skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could be googling for a relative, or because of an upcoming test. An uploaded test is a hard fact.
> 3. Low income people should not be allowed to have children.

Maybe it's a good thing you don't get too creative...
emacs. It is taking forever, but worth it.
Please share for 1) study and 2) counter measure implementation!
> the problem is income equality

Why should relative levels of income be determinative rather than absolute levels of income?
>I know people are going to talk about income inequality, but isn't this obvious?

No it was not because one can name disorders like autism spectrum disorder where diagnosis is more likely with high socioeconomic status. In general this conclusion isn't that obvious because one would think a richer child would have more access to the medical resources to get diagnosed.
Yes.. being post-40 doesn’t inherently lessen one’s ability to learn.

Rather, it’s the weight of management of things accumulated over the years that interrupt out natural curiosity and keep us from “learning”.

I believe you have to drop some things and not worry about forgetting them, in order to make time and space for new things.

I have, in the past year, become quite proficient at Docker Swarm, Flutter, Dart, and Go.

In the next year, I have my sights on Rust and a reintroduction to calculus.

Learning isn’t the issue. Finding the time to learn uninterrupted is the issue, IMHO.

I did give up Facebook completely, which has opened up a lot of time.

Cheers
Re: commute: would going for a walk or ride before and after work help? I’ve found myself biking far more during the pandemic because I can hop into a Zoom call just minutes after finishing my ride.
There's no definition of probability that doesn't involve philosophy or metaphysics [0]. Calling frequentist stats "objective" really bugs me. There is no such thing. Every inference procedure involves subjective choices.

Of course, frequentist and Bayesian stats are completely mathematically equivalent. The choice just affects our mental patterns.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_interpretations#Ph...
Your productivity has falling is only your problem.
There is basically no overlap with Amdahl's law here. Amdahl's law just says that there are diminishing returns on the whole when increasing parallelization in a program with significant serial parts. It is a fairly obvious observation, but people seem to distort it and apply it to general scalability.

First, everything needs to be synchronized but that doesn't mean synchronization is expensive or blocks computation from happening. Lots of synchronization isn't even dealt with explicitly by users, it happens in queues in the kernel, in networking hardware, or even in the memory controller when talking about reading from memory.

The closest thing is the database becoming a bottleneck, but that is not because of Amdahl's law or even synchronization, it just about reads, and those are extremely parallel, so it likely comes down to total CPU power when it is a problem. That's why query caching can be so effective - it isn't about synchronization and definitely not about serial parts of a program, it is just about usage.

For connected social media sites, not everything has to be done on a page request. Anything done ahead of time is also done in parallel.
This couching is way more politic than "fake it til you make it." 10/10.
User Agent is the same for everyone on your iOS version, correct?

I don't fully understand the WebGL fingerprinting stuff- why is it different on the same device model?
> The 1050Ti is indeed much more powerful than the GPU in the M1

The 1050ti is 2.1 teraflops, vs the 2.6 for the M1! Also, M1 GPU has "extensions" that aren't being benchmarked...

> The PS5 is, in raw performance, 4 times faster than the M1 chip.

I already said that the ps5 GPU is a generation ahead of M1, so it is no wonder it is more performant.

Anyway, like I said, we will have to wait for some comparable benchmarks. Not sure how that will ever happen though.
> When I finished telling my friend this story, he asked for more. I said no, that was it. He said, “No, what about when you sold your company?”

I said no, that didn’t make a big difference in my life. That was just more money in the bank. The difference happened when I was 22.

Yeah I think I get what Derek is saying. However if I was his friend, I would also be unsatisfied by this answer. It feels like Derek should know what he's asking and is being obtuse.

Likewise

> It’s not how much you have. It’s the difference between what you have and what you spend.

is in a real sense very true, but it's also vacuous. The more you have, the less effort is required to have a big difference between what you have and what you spend.

In my opinion Derek's friend was probably framing this question in the sense, "How did you end up with so much?" and not, "How did you end up with such a great burn rate?"
In the Gervais Principle, developers are all [economic] losers

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Forget scrolling, I'd like to see it change as an animation.

What I'd really like from Wikipedia is a git-blame (separated by periods in addition to line breaks) for identifying the time of unnoticed vandalism so I can see what else was modified at the same time and should thus be ignored.
Hiking trails near me are STILL closed due to the virus. For a while it was only open during weekdays and by appointment only. Now they've been flat out closed for a few months. Sure, I could drive half an hour to a completely open trail, but if I'm going to burn that much gas all the time I might as well start working in an office again.
Of course they respond with the obligatory "we'll report this to the authorities", rather than "thank you for pointing this out in a harmless way we'll do better".
You should also ask if the people who learned new skills were raising kids. I have a feeling that is the dominant confounding variable.
No, because wealth is a monopoly over money, and holding on to wealth means someone else cannot make decisions about spending that money.

The problem doesn't just exist, it's very obvious and pressing.

And ultimately it leads to huge distortions in democracy and policy at every level.

There's a good case to be made for the assertion that any economy that prioritises the wealth of a very small number of individuals over eliminating poverty for most of the population is fundamentally and unavoidably unstable. At best it will be unable to operate as a functional democracy and at worst it becomes an oligarchy where inherited privilege trumps any real prospect of social mobility.

The fact that the US scores very poorly on objective measures of social mobility compared to more redistributive economies only reinforces this.
EU militaries are a joke tbf. Apart from France and (formerly) the UK, most of them can't do shit except sell firearms to Arab despots. I think someone from Romania here mentioned that they trust the US to protect them more than they trust France or Germany.
Note that there are different levels of "secret" when it comes to this stuff. Given the size of that meeting (20+ people) and the reaction, I'd be surprised if the topic matter was more secret than how much the defense agencies pay their employees - secret, no doubt, but not exactly the nuclear launch codes.
My completely-uninformed bet is that the ability to access sites with self-signed or expired certificates will get hidden behind a flag and ultimately removed from Chrome. Probably in 2-3 years?
I think it's better to have a journalist step in and warn you about your door being open, rather than having someone with bad intentions sneak in, don't you think?
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learnt boxing (fighting) with 45
Nobody wants 10x developers these days. All companies are looking for 1/x developers because then they can brag about their head count to get acquired or to raise more money from investors or banks.
I'm in a studio apartment with every distraction I could possibly imagine (most of my own design since before this I'd just come here just to rest and recharge) the first few months were rough and overall I really prefer the office. The only thing working from home has done for me in terms of work is give me some more flexibility and prepared me for how to block out the distractions for when I move on to my own thing full time next week but I can count on my hand the number of times I've been in flow since the pandemic and work from home started and that is significantly less frequent then in an environment where work is the primary objective.

It's really very jarring and I've resulted to some newer/crazier things to get it back. For instance I work in VR often now and that blocking out the distractions/tricking my brain in to "being in" a work place is really great. I also have a different seat for when I'm working on the day job versus my startup vs relaxing. Finally I stopped listening to music recently as I've read it actually can hurt focus and that's been working too.

The thing is at least with my current job the office space was really comfortable, I'd move around often between couches and private spaces as needed people wouldn't interrupt too often and I would go out for lunch to give myself a mental break. Still figuring out the mental break part again.
> It's usually more along the lines of product owners preferring features over speed though

It’s also about being a able to ship a v1 product quickly and capture market share quickly. You can optimize speed and memory in future releases. Definitely not the best for the users.
Probably because they secretly knew that if word gets out real fast (which it won't because it'll controlled by them), they'll all be booted from office.

Sure word got out, but it need not reach most of the populace.
Proof by contradiction? I remember doing some in high school in higher level math (Canada, of course high schools vary)
EU has no defense anyway so this is not entirely disastrous, though still very unacceptable.
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He knows he is being obtuse. Its the guru mentality.
Small lessons once learned are what often underpin the big lessons and achievements.
No matter how complicated you make it, a man-in-the-middle pretending to be the device can simply replace your authentication JavaScript. The only way to stop an active attacker from doing that is to authenticate the device to the browser, and this cannot be done in unauthenticated JavaScript sent from the device.
I largely echo sibling posts saying you should address this with her, but if available to you I might suggest speaking with a therapist first. Potentially starting a fight with someone you’re locked at home with is risky.
There is a sea of difference between your initial statement of "having done all the useful things it could do ages ago, and not finding anything new" and your new statement of wanting conclusive proof that Arecibo has "a unique capability".

The "proof" shows Arecibo was still very useful and finding new things and this disaster will significantly delay research. (As a side note; delays in research can easily mean the death of that research as funding is often time-bound)

Somewhere in this there is a larger story of useful projects not receiving enough funding because they aren't sexy enough.
Agree. productivity as in "works faster" is not something that justifies being treated (and payed) as 10x engineer. Evaluating "value" of an engineer is also a topic of itself. At the end of the day, this is a team sport. even when a certain project is super successful (and in some cases it might take few month to see business impact) it's not always easy to know how much each individual in the team contributed to this success. BTW - same is true for failure.
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One of the ways China managed to hack into America's F35 (or F22) fighter development program was listening into a conference call of various vendors discussing project status.
Void is another possibility:

https://voidlinux.org/download/#download-ready-to-boot-image...
> leading to many of the same problems you get in planned economies that have a similar concentration of power.

Yet it seems that the overwhelming bulk of products and services in the marketplace are designed for broad market appeal, not just to 1% of the population. For example, in Seattle, I don't even know of any stores that target the 1%.

McDonald's is one of the biggest (or the biggest) restaurateur, yet it clearly is targeted at pretty much everyone.
It's over twice the cost of the netbook I'm typing this on.

I like it, but I can't justify it. If you can, more power to you, I guess.
That is amazing. It must be quite the tenacious client that doesn't timeout on that.
Plumbing. I installed a shower and was taught some basic copper soldering by my father in law. Next bathroom did some very aggressive 6 shower head configuration that required considerable precision. When I can actually purchase a zen3 CPU, I'll be going copper piping on the rig.
Can you expand on that? Which of the points mentioned above make you infer that?
This is a great point, that APIs often abstract over things that some people need finer grained control over. I work on an API that was too high level, and was recently overhauled in a backward incompatible way due to the limits inherent in the abstractions, limits and abstractions that most of the time are a good idea, but were getting in the way of professionals. So I’m inclined to agree on one hand.

On the other hand, the OS filesystem APIs are detailed enough for most people (and even for most of the OS internals too). I’ve never wanted to know sector sizes or power loss characteristics for any reason other than curiosity. The needs of SQLite aren’t very common. Most developers writing code to use the filesystem don’t need (or even want) to know if a file was renamed or what happened to it before last reboot or whether it can be mmap()ed with other processes. I can barely manage to use rsync, and if I was burdened with these things whenever I need to open or write a file, I’d use SQLite as my API instead of fopen(), which puts me right back at using a high level API (https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html).

All APIs present an interface over the resources they manage, so an abstraction is inherent, even if the API is low level. But usually part of the goal of API design is to make the interface easier to use than the resources it manages. If we expose an API that is too low level, then we compromise on usability and safety for everyone in favor of performance and detailed control for a very small minority of users.

So personally, I think I agree with your general concern in the sense that API designers should be aware of the needs of who they’re designing for, but I also think SQLite and the Linux filesystem aren’t a good example.
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I think he's being obtuse too :). The guru mentality is a good way to put it. It also drove me nuts when Dumbledore gave a thought-provoking non-answer to Harry when he asked, "Is this real or is it happening in my head?"

There's a time and a place for Enlightened perspectives, but if my friend answered me the way Derek did I would find it kind of patronizing, personally.
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Anyone acquiring advanced piano or guitar skills/chops?
> I'm not trying to shame anyone.

Yes, you are. “Most mental disorders are not that serious” is passive-aggressively stating that those suffering from something you consider to “not be serious” just aren’t working hard enough; that they’re lazy, not disabled.

The truth is, you can work as hard as you want, but if you’re not lucky as well, that work won’t propel you forward.

https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I <- Veritasium on luck vs hard work
It was humor... The "threatener" was laughing, the audience was laughing, and the journalist laughed too.

Probably the best response you can hope for in the moment.
What could be really useful would be that can be exposed as a unix socket in a way that is transparent to sqlite, ie it still believes it's working with a file.

Don't know if this is possible and just how horribly it would perform, but it could be legit useful if it can solve e.g. the remote fs conondrum mentioned in other comments.
Timber framing around 45.

(Heartwood School in Massachusetts is a great place; took each of my two sons there separately.)

(Re: OP comments re: kids being a confounding factor, we have 8.)
No, frequentist and Bayesian statistics are not equivalent.

There are some special cases in which a frequentist 95% confidence interval and a Bayesian 95% credible interval based on some sort of default prior are numerically the same, but that doesn't happen in general.

Statisticians would hardly have been vigorously debating the issue for two centuries if it didn't really matter.
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> No, because wealth is a monopoly over money, and holding on to wealth means someone else cannot make decisions about spending that money.

This implies that people become wealthy by taking money from others. This is not correct, people become wealthy (in a free market system) by creating wealth. The money supply automatically increases because of that.

There isn't a monopoly on money - anyone can create wealth.
I don’t mean to be rude but I am genuinely confused why this is interesting? The author is saying: “to be rich, save more than you spend”. Isn’t this obvious?
I can't help but noticing that all their products are either out of stock or not yet available ...
I'll be honest this is a stupid story.

He's sharing a three bedroom apartment with two roommates. There isn't some beautiful moral to be taken here. what about when you have a family? What about when you have children? What about when you have a medical expense come up? Insurance is very expensive.

I hate these anecdotes that imply that you can just live simply in the United States and be happy. So much is left unsaid. Maybe this guy wants to live an ascetic life, but most people don't.

I understand that the idea of spending less can apply on varying scales, but this implication that you can just give up the material world and be a musician making minimum wage and be happy is silly.
> it lets you use ECC ram, but doesn't enable any of the reporting

Is there any special term which does describe this capability? How would I find out if that reporting exists? Only by reading the Manual and looking through the BIOS pages?
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not having the movie explain itself in the end was the real reward.
I think there's plenty of interesting new goals you could work towards that wouldn't necessarily be an easy thing due to your wealth. Try to become well known for something else. Start a youtube channel on something unrelated to your business. It could be about cosplay, blacksmithing, or a million other things that are not obvious money makers and don't need to be for you. I find that content creators work really hard but also find it extremely rewarding, and I think you'd find that it exercises different muscles that you aren't used to.

I can think of so many things I'd try if I were wealthy. I'd produce a fantasy movie or TV show. I'd get my pilot license. I'd learn to sail and have a multimonth voyage. I'd setup my own creative studio to build practical effects for film and tv. I'd buy land and learn bushcraft on it and build a little castaway home using only the land.

None of these have anything to do with my career in tech. Do you not have anything similar for yourself?
At least for me, when I hear "10x" engineer I think of the ones who treat the craft as a craft. There is no "shallow" or "narrow" in them. The possess the important skills in software development:

- ability to learn quickly
- understanding how to debug and track down problems
- not afraid to jump in where needed

I've worked with plenty of "frontend" engineers and "backend" engineers. I've worked with people who are "SREs". These people have specialized and are usually GREAT at their craft. But I don't lump them into the 10x engineer.

For me the 10x engineer is the one who will jump in on react one day and then rust the next. They'll write ansible scripts and automate SSL renewal and then fix a CSS bug the next day.

They'll talk through problems with anyone on the team and help get through the block.

Think of people like Miguel de Icaza ( https://github.com/migueldeicaza ) who have such knowledge and skill to build complete popular programming languages (Mono), Cross Platform Mobile Platforms (Xamarin), Spreadsheet Applications (Gnumeric). But have no problem building simple iPhone apps in swift.

Think of people like Anthony Sottile (https://github.com/asottile) who works on most of the developer tools us python devs use on a daily basis (tox, pytest, virtualenv, etc). Who maintains and builds ubuntu and debian repos for every new release of Python so we can get it easily (deadsnakes). But spends time to explain simple concepts like using "--rm" with docker run to developers.

If you have worked with someone like them, you know you are in the presence of a 10x engineer. There is no doubt in your mind.
> maybe you can serve something from your own servers to have some server logs under your control.

This is exactly the approach I was thinking of! It just sounds like a lot of work (and some costs) to set up and maintain a server for this purpose, and then more work to produce useful analytics out of server logs with some measure of "unique" visitors. I was thinking maybe somebody else has already created a product that works like this.
I'm single and never want to go back to the office again.
Most of my blog content (https://walkingriver.com) came from me keeping notes during projects. They are documentation for myself that I can refer to later. I have done that. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, I managed to scrape together enough content to publish a few books on Amazon (https://amazon.com/author/mcallaghan).

So I would say, "yes."
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Are you saying there are no real time “chat”-like things with indexable posts and support for non-JS clients?
How are you finding your progress on Spanish and piano? How are you learning it — private one on on instruction or self study?
IMO, age is not a problem but time management and responsibilities as others have mentioned. If you are raising kids or taking care of elder people, but you have poor management skills, or maybe you're just overwhelmed... then it's going to be problem to learn something, even if it's improving your knowledge in something you're already familiar with.
I started taking weight training seriously about a year ago, Then came the virus and the lock-downs. Gyms closed for weeks where I live. At the moment they are still closed again. I didn't want to build a home gym with heavy weights, especially because hopefully gyms will open again some day.

I also didn't want to lose the muscle I built which made me segue into body weight training and calisthenics. Previously I had never been interested in any of that but for the moment it is something I'm really enjoying and I'm making good progress with. I think I will stick to it in addition to the weight training even when gyms are opening up again.
This is on BBC.com's frontpage.
My one question: how did he make it to 22 without any debt? I had $5,000 in the bank at 18, but at 22 I was about $50K in the hole because of college. I know I shouldn't have worried about it because monthly payments were low and interest was low, but it felt crushing, and if I was saving $6k per year like he did, it would take me 12+ years to have "$12k in the bank and be free".
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Indeed the story implies it’s just you. The moral of the story is sound but unrealistic in today’s economy.
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This is by far the most effective way to make sure said door is locked in the future. This guy deserves a reward.