skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We automate both. One popular example is trucking. There are 3.5 million truck drivers in the US alone. And of course this is an area where complete automation is on the horizon. The tech exists, it's getting close to ready for large scale deployment and big players are working on it.

Assuming you are right, I wonder if this couldn't eliminate trucking altogether given a bit of time: with greater concerns for the environment, governments have tried to pull measures to reduce trucking, but have often be opposed by truckers.

If self-driving eliminates truckers, who will then defend trucking?

Automation has interesting dynamics in the complex system that is today's society. I am not sure if the situation described above holds for the U.S.A. for instance, but it matches my understanding of the one in France, at least.
> The instructions are sufficiently different from AVX2 that any appropriate use is not as simple as sticking it behind a gate and using a smaller block size, it basically requires a completely separate (re)write to properly take advantage of.

I'd say yeah, you often need a rewrite of the core loop to take full advantage, but you can still more or less write AVX-style code in AVX-512 if you want, and take advantage of the width increase.

The main difference I think for most code is the way the comparison operators compare into a mask register. It would have been nice if they had just extended the existing compare into SIMD reg (0/-1 result) instructions too, to ease porting.
My only quibble with this article is that the fact that there is a wall related to child bearing and rearing IS institutional sexism.

It's just a different form of it than the "my coworkers constantly stare at my tits and don't take what I say seriously" variety.

We've put women largely in charge of child rearing duties. Obviously, men aren't able to get pregnant and bear children. We are, however, perfectly capable of changing diapers, singing lullabies, and doing laundry.

I'd bet that we would see the same kind of impediments to women rising to the tops of their professions in many demanding fields, fields where if you take too much time to have a life, you are considered broken and uninterested in excellence.
And then what am I supposed to do with a cheap, fake watch strap I don't want? Throw it in the trash? No thanks. I'd rather not get sent the item in the first place.
My Sony MDR-1000Xs do the same thing. Also if you hold your hand over the ear piece, it temporarily puts it in passthrough mode so you can talk to people without removing your headphones.
> I tried this once. I can do it easily with natural language but it's much harder to do with code (even code you're familiar with).

hm, that's interesting. I generally know pretty well the code I want to write before writing it. The question is what is the fastest way to get it from mind to buffer.
So the problem is companies that knowingly put out products with bugs and lie in their ads?

Your concern isn't about advertising then, it's just shady companies.
even the leftists are waking up, good stuff!
> Your statement is false. They called for contributors many times, last time in August https://github.com/fafhrd91/actix-web/issues/1019 .. This was public and open message and is not the first time.

That thread is full of people trying to sign up and help. Either they all lied or nobody was accepted.
Certifications* are glorified vendor manuals.

They limit your understanding of the field the certificate pertains to. The value it brings is the things you learned and companies continue to accept and validate it as some useful token. Outside of that it is near worthless.

* Software & IT industry certifications.
You could have learned the same things outside of a certification.
Accessing nil would be a programming error, not normal errorhandling and code logic should inherently avoid the scenario, not hide or do coverup silently. If it breaks, let the process die.

The cost of simpler tools is you need to target better, simpler designs and refactor. This requires more from programmers but produces better code.
If you accept a life spent indoors in air-conditioned spaces you weren't taking advantage of what you were paying for in California.
Except it's mainly non whites committing those crimes.
You can do this for your projects, but I don’t care if someone does this.

I’m grateful just to see the code and choose to use it, or not. If I think some random volunteer should do something, I’ll attach that suggestion with some money or a contract or at least a beer.

What I love about open source is that it’s a big place that has lots different people. It’s beautiful because someone can write code and never talk to anyone and their code is still good and useful.

Maybe a better, more truthful statement is “OSS maintainers will have better engagement with the community if they proactively manage expectations.” And if the maintainer cares about that, it will apply. But I think there are quite a few projects that don’t really care much about community.
The aesthetic preferences of crotchety neighbors should be close to the bottom of our housing priorities.
Yes, this is what I was thinking. Feminism is ruining women by mistakenly telling them they want something that might make them unhappy. What do women gain by having 50% professional nuclear physicists or 50% coal miners?
whoops, should be fixed
We don't know if innovation killed jobs here, we only have a graph showing there are less tellers.

It is expected that specific job titles will be obsoleted by technology. That is not a major issue when talking about the net effects on jobs. Society is littered with job titles (like Smith, Turner, Cartwright, Ackerman, etc, etc) that used to be everywhere and are now specialist roles or extinct.
Law and medicine don't Logan's run you out with a constantly and pointlessly changing tech stack every five years.
I honestly do not understand this mentality. You're given 23 paid days off, why would you donate that time back to your employer?
What gets built next to someone's home can affect their quality of life (e.g. due to noise, pollution, increased traffic, blocking sunlight, blocking views, etc.). So I don't see why they shouldn't have a say. It's no different than any other negative externality.
Programming certifications are very useful and important for one thing at least - unless you learn for a certification and pass the exam, you cannot tell that you really know something well.

As for the non-programming like AWS or Scrum Master (WTF) - it's loss of time. Especially Scum Master - it's a scam and it is designed to squeeze you of money by having 3 levels :)
so it's not deleted. it's the last call for all the people that wanted to profit from his work to take up the mantle and drive the project

something anyone can do right now, I would add

but people just prefer directing the guy work
Context really matters though. Is the storage locker being bidded off because the owner died 5 years ago? What if the last payment was 8 months ago, and you haven't heard from the owner since?

It's a completely different story if you were late by 1 day and they sold all your stuff the next day.

I guess the question here is if DO waited long enough before deleting their droplet. They were over a month late, and I'm assuming they sent notifications....
> Any got any advice on how to re-norm grandparents? I'm hesitating on moving out of state during my kids early childhood.

Living in the same neighborhood as your grandparents would be best. I know families that do that, and the payoff is great for the kids, the parents, and the grandparents. The kids love their grandparents, the grandparents love taking care of the kids, and the parents get safe, reliable, and free help. It's a win all around.

It's the way things ought to be.
Why do we care that there are equal women and men again? Why does representation actually matter again? I would find it more exciting to see a field with no representation because I could make a greater impact! This whole ideology of having representation everywhere is very dumb and conformist.
Yes, I have used it at my previous job (recently got fired) and it was really helpful. Of course, you need physical access to the application to make this work, e.g. it's much harder to do for some oddly behaving REST Api.
> Generating logical statements using heuristics and then validating them mechanically also sounds like a reasonable approximation of what a human often does, speaking as a human.

I think I agree with that, but I might add that humans who understand a topic well can also make novel connections and uncover further implications that might seem illogical at first glance. This process of "insight" seems poorly understood by everyone, but I think it goes beyond validating heuristic intuition.
Did you ever try out SVK? It was based on svn's libraries and provided for a more disconnected workflow.

Most of my code (dating from before git was around) for various projects is in a single subversion tree and I check it out using git or mercurial to provide for local version control.

Features like sparse checkout are definitely welcome in git since the industry seems to have standardized on it.
Today is the first time that I've heard that /r/rust is apparently regarded that little from the Rust team. To me it's the most important online gateway to the Rust community, and also the best resource to stay up to date with the ecosystem.

I knew that it was an "unofficial" channel, but given that it's most likely the single biggest aggregation of people in the Rust community, I always assumed that the Rust team would consider it of close to equal importance to users.rust-lang.org.

> And because this happened on Reddit, there was no real opportunity to actually step in. It's quite possible this is simply a failure on our part.

I don't think that much could've been done to prevent that. It also happened on such a quick timescale that one could've completely slept through the whole situation (from the initial Reddit comment to the post-mortem).
Ceramic side-brazed DIPs look very futuristic to me for some reason, especially when the carrying substrate is light colored. Plastic packaging is pretty dull in comparison.
It just so happens I have a hidden camera video of you at one of these interviews. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtwXlIwozog
Wow, a growing service economy! That sure sounds exciting and not extremely depressing! Thank you technology! Thank you globalists!
> You learn with practice, and mistakes, and testing.

The C919 isn't a juicer. I don't want the company manufacturing the airplane my family is flying in to learn from practice and mistakes.
When-then-zen: Meditation instructions in the universal format of Gherkin
I have always done —depth=1 for projects I am not a core developer of, but ran into an issue with it being seemingly impossible to do the same with submodules.

Golang should have figured this out from day 1 before shipping with a release system built around cloning a repo in its entirety, history and recursive submodules, and all.
Who's to say that they aren't? Seems like you could do that and talk to the House when invited.
Feminist narrative is that taking care of family is a stressful burden and women would love nothing more than to get away from that to relax in their fulfilling career. That narrative is nonsense, and the evidence is simply that in this day and age, nobody is forced to have children anymore.

While a certain fraction of women don't "feel it" around their kids and prefer to work, it really isn't the case for most mothers. Many have kids because they also then enjoy spending time with their kids.

The article cites a number of 50% of mothers wanting to work, but I really doubt that number. Or rather, it is too unspecific. What kind of work, and for how many hours? Sure many would want to work part time, for good pay, with flexible hours. But it's kind of silly to ask that kind of question. Who wouldn't say yes if asked "would you like to get a higher salary, work less hours and so on". There also is a "the grass is always greener on the other side effect" - many mothers who decide to go back to work end up being rather stressed out about it all.
This case is clearly akin to not holding the door open anymore.

The code’s all there and still available, right? Anyone who wants to can reach out and “hold the door open” for themselves, can’t they?
Black Hole Electron
I don't see anything in your link about NYC putting up housing at an insane rate, and my understanding had been that NYC housing growth was at historically low levels?
Would posit that HN is well into its "endless september" at this point.
Woodcock:

" We’re talking about Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross. We’re talking about the IATA that does international air traffic control. Do we really want international flights grounded for three days a year so [Bain founder and U.S. Senator] Mitt Romney can make a few hundred million more?"
Working longer/harder doesn’t mean more efficiently. And the idea of the visionary idealist scientist upon whom humanity rests is a romantic idea from the past.
Certifications are like a goal post it helps us to learn something with a target. It becomes a trend nowadays Udacity Nanodegree, Upgrad and ... I attended certain courses in Udacity I feel certifications from certain vendors (Udacity, Springboard) are worth to get it.
If we're making assertions contrary to data and treading on unfalsifiable positions, then I suppose the source is anecdotes, and I suppose mine are as good as any:

I lived in Los Angeles in the early 90s for two years, and visited frequently through the rest of the decade. Experienced petty crime on at least 3 occasions, had a few close calls with violent crime, saw the Rodney King riots unfold, and heard some pretty crazy stories.

I've spent the last 8 years in LA... I've experienced zero instances of petty crime. I know it's not gone from some conversations I've had and everyone here has their take on LA's various problems, but across demographics nearly everyone I know agrees that this city is definitely a safer, more chill, higher quality of life place than it was 20-30 years ago. Except in one regard: housing is less affordable -- how much less depends on which boom/bust cycle you're looking at and who you're looking at, but definitely less affordable. So, not coincidentally, homelessness has become a much more serious issue.

The weirdest thing is that this is apparently happening with a net outflow from the state. Rents up over 60% with a stable/decreasing demand pool for housing is an odd dynamic and likely means this is no ordinary supply problem.

I can't speak to the Bay Area or the rest of California, but that's what things look like in LA.
> It's not like he was getting paid to work on this, was it?

So? If I'm donating clothes to one of those coat drives, and the clothes I donate are tattered and covered with rodent feces, should the organizers of said drive not be upset with me? Especially if said organizers point this out politely and I respond with "lol you'll take what I give you, peasant"?
High end 15+” laptops tend to go right up to the limit. The XPS 15 and MBP 16 both have ~100Wh.
As stated clearly in the README:

> P.S. I moved actix-net and actix-web project to my personal github account.

So he's transferred it to:

https://github.com/fafhrd91/actix-web

Feel free to fork, take a copy, start a new repo. The project is dual Apache/MIT licensed so feel free to do whatever you want within its very liberal scope.

What you're not entitled to do is demand anything from the author or to take up any of his time. Take his code, but don't demand anything else from him.

> Nowadays supporting actix project is not fun, and be part of rust community is not fun as well.

> I am done with open source.

He's over the abuse and entitlement his received over the project and obviously doesn't want to spend any more of his time on it.
Academic careers in STEM require almost exclusive focus on your career for the first two decades of pursuit. This is simply because that is what the competition does.

My anecdata suggests women are less willing to allow a single aspect of their lives to entirely dominate over all others. Child bearing happens to be one of the bigger alternative endeavors, but it's not the only one.

Supporting women (and men!) who want to pursue an academic career in STEM while raising a family is a laudable goal. I hope it is more effective than I expect it to be.
Thank you for the link, this is fantastic! I love the complex interwoven nature of the patterns.
Ask YC: Did you cancel the $15k award for SUS?
Did you cancel the $15k fund award for this course at the startup school?

Thanks.
Detroit. Best place ever.
The Four Kinds of Luck
http://progopedia.com/language/hq9-plus/
IMO, there's not a lot of repetition. It's just that certain individual posts get repeated over and over.
I think your comment is a good one.

> Houston is one of, if not the, most ethnically diverse city in the US.

It's worth pointing out that this is in no small part because Houston is affordable.

I don't care for that kind of sprawl and would prefer other ways of building 'enough' to be affordable ( https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-... ) but still, it is affordable, and there are a lot of opportunities.

They had a mayor who was one of the first openly gay mayors of a major US city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annise_Parker

It's not the kind of place I want to live (I prefer an order of magnitude of around 100K), but when I actually learned something about Houston, I realized that I had some stereotypes that were not accurate.
Applying Agile Project Management Techniques to Your Life
I'm not advocating that more housing shouldn't be built. What I am saying is that there is a middle ground between allowing existing homeowners to veto any proposals and not giving them any say or protection.
Lousy means 'in my opinion, not good enough'. The problem with that there is no information about what to get better at, and also it's just an attack at the person. Torvalds? What a famous programmer might say based on internet stereotypes is also of no concern.

What is needed is constructive criticism. "You should spend time thinking about the structure and purpose of the code before you start writing code, perhaps draw a diagram on paper first" might be an example.
Some related links:

An introduction to the area from before this new breakthrough -- https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201910/rnoti-p1618.pdf

Gil Kalai on the mathematical implications -- https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/amazing-zhengfeng-...

Lance Fortnow -- https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2020/01/quantum-pro...

KW Regen -- https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/halting-is-poly-ti...

Boaz Barak -- https://windowsontheory.org/2020/01/14/mipre-connes-embeddin...

Scott Aaronson -- https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4512
Or the police will over-react. I wouldn't call LAPD on someone in anything but a life-or-death situation because they are so likely to escalate the situation rather than resolve it.
I think it's still a form of sexism to assume women are the ones who need to care for a child. That's something that very few diversity-in-STEM folks are really thinking about.

Many years ago an ex-girlfriend, who works in STEM academia (and is otherwise a liberal, progressive feminist), expressed concerns similar to the author about having kids. When I brought up that it wasn't written in stone that she would need to be the primary caregiver, she said she'd never even thought of the alternative!

(Anne-Marie Slaughter touched on this in a 2012 Atlantic article called "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" for anyone who's interested.)
try this link https://app.seekwell.io/
I can’t speak for women, but the pay for science degrees kinda sucks. I’m guessing it would make sense to leave to another field that pays better. My wife was a bio major and her first real job was selling HPLC columns. She ended up not liking sales so pivoted into teaching where the pay is decent.
> But once your exposure gets bigger, you suddenly enter different waters.

I fundamentally disagree with this. Just because my exposure has gotten larger (possibly through no action of my own), it doesn't magically give me more resources, more free time, more motivation, a team of developers, etc. If people (or companies) want to depend on a one-person open source project for something important to them, then they should pay to fund it, either by giving that developer money directly, or by hiring people in-house to contribute to that project.

(Not doing so is just foolish and risky on the company's part, too: depending solely on an unpaid volunteer for an important part of your infrastructure is not a winning move.)

Also consider that more users generally means less free time for developing, and more time handling bug reports and support issues. If an open source project grows, it's absolutely critical for users to step up and pitch in, either with their own skills, or with monetary resources that can help the maintainer (who might have a day job) focus more on the project.

Maintainers do have a responsibility to decide what they want their level of involvement to be, though, and to communicate that. Potential users should have the information they need to decide if the project they want to depend on is well-supported and sustainable. They have no right to demand that the maintainer change their approach or level of involvement, however.

> But once you got into the limelight with your project and other people started depending on it, every misstep suddenly becomes a jackass move.

I really dislike the lack of charitable interpretation given here, and this just contributes to the "entitled user" image. The unpaid maintainer of an open source project does not owe anyone anything. Full stop. Users are responsible for their dependencies. I'll repeat that: users are responsible for their dependencies. If they are going to take on a dependency for that's given away for free and not do their due diligence to make sure it is reliably and sustainably developed, that's on them. If they're not happy with the maintainership and want to use it anyway, that's on them. Users do not get to tell unpaid maintainers how to maintain their software. If they want to be helpful and constructive, that's great, but anything less is rude and unwanted.
Foxpro, visual basic (6 and below), and pre-bad delphi were workhorses.
Surely, demand for similar tools today still exists.
I had a talk recently with someone who moved from Chicago to Atlanta. He said it's the property taxes that really kill you there. Allegedly, by moving to GA he decreased his property taxes enough to put an extra 100k towards the mortgage for the same monthly payment. I don't know the hard numbers on that myself, but it was enough to convince me that buying property in Chicago was probably a bad idea.
> Taxes have gone down.

Are the kids school age? If so, what do you think of the public schools?
https://github.com/search?q=language%3Arust

You can easily find counter-examples if you look for them.
It is not a burden, it is a privilege. For dads to step up, as feminists demand, mothers would have to give up that privilege.

And if you believe the feminist narrative that it is dads forcing mothers to take care of the kids, consider that most women chose their jobs and the expected salary long before they meet the future father of their kids. Man choose careers that pay less, so the fathers end up having to earn the money. Them staying at home would simply mean less money for the family, often not enough money.
No, everything is not just social norms, because there is no agreed upon norm or standard "framing" for open source projects (as indicated by all the disagreements here and elsewhere on this topic), leaving the actual license as the only concrete, agreed upon description of obligations and expectations between the creator/maintainer and users.
A lot of jobs in the software industry have flexible hours.