skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's dominated by two kinds of people: people obsessed by the topic, in the autistic spectrum

People discussing the so-called gender gap* in software engineering education always forget a "little" details: learning to program takes a lot of time and dedication. Basically, at least two/three years of 10 hours+ a day (university classes and homework, plus personal reading and projects). Most of this time is spend alone, behind a computer. Very few people are willing to follow this lifestyle, girls even more so because of the lack of face to face human contact it implies.

* which is not a real issue anyway: the software isn't worst because of the lack of women creating it. In addition, the same people are totally fine with 80-100% girls in language and humanities degrees which means their real goal isn't "equality", which is reached already because universities don't select people and education is free (speaking of France here; we hear the same gender-gap bullshit).
That's nostarch.com/gtfo for the uninitiated.
I like it. Its clear, you can quickly find information you are looking for.

I like it more than typical generic corporate website that futures, superlatives, and doesn't even explain what they do.
> SQL injection (Go's database integration is still the wild west)

Could you elaborate on this? I thought you were safe if you used the '?' parameter replacement.
> Not saying TV needs sex and violence to be good

Apple’s new show See isn’t much if not sex and violence.
The Ecstasy Programming Language Targets Cloud-Native Computing
Accepting digital licences as identification in nightclubs in QLD is entirely optional. Seems counterproductive to have a half valid form of ID.
As a reader, "they're infinitely more portable" is absolutely one of my main reasons to buy digital.

But "bookmark can't fall out accidentally" and "can read in poor lighting conditions" are right up there, too.

I never treated paperback books as 1-time-use items, but I was also more choosy about what books I bought because I didn't have much money. (And continue that trend today, now that I do have money.) I am more likely to buy digital books on a whim, though, especially if they're cheap enough.
Unplug the cable ? :)
Amazon Advertising Spending to Reach $10B in 2019
Not my translation of course, this one is the NBV (Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling) from 2004.
Male reproductive tract;prostat,testes,,and semen
Unfortunately, Ladder-kicking is a pretty common thing in modern society. So is seeking profit at all costs.

In medicine we already see this where companies continually make new drugs that aren't always much better than the old one, but is 'better enough' that their salespeople convince doctors to use that one instead of the old one that has a generic.

What could we do to ensure that from day 1 this is universally accessible? This is VERY dangerous territory, we are talking about potentially bifurcating the human race here.
Good points. I was referring to Steve Jobs at Apple rather than Apple itself. Prior to him coming back and post his death the company has been ran by people without the same vision and capability. I suspect the culture has changed at Apple dramatically with Cook in charge and that shows in the products I feel.
I know but that doesn't answer the question how culture makes male brains bigger which is the statement of OP
I rewrote my IntelliJ plugin in Kotlin and I enjoyed the process
But as soon as you're using "Maybe", you're impeding much of a type systems strengths, as the article outlined.
Sure, here's a basic rule of thumb. We value people, just as bulk humans, at around $10mil/person. [0] (Lots of good practical philosophy at that FAQ!) Some people are better than others. I've never met somebody who's 1000x better than me, though, and I don't think that they exist; simultaneously, I'd never want to treat somebody more than 1000x worse than I'm being treated. So I think that we can cap the maximum compensation at 1000x the minimum compensation, or $10bil/yr, whichever is lower.

I don't know what you've read, but one of the important features of (capital-C) Communism is a great reduction in what can be held as personal property. A Communist typically would not argue that people be restricted in how much money they hold, but that people be restricted from holding any money at all, since money has no use within a Communist commune. I'm not arguing at all for Communism.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/environmental-economics/mortality-risk-v...
Federal level crimes often do not appear on even large corporations background checks. I told the agency I was applying with about it, but the background check came back clear when I went to work for #bigshipyardcorp. We still decided to tell them anyway.
Even worse is getting the job, keeping it for a month or two, getting fired for not disclosing your record, and then having to either: explain why you were fired or why you have the gap in your work history, on your next job application.

I'd rather disclose on the job application than continually dread my secret being found out.

If it's a problem for the company or hiring staff, I wouldn't want to work there, because I probably wouldn't be happy there.
I worked at Uber 2014-2019 and things started to feel unstable long before his ouster and long before all the chaos preceding it. His mother's tragic passing and his subsequent resignation were when the cards finished falling, but they started long before that.

he wasn't scaling as fast as the business since 2015 or so and refused to trust responsible lieutenants to run the company more reasonably. He would walk the engineering floor getting his nose in things and making changes which caused outages and regressions on New Year's Eve (our biggest day for the next six months) and no one including the CTO had the guts or ability to put him in his place. IMO he should have got rid of Jeff Holden and been head of product himself, which I think is the role he wanted to be in and the role he would be most impactful in. Holden certainly wasn't interested in the Uber product of 2015 as much as he cared about the Uber product of 2035. Playing CEO again with CK seems like a waste of money if they expect another Uber. I don't really care since it's the Saudi royal family's money being wasted though.

I don't know or care enough about him to comment on his personal ethics or whether he was the only person in his position who could have had his level of impact as you are probably implying. All I saw was him and the rest of the leadership team doing whatever they could to meet growth metrics while the day to day in engineering was awful and unsustainable and using the same things you say, as excuses to not do better.

I also don't think the business would be in any better position today if he was CEO than what Dara has done. Uber was never a 120bn$ company. It could be/have been but I don't think that Dara is any more responsible for the downfall than Travis or the board or the media darlings. The battleground cities Uber is fighting to maintain service (NY license cap, LADOT MDS standard) in are fighting back from Travis's bully behavior in those 700 cities, not Dara's. This is the natural next stage of fighting these regulations and monoplies and IMO Travis would struggle at least as much as Dara in this new battleground.
The numbers are silent.
You can log them by serializing the pre-parsed data model, unless I've misunderstood the question.
> It wouldn't have, sorry, we were a super afforable school at around ~15k/semester.

What state has universities charging that much for residents?
> One potential issue with having this on your phone is that you are unlocking your phone and handing it to the police which could be a problem for some people. Though people can still carry a card.

NSW resident. If I was driving I'd carry my physical license which I'd hand to police. If I was heading out by foot to a pub, bar, bottle shop or tobacconist I'd use my phone because that's how I pay for things. I'm not young looking but if I were, at least the phone would save me carrying a wallet.

Opal, NSW's public transport payment system, works directly with contactless payment i.e. credit cards, debit cards, phones (all phones - hi Myki!), smart watches and, unsurprisingly, dedicated Opal cards. Making licenses app-based opens up the option to leave home without anything but your phone.
The same happened with my Microsoft account (no work/enterprise account). It was locked, allegedly violating terms and services. I did absolutely nothing with this account. Besides maybe using a gmail account to register, I don't really understand the reason for the block and no details were provided of course.

Since then I tried to delete the account, but on any attempts to do so MS tries to get my phone number, which I don't want to provide. Their support is completely inexistent, because you would need to log in of course.

I would like to send them a cease and desists letter against blocking account deletion attempts. I am not sure, but I believe their conduct to be illegal in the EU where I am located. Probably would just cost me money, but they would deserve it.
Oh, you are, to the extent that you are when you directly use parameterized queries anywhere (ie, there are corner cases). But unlike Java-world and Python-world and Ruby-world, there aren't really idiomatic mainstream heavyweight database interfaces in Go-world, so if your application is dynamically composing its own SQL queries, which many serious applications end up doing, you can end up with concatenated SQL and the attendant bugs.

I'm not going to go into a fresh Django project optimistic about my chances of finding SQLI, but a database-heavy Go program, that's one of the first things I'm going to take a whack at.
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Man and Things (1947)
> This stuff always starts out with good intentions like "punishing the rich"

No. This stuff starts out with good intentions like - "not leaving people who have retired, suddenly with no pension and having to live in poverty or rely on the state, rather than on the employer pension that they had promised would be there for them". It''s not there to punish the rich.

In this case, however, the formula being used to determine whether a pension scheme is in trouble seems the problem and it needs to be reviewed urgently.
HN has loose posting standards, but /r/science is heavily moderated. They zealously delete comments witn an inch of speculation, but for some reason allow University press releases, whose only purpose is to take a science paper and dress it up in a pile of nonscience for marketing use. I don't understand why the mods there allow it.
Using EC2 for PHP and RDS for postgres isn't cheaper with Heroku than with AWS ?
How to transition from the help desk to a sysadmin job
no idea why this has been downvoted for merely stating easily accessible facts. JPeterson often points to the fact that men tend to gravitate towards professions that involve "things" (think engineering and tech etc) whilst woman tend towards professions that involve people. Medicine for example is now woman dominated in the UK. There is no use in ignoring the fact that men and woman might gravitate towards different things in terms of interest - thats vastly different than saying that men and woman are different in terms of their intellectual ability though. As the mentioned article unsurprisingly shows
You have std::variant and std::visit. https://www.bfilipek.com/2018/09/visit-variants.html
Or you can use a library: https://github.com/mpark/patterns
> If you think CO2 has an adverse affect on nutrition, then you've got to explain to me how the dinosaurs got so big.

That’s terrible argument. There are plenty of creatures much larger than us whose diets we cannot survive on.
Python + Django on AWS Beanstalk backed by Postgres on RDS.

Django REST Framework provides pretty much everything you need for a REST api.
> Say you have a gas plant that emits 1MT of CO2 in a year.

Here you are assuming we don't solve the problem as your first premise. Of course everything downstream of this will be faulty reasoning, because you are defining your start point as having already failed.

> If you capture 1MT of CO2 and then use it to make aviation fuel

Here you are taking your faulty premise and then heaping magic fantasy unicorn technology on top of it. Even if your starting point hadn't been wrong, you fail the time/carbon constraints of SR 1.5 here because this technology simply doesn't exist in a scalable way (and due to physics very likely never will).

This is the practice of climate change denial in 2019. You don't outright deny the problem or the related challenges, you simply spam and ddos the conversation with tangential confused nonsense so that no progress is made.

If you work in some kind of r&d lab on CC tech then by all means, prove me the fuck wrong, PLEASE. If you're just some guy on the internet then please please please wrap your brain around the time-carbon constraints we're solving for and stop arguing for us not to.
Personally I find it really irritating that so many people, such as the humanities teacher, suggest that technology has made life on Earth worse recently like it’s a commonly-understood truth. Yes there are problems with a handful of companies right now, but for the most part life has been improved for the vast majority of people in the world thanks to things like mobile phones.
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https://gfycat.com/robots.txt

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One step further: the moral precept proposed violates itself, if it's ever applied, by virtue of being a moral precept (and thus being a "co-science" truth claim).
> It's isn't a given that M:N threading is slower than 1:1 threading even in Rust. A particular implementation you tried exhibited that behavior.

I don't see any way around the problems of segmented stacks and FFI. There is no way to implement stack growth by reallocating stacks and rewriting pointers in Rust, even in theory. It would break too much code: there is a lot of unsafe (and even safe!) code out there that assumes that stack pointer addresses are stable. In fact, async/await in Rust had to introduce a new explicit pinning concept in order to solve this exact problem while remaining backwards compatible. And when calling the FFI, you have to switch to a big stack, which was an insurmountable performance problem. Rust code by its nature is FFI-heavy; it's part of the niche that Rust finds itself in.
Honestly Its so bad, I don't think any intern would dare to produce this as a final result.

On the other hand I have seen plenty of times when nobody had balls to tell higher up that what they produced is piece of crap
Well, if JPeterson says so... maybe it ties in with the "dragon of chaos" and the "king of order".
I should add that clubs here scan your ID which contains your full name and DOB, and can be used as half the proof required to open a bank account online.
Yeah, I had a similar experience — I studied Maths in Portugal , and that degree was about 50/50, as was Physics. A clear gender separation was visible in the (overwhelmingly female) chemistry department and the (overwhelmingly male) electrotechnic engineering department, though.
For some reason latency keeps getting worse.

https://danluu.com/input-lag/
A quick summary:

Only 6% of the ocean floor has been mapped. People at the Seabed 2030 project plan to map the ocean floor in high res by 2030.

Reasons to do this include navigation safety, ability to lay fiber optic wire and pipelines, because we don't know what's there, weather forecasts since water/temperature flows along ocean floor contours affect atmospheric flows, tsunami predictions, we could find sea wrecks.
And you still think deaths are going to be reduced by this? Read the article again. This will not go away, more pedestrians will be killed by self driving cars. Deaths will never be reduced to zero, even with self driving cars. But you will take jobs away from people driving for a living.

Public transport doesn’t work in the US because of how garbage it is. If the spent half an effort to build up a proper transportation system adoption rates would be different. I live in CA and we have some of the better transportation systems in the country. It takes me 1hr to get to work via car or 2-3 hours via public transport. Solve that problem and you’ll see people adopt it real quick.

Further the real problem is people not obeying traffic laws. Not that they can’t, they’re choosing not too. An easy solution is to but a device in vehicles that automatically cites a person for things like crossing solid lines and merging with no signal, speeding etc.
For general use, I wouldn't knock on someone using the KJV. While there are a decent number of differences between the KJV and other, more modern translations (NASB, ESV, etc), the majority of them are inconsequential. However, there are a few that are of significance. The most famous of those is the Johannine Comma (1 John 5:7). More modern translations are a result of collation from far more ancient texts, including the Oxyrhynchus Papyri that were discovered well after the KJV was translated.
I have the most trouble with phones while driving. I have a cheap little Bluetooth adapter for audio, but when it's connected and I receive a call it insists on handling that too, which proves difficult. Occasionally my wife and I will end up on a phone call where both ends are coming through the car speakers, having a conversation that way is pretty much impossible.
Previously users were just anonymous with all consequences that entailed. But even today I don't really think the spreading of disinformation is a large problem and users just do that themselves often enough. Information you get today is probably still more accurate compared to times where every info was distributed through news papers.
> How long will it take to drive across five states in a Tesla Model S as compared to a Porsche Taycan?

Audi e-tron over 1000km: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFu9pkpunuo

Hyundai Kona over 1000km: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsEdAq4N_WU

Hyundai Kona halfway across the US: https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/dr1gzm/i_...

The Porsche Taycan could do what the Kona did but faster: https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2019/products/porsche-taycan...

Taycan covering 3,425km in 24 hours straight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jSG_10_JRg

How far can the Model S go in 24 hours straight?
Under that definition, very little is research. Warp drives is research. Curing cancer is engineering.

Obviously, you have implicit constraints in mind. "Is something possible given $constraints?". And the set of those constraints is where the line between research and engineering starts to blur. If you set $constraints to "in time and under budget for the project", which seems like a very reasonable value, then it turns out that a lot of programming tasks become research work, unless you're only churning out cookie-cutter websites.
Snoke | Palpatine don't need to be jar jar.. He could be any number of bad guys...

It would've redeemed his character if he was able to infiltrate the opposition by being an imbecile.
On Mac OS iTunes and Finder manage to waste a lot of CPU spinning spinners while running g their backups. Apparently either it isn’t that easy or it’s easy to do wrong.
Maybe better pay and working conditions would help, along with the “obsolete by 40 stigma”. My wife just quit her STEM job because of a toxic work culture, brought on by a newly hired, sociopath manager (who happens to be female).
jesus christ not this bullshit again
My experience is that they work better again when you clean the contacts with rubbing alcohol.
Sure, if you change the context from what was intended then you have the power to twist the meaning of anything.

I don't understand why you are choosing to conflate a quark and a molecule of carbon. My entire point is that the usage of the word particle, which literally means "a point in space", for such a range of systems is inadequate. You can have dust particles as well, which are macroscopic and much bigger than molecules, so I'm not sure what position you're trying to establish, exactly. I know what an elementary particle is, I'm not just saying fancy words like quark and standard model because I read them in a Pop Sci magazine or skimmed a Wikipedia article. An elementary particle is a type of particle, but let's not move goalposts here.
What kind of letter was that anyways? It was not written well.
You're really overstating how hard it is to learn to program.

I'm a woman who studied physics and astronomy at university. In my final year I taught myself programming in my spare time because I was interested in it, and knew the job prospects were better than in physics. I had other hobbies and an active dating life at the time, but I still managed to get a software job straight out of university, and it's evolving into a fruitful career.

Learning to program in no way requires 3 years of monastic devotion.
>The morality of that, of course, could strongly depend on whether the codebreakers are working for the “good guys” (like the Allies during WWII) or the “bad guys” (like, perhaps, Trump or Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping).

Yeah, not so sure about that. The allies might have been the "good guys" in WWII, but before and after they have enslaved 1/3rd of humanity as subjects in their colonials empires.

And they have been busy making enemies, toppling governments, meddling, dividing and conquering, etc all around the globe before and after WWII, and during the Cold War.

So, yeah, unless we compare to bona-fide Nazis, color me unimpressed with the idea that some group is so much better to unlock QC...

Besides, wasn't Germany itself, with tons of ex-Nazi leaders, sympathizers, and supporters in all areas of post war leadership [1], best pals with said Allies a mere few years after the war? (as West Germany was a good asset to have for Cold War purposes (and East Germany for USSR for the same)

Let's say the good and bad guys are in superimposition, as finger-pointing the fashionable names to be against in US politics du jour (Trump, Putin, Xi) doesn't really inspire confidence...

[1] So much that a big demand of younger germans in the 60s and 70s was the "denazification" of the country (I'm not speaking here of the namesake half-hearted allied attempt).
Interesting. I didn't realise that banned accounts could comment at all. I'll keep an eye out for that in the future before vouching - in retrospect it does seem like an account worth ignoring.
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Yeah. Fortunately it's enough to tell a story from your junior years to pass this one.
Over my career, I've taught several people to code, from a standing start, and all of them were productive long before your 2-3 years alone --- I don't think I'm a good enough teacher to have kept anyone engaged without having them be able to get real-world tasks done after a few weeks --- and none of them spent 10+ hours a day. Programmers, I think, want to believe that serious developers have to train in a Shaolin monastery to achieve proficiency, but the reality is much more banal.

And, obviously to anyone who works in the industry, software development is a team sport. I spent a couple years as a product marketing manager back at Arbor Networks, doing no software development at all, just product pricing and definition and sales team enablement, and I take more meetings as a software developer than I ever did as a PM. So the idea that women are deterred from tech because it's so antisocial doesn't hold up, either.
> Sure, but that overhead is also not essential, but a feature of Go's particular implementation.

The only way to get around the FFI performance problem would be for all fibers to have big stacks. At that point you've thrown away their biggest selling points: high scalability and fast spawning.