skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To fix the nomenclature confusion in this thread:

a.out was the name of the output file from unix linker. Thus the format of that file was "a.out" format. all the other unix toolchains did the same thing for compatibility.

a.out is pretty limited, though fine for small PDP-11 binaries: some text (executable), initialized data, and an amount of RAM to preallocate, plus some symbols.

Even when I was designing bfd back in 1989 it was clear that a.out, while pervasive, just wasn't powerful enough, especially when you added C++ constructors, destructors, atexit stuff etc. SVR4 by then had COFF to be more flexible (Microsoft's PE is a COFF derivative). But COFF was kinda crufty (not bad for a first effort!) and was clumsy for things like shared libraries.

ELF is a good example of a standards committee designing something to handle known problems. It's not perfect, but pretty good.
It's worth noting that murderers have gotten less time. If you recall, prosecutors threatened Aaron Schwartz with massive jail time that totally didn't fit the crime.
>reeks of body odor and full of possibly mentally ill people

Why are you repeatedly implying that homeless people reek of body odor and are mentally ill when the original comment made no mention of either? It sounds a lot like the kind of excuses made about black people, jewish people, and other groups that have been stereotyped and dehumanized in order to justify poor treatment and cruelty. There are plenty of homeless people that are not mentally ill, and strive to maintain their hygiene despite not having access to the same facilities products that people take for granted. People seem to be able to get away with talking extremely poorly about homeless people, and yet if you replaced homeless with a particular race/religious group/etc you would likely be called a bigot. It sounds like you've never experienced homelessness or had family/friends that have been homeless, and your comments are ignorant and show a complete lack of empathy.

https://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134956180/criminals-see-their...
Java: "I've got a huge standard library!"

C: "See, you're doing it wrong! I've got a really lean standard library!"

Java: "Ah, so you just focus on the basics. You have a dictionary structure? That's pretty basic."

C: "...no."
> I think amazon : amazon basics is a great example of antitrust/unfair monopoly

Store brands have been around *forever."

> They know what users are looking for, spend the most on, and they can give their own products dominate positions in the UI.

If you own a grocery store, you have every right to place the store brand products wherever you think they will sell best. You could (gasp) not sell any name brands at all! And if your grocery store becomes successful, you're allowed to sell advertising inside it however you want.

> It’s kind of like standard oil buying up the railroads so they owned the supply chain and no other oil could be moved.

Railroads are to some extent natural monopolies, and they have a massive barrier to entry. E-commerce websites do not. Many businesses of all sizes still sell products directly from their website and do fine. Now if Amazon bought UPS and FedEx and refused to ship any other packages, that would be different. But all they're doing is running their "department store" the way they want to. If consumers want a competitor, they're free to start one with next to no initial cost.
How about moving into consulting? That's pretty much my plan. Older developers have both the experience and the expertise that companies are looking for in a consultant, and it pays pretty well.
Doctor tells patient he doesn't have long to live through robot video screen
Good point, hard work in and of itself does not equate to better results in meritocracy. Meritocracy sorts people based on performance, not hard work. But hard work is generally necessary to improve performance.

* If Alice trains 30 hours a week for a year for a marathon and Candice trains 2 hours a week for a year who do you think has the better chance of winning? Sure, maybe Alice has a disability, or maybe Candice is some running demigod. But if I had to put money on it I'd bet on Alice.

* If half the class studies for 21 hours a week and the other studiss for 7 the which would you bet is going to have the higher class average? I can speak firsthand to the fact that there will still be big variance. Some subjects can't naturally to me, others were like a brick wall. But chances are the students putting in 3x the study will do better.

So pointing out that groups that work harder get ahead is decent evidence that meritocracy does function. Especially when the groups in question are groups like Asians and Jewish people in America that were subject to significant prejudice and discrimination throughout history. Meritocracy can enable groups to overcome prejudice.

Granted there are definitely groups not well served by meritocracy. Groups that don't have as much family support, and don't have a strong cultural emphasis on education (I realize this last point does mirror racial sterotyoes but I did post evidence to show truth behind it) are at a big disadvantage. Any yes, it's probably worth compromising pure meritocracy to even the playing field to a degree.

Distribution of the fruits of labor is a valuable discussion, but it is tangential to the discussion of meritocracy. There will be varing distributions of wealth even if we wholly reject meritocracy.
My corp sends me out to conferences or remote offices several times a year, sometimes internationally. I can book business class if total in-air time is greater than six hours.

I know first class still exists but every time I fly biz class, that cabin is the ultimate premium cabin for the flight. There might be premium economy or whatever but biz class is functionally first class for the airlines and routes I typically fly (Delta, Air France)

As an aside, the new Delta One suites are _amazing_ and have totally ruined even "regular" business class lay-flat seats for me.
But the phenomenon I'm talking about is well established in psychology:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mr-personality/20141...
Rendering.
Good succinct history and evolution of programming languages. Does anyone know where can I find articles or books on various programming paradigms and the underlying reasons for developing them ?
The chances that YOU, when you reach same age, will be interested in pushing the envelope with the latest tech, are very low. The chances that you will find "latest tech" absurd and would rather be starving than pushing said envelope, are very high. When I was young, I couldn't even imagine the future with Spring framework, Hibernate, Angular, AWS configuration etc. The profession is dead for me, and has been dead for quite some time.
This is my own anecdotal evidence, sorry.
Those are hard because the are natural monopolies. In the UK it was decided to privatise the national telecom provider and open the market up to to allow other suppliers. We got one other supplier who built all their infrastructure during a few years in the 90s and only in the choicest urban areas. The old monopolist is now solely responsible for supplying all the hard to reach rural areas.

The best solution is probably to accept the national monopoly and socialise the infrastructure, but like that will ever happen...
I hear this from older developers a lot, that the problems we are solving today have been solved already. That may be true to some extent, but I think that is dangerous, the ways the problems are solved again have different characteristics and advantages and generally push the ball forward. I think of it like forest fires clearing out old grown for new, and I think it's best to just have a zen-like mindset of being a constant beginner.
They’re upgrading this to require you to write “mobile deposit for XYZ bank” as well, so that you can’t double-deposit without getting caught early on.
In "real world", you expect AI to behave like human. Isn't that the definition?
Cars compete for “best car in the world 2019” –. know it
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Did you read her proposal? There would be a structural separation from distribution and first party goods. Just like railroads couldn't own interests in the commodities they were transporting, Amazon couldn't operate a market place and also own private label brands.

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...
This podcast is a treasure!
Well same for Uber and we all knew that. It's just the business model (for now).

So, in a world where we are all used to Uber/Lyft and there's no turning back, the only way forward is for fares to go up, close to - if not the same - to conventional cab fares. Which will decrease usage, which will decrease the size of Uber/Lyft and therefore their market cap. Sounds like 1999
We should really work on making personal data transactions illegal. I can’t think of a single company that I would be happy to hear that they sold my data to third-party. These companies provide no additonal benefits.

Equifax is the worst. You can call them and ask to buy lists of names, addresses and phone numbers of people matching certain financial criterias. Facebook would look dull in comparison if people knew the extent of the Equifax abuse of privacy.
What sort of reporting on the candidates would not constitute meddling?
Personal experience on this. My degree (physics) was nearly completely orthogonal to my career (software engineer).

But I have no doubt it helped me get not just my first job, but also subsequent ones, probably due to 'his code/tech talk could be better, but he seems smart and has a physics doctorate from a prestigious institution'.

Think software hiring+quality would be much better if we had an apprecticeship culture, instead of based on perceived prestige from excelling at University.
We have accepted the state of our marriage as it is today. The libido mismatch has some medical background, so it's not as if we are cruel to each other. We do sacrifice, but we do it for the children that we have chosen to have. We both accept that this marriage will end once they are done with HS.
This. And older engineers have finer bullshit detectors. ISTM ageism is real, and it's all about the money.
Volvo would definitely enable the emergency brake, but only during regulatory tests.
> I am so confused if by merely giving someone a cheque they are able to “pull” money from just two numbers, and can do it for any amount & any number of times.

That is exactly how checks work. It's optimized for happy-path, with a big mess of a process to handle fraud. The cash equivalent would be to carry a bucket with all your money and when you pay, you present your bucket so that the shop can pull out the amount you and them agreed on.
The most detailed data I’ve run across in recent years suggests the urbanization trend is mostly about college educated 18-35 year olds moving to a relative handful of dense urban cores. (Though anecdotally the same thing is happening on a smaller scale in many cities that have small gentrified cores.)
Towards a general theory of adversarial examples
I think The Expanse had the right idea with a powerful religious organisation like the Mormons. I could also imagine a totalitarian regime doing it to unite their people under a common goal (similar to the space race being a source of national pride especially for the Soviets). Or maybe a billionaire chooses to dedicate his money to such an endeavour (a Bill Gates who loves space as much as Elon Musk).

I agree it's unlikely that our civilization does it now. But given some time and a handful of civilizations and it seems like it should happen all the time (even more so if overpopulation or collapsing ecosystems were serious problems for some civilisations)
> The cost-benefit of learning something new vs spending that time either learning more of what I'm already in...

That's a good point. But you also need to consider it from the point of view of the person sitting across the table. You might be very productive solving a problem in COBOL (to exagerate the point), but they are much more comfortable in Python/Vue.js and don't want to burden themselves with legacy ways. Because they can find someone solving the problem in the stack they want.
All the investors that 'purchased' a percentage of the private company with their investment during funding rounds will want to see ROI when the company goes public (or if the company is insanely profitable while private). Most of these VC's expect to start seeing ROI around the 10yr mark. The company isnt remotely profitable still privately held, so lets go public and get other suckers to buy in so the early investors can cash out and hopefully make a buck or two or at least breakeven.
insitro.com and https://medium.com/@daphne_38275/insitro-rethinking-drug-dis...
Sure -- when I build a system, I make sure I can always retry all the requests. Because there's never a guarantee that the client got the response, or stored the results successfully. It could make a follow up request, but lost power or been killed or whatever before the results were stored, and next time start over. Sometimes the server failed to store, but told the client it did -- that's fun too, but thankfully I control the servers and can usually limit the damage of that.

But, most people don't realizing the byzantine hell we all inhabit; and http(s) client library defaults for retrying apparently idempotent requests will often work well enough; but server idle configured less than client idle is much easier to trip over.
At this point I am convinced that the stack treadmill most of IT is jogging on gets propped mostly by the people who want to up their salaries by keeping as many people out of their niche as possible. Older devs probably get hit by this harder than most, because I'd imagine the treadmill gets more tiresome as the time goes by, you see more hype cycles, and become more aware of it. But older devs are by no means the only ones who are affected.

"Keeping up with with new technologies" is generally a euphemism for "uses a random set of frameworks I chose". Amusingly, devs who demand everyone to learn their frameworks are often the same people who try to stop anyone at their company from using or doing anything genuinely new, because it would undermine their position.

This is, BTW, why there is so much talk about the "shortage" of software engineers right now.
Article is completely unreadable on mobile due to layers of cookie consent popups and GDPR disclaimers :(
>Excluding the costs of air transportation, inpatient rehabilitation and ambulatory follow-ups, inpatient charges for the boy totaled $811,929.

>But despite “extensive review of the risks and benefits of tetanus vaccination by physicians,” the boy’s parents declined a second dose of the tetanus-fighting medication and “any other recommended immunizations.”

I really wish the ACA had some provision that said "Failure to administer the following list of vaccines allows insurance companies to drop you or only offer plans with insanely high deductibles (or none)". Parents who don't vaccinate their children... you are bad parents, plain and simple. That alone doesn't really bother me, if you are ok with killing your own kid I'm not going to waste my time. Now when you endanger other children or run up insane bills for no good reason then I'm going to sit up and take notice.

Stupidity, in this form, shouldn't be a preexisting condition we cover.
I've been following the case since the plane was first declared missing, and Jeff Wise has been pushing the conspiracy angle for quite a while now. I'm willing to consider it, but I'm not sure if he's proposing anybody with the (absolutely immense, more-than-state-actor) means or motivation to do something like this and keep it a secret for nearly 5 years.
AFAIK all the big companies working on this problem include high-definition mapping as a major component. The problem is gathering that data without having an actual LiDAR. So some companies like Waymo will literally just have cars with LiDARs drive all around every street and map it for them. This is great but means they're limited by when they travelled the road and conditions at the time.

Ideally, you have a mapping system that is constantly updating (every time your fleet drives by something new like construction on the road it auto-updates the map).

Comma.ai is working on a vision+GPS Kalman filter solution along these lines up to 10 cm accuracy. I'd guess Tesla is as well.

And then yes, after that the vision would be primarily for localization.
Happens to tons of marriages for a variety of reasons. Fortunately, we are good friends and have a lot in common.
Yes it would be helpful to bounce ideas off an DevOps expert. I sometimes use AWS support for this and I have received some helpful advice from them but it would be nice when my questions don't necessarily revolve around how to use services but what process I should implement or when it comes to on-premise installations for example.

What sort of business model are you thinking? Kind of like Pushdoctor but for DevOps?
> But if one doesn't have access to coins or computers, it raises the question: what is a good way to generate a long sequence of reasonably random coin flips in one's head?

Doing it in your head is hard, but if you a great memory or can write things down on paper, then you could:

1. Generate a bunch more "random" coin flips than you need and write them down. Do your best to be unbiased, but don't sweat it.

2. Start a new separate list of results.

3. Go through the original results a pair at a time. If the pair is "head, tail", write "head" in the new list. If it's "tail, head", write "tail". If it's "tail, tail" or "head, head", discard it.

This is basically Neumann's "fair coin from a biased coin" trick:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin#Fair_results_from_a_...

In theory, since you know the trick, it might influence the way you generate your initial random sequence. In practice, most of us probably aren't that smart. If you are, repeating the whole process using the results of the previous run a few times should guarantee enough complex mixing that your brain isn't clever enough to back-propagate the trick into how you generate the initial random coin flips.
please clarify, genuinely curious, because for me, that Duck is a Seagull, not a freaking duck anywhere near that drawing...

Or the one who carries babies, what the freaking ornifkingtologist (bullshit) name for that bird who carries babies???

Have you seen a video of a seagull doing ~pipeline style~ hawaii surfing doing Tubes on the carved waves of the Sea???

If that is not a fucking seagull , my friend , you tell me...

what the fck is that???

Haha good one , randomsearch , I upvoted your comment that says: ~no such thing as seagull~

You are right, obviously...you are talking about the analogy of the book The Art of Zen Programming or something like that...

the clouds of seagulls that becames a seagull shaped cloud were fucking dissipated by the Master , and no needed to fucking slingshots, no needed to fucking staying sitting at your desk calmly looking at shitt screen like a chariot horse or donkey always look fckng becaude he cannot see the side of the visual field covered by motherfucker stupid(maybe unintentionally enslavers) humans

The One who dissipates clouds a Master , stands up from the desk , let any objects on the desk to have his hands completely empty , and goes walking of his cubicle to open air and use his bare hands open like making a number 5 and just easily dissipates the clouds

I upvoted randomsearch with 1 point , but you have the free will to give him 10 points, and he has the freewill to give himself 20 or 30 points in his mind...

...freewill always

EveryOne

thank you
I think it's just part of the blitzscaling process.
Computer to call balls and strikes in minor league
Prior art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Yep, she just lost my vote.
> "illegal"

because Amazon uses their non-retail business profits to identify high selling items, produce them themselves, sell them at a lower price (because they have all the data also), and finally steer customers to those products. They're the market place and a player. This new idea isn't well defined in law, but using your profits from one company to undercut another area is illegal.

> "by the rules"

is the same idea as "illegal", and even if they're not, the point she's trying to make is the fact they are not breaking rules should be setting off alarm bells because...

> "but why is that a concern of the government?"

because America loves the free market, and big business is the enemy of it.
I bet a lot of people here are good/excellent cooks. I wouldn't necessarily call my food "fancy," but I would call it good and high quality.
Lunch is the worst meal for a lot of those types because most of us are not at home to prepare something good.

I actually skip lunch most days.
> A doctor could be in the room and give the same message in a cold manner as many do each day and the family would have felt the same.

So you think we should systematically bring this poor experience to everyone via robots because some human doctors perform the same task poorly?
Thank you! I was considering creating an account with email+password, but I wanted to reduce the cognitive load on both sides. The consumer side of having to remember passwords (made somewhat moot by the iOS keychain auto-suggesting strong passwords). And the implementation side (since I'm just 1 engineer) getting tricky of saving passwords securely and handling that flow.

Having said that, if there is more interest in having email+password accounts, I'm more than happy to look into it, but it would have to wait for a later version.
> if it's not too late I'd also re-think the name

I am also not yet satisfied with the name - so if you had a suggestion ...
For sure, but in this case I apply the investing's theory "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent", to something like:

"the software engineering labor market can stay irrational towards older people longer than the 2 decades past 40 where I could stay effectively employable".
I have the opposite reaction to the word hipster. The first time I heard/read it I knew _exactly_ what what it implied even though I couldn't (and still can't) succinctly define it. It brings an image to my mind and a smile to my face.
Certification.

You CANNOT have bugs in your ventilators, pill dispensers, heart-rate monitors, etc. As such, they are typically only certified on some old version of Windows. As such, they can't be updated, or they have to re-cert that new version of windows. By certification, it goes anywhere from the bugs in the compiler all the way to the EMI interference from a cell-phone that may interact and cause a fault. It can be very intense. Re-doing a cert is an incredible mess. So, they stay on the old version and that makes integrating with all the various versions of mainframes, windows, DOS, UNIX, etc. a total disaster of a task.
Once. How different can the experiences be between fruit flies after that first contact, though?

And for that matter, what if your species descended from something similar to a fruit fly and you had the processing power to call those species memories to the front of your own mind?
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With the money you save on taxes and housing vs. california, you'd be able to take uber over public transit
I was also about to post, asking about motive. What is the motive to make a 777 full of people disappear. What was on board, or who was on board, that would be worth this effort?

It's pretty close to beyond belief that this was just a "test run" to prove it could be done.

But either way, there's no theory on motive offered here.
Can you point to a free press at any time in our history that wasn't a corporation with a political agenda?
True but they can then send him to jail.