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>"“Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.”

— Benjamin Franklin"

[...]

>"Destined to Fail, Arriving Successfully

Look, youngsters my age (17) or older haven’t experienced true failure in their life. Why? Most of them because they haven’t really tried anything.

To fail, you have to try. If you never try, you never fail.

Since early on, we take pre-planned paths such as standardized testing and getting A’s. As long as you do nothing dumb and do what teachers tell you, you will be fairly successful. Just be complacent and follow others. Simple, right?

Real-life is not like that.

Once you graduate college and you are finally dropped off at the so-called “real world” with no instructions.

Most people struggle with how to be successful. You try things and you fail.

The first failures are rough because you aren’t used to them, so they are cruelly painful. Like when you told that one girl in fourth grade you liked her, but she rejected you. Well, maybe it’s not that painful.

You try things and you fail. Then one of two things takes place. You either try again and learn and improve or you avoid pain altogether.

Again, neither is right nor wrong. Each one comes with pros and cons.

The first option of trying things and failing is a lot tougher short-term but benefits people long term. Few people take this road because

humans love comfort and avoid pain.

The second option of avoiding pain is far more common and

causes people to stick with jobs and careers they don’t like because it’s “too hard” to change. This road is easier in the short-term but leads many people to become depressed and “giving up,”

which is what I’m talking about when people grow up and “lose ambition.”"
New Zealand now the most powerful passport in the world
Keep going! It's worth it, the second part is great, though the ending is a little flat.
Best Practice Tips for PostgreSQL Bulk Data Loading
Azure TLS Certificate Changes
A new video series for beginners to learn JavaScript
Just off the top of my head, there are .NET copies of:

- Akka https://github.com/akka/akka
- Lucene https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr
- Aeron https://github.com/real-logic/aeron
- Retrofit https://github.com/square/retrofit

Not to mention projects like Apache Spark, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Druid - Java projects. Many projects (Foundation DB, Scylla DB, I could find more) will have in-house support for Java and not .NET.

The .NET equivalents to these libraries tend to be playing catch up. Xamarin Android will always be playing catch-up to Android's Java/Kotlin APIs for Android. Big machine learning projects like PyTorch and TensorFlow tend to give first-class support of some fashion to a Java API (mostly due to Android). Is there a .NET equivalent to Deeplearning4j? Hadoop? Hive? Kakfa?

In Java there is a proliferation of web projects: Spring, Vert.x, Quarkus, Micronaut, Play 2, Spark Java; Netty, Jetty, Apache. In .NET all you ever hear about is Microsoft projects ASP.NET core; Kestrel, IIS.

Working as a .NET dev, when there is an SDK, if it's not from Microsoft, it's clear the .NET SDK is a lower priority for bug fixes and new features compared to e.g. the Java/Python/etc.
Interestingly, I used taxact and taxact programmers thought that all filers had to answer that question. In case of a Yes, they added a Schedule 1 form with that question on top.
Most countries have experienced strange miscarriages of justice, from Issei Sagawa in Japan, to any controversial figure from O.J. Simpson to George Zimmerman in the U.S., and if you want to get political, any number of elected, military, or intelligence leaders responsible for any number of violent conflicts in the past few decades.
I'm willing to make an exception in this case.
As a sysadmin who needs to prepare literal thousands of finicky packages with each major version, I'd love to return to the C release cycle of ~10 years.
Theory-laden != axiom-laden. Theories are not axioms.
It is like a redesigned reddit with most of the features missing and doesn't recognize dark mode by default.
"100x more computationally expensive" but also, intrinsically more parallelizable than back prop. From the paper:

"In terms of computational cost, one inference iteration in the predictive coding network is about as
costly as a backprop backwards pass. Thus, due to using 100-200 iterations for full convergence, our
algorithm is substantially more expensive than backprop which limits the scalability of our method.
However, this serial cost is misleading when talking about highly parallel neural architectures. In the
brain, neurons cannot wait for a sequential forward and backward sweep. By phrasing our algorithm
as a global descent, our algorithm is fully parallel across layers. There is no waiting and no phases
to be coordinated. Each neuron need only respond to its local driving inputs and downwards error
signals. We believe that this local and parallelizable property of our algorithm may engender the
possibility of substantially more efficient implementations on neuromorphic hardware"
I’m not trying to be an annoying nitpick, you bring up good points and I have just a few observations...

Apple Music curation. Has anyone been impressed by this? I found maybe 2-3 songs I didn’t already know about, over the course of at least a year. I was never impressed, even SiriusXM has more variety and relevancy. I think they blew the chance to really do something great.

AppleTV+ makes me feel fatigued. Yes to being a “curious one.”

Apple Card seems to me like Apple’s version of a co-branded airline card. As much as I like to dunk on Apple these days (I used to be a huge fan), Apple Card is something they executed really well on. I’d like to give props to the Apple Pay/Card team. I think they’re doing a great job here and have a solid foundation for wherever they take this. That said I have a hard time imagining using Apple for all my transactions and balances, especially with the callous way they seem to behave lately. But you never know.
Cat don't become fat from single large meal.
Mr. Most Interesting Man in the World.

The IRS is a fun entity to have to fight off... good luck with that.
The people of number two can resize their browser window.
If I prefer full width lines I'm forced to the designers specific UX. That's quite ironic because the U in UX stands for user and my eXperience with such sites is horrible.
Worst of all are those that have code examples that go beyond the column width but don't wrap, so I have to scroll horizontally even though two thirds of the page are empty.
This is clearly a case of someone not knowing the limits of a technology / how to select or use a technology. Yes, more modern versions of Excel support many more rows than 65k. As a "power" excel user in the early 2000s, it's tiring to see this same mistake made. And I might have blamed MSFT in 2008. But the "modern" world has taken an absurdly boorish response to this virus. This unfortunately looks like another example.
Demystify Apache Spark with Azure Synapse Analytics
I originally voted for this since it seems like a good idea but then unvoted it because it just a landing page with nothing to show for (which is against HN guidelines for show hn iirc)

Regardless I think you should post it again when the access is available for everyone and I'll happily vote for you.
HealthCare.gov Taught America to Finally Care About Design
You nailed it so well in this comment, I have been pointing out this from when they launched Apple Music.

The classic excuse which people hide behind is "but they don't have a monopoly". Sure, they don't have a monopoly in precise terms. But the power they have to push products in new verticals is just unfair to the competition as they can't compete on equal terms.

Jabra's parent company in total earns less than 10% of what Apple earns selling just Airpods. It would be really sad if we lose iconic companies like Bose to these "want to own everything" tech giants.

Sidenote: This downvoting pattern on critical comments on any threads related to Apple has been absurd for quite some time. Somehow we have entered into a territory where say a company like FB always is upto no good for most here but the opposite is true for Apple.
I have done a couple of gigs in life sciences and Excel is one of the big responsible for VB.NET to be still relevant.

I have met several researchers using Excel, not R, Python, Julia, nope plain old Excel, eventually with some VBA macros.

The more savvy ones, eventually ask IT for VB installation when they outgrown the VBA capabilities and carry on from there with either small Windows Forms based utilities or Office AddIns.

Any attempt to replace those sheets with proper applications has gotten plenty of push back until we basically offered enough Excel like features on the new applications.
Yep, that’s all just posturing for now. The one I am using was OpenJDK ported by one guy separate from that effort ;)
Wasn’t this fixed in Big Sur?
There was a ton of people opposing this project for decades on environmental grounds ("it will disrupt sea life"), funding grounds ("it will cost too much forever"), corruption grounds ("organized crime will eat all the money") and engineering ("this won't work reliably, will break soon, will be obsolete..").

It was a heavily politicised issue and it's actually mildly surprising to see it finished and working.
How emberassing that I missed that; Thanks!
I just upvoted you.

You are fully correct, I have seen plenty of stuff like that in life sciences projects.
Hmm, no mention of Alexis Gilliland, "Revolution from Rosinante" and two sequels, ~1980.

Recommended. Still current (modulo pocket supercomputers).
How do you deal with litter boxes?
Or German? Generally composite words seem more popular in languages that don't prefer loanwords in general, because there is a limited supply of native words (or morphemes). I think English is in the opposite extreme.
It presents a self-signed certificate if using a browser/extension that automatically redirects to HTTPS (which everyone should be).
I used to sell those. They were actually quite good for their time, especially when they first came out, but they were really expensive.

Its weird that Google has been so half-hearted about «enterprise search» since they stopped selling GSAs. You would think that they would be itching to know what lies behind your firewall.
Every single problem I've ever had with excel stems from excel trying to be too clever. Nearly all my problems with importing data into it could be solved if excel left everything as is until I asked it to format values a certain way.
Your comment will save me a lot of time. Thank you.
How is “Kakoune” pronounced? Ka-koon? Ka-koon-ey? Kak-oon? Kak-oon-ey? Or something else?
I guess the other side of that is you can often take a dog or kids with you in the car or train but with a cat it’s a bit trickier. That being said my mum used to throw (kinda literally) the cat in the back of the car when I was a kid and we’d drive 2 hours to my grandmas place. The cat didn’t seem to care much and went to sleep.
Forgot to mention: there's nothing inherently wrong with storing data in CSV files. One does have to think about consumption and processing. A Postgres database seems pretty reasonable to track information like this, but I wouldn't blame a CSV format for shortsightedness. We're not talking about actual big data here...
There was a program for the mac, at some point, which could hijack audio from any application and stream it over airplay. It would be a silly work-around, but maybe something for people to try if otherwise like the HomePod
You’re correct. They switched from IE to Word https://www.litmus.com/blog/a-guide-to-rendering-differences...
It’s not just the name. Also it’s not written as good as it could be. CC0 is a good alternative.
It's their pet project with their pet axe to grind. I said as much. If you disagree specifically with the points I made about moderation, which was all I commented on, then cite where I'm wrong. Otherwise, accept it's just as much an echo chamber as all the others and not some magical moderation utopia is made out to be by it's uncritical fanbois. But "you just don't agree with their politics", which mostly I do, is just sad, lame apologist crap.
It has the same connotation as a "secret" celebrity wedding.

It makes it seem like the wedding was clad in huge secrecy, when in actuality they just didn't put out a press release announcing it and didn't invite the media.

Makes for good headlines though.
This is hardly new. For all it self-righteous pomposity, US corporations and Govt. have a history of this sort of thing - from UFC, and now the oil cos. in the Americas, to Union Carbide in India [Bhopal].
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Just put that server behind cloudflare and max the caching on edge option :)
I remember talking to a coworker friend of mine who was a cat owner. She said that she didn't understand dogs. They just loved you unconditionally all the time no matter what. So I guess she liked the life with the cat where it was just randomly mean or not interested in her sometimes. Kind of illustrated things to me.
How to Avoid Exponential Growth of Classes by Applying Bridge Pattern in C#
Apple is applying the suite strategy to the consumer device/services market. Each new market results in a new product integrated into its suite. Individual products don’t have to be best in class since part of the value is in the integration, part of the advantage is in distribution, etc...
Well, teachers are a subset of humanity and thus in principle they could all be above the overall average for humanity. It's even intended that there be a selection bias, so hopefully most of them are at least above average at teaching if nothing else. Of course half of them are worse than the average teacher, but that's not very useful information.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/lockdown-keeps...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi
I built this specifically for Node.JS developers, and it's already in production and fully open source. Does pretty much everything that you'd need in an basic API Gateway (although these are early days), and is extensible with JavaScript.

As a magic trick, it can act as a gateway for WebSockets as well - multiple backend services could talk to a single websocket connection/client.

Full disclosure: I did a submission a couple of months back and it just faded away. So doing one repost (according to the rules).
Hey, what do you know, looks like it is/was. Might be worth reconsidering after all.

Though at this point in the refresh cycle I'd be hard-pressed to buy a HomePod, since they're getting long in the tooth.
More serious attempts to restrict the English vocabulary do limit the word senses, like the Longman American Defining Vocabulary [1] (which does contain an explicit counterexample of "put up with" ;-).

[1] http://www.longmandictionariesusa.com/res/shared/vocab_defin...
Strange Idea:

Someone could use this SBC -- not as an SBC, but as a discrete video card...

That is, have a computer without a video card -- communicate with this SBC via USB or Ethernet -- and have it perform all of the functions of a video card to generate the display output...

After all, it's got quite a high power GPU in it...

Yes, it would be a bit slower than a PCIe based high-end graphics card... this idea is for experimentation only.

One idea, once this is done, is to decouple the GUI part of any Operating System you write -- and have that part, and that part alone, run on the SBC / GPU.

Yes, X-Windows/X11 already exists and can do something like this.

But if say, you (as an OS designer) felt that X-Windows was too complex and bloated, and you wanted to implement something similar to Windows' GUI -- but a lighter version, and decoupled from the base Operating System -- then what I've outlined above might be one way to set things up while the coding is occurring...

Again, doing something like this would be for people that wanted to experiment, only...
Finn.no moved 800 microservices to the cloud in 5 hours
Oh god, you are really lucky! I am shopping for a new microwave and here in India all the microwave makers only have the two-knobs (wattage and timer) one on small-size microwaves that can only fit a bowl. All the larger size one's come with lot of stupid buttons (defrost, cook, heat, start, stop etc.) and an LCD display. I just want the two-knobs one on a large microwave but it just isn't available. I now plan to get one from abroad. :(
Because Guile was such a great success? Or because it isn't?

Guile has has a very great deal of new development in recent years, including truly massive optimization.

I am curious what people who know Schemes think about how it now compares to other efforts.
great line; whole piece was pretty good too; good enough for me to keep reading after ctrl-f for the line haha
Not sure if this has anything to do with what you had in mind, but user veuxdo pointed me at it earlier today

https://www.ilograph.com/

I found it interesting anyway. Everything from yaml, automated layout, drilldown, etc.
Sounds more like an "Amazon Bhopal"
would probably make it worse
> * which could hijack audio*

It's called Audio Hijack [1], but I don't think it reliably supports stereo pairs.

1: https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/
The thing that’s kind of wild is that Firestore, which is their new reimplementation of the original Firebase db (now Realtime Database), is what is recommending Algolia:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/solutions/search

Given a clean slate I would have thought they might push Cloud Search or this service, even without any special integration. Candidly I haven’t taken the time to understand either of those offerings but I have to assume you could could index JSON documents just as easily as with Algolia. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; it was just surprising to see them promote a third party in general and a search engine specifically. After having used 90+ Google products over the last 17 years, transacted many millions of with them, and read innumerable pages of docs, I’ve not really seen anything quite like that— where a quite common use case of their product actively promotes a competitor and links to them.
Curious, in what context are you all still using VBA?
Exactly this. People are expecting car "autopilots" to exceed all human drivers in every situation, which is a completely silly place to move the goalpost to.

I see it more as an assistant that makes us all better drivers by letting us concentrate on stuff the computer can't do.

Even my Hyundai can drive automatically perfectly well at highway speeds and follow the road and even slow down with the traffic. This lets me relax behind the wheel and concentrate on other things than keeping the car in the lane.

I feel I'm a lot less tired and more anttentive when driving with an "autopilot", all the little micro-adjustments needed vex on my brain like nothing else.
Life is simple..

If you aim lower.

There was a psychology research on how people even billionaire form a baseline similar to a homeless dude. All the stress, pressure you have is the same as everybody else and it will never change.

So the goal should be do whatever you enjoy while doing the minimum effort..

Of course this type of thinking would immediately hamper progress everywhere.
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Yes, I'm not concerned with the computational cost. Reading the paper more carefully, I can't see any obvious weaknesses.

The main idea is based on [1]: a brain can learn exactly the same things as what can be learned with backprop. How come this is not more widely known? This sounds like a huge breakthrough to me.

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/NECO_a_009...
Not 100% but much much better than "against all odds".
Interesting. Just curious ... How does it work Google? I always felt that they always had the money to build anything they want. How do they decide what to shutdown?
“ In 2001, Chevron acquired Texaco, including all of its assets and civil liabilities. One of those liabilities was the "Amazon Chernobyl," a 1,700-square-mile environmental disaster in Ecuador...”

My opinion is changed after reading this. It would be tough for me to care about fixing an acquired company’s past deeds. I would simply put in in the queue of places I could fix the environment with the highest impact rather than the queue of places I am personally indebted to solve myself.
What's different from then and today?
How did you try them? I thought they were hidden deep down away behind the OEM layers?

I have tried their the demo systems at several occasions, (they have been developong them in 20y) but not comma.ai's.

For example they calculate the opening speed of your eyelid with high precision, the gaze direction output is within a few degrees of error. You can almost cover your complete face and it will still track your head pose with extreme precision. The list of outputs are long. Pupils, glasses, faceid, blinks (velocity, duration), drowsiness /, perclose, the 3d geometry of the head, facemasks, gender, and a lotbof aggregatet values.

But comma.ai maybr has this too?
Happiness has been debunked by the replication crisis.
Your code should get type checked whenever you run tests and can help reveal subtle bugs (for example, allowing Optional but not handling None in all code paths)
Would it be difficult to realize their profits?
Why do their misdeeds get a different view?
It is not unstoppable because cloudflare can ban any IPFS hash from being served via cloudflare-ipfs .

For highly criminal content, like CP, law enforcement can get list of and go after servers hosting particular hash.

If this service becomes even a little popular among fringe elements, Cloudflare, a public company, will shut it down in a blink of an eye.
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