skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your dream. I seriously considered Elements for a project a couple of years ago, but rejected it, because I didn't want to get into a situation where Apple introduced a new platform (e.g. tvOS) or a new technical requirement (e.g. 64-bit or bitcode) and I would be stuck because I was dependent on a third-party, closed-source compiler to produce native code.
> The path that led Walter Bright to write a language, now among the top 20 most used, began with curiosity — and an insult.

Is D really a top 20 language? I don't remember seeing it anywhere close to the top 20.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ has them in 31
Strategic Object Oriented Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
> Mainframes, because they have saner systems programming languages than C.

Are you claiming that PL/X is saner than C? What is your reasoning?
Apollo 12 landed right next to the Surveyor 3 lander, and the astronauts removed a few pieces from it and returned with them. When NASA disassembled the video camera later they found microorganisms still alive on the device.

This article asserts that this was the result of a clean room failure after the parts were returned to Earth: https://www.space.com/11536-moon-microbe-mystery-solved-apol....

This is not as exciting as the notion that some bacteria might have survived for years inside the lander on the Lunar surface, but it still illustrates the risks of failing to maintain a proper clean room environment.
This is terrible, I was told that the person on the other side will be attempting to impersonate a robot. (This is the scoring.) And that I myself am supposed to impersonate a robot.

So I wrote texts in advance and then copy/pasted the most relevant one, ignoring what the other person said. (To look like I'm a robot.) Some of them (like in response to "how are you") that I wrote were pretty reasonable, other responses by me kind of non-sequitur.

Meanwhile, the other person acted JUST like a robot. So I picked human, since I thought they were impersonating a robot well, as requested. Not being a poorly programmed robot. (As shown.)

The game scoring needs to be updated.

By the way this is my strategy if the incentives were reasonable: I would teach the other person literally anything that I just came up with, and see if they can learn it. Robots just can't do that.

For example I might say (but I would come up with something different each time). "Okay, first I'll teach you something new that I came up with (to prove you're human to me) then you teach me something new you came up with (for me to prove I'm human to you). Absolutely anything new counts. Okay, my new thing is the game of Pirate, I just came up with it [this will be different each time.] I'll say an activity, and you tell me why pirates hate it. Doesn't matter if it's reasonable or not. Ready?"

"Yes".

"Okay, filing taxes."

"Uh ... pirates hate it because... they don't like laws? Or the government"

"Okay good now you".

"Contradict me."

"Okay."

"This game sucks."

"No it doesn't, it's great!"

"Okay we're both human haha."

"Yeah totally."

Now granted this will only work with pretty creative people who can invent a totally new game on the spot. And if any two people ever invent the same new game it might have a false positive. But on the whole I have zero doubt that it works.

I tried it with OK Google. Couldn't teach her anything.
And that's why server side request forgery (SSRF) is so dangerous.
Annoying thing I learned from doing that: source code does not follow a recursive structure. Preprocessor directives allow for some really strange structures. Of course it only caused my problems for a single file at work.
I think a custom stack I can read through when the parsing gets weird makes slightly more sense in retrospect.
To your first point, the answer is yes, because I hired the kid. And it wasn't for a compiler job.

And I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Exactly, just read the first line of the article and closed it.
Poverty is such a difficult and insidious issue. Once you're poor, it's very hard to get out of poverty. Being poor is very expensive for society as a whole, given that poverty correlates strongly with all kinds of other negative things (poor physical and mental health, certain kinds of crime, unstable family conditions etc). And it is often hereditary.

This college seems like it's doing amazing things, but I will never understand why first world countries don't make poverty reduction a bigger priority :(
This Room Is Thought to Have Been Michelangelo's Secret Hideaway, Drawing Board
They aren't "special." They are the majority.

I'm not arguing that night owls are lesser people. I'm just saying these sorts of conflicts are basically inescapable. They have existed as long as humans have and there is no magic wand solution.

Everyone would like the entire world to work well for them as an individual. Therein lies the rub. We would all like to be able to make noise when we feel like it and to have undisturbed sleep at will where other people are expected to be quiet during that time. The reality is we have two possible choices here:

1. A small number of very powerful people can impose their will on everyone else like that while the majority live in misery.

2. We struggle to find best practices that work reasonably well for as many people as possible.

The second scenario is what most modern cultures typically shoot for. Since night owls are in the minority, policies tend to favor day people.

In theory, we could insist everyone be quiet all the time. In practice, this interferes with industry, commercial, recreation and generally having a life. So in reality we need to demarcate times when an acceptable amount of noise can happen so life can happen.

There are no simple answers. It's a complicated problem.
It was a jarring read seeing those basic mistakes. Even just a once-over before publishing to web would have likely caught those typos and increased the credibility of the paper. Perhaps the author was tight for timeline or couldn't source a peer reviewer.
The world out there pays HALF. Not everybody who works at Amazon is in their first job. Many people have worked in those other places and dealt with the personalities, the low pay, the excuses. Sooner or later people realize, "ok If I have to deal with this shit boss, shit business, shit industry at least I am going to get paid as well as possible."
Fermat's last theorem is an example of my point, in that the people who actively oppose the scientific position are not basing their opposition on a rejection of Fermat's last theorem, or of anything else that can only be understood by a tiny minority of specialists. For the most part, those who oppose the application of science in certain areas of public policy are not doing so on the basis of an epistemological question over how science reached its current position, they do so on the basis of not liking the outcome.
I've known one U.S. karoshi. Beyond that, I know maybe four or five individuals, myself included, in private and public sector U.S. roles, who have overwork habits: cigarettes and/or coffee, fasting diets, sleeplessness, social isolation, second jobs and volunteer schedules which seem necessary to hold their communities together. Probably all the truckers who die in their 40s or 50s are overwork deaths.

Truckers and office worker overwork deaths are probably among the most absurd, though I don't have figures regarding light industrial factories. The millenary lifestyle of agriculture and correspondence with the bureaucratic authorities is mostly lost, as arable land is commodified into multi-million dollar "lottery property" which renders a life without the risk of overwork death, and with happiness and a modest, long-duration passive income, almost entirely inaccessible to those not born into a family holding that sort of land. I don't know if that's entirely true but I've been doing research and the bootstraps by which I might hoist myself do indeed seem mythical.

Not all citizens are guaranteed a pension or benefits, and cannot necessarily access roles which do. The pensions and their management are a political talking point ("Candidate X will disrupt pensions"), which is outward and openly-admitted evidence of corruption, and where the situation becomes even more troubling.

This is not merely something a company could fix, at least not in the U.S.A..
To whatever extent you can get hiring decisions moved out of HR, I would recommend doing it.
That's mostly a Bitcoin-only issue, luckily.
Why there will be a drastic drop in website visitors count?
Hello All,

I have a landing page for my startup. Very simple page. I don't do any web site marketing, but I am very active in Instagram (adding posts, commenting and also have 8k followers).

I noticed thro' Google Analytics on an average there were around 400 visitors to my website each month for the last 6 months. However, for the last two months the number went down to 75. I checked my GA and i don't see anything alarming.

Also, i am a developer. I am not an expert in marketing/SEO. Looking for your thoughts.

Thanks.
I'm taking this path.

So far I have

The emulator -> https://github.com/Lerc/kwak-8

An assembler -> https://github.com/Lerc/AvrAsm

A texbed playground -> http://fingswotidun.com/avr/AvrAsm/Testbed/

In hindsight, attempting an assembler before a full compiler is a really good idea, It lets you encounter a lot of the pitfalls before you hit them in a much more difficult environment.
> quite narrow range of parameters

I think it's just a statistical problem.

Target A: you want your song to be liked by 10 thousand people

Target B: you want your song to be liked by 1 billion people

I don't think there is less art in a massively popular song. It's just a different kind of art.
What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked.

Interlinked.
> I mean Google famously didn’t give a shit about hiring Max Howell (creator of homebrew) because of hazing-style pointless whiteboard trivia [0].

People usually omit the part that Homebrew was at that point a quite shitty
reiteration of ideas well-implemented in many other places (RPM/Yum, DEB/APT,
and half a dozen other package managers). It was a common complaint that
installing one package could break several others, because Homebrew updated
some common dependency and the new one was missing symbols or had otherwise
incompatible ABI. There also was this hilarious bug report that Homebrew
served everything over plain HTTP (and Homebrew had no digital signatures
whatsoever), and the ticket got closed by a Homebrew team member saying it's
not a problem, which spoke tons about their competency in package management.

I don't know how the situation looks now, but when Howell was interviewed by
Google, Homebrew was not something you could be proud of writing.
Yeah, I got the same. Might need to built some sentiment analysis in there too.
There are many many murderers in the world, who are not naturally compelled to submit to this morality. If everyone naturally submitted, there would no need for Laws or Commandments.
Two hundred years ago, most popular music existed primarily as simply a support for public dancing. The audience didn't expect to sit and listen to compelling virtuosos perform.

It was only the advent of recorded music that allowed individual performers of popular music to gain specific audiences (with free jazz performers of 1930s being perhaps the first popular recording artists noted for producing "works of art").

So music as just a product, in ways, isn't by itself new or evil. Now one can take issue with the characteristics of our modern music.

For discussion of the history of pop music, I'd recommend

Elijah Wald's How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

http://www.elijahwald.com/beatlespop.html
Could you elaborate on what you mean by built-in integration testing? I am using Rust now, full time, and can't wait for better testing support. There are RFCs to do just this. However, the current built-in testing situation leaves much for improvement.
So all people hanging out at midnight in Barcelona, in a country known for having dinner as late as midnight, are thugs?
I don't think I meant it completely in those terms. Rather, I am pushing "easier" in a term that is more in line with "cheaper." Consider, it is cheaper to reimplement a framework into javascript than it is to port the language demonstrating the framework into the web platform. (I'm thinking of the general "reactive" methodologies here.)

That said, I agree your point still stands. I was not trying to disprove it, but give it some complimentary points. That is, to help myself understand the point in the fine print, not just at the broad level. That make sense?
could be some organic spikes check for updates.
> and erlangs BEAM is written in C? so... it all doesn't mean much.

Huh? That's an incredibly stupid comment.
I keep getting humans every time, but the one bot I got said this:

Me: If you push your finger into a cake will the cake move relative to the table it is on?

Stranger: Cake will table
I live in a country with tax funded healthcare.
Sometimes willpower just means you've ignored the sunk cost fallacy.
WeDeploy.
It's probably worth noting that "credit" rather than work is explicitly the relevant concept in play in the formation of Price's Law -- Price seems to have conceived the relationship in the context of looking at academic citations.

"Work done" is certainly one component of having a much-cited paper; you are simply not going to have a relatively large number of cited papers if you have not written a relatively large number of papers. But there's the question of what other factors lead papers to awareness, recognition of value, and citation, and those questions likely don't have a linear relationship with "value created."

Given the description of some of the dynamics involved as a "preferential attachment process" involving "cumulative advantage" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment ), Price seems to have recognized this and probably had a different conception than the author of the piece we're discussing.

(Peterson, who the author indicates brought Price's law to his attention, seems to recognize this as well, and sometimes suggests that it's best to assume that people who aren't at the top of some Pareto distribution "P" in contributing value are probably contributing value in some other way that isn't visible to people focusing on P. )
Agreed. And I've done that in my distant pass too. Was good advice.

However, many victims are trapped, and that raises the bar considerably.
Sorry. Won't happen again.
Seriously cancer is absurdly sophisticated.
Which open-source web browser do you use on mobile?
There's a basic problem with this:

Price's law doesn't fit the data. (DOI 10.1016/0306-4573(88)90049-0)

It certainly shouldn't be randomly reapplied to things besides scientific publication. Even within scientific publication, the uneven distribution of publications is a result of far more complicated mechanisms than some simple measure of results. Remember, by bibliometric methods, Newton, Feynman, and Perelman are some of the lowest performers ever to work in science.
For mobile platforms, is there such a thing as timeless, classic UI design that won't look dated next year, but doesn't require every app developer to create their own brand?
seems a bit buggy, I never see the messages others are sending, real or robot
Not network controller in the "SDN" sense of the word, but more the management plane of the devices. In essence, the former Tail-f company (acquired by Cisco) had written a daemon (ConfD) that network equipment vendors would OEM to integrate in their Network OS'es. This daemon is still available and used today and the lessons learned from using YANG data models to describe/abstract the underlying control and data plane settings have now been applied to abstract network services at a level higher in the NSO product (also Erlang).

D: I work at Cisco
> You aren't reading much press in the UK then.

Neither are you.

Researchers at Loughborough University analysed Brexit coverage on TV and in the press in the lead up to the referendum. They found that coverage, when weighted by circulation, was 80% in favour of Brexit and 20% against.

Source: https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/crcc/eu-referendum/uk-news-coverage...
Car dealers don't use Kelly blue book, they use either black book or "MMR" (Mannheim market report).
Should have read the publish date just above the first line ;P
I wonder if this is a recurring trend with new technologies? Was there a period of "X, but with an internal combustion engine"; "X, but with an electric motor"; "X, but in an aerosol can"?
DNS leak testing tool
Thy certainly did. They just had very poor theories about humors and xi and bile.
I think what he meant was that the lack of empathy is the cancer that can kill democracy in the long run.
Someone who in principle has a very high "Athletic Quotient" may be relatively bad at this depending on how many times they've attempted it before the test.

A good AQ test would hopefully control for this? Though my understanding is that IQ doesn't control very well for practice either. It's a hard problem.
This is just anecdata. We bought a used car at Carmax and they gave us way, way, way above bluebook value for our trade-in (and all other offers, too -- and we were pretty aggressive in researching trade-in offers at other places and were prepared to be underballed by Carmax).

My anecdata is no more useful than yours. Unless someone provides some actual reliable data points to produce a real, known trend, there's no proof here.
There are courses that try to teach applied rationality. I don't know how successful they are.
Really? I'm writing Elixir just fine coming from Ruby...
Internally your OS resolver will be configured to point to a different DNS than anyone external to your network. You essentially have a private branch of the DNS at that point. The only real potential for conflict is when the FQDN of an internal server is the same as for an external server. In that case your internal DNS will serve up a record pointing to your internal server, and external users will get a record pointing to an external server. If staff want to order fresh burritos over the Burrito-over-TCP protocol that will have to use separate equipment. But nobody outside your intranet will ever see a name conflict.
WeDeploy is less well known but offers a great (and growing) near-SaaS for building and deploying fully-featured web apps quickly. Surprising utility and my personal choice. I recommend checking it out and giving it a shot. Plus, the team there is responsive and always ready to listen to and meet user needs. Anyone else tried WeDeploy?
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We love this challenge. We know that what has worked for decades in other contexts, might not work in ours. So we don’t default on expertise, instead we test every assumption with logic, each idea with reasoning, and all conclusions with “prove it.” We choose learning over ego so that our product and our people become the best.

As an Imbellus Senior Game Engineer, you will envision how to translate feature designs into gameplay mechanics, and delight players with engaging moments. You will prototype and discover new solutions for complex systemic challenges, and orchestrate the game to ensure a flow state for the player. You will collaborate with engineers, designers, artists and learning scientists to apply playtest feedback and polish gameplay interactions to result in a high-quality user experience and effective assessment.

What you’ll be doing at Imbellus:
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as a frontend dev new to this stuff - how do you keep your lambdas secure? literally anyone can see your secrets?

I'm gonna go through your code, thanks for sharing, just wanted to ask in case you have a big picture insight about how serverless auth/security is best done. this stuff freaks me out because i know nothing about it.
> "People usually omit the part that Homebrew was at that point a quite shitty reiteration of ideas"

I realize we might just disagree in our assessments, but I think this is an unfair characterization. At that point in time, homebrew was basically the only way I could get cross-platform support to work for several image processing projects that my lab was working on. To us, despite its obvious rough-around-the-edges needs for incremental improvement over time, it was a complete lifesaver.

I think this speaks to a larger point too about the way that engineers cut down and compete with other engineers in petty ways, instead of acknowledging that getting a complex working system up and running that adds value for people is a huge accomplishment that utterly dwarfs any sort of algorithm trivia in terms of whether a candidate is worth hiring, especially in a company like Google.

The perspective that,

> "when Howell was interviewed by Google, Homebrew was not something you could be proud of writing."

is just so incompatible with my world view about what counts in software engineering that it likely means we are coming from perspectives so far apart that there's little hope we could agree.
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Reading this thread is making me want to write a blog post titled "Technology Fragmentation is Making Us Stupid and Wrecking Our Careers".

Every hour a developer spends learning a new language/stack/framework hotness is an hour that could be better spent studying something real, like mathematics, CS fundamentals, or UI design.
The parent comment advocated for more military spending. I tried to offer better places for money.
I've never used CarMax but I'd definitely consider them if I wanted a used vehicle. I'm in a similar situation when it comes to keeping cars a long time. If anything, I tend to keep them for an expensive repair job too long.

It does make the car buying experience easier. I know the trade-in isn't worth much and I can always just donate as a fall-back. I also haven't needed to finance for a while. When you can just basically ignore the dealer number BS and go in with a take it or leave it price based on the invoice, the experience may still be annoying but it's not particularly stressful.
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It always perplexed me why the people who were great at math could not figure out how to spin the ball of the backboard and score from anywhere on the court without athleticism required.
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