skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And did anyone write a long, statistics-citing rant about how unnecessary it is to warn people about this? I suspect the answer is no, and in fact no one did.

You're getting the sides of the issues confused here.

The conference organizers' statement about pick pockets was essentially victim blaming. They were telling people how to behave in order not to become victims of a crime. The equivalent statement within the rape context would be something like telling women not to wear "provocative" clothing in order to avoid being raped.

My point was that there tends to be outrage about this kind of victim blaming when it comes to rape, but not when it comes to other crimes. SJWs (for lack of a better term) don't feel the need to gang up on people who give advice to tourists to avoid getting mugged; they don't feel the need to call the conference organizers from my example "mugging apologists". Why is that?

And for what it's worth, the analogy to the statistics-citing rant would be somebody who reacts to conference organizers putting out statements about how attendees should not steal each others' wallets as if that was a common problem at conferences.

Obviously conference organizers never make such statements in reality because it would be kind of ridiculous, given that the incidence rate of pick pocketing among conference attendees is completely incomparable to the incidence rate of pick pocketing in society at large, but well, that kind of brings us back to the original point about incident rates of rape :)

(And just to reiterate: There's broader context in the rape case which gives me some sympathy for the double standard demonstrated by "SJWs", but I think it should still be possible to acknowledge that the double standard exists.)
Shrinking the world: why we can't resist model villages
Another benefit is that getting to Venus is a lot cheaper than getting to Mars.
From the ground. Building materials etc.

If you want to build a closed system, it doesn't make sense to put it into a gravity well.
How quickly should I respond to customer emails?
I think that instead of defending the design we need to focus on this problem:

-we have feature X but only 1% of users find it where 10 of users use it after someone else shows them how to use it. Maybe a feature that is only for 5-10% of users is advanced or niche but we need to design it better so this niche/advanced features are irrecoverable.

I do not know how to solve this on mobile, I know that some software on desktop has a tooltip dialog when you open it(with a checkbox to disable this feature) that presents some cool advanced feature, you can click Next and Next to see more and more advanced features. I seen this in Intellij, they also have a list of the actions you performed sorted by usage, so you can look at it later , notice you used action X the most and that you can speed it up if you learn or configure a shortcut
WoW, such products can raise money.
I think it's fair to say that Benjamin is somewhere in the alt-right nebula: Anti-feminism, UKIP, 4chan, anti-"political correctness"... If it quacks like a duck
as another spaniard almost 20 years older than you that went through a similar thing:

- get a service job (supermarket, fast food, warehouse hand, whatever) so you can pay for your driving license (and other stuff) yourself. if you're feeling down, a semblance of self sufficiency will do wonders for you. try to keep that job when you resume your studies.

- it seems that you're born to immigrant parents. THIS is a competitive advantage if you frame it like so: you know how hard it is for immigrant people to thrive and adapt. maybe easing this difficulties for newcomers is a worthy pursuit?. volunteer while you find a job.

- stop faking, for other people and mostly for yourself. you seem to know a lot about economy and the job market. you don't. IT in spain doesn't pay that well (moreso if you are inexperienced), and is highly volatile. 'stable' jobs don't exist anymore.

good luck, and be patient. most people around here will treat you as a child until you're at least 7-8 years older. it's okay and normal to feel lost and disheartened.
Really glad you see how a simple idea could work in a lot of cases.
Yeah I actually made the same assumption.

But, I suppose for someone who's always quite involved with everything and doesn't take long breaks- one month can seem quite long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coluche#Presidential_bid
you might also conclude this school creates better founders than employees
Development requires analysis and programming. Some people are both analysts and programmers - they are the elite, not the norm.

I can manage large business requirements, I write functional specifications and negotiate them with users, I plan technical architecture... And then I'm happy enough with programmers who need hand-holding at every step - anyway my telco employer has long stopped having budget enough to pay contractors who understand our business.

Pure programmers may be short sighted but they provide the value some of the market needs, for people such as me who are decent analysts and exceptionally bad programmers - learning the latest Javascript framework is a dirty job but somebody's got to do it !
Kneeling chairs are even nicer when they have a subtle rocking ability, rather than being planted flat

e.g. https://www.varierfurniture.com/en_gb/explore-our-chairs/kne...
I always found react-redux's connect function maddeningly hard to understand, because it does far too many things all in one function. The types just expose that complexity, and make it plainly obvious that it should be split apart.

The great thing about types is that the make you think more about keeping you APIs nice and clean on a semantic level, not just about if the syntax in your examples look pretty. I really hope more library authors use them early on so they avoid such mistakes in the future. There's only so much the Flow and TypeScript devs can do to make up for those existing problems.
Docker was a school project at the origin.
The CTO of vente privée said in multiple interview how he use to be challenged in his previous school.
My end goal is to have this implement on a file explorer, so you can list your pictures by name, date, type or similarity.
Interest also pays for the risk of not getting your money back.
Graphene Library OS with Intel️ SGX Support
> I don't see why people are in here bragging about their awesome 15-20 year old cars.

Because they're having exactly the same driving experience as you while being tens of thousands of dollars better off?
I’d like to see us address those issues of society first

Those problems cannot be solved - finding balance is a continual process and part of being human, they will always be with us.

Also what impact have you made on those issues on Earth? Far less than Musk with Tesla and Solar City I’d wager. It’s easy to commentate on decisions others make, and hard to make real progress.
Care to expand for an uninitiated?
I think it's mostly because the same abilities enabling us to do so much long-term (self-)destruction in slow motion will enable at least some of us to always be able to conquer the immediate threats to survival.

No other species on the planet has attained a comparable ability to bend the environment to its needs like we have. Everything's had to evolve to live in differing conditions. We start fires, invent and build air conditioners, etc.
What Programming Language Udemy Is Written In
The great endumbening is that we're still trying to measure intelligence with this IQ thing.
The US didn't fake the moon landings, the American politicians faked that it was about anything but beating the USSR. They supported it and sold it as a research project to further humankind, as dipping our toes in the cosmic ocean.

Then, after the Russians were beat, the interest among the decision makers cooled off.
I switch between languages all the time too. Mostly, I just type whichever language I want, and the keyboard figures out it’s one of the two I use frequently and doesn’t bother me. Failing that, there’s a button next to the dictation button to change languages if autocomplete is acting up (this whole post was written with the keyboard set to Portuguese with only one miscorrection thus far).

You don’t need to change the whole OS’s language to type in multiple languages!
Do you mean that you have had a lucid dream¹?

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
Something interesting is that the way Epitech (and 42) work is completely different from what you would have in public schools (at least in France).

For example, one key part for me was that the school allowed me to practically don't go to classes as long as I could prove that my work wasn't affected. It's something that you won't find everyday. I'm 100% sure I'd have failed university otherwise because the lack of freedom would have bored me to death Conversely, friends of mine have dropped from Epitech in the first two years because they didn't get enough support, so it shows that the most interesting thing the school has to offer is its learning devices. They understood that one size doesn't fit all (which is against the French public school philosophy).

So yeah, the tuition is expensive (and frankly given how the school works you sometimes wonder whether they eat luxury cars for lunch), but there's simply no public alternative.

One other factor I've also wondered is if people paying for their scholarships weren't more invested in making it a success? I knew my fair share of people who weren't thriving as developers at Epitech as well, mind you, but most of them dropped before the end.
How do you suggest human species to survive a big impact of meteor or comet? Something like the one in Younger Dryas which ended the ice age (11-12k ago). Tsunamis tall several hundreds of feet wiping out all coastal areas (where most people live as those are most comfortable areas), huge earthquakes and fires that burn down majority of fauna overnight.

Then followed by a plunge in temperature that will be the last nail in the coffin of whatever agricultural capability we have left after most of the civilisation was washed away. It seems difficult for me to imagine how we could survive that. I agree that it probably wouldn't kill of entire species but it would definitely end the modern civilisation and set the survivors back hundreds/thousands of years.
Ask HN: Face shape detector
It's weird that there are no apps in playstore which do this.
This isn't a very good explanation. More like

1. Initial CoC is introduced by Greg KH

2. 5 years pass

3. Greg KH suggests updating the CoC. It is signed off by Chris Mason, Dan Williams, Greg KH, Jon Corbet, Olof Johansson, and Steven Rostedt, not to mention Linus himself. Rik van Riel, Tim Bird and Ted Ts'o make endorsing comments on the LKML in ensuing discussion. That is, the change is supported by Linus and at least 9/10 TAB members. HPA made no comments

4. Linus goes on leave

5. Greg KH and Olof and another guy make some minor wording changes to the CoC, and adds a new page describing how the kernel maintainers interpret the CoC, most of this would best be described as watering down some of the more objectionable parts of the unedited CoC. It is reviewed by Steve Rostdet and Ack'd by Linus, Ted Ts'o, Rik, Corbet, and approximately 50 other people.

Then of course, Ted Ts'o (the same Ts'o mind you, who people bring up as the person Sarah Sharp supposedly weaponized the old CoC against, so if anyone, he'd have a bone to pick against CoCs) clarified[1] that the addition of a CoC was a directive from linus, not something Greg snuck in, and while shepherded by Greg, was done with 'a huge amount of consultation with the top contributors to the kernel'.

So basically, if one actually looks at what really happened, instead of what what one wants to believe(?) happened, all of the sinister motives disappear.

[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/22/106
Your premise that nobody pays for ads is wrong and given how strongly you put it and how large a share of your argument leans on it, I'm not very hopeful about the rest. Can you explain what you base your opinions on? It might help the rest of us evaluate your points better.
Hello I just wanted to say that out of the infinite numerical odds of you not existing, you are sentient, alive, breathing, and sharing someone’s journal, human.

“If u breathin u achievin”

ㅓㅁ.먀 - ㅌ
Honestly I'm unsure about this (except if you're a fresh high school graduate). Sure you will probably land a job in tech but considering how easy it is now for ANYONE to land a job in tech, is such a school really needed ?

Resources online are plenty (and actually 42's main way of learning), so learning material is not the problem.

If you're already in the workforce, you can get yourself a training through the employment agency, or even better an apprenticeship.

Consulting firms hire science graduates and train them to be developers. I went that way, switched for a small company after a few months where I am better tutored. Some friends stayed in consulting and still improve. Sure the pay is low in consulting firms, but it is immediate and you build professional experience directly instead of wasting 3+ years.

Doing 42 when you already have a degree sounds like a waste of time to me. I guess it's fine if you're 18 and need guidance though. But I'd still prefer prepa and engineering schools over 42...
Devs are unique but I would argue it's less of the dev mentality and more about how management and business can incorporate them as part of the decision-making process.

Granted technical folk are a special breed but being technical myself and having moved over to the business side of things, it's still equally important to think about motivation for devs.

To maintain engagement, I bring my technical guys with me to meetings where they can add value. And I always press about the value of meetings and what we're trying to get out of it.
AIG's collapse had nothing to do with life insurance. It was driven by a division called AIG Financial Products which wrote the infamous credit default swaps together with equity based lending. Arguably it reinforces the learning that integrated financial giants shouldn't be allowed

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/american-...
> On the server side, it seems like docker format has already won.

No.
> who believes meritocracy is racist and sexist

Is it bad that nowadays I've trouble identifying whether this kind of categorization is redpillers bile or an accurate representation of an increasingly dominant extreme left? Would you have a quote from that lady, and if correct, how did she get in the position of writing Linux COC?
The code of conduct at the Maintainers Summit
Exquisitely thin keyboards that don't work reliably, missing ports that need dongles, a touchbar that doesn't really add much and sometimes gets in the way, super-thinness at the expense of extended battery life, and a missing headphone jack are all examples of form over function.

Meanwhile a function-motivated Finder in MacOS would not look anything like the clunky dinosaur we seem to be stuck with.
> It boggles me that people find it acceptable to use one mechanism to communicate block structure to the compiler, and a completely different mechanism to communicate block structure to humans, and have no way to automatically check that they have the same semantics. This is a frequent source of bugs, and is entirely preventable.

Strongly agree. The solution that Rust, Go and other new languages have adopted is shipping a formatting tool to consistently make the semantics of indentation and braces match. I personally can't help but think that this is a worse-is-better solution when compared to significant whitespace, but at least it works. Every Rust CI I am setting up will fail the build if `rustfmt --write-mode=diff` feels like you didn't run rustfmt before committing.

> But the main thing that makes Rust harder to read is all the punctuation noise

Given the decision to favor explicit casts, references and dereferences over implicit ones, this cannot really be helped. In some ways, once you get used to it, it helps readability, because it always communicates what the things being worked on are.

> and short, cryptic keywords.

I agree that this was probably a mistake. Cannot really be helped now, though.

Overall, I think the readability argument against Rust is overstated. Sure, when you are starting out it looks like line noise, especially if compared to python. But it didn't take me more than a week or two before it basically became entirely clear and readable. The radical explicitness of the language helps readability in many ways that make it much better than C++.

Of course, much better than C++ is a low bar to pass.
Big thing to not: it not only links Zhuhai and HK, but also Zhuhai and Shenzhen through land transit over HK territory
Also if you do that the prices of houses go down so if people can’t pay their mortgage and the house is foreclosed on the bank doesn’t get their money, which can easily go out of control and cause a crisis.
Somewhat related to this, we founded https://code.berlin, an accredited university in Berlin with strictly project-based, interdisciplinary and self-directed 3-year Bachelor programs in Software Engineering, Interaction Design and Product Management.

We're in our 2nd year now, with 230 students from more than 40 nations. We've partnered with 42 US for student exchange last summer, and it was an awesome experience for our students who went there.
I am very happy about this trend of project-oriented, deferred-tuition programming trade schools. So far I know of:

- 42 (France and Bay Area)

- Lambda School (online)

- Holberton (Bay Area)

- There is also Epitech (France) which is the "ancestor" of both Holberton and 42. They don't defer tuition, but have the same project-oriented, TA-intensive curriculum.

It's still early and all these schools have their strengths and weaknesses... But I think this is a positive trend. It makes tech education more accessible to a lot more people, and can produce quality engineers. It's definitely much better than the horrible coding bootcamps popping up everywhere, that charge 5 figures and leave you completely unprepared for a software development career.
> To me, this is as silly as training Biathlon athletes to not even aim before they shoot.

People should learn this mantra: coding is to software development what moving pieces is to chess.
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2017/12/12/16651026/...
If you can get to Mars then the US military can certainly do so. The government would certainly deploy some power structures (police force and/or soldiers) on Mars once a sizeable colony is built there (let's say couple hundred colonists that can self sustain themselves). To keep order and enforce laws and potentially, if the colony grows enough to have a functioning economy, to collect taxes.
We must use the phone in very different ways. I spend hours a day in a terminal, so I live by a file system on a computer. Yet I've never felt the need for a filesystem on an iPhone.
Well, one potential way that one could determine if this could yet be down to environmental contaminants would be to look at diet.

Nordic and Northern European states have far more seafood, particularly bottom feeding seafood like plaice and sole, which are fantastic bioaccumulators of nastiness, in their diet than the average American [1] - and marine environments ultimately accumulate a large proportion of fun things like micro plastics, and therefore BPA and phthalates, which have been shown to have a negative impact on gestatory brain development. [2]

It would be illuminating to see what correlation exists, as it may well be causative.

[1] https://www.greenfacts.org/en/fisheries/figtableboxes/figure...
[2] https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/common-plastic-chemicals-aff...
Obviously the COC isn't written just to control Linus' behavior.
>Hello I just wanted to say out of the incredible numerical odds of you not existing, you are sentient, alive, breathing, and sharing someone’s journal.

Numerical odds are not the same as laws of nature like e.g. the speed of light or the economics of the energy required and so on. Odds are quite low to win the lottery too, but someone always does. Few have travelled faster than the speed of light though (superman comes to mind), or any other of the many physical limitations to overcome.

And the fact that we went from carriages to planes doesn't guarantee any continuous growth to interstellar travel. Not the fact that we're "ingenious" (whatever that means) or that we "really want it".

Plus, I'm not even sure about the odds being that low (for all we know life can also be easy to develop over time as long as they have some basic conditions, similar to which we know tons of planets in the universe to have).

But sure, no actual on-topic arguments needed, whatever keeps the faith alive...
He left after detonating a bomb. It would have played the same even when he stayed. He probably just left to avoid the shitstorm and his first violation of the CoC.

Though, it's true that with "eternal" project-leads like Linus, or recently Guido van Rossum at Python, we never think about what will happen when they are gone. But I think with big projects like Linux they will be fine. There are enough people to replace them, even if things might change, the project moves on.

We should think more about important projects from single developers. What about vim? Or all the important plugins/addons? There are so many small important gears around which depends on so few support.
The last video also really demonstrates how incredibly complex the mechanism is. It manages to fairly accurately simulate the moons orbit around earth using an ingenious set of gears for example.
I think this article doesn't grapple with just how hard it is to solve any of the problems it brings up. Of course if you're sitting next to someone, observing them doing something wrong, and telling them exactly how to solve it, then you can improve their process. You can say the same thing about how most people use computers - it's even a meme that techie folks have a hard time watching non-techies use computers because they never use shortcuts etc.

The problem that Apple has to deal with is how to teach people without having 1-on-1 time with every single user to watch what they're doing, and this article offers no solutions for almost anything. (Except for asking for a few things to be part of the on-boarding process, which semi-solves some issues - text size is now part of the on-boarding process, but often, the person using the phone is not the same as the person setting up the phone, especially with older users I imagine).
There doesn't seem to be a way to sign up for this directly. If one wants to support Mozilla through this, it looks like one has to be in the U.S. (or fake being in the U.S. with a free account of ProtonVPN) and hope to be picked up by random for this experiment.

Anyone from Mozilla or ProtonVPN reading this and can confirm that this understanding is correct?
I agree with this entirely. I don't think we will be jumping in starships and shooting ourselves all over the universe.

I think some form of self replicating technology we create will be dispatched en masse into the universe where it will float around for millions of years relying as much on probability as anything and blindly utilise resources as it goes. It will have no intelligence, just programmed to reproduce itself. And we will be the scurge of the universe.

I don't think 5-10k years is a major risk and doesn't require interstellar travel. I think we have closer problems on the horizon to deal with.
Tesla Model S Being Stolen [video]
Yes, agreed! There is so much space left, I really don't see any overpopulation (that's not isolated to certain places) happening anytime soon.

However these places lack the advantages like no government. Oceans are ideal for that, deserts less so.
What San Francisco travelers won't see at the Harvey Milk airport terminal