skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the burden of proof lies on the one making the false assertion.

In an open democratic society everyone is responsible for surfacing the truth as they see it. Then we all decide indepedently what is a true or false assertion based off the evidence given.

Your job here is much easier: cite anything. Their job is much harder: they have to make an assertion about the entire episode. You should try to provide something substantial. Instead, you've come off as a bully & rude, dismissed the reply out of hand & done nothing to say why. You refuse to be helpful because you've asserted that you're right & they're wrong and that's all there is to it. It should be easy for you to make a real claim, beyond 'you're wrong'.
Not only no, but hell no.

Gonna cost you more than a few pennies worth of crypto to harvest my biometric data.
I usually say "blablablablabla" and when computer tells "please say it again" repeat exactly the same. Usually after 3 unrecognised wordings computer asks me if I want to have a conversation with human.
In online chats I usually write "call the meat one".
This setup seems beneficial to both restaurant owners and customers in China. The faster ordering process saves time for servers, which reduces labor costs, and the savings can be passed on to customers.

But it cannot work in America because of the tipping culture.
And yet this will not apply to the delta-variant.
The enterprise space is rife with such tools, but unfortunately they tend to tell you everything, which makes it hard to identify what actually matters.
> drown myself in work it is.

This is physically unsustainable. Our bodies and our minds are not built to sit at a desk and work 60 ours a week.

Ignore that and you'll get all sort of issue ranging from back pain to mental illness.

We don't need lavish vacations in fancy places. We need to stretch every hour, go for a walk in the park every other day, some hours for cultural and social life every day.
Taking medication doesn't make the problem go away.

I understand why people do it if their job relies on it...but the point of taking medication is so you can expose yourself to the fear, and then don't need the medication at all at some point...not using it as a coping strategy.

I have gone through something similar, unfortunately something significantly more disruptive. And I have succeeded and failed more than anyone over ten plus years...medication isn't anything. Your choices are: expose yourself to the situation and hope it goes away, or avoid it totally (and btw, both are fine choices...I think people assume that the latter is failure but life is complicated, sometimes it isn't possible to get over it...choosing not to do public speaking and talk openly about why, imo, takes some guts).
This is probably also reflected by the fact that they stopped patching it relatively early in its life. Three years of patches for what is effectively an internet-connected hard drive, presumably one that its target audience is going to be using for many years as something that “just works,” reflects a disinterest by Western Digital in living up to its own sales pitch.
:)
I could see some features becoming quite annoying, especially if you have to click through a bunch of upsells to finally add item to order. I think places could get creative though, for example leave comments for the chef about the meal, make specific requests which the prep team can respond to, have the chef speak about the daily specials in video rather than have a wait staff regurgitate them after having never tried them.
IANAL, but my interpretation of the GitHub TOS section D4 would give give GitHub the right to parse your code and/or make copies regardless of what your license states. This is the same reason the GitHub search index isn’t GPL contaminated.
Hegel is considered to be in the intellectual heritage of systems theory, AFAIK.
What timespans are we talking about here? 30 years until reinforced concrete starts failing? 100?
haha, where'd you get the idea that I'm fighting back?

No, my friend, I put on my jackboots and my company logo t-shirt and give 100% every day

Really, people benefit when I rob them of their privacy
Well in many jurisdictions in the US it is only illegal to drink and drive on property the public has ready access to. If someone is driving drink on sufficiently private property, then that's a risk the people who are choosing to be there are willing to take on. Would I personally want to be involved? Definitely not, but it's not up to me to decide for others.

And quite literally everything is harmful in one way or another, it's just a matter of degrees, and people should be allowed to make their own decisions.
It’s not hyperbole it’s reality. The US has the largest prison population in the world. It has massive problems with homelessness and violent crime. It has extreme wealth inequality. We have the most expensive healthcare and education in the world.

The reality is that the US is a harsh place to live. Yes there are upsides but the hyperbole is that there aren’t significant downsides.
I absolutely hate whenever I see patterns in my code. The first thing I think is "There has to be a way to automate this" This is not what I had in mind, but if it's as good as people seem to say, it might be a good step. I can't believe I am considering a Microsoft product after 15 years of avoiding them as much as I could.
Yeah, we don't disagree. Like I said, there's an "in-between".

Always "living in the moment" can be bad, depending on what you want out of life. Always "living in the future" can also be bad, depending on what you want out of life.

Ultimately, they both depend on the same thing: what you want out of life. The key is for everyone to define that goal for themselves; an exercise which is possibly the single hardest part of the human condition.
After many years, I now drink water when I first wake up instead of coffee. Baby steps!
I think "natural talent" is sort of a false concept. After time, hard work and practice often turn into talent. When you train hard at something and improve your skills enough, an outside observer will label you as talented. The better your skills, the more talented. You are the only one that knows you didn't start with those skills.

I wrestled competitively for 20 years. By the end of my career, people would talk about how naturally talented I was. But I knew that everything they were talking about came about through two decades of practice. People talked about how fast I was. But I spent years doing plyometrics. I was slow before that. People talked about how strong I was; I was doing pushups and pull ups every day with my dad starting at 8 years old. People just saw the results of 20 years of practice, and didn't see where I started out, so they called it talent.

I think to be extremely successful at something, you don't need talent. You can build talent in yourself. There is something to be said about people who are naturally very bad at something. Those people might never appear talented at something they are naturally very bad at. But then again, given enough practice over time, they might.

If you look at anyone who is a true master of a skill, their mastery lies not in their natural talent, but through their years of practice, their drive and their passion for what they are doing. Talent plays a small role over time. It mostly plays a role in the beginning.

For something like sprinting or weight lifting, I will give that natural ability is important. There are only so many people that can be as fast as Usain Bolt. But for sports that are more skills based, like martial arts, or other activities that are skills based, like coding, talent only takes you so far. After a certain point, talent becomes insignificant compared to all of your hard work.
The attitude of feeling guilty when you're not working can be useful to motivate yourself, but I think it s also something to be careful of.

Indeed, sometimes this time of pressure can grow so pervasive it becomes impossible for you to relax, and humans aren't endlessly working robots: we need to also have time where we calm down, which PG explained.

However, he didn't warn of developing too much of a work ethic to the point relaxation itself is something you don't enjoy.
Malls just seemed to get bigger and bigger, until all of a sudden they didn't.
Ah that makes sense in wildfire prone areas. Haven’t seen it much here in the east.
I don't agree that the Internet hasn't made much difference in how well distance learning works, but I agree with a weaker version of your hypothesis applied to educating young people. An indispensable feature of their university experience is building personal and professional connections that will last a lifetime, and that can't be built through distance learning.

On the other hand, distance learning makes a huge impact on mature learners. Whether they need to "reskill" to improve their job prospects, or simply cannot attend a university in person because they juggle many adult responsibilities, innovations and improvements in distance learning is extremely important to them and is beneficial to society. I also think this group is often ignored/pushed to the side in these debates.
I don't think we need to start looking for new career paths yet. This example has a few bugs and it took me longer to track them down than it would have to write it myself:

#!/bin/bash
# List all python source files which are more than 1KB and contain the word "copilot".
find . \
-name "*.py" \
-size +1000 \
-exec grep -n copilot {}\;

"-exec grep -n copilot {}\;" needs to have a space before the semicolon otherwise find fails with "find: missing argument to '-exec'".

The "1000" in "-size +1000" has a unit of 512 byte blocks so it is looking for files that are greater than 512000 bytes, not 1KB. This would be very easy to miss in a code review and is one of those terrible bugs that causes the code to mostly work, but not quite.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/find
Can't speak to the parent but vials per time can both change per person and between people.

My wife requires quite a bit more insulin while pregnant for example - she had to make changes to her pump's settings while in the hospital to accomodate it.
> culture of free expression once enjoyed in the U.S.

I stopped reading here, there have always been inhibitors of free expression in the U.S. to suggest otherwise is to show one's ignorance of the history of the topic at hand.
I've never really learned javascript in the first place - every time I try to learn I get caught up in a mix of versions of javascript(or ecmascript?), build systems, and just use "..." (coffeescript(lol), typescript, some node build system magic)

I build (barely) working websites with jquery and html and css though, having the "this is the one way jquery would do this and ignore all that other crap" value is high to me for that very reason - I work mostly on databases and having to learn the current spec every 2 years or whatever you web sickos are doing suuuuuuucks.
I live in one of those neighborhoods and the thing that kills our houses (aside from leaking roofs) is poor foundations. I've literally never heard of one of these houses falling over because of a structural issue with the actual timber it's built from. It's either that the wood has rotten because of roofing issues or (more likely) the rubble stone foundations fell apart

edit: and even if some of the wood has rotten you can almost always just replace or sister up that piece and be absolutely fine.
They currently don't tax unrealized gains, so how do you know that they won't rebate losses if they ever started to tax unrealized gains?
Check out how it helped me write a React component: https://twitter.com/francoisz/status/1409919670803742734

I think hit the Tab key more than I hit any other key ;)
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1404100794245214215
I find JSX is only straightforward for the simple cases. Often you wind up with unreadable, convoluted garbage because someone was trying to be clever with too many ternary operators, etc.
You decide for me when you censor hypotheses and flag scientific discussion as political. That is happening en mass in the name of science.
I don't have answers for you, but you might be interested in the book Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip Thorne.

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Holes-Time-Warps-Commonwealth/d...
Do you include house and pension's worth in those numbers?
Quarterly, monthly, whatever, ...it is the same problem. I'm talking about the dichotomy between optimizing for short-term results and maintaining a sustainable long-term vision (which does not necessarily devolve into a failed software project / team diaspora.)

If you have a good manager, you don't want them to be promoted because then it's a crap shoot whether you get another good one or not :) of course the pay raise is a compelling argument

I was only arguing against the idea that you can successfully keep your manager in the dark, you don't want that. You want a good manager who understands the problem domain well enough to anticipate these negative outcomes and who won't fixate on quarterly (or short-term) outcomes at the expense of long-term viability.

(A good manager also optimizes for your long-term success as well as their own!)

And it's not to say that optimizing for short-term goals is necessarily wrong every time. There's YAGNI – which is a perfectly reasonable argument to make at any time, but sometimes You Are Gonna Need It and there's an objective case in favor of not taking the shortcut because it will cost you in easily predictable ways.
To put things in perspective:

The actual survey result says that most experience simple shapes (60%).

39% saw colors other than red and black.

24% report very vivid colorful and complex images.

25% didn't see anything (answer "No").

(doesn't add up to 100% because multiple options could be selected)

A quick internet search reveals 1-3% of people have aphantasia.

I wouldn't rely too much on the results of this test w.r.t. aphantasia.
We’ll still probably need periodic booster shots to deal with variants as they crop up. Still, very encouraging news if it holds up in practice.
It's pretty much this, but it's harder because if someone else wrote it, there's a level of indirection between how you would have written it and how they did which tends to need a bit of extra mental resolving/processing for correctness.
In your example, switching from jQuery was just a matter of personal preference. There's nothing wrong with that.

My original comment left out some context: on HN, a lot of the hostility to jQuery is either cultural or gatekeeping oriented. Cultural opposition is of the 'not invented here' variety, e.g. 'Why use Dropbox when you could do this w/ rsync? Gatekeeping-related opposition is where it's implied that you shouldn't call yourself a dev if you use jQuery and not vanilla JS.

That is the kind of discussion that happens nearly every time a link to YMNNJQ is dropped.
> Hard work looks different if there's no where to go

The essay assumes a lot about who the reader is and the type of work they're doing. This perspective on work is obviously utterly alien to a single parent who's a dental assistant, part-time wait staff, has two young kids, and is barely making ends meet. But that person works a hell of a lot harder than any startup founder I've ever met. For them, the answer to "how to do hard work" is simpler: remember your kids starve and go homeless if you don't. Then, get up, go to work, and do what you're told. Continue until you have enough to pay the rent, buy food, and pay the baby sitters. Remember how lucky you are to have a roof and food. Repeat.

On one hand, I understand exactly what PG is saying -- the sort of work that requires high productivity without anyone telling you to work feels way harder than straight forward wage labor. There's a reason people drop out of phd programs and intentionally seek out specifically boring & predictable engineering/sales jobs (see: the post from the cmu undergrad).

On the other hand, I completely understand how the idea that autonomy and ownership over your own labor makes work harder -- and bragging about working 7 days a week for two whole years -- must seem incredibly tone-deaf to someone who has no choice but to do long days for 7 days a week under abusive management for 18+ years, only to get a reprieve of merely working 8-10 hour days for the 25-30 years after the kids are grown up and move away.

But PG isn't writing to that audience. The primary audience for many of his essays are people like him: guys who grew up geeky in upper middle class suburbs. There's nothing wrong with writing for the audience, but he does a kind-of bad job at signposting the fact that his advice is utterly irrelevant to the 50+% of the population that never have the opportunity to invest in themselves.
One question: how long is the waitlist? Very excited to try this!
My insurance company gets me lower costs than the hospital would otherwise provide.

It's a guarantee that I don't pay more than 8000$/yr for healthcare.

Without the insurance company, I might be in debt after a hospital visit. If the medical cartels weren't so corrupt and I could get a price, I probably wouldn't use insurance.
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> Those are between 140 and 180 years old.

Why they are so old? Did owners not have money to rebuild?
> Does it train a programmer for accepting less than ideal code because it was suggested? Similar to how some programmers blindly copy code from StackOverflow without modification.

Maybe juniors, but I don't see this being likely for anyone else. I've been using TabNine for ages and it's closer to just a fancy autocomplete than a code assistant. Usually it writes what I would write, and if I don't see what I would write I just write it myself (until either I wrote the whole thing or it suggests the right thing). Of course, barring some variable names or whatever.

I don't have it "write code for me" - that happens in my head. It just does the typing.
A related problem with the apps is that they expand the tipping expectation to all sorts of interactions that were not traditionally tipped, such as ordering at a cash register. You don't need to tip someone just because they have an iPad!
I like the concept, but just like with kite, having part of my code sent to the remote service is a not going to be ok for many of my projects.

For foss ones it could be great though.

I think the best part for me is that how it's going to introduce even more low code devs to the worker pool, which means I will be able to raise my price again. Last time this happens, when designers got to the backend, I got +30% in a year once my clients figured out the difference in output.
I would expect that, with proper roofing and siding, the structural frame would not need to be made from outdoor-usable plywood.
The most censorship resistent blog is one that doesn't use any resources owned by a third party. Unless you're rich that generally means hosting from your home computer.

It's simple, It's effective (for most non "web scale"/commercial use cases), and it's legally safe.
You wonder if there were political reasons behind the language used - the building should have been condemned since it was at immediate risk of collapse, but rich people do not like to be inconvenienced. So the engineer decided to protect himself, he told and hid the truth at the same time.
The whole “article” is like meta-reactionary though. From what I’ve read I agree that Stanford training sounds ridiculous. But this entire post is just the author doing the very thing she’s accusing others of doing:

> Building on the now-popular term “woke,” I have come to call this ideology, wokecraft. I use the metaphor of a spell because among believers are people in fields that rely on logic, reason, and science but who nonetheless appear unable to see that many of wokecraft's definitions — including new definitions of racism and antiracism — are tautological, and many of its foundational concepts (such as white fragility, white privilege, and microaggressions) are unfalsifiable.

Is “wokecraft” not tautological and unfalsifiable? And all of her examples seem intended to speak to ideology over science - “toxic” masculinity, Israel’s “right to exist”, etc. There are lots of deliberately chosen and emotionally-loaded phrases in this writing. That’s the hallmark of ideology over science.
So if I worked hard in my 20s, then why don't I have a solid amount of money and am not set up for lifelong sucess?
I wanted to only comment that I admire the bravery of the author being so open about such personal fears like this. Many times it's safer to not open up because there maybe little to gain and potentially a lot to lose.
IDK I've been to restaurants where its just a QR code linked to a google drive pdf. Doesn't require much infrastructure there.
I worked very hard in my 20s and I'm extremely glad I did. The work was interesting, engaging, maturing, and super valuable for society. It also set me up with an extremely valuable skill set, of hard and soft skills, that are useful in both my professional and personal lives.

This trend of saying you enjoyed your life and therefore yours was the only correct choice is extremely closed-minded, and tends to come from parents in particular a lot. What if instead you solicited the opinions of people whose life you clearly don't understand? Are you so scared of the idea that other choices made other people happy?
The $86 insulin is not worse.
Of course this is an continuation of things people have been trying for decades at this point, rather than something fundamentally new, but it brings up a point a colleague and I had a decade ago on training something like this on large data sets - namely that you are going to tend find common idioms rather than nominally best ones. In many scenarios it may make little to no difference, but clearly not all . It's likely going to gravitate towards lowest-common-denominator solutions.

One example of where this can be a problem is numerics - most software developers don't understand it and routinely do questionable things. I'm curious what effort the authors have put in to mitigate this problem.
https://youtu.be/DfGs2Y5WJ14
My source for the 6/month figure is this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPYJ4l-lBI

Only the big ones end up in the media..

But you are right it seems like an overestimate. I found this showing 17 buildings collapsed in eight years, citing a CMU study:

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2016/05/02/kenya-s-l...
Automated tests find all bugs and replace code review? I'd love some of those drugs!
But is _is_ an unknown future prize, and countless stories prove that. Pension funds go belly up, whole industries made obsolete, an accident/injury disrupts everything, etc.

I think your premise of “telling people how to live their life” falls more on the popular notion that investment early in career, rather than family or life experience, is more important. I believe this is wrong and it’s repeated more frequently than my counterpoint!
Works on MS's VSCode but not on GitHub's own Atom. More proof that Atom is all bud dead
Walmart Rolls Out a Cheaper Insulin
Someone, somewhere, is already working on ways to make it inject vulnerabilities into your project.
It seems incorrect to determine a half a month as 16/31 but ok , for your proposed example:

>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> Decimal(1000) * Decimal(16) / Decimal(31)
Decimal('516.1290322580645161290322581')
>>> 1000 * 16 / 31
516.1290322580645

The point is using Decimal allows control over precision and rounding rather than accepting ad-hoc approximations of a float.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html

If it were me, I wouldn't go around bragging about how much money my software manages while being willfully ignorant of the fundamentals.
< FWIW, I hate tipping in general. I wish they were paid a fair wage and I was billed appropriately on the front end.

In several states they are. Washington St. doesn't have a lower minimum wage for servers.