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noun: imposter syndrome

the persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's own efforts or skills.

I am not sure the author and I share the same definition of the subject of the piece.
Microsoft's DirectStorage will speed up game loads on Windows 10 and 11
Now we just need Snooker Plus. Because Snooker could be better.
> the trees themselves becoming hazardous waste if they accumulate the wrong kinds of metals? That could be a feature

The jargon to search for in this area is "Bioremediation via Bioaccumulation" and yes it's an existing thing. Not usually with trees though.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978032385...!
> so intrinsic to our culture

You could say the same about monarchy, religion and, not long ago, smoking.

I couldn't care less about football. I doubt as many women care as men as well. "large parts of the country" can pay for their own shit.
This article makes me furious. What does the author want to tell us? That everyone who feels like an imposter, and talks about it, is an arrogant arse that only wants to brag? Maybe he is and all the people he meets are.
But me as well as many of my close friends (none of them arrogant, I assure you) do feel like an imposter at their specific jobs from time to time. It's a thing that holds us back, a personal insecurity that we just carry around. We have learned to live with it and accept it as just something completely normal, especially because we talked about it.
Reminds me of the whole "I left b/c I asked for a raise to $X and then the company had to hire 3 people at a total cost of $2x to replace me" scenario.

Seen similar discussions of: "Well you have the skills of 4 people but we don't want to pay you 1.5x of what most people here make so we're not going to hire you."

I always wonder if this is just a poor understanding of the value individuals bring or just short shortsightedness on the part of management/the finance team.
Stadiums aren’t infrastructure.
At my employer, we do "Code reviews help towards bonuses or promotions" -- we're required to include at least a few examples of good thoughtful code reviews into promotion and annual review materials.

I think it's a good policy and it helps ensure some minimum bar of code review from everyone, but it's not sufficient by itself. A person who is only motivated by the promo/review process is going to give "just doing this to check the box"-quality reviews.

I've found that people are much more inspired by all of the intrinsic motivations for doing code review, like learning from others' code and helping your teammates improve. But putting it into promo packets is a good first step to start building that culture.
This. We exist in a weird situation where on one hand we are encouraged to be open and transparent about what we don't know, in order to grow and improve, but on the other hand, are paid and valued largely according to what we know.

Crossing that boundary required a lot of trust at times. Company culture valuing growth over outright performance can go a long way, but is also sometimes not aligned profits.
Keep an eye out for faceless people convulsing in your peripheral vision. If you don't see any, you're probably good.
At my previous job I had to write a device driver for a (simple) I2C device. I already had experience writing drivers for microcontrollers, but to move to Linux I found it was pretty simple to take the code for an existing device that was similar to what I wanted to do and use it as a reference. If you look at the code for a simple serial port [1], with the knowledge gained in the article, you would probably figure out what are the different parts.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/tty/se...
There's no such thing as not a math person
Unfortunately, a "relationship" is not just about "how you see it".
Maybe using a font with ligatures isn't great if it turns ~/ into a fancy arrow...
If you are not using Python, scanning large swaths of IP addresses or even the whole IPv4 space for open port 9200 is very doable.
Using crypto is a good thing in my eyes, but you seem to be convinced that crypto is all evil and a scam.

We've seen in recent years that fiat payment systems are ran by bad actors, that will on a whim revoke access to their systems to any entity they deem "problematic", even if no laws have been broken.

Crypto allows entities to freely exchange money without having to worry about passing some arbitrary purity test or getting witch-hunted into oblivion.
Honestly, I don't think you understand what imposter syndrome is. It is an inability to properly assess one's competence. These people do not think they are "merely average", they think they are the bottom of the barrel, and those thoughts lead to serious behavioral issues and the condition might degrade to a generalized anxiety disorder or depression.

I'd recommend focusing on what people say and do instead of what you see with your own biases.
Very convincing, thank you for this well argued response.
All of them are, including this 'ZCash'. As long as there are enough greater fools to pump the price of the token. Only for them to lose their money in the end.

Tor is already seen in a bad light for being used for illicit activity, terrorism, illegal drugs, etc. We can have and fund tools that enhances privacy without endorsing or taking money from a so called 'cryptocurrency' that exists to distribute fake internet dark web tokens.
Great Lightning Talks Related to Data Science Ethics
There was discussion of this fairly early on in the invasion and the consensus from experienced military seemed to be they were totally useless.
WAF for everyone: protecting the web from high severity vulnerabilities
The picture shows an empty cage with thin bars, far apart. You would want sandbags or steel plating on the cage, so that it works properly.

The idea is that it reduces the effectiveness of two stage anti-tank weapons. Where the weapon first has a sacrificial payload that gets any reactive armor to explode...then the real payload to penetrate the normal armor. The cage is supposed to get the first, sacrificial, payload to explode without setting off the reactive armor.

They do supposedly work (at least some reduced effectiveness of the weapon, in some way) if they are done right. That is, that they are wide enough to cover the incoming attack angle of the anti-tank weapon...and dense enough to keep the reactive armor from going off on the first payload.
Peter here.. I mention how I valued the duderanch.com domain in this essay I wrote a few years back, if you're curious: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/dude-that-built-duderanch-...
How many developers actually have exorbitant salaries?

Is 54k for 60 hours per week considered exorbitant 10 years ago? Because that’s how much I was paid while being expected to be available 24/7. My cheap
apartment was a 3rd of my pay. I was fortunate to have no debt and get a car from my parents.

I was up to 90k about five years later. Which is decent in the Midwest but I wouldn’t consider it exorbitant.

I doubt I’ll see anything near $200k for a long time. By then, it’ll be less than 90k considering inflation.
Is it? The larger point was that that's the same either way so it comes out in the wash.

But OK if you want to break it down more:

* Have the user prove they own a specific account (https://walletconnect.com/ I would guess would be a simple approach to this)

* Make a REST API call to check if they own the item (edit - to clarify, the API already exists, you just need to do a single get request)

* Set local flag in game to say "yes they own the item"?

What more detail would you need?
Neat stuff! Nowadays, I mostly use Cheatsheet[1] to quickly look up things I want to do, but resources like this are always nice for learning new stuff you didn't know about.

One piece of feedback is that I would include "+p and "+yy in the copy and paste section. I feel like that's the first place where people will go to look for "How to copy and paste using clipboard".

[1] https://github.com/sudormrfbin/cheatsheet.nvim
The answer is in the top-right corner of the page:

NSFW
a humorous look
This argument is not going to end well on HN.
Really this is really a statement about maximizing the expected benefit of success minus the expected cost of failure.

This delineates the cases where we would like to follow this rule vs the cases where we do not want to. If the payoff is convex, like in "if you've never failed, you don't take enough risks" then the advice is wise. If the payoff is concave like "if you've never broken every bone in your body you haven't gone bungee jumping enough" then it is less so.
"spending time" in an airport costs me nothing. I plug into my laptop and work on personal coding projects. Or read a book. Or relax.

It sounds like Umesh needs to adopt some new perspectives, so maybe "If you have all sorts of problems it means your perspective is overly rigid."
IPFS has nothing to do with web3.

Web3 uses IPFS, the dependency tree is the wrong way around in your question.
I already did. They can go for the Rust Foundation Grants Program or perhaps the Mozilla Foundation grants program.

I am sure there are other grants that I have missed out but the solution is there.
There you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30144920
I'm tempted to mentally file this under "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should", if only for the visual of a future where an insatiable appetite for meat-derived hydrocarbons is satisfied by minmaxing factory farming sans any constraint that the outputs need to be suitable for human consumption.

Hopefully algae is the most efficient way to this.
The double negative is making my head hurt and it’s late - to confirm, you are saying:

People would have heard of London or Paris with or without their sports teams. Would you say the same of Manchester or Liverpool if their teams didn’t exist?
I've been a DO customer since 2013 and never in that time have I hosted any of my sites or apps on other platforms. They're super good in every department; support, pricing, tools, and of course, tutorials.

Only a shame they rolled out all the affiliate credits. In the first year I generated like $1,500 in affiliate revenue from a single review post I did.

At the rate of $5 per droplet, that's 25 years worth of hosting. I didn't get the full 25 but still happy to pay for their services.
Some of my best programming language that I have designed
I don't think you can generally expect all processes to transparently use a SOCKS proxy? You might be able to finagle a custom vpn around it, I suppose. But AFAIK SOCKS isn't 100% transparent at the IP layer allowing all protocols to transparently layer on top?

I guess SOCKS5 handles tcp and udp - so you might get away with redsocks (which explicitly recommends against using with TOR):

https://github.com/darkk/redsocks

See also transocks (SOCKS4 tcp only): https://transocks.sourceforge.net

And transocks (in go) https://github.com/cybozu-go/transocks

Ed: see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30684574
We include code reviews in promo/annual review materials, and actually, reviews with unnecessary/nitpicky comments on them will count AGAINST you. Submitting shitty time-wasting reviews in the packet is worse than having no reviews at all. People will actually go read all the comments you left, and judge whether they were necessary/important/improved the code.
Is not the test population too small? (n=10) or is there any reason we can generalize this with such a small number?
The author left out the "junior cynic"

Everything is being done wrong and they think they're being a valuable skeptic telling you so, but really they're just trying to show the world how much they get it, and are ultimately not as smart as they think they are ;)
Itch.io Bundle for Ukraine
Is it? There's just too many to list here, even after the shutting down of Silk Road, but these crackdowns cannot be ignored; and look what they found. Majority of criminals using it once again.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/08/349016/a-dark-we...

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2845616/biggest-ever-t...
I missed a trans atlantic flight once. The most traumatic part was it cost me 2 grand to get a replacement flight.

Unfortunately no strangers helped me with that part.

Don't get me wrong, i could afford it, and at the end of the day, its just a funny story, no real harm done. But i still would have preferred to not have that happen.
DOOM overclocks it to 270MHz. :)
What do y'all think are the odds VR Racquetball is the next big thing? I could see it happening -- it's a pretty clever idea. It might just be a niche thing like drone racing though (or is drone racing catching on?). These "future sports" are an interesting market.
it is an american projection on others..
>ukraine can not win this war. no way

I guess the Ukranians disagree!
Nope, this isn't in the cards. Russia has effectively mustered all they want to spend on war into Ukraine. To redeploy or muster more soldiers would take a year and likely that would be detected by intelligence operatives. Hell, just watching from space you would see the training camps. It's not like you can hide them in the equivalent of a Planet Fitness or big box store for an entire year to train and outfit them. And that's just infantry. You'd likely need trucks and the Russia armed forces are focused on trains which as we've seen with Ukraine is their biggest weakness. Just blow up the switches and fall back to more defensible positions and let the Russians wear themselves out.
The only crime I've ever seen Seattle police respond promptly to was a shooting, they got here within a minute or two from when I heard the gunshots. But something like a crazy person screaming at 3am in the middle of the street throwing traffic cones at cars? They don't show up for that at all. They won't even send even a single patrol car for that.
EU Parliament backs off plans to phase out energy-hungry cryptocurrencies
I think beyond the obvious large sports stadiums, local high schools are among the worst offenders. New tax levies for 'schools' almost always pass despite much of that spent on new sports fields meant for the exclusive use of sports teams that constitute only a very small percentage of the student body population (not to mention the overall population). Meanwhile, the school will not even have safe ways for children to ride bikes to school and bus service cannot even be properly maintained.
Ideally, yes, those kinds of things would probably happen and they’d reduce the load on any final code review. In practice, I find a lot of development groups do code reviews prior to accepting changes into whatever deployment pipeline they use but aren’t so comprehensive or consistent with reviews at earlier stages.

Even with useful reviews at the design stage, I would still always look out for those kinds of issues as part of a code review, though. The approach might have evolved during implementation, or that implementation might have unintentionally deviated from the intended design. Also, sometimes the code is doing something inherently complicated and there just isn’t much to see until a whole algorithm is substantially implemented.
I had a teacher a long time ago who was full of questionable wisdom for us 9th graders. My favorite was, "If you're not sure of your position, you should probably.. er.. um.. state it more strongly. I mean, STATE IT MORE STRONGLY! [fist pump]"
Measuring the Earth with Traceroute
All frontend developers: keep the Flexbox article alive please.
Build this into a browser, add 10$ a month to the wallet and automatically devide value over the websites you visit. If enough people would do it, it would be great for (independent) content creators.
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I don't find the humor in diminishing a non-trivial mental health issue and making fun of the people suffering from it, and I don't think I'm alone in that.
Removing iPhone Accessories Brings Apple $6.5B
Being a media company that happens to sell SaaS subscriptions is becoming a popular way to solve the traction problem.
this looks like a great start! non-destructive node-based editing would be super-fun, especially if a node could be written in javascript! i'd love a 2d vector editor that works well for both generative art/design and fiddly manual design. good luck!
the anonymous from no such agency, I suppose
> You can build anything on DigitalOcean

I was almost expecting that text to be a link to zombo.com
I like Julia as a teaching language because it has a good model for computation. The same is true for C BTW which is also an excellent first language. For example, take a look at these lecture notes on Optimizing Serial Code (https://book.sciml.ai/notes/02/). You can walk through details about memory layouts, stack vs heap allocations, different levels of compiler IR and optimizations, etc. all in a way that flows easily. Then talk about parallelism, code generation, type inference, etc. Julia is both "explicit" and "concise" in some sense: it can look simple, but it's also easy to peel back the abstractions and really show what's working and why. C is a good teaching language because it has a similar explicitness to its computing model.

I really dislike Python as a teaching language because students can leave a course without really knowing much about computation itself. They might know how to "make Python do a thing", but they don't leave with an appreciation of computation itself. The details of memory models, cache levels, AVX, distributed computing, etc. are just a whole different universe and students have to almost relearn from scratch with a new model if they want to advance. Things like Bjarne's "Why you should avoid linked lists" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQs6IC-vgmo) are incomprehensible to the programming model provided in the Python universe: it has a better O(n) so why would it be worse? While you always need to make simplifications while teaching, I believe that starting people on Python goes a bit too far and sooner or later they have to unlearn bad habits or relearn a new programming model.

I believe it's much easier for students to learn something explicit and then later say "yeah Python automates the heap allocation of objects by boxing like this, and from what you have already learned, that's obviously slow which is why the language has overhead but it's pretty nice ain't it?"
I feel like most places have an animal just as bad, if not only because it could be a society without hospitals.
Would anyone care about this project without the suffix 'written in Rust'?
>It was just luck and sure an extreme example but man the lessons of 2008 have been very quickly forgotten.

You're right, but I'd like to share with you a lesson I learned in 2020/2021. Every single leader that has been around since 2008 is terrified of "mortgage" causing 2 recessions in a row.

Seeing people rally around house prices and evections over the past two years really solidified this for me.
RAM uses the same amount of power under high load as low load due to the way it is constantly refreshing the contents.

Each stick of DDR4 is going to consume on the order of 1.2w (idle CPUs can theoretically go lower than this).

I’d rather shut a whole machine down than go to the effort of offlining individual DIMMs, since the consumption is so low and quite static.
> Cynical me has observed this annual pattern where Apple just before their developer conference suddenly becomes "genuinely" interested in the web community and actively listens to feedback. Then, things get back to normal, which means they don't implement anything, all feedback goes to /dev/null, documentation is lacking and bugs are never solved.

This doesn’t make sense to me. Features takes time to discuss, roadmap, argue , implement, test, and ship. These things aren’t something you just ramp up just before their developer conference. I would be furious if I were a WebKit developer and told I don’t implement anything or take feedback all year up until a Yearly conference. Especially when Safari updated 7 times last year alone.
anonymous, I supppose :)
I've spent some time with Digital Ocean team members, and they're dead-set on having the best technical content on the internet. It's been a core to their growth strategy so far:

- Target long-tail searches -- queries where there may not be a lot of volume but also not a lot of competition

- Stand out with very good content (not just SEO filler)

- Build trust with the dev community

This is a time-consuming and expensive strategy. So acquiring large tranches like this makes sense.
1Password Developer Tools
How did you get this idea?
How about just setting up a bastion host and then forwarding ports via SSH? It's much simpler than setting up a VPN.
but duderanch.com was going to be the name of my blink182 fan site :(

Value is what you do with it not what the name is.
Professional cycling. 4+ hour races, where 3.5 hours are people "just riding along" (granted at speeds that us mortals can only dream about). The sprints and the climbs are exciting, but everything in between is seriously boring for anybody who isn't a cycling geek (I am, my wife is not; she likes the 20 minute highlight reel, I spend most of July on the couch watching the Tour).
I've used it and it works great, even works with automatic discovery.
Oh, just wait a while. Google employees will be logging in soon, you’ll see the rationale on this very thread!
Arm to drop up to 15 percent of staff, about 1k people
I remember someone telling me one time that they were really excited that Twitter, Discord, etc. were making moves to support the blockchain because it meant they believed in a decentralized internet and were going to use their platforms to make it happen.

I still think about that guy.
Honestly, I had spent 20 years in the US and we consistently bought the cheapest appliances ever.

When I bought my house I finally said "screw it, let's see what decent appliances look like".

Japanese rice cooker set me back $95 and I thought I would never hear the end of it, and after 4 years, it had already paid itself off (we were doing $14 rice cookers every 6 months). Air fryer was $70 but the previous $40 only lasted 13 months. Basic coffee maker was like $60 but made non-burnt coffee. A little combo oven/toaster is what I ended up on since we had one in the last apartment since we never used a full oven.

The ones that are honestly pretty difficult to find were dishwasher but one of our friends suggested bosch because we wanted a quiet appliance.
> with an additional layer of generics to double complexity

In 2022, I just don't understand Java development. It feels like a whole ecosystem just insisting on itself as everything else moves on.
>Plenty of high prestige world cities like Tokyo or London or Paris aren't known for their pro sports teams.

What a beautiful way to shoot down your own post, well done.
I believe that is the syndrome of being an imposter that pretends to be competent, rather than the syndrome of believing despite competence that one is an impostor.
> You may as well argue that the government should be subsidizing new Marvel movies, or Call of Duty, because those are popular forms of entertainment too.

The state of Rhode Island burned a huge amount of cash on by funding a loan for a video game company. That didn't pan out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_Studios#Bankruptcy
I just wonder what the benefit really is to subsidizing billionaire's and multi-millionaire's private gladiators.

I've always felt there was just too much money (and DoD involvement) in it for "we can take your people to the limits of human capability... purely for entertainment!" to make sense. Do they sell their private advances in sports medicine to defence contractors? Are they some kind of advertisement for super soldiers? If not, what's the gimmick?
Anyone know how they do this? Is this one of those APIs that exist but you're not allowed to use (unless you're Google) if you want to get published on the play store?