skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, though with important caveats:

* mrustc doesn't implement a borrow checker.

* mrustc's original goal was to bootstrap rustc, and so it's based on Rust 1.19 as of now.

So, it's not a panacea, but it is proof that it can be done.
Facebook also doesn't sell personal information to advertisers. Both Facebook and Google let advertisers target ads based on location and other personal info, which is not the same thing as actually providing that information to third parties.
I agree. Children are humanity’s ‘high’. It’s a gut instinct to want to protect them and see ourselves in their future. I can go on and on here, but when I see a child, I do think that product of DNA combination is an outright miracle with so much possibilities. More like a gamble if I think long enough.

Lately I have come to believe that it is evolutionarily hardwired in us to want to protect all children. It’s almost like a fierce survival instinct at species level. Still..there is a split between gut level instinct to protect what will perpetuate our species and rational thinking. It’s like we are running two different programs. Their outputs may not be similar to each other.

Having said that, back to my first sentence...the ‘high’ has become an addiction. People are coming to believe that..indeed!!..there is a ‘village’ somewhere with an army of villagers waiting to raise their child and if they drive around long enough asking for directions to said village, they will safely arrive at the destination.

It is naive to believe that all people who are capable of having children are capable of shouldering that responsibility. Where does that leave the rest of us. The government, I fear..has slipped in like a thief in the dark and insidiously inserted itself to create conformity and clones and future tax payers by taking over the public school system and redistributing the assets of the commons to those who can have more children.

Taking over child rearing by incentivizing and subsidizing parents is just wrong. And even there it’s false advertising. It’s redistribution of the assets of the commons to fulfill a larger agenda where all the players don’t have a say. This is rather worrisome. Why aren’t we worried?
Drinking at conferences is incredibly common in the US both for industry and Academia. I've never seen anyone pressured to do so though and there is almost always at least someone who isn't drinking there.

Drinking at government conferences is more rare, at least during the official parts, because they have a policy against paying for alcohol in most (but not all) situations. People often meet up for drinks afterwards in smaller groups at the hotel bar or local watering hole.
I work at a big tech co. I almost never fill out any spreadsheet, use JIRA, use a ticketing system that strongly, worry about 'user stories', have 'hurry up and wait' deadlines and so on.

Maybe go to another big co?
I don't drink, and this has just never been an issue. I attend at least three academic conferences a year, and many more professional meetings (typically multi-day meetings with clients, sponsors, or partners).

I almost always show up to the receptions. Typically I will order a Coke or a ginger ale. I throw my drinks tickets away. I walk around and talk to people. It's never been awkward. No one has ever told me that they "felt judged" because I wasn't drinking.

I've been doing this for nearly thirty years now. I did it as a grad student. I certainly spent some time in bars, and I've carried my share of drunken grad students home. Even they never indicated that I was judging them. Because, you know, I wasn't.

If for some reason you don't want to be in bars, or around people drinking -- if you are struggling with sobriety -- then sure. I get that. But if you just don't want to drink yourself? Never been a problem.
I'm in Wall Street, not academia, and I have the same issue. I'm not a recovering alcoholic by any stretch of the imagination, and yet I do think "this is a big deal" so maybe my personal anecdote might help others in this thread sympathize with the author.

I used to drink a lot in my 20s (binge drinking every Friday and/or Saturday was the norm for a couple of years) but now that I'm in my 30s with a ton of responsibilities and need to be an actual adult, I just can't afford to be hungover the next day. It also helps that I think more longer-term and really don't want to give myself cancer.

Nearly every event or client dinner I attend has essentially an open bar, and by God I wish they didn't.

First, because no good can come out of coworkers being drunk around each other.

Second, because it's much harder to say no to alcohol (something I'm consciously trying to avoid) when I'm offered top shelf booze for free.

Third, and most importantly, because my coworkers will likely think I'm weird, anti-social or that I am judging them for drinking. Even if you think the odds of that happening are 10% (and I think the odds are more like 90% especially among older, male partners), it means a non-zero damage to my career, and I'm not willing to risk that.

So I order a glass of wine, or quietly go to the bar and order a ginger ale, or some sparkling water with lime and pretend I'm drinking alcohol....
I've got to agree with this statement. In my opinion, it's an absolute blessing (and an unavoidable evolutionary outcome) that there is still varying degrees of friction inherent to the process of commenting on many websites. Imagine if every person could throw their uninformed opinions about every topic into the common space with no hassle whatsoever, the signal to noise ratio would be positively devastated. In fact, the coupling of frictionless 1->N communication capacity with continual reinforcement of poisonous ego-centrism in advertising appears to be the precise recipe for the construction of FaceBook-style intellectual wastelands. The blunt fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people appear to have very little of value to contribute to the vast majority of discussions or processes, except perhaps in a passive role. This is not a judgement of value, merely a fact that should be considered from a societal vantage when the design of large information systems is undertaken so that ethical and socially-beneficial decisions can be made.

The concept of preventing a dilution of discourse and output quality by intentionally maintaining a degree of friction in the participation process is well-embodied by, e.g., the effort required to start contributing to certain critical open-source projects like the Linux kernel (think email-based communications, packaging processes, etc.). The notion of friction extends directly to aesthetics as well - consider the difference in discourse level that exists between HN, Reddit, FaceBook, and so on. There are many factors involved in the gradient, but it is worth noting that the aesthetic model employed by a system or product is perhaps the clearest external signal of that system's intended purpose. To that end, the dramatic "gameification" of relatively frictionless communication protocols appears to be incompatible with the idea of truth on a fundamental level. This also applies to the modern incarnation of popular US "news" organizations - think Fox's dramatic music and hyper-augmented hollywood-style visuals, or my personal favorite, CNN's "situation room".
I think what you're describing is really a part of the decision making process by founders and initial investors who are taking the company public or shopping equity to VC.

The default mode of a company is to increase shareholder wealth, but a company that clearly communicates to potential investors and the market as a whole that they have a different metric of shareholder value (e.g. social conscience, environmental concerns, customer experience) can still be successful in taking a company public or raising funds from VCs, they'll just be selling equity to a different, if overlapping, group of investors.

Companies that want to do good and don't think through how going public or taking investment will change the incentives on which the company operates are destined to end up in the default mode.

As always, try to put both your consumer and investment dollars in companies that understand that.
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> These two ideas directly conflict with one another and create a dichotomy: If I have the freedom to beleive what I want, how does this translate into having the initiative to observe the world accurately and debunk pseudo-science?

no these two ideas work well. be curious, but question what you see, and question yourself.
Stop using Youtube then. Seems like a mass exodus of top talent might make Youtube react. Otherwise they aren't going to do anything. You're not worth it unless you're impacting Google's bottom line.
the startup is in robotics, highly aligned with my interests.
c:\install for downloads, once in a while cleaned out apart from directories that I want to preserve. Browsers download there by default.

c:\work for work-related things, subfolder for each project.

Listary (and other app launchers previously) have made it easier to jump around without caring where a folder is.
you would barely recognize it it's more like Java now that PHP4, just look at what is going on with Laravel ... having moved to a job that uses python and go, I still miss and am in awe that Laravel is the absolute best framework I have encountered in any programming language. There is nothing close to it any of the other languages.
You may find an answer at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17472974. The host of that thread specializes in solving such problems for startup founders.
I've not suffered from this first-hand, but I've definitely seen it happen to other people - either bizarre, almost frat-like hazing, or the sly glances as you mention takes place at some tech events/socials when someone says they don't drink.

Not all the time. Or even the majority of the time. But it's happened more than a handful of time.
...doesn't that imply that emails are just a garbage method of communication more than anything else? I can't remember the last time I didn't immediately hit "spam" on an e-mail I didn't specifically request/expect.
Here's some robustness for you: our ancestors have been depending on their respective families since humans were a species. Whereas the oldest extant government are only several hundred years old. And many aren't even as old as my grandparents.
I work with a bunch of mild-mannered, otherwise-polite (mechanical) engineers and I had to stop attending the company holiday parties because of the overt social pressures to drink (that would generally begin after people had tied a few back).
Nor anyone is writing anything big in Swift on GNU/Linux, which even with builds available, is still pretty much WIP.

Vapor, Perfect, and Kitura are no match for the offerings in Java, .NET, Go, OCaml, Haskell, Erlang.
Come to a geology conference sometime. There's actually a big alcoholism problem in academia. There's no alcohol on campus, but grad students and professors still go drinking after work. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it is easy to slide into heavier drinking in that kind of culture.
It's not true for almost anyone.

Conversely, if you can get hired to a unicorn in a position that's senior enough to have any hope of coming anywhere near top tech pay, then you are likely talented enough to work at top tech instead.
I have always wanted something like this. I can't really build this myself because I have no hardware skills.
"Um, actually, I prefer a nice mead"
These aren't casual social events, they're important industry networking opportunities. Being judged there can negatively impact your career.

Also, some of the people mentioned are recovering alcoholics who just want to be able to get a drink of water without having to go up to the bar.

All of this is in the article.
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"If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly" - David Hackworth
This doesn't just apply to the what is written on the internet. It's a universtal trait of human participation if the group is large enough.
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For High Throughput compute, and cache correctness. Here are the primers I can give. None of these are required. Strong langauge, cs, interpersonal skills, team inter-interoperability, and commitment to quality (via unit and integration testing, and skill working with liners) can get you a lot further.

The resources I'm linking are supplementary to the above, and you'll likely encounter them in the wild. But they'll help you build a base of knowledge, and give you terminology to search for, and work with.

- What Every Programmer should know about memory: https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

- Cache Obviousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY8f4DSkQ6M (the suggestions, and terminology are important)

- Parallelism: (This is a good primer, there are a lot of complementary posts linked on the site) https://preshing.com/20120612/an-introduction-to-lock-free-p... https://preshing.com/20120913/acquire-and-release-semantics/

- If you plan on working with linux these is an excellent reference: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_2.html remember there is no magic in Linux, everything eventually has to go through a system call. So if you learn the systemcalls, you can can learn how things work :)

- Fog's optimization resources are awesome: https://www.agner.org/optimize/

- MIT courseware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpJdnlu9ug&list=PLUl4u3cNGP... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtSuA80QTyo&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

- This cheat sheet is worth committing to memory: http://www.bigocheatsheet.com/ the reference links are also great for building up knowledge

- I highly recommend CMU DB open course ware: (intro) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyVGm_2iFwU&list=PLSE8ODhjZX... (advanced) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poEfLYH9W2M&list=PLSE8ODhjZX...

This should give you a good primer on Concurrency, and DB's. For networking likely a basic TLA+ certification class will be 99% review, but for the things it isn't will offer great insight.
Open source software existed before closed-source software was even a thing. Software used to come in source-code and freely-redistributable form; it was basically funded as a loss leader for things like hardware and support, that could be billed for. Many companies today which fund FLOSS have very similar models, only with other sorts of value-added services being added to the toolset. Others have even managed to pay for FLOSS directly via crowd-funding.
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As some counter ancedata, I worked at a relatively successful startup for several years and I ended up as a sr eng in big co anyway after the experience. Startup options ended up being effectively zero.

I should of hopped to big co sooner instead, I would of been significantly ahead of my life's savings goals if I did, and possibly would of bought my house at a far cheaper price because I had the money to pay for the down payment.
This is an interesting perspective.

When I look around me, I don't see anyone over the age of 60 that is obese. Where did they all go?
This article is from 2017. How is this news?
ML could be as fast as C++ and even have manual memory management. Take a look at mlton [1] and manual memory management [2]. Most ml compilers just value compile time more.

[1] http://mlton.org/Performance

[2] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.75....
Watch Mike Acton’s CppCon 2014 talk on Data Oriented Design. His advice may not be at all applicable to whatever field you end up in (and it’s a deliberately contentious talk) but IMO it’s essential for a systems level programmer to have enough understanding of the related concepts to be able to argue about them convincingly.
The Real Origin of Superman
All the startup employees I've talked to work 80 hours a week. Why is robots so important to you that you're willing to accomplish absolutely nothing in at least a few of the important areas of your life such as health and fitness, friendships, romantic relationships, extraneous interests, relaxation, or family?
I think you're on the right track, but you have to account for the biases in the fat people who need this advice. No amount of exercise can counteract overeating at the scale seriously fat people (like past versions of myself) do.

Often weight is _the_ barrier to exercise. When I was at 300lb it was physically painful to walk more than a few minutes. The small muscles near my ankles just couldn't take it.

After I lost ~25lbs I suddenly could walk without serious trouble. I'm still working on actual exercise beyond walking 30 minutes to and from work each day.

You can use it as an excuse but really I suspect for most people sticking with a diet is actually much easier than sticking to an exercise plan. Especially if you didn't grow up exercising and don't have any happy memories of exercise.

When did you start exercising regularly? Any tips for the rest of us on sticking with it long enough to form a habit?
How do I use Google Ads to send a tow truck driver to repossess a car when the debtor gets home?

That’s what the phone carrier is doing.

They monetize location, but from my perspective they do so in a way that’s more respectful of the person, because it’s in their interest to do so.

The carriers just sell data points and lack the ability or desire to add value to them.
I think I'm very entrepreneurial. "wear as many different hats as required to make it work", this is basically what I do for my side projects. I write both the web frontend (vue) and backend (in c++), do devops, content marketing, whereas my day job is device driver development.
Golden days of the pure hacker culture, I guess. The "underground" scenes (warez, vx, demo). Now it's all business.
There's always http://blog.funcall.org/lisp/2015/10/30/zx-spectrum-lisp/
They’ve added some Apple-specific extensions to SMB, which can result in suboptimal performance when browsing non-Apple hosts.

https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-Septemb...
The original story of getting rich off employee equity seems to go back to Netscape, but reading The New New Thing by Michael Lewis, I was struck by how abnormal that situation was. Jim Clark hated the VCs, identified as an engineer, seemed happy to share his winnings with everyone, and had the leverage to dictate VC terms. That story shaped tech for a while, e.g. Google bragged about how even their cooks got rich, but now 24 years after the IPO I think things have largely gone "back to normal", with investors and founders giving away less. The story's momentum still draws hopeful employees, but people are becoming more skeptical, too. Plus not every company is a Netscape or Google. . . .
I'd also like to know more about what you're doing on the side that is that profitable.
Yes, it is a port wine stain birthmark.
Yes which is also in their interest because once personal information is sold someone else can use it without going through Google. And they benefit by having more personal information than anyone else. Instead they sell access to advertising on very personal information to you via them as a proxy. I don't see that being that much better and it is almost impossible to avoid. Which is why Google is worried if the government starts cracking down further on this it will hit them too. I don't want Google selling any information about my location or carriers as well directly or indirectly
It's not more robust. One bad accident or health bill can ruin the financial stability of an entire family. Diffusing costs across a whole nation is cheaper and more stable than diffusing costs across a handful of people who are related.
Just curious, if you're dissatisfied with NYC and the ~5 established funds you've experienced, have you expanded your search parameters a bit? Meaning, looking around in a bit wider regional area, or looking at little-less-established firms? For example, across the river in Newark, NJ, there's : https://newarkventurepartners.com/ .
80% of US workers are in the service sector, 12.6% in manufacturing, 1.5% in agriculture. 60% spend the entire workday sitting.

The notion that manufacturing workers are the real America and desk jobs are held by privileged outliers may have been true at one time, but today it is a myth. The right model for “average working stiff” today works in a hospital, restaurant, or government office building.

Stats per BLS: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...
There's a whole discipline of experts who spend their whole lives studying this stuff. It's awful arrogant for an amateur to assume they're all full of shit.
Shame them for shaming you. Considering the majority of people in this world are sympathetic to the problems of alcoholism, your shaming will almost certainly find more purchase.

Comparatively, almost nobody is sympathetic to cannabis addiction. Many will mock you for even believing such a thing exists, but five years after quitting it still strains my willpower. Finding somebody who earnestly believes alcoholism doesn't exist is rare (typically you only hear it from hardcore alcoholics deep in denial.)
Using the term "the author" is better because the article was 9 years ago, Paul Graham doesn't necessarily hold the same beliefs now.
As shrewd and cynical as this move is, it is good. With Google you at least have some options for how much you want them to know about your location (even if they rely on dark patterns still to trick average people into reenabling it)
In other words, we only hear and watch stories from those people who chose storytelling as their career

There has been a transition from culture being produced by members of one's community/village/family to culture being produced by professionals for money.

Stories and songs of the past were just as unbalanced and insane as stories and songs of the present. (Both in terms of being fantastical and showing only one side of complex emotional situations.) People grounded in the reality of making living things grow, keeping animals alive, and fixing their own houses and equipment most often understood those stories for what they were. What magic such people believed in was often closely tied to feelings of belonging and community. Gatherings of people often have such magic feelings, but this is quite a real phenomena of human social organization.

Now, there is less of such intense community, and we are bombarded by more commercially produced culture than we could possibly consume, made by people who often live lives of exaggerated imbalance, enabled by what our ancestors would have considered the phenomenal wealth of modern resources. What's more, so much of what we're given as non-fiction also fits into this model by varying degrees.

When Rome's military went from citizen soldiers to full time specialist professionals, the misalignment of incentives between the specialists and the citizens was the subtle, long term root of many problems. I think there is such a misalignment with how human civilizations in general produce culture.

I think this phenomenon may be a "Great Filter" answer to the Fermi paradox. We might not only be swallowed up by Virtual Reality, but also by the purely mental constructs of our own fantastical narratives, as we abandon more and more of the creature connections with nature which keep us grounded in reality.

(Plato. Cave. Shadows.)