skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people are conflating intrinsic value with extrinsic value.

PG’s point is that those degrees have no extrinsic value, even if they provide lots of time to think, learn, and gain enjoyment. That can certainly be valuable, but it isn’t necessary or helpful in achieving success.

Nothing wrong with that, and his choice of wording wasn’t ideal, but that was my takeaway.
Without a control group this is really not very useful.
He worked other people hard, which is really the only way to become very rich. One person can only do so much no matter how hard they work.
Yes. You can have as many phone numbers as you need. One phone number can be associated with one or multiple Slack channels.
Explaining the asnwers in another way, yes, steel is necessary for both large horizontal openings without pillars and large vertical heights.
With "App Clips" or "Instant Apps" or whatever you want to call them QR codes for me take the lead again. Get a receipt at the table, open camera, scan, app pops up with receipt, add tip, click click pay, done.

Skipping the second waiter trip to swipe all the cards or the awkwardness of bringing out the PoS system to the table is immediately worth it to me.
Sure they could do that. You're essentially asking them to implement an additional feature to handle a new use case—a totally reasonable thing to ask.

But it seems like it's really a stretch to say "it's a dark pattern to not implement this feature that covers my use case". If not implementing a desired feature is a "dark pattern", then I'm not really sure I know what constitutes a dark pattern
Finding the heaviest software packages on Fedora using Bash and Python
You can use Python or Bash to find out the heaviest packages installed with RPM on your system. You will be surprised to find out how much space you can bleed with ‘tiny’ packages that you no longer use as you pile lots of them.
You're going to get downvoted into oblivion I suspect, which may have been your intent?

Is History a _useful_ degree? Is Economics? Is Politics? Psychology or Sociology?

I actually don't want to make those determinations. I don't think I'm qualified. I have a rough view that highly specific degrees are worse overall than general ones. Eg Actuarial Mathematics vs Mathematics. Marine Biology vs Biology.

But those are personal dinner table views, and I'm not certain I'm right! I certainly don't want to define policy on it, and I'm not sure I know of anyone I think is qualified.
This (free to read) study from last year is a lot more concrete in its description than the Vice article. https://www.pnas.org/content/117/45/28463

This article for kids by the lead author of the study in the parent link is a better popsci article (though not directly about time cells):
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.0014...
On macOS Firefox, CMD+K (default shortcut to open the command line) also opens the browser bar. You should probably fix that :)
huh. so at least in WA the law says >5 nano-grams if THC per milliliter in blood can get you a DUI.

Seems that you are right that there is no reliable way of testing for this (and the 5 nanograms might have been pulled out of someone’s a…ttic when the law was written).

https://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.61.502
"Ad hoc, lack abstraction/code reuse"? How does this

fix f = f f

almost_factorial f n =
if n == 0
then 1
else n * f f (n - 1)

factorial = fix almost_factorial

lack code reuse compared to

fix f = (\x. x x) (\x. f (\y. x x y))

almost_factorial f n =
if n == 0
then 1
else n * f (n - 1)

factorial = fix almost_factorial

? As for ugliness, well, it is indeed in the eye of the beholder: I personally think the fixpoint combinators that enable mutual recursion are pretty ugly, even more so than "(\x. x x) (\x. f (\y. x x y))".

The only real problem is that in my approach the recursive calls look like "f closed_over_functions... new_args..." instead of "f new_args..." but that's what the compilers are for: this transformation is called "closure conversion" and is pretty straightforward. Sure, if you have to encode those things manually, then perhaps using Y is clearer and may even be the only option if you can't mess with the original definitions.
Smart cars for everyone. Statistically that's all anyone should need.

Sounds really like a leopard-ate-my-face moment, TBH. It's fine when they come for the things you don't like. Just wait...
I hope this doesn't come across as insensitive but this is something I've never understood. If life feels like this, that seems like an indicator that it's time for some massive change. Usually people give some vague abstract response about why massive change is just unrealistic, indicating some fragile house of cards, while in a simultaneous act of cognitive dissonance dreaming of the day it topples.

Perhaps we could: sell everything and move into a van to live on the road; or get a cheap house boat; or declare bankruptcy and move into a Buddhist monastery; quit jobs to transition into a more mindless one that allows more free time; find a nonprofit organization in a different country to throw oneself into; teach English in a foreign country; etc...

It's like, when we're brooding so much that we're done with life, it just seems like that's the best time to give life a chance, because at that point there's nothing left to lose.
I loved jQuery, and still do (2019)
For those who have worked on traditional desktop apps (rather than web), what underlying paradigm is used for UI updates there? I assume all these problems of fast partial updates must have been addressed there long ago. So apart from the specifics miasma of language and markup formats, how was it done?

I ask in complete earnest, and if I should just be reading some particular Wikipedia article I'm grateful for any links.
I've read another story about his IRA that I cannot find now and he started with his PayPal shares, then used proceeds from that for Facebook and other investments for which he's famous. This was not a public/stock investment strategy.

It's less impressive that it could have been(!) because he took out some money (and paid taxes on it).
What?

Also only Americans eat peanut butter in significant quantity no?
And it further implies that the speaker has suggested that the two options are the only possible ones, when in fact there are other possibilities.

But the person you're correcting seems to have already noticed that, and has corrected themselves.
I got a job at a very good company through LinkedIn

A guy had posted about opening in the company. I sent profile, he referred me and I joined a few months ago.

It was a blind referral. I didn't know the guy or that they had an opening!
I feel that a Session 0 should cover a lot of these rules, they should be not "unwritten rules". They should be discussed up front prior to starting the game.

On top of that the DM needs to find out if there are any topics that the players don't want to encounter. For example rape is a big no on my table, slavery they don't care about encountering, it gives them people to free usually. In another table even with me as DM it can be the opposite.

As a side note, having a DM credo to share with players is always a good starting point. It's a list of expectations for your own conduct.
>The real world doesn't work that way and using statistical outliers like Gates is disingenuous to the discussion about hard work and how it applies to normal people.

Exactly. This is the central lie that sustains capitalism. Wealthy C-level executives get rich when the rest of us work hard, which is why they harp on "working hard" so much. There's no reason to work hard when all the benefits go to the already-wealthy above you, which is why they try to obscure that fact in as many ways as possible.
I suppose this is a whole new argument in favor of good code commenting - to train/share context with your future tooling.
I started to work full time during the summers at 15 in IT - doing easy tasks like imaging laptops and setting up desktops for teachers my local school district. My friends would spend their time with video games, hanging out, etc. At the end of the summer, I asked if I could work part time after school for the district so that I don't have gaps on my resume. When I got out of high school, I technically already had several years of experience and I just started to apply for jobs instead of going to college. I hit over a decade of "professional" experience by the time I was 25.

Do I regret working hard during those early years? Definitely not. It shaped me to be what I am today. I believe you should live your life that way you want to live it. You can't achieve great things by doing mediocre amount of work. Figure out where you are content with life and live it without regret of "what could have been".
Clerk is built natively for Slack. You don't need to rely on a separate webapp for SMS functionality. Anyone from your team is able to communicate to clients directly from the Slack interface they use every day.
This only barely glances the number one way I’ve found to work hard: to work for yourself. Working on things other people want is, for me, more difficult than working on things I want. Working at someone else’s company is more difficult than working at my company. With my own company, when things were going relatively well, it was easy to spend every waking minute working. At other companies, putting in overtime is more draining, especially if the reasons for it are because things are late or something broke. I’ve put in a lot of overtime in my life, I tend to work hard, but there’s really no comparison between hard work with a boss and hard work as the boss.
Thank you for letting me know about Bromite! Firefox Mobile's UI is pretty terrible these days and getting worse, and I wasn't looking forward to limiting myself to hosts file blocking.
we'll wait for that citation
He bought 1.7 million paypal shares for $1,700. They were worth 50 million a couple years later. After that it's just a bun ch of venture capital stuff, including facebook.
Concrete has horrible greenhouse gas emissions issues that wooden construction doesn't.

The chemical reaction for the cement in concrete generates C02 in a 1:1 ratio with the amount of cement produced. Unless you're capturing it you release 1 ton of C02 for your 1 ton of cement. Steel for rebar is even worse, the ratio of C02 generated is greater than 1:1. None of this includes any of the energy you used to heat any of the ingredients either.

Even plastic is better, some of the Carbon & oxygen get sequestered in the plastic.

A process to completely sequester or not generate any C02 in the production of cement & concrete that was cheap & easy would be a Nobel prize winning innovation. If the whole world switched to that it would be more significant than switching all vehicles in the world to electric.
Yes and no - up until a few years ago, this kind of snooping was anonymous, but that changed, and right now you can see who's been looking/snooping through your profile. Some people figured that they can charged a couple of bucks to do that for you, but I wouldn't say that it is any large or serious business.
The ability for hard work is a luxury. Work three jobs, save, build a better future for yourself is a very nice thing. Take it away, such as spending your life caring for a disabled or addicted family member, and you will realize how nice self-determination is.
It's been hit and miss. I've had good and bad. The best I've found are;

1. QR code to PDF of full actual menu. If they direct you to a HTML page is usually awful and is accordion based mobile UI that involves a bunch of clicking in and out. A PDF can be zoomed in/out but all the content is right there.

2. QR code to pay. This is great when it comes on your bill and you can just pay and leave. However, if it allows Apple pay it's very smooth. Unfortunately, most of the systems involve a web based checkout flow including manual credit card entry and capturing more info than is really needed (email/phone) so they can spam you later.
Three deck homes are common in New England, here are some examples (I think these are five family homes, the upper floors are two families each):

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.2662623,-71.8167462,3a,75y,1...
Yes. And "learning" shouldn't just be measured in PhDs or being an expert at one thing. I think the "work hard" advice can be interpreted as "focussed, tunnel vision, excelling in one area to the exclusion of everything else" when there is great benefit of aiming for a wider range of experiences in your 20s.
Being aware of the existence of and even experiencing a neurological mechanism does not directly translate into understanding how it actually works. There is still so much we don't understand about how our brain functions. Making a simplified assumption without any verification is not science.
> And since you can't really change how much natural talent you have, in practice doing great work, insofar as you can, reduces to working very hard.

Only a few people will have the right body type to be great at any given sport, but a lot will have the right body type to be great at at least one sport. E.g. if you don't have the right body type for basketball, you might have the perfect body type for ski jumping or whatever.
I think it's funny that you mention learning science. Actually, all of these patterns go against everything we know about teaching anyone anything.

* Removing access to course materials is horrible! I use old courses and books for reference all the time. When you can access the course any time, you refresh your learning. That's the key to long term retention.

* FOMO to force people to work at your pace rather than their pace is just as terrible. We know that students working at their pace, with encouragement, is what really works. Pushing people into courses when they aren't ready is terrible.

* Constant quizzes are a lazy version of what we know works, which is engagement like https://icampus.mit.edu/projects/teal/ Yes, quizzes are part of it, but a small part, the focus is on making courses interactive with meaningful work instead of boring 1-out-of-n choices. Making such courses is hard, so they take the easy and boring way out.

* If users find the UI unsettling, like it's too focused on tracking and too little on actual learning, that's a legitimate and important complaint. Education is not about getting arbitrarily high scores on some random online quizzes. You want people to actually learn something for the long run.

It really looks like edX and Coursera are taking the exam-driven horrors that are being inflicted on K-12 students all the time and translating them to the web. This is no way to teach. And you can see that with their extremely poor retention rates.
I find it quite valuable to get information about companies.
AsyncAPI specification 2.1 is out and most important tools followed immediately
It's perfectly well typed in System F as "forall a. (a -> a) -> a".
> The other drawback of these censorship-resistant blogs is that they all require plugins to access the non-HTTP domain, which all but rules out most non-technical people who don't even know what HTTP is.

All .eth addresses are resolved by cloudflare with the .link tld, so hn.eth could be visited as a normal site with hn.eth.link
As discussed previously, this "trick" is actually explicitly not permitted, because you could do something like say "My stock is only work $0.001 each ;)" while simultaneously selling to investors are orders-of-magnitude higher valuations.

I mean, let's be real: the argument in defense of this is that Thiel bought his founders shares at "a fair value". There were 3 original founders, so the argument is that the company had a fair value of.... ~$5k?

> you put in a few thousand dollars worth of them each year before you valuation skyrockets

You can't transfer assets into an IRA like this either.
Any data to back your claim here.

If not straight corruption this would be a clear case of bad allocation of EU resources.
Yes, though for many doorbells when you push the button the power goes away.
The promise of most mesh nets is that they're (more or less) a self-configuring distributed VPN. Give a node some credentials and (usually) a few real, publicly-routable IP addresses to "bootstrap" nodes, and that's it. It's on the network.

There's no "real" network that they provide a gateway to, necessarily, just a bunch of nodes, potentially none of which are on the same physical or logical local network, aside from the mesh network itself, which is an overlay network—think of an overlay network like a virtual machine, but for networks, incidentally: a protocol stack built on top of, or within, if you prefer, another protocol stack. You feel like you're talking TCP/IP over it, but under the hood your TCP packets are carried in other packets (may or may not also be TCP—often it's UDP when possible) over the normal Internet, then reconstructed back into this virtualized, if you will, packet stream on the other end.

With a traditional VPN, you'd connect to a real device that provides a gateway to, say, a corporate network, which may have routing connecting multiple locations but is essentially a normal network. Mesh networks operate much more peer-to-peer than that, usually leveraging known peers to find routes to others that are (for whatever reason) unreachable or initially unknown. The "mesh" part refers to the routing, mainly, the job of which is to search out and find good paths to nodes. If "corporate" has fiber cut by a backhoe, "the VPN" isn't down—many, many nodes might be, but the network might survive in a useful form.
IMO a potentially more interesting application of this technology would be a learning system that is able to learn your coding style. You give it access to the codebase and it reformats all files on save according to your likings, perfectly.

Obviously a program that is able to write actual great code reliably would be spectacular, but we aren't there yet, I don't think Copilot presently is able to make me meaningfully more productive.
Do they enjoy it or do they THINK they enjoy it? Many people realize that they wasted their lives on being in the office after they retire.

This TED talk can be a revelation:
https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_t...

And the Bill Gates thing? PLEASE. Yeah, I agree with the previous comment. A horrible example.

Bill Gates was one of the most lucky sons of bitches in the history of the planet. Born to wealthy parents, he was impossible to deal with, so they took him to a therapist (again, a lucky pick) that advised them to set Gates free. They put him in this prep school with other privileged kids, and like a meteor made of pure gold, by luck, it had a computer. Almost no schools had a computer at the time.

Hard work is only part of the equation. You have to be at the right place, at the right time. Most people never are.

Might as well read the next article on "Ten morning habits of billionaires". Luck. Is. A. Factor.
From Clippy to this technology, in just under 25 years! Very impressive. I wonder how much impact this tool might have as a teaching aid, as well?
This is such a garbage attitude. You'd really do anything, no matter how immoral as long as it's not illegal? I hope we never meet and you have zero influence on my life, the lives of my family, and indeed the human race. Taking an ethical position one way or another regardless of the law as currently written, interpreted and enforced is a really reasonable thing to do. Not taking an ethical view and outsourcing that to current law? You need to defend that.

Think of all the obvious examples of utterly heinous behavior that were not illegal when they happened. Most of the very worst were not. Start with the bogeymen of evil.

As for tax dodging. FFS if you've got more money than your grandchildren can spend and you still want to not pay a contribution to the society that enabled that and protects it from just being taken from you? That's what makes you happy? Because it's happiness you're getting. You're way past toy money at that point, you can be as vapid as to buy more Bugattis and fly everwhere first class either way. You want to avoid tax for charity? Charity is tax deductable so that's BS on roller skates too. And I /hate/ sounding like an angry socialist because I'm not even close to being the latter.
Yeah, running locally would be my preference. I get "Antitrust (2001)" vibes from this, but that's the tinfoil hat side of me.
Should I be impressed that the example parse_expenses.py on the home page doesnt include any error handling and uses a float for currency? This seems like it's going to revolutionize copy and paste programming.
Yeah high speed high altitude reconnaissance is simply not mission-appropriate. That's why Switch uses predator drones loitering in a tight loop pattern for surveillance and a quick strike.
Bizarrely it doesnt seem to have:

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/wdc
It seems nowadays, or maybe not only in modern age.
Being not doing anything is more painful than to be occupied and leaning toward burning out.

It kinds of reminds me of a published story on hn [0]

> "That is why we like noise and activity so much. That is why imprisonment is such a horrific punishment. That is why the pleasure of being alone is incomprehensible. That is, in fact, the main joy of the condition of kingship, because people are constantly trying to amuse kings and provide them with all sorts of distraction.—The king is surrounded by people whose only thought is to entertain him and prevent him from thinking about himself. King though he may be, he is unhappy if he thinks about it"

It seems that being in the passive mode or `flow` is a therapy itself, we can't seems to even stand non-productive ourselves to a certain extent. And modern convenient distractions only steer ourselves down this path even further.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25482927
Four years later: your AI replacement? When do you all predict something like this will happen?
To identify that for people who succeed, hard work is often required, and most people aren’t born with the ability to do really hard work. That takes conscious effort and an uncanny ability to stay on task.

ADHD makes this hard, fwiw, and PG is not saying this mode is right for everyone. But I would agree with that idea: working hard isn’t natural, at least for some people, but it is a requirement for attaining success. If you’re going to work hard, it makes sense to do it on something you love. And there are people who thrive on hard work.

There are a bunch of prerequisites, some of which he explicitly states (find something you love, eg) and some implicit (sometimes you have to take the job you don’t like, because circumstances dictate that; families, eg).

But it certainly isn’t for everyone.
I wonder how much of the criticism is skewed by the Western notion of “work”. I.e., we tend to view a vocation as the most legitimate definition of work.

If we take a different perspective, I think the author is much less likely to be the target of ire.

>working hard means aiming toward the center — toward the most ambitious problems.

To those in a society hyper-focused on productivity, this can certainly rub people the wrong way because so few are able to dedicate themselves to super ambitious vocations. As the saying goes, the world needs ditch diggers too.

But if your ambition is to cultivate a meaningful, verdant life I don’t see why the author's statement is incompatible with the GP comment. Maybe we just need to broaden our definition about what is worthwhile “work”. It’s certainly possible to do great work cultivating relationships if that is your goal rather than, say, creating a new field of mathematics.
Question: How hard would it be to make to re-impletment freecad in wasm? Someone needs to break it out of qt or at least make it more customizable. Is this ever going to happen?
It's now added, enjoy :)