skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So does Freon, I got “high” on that one once was the weirdest trip of my life it’s an extremely short trip but time simply froze for me.
Language is so tricky. Adding that extra sentence would make the note more passive aggressive, at least to my ear.

Suppose you were looking for a Python programmer, and I sent you these two notes:

(1) Joe asked me to put him in touch with you. Joe tells me he has a lot of experience with Python. Here's his email address.

(2) Joe asked me to put him in touch with you. Joe tells me he has a lot of experience with Python, and I have no reason not to believe him. Here's his email address.

The second one would leave me far more skeptical about the recommendation.
5 Impossible Things Your Brain Can Do – Psychology Today
And doing it badly -- all the countries he mentions have derogatory terms analogous to nerd, but he couldn't get to them in Google Translate by searching for "geek", so he came to the conclusion that they don't have anti-intellectual words at all.
> $500-700k/yr here in total comp (a realistic proposition for senior engineers in hot fields)

Sure, but that level is paid to maybe 1-in-25 staff/principal/distinguished engineers at the top handful companies which make up maybe 1-in-25 of total jobs in the industry (order of magnitude)?

So for the 1-in-500 talents in the German coding industry, maybe it might be a worthwhile consideration to move halfway across the world with their families, but for the 499 even doubling their salary isn't all that enticing...
> The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S. colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the growth in the number of students or faculty.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/06/higher-ed-administ...
"Whereas in the past we’d “had it all” and achieved growth alongside creating a unique culture with a fully remote team and high levels of transparency, it now started to feel like we had to choose between those things. It was suggested that some of the fundamentals that I had come to value could be removed to create a productivity environment that would increase the growth rate. I refused to compromise on the transparency and remote work aspects of our culture, so we started to explore slower growth goals, and what that would mean for the future of Buffer."

I respect the commitment of Joel to all remote and transparency, he's an inspiration. Personally I think that high growth can be compatible with all remote and transparency. For example both us at GitLab and InVision are all remote with high growth rates.
I've noted that the journalists at The Register are unable to write an article about scientists discovering, inventing something without using the word "boffin". See for example:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/28/hacking_motion_cont...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/27/screaming_channels_...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/01/ncsc_ubuntu/
I’m finishing my first ever 2 week trip to Europe and I agree with everything. I wasn’t brave enough to rent a car on this trip though.
> This comparison is very complex. You cannot just compare European wages with US wages.

Well, the candidates clearly think they're still not good enough. Generally speaking, living in western Europe is very expensive, if you're comparing upper and upper middle class living.
I would say that is why security conscious developers use them.

Sadly we are a very very tiny percentage, as proven by Herb Sutter question to the audience at CppCon (1% of the audience answered positively), and CVE frequent updates.
>“people in this country have had enough of experts”.

Well, in an era when experts give their "expert" opinion based on who pays their bills, that's true for most of the world...
I said for 2018. The App ecosystem has changed a lot since 2005 when rails was Released, more apps these days use a combination of JS + Firebase. For most CRUD styled SPI's this is the "best" way to write apps. Rails is no where in this ecosystem, it still depends on age old Nginx+SQL+Rails style, but the truth is most new apps want to start small. So for 2018 JS is the "Best" unlike Rails. The number of transpilers that exist for JS is an indication of JS invasiveness, its ubiquity and simplicity to transpile to. Since JS is a much smaller languaage than Ruby it is easier to transpile to. Some languages do give better tools of abstraction but at the end all those higher thoughts are implemented in the same JS which is a good indication of its usability, There are good and bad parts both in JS, but i dont think it is a complete shit show, just better educate yourself as a programmer to use the good parts. I think you are not aware of the interesting ways you can write composable code in JS. Rails depends on the Magic of Ruby, one can write great DSL's is Ruby and thus Rails, But Rails with its MVC toolchain alone does serve the needs of large apps, it is OK to do CRUD apps, but for large apps MVC breaks inside Rails. This is a big reason why a number of people have switched back to simpler ways to do things like Routing+Templates+Glue Code makes a webapp such as in Express.js , Rails is simply too big when it starts, with too much magic that people dont want to bother with. Which is why more Apps these days are activated in Nodejs frameworks. There is a reason for its popularity it isnt a coincidence, there are things people like in JS/Nodejs/Express.js that it is so popular.
Satire my friend.
Learn React16 and Redux by building real world application
Food at Home
Really great initiative badly needed for the current food needs of whole world. Best of luck.
http://foodathome.org
I've considered moving to the US before and have had a couple of offers in the last few years.

There lots of reasons I wouldn't want to live in the US that the increased Valley-area pay wouldn't make up for for me, personally.
This is Google’s Titan security key
Why not learn good programming practices at an early age?
I am mostly struggling with losimg weight. I have always been around 200lbs with highest at 204lbs. Recently I went on a low carb diet and cut out most sugar except from fruit and I got down to 194 lbs but according to an app I have I am still at the extreme end of obese. I'm 5'11 with a body day of 26.4% though I don't look that fat. I do have somewhat of a gut but it's been shrinking on my new diet. Recently I started lifting and i put on some muscle mass around arms and core but I have now plateaued in weight loss at around 193. I have never been able to get to 180 in my life except when I passed that number on the way up. My ultimate goal is 175 with 10% body fat but I have a feeling I need to go on an extremely controlled diet with a ton of exercise, lifting and cardio. I feel demotivated and defeated so this is what I struggle with most.
You are confusing combustion efficiency with thermal efficiency. Having a combustion efficiency of 100% does not mean that 100% of the energy stored in the propellant is transformed into kinetic energy (the thing the plane is interested in).

The ICE engine with highest thermal efficiency reaches just 50%: The Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged 2-stroke Diesel [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_efficiency
Python, Erlang, Lua = Logic Errors

C and C++ = Logic Errors + Memory Corruption + UB

From this point of view,

Σ Logic Errors < Σ (Logic Errors + Memory Corruption + UB)
Let us know here if you are planning to do it :)
Worksforme :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874320

100+ points
And if you read my comments again I actually advice against most drugs. I’m arguing against comparing mdma with ecstasy pills which is pretty much impossible for the dealer or any to figure out what is inside but in regard to mdma crystals is much easier to reason about a clean product when you take others experience around you and looks and taste knowing it... but yes there is always a risk like leaving a beer unattended. This could be different but In my part of the world we can usally trust what we are provided.
> It's just not health care, it's also the safety of not being spontaneously fired, the work-life balance, the vacation time, the paternity leave, and so on.

These are all things you can buy in the U.S, it's mostly just that working people choose money over any of those things when they figure out what they cost. In much of Europe, the actual cost of these things is not visible to people with an "employee" mindset.

When presented an honest bargain between these fringe benefits and their real cash value, the average American believes the federal reserve notes are worth more.
Printed solar cells may help energy crisis
I have a whole directory tree ~/useful/{scripts,snippets,values}/ etc.
>all the US needs to do is have Microsoft, Google, or whatever tech company is in control of a system of interest to insert malware or give the US government the private data it requests

Don't even need that. Just utilize one of the numerous vulnerabilities before it's patched.
This is absolutely false.

Regardless of where you are, the majority of the agreements you enter into are not only not signed, they are not even explicit (but rather implied).

Case in point: practically everytime you buy something and pay with cash, you have entered into a purchase agreement without having signed anything.
The Horrors Lurking in Your Legacy Codebase
Yes, there is.

One is made to look like you don't want "experts" in general, e.g. because you're anti-science or whatever. You might not even want an expert doctor, but instead e.g. pray.

The second is about not wanting BS experts (analysts, media pundits, economists) on the payroll of some "fancy organization", that have a track record of being wrong.
I really don't get it, if batteries are too expensive and bulky to get +500 km out of a car, what kind of range can you get with a plane??

Wouldn't it add a ridiculous amount of weight compared to kerosene.
Anti-Intellectualism has become a thing Offlate. Brexit, rise of Trump, Modi etc.

Its the old classic thing of people wanting jobs they can't do, and then diluting the job requirements by downplaying the importance of people required to do the job.
Hi, are you familiar with type of content Break Nutrition puts out? I think you'll see it's very science heavy and not geared towards ye' old food tracking app.

First, this app doesn't actually use the glycemic index (GI) of foods because the GI has an excessively high false negative rate (type 2 error), meaning that a 'normal' blood glucose response will often be given in the context of a hyperinsulinemic response.

So we're definitely not "a GI list in an app that monetizes your data".

Second, how many grams of ketones you produce shortly after being ketotic vs long-term ketosis is not at all clear and still an empirically open question - the downward trend is still just a guess based on anecdotes (nothing wrong with that).

Third, your comment about IF and carb loading being necessary to keep ketosis going is simply incorrect. You can stay ketogenic without carb-loading, since this will acutely increase the oxaloacetate-to-aceteyl-CoA ratio, thus diverting fatty acids away from ketogenesis. I think your comment may be in reference to staying 'healthy' in ketosis? Like not tanking your thyroid hormones? Thyroid hormones don't tank because of ketones, they often tank because of chronic caloric restriction - a common scenario in a fat-loss scenario.

Lastly, you're right that many factors keep you in or out of ketosis. You seem to know more than the average person yet even you are not entirely up to date on the clinical side of it, and this is precisely why our app would be of great use to you and other less knowledgeable users: you'd have somewhere to share your metrics, meals and see how it all compares with others if you have a blood glucose readings for instance, or your fasting triglycerides and insulin values. All nicely organized and presented from within the comfort of 1 app.

I wouldn't write it off until you've tried it ;)
I'm subscribing to you, just incase you do more video's on code reviews.
For a known fixed value of n, you can get amazing convergence rates. For example, the basic midpoint rule gives O(1/n^2) and Simpson's rule gives O(1/n^4).

Despite this, there are two major use cases for quasirandom sequences: The first is when n is not known upfront and so you can't create a lattice; and the second is in higher dimensions. The reason for this latter situation is because the number of points required to make a lattice in D dimensions scales exponentially in D, whereas the convergence rates for random or quasirandom sampling are (amazingly!) independent on the dimension.

I think that you would really like Owen's paper on this topic. It is very comprehensive and yet extremely readable [1]

1[ ]http://statweb.stanford.edu/~owen/mc/Ch-quadrature.pdf
It does some funky things in Firefox on Android, fwiw. Touching any buttons tries to "select" them like selecting text to copy/paste, then when the animation is done playing, you're stuck with the Copy/Paste popup menu still open.

I love the design though. I'm trying to pick how I want to put my DIY home automation system together right now, and this is going straight to the top of the list for the UI.
> French have "intello", a derogatory term for intellectual types

"Intello" is not derogatory, it's just short for intellectual.
That's far from true. We have many words for smart people in Portuguese and German as well. The other two languages I know.
This just says to me that MongoDB's defaults should be changed.

It's happening too much.

A somewhat random password would at least provide some protection and minimal inconvenience for devs.
How in the hell???

Is this considered extreme even in america?
don't forget product must pass toothbrush test, be simple enough for people to understand, and be the greatest thing since sliced gluten free bread
Adventurous Science Fellows, MIT Media Lab
I don't mind narrative, but I want narrative about technologies and science instead of people. If you can't write a narrative without focusing on people, may be you shouldn't write about science and tech at all.
But these words are targeted at people who are not actually smart, but work hard to cover it up. In the west though, people who are actually smart get the hate. In fact, if you are in the top 0.5% or so, you could consider yourself lucky when you end up JUST ostracized. (Elon Musk famously got bullied so severely he had to get his nose fixed so he could breathe well)

There is this mysterious condition first described by Hans Asperger around the WWII, that the chinese fail to recognize and western scientists gave up understanding, until it was finally reclassified as a form of autism, as by every cognitive test they could think of, the people score normal, or (often highly) above average, yet they completely fail at interacting with other people. That is, until somebody realized they are too smart and nobody wants to interact with them: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927579/

This is a necessary consequence of individualism, as being smart in an individualist culture means you are a dangerous competition to basically everybody else, and everybody will do everything they can to make you fail. So it's pretty much certain that an individualist culture will eventually result in "idiocracy" by breeding itself stupid.
Because "Making C Less Dangerous" is the actual title of the talk, and "Towards less dangerous C" is part of the agenda?
Thanks for the kind words and promotion! ;)
These findings were a combination of a lot of literature searching, perseverance, decades of mathematical intuition and computer modelling of various hypotheses.
I had a problem to solve so I was determined to find a solution. And then combine this with my obsession with simplicity, it meant I didn’t just want to tweak a million parameters to get a result.
Self-Reproducing Coins as Universal Turing Machine
How come I never hear about a startup until the acquisition?

I want to join a company that will be acquired by FANG.
but even that should ultimately bid-up the bribes after all its a 'free market'!
My Mom, the Missile Computress – Issue 63: Horizons
To get anything done large companies hire contractors.
If you include Amazon book recommendations, I have to confess I have found those to be eerily accurate. Now I buy almost all my books through work, so I don't actually purchase from amazon much, but I still get useful recommendations by adding titles to my shopping cart that I end up buying through another vendor.

Regarding ads on the internet, I really see very few anymore. The ad-blocking and privacy options for browsers seem to be exceedingly good at their job, and I automatically switch to reader view for any page that enables it. These days I am surprised to see an ad online.
That's amusing. Excavating future beings will think we wanted our ancestors near us so we built our cities ontop of their graves.
> Unless this changes, majority of top tech talent will always be in the US.

I think that the focus on take-home salary is very American and it doesn't necessarily transfer to other cultures. Europeans generally prefer getting home earlier from work, taking longer holidays, having maternity/paternity leave, and so on. Money is one thing, but as long as you make enough, the other things become more important. If you live in Denmark surely you have noticed this, even in the tech sector.
What's funny is that the map only covers London, as in the City of London, not the City of Westminster, which is where the Tudor monarchs themselves would have been!
That only eliminates a certain case of bugs. There are still plenty of foot-shotguns available - memcpy/memset, strlen, gets/puts, printf, any file IO, networking calls, etc.
The alternatives were there before UNIX took over server room and workstation market.

Just imagine how many millions the IT industry and PhD research have spent developing solutions that would improve C's safety, many of them largely ignored by most C developers.
That's not true. You can also control data alignment in various ways. For example, you don't need to write to the beginning of an allocated buffer, but skip to the point where low order address bits are what you want.

Something like this for example:

char* aligned_buf;
char* buf;
size_t max_align_offset = (1<<align) - 1;
buf = malloc(length_needed + max_align_offset);
aligned_buf = (buf + max_align_offset) & ~max_align_offset;

In the example, if align==8, you have 256 byte alignment. If it's 12, 4kB alignment.
"It sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck down laws - for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not on poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chest. We built great, big things, made ungodly technological advanced, explored the universe, cured diseases and we cultivated the world's greatest artists AND the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men. We aspired to intelligence, we didn't belittle it. It didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn't scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed... by great men, men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.”

― Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom Script Episode 1
Maybe. I'd expect that courts would decide that point. None have ever done so.

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/5699/has-the-...
OK, that is helpful. Thanks!
I never heard of this term "detectologists… a blend between archaeologists and detectorists", but it makes sense.

There's such a hunger for understanding other cultures and our history. On a this-is-how-people-actually-lived gut level, versus the traditional here's-a-list-of-dates-to-memorize level:

"When you pick up that Roman coin out of the ground, after it’s been there for 2,000 years, it still puts tingles up my spine that the last person to touch that coin was a Roman…"

In fact, this hunger is so vast an entire industry of crack-pot theories sprung up to feed it. "Mysteries of the ancient Sumers", "This one weird trick the pyramid builders did"… it's a regular money machine.

But in between the hardcore (often impenetrable) mainstream experts and the cranks and money scams, there's a solid territory where amateurs want to do—and often do—good science. The guys who found these silver coins and reported them responsibly are probably in the same camp.
Is Node.js taking over as Rails falls?
That's nonsense, and taking one look at basically any fund manager will tell you otherwise. Just to give the most outrageous counterexample, the sovereign wealth fund of Norway employs 550 people and manages $1 trillion in assets, including 1.3% of all global stocks.

https://www.nbim.no/en/organisation/about-us/
Let me take the opposing view (not just for fun’s sake): I think one reason why BS jobs exist is to keep everybody busy. if there were no bullshit jobs, what would we do with all the people? Maybe we end up
with many more people unemployed, maybe watching TV all day?
I think it makes a difference, particularly when you look at the recent history of European economists promoting policies which have not only been unable to solve the problems they're facing, but have prolonged them (austerity measures, I'm looking at you).
The final link in the article was the most interesting part for me. The National Library of Scotland had a side-by-side comparison of modern maps (Bing Maps by default) with set of Ordnance Survey maps from 1892-1914. It's incredible how accurate the maps are and how they line up: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15&lat=55...
Good luck ensuring that doesn't trigger UB across all target architectures and compilers being used.
What is Clickjacking?
I suspect that 'smart-people insults' are somewhat universal.

Ironically (the article's from japantimes.com) there's a (reportedly well-known) Japanese saying that might explain it: “The nail that sticks out shall be hammered down.”

(Found that at this longest-url-contender:) https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-the-Japanese-p...
https://lwn.net/Articles/763644/

This guy really should talk to his doctor.
Berkshire Hathaway has 25 office staff: http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/berkshire-hathaway-omaha-of...

"It's well-known that Berkshire Hathaway keeps a small headquarters with these 25 staffers, who manage some of the most important affairs of this $329 billion company."

I don't think you need that many people to manage $6.3 billions.

Also, I worked at a hedge fund managing $12 billions and we were ~150 (but this is a completely different job than what staffers at Stanford or Berkshire Hathaway are doing)
How to detect a deepfake video generated using Artificial Intelligence
A lot of my shopping can be done within walking distance, and I do that. I'll only bring my bike if I need to bring more stuff home than I can carry, as a bike dramatically increases your load-transporting capacity, compared to walking.

However, if I need to go to the hardware store ~5km away, I would have to take a long walk of about an hour, or take a ride on two busses taking a total of ~30-40 minutes each way, or I could simply jump on my bike and be there in ~15 minutes.

Yes, we should absolutely pool our resources as much as possible, but not everyone is going the same place at the same time.
I know that what I've written might have sounded wrong with some HN readers but as others have said, tourism is nowadays mostly about experiences and about what one feels. I've used that word ("royal-ish") because Velazquez was (among other things) the painter of the Spanish royal court and in my imagination, as a tourist (not as an art critic) being left alone with his paintings made me feel part of that royal court. I don't see the wrong in that, to be honest.