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You seem to be equating problem-solving with optimization, or a drive towards improvement with a drive towards perfection.

No doubt the effort to solve problems and improve one's self and circumstances have been powerful forces behind progress. But arguably, a focus on optimization and perfection can be forces that prevent the kind of progress you praise.
The article explicitly states in the second paragraph that the story is taken from that book and even links to it. It also mentions the author.

It may be plagiarized, but it might just as well be copied with permission, but in either case the page is upfront about it.
To those longing for milk that tastes like something in the US, I'd suggest finding a supplier of Jersey cow milk if you can, a much richer and more flavorful alternative to the Holstein cow milk most commonly available. Jersey cows produce less milk than the Holstein, but its butterfat and protein levels are significantly higher [1]. The cows' diet is going to have the highest impact on flavor regardless of breed, so it's important that they be free-roaming and grass- (and maybe seaweed-) fed, but it's likely that any alternative to Holstein cow milk is going to have a better flavor.

In Northern California, Saint Benoit [2] markets Jersey cow milk and yogurt. The flavor of their milk is incomparable to all others I've ever tried stateside.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_cattle#Breeds

[2] https://www.stbenoit.com/
Sure, and that's reasonable. I'm a fan of slatestarcodex.com, which posts a lot of long form content as well, the problem for me here was that the author didn't even outline the direction of the counterpoint in seven paragraphs.
Emotions and discontent are programmed in via evolution. The default state of most people is not happiness or sadness. It is discontent. If you are comfortable you aren’t going to keep trying hard. We have vast capacity and have struggled for tens of thousands of years to reach this point. Millions have died in wars for us to have what we have today. To waste that potential and settle into some adtech driven fugue state is unacceptable to me. I will keep learning, and struggling, and growing.
From what I've seen:

Kavanaugh dissented on the lower court ruling (as it happened while he was still part of said lower court). So, he recused himself from re-hearing the case.

Roberts has major holdings in Time Warner Cable, now merged with AT&T. AT&T was part of the case, so there's a conflict of interest there.
I've now been running KDE Neon on my laptop (X220) for a little while, and I highly recommend trying it out. It's literally Ubuntu LTS with an almost rolling-release KDE repo, and a bit of extra polish here and there.

It has been even more "it just works" than Mint, which is already stupendously easy to install.
I had to come to the comments here to figure out what they were meaning by "hustle". I had assumed what you thought and was thinking the article was about some sort of gorilla marketing.
About 15% of the US population is "food-insecure" as defined by the USFDA. That's 40,000,000 people.
Yes, this is correct. Apple doesn’t make money from HomeKit directly. That’s just a feature of their ecosystem: not a product within it. Currently, Apple only has the HomePod which is frankly quite weak relative to a Google Home or Echo. Then of course there is no Nest or Ring competitor product line.
I am just going to leave you with this image here that shows the SP&500 since 1928: https://imgur.com/a/JCMbIvU

We have had 10 years of growth since the last recession (every gray line is a recession).

If you take into account the market corrections that we have seen this year as a sign, most people in finance will agree that there will be a correction in the next three years. It is far from speculation.

The charts was generated from here: https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-dat...

Edit: FYI I did not imply that market corrections == recession. The reason I put the image is to show that there hasn't been a recession in 10 years and that we are due for one. We have had a few market corrections this year, but no recession yet.
You're probably referring to Csmith, the random C generator from John Regehr's group at U. of Utah.

https://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/

Fuzzing C compilers this way is difficult, because you can't generate programs that have undefined behaviors, and C has so many of those. The complexity and challenge of their project was to not generate bogus programs while not throwing away too much diversity.

The general technique is called differential testing. For compilers, it was pioneered by William McKeeman at DEC in the 1990s. He also addressed C compilers, with a more limited set of inputs than Csmith produces.

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~mckeeman/references/Differenti...

Personally, I've applied (for the last 15 years) this kind of structured random testing to Common Lisp compilers. It's my contribution to the informal development process for SBCL. In this case, the comparison is between code compiled at different optimization settings, and with functions declared NOTINLINE, and with or without type declarations. Any source of diversity that preserves program meaning can be used to expose bugs. Many of the bug reports I've submitted to SBCL come from the random tester (and some other randomized testing techniques); you can get an idea of the kind of thing the tester finds by looking at them:

https://bit.ly/2PLZDuK
I can't wait to start using hooks. I think the main power of them will be code reusability, like pulling a bunch of hooks into your html and having out of the box drag and drop, animations, etc, all while keeping the code clean and readable.
After this Christmas, Chrome will block all ads from a handful of dodgy sites
> which cloud vendor has fixed the "cold startup time" for serverless functions.

I'm interested in this problem area, so I would be interested in your definition of fixed.
Yamraj in the Mahabharata asked Yudhister at the river, what is the greatest truth in life? Yudhister replied, the greatest truth in this life is, despite one having to die, man lives like he is going to live forever.
I thought of NIST.

And of how many government deployed algorithms should be documented and evaluated, as a condition of use. For example, "risk" profilers that are being used to determine prison sentencing and parole/supervision provisions.

Health care related algorithms are another obvious candidate.
> Roberts and Kavanaugh recused themselves, and they both would have voted in favor of the challenge if they had voted. If at any point in the future the issue is retried and the two justices don't recuse themselves, a majority of the SCOTUS would side with the Telecoms.

Even assuming Roberts and Kavanaugh would actually side with the telecoms in substance, the Justices that wanted to take the case did not side with the telecoms or even want to give them a hearing, they said they would have accepted the petition only as a vehicle to direct that the decision be vacated as having been rendered moot; the telecoms want a ruling that under the FCCs statutory authority, it can't order net neutrality. There were zero votes to even give that position a hearing.
I don't think so. My guess would be that it is because a pointer to the struct can be cast to a pointer to T. I /think/ that is defined behaviour.
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If we were not to improve ourselves then it would be problematic for humanity as a whole. Think of the health professionals (such as nurses, doctors and psychiatrists) who, if had not put in their time and effort would not have helped countless people. Or what about Edison, Newton, Einstein, Stephen Hawking each of whom spent countless hours improving their knowledge to better humanity.

On the other hand, you have multi-millionaires who have hustled their way to the top but are miserable and jaded after improving themselves so much that they neglected friends and family. Is it worth it then to pursue of a life of improvement?

Ultimately, the decision to go down the path of improvement and subsequently sacrifice is up to the person. But beware, this rat-race can never be won.
Is that really true though? There's plenty of market pressure for green products generally. If you could label your meat as being "low emission" or something, I think a lot of consumers would prefer that. I certainly would.
We can't all be Wesley Crusher. I see stories like the one about the five-year-old in China with the 15-page CV and I'm filled with dismay [1]. As a university student, I bear witness to the unbelievable pressure and stress in my peers (and much of it affects me). There's a palpable sense that school is a life raft and everyone is desperate to climb aboard.

This is no way to live. I don't have any idea how to solve this problem but I would be glad to see a discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18368622
The real crazy stuff is RF electronics. That stuff is voodoo.
If you had followed your own advice and left out the snark and implication that I spoke up when I shouldn't have, I'd be far more likely to take that as object-level advice. As it stands, your advice comes across more as trying to police what people are allowed to feel and say. I'm rather sensitive to that sort of behavior, so I'd like to apologize in advance if I'm misreading you here.

As far as the actual object level goes, we're likely far more in agreement than you think. I absolutely want a fair system for everyone, and I'm well aware of the efficiency involved in market processes and price discovery. "Equality of Opportunity" is a lofty goal with relatively few pitfalls (we certainly don't want to punish parents for fair attempts at providing their children with opportunities), but I think we're basically on the same page here. And outright sexism is obviously unacceptable.

I think a big point of divergence between my opinions and mainstream feminist thought here is what we believe is behind differences in group outcomes. In my view, prices as a signal of supply and demand has much more explanatory power. Higher paying jobs are higher paying for a reason - they are more competitive, require longer hours, are more dangerous, more risky, require more intensive training, are less fulfilling, or otherwise less desirable in some way. The wage market is certainly not perfectly efficient, and discrimination does happen, but supply and demand plays a huge role in my opinion.

As far as I can tell, feminism tends more to see differences in group outcomes more as evidence of discrimination and other systematic problems in the system. While these problems aren't 100% solved, in my view they're getting a grossly disproportionate amount of attention.
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Where would risc-v fit into this? I'd assume it'd help accelerate the commoditization, maybe not in the server space at first but definitely for IoT and embedded applications.
I wonder if the author realizes Turing machines can be partial halting oracles. SAT/SMT solvers do that job pretty well over most of the same problem space as humans. And any technique humans invent can be added to a solver to use as well.
Without getting too pedantic, it can be difficult to define what encompasses "expertise". You could have worked on some backend payment system for years and conclude that you're a payment "expert". But that means different things to different people.

Not all current "experts" are necessarily hired into corresponding roles needing the same expertise. To put it more concretely with an example, it's entirely possible for you to be a payment system expert but have a recruiter reach out to you for a general SWE role (you're welcome to decline). The slate of roles that do require said expertise are limited. If there's 10 qualified candidates, they could all technically pass the hiring bar. But if there's only 7 positions that require that exact expertise, then what happens to the other 3? Well, they're broadcast to "matching" teams that have available headcount. This "match" could be approximate, but it underscores why getting a signal beyond just the domain expertise is important.

We could of course debate whether something "advanced" should be asked, but that would require us to agree on what constitutes "advanced". In general, it's difficult to pin point some threshold and unanimously agree that that's the level of difficulty of generalist SWE questions that a domain expert should get asked. For what it's worth, there's additional intervention by committee(s) that look at this on a case-by-case basis to make sure that everything's on an even keel. Concretely, if you're an ML expert
interviewing for a role that specifically demands ML-expertise and you were asked some advanced question about data structures (ex: something needing the Hungarian algorithm) and you're upset that you bombed it, the don't be; the committee(s) would weigh that interview's score less if they expect something alone the lines of Maps/Queues to be asked instead. These are all made up examples, but I hope that it conveys why there's a need to extract signal beyond just core-expertise. Google doesn't just artificially create hurdles for sadistic pleasure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Now plot a expoential regression on it -- where _should_ we be?
One of the oddities of early OOP was that it was often touted as being "more natural" than the "old way". But when designers used OOP and inheritance "wrong", experts said, "well, you did it wrong; you need more training." If it takes special training to do it "right", it's not "natural" by definition.

There is a right time and place to use OO (and inheritance) and wrong places and times to use it, and it takes training AND experience to know the difference. Further, a lot of it depends on the language; some languages have poor OO models, forcing one to use lambda's etc. instead. In my opinion, a better OO language reduces the need to use lambdas. I know this is a controversial statement, but I stand by it.
You can also use QML with .NET Core.

https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet

It is stable, I'm currently using it in production (https://medxchange.com/4klear-all-in-one-camera-recorder/)

PS: I'm the author.
I'm continually amazed at how insecure almost every aspect of internet routing is - it mostly boils down to a sort of "gentlemen's agreement" that everybody will follow the rules.
I also just wanted to let everyone know, that back when this article first came out, another HN user summed up my thoughts better than I could myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16135800
Yes, I’m aware of this evidence. What I’d like is for the parent I was responding to to back up their very strong claims about the goal of feminists and the sorts of long form feminist employment change they’re claiming. I’ve never personally witnessed any study corroborating this phenomenon, but I also am not heavily researched in this area and am therefore welcome to innovative new data.
Lots of ways. By contributing to society, perhaps?

This advertising model hasn't been around for very long. It's baffling how suddenly nobody can even conceive of how the world would work without malicious advertising and culture-wide psyops digging into everyone's brains. The advertising model is one of the worst inventions in history.
Society is crumbling...? I'm pretty sure the data doesn't back that up.

We face many problems, to be sure, but this is nothing new.
The risk of dying in your 30s in an accident is minuscule, while IIRC 87% of women have kids.

Also, companies can get insurance on an employee death (although limited to X% of highest paid employees): https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/an-employee-dies-and...

I might be wrong, but I don't think a company can get insurance on an employee getting pregnant.
Well obviously all educated people vote democratic because only uneducated people would ever vote republican \s
What people forget about massive projects like ITER is that it is almost irrelevant whether it works or not. It is a highly technical construction project involving dozens of countries mostly in the EU. So the return on investment comes not just directly from increased economic activity but also from levelling up the skill of member companies.

And so if SPARC does end up working you will have member companies who are well placed to capitalise on it.
Nothing needs to be taxed based on calorie produced. For the purposes of sustainability you tax externalities. Whether that's releasing carbon into the atmosphere, or whatever it costs to fix the land or water you're polluting.

If you're polluting as much as your neighbor but producing fewer calories you'll make less money, so market forces will take care of that and you'll be more likely to go out of business. There's no need to tax anything based on caloric production for the purposes of taxing pollution.

That of course assumes that you're producing the same product as your neighbor, but maybe he's making dogfood and you're making Kobe beef. Then it's OK for your business if you're producing fewer calories per unit of pollution.
>> Exactly if you're disrupting existing power structures either by "overpaying" employees (see recent PSG football leaks) or unfairly cutting costs (Uber/Taxis or Airbnb/Hotels), you're going to make enemies of a lot of angry people.

This is pure BS. What "power structures" are you talking about? Well paid jobs bring money which is spent in the local economy. I doubt the nearby shop owner will be angry because now you can buy food instead to beg for it.

The Uber/Airbnb model is a totally different issue because they compete with the local market and enjoy unfair advantages which is not the case here.
(1) Young, talented people do this all the time. If your idea of how to dismiss this criticism is to suggest wage gaps themselves are fake and that somehow men are inherently more valuable to the workforce at an intrinsic level, you're going to have to do more than compare it to seniority-based compensation schemes.

(2) Tom, to be crystal clear: I think both dismissals are equally bad things to do. My point is that people, you included by the look of it, will suggest it is natural to see differences when said differences disadvantage women. But if a similarly important disadvantage befalls men, it is "a problem" which implies it must be corrected.

Why can't both things be bad?
I have been wondering if any of the cities that proposed will make their proposals public once the final decision has been made. My own city, Orlando, released only a redacted version of the proposal. How should cities and states manage the tension between their duty to transparency and the competitive advantage of keeping proposals secret?
I don't agree with the author. Passwords are difficult to remember and easy to steal. Example I saw: old people write their card's PIN code on it because they cannot remember it. Everyone knows how to use it, you say?

I think that for an average, not computer-loving type of person, a hardware key is the best solution. You don't need to remember anything: just insert the key and press the button.

Why aren't they popular? I think because they are not a standard and are not built in. You don't get a free key when buying a laptop or a smartphone and that's the main reason why nobody is using them.

But there already are applications that don't use passwords. For example, Telegram (IM application): when you install it you only have to enter your phone number, it sends the code in SMS, the app reads the code without user's interaction, and authenticates the device. No passwords, no need to remember anything. I don't like this (it is not convenient for those who use a burner phone number for registration), but for a more typical user it is convenient and doesn't require them to remember anything.

I think we will see more passwordsless authentication in the future.
I think we should tax them based on emissions which includes deforestation / clearing yes. Separately I would definitely like to see animals regulated with X land per animal like free range chickens are regulated. Given the current state of pig farming I don’t think we can physically go worse than status quo.

I understand “tax emission” has many edge cases and will be tough to nut out without a general rule being possible, but it’s really important the cost of polluting is actually paid for with dollars and this is what we pay politicians to do every day (despite what it looks like).
Internet routing (BGP), SMTP, and DNS (not inclusive, just off the top of my head) were developed during the very beginnings of the internet, without much thought into today's use and scale.

Today you'd do better, with hindsight being 20/20.
Ok so we have a state actor with unlimited resources attempting to manipulate our elections. Our defense consists of programmers and sysadmins working for the local county making sub-40s per year in salary (no offense). The election software is written on Windows 95 running with an Access database backend. I am not kidding.

Of course we've already been hacked. I personally think the 2016 had to be hacked given that no one, even Trump, thought he would get close to winning. I know it sounds like conspiracy theory bullshit, but come on, they already got Hillary's emails from the DNC. How hard could it be to target a certain number of counties in key states?

Certainly there are other techies out there who agree with me?
> The "desktop app packs" for WPF and WinForms

WinForms work quite nice on Linux with Mono. Won't they cooperate?
It’s releasing energy contained within the mass of atomic nuclei
Yeah I didn't realize Simple did that. That's awesome.

I'm enjoying the hell out of it currently with these guys.
We'll see how the Beto-Cruz vote turns out. Still think it will be closer to +10 for Cruz. Trump was a pretty unconventional R candidate. A lot of establishment Republicans (which are stronger in TX than elsewhere) were unenthused about Trump.
"But temperance also can be created by coercion. Taxing is a good coercive device. To keep downtown shoppers temperate in their use of parking space we introduce parking meters for short periods, and traffic fines for longer ones. We need not actually forbid a citizen to park as long as he wants to; we need merely make it increasingly expensive for him to do so. Not prohibition, but carefully biased options are what we offer him. A Madison Avenue man might call this persuasion; I prefer the greater candor of the word coercion."

-- The Tragedy of the Commons

I recommend the whole paper as a good think on the unintended consequences of not biasing the options of people away from collective irresponsibility.
This is so stupid that we keep doing business with the Communist Party of China.
I was annoyed that New York was courting them. The last thing our already insane housing market needs is an influx of more highly-paid engineers.

But at least we didn't offer them crazy tax incentives like some other cities.
Like I said in a different thread, the recruiters need simple questions that they can verify without any expertise.
> Denver-Boulder's tech scene is much more vibrant than DFW's

I'm not sure what this is based on. Do you mean like startups? Or general tech companies? Or large companies with significant tech presence? So much of this thread has devolved into these kinds of suppositions and city comparisons. Why do these discussions always come to this, with everyone rushing to defend one metro and demonize another?

> Dallas also doesn't have the tech talent pool and established network of transplanted tech companies that Austin already has

I think this may be making the same mistake of assuming a few satellite offices of a few large companies makes a difference. Or that you hear more about startups on this site and others gives a certain impression.
What would be my option to read this without knowing french?
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