. A couple of times a year i go try and purge the stuff they send. I do want to see the job searches that I've asked for, i don't expect to see any job posting I've even glimpse at, or anything vaguely associated with it.
In all seriousness someone at Linkedin is getting paid per email sent.
>Although the process started out very fast indeed, a couple of minutes in, the disk's write performance fell off a cliff, which you can see in the radically decreased performance graph above. //

AIUI slow deletion is an MS Windows thing.

A partial solution is offered here, https://superuser.com/questions/76906/deleting-large-amount-... -- command line deletion of files with output to 'nul' followed by pruning of directory trees is reportedly 3x faster.
A pathologist once told me the likelihood of having prostate cancer is basically you age: 50 -> 50%, 70 -> 70%, ...
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> You're better off not worrying about it and enjoying your life.

I would rather have all of the information upfront so that I can make better informed decisions.

We're all going to die. I'm not going to shy away from that by pretending it won't come.
>People assign too much competence of current BJP government.

That is mistaking its competence to get votes, retain power to competence in governance, the latter should have been very clear when it demonetized the currency plunging millions into poverty and economic turmoil from which the India has never recovered from.

We are telling BJP is criminal, racist, and fascist political party(Its parent RSS directly borrowed its ideology from Nazi) which will go to any length to get votes and be in power.
> I don't know why you think "Krauss is often mocked for" this

Exactly for the reason I wrote above, because his definition of "nothing" is NOT nothing. Quantum fields are something.

To make a pompous proclamation like " UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING", then admit that 1. nothing was deceptively redefined 2. that you don't even know for sure.
That seems to be more than enough valid reasons for people to mock him, I personally don't care about Krauss either way, if he can make money using such tactics, good on him.

Also "scientific consensus" doesn't mean much when it comes to cosmology, since there was "scientific consensus" on many false theories like the steady state theory. Making such an argument is often nothing but an appeal to authority in disguise, in order to validate fragile ideas.
> If I die at 75 does it matter if my cancer is detected when I'm 68 vs 73?

Yes, it matters in both directions.

One way is that the cancer might cause you to suffer in other ways, e.g. by metabolizing all of your food, causing you to lose large amounts of weight. If this is addressable (not at all a sure thing!), then knowing earlier is probably better.

The other way is that you might not be suffering. In that case, given that your death is fixed, knowing earlier is obviously worse.

I've never seen someone die of cancer without being treated beforehand. I understand it's a horrible, painful death. That said, the treatments we apply to someone dying of cancer also make for a horrible, painful death; there definitely is a point at which the treatment is worse than the cancer.

Another wrinkle is that treatment may give you a few horrible months, then a few not-so-bad-years before your cancer comes back, and then the horribleness resumes. Those years in the middle are worth something, even if the time at which you die is fixed.

If we ignore brief-to-medium remissions, and the hypothetical patient's time of death is fixed, then the obvious recommendation is to avoid all treatment and commit suicide when your quality of life drops too low. But the uncertainty we have in reality makes that difficult.
I had three different therapies in my life so far. The first one was a bad experience, the other two helped me a lot. I like both therapists but never felt like we are close or connected in any way this article writes about.

Always I knew I'm dealing with a professional. I saw other patients leave the room before my session started. We needed to look for an appointment because of vacations and stuff, it was always just a person doing his job.

And I'm fine with that. I also think it is necessary to have a person who is not too close to you helping you some times. Family members and friends want you to have as little pain as possible and doing better as fast as possible which is natural but often not the right thing.

"On this view, the good therapist becomes a temporary attachment figure, assuming the functions of a nurturing mother, repairing lost trust, restoring security, and instilling two of the key skills engendered by a normal childhood: the regulation of emotions and a healthy intimacy."

The therapist can't repair lost trust or security, only you can. A good therapist will help you do that.
I would absolutely read the list, in part because I simply value (self) knowledge. I notice that some people don't value knowledge for its own sake, and have trouble understanding those who make decisions solely for the sake of knowing, or solely to avoid dishonesty toward others, even at some narrow instrumental expense.

But also, I would read the list of because of its instrumental value:

* If I knew I were likely to die in ten years, I would live my life very differently than I do now.

* If I knew I were at particular risk for certain illnesses, I would do what I can do minimize that risk.
Best work keep continue ...
Is it normal to find the quoted sentence quite humorous?
Hackernews is not really a platform for building a brand. We have no tools to follow specific people. I don't even care that much if you are the original person I was replaying to or not ;) . We are all random strangers to each other.

But if you have something substantial to say and want to put the effort, then write a blog post, build your own brand and own it.
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Afetr reading this review, I have made up my mind to enroll in Machine Learning engineer nanodegree.
https://onlinecourseing.com/udacity-nanodegree-review/
I guess I'll just have to see what happens, who buys it and who does not, and tweak along the way :-)
If you're simply working with audio files, then I'd say Audacity is a really good option. A full-fledged DAW is useful if you're working with external plugins and MIDI files. But for basic audio work, Audacity will do well enough.

It's also one of the best supported and mature audio programs around, so stability won't be an issue at all
This is sublime. If you’re reading this, Trump, please do more of this.
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Breakthrough medicinal research is great, but we should always remember that even most promising results - see the COVID vaccines/treatments we've been hearing about over the past few months - end up not viable at the late stages.

So, cautious optimism, not great hope and sensationalism, is the right attitude to take here.
Product, Development, Sales are the three necessary cores to a product. That said, it's more a UX/UI role than development.
You can't be a philosopher and posit "most philosophy is non-sense" at the same time. If language is the product of ephemeral transactions between subjective people on a need to communicate basis, then does it possess the objective rigor needed to accurately investigate the true essence of the world? If philosophy can only be expressed with language, where does that leave you? Setting aside Wittgenstein while you work on your philosophy may do the trick.

I've been listening to a lot of George Carlin recently. I feel much of his late best work is linguistic absurdism. If we are to take Carlin's assertion that most of us are dumb and society is glued together by bullshit, then so would be our language. If that is the case, then Carlin's stand up is the perfect example of taking language for what it truly is and applying objective rigor and logic to it (which he explicitly claims to be doing in many of his routines), only to reveal the true essence of the world. If anything, Carlin proved that reality is just as absurd as the language we use to describe it.
>I wish society would be humane and let people end their life by an injection.

What's "humane" about that? It's the easy cop out, and hiding the problem under the carpet.

Unlike terminal disease or something "suffering psychologically" is not unsurmountable...

Not to mention tons of people tried to suicide because they suffered, failed, and then found out they're OK after all, and lived their lives just fine afterwards...

>It confirms to me that people are monsters that force their will on others by forcing them to continue suffering or commit suicide in a manner that can fail

Or, you know, people are angels, and don't just give poison to the first idiot that decided to kill themselves just because they temporarily suffer and think in their bad judgement that it can't be fixed...
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This is about startup Reef Technology [1] that provides software and logistics for standing-up food preparation/pickup in locations such as parking lots that lack the required utilities:

> The Power
of Proximity™.... We are creating a network of neighborhood hubs to bring you the goods and services you want, faster than ever before.

[1] https://reeftechnology.com/
Without dismissing your experience, I want to offer a counter-anecdote.

I'm occasionally doing PR for a local branch of the Chaos Computer Club, a German NGO that's like a mashup of the EFF and a hackerspace network. I encounter journalists when they ask me to appear on a radio show or give soundbites for a TV segment. My experiences have all been positive so far. The journalists that I have worked with appreciate that I can present technical topics in a succinct manner that's understandable to their audience. And I haven't had any experiences where they tried to twist my words during editing, though admittedly I haven't talked to them about particularly politically charged topics yet. (Most engagements were for segments that gave general advice on data protection and IT security.)
It's intended to be humorous.
Sandy Metz' book "99 bottles" (there was a second edition recently, now you can choose between beer and milk and between Ruby and Javascript) tries to hammer those points in. I'd say it basically dedicated to the topic. You have one problem and explore differnt ways to approach it with pros and cons revealed and discussed along the way. And "do not rush with an abstraction" is something that Sandy tries to get accross. The wrong abstraction will cost you more in a long run than some code duplication.
Highly recommended.
TL;DR having personal bonds helps you be a normal person. If you didn't have them in early life a therapist can act as someone forms bonds.

In general though psychotherapy is a bunch of quack, as stated in the article the only thing that really matters is the patient and shrink working together.
I'll appreciate it quite a bit less, as this tantrum suggests that he fears being liable for just how much of is patients' experience he shared. The fear-of-doxxing charade never held water, borne out by how comfortable he felt siccing his community on the NYT reporter.

Tucker Carlson recently perfomed the same kind of cynical rhetorical judo. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/21/tucker-carl...)

Influential platforms do, once in a while, see a drop of accountability. The reaction to it is telling
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Going off your quote - cool.

Terminal illness and severe chronic illnesses are not "totally fixable" though.

If somebody's problems are totally fixable... they're not the people needing to be saved by legal dignified euthanasia.

I don't understand why this is so hard for some people to understand.
It's common to refer to an administration by the name of the current President than "the US government," particularly within the US where the Hill is based. You can find numerous references for example to the "Obama Administration, Clinton Adminstration, Bush Administration, etc" in the media.

There's no "agenda" at work here, you're just being needlessly paranoid.
> In the trade publication Parking Today, publisher John Van Horn speculated about the repercussions of ParkJockey’s ascent.

I find it hilarious there is even such a publication. Over the years I have read about other, similar hilarious ones, but I forgot which.

Emphasis mine.
Just an observation: on iOS I can scroll through the table, but I cannot select any cells.
The way I see it ... Most mathematicians nowadays use mathematica or matlab or even python, proving my point. The notation is medieval ... and probably the only reason it survives is because of form factors of paper.

> Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/arnold.html

I see simulating as a part of the experiment. If the proof is wrong it wouldn't last a seconds worth of simulation. I suppose a proof in essence is a pattern or an invariant of the system ... but most proofs have really no meat to them. The notation is merely intimidating like obfuscated code.
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protip: if your prof is tenured and still first author on more than 2 papers a year, they're siphoning their student's work, or they're setting you up for pipelining positions (which are not horrible, but, be aware that's what's up).

I've never had a prof insert my work into their own papers, they've hooked me up to contribute to other teams, but with us it was always "my" project.

If you get a chance to see them present at a conference (lots of these are on video online nowadays), check if they specifically mention their students in the presentation, that's a green flag.
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Power is ability to make people do what you want. It can be measured in money. Facebook has lots of it, like it or not.
For me, DGXL on iOS lets me select and scroll beautifully, but I cannot actually edit (I guess because the cells aren’t text fields, the device doesn’t know to open the on screen keyboard). So it works very well for output but doesn’t work for input.
> What's the best static site generator that meets the following requirements: a) Doesn't use node.js.

So even if a node.js solution would be the best solution, you would still not want to use it? Why?

Anyway, I'd recommend to write a static site generator yourself. It isn't very difficult, you get exactly what you need, and you never get stuck because someone abandoned their project or doesn't want to fix the bugs you reported.
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That "fast moving" more often than not describes only the velocity, but not the displacement. What's good in moving rapidly in random directions and not going anywhere? Maybe spending some time on quality writing and reading would pay off ten-fold.