jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"In the year 2013, our officers made over four hundred thousand vehicle stops, mostly for traffic violations. A citation was issued in only about one in six of those stops. Five of the six received warnings. This is the police exercising discretion for minor violations of the law. Few, if any, persons would argue that the police should have no discretion."

Huh. Really? Warnings five out of six times? Is that pretty common?
> The protests crossed that line when they started shutting down freeways and transit. The only difference between that and terrorism is the rhetoric.

Yeah, that and the dead children, schoolteachers with their legs blown off, orphans left behind after their parents were shredded or burned to death, etc that results from actual terrorism. That's basically the only difference.
Just try to think of a 35 USD price tag with "free" shipping! ;)
I don't encounter higher-order functions very often, and I certainly am not mentally flexible with them. Nonetheless, I have heard of partial application, yes. I understood what the count parameter was doing.

What I was having trouble understanding was why it was being used; specifically, why 'but' would have a strict arity of one in the first place, and why a second function (specifying arity) would be necessary. It doesn't follow very clearly from the examples given at all.

edit: ...was this whole thing actually a joke? I thought he was serious.
Have ear buds from Xiaomi and been very impressed with quality for price. I'm somewhat sceptical they are going to put a $400 dollar cpu and 16gb of ram into a laptop that costs under $500 dollars though. Maybe they are getting a good price on the haswells now that broadwell production is ramping up.
The survival of the unfittest.

A similar proposition is the Peter Principle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle] which basically states that because it is often easier to promote less able staff out of the way, people are said to rise to the level of their incompetence. Seems to fit the data all too often.
Not, if your executable has embeded elements and it takes e.g. 500MB.
This reads like the "you might not need jquery" of browserify. Sure, you could concat all your files using unix commands and stuff, but does it solve all the problems that browserify solves?
Gluten, dairy, and corn for me. Turned out to be MCAS. Supposedly more common than people would expect (and yes, it's an actual ICD-10 disorder), but a total bear to diagnose as it's a diagnosis of exclusion and that's very expensive and a lot of time.

I think a lot of people end up falling into the Candida/Naturopathic woo along the way due to the seemingly higher presence of provider empathy. Not that dysbiosis or supplements don't have a lot to do with helping some of the day to day, but it seems to be a downright strange obsession for some folks to the exclusion of actually treating the root of the symptoms (were it even possible, in some cases).

I think your smack dab on the sugar and refined carbs stuff too. That seems like it'd be good for everybody. I know I might be in a slim and tiny minority here, but I'm definitely in favor of a sugar tax on foods with added sugars/raw sugar/sugary substitutes that are sugar under a different name (fructose, dextrose, etc...) by itself...
You are basically saying that programming is not engineering but a (highly technical) craft and the best way to foster talent in it is to utilize the age old master/apprentice relationship? If so I agree.

Universities do give the necessary theoretical muscles for a lots of things but they surely do not prepare for the craftmanship aspects (beyond informal cultural indoctrination, if any).

I wonder if there could be any feasible structured approach to merge the academic and ninja-craftmanship paths to learning :)
I'm a dev manager at a prominent employer of software engineers and I did a search for my company at your link. I can't speak for other employers, but it appears that salaries for H1-Bs are ~25% lower than what I know Americans to be making at those same job titles. Half is almost certainly an exaggeration, but to deny that there's an H1-B discount is equally disingenuous.

On the topic of the essay, I worry that Paul is also being disingenuous. The US might only have 5% of the world's population, but we have a much larger percentage of the world's population where children have been exposed to computers from an early age. He's right that exceptional programmers can't really be trained, but that doesn't mean that they aren't made. They're made by being put in an environment where they can explore computing and let a natural creativity/curiosity that they have flourish. I've yet to meet an exceptional programmer that begrudgingly chose to write code for a living.

And that's my problem with the H1-B situation and why I think they've got an overall lower percentage of exceptional programmers. In the US, those who are driven by extrinsic motivators like money don't become programmers. They become salesmen, stockbrokers, lawyers or any of a host of other professions that sacrifice doing something interesting for high compensation. But most of those career paths aren't available to people in poorer countries whereas software engineering is. What I've seen among H1-Bs is a far higher percentage of people who basically hate their job, but do it because it allowed them to come to the US and afford a comfortable lifestyle for their families. I don't blame them for that, but I also don't think that it makes them particularly good developers. Don't get me wrong...I have met quite a few H1-Bs who were drawn to software development from an early age and love doing it in the way that usually results in being an nx developer (anywhere from 1x to 10x), but I just don't see them in the same proportions that I do among American developers.

If Paul can figure out a way to filter in the great developers while filtering out those that are only coming to make money, then I'd be completely behind his plan to let them all in. Somewhat ironically, his plan to let everyone in would somewhat accomplish that at the cost of decimating developer salaries (i.e. if the labor pool is increased and salaries dip accordingly, we'll find out pretty quickly who's only here for the money and which of us would be doing this no matter whether we were paid significantly less.)
This. How is this not the top comment? The story that it is about talent and not about wages is terribly convenient for an industry that has shown it is willing to flagrantly violate the law to drive down engineer wages.
applying this to my list of 'interesting techie things'
The Crest advocate, Selena Parmenter, is in her early thirties if appearances can be trusted, and she acts bored. She has said little to Mary as they wait for the deputy district director of Seattle Oversight, the honorable Clarens Lodge, to take his seat and listen to their appeals.

Oversight was created in the teens. The first states to use the procedure were California and Washington. With so much information on citizens recorded daily by vid, home monitors, fibe and satlink uploads, and neighborhood
surveillance systems, a separate branch of the judiciary was established to hear appeals from those seeking to use that information for legal purposes.

Early abuses--and the far worse systematic abuse under the Raphkind presidency--has made the system painfully complex for all concerned. Each avenue of information has been wrapped in labyrinthine rules of legal engagement; and an appeal for release of data can be made only once a year for any given case.

-- Slant, Greg Bear
Oh, about the 30 gifted kids:

None of them became medical or PhD doctors. One became a lawyer. Two have Master's degrees.

Their classmates? 7 PhDs. 4 MDs. About 10 MBAs (that I am aware of), 8 lawyers, 2 psychologists, 3 SLPs, at least 5 with MEs, and several self-made millionaires.

Gifted doesn't mean genius. For most, it simply means they have a head start. Head starts don't last once your peers have a reason to compete.

This is why I don't care whether gifted programs live or die. Place the child in the system where he needs to be, but stop pretending that little Bobby with the parents who have been trying to teach him to read since he was crapping his diaper is a genius simply because people spent time forcing him to learn something. For many kids, telling them they're gifted compared to their peers simply inflates their egos past their talent.
Still, for years I've been reading that almost all new power generation capacity is renewable.
Hey, some startup stock options end up being worth something. :)
Just found a DNSSEC config analyzer: http://dnssec.rithvik.hns.to
Skeptical in what way?
You don't say what state the job is in, or whether you're an executive level employee. Both of those are important.
Oh, I'm pretty sure you want them spinning at the same speed so their angular momenta cancel out, in case a wind gust puts a torque around a horizontal axis on the system... cross product of angular momentum with applied torque...
The software in this story is working as intended in its new configuration. It's not reasonable to ask for features to be flagged off on the off chance that someone is running your code on an S/390.
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Heh, funny downvote: rather than communicate via text it was "click to disagree" :-D
Better link (no sign-in): https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/04/24/143425/lets-dest...
It’s still alive and underpins the CMS plone [1].

It has evolved and separated into zope [2] zodb [3] and ztk.

[1] https://plone.org

[2] https://zope.org

[3] https://zodb.org

Note: circled the link.
> I do not know why people downvoted your comment.

reason why people call me out for my behavior is this:

> I personally despise Facebook

^^ I do not agree with the mainstream view which is to hold companies liable for their actions. Instead my attitude (and I get why people have a hard time with it) is to direct my anger at the individuals hiding behind these big-corps. I'm making it personal because for me it is. We (humans in most "civilized" countries) made a huge mistake by allowing a company to be a "legal" person which gives people the ability to hide their ghoulish behavior behind the legal facade of a company. You can not win a fight as a person against a company (only in rare cases that don't matter much). As a legal person I can fund terror with shell/shelf companies and get away with paying 0% income tax (e.g. Netflix, Google and all other cancerous US companies registered in Ireland or Luxembourg) while as a natural person I get away scot-free.

My solution to the problem is too radical for most as it calls out the Zuckerberg's, Eric Princes, Peter Thiel, Bezos, Musk, Koch, Trumps and hundreds of others.

People here absolutely hate that and (in some cases rightfully) attack me because what I propose is against the law and probably violates my own code of human rights. If laws don't serve us we have to change them and in many cases this will not be possible without violence. I'm not saying I have a solution[1] for it but I also can't see how companies should continue to get away with destruction of society (and the environment). Until we start eating the rich (metaphorically) and they start fearing the rest of us (again) nothing will change.

[1] my pov is constantly evolving and in many regards half baked, e.g. I also am deeply suspicious of more government power to solve these issues or any form of "seizing the means of production". and I think that technology (science) will even less be able to provide a cure for something that isn't a technological problem (see Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society"). again I absolutely need to stress that I have no solution either.
Related... do you know if there are there laptops with condenser microphones built in?
> It is, but I am afraid the next thing Apple will do now would > be to DRM the memory chips.

Why "afraid"? I hope you are not considering resoldering BGA chips on tightly integrated machine a viable upgrade path?
yeah I know. I thought leering about infinite series in HS was impressive but this blows that away. A solid 6-figure salary awaits him . So much for that media narrative about America dumbing down and lowered academic standards. America still produces among the best talent in the world.
Macs didn't have any user-upgradeable parts since 2016..
This was not the first SARS outbreak, it's well known that masks are an effective intervention strategy.
Funny enough, when Steve Bannon started his Pandemic podcast back in January and recommended wearing masks and a complete countrywide shutdown, he was regarded as a wacko and Dr Fauci was on John Catsimatidis telling America that everything is fine and they don't need to do anything. Also, Steve was adamant about not calling it the China virus as it had nothing to do with the Chinese people and everything to do with the CCP.
Not sure which one came first:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/...
Wow. very very insightful. I was hoping he would talk in more detail about his famous solutions (Bakers etc), but hey then again it is a 55 minute talk. Hope to see plenty more of these!
It is to laugh! https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/wikil...

Assange has repeatedly let his SSL certificates and PGP keys expire, had has had a series of completely insecure submission systems that have been disabled most of the time since he started whoring for donations a couple years ago.
Great stuff, good catch on the syscall! I've been tinkering with C coroutines as well recently but since our critical code runs in kernel space they ended up being more hassle than they're worth. I'm still using them in our (user space) testing sandbox.

As you mention malloc()ing stacks: you might want to allocate them using mmap() and MAP_ANONYMOUS instead. You can map the adjacent memory pages with appropriate protection to prevent stack overflows and as a result, memory corruption. I'm not aware of any drawbacks (malloc itself typically uses mmap above a certain size) but it certainly beats hoping your stacks are big enough. Less of an issue on 64-bit environments of course.
Gorilla arm. Kiosks are one thing since you just briefly interact with them.
Oh hey, I thought this title sounded familiar... (it's from 2007)
At a previous job I implemented a tool to smooth map areas and at the same time preserve the topology between the areas (e.g. there would be no gaps between Texas and Louisiana after the smoothing). I had a lot of fun writing it.
Why don't they run a lottery rather than first-come-first-served on a website?
ML, deep learning, AI stalled theme this last week. I’d just like to mention what if we are dramatically underestimating by many orders of magnitude the computational, storage and bandwidth of organic brains? What if organic brains are using Quantum computing not yet discovered? I mean we had X17 news that opens possibilities that we are missing standard model physics. It just seems we humans have a bad habit in the historical past of being quite over confident in our level of understanding.
You are always at the mercy of your platform. But wikileaks could have continued accepting cash in the mail instead of being sidelined by a third party service. And at least with legal pot the tide is quickly shifting to make traditional banking easier; there was talk in LA about opening a municipal bank kinda for this purpose.

For most people, the utility of sticking your money into a volatile and slow system with no recourses is just never going to be there. A municipal credit union would be more useful and offer an out from private for-profit banking for most people.
Nobody replying to you seems to catch on that i3 is not the only environment other than KDE and Gnome.

i3 users have sway. Good for them. Now what about every other window manager?
The NPS and BLM sites are also good resources for finding information about different areas and activities:

https://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm

https://www.blm.gov/programs/recreation/

As for campsite reservations, peak seasons will always be terribly crowded at major campsites. It's too bad that people are gaming the system, but if you need to rush to get a spot in line, you're probably not going to feel like you're out in the wilderness when you get there anyways. So if you aren't a huge fan of crowds and noise, try going during the off-season (like right now!) Also, consider checking out smaller state forests and parks during the summer months. And many forests and parks allow 'dispersed camping' in certain areas; you can usually find plenty of semi-maintained campsites along roads in those places when the maintained campgrounds are full or closed.

And if you go to these areas regularly, an annual parks pass might save you money, even if they usually only get you discounts on federal land:

https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm
I have had this unpopular opinion since the beginning of the decade: Linux should just adopt AOSP UI, be able to run apps, and that’s it.
Having actually used this as a self learning tool, my feelings were mixed. On one hand, I think it's organized and clear. On the other, I found it's drill approach to be ineffective for me.

I think reps are really good for something that uses muscle memory, like shooting 3s or dicing an onion. However, I found for learning programming, I got a lot more mileage out of teaching methods that have set up a solvable problem, point you in the right direction, but leave it to me to create a solution.
How can you lock up Windows like that?
I think that's a tendentious and not particularly useful definition of far-right. But you're right that in context, your statement makes more sense.
oh yeah.. I didn't foresee covid effects (obv in retrospect)
You're surprised that politicians don't attach remotely detonated bombs to the laptops?
Thank you for the explanation of how that came about. Cheers!
This is speculation, but I think if Linus had a team a tenth of the size of the kernel team in one physical location they could get just as much done.

I'd love to see negating or supporting data either way, it's just my opinion that if you want a team of engineers (as opposed to a singular dictator) to build you something amazing (C Language, SR-71, Saturn V) they need to be in the same physical location and see each other face to face.
I just donated to Wikipedia after reading some of your inane comments.
I wrote some code specifically for this, actually. It still uses the regular chrome storage API, but they expire after a while:

https://github.com/fregante/webext-storage-cache
Taking advantage of a reference count of 1, like this, must be one of very few places where reference counting can provide a performance improvement over tracing garbage collection.
No, it was where you are claiming that the article contains deliberate (“fake news”) lies when it doesn’t. Because, among other reasons, it’s mostly quoting people’s opinions.
> Bitcoin's maximum possible transaction rate could be arbitrarily scaled up without impacting the electricity usage at all

If it can, why hasn't it?
Believe me or not.

Big retailers don't like Bluetooth mouses because they have huge returns from them.

Usually they will place a few unconspiciously in the corner, but otherwise give most of shelf space to non-bt mouses.

Why so? People can't freaking press the PAIR button, even if you slap a big red sticker on it.

This is also the reason retailers insist on having batteries inserted into the mouse at factory, or have internal batteries charged to full before shipping.
A commentator I follow pretty closely sometimes says that the ultimate ambition for the ruling class is to corral the vast majority of humanity into an isolated technological prison, where the gaps created by the absence of community, nature, and purpose will be filled with endless digital content, and the elites get to enjoy what's left of nature. A little surprising to see someone like Carmack come right out and say yes, that's the idea!
It's hard to say captchas are or aren't enough because you know most companies just want your phone number for ulterior motives.
As someone who really only knows Python (I'm not a developer), I was thinking the same thing. I think this would be really useful for me to use for some personal projects. Or for libraries for someone who already uses Python. I guess that's enough for it to be useful, but I wish I could package it up better to let someone who doesn't know a thing about Python use what I made.
That's a GPU with a terabyte SSD on it, not a terabyte of VRAM.
I just started moving my recipes all to ... github.

I find it easier to manage a bunch of markdown files than anything else.

Also rewriting them lets me list ingredients as groups as far as what goes together in a bowl or whatever ...the laundry list of ingredients so many sites list drives me crazy.

Outside of America's Test Kitchen... I've never found a blog's exposition on why they did what they did helpful. More often than not their description actually makes me question if they actually cooked the recipe often enough (or at all).
Yeah but the reason companies are able to raise as much money with stock issuance is the promise of liquidity thus providing liquidity is valuable.

This example isn't a problem either. Someone made 700k at the cost of someone else, likely an over-leveraged players who were forced to liquidate because of the threat of the pandemic. The market is far from efficient and the swings in prices are unavoidable. Normal long term investors didn't lose much if anything during this crash. The government got a cut because of money changing hands. If anything one could ask why is the government getting anything if no value was created.
> you hear about [impostor syndrome] when people actually hit those seemingly unproductive bottlenecks

I have not found this to be the case. My brushes with impostor syndrome come from working with peers who solve a problem or contain a body of knowledge that, on the surface, is professionally intimidating. As a senior engineer with a couple decades under his belt, I can state it is real.
Taking a life can be necessary to protect one’s life or the life of others, but that isn’t the case in capital punishment as someone in custody is no longer a mortal threat to society.

Regarding civilised or not, perhaps this might be of interest:

https://goodessaysblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/capital-puni...
If integration and socialization is important, perhaps we should outlaw private schools and redistribute all students across nearby schools randomly, so the rich kids get to understand what it means to be poor from the early age.

Dragging down the top 5% to the lowest common denominator is not a benefit to society overall. Would you recommend cancelling AP classes?

This is a big subject; none of us are in a position to do anything other than philosophize. But I do think that when your goal is "socialization" you don't need to force everyone to study the same thing. I think it's a moral tragedy that we hold back our brightest students.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/03/20/lie...