skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colleges should hire more. Or rather, businesses should hire colleges to do their research as a part of the curriculum. Like a 4 year long Capstone that goes along with your path to a degree. Teachers could use this investment to provide contextual examples in all STEM classes.

For example, I learned what linear regression was pretty early on in algebra, but I didn't understand how it can be used in image processing until a year after college.

Could the math teacher show one simple example with a graph, one CS sort of example with an image, and a stats example for business economics?

Agree?
You make a good point (and one that's being worked on being overcome, better onboarding and whatever).

But consider twitter:

>Compare that to getting started on Twitter: pick a username and password, boom, done!

And then what? follow some celebs? Figure out if you know anyone? On mastodon you can use the local feed to find people interested in the same subjects (or same culture), and then you start talking. I've seen many people be surprised that within an hour or two on mastodon they've had more and better interactions than years on twitter. The experience once you're there tends to be quite good (from my completely unbiased and scientific viewpoint, of course)
It's possible to control for these factors by adjusting your expected outcomes accordingly. Not saying they did since I haven't bothered to read the study though.
Well, your wikipedia link seems to confirm my layman's understanding of the term "standing", which is that it is about a party's right to participate in a court case. I am no closer to seeing how the English phrase "you aren't prioritizing profit" could "have standing". I think quadrangle is confused in his phrasing, if not in his underlying ideas.

Of course investors may do various things. But we're particularly interested in the question of whether the company must legally maximize profit, even if not directed to do so by a majority of shareholders. wool_gather says no, quadrangle says yes, I wonder whether quadrangle in fact knows what he's talking about.

You say "Many of these don't involve the court, but some may." But the "some may" is kind of what we're trying to get into: if you like, the question is "can a shareholder successfully sue the company for not maximizing profit, even if a majority of shareholders haven't directed it to do so?". As far as I know, that's equivalent to asking whether the company has a legal duty to maximize profit.
By next year, Google may be the largest single employer of Rust programmers in the world. They might even already be, but the Fuscia team is aggressively hiring.

Facebook is too.

Amazon had a booth, I didn’t get a chance to talk to them about their current deployment personally.

Don’t underestimate China either, PingCap has huge deployments of their database, and while we may not hear about them often in the West, the numbers don’t lie.
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There was this site/project that was collecting developer tools in a nice wiki-like format, along with some metadata (description, platform, category...etc) but I can't find it anymore.

It seams like I am going to revisit saving sites, because google doesn't seem to be helpful enough these days

I would really appreciate some help trying to find that Show HN post
Use whatever tool allows you to sit down and write content sooner. If you don't know Latex, don't waste time learning it (unless the book has a lot of formulas in it). So if you already know how to use Word, (or similar word processors like the Libreoffice one) use that. They are perfectly fine for large text base stuff. If you have plenty of images it will get heavy, but I think there might be a way to link to external files?). Rendering in PDF from MS Word works very well. If you need to share it with somebody for review and comments, most people would be able to open it and read it and comment directly on it. And the WYSIWIG aspect of it should not be underestimated. The amount of personalization of fonts, spaces, etc, is way larger than other options.
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The competitive advantage to "X is a protocol versus a license" is it's inherent proclivity to being bootstrapped. It's no different than Bitcoin spawning a million nodes from a single white paper.

The big worry is how do you maintain that early adopter culture as the service scales. Some will adopt invitation-only gatekeeping. Others an onboarding process that emphasizes customer development.

Mastodon makes its culture explicit up front and in its design. And it seems to be working.
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The internet and a social network are two different things.

The internet doesn’t necessarily need everyone to be on it to be successful.

The whole point of a social network is that the majority of people are on it. That’s why Facebook is still successful despite being an absolute dump.

I don’t care about the technicalities, open source, etc (and I say that as a software engineer). I care about being able to lookup the person I just met at the bar and add/follow them. Until Mastodon can achieve that, I won’t care about it.
wow, the 714 area code extended all the way to SD back then. coolio
I'm saying Mithril is a simpler alternative to React, not React-like. Preact is react-like (same API as react); Mithril isn't.
To see if you'll fit in the cockpit and/or tank driver's seat. In the 1940's the military had just discovered that not all pilots were the same size.

> “The old air force designs were all based on finding pilots who were similar to the average pilot,” Daniels explained to me. “But once we showed them the average pilot was a useless concept, they were able to focus on fitting the cockpit to the individual pilot. That’s when things started getting better.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
Dang, the individual you were replying to, is the lead moderator. (dang is his first name and his initial -- Dan G. The G is for Gackle) The moderators are routinely accused of censorship, of single-handedly suppressing articles that the broader membership flagged off the front page, etc.

It takes more than one flag to kill an item. I think there is a karma threshold for flagging, so -- iirc -- no, simply having an account doesn't allow someone to flag it.
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Alternatively: the study was about "low carb", while keto is "extremely low carb".
For descending, on some stairs I can descend while "falling", it's very fast and not tyring it all.

You have to land on the edge of the stair below so you "drop", then rinse and repeat.

If you do it constantly, you only have to support your body ( but you use your weight to fall, so don't support it too much) and slide with your hands.

If you can't do it the first time, land with your foot normally and then always turn them slightly to go to the stairs below

Kinda hard to explain
None of the suggestions address the writing process and what might facilitate that process. I was so frustrated with existing word processors in that regard that I wrote my own. It's built on my personal work flow augmented with spell checking and find/replace. I did add layout features as an afterthought but rarely use them. I'd market it, but marketing "side projects" is an insurmountable hassle.
Hmm… you missed ed, which is apparently Turing complete as well, at least arguably [1]. And apparently newer versions of POSIX also mandate m4…

[1] https://nixwindows.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/ed1-is-turing-co...
Don't write your text in some TeX dialect. It's not worth it.

You can write your text in Markdown and convert it to TeX, DocBook or directly to PDF using Pandoc (https://pandoc.org). In my opinion Markdown is much easier to type and Pandoc gives you everything you'll need for styling your document.
This kind of thing has been plenty annoying in C++ code. Things like switch, default, abort that used to catch RAM or CPU errors and provide useful information now get optimized away and execution continues in the face of impossible values.

Removing checks for "cannot possibly happen" cases isn't usually worth the tiny time savings.
Thanks, I'll give that a shot
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I think this might be a case of ”People laughed at Galileo, but they did also laugh at Bozo the Clown”.

By cherry-picking your cases, you can argue either side of the issue.
At least one axis here, alongside the gay-straight axis, is dominance behavior. One can feel dismissal or dislike towards people whose behavior registers as submissive. There are varying degrees to which gay men manifest this -- and considering whether your anti-homo feelings correlate with it can be informative -- but many definitely do.
If anyone's interested, I made this resume in LaTeX. I might have to try this out as my next resume template!

https://www.sharelatex.com/read/cqscsqsqmskm
I would love to read what you've written thus far, if you're willing to have an audience :)
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And more than just for academic papers: TeX was hand written in full on yellow legal pad, and then typed into the full-screen editor.
> High-end laptop lines

Sure, but Linux really ought to shine on the low-end laptops.
The drop of meeting “through friends” is the most interesting part of this cart.
> I just thought it might be interesting to people to see what technologies were in use at those times.

It definitely is, not just to see what technologies were in use, but what an exemplary career in that field looked like, so thanks for sharing. It's just that the first thing that went through my head was this joke, since it's really something that isn't too far fetched situation wise (see that one longer reply).

Fun story:
About 6 years ago, my uncle was still working at a big car manufacturer. They have bounties for when employees come up with ideas to optimize some workflow or cut costs somewhere. He handed in a suggestion to stop computing big reports on one of their mainframes that were meant for being printed out but weren't actually for quite some time, so basically just went to /dev/null, while the generation process took quite some time. There was quite some confusion first since the IT people in charge insisted no such thing was going on, so they had him show them where this job was actually wired in and where the output went. In the end they decided to remove it and paid him some reward. How did he know? He coded that job in the 80s.

I guess your dad would have quite some interesting stories too.
It's a decentralized, federated, network. So choosing an instance I guess is more like choosing an IRC server.

Or picking between Gmail and Hotmail, or any other e-mail service. Livejournal or Blogger. It's no coincidence the examples I can think of seem slightly old hat, because these things have been out of fashion for a while. They need to involve the blockchain somehow if they want it to seem modern.
I've never seen health and height before, so that might be specific to military folks, but I know that in that era and earlier it was very common to include personal details such as your marital status, number of children, even your religion and what church you attended. I saw something recently about how in the 1950s/1960s, if a man were interviewing for an executive position with a company, part of the hiring process would be to interview his wife, often over a dinner that she hosted. There were classes available for women to teach them how to speak and act in those situations, so that their husbands had a better chance at the job.

All this to say: the idea that resumes and interviews would stay out of your personal life is a rather modern concept.
Here’s the company and product for the sat reference: https://www.kubos.com/kubos/

> For many, software is considered for production only if it has been 5 years in the wild.

Time is irrelevant, it’s about usage and stability. Every rust crate I rely on has published download numbers, which give you an idea of number of people using it. In that set, they are all open source and published on GitHub or Gitlab, so I can look at the codebases easily.

You can wait, that’s fine. But you do end up missing out on helping shape a new environment that is growing at crazy rates over the last few years.
Wait, so once you've overcome the off-putting insanely technical (who in their right mind thinks about "servers" outside of tech circles?) onboarding, mastodon is a lot better?

It does not make an iota of difference.
These norms and best practices don't spawn from religion. They come from human civilization. Many happen to be encoded in religions, but they're not "only" encoded in religions.

Most (all?) of the useful "self help" is available elsewhere, as common knowledge or encoded into social norms or pushed by other organizations (e.g. sports or boy/girl scouts or whatever).

My point is that there's no special knowledge to be found in religions and I'm happy to recommend ignoring them, since they tend to be full of more bad than good.
Similarly with publicly traded companies, not pursuing profit opportunities can result in large sell offs of a stock.

That isn't obviously true. Eg, Amazon spent years actively doing everything possible to avoid making profits.

If investors don't like a company's strategy then they can try to get management changes or they can sell. But company strategy goes way beyond the blind pursuit of profit.

E.g. if startup X has the tech to take over a market, but is insufficiently pursuing a profit opportunity because of moral squeamishness, chances are relatively good that investors in X will simply replace the executives with somebody that will pursue those opportunities since that's vastly cheaper than building up competitive tech in a new investment.

That maybe true sometimes, but it is a lot rarer than you seem to believe (especially with early stage companies). The team running the company is a very large part of what people invest it. As a good counter example: Uber. Few would say that Travis wasn't pursuing profit every way possible, and it was the investors that moved against him because of his bad moral judgment.
If SLAPP lawsuits were extortion, they would have already been illegal and anti-SLAPP legislation would not have been necessary. Such legislation is about preventing companies from using lawsuits to suppress free speech.
0-indexing steps is clearly the only reasonable choice. Who in their right mind would call the ground the “first step”?
Please don't. It's bad enough that the US and UK can't agree on floor numbering. :)

USA 1st, 2nd, 3rd
UK Ground, 1st, 2nd

Is the basement in the US 0?
Well, sort of. The ant-secret is to simply create more space and fewer opportunities for collisions. Humans, the supposedly "superior" creatures to ants, are terrible at driving because most of them treat driving as a competition, ignore established flow of traffic (either the speed limit or the current average speed), and switch lanes too often, among other things; all of it might only save a minuscule amount of time for one driver while incidentally slowing down all the other cars on the road.

Traffic would almost be a much lesser for humans if they drove at a reasonable speed and kept a greater distance between cars to compensate for the poor human reaction time. Of course, as you noted, keeping cars off the road would be the most realistic way of achieving this as there's no way to convince the average person to drive properly.

I don't think that most tech workers should have to work in an office, but it would make more sense for them to work in an office than to employ the 70-80% of ineffective workers and force them to commute every day. But then those millions of people would have no jobs or means of income!

Perhaps, then, there could be a good argument made for universal basic income; calculate all the money lost in traffic collisions, the resulting deaths, maintenance of roads, fossil fuels, future expenses caused by global warming, etc., and perhaps it would cost us more than to pay most of the population not to work or at least not work in offices.
In my experience, bachelor's in CS counts more than master's in CS, which in turn of course counts more than bootcamp. It's just time spent in front of a computer.

I hope your pay and total comp is actually competitive, in which case you're grousing over something you could fix in a jiffy.
Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy
https://imgur.com/a/5izg3YW Not bad with basic solarized light theme and slightly heavier font.
A democracy has nothing to do with unchecked immigration and freebies.

It is a governmental structure, not a political ideology.

The athenians had slaves.
Kiiiind of, but there's quite some general instances. Most of them are more like a "here's some people interested in the same subjects as you". So yes, on my (politically motivated, I guess) instance I find quite some people with the same political slant (and some commentary on that), but many cats, daily stories, etc. Just like twitter or other platforms. It's worth a try seeing what joinmastodon.org tells you, and have a look.
I would talk about candidates experience, try to find some project he/she are proud of and dive deeper.
I might ask to write some code, but it is not going to be CS exam and it will be in real IDE.
I might ask a design question.
At the end of the day I need to answer 1 main question: "are you passionate about what you do or it is just 9-5 work"? Cause if you are you will be able to learn new things, and if you don't - knowledge of merge sort not going to save you.
Fair, however the fact that it's a totally unintended bug is what makes it all the more terrifying. In fact I would assume the Alexa team has been freaking out pretty hard about this because it has the potential to kill the entire market before it matures.
To summarise what you've said in one sentence: "mastodon is a technology, not a product" - it doesn't have a business model, a way to scale and grow like a business.

And if it did, well it'd be just another commercial social network, and most of them completely suck.

Technology is not the solution to this problem.
We would all be irritated if Facebook or Google tried to pretend giving its products away was any kind of charity.
Hm, interesting. I kind of forgot about it during my trial period, never even used it, and I wasn't willing to shell out the entire year ($80?) for it.
> their campaigns are designed primarily as reactions to other group's (mostly Christian) exercise of religion

I think this is key. The intent of the Church of Satan and Pastafarianism is to make a statement about other religions. They're a form of social commentary. Agree with them or not, that is not what a religion is.
Heh, right :)
Nope, they too far from SF
This is way too long for an elevator pitch.
It feels something like a generator that has been hoisted up into the language so that it acts like a single value (which defaults to the first element in the generator).
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At the joinmastodon.org site, in order to get me started and in touch with likeminded individuals, it is suggested I define myself as a heterosexual or a white European.

No, wait, the terms are LGBTQ+ and Black American, whatever was I thinking?
I'm all for leaving asserts in release builds, but leaving in dead code based on uninhabited types isn't gonna help you catch RAM or CPU errors. You'll just continue into the error branch with an impossible value instead. It's the wrong layer for that.
I actually wouldn't expect Go to be considerably better in memory footprint (or other things) than "embedded" Java in embedded environments. Once you accept the idea of having GC, it puts some constraints on things. Of course, you can't compare "server java" with embedded java -- those are as different as TinyGo and "real" Go, if not more so...
so join an instance with lax moderation. or set up your own.

if you're thinking "that's expensive", look into Pleroma, it can run on a $1 a month server or a raspi. Set something up purely for you, then find some people on other instances you'd like to follow
I don't know. I think the stock vim is pretty good, and loads of power users tend more towards the 'no plugins' than the 'all the plugins' end of the spectrum.

I started with a much bigger load of plugins than I use now, and I don't think I'm unusual in that. The stock settings and workflows, once you understand them, are usually better. The only exception is really for frills - like, a plugin that helps with composing regexes, or language-specific IDE stuff, or a pretty documentation browser.

Not to mention, it's really very quick to get all your normal plugins set up. I have a git repo that I just clone.
Further: I just looked at Mastodon.social.

No, my non-nerd friends do not wish to "Join the Federation!"

Not to knock what Mastodon are doing, rather to criticise the idea that it's a social network for everyone.
The GNU manual is pretty good. You can run `info m4` or read it from the links here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/index.html
This is an issue of transparency. If you plan to do anything else with that data beyond how many users use it then who is going to communicate that to the user?

Is it ok to just keep quiet about it? This is what the issue is here, people are not being told in clear terms what the data is being used for, and that where things become decidedly shady.

It's about using the catchall 'improve user experience' to lull users into complacency to conceal what 'else' you are doing with the data. And I suspect that's not what you are trying to defend.
> "Due to an issue with Twitter, posting from Mastodon to Twitter is temporarily disabled. For more information check out this thread. https://masto.donte.com.br/@crossposter/100479477531222745 "
Have you considered Nim? (https://nim-lang.org/)
Dear Google: Podcast app requires location history to subscribe to a podcast
If one downloads the Google's Podcast app, you are unable to subscribe or unsubscribe to any podcasts unless you have location and web history enabled for your Google account.

Similarly, in Google Maps, it will not keep a phone local list of places you've searched unless it's synced to your Google account and you have web and location history enabled.

Is there a chance both of these issues could be fixed? I really don't want GPDR-style regulations in the USA, but I feel that this sort of forceful behavior is going to send us down that road. Please consider being kinder to your user base. We love your products, but privacy should be our choice.