skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In grade school I was in a gifted program. I think either my good memory or IQ allowed me to pass certain tests with multiple choices or logical decisions .

In the long run regardless of your talents you eventually reach a peak where your talents don’t work anymore. It started for me in Junior high and in Community college and University.

I eventually graduated by the grit that made my degree take longer than most and I really wish I had been given more challenges like that. My parents did the best they could. But the thing that really helped me was the constant flood of computers that were hand me downs from my uncle . I initially made twice what my mom made, tried to do a startup that failed after burn out , worked at three other jobs and some freelancing for distributed ledger technology and now I make four times my mom makes and I quadrupled my net worth in 3 years by living with my parents .

At college I did have a capstone project where I investigated lambda calculus with a self distributed operation and discovered a few cellular automata that had interesting features . So life has treated me well with grit I suppose.

I gave a talk at a hacking Confrence and pyOhio and to be honest last year was one of the best years of my life and I can’t wait to figure out what’s next.
PHP, hear me out, each file is basically an independent hot swappable 'service'.

I wish more languages/compilers/runtimes had a similar capability.
Getting any sort of advanced instruction for our daughter has been like pulling teeth. I assumed it would be readily available, given that we live in the heart of Silicon Valley and our child attends a very well-funded public school.

The school started off saying they don't offer advanced instruction, then grudgingly agreed to assess our child to see if she even would require it. But all of their "assessments" are closed-ended, which means she cannot actually demonstrate her proficiency level.

Even when faced with her clearly advanced abilities (3.5 grades ahead in math, according to the diagnostic from the online math platform they use), they are still doing their best to hold her back. Their rallying cry? "Even Steph Curry practices dribbling".

After hearing this for the third time, I finally pointed out that Steph Curry wouldn't have become who he is if he were never allowed to practice anything but dribbling. The school has continued dragging their feet.

The unsurprising result is that advanced students leave for private schools. We never would have bought a home in an expensive district had we anticipated departing for a private. I would recommend that parents interested in good schooling in this area look into Redwood City over Menlo Park or Palo Alto, since it has a magnet program for 3-8 and is considerably less expensive.

This whole process has been very disappointing (and surprising) for me, since I had a very different experience growing up. I went to public schools in Sacramento, where magnet programs were freely available and students could open enroll from anywhere in the region. We had classmates who lived halfway to Tahoe. It was great. I understand their programs are still up and running, and it's shocking that the well-heeled districts around here are so hostile to advanced instruction.

Happy to connect with other nearby parents of young kids. Contact info is in profile.
I had a very similar experience. Also, the year after a promotion there was a universal unwritten rule that you get a need improvement review no matter how well you performed.
The article seems more against manual dubbing and related difficulties than actual subtitles. The best subtitles I've seen included relevant context on cultural jokes I would have completely missed had there not been explanation text. One example would be recently while watching a Korean drama with dubs that didn't address cultural items and beauty standard, the content itself came off very differently than the intention seemed.
This advanced types
stuff sounds really useful but it needs to be made very easy to use for the mainstream Java of C# programmer to use.

A success story in this regard is the async keyword. Very quickly you can get used to it and it feels like any other imperative programming.

In C# if I can add assertions and have C# compile time check the source that the assertion will not be violated. This would be great. I know they do this for null checking.
- Block most social media, including Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube (!). I can always unblock them if I need to, but having them be "default blocked" means I'm more intentional about when and how I use them.

- Do one hour of exercise a day, preferably in the morning. Even if it's a light morning walk. I find it sets a healthy tone for the rest of the day.

- Actively reach out to friends and family. Even if it's small updates about my day.

- Create something every day. For me it's my blog, and I haven't been at it for long, but it's been powerful for clarifying what I'm thinking about and why. Part of the appeal that each post is low-commitment, i.e. it's not a multi-day saga, so I can be playful with it, e.g. https://arunkprasad.com/log/how-does-ssh-work/
seems like it would be possible to allow placing the order, and have a human review before the items ship.

and what are scalpers going to do, compete with a free service?
Do people commonly think types are a solution to most or all problems? Other than correctness I am not sure what software engineering problems a type system actually solves, and the rest of the debate is about the expressiveness of the type system (or lack thereof, which forces suboptimal engineering practices in some languages).
And now we live in a world where this anti-wolf propaganda costs lives through degraded ecosystems and deer overpopulation causing more car accidents.
If there's an index and the query planner is choosing sequential scan, it's doing so because it thinks that the random access pattern for the indexed data is going to be slower than the sequential access for the whole dataset. It's almost definitely right.

So why generate the data? It will sort itself out when there's enough real data in there.

You can also:
- disable "enable_seqscan"
- increase "seq_page_cost"
- decrease "random_page_cost"
> Not really, because you can usually shake or tilt the pinball machine to set the ball free.

And you can restart a program that crashes or reboot a system. Or workaround the bug.

> These events happen (literally) once every few years or half decade. Software bugs happen (literally) billions of times per hour.

Yes but you are looking at big impacting things. A TV that breaks because the power supply was badly engineered and a capacitor broke down doesn't get on the newspaper, as it doesn't an app that crashes on a phone. A software bug that makes a plane crash or make a company loose billions of dollars is something as rare as the kind of events that you pointed out.
Why does the stance of a maintainer on a certain issue matter for the whole software? It’s federated right?
It astonished me that the people who wrote the CDC covid tracker made it refuse Firefox visitors through User Agent checks. Mozilla had to add an intervention to spoof UA's, specifically on that site:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1719846 ("Bug 1719846: Add UA override for https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/")
Probably https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
Thanks! Your solution may be best for usability. Researching further I found another solution that is perhaps best for privacy:
https://github.com/markushinz/aws-ses-pop3-server

SES -> S3 -> aws-ses-pop3-server -> desktop client with POP3 and SMTP

Using this option, email is only really usable from a single device, but it avoids sharing private emails with yet another cloud, especially a free cloud that would share email with advertisers.
> Neither one of those things is categorically true of land (artificial land is a thing.)

"Land" is the surface of the planet. You can make "artificial land" in the sense that you e.g. cover the ocean with something that passes for ground, but that's just a type of building. It doesn't change the size of the earth. The ocean has land under it that was there before you showed up.

> Whether or not it's a bad idea, it in fact exists, which was the question.

There is obviously a meaningful difference between a "property tax" and a "wealth tax" or else people would not be talking about instituting a wealth tax instead of just adjusting the rate (if desired) on the existing "wealth tax."

> Why is this unconditionally a bad thing?

Suppose you have a wealth tax that applies to everything except precious metals. Stock market immediately crashes to the level that risk adjusted returns match those of holding metals while not paying the wealth tax, and metal prices skyrocket.

Insert whatever you like as the exception, same thing happens. How is that not unconditionally a bad thing?

And you get something similar even if there are no formal exceptions, because there will be types of property which are harder to measure and wealth will pour into them with high inefficiency in order to avoid the tax.

> It’s really not, if it was, that problem would be inversely correlated with property tax rates, since those would determine the strength of that incentive.

Measuring this is confounded by several other strong forces, zoning being the main one, but also just differences between housing markets in different areas. So it's hard to measure above background noise with low absolute differences in property tax rates.

But what makes you think this doesn't happen? If rents are $2000/month and you can build a new unit of housing for a risk-adjusted net present cost equivalent to $1999/month, it's profitable to do so. If the new unit will have $100/month worth of property tax due, now the rent has to be $2100/month before it's profitable to do so, and less housing is constructed causing rents to remain higher. What would cause this not to be true?
Ask HN: Why are there no indie product dev chatrooms?
I used to be part of ##reddit-gamedev on IRC, where every noob (sometimes pro) would go and talk about their problems building games and the theory of designing games in general. It was scrappy, and it was great. I used to get real feedback on my projects and had very deep conversations about games in general. We taught each other some of the golden rules of indie game development, and hashed out disagreements endlessly. There was even a guy who would often come by and start explaining why quaternions are inferior in 3D graphics, and would link his "paper" about a new theoretical mathematics system for optimizing not just rotations but collisions or something. His arrival always sparked an hour long flame war about why his idea was bad.

There was actual enthusiasm to engage with other people, whether it was to disagree, or to help. That kind of mutual support and mentorship among people who are enthusiastic about building things is missing now. There are, of course, niche communities where you can have deep conversations about some things, but not indie app development - although I've seen a lot of enthusiasm in crypto development specifically.

Now that IRC has mostly gone away, everyone is on Discord. But, I've joined at least 20 servers over the past few years looking for anything that had a reasonable community, and I've found nothing.

Everything I've looked at (Indie Hackers, r/startups, Hustle Army, Solo Entrepreneurs, etc. etc.) is either dead or full of hucksters trying to sell their products to the people in the server/forum/channel.

Does anyone know of any chatroom that isn't terrible? Is it all just crypto now?
I wasn’t suggesting that. Static files are cheaper on Akami. They are already hosting half their static content there.
It's very relevant for a lot of US companies, including mine, who have software developers and other tech workers in Ukraine.

One of my tech leads is in eastern Ukraine and I'm very worried about him and his family. His wife has a chronic illness and losing access to good hospitals would be devastating.
Few people are evil. But a lot of people want the easy way out, especially if they are hooked on addictive substances. I knew these kinds of people. when I grew up, our household was in the bottom rung so I had some friends and acquaintances who made poor long term decisions --they may have looked good short term, a nice payday, little work, but then they have little work history or marketable skills when they go looking for a honest job. Occasionally they might get a hookup with a relative who could offer them manual jobs --construction, landscaping, etc. These are the guys who introduce you to fifi bags and other curiosities in life they learn up the river.
I think the more hyperbolic the statements, the less basis in reality. Voters have plenty of influence where I live, but how do you measure it? What do you mean?

What is stopping us from having influence? It's pretty straightforward - politicians who anger their constituents enough get replaced. Generally they stay within the limits. I see that defeatism and quitting prevents you from having influence. It's amazing to see people give away their power, but that's their choice.

The biggest problem I perceive is manipulation of the public through disinformation. The defeatism is the biggest source of disinformation. You have all the power, but your enemies have convinced you that you are powerless, to drop your weapons - and you went along with it!
> You're still taxed on the value of the stock at the you received them.

That's true; in practice executives may create a little flexibility in determining when they were received. This was a problem for Apple/Jobs:

https://www.cultofmac.com/460003/jobs-backdating-scandal/

regarding Jobs having super-appreciated Apple stock, I'm not a Jobs history expert but IIRC he sold all of his stock when he was ousted out of spite, keeping some token amount (internet suggests to be just one share to still get shareholder reports). That could be urban legend. IIUC his net worth dipped a lot in the 90s and he became a billionaire from Pixar's sale to Disney.
Championing Lastpass, which is a fundamentally broken product in so so many aspects, kind of brings the rest of your comment into question.
Careful. Missouri Governor, Mike Parson, would consider this hacking.
Yeah we are a small team so haven't been able to properly build out mobile yet. The apps are really to make it easy to add new tasks and view your existing ones. We'd love to grow the team and work on mobile soon.
TBH it's a low bar for any software company – in general, we (developers) tend to dramatically over-engineer quite a few things.
Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber should be surprised... kidding aside, ARM was significant and I think it behooves us all to be more accurate with our attributions!
Interstate commerce is being interfered with. The Secretary has a large organization at his disposal. He has subordinates. He has a phone and a pen. There's lots of things he could do without spending a lot of personal time. But, he has priorities, like talk shows, where he avoids discussing topics like these.
Google Forms Blockchain Group Under Newly Appointed Executive
Engineers have long memories. Get some thing wrong once, and it'll take years to overcome. They need to stay perfect for 3 to 5 years before "heartening" becomes "normal".
UP is making arrests though, even with fewer officers. The problem seems to be the LA Prosecutor not... prosecuting. So would it really matter if UP sent more people to the prosecutor? Were the layoffs a response to the lack of effectiveness in the prosecutors office?
With Cloudflare being so cheap and easy to use, I am also always astonished when I hear of people still using Akamai.
FML.

Does anyone have a good tool to extract emails from Google Apps? I literally only use Apps for custom domain email and a placeholder static website. It's certainly not worth $72 a year for it.

I saw that someone had posted that iCloud supports custom email domains so I suppose that's an option but now need to figure a way to migrate from Google to iCloud.

Found this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514

One can host 5 domains with 3 email addresses per domain on iCloud.
> The loss of Youtube purchases; android play purchases, etc. is going to hurt

It's basically blackmail: pay the new monthly fee which you didn't agree to when you signed up, or lose access to everything you've already paid for.
this is a larger issue than perhaps a lot of people think it is. huge numbers of low-income people (think the people serving you food) in high-CoL cities are living in roommate situations, where several independent adults share a single address, often subletting. i'm already aware of several people in this situation who have been denied an order by this website.
> It's just not for all of the debt at once.

To give some rough numbers to this idea:

In March 2020, about 15% matures in <52 weeks(T-bills) and 58% matures in 2-10 years(T-notes).

See figure 1-2: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56309
I can second zoho. They have a decent service for the price.
> Remember this does not only mean team sports, there is more to the world than what school PE exposed us to, there will definitely be something out there that interests you.

My biggest bugbear about school PE is the focus on team sports. I know some schools want to build their sports teams, but if there is one goal of PE class it should be ensuring every child finds at least 1 form of exercise they really enjoy.

I’d encourage you to persist in finding something you can get into and stick with. I’ve really got into obstacle course racing events like Tough Mudder and started with the shortest distance - everyone there is helping everyone else through it. Find what works for you.
> code was stolen from under me by the offshore people I hired and I subsequently was made obsolete in my business model.

I dont get it, did the offshore guys contact your clients directly and got their business?
I must admit I was very surprised so see what started as a static-types rant ending up extolling the merits of Idris.
Where does your traffic come from? Is it SEO from domain match of “delete tweets app”?
I also don’t see a notice on the admin panel, but others in the comments here seem to suggest they do. So…yet another layer of confusion.
Switching domains is one of those features that was not available on the free account.
Has anyone used iCloud mail recently? I’m already paying for Apple One, so this would be a $0 extra cost solution for me and my family.
Great info! Thanks for the links.
For comparison I'm running a low traffic discussion site (https://sqwok.im) with core api through ApiGateway/Lambda w/lots of backend services and it's currently ~$400/month.

The most expensive piece by FAR is Opensearch (previously AWS Elasticsearch) using 6 instances x 2 environments (12 total).

The cost for Elasticsearch in two environments came to ~$371 out of a total $400 bill in my last statement.

The compute cost for Lambda is very low but if you scale out to potentially millions of users it's going to be much more than $100.

Not sure if they're using Opensearch but if they are it's likely a huge part of the bill.

I'm sure there's a better alternative but it's not my particular area of expertise and I haven't been able to focus on that yet.
Google Hires PayPal Executive to Expand Crypto Footprint
Yes I think it's being a matter of being used to watching things with subtitles. Some people find it very distracting, I hardly notice at all watching something with subtitles since it is how i grew up. The only time I notice is when I want to do something else at the same time as watching the movie/show, then I quickly realize oh I can't do that I dont understand the audio. Dubbed things suck it is always the same voice actors too so they always seem not quite right for each new character.
I follow Natives on Twitter and by far I mostly read rather than engage.

It's hard to figure out how to publicly engage with someone I don't know on what is inevitably a touchy subject, so I try hard to not be one of those white assholes making demands. I try to listen and absorb instead of inserting myself. But I feel like listening to actual Natives is one of the better things I can do to learn about Natives.

I follow some Reddits. I read articles.

I keep notes and periodically try to do a little writing for my own edification, to help me process the info. Because there are two parts to the equation: someone "talking" and someone listening and it can be hard to clearly understand something when a lifetime of bias and what not is garbling your perception. I've done a lot of therapy and I'm familiar with the process of taking some time to let it sink in and become clearer to me what I'm looking at as opposed to what I'm projecting onto it.
I'm pretty sure most if not all gifted learners really like to learn - that's what makes them gifted. Really the most important thing is to give gifted learners opportunity and make sure they know what's available.

I think a good way to provide "gifted" education is through optional extra-curriculars like math clubs which teach higher-level concepts and function as ways to place-out of lower-level classes. Most students who aren't that smart won't even want to go to these clubs, and the ones that do shouldn't cause any issues, and the gifted students will want to go at minimum it's less work for them to place out of the "boring" classes.

If a particular student or small group is much more gifted than their peers, they should have access to a regional or state or even national club or classes. That way they don't feel like an outcast, in this day and age their are plenty of very talented people in all fields.
Is there a real lock-in in case of 1Password though? I like their UX and integrations, but looks like it is easy to export and move my data to other products if required.
Chrome Dev tools says 2,615,081 bytes loaded in 67 requests for the first 2 pages (home page + form).

Some of it is on Akamai as the article describes, but if we had everything on CloudFront and wanted to estimate the cost of 1M orders:
2.38 TiB out + (say) 1 KiB/request * 67M or 67 GiB in: that's $275.50 per 1 million orders (approximately $207 out + $67 in + $1 requests cost).

If we add 1M Lambda executions, we still get $0 since that's the entire free tier. 10M Lambda calls at 50 ms each and 128 MB of RAM cost $1.8, so that's pretty much free as well.

Assuming that CloudFront caching is configured correctly, there would be very few requests to the S3 origin so their cost would be negligible.

Someone please correct me if I've got this completely wrong. Source: https://calculator.aws/ (CF: 2.38 TB + 67 GB + 67M req).
FWIW, I have set up many, many non-technical users on an enterprise 1Password account. To those who haven't used a password manager there is a really big learning curve and I've seen tons of struggling.

I think a lot of it is the separate "vaults" concept can be easy to fuck up. I've had multiple instances where users have accidentally saved individual credentials in a shared vault because they didn't realize they weren't saving to their private vault.

Perhaps it's just the enterprise use cases that can confuse people, I'm guessing if you're just using it as 1 person with a single private vault there are fewer issues.
"paid for"?
> hard to understand accents or lingo

It's easy to tell which transcription services have access to the original script as a reference and which don't. I have subs on most of the time to catch subtle or barely-audible dialogue (or to decipher accents). There's sometimes when I can tell "oh gee that's not right at all but I can see how you misheard it." And there's other times when dialogue is coming from offscreen or a TV/radio and it's too far in the background to understand unless you are reading along with the script.