skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not so much imposter syndrome. It's that research-based graduate experience matters, not in what one learns, but that it forces a person to go through 4 to 7 years of deeply focused introspection, often on fundamental reality.

I suspect similar experience can be gained in a monastery or deep spiritual processes. It's not that PhD is a requirement, people gain this ability in different ways, just it's the most standard way to set aside 4-7 years to focus nowadays.

It's not the kind of experience that one can gain from standard undergrad education, or in a regular 9-5. Also when we are older, it's difficult to find the kind of time to do deeply focused introspection on a single topic.

Without this process, it's easy to get trapped into superficial learning, and confuse regurgitating factoids with knowledge and insight.

The key to do this once again is that instead of trying to learn everything, focus on a singular topic very deeply for a non-trivial amount of time.
I have an HHKB for many years. It’s still my favorite keyboard. It’s very personally and subjective. Most of the reasons for why I like it can be explained as I am used to it though - eg it’s layout.
I sometimes wonder if my mental condition or
my medication has had an effect on this: I'm
bipolar schizoaffective and borderline.

Hey, I don't know if anybody has told you lately but maintaining a successful career with these challenges is fucking spectacular, and you're doing it!

Be proud, friend!
In Lada, you are the crumple zone.
I think we can try to help the Uyghurs, but I think we have to do so in a way that allows China to save face (in contrast to the sort of cathartic, show-China-who's-boss sentiment upthread). But yeah, Washington and Beijing don't get along well, and a very fragile peace is emerging on climate. I think an aggressive push on the Uyghur issue would set back Chinese climate policy by years, and scientists seem to be telling us that we need to make a certain amount of progress by the end of the decade. So yeah, it kind of feels like a dichotomy to me.
A lot of bad advice here generally trending to a defeatist attitude. The simple fact is that when you work on something for an extended period of time, persistently, it grows and grows. Give a solid hour of work every day for a year and you might be surprised what kind of things you can build. Now, think about doing this full time for years on - there are a lot of smart people but more often than not, aforementioned persistence is masquerading as genius.
Thanks you nikolay. The verification process is to be determined. I just wanted to make sure there was a method to distinguish "official" communication at launch. Not sure how useful, but we'll see :).
A Volvo 240 DL, model years 2000 to about 2010. Completely reliable daily driver, safe, comfortable sedan that can goo 500,000 miles with reasonable care. I had three of them over the years. Today, my daily driver is a 2017 Toyota 4Runner after I put 250,000k miles on a 2008 Toyota Highlander. These can go 500,000 miles with reasonable maintenance. I also buy used so others take the depreciation hit.
It's an interesting question, but in my personal view trying to weigh the total moral value proposition of new technology is so incredibly difficult. If one could do it well, you could predict the future.

As an interesting hyperbolic comparison, is our understanding of nuclear fission and fusion worth it because two cities in Japan were bombed and thousands died? IDK

Edit: and this isn't to say we shouldn't be critical of Blockchain technology. I think the criticism of proof of work is important, and I'm glad that most chains are proof of stake or transitioning. Would we have made proof of stake if we first didn't validate the idea with a simpler proof of work implementation? Maybe. Maybe not.
AC was way slower than Huffman back when JPEG was first defined in 1992, so it would have taken many years to see AC-encoded JPEG in the wild even without a patent concern.
I'm very happy with my Majestouch TKL.
It's World Toilet Day
If you had been born in the middle of the 1960's or so you too probably would be a crack assembly programmer, you didn't really have a choice in 1982 if you wanted your stuff to run at an acceptable speed.

The good news is: retrocomputing is a thing and you can set up an environment like that for pennies nowadays. But it will take time and you will have a lot of frustrating experiences, nothing more humbling than computer from four decades ago that does exactly what you tell it to do, no more, no less (which is rarely what you intended it to do...).

Best of luck getting your feeling under control, I am very happy that I'm not forced into todays' fast moving environment where skillsets usefullness has a half life that is short enough that you will have to retrain many times during a single career, something that in the past was much less of a problem. And this pace is still accelerating, people born today will likely have it worse.
I will say its hard to beat the torrent pipeline. Quality VPNs are dirt cheap, and with a solid connection, you can sequentially download and start watching almost immediately, essentially just like streaming.
When I feel this way I volunteer locally in my community. I am immediately reminded there’s more work to do helping our fellow humans than can ever be done - and it makes me feel proud and useful when I would otherwise be frustrated and burned out.
> Compared to programming and tech, success in a lot of fields in the humanities, including journalism is far more connected to who you know, what family you were born into, what college you went to, and your overall personal network.

The term for this is "classism".
Maybe? But wouldn't you expect at least some non-degenerate matter on the surface of a neutron star?

I doubt we'll find any 'naked' neutron stars.
Consider supporting Electronic Frontier Foundation instead: https://eff.org.
I have a huge list of movies (and a few TV shows) that don't seem to have made the jump. Some are great (the BBC series of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People), some of them are very cult (Meet the Feebles), and some are just bad (Poor White Trash II, originally titled Scum of the Earth). Everyone said that streaming would make the "long tail" accessible because the costs to transfer and distribute would be so low, but that doesn't seem to have happened, at least to the extent that I'd like.

(I've had the same issue with music--my MP3 collection consists of a few dozen LPs that I've ripped because they were never digitized and added to the different services.)
Look up the plastic clip part numbers on a Honda parts site, then cross-reference them via eBay or Amazon to get a significantly cheaper knock-off. I've been able to get a bag of 20 for the price of 1 bought from the dealer parts counter. If they don't last, well you have plenty of spares now.
It's hard toe believe people (professionals, at least) are still using GoDaddy. Their shenanigans are well-documented, so the only reason stories like these could keep showing up in places frequented by people who should know better would seem to be name recognition. GoDaddy is the McDonald's of domains. You shouldn't be surprised if you go to McDonald's and get McDonald's-tier service. Although on second thought, Jiffy Lube may be a more apt comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_Lube#Controversy
For those who aren’t aware of why everyone on Wall Street who understands both crypto and “traditional” markets would start laughing when they read this headline: Citadel is considered to be the main beneficiary from the “meme stock” madness, as they are the ones who control the order flow on apps like Robinhood.

So, like, in a weird way, the crypto money lost to the meme stock money.
WTA Chief Willing to Pull Out of China over Peng Shuai’s Safety
Mine too! That's what my user experience with this thus far has let me to believe, too. I am thinking of creating a way to specify the delivery settings per-thread, such that messages on some threads take 3 days to deliver, or 7 days, or 14. You could have multiple threads with the same people, with different delivery durations. A core goal is to keep correspondence alive and one of the best ways to do that is to make sure enough time elapses so that there's something new to write.
My 88 Chevy beater truck was the last year of carburetors, as it had an old small block v8 in it.
And that’s ok! I am happier with my current life of balance than I ever would be with that level of singular focus. The hard part is not comparing yourself to people who have made those choices differently than you. I often find myself saying things to myself like “Sure, if I put that time in, maybe I could be like that. But I choose not to, because that is not important to me.”
Nothing new. Buy something a decade and a half old or even two, have it rebuilt to spec and enjoy a computer free and reliable ride that if you pick the right car will likely appreciate in value for a while.

My 'daily driver' (or at least, before I got my e-bike it was my daily driver) is 24, drives like it was made last week and will probably outlast me. It is not the most fuel economic car but it gets me where I need to go and is quite reliable.
This is a quote I remind myself of a lot, because it's important, but for the life of me I can't find a source for Hemingway ever saying this. I think it was attributed to him before even before Kingsmen: The Secret Service but I'm not sure?
The Recife (Brazil) logo is just brilliant.
https://mapa-metro.com/en/brazil/recife/recife-metro-map.htm
You’re right - that’s a no brainer everyone should be doing, but we don’t.
Dude, you need to get a grip. This is not real.
I don't believe it.

Einstein is overrated. If he hadn't been born other people would have come to the same conclusions.

Physicists today are working on problems that are dramatically harder to solve. It's true that thousands of people can dogpile in a research area where the opportunities are illusory, but most problems succumb to elbow grease and liberal use of trial and error.
> Now think it through. What happens if a wheel locks up? Right, it loses all stopping power.

That‘s not true. Going in a straight line, blocking wheels will stop you in less distance than with active ABS.

However ABS allows you to brake and go around an obstacle without losing control of your vehicle.
This is a common thread in many traditions of wisdom. The words change (surrender, accept, be with, open to, observe, witness, feel, welcome, embrace etc.) but the idea is the same: you have to feel difficult emotions fully in order to process them.

Dr. K's Healthy Gamer Twitch stream offered another descriptor I like - digest. Emotions can be digested if you allow yourself to feel them without getting swept away or identified with them.

That which you resist, persists. I could go on, but your comment reminded me that sages and therapists have pointed to the same thing.
> The Shuttle still dropped the two solid rocket boosters.

Yeah... I kind of cheated. "Almost", but a lot of the kick came from the SRBs.
Go easy on yourself and don't compare yourself to other people. That old classic saw "be yourself", springs to mind, but it's important to enjoy yourself too.

You are anything but shallow if you can think and write as you do. I've read your other comments on this site from 2015. I come from a Christian equivalent in some ways.

Some things that have helped me, in no particular order are, but many smart people have recommended are:

Read Philosopy, join a charity (I reckon you'd be an excellent helper in after school educational activities), take up more than one sport and join a sports club, chess, make more art, change your diet, get more sleep.

I can't speak to your mental condition or medication because that requires expertise but you can always, and indeed should always, get a second opinion and seek to alter your medication under supervision.

Trite on this forum, but emacs org-mode is a great thing to learn and might help using any available empty slots on your schedule, it's also great fun, such a total cultural immersion. Org-mode with magit and babel et cetera is for me the most powerful documentation system available, and most open source projects need to improve their documentation. Maybe try to use your considerable talent, skills, and experience to help your favorite digital community?

Stare out of the window more! It's an amazing thing to do, so contemplative and calming. Take time with yourself. You're a human and being human is truly wonderful.
If you use the mouse a lot, I would go tenkeyless. The smaller travel distance helps a great deal with -tennis- mouse elbow. the lack of 10keys is annoying at sometimes, so I would recommend buying a separate 10keyboard. Sometimes I like to use the 10key with my left hand.
Assange is currently in a maximum security prison. Beforethen he was in an embassy. It is physically impossible for him to be extraordinarily renditioned. Therefore it's not a signal any way or another.
Why are we forsaking that in favor of a "you
don't have to try so hard, it's ok to be
mediocre" mindset?

One reason many feel is the fact that being "the best" often just means making some crappy corporation richer; when you start to feel that the whole system kind of sucks it gets harder to care about accomplishing things within it.

I grew up wanting to be a game developer, but what would that mean in a practical sense? Working 80 hours a week and at the end of the day I'm just making Microsoft or Activision or somebody richer? Even John Freaking Carmack eventually wound up working for Facebook.

Or going solo, and risking my ability to feed/house myself if things don't work out? Or working 100 hours a week because I'm already working 40-50 at a day job?

Ultimately as we get older those kinds of achievements tend to mean less to us than human connections.

If you hate this kind of thinking and/or feel it's wrong, I'm not here to change your mind. Just mentioning why some feel those kinds of ways.
The web3 we need is the ability of folks in China to criticize their government without censorship
2004 GX470 here. Horrendous gas mileage, but comes with ABS, stability control, full-time 4WD, and airbags. Of the modern safety systems, the one I'd really like to have is the blind-spot monitor. I have had rentals/loaners with collision detection systems (radar/camera) and they have all false-alerted on me and applied max brakes. I'm lucky I wasn't rear-ended as a result.
Germans don't get to play because here it's called U-Bahn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_transit_in_Germany#/medi...
It's matter and it's dark, but that means it's dark matter, not Dark Matter. That matters.
I would love to see a proper legal analysis of this.

From what I recall, the closest thing to an answer I've received in the past is that you can not use the manuals to a modern x86 chip (or other part) to learn the instruction set. The use of any copyrighted material infects you project if the rights holder is particularly egregious about enforcement to that level.

It's the same thing with the IBM PC BIOS reverse engineering. If you'd seen the BIOS manual, you couldn't work on the clone. I can't recall if that was purely seeing it or because the source code to the IBM BIOS was printed in the back of the manual.

I know Intel, Microchip, and ARM have aggressively shut down any FPGA project that implements an instruction-level compatible core of x86, AVR, PIC, or ARM CPU. Intel seemingly hasn't gone after any of the 16-bit x86 core implementation, but I haven't seen an open source 386 or newer core.
Pick something outside of work you are good at and become the best you possibly can at it.

Switch from a consuming mode to a creating mode.

Try to touch one persons life and make a difference.
Very nice!

Many years ago I lived in a house without a phone - the only meaningful way to communicate with faraway friends was sending and receiving paper letters via post. In many ways, that cadence was a great way to maintain relationships over many years, with minimal mental overhead.

Maybe Pony should send/receive messages once a week/month, instead of daily :-)
Subaru BRZ. https://www.subaru.com/vehicles/brz/index.html
Direct link to the source (large images, sorted by similarity):
http://mic-ro.com/metro/metrologos.html?size=lg&sort=similar...
Nice.

Yes, and these friends also have my phone and email, so they know how to reach me for time sensitive stuff. Good to have a channel that is for deeper and slower connection.
Love the idea, I'm so annoyed by receiving train of thoughts over 10 messages, their corresponding notifications and a 15m timespan.
Tesla Silicon Valley Club: “App still down after 5 hours”
Reductio ad absurdum, many people don't have access to computers, so what's the benefit of computers?
Covid-19 is recognised as being endemic (here to stay).

Inconvenient behavioural changes like mask wearinng taper off. Proof of recent vaccination will still be required in public gathering places, and laws will be passed making vaccination mandatory in many occupations. Covid vaccination will be combined with influenza vaccination.

The realisation will become widespread that working age population in the developed world and East and South-east Asia is on a 20-year decline. (Government policy people already know this.) It won't change attitudes to immigration.

(Wishful thinking) The realisation will sink in that decarbonising electricity (and part of road transport) is only one-third of the job, and doing the other two-thirds will cost approximately 20 times as much, not twice as much. Everyone resolves to do it anyway.

The idea of global dimming (spraying sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere) to cool down the planet will go mainstream and be seriously planned.

Deep learning will be acknowledged as a dead end, but there will be no promising replacement.

Autonomous, low-speed road-going goods delivery vehicles will be trialed in an area being over 25% of the outer, suburban area of one major (top 150) North American city starting in or after '24.

Russia will continue its "North Korea" geo-political strategy (do crazy things, including actions that might harm its own interests. This is straight out of the game theory textbooks).
They are cheap for a reason. Incredibly unreliable, if you are a mechanic it's OK because you can fix it with a clip and duck tape. But if you can't DIY, be ready to have the car for repair five times more often than a "normal" car.

They are simple, yes. So simple they don't care if the simplicity cost you your life, and maybe your family if you are brave enough to put them in that. But hey, you saved a couple of thousands when you bought it, so maybe it's worth it.

And the saddest part is that the new models have electric mirrors, rear cam, parking radar, a 7" display, electric windows front and rear... The whole package you specifically didn't want in your Lada.
The first generation of physical assets are vaulted: numbered gold bars, numbered collectibles, fine art.

The application is B2B trading of assets between dealers, so they don't have to mess around with devaulting every time the assets change ownership, introducing risk of fraud every time.

There is also a lot of insurance involved, to answer your probably next question: if the vault loses something or an employee accidentally drives a forklift over it, the NFT holder gets paid.

It works. Pilots right now, but it works.
Silent reds are what I use after a long time on clears and browns. Can't go back, reds are good for gaming but also far less effort for typing. Never found the tactile bump to be all that useful.
This sounds like a much more interesting read than the TFA
Several years ago, I worked at a call center that had very old equipment. The wornout membrane keyboards created a great deal of pain in my hands with each keystroke. After that I became a believer in mechanical keyboards. The pain went away.
> I have never received a satisfactory answer for why a lot of people from these fields are all about "Everyone should learn to code" initiatives, but not, say "Everyone should learn to be a citizen journalist", or "Everyone should learn to be a copy editor".

Because it's a shrinking industry with excess supply where the compensation and working conditions are terrible? It doesn't have to be more complicated than that.
A smart collar for cows
Tesla suffers nationwide app server outage, owners can't connect to their cars
Transactional friction in the fine art world is completely gigantic. Very very little use of tech to help manage asset documentation.

It's a fixable problem.
I had a really fancy Topre keyboard. Had the fancy key caps, the acrylic dust cover, the whole nine yards. It made typing an absolute nightmare. I don't know why people want massive keys with massive amounts of travel. The slim Apple Magic keyboard (w/o numpad) is the best keyboard I have ever used.
And they added types to it
Unless one controls for all other environmental variables, how can one say there is a difference in the number of innovators without even having a good definition of what an innovator means?

And, to be honest, most of the innovators I know don't have PhDs.
> I wouldn't buy a new daily driver that doesn't have blind spot monitoring, collision avoidance, lane keep assist, etc.

And here I am puttering along in my 2003 VW Golf with a manual transmission. :)
I think its always been about money and time, effectively this is what happens:

- A lack of people able to make sustainable time commits to the cause means even with a fair amount of money, you could lose out in numbers (voting or otherwise)

- A lack of funding to sustain the cause, even if you have members that can make the time commitments, and importantly, not enough money to have professional lobbyists working your cause singularly

Other lobbying organizations, typically with corporate funds, don't have either of those problems. Corporate friendly organizations like the one's Amazon employs (or employs lobbyists directly, not an uncommon practice either) have hefty sums of money to keep lobbying, 24/7.

Some of this could be fixed with reform, of course, at least on paper. For instance, removing term limits allows representatives to bulk up on expertise on issues, which is actually makes them more resistant to outside influence, all things being equal.

The other thing that has gutted this is organizations that do exist are either always scrambling for money, like the EFF, ACLU etc (yes they have money, but compared to corporate lobby organizations, they have a finite amount of donors they can "call action" to, without hitting a wall), or have been gutted in other ways. One forgotten aspect about labor unions, is they did act as an effective lobbying force in politics for workers rights and other causes[0], sometimes not even labor related directly.

Even on a local scale, you have incumbents who can fall back to their local network of people, and challengers have to build this over and over again. Thats the fundamental problem.

I think systematic reform would be the actual long term solution, but its hard to change a system that is primarily concerned with perpetuating itself.

[0]: https://exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/unions/political/environment
"Owners can't connect to their cars". There's a headline I never expected to see...
I've been in this business a long time and the idea that we are limited by the typing speed of the programmer is just about the biggest crock I've heard so far. Thinking of the concrete details from Google's 2016 paper where they reported a gross commit rate of 1000 lines of code per engineer per week, inclusive of large-scale automatic refactoring and configuration changes that were 75% of the volume. That leaves your typical engineer on the hook for just 50 lines of code per day which honestly that still sounds a little high. Programmers are limited by cognition, not I/O rate.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29278467
> is that a technical limitation or something else?

Because it's a scam.
My list of Digital Nomad tools and apps (+70 so far): Nomad