skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies dang! I guess I observed it as relatively substantive in the given context. But I did study ancient history, so probably have a warped perception of domain-specific quips.
Experimental studies have replication crisis, but the studies on this topic are not experimental studies. They are based on survey data and statistical analysis. They do have their challenges, but have nothing to do with the replication crisis.
> In fact an article puts the abandonment rate of open source projects on Github at about 98% - meaning that there is no activity on 98% of projects after a year. This has coined a phrase - abandonware.

That's factually incorrect. The term "abandonware" dates back to the 90s (long before github) and was originally used to describe software that was predominantly proprietary. Virtually all proprietary software ever written has become abandoned or will eventually become abandoned, but I guess that fact doesn't really square with what the author wants to say.
Hearthstone and the similar magic the gathering: arena are the two that come to mind.
They are measuring the differences between male and female responses to questionnaires. I don't get why this is so hard to understand, or worse heartbreaking to you. Who cares what agreable means, it's just some concept that they've got correlated questions to.

It's just proper science, no one was hurt, why get emotional about it? Everybody has the intuition that there's general difference between the psychology in men and women. They developed a methodology that shows and quantifies that phenomenon. That's good and proper science.

That the content is not well doesn't dimish its value. When Volt measured electric charge but didn't get what was happening and even got the direction of charge wrong, that might have been heartbreaking, but it also was world changing that he definitely should not have just not done. Even if he made matters a little bit worse.

Edit: woops, was Franklin, not Volt
That feature has only existed for <20% of the games lifetime. It is more than likely that the person you're replying to played the game before the recipe book existed.
As a tango dancer I can relate to feeling the position of my partner while dancing. Even weirder is that I can feel my car while driving and if I rent another car it takes me a while until I can also feel this other car as a part of myself.
This is true and this is ultimately how the small minority of genuinely smart criminals get foiled. The vast majority can be pretty dumb though.
> I get slightly sick every single time I eat at my university's cafeteria.

A different idea regarding this: are you maybe eating a different cuisine normally? A change in cuisine can lead to digestive problems because your gut bacteria will be adapted to one but not the other and that needs time to change.
I dunno, everyday German food in the South is not that bad. Not bad "because German food" for sure. German food is not that boring or dull. It really depends on the restaurant/cook, though, and yeah, the quality of those is pretty much hit and miss. Still, with some research you can find good ones.

Cafeteria food, esp. at universities, forget it. I could never stomach it and rather cooked for myself (lunchbox or just go hungry and eat at night) when I couldn't afford to eat at proper places.
A ride sharing app is a dual marketplace. If you're cutting the price for riders past a point, you're cutting the pay for drivers.
I also LOL-ed when I read "german food" being an attraction.
Like bratwurst and spatzle?
Like single use syringes, bandages, tissue paper.
I agree. There are plenty of good points to consider in the article, but this is not one of them. Lots and lots of things on Github are little experiments that someone tried out and made available so that others can benefit from what they learned or tried. That can be called 'abandonware' in order to reinforce a straw man, or it could also be called a source of community learning.
"In Germany, there are two kinds of "on time". So far [2017], 94.2% of trains have reached their final destination within six minutes of the scheduled time, and 98.9% within 16 minutes."

The article also goes into detail how every country measures punctuality differently.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42024020

(Yes, Germans love to complain about the train company)
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If this were the case, then rich people everywhere else would be speeding like crazy and just paying the small fines.

That clearly is not the case, because fines are not the only thing rendered as a penalty. Driving privileges and criminal prosecution are quickly added on as behavior changes, even if it's small violations that add up.

Everyone faces the same financial, driving access, and legal risk which equally discourages everyone from driving badly, no matter how wealthy you are.

Unless you think rich people should get sentenced to twice as much time for the same crime, then altering the fine for wealth makes no sense.
I pay about 100% of the purchase price of shirts at Costco to get them tailored. The economics feel weird, but I haven’t found a better overall deal on everyday shirts for work.
software 3d renderer!
> We throw around these terms like "imposter syndrome" and "introvert" because they make us feel better, even though they describe most people, in which case they're really not that useful.

You say they're not useful, but in the very same sentence you say they make us feel better. I can't find a way to reconcile these two seemingly contradictory statements; can you help me understand this?
I always thought the benefit of online dating is to avoid the need to muck up friendship activities with finding a partner. Like, don't people not want to be propositioned just because they like f.e. table tennis?
>Not having children well into adulthood is a modern privilege—one could even characterize modern childless adulthood as merely an extension of our own childhoods.

this.

>Logistically, extended families are a good idea.

My fiancée and I have discussed buying a duplex, and moving her parents or mine (or both) into the other half. Looking into the future of what elder care will look like for them ... it's not pretty. A nursing home in a city I don't live in, staffed mostly with people that aren't even from this country (nothing wrong with that, generally, but it's something to be considered). For them it would be the best option, moving in with us. They get to see their grandkids, and we get to see them as they sunset their lives.
Takes less than 100 ms to read in the file (calling realloc in a loop), insert a byte in the middle (realloc + memmove), and write the modified file out on stdout. The byte insertion amounts to about 4ms.

That's hardly fast, yet still a lot snappier than most modern editors' UI or the web, where apparently achieving 60 fps for a few hundred dynamic DOM nodes is some kind of an achievement.

https://gist.github.com/hmkemppainen/376b973c568fc122e2d8c84...

This approach really starts to suck when you implement macros that are going to perform a lot of one-char inserts quickly. Or when you're editing multi-gigabyte files.
Uber is already finding the most financially desperate drivers and filtering for them only. They’re competing for the lowest price, but actually price is only one of the things I would like to be able to select for.
That's not been my experience at all. That's so far outside of my experience that I sincerely wonder if you're having me on. I assume you're not, but I apologize for the subsequent wall of text if you were just joking.

I won't be so uncivil as to suggest that your perspective is "bullshit". I suppose the 'successful' qualification is sufficiently ill-defined to give a lot of wiggle room, but if I take that to mean financially successful, a minority of the programmers I know would describe themselves as lifelong machine lovers. Certainly some do, but I'd say more are the sort to get cross with you if you try to "talk shop" outside of work; they have interests and hobbies unrelated to computers and use work with computers to fund those interests and hobbies. And those that do have programming as a hobby rarely work on hobby projects that resemble the work they're paid for.

As an aside, if the industry really were filled with technophiles as you suggest, I think I'd enjoy it a lot more. As it stands, relatively few around me seem to share my interests. I've found the best way to find people who share my technophile inclinations is to look for groups and clubs that form around technical hobbies. And what I've found in doing so is that many lifelong technophiles don't work in tech at all, and of those that do work in tech, most don't get paid to work on the sort of tech they're actually passionate about.
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Yes, that is how I see it as well.

If the company really want to act in good faith, as reading between the line I assume you believe they do, they would have opened with an offer or some sort of compensation.

Instead they flat out asking you to transfer your work over means they knew and has already calculated the consequences.

Sorry to be cynical, as others have point out go and talk to a lawyer.
>Someone high up at Toyota bet on fuel cells 20 years ago and can't back down now without losing too much face

That's it exactly. At the time li-ion batteries were pretty poor, so fuel cells seemed like a good bet. Since then batteries have progressed much faster than fuel cells, and now are way ahead, and no doubt that will continue in the future.

Many observers have commented over the decades that Japanese corporations have great difficulty admitting they have made a mistake, and this seems to be another case of that.
That line of code is not beautiful, it's obscene.

At the very least, anything that's intended to last a long time should be written in the simplest, clearest, self-explanatory manner so as to at least give reasonable confidence it's correct.

Not to mention, 952 years is a lousy approximation of a millennium.

const yearSeconds = 31556926

for i = 1 to 1000
sleep yearSeconds

Or, use some calendar library to get the exact number needed.
I peaked at some of the stats regarding his brute force attempt, but I couldn't figure out how much progress he was making and whether a bf was actually feasible with LUKS. Is it something to be concerned about at this stage?
I found a lot of videos of the actual presentations on the AWS Events youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdoadna9HFHsxXWhafhNvKw/vid... . Would've been nice if they were linked on OP's page.
I believe this is the case, based on personal observation. Exceptions are everywhere, but:

- I know more women who knit than men

- I know more men who follow football and basketball than women

- I know more women who write novels than men

- I know more women who enjoy romance novels than men

- I know more men who enjoy horror films than women

- I know more women with an interest in fashion than men

- I know more men who play computer games than women

- I know more women who play cellphone based games than men

EDIT: To underscore how exceptions matter: I know how to knit, but I find it interminably boring. I don't follow football; my mom does. I enjoy romance novels and hate horror films. I'm an oft-maligned cis-het male.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligenc...
You are not alone. I also do have serious imposter syndrome. Not about work but about not being a good enough father. But as with work imposter syndrome, my head knows I am probably ok, it is meant to be hard. But I feel guilty for any time I spend on my computer and not playing with the kids.

However I always wonder how these robot parents do it, those that seem to be able to raise 4 kids, time to volunteer for PTA and kids sports, work full time, go to a gym, have hobbies, socialise, tidy house and look impeccable doing it.

When daughter number 1 came along it was hard. Cut down socialising. Gaming and coding only after 11 pm if not already asleep.

But then number 2 came along and it was near impossible. No socialising, no gaming, no exercise, not enough sleep, and no coding.

Though since I work as a contractor I have often taken a month or two off between contracts to both spend time with my kids and catching up with new tech. And lately not had full-time clients so been able to some personal coding during day time hours. Also if I have a client in London I have some me-time for coding on my hour-long train commute.

Though in September the youngest started school and suddenly the house is so much quieter. And daily routines are so much easier. We may resurface soon.
"If I had kids, I'd become a parent, and parents, as I'd known since I was a kid, were uncool."

If you're still thinking that way, you're still a kid.
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Which part of the physics though? I am not entirely convinced that a standard hydrogen PEM fuel cell is the only way to generate energy for a car.
Supertrees that can help with climate change
heh, try installing a single advanced package, you'll see immediately how hundreds of libraries interdependent libraries are also loaded and compiled, each full bugs and problems
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"As you put it, the debt to society has been paid."

It's not so simple. A murderer or rapist may have served his term in prison but still not have made restitution to the victim or his or her family. However, it's good for felons to find work after incarceration so that they can support themselves and ideally make amends to victims.
If you just feel the urge to learn things and improve your skills then that doesn't always require the project to have some practical utility. The person who will learn the most is the one who simply does both useful projects and projects for their own sake. Obviously with only so much time it makes sense to prioritize the useful projects, but just speaking generally here.
I am reading this book for the past few days. Very well written!
Thank you, this is very helpful!

I can never keep align-items vs justify-content vs align-content vs justify-items straight and this helps (although it's missing the last one, maybe that only applies to grids).
I'm guessing that in this context, "useful" is intended to mean "useful in conveying information" rather than "useful in accomplishing some goal."

It sounds a bit like saying "you're only human" -- which is of course unlikely to convey any new information, but could still be useful for its emotional result.
Topics like this really make me feel the pressure. I'm getting older and I want to have kids but I'm not in a good enough financial situation to do so. It's hard to bring a person into the world when you are not sure about being able to support them.
Google is becoming one the worst web companies these days.

Every change they make to their services or platforms make it harder for people to block ads, or make more data go into Google services by default with no way out.

Top of my list:

1. Trying to kill the URL in chrome by eliding information and then forcing advanced users to install an extension that promotes Google services

2. Efforts to gimp advanced ad blockers with manifest V3

3. Changes to Android defaults to make apps enforce not trusting user based https certificates

4. Syncing and signing-in on chrome for Google accounts

5. Enforcing location based, filtered, web search results

6. Pushing non organic, paid, results in all other products except web search
A far, far deadlier variation of the Köpenick caper: In Norway, 2011, Anders Breivik got himself ferried to the Utøya island solely on the strength of convincing demeanor and a homemade pastiche of a police uniform.

There was a real policeman in charge of security on the island. After the bombing of government headquarters in Oslo an hour earlier, everything was on top terror alert, and Utøya had beeen put in quarantine, the connecting little ferry ordered not to sail.

Despite all this, Breivik was instantly ferried across, no questions asked, heavily armed and politely assisted with the carrying of ammunition boxes both onto and off the the boat.

Upon landing, he almost immediatly shot and killed the police officer, who despite apparent doubts had not taken up any countermeasures. And then of course killed 68 more, plus wounded about twice that number.

With a phone call and a modicum of due diligence, everyone would have been safe.
I can't argue with this assertion. Can we start discussing how to correct this a bit. I have no issue with corporations reaping profits from open source software but would love to see more developers benefiting directly.
Ask HN: Startup grew from 2 to 3 people. What should CEO be paying attention to?
CEO of a basement ML/hardware company. My CTO/brother is primarily on algorithm and firmware right now and we just brought on a long time friend and occasional coworker as COO / product lead. I fill all over the place. So far things have been going fine, but they're fine until they're not and I'd like to know what you all have had to do when your team grew by 50% overnight. Some things we've had to change already are:

> Use actual task tracking software instead of personal to-do lists

> Actual scheduled planning meetings instead of random thoughts about business at the kitchen table

> Converting to a Delaware C Corp instead of WA LLC

> Compiling a list of mentors, advisors, and other network connections

> Daily standup (5 minute)

> Actual office space

> Deliberate company culture initiatives instead of decades of established family values

Hit me with your war stories and advice.
You can see it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_and_intelligence

Lowest nations are around 70 (can be lower than that). Highest nations are around 100 (can be higher than that).
> I'm finding it very hard to criticise the methodology of this sort of study without channeling Feynman and being extremely rude and dismissive to a whole field of research.

Can you elaborate on the Feynman thing? I haven't heard anything about that before.
> There are probably also innate differences between different races.

That's highly unlikely aside from a few genes having to do with appearance. Race is determined by society, and is not a grouping of similar genetic populations. A Kenyan can have far more in common genetically with an Irish person than that Kenyan does with a Pygmy. But according to society, the Kenyan and the Pymgy both belong to the same race and the Irish person is a different race.

If you want to say there are innate differences between different genetic populations, then sure. But genetic populations must be far smaller than anything we would call race to start to see interesting differences. For example, many of the world's best runners come from one Kenyan tribe.[1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/01/241895965/...
There it is: Don't eat at cheap places.

I really wouldn't bash a country's food based on bottom tier experience. I have to agree though that it's easy to end up in a bad place and in Germany there's no limit to how disgusting it can get. Germans do seem to have a higher tolerance for this. Of course nothing beats the university cafeteria but I don't know anyone who likes that food, it's just that the typical student cannot afford to avoid it.

On the other hand there are not that many countries I can think of with high standard of living and minimum wage where food is consistently great even when comparatively cheap.
> Everyday German food is absolutely horrendous. […] It is the worst of the seven countries I've lived in, by far.

Lucky you, sounds like you haven’t lived in countries with bad food.

First, everyday food in Germany is also Italian, Turkish, Croatian, Lebanese, etc. - delicious cuisines. Second, there is plenty of good traditional German food (Käsespätzle, Leberkäse, Currywurst, Rouladen, Bratkartoffeln, Erbsensuppe, Schnitzel, not to mention the huge variety of bread, cold cuts, and cheese). It’s not haute cuisine, but tasty. Third, even the run-of-the-mill everyday German (Schnitzel, Pommes, Salat) is not as bad as you make it out to be. Lastly, any larger city will have somewhat decent instantiations of other cuisines available, too.
> just use this aws product

Can confirm, it looked like this was the whole point of a SageMaker presentation, for instance. (On the other hand, no one has been fired for buying from IBM... err, Amazon!)
Allow companies to pay felons less for the same job, at least for some finite period of time, to compensate for that risk. Otherwise, as you say, it makes sense for them to hire people without a criminal record, other things being equal.
as far as how the emacs API works it should not be an issue, but on the other hand there is bunch of elisp code, that realy expects an gap buffer based implementation and in turn is depended by who knows what...
I disagree on after-tax contributions. This is money that's in a pretty high tax bracket, and there's a decent chance you'll be in a lower one when you withdraw. It also takes away a lot of flexibility (retiring early, buying a home). I picked a random online retirement calculator. If you're 22, no savings, and can manage $19K in the traditional 401(k), including the match, that's $8M when you're 67.

Saving for retirement is great and all, but when is enough enough?
I've found bigscreen pretty terrible for this, try something like virtual desktop.

If bigscreen has the option, curved displays are also a great way to preserve clarity, as the lenses start to distort near the edges.
Long story short, make your work meet your work needs as much as possible, ideally in 40 hours or less.
> Dynamic languages are different in their terminology

By different you mean wrong. PHP calling an ordered hash map an array doesn't make it one.
Interesting! And I think it's a good alternative to the typical 'work in the valley for a few years' that many Oz devs do. He seems to be working for Facebook in London now.
Almost all presentations at big tech events are like that. I usually watch the technical backgrounds and deep dives to get information that isn't already on the marketing website.
> A human can learn something through a fairly small amount of specific knowledge via written, verbal, etc instruction.

This demands the mastery of language which is a very high bar. Most animals haven't achieved this, so I think if you expect to get a computer to learn this way before being able to reason as well before you consider it having intelligence, you would also have consider most animals not having intelligence as well.
> is it normal to own a bus in Australia?

No. The market for three row vehicles exists but is small, served mostly by a few mid-sized* SUVs with a third row only suitable for small children. Most people I know with families of 5 make do with two row vehicles.

The modal private car in Australia is a five door hatchback (Mazda 3, Toyota Corolla) closely followed by the compact* crossover (Mazda CX-5, Toyota RAV4, Subaru Forester). Work vehicles are dominated by "utes", which are small or medium* pickup trucks (Toyota HiLux, Ford Ranger).

Three door/two row cars used to be common as the base ("poverty") specification of some small economy hatchbacks—but it appears this trend has completely died away. Toyota's cheapest new vehicle is a five door, for example. Three door/two row hatchbacks are horrid things: worse for the customer in every respect and any cost savings probably offset by increased chassis development costs and SKU counts.

* Per the North American lexicon. Australia and the rest of the world sizes cars a bit differently.
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Imply, not infer.

But yes, the people who know a knowledge-based game better are better at playing it.