skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You assert that "software that does a better job of, say, facial recognition to lessen the likelihood of a predator drone killing an innocent civilian" is "middle ground", "not going to some extreme", "trying to prevent damage", and "nuanced".

It is none of those. It is a non-nuanced extreme that is going to cause damage and kill those of us in the middle ground. Reducing it to a comic book is a way to cut through the confusion and demonstrate that. If you have a reason (that reasonable people will accept) to think that the comic-book scenario is undesirable, you will find that that reason also applies to the facial-recognition-missiles case — perhaps more weakly, perhaps more strongly, but certainly well enough to make it clear that amplifying the humans' power of violence in that way is not going to prevent damage.

Moreover, it is absurd that someone is proposing to build Slaughterbots and you are accusing me of "turn[ing] this into polarizing ideological judgement" because I presented the commonsense, obvious arguments against that course of action.
There Are Many Ways to Map Election Results. We’ve Tried Most of Them. (2016)
Trying to measure charisma is obviously very subjective, but I bet even if you asked Clinton supporters, many would admit that Trump is more charismatic than Hillary (it would be interesting to see a poll testing this). That's likely to be a very bad sign. I think you need it to at least be a toss up where reasonable people can disagree, and your own supporters should consider you the more charismatic one.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver had episode about those practices including Clayton Homes. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/apr/08/john-oliver-...

The point of the story is that

1) Mobile homes are horrible investments. They go rapidly down in value. “cars go down in value. Mobile homes go down in value. It’s a car you sleep in.”

2) Private equity groups such as the Carlyle Group, TPG and Blackstone now own large tracts of mobile home park and collect big fees.

3) Loans for the houses have large interest rates. They have to be. If you sell a product and give a loan that goes down in value very fast, only way to do that is to charge big interest because the risks are also big. Poor people don't have other collateral.

This kind of rent seeking form land and loans where poor people pay and pay means that people stay poor. This would be a job for government. Provide cheap rented land and basic infrastructure and cheap mobile housing.
Incidentally that’s exactly how I would have worded the sentence as a native speaker. But only because “big ol’” is a common phrase by itself
WP:

> One of the strongest factors affecting voter turnout is whether voting is compulsory. In Australia, voter registration and attendance at a polling booth have been mandatory since the 1920s, with the most recent federal election in 2016 having turnout figures of 91% for the House of Representatives and 91.9% for the Senate.[77]
My simple hypothesis for why Lego feels more expensive now: they are more expensive relative to other toys which have become cheaper (in every sense of the word).
People do things like a single person post a flyer on every power pole in a neighborhood, to have the first case appear like the second.

This is normal in politics.
Unix targeted programmer productivity from the beginning. The programmer's workbench, PWB Unix, was introduced in 1977. The tools that made up PWB were incorporated into Unix and, later, Linux.
I'm guessing they have a number of shares they want to buyback and it's simply not worth their time trying to wrangle them from investors with less than $20 million worth
>I would be really surprised if, at any time, using any method, you could find anything that looked like a map inside the brain of a human, even while visualizing a map.

No but there's probably a specific part of the brain that does deal with visual mapping.

I read this excellent article some years back about the test that aspiring London cabbies, the ones that drive the black cars, take and the preparation required "The Knowledge" to pass this difficult test. Since London's road system is so byzantine and requires lots of insider knowledge, it is unlikely that the cabbies will in the near future ever be supplanted by companies like Uber or Lyft.

Anyway turns out the gray matter in the posterior and anterior hippocampus of some of these guys were tested before and after studying for the test and there was significant growth. Perhaps this would be the place to start to pin down a neural equivalent to a real-world map.

https://www.wired.com/2011/12/london-taxi-driver-memory/
Yeah. AFAIK they use FreeRTOS for the real deeply embedded stuff which would look very familiar to this discussion.
Aww, no column for powershell on windows =)
> The complexity doesn't come from the requirements. It comes from the constraints: "We only use this ancient version of this database", "We didn't tell you at the start that the users expect to interface with this system via email".

Those constraints sound like requirements: we require that only this ancient version of this database is used. We require that users can interface with this system via email. Different term, same thing.

That's in the bucket with the kind of stuff that I'm advocating people should pay more attention to up-front. Gathering these requirements before you start designing anything is a big deal. If you failed to do so, then you failed to do a proper job at the part I called sitting down and figuring out the actual requirements.
Have to love the clarity and direct openness, as somebody with experience in the underwriting market, his honesty and pragmatic insight is spot on.
> IIRC there's one person on the team who is, for whatever formalities are required.

Is that person making more money? Because I've heard stories that these people do, because they are especially valuable to the company.
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He bought his way into second place in a lot of polls, though. Fivethirtyeight still has him as second most likely to receive a plurality of delegates (though a fairly distant second): https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/?...
The Joke Is on the Valet
I guess I agree Generative Design is doomed to fail if we give it a date for it to succeed in the relatively near future - say the next two years. If we give it 10 years I think it may succeed.
> A company obviously wants to pay as little as possible.

I suppose I'm naive, but it seems obvious to me that a company should want to pay its employees as much as possible—that is, as much as is consistent with the value the employees deliver. When I say "should", I don't mean morally. It just seems obviously in the company's interest.
I thought the title was "Paramedical Tacos" now I'm let down.
There is absolutely no way to prepare such an exam without (justified) accusations of bias.
Why does Twitter (or any private company) have to buy into that?
Considering the DT reaction
D + T = a + n.

Neutrons produced in this reaction, being chargeless, cannot be contained within the electromagnetic field, thus leaving plasma and reacting with the surrounding material (e.g. tokamak chamber walls) and producing radioactive elements. This leads to activation and radioactive degradation of the reactor itself.
The comment applies word for word to C++ as well. Linked lists are just bad datastructures for modern CPUs.

I don’t use rust so I can’t speak to the quality of the std lib, but I don’t think its fair to use the parent comment as evidence either way.
Not sure about that. The Chinese-made Legos I’ve looked at have visible flash and sprue marks, which I never ever saw on the Danish-made ones.
It's roughly 9 hours of coding and 3 hours of brainstorming with my co-founder. I do notice that my focus wavers quite a bit. Meditation has helped with this to a certain extent.

Health is my first priority so I make sure I'm getting enough sleep and regular exercise. When I'm feeling particularly stressed I'll go to Banya. This helps prevent burnout.

I've also reduced the time it takes to do most everything. No commute, gym in home, no time for grocery shopping (Amazon Prime Now), no drinking, and I'm single.
I'd also look a the Joint Strike Fighter C++ Coding Standard. Stroustrup himself hosts it as an example of how C++ is a multi paradigm language that you can use a subset of to meet your engineering needs.

http://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4
I used Linux kernel as an example of easily accessible, extremely well known, performance tuned open source project. Of course dynamic data structures are used in countless other applications, like DBMS, web servers and web browsers. Really in nearly any non-trivial codebase.
Before I had kids I'd regularly work 12+ hour days. Afterwards I am much better at time management. This has nothing to do with caring about my work (which I do to a fault). It's about realizing that raw hours do not necessarily make an engineer more effective, and achieving big things is a marathon not a sprint.
Totally agree. There should be at least some level of proportional representation, maybe a certain percentage of seats in the House.

It's still hard to believe that in the 90s Ross Perot got 20% of the votes but this resulted in zero representation. No wonder people think that their votes don't matter. If you vote Republican in California it's pretty much a waste too.

Personally I vote third party out of principle because I don't want to be forced to pick between two more or less corrupt choices. But in the current system it's almost hopeless to ever have a viable third party. I am pretty sure if a third party became more powerful the two established parties would gang up on them quickly to make sure their nice, comfortable duopoly keeps all the power.
The Vice article [0] shows videos in three languages - English, Hindi and Haryanvi.

[0]: https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/jgedjb/the-first-use-of-d...
My wife, who recently became an American, asked me what she should fill for her voter registration forms.
My response was, "Living in the SF bay area, Your opinion would count only if you vote for the Democratic party primaries. The general elections don't matter".

I am happy to be proven wrong but sadly I think this is the state of affairs now.
> But this does indeed show that it's slower, which would certainly make shoulder-surfing easier.

I wouldn't say certainly.

There's more time to observe each keystroke but you have to know what the keystroke is. I've deduced people's 4 digit pin, by accident, from an angle where I can barely see their screen. Randomizing the keypad prevents this.
"your boss should be able to tell you exactly why you're paid less."

'Why' is a qualitative measurement. You will never agree. The debate will never end. It will always be well be, "he did X, I did Y, I think Y is more important, so I think I should be paid more" times a thousands of employees.

Believe me grades are a public salary microcosm. I worked at a company for 4 years that added grades to titles in the middle of my stay. It was a disaster. People were never happy, always jealous, constantly asking their boss 'what they need to do' to achieve a subjective thing.

I think you're right it would lead to more equal pay because that would be the only way to avoid the drama. It does put the company at a competitive disadvantage now because -

Your competitors know how much all your positions make, while they don't have to make theirs public
Hiring a dev at a discount is impossible because they will complain
Hiring a dev at a premium is impossible because current employees will complain
Holding on to talent is harder because if they leave for a better offer - you cant match their pay because everyone else will complain

Really the only way this isn't a problem is if you're underpaid - like you are. And like I said there are many services out there that will give you a good idea of range you should be paid.
isn't this the marketplace of ideas??

/s
My point is that founders frequently make bank while your stock options go to zero.
One simple change would be to vote on Sundays or make election Tuesday a mandatory holiday. Especially if you are low income and on a fixed schedule voting is very inconvenient.
> Greece is a sovereign country.

:-)
Yes. Lists were fine when memory was random-access. Today, if you're linking all over memory, cache misses dominate performance. So contiguous data structures are preferred.
I often think about that when I'm waiting for my meal in a plane, seating in row 33 or higher. Odds are my choice won't be available when they finally get to me. I can choose not to eat, but it's more likely I will end up choosing from what's available.

In essence: educate yourself, and choose what you believe would would be the least worst for the country as a whole.
If the algorithm calls for a balancing tree, you'd end up re-implementing it across of bunch of (linked) hash tables or over an array treated like a heap. Explicitly, or if one does not know what they are doing, implicitly. In either case you would have no performance advantage.
Comments like this from ambitious Europeans appear so often that I can't help but feel the US is still in a relatively strong position despite the mess of a clusterfuck it feels like from the inside.
Well rewrites have two conflicting goals - simplifying the code/improving performance and consistency with the old version. Even if the requirements are nominally the same "unwritten" ones pop up
You can play your iTunes library online now?
I like it. Seems straightforward. What are your plans for the platform?
Yes that’s the whole point as the poster pointed out. The Nazis arguing on the grandma’s post would also disagree with the censors too —it’s not a matter of censorship vs none, is a matter of what is considered worthy of censorship in China vs here.
Possibly true, but we also haven’t really attempted it on a society-wide scale. Clearly some government agencies are capable of creating fair tests (NASA, for example.)

In any case, the question isn’t whether an exam would be perfect, but whether it would be better than voting. There are certainly plenty of biases involved in the voting process: appearance, public speaking ability, etc. These biases might already be greater than any which arise from an exam.
I've spent years programming rust and I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean arrays of tuples, or nested arrays?
Note this is developed by a Red Hat engineer, so this is an an open source IBM contribution to Linux.
The Archaeobotanist Searching Art for Lost Fruit
Idea is risk management for early stage employees,as a mechanism to make it hard for the company to later write a deal where they are entirely (or nearly) shut out of an event that has at least some decent return for founders and late investors.

I was just musing, haven't thought about it deeply.

I suspect we agree on the real solution, which is work out your business plan so that you can pay real market rates (and give them a chance to participate in early rounds)
I accidentally left this point out. In retrospect it's easy to say Uber made the wrong decision to make uChat but it was one of few options at the time.
Interesting, even an already "done" software like GNU grep gets a release at least once a year: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/
I imagine if Bloomberg (or whoever the next billionaire is) was more friendlier with the Twitter C-levels, or was a big investor, they wouldn't have dared to do anything...

So that's the new first step for the next billionaire (or fake one) who wants to be president: buy a significant share of Twitter.

Chilling, huh?
We agree on the latter, certainly. Overthinking the cap table evolution isn't very useful, but ignoring it entirely is irrational.
How much is it? If you don't want to say that (I wouldn't), how many multiples is it of the salaries of the people you're mentioning it to?
That is an NSO, not ISO.
That's not necessary true. You can implemented binary trees as an array, so are trees a special case of arrays?

There can be sequential and non-sequential implementations of ADTs.
It's all about the neutrons.
On Twitter I saw a suggestion that the state with the highest voter turnout should have the first primary in the next election. This might create some incentive for people to turn out and vote (will post link if I can find the tweet)
I don't really understand what the argument is about here.

Indeed, this "theory" seems to involve talking some particular "thing" the brain "does" very prematurely, at the level where the speaker just knows too little about the brain's internal model to make their concept even meaningful.

Article: "At the time, the dominant theory in psychology for how people find their way was the cognitive map, which posits that humans and many animals create representations of the environment in the brain that they use to navigate the world."

As you say, pretty much tautologically, an organism that navigates its environment has a model of its environment. But to make the above statement falsifiable, the theorists apparently put the theory as "a uniformly coded model existing in a particular spot in the brain", which is a big, big step.

The thing is, if one has ever worked on a large computer system, one knows that just because a program shows some functionality, that doesn't mean that there will be discreet module separable from other other modules that implement this functionality (there might be such a module but it's functions are likely wrapped with many other modules). Yet it seems like cognitive scientists reason in this constantly.
I still think ISAs as a concept make a lot of sense. It seems like most of the problem is that the classes are often worthless, not the particular way in which you pay for them. There was the whole thing with the collections agencies but that can happen with any type of loan.
I mean a multi-dimensional array.
Step 1: only sell the body, a single item. Keep the rest.
NB: Voting is mandatory (in Oz) only if you're registered. However the government pesters you to register to vote when a) you turn 18 and b) you move. (It does this by monitoring driving licence registrations). You may also be called upon for jury duty at the same time.

The only way to deregister is to move overseas (I checked: conscientious objection and religious reasons do not qualify)
> Facebook’s response to the Bloomberg campaign’s novel social strategy

Novel? What?

The practice has been around a really long time, and it has been around on the internet long enough that the term "astroturfing" was coined decades ago. And the term "paid shill" has been around longer than that. Today it's very common in several places including Amazon product reviews and political discussions.

Wikipedia gives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing#History_of_incide...) an example from way back: 'an early example of the practice was in Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. In the play, Cassius writes fake letters from "the public" to convince Brutus to assassinate Caesar.'

I'm not a big fan of the practice (it involves ulterior motives), but the most unique thing I see about this is they did a clumsy job of it.
Right, but many people actively encourage them to do this, so I think it happens a lot.
A capped ISA seems superior than student loan. I wish gov would implement that instead of a non-bankruptable loan.

I hope this doesn't make people discard the ISA idea altogether because of a bad implementation that is unrelated to the ISA itself.

When talking about student debt forgiveness, I think it's too extremely. We can make it milder like forgiving interest or converting it to some sort of a capped ISA. This is a much less controversial idea than forgiving the whole debt that I'm not sure I agree with.
>You're doing some awesome lock-free concurrent thing.

I can confirm lists are pretty rarely used. The four times I've used a linked list in 10 years of professional programming were:

-quick&dirty hashmap in C

-threadsafe queue

-keeping track of a set of objects that can't be copied ( threads)

-LRU cache

In C++ at least, the nice thing about a list is you can push/pop in the front/back without a reallocattion or invalidating iterators.
> No modern systems have such trap representations for pointer types

This may be incidentally true, but "address sanitizer"-like features are becoming more common on modern hardware, and while these do not currently trap on creation/manipulation of a 'wild' pointer (since, strictly speaking, a trap only happens on dereferencing), there's no solid reason to expect this to remain the case in the future.
This would just be a fine on poor people. In many US states there are active efforts to disenfranchise and suppress voting such as moving voting places, not providing enough booths so there are big queues and delays, automatically removing people from rolls, etc.

The US first needs to establish an independent electoral commission to set district boundaries and run the elections fairly like in other countries.
> psychedelics didn't inevitably turn people in to saints or enlightened beings who love everyone and who's feathers couldn't be ruffled by anything.

similarly, having a really good gun doesn't turn anyone into a warrior.

the point being that psychedelics can certainly help yet they aren't indispensable nor the only way.
Do you currently use C? C++ perhaps?

I mean basically no other language that currently comes to mind fiddles so much with the basics.

In Rust, just as in Java, people write highly optimized safe and fast data structures and others build upon that.

In C/C++ it seems every project reinvents the wheel to a large degree.

Or am I mistaken?
Thank you for that, very very useful and good to see the smart meters with some consumer benefits.
What Is Multi CDN?
A little more light-hearted but the same style to learn Ruby with Entirely Too Many Fizz Buzzes. See https://yukimotopress.github.io/fizzbuzz
Your Apple Music library, this SDK already exists for years so it’s not exactly new.
The clones even tend to have more memory.

But I was thinking of those boards: https://aliexpress.com/item/4000103610226.html

(also supported by RIOT btw https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/12778)
I always hear one of the two things when I say refactoring.

1. We will see, if we have time.

2. Why is it not written better the first time?

The first option is mentioned by managers who have been developers before and understand stuff like this, but need to balance the delivery aspect.

The second option is said either by clueless managers and senior developers who think an all-encompassing upfront system architecture/design would have been the solution. I can talk to the senior developers about it but I don't know how to respond to the clueless managers yet.

Edit: s/hear two/hear one of the two
Interesting. Can you describe what your (previous) team worked on? Was it an engineering team? I have experienced many good engineering teams who discuss calmly and with little friction, but when the big business stakeholders (and egos) come in, it's a different story.
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I know people who have raised multiple kids beyond the point of them graduating from college and themselves starting their own families who are still in this industry (by choice), and are still sharp as ever.

I've also worked with people who are 25 years old and who have clearly given up on life or anything more than turning the crank and getting their biweekly ration of pellets. They live in fear of being discovered or "found out" and turned out on the street to sell the Mercury News on the onramp to 101.

Age, experience, rigor, knowledge, energy level, mindset. Don't confuse one for any of the others. It's a multi-dimensional problem. Also, it isn't static.

I can probably give you an example of a coworker at any position in that n-way space just from my own experiences, and that's only with a 25 year career. I can only imagine what else I'll encounter next.