skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title only mentions "high status" but they refer to "high status jobs". I only read the abstract so idk if this is mentioned in the study. But I'm gonna propose a big confounder: Hours.
Multiple clients sync to/from a server. Server syncs with other servers. Part of the sync with clients is a list of all servers so clients can cycle servers until sync succeeds. Eventual consistency. I'm doing this with a small dataset now.
I downvoted your for "liberal ideals" when the rest of your post reads like a flimsy cliche of a "non-liberal."
RTFA:

>And build times? Nobody thinks compiler that works minutes or even hours is a problem. What happened to “programmer’s time is more important”? Almost all compilers, pre- and post-processors add significant, sometimes disastrous time tax to your build without providing proportionally substantial benefits.
The person who wrote the “creative” title here on HN for the Twitter url they submitted is not the same person having the issue with performance and posting for help on Twitter.
> When taking the job, I signed an incomplete I-9 application, which later was completed by the employer stating that I was a U.S. citizen.

This seems real shady on the employer’s part. I wonder if that is something they encouraged.
I caught the play services as well but rather than try to take down the article for not being perfect I've been trying to think about what it's talking about.

I don't think there is anything mentioned in the article that is not realistic, including a 1 second boot time on a phone that you bring up. The only reason we can't get a phone with a static hardware configuration to boot in a second is because that's not what we've been optimizing phones for. LinuxBoot is a great example of how the time it takes to boot is purely about how much time we assign people to optimizing it not some laws of physics that require servers to take 7 minutes to boot.
Python first()
Not a single jurisdiction in the US licenses software engineers.
A variant of reason #11 is that you improve your own skills by being able to teach it to others. That is why course tutors are people who have recently taken a course. The material and obstacles are fresh in their minds.
> If you "simply blocked all ads" the people making the pages wouldn't have the income which they maintain the pages with.

I agree with regards to ads specifically; that's why I don't use an ad blocker.

But the problem is so much greater than ads. Ads aren't what's slowing down the new gmail, or Slack.
A coworker of mine explained his belief that professional software development is an inherently economic activity. This was clarified by saying that the amount of imperfections, performance problems, and bugs in a piece of software is not reflective of the software nor its writers, but what most end users ultimately care about.

Whenever I read posts like Software Disenchantment, I find myself agreeing with that philosophy. In other words, it’s probably by design. Of course this doesn’t account for the enormous waste of time and money that occurs during software development, but that doesn’t really affect my feelings on the matter.
Debugging – CMU 15-112 Class Notes
In a way each layer of abstraction could be seen as a virtual machine - a new set of “instructions” implemented via previous layer of instructions.

The analogy holds as long as we don’t cross layers, which is quite often true.

Therefore counting total number of layers is performance-wise quite similar to running this many layers of virtual machines. Of course, you need code for all of these translation layers.
Kinda? What exactly is the difference between software engineering and programming?
none of those people you listed are good at it either. at least a tech guy can use a computer and see what everyone else thinks.
> This has not stirred people to innovation.

Where does this strawperson come from? UBI has nothing to do with innovation.

I also don't think it will stifle innovation.

I don't understand why this word innovation is mixed with people on UBI.

You do talk about the active drug industry that has sprung up around UBI, so there's innovation there. But I'm not understanding what the claim is.

We are not bringing in UBI to help innovation for either people on it, which it obviously won't, or eco systems around it, which seems like would be a sum loss.
The Catalog of Copyright Entries
A bug in my thinkpad display
I completely agree, here. React has replaced the DOM, and it's pretty fast, pretty efficient when you understand its limitations... but when you start rendering to the canvas or creating SVG animation from within react code, everything is utterly destroyed. Performance is 1/1000 of what the platform provides. I have completely stopped using frameworks in my day-to-day, and moved my company to a simple pattern for updatable, optionally stateful DOM elements. Definitely some headaches, some verbosity, and so forth. But zero tool chain and much better performance, and the performance will improve, month-by-month, forever.
Ever tried installing freeDOS on your computer?
We don’t know that; we have a sample of approximately N=1ish (depending on what you want to define as a civilisation or a collapse) and we’re not done yet.
> The OP is being criticized for not understanding how to debug or improve the performance of their dependency…

Nothing I said is a critique of Ben Awad, the Twitter OP. I assume we've all used dependencies that we don't completely understand, no?

To rephrase my point: The dark side of semi-opaque dependencies like ORMs, application frameworks, etc. is that when the magic doesn't work, one may not be able to easily determine where to start in order to address issues.

EDIT: Removed unnecessary paragaph to simplify response.
npm would be a lot better if it flattened out its node-modules. I've seen plenty of structures with multiple identical installs of the same library.

All module folders should be at root level.

Need version 15 and version 16? Yep different folders under the root. Modulename_version, eg somelib_0.1.15 alongside somelib_0.1.16

It would allow clear identification of old versions and much less duplication. Less bloat. No way to have duplicate copies of the same library.
I'd be onboard with your view if it wasn't for BMW and Mercedes. (And Audi a bit). None of those are cheap. Not Tesla-expensive, but there aren't really any cheap Mercedes or BMW, and they do sell a ton of those. Tesla is not "too expensive" for people buying new S class or 5/7 series.
Men prefer physical beauty the most. Status is less important. When status is important Men prefer women who are in lower ranking jobs.

Nothing really new here aside from Women showed no differences which would be different from my experience (women prefer high status vs low status jobs in their partner)
‘poor UI design, accidental inputs’

I use webpages for most of the social networking platforms such as Facebook. I am left handed and scroll with my left thumb (left half of the screen). I have accidentally ‘liked’ people’s posts, sent accidental friend requests only because of this reason.

Guessing along with language selection, it might be helpful to have a selection of hand preference for mobile browsing.
Are his prior compositions also Copyright free?
I have an underpowered chromebook for testing performance. Some sites actually crash on it. Much of the web is frustrating on it.
Also limit your network bandwidth to see how your app behaves when the user is on crappy 3g or what not.
Imagine running for the EU Parliament with the last name Mussolini.
redrumFS!
I get really tired of hearing people complain incesently about how inefficient software is. I want it too, but it isn't going to just happen.

Effiency is a selling point that most users don't care much about in most markets. There are efficient browsers out there but everyone uses Chrome because those browsers are inferior to Chrome in many other ways. Ways that are more important to the average browser user.

If there's a market for a more efficient software solution, go make it and get rich. Otherwise, I'm getting sick of the complaining.
I guess the primary argument to this is the number of stars, and the amount of time the universe has been around... but like the universe is _very young_. Our universe currently has an expected lifespan of like a trillion years. That is to say, if it's lifespan is 100 years, it's currently a ~13 month old infant.

There is a supremely _good_ chance we, humans, are and will be the creepy ol' species we write movies about that has colonized stars and existed "since the beginning."

Should we ever successfully make it off this rock that and to another star that is...

It's fun to think about too, how will our species handle billions of years of separation at distant ends of the universe? Will we use gene therapy to ensure our "look" and aesthetic, or will culture and evolution be unpreventable yielding humanoids nearly unrecognizable to our current form?
UI is hard because you're using a hyper text language with fewer features than were the standard in the 60s. Then with styling on top of that, then with a scripting language on top of that.

Reading Computer Lib/Dream Machine over the holidays and I wonder where it all went so wrong.
Why limit it to tracking? Why do we put these powerful machines in the hands of users that we know with certainty will kill themselves and others at a predictable rate and then just ask them nicely not to do harm?

The technology required to geofence, speed-regulate, and otherwise control where, when, and how fast cars can go already exists. Why aren't we using it? We don't need fully autonomous cars. There are all kinds of things we can do incrementally. I have to imagine some jurisdictions are going to realize this, eventually. And once they do the totally predictable savings to life and property will be unignorable.
>But I'm gonna propose a big confounder: Hours.

I don't get it. Presumably you imply that high status jobs have longer hours, but how does that explain the attractiveness difference?
Care to explain a little more? I don't see how this would matter across attractiveness.
Ghosn with the wind – how did Carlos Ghosn escape Japan
I can never get what China is doing. One day you hear about solar boost then you see more coal. Strange.
It shows this group of students is suspended at a higher rate than other, not whether that is justified or not.

There maybe different reasons for that. Maybe some kids are more disruptive than others. This could be for a myriad of reasons, that have nothing to do with the teacher.

Racism exists but blaming everything on racism, especially on teachers, who on average are probably more social aware than the avg person doesnt solve any problems, and might actually make them worse.
Paul Graham isn’t Jeff Bezos
> eating meat is a matter of status

Chicken mcnuggets are barely chicken. The market already demonstrated that "real meat" is a matter of availability and marketing, not a matter status chasing (not that there aren't exceptions, which are a statistical minority).

I'm not sure why anyone thinks this is a compelling argument. SMH
> That's getting the causality backwards. Western colonialism didn't reduce China and India to insignificant economies; their insignificance is what enabled Western powers to colonize them so easily.

This is one of the most outlandishly false things I've read. China and india's economic significance is the reason why western powers wanted to colonize china and india in the first place. Their economic importance is why europe first sought out india and china. It's why columbus "sailed the ocean blue".

> The reduction to insignificance already happened earlier, when the West began to industrialize.

The colonization of india and china started before western industrialization. And it was colonizers who prevented india and china from industrializing like Japan. Funny how colonization ended and china ( and india though more slowly ) started industrializing huh?

> For example, the establishment of free-trade zones for foreign merchants is judged to be humiliating because it was the consequence of military defeat. But when the CCP later established special economic zones to boost international trade, that was seen as very much a good thing.

Because the former was for the benefit of foreign merchants to loot a nation and the latter was for the benefit of china. Surely, even you can see the difference of a territory conquered by a foreign power to loot a nation vs a territory a nation sets up itself for trade?
25 years since I started learning C++ as a kid, 14 years in industry and feeling like a disappointed old man despite still having the youthful looks to pass for a student!
Here's some more of diffbot.. They've built basically a knowledge graph search engine. I am guessing PoCs are the way to sell this. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jilliandonfro/2019/05/13/the-we...
Ah, New York Court of Appeals. Where can I buy a copy 17th Century English sound recording?

And since this is common law, why haven't any other courts given their own alternate common law? Deferring to English law is bizarre, considering that the Constitution was written specifically to replace English law, including a specific Copyright clause, and backed by a war against England.
The Polygons of Another World
It's not just fear of electricity.

Here in Australia you have to be a licensed electrician to perform any works, even to do something like replacing a lightswitch or running cable inside a wall (even running ethernet cable, although there are special low-voltage electrician's licenses for data cabling specialists that aren't as intensive as a "real" electrician's license) - unlicensed electrical work would void your insurance, make it difficult to sell your house (would need to be inspected, remediated and brought up to code if necessary, and signed off on by an appropriately licensed electrician), and could expose you to civil and even criminal liability (if your unlicensed electrical work harmed someone).

I'm not a licensed electrician, so if I wanted to upgrade my house to smart switches I'd have to get someone in to do it. For most people here it's a lot easier to just screw in a bulb.
Not inherently, no. I'm building out my home automation with mostly ESP8266 based sensors, relays, modules etc. About half of those are NodeMCU, the other half are commercial devices flashed with custom firmware. My biggest "win" so far is taking over thermostat control of the whole house ducted AC. I now have it automatically change which room it prioritises temperature stability based on presence and time of day (when the child goes to bed).

My system "relies" on an internet connection for just one thing right now: iPhone push notifications, which are merely informational and mostly for debugging. It also uses the internet to keep my local NTP server in sync. When I'm away from home I can manually check on stuff with a VPN.

In future I plan to expose a minimalist HTTPS api for triggering certain actions remotely, like the garage door. But even that's not a big deal right now because I've got a outdoor AP that covers a wide area outside my house—my phone is generally already on wifi as I approach home by foot.
I usually call it murdererfs, for example in Dercuano. I've had comments on here downvoted for it.
I’m tinkering with the Atomic PI SBC — Quad Core 1.5ish GHz Intel Atom with 2 Gigabytes of RAM. You can load up an OS and launch Firefox with maybe 3 tabs until you run out of memory and have to page out (which will basically hang the device due to eMMC/flash I/O speeds).

These kind of specs are incredible for a high-end desktop machine from 15 years ago that would be good for almost anything — gaming, browsing, etc... What happened to software (Linux & Friends, Firefox, etc) that renders hardware obsolete so quickly? Is it just purposeful optimization that uses more RAM to benefit performance elsewhere, or is it truly this disenchantment?
That's the old Ruby on Rails argument. In that specific case it only made sense when there were no similar frameworks for faster languages, but that's hardly the case today.
That's a rather hypothetical situation, his kids may as well avoid programming altogether or simply be interested in something else.

Your comment, by the way, is very insensitive, surely with your empathy you could've imagined possibility of the author of the parent comment being autistic and hurt by your suggestion that empathy is easy.
> women prefer high status vs low status jobs in their partner)

This is also explained by the fact that women are pretty much in control of which partner they choose and therefore are more likely to have multiple choices than men.
This story doesn’t pass the smell test. Author claims their employer did the necessary and expensive legwork to get them a US work visa, then author signed an incomplete I9 and their employer filled it out incorrectly without double checking the necessary documents, then the people responsible move and the company folds. I guess stranger things have happened but seems likely to me this was visa fraud.
There is a difference between bad (which may be interesting) and boring. As good as production tools and archival media get, human attention is finite. It does no good to drown in dross. Remembering everything is a curse, and leads to madness in the humans who have a memory disability and cannot forget even their own personal last.
When status is important Men prefer women who are in lower ranking jobs.

This directly contradicts the findings of the paper. In the study, they found that, in the eyes of men, high status jobs increase the attractiveness of highly attractive women.
That's entirely reasonable. I mostly posted that as a PSA for anyone who assumed that vacuuming was only about cleanliness, not carpet life.
I think there's something here you're missing:

What if it does get approved, but only by some countries? So, for instance, suppose the US approves it, but China and the EU don't? Then, it probably won't stay grounded, because this plane is usually used for shorter-distance travel. Southwest Airlines, for instance, exclusively uses 737-type aircraft, and all their travel is domestic US, so an EU ban wouldn't affect them at all.

I for one wouldn't feel too confidant about the FAA approving this plane with the EU regulators refusing to, considering what a criminally-negligent job the FAA did in approving it in the first place.
I’m sure some sort of instantaneous indicator (e.g. a checkmark icon appearing) could be used instead of inserting artificial delays.
Doesn't beauty mean visual signs of health, longevity, and likelihood for the same in offspring?

From that perspective, the headline reads "Signs of health and longevity determine whether men romantically desire or dismiss high status women", which sounds like a common mating strategy throughout the animal kingdom.
Tax prep companies can’t hide their free filing software from Google anymore
No I heard they still chew a lot of bubblegum over there.
Correct, but it's worth noting that GraphQL has much more to offer than just request performance. I'd argue that performance improvements is the less interesting part of GraphQL.

The main selling points for me are:

- speed of development: once you have a complete graph, you can add new pages/features at a fraction of the time, and often without touching the backend at all

- type safety: you can generate typescript/flow types for your queries, giving you type safety from db to client (assuming your backend has types)

- query co-location: you can have the query (or a fragment) inside or next the component that uses it. Need a new field in a specific component? Just update the fragment, any page that includes it will get it by automatically

and last but not least developer experience. Having worked for a few years using graphql + apollo + react + typescript (on both a personal and a reasonably famous large website) I can honestly say that it feels like living in the future. As a mostly backend developer, I have never enjoyed working in the frontend so much.
"Harmonization" is PR propaganda for corporate interests. "Harmonization" is a rachet that gives cover to corrupt politicians extending copyright for one nation under cover of another's action.

It's also a sick irony that the word "harmonization" is used to mean "preventing music from being played".
I think it's ok to be politically active in certain topics without having an answer to all open questions in society.
Just keep in mind that performance is abysmal (order of magnitude of 1% vs what you are used to in a browser for the same amount of cpu time spent), which might be ok for your use case, just keep in mind that many libraries assume a somewhat performant runtime. Another down point is that you are stuck with ES5.
Check the rate of nuclear power plants being built. It's fallen off a cliff. The people who finance nuclear reactors already think that nuclear power will be uneconomic in the lifetime of any new plants.
I’m not sure why there’s a racial component to this. I’m merely talking about a proportional response to disrupting class. Is your view that this punishment would be unfairly leveraged against certain races?

I’m also unconvinced that prison work is bad. Should they just hang out and do nothing? When tied to a shortened sentence, prison work seems just fine.
TerraPower looks promising -- Safe from meltdown, uses existing nuclear waste as fuel, etc.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/inside-terrapower-nuclear-lab/

"Nuclear" probably needs a better name -- modern designs have come a long way since Fukushima was built.
Amyloid plaques may not cause Alzheimer's disease, study says
"Why would anyone pretend to be concerned for someone else's wellbeing?"

Virtue signalling.
This might be off topic but I never really understood the utility of PTRACE_TRACEME. The documentation suggests that the parent must be a cooperating process (the wording "probably shouldn't" in the documentation is very suspicious). But if the parent knows it will ptrace the child, it could very well set up a pipe and have the child be blocked on it, then PTRACE_ATTACH, then unblock the child with the pipe.

As such, I never truly understood the semantics behind PTRACE_TRACEME, and I'm not sure what bad things will happen if you use that when the parent isn't expecting to ptrace the child.
Take that, United!

But seriously, their marketing team for the past 30 years deserve mad props for making this song synonymous with United. I can't name many brands with songs as associated with them as this.
I make it a rule that all "smart" devices should function first and foremost as "dumb" devices, and the "smarts" should only augment their function. A light should never require a smartphone and app to turn on and off, but it may require it to change the color, for example.

I also try to buy devices with local control, vs. cloud-based control.
>You'd have to be blind to deny that Milton Friedman was generally right (if not about all things, certainly about general principles).

BS - "The free market is good" does literally nothing to disprove my point that Friedman was horribly wrong in both of the quotes I presented.

Trickle down economics doesn't work, period. The end-result of that policy is a shrinking middle class and a massive glut of capital in the hands of the top .5%. It isn't trickling down, it's doing exactly the opposite.

Corporations maximizing profit at the expense of everything else resulted in the mess that is Boeing (who would collapse if the US government weren't willing to bail it out). The mortgage crisis. Ford and their Firestone tire debacle. 3M and their PFC dumping. The list goes on and on.

Complete. Failure.
"copywashing". Stealing content from the public domain by creating new copyrighted works that are substantially similar to old copyrighted works.
See, to me, internal software may be the one place where "developer time" really is more valuable (depending on the size of the organization), because you're developing for far fewer uses.

One second times five million users is almost two months. One second times five thousand users is less than 90 minutes.