skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But mostly B in my experience.

I went from being the spry youngster (mid-30s) at one company to being the old veteran at a startup, so this is a subject that is often on my mind.

I have definitely seen things like the young people saying some piece of knowledge I have is "obsolete" because they think, for example, that ORMs are a bold new concept that will invalidate the need for databases, just like they were 15 years ago. Especially in node, which trends young, there's a lot of reinventing the wheel, mostly due to a lack of awareness of older tools, although also because of contempt for anything older than 12 months.

I think another side of this is that the old folks are always telling the younger programmers "no." We've seen all the pitfalls, usually because we ignored our elders when we were spry, and we don't want younger programmers to make the same mistakes. What this comes out to is a lot of "do it my way," and then a bunch of predictions of doom that may befall you a year down the road. Nobody wants to hear that.
It sounds like potentially your water/electrolyte balance was more the issue than simply saying you over consumed water. As the water consumption increases your intake of sodium, magnesium, potassium and calcium should have been equally increased. Did you do that? Did you have a blood panel done to see if you were deficient in any vitamins/minerals?
The risk of hyponatremia is pretty low - you'd need to sustain drinking over about a quart per hour, or much larger amounts in a short period of time. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318619.php It takes some sustained effort for most people to do that (and many bathroom breaks).

Drink when you're thirsty. Realize that often "wanting something to eat" can be a symptom of thirst or satisfied by getting a drink. Drink a full glass of water 15 minutes before eating. You'll be fine.
Maybe this is well known but I didn't understand why you would suggest wearing Winnie the Pooh merch. A quick search lead me to this article, linking here I'm case it is of interest to others:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855
“Basic requirements for living” though isn’t a pile of cash; it’s food, water, shelter, clothing and some form of transportation. I’ve yet to see a UBI scheme proposed that provides those things to people so they can spend their time pursuing other ventures.
Any political voting system will need a trusted third party to run the voter registration/identity system, so I doubt the lack of practical homomorphic encryption is blocking this. There are other voter-verifiable systems that don't rely on HE for trustworthy counting:

https://www.chaum.com/publications/AccessibleVoterVerifiabil...

The major problem with online voting is that people can be coerced into voting against their wishes outside the watchful eye of election authorities. This may be worth the increase in voting ease, but it's where the real debate is.
> The recent progress feels like deep learning in 2010, right before everyone realized it worked

Does it work, though?
We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive
Finance 101: Being cash-rich is a major advantage in environments where fundraising is a major hurdle, and where the funds can be put to productive use very quickly. For example, for a startup to raise funds for a major marketing campaign, it has to go through a lengthy and attention-demanding process of pitching to VCs and negotiating terms. Hence why having a big war-chest ready to fire, can be a competitive advantage for a startup.

For big public companies, it's the opposite. If a company wants to fundraise 10% of its market-cap, either for an acquisition or major investment, it doesn't require nearly as much effort. It can issue new shares, and immediately sell them to investors the next day for cash. The hard part is finding profitable investments, not raising the funds to make it happen. Hence why there's little competitive advantage in hoarding cash.

On the flip side, having a big cash hoard is bad for your investors' returns. It bloats your market-cap, without having any impact on earnings. This means that your P/E ratio is now inflated, and your earnings yield is reduced. From an investor's perspective, if you have invested $100 in the company, you're only only getting back $6 in profits every year, not $7 or $8.

Another way to look at this, is that Google/Apple invest their cash hoard very conservatively, in things like short-term treasuries, because of which their returns are very low. Whereas most of their investors would far prefer to invest the money in investments that produce better returns, such as the S&P 500. By not returning the cash hoard to its investors, Google is essentially forcing them to make low-return investments that they would never make otherwise. Of course, investors aren't going to be happy with this, and they will retaliate by lowering their valuation of GOOG stock, thus depressing the share price.
Anecdata: I've tried fasting of various kinds over the last few years, both IF (18:6) and 5-day fasts. Personally, I found great cognitive benefits from fasting, starting day 3 or 4 in the 5-day fast. That said, I found the most benefit from:

1. Maintaining a very low-carb diet (~20 net carbs spread out through the day, mostly from lemons) which I have sustained for a year so far. I occasionally cheat but not often as it takes me about 8 days to get back into ketosis after each cheat and never feels worth it after the fact

2. Exercising (weight lifting and cardio) 3 times per week

3. _Never_ eating anything with 'added sweetener', so pretty much no desserts of any kind. This includes 'neutral' sweeteners with no calories (e.g., monk fruit). It has been almost 2 years since I have eaten any kind of dessert and I very rarely miss them at this point

Doing the above, I feel amazing almost every day. I have no known bodily ailments, never get sick, have sustained energy levels all day, every day, and am my ideal weight with little fluctuation. The hardest part of sticking to my rules has been maneuvering through incessant social expectations and demands to eat particular foods, like breads, desserts, etc.
I can't even convince IT to put an SSD or increase my RAM from 8GB to 16 on this workstation. There's a process that I tried to go through and later my boss said they spent two hours on the phone with IT but it went nowhere so I asked my boss to not waste any more time on this nonsense.

I can't imagine having to justify a subscription to IntelliJ at this workplace. At least I imagine you can bring your own license to Jetbrains on a work computer here, at least that is my understanding and I won't ask anyone lest they say I am wrong!
Try like hell to save your 1.5 - 3 million and strangle your living expenses down to the bone. Then after your "retirement date" which is code for "slowly drain my principle and hope I don't live past age 80" hope to continue to land contracts on the side for clients that are smart enough to hire you.
I'm personally a fan of Sandstorm.io and hope it can continue growing and offering an alternative much more aligned with individual's interests than what the largest few software companies in the world are creating.
I remember https://serpapi.com breaking with EasyList because we use Prism.js for code syntax coloration. And Prism.js is also the name of a tracker. Opened a ticket with them. However it has been easier to just rename `prism.js` to `pri-secure-sm.js`. Not sure why author is so upset about that. It's not like they are trying to break websites on purpose.
pardon the reductionism, it feels like immutable ideas at the metalevel
If an argument is not novel (it's been presented before to many people and there is decent awareness of it), is well-understood, and is valid, then someone can use poor examples to explicate the argument and those examples do nothing to undermine the argument.

This commenter's argument was just such an argument.
What did you do with the data long term? You may not have a use for it now, but what happens when advertising agencies want it, and management decides to start selling it?

I see this argument all the time and I just don't understand how people can miss the entire forest for their individual tree. iPhones were silently recording people and it was sent to some remote location, and the user was unaware. You can make all the arguments you want about how it was safe, how the data was only used for X, blah blah blah. Nobody should care about details like that. Users were silently recorded and that data was sent somewhere, period.

Cann you imagine if someone broke into your home, was caught on video, arrested, brought to court, and argued something like "well all I did was sweep the floors! I didn't cause any damage!"?
Executive and working memory decline is a real thing that happens with age, I didn't say I'm demented to a point where I suck at my job, but I definitely felt a slight decrease from my 20's to my 30's.

> I've seen this stated many times, but nothing is forcing anyone to offer a particular salary or demand a particular salary.

I didn't think bosses& hiring managers trying to pay the minimum and get the maximum was a contentious point. Our industry is still made of young people who prefer younger people to do their work, for both economic ( many times short sighted ) and social reasons.
That’s life

It will join the graveyard of technologies was that rhetorical?
As you mention Socrates was in no way involved with the thirty, and even openly opposed their orders - fully knowing it likely meant his head would end up on their chopping block sooner or later. I have immense admiration for him since he is one of the extremely few individuals in history that, in spite of numerous opportunities to do so, did not sway from his values to benefit friend, hurt foe, or even to enrich himself. Indeed in his trial I do not see any evidence of him underestimating anything. Rather it seems he was more than willing to let himself be unjustly killed if not only to show that his views of democracy were fully justified.

And that gets back quite directly to the point of this entire thread. Many things are not well decided by consensus. Major advances in science are sometimes actively and openly embraced by all, as was the case for relativity. But many times progress is met with vigorous opposition, not even on a technical level but on an inertial one. It was none other than Max Planck that witted, "Science progress one funeral at a time."
> Because moral fiber includes some notion of acceptable ads, even if current models tend to bad.

Maybe your moral fiber. Definitely not mine.
It's not a simplification. It completely misrepresents how market makers make money. They are taking on risk and they have to handle that risk. If you're trying to make a nuanced point, then you need to get at least the basic fundamentals of the business model right.

You have written something that doesn't actually say what you mean. Frankly, the fact you think that market makers' management of risk is as relevant to their business model as a receptionist means you either don't have a good handle on what market makers do, or you're MASSIVELY over-paying your receptionists.
Sure, I also didn't mention kernel programmers, database engineers, machine learning specialists, or game engine programmers, or any of the other myriad of semi-specialized programming domains.

I am specifically talking about the kind of development that employs, at a cursory glance, more than 65% of the development workforce. The lion's share of the remainder works on executables (commercial software) that run on a consumer device (most of which, again, is incredibly similar to web-client development in 2019), and within those specialized domains, I suggest the power-law largely still holds.

If you have some numbers to suggest that embedded engineering is a particularly good field for engineers who want a profession that rewards a high degree of specialization, I'm all ears.

Also: having worked on performance-sensitive backends for most of my career, most applications are performance-sensitive only in the shallowest sense and the marginal returns for improving performance do not in general justify the cost. One can (again, like I said) seek out domains where understanding how to build very low-latency or very energy efficient or highly concurrent (or whatever measure of performance you care about - very durable? very reliable? etc.) applications matters. But that's not 80% of the work out there.

Edit: also I find embedded engineering to be a very strange choice of counter-point. My last job alongside embedded engineers (at TE Connectivity) saw two of them defect to become fungible Java backend engineers so they could find stable work and transition into management. The remainder worked on specialized switches. Their day-to-day was managing a piece of software that polled chip readers and a REST service that hosted that information. I don't recall ever overhearing a conversation about optimizing TCAM usage or packet switching latency under load or whatever, maybe some of them got to get into the weeds on that every once in awhile. I suspect, again, that this is largely akin to having kernel development skills on a team that largely operates in user-space -- not part of the 80% -- but I am absolutely not an expert in the field).

The whole point of the post was that knowledge-intensive domains exist (and are quite common, 20% is a large fraction), and that some domains reward vast amounts of knowledge (hence power-law distributed, not normally/exponentially/etc. distributed), but that you had to seek them out.
Access to platforms (and the freedom of the press) is an important topic, yes, but I'm not sure what it has to do with the question of whether the FBI calling a group of people with odious opinions a national security threat endangers their freedom of speech.
This is one reason I decided to go back to America once we had a kid. I’m not a big fan of nationalism.

Unfortunately, I’m a bit worried about American schools, many now require daily pledge of allegiance here in Washington state, which was definitely not true when I was a kid. It just feels like something China would do but the USA shouldn’t.
It simply would not make it to trial, especially if you are a person of no significance.
The problem is, when everybody thinks like this, it stays like this. With rising age People tend to change into people jobs if they can because somehow the air gets thinner as there are not that many advanced software jobs - although there certainly are a lot and even more places that do appreciate advanced abilities. On the other hand a lot of skills/experiences are transferable. E.g. some weird DB connection keep alive bug might be analogue to debug on C++, node.js and Rust. Developers with not enough experience might give up, change DBMS, refactor the whole DB layer (hoping it's MVC'ish) or even give up on the project if it's not an important one.

Also most new tech builds on the learnings of the old tech and discards outdated patterns that were possible with the existing stacks, but advanced users might have stopped using those anyways. For example Java has no multiple (class) inheritance in contrast to the much older C++.
For the client, there's ScanJS [0] which is implemented as a set of eslint rules [1] if you're using eslint.

It's a good first pass which will point out the most obvious / common security mistakes in JS in the browser. Though be warned that it will likely raise a fair few false positives. It's probably most useful as an informational dev-time tool. I wouldn't fail builds on it unless you want to be adding eslint-ignore comments everywhere :-)

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/scanjs

[1] https://github.com/mozfreddyb/eslint-config-scanjs
Polynomial and Infinity: The Nitty-Gritty Behind K+∞, Kx∞, ∞+∞ and ∞X∞
My guess is they are looking for the actual answers, not just endless discussions.
I was reminded of this article, particulraly the bit about Sally Clark's case, when I read this today:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/02/louise-porto...

It's about a woman who was jailed for killing all three of her kids. The prosecutors alleged she wanted to sleep around and she couldn't because of the kids. I'm struct by the fact that there was no direct evidence that the mother was responsible for the deaths. The only "evidence" seems to have been that it was not clear why the girls died:

Both deaths were consistent with deliberate airway obstruction, and doctors could not find “any natural reason why either, let alone both, should have died”, prosecutors said.

I would have thought that if there was uncertainty about the cause of death (and that is exactly what "the doctors could not find any natural reason" states: uncertainty about the cause of death) then there is no sufficient evidence to convict.

But, I'm going by only what's in The Guardian article and I don't know the details of the case.
This infuriates me. Intimidation and hostile attitude towards people protesting in a different country is an act of barbarianism and should be condemned internationally. In fact, the way to combat this is to further enrage, fearlessly protest the PRC patriotic machine and "poke" the hornet's nest so to speak. I've taken the pledge to never visit China and avoid Chinese goods because of shit like this. The PRC has a stronghold locally in China but their PR strategy is deeply flawed to get international cooperation, respect and dignity. The west has ideals that allow protesting of ridiculous ideas such as the KKK, sometimes with protection from the police, whilst try doing the same thing in China - last time they did that was in 1989 Tiananmen square which resulted in a massacre.
On the other side of the pond, in Canada-

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/hong-kong-protests-...

>At Simon Fraser University, a controversy over three “Lennon Walls” — fixtures where people can post notes of support or inspirational wishes — shows how tensions related to increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong may get harder to manage on Canadian campuses. At least one academic is calling on all involved — both students and universities — to take a more formal, respectful approach.

>The original Lennon Wall, located outside the main Bennett Library, was “repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, with post-it notes taken down. It’s gone for now,” said Wan.

Here's a personal account-

https://www.reddit.com/r/simonfraser/comments/ciymgc/id_like...

>I visited the Lennon Wall on campus on Friday (on the left side of the library) at 15:30. There were a handful of students speaking in Mandarin, one of them speaking very loudly (we’ll call him A). I started walking up to the wall and examining the notes closely, one other (I assume local) SFU student was doing the same as well. This student started asking if I know anything about what’s going on, so I started having a conversation with her. However, within seconds, A and his friends started walking up close to us and he started loudly interjecting his own opinion on us. It was not until the student that I was having a convo with indicated that she was having a private conversation with me that A had finally stopped. Later on, while I was still on scene, I heard A loudly say (in Mandarin) that, “if protests in Hong Kong had happened here in Vancouver, the RCMP would’ve shot all of them dead”. I found it extremely distasteful that A had said that.
> I'm skeptical that all people at these levels are that driven by their compensation.

All of your arguments make sense...except that we see people at these levels take actions to increase their compensation so frequently, even at the risk of their reputations.

I don't know about Pichai personally, nor can I explain WHY the mega-rich are so interested in getting richer when it can't possibly change their day-to-day or even long-term comfort, but there does seem to be a lot of evidence suggesting they are motivated by that.
Counter protesting is NOT the same as violence. Peaceful protests being attacked are never okay.
>Because moral fiber includes some notion of acceptable ads

Why?
I think Google invests a lot. Look at CapitalG, GV etc. And now within Google itself, 2 projects which I think are aiming to become platforms: Stadia, Fuschia.
Personally, I have been disappointed with Google in the AR front. Haven't heard much about investments/ acquisitions. OTOH, Apple has been acquihiring small teams, investing in microLEDs etc. Though, overall Alphabet's investments are much diverse.
That's an argument to be made, but there are still questions of mechanisms, dynamics, limits, etc.

Darwin proposed evolution. Mendel hypothsized genes. Crick and Watson discovered DNA's structure. Details matter.
No expert, but as a first guess, with their "insider information" (as the first party), if they believe the market undervalues them, they also expect a future correction (their price rising when they show revenue/market share/whatever proves the market wrong) and then they profit.
Unfortunately it's the nature of a wiki to get out of date. There's plenty of opportunity to contribute to services used by Firefox users or developers whether you write python, rust, JavaScript, golang, or something else. Take a look around https://github.com/mozilla-services/ and https://github.com/mozilla/.

Relatedly, I'm on the team that runs most of these services, and we're hiring! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585478
site is blocked outside the US - try a VPN if it's timing out for you
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/crypton... (2016)

> We demonstrate CryptoNets on the MNIST optical character recognition tasks. CryptoNets achieve 99% accuracy and can make more than 51000 predictions per hour on a single PC. Therefore, they allow high throughput, accurate, and private predictions.
The article includes no details on what kernel patch they applied, what kernel version is in their AMI, or if they even have SACK enabled.

Guess you're on your own, Team Databricks!
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https://qiita.com/UEFA-Europa-League/items/fd48002f4a19b0cd7f55

https://qiita.com/UEFA-Europa-League/items/ab30629ee814dcea25ce

https://qiita.com/UEFA-Europa-League/items/04b0b2fb7704e3874683

https://qiita.com/UEFA-Europa-League/items/59816b54242c337ae7b4
I wouldn’t start one company. I would take a leaf out of Y Combinator’s book, and start funding lots a small startups, as well as advising them. I’d would attempt at investing in such a way that I create an ecosystem of companies that can learn from each other and support each other. I’d focus on climate resilience. Lots of current practices will be disrupted by changes we are already seeing. Easy? Probably not, but I think it could work well.
In StarCraft, you always want to be at 0 minerals and 0 gas because that means you are maximizing your investment into buildings and units. People make fun of you if you don't have the skill to optimize for this.
I don't know Sundar Pichai, but evidence suggest that folks of similar means make many decisions based on personal financial outcomes. They may not "need" the money, but it's a good scorecard.
I'd think there's a simpler way to accomplish what you said above (though in both cases, any voting mechanism that lets the voter verify their vote after the fact also runs into the problem of people complaining about encouraging vote buying).

i.e.

imagine every polling place would output to you (after you voted) a random number in the 128 bit space.

the votes are recorded with this random number. we can verify after polls closed that the voting machine has an appropriate number of votes (i.e. not more or less than people who came through the booths)

all these vote data is aggregated into public record. you can look up after the fact your random number and see that it matched who you voted for. No encryption needed (beyond the technology that goes into making a secure rng)
No, no, no. You have it _all_ wrong.

The coolest field ever is physics.

;)