skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, 100% on all points. Shirt stay adjustments are minimal. You set it up once and they're good for most shirts in my experience.

Everyone has their own acceptable style threshold though, but saying shirt stays don't solve a problem that needed solving is akin to all those C/C++ programmers claiming garbage collection doesn't solve a real problem because you can handle memory manually and debug it using valgrind. Sure, you go ahead and have fun with that, I'll be over here wasting less time and looking more stylish while doing it. ;-)
You're assuming that the distribution is uniform, but I think it's likely that the majority of Americans do not know anybody who was shot, while a (still decent-sized) minority know several.
I'm sure they will, if it looks like 3rd party services are making money at it.

This is the problem with building your product on one of these platforms: you're just doing their market research for them for free.
I'm thankful that Hyatt isn't like that. Wifi and all the benefits of status in their program persist even on award nights. In fact, they wave the "resort fees" for all stays if you are their top tier. So at least they don't anger their best customers with this.
Do you realise just how ridiculous you sound right now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb#Light_...

Higher temperature = higher efficiency, but also lower life.
Those citrus farmers in Florida are fine with it:

> "Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics (nytimes.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19945233
I think it's because programmers generally operate within a framework that guides and controls them and that becomes the limiting factor. It's like having a car that goes 10 times as fast as others but you're driving in the city, so all the traffic gets synchronized at the traffic lights.
The key here being that non-financial data isn't actually useful in predicting ability to repay loans. I'm sure it'd be used somehow by modern financial institutions if it were predictive.
Single-use plastics are perfectly fine if:

1) You already have oil-powered power plants, and

2) You have efficient, modern trash incinerators that can recover 90%+ of the energy in plastics, and

3) You make sure that all plastic garbage actually ends up incinerated.

Because the utility you get out of making plastics out of oil, using the plastics for something, and then burning it, is higher than just straight up burning the oil.

But if you fail any of these three points, you're better off banning single-use plastics.
Small world! That stop is only a few blocks away from me. There are shootings in uptown, but it’s almost always gang-related.

Carrying guns on the L is already illegal, so I don’t see any reason to be more afraid of states with more lax laws. Famously Chicago has high gun crime rates despite having some of the strictest gun laws in the country, so strictness of gun laws are probably not the best indicator of personal safety (I think this is a pretty uncontroversial argument, whatever your views on gun control).
> In order to implement the vision of decentralization, first we need empower people to easily publish and own their content on the web.

Why? If someone wants to publish, they'll learn what needs to be learnt. If they are not willing to do so, they don't really want to publish, so why empower them? (This is a serious question.)
Yeah you see that's the problem. The raw data is not there, because we don't have the necessary information retrieval capability yet.

Data is really sparse and of the worst quality. It is interesting that the hype is exactly the opposite: big bad hospitals keep essential info for themselves.
I learnt what floating point was, when I bought a Cyrix - and my last non-Intel CPU was the one before I got a Celeron 300A.

There is nothing wrong with non-Intel CPU, but historically maybe some "considerations you might wish to make, when looking at the price"

Now.

No idea why you'd buy Intel.. None..
Dude. Try browsing Reddit incognito mode: every time you visit you get a modal dialog trying to trick you into to download the app to proceed. Even the order of the options varies.

Bad faith dark design throughout
Context is important. Someone carrying a hunting rifle in a rural area isn't that scary. Someone walking into a McDonald with a hand gun is.
Please note: so called preceded journalists. That is, there are a vast number of media-ites who think of themselves as journalists. It's not that easy.
In my decades of experience I have yet to meet this mythical 10x or 100x programmer, but what I have seen is every once in a while somebody (probably a programmer but not necessarily) is able to take the reins in implementing a new process, or tool, or framework, or whatever, which dramatically increases productivity for the whole team. Conversely, I've seen programmers who don't try to get on board any such possible initiatives and who drag the team down as a result.

So for me, the question isn't how productive one person is. It's how productive a collective can be as they work together, and how fast is the rate of improvement over time?
Drop myself and the other project members a line and see the unicast extensions project on github.

It is a trivial number of patches to enable all the open source code in the world to work.
Pretty sure what you're describing is jealousy and not envy.

I was envious of my friends success and higher pay but I never wanted to deny them or dream of their failure.

It did motivate me and was one of the reason why I quit my public sector job for private sector.

I think everybody have different path and that learning to accept it is maturity. The mindset of being better than them is terrible for me. I focus on what they have that I lack and what can I improve upon. I also accept that I wasn't as good as selling myself as some of my friends are especially coming from an ESL background. But I've come to term with that and focus on building my skill set that I lack and deem important to me.

The people that do better than me are something I use as a road map but I make sure not to waste time day dreaming about being in their position or to over think it. It's a waste of time because there are tons of other things I can be doing right now (improving in many area of my life instead of day dreaming).
How expensive is transporting garbage?
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Ok, to answer your question I don't think mainstream languages like C/Java/C# will ever gain the tools to do what you want. You have to start from scratch.

(Like many others in that group, I'm trying to start from scratch: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/master/subx/Readme.md. My focus isn't directly on the tools you describe. But hopefully it'll one day be closer to the main trunk of evolution rather than the dead end the current mainstream seems to be. And it will support a more flexible software stack that can adopt such tools.)
People say that all the time (we could take all that money from X and invest in Y). It's called a false dichotomy.
Glyphosate is no till farming already and keeps the soil in place with the dead weed while it decays.

Farmers aren't paying money to spray it for shits and giggles.

Although it would be interesting to see both a robotic mechanical weed killer's operation, performance, and economics in comparison.
A friend who worked at google told me once they would invariably get better insight on usability by just following a few individual users around a task vs. analyzing their zillions and zillions of site visits.
Blizzard vs. Bnetd (2002)
Unfortunately I used bandwidth informally (how most people use it), to mean something measured in bits per second, not Hertz.

You're absolutely right that SNR plays a role. But I don't see why you need to map to symbols.
Most of California agriculture is engaged in extracting fossil fertility that came from the ocean. Salmon runs -> bear poop -> soil for thousands of years. We killed all the bears and all the fish so this cycle is now unidirectional.
Indeed, it's compiler implementors, not academics.

However, the performance impact of optimizations that take advantage of UB is not known, and is potentially very large. It would be a very interesting experiment to modify a C/C++ compiler so that every C/C++ program has defined semantics in terms of a simple array-of-bytes abstract machine, and see how much slower the generated code is compared to the regular compiler.
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I see your point of view and respect it. I think hackathons may not be everyone and my original thought was I felt companies using hackathons as a way to benchmark developers (as if we are machines) based on their output.

I could be wrong but that's just how I feel about it.

Lastly, if I were to organize a hackathon. I think the the first I would do would be making it at least a week long instead of 2-3 days. In addition, I would make it required to not allow participants to stay more than 8 hours each day. After all when I think of hackathons, I think it's a time to tinker with technology and come up with something cool. NOT staying up for 3 days straight to win some prize.
Why are programmers not treated like CEOs in terms of pay levels?

I believe it’s mainly attributable to the capitalist hierarchy we live in. Those in and around the ownership of companies make the most money. In large part because of the leverage that the labor/employees provide. As the world has opened up with free trade, businesses have scaled and this has increased further with the internet and computers.

Those selling services to business owners i.e. M&A bankers (glorified real estate agents for businesses), M&A bankers and CEOs have all become richer and better compensated as business owners have gotten richer.

It’s all about power, position and where you sit in the hierarchy that dictates how much you get paid and not necessarily the value you bring to the table.

Having said all of this, I’m still a capitalist and I’m trying to play the game...ex-software developer turned investment professional...
> Curious why they don't spin some of these out, or sell to, independent businesses. Reader looks like it could have at least been profitable.

Probably because of self-competition and proprietary shared dependencies; Reader, IIRC, was killed partially because it was incompatible with the way some of it's internal infrastructure dependencies were being evolved to support other services with more promising business prospects; it couldn't practically be sold off as is (and even if the infrastructure was forked, the people maintaining it wouldn't go with it, since they were being retasked.)

And lots of Google products that are killed are killed in favor of other Google products with overlapping markets, so selling them off would mean Google would be fueling competition to the services it wanted to focus on.

In many cases, I suspect both factors apply to individual products.
The worlds most polluted river: Citarum, Indonesia
This point was the overarching point of my talk at netdevconf. We are going to need more ipv4.
Neal Stephenson's recently published Fall touches on this topic as well. Makes for some nice speculative fiction.
If the same exact thing happens to every user, you don't need sampling. You can't possibly have a relevant bias while choosing
Open carry seems less scary to me than concealed carry.

If you're advertising the fact you have a weapon you almost certainly aren't going to need to use it, whereas who knows which person might have a concealed weapon, and for what purpose?
http://www.forbesindia.com/article/innovation-special/18-ind...

EDIT: Since Hacker News won't allow me to post a reply. I am editing this post here.

You misunderstood what he said. He said that "majority of Indians" are doing cutting-edge research in foreign Universities. Not "majority of cutting-edge research" are being done by Indians. Both have different meanings. Most Indians who travel to foreign countries get higher education grants/fellowships to work on cutting-edge research. Very few Indians actually travel for undergraduate courses. India has prestigious universities like IITs/NITs which are equal to and in some cases better than Western counterparts. The reason why Indians travel to Western countries for research is because of lack of research grants to carry out Scientific experiments that might run into many millions/billions of dollars. In other words, this is brain drain at its finest.
Erosion is why there is soil in the first place. Moss and lichens for one create it from rocks.
It may be worth emphasizing that the context of this post is a Twitter thread claiming 10x developers were worth actively recruiting even though they don’t mentor, keep odd hours, don’t communicate, etc. there are certainly exceptional engineers especially in the context of a given company. There are also prima donnas who may be talented but in most cases justify a hard pass.
Last I checked they were still ahead in single-core, just more expensive. I'm willing to disable spectre/meltdown protection.
That's just a basic precondition, not enough to acquire wealth.

You could "not lose wealth" all your life, spend the least you can, save money in the bank whenever you can, work your ass off until your 70s, and still be pretty poor.

Wealth is created by creating new businesses and spending wisely to invest in opportunities, not by being frugal.
What's wrong with handicap parking? Is it being abused?
An aspect of this story I've not seen addressed (and if it has, please point me to references): commercial large-aircraft aviation has achieved an impressive safety record through a process of continued incremental safeety refinements, but in doing so it seems to have created several notable path-dependencies both locking in old designs and strongly resisting new ones, particularly in larger aircraft. The Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner are notable exceptions, and each has proved problematic -- the A380 being discontinued in 2021 (238 presently built), and cost overruns, delays, andconcerns with both aircraft. The 737 series has seen over 10,000 aircraft built since 1968 (compare against 1,551 for the 747, introduced the same year). Boeing's jet airframes fundamentally trace back to designs from the early 1950s (367-80), and its first cemmercial passenger jet, the 707, was only retired this year, having seen first service in 1958.

Airbus's 737 MAX competitor, the A320 neo/ceo, is based on the A320 series first introduced in 1986, with about 8,900 aircraft built.

Looking at development cost for these aircraft over the years (and considering failures including Boeing and Concorde SST) is instructive, all prices ~2001-2019 dollars (or other currency), launch date in parenthesis:

367-80: $149 (1954)
707: ? (1958)
737: ? (1968)
747: $7.2 billion (1968)
Boeing 2707 SST: ? (cancelled 1971)
Concorde: £7.67 (1976)
A340: $3.5 billion (1986)
A340neo: >$1.3 billion (2012)
787 Dreamliner: $32 billion (2007)
A380: €25 billion (2003)
737 MAX: $3 billion (2014)

The possible exceptions are smaller aircraft development scaling up 9Embrar and Bombardier, notably), and possible entry by Chinese manufacturers (COMAC), each of which skewers the path-dependency risk from different angles
Thanks. My bullshitometer was going off but I’m not a biologist.
> Modern C++ is as safe as any language you can name

It absolutely isn't. C++ will always have the looming spectre of undefined behaviour.

I've seen repeated instances of undefined behaviour in respected textbooks: initializing a struct by zeroing it out with memset. It'll probably continue to work fine on MSVC/x64, but presumably the (very knowledgeable!) author didn't realise C++ doesn't guarantee that null will be bitwise zero. Or perhaps they didn't care, and were fine with introducing undefined behaviour into their example code (the kind of sloppiness that demonstrates the value of safe languages).

I suppose you could argue that isn't modern C++, but that would be weak sauce given that we're discussing the safety of the language.
Good point. I think that's the fundamental problem why most people don't care about internet privacy or mass surveillance. It's invisible and very easy to pretend it isn't there. I'm not sure what can be done about that.
>Terry Gross is the best regular interviewer in the US.

This is the part i disagreed with. All of your other statements serve to qualify this assertion. I have great respect for her staff, but i find her interview style over-the-top and self aggrandizing.
What you don't perceive is why medical education has to be that way in the current state of affairs. Yes, has to.

You may be brilliant at other things, but your analysis of this particular problem is no better than the doctors you describe.
It's not the same channel, because DSL requires equipment fairly close to the subscriber. You can't transmit DSL on telephone utility poles for miles, like you can dialup.
> their isn't outrage as a service on twitter

There isn't? What are all those social media managers doing ?
D-mannose is surprisingly effective.
Surely not "because of the borrow checker", since it's trivial to relax its enforcement with very limited runtime overhead. The tasks that essentially require GC (and this is pretty much always the case, even wrt. C!) are those where you're dealing with general graphs, potentially with cycles, and where the overall profile is such that you can't simply deal with it by allocating everything within an arena and then wiping it when you're done. This is where something like LISP traditionally shines, but Go of course ships with a well-designed concurrent GC that makes it a viable candidate in this space.
'For you... anything.' Barclays Libor emails paint ugly picture (2012)
Thx for the pointers to the work and talks!
My previous employer did a lot of cloud migration/integration work for clients. They erred in their sales strategy where cloud became 'the only thing we'll talk to clients about'. In doing so, they not only dried up their sales pipeline, but lost most of their existing customer base as well.

This (attempted) change to the partner internal-use licensing feels like it's cut from the same cloth - The existence of IUR didn't seem to be an issue previously and the need to change it now doesn't pass the sniff test.

Probably a better play here would be to give partners a choice - Each year you can have the IUR OR equivalent entitlements in Azure/0365. That gives partners a transition path, within a construct where the deal can be sweetened/tweaked as necessary, and doesn't make the mistake of brow-beating anyone towards cloud adoption (which tends to have the opposite effect).
Yeah human waste fertilizer sounds like a very good way to get outbreaks.
Yeah, one problem is that on the current internet, if people are not constantly posting low value crap on social media, they are hard to discover, and they're ranked down just for inactivity. But this system would support ranking just on the number of domain recommendations, and people would be able to make tools to do their own ranking (eg. how many people I recommend recommend domain X would be my rank for domain X,...), etc.

But I think, it would need to be decentralized, to avoid single DB somewhere that could be abused and manipulated, or lost.

But if you have to use a tool to read the graph from the web yourself, and people have to upload recommendations to their own server, and have them directly associated with their domain, that may encourage saner behavior, too.

If someone wants to make a centralized public search for this graph, so that people who don't see value in building their own index/ranking could search for content too, that would be possible.

But the key aspect would need to be the distributed nature. It would not need any cryptography either, just a bunch of text files at the simplest level.

The graph would be out there on web servers, the creativity would be in creating the tools to scrape it, rank stuff, and searching through it. And that could even be done in some incremental way (without the need to scrape it all at once).
By bringing in people with accessibility needs. Few ways:

1. Large cities have accessibility Meetups, go to one and strike up a conversation and offer to pay someone to user test your software while you watch.

2. Hire a company/contractor that specializes in accesabilty audits.

3. Hire someone with an accessibility need. They will be unable to do their job till you fix your accesibilty problems.
This is like saying Michael Jordan doesn't exist.

He does exist, and when he was playing, he elevated the whole team. When he was paired with Pippen, it was amazing.

It wasn't just that he scored, but how the rest of the team responded.

10x engineers are like this. They are often good on their own, but pair them with a good team and watch out.
The iPod Hi-Fi was another, and lest we forget Ping, RIP.
I like them, but I have a somewhat soft typing touch and don't bottom them out (they're harder to bottom out than most switches, too). I don't know if lighter switches (which are likely going to be easier to bottom out) might be better for joints.
The tragedy of the commons strikes again.

Luckily there's bacteriophages waiting in the wings.
I can't really answer where I learned this stuff. I got interested in typed functional programming languages and one thing just led to another. I accumulated my knowledge from various places. For example, I first heared about the Curry-Howard correspondence from a page on the Haskell Wiki, but at the time, I had to go to its Wikipedia article to understand it.

I learn type theory from reading on the Internet. My father is a programmer, but he mainly uses C++, so he wouldn't know type theory.

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have learned about type theory if it weren't for the Advanced Topics subculture. My first exposure to programming was with Scratch, and on the Scratch "Advanced Topics" forum (ATs), there is a subculture of people (ATers) who are more knowledgeable about programming than the average user and enjoy pushing Scratch to its limits. (I guess you could say that the ATers are hackers.) One of my friends from the ATs is interested in programming language stuff, and many people there are Lisp hackers. So, the poeple in the ATs are probably responsible for stimulating my curiosity and directing me towards functional programming and PL theory. However, I wouldn't say that I learned type theory from the ATs.

Oh yeah, I also learn type theory from people on the Fediverse (the federated social network that Mastodon uses), as there are people there who are knowleadgable about type theory.
The whole discussion is derailed anyhow. Most knee-jerk reactions I've read so far seem to deny the existence of any productivity difference between individuals at all or claim that those 10x engineers must be so efficient because they're anti-social assholes.
Getting mugged is an experience too I suppose
There already is an underwater hotel in the Maldives...
Apartment listings making that much money? Wow!
Everything is possible if you patch your kernel...
Wow, that's not cheap (normal price of £32 per month, currently on offer for £24 per month). Is there support from the healthcare system or do you have to pay everything yourselves?