skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How far can a boring person with diversified interest go?

Diversified interests sounds like the opposite of boring to me.

> If one doesn't aim for excellence, is it a bad thing?

It probably indicates that your actual interests lie in something other than what you are currently doing. One suggestion I found useful was to make two columns on a sheet of paper and keep it at your desk. The first column is "I loved this!" and the other is "I hated this". When you find yourself enjoying a task (or vice-versa), write it down. The theory is that our interests are surprisingly specific. The guy saying this (Erwin McManus if I recall correctly) said that he is really excited by helping people find their passions. Not pursue them, find them. It helped me identify some of the areas I enjoy, so I've pursued jobs in those areas.

> I am jack of all trades but master of none.

Reframe this: I know a little bit about everything, so no matter what your problem is, I can solve it. I might not solve it the most efficiently, but if you need a problem solved, I'll solve it.

Some environments need raw production. Some need carefully crafted algorithms. Some need prototypes held together with duct tape. Some need solidly connected piping. Breadth favors some environments over others. Breadth is helpful for freelance contracting, for instance, since clients have a problem and want the assurance that you have already solved a similar problem before, so the more difference environments you have worked with, the more likely you will look like someone who can solve their problem.

I wouldn't worry too hard, though. (Nor would I recommend jumping in to freelancing too early.) If you're early in your career, focus on figuring out what it is that you enjoy, and leverage your skills to slowly move in that direction. And figure out what your boundaries are (hrs/week, pay, on-call, etc.), so that you know what things to avoid. There's plenty of software jobs besides FAANG out there.
>YouTube reviews are typically not actual reviews

Disagree. "Youtube reviews" doesn't mean anything valuable because there are a million reviewers on youtube, some very good and some worse. Disregarding reviews because they're on youtube actually disregards some of the best reviews around.

Half the tech journals and websites turn out complete garbage that I rarely agree with, while many youtubers do a good job.

It's the specific reviewer, and I wouldn't call the big reviewers on youtube (LTT, GN, etc) worse than any magazine or trade journal.
You're saying you can demonstrate that you have the knowledge to do the problem, but you can't actually do the problem? I'm 43 myself, it's not something I do for fun but I can certainly code up a DFS/BFS implementation or something similar in 40 minutes. With a modern IDE it's not unreasonable for me to expect it to work correctly on the first try.
Lithuania seeks permanent U.S. troop deployment in face of Russian build-up
I think you are talking about Blendle which up until a few years ago let you pay by the article for many major newspapers and magazines.

I miss it.
if you're not gaming I'm not sure why you wouldn't just get a laptop.
Our algorithm learns from previous detections. You will be able to enter different texts. Like writing your email or anything you want.

In the case of having an accident, you will be able to login into Typing AI and update your signature.

"Or what if I'm on the phone with someone, and trying to type with one hand? That would probably lock me out, right? " - good question. Your "one-hand" typing is totally different than writing with two hands but we also got this covered. The authenticity detection rate won't be over 90%, but it will still be over 80%.
I have two elementary-aged children, a boy and a girl. They fit the pattern you describe to a T, and I think most teachers' experience would agree.

So anecdotally, the theory that (in general) boys need more nudging than girls from someone in their life in order to be successful rings true. But what would account for a modern change? Are there fewer people pushing, now? Are boys more resistant to it now, or maybe more distracted? Are expectations of boys different now than they were in the past?
There's a difference between listening and engaging.

The NSA listens.

TikTok listens, engages, and suggests new content and ideas to millions.
As someone who just traded in their 2019 Mazda CX-5, this doesn't surprise me at all. I couldn't wait for my lease to end. The car was great, but the infotainment system was horrible. It would take 5+ minutes to boot up from a cold start during which time you couldn't change the volume, mute the radio, change inputs, or even change the station. I learned quickly to always change the station off Howard Stern when exiting the car in case my daughter was a passenger on the next trip. On long trips you would have to three finger reset the head-unit because it would just stop responding, play at full volume, only play out of one channel after a GPS announcement, and other random oddities. I brought it back to the dealer multiple times to get firmware updates only to be told "Yeah that's how it was designed".
FTC Charges Telemarketers over “Extended Auto Warranty” Scam
Question: ultimately all the packets are actually being sent via a Golang net.UDPConn right? ie you're simulating raw network packets by wrapping them in UDP packets, then running TCP in Golang over those wrapped packets?
The presentation of that in the book, based off a message from someone in the industry, doesn't seem out of line with the overall tone and reliability-level that Graeber explicitly sets out in the beginning, which is both that the book is not rigorous science and that it's mainly concerned with considering why people's perceptions of their own jobs would be that they're bullshit.

[EDIT]

> One of his opinions about programming was that programmers work "bullshit jobs" for their employer and do cool open source stuff in their free time which is demonstrably false.

Further, I'm not even sure that's incorrect. It can both be true that most open source (that's actually used by anyone) is done by people who are paid to do it, and that most programmers have very little interesting or challenging to do at work unless they work on hobby projects—maybe open source—in their free time.

The overall letter as quoted in the book, and Graeber's commentary on it, actually makes some good points aside from all this. Things don't have to be perfect to be useful.
Economists are even more priestlike than humanities professors.
Well presumably the US is not falling behind in the one area that matters: diversity of the people working in science.
It is sad. For many unfortunates, work becomes their "life". I recall a time when men sometimes complained that, after retiring, there was "nothing to do". Their identity was gone. Some died within a few years of 'retirement'. Some had been too tired at the end of every day of labor to develop outside interests, have a hobby, whatever they might enjoy in the 'golden years' after the hearty hand-clasp. Even IF the pension had survived.
Your friend is morally repugnant.
That is a portion of the problem, but there are many other factors. I believe the cost of tuition has become a large factor lately. Also, the quest for knowledge has been replaced with a quest for a degree purely for monetary gain and status.
Based on another comment, and the wikipedia article they linked to, it looks like the Supreme Court vacated the decision and remanded the case for further review in June 2021 (probably after this article).[1] Unfortunately there is no citation for that sentence so I'm not entirely sure.

I think that means the jury is still out, as you mentioned, but it's leaning towards scraping being legal as long as the data is publicly available. IANAL

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
Relied on this a lot while working on a web scraping project! Crazy useful for quickly parsing long JSON responses.
Not to Godwin the thread, but surely e.g. Nazi Germany would rather not have their factories bombed and their personnel shot at?
Women needed to stay with the kids to breastfeed. Baby formula was only invented around 1865. Any traditional culture is going to need women to stay with the babies to keep them from starving.

However women would take babies with them while doing things like picking nuts and berries.
Sure, I'm not "against" feminism in general or anything, although re-reading my previous comment I can see how it gave off that impression. I just think it's a very limited view on things, which translates into suboptimal solutions. I also think it can feed alienation among men at times, rather than involving them in the conversation.

From what I've read and people I've spoken to, quite a large number – though far from all – feminists seem to agree on that in broad lines, yet somehow the public discourse still remains fairly narrow IMHO. Personally, I blame the "MRA" people and their nonsense.
Rent gets a lot easier when its two earners splitting a one bedroom or even a studio
> being able to pop a shell on a running app was table-stakes for the platform.

Tangent: that's debatable IMO. In my company's current AWS infrastructure, there's no shell access to either the production containers or the host machines. I did write a script to create an ephemeral container that lets me (and future staff) run a shell inside the production network. And the thing I usually do in that shell is run psql; I suppose that's not ideal for auditability. But still, I can't poke around in the live containers or the host machines; in theory they could be distroless, with no shell at all. I'm trying to take immutable infrastructure to the max here; this seems like a good thing for security. It does mean that for debugging production problems, I can only go by what I find in logs and the database. But that has been acceptable so far.

Edit: Given tptacek's security background, I was surprised that he considered production shell access essential for a new app platform.
I suspect the 388 participants in this study were from top educational backgrounds. These words are very niche. So a pool of average people are not going to score 80-90% success on any of those words. That may also indicate why there is a such a large difference. When you compare people who are already at the extremes, you tend to see larger differences than comparing people at the mean.
When I was working in the industry around the turn of the century it was mostly just folders. One per scene. They'd start with just the scene number and the storyboard panels on them; they'd go off to layout and get drawings of key poses and background roughs, then go back to the set of shelves designated for that episode. After directorial approval they'd go on to further parts of the process - we were a Flash studio so the layout drawings would get inked, get approved, get scanned and cleaned up and put into a file (with a studio-wide standard for naming both the file and every single piece of art in the file so as to avoid conflicts when putting the final file together), get colored, then get handed off to the Flash crew who would make the animation happen.

If you had wanted to sabotage our process, the set of shelves that held all the scene folders would have been a great place to go. Every scene lived there when it wasn't being worked on by someone.

If you want a glimpse at the modern process for 2D animation, have a look at Toon Boom's suite of software. https://www.toonboom.com - not everyone uses it but it's pretty widespread.

Though realistically? I'm not in the industry any more but the bits I see of the process from my friends who are directors lead me to believe that it's still not uncommon to have a checklist that lives on a wall in the director's office, tracking the journey of every scene from storyboard to finished shot.
We train a huge proportion of scientists only to send them into the private sector to a)develop finance algorithms, b) targeted ad software, etc, because the science jobs just aren't there for even a third of them. Give them good paying science jobs at Universities and they'd stay.
Ask HN: Who's getting pulled back into the office?
Sweden has, as of today, retracted all Covid-19 restriction as is basically we're "back to normal". Within 12 hours several companies went out and said we are all going back to the office. Some companies (like mine) said mandatory one day per week in the office, others said "fun's over, back in the office 100%".

What's your situation?
> This is why it’s perfectly socially acceptable to set up a specific group to give women and girls a chance to learn skills in an environment where they feel safe from sneering, lewd comments, and other such behaviour which is not conducive to learning, or simply having a good time.

No. You just make it clear this is an environment where such behaviors are not tolerated.

Also, it's not true that women and girls are incapable of sneering and lewd comments.

You come across very much as the kind of person who believes boys are inherently deficient and deserve to fail, based on your assumptions about how boys will behave, and that they are incapable of behaving differently.
The latest in fictitious 'missile gaps'?
A lot of leetcode type interviews also skew towards people who can keep talking out loud while writing code. I can’t remember the last time I was programming and constantly talking out loud. I like to be quiet, focus and then write code. Preparing for interviews felt like I was a code monkey preparing for a special dance.
You'd really have to have a lot to lose (in comparison to just taking a new job) under the current company in order to take that chance (think a large value of options, etc).

You'd have better luck if you already had some sort of existing relationship with the board, but that doesn't really apply if you're asking this question.
The difference is being force fed McDonald’s vs eating it because you enjoy it.

If you eat McDonald’s. It doesn’t mean I have to. If you use teams, I have to.
"How about when I break my wrist and it's in plaster for a couple of weeks?" - good question.

Your "one-hand" typing is totally different than writing with two hands but we also got this covered. The authenticity detection rate won't be over 90%, but it will still be over 80%.

In case of using the Typing AI as a two factor auth method, you can just skip to using a different factor, such as fingerprint/face recognition or OTP.
No, there's very little helium produced for the same reason that fusion generates massive amounts of energy from very tiny amounts of fuel. In fact there'd be more helium produced in the nuclear reactor generating the tritium than there would be in the fusion reactor burning it. Eventually commercial nuclear fusion reactors will generate their own tritium from a lithium blanket but for now that's all from fission reactors.
That is effectively what we're doing, yeah.
Have some respect for yourself.
Jen Simons used to work for Mozilla and recently jumped ship. She's a CSS expert, that what I knew her for before this post, and I expect her followers are from varied backgrounds in the Web dev scene.

Having Apple publicly engage with the dev community like this is a very welcome.
Freesia is a plant too (my grandmother's favourite). I knew most of the fabric ones (ruche, tulle, chenille, etc) but that's my wife's hobby. I don't know if that counts as trade-specific jargon or not (I guess not if the majority of women know them, and not just dressmakers). People in our industry should definitely know jacquard, though.
Thanks for the pro-con list!

The experience of...

1) build a thing because it's immediately useful for a specific use-case,
2) someone reuses it for another use-case because it's already there and saves some work,
3) times passes
4) oops really important stuff now relies on this thing in ways that weren't originally intended

... seems like a common pattern (see: JWT succeeding as the format for interoperable tokens by dint of just being around).

In this case, it seems like the pros are basically user-centered pros (`flyctl proxy`, existing tool interop, etc.) and the cons are basically fly-centered cons (state synchronization, maintaining the agent and making it work right).

The cons that do affect users (slowness, maybe they can't speak 51820/udp) seem _annoying_ but not deal-breaking for a lot of use cases. If the slowness persists over a long time it will be interesting to see how users opt to route around it (architect applications / processes to not rely on this channel).
This was really interesting to see, and update our knowledge on production techniques.
But,
Why? The big heads?
Speaking of high status, low wage jobs...
Now try proposing a space that caters to men and helps them learn and feel better.
Agreed. Same with checksum.
Whole situation sounds like typical startup growing pains and this is the OPs first rodeo of this kind. The original crew of developers was happy during the early days when it was all cozy and limitless upside, but now there's new funding, new bosses, new managers, new processes, new rules, new coworkers that "don't get it" and that old fun and cozy vibe is lost. The new CEO will likely be fired by the board too, but face it, the cozy days are over. So either find yourself a role in that circus that you like, or quit.
I'm pretty sure their experience running an ISP helps too heh.
So just call it a bug?
Even in finance, risk has become so socialised (thinking in particular of the wall street bailouts) that it's hard for an individual to take on a larger share of the risk for a larger reward even when he honestly wants to do so.
"trying a new typing layout, or just joining your first touch typing course?"

You have just described the case where your typing pattern is changed. In this case you'll have to just login to your account and update the signature or remove it and create a new one.
"Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting" --

I would say that with no time for fussing and fighting, life, professional or not, can be even shorter.
As a female not born in the US, I am familiar with most of the male words and only some of the female. I'd say the distribution is affected more by US culture than gender.
Ask HN: What is com.vix.cron in launchctl on macOS?
Jetbrains personal licenses can be used for work, as long as you’re not financially compensated for the software purchase.
Perhaps you're right. I read their methodology and it seems fair. They did solicit demographic info from the participants, but didn't mention if before or after word testing. There's still wiggle room there for bias, but probably not.
I have nothing to disagree with here, but it's worth noting that his company Crunchy Data are themselves a postgres provider. So they, more then most, have the chops and incentive to do a great deal in postgres alone.

https://www.crunchydata.com/
This question was reposted a few minutes later, and got some discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30276628
Its HN so you never know with things like this, but i think it was a joke meant to emphasize the ridiculousness of the argument that women are genetically predisposed to liking fabric craft.
Are you implying that women were banned or explicitly discouraged from attending those groups?

EDIT: my bad, think I got you confused with a different comment.
Except that there is:

>a dominant protocol of a certain domain where there's no other widely used alternative: TCP/IP

>a dominant business of a certain industry where there's no other widely used alternative: monopoly

I think you might be missing the point I'm making. If you carefully re-read what I wrote, I never said monopolies came without bad properties or were immune to being bad. I also never said protocols were in fact the same things as businesses. I merely pointed out a good tradeoff people aren't acknowledging: Monopolies can provide a common, standard of something which can make certain things easier (just like TCP/IP does). And that's not the same as saying: "TCP/IP comes without problems..."; "monopolies come without problems..."; "TCP/IP is a monopoly..."
Yup. This is a great way of putting it. Seth Rogan once said that if Hollywood wants you to get in shape they will basically do it for you and they would send a robot to move your arms and legs for you. He was joking but if you have a personal trainer to motivate you and make working out, "fun" and a personal chef to make your meals getting into great shape if much easier than if you are dragging yourself to an anytime fitness after working and taking care of kids.
Around here is Norway were I have spent most of my adult life (save a few weeks at work in other countries.)

I'm not a native English speaker and while I get my points across I struggle with the school system. Sorry for that.

Point is, around here when you apply for higher education you get a standardized score based on:

- how good your grades were.

- being over a certain age

- having extra maths/physics/chemistry classes

- being a girl (at least in STEM)

- etc

Recently, but only recently they have finally started to add extra points for boys applying for BSc nurse studies.
>> "If we could figure it out then maybe we'd figure out how to get more women into the STEM fields. Lord knows we've been trying."

It's only a mystery if you ignore the ample writing and research on the topic. Most people don't want to be somewhere they're not wanted. This also impacts men in fields they don't dominate like nursing and K-12 education, so it's got nothing to do with stereotypes about how different gender assignments cope with adversity (the usual thing wheeled out to explain it).
Well, this rather makes the game annoying to play with people who think they are so clever and start constructing completely new words no one before them ever used. Which the rules don’t allow, by the way.

Sure, you can construct arbitrary new words in German. That works. However, that is certainly not the spirit of the game. Which the game does make abundantly clear in a quite long section of the rules. (I just got the game and its rules from our board game shelves, used the new OCR feature in iOS to copy and paste the relevant text into DeepL, cleaned up the translation and am now pasting it here with my own annotations in brackets. That was a cool experience.)

Excerpt from the rules:

Compound words

German is notorious worldwide for its compound words. There are two ways to form such in German. „Tischdecke” (tablecloth) is one word. „Mehrzweck-Fräsvorsatz“ (multi purpose milling fixture) is in principle also a word, because the hyphen merely serves to make it easier to read. „Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz“ (beef labeling monitoring tasks transfer law) actually used to be a real (and awful) word, which probably would have been a little easier to read with a few hyphens. (We won't discuss the bad habit of breaking up compound words in German with – incorrect – spaces here). Strictly speaking, then, all such words can be valid clues, but only if they correspond to actual usage. It is easy in German to simply invent composites: „Tentakeltrabant“ (tentacle satellite) would theoretically be a great clue for „Oktopus” (octopus), „Mond“ (moon), and „Auto“ (car, because of the East German car „Trabant”), for example, but since it's only a word creation that you can't find in any dictionary, you can't use it.

Prefixes

This actually belongs to the previous rule, but should be mentioned explicitly: Simply turning a word into its opposite by putting a syllable like „kein-“, „nicht-“ or „un-“ (non-, un-) in front of it should only be allowed if this word is colloquially used. „Unlebendig“ (unalive) is therefore not a permitted clue for „Tod“ (death), „untot“ (undead) on the other hand would be permitted as a clue for „Skelett“ (skeleton).
Thats fucked. I only bought two text books (30eur and 40eur) for the entire time I was in collage. All else I loaned from the school library for free.