skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was homeless for nearly six years. During that time, random men who realized I was homeless would either offer me cash for sex or ask if I needed a place to live.

Meanwhile, attempts to figure out how to earn an income were met very dismissively. Attempts to figure out how to network on HN got me essentially nowhere.

I have written pieces that did well on the front page of HN. My Patreon remains underfunded and I get damn little in the way of paid work.

Those experiences inform my opinion.

My previous handle was Mz. It was briefly on the leader board, then I changed handles.

Between the two accounts, I have more than 45k karma. If it were under one handle, I would be respectably high on the leader board.

You can go ahead and act like I'm just some bitch with an attitude problem, but I appear to be the only woman to have ever made the leader board here. Surveys suggest HN was as much as 98% male at one time. There do not appear to be scads of other women successfully fitting in and advancing their careers here the way men routinely do.

This forum is run by the most powerful business incubator on the planet. It is essentially the global old boys club of our era.

Being able to adequately fit in to make the leader board still fails to make it a networking opportunity for me.

So if I'm some bitch with an attitude problem, where are all the "good" women doing it right? All the evidence seems to be I fit in here better than most women and it still is inadequate to help me establish a middle class income.
That is not what I said. No, of course not. But if you ONLY teach Marxism and NOTHING ELSE you are doing the world a huge disservice. Marxism and other ideologies should be taught. Definitely. And they should teach the good, the bad and the ugly. If you want to know what that means, read The Gulag Archipelago for perspective.

Education should not be about indoctrination. Sadly there's a lot of that going on. I am not some crazy right wing guy, not even close. I'm just sick of what our universities have turned into. Someone goes to school to study computer science and they are treated to a solid dose of rosy-glasses Marxism. Those who go into humanities are in for full-on indoctrination. This is a horrible disservice to humanity.

Again, someone please tell me where the intersection between Marxism and Computer Science exists. I've been in CS/Engineering for over 30 years and can't find it.

Why aren't kids reading the Greek philosophers? Plato's Republic is a BRILLIANT piece of work. Aristotle, Socrates. Move forward from that, read Descartes, Kant, Adams and others. So much to learn. So much perspective to acquire. But no, we force kids into immersion in some of the most destructive ideologies known to man. And for what?

Not go off on a tangent, but this is also what is happening now with the whole Climate Change mess. That poor girl from Sweden is being used in vile ways. One of the worst example of indoctrination I have seen in my life. The only thing I that comes to mind that is worse than that are kids indoctrinated into terrorism and hatred. What depths has society sunk to?

Before someone jumps on me. Yes, of course Climate Change is real. Nobody is saying it isn't. And yes, of course we added 100 ppm of CO2 in the last ~1000 years. The issue is, no, we are not all going to die in 12 years and, no, none of what they want to do will help anyone for tens of thousands of years. This is a mess and using children in pursuit of political objectives is a horrific ugly thing.
I am gonna guess, this is not true. Some are required to use it in corporate environment.
As an end user: are the things you can do with it the same as with anothet phone? Can you take equally good photos with another brand of phone? Yes. Can you run the same AAA games? Yes. Can you run the same apps (apart from ones Apple deliberately limits to iOS)? Yes. Do you get the same network speed? Yes.

I'm not saying there aren't small differences. The secure enclave is very nice, and I understand that for audio creation it's significantly better than Android phones.

But these advantages in some niches (and disadvantages in others, like cost, storage, display size etc) are not sufficient to say that "the technology is clearly superior". It's not, it's just different.
JRE, Flash and IE... what could possibly go wrong
> I continue to struggle to make ends meet. I'm currently broke.

I'm sorry to hear that.

> It has resulted in nearly zero professional connections

I looked at your website a bit, but I am curious. Is it too much to ask what kind of professional connections do you seek? Maybe somebody around this thread has something for you, by sheer coincidence.
> No need for powershell. You have bash now

honestly, powershell is a superb weapon. Yes the syntax is .net-ish and not my preference but really the functionality is high.
You moved the goal posts on me. But the solution for your next scenario is actually pretty trivial though isn’t it?

You don’t really need what you call locking in a single-threaded world. You just need a state machine.
That's very hardcore, but I agree with your logic.
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I am incredibly impressed with your level of s/paranoia/detail. What do you do for a living that requires that much rigorous static data retention.
Argument from ignorance is a specific kind of logical fallacy. It’s where you argue for something by saying, in effect, “we don’t know that it’s not true”.

If a hypothesis leads you to test for something and collect (dis)confirming evidence, And your argument hinges on the evidence, then we aren’t arguing from ignorance.
10 years on Mac and I’m still missing the Windows Explorer. One feature only: The directory tree in the left handside.
I think you just proved his point.
Galileo/GPS/BeiDou/Glonass Open Source Monitor
Mr. Robot was a liar!
sadly directory opus is for sale :)
I blog. (For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064999) Patreon supporters or tips would be nice.

I do resume work. Five pages per week of that would keep me in groceries.

I also do other things, not pertinent to the HN crowd.

There are other goals I'm working on. But those are the most immediately actionable.
New father myself. Honestly, you can't prepare. You just have to be flexible and agile because every kid is different and what works for you might not work for other kids.

Personally, I project managed and over-engineered the hell out of this parenting thing. Alway iterating. Always A/B testing. Always trying to improve my metrics. That's how I personally managed not to get overwhelmed.

The other thing to consider is that people have been doing this for thousands of years. If a single teenage parent can do it, I think two 30 something adults with good high-paying jobs can manage.

I seem to be having a much easier time than everyone else I know, so maybe this strategy is working.

If you want concrete tips:

- Learn to change a diaper like a pro. Practice this. It should take 30 seconds for pee diapers. Practice this left and right handed.

- Learn to soothe a baby like a pro. Practice this. Try everything. You can learn this. It's not magic.

- Wear a carrier so you can do hands-free parenting. In the first few months, the baby spends most of its time sleeping. With a carrier, you can still do things with two hands.

- Retrain your sleeping schedule. Don't fight it. Adjust. You'll find you'll have more energy than before with less sleep.

- Don't fear co-sleeping, but start crib training as soon as possible (we started at 2 months). Don't expect it to work overnight. Plan for at last 4 weeks of gradual sleep training.

- First 3 months are pretty "easy" because the tasks are very straight forward and well-suited for engineering minded people. It gets tough when they can start walking, which happens around 12 months. Then it really gets tough when they start forming opinions around 24 months.
Also this wording - "Talos lets you treat the cluster as the machine"
Wireworld, Cellular Automation for Electronics
Yeah, we call that internalized misogyny
Under fractional banking, almost all money is created via debt. Government issues debt which is bought up buy banks which allows the government to issue new money including cash. It is purely created from thin air.

The asset I put in bank as deposits are too derived via this mechanism. It is an asset to the bank because they have lent it to the government. Part of it is a liability to them because i have lent it to them to further loan it out in multiples which become their assets ..... infinite recursion.

It is turtles all the way.
You're proving my point that they are tied ?
Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to JPMorgan’s Data Breach
> and the only way to know if you need await is to peruse docs (hoping that they're accurate) or judiciously sprinkle it everywhere.

Knowing whether what you’re calling is async is part of knowing what you’re calling at all. Sprinkling await everywhere to try to mask the difference is horrifying. (I kind of wish it didn’t work on non-thenables for that reason – half the time, it’s a bug.)
You may borrow priors that are personal but calibrated based on reading statistics: accusations are real at a 3/4 rate, about 1/3 of people have been sexually assaulted ever, and in 9/10 of sexual assaults it is not the assaulter's first time.

I personally would not say that 3/4 is "most", but I don't think any kind of blanket statement can occur below 7/8, and usually I prefer to think in nines or other logarithmic scales very close to certainty or uncertainty.

We need to have evidence before we can make certain reasoned decisions. Without evidence, we need to listen, consider, and keep ourselves open to possibilities.
LTO is used in the film industry for long term archival. I own a LTO8 drive. Sourced from Maxx Digital in Orange County, CA. Talk to Matt Stone and he'll spec one for you. Tell him Mark Maunder sent you. :-)

The drives are bloody expensive. Mine was around $5k.

LTO8 tapes are still hard to come by even though the patent dispute is settled. This should change soon.

The software to archive to tape is clunky and frustrating but it works. I use something free that integrates with Finder on Mac. I'm away from my office so dont remember what it's called.

The main benefit is that the tapes last for half a century and are very cheap per TB once you have made the initial investment in the drive. Very good for long term archival of films and source footage which is what I use it for.
Edge is no longer a purely Microsoft product, it's now based on Chrome(Chromium) [0], or will be soon, I haven't followed this closely.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...
> you can buy cheap LTO-7, reformat them to M8 and get 9TB of native storage

Note: You can't reformat them this way. This is a permanent choice you make with a blank tape.
Please, this.

Synchronous effectful imports are already are the source of so much frustration, and now we're adding asynchronicity to it?

Just export a init function and let your users choose when/where to run your effectful initialization code, sync or async.
I'm just getting started on electronics for an audio project, but the Arduino setup of compiling code on my regular computer and uploading it over USB to firmware seems pretty nice? Since I'm never going to connect it to the Internet or even a monitor, why does Ethernet or HDMI matter? Let alone 4K HDMI.

It seems like that's more about having a cheap desktop computer than doing electronics? But I already have a desktop computer.
A lot of the downvotes here are sort of cowardly. I mean, perhaps there is some general consensus to contradict rolltiide if we refer to the status quo in terms of what universities have chosen to adjudicate, but it is in fact more complicated with people with differing ideas. That isn't an attack on your perspective, it's literally just stating an observation that makes no moral judgement.
Uber's lackluster IPO factored in to the decision. An IPO by We before Uber means there's less data on how much investors value a brand.
They are much faster for analytical queries, not for transactional ones. If they were overall faster they would be the default relational databases.
I can't find any either. Just stuff about the meme,[0] and the woman who started it.

But at least two frats were using the first one as an initiation ritual.

0) https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/die-cis-scum
How unbelievably stupid. After years of progress, we've finally gotten to the point where e-cigarettes are not only a much less disgusting alternative to smoking, but they're also equally satisfying and more convenient. If they end up being banned completely, it will just push the market underground and we'll go back to homemade/cheap Chinese mods and questionable quality juices.

There should be regulation and safety testing, not outright bans.
From Making $15/Hour Part-Time to Making $60k+ as a Software Engineer in 1 Year
How far do you go with that? Have you examined your CPU with an electron microscope? What about the motherboard? Every peripheral? Where does it end? At some point you have to trust someone.
Most accurate summation of Google I've seen. It boggles the mind how many users on HN defend google out of some sort of Stockholm Syndrome.
thats not quite true. Edge BETA is the chromium based.

Edge is still wholly MS
> Everyone still calls it "IE", even though they're referring to Edge.

Citation? Is this actually a thing?

Honestly I don’t believe you, mostly because your scenario involves people actually using Edge in sufficient volume that “everyone calls it IE” is supposed to be a meaningful thing.
So Objective C became the Visual BASIC and Swift became the .Net Framework for Apple?
The corporate Standard Operating Environment grinds slowly and not particularly fine.
zstd looks good but it's only three years old, so use cases need to fit in the lifetime of today's platform. gzip is about to turn 27 and everyone has heard of it, which makes me pretty confident in finding decoders after another decade or two.

(Actually this problem is why I haven't owned a tape drive for a while.)
I beg to differ. Early on boys will pick up wood staff and play fight. They need no hint here.
Also IIRC you cant do this yourself with a regular LTO7 tape and drive. I think you need some kind of drive shuttle or you need to buy the tapes preformatted by someone who has the right gear. I have an LTO7/8 drive and I cant do this.
Welcome to the 21th century my friend. You may leave your "winforms" (?) on the table next to you and stand in awe of our magnificant NPM tree.
While we're throwing out book recommendations, I'll mention one by William Poundstone, who's quoted in the article.

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (2006)

If you want more background on Thorpe, or Shannon, or a layman's view of gambling and information theory, it's a fun read.
yup legacy is a killer.
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The problem is that there's numerous conflicts of interests and a strong possibility for abuse.

A lot of people on HN seem to have an "assume everything is okay until there is insurmountable evidence that it has been catastrophically wrong for a long time" approach to regulating corporations. Historically this approach has allowed corporations to abuse workers, customers, the environment, and whoever/whatever else is profitable to abuse.

Amazon isn't some ethical outlier of a corporation: they have plenty of ongoing history of worker abuses and leveraging their power in one sector to gain unfair advantage in another. So why would this be any different?

So no, I don't think people are misunderstanding this, I think they're approaching what Amazon is doing with an appropriate level of skepticism. It's incredibly naive to assume that Amazon is only going to use this in the positive ways outlined in their press releases.
I'm not sure what data you are looking at but most NA production is online as the current prices are profitable so most models show little increase in production coming from NA.
FlubuCore – a .NET cross platform build and deployment automation system
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For the impatient, could you summarize it for the tape?
sure, but they are really slow. It depends on your use cases.
Sorry I was wrong it's asm.js for rust. Scala does have an amazing first party backend that I love using
That explains why the jquery based script I wrote to change the alpha channel of an image didn't work in Edge whereas it worked in all the other modern browsers I tested.

edit:clarity
Their job is destroying macbook dominance to usher in a new era of chromebooks.

I'd rather they stopped trying, and quit.
And i disagree with you? What you consider big and heavy i consider basically feather weight. Its light, has a great keyboard, decent battery and all the ports. it's perfect. i don't want it any lighter tbh.

Maybe there should be a 15" MBP lite that is just that?
WSL1 is emulated syscalls and a filesystem. It had some quirks.

WSL2 is a lightweight VM and is Linux. It has some new quirks.
I'm always on the close lookout for stuff like this because until recently I maintained some C code that really ought to use threads but can't afford the extra stacks/context switching. Here's my current view:

- "Protothreads" are just the old switch statement coroutine trick. Local variables do not persist across async switches - this is expected and not surprising but that doesn't make it any less unnerving, it would be very easy to accidentally introduce very hard-to-debug problems in code using this technique. None of the author's examples expose this limitation!

- async.h seems to be just the addition of a per-protothread structure where you can store your state (where the old coroutine trick typically has people just using static variables). This improves things a little but the author's examples still don't highlight the major issue that local variables don't persist. I suspect they didn't mention it because it seems so obvious, but that doesn't mean it isn't important.

I worked for about 2 years on code that's perfectly suited to these techniques (i.e. software that manages inherently parallel procedures, but that cant use actual threads), spent lots of time considering them, but in the end I think it's just better to manually manage your flow control. You end up with state coming in and out of functions as struct members (which is exactly the main idea of async.h IIUC) and the flow of your code doesn't look very naturally like the flow of the procedures it's actually managing. The solution IMO is just to code carefully, write comments, and draw diagrams.

My C files like this start with a couple pages of prose outlining the operation of the HW they're interacting with (if it was not interacting with HW, it would probably describe the protocol it's implementing, or the user interaction it's facilitating), and how that relates to the design of the SW in the file. Once you have that, I think the reader can see how the slightly unnatural function boundaries map onto elements of the broader system.

Sorry to be negative, these headers are cool and interesting and I'm glad people invent them. I just don't think we should use them in important software.
Perhaps not as easy as you think - female on male rape happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender
Shinsei bank in Japan requires IE (not edge) to use online banking. Macs aren't supported.
Yes, because civilization collapse hits immediately in a single year, not a tens of years to century...

One year is good for surviving something local, like a hurricane or landslide or such.
Huawei Watch GT 2 Specifications and Price
You can tell a lot about humans by their appearance.
No chrome, no ie..
What is left is safari and firefox
The LG gram series of laptops convinced me MBPs could definitely be thinner and lighter.
> What will the self-taught candidate do at this point?

Generally self taught people will have built something. I'd generally consider that the definition of self taught and would not include people that have only done self directed learning.
Google, please tell me how to update Chrome without keystone.

Found non-functional system update engine. Please reinstall Google Software Update from https://dl.google.com/mac/install/googlesoftwareupdate.dmg
KSUpdateEngine no ticket to update for the specified product ID.

I don't want a "System update engine"... This is baked into Apple's AppStore. It works very well. Use that. You don't need access to my system.
Not everything needs to be structured in oppressor-victim dynamics so you can slap a label on it. That's like calling the male-only draft externalized misandry.
Does chromium suffer the same malware?
> who are being oppressed, harassed for reading banned books, punished for criticizing party officials, put into re-education labor camps, even having their organs harvested

Apparently I do not believe this is happening in China and you do. Maybe I am brainwashed by Chinese government or you are affected by all those western media. Anyway, Chinese government cares not so much about what western media says -- they have been saying that China is going to collapse for so many years. Instead, Chinese government on the one hand tries to solve some of the problems faced by China, on the other hand uses propaganda involving patriotism and ethnic identity to unify people within. Whether this way can work in the end is still unknown -- maybe yes, then guess fewer and fewer people will still talk about democracy is the only way to govern the world; or maybe not, then China is definitely be not better than Russia: before USSR's collapse, people are poor; after its collapse, people are still poor and only a few people benefited from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)
Corporate Environment / Active Directory Federations / Windows Group Policy Enforcements / SSPNEGO or Kerberos or SmartCard Login with IE.

Yeah sure, the new Edge Chromium is light years away from this
I've written about it a few times here, but unfortunately I haven't yet documented it in any great level of detail.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20856742

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16566958
Articles like this are a dime a hundred. I'm not sure why this was even submitted, much less how it made it to the front page.
I am. As it stands, the latest MacBook Pro is too heavy and bulky for me to comfortably carry. Make it more powerful and lighter and I will have a reason to upgrade.
I've been a SWE at Google for a while, been promoted a couple times, been a tech lead a couple times. Pretty much always worked 40 hours a week, and I don't think this is unusual. There might be some folks working 50 hours, but I suspect in most cases that's because they want to work 50 hours.
Your first statement makes sense. I don't agree with the rest though.

>> Yes, climate change will cause issues. Then again, the last glacial maximum was fairly recent, only ~20k years ago. Climate change has happened and will happen. And the world won't end. Either the Earth's systems will adapt, or we'll find a technological solution. Or maybe everyone will simply move to Canada, Russia, Greenland and Antarctica

There is a limit to the rate at which the ecological systems can cope up with the damage we are doing. We have no right to go on abusing the Earth's systems just because humans can save themselves using technology.