skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree... the problem is that scanning can be such a pain!!

I've got a growing backlog of documents to scan. So... I've decided to make it a project and am building my own scanner control app [i] (using python) to help get them scanned (via ADF-doc feeder) and into my paperless-ng repository more easily (e.g. use QR codes to separate documents automatically and OCR to help pre-tag them before uploading).

[i] https://i.imgur.com/sG1Bldx.jpg
i have the unmet rambling dreams of the first person, and the anxiety-driven perfectionism and revulsion to poorly written code of the second person... so i'm unhappy thinking about unfulfilled ideas, unhappy writing new programs, and unhappy fixing old programs.

"i can only do so much and of course it's never enough"

i want the perfect programming language, the perfect gui library api and theme, the perfect program, the perfect ide... and i can't accomplish a single one

and of course C++ is an all-devouring Cthulhic monster that does everything but poorly, Rust has immature gui libraries and doesn't fully align with my values and desired features (I want linear typing, strong typedefs/subclasses of integer types, polymorphic variants/anonymous unions, prioritizing iterator generators over async), qt is basically legacy code and Qt Widgets is mostly unmaintained but difficult to fork (to build, create Windows installers, and convince Linux distributions to accept behavior-changing bug fixes), and my personal dream project (https://gitlab.com/exotracker/exotracker-cpp) is vaporware no matter how much i burn myself out making it (trying to both explore new ideas, and engineer them well, at the same time).
The exceptional circumstances of a global pandemic aren't "predicting the future".

This point would be more relevant if it had accidentally become the norm, but that straight up hasn't and won't happen (hence the ongoing pandemic, to some extent).
> please consider seeing a doctor

Is it just me or has the "tell people to GO TO A SHRINK" plastered all over the internet become kind of obnoxious?

E.g. consider this instance here:

We're on a website where the intelligence required to understand 90% of the content is certainly enough to also be aware of the fact that psychiatrists etc. exist.

So why is there a need to constantly tell people to go to them if you know that they're probably smart enough to figure that out on their own?

It feels kind of patronizing to me.

Sorry if that wasn't your intention!
Please. I work in tech too and get the same crazy salary everyone else does. You really wondering if someone on HN is a secret poor person because they're willing to admit they're overpaid?

I grew up broke and understand how fortunate I am. I'm completely fine with paying a few percent more marginal tax rate. I have thousands of disposable income a month like most of us here. I doubt I would even notice.
Codecov hackers breached hundreds of restricted customer sites: sources
it would also be pretty beneficial for consumers. Cutting every payment middleman out and having one consistent means of exchange across an entire currency zone would be great.

Settle everything instantly, no charges, no withdrawal fees converting between cash and digital. The cost of running the system are probably minimal compared to what the entire consumer-banking sector collects.
Me too. It's good enough.
Code is not meant for public consumption, but a website is. This is not a good analogy.
That Full Windsor - it's a revelation to me that it looks good even without the top button of the shirt buttoned. I also thought I had to button the top button of my shirt, which I hate.
none of the high perfomers (except the scary ones) are competing against anyone but themselves. true high perfomers have the confidence to follow themselves. (or at least, to seize the potential of where they are lead, to draw from & grow themselves well, seek the opportunity.)

a lot of not so high performers also can decouple themselves from the busy world about, from it's projected images, and can search for their own truer, prime/primer/primest selves too. and sometimes they get way behind, and that dissonance is real, and we have to keep living with that distamce between our better selves and us, or we can adapt & be flexible and shift, or just triple down, try to push on, figure out new strategies or reform better fitting goals.
Another miss. Now you have it backwards. I am not defending speeding (good lord). I am pointing out that legal behavior is risky too. Therefore your point about risk equating to harm is useless.
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patents give motivation to companies to invest in research. without patents you possibly would have neither of those things.
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And although we've made big strides on number 2, there's still a stigma attached to seeing a therapist for men. It's been changing in my lifetime but it's still there.
"Buffett"

"Warren Buffet" eats at the buffet.
I may indeed not know the intricacies of web design. But I do know when the "modern" UIs are unable to scroll smoothly. It's full of not moving, then a giant lurch to somewhere else. Worse, random new content will suddenly appear causing my view to randomly move to some other part of the page.

This disease infects an awful lot of "modern" web sites.
Comparing yourself to someone else is a complete waste of time.

That's your boss's job.
Why talk down about people who like Rogan/Paltrow? Do you think their tastes are any lesser than yours?

Also, who are you to decide what is "truly" wise ahahaha
Eh you can say as much in a more delicate way – deliver every one of those points. I’m not going to feel bad for thinking we can all be nicer to each other.
Yes indeed, I reckon what Humanity is doing right now is winning our biggest ever war yet(1). We shut down huge tracts of human life and attendant economies to save the lives of the oldest and weakest. We're still doing it.

mRNA is bigger than a bomb, and fully peer reviewed.

1. preventing suicide by ecocide is next
> I had forgotten he moved orgs.

Matt Levine has been at Bloomberg since 2013.
I'm reading your comment before TFA, but in doing so my reaction is Uh what? Interesting can include docs, tests, bugs, partners, lawyers - it's whatever the topic is that all that is the work around. Again, I haven't yet read TFA but I don't tend to think that people seeking 'interesting work' are looking (and I don't personally want) to just crank out code.

In fact, can't we go further? Is there anything interesting about it if you can just crank it out?

The interesting work in my recent memory has been about reading, learning, thinking; not cranking.
The pressure to make money out of it will turn your forum into what could be another subreddit. To repeat HN you'd need to remove pictures (they invoke emotions and attract unsophisticated audience) and all the marketing fluff, hire a team of people who deal with autos on day to day basis (mechanics, salesmen, dealship owners, pro racers, stars like the ex Top Gear team) and advertise everywhere that here's the no bs forum about autos. Wait for 10 years and you'll get a critical mass of audience. You'd still have to pay expensive mods. On top of that you'll have to figure a non-ads business model to support the forum.
Yep. I've been in tech for 20+ years, everything from a junior engineer to CTO and founder of a small company. A lot of the work is pure drudgery. I'd say 10% to 15% is "interesting." Usually that doesn't last for long.
I'm a little blown away by how over-complicated this page is. The flowchart...
Thanks for the suggestions. I know this implementation has more holes than a swiss cheese, but I will try to plug them as I figure out how to deal with js callbacks :)
The article author explicitly notes that "The feeling of being behind is one of the most destructive feelings to harbor and yet almost every high performer I have ever met suffers from it."

If you google "celebrity imposter syndrome" you'll see endless pages of articles of varying quality noting that many successful businessmen/leaders/artists have imposter syndrome, and they're evidently high performing.
It happens in the sense that some individual bank might choose not to do business with some individual marginalized person, and maybe even multiple banks do that independently. Has it been the case that they come together like this in a publicly announced explicit conspiracy?
This may sound the like the economists with the $20 bill, but if waste plastic is an untapped and valuable resource then why aren't other entrepreneurs already in the space?

This seems like fun for DIYers and makers, but it can't be viable business, can it?
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Seriously, it's a $30 one-time purchase. In an age where companies want to charge you $30 per month for software, that's a steal.
> That's a straw-man. I've said nothing questioning capitalism. The stock market isn't a necessary component of capitalism any more than subprime lending is.

The stock market, no, but the ability to invest/allocate capital is quite fundamental to capitalism. The stock market is merely one incantation of that. Let's take your criticism as only pertaining to the stock market.

> The cost of the stock market is clear. The stock market causes and amplifies inequality. This isn't controversial.

I'm not going to give you that one. The stock market enables the public to invest in these companies. That's why they're called public companies.

If you ditch it, suddenly only wealthy venture capitalists can do that. This has been happening more and more with companies starting private longer and longer thanks to abundant private capital that doesn't bring the onerous regulations of being a public company. Unfortunately that seems to be increasing inequality, as the public has been cut out of these kinds of riskier but high growth investments.

I'm sure there is a better way of doing it, but it isn't as cut and dried as you suggest.
IP is important, but manufacturer can just use stolen/expired IP in emergency situation, meanwhile fabs can't be stolen.
we call it a bookmark 2.0. ;)
I think this is accurate if we see a substantial uptake of cloud/remote services for what are currently the most common high demand compute consumer devices (Game consoles + PC). ARM is already proving to be a winner in the datacenter as it becomes available so it seems all but inevitable.

I think the overall trend is still accurate and in either case ARM + Nvidia is (or would be) a compelling provider of hardware but the segment of the market that needs/relies on X86 architecture does seem to be shrinking.
1) If you're using Google Cloud Functions, you might also want to check out the Running Functions Locally doc page. [1] (There's an NPM library [2] - @google-cloud/functions-framework - that handles the scaffolding for you.)

Note that this library only supports scaffolding one function at a time per process - so you'd have to create a separate process [and use a separate port] for each function you're using. (This includes event-based functions - everything is HTTP under the hood, and this library is no different.)

2) Deployment time - you're definitely not the first to bring this up. :) We're working internally on improving deployment times.

(Disclosure - per my username, I work at GCP.)

[1] https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/running/function-fra...
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@google-cloud/functions-framew...
The idea that there would be a bunch of suckers to bail you out on the other side definitely shouldn't/wouldn't have been expected.
Great article and certainly worth an update! Specifically for Render, you can now:

1. Specify a TTL on inactive PRs

2. Pick less expensive plans for preview services.
Decentralized data storage has finally landed
Something that is superficial wisdom for you is an important message for someone else. We are all coming from different places. Our journeys may have similarities but no two are exactly alike.

Do you have any specific critique for this post?

I can see how it might be annoying if all of the content was of this type, but these posts don’t seem to take up too much space.
Apologies in advance if my terminology is not entirely correct - no formal CS background.

I wonder what implications, if any, this method has on the way science is done.

Perhaps I’m out of date, but I have always thought that with machine learning, with have little insight into how the algorithm does exactly what it does. We know how to train it, how it works - in terms of expected output given a certain input. But is not knowing exactly how the result is achieved a problem?

For modelling airplane air resistance, etc - it may not matter much. For fundamental physics research, I am not so sure. If replicating and verifying experimental results is so important to the “scientific method” - how would one approach confirming the results obtained via ML? Does independently building another ML algorithm count?
The intent was not to meme I think, it costed the deli owners quite a bit,in the low six figures to go public?

They probably wanted to flip it for a reverse merger. Don't think that many businesses have the connections or need to create a flip like this for some Chinese company.
I don't think that's really the point, but the term "serverless" is definitely confusing. It took me a while to understand it.

By "serverless", usually it's meant that your code doesn't need to concern implementing a server on a socket. All you have to do is have your execution return the right value so that the server in the cloud can do the right thing. No need to setup and configure Express/Fastify. Because cloud providers manage the server aspect of serving a web app, your code just needs to focus on execution rather than delivery, or staying alive until the next request is received.

It's still a very misleading term, however. Every time I hear it, I cringe a little.
More interestingly, they picked a top-15 karma account to criticize. I'm guessing the GGP is a bit more well-versed about what is good HN commenting than GP.
Totally agree. I also think this is mostly what religion is. "Wisdom" with some powerful rituals and family/social re-enforcement that tickles the same spot of the brain: tricks to get ahead from wiser people that know whats up.
It's illegal graffiti art over illegal street art. I don't understand property rights application here.

To me it's Instagramers getting photos of who they are told by the media is cool with zero respect of the scene.

Banksy used to distroy other artists work. Check out Robbo vs Banksy perhaps -

https://youtu.be/ulOiB3xEkzM
There is a key factor in the cake case that does not exist in the app store case.

Creating a cake is a work of art that a person must put creativity into. You cannot force this person to create art.

They wouldn't be able to deny selling a premade/cookie-cutter/premade item.
this is the standard playbook for every cryptocurrency ICO since around 2013 (which IIRC is before the term ICO was even around). I'm sure it's no different for NFTs, which function rather like a single-coin ICO.

the only twist is that with crypto its possible to run this shell game much faster and with far less transparency thanks to pseudononymous accounts and the overall infrastructural obscurity that early stage crypotocoins enjoy, coupled with the near immediate price signal propagation possible in a purely virtual marketplace.

coinmarketcap owes its entire existence to its incredibly effective utility as a synthetic demand amplifier for extremely shallow, closely held token markets.

edit: forgot to add that when promoters need their own FOMO plant in the financial/tech media, one that talks up the amazing crypto-futurist potential of their new coin, a common payola tactic was to send the target journo a wallet preloaded with a "few coins to play around with, just to see how it works." Then simply sit back and let them figure out for themselves how to turn a routine $500 story assignment into an easy, practically untraceable $5k cash out. wash, rinse, repeat with a new ICO next month.
Why? I don't see much unreasonable here.

Make infrastructure changes faster? Why not.

Make it easier to create ephemeral resources? Why not.

Make scaling completely automatic? Would be nice. Though here I'd of course like to have some knobs to control the automatic scaling, else it could easily run out of reasonable budget.

My only disagreement is client library vs declarative configuration. I'd prefer the latter, but using some better language than YAML; maybe, say, Dhall.

And yes, it's now a common wisdom that the cloud is the new mainframe; e.g. [1]. Well, okay; if this is what is required to run services at scale without breaking the bank, so be it. If deploying to millions of ZX-81 Spectrums happened to give 3x reduction in opex, the industry would adapt to that, too.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26857859
Some games are digital only even on PS3.
I'm plenty annoyed about RSS becoming steadily more difficult to use. I have to run an extension in Firefox to get an RSS icon in the address bar, which is just sad.

That said, I'm finding that for Substack, at least, RSS works just fine. You get the whole article, no fuss, and it works the way it should, it's just https://example.substack.com/feed.

I'm pleased to see Substack do most things right. I almost wonder if their pitch deck explicitly said "we will zig every time Medium zagged".
Everything you "think," is wrong. Go research data and make an informed decision when you see a causation not related to correlation. It's fairly simple. The market is trending up right now.
I think this is the better approach. OP’s take feels almost nihilistic in disregarding any urge to “catch up” with peers or role models.

We can acknowledge that others have gone further, faster in an area and use that as motivation without falling into despair.

At the same time, life is about managing trade offs across many aspects. Often investing in one area means taking from another, and just because someone is further in one area, doesn’t mean their whole life is richer.
I just want a replacement for iCloud or Dropbox that works on every device as easy as those two services that is e2e encrypted and stored in a distributed database with safe redunancy.
I copy and paste into my project diary. Which will also have the question that I'm trying to answer (and perhaps exactly what I googled). And of course the URLs of useful things I found. They are often SO. And then I may copy and paste into my diary. Rarely will I paste into source code. Copy and paste errors I find to undo the benefit vs just typing it in and using my own code style.
Once again, Huawei is on trial, but as usual there is no evidence
Apart from hedge funds and quant trading firms, I think there is a lot of that sentiment be projected onto many software engineer jobs (at least, imo
I think the reply was trying to point out that if someone finds out they don't have time to go to the movies two nights a week they will cancel their movie pass. Because the gym is aspirational even if people don't have time one week they are more likely to tell themselves they will have time next week so they keep the gym membership.
I was working at a company that was acquired a few years ago, and part of the deal was them doing a source-level audit of code, mainly looking at licenses and open-source. They used some software which could detect copy-pasted source code, and had Stack Overflow indexed.

The Stack Overflow stuff was a massive, massive pain, for several reasons.

For one, it's not clear how CC-BY-SA applies to code[1]. This involved many long meetings with copyright lawyers. They ended up asking for all this to be removed, which our C-level people eventuality agreed to.

We had to then go through several hundred "flagged" things (in a hundreds of thousands of lines codebase) and fix or justify everything.

Only a few cases were outright copy+paste of a big function or class, and those were at least straightforward: rewrite. Usually it was old code anyway, and replaced with newer style, much more concise code.

Tons were one- or two-line things, which involved lots of arguments along the lines of "that is the way to open a file in append mode in this language, and logFile is the appropriate variable name in this case!" This is really a failing of the tool they were using, but it still required answering.

The funniest was a handful that were our answers: they were copy+paste our team had done from our code to SO! (Nothing proprietary, just a few lines of an algorithm or solving whatever random problem).

Anyway, this experience left me extremely cautious about introducing any external code (as opposed to libraries) into a codebase. OSS libraries with permissive licenses (MIT, BSD, etc) are easy to deal with: it's straightforward to comply and being a library means the code is nicely compartmentalized if you need to replace/remove it.

[1] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/q/1717
Yep, see all the "self-help" books popular in SV that amount of repackaged stoicism/buddhism written by marketers.
Yeah because Japan is partially subordinated by US
An article about how you're not behind that's written by a CEO. It sounds like humble bragging to me.
What kind of projects are your own projects?
I do know people who have expressed it to me often, and the author of the article goes as far to say "yet almost every high performer I have ever met suffers from it."

I agree that high performers must feel that they are capable to make performing feel tractable - I think that's necessary. But also they have to be motivated to do so.
When I was in med school, they taught us how to tie square knots and had us practice with sutures. They even had a technique for tying the knots just using one hand.
> lawless, anonymizing communities

i am safe from physical harm online, i can block people online.

i am not safe from physical harm in person, i cannot block people in person, they insult me when i try to assert boundaries, knowing that they can mistreat me with impunity since I'm financially dependent on them.

and i don't know anyone i relate to who lives nearby to talk to, and i can't meet even if i knew them.
Last 24hours DogeCoin had trading volume of $40Billion so perhaps not a good comparison ?
I think this is not correct - existing flu vaccines are definitely not MRNA based like the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and AFAIK even the adenovirus based vaccines (Astra-Zeneca, J&J, Sputnik) are pretty modern stuff.
Not true for an Italian deli.
Stevie Nicks is a "bad" singer by most metrics, but her albums sell very very well, and I enjoy them, too.

(When her singing debuted, music critics dismissed her voice as raspy and unpleasant.)
Oh man, Scott Adams was such a good source for knowledge before he tapped into political snake oil.
It would be nice if GitHub could allow opting out of all future achievements things so folks don't have to do it manually every time there is a new achievement.

Would also be nice to know what I did that counts for each of the achievements.
You should do an AMA.

What does that entail?

What skillset does one need?

How do you connect with your users? The ones with the weird hardware?
The control for that is to not permit password changes for a period of time.
Well, kind of got built. Foxconn got the money (in the form of major tax breaks) sure , but the promises haven't really panned out. Not that this is an atypical story of course.

Credit to Wisconsin for at least pretending to hold them somewhat accountable by cutting off the gravy train.
Seconding this. I'm a big fan of dagre due to its layouting. Curious if this can do the same...